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Contents of the Rural lor February 12, 1859. 
AGRICBLTUR A U 
Hints for February. 
Fodder, How to Save it, Price, &c . 
Portrait of an Ayrshire Pull, [Illustrated,]... 
Pack. 
.... 63 
.... 53 
.... 53 
Improved Breeds of Cattle,—Ayrshires, [Illustrated,]_53 
Underdraining Hard-Pan,. 51 
"Profitable Farming,". 54 
Agricultural Matters in Iowa. 54 
Sheep for Mutton,. 51 
Potato Experiment—Light Wanted,. 54 
Churning in Winter. 51 
Inquiries and Ansicers. —Castor Oil Bean; Black- 
Eyed Pea; Carrots Going to Seed,. 64 
Rural Spiit of Ike Press .—Cabbages for Cattle; Pre¬ 
serving Butter; Vermont Premium Corn; Dairies and 
Bone Manure; Old Sheep for Mutton. 54 
• I /ricu/tiiral Miscellany. — Advice Gratis; *• Native 
Americanism" among the Cattle Breeders; Agricultural 
Books, &c.: Honolulu Squash; The Potato Disease; Hacks 
and Mangers; Seneca Co. Ag. Society; Progress!.54 
Concessional Proceedings. 
horticultural. 
The New Grapes. 55 
lie-Qrafting Virgalieu Pear Trees,.So 
Orcharding at the West. 55 
Ked Canada Apple, [Illustrated,]...* 55 
Culture of the Grape.’.. 55 
The Allen Raspberry....I"!".’.’!!! 55 
The Winter and its Effects,.55 
Manure for Fruit Trees. 
Naples Town Horticultural Society,. 
Flower Seeds, Again..’. 
Genesee Valley Horticultural Society,.......... 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
About Crullers; Crackere; Farmers' Pie; Cream Ginger¬ 
bread; Buckwheat Stir Cake; How to Preserve your 
lurs: Chicken Pie; A Handy Cover for the Flour 
Barrel; A Simple Remedy for Bronchitis; Sponge Gin¬ 
ger Cake,. 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
Bridal Wishes. [Poetical.] A Word to the Girls; Tho 
Memory of a Mother; "Education and Influence of 
Woman;” Cheerfulness; Look Up,. 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The World is Too Much with Us, [Poetical. 1 Travel: Stick 
To It; Men of Literary Genius; Character; Books, ... 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Faith Etchings, [Poetical.] Rambling Thoughts; Neglect¬ 
ing Salvation. 56 
EDUCATIONAL. 
The Dominical Letter; Schools for Mechanics; Educa¬ 
tional Mattel's in Washington. 57 
USEFUL OLIO. 
The Steam Fire Engine, [Illustrated.] “The Salt, If you 
Please;" The Science of Going to Bed. 
YOUNG KURA LIST. 
Questions About the Milky Way; Information Wanted,.. C 7 
STORY TELLER. 
Peter the Hermit at Jerusalem, [Poetical.] John East¬ 
man's Luck; A Man of Pleasure,. 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
The Honey Blade Hungarian Grass—Felix II. Benton 
Open Air Grape Culture—I). M. Dewey. 
Clark s School Visitor—Alex. Clark. 
Sutton. 
Co. 
Farm to Let for a Term of Years—John Woodruff. 
Farm Mills—Lyman & Pease. 
Seeds! Seeds! Seeds!—H. D. Emery Ik Co. 
1,0 )0 Things Worth Knowing—M. M. Sanborn. 
A First-rate Farm to Rent—C. II. Witmer. 
Hubbard Squash—M. M. Elston. 
100,000 Apple Stocks for Sale—H. Bignall 
Hubbard Squash—E. A. Bixby. 
Apple Roots and Grafts for Sale—S. Weaver. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY 12, 1859. 
Our New Dress. —As the dress donned by the 
Rural on the 1st ult., proves really beautiful and 
serviceable—and, moreover, is greatly admired by 
both Press and People, (numerous exchanges and 
correspondents having used very strong language 
in its praise) —it is but just that we should ac¬ 
knowledge to whom we areindebied for an outfit so 
recherche and becoming. The Type was manufac¬ 
tured by Chas. T. White & Co., of New York, of 
their improved hard metal, expressly for the Rural. 
