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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
ROCHESTER, MAY' 20, 1852. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
A new quarter ctmmtnced Ike first week in April, 
and icc can still suppti / the numbers from that date, or from 
the 1st of March. Head subjoined paragraphs. 
£ ’Lf As v>c cannot furnish all the back numbers of this 
volume, those who have formed clubs will be supplied for one 
year from 1st of March, A/rril or May, at club prices. 
fc~gr“ Single or club subscriptions, after this date auduntil 
further notice, can commence the 1st of March, April or 
May, or at the time of subscribing, as preferred. 
Remember that our terms are in advance, and that 
we do not send the Rural after the expiration of the time 
paid for. .Sec terms on last page. 
To Readers and Correspondents. 
Among the articles on file for insertion in the 
Literary Department of tire Rural, we have 
sketches by Miss Caroline Chesebro,’ Edward 
Webster, Esq, “A. Farmer's Wife," and several 
other talented contributors. With the malarial on 
hand, and a continuance of the aid of able writers, 
we hope to render the Literary and Miscellaneous 
Departments of the paper increasingly interesting 
and valuable,—while tire Practical and News De¬ 
partments will in no wise be neglected. 
We again invite the friends of the Rural and 
its objects, to contribute to its pages. Communi¬ 
cations from practical and experienced farmers and 
horticulturists will always prove most acceptable, 
—and we solicit them to furnish such facts, opin¬ 
ions and suggestions as may be considered worthy 
of publication. 
— Several inquiries, Ac, recently received,, will j 
receive early attention. 
Weekly Notes by a Naturalist. 
Since our last notes we have had an exceeding¬ 
ly fine week—seldom does vegetation make more 
rapid progress during a week than it has on the 
one that closes to-day. Cherry, peach plum and 
pear all in full blossom at the same time, which was 
a little past the middle of the week. The petals 
of these fruits are now beginning to falL Trillium, 
Liverwort, Bishop’s Cap, Dwarf Mitella, Shad- 
tree, Early Meadow Rue, aud numerous other na¬ 
tive plants and shrubs in flower. 
The king-bird, the complanter, and most of the 
summer birds that had Dot before appeared have 
arrived during the week. The cornplanter, some¬ 
times called red-tlireslier, is a very musical bird. 
His note reminds the farmer that it is time to 
plant corn ; and always when his georgics are 
heard from the topmost branch of some majestic 
tree near by w lie re the plowman is engaged in 
preparing the soil for the reception of the seed, 
the agriculturist knows that he need not longer 
delay planting. We have had frequent rains du¬ 
ring the week. River high. 
Monday, May 17, 1852. 
|5olittnii Irrap-Skiok. 
Literary Notices. 
A New and Superior Apple. 
We have received from Mr. Goss> of East Bloom¬ 
field, Ontario county, several specimens of a sweet 
apple,—said to be a seedling produced on his farm. 
The fruit is large, or above medium size, very fair 
and beautiful in appearance, fine grained, and of 
rich flavor,—an opinion concurred in by several 
horticultural friends who had an opportunity of 
judging from sight and taste. 
The Exporing Expedition to the Rocky Moun¬ 
tains, Oregon and California. By Brevet Col. 
J. C. Fremont. To which is added a descrip¬ 
tion < f the Physical Geography of California, 
etc. Buffalo : Geo. II. Derby <t Co. 
This volume gives us, in handsome book form, 
Col. Fremont’s Report of an exploration of the 
country lying between the Missouri river and the j 
Rocky Mountains in 1842 aud ’43,—also some 
early notices of the Gold Region. The narrative I 
is one of much interest, and the book on the , 
whole not only readable but valuable. Fifteen j 
thousand copies have l cen issued, which fact shows ! 
how the public appreciate it. 
We are glad to learn that Derby A Co., and other j 
| Western New Y'ork publishers, are issuing many | 
valuable and popular worms. 
sar'i [’he Schoolmate, a Monthly Reader for-! 
School and Home instruction of Youth, is a neat 
illustrated monthly, edited by A. R. Piiippen.— ! 
From what we have seen of it we think it a cap- ! 
ital periodical for the school-room and fire-side. ! 
New York : Geo. Savage. $1 per annum. 
The Canal Law Declared Unconstitutional. 
