CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
AGRICULTURAL. Taob 
Oats—Varieties, &c„. 141 
Black Tartarian Oat, [.Illustrated,]. HI 
House Building—No. 1,. 141 
Shall we Plow Deep or Shallow ?. 141 
Variety of Crops. 141 
Smut and its Preventive,. 141 
Cheap Mode of Underdraining,.142 
Clerical Farming,. 142 
Chinese Sugar Cane,. 142 
Prolific Sheep,. 142 
Condensed Correspondence. —Plowing — An Expe¬ 
rience; Jerusalem Artichokes: A Good Fence,.142 
Inquiries and Answers .—Stump Machines; New 
Churn; Bees and Bees-Hives; Drain Tile, &c.142 
Rural Spirit of the Press .—Culture of Corn; Har¬ 
rowing and Rolling Wheat; Subsoil Plowing; Wool 
Growing Profitable; Hop-Poles—A Substitute. 142 
Agricultural Miscellany .—The Weather; That Four- 
Minute Churn; The Best Implements; Union Ag. Socie¬ 
ty; An Ag. Editor Caned; Freak of Nature; In Office; 
A Weighty Calf; Sod Fences; Scab in Sheep;—and va¬ 
rious items. 142 
HORTICULTURAL. 
A Garden Gate, [2 Illustrations,]. 143 
Unsuccessful Experiments,. 143 
Grafting Composition. 143 
Killing of Peach Buds by Cold,. 143 
The New Native Grapes,. 143 
Horticultural Improvements.143 
Peas in China. 143 
Chronometrical Thermometer,. 143 
Curculio Remedy,. 143 
Inquiries and Answers .—Grapes for Illinois; The 
Mazzard Cherry; Fruit Growing in Michigan; Pound 
Pear, Ac.; Root Grafting, Ac., [Illustrated;] Blasted 
Apples, ..'. 143 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Ice Cream; Omelet; Soft Gingerbread; Clove Cake; 
Golden Cake: Silver Cake; Dayton Cake; Pound 
Cookies: Apple Custard; Fruitcake: Raiding Cake; 
Drop Cake; Cookies; Cream Cake; Soft Gingerbread; 
Harrison Cake; Remedy for Contracted Cords, Ac.,.. 143 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
The Angels arc Near, [Poetical.] Plain Talks to Ameri¬ 
can Women—No. H; How Shall we Amuse the Children? 
A French Woman at Home: Humility of a Queen ; 'The 
Mother,. 144 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Lines to a Bereaved Parent, [Poetical.] Our Academy: 
A Newspaper Editor; Hospitality,. 144 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Rest. [Poetical.] “The Light of Heaven;” Repentance; 
Patience of God. 144 
EDUCATIONAL. 
Puffing Books; A Little Learning; The School-Room a 
Little World; A Smart Spell,. 145 
THE REVIEWER. 
The Methodist; or Incidents and Characters from Life in 
the Baltimore Conference; Oriental and Western 
Siberia,.145 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Vera Cruz in a Storm, [Illustrated;] London Banks; Di¬ 
viding One’s Time; Animal and Vegetable Life,. 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
Pleasure Gardening for Children; Don’t Think; To Re¬ 
move Grease from Books. 14 
STORY TELLER. 
Springiias Come, [Poetical.] Daisies. 158 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
The Atlantic Monthly—Phillips, Sampson A Co. 
Three Years’ Wanderings—L. Stebbins A Co. 
Farm Drainage—A New Book—A. 0. Moore A Co. 
Art of Dyeing—Daniel Conger. 
Farmers, Mechanics and Builders—Moore, Hebing A Co. 
Lanestroth on the Bee—A. 0. Moore A Co. 
To Egg Packers, Farmers and Others—Hall A Co. 
English Fluke Potato—C. W. Thompson. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 30, 1859. 
Foit notice to Correspondents and Readers see 
first column of next page. 
Beview of the Week. 
The arrival of the Arabia, at Halifax, with a 
week’s later news (a synopsis of which will be 
found in another column,) seems to confirm the 
warlike spirit observable in the dispatches of the 
previous steamer. Austria and France are equally 
active in all preparations for offense and defense 
Staitsticians are already figuring the chances of 
the combatants, and we present the following view 
which seems to be the most tangible of any brought 
to our notice. .Austria has 220,000 in her Italian 
possessions, being a force equal to about one 
twenty-third part of all her Italian subjects, 
country that can be retained only by such a force 
as that, is not wort!) having. The army is large; 
but in case of war, at least 50,000 of it would have 
to be left in garrison, and an equally great number 
so stationed as to be ready to act in other Italian 
communities, or against the Lombard peasantry. 
