Contents of the Rural lor March 19, 1859. 
AGRICULTURAL. 
Inquiries and Notes, 
Hungarian Grass,. 93 
Growing Onions. 93 
The Test Chess Experiment,. 93 
Page. 
. 93 
Borghum Growing,.93 . , . , „ 
Water Rams,.93 return, a provision for the settlement of all ques- 
shall take final action on the subject. The treaty 
provides for the settlement of all claims against 
that Republic, including those prior to the Panama 
riots.' Gen. Herran is in Washington to ask, in 
tions in which New Granada is the claimant, 
among others those relating to the transit of mail 
matter across the Isthmus, and the tonnage tax 
Design for a Corn House, [Illustrated,]. -jo , , . 
Native Cattle,. 94 He has proposed liberal terms for settling these in 
Beans for Sheep, Ac. 94 equity. 
“Will Keeping Sheep Pay?”.94 
A Missouri Epistle,. 94 
Another Potato Experiment,.94 
Cheese-Making.94 
Heating Water for Scalding Hogs,.94 
New York Legislature. 
Senate.— The Attorney General, in reply to the 
Cheap and Good Barometer,. 94 I resolution respecting Mandeville’s seat, sent in a 
Rural Spirit of the Press.— Truths for Farmers; Ma¬ 
nure is Money; Preserving Butter,. 91 
Agricultural Miscellany. —Norman Stallion Wanted ; 
Large Beef; A Good “Native” Cow; Illinois State Fair; 
Farmers' Club; Galen Town Ag. Society; A Union Ag. 
Society Re-organized; Terra-Culture,. 94 
HORTICULTURAL. 
communication reviewing the facts, and giving an 
opinion that neither the appointment nor accep¬ 
tance of the office was complete until the commis¬ 
sion had been issued, and as such commission had 
not been issued when Mandeville recalled his ac¬ 
ceptance, he had not constitutionally forfeited his 
Spring and Spring Work,. 95 seat. 
Circulation of Sap,.95 Tim bill to establish regulations for the port 
Cranberries and their Culture. .95 of New York was taken in Committee of the 
Beurre Superfin Pear, [Illustrated,].9o .... , . „ , , , r , r . 
Grafting the Grape,.95 Whole. After a long debate, Mr. Ely moved as a 
The “Allen Raspberry,”.95 substitute for the whole bill, a bill repealing the 
Hardy Fruit Trees. 95 actsofl?57-8 on the subject, thusrescinding powers 
and fees conferred upon them by legislative cnact- 
Locust and Horse Chestnut Seeds,.95 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
To Dry Pumpkin for Winter Use; Pumpkin Pie; Sweet 
Potato Pie; Yankee Brown Bread; Soda Biscuit; Soda 
Cream Cake; Sponge Cake: An Inquiry; Lemon Pie; 
IceCream; PopCorn Pudding; A Good Salve; Color¬ 
ing Straw or Leghorn, &c.95 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
“Two Years Old,” [Poetical.] Plain Talks to American 
Women—No. 6; Fashionable Women; The Wife.96 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The Old Barn, [Poetical.] The Hills; Love of Approba¬ 
tion; Education; Self-Reform,.96 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
The Dove of Peace, [Poetical.] Perverted Inquisitive¬ 
ness. 93 
THE TRAVELER. 
Letters from a Hungarian—No. V.97 
THE REVIEWER. 
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa,_97 
USEFUL OLIO. 
The Rotascope—No.II, [Illustrated,] Corrections; Paper 
Making. 97 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
Mathematical Facts, Again: How to Become a Good Far¬ 
mer; “ There is no Such Word as Fail,”. 97 
STORY TELLER. 
The Cottage Door, [Poetical.] The Wife’s Experiment,...100 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
Rare and Beautiful Flowers—Tt. If. Bliss. 
Choice Vegetable Seeds by Mail—B. If. Bliss. 
European Potatoes—B. If. Bliss. 
New and Cheap Fertilizer—II. J. Baker & Bro. 
Farm for Sale—E. A. llebard. 
Notice—David S. Shoemaker. 
Good Farm for Sale or to Let—E. G. Chant. 
O. B. Maxwell & Co., Dansville, N. Y. 
American Hop Tree—Mcllvain A Young. 
Rhode’s Superphosphate—John Moore. 
Roofing Composition—N. F. Graves. 
20,090 Cherry Trees—Bronson, Merrell A Hammond. 
