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MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YO IlKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
ROCHESTER, APRIL 22, 1852. 
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paid for. See terms on fast page. 
Spring-time, but not Spring Weather. 
This is a deceitful world, truly,—and not the 
least deceptive are the occasional gleams of sun¬ 
shine, and other faint indications of approaching 
warm weather, with which we have been favored 
during the past few weeks. Over a month ago, 
instigated by the look and feel of sky and air, and 
the momentary glad appearance of the then thaw¬ 
ing “face of Nature”—and withal desirous of 
jogging the memories of our rural friends in re¬ 
gard to various matters,-in due season—we pub¬ 
lished sundry ‘ Spring-time hints and suggestions;’ 
but, alas! though the almanac tells us it is spring¬ 
time, we have scarcely any other evidence of the 
fact! We hope, however, that, ere July, the va¬ 
rious seasonable (?) articles which have recently 
appeared in the Rural,, and other agricultural 
journals, will piove serviceable; if not, alas for 
the sage advice, and cherished reputation, of those 
who presume to “ teach one-another,” or the pub¬ 
lic, in regard to the duties and labors of the season! 
Unless a favorable change soon occurs, the occupa¬ 
tion of ‘book-farming’ organs will bo ‘gone,’— 
while the rampant wiseacres who oppose all such 
‘ mediums’ of communication, will wax strong 
and march on to victory ! 
But, seriously, the season is most backward.— 
The weather, up to this time, has been most for¬ 
bidding—cloudy, damp, cold, and altogether ex¬ 
ceedingly unfavorable for out-door operations, and 
especially for profitable labor in field and garden. 
The cold, raw air to-day, (Tuesday) renders over¬ 
coats and fires indispensable,—and a porten¬ 
tous sky indicates a storm, which may produce 
something colder than rain. There must be con¬ 
siderable ice in the lakes (Ontario and Eric,) north 
and west,—and no little snow remaining in Cen¬ 
tral and Northern New York—to say nothing of 
New Englai d, in some parts of which the people 
“ enjoyed ” heavy snow-storm as late as the 13th 
instant. 
Yet far m _>rs should not despair—for both 
“ seed-time and harvest,” will surely come. We 
are glad to leam that, in this section at least, the 
fruit buds are uninjured, and promise a good crop 
— and that winter wheat generally looks well, 
except some late sown fields, though the back¬ 
wardness of the season of course prevents a cor¬ 
rect conclusion in regal'd to tlie future. 
Our exchanges, from both east and west, repre¬ 
sent the weather cold, and season unusually back¬ 
ward. The Ohio Cultivator (published at Colum¬ 
bus) of the 15th says :—“The Weather has been 
quite cold and rainy for several weeks, so that the 
season is now very backward, and spring work 
much retarded, both of the farm and the garden. 
The past two days seem to promise fine weather, 
and the season may yet prove favorable. Fruit, 
prospects, in this region, are not as bad as some 
of our correspondents represent, peaclies excepted. 
Early pears, and some apples and cherries are 
killed, but we think there is a chance for a fair 
crop of these yet.” 
Weekly Notes by a Naturalist, 
The weather continues cool. Snow-banks have 
not entirely disappeared yel ;—wind easterly this 
morning, with a fair prospect of a snow-storm. 
The field sparrow was first heard on the 14th. 
This species of the sparrow usually appears about 
the first of April—and they may be heard in the 
open fields, where they subsist on insects and 
seeds. The song is a canary-like trill, and is very 
sweet. One of the swallow species was beard on 
Friday. 
The toad (Bufo Americanus) first heard on the 
evening of the 14th. The toad is usually heard a 
little after the peeper, (Hyla s/juirclla,) mentioned 
last week. 
Crocuses and colchicums in flower—and so were 
chickweed ( Stellaria media,) poplar, ( Populus 
trcmuloidc.s,) willow, (species unknown,) and trail¬ 
ing arbutus. 
There was a snow-storm in Albany about the 
middle of the week. The Genesee river is high, 
and the ground full of water. Farmers cannot do 
much yet. The water was let into the canal tow¬ 
ard the close of last week. [April 19th. 
