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MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND E AM ELY NEWSPAPER. 
MARCH 20 
PUBLISHER'S SPECIAL NOTICES. 
G-El-A-LTTD FKEIVLIXJTVIIS I 
Open for Competition by Residents of any .State, 
Territory and the Canadas. 
♦BIO— To the Person obtaining the Largest Number of Yearly 
Bniibcribers to tile Rural New-Yorkek in >uiy one county, and pay¬ 
ing therefor according to our Terms, previous to the 1st of April, 
1858, we will will give a Superb 1*1 ANO T OItTK, with (,’okko- 
Gatkii Sou.nui.ng Boaud, of tlie celebrated manufacture of Boakd- 
jla.n Gray <fc Co, Albany, the Cash Prick of which is THREE 
HUNDRED AND TEN DOLLARS. 
♦200—To tlie Person obtaining the next largest number, as above, 
we will give a Piano Cask Five Octave MLLODPION, toi/A Two 
Hanks of Keys, of the most popular and celebrated manufacture in 
this country,—that of Gno. Pkincb A Co, Buffalo,— Cash Prick, 
TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS. 
♦160-Fortne next list, we will give a COM 111 NEI) REAPER 
AND MOWER, of Manny's Patent with Wood's Improvement, 
(which was awarded the Premium as Host Combined Machine, at tlie 
U. S. Ag. Society’s Trial of Implements in July last,)—cash price, 
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE DOLLARS; and $16 in 
Webster Dictionaries or Ag. Books at cash prices 
♦12ft—For the next largest list, we will give a Mahogany Cased 
SEWING MACHINE, of tlie very superior manufacture of 
Wheeler A Wilson, New York.— the lowest Cash Price of which is 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. 
♦ 110—For the next list, a Half Cased Wheeler A Whson 
SEWING MACHINE, —Cash Price, ONE HUNDRED AND 
TEN DOLLARS. 
♦7ft—For tlie next list, SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS, in Cash. 
♦60—For tlie next list, FIFTY DOLLARS, in Cash. 
♦40—For tlie next list, FORTY DOLLARS, in Cash 
♦80—For the next list, THIRTY DOLLARS, in Cash 
♦20— For the next list, TWENTY DOLLARS, in Cash. 
♦100— For EACH of the next Ten Lists, TEN DOLLARS, Cash. 
CASH ZPHIEZVEITJIIVCS I 
For Lists from other States and Canada. 
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, in Cash, for the largest list of 
Yearly Subscribers to the Rural New-Yorker, obtained out of tlie 
State of New York, and by a resident of tlie State, Territory or 
Province from which it is forwarded,—sci it in or remitted according to 
our terms, previous to tlie 1st of April, ISAS 
SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS lor the next list as above. 
FIFTY DOLLARS for tlie next list 
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS for the next list 
TEN DOLLARS for each of tlie next FIVE Lists. 
tin competitors for these Premiums can also compete for the 
Grand April Premiumsl Tims ontperson may secure two prizes, and 
if the first in each class, obtain premiums amounting to over Four 
Hundred Dollars/ —if the second, $275—if the third, $200—if the 
fourth, $150, &c., &c. 
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or Any 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. 
nr In ordering the Rural please send ns tlie bcRt money con¬ 
veniently obtainable, and do not forget to give your full address—the 
name of Post-Office, and also State Territory, or Province 
V~if~ Additions to Clubs are now in order. Any person having 
sent in a club of 6 to 10 can add one twe five, or more at tlie lowest 
club price—$1,50 per copy. 
List of New Advertisements thus Week, 
New and Select Flower Seeds—B. K. Bliss 
Tlie Best in Use—Wheeler A Wilson Manufacturing Ce 
J. A. Colby A Co’s. Original Gift Book Store—O. N. Needham. 
Assignees’ Sale—N. II. Fordyce. 
Tlie Largest Ag'l Warehouse in New York—R. I. Allen. 
Wooden Water Pipe—I. 8 Ilobhie A Co. 
