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ROCHESTER, MAY 13, 1852. 
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Weekly Notes by a Naturalist. 
The week closing to-day has wrought a very 
great change in the vegetable world. Thursday, 
Friday, Saturday and Sunday were very warm 
days—it is a little cooler this morning. 
The apricot began to flower about the middle 
of the week and was in full bloom on Saturday, 
and on Sunday the petals began to fall. There 
were a few cherry blossoms open on Sunday.— 
Currant, and Gooseberry in full flower at the close 
of the week. Crown Imperial in full bloom to¬ 
day. Trilliums beginning to flower—also Balm- 
of- Gilead—early saxafrage, and many other species 
of spring plants. Trees are leafing very rapidly. 
A few days more of sucli weather as the last four 
have been, with a little rain will put vegetation 
forward very rapidly. 
The Baltimore Oriole, wren, chimney swallow, 
many of the warblers, and several oilier species of 
birds have made their first appearence this week, 
and caused the air to be vocal with tlicir songs.— 
Farmers are exceedingly busy now. Their motto 
is “ short calls.” A word to the wise is sufficient. 
All others must have an admonition, when a hint 
fails. 
Monday, May 10, 1852. 
American Pomological Society. —The next 
session of this body will be held in Philadelphia, 
on the 13th September, 1852. Invitations are 
given to Pomological, Horticultural and Agrieul- 
tuial Societies throughout, the United States and 
Canada, to send delegates, who are also requested 
to bring with them specimens of their fruits. In 
cases where the owners cannot personally attend, 
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gress may be directed to Thos. P. James, 212 Mar¬ 
ket street. W. D. Brinkle, M. D., is President of 
the Society. 
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the advertisement in this paper relative to the : 
Trial of Implements by the N. Y. State Ag. Soci¬ 
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Literary—Notices. lolititQl Jmijl-3M. 
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Turs is the title of a very attractive and read- : fon j > was chosen President, pro tern., and Levi D. 
able volume of 336 pages—faultless in typography, j Bradley, dem., Secretary. The House elected 
and adorned with several portraits on steel. For I Charles B. Philips, Speaker; Robert Hitchcock, 
the subjects of her essays, the author lias made a anc j Q eo Savlcs, Clerks. 
judicious selection from those women made end- , Illinois- —The democrats have nominated J. A. 
nent by their abilities, their virtues, or by circura- , Mflttegon >for Go vernor, and G. P. Koerner, for 
stances chronicled in history. The biographies, j j j Q overnor 
or brief sketches, are well calculated to impart _ T . . , .... 
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pleasure and instruction, especially to youthiul | . , , „ „ e . ,, , . J 
1 . , , , ,, , o,, meeting, have elected fe. G. Arnold, whig, Lieut, 
readers, to whom we commend the volume, Sold ,, , 
, „ . , ri i Governor. The Speaker and Clerks ot the House 
by G. W. Fisher, 6 Exchange st., Rochester. , . , „ * _ , „ . , 
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Correspondents the announcement of a volume, Governor. 
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Knick- Knacks from an Editors fable: by L. \ sou i s the new United States Senator from South 
Gaylord Clark.” this will be one of the pleas-j 0 aro ii na> to succeed Mr. Rhett. Gov. Richardson 
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healthful mirth and wholesome sadness. The Ed- ; 
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gotten, and it is well thought of to gather them j 
up in a volume. 
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folio published in New York by the American 
Tract Society. It is beautifully printed, On the 
best of paper, and its wood cuts are capitally done. 
No packages of less than ten in number are sent 
by mail, and the teims are $1 for ten copies, $5 
for sixty copies, or $8 for a hundred copies.— 
Business communications may bo addressed to 
“The Child’s Paper.” 
The Westminster Review for April con¬ 
tains articles on The Government ol India; 
Physical Puritanism, (a notice of various vegeta¬ 
rian theories;) Shelley and the letters of Poets; 
The Commerce of Literature; Early Quakerism ; 
Notices of the Contemporary Literature of lung- 
land, America, Germany and France, Ac., Ac.— 
New York : L. Scott A Co., Publishers. Dewey, 
Agent, Rochester. 