Notice to Gardeners and Farmers—C. V. Rapalye. 
Peabody’s Prolific Corn—Geo. W. Zook. 
Something New—P. Q. Hopler. 
New Books—II. C. Miller A Co. 
ConnecticutSeed Leaf Tobacco—B. If. Bliss. 
The Nansemond Sweet Potato—0. S. Murray A Son. 
Am. Black Raspberry Plants—S. C. Harris. 
Thorpe’s Churn and Butter Worker—Franklin Thorpe. 
Nursery Trees—Graves A Warner. 
Important to Physicians—Box 119. 
190,000 Apple Scions—Cowles A Warren. 
The Franklin Grape—O. T. Hobbs. 
Ladies Don’t Forget, Ac. 
ment, and placing them in the old position of Com¬ 
missioners of Pilots. The substitute was adopted 
and ordered to a third reading. 
Assembly. —The Attorney General sent in an 
answer to the inquiry of the House as to the con¬ 
stitutionality of the laws signed after the adjourn¬ 
ment of the Legislature, by the Governor, holding 
that the laws so signed are not in accordance with 
the Constitution. 
The Canal Auditor sent in a communication 
respecting a number of Collectors, Assistants and 
Clerks, with their salaries, employed on the State 
Canals, and stating whether the Collectors can be 
dispensed with at New York, Ithaca, Scottsville, 
Jordan and Medina or Albion ; that a number of 
assistants may be dispensed with, and clerks may 
be cut off at all offices not kept open nights. 
The Governor submitted a message announcing 
that the State would probably be shortly called on 
to pay its share towards the erection of the monu 
ment in Independence Square, Philadelphia, under 
the law of 1853, authorizing the Commissioner to 
consult with like Commissioners from eight other 
States, and agree to pay a stipulated sum towards 
such monument. The Governor recommends the 
repeal of the law on the ground of the reduced state 
of the finances. New York’s share, on estimated 
cost of the monument, will exceed $50,000. The 
Governor considers Independence Hall a sufficient 
monument to the Declaration of Independence, but 
suggests that New York will cheerfully bear her 
share when better able to do so, if the monument 
is deemed desirable. The communication was re 
ferred to the Committee of Ways and Means, and 
the annual appropriation bill was again taken up 
in Committee. 
Bills Passed.— To authorize the incorporation 
of religious societies. The annual tax bill, impos 
a tax of 1% mills; to provide for printing cal 
endars for Kings county; to amend the South 
Brooklyn Savings Bank charter; to amend the law 
in relation to the collection of demands against ves 
sels. To authorize the indictment of the Quaran 
tine incendiaries in any county in the 2d judicial 
district. 
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Last Session of Congress.—Results. 
News Iparograpl) 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH 19, 1859. 
Agents and all earnest Friends of the Rural 
•—which we trust includes every subscriber — are 
referred to announcement of Spring Campaign 
and offer of superior Vegetable and Flower Seeds’ 
in first column of next page. 
Review of the Week. 
In the last issue of the Rural we made mention 
of the illness of Post-Master General Brown, and 
stated that he would not probably survive the dis 
patch received but a few hours. The fears excited 
proved but too true. He died at 9 A. M., of the 
8th inst. During one period of his illness strong 
hopes were cherished that he would obtain the 
mastery of disease, and be restored to health and 
usefulness, but when it was announced to him tha 
Congress had adjourned without providing for the 
Postal Department, apprehension that the remiss¬ 
ness of the legislative body would destroy all the 
reforms and improvements that he had introduced 
into the public service, and defeat numerous pro^ 
jects of usefulness which he had at heart to ma 
ture, acting upon a mind made sensitive by an en¬ 
feebled body, gradually wrought in him an excite¬ 
ment that terminated in a fatal relapse. He was 
conscious to the last, with occasional intervals of 
delirium, and spent the final hour in tender leave- 
taking with his family. He was sixty-three years 
of age. But he possessed the vigor and activity of 
ten years younger. Cheerfulness of temperment 
and a sprightly carriage marked his habitual de¬ 
portment. His eminently social qualities caused 
him to be very widely known ; and he was warmly 
esteemed by all who had the opportunity to study 
his character and become acquainted with his ca¬ 
pacity and talents. 
