AGRICULTURAL. Pack. 
Progress of Agriculture,.29 
About Indian Corn,. 23 
Sainfoin as a Forage Plant, 12 Illustrations,].29 
Who Invented the Mowing Machine,.29 
Facts and Figures on Draining,.30 
Cost of making Pork—Arithmetic.30 
Im/ui/'ieK and Answers.— Crib-Iiiting; Dressing Skins 
with the Fur On; Oak Shingles; Marrowfat Beans; Hun¬ 
garian Grass; Sore Mouth in Sheep; Will Keeping Sheep 
Pay?.30 
Rural Spirit of.the Press. — Best Time for Cutting 
Willows; Boots for Stock Feeding; Experience with 
Muck; Lockjaw in Horses; An Item in Neat Farming,.. 30 
Agricultural Societies .—United States; New Hamp¬ 
shire; Monroe Co.; Niagara Co.; Erie Co.; Delaware Co.; 
Oswego Co.; Albany Co.; Crawford Co., Pa.; Union Ag. 
and Mcch. Town; Brookfield Town,.30 
Agricultural Miscellany .—The Agricultural Board; 
Another—bug. Probably; New Farm and Family Mill; 
Good Sheep and Good Prices,. 30 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The Peach Crop Destroyed. 31 
Pear Culture. 31 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society.31 
Fruit Growers' Society of Western New York,.31 
Picking, Saving and Marketing the Isabella Grape.31 
Manuring Newly Planted Trees,.31 
Boot Grafting. 31 
The Pear Orchard,. 31 
Dwarf Pears. 31 
Missouri Fruit Growers’ Convention.31 
Hubbard Squash,. 31 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Chicken Pie; Busk; Baked Beets; Loaf Cake; Bread 
from Grown Wheat; Clove Cake : Cookies; Sandwiches 
for Evening Parties; Salve for Frost Bites; Cure for 
Chapped Hands,.31 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
Remembrance, [Poetical.] Plain Talks to American Wo¬ 
men—No. II; Ill-Tempered Women; Household Cares; 
Womens' Influence; Children; Cheerfulness.32 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
A Farmer’sSong, LPoetical.] The Origin of Genius; “Stop 
my Rural!’’ Success; Hope; Illusion,.32 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Death. [Poetical.] Memory's Treasures; Itisof theLord's 
Mercies; Triumph over Evil; Always Praying. 32 
THE TRAVELER. 
Aeronautics in Paris.—Graphic Account of a Balloon As¬ 
cension . 33 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Thermometrical Observations for 1838; Artesian Wells; 
The Human Thermometer,. 33 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
Fence Posts: Manners; Natural History; The Carolina 
Parrot, [Ill.] The Thrasher, or Brown Thrush, [Ill.].... 33 
STOBY TELLER. 
Alice and Adelaide; or the True and the False,.36 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
M., 19°; at noon, 17°; at 2 P. M., 12°; belotv. His 
thermometer has not been so low before within the 
last twenty years.” 
At Camden, Oneida county, the thermometer 
went down to forty-two. At Leonardsville, Madi¬ 
son county, it went down to 32°, and at Edmonston, 
Otsego county, to 34. 
The telegraph for that date furnished the follow¬ 
ing figures:—“ Oswego, foot of snow; thermometer 
20° below zero, reported 29° below in the suburbs. 
Ogdensburg, 30° below: Watertown, 30° below; 
Fulton, 20° below; Phoenix, 32° below ; Hudson, 
18° below; Troy, 17° below; Buffalo, 20° below ; 
Boston, 5° below ; Portland, Me., 17° below, snow¬ 
ing and blowing hard; Bangor, 26° below; Mont¬ 
pelier, 21° below ; Burlington, 12° below; Rouse’s 
Point, N. Y., 39° below; St. Johnsbury, Vt., 30°. 
The London (C. W.) Free Press says:—“The 
weather, which as late as Thursday was remark¬ 
ably mild and genial, the like not having been 
known for sixteen years previous, at the same 
period of the year, suddenly changed to severe 
frost. And so intense did it become that 5 o’clock 
3 'esterday morning the thermometer marked 80 
below zero. In almost every house the food and 
fluids were entirely trozen, and much sufferin 
must have been felt among the poor. During the 
day the cold continued very severe, the thermome 
ter not rising above 5° below zero in exposed situa¬ 
tions, the night closing in with renewed seventy.” 