Temerity !—The Daily American of Tuesday 
morning saith:—“ A man was seen in this city, in 
open daylight last week, without an over-coat.— 
He paid for his temerity by taking a severe cold.” 
A man called at the Rural office, the same 
week, in summer rig — straw hat, etc. The boys 
voted him a market gardener, attempting to force 
the season ! 
Agents or subscribers who may have extra 
or spare copies of No.’s 4 and 5 of this volume, or 
either of them, will greatly oblige us by mailing 
the same to the address of the paper —“ Rural 
New-Yorker, Rochester, N. Y.” 
Literary Notices. 
Thk Silver Cur of Sparkling Drops, from many 
Fountains, for the Friends of Temperance.— 
Edited by Miss C. B. Porter. Buffalo : Geo. 
H. Derby & Co.—1852. 
As its title indicates this volume is principally 
devoted to Temperance essays,—embracing some 
thirty sketches in prose and verse, from the pens 
of talented writers. The work is one of two-fold 
value,—for its literary merit, and the instructive 
lessons conveyed. The sketches will not only in¬ 
terest, but impress upon the mind of the reader 
the importance of virtue and sobriety to the at¬ 
tainment of happiness. While its contents may 
be safely tasted by all, the Silver Cur is in ap¬ 
pearance most creditable to the firm from whose 
crucible it proceeds. May all emanations from 
the same source prove as chaste and pure. 
The Poor Vicar. From the German of Zchocke. 
New York : John S. Taylor. 
This is a simple and most affecting narrative of 
the trials and final triumph of virtue and piety. 
No reflecting person can rise from its perusal 
without experiencing emotions of pleasure, aud 
aspirations for the “ better way.” 
Western Horticultural Review. By J. A. 
Warder, Cincinnati, Ohio. Monthly — 48 pages 
octavo—$3. 
The April issue is an excellent one—embracing 
a rich variety of original aud extracted matter.— 
The Review is highly creditable to the editor, and 
an honor to the West—from the horticulturists of 
which its principal support is derived. But it 
will impart instruction and pleasure to readers in 
other sections, and we trust it may ere long cir¬ 
culate extensively throughout the Union. See 
prospectus in our advertising department. 
The North British Review. February, 1852. 
New York : Leonard, Scott tfe Co. $3,00 per 
annum. 
The present number of this able Review con¬ 
tains articles on Milton’s Works; New Zealand; 
Carlyle’s Life of Sterling; Geology; Literature of 
the New Testament; Arctic Searching Expedi¬ 
tions; Wesley and Methodism; France in Janua¬ 
ry, 1852, Ac. For sale at Dewey’s. 
Mr. Wetherell’s School. 
This School has steadily increased in public 
favor since its establishment, and is now in a 
flourishing condition. Under the supervision of 
an able and experienced Principal, and competent 
assistants, it must continue to rank high among 
our private institutions of learning. With the 
summer term, commencing this week, classes in 
Botany aud French are to be formed, in addition 
to other branches heretofore pursued. 
We clip the following notice of Mr.W.’s School 
from the Daily American of the 19th instant: 
We witnessed with much gratification on Friday 
last, a portion of the closing exercises of the Spring 
quarter at the excellent and flourishing school kept 
by Mr. L> W etherell, in the basement of St. 
John’s Church, Rochester. 
The declamations aud compositions compared 
favorably with those usually heard on such occa¬ 
sions, and evinced more than ordinary training.— 
Several papers were read by the young ladies of 
the school, embracing well written and affecting 
allusions in prose, aud verse, to the recent death of 
a school-mate—Perley M. Donkey—son of E. Con- 
key, Esq.—a promising and estimable lad of four¬ 
teen. There could scarcely be a more touching 
leslinionial to his memory, than the heartfelt la¬ 
mentations of his school fellows. 
We formed a high opinion of the discipline and 
instruction of Mr. W.’s school; and we need not 
say that he is among the most experienced and 
competent of teachers. 
