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, MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EAMILY NEWSPAPER. MARCH 1. 
BUSINESS NOTICES. 
Back numbers of this volume can still be sup¬ 
plied to all applicants. Agents and other friends 
of the Rural will please note this paragraph, a?ul 
govern themselves accordingly — not omitting to 
forward the names and funds of all who wish or 
may be induced to subscribe. Additions to Clubs 
(whether in ones, fives, tens or twenties') ate now 
in order, and will be as gratefully received as new 
and heavier timber. 
Those who do not wish back numbers, can 
commence with the present or any other number. 
Thk Terms of the Rural New-Yorker are —Single 
Copy, $2 a year ; Three Copies, $5 ; Five Copies, $8 : Six 
Copies, (and one free to agent or getter np of club,) $10 ; 
Ten Copies, (and one free,) $15, and any additional number 
at latter rate, ($1,50 per copy,)-pay able in advance. No 
deviation from these terms. Any individual remitting the 
club price ($1,50 instead of $2) for a single copy-except as 
an addition to a club already formed—will be credited for 
only nine months, in accordance with our terms. 
Any person can send for four or more copies at 
$1,50 each,—and, on subsequently filling out a club of ten 
or over, receive extra copy, &c., or other premium to which 
he may be entitled, the same as though all the copies were 
ordered at one time. See Premium List on next page. 
PREMIUMS POJS. 18561 
In order to reward every person who may aid in extend¬ 
ing the circulation of the Rural New-Yorker, we offer the 
following very fair and liberal 
SPECIFIC PREMIUMS! 
SIX DOLLARS in cash, and an extra copy of the Rural, 
_or, instead of the latter, a copy of the Year Book of Agri¬ 
culture, (price $1,50.)—to every person remitting for fifty or 
more subscribers, to the 1st of May, 1856. 
FIVE DOLLARS in cash or a copy of Webster’s Unabridg¬ 
ed Dictionary, or four copies of the Year Book of Agriculture, 
or $6 in other Books, for forty or more subscribers. 
THREE DOLLARS in cash and an extra copy of the Ru¬ 
ral, or a copy of the Year Book of Agriculture, to every one 
remitting for thirty-two subscribers or over. 
THREE DOLLARS IN CASH to every one remitting for 
twentt-five subscribers'. [Agents can retain the cash offered 
in Specific Premiums, deducting it from remittance.] 
To every one remitting for twenty subscribers, we will give 
two extra copies of the Rural and two copies of the 8th or any 
preceding volume of the Wool Grower and Stock Register— or 
(instead of extra Rurals and W. G. A S. R.,) a handsomely 
bound volume of the Rural for 1855, (price $3.) 
To every one remitting for fifteen subscribers, an extra 
copy of the Rural and either volume of the W. G. <fc S. R. — or 
a copy of the Horticulturist for 1856. 
To every one remitting, for ten subscribers, ($15,) an extra 
copy of the Rural, or a copy of Year Book of Agriculture The 
same to every one remitting for six copies, ($10.) 
To every one remitting for three copies ($5) we will, if de¬ 
sired, send the 8th, or any preceding Vol. of W. G. & S. R. 
Competitors for the above Specific Premiums are not 
limited to townships, but subscriptions obtained will be counted 
on premiums, no matter how widely distributed. Those who 
compete also for the Large Township Premiums have only to 
designate the copies sent to the different post-offices in their 
own town, so that we may note the same. 
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ROCHESTER, MARCH 1, 1856. 
Award of Town Premiums, 
FOR OBTAINING SUBSCRIBERS TO THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
Having carefully posted the accounts of agents 
and competitors for the Premiums offered for 
the fifteen largest lists of subscribers obtained, 
in any one Town, previous to the 26th of Decem¬ 
ber last — and for the twenty-five largest lists, 
procured in like manner previous to the 2d of 
February, 1856 — we are this week enabled to 
announce the result of the competition. Ac¬ 
cording to our figures (subject to correction, if 
erroneous,) the Cash Premiums are as follows : 
The Christmas Premiums. 
