OF THIS NUMBER. 
AGRICULTURAL. Pagf. 
What is the Use?. 165 
Linseed Cake in England. 165 
Forests and Shade Trees. 165 
That Apiarian Convention,. 165 
Kirby’s Little Harvester,—As a Mower, [Illustrated,]... 165 
The Wire Worm—Potato Growing, &c., . 166 
Wicks’ Atmospheric Churn. [Illustrated,]. 166 
Sale of S. T. Taber's Short-horns. 166 
Rural Spirit of the Frees.—A Hint to take Now; 
now to Wash Sheep; Sowing Peas; Save the Soot: Sow¬ 
ing Plaster. 16G 
Agricultural Miscellany .-Grain and Produce Advan¬ 
cing; The Wheat Crop; Preparing Ground for Corn; A 
Happy and Lucky Shepherd; Grubs in Sheep; Hog 
Cholera; Horse Shows, Fairs, Ac.; The Agricultural 
Press,..166 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Notes in the Flower Garden—Hyacinths; The Narcissus, 
[Illustrated;] The Season. 167 
Canker Worms,. 167 
The Allen Raspberry,. 167 
Pruning Dwarf Pear Trees, [2 Illustrations,].167 
Orchards in Canada. 167 
The Apple Worm, Ac., [Illustrated,]. 167 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Pie Plant Wine; Tomato Sauce; Tomato Chowder; How 
to make Red Comforters; Brown Bread; To keep Po¬ 
tatoes from Sprouting; To Slake a Home Happy.167 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
Parting Thoughts at a Sister's Bridal, [Poetical.] Wo¬ 
man’s Influence; Eddie’s Grave; Ladies and Women, 168 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Old Friends Together, [Poetical.] Reflections; Pictures: 
Mind Your Own Business; What is Wit? a Good Old 
Man; Home; Speakeis and Hearers. 168 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
"God saw that it was Good,” [Poetical.] Immortality; 
A Christ-Like Sentiment. 168 
THE TRAVELER. 
Letters from a Hungarian—No. VII,. 169 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Rise of Water in Lake Ontario; The Harbor of Aca¬ 
pulco. [Illustrated;] The Chameleon; Tea-Tasting; 
Crocodiles,. 169 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
Pleasure Gardening for Youth; The Poet Gray. 169 
STORY TELLER. 
The Blacksmith, [Poetical.] The Twin Cottages; A Story 
of Real Life. 172 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
The Harp of a Thousand Strings—Dick & Fitzgerald. 
Choice Bedding Plants—A. Frost & Co. 
U. S. Tent ana Flag Manufactory—James Field. 
The Annual Session of Prof. A. N. Johnson's School. 
Humes for All—Am. Aid and Homestead Company. 
New Book on Cookery—Mrs. M. L. Scott. 
A Book Every Fanner Should Have-Derby & Jackson. 
1 he Book for Bee-Keepers—M. Quinby. 
Horse Fair at the Mapie Grove Track—J 
Young Splendor—II. M. Calkins. 
failure of Congress to make the usual appropria¬ 
tion for the Post Office Department, the interrup¬ 
tions of the mails, mostly from the presence of 
hostile Indians along the lines, and the consequent 
reduction of mail matter to a comparatively insig¬ 
nificant amount, are the reasons alleged lor the 
discontinuance of this overland experiment. 
Dispatches received from Minister McLean an¬ 
nounce that he has arranged the basis of a treaty 
with Mexico, by which the right of way from the 
Itio Grande to Guay maz is secured. The neutrality 
of the Tehuantepec is also to be guaranteed. 
From Nebraska and Kansas we learn that the 
inhabitants of the former Territory are earnestly 
agitating for the annexation of so much of Nebraska 
as lies south of the Platte river to Kansas, so as to 
secure her admission into the Union at the next 
session of Cougress. The public sentiment in 
that portion of the Territory strongly favors the 
proposed annexation, and it was recently resolved 
in Mass Convention, that Nebraska City nominate 
delegates to the Kansas Constitutional Conven¬ 
tion, which is to assemble at Wyandotte in July. 
The latest Mexican dates are from Vera Cruz to 
the 8th, and the City of Mexico to the 1st of May. 
