MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
DEC. 13. 
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ROCHESTER, DECEMBER 13, 1856. 
The Rural New-Yorker for 1857. 
Moore s Rural New-Yorker.— This leading Agricultural 
paper of the Union, is preparing for a splendid career the com¬ 
ing year. It should have fifty or one hundred thousand subscri¬ 
bers, and would have even more, if the people could see and 
appreciate its excellence and its beauty.— Genesee Evangelist. 
Our contemporary is correct in his first sen¬ 
tence, ior we are making ample preparations 
for the ensuing year—such as we trust will 
render the Rural worthy of, if it does not obtain, 
one hundred thousand subscribers. The arrange¬ 
ments we have already made, and others nearly 
consummated, will ere long demonstrate that 
the objects of this journal, “ Progress and Im¬ 
provement,” and its inspiring and progressive 
motto, “ Excelsior ,” are to be faithfully adhered 
to during the publication of its Eighth Volume. 
.Without entering into details at present, we 
can safely announce positive improvements in 
both the Contents and Appearance of He Ru¬ 
ral on and after January ensuing. In a- dition 
to the continued aid of the principal members 
of our present able and efficient corps of Special 
Contributors and Correspondents, we have se¬ 
cured several of the ablest and most reputable 
writers in the country as contributors to the 
Agricultural, Scientific and Literary depart¬ 
ments — gentlemen whose names, when an¬ 
nounced, will more than indicate our determi¬ 
nation to secure the best talent in the country, 
and thus enhance the reputation and standing 
of a journal which it is no boasting to affirm 
has long ranked as the very first of its class in 
all the essentials of an Agricultural, Literary 
and Family Newspaper. 
In Typographical Execution and Appearance 
we are confident of making some improvements 
which will be appreciated. Every type, rule, 
<fcc., will be entirely new and of the best style 
and material. Moreover, the principal type 
used, though as legible and perhaps more easily 
read than that now used, will be of such a size 
as to enable us to give considerable more read¬ 
ing in the same space—thus materially enlarg¬ 
ing the paper, without increasing its size or 
rendering it inconvenient for binding. We 
shall also institute some improvements in the 
printing and mailing departments. 
Our corps of office assistants in the Editorial 
and Business departments will be more com¬ 
plete and efficient than heretofore, and devoted 
exclusively to the Rural New-Yorker. For, 
finding that the Rural requires more and more 
attention, and that it is altogether preferred to 
any monthly, we have resolved to dispose of or 
discontinue the Wool Qeower and Stock Reg¬ 
ister, and devote our whole energies and atten¬ 
tion, and those of our assistants, to the former. 
This change, and other arrangements, will 
enable us to concentrate, more than ever before, 
our attention and labor upon the various de¬ 
partments of the paper, in which we shall have 
experienced and competent assistants. Mr. 
Wm. T. Kennedy, Jr., will continue as our prin¬ 
cipal office assistant, contributing to various 
departments, and devoting his exclusive atten- 
1 tion to the paper. It is proper to remark, here, 
that Mr. K. has been an industrious and efficient 
occupant of the sanctum during most of the 
year now closing; and has had the principal 
charge of our Hews and Commercial columns, 
(which have been so admirably conducted and 
filled for many months,) in addition to contri¬ 
buting ably to the Practical and Literary de¬ 
partments. Mr. J. H. Bixby, who has been one 
of our corps for several years, will (though now 
on his farm,) continue as a regular editorial 
contributor to the Rural. We also have the 
pleasure of announcing that our long-time- 
special contributor, Mr. H. C. White, (late pro¬ 
prietor of the Buffalo Ag. Warehouse and Seed 
Store,) will hereafter devote his exclusive time 
and talents to the interests of the Rural— 
taking charge of the business department, and 
also contributing to its pages. This announce¬ 
ment will be gratifying to Rural readers, and 
the numerous personal friends of the several 
gentlemen named. 
— In conclusion, we assure all interested that 
we are resolved to make the Eighth Volume of 
the Rural in all respects superior to either of 
its predecessors, and eminently worthy the 
substantial support and encouragement of its 
earnest and influential friends, and of all friend¬ 
ly to its objects, throughout the country. 
