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MOOllE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AM AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Political Items 
N e\v Hampshire Elvotioh. —From the most au- 
theiitic returns wo learn that Martin, Dcm., has 
been elected Governor by a small majority. The 
uSyyyyo^SSjO vote is heavier than it was a year since. Of the 
•5’VW-■ R e p resen tatives chosen, as far as heard, 120 are 
democrats, and 121 whies: 43 towns to hear from. 
ROCHESTER, MARCH 18, 1852. Jflne Senators are known to be elected— seven 
“ ' democrats and two coalition. A democratic ma- 
« P eTnm.ot ft S-Mifck number, ofthis j olil Y 011 J oint ballot wiil elect a democratic Sen- 
ho make ad<liiions loiheir clubs will be ator to supply the place of Hon. John P. Halk. 
Dice one year from 1st Feb., March, or The Presidency. —Both parties are electing 
- ,>rice as ,ll0llgh ,he >° :,r commc nr,, l t } e ] C gj l ^ es 1 0 tlieirrespective National Conventions, 
rST In order to i ccominodate. and nave » 
ail expire at same date, a rents and clubs and on every occasion the friends of the different 
Congressional. legislature of Jlera ^ork. Stems of Hems, &r. 
To Clubs— As we ennnot furni-h back numbers oftms 
volume, those who make additions to iheir clubs will be 
supplied with copies one year from 1st Feb., March, or 
April, at the same price as though the year commenced 
with January. XJJT In order to ■< ccominodate. and nave 
the subscriptions all expire at same date, agents and clubs 
who get the Rural at $1,25, will be supplied from 1st aspirants are struggling to make capital and votes 
March or April to end of year, at $1 per copy. for their chosen champion. We cannot watch and 
tusT 1 Persons who oroer the Rural after this date, and chronicle all their moves. We notice the cauldron 
until further notice, can havetheir subscriptions begin with beo q ns to boil, and have not a doubt it will be 
tin 1st of eb., st of March, o made to contain more ingredients than the witch- 
dcred, as preferred. . , . .. . . , ,, 
es put in theirs to perform incantations for .vlae- 
Aoknts.—A ll subscribers are requested to act as agents, 1 1 . , , . „ . . 
by obtaining and forwarding subscriptions—especially in belli, though we trust With loss fearful results. 
towns where the P. M., or some other influential person, 
does not give the matter attention. 
E~S?“ Remember our Terms are in advance, and that 
we do not send the Rural after the expiration of the time 
paid for. Also, that we adhere strictly to published terms, 
and require remittances accordingly. 
A Few Words to Advertisers. 
As the business season is at hand, and we tire 
daily receiving all sorts of requests from people 
who desire to avail themselves of the advantages of 
our columns as an advertising medium, we will 
briefly define our position,—and explain why cer¬ 
tain orders receive no attention. 
In the first place, to prevent misapprehension, 
we will state that wc have no interest whatever 
in any implement, seed, nursery, or book-selling 
establishment,—and hence, having no wares either 
to puff or advertise, give all engaged in either line 
of trade equal privileges in our columns. But we 
devote only a limited portion of our paper to ad- 
Town Elections being local matters, we have 
made no effort to give the results. 
Canal Lettings. —The committee appointed to 
investigate the recent (?) canal lettings, have re¬ 
ported to the House. The testimony is quite 
voluminous, but we are unable to discover any 
very decided “ mares nest” in any disclosures, 
though doubtless many of the knowing ones will 
find ample food for thought and wordy declama¬ 
tion, as well as for the usual amount of crimina¬ 
tion, and fault-finding. t 
Fine Farms. — Mr. Delafield. 
Any of our readers who wish to purchase home¬ 
steads in Western New York, are referred to the 
advertisements of farms for sale, in this and late 
numbeis of the Rural. They will find several 
desirable “Rural Homos” offered, lceated in the 
finest and most productive sections of this “Eden 
of America.” The premises of Messrs. Delafield 
near Geneva, and Lay, of Phelps, are each very 
vertsmg, and consequently many who apply can- ’ , / 1 ’ .... J 
, , , , , X ,. , desirable, and those who secure them will be pe- 
not be accommodated. Our course therefore has ’ 
been, and will continue to be, to give lirst the ad- J 
, — But if Air. Delafiled proposes to leave 
vertiscments most appropriate for the paper—and ,/ , .. 
