ROCHESTER, APRIL 2, 1853. 
SPECIAL NOTICE—NEW QUARTER. 
The Spring Series of the Rural, commcnc 
ing April 2d, will be opened with vigor, and a 
determination to improve as we advance. Without 
making any pledges, we can safely say that the im¬ 
mediate future of the paper will indicate no deteri¬ 
oration. Those who wish to subscribe, or renew their 
subscriptions, will bear in mind that Now is the 
Ti me. We shall add largely to present cdiiibn, in 
order to supply orders from the beginning of thencio 
quarter. See Publisher’s Notices, Premiums, d'c. : 
on next page. March 26. 
Postage of the Rural New-Yorker. 
In answer to various inquiries on the subject 
we re-publish the legal rate of postage on the 
Rural New-Yorker, as follows : 
Within the County of Monroe, free. 
Wilhin the State of New York, if pre-paid 
yearly or quarterly, [by the subscriber,] Thirteen 
emits per year. 
Within the United States, if pre-paid as above, 
Twenty-six cents per year. 
The distance of the post-office where the Rural 
is received from its place of publication has noth¬ 
ing to do with the rate of postage. If the post- 
office is in this coutity, the paper goes free—A in 
this State, at 13 cents a year—and if within the 
United States, at 26 cents a year, if pre-paid as 
above. 
One P. M. in thi|^county has decided that a 
subscriber can receive but one paper free ! Such 
is not the law. A man may receive a copy of 
every weekly paper published in the county, free 
of any postage whatever. 
Trade.— Spring Prospects. 
To the business man, the prospects of trade aud 
the causes which influence it favorably or other¬ 
wise, are subjects for much inquiry aud attention 
There is no reason why they should be neglected 
by farmers. 
From the best data we have been able to ob¬ 
tains the amount of flour west of Buffalo, which 
will be likely to come forward this spring is as 
large as it was.a year since. It is not probable it 
will come forward very freely, early, as it has cost 
millers and holders too high to sell at much profit 
at present rates. The amount of wheat in store 
has been ascertained not to be large—not as much 
as usual. At some poiuts west, farmers are still 
holders, and will not sell freely unless the price is 
liberal. Of corn, the amount may fall somewhat 
short of last year,—the high price of pork having 
induced its feeding more than formerly. The 
great trouble with Western corn is, its coming for¬ 
ward in bad order, from being heated. It can 
hardly sustain prices, so as not to result in loss 
to many who have bought largely. The prime 
yellow corn of Western New York and Pennsyl¬ 
vania, will be in good demand. The stock of oats 
along the lake shore is light,— considerable short 
of the usual supply—and w T e shall not expect 
much reduction in price. Bsrlev has been freely 
marketed. Sales will be light, with little change 
in prices. In the article of pork, it seems hardly 
possible to prevent a decline, which will be a 
great loss to packers and those now holding.— 
Lard and hams will partake somewhat of the 
same decline, though probably not to so great an 
extent. Butter will be dull early in the season 
unless there is more than usual demand, as the 
“bite” which buyers got last fall and winter, will 
make them careful. We do not look for an ad 
vance in cheese, as the price of last year was un¬ 
usually high. Wool will unquestionably bear a 
good price, but as it is to be the chief article of 
speculation, it will be likely to go down in price 
early, to compensate for some purchases made in 
advance at high rates. Farmers will do well to 
keep posted and sell when good prices are offered, 
rather than to hold to compete with the large 
operators. Fat Cattle—choice animals—will be 
in active demand, while common to inferior will 
be low. Many are calculating on high prices in 
consequence of the attractions at New York, but 
beginning so early to provide, will probably pre¬ 
vent exorbitant rates. 
As a whole, the prospect for business is good. 
There is some tendency to speculation if money 
should be very abundant, which would result in 
no general benefit. Look well before you ven¬ 
ture, should be a motto heeded in every business 
operation at the preseut time. t 
Back Volumes of the Rural. 