The law passed at the Extra Session of the 
| Legislature last summer, has been pronounced un- 
i constitutional by the Court of Appeals, (he high- 
| est court known to our laws, and from whose de- 
| cision there is no appeal. The case was ably ar- 
| gued at the April session, and the decision with- 
| held until the 11th inst., when the court assembled 
[ at Albany for that purpose. 
Id the case of Phelps vs. Newell, auditor, which 
presented the pure constitutional question, the 
Auditor refusing to obey the mandates of the law, 
the Supreme Court having directed a mandamus 
to issue agaiust Newell, compelling him to pay 
certain drafts. This decision was reversed and 
the mandamus denied by a unanimous vote, with 
the exception of Judge Wells, who declined vot¬ 
ing. The decision of the Supreme Court in a case 
arising in Orange Co., questioning the constitu¬ 
tionality of the bonds issued by virtue of the 
Canal law, was affirmed by the same vote. 
These were unlooked for decisions, and their ef¬ 
fects upon the Public Works, the contractors, la¬ 
borers, revenue certificates, and the currency will 
engage a large share of public attention. The 
large mass of the people, especially in Western 
New York, are very much interested in the com¬ 
pletion of the State Canals, and without reference 
to political parties will sanction any feasible meas¬ 
ure designed to accomplish that object. 
There are very many who desire an Extra Ses¬ 
sion of tin) Legislature, to provide means for the 
prosecution of the work, but it is uncertain wheth¬ 
er the Governor will issue a call for that purpose. 
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Delegates to the Whig National Convention. 
The Whigs of New York have been actively 
engaged for a few weeks past, in the choice of del¬ 
egates to represent them in the National Conven¬ 
tion, which meets at Baltimore, the 16th of June. 
From all the indications, it appears the majority 
of the delegates will be friendly to Geu. Scott, 
while mauy of them are instructed to vote lor him 
in Convention. 
President Fillmore and Gen. Scott, are now the 
most prominent candidates, though the friends of 
ConguMomil. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Monday, May 10.—The Senate was engaged 
mainly in debate upon the Collins steamers. In 
the House the Homestead bill made some advance¬ 
ment. 
Tuesday, May 11.—In the Senate the bills 
granting land to Alabama and Florida for their 
railroads, and to Indiana and Illinois for the 
Louisville and St. Louis railroad, passed. The 
Homestead bill was debated in the House. 
Wednesday, May 12. —Mr. Rush gave notice 
in the Senate of a bill to reduce the rates of post¬ 
age on letters and newspapers. In the House the 
Homestead bill was passed 107 to 56, authorizing 
every American citizen to claim, improve, occupy 
Items of &r. 
The American Temperance M^gzine is a Mr. Webster, have not relinquished their zeal in 
In addition to the j 11 ea *' illustrated monthly published by P. F. Slier- ; behalf. It is highly probable that Scott will 
good qualities named, the apple is a late keeper, I ^ oc ^’ ^ ew York, at ^2 per annum. 1 he May No. 1 receive the nomination; and it is beyond a doubt 
for the specimens are now (May 6,) fresh and j cc)l Yens portrait* an, l 48 pages of interesting that the candidate receiving a majority of votes 
fine, and could probably be kept a month or six 
weeks longer. 
All our knowledge of this apple is derived from 
these specimens, aud a very brief note from Mr. 
G.,—(and the note was unfortunately lost or mis¬ 
laid soon after its receipt, which prevents our giv¬ 
ing the writer’s full name,)—but wo consider it 
superior, and if a seedling, as supposed, it must 
soon rank among the best of our choice varieties. 
We believe it -is designated Goss' Golden Apple 
—but think Goss’ Golden Swediny would be a 
more significant and appropriate name. Will Mr. 
G. give us its history, bearing qualities, Ac., for 
publication ? 
Horse and Human Portraits,—and their Uses. 
About five years ago, while publishing the Gen- 
j esee Farmer, we gave a portrait and description of 
J the Morgan Horse “ Black Hawk,” then 12 years 
old and owned in Vermont. Now, imagine our 
! “ special wonder,” on taking up a western paper, 
of recent date, to see delineated an exact copy of 
[ the portrait above mentioned, and thereunder read 
! as follows :—“The above engraving is an accurate 
likeness of the Morgan Horse, Black Hawk, own¬ 
ed by Messrs.-A-, of this place. It was 
engraved expressly for them, and of course is what 
it purports to be— a cor red portrait. (!) He was 
raised in Addison Co., Vt., and will be five years 
old on the 15th of May next!” 
