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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
APRIL 10 
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The Reason Whv—Pick A Fitzgerald. 
Bhorthomed Oitle, Sheep, Ac, at Aucfion-Jns. M. Miller. 
Mount Morris Agricultural Works—,). II Kodine A Oa 
To Strawberry Growers - John Hurdelt 
Kedr.ic’s v atcr Filter—James Terry A Co. 
Ilig' 1 od Nursery- Co«l-s A Warren. 
JbO.iKKl Asparagus Plai ts lor Sale—James O. Keel 
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Perkins’ Coro Husking Machine—J Perkins A Co. 
To Nureer} men—Cowles & Warren. 
SPECIAL NOTICE A 
A Book for the Season—Fo* l« r A Welle 
Ketchum's Combined Harvester.—K J. Howard. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 10, 1858. 
News of the Week. 
Letters received, on the 1st inst., at the War 
Department, from Lieut. Ives, commanding the 
Colorado River Expedition, dated Feb. 11th, says 
that the steamer Explorer had reached the Moyan 
villages, and that the navigation of the river con¬ 
tinued difficult. The Indians had stated that they 
had never known the water to be so low. All the 
exploring party were well, and no accident what¬ 
ever had occurred. 
The receipts at the Treasury last week were 
nearly $1,000,000. The amount subject to draft is 
$0,500,000. Drafts were issued amounting to 
$1,250,000. 
The government has made a contract with a citi¬ 
zen of Texas to supply $25,000 worth of camels for 
the use of the army. A commercial connection 
will be made at some point in Africa, affording the 
best facilities for purchasing animals suitable for 
our climate and for exportation. 
Lieut. Beale has submitted to the War Depart¬ 
ment, a report concerning the road surveyed and 
opened by him last summer, from Fort Defiance to 
Colorado river. He passed over the road in mid¬ 
winter, meeting with snow only once, and that not 
covering the ground. The climate was such that 
no occasion to use tents occurred. 
A rumor from Washington says the English fu¬ 
gitive Allsop is in that city to ascertain the views 
of the government in relation to his extradition in 
case it is demanded. 
A Washington despatch says the House Military 
Committee have agreed te the Senate’s amend¬ 
ments to the Volunteer bill, and it will according¬ 
ly pass. 
The N. Y. Times says Col. Burnham’s regiment of 
volunteers, recently organized in New York, has 
been accepted by the President, and the other regi¬ 
ment will be taken from Pennsylvania. 
A letter from Washington states that Mr. Rern- 
hisel, the delegate from Utah, has presented to the 
House Committee on Territories a Constitution, 
framed by the people of Utah, with a request that 
that Territory be admitted as a State under it— 
This Constitution was framed in 1856. 
We arc put in possession of “Foreign Intelli¬ 
gence,” four days later than that chronicled in 
regular department, by the arrival of the Indian at 
Portland, on the 5th inst We condense as follows: 
On the 22d, in the House of Lords, Lord Derby 
announced that the House would he adjourned 
from the 20th of March to the 12th of April, forthe 
Easter Holidays. 
He also said, in reply to Lord Brougham, that 
there was no foundation for the report that it was 
intended to import free negroes from Africa, and 
form them into black regiments. 
The Earl of Carnaren, in reply to Lord Brougham, 
said that the Vagrant act leccntly passed by the 
Assembly of Jamaica, had been received at the 
Colonial office, and was under consideration. He 
believed that there would be no objection to lay the 
hill on the table before it received the Royal assent. 
One of the allegations against this bill is, that it 
partially revives Slavery. 
The British frigate Agamcmmon had commenced 
taking in the telegraph cable—fifty miles were on 
board when the Indian sailed. 
The details of the India news, via. Bombay, the 
29th, added nothing of importance to the tele¬ 
graphic advices. It was rumored that Nena Sahib 
was wandering about the country with very few 
followers. The cannonade of Lucknow was ex¬ 
pected to open on the 22d February. A fresh at¬ 
tack on Gen. Outram at Alumbagh, but no details 
received. 
