MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
JAN. 30. 
List of Now Advertisements this Week. 
Horticultural Notice— A. Fahnestock. 
Farm for Sale—Rare Chance—Mrs. W. Barron William*. 
Elmira Mutic School—Mis* C. <J. Scott 
Brid^eman's Horticultural Establishment 
Toledo Nurseries—A. Falmestock. 
nJdKin Kiv^rimthMo'-KUv: Flack. Senate.— llills Introduced— Allowing aliens to 
£*f r .S^ d8 ^¥• hold and convey real estate, the same as native 
21*',000 Grafted Apples—A 1 ahnestock, J ’ 
Chinese Sugar Cane Seed—At liaiiock’s. born citizens; for securing the better protection of 
Morgan Horse for Sale—E. Yeomans. , . . u , , , 
Field and Garden Seeds—D. I).Tooker. personal liberty by due process of law; concurrent 
Send 26 Cent* in Stamps—Peter Wjkofi resolution that the Senate nominate the Regent of 
Hie Atlantic Monthly. ... ° 
- - _ - of the University, was laid over; against the pas- 
ihflOR Ka ^ e of ^ avv ® xte nding time for redemption of real 
TO r- - . .^ t'J’ estate sold under foreclosure of mortgage; to 
M/T&ij) \/\cFR 3J\ amend the usury laws of 1827; to amend the code 
n\ /fft )Loi [| ([j) |fy [fY 'ijZ f | of procedure relative to arrests and proceedings in 
|t^. ii ■ i i i '* S fl cases of false pretences. 
! -4b[ ^' r - ^* oan 8 concurrent resolution fixing the 10th 
for the election of Regent of the University, in 
place of J. K. Paige, was called up and passed. 
- The Governor’s Message, submitting the report 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY, 30, 1858. and map from Prof. Raclie, of the coast survey of 
. . New York, recommending an additional appropria- 
Matters at Washington. tion of $41,000 was received. Also a report from 
the Pilot Commission, concerning their doings the 
Tiie British Post-office has made complaints that past year, and containing recommendations for 
rge numbers of newspapers containing writing laws as to the dredgery ships, building of wharves, 
e discovered in the mails from the United States, & c . The Senate then went into executive session, 
id according to the request made of our Depart- Assehbly.-No organization up to this date 
rmf Ibn InHar boa /li'ww.fH.o at+ontinTi nf • 1 » 
YJmh legislature. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
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ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY, 30, 1858. 
Matters at Washington. 
large numbers of newspapers containing writing laws as to the dredgery ships, building of wharves, 
are discovered in the mails from the United States, Ac. The Senate then went into executive session, 
and according to the request made of anr Depart- Assehbly.-No organization up to this date 
ment, the latter has directed the attention of Post- January 26 ’ 
masters to the necessity of enforcing the laws, Ac., 
<»n the subject. The British Post-office has also ^ . A, 
been requested to return all such newspapers, Ac., V!^ 0 U (l V £ $ l JO U H l . 
to this country, with the view to prosecute the_’__ 
AG n cl c rn. 
Lieut Gen. Scott, although not long since op- Synopsis of Proceedings. 
posed to a movement from the Pacific side against e , r , 0 ~ , 
* .. . . ■ , Senate.—T he Secretary of War has been request- 
tlie Mormons, is now anxious to organize a force ” 
V .. , , Tr , . , . ° . ed to furnish estimates for the amount necessary 
In that quarter. He has not yet however, received r . . , . . ,,, . / 
1 , ' , ’ for the payment of such volunteer forces in Florida 
orders to do so. , . ,, . . . , 
Y , . , ... ..... . , .. during the past year as have not been paid for want 
Advices from Mr. Dodge, Minister to Madrid, of appropriations applicable to the purpose. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
stfcte that it is the general opinion there that Spain 
will shortly make a demonstration on Mexico, and 
Mr. Bayard, from the Committee on Judiciary re- 
Hank. Anna's complicity in the matter is mooted. I ,ortcd a resolution that Messrs. Bright and Fitch, 
On fe» other hand, letters from Mexico say the whoHe e,ectlon a8 Senators from Indiana are con- 
governnent refuses to recede a single point from te8ted ’ and a111,erBons I ,rote8tin S against their elec- 
its demands upon Spain. 