Now some people would call this a remarkable 
coincidence, and others a hum -. On the con¬ 
trary, we suppose this western horse to be sired 
by tlie original Black Hawk, and that he perhaps 
resembles the latter sufficiently to be represented 
by the same cut. But if this portrait was origin¬ 
ally “engraved expressly” for the western horse, 
all we have to say is, that it was done when he 
was in extreme coltliood I In either case “ Black 
Hawk” stock must be exceedingly desirable for 
those who desire to breed matched horses ! 
— Speaking of portraits, reminds us of an ap¬ 
plication at our office recently. On the occasion 
of the trial and conviction of Antonio for mur¬ 
der, two or three of our city newsmen issued 
pamphlets, giving the report of the case, with 
portraits, Ac. There was of course some strife and 
excitement, each party endeavoring to publish his 
work first. In the midst of this tempest we were 
applied to by one of the parties (who had adver¬ 
tised the trial to be published at a certain time, 
with a correct likeness of the murderer,) for “ a 
portrait which would answer for the occasion”— 
just as though a likeness of either of the good- 
looking, distinguished persons portrayed in the 
Rural could be made to represent an obscure as¬ 
sassin ! On looking at our “assortment,” the ap¬ 
plicant concluded that the “ cut” of either Sena¬ 
tor Douglass, or Noaii Webster, “would be just 
the thing !” But as neither was used, the Sena¬ 
tor’s chance for the Presidency was not aided or 
ruined,—nor the popularity or sale of the Diction¬ 
ary of the age in the least affected! 
Nr.w Seed Drill. —Mr. E. D. IIallock, of this 
city, has got up a new hand seed drill for sowing 
carrot, turnip and other small seeds, which oper¬ 
ates admirably, and will pay for itself in the 
planting of half an acre. The price is $4. 
reading. 
The London Quarterly for April, re-pub¬ 
lished by L. Scott A pi., of New York, has been 
received at Dewey’s, It is full of interest and 
value. The ninetieth volume closes with the pres¬ 
ent issue. 
will be chosen President. Who that may be can 
be better told alter election. 1 
Jefferson Farmer.— This is the title of a new 
weekly recently commenced at Sackets Harbor, 
by O. H. Harris, Esq. It takes the place of the 
Sackets Harbor Observer, a political journal pub¬ 
lished for several years by Mr. II. The first two 
numbers of the Farmer look and read well, and 
we trust the enterprise will be accorded merited 
support. If other political editors would change 
their hebdomiuals in like manner, the people j Governor, for their services the past year. 
Connecticut. —The Legislature of this State 
have elected Hon. Isaac Tousey, (dem.) U. S. 
Senator. Mr. Tousey was formerly Attorney 
General of the United States. 
-John Wentworth, ex-M. C., has been elect¬ 
ed pound-master at Chicago. 
-A Whig city government was elected in 
Providence, iast week. 
-The Massachusetts Legislature is expected 
to adjourn this week. 
-The heaviest appropriation during the late 
session of the Rhode Island Legislature, was $ 1U0 
for payment ol' the Governor, and $200 for Lieut. 
and enjoy any one hundred and sixty acres of the 
surveyed and unapjfropriated Public Lands which 
are open to purchase and not reserved as contain¬ 
ing mineral or for some public use. 
Thursday-, May 13.—The Senate moved on 
slowly writh the Deficiency bill, The House has 
adjourned over until Monday, to have the hall re¬ 
fitted. 
Friday, May 14.—In the Senate, some speech- 
making was accomplished aud “ nothing else.” 
Neither House in session on Saturday. 
