82 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
MARCH 6. 
PUBLISHER'S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
t3F* TincRE ib Yet Tuns to form new clubs for the present 
volume, and also to compete for and secure the Premiums offered on 
last page of this number. The active friends of the Rural and its 
objects, and all other advocates and promoters of improvement, are 
invited to continue or enter upon the canvass. Hundreds of our sub- 
ecribere can, if they will, easily add to our circulation in their re¬ 
spective localities— thereby benefiting all parties interested — for, in¬ 
stead of being a luxury the Rural is a necessity, and just the paper 
to aid people in conquering the hard times. Strangers wix> may 
receive tliis number are iuvited to examine ft carefully, and if ap¬ 
proved, we trust they will show H to their friends, speak a good word, 
and receive and forward subscriptions, fRack number* of this 
volume can stiH be furnished, if desired. 13^ Persons entitled to 
any of our Specific Premiums, will please state what they prefer in 
the letter containing remittance. 
Clubbing with the Magazines, We will send the Rural 
New-Yorker for 18SS, and a yearly copy of either Hit Atlantic, 
Harper's, Godcx/s, Graham's, or any other $3 magazine, for $-1- The 
Rural and either Tht Horticulturist, Hovels Magazine, Arthur's 
Magazhu, or any other $2 magazine for $3. 
13?* Ant person so disposed can act as local agent for the Rural, 
without certificate, and each and all who volunteer in the good cause 
will not only receive premiums, but their aid will be appreciated 
In ordering the Rural please send us the best money con¬ 
veniently obtainable, and do not forget to give your fall address—the 
name of Post-Office, and also State, Territory, or Province. 
Vi/" Additions to Clubs arc now in order. Any person having 
sent in a club of 6 to 10 can add we, two, five, or more, at the lowost 
club price—$1/X) per copy. 
List of New Advertisements this Week, 
A. Colby k Co's. Original Gift Rook »Storo—0. N. Needham. 
Win. It Prince k Co., Flushing. N. Y. 
Black Hawk, Jr., 1st—N. Fumum. 
N. Y. State Ag Society—B. P. Johnson. 
Highland Nurseries, Syracuse—'’-owlew k Warren. 
Blindness—I )cafn< ss—Dr. J. P. Gilbert 
Farmer* 1 Farmcis !!—Win. R. Boyer k Brother. 
For Sale—A Valuable Farm—]). 1L Osborne. 
Valuable Farm for Sale—J. P. Slayton. 
Flax Seed—M. F. Reynolds. 
V anted—Box No. V, Strasburg P ()., Pena 
Hungarian Grass Seed—T. B. Miner. 
fPECHAL NOTICE*. 
Reaper* and Mowers—United States Ag. Society. 
I)r. S. S. Fttch’s Six lectures. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH 0, 1858. 
OUR APRIL PREMIUMS. 
ONLY ONE MONTH MOKE FOR COMPETITION! 
As the canvass for our April Premiums has not 
thus far been very spirited, and as the competition 
for them must he closed at the expiration of the 
present month, we again publish the list and invite 
thereto the attention of all active and influential 
friends of the Rural Though we have received 
a greater number of club lists so far this year than 
ever before within the same period, the great mass 
of them have been small — in numerous instances 
several clubs of six or ten being sent in from one 
town—and most of those who have procured lists 
have preferred and received Specific Premiums, 
instead of competing for the large April Prizes.— 
Indeed, we think the very fact that the latter are 
so large and liberal has deterred scores of friends 
from competing — they thinking, no doubt, that 
larger lists than they could obtain would be neces¬ 
sary to win such premiums. The simple fact that 
we have already disposed of Four Hundred Gross of 
Washington Medallion Pens, and many books and 
extra copies of the Rural, as Specific Premiums, is 
conclusive on this point, —and furthermore indicates 
that our best premiums have received the least attention! 