.... , , , f4 , , Western New York, we shall demur to ins oiler 
of such, giving precedence to the orders of those who 
, , r , i . „ ,r „„ most decidedly. He is one of those rare men who 
comply with our published terms. Hence, those J 
comply with our published terms. Hence, those 
who have ordered, by mail, the publication of no¬ 
tices appropriate for our pages, and do not see 
them in print, will understand that a neglect to 
forward the necessary funds is the reason. 
YVe have recently received several propositions 
cannot be spaied. Indeed the departure of one 
who has accomplished so much for the cause of 
Rural Improvement, officially and by example, 
during the past few years,—as President of the 
Seneca County and State Agricultural Societies, 
and on bis model farm,—would be a heavy loss to 
to advertise at prices specified by the advertisers, I . , 
1 1 , i the agricultural community, and a source ot deep 
and much below our rates. Such proposals re- ° . , .... 1 , , Wnow.-. 
, ,, . . ,, , regret to thousands of friends throughout Western 
ceive no attention, and wo respectfully inform all ° York 
interested, that in thus favoring us they are wast- _J_ 
ing time, ink and stationery. We have expended Literary Notices, 
sufficient time and labor, beside a few thousand 
dollars, in establishing the Rural and giving it a T «f Mklodia, No. 2. A Collection of popular 
! , . ° . A , . Songs, set to Original Music, by J . 11. Bowen, 
wide circulation, to appreciate its value as an ad- Esq ° Professor of Music in the Now York Stale 
vertising medium. We know that our space is worth Normal School. 
all and more than we ask—and to such as feel any We are indebted to the author for a copy of the 
interest in the matter, beg to state that the circu- second number of this popular work. Music is 
lation of the Rural is at least eight times that of calculated to exert a powerful influence for go(>d ) 
the average circulation of the country newspapers, upon the minds of all, and more especially the 
though our terms are only double. Those who young. Prof. Bowen has been most happy in his 
are good in figures will please cypher for them- selections of Songs, and the character of the music 
selves. And yet the rates of the country papers gives strong evidence of a correct taste and good 
are liberal, particularly for those who advertise talent for musical composition. For the use of 
judiciously. 
schools, teachers, institutes and the social circle, 
As we desire to give as many a hearing as pos- | the Melodia will be a pleasant and useful cbllec- 
sible, and to benefit both readers and advertisers, 
we wish our friends to make their notices as short 
as convenient, and we prefer not to publish any 
one advertisement over two months. Wo cannot 
afford to edify our readers with elogiums upon 
The North American Miscellany and Dollar 
Magazine. New York: Angell, Engel tfc Hew¬ 
itt. Monthly. 56 pages; $1,00 per annum. 
This is a cheap, well-printed magazine of orig- 
patent medicines, at any price. Though we have bia l and select liteature, with the addition of a 
had some brilliant offers in this line, the tempta- SU i nmar y of the passing events best worthy of 
tion to become the “ medium ’ of such spirits record. Each number contains several engravings j 
lias been resisted ! Dewey has it for sale. 
— We shall continue to give manufactures and- 
dealers in implements and machinery, seedmen, Buffalo Implement and Seed Store. YVe, 
nurserymen, stock-breeders, book-sellers, Ac, who refer our western friends to the card of Messrs. 
comply with our terms, the preference in our ad- Mason <fc Lo\ eking, of the Buffalo Agricultural 
vertising department. It will also afford us pleas- Warehouse. Such an establishment has long been 
ure to further their interests by editorial remarks a desideratum in Buffalo, and we doubt not will 
and references, whenever we can do so consistent- P rove advantageous to patrons and proprietors, 
ly with truth and fairness, and to the advantage of Messrs. M. & L. have a superior stock, and their 
community. But, as we have some regard for the principal show and sales room is one of the most 
interests of our readers, as well as our own repu- commodious and best arranged we ever visited. 
tation, we cannot consent, under any circum- ^ ^ g EEr) ._ Tho8e who have iaquircd 0 f us 
stances, to commend anything without reliable in rclatioQ to this article> aild other8 interested, 
information as a asis. are referred to the advertisement of Mr. Mwnro, 
Now is the time to form clubs to P ublished in this number. As Mr. M. is convers- 
Form Clubs- 
... , . r ant with the culture of Tobacco, we trust he will 
commence with our next quarter — the first of . ’ 
. .. , , •_„ i communicate the results of his experience for pub- 
Apnl. 1 he long evenings are not yet passed, and . 1 . . 