Hence, she could bring hut 120,000 men against 
the French and Sardinians, and the latter could 
bring 40,000 men into the field, while France ought 
to he able to send double that number by land 
alone. The real weakness of Austria, however, 
would proceed from the naval superiority of the 
French by sea, as the latter would he able to choose 
their points of attack, and so compel the Austrians 
to disseminate their forces,— and dissemination is 
often fatal to armies. To equalize her forces with 
those of France and Sardinia, Austria should have 
300,000 men in Italy, and heavy forces in all the 
countries bordering on the Adriatic and its estua¬ 
ries. As to help from any of the Italian rulers 
whom she helps, it is what she cannot look for, and 
probably does not expect. They would have 
enough to do to uphold their own power, if that 
could he upheld. She is clearly overmatched. 
From Washington we learn that Secretary Cass 
has expressed to the Nicaraguan Minister his ap¬ 
proval of the Cass-Yssarri Treaty, but the President 
rejects it. His objection lies against what is known 
as the additional article, as amended by Nicaragua, 
which provides that the United States will do all in 
her power to enforce the neutrality laws, and for 
Hie prevention of any armed expedition against 
Nicaragua. While some prominentgentlemen look 
upon this as a reflection of our good faith in carry¬ 
ing out the neutrality laws, and as unnecessary, 
others are disposed to regard the ratification ns an 
evidence of a disposition of Nicaragua to cultivate 
friendly relations with the United States. Slight 
as the amendment is, it is not certain it will he ac¬ 
ceptable to the Administration, which lias not yet 
given it due consideration with regard to the efforts 
of the British authorities to remove the obstacles 
to the Clayton Bulwer Treaty. Much interest is 
manifested in diplomatic quarters in regard to the 
subject. It is stated that Gen. Juarez will return 
to Nicaragua in the steamer of May 5th. 
The Sickles’ trial drags its slow length along. It 
was hoped that counsel would submit the case to 
the jury without argument, and aconclusion would 
thus have been obtained on Saturday, the 23d inst- 
But speak they must and will — when exhaustion 
occurs we shall look for a verdict. 
Our State Legislature found a day of adjourn¬ 
ment at last. The dissolution occurred on the 19th 
inst. The Legislature sat one hundred and six 
days. During that time 895 bills were introduced 
in the Assembly, and 352 in the Senate, making a 
total of 1,247. The total number of hills passed by 
both Houses is 586, much less than one-half of 
those introduced. The Governor, on the 18th, had 
signed 512, vetoed 13, just a baker’s dozen, and 
had under consideration 11. While the “ ties of 
duty and social intercourse” which bound our law¬ 
makers together were being severed, wit, humor, 
solemnity and deep feeling ruled the hour, as each 
individual was impressed by the transactions 
around him. We may “raise the curtain” upon 
some of the “closing scenes,” in a future Rural. 
In another portion of our present issue it will 
be observed that Gen. Twiggs has ordered out a 
considerable force for the purpose of chastising 
the Indians of Texas. This would seem to he nec¬ 
essary, if the following paragraph (said to be well 
authenticated,) contains nothing but the truth: 
“Capt. Ford, with forty-seven of his men, left 
camp in pursuit of the Indians, who had carried off 
four hundred horses. He was joined by two hund¬ 
red friendly Indians, and afterwards by Major Van 
Dorn, with two hundred and eighty regulars. Af¬ 
ter the united forces had passed the headwaters of 
Red river, Major Van Dorn, not deeming it prudent 
to press the pursuit further without additional 
supplies for men and horses, turned hack. Capt. 
Ford and men, with the friendly Indians, continued 
two days traveling in the direction of Kansas. Be¬ 
tween midnight and daybreak of the second night, 
the Indians left the camp of Capt. F. About day¬ 
light Capt. F. found liimself surrounded by eight 
hundred warriors, who demanded his surrender.— 
He refused, and ordered his men to prepare for 
fight, each being armed with two revolvers and a 
rifle. They fought bravely and desperately, but 
were overpowered by numbers, and all butcherd 
except Capt. Ford and four of his men, who cut 
their way through and escaped.” 