The President’s Message. 
This document was received by Congress on 
the 2d inst. Taken as a whole, it is a very fair 
specimen of Presidential manufacture, but its 
extreme length precludes the possibility of 
more than a mere glance at its contents. Of 
the condition of the domestic interests of the 
country — Agriculture, Manufactures, Mines, 
Navigation and Commerce—the message states: 
“The internal prosperity of the country, its 
continuous and steady advancement in wealth 
and population, and in private as well as pub¬ 
lic well-being, attest the wisdom of our insti¬ 
tutions, and the predominant spirit of intelli¬ 
gence and patriotism, which, notwithstanding 
occasional irregularities of opinion or action 
resulting from popular freedom, has distin¬ 
guished and characterized the people of Amer¬ 
ica.” 
Relative to the past and present condition of 
Kansas, we find the following : 
“ Imputed irregularities in the elections had 
in Kansas, like occasional irregularities of the 
same description in the States, were beyond the 
sphere of action of the Executive. But inci¬ 
dents of actual violence, of of organized ob¬ 
struction of law, pertinaciously renewed from 
lime to time, have been met as they occurred, 
by such means as were available and as the 
circumstances required; and nothing of this 
character now remains to affect the general 
peace of the Union. The attempt of a part of 
the inhabitants of the Territory to erect a rev¬ 
olutionary government, though sedulously en¬ 
couraged and supplied with pecuniary aid from 
active agents of disorder in some of the Stages, 
has completely failed. Bodies of armed men, 
foreign to the Territory, have been prevented 
from entering, or compelled to leave it. Pre¬ 
datory bands, engaged in acts of rapine, under 
cover of the existing political disturbances, have 
been arrested or dispersed. And every well- 
disposed person is now enabled once more to 
devote himself in peace to the pursuits of pros¬ 
perous industry, for the prosecution of which he 
undertook to participate in the settlement of the 
Territory.” 
The American Government holds peaceable 
relations with all Foreign Po wers, though the 
action of New Grenada relative to the imposi¬ 
tion of a tax on U. S. mail matter transported 
across the Isthmus of Panama—amounting to 
three dollars per pound—is looked upon as ex¬ 
orbitant, and will not be submitted to. This 
tax was, by its terms, to have taken effect on 
the 1st of September, but the local authorities 
were induced to suspend its execution and 
await further instructions from head-quarters. 
What conclusions have been arrived at is un¬ 
known by our government, but the President 
remarks that “ if a measure so extraordinary in 
its character, and so clearly contrary to treaty 
stipulations, and the contract rights of the Pa¬ 
nama Railroad Company, composed mostly of 
American citizens, should be persisted in, it 
will be the duty of the United States to resist 
its execution.” 
In addition, the riot which occurred at the 
Isthmus on the 15th of April last is considered 
a subject of “ still graver import.” A full in¬ 
vestigation of that melancholy affair has been 
had, and the President has “demanded of that 
government that the perpetrators ol the wrongs 
in question should be punished ; that provision 
should be made for the families of citizens of 
the United States who were killed, with full 
indemnity for the property pillaged or de¬ 
stroyed.” 
The Financial condition of the country is 
eminently prosperous. The following items of 
income, expenditure, and debt, covering a pe¬ 
riod of ten years, fully exhibit the fact that this 
department of national interest has been wise¬ 
ly administered: 
Income. 
Expenditure. 
Debt. 
1847... 
...26,346,790 
55,929,093 
45,659,659 
1848... 
...35,436,750 
42,811,970 
65,804,693 
1849... 
...31,074,347 
57,631,667 
64,704,693 
1850... 
...43,475,798 
43,002,168 
64,338,238 
1851... 
...52,312,979 
48,005,879 
62,560,395 
1852... 
...49,728,386 
46,007,896 
67,560,395 
1853... 
...61,337,574 
54,026,818 
69,129,937 
1854... 
...73,549,705 
'75,354,630 
45,604,666 
1855... 
