MOOKE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
jan. n. 
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List of New Advertisements this Week. 
Reeds ! Seeds ! Seeds !—J. M. Thorburn & Oo. 
New Books Just Published—A. O. Moore. 
Nortlarn Muscadine Grape—Jesse Lewis 
Sugar is Mode—A. 0. Moore. 
Etiquette and Horse Management—H, N. F. ixiwis. 
Now’s Your Time—I. W. Briggs. 
For Sale or Exchange for a Farm—John Ecklcr. 
Tin- American Veterinary Journal for 1858—Geo. H. Dadd 
Houses, Farms and Western Lands—J. Gunnison A Go. 
Vermont Stock Journal—I). C. Linsley. 
Tlie Horse—Etiquette and Horse Management. 
The Washington Medallion Pens. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY, 23, 1858. 
OUR CHRISTMAS PREMIUMS-AWARDS. 
Below we give the result of the competition for 
our Christmas Premiums — the names of the suc¬ 
cessful competitors, and the amounts awarded, 
being as follows: 
C. Steketee, Kent Co., Mich.,_One Hundred Dollars. 
I. W. Bkiggs, Wayne Co., N. Y., .. Seventy-Five Dollars. 
A. It. Conant, Wayne Co!, N. Y.,__ Fifty Dollars. 
W. Hutchinson, Erie Co., Pa.,_Thirty-Five Dollars. 
E. H. Gilbert, Liv. Co., N. Y.,_Twenty-Five Dollars. 
R. II. Ely, Monroe Co., N. Y.,_Fifteen Dollars. 
S. G. Gage, Yates Co., N. Y.,.Ten Dollars. 
W. A. IIakt, Allegany Co., N. Y., . Ten Dollars. 
B. Farr, Orleans Co., N. Y.,.Ten Dollars. 
F. Granger, Lucas Co., Ohio,_Ten Dollars.] 
R. Fulton, Monroe Co., N. Y.,_Ten Dollars. 
W. Warner, Saratoga Co., N. Y.,._ Ten Dollars. 
E. Howland, Saratoga Co., N. Y., _ Ten Dollars. 
L. Treadwell, Lenawee Co., Mich., Ten Dollars. 
C. E. Bentley, Onondaga Co., N. Y., Ten Dollars. 
D. B. Abell, Orleans Co., N. Y.,.._ Ten Dollars. 
Several of the above premiums (including the 
largest) have already been paid, and the respective 
amounts of the others have been credited to the 
persons entitled. Their drafts or orders therefor 
will be promptly honored. 
The competition for our Christmas Prizes was 
not very spirited, perhaps owing to the brief time 
allowed. Many persons other than those above 
named have sent us larger lists since Christmas, 
which are credited to them as competitors for our 
Grand April Premiums (see last column of next 
page,) and as there is yet ample time to enter the 
arena for the latter, we trust such valuable prizes 
will incite commensurate effort and competition 
on the pail of the friends of the Rural and its 
objects. 
It will be remembered that we offered an Extra 
Premium of a bound volume of the Rural for 1857, 
(or a Gross of the Wash. Med, Pen and a copy of 
the Year Book of Agriculture,) to each of the 100 
persons sending and paying in advance for the first 
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premium, and hence there are fifty-six yet to be 
won and awarded. Of the first 100 lists of 12 or 
more, for each of which we offered an Extra Pre¬ 
mium of a post-paid Gross of the W. M. Pen, only 
sixty-seven have been awarded, leaving thirty-three pre¬ 
miums yet open to competition. [It may be proper to 
state here, that only lists accompanied with the 
cash have been counted for premiums.] 
The Extra Premiums for Ladies, and for Boys 
and Girls, have excited little competition thus far, 
but as there is yet over two months in which to 
compete for them (as well as for the Grand April 
Premiums) we presume they will induce proper 
attention and exertion. 
