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The Weather. 
The Coldest Days. —The mercury seems to 
have reached its lowest point of subsidence 
thus far this winter, during the first half of last 
week. At some points Monday, at others Tues¬ 
day or Wednesday took the lead in frigidity.— 
We compile the record as it has come to our 
hand from various sources as follows : At Buf¬ 
falo and Philadelphia the thermometer was 3 
degrees below zero ; St. Louis 8 degrees below; 
Peoria, Ill., 9 ; Rochester and Port Byron, 1S T . 
Y., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dubuque, Iowa, 10 
degrees below; Marietta, Ohio, 11; Eric, Pa., 
12; Springfield, Boston and vicinity, Mass., 
La Salle, Ill., 14; Cleveland, Ohio, 17; Spring- 
field, Ohio. Worcester, Mass., Angelica, N. Y., 
and Chicago, Ill., 20; Hartford, Ct., 21; and 
Hillsdale, Mich., 24 degrees, all below zero. 
In consequence of the comparative destitu¬ 
tion of snow and the high and searching winds 
prevailing, the cold was much more severely 
felt, and caused more freezing in cellars, cis¬ 
terns, <fcc., in this vicinity, than was caused last, 
winter when the mercury sank fully ten de¬ 
grees lower. 
The Weather in Michigan. —The weather 
has been very cold here for a few days past. 
Yesterday morning the mercury stood at 13° 
below zero ; last evening at 8.o’clock at 15° be¬ 
low zero ; this morning at half an hour before 
sunrise the mercury was 26° below zero ; and at 
sunrise it stood at 24° below. This, I think, is 
the coldest weather that we have had in Michi 
gan for some years past, especially in this (Cal¬ 
houn) county. This I call cold weather, but the 
prospect is that it will be warmer soon.—N. J 
Strong, Tckonsha, Mich., Jan. 9, 185G. 
Railroad Casualties. 
ROCHESTER, JANUARY 19, 1856. 
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Great Snow Storms. 
All the country, North, East, and West, was 
visited by a snow storm during the early part 
of last week, and the latter part of the week be¬ 
fore. Away doAvn East as far as Halifax, the 
snow fell four feet deep ; while throughout New 
England it fell copiously and piled up in large 
drifts, so as to obstruct all the Railroads, and 
block up the highways. The] Pennsylvania 
roads were snowed under, and South as far as 
Washington there was eight inches of snow up¬ 
on a level. West of us the same phenomena 
occurred, while in this vicinity there was scarce¬ 
ly any snow. The Central Railroad was blocked 
up between here and Buffalo, and required a 
doubling of motive power to break through; but 
no such obstruction interposed at that time in 
this vicinity to interrupt the regular passage of 
the trains. 
Just one week subsequent to this far reaching 
storm, viz., on Saturday night last, we ourselves 
experienced a similar visitation ; and all the 
roads and railways in the vicinity of the city 
were blocked up with snow. Double teams of 
locomotives with snow plows, were running Sun¬ 
day over the roads, and an army of men on Mon¬ 
day were engaged clearing the tracks. The 
weather both during the storm and subsequent 
thereto was quite mild, which greatly mitigat¬ 
ed its severity. 
Congressional. —No Speaker is chosen yet and 
no progress to be reported. All the candidates 
have been interrogated as to their views on the 
Slavery, the Kansas and Nebraska, and other 
questions, and severally responded satisfacto¬ 
rily to their own supporters, and dissatisfacto- 
rily to all the other members. One question 
asked by a member, and which occasioned some 
merriment, was whether the candidates believ¬ 
ed in a future state ; and if so, whether it was a 
free or a slave State ? This interrogatory was 
not responded to by them. 
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Fire at Utica.—A fire occurred at Utica on 
Monday evening, destroying five stores of goods, 
which, with the buildings, are valued at $75,- 
000. The insurance, it is stated, will nearly 
cover the loss. 
On Wednesday afternoon, January 9th, an 
accident happened upon the Hudson River Rail¬ 
road, near Poughkeepsie, which resulted in the 
death of three passengers and the wounding of 
many others. The accident was occasioned in 
this way. The down Express train passed 
Poughkeepsie an hour behind time, in conse¬ 
quence of detention from the snow; the Pough¬ 
keepsie way train, drawn by two locomotives, 
having waited until the Express train passed, 
then followed immediately. The forward train, 
after passing a sharp curve, was signalized by a 
flagman to stop in conseqcnce of a defect in the 
track; and, while standing, the other came up 
and run in it demolishing the last passenger 
car, and greatly damaging the second. 