Hence, there is yet ample time to enter the 
arena, compete for, and secure most of the pre¬ 
miums enumerated below—and we certainly trust 
that there will be, at least, as many competitors as 
there are prizes ! If so, they will be paid —for we 
are hound to fulfill our offers, however small may 
be the lists of competitors. 
— Such are the facts. Those of our readers 
favorably situated for obtaining subscribers, can 
judge in the premises, and govern themselves 
accordingly. Now, please read the list of April 
Premiums, as follows : 
G-R.-A.mZ) dPRETvTXXJdVTS I 
Open for Competition by Residents of any State, 
Territory and the Canadas. 
#810—'To the Perxou obtaining the Largest Number of Yearly 
Subscribers to die Rural New-Yorker in any one county, and pay¬ 
ing therefor according to our Terms, previous to tlie 1st of April, 
1858, we will will give a Superb PIANO FORTE, with Ooukd- 
Gated Sounding Hoard, of the celebrated manufacture of Hoard- 
man Gray A Co., Albany, die Cash Prick of which is THREE 
HUNDRED AND TEN fxiLLAKS. 
<(200—To the Person obtaining the next largest number, as above, 
we will give a Piano Cask Five Octave MELOllEON, with Tux, 
Hanks of Keys, of the most popular and celebrated manufacture In 
this country,—that of Geo. Prince A Co. Hutfalo,— Cash Price 
TWO HUNDRED DOLL AILS. 
<(1 60—For tne next list, we will give a COM RINED REA I’ER 
AM) MOWER, of Manny’s Patent with Wood's improvement, 
(which was awarded the Premium as llest Combined iiaelmc, at the 
U. 8. Ag. Society's Trial of Implements in July lash)—cash price, 
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS; and $15 in 
Webster Dictionaries or Ag, HookB at cash price*. 
#125—For tlie next largest list, we will give a Mahogany Cased 
HEWING MACHINE, of the very superior manufacture of 
Wheei-er A Wilson, New York.—tlie lowest Cash Price of which is 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. 
#110—Fot the next Hst, a Half Cased Wheeler A Wh-son 
SEWING .MACHINE, —Cash Price, ONE HUNDRED AND 
TEN DOLLARS. 
#75 —For the next list, SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS, in Cash. 
#50—For the next list, FIFTY DOLLARS, in Cash. 
#40 —For the next list, FORTY DOLLARS, in Cash. 
#SO-For tlie next list, THIRTY DOLLARS, IN Cash. 
#80—For tiie next Hst, TWENTY DOLLARS, in Cash. 
#100—For EACH of the next Ten Lists, TEN 1)01 .LARS, Cash. 
CASH n^ElVEITTZVES I 
For Lists from other 8tates and Canada. 
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, in Cash, for the largest list ot 
Yearly Subscribers to the Rural New-Yorker, obtained out of tin 
State of New York, and by a resident of the State, Territory oi 
Province from which it is forwarded,—sent in or remitted according to 
our terms, previous to die 1st oi April, 1858 
SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS for the next list as above. 
FIFTY DOLLARS for the next list 
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS for the next Hst 
TEN DOLLA Its for each of the next FIVE Lists. 
Li/" Competitors for these Premiums ran also compete /or ih> 
Orand AprU Premiums/ Thus one person may secure two prizes, and 
if the first in each class, obtain premiums amounting to oier Fou 
Hundred Dollars/—if the second, $276—if the tliird, $200—if the 
fourth, $150, Ac- Ac. 
The names and number of subscribers obtained by each eompetitoi, 
will lie pnlilislied in tlie Rural, (or in a circular and mailed to all in¬ 
terested,) as soon after the 1st of April as tlie result can be ascertained, 
and tlie prizes paid to the order of the successful eomistitors. To 
give Post-Masters and other Isx-al Agents a fair, e<|,ml chance, travel 
nig Agents, Post-riders and citizens of Rochester are excluded fron 
competition for any of the Premiums hereinbefore ennmerato i. 
