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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
DEC. 4 
Contents of the Rural for December 4,1858. 
AGRICULTURAL Page. 
Diseases of Cattle—Murra*n. 389 
The Oat Crop of France and England,.....389 
Farm Implement* and Machinery. 389 
The Hydraulic Ram, [Illustrated,].—.389 
Cutting Feed. 389 
Potato Digger*.389 
An Ootagon Prairie Cottage, | Illustrated,].389 
Wyoming and Allegany Counties; Matters Therein,.389 
About Corn and Corn Planter*,.-.390 
Barn Cellar*—Manuring Grass Lands, Ac-,. 390 
Bees and Bee-Hives,. 399 
Oxen vs. Ho-aeg,. 380 
A Root Cellar,.390 
Cheap Ice-Howto,. 390 
About Fish Ponds,.390 
A Good Pig.390 
A Great Gait. 390 
Cause of the Potato Rot,.390 
Rural Miscellany .—Sorghum Fever in IPinois; Turnips for 
Swine; Waim Bams; Hungarian Grass; The Best Way to Fat¬ 
ten Hogs; Agricultural Conference at Wasb ngton; Ag. Statis¬ 
tics of Ohio; Grain Trade of Chicago; Sheep for California,.... 390 
HORTICULTURAL 
Plants for the Parlor,.391 
The Jaminette Pear, [Illustrated,].391 
Isabella Grapes.. 391 
Growing Onions. 391 
The Grape Crop,. 391 
Apples,. 331 
Poison Ivy. 391 
Trees—Their Beauty and Utility—No.I,. 391 
Fruit for Health,.391 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
The Bread Question; To Preserve Quinces Tender; Apples 
wi<b Quinces; To Cure Hams; Cracker Pie,.391 
LADIES’ PORT - KOI JO. 
A Rhyming "Rural" Epistle, [Poetical] Aunt M llv; Weary; 
Female Education; Be Happy; A Woman’s Growth in 
Beauty; Thankfulness,. 392 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Hope for the Fn'ure, |Poe!icall Casual Though’* and Fan¬ 
cies—No II; Industry and Perseverance; "Agitate,’ Envy, 
Fpcak Gently to the Erring; h at oral Beauty; Seli-Kclisnce,. 392 
SABBATH M USINGS. 
No God, [Poetica’ ] The Unknown Future; An Active Christian 
Life; A Sure Record; Christiau Charity,.. 392 
THE TRAVELER. 
Sketches from the Alps to the Adriatic,.393 
USEFUL OLIO. 
AmetScan Children; What is Said Them—A Remedy proposed, 393 
THE YOUNG KURA LIST. 
Indian Canoes—Tbdr Manufacture, [3 Illustrations] Latin for 
E’armers’ Boys; Idleness,.393 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
We, Too, Have our AntumuR. [Poetical.] Maggie Crain, ihe 
Fisherman's Daughter; The Present,. 396 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
Prediika Bremer's New Story—Horace Greeley A Co. 
’I he nest Work on the Subject Extant—A O. Moore. 
A Cheap Vermont Kami- Henry Dearborn. 
The Advocate—John E. Robie. 
Seventy Five Thousand Apple Grafts—S. Weaver. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y, DECEMBER 4, 1858. 
Personal —To Correspondents, <^*c.—Tn conse¬ 
quence of r; cent severe illness, Mr. Moose Las 
been, and (though convalescing) still is, unable to 
give personal attention to the epistolary favors of 
contributors and business friends. This will exl 
plain to those asking and entitled to prompt replies, 
the cause of delay,— bat he will endeavor to attend 
to the most important of those requiring personal 
responses, at the earliest practicable moment— 
Many letters from agent-friends, inquiring as to 
new club rates, Ac., are sufficiently answered in 
our supplement (which we mail in reply,) or this 
number of the Rural 
him his budget of information about Mexico. It 
is doubtful if the administration can accept his 
proposition for a loan, taking lands in Sonora or 
Lower California as security, for ten million dol¬ 
lars. It seems he has full powers from President 
Juraez, and a loan at this time of a few millions 
would be most opportune. Perhaps, however, the 
administration will take such a chance of getting 
Lower California or Sonora The British and 
French Ministers seem to manifest great interest 
just now in regard to the Mexican imbroglio.— 
They are seeking every avenue to enlighten them¬ 
selves upon the subject. 