Dicker’s Household Words commences 
the fifth volume with last week’s issue. This j 
Journal contains a large amount of interesting ; 
and instructive matter, and its form is one of j 
the side of the Union. 
Maine Liquor Law. —This law passed the Leg¬ 
islature of Massachusetts, on the 5th iust. It is 
to be submitted to the people the 3d of June. 
The Rhode Island Legislature have passed the 
same, by a large majority. 
In Y r irginia a committee of the lower House re¬ 
ported against it. 
Buff alo Theatre Burned.— The Buffalo Rough 
Notes of Tuesday says:—“At about half-past one 
o’clock this morning, the Eagle Street Theatre 
was discovered to be on lire, and before the alarm 
could be given, the fire had made such rapid pro¬ 
gress, vhat it was impossible for the firemen to ar¬ 
rest it before the entire building and its contents 
were laid in ashes. The loss must be a heavy one.” 
Lola Montes performed at the Theatre on Mon¬ 
day evening—a few hours before its destruction. 
23P” The dirt carted out of New York city from 
Jan. 1 to April 1, is stated to amount to 213,571 
loads, and yet the streets, much of the time, have 
been almost impassable from filth. What a dirty 
place 1 Then too, there are only 37,OOU houses 
in the city ! 
S58” The Boston Commonwealth mentions this 
the best lor reading and preservation. Repub- , strange coincidence :—“A grandfather his son-in- 
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10 for $15. 
The Student, a F’arnily Miscellany and ! 
Monthly School Reader, commences a new vol¬ 
ume with the May number. We have before spo¬ 
ken of it as a good thing, and need only say that j 
it ls kept up Avith spirit. N. A. Calkins, Editor, j 
New York: Fowlers A Wells, $L per annum. | 
Sold at Dewey’s. 
High Prices. 
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The present high prices of provisions through- j 
out the country, is attracting attention, and creat- i 
ing discussion in regard to the cause. 1 he pocket 
and stomach are sensitive, and not to be deprived j 
of their “ inalienable rights” without a struggle- 
lienee the agitation of the subject of prices. The 
N. Y. Express, in an article on the subject, thinks 
there is something wrong in the direction of labor. 
For present profit it thinks farmers should raise 
more meat and less grain—an opinion which cer¬ 
tainly looks very reasonable, and in Avhich most 
people will concur. The Express sums up its 
conclusions in this language : 
“ Be the cause of high prices, hoAvever, what 
they may, if the causes be good, more farmers are 
needed than we have. Agriculture, prices tell us, 
is underdone, and other things are overdone.'— 
There are not enough raisers of food properly to 
supply the devourers. Cattle, especially, are not 
numerous enough, or the reach of the forwarders 
is not wide enougli for the markets. It may be 
there are monopolies that overreach the consum¬ 
ers ; and if so, let us knoiv it. It may be the 
market is purposely kept shut of supplies; and if 
so, let us find it out. It is very certain, the ivay 
things are going on here, that the time has come 
when labor here, as on the Continent of Europe, 
can hardly eat meat save on a Sunday, or once a 
Aveek. Meat is to become a luxury, and the pom- 
are to live on bread, or soups maigre, or something 
of that sort. By all means let us stimulate the 
spirit of inquiry ; for if our destiny is inevitable, 
Avecan then submit to it with grace.” 
iaAV and a child of the latter sat down at dinner 
on Sunday last, in this city. The three were sev¬ 
erally bom the 29th of February.” When will 
i he like again occur. 
News Clippings 
The President has notified the Utah Judges 
noAV here to return home; otherwise their succes¬ 
sors av ill be appointed. 
The emigration mania still continues in 
Ireland, and in one Aveek 6 vessels laden Avith 
emigrants left Queenstown for America. 
t-W Hon. Charles AndreAvs, member of Con¬ 
gress from the Lincoln District, Me., died at Paris, 
Me., on F’riday morning, lie was 38 years of age. 
Among the passengers who arrived at N. 
Y< iiK, in one day lately, were forty Hungarian, 
and fifty-seven French Refugees. 
The late flood at Harper’s Ferry damaged 
27,UU0 muskets, at the U. S. Arsenal, so that it 
Avill cost Uncle Sam $2 a piece to repair them. 
