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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
Contents of the Rural for December 18,1858. 
DEC. 18. 
AGRICULTURAL Rack. 
Agricultural Education. 405 
Practical Notes,. 405 
Waste Manures.„•. 405 
Bedding to Save Liquid Manure,.405 
Fowl Manure. 405 
Willard's Improved Vegetable Cutler, [Illustrated,].405 
Education of the Hands,. 405 
Bees and Bee-Hives,. 4 C 0 
An Iowa Letter,.400 
Profits of Bee-Kerping,. 400 
A Breeding Sow,. 400 
Farming in Illinois,. 406 
Experiments with Potatoes,.400 
A Farmer’s Ice House.406 
Inquiries and Answers .—Plan Wanted for a Large Fowl 
House; Wire Tooth Horse Rake; To Make Butter Come; 
Crimson Clover,. 456 
Jiural Miscellany —The Rural's Premium Plans for Farm 
Buildings; Western Ma kct Reports; Bruised Grain tor Horses; 
Ketchum’s Harvester—Prises Awarded; Our Portrait; Hay 
Cu'ters; Good Cows; Rancid Butter; N. H. Journal of Agri¬ 
culture, Ac.,. 405 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Last Words for 1858,.,.. 407 
Trees—Their Beauty and Utility—No. II. 407 
Summer Rose Apple, [Illustrated,]. 
Squashes. 407 
Native Grapes,. 407 
Planting Trees in Clay Soil. 407 
A Russian Hot-House,. 407 
Transplanting Evergreens. 407 
Pear Trees—Dwarfs or Standards. 407 
Coal Ashes for the Borer,. 407 
Preserving Grapes,. 407 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
How to Improve Cider; To Make Chamraigno Cider; How to 
Make Bread; To Color Tau; Inquity,. 
LADIES' PORT-FOLIO. 
What does the Baby'Think? f Poetical.] Hoopology, Once Moro: 
Duties and Pleasures of Women; Order in the Economy of 
the Household; Mother,. 408 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Verses, [Poetical.] Unburnisbcd Jewels; Constant Emp’oy- 
ment; Profane Language; Choice Melange; American Chil¬ 
dren; The Divine Mercy; Borrowing. 
SABBATH M USINGS. 
The Sabbath Evening, [Poetical ] The Early Dead,. 4C8 
THE TRAVELER. 
Sketches from the Alps to the Adriatic; Death of Madame Ida 
Rural, Literary and Family Weekly of Ameri- 1 „„„„„ ><r„ • 
„„, r . T> , j cause Mexico is unable to protect her own frnn. 
ca.^ Ihe Rural has a good name through a:l the j tier—is also advocated 
laud, we are proud to know;—none say “trash,” 
‘ humbug,” or “mad dog” of a sheet which has 
ever and always “ defended the right,” and ignored, 
condemned and exposed the wrong — waich bag 
constantly and zealously sought to promote the 
best interests of Individuals, Families and Com¬ 
munities. The Rural has accomplished some 
good in its day to both the risen and rising gene¬ 
ration-how much can never be estimated — and 
its power and influence for good can be immensely 
increased. It is a good paper to work for, as its 
influence is in the right direction. Itsader, shall it 
have your aid? We pause for your decision, 
which we confidently believe will be in its behalf- 
only adding that Now is the Time for Action ! 
The President’s Message. 
Tnis, of its kind, is one of the longest documents 
ever inflicted upon Congress or the people. To 
""" 407 | publish it entire, would require fully two-thirds of 
a single issue, and as we could not devote such 
space, we will endeavor to give Rural readers a 
clear idea of its general drift, in as little room as 
possible. 
Kansas is the opening feature—the story of the 
agitation is rehearsed, and the President argues in 
favor of the course he pursued. He congratulates 
the country on the contrast of the agitation which 
407 | existed in Kansas a year ago, with the peace and 
quiet which now prevails. He refers to the Le- 
compton Constitution, and although that Constitu¬ 
tion has been rejected by an overwhelming vote of 
the people, he still thinks that his former position 
in regard to it was right. He thinks that if Kansas 
40S I bad been admitted with that Constitution, the same 
quiet would have been secured at an earlier day.— 
From Mexico we naturally drop down to Nieara- 
gua, &nd for this, as well as the other routes across 1 asnuitivs 
the Isthmus, 'he President recommends the passage 
of an actauthorizing him, “ undersuch restrictions 
as they may deem proper, to employ the land and 
naval forces of the United Sta'esin preventing the 
transit from being obstructed or closed by lawless 
violence, and in protecting the lives and propeity 
of American citizens traveling thereupon, requir¬ 
ing at the same time that these forces shall be 
withdrawn the moment the danger shall have 
passed away.” 