...65,003,930 
66,209,922 
39,969,731 
1856__ 
....73,918,141 
72,948,792 
30,739,129 
The receipts, during the period referred to, it 
will be seen, have" nearly trebled, while the 
expenditures have only kept pace with our 
growth* The national debt in the same time 
has been reduced nearly fifteen millions of dol¬ 
lars—and could now be discharged in a single 
year. 
The various other matters of which the mes¬ 
sage treats will be found under the head of 
“ Reports of the Departments.” 
Extended Navigation. — The waters of the 
Chesapeake are now united with the Great 
Lakes. The first boat came through the North 
Branch (Pa.) on the 17th, from Pittson, Pa.— 
She was four days on the passsge, and came 
richly freighted with coal. The arrival of the 
first boat was greeted with great rejoicings by 
the Elmira people. This new and important 
channel of internal communication is eighteen 
miles long, was commenced in 1853, and cost 
about $400,000. 
Reports of the Departments. 
POST-MASTER GENERAL’S REPORT. 
It appears from the Post-master General’s Report that 
the number of Post Offices in the Union on the 30th of 
June last was 25,662. Of these, 339 have an Income of 
over $1,000 per annum. The total compensation of Post¬ 
masters was, for the last fiscal year, $2,102,890. The num¬ 
ber of mall-route contractors was 6,372 ; of mail agents, 
394, and of mail messengers 1,108. The mail was carried 
over 20,323 miles by raitroad, over 14,951 miles in steam¬ 
boats, over 50,453 miles in coaches, and over 153,915miles 
by inferior conveyances. The cost of transportation for 
each mile traveled is, by railroad. 10.6 cents ; by steam¬ 
boat, 20 3 cents ; by coach about 7 cents, and by inferior 
conveyances nearly 8 cents per mile. The total cost of 
mail transportation for the current year, including the sal¬ 
aries of agents and messengers, but excluding the ocean 
service, is $6,576,128. 
The total expense of the Department for the last fiscal 
year was $10,405,286. The entire revenue, including the 
annual amount of $700,000 for mail service rendered the 
Government, was $7,620,821, showing a deficit of $2,787,- 
046, which considerably exceeds .the average of the pre- 
cediog three years. 
The expenditures for the current year are estimated at 
$10,658,678. The revenue at $9,991,794. 
The abolition of the franking privilege is advocated, or 
else that the Department be allowed to charge the Govern¬ 
ment the ordinary rates on franked matter ; also the abo¬ 
lition of the fifty per cent, deduction on the postage of 
periodicals paid in advance. With these changes, and the 
relief of the Department from the burden of the ocean 
mail service, the Post-master General thinks that his De¬ 
partment would support itself. _ 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. 
It is ascertained from this Report, that the unemployed 
fund in the public Treasury continues to grow larger with 
every year, notwithstanding the projects adopted to waste 
it. On the first of Julv, 1855, the unexpended balance in 
the Treasury was $18 931,976. On the first of July, 1856, 
$19,901,325. On the first of July, 1857, Mr. Guthrie es¬ 
timates that it will be $22,345,222. And that on the first 
of July, 1858, it will have risen to 45,995,710. Meantime, 
we are spending our money with great liberality. In the 
fiscal year ending on the first of July last, our expendi¬ 
tures were $72 948,792. Our receipts at the Treasury lor 
the same period were $73,918,141. For the fiscal year 
ending on the first of July next it is estimated that we 
shall spend $70,511,413, and receive into the Treasury $72,- 
955 310. For the year ending July 1, 1858, it is estimated 
that we shall spend $71,304,822. Mr. Guthrie, therefore, 
brings forward again his old proposal to reduce the duties 
on imports. 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OP THE INTERIOR 
From the Report of the Secretary of the Inferior we 
learn that the. sales of land for caRh the last fiscal year 
have been 9,227,878 acres for $8,821 414. There have been 
located on military land warrants 8,382,480 acres. There 
have been selected under railroad donations about 15,680,- 
000 acres, aDd confirmed to the State under the Swamp 
Land Grant 6,036,000 acres. The nnbllc domain has thus 
been diminished to the extent of 89,328.000 acres. The 
sales for caRh during the second and third quarters of the 
current calendar year were 2,000,065 acres for $,1,906,882. 