The records of the weather at Montreal show that 
the four days from January 9th to 12th, together, 
form the coldest weather for twenty-nine years. 
On the 11th, the mercury marked 33 degrees below 
zero. At St. Martin’s, near Montreal, on the 10th, 
the spirit thermometer marked 43.6° below zero. 
—R. L. Howard. 
Sanford’s Reciprocating Farm Mill 
Tin Sap Buckets—D. H. Burtis. 
Roe’s Western Reserve Cheese & Vat Heater—II. A. Roe 
A Farm lor bale—T. Judson. 
Diana and Rebecca Vines—C. P. Bissell & Salter. 
Fair Play for Women. 
Hungarian Grass Seed—E. D. Ilallock. 
Wanted—A. B. 
Hubbard Squash—A. Loveland. 
Apple Seeds—A. Frost & Co. 
Two Devon Bulls for Sale—C. Mills. 
Congressional Proceedings. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY 22, 1859. 
Every Friend of the Rural is requested to 
read the New Notices in first column of next page 
Our proof reader avers that the notices comprise 
much timely and interesting information, worthy 
of attentive consideration and suggestive of early 
and efficient action on the part of Ruralists. 
The Recent Cold Terra. 
On the night of Friday, the 7th inst., a remark 
able and unlooked for change in the weather oc 
curred over a large portion of the Eastern and 
Middle States and Canada. On the morning of that 
day rain was falling throughout the greater portion 
of this State, and the thermometer variously ranged 
from 37° to 45°—forty-eight hours thereafter the 
record indicated from 8° to 42° below zero. We 
give below the condensed statements of the condi¬ 
tion of the atmosphere, and its peculiar effects, as 
reported by our exchanges. 
The Brooklyn sage, E. Meriam, writes the New 
York papers, under date Monday, 10th inst.:—“ The 
present cold term commenced here in the night of 
Friday—Saturday last, about midnight. It was 
immediately preceded by rain, and commenced with 
snow ; at 11 A. M., and 12 M. to-day the tempera¬ 
ture, by thermometers exposed to the north wind, 
is 9 below zero —the lowest temperature recorded 
here during a period of seventy years. The most 
intense cold thus far in the term was at mid-day.” 
In commenting upon the foregoing, the N. Y. 
Times remarks “ People suddenly began to dis¬ 
cover that their stoves, steam-pipes and registers 
did not give any heat, and business men, as they 
hurried down, didn’t know what to make of the 
icicles which hung from their moustaches like the 
pendants from a glass chandelier. There must 
have been terrible suffering among the poor who 
were not prepared with suitable defences against 
the unlooked for rigors of the season; and we fear 
that there will be reports of great distress on board 
of ships on the coast. Several cases of suffering 
have already been reported, and one of an omnibus 
driver having been actually frozen to death. The 
most remarkable effects of the cold were seen on 
the Bay and Rivers, where a thick cloud of steam 
was seen all day, looking as though a thousand 
boilers were letting their steam escape. The tem¬ 
perature of the air was so much lower than that of 
the water, that the vapor ascended from the sur¬ 
face as though the Gulf Stream, with its tepid bil¬ 
lows, had suddenly made a divergence through 
Long Island Sound into our harbor.” 
The Utica Herald says that in that city on Mon¬ 
day morning, the thermometer ranged at 30° below 
zero, with a bright sun shining. It says:—“We 
have before us observations taken by Mr. Stalham 
Williams for 37 years past, where the thermometer 
has indicated a degree of cold below zero, and in 
no instance has the mercury fallen so low as it 
did yesterday morning. On the 16th of January, 
1840, the mercury stood at 26° below zero. During 
the whole period of thirty-seven years there were 
but fifty-five days where the thermometer marked 
below zero. Dr. Hastings states the temperature 
at 5 A. M., at 27° below zero; at 6 A.M.,28°; at7A. 
Senate. — The amendment declaratory of the 
right of expatriation, and that asserting that the 
capture of Walker was within the letter and spirit 
of instructions of the Secretary of the Navy, but 
without authority of law, were rejected, as was 
also the amendment condemnatory of Commodore 
Paulding. The President, in reply to Mr. Sew¬ 
ard’s resolution, informed the Senate that the 
Wanderer had landed a cargo of Africans; also, 
that every effort is being made to bring the guilty 
parties to justice, but that it is not expedient now 
to make the correspondence public. 