,, , , , >. ..... , lication in the Rural,— m answer to the inquiries 
the season is at hand when many will want the ' 1 
Rural to consult in regard to operations on the corrto P 01R Cllt3, _ 
farm-pertaining to field crops, the orchard, gar- Thk r US h to California.— The agent of the 
den, etc. The subscriptions of many single and California Steam Transportation Company, in 
club subscribers expire with our present quarter t Cleveland, has sent to his employers since the 1st 
(next week,) and now is the time to renew, and oi November last, $95,000, which was received by 
(next week,) and now is the time to renew, and 
thus insure the regular continuance of the paper. 
him for passage money from persons bound to 
California. This immense amount of money has 
Look at our terms on last page and then invite been received from persons principally in Ohio 
your friends and neighbors (especially those who and Indiana, and accounts in some measure for the 
like the Rural so well that they borrow it regu- scarcity there complained of in the articlo, 
larly.) to subscribe. By so doing you will reduce _ 7, 777 ,, 
, . ,. , Cultivation ok Basket Willow. —Considera¬ 
te pnee of your own copy, (or get it free,-see att(jrition is beginili)lg to be paid to the culti- 
club terms,) and also benefit otliers,—subscribers vation of basket willow in the United States. The 
and the publisher. annual importation of the article into our countiy 
amounts to $5,000,000, and tins, large as it is, 
does not satisfy the consumption. The supply is 
derived from France and Germany, mainly, and 
costs here from $100 to $130 per ton weight. 
Back Numbers. —We are daily receiving orders 
for the Rural, to commence with the first of January. 
As previously announced, we are unable to furnish 
the numbers back of February first, and our edi¬ 
tion from that date will soon be exhausted. YYe 
the numbers back of February first, and our edi- The Gaines’ Case. —Mrs. Gaines has lost her 
tion from that date will soon be exhausted. YYe Sf® b f> re the Supreme Court of the U States. 
, ... , , .... , , . it has been m court for nearly a quarter of a ceu- 
commenoed with a large extra edition, but the fa- tury, and has furnished rich pickings to some of 
vors of our friends have reduced us to this neces- tln> most eminent legal talent of the Union. The 
sitv. We are truly thankful for just such favors, property in question is said to be worth several 
—albeit we regret that those who did not order millions of dollars. _• 
early are disappointed. See special notices above. Accidents on Railways, — On the railroads in 
VW* Agents or subscribers who may have extra the United States, there were carried, last year, 
or spare copies of No.’s 4 and 5 of this volume, or 7> 98 f' 95 ^P“- and 86 killed and 47 in ' 
1 f , ii* , lured. Most of those killed, were not passengers, 
either of them, will greatly oblige us by mailing persons employed on the roads and traveling 
the same to the address of the paper—“Rural upon the tracks. There were 11,957 personscar- 
New-Yorker, Rochester, N. Y.” ried on every mile run by cars. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Tuesday, March 9. — Senate. — A resolution, di¬ 
recting inquiry as to the propriety of paying 
Spanish citizens their claims arising out of the 
Amistad case was adopted. 
Senator Seward spoke on the Intervention res¬ 
olutions, and in their favor. 
House .—Railroad land bills were up for discus¬ 
sion; also the subject of granting land to actual 
settlers. No special progress. 
Wednesday, March 10. — Senate .—The Senate 
after considering the reports from the Judiciary 
Committee on the new apportionments bearing 
on the next Presidential election, listened to a long 
speech from Mr. Borland, on the Iowa land grant. 
Mr. Cass took the floor on the Iowa bill. 
House. —Mr. Richardson of Illinois, and Mr. 
Breckenridge of Kentucky, amused themselves on 
the merits of Judge Douglass, the Democratic 
Review, <fcc. 
Thursday, March 11.— Senate .—The bill for the 
entertainment of Kossuth, at the Capital, was dis¬ 
cussed in bad taste, but ordered paid. 
House .—The discussion of yesterday was con¬ 
tinued. 
