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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
ROCHESTER, FEBRUARY 6, 1851. 
JOIST Off* AGENTS. 
Albany—H. L. Emery. 
Albion—-D. Farr. 
Arcadia—M. Scott. 
Alabama—R. B. Warren. 
Adam* Basin—M. Adams. 
Alfred-C. B. Langworthy. 
Aides—C. N. 1'uUon. 
Allens Hill—David A. Paul. 
Buffalo—W. Bryant & Son. 
Baldwinaville—R. Sears. 
Batavia—Samuel Heston. 
Briton Center—A. H.Savage 
Brockport—H. P. Norton. 
Bridgeport—B. F. Adams. 
Benton—B. Coddington, Jr. 
Brooksgrove—M. W. Brooks 
Big Stream Point—1. Hildreth 
Clyde—l.T. Van Buskirk. 
Clifton Springs—M. Parke. 
Cozcnovia—John White. 
Carlton—E. H. Garbutt. 
Canal—A. H. Toll. 
„ ... » G. N. Sherwood, 
Camillus £ c p Bingham. 
Cleveland—A. H. Allen. 
Canandaigua—B. F. Gage. 
Caton—Philip Hubbard. 
Churchville— 'L. Willard. 
Caledonia—C. C. Tyrrell. 
Covert—E. C. Gregg. 
Clockville—S. P. Chapman. 
E Bloomfield—Postmaster. 
Ellington—J. F. Farraan. 
E Pembroke—G. W. Wright. 
Farmer—M. Harris. 
Fov/lervitle—J. McPherson. 
Fulton—E. Holmes. 
Franklinville—S. Seward. 
Farmington—O. White. 
Fredonia—A. H. Barker. 
Gceeva—J. G. Ver Planck. 
Gerry—C. Moors. 
Guilford Centre—S Hendrick 
Holley—H. S. Frisbie. 
Hinmanville—A. Stone. 
Holbarton—Win. Eaverick. 
Jacksonville-P H Farington 
Kendall—W. U. Sandford. 
Knowlesville—C. Thorp. 
Lodi—C. B. Vescelius. 
Livonia—Andrew Siil. 
Lyons—E. R. Hughes. 
Lockport— i. W. Reed. 
Litchfield—H. Randall. 
Le Roy—J. H. Stanley. 
Men don—N. Sherwood. 
Medina—I. W. Swan. 
Moscow—Win, Lyman. 
Macedon Center—Ira Odell. 
Macedon—Wm. Gallup. 
Marccllus—Luraan Shepard. 
Millville—J. H. Haines. 
Mohawk—Postmaster. 
Manchester—J T McCauley 
Newport—Win. H. Willard. 
Newark—Theo. Dickinson. 
New Baltimore—L. Haight. 
North Chili—R. Fulton. 
N. Y. Mills—W. D. Walcott. 
Ovid—Jas. Van Horn. 
Orangeville—G. Cowden. 
Phelps-8. E. Norton. 
Pekin—J. M. Trowbridge. 
Palmyra—T. Ninde. 
Perryville—C. Britt. 
Penn Yan- Postmaster. 
Pierpont Manor—O. B. Scott 
KuBhville—A. Otis. 
Rutland—Moses Eanaes. 
Royalton—J. Shoemaker. 
Romulus—Jo. Wyckoff. 
Sen. Falls—H C Silsby & Co 
Scottsburgh—H. G. Baker. 
Scottsville—W. G. Lacy. 
Syracuse—VV. L. Palmer. 
Starkey—Levi French. 
Sheridan—J. I. Eacker. 
So. Otselic—Jas. Woodley. 
So. Livonia—A. Crandall, Jr 
So. Avon—N. J. Kellogg. 
Stockbridge—John Potter. 
Shushan—Jas. Law. 
Truinansburg—L D Branch 
Union Springs-RB Howland 
Victor—M. H. Decker. 
Versailles—D. R- Barker. 
