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ROCHESTER, FEBRUARY 23, 1856. 
News of the Week. 
The Canada, which left Liverpool on the 2d, 
reached Halifax on Sunday, but after a fourteen 
day’s passage. Nothing had been heard from 
the Pacific, which, at the time of the Canada’s 
sailing, had been ten days out. The Pacific left 
on the 23d ult., and has now (Tuesday) been 
twenty-seven days at sea, unless she put back 
after the Canada left. The Pacific’s consort, 
the Atlantic, which sailed Feb. 6th, four days 
after the Canada, is now due and may bring us 
tidings of the missing steamer. In the mean 
time, the most intense anxiety is felt on her ac¬ 
count, and three steamers have been despatched 
to search for her. Underwriters now refuse to 
take further risks upon her at any premium. 
The prospects of peace look brighter than 
ever, and promise a speedy conclusion of nego¬ 
tiations either the one way or the other. If 
they fail, we may expect a change of programme 
for the next summer’s campaign, as England is 
no longer willing to play second to Louis Na¬ 
poleon. The Queen’s speech at the opening of 
Parliament contained no allusion to the diffi¬ 
culties with the United States, and this omis¬ 
sion gave rise to some strictures in the House of 
Lords, to which Earl Clarendon replied, vindi¬ 
cating the Ministry and rather casting reflec¬ 
tions upon the position of the American Gov¬ 
ernment on the Central American question, and 
the foreign enlistaient difficulty. In regard to 
the latter, among other things. Lord Clarendon 
says ;—“With the conduct of Air. Cramtton, 
his government is perfectly satisfied, for I am 
convinced that neither intentionally nor acci¬ 
dentally did he violate any law of the United 
States.” He hopes, however, that the difficulty 
is susceptible of a peaceful solution. 
Affairs in Kansas are assuming a still more 
threatening aspect. The Free State men at Law¬ 
rence are collecting ammunition and stores in 
expectation of a siege, and companies, it is said, 
are arming and drilling in the border counties 
of Missouri preparatory to an invasion. Gov. 
Shannon left Washington on the 16th for Kan¬ 
sas. He will travel night and day until he 
reaches Shawnee Mission, and is empowered to 
call out the United States troops in case of ne¬ 
cessity, in order to preserve the peace. 
Winter still retains a rigorous sway, both here 
and elsewhere. We had a few mild days last 
week, but on Saturday night the weather 
changed again, and up to Tuesday morning it 
was cold enough to suit an Esquimaux. The 
railroads were all blocked up, and the trains 
thoroughly deranged. At the time of writing 
however, the sun has appeared again, and the 
heavens look more propitious. “ So mote it be.” 
The Public Lands. 
The rage for investment in government lands 
seems to increase and the public domain in 
Iowa especially is fast passing into private 
hands. Speculators, as well as actual settlers, 
are thronging into that State. A writer in the 
New York Tribune says :—All the land offices 
in the State are besieged with applicants for 
the Government lands, and, at the present rate, 
it would seem as though little would be left for 
those who come after them six months hence. 
We have in this place, at present, orders for 
probably not less than three hundred thousand 
acres, to be entered as soon as opportunity of¬ 
fers to do so. But our land officers take it very 
coolly. The Register does not keeji his office 
open over half an hour each day, and in no case 
makes more than twenty entries—and frequent¬ 
ly not half that number. It is understood that 
this state of things is to continue until April. 
He has received his salary by commissions on 
business already transacted up to that time, and 
he does not mean to work for nothing. Beside, 
by taking this course, he lengthens out the job; 
or, in other words, will take two years to do 
what might perhaps be done in half that time, 
and thus secures two years’ salary instead of 
one. Perhaps this is all right, but those who 
have business to do at the office certainly think 
otherwise. 
Legislative. 
The following are the chief items of interest 
connected with the Legislative proceedings du¬ 
ring last week : 
Senate. —The bills which passed this branch 
of the Legislature were—To amend the act 
concerning the election of justices of the peace ; 
relative to sheriff’s certificates upon the sale of 
real estate ; to appropriate $40,000 on loan to es¬ 
tablish the A'cw York Agricultural College ; for 
appointment of commissioners of record for 
Kings Co. 
