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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
ROCHESTER, MARCH 20, 1851. 
We can still famish back numbers of this ml. 
Agents and other friends of the Rural will please 
note this fact, and take subscriptions accordingly. 
Those who do not desire back numbers, can. com¬ 
mence now or at any specified time. 
Our mark-Ten Thousand-will soon be reached, 
if agents and subscribers continue their efforts. 
More Premiums! 
A State Agricuiural College. 
jjj November last we published a list of specific 
premiums, to persons obtaining subscribers to the 
Rural {and not competing for our large and gene 
ral prizes,) previous to the 1st of March. Under 
that offer we have given several hundred volumes 
of the Farmer and other books—the most of our 
friends preferring specific premiums but having 
many more volumes of the same valuable works on 
hand, we propose to dispose of them to such as are 
lending or may hereafter lend their kind offices in 
behalf of the Rural New-Yorker. Therefore, to 
all who do not compete for our large prizes, we of¬ 
fer the following 
Specific Premiums : 
For n remittance of $2, previous to the first of 
July next, we will send the New-Yorker one 
year, and the Genesee Farmer for 1848 or 1849, (ns 
preferred) stitched and bound in colored paper, 
suitable for mailing. For $5, as above, we will 
send three copies of the New-Yorker one year, and 
bound volumes of the Farmer for 1848 and 1G49. 
For $10 we will send six copies of the New-Yorker 
—and an extra copy, and bound vols. ol the Farmer 
for 1848 and 1849. For $15 we will send 10 copies 
of the New-Yorker—and an extra copy, and any 
three volumes of the Farmer published m octavo 
form, [except the one for 1850,]—or [instead of 
extra copy and Fanners] $2 in Books. 1' or $25 or 
more we will send 20 copies of the New-Yorker 
and an extra copy, and five volumes of the Genesee 
Fanner, from 1845 to 1849 inclusive, [being all the 
volumes published in octavo form, except the last] 
—or [instead of extra copy] $2 in agricultural or 
other Books. [FJ’Competitors for these premiums 
must mention the fact and designate what they 
want, in the letter containing remittance—when 
the premium selected will be immediately for¬ 
warded. 
For Terms, &c., see last page. 
To Subscribers and Agents, 
We would remind those of our friends who 
subscribed for the Rural on the first of April last, 
fora year—several hundred, we believe — that 
their subscriptions expire next week, (with whole 
No. 65.) In renewing their subscriptions, we trust 
they will have the kindness to obtain and forward 
the names of such persons in their respective 
neighborhoods as may be induced to become sup¬ 
porters of the Rural. We hope all who like the 
paper will do us this favor, and thus benefit their 
friends and materially aid in sustaining the enter¬ 
prise. See club terms and premiums offered. 
Agents and other friends who have already 
formed clubs, can make additions from April to 
the end of the volume, at proportionate rates—or, 
we can supply back numbers from January. Now 
is the time to form clubs to commence on the 1st 
of April, and we doubt not there are thousands 
who would readily subscribe for the Rural, were 
its merits and claims upon the community properly 
set forth. Are we presumptuous in asking those 
who can consistently do so, to lend their influence 
in its behalf ? 
Good friends—advocates of progress and im¬ 
provement, and admirers of the pure and useful, 
instead of the trashy and worthless in newspaper 
literature—may we not reasonably anticipate a 
favorable response ? 
Literary Notices, &c, 
B3gr Steffi eh ’b Farmer’s Gujde to Scientific 
and Practical Agriculture, is regularly received.— 
It has reached the 15th No., and contains much 
valuable matter.—Loor.urd Scott & Co. Publish¬ 
ers, New York. 
Mgr? The Working Farmer enters upon its 
third volume the present month. It is a large and 
valuable paper, and gives much information on 
scientific agriculture, well worth the attention of 
farmers. It is edited with decided ability by Prof. 
J. J. Marks. A. Longett, New York. Monthly 
—16 quarto pages—at $1,00 per annum. 
The Wool Grower commences a new 
volume with the April number. We have often 
spoken of its character, and nope it may meet the 
high success it deserves. T. C. Peters, Esq., ed¬ 
itor and proprietor. Monthly—16 pages quarto— 
at 50 cents a year. 