The Senate held an Extra Session until the 10th 
inst., when Mr. Rice, from the committee appoint¬ 
ed to wait on the President, reported the perform¬ 
ance of that duty, and that the President had no 
further communication to make, whereupon the 
Senate adjourned sine die. 
A dispatch has been received by the N. Y. Eve¬ 
ning Post, stating that Postmaster-General Holt 
reported to the President that the deficit in his de¬ 
partment on the 30th of June will be over $6,000,- 
000, and that it will be impossible to go on without 
an appropriation. Upon learning these facts, the 
President determined to call an Extra Session, but 
has not yet fixed the day. 
Previous to the adjounment of the Senate a num¬ 
ber of treaties with the Oregon and Washington 
Indians were ratified. Also the Cass-Herran Treaty 
by a large majority, after amending it by a proviso 
to the effect that those who have not already pre¬ 
sented their claims may do so before New Granada 
Congress, during its last session, passed thirty- 
two public acts and fifteen joint-resolutions. The 
private acts for the relief of individuals, were more 
than sixty in number. The principal general acts 
were the admission of Oregon, and an act for car¬ 
rying into effect the treaty with China. The ap¬ 
propriations made during the session amount to 
about sixty millions of dollars, including the treas¬ 
ury note issue. The appropriation to the Army is 
$15,589,000 ; to the Navy, $10,650,000 ; Indian ser¬ 
vice, $1,797,000; Legislative, Executive and Judi¬ 
cial, $6,745,000; Light house service, $530,000; 
Isthmus (Panama) mail service, $364,000 new 
ocean mail from Charleston to Havana, $200,000; 
Diplomatic and Consular, $1,047,745; Expense of 
Investigating Committees, $10,000, 
The following table shows first the sums put in 
the bills originally, and next those actually appro¬ 
priated. 
Required. 
Military Academy... .$ 185,93S 
Indian Department... 1,S66,429 
Consular and Diplo¬ 
matic. 1.076,S60 
Army.16,225,752 
Legislative, Executive, 
and Judicial. 7,151,704 
Navy.13,500,870 
Fortifications. 698,400 
Appro’ted. 
$ 179,5S8 
1,797,36S 
1,047,745 
15,589,845 
Iteduc’n. 
$6,350 
69,061 
29,125 
635,907 
Miscellaneous. 4,323,381 
Post-Office.23,319,000 
Mail Steamers. 1,055,634 
Add bills failed. 
6,745,743 405,961 
10,654,043 2,846,327 
1,000,000 301,600 
(Increase.) 
2,345,000 1,978,3S1 
(failed.) 
(failed.) 
24,374,634 
Totals.$69,403,478 $63,788,906 $5,669,412 
Exclusive of the postal service bills, there appears 
to have been a cutting down of more than five and 
a half millions from the estimates, the heaviest 
item of which is in the Navy. 
No More Grand Juries in Michigan. — The 
Michigan Legislature passed a law at the late ses¬ 
sion, which will go into effect April 13th, provid¬ 
ing for the trial of criminals by information. This 
law virtually abolishes the grand jury, which has 
for so long exercised its inquisitorial functions, re¬ 
serving for the Circuit Judge power to call it into 
session whenever special cases need its aid. All 
cases are to be examined before a justice of the 
peace, and by them committed directly to the high¬ 
er courts, instead of for indictment as has previ¬ 
ously been done. 
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Signs op Spring Close at Hand. — On the 8th 
inst., the farmers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania 
were engaged plowing, and in the suburbs of Phil¬ 
adelphia, the market gardeners were busy prepar¬ 
ing the ground for operations—decidedly pleasant 
information. 
Opening op Navigation at Toronto. —The Globe 
states that the Bay at Toronto is now entirely free 
from ice, and navigation for the season has opened. 
On Saturday the schooner Caledonia arrived at the 
custom house wharf from Lewiston and Niagara, 
with a cargo. 
With the exception of Mr. Webster, who died 
while he was Secretary of State under Mr. Fill¬ 
more, there has been no Cabinet officer deceased 
while in office since the killing of Mr. Upshur and 
Mr. Gilmer, in 1844, by the explosion of the great 
gun on board of the Princeton, until Postmaster- 
General Brown died. 
Two men named Davis and Woodley, were suf¬ 
focated in a coal mine at Brier Hill, near Cleveland, 
on Wednesday week. They were at the bottom of 
the pit, at a depth of 230 feet, when the “fire 
damp ” caught from the lamp on their hats, and 
they were unable to escape. 