News unimportant. Gen. Robles was at Jalapa 
with 1,000 men. lie has issued a decree forbid 
ding the passage of the American mails. Great 
confusion existed at the Capita], where a change 
in the Presidency was daily expected, and an out 
break consequently feared. Miramon was trying 
to raise money from European capitalists, on 
pledge of the church property, the Archbishop 
consenting to the mortgage. The English and 
French fleets were still at Sacrificio. 
Personal 
Political. 
-Jos. Wright. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 21, 1859. 
Latest News, Foreign and Domestic. 
Tnc telegraph last evening (Monday,) informed 
ua of the arrival of four steamers at New York and 
Quebec—the Wcser and Eorussia, from Bremen 
the Arago and Nova Scotian, from Liverpool. The 
news received is four days later than that of the 
Persia, given in another column. There had not 
been a collision up to hour of sailing between the 
Austrians and French, but Austria had entered 
Sardinia and taken possession of two or three in 
ferior towns, while France had declared war. We 
give a condensation below: 
Queen Victoria has issued a Roj al Proclamation 
offering a bounty of £10 to able seamen willing to 
enter Her Majesty’s service, with the intention of 
recruiting 10,000 additional seamen. The English 
naval dock-yards and arsenals are in a great state 
of excitement. Preparations for war were being 
made on an extensive scale. Admiralty instruc¬ 
tions were received at Woolwich dock-yard April 
80th, directing the acting master shipwrights to 
hasten with all possible dispatch the completion of 
the various new class steam frfgates in process of 
construction. 
The proclamation of the Austrian Emperor con¬ 
cludes as follows “ Austria, faithful to her mis¬ 
sion in the political world, has drawn the sword to 
defend the rights which treaties have given her, 
and to maintain the independence of European 
States.” 
Napoleon sent to the Corps Legislatif, on the 3d, 
a strong warlike manifesto, in which he says:_ 
“ Austria has virtually declared war against France, 
and nothing remains for France but to take up the 
sword in defence of Italy. He disclaims all idea 
of conquest, and professes nothing but the purest 
sympathy for Italy, and says he is about to place 
himself at the head of the army, and leave the 
Empress and his son to the patriotic care of the 
French people. 
\ ictor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia, addresses 
his troops as follows— “Soldiers!— Austria, who 
is increasing her armies on our frontier, and threat¬ 
ens to invade our territory because her liberty 
reigns with order—hecanse, not might, but con¬ 
cord and affection between the People and the 
Sovereign here govern the State — because the 
groans of oppressed Italy here find an echo—Aus¬ 
tria dares to ask us, who are only armed in self- 
defence, to lay down our arms and submit to her 
clemeocy. That insulting demand received the 
reply it deserved. I rejected it with contempt.— 
Soldiers, I tell it to you, convinced that you will 
take an insult to your king and to your nation as 
an insult to yourselves. The announcement I 
make to you is the announcement of war! Soldiers 
to arms!” 
In Washington, matters are pretty quiet just at 
present. The correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, 
writes that Mr. Dallas, our Minister at London, 
has informed the Secretary of State of the disap¬ 
proval by England of the treaty recently negotia¬ 
ted by Sir Wm. Gore Ousley, and that they had 
given him peremptory orders to proceed to Nicar¬ 
agua and conclude a treaty in accordance with his 
instructions. 
The territorial routes, between Neosha, Missouri, 
and Alberquerque and New Mexico, and between 
Kansas Mission and Stockton, California, which 
were let by contract last year, have been discon¬ 
tinued, to take effect on the 1st of July next. The 
What Napoleon Contracts to Perform. —A 
gossiping letter from Paris, speaking about the 
Austrian Emperor’s mother, says:—“The Arch 
duchess is a woman of the most powerful intellect, 
and still holds her rule over her son as firmly as in 
the days of his minority. Her penetration is pro 
verbial; and she still consults with Metternich up 
on all subjects connected with the interests of the 
Austrian Crown. Ever since the marriage of 
Prince Napoleon, the suspicions of the lady have 
been aroused; and at length, by dint of artifice 
and money, of faith in themselves and the want of 
it in others, the experienced pair have succeeded 
in obtaining the full copy of the letters of Prince 
Napoleon and the Emperor of the French to the 
King of Sardinia, by which it becomes clear that 
the war in Italy is but a secondary object — that the 
ultimate end is the bestowal of Lombardy oti King 
Victor, Pome on Prince Napoleon, Naples on Prince 
Murat, and the overthrow of Austria, which leaves 
the road open to Russia; and then — hurrah for the 
long-cherished idea of an attack on England!—the 
deed which is to render his name immortal as that 
of Caesar, and efface that of the great Napoleon, by 
performing that which even he never dared to do, 
and avenging him.” A nice little job and very 
easily completed, no doubt! 