Tnr Farmer and Mechanic comes to ns 
this year in a new ami beautiful dress and other¬ 
wise materially improved. We are glad to notice 
this evidence of prosperity richly deserved. It 
keeps its readers well posted up in all mechanical 
and scientific improvements, and is well illustrated. 
W. H. Starr, editor and proprietor. New York. 
Published weekly—16 quarto pages—a.t $2 per 
annum. 
The Election. —We omitted, last week, to give 
the result of the recent election for city officers.— 
The Democratic ticket was elected by a majority 
of soino 500. The principal officers chosen 
ar<-—Col. N. E. Paine, Mayor; Henry Cady, 
Superintendent; IIenky Hunter, Attorney; But¬ 
ler Bajidwell, Justice; David McKay, Over¬ 
seer of the Poor. Of the ten Aldermen elected, 
nine were Democrats. 
The result in the County, o;i Supervisor, is 14 
Whigs and 4- Democrats; in the City, 4 Demo- 
<•: ais and 1 Whig. 
A portion of the Report of the Committee on 
Agriculture, mentioned in No. 9, of this volume, 
was furnished by the Commissioners apppointed 
by the Legislature in 1839 “ to mature a plan for 
an Agricultural College and Experimental Farm,” 
for the consideration of the committee. These 
gentlemen — Messrs. Blunt, Downing, Risley, 
Chkkvkr, Grkig, Frost, Wager and Bkekman, 
— after making full inquiry into the subject, 
think that an institution founded by the State, 
should be worthy of its character, and adequate to 
the just claims of tho agricultural community. 
“With these views” they remark, “wo beg 
leave to recommend that an agricultural college 
should be established, connected with nn experi¬ 
mental farm of 600 acres, which would probably 
combine sufficient extent and variety of soil for the 
objects to be accomplished; the farm to be cultiva¬ 
ted by the labor of the scholars, who are to be 
employed four hours a day in practical agriculture, 
in all its various branches. Among these may be 
enumerated, the laying out the farm and garden 
In various modes'adapted to circumstances; culture 
of plants and trees; grafting, budding, pruning, 
transplanting and iearingof fruit trees; the differ¬ 
ent manner of fencing grounds, with the relative 
advantages and cost of each; the various qualities 
of forest trees, in reference to fencing and build¬ 
ing purposes; the best mode of breeding and feed¬ 
ing stock; the comparative advantages of the va¬ 
rious breeds; how to discover defects, and the way 
to remedy or eradicate them; the proper time to 
sell produce, and how to put it in market; the 
manner of keeping farm accounts; and, in short, 
a full course of instruction as to the management 
of a farm. These scholars to be sixteen years of 
age, to be apportioned among different counties; 
say two for each Assembly district, to be nomina¬ 
ted by the board of supervisors, and the expenses 
of their tuition, with board, washing, fuel and 
lights, to be only $100 per annum; as the produce 
of tho farm, under proper management, will fur¬ 
nish no small part of the supplies of the table. 
“ Besides these scholars, there may be others 
admitted at $25 per annum, who will board in the 
vicinity, at their own expense, but who will be re¬ 
quired to submit to all the college rules, and to 
labor with the other pupils.” 
With this practical course, are to be pursued the 
branches of education spoken of in our last, and 
conclusive reasons are given of the propriety of 
their adoption. In conclusion, on this subject, the 
commissioners say:—“ With such a course of ed¬ 
ucation, rigorously carried out, our State would 
reap, in the benefits conferred on this important in¬ 
terest, a thousand fold all the expenditures made in 
such an establishment. Careful examinations 
would be made into all matters connected with 
agriculture; comparisons had of the various modes 
of producing certain results, and records preserved 
showing which is preferable; authentic statements 
made of agricultural experiments, creating order 
and system and reducing to science the heteroge¬ 
neous and often discordant mass of materials col¬ 
lected in agricultural journals. The character of 
the soils in different sections of the State would be 
carefully analyzed, and farmers instructed as to 
the most successful and proper plan of increasing 
and preserving their fertility.” 