On the 30th of June last there were 13.932 pensioners, 
at a cost of $1,360,694. In this Department many frauds 
are perpetrated, ard the Secretary calls for additional 
power to Rt.rike from the lists the names of those who have 
ceased to be entitled as invalid pensioners. 
The number of patents issued during the year is about 
25,000. 
The abuses of the Judiciary Department are still far 
from cured, and the Secretary calls for new laws — which 
we doubt not are very much needed —to suppress the 
speculating spirit which prevails there. 
There are now twenty Indian treaties before the Senate 
involving the cession of 22,000,000 acres of land for a con¬ 
sideration of about $11 000,000 The Indians within our 
limits are estimated at about 300,0U0 souls. As we be¬ 
come more familiar with the more remote tribes, it is 
found that their numbers have in general been greatly ex¬ 
aggerated. The Indian Department costs about$2,600,000 
annually. _ 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR. 
The authorized strength of the army is 17,894 ; the ac¬ 
tual strength on the 1st of July was 15,662. The number 
of enlistments during the twelve months ending Sep¬ 
tember 30, was 4 440 ; the number of persons offering to 
enlist, hut who were rejected for minority or unfitness, 
was 5,594. The number of casualties during the last fiscal 
year, by deaths, discharges and desertions, was 6,096, of 
which 3,223 were by desertion. 
The Indian difficulties on the western plains have been 
successfully terminated, except with the Cheyennes. The 
Secretary suggests the propriety of removing the fragmen¬ 
tary tribes of Indians in Texas to reservations on the 
United States lands north of the Red river, which would 
greatly reduce the expenditures for keeping them in sub¬ 
jection. by rendering the maintenance of so many military 
posts unnecessary. 
A vigorous campaign has been projected against the 
Florida Indians, General Harney commanding the military 
posts. 
Much space is devoted to the consideration of the pres¬ 
ent system of military posts on the western frontiers, and 
a complete revolution of the whole system iR urged. The 
expenses at present are enormous, without any corres¬ 
ponding benefits to the country or frontier. 
The subject of a Pacific railroad is elaborated, and refer¬ 
ence made to sundry surveys and explorations. The rail¬ 
road from San Jose to San Francisco is estimated to cost 
twenty millions. The Southern road is estimated at forty- 
four thousand dollars per mile. If the final termination of 
the Pacific road is to be San Francisco, the route through 
the Gorgona Pass to San Pedro is preferable to that to San 
Diego, since the former port is one hundred miles nearer 
San Francisco. 
The great number of resignations in the army shows the 
necessity for an increase of pay. 
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. 
The Secretary of the Navy has communicated a very 
voluminous Report. He recommends the creation of an 
additional office in the Navy Department, for the man¬ 
agement of all matters connected with courts martial and 
courts of inquiry, and the appointing of a Judge Advocate 
for the Department. 
The law directing notice to be given to E. K. Collins and 
associates, in reference to compensation for carrying the 
mail between New York and Liverpool, he says, has been 
executed. 
The Secretary also recommends an increase of pay to 
some of the grades of navy officers. 
The following are the estimates for the navy and ma¬ 
rine corps for 1857-8: $8,912,979 05. Expenditures dur¬ 
ing the years 1855-6, $8,437,736 97. 
The Manner and Time. —Please note that 
the best way to obtain subscribers to the .Rural 
is to distribute and exhibit numbers—to show 
the paper ; and that the best time to do this is 
the present. Bear this in mind, good friends — 
remembering that we cheerfully and promptly 
send specimens, show-bills, <fcc., to any and 
every address desired, and also furnish dupli¬ 
cates to those who have lost or worn out copies 
in efforts to extend our circulation. We have 
recently forwarded hundreds of numbers at 
request of agents and subscribers who propose 
to give the Rural a benefit, and trust we shall 
be favored with thousands of similar applica¬ 
tions during the ensuing few weeks. Reader, 
you can essentially aid in augmenting our 
circulation and usefulness, by giving us the 
addresses of such of your friends, near and 
distant, as would be likely to take the Rural 
and introduce it in their respective localities. 