The bills ordered to a third reading were— 
to create commissioners of roads in Kings Co.; 
for the registry of births, marriages and deaths 
in New York City ; for more effectual suppres¬ 
sion of fires in New York; to incorporate the 
New York & Philadelphia Steam Navigation 
Company ; to incorporate the Honduras inter- 
oceanic Steam and Railway Company. 
The bills reported favorably w r ere—to incor¬ 
porate the Ladies’ Home Missionary Society of 
M. E. Church of New York ; a resolution pro¬ 
viding for the appointment of three commis¬ 
sioners by the Governor, to determine the boun¬ 
dary line between New York and Connecticut; 
for relief of the Clinton Agricultural College; for 
relief of Chatham Bank ; to enable notary pub¬ 
lics to take acknowledgments of deeds and 
records of mortgages; relative to supervisors of 
New York ; to the formation of cemetery asso¬ 
ciation of Niagara countji. 
The bills introduced were—to incorporate the 
Flushing Female College in Queens county ; to 
incorporate Yorkville library in New York ; for 
the protection of lands of infants ; to authorize 
the Canal Board to change the termination of 
the Gene.-ce Valley Canal at Olean ; for the 
better regulation of the business of insurance ; 
to create Seffcrt’s Park, Brooklyn ; to incorpo¬ 
rate a transatlantic telegraph company. 
Assembly.— Bills were passed in the Lower 
House, authorizing County Clerks to transcribe 
records when counties are divided ; to amend 
the act relative to time of sending in reports. 
Reports were made favorable to bills to amend 
the Laws of Navigation on lakes and rivers; to 
open Prospect Square, Brooklyn. The bill con¬ 
templates the sale of certain lands in that city 
for Water Works Company; to change the 
name of Susquehanna Insurance Company ; to 
appropriate money to loan for foundation of Slate 
Agricidtural Society; relative to foreclosing of 
mortgages by advertisement; to exempt the li¬ 
brary, site and building of the New York Horticul¬ 
tural Society from sale by execution; to prevent 
prize fights; to give the appointment of Loan 
Commissioners to Board of Supervisors ; redu¬ 
cing the State tax from one and one-quarter 
mills to one mill. 
A report was made unfavorable to a bill for 
the erection of the new county of Canisteo. 
Bills were introduced— to exempt lands held by 
Agricultural Societies from taxation; to preserve 
the purity of the ballot box in Brooklyn; to in 
corporate the Harmonic Society of New York ; 
to amend the revised statutes in relation to proof 
of recording titles to real estate and canceling 
of mortgages. 
Congressional. 
Congress used up most of last week in the 
election of the remaining officers, organizing 
committees, and other work preparatory to leg¬ 
islation.^ r ~ 'Flie several committees, as appointed 
by the Speaker, have the following gentlemen 
as Chairmen, viz:—Committee of Ways and 
Means, Campbell of Ohio ; Elections, Wash- 
burne, Me.; Claims, Giddings, Ohio ; Commerce, 
Washburn, Ill.; Public Lands, Bennett, N. Y.; 
Post Office, Mace, Indiana; Dist. Columbia, 
Meacham, Vt.; Judiciary, Simmons, N. Y.; Rev 
olutionary Claims, Ritchie, Pa.; Public Expen¬ 
ditures, Dean, Conn.; Private Land Claims, Por¬ 
ter, Mo.; Manufactures, Clark, N. Y.; Agricul 
ture, Holloway, Ind.; Indian Affairs, Pringle, 
N. Y.; Military Affairs, Quitman, Miss.; Mili¬ 
tia, Kunkel, Pa.; Naval Affaire, Benson, Me. 
Foreign Affairs, Pennington, N. Y.; Territories, 
Grow, Pa.; Revolutionary Pensions, Broome 
Pa.; Invalid Pensions, Oliver, N. Y. ; Roads 
and Canals, Knox, III.; Printing, Nichols, Ohio; 
Naval Pensions, Oliver, N. Y.; Patents, Mor¬ 
gan, N. Y.; Public Buildings and Grounds, 
Ball, Ohio; Mileage, Sneed, Tenn.; Revised and 
Unfinished Business, Sabin, Vt. 