JRsR For lists of Premiums for Ladies—for Boys 
and Girls— and Specific Premium-’, see Bural of 
Feb. 13, or preceding number. Neither tlie Ladies 
nor Boys and Girls, have entered the a ene, as we 
anticipated — as there are no f , thus fir, h tlf as 
many competitors as there are premii mr! We 
will cheerfully furnish specimens, show-bills, Ac., 
to persons wishing to compete for any of our 
Premiums. Subscriptions can commence with the 
volume, or any number. 
il«u 'lltub 'Scqtslatm'f. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate — Bills Introduced.—That principal and 
interest of unclaimed dividends of moneyed cor¬ 
porations he paid into the common school fund; to 
provide for the purity of the elective franchise; to 
enable religious societies of every denomination to 
incorporate on equal terms; repeals the act of 1855 
relative to church property; to provide that the 
attorney for the people shall commence the argu¬ 
ment in criminal trials, and the defendants close; 
to repeal the act exempting the lands of the Sack- 
ett’s Harbor Railroad from taxation; to abolish the 
office of Canal Appraiser, and allow parties hav¬ 
ing claims against the State to sue in the courts; 
to amend the act providing against unsafe buildings 
by requiring the roofs to be made of zinc, etc.; to 
legalize the sale of stocks on time, and prevent the 
plea of “no consideration;” to provide for the re¬ 
gistration of births, marriages and deaths. 
Reports. —Favorably, to allow the peremptory 
challenge of jurymen by the people; from the 
Committee on Banks, a bill to amend the usury law. 
Mr. Ely presented the memorial of the Common 
Council of New York, for the passage of a hill pro¬ 
tecting gas consumers. 
The annual report of the Marine Hospital was 
presented. 
The bill in relation to local assessments in Brook¬ 
lyn came up from the Assembly amended. Mr. 
Spinola moved to non-concur in the amendment. 
Adopted. 
The Benale, in Committee of the Whole, consid¬ 
ered the following hills: —To amend the general 
act relative to State Prisons, increasing the powers 
in charge. Progress. To amend the charter of 
the village of Tonawanda, Ordered to a third 
reading; read a third time and passed. 
Assembly.— The Secretary of State sent in the 
Annual Criminal Statistics. 
Rills Introduced .—Exempting firemen from tax¬ 
ation on property to the amount of $500; to amend 
the act relative to an increased tax for roads and 
bridges; to amend the Revised Statutes; to amend 
the Code of Procedure; to amend the act to ap¬ 
praise lands to he taken for Lake Ontario and Au¬ 
burn Railroad Co.; to extend the mechanics’lien 
law to the county of Allegany; to provide for the 
service of notice of process in certain cases; to 
organize Assembly District Courts; to prevent the 
payment of the wages of labor in any other than 
coin or secured bank notes. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —The Senate passed a hill to amend the 
act of March 3d, 1851 limiting the liabilities of ship 
owners. 
Mr. Mason presented resolutions asking informa¬ 
tion as to the condition of the Navy for many years 
past- Also relative to captures of vessels and prize 
money during the last war. 
Mr. Crittenden presented a letter from Mr. 
Shields, and moved that he take his seat as Senator 
from Minnesota. Motion carried referring the 
question of Mr. Shields to the Judiciary Commit¬ 
tee, with instructions to inquire whether Minne¬ 
sota was a State of the Union under the Consti¬ 
tution. 
The Army Bill was then taken up for considera¬ 
tion. The pending proposition was the substitute 
of Mr. Johnson, of Tenn., for the employment of 
4,000 volunteers. This was amended by reducing 
the number to 3,000. The bill was then discussed 
at length, and the substitute rejected by 23 against 
26. Mr. Hunter proposed a substitute for the orig¬ 
inal bill to increase the regular army by adding to 
it one regiment of dragoons and two regiments of 
infantry. 
Mr, Pugh moved to amend Mr. Hunter’s substi¬ 
tute by authorising the President to accept of the 
services of volunteers, not exceeding 3,000, to 
serve as cavalry and infantry for two years, unless 
sooner discharged. This was adopted by 27 against 
25. The bill in this form was reported in the Sen¬ 
ate and rejected by 10 against 35. 
