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List of New Advertisements this Week. 
Farm for Sale—Rare Chance—James Holbrook. 
Flower Seeds—J. Si. Thorbum <k Co. 
Nurserymen, Healers and Planters—II. M. Ranney. 
Farm for sale—Klon Percy. 
Catawissa Raspberry—Geo. G. Curtiss & Co. 
For sale—Maxwell, Bristoffifc Co. 
Wanted to Exchange—H. Si uuger. 
The Orator—1). T. Stiles. 
New Native Grapes—Wm. Tompkins. 
16 Years in Africa—J. W. Bradley. 
Histingidsned American Explorers—,T. W Bradley. 
I’iano Manufactory—II. Worcester. 
Atlantic .Monthly—Phillips, Sampson A ('o. 
Affairs at Washington. 
The War Department has received dispatches 
from Lieut. Ives, in command of the expedition for 
the exploration of the Colorado River of the West 
The party arrived at the mouth of the Colorado 
after an unusually long passage from San Francis¬ 
co. A small steamer brought from Philadelphia, 
after great labor, was put together, and launched 
Dec. 13th, and answered admirably the purpose for 
which it was intended. Lieut. Ives found the 
charts of the river defective, but material for then- 
correction had been gathered from the mouth of 
the Colorado to Fort Yuma. The river was very 
crooked and full of shoals, snags, sandbars, Ac. 
The Senate Committee on Territories will report 
against the admission of Oregon at this time, on the 
ground that she has not sufficient population; that 
no urgent necessity exists for immediate admission, 
and that her citizens do not desire it 
The President has nominated Col. Johnson, of 
the Utah Expedition, to the Brevet of Brigadier 
General. 
As soon as Kansas is disposed of, it is believed 
the President will call the attention of Congress 
particularly to the slate of our relations with Spain, 
and the necessity for the adoption of prompt and 
vigorous measures for the enforcement of redress 
for the outrages committed by that power upon 
our flag and citizens. 
Gen. Calhoun has placed in possession of the 
Senate Committee on Territories his statement rel¬ 
ative to the late election. He is preparing an ad¬ 
dress to the public. 
The official statement of the Department of Em¬ 
igration shows that the whole number of passen¬ 
gers arriving from foreign countries last year was 
271,558, of which 1()9,000 are females. 
An official statement shows the effective force of 
the navy at 02 vessels of all kinds. 
Air. Forsyth, the American Alinister, has recog¬ 
nized the new government of Mexico. Grave 
questions are likely to come at once, in conse¬ 
quence of .the decree restoring the confiscated 
church property. It is said that purchases to the 
amount of several millions have been made by 
American citizens, and that the property is to be 
taken from them. 
Kansas Matters. —The Committee of investiga¬ 
tion into the election frauds have discharged 
Dieffcndorf. Report says that Gov. Denver has 
issued a requisition upon the Governors of three 
States for the person of Henderson. The Legisla¬ 
ture adjourned on the 13th. Gov. Denver had 
failed to approve of the Constitutional Convention 
bill. Parties arrived from there say that men w r ere 
moving about in the vicinity of Fort Scott, but no 
fights were reported. 
Calhoun, in his published defence, says “he has 
written to Gov. Denver to procure the sworn state¬ 
ments by the judges of the controverted Delaware 
Crossing Precinct, and to have them taken under ^ 
such circumstances as will secure a free and un¬ 
biassed exhibition of the facts. By the sworn 
statements procured he shall be governed in giv- | 
ing the certificates of election to members of the 
Legislature from Leavenworth Co. If it shall, as it 
will probably, place the Government of Kansas in 
the hands of his enemies, no one will regret it 
more; yet he shall honestly discharge his official 
duties.” 
New Banking Law. — The New York Chamber 
of Commerce are preparing a bill to be introduced 
in the Legislature for the amendment of the Bank¬ 
ing Laws. The principal feature is to be, to com¬ 
pel the banks of the State to keep on hand 25 per 
cent, of their cash liabilities in specie. It is pro¬ 
posed by some to remit this to the city banks, and 
give the banks the privilege of counting New York 
funds with their cash as part of the 25 per cent re¬ 
quired, according to the recommendation of the 
Governor. This as yet has been over-ruled. It is 
proposed also to dispense with one and two dollar 
notes. 