Yeomans’ Fruit Bottles—T. G. Yeomans. 
The Allen Raspberry—'Thomas Duff. 
New Native Grapes—Wm Tompkins. 
Celebrated Family Sewing Machines—Grove A Baker 
Melvin’s American Gift Book Store—It. Melvin. 
A Valuable Farm—E. Scrantom. 
The Farmers’ Practical Horse Farrier—E. Nash. 
Highland Nurseries -A. Saul A Co. 
Jefferson Co. Seed Store—H. Cooper A Co. 
Cranberry Plants, Ac—F. Trowbridge. 
Dwarf Pear Trees—T. G. Yeomans. 
Middlebury Academy—M. Weed. 
Send Twelve Cents—Alexander WykofT. 
200 Young Men Wanted—E. S. Gibson A Co. 
Seed Com—D. D. Tooker. 
Morse’s Patent Hangings—A. W. Morse. 
Strawberry Plants for Sale—J. S. Haskins. 
Hardy Native Evergreens—John W. Adams. 
For Sale—Wm. II. Adams. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
“ Sweet Winter Turnip Seed" Wanted—L W. Briggs. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH 20, 1858. 
Our Grand Premiums —Ho Postponement! 
Once more we give an enumeration (see head 
of this column) of the Grand Premiums offered the 
friends and agents of the Rural for obtaining sub¬ 
scribers previous to the 1st of April proximo. As 
we stated two weeks ago, these large premiums 
have not excited much competition, most of our 
working friends having preferred the Specific Pre¬ 
miums,—but we now repeat that these Grand Pre- 
miums will be awarded and paid, if there are as 
many competitors as there are prizes ! Those inter- 
ested will therefore govern themselves according¬ 
ly. Another thing— 
There will be no postponement of the time for com¬ 
petition—and hence, all who wish to be “ counted 
in” as competitors (and there is yet time enough to 
win some of the best prizes,) must hand in or mail 
their orders and remittances on or before the 31st 
day of this month. As the times have improved 
in many sections, we hope some of our friends who 
have not yet entered the arena, will make an effort 
to secure the magnificent premiums to be awarded. 
Hews o 1 the Week. 
We are unable to chronicle any occurrence for 
the week that might be called startling or wearing 
a National import The entire people seem to be 
affected soporifically—the legitimate influence of 
the examples set them by our legislators both at 
Washington and Albany. It may be, however, bu t 
“the calm before the storm” that is observable in 
governmental halls, and the getting ready of the 
masses for a season of activity when navigation 
opens and the wheels of Commerce and Manufac¬ 
tures are again under full motion. Be this as it 
may, we hope a few weeks will witness such life, 
bustle and energy from the sea-board to the Mis¬ 
sissippi, as shall drive want, vice and misery.— the 
offspring of “ Notbing-To-Do” — from our streets 
and thoroughfares. 
From Washington, we learn that the Treasury 
Department has decided that hemp, carpeting, fus¬ 
tic and blank copy books, are entitled to entry at 
25 per cent, ad valorem. 
The Advisory Board appointed to prepare a code 
of regulators for the Naval Service have made their 
report They, however, disagree on some reforma¬ 
tory measures, chiefly with reference to the law 
relating to the positions of medical and disbursing 
officers to officers of the line. The representatives 
of the former in the Board contend that they shall 
be entitled to the same consideration as staff offi¬ 
cers, and that the regulations in this respect should 
be similar to those of the Army. On these and 
some other points two reports are submitted; but 
with these exceptions, the board generally agree. 
George Cotway, the Ojibway chief, and eleven 
other red men now in Washington, have recently 
proposed to the government to send a deputation 
of three of their number to Billy Bowlegs, for the 
purpose of convincing him of the folly of resist¬ 
ing the United States, and inducing him and his 
followers to emigrate peacefully to a new home in 
the West. 