Medical Information Sought. —At the sugges¬ 
tion of the American Pharmaceutical Association, 
the Secretary of the Interior has directed the fol¬ 
lowing queries to be forwarded to the Indian 
Agents in the employ of the Government:—1st. 
What medicinal plants are used by the differ¬ 
ent Indian tribes in the vicinity of your agency? 
2d. The medical virtues ascribed by the Indians to 
them, whether emetic, carthartic, diuretic, dia¬ 
phoretic, expectorant, anthelminthic, stimulant, 
narcotic, tonic, astringent, or anti-spadmodic; the 
diseases said to be cured or alleviated by the re¬ 
spective plants? 3d. In what latitude are they to 
be found? 4th. In what quantities can they be 
obtained? 5th. How near to navigable streams 
can they be gathered? Gth. What facilities can be 
had for sending them to market ? This informa¬ 
tion is to be„foi'warded to the Indian Bureau. 
F airport Chemical Works. —These Works, es¬ 
tablished some years ago by Mr. D. B. DeLand, at 
Fairport, in this county, rank among the most 
complete*and successful of the kind in the Union. 
Last season the enterprising proprietor visited 
Europe with a view of obtaining a knowledge of 
any improvements worthy of note and introduc¬ 
tion, but found he was already in advance of manu¬ 
facturers in the old world, in some respects. The 
articles manufactured are Saleratus, Bi-Carbonate 
of Soda, Sal Soda, Cream Tartar, Ac., and their 
reputation is'such that they sell readily through¬ 
out the country, thus constantly increasiug the de¬ 
mand through the orders of dealers. 
Piiof. Olmsted expired at his residence in New 
Haven on the 13th inst., aged G8 years. He grad 
uated at \ ale College in 1813, was elected Professor 
of Chemistiy of North Carolina in 181G, and served 
ten years. When there he made a geograpical sur 
vey of that State, the first State survey made in 
this country ; and in 1825 he was elected Professor 
of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Yale 
College, which post he filled at the time of his 
death. 
But a short time since we announced the death 
of Dr. George Abbott, American Vice Consul at 
Cairo; and we now learn of the death of the elder 
brother, Dr. Henry Abbott, the well known col 
lector of Egyptian antiquities, and for nearly thirty 
years the only resident English physician in Cairo 
Ex-Gov. Kent, of Maine, has been appointed 
Justice of the Supreme Judial Court of that State, 
The Republicans of Minnesota have called their 
State Convention at St. Paul on the 20th of July 
to nominate State Officers and Congressmen. 
The Cincinnati Gazette says the talk about 
Guthrie for the next Presidency has nearly died 
out in Kentucky, and Vice-President Breckenridge 
is now the cry. The latter, remarks the Gazette, 
will undoubtedly be the man of the Southern 
Democracy. 
The telegraph informs us that D. A. Smalley, of 
Vermont, the Chairman of the National Central 
Democratic Committee, is now in "Washington, 
conferring as to a compromise of the difficulties 
between the Douglas and Buchanan wings of the 
Democracy, and perhaps in reference to the dele 
gates to the Charleston Convention. 
The Washington correspondent of the New York 
Tribune says that Mr. Slidell is laying his wires 
for the nomination at Charleston, having a perfect 
understanding with Mr. Bright, to the effect that 
their interests are in no event to clash, and are to 
be combined, according to the necessities which 
may arise. 
A select party of the hard shell Democracy met 
at the Astor House, New York city, on the 12th 
inst., to devise some plan to reunite the Democra¬ 
cy of the State. A communication was addressed 
to the State Central Committee, couched in becom¬ 
ing terms, proposing a basis of union by which 
the edict of proscription, issued by the last State 
Convention, should be recalled. The offices are to 
be divided next fall, and the delegates to the 
Charleston Convention appointed between the 
softs and bards according to their relative strength 
in the State. 