Tiie Superintendent of the Bank Department, in 
answer to a resolution of the Assembly, has report¬ 
ed the names of banks and individual bankers, who 
had reduced their securities, under a recent de¬ 
cision. The aggregate amount withdrawn is $3,- 
274,708 42; and the amount deposited $342,148. 
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Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate —At noon on the 16th inst., the Senate 
proceeded to nominate a Regent of the University 
in place of John II. Paige, deceased. The vote 
was, for Lorenzo Burrows, 16; John Vanderbilt, 12. 
The executive session of the Senate, on the 17th, 
on the State Auditor question, extended till 3 
o'clock. It is understood that a nomination in 
place of Air. Benton for Auditor, was sent in by the 
Governor. The Senate was quite full. Alessrs. 
Stow and Williams, although sick, attended during 
the session. The motion being made, as usual, to 
refer the nomination to a committe from the Judi¬ 
cial Districts, an amendment was proposed fixing 
the time for the reception of the report on the 5th 
July. A hard struggle took place, hut eventually 
the amendment was carried, thus throwing out 
the nomination for this session. 
Bills Noticed —For removing the State Capital to 
New York city. For removing the Capital to Sy¬ 
racuse; requiring Railroad Companies to carry 
freight at the same rates in proportion to the dis¬ 
tance of transportation. Also to limit the rates of 
freights on railroads when the State canals are 
closed. For the relief of the creditors of the 
Reciprocity Bank of Buffalo. 
Assembly— The annual report of the Auditor on 
tolls, trade, and tonnage of the State canals for the 
year 1857 was received. 
At 12 o’clock on the 16th the House proceeded 
to a viva voce vote for Regent of the University.— 
On the 5th ballot Burrows was elected. Burrows, 
55; Vanderbilt, 48; Bryant, 5. 
Air. Horton moved for evening sessions, Tues¬ 
days and Thursdays, to consider the Governor’s 
Message. Carried. 
A resolution requiring the opinion of the Attor¬ 
ney General on the constitutionality of the Col¬ 
lege act of 1853, was adopted. 
H. Baker presented a report from Hon. James S. 
Sluyter, chairman of the select committee of the 
last House, relative to the delays in courts of jus¬ 
tice, and recommending such reforms as are deem¬ 
ed necessary to promote dispatch of business be¬ 
fore the courts. 
The hill to amend the act relative to the incor¬ 
poration of companies formed for navigating 
lakes and rivers, was reconsidered and passed. 
The hill to pay the officers who served prior to 
the organization of the Assembly was read a third 
time. Air. W. Baldwin moved to reconsider, with 
instructions to strike out the mileage. Lost 47 to 
68. Air. Lafflin moved to recommit for the purpose 
of striking out $500, the allowance to Air. Richard¬ 
son, the late Clerk, and insert $250. Air. Lawrence 
moved $150. Both amendments were lost. The 
bill was then read a third time and passed. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate— Mr. Foster offered a resolution calling 
on the President for further information in refer¬ 
ence to the case of Philip S. Shelton and Avis 
Island, which was adopted. 
Air. Houston presented a resolution instructing 
the Committee on Foreign Relations to inquire 
into the expediency of the government establish¬ 
ing a protectorate over Central America.— 
Laid over. 
Air. Hale offered a resolution instructing the 
Committee on Post-offices, Ac., to inquire whether 
the transmission of mails between Washington and 
Boston cannot be expedited so as to prevent 12 
hours’ detention in New York. Adopted. 
Mr. Chandler introduced bills making appropria¬ 
tions for deepening the channels of the St. Mary’s 
River and St. Alary’s Flats, Alich. Referred. 
Air. Alason called up the joint resolution for the 
reception of the Turkish Vice-Admiral. Resolution 
passed. 
The resolution for the taking of testimony in 
the contested election cases was taken up, and Air. 
Trumbull’s amendment for an immediate decision 
of the question, was rejected, yeas 16, nays 28. An 
amendment was adopted that the testimony be re¬ 
turned to the Senate within 90 days and the reso¬ 
lution passed. 
Air. Green, from the Committee on Territories, 
reported a bill for the admission of Kansas, sub¬ 
mitted a long report which was not read. Air. 