Vernon—Eli R. Dix. 
... , . ? Win. Richey, 
Watertown £ 0 . A. Graves. 
Weedsport—Eli Hamilton. 
Warsaw—I. Hodge. 
Westfield—E. C. Bliss. 
Wheatland—J. Murdock. 
Wal worth—Postmaster. 
West Bloomfield—D A Paul. 
Wheatville—H. Deuel. 
Western ville—A. Baker. 
York—C. Seymour. 
Yates—J. Mead. 
Youngstown—J. Ladd. 
Correspondence of the New-Yorker. 
Jtkaca, its appearance, business, fyc.—The Cayu¬ 
ga 4* Susquehannah R. Road—Facilities for ob¬ 
taining Pennsylvania Coal and Iron — Leggett's 
Gap R. R.—Ship Canal from Cayuga LaJce to 
Sodus Bay — Cayuga Lalie — The Southern 
Counties, their Products, etc. 
Last week we bade adieu to the reader at Ithaca, 
promising to speak thereof, and of other things, at 
a future time. 
Ithaca is a pleasant and thriving business place 
of some 5 to 6,000 inhabitants, and has the appear¬ 
ance of having been built, for the most part, some 
years since. It lacks that freshnesss of paint, and 
modern style of shop and dwelling, that denote 
the village of recent growth. Save the business 
of the (surrounding country, and the small com¬ 
merce of Cayuga Lake, there has been little to 
minister to the prosperity of this inland place. 
The completion of the Cayuga and Suaquehan- 
nah Railroad to Owego, thus connecting it with 
the great commercial emporium, has given an im¬ 
petus to its business. This route, connecting with 
the steamboat line on the lake, makes a direct 
daily communication from the N. Y. & Erie R. 
R. to the central line at Cayuga Bridge, some 12 
miles west of Auburn. This route is but little 
known, but, if we mistake not, the day is not far 
distant when its importance will be known and 
felt in Central and Western New York, and the 
western country. 
The C, & S. R. R., and the boats on the lake, 
belong to a company, who own vast fields of cool, 
and prolific beds of iron ore, in Pa., some fifty 
miles from Owego. To bring this vast wealth in¬ 
to market, they are now engaged in building what 
is known as the Leggett’s Gap Railroad, which is 
to extend from the C. &. S. R. R. at Owego to 
the company’s property in Pa. These beds of seal 
and ore are being successfully worked. We learn 
that in building the road to Ithaca they raised the 
ore, manufactured the iron, made it into rails, 
and after transporting it by team fifty miles, had it 
laid and used it for running cars in thirty days from 
the time of commencement. On the completion of 
the Leggett’s Gap R. R. the Co. will have facilities 
for delivering large amounts of coal at Cayuga 
Lake, and from there to most parts of the State. 
In addition to the facilities named, the compa¬ 
ny are desirous of getting a renewed of the charter 
for a ship canal from Cayuga Lake to Sodus Bay 
on Lake Ontario. It is understood they have 
means to build the caual, and thus open a commu¬ 
nication with the whole country bordering on the 
lakes. This would enable them to load their coal 
on schooners at the head of Cayuga Lake, and 
discharge it at any of the ports of the great lakes, 
or St. Lawrence River. 
Of Cayuga Lake it is hardly necessrry to speak, 
as it is not all unknown to lame. 
To a great portion of the farmers of New York, 
not residents of that locality, the southern portion 
of the State, tiaversed by the N. Y. & Erie R. R. 
is looked upon as little better than a wild—a rough 
unbroken wilderness, inhabited by lumbermen and 
hunters. Some portions of it, are, it is true, a 
wild and unbroken country, but much, particular¬ 
ly near the Sasquehannah and its tributaries, is 
one of the finest countries we have seen. 