Advices from China, via, Bombay, described trade 
as almost paralyzed, and state that imports were 
accumulating to such an extent as to render it 
difficult to procure storage. The Times’ Canton 
correspondent reports the entire re-establishment 
of order there. The blockade of Canton was raised 
February 10th. It is said that the American and 
Russian Ambassadors joined England and France 
in demanding terms of China. Yeh was a prisoner 
on hoard the Inflexible, en route for Calcutta 
The Coming Summer. —An English paper says:— 
“ We hear that the Earl of Rosse, F. R. S., one of 
the first astronomers in Europe, has told a gentle¬ 
man that he anticipates one of the mest intensely 
hot summers this year that has ever been known, 
and advises farmers to build sheds for their cattle, 
by way of protection against the extreme heat” 
|lrtf riUovh jpgisstaturc. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —In the Senate a report was received 
from the Auditor of the Canal Department stating 
that the amount of drafts drawn on him by the 
Canal Commissioners from April 1, 1856 to Feb. 
28, 1858, in payment upon contracts for the con¬ 
struction or enlargement of any of the Canals was 
$6,191,270 01. The payments made by the Depart¬ 
ment on said drafts, during the same period, was, 
$5,725,610 23. The drafts have exceeded the pay¬ 
ments $465,059 81. 
Mr. Noxon called up the resolution providing 
for amendment of the Constitution, relative to the 
salaries of Judges of the Court of Appeals and 
Justices of the Supreme Court, and it was lost—15 
to 8. Sir. Mandeville moved a reconsideration,and 
the motion was laid on the table. 
Dills Passed —To amend the law relative to Har¬ 
bor Masters in the City of New York; To incorpo¬ 
rate the Ravenswood Asylum; To incorporate the 
Kellerman Hygienic and Healing Institute in the 
City of New York. 
The Senate then went into Executive session. 
At the close of the Executive Session the annual 
appropriation bill, and the bill making appropria¬ 
tions for the maintenance of the canals for the fis¬ 
cal year, were handed in. 
Assembly — Bills Passed. —To incorporate the 
American College of Medical Science; To amend 
the charter of the International Bridge; To incor¬ 
porate the New York Athenaeum; To make the 
Mechanics’ Lien law general, except in the coun¬ 
ties of New York and Erie; To incorporate the 
New York Youatt Lyceum. 
©ougtwitntal. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —Since the passage of the Kansas bill, 
little has been done by the Senate. After the bill 
was received from the House as amended, it was 
read and a motion made to disagree, which was 
carried by a vote of 32 to 23. 
House. —On the 1st inst., the Kansas question 
came up in the House, and the bill, as it came from 
the Senate, was amended by Mr. Montgomery and 
passed—yeas 120, nays 112. [The bill as passed by 
the Senate and amended by the House, will be 
found in another column.] 
On motion of Mr. Maynard, of Tenn., a resolution 
was adopted instructing the Committee on the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia to inquire into the efficiency of 
the police force of Washington, and whether mea¬ 
sures are necessary by Congress to better insure 
the protection of life and property. 
The Senate resolution granting permission to 
Lieut Jeffers to receive a sword of honor from the 
Queen of Spain, was passed. 
The bill to supply the deficiencies for the fiscal 
year, ending a year from June next, is under con¬ 
sideration in the House. It appropriates nearly 
$9,600,000, of which $8,000,000 are for the army, 
and $1,469,000 for the supply of deficiency in the 
revenue of the Post Office Deparment 
The House Committee on Public Lands will re¬ 
port but few bills giving lands for Railroads, and 
none to the States which have already received 
grants for such purposes. 
Weather of the Last Half of March. 
Another splendid month of weather has closed. 
The first half was cold, seven degrees below the 
average; the last half has been six degrees above 
the average. For twenty-one years the average of 
the last is 34.2°, and for this year 40.3°; and for the 
whole month the mean is 37.9°; and for twenty-one 
years is 32.3°; so that of the month the temperature 
is nearly the average of so many years. 
The month of March has given us a great many 
fair days and splendid nights. The rain and snow 
amounted only to 1.466 inch of water. The great 
proportion of the wind has been from W. and N. W. 
The gale of the 17th morning, and next morning, 
and A. M, was high, and did considerable damage; 
it was severe at Cincinnati on the P. M. of the 17th, 
beginning about six or seven hours earlier than 
here, proving the velocity of the gale at least sixty 
miles an hour. Another gale on the Sabbath, 21st, 
was severe, but of shorter duration. 
On the 18tb, Tndian corn in Texas was 6 inches 
high, and the 20th strawberries were in market in 
Savannah, Ga., and spring crops planting in lower 
Virginia. On the 29th the flowers were open on 
one soft maple, and the stamens fully visible. The 
first boat from New York to Albany was on the 
20th, the New World, and on the 27th a schooner 
from Canada entered the port of Genesee. 