Douglas and Air. Collamer severally presented mi¬ 
nority reports. The reports are all ordered printed. 
Mr. Green gave notice that he should call up the 
matter at an early day. 
The Army Bill was taken up, and the 4th section 
of the original bill was stricken out—24 to 23. Air. 
Wilson offered an amendment, to the effect that the 
reduction at the end of two years shall not operate 
upon any officer at the date of the approval of this 
act Adopted. 
The Senate Committee on Territories have com¬ 
pleted an elaborate report The bill which accom¬ 
panies it is similar to those heretofore presented 
on such occasions, and admits Kansas into the 
Union under Lecompton. 
House —The House passed a resolution of the 
committee on elections in the Maryland case, de¬ 
claring it inexpedient to grant Air. Brook’s prayer 
for a special committee to take testimony. 
The resolution in relation to the protectorate 
over Central America and Alexico was taken up 
and tabled. 
The House Kansas Committee met on the 17tli 
inst. Air. Morrill offered a resolution summoning 
Walker, Calhoun, Stanton and Henderson for ex¬ 
amination, and requiring them to bring all the 
documents in their possession bearing upon the 
subject matter of investigation. To this itw r as ob¬ 
jected that the official documents being obtained 
from the Executive Department oral testimony 
[ might not be necessary. This resolution, together 
with four or five others, looking to the examination 
of all matters covered by the resolution under 
which the Committee was appointed, was tabled by 
a vote of 8 to 7. 
A resolution of Air. Adrian, instructing the 
Chairman of the Committee to procure from the 
State Department the census and registry of votes 
taken in Kansas, with an amendment by Stephens, 
“ in accordance with law,” was passed. 
The old question of the removal of the State 
Capital has again been renewed. Bills designating 
New York and Syracuse as the new site, have been 
introduced into the Legislature. 
In the California list of marriages by the Star of 
the West, is the following:—“ In Sacramento, Jan. 
9, by the Rev. Air. Shuck, Paw Ah Sung, of Se¬ 
bastopol, to Won Chow, of San Francisco.” 
It is the prevailing opinion among well inform¬ 
ed Cubans, that Santa Anna will soon leave his 
retreat in New Granada and set sail for Vera Cruz, 
and eventually he again recalled to power. 
TnE foreign journals report the names of many 
persons who died in 1857, upwards of a hundred 
years old. The oldest of the number was Alichael 
Kilawekin, who died in Russia at the age of 127 
years. Seventy per cent, of the number reported 
were females. The eldest was Elizabeth Goldizen, 
who had reached to 118. 
The Shipping List says that forty-four of the 
sixty-eight whalers expected to arrive at New Bed¬ 
ford the present year will make losing voyages, 
some from the small amount of oil taken, and 
others from the low price of oil and bone. 
The Ontonagon member of the Alichigan Legis¬ 
lature, reached Lansing, via. Milwaukee and Chi¬ 
cago, walking the first two hundred miles of his 
journey on snow shoes. Thus the furthest way 
round was to him the nearest way home. 
According to the Alobile Tribune, the merchant 
who made the lirst shipment of corn from that port 
is now living and engaged in business. The first 
vessel loaded with cotton, he had to send to New 
Orleans to get 400 bales to fill up. Six hundred 
thousand bales are now annnually shipped from 
Alobile. 
Fowls, both wild and domestic, in a frozen state, 
arc now received in New York in large quantities, 
from Canada and other distant points; and they 
can be purchased at moderate prices. 
From the Quindaro (Kansas) Chindowan, we learn 
that the erysipelas, in an epidemic form, is pre¬ 
vailing among the Wyandot Indians. Quite a num¬ 
ber of cases have proved fatal. George I. Clark, 
Chief of the Wyandots, died a few days since of it, 
after an illness of only two days. 
The great claim of the sons of the Alexican Em¬ 
peror Iturbide, for 1,775,400 acres of land in Cali¬ 
fornia, was rejected on the 8th inst, in the United 
States District Court 
Among the passengers who went out in the Ara¬ 
bia, on the 17th, was Granville J. Penn, the grandson 
of Wm. Penn, and the last male representative of 
his family. 