Friday, March 12.— Senate .—The private calen¬ 
dar was taken up, and 16 bills of no public inter¬ 
est, were ordered to be engrossed. 
The bill making an appropriation to complete 
the Cemetery near the City of Mexico, was pass¬ 
ed. Adjourned till Monday. 
House .—A disgraceful tight on the floor of the 
House took place between Wilcox and Brown, of 
Mississippi. 
Saturday, March 13.— House .—Reported the 
bill relative to private land claims. 
Tue Wheel Barrow Emigrant Returned.— 
Many of our readers will remember the accounts 
published in all ihe newspapers nearly two years 
ago, ol a California emigrant, who crossed the plains 
" on foot and alone, ” with a wised harrow, convey- 
i ng ail ins cartliiy goods, that is, ins provisions, 
clothes, toots, (Sic., in that humble veiiicie, and 
outstripping in ins march numbers who started for 
the iauu oi gold with more showy and expensive 
appointments. His name was Brookmire, and 
iie is an Irishman by birth. His residence is at 
Warren, in i’ennsyivama, where he left a wile 
and family of chiiuren in very indigent circum¬ 
stances wnen lie went over the Rocky Mountains 
lo“ try ins fortnue.” Brookmire has lately re- 
lUrned fron California, with about $15,DUO of 
“ dust,” ail of which he dug and washed out with 
his own hands. And as it is very apt to pour 
when it rains, his wife received legacies during his 
absence to the amount of $11),UUU, failing to her 
upon the death of some relations in (Scotland.— 
Syracuse Journal. 
Extension of the Capitol. —There has been 
appropriated towards the Capitol building at 
Washington, the sum of $lU0,ud(J, of which the 
greater part is already expended. There will be 
required, according to the estimates of the en¬ 
gineer, Thus. U. Walter, for the work to be done 
during tbe current year, tlie further sum of $350,- 
000, and in lti53, a further appropriation of $650,- 
(IUU, after which there will be required lor the 
completion of the design, the farther sum of $1,- 
575,uU0; the entire cost of the extension being 
$2,075,000. The shortest period in wlucli it is 
estimated the work can be completed in a sub¬ 
stantial manner is five years. 
Our Steam Marine. —By the recently publish¬ 
ed report of the Secretary of our Treasury, it is 
stated that we have of steam vessels, 1,391—some 
of great power. We have 96 marine steamships, 
15 of winch, compared with 17 of the largest be¬ 
longing to England exceed them by 5,0ud tons; 
and then to these we can add 3»2 steam propel¬ 
lers, some very line and large ships. The inland 
steamships and boats of tbe United States number 
7 66; the tonnage of these in the aggregate, 
amounts to 204,6i3 tons ; the tonnage of our ma- 
l iue amounts to 212,500 tons—total 417,113 tons. 
Our mercantile steam vessel tonnage is the lai’gest 
in the world. 
Death of an Artist. —Frazer, the distinguished 
artist, died at the residence of his daughter at 
New Bedford, at the age of sixty years. He had 
long maintained a front rank among American 
artists; and by his various productions in statuary, 
did as much perhaps, as any other sculptor towards 
elevating the art in our country. He executed 
busts of many of tbe most distinguished states¬ 
men, heroes and civilians of our country; and was 
engaged, shortly before lie died, on a bust of Gen. 
Jackson. He died, almost literally, with his mal¬ 
let in his hand. 
Grant of Land to Railroad Companies.— 
There are 31 Railroad projects in the West and 
South, asking of Congress the grants of sections 
of the public lands. These 31 railroads measure 
upwards of ciyld thousand three hundred miles in 
extent. If they could all receive alternate sec¬ 
tions of laud six miles in depth on either side of 
the track of each road, the aggregate number of 
acres would be upwards of thirty millions. A tol¬ 
erably large patch of Uncle Sam’s territory.— 
JJdl. ljcdycr. 
Legal Sale of Liquor. —The amount of sales 
of liquor at the Portland Agency, for the first 
quarter, was $3,043, and has been for the second, 
$1,947. This includes jugs, bottles, ifcc. At this 
average, it is at the rate of a fraction less than 
$8,000 a year. More than one-half thus far sold 
goes out of the city. Thirty-one town agents 
have been supplied since the store commenced 
(iperations .—Portland Argus. 