During the night of Friday, the 22d inst., we 
were visited by a north-easter with the unusual ac¬ 
companiments. For about twenty-four hours the 
warring elements had everything pretty much their 
own way—wind, rain and snow alternating. Sun¬ 
day morning we were blessed with nearly six 
inches of snow. The storm extended to Syracuse 
on the East, and to St. Catherines, C. W., on the 
West—the fall of snow growing heavier as its 
western boundary was approached. In Buffalo the 
people rode to church in sleighs. We are not pos¬ 
sessed of the figures, but are inclined to the belief 
that more moisture was deposited during this brief 
storm than for any similar period within a twelve¬ 
month. 
The Overland Mail, with San Francisco dates to 
the 25th ult., arrived at St. Louis on the 20lli inst. 
The news is unimportant. Markets generally un¬ 
changed. The State Finances were flourishing— 
upwards of §80,000 in the Treasusy. The mining 
news from California and British Columbia, was 
favorable. The news of the admission of Oregon 
as a State reached Portland on the 15th ult., but 
occasioned no demonstration. Passengers by the 
mail report the massacre of a family of nine persons 
by the Caddo Indians, in the vicinity of Cooper 
Camp, Texas. 
Exports ok Breadstuffs. — The Courier and 
Enquirer says the exports of breadstuffs from New 
York to Great Britain and Ireland, for the fiscal 
year commencing the 1st of September last, is 
about one-ninth that of the three previous years, 
and the aggregate exports of the same from the 
United States for five fiscal years, have been as fol¬ 
lows : 
Year. Value. Year. Value. 
1853- 4..$48,883,000 1855-6.$56,619,000 
1854- 5. 31,057,000 1856-7. 55,G24,000 
1857-8.$33,698,000 
An average of forty-three millions of dollars; or 
ten millions in excess of the last fiscal year; and 
ten millions less than the export in 1846-7—the 
latter having been $53,262,000. 
Personal and Political. 
Gov. Randall lias appointed Hon. Luther S. 
Dixon, of the Ninth Circuit, as Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in the place of Judge 
Whiton, deceased. 
Iowa holds a Republican State Convention at 
Des Moines on the 2d of June. 
Dr. Wm. Sawyer, who was the oldest living 
graduate of Harvard University, having graduated 
in 1788, and an eminent physician, died in Boston 
Monday week, aged 89 years. Hon. Josiah Quincy 
is now the oldest living graduate of Harvard. 
The Hon. Geo. M. Bibb died of pneumonia, at 
his residence, in Georgetown, on the 21st inst. He 
was a long time United States Senator from the 
State of Kentucky, and Chancellor of that State, 
and subsequently filled the office of Secretary of the 
Treasury in the administration of President Tyler. 
Ilis age was between eighty and ninety years. 
The Jackson (Miss.) Eagle of the South, argues 
that, inasmuch as by the Federal basis of represen 
tation, slaves are counted only at three-fifths, and 
as African apprentices, “ hound to service for a 
term of years,” would he computed and fully rep¬ 
resented, thereby increasing the power of the South 
in Congress, that the establishment of such a sys¬ 
tem is worthy of the serious consideration of the 
South. 
The Hon. Jeremiah Clemens, of Memphis, Tcnn., 
in a speech at Nashville, Tcnn., on the 29th ult., 
said that it required extraordinary credulity to be¬ 
lieve that the Administration intended to use the 
$30,000,000 it asked for of the late Congress in the 
purchase of Cuba. “ In my honest opinion,” con¬ 
tinued Mr. Clemens, “the intention was to use it 
as a corruption fund to secure the nomination and 
election of Mr. Slidell as President of these United 
States. There is nothing in the past history of 
either James Buchanan or John Slidell to place 
them above suspicion. Give them $30,000,000 to 
be used in buying Spanish officials, and unless 
some such miracle occurs ns that of the leopard 
changing his spots, a part of the sum will be em 
ployed in buying the Charleston Convention, and 
the remainder in purchasing the vote necessary to 
insure the election of its nominee.” These “ Ilon- 
orables” ought to know how the wires are pulled. 