The routes for the Pacific Railroad have been a 
“ bone of contention ” during the week. The only 
move in the matter, was the adoption of a resolu¬ 
tion offered by Mr. Doolittle, taking from the 
President the power of selecting the line over 
which the iron horse is to travel. This amendment 
of Mr. D., provides that any contract made by the 
President, shall be submitted by him to Congress, 
and take effect only by joint resolution. 
House.— Mr. Barksdale, of Mississippi, offered 
the following, which was adopted ; 
Whereas, It has been announced in foreign jour¬ 
nals that the Courts of France and England have 
given notice to our Government that the cession of 
Cuba to the United States will not be tolerated, 
even with the consent of Spain ; therefore, 
Resolved, That the President be and hereby is 
requested, if compatible with the public interest, 
to communicate to this House the correspondence 
between France and England and our own country, 
relative to the cession of Cuba to the United 
States. 
The House took up the resolution reported at the 
last session from the Committee on Foreign Af¬ 
fairs, disapproving the act of Com. Paulding in the 
seizure of Walker and his followers, but inasmuch 
as the view of the President is in accordance with 
this position, the Committee recommend no action. 
Several amendments thereto pending — one pre¬ 
senting the thanks of Congress to Paulding and 
his officers; a second that Paulding’s act, being 
without authority of law, meets with the condem¬ 
nation of the House; and a third asserting the 
right of citizens to expatriate themselves to help 
their neighbors struggling for freedom—a right of 
which they were constitutionally deprived were 
presented. 
Mr. Smith, of Va., moved to lay the whole sub¬ 
ject on the table. Negatived, 82 against 105. 
A substitute for the report of the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs, tendering thanks to Com. Pauld¬ 
ing and his officers, was adopted by 99 against 95. 
The Indian appropriation bill was passed, and 
the House adjourned. 
Massachusetts.— The House re-elected Henry 
Wilson United States Senator on the 12th inst., 
giving him 199 against 25 for Caled Cushing, and 
11 for others. 
Connecticut.— The Republican State Convention 
met in New Haven on the 13th inst. Augustus 
Braxdagee, of New London, was elected President. 
Gov. Buckingham and his associates on the State 
ticket were renominated. The first resolution de¬ 
clares the Republican party of that State reaffirms 
the principles which they have heretofore main¬ 
tained upon matters of State and National policy. 
Delaware.— The Hon. Willard Saultsburt, of 
Sussex, has been elected United States Senator for 
the State of Delaware, by the Legislature at Dover. 
Wisconsin.— Gov. Randall’s Message was de¬ 
livered on the 13th inst. The financial affairs of 
the State arc in a favorable condition, and the 
Governor thinks that p.ot more than $200,000 will 
be required for the present year. Liberal appro 
priations for completing the Lunatic Asylum and 
House of Refuge arc recommended. The Gover¬ 
nor favors the Mortgage Stay law, which he tbink 8 
has been greatly misrepresented at home and 
abroad. He recommends legislation against usury; 
is opposed to State assumption, Ac., &c., Ac. 
Kentucky.— The Kentucky Dem. State Con¬ 
vention adopted a platform endorsing the Cincin¬ 
nati platform and the Di ed Scott Decision, encour¬ 
aging the acquisition of Cuba, denouncing sectional 
agitation in the North and Know Nothingism, en¬ 
dorsing the Administration, and proposing that 
the determination of their differences upon minor 
and unessential points, such as Kansas and Lecomp- 
tonism, shall not be permitted to disturb the har¬ 
mony of the Democracy of Kentucky. Beriah 
Magoffin received the nomination for Governor, 
and Linn Boyd for Lieut. Governor. 
Maine.—T he Hon. Wm. Pitt Fessenden has been 
elected United States Senator from Maine, for the 
term of six years from the 4th of March next. 
Kcius jOnragrqjIjs. 
It is said that the farmers of Quincy, Michigan, 
were plowing on Tuesday last, the weather being 
like April. There had been only one considerable 
fall of snow there this winter. 