It has been rumored about for some time that 
owing to the delicate health of Lord Napier, his 
Lordship will shortly resign his position to this 
government, and return to England. Since the de¬ 
feat of the English Ministry and the success of the 
tory party, with whom he has no sympathy, inti¬ 
mations are given out to some of his friends her e 
that he intends to carry out his former designs. 
Despatches were received by mail from Mr. Dal¬ 
las, our Minister at London. He thinks the new 
Ministry will be more favorable and conciliatory to 
the United States than the old one. He is also of 
opinion that it will not, according to present ap¬ 
pearances, remain long in power. 
The War Department has received despatches 
from Commodore Armstrong, dated Hong Kong, 
Jan. 14. He reports everything now quiet in Can¬ 
ton and all along the coast to Shanghai. He also 
says his health is still very feeble, arid that he shall 
leave for the United States on the arrival of Captain 
Tatnall. 
Commodore Armstrong has ordered the frigate 
Minnesota to proceed with Commissioner Keed to 
Fort Macao, for the purpose of giving protection 
and assistance to American citizens resident there, 
in case of a conspiracy or revolt in the Chinese 
population. 
The telegraph imforms us that John Hortneth, 
Secretary of Utah, arrived at St. Louis on the 13th 
inst He left Camp Scott Jan. 2Gth, and reports 
that the troops were in comfortable condition and 
excellent health—only four deaths having occurred 
since the arrival of the command. In view of a 
serious, if not unsurmountable obstacle in the for¬ 
tifications of the canons by the Mormons, it was 
thought that the entrance into the Salt Lake Val¬ 
ley would be made by another route 100 miles 
longer that offered no obstructions of any magni¬ 
tude. Two hundred of the principal of the Utah 
Indians have been into the camp and gave assur¬ 
ance of the peaceable intentions of the tribe towards 
the Americans. The Cheyennes also desired peace, 
with the exception of along the skirts of the south 
side of the South Pass. Hartnett met with no 
snow on the route. Grass was expected unusually 
early. No mail had reached the camp since that 
of October. The November mail was met at Green 
River, that of January at the foot of Rocky Ridge, 
and that of February six miles beyond Asli Hollow. 
From Texas papers of the 27th nit., we learn that 
ice formed in the neighborhood of the Colorado 
river on the 24th ult, and fears were entertained 
for the safety of fruit trees. The Indians of Bexar 
county were becoming bolder. 
By the steamer Tennessee, at New Orleans on the 
11th inst., we have Vera Cruz dates to the 7tb, and 
city of Mexico to the 5th. The papers are tilled 
with the details of civil war in the States of Guerreo, 
Michoican, Guerelera and Guanajato, which dis¬ 
play the strongest disaffection to the new govern¬ 
ment. Generals Doblade, Parodi and Arteago, are 
fortified at Celaya, in the State of Guanajato. Six 
thousand men and twenty-seven pieces of artillery, 
belonging to tlie government forces, were near 
Celaya, waiting reinforcements, where it was sup¬ 
posed an action would take place. Gen. Alvarez 
was in the field with three thousand cavalry. The 
downfall of Seul was considered very certain. It 
is rumored that the new Government already pro¬ 
nounced for all the Guodaljara, and Garzea has 
possession of Tampico, which was in the Federal 
interest The whole country was in a lamentable 
condition. Robbery after robbery was reported. 
A few weeks since we gave Rural readers an 
illustration of the monster steamer Leviathan,— 
thereafter chronicled her successful launch,—and 
thinking the progress making toward her comple¬ 
tion might prove of interest, we clip from an article 
in the London Times the following: 
The cost of completing her fitting is estimated 
at $500,000, and the time four months, or to the end 
of July. No less than ten anchors are now required 
to hold the monster vessel at her present moorings 
—five at the stem and five at the stern, and each 
with lengths of cable attached varying from 40 to 
160 fathoms. There are to be six masts in all, three 
square rigged, and three rigged with fore and aft 
sails. All these masts will be composed of plates 
of wrought iron one inch in thickness, and riveted 
together in the same manner as the sides of the 
ship, or a steam boiler of the strongest description. 
