MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AM AGRICULTURAL AMD FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ROCHESTER, MAY 14, 1853. 
PUBLISHER’S NOTICES. 
Agents.—A ny person so disposed can act as agent 
for the Rural New-Yorker,— and all who remit accord¬ 
ing to terms will be entitled to premiums, &c. 
ggp* The Rural is published strictly upon the cash 
system sent no longer than paid for — and all orders 
should be in accordance with terms. 
fYf* Our lowest club price is $1,25 for any number of 
copies over 20 — and $1,50 under that number, unless a 
full club of twenty is ordered. 
jgp’” Advertisements must be brief, appropriate to the 
objects of the paper, and accompanied with the cash. 
Additions to Clubs —Are still in order. Har¬ 
ing but few back numbers, agents and others can 
order additions to Clubs at $1 per copy from 1st 
of March or April to end of tlie year and volume. 
New Clubs, or single subscribers, can begin 1st 
March, April, or May, as preferred. 
Our Premiums.—The Result. 
On posting our books, we find that the follow¬ 
ing named gentlemen are entitled to the Premi¬ 
ums offered for obtaining the largest lists of sub¬ 
scribers to (he Rural New-Yorker previous to 
the 1st of this mouth : 
1. L. D. Branch, Trumansburg, 350 subscribers, 
—,<§50 in Cash. 
2. E. R. Hughes, Lyons, 254 subscribers,—$30 
in Books or Implements. 
3. J. H. Stanley, Le Roy, 209 subscribers,— 
$20, payable as above. 
4. S. E. Norton, Phelps, 141 subscribers,— $15, 
as above. 
5. I. 'VV. Briggs, West Macedon, 100 subscri¬ 
bers,—$12 in Books. 
6. J.Van Horn, Ovid, 93 subscribers,— $8, as 
above. 
7. G. N. Sherwood, Camillus, and E. W. Fair- 
child, East Bloomfield, have each obtained 81 
subscribers,— and altho’ but one premium of $5 
was offered, we award to each $8 in Books. 
The Premiums for the largest lists forwarded 
previous to the 1st of January, are awarded as 
follows: 
1. E. R. Hughes, Lyons, 201 subscribers,—$15 
in Cash. 
2. L. D. Branch, Trumansburgh, 175 subscri¬ 
bers,—$10 in Books. 
3. J. H. Stanley, Le Roy, 162 subscribers,— 
$5 in Books. 
Such of the above premiums as have not already 
been paid, will be on receipt of orders from those 
entitled—specifying their wishes in the premises. 
The Town Premiums have not been specially 
competed for, but if claimed we shall award ac¬ 
cording to population as given in last Census. 
Our Specified Premiums, (offered to persons not 
competing for those mentioned above,) have ex¬ 
cited the greatest attention. Some five hundred 
persons have become entitled to premiums in 
books, and extra copies of the Rural, or volumes 
of the Wool Grower or Geu. Farmer; and about 
one hundred of the number have obtained from 20 
to 80 or 100 subscribers each. Premiums have 
been forwarded to most of the persons entitled : 
such as have not yet been paid, will please for¬ 
ward their orders. We publish a list of Books on 
next page, but do dot confine competitors to so 
brief a catalogue. 
—The large number of persons who have, 
during the past five months, generously exerted 
themselves to extend the circulation of the Rural, 
are entitled to more than mere premiums, or our 
grateful acknowledgements—for we are confident 
they were generally actuated by a desire to en¬ 
hance the welfare and prosperity of community. 
They have introduced the paper in many sections 
where it was before unknown— added between six 
and seven thousand to its circulation—and in so 
doing furnished us the means of partially remu¬ 
nerating them, and of making for all inteiested a 
better journal than heretofore. We bend low un¬ 
der the unexpectedly large weight of obligation 
exhibited by an examination of our subscription 
books,—and assure each and all of its friends, that 
we shall endeavor to render the Rural New- 
Yorker worthy of the large and substantial en¬ 
couragement it is receiving. 
mation of certain wise-acres, wbo seem to think 
they “know the ropes”—to save all such any 
time they might otherwise waste in attempting 
to induce us to deviate from established terms. 