Fruit and wheat aie grown here to a great ex¬ 
tent and repay the husbandman for his toil. Some 
attention has been given to the dairy business, 
particularly the making of butter. The facilities 
afforded by the Railroad for obtaining good prices 
and speedy transportation, have induced many of 
the butter makers of the river counties to mi¬ 
grate to the rich fields farther from home. These 
men and women go forth as missionaries of the 
cause, and we hope the day is not for distant when 
the improved quality of the butter sent to market 
from this part of the country will not be excelled 
by the real “ Goshen.” h. c. w. 
Weekly Meteorlogical Abstract 
BY L. WKTHERKLL. 
Jan. 1851. 
THERMOMETER. 
MAX. | MIN. | MEAN. j RAIN. 
28 
40 
28 
33.33 
S E. S 
29 
17 
4 
10.33 
N W. 
30 
4 
4 
0.00 
N W. 
31 
19 
8 
15.00 
N W. 
Feb. 1 
28 
15 
23.00 
W. 
2 
37 
30 
32.65 
w. 
3 
34 
30 
w. 
REMARKS. 
Jan. 28th. Mild—a little rain at evening. 
29th. Cold and squally. 
30th. Very cold—mercury 4 below zero—at zero 
at 12| o’clock P. M.,—warmer in the evening— 
squally through the day. The average tempera¬ 
ture of the day from three observations, zero, or 
cipher—the coldest day ever known in Rochester, 
so tar as can be ascertained by the records of the 
past. 
31st. Y/armer—a little snow—sleighing pretty 
good. 
Feb. 1st. Continues to grow warmer. 
2d. Quite mild—solar halo. 
3d. Continues warmer. 
Notkx;—O ne-twelfth of the year has passed.— 
Those that post their accounts monthly have ascer¬ 
tained what advancement has been made, in that 
part of the year measured by January. 
UjPThe following from the Commercial Adverti¬ 
ser, is not particularly inappropriate to this meridian. 
Some employers here are in as much of a “quan¬ 
dary” ns their Buffalo neighbors:—“Many jokes 
are perpetrated at the expense of Canada money. 
‘ What shall we do for uncurrent money to pay 
our workmen?’ is asked by way of comment upon 
those employers, who, while Canada Bank notes 
were at a discount of 2 per cent., invariably pro¬ 
cured them to pay out to their hands—and who, 
now that those notes are only J per cent, discount, 
can’t operate in this way to much advantage. This 
improvementin the Provincial currency haa wrought 
a great change in the circulating medium of this 
city. Heretofore, the ‘common people’ could 
ecarci ly get hold of any thing else, but now * eui- 
rent funds’ are plenty.” 
Destructive Fire. —The Rochester Collegiate 
Institute building wae burned on Tuesday morn¬ 
ing—leaving nothing but the walls standing. The 
early hour (on Tuesday) at which our paper goes 
to press, precludes us from ascertaining and giv¬ 
ing particulars. The edifice was erected about26 
years ago, at a cost of $7,000—and has been long 
and favorably known as the “ Rochester High 
School.” Building and apparatus insured to the 
amount of $3,400. The destruction of the build¬ 
ing is regarded as a great los3 to our citizens. 
Bullard’3 Panorama of New York City, re¬ 
cently exhibited for several weeks in this city, is a 
superior work of art. It conveys a very good idea 
of Gotham, and will repay a visit by all who haye 
an opportunity of so doing. Those who have vis¬ 
ited the city of late years, will readily recognize 
many of its principal features in this Panorama 
while those who have not will be interested and 
instructed by viewing the painting and listening to 
the artist’s description. The Panorama is scon to 
be exhibited, we believe, in Albion, Lockport, and 
other western towns. Our readers in that section 
can make a pilgrimage to the great commercial 
metropolis, without the usual outlay of lime and 
mouey. 