The act reported to the Assembly provides for 
raising the sum of $100,000, on the credit of the 
State, to be expended under the direction of aboard 
of trustees, consisting of the President and Sec¬ 
retary for the time being, of the State Agricultural 
Society, and fifteen others—eight of them from 
the several judicial districts of the State, appointed 
by flie Governor, five to hold their offices for the 
term of two years, five for four years, and five for 
six years. 
These trustees shall meet in J une next and after 
organization shall proceed to “ determine the loca¬ 
tion of such institution, purchase such quantity of 
lands, not exceeding six hundred acres, construct 
thereon such buildings, fixtures, fences, and erec¬ 
tions, and make such improvements, purchase such 
stock, implements of husbandry' and other articles, 
employ such professors and other lecturers, teach¬ 
ers and superintendents, laborers, minor officers, 
and assistants, as they shall deem necessary.” 
The amount estimated necessary for the pur¬ 
chase of the farm is $24,000. For the erection of 
the necess-ary buMdings, purchase of apparatus and 
library, $69,000. The salaries of tho President 
and Professors, and other persons necessary to the 
management of the industrial departments will 
add about $13,000 more. The last only of these 
amounts, will be annual charges, and the commis¬ 
sioners think an appropriation of $10,000 each 
year, will be amply sufficient to pay all expenses 
above what will arise from receipts for tuition and 
the products of the farm. 
The course of education, as has been shown, is 
practical as well as theoretical. V/hen we consid¬ 
er how much improvement has already been ac¬ 
complished by the enterprize and public spirit of 
individuals and societies, can we doubt that when 
the State lends it helping hand toward the exten¬ 
sion of the benefits of scientiljc knowledge in ag¬ 
ricultural pursuits, that it will not speedily return 
“in its practical and beneficial results more than 
its entire cost to the State?—imparting a new impe¬ 
tus to agricultural employments—influencing for 
good all classes of our citizens—and ever remain¬ 
ing a noble monument to the wisdom of that leg¬ 
islation which encouraged and sustained the far¬ 
mer in scientific investigations designed to increase 
the products of the earth, as well as t.o render his 
vocation still more agreeable and profitable to all 
engaged therein.” 
Crops at the West. —It is said that the whole 
of Indiana teems with surplus produce, which the 
farmers are keeping back in order to nurse the 
market. The prosperity of last year lias en¬ 
abled them to do sc. “In Wisconsin, we are 
sorry' to learn, the crops of last y'car have all prov¬ 
ed a failure, and scarcely a bushel of any kind of 
grain will come forward.” 
.I' me 1 (rapes are those just presented us by Aid. 
Bowen. Although very fresh, and in an excellent 
si ate of preservation, their fine flavor will soon 
cause their disappearance. 
Rise in Pine Lands. —A large quantity oflaudB 
have been sold at the Land Office in Northern 
Michigan, the past year. We hear of the sales of 
several pine lots entered into 1834 to 1833, from 
$4 to $6 an acre. A sale of 22 lots of Mill Creek 
was made a short time since for $1000 an eighty, 
to a Boston company.— Det. Tribune. 
The Mistake in Credit. 
I regret having given occasion, unintentional¬ 
ly, for the severe remarks in the last number of the 
Rural New-Yorker, relative to an erroneous 
credit. The paragraph in the Cultivator was 
written months ago, and mislaid or otherwise 
crowded out afte» being forwarded to the publisher, 
and so much time elapsed before its appearance, 
that I cannot now positively say that no error oc¬ 
curred in printing. At all events, a single omission, 
probably by my’self, lias quite altered the meaning 
intended to be conveyed. 