A New Haven paper, describing the localities of 
three prominent institutions of that city, says:— 
The Medical College is on the road to the ceme¬ 
tery; the Divinity College on the road to the poor- 
house, and the Law School on the road to the jail.” 
It is alleged that the Atlantic Submarine Tele¬ 
graph Company is going to have up-hill work with 
their enterprise this year. The shares of its stock, 
all paid up, are now', it is stated, offered in England 
at fifty per cent discount, and no sales are reported 
even at that sacrifice. They are now trying to get 
a bill through Parliament to enable them to raise 
in some way about a million and a quarter of dol¬ 
lars more. 
The ship Witchcraft, which arrived at Boston on 
the 5th instant, brings 7,000 boxes of Chinese fire¬ 
crackers for the use of Young America on Inde¬ 
pendence Day. 
The venerated widow of President Harrison has 
been for a considerable time confined to her bed, at 
the residence of her son, J. Scott Harrison, near 
North Bend. Old age, rather than any particular 
disease, has asserted its influence upon a naturally 
robust organization. The venerable lady is now' 
over eighty years of age. 
Wk learn from the Washington Star, that the 
venerable St Ann’s Protestant Episcopal Church, 
which was destroyed by fire at Annapolis, Aid., on 
the 10th inst., would have been two hundred years 
old on the 10th of April next. The large bell, 
which was rung every hour in that city, was melted; 
it was the gift of Queen Anne. 
By the muster-roll of the “ Lords Spiritual and 
Temporal” of the present British Parliament, it 
appears that the whole number who compose the 
upper house, or nouse of Lords, is four hundred 
and fifty-one. Of the entire catalogue, exclusive 
of princes of royal blood, there are only one hun¬ 
dred and eighteen peers whose titles are older than 
the reign of George III. 
A Funchal correspondent of the Philadelphia 
Ledger, says that it is not an open question whether 
any more Aladeira will ever be produced. None 
has been made since 1851, and there are now only 
some seven or eight thousand pipes upon the 
entire island. All recent attempts to manufacture 
this wine have utterly failed, aud pumpkin vines 
now' adorn the old grape arbors, once covered with 
abundant clusters of rich grapes. 
Persecution in Madagascar. —The latest intel¬ 
ligence from this ill-governed and miserably 
oppressed island is eminently sad and dishearten¬ 
ing. A persecution followed the expulsion of the 
Frenchmen in July last, which has proved to be 
severe. Thirteen Christians have been put to death; 
more than fifty have been subjected to the ordeal 
of the “tanguea,” (poison water,) with fatal results 
in the case of eight; more than fifty have been 
bound in chains, two have died; and many others 
are reduced to slavery. There seems to be no hope, 
therefore, that those who have embraced the doc¬ 
trines of the Bible will be tolerated during the 
reign of the present Queen. Whether her son will 
escape a death of violence, as he is known to be 
friendly to “ the new way,” is quite doubtful. 
The State Library.— The annual report of the 
Trustees of this institution shows that during the 
past year 5,542 volumes have been added to the 
Library—3,448 of which were acquired by pur¬ 
chase, and 2,094 by donations and exchanges. The 
Trustees suggest to the Legislature the propriety 
of applying to Congress for the passage of a law 
which shall require of authors w'ho obtain a copy¬ 
right of their works, to deposit a copy in the State 
Library of the State in which the Cleik’s office is 
situated in which such copyright w r as entered. 
Missionary Travels and Researches in Sotrrn Africa; 
including a sketch of Sixteen Years’ Residence in the 
Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good 
Hope to Lounda, on the West Coast; thence across the 
Continent, down the river Zambesi, to the Eastern 
Ocean. By David Livingstone, LI.. D., D. C. L., F. S. 
A., etc., etc. New York: Harper & Brothers—1858. 
I.v the first chapter, or “Introduction,” of this work we 
have a personal sketch of the author, together with a 
history of his family. From this we learn that the father 
of the Missionary Traveler was a “ small tea-dealer.” Of 
his mother, he says “ my earliest recollection recalls a 
picture so often seen among the Scottish poor—that of 
the anxious housewife, striving to make both ends meet,” 
—and, of himself, “ at the age of ten, I was put into the 
factory as a ‘ piecer,’ to aid, by my earnings in lessening her 
anxiety.” We would be pleased to speak more concern¬ 
ing the youth of Dr. L., hut have only space to say that 
with a part of his first week’s wages he purchased the 
“ Rudiments of Latin,” and, at school, from eight to ten 
in the evening—the only school afforded him in boyhood 
—he read most of the classical authors and became tho¬ 
roughly acquainted with the writings of Virgil and 
Horace. Medicine was the chosen profession of Dr. L., 
and, after the usual course of study, he was admitted a 
Licentiate of Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. His 
plan was to go to China when lie had attained to an “ M. 