The Last Fillibustering Expedition. — It will 
be remembered by our readers that the 1st of April 
last was the day appointed for the delivery of the 
groaning Cubans from the Spanish yoke,” and 
that various enterprising New Yorkers had con¬ 
tracted not only for the completion of the task, but 
also for furnishing a bran new government to the 
benighted residents of this “Gem of the Antilles.” 
Something was sadly out of joint, however, and the 
Cubans will be compelled to submit to the burdens 
their masters may see fit t^Sfhpose, a little longer. 
By the Quaker City,- at New Orleans on the 4th 
inst., we learn that the brig African arrived at 
Port Au Prince, with 35 fillibusters, 240 guns, and 
other munitions of war, having failed to land them 
at Nueva Grandes, Cuba. The attempt was made 
on the 7th ult., but the boats were swamped and 
the munitions in them lost. The African received 
£1,000 in allowance for the service. The Spanish 
Consul in Ilayti had notified Gen. Concha, who dis¬ 
patched a war steamer to capture them. The 
Cabawba, at New York on the 5th inst., confirms 
the foregoing report, adding that one vessel was 
wrecked, and that the crew and fillibusters were 
dependent upon public charity at San Domingo. 
Kctu0 Paragraph 
Among the quotations in the Liverpool market 
range on the 30th ult., was an advance of fifty to 
seventy cents in the price of saltpetre. Could any¬ 
thing be more significant of war than this simple 
statement. 
The aeronauts are going to meet in New York to 
consider the various plans for crossingtbe Atlantic, 
a thing that several ot them are confident can be 
done. Mr. Wise intends to try the voyage from 
St. Louis to New York in the course of the season. 
Major Kearney, of New York, who took aprom- 
inent part in the war with Mexico, it is rumored, 
has entered the staff of one of the French Generals 
as a volunteer. 
Letters from abroad report that the agitation 
which has been going on in Europe for the last 
three months has produced at least one good re¬ 
sult. During that period the people have enjoyed 
more liberty of discussion, and have probably 
learned more, than during the preceding ten years. 
Through journals and pamphlets appealshave been 
made and heard. 
The Province of Novia Scotia is following out the 
reform begun in Canada, and has decided to adopt 
the decimal system of currency. The system is to 
go into operation December 21, 1860. 
New York is an enterprising village. In August 
last—nearly a year ago—the City Hall was partial 
ly destroyed by a fire, enused by tbe fire-works 
used during the Atlantic Cable festivities, but so 
queerly are things managed by the Gothamite offi¬ 
cials, the building has not been repaired to this 
day, notwithstanding the rain pours down through 
the roof at every storm. 
Tns town of Nelson, N. II., containing a popula¬ 
tion of about 650, has made fourteen and a half 
tuns of maple sugar the present season. The 
number of trees tapped was 10,859; the number of 
trees in the town suitable for tapping, which were 
not tapped, is 10,833. 
The Austrian Government has had under dis¬ 
cussion an edict that no Christian should be allowed 
to remain in the service of a Jew. Whereupon the 
Jews resolved that if this edict passed no Jew 
should discount Austrian paper. This was more 
than Austria expected. She therefore discarded 
the exclusive idea on her part, to enjoy the coveted 
privilege of still borrowing money from the Jews! 
Mammon forever 1 
3fctus €onibcm5cr. 
Exploration of the Unknown Regions of the 
Northwest.— The Common Council of the city of 
St. Paul have passed a resolution providing for the 
fitting out of a party of exploration to traverse 
the unknown regions between the boundary line of 
Minnesota and British Columbia. The party is to 
journey under the command of General S. B. Olm- 
stead of Fort Ripley, and Col. Wm. H. Nobles of 
St. Paul. The expedition is to penetrate the un¬ 
broken forests of the Red River of the North, ex¬ 
plore the sources of the Columbia River, and the 
region occupied by the Kutonais Indians, and re¬ 
turn to Minnesota by the way of the Lewis & Clark 
pass, the falls of the Missouri, and the valley of 
Milk River. 