Murder Trial and Conviction.— During the 
past week a murder trial has been on the tapis 
before the Circuit Court in this city. The accused, 
Maurice Antonio, came to this country with, and 
resided in the family of his victim, near this city, 
at the ti me of the murder. The parties were Por¬ 
tuguese, and unacquainted with the English lan¬ 
guage. The murdered man was very poor, and 
hence money had nothing to do with the matter 
—but it appears the prisoner wished to appropri¬ 
ate the wife of deceased, and did so soon after 
the commission of the murder. The evidence was 
circumstantial, and the case altogether of little 
interest;—yet the trial seems to have been a God¬ 
send to the daily papers, some of which have 
made the most of it by publishing the entire tes¬ 
timony, flic. The accused was found guilty, and 
sentenced to be Inmg on the 3d of June next. 
— The presiding Judge, Hon. Ira Hare is, has 
won “ golden opinions from all sorts of people,” 
during the session at which this trial occurred. 
The Premium Squash exhibited at the last 
State Fair, was grown by Mr. J as. Buchan, of this 
city. Mr. B.has placed at our disposal a quantity 
of the seed yielded by the mammoth specimen. 
In furtherance of his wishes we shall be happy 
to distribute the seed among those who wish to 
give it a trial. 
— Speaking of squash seed, we will state a 
fact in point. In January, 1849, while publishing 
the Gen. Farmer, a subscriber residing near Alba¬ 
ny, sent us (in a letter) a few seeds of what he 
designated a mammoth squash or pumpkin.— 
Two or three of these seeds were handed to Mr. 
H. N. Langworthy, of Irondequoit, with a wish 
that he would plant and harvest—a request which 
was most implicitly complied with, as the sequel 
will show. From one vine Mr. L. produced several 
enormous squashes—on one of which he was 
awarded a premium of $5 at the State Fair, and 
the seed from the same and its “associates ” was 
sold to one of our seedmen for about $10. Fif¬ 
teen dollars will do for one squash vine. 
Important to Farmers.— Judge Thompson of 
the Court of Common Pleas has decided that the 
tenant of a farm in that State cannot remove or 
sell the manure from the farm, no matter how pro¬ 
duced. This has been long a vexed question and 
the Judge’s opinion is of interest to farmers. 
legislature of 3ka ^ork. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Monday, April 12.—In the Senate, the Canal 
question was under discussion. Of the bills pass¬ 
ed in the Assembly, the following are the most 
important: Appropriating $10,000 to clear the 
obstructions in the Hudson river ; to preserve, the 
purity of elections; to encourage medical educa¬ 
tion, and for the better security of cemeteries ; for 
the protection of emigrants, flic. 
Tuesday, April 13. — The Senate passed the bill 
confirming the Canal contracts, 19 -to 8. Several 
bills were reported. In the Assembly a bill was 
passed to increase the capital of the Common 
School Fund, and several others of local interest. 
Wednesday, April 14.—Both Houses were en¬ 
gaged on the Appropriation bills, and sedulously 
preparing for adjournment Thursday. 
Thursday, April 15.—Both Houses engaged on 
various bills. 
Friday, April 17.—Both Houses continued in 
Session during the day and night; adjourned at 6 
o’clock, on Saturday morning. The number of 
acts passed exceeds four hundred, yet not ten of 
them are of general interest. The Albany Eve¬ 
ning Journal remarks; 
Althougth but few great public measures came 
beiure the Legislature during its recent session of 
labor the members were more than usually as¬ 
siduous ; and worked with more than ordinary 
zeal, to represent their constituents, faithfully and 
discreetly. The Titles of Acts which we com¬ 
plete to-day, shows that a sufficient number of 
new laws have beeu enacted ; aud the laws them¬ 
selves will show that, while there are but very 
few of a conspicuously public character, there are 
fewer still whose practical operation will work 
mischief cither to the individual or to the public. 
The greatest compliment which in this age of 
steam, can be paid to legislators, is that they have 
done no harm. 
Political Items. 
Connecticut. —At the late election in Connecti¬ 
cut a larger number of votes was polled than at 
/any previous Gubernatorial election, the aggre¬ 
gate being 62,779. Seymour over Kendrick, 3,- 
385. Seymour over all, 559. 
Rhode Island. —The Legislature of Rhode Is¬ 
land, since the recent election, stands as follows : 
Senate—Democrats, 15 ; whigs, 15 ; no choice, 
(Foster) 1. House—Democrats, 31 ; wliigs, 40; 
no choice, (Foster) 1. 