Mrs. Charles Green, of Utica; Mrs. Henry 
Hurlburt, of Albany, and a young man not yet 
identified, were killed, and Mrs. Campbell, of 
Utica; Geo. Iyios, of Ohio, and Catharine How¬ 
ell, of New York, were dangerously wounded. 
Others were injured more or less, but it is not 
deemed important to give their names. The 
fault seems to lay with the second conductor, 
•who followed too soon with his train. 
Another accident occurred on the Iltidson 
River Railroad at 10 o’clock, on the night of 
January 13th. As the down train from Albany, 
drawn by two locomotives was passing over the 
bridge at Spuyten Duy vil Creek, one of the loco¬ 
motives went through taking the passengers and 
baggage cars with it. Both engines, with one 
passenger car and two baggage cars are smash¬ 
ed. Harry Dawson, the engineer of the first 
engine is badly scalded. The engineer of the 
second engine, who is missing, is supposed to 
be under the wreck in the water. His name is 
Geo. Parrison. The firemen on the same en¬ 
gine, Howard Root, is also probably killed.— 
Joseph Clinton, of Albany; Thomas Miller, 
Baggage Master; John Upton, Express Messen¬ 
ger, are severely, and others slightly injured. 
Lake Erie Disasters. 
According to a statement made in the Buffalo 
Express, the number of marine disasters which 
occurred on Lake Erie during the year 1855, 
was six hundred and three; involving a loss of 
property to the amount of two million eight hun¬ 
dred and twenty-one thousand five hundred and 
twenty-nine dollars! which is an increase of loss 
over the previous year, of more than six hun¬ 
dred thousand dollars. The number of lives 
lost during the same time was one hundred and 
eighteen. 
Of the six hundred and three disasters men¬ 
tioned, two occurred in the month of January, 
two m February, two in March, eight in April, 
forty-five in May, thirty-seven in June, thirty- 
five in July, twenty-five in August, seventy- 
four in September, one hundred and forty-eight 
in October, one hundred and forty-three in No¬ 
vember, twenty-six in December, and the bal¬ 
ance dates not given. Three steamers, seven 
propellers, six barques, thirty-eight brigs, three 
schooners and one tug have gone out of exist¬ 
ence during the year—making a total of 58. 
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of 
Spain. By Wm. H. Prescott. Yols. I. and H. With 
Portraits, Maps, &c. Boston : Phillips, Sampson & Co. 
1856. 
« The history of Philip the II. is the history of Europe 
during the latter half of the 16th century.” The time was 
full of great events ;—the Revolution of the Netherlands ; 
the Siege of Malta ; the Conquest of Portugal ; the Invin¬ 
cible Armada;—these are some of the prominent topics 
brought out in strong relief in these volumes. We have 
no need to commend any work from the pen of Prescott, 
and only need add that the publishers have left nothing to 
be desired on their part. It will attract many readers, and 
instruct and interest all. Sold at Dewey’s. 
Village and Farm Cottages. The Requirements of 
American Village Homes considered and suggested ; 
with Designs for such Houses of moderate cost. By II. 
W. Cleveland, Wm. Backus, and S. D. Backus. New 
York : D. Appleton & Co. 1856. 
We look upon this as one of the best books yet publish¬ 
ed on the subject, so far as practical value to unprofession¬ 
al readers is concerned. Its hints and arguments are well 
put, and together with its plans and details, are worth the 
study of all who purpose buildingahome. The engravings 
are finely executed, and the getting up of the volume a 
credit to the publishers. Sold at Dewey’s. 
The History of England from the Accession of James II. 
By Thomas Barington Maoauley. Vols III. and IV. 
New York : Harper & Brothers. 1856. 
The large circulation received by the previous volumes 
of this great Historical work, render a simple announce¬ 
ment of its continuation, enough to secure thousands of 
eager purchasers. The fascinating style of Maoauley en¬ 
chains the attention of his readers, while the importance 
of the events recounted and illustrated, is such as to re¬ 
ward that attention. Sold by E. Darrow & Bro. 