Cotton in Algeria. —The Paris correspondent 
of the N. O. Picayune gives the following informa¬ 
tion touching the experiment of raising Cotton in 
Algeria:—“The French Government has decided 
that hereafter the premiums paid for the cultiva¬ 
tion of cotton in Algeria shall be abolished. Al 
though the Moniteur boasts that while 1,014,000 
pounds of cotton was grown in Algeria in 1854, 
and 1,560,000 pounds in 1857, and the crop of 1858 
will be still larger, there seems to be little ques¬ 
tion the experiment has proved a costly failure, 
and the Government regards money spent on this 
crop as treasure thrown away. The decree hints 
the Government will soon cease to buy the cotton 
in that Colony; at present it is under obligation to 
buy all the cotton raised there. Therefore, in a 
year or two this experiment of the French will 
share the fate of their other costly experiments.” 
The Division of California.— The telegraph 
brings information that a bill for the division of the 
State of California has passed both branches of the 
Legislature, and gone to the Governor for his sig¬ 
nature. This bill is entitled “ An Act for granting 
the consent of the Legislature to the formation of 
different Government for the Southern counties 
of the State,” and undoubtedly looks to the erec¬ 
tion of a territory thus set off, into an independent 
State. The name proposed to be given to it is the 
Territory of Colorado. 
The Pike’s Peak Emigration.— Advices at St. 
Louis on 10th inst., from Pike’s Peak give very 
discouraging accounts of matters in that region. 
Large numbers of miners were returning without 
the means of subsistence on the way back, and it 
is feared that many will die from starvation. Ap¬ 
prehensions were also entertained that they would 
attack the outgoing trains. 
From Japan. —News from Japan dated at Na¬ 
gasaki on the 16th of February, has been received 
at New York. Tycoon, the new civil Emperor, was 
crowned on the 4th of last month at Jeddo. He is 
only 15 years old. A Japanese war steamer was to 
accompany the embassy for Washington as far as 
Panama. A fire in Jeddo had destroyed 5,000 
buildings. Very important despatches from the 
English government had reached Nagasaki, and 
were at once sent on to Jeddo. Their contents 
were not known. 
A Large Business. —The Courier and Enquirer 
of the 12th inst., says the transactions on the Corn 
Exchange yesterday footed up about 30,000 barrels 
of flour, 50,000 bushels of wheat, 46,000 bushels of 
corn, and 20,000 barrels of beef, pork, Ac., to the 
value in all of at least $600,000. This for the sea¬ 
son, when stocks and receipts of breadstuffs are 
much smaller than at other periods of the year, is 
a very large business. 
Plenty of Wine.— The Cincinnati Gazette says 
that in Longworth’s Wine House there is wine 
enough, of last year’s growth, to fill ninety thou¬ 
sand bottles. The entire amount of wine on hand 
is estimated at upwards of 310,000 bottles. 
The Earthquake — “No Great Shakes After 
All.”— It is now said by a journal published near 
Quito, in South America, that only ten persons lost 
their lives by the late earthquake in that city. It 
had been reported that 3,000 were destroyed. 
The work on the People’s College is progressing 
finely; the work in the brick yard has also been 
resumed; all is bustle and stir about the College 
buildings. We understand that it is the intention 
of the Trustees to have the building up and en¬ 
closed this season. So says the Havana Journal. 
Many Italians have left, and others arc about 
leaving this country, to take part in the threatened 
struggle on the soil of their native land. They 
hope that, in the strife, something favorable to 
Freedom may “turn up.” But how, when, or 
where, is not so clear. 
It has been ascertained by careful investigation 
into the influence of marriages of consanguinity of 
offspring, that over ten per cent, of the blind, and 
nearly fifteen percent, of the idiotic in the various 
State institutions, for the treatment of their defects, 
are offspring of kindred parents. And making au 
estimate based on the best ascertained data, there 
would be found in the twenty millions of white in 
habitants in the United States, six thousand three 
hundred and twenty-one marriages of cousins, 
giving birth to three thousand nine hundred and 
nine deaf and dumb, blind, idiotic and insane. 