“ I want the Rural New-Yorker, just as every 
man does who has read it much. I want past, 
present and future volumes. How much, (or 
rather, how little,) money will buy the 1st, 2d 
and 3d volumes, plainly and substantially bound?” 
To the above inquiry, just received, and similar 
ones of recent date, we reply.—1. We cannot sup¬ 
ply any complete volume, except the-3d, and the 
price of that, bound, is $3. We have no com¬ 
plete copies unbound ; but a few copies of all the 
numbers (except one—No. 18,) which we will 
furnish at $1,50 each. 
2. Of vol. 2 we have no complete copies, either 
bound oi' unbound, to spare—but ,can furnish a 
few copies oi most of the numbers (all but two, 
we believe,) at the above price. 
3. Our edition of vol. 1 is entirely exhausted. 
j>^p”If any of our readers can furnish one or 
more copies of No. 18, vol. 3, the favor will be : 
appreciated. We will pay-at least one shilling 
each for from one (to twenty .copies oj^that No. 
Country Rambles in England ; or Journal of a 
Naturalist; with notes aud additions, by the 
author of “ Rural Hours.” Buffalo : Phinney 
<fc Co. 
“ The Journal of a Naturalist” is one of the 
choicest books of English Rural life, ever written. 
It is also one of the most unambitious. The au¬ 
thor, Mr. Knapp, tells us of the trees which 
shadowed his way, of the grasses and flowers 
which fringed his path, of the products of the 
fields around his home, of the birds which glad¬ 
dened his heart with their songs, of the butterflies 
and moths which come and go with the summer 
flowers—of the thousand forms of nature which 
meet the eye of her lover and observer. Miss 
Cooper’s notes add much to the interest of the 
work for American readers. For .sale at'DARisow’s, 
The Great Orations of Daniel Webster, are 
now issued in form for the library in a handsome¬ 
ly bound volume, embellished with the best por¬ 
trait of Mr. W. extant. The Orations comprised 
in fthis valuable and popular book, are among 
the choicest specimens of eloquence ever given 
to the world. As models in this respect, and as 
memorials of patriotism, they have never been 
surpassed. The young will find them worthy of 
careful study, and the old may read them and 
revive the glorious associations of the past. Price 
50 cts. All orders should be addressed to the 
publisher, Wilber M. Hayward, Rochester. 
Putnam’s Monthly for April, has a variety of 
interesting articles. Among them is another on 
the Bourbon Question, and “Our New Livery, 
which touches up the fashionables rather amus¬ 
ingly. “New York Daugerreotyped,” iscontinu- 
ed with numerous illustrations. 25 cts. per No. 
E. Darrow, Main st., Bookstore, agent. 
The Illustrated Magazine of Art for April, 
has a large number of well executed wood en¬ 
gravings. The subjects are generally selected 
with judgment, and have that appropriateness not 
always found in pictorial papers and magazines. 
New York. Alex. Montgomery. 25 cents per 
number; $3 per year. D. M. Dewet, agent. 
“ Appletons’ Mechanics’ Magazine and En¬ 
gineers’ Journal,” is the name of a large monthly 
quarto, of which the March No. has beeu sent us. 
It is illustrated with engravings on wood and 
steel, and discusses questions of much interest to 
scientific mechanics. New York : D. Appleton 
& Co. $3 per year. Dewey, agent. 
The Transactions of the Norfolk Agriculite 
al Society, for 1852, have been sent us by San¬ 
ford Howard, Esq. The work is full of valua 
hie matter and we shall draw from its stores here¬ 
after. 
Change of Residence, &c. 