House.— Mr. Quitman, from the Military Com¬ 
mittee, reported a bill authorizing the organization 
of a regiment of mounted volunteers, for the de¬ 
fence of the frontier of Texaa Also, authorizing 
the President to call out, as occasion may require, 
four additional regiments of volunteers. Action 
postponed. 
The further consideration of Mr. Hoard’s resolu¬ 
tion for a select committee of inquiry as to wheth¬ 
er executive influence has been exerted for the 
control of the votes of members of the House, was 
postponed till March 4th. 
Mr. Crow gave notice that he should introduce a 
hill permitting the government to be sued by its 
creditors in the courts of the U. S. 
The House passed the Indian appropriation bill. 
Also a bill appropriating $408,000 to enable the 
President to fulfil the treaty stipulations for the 
abolition of the Sound Dues. 
Mr. Sherman of Ohio, offered a resolution which 
was adopted, calling for information as to whether 
money had been paid by the Treasury for the year 
ending June 30tb, 1857, for the expenses of the 
Legislature, or alleged Legislature of Kansas, and 
if so, under what act and from what fund. 
Mr. Florence, of Pa., presented a memorial from 
the Underwriters of Philadelphia, against any al¬ 
teration of the law establishing the Lighthouse 
system—referred. 
The House then discussed at some length the 
bill for the re-organization of the clerks and other 
employees of the House—pending a decision upon 
which, an adjournment took place. 
Provincial Items, 
Emigration to the State of Maine. — D. H. 
Silbermann, a member of the Emigration Society at 
Breslen, in Prussia, intends to bring a large German 
immigration to the State of Maine. He has peti¬ 
tioned the Maine Legislature for an appropriation 
of land for a German settlement, stating that there 
are large tracts of uncultivated lands in the inte¬ 
rior, and setting forth the advantages which would 
be derived from an emigration to that State. Dur¬ 
ing next mouth Mr. Silbermann will proceed to 
Germany, whence he expects to return in June 
with about fifty families. 
A few days ago Dr. Rae, of Arctio celebrity, 
walked on snow shoes the distance between Ham¬ 
ilton and Toronto, about forty miles, in ten hours. 
The Canadian line of Ocean steamers will, on the 
opening of navigation, make Montreal their port 
next season, instead of Quebec. 
Wheat is daily pouring into Port Hope in im¬ 
mense quantities. The Guide says :—“ The streets 
are thronged with farmers’ teams, and the store¬ 
houses of the buyers are beginning to grow 
plethoric. People are now looking as though 
they saw a glimmer of daylight, through the heavy 
clouds that have so long hung over the land.” 
The Galt Reformer, in its issue of the 25th ult., 
speaking of the wheat crop, says:—“In various 
sections of the country, reports are prevalent that 
the wheat crop has been injured in consequence of 
the want of the usual covering of snow, to protect 
it from the frost So far as we can learn, this is 
not the case in Dumfries or Waterloo. We hear of 
no complaints from any of our agricultural friends, 
who generally look forward with hope to the com¬ 
ing harvest Many of the fields were bare previous 
to the last fall of snow, hut the indications were 
decidedly promising. We sincerely trust that 
nothing will prevent an abundant harvest next 
season, as’on that principally depend our hopes of 
surmounting the evils of the present commercial 
crisis. Should we he blessed with an abundant 
harvest, Canada will once more bask in the sunshine 
of prosperity; if our crops fail, the result will be 
lamentable.” 
The Governor General of Canada delivered his 
opening speech to Parliament on the 25th ult. He 
alluded to the Indian rebellion, and anticipated the 
success of British arms, and the speedy re-establish¬ 
ment of British rule in India. He congratulated 
the country on the prudence of our commercial 
men, and the good position of the Banks. Recom¬ 
mends commercial legislation, and the expediency 
of assimilating the commercial law of Upper and 
Lower Canada. Recommends the consideration 
of the law of insolvency, and imprisonment for 
debt, and fraudulent assignments and preferences. 