There is a Yankee in Paris who has collected in 
two years travels a complete assortment of ancient 
and modern instruments of execution—among the 
rest, the first guillotine which operated in Paris, in 
the year 1793. He is a showman. 
Indiana has lost about $40,000 by the illegal re¬ 
issue of scrip that had been paid at the Treasury. 
The Treasurer neglected to cut them with the can¬ 
celing hammer as the law required. 
TnE steamer Fulton, of the Paraguay expedition, 
has a tremendous 11-inch Dahlgreen gun with 
which she was going to roll big balls all over the 
pampas, but unfortunately the storeships forgot to 
bring the carriage, which lies in the Norfolk Yard. 
The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed a bill 
which has been signed by the Governor, by which 
married women are allowed to be incorporated 
with others in an institution composed of women, 
or to be under their management, for the care and 
education of children, or for the support of sick or 
indigent women. 
The valuation of Boston, in 1858, exceeded that 
of the entire States of Maine, New Hampshire and 
Vermont. It was one hundred millions more than 
that of the city of Philadelphia, and nearly thrice 
that of Baltimore. The valuation of Massachusetts 
surpasses that of New York State in 1850. 
The stupendous project is broached of uniting 
the waters of the Upper Arkansas, the South Platte 
and the Kansas Rivers, to fill the bed of the latter, 
and make from the three inconsiderable and almost 
useless streams, one broad, deep, navigable river 
that would open the Far West country clear to the 
base of the mountains, and into the now auriferous 
regions whither emigration is so powerfully at¬ 
tracted. The river thus created would be equal to 
the Missouri. 
A couple in Hardwick, Vermont, have been 
married 79 years, the husband being 97, and the 
wife 99. The old lady can now do more house¬ 
work in a day than half the girls in town. 
The receipts of wheat at Cleveland for 1858 are 
given at 1,488,578 bushels, and at Cincinnati, for 
the same time, at 1,211,545 bushels—the latter be¬ 
ing heavier than in any previous year. 
Tiie North China Herald states that a newspaper 
published at Shanghai, in Chinese, by the mission¬ 
aries, has attained a circulation of 700. The peo¬ 
ple buy it week by week, paying cash, and each 
purchaser reads it iluud. The Chinese, it appears, 
are much interc 'lMjl; all local news, particularly 
police reports'. 1 \ 
The news from Ilayti shows that the people are 
a discontented race Though trade was improving 
and all was quiet, yet “already there was consid¬ 
erable dissatisfaction with the new ruler, President 
Geffrard. It was alleged that he was already as¬ 
suming too much power, and fears were expressed 
that he would prove as tyrannical as his predeces¬ 
sor, Faustin the First and the last.” 
Maple sugar is selling in Michigan towns at six 
and eight cents per pound. This is the most favor¬ 
able season for the manufacture of sugar known 
for many years. 
A large number of street beggars were arrested 
in New York this week, and among them a young 
girl, who acknowledged that she constantly sup¬ 
plied a family of six persons, two of whom were 
boarders. 
On the 11th of February the Texas farmers were 
planting corn; peach trees were in blossom, and 
the wheat was looking well. There is a large emi¬ 
gration into Texas this spring. 
During the week we have had two arrivals from 
Europe, the Arabia, at Halifax, on the 10th, and the 
North Britain, at Portland, Me., on the 11th inst. 
We make the following digest of intelligence : 
Great Britain: — In the Commons, attention 
had been called to the seizure of the British ship 
Herald by the Portuguese, on the Mozambique 
Coast, and the Government stated that Portugal 
had been called on for an explanation. The Navy 
estimates had been biought forth, and contemplate 
the addition of 7,000 men and 26 powerful steam 
vessels, to that branch of the service. The num¬ 
ber of men asked for was promptly voted. 
France. —Lord Cowley, the English Ambassador 
at Paris, had gone on a special mission of concilia¬ 
tion to Vienna. Ministers announced in Parlia¬ 
ment, on Friday, that there was reason to hope that 
the Austrian and French troops would soon evacu¬ 
ate Rome. These facts gave the public strong 
hopes of peace. 
Rumors are warlike, but Cowley’s Mission in¬ 
creases a hope of peace. The Paris correspondent 
of the London Herald says that war is so far resolv¬ 
ed on that the corps to commence the campaign 
have been designated, and orders given to the Min¬ 
ister of War to prepare a plan of operations. It 
is said that the representatives of foreign powers 
in Paris havq abandoned all hope of a pacific solu¬ 
tion. Reported orders to prepare for the campaign 
in Italy were given l|y the Emperor immediately 
after his return from Campagne. 