2'^" At the annual exhibition of the junior class 
at Y ale College last month, the highest prize for 
English composition was awarded to Y’ ung Wing, 
a native Chinese. 
2 ^" There is a spring of water near Logaus- 
jiort, Ky., Avhich is said to be deadly poison. A 
bottle of it has been sent to Professor Silliraan 
lor analyzation. 
2 ^” Noah Noyes, aged 82 years, walked from 
Newburyport to Boston one day last week, and 
returned the next day. He had been in the hab¬ 
it of coming to Boston on foot for many years. 
F’our hundred and twenty-four papers are 
The People’s College. 
Wr published last week a notice for a meeting 
of the friends of this enterprize, in this city, on 
the 20th inst. A self-support ing institution which 
the Sons of the Laboring classes “ may enter and 
Avork their way through—finding the Avork in and 
about it, and not being compelled by Avant to de- 1 
sist from study, look abroad for employment and ; 
wander off to earn the means of resuming their i 
lessons” is needed in this country. “ It is hoped” j 
adds the Tribune, “that the People’s College may, i 
after its establishment, be rendered such an one j 
in good part, by connecting with it many depart- j 
ments of Productive Labor, and requiring every 5 
teacher and student to devote a stated portion of ! 
his time thereto, Avhereby health and strength of 
body, Avith efficiency and skill in industry, shall : 
be blended with instruction and proficiency in the i 
Sciences, and mental discipline generally.” 
The contribution of Michigan to the j 
Washington Monument, is a solid block of copper ; 
weighing 2,100 lbs. It is highly polished and | 
has on its face the inscription, 
“ Michigan : 
As an Emblem of her Trust in the Union 
Avith the coat of arms of the State engraved on ! 
plates of Native Silver, with appropriate devices : 
in Latin. Both the Copper and the Silver are j 
from the famous Cliff mine on Lake Superior. 
2?p” The Isthmus of Panama is now crossed in 
about half a day instead of five or six as formerly. 
When the railroad is completed it can be accom¬ 
plished in two hours. 
issued in the Ncav England States, 876 in the 
Middle States, 716 in the Southern States, and 
784 in the Western States. 
Cluwalier Hulseinann, the Austrian minis¬ 
ter, previously to leaving Washington, addressed 
an insulting letter to Mr. Webster, copies of 
Avliich were sent to all the foreign ambassadors. 
The treaty Avith the Sioux Indians, pro- 
A-iding for the cession of 40,000 to 50,000 square 
miles of territory to the United States, Avill be ra¬ 
tified by the Senate. 
2Hr The maple sugar manufacture of Geauga 
j Co, Ohio, for the year 1850, amounted to 411,034 
j lbs, valued at $32,882,72. This amount is equal 
! to 115 lbs. for each family in the county. A sweet 
place, that! 
A company is forming in Ohio to establish 
a line of Post Coaches to carry mails and passen¬ 
gers across the continent; and Mr. Henry O’Riel- 
]v’s plan for a mail and telegraph route, has been 
reported in the Senate, and meets with favor. 
2 ^“ ’I’he Cincinnati Gazette estimates the 
! amount of material, land, and labor which have 
I been this year devoted to the culture of the grape 
! end manufacture of native wines, in the vicinity 
j < J that city, at half a million of dollars. 
’ It is estimated that the telegraph, on the 
day before the freshet at Georgetown, saved that 
I city $50,009, by advising its citizens of the rise of 
! water at Harper’s Ferry, and thus enabling them 
j to remove their goods in time. 
jpgp The April freshet in the Eastern, Middle, 
! and Southern States avus one of the most disastrous 
I ever known. There was scarcely a river which 
, flows into the Atlantic, which did not overflow its 
i banks and deluge the country. 
jpg" Mexico is in a most miserable condition. 
I More tha a 10,000 persons have been compelled to 
i flee from Durango to other States, on account of 
! lhe inroads of savages, and the scarcity of grain 
to plant. 
A bridge on the Remington plan, built 
; some time since at Montgomery, Ala, lias broken 
| in two in the middle, and tumbled down. It bad 
; not been used for more than a year, and for some 
| months had been threatening to break down. 
A contract lias been entered into by the 
King of Belgium and the Mexican Government 
lor transporting 50,000 Belgians to the interior of 
Mexico, Avhere they will receive lands to settle on, 
or work for Mexican land holders, on certain con¬ 
ditions. 