The Extra Premium of a bound volume of 
the Rural for 1856, offered “ to each of the one 
hundred persons sending the first hundred lists 
of twenty or more subscribers for 1857,” is yet 
in order. Not over twenty-five lists of twenty 
or more have yet been received, leaving the 
offer good for full seventy-five bound copies. 
We make this statement in answer to inquiries 
and for benefit of ail interested. 
Negro Excitement. —The negroes in southern 
Kentucky are in a mutinous state, and a general 
insurrection is feared. Vigilance Committees 
have been formed in Lafayette, Hopkinsville 
and other places. 
Congressional. 
Senate. —The Message of the President was 
received and read on the 2d inst. The reading 
was followed by a spirited debate on the mo¬ 
tion to print it and accompanying documents. 
Among the documents accompanying the 
President’s Message, is a letter to Mr. Marcy 
from Baron Sloeckel, the Russian Minister to 
this country, conveying the sentiments of the 
Emperor of Russia on privateering. Mr. Sto- 
eckel says His Majesty entirely concurs in the 
views of the U. S. which the Hon. Mr. Marcy . 
has laid down in his note of July 28th, and 
that he is instructed to notify Hon. Wm. Marcy 
that His Majesty accepts for his part the condi¬ 
tions under which the U. S. consents to the 
abolition of privateering, and that the private 
property of the subjects of the contracting par¬ 
ties shall in times of war be respected by their 
respective naval forces as well as by those of 
all the powers which may join in this declara¬ 
tion. 
Mr. Rusk presented resolutions, by the Leg¬ 
islature of Texas, in favor of a repeal of the 
recent acts of Congress relative to the public 
department of the late Republic of Texas. On 
motion of Mr. Rusk, a resolution was adopted 
requiring the Secretary of the Treasury to in¬ 
form the Senate what amount of the claims 
against the late Republic of Texas, provi¬ 
ded for by the act of Congress of the 28th of 
February, 1855, has not been presented for pay¬ 
ment. 
Mr. Bayard announced in an appropriate 
manner, the death of his late colleague, Mr. 
Clayton. Messrs. Crittenden, Cass and Seward 
severally spoke, alluding to his eminent public 
services, and as one of the remaining few who, 
for the last quarter of a century, have control¬ 
led the legislation of the country. The usual 
resolutions of respect were adopted, and the 
Senate adjourned. 
House. —The motion to admit Mr. Whitfield 
of Kansas, has occupied the House during the 
past week. A final vote was to be taken on 
the subject on Tuesday, the 9th inst. Up to 
the hour of going to press, nothing definite on 
the matter has been received from Washington. 
Washington Items. 
The President has removed G. W. Clark, the 
alleged murderer of Barber in Kansas, from the 
office of Indian Agent in that Territory, and 
appointed Isaac Winston, Whig, of Culpepper 
county, Va., in his place. 
A special messenger arrived from Kansas, 
on the 6th inst., bringing despatches from Gov. 
Geary relative to the release, by Judge Le- 
compte, of the murderer Hays, and also to other 
matters at issue between him and the Judge, 
which is submitted to the consideration of the 
Administration. Affairs in the Territory are 
represented to be still peaceful. 
The correspondent of the Tribune says the 
resignation of Donalson, H. S. Marshall for 
Kansas, has reached Washington, and has been 
accepted. A great effort is making to have him 
re-appointed in spite of Gov. Geary, but the 
President insists that Geary shall be sustained. 
The vacancy has not been filled. 
A. P. Cook arrived at Washington on the 7th 
inst., from Arizona, the new Territory formed 
out of the Gadsden purchase from Mexico. He 
reports the population of Arizona at from 10,000 
to 15,000, and that the Territory will make a 
State about as large as Pennsylvania. 
Important dispatches were received by the 
last steamer from the Pacific region, containing, 
among other things, a request from Gen. Wool 
to be relieved from his present command. 
Disasters on Lake Ontario. 
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The recent gale on Lake Ontario, has proved 
very disastrous to the shipping. The schooner 
Niagara, laden with coal, from Oswego to Bond 
Head, went ashore at Port Hope. Her crew 
were in great peril, when Capt. Wood of the 
schooner Anna, and Robert Campbell, mate of 
another schooner, made an attempt to rescue 
them, and were both drowned. 