The Refugee : or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in 
Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of 
the History and Condition of the Colored Population of 
Upper Canada. Bv Benjamin Drew. Boston : John 
P. Jewett & Co. 1856. 
This is truly “a North side view of Slavery,” and a 
work of much interest to those who would acquaint them¬ 
selves with the real character and capacities of the colored 
race. Sold at Dewey’s. 
Atrocious Judges. Lives of Judges Infamous as tools of 
Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression. Compiled from 
the Judicial Biographies of John Lord Campbell, Lord 
Chief Justice of England. With an Appendix, contain¬ 
ing the case of Passmore Williamson. Edited, with an 
Introduction and Notes, by Richard Hildreth. New 
York and Auburn : Miller, Orton & Mulligan. 1856. 
This lengtliy title page is a sufficient explanation of the 
character of the volume. From Dewey’s. 
The Forayers ; or, the Raid of the Dog-Days. By W. 
Gilmore Simms, author of “The Partisan,” etc., etc.— 
New York: Rbdfibld. 
A new edition of one of the most popular of these “ Bor. 
der Romances ofthe South,” by one ofher best writers. Sold 
at Dewey’s.* 
The Irish Abroad and at Home ; at the Court and in the 
Camp. With souvenirs of “The Brigade.” Reminiscen¬ 
ces of an Emigrant Milesian. New York: I). Appleton 
& CO., 1856. 
An interesting volume, its materials gathered from far 
and near—historical, reminiscent and incidental. Sold at 
t 1 
Dewey’s. 
Massachusetts Statistics. —The registration 
of births, marriages and deaths, for the year 
1854, in Massachusetts, *i vco °! oon e other 
things the following results :—21,414 deaths, 
31,997 births, 13,683 marriages. Of the death's, 
10,710 were males, 10,558 females, and 146 un¬ 
known. Their average age was 27.16 years. Of 
the births, 16,352 were males, 15,469 females, 
and 176 unknown. 16,470 of them were of 
American parentage, 12,476 were of foreign pa¬ 
rentage, 687 were of an American father and 
foreign mother, 703 of foreign father and Amer¬ 
ican mother, and 1,661 unknown. Of the mar¬ 
riages, 7,492 were American, 4,797 foreign, 542 
Amercian man and foreign woman, 512 Ameri¬ 
can woman and foreign man, and 340 unknown 
A Fighting Mormon. —The Mormon King of 
Beaver Island, Lake Michigan, James Strang, 
replies through his paper to charges of crime 
and immorality brought against the islanders, 
in a manner quite original, and defiant to the 
threats of invasion and breaking up of the al¬ 
leged illegal community. Hear him:—“Yet 
we walk in conscious security. We laugh in 
bitter scorn at these threats. And we tell these 
editors, mashal your myrmidons and send them 
along to make a spoil of beauty and booty, as 
soon as you please. We bid them a bloody 
welcome to hospitable graves ; over which, each 
year, we will pile stones, with a muttered curse, 
against the day of resurrection of damnation.” 
Climate of Kansas. —The Kansas correspon¬ 
dent of the Kew York Tribune writes from 
Lawrence, under date of Dec. 26, that on the 
night previous the thermometer sank over 20 
degrees below zero. This is surprising, when 
we reflect that the territory is in the same lat- 
titude with Baltimore, Washington, Louisville 
and St. Louis. Should our Southern friends 
emigrate to such a climate they would be like¬ 
ly, after encountering the severities of one win¬ 
ter to sing— 
“ O carry me back to Old Virginia I” 
New York Legislature.— A resolution hav¬ 
ing been adopted to elect a Speaker of the As¬ 
sembly on Tuesday by plurality, the Message, 
from advanced copies furnished the press, was 
set in type, in confident anticipation of an or¬ 
ganization and permission to issue ; but the 
telegraph announced an adjournment until 
Wednesday, and as a consequence the Message 
had to lie over. It occasioned some inconven¬ 
ience to the dailies, as they were obliged to set 
up extra matter to supply the place assigned 
for the Message in their columns. 
The St. Lawrence. —This noble river has 
been taken captive by Jack Frost. On Friday 
last two horses were led over on the ice from 
Kingston to St, Vincent, and sleighs were ex¬ 
pected to cross next day. This kind of bridg¬ 
ing is convenient for teamsters, but embargoes 
the shipper. 
Emigration to Salt Lake. —On Saturday of 
last week the ship Emerald Isle arrived at New 
York from Liverpool with 666 passengers, of 
whom 348 were Mormons. Their ultimate des¬ 
tination is Utah, though many of them will not 
attempt to reach that land of promise this year. 