EHF' Rev. YYin. YVare, author of “ Zenobia,” 
“ Probus,” “Julian,” “ Capitols of Europe,” died 
a few days since at his residence in Cambridge, 
Mass. There arc many, says the Niagara Demo¬ 
crat, who have been charmed with his writings 
who will be pained to hear that the author of so 
many instructive volumes will write no more for 
Iheir pleasure or imprpvement. 
The YYashington papers announce that the 
l ate of postage from the Uujted States tc the Ar¬ 
gentine Republic has been reduced from 83 to 45 
cents—nearly one half. 
Mr. Ritchie, late editor of YYashington 
Union, is said to be writing the history of the ad¬ 
ministration of Gov. Powuall, of Massachusetts, 
iu 1660. 
jgg” The report of the Directors of Girard Col¬ 
lege shows that there are now 298 pupils in the 
i nstitution. 
Synopsis of Proceeding 
Tuesday, March 9.— Senate. — Authorized the 
printing of several public documents in extra 
quantities. Held an Executive Session. 
Assembly .—Passed an act to make the provisions 
of an act in relation to bridges over the Erie Canal 
applicable to all Canals in the Slate. 
YYednksday, March 10.— Senate .—The Crystal 
Palace bill passed, and the Colonization bill was 
discussed. 
Assembly .—The Canal Investigation was report¬ 
ed as completed on the 8th, and 10,000 copies ex¬ 
tra ordered printed. The Executive Mansion bill 
passed. The bill appoints the Trustees of the 
Capitol and the Mayor and Recorder of Albany, 
Trustees for tbe erection of Governor’s House, and 
appropriates $25,000 toward completing it. 
TnuasDAY, March 11.— Senate .—The Coloniza¬ 
tion bill was again discussed. 
Assembly .—The following bills were passed : 
To provide for tbe incorporation of an Associa¬ 
tion for tbe Exhibition of tbe Industry ol all Na¬ 
tions. 
To amend the act providing for the erection of 
a Fire-Proof Library. 
Friday, Maich 12.—Nothing done in either 
house of special public interest. 
Saturday, March 13. — Senate. — The most im¬ 
portant bills passed were these : 
To authorize the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank 
of Genesee to change its place of business. 
Authorizing Sacket’s Harbor Bank to change its 
place of business. 
Both banks remove to Buffalo. 
Authorizing Buffalo to borrow money to invest 
in stock of Brantford and Buffalo Joint block Rail¬ 
road Company. 
Relative to writs of error in behalf of the people 
iu criminal cases. 
To provide for the appointment of an addition¬ 
al number of Coroners, in and for the city of 
New York. 
To continue the act incorporating the N. York 
State Agricultural Society. 
Assembly .—A large number of bills were re¬ 
ported, but no final action taken on any of special 
interest. 
News Clippings- 
jggT The fourth volume of Bancroft’s History 
of tlie United States has made its appearance from 
a Boston house. 
In some of the northern counties of Maine, 
the snow is said to average live feet deep. Many 
of the small farm houses are nearly buried in tbe 
drifts. 
Beach trees were in bloom at Natchez 
February 1st, and ripe tomatoes, from Havana, 
were being served up on the tables of some of tbe 
New York hotels Febuary 18th. 
It is stated that our Government has given 
notice to the British Government of its desire to 
break up tbe present postal arrangement between 
tbe two countries. 
Messrs. Sturge, the great corn factors, 
thins, that the English crop of 1851, is decidedly 
above an average, but that Great Britain will re¬ 
quire a considerable import before harvest. 
Anson Gridley, of YVestfield, Mass., recent¬ 
ly got bound over iu the sum of of $30U for pro¬ 
curing the publication of tbe death of a person 
who was known to be living. 
gggf” The Messrs. Belcher, sugar-refiners, in St. 
