OF THIS NUMBER. 
AGRICULTURAL. Page. 
Farm Hedges, [Two Illustrations:]—Hardiness of the 
Osage Orange —The Newcastle Thom, Hawthorn, 
Ac.—Beauchamp's Defence of the Hawthorn — Bar¬ 
berry for Hedging. 397 
Growing Timothy Seed on the Prairie. 397 
Experience with Lightning Rods.397, 398 
Eradicating Milkweed. 398 
Special Places for Wintering Bees. 
Facts About Potatoes.—A Good Yield—Will Potatoes 
Mix in the Hill ?—The White Heahanock. 
Rural Letter from Iowa... 
Saying Fodder—Farm Mills. 
Wood Ashes for the Pea-Bug. 
^Inquiries and Answers.— Best Spring Wheat 
Cheese—Inquiries; A Cheap Root Cutter.398 
Rural Spirit of the Press.— Foot-Rot in Sheep; White 
Skinned Fowls; Mangold Wurtzel; Feeding Sheep; 
Brine Poisonous to Animals. 393 
Agricultural Miscellany. — Rural Matters in the 
Metropolis: A Canadian Plowing Match; A Move in 
the Right Direction; Ladies and Agriculture; Barley 
and Oats in Maine; Arabian Horses for New York; 
Manufacture of Steam Plows: Fine Stockfor Texas, Ac.; 
Death of Major Eastman, of Tenn.398 
HORTICULTURAL. 
American Grape Culture. 399 
The Japan Quince.399 
Flower of the Japan Quince. [Illustrated]. 399 
Fruit of the Japan Quince, [Illustrated]. 399 
Nurserymen’s Catalogues. 399 
Winter Protection of Grape Vines. 399 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Almond Custard: Golden Pie; Silver Pie; Ointment 
for Burns; Cooking Egg Plant, Ac. 399 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
‘‘Now I Lay Me,” [Poetical;] Remembering; “Im 
WearyA City's Pride in its Women. 400 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The Snow Robe, [Poetical;] The Homeric Age; Winter 
Scenes. 400 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
The Heavenly Sowing, [Poetical;] The Sabbath; “Gone, 
but not Missed;” Improve the Time. 400 
EDUCATIONAL. 
American Institute of Instruction. 40 
TnE REVIEWER. 
The Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse, by George 
H. Dadd; Lectures for the People, by Rev. Hugh 
Stowell Brown ; Advanced Course of Composition 
and Rhetoric, by G. P. Quackenbos, A. M.; Fisher’s 
River (North Carolina,) by “Skitt;” A Natural Phi¬ 
losophy, by G. P. Quackenbos, A. M.; Philosophy and 
Christianity. 401 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Niagara Suspension Bridge, [Illustrated;] Howto Cure 
Colds; The Best Fuel; Rults for Good Habits.401 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
Farmers and Farmers’ Sons ; Home Made Picture 
Frames; ’’ Ye Build, Ye Build, but Ye Enter Not Iq ” 401 
STORY TELLER. 
The Bright Hours are Hasting, [Poetical;] A Story for 
the New Year; Death of Washington Irving; Salma¬ 
gundi. 
404 
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likely to be adjusted amicably, and none of tie 
papers will be communicated to Congress. 
No expectation is entertained by the Adminis 
tration that Mr. Forsyth can make a treaty in 
Mexico, or enter into any satisfactory arrange 
ment. The President considers an armed inter¬ 
vention necessary for the protection of our 
citizens, and, as a precautionary measure, to 
anticipate a seizure by some other nation, before 
a total disruption. England has intimated a 
willingness to our possession, leaving the pay¬ 
ment of her debt to future contingencies. 
The State Department has been officially advised 
that war has been declared by Spain against Mo¬ 
rocco, and the blockade of the ports of the latter 
has.been announced. 
Congress met on Monday morning, the 5th inst. 
Great interest was felt in the organization of the 
House, and the election of Speaker. Long before 
noon the galleries were densely filled, and crowds 
were unable to obtain admittance. Mr. Allen, the 
Clerk of the last House, called the House to order 
at noon. The din of voices immediately ceased, 
spectators were excluded from the floor and the 
members took their seats. 