On the 9th was a snow storm over New England, 
which continued the sleighing at Boston for a 
week, which had already lasted four weeks. A 
great snow storm on the 11th over much of Eng¬ 
land, the Railroads being blocked up in some parts. 
In one State the Railroads have scarcely been in¬ 
terrupted through the winter by snow. Robins and 
blackbirds on the 15tli, and pigeons in vast abun¬ 
dance the last half. Snow at Charleston, S. C., on 
the 9th, and in other places so far South. 
The warmest day was the I7th, being at 67° at 
noon; and the following storm was indicated by 
the heat and by the fall of the barometer. And on 
the 21st the temperature fell all day, being 54° in 
the morning, and the barometer fell rapidly also. 
This instrument fairly indicates approaching 
changes of weather, and is worthy of a position in 
many more houses over the country. 
April 1,1S58. C. o. 
Mr. Rarey, the celebrated horse-tamer, is in 
Paris, taming horses under the patronage of the 
Emperor,—and giving promise, by his progress, of 
making vicious horses an obsolete affair. Can Mr. 
Rarey tame or subdue some of the Emperor's 
vicious bipeds also? 
Kedzie's Water Filters. —It will be seen byre- 
fevence to an advertisement in this paper, that 
Kedzie's Filter, a very superior article, is hereafter 
to he manufactured by J. Terry & Co., of this city. 
Bill for the Admission of Kansas. 
The following is the “Lecompton Bill” as it 
passed the Senate: 
A Bill for the Admission of the State of Kansas into the 
Union, presented in the Senate by Mr. Green, of Mis¬ 
souri, from the Committee on Territories, February 17, 
1858. 
Whereas, The People of the Territory of Kansas did. by 
a Convention of Delegates called and assembled at Le- 
compton, September 4, 1858, torm fo? themselves a Con¬ 
stitution and Stale Government, wbich said Convention 
having asked the admission of the Territory into the 
Union as a State on an equal footing with the original 
States, 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assem¬ 
bled, That the State of Kansas shall be, aud is heieby 
declared to be, one of the United Slates of America, 
and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the 
original States, in all respects whatever; and the said 
State shall consist of all the Territory included within the 
following boundaries, to wit:—Beginningat a point on the 
western boundary of the Slate of Missouri where the 
thirty-seventh parallel of latitude crosses the same; 
thence west od said parallel to the eastern boundary of 
New Mexico; thence north on said boundary to latiiude 
thirty-eight; thence following said boundary westward to 
the eastern boundary of the Territory of Utah, on the 
summit of the Kockv Mountains; tlienco northward on 
said summit to the fortieth parallel of latitude: thence 
east on said parallel to the w estern boundary of the State 
of Missouri; thence south with the western boundary of 
said State to the place of beginning. 
Provided, That nothing herein contained respecting 
the bousdary of said State shall be construed to impair 
the right of persons or property now pertaining to the 
IndiaDs in said Territory so long as such right shall re¬ 
main unextinguished by treaty between the United States 
and such Indians or to include any Territory which, by- 
treaty with such Indian tribes, is not, without the consent 
of said tribe, to be included witbin the Territorial limits 
or jurisdiction of any State or Territory, but all such Tet- 
ritory shall be excepted out of the boundaries, aDd con¬ 
stitute no part in the State of Kansas, until said tribe 
shall sigDify their assent to the President of the United 
States to be included within said State, or to affect the 
authority of the government of the United States to 
make any regulations respecting such Indians, their 
lands, property or otherwise, which would not have been 
competent to make if this act had not been passed. 
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the State of 
Kansas is admitted into the Union upon the express con- 
dilion that said State shall never interfere with the pri¬ 
mary disposal of the public lands, or with any regulations 
which Congress may find necessary for securing the title 
in said lauds to the bona fide purchasers and grantees 
thereof, or impose or levy any tax, assessment or imposi¬ 
tion of any description whatsoever upon them, or other 
property of the Uhited States within the limits of said 
State: aDd That nothing in this Act shall be construed to 
abridge or infringe any right of the people asserted in 
the constitution of Kansas, at all times to alter, reform 
or abolish their form of government in such manner as 
they may think proper. Congress hereby di-claimisg any 
authority to intervene or declare the construction of the 
Constitution of any State, except to see that it is republi¬ 
can in form and not in conflict with the Constitution of 
the United States: and nothing in this act shall be con¬ 
strued as an assent by Congress to all or any of the pro¬ 
positions or claims contained in the ordinance annexed to 
the Constitution of the people of Kansas, nor to deprive 
the said State of Kansas of the same grants which were 
coniained in said act of Congress, entitled “ An Act to 
authorize the people of the Territory of Minnesota to 
form a Constitution and State Government, preparatory 
to admission into the Union on an equal footing with the 
original States,” approved February 26, 1853. 