— On the whole, we are satisfied with the results 
and prospects of the Rural Canvass for 1858—for, 
notwithstanding the temporary scarcity of money, 
we believe our Ninth Volume, compared with 
either of its predecessors, will be “Excelsior” in 
circulation—as we are determined it shall be in 
Value and Usefulness of Contents. For the efforts 
already made, and which are now in progress, in its 
behalf, we return grateful acknowledgments— and 
trust that, whoever may be the successful competi¬ 
tors for the unusually liberal premiums yet to be 
won and awarded, each and all who aid in extend¬ 
ing the circulation and usefulness of the Rural 
will have the consciousness of benefiting their 
neighbors and promoting the interests of commu¬ 
nity generally. 
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all persons disposed to compete for premiums and 
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Back Numbers of this volume can still be sup¬ 
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further notice, unless they direct otherwise. Those, 
however, who wish to secure all the numbers of 
our model volume, should not delay their orders, 
as our edition of back numbers is being rapidly 
exhausted, and we shall not re-print We give 
this timely notice for the benefit of all interested, 
and in the belief that thousands who desire the 
complete volume may be disappointed unless they 
give the matter early attention. 
Cfjffttgwsiiflnal. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —Mr. Douglas presented a petition from 
Henry O’Reily in favor of establishing a telegraph 
line from Missouri to Fort Laramie and the South 
Pass of the Rocky Mountains. Referred to Military 
Committee. 
Mr. Wilson introduced a bill explanatory of the 
act granting bounty lands to officers and soldiers, 
passed March, 1855, so as to secure claims to the 
heirs of persons making claims who have died be¬ 
fore the warrants were issued. 
Mr. Houston gave notice of his intention to in¬ 
troduce a bill to provide for the admission of Kan¬ 
sas into the Union as a State. 
Mr. Doolittle introduced a joint - resolution 
directing the presentation of a medal to Commodore 
Paulding. 
The Senate debated the motion to consider the 
vote adopting the amendment to the joint-resolu¬ 
tion, extending and defining the power of the 
President in regard to the nomination of officers, 
who were affected by the action of the Naval Re¬ 
tiring Board, which amendment prescribed that 
there shall be no such coastruction as will allow an 
increase of the number of officers in active service, 
as now authorized by law. After a long debate the 
document was rejected, and the joinkresolution 
passed with another amondmentlimiting the power 
of the President to nominate for six months after 
the passage of this act 
House. —The Speaker laid before the House a 
Message from the President, in response to the res¬ 
olution calling for information relative to recent 
events in Central America 
A Message was received from the President stat¬ 
ing that he had received a copy of the Constitution 
of Minnesota, and an abstract of the votes polled 
for and against the same, and he now laid the Con¬ 
stitution before Congress in the manner prescribed 
by that instrument 
A Message was also received from the President 
in response to the resolution inquiring whether the 
; government of Nicaragua had made any complaint 
; on account of the arrest of Walker on its soil.— 
; The President, through the Secretary of State, 
says no such complaint has reached the Depart¬ 
ment 
Matters at Washington. 
Tiie receipts at the Treasury improved consider¬ 
ably during the past week. The $100 notes are 
issued at the rate of $100,000 per day. No larger 
denomination has yet been received from the en¬ 
graver. 
The U. S. sloop-of-war Marion is fitting out at 
Norfolk destined for the coast of Africa. Her 
principal officers are Commander Bront Lieuts. 
Morris, Whitney, Stone and Weaver. Master, J. 
A. Strivlings. Surgeon, Randolf F. Marion. 
The Washington correspondent of the Post an¬ 
nounces the organization of a Central American 
Emigration Co. A New York capitalist has been 
chosen President. 
The National A g. Society has adjourned. Gen. 
Tench Tilghman of Maryland, was elected Presi¬ 
dent, and. nearly all of the other officers were 
re-elected. The permanent office of the Society is 
to he established at Washington. 
A petition has been received at the Navy De¬ 
partment from a Scotchman residing on Punta 
Arenas, who had rented his premises to General 
Walker. He claims that he has been wrongfully 
injured and plundered by the United States forces, 
and demands reparation. As he is a British sub¬ 
ject, he has also forwarded a claim against the 
the United States to Lord Clarendon. 