Change of Address. —Those who wish the di¬ 
rection of their papers changed should give us the 
name of the paper, and both post-offices — the one 
where now sent, as well as the new address. With 
in a few days we have received several requests, 
in thiswise : “ Send ray paper hereafter to- 
or “to this place;” and as many of the letters 
are dated, if dated at all, at the new residence of 
the subscriber, we have no intimation as to where 
the paper is now addressed. The consequence is 
that we cannot comply with the request, without 
also continuing the paper to former address, or 
searching for it among thousands of names on our 
books. And, as we publish two papers, it is es¬ 
sential also that the name of the paper be given 
— and if the applicant receives both papers, each 
should be specified. The whole matter may be 
arranged in two lines, whether your letter is dated 
or not, thus :—“ Change the address of my'paper, 
the Rural New-Yorker, from-, N. Y., to-, 
Ohio,” or Michigan, as the case may be. 
A suggestion, here, to subscribers who are 
changing their residences. Many of you locate, 
or are about locating, in sections where the Rural 
is nearly or quite unknown. Will you, as hun¬ 
dreds have already done, introduce our paper to 
the notice and support of your new neighbors and 
acquaintances ?— and thus become, individually, 
Rural missionaries ? To any and all so disposed 
we will send specimen numbers, post-paid, (so 
that their copies may be preserved entire,)—for 
we find that those who take and read the Rural 
are most successful, when disposed to exercise 
their influence, iu augmenting its circulation and 
consequent usefulness. 
Acknowledgments. —We are indebted to Mr 
P. W. Peck, of East Bloomfield, for superior sam¬ 
ples of Maple Syrup and Sugar; and to Mr. Geo. 
C. Gauss, of the same town, for a fine sample of 
the former. To Mr. B. White, of Barre, for a 
cake of Maple Sugar of extra quality. Mr. Peck 
informs us that he manufactures from 800 to 1,000 
pounds of sugar, each season, and finds it the 
most profitable item of farm production. He 
makes it in small cakes, well clarified, and obtains 
from 16 to 18 cents per pound. His syrup sells 
readily in this market at $ 1 per gallon. 
Lettuce. —On Saturday last, our friend, C. F. 
Grosman, Seedsman and Gardener, favored us 
with fine, full-grown and well-flavored Lettuce— 
one head weighing over 6 ounces. Mr. C. is de¬ 
cidedly a-hcad, as usual. 
Advertising Terms. —From and after this date, 
our cliprge for advertising will be $1 per square 
(ten lines Nonpareil, or 100 words,) for each in¬ 
sertion. This is far less, in proportion to circula¬ 
tion, than is charged by the majority of Agricul¬ 
tural and similar journals. 
A Model Farm —Is offered -for sale by E. W. 
PE.vpi;LL, of Byron. Those who desire such an • 
one will govern themselves accordingly. See ad-! 
vertisemqnt in this paper. 
6ot)C)i*essio 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Monday, March 21. — Senate--Extra Session .— 
Mr. Everett spoke on Mr. Clayton’s resolutions 
calling for certain information relative to Central 
American affairs. An Executive Session was held 
and the Senate adjourned. 
Tuesday, March 22.—A message was received 
from the President transmitting Diplomatic Cor¬ 
respondence relative to the French Revolution of 
December, 1851. It was ordered to be printed. 
Wednesday, March 23. — Senate. —Public ex¬ 
travagance was the main topic in the U. S. Sen¬ 
ate. There were no startling developments made 
which we generally expected when that subject 
is broached. An amendment offered by Mr. 
Chase, was adopted by a strong vote, to the effect 
that hereafter no allowance of any kind beyond 
the regular compensation shall be made to any 
officer of the Seuate. 
Thursday, March 24.— Senate. —The Senate talk¬ 
ed about an adjournment but lacked a quorum to 
act on the question. 
Friday, March 25.—No quorum present. 
Saturday, March 26.—The Senate further dis¬ 
cussed the proposition to empower a member of 
the Committee on Indian Affairs to examine, 
during the recess, the charges against Gov. Ram¬ 
say, of Minnesota, and finally laid it at rest upon 
the table. No important business was transacted 
in open session. 
Letter from Illinois. 
Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., Ill., March 21, 1853. 
Ens. Rural : —We have had a delightful win¬ 
ter—a little snow—a very little mud—neither too 
hot nor too cold. 