Some days ago, a person called and asked our 
price for advertising a certain valuable agricul¬ 
tural machine. We gave it, to a farthing—accord¬ 
ing to our published rate. “ That is too much,” 
said he, with eyes distended. “ Y liy, I can get it 
inserted for $—, in the Genesee Farmer , and that 
has a circulation of forty thousand! ” We quietly 
replied that we did not ask his patronage, and had 
no objection to his advertising elsewhere — that 
the price of advertising in the G. F. was just 
double what we charged, but if its circulation was 
one thousand greater than that of the Rural, we 
would insert his advertisement to the amount of 
$100 (according to our usual rate) for nothing ! 
This somewhat mollified our applicant, and after 
a little inquiry of those who were better posted, 
he concluded that we were perfectly safe in mak¬ 
ing such a proposition. (We mention this with 
no wish to injure the G. F., and it will not— for 
we believe tbe publisher of that journal has as 
little occasion as ourselves to solicit advertise¬ 
ments, although he receives much the greater 
price in proportion to circulation.) 
Our terms are frequently demurred to because 
they are greater than those of “other papers.” 
To all such we have but one reply — that we be¬ 
lieve (and we are pretty well posted on this point,) 
the circulation of the Rural New-Yorker is 
greater than that of any other rural journal in the 
Union — (the Boston Cultivator alone excepted, 
and that does not publish advertisements)—while 
our price for advertising is far less, in proportion 
to circulation (the best criterion of value,) than 
the generality of such papers. Indeed, the in¬ 
crease of our subscription list since January last, 
is alone larger than the whole circulation of some 
journals whose advertising terms are the same as 
ours. As to comparing our prices with those of 
country papers, as some insist upon doing, there 
is no reason or justice in the premises. If we 
were to charge as high (in proportion to circula¬ 
tion,) as do such papers, our price would be from 
two to four times greater thau at present. 
— Lest some consider us a trifle too independ¬ 
ent, we beg leave to remark, in extenuation and 
conclusion, that we have been bored on this sub¬ 
ject, and want no more calls or letters from per¬ 
sons who wish us to be governed by tkeir terms, 
or those of other publishers. We solicit no man’s 
patronage in this line, and wish to devote most of 
our space to reading matter— for we have quite a 
good many subscribers, (thanks to the generous 
and influential friends of the Rural all over the 
Union, and the rest of America,) and desire to give 
each one the worth of his or her money. That the 
Rural possesses many and superior advantages as 
an advertising medium we, aud others, are fully 
aware,—yet we have not felt called upon, hereto¬ 
fore, to allude to the fact particularly. But those 
who use its columns for their individual benefit, 
must pay something toward a fair equivalent for 
the privilege. To this we are entitled. We ex¬ 
pended several thousand dollars before the “ me¬ 
dium ” was established ; and had we not ventured 
our all in the enterprise, the Rural New-Yorker 
would not now have, as we firmly believe it has, 
a larger subscription in Western and Central New 
York, than any other newspaper whatever —aside 
from its extensive circulation in other States, 
Territories, and the Canadas. 
The Latest Massacre. 
Advertising. — Our Terms and Position. 
As some are disposed to demur at our recent in¬ 
crease of price for advertising, we will briefly state 
why the new terms were adopted. This explana¬ 
tion, we may premise, is not considered due any 
one,— for we have never solicited patronage, as 
such, from advertisers or others. 
The principal reason for the increase was, or is, 
the fact that the circulation of the Rural has more 
than doubled since our former rate was established 
— equally augmenting the benefit of advertisings. 
In other words, the use of our columns as an ad¬ 
vertising medium is worth more than double 
what it was a year ago — and, as we believe, all 
and more than we demand. One object in view 
was to check the continuance of advertisements, in 
order to accommodate the largest possible number 
of applicants in a limited space, without infring¬ 
ing upon the reading matter of the paper — and 
hence we made no increase of price for the first 
insertion, but only for subsequent publications. 