The Union’s leader discusses the acquisition of 
Central America. Itrepudiates the means adopted 
by Walker, but evidently favors the project by 
another process. It says: 
“To acquire the privilege of constructing rail¬ 
ways, canals and roads across the isthmus, to settle 
regions of country traversed by these routes, with 
peaceful tradesmen, farmers, mechanics, <fec., would 
seem the only sure and infallible mode of planting 
our institutions permanently in those regiona If, 
however, we must plant our institutions in regions 
south of us, by the strong arm, let it be by open and 
honorable hostility, conducted under the auspices 
and authority of the Government Nothing can 
be easier than to find a cause of national quarrel 
with the Central American States and the Spanish 
Government, if we set about seeking in. If, con¬ 
trary to our national policy, we must needs extend 
our institutions southward by force, let it be done 
by honorable warfare, and not by political foray.” 
The Evening Post’s correspondent says:—The 
Senate Committee on Territories, after a sharp dis¬ 
cussion, have agreed to wait for a copy of the Min¬ 
nesota Constitution signed by the Republican 
i majority of the Convention. It will be here on 
Monday. Gov. Medary is here and will certify it 
He also says there will be a strong oppostion in the 
House of Representatives, and there is a prospect 
that a new election will be ordered if the State is 
admitted. 
The Herald correspondent says: — Dispatches to 
the Government, on the 14th inst., announce that 
the professional fillibusters of Texas are gathering 
in large numbers on the Rio Grande preparatory 
to engaging in the Mexican Revolution. 
Mr. Russell, of Missouri, agent of Messrs. Russell 
& Co., closed a contract with the War Department 
for tho transportation of supplies to Utah for $1,- 
700,000. 
Dr. Banks, recently Secretary of legation to 
Brazil, has resigned. 
The Interior Department has received all the 
census returns of Minnesota with the exception of 
six districts. She has about 145,000 inhabitants, 
and will be entitled to only one member of Con¬ 
gress. The three representatives cannot be admit¬ 
ted, therefore a new election will be needed. 
Wm. G. I.. Smith, of Buffalo, has been appointed 
Consul to Shanghai, and J. B. Miller, of Utica, Con¬ 
sul, at Rio Janeiro. 
The Senate has confirmed tlie following appoint¬ 
ments:— John Appleby, Assistant Secretary of 
State; John Bigler, Envoy Extraordinary and Min¬ 
ister Plenipotentiary to Chili; Henry C. Murphy, 
of New York, Minister Resident to the Netherlands; 
James Williams, Minister to Constantinople; Wm. 
R. Calhoun, Secretary of Legation to Paris. 
||mlt j ©ontlcnssfr. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate.— Bills Introduced and Noticed. —To re¬ 
peal as much of the militia law as relates to the 
commutation for military services; For the better 
organization of the militia; To enlarge the powers 
and duties of Receivers in certain cases; To make 
prize-fighting a misdemeanor; To amend the char¬ 
ter of the N. Y. Dispensaries; To increase the lia¬ 
bilities of Bank Stock holders, in certain cases; To 
repeal the Port Warden bill; To authorize the M. 
E. Church at Brooklyn to sell their burying grounds 
and remove the remains; For the relief of the 
Stockbridge Indians; A bill relating to the assess¬ 
ment for the improvement of Brooklyn, and some 
private bills; Bills to repeal the act authorizing the 
building of a new City Hall in New York; To 
amend the charter of the Atlantic Mutual Insur¬ 
ance Company, N. Y.; To amend the charter of the 
Chamber of Commerce, N. Y.; To protect citizens 
of Brooklyn from imposition by companies; To 
provide for redemption of real estate sold under 
foreclosure of mortgage; Also to amend home¬ 
stead exemption laws. 