The Commission of Hon. Nathan Clifford, as Jus¬ 
tice of the Supreme Court, was read in Court on 
the 21st ins., when Chief Justice Taney adminis¬ 
tered the oati of office. 
tion, or any of them, or their agents or attorneys 
be permitted to take testimony on the allegations 
of the protestants and the sitting members, touch¬ 
ing all matters of fact therein contained, before 
any Judge of the District Court for the United 
John G. Bur, of Alabama, is appointed Consul ‘‘’kites, oi before any Judge of the Superior or Cir- 
to Melborne, Australia, vice Tarlton. 
The Tribune correspondent says:—Private de- 
cuit Courts of Indiana, by first giving ten days no¬ 
tice of the time and place of such proceedings, in 
spatches were received last night, dated Boonvillc, 80mc l> u Wi c paper published in Indianopalis. 
Jan. 18, which stat> that the vote of the 21st ult. The Chair presented a communication from the 
for the Lecoinpton Constitution was 6,550, one-half Secretary of War, giving the number of troops 
of which were fraudulent. The vote of the 4th stationed in Kansas for eacli quarter, from Jan. 1, 
inst., against the Constitution, was 10,000 bona fide l 8r,c - to th c present time. 
voters. This dispatch s signed F. T. Stanton. House.— At the instance of Mr. Burlingame the 
The Post correspondent says:—At the Cabinet oalh was administered to Mr. Gooch, Mr. Banks’ 
meeting on thc 19th inst., there w r as a sharp discus- successor. 
sion on the Lecompton Constitution. A proposi- Thc Speaker laid before the House the resolves 
tion was submitted to pass it with a provision that of the Nebraska Legislative Assembly, stating that 
the first Legislature under it phall submit the whole a very large majority of the legal voters of the 
thing to the people. This view is sustained by Territory voted for Mr. Ferguson, whose seat as 
Buchanan, Cass and Taney, hut is opposed by Delegate is contested by Mr. Chapman, and repell- 
Thompson, Floyd and Black. 
ing certain aspersions that had been cast on Mr. 
The hill matured by the Pacific Railroad Com- Ferguson’s character, 
mittce of thc Senate, and reported by Mr. Gwin, The following compose the committee to which 
proposes to locate the railroad between the Big is referred the hill to divide the clerks and messen- 
Siou.v onS tli a mAuti. o i tne Kansas river to ban gers oi trie department at ’Washington among the 
Francisco. Alternate sections of land on each States and Territories, pro rata:_Messrs. Robert 
side of the road are to he granted, and twelve Smith, Seward, Kelsey, Pendleton, Gilman, Clemens 
thousand five hundred dollars per mile advanced and Anderson. 
on the completion of every twenty-five miles of the The House went into Committee of the Whole on 
road until twenty-five millions of dollars are the President’s Annual Message, 
reached. The amounts thus advanced are to he After dehate, the Committee adopted a resolution 
returned in mail services and in the shipment of that so much of the President’s Message as relates 
men and munitions of war. Five per cent of the to the Pacific Railroad be referred to a select coin- 
stock is to he issued. The President is to receive mittee of fifteen, with power to report by hill or 
the bids, make the contract for twenty years, and otherwise. The committee rose, when the resolu- 
locate the road, having regard to economy and the tions heretofore considered, referring the various 
best route. , branches of the Message to the appropriate com- 
The despatches received at the War Department mittees, were embodied in the one relative to the 
from Col Johnston, dated Nov. 30tli, confirm the Pacific Railroad, by 136 against 60. 