It is now alleged that the recall of Lord Napier 
is due to French influence. Louis Napoleon, it is 
said, is fearful of an Anglo-American alliance, 
which Lord Napier was of all men most fitted to 
bring about. To prevent this, his removal was 
accomplished. 
A letter from Madrid says:—“We have received 
news here of a terrible catastrophe. The rich lead 
mines of Linares, belonging to the State, have 
fallen in, and, it is said, buried in their ruins mon 
£!)C JCcius <£on&cu0ci\ 
Revolution in Mexico — Juarez to be Presi¬ 
dent.— Vera Cruz dates to Dec. 30th arrived at 
New Orleans on the 10th inst. The advices fur¬ 
nish further details of Mexican affairs. The over¬ 
throw of Zuloaga by Gen. Robles occurred on the 
23d. Gen. Echeagaray, of Zuloaga forces, had 
previously pronounced in favor of Robles, and the 
Constitutionalists at Jalapa and Cordota had also 
joined him. Zuloaga declared the capital to be in 
a state of seige, and tried at first to compromise 
with Echeagaray. He failed, however, but sub¬ 
sequently defeated, captured, and sentenced him 
to death at Puebla. A revolt, which occurred in 
Mexico, saved Echeagaray’s life, and Robles sub¬ 
sequently released all political prisoners. It is 
supposed Juarez would now be placed at the head 
of the government. There was great rejoicing at 
Vera Cruz. Much dissatisfaction has been ex¬ 
pressed by all parties, including the Liberals, at 
the tone *C.Mr.jSSuohjsnan’s Message, with regard 
to Mexic i f 
’ - 
The Acquisition of Cuba—Slidell’s Bill.—O n 
Monday last, Mr. Slidell, of Louisiana, introduced 
a bill in the Senate for the purpose of facilitating 
the acquisitioij of Cuba by legislation. The bill says: 
Whereas, Cuba geographically possesses a com¬ 
manding influence over the large and annually in¬ 
creasing trade, foreign and coastwise, of the Missis¬ 
sippi Valley, and whereas the Island in its present 
colonial condition must continue a source of injury 
and annoyance, endangering the friendly relations 
between Spain and the United States,'by the ag¬ 
gressions of its local authorities upon American 
Commerce and citizens, for which tardy redress 
can only be had by a circuitous demand on Spain, 
And whereas, In the opinion of Congress and in 
accordance with the views of the President, as the 
last means of settling existing, and removing 
future difficulties, it is expedient that negotiations 
for the purchase of the Island should be renewed, 
Therefore he it enacted, &c., That $30,000,000 be 
placed in the President’s hands for expenditures, 
either in cash in the Treasury or to be borrowed 
on five per cent, bonds of $1,000 each, redeemable 
in from twelve to twenty years. 
than seventy miners, of whom upward of thirty 
have been taken out dead. The falling in of the 
earth is attributed to the excessive rain for some 
days past.” 
They are making efforts at Knoxville, Tenn., to 
establish an asylum for inebriates, similar to the 
one (but on a smaller scale) now being erected at 
Binghamton in this Stale. 
A teacher at Newport, R. I., has been fined $20 
and costs, for inflicting excessive corporeal punish 
ment on one of his pupils. A part of the evidence 
in the case was a pair of pantaloons, which the boy 
had on when punished. The pants—a new pair 
made of stout woolen cloth and lined—were cut 
through in fourteen different places, as cleanly as 
if done with a sharp knife. The punishment was 
inflicted with a cowhide. 
The Washington correspondent of the Philadel¬ 
phia Press says 12,495 dead letters, containing 
$59,913, were received at the dead letter office in 
Washington during the past year. 
On the borders of Green Bay, Wis., there are 
thirty-six saw-mills, with an aggregate capacity 
for running 400,000,000 feet of lumber annually. 
And this does not take into account the shingles 
and lath manufactured. 
Tiie ladies of Washington, Towa, forewarned by 
the unpleasant experiences of Christmas of th 
reckless frolicking of their husbands and sons o; 
New Year’s, prepared for that holiday on the previ¬ 
ous Tuesday, by destroying all the liquors for sale 
in that town. 
The Court of Appeals recently gave a decision of 
some importance in relation to the powers of mar 
ried women. It was held that in cases where a wife 
signed a note merely as security for her husband, 
and not for the benefit of herself, or of her own 
separate estate, no recovery could be had. 