The Crops. —The Pennsylvania papers com¬ 
plain of the winter crops. The Allentown Reg¬ 
ister says: The wheat and rye fields throughout 
Lehigh and the adjoining counties, we regret to 
hear, look very unpromising. The severe cold of 
the past winter killed many of the young plants, 
thus preventing that luxuriance necessary to a 
plentiful crop, while the lateness of the spring 
has letarded vegetation of all kinds at least a 
fortnight compared with former years The 
grain fields,as a general thing, have a bald, un¬ 
even appearance. The Reading Journal, of the 
8th ins?., also speaks of the unfavorable prospects 
of the grain fields in Berks county. The stunt¬ 
ed growth indicates a late harvest, liable to par¬ 
tial if not material inj iry, by rust and mildew. 
In many localities, there will, from present ap¬ 
pearances, be scarcely half the usual yield. The 
grass, though backward, is shooting up finely 
under the genial warmth of the last few days, 
and bills lair to turn out a fine crop. The fruit 
trees are now putting forth their blossoms, and 
presents hopeful appearance. Oats, corn, and 
potatoes, though later sown than usubI, are like¬ 
ly to do well. 
T he wheat and rye crops of Washington co., 
Md., are looking well now. The last week has 
improved them wonderfully. 
-203,407 boys, and 159,760 girls go to school 
every day in Ohio. 
-The exact population of this State, by the 
last census, is 3,097,394. 
-The city of Portland has repealed the law 
prohibiting smoking in the streets. 
-John B. Gough has just closed a lecturing 
tour in Ohio, and will next be heard in Oanaua. 
-Daniel Webster is to address the citizens 
of Boston in Faneuil Hall, this week. 
—— The best quality of new maple sugar is 
selling in Troy, at 8 cents per pouud. 
-There is between ninety and one hundred 
Post Offices in California. 
-The population of New Orleans is 125,468 
of Yvhich 17,000 are slaves. 
-- It is estimated that ever ten thousand chil¬ 
dren were out Maying in Cincinnati on the 1st. 
would thereby be benefited, and the country stand 
no greater chance of being “ruined.” 
A word aside, friend Harris. While we extend 
a cordial welcome to your new and useful journal, 
we beg to remind you, that “Long Manure for 
Spring Crops,” and “ The Prose and Poetry of j 
Farming,”—both of which articles appear in No. • 
2 of the Farmer without credit,—were Yvritten ex- j 
prcssly for the Rural, and originally published in j 
its pages. But yvc presume the omission to credit j 
was an oversight,—and if you -will dispense Yvith j 
a few columns of those patent medicine advertise- j 
ments we will cheerfully balance accounts. They 1 
don’t look well in an agricultural and family jour¬ 
nal—but it’s none of our business. 
The Season, &c., in Western Pa. 
Under date of May 10, a friend residing near 
Pittsburg, writes us relative to the weather, sea¬ 
son, crops, etc., as follows : 
“ We have had but one week of dry weather in 
nearly two months. Sun for several days was ; 
-The Ohio Legislature has fixed the salaries 
of the principal officers ol' the State as follows :— 
Governor, $1,800 ; Supreme and Common Pleas 
Judges, $1,500 ; other State officers from $1,000 
to $1,500. 
Death of Another Pioneer, —We announce 
with regret the demise of Geo. W. Atwell, Esq., 
another of the Pioneers of the Genesee country. 
He yvus attacked Yvith apoplexy, or rush of blood 
to the head, on Thursday, the 13th iust„ and died 
in about two hours. He settled in Lima in 1816, 
and was long engaged in the mercantile busiuess 
under the name of Grant A Atwell. Subsequent¬ 
ly he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, 
and with great success. Fcyv men in tliis country 
have maintained a higher reputation for upright¬ 
ness aud integrity in all busiuess intercourses.— 
As a friend and neighbor lie was universally es¬ 
teemed. His age Yvas 62. His funeral was at¬ 
tended at Lima on Sunday by a largo number 
from the adjoining toYvns.— Jloch. Bern. 
Discovery of Peat. —In clearing up some swamp 
land, in the town of Oriskany, the present spring, 
a deposite of peat was found, said to be of the 
best description. .The mass was penetrated to 
the depth of five feet, without discovering its ex¬ 
tent, Imbedded in it was an ash tree, containing 
hundreds of grains, the shell of a pine tree, 32 
inches in diameter, over which was another con¬ 
taining 200 grains, and on this a cedar, 16 inches 
in diameter. These are so many evidences of the 
length of time that has passed since this peat 
formation Yvas commenced. — Roch. Bern. 