1. J. H. Stanley, Genesee Co., 220 subs.—$100. 
2. W. L. Tucker, Wayne, 113 subs.—$75. 
3. D. E. Wing, Greene, 112 subs.—$50. 
4. E. H. Gilbert, Livingston, 81 subs. — $25. 
5. R. P. Allee, Wayne, 77 subs.—$10. 
6. P. S. Carver, Walworth, Wis., 62 subs.—$5. 
7. T. S. Cushing, Wyoming, 60 subs.—$5. 
8. E. Bixbv, Genesee, 55 subs.—$5. 
9. W. H. Turner, Wyoming, 55 subs.—$5. 
10. G. B. Cook, Ontario, 54 subs.—$5. 
11. T. Dickinson, Wayne, 52 subs.—$5. 
12. S. N. Holmes, Onondaga, 45 subs.—$5. 
13. C. Steketee, Kent, Mich., 43 subs.—$5. 
14. W. McCall, Allegany, 43 subs.—$5. 
15. M. E. Congar, Waukesha, Wis., 36 subs.—$5. 
The February Premiums. 
1. J. H. Stanley, Genesee Co., 306 subs.—$150. 
2. D. E. Wing, Greene, 168 subs.—$100. 
3. S. E. Horton, Ontario, 140 subs.—$80. 
4. W. L. Tucker, Wayne, 138 subs.—$70. 
5. R: P. Allee, Wayne, 119 subs.—$60. 
6. O. Kimberly, Onondaga, 104 subs.—$50. 
7. H. T. Kennedy', Onondaga, 102 subs.—$40. 
,8. J. L. Clark, Wyoming, 98 subs.—$30. 
9. J. Van Horn, Seneca, 95 subs. — $20. 
10. T. Dickinson, Wayne, 94 subs.—$15. 
11. T. S. Cushing, Wyoming, 92 subs.—$10. 
12. E. H. Gilbert, Livingston, 87 subs.—$10. 
13. C. Steketee, Kent, Midi., 82,81^.—$10. 
14 W. H. Turner, Wyoming. 79 subs.—$10. 
15. P.S. Carver, Walworth, Wis., 76 subs.—$10. 
16. W. M. Boltwoou, Ontario, 75 subs.—$5. 
17. J. Chapman, Wayne, 72 subs.—$5. 
18. L. E. Murdock, Yates, 72 subs.—$5. 
19. G. B. Cook, Ontario, 71 subs.—$5. 
20. J. S. Hamblin, Niagara, 68 subs.—$5. 
21. A. J. Miller, Orleans, 66 subs.—$5. 
22. H. Dean, Steuben, 64 subs.—$5. 
23. J. La Du, Chantauque, 62 subs.—$5. 
24. W. McCall, Allegany, 61 subs.—$5. 
25. D. Seaver, Genesee, 60 subs.—$5. 
The above list only includes the number of 
subscribers obtained by each competitor in one 
tovmship, and the amount of the Regidar Pre¬ 
mium offered. Hence, in addition to the amount 
thus awarded, each person entitled to both Christ¬ 
mas and February Premiums, will also receive 
the Specific Premiums offered — which will add 
$6 in cash, and an extra copy of Rural, (or, 
instead of latter, a copy of the Year Book of Ag- 
ricidture,) to the amount afvarded each competi¬ 
tor for Peb. Premiums ; and from $3 to $6 and 
extra copy, &c., to every one entitled to a Christ¬ 
mas Premium. This will make a handsome 
addition to each of the premiums. 
Many of the above named competitors have 
obtained subscribers out of the towns in which 
they reside, but Yvhich are not included in the 
above figures. For such subscriptions they are 
entitled to Specific Premiums only ; and such 
premiums are given on all subscribers obtained 
— that is, the whole are counted together. 