Last year, the two Houses were divided as fol¬ 
lows, including the Lieutenant-Governor, wiio has 
the same right to vote as other members, among 
the democracts : Senate, democrats 18, wliigs 14 ; 
House, democrats 35, wliigs 37. 
-The whig candidate for Mayor was elected 
in Trenton, N. J., on Monday week, by about 200 
majority. The whole whig ticket was elected ex¬ 
cept Recorder, Freeholders, and Overseers of the 
Boor. 
Ohio. —The Legislature of Ohio has just deter¬ 
mined upon the following salaries of the officers 
of that State :—Governor, $2,000 ; Lieut. Gover¬ 
nor, $800 ; Treasurer of State, $1,500 ; State Li¬ 
brarian, $800 ; Auditor of State, $1,600; Secre¬ 
tary of-State, $1,400 ; Attorney General, $1,400 ; 
each member of the Board of Public Works, $1,500. 
Hudson. —The whig? have carried the city of 
Hudson, by a haudsome vote. 
Viroina. —The Whig Convention have appoint¬ 
ed two delegates from each Congressional district 
<o the National Convention. 
News Clippings- 
The Grimsby docks, at the mouth of the 
Humber, have been completed. There were no 
oak trees in England large enough to make the 
lock gates. They were obtained from the Black 
Forest, in Germany. 
The emigration from Germany is said to 
be increasing, and resembles the Irish emigration, 
as the exodus of a nation. Through the city of 
Cologne there have passed in the course of a brief 
period upwards of 20,000 persons. 
jpgrt The “tobacco growers” of Whaeley, Mass., 
have sold their crops of last year at about 4 ceuts 
a pound, considerably less than that of 1850. The 
farmers in Whately and Hartford are preparing to 
grow large quantities of the weed. 
The receipts of cheese at Cincinnati last 
year, reached nine millions of pounds ! The pro- 
, luct of all the States in 1850, was full one hun¬ 
dred millions of pounds! New York produced 
forty-nine millions of pounds. 
jpgp In the north pari, of Herkimer county 
there was sleighing on the 10th of November last, 
•ind it continued, without interruption, up to the 
14th of April—165 days! How much longer it 
will last we are not advised. 
2^" The city authorities of Worcester are try¬ 
ing the experiment of using burning fluid in such 
of the street lamps as have heretofore been light¬ 
ed with oil. Where’s Paine’s gas, wliich was to 
illuminate Worcester first, and then the whole 
• ivilized world? 
jpgp The Boston Journal states that there is a 
fair prospect for a good crop of peaches and other 
kinds of furit, in the vicinity of Boston. The 
ilossoms appear to be abundant, and are not yet 
injured. The canker worm, it is feared, will be 
ery numeroun and destructive. 
The profits of the Penitentiary of Louisi¬ 
ana, during the year 1851, were $12,639.67, of 
which sum $4,000 are to be paid into State Treas¬ 
ury, agreeable to the terms of the lease, leaving 
' ho balance of profits to the lessees of $8,639.67, 
upon a business of more than $215,000. 
E^” The ratio of increase of the population of 
Pennsylvania has been greater for the last ten 
years than during any other period of ten years 
since 1810. At the date that census was 810,091. 
In 1820 it was 1,049,558. In 1830—1,348,233.— 
In 1840—1,724,083. In 1850 it was 2,311,785. 
The committee of the Jardin des Plantes 
de Paris have presented to the Hunterian Muse¬ 
um of Ihe Royal College of Surgeons, the casts of 
eggs of the gigantic wingless bird of Madagascar, 
which are equal in size to 12 ostrich, lGcasowary, 
148 domestic hens’, and 50,000 humming bird’s 
^ggs- 
The editor of the North Carolina Whig, 
published in Charlotte, was shown, a few days 
since, by Dr. C. L. Hunter, of Lincoln county, 
what is .supposed to be a genuine diamond, weigh¬ 
ing about half a caret, discovered in the neighbor¬ 
hood of the Doctor’s, while searching for gold in 
a small stream. 