Tee Season in Southern Ohio. — A friend 
writing us from Newport, Washington county, O., 
under date of Jan. 23d says:—“You speak of con¬ 
siderable snow in your section. We have had a re¬ 
markably mild winter here, so far, with scarce any 
enow or rain. The ground has not been covered 
with snow 24 hours this winter, all told. Our 
roads are dry said in as gcod order for buggy riding 
as they are at any time in the summer. Our cat¬ 
tle have required scarcely any food as yet, if they 
have had meadows or pastures that were not fed 
close in the fail. Oar steamers on the Ohio River 
have not been retarded by ice as yet, but have all 
been able to perform their regular trips.” 
Athenaeum Lecture. —One of the most pro¬ 
found and original of American Essayists, Ralth 
Waldo Emerson, lectures before the Association 
this (Thursday) Evening. He has great powerto 
interest an audience, and will not have a small 
one to-night. 
The Monroe County Teachers’ Association 
will hold its next monthly meeting on Saturday 
the 8th inst, nt District School House No. 1, Roch¬ 
ester. 
International Magazine. —The Feb. No’s, of 
this and the other monthly magazines, were 
promptly received by D. M. Dewey, Arcade Hall. 
Lead Cave in Iowa. —A discovery has been 
made in Dubuque, Iowa, of ?. cavern, 15 feet wide, 
from 12 to 15 high, and 1,8C0 feet long, the side 
walls and roof of which is covered with lead ore in 
a nearly pure stale. Ono mass is 48 feet long and 
3 feet square. There are two sheets of ore hang¬ 
ing down from the top, about SC feet long and from 
6 to 7 feet in thickness, of a purely snow white 
color. It is believed that the cave will yield $20,- 
000 worth of the mineral. 
The Amsterdam Intelligencer states, that the 
bridge built the last season, and recently finished, 
across the Mohawk on the Remington plan, went 
down last week, being unable to sustain its weight 
from its immense length. The cost to the com¬ 
pany so far, in erecting this and another bridge 
that fell last year, is about $12,000. 
New Post Offices. —A pest office has been es¬ 
tablished at Sparta, Livingston Co., and John Mc¬ 
Nair appointed postmaster; also ono at Suliivan- 
viile, Chemung Co., Edward May, postmaster. 
The name of the post office at Sparta, Livings¬ 
ton Co., has been changed to North Sparta. 
Cnngnssionnl. 
American Ocean Steamships. —There are pe¬ 
titions before Congress for the construction of somo 
ten different lines of steam: hips to ply between 
Europe and Asia and the United &Lates. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Saturday, Jan. 25.—In the Senate a resolution 
conferring on Gen. Scott the rank of Lieutenant 
General was reported. Mr. Yulee made a speech 
on the bid equalizing the grants of lands made to 
the several States in aid of internal improvements. 
The bill paying Oregon for the expenses of the 
Cayuse war was engrossed, as was a bill creating 
new collection districts in the same territory. An 
executive session finished the work of the day. 
In the House, a bill for the relief of Charlotte 
Lynch, mother of Miss Ann S. Lynch the poetess, 
was passed by 11 majority. 
Monday, Jan. 27.—In the Senate, the bill to 
pay Missouri the amount of a certain reserved fund, 
for which it is claimed that the United States is in¬ 
debted to that State, was brought up, and postpon¬ 
ed that Mr. Clay might speak upon it. 
The House was mainly engaged on the bill io 
supply deficiencies in the appropriations of the cur¬ 
rent year, but did not arrive at, any other result 
than an early adjournment. 
Tuesday, Jan. 28.—California Land titles occu¬ 
pied the Senate, and were not disposed of at the 
hour of adjournment. 
On a direct motion to lay on the table Mr. 
Johnson’s Free Land bill, by Mr. Vinton of Ohio, 
the House refused so to dispatch it by a vote of 90 
to 72. 
Wednesday, Jan. 29.—The California Land 
bill was further discussed in the Senate yesterday, 
but no action was had on it. Amendments to the 
Cheap Postage bill were reported by the Commit¬ 
tee raising the postage to five cents on unpaid let¬ 
ters, striking out the provision allowing newspapers 
to go free within 30 miles of their place of publica¬ 
tion and reducing postage on Magazines 50 per 
cent, when prepaid, as well as the provision in¬ 
tended to compel papers to advertise uncalled-for 
letters. 
