Contents of the Rural for February 26, 1859, 
Congressional Proceedings. 
Old World Matters. 
<£l)c Ncius €onhcnscr 
AGRICULTURAL. Paqe. 
Culture of Tobacco,. gc 
Moon Theories, Again. gc 
Feeding Grain to Colts,. gf 
To Prevent Over-Reaching,.gc 
Portable Hop and Hay Press, (Illustrated). 6£ 
Agriculture in Ohio, . gc 
A Large Ox—Feeding out Grain,. 7( 
The Culture of Roots,. 7( 
The Seed Business and Legislation.7( 
Patent Office Agricultural Operations. 7( 
Will Keeping Sheep Pay?. 7( 
Maple Sugar—Tin Sap Buckets,. 7( 
Rural Spirit of the Pre.HH.—" Dropsical Land”—Un¬ 
derdraining; Management of Manures; The Horses of 
Norway,. 7£ 
Agricultural Miscellany.—A False Charge; New York 
State Ag. Society Winter Premiums, List of Officers; 
Maine Rural; Correction ; Lenox Farmers and Mechan¬ 
ics’Association; Honolulu Squash,. 79 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Fruits Adapted for the West—Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,.. 71 
King Apple of Tompkins County (Illustrated). 71 
Horticulture in Canada — Fruit Growers’ Association of 
Upper Canada; Cobourg Horticultural Society,.71 
Old Quince Trees Producing Blight. 71 
Fruit Growers’ Society of Niagara County,. 71 
Horticultural Advertisements,.71 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
“The Happiest Time,” [Poetical,] “Feminine Apparel;” 
Dress Your Children Warm; "Fashionable Children;” 
Finding Fault with Your Children; Health Promoted 72 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Reign of the Frost King, [Poetical,] The Editor's Friends; 
Useful Effects of Light; Snatching at Straws: Happi¬ 
ness of Life; How to Prosper in Business,. 72 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Looking Out, [Poetical,] Childhood; Pointless Sermons; 
Difficulties; Religion in Daily Life. 72 
EDUCATIONAL. 
About Reading; Chirography; Education,.73 
THE REVIEWER. 
La Plata, the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay; 
The Farm; The Garden; A Hand-Book of Fruit Cul¬ 
ture; The New England Theocracy; Westminster Re¬ 
view. 73 
USEFUL OLIO. 
William Ilickling Prescott, LL. D. (Illustrated).73 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
Mechanics and Clerks—The West; A Plea for Dogs— 
Ko. I: The Fast “Snlnn ” co 
Senate. —The Senate are still harping upon the 
§30,000,000 appropriation for the purchase of Cuba, 
and seem to be as far from arriving at anything 
definite in relation thereto, as when the measure 
was introduced. 
The President desires that the war-making power 
be placed in his hands, and fearing difficulties may 
occur in Nicaragua, which will endanger the lives 
and property of American citizens, he sends a 
Special Message earnestly recommending “to Con¬ 
gress the passage of an act authorizing the Presi¬ 
dent, under such restrictions as they may deem 
proper, to employ the land and naval forces of the 
United States, in preventing the transit from being 
.obstructed, or closed by lawless violence, and in 
protecting the lives and property of American citi¬ 
zens traveling thereupon, requiring at the same 
time that these forces shall be withdrawn the 
moment the danger shall have passed away. With¬ 
out such a provision our citizens will be constantly 
exposed to interference in their progress, to law¬ 
less violence, and there is a similar necessity for 
the passage of such an act, for the protection of 
the Panama and Tehuantepec routes.” 
House.— The Senate’s amendments to the House 
Agricultural College bill were taken up and con¬ 
curred in. The bill now awaits the action of the 
President. 
During the past week two steamers have arrived 
with intelligence from the Old World—the Africa, 
at Halifax, on the loth, and the Prince Albert, at 
St. Johns, on the 17th inst. 
