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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKEll: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
FEB. 6 
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List of New Advertisements this Week. 
Ornamental Trees and Plants—Ellwangcr ft Barry 
Now's your Time—I. W. ltriggs. 
Rare Evergreen Trees— Ellwangcr 4 Barry. 
Fann and Water Privilege for Sale.—E. R. Kellogg. 
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To Fruit Growers—Spring of 18'>8—Ellwanger 4 Barry. 
Rochester ft I.akc Av. Commercial Nurseries—J. Ilonnellan A Co. 
Fine Hardy Border Plants—Ellwanger A Barry. 
Roses and Dahlias—Ellwangcr A Barry. 
Attorney and Counsellor at Caw—Andrew .1. Ensign. 
A Farmer Wanted—Box 2137 New York City. 
Seed Com—P. I). Tooker. 
Annual Meeting of the State Ag. Society—B. I’. Jobrutoa 
Ainbrotypc Gallery for Sale—S. Warner. 
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ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY 0, 1858. 
“Kural” Letters from the People. 
Doring the past month we have received hun¬ 
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A gentleman in Markham, C. W., to whom we recently 
sent a package of specimen numbers, writes:—“I have 
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— Our friend is a little too hard on Canada. It 
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The Dimes.— The Salem Register publishes some 
extracts from a letter from Zanzibar, giving the 
details of the will of His Highness the Sultan of 
Muscat. It says:—“ There has been a complete di¬ 
vision of the spoils left by the Saltan. Among 
other things found were $50,000 in American dimes 
and half-dimes.” 
Y(tuh j&gwlatuw. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Assembly.— On the 26th ult. the ayes and nays 
were ordered on the resolution that the House now 
proceed to vote for Speaker in the usual manner, 
and that the person having a plurality of the votes 
cast he declared elected Speaker, and that the 
House immediately thereafter proceed to elect other 
officers under the same rule. The vote was then 
taken and the resolution adopted. 
The House then proceeded, in presence of a large 
concourse of spectators, to take the final vote for 
Speaker. The vote resulted as follows:—Alvord, 
Dem., 56; Van Valkenhurg, Rep., 54 ; Horton, 
Am., 2. 
Mr. Richardson was chosen to preside until the 
organization was completed. The House then pro¬ 
ceeded to complete tlie organization, when the fol¬ 
lowing officers were elected:— Clerk —David L. 
Wilson, Am. Sergeant-at-Arms —Philip A. Lasher, 
Dem. Door Keeper —Peter J. Cook, Am. First 
Ass’t Door Keeper — John Davis, Dem. Second 
Ass't do .—James Swartwout, Am. 
A communication was received from Comptroller 
Church, refusing to pay compensation to officers 
performing duties during the disorganization of 
the House, on the resolution adopted on the 25th, 
on the ground that it was in conflict with the 
statute. Mr. McNett introduced abill providing for 
the payment of those officers by unanimous con¬ 
sent, and the House went into Committee of the 
Whole thereon. 
- Mr. Fanning moved to make compensation to 
Mr. Richardson, the late Clerk, $500. Mr. Law¬ 
rence moved to amend by making it $200. Mr. 
Law, with some remarks complimentary to the 
Clerk, moved for $500. The Speaker took the floor, 
and after paying high compliments to the services 
of the Clerk, supported the motion for $500, and 
this sum was carried. The hill also provides for 
the payment of the regular per diem amounts to 
all others employed. The bill was then read the 
third time and passed. 
But little of import, aside from the foregoing, 
has been done by our Legislature during the week. 
It is hoped that work will be taken up and finished, 
now that the harness has been put on and the 
“dead lock” dissipated. 
® ffngt wilt Mill. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —Mr. Douglas, from the Committee on 
Territories, reported a hill for the admission of 
Minnesota into the Union, which was read and 
placed on the calendar. 
The majority of the Senate Committee on the 
Pacific Railroad have made a report in favor of 
constructing the road within ten years, alternate 
sections of land for the space of six miles to he 
granted, and $1,000,000 to he appointed and paid 
as the work progresses. 
House. —The House authorized the Investigating 
Committee upon the Middlesex affair, to employ a 
stenographer, and went into Committee on the In¬ 
valid Pension Bill. 