Hon. William C. Bouck, of Schoharie, died at 
his residence in that county, on the morning of the 
19th instant, aged seventy-three years. From a 
notice of Gov. B. in the Albany Argus, we learn 
that in 1807 lie held the first offices of the town of 
liis residence in Schoharie, and in 1812 was appoint¬ 
ed Sheriff of the county. He was a member of the 
Assembly in 1814-15-16 and’18. In 1820 and ’21 
he was a State Senator. In March, 1821, lie was 
elected by the Legislature one of the Canal Com 
missioners. This office he held uninterruptedly 
until 1840. In 1840 he was the Democratic candi¬ 
date for Governor, but was beaten by Gov. Seward. 
In 1842 he was elected Governor, and held the 
office for one term, retiring from it on the first day 
of January, 1845. In 1840 he was a member of the 
Constitutional Convention. In .the same year he 
was appointed by President Polk Sub-Treasurer 
in the city of and {told tliut pusilluii 
until the nccessioi'^P'T.esident Taylor, in 1849. 
From that time hefius quietly resided at his home¬ 
stead in Schoharie,(agreeably spending the evening 
of his days in the home, and among the associates 
of his youth and early manhood. He lived on the 
same farm occupied by his father and grand-father, 
and which was a part of the tract on the Schoharie 
creek patented by the latter and others from George 
the II, in 1755. 
Ncms Paragraphs. 
Important Mews from Utah. 
Tiie Rumored Cuban Revolution.— The official 
Gazette of Havana, in its issue of April 10th, pub¬ 
lishes an elaborate article contradicting and ridi¬ 
culing the report that an expedition of fillibusters 
from the United States has started, or is about to 
start, for the island of Cuba. It says that the 
people of the island are contented, prosperous, and 
devotedly loyal, and have for their defence an army 
of 20,000 regulars and 30,000 armed volunteers, 
and a fleet of more than thirty vessels ; that it is 
absurd to suppose that the fillibusters, if they suc¬ 
ceeded in effecting a landing, could accomplish 
anything but their own destruction. 
A New Controversy. —A new controversy with 
Great Britain is growing up in the North West.— 
It appears that when the United States gave up the 
right to all the territory as far as 54° 40’ north lati¬ 
tude, the boundary was laid down in such an igno- 
ant and careless manner, that it is now uncertain 
whether certain waters and islands belong to Great 
Britain or Washington Territory. The influx of 
settlers has rendered these doubtful islands valu¬ 
able, and the chances for another dispute seem to 
he excellent. 
N. Y. State Editorial and Typographical As¬ 
sociation. —The Sixth Annual Meeting of the New 
York State Editorial and Typographical Associa¬ 
tion will be he’d in the city of Syracuse, on Thurs¬ 
day, June 9, 1859, at 12 o’clock M. It is expected 
that the Annual Address will be delivered in the 
evening by lion. Horace Greeley, editor of the 
N. Y. Tribune. After the address, a poem will he 
delivered by Anson G. Chester, Esq., editor of the 
Syracuse Daily Journal. 
. Tnn Deseret Valley Tan of the 15th of March, 
contains the following news of interest: 
Between four and five thousand persons will 
leave this Territory for the Slates and California, 
all of them apostates from the Mormon Church, in 
a few months. 
A rumor of a collision between troops stationed 
at Provo and Mormon citizens, prevailed at Salt 
Lake City. The troops were stationed there by 
order of Judge Cradelbaugh during the session of his 
Court. It was supposed that the Court would ad 
journ the 15th, and that nothing would be done 
except to try two Indians, the Church hierarchy 
that controls this people over-reaching the juris¬ 
diction of the United States Courts. Judge Cra¬ 
delbaugh thus explains this matter in his charge to 
the Grand Jury: 
“Some United States troops are here. Perhaps 
it is an unusual thing. I knew thut there were 
those who were guilty, out of the camp, and also 
that there were many guilty around here of nume¬ 
rous offences. I was informed that there was no 
prison here, and those troops were sent by the 
commanding General, at my request, to take care 
of the prisoners now in custody, and not to inter¬ 
fere with any one. They are here to take cure of 
and preserve the peace. If prisoners are brought 
they will be taken care of, and the whole authority 
of the troops is to detain those persons in custody 
until they are called for by the Court, and they 
have no power beyond that Court.” The Judge, in 
his charge to the Grand Jury, refers to the fact that 
attempts had been made to destroy the Court and 
its usefulness, and even to bring the jurors into 
disrepute. He refers to many cases of murder and 
crime committed throughout the district, hut in 
which no indictments had been found by previous 
Mormon Grand Juries. 