Another circular was issued by the Minister of 
the Interior to the Prefects of Departments, the 
purport of which is to express the hope, that, not¬ 
withstanding the Emperor’s desire to maintain 
peace, should he be forced to war he may count on 
the patriotism of the French people. A War Office 
circular directs that troops be trained to forced 
marches and the night bivouac. All the military 
surgeons are ordered to join their corps. Immense 
quantities of lint were sent to Lyons. All the regi¬ 
ments of the Imperial Guard were to be supplied 
with rifle cannons on new plans. 
Austria. —The Times’ correspondent says Count 
Buol still believes in peace, but the Emperor, being 
of a different opinion, is preparing for a vigorous 
defence of the Italian States. 
The Times says the Austrian Army in Italy is to 
be placed on a war footing. The second Chamber 
unanimously resolved to request the Government 
to obtain from the Federal Diet resolutions calcu¬ 
lated, by their unanimity and energetic execution, 
to avert the threatened danger of war, but if 
necessary to repel with united power the attacks on 
Austria and Germany. 
Sardinia. —It was reported that Napoleon was 
about to visit the King. Piedmontess volunteers 
were drawn from the frontiers of Modena, and 
ordered to confine themselves to the interior. 
Italy. —Three new forts were to be constructed 
at Venice, in six weeks. Five thousand workmen 
were employed. The fermentation was increasing 
at Milan. The Ionian Parliament rejected Glad¬ 
stone’s projects of reforms. 
Turkey. —More troops had gone to the Danube. 
The Government were arming six frigates, and 
prcpnrJj## numerous pHSSports, >vhooo dual!»«*♦ i<)u 
in case of war would be the ports of the Adriati.. 
Commercial— RreadsUtffs. — Richardson, Spence & 
Co. quote flour dull, and French lots freely offered at 
reduced rates of 10@12s. Wheat very dull, but steady 
in price. Western red 5s6d and 9s2d. Wheat Ss7d@10s. 
Southern 10s@tl0s9d. Corn dull, at 7s@7sSd per both 
mixed and yellow. Provisions. —Bigland, Altbya & 
Co., Richardson, Spence & Co., James McHenry, and 
others, quote beef firm, but quiet. In some cases, an 
advance of 2s6d had been obtained. Bacon steady. 
Lard quiet and unchanged; choice had sold for 62s. 
Cheese slightly advanced on all sorts. Tallow slow of 
sale, at unaltered prices. 
From the Pacific Side. 
Personal and Political. 
Dr. William Tully, formerly professor in the 
Medical Institute of Yale, and author of a work on 
Pharmacology, died at Springfield on the 28th ult. 
Mr. Holt, Commissioner of Patents, has been 
appointed and confirmed Post-Master General. 
The Republican Senatorial Convention of the 
29th district, which met at Albion on the 12th inst., 
unanimously nominated George D. Lamont, of 
Lockport, to fill the vacancy in the State Senate 
occasioned by the death of Hon. Horatio J. Stow. 
TnE election in New Hampshire resulted in favor 
of the Repulbicans. The following are the suc¬ 
cessful candidates:—Governor, Ichabod Goodwin. 
Railroad Commissioner—Adams Twitchell. Con¬ 
gress, 1st district—Gilman Marston. 2d district 
— Mason W. Tappan. 3d district — Thomas M. 
Edwards. Both Houses of the Legislature will be 
Republican by about the majorities of last year. 
Mr. Goodwin is chosen Governor by 3,000 majority; 
Mr. Marston has 400 majority for Congress, Mr. 
Tappan 800, and Mr. Edwards 1,000. 
At the charter election in Syracuse, on the 7th, 
Hon. E. W. Leavenworth, Republican, was elected 
Mayor by over 600 majority. The whole city ticket 
(Rep.) is elected, and seven out of the eight Alder¬ 
men are Republicans. 
The Washington Tragedy. —We have refrained, 
amid the thousand rumors in circulation, from 
making any allusion to this distressing affair until 
the facts in the case were clearly brought out. 