Several of the premiums above awarded have 
already been paid—and the remainder will be 
promptly cashed, on receipt of orders from 
those entitled specifying their wishes in the 
premises. We will duly honor drafts, remit by 
mail or express, or retain the money and ?k»oks 
till called for, as preferred ;—but we wish it dis¬ 
tinctly understood that yvc pay as well as offer 
Premiums. 
£ 5 §r In addition to the above awards, several 
hundred persons, located in various sections of 
the United States and British Provinces, have 
each obtained from six to over five hundred sub¬ 
scribers, for Yvhich they are entitled to the Spe¬ 
cific Premiums offered. Our efficient friend, I. 
W. Briggs, Esq., of Wayne Co., has already ob¬ 
tained about Five Hundred and Thirty subscri¬ 
bers, and will probably add several hundred 
more. We shall endeavor to give hereafter a 
list of all who have procured ten subicribers or 
over to the present volume—and we are confi¬ 
dent it will embrace the names of a larger num¬ 
ber of influential and generous-hearted agents 
and friends than can be presented by any other 
journal in the Union. But as our Specific Pre¬ 
miums are offered until the 1st of May, we shall 
defer the publication of the list until after that 
date—especially as we are daily receiving new 
clubs from all sections of the country. Mean¬ 
time, as there is yet abundant time to secure the 
Specific Premiums, Yve trust hundreds of old 
and neYV friends of the Rural will enter the 
arena, and ere long report successful progress. 
Congressional and Legislative. 
The chief matters of interest, Yvhich occurred 
in Congress during last Yveek, were the confir¬ 
mation of Wilson Shannon as Governor of 
Kansas; the production, on a call of the Senate, 
of voluminous letters and documents in refer¬ 
ence to the difficulties in that Territory; the 
indefinite postponement of an election of Chap¬ 
lain, with a general invitation to the Clergymen 
of the city to officiate alternately, and the order¬ 
ing of 10,000 copies of the map of Central 
America, prepared by the Coast Survey, to be 
published. Senator Wilson, of Mass., was es¬ 
pecially severe on Goyl Shannon, charging him 
as having been in California, the companion of 
drunkards and gamblers. 
Daniel Waldo, of New York, a revolutionary 
soldier in the 94tli year of his age, and clergy¬ 
man of the Congregational Church for more than 
70 years, was chosen Chaplain of the House. 
Bills were introduced to promote the efficiency 
of the Navy; to extend the time for payment of 
duty on Railroad iron ; to prevent the extension 
of slavery in the Territories of the United States 
North of 36.30. 
Legislature. —Our Legislature did nothing 
worthy of note last week, having adjourned on 
Wednesday over until Tuesday, ostensibly for 
the purpose of celebrating Washington’s birth¬ 
day. A great deal of talk was made last 
year about one member of the Senate revamp¬ 
ing an old eulogy and passing it off as original ; 
but we are not sure as that was any Yvorse than 
thus sinking four days of the session and prob¬ 
ably using up three more before both bodies 
can again be got into working order. If the 
business of legislation is not closed by the time 
the hundred days have expired, it is to be hoped 
the Governor will not humor these gentlemen 
by calling an extra session. 
The Missing Steamer. 
The Atlantic and the Asia have arrived at 
New York, but bring no tidings of the missing 
Pacific. This Steamer sailed upon her last 
voyage January 23d, since which time nothing 
lias been heard from her. It cannot be longer 
disguised that fearful doubts of her safety per¬ 
vade all minds, notwithstanding the cheerful 
face which the Company, and many of the com¬ 
mercial papers, put upon the matter. Whether 
she is a disabled and helpless wreck, floating 
about amid the waste of waters, has shared the 
fate of her consort, the Arctic, or is still safe, is 
a mystery of the unrevealed future. The vast 
fields of ice that have floated far down in the 
Atlantic, on which she may have infringed, add 
much to the fears manifested for her safety. 