The roll was called and 231 members answered 
to their names. The absentees were Messrs. 
Stalworth and Landrum, of Alabama; Brown and 
Adams, of Kentucky; Hinman and Rust, of 
Arkansas; and Hamilton, of Texas. 
On motion of Mr. Phelps, the House agreed to 
proceed to the election of a Speaker viva voce. 
Mr. Houston nominated Mr. Sherman, of Ohio. 
Mr. Adrian nominated Mr. Davis, of Indiana. 
Mr. Haskin nominated Mr. Hickman, of Pa. Mr. 
Stevens, nominated Mr. Grow, of Pa. Mr. Briggs 
nominated Mr. Botler, of Ya. 
On the first ballot Bocock received 86 votes, 
Sherman, 65, Grow, 43, Botler, 14, and there were 
21 scattering votes cast, ranging from 105. Mr. 
Grow, after the first ballot, withdrew his name. 
A miscellaneous discussion was taking place 
when our report closed, but no further business 
was done. 
The Senate was called to order by the Vice 
President. Forty-eight Senators were present. 
The credentials of John C. Ten Eyck, of N. J., 
and Henry P. Haun, of Cal, were presented. 
Both appeared and were qualified. The absentees 
are, Messrs. Benjamin, Clay, Crittenden, Davis, 
Douglas, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Hammond, Johnson, 
of Ark., Polk, Sebastian, Seward and Toombs. 
Mr. Mason, of Ya., submitted a resolution for 
the appointment of a Committee to inquire into 
the facts attending the seizure of the armory and 
arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, by a band of armed 
mrn, and whether any citizens of the United 
States not present were implicated therein or 
accessory thereto by contributions of arms, 
money, or otherwise, &c. The Committee to 
have full power to send for persons and papers. 
Mr. Trumbull, of Ill, gave notice that when the 
resolution came up he should move to amend by 
extending the inquiry to the seizure of the 
arsenal at Frantalin, Missouri. 
Execution of John Brown. 
TnE first execution for treason since the forma¬ 
tion of our government, was enacted at Charles¬ 
town, Jefferson Co,, Ya., on the 2d inst., when 
John Brown yielded up his life to the majesty of 
the law. We have already published all the de¬ 
tails of the insurrection at Harper’s Ferry, and, as 
intense interest is connected with this case, we now 
g ive the clos ing scene in the life of the leading 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Matters at Washington, 
The Tennessee’s mail which arrived at Wash¬ 
ington on the 1st inst., brought a letter from an 
entirely reliable source, saying that the Cabinet of 
the Liberal government of Mexico are united in 
their views, and that there is every reason to 
believe they will agree to the pending treaty with 
the United States. So hopeful is the writer, that 
he adds that it will be received in this country 
wy soon after meeting of Congress. There is mo 
truth in the newspaper report that Juarez intends 
asking for an immediate American armed inter¬ 
vention. The rumor, however, was prevalent at 
Vera Cruz just before the Tennessee left., that the 
Miramon government was about to make over 
tures to our own, but its truth was strongly 
doubted. 
Private advices from Nicaragua represent 
everything quiet, with the exception of fear of 
invasion by Senator Walker. 
President Martinez and the people have the 
greatest confidence in the friendly disposition of 
the United States, and have determined to sup¬ 
press filibustering. Much disappointment was 
manifested at the non-arrival of our minister, Mr. 
Dimetry. Some supposed that he would not 
leave Costa Rica before January. President 
Martinez admits that M. Belly has already failed 
to fulfil his contract. 