A recent letter in the New York Times from 
Tabac, Sonora, says:—“The Sonora Exploring and 
Mining Company, of which Maj. Heinzelman is 
President, have been on the ground two years, and 
it is not over two months since they began to turn 
out silver. They now, from one small furnace, 
turn out $100 a day. Their ore is, most of it, best 
suited for amalgamation, and they are now putting 
up extensive works which have been brought at 
an enormous expense from San Francisco. They 
have 200 tuns of ore now ready for the works. 
The least yield from any they have melted has been 
$8G0to the tun. It has been their fortune to make 
the first shipment of silver from this section of 
the Territory since it was in the possession of the 
Spaniards. The company in some cases are work¬ 
ing old veins, but the richest is a new one dis¬ 
covered and opened by them.” 
Washington Matters. 
An opinion in the matter of the land grant3 to 
Iowa, for the improvements of the Des Moines 
river, has been given by Attorney General Black. 
Iowa claims a million of acres. The Attorney 
General construes the act to grant only about 
quarter of a million. 
It is said the President’s Message and the Re¬ 
ports of the Heads of Departments, with the ex¬ 
ception of that of the Secretary of the Treasury, 
are nearly completed. 
The Postmaster General has issued an order for 
a weekly mail from New Orleans to connect with 
the regular coaches of the San Diego and San 
Antonio line to El Paso, where it will he trans¬ 
ferred to the Memphis Overland Mail to San 
Francisco. 
Secretary Cass has written a reply to the letter 
from the Jewish Rabbi in Philadelphia, touching 
the abdnetion of the Jewish hoy by the Papal au¬ 
thorities of Bologne, and asking some expression 
of condemnation on the part of our government 
The Secretary declines to interfere in the matter. 
The Cabinet was in session on the 2Gth and 27th 
ult., engaged on Mexican affairs. The Spanish 
Minister denies that the government intends a war 
with Mexico, and Lord Napier and Count Sartiget 
express emphatically their disbelief that anythin, 
serious will result from the movement in the Gull 
The Secretary of the Navy has taken the precau 
tion to send orders to have all the available vessel 
at the various navy yards fitted out with the utmost 
dispat *h. 
Information has reached Washington in such a 
formas to place the fact beyond question, thav 
number of Mexicans residing in Sonora have e: 
tered into a league to revolutionize that State with 
a view to its annexation to the U. S. 
It is said that the Postmaster General will r 
commend in his report an entire change in on 
postal system, and will urge upon Congress tb 
establishment of a number of new and important 
lines to connect with various parts of South 
America 
Latest News, Foreign and Domestic. 
The telegraph this morning (Tuesday) gives 
notice of the arrival of three European steamers 
at New York. We condense from the report such 
matters as are of general interest. 
Heavy easterly gales had prevailed along the 
English coast, and numerous marine disasters with 
loss of life, are reported. The Indian Empire—one 
of the New York and Galway line steamers—has 
not yet been heard from, and the most intense 
anxiety is observable in reference to her fate. 
Letters from Rome assert that the great Catholic 
powers had addressed remonstrances to the Pope, 
for the release of the Jewish boy Mortira. The 
Pope replied that the boy’s return to his parents 
was impossible. 
The Bombay mail of Oct. 25th, reached Suez on 
the 18th inst Several actions had occurred near 
Lucknow, and a large number of the rebels were 
destroyed. 
A project started by the British government in 
the Ionian Islands, of ceding five of them to Greece, 
had been received with marked disfavor by the 
French Ministerial journals. 
The steamer Illinois, from Aspinwall on the 20th 
nit, arrived at New York on the 28tb, bringing 
California mails of the 5th, and $1,816,300 in 
treasure. The California news has been antici¬ 
pated by the Overland mail. 
Yalparaiso dates are to Oct. 15th, and Callao to 
the 26 th. A revolution was talked of at Yalparaiso. 
Several arrests of Sergents of Regiments of the 
line had been made, but nothing important trans¬ 
pired. A fire had destroyed $50,000 worth of 
proberty at San JuaD, 
The news from Mexico exhibits no more favor¬ 
able symptoms. Internal strife, and a foreign fleet 
now under motion for her shores, are working out 
a sad problem for the Republic of the Montezuma’s. 