Congrasioiwl. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Monday, May 3.—Tn the Senate the YYisconsin 
Railroad land bill reached engrossment. Mr. 
Rusk spoke on the steamer bill. In the House 
the French Spoliation bill was taken up, but not 
acted upon. 
Tuesday, May 4. — Both Houses adjourned after 
the passage of the usual resolutions on the death 
of Hon. C. Andrews, M. 0, from Maine. 
Wednesday, May 5.—The Senate passed no 
bills of importance, but, no merely political 
speeches Avere made. The Collins line question 
is not yet settled. And the House still talks about 
the Public Printing. 
Thursday, May 6.—The Michigan railroad bill 
was passed in the Senate. The Deficiency bill 
was again up, and speeches were made on the 
steam ship question. The House was at work 
in earnest on the Homestead bill. 53,000 copies 
of the mechanical part of the Patent office Report 
were ordered to be printed. 
Friday, May 7.—Mr. Cass spoke in favor of the 
CoIUds appropriation. The House was engaged 
on private bills. Adjourned till Monday. 
Mail G1 e anings. 
TW The richest Gold Mines in Australia are 
but seventy miles from the sea shore—more ac¬ 
cessible even than in California. 
The average circulation of papers in the U. 
States, is 1,775. There is one publication for eve¬ 
ry 7,161 free inhabitants iu the United States and 
Territories. 
«r There is a (arm in Standish, Blaine, con¬ 
sisting of eight acres, including yards, buildings, 
<fcc, from which avus gathered, last fall, 1,750 
bushels of apples. 
Iron for the Illinois Cential Railroad has 
arrived at Chicago, and bauds have commenced 
laying the tract—20 miles Avill belaid in 10 clays, 
Avheu the cars from the Central Railroad will ar¬ 
rive m Chicago. 
The Methodist General Conference voted 
110 to 37, to confirm the domgs of Troy Confer¬ 
ence in*expelling Rev. Ezra Sprague, on various 
| charges, including one that he supported and prac¬ 
ticed mesmerism. 
HTT he receipts of the Dorcas Gold Mine Avhich | 
is located in Abbotville District, S. C., for the 
month of March, Avere 26,167 pennyweights— 
worth nearly $26,000. This is the product of the 
labor of eight hands. 
jSST'There is likely to be another trial of Hobbs’ 
American lock, by an English lock-maker named 
Smith. Hobbs offers to sIioav the principle of the 
lock, and gives Mr. Smith as many days or Aveeks 
as he requires to operate upon it. 
2^”.The Clay Medal, which avrs lost some time 
since, has been replaced by a new Gist, from the 
original dies. It is said to be more perfect than 
the former one, and the silver case containing it 
more liighlj- wrought. 
2^T Dr. King, the American Missionary, h:is 
l een sentenced to a heavy fine, fifteen days im¬ 
prisonment, and expulsion from Greece, for preach¬ 
ing the Protestant religion in that kingdom. He 
is also U. S. Consul to Athens. 
On Friday the ice took its final departure 
for the season from Lhe lower end of Lake Erie.— 
Buffalo harbor immediately filled with A r essels. — 
Over 100,000 bushels of grain was landed on that 
day Avith other freight in proportion. 
23gT The first Salmon Trout of (he season which 
was taken in the Penobscot, Maine, weighed 
t-wenty-five and a half pounds, and excited such 
a rivalry among Hotel keepers doAvn east, that it 
brought the price of an ox, being sold for forty- 
eight dollars. 
2^” The largest church on this Continent is 
said to be the French Cathedral of Nortre Dame 
in Montreal, Canada. It Avill comfortably seat 
10,000 persons, and on the occasion of any great 
religious ceremony will hold 15,000. It has only 
been completed within the last few years. 
2^” The Chinese emigration to California is 
already immense and constantly increasing In 
January last ten ships with emigrants sailed from 
Hong Kong. The civil war iu China is driving 
aAvay great numbers of the people, not- only to 
California, but to the South Sea. 
21T The following is from a fly leaf in the 
Edinburgh Review,just out:—Messrs. Longman 
and Co., have to announce that the BIS. Journal 
and Papers of the late Thomas Moore, are in pre¬ 
paration for publication, and they will be edited 
oy the Right Rev. Hon. Lord John Russell.” 