Gives notice of a measure amending the whole 
system of the management of public lands. Re¬ 
commends attention to the fisheries. Congratulates 
the country on the success of the Canadian Ocean 
steamers, and the establishment of a weekly line 
next summer. Recommends notice to the increas¬ 
ing value of lake commerce and trade with Chicago 
and the Western States. Says a correspondence 
has taken place between the Imperial Govern¬ 
ments of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick with 
reference to an Inter-Colonial Railway and Military 
Road to Halifax. Confidently anticipates the suc¬ 
cessful and early completion of the Grand Trunk 
Railway, without further Provincial aid. Gives 
notice of a correspondence relative to the Hudson 
Bay Territory and seat of government, which are 
to be laid before the House. 
The village of Ottawa, has been selected as the 
new Capital of Canada, and its people are filling 
their minds with golden visions. In the Town Hall 
is paraded a painting representing Ottawa as it will 
be, with stately buildings on every eminence, on the 
river a British man-of-war at anchor, and a three- 
inasted vessel from Liverpool under full sail, en 
route to Chicago, via. the Ship Canal, which is in 
contemplation. 
The Toronto Colonist of the 22d ult, says:— 
“What would he the injury which might he done 
to Upper Canadian interests by the dissolution of 
the Union? The question is worth considering.— 
And what, in few words, must he the answer?— 
Simply this — that Upper Canada, separated from 
Lower Canada, must either go hack to the era of 
bankruptcy, or seek relief in annexation to the 
States.” 
Affairs at Washington. 
The President sent to the Senate on the 25th nit., 
for confirmation, various officers, the appointments 
having been made nearly altogether during the 
recess of Congress. 
The Administration has not yet received any 
intimation from Mr. Dallas of his intention volun¬ 
tarily to vacate his mission. 
Alexander M. Robinson, of Missouri, has been 
appointed to the general superintendency of Indian 
Affairs vice Cov. Cnmming. 
Surgeons Green, Rusbenberger and Foltz have 
been invited as a Board to examine candidates for 
promotion and applicants for admission iu the med 
ical corps of the navy. They convene in Phila¬ 
delphia on the 15th of the present month. 
During the past week in the House, an unusually 
large number of petitions for the enactment of a 
homestead law, have been presented. Those for 
the passage of a bankrupt law are multiplying. 
The defeat of the army bill in the Senate is not 
considered as conclusive agaiDst an increase of the 
arm}’, as it is thought the bill pending in the House 
will, with slight amendments, he accepted by a ma 
jority of the House. 
The House Committee on Elections have come 
to no conclusion on the Ohio case. 
The U. S. Supreme Court adjourned on the 1st 
until the 1st of April next. 
It is not true that the House Committee on Ter¬ 
ritories have agreed to report a bill for the govern 
ment of Sierra Nevada. They have merely decided 
to consider the memorial on the subject. 
IJtuiis fittagtapkns. 
A New Idea.— There is a proposition before the 
Senate to “ send the Schoolmaster abroad ” in our 
vessels of war, who shall instruct the youths and 
such men as desire to he taught in all the most 
useful elementary studies. They would he paid a 
fair salary, and it is thought it would induce an 
enlistment of young men and boys, who, while in 
the service, could pursue their studies as well or 
better than on shore. The memorials are presented 
from the commercial men of New York and Phila¬ 
delphia. _ 
The New Capital of Kansas. —Minneola, the 
Capital of Kansas, is situated about twenty miles 
from Lawrence, near Centropolis. It has 2,000 
acres of land for its site. No houses, we believe, 
as yet. A correspondent of the Leavenworth 
Herald says the bill fixing this location for the 
new Capital, “passed very curiously, vote after vote 
being taken, and members one after another voted 
for this place.” 
Bills have been introduced in the Legislatures 
of Mississippi and Louisiana incorporating com¬ 
panies to procure the voluntary immigration of 
Africans contracting to labor for a term of years. 