They will vary in height from 130 to 170 feet from 
the keel to the truck: each will be three feet four 
inches diameter at the deck, and each will weigh 
from 30 to 40 tons, exclusive of yards or rigging. 
Each mast rests in a square column of plate iron, 
which reaches direct from the keel to the upper 
deck, and is riveted and built into all of the suc¬ 
cessive decks through which it passes. In case of 
its ever becoming necessary to cut away the masts, 
at the base of them all, at about three feet above 
the deck, will be fixed a peculiar apparatus, which, 
working by means of a powerful screw, is made to 
compress two sides of the mast together iu such a 
manner as to completely crush them in, and let the 
masts fall over the sides immediately. All the 
main and topmast yards of the square-rigged masts 
will be also of iron plates. The main yard will be 
130 feet long, or about 40 feet longer than the main 
yard of the largest line-of-battle ships, about four 
times the strength of any main yard yet construct¬ 
ed, and several tons lighter than if it was made of 
wood, as is usually the case. 
The Breaking of the Gorge. — On the after¬ 
noon of the 4tli, the ice gorge in the Mississippi 
river, above Cairo, broke, and the while accumula¬ 
tion of ice ran down the river in heavy masses._ 
At Cairo, fourteen steamboats from various points 
were gathered, waiting to effect a passage to St 
Louis. Above the gorge six others were waiting 
its dissolution to make their way to New Orleans 
and Cincinnati. Navigation on the Mississippi is 
now resumed, and the boats are arriving at St. 
Louis regularly. 
The Niagara Ship Canal.— The Detroit Board 
of Trade have signed a memorial, praying Congress 
to grant a portion of the wild lands, not otherwise 
appropriated, to aid in the construction of the 
Niagara Ship Canal, and also a petition to the Cana¬ 
dian Parliament for the speedy enlargement of the 
Welland Canal. 
4|oiu Ecrjiplatmx. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —The Senate Committee on the Brook¬ 
lyn bribery case, reported that the charges grew 
out of idle rumor entirely, and they could find no 
other foundation for the charges made by Mr. Day- 
ton in the Assembly. The Committee was dis¬ 
charged from further consideration of the subject 
Hills Reported —By Mr. Noxon, favorably relative 
to the proof or acknowledgment of deeds by per¬ 
sons residing out of tlie State. 
Mr. Stow, by bill, calling a Convention to revise 
ap.d amend the Constitution of the State. It pro¬ 
vides for a vote on the question at the next gene¬ 
ral election. 
Assembly. —The Speaker, in pursuance of an 
order of the House, referred several portions of the 
Governor’s Message to appropriate Committees. 
The bills to repeal the railroad assessment law, 
and to authorize an accumulation fund, were re¬ 
ported favorably. 
Kansas, together with the introduction and dis¬ 
cussion of private bills, have occupied the Legisla¬ 
ture during the week. As the one hundred days 
of legislation expires with the 14th of next month, 
there will be much hurrying up of matters pretty 
soon, or the “assembled wisdom” will have the 
credit of doing literally nothing. 
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Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —The Senate confirmed Post-Masters Jas. 
W. Keyes, Springfield, and Revel W. English, of 
Alton, Ill., Francis W. Guernsey, New Albany, 
James Elder, Richmond, Rolla Doolittle, of Madi¬ 
son, John W. Steadman, of Norwich, CL, and Mr. 
Cook, of Chicago, Ill. 
A resolution was passed to pay the heirs of the 
late Senators Butler, Bell and Rusk, compensation 
for the special session to the day of their respective 
deaths. 
Mr. Quitman’s Volunteer Bill was taken up and 
passed. 
A discussion took place on the resolution offered 
by Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, for the printing of 
10,000 copies of last year’s Patent Report. 
The resolution was then amended, limiting the 
book to one volume of 800 pages, and thus amend¬ 
ed it was passed. The resolution provides for the 
printing of 10,000 copies of the Patent Office Re¬ 
port on Mechanics. 