The great storm of the 30th nit., nearly 
destroyed the town of Leavenworth, Indiana.— 
Forty houses were bloAvn down, some of them 
substantial brick buildings, with thirteen inch 
Avails. Two or three persons were killed, and a 
number badly injured. 
2 -Sr’ The Utica Observer says that the State 
Fair is to be held this year upon land recently 
owned bv Mr. Plant on the New Hartford road, 
just beyond the Half Way House. The grounds 
are beautifully located, and have been purchased 
by Mr. Butterfield. The grading is provided for, 
and a contract made for the necessary fences, Ac. 
'[’lie present. Viceroy of Egypt has spent 
$70,000 in making a carriage road across the 
Desert to Suez ; he has expended large sums in 
improving the Nile navigation ; and lie has now 
undertaken, at. the cost of a million sterling, ($4,- 
800,000) the construction of a railroad from Alex¬ 
andria to Cairo. 
Our Rochester Nurserymen inform us that 
they are regularly receiving trees, shrubs, Ac., 
from England, France, Germany, Ac., by steam¬ 
ships. The short time required to cross the At¬ 
lantic by steam permits their importation without 
damage, as trees and shubbery have not time to 
Avither Avhile crossing the broad Atlantic. 
Louis Napoleon as “ Prince President” of 
t he F’rench Republic, is allowed a salary of 12,000,- 
000 of francs—the same as Louis Philippe—where¬ 
as the Great Napoleon, as first Consul, AA'as only 
alloAved 500,000 francs. The latter rarely squan¬ 
dered a dollar on personal expenses—while the 
former is known to be one of the greatest profligates 
and spendthrifts of the Ago. 
2'gf House rents in New Y'ork, are higher than 
eA-er before. Iu Chambers street, medium houses 
rent for $1,400 and $1,600 ; in Blurray and War¬ 
ren streets, prices range from $1,200 to $1,500.— 
Large new buildings in Park Place rent $4,000 
and 6,000, and in Vesey street the best three-story 
houses for $1,500 anil $1,800 .In the up-town 
streets, three-story houses rout generally from 
$800 to $1,300. 
ftema of -Sfamss, &r. 
-- The Duke of Wellington was in his eigh¬ 
ty-third year on the 1st of May. 
-A Telegraphic communication has been 
opened between Havre and Liverpool. 
-Borneo camphor, used medicinally in China, 
is worth $25 per pound. 
-The study of philosophy and history is 
noAV prohibited in tlic French schools and colleges. 
-Since 1790 New York has doubled itself 
every fifteen years. 
-John B. Gough is lecturing at Cincinnti 
and vicinity. 
-In 1841, there Avere 16,922 bouses in the 
City of Baltimore; in 1850, there were 29,523. 
•-There are 199,532,494 pounds of tobacco 
produced every year in the United States. 
-Louisiana has within her bounds, 25,000 
free people of color. 
-It is proposed to place au Equesterian 
statue of Washington, in Union square, N. York. 
-The new census of Canada will show, it is 
thought, a population of 1,800,000. 
-Forty clerks who had been engaged on the 
census Avere dismissed in Washington on the 2d 
instant. 
-Another Suspension bridge across the Ni¬ 
agara river is proposed. It Avill be located but a 
short distance from the Cataract. 
-The “ posters” of the Paris theatres are 
now regulated by the police, as regards color, size 
of type and size of paper. 
-A number of articles have already been 
imported into New Y'ork with a view to having 
them placed in the New York World’s Fair. 
-BIrs. Huldah Sparling died in the village 
of Owego on the 8th inst., aged one hundred and 
ten years. 
-The gold deposited at the Mint, for April, 
Avas $3,000,000—making, since January, $14,- 
154,058. The coinage for April avhs $3,474, J 28. 
-An advertisement appears in the English 
papers for 1,000 laborers immediately wanted on 
the Galt Branch of the Canada West Railroad. 
-$27,000 worth of Hungarian Bonds are re¬ 
ported to have been sold during Kossuth’s stay 
in BostoD. 
-There Avere 121 South Americans and 42 
Mexicans among the immigrants at New York 
last year. 