previous reports of excessive suffering and great The Speaker announced the following select corn- 
loss of draught animals by snow storms, cold and mitte e on the Pacific Railroad:—Messrs. Phelps of 
starvation. A sufficient number of oxen, though Missouri; Jones, Tenn.; Washburn, Me.; Millson 
poor, have been saved to supply part rations in six V a.; Curtis, la.; Corning, N. Y.; Underwood, Ky • 
days of the week, and there was on hand enough G roesheck, Ohio; Gilmer, N. C.; Singleton, Miss.; 
bacon for one day of the same period for seven Farn . WO rth, Ill.; Philips, I’a.; Leach, Mich.: Bryan, 
months, also flour and small rations. The storm Texas- Scott, California 
dealt roughly with Col. Cook’s Company. He lost 
both his horses besides a number of mules. 
■ Further advance towards Salt Lake city, can’t he 
made without a new supply of such animals, to 
Kansas Intelligence. 
Tiik St. Louis Democrat has received the returns 
procure which Capt. Marcy had been dispatched to of the elections in Kansas on the 21st of December 
New Mexico for their use early in the spring, when and 4th of January, M published under the signa- 
the army with a volunteer force, 2,000 strong, will tnres of Gov . Denver and the presiding officers of 
resume its march as soon as supplied with horses the Territorial Legislature. The vote on the Con- 
and mules, and when the grass on the mountains is st i tu tion on the 21st of December, stands:—“With 
sufficient to sustain them. Two volunteer compa- slavery,” 6,143; “ Without Slavery,” 569. 
nies had been mustered into the service for nine 
months and it was expected that in a few days ten 
At the election on the 4th of January, the Free 
jiiuiibun it naa umt in <v igu uavn tun . . . . , . - . 
more would he mustered in; the troops have borne party WCrC trium P ha ^ all their can- 
the dangers and privations of the march with pa- ( u a es ’> an a ' era K c nia J on, I o 41.>. The Senate 
finnAA nh AArfnlnTW n-A In I.aoHH 8tandS 13 1 rCC fetatC mCU t0 G ^mOCratS, and the 
tience and cheerfulness. They are in fine health 
though some of the regiments were still suffering 
from frost bites. 
House, 29 Free State men to 15 Democrats. 
The majority against the Constitution on the 4th 
«. . 11 , of January, was 1,226—the alleged frauds commit- 
Anothcr letter from an officer says thc Mormons . . . « , , T „. , h , , 
, „ ted in Oxford, Shawnee, Kickapoo, and other places 
are afraid of the mounted men. They are a set of . ’ ’ 1 ’ 13 
cowards, like all assassins and robbers, and he fears )Cin £ coun '' 
that their leaders and those who have no claim in Later. The I ree State party have made a clean 
thc valley, will run away, requesting their deluded s ' vee P> and carried everything in Kansas. The re¬ 
followers to destroy their property, lest it may ben- P or f °f night was given on the authority of 
efit the arm}-. " correspondents, but that of to-night is the official 
-*-»-»- statement of the officers mentioned in the above 
From Havana.— The steamship Black Warrior, despatch, 
from New Orleans the 12th and Havana the 15tli T he Washington correspondent of the Tribune, 
inst, arrived at New York on the 20th inst She under date of the 25th inst, says:—Ex-Secretary 
reports that part of the Spanish fleet, consisting of Stanton has just arrived from Kansas. He saw a 
one ship of the line, one frigate, one sloop, one gentleman at Independence on the day of his de¬ 
brig, and a steam frigate, sailed from Havana the parture who had received a letter that morning 
11th inst, for a cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, for from Calhoun, stating that the Pro-Slavery men 
the health of acruise; hut a rumor is afloat, though had carried the Legislature. Mr. Stanton thinks 
generally discredited, that the real object of the the result depends entirely upon Calhoun in giving 
cruise is to pay their respects to the Mexicans at certificates, and if the Free State men are defraud- 
Vera Cruz. The U. S. steam frigate Wabash arrived ed, Calhoun cannot return to the Territory without 
at Havana on the morning of the 15tli. She has on hazard of his life. Mr. S. represents the election 
board Col. Anderson and his command of about frauds as monstrous, open and admitted. 