Sec. 3. And be it farther enacted, That until the next 
general census shall be taken, and an apportionment of 
representation made, the State of Kansas shall be entitled 
to one Representative in the House of Representatives of 
the United States. 
The first section of the “Crittenden amend¬ 
ment,” that which embodies the questions in re¬ 
lation to the admission of Kansas about which 
there has been so long a contest, reads as follows: 
Section 1. That the State of Kansas be and is hereby 
admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the 
original States in all respects whatever; but inasmuch ss 
it is greatly disputed whether the Constitution with which 
Kansas is now admitted was fairly made, or expresses the 
will of the people of Kansas, this admission of her into 
the Union as a State is here declared to be upon this fun¬ 
damental condition precedent, namely:—That the said 
constitutional instrument shall be first submitted to a vote 
of the people of Kansas, and assented to by them, or a 
majority of the voters at an election to be held for the 
purpose; and as soon as such assent shall be given, and 
duly made known to the President of the United States, 
he shall announce the same by proclamation and there¬ 
after, aDd without any further proceedings on the part of 
Congress the admission of said State of Kansas into the 
Union on an equal footing with the original States in all 
respects whatever, shall be complete and absolute. At 
the said election the voting shall be by ballot, and by en¬ 
dorsing on his ballot, as each voter may please, “for the 
Constitution," or “ against the Constitution.” Should the 
said Constitution be rejected at the said election by a ma¬ 
jority of votes being cast against it, then, and in that 
event, the inhabitants of said Territory are hereby author¬ 
ized and empowered to form for themselves a Constitution 
and State Government by the name of the State of Kan¬ 
sas, preparatory to its admission into the Union, according 
to the Federal Constitution, and to that end may elect 
delegates to a Convention as hereinafter provided. 
When the bill was pending in the Senate, this 
amendment was voted down. The amendments to 
this amendment, made by Mr. Montgomery, and 
in which form it was passed by the House, provide 
for the following changes: 
The first section provided that “but inasmuch as it is 
greatly disputed whether the Constitution, with which 
Kansas is admitted, was fairly made, &c.” Instead of this, 
Mr. M. substitutes these words:—“ but inasmuch as it is 
greatly disputed whether the Constitution formed at Le- 
compton, and vow pending before Congress, was fairly 
mane, or expresses the will of the people, &c.” The 
second amendment provides that after the Constitution is 
framed by the Convention, (the Lecompton Constitution 
having been rejected) it shall be submittted to the people 
for adaption or rejection; and that so soon as the result 
of said election is made known to the President of the 
United States, lie shall issue a proclamation declaring 
Kansas one of the States of the Union, without any 
further legislation on the part of Congress. The third 
amendment strikes out the clause which provides that 
“ no person except citizens of the United States” should 
be permitted to vote at any election—and substitutes “all 
white male inhabitants of the said Territory over twenty- 
one years of age, who are legal volers under the laws of 
Kansas, and none others shall he permitted to vote, &c.” 
New Counterfeits. —Bank of Napierville, II!., 
5's, altered, vig. three females sitting — head of 
Washington on the lower right corner—goddess of 
liberty on left end. 
State Bank of Illinois, Shawneetown, 5’s, vig. 
figure 5 with naked boy and cornucopia on side— 
female, hammer, anvil, boat, etc., on left upper 
corner—portrait of female on right end. 
Bank of Lyndon, Vermont, 10's altered, vig. eagle 
—some have Indians—genuine 10’s have male 
head for vignette. 
Traders’ Bank, Boston, 20’s, centre vig. chariot 
and three horses. Centre of bill and bottom full 
of “ twenty’s” in small letters—well done. 
Washington Bank, Boston, 5’s, vig. steamships 
along bottom of note—Washington on lower right 
end—ships on lower left 
Market Bank, Troy, N. Y., 20's spurious — well 
done. Better refuse all. 