Ihe Expedition against Paraguay is the next 
topic, and the President states ne has complied 
with the requirements of the act passed by Con¬ 
gress on the 12 th ot Jaly last A Commissioner 
has been sent with full power to settle all differ¬ 
ences in an amicable and peaceful manner if prac¬ 
ticable. If the Paraguayan Government fail to 
make just atonement for the wrongs they have 
committed against the Uuited States, the strong 
arm of force must he employed. For tins purpose 
the Secretary of the Navy has dispatched a fleet 
to rendezvous near Buenos Ayres. 
The Banking System of our country meets with 
little favor. Jn the opinion of the President 
“ these periodical financial revolutions must con¬ 
tinue to return at intervals so long as our present 
unbounded system of bank credit prevails.” The 
passage of a uniform Bankrupt Law, applicable to 
Banking Institutions, is recommended. 
The President reviews the official documents of 
the Secretaries of the different Departments, but as 
all matters of general importance by them con¬ 
tained. are given in connection with this review 
we will not fo'low the matter further. The reader 
can turn to the following Reports and draw his own 
conclusions as to the condition of our country: 
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. 
very beginning viz :-lst, Their removal from place to 
plaC', as our population advances; 2d, The assignment of 
too great an rxtent of territory to be held by them in 
common; 3d, The allowance of large sums of money as 
-’inuitie8. 
He recommends that the tribes should be permanently 
located upon reservations embracing not more than is 
nrcessary for actual occupancy; to divide the iaod among 
them in severalty; to rrquire that they should live upon 
and cultivate the land thus assigned; to give them in 
lieu of money annuities, stock animals, agricultural im¬ 
plement", mechanic sbope, manual labor schools, &c. He 
recommends the ratification of llie treaties made in 1855 
with the Indians of Washington and Oregon Territories, 
as a means of preventing the recurrence of hostilities! 
GK.VERA L LAND 0*FICE. 
The report covers a period of five quarters, ending Sep¬ 
tember 30tb, 1858. During that period there were sur¬ 
veyed of the public lands 15,209,376 acres, which with 
farmer surveys, make a quantity of 6',951,046 acres of 
the public lands su veved and ready for market on the 
30th of September, 1858, which had never b>-en offered at 
public sale. During the same period there were sold, 
for cash, 4,604,919 acres, from which $2,534,193 was 
realized. ’ 
®lw lint's! Cmulnw. 
! I 
Pfeiffer, 
USEFUL OLIO. 
The bill of Mr. English he signed because he was 
williDg to accede to any other constitutional mode 
409 of settlement, and thinks that when she again ap- 
,, „ , T „ plies, she will have the population that bill requires. 
La\ing t ho Til graph Cable; Mineral .Resources of the In regard to this clause, the President remarks:— 
“Plains,-" Pins and Needles,. 409 “This excellent provision, whiijh Congress has ap- 
. ry THE YOUNG HURALIST. plied to Kansas, ought to be extended and rendered 
Latin, Again,.!..? 409 applicable to all Territories which may hereafter 
seek admission into the Union.” This branch of 
the subject is argued at length. The passage of a 
general law, so that no State shall be admitted un- 
THB SKETCH BOOK. 
Bigotry, [Poetical.] Lizzie Mason's Christmas; Cariosities of 
the harth; A Fine i bought; The True Gentleman; blow and 
Sure. m 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
The Best Juveniles of the Season—Phi lips, Samp-on & Co. 
Morehead’s Magnetic Plaster—D. C. Mnrebead. M. D. 
Fro'ie Master fbr Every Household—Dick & Fitzgerald 
Agricultural Steam Kett'e—Hedges, Free & Co. 
The “ Little Giant’Corn Crusher—Hedges, Free & Co. 
Ontario Music School—Miss O. G Scott 
The Coleman Farm Mill—Martin Thatcher 
Just Patented—J. A. Treat 
Wotk for the Winter—S. M. Mjrick A Co. 
Farms for Sale—S M Clark 
Agents Wanted—B. 8 . Caswell. 