March, so much distinguished for being disa¬ 
greeable and changeable, has thus far beeu a per¬ 
fect pattern of propriety,—clear, coolish nights 
and bright sunny days, bringing out the frost and 
drying the surface so gradually, that we could 
not distinguish the dividing line of winter and 
spring. 
This is a time of unparalleled activity in our 
State. Hundreds of miles of railroads are graded, 
much of it laid with iron—numberless new char¬ 
ters granted, aud no end to those projected. There 
are about 1,500 miles of bona fide roads now in 
the course of construction. The Rock Island and 
Chicago road, is located through this place, aud it 
is already in operation to Peru,—a distance of 100 
miles from Chicago and 20 miles east of here. It 
is nearly graded to Sheffield, (a new town, “ that 
is to be,”) 14 miles west. They are now survey¬ 
ing a branch from this place to Peoria, 40 miles 
south. 
Considering the facilities, there are yet good op¬ 
portunities for farmers and others along these 
works. Lands near here can be bought, unim¬ 
proved, for from $10 to $12. There is consider¬ 
able vacant land here, called “ barrens,” (the 
Michigan oak openings,) which are for sale at 
about $5 per acre. They are partially timbered 
with scrubby oaks, are finely watered with 
springs and brooks, have a sufficiency of timber to 
fence and to furnish fuel, aud the soil, though not 
as deep black as the prairie, is probably more fa¬ 
vorable for wheat aud grass. They have been 
passed by, for the smooth prairie; but in my 
opinion they will yet make some of the most 
profitable farms in the country. They are gene¬ 
rally somewhat rolling, well set in grass aud in¬ 
terspersed with trees, reminding one of the de¬ 
scriptions of English parks. They afford many 
pleasant and picturesque building places. There 
are more than a thousand acres of this land for 
sale within three miles of this place. 
Having said what there is around us, I ought 
to say a little about our village, Tiskilwa. It 
sounds rather Indiany, aud well it may, as it is an 
old Iudian village. There are now three stores, 
one grist and saw mill, and a large flouring mill in 
the course of construction, three blacksmiths shops 
and a plow factory near by. What is unusual in 
this country, they have erected here a fine brick 
school house, at an expense of $1,200, furnished 
with a bell and competent teachers. 
Stock and produce are very high, and under this 
stimulus it is expected that greater efforts than 
usual, will be made to produce large crops. The 
fall wheat, it is supposed, has suffered from the 
winter, but a large breadth of spring wheat will 
be sown to supply its place. l. d. w. 
St. Mary’s Canal. 
The Legislature of Michigan, has passed a law 
in accordance with the act of Congress, accepting 
the right of way and public lauds, to aid iu the 
construction of a canal around the Falls of St 
Marys, thus rendering navigation unobstructed 
between lakes Superior and Michigan. It is an 
enterprise of much importance to all the Lake Su¬ 
perior region, as its tendency will be to speedily 
develope not only the mineral aud forest, but also 
the agricultural wealth of that vast country.— 
Copper, iron, lead, and other minerals are found 
there in abundance, and many of the mines are 
being successfully and profitably workel. The 
opening of the canal named, will at once give 
these enterprises new impetus, and bring forward 
quite cheaply to market the heavy products of 
those miues. 
This Canal is important in a commercial point 
of view, as the means of bringing forward large 
amounts of freight which will pass through our 
canals on its way to tide water and a market — 
The State of New York is interested, as she must 
share largely in the increase of trade of the grow¬ 
ing west. We trust the encouragement and aid 
proffered by the General Government will be suf¬ 
ficient to ensure at an early day the completion of 
the St. Mary’s Canal. t 
Jlecjisiciitffs of fifeto Ifoi'H. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Monday, March 21.— Senate.—The following bills 
passed, also several others of minor importance: 
Relative to the People’s Bathing and Washing 
Association in New York. To amend an act in 
relation to Railroad Corporations. [Authorizes 
the commeucemeut of work under the general law 
on payment iu of 10 per cent, of the $10,000.] — 
To amend the charter of the Pacific Mail Steam¬ 
ship Company. Several petitions were presented 
and referred, and other bills reported. 