Surrender op Billy Bowlegs. —Billy Bowlegs 
has surrendered his sword and is at Tampa with 
his whole party, waiting the consummation of ar¬ 
rangements now being made, to be transferred to 
the West The old gentleman was in a shockingly 
ragged and dirty condition when he presented him¬ 
self at Tampa, 
The weather in Cuba has been — for that country 
—intensely cold, and in several districts frost has 
been formed, destroying the sugar cane extensively. 
This is quite a novelty in the tropics, hut in south¬ 
ern Europe they have recently been visited by 
something of the same kind. 
faragriiiiltis. 
A firm in New York turns out four thousand 
ladies’ skirts daily, and employs five hundred hands, 
and one hundred and eighty sewing machines.— 
Tney use up a ton of steel a week. 
A letter from St Petersburgh, states that a 
company is about being formed there, for develop¬ 
ing the commercial and industrial resources of the 
Amoor country. It will have a capital of one 
million dollars, and will open steam communica¬ 
tion between the Amoor river and the Pacific. 
The regular London correspondent of the N. Y. 
Commercial Advertiser, writing under the date of 
March 12tb, says:—“France and England will, in 
my judgment, be at war before the lapse of six 
month.” 
It is proposed that the fifty-three or four New 
York city Banks, with their sixty-five millions ol 
Bank capital, should cease to be little hanking in¬ 
stitutions cutting each other's throats, and quar¬ 
relling on every point of financial policy, but should 
unite together in one great banking institution, 
like the Bank of England or the Bank of France. 
A letter from Havana, dated March 24th, states 
that the British war steamer had brought into that 
port the scoooner Panchita, seized as a slaver. 
The steamer sailed again immediately in pursuit 
of another slaver. 
The American Wrecking Company have been 
compelled to abandon the enterprise of raising the 
Russian men-of-war sunken in the harbor of Sebas- 
topoL They find that the Teredo, a worm which 
destroys the keels of ships in the Black Sea, has so 
perforated and eaten up the heart of the timbers as 
to leave but a shell remaining. It is impossible to 
pump out the water from the holds of the ships, 
because the sea rushes in through the galleries 
made by this worm, and the attempt to blow up and 
remove the obstructions proves equally fruitless. 
There is not resistance enough made by the sides 
of the vessels to render this process effective.— 
Eighty-one vessels were found sunk in the harbor. 
Tns City Councils of Washington passed a joint 
resolution, on the 29th ult, declaring that the gov¬ 
ernment of the city is unable to preserve order 
under existing circumstances, and appointing a 
committee to appeal to Congress for the establish¬ 
ment of a permanent police, to be under the direc¬ 
tion of the Secretary of the Interior. Also, a reso¬ 
lution for a temporary police of 100 men, 21 of 
whom are to he mounted, armed and equipped. 
Tiie Goliad (Texas) Express, of the 13t.h ult, 
furnishes the following intelligence:—“The grass¬ 
hoppers are hatching out inmillionsfrom the eggs 
deposited by the swarm which fell upon us last 
November. Up the river, and as far west as the 
Neuces, we learn they cover the prairies. So far 
they have confined their attacks entirely to herbs 
on the prairie, not troubling the grass or the crops.” 
Navigation Items. 
The Oswego Times says that the schooner Lu¬ 
cinda arrived from Toronto with flour, Ac. The 
same paper learns that the ice in Burlington Bay 
is very much broken up, and there will soon be no 
barrier to prevent the resumption of navigation. 
The Milwaukee Sentinel, of the 27th ult, says:— 
The steamboats have commenced running, and 
several large vessels are now loading preparatory 
to starting for Buffalo, in the course of a few days. 
The schooner Norway is loaded with wheat and 
flour for Buffalo, and will leave here in the course 
of a few days. She takes 800 barrels flour at 50 
cents, and 5,000 bushels of wheat at 10 cents. 
The Detroit Free Press publishes a list of seven¬ 
teen vessels at that port, all loaded with grain 
which were to clear on the 1st of April, the date 
fixed by insurance companies for sailing risks to 
commence. 
Navigation is open between Dunkirk and the 
Western ports. The Propeller Governor Cushman, 
arrived from Cleveland on the 31st ult, and the 
Propeller 01ean«f the same line, left for Toledo. 