Hon. Daniel E. Sickles, member of Congress from 
the Third District, N. Y. City, suspected Philip 
Barret Key, U. S. Attorney for the District of 
Columbia, of criminal intimacy with Mrs. Sickles, 
and upon obtaining what he considered sufficient 
proof, (together with that lady’s confession,) he 
sought Key in the street and shot him. Mr. Key 
died almost instantaneously. Sickles is in prison 
awaiting trial. 
By the Quaker City, at New Orleans, and the 
Overland Mail at St. Louis, we have California dates 
to the 19th ult., from which we make the following 
abstract of intelligence:—There had been heavy 
rains throughout California. The prospects were 
good for a large trade. The mining accounts are 
favorable. Water was plenty in the gold districts. 
The steamer Uncle Sam met with a terrible gale, 
and returned to San Francisco on the 12tli, and 
sailed again on the 16th for Colorado, as before re¬ 
ported. $15,000 worth of government property 
had been thrown overboard during the hurricane. 
Honolulu dates are to Jan. 20. The export of 
whale products for 1858 was upwards of 126,000 
bbls. of oil and 1,600,000 pounds of bone—a material 
increase over that of last year. 
Some difficulty had occurred in the Okhotsk Sea, 
growing out of the efforts of the Russian brig Con¬ 
stantine to prevent American, French and other 
vessels whaling there. 
Johnson Island had been taken possession of by 
a force from San Francisco, acting for the Pacific 
Guano Co., and improvements were progressing 
there with a view to shipping guano. 
It is reported that new silver mines had been 
opened in Arizona, and that lead, copper, iron, 
alum, gold and silver are abundant in the vicinity. 
The reports from the Gila mines continue unfa¬ 
vorable. 
Mexican News. —New Orleans papers of Satur¬ 
day last are received. They contain the details of 
the news by the brig Minatitlan, from Tampico, up 
to the 26th ult. The Tampico papers manifested 
considerable alarm as to the result of Miramon’s 
expedition, but they considered Vera Cruz in a 
most perfect state of defence. More than 4,000 
men, says the Prisena, can be concentrated there 
in a moment’s notice, in case of attack, without in¬ 
cluding the garrisons of Lare and Freja, or the 
army of Oagaca, numbering 1,000 men, now before 
Orizaba. All counted, the Free Liberals have for 
the defence 6,000 available troops. On the other 
hand, the Prisena thinks that not more than 1,000 
men can be spared from the cities now held at the 
point of the bayonet by the reactionary party, and 
that Miramon will have to depend almost entirely 
upon the army with which he set out from the 
Capital. In the mean time the war is to be prose¬ 
cuted with vigor throughout the interior. 
From Salt Lake. —The War Department have 
received advices from Salt Lake. They represent 
the army as healthy, and the Mormons very civil. 
Letters have also been received from Gov. Cum¬ 
mings. The report that the Mormons would not 
submit to the civil authorities, is untrue. 
— The new State of Oregon contains 185,000 square 
miles. 
— The net amount in the Treasury, subject to draft, is 
$ 6 , 000 , 000 . 
— The Fejec Islands have been placed under British 
protection. 
— Mr. Everett has paid $60,895 into the Mount Ver¬ 
non Fund. 
— The mammoth steamer, Great Eastern will soon bo 
ready for sea. 
— Large bodies of excellent coal have been discover¬ 
ed in Kansas. 
— The army in Utah costs this country nearly $5,000,- 
000 per annum. 
— California contains half a million people, and San 
Francisco 70,000. 
— “ Who is President to-day ?” is the usual salutation 
among Mexicans. 
— There was 41 majority in the House against an in¬ 
crease of postage. 
— naif the three cent pieces in circulation are un¬ 
doubtedly counterfeit. 
— The Treasurer of Dubuque Co., Iowa, is a defaulter 
in the sum of $108,000. 
— Ex-Gov. Denver has resigned his post as Commis¬ 
sioner of Indian Affairs. 
— The New Mexico Legislature has passed a law for 
protection of slave property. 
— The Governor of Maine has appointed Thursday, 
April 21, as a public Fast Day. 
— Gov. Banks has appointed the 7th of April for the 
annual Fast Day in Massachusetts. 
— A mulatto named Wries, is obtaining great celeb¬ 
rity at Paris, for the cure of cancers. 
— Two policemen have been arrested in.New York 
city, charged with highway robbery. 
— The first shad of the season was caught in the Pas¬ 
saic, on Wednesday week, near Belleville. 