Great Britain.— Parliament was opened by the 
Queen in person, on the 3d inst. The speech com¬ 
menced with congratulations on the state of the 
country, and on the progress made in India. On 
foreign affairs it says:—“I receive from all foreign 
powers assurances of friendly feelings. To cultivate 
and continue these feelings, to maintain inviolate 
the faith of our public treaties, and contribute, as 
far as my influence can extend, to the preservation 
of general peace, are the objects of my unceasing 
solicitude.” The conclusion of the treaties in re¬ 
gard to the Principalities and one of commerce 
with Russia are noticed, and the latter is referred 
to as an indication of the complete restoration of 
friendship between the two countries. The treaties 
with China and Japan are mentioned as promising 
great commercial advantages. Satisfaction is ex¬ 
pressed at the abolition by France, of negro emi¬ 
gration on the East coast of Africa, and that the 
pending negotiations give promise of a total aban¬ 
donment of the system. In respect to Mexico, the 
speech says:—“The state of the Republic of Mex¬ 
ico, distracted by civil wars, has induced me to 
carry forbearance to the utmost limit in regard to 
the wrongs and indignities to which British resi¬ 
dents have been subjected, at the hands of the two 
contending parties. They have at length been 
carried to such an extent, that I have been com¬ 
pelled to give instructions to the commander of the 
naval forces in those seas to demand, and if neces¬ 
sary, to enforce reparation.” Increased expenditure 
on the navy is asked, on account of the universal 
Tiie last stone pier for the bridge which is to span 
the Father of Rivers at St. Paul, was finished on 
the 25th ult. On either side of the river channel, 
at a distance of 240 feet apart, stand two stone 
piers, rising, like two Bunker Hill Monuments, 
about ninety feet out of water. The superstructure 
is fast being raised, and the whole will be com¬ 
pleted by the first of May and ready for use. 
It is somewhat of a coincidence that England and 
America should both lose an eminent historical 
writer within nearly the same week, friends and 
correspondents —Hallam having died on the 22d 
of January, and Prescott on the 28th. 
Major Culbertson, who has just come from the 
Rocky Mountains, says that the head waters of the 
Missouri and Columbia are so near together that 
he at one time drank from the Missouri, on the 
east side of the Rocky Mountains, and a half hour 
afterwards from the Columbia River on the Pacific 
slope. 
Western papers report that an unusual number 
of cattle are changing hands, the farmers being 
unable to hold their stock longer, owing to the 
scarcity of fodder. 
It is reported that the Anglo-French demands 
against Mexico were recently diminished to much 
more reasonable proportions by a seasonable hint 
that Mexico, if reduced to the necessity of choos¬ 
ing a dictator, might appeal to her great sister of 
the North for protection or annexation, 
— Of the 26,153 teachers in this State, only 8,266 are 
men. 
The total debt of the city of New Orleans is $7,988,- 
136 25. 
Emigration to Pike’s Peak is becoming general in 
the w cs t. 
— < ivil war continues in ( hina, in the neighborhood 
of Ningpo. 
— The oyster trade of Maryland is estimated at $4,000,- 
000 per annum. 
— England is taxed to raise a revenue of five hundred 
million dollars. 
— The most populous city in Texas is Galveston, with 
5,646 inhabitants. 
— A Portugese military company is about to bo started 
in New York city. 
— The Queen of England is a grandmother before 
she is forty years old. 
— Of the 11,637 school houses in this State, 300 remain 
that are built of logs. 
— The total tunnage of the United States, Juno 80th, 
1S5S, was 5,049,808 tuns. 
In Switzerland, is is said, 20,000 girls gain a liveli¬ 
hood by making watches. 
Arrapahoe county has been organized under the 
territorial authority of Kansas. 
— It was fifteen years before the Louisianians ob¬ 
tained a good yield of sugar. 
— Two printing presses are about to be started to the 
gold regions at Pike’s Peak. 
The immigration to the United States in 1S58 was 
less than half what it was in 1S57. 
— There is a large emigration from Salt Lake into 
the southern section of 1 alifomia. 
The citizens of New Orleans are urging the erec¬ 
tion of a police and fire alarm telegraph. 
— Sets of Russian sable furs have been sold in New 
York city, this winter, for $2,000 and $2,850. 
— Mr. Henley is coming out with his own instruments 
to operate on this end of the Atlantic cable. 
— The hicago Democrat announces the birth of an 
infant in that city, weighing eighteen pounds. 
During January, only ten barrels of flour were ex- 
Lctter writers state that it will be 
vetoed. 
Mr. Grover, member of the House from Oregon, 
was qualified and took his seat. 