In the Louisiana House of Representatives a hill 
has been introduced relative to Massachusetts, one 
provision of which is that no debt owing to a citi¬ 
zen of that State shall be recoverable in the courts 
of Louisiana. 
The full requirements of a printing office were 
lately sent from Paris to Egypt, for the use of the 
ladies in the harem of a grand pacha. The fair 
Georgians and Circassians are to Bet the types, do 
the press-work, and all. 
Prof. Louis Agassiz arrived in Charleston, on 
the 23d ult., and will remain for a few days, and 
then proceed to Florida to pursue and complete 
some observations needed for his important and 
comprehensive work on natural history. 
A clergyman in Southfield, Mass., had a model 
donation visit last week. His people put on his 
table an evergreen tree and hung its branches with 
gold eagles. 
It is estimated that were all the United States as 
densely inhabited as Massachusetts, they would 
have a population of 446,000,000 souls, of which 
Texas would have 50,000,000. 
The number of emigrants arrived at New York 
for the week ending 24th ult, was 409, making a 
total of 3,900 since the 1st of January, against 9,- 
945 arrived during the corresponding period of ’57. 
Since the 1st of January, there has been a great 
falling off in the shipping business of Boston. Last 
year, up to the 15th of February there were sixty 
arrivals of ships, many of them of great size. This 
year, in the same time, only 27 have arrived, or less 
than one half the number the previous season. 
The Legislature of Texas is a remarkable body, 
and its labors without a parallel. They have a 
large amount of business on hand, and for some 
time have been engaged holding three sessions a 
day—forenoon, afternoon and at night To these 
they have recently added a fourth, a session before 
breakfast ! 
The business men of Baltimore withstood the late 
financial panic better than those of the commercial 
cities of Philadelphia, New York and Boston.— 
With its 2,000 business houses, Baltimore showed 
58 failures to 915 in New York, 280 in Philadelphia, 
and 253 in Boston. 
The Young Men’s Christian Association of Pitts¬ 
burgh, has distributed 23,000 bushels of coal to tlie 
poor, without any reference to sect, class or nation. 
It supplied, in one day, forty families with fuel to 
keep them comfortable during the winter through 
the efforts of this society. 
TnE returns of all the manufacturing and me¬ 
chanical establishments in Rhode Island show 100 
on full time, 61 on short time or partial operation, 
19 stopped; 27,523 hands on full time, 10,805 on 
short time, 8,198 idle. Compared with the week 
before there was an increase of 10 mills and over 
2,000 hands working full time. The number of 
hands totally out of employment decreased 800. 
The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Nord, 
says that the Emperor Alexander, adding example 
to precept, resolved to emancipate the whole of 
the serfs on his private domains, at the same time 
securing to them all the advantages granted to the 
peasants of private individuals. He also gives up 
to them gratuitously all the buildings, with their 
dependencies, in which the peasants reside. 
A DisrATCH from St Petersburg says that incon¬ 
sequence of the important advantages g-uined over 
the Circassians, Schamyl has resolved upon sub¬ 
mitting to the Russians. 
Feruk Kuan, the Persian Ambassador, has or¬ 
dered from a Paris manufacturer the apparatus 
necessary for the establishment of an electric tele¬ 
graph in Persia. 
A resolution was adopted in the House of Com¬ 
mons conferring pensions of £1,000, a year each to 
the window of the late Sir H. Havelock and the 
present baronet 
The Newark Advertiser has this rare notice:— 
Married, in the village of London, England, on the 
25th ult, Frederick W. Hohenzollern, Esq., of Ber¬ 
lin, Prussia, and Victoria Adelaide Guelph, eldest 
daughter of Albert Saxecoburgandgotha, Esq., of 
the former place. 
©hr lictt’si 
— Little Falls has 4,325 inhabitants. 
— The ship-yards at Bath, Me., are entirely idle. 
A soup-house has been opened in Salem, Mas¬ 
sachusetts. 
— The Territory of Arizona is 640 miles long 
and 50 wide. 