The Yera Cruz Progress of the 11th ult., contains 
an account of an engagement between the forces 
nnder Gen. Lallane, at TengonapaD, and Echeo- 
garry’s troops, who were endeavoring to enforce 
an advance to Yera Cruz via San Salvador. The 
Suloagists were met first by Camache, and next by 
Lallane, who very rapidly defeated them. Yidanrri 
was energetically preparing for a new movement 
against Miramon, and was fall of confidence. He 
states, in his address, that his loss was not so great 
as has been supposed, and especially the loss of life 
was smalL 
We have nothing of much importance from 
Washington this A. M. It is said that Senor Man- 
guan, the accredited agent of President Juraez, 
will call upon the President soon, and lay before 
New Mail Route to the Pacific. — Another 
mail route is about to be opened with the Pacific. 
It is understood that the Post-Master-General has 
given out contracts for a weekly mail from New 
Orleans to San Diego, through Texas, Arizona, and 
Southern California. The annual expenditure may 
be stated at $300,000, since $150,000 is paid for 
that portion of the service between El Paso and 
San Diego, which has been rendered under the 
Birch contract for a year and a half past Mr. 
Birch, the original contractor, perished in the Cen¬ 
tral America. The $200,000 a year to the Tehuan¬ 
tepec Company for carrying the mails from New 
Orleans to Yentosa Bay, will in the mean time 
continue. 
A Volcano in Canada. —The Pembroke Obser¬ 
ver has the following:—The Rev. Mr. Roy, Wesley¬ 
an Minister at Wakefield, in a letter to a brother 
clergyman, says:—“I learn Lom an authentic 
source that we have what is supposed to be a bona 
fide volcano, about 130 miles up the Gatineau river. 
Parties living near the place have seen it smoke, 
and its internal rumblings have been heard and 
felt at the Hudson’s Bay post at ’ the river Desert, 
which is thirty miles distant. It is called Mount 
Diable. This may probably account for the many 
shocks of earthquake felt in the vicinity.” 
A New El Dorado. —The N. M. (Santa Fe) Ga¬ 
zette says:—Major Stein, lately from Sonora, ex¬ 
presses the opinion that Sonora is more prolific 
of gold and Bilver than California; and, if a Ter¬ 
ritory of the United States, would yield ten million 
dollars annually. He says he has seen single lumps 
of gold taken from the mines there worth from 
$4,600 to $5,000. He likewise informed us that he 
had seen a “ cord of silver” in bars, and all mined 
without machinery. 
From Salt Lake. —Salt Lake dates of the 20th 
ult have reached St. Joseph. Severe weather had 
been experienced, and there is much snow on the 
mountains. Several trains had arrived. The army 
was getting along finely. A large number of In¬ 
dians were met on tha route but were peaceable. 
An Indian Fight. —The South Pass correspon¬ 
dent of the St Louis Republican, says a battle occur, 
red between the Crow and Snake Indians on the 29th 
ult, in which ten of the former were killed. The 
fight grew out of the thieving propensities of the 
Crows. 
The City of Jeddo, the Capital of Japan.— 
The city of Jeddo is said to be without exception 
the largest city in the world. It contains 1,500,000 
dwellings, and the unparalleled number of 5,000,000 
of people. 
Personal and PoliticaL 
Prentiss, of the Louisville Journal, is spoken 
of as the probable American candidate for Gov¬ 
ernor of Kentucky. 
The Vermont Legislature has passed a bill pro¬ 
viding that no slaves Bhail he brought into the 
State, and held as such. Proposed bills to prevent 
the execution of the fugitive slave law in that 
State are likely to fail—one is already rejected,— 
on the ground that there is no occasion for auch 
legislation. 
In Illinois, at the late election, hut four counties 
in the forty-two whi*h comprise the four northern 
Congressional districts gave Democratic majori¬ 
ties. On the contrary, hut six counties in the 
sixty-two which make up the five southern Con¬ 
gressional districts gave Opposition majorities. 
The convention at Lawrence, Kansas, on the 
10th, called by the Free State central committee, to 
determine wbat should be done in respect to a 
State organization, was thinly attended and deter¬ 
mined nothing. The question of a Free State is 
considered settled, and the people wait for a new 
organization of parties. There seems to he no 
prospect of an immediate movement for a State 
government. 