D.” but the Opium War was raging and all his schemes 
were destroyed. His thoughts were finally turned to Af¬ 
rica, and, after extended theological training, he sailed in 
1840, and in three months reached Cape Town. Spending 
but a short time there he started for the interior, by go¬ 
ing round to Algoa Bay, and soon proceeded inland, where 
he spent sixteen years of his life—from 1840 to 1856—in 
Medical and Missionary labors among the inhabitants.— 
This work, comprising upwards of 700 pages, is devoted to 
a record of his experience, and, while it carries with it all 
the attractiveness of romance, it presents to the mind 
more knowledge, concerning the country and the people 
of which it treats, than probably any other work extant. 
A Map of South Africa, also one showing the route of Dr. 
Livingstone, forty-five finely executed engravings and 
a steel portrait of the author give a finish to the book.— 
The letter-press is in the usual superior stylg of the Har¬ 
ders. For sale by Dewey. 
Tiie Chemistry and Metallurgy of Codder— Including 
a description of the principal Copper Mines of the Unit¬ 
ed States and other countries, the Art of Mining and 
Preparing Ores for Market, and the various processes of 
Copper Smelting, &c. By A. Snowden Piggot, M. D , 
Analytical and Consulting Chemist, Member of the 
Amor. Ass’n for the Advancement of Science, Author of 
Dental Chemistry and Metallurgy, &c., &c. With Illus¬ 
trations. Phila.: Lindsay & Blakistcn—1858. 
This work is evidently from the pen of one who is tho¬ 
roughly and practically informed on the subjects discuss¬ 
ed. The work is believed to supply what has long been 
a desideratum, as it gives in a form accessible to the 
masses, information of much value. The author’s aim 
has been to popularize it sufficiently for the use of those 
who have not hitherto made the Science of Chemistry 
and Geology a special study, without so neglecting details 
as to render it of no value to the expert in these studies. 
Sold by Dewey. 
Debit and Credit. Translated from the German of 
Gustav Frkytag, by L. C. C. With a Preface by 
Chevalier Bunsen. New York: Harper & Bros.—1858. 
In these limes of financial pressure the title of this work 
naturally attracts special attention, and will induce many 
to give it a careful perusal. Albeit a work of fiction, the 
practical, matter-of-fact subject indicated is of the first 
importance. But, aside from the so-to-speak solid part, 
the book is one of uncommon interest to those who wish 
to understand the political and social relations, and inner 
life of the higher and middle classes in the eastern province 
of Prussia and the adjacent German and Sclavonic coun¬ 
tries, as, in connection with a story of absorbing interest, 
it portrays the manners, habits and characteristics of the 
people. The revolutionary troubles of 1848 are apparently 
depicted to the life. Sold by Dewey. 
Scenes of Clerical Life. The Sad Fortunes of Rev. 
Amos Berton. —Mr. Gilkil’s Love Story.— Janet’s Re¬ 
pentance. By George Eliot. Originally published in 
“Blackwood’s Magazine.” NewYork—Harper & Bros. 
This is No. 208 of Harder’s “ Library of Select Novels,” 
and embraces a trio of readable and instructive sketches. 
For sale by Dewet. 
The Westminster Review, for January, 1858, has been 
received. This number contains nine articles, as follows: 
—African Life; Spirits and Spirit Rappings; Morayshire; 
Shelley; The Religious Weakness of Protestantism; The 
Crisis and its Causes; The English in India; State Tam¬ 
perings with Money and Banks; Contemporary Literature. 
As the present number begins a volume, it is a good time 
—for those who desire to obtain the Review—to subscribe. 
Terms, $3 a year. Dewey, Agent. 
Provincial Items. 