Profits of Durham Stock.— Mr. Edwin Har¬ 
mon, of Ashtabula, Ohio, has published in the Tel¬ 
egraph a statement of the sales of Durham stock, 
from half bloods to full bloods, for the year ending 
May 1st, 1852. The transactions show sales of 28 
head of cattle, amounting to $1,287 50. Mr. II. 
took most of the Premiums on neat stock at the 
last Ashtabula County fair. He will accept a 
challenge, from fatted cattle down to sucking 
calves, if notified of acceptance between this time 
and the 1st of J une. 
National Washington Monument.— The foun¬ 
dation of the obelisk is 81 feet square, 8 feet be- 
Ioyv the surface of the ground, and is constructed 
, . . . so as to be 61 feet 10 inches at the top. The 
truly very warm the Thermometer marking up-i obelisk is commenced at the height of 17!J feet 
wards of 100 degrees. The forest is putting on i above the ground, 55 feet square, cased with mar- 
tke livery of summer. Some corn planted, but a ! Ole. with walls 15 feet thick, leaving a cavity of 
great many farmers are not done sowing oats. A 
profusion of apple, pear, cherry and plum blos¬ 
soms ; about one-eighth as much peach bloom as 
usual, or less. Wheat in general looks very well, 
—but owing to the continued wet, many fields 
have suffered in damp places. Let us not repine 
at the will of Heaven, but in all things submit 
to that wisdom to that never errs.” 
People’s College. —Those interested are re¬ 
minded that a meeting of the “ Peoj lie’s College 
Association” is to be held at Minerva Hall, in 
this city, to-day—Thursday. 
The Monroe County Agrcultural Society 
will meet at the Court House, in Rochester, on 
Monday, June 1st, at 11 o’clock, A. M., to make 
out the List of Premiums and select Judges for 
the fall Exhibition. 
James H. Kelly, Scc’y. 
Rochesier, May 15,1852. 
A meeting of the directors of the Roches¬ 
ter, Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad Yvas 
held at Niagara Falls, on Tuesday of last Yveek, 
and the 10th of June was designated as the day 
for the opening of the road. From and after that 
date, there will be two trains each way daily. 
Mr. Colburn has rceived the appointment of Su¬ 
perintendent. 
“Another Corn Marker .”—This article was re¬ 
ceiver! too late for use the present season. Be¬ 
sides, the plan described by a “A Boy Farmer ” 
is in common use throughout the country. 
The Virginia Estate, advertised in the last 
and several previous numbers of the Rural, is 
worthy the attention of any one wishing to secure 
a desirable location in the “ Old Dominion.” 
15 feet. It will be ascended by stairs in the in¬ 
side, and by machinery to an elevation of 417% 
feet. About $1,750,000 have already been ex¬ 
pended in the construction of this monument.— 
l’he cost of the obelisk (which is hoyv 102 feet 
above the surface of tlio ground, and which is 
first to be completed,) is estimated at $552,000 ; 
and that of the obelisk and pantheon, forming 
the entire monument, at about $1,122,000. 
Macaulay’s History.— The London papers state 
that Mr. Macaulay is preparing a new and revised 
edition of the two volumes of his History of Eng¬ 
land already published, and that his publishers 
are calling in all the volumes first printed that 
they can find. This looks as if some important 
changes were to be made in the whole work by 
its brilliant author. 
Ingenuity under Difficulties. —A Miss Honey- 
Yvell is exhibiting herself in Rochester, who was 
born entirely destitute of arms, cuts profiles with 
scissors, performs embroidery in a most skilful 
and elegant manner, writes the Lord’s Piayer 
within the circumference of a dime, threads the 
finest needles, Ac., Ac. 
Minnesota Emigration. — The emigration to 
Minnesota from all the States, especially the Nor- 
t hem, Yvill be very large during this season—far 
exceeding any previous emigration to the West. 
The emigrants already there by the late boats are 
generally of the best class for a new country. 
Bad Writing. —There arc from time to time in 
the Dead Letter Office, London, about £11,000 
($40,000) annually in cash seeking owners. In 
July, 1847, 4,558 letters, only two months’ acu- 
mulation, all containig property, wore arrested by 
the bad superscription of the writers. 
American Institute. — The following officers 
for 1852 were elected:—President, James Tall- 
madge ; Vice-Presidents, Robt. Lovett, Robt. L. 