Resolutions were introduced in the South Car¬ 
olina State Senate on the 26th ult, declaring that 
the Constitution of the United States contains no 
grant or power to interfere with the commerce of 
foreign nations; therefore that all acts of Congress 
purporting to prohibit the foreign slave trade are 
unconstitutional, null and void. Also that the act 
of Congress delariBg the Blave trade piracy which 
is not so in the nature of things or the sense of 
the Constitution, is unconstitutional, null and void. 
Senator Mazyck made a strong speech in favor of 
the resolutions, declaring Congress might jast as 
well make the trade in coffee piracy, as the trade 
in slaves, snd disputing the right of U. S. vessels 
to interfere in the slave trade between foreign na¬ 
tions. 
Me. Forsyth, our Minister to Mexico, having 
returned home, the President is said to be looking 
about for an Envoy, who will undertake to for¬ 
ward the scheme of a Protectorate over that coun¬ 
try by the United States. 
There being for the first time a Republican ma¬ 
jority in the lower house of the Territorial Legis¬ 
lature of Nebraska, a bill has been introduced to 
prohibit slaveholding in said Territory after Janu¬ 
ary 1, 1869. 
Samuel Medary, of Ohio, formerly Territorial 
Governor of Minnesota, has signified to the Presi¬ 
dent his willingness to accept the Governorship of 
Kansas, which was tendered to him a week ago. 
Canal Navigation Stopped. — The Albany 
Journal of the 25th ult, sajs:—“Unless the 
weather moderates, it is not at all probable that 
there can bo any more arrivals from the west. 
Yesterday, scores of men labored all day in the 
vicinity of the Upper Aqueduct, three miles oust 
of Schenectady, to pubh boata forward, and only 
succeeded in locking through two. At 8 o’clock 
last night, the ice became so formidable, and the 
locks so clogged up, that the attempt to do any¬ 
thing more was gifen up in despair. There are 
from 75 to 100 boats ice-hound west of the Aque¬ 
duct. They cannot stir a foot; and unless we have 
warm weather immediately, they will have to re¬ 
main through the winter where they are. Navi¬ 
gation last year continued up to the second week 
of December. Everything on the way to tide¬ 
water succeeded in reaching it Now there are 
several hundred laden boats midway of their des¬ 
tination; and there is scarcely a hope that they 
will be able to work through.” 
Santa Fa Matters. —A dispatch from Indepen¬ 
dence, Mo., says the Santa Fe mail, with dates to 
the 1st inst, had reached there. Col. Hall, the 
contractor for this route and who accompanied the 
mail, reports the weather on the Plains as more 
severe than ever before experienced at this season. 
Nothing important from the Navajo country.— 
There had been some slight skirmishing between 
our soldiers and the Indians at Fort Defiance. Lt. 
Averell had been wounded by the Indians firing in¬ 
to his tent while he was encamped between Fort 
Defiance and Albuquerque. His wound was not 
considered as dangerous. Dr. Kavanagh, who had 
arrived at Santa Fe, reports that he had traveled 
up the South Platte, in a journey of seventy-five 
miles, and found gold deposits all the way up, and 
thence to Medicine Bow Creek, finding gold on 
every stream. The best gold minings were in ra¬ 
vines on the north side of the division between 
Arkansas and the Platte. Four dollars to a pan 
had been taken in some instances. 
From California and the Isthmus. — The 
steamer Quaker City arrived at New Orleans on the 
23d ult., with Isthmus dates of the 7tb, and Cali¬ 
fornia mails of the 5th inst, 
The trip from New Orleans to California can now 
he made in less than twelve days. It is proposed 
to open a new route by the river Toltepec, which 
will cut off seven miles of the worst part of the 
road across, and shorten the distance to 100 miles. 
Heavy rains had taken place in California, The 
weather was very cold. There was much snow on 
the mountains. Business was reviving. The Cir¬ 
cuit Court had granted an injunction, forbidding 
the New Armada Quicksilver Co., to work the 
mines claimed by the United States, the value of 
which is immense. The Frazer river adventurers 
were returning very fast 
The Thirteenth Overland Mail —The Over¬ 
land Mai), with California dates to the 29th Oct, 
arrived at St Louis on the 25th ult The stage 
brought two passengers. The expedition against 
the Indians, in Carson Valley, was nnder thorough 
organization. The Pacific Mail Steamship Com¬ 
pany has given Mr. Nugent, U. S. Commissioner af 
Victoria, Fraser river, authority to send all Ameri¬ 
cans hack free who cannot pay their passage. 