Congressional 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Monday, April 12.—The French Spoliation bill 
was discussed in the Senate. In the House noth¬ 
ing was done worth mentioning, 
Tuesday, April 13.—The capitol enlargement 
bill passsed the Senate. In the House the naval 
discipline subject was taken up but not disposed 
of. 
Wednesday, April 14.—In the Senate the bill 
granting to the State of Ohio the unsold and un- 
appropriated lands in that State, passed by a vote 
of 28 to 13. The French Spoliation bill was far¬ 
ther discussed. In the House the Public Printing 
and a speech against the Homestead bill occupied 
the day. 
Thursday, April 15.—In the Senate Mr. Mag¬ 
num made a speech in favor of Gen. Scott. The 
French Spoliation bill was ordered to a third read¬ 
ing. The House continued the Printing discuss¬ 
ion. 
Friday, April 16.—Speeches were made on the 
Deficiency bill, and an executive session held in 
the Senate. In the House nothing done. Both 
adjourned to Monday. 
Currency Items. 
Very Dangerous Counterfeit. —A very dan¬ 
gerous counterfeit was detected at one of our banks 
on Saturday. It was a two dollar bill of the Fort 
Stanwix Back, of Rome, Oneida county, N. Y., 
altered to a ten. The large figure “ 2” on the 
right hand had been taken otf by the use of acid, 
and “X” stamped thereon. On the left hand and 
in the centre the letters “ en” are very expertly 
pasted over “ wo,” in type of the same style, aud 
then so well pressed as to almost defy scrutiny. 
No one, unless familiar with the plates of the dif¬ 
ferent denominations, would suspect the cheat.— 
Rochester Daily Democrat. 
Counterfeit Notes of tiie Commercial Bank 
of Albany. —Very dangerous counterfeits of the 
oue, two and three dollar notes of this Bank have 
just made their appearance. The bills are un¬ 
doubtedly impressions from the genuine plate, 
but the signature of the Register, President and 
acting Cashier are forgeries. They bear date of 
January, 1852, and purport to be signed by E. 
Westerlo and H. Boyd as Register, John Town¬ 
send, President, and Andrew A. White, Cashier. 
Pasted Bills. —There are genuine $l’s on the 
Bank of Chemung altered to $5’s. The alteration 
is well calculated to deceive. 
-All bills of the People’s Bank, Patterson, 
N. J., must be returned to the Receivers of the 
Bank, by the 25th inst., to participate in the di¬ 
vision of the assetts of the Bank. 
-A new counterfeit $10 note, purporting to 
be issued by the Merchants’ Bank of Norwich, Ct., 
is in circulation. 
Mail Gleanings. 
E^f“ The New York “ Courier and Enquirer” 
says that the agent of the Washington Monument 
Association has in ten months hard labor in the 
ten lower wards of that city, and part of Brooklyn, 
been able to collect only $3,562,65. The amount 
collected in Wall street was but $233; in Broad¬ 
way but $320. 
E^f" Oue of the arguments made use of in Eng¬ 
land in favor of continuing the explorations in 
search of Sir John Franklin is, that the Arctic re¬ 
gions produce at least eight kinds of vegetables, 
all of which are nutritious, and that, therefore, 
there is no risk of starvation to be encountered by 
the explorers. 
E^P A genlleman belonging to the University 
of Oxford, undertook, for a wager, to row a mile, 
run a mile, aud trot a horse a mile within 18 min¬ 
utes. The first two events occupied 15 minutes, 
and the last he succeeded in accomplishing in two 
minutes and forty-nine seconds, thus winning the 
wager with eleven seconds to spare ! 
It appears from a statistical return to the 
Austrian government, that at the end of 1851, the 
number of sheep in the Austrian dominions 
amounted to twenty-millions. In the same year 
these animals furnished 610,000 quintals of wool, 
of which 160,000 were exported, and the rest used 
by the native manufacturers. 
E^” The Census of Montreal has just been 
published. The total number of inhabitants is 
57,715, divided into the following classes: Cana¬ 
dians of French origin 26,020, Canadians of other 
origin 12,493, Irish 11,736, Scotch 8,150, English 
2,858, natives of the United States 910, French 
133, natives of other countries 405. 