A telegram from Buffalo on the 1st inst, says: 
—The New York Central Railroad propellers left 
here this morning for up the lake. They have 
succeeded in forcing their way through the ice, 
and are now out of sight Lake navigation is 
fairly opened at this port 
Arrivals of Gold. —In reference to the receipts 
of gold by the Moses Taylor, the N. Y. Times says: 
—“ This is the fourth arrival within the new year, 
which has brought an increase of about thirty per 
cent, on the united receipts of 1857, at New York, 
the figures standing as follows: 
Packets. 
1858. 
1857. 
Of December 20,..- 
.. $1,607,440 
$1,269,177 
Of January 5, ... .. 
.. 1,585,779 
1,168,510 
Of January 20, ... - 
.. 1,348,507 
1,097,807 
Of Februaty 5,.. 
.. 1,640,429 
1,269.136 
Total four steamers,.... 
.. $6,162,155 
$4,804,630 
Increase in 1858,... 
.. $1,357,520 
The direct shipments from San Francisco to 
England have kept steadily up, and although the 
present mail advises that the receipts of dust from 
the mines were at the moment light, the practi¬ 
cal fact appears to he that the production of gold 
in California, as in Australia, is gradually on the 
increase.” 
Our State Militia. —According to the Annual 
Report of the Adjutant General, the military force 
of the State of New York comprises in the aggre¬ 
gate, 16,434 officers and men, divided and sub¬ 
divided into eight Divisions, twenty-eight Brigades 
and ninety-seven Regiments. Of ordnance, arms 
and equipment, there are: Cannons, 4 nine-pound¬ 
ers, 98 six-pounders, and 21 howitzers; muskets, 
12,031; rifles, 2,130; pistols, 3,163; swords and sa¬ 
bres, 4,228. The artillery is in good condition, but 
the muskets are worthless. During the last year 
there have been expended, under the direction of 
the Commander-in-Chief, $2,592 for drums, bugles 
and colors; $3,600 for tents. Drums of maple 
shells are preferred to shells of brass. Twenty 
companies have been organized during the year, 
viz: fourteen Infantry, two Rifle and four Artiileiy. 
The whole number of enrolled Militia in the State, 
according to the returns to the President of the 
United States, is 350,000. 
<Thr pelvis ©onfifttisri'. 
— Eight members of the U. 8. Senate are on the 
sick list. 
— Shad-fishing has been commenced on the Con¬ 
necticut river. 
— The Morris (N. J.) Canal was open for naviga¬ 
tion on the 30th nit. 
— Among the recent conversions reported is that 
of Julia Dean Hayne. 
— There are one hundred and fifty saw mills in 
Ashtabula Co., Ohio. 
— It is stated that Louis Napoleon has exiled 
thirty-two thousand men. 
— The Senate of Iowa has passed the State Bank 
bill by a vote of 28 yeas to 4 nays. 
— Mr. Thackeray is said to have joined the edi¬ 
torial staff of the London Times. 
— The Western emigration is becoming very 
large, especially by way of St Louis. 
—The slave schooner Panchita had been captured 
at Havana by a British war steamer. 
— T. B. CummiDg, Secretary and Acting Gover¬ 
nor of Nebraska, died on the 23d ult. 
— New York papers say that commercial pros¬ 
perity is reviving i&pidly in that city. 
— The India papers state that the country all 
over was being tranquilized by degrees. 
— It is said that the Dutch Government is build¬ 
ing live steamers for the Emperor of Japan. 
— The City Council, of St. Louis, have adopted a 
plan for a City Hall, which will cost $630,000. 
— The Senate of Virginia has passed the bill fix¬ 
ing Aug. 1st for the resumption of specie payment. 
— The Bank of Central New York, Utica, has been 
released from the Receiver, and will toon resume. 
— Rev. Laban Ainsworth died in Jaffrey, N. H., 
March 17tb, aged 100 years, 7 months and 28 days. 
— John P. Putnam, Esq., of Boston, has been ap¬ 
pointed to succeed Judge Coring, recently removed. 
— The State Engineer reports that it will cost 
five millions more to complete the New York State 
canals. 
— The government’s motion for an injunction 1o 
prevent the sale of the Collins steamers has been 
denied. 
— The number of real estate owners in the United 
States, cannot fall short of one million five hundred 
thousand. 
— Geo. Sanders is creating a sensation in Wash¬ 
ington by driving an odd-looking mule team thro’ 
the streets. 