The Los Angelos papers repeat the story that Gen. 
Grandara has taken the field with 5,000 men against 
the existing government of Sonora. 
Arrests in New York for a Year. —According 
to a published statement, the number of arrests by 
the police in New York, for a year recently ended, 
is 60,865—about one every eight minutes. 
Yleifs fawgrapte. 
A ship-building firm of Boston are trying a new 
project in steam navigation. Their vessel is to be 
fifty-two feet long, and thirteen wide, very sharp at 
bow and Btern, with an engine working two pro¬ 
pellers — one of which, at the stern, works in the 
water, as usual; and the other, at the how, works 
in the air. The inventor thinks he can get thirty 
miles an hour out of her by this queer arrangement. 
Thb cost of the franking privilege is measurably 
illustrated by the fact that it costs $7,000 to pay for 
the transportation of the documents belonging to 
Mr. Bernhisel, the delegate from Utah Territory. 
The whole number of deaths from yellow fever 
in New Orleans daring the past season, foot up 
within six of five thousand. In Mobile the total 
thus far is 356—a large increase, compared with the 
yellow fever seasons of 1853 and 1857. 
Dr. John L. Comstock, whose “Natural Phi¬ 
losophy” and “Chemistry” are in the hands of 
nearly every school-boy, died Sunday week at 
Hartford, Conn. He was a native of Lyme, Conn., 
served in the War of 1812, and devoted the latter 
portion of hiB life to the preparation of school¬ 
books, whose excellence is attested by their uni¬ 
versal use. Of his “Natural Philosophy” alone, 
over half a million copies were sold. 
The first Annual Fair of the American Union of 
Inventors and Exhibitors is announced to open on 
the 6th of December, in the large marble building 
No. 620, Broadway, New York. 
Five thousand tuns of guano, from Jarvis 
Island, are now on their way to New York, on hoard 
of four clipper Bhips. The company have juBt 
concluded a contract with parties in New York, for 
the sale of guano, to be delivered in that city, 
amounting to nearly $1,000,000. 
The St. Louis Democrat says there is some prob¬ 
ability that an application will be made to Congress 
at the approaching session, for the organization of 
“Laramie Territory,” being the western half of 
Kansas, including the gold region. 
A farmer in Snliivan county, Ind., was offered 
$1,000 for ninety fat hogp, on Monday, and lost the 
entire lot by hog cholera, before Wednesday, last 
week. 
People are advised by the Albany Atlas and 
Argus to refuse all notes issued by the Goshen 
Bank, that are printed on t chile paper, “as the bank 
repudia'es them,” quite a number (to the amount 
of twenty or thirty thousand dollars) having been 
stolen recently from its vaults. 
Hon. Thoma8 L. Harris, member of Congress 
elect from the 5th district, Ill., died of consumption 
on the 24th ult. 
A Southern paper thinks the neutrality of the 
Atlantic cable, which was so earnestly begged for 
by P; evident BuchauaD, has been fully established. 
It hasn’t a word to say on either side. 
Vt’ALKER’s last attempt to invade Nicaragua seems 
to he abandoned. The “emigrants” are dispersing, 
and the vessel in which they were to go has been 
chartered to carry cotton to Europe. 
Commodore Sinclair, of the United States ship 
Vandalia, while eeervhing for three -nen belf/ngfin;. 
to the ship’Wild Wave, which had been wrecked 
n the island of Oeno, and who afterwards reached 
ahiti in a boat of their own construeUon, visited 
the little island of Sooahoogab, where he found 
ix white men—three Americans and three Eng¬ 
lishmen—who have lived there fourteen years, and 
nave so completely identified themselves with the 
natives as not to desire to leave. 
It is gravely proposed by a correspondents of 
t e Melbourne Argus to explore the interior of the 
vast continent of Australia by means of balloons. 