It needs no praise. To render it more durable, we 
had it copper-faced by the Newton Copper Co. of 
New York. The rules, dashes, <tc., were furnished 
by N. Lyman, of Buffalo, than whom, a3 we have 
said before, there is no more reliable or honorable 
type founder and printer’s furnisher in the country. 
Our main title heading was “got up” and engraved 
by Mr. Mix, of the firm of Leadley, Miller & 
Mix, of this city. Most of the vignette headings 
of departments were designed and engraved by Mr. 
B. C. Van Duzee, of Buflalo. The corner pieces, 
head for Horticultural department, Ac., were de¬ 
signed and engraved by Mr. Geo. Frauenberger, 
of this city. Though “good wine needs no bush,” 
it is proper that we thus publicly acknowledge the 
aid rendered in making the Rural one of the most 
unique and beautiful journals in the Union. 
Senate.— Mr. Wade, of Ohio, moved to postpone 
prior order, and take up the House bill donating 
lands to Agricultural Colleges. lie was sure the 
appropriations would pass as they always do, and 
Cuba, backed up as it is by manifest destiny, and 
by Senator Slidell, of La., stands a good chance of 
making its way; so the Senate may afford to take 
up and act on this hill, the more so that the agri¬ 
cultural, of all interests, is the least fostered by 
this Government. The hill was taken up—yeas 80, 
nays 25—and discussed. Messrs. Gwiu and Stew¬ 
art offered amendments to the text, after which, 
Mr. Pugh moved to recommit the bill to the Com¬ 
mittee on Public Lands. Carried, 26 to 24. The 
latter vote, on motion of Mr. Gwin, was reconsid¬ 
ered, and the further discussion on the bill post¬ 
poned until the 5th ult., since which date we hare 
not heard from the Capitol. 
Mr. Pugh moved for any correspondence with 
Prussia relative to compulsory enlistment of per¬ 
sons claiming American protection, in the Prussian 
army. Adopted. 
Mr. Bayard, from the Committee of Judiciary, in 
troduccd a resolution approving of Minister Reid’s 
decree of February, 1858, regulating the Consulates 
in China, and declaring that no legislation is requir¬ 
ed to legalize it. Adopted. 
The House bill for the punishment of counter¬ 
feiters of military land warrants was read and 
passed. 
The Indian Appropriation bill was taken np and 
passed. Quite a number of private hills have been 
acted upon by the Senate. 
House. —Mr. Wilson, from the Committee on 
Elections, made a report in the Nebraska contested 
election case, declaring Bird B. Chapman entitled 
to the seat, instead of Mr. Ferguson, the sitting 
member. 
On motion of Mr. Regan, of Texas, it was resolv¬ 
ed that the Committee on the Judiciary, be in¬ 
structed to inquire into the expediency of reporting 
a bill to define and provide for the punishment of 
polygamy in the territories of the United States, 
and restrain the people and authorities therein 
from interference with the federal judiciary. 
The House passed, with amendments, the Senate 
bill relating to the N. Y. Indian reservation in 
Kansas. It set apart 230 acres for each individual 
Indian who removed from New York to the reser¬ 
vation assigned them under the treaty of 1838. The 
Indians are to have a year within which to make 
selections, and pre-emptions are to be received 
from the date of settlement. The money derived 
from the sale of lands other than those selected by 
the Indians, is to be paid to the treasury for their 
benefit. The Senate bill, with an amendment 
The Kaytisn Revolution. 
A letter received at Boston on the30th ult., from 
Jeremic, Hayti, dated the 12th ult., says the Em¬ 
peror has been compelled to return to Port an 
Prince with the rest of his troops, and it is thought 
that he will soon abdicate. The soldiers of Jere- 
mie have marched up to Port au Prince. The 
people of Jeremie and the adjoining country are 
aroused, hut will remain there. The Empress has 
advised the Emperor in abdicate. 
Additional advices from Ilayti were received on 
the 1st inst., from the brig Monticello from Port au 
Prince. But few collisons had taken place thus 
far between the Imperial troops and the Insurgents. 
Soulouque had advanced as far as Moro, and was 
meditating a march upon St. Mary. A conflict 
had taken place between two contending parties, 
but we have no reliable information as to which 
side was victorious. About forty of the Emperor’s 
troops who were wounded, had arrived at Port au 
Prince. A republican movement was pending at 
the latter place. The Emperor had called for more 
troops, but could not raise forty men. Reports 
were current that Jacuel and Aux Cayes had de¬ 
clared for the Republic. The Emperor’s forces do 
not exceed 3,000 men. It is the general opinion 
that Geffrard will be successful. 