Of the benefits of advertising in this or any 
other journal, we propose to say little — for the 
reason that we have no occasion to offer argu¬ 
ments on the subject. As our readers are aware, 
we have never published a line in our reading 
pages about the great benefit of advertising, and 
then mentioned, or hinted at, the superior advan¬ 
tages of the Rural for that purpose,— because, 
from the start, we have had more occasion to de¬ 
cline than solict advertisements. Hence, what 
we now say is for the more particular infor- 
The particulars of the Railroad collision in 
Michigan, and of the Burning of the ‘‘Ocean 
Wave”—the wholesale murders of a week—had 
scarcely reached the readers of the daily press, 
ere they were startled by intelligence of auotker 
Railroad Accident, by which more than fifty 
most valuable lives were sacrificed. And the con¬ 
viction is forced upon all, that tbe careless reck¬ 
lessness of the Conductor aud Engineer must be 
charged with this frightful and murderous catas¬ 
trophe. How long shall this be so ? How long 
shall heedless, passionate, and reckless men, be 
allowed to hurry into instant death, car-loads aud 
boat-loads of men, women and children, with 
scarce a shadow of an excuse for the horrible 
slaughter 1 
The Latest Massacre took place at Norwalk, 
Connecticut, about half way between New Haven 
and New York. A small river empties into tbe 
Sound at that place, across the broad mouth of 
which the New York and New Haven Railroad 
passes by a draw bridge. At eight o’clock on 
Friday morning, a train full of passengers left N. 
York, aud reached Norwalk between nine and 
ten. The draw of the bridge was up, a steamer 
having gone through. The usual signal was dis¬ 
played, but the train passed on, slowly it is said, 
as if to make the matter deliberate, toward the 
fatal leap. The brakeman was even able to dis¬ 
engage tbe rear cars. But the Engine ran off the 
bridge in fifteen feetof water, dragging with it the 
baggage and two passenger cares full of passen¬ 
gers, and up to tbe latest accounts fifty-two 
bodies have been recovered. Two v of the injured 
have died ; twenty-eight others are seriously in¬ 
jured, and three dangerously. Six others, who 
were believed to have been on board the train, 
are yet missing. 
Those who peruse the full reports of the daily 
papers, will observe the names of many physi¬ 
cians among the dead and injured. The U. States 
Medical Convention had just closed its session in 
New York, and the representatives of the Faculty 
in New England were returning to their homes, 
when several of them met this sudden and awful 
disaster at the very outset of their journey. 
Careful and proper precaution on the part of 
those who have the management of Railroads, 
would render such frightful scenes unnecessary 
and impossible. Let public opinion demand that 
it be given, at once, and at aDy cost. 
6oh'C$j)oi)t)6i7cc. 
Notes from the Capital. 
Messrs. Editors :—A few weeks have made a 
great change in our city. A month ago, the Leg¬ 
islature were busily engaged in manufacturing 
news, and the dullness in other business enabled 
people to read it and comment thereon. Now the 
Capital is deserted, and the rush of general busi¬ 
ness requires every man to be at his post. Add 
to this, the item of moving, and you have an idea 
of the hub-bub we are in. As May-day happen¬ 
ed on Sunday, the circulating population “ split 
the difference;” some preferring Saturday, and 
others Monday. 
The city journals are working hard to manu¬ 
facture “public sentiment,” preparatory to the 
“ Extra Session” of the Legislature, which con¬ 
venes on the 24th inst. 
About 20 square miles of the “ Pine woods” be¬ 
tween this city and Schenectady were burnt over 
recently; one house and barn were consumed, 
and considerable damage done in various ways.— 
The fire was caused by setting fire to some brush¬ 
wood by some boys. The farmers turned out with 
plows, &c., and succeeded in keeping it within 
the above limits. *Owe* 
Albany, May, 1853. 
Incidents of Travel Westward.—No. 1. 