The following preamble and resolution favoring 
the establishment of a Court of Claims for the pro¬ 
tection of American citizens, as regards foreign 
j debtors, was introduced and laid over under rule: 
Whereas, the aggregate indebtedness of various 
foreign governments, to citizens of the United States 
has gradually swollen to a vast amount; and 
Whereas, without the intervention of our govern- 
! ment, the only recourse of such citizens is that of 
powerless dependence upon the caprice of said 
foreign States; and 
Whereas, without advocacy and faithful dispen¬ 
sation of justice, no government is true to its ap¬ 
propriate mission; therefore, 
Resolved, By Senate and Assembly of the State of 
New York, That the Senators from New York, in 
the Congress of United States, be instructed, and 
the representatives be requested, to procure the 
enactment of a law constituting a Court of Claims 
as a tribunal for hearing amd determining the char¬ 
acter and amounts of all iflch indebtedness. 
Assembly.— An organization has not been ef¬ 
fected as yet 
Tire Weather throughout the Country. 
A couresfondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer 
writes that while traveling through Perry county, 
Penn., he observed in every direction the farmers 
plowing for the spring crops. 
Tue Montreal Pilot of the 9th says:—“Tlie first 
crossing on the ice on the river this year was ac¬ 
complished yesterday morning, when three men, 
John Tilson, Gardiner Welsh, and Michael McMar- 
ra crossed in safety from Longeuil. They made 
the attempt at 9 o’clock in the morning, when the 
ice had been stationary only about a quarter of an 
hour, and passed over on foot without the slightest 
mishap.” 
As an evidence of the extraordinary mildness of 
the winter, it is stated that James T. Eldridge, of 
Nantucket, picked a dandelion in full bloom on bis 
farm on the first day of the year. 
In Hartford, Conn., on the morning of Jan. 12, 
Mrs. Wm. W. Eaton discovered a full blown Poly¬ 
anthus in the grounds south of her residence, on 
the corner of Wyllys and-S’.f.ja streets. A close 
inspection rev jaled a dozen ty more buds all ready 
to burst into perfect flowers. On the same day a 
bunch of full blown violets, and a lot of green and 
growing chickweed, were picked in the garden of 
P. B. Goodsell, in Hudson st., Hartford. 
We noticed, says the Warsaw New Yorker of the 
12 th inst., cattle grazing upon our hillsides this 
morning. If this weather holds, hay will hardly 
reach $26 per tun this winter. 
Our latest reports from the country at large, to 
the 18th inst., are as follows: 
Portland, Me.—Cloudy; wind N.; Thermometer 19° 
Charlestown—Cloudy, mild; wind S. E. 
Sackville—Appears like snow; wind N. W., “ 17° 
Eastport—Cloudy; wind N. and snowing, “ 10 c 
Bangor, Me.—Wind N.; cloudy, “ 18° 
Buffalo—Clear; wind W., “ 22° 
Toledo—Clear and cold, “ 36° 
Pittsburg—Clear and cold, “ 36° 
Cleveland—Cloudy, “ 3CP 
Chicago—Clear, “ 34° 
Springfield, la.—Clear, “ 30° 
Prairie Du Chien—Clear, “ 40° 
Rock Island—Cold and clear, “ 18° 
St Louis—Clear, “ 30° 
Milwaukee—Threatening snow, “ 22° 
Toronto—Frosting, with a little snow. 
Detroit—Slight snow falling. 
Montreal—Clear, “ 2° 
Peoria—Sun shining, “ 33 c 
Philadelphia—Clear, wind N. W., “ 40° 
In our own vicinity we have been threatened with 
a snow storm for two days, and received last night 
an inch or two, probably as a first instalment.— 
Otherwise the weather is pleasant 
Oregon.—F rom a computation recently made, it 
is calculated there are in occupation 150,000 acres 
of improved, and 300,000 acresof unimproved lands, 
in Oregon. The value of farms is estimated at $5,- 
000,000, and the total value of live stock at $2,500,- 
000. The total number of acres of surveyed lands 
west of the Cascade Mountains, as computed by the 
Surveyor General, 5,705,553. Number of acres yet 
to be surveyed, 230,400, This land is all susceptible 
of cultivation. Exclusive of this, there is east of 
the Cascade Mountains a vast scope of country 
peculiarly adapted for grazing, which will probably 
be settled, and become a separate Territory or State, 
as the case may be. 