The last dispatches concerning the San Juan 
affairjelieve all practical difficulty on the island 5 
Gov. Douglas and Admiral Baynes both being 
satisfied with the course pursued here, and the 
joint occupation is now restored. Nothing but 
the original difference respecting the title remains 
in dispute. The President’s Message (which will 
probably be made public during the week, as 
Congress met on Monday, 5 th inst.,) will only 
refer to it briefly as a question under negotiation, I 
spirit connected with that insane foray against the 
regularly constituted powers of Virginia. The 
military assembled at 9 o’clock, and were posted 
on the field leading to the scaffold, and also at 
various other points, in conformity with the gen¬ 
eral orders. Everything was conducted under the 
strictest military discipline, as if the town were in 
state of siege, mounted guards being stationed 
in the woods, to the^efc of the scaffold, and picket 
guards toward the Shenandoah Mountains, in the 
rear. That part of the military which kept the 
field was joined in two hollow squares, one within 
the other. In the centre of these stood the scaf¬ 
fold. Between the inner and outer lines of troops 
spectators were freely admitted, but none were 
allowed to remain outside the outer line. 
The prisoner was accompanied from the jail to 
the scaffold by the Sheriff and his assistants, and 
Capt. Avis, the jailer, the procession being escort¬ 
ed by a body of military consisting of six compa¬ 
nies of infantry, one rifle corps, and a company of 
horse. There was no clergyman present, Brown 
having declined all religious ceremonies, either in 
the jail or on the scaffold. Brown was taken to 
the scaffold in a small cart, in which was placed 
also his coffin, a plain affair, made of white pine. 
On arriving at the scaffold, the prisoner looked 
around calmly upon the assembled multitude for a 
moment, and then mounted the scaffold with a 
firm step. His arms were now pinioned by the 
Sheriff, when the prisoner stood silent for a mo¬ 
ment. He then uttered a few words of farewell to 
Captain Avis and Sheriff Campbell, when, at 11)4 
o’clock, the trap of the scaffold was pulled away, 
and with a few slight struggles John Brown yield 
ed up his spirit. After thirty-five minutes had 
passed the body was cut down, placed in a ooffin, 
and conveyed under military escort to the depot, 
when it was put in a car to be carried to the Ferry 
by a special train at 4 o’clock, and placed in Mrs. 
Brown’s possession. The remainder of the insur¬ 
rectionists are to be executed upon the 15th inst., 
Friday next. 
Personal and Political. 
Chief Justice Macauley, a jurist of high per¬ 
sonal character, in Canada, died suddenly last 
Saturday, of disease of the heart. He was ill only 
an hour. 
Tnn Ho.\. Carroll Spence, late Minister of the 
United States to Turkey, has recently returned to 
this country, after an absence of several years. 
Utica is without a Mayor. Mr. Conkling has 
resigned to proceed to Washington, having been 
elected to Congress. The Common Council have 
as jet effected no choice for a successor. 
The Press throughout the States have been 
engaged in performing funeral ceremonies over 
Kit Carson, but Judge Watts, who is direct from ^ 
New Mexico, says he saw Kit in good health, 
immediately preceding his departure, and hence 
emphatically contradicts the report of his death. 
Washington Irving died suddenly on the night 
of the 28th ult., at his residence at Irvington. He 
retired to his sleeping room at 10}£ o’clock, and 
after undressing fell and expired in about five 
minutes. He was in the 77th year of his age 
The Paris correspondent of the Times states 
that Senator Seward had reached that city in good 
health and spirits. He indignantly denies ever 
hearing of the projected insurrection at Harper’s 
Ferry, and although he recollects having received 
a call from a man known as Col. Forbes, there 
was no mention made of any attempt at insurrec¬ 
tion. Colonel Forbes asked him for means for 
another object, which were refused; and that was 
all he ever saw of the individual in question. 
Notice was given in the Mississippi Legislature, 
the 10th ult., by Mr. Graham, of the future intro¬ 
duction of a bill to abolish existing laws against 
the introduction of slaves from abroad into the 
State-; and to legalize the holding of blacks in 
bondage introduced from foreign countries. 
A Republican State Convention is called to 
meet at Jefferson City, Mo., on the 2Sth inst., to 
appoint delegates to the National Republican Con¬ 
vention. It is presumed that the delegates from 
that State will present the name of Edward Bates. 
The Republican National Committee will meet 
at the Astor House in New York city on Wednes¬ 
day, Dec. 21, to decide on the time for holding the 
National Convention of 1860, and to agree on the 
terms of the call. 