The death of M. de Tocqueville, already more 
than once prematurely announced, is now unhap¬ 
pily a fact only too well established. The celebra¬ 
ted author of La Democratic cn Ameriquc, died at 
Cannes, on the 16th ult., at the age of 54 years. 
The Savannah Republican says 1,344 tuns of 
guano have been transported to the interior of that 
State over the railroads, for the four months end¬ 
ing 31st March. The Republican says the older 
portions of Georgia are more thrifty and produc¬ 
tive, at this time, than they were 20 years ago. 
The accumulation of smoke in the atmosphere 
of Cincinnati so perpetually obscures the heavens 
from view, that Prof. Mitchell has urged the re¬ 
moval of the Astronomical Observatory. The 
recommendation will be carried out. 
Peterson’s Detector warns persons who are 
compelled to handle bank notes, not to wet their 
thumbs while counting the bills. It remarks that 
if the thumb comes in contact with the tongue af¬ 
ter handling a note from the pocket of a man in¬ 
fected with the small pox, the infection is as sure to 
take effect as the inoculation of a child. 
From the Pacific Side. 
The steamship Star of the West arrived at New 
York on the 14th inst., from Aspinwall with Cali¬ 
fornia mails and dates of April 20th. She left As¬ 
pinwall the 4th, and touched at Havana the 9th.— 
She brings nearly $1,500,000 in specie. She left 
at Aspinwall the frigate Roanoke. 
She reports a rumor at Acapulco—her dates 
probably not so late as already received via. Vera 
Cruz — that the Liberals had taken all of the city 
of Mexico, excepting the Palace. 
The overland mail of March 28th, arrived at San 
Jose, April 19th. All of the California news of in¬ 
terest has been anticipated via. New Orleans. 
The San Francisco markets are dull and glutted 
with Eastern produce. A large number of auction 
sales of assorted dry goods, boots and shoes, and 
groceries, had taken place during the fortnight,— 
Money market easy and active. 
Mining reports continue promising. Weather 
favorable for both agriculture and mining. 
Advices from the Isthmus are uuimportant. The 
PanarnaStar says the Cass-Herran treaty, sent from 
Washington to Bogota for ratification, had been 
lost in the Magdalena River by the capsizing of 
the boat. 
The French brig Lydia, from Bordeaux for Car- 
thagena, was lost near the latter place, April lltb. 
There are no later dates from South America 
than those brought by the Northern Light. 
— There are 29,000 post-offices in the United States. 
— The principal stores in Philadelphia are closed at 5 
o’clock p. M. 
— The water celebration in Brooklyn cost that city 
over $ 10 , 000 . 
— Massachusetts Bay is reported to be full of hump¬ 
back whales. 
— Immense flocks of wild pigeons pass southward 
near Chicago. 
— Prof, Morse and family have returned to New York 
from Porto Rico. 
A New Orleans editor had green corn for his din¬ 
ner on Monday week. 
— Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, the Novelist and Cabi¬ 
net Minister, is very ilL 
— A French writer estimates the whole number of 
vessels afloat at 129,948. 
— Walker, “ the gray-eyed man of destiny,” is resid¬ 
ing quietly at San Francisco. 
— A halibut, weighing 475 pounds, was caught off 
Point Judith, on Sunday week. 
— The chain cables of the steamship Great Eastern 
weigh seventy pounds per link. 
— The Philadelphia Tract 8 ociety distributed 1,659,- 
044 pages of tracts the past year. 
— Bishop Davis, of South Carolina, has, it is stated, 
almost entirely lost his eye-sight. 
— The Peoples’line of boats carry flour from Albany 
to New York for eight cents a barrel. 
— Grace Church, Providence, R. I., wa 9 commenced 
13 years ago, and is not yet finished. 
— A law abolishing the office of crier in the courts 
has gone into effect in Massachusetts. 
— Geo. Roberts’ and Park Benjamin’s Constellation 
newspaper in New York, has “ gone out.” 
— The “ Prairie Chicken ” is the name of a newspa- 
paper recently started in a town Out West. 
— Paul Morphy, the renowned chess player, arrived 
in the Persia, and is stopping in New York. 
— The census to be taken next year will show the 
population of the U. S. to be over 30,000,000. 
— Fifty-one new counterfeits, on different banks, have 
been put in circulation since the 1st of April. 