— Five steamboats were burned at New Orleans 
on the 21st ult 
— The fishermen have commenced operations 
in Lake Michigan. 
— The Territory of Kansas has a public debt to 
the amount of $14,266. 
— Several persons have been bitten by mad dogs 
in Buffalo and Cleveland. 
The Army of the United States. —The Army 
of the United States consists of 19 regiments, com¬ 
prising in all 198 companies. When these com¬ 
panies are full, the aggregate amounts to 17,984 
men. The army in 1842 numbered about 8,000-— 
In fifteen years it has been increased by about 10,- 
000. The proposition comes from the War Depart¬ 
ment, in its Annual Report, to increase the army at 
once to the extent of five new regiments, or in 
other words, to add something over a fourth to the 
existing force. This proportion is modified by the 
War Committee of the Senate, of which the late 
Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, is Chairman, in 
tlie following manner:—The Committee propose, 
instead of adding new regiments to the army, to 
add 30 companies to the existing regiments, and 
to increase the number of men in each company. 
The result proposed is the same in each case, name¬ 
ly, an addition to the aggregate army force; only 
the proposition of the Secretary of War would add 
but about 4,500 men, while that of the Senate adds 
6,950. 
Mexican Affairs. —The steamship Tennessee 
arrived at New Orleans on the 25th ult., with Vera 
Cruz dates to the 21st ult Little political change 
had yet occurred, although the government was 
violently opposed by Gen. Mejia, who was also com¬ 
mitting terrible outrages upon the people of Sierra 
Blancha. They had applied to the Constitutional 
Government at Guanajuato for aid against him. It 
was reported that the States of Vera Cruz, Oajaca 
aud Puebla had sent 8,500 men and forty pieces of 
artillery against Gen. Zuloaga. The troubles in 
Campeachy had been settled. The whole State of 
Yucatan was united against Zuloaga. Zuloaga had 
issued a decree making the duties on goods import¬ 
ed via. Vera Cruz and Tampico, payable at the 
Capital, and payment otherwise would Dot be re¬ 
cognized. 
— In Auburn State Prison, there are 200 convicts 
out of employment. 
— There are 80 offices for the sale of lottery 
tickets in Baltimore city. 
— Three new counties will be asked for at the 
present N. J. Legislature. 
_The “ Balmoral,” or red petticoat, has made 
its appearance in Norfolk. 
— Comptroller Flagg, of New York city, has sig¬ 
nified his intention to resign. 
— The annual war expense, paid by European 
producers, is about $80'',000,000. 
— Bishop Potter is reported as slowly recovering 
from his late attack of apoplexy. 
_The reported negro insurrection at Fayettville, 
Ark., turns out to be a fabrication. 
_The51stplanethasbeen discovered and named 
Nemausa—to be spoken No-more-sir. 
_The London Times devoted sixteen columns 
to the wedding of the Princess Royal. 
_Last week seven young ladies of Pittsburg 
took the veil in the Chapel of St. Mary’s. 
_The N. Y. Mirror says that anthracite coal has 
fallen, in that city, as low as $4 5(» per tun. 
— The Governor of Florida calls for more troops 
to carry on the war against Billy Bowlegs. 
— The Illinois river is now frozen over with solid 
ice, and navigation is closed for the present 
— A man in Schenectady advertises a clock for 
sale, “which keeps time like a tax gatherer.” 
— There are forty-six emperors, kings, princes, 
grand dukes, and dukes now reigning in Europe. 
— Tn Massachusetts, last year, 332 liquor-sellers 
were imprisoned for violations of the liquor law. 
_The Lynn Reporter reports that there js a 
slight improvement in the shoe trade in that city. 
_The music-loving citizens of Baltimore are 
moving for the erection of a splendid opera house, 
— It is said that many of the prisoners in the 
State and County Penitentiaries are idle this winter. 
_The Maine Legislature has fallen into the habit 
of singing a hymn just before opening for the day. 
— Henry Ward Beecher is not to go to Califor¬ 
nia, but what is better, his salary is to be raised to 
$7,000. 