The House passed the hill for the payment of 
the Invalid and other Pensions, and then consid¬ 
ered the bill appropriating $700,000 to cover the 
deficiency in the Printing accounts of the two 
last Congresses, hut without action the Committee 
rose. 
On motion of Mr. Zollicoffer, a resolution was 
adopted, calling on the President for all informa¬ 
tion in relation to our expedition and the attitude 
of Brigham Young towards the authorities. . 
Mr. Stanton offered a resolution, that the Speaker 
issue his warrant for the arrest of J. B. William¬ 
son, of New York city, who has been duly sum¬ 
moned and refuses to appear before the Lawrence, 
Stone & Co., investigating committee, and that he 
be brought before the bar of the House for con¬ 
tempt, Resolution adopted. 
The House then engaged in a discussion upon the 
bill to supply the accidental omission in the army 
hill of last session to make an appropriation for the 
supply of the National Armories. 
The hill passed appropriates $36,000 for that pur¬ 
pose. 
Mr. Boyce offered a resolution which was passed, 
providing for the appointment of a select commit¬ 
tee of 7, to inquire into and report on the follow¬ 
ing subjects, viz:— A reduction of the expenses of 
Government; the navigation of the United States; 
the existing duties on imports, and the expediency 
of a gradual repeal of all duties on imports, and of 
a resort exclusively to internal taxation. 
Census of Rochester, —The annual school cen¬ 
sus of this city has just been completed under tlie 
direction of the Board of Education. The popu¬ 
lation is 44,293, against 43,877 last year; an increase 
of 416. The number of persons between the ages 
of four and twenty-one, enumerated for school pur¬ 
poses, is 15,845, against 16,927 last year—a decrease 
of 1,082. The school population of the city in 1854 
was 14,796; in 1855, 15,713. The following is the 
total of population in past years, as shown by the 
census taken at different times. In 1830, 9,207; in 
1835, 14,404; in 1840, 20,191; in 1845, 26,965; in 
1850, 36,403; in 1855, 43,877; in 1858, 44,293. 
Manufacturing Industry of Lowell.— A pub¬ 
lished statement of the manufacturing industry of 
Lowell, shows that the total number of mills in 
that city is fifty-two, the capital stock on which is 
$13,960,000. The average wages of females clear 
of hoard, per week, is $2; of males per day, clear 
of board, 80 cents. The increase in the population 
of Lowell for the last ten years was 12,589. The 
several manufacturing companies have established 
a hospital for the convenience and comfort of per¬ 
sons employed by them respectively when sick, 
which is under the superintendence of one of the 
best of surgeons and physicians. 
Handsome Donation. — We learn that the Hon. 
Alexander Anderson, of New Albany, Indiana, lias 
presented to the American Colonization Society 
ten thousand acres of land, lying in the State of 
Georgia. The deed for the same was received at 
the Colonization Rooms a few days since. The 
land lies in an improving part of the State, and is 
supposed to he very valuable. 
A Winter Like the Present. 
The question is, was the like ever known? Of 
course, men ask in reference to their own locality, 
or its vicinity. 
The weather of January, 1838, was warm, like 
the present There was very little snow; the Hud¬ 
son was open to Albany most or all of the month. 
The thermometer was a little lower than this year 
on the coldest day, but did not fall to zero by six 
degrees. The first half had very fine weather, and 
in most of the month. Cold as the late winters 
have been, the cold was not so great as 9° below 
till January, 1849. In 1838, 1842 and 1850, the cold 
was not to cypher by several degrees, and in seve¬ 
ral others one to four degrees below. A great dif¬ 
ference in this respect has taken place since 1851. 
The greatest heat in January, 1838, was 61°, and in 
this January to tlie 29th, was 60°. The Hudson is 
yet open to Albany. 
It will be recollected that 1837 was cold, and that 
the wheat harvest was held to he below the aver¬ 
age. After the crisis of 1837, it will he remem¬ 
bered that the seasons of 1838 were fruitful. Yet 
the February was cold, far below the average, 
while still the temperature did not fall to zero. 
The records from 1836 to 1857 show that the win¬ 
ters were more like the present, so far, than those 
of the few»past years; less snow and less sleighing 
like the present. As tlie wheat was not usually in¬ 
jured much then by the freezing of the bare earth, 
we may hope such will be the result for this year. 