40 men, the last of the Nicaragua fillibusters. Later Kansas advices state that an act had passed 
—-—— the lower branch of the Legislature, abolishing 
Inpian Agriculture. —The Winnebago Indians, Slavery in the Territory from March 1st. 
in Minnesota, raised last year over 5,000 bushels of Various disturbances had occurred between set- 
wheat on the Reservation, being more than half of tiers on the Shawnee Reservation and the Indians, 
the entire amount produced in Blue Earth county, resulting in the death of one of the latter, and a 
They have nine townships of land, and of this consequent driving off of all settlers, and burning 
1,000 acres are under cultivation. of houses and crops by the Indians. 
Correspondence of the Rural. 
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 15,1858. 
Eds. Rural: — I am in the great central city of 
the Mississippi Valley. It is called a dull season 
here, but the many steamers atthe levee, the goods 
and passengers to and from many and distant 
places, show how widely the commerce of this 
centre extends. Long ranges of heavy warehouses; 
streets of wholesale stores, occupied by firms doing 
business of from $100,000 up to $1,000,000 yearly; 
many spacious and magnificent shops, and great 
hotels, show the machinery for doing a vast busi¬ 
ness, greater far than Rochester—greater than Buf¬ 
falo or Chicago. 
The commercial buildings indicate substantial 
wealth, the private houses of the wealthy class 
good taste and quiet elegance; the public buildings 
are large and of stately magnificence. A love of 
refined, sensuous enjoyment is apparent in the 
habits and manners of the people. Something of 
the graceful ease and cheerful enjoyment of thc 
early French settlers yet mingles with the driving 
energy of the Yankee population, which has, in 
twenty years, changed this from a place of 8,000 
people to a city of 150,000. Large factories.and 
foundries show the busy hand of mechanical in¬ 
dustry. 
I am writing in the second story of a house more 
than two miles from the Court House. Looking 
east over broken ground and the roofs of a con¬ 
fused mass of huildiDgs, it is not far to the Missis¬ 
sippi. Beyond its broad flood spread the American 
bottoms—low, level lands of great fertility; still 
beyond, the wide prairies of Illinois. North, for a 
mile or more, the city streets still reach. South, 
dwellings and shops grow thicker until the eye 
rests in the distance on piles of tall houses, stores 
and halls, with great domes and tall spires rising 
above them, and a heavy clond of black coal- 
smoke over all. 
This has the air of a Northern city. The labor¬ 
ers and draymen are mostly whites—a large part 
Germans. The business men are from the East— 
In the market the long lines of hundreds of cov¬ 
ered wagons remind me of Philadelphia. Most of 
the produce is from the Illinois side. Fruit and 
market produce is abundant but not cheap. Lands 
of excellent quality a few miles west can be bought 
low. Farmers would do well here. 
In the city are excellent free schools with higher 
pay for teachers than Rochester gives. In the 
country schools are poor. I visited the spacious 
and beautiful Library and Reading Room of the 
Mercantile Library Association—most tastefully 
and excellently planned and arranged. In the 
centre of the large room is a full size marble statue 
of Daniel Webster. I know not the sculptor.— 
It must have been a costly work, but to my per¬ 
ceptions in poor taste. Near it is the statue of 
Oenone, by Harriet Hosmer, beautiful, beautiful 
indeed—not alone in matchless symmetry and 
graceful naturalness of form; but in that higher 
beauty of soul-like expression, which seems to make 
the cold marble almost instinct with life and emo¬ 
tion. It is a wondrous triumph of genius that 
should make every woman hope for womanhood. 