Joint Committees —Library, Aiken, S. C.; 
Enrolled Bills, Pike, N. II.; Expenditures of 
State Department, Brooks, S. C.; Expenditures 
of Navy Department, Harris, Ill.; Expenditures 
of Police Department, Pettit, Ind.; Expendi¬ 
tures for Public Buildings, McMullen, Va.; Ex¬ 
penditures of Treasury Department, Waldron, 
Mich.; Expenditures of War Department, Cra- 
gin, N. H.; Engraving, Kelsey, N. Y.; Printing, 
Nichols, Ohio. 
Wendell was re-elected printer to the House 
in opposition to Follett, who was. the candi¬ 
date of the Republicans. The House adjourned 
from Friday over to Monday. 
Provincial Items. 
arg 
Songs and Ballads of the American Revolution ; with 
Notesandlllustrations. By T rank Moore. New York: 
D. Appleton & Co. 
This is a well-edited collection of the most popular lyrics, 
in which the Whigs and Tories of England and America 
poured out their feelings in the days of the Revolution,— 
lhat trying struggle which stirred to its depths the great 
heart of our country. The material is rich and abundant 
for such a work, and we understand that Mr. Moore will 
soon add another volume. Sold at Dewey’s. 
Loss of Steam Ships. —According to an arti¬ 
cle in Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine, it appears 
that since 1853 twelve American steamships 
have been lost at sea, costing 1,250 human lives, 
and $7,250,000 of property. During that year 
the Independence sunk with 120 lives. The 
Tennesse and the St. Louis, in the Pacific, and 
the Humboldt and the San Francisco were 
wrecked in the Atlantic. 
The Franklin, City of Philadelphia, Yankee 
Blade, City of Glasgow with 480 lives, and the 
Arctic with hundreds more precious lives, com¬ 
plete the catalogue for 1854. 
In 1855, we have the sinking of the North 
Carolina, and the stranding of the Golden Age, 
which last, however, was saved and repaired.— 
In these vessels there were 7,000 lives jeopard¬ 
ized, and $11,000,000 of property. 
Judicial Salaries. —The Supreme Judges of 
Iowa receive an annual salary each of one 
thousand dollars; those of Indiana, Illinois, 
and Delaware, $1,200 ; Vermont, Michigan, and 
Rhode Island, $1,500 ; Pennsylvania. $1,600 ; 
Ohio, $1,700 ; Maine, New Hampshire, and Ar¬ 
kansas, $1,800; North Carolina, $1,950; Con¬ 
necticut, New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Wiscon¬ 
sin, and Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska terri¬ 
tories, $2,000 ; New York, Maryland, Georgia, 
Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Oregon, 1 New 
Mexico and Washington territories, and the 
District of Columbia, $2,500; Massachusetts, 
Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, and Missis¬ 
sippi, $3,000 ; Louisiana, $5,500 ; and Califor¬ 
nia, $8,000. 
At Preston, Canada, recently, an infant, four 
months old, son of James Atkinson, fell from its 
mother’s knee while she was intoxicated and 
asleep, and was suffocated in a dish of dough, 
which she had prepared and placed on the floor 
for making bread. 
The London Free Press says there are 205,- 
000 tons of goods lying at Detroit for transport 
by tlie Great Western Railway, which have ac¬ 
cumulated principally since the formation of 
the ice on the Detroit river. 
The receipts of Canadian grain at Oswego 
last year aggregated 9,459,172 bushels, against 
5,592,423 the year previous. The receipts of 
flour amounted to 224,643 bis., against 167,267. 
The increase of trade of the British North 
American provinces with Boston, under the re¬ 
ciprocity treaty, will appear by the following 
statement, viz :—Imports from July 1, 1841, to 
July 1, 1850, $696,891 ; from July 1, 1854, to 
July 1, 1855, $1,525, 140. 
The trade between us and Canada under the 
late treaty, for the past year, shows a balance 
ol $2,000,000 against us; our domestic produce 
carried thither amounting to $10,000,000, and 
our imports of Canadian produce being $12,- 
000,000, in round numbers. 