Mr. English called up the bill regulating postage 
on newspapers and periodicals. He said it had 
been reported extensively through the press that 
this bill proposed to tax newspapers passing in ex¬ 
change. This was not the fact. The design was 
that periodical dealers shall receive their mail mat¬ 
ter on the same terms as regular subscribers.— 
Another section authorized maps and lithographs 
to be carried at one cent per ounce. Heretofore 
such matters have been excluded from the nlail. 
The third section proposed to punish persons tak¬ 
ing letters out of the post-office by mistake, but 
wilfully and fraudulently omitting to return them, 
and also persons who, in like manner, failed to ap¬ 
ply the money delivered to them for the purpose of 
pre-payment of postage, Ac. There is, at present, 
no adequate law to punish such offences. The bill 
proposes §100 fine, or one year’s imprisonment, or 
both. The bill passed. 
The Special Message of the President was receiv¬ 
ed and read, but no action taken. 
This was 
a contingency that the allied Admirals at Vera 
Cruz dared not assume the responsibility of forc¬ 
ing, and they came down in their terms. 
It is stated that considerable agitation prevails 
in Austria, Poland and Hungary'. The Globe’s 
Paris correspondent says that the fermentation in 
Gallacia is such that eighty thousand troops have 
been concentrated on the frontier and at Lemberz. 
The Ohio papers says that the farmers in vari¬ 
ous portions of that State are busily engaged in 
the manufacture of maple sugar. The cold nights 
and warm days are very favorable and a large crop 
is anticipated. 
A law of the State of Iowa, recently passed, pro¬ 
vides that paper maturing on a Sunday or a holi¬ 
day, shall be paid the day following, instead of the 
preceding one, as usual in most States. 
The Secretary of the State of Wisconsin informs 
the Legislature that of the amount of money ex¬ 
pended for public printing during the past three 
I years, about §27,000 was for English, §30,000 for 
German, and §14,000 for Norwegian languages. 
TnE Massachusetts General Appropriation Bills 
for this year amount to only §465,980. This covers 
all the expenses of Governmeat, except the cost of 
paupers and criminals. 
Geffrard, the new President of the Republic of 
Ilayti, is a man somewhat advanced in years; his 
hairs tire gray, and he has the appearance of hav¬ 
ing seen a good deal of life. lie is at least fifty 
years old. He is nearly black, but still has some 
white blood in his veins. 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
horses nine years old. The supplemental surgeons 
in the military hospitals at Paris and Marseilles 
are ordered to hold themselves in readiness for im¬ 
mediate service in the artillery. There are compa¬ 
nies in which five-sixths of the men are excused 
from regular duty because they are making cartrid¬ 
ges. A letter from Grenoble speaks of the arrival 
of the troops, and the formation of a Corps de Ar- 
mie on the Alps. The Moniteur Delta Conolization 
contains a ministerial decree of Prince Napoleon, 
dated January 6tli, by which all recruiting of emi¬ 
grants at the eastern coast of Africa and Madagas¬ 
car is prohibited. The Independence Beige asserts 
that the English Cabinet is making efforts at Paris 
as well as Vienna and Turin, to effect a pacific end 
of existing difficulties. It has been suggested to 
adopt the plan proposed by Austria herself to Lord 
Palmerston in 1848, by which Lombardy would 
have obtained a separate and self-governingadmin- 
istration, under coiTstittu7Pf!*r-principles. The 
French government have given a favorable attention 
* n +1 '' V »*>«»*«/» *’?<A f - el r>V V.Vm.o with¬ 
out committing itself to any' definite course, is said 
to have been converted to the idea of an European 
Congress, though at first it was decidedly hostile 
to such a plan. London, and not Paris, is this 
Homoepathic Remedies—F. Humphreys & Co. 
The Atlantic Monthly—Phillips, Sampson & Co. 
Stewart's Aid to Economy. 
Fairfield Seminary—J. B.‘ Van Petten. 
Portable Hop and Hay Press—Lincoln L. CummingB 
Farm for Sale—Geo. llealy. 
Something New—S. M. Myrick & Co 
Farm for Sale—J. A. Browne. » 
Wanted—By a College Graduate. 
Seven Superior Short-IIorn Bulls—E. Marks. 
Mysteries of Bee-Keeping Explained—M. Quinbr 
Cheese Vat—Henry A. Roe. 