ROCHESTER, N. l r , DECEMBER 18, 1858. 
THE RURAL FOR 1859. 
New Volume, New Dress, New Club Terms! 
[ As this is the last full number of our present 
volume, (the next comprising Index, &c.,) we copy . , ,, 
the following from a recent Rural Supplement— B °. much good or 80 mucb harm - 
less she has population sufficient to entitle her to 
one representative, is recommended. 
Utah next claims attention, and the country is 
congratulated with the favorable condition of affairs 
where, but a year since, bloody civil war was 
threatened. 
Our Foreign Relations are next in order, and we 
are congratulated upon the recent treaties with 
China and Japan. The neutral policy of the United 
States in Eastern'Asia, is advocated. With Great 
Britain our relations are very satisfactory. On 
this point the President says:—“ It is my earnest 
desire that every misunderstanding with the Gov¬ 
ernment of Great Britain should be amicably and 
speedily adjusted. It has been the misfortupe of 
both countries, almost every since the period of 
the Revolution, to ha.ve been annoyed by a succes¬ 
sion of irritating and dangerous question?, threat¬ 
ening their friendly relations. This has partially 
prevented the full development of those feelings 
of mutual friendship between the people of the 
two countries, so natural in themselves, and so 
conducive to their common interests. Any serious 
interruption of the commerce between the United 
States and Great Britain would be equally injuri¬ 
ous to both. In fact, no two nations have ever 
existed on the face of the earth, which could do 
The whole number of post-oflic-s on 30th June last 
was 27,977, of which 400 are of the class denominated 
presidential: whole number established curing the J»st 
fiscal year, 2,121, number discontinues 730, increase J 391- 
number of post-masters appointed 8,284. Of these 4 095 
were to fill vacancies occasioned by resignation. 991 bv 
removals, 278 by deaths, 292 by ehsnge of names and 
Bite8, and 2,] 21 od eetanli-hment of new ollices Whole 
number of offices December 1, 1868, 28,573. On'the 30tk 
June last there were in operation 8,296 mail rou'es The 
number of contractors was 7,044. The length of these 
routes is estimated 260 603 miles; total amount of 
transportation 78,765.461 mi es, and cost $7,795 418. 
Compared wi'h the service reported 30th June 1857 
there is an addition of 18,002 miles to the length of 
routes, and $1,173,372 to the cost. The total estimates 
for the current year are $10,016,947. The total expend!, 
tures of the Department in the fiscal year endi D g June 
30tb, 1858, amounted to $12 722,470. The estimated re 
ceipts and expenditures in 1869:—Expenditures. $14 770 - 
620; means $11,994 393; deficiency $3,682,127. ’ ’ 
The Franking Privilege now allowed to members of 
Congress receives a shate of attention.and itis proposed 
in lieu thereof, to furnish the members with postage 
stamps to bs used on all letters, public documents aud 
packets transmitted by them in tbe mails, aud keep an 
account of the stamps furnished to each member to be 
paid for out of the contingent fund of the House’ It is 
further proposed that ail letters and packets, except news¬ 
papers addressed to members Congress, shall be prepaid 
at the mailicg office. In this way the Department would 
he compensated for the service tendered, without a resort 
to the inconvenience of daily minute accounts of the 
postage chargeable on such mail matter. 
To avoid dissatisfaction ana the practical inconvenience 
of having different rates of postage, regulated by dis¬ 
tances, it is submitted whether ODe uniform rate of five 
cents for all distances would not enlarge the usefulness 
of the Depaitment, aud diminish, if it did not entirely 
prevent, such heavy drafts upon the treasury, and best 
promote the interest aud convenience of the people. 
the treasury. 
I at deer and wild turkeys, weighing sometimes 
twenty pounds, are the style'of game taken near 
Owasso, Sbiawasse county, Michigan. One hunts¬ 
man took four deer and twenty-two turkeys. 
The government of the United States is about 
to erect a mammoth foundry on the Pacific coast. 
It will be located at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 
near San Francisco. 
The “ Back Bay ” at Boston, is being filled np by 
the corporation, and will be sold in building lots. 
The bay is a shallow, useless sheet, and will be the 
finest quarter of Boston, when filled up and built 
upon. 
The Times states that the speculations in real 
estate in New York continue, and the rapid rise of 
prices in many cases has equalled the great opera¬ 
tions of 1836. 
