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MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EAMILY NEWSPAPER 
JAN. 9 
PUBLISHER’S NOTICES. 
The Weather—Last Half of December. 
Surrender of I’illibuster Walker. 
13" The OmuiENCV or the Oountky is bo deranged at present 
that we trust all who remit for the Rural will send ns the best funds 
conveniently obtainabic in their respective localities. If our Weiten 
and Southern friends can remit in Drafts on New York at former 
rates of exchange,—or in'bids on New Y’ork, Canada or New England 
solvent Banks, or in Postage Stamps,—they will save us both trouble 
and expense. Though Western and Southern money may be per¬ 
fectly good at home, and is not absolutely refused by us, yet we can¬ 
not use it without a great sacrifice;—hence this request If our 
friends in all parts of the Union, the British Provinces, Ac, will com¬ 
ply with these suggestions so Car as convenient, they will favor ua 
13“ The Rural as A Present. —Our readers are reminded that 
in all cases where the Rural is sent to a distant friend or relative, as 
a present, we only charge the lowest club price, $1,50. We have al¬ 
ready received quite a number of orders for copies of the present 
volume, to be sent to distant parts of this country, Canada and Eu¬ 
rope. Our lowest price for copies sent to Canada, is $1,62%, and to 
Europe, $2,50—the extra charge being for postage 
Clubbing with the Magazines, Ac.—We will send the Rural 
New-Yorker for 1858, and a yearly copy of either The Atlantic, 
Harper's, Godetjrt, Graham’s, or any other $3 magazine, for $i. The 
! Rural and either The Horticulturist, Hovels Magazine, Arthur's 
Magazine, or any other' $2 magazine for $3. 
13” The Rural is published strictly upon the cash system— 
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ordered by a responsible agent,) and always discontinued when the 
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secure the regular continuance of the paper. 
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I will be credited proportionately for amount received, instead ol re¬ 
turning money. 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
Kovel and Extraordinary—J. M. Emeroon A Co 
Fruit Every Year—Samuel Kourse. 
l*car Heeds—A. Frost A (>x 
Grafting Paper—Adams, Hastings & McVoan. 
Sorghum, Ac.—I. W. .Briggs. 
Chinese Sugar Cano Seed—Richard Peters. 
Blacksmith Shop to Rent—E. Yeomane. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY, 9, 1858, 
The Rural “ Still Lives ” and Advances. 
It affords us great pleasure to announce, for the 
information of its numerous ardent, active and in¬ 
fluential friends and supporters all over the country, 
that the Ninth Volume of the Rural New-Yorker 
bids fair to excel either of its predecessors in pop¬ 
ularity, circulation and consequent usefulness.— 
Considering the pressure in the money market, and 
the general stagnation of business, our receipts 
thus far are extraordinarily and unexpectedly 
large, and afford just cause of congratulation— 
and moreover prove, what we have confidently 
hoped, that the farmers of the country are less 
affected by the financial simoom than any other 
class, and that the Rural is not deemed a mere 
luxury but an indispensable necessity. We are 
daily receiving the most enconraging and substan¬ 
tial testimony as to the estimation in which it is 
held—many of our agent-friends affirming that, 
while the cheap, trashy and other papers are losing 
subscribers, the Rural not only “ holds its own ” 
hut its circulation is constantly increasing.— 
We might quote from many letters, sentences 
like unto this, just received from a club agent in 
Chautauque Co. :—“There is a falling off in most 
of the papers received at this office, hut I am glad 
to see that the subscribers to the RukaI are in¬ 
creasing instead of diminishing.” From numerous 
localities where we had hut one, two or three sub¬ 
scribers last year, we have already received clubs 
of ten, twenty and thirty for the present volume. 
This is as gratifying as it was unexpected, and 
demonstrates that Vol. IX promises to be “Excel¬ 
sior ” in circulation, as we are resolved to make it 
in intrinsic value and usefulness to its readers and 
the community. 
— Thanks, kind friends, for this renewed and 
augmented manifestation of cordial good will and 
substantial encouragement. A continuance of the 
Rural Campaign during the winter on your part,— 
with the aid of others disposed to advance the in¬ 
terests of our paper and its objects,—will ere long 
place the Rural in a far more prosperous, influ¬ 
ential and useful position than it was ever expected 
to attain. 