Village of Albion — Buffalo, its rapid growth — Steam¬ 
boat Empire State, its cost, number of crew, sala¬ 
ries of Of leers, Ac.—Lake Erie, mean depth, Ac. 
Mr. Editor :— After leaving your beautiful city’ 
we took the cars of the Niagara Falls and Lock- 
port Railroad for Buffalo. This new and beauti¬ 
ful road, passes through Albion, Lockport, Tona- 
wanda, Ac., and is skirted by some of the finest 
aud richest wheat lauds in the State. We spent 
a part of a day aud uight in the enterprising vil¬ 
lage of Albion, the county seat of Orleans Co.— 
It has about 3,000 inhabitants, several churches, 
and a Female Seminary very well sustained. It 
has two newspapers, two Banks, several flouring 
mills, and does a large and flourishing mercantile 
business. 
Buffalo is a city and port of entry, and the capi¬ 
tal of Erie county. This town, since its destruc¬ 
tion by fire during the war of 1812, has had a very 
rapid growth. In 1810, the population was only 
1,508 ; in 1840 it amounted to 18,213 ; in 1850 
to some 45,000. This increase may be attributed 
mainly, to its position, situated at the termination 
of the Erie Canal and of the Albany and Buffalo 
Railroad. It is the gateway to the great West, 
and has necessarily become the great entreport for 
the merchandise of the East, aud the agricultural 
products of the new and fertile West. It has a 
good harbor and over three hundred steamers, 
schooners, and other sailing craft, move out and 
in to this retreat. 
After spending about one day in the city, we 
embarked on board of the Empire State for “For¬ 
est City.” This is one of the largest class steam¬ 
ers, and belongs to the Southern Michigan Rail¬ 
road Co. It runs to Toledo in 15 hours from Buf¬ 
falo. Its length is 325 feet, breadth 40 feet, and 
cost $140,000. Its engine, boilers, shafts, Ac. ; 
cost $70,000, and we were told weighed some 
over 400 tons. It consumes each trip (i. e. out 
and back) 120 tons of coal, worth from $2,50 to 
$3 per ton ; also 25 gallons oil, worth $1 50 per 
gallon. Its crew consists of 50 men and two 
women. The captain has a salary of $2,000 per 
season. The first mate receives $80 per month ; 
second mate $50 per month. The first engineer 
has $100 per month; second engineer $50 per 
month. The wages of the other men vary from 
$16 to $25 per month. The saloon, which to use 
the language of Dr. Beecher, is “one of the 
breathing holes of hell,” is rented for $1,000 the 
season. This is the resort of gamblers and black¬ 
legs, who infest all the upper Jakes, and support 
a miserable existence by skinning and fleecing 
each other, when they cannot find a green-hora 
to ensnare or victimise by their wiles. 
Lake Erie was beautifully tranquil and tbe no¬ 
ble boat walked the water “like a thing of life.” 
Lake Erie is over 300 miles in length, but is not 
deep. Its average depth is only 84 feet, while 
Lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior average 
1,000 feet. Its comparative shallowness give the 
winds undue power over this body of water, and 
at times throw it into terrible commotion. It is 
tbe most dangerous of the western lakes, mainly 
from this cause. It is more properly a river than 
lake, as the waters of the larger and upper lakes 
flow through it on their way to leap the great 
cataract of Niagara, where the water power is 
calculated to be of 4,533,144 horse power—nine¬ 
teen times greater than till the motive power of 
Great Britain, and more than sufficient to work 
all the factories of the world. 
S. B. Rockwell. 
Steamer “Empire State,” April, 1853. 
A Trip to Herkimer County. 
Eds. Rural A ride through the rich valley 
of the Mohawk, even at this early season, is a real 
treat. Farmers seem to be “ up aud dressed ” for 
a spring campaign, and every thing that can work, 
is required to he on duty. Truly, this is the active 
season for the farmer. It is also full of hope, for 
while 
« With measured step he sows the gram, 
he looks forward with confidence to the golden 
harvest and the “ January instalment,” as a re¬ 
ward for his arduous toil. 
Herkimer Co., is emphatically a dairy County. 