The Council of the Quebec Board of Trade, at 
their last meeting, agreed to a resolution to the ef¬ 
fect that a modification of the Usury Laws he 
sought for front the Legislature, so that the legal 
rate of interest be assimilated to that of the State 
ol'New York—seven per cent. 
During the present century there are said to have 
been thrown into the river at the port of Quebec, 
upwards of ten millions tons of ballast, stone, eartb 
and sand. The consequences are beginning to 
manifest themselves, in the shoaling of water on 
Point Levy point, and at all the timber establish¬ 
ments between Cape Cove and Sillery. 
The Common Council of Oswego have endorsed 
a petition to the Canadian Government for enlarg¬ 
ing the Welland Canal Locks. The plan proposed 
is to make a side cut from Niagara to Thorold, 12 
miles in length, 100 feet wide at the bottom, water 
surface 153 feet; locks 350 in length by 75 feet 
wide, with an available depth of water of 11 to 12 ft. 
The cost of the work is estimated at £1,000,000. 
The Sandwich (C. W.) Mercury is advocating the 
erection of Canada into an independent kingdom. 
The most eligible person to found a Canadian dy¬ 
nasty, the Mercury thinks, is a Prince of England; 
for, while his elevation to the throne of the new 
kingdom “would be a graceful tribute of loyalty to 
our gracious Queen, it would remove the disad¬ 
vantages under which we at present labor, and 
would bind us more firmly, as an entirely indepen¬ 
dent nation, to the first empire in the world. The 
sympathies of the British people would follow him 
to his new home, and the warm hearts of a young 
and vigorous nation would cling to him as a broth¬ 
er, in founding an empire which may yet spread its 
banner over a continent.” 
The most disastrous fire that has occurred in St 
Catharines for some years, broke out on the night 
of the 16th inst., at about half-past twelve o’clock; 
on St. Paul street. The losers are as follows:— 
Wm. Baron, owner of Block cornel 1 St Paul and 
James streets; Robt. Franklin, building occupied 
by Jackson and Reynolds; Henry Burrows, goods 
and furniture; Jas. W. Jackson, goods; E. S. Adanis, 
house; Cairns, Reynolds and Dolan. Total loss 
about $12,000. 
— The city of Chicago is only 26 years old. 
— A Utah volunteer company is being organized in Bel¬ 
fast, Me. 
— The Collins’ line of steamships has been temporarily 
suspended. 
— The queen mother of Oude died in Faris on the 24th 
of January. 
— A ball on the ice is among the novelties spoken of in 
Schenectady. 
— The fighting strength of the Mormons is estimated at 
about 11,000. _ , 
— In the city of Philadelphia, last year, the number of 
deaths was 18,838. 
— Ex-President Tyler, who has been seriously ill, is said 
to be convalescent. 
— Mr. P. Barrett, of Dunkirk, has been appointed Post¬ 
master of that place. 
— The expense of the Royal marriage will probably be 
not less than $100,000. 
— They were eating strawberries at Apalachicola, Fla., 
on the 27th of January. 
— From eleven to twelve millions of oysters arrive at 
Philadelphia each week. 
— It costs this country over $1,000 per annum for the 
support of each soldier. 
— The number of marriages celebrated in Paris on the 
9th ult., amounted to 350. 
— The statue of Henry Clay will soon be completed 
and brought from Rome. 
— The fillibuster steamer Fashion was sold at Mobile, 
on the 16th inst., for $200. 
— Brandy, wine, cigars and tobacco imported in U. S., 
last year, cost $11,934,968. 
— The St. Clair river was closed by ice for the first time 
this season on the 12th inst. 
— During the last year the government expended about 
$19,000,000 for military purposes. 
— It is reckoned that 100,000 people die, annually, in 
England of preventable diseases. 
— During the past year, $1,856,821 worth of domestic 
cotton was exported from Boston. 
— The Austrian Government has decided to introduce 
the decimal system in its currency. 
— Three men have been arrested in Waterbury, Conn., 
for counterfeiting three cent pieces. 
— The number of applications for patents of new inven¬ 
tions dnring the past year, was 4,771. 
— Since the first of January, 1857, more than 3,000 school 
houses have been erected in Illinois. 
— A patent has recently been granted for an improved 
method for holding ladies hair in curls. 