Orchard Grass—J. S. Cooley & Co. 
Horticultural Advertisements, on Page 71 . 
Fruit and Ornamental Trees—Ellwanger & Barry. 
Northern Muscadine Grape—Jessie Lewis & D. C. Brainard 
9 he Hooker Strawberry—II. E. Hooker & Co. 
Horticultural, Nursery and Seed Agency—W. P. Sheppard 
Trees, King of Tompkins Co. Apple—E. C. Frost. 
Great Valley Nursery—S. T. Kelsey & Co. 
Whale Oil Soap—D. B. Logan. 
Grape Vines—Hoag & Crain. 
Native Evergreens—George S. Root. 
Cherry Currant—Charles F’. Erhard. 
Choice Seeds—D. D. Tooker. 
Decidedly Slow. 
-Some natural surprise has 
been felt and expressed that the Paraguay Expedi¬ 
tion is so long getting to the scene of its operations, 
especially as it was known that Government steam¬ 
ers, under favorable circumstances, were capable 
of going four or five miles an hour. But it is ex¬ 
plained by a letter from Pernambuco, which states 
that the chartered steamboats (which it costs more 
to hire than it did to build) do not average but one 
mile per hour. The Expedition will undoubtedly 
reach Paraguay sometime in the course of this year, 
or next. Bad kind of boats to get whipped in—if 
the representatives of “ Yankee Doodle ” shouldn’t 
take ’’ sujjiciem iniertsi m me ugmiu- w 
and see the Administration through,” they cannot 
disgrace the country by running away. Be the 
termination what it may, our National honor will 
remain untarnished. 
T’vAIAi 1 T-n+nTI 
— The Michigan Legislature adjourned sine die on 
Saturday. One of the last acts passed was a Registry 
Law. 
— It is rumored that both Judge McLean and Chief 
Justice Taney think of resigning on account of ill 
health. 
— The attempt is being made in Rhode Island to 
abolish imprisonment for debt, but it is thought will not 
succeed. 
— From the Upper Michigan mines the past season, 
6,000 tuns of copper have been shipped. Value nearly 
$3,000,000. 
— A vein of lead ore has been discovered in Somer¬ 
set county, Ra., in the neighborhood of the town of 
Somerset. 
— The roof of the old Farmington Church in Connec¬ 
ticut is 82 years old—shingles brought from Maine- 
good yet! 
— Six hundred and fifty persons, drawn by 120 horses, 
took a sleigh ride from Ilolyoke to Springfield, a few 
days since. 
— De Santy, that incarnation of the mythical sub¬ 
marine telegraph cable, has gone home to England to 
recuperate. 
— Vice-President Breckinridge has returned to Wash¬ 
ington from his “ Kentucky home ” very much improY ■ 
ed in health. 
— Kendall Godwin, a resident of Franklin township, 
N. Y., died on the 21st ult., at the age of one hundred 
The Democratic State Convention of Connecticut 
met at Middleton on Wednesday week. The fol¬ 
lowing ticket was put in nomination:— Governor _ 
James T. Pratt, of Rocky Hill. Lieut. Governor— 
R. II. Winslow, of Westport. Secretary— Ephraim 
"Williams, Jr., of Stonington. Treasure}' —Daniel 
B. Warner, of East Haddam. Comptroller— Peleg 
C. Child, of Woodstock. 
The Oregon State Officers are— Governor— John 
Whitaker. Secretary of State — Lucien Heath. 
Treasurer— John D. Boon. These are all Demo¬ 
cratic. The Constitution under which they will 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY 26, 1859. 
Venezuela.— Advices from Venezuela state that 
the new Constitution was concluded on the 24th of 
December last, after a session of six months of the 
Constitutional Convention. This ends the reign of 
tyranny of the Monagas family. Under the new 
Constitution, the President is not elected until 
January 20th, 1860, Gen. Castro in the meantime 
acting as President ad interim. The President 
has command of the army, and, besides other com¬ 
pensation, is entitled to a pension of §300 per 
month for life. Gen. Paez has been cordially re¬ 
ceived by his countryman, and will probably be 
the first elected President. An amnesty has been 
granted to all political offenders, except Ex-Presi¬ 
dent Monagas. The new Constitution provides for 
elections by ballot, and abolishes the Spanish crim¬ 
inal procedure and passport system. 