They were under the leadership of an Elder 
named Charles A. Foster, formerly a native of 
Watertown, N. Y., but who left the United 
States about three years ago for-the purpose of 
proselyting foreigners. 
Coast Disasters. —The late storms on the 
seacoast have been attended with the usual 
number of wrecks, although fortunately, so far 
as heard from, not with any very calamitous 
loss of life. Ten vessels are reported ashore on 
the coast of New Jersey, some of which are to¬ 
tal wrecks. The crews are all safe. The storm 
of Saturday night on Long Island Sound, was 
the severest experienced for many years, and 
the steamer Worcester, of the Stonington line, 
was at one time ashore, and in imminent peril. 
fims Of fUilDL 
Madame Jenny Lind Goldsmidt appeared at 
Exter Hall on Monday evening, the 10th ult., 
singing in Haydn’s “ Creation,” after an absence 
from England of six years. London journals all 
agree that her vocal powers are as superb as 
ever. 
A gate in Norwich, Conn., left unfastened 
and blown violently open, knocked down a citi¬ 
zen of that place. He broughtan action against 
the owner of the gate, and recovered twelve 
hundred dollars for the damages he had re¬ 
ceived. 
Four Portuguese sailors belonging to the bark 
Juniper, lying at the Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn, 
were taken out dead, from the forecastle, Jan. 
11th, having been suffocated by the fumes of a 
charcoal fire. The vessel arrived from St. Ubes 
on the Monday previous. 
Tom Thumb’s father died lately, said to be 
worth about one hundred and fifty thousand 
dollars. Tom and his two maiden sisters will 
probably come in for thirty thousand dollars 
each, the widow, of course, inheriting fifty thou¬ 
sand dollars for her third. 
Col. E. It. Doyle, the United States Marshal 
for Nebraska territory, was killed Dec. 28, by a 
fall from the stairs of the United States Court 
Room to the floor, and striking his head against 
a bolt on the door. The stairs had no balus¬ 
trade. He expired in fifteen minutes. 
Mr. McCrea, recently in prison in Kansas, 
charged with the murder of Mai.comb Clark, 
and who escaped therefrom, spoke, by invita¬ 
tion, in Detroit, Monday evening, Jan, 7th.— 
When he escaped, he left word that he would 
return when his trial could be resumed. 
The Fall River News says a New England 
gentleman in California, who corresponds with 
a young lady of that city, sent to his friend a 
letter, which arrived in the mails of the George 
Law, on the 28th ult., and which contained one 
hundred and forty-six pages of letter paper. 
The Star of the West was detained at New 
York, Jan. 10th, by order of the Government in 
consequence of a rumor that there were a large 
number of fillibusters on board. After a search 
by the United States Marshal and the arrest of 
five passengers, the steamer was permitted to 
depart. 
The annual statistics of the Rochester flour¬ 
ing business shows that there is now invested 
in mills and machinery $684,000, and that there 
are 122 run of stone employed. The total 
amount of flour exported during the last year 
601,471 barrels ; of wheat imported 1,961,272 
bushels. 
On digging away a bank of snow some ten 
feet deep in New York, a man was found lving 
on the walk asleep. He had been intoxicate*} 
the night previous and had fallen asleep. His 
breath had made a vacuum in the snow, and 
he was easily aroused ty consciousness, when 
the snow was removed. 
During the last two years the Virginia Colo¬ 
nization Society has transported to Liberia 316 
colored persons. Under the law of 1850, levy¬ 
ing a tax upon free negroes, in aid of the Colo¬ 
nization fund, the sum of $50,000 has accumu¬ 
lated, and owing to legislative restrictions, re¬ 
mains unexpended. 
The New York Ledger makes the following 
announcement: “ We have the pleasure of an¬ 
nouncing that our gifted contributor, Mrs. Sara 
Fayson Eldredge, (so renowned and admired 
as Fanny Fern,) was married on Saturday, the 
5tli inst., to Mr. James Parton, well-known in 
literary circles as the author of 'The Life of Ho¬ 
race Greeley .” 
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Enqui¬ 
rer, who called on President Pierce on the 1st 
inst., says of him : “I had heard that he was 
looking ill, but was not prepared to find him 
such a wreck of his former self. His person has 
become very thin, and his face wears a hue so 
ghastly and cadaverous that one would almost 
fancy that he was gazing upon a corpse.” 