— Nebraska is our largest territory. It will make about 
eighty States as large as New Hampshire. 
— The Tennessee Senate has passed the House hill to 
punish swearing by fine and imprisonment. 
— An association of Swiss manufacturers, has recently 
bought a large tract of land near St. Louis. 
— Cincinnati established a steam mechanical bakery, 
which is immediately going into operation. 
— At Littleton, N. H., on the morning of the 19th inst., 
the thermometer indicated 26 deg. below zero. 
— Shad, from Roman river, N. C., were sold in Wash¬ 
ington city, on the 16th inst., at $1 25 per pair. 
— Tho importation of dry goods at New York, in Janu¬ 
ary, 1858, was $7,520,332 less than it was in 1857. 
— Signals for the managers of corporations—Signal Ex¬ 
hortation, Signal Neglect and Signal Impudence. 
— The Hudson river is frozen over from Albany to Cold 
Spring, and the ice is several inches in thickness. 
— About the middle of April, Col. Johnson, of the Utah 
force, will make an effort to enter Salt Lake City. 
— Including foreign mail service, tho P. O. department 
will be in a deficiency of four millions of dollars. 
— The shipments of specie from NewYork last week 
were $2,928,270, and since January 1st, $8,653,889. 
— The navigation of the Ohio river is entirely suspend¬ 
ed at all points between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. 
— A large bed of iron ore has been found in Sheffield, 
Conn., which is supposed to cover about four acres. 
— The Nicaraguan government still keeps nearly all the 
working men in the State (about 2,500) under anus. 
— The N. Y. Tribune says Vanderbilt’s steamers will be 
placed on the Nicaragua route about the 1st of April. 
— The Sheriff has seized the portraits of the Mayors of 
Chicago, under an execution for $200 against the city. 
— Lake Champlain is frozen over, and teams are passing 
from Plattsburg to Burlington, by the way of the Islands. 
— On the 3d inst., the mercury was 17 deg. below zero, 
at St. Paul, and the ice of the Mississippi 12 inches thick. 
— M. Lent Royce, of Sheffield, Mass., has a cow twenty 
years old, who had her twenty-first calf a few days since. 
— The dead letters at Washington, registered, contain 
contents valued at $1,460,685 58. This is a months’ collec¬ 
tion. 
— The Syracuse Standard says that 13 fugitive slaves 
passed through that city last week, on their way to Ca¬ 
nada. 
— The people of Washington maintain 59 churches, the 
expenses of which will certainly average over $1,000— 
$59,000. 
— The Virginia Senate has passed a bill appropriating 
$100,000 to the University of Virginia, in four instalments 
of $20,000. 
— Ninety millions of pounds of tea were imported into 
England in 1856, and forty millions into the United States 
the same year. 
— There is a bill before the Massachusetts Legislature 
providing for the abolition of alj bills of a less denom¬ 
ination than $5. 
— The Galveston papers of late date have continued ac¬ 
counts of high waters and bad roads in almost every por¬ 
tion of the State. 
— A bill is now before the Pennsylvania Legislature re¬ 
quiring coal dealers to weigh each load of coal at the 
place of delivery. 
— A San Francisco paper says that thejGovernment has 
sent a secret agent to that city to supervise the acts of 
the federal officers. 
— From the report of the Commissioner of Railroads in 
Tennessee, we learn that there are now 635 miles of fin¬ 
ished railroad in the State. 
— During the last fiscal year, Maine actually built near¬ 
ly double the amount of shipping, in tunnage, of any 
other State in the Union. 
_At the meeting of the Cincinnati Horticultural So¬ 
ciety on the 6th inst., peach buds were brought in and 
found to be perfectly healthy. 
_The Boston Banks now hold on deposit seventeen 
and a quarter millions of dollars, an increase of seven 
millions within a month or two. 
_The Galena Advertiser says the financial crisis is 
having a very beneficial effect upon the mining region, in 
drawing both labor and capital to it. 
— The following names are said to be in the Cincinnati 
(O.) directory:—Messrs. Gunn, Cannon, Pistol, Fusee, 
Shutes, Bullit, Shott, Musket, and It. Tillory. 
— Ice appeared in New York harbor and East River, for 
the first time, on the 17th inst., and the next morning it 
was somewhat troublesome to ferry navigation. 