At least, it is rather early to get up a very loud 
croaking on the failure of the next wheat harvest 
As the warm and fine weather of 1838 was not 
followed by prevailing diseases or epidemics, it 
does not follow that the coming season will of 
course he healthful, but the fact does encourage 
the hope that health and prosperity may attend 
us. We ought not to forget the great mercy of 
this warm season and fine weather to the poor. 
It is remembered by many that the lakes, Erie 
and Ontario, were free for navigation for much of 
the winter. 
While the former winters were much warmer 
than for three or four years past, why do not the 
curious employ their minds in accounting for the 
warmth of former winters, as probable to lead to 
a solution of the warmth of the present. 
The weather no doubt follows in somewhat reg¬ 
ular cycles, and if all causes were known, in per¬ 
fectly regular cycles it would occur. The solar 
cycle of nineteen years may have no little connec¬ 
tion with it c. D. 
January 28, 1858. 
The Winter on Lake Erie. —The Ohio Farmer 
of January 23d, published in Cleveland, thus notes 
the progress of the season:—“Lilac buds are quite 
green; elders show leaf. A shrubby St Jolinswort 
in our garden has come out in full leaf. Violets 
are peeping out here and there, and the buds of 
rose hushes are considerably swollen. Gooseber¬ 
ries and all varieties of currants ditto. The only 
thing that has surprised us, is the fact that few, if 
any, of the bulbous-rooted flowers show any leaves. 
Even the snowdrop, earliest of all spring flowers, 
has not yet made its appearance with us. The ef¬ 
fect upon the wheat crop can be nothing hut had, 
for the many frecwjngs and thawings have the effect 
of throwing out the plants, especially when sown 
broadcast Drilled wheat will not, however, suffer 
to any appreciable extent unless the changes should 
be much greater than they have been.” 
State Idiot Asylum.— The Report of the Trus¬ 
tees of this Institution, located at Syracuse, shows 
the total receipts for the year $33,808 42, and total 
of payments $33,900 36. Total indebtedness out¬ 
standing $16,701 85. They ask for a special appro¬ 
priation of $23,5< ! 0 to cancel indebtedness of this 
and last year. The character and benefits of the 
institution are dwelt upon, and its success in the 
treatment of inmates is spoken of in flattering 
terms’. The number of pupils is 112, of which 20 
only are pay pupils. The new pupils received du¬ 
ring the year are 31. Accepted, hut not yet enter¬ 
ed, 6. During the year 16 have been removed and 
4 have died. Of the deaths, 1 was accidental, 2 
from consumption and 2 from epilepsy. The gene¬ 
ral health of the pupils has been excellent. 
Illinois and Wisconsin Lead Mining. — The 
Galena Advertiser says that nearly all the men em¬ 
ployed by the Galena and Minnesota Racket Com¬ 
pany the past season, about 400 in number, are 
now engaged in mining—most of them in that 
neighborhood. A large number of these are mak¬ 
ing good wages, and at least a dozen of them had 
good lodes at first late “prospects.” The same 
paper says that statistics returned to proper author¬ 
ities in Wisconsin, show that last year there were 
smelted in Iowa county 2,379,932 pounds of lead, 
and in La Fayette county 15,190,000 pounds. In 
the former, in the same time, 6,000,000 pounds of 
lead ore were raised, and 16,673,• 00 in the latter. 
Japan. — Mr. Harris, the American Consul in 
Japan, has accomplished the following:—“ Perma¬ 
nent residence is gnaranleed to Americans after 
the 4tli day of July next. The ex-territoriality ot 
Americans acknowledged, and they are amenable 
only to their own laws. The Consul-General and 
his family have the right to buy direct from the 
seller, and pay him in Japanese coin; and he is not 
bound, in relation to penetrating the interior, by 
the limit of seven ri, or miles. The spies are all 
sent back to Juddo; free access is allowed to a 1 
shops and houses; and no policemen follow ns am 
more. We have fair prospects of settling many 
other matters.” 
Hobart College, Geneva. —Rev. Dr. Hale, of 
Hobart College, has resigned, from feebleness of 
health. He is permanently disabled for effective 
service, though recruiting a little from his recent 
illness. Dr. Hale has held the Presidency of this 
Institution for the last twenty-one years, and lias 
been uniformly respected in his position, both by 
the College and the public. 