Louis Napoleon on the Slave Trade. — A 
letter from the Emperor Napoleon to Prince 
Napoleon, Minister of Algeria and the French 
Colonies, appears, in which allusion is made to 
the “ Charles et Georges” affair, and the “African 
apprentice ” system. He claimed the restitution 
of the “ Charles et George,” he says, from a pro¬ 
found conviction of his right, and a determina¬ 
tion to maintain intact the independence of the 
national flag. But his ideas were far from being 
settled as to the new schemes for enlisting Afri¬ 
can laborers on the coast He says emphatical¬ 
ly:—“If, in truth, laborers recruited on the Af¬ 
rican coast are not allowed the exercise of their 
free will, and, if this enrolment i3 only the slave 
trade in disguise, I will have it on no terms, for it 
is not I who will protect anywhere enterprise con 
trary to progress, to humanity, and to civilization.” 
The Minister is desired to seek out the truth of 
the matter, and, as the shortest way of settling a 
question which is a continual cause of dispute, he 
recommends a substitution of Coolies for Ne¬ 
groes, and negotiations to that end with the Brit¬ 
ish Government. 
Loss of Lives in Mines. — Mr. Morton, Mine 
Inspector for the northwest district of England, 
in his report, shows that 245 lives have been lost 
the past year within his district, 198 of which are 
chargeable to the account of the Lundhill explo¬ 
sion. Strange to relate, four of the bodies were 
never recovered, although a rigid search was 
made. The permanent social misery resulting 
from this terrible calamity may be estimated by 
the fact that 89 women lost their husbands, and 
two hundred and twenty children were rendered 
fatherless. The proprietors of the mine lost £20,- 
000 by the accident. 
Projects of the West. —The Constitution of 
Iowa forbids a large State debt The leading busi¬ 
ness men and papers of that State are now discuss¬ 
ing the policy of loaning the State credit in aid of 
the several leading railroads of the State, and skill- 
fal lawyers are showing how it can be legally done. 
In Wisconsin, a number of influential men and 
papers are discussing the proposition of having the 
State assume all the indebtedness for railroads, in 
the shape of farm mortgages, and town, village 
and city boAds. 
Death of a Revolutionary Hero. —Mr. David 
Davis, a Revolutionary veteran, died in New York 
on the 11th inst, at the age of 104 years and 10 
months. He had served as a aoldier daring the 
whole of the Revolutionary war. 
Ste mini's CiMitroscv. 
— Congress meets on Monday, Deo. 6th. 
— A revolution in Cam peachy is current rumor. 
— Corn sells in Kansas for twenty-five cents a 
bushel. 
— Watches complete are now manufactured in 
MacoD, Ga. 
— Capt Joseph Mastin, brother of Pope Pius 
IX, is dead. 
— Over 1,000 divorce cases are now before the 
Indiana courts. 
— A fatal epidemic disease is prevailing among 
children at Albany. 
— Typhus fever is prevailing to a considerable 
extent in New York. 
— It is estimated that 400 tuns of poultry reach¬ 
ed New York last week. 
— Naval men predict that the Paraguay expe¬ 
dition will prove a failure. 
— At least one thousand tenements are marked 
“ To let,” in Lowell, Mass. 
— A fillibustering expedition against Mexico is 
said to he on loot in Texas. 
— There is said to be net one unmarried man in 
the town of Yarmouth, Mass. 
— Later news from the Rocky Mountain mines, 
represent gold as more plenty. 
— The Opposition majority on members of Con¬ 
gress in New York was 12,184. 
— Walter Forward has been appointed U. 8. 
Marshal for Oregon Territory. 
— Ex-Governor Medary has accepted the office 
of Governor of Kansas territory. 
— Ricbehourg, a dwarf 23J inches in height, re¬ 
cently died at Paris, aged 90 yeais. 
— A movement is on foot for the construction 
of street railroads in Cincinnati 
— Andrew ShannoD, of Jefferson Co., O., died a 
few days ago, from the bite of a rat 
— A verdict of $12 damages for the loss of 2G 
eggs has just been given in Hartford. 
— There are 97,600 adults in this State, or 1 in 
36 of the population, who cannot read. 
— There was skating for the boys, a week ago, 
on the ponds in the vicinity of Boston. 
— The St. Paul Times of the 16th says naviga¬ 
tion is closed for the winter at that point 
— Green corn, gathered in the field on Saturday 
week was sold in Albany on the same evening. 
— For $1,000,000, Mr. McGill, of Buffalo, offers 
to build a stone bridge to Canada, 2,181 feet long. 