The News Condenser. —You ask how we like 
your column of condensed news. For one of your 
constant and long-time readers, I must confess I do 
not like it at all. It’s too much jumbled up, some¬ 
how, to get at the contents with any degree of com¬ 
fort It’s altogether “too much of a good thing.’) 
Pray go back to the old form. I know “go back” 
is no part of the Rural vocabulary, hut in this in¬ 
stance do restore our old familiar friend, in brief, 
comprehensive and easily read paragraphs. —r. 
Remarks .—Our friend is right—and we had de¬ 
cided, before receiving his note, that the change 
was not an improvement For once, therefore, we 
recede, and again give our column of items in 
items or separate paragraphs. 
— In all other respects our new volume is highly 
approved and commended by both the People and 
Press, so far as we have received any expression— 
and the complimentary letters and “ first-rate noti¬ 
ces” are neither few nor far between. 
Steamboat and Railroad Accidents. —It is 
computed that during the year 1857, there have 
been 126 Railroad accidents in the United States, 
by which 130 persons were killed, and 530 wounded, 
During the year 1856, there were 143 Railroad acci¬ 
dents, by which 195 persons were killed, and 629 
wounSed, The number of Steamboat accidents in 
1857, is computed at 30, by which 322 persons were 
killed, and 86 wounded. In 1856, there were 29 
Steamboat accidents, by which 358 persons were 
killed, and 127 wounded. These statistics do not 
include sea-going steamers. 
The first half of the month was warm, so as to 
average above the mean of 20°; the weather tolera¬ 
bly pleasant, though rain or snow fell some on most 
of the days. The mean of the last half was 31.2°, 
and was also greater than the average. The aver¬ 
age of the month was 33.2°, or nearly 5J° above 
that of the month for 20 years. This result shows 
the greater temperature of this December, espe¬ 
cially as being 9 C above that of Dec. 1856. 
Rain or snow fell on 21 days, generally but little; 
on the 17th and morning of the 18th, a great rain, 
1.7 inch. The snow has been little at a time, rarely 
an inch deep, and no sleighing in the month. The 
ground has been frozen most of the time an inch 
or more. 
Some pleasant smoky days, from the 12th to the 
16th, reminded one of “Indian Summer,” though 
quite too late for that The highest temperature 
was 54°, on the noon of the 9th, and the lowest was 
16°, on the 12th. 
The Erie Canal was closed by ice through its en¬ 
tire length on Nov. 25th to the 30th. Then the 
ice began to melt, and on Dec. 1st boats began to 
move. The next day the canal was open its whole 
length, and continued open to Dec. 25tb. 
Dec. 25-27 was cold over country, and on the 
26th the temperature was 2° below at Montreal and 
St Johns, N. B.; at Rutland, Yt, 10° above, and 
here 49°. 
Dec. 30th, great rain at Cincinnati. Here the 
rain was moderate all day and far into the next day, 
the barometer having fallen to 28.74 inches, with 
high wind on the 31st, and only slight change of 
temperature in the day. The month cAsed at 32°, 
and has been pleasent. 
The mean temperature of the year was 46.9°, and 
for the past twenty years is 47.3°, or a little more 
than one degree below the average for those years. 
How to indicate the degree of cold for the com¬ 
ing winter months, is unknown, so great and vary¬ 
ing are the modifying action of heat, evaporation, 
winds and currents, position as to the sea, or moun¬ 
tains, or plains, and inland lakes and rivers. In 
general, a few similar years, cold or hot, dry or wet, 
are followed by those of a contrary character. 
Having had three severe winters, a milder one may 
he expected in due time. 
The indications by the thickness of husks on ears 
of corn, or by the animals laying np less or more 
food for the winter, or bees storing more or less 
honey, or a few birds stopping in the lakes or on 
the land, and the like, are mere humbug. On the 
first two, no accurate measure can he made, with¬ 
out a series of long observations, and none such 
have been made. On the third, as the bees are an 
industrious race, it should be proved that the flow¬ 
ers have made the usual amount of honey, and that 
the greater volume of rain has not prevented the 
development of honey in any measure. On the 
fourth, that a few birds have so much more knowl¬ 
edge than the multitude who have not stopped. 
English papers tell us that November and the 
first half of December have been pleasant and warm 
in England. c. D. 
Jan. I, 1858. 
Washington Matters. 