The House was occupied with the Tariffand the 
Mint bill. 
Thursday, Jan. 30.—In the Senate, a number 
of reports and resolutions were offered. The Cal¬ 
ifornia Land bill was then debated, but no vole 
taken. 
In the House, a debate occurred on the Senate 
bill providing a retired list for disabled officers in 
the Army and Marine Corps. The bill was finally 
laid on the table. The New York and San Fran¬ 
cisco Branch Mint bill was next debated. No vote 
was taken. The debate on this bill is to be closed 
at noon to-day, 
Friday, Jan.^11.—In the Senate, the joint reso¬ 
lution authorizing California dead letters to be open¬ 
ed at San Francisco was passed. The California 
Land claims’ bill was taken up, and discussed. 
In the House, the Branch Mint bill was debated 
but no vote was had on the main question. 
Another Block for the National Monument. 
There is understood to bo a movement on foot 
among the different border Tribes of Western In¬ 
dians, notwithstanding their supposed utterly des¬ 
titute condition, to unite and contribute a memorial 
to the Gcverenment in the shape of a block of stone 
for the Washington Monument. 
The Chicago Journal says the design has bee* 
so far consummated already, a9 to render it nearly 
certain that the material is to be procured from the 
celebrated “ Starved Rock” in Illinois; the Indians 
having no land they call their own, to obtain it from 
—an f d the inscription it is to bear when finished, 
has been decided upon. It is simple but expressive 
as conveyed in the following characteristic terms. 
THIS STEP 
THE RED MAN GIVES TO THE PALE FACE 
To build him a path to a better 
HUNTING GROUND. 
The “ Board of Foreign Missions,” it is expect¬ 
ed, will volunteer the expense of its transportation 
to Washington. 
Californians. —The steamer Atlantic arrived 
yesterday from New Orleans, having as passengers 
ll6»returning Californians, who heretofore resided 
in this city and Upper Missouri, and Illinois. A 
few of them have been successful, and realized 
from $10,000 to $25,000—the great majority have 
realized from $1,000 to $5,000, and some thirty 
reached New Orleans without a dollar, and depen¬ 
dent on their more fortunate companions for a 
passage heme.— St. Louis Rep. 
New Railroad. —The New York Journal of 
Commerce understands that a company has been 
organized under the General Railroad Act to build 
a new Railroad from Sehenectady to Catskill, with 
a view to shorten the distance between New York 
city and Buffalo, and to avoid the delays some¬ 
times occasioned by low water on the Overslaugh, 
near Castleton. The stock has been subscribed— 
the necessary papers have been filed, and the par¬ 
ties interested promise to prosecute the work with 
energy._ 
New Orleans, Feb. 1st.—The brig Mechanic, 
from San Juan do Nicaraugua, reports that the brig 
Martha Manger bound from that place to New 
York, with 90 California passengers, was wrecked 
on the 7th of January, on a reef in the Caribbean 
Sea, and is a total loss. The Mechanic took off 
63 passengers, but the fate of the others is not yet 
known.__ 
Return of Mrs. Judson.—W e see it stated that 
Mrs. Judson, the widow of the late Doctor Judson, 
missionary to Burmah, who was once so well 
known to our literature as Fanny Forester, has an 
intention to return, at some future time, in accord¬ 
ance with the wish of her late husband that she 
should collect his scattered family, and assume the 
guardianship of his children. 
New Orleans, Jan. 30th.—The John Adams, 
steamer for Cincinnati, had a large cargo of pro¬ 
duce and 200 passengers. She struck a snag off 
Island 82, in the Mississippi, and soon after sunk. 
The boat broke in two and 150 persons were 
drowned, including 8 or 10 cabin passengers. She 
wai a new vessel and had been running but a 
short time. 
legislature of Meta ^ork. 