_The Legislature of Texas has passed a law er- 
abling free negroes to choose masters and become 
slaves. 
— Massachusetts has 120 people to the square 
mile; Rhode Island, 112; Connecticut, 79, and Neiv 
York, 65. 
— At a meeting of the Germans of Buffalo, a few 
evenings since, $1,000 was raised for the relief of 
the poor. 
— The first newspaper in England was printed in 
London in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the 
year 1588. 
_Servant girls in Leavenworth, Kansas, are so 
scarce that they readily command from $10 to $16 
per month. 
— Gen. Concha has granted permission for the 
publication of a newspaper in the English language 
in Havana. 
_It is reported that Mr. Dallas will he offered 
the Federal judgeship vacated by the death of 
Judge Kane. 
_One of the toasts drank at a recent celebration 
was, “Woman! slie requires no eulogy —she speaks 
far herself !” 
_The loss to the American Sunday School Union 
by the defalcation of their late Secretary is less 
than $4n,d00. 
— The steamer nenry A. Jones caught fire and 
burnt, on the 28th ult, 40 miles above Cincinnati. 
No lives lost, 
— Two distinguished clergymen—Rev. DraTyng 
and Cox—have taken very strong ground against 
the use of tobacco. 
— One hundred and fifty-four newspapers and 
one hundred and fourteen magazines are published 
in New York city. 
— The construction of the Water Works in Mon¬ 
treal has cost $1,680,000, or nearly three times the 
sum calculated upon. 
— The clergy are warned in the religions papers 
against the deception of professional beggars, who 
get up pitiful stories. 
_“The Walled Lake” turns out to he no great 
curiosity. It was a wall-eyed man that saw it. 
The wall was in his eye. 
_In the town of Gorham, Me., the past year, 
with a population of 3,000, there have been 35 
deaths, 6 in one family. 
— It is stated that of 80 clergymen who died in 
the year 1855, more than one-half had passed the 
age of three score and ten. 
— Ex-President Comonfort is the son of an Eng¬ 
lishman who was a manufacturer at Puebla, and 
who married a Spanish lady. 
_Large numbers of American families were at 
Constantinople, at, last, accounts, mostly on their 
way to Egypt for the winter. 
_A Jew residing near Selma, Ark, has a shekel 
which was struck in the mint of Judea, seventeen 
hundred and fifty years old. 
_Fayette McMullen, Governor of Washi 
Territory, has applied to the Territorial Lr - ^* 
for a divorce from his wife. A 
— The official papers of Spain decla^^^^^ 
Udi ted States have not now, and never 
gold enough to purchase Cuba. 
— The Jacksonville (Fla.) Republican recofqjjfeej I 
death of Mrs. Winnie Lam,inter, (jn Jan. 28th, flggg B 
one hundred and thirty years. | 
— A purse of $375 has been pledged by the s™* 
dents of Yale College for the family of the lak b. 
Miles, the New Haven fireman. 
— The Baltimore Corn Exchange has adopted 
resolutions in favor of selling corn by weight in¬ 
stead of by the measured bushel. 
_The latest intelligence from Salt Lake repr- 
sents the Mormons as making active preparations 
to resist the troops in the spring. 
_Tlie Ohio State Senate has passed the bill re¬ 
pealing an act prohibiting the confinement of fn* 
gitive slaves in the jails of Ohio. 
— The winter in Europe is said to have been so 
mild that the oldest inhabitants do not remember 
such an one for the last fifty years. 
— The long delayed trial of the officers of the 
ill-fated steamer Montreal, has at last taken P lace 
at Quebec, aud the jury did not agree. 
— The oldest book known to be extant is an edi¬ 
tion of the Psalms, in Latin, printed by Faust acu 
Schaffer, in 1457, aud is now 400 years old. 
— A mechanic, in straitened circumstances, at 
Chicago, has just fallen heir to a fortune of S-0 > 
000 by 7 the decease of a relative in Australia. 