Within a few years, nearly every farm that would 
support as many as a dozen cows, has been con¬ 
verted to that purpose, and as a consequence, the 
land has been improved, and the pockets of the 
farmers have been well lined. Much of the land 
is now held as high as $75 per acre. 
The prospects for the present season are better 
than was anticipated. The late fall, the mild 
winter, and the early spring, have combined to 
lengthen out the supply of fodder, and though 
hay has sold briskly at $15 per ton, it is believed 
that stock generally are in fair condition, and that 
the amount of cheese will not be materially 
diminished. 
The improvements in building, aud tbe refine¬ 
ments and luxuries of life, keep pace with the 
general increase of wealth and intelligence. 
t. n. B. 
Kofices. 
Spiritual Yampvrism : The History of Etherial 
Softdown, and her Friends of tire “New Light.” 
By C. W. Webber. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 
Grambo & Co. 1853. 
We have never taken much interest, either in 
the theories or facts of the “Spiritual Philosophy” 
—having other business claiming our time and 
attention, aud not possessing any large share of 
curiosity on the subject. But others have, if the 
number of hooks it has called out may be takeu 
as an indication ; and here we have another of 
these volumes by a well-known and talented 
writer. It is a neatly bound work of some 250 
pages, and may be found at D arrow’s Bookstore. 
“Spirit-Rappings” Examined, Illustrated and 
Exposed. By Rev. H. Wiiitcher, Rochester. 
This is a lecture published in pamphlet form 
by Darrow. Its title explains its character, and 
it seems written with considerable ability. 
The PoruLAu Educator for May, is the first 
number of a new illustrated monthly, in which it. 
is proposed to include a regular course of instruc¬ 
tion in the departments of Language, Natural 
History, Mathematics, Physical and Industrial 
Science, Fine Arts, Anthropology, History, Phi¬ 
losophy, Political Science, and Civilization, illus¬ 
trated by all necessary diagrams and engravings 
It strikes us that this is altogether too large an 
undertaking for a monthly periodical of 44 pages, 
and that studies pursued so desultorily as they 
must be from this work, can be of no great bene¬ 
fit to the learner. It makes available to tbe 
masses much valuable information at a low price, 
however, and is worthy of patronage. New York: 
Alex. Montgomery. $1,50 per annum. 
The London Quarterly Review for April, 
closes the 92d volume of that work. Its articles 
are Scrope’s History of Castle Combe; Human 
Hair ; The old Countess of Desmond; Hunga¬ 
rian Campaigns—Kossuth and Georgie ; Search 
for Sir John Franklin ; Buckingham Papers; 
Apsley House; The Two Systems at Fenton ville, 
and Maurel on the Duke of Wellington. New 
York : Leonard, Scott A Co. Dewey, agent. 
American Polytechnic Journal. —This is a 
new monthly dovoted to Science, Mechanic Arts 
aud Agriculture, conducted by Messrs. C. C.Page, 
J. J. Greenough, and C. L. Fleishmann : opposite 
Patent office, Washington, D. C.: also, published 
in New York. It was commenced on the first of 
January, and has been issued regularly, at the 
first of the succeeding months. Terms, $3 per 
annum. All lovers of the Arts and Sciences will 
find this journal worthy their specific attention. 
Dewey is agent for this city, and will mail it to 
those who desire it, on the aforesaid terms.—w. 
The Christian Review, number 72, comes well 
filled with good articles. The one on “ The 
Utility of Classical Studies,” by Prof. Gallup, 
Madison University, will be read at this time with 
interest. Prof. G. is a friend of thorough educa¬ 
tion. The Review is published quarterly by Col¬ 
by A Ballard, New York. $3 per year.—w. 
Bibliotheca Sacra. —Number thirty-eight, like 
its predecessors, is richly freighted with scholarly' 
productions upon topics which interest all who 
think upon ethical, educational and religious sub¬ 
jects. Published quarterly by W. F. Draper A 
Brother, Andover, Mass. $3 per year.—w. 