E^” The Railroads of Massachusetts are 1267 
miles long ; cost $58,000,000 ; have paid in divi¬ 
dends the last year, $2,159,000, or less than 4 per 
cent. Sixty-eight persons have beeu accidentally 
killed by them, and thirty other persons injured. 
The earnings have been $7,333,000, and expenses 
$4,000,000; and the average rate of speed for pas¬ 
senger trains is 23 miles per hour. 
E^” A Mr. Carman, of Borden town, N. Jersey, 
is said to be engaged in hatching eggs by steam. 
The machine is placed on a table about 2i ft. long 
by 16 inches broad, and the water is heated by an 
oil lamp. The machine contains about 100 eggs, 
and the chickens thus produced appear to be as 
lively and healthy as those produced by natural 
means. 
E^p~ A young lady of this city recently received 
from a relative in California, in a letter, a gold 
watch and two gold chains. The package did not 
weigh an ounce and a half. The watch is a Ge¬ 
neva lever, full-jeweled, is not much larger than a 
dime, and keeps admirable time. One of the 
chains was gold aud agate, very beautiful, and the 
other was of the finest California gold, and about 
18 inches in length. Such a letter is worth the 
postage, at least.— Albany Register. 
E^” There are to bo fivo Express trains from 
Albany to Buffalo the coming season, and three 
from the latter to the former. There are to be six 
through trains, daily, from Albany to Buffalo, with 
one accommodation from Albany to Syracuse.— 
There are also to be two freight trains and one to 
Syracuse, daily. There will be five through pas¬ 
senger trains from Buffalo to Albany, aud one ac¬ 
commodation from Syracuse to Albany. There 
will also be two freight trains. 
A letter from St. Johnsbury, Vt., dated 
April 1st, says:—“ It commenced snowing last 
night, and this morning there was some eight to 
ten inches of damp snow—making, on the old bot¬ 
tom, fine sleighing. This is the 33d, ( thirty-third ) 
*uow storm we have had this winter ; and to-day 
is the 141st, ( one hundred forty-first) day of good 
sleighing in St. Johnsbury and vicinity, this sea¬ 
son. The thermometers nave all “ gin out,” aud 
are laid up for repairs. 
tents of Jitms, &r. 
—— New York casts more than l-8th of the 
electoral votes. 
—— There are 30,000 prisoners in France for 
political offences. 
-There are more insane women than men. 
The proportion is about 8 to 7. 
——The Catholic population of the United 
States is 1,990,000. 
-The Cotton crop for 1852 is estimated at 
2,800,000. A large increase 
-In England and Scotland there are 694 
Catholic churches. In Ireland 2,205. 
-New York produced, in 1850, 62,043,823 
pounds of butter, and 49,875,905 pounds of cheese. 
—— 23,600 of the inhabitants of Austria are 
employed in secretly watching the rest. 
-There were 6,089 deaths in New Jersey 
last year, of which 2,015 were under 5 years old. 
-There were 475 Belgians among the emi¬ 
grants to New York last year. 
-The speaker of the House of Commons 
enjoys a salary of $30,000 per annum. 
-The great western railway in England, now 
carries coal at the rate of one cent per ton per mile. 
-- The Census of Toronto, taken on the 13th 
of January, shows a population of 20,763. 
-It is supposed that Kossuth will be in Bos¬ 
ton this week. He is now in Washington. 
-We notice the recent death of Capt. Sir 
Samuel Brown, the inventor of chain cables, chain 
bridges, and suspension piers. 
-Louis Napoleon would not allow a funeral 
oration to be pronounced over the grave of Armand 
Marrast! The tyrant trembles. 
-A Post-Office has been established at Elm 
Valley, Allegany Co., N. Y., and George J. Osborn 
appointed Postmaster. 
-The transportation of political offenders to 
Cayenne, has already cost France 80 millions of 
francs. 
-An effort for the endowment of the Rich¬ 
mond Va., College is being made, with prospects 
of success. 
-We are informed that there are now con¬ 
tracts for building over four hundred houses in 
Indianapolis, la., during the coming season. 
-A recent Report of the Secretary of War 
states that (here is now 249,405 lbs. of powder 
stored at the Arsenal in West Troy. 