Entertaining these sentiments, I am gratified 
to inform you that the long-pending controversy 
between the two Governments, in relation to the 
question of visitation and search, has been arnica- 
KSCr:?!'?— 
its subscribers and Friends everywhere to aid in ....i..,? it , 
10 aia ln ruled by her own most eminent jurists.” 
inviting a perusal, and such action cn the part of 
the reader as seemeth proper: ] 
Having resolved that the Tenth Volume of the 
Rural Nkw-Y'orker, for 1859, shall be “Excelsior’ 
increasing its circulation and maintaining its pre¬ 
eminence as the Best Farm and Fireside Journal 
in America. The reduction in club terms will be 
a decided benefit to the great mass of subscribers, 
and lessen our receipts many thousand dollars on 
the number of copies now published. But we are 
Large space is given to the discussion of our 
relations with Spain, Cuba and her destiny being 
involved in the question. The insults of Spanish 
officials to the United States generally, and their 
repeated injuries indicted upon the persons and 
property of American citizens have never been 
confident a part or all of this will be made up by redressed, and all attempts to obtain any acknowl- 
additions to our circulation—as it certainly will edgement upon the part of the home government, 
if the friends of the Rural and its objects near ha I e i^ ee ?i baffled# Fl 'om this point the Presdent 
aad distant, wilt kindly tend their inflnenoe ’to in- Sed's^aStSToSMton ofcnb 
crease its subscription list in their respective local- The Slave Trade can never be wholly suppressed’ 
ities. We have abolished the plan of offering wbiIe Cuba opens her ports to the traffic. This 
large premiums to be taken by a few individual? market ia a constant source of injury and annoy- 
and now giro liberal gratuities to esc and all in Ifliters Xtffi 
proportion to their efforts and success. coast of Africa—as we are bound to do by treaty 
We not only address present Subscribers and u Britain—is a very heavy expenditure 
Friend, hut thousands of others who we believe «£ 
feel an interest in promoting the Cause and Objects of the Mississippi, makes it a question of vital im- 
advocated by the Rural. We therefore frankly P ort > aa d on this point alone it is the policy of the 
ask all to whom this Supplement is mailed —and Government to ootain its possession. The mode 
we purpose sending it to numerous influential and purchase. 1 * 118 ^ “ Gem ° f the Antilles >” is 
progressive I armera and Horticulturists all over That country of anarchy and civil war—Mexico 
the land, as well a3 to many Post-Masters, Mer- —is next taken up, and the President, before put- 
chants. Clergymen, Teachers, &c..—to lend such ting ber ? own a S ain > proposes that wc should take 
encouragement in behalf of the Rural as mav be a large shce and care for if > 88 is eviden t it can 
zt '“ w “ h . “t Ti “* - -«•—l. 
. ose unacquainted with the paper are invited to government and American citizens have been 
give any number of it a careful examination, (for subjected to — consisting of murders, imprison- 
we do not issue any extra-attractive numbers nie “ ts > a F‘ d plunder—and that no effort has been 
as specimens, bat endeavor to render each and !?•’ eit “.® r . to P. aniah these outrages or prevent 
_ r ’ , UUCitvur 10 renaer eacn ana their repetition, the President save:—“Abundant 
every one good and useful,) and then decide, upon cause now undoubtedly exists for a'resort to hostil- 
lts merits, whether it is entitled to the encourage- ities against the Government still holding posses- 
ment and support of the friends of Improvement sion of tbe ca P ita j- Should they succeed in snh- 
and a Pure and Useful Literature dning the Constitutional forces, all reasonable 
- uop® will then have expired of a peaceful settle- 
Friends of the Rural New-Yorker 1 Youc«» ment of our difficulties, 
if you will, greatly aid in augmenting its circula- “ 0n tbe ? ther ban<3 > should the Constitutional 
tion, influence and usefulness — and we ask that P art ? prevail, and their authority be established 
yonwmwt.b much coufictence, never having ap. 