Capt. Long, of the Canada, reports the last 
passage the most stormy he ever knew. On the 
28th ult.,'lat. 49° 50', Ion. 40°, encountered a 
terrific hurricane, which lasted from 10 at night 
till 6 next morning. The paddle boxes of the 
Canada were considerably damaged by the 
force of the sea, and the officers of the deck 
were forced to lash themselves to the masts to 
maintain their positions. 
The Governor of New Brunswick received a 
five years supply of liquors for his own cellar, 
from the old country, the 26th ult. If the 
liquors had been detained a week later,it would 
have been the Governor’s duty, under the new 
law, to seize and confiscate his own liquor.— 
The Judge who would have tried the case, had 
also a supply on the same vessel. It was con¬ 
sidered a very narrow escape. 
The steamer Mediator, bound from Cincinnati 
to New Orleans, with a cargo of 800 tons of pro¬ 
duce, Avas burned on Friday night of last week, 
thirty miles below Vicksburgh. The boat and 
cargo are supposed to be a total loss. It is not 
as yet known, whether any loss of life resulted 
from the conflagration. The Mediator is the 
eleventh boat destroyed by fire on the western 
waters during the past five weeks. 
The growth of western cities is marvelous.— 
Taventy-two years ago Governor Porter conclu¬ 
ded the Pottawatamie treaty only on the site of 
Chicago, and now it is a city of eighty-five 
thousand population, with at least one hundred 
railroad trains arriving and departing daily.— 
TAventy years since, St. Louis had less than ten 
thousand population, and now it amounts to one 
hundred and thirty thousand. And “ the end 
is not yet.” 
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— The State debt of Florida amounts to $181,842. 
— AVine is beginning to be extensively produced in Geo. 
— The Missouri Legislature passed at its recent session • 
770 acts. 
— The Military Road from St. Paul to Lake Superior is 
about completed. 
— There are 606 prisoners in the Ohio, and 225 in the 
Kentucky Penitentiary. 
— Efforts are still going forward in Ohio to procure the 
impeachment of Judge Kane. 
— The London Times advocates the amalgamation of all 
the railroad lines in the Kingdom. 
— The New York Herald makes the losses by fire in the 
United States last year $12,000,000. 
— One of the primary schools in Philadelph ia, it is sta¬ 
ted, is held over a camphene factory ! 
— London is the dearest place to live in of all the Euro¬ 
pean cities, and Rome the cheapest. 
— The Webster Bank of Boston presented its tellers and 
other employees $100 each as a New Year’s gift. 
— Within five months, eleven Postmasters have been 
arrested in Ohio for depredations upon the mails. 
— It is said that the American Express Company is now 
carrying on an average $4,000,000 daily in money. 
— The valuation of the McDonough estate in New Or¬ 
leans, has been reduced 25 per cent, from last year. 
— There are said to be over one thousand cases untried 
on the docket of the Criminal Court of New Orleans. 
— A house at Terre Haute, Indiana, has an engagement 
to put up 5,000 tierces of beef for the English market. 
— The Panama Railroad has declared a dividend of 6 per 
cent, for five months, with a surplus of about $120,000. 
— The debt authorized by the Missouri Legislature at its 
recent session, amounts to the large sum of $16,000,000. 
— Stephen W. Taylor, LL. D., president of Madison Uni¬ 
versity, died at Hamilton, N. Y., Monday the 7th, aged 65. 
— The Bennington, Vt., iron works, and 3,600 acres of 
land, have been sold for $83,000 to D. T. Yail, of Troy, N.Y. 
— Mr. Buchanan,'it is said, expresses in his correspond¬ 
ence a confident belief that peace will be concluded before 
spring. 
— Peoria voted recently, by a majority of nearly 800, in 
favor of a county subscription of $150,000 for railroad pur¬ 
poses. 
— There were 150 cases on the docket of the United 
States Supreme Court at the commencement of the present 
session. 
— The Governor of Florida called an extra session of the 
Legislature, which met Nov. 26. He recommends a return 
to annual sessions. 
— The steamboat trade at Cincinnati has constantly de¬ 
creased since 1852. In 1848 the number of arrivals were 
4,113 ; in 1S55, 2,585. 
— The Republican Association of Washington have invi¬ 
ted Hon. Charles Sumner to deliver an address before them 
on the 22d of February. 