In the same building, still above, is a hall in which 
2,000 people can he seated. 
To know what llie West is, one should see its 
mice great cititvTUncinnaii, Chicago and St. 
Louis. The two last especially are miracles of 
skill and energy. The great wealth and wide com¬ 
merce of this city are full of promise of material 
prosperity, and in the character and morals of the 
city I find more omens of good than I expected. 
It has been my good fortune to enjoy the hospi¬ 
tality and mingle in the social life of some people 
here whose culture and intelligence and kindness 
will be pleasant memories, and I shall “ mark with 
a white stone” (as the Orientals do fortunate epochs) 
the days in which I met them. G. is. & 
The Weather Throughout the Country. 
On Wednesday last, Jan. 13th, a corn field was 
plowed near New Bedford, Mass., the soil being 
perfectly pliable and the plowing as easy as in the 
best season. Pansies are still in blossom, and the 
buds of the cherry tree have started a little in some 
exposures. 
The editor of the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch was 
presented, on the 18th inst., with a beautiful rose, 
as fresh and fragrant as any ever seen in the month 
of May, accompanied by a note, stating that the 
flowers, strawberries and tomatoes had unfolded 
their golden petals, even in the midst of winter. 
The Boston Transcript says that, on the 14th 
inst, in the afternoon, men were seen sitting upon 
the grass on the Common, sunning themselves, and 
that others were engaged with buckets of water 
upon the scaffolding of the new buildings in 
Franklin street, washing down the granite, and 
that crocuses were protruding their tops through 
the straw, in the front yards in Beacon street! On 
the same day and date, the streets of Boston were 
sprinkled and swept as in mid-summer. 
Apropos of the present mild winter, the N. Y 
Post says that twenty years ago, on the 8th of 
January, the schooner Berkshire left the port of 
Cuyahoga, Ohio, with some seventy patriots, for 
the purpose of conquering Canada. The weather 
was warm, the lake was not frozen until about the 
1st of February. The months of December and 
January 1837-8, were very like the December and 
January of 1857-8. 
Some of the farmers in Michigan, deeming the 
present extraordinary weather for the season, favo¬ 
rable to the running of sap, have recently tapped 
their maple trees to try the experiment, and suc¬ 
ceeded in making quite a quantity of maple sugar! 
The fruit trees budding in New England—the 
rivers and lakes navigahlo in the West—and 
making maple sugar in Michigan—in the middle 
of January! Does “the oldest inhabitant” remem¬ 
ber the like occurring before? 
The Chatham (C. W.) Planet says:—“Not only 
have pansies been seen in full bloom in this town 
during the present month, but Mr. R. K. Payne in¬ 
formed us that on the 14th inst, strawberry vines 
were in the blossom in the open air in his garden. 
Up to the time we write we have no snow and but 
very little frost” 
About 10 o’clock A. M., of the 25tli inst, a beau¬ 
tiful and perfect rainbow was observable in this 
city. The atmosphere at the time was mild as a 
May morning. According to the old distich, “ A 
rainbow in the morning, Sailors take warning,” 
this phenomenon, so unusual in this latitude at this 
season, would portend the near approach of a 
storm. To-day, 26th, very warm and rainy. 
IJrtusi §atajtiajih]si. ®lu glcuijs ®ondc»sift. 
It is contemplated by the War Department to 
despatch Lieut. Gen. Scott to the Pacific coast, for 
the purpose of organizing a force against the Mor¬ 
mons from that quarter. 
Mr. Banks is the twentieth person who has filled 
the Gubernatorial Chair of Massachusetts during 
the seventy-seven years since the adoption of the 
State Constitution. 
The Empress Eugenie, of France, recently ap¬ 
peared at a hall, wearing jewels the value of which 
was estimated at $800,000, and having flounces of 
lace on her robe that cost $120,000. 