Read the Advertisements in this number of 
the Rural — and in every issue. There is al¬ 
ways something new and interesting ; and very 
rarely, we trust, anything which will not pay 
both advertiser and reader. We invite particu¬ 
lar attention to the announcements in each 
number, not only for the reasons above named, 
but from the fact that we cannot consistently 
publish many advertisements for so long a pe¬ 
riod as ordered. As our space is limited, we 
are obliged to also limit the number of consecu¬ 
tive insertions, in order to accommodate a 
greater number of applicants, and at the same 
time render the advertising an interesting and 
readable department. 
— Speaking of advertising, we would again 
repeat that we cannot, and will not, knowingly 
insert deceptive or Patent Medicine advertise¬ 
ments in the Rural on any conditions. During 
the past Yveek we have returned the money for¬ 
warded by two applicants who Yvislied to dis¬ 
pose of recipes, &c., (Yvhich have very probably 
been published in the Rural,) at $1. We are 
in frequent receipt of inquiries as to price of 
adY-ertising, &c. The only answer we can give 
to all such is a reference to terms, <fcc., given 
on last page of each number. 
Still in Force. —Our offer of the Rural one 
year at the club price ($1,50) if sent as a pres¬ 
ent to a friend, near or distant, is still in force. 
Our offer of Specific Premiums is also in force 
until the 1st of May next. See the list on first 
column of this page. 
National Conventions. 
Two National Conventions Yvere in session 
during last week, viz.: The American at Phil¬ 
adelphia, and the Republican at Pittsburg. In 
the former the riatform was re-constructed, as 
some of the planks (the 12th section) were 
either too broad or too narrow for Northern and 
Southern men to stand on together. The nom¬ 
ination of candidates for President and Vice 
President was, by a vote of 128 to 73, postponed 
to the meeting of another National Convention 
to be held in the same place on the 3d day of 
July next. 
The Republican Convention adopted resolu¬ 
tions embodying a repeal of all laws relative to 
Slavery in the Territories, supporting by all 
legal means free soilers in Kansas, and de¬ 
nouncing the present Administration. An Ex¬ 
ecutive Committee of one from each State was 
appointed, and a Convention consisting of mem¬ 
bers double the number of the Congressional 
delegation, Yvas called to meet at Philadelphia 
on the 7th day of June next. 
Both Conventions adjourned on Saturday. 
Since the above was written, a telegraphic 
despatch comes to hand in reference to the 
American Convention, contradicting the state¬ 
ment of adjournment. It states further that on 
Monday, Mr. Broyvnloyv, of Tennessee, moved 
to proceed to ballot for President and Vice 
President ; whereupon the delegations from 
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Ohio, 
and a part of those from Illinois, Iowa and 
Pennsylvania withdrew, and a ballot was had, 
Yvhich gave Fillmore 71 ; Layv 27; Garret 
Davis 13 ; Judge McLean 7 ; Com. Stockton 8 ; 
General Houston 6; John Bell 5; Erastus 
Brooks 2 ; Kenneth Raynor 2; Campbell, of 
Ohio, 1 ; Ex-Gov. Johnson 1 ; John M. Clayton 
I. The Convention then adjourned until after¬ 
noon, and, on again assembling, nominated 
Millard Fillmore for President, and Andrew 
J. Donelson for Vice President. 
Travels West. —Wheat. 
The Yvheat market took my attention more 
than anything else during my western travels. 
In season and out of season I talked with people 
about the grain crops. Perhaps I had better 
dispose of this matter at one sitting, and then I 
shall not be mixing it up with religion and pol¬ 
itics, and other delicate subjects. 