— The population of the United States increases one 
million a year, or two thousand every day. 
— The only bar to the complete opening of navigation 
of the lakes, is now in the straits of Mackinac. 
— Messrs. Richard Cobden and Wm. Smith O’Brien 
have been attending the debates in Washigton. 
— The Jackson Monument on the New Orleans bat¬ 
tle ground is now 79 feet high, at a cost $30,000. 
— Several men have been digging for gold on Crook¬ 
ed Creek, a few miles northwest of Macomb, Mich. 
— A “Ragged Newsboys’School ” has been in suc¬ 
cessful operation in Pittsburg for some months past. 
— There are 560,000 books in the British Museum, 
30,000 of which were published in the United States. 
— Small-pox is raging very fatally at the Cape of 
Good Hope, and nearly two thousand have died by it. 
— The good people of Berkshire, Mass., had ninety- 
nine days of uninterrupted good sleighing this winter. 
— The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon has abandoned his con¬ 
templated trip to America, certainly for the present 
year. 
— The inhabitants of Paris, in February, were indulg¬ 
ing in roses and lilacs, and open carriage drives to the 
Bois. 
— Seven persons died in February, whose united 
ages amounted to 790 years. Four of Hiem were ne- 
groeB. 
— Tiie last leaf of the first edition of “ Hamlet” has 
been discovered in Dublin, by Mr. W. Rooney, book¬ 
seller. 
— Large quantities of tea seeds are on their way 
from the East to the Commissioner of Patents, Wash¬ 
ington. 
— This time last year there were 1,268,000 bushels of 
wheat in store in Chicago. Now there arc but 611,000 
bushels. 
— A double girl—two heads, four arms, four legs, at¬ 
tached to one trunk—was born last week at Huntsville, 
Alabama. 
— The press on which Gen. Greene printed the dis¬ 
patches of the army, has lately been discovered in Pen¬ 
dleton, 8. C. 
— At this time Generals Ilenningsen, Wheat, and 
some eight or ten others of the (filibusters arc in Wash¬ 
ington city. 
— A German naturalist has described six hnndred 
species of flies, which he has collected within a district 
of ten miles. 
— A new post-office called Mead’s Creek, has been 
established in Steuben Co., N. Y., and William Winsor 
appointed P. M. 
— Orr, of South Carolina, Stephens, of Georgia, and 
Letcher, of Va., closed their Congressional career with 
the recent term. 
— Buffalo is said to be seventeen miles nearer Balti¬ 
more than it is to New York, since the direct railway 
has been completed. 
— A “ Bearded Ball ” was recently given at Chicago, 
at which no gentleman was admitted without some 
hairy honor to his face. 
— The decaying body of a child, three or four years 
old, was found at a paper mill in Gardiner, Me., in a 
bundle of rags from abroad. 
— At Orange, N. Y., last week, a woman killed her 
child, four years old, because it was not taken from her 
by the Overseer of the Poor. 
— Dr. Geo. Abbott, formerly a resident of this State, 
and recently American Vice Consul at Cairo, Egypt, 
died in Alexandria, in January. 
— There is a rumor that Kossuth, under the name o 
Clarke, has arrived at Genoa, with the idea of partici¬ 
pating in the Italian agitation. 
— There are now three hundred patients in the Indi¬ 
ana Hospital for the Insane—the largest number that 
has ever been within its walls. 
.— Green turtle-soup is now made at Key West, and 
canned for shipment all over the world. It bids fair to 
to become a great article of trade. 
— The battle sword of Gen. Putnam, which he wield¬ 
ed at Bunker Hill, was presented to the Connecticut 
Historical Society a few days since. 
— The Abend-Zeitung says that a brother-in-law of 
Baron Gcrolt, the Prussian Minister at Washington, is 
a newspaper carrier in N. Y. city. 
— It is proposed to shorten the voyage from Calcutta 
to Canton over 1,100 miles, by uniting the Bay of Ben¬ 
gal and Gulf of Siam by ship canal. 
_Three men, engineer, fireman and brakeman, were 
killed by the explosion of a locomotive on the Steuben¬ 
ville and Indiana Railroad, on the 1st inst, 
— The police of New York are stopping street beg¬ 
ging. The consequence is that the cheap boarding 
houses suffer for their supply of cold victuals. 
— There have been a great number of accidents at 
Sebastopol from thp bursting of shells; some twenty 
men and women have been killed the past year. 
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