Summer Vacation Abroad ; or Notes of a Visit to Eng¬ 
land, Scotland. Ireland, France, Italy, and Belgium. By 
Rev. F. Ds W. Ward, author of “India and the Hin¬ 
doos.” &c. Rochester : Erastus Harrow & Brother. 
Ax interesting volume, though occupying a field often 
gleaned by the tourist. The friends of the writer will wel¬ 
come it with pleasure, and many who read will feel a 
friendly interest ever after in the author. Its getting up is 
a credit to the enterprising publishers, and will no doubt 
prove remunerative. From the Publishers. 
Tiie Confidential Correspondence ofNapolkod Bona¬ 
parte with his Brother Joseph, sometime King of Spain. 
Selected and Translated, with Explanatory Notes, from 
the “ Memories Du Roi Joseph.” In two volumes. New 
York: "D. Appleton & Co., 1856. 
The new interest awakened in the life and history of 
Napoleon, by new memoirs, as well as the career of his 
nephew, (L. N. Bonaparte, as Kossuth still calls him,) 
render the publication of those volumes very opportune.— 
They will throw new light on his character. At Dewey’s. 
The Attache in Madrid ; or Sketches of the Court of 
Isabella II. Translated from the German. New York: 
I). Appleton & Co., 1856. 
A good picture of Spain and the Spaniards at the present 
day, from one intimate with their country and histor 3 r , and 
with large advantages for judging of the same. Moving 
freely in the first circles, the author had access to all, and 
records whatever he thought worthy of notice. Sold at 
Dewey's. 
Udus Cliphuis. 
Dreams and Realities, in the Life of a Pastorand Teacher. 
By the author of “ Rolling Ridge,” the “ Parish Side ’ 
&c. New York : Derby & Jackson, late J. C. Derby, 1856, 
This is generally a very pleasant book, some parts may 
be characterized as queer , but the whole well illustrates 
the life and trials of a pastorand teacher. As giving the 
experiences of a consumptive, it will interest invalids. At 
Dewey’s. 
Home. By Anna Leland. New York: Derby & Jackson 
A tale of New England life, claiming reality as its basis 
for the author tells us, that “to the indulgence of the 
feeling that romance is, after all, less strange than reality 
may be ascribed the origin of this unpretending volume. 
It is well written, and its sketches of scenery and incident, 
of a pleasing character. At Dewey’s. 
The Widow Bedott Papers. With an Introduction by 
Alice B. Neal. New York : Derby & Jackson, 1856. 
A “ Jack Downing ” sort ofabook, “ only more so,” hit 
ting off the peculiarities of Yankeedom with a deep, droll 
humor, perfectly irresistible. One chapter is enough at a 
time—more would be a surfeit of fun, unless one’s “blues 
were of the deepest cerulean. At Dewey’s. 
Charlkmoxt, or the Pride of the Village. A Tale of Ken 
tueky. By W. Gilmore Simms, Esq., author of “The 
Partizan,” “ Melichampe,” etc., etc. New York : Red 
field; 34 Beekman street, 1856. 
Mr. Simms holds the pen of a master in portraying scenes 
of border life, and his historical novels are well worthy the 
handsome form in which they are now appearing. Sold at 
Dewey’s. 
“ The Schoolfellow, a Magazine for Boys and Girls,” un¬ 
der its new publishers, Dix & Edwards, ranks among the 
best juvenile publications of the day. Monthly, $1 per year. 
Fuel Wanted! —A correspondent of the 
Rochester Democrat, writing from Hastings, 
Dakota Co., Minnesota, states that, according to 
a register kept at that place, the mean tempera¬ 
ture for the last half of December was thirteen 
and a half degrees below zero, and that' the 
mean temperature for the month of January was 
a little short of twelve degrees below. 
The coldest day of December was the 24th, 
when the mercury stood minus thirty-two; the 
coldest day of January was the 8th, which was 
about the same intensity ; and the coldest day 
of February was the 4th, at which time the 
mercury was minus thirty-six degrees. “ At 
St. Paul,” the writer says, “we often hear that 
it is some eight or ten degrees lower than here.” 