Our Territory and Population. —In 1840, 
the area of the Union was only about 1,000,000 
square miles. It is now 3,250,000 square miles. 
In 1340, the population was 5,305,925. 1 i is now 
over 24,000,000. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Saturday, Jan. 25.— Senate —The Senate held 
no session to-day. 
Assembly. —The Joint Resolutions o? the Sen¬ 
ate relative to the appointment of a Committee io 
consider the Code were concurred in. 
Monday, Jan. 27.— Senate. —A resolution was 
offered to amend the Constitution by the addition 
of the following section :— 
Laws may be passed excluding from the right 
of suffrage nil persons who have been or may be 
convicted of Bribery, of Laiceny, or of any crime, 
and for depriving every person who shall make or 
become directly interested in any vote or wager 
depending upon the result of any election, from 
the right to vote at such election; and also for de¬ 
priving any person of light to vote or hold any of¬ 
fice who shall, in violation of law, giye, pay, or re¬ 
ceive any promise of money or other property, or 
valuable consideration with intent to influence the 
vote in any election, or to promote the election of. 
any candidate or ticket, or to change or effect the 
result of any election. 
It lays over under the rule. 
Assembly —Various petitions were presented and 
various bills referred; and the annual report of the 
Canal Department was received. 
Tuksday, Jan. 28.— Senate. —Reports adverse 
to bridging Luke Champlain at Rouse’s Point, and 
also in favor of it, were presented by the Railroad 
Committee, and leave was granted to introduce a 
bill to direct the erection of the bridge. 
Assembly —A communication was received from 
the Lieut. Governor and Attorney-General, pro¬ 
testing against the reception of the report purport¬ 
ing to be the Report of the Canal Fund, and ask¬ 
ing that it may be returned to the Commissioners 
of the Canal Fund, in order that the annual report 
of the different Funds may be transmitted from the 
proper source. 
Mr. Wheeler, of Franklin, moved to lay the 
communication on the table. Carried—Ayes 68, 
Nays 24. 
Mr. Anthon, of Richmond, called for the resolu¬ 
tions on the Compromise, offered by Mr. Under¬ 
wood, of Cayuga. 
The House refused by a decisive vote to consider 
the same. 
Wednesday, Jan. 29.— Senate. —A bill was 
passed to release from jail Sarah McFrancis, im¬ 
prisoned under a provision of the code. 
A resolution was adopted calling on persons em¬ 
ployed on the Natural History of the State to report 
on the progress of their work. 
Assembly —Resolutions on the Tariff and Slave 
Laws were offered and discussed, and laid over. 
The Committee of the Whole passed a bill to 
amend the act, incorporating the Life Savings 
Benevolent Society of the city of New York. The 
law gives power to directors to insure their number. 
Thursday, Jan. 30.— Senate —A bill was re¬ 
ported for a quarter per cent, redemption on bank 
notes in New York and Albany. This is by a 
majority of the Committee. 
Anti-Rent, and manorial titles were discussed- 
Assembly —The Secretary of the New York 
State Agricultural Society transmitted a report of 
the bill relating to the New York Life Benevolent 
Insurance Company, passed yesterday. 
Two Compromise resolutions were discussed and 
laid on the table. 
Friday, Jan. 31.— Senate —A debate was held 
on the subject of requesting Congress to pass a law 
giving the Public Lands to actual settlers. 
Assembly. —The usual routine of business was 
pursued, but no bills of general interest passed. 
/orrign Intelligence. 
ARRIVAL OF TEE STEAMSHIP CANADA 
One Week Later from Europe, 
New York, February 3, 1851. 
The Canada arrived at Halifax this forenoon. 
She left Liverpool, January 18th, and will, there¬ 
fore, bring one weeks later news from Europe. 
She brings no intelligence of the Atlantic. He 
news has not been receive from Halifax, but is nor 
being transmitted over the wires. 