Let it be conceded, then, that the West gen¬ 
erally had an abundant crop. It is true there 
were failures in several localities, but the West, 
as a whole, had more than an average crop.— 
The important fact which I have to announce is> 
that much the larger portion of it lias left the 
country. There seemed to be a general con¬ 
currence on the part of well-informed men in 
the opinion that at least two-thirds of the sur¬ 
plus had been removed. In many Yvheat re¬ 
gions scarce a bushel remains for sale. 
Some of the causes that have conspired to this 
end may be mentioned. Farmers were enabled 
to thresh their wheat earlier than usual, in con¬ 
sequence of the more general introduction of 
threshing machines,— there were increased fa¬ 
cilities for getting wheat to market,—prices 
were higher than usual in the fall, and buyers 
declared upon their honor that “ Yvheat must 
fall.” So the farmer could sell, and did sell, 
and dare not do otherwise. No one whispered 
the certainty of an unusual foreign demand, —no 
one thought the deplorable failure in the State 
of New York worth mentioning,—no one hinted 
at the vast quantities rendered nearly worthless 
in consequence of foul weather. Speculators, 
backed up by the commercial press,raised such 
a din about “ overwhelming crops,” and markets 
overstocked, that the frightened farmer, with 
all possible haste, got rid of his Yvheat. 
It has been reported that large quantities of 
wheat are nowin store at various points west.— 
This requires confirmation. The heavy drain 
that must inevitably be made upon us to feed 
foreign countries, must certainly exhaust our 
stock. Let farmers mark those editors, yvIio, 
by overstating our “ surplus," encourage foreign 
buyers to expect our grain at low prices, shake 
the confidence of our own dealers, and wheedle 
farmers into taking Yvhatever is offered. After 
awhile the scanty supply of wheat will be found 
out, but it will be when the ends of certain 
greedy adventurers shall have been answered ; 
high prices will then do the producer no good, 
for he will have nothing to sell. 
If we will measure our surplus wheat by for¬ 
eign destitution, we shall see reasons for higher 
prices than we have had very lately. Whether 
there is peace or war, at home or abroad, cannot 
materially alter the demand for the present 
crop. One of the tricks played at our expense 
ought to be known. It is understood generally 
that the French and English Governments are 
large purchasers of grain in our markets. Why 
is this ? Are there not commercial men enough 
for such transactions? Why should Victoria 
and Louis turn hucksters ? They have the care 
of growing families on their hands, to say noth¬ 
ing of kingdoms. There is a very good reason. 
Our market, whan we have a surplus, however 
small, is but the reflection of theirs. If they 
can manage to keep prices down at home, they 
keep them down here. So they take advantage 
of over estimate^, and false statements, to buy 
our grain cheap and throYV it upon the conti¬ 
nental market to keep down prices. Thus, by 
anticipating their wants, they secure a good 
supply, avoid a panic, and so keep the peace at 
home. It matters not Iioyv high they have to 
pay for wheat abroad, they are perfectly Yvilling 
and determined to throw it upon the market, 
and sell it cheap. Of course we should not 
suffer ourselves to be governed by markets thus 
tampered with and controlled. We have only 
to refuse to sell at European prices, and they 
will make haste to come to our terms. Let our 
panic-stricken New York dealers take the hint. 
I will not boast of “ sympathy for the poor,” but 
I deny that the good of the poor requires the 
farming interest to he subjected to the depress¬ 
ing influences of falsehood, speculation, and 
government combinations. 
More capital is required in farming; and it 
is the interest of everybody that the farmer 
should have the means to make improvements 
with. This is the only sure way to avoid fail¬ 
ures of crops and consequent high prices. It 
has almost passed into an axiom that “ farming 
don’t pay.” If under very peculiar circumstan¬ 
ces it should happen to pay, it is a very great 
pity that some people should feel so very bad 
about it. It is stated on high commercial au¬ 
thority that the European deficiency in bread- 
stuffs is at least twenty per cent. No man who is 
not insane will suppose that North America can 
supply that vacuum. Persistent falsehood, com¬ 
ing to the aid of the French and English Gov¬ 
ernments, may keep prices down till millers 
and speculators get the balance of the wheat, 
but the next harvest cannot come round with¬ 
out the real truth revealing itself. It was cer¬ 
tain that the immediate effect of “ peace news ” 
would be the depression of prices, and it is 
equally certain that peace cannot permanently 
keep down the present crop. 