A Relic of the Steamship “Arctic.”—A ir. Ell- 
wood Walter, Secretary of the Board of Under¬ 
writers, has in bis possession the gilt ball of the 
flag staff of the steamship “ Arctic.” It is the only 
relic of her, and was found by one of the parties 
who went from Newfoundland in search of her re¬ 
mains. It has been recognized by Capt Luce and 
others. _ ’■ ■ 
Marriage Proposal for Queen Victoria’s 
Second Daughter.—L ieutenant General Van Om- 
pbal has set out from the Hague to London on a 
mission, of which the object is to demand officially 
for the Prince of Orange the hand of the Princess 
Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria 
An old lady who recently died in Portsmouth, 
N. H., left as a relic of the better work of olden 
time, a pair of shoes, in a good state of preserva¬ 
tion, which she had worn for the last forty years. 
Over a thousand letters were dropped into the 
New Haven Post-Office last year, which could not 
he forwarded for want of pre-payment Nearly 
5,000 others were sent from the same place to the 
dead letter office. 
The Legislature of South Carolina has passed 
an act to provide for the establishment of a normal 
school in that State, to train female teachers for the 
free schools. 
As an evidence of the immense trade of the 
Lakes, we notice that there are now laid up in the 
harbor of Chicago, no less than 217 vessels, viz.:— 
35 steamers and propellers, 21 barks, 38 brigs, and 
123 schooners. A proportionate number of ves¬ 
sels have gone into winter quarters at other lake 
ports. 
The Indians at Washington were very much 
amused with the electrical machine at the Smith¬ 
sonian Institute. When undergoing the shocks 
they attempted to retain their impassiveness, for 
which they are so much celebrated, but it was no 
go; they had to knuckle to science, and, as one 
after another of the astonished braves was doubled 
up, tumbled upon his knees, and knocked into aheap 
generally, by the powerful battery, he was salut¬ 
ed with the most uproarious jeers and laughter by 
his fellows. 
One hundred and fifty thousand Treasury 
note bills, of the denomination of one hundred 
dollars each, were issued by the Treasury Depart¬ 
ment, at Washington, on the 12th inst 
Two HUNnRBD and fifty farmers, of Albany and 
Rensselaer counties, Lave organized an association 
to defend against all suits brought by the Rensse¬ 
laer’s. Auxiliary associations are to he formed in 
each town, and anti-rentism is to be carried to the 
courts of last resort 
T he y are having a remarkably mild winter in 
the west No snow, no railway blockaded, no ter¬ 
rible tales of travelers frozen or starved to death, 
but weather warm as October and nothing to com¬ 
plain of but too much grain, and a considerable 
amount of mud. 
The surplus agricultural products of Ohio In¬ 
diana and Kentucky are at this time thirty-three 
per cent, larger than the amounts held at the cor- 
resonding date last year. 
The New York Herald publishes a letter from 
Washington, containing despatches from the Af¬ 
rican squadron, which state that the British forces 
at that station, under pretence of arresting slavers, 
have been promiscuously boarding and seizing 
American vessels. The slave trade is reported 
very brisk. 
It is a curious fact that the principal fortress by 
which the Austrian Emperor curbs his Italian sub¬ 
ject, is commanded by a nephew of O’Connell, the 
Irish Liberator. 
The Toronto Colonist, in a statistical article on 
the grain crops of Canada West, states that the 
surplus wheat on hand is not less than 8,000,000 of 
bushels, and that no facilities exist, unless they are 
afforded by the Grand Trunk Railway, for tiie ex* 
portation of this produce. This occurrence, so 
fortunate for the United States, is the means of 
locking up in Canada for the present some two 
millions sterling worth of produce, for which there 
seems to he no outlet. 
The Portsmouth Chronicle states that Oliver 
Philbrick, who has been connected with the Navy 
Yard at that place for forty years, thirty-six of 
which he has served as porter; has crossed the 
Piscataqua river in a boat ten times a day, on an 
average, during that time, making a total distance 
traveled for the forty years, 140,000 miles, or near¬ 
ly six times round the globe. 