The London papers contain a list of titled and 
distinguished persons who have died daring the 
year 1857, which includes 22 members of the House 
of Peers. 
There is on exhibition at the Merchants’ Ex¬ 
change, New York, a red wood plank, from the 
Mendocino Saw Mills, California. It measures 12 
feet long, 6 feet 6 inches wide, and two inches thick 
—quite a curiosity in its way. 
George Kenton Harper, who for nearly forty 
years was the editor of the Franklin Repository, 
died at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, on the 13th 
inst, aged 79 years. In the War of 1812 he served 
as an officer of Infantry in two campaigns—first oh 
the Canada lines, and again in the defence of Bal¬ 
timore. 
The tow^of AJtleborougb, Mass., is largely en¬ 
gaged in the manufacture of those useful little ar¬ 
ticles so indispensable to the ladies, hooks and eyes. 
Nearly 1,000 persons are employed in the business. 
A single machine will make 100 hooks or eyes per 
minute. 
Col. Cross, an American, has recently arrived in 
England, from India, where he amassed a fortune 
of $7,500,000, and is said to be in treaty for the 
purchase of large estates in that country. 
Rev. Dr. Lord, of Dartmouth College, preached 
at Dracut, Mass., Sunday week, and gave remin¬ 
iscences of his early recollections of that place 
and its vicinity. Forty-five years ago the site of 
Lowell, on the opposite side of the Merrimac, was 
a forest. 
Prof. Syme, of Edinburg, Scotland, recently per¬ 
formed the difficult operation of cutting out the 
tongue of a man upon whichrthere was an incura¬ 
ble cancer. The subject w-as under the influence 
of chloroform, and was afterwards doing well, being 
fed through a tube. He was of course speechless, 
but could breathe out some monosyllables. 
Thomas Allibone, late President of the Bank of 
Pennsylvania, returned home in the America, for 
the purpose of answering the heavy charges pre¬ 
ferred against him respecting his management of 
the affairs of that hank. 
The Belfast (Me.) Free Press states that a com 
pany of volunteers is being formed in Camden, and 
will offer their services to the Government for the 
Utah expedition. 
In the Wisconsin Senate a memorial was read 
from Byron Kilbourn, Esq., of Milwaukee, propos¬ 
ing to endow a University in Milwaukee, by giving 
it a site and the proceeds of his estate, after re¬ 
serving a certain portion for his heirs, and asking 
for a charter. 
The President has issued a proclamation for the 
sale of a very large quantity of public lands in 
Iowa, in June and July, at the various land offices 
in that State. Some of these lands lie on each side 
of the line of the railroad. 
Under the new law they have a double currency 
in Canada. Pounds, dollars, shillings, pence, cents, 
mills, are all legal tender, and payments to the 
Government, the Bankp, the Law Courts, or indi¬ 
viduals, may be legally made in either. 
Prof. Leidy, the distinguished American anato¬ 
mist, has prepared a paper on the fossil remains of 
the horse and other animals found on Ashley river, 
in South Carolina, and thinks that this animal in¬ 
habited the United States during the post-pleiocene 
period, contemporarily with the mastodon, mega- 
lonyx, and the great broad-fronted bison. 
Wisconsin.— It appears from the Wisconsin State 
Directory that there are in the State ten railroads 
in full operation, covering a distance of 1,888 miles, 
the gross receipts of the same being $150,000,000. 
The merchandise imports reached $28,000,000. Its 
reference pertaining to banks affords considerable 
information. There are eighty-six hanks in the 
State, and seventy-four doing business under the 
general hanking law, with an aggregate capital of 
$5,815,000. The total amount of circulation issued 
to such hanks is $3,133,501, and securities assigned 
in trust to the State Treasurer to the amount of 
$11,000,638. The aggregate of specie on deposit is 
$50,488 15. There are 2,381 common schools in 
the State, attended by over 60,000 children. There 
are twenty colleges. There are one hundred and 
sixty-five newspapers published, being an increase 
of over one hundred during the past two years, 
and a good portion of them are German. 