— The Ohio Legislature has been in session ten 
weeks and has passed nineteen laws nearly all of 
local character. 
— It is said there are a hundred attornies in Cin¬ 
cinnati who have never had a case even before a 
city magistrate. 
— An effort is making in Wall street to induce 
Gov. King to grant a pardon to Chas. B. Hunting- 
ton, the forger. 
— Walker, the defunct fillibuster, is at present in 
Mobile, where his presence seems to excite no cu¬ 
riosity, whatever. 
— The people of Philadelphia are again urging 
the removal of the State Capital from Harrisburg 
to Philadelphia. 
— The shipyards of Kensington and Southwark, 
Philadelphia, are deserted; not a single new vessel 
is on the stocks. 
— A decree for the liberation of the 30,000 slaves 
in the Dutch colony of Surinam, had arrived there 
and been published. 
— Attorney General Macdonald, of Canada, has 
introduced a bill providing for the abolition of im¬ 
prisonment for debt. 
— Only about one-half as many emigrants had ar¬ 
rived at New York to March 24th, as came last 
year to same time. 
— The present number of stores in New Hamp¬ 
shire is 2,700, or one to every 20 families of half a 
dozen persons each. 
— Jury packing has become so notorious in Phil¬ 
adelphia that the judges have been compelled to 
take action against it. 
— Virginia will not tax oysters. Her House of 
Delegates has laid on the table a bill for imposing 
tax, by a decided vote. 
— The Agricultural Works, on Scott st, Buffalo, 
were burnt on the 31st ult. Loss $5,000, which is 
covered by insurance. 
— Boston is to have a police telegraph, connect¬ 
ing the various police stations with the chief’s of¬ 
fice at a cost of $2,500. 
— The revival spirit has entered the Queen’s 
dominions, and prayer meetings are being held in 
various parts of Canada. 
— A worthy citizen of Winchester, Mass., was 
last week conveyed to the Insane Asylum in Som¬ 
erville religiously crazy. « 
— It is said that $60,000 have been secured to¬ 
wards $100,000 proposed to be raised for a Baptist 
College, at Russellville, Ky. 
— The first woolen mill on the Pacific coast has 
been set in operation at Salem, Oregon, with four 
hundred aud eighty spindles. 
— The Troy Daily Whig announces the death in 
that city on Friday last, of the only son of Hon. 
John Wentworth of Chicago. 
— It is said that the Turkish Ambassador, who 
has been made such a lion of at Washington, is a 
harem scarem looking fellow. 
— A detachment of sappers and miners left West 
Point last week for Utah, under command of Capt. 
Duane and Lieut. Alexander. 
— The new liquor law of Maine is to be submit¬ 
ted to the people with the alternative of retaining 
the existing law, passed in 1856. 
— The late Charles McMickiD, of Cincinnati, has 
bequeathed to that city property valued at $800,- 
000, to found a Free University. 
— The Geneva Courier says that about, oue hun¬ 
dred and fifty persons have been converted in that 
village during the past few weeks. 
— The next exhibition of the Provincial Agricul¬ 
tural Association for Upper Canada, will be held 
at Toronto, on the 28th September. 
— The income of the English Wesleyan Mission¬ 
ary Society for the year, has exceeded £120,000, be¬ 
ing about six hundred thousand dollars. 
— The amount realized to the city of Baltimore 
for the McDonough estate, is set down as $000,600 
to be applied to educational purposes. 
— John Kahler died in Philadelphia last week of 
hydrophobia, resulting from the almost forgotten 
bite of a pet dog nine weeks previous. 
— It is a startling fact that in all the prisons of 
this State, including Jails and Penitentiaries, there 
are about 5,000 persons in confinement. 
— Prof. E. A. Andrews, L. L. D., author of a La¬ 
tin Lexicon and Grammar, died at his residence in 
New Britain, Conn., last week—aged 71. 
— The Legislature of Louisiana has passed a law 
abolishing capital punishment, and the substitution 
of hard labor for life in the place thereof. 
— There are at present in the city of Washington 
five ex-Speakers of the House of Representatives 
coming from as many States of the Union. 
— A majority of the members of the National 
Guards of the village of Corning, have offered them¬ 
selves as volunteers for the Utah expedition. 
— The New York Mirror says a large number of 
elegaDt houses in upper tendon), are ottered for sale 
or to let, in consequence of the late revulsions. 