The New York Central Park, of New York, now 
being laid out, has an area of over 700 acres. It 
is two and a half miles long and nearly two-thirds 
of a mile wide, and when completed, which will 
not be for some years, will equal the parks of any 
European city. The cost of the land was $5,111,- 
426, but there has been assessed on property bene¬ 
fited by it, $ 1 , 600 , 000 . 
Increase in TnE Receipts of Customs. —The 
receipts from customs at the port of New York, on 
Saturday week, were $95,000, the largest amount 
for one day since August last. These receipts have 
been daily increasing for some weeks, not only at 
the port of New York, but at the other principal 
seaports of the United States. The increased re¬ 
ceipts at New York are interesting as indicating a 
revival of trade at that port, and to a certain ex¬ 
tent, a revival of trade throughout the country. 
A Sword to Commodore Paulding. —A subscrip¬ 
tion has been opened in the city of New Orleans, 
for the purpose of presenting Commodore Pauld¬ 
ing with a sword for complying with the spirit of 
his instructions, and arresting Walker. The sub¬ 
scription also contemplates the honorable testimo¬ 
nial of a flag to the other officers and crew of the 
Wabash, for the same service. 
Shipment of Irish Girls. —The British Govern 
ment is shipping Irish girls to the Cape of Good 
Hope as a means of preventing- its own colonists 
from relapsing into barbarism. A party of 350 has 
already sailed, and another company of 250 is soon 
to follow— all described as healthy and good look 
ing. They go with the understanding that matri 
mony is to reward their expatriation. 
Backing Down.— It was stated a few days ago 
that the Maryland House of Delegates refused to 
receive Gov. Ligon’s message, on the ground that 
fraud was charged in electing delegates from Bal¬ 
timore city. Those opposed to the reception 
thought better of it, and allowed the message to 
be read on the 10th inst. 
A Large Advertisement.— The advertisement 
of the Post-Office Department for proposals for 
carrying the mails in fourteen States and two ter¬ 
ritories, occupies 127 columns of the Washington 
Union. 
— A snow-bail club exists in Montreal. 
— A machine for making bread has recently been in¬ 
vented. 
— There are 295 places of worship in the city of Phila¬ 
delphia. 
— A pplendid monument to Correggio is to be erected 
at Rome. 
— Philadelphia is the healthiest of the largest cities in 
the Union. 
— Mr. Preacher Spurgeon’s new Chapel in London iA to 
cost $100,000. 
— The battle of Princeton was celebrated at that place 
on the 9th inst. 
— Eleven million of beeves arrived in the city of N. Y. T 
during the past year. 
— The Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank of Detroit, Mich*, 
has resumed business. 
— The cost of lighting New York city by gas during the 
past year, was $400,000. 
— The French have succeeded in tinning vessels of cast 
iron for cooking utensils. 
— There is now nearly thirty million dollars specie in 
the New York city banks. 
— There were 2,678 marriages in Boston in 1857, or 236 
less than the year before. 
— The cost of the Public Schools at Albany, for the past 
year, has been $59,374 08. 
— In Buffalo, the cost of the Public Schools has been, 
for the post year, $108,000. 
— J. Stanley Smith, Esq., editor of the Auburn Ameri¬ 
can, died on Saturday last. 
— One of the new sloops of war has been commenced 
at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. 
— New Years, the coldest day of this winter, at Topeka, 
Kansas, showed the mercury at 30. 
— Ninety-five persons died in Providence last year who 
were 70 years of age and upwards. 
— Dr. Austin Jones, ex-President of Texas, committed 
suicide at Houston, on the 5th inst. 
— The Westminster Review declares that the Puritans 
invented the sin of Sabbath-breaking. 
— The N. Y. city banks are anxious to get hold of the 
new Treasury Notep, preferring them to specie. 
— A Boston correspondent of the Evening Post denies 
the report that Senator Sumner intends to resign. 
— The cost of the N. Y. railroads is equal in amount to 
one-tenth of the whole taxable property in the State. 
— The Hon. David Stuart, formerly United States Sena¬ 
tor from Maryland, died in Baltimore on the 12th inst. 
— It is computed that there are about 30,000 Indians on 
Vancouver’s Island—claiming the Island as their home. 