Louis, are boring an artesian well on their premis¬ 
es. They have gone down 1,275 feet, and expect 
to go some 500 teet lower. 
tlW” The American Colonization Society will 
send out on the 1st of May, a ship from Baltimore 
or Norfolk, with emigrants to Liberia. Quite a 
number are making arrangements to go in her. 
jgjf” The Mt. Morris Spectator and the Livings¬ 
ton Republican, Geneseo, are waking up about 
the Valley Railroad, with the aim of having a 
commencement made on this long talked of road. 
gffiT* A Kentucky paper says it is getting (o t#; 
very fashionable in that quarter, to enclose a gold 
dollar with marriage notices, when sending them 
to the printer. Hope the custom will be imitated 
this way. 
jgpThe Shovel Manufactory of Messrs. 0. Ames 
A Son, in North Easton, took fire on Tuesday 
night, and the building iu which the fire origin¬ 
ated, with about 1,00(J dozen finished shovels, was 
consumed. Loss over $20,001), small insurance. 
'f he editor of the Syracuse Star figures up 
the rate of speed on the Hudson River Railroad, 
at 38 miles per hour. On tlie Albany and Syra¬ 
cuse, 21 miles per hour. Difference iu favor of 
the former, 17 miles per hour. 
There is to be a new issue introduced into 
politics iu New Hampshire. A large number of 
voters have resolved not to support any man for 
school commissioner who can be “ bought up by 
school book agents.” 
Tbe I. O. of 0. F. in the United Elates, 
numbers 200,000 members, 2,835 lodges, and 600 
encampments. The amount of revenue for the 
year 1851, was $1,200,000. The amount paid the 
same year, for relief, was nearly $500,000. 
The yearly cost of a large ship of the line 
is about $341,001); of the Ohio (64) $266,01)0 ; 
of a razee $200,000 ; of large frigates $ 150,000, 
second class do. $121,000 ; sloop of war $55,000 
to $62,000 ; brig of war $25,009. 
Efforts are making to establish a large Fe¬ 
male Seminary al Auburn, on tlie plan of tlie 
Holyoke Seminary—the chief feature of which is 
to instruct young ladies in household affairs, as 
well as other branches of education. 
RfP Mr. Hives’s census contract for 1840, cost 
the people $132,000. He cleared $100,000 ex¬ 
actly ! Enough to erect a splendid building and 
neatly fit it up. The lowest bid for the present 
census job is $900,000 I The highest $1,300,000! 
Insanity is said to exist to a fearful extent 
iu California. The editor of the Courier thinks 
there have not been less than four hundred cases 
in San Francisco since the settlement of the place. 
Excitement, disappointment, privation, gambling, 
and dissipation are doing their work. 
There is a sturdy old farmer in Westmin¬ 
ster, Vt., now in his 80th year, who, during the 
past winter, has threshed out with his own hands, 
150 bushels of grain, and struck his full half of the 
strokes in threshing out 200 more. He has also 
chopped from tbe tree all the wood necessary for 
the use of his family. 
-The YVelland Canal is to be opened, for 
navigation, on the 20th inst. 
-Rents have advanced 25 to 30 per cent, in 
Elmira, within the past year. 
-The Common Council of Newark, N. J., 
have refused to grant licences, even to hotels. 
-Dr. T. Romeyn Beck has been re-elected 
President of tbe Albany Institute. 
-The death of Rev. Dr. Davis, of Hamilton 
College, is announced in the Utica papers. 
-There has been five constitutions in France 
during the last 48 years. 
-Over $36,000 were expended on the 
Washington Monument during the last year. 
-The story that Jenny Lind had purchased 
a farm at Northampton, is contradicted. 
-The Erie Railroad Company will carry 
passengers from Dunkirk to New York for $4. 
-Louis Napoleon, according to the John 
Bull, passed two days in London lately, incog. 
-The projected line of steamers between 
Montreal and Europe is in a fair way of accom¬ 
plishment. 
-The average cost of sending one of the 
Collins steamers to Liverpool and back, is said to 
be $65,000. 
-A prize concert was lately prevented by 
the police at Philadelphia, under the prohibition 
of the statutes against lotteries. 
-It is thought that the small pox and other 
infectious diseases are frequently propagated by 
bank notes. 
-The Fire Telegraph of Boston will be 
ready for adoption by the first of April, and the 
present method of giving alarms superseded. 
-The Governor of New Hampshire has is¬ 
sued his proclamation for a day of fasting, for the 
8th of April. 
-A motionds to be argued in April next, 
by tbe counsel of Mrs. Gaines, for a new trial. It 
is thought, however, that it will not be granted. 
-The N. Y. Times says that Kossuth hats 
to the value of half a million dollars have been 
manufactured in that city. 