New York, Feb. 4—9 A. M. 
The Canada brings Liverpool dates to the 18th 
of January. 
Breadstuff's dull; prices favor the buyer. Amer¬ 
ican flour could not be sold in quantity without 
submitting to a decline of 6d.als, and Indian corn 
was fully 6d lower, with dull market. 
Accounts from manufacturing districts repre¬ 
sent a steady but rather limited business. The 
political news is rather important. 
The crisis in France is not over and it is quite 
uncertain how it will end. 
The President appeared firm, but it is feared the 
new Cabinet would have to go by the board. 
Lamartine had joined the President, and was 
speaking in his defence at the latest date. 
* Troubles in Germany were on the eve of a final 
settlement. 
The Schleswig Holstein \V ar was over. The 
King of Denmark having by the aid of Austria and 
Prussia gained his point. 
items of 
Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 3d.—The steamer 
America from Philadelphia, bound for Mobile, 
foundered on the 29th ult., during a severe gale. 
The schr. Champion of Boston, picked up one of 
the boats containing 6 men. The other boats have 
not been heard from, but it is the impression they 
were saved. 
Cincinnati, Feb. 2d.—We lean?thaf the steam¬ 
er Mayflower, while on her trip to Nashville, burst 
her boiler in the Cumberland river, seriously scald¬ 
ing several of the hands and one cabin passenger. 
Fatal Accident. —A man named John Scott, 
employed as a teamster in the establishment of the 
American Express Company, was found on Satur¬ 
day evening last, on the road between Attica and 
Buffalo, with his skull broken. It is supposed that 
the team he was driving had runaway and thrown 
him off’, and thnt the fall had killed him. The 
horses were found at the depot uninjured. 
-According to the recen t census of Minnesota, 
that Territory contains a population of 6,192. 
-The subscriptions in Syracuse to the Syra¬ 
cuse and Binghampton R. R. amount to $110,000. 
-Movements are making in various parts of 
Upper Canada, for the establishment of free schools 
—a gratifying evidence of progress. 
-The council of the Cherokees have imposed 
a tax on all free negroes and mulattoes residing in 
the nation. 
-Gov. Hunt has appointed Elisha Clapp, 
Sheriff of Niagara Co., in the place of Alva Hill, 
deceased. 
-Alexander .McAllister, Esq., has been ap¬ 
pointed Post Master at West Troy, vice O, S. Bing¬ 
ham, deceased. 
-Osborn, arrested in Albany for counterfeit¬ 
ing coin, has been held to answer, on bail of $1009. 
His wife was discharged. 
-The fire of the 18th in Milwaukee destroyed 
three million eight hundred thousand feet of lumber. 
Total loss $60,000. 
-Among the recent importations into South¬ 
ampton were thirteen cases of Egyptian eggs bro’t 
by a steamer from Alexandria. 
-There is a Planter in Pittsylvania county, 
Virginia, who owns 2,000 slaves, and plantations 
almost without number. 
-The extensive carriage factory of E. Fletcher, 
in Hath, was totally destroyed by fire on Thursday 
night, 23d inst. Loss $3,000. Insured $1,601). 
-The Public House known as Monterey Hal?, 
at Monterey, Steuben county, was burnt on the 
17th inst. Loss $1,500. 
« -Dr. Smith the abortionist, has been convict¬ 
ed of the murder of Miss Caswell at Saco, Maine, 
and sentenced to State Prison for life. 
-Two iron war steamships of 500 tons each 
are being built in England, to re-open steam com¬ 
munication from Lubec to St. Petersburgh, 
-The Legislature of Iowa have named four 
new counties after the following distinguished Irish¬ 
men:—Mathew, O’Brien, Mitchell and Meagher. 
-The State House now building at Columbus, 
Ohio, is to be 304 feet long by 184 wide. To the 
top of the roof it will be 14G feet. 
-An Ingot of Silver, weighing over twenty- 
three pounds, has been received at the Mini from 
the Washington Mining Co., N. C. 