The Cultivator, published at Albany, being the 
original paper of that name, and the only one in 
the country without some other distinctive title, 
the mis-crcdit was understood by other persons 
than myself to refer 1 to that paper as a matter of 
course. I therefore considered it desirable to dis¬ 
claim the origin of the article, not feeling willing 
that it should be attributed to the Horticultural De¬ 
partment of that paper. But on lately reading the 
paragraph making this correction, I perceived for 
the first time that it may be very easily misunder¬ 
stood in a way never intended,—for it was not the 
New-Yorker, but the “ article ” which gave as 
“new and valuable,” &c., as a re-reading will 
render evident. The whole would however have 
appeared plain, had I not by mistake made the 
single omission referred to above,—that the New- 
Yorker merely copied the article with its errone¬ 
ous credit from another paper, and did not by any 
means endorse it; l’or had the mistake not been 
widely circulating in other papers, it would have 
been necessary only to have forwarded the correc¬ 
tion at once to the New-Yorker. 
The only apology I can offer for this omission, 
was extreme fatigue of body and mind consequent 
on almost incessant watching day and night for 
many weeks at the bed of sickness, at the time the 
paragrapli was penned, and which was the cause of 
sending it by mistake unfinished to the publisher. 
J. J. Thomas. 
Macedon, 3d mo. 15, 1351. 
Weekly Meteorological Abstract. 
BY L. WET HE REEL. 
Mar. 1851. 
THERMOMKTEF. 
MAX. | MIN. | MEAN. 
| RAIN. 
j WINJjS. 
11 
48 
36 
40.33 
w. 
12 
26 
22 
24.33 
N E. 
13 
33 
25 
28.01) 
N. NK. 
14 
38 
22 
32.66 
NIC. W. 
15 
57 
46 
51.33 
w. sw. 
16 
39 
35 
36.66 
N E. 
17 
40 
32 
37.00 
S K. 
remarks. 
March 11. Spring-like day. 
12. Fine day—a few flakes of snow—lunar halo. 
13. Cloudy—a little snow in the evening. 
14. Very line day—meadow sparrows heard. 
15. Quite warm—robins und bluebirds heurd. 
16. Cloudy—very rainy afternoon and evening. 
17. Cool—cloudy—a little snow at evening. 
Implements, Seeds, Fruit Trees, &c. —We 
direct particular attention to the new advertise¬ 
ments in this number of the Rural. The card 
of Messrs. Wheeler, Mklick & Co., James P. 
Fogg & Brother, and the several Nursery and 
other advertisements will advise our readers wiiere 
they can obtain superior articles from reliable 
sources. 
A word to advertisers, by the way. As our 
space is limited, those who must advertise in the 
Rural (and its circulation is now so large that it 
offers an excellent medium,) will oblige us by ma¬ 
king their notices as short as possible. This will 
enable us to accommodate a greater number, with¬ 
out infringing upon the news department of the 
paper. At present we are compelled to decline all 
advertisements for a long period, or that are not 
strictly appropriate. 
The Last Wight of Congress. 
The following description of the carousals at 
Washington, on the last night of the recent session 
of Congress, we find in a letter from Washington- 
“ The capitol was on Monday night a perfect 
Bedlam. Some of the Representatives of the 
* dear people’—got most gloriously or inglorious))' 
drunk. Wishing to have a good time at Uncle 
Sam’s expense, they adopted the usual stratagem 
to accomplish their purpose, which is to vote the 
officers of the capitol an extra $250 apiece with 
the understanding that said officers should expend 
a certain portion for champaigne and suppers, for 
4 the crowd.’ The consequence was that more 
than a third of the members got so ‘elevated’ above 
sublunary things that they could not attend to the 
affairs of State, which had been entrusted lo them 
by a too confiding constituency. I do not know 
the amount of money appropriated for this purpose 
this year, bu t was told by one of the officers under 
government, that the extra pay voted to door-keep¬ 
ers, porters, messengers, &c., last year, was $22,- 
000, a very pretty sum indeed!” 
Dangerous Counterfeit on the Putman Co. 
Bank.—2’f, an exact imitation of genuine—vig. 
small State arms and figure 2—on the right upper 
end is the word “Two” in an oval die, and below 
is a country maid churning—on the left upper end 
the word Two, with a blacksmith, anvil, &c., be¬ 
low. These bills have been very freely circulated 
in tho upper part of the city, and are likely to be 
taken by persons not good judges of engraving, as 
the difference in the engraving is all by which the 
counterfeit can be distinguished.— Thompson's 
Bank Note Reporter. 