— It is estimated that the commercial world has lost by 
the revulsion of 1857, five hundred millions of dollars. 
— The Collins steamship Baltic sailed, on the 15th inst., 
for Liverpool with 46 passengers, and $929,013 in specie. 
—The N. Y. Chamber of Commerce has united in a 
petition to the Legislature for a repeal of the usury laws. 
— One of Walker’s Nicaraguan army officers, adjutant 
Biles, has been arrested in Philadelphia, for grand larceny. 
— Fifteen thousand people shook hands with Mayor Tie- 
mann, of New York, within four hours, on New Year’s 
day. 
— The death of the painter Agricola, at Rome, aged 69, 
is announced. Ho was custodian of the Vatican collec¬ 
tion. 
— It is stated that the coolies on the Island of Cuba 
have already murdered twenty-nine task-masters or 
drivers. 
— Miss Ridgway, a young and rich American heiress, is 
about to marry the Count de Garrag. So says the Parisian 
gossip. 
— Col. Colt, at Hartford, Conn., is building two steam 
engines and a large lot of machinery for the Emperor of 
Russia. 
— An English correspondent says that Tennyson tlie 
Poet Laureate, is an almost hopeless victim to the use of 
opium. 
— During the year 1867 there were 2,726 mSrriage li¬ 
censes granted in Cincinnati—86 more than the year 
previous. 
— Some gentlemen of Philadelphia have sent out to 
England proposals to contract for the launch of the Le¬ 
viathan. 
— A lad of nineteen years was lately married, in the 
town of Grand View, Missouri, to a maiden of the ripe 
age of 78. 
— A drove of sheep, which numbered 3,000 on leaving 
Missouri for California, contained only 1,600 animals on 
its arrival. 
_Miss Eliza Leslie, the author of the well known Cook 
Book, died at Gloucester, N. J., on New Year’s day, aged 
sixty-nine. 
— The Ohio river is higher than it has been for many 
years. There has been a great destruction of property on 
the bottoms. 
— The depot at East Westmorland, N. H., station on 
the Cheshire Railroad, was entirely destroyed by fire on 
the 12th inst. 
— A young man named Wm. Llywelyn fell dead in a ball 
room, while dancing, on New Year’s night, at Cambria, 
Pennsylvania. 
_Upwards of $75,000 have already been raised, and put 
out at interest, of the sum required for the purchase of 
Mount Vernon. 
_A tenant of the Carrol Co. (Ind.) jail, hag commenc¬ 
ed a suit for the loss of health which he sustained while 
confined therein. 
— The Russian Government has ordered that the Eng¬ 
lish language be taught in the schools of Irkutsk, the 
capital of Siberia. 
_The N. O. Crescent estimates the sugar crop of Lou¬ 
isiana for 1857 at from 225,000 to 250,500 hogsheads, against 
about 75,000 last year. 
_The corporation of London, contemplate presenting 
the freedom of the city and a sword of the value of £200 
to Sir Henry Havelock. 
_Dr. D. D. Owen, State Geologist of Arkansas, is said 
to have recently discovered a valuable coal field in Ran¬ 
dolph Co., in that State. 
_A “ wild man ol the woods” is living near Palmyra, 
N. Y. His house is a cave burrowed in tlie earth, and 
entered from a hut above. 
_An Englishman in speaking of our light pleasure 
wagons, says the wheels consist of four circles of cheese- 
rind, filled in with cob-webs. 
_On the 8th inst., the St. Lawrence was frozen across 
off the mouth of Chaudiere river, the point where it gene¬ 
rally first takes near Quebec. 
_In 1856, the population of France was at a stand still, 
and there was that year a preponderance of deaths over 
births to the number of 500,000. 
— The London Times says $350,000 have been expended 
in the effort to launch the Leviathan steamship, and no¬ 
body knows how much it will cost. 
* — A Mormon advertisement reads as follows:—“ To be 
let-rooms for two gentlemen and four wives, or rooms 
for one gentleman and six wives.” 
— It is estimated that, of the 6,000 persons tried before 
the N. Y. Court of Special Sessions during last year, not 
more than 94 were sober when arrested. 