Gen. Quitman attributed the cause of his decline, 
up to the last moment of his life, to poison, admin¬ 
istered to him in the shape of arsenic, while a resi¬ 
dent of the National Hotel, Washington. He used 
to assert that it was mixed with the sugar, and 
substantiated ibis by the fact that during the entire 
term of the malady, which afterward assumed the 
name of the Hotel, no person was taken ill who re- 
fi u-itiud from iii« use of that article. 
From the Pacific Side. 
Affairs at Washington. 
The President denies that any communication 
relating to our foreign policy, had been received 
either from England or France, but has thus far 
failed to respond in writing. The Foreign Com¬ 
mittee insist on a written answer. 
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs have 
agreed to report a bill similar to that of Senator 
Slidell, who proposes to place in the hands of the 
President $30,000,000 to negotiate for the purchase 
of Cuba. There will be a minority report. 
The Treasurer’s statement shows an amount 
subject to draft of $3,115,000. The receipts of the 
week are $726,000 — an increase over last week of 
nearly $82,000. The drafts issued amount to 
$588,000, and drafts paid $644,000. Net balance 
in the Treasury $1,017,000. 
TnERE are intimations of an intention to re-com¬ 
mit the Pacific Railroad Bill, with all proposed 
substitutes and amendments, to the Select Com¬ 
mittee, thereby disposing of the matter till the 
next Congress. 
The Post-Master General, in reply to the resolu¬ 
tion presented a few days since by Senator Hunt¬ 
er, has expressed the opinion that the only way to 
render the Post-Office self-sustaining is to return 
to the basis of the law of 1845, establishing a uni¬ 
form postage of five cents and abolish the franking 
privilege. 
The French Spoliation Bill.— The Senate, on 
Monday week, passed the bill to satisfy the famous 
French Spoliation claims. It provides $5,000,000 
to pay claims of our citizens for seizures by the 
French prior to the Convention with France in 
1801, and not included in the Convention of 1803. 
The subject has been before Congress some fifty 
years, and two bills —passed in 1846 and 1854 — 
received Presidential vetoes. The claims arise out 
of seizures made by French vessels because the 
United States declared neutrality in the war be¬ 
tween France and England, and did not carry out 
the treaty of alliance made after the revolution. 
Our government authorized certain retaliatory acts, 
and the claims have not been recognized, as a state 
of war was assumed to exist with France, and the 
losses were, therefore, only the natural results of 
such a state. 
The Rural as a Present. —Our offer to furnish 
the Rural at the lowest club rate (only $1,25 per 
year) when sent as a present to distant friends or 
relatives, is receiving numerous responses, and no 
doubt making many glad hearts in various parts 
of the Union and the Old World. Many of our 
readers order from three to ten copies for distribu¬ 
tion among connexions and friends widely separa¬ 
ted. Within a few days one man has ordered the 
Rural sent to four sons in as many different 
States, another to six sons and daughters in various 
localities, and another to ten of his kindred and 
friends, residing in various sections of the U. S., 
Canada, Ac. Our books are still open to those 
who wish to send a valuable present to distant 
friends — one which will remind them of the giver 
fifty-two times in the course of the year. 
During the past week we have had two Overland 
Mails, and, in addition, the steamer Moses Taylor 
arrived at New York. The latter brought nearly 
$1,400,000 in treasure. We glean the following 
items from our exchanges. 
California.— Markets of San Francisco depress¬ 
ed and quiet, under heavy stocks. Weather favor¬ 
able for mining operations, but the receipts continue 
light. The gold exports from SanJFrancisco for 
the current year up to the 20th of December, were 
nearly $48,000,000. Snow had fallen to the deptl: 
of three feet in some places. 
British Columbia.— Dates from British Columbia 
are to December 11th. Mining on Frazer river was 
improving, but the weather was inclement, and 
provisions scarce and dear. Gov. Douglas had 
authorized a levy of a certain duty on goods im¬ 
ported into British Columbia. Merchandise is 
generally charged ten per cent., but Victoria is de¬ 
clared a free port, and no duties are charged on 
goods entered for Vancouver’s Island. 