The Area of Utah.— It may be a matter of some 
interest to our readers, to know something of the 
comparative extent of that Territory of the United 
States, whose chief officer is bidding defiance to 
our Government According to Colton, the area 
of Utah is 269,170 square miles. To Engineers and 
a faw others, this will give a just idea of its vast 
extent, but the majority of the people will form a 
better estimate by being told, that it is as large as 
the whole of the New England States, New York, 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland. 
Kentucky, and Tennessee. Or, to compare it with 
European countries, it is equal in extent to Great 
Britain and Ireland, Switzerland, Prussia, and Den¬ 
mark, with thc islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Man, 
and the Ionian islands, added. 
New York Mounted Police.— The Metropolitan 
Police Commissioners of New York have deter¬ 
mined to organize a force of mounted policemen, 
consisting of 28 patrolmen and 2 sergeants, em¬ 
ploying 28 horses, the cost of each horse not to 
exceed $165 and the trappings $40. The expense 
of keeping each horse must not exceed $18 per 
month. The Board have authorized a committee 
to employ a suitable person to purchase the horses 
and equipments. 
— Masked balls are all the rage in St. Louis. 
— Thc KiDg of Portugal will get married next April. 
— The Peru (Ill.) coal mines are promising largely. 
— There were 268 coroner’s inquests in St. Louis last 
year. 
— During the past year, 26 revolutionary soldiers have 
died. 
— The yellow fever is raging at Havana and Fort au 
Prince. 
— There are 250 vessels now lying idle in the port of 
Boston. 
— A machine for blacking boots has just been patented 
in Ohio. 
— There were 1,908 coroner’s inquests held in N. Y. city 
last year. 
— Desertions from the U. S. Army are becoming very 
frequent. 
— There 3,000 Methodists in California, of whom 90 are 
ministers. 
— The Mormons have all left San Bernardino, Cal., for 
Salt Lake. 
— Petitions for a Bankrupt law are in circulation in 
New York. 
— A new and rich lead digging has just been struck 
near Galena. 
— Mr. Magraw has been re-elected State Treasurer of 
Pennsylvania. 
— The King of Prussia holds a million of the Erie 
bonds of ’62. 
— The taxable property of Pennsylvania is assessed at 
$568,990,234. 
— The veterans of 1812 had a large gathering at Syra¬ 
cuse last week. 
— Two vessels are now being built at Cleveland for the 
European trade. 
— Free lands to actual settlers, is the favorite measure 
at Washington now. 
-Twenty-six newspapers have been started in Kansas, 
of which 20 still live. 
— It is now thought that Charles Fenno Hoffman will 
he restored to his reason. 
— The Albany Atlas quotes « h*gt dull, at $4 75@5 per 
hundred,” in that market. 
— The Virginia Legislature has elected William L. Jack- 
son Lieutenant Governor. 
— The Governor of Hakodadi, Japan, signs his name 
Mocragaki Arradsjinhames. 
— Joseph Gillott, of Birmingham, Eng., makes over 
150,000,000 steel pens a year. 
— Gossip says that Ex-President Fillmore is about to be 
married to a lady of Albany. 
— They have a pig at Smitbfield, Va., which has two 
pair of fore-legs and five eyes. 
— Santa Anna wus at Havana at last accounts, where 
he preserved a strict incognito. 
— Nebraska Legislature has split—part gone to Florence, 
leaving Omaha without a quorum. 
— Of 5,000 Christians imprisoned at Delhi, only five re¬ 
nounced their faith to save their lives. 
— The citizens of Binghamton, N. Y., are about to ap¬ 
ply to the Legislature for a city charter. 
— The annual meeting of the N. Y. State Medical So¬ 
ciety will be held at Albany, February 2d. 