The House Printing Deficiency Bill was passed, 
and the Senate adjourned. 
Owing, doubtless, to the very small amount of 
labor performed by Senators, several have been de¬ 
fining their positions during the past week, and 
this, with the “ Dred Scott decision” and Kansas, 
have absorbed about the entire time since our last 
report 
House.— The House passed the Consular and Di¬ 
plomatic BilL 
Mr. Clingmau, o<? North Carolina, from the Com¬ 
mittee on Foreign'Affairs, reported a bill making 
an appropriation of $7,600 to pay for the repairs ef 
the Norwegian bark ElleD, which rescued the pas¬ 
sengers of the Central America. Passed. 
The House also passed the Senate bill authoriz¬ 
ing certain officers who were engaged in the seve¬ 
ral United States expeditions in search of Sir John 
Franklin, to receive medals from the British Gov¬ 
ernment. 
The Pacific Hotel Catastrophe. —The inves¬ 
tigation into the causes of the burning of the Pacific 
Hotel at SL Louis, an account of which was given 
in the Rural two weeks since, is still going on in 
that city. A number of witnesses had been ex¬ 
amined, but as yet nothing has been proven to im¬ 
plicate any one of the persons charged with the 
crime. The mysterious circumstances connected 
with the death of Doane, are thus summed up: 
He evidently died from a wound in the head or 
neck. From the manner in which the blood stream¬ 
ed over his person, he must have been in a sitting 
position after it was inflicted. This wound was 
made before the fire came near him. He was fully 
dressed, while the other bodies found were par¬ 
tially clothed. He was the only corpse found in 
his bed; all the others were in the passages or near 
the doors in the act of escaping, but he evidently 
made no such attempt. His pocket-book and 
money were not found on his person, though every¬ 
thing else was undisturbed. 
Prohibition of Bonds and Mortgages as Bank 
Securities.— The Bank Committee of the Assembly 
has reported a bill which, if it passes, will work an 
important change in the General Banking Law. It 
prohibits the deposit of bonds and mortgages as 
security for bank note circulation, thus making 
stocks alone a legal basis. "Whenever losses have 
occurred in the redemption of the currency of our 
Banks, they have uniformly been attributable to 
the depreciation of the mortgages held as security 
for circulation. This class of security is the most 
glaring defect iu the banking system, and though 
the measure of the committee will meet with oppo¬ 
sition from those who contemplate the establish¬ 
ment of new Banks, the public good demands the 
passage of the bill. 
The Weight of Grain, &c. — A bill lias been 
introduced in the Assembly, read twice and sent to 
the Committee of the Whole, which provides that 
whenever wheat, rye, Indian corn, buckwheat, bar¬ 
ley, oats, beans, peas, clover seed, timothy seed, 
flax seed or potatoes shall be sold by the bushel, 
and no special agreement shall be made by the 
parties as to the mode of measuring, the bushel 
shall consist of sixty-two pounds of beans, sixty 
pounds of wheat, peas, clover seed or potatoes, 
fifty-six pounds of Indian corn, fifty-six pounds of 
rye, and fifty-five pounds of flax. 
Dependents on Public Charity in New York 
City. —The number of inmates remaining in the 
several institutions, under the charge of the Gover¬ 
nors of the Alms’ House, on the 27th ult, was 
stated to be 8,151—an increase of 98 since the 20th 
ult., and 1,456 over the number of inmates on the 
28th of February, 1857. There were twenty-seven 
patients in the Small Pox Hospital. 
Prince & Co.’s Melodeons. 
In making out our list of Grand Premiums for 
the current year, we sought for the very best arti¬ 
cles of the kinds offered, and only ordered from 
those establishments which had obtained, by the 
perfection of their workmanship, the highest repu¬ 
tation. In several instances our arrangements 
were deferred until we had not only given the 
articles, hut the establishments producing them, a 
personal inspection. 