I hope “ poor people ” will get their supplies 
soon; —the rich are welcome to the summer 
market ! Western farmers, stand by your 
rights. Sell cheap to the poor, but remember that 
a foreign call as great as the present, may not 
occur again in many years ; you may be doom¬ 
ed to return, after a year or two, to “old prices,” 
and you will then find very hard sledding, such 
as you have experienced before. It is just that 
you should have the full benefit of present cir¬ 
cumstances. 
It may be well enough to remark that the 
prevailing sickness at the West, and the wet 
weather, prevented many farmers from sowing 
the full amount of ground last fall that they 
had intended ; and a great deal was sown late 
and badly put in, which will diminish the com¬ 
ing harvest. Hear, and judge for yoursel\ T es. 
H. T. B. 
Hog Packing. —The season at St. Louis has 
not yet closed ; in fact, hogs are yet coming 
forward there at the rate of 1,000 per day. The 
number of bogs packed in the West, exclusive 
of those at St. Louis, amount to 270,500, being 
an increase of 114,276, at eleven packing points 
over last season. The greatest increase has 
been at Burlington, where 64,000 were packed 
this season, against 28,000 last. 
The St. Louis Chamber of Commerce has re¬ 
ceived reports of the number of hogs packed, at 
eleven points on the Missouri river, and they, 
in the aggregate, foot up 20,000. The number 
packed at Louisville is 332,351, or 48,563 more 
than last season. The number packed at Cin¬ 
cinnati amounts to 425,000, or about 70,000 
more than last season. 
Bassett’s Mercantile College, Fulton, N. 
Y., is attaining an enviable reputation among 
the best institutions of its class in the country. 
At the close of a recent highly creditable exam¬ 
ination of students, a meeting was organized 
by calling Prof. Fuller, of Valley Seminary, 
to the chair, when the following resolution, 
among others, was adopted by the graduating 
class: 
Resolved, That in Prof. Bassett we recognize 
a thorough, practical, and scientific Accountant, 
an accomplished Artist, and a gentleman of 
worth ; also, one of the most successful Teach¬ 
ers of the science of Accounts in the United 
States, and congratulate and wish him unparal¬ 
leled success in his laudable and praiseworthy 
undertaking. 
Cold Weather at Pembina. —“Mr. Burdick, 
member of the House from Pembina, informs 
us,” says the St. Paul Democrat, “that he has 
received a letter from home stating that unpre¬ 
cedented cohl weather has been experienced in 
that region this winter. The thermometer for a 
week averaged 52° below zero. The half- 
breeds, who bad started out on their winter 
hunt, were compelled to return to the settle¬ 
ment, owing to the severity of the weather, and 
they had also lost cattle and numerous horses 
from the same cause.” 
The degree of cold stated above must have 
been measured, if at all, by a spirit thermome¬ 
ter, as mercury congeals at minus forty degrees. 
Riot and Murder. —A man named Monroe, 
sentenced to be hung on the 15th ult. at Charles¬ 
ton, Coles Co., Illinois, had his sentence post¬ 
poned until May by the Governor. A large 
crowd, who had assembled to witness the exe¬ 
cution, became so enraged on learning of the 
respite, that they broke open the jail, seized the 
wretched criminal, and hung him to a tree near 
at hand. It is said that the principal rioters 
were drunk at the time, and that, if half a doz¬ 
en resolute men had volunteered their aid, the 
laws could have been sustained. 