S. L. Hubbell gives an account of his travels 
from Salt Lake City to Weber Station. At Emi¬ 
gration Canon, he met snow 12 to 15 inches deep. 
Over the Little Mountain the snow was four feet 
deep ; at the spring on the Big Mountain, the mail 
party, having traveled eleven hours, had made two 
miles. Mr. Hubbell started next morning, and 
found the snow six to eight feet deep. Still further 
on, in eight hours’ travel, they made half a mile. 
But the worst was to encounter in getting down 
the Big Mountain, where the snow was at least 15 
or 20 feet deep. Monday, the 21st of February, 
they made East Canon Creek, all nearly snow- 
blind, except one Mexican and the writer—four of 
them could only keep the path by holding on to a 
mule—in snow six to ten feet, and not a sign of a 
trail. On the 23d, they arrived at Weber Station; 
and were relieved. 
Capt. Job Parks, the celebrated Shawnee Chief, 
died at Westport, Mo., on the 4th inst. He had 
been for twenty years the ruling spirit among the 
Shawuees on the Missouri border, and his loss will 
be severely felt by his tribe. 
At a recent festival in Paris, Louis Napoleon I service - 
wore a sword whose scabbard and hilt were covered 
with $30,000 worth of diamonds, while the Empress 
displayed a million of dollars worth of diamonds. 
In pursuance of orders from the War Depart¬ 
ment, the recruiting service throughout the United 
Stales was discontinued on the 30th ult. The 
ranks of the army are now full for the first time in 
twenty years, but there is a considerable surplus of 
recruits from which to fill future vacancies. We 
are now ready for the next war. 
Venezuela is reported to be in a state of revolu 
tion. An action had taken place between Generals 
Garvaez and Plinto, in which the former was 
routed. The town of San Felipe had been plunder¬ 
ed of $100,000 worth of property by Gen. Zumara. 
The Davenport Gazette has a letter from Florence, 
Nebraska, dated the 5th inst., stating that there 
was then eighteen inches of snow on the ground, 
and it had drifted terribly. A dreadful storm of 
wind had prevailed, prostrating almost everything 
in its way. No covered wagon or tent could stand 
before it. It is to be feared that there has been a 
great loss of life on the plains among the emigrants 
to Pike’s Peak and elsewhere, and certainly agreat 
deal of suffering, at the least. 
The average income of the Mexican Church is 
twenty-five millions a year, while the revenue of 
the National Government of the Republic is only 
fifteen millions. 
Lord Campbell’s hill substituting the verdict of 
the majority for the unanimous verdict of juries in 
civil cases, has been thrown out of the House of 
Lords. Only 7 votes were given for the measure. 
The number of Jews in Oregon, most of whom 
are engaged in commercial pursuits, is large. In 
Portland they have a synagogue, lately incorporat¬ 
ed by the Legislature, under the name of the “ Con¬ 
gregation Beth-Israel,” where religious worship is 
conducted after the custom of the German Israel ites. 
A large portion of them, however, are free-thinkers. 
The opposition to the presence of the Chinese in 
California is growing stronger every day. In the 
mining districts the hostility is kept within hounds 
only by the strong arm of the law. Among the 
hills before the Assembly is one to put a stop to the 
species of serfdom by which large numbers of 
Chinese are held by wealthy Chinese companies in 
a condition of slavery. Also a hill increasing the 
fax upon Chinese laborers, and others annoying 
them in different ways. 
Wednesday week will be remembered by the 
clerks in the N. Y. Post-Office. The foreign letters 
dispatched were 35,187; the foreign letters received 
per Niagara, Kangaroo, and Persia were 72,499; 
add to those 99,000 for domestic—sent and received 
and we have a total of nearly 200,000 letters, 
making the largest and heaviest day’s work ever 
known in the Post-Office. 
Col. William Bent, of Bent’s Fort, which is in 
the midst of the Kansas gold region, lias arrived 
in Illinois, and gives it as his opinion that money 
cannot be made at Pike’s Peak unless richer mines 
are discovered than have yet been found. His 
opinion is worth something. 