-There are six hundred steamers on the 
Mississippi, 150,000 tonnage, worth $16,000,000 
and carrying $250,000,000 freight yearly. 
-English steamers will hereafter not he per¬ 
mitted to go to sea, without a due proportion of 
iron life boats, signal lights, and fire engines. 
-The amount paid for shooting certificates 
in Great Britian, during the last year, was over 
$565,000! ! 
-The increase of the population of the Uni¬ 
ted States is at the rate of 32 67 per cent. That 
of the free colored population 10 95 per cent. 
-Of the millions carried over the railroad in 
this State last year, not one passenger in his seat 
was killed.—[State Engineer’s Report. 
-Dartmoor prison contains 1,200 inmates- 
They are chiefly employed in planting trees and 
raising flax, for the support of the establishment. 
-The city of Oswego contains fifteen flour¬ 
ing mills, containing in all 78 run of stone, capa¬ 
ble of making 7,075 barrels of flour daily. 
-The Cleveland Herald says that a lot in 
that city, of one hundred and sixty feet front, bor¬ 
dering on the Square, was recently sold for $20,- 
000 . 
-Twelve thousand tons of ice have been 
packed this winter in the neighborhood of Feru, 
Ind., by one firm. It is destined for the St- Louis, 
Vicksburg, and Natchez markets. 
-A plan is proposed to build a railroad di¬ 
rect from New Orleans to St. Louis. The new 
route is through Arkansas, and reduces the dis¬ 
tance to 650 or 700 miles. 
-Deacon Daniel Noyes, of the well known 
firm of Maynard A Noyes, of Boston, manufacturers 
of writing ink, died in Andover, Mass., on Thursday 
last, aged 60 years. 
-In the times of Edward I., there were two 
clocks in England, both of foreign manufacture. 
One was placed in an old tower in Westminster 
Hall, and the other in Canterbury Cathedral. 
-Mrs. Emily Norton, of Norwalk, Connecti¬ 
cut, died at New Haven on Friday afternoon, while 
inhaling chloroform previous to an operation on 
her teeth. 
-A new Guano Island has been discovered, 
somewhere in the region of Cape Horn. Its ex¬ 
act whereabouts is of course a secret with the dis¬ 
coverers. 
-The people of Cattaraugus Co., are active¬ 
ly engaged in behalf of the proposed railroad from 
Hornellsville down the Cattaraugus Valley to 
Lake Erie. 
-A black snake, measuring 5 feet in length 
was killed near Bloomingdale, Sullivan Co., on 
the 4th instant. When first seen he was crawl¬ 
ing lively over the surface of the snow. 
-The money market in N. York is flush.— 
The reports announce a decline in the sale of ster¬ 
ling exchange. A little further decline, and gold 
will be imported to the States from England. 
-Of the beautiful Angora wool there was 
exported from Turkey, last year, about 1,600,000 
pounds. It cannot be bad now at Angora under 
eight piastres, or 33 ceuts the pound. 
-The Legislature of Louisiana has passed 
an appropriation of $10,000 for the erection of a 
bronze statue of General Jackson, on Jackson 
Square, in New Orleans. 
-From the recent special report of Winslow 
S. Pierce, Controller of the State of California, it 
appears that the total taxable property of the state 
amounts to $50,000,000. 
-Peter Faneuil, who built the celebrated 
Hall in Boston that bears liis name, was a French 
Huguenot, who was banished from France by an 
edict against civil and religious liberty. 
-An experiment is making in Brooklyn, to 
test the value of the pine as a shade tree. One of 
the blocks in Congress-street, has been planted 
with it during the past fortnight. 
-The Elmira Republican estimates that 12,- 
500,000 feet of lumber have passed that place, on 
the way to market, during the present season.— 
The value is from $150,000 to $200,000. 
-It is a fact that two-thirds of all the combs 
manufactured in the United States, are made in 
Leominster, in Worcester County, Mass., some of 
the manufacturers employing upwards of fifty 
hands. 
-The Printers are to hold a National Con¬ 
vention at Cincinnati, in May. For what specific 
objects? These should be declared, aud an effort 
made to gather together a strong body of the 
“ craft.” 