Fires in New York, and tiieir Causes. —Mr. 
Alfred E. Baker, the Fire Marshal of New 
York City, has just published his semi-annual 
report. It embraces the period between the 
31st of .May and the 1st of December, 1855.— 
During that time fourteen arrests were made 
for arson. The tables show that fifty-two fires 
were traced to acts of incendiarism. The ag¬ 
gregate exhibits a decrease of sixteen fires, in 
comparison with the corresponding six months 
of 1854 ; also a diminution in the loss of nearly 
one-half, namely, $237,037. 
Wiiat is Going on Overhead. —The Boston 
Post, under the above caption, publishes an ar¬ 
ticle upon the present phenomena of the heavens, 
and many of our cotemporaries copy it, in 
which, speaking of Mercury, the writer among 
other things says :—“ Like Venus and our Moon, 
this fleet traveler presents in the course of his 
revolutions all the different lunar phases, from 
the slender crescent to the full orb.” 
The truth is, that neither Mercury nor Venus 
presents to us at any time a visible “ full orb,” 
as their orbits are within that of the earth, and 
can, therefore, never he in opposition to the sun. 
When the full illuminated face of either of 
these planets is towards the earth, the sun is in¬ 
terposed between them, and of course totally 
drowns their feeble light witli his own glories. 
Fearful Warning to Parents. —On Friday 
night, the 25th ult., says the Long Point (C. W.) 
Advocate, the house of Mr. A. McFarland, on 
the Cayuga road, about eight miles below Jar¬ 
vis, was destroyed by fire, and with it his whole 
family of five children, were burned to death. 
The eldest was about nine years of age ; the 
two youngest were twins of two years. 
The parents, it appears, had left the children 
alone while they went to visit a sick neighbor 
and the fire is supposed to have originated from 
a barrel of ashes standing near a corner of the 
house. 
Canadian Parliament. 
The Governor General of Canada opened the 
Provincial Parliament, in person, at Toronto, on 
the 15th instant. The Governor, in a speech 
which at least has the merit of brevity, alludes 
to the proposed change in the Constitution de¬ 
signed to render the Legislative Council elec¬ 
tive ; and he recommends the organization of a 
provisional police, capable of being applied by 
the Crown for the prevention of crime and the 
speedy apprehension of offenders. He congrat¬ 
ulates the Legislature upon the success of the 
several railway enterprises; says 250 miles 
have been put in operation last year, and alike 
amount will also be added the present season. 
The government have entered into arrange¬ 
ments for a line of ocean steamers by way of 
the St. Lawrence. The finances are stated to 
be in a satisfactory condition. The people, he 
states, hare watched with intense solicitude the 
progress of the war, have been grieved at the 
sufferings, and been excited at the successes of 
the Allies. 
The Birtii-Plaoe of Washington.— Lewis 
W. Washington, of Jefferson Co., Va., son of the 
late Hon. George C. Washington, of Maryland, 
as heir of the estate, has tendered to Virginia, 
through Gov. Wise, the title to sixty acres of 
land in Westmoreland Co., the site of the birth¬ 
place of Washington, and the house and graves 
of his progenitors in America. The condition 
of the gift is, that the State shall cause the 
premises to be enclosed by an iron fence, based 
on a stone foundation, and shall mark the same 
by suitable and modest tho’ substantial tablets. 
Too Bad ! — The Treasurer of Grant county, 
Wisconsin, was going up to the Capitol recently 
with that county’s State tax ($16,000) in specie 
boxes at his feet in the stage, when he discov¬ 
ered that the bottoms of both the stage and the 
boxes were broken, and all the specie gone I— 
Like other “good seed” sown by the way side, 
‘the fowls of£ the air,” or something else gath¬ 
ered it up before it “took root.” 
One hundred men and forty sloops are en¬ 
gaged during the “ ducking season ” in Balti¬ 
more, in supplying the market with canvas- 
hack and other ducks. The birds have been 
unusually scarce ibis season. We know a man 
in Pittsburgh who ordered half a dozen pair by 
express a short time since, and had to pay $2,- 
50 per pair, beside express charges. Those 
were “ dear ducks.” 