Launch of the Niagara. —The U. S. frigate 
Niagara was successfully launched at the Brook¬ 
lyn Navy Yard on Saturday amid the cheersof 
an immense concourse of spectators, discharges 
of artillery, and other demonstrations. The 
Niagara is deemed one of the most perfect 
models of naval architecture ever constructed. 
Land Speculations. —In the vicinity of Coun¬ 
cil Bluffs, Iowa, land is selling at $75 to $100 
per acre. At Omaha city, on the opposite side 
of the Mississippi and in Nebraska territory the 
land is also held at high figures, notwithstand¬ 
ing the thermometer has ranged for many days 
during the Yvinter at twenty-five to thirty de¬ 
grees below zero. 
IWtis Clippings. 
— The coinage at the Hint in San Francisco during the 
year 1855, was $21,121,752. 
— The thermometer at Peoria, on the 4th of Feb., stood 
at 27 degrees below zero. 
— A bill has passed the Senate of Alabama abolishing all 
laws on the subject of dueling. 
— YIrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, the authoress, died at Mari¬ 
ana, Florida, on the 11th ult. 
— Good lands are said to he selling in Northern Missouri 
at one shilling per acre. 
— Prof. Robert Henry, L. L. D., of the College of South 
Carolina, died on the 6th ult. 
— There is a very flourishing Historical Society in Min¬ 
nesota. 
— Hon. Benj. Seaver, late Mayor of Boston, died in that 
city on the morning of the 14th ult. 
— The Indiana State Fair premium list for 1S56 amounts 
to $6,000, and is open to all the world. 
— The cost of the Illinois Central Railroad to Jan. 1, 
exclusive oi the floating debt, is $22,585,120. 
— The Ohio river is open at Louisville, and the ferry 
boats are running for the first time in a month. 
— There are 67 tunnels in the United States, on canals 
and railroads, the longest of which is about a mile. 
— The number of steamers on the Western waters is 
824, valued at $20,000,000. The tonnage is 204,361. 
— “ Iranistan,” Barnum’s villa at Bridgeport, cost $150,- 
000, and it is mortgaged for $125,000, all it is worth. 
— In Lewis county, in this State, the snow is said to 
have'been this winter four and a half feet deep on the level- 
— The Michigan Southern Railroad Company propose 
erecting a magnificent depot at Chicago, which is to cost 
$100,000. 
— The steamer Plymouth Rock, which ran ashore at City 
Island, New York, some time ago, is now afloat at high 
water. 
— The Postmaster of New York city intends to locate 
1,000 letter boxes in different parts of the city, for the con¬ 
venience of the public. 
— A forty acre lot of the “ swamp lands” of Lee county, 
Ill., was bought by Col. Dement, at the recent sale, for 
$18,75 per acre. 
— The inhabitunts of Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y., have it in 
contemplation to change the time honored name of their 
locality to that of Linwood. 
— The hemp crop of Missouri is said to be a failure, and, 
in most of the counties in the State, will not amount to 
half a crop. 
— In the South Church, Salem, Mass., recently, $140 
ivere collected to aid in the erection of a Congregational 
church in Kansas. 
— The receipts of the English railroads for the yearlS54 
amounted to 20,215,000 pounds sterling, or about 101,000,- 
000 of dollars. 
— Eight negroes belonging to James C. Coz, of Shrive- 
port, La., in attempting to cross- the prairies for Western 
Texas recently, froze to death ! 
— The Senate, in Executive session Feb. 19, after a very 
warm debate, confirmed Wilson Shannon as Governor of 
Kansas, by a strict party vote. 
— The Rock Island Advertiser is confident that the city 
of Rock Island, Yvith a population of 8,000 in 1855, will 
have 20,000 in 1S60. 
— A census of the city of St. Louis is now nearly com¬ 
pleted. The Intelligencer says the population is about 
120,000. 
— Three of the colored Methodist churches of New Or¬ 
leans, recently presented their respective ministers with 
suits of clothes valued at $100 each. 