The Plains. —The discovery of a large spring in 
the middle of the Colorado desert, yielding an 
abundant supply of water, is reported. Both the 
Apache and Camanche Indians were committing 
depredations on the mail stations, in consequence 
of which the Government animals were obliged to 
be used to carry the mails some distance. The 
Mexicans are also suspected of stealing mules. 
John E. Guthrie, who left Salt Lake November 
27th, gives a painful account of the suffering of 
men and animals on the Plains, in consequence of 
cold weather. Men were frozen to death at nearly 
every station on the route. Ten of Maj. Russell’s 
men had been frozen at one time. The snow was 
very deep, and the weather colder than for thirty 
years, the mercury sinking to 27° below zero. 
French Emigration.— France, with a population 
of over thirty-five millions, has furnished but a 
comparatively small contingent to the European 
emigration. During the last ten years, two million 
seven hundred and fifty thousand persons emigrat¬ 
ed from Great Britain and Ireland, and from Ger¬ 
many one million two hundred thousand, while 
France, in the same period, sent forth only two 
hundred thousand. 
Twenty-eight Men Starved to Death. — The 
immediate destruction of life and property was not 
the only result of the fearful explosion of the mag¬ 
azine at Havana, on the 29th of September. On 
the 23d ult., the bodies of twenty-eight men were 
dug from under the ruins, who had probably died 
from starvation, although there were soldiers 
enough in and around the city to have turned over 
every stone within a day after the occurrence of the 
accident. 
Book-Making. — Books have multiplied to such 
an extent in our country that it now takes 750 
paper mills, with 2,000 engines in constant opera¬ 
tion to supply the printers, who work day and 
night, endeavoring to keep their engagements with 
publishers. These tireless mills produced 270,000,- 
000 pounds of paper the last year, which immense 
supply has sold for about $27,000,000. A pound 
and a quarter of rags are required for a pound of 
paper, and 340,000,000 pounds were therefore con¬ 
sumed in this way last year. The cost of manu¬ 
facturing a twelve month’s supply of paper for the 
United States, aside from labor and rags, is com¬ 
puted at about $4,000,000. 
Marine Losses For December. — According to 
the New I ork Courier and Enquirer, the aggregate 
number of vessels lost during December is fifty- 
five, and the losses foot up $852,274. For the year 
past the total losses amount to $8,849,665, and com¬ 
pared with the year 1857, indicate a falling off of 
$8,765,435. This is the value of the property 
totally lost, irrespective of damage to vessels not 
amounting to a total loss, and of partial losses of 
cargo. The above were almost entirely American 
losses, some few foreign being included, when 
bound to and from our ports, or known to be 
insured in this country. 
— The small pox is troubling the Uticans. 
The typhoid fever has driven Queen Victoria and 
her followers from Windsor to Osborne. 
— Master M. T. Tucker, aged 14, of Todd Co., Ky., 
measures 6 feet 6 inches in height. 
— The Indiana Legislature, as we see it noted, has 
repealed the divorce law. 
— The reported census of Oregon is 40,000, with 9,900 
votes. 
— Twelve Missionaries sailed from Boston last week 
week in tiie ship Home for India. 
— Over 842,000 pupils attend the Public Schools of 
this State. 
— Rev. Theodore Parker, of Boston, is going to a 
warmer climate. 
— They are agitating the question of street railroads 
in London, Eng. 
— The population of Buffalo decreased nearly two 
thousand last year. 
— Anthracite coal from Pennslyvania is sold in San 
Francisco at $14 50 per tun. 
— The hill abolishing all lotteries in Georgia, after 
June, 1859, has become a law. 
— There were 2,4S0 marriages in Cincinnati in 1858; 
246 less than the previous year. 
— It is estimated that there is $G0'\00O paid annually 
in the city of N. Y., for kindling wood. 
— The total amount expended in Illinois the past two 
years, for school purposes, is $4,995,303. 
— lion. AVilliam Preston, the new Minister to Spain, 
sailed for Europe Wednesday, in the Asia. 
— A few days since the people of Anderson, Ind., 
cleaned out 14 liquor shops and low groceries. 
— A new suspension bridge at Grand Falls, N. B.,fell 
on the 18th ult., causing the death of two persons. 
— It is reported that the French Government has re¬ 
solved upon sending a Consul Geueral to Canada. 
— No less than three murders were reported at the 
Coroner's office in New York on New Year's day. 