-It is stated that 500 guineas have been offered 
for the privilege of advertising on the last jingo of 
the catalogue of the Exhibition. 
-The little steamer “ Mnid of the Mist” haa 
been raised, and it is found that she sustained but 
little damage by her late disaster. 
> -Mr. Abbott, conductor of the Boston and 
Maine railroad, was killed, Jan. 31, by being thrown 
upon the track while attempting to jump on the 
cars in motion. 
-P. K. Wagner, recent editor of the N. O. 
Courier, has been elected State Senator to fill the 
vacancy occasioned by the death of Air. Beebe, of 
Louisiana. 
-Chief Justice Taney has been unanimously 
elected Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institute, to 
fill the vacancy occasioned by the succession of 
Millard Fillmore to the Presidency. 
-Senator Dickinson, in reply to a letter from 
a portion of the Democratic Members of the Legis¬ 
lature of this State, declines their proposition to 
make him a candidate for re-election. 
-Gen. Joseph Lane, Governor of Oregon, haa 
been nominated for the Presidency in 1852, by the 
democratic members of the Constitutional Conven¬ 
tion of Indiana. 
-London has 300,000 houses, which cover an 
area 14 miles long and seven miles wide. Between 
the 1st of January, 1839, and January, 1850, 64,- 
058 new houses were built, forming 1652 streets. 
-Potatoes grow to an enormous size in Ore¬ 
gon. The Spectator editor has been presented with 
a specimen of this bulb grown opposite Vancouver, 
on the Columbia, weighing three pounds and three- 
quarters . 
-An old gentleman in Philadelphia, George 
Swartz, recently had a supper party in honor o:f his 
101st birth day, composed of seventeen elderly gen¬ 
tlemen, whose united ages were 1,216 years, or an 
average of 71 £ each. 
-The Shakers of New Hampshire have pur¬ 
chased two hundred acres of land in Groveland, 
Liv. Co., cn which to raise broom oom, ns the 
land and climate in Canterbury are not adapted to 
the culture of this article. 
-Somebody—name unknown—has left at the 
landing at Gen. Harrison’s farm, at North Bend, a 
magnificent marble Monument in memory to the 
illustrious ex-President. The family have not the 
least intimation from whence it comes. 
-The Dansville Herald of the 29th ult., states 
that the success of the effort which has been making 
for the past year or more to endow Genesee Col¬ 
lege, is now reduced to a certainty, and that tho 
endowment is nearly conplete. 
-The number of bankrupts in England Hat 
year, was 837 against 1326 the year before, end 
1608 in 1848. The average of the last seven years 
was 1200. There were 36 bankrupts in Liverpool 
last year, and 113 the year before. 
-A large party of Bostonians aro to leave that 
city on the 10th of February, on an excursion to 
Washington. They have made such arrangements 
with the Railroad Companies, that the fare through 
and back will be but $18. 
-There is now in Janesville, Wisconsin, a 
woolen factory, which has turned out in about fif¬ 
teen months five thousand yards of tweed, cash¬ 
meres, etc., of a quality fully equal to those pro¬ 
duced in the Eastern States. The wool in Wis¬ 
consin is of a very superior quality. 
-At the close of the last fiscal year, there 
were in West Point Acudemy, 224 cadet*. Of 
these there were—sons of planters, 70; of mechan¬ 
ics, 16; of lawyers and judges, 34; of merchants, 
36; of hotel keepers, 2; of physicians, 18; of army 
and navy officers, 32; of clergymen, 4; of govern¬ 
ment officers, 7; unknown, 7. 
-A “guessing match” took place, in Burling¬ 
ton, on New* Year’s day, in relation to the weight 
of nine hogs then hanging up, the averogo weight 
of each of which was 600 pounds. The prize hog 
weighed 723 pounds. About 250 persons from va¬ 
rious parts of the country assembled on the occa¬ 
sion. 
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