-Robert Blackwood, one of the famous 
Edinburgh firm, has recently died. He was in 
the 44th year of his age. 
-The Norfolk Herald states that there is 
uot, a book-bindery iu that commercial city of 15,- 
000 inhabitants. 
-Ten thousand dollars liavc been found in 
tbe Dead-letter Office at Washington, during the 
present quarter. 
-Tobacco has been successfully cultivated 
on several farms iu Niagara County during the 
pant year. 
-Miss Bremer’s records of her visit to this 
country, will appear as “ The Homes of the New 
World.” 
-John Patten has been elected Mayor of 
the city of Bath, Maine, by the astonishing vote 
of 938, against 6 votes for all others. 
-The German emigration to St. Louis, by 
way of New Orleans and the East, amounted in 
the past year to 12,671 persons. 
-There are sixty-nine pupils iu the Ohio 
Institution for tbe Blind, all but five of whom are- 
supported by tbe State. 
-The receipts of the American Board of Mis¬ 
sions, from the 1st of August last to the 1st of 
February, were $141,112. 
-It is expected that the Astor Library will 
be opened next September. It now comprises 
about 60,000 volumes. 
-The Buffalo papers speak in glowing terms 
of tbe business prospects of that place for tbe 
opening season. 
-It is stated that Kossuth intends to visit 
New Orleans, and to stop at Memphis, Natchez 
and Vicksburg, en route. 
-A petition in favor of the Maine liquor 
law, signed by 14,241 ladies of Philadelphia has 
been presented to the Pennsylvania Legislature. 
-A planter lost four hundred dollars and 
ten negroes in a “nice little game of faro,” at 
Memphis, a few days since. 
-An Eagle measuring seven feet nine inch¬ 
es from tip to tip of his wings, was captured re¬ 
cently, near Ihe Cayuga Bridge. 
-N. P. Willis, Esq., of the Home Journal, 
has sailed for Bermuda and tbe tropics with his 
father-in-law, Mr. Grmuell, in quest of health. 
-The citizens of Utica have raised tbe ne¬ 
cessary funds and secured the holding of the State 
Fair in that city, in September I8 d2. 
-Within the month preceding the last ar¬ 
rival from England, over 100,000 persons had been 
arrested in France for political offences. 
-$1,069 25 is the amount received by the 
YYashington National Monument office during the 
month of February. 
-Partridges in great numbers have been 
cooped up in Maryland, for the sake.of letting 
them loose in tbe spring, thereby preserving the 
game. 
-Herr Driesback bad a fight with his tiger 
lately at Schenectady, losing his vest and pants 
and receiving several contusions, but Iierr whip¬ 
ped him. 
-The Panama Echo says that no man de¬ 
siring to go to California should have one cent 
less than $250 alter arriving at Chagres, even for 
traveling in the cheapest style. 
-The) Recorder recently ordered the indict¬ 
ment against the New York Herald for libel, ob¬ 
tained by the Art Union, quashed ; and also de¬ 
clared the Art Union an illegal institution. 
-The annual commencement of tlie Medi¬ 
cal Department of the New York University took 
place on tlie 10th. There were ninety-eight gradu¬ 
ates. 
——The American ship YYinchester cleared 
from New Orleans for Liverpool, on the 6th inst., 
with 5,753 bales of cotton—being the largest car¬ 
go ever known. 
-The New Jersey Legislature has passed a 
bill requiring the banks of that State to redeem 
their notes at par, not only in the State, but at 
New York and Philadelphia. 
-From the Scientific American we, learn, 
that Nathaniel Woodbury, of Massachusetts, has 
invented a machine for cutting butter out of tubs, 
an operation very embarrassing to cooks. 
-Tbe scarcity of com and bacon in some 
parts, of Georgia, says tho Cbatanooga Adv., is so 
great that fears are entertained of great suffering 
before tho return of another harvest. 
-The Troy YVhig states that the Harlem 
Railroad Company have leased the Albany and 
Troy Railroad, perpetually, for $70,000 per an¬ 
num, which is 7 per cent, on the cost. 
-The Washington correspondent of the Bos¬ 
ton Atlas, states that no less than seventeen mem¬ 
bers of tbe House of Representatives were absent 
from their seats on the 2d, by reason of sickness. 