A letter from Secretary Toucey to Messrs. Peter 
Cooper and Cyrus W. Field, informs those gentle¬ 
men that the steam frigate Niagara will again he 
detailed to lay the Atlantic Telegraph Cable. Chief 
Engineer Everett, U. S. Navy, has been granted 
leave of absence to give his services to the Tele¬ 
graph Company. The President and Secretary 
Toucy are both favorable to the enterprise. 
The Tribune Washington correspondent says:— 
Intelligence from Utah subsequent to Nov. 6th, 
states that the Mormons had destroyed Fort Brid- 
ger, burning all the buildings, on the approach of 
Col. Johnson. 
If the Lecompton Constitution had come to 
Washington without slavery, Mr. Stephens, of Ga., 
was to have moved its reference hack to the people. 
The instructions of Com. Paulding were neces¬ 
sarily general in their nature, it being impossible 
for the Administration to anticipate every state of 
circumstances, and not until official despatches 
have been considered, will it be determined whether 
or not he was justified in arresting Gen. Walker. 
The Herald correspondent has the following:— 
There is not a word of truth in the report that the 
English Government had protested against the 
Nicaraguan Treaty. I am also authorized to say 
that no Minister to Rome has yet been recorded. 
Kansas advices here seem to indicate that the 
Free State men will participate in and control the 
election on the 14th of January, under the Lecomp¬ 
ton Constitution. 
Hon. F. W. Pickens, of South Carolina, has been 
nominated to the Senate for the mission at St Pe¬ 
tersburg, and not Mr. Buchanan, of Maryland, as 
rumored. 
Gen. Scott arrived on the 1st inst He is closet¬ 
ed with the President and Secretary of War. Their 
deliberations are supposed to refer to the Utah ex¬ 
pedition, and to the best means of reinforcing Col. 
Johnson’s army. 
Gen. Walker lias formally demanded indemnity 
from the United States Government, for the outrage 
inflicted on the Government of Nicaragua, in the 
extradition of her Dictator by Com. Paulding. 
Three Railroads to the Pacific. — Mr. Sena¬ 
tor Gwin, of California has introduced a bill to 
“authorize and facilitate the construction of a 
Northern, a Southern, and a Central Pacific Rail¬ 
road and Magnetic Telegraph through the Territo¬ 
ries of the United States.” The hill provides for 
the setting apart for this purpose of a quantity of 
public lands equal to the alternate sections for the 
space of twelve miles on each side of the roads from 
their eastern to their western termini. The first is 
to commence in Texas to extend by the most eligi¬ 
ble direct route to the navigable waters of the Pa¬ 
cific, and to he called the South Pacific Road. The 
second is to commence on the western borders of 
Missouri, to terminate at San Francisco, and to be 
called the Central Pacific Road. The third is to 
commence on the western borders of Iowa, and ex¬ 
tend by the most eligible route to the navigable 
waters of the Pacific, in Oregon and Washington 
Territories, and is to be called the Northern Pacific 
Road. It is understood this latter road will he a 
continuation of the Dubuque & Pacific Road, 
which terminates at Sioux City and is already com¬ 
pleted some 40 or 50 miles, and is under contract 
for a hundred miles more. 
In onr last issue we announced the receipt of a 
brief telegram conveying the intelligence of the 
surrender of this “ grey-eyed man of destiny,” and 
the return of himself and force to the United 
States. We are now in possession of fall particu¬ 
lars, and condense the following therefrom: 
Upon landing, Walker took possession of Scott’s 
buildings, and also of a schooner lying at the wharf. 
Captain Chatard, of the Saratoga, informed him 
that he must give up the schooner and evacuate 
the buildings, which he did, moving further up the 
Point, where he hired a few small buildings and 
hoisted his flag there. He assumed that Point Are¬ 
nas was the head-quarters of the army of Nicara¬ 
gua, and upon one occasion, when Lt Cilley of the 
Saratoga, in company with two other officers, 
landed on the Point, he was ordered to leave it— 
On the 4th ult 45 of his men, under CoL Anderson, 
went up the rivor and captured two steamers and 
the Fort of Castillo. Thus far all had gone well. 
He had command of the river, and only waited for 
his reinforcements to go up into the interior. On 
Sunday, the 6th, flag officer Hiram Paulding ar¬ 
rived in his ship. The English ship-of-the-line 
Brunswick and steam-frigate leopard arrived on 
the same day, and on the evening of the 7th the 
U. S. steamer Fulton, Lieut Commanding J. J. Al- 
my, arrived. 