Business was nearly suspended at Jeremie and 
Port au Prince, au embargo having been laid on 
all coasting vessels. 
The Emperor had placed his family on board a 
vessel at Port au Prince, and there is no doubt of 
his intention of making his escape from the country, j 
-News jJaragrajjljs. 
From Utah.—A private letter to a citizen of St. 
Louis, from Salt Lake City, dated January 7th, says 
that Judge Sinclair had adjourned the Grand Jury 
sine die upon the petition of nine of its members, 
in which they declared their inability to proceed in 
the examination of witnesses, in consequence of the 
excitement and violence manifested towards them. 
The jury was composed of nine Gentiles and twelve 
Mormons, and the factious spirit ran so high that 
revolvers were freely drawn. A general fight was, 
with great difficulty, prevented. The letter adds 
that any idea of an impartial jury or justice being 
obtained in that city is preposterous, and that mar¬ 
tial law will probably be established. 
The St. I,ouis Republican publishes a letter from 
Salt Lake, the 14th, stating that Judges Sinclair and 
Cradbaugh leave the territory in the spring, satisfied 
that their presence as federal officers, in adminis¬ 
tering the law, is merely farcical. The letter adds 
that there is no loyalty to the Government among 
the Mormons—that while, to a certain extent, they 
respect the power of law, they neither recognize 
nor respect its spirit. Neither murder nor any 
granting the right of way through the Fort Gratiot I other crime has been or can be punished. 
Military Reservation to Michigan, for Railroad 
purposes, with the privilege of erecting depots 
and work-shops, was passed. 
The Homestead bill of Mr. Grow, which provides 
that, any person who is the head of a family, over 
21 years of age, is a citizen of the United States, or 
has filed an intention to become such, according to 
the naturalization laws, shall be entitled to enter 
quarter section of any vacant or unappropriated 
land, and hold the same on condition of its actual 
settlement and cultivation was favorably acted 
upon. 
Kansas-—The Gold Mines, Ac.—A dispatch to 
St. Louis on the 3d inst., states that highly flatter- 
accounts of the Kansas gold mines continue to 
be received. A rich quatiz vein has been discov- 
Tiib gold fever is decidedly raging throughout 
the West, and hundreds of young men arc prepar¬ 
ing to start, early in the spring for the newly dis 
covered mines of Western Kansas. In many of 
the large towns, companies of 56 to 100, are organ 
izing. 
The lower branch of Ihe Michigan Legislature 
passed, by a vote of 57 to 3, a bill for the trial of 
offenses upon information, and the virtual abolition 
of Grand Juries. 
Wheat was raised this last season, for the first 
time, on the Island of Hawaii. Between 3,000 and 
4,000 barrels of flour are now ground at Honolulu 
all of which is produced from native wheat. 
It is said that Brigham Young has excommuni 
cated some three hundred and sixty of the Saints, 
for delinquencies of some sort; their fault is sup 
posed to be too free intercourse with the Gentiles 
The New York Tribune says one hardware house 
in that city has sold this winter over twelve hun¬ 
dred pairs of skates—nearly five hundred of which 
were for ladies. 
The Brooklyn Times says:—The dull season of 
New York is now at its lowest depression, and we 
are not aware that we have ever seen the time 
when the city looked more thoroughly bare of 
western business men than it is now. 
It is said that the Emperor Soulouque has ship¬ 
ped a quantity of valuables on board a government 
vessel lying at St. Marc, and that should affairs 
turn against him he will make his escape with 
abundant solace for dethronement. The knowing 
old gentleman has also large investments in France, 
sufficient to soothe the declining years of a deposed 
African Emperor. 
There were 110 less than 600 applicants pressin 
their claims for appointments as keepers at Ihe 
Auburn Prison, at the late meeting of the New 
York Inspectors. 
An unusual sight — in these days— of a British 
regiment on American soil, is to be witnessed in 
Boston, on the arrival of the 42d Highlanders, who 
are en route to the British possessions, via. 
Panama. It is probable that during their stay, 
while the steamer is coaling, the regiment will be 
invited to parade. 
The original Yankee clock manufacturer has 
gone hence. Seth Thomas died at Plymouth Hol¬ 
low on the 29th of January, at the age of 75 years. 