The schooner Caledonia is ashore near Toron¬ 
to, and the brig Beaver at Braddock’s Point. 
The steamer Lord Elgin, wrecked on the 6th 
inst., off Bond Point, was bound from Toronto 
to Montreal. She had a cargo of 2,000 bbls. of 
flour, which, together with the vessel, will be a 
total loss. 
The steamer Monarch went ashore on the 
island opposite Toronto on the 4th inst. She 
will prove a total wreck. Deceived by the 
lights on the Monarch, the schooner J. G. Beard 
of Toronto, went ashore by the side oi the 
Monarch. 
The steamer Napoleon ran against the rail¬ 
road wharf in Burlington bay, and sank. The 
schooner Ruby, with wheat and flour, was 
ashore at Burlington bay, Toronto. The Ca¬ 
nadian, with corn for Oakville, and the Anne 
Craig, with corn and wheat from Toronto; were 
ashore near Queen’s Wharf. The schooner Live 
Yankee was ashore near Port Credit, in a bad 
condition, and crew in the rigging. 
Our Business Notices, at the head of this 
page, embrace answers to many questions which 
are daily propounded, by letter and otherwise, 
relative to terms of the Rural, whether we 
send clubs to more than one address or post- 
office, <fcc., die. Agents and other friends will 
please read the notices. 
Storm at the West. —The storm of the 2d 
inst. was very severe at Milwaukee. Many 
buildings were swept away, and the streets 
damaged. In many places six feet of snow 
fell. The railroad is blocked up, and no trains 
arriving. 
fUtos Clippings* 
— They had sleighing in Montreal on last Thanksgiving 
day. 
— A race-horse was lately sold in New Orleans for $12,- 
000. 
— The oldest United States Senator, is CrlttendeD, of 
Kentucky. 
— There are now 1,420 men at work in the Brooklyn 
Navy Yard. 
— The annual expense of a soldier in the United States 
is about $1,343. 
— The canal tolls for 1856, foot up $2,738,316 against 
$2,803,077 last year. 
— A baronet and his son were recently convicted in 
England of stealing. 
— It is said that in New Orleans and Chicago there is 
not a single cellar ! 
— New York has ten sugar refineries, refining per an¬ 
num 193,030 pounds. 
— Recruits for Walker now sail in large numbers, unmo¬ 
lested, from New York. 
— On the flag of Nicaragua a red star has been substi¬ 
tuted for the five volcanoes. 
— Within the past year, Burlington, Iowa, has grown 
over a mile in a straight line. 
— The first church dedication in Nebraska Territory took 
place lately at Nebraska City. 
— The Government of Cuba has in consideration a tele¬ 
graph cable to the United States. 
— The marriages in Boston for this year fall short of last 
year 600, and this, too, is leap year. 
— It is estimated that 2,000 young men from the United 
States have perished under Walker. 
— The Methodist Book Concern in New York publishes 
over 5,000 bound volumes per day. 
— The Governor of Louisiana has designated the 18th 
day of December, for thanksgiving. 
— The Spanish law requiring of the press a heavy de¬ 
posit of surety money has been re-established. 
— In this century, the eclipses of the snn will occur in 
the years 1860, 1861, 1870, 1887, 1896 and 1900. 
— The Library of Congress has received an addition of 
about 4,500 volumes since this time last year. 
— One thousand bushels of hickory nuts were shipped 
from Toledo on the 26th aid 27th of November. 
The steamer Erricson Bailed for Liverpool on the 6th 
inst., with twelve passengers and $60,600 in specie. 
— About eight hundred persons were killed by an earth¬ 
quake in the Islands of Malta, Candia, and Rhodes. 
— Vienna papers announce the death of Dr. Kranter, 
aged sixty-six. He was private secretary to Goethe. 
— Messrs. Hebrard & Co., of New Orleans, have applied 
steam to their machinery for manufacturing clothing. 
— The narrowest part of the Atlantic is more than two 
miles deep. In other parts it is one and a half miles. 