— About $20,000 have been expended in Boston, for the 
purpose of making the streets passable since the snow has 
been on the ground. 
— It is said that Hon. W. C. Rives is writing the life of 
James Madison, and that it will be published by the Yir- 
ginia Historical Society. 
— As the Persia was going out over the bar Feb. 20, she 
grounded in Gedney’s Channel, but got off ivithout dam¬ 
age and proceeded to sea. 
— It was John W. Wright, of Logansport, la., that of¬ 
fered to raise 500 men to assist the Free State men of Kan¬ 
sas, and not Gov. Wright, as was stated. 
— The Washington Union says that a Mrs. Bishop, of 
that city, already the mother of thirteen children, has re¬ 
cently given birth to three more. 
— A movement is being made to place a chime of ten 
hells in the tower of St. Anne’s Church, Lowell, Mass.— 
The cost is estimated at $3,250. 
— The grade of roads is regulated by law in Europe. In 
France the maximum grade is 4 deg. 46 min. In England 
it is 4 deg., which is one foot rise in 35. 
— By some leakage in the gas works in Fitchburgh, Feb. 
21, three men were smothered to death, and a woman and 
child were rendered insensible while asleep. 
— Light American plows have superseded the heavy 
Scotch ploYvs in Malta. They Yvere introduced recently by 
the Governor, Sir Wm. Reid, formerly of Beimuda. 
— A man named Anderson was recently arrested in St. 
Louis for Yvearing a shawl in the streets. He was fined $50 
on the ground that it was not the apparel of his sex. 
— The House Committee has before it three cases of con¬ 
tested elections from Illinois, and one each from Louisiana, 
Maryland, IoYva, Kansas and Ncyv Mexico. 
— The Supreme Court of Vermont, at its recent session 
at Rutland, granted nine divorces. Three of the applica¬ 
tions were made by the husbands, the rest by the wives. 
— The Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill to pur¬ 
chase the Hermitage and present it to the United States to 
be used as a branch of the West Point Military School. 
— The Secretary of the Navy has ordered the steam 
frigate Merrimac to a cruise on the banks of Newfoundland, 
to relieve vessels on the coast Yvhich may be in distress. 
— The Pittsburg Gazette estimates the shipments of bi¬ 
tuminous coal from the mines in Western Pennsylvania, 
during the last year both east and west, at 1,423,628 tons. 
— The Alton, Ill., Courier says the Yvheat crop of last 
year is not all marketed, and that part of it Yvhich has left 
the producers’ hands, is far from being in the hands of the 
consumers. 
— The wear and tear of English railroads is great; it 
takes 20,000 tons of iron every year to keep the tracks in 
repair, and 26,000,000 sleepers, to furnish which requires 
3,000,000 trees, covering a space of 5,000 acres. 
— It is said some citizens of Eastport, Miss., have pre¬ 
sented Rust, of Arkansas with a silver cup, for his assault 
on Horace Greeley ; Yvhereupon the Albany Journal adds-: 
“ Cups have been Rust’s trouble already.” 
— The New Haven Register states that the NeYV Haven 
and New London railroad has passed into the hands of the 
bond-holders, who will manage it for the benefit of all con¬ 
cerned. 
— A line of screYV propellers bas been formed to run be¬ 
tween London, Cork and NeYV York, the first of which, the 
Brenda, will leave the former place on the first of March, 
touching at Cork. 
_The New Bedford Mercury of the 15th ult. says that 
between 8 000 and 9,000 barrels of whale oil Yvere sold in 
that market within two days—a large portion being on 
European account. 
_The Collins steamers will hereafter not cross the 
Banks north of 43 degrees, and thus avoid the dangers 
from ice. This route Yvill be folloYved until after the 1st 
of August. 
— The Tennessee Legislature has passed stringent 
amendments to the free banking laYv of that State, which, 
in the estimation of some, are considered paramount to a 
total prohibition. 