Assembly. —Several bills were reported complete, 
among which was the repeal of the Registry act, 
which the Senate killed. 
Tuesday, March 22.— Senate. —The Senate dis¬ 
cussed the affairs of Union College, upon which 
Mr. Beekman made a sharp speech, aud heard the 
Liquor bill read. 
Assembly. —The Assembly took up the Railroad 
Consolidation bill, and negatived by 63 to 28 a 
motion for postponement. The bill was then or¬ 
dered to a third reading. Also several other bills 
of interest. 
Wednesday, March 23.— Senate. — Several bills 
were ordered to a third reading. 
Assembly. — The Railway Consolidation bill 
passed 79 to 34. Several other bills were reported. 
Thursday, March 24.— Senate. —The subject of 
Constitutional amendments was discussed iu the 
Senate. The bill to Consolidate the Public and 
Ward Schools of New York city was passed.— 
Also, the bill for the construction of a Ship Canal 
around the Overslaugh. 
Assembly. —The following bills were passed :— 
To promote medical inquiry aud investigation, 
and for the better security of burial grounds and 
cemeteries. To amend the act requiring the reg¬ 
istry of births, marriages, and deaths. To regu¬ 
late the assessment of taxes on incorporated com¬ 
panies. To amend the act regulating the incor¬ 
poration of Ocean Steamship companies. 
Friday, March 25.— Senate. —Little was done in 
the Senate. 
Assembly. —Among the bills passed are the fol¬ 
lowing :—Relative to the debts incurred by women 
before marriage. [It releases the husband from 
paying the debts of his wife incurred before mar¬ 
riage, beyond the amount of her property.] To 
provide for the education of the Tonawanda In¬ 
dians. To authorize the formation of Ferry com¬ 
panies. 
Saturday, March 26.— Senate —The time of the 
Senate was occupied by Mr. McMurray iu a speech 
on the canal policy of the State. 
Assembly. —The House, in committee of the 
whole, acted on the bills to secure a more just 
valuation of property for taxation ; in relation to 
the expenditures ou the canals ; and to provide for 
the completion of a refuge for juvenile delinquents 
iu New York. A large number of bills of a local 
or private nature were introduced and referred to 
select committees to report complete. Mr. Gale 
introduced a bill in regard to convict labor in 
State prisons, giving the convict the full beuefit 
of his earniugs during incarceration. 
Southern and Western Bank Notes. 
For the benefit of our readers generally, and 
particularly those in the South and West, we give 
the annexed list of Bank Notes rejected by the St. 
Louis Board of Bankers since the 18th of Febru¬ 
ary, and most of which have gone out of circula¬ 
tion. Clark’s Counterfeit Detector, of St. Louis, 
cautions the public against touching any of the 
irresponsible rag currency mentioned among the 
rejected notes—remarking that, though some of it 
may be good for a year or two, it is as liable to 
burst as au air bubble. The list of rejected Notes 
is as follows: 
The Bank of America, Washington City, and 
all other banks of the District of Columbia, too 
numerous tc mention, except the following : 
Bank of the Metropolis, Bank of Washington, 
aud Patriotic Bank of Washington, and Frarmers 
and Mechanics’ Bank, Georgetown, which are the 
only legal banks of the District. 
Wisconsin Marine aud Fire Insurance Company. 
Bank of Macomb County, Michigan. 
Farmers and Mechanics, Bank, N ew Brunswick, 
N. J. 
Illinois River Bank, Peru, Illinois. 
M. B. Osborn’s checks on the Rock Island Bank, 
Illinois. 
Merchants and Mechanics’ Bank of Chicago, 
Illinois, not registered 
Bank of Commerce, Chicago, Illinois, not regis¬ 
tered. 