Bell, Geo. Bacon ; Recording Secretary, Homy 
Meigs ; Corresponding Secretary and Agent, Ad- 
oniram Chandler; Treasurer, Edward T. Back¬ 
house; Finance Committee, John A. Bunting, 
Geo. Dickey, Geo. Bacon, N. G. Bradford. 
Mail Gleanings. 
Madame Goldschmidt has forwarded to 
Sweden the last installment of her gift of $150,- 
000 for the schools of her country. "Mr. and Mrs. 
Goldschmidt will sail for Liverpool in the Atlan¬ 
tic, with Capt. West, on the 28th of May. 
It is stated in one of our exchanges that 
there have been twenty-two serious steamboa- 
accidents on the Western waters, since the comt 
mencement of the current year, attended with a 
loss of two hundred and eighty lives. 
|£3F"The Worcester (Mass.) Spy says the pros¬ 
pects of an abundant fruit crop were never fairer 
than at this time. Trees of all descriptions have 
“wintered” unusually Yvell, aud as the present is 
the “bearing year,” we may indulge the hope of 
a bountiful harvest. 
The Sodus Bay Canal is said to be in pro¬ 
gress. It is a splendid work connecting Cayuga 
and Seneca lakes with Lake Ontario and the up¬ 
per lakes. Freight will soon go from New York 
to Ithaca by rails, and there be shipped in boats 
of 150 tons, capable of navigating the lakes. 
The Green Bay (Wis.) Spoctator, of the 
24th ult., states that at Depere, they were putting 
up from 25 to 50 bbls. of fish per night, and ex¬ 
pect to have 1,500 bbls. ready for shipment by the 
10th of May. The fishermen “down the Bay” 
had poor luck through the winter, but their spring 
prospect is better. 
The editor of the Wheeling Gazette lately 
saw a rare relic of antiquity, in the shape of a 
Bible in German, 212 years old. It belongs to S. 
Ott, Esq., of Wheeling, to whom it descended from 
his grandfather, who paid $250 for it. The ori¬ 
ginal cost, at the time of its publication was prob¬ 
ably $500. It is nearly a foot in thickness, about 
twenty inches long and must weigh some sixty or 
seventy pounds. The illustrations, and those are 
well done, are several in number. It is truly a re¬ 
cord of the olden times and style of printing. 
£3^” The NeYv York Herald is nearly 18 years 
old. Its annual circulation is slated to be about 
15,000,000 of sheets. The aggregate annual in¬ 
come of the establishment is set down at $400,- 
000. Between $130,000 to $140,000 is paid per 
annum to the paper maker. The advertising pat¬ 
ronage has reached $350,000 per annum. Fifteen 
editors and reporters are employed in the home 
department, and eighteen of twenty letter writers 
in “ furrin partsmaking, with printers, press¬ 
men, clerks, Ac., the aggregate of 200 souls in 
the employ of the proprietors. 
-The coal transportation from the Schylkill 
region last week, amounted to 56,506 tons. 
-Holland and Belgium together have 25- 
000 square miles, aud 7,000,000 inhabitants, 
-The first English railway act was passed 
in 1851. 
-The Slate Bank of Indiana has a circulation 
of $4,581,998. 
-An ewe in Englannd has produced five 
lambs at a birth —all doing Yvell. 
-One hundred thousand tons of ice are stored 
at Cincinnati. 
-The N. Y. A Erie Railroad cost $24,000- 
000. The Hudson River $9,000,000. 
-The corner stone of the first College in 
Wisconsin, Yvas laid at Racine on the 5th inst. 
-The Mount Morris dam has again given 
way, and it will probably take three or four weeks 
more to repair it. 
-The project for establishing a Crystal Pal¬ 
ace in the Champs Elysee, at Fans, goes on with 
alacrity. 
-On the 8th inst., there were at the port of 
Neiv Y T ork 20 steamers, 133 ships, 113 barks, 110 
brigs, and 213 schooners. Total, 560. 
-- The people of Minnesota have ratified the 
act of the Legislature in passing the Maine Law, 
by an overwhelming majority. 
-The “ ordinary expenditures” of the Gov¬ 
ernment of the United States are about $35,000,- 
000 a year. 