The Governor of South Carolina in his Message, 
while showing the advantange of a united South, 
says:—“If, as I solemnly believe, we can no 
longer live in peace and harmony in the Union, we 
can form a Confederacy with ability to protect 
itself against every enemy, and which will com¬ 
mand the respect and admiration of the world.” 
The following resolutions were passed in the 
House: 
Resolved, That the State of South Carolina is 
ready to enter, together with the other slaveholding 
States, or such as desire the action, into a forma¬ 
tion of a Southern Confederacy. 
Resolved, That the Governor be requested to 
forward this resolution to the various Southern 
Executives. 
Another resolution was offered asking official 
information as to the condition of the State arms, 
ammunition, number of men enrolled in the State 
militia, the style of their arms, Ac. 
A dispatch from Washington to the New York 
Tribune says the Republicans are in caucus, con¬ 
sidering the propriety of calling a general opposi¬ 
tion conference. The N. Jersey and Pennsylvania 
delegations favor the call to bring on all opposi¬ 
tion elements. The Southern opposition members 
are now holding a caucus. The principal Anti- 
Lecompton members have signified’their readiness 
to support Sherman for Speaker. 
foreign news. 
News Paragraphs. 
A party of the Winnebagoes, variously esti¬ 
mated as numbering from 75 to 400 persons, have 
recrossed the J Mississippi to take up their old 
quarters a few miles from Genesee, in Henry Co. 
Illinois. 
Twelve rn^-s from Nashville, Term., on a good 
road, is what was the home of General Jackson. 
Though the grounds and tombs of the Jackson 
family have been purchased by the State of Ten 
nessee, yet there have been no improvements about 
them, and decay has commenced its work upon 
the fences and outhouses. It is proposed by some 
to establish an Agricultural College on one portion 
of the Hermitage, to instruct the children and 
grandchildren of those who fought under him at 
New Orleans, and all who may be entitled to the 
privileges of the institution. 
Died at Lucknow, India, September 16th, Rev, 
J. R. Downey, of the Methodist Mission. He was 
a young married man, and of great promise. 
Thus early has one of the six men sent out by the 
Methodist Episcopal church of this country fallen 
in the beginning of a most promising life of labor, 
A venerable and respected couple in St. Louis 
celebrated their golden wedding on the 14th of 
November. They were surrounded by their 
children, and a large company of happy friends 
—none more happy or buoyant than the aged 
pair. But on the 16th, the chain was broken. 
Elias Ware was followed by the same friends to his 
“long home.” “ The golden bowl was broken.” 
Large quantities of white wax have been coming 
ashore on the coast of Texas during the past 
month. One man on Matagorda Bay has realized 
nine hundred dollars on what he has picked up. 
This wax is supposed to have come from a Spanish 
vessel recently lost in the Gulf. 
The Russian Grand Duchess Mary de Leuchten- 
berg has arrived at the Hotel du Louvre, Paris, 
with one hundred and ten pieces of baggage. She 
comes, it is said, as the bearer of a verbal commu¬ 
nication from her brother, the Russian Emperor, 
to Napoleon. IlaviDgbut a mere word to say, she 
did not bring much luggage. 
The old frigate Constitution, launched in 1799, 
and doing good service in the infant navy of the 
Republic, and escaping every disaster to which 
ships in commission are subject, is now laid up in 
ordinary at Portsmouth, N. H., an object of 
patriotic regard. The original cost of the ship 
was $302, 1 19, and the amount expended in repairs 
up to 1850, when fitted out for her last cruise, was 
$495,233. 
"Willis, in his letter describing the American 
Watch manufactory at Waltham, Mass., in speak¬ 
ing of the astonishing minuteness of some very 
essential parts of the watch, says in regard to the 
screws used in putting the work together: A 
small heap of grains was shown to us, looking 
like iron filings, or grains of pepper from a pep¬ 
per-castor—apparently the mere dust of the 
machine which turned them out—and these when 
examined with a microscope, were seen to be per¬ 
fect screws, each to be driven to its place with a 
screw driver. It is one of the Waltham statistics 
which is worth remembering, that a single pound 
of steel, costing but fifty cents, is thus manufac¬ 
tured into one hundred thousand screws which 
are worth eleven hundred dollars.” 