A correspondent of the N. Y. Times gives the 
detail of the landing of the U. S. forces: 
Com. Paulding determined to effect a landing on 
the 8th. Early on that morning we hoisted out the 
launches and first cutter, and got the howitzers into 
them. At 8$ o’clock commenced to send the ma¬ 
rines and boarders to the Fulton. The launches 
and first cutter pulled into the harbor. After the 
men had all been transferred to the Fulton, Com. 
Paulding went on board of her and hoisted his flag. 
Captain Engle went in, in his gig, before all the 
men had left the ship. He went on board the Sar¬ 
atoga, warped her ahead, and sprung her broadside 
to bear on the head-quarters and magazine of Gen. 
Walker. At 2 P. M. the Fulton ran alongside of 
Scott’s wharf, where the men were landed and 
formed. Capt. Engle now took command of all the 
active forces ashore and afloat, amounting to about 
400 men. He directed Lieut Sinclair, in command 
of the launches, to anchor within fire, second range, 
of Walker’s camp, but out of the Saratoga’s line of 
fire. He then took his aid, Mr. Shuff, and pulled 
up to the head-quarters of Gen. Walker, having di¬ 
rected the commander of the Saratoga that when 
he returned from his interview, if he wished him 
to fire he would wave his flag. The same order 
was given to Lieut Sinclair—the Saratoga to fire 
shot and shell, and the launches grape and slirap- 
nelL The seamen and marines were not to advance 
till he returned. He had a short interview with 
Gen. Walker, who met him at the landing, and in¬ 
vited him to his quarters. Capt E. then gave him 
a communication from flag officer Paulding. As 
soon as he read it he said:—“I surrender, and am 
under your orders.” “ Then, sir,” said Capt Engle, 
“ haul down your flag.” He immediately ordered 
it down. 
Thus ended the second foray of this desperado. 
Whether he will turn his attention to some honor¬ 
able employment, and by labor endeavor to obtain 
an honest living, remains to be seen. Rumors of 
court-martials and such-like interesting scenes, 
with their usual accompaniments, in reference to 
the action of Com. Paulding, are very numerous, 
but as these are conflicting in arrangement and 
detail, we prefer waiting for something more defi¬ 
nite before giving them publicity. 
Latest Intelligence from Kansas. 
Advices from Kansas to the 22d ult, Btate that 
the “ Constitution with Slavery” had been carried 
by a large majority. 
Mr. Denver had assumed the Governorship of 
the Territory, aud issued an address, in which he 
exhorts the citizens to appeal to the ballot-box for 
the settlement of the difficulties. He makes copi¬ 
ous extracts from the President’s instructions to 
him, as indicative of the line of policy he designs 
to pursue. He also states that Gen. Calhoun had 
invited himself, together with the presiding of¬ 
ficers of both Houses of the Territorial Legislature, 
to be present at the counting of the returns of the 
election of the 21st 
Kansas advices of the 29th ult., received by the 
St Louis Democrat, say that civil war was raging 
in Bourbon county. Several conflicts had taken 
place between the Free State and Pro-Slavery 
parties, and a company of prisoners had been taken 
on both sides. The U. S. Marshal, with a force of 
80 men, demanded the surrender of the Free State 
party, and the demand was answered with a volley 
of musket balls. The fire was returned, and the 
fight lasted an hour, when the Pro-Slavery men re¬ 
treated, with the loss of one man killed, and two 
mortally wounded. The United States Marshal was 
dangerously wounded. Gen. Lane was entrenched 
at Sugar Mound, and determined to fight the Dra¬ 
goons if they attacked him. A battle was regard - 
ed as inevitable. 
Altered Bank Bills.— The Cashier of the Bank 
of Geneva gives a description of a genuine §10 on 
that bank, to distinguish it from l’s altered to 10's: 
Vignette, a harvest scene. In the foreground four 
men, and a woman holding a child. In the dis¬ 
tance two men loading hay on a wagon drawn by 
oxen. Right end—upper corner, figure 10. Lower 
corner, female with liberty cap on a pole. Shield 
and quiver. Left end — upper corner, figure X.— 
Lower corner, figure 10 and between them the arms 
of the State of New York. Between the signatures 
of the officers is a locomotive and tender. The 
above is a description of the only plate of a ten 
dollar hill issued by the present Bank of Geneva. 