Catching Shadows — Of the “human face di¬ 
vine,” is the daily occupation of many Daguer- 
rean artists in this city, several of whom are said 
to succeed admirably. Among them all, we know 
not a greater adept than our friend Whitney, in 
Gould’s Block, State street. His long experience, 
and superior facilities, render him au fait in the 
business—while his rooms, which contain a large 
number of Daguerreotypes, paintings, etc., are 
alone worth visiting, by those artistically inclined 
•jTetog jBfebifies. 
The articles in our paper last week, under 
the Agricultural head, entitled “ The Manufacture 
of Blitter/’ and “ Raspberries should have been 
credited to the Jlural New-Yorker, one of the best 
papei'6 published in the United States. It was 
entirely an oversight that they were not so credited. 
It would be very much to the credit of sundry 
other newspapers, east and west, if they would 
follow the example set above by the Albany 
Temperance Courier,—an excellent paper, by the 
way, and one with which Father Chipman is ed¬ 
itorially connected. 
jgjp On the 30th of April t here were in depos- 
ite at the offices of the Sub-Treasurers, deposito¬ 
ries of U. S. moneys, and tbe mints, at different 
points, the amount of $18,760,004, and the nett 
amount subject to draft was over $19,000,000.— 
This is a huger amount than has ever been previ¬ 
ously reported during the existence of the inde¬ 
pendent treasury system. 
jrgy Ohio boasts of the longest lines of Rail 
Road, and the biggest crop of wheat, of any State 
in the Union. She had in 1851 a surplus of eigh¬ 
teen millions bushels of wheat alone; a larger 
amount than the whole exports of the United 
States of that article. In 1852 she realized the 
sum of forty millions from the sale of her surplus 
agricultural productions. 
dgf” At a Salt Spring near St. Catherines, C. 
W., twenty bushels of salt were made per day, and 
it is contemplated in a month or two to extend the 
manufacture to at least one hundred bushels.— 
These are the only successful Salt works in Canada. 
-A Gas Company has been formed in Bur¬ 
lington, Vt., and tbe works located. 
-The Sandusky river is to be bridged with 
a Wire Suspension Bridge, at Tiffin. 
-Matches are now split by the most ap¬ 
proved machine, at the rate of 60,000 a minute. 
-The contributions to the Washington Mon¬ 
ument during the mouth of April, amounted to 
$2,991. 
-The Boston Young Men’s Christain Asso¬ 
ciation now numbers upwards of fifteen hundred 
members. 
-The Artesian well now being bored at 
Charleston, S. C., has already attained the depth 
of 1061 feet. 
-A hog from Vermont said to weigh 1150 
pounds, and two years and eight months old, is 
now in Boston. 
-The shock of an earthquake was felt at 
Wheeling, Va., on the 2d instant. Several build¬ 
ings were shaken. 
-Of so obscure birth was the Duke of Wel¬ 
lington, that the exact time and place of the oc¬ 
currence is not known. 
-There is much difficulty in living at Paris 
at present, and more distress than formerly among 
people of small fortunes. 
-New potatoes, from Bermuda, are selling 
in New York for 37)2 cents per peck, and toma¬ 
toes for 37)4 cents per quart. 
-There are 117 newspapers printed in the 
State of Indiana—more thau in all the world be¬ 
fore the American Revolution. 
-The number of accounts of stock in the 
Bank of England is 264,470 ; and the number in 
the name of two or more holders 117,828. 
-The Boston, Concord and Montreal Rail¬ 
road has been completed from Concord to Wells 
River, a distance of 93 miles from Concord. 
-Washington letter writers say that it is 
probable the government will not join vrith Great 
Britain in a joint protectorate over San Juan. 
-A tent is about to be erected in the vicini¬ 
ty of the Crystal Palace, in which there will be 
preaching every Sunday during the summer. 
-Samuel Appleton, Esq., has made a gift of 
Loring’s Hundred Boston Orators to libraries of 
Colleges and Academies in the United States. 
-The total number of persons arrested and 
brought before the Police Magistrates of Albany, 
during tbe year ending April 30th, was 4,254. 