New York State Temperance Society.— A 
Quarterly Meeting of the New York State Temper- | 
ance Society will he held at Poughkeepsie, on 
Wednesday, the 10th of February, at 10 o’clock. 
A. M., to take into consideration the present aspects 
of the Temperance cause in this State, and to adopt 
such measures as may seem necessary to advance 
its interest and secure its ultimate tiiumpb. 
fjiw* ^irntgraplta. 
There was an Indian war dance at the Washing¬ 
ton Marine Barracks on Wednesday, at which was 
collected as general fashionable society as at a 
fashionable matinee. 
The New York Commercial states that contracts 
have been entered into for supplies of ice this sea¬ 
son at three times the price paid for the article last 
year. 
The South Carolina papers record the death of 
Mr. J. E. Sinkins, a private in the Mexican war, 
who distinguished himself as one of the few in the 
forlorn hope, at the storming of Cliapultepec. 
It is said that a private enterprise is on foot for 
introducing camels into Texas, Arizona and New 
Mexico, in consequence of the success of the Gov¬ 
ernment’s experiment with these animals. 
The Providence Post notices the fact that not a 
single murder has been committed in Rhode Island 
during the past year, notwithstanding capital pun¬ 
ishment is abolished. 
TnE Secretary of the Navy is said to he giving 
orders to put the naval officers restored by the 
Courts of Inquiry and confirmed by the Senate, on 
duty. They will each in turn, not excepting Lieut. 
Maury, the Superintendent of the National Obser¬ 
vatory, he obliged to go to sea. 
The English Board of Trade returns for Novem¬ 
ber show what a violent contraction took place in 
the exports to this country. This diminution no 
douhtexistsup to thismoment, as American credits 
in Europe have sustained a severe shock. The ex¬ 
ports in November, 1856, reached £1,677,825, while 
in November, 1857, they were only £474,574. 
Mrs. Rowland Anderson, of South Deerfield, 
Mass., gave a dinner party to her aged neighbors 
on the 14th tilt. The united ages of ten of the in 
vited guests was 793 years, making the average age 
of each 79£ years; and althongli just ready to em¬ 
bark upon that shoreless ocean that never sends 
hack a recurrent wave, the party was buoyant and 
happy. 
Hon. Elisha H. Allen, formerly of Bangor. 
Maine, has succeeded the late Hon. Wm. L. Lee, as 
Chief Justice, at Honolulu, in the Hawaiian Islands. 
His salary is five thousand dollars; and this in a 
country which was within a young man’s memory 
inhabited by heathen savages, if not by cannibals. 
The Leviathan is dragging its tedious hulk along. 
On the 12th inst. she advanced 20 feet; she seemed 
to yield each time to a comparatively low rate of 
pressure, the guages on the hydraulic presses sel¬ 
dom indicating more than twenty cwt per circular 
inch at each slip. No slip, however, was longer 
than three inches. 
A belief prevails on the continent, that the 
superannuated King of Prussia will soon abdicate in 
favor of his son Frederick William, who has just 
married the Princess Royal of England. This may 
secure a more liberal policy in Prussia. 
Green peas and new potatoes are said to he 
abundant in the vicinity of New Orleans. On some 
plantations the orange trees are putting forth their 
blossoms, and in others are yielding an abundance 
of fruit > 
The Philadelphians are rejoicing over the com¬ 
pletion and successful operation of their first city 
railroad. The cars run North and South, through 
the entire length of the city. Three omnibuslines 
running on the route of the road, were bought out 
by the company. 
At the meeting of the Commissioners of Emigra¬ 
tion the Superintendent of the Castle Garden 
Landing Depot, presented his annual report, show¬ 
ing that 185,186 emigrants had arrived during the 
year 1857. 
Joseph Prevost Carr, of Kansas, the pro¬ 
slavery candidate for Congress, defeated by Marcus 
J. Parrott, is a native of South Carolina, about 
twenty-seven years of age, and was a graduate of 
Harvard College in the class of 1850. He is a law¬ 
yer of talent, and has enjoyed the advantages of 
some two years of study in the University of Hei¬ 
delberg, in Germany. 
The first case of trial by jury has come off at 
Constantinople before the English Consular tiibu- 
nal. A Maltese had been up before half a dozen 
English residents, and found guilty of homicide. 