-Quite a severe shock of an earthquake was 
felt at Raleigh, N. 0., on Thursday the 29th tilt. 
It Avasfelt slightly at Washington. 
-It is stated as a fact, and it is remarkable 
that there has not been a couple divorced in South 
Carolina since the revolution. 
-By the recent severe gale, two Gloucester 
fishing vessels have been lost, and, by this calami¬ 
ty, over thirty children have been left fatherless, 
-Lewis Blorse, of Cincinnati, died recently 
leaving a bequest of lands valued at about $75,- 
000 for educational purposes. 
-A new line of steamers for Maderia, a*id 
the Coast of Africa, is announced to commence 
running on 1st Septemberfroni Plymouth, England. 
-Eight Peacocks, presented by a gentleman 
of Delaware, are to be placed in independence 
and Washington Squares, Philadelphia, as ‘pets.’ 
-In England and Scotland, there are 694 
churches and chapels, and 972 priests, and in Ire¬ 
land, 2205 churches, and 2552 priests. 
-The commerce passing through the Gulf of 
Bloxico, amounts to upAvards of $200,000,000 per 
annum. 
-There are six hundred steamers on the 
Mississippi, of 150,000 tonnage, worth $16,000,- 
000 and carrying $250,000,000, freight yearly. 
-From authentic statistical observations it 
is ascertained, that the average amount of deaths 
in Liberia is three per cent, less than in the city 
of Baltimore. . 
-The N. Y. Sun says that 125,000 pounds 
of butter on au average are consumed in that city 
every day. Butter has been selling iu New York 
at 37cents a pound. 
-The Maryland State Colonization Society, 
since its organization, has sent to Liberia 1,049 
emigrants besides erecting buildings and purchas¬ 
ing a large tract of territoiy iu Africa. 
-The Marble statue of the “ Wounded In¬ 
dian,” which avus conspicuous among the millions 
of articles at the World’s Fair, has been brought 
to Ncav York for exhibition. 
-Banvard, the artist, is in London, getting 
up a magnificent panorama of the Orient. It is 
said that it will be six times the size of his famous 
“ Mississippi.” 
-A raft Avas floated down the Ohio river 
not long since, which contained one million tAvo 
hundred thousand feet of boards, was thirty rods 
in length and six rods wide. 
-After May, 1st no notes of foreign bauks 
cau be passed in Delaware under the denomina¬ 
tion of five dollars, under a penalty of ten dollars. 
Travelers, as Avell as others, should remember tins. 
-John Reynolds, ex-Governorand ex-Blem- 
ber of Congress, of Illinois, is engaged in writing 
a history of that State, from Blarquelte’s discover¬ 
ies in 1763 to the year 1818. 
-The receipts of the Hudson River Railroad, 
for April are reported at $63,000. The net earn¬ 
ings for the six months ending 1st April, were 
about $280,000. 
-It is stated that another Searching Expe¬ 
dition is to be dispatched toMellville Island, Avilli 
Nie view of meeting that already in Behring’s 
Straits. 
-A Wisconsin paper says winter wheat 
throughout the Avhole State, never looked better 
at this season of the year. We hear this from all 
quarters. 
-The Journal of Commerce says, a lake, oue 
hundred miles in circumference, heretofore un¬ 
known to the whites, has been discovered within 
fifteen miles of St. Anthony. 
-A few days since, Joseph Johnson, a revo¬ 
lutionary soldier, died at Pleasant Blills, aged 93. 
He entered the service in 1776, Avhen only 16 
years old. 
_The Legislature of Ohio has enacted a law 
limiting the time for labor, for children and females, 
to ten hours per day. With males above tAventy- 
one, the Ieav does not interfere. 
-Mrs. Amelia B. Welby, widely known as a 
writer of musical verses, died on the 3d inst., at 
Louisville. She was a native of Maryland, her 
maiden name Coppuck, and her age from 35 to 40. 
-There are eighteen Government Marine 
Hospitals in the United States, established at a 
cost of about $816,000. Appropriations of $74,- 
000 are asked that eight more may be established. 
-The General Conference of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church now in session in Boston, con¬ 
sists of 178 members, all clergymen. On its 
opening 138 were present 