He was the originator of the cheap Connecticut 
clock, which in its early day was considered the 
great invention of the age. 
Lead mining has been prosecuted with vigor at 
Galena, Ill., the present winter. The stock of lead 
now on hand at that city, amounts to 22,000 pigs, 
and it is thought that it will be increased to 40,000 
pigs for shipment by the opening of navigation in 
the spring. 
ered at Ralston’s I*or&, tw^/c miles from Auraria, 
Old World Matters. 
From the Pacific Side. 
Affairs at W ashington. 
The Secretary of the Treasury sent to the House, 
on the 3d inst., a reply to the resolution calling for 
the actual and probable receipts from the Customs, 
public lands and other sources for this and the next 
fiscal year, and for his opinion, whether the said 
receipts will be adequate to meet the public expen¬ 
ditures. He says that the receipts during the first 
quarter of the present fiscal year, ending Septem¬ 
ber last, were nearly $20,231,009, as stated in his 
The Overland Mail, with dates to the 12th ult., 
arrived at St. Louis on the 3d inst. The trip was 
made in twenty-three days, including a detention 
of twenty-two hours. 
Rumors prevailed in San Francisco that 300 pris¬ 
oners in the Penitentiary had been accidentally 
poisoned by the use of some chemical mixed with 
the flour. There was doubtless some truth in the 
rumor, but the matter was greatly exaggerated. 
The Probate Judge of Carson Valley had published 
a card declaring his intention to perform the duties 
of his office without fear or favor from any man._ 
A collision between him and anti-mormons was re¬ 
garded as inevitable. 
Gen. Kibbon was still prosecuting the war against 
the Indians in the north with great success. Ilis 
troops had killed quite a number, and taken over 
200 prisoners. 
New diggings had been discovered about fifty 
miles northwest of the Gila river mines, yielding 
in some instances as high as $15 to the pan. 
About 100,000 sheep were met on the desert. 
Many had been lost from fatigue and scarcity of 
food. At Apache Pass they encountered large pile 3 
of rocks in the road, supposed to have been placed 
there by the Indians under Magredaz. 
On the Colorado, camp fires of the Apaches were 
seen, but no Indians. The roads generally are 
good. 
The Supreme Court of California had dissolved 
the injuction to prevent the Fund Commissioners 
from issuing bonds of 1858. 
Gen. Weller’s message had been read in the 
Legislature, and was pronounced a very able state 
and shot gold abounds inWweral localities. The 
Fort Defiance dates Xy tl^Santa Fe mail are to 
January 21st. They say t*t the Navajo Indians 
acknowledge losing 200 lives, 20,500 sheep and 
horses, the destruction of 1,000 huts, and an im¬ 
mense quantity of grain, altogether valued at up¬ 
ward of $100,000, during the late war. Mr. Yost, 
iu a letter to the Santa Fe Gazette , intimates that 
there is a disposition to deal too harshly with these 
Indians, and says that if certain terms are exacted 
it will turn them from the pursuits of industry and 
agriculture—by which they now support a whole 
nation of 12,000 souls, and sustain 250,000 sheep 
and 60,000 horses—and make robbers and plun¬ 
derers of them. 
N. Y. State Medical Society. —The Medical 
Society of New York commenced their fifty-second 
Annual Meeting at Albany' on the 1st inst. A Com¬ 
mittee was appointed with instruction to report 
some method calculated to insure more general 
vaccination throughout the State. After consulta¬ 
tion the Committee reported small-pox more gen¬ 
erally prevalent in the State at the present time 
than ever before since the introduction of vaccina¬ 
tion, and recommend that the Legislature should 
pass a law empowering the trustees in each school 
district to exclude from the benefit of public in¬ 
struction, all who have not been vaccinated. The 
Society elected the following officers for the ensu¬ 
ing year:— President— Prof. B. Fordyce Baker, of 
New York; Vice-President — Daniel T. Jones, On 
ondaga; Secretary— Sylvester D. Willard, Albany; 
Treasurer —John Y. P. Quackenbush, Albany. 
annual report. The receipt, for the remaining | 'Xsinc,, wa, dull at San Francisco. 
three-quarters are estimated at $38,500,000, of 
which $37,000,000 were estimated from the Cus¬ 
toms. It was believed that the quarter ending 
December last, would yield $10,000,000. The pres¬ 
ent quarter, ending on the 31st of March, $15,000,- 
000 , and the next quarter, ending on the 30th of 
June, $12,000,000. 