— The Empress Eugenia is a sportswoman. She re¬ 
cently shot nine pheasants in the woods of St. Cloud. 
— Art has suffered a great loss in the death of one of the 
most illustrious of its French devotees, Paul Delaroche, 
— Thirteen banks, with a capital stock of $385 000 have 
been established in Wisconsin since the first of July last. 
— Some vandal has defaced the initials of George 'Wash¬ 
ington, on the west walls of the grotto at Passiac Falls. 
— Lieut. Gunnison says the three members of the Mor¬ 
mon Presidency in Utah, have no less than 82 wives each. 
— Tobacco, pronounced by connoiseurs to be of an ex¬ 
cellent quality, is now g*own in various parts of California. 
— The population of Paris doubles in about sixty years, 
that of London in forty, and that of New York in twenty. 
— Macauly, the Historian, is at present in Venice. On 
his return home he will continue his history of England. 
— A child of two years, in Racine, Wis., struck its 
father who was asleep, on the temple with a stick, causing 
death. 
— Two thousand five hundred new Sabbath Schools 
were organized last year by the Ameiican Sunday School 
Union. 
— There is cause to believe, says the Newport Daily 
News, that the next Governor of Kentucky will be a Re¬ 
publican. 
— The editor of the True Delta, New Orleans, was pre¬ 
sented, not long since, with a Carolina potato measuring 
six feet. 
— Chicago papers announce the return of Capt. Pierce, 
who sailed his schooner last summer direct from that port 
to Liverpool. 
— Bayard Taylor and his sisters, are making a brief 
visit to Italy, whence he goes to the north of Europe to 
pass a year. 
— Bills have been introduced in the South Carolina Le¬ 
gislature, giving the election of Governors and Electors to 
the people. 
— H. E. Porter, of Memphis, Tenn., has given 10,000 
acres of land to Lagrange College, in that State, a Presby¬ 
terian institution. 
— Poha jelly is a new luxury, made from a root that 
grows in the Sandwich Islands, and said to be more deli¬ 
cate than guava. 
— The fact that the sugar plantations of Louisiana and 
Texas have become totally unprofitable, has been pretty 
fully demonstrated. 
— It is stated that at Hastings, Minnesota, flour li sel¬ 
ling at $10 per barrel; pork $30 per barrel ; butter 50 
cents per pound. 
— The Common Council of Chicago are taking steps to 
procure wood and furnish it to indigent families in that 
city at its cost price. 
— The President has appointed Mr. Chase, of La., Special 
Minis'er to New Grenada, and that gentleman starts on 
his mission this week. 
— Scarlet fever is very prevalent in New York and 
Philadelphia. Last week the deaths by it in the former 
were 37 ; in the latter, 45. 
— Mr. Justice Wayne, of the Supreme Court of the 
United States, was attacked severely with paralysis while 
holding his Court at Raleigh. 
— Some seventeen hears have been killed within eight 
miles of New London, Wis., during the last two weeks.— 
Deer, also, are abundant there. 
— Robinson, the English defaulting Secretary of the 
Crystal Palace Company, has been convicted and sentenced 
to twenty years transportation. 
— The coming sugar crop of Louisiana, is estimated at 
30,000 hogsheads. This is the smallest crop, save one, 
which has ever been raised there. 
— The Virginians have been amusing themselves with a 
tournament at Fredericksburg. Frem 3,000 to 5,000 ladies 
and gentlemen were in attendance. 
— The Masonic fraternity are about erecting a temple in 
the city of New York, which shall excel every building of 
the kind in the United States. 
— The loss of life from snake bites in Scinde, India, has 
become so serious, that Government has taken measures 
for the destruction of the reptiles. 
— The extreme velocity of the wind was found by Dr. 
Lind to be 93 miles an hour. The machine used to mea¬ 
sure it with is called an anenometer. 
— Twelve millions of stamped envelopes, and for*yn : m 
millions of stamps were sold by the Post Office DepartmeLt 
during the quarter ending September 30. 
— William Smith, a mail guard, has been arrested at 
Augusta, Ga., charged with robbing the mail. $1,000 of 
supposed stolen money was found in his possession. 