— The Emperor Napoleon III., having been born on 
the 20th April, 1808, has completed his 51st year. 
— It cost the city of Albany last year to sustain their 
municipal government the round sum of $506,552. 
— There is to be a grand celebration of the comple¬ 
tion of the Victoria Bridge, at Montreal, in October. 
Dr. Henry Miller, of Ky., is elected President of 
the American Medical Association for the ensuing year. 
— At Petersburgh, Va., last week, a party of factory 
girls administered au unmerciful thrashing to a liber¬ 
tine. 
— The Kent (Md.) News states that at least one-haif of 
the peach crop in that county has been destroyed by 
frost. 
It is computed that not much less than a hundred 
thousand pounds of sugar will be made in Liberia this 
year. 
— A factory for the manufacture of tapestry carpets 
js about to be established at Cohoes by Albany capi¬ 
talists. 
— The Milwaukee Sentinel says that 85,000 barrels of 
lager beer and aie are manufactured in that city an¬ 
nually. 
— The Legislature of California has resolved to have 
the laws of the State translated into the Spanish lan¬ 
guage. 
— Major General Sir Fenwick Williams, Bart., of 
Kars, is appointed Commander-in-chief of the forces in 
Canada, 
— Commander J. S. Paine, of the United States Navy, 
died at his residence in Portland on Monday week, aged 
60 years. 
— Bishop Cobb, ©f Ala., has sent to the county treas¬ 
urer at Huntsville, $960 handed him by a thief at the 
confessional. 
— The Prussian frigate Gedon, which has arrived at 
Norfolk, Vo., has on board 500 men and officers, includ¬ 
ing a prince. 
— St. Louis now claims a population of 190,000, by 
actual count, and that the census of 1860 will credit her 
with 225,000. 
— In one part of London, people live in the propor¬ 
tion of 243,000 per square mile ; and in a part of Liver¬ 
pool 4G0,000. 
— Five car loads of English converts to Mormonism 
passed West the other night, on the emigrant train, 
bound for Salt Lake. 
— The Milwaukee Sentinel chronicles the arrival of 
passengers in that city in forty hours from New York,— 
the quickest time yet. 
— At the New Tyne Docks, in England, a steamer 
was recently loaded with 400 tuns of coal and trimmed 
for sea in 55 minutes. 
— In 1S14 there were but 11 weekly papers in Connoo- 
icut-no dailies, of course. There are now some 40 
weeklies and 14 dailies. 
— A little son of J. B. Chase, of Albany, Wis., died on 
Saturday week, from the effects of a pumpkin seed 
lodging in his windpipe. 
— Two well known Canadian nabobs are up for 
Parliament in England, Sir Allan McNab and Judge 
Haliburton (Sam Slick.) 
— Soulouque’s prime Minister is said to have cheated 
the ex-Emperor out of his ill-gotten money, and is en¬ 
joying it at present in Paris. 
— Some 30 young Germans have left Cincinnati for 
the father-land, intending to enlist in the service of Aus¬ 
tria, out of dislike to Napoleon. 
— The statistics of Ohio for 185S show the number of 
suicides in that State to have been CO in all, or one in 
every 40,000 of the population. 
Death-bed bequests are not valid in Canada. Be¬ 
quests, to be valid, must be mado six months at least 
before the death of the testator. 
— Every person who smokes in the streets of Salem, 
Mass., renders himself liable to a flue of $3. The 
authorities are enforcing the law. 
— Collantes, Spanish ex-Ministcr of Public Works, 
has been impeached by the Cortes for having, in 1854, 
defrauded the Treasury of $50,000. 
— Among the passengers for Europe in the steamer 
Africa, which sailed on Wednesday, was Chevalier 
Hulsemann, the Austrian Minister. 
— Barbers complain that the prevailing custom of 
wearing all the hair that will grow on the faco has de¬ 
creased their business at least 10 per cent, 
Mr. Wheeler Green, of Ashley Falls, Mass., over 
100 years old, has recently married Mrs. Schemmerhorn, 
of Norfolk, Conn., over 80. A “ love match.” 
In Cincinnati they have introduced a plan of mak¬ 
ing the inmates of the city prison earn their Bread. A 
large number arc at work in the stone quaries. 
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