— Eleven thousand males and six hundred fe¬ 
males were imprisoned for debt, in England, in 
1856. 
— About $31,000 of old iron and lead have al¬ 
ready been dag from the ruins of the N. Y. Crystal 
Palace. 
— Three men were killed at Brookville, Ind., on 
the 8th inst., by the tailing of the cupola of a new 
church. 
— It is estimated that not less than fifty canal 
steamers will be ready to ply on the Erie canal by 
spring. 
— At the recent election in this State, the total 
vote for Gubernational candidates was about 
640,000. 
— The taxes of the city of Milwaukee are $78,- 
566 less than they were in 1857. What is to hap¬ 
pen next? 
— The Illinois Institution for the Deaf and 
Dumb has 150 pupils, and it is in a flourishing 
condition. 
— At the recent election in Illinois, Saline Co. 
polled 1,095 Democratic votes, and not one for the 
Opposition. 
— Another Crystal Palace, for a grand Exhibi¬ 
tion of the World’s Industry, in 1861, is talked of 
in London. 
— Louis Bennett, Cattaraugus Indian, recently 
ran 15 miles in 10 seconds less than 90 minutes— 
prize $500. 
— The Tehuantepec route is opeD, and the time 
and distacce to California v>ill now be greatly 
diminished. 
— Five hundred and one new buildings have 
been erected in Cincinnati this year. Their value 
is $1,233,000. 
— Miss Piccolomini is exciting the enthusiasm 
of the New York people somewhat after Jenny 
Lind’s fashion. 
— A paity of sportsmen recently shot 14 deer, 
in Wood Co., O. They report wild tuikey abund¬ 
ant in that region. 
— The Mayor of Hartford, Conn., has offered 
$1,000 for the arrest and conviction of incendiaries j 
that infest that city. 
— Charles Yater, of Louisville, Ky., a dissolute 
character, was sold, a few days since, under the 
vagrant act, for $1. 
— The Atlantic Telegraph Co. have dismissed 
their electricians. Whitehouse still insists that he 
can work the cable. 
— Dr. De Forest, for many years a Missionary 
in Syria, died in this city on the 24th ult. He was 
a very estimable man. 
— A bill had been brought before the States, at 
the Hague, for the emancipation for the slaves in 
Surinam and Curacoa. 
— Valuable gold discoveries have been made in 
the province of San Luis, Buenos Ayres, said to be 
of singular richness. 
— We learn from the Dnhuque papers that navi¬ 
gation of the Mississippi river above that point is 
indefinitely suspended. 
— A large naval force will soon be sent to the 
Gulf, with a view to the execution of designs 
againBt Mexico and Cuba. 
— “Black Cookee,” a colored woman, 120 years 
of age, was burned to death in her cabin, near 
Dixon, Ill., of Friday week. 
— Mrs. Rachel Hunt and Mrs. Rachel Ayres, one 
aged 104 years and the other 101 years, died in 
Harford Co., Md., last week. 
— A Memphis paper says that James B. Clay has 
sold Ashland, the residence of Henry Clay, for 
200,000 acres of Texas land. 
— Not less than 10,000 New Englanders, residing 
in New York, ate their Thanksgiving dinners at 
their old New England homes. 
— Prof. Woodbury, one of the most prominent 
composers and musical teachers in this country, 
died at Charleston on Sunday. 
— A league is believed to exist in the Southern 
States, one of the aims of which is the augmenta¬ 
tion of the supply of slave labor. 
— A material redaction of wages is being made 
at LowelL The mechanics on the Merrimack cor¬ 
poration are cut down 25 per cent. 
— A wag says he don’t care a fig whether they 
get any currents through the Atlantic cable or not, 
but he would like a few fresh dates. 
— The Governor of Arkansas recommends the 
passage of a law prohibiting the circulation of bank 
notes of a less denomination than $50. 
— A French traveler puts us down for the clean¬ 
est people upon the face of the earth, for, he says, 
their very capital is called Washington. 
— Some fiend set fire to a school house in Phila¬ 
delphia, on Friday week, while the school was in 
session and the rooms full of children. 
— A little hoy in Lanhartville, Pa., was playing 
“ execution ” in a bam, with a chain attached to a 
beam, when he accidently hung himself 