This was the case in regard to the Melodeon 
which we ordered from Messrs. Geo. A. Prince 
& Co., of Buffalo, whose manufactory is one of the 
largest and most complete of its kind in the Union. 
Perhaps the success of this house is one of the best 
illustrations of honesty, industry and enterprise in 
business, that can be found in this country. It is 
but a few years since they commenced the business 
on a small scale, and with comparatively limited 
means. But they set out with the determination, 
to make and sell nothing but the besL Adhering 
rigorously to this rule, and being possessed of 
musical taste and talents of a high order, they 
very soon succeeded in placing the Melodeon in a 
higher position than it ever before occupied in this 
country, which rapidly brought the instrument 
into notice and public favor. The integrity and 
skill of the firm became known through the excel¬ 
lence of their instruments, and their business 
rapidly increased—compelling continued enlarge¬ 
ments of their establishment* until at last they 
erected their present magnificent manufactory, 
which is among the noted buildings of a city which 
comprises many fine public and private structures. 
With more ample means and more perfect ma¬ 
chinery, Messrs. Prince & Co., are now enabled to 
give their Melodeons a perfection of finish in all 
their detail, unsurpassed by any similar establish¬ 
ment in the United States. Those of onr readers 
who purchase one of Prince & Co.’s Melodeons, 
may rely upon having secured one of the best 
instruments that science and skill can produce. 
And we trust the competitor who shall become 
entitled, on the 1st of April, to the superior Piano 
Case Five Octave Melodeon, with two Banks of 
Keys, (the cash price of which is $200,) which we 
offer, will appreciate the magnificent prize. 
Provincial Items. 
The Canadians are talking about two grand ship 
canals, to facilitate the lake navigation — one to 
connect lakes Erie and Huron, running from Ron¬ 
deaux harbor to the river St Clair, 30 miles, and 
another from Georgian Bay to Toronto, 100 miles 
23 of which will be through lake Simcoe, to con¬ 
nect lake Ontario with lake Huron. 
The Steamer Trenton was burnt at Picton on the 
4th inst, through the negligence of carpenters 
working upon her. She was owned by Mr. Me 
Craig, insured for $18,000, valued at $28,000. 
Sir Alexander Bannerman, in his opening 
speech to the Newfoundland Legislature, says the 
revenue for 1857 exceeded that of 185G by £30,000. 
The Toronto Globe says “ the Government have 
at last defined their position on the representative 
question. Solicitor General Rose announced that 
equal rights, as between the two sections of the 
province, would not be conceded! Mr. Alleyn, 
Commissioner of Public Works, followed with a 
similar declaration. The Government* beaten in 
Upper Canada, must depend for support upon a 
majority from the other section of the Province.— 
To obtain that support, they must yield to the 
wishes of that majority. According to Mr. Rose, it 
would be subversive of constitutional arrange¬ 
ments, unjust to Lower Canada, against the wish of 
all parties there, and destructive of the Union, to 
give to the people of Upper Canada the same 
power, man for man, as the people of Lower 
Canada.” 
On the morning of the 8th inst, says the Brant¬ 
ford Expositor, a fire broke out in the upper story 
of Mr. W. Watt’s planing mills and sash factory, 
Waterloo street, in this city, which spread with the 
speed of lightning over the whole building. The 
alarm was at once given, hut so rapid was the pro 
gress of the flames that in less than five minutes 
the building was a mass of fire from one end to the 
other. Loss about $10,000; insured $3,000. 
The Witness says that the past year’s history of 
the Canada Sunday School Union has been marked 
by a considerable degree of activity and success.— 
Through its agency, 62 new schools have been 
established, 2,110 scholars gathered, and 310 indi¬ 
viduals induced to become teachers; 223 schools 
have been communicated with or visited, encour¬ 
aged, remodelled, or more or less improved in their 
organization. The Rev. Mr. Elliot has retired from 
the agency of the Society, to take charge at Van- 
kleek Hill. In the Eastern Townships, the Rev. J. 