Eeview of the Week. 
At Washington there seems to be but little ex¬ 
citement. Among the matters that have attracted 
their special share ofattention,are the investigations 
before a Committee appointed to look into the 
manner in which contracts are awarded for Print¬ 
ing. Our readers are doubtless aware that honesty 
is a cardinal virtue in the “city of magnificent 
distances,” and should any be inclined to cavil 
with the assertion, the following, which we offer 
in evidence, will settle the question:—The facts 
clicited*by the Printing Investigating Committee, 
shows a settled system by which officers of govern¬ 
ment constantly collect ten to twenty per cent, on 
every contract. The witnesses testified that they 
could not get their contracts excepting by submit¬ 
ting to these exactions. The books of the Fhila- 
the following was the result: — Against allowing 
Free Negroes in the State, 5,479 ; in favor of allow¬ 
ing Free Negroes in the State, 651. Majority 
against Free Negroes, 4,928. 
Six of the sixteen counties in the State made no 
returns on this question. 
The Republicans of Rhode Island held their State 
Convention in Providence last week, to nominate 
candidates for State Officers and Members of Con¬ 
gress. Thomas G. Turner, now Lieut. Governor 
of the State, was nominated for Governor, the pres¬ 
ent Executive declining to be a candidate for re- 
election. Wm. D. Brayton, Member of Congress 
from the Western District, was re-nominated.— 
Thomas Davis, four years ago a Democratic Repre¬ 
sentative, was nominated in place of the present 
incumbent, N. B. Durfee. 
An American Republican Convention met in 
Providence, R. I., on the 17th inst., the day follow¬ 
ing the Republican Convention, for the purpose of 
nominating State Officers. Mr. Thomas G. Turner 
who was on luesday nominated for Governor by 
the Republican, was unanimously accepted by the 
Convention. Mr. Isaac Saunders was nominated 
for Lieut. Governor; Mr. John K. Bartlett for Sec¬ 
retary of State ; Mr. Jerome B. Kimball for Attor¬ 
ney General; and Mr. Samuel A. Barker for Gene¬ 
ral Treasurer. Messrs. Saunders and Barker are 
not on the Republican ticket. 
The Democrats of Michigan met in Convention 
at Detroit on the 17th instant, and nominated 
Alpheus Felcii for Gov 
The Debit Side.— The debts of different Nations 
and States are estimated in the European States at 
more than ninety-nine hundred and eighty millions 
of dollars—§9,980,872,768. The most deeply in¬ 
debted nations are :—Great Britain, §3,876,563,470; 
France, §1,606,388,483; Austria, §1,209,420,000; 
Russia, §1,041,414,123 ; Spain, §732,205,548; Hol¬ 
land, §450,395,337, and Prussia, Portugal, Sardinia, 
Belgium and Denmark, severally, owe more than 
one hundred millions. The Central and South 
American States owe §308,696,014, of which Mexico 
is set down for §133,526,242; Brazil, §73,277,250; 
Peru, §46,451,387; Venezuela, §23,665,620, and the 
others various sums from one-quarter of a million j 
to fifteen millions of dollars. 
The Tobacco Crop of the United States. —The 
crop of the year 1858 is put down in the circulars 
of the large dealers at 200,000 hhds., of which 85,- 
000 were grown in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mis¬ 
souri, 60,000 in Virginia, 40,000 in Maryland, and 
15,000 in Ohio. The inspections for the year were 
211,440 hhds., against 143,080 in 1857. The market 
is now well supplied, the stocks in the United 
States and the European ports being 84,862 hhds., 
against 55,457 last year. 