Great Britain. —No formal invitation to the 
Congress has jet been sent to England by France, 
but Count Persigny has been instructed to arrange 
the preliminary conditions with Lord John Russell. 
The London Times, upon the San Juan difficulty, 
enlarges upon the general conviction that war 
between America and England is impossible. It, 
however, sajs there are some convictions which 
work out their own truth in practice, but there are 
others which tend to their own practical refuta¬ 
tion. W e sincerely hope that the different read¬ 
ings of the action, that war with England and 
America is impossible, may not be an illustration 
of chi6 truth. The editorial, after pointing out 
the importance of &an Juan to England, an impos¬ 
sibility of a surrender of it, unless some very 
different title be brought forward from any yet 
seen, concludes by expressing much satisfaction 
that the right of the island will be coolly discussed 
in Washington and London, while the affairs on 
the spot will remain in statu quo. 
The Times has again a disquieting article on the 
relations of England and France. It complains 
that in France every instrument that can work on 
Public opinion is employed to raise a violent spirit 
of animosity, and that the army are taught to look 
on a war with England as not remote. Tne Times 
cannot discover aDy serious question at issue 
- it 
®l)c News Conhaisff. 
between the two Governments, and affirms that 
is in the power of the Emperor alone to put an end 
to the state of things daily becoming more serious, 
and if he does not do so, there is a reasonable 
ground for drawing a gloomy inference from his 
silence. 
The Times says, no doubt a feeling of hostility 
to England is more bitter in France than since 
ISlo, and charges the French Government with 
directly encouraging it. The enrollment of 30,000 
men, as a naval reserve, commences in England on 
the 1st of January. 
France. —The formal and official invitation will 
be sent t-o London and the Cabinets of Vienna and 
Paris simultaneously. The invitation will not be 
identical. Austria will propose that the Congress 
assemble in Paris, while France will abstain from 
indicating any place. It is certain that Austria, 
through the medium of Prince Metternich, has 
protested against the nomination of a Regent, by 
Piedmont, as such a Regency would be contrary to 
the conditions of Peace signed at Zurich. It 
stated also that Eugland has made representations 
against the Regency. 
The Paris correspondent of the Times of Satur 
day, says that a confidential communication, of an 
important nature, has been addressed by the Min 
ister of the Interior to all the Prefects of France, 
with a view of obviating the effect produced in 
England by the violent language of the french 
press. The Prefects are instructed to invite such 
journals to be more circumspect. The Minister 
says that a journal while defending energetically 1 Wlth * 8tOD6 ' 
the rights of the country might easily avoid offend 
ing the susceptibility of a great people by pursu 
ing this line of conduct. Also, that-the dignity of 
the Imperial policy may be reconciled with the 
interest of the alliance of France, end the main 
tenance of peace. 
The warlike article in the London Times of the 
15th, had produced a great sensation. 
The Paris journals generally say/hat the views 
set forth are exaggerations, and that the unfriendly 
feeling, if any exists, is entirely owiDg to the vio 
lence of the British press. 
Italy.— Parma, Modena and Romagna had ten 
dered thanks to Prince Carigani for naming a 
substitute, and informed him that they accepted 
with gratitude the Regency of Buoncompagna. 
It was sa ; d that the Sardinian Congress would be 
summoned to meet before the assembling of the 
Congress. The annexation of Italy is to be fully 
discussed, and numerous addresses from the peo¬ 
ple of Duchies will be presented in order to give 
weight to their cause. 
The Piedmontese Gazette publishes a letter from 
Prince Carignan to Buoncompagna, in which he 
refers to the repeated assurances of Napoleon that 
there should be no intervention in Central Italy, 
and says that such assurances are encouragements 
to the policy of the King, who could never consent 
to let violence from without oppose the national 
will. 