W. Truesdell has labored with great success. One 
hundred schools have responded to the Annual 
Circular of the Union, and these report an increase 
of attendance of 427 scholars, and the conversion 
of 128 scholars and 6 teachers; 22 report contribu¬ 
tions for missionary or benevolent objects. Six 
schools support each one or more orphans in India. 
The Toronto correspondent of the N. Y. Com¬ 
mercial Advertiser, says:—In the new House there 
are nearly seventy new members, or one half. In 
point of talent the average is above that possessed 
by the old House. There are several effective 
speakers, (chiefly Irishmen,) which renders the 
galleries of the House a favorite resort in the even¬ 
ing. The Queen has given orders to raise a Cana¬ 
dian regiment of 1,000 men. The commission of 
Major will be given to whoever will raise 200 men; 
that of Captain for 80 men, and of Lieutenant for 
40. There is great activity here on the subject 
Re-opening of the African Slave Trade. —An 
editorial article in the New Orleans Delta of the 
20th ult, asserts that the South has already opened 
the African Slave trade, and that a regular depot 
has been established on Pearl river, in Miss., where 
cargoes have been received, the negroes sold and 
put to work. The Delta says the vessels engaged 
in the trade generally use the French flag, because 
the British cruisers on the African coast will not 
trouble it 
What Industry! —Congress has now been in 
session for three months, and during that time has 
passed only seven public acts and two joint resolu¬ 
tions. 
<Hu |lcws ©oiulfn-srf. 
— The New York University has just created 127 
M. D’s. 
— The N. Y. hanks now hold over $34,000,000 in 
specie. 
— Florence Nightingale is in Vienna exploring 
hospitals. 
— “ Kis3-me-quick” is the name of the last new 
perfume. 
— The snow was two feet deep at Constantinople, 
January 30th. 
— Eev. Dr. Taylor, of Yale College, died on 
Tuesday week. 
— The entire cost of the Virginia Washington 
Monument is $88,975. 
— Dr. Ely, the U. S. Consul at Bombay, died at 
that place, Jan. 17tb. 
— In Sonora, Mexico, strawberries ripen in the 
open air at Christmas. 
— The average weekly expense of a pauper in 
this State is 95j cents. 
— There are 21 companies of U. S. troops, in 
Texas, numbering 2,036 men. 
— The population of Milwaukee has more than 
doubled in the last seven years. 
— Thomas F. Meagher sailed for Central Ameri¬ 
ca—Costa Rica—Saturday week. 
— At the Crystal Palace, England, lately, there 
was a dance by a thousand couples. 
— No less than 859 dogs have been slaughtered 
in Buffalo during the past few weeks. 
— In the Poor Houses of New York, there are 
1,816 lunatics, 433 idiots and 39 mutes. 
— The amount of gold brought to England from 
Australia in 1857, was 2,582,793 ounces. 
— The hundred days of the N. Y. Legislative 
Session will expire on the 14th of April. 
— The Charleston Mercury is advocating a steam¬ 
ship line between that port and Marseilles. 
— Christopher Carson has been appointed by the 
President, agent for Indians in New Mexico. 
— Col. Benton is preparing a life of Andrew 
Jackson, to be published by the Appletons. 
— The children in the Poor Houses of N. Y., 
under 16, number 5,403—boys 2,979; girls 2,424. 
— Robins have already made their appearance 
in this city. The weather is decidedly spring-like. 
— The annual value of pauper labor in all the 
Poor Houses of New York, is estimated at $27,000. 
— Several valuable horses have been lost in 
Ohio, by eating unsound corn, within a few weeks. 
— The planters of Louisiana are selling molasses 
at $4 80 a barrel, which is but fifteen cents a gal¬ 
lon. 
—Mr. Toombs has offered a bill in the U. S. Sen¬ 
ate, for the establishment of an uniform Bankrupt 
Law. 
— The salary of Queen Victoria is £400,000. Out 
of this she has to pay the salaries of the State Of¬ 
ficers. 
— The Episcopal Church at Woodbridge, N. J., 
which was built 104 years ago, was burnt Sunday 
week. 