The remains of the Christian hero, Havelock, lie 
in a dirty kitchen garden at Lucknow, India, the 
only mark to designate the spot being his name 
rudely cut in the bark of a neighboring tree. 
The Hamilton (C. W.) Times mentions the fol¬ 
lowing peculiarities of the new Canadian cent coin. 
They are not only tokens of value, hut also stand¬ 
ards of weight and measure. One hundred cents 
weigh exactly one pound, and one cent measures 
one inch. 
For the first time in 51 years, the Chief Justice 
of Canada was presented by the Sheriff with a pair 
of white gloves, signifying, according to the old 
English custom, that there were no prisoners to be 
brought before the present Assizes. 
The Government lands of Michigan, which were 
withdrawn from market tiyo or three years ago, for 
the purpose of permitting the railroad companies 
make their selections from the grant of Congress, 
have been restored, and the land-offices at Ionia 
and other places again thrown open to purchasers. 
It lias been found in Springfield, that 290 gallons 
of Massachusetts State rum docs not contain pure 
spirits enough to pay for distillation. Massachu¬ 
setts liad better stop peddling liquor. 
Tiie Court Milliner recently died in London, 
leaving property valued at $400,000. She leaves 
most of it to charities; for herself, she directed that 
she should be buried in point lace. 
The Milwaukee News says a large number of 
Pike’s Peak explorers from Wisconsin are return¬ 
ing. They have little to say, and nothing to show. 
Nine and a half millions of acres of the pub¬ 
lic lands in Kansas and Nebraska which were with¬ 
held last year on account of the financial revulsion, 
will he in market in July, August and September. 
It is expected that these sales will increase the rev¬ 
enue for the next fiscal year very materially. 
Tiie Utah correspondent of the Chicago Tribune 
has taken notes of the status of that territory. The 
results foot up as follows :■—Three hundred and 
eighty-seven men with seven or more wives; of 
these 13 have more than 19 wives; 730 men with 
five wives; 1,100 men with four, and 1,400 with 
more than one wife. 
Since the commencement of the Sickles trial an 
average of 15,000 words have been sent by telegraph 
daily from Washington to New York. Such an 
amount of telegraphic transmission never was 
heard of in Europe, and is unprecedented in this 
country. 
There is an abundance of splendid timber of the 
softer kinds in California, but the couutry is desti¬ 
tute of the tough, hard timber for ship-building 
and other purposes requiring stout and durable 
material. The whole supply of such timber is ob¬ 
tained from the Atlantic States—of course at great 
cost. All the wood for land carriages is imported, 
as are also axe, hammer and hoe handles. 
<tl)c Ncius Condenser. 
— Tae number of guns carried by tbo British navy is 
15,188. 
— Washington Irring attained liis 70th year on the 
3d inst. 
— Philadelphia has nine steam Are engines ready for 
— It is again reported that Spurgeon is coming to 
this country. 
— It is now stated that the Sickles trial will last till 
the first of May. 
— At noon on Monday week the Governor of this State 
had signed 220 bills. 
— Seven million gallons of whisky are annually con¬ 
sumed in Scotland. 
— There are about twenty-nine thousand post-offices 
in the United States. 
— Miss Harriet K. Hunt, of Boston, lias commenced 
to preach the gospel. 
— There were 4,4G9 bales of cotton burnt at tlio lato 
fire in New Orleans. 
— Rev. Mr. Finney is preaching daily to crowded 
audiences in London. 
— Stone coal lias been discovered in the town of 
Boston, Erie Co., N. Y. 
— There is said to be an active volcano in a secluded 
part of Shasta Co., Cal. 
— 8Irawberries, of Maryland growth, have appeared 
In the Baltimore market. 
— The population of Paraguay in 1856 was 976,000; 
two thirds of whom arc Indians. 
— A young man died in N. Y. city recently from in¬ 
haling chloroform to allay tiie toothache. 
— An English paper says the Prince of Wales will bo 
Viceroy of Ireland before the close of 1860. 
— There is much excitement in Norwich, Conn., In 
consequence of the small pox breaking out 
— The French experiments in fish culture have dis¬ 
covered that salmon may be raised in fresh water. 
— The railroads in the six New England Slates have 
cost more than a hundred and fifty million dollars. 