-In 1800, the raw cotton imported into 
Great Britain amounted to 50,000,000 lbs., in 1851 
to 700,000,000. 
-The Bank of England has reduced its dis¬ 
count rate to 2 per cent, a year, aud the compet¬ 
ing disount houses have come down to 1 pei cent. 
-Seven hundred bushels of potatoes arrived 
at Chicago from Ogdensburgh lately, and sold im¬ 
mediately at 90 cents per bushel, 
-The total amount of money in British Sav¬ 
ings’ Banks, at the last accounts, was £28,933,- 
065 8s. 7d. 
-A foreign vessel is now lying at Liverpool, 
which lias iron instead of wooden masts, seventy 
feet high. 
-From the 18th of February to the 4th of 
April, in England, there were only seven moist 
days. Rather out of order this. 
-The Postmaster General has established 
offices in various quarters of the city of Quebec, 
which is considered a great convenience by tbe 
business men of that place. 
-The emigrant train of the Michigan Cen¬ 
tral Railroad was run into near Niles, on Tuesday 
week, by another train, and three passengers kill¬ 
ed. Several others were Yvounded. 
-Mrs. Eliza W. Farnham, formerly matron 
of the female prison at Sing Sing, and the projec¬ 
tor of the female expedition to the golden land, 
is married aud settled in San Francisco. 
-In the Printers’ Convention, held at Cin¬ 
cinnati on Thursday, 6th inst, a resolution recom¬ 
mending the abolition of Sunday work yvus unan¬ 
imously adopted. 
-The difficulties of the Western Reserve 
College have been satisfactorily adjusted, arid the 
Professors who resigned have again accepted the 
posts they so usefully filled. 
-It comes by electric telegraph from Vien¬ 
na, that the prosecutions against the mother and 
sisters of Kossuth have been stopped, and they are 
to be allowed to go to America. 
-The expenses incurred by the government 
in arresting, holding, trying and restoring the fu¬ 
gitive slave Sims, to his master in Georgia, exceed 
$5,000. 
--Rev. Luther Lee has resigned his post as 
editor of the True Wesleyan, and has taken tbe 
pastoral charge of the Wesleyan Methodist Church 
in Syracuse. 
-An important branch of business, in its 
way, is the making of fans. The number of man¬ 
ufacturers in Paris, in 1847, Yvas 122, Yvhose ag¬ 
gregate transactions amounted to about $580,000. 
-Mr. Weed says, there was more fine stat¬ 
uary buried in the small cities of Pompeii and 
Herculaneum* than has been produced throughout 
the whole world, during the last three centuries. 
-The greatest calf Yve have heard of in*the 
memory of man, is the property of Col. J. Webb, 
of Pleasant Valley. The calf weighed, when lour 
days old, full 130 pounds. 
-Accounts from China state that an English 
frigate hail visited one of the Japanese Islands, 
and every attention and kindness had been shown 
the captain and crew. 
-There are in the State of Indiana, among 
all denominations, 1,900 houses of worship. Num¬ 
ber of communicants, about 124,000. One profes¬ 
sed Christian to every 8 of the population. 
-A new cask manufacturing machine is in 
operation in England. A laborer, by its means is 
able to turn out 3,500 staves a day, infallibly cor¬ 
rect in form and curve. 
-The passenger traffic by rail in Great. Brit¬ 
ain annually exceeds four times the whole popu¬ 
lation. The sjieed is three times as great as form¬ 
erly, on the average, and the fare is one-third less. 
-The Comptroller is,empowered to divide 
the sum of $25,000 pro rata, according to the 
number of patients among the incorporated Hos¬ 
pitals of the State. 
-Mr. N. P. Willis, of New York, accompa¬ 
nied by Mr. Grinnel, was in Montgomery, Ala., on 
the 11th, on their way from Charleston to New 
Orleans. 
-Among the dead letters sent to Washing¬ 
ton from Northampton post office, the last quar¬ 
tet, about, one hundred were addressed to Jenny 
Lind Goldschmidt, postage unpaid. 
-The Phil. North Americau predicts a short 
supply of coal in markets not easily reached 
next winter. The companies have determined on 
an increase of 10 cents in the price on the first of 
July, and 10 cents more on the 1st of September. 