Fearful Casualty’.— One of those casualties 
which chill men’s blood occurred at London, C. 
W., on the afternoon of Saturday the 16th, the 
boiler belonging to the foundry of Anderson & 
Co., exploded, blowing the building to atoms 
and burying the workmen, to the number of 25 
or 30, beneath the ruins. Five persons were 
instantly killed and nine others badly hurt.— 
The windows of the Western Hotel were near¬ 
ly all shattered, and those of the English church 
were somewhat smashed. The shock was felt 
in every part of the city. 
A Good Idea. —The Board of New York un¬ 
derwriters and a large number of merchants and 
ship owners have prepared a memorial to Con¬ 
gress, and to the Secretary of the Treasury, ask¬ 
ing that the Government will purchase a suita¬ 
ble steamer, possessing adequate speed and 
strength to be employed in supplying aid to 
distressed vessels on the coast or in the vicinity 
during severe weather. There are, at the pres¬ 
ent time about one hundred fifty vessels over 
due, many of them heavily freighted with liv¬ 
ing cargoes. 
— A daily paper is soon to be commenced in Janesville, 
Wisconsin. 
— In Sandusky venison and fresh fish are selling at ten 
cents per pound. 
— Gov Shannon, of Kansas Territory, arrived at Wash¬ 
ington February 14. 
— Beef is selling at Ashland, Laporte and Superior, on 
Lake Superior, at $50 per barrel. 
— The Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad has been com¬ 
pleted to Columbia, twenty miles. 
— The total value of the property in the State of Rhode 
Island, is more than $118,000,000. 
— There are said to be 3,000 miles of streets, and 1,000 
miles of pavement in New York city. 
— There are forty-eight Episcopal churches in Philadel¬ 
phia, and 128 elsewhere in the State. 
— Gen. Van Rensselaer has called a meeting of the vete¬ 
rans of 1812, to be held in on the 22d inst. 
— The lower branch of the Nebraska Legislature have 
passed a bill giving to women the right to vote. 
— Anthony Kennedy has been ejected United States Sen¬ 
ator from Maryland,.in place of Hon. Thomas G. Pratt. 
— There were fifty-two cases of insolvency in San Fran¬ 
cisco last year, the liabilities of which were $5,186,016. 
— The quantity of lumber transported west over the Ga¬ 
lena and Chicago railroad, in 1855, was 182,000,000 feet. 
— There ai e 22,350 Methodists in Iowa, including mem¬ 
bers and probationists ; 276 local preachers, 116 churches. 
— A party of 300 men has been organized in Abbeville, S. 
C., for the purpose of proceeding to Kansas and settling 
there. 
— The Edinburgh Express says that the fifth volume of 
Macaulay s History of England, has been committed to tho 
printer. > 
— The Louisville Courier says half a million bushels of 
potatoes have been destroyed in that vicinity by the cold 
weather. 
— During the year 1855, there were ashore on the Florida 
coast eighty vessels, which, with their cargoes, were valued 
at over $2,850,000. 
— Alexandria and Cairo now communicate with each 
other by railway and electric telegraph. By the former the 
distance is eight hours. 
— The New York Chamber of Commerce is older than the 
Republic, having been established in 1758. It was incorpo¬ 
rated by George III, in 1770. 
— The Superior Court of Wisconsin has decided that 
Barstow, democrat, is legally elected Governor of that State, 
as found by the State canvassers. 
— An Irish Emigration Convention was held, with closed 
doors, in Buffalo last week, for the purpose of encouraging 
Irish Catholic emigration to Canada. 
— The expenses of Philadelphia for 1856 are estimated at 
$3,940,553. The value of the city is $153,369,048, on which 
a tax of $2.30 per $100 is to be levied. 
— Red colored fish have been found in an artesian well in 
California, supposed to have proceeded from a subterranean 
lake, with which the well communicates. 
Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, once a city of 80,000 
inhabitants, is now represented as in a dilapidated, decaying 
condition, the white inhabitants fast disappearing. 
— Mr. An gel 1, who was rejected some time since as Com¬ 
missioner to the Sandwich Islands, it is said, will be tend¬ 
ered the post of Secretary of Legation to London. 