— A writer in one of tho N. Y. city papers proposes 
the establishment of an asylum for indigent old men. 
— The Massachusetts Legislature is to hold an extra 
session to revise tiie revision of the Revised Statutes. 
Attorney General Black feels much better than he 
did some time ago, and lias gone back to Washington. 
— A law recently passed in Maine establishes tho 
annual salary of Hie members of the Legislature at $150. 
Some ninety liberated staves, and over tliirly freo 
negroes, are about to embark, at Baltimore, for Liberia. 
— The Southern route for a Pacific Railroad lias been 
abandoned. No water to be had by boring six hundred 
feet. 
— Two girls passed through Providence, III., a few 
days since, on their way to Pike’s Peak with an ox 
team. 
Dr. Duff, the eminent Scotch missionary in India, 
who visited America a few years ago, is again in fccblo 
health. 
— An extensive iron mine, of exceeding richness, has 
been discovered in Oregon, about thirteen miles from 
Portland. 
Five men accidentally happened to congregate at 
i store in Monterey, Cal., whoso combined weight was 
1,076 lbs. 
— Wm. Wilson, formerly a member of Congress from 
the Lycoming District, Pennsylvania, died at Sunbury 
last week. 
— During last winter, the State of New York sup¬ 
ported, in various ways, 30,000 persons as paupers or 
prisoners. ' 
— The State of Ohio has wormed an auger into itself 
at Columbus to the deptli of 1,9G0 feet—not a drop of 
water yet. 
— It is stated tliat buildings to the value of over three 
million dollars are now in the course of construction in 
New York. 
— Fresh bananas and Bermuda potatoes are selling 
at Albany—the former 10@25 cents each, and the latter 
$1,75 per peek. 
— The quantity of oysters opened ntFairhaven, Conn., 
within tiie past six months, is 700,000 bushels, equivalent 
to 350,000 gallons. 
— A letter from a planter in Florida, says tliat it has 
been raining almost incessantly in that region for tho 
last three months. 
— Tiie news of tiie admission of Oregon as a Slate 
readied Portland on the 15th ult., but occasioned no 
demonstration. 
— A man in Indiana has been sentenced to eighteen 
years’ imprisonment, for burning his own child to death 
because it fretted. 
— Tiie Green Bay Advocate says tliat none of tiiesaw 
mills in that city arc running, and but three of them will 
fire up this summer. 
— The Lawrence Herald of Freedom states tliat tiie 
prospects for the establishment of a University in Kan¬ 
sas are very flattering. 
— The Massachusetts Legislature has before it a bill 
making a single case of drunkenness a crime to be pun¬ 
ished witli imprisonment. 
— Dr. Scanzoni, of Wurtzburg, who attended the Em¬ 
press of Russia at the birth of her last child, lius receiv¬ 
ed for liis services $25,000. 
— A vessel arrived at Portland from Havana, when 
2>1 hours of port, picked up a cat, which was demurely 
seated on a bale of goods. 
— The merchants of Albany N. Y., have opened a 
war on the old copper cents, the greatest nuisance in 
the currency of the country. 
— Over $70,000 have been subscribed to the fund for 
the establishment of Prof. Agassiz’s proposed Museum 
of Natural History, in Boston. 
— Soulouque's prime Minister is said to have cheated 
the cx-Emperor out of all liis ill-gotten money, and is 
enjoying it at present in Paris. 
— Tiie propeller Hunter, first vessel of the season for 
Chicago, sailed from Collingwood Saturday week, with 
a full cargo and 20 passengers. 
— A certain poacher, addressing himself to ladies who 
wear exaggerated hoops, said recently, “ Remember ho w 
narrow are tiie gates of Paradise.” 
— A note from Paris, dated April4, states that Senator 
Sumner had gone to Rome. He was, at last accounts, ^ 
in a very bad condition of health. 
— Tiie statistics of Ohio for 1858, show that tiie mnn- 1 
her of suicides in that Slate was sixty in all, or one in J 
every forty thousand of the population. 
— Jerome Bonaparte, the survivor of all tho brothers ^ 
and sisters of Napoleon I., “still lives,” at tho age of J 
76. Ho was the youngest of the family. 
— A proposition is before the California Legislature to 
set off all bolow tiie flGtli parallel as a separate territory 
to be united to Arizona, or to form a new State. 