The Atlantic. —The steamship Atlantic, which 
had been lying since her return at her moorings in 
the Sloyne, was on Wednesday towed into the 
Huskisson Lock, where she is expected to lie for 
about three months, by which time she will again 
be ready for sea. Her machinery will be repaired 
by the proprietors of the Soho Works, near Bir¬ 
mingham, and her carpentry work by 3Ir. Wilson 
Greene of this town .—Liverpool paper. 
23jf“The steamboat Admiral, Capt. Kerr, ar¬ 
rived at this port from Toronto, on Sunday morn¬ 
ing, with a large number of passengers, and a full 
freight. Her cargo consisted principally of peas 
and grass-seed. She left again for Toronto last 
evening, and will make semi-weekly trips from 
this to Canadian ports, leaving ibe landing here on 
Monday and Thursday evenings.— Rock. Bern. 
legislate* of -fern 
Synopsis ef Proceedings. 
Monday, March 10.— Senate, —Petitions were 
received on the subject of the School Law, and 
Railroad Companies. The report of the N. York 
Dispensary was recei ved. 
Assembly. —The following bills wore read a third 
time and passed. 
To amend the charter of St. Luke’s Hospital. 
A bill in relation to Life Insurance Companies 
doing business in other States. 
A bill in relation to election of Directors of the 
Union Bridge Company. 
To authorize the Utica Steam Woolen Company 
to increase their capital stock, and also to allow the 
Utica Globe Mills to increase their stock. 
Mr. Ferris’ resolution requiring the Surveyor 
General to make surveys of the Railroad embank¬ 
ment across Cayuga Lake, was called up and 
passed. The House then went into Committee of 
the Whole on the Assessment bill. 
Tuesday. March 11.— Senate. —A part of the 
morning session was occupied with the discussion 
of the bill creating a Board of Four Auditors in 
each town in the State. 
The bill to restrict the powers of cities in respect 
to creating debt, was read through and made an 
early order. 
Assembly. —After various petitions and reports 
the Committee of the Whole resumed the consid¬ 
eration of the General Assessment law, made some 
progress, and reported the same to the House. 
Wednesday, March 12.— Senate. —Petitions 
were presented for a National Railroad, part of 
which to be located in this State; also, of a large 
number of women asking to be allowed to vote. 
Assembly. — Mr. Fordyce, from majority of 
Committee, reported a bill relative to the sale of in¬ 
toxicating liquors. The bill provides for licenses, 
but makes the vendor liable for all damages result¬ 
ing from the sale of liquors. 
Mr. Chamberlain, from the minority of the same 
Committee, reported a bill to prohibit the sale of 
liquor under an adequate penalty. 
Thursday, March 13.— Senate. —The bill pass¬ 
ed to allow the Managers of the New York Life 
Savings Benevolent Association to increase their 
number. 
The bill providing for the Railroad Bridge at 
Rouse’s Point, on Lake Champlain, being the 
special order, came up and with the Militia bill, 
occupied the remainder of the session. 
Assembly. —Mr. O. Allen, from the Committee 
on Claims, to whom was referred the subject mat¬ 
ter of the Governor’s Message relating to the 
speedy completion of the Erie and the Genesee 
Valley and Black River Canals, presented a vol¬ 
uminous report, accompanied by a bill, in accord¬ 
ance with the recommendations of the Governor. 
In the afternoon, engaged in Committee of the 
Whole, on the questions of the Bank Department, 
Election of School Superintendents, and tho Agri¬ 
cultural College. 
Friday, March 14.— Senate. —The following 
resolution was passed: 
Resolved, That the Banks of issue and deposit 
in this State within twenty days after the date of 
the passage of this resolution, report the amount of 
special deposits uncalled for in their Banks from 
the commencement of their business, to the first of 
January, 1850, and the aggregate o! all unclaimed 
dividends and deposits in their hands. 
Bills were passed, to change the time for mailing 
payments to the Safety Fund, to be on or before 
the 31st December. 