All others are frauds. 
From Mexico.— The steamship Tennessee arrived 
at New Orleans on the 25th ult, with dates from the 
city of Mexico to the 16th. Another revolution 
broke out on the 10th. The garrison at Tacuyba 
pronounced against the dissolving of Congress, the 
overthrowing of the Constitution and the declar¬ 
ing of Comonfort Dictator. Vera Cruz followed 
the example, and it was expected the rest of the 
States would also do so. Latest accounts from 
Yucatan state that the revolutionists had captured 
Sisal, which was again retaken by the Government 
troops. 
in'itgwpltss 
The recent flood of the Cumberland river was one 
of the greatest ever known. Nashville was almost 
surrounded by water in every direction. Many 
houses were partially and some entirely submerged. 
The season of navigation just closed on the 
Upper Mississippi has been the shortest for fifteen 
years, the river having been opened for only 198 
days, the usual average being 225. 
There was a severe shock of an earthquake felt 
in Augusta, Me., on Wednesday afternoon last The 
buildings trembled violently. It was also felt near 
Lewistown. 
John P. Frazer, of Walton, Delaware Co., shot a 
panther weighing 200 pounds, and measuring seven 
feet in length, which he exhibited at Charlestown 
last week. 
The Springfield Republican says:—“Mr. Sum¬ 
ner’s course is not fully determined on, but he 
contemplates returning immediately to Europe, and 
going to Eg)’pt and India for a year. This was the 
advices of his European physicians. 
A soldier writes from Delhi that probably every 
member of the Guards will be worth £1,000 when 
he reaches England. An equal division of the 
spoils is to he made, and they exceed in richness 
anything ever before dreamed of. 
The publication of the weekly mortality report 
of the Philadelphia Board of Health has been 
suspended by the Health Officer, the reason as¬ 
signed being that it unfavorably affects people of 
weak nerves. 
It is stated that, during the seige of Delhi, the 
Sepoys took all the wounded Europeans they could 
catch and burned them alive. The charred bodies, 
tied to stakes, were found by the stormers with the 
Queen’s buttons still recognizable. 
The Sultan of Turkey has conferred on Francis 
Dainese, Esq., who now resides in Washington, the 
order of Nishan Medjidie, an order of knighthood 
similar to that of the “ Bath” in England. 
The receipts of the New York Bible Society, the 
past year have been $18,700, a diminution as com¬ 
pared with former years. The Society has, how. 
ever, been able to meet all engagements, and donate 
$1,000 to the American Bible Society. 
Gen. Scott has been ordered to Washington to 1 
confer with the Cabinet upon Utah affairs. The 
Administration are inclined to favor an expedition 
of volunteers from the Pacific slope against Brig¬ 
ham Young. Gen. Scott favors an effective move¬ 
ment from this side. 
The calcium light on board tlie Adriatic was so 
distinctly visible at a distance of fifteen or twenty 
miles from Sandy Hook, at an early hour on Mon¬ 
day morning last, as to cause the impression that 
there was a fire at sea 
James Goff, one of the volunteers who served 
their country actively through the whole Revolu¬ 
tionary War, died in Sangerville, Me., on the 11th 
inst., aged 98 years. He has many descendents, 
highly respectable people, living in various parts 
of Maine. 
It appears from a statistical table prepared for 
the New York Herald, that the losses by fire in the 
United States in the year 1857, have been $16,792,- 
000. This estimate does not include losses less 
than $20,000. The number of lives lost by fires the 
present year has been 183. 
The President of the United States, through 
Secretary Cass, has sent a magnificent silver trum¬ 
pet to Capt W. McLennon, of the British ship Star, 
now in the port of Charleston, for his gallant and 
humane conduct in rescuing the officers and crew 
of the American schooner Northern Light from 
shipwreck. 
David Anthony Brayton generously gave to 
the poor of Fall River, on Christmas morning, 1,200 
loaves of bread. Three hundred pounds of cheese 
were also distributed at the same time, the contri¬ 
butions of several individuals. 
Portsmouth, O., is in danger of being washed 
away by the Ohio river. Several acres have been 
carried off, several blocks of buildings have been 
undermined, and the channel is encroaching upon 
the city at the rate of a foot per day. 