Death of Senator Stow.— Hon. Horatio Stow, 
member of State Senate from Niagara Co., died at 
Clifton Springs on the 20th inst. As is well known, 
he has been in ill-health for several months, his 
The “ Reason Why.”— It will be recollected that disease being one of the heart and dropsy. Recent- 
the Commissioner of Patents a short time since however, he had been improving, and was able 
overruled the application of Mr. McCormick for an to leave his residence at Lewiston, for a temporary 
extension of his patent on Reaping Machines. He sojourn at the Springs. We are without particulars 
has written out at length his reasons for refusing of his decease, further than that it was sudden. 
a renewal. The patentee realized from his patents -- 
of 1845 and 1847 the sum of §1,297,915, which the Two Days From Chicago to New Orleans.— 
Commissioner considers ample compensation for Railroads are now in progress which, when com- 
the ingenuity and trouble expended, taking into pleted, will connect Lake Michigan with the Gulf 
consideration the fact that the great feature of the of Mexico at New Orleans; and the time is not re¬ 
patent of’47—the Reaper’s seat—is still the proper- mote when they will be completed. The time, 
ty of Mr. McCormick, and can be used only subject then, from Chicago to New Orleans, will be about 
to his terms. 48 hours. It is now from eight to twelve davs. 
near Dahlonega, Ga. The earth turns out fifty penny¬ 
weights to the panful. 
— A Binghampton paper records the death of a horse 
aged 37 years, lie iiad been owned by Mr. Franklin 
Whitney for 24 years. 
— Two bills of indictment were found in Savannah 
against Captain Corrie, Mr. Brown, and two seamen, for 
piracy, alias Slave Trade. 
— James Parton, author of the life of Aaron Burr, is 
at Nashville, for the purpose of procuring material for 
his biography of Jackson. 
— The Penobscot Indians are trying to raise a salary 
of twenty-five dollars a year for their governor, by the 
aid of the Maine Legislature. 
— Sixty-eight Americans were presented to the Em¬ 
peror of the French, at a grand reception at the Tul- 
leries, on the 10th of January. 
— Texas papers state that arrests have been ordered 
of the parties who perpetrated the massacre of friendly 
Indians in Palo Pinto county. 
— A letter from Orescent City, Iowa, expresses the 
opinion that the accounts sent East relative to the gold 
deposits at Pike’s Peak are exaggerated. 
VVe learn something concerning our Paraguay 
Fleet by the arrival of the bark O. S. Hayes, which 
brings Buenos Ay'res’ dates to December 30th. The 
frigate Sabine, with Commissioner Bowlin, had 
arrived at Montevideo. The Commissioner was 
preparing to go to Ascencion in the Fulton. If any 
attempt was made to prevent him, hostilities would 
ensue, but the general impression was that all 
difficulties would be amicably arranged. 
A Sharp Look Ahead.— Soulouque, the deposed 
Emperor of Ilayti, though he resigns an Empire, 
has managed to secure himself from want. Like a 
prudent monarch, he looked to the instability of 
earthly distinction, and quietly invested two mil¬ 
lion and a halt of dollars in property in Europe._ 
At the breaking out of the revolution he had at the 
palace £30,000 in gold and two millions of paper 
dollars; the paper money he had to leave, which 
the mob divided among themselves, and a good 
deal of gold was found in the Empress’ and Prin¬ 
cess’ rooms — the mob took it all. He has a large 
Rare Sight.— A lady was to be seen in the streets 
of Boston a few days since with a real bonnet—a 
regular bona fide bonnet—that was indeed a “ real 
covering for the head.” It is so many seasons 
since a bonnet, that was a bonnet, had been seen 
there, that no little curiosity was excited thereby. 
It reminded middle-aged people of old times ! 
ernor. 
Messrs. Lane and Smith have taken their seats 
in the U. S. Senate, as Senators from Oregon. The 
former drew for the term expiring March 4th, 
1861. The latter holds his seat for two weeks. 
A bill abolishing and prohibiting slavery in 
Kansas, has been passed by the Legislature of that 
Territory. 
A bill has passed both Houses of the Ohio Legis¬ 
lature “forbidding persons in whole, or in part, of 
African descent, from voting, under penalty of from 
one to six month’s imprisonment in the county 
jail, and not exceeding five hundred dollars fine.” 
The "Western journals are turning considerable 
attention to the Wheat Crop of 1858. Wells’ Com¬ 
mercial Express of the 17th inst. has an article 
showing the deficiency in the receipts of wheat 
from the harvest of 1858, at Chicago, to be over 
5,000,000 bushels at present, and estimating that 
to come in, the deficiency by the 1st of August will 
reach 8,000,000 bushels. 
Coal in Kansas.— We learn from the Kansas 
City Journal of Commerce, that both bituminous 
and cannel coal have been discovered in large 
quantities within eight miles of that city, in the 
bluffs of the Kansas river. 