-The Woman’s New York State Temper¬ 
ance Society will hold its first annual meeting in 
this city, on the 1st and 2d days of June next. 
-England will send 542 objects to the New 
York Crystal Palace, France 826, the Zollverin 
500, Holland 142. Italy will send 100 statues. 
-The Boston Atlas, of a late date, contains 
the valedictory of Col. Wrn. Schouler, after four¬ 
teen years connection with the newspaper press. 
-The public debt of Canada is between $23,- 
000,000 and $24,000,000. It comprises various 
loans, the longest of which has twenty-eight years 
to run. 
-Emperor Soulouque, of Hayti, has sent ar¬ 
ticles for the World’s Fair at New York—among 
them a single piece of mahogany weighing nearly 
three tons. 
-A Railway tubular bridge is now being 
constructed across the Nile. The trains are to run 
along the top of the tube. The engineers are 
Englishmen. 
-The bed-chamber of Napoleon, at St. Hele¬ 
na, is now a stable, and the room in which he 
breathed his last is used for threshing and win¬ 
nowing wheat. 
-In many parts of Illinois the wheat crop is 
entirely killed, so much so that thousands of acres 
will be plowed up and sowed in spring wheat, or 
planted in corn. 
-A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer 
says that the cholera is prevailing in Clarkesville, 
Mecklenburgh, and on some of the plantations on 
the Roanoke river. 
--An Italian paper describes a boquet sent 
to the church of x San Ambrosia on Good Friday, 
as measuring six yards in circumference. It con¬ 
tained 340 carnelias. 
-From monthly tables, just issued in Eng¬ 
land, it appears that in the month ending the 5th 
of March, there were 6,090,725 eggs imported in¬ 
to the United Kingdom. 
-The Washington Union contradicts by 
authority, the rumor that the President is about 
to visit New Hampshire. He will not leave 
Washington this summer. 
-It is said that the Postmaster General will 
cut down the number of special post office agents 
to four. He lias already reduced tbe salaries of 
some of the route agents. 
-It is said to be the opinion of the cele¬ 
brated guides wbo have for years traveled the 
plains on the Pacific slope, that a Railroad across 
the country to the Pacific is entirely practicable. 
-The City Temperance Alliance in New 
York city are going to have a large tent erected 
near the Crystal Palace for the delivery of lec¬ 
tures. They will not suffer for lack of occupa¬ 
tion. 
-By a recently enacted law of Illinois, the 
railroad companies whose carelessness caused the 
late terrible destruction of passengers will be 
obliged to pay the sum of $5,000 for each life 
sacrificed. 
-At the last session of the Pennsylvania 
Legislature, thirty one new Railroad Companies 
were chartered, seventy eight new supplements to 
other Railroad Companies, and ninety more for 
incorporating plank roads. 
-The Chicago Democratic Press says, the 
number of the injured by the late Railroad collis¬ 
ion, is much larger thau was first supposed. It 
is now ascertained that there are from forty to 
fifty that are more or less injured. 
-The Buffalo Commercial says altered bills 
on the Buffalo City Bank have made their ap¬ 
pearance. The ones have been altered to fives, 
and two’s to tens. There is no similairty be¬ 
tween tbe counterfeit and the genuine. 
-About 50,000 sheep were driven from New 
Mexico to California last year. They were pur¬ 
chased at the rate of $2 per head, and sold for 
from six to eight. More than 75,000 will be driven 
this year. It takes about 100 days to make a trip. 
-There have just landed from the steamship 
Humboldt, one hundred and eleven sheep, of tire 
improved Merino stock,— remarkable for then- 
large size aud weight of fleece. They were im¬ 
ported by Solomon W. Jewett, of Middlebury, Vt. 
-Capt. Ringold, commander of the North 
Pacific exploring expedition, has received his in¬ 
structions, aud will sail from Norfolk in a few 
days. The squadron will consist of the sloop-of- 
war Vincennes, brig Porpoise, and propeller John 
Hancock. 