An act to subject certain debts owing to non¬ 
residents to taxation. This is a very important 
bill. Its first section is, “ all debts owing by in¬ 
habitants of this State to persons not residing in 
the United States for the purchase of any real 
estate shall be deemed personal property within the 
town or county where the debtor resides, and as 
such shall be liable to taxation in the same manner 
and to the same extent as the persona] estate of 
citizens of this State.” 
To allow Flushing to sell a part of their town 
land. 
Assembly. —The following bills were passed: 
To erect a fire-proof Library building. 
To incorporate the Thistle Benevolent Associa¬ 
tion of New York. 
In relation to the Sheriff and Clerk of Kings Co. 
To alter Commisioners’ map of Brooklyn. 
To-day was set apart for the purpose of reading 
engrossed bills a third time. The following were 
passed. 
To amend the Charter of Sltaneateles. 
To alter the Commissioners Map of the City of 
Brooklyn. 
To amend tho act entitled an Act to provide for 
sick and disabled seamen—passed April 22d 1831, 
and all the acts amendatoiy of the same. 
To provide for the erection of a fire-proof build¬ 
ing for u State Library, and for the better accom¬ 
modation of the Legislature. 
To incorporate the “ Thistle Benevolent Asso¬ 
ciation” of the city of New York. 
In relation to the Sheriff and Clerk of the coun¬ 
ty of Kings. 
To amend the Charter of the city of Schenectady., 
To amend the Charter of the Cayuga and Sus¬ 
quehanna Railroad, and to extend tho powers of 
said Company. 
For the incorporation of Building and Accumu¬ 
lating Fund Associations. 
To authorize tho Common Council of the city 
of Oswego to levy a tax to build a fire-proof build¬ 
ing for the County Clerk’s office in that city. 
To provide for the appraisement and payment 
of canal damages to Charles Ehle. 
To regulate the rates of wharfage on lighters in 
the cities of New York and Brooklyn. 
To authorize the city of Oswego to borrow' money. 
To amend the act entitled “An act to provide 
for the incorporation and regulation of Telegraph 
Companies,” passed Apiil 12, 184S. 
To amend the provision of the Revised Statutes 
entitled “ Of proceedings for the draining of 
swamps, marshes, and other iow’ lands.” 
In relation to the village of Holley, confirming a 
certain election. 
In relation to the powers of the late Court of 
Chancery and Supreme Court in equity in certain 
cases. 
Items of 'Mtw, &r. 
-Fifty coaches are now making at Paris to 
carry passengers across the Isthmus of Suez. 
-The Mexican Boundary Commission is expect¬ 
ed to be employed three years in running the line. 
-There have been two shocks of earthquake at 
Antigua lately. 
-Broche silks, the designs in gold and silver, 
are all the fashion abroad. 
-Martin Fnrquhar Tapper, the poet, arrived 
at New York in tho steamer Asia, on Friday last. 
-A whale forty-four feet in length, and good 
for thirty barrels of oil, was captured oil'Southamp¬ 
ton Long Island, on the 1st. 
-The cholera has appealed in a mild form in 
various parts of the West, but mostly along the 
rivers. 
-The Governor of Maine has appointed Thurs¬ 
day, the 10th of April, to be observed as a day of 
fasting and prayer. 
-The possible navigation of the Rio Grande 
for one thousand miles is now mooted by the War 
Department. 
-Thirteen gambling houses were broken up, 
and eighty-six gamblers arrested in Boston on Sat¬ 
urday night last, by the police. 
-Bank’s Arcade, and the Commercial Bulletin 
office adjoining were destroyed by fire, on the 4th 
inst. at New Orleans, 
-Gen. Scott, Roger Jones and others left this 
morning for the South as Commissioners to select 
a site for a military asylum. 
-The Michigan Southern Railroad has been 
completed 27 miles west of Cold water, 110 miles 
from Toledo. 
-A young lady of sweet sixteen, and weighing 
470 pounds, is now receiving calls at the Eagle Ho¬ 
tel, Lockport. 
<*-Hudson River, this season, hue been closed 
only seventy-one days, being the shortest period 
with one exception, for twenty years past. 
-No less than .-£40,000 has been remitted to 
the port of Limerick from the United States, in the 
last year to forward emigration. 