Spain. The protest of the Moorish Government 
against the conduct of Spain, in declaring war, is 
published. It asserts that the demands of Spain 
in each instance, upon being conceded-to, were 
followed by increased pretensions; and also Mo¬ 
rocco protests against Spain, because that on three 
occasions she paid no attention to her engagements 
and declared war against legitimate notice. 
Commercial—_B reflc?sG(#s.— -Market firm, but quiet 
Richardson, Spence & Co. report flour quiet, but firm 
at 23s@2Ss per barre'. Wheat firm and 2d@3d higher 
early in the week, hut closed quiet; red 9s3d<2*ls3d • 
white 9s6d@lls9d. Corn dull, but freely offered at a 
slight decline. Yellow 82s@33s; white 85s@3Ss ner 
quarter. Bigland, Althya & Co. report wheat Id bi»her 
and corn 6d lower on the week. Provisions.— Bigland 
Althya A Co., Richardson, Spence & Co , James Mc¬ 
Henry, and others, report pork dull and nominally 
unchanged. Lark steady. •’ 
Burial of Washington Irving. — The N. Y. 
ft ibune of the 2d inst., savs: — Prom an early 
hour yesterday morniDg, carriages, barouches 
rockaways, farm-wagons, pouied into Tarry town 
from all parts of Westchester County, and from 
long miles beyond, bearing sincere mourners to 
the grave of Washington Irving. From this city 
the cars of the Hudson River Railroad conveyed 
thither hundreds of our best people, noted in the 
highest professions, with not a few in the humbler 
walks of life. From Boston, from Philadelphia 
there were present many who had hastily traveled 
so far to see all that is perishable of the father of 
American literature borne to an honored grave._ 
Many there were, in the farm-wagons, undoubtedly 
knew little of him as the author of the 
who _ ____ 
‘ Sketch Book,” but who knew and honored him 
as the Christian gentleman, the model of all that 
is beautiful, and high and noble in human nature 
the peace-maker, the counsellor in difficulty, and 
the consoler in affliction. To all he was a friend 
and a great man gone. How touching, indeed, is 
the loyalty of men to their sovereign man! All 
business was suspended in Tarrytown. Every 
store was as fully closed as on Sunday, while the 
white and black drapery of mourning was every¬ 
where displayed. If hung in festoons from neaily 
every house. It was stretched from house to 
house across the street. It hung in the front of 
churches of most denominations. Even the Rail¬ 
road depot had its sign of grief. 
— Yale College hag 641 students. 
— The project of an Insane Asylum In Onondaga Co. 
is agitated. 
— Oberlin College has 1,253 students. Of these 480 
are females. 
— The aggregate public debt of Virginia on the 1st 
of October was $30,190,000. 
Dispatches from Costa Bica represent the new 
Government as highly popular. 
— Tne Episcopal church at Quincy, Mass., was de¬ 
stroyed by fire on Saturday week. 
— Mr. Everett is writing an article on Washington 
for one of the foreign encyclopedias. 
— An immense pigeon roost is now established in 
Chenango Swamp, Crawford Co., Pa. 
— During the last day or two the water in the St. 
Lawrence river has risen nearly three feet. 
— It is estimated that there are 1,400 cigar manufac¬ 
tories in this country, employing 7,000 hands. 
The Dayton Empire says castor oil will preserve 
timber. We should think it would work out. 
— The personal property of Brunell, the English 
Engineer, was worth the snug sum of $400,000. 
— The perpetrators of the outrage on the Dickinson 
family at Beirut have all been brought to justice. 
— Mr. Orelana Allen, a sister of Lorenzo Dow, died 
at Brooklyn, N. Y., on Sunday week, aged S6 years. 
— One hundred and two million dollars worth of dry 
goods have been imported in New York since January 
last. 3 
The authorities of Missouri have offered a pre¬ 
mium of $3,000 for the best plan of a national monu¬ 
ment. 
— M. De Beriot, the famous violinist, has sold his 
violin for four thousand dollars—rather a costly instru¬ 
ment. 
— Several persons have been arrested in Verona, 
by Hungarian soldiers, for distributing revolutionary 
prints. 
— The cranberry crop of the towns of Hartwick, 
Brewster, and Dennis, Mass., for 1859, aggregated 
$23,622. 