— The Machias (Me.) Union, states that an unusual 
number of deer have been killed on the river and vicinity 
of late. Three hunters killed sixty-five in one day. 
— The Legislature of Virginia has appropriated $1,000 
per year for five years, to procure from England manuscript 
documents connected with the early history of that State. 
— A Mr. Price, of Chicago, lately came from the Copper 
Mines at Green Bay to Chicago, in a sleigh drawn by a dog. 
He traveled at the rate of 30 miles a day during the journey. 
— The cars on the English railroads travel every year an 
aggregate distance of eighty millions of miles ; these cars 
are 150,000 in number, and are drawn by 5,000 locomotives. 
— In England the electric telegraph furnishes constant 
employment to 3,000 persons. It stretches a distance of 
36,000 miles, and a million despatches are sent over it every 
year. 
— The following is the spelling of the superscription of 
a letter, which, a day or two since, was dropped in the post- 
office at Middleboro ’—“ Abell Rychmun, Halleighpbacks, 
Mass.” 
— An engine belonging to the and Hartford Providence 
railroad, exploded at the locomotive house, Providence, 
Feb. 12, killing the engineer and partially demolishing the 
building. 
— The inauguration of the Jackson Equestrian Statue in 
New Orleans, took place Ftb. 11. There was an immense 
military and civil procession, and the spectacle was grand 
and imposing. 
— There are four Johnson’s who are Governors of States, 
iz., Joseph, of Virginia ; Ilerschell V., of Georgia ; An¬ 
drew, of Tennessee, and J. Neely, of California. All demo¬ 
crats but one. 
— A lady of Hartford, Conn., has procured a handsome 
communion service of silver, for the use of Bishop Paine, 
who is at the head of the Mission of the Protestant Episco¬ 
pal Church in Africa. ' 
— Mr. Wm. B. Astor has purchased three lots adjoining 
the Astor Library, and intends erecting a building and 
stocking it with hooks, at a cost of $100,000, as an addition 
to the Astor Library. 
— Tbe Vermont Senate have passed a resolution author¬ 
izing the Governor to appoint an agent to go to Michigan 
and obtain the sword, pistol, and military garments once 
belonging to Ethan Allen. 
Gen. Houston, in private conversation, has declared 
that he shall resign his seat in the United States Senate, in 
obedience to the resolution of the Texas Legislature in¬ 
structing him so to do. 
— The United States Gazette says,—“Major General 
Williams, the gallant defender of Kars, although connected 
with several foreign families, is an American, and has no 
immediate relations iu England. 
— The personal property of Rogers, the British poet, 
recently deceased, was about £25,000. The pictures and 
books were possibly worth £40,000. In his latter years, he 
lived on an annuity from the bank. 
— It is said neither Cayuga nor Seneca Lake has yet sur¬ 
rendered to the ice, but remain with their dark blue open 
water, like islands in an ocean of snow — their colors the 
deeper, from their fringe of white. 
— Mr. Rust, Congressman from Arkansas, liasbeen cited 
to answer to a criminal charge of assault upon Horace 
Greeley. The complaint is made by a third person, Mr. 
Greeley having declined to prosecute. 
— John S. C. Abbott has received from the Emperor Na¬ 
poleon an autograph letter accompanied by a rich gold 
medal, in acknowledgement of the service done to the 
memory of his uncle by Abbott’s history. 
— The bachelors of Cleveland are an ungallant set of fel¬ 
lows. At their annual supper a few nights ago, the follow¬ 
ing was^he sevnntli regular toast:—“ Our future Wives— 
Distance lends enchantment to the view.” 
— In poiut of numbers, the farmers of Maine eclipse either 
of the New‘England States—numbering 77,016, while New 
Hampshire has but 47,408 ; Vermont, 48,312 ; Massachu¬ 
setts, 55,082 ; Rhodelsland, 8,398 ; Connecticut, 31,756. 
— The Chicago Free Press calls Iowa the Canaan of tho 
emigrant. Itfsays thatithe strife at Fort Dodge and Daco- 
tah Land Offices! ig very great. Tho seats in stages from 
Dubuque are in (some cases taken ten days in advance. 
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