Mr. Yulee, chairman of the Senate Committee on 
Post-Offices, is preparing a bill for postal reform. 
The proposition of a uniform increase of letter pos¬ 
tage to 5 cents, has not yet been agreed to ; a desire 
being expressed to have two rates—3 cents under 
300 miles, and 5 cents for over that distance. 
The Post-Master General estimates that about 
$1,000,000 is necessary for the transportation of the 
mails between the United States and foreign coun¬ 
tries, and New York and New Orleans and San 
Francisco, and back for the next fiscal year. The 
larger part of the service is to be paid with the sea 
and inland postages. No new lines are recom¬ 
mended. 
The special agent of the Treasury Department 
despatched some time ago to investigate matters 
connected with the California Mint and Custom 
House, has laid his report before the Secretary. It 
charges gross mismanagement and abuse, as exist¬ 
ing in all the departments in California. 
Mexican News.— The details of the Mexican 
news by the Tennessee at New Orleans, is received. 
It is stated at Vera Cruz that Gen. Miramon would 
not accept the Presidency, but declined in favor of 
the restoration of Zuloaga and a Tobago constitu¬ 
tion. This, it was stated, would cause Robles to 
pronounce in favor of the Liberals. Juarez, as 
well as Miramon, was much pressed for money. It 
is the universal opinion among the foreigners that 
the United States would declare for Juarez. The 
moral effect would be so great as to place that 
party in power within 60 days. The Constitution¬ 
alists, under Gen. Trejo, represent their cause as 
prosperous, and that the people are flocking to their 
standard, while their leaders talk loudly of victory. 
On the contrary the Reactionists are equally confi¬ 
dent and threaten a descent on Vera Cruz. 
New York Legislature. —Our Legislature is 
very busy just now, doing nothing. We learn that 
a bill for a canal tax of three-eights of a mill, to be 
used as follows Erie enlargement, $420,150; Os¬ 
wego Canal, $140,640; Cayuga and Seneca, $68,615; 
Black River, $63,780; Genesee Valley, $12,700; 
Champlain, $44,115; to pay interest, $125,000; has 
been reported, and there the matter rests. 
Destitution in Canada.— The Kincardine Com- 
momoealth, states that appalling distress prevails 
in some sections of Bruce county. Hundreds of 
families are on the verge of starvation. Many of 
their best and thriftiest farmers are destitute of the 
where-with-all to carry them through till another 
harvest—the crops of the past year having almost 
proved an entire failure. We could enumerate in¬ 
stances where, even already, families are subsisting 
on a few boiled turnips, others on bread and water 
alone, and the supply so small, that it canuot keep 
body and soul together for many weeks longer.— 
Some have consumed everything in the shape of 
vegetation, and as their last resort, have slaugh¬ 
tered their oxen, which forms their whole suste¬ 
nance. 
Modification of the Massachusetts Jury Sys¬ 
tem.— Petitions have gone to the Massachusetts 
Legislature for a law allowing Judges to accept a 
verdict from three-fourths of a jury in civil suits, 
when, in their opinion, the cause of justice would 
be served thereby. Judge Nash, of the Boston 
Superior Court, endorses the proposition. The 
general principle of the unanimity of the jury on a 
verdict is not proposed to be destroyed by it; but 
if, after long consideration, they fail entirely to 
agree, the Judge may, in his discretion, accept the 
opinion of three-fourths of them as a verdict. 
TnB R. M. steamship Asia, from Liverpool jjsn. 
22d, passed Sandy Hook on her way to New York, 
last evening — Monday. The following digest of 
news has been telegraphed. 
Great Britain.— The Austrian loan of £6,000,- 
000 was announced for the London Money Market. 
Warlike rumors continued, and notwithstanding 
peace assurances, the latest Continental correspon¬ 
dence say that confidence in the maintenance of 
peace was losing ground. Warlike preparations 
continued in France. It is again reported, hut not 
believed, that Persigny would soon succeed Wal- 
ewski in French foreign ministry. The British 
government was resolved to take sufficient mea¬ 
sures to protect the English interests in Mexico. 
The Times’ city article quotes the funds heavy and 
inanimate, and after regular hours experienced a 
further fall, owing to the statements about the 
Austrian loan and the contemplation of the navy 
estimates. 