Chicago Bank of J. H. Burch & Co., dated Lit 
tie Falls, N. Y. 
Bank of Chicago, Seth Paine & Co. Since 
failed. 
Memphis Savings Institution, Memphis, Tenn. 
Exchauge Bank,'New Orleans, Horace Bean, 
Manager. 
Ohio Savings Institution, Tiffin, ©liio. Since 
failed. 
Illinois and Rock River Railroad Company. 
Fox River Bank, Dundee, Illinois. 
Oswego aud ludiana Plank Road Company. 
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank, Quincy, Illinois, 
Longansport Insurance Company. 
Union Plank Road Compony, Michigan City, 
Indiana. 
Belvidere Bank of Alex. Nealy, Pittsfield, Mass. 
Richmond Exchange Bank, Wisconsin. 
Illinois Safety Fund Company, Napiersville. 
Oswego Plank Road Company checks, Joliet, 
Illiuois. ___ 
Compensation of Post Masters. —One of the 
acts passed on the night of the 3d of March, to 
establish certain post routes, Ac., contains a sec¬ 
tion fixing the following as the commissions of 
Postmasters after the 1st of April inst: 
On a sum not exceeding $100-50 per ct. 
“ “ between 0100 & $400-40 per ct. 
“ « @400 & $2,400-35 per et. 
“ “ exceeding $2,400-15 per ct. 
Where the mail arrives regularly between 9 at 
night and 5 iu the morning, 60 per cent, is al¬ 
lowed on the first $100. 
Those officers, whose compensation shall not 
exceed $500 a quarter, are allowed one cent, for 
every “ free” letter delivered out of their office, 
and each Postmaster is allowed’ two mills for de¬ 
livery from his office to a subscriber, of each news¬ 
paper not chargeable with postage. 
]Tetos JHebifies. 
-O. W. Holmes, the poet and lecturer, has 
realized over $3,000 from lecturing this winter. 
-A Post Office has been established at Java 
Centre, Wyoming county, Patrick O’Conner, P. M. 
-Counterfeit $3’s ou the Hollister Bank, of 
Buffalo, are in circulation, so well executed as to 
deceive the best judges. 
-Chang and Eug, the Siamese Twins, are to 
make a tour through the States, and will be in 
Boston some time during April. 
-The Albany Register says the Hudson 
River and Buffalo Creek have opened together for 
thirty years past. 
-A recent advance of £5 per ton has taken 
place in English tin. This makes an advance of 
£15 per ton during the last month. 
-One dollar notes of the Rhode Island 
Union Bank, at Newport, altered to twenties, are 
in circulation. 
-The peach crop of West Jersey, for the 
succeeding summer, is thought to be highly prom¬ 
ising. 
-Two hundred and fifty yoimg trees are to 
be set out cu Boston Common this spring by the 
forester. 
-There are sixty-six babes in Charlestown 
Mass., who have Frank. Pierce attached to their 
names. 
-The Canadian House of Assembly has 
passed a bill increasing the representation iu that 
body from 84 to 128 members. 
-Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry have recently 
sent a package of fruit tree siions to Oregon by 
mail, the postage upon which was $32. 
-The city of Mexico, with a population of 
60,000, supports but one apothecary’s shop. Per¬ 
sons are rarely ill there. 
-Of forty-two papers which have been com¬ 
menced in Syracuse, nine only remain, says the 
Star. 
-Col. Colt, the inventor of the revolving 
pistols bearing his name, has amassed a splendid 
fortune by their sale. 
-A Statue of Dewitt Clinton, is talked of, to 
be erected in the Capitol Park at Albany, at a 
cost of $20,000. 
-The late S. S. Howland, who died in Italy, 
bequeathed $20,000 to eleven charitable institu¬ 
tions in New York. 
.-The new Liquor bill, Maine, embracing 
amendments of increased stringency to the law, 
has passed the House by a vote of 94 to 43. 
-A drove of three hundred cows was at St. 