— A chestnut tree on the farm of Abraham Dolby, in 
Chester Co., Pa., measures 29 feet in circumference. 
— There was a serious fire in Chicago on the 9th inst. 
Sixteen families burned out and seven storekeepers. 
— A Frencii military force has entered Switzerland, 
hut for what purpose no one appears to have any idea. 
— At present there are two hundred and ninety prison¬ 
ers confined in the Slate prison of Kentucky, at Frank¬ 
fort. 
San Francisco is now in telegraphic communica¬ 
tion with Utah. She soon will he with Great Salt Lake 
City. 
— The French citizens of Chicago intend celebrating 
the anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of 
1848. 
The subject of a city charter for the village of Sara¬ 
toga Springs is agitated in that beautiful and populous 
town. 
The first water was received in the Capitol at Wash¬ 
ington, from the new aqueduct, on Monday the 3d of 
January. 
— Coal exists in 81 of the counties of Illinois, and 
over a hundred mines arc now worked in 31 different 
counties. 
Tiio Washington States admits that the acquisition 
of Cuba by purchase or any other means is entirely 
hopeless. 
It appears, after all, that Lord Lyons is to be the 
British Minister at Washington, and not Lord Aber¬ 
crombie. 
Tiie first omnibus was started in Honolulu, Hawaiian 
Island, last October. It runs “up the valley” three 
times a day. 
— Tiierc are in the city of N. Y., 12,000 places where 
liquor is sold for a beverage, and only 69 of the places 
have licenses. 
Cancemi, the Italian who was tried four times for 
the murder of one man in New York, has been sent to 
prison for life. 
— The first house built in Ohio was built in 1761 by 
Charles F. Post, a Moravian Missionary, in what is now 
Tuscarawas Co. 
— The personal property of Dr. Burdell, amounting 
to thousands of dollars, has all been used lip in the 
feeing of lawyers. 
— Louis Napoleon’s alleged design to place a Murat 
on the throne of the Two Sicilies is again published by 
the London papers. 
— The dentists of Indiana are about to form a State as¬ 
sociation. Their seal will be a molar, with the motto, 
we pull together.” 
— The latest use made of the telegraph was to carry 
on a courtship. A match was thus made a few days ago, 
in less than five minutes. 
— The amount of interest on public debts payable in. 
New York on the 1st of January, and actually provided 
for, was over $8,900,000. 
— The tobacco crop of Ohio for the past year is esti¬ 
mated to be worth $3,000,000. 
— According to the Japan correspondent of the Jour¬ 
nal of Commerce, the cholera swept off l,2u0 inhabitants 
of Nanjaski, in four weeks. 
— A meeting of ladies lias been held in New York, 
and the first step taken towards the formation of a Fe¬ 
male Christian Association. 
— A bill has been introduced in the Assembly of this 
State repealing the law allowing parties in suits to he 
witnesses in their own behalf. 
— Among the Americans registered in Paris, on the 
23d ult., were Bishop Potter, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. 
Bigelow, of the Evening Post. 
— De Santy lias not left Newfoundland, as lias been 
stated. He is still at Cyrus Station waiting patiently for 
the speechless Cable to learn to talk. 
— At St. Helena, S. C., early last week, tho orange 
trees were budded, and corn, sprung from waste seed, 
was from five to six inches in height. 
— James Brown, Jr., second auditor of the State of 
Virginia, died at Richmond, on the 8 d inst., from a re¬ 
cent injury of his foot by a railroad car. 
— The London papers report that the month of No¬ 
vember was seven degrees colder in England than the 
average of the same pe iod for 43 years. 
— Upwards of 17,000 emigrants passed Westward, 
over the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, last year. The 
number was nearly equal to that of 1857. 
— The Albany Atlas asks how about the muskrats that 
predicted a mild winter by building their houses high, 
now that the thermometer is 22 below zero. 
— There has been manufactured in Rockland, Me., 
the past year 704,000 casks of lime, which is an increase 
of 14,000 casks over the manufacture of lust year. 
— Sebastopol, reduced from a population of 40,000 to 
6,000, is still a scene of ruin and desolation. Most of the 
people live in huts left by the British and French. 
— Delegates from tlu-ee unorganized territories are 
now in Washington, viz., Dacotah, Arizona, and Sierra 
Nevada. A fourth is shortly expected from Colons. 