France.— There has been a partial recurrence of 
the panic on the Paris Bourse. The reported 
offensiveand defensive alliance has been concluded 
between France and Sardinia. On the 19th, the Pa- 
trie had an article to the effect that the avoidance of 
war was not to beconsidered altogether certain. The 
expedition against the Insurgents in Algeria, was 
successful, tribes having made complete submis¬ 
sion. The French garrison at Rome will shortly 
be reinforced by two regiments of the line. At 
Turin the belief of a coming war was decidedly 
increasing. Letters from reliable authority at 
Milan, say there was not the least chance of insur¬ 
rection. It was also stated that the sending of 
troops from Austria had been suspended. 
Austria.— Accounts from Lombardy still speak 
of disaffection, but no outbreak. Austrian rein¬ 
forcements are pouring in. The amnesty for po¬ 
litical prisoners in Naples is modified to require 
their banishment to America. The edict provided 
that all persons taken in any flagrant attempt 
against the safety of the State be immediately tried 
by a council of war. Leading journals of Germany 
were exceedingly violent in an attack on the 
French government, and urged the necessity of a 
perfect understanding between the Prussian, Aus¬ 
trian and German States. Popular demonstra¬ 
tions of sympathy and loyalty greeted the Emperor 
of Austria whenever he appeared in public. The 
Daily News says:—Prussia has signified to France 
that she would look not with indifference, but with 
great anxiety, on any unprovoked attack on Aus¬ 
tria by France. 
<£i)c Ncius Conbeuaev. 
— The Police of London Is 7,000 strong. 
— Gov. Morgan has thus f.ir signed only four bills. 
— McCormick’s Reaper patent expired on tlic 31st ult. 
— The U. 8 . Navy at present has 83 vessels and 8,490 
seamen. 
— In opium eating, the United States is now said to 
beat China! 
There are thirteen thousand uniformed volunteers 
in Pennsylvania. 
— A man died recently in a Philadelphia prison from 
the effects of cold. 
From Paraguay.— Later advices from Paraguay, 
say that Lopez was busily arranging and drilling 
his troops, launching steamers, storing his maga¬ 
zines with munitions of war, and preparing to bar 
the waters of the Paraguay river with heavy chains, 
ft is nearly time that something definite had come 
to hand concerning the action of this expedition. 
Commercial — Rreadstuffs.— Richardson, Spence & 
Co. quote flour dull and nominal. Wheat dull, with a 
declining tendency. Corn tending downward, and quo¬ 
tations barely maintained. Mixed 2S@2Ss0d; Yellow 
29@29s6d. Provisions .—Beef more active, but all de¬ 
scriptions slightly lower. Pork Arm at an advance of 
2@3d: Bacon dull; Lard dull at 06s; Tallow iirm ; sales 
at 53[c953s6d. 
From Turks Island and St. Domingo. —Turks 
Island dates of January 20, are received. Heavy 
rains since the commencement of the year. A 
large per centagc of the salt had been wasted, and 
no likelihood of any more being gathered for three 
months. The stock on hand, 300,000 bushels, is at 
the shipping ports. A vessel at Turks Island from 
Port au Platte, St. Domingo, reports that place in 
a deplorable condition. Trade is very dull at Port 
au Platte, and confidence in Presdent Santa Anna 
restored. 
Wm. C. Conant proposes to issue a penny religious 
daily in the city of N. Y. 
— Illinois has 10,288 public schools, with an attend¬ 
ance of 440,339 scholars. 
— The Pennsylvania Legislature has abolished tho 
office of Canal Commissioner. 
— The rent roll of the Girard real estate in Philadel¬ 
phia amounts yearly to $15,117. 
— The finest Court House in Iowa has just been com¬ 
pleted in Iowa City, at a cost of $52,000. 
— It is said that Mr. Cobb’s revenue bill abolishes no 
less than 17 New England collectorships. 
— There arc shad at Savannah, green pens at St. 
Augustine, and yellow fever at Tampa. 
Congress is said to be more intensely engaged in 
wire-pulling for 1S60 than in legislation. 
— A man was recently arrested in Philadelphia for 
selling forged autographs of Washington. 
— The great anti-rent cases are now being argued 
before the Court of Appeals in New York. 
It is said that Brazil sends yearly into the trade 
about 80,000 carat weight of uncut diamonds. 
The Columbia (Tenn.) Mirror announces three 
deaths from cholera in that town on the 12th ult. 
— The Supreme Court of California lias decided that 
the Legislature had power to tax miners’ claims. 