Cart. Bowman, the Government Constructor, 
says there is not marble enough in any quarry of 
the United States to build a single one of the gov¬ 
ernment edifices now contemplated. Iron or 
granite will have to be used for the New York 
Post-Office. The “Government Constructor” evi¬ 
dently wants somebody should “post him up.” 
Several of the naval officers have addressed a 
memorial to Congress, asking for the adoption of 
a regular system of education on hoard men-of- 
war. They desire that school-masters shall he ap¬ 
pointed by the Federal Government, at a fairsalary, 
to superintend the instruction of the hoys and 
such men among the crew as are anxious to avail 
themselves of the opportunity to learn. 
The Utica Observer states the work of re-con¬ 
structing the burned portion of the State Lunatic 
Asylum has progressed so rapidly during the au¬ 
tumn, that it cannot he more than a few months 
before the whole building will he restored to its 
former condition and again occupied throughout 
There are now 460 patients in the institution, and 
while the work of re-building is going on, the ut¬ 
most order and neatness is preserved, by the Super¬ 
intendents, among this large community. 
On the forenoon of Dec. 30th, five convicts em¬ 
ployed in and about the Asylum at the State Prison, 
made a desperate attempt to escape. Keeping 
their eyes upon the wagon gate on the north wall, 
near the north-west corner, they waited until a 
wagon passed out and then made a grand rush; 
ran stoutly by the keeper in charge of the gate, and 
gaining the street separated and fled in different 
directions. Their flight was observed by several 
citizens, who took after and captured them without 
much trouble, and returned them to their quarters. 
The whole affair, from their exit to their return, 
did not occupy over thirty minutes. 
The Mobile Register reports that the inundation 
of the Black Warrior River, fifty-five feet above low 
water mark. Between four and five thousand hales 
of cotton had been lost, a large number of cattle 
carried away, and much other damage occasioned. 
Senator Garlington, of South Carolina, esti- 1 
mates the loss sustained from the depression of the 
market for cotton, in consequence of the late com¬ 
mercial crisis, at more than $70,000,000. 
She Ijlrtt'si ©multiuser. 
— Gold is reported to have been discovered in Kansas. 
— The Pope’s private income is said not to exceed $5,- 
000. 
— The South Carolina Legislature adjourned situ die on 
the 21st nit. 
— Tne harvest of Rhenish wine is said to surpass all 
expectation. 
— There is snow sufficient for tolerable sleighing in 
Central Vermont. 
— Rich veins of lead have recently been discovered in 
Harden Co., Illinois. 
— A snake 12 feet loDg was killed at the outlet of Otisco 
Lake, on the 30th ult. 
— The exports of specie from New York city, last week, 
amounted to $2,767,295. 
— The British steamer Alecta recently captured a vessel 
with 600 slaves on board. 
— The first post-office in Arizona territory has been es¬ 
tablished at Colorado city. 
— Geo. Kirby, of Jersey Co., Ill., recently marketed a 
hog weighing 730 pounds. 
— One firm in Coldwater, Mich., purchased, last fall, over 
1,800 bushels of cranberries. 
— The report that Gen. Lane, of Kansas, was shot dead 
recently, turns our to he untrue. 
— The United States land-office in Kansas has been re¬ 
moved from Doniphan to Kickapoo. 
— Judge Fitch, of Toledo, who was recently shot by a 
maniac named Miller, is getting well. 
—.The manufacture of shoes, as a business, was com¬ 
menced in Lynn, Mass., in the year 1750. 
— The Albany City Bank is now redeeming the circula¬ 
tion of Oliver Lee & Co.’s Bank, of Buffalo. 
— It is stated that'Brigham Young has recently taken 
to wife, fifteen handsome young Indian girls. 
— The old saying is that Christmas happening on Friday, 
a mild winter and fruitful season will follow. 
— The survivors of the war of 1812 celebrated the 8th 
of January, by a convention at Philadelphia. 
— Coin is still increasing in the N. Y., Banks, notwith¬ 
standing their resumption of specie payments. 
— The Blackstone Co., at Blackstone R. I., have started 
one-fourth of the machinery in their large mill. 
— The shock of an earthquake was sensibly felt in vari¬ 
ous parts of the State of Maine, on the 30th ult. 
— Ten millions of dollars in specie were sent to England 
from New York and Boston, during the past month. 