— In the city of Vicksburg, Miss., a sexton is 
annually chosen by the popular vote of the inhab¬ 
itants. 
— Saltpetre has recently been discovered on the 
headwaters of the Pajarro river, in Monterey, Cali¬ 
fornia. 
— Several clergymen in Ohio have recently re¬ 
signed their charges for the purpose of emigrating 
to Kansas. 
— On the 8tli ult, $189,014 60 of thenotesof the 
old State Bank of Indiana, at Indianapolis, were 
destroyed. 
— Tract Societies, independent of the American 
Tract Society, are being formed all over the North¬ 
ern States. 
— The principal, if not only newspaper publish¬ 
ed in the negro empire of Hajti, is a weekly, 16 
inches by 9. 
— The United States District Court have indict¬ 
ed Brigham Young, Heber Kimball and others for 
high treason. 
— Major General Mansfield, of the India Army, 
is a son of the late Gen. Samuel Smith Mansfield, 
of Baltimore. 
— Mrs. Mary H. Doane, the mother of the Bishop 
of N. J., died on the 7th inst., in Burlington. She 
was 84 years old. 
— A steamboat, to run on the Wisconsin between 
Kilbourn City and Point Bas, is being constructed 
at the latter place. 
— The town collector of Cherry Valley, Boone 
Co., Ill., after collecting taxes to the amount of 
$13,000, absconded. 
— Twenty dollar counterfeit notes on the Edgar 
County Bank, of Ill., have been put in circulation 
to a large amount 
— It is estimated that lottery tickets are secretly 
sold, illegally, in New York city to the amount of 
nearly $750,000 a year. 
— Flour has been selling at $18 per barrel in 
Antonio, Texas, in consequence of the difficulty of 
hauling from the coast 
— The Southern papers threaten Baltimore with 
a withdrawal of trade on account of Winter Davis’ 
vote against Le compton. 
— The editor of the Dover, Me., Observer, has in 
his possession a “ hull’s eye” watch, supposed to 
be at least 150 years old. 
— The citizens of the South Platte Valley desire 
to be annexed to Kansas, and Congress bas been 
memorialized to that effect. 
— Two out of eleven divorces lately granted at 
Rutland, Vt, were because of “intolerable severi¬ 
ty,” on the part of the wife. 
— Madame Goldschmidt is expected to arrive in 
England early in June, with the intention of taking 
a permanent residence there. 
— The annual consumption of tobacco, in the 
U. S., according to late statistics, is nearly three 
pounds to every inhabitant 
— The Cincinnati Daily Gazette states that a bill 
bas passed the Senate in that State, prohibiting the 
intermarriage of first cousins. 
— Alexander M. Robinson, of Mo., has been ap¬ 
pointed to the General Superintendency of Indian 
Affairs, vice Gov. Cumming. 
— The collector of the port of Galena states the 
exports ef that place during 1857 at $2,126,576, of 
which $801,234 was in lead. 
— An old “Elizabeth shilling,” hearing the date 
of 1501, was passed at a store in Hartford, Conn., a 
few days since, by an Irish girl. 
— The National Division of the Sons of Temper¬ 
ance meets in Indianapolis in June next It con¬ 
vened last year in Providence, R. I. 
— The “PoorHouse Establishments” of New York 
with which are connected 7,109 acres of land, are 
valued at about one million of dollars. 
— The entire buildings on the east side of the 
public square, in Cassville, Mo., were destroyed by 
fire on the 17th ult The loss is heavy. 
— Mr. John Forneyhough, of Fredericksburg, 
Va., has made successful experiments this winter 
iu feeding stock with Chinese sugar cane. 
— In the Louisiana Legislature a retaliatory bill 
was introduced, levying 50 per cent, tax on all 
merchandise imported from Massachusetts. 
— The Berlin (Wis.) Conrant says a load of hay 
judged to weigh a tun, was sold on Saturday week 
in this city for eighty cents. We call that cheap. 