It is reported in Washington that Gen. Persifer 
F. Smith will have command of tlie Eastern Di¬ 
vision of the army in Utah in the next campaign, 
if Scott goes to California. 
The Cost of Congressional Printing. — The 
gross amount of expense incurred for public print¬ 
ing, binding, engraving, &c., of the thirty-third 
and thirty-fourth Congress, has just been ascertain¬ 
ed. The account stands as follows: 
Thirty-third Congress..$2,800,000 
Thirty-fourth Congress. 1,600,000 
Total in four years,__$4,100,000 
The sum of $790,000 is called for to make up the 
deficiencies in the appropriations for this branch 
of the public work. 
Post-Office Department.— Including foreign 
mail service, this department will he in a deficiency 
of upwards of four millions of dollars. The New 
England States show an excess of receipts over 
expenditures of $178,581 61. In Maine and Ver¬ 
mont there is an excess of expenditure of about 
$40,000. The excess of receipts in Rhode Island 
and Connecticut is about the same amount. New 
Hampshire nearly balances its Post-office expendi¬ 
tures by the receipts, while in Massachusetts there 
is an excess of receipts of $178,649. 
Noble Example.— Sixty-four farmers of Middle- 
town, Conn., pursuant to notice previously given to 
the citizens of that place, on Monday week, entered 
the city with their ox carts, laden with wood and 
provisions, for gratuitous distribution to the poor, 
under the management of the Mayor and a com¬ 
mittee of citizens. Not one of them will he or feel 
the poorer for this Christian act, which speaks as 
well for their thrift as for their generosity. 
Emigration. —The number of emigrants arrived 
at New York for the week ending Wednesday, was 
310, making a total of 2,365 since the 1st of Janu¬ 
ary, against 4,519 anived during tlie corresponding 
period of 1857. 
©hr Jett's fimulrffim'. 
— Copper ore has been found in Mitchell Co., Iowa. 
— Mr. Schoolcraft says he has never yet heard Indiana 
“ swear.” 
— The whole indebtedness of the city of Baltimore is 
$352,000. 
— The St. Louis cathedral spire, in Louisville, Ky., is 
286 feet high. 
— The railways in the United States, now open, extend 
to 25,000 miles. 
Revivals are in progress in several of tlie churches in 
Cleveland, Ohio. 
— The 6th inst., is the 100th Anniversary of the birth¬ 
day of Aaron Burr. 
— Mr. Perrit baB resigned his place as Police Commis¬ 
sioner in New York. 
— They have commenced cutting ice—ten inches thick 
—at Worcester, Mass. 
— The deepest well in the world is at Louisville, Ky.— 
Its depth is 1,900 feet. 
— The State of Kentucky leases its State Penitentiary 
now for $8,000 a year. 
— The people of Bristol, R. I., are losing their hair with¬ 
out any known cause. 
— The present resident population of Washington City 
is estimated at 61,014. 
— The failures in Britain since last October are to the 
amount of $245,000,000. 
— Ex-Gov. Grimes was elected U. S. Senator from Iowa, 
on the 25th ult., by 21 majority. 
— Gov. Banks has been chosen President of the Mass., 
Legislative Temperance Society. 
— John B. Miller, Esq., of Utica, has accepted the ap¬ 
pointment of Consul to Glasgow. 
— A faint telescopic comet has just been discovered by 
the Cambridge, Mass., Observatory. 
— Jerome B. Kendall has been elected Attorney General 
of R. I., by the General Assembly. 
— An international copyright has lately been establish¬ 
ed betw-een Great Britain and Spain. 
— Three men have been arrested in Waterbury, Conn , 
for counterfeiting three cent pieces. 
— Col. Williams, of Tennessee, appointed minister to 
Constantinople, has refused to accept. 
— There was quite a heavy fall of snow at Vernon, 
Jackson parish, La., on the 1st of Jan. 
— The arrival of an Envoy from the new Republic of 
Sierra Madre is expected at Washington. 
— The estimated value of American claims against the 
Mexican Government is twenty millions. 
— It is thought the immigration to Texas, this season, 
will reach one hundred thousand souls. 
— The entire corps of city watchmen, in Petersburg 
Va., have joined the Sons of Temperance. 
— The Ottoman Porte has ordered a screw ship-of-the- 
line to he constructed in the United States. 