-Dr. C. W. Wilder, who died at Leomituster, 
Mass., recently, left $20,000,000 forfree bedeat the 
Massachusetts General Hospital. 
'-Of the small cochineal fly from Mexico, no 
less than £275,000 worth aro consumed in Great 
Britain. 
-Mr. Gough, it is said, received $70C, dear 
of expenses for fourteen lectures delivered in Pitts¬ 
burg. 
-The Pittsburg American in speaking of the 
churches in that city says that there ie one church 
to every 727 inhabitants. 
-In one of the Unitarian societies of Boston, 
there are ten gentlemen who are unitedly worth 
more than $10,000,00. 
-The city of Buffalo last year paid a 'tax of 
over $400,000—being about ten dollars for every 
man, woman and child in the city. 
-The Michigan Southern railroad is now com¬ 
pleted to Sturges’ Prairie, 117 miles from Lake 
Erie, at Monroe and Toledo, to which point it was 
opened on the 10th inst. 
-The trial of Gen. Champlin for slave abduc¬ 
tion is called for tho 17th inst. in the Howard Dis¬ 
trict Court. It is doubtful whether he will appear, 
or forfeit his bail of $21,000. 
-A woman 68 years old, who is deaf and dumb 
wos married for the fourth time at Pembrokeshire, 
in England, on the 21st ult., her bridegroom being 
a young man of 21. 
-The new alms-house in Hartford was entire¬ 
ly consumed by fire on the 10th inst. Loss about 
$15,000,—fully insured. Supposed to have been 
the work of an incendiary. 
-Among the recent deaths in Europe, we no¬ 
tice the names of Joanna Bailie, Sir John Tobin, 
the Dowager Countess of Cbarleville, and Dr. Ja¬ 
cobi, the celebrated professor of mathematics. 
-At a late meeting of the Ohio State Board of 
Agriculture, a resolution was adopted inviting Col. 
Benton to deliver the address to the next Agricul¬ 
tural State Fair. 
-The Cities of Buffalo, Rochester, Oswego, 
Utica, Syracuse and Troy elected Democratic May¬ 
ors at the Charter election on the 4tli inst. Au¬ 
burn, Whig. 
-New Orleans dates of March 14, say the 
Mississippi has risen to a great height, and contin¬ 
ues rising, and they fear another crevasse at Bonnett 
Carre. Much damage is already done. 
-The editor of the Galena Advertiser says 
that Edward Breath, formerly a partnei of his, is 
now printing a paper in Persia! Where shall we 
hear of him next? 
-The hemp crop in Missouri has fallen off 
from last year, from 20 to 25 per cent., and it is 
said that the crop gathered will be of a dark leaden 
color, consequent upon the fall rains and tiie ab¬ 
sence of snow. 
-The contracts for cleaning the streets of Bal¬ 
timore have this year been awarded, for the oggre- 
gregate sum of $4,900, to the various contractors, 
being $9,000 less than the contract for the past 
year. 
-The General Appropriation Bill devotes 
$318,000 for improvements in the city of Washing¬ 
ton repairing bridges, paving srects. altering east 
wing of the Patent Office, planting trees about the 
Presidential Mansion, Ac. 
- \ people’s washing and bathing establish¬ 
ment is about to be commenced in Now York, after 
the London plan, by an association wiio have pur¬ 
chased a lot 48 by 100 feet, in a thickly settled por¬ 
tion of the city. 
-Messrs. Winter &, Latimer, of San Francisco, 
give an authentic statement of the gold shipped 
from California since it passed into the hand* of the 
Americans, and the sum is up to December last 
$68,687,531. 
-Gov. Hunt has pardoned Selden Brainard, 
who is in Sing Sing Prison for five yeais for coun¬ 
terfeiting. it was done at the earnest, personal so¬ 
licitation of one of h is daughters, an esteemed and 
excellent young lady. 
—The last day’s debate und proceedings of the 
Senate, it is said, will make seventy columns of 
prinle I matter in the Union and Intelligencer, equal 
to $1050 for tho cost of publishing this one day Is 
proceedings of twenty-five hours, in two newspa¬ 
pers. 
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