— A divorce was recently granted by one of the Courts of 
Indiana, where the only allegation against the defendant 
was that he had cold feet. 
— Rev. Edward Galuslia, for many years a prominent 
Baptist clergyman in Western New York, died at Lockport 
on the 6th inst., aged 66. 
— Henry Lee, who died in the Rhode Island State Prison 
on Saturday week, had spent twenty-five years in that in¬ 
stitution and similar ones. 
_Three million dollars worth of lumber, it is estimated 
will be got out of the St. Croix and other branches of the 
Mississippi the coming season. 
_The Common Council ot Milwaukee has expelled one 
of its members for being twice taken to the watch house 
while in a state of intoxication. 
— A little girl named Margaret Gibson, was burned to 
death at the Orphan’s Home, Toronto, on Thursday last. 
Her clothes took fire from the stove. 
_It is in contemplation to open a theatre at Sebastopol 
in the spring, unless the Russians, in the meantime, make 
it a theatre of victory over the allies. 
_The number of births, marriages and deaths in the 
city of New York, during 1855, was as follows :—Births, 
14,496 ; marriages, 5,595 ; deaths, 23,107. 
— Dr. G. S. Crawford, an aged physician of Chicago, was 
found dead in his office on Monday morning. His death 
was caused by the rupture of a blood vessel. 
_George Peabody, the American merchant of London, 
has offered fifteen hundred dollars towards a public testi¬ 
monial for Dr. Kane and his gallant comrades. 
— Brigham Young, in a recent speech to the Latter Day 
Saints, said that “ the Mormons, thank God, are strong 
enough to defy the power of the United States.” 
_A gentleman by the name of Lucas, in Demopolis, Ala., 
has recently obtained a verdict of $12,000 against Miss Lu¬ 
cinda Meiggs, for breach of promise of marriage. 
_The report of the A'irginia Board of Public AVorks, just 
made, shows that the number of miles of railroad in the 
State is 2,263K ; completed 1,328 ; in progress 637. 
— The religious world of England is just now excited by 
rumors that Prince Albert has embraced Unitarianism, and 
that the Queen sympathises with him in sentiment. 
_The sugar culture of Louisiana and Texas, is now in¬ 
creasing at the rate of ten per cent, per annum. The crops 
hereafter will scarcely be less than 500,000 hhds. a year. 
— The Mayors of Boston and its adjacent cities, and of 
Lowell and of AVorcester, were inaugurated on Monday 
with the customary ceremonies. So also of New York. 
_There are now laid up in winter quarters at Chicago 
two hundred and eighteen steamers and sail craft, waiting 
to leave with full loads for eastern ports when navigation 
opens. 
— The English Government have contracted with a Ver¬ 
mont Manufacturing House for 25,000 rifles, and another 
contract for 75,000 is expected. They are furnished at $15 
apiece. 
Mr. Cottle, of Syracuse, N. Y., is the oldest railroad con¬ 
ductor in the United States, and what is most remarkable, 
no fatal accident has ever occurred on any train under his 
charge. 
—The State of Maine owns a fleet of merchant vessels, 
valued at fifty millions of dollars, and greater than the 
commercial marine of any European power, Great Britain 
excepted. 
— An immense cigar business is domyat San Francisco. 
A single stand within a large hotel Jias been rented for 
$20 per day, payable daily ; another uwless note for $4,000 
per annum. 
— Frederick Shaffer died at Robinson’s mills, Clinton 
Co., Ky., on the 16th ult., 100 years old. He fought at the 
battle of Bunker Hill, and served in the Revolutionary war 
as a scout. 
— Nine Irishmen have been arrested at Cincinnati, and 
held to bail in $1,000 each, for violation of the neutrality 
laws. They belong to those who contemplate the seizure 
of Ireland. 
-Joseph Stowell and Samuel M. Ilardy have been ar¬ 
rested at New Gloucester, Me., for setting fire to the Con¬ 
gregational meeting house in that place on the 20th ult. 
They are both young men. 
_A late London paper informs its readers that the 
“ Nebraska territory of the United States is a tract of sev¬ 
eral millions of acres, purchased by the Americans from 
the Mosquito King I” 
-The Rothschild who lately died at Frankfort, left fif¬ 
teen millions of dollars, chiefly to his relatives, but with 
some liberal bequests to Jewish and Christian charitable 
institutions. 