— A series of “ calico dress soirees,!’ for the benefit of 
the poor, is advertised at Niblo’s soloon, New York. 
— The Post-Master of Philadelphia has established four 
sub-post-offices, after the London and Paris fashions. 
— A disastrous storm had occurred off Bauffshire, 
coast of Scotland, in which 42 fishermen were drowned. 
— The Northern portion of New South Wales, is to he 
formed into a separate colony, to he called Moreton Bay. 
— The Pittsfield (Mass.) Sun has been conducted for 
fifty seven years by its present editor, th e Hon. Phinehas 
Allen. 
— Punch says a good constitution is like a money box 
—the full value of it is never properly known until it is 
broken. 
— The Southern Pacific Railroad, which has received 
large donations_of Texas hinds, has failed and made an as¬ 
signment. 
—The Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate estimates tlie dam¬ 
age done to the sugar crop, by the late frosts, at 100,000 
hogsheads. 
— The State of Mecklenburg has again voted against the 
udimwluu of Israelites to equal rranctuseswHL tlie general 
inhabitants. 
— The Texas Legislature has passed a bill which allows 
free negroes who may desire it, to select masters and be¬ 
come slaves. 
— Mr. and Mrs. Sylvanns Howe died recently at Frank¬ 
fort, Me., aged respectively 97 and 99; they had been mar¬ 
ried 78 years. 
— Commodore Kearney, it is said, will apply for the 
command of the camel expedition to he employed against 
the Mormons. 
— A history of the operations of the underground rail¬ 
road for two weeks, shows that 44 slaves have been trans¬ 
ferred to Canada. 
— A gentleman named Haskett, of New York, has pre¬ 
sented a library of 800 hooks to tlie prisoners at Sing Sing. 
A truly noble gift 
— An Ambassador h ad arrived in England, from Holland 
to demand officially, for thePrinee of Orange, the hand of 
the Princess Alice. 
— The London Observer denies that any decision had 
been come to by the Government as to the abolition of the 
East India Company. 
— The Congregationalists in the vicinity of North Wo¬ 
burn, Mass., are exercised on the question of infant sal¬ 
vation or damnation. 
— The vote in Wisconsin upon the proposition to ex¬ 
tend negro suffrage was, yeas, 28,235, nays, 41.346; ma¬ 
jority against, 13,110. 
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, the romancer, who had the 
consulship of Liverpool under President Pierce, is 
looking round in Italy. 
— It is stated that there are ten times as many news¬ 
papers printed in the German language in the U, S., as 
there are in Germany. 
— The Dublin Evening Mail states that a hill will shortly 
be laid before Parliament for the abolition of the Lord 
Lieutenancy of Ireland. 
— Intelligence from Utah one day later says that the 
Mormons had destroyed Fort Bridger. The news comes 
by way of Washington. 
— From Washington, we learn that the Indian Bureau 
has received information denying the alleged disaffection 
of the Indians in Utah. 
— Three Seminoles have been killed by our “ gallant 
sojers,” during two years’ war in Florida. Their deaths 
cost about $800,000 apiece. 
— The editors of Kentucky met in convention at Frank¬ 
fort on the 16th ult., and agreed to adopt the cash system 
after the 1st of July next. 
— The Ohio papers are complaining of the habit of State 
and County Treasurers speculating with public funds. The 
habit is not confined to Ohio. 
— At Geauga, Ohio, between March 1st and Nov. 20th, 
1857, over fifty inches of rain fell. The yearly average at 
that place is thirty-six inches. 
—The taxation of New York for 1858, will reach one 
hundred thousand dollars for every voter, according to 
the number of votes for Mayor. 
— The Boston papers assert that the present year has 
been more disastrous to the commerce of Boston, than any 
other within the present century. 
_Tlie Metropolitan Police Commissioners have decided 
to admit no man into the force under five feet seven inches 
in height, or over forty-five years of age. 
_Hoffman and Bums, the makers and venders of horse- 
meat sausages, at Philadelphia, have been tried, convicted 
and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. 
_Speaker Orr has announced his determination to en¬ 
force the rule prohibiting the bringing liquors into that 
part of the Capitol under his especial charge. 
— A clergyman at Cincinnati has sued a druggist of that 
city for 10,000 damages for making up for him a wrong 
prescription, which seriously affected his voice. 