— During the year 1857 the number of cases brought 
before the Police Court of Boston, was 9,206. 
— The Supreme Court of Massachusetts have ordered 
the Western Bank of Springfield to be closed. 
— During the year 1857, no less than 403 persons, near¬ 
ly all chi dren, died in Boston of scarlet fever. 
— The fleet railroad built in Venezuela was opened from 
Puerto Cabello to the interior, on the 20tli ult. 
— Odillon Barret, of the Keystone, has been confirmed 
by the Senate, as State Printer of Pennsylvania. 
— The Grand Jury of N. O. have refused to find a hill 
of indictment against General (Eillibuster) Walker. 
— The report that the Poet Tennyson had become a 
confirmed opium-eater is emphatically contradicted. 
— The number of postage stamps used during the year 
1857, was 168,494,640, the value of which was $4,649,975 25. 
— The citizens of Tonawanda have petitioned the Legis¬ 
lature to pass an act to divide the village isto three wards. 
— Counterfeit $10s on the State Bank of Indiana, and 
$5s on the Northern Bank of Kentucky, are in circulation. 
— The amount of Hour, wheat and oats in store at Chi¬ 
cago, is as follows:—Flour, 18,890 barrels; wheat, 435,000 
bushels. 
— The city of Wheeling, in Virginia, has issued bonds 
in behalf of railroad improvements to the amount of 
$1,060,000. 
— The Messrs. Rae, of Hamilton, C. W., intend to send 
out a vessel early in the spring with a load of produce to 
Liverpool. 
— Rev. Dr. Littlejohn, of New Haven, Ct., has been 
elected to the Presidency of the Hobart Free College, Ge¬ 
neva, New York. 
— Over seventy proposals were sent to the Post-Master 
at Manchester, N. H., in one day, for carrying the mail to 
and from the depot. 
— The New Vork papers state that the receipt of pota¬ 
toes from Nova Scotia, in that city, since 1st Nov., has 
been 217,000 bushels. 
— In the city of Philadelphia, last year, 16 murders were 
committed, and three murderers convicted. The aggregate 
of arrests was 22,148. 
_Mr. Everett, Examiner in the Patent Office, has been 
removed for preparing a bill for restricting the sphere of 
of the Commissioner. 
— Tw enty thousand dozen of eggs were gathered and 
exported by one dealer in the town of Millbridge, Maine, 
during the past season. 
— A turkey, oDe year old, weighing 40 pounds, -was 
slaughtered at Swatfham, Suffolk Co., Eng., on 22d Dec., 
for the London market. 
— The subject of the poem for which Prince Albert an¬ 
nually gives a gold medal at Cambridge, will, for the 
coming year, be “ Delhi.” 
— At the Westminster (Eng.) workhouse, there is a 
gentleman who. in nine years, has stood sponsor to 1,000 
children horn in the house. 
— The Medina Tribune says there has been much riot¬ 
ing and some bloodshed on the canal works near Shelby 
Basin, during the past week. 
— A public meeting of the citizens of Springfield, Ill., 
lias endorsed the recent proceedings of Commodore Paul¬ 
ding in the strongest manner. 
— Tlie scarlet fever is prevailing to a fearful extent in 
Green Co., Pa. One gentleman, near Waynesboro’, has 
buried six children in ten days. 
— The bill relating to the redemption of real estate 
sold under foreclosure of mortgage, was rejected by the 
State Senate, on Thursday week. 
— We learn from a report of the Mihvaukee Co. jail 
that there have been 104 ladies and only two servant 
girls confined in it the paBt year. 
— Several of the citizens of Buffalo have presented to 
Dennis Donohue, Esq., Her Britanic Majesty’s Consul at 
that port, a beautiful Consular Flag. 
_The Mexican journals mention the recent arrival in 
that city of a large number of the old adherents of Santa 
Anna, after years of exile and secretion. 
— The Richmond South says that the growing wheat in 
Virginia never presented a more encouraging aspect at 
this season of the year, than at present. 
— One thousand applications for commissions in the new 
regiments to be raised by the U. S., to fight the Mormons, 
have already been filed at the War Department. 
_Soup houses have been adopted by the benevolent in 
some of the large towns of Wisconsin for the poor.— 
Money is very scarce, and speculation at a stand still. 