The most profitable business in Virginia now, is 
the manufacture of regimentals and uniforms for citizen 
soldiery. 
It is stated that $600,000 have been realized by 
the exhibition of the Great Eastern since she was 
launched. 
Prof. Whitney, of Yale College, is engaged in the 
translation and publication of a Hindoo work on 
astronomy. 
— A new- steamship has been ordered by the Cunard 
Company, which is to be five hundred tuns larger than 
the Persia. 
— During the present Napoleon’s reign, the French 
have constructed railways to the extent of more than 
4,500 miles. 
— At West Stafford, Connecticut, Francis Patten 
recently killed a running fox, at nine rods distance, 
Mr. A. Robinson, of Hartford, has in his possession 
a Hebrew shekel, which is suppposed to be more than 
8,000 years old. 
— The first brick house ever constructed in California 
was demolished last week to give place to a more im¬ 
posing structure. 
The Emperor of the French has just completed a 
new work, to be published under the title of Ilistoire 
des ccuisus rayes. 
It is said that Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt 
contemplates returning to the practice of her profession 
as a public singer. 
— North Carolina appropriates $1SO,000 for free 
school purposes. South Carolina contributes $74,000 for 
the same purpose. 
— A Tennessee paper says “ the inauguration of the 
Governor was celebrated by the firing of minute guns 
every half hour /” 
— Capt. John Wood, of Lebanon, N. H., was one 
hundred years old on Tuesday last. He walks erect, 
and without a cane. 
— The Spanish mackerel, a game fish of the Southern 
waters, has appeared in the Hudson river, and furnishes 
sport for fly fishermen. 
— The Ames Shovel Works, at North Easton, have 
made for the year past two hundred and twenty-six 
dozen shovels per day. 
— The State, county and city taxes levied in Cincin¬ 
nati, for this year, amount to over one million five hun¬ 
dred thousand dollars. 
— The Massachusetts Legislature has passed an act 
providing for the establishment of a nautical branch of 
the State Reform School. 
The Montreal Gazette says the Grand Trunk ferry 
boats carry over 6,000 barrels of flour daily for shipment 
to Portland and Boston. 
— The Erie Railroad, with its appurtenances, is to be 
sold under foreclosure for default in payment of interest 
on first mortgage bonds. 
The engines of the large ocean steamers make 
about 200,000 turns in crossing the Atlantic, between 
Liverpool and New York. 
— A New Jersey farmer named Geo. Rice, husks corn 
at the rate of one^iushel in three and a half minutes, 
or 15 bushels in 52 minutes. 
It is stated that the American ship Memphis, with 
00 slaves, had eluded the English cruisers on the coast 
of Africa, and got out to sea. 
— A new brand of flour has been introduced into the 
New Orleans market, under the style of “Flora Tem¬ 
ple, 2:22J£—It can’t be beat,” 
"W. D. Rerkins, of the Nestorian Mission, nowin 
this country, has a copy of the New Testament, in the 
Syriac language, 658 years old. 
— A Mormon’s advertisement reads, “ To be let— 
Booms for two gentlemen and four wives, or rooms for 
one gentleman and six wives.” 
The probable loss of life by the recent disasters on 
the English coast is about 600. Numerous losses are 
also reported on the Welsh coast. 
— A lady in New naven, while recently directing a 
butcher about a piece of meat she wished to purchase, 
had two fingers cut from her hand. 
— At St. Hildaire, Canada, on the 14th ult., a tract of 
ground, estimated at 50 acres in extent, sunk to a depth 
of 30 feet, with a noise like thunder. 
— In Chicago, on Thursday, a child wa3 burned to 
death, and three other persons were seriously injured 
by the explosion of a can of burning fluid. 
— The storm of Friday week destroyed property to 
the amount of $S,000 in Chicago. The walls of several 
large buildings in progress were blown down. 
At Neponset Village, Dorchester, Mass., is still 
standing, and in good repair, a house built in 1650— one ] 
1 of the most ancient landmarks of Pilgrim handicraft. Z 