Louis on the 19th, on the route from Illinois to 
California across the Plains. 
-“ The Echo of the Pacific” is the name of 
a new daily paper, which is now published iu the 
French language at Sau Francisco. 
-A correspondent of the Buffalo Republic,. 
writing from Lewiston, says the shock of an earth¬ 
quake was felt at that place on Saturday, 13th ult. 
-The cost of running a passenger train from 
New York to Albany (one hundred and fity miles) 
is about thirtv-two dollars. 
-The Methodists of this country have built 
chuiches nearly at the rate of one per week,, du¬ 
ring the 87 years of their existence as a denomi¬ 
nation. 
-It appears from au official report tlrat the 
Directors of the East India Company have spent 
£53,Olid in house diimers during the last eighteen 
years. 
-The Deerfield river, through the village of 
Shelburne Falls, has uot been frozen over this 
winter—a circumstance unknown for many years 
before. 
_The value of coral taken last year on the 
coast of Algeria was $400,099-; one hundred and 
fifty vessels were engaged in the business ; most 
of the coral was sold at Naples. 
-The whole number of convicts in the.pris¬ 
ons of the State at the close ot the year was 1,843. 
In 1851 it was 1,714. In 1850, 1,611; aud iu 
1840, 1,522. 
-Au ingenious fellow in New "iork,, buys 
all the rats he can find, and manufactures gloves- 
sirailar to the most delicate kid, from their skins, 
-The Emancipation Beige, says there are at 
present 700 French exiles in Belgium, of whom 
only 10 figure on the list of pardoned at the Em¬ 
peror’s wedding. 
_Wm. Rufus King was sworn in as Vice 
President of the United States on the 4th ult.— 
The- ceremony took place- at the Cumbre, near 
Matanzas. • 
_A Bookseller of Washington has sold, the 
past week, upwards of one thousand copies of his- 
•‘List of Offices in Washiugton, with the Salaries 
annexed.” 
-The rumor that Jenny Lind Goldschmidt 
is about making a visit to this country, because of 
troubles between herself and husband, is positive¬ 
ly contradicted by the N. Y. Courier. 
-There arc three thousand two hundred and 
twenty-eight McDonnells and McDonalds in the 
county of Glengarry, Canada, among a total popu¬ 
lation of only seventeen thousand. 
-The barbers of Rochester have entered in¬ 
to a combination aud raised their prices. lhey 
now charge for shaving 10 cents, cuttiug hair 20 
cents, and for other services iu proportion. 
_Rev. Thos. K. Beecher, another of “ the 
family,” has been delighting the New Yorkers 
with a very entertaining lecture upon the subject 
of “How to m&nufactme American Citizens.” 
-One of the most interesting relics in Phil¬ 
adelphia may be seen in North Second street, viz : 
the first lightning-rod erected by Dr. Franklin, 
which still stretches its attenuated fingers towards 
the heavens. 
-Florida has a white population of less than 
fifty thousand—smaller than any other of the 
thirty-one States—yet St. Augustine is the oldest 
town iu the United States, having been founded 
in 1564. 
-Deacon Hart Massey and Moses Bacon, 
both of Watertown, and both deacons in the I irst 
Presbyterian Church at that place—the one 86 
and the other 76 years of age —died one Sunday 
morning recently, in the same hour. 
-It is stated that the whole number of books 
published in the United States during the year 
1852 was 1,288. Of these 322 were re-prints of 
English books aud translations, leaving the 966 as 
the number of American books. 
-Of the 128 members of the present As¬ 
sembly^ are farmers, 22 lawyers, 18 merchants, 
7 physicians, 2 printers, 2 teachers, and 5 are put 
down as gctiilemen. 87 are natives of New York 
and 21 of New England. 
- In the year 1852, Gov. Huxt, granted 8 
respites, and 4 commutations to persons condemn¬ 
ed to death ; aud 153 pardons for various S ates 
prison offences. Besides these there were 73 par¬ 
dons from local prisons for minor offences. 