Five steamboats will be put on the Collingwood 
route, from Collingwood to Chicago, next season. 
Tiie Traverse City (Mich.) Herald says there never 
was a drop of intoxicating liquor sold in that town ! 
Rembrandt Peale’s greatpaintingof “TheCourt of 
Death ” was lately sold for twenty thousand dollars. 
— The ladies of Havana have sent a petition to tho 
Queen against being annexed to the United States. 
The Reformed Dutch Church have decided to oc¬ 
cupy immediately the Missionary field opened in Japan. 
— The New York Express says that there are nine¬ 
teen ocean steamers lying idle at the wharves in that 
ty. 
— Tho bill to repeal tho law allowing parties in in¬ 
terest to testify in civil suits, lias been killed in tho As¬ 
sembly. 
United States stocks, of various kinds, to tho 
amount of five hundred million of dollars, are held in 
Europe. 
A Glasgow paper says one thousand cab and om¬ 
nibus horses are annually driven to death in the city of 
Glasgow. 
— The use of the shower bath has been abandoned 
at Auburn Prison, except by advice of the physician of 
the prison. 
— At a recent meeting in London, it was stated that 
416 starved to death in that city in 1857; and in ten years 
past, 8,292. 
— Vice-President Breckinridge has gone home to 
Kentucky, in consequence of the ill health of himself 
and family. 
— A fiend in New York, on Friday week, threw liquor 
on his wife’s dress and applied a candle to it—burning 
her to death. 
— Tiie Massachusetts railroads have paid, during tho 
last six months, between July and January, $1,600,000 
in dividends. 
— Tiie Erie Railroad Co. has backed down from tho 
regulations requiring conductors to register tiie names 
of passengers. 
— Gen. Roblc’s success in Mexico makes the 54th 
change of government in that troubled country during 
tiie last 37 years. 
— Miss Amelia Ross, aged 117 years, died last month 
in England. She lived in the regions of five sovereigns 
of Great Britain. 
— Fifteen persons recently escaped from the jail in 
Ulster Co. The authorities begin to think that tho jail 
wants patching. 
— Since tiie issue of the first patent for the Sewing 
Machine, in 1842, 2S5 patents have been granted for im¬ 
provements on it. 
— Connecticut lias now engaged in tiie whale fishery 
54 ships and barks, 3 brigs, 11 schooners, embracing a 
tunnage of 20,756. 
— A new telegraph line has been opened from Chi¬ 
cago to Cincinnati direct, via Michigan City, Lafayette, 
and Indianapolis. 
— A boy preacher, named Williams, aged thirteen 
years, tiie son of a railroad porter, is creating a great 
sensation in Wales. 
— On the 21st ult., J. L. Nixon, a practicing physician 
and Baptist clergyman, of Troy, Ala., was instantly 
killed by lightning. 
— Gen. Cass lias twice lately been attacked with apo¬ 
plectic symptoms, and had the doctor with him all night 
on a recent occasion. 
— The Rhode Island Census for 1774, giving the name 
of every head of a family, then residing iu the State, 
has been published. 
— Tiie citizens of Bloomington, Douglas Co., Ill., re¬ 
cently passed an ordinance entitling women to an equal¬ 
ity witli men, as voters. 
— The Fire Commissioners of Baltimore have decided 
to contract for two more steam engines. They liavo 
now four of these engines. 
— The Virginia Committee on oysters estimated 12,- 
000,000 bushels of oysters to be taken from waters of tho 
Chesapeake bay every year. 
— Serious fears of a forthcoming famine in Mexico 
are entertained. For over a year very little corn has 
been gathered or planted. 
— A ball was recently given in New York for tho 
benefit of a professional thief who has recently experi¬ 
enced a series of misfortunes. 
— The christening of the twenty-sixth child of a hap¬ 
py couple named Wonters, at Lierra, in Belgium, is cel¬ 
ebrated in the foreign papers. 
— The Auburn Advertiser says that the State Prison 1 
in that city is now nearly full of convicts—there being 
779 prisoners, and only 780 cells. 
— After balloting for two days, tiie legislature of Louis¬ 
iana elected Mr. Benjamin to tho U. S. Senate for six 
years from the fourtli of next March. 
— A young Indian girl hung hersolf near St. Paul, 
on account of disappointment iu an affair ef the heart. 
Civilization progresses among tho natives. 