— The total payments of the Treasury of the city of 
Philadelphia, last year, were $4,315,713 48. 
— The Conneaut Reporter says 8,000,000 feet of lumber 
has been shipped from that port lats season. 
— The Chicago Democrat says there are an unusual 
number of cases of typhoid fever in that city. 
— Both Houses of the Pennsylvania Legislature have 
passed a bill to purchase an Executive mansion. 
— The increase of the salaries of N. Y. city officials un¬ 
der Mayor Wood, was from $200,000 to $537,000. 
— A father and son, Anthony and Thomas Screw, escap¬ 
ed from jail recently. There are two screws loose. 
— The commercial panic is spreading over the the civi¬ 
lized world. South America is beginning to be affected. 
— Titcomh’s distillery at Waterford, N. Y., was destroy¬ 
ed by fire on the 17th inst.,—loss, $12,000; insured, $7,500. 
— An editor in Minnesota threatens to break up house¬ 
keeping and go to boarding with his delinquent subscribers. 
— The Michigan Southern Railroad has discharged 1,500 
men, and made a reduction in its expenses of $47,000 per 
month. 
The town of Ossawatomie, Kansas, cast a unanimous 
vote (214) for G. W. Smith, the Free State candidate for 
Governor. 
— George Secle, an old Boston merchant, who retired 
from business, with a fortune, Friday week, died suddenly 
the next day. 
— The coining of new cents is going on at the Philadel¬ 
phia Mint, but not fast enough to supply the demand for 
the new coin. 
— There is in operation in N. Y. city, one manufactory 
of hooped skirts, that will use, in the year 1858, over 2,200 
miles of hoops. 
— Tlio Deaths in N. Y. city last week numbered four 
hundred and twenty-five, twenty-three of which were 
from small-pox. 
— Madame Lola Montez has been married to Prince 
Shullkoski, a Polish nobleman, having two large estates in 
Austrian Silesia. 
— Mr. T. T. Jadeson has taken a farm of 600 acres near 
Urbana in Ohio, with the intention of breeding, breaking 
and training horses. 
Fire companies in Philadelphia are now purchasing 
steam fire engines. Two companies have thus supplied 
themselves already. 
— Thc Rev. Jacob Norton, of Billerica, Mass., died, at 
his residence in that place, on Sunday week, at the ad¬ 
vanced age of 93 years. 
— The Kennebec Journal learns that not more than 
half the usual amount of lumber will be cut on the Ken¬ 
nebec waters this winter. 
— Cyrus W. Field has sailed for Europe to perfect ar¬ 
rangements for another trial in laying the Atlantic Tele¬ 
graph Cable, next summer. 
— At the present time, says the St Paul Pioneer, there 
are not less than 7,000,000 acres of public lands in Minne¬ 
sota, subject to pre-emption. 
— The trade on the Rhine has doubled during the last 
20 years, but latterly it has fallen off in consequence of 
the want of water in the river. 
— The Medical Gazette, of Lisbon, asserts that all the 
persons of that city who reside in houses lighted by gas 
have escaped the yellow fever. 
— The subject of the Pacific Railroad is to be referred, 
in the House of Representatives, to a select committee of 
fifteen, who will report a bill. 
— It is stated that the celebrated Ravel Family, after 
delighting our grandparents and children, have, at last, 
decided to retire from the stage. 
— A despatch to the Cincinnati Gazette from Washing¬ 
ton says that the recall of Mr. Forsyth, our Minister to 
Mexico, has been determined upon. 
— At Kankakee, Ill., a lawyer burns corn, in the ear, in 
his stove, finding it cheaper at 25 cents per 100 lbs., than 
coal at 30 cents for the same weight. 
— S. D. Mandelbaum has been indicted by the grand jury 
of St. Clair county, III., for swindling the suspended bank 
of Belleville, of which he was President. 