pealed to you in vain. All that is necessary is a may grant that redress to American citizens which 
little personal effort among your neighbors and ac¬ 
quaintances. Every reader of the Rural can ob¬ 
tain from one to teD, thirty or fifty subscribers — 
aud if its friends will only make “ a long pull, a 
strong pull, and a pull all together,” it will, on or 
soon after its Tenth Birth-Day—the first of January 
ensuing—have full One Hundred Thousand Subscri¬ 
bers ! What 8ay, tried friends, aud new ones_you 
to whom we are already indebted for manifold and 
most substantial favors, and you also to whom we 
have but recently or only now been introduced — 
ill you enter the arena in behalf of the mo.e 
justice requires, so far as they may possess the 
means. But for this expectation, I should at once 
have recommended to Congress to grant the neces¬ 
sary power to the President to take possession of 
a sufficient portion of the remote and unsettled 
territory of Mexico, to be held in pledge until our 
injuries shall be redressed and our just demands 
satisfied. We have already exhausted every milder 
means of obtaining justice. In such a case, this 
remedy of reprisals is recognized by the law of 
nations, not only as just to itself, but as a means 
of preventing actual war.” 
For Arizona the establishment of a Territorial 
Government is recommended, and the formation 
of military posts in Sonora and Chihauhau_be- 
The receipts into the Treasury from all sources during 
the fiscal year ending; FOth June, 1858, including the 
treasury no'es anthonz-d by the act of December 90 
ofll a m ouutwitht C be b ^ 
ot $11,710,124 27 ren .. ridtf in the treasury at the com- 
mencement of the year, made an aggregate for the service 
of the year of $87,983,9‘3 86. Tbe puulic expenditures 
S?. e» cal year , ' t,dir ’K J " ,,e so -1868, amounted to 
$81,585,667 t6, of which $9,684,637 99 were applied to tbe 
payment of the public d-.-bt. and the redemption of treasu¬ 
ry notes with th» interest thereon, leaving in the treasu¬ 
ry on July 1, 1858. beiog the commencement of the nres- 
ent fiscal year, $6,398 316 10. 1 
NAVY DEPARTMENT. 
The five steam sloops-of-war, authorized by ihe act of 
1847, will soon be completed. The seven steam screw 
sloops-of-war, under tbe act of 1858, are in a state of great 
forwardness. Five of them are to be launched during the 
present month, and be ready for sea in May next. AU 
experience evidences a necessity for an increase of the 
navy. Twenty effective vessels of smaller class can be 
built and kept at sea for what it would cost to build and 
keep at sea four or five vessels of a larger class. Let 
Congress increase the number of heavy armed vessels of 
light draught, until we can frequently display our flag at 
every point where American interests may need protec- 
Dod. The addition of at least ten or more vessels of that 
description, is not only a necessary measure, but will be 
found to be as efficient as any that can be desired re¬ 
quiring so small an expenditure of the public money. 
F or the support of the navy- and marine corps, and all 
other objects under the control of the Navy Department 
for the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, 1868. the estk 
mates were $13,803 212; appropriations, $14,240 247- ex¬ 
penditures, $13,870 6S4; there having been some curtail¬ 
ment of expenses by reason of a falling off in the revenue. 
WAR DEPARTMENT. 
The authorized strength of the army, as posted, is 
18,165, but the actual strength en July 1st, tvas 17 498. 
These troops compose the whole numerical force of our 
army, distributed through the States and Territories of 
the entire Confederacy, manning all the fortifications oc¬ 
cupied by troops, holding all posts now garrisoned, defend¬ 
ing all our extended frontiers, and protecting, as far as 
possible, the different routes extending across the con- 
tinent, trom the Mississippi Yalli-y to our possessions on 
the 1 acific. The disbursements amount to nearly $10 - 
000,000 in tbe Quarter-Master’s Department, Every 
voucher has been filed, with the exception of $280 000. 
Nothing will be lost. 
Attention is called to necessity of providing for the 
payment of claims brought against the Government by 
different States and Territories for services hereto f ore 
rendered by volunteer forces in the suppression of Indian 
hosti ities. The Secretary says he has attempted, as far 
as possible, to meet the just wishes of Congress in reduc¬ 
ing the expenses, and the estimates of the next fiscal 
year are less than the appropriations for the last by the 
sum of $9,160,488. They are less than the estimates laid 
before Congress at the last session by the sum of $2,736,- 
408. They amount in the aggregate to $18,010,090- and 
he entertains a strong hope that the expenditure may be 
still further reduced in the course of another year. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
The Secretary of the Interior estimates the sales of 
public lands next season at $5,000,000. Iu reference to 
the mineral lands in the Territories of Washington, Ore¬ 
gon, New Mexico, and Kansas, the Secretary submits 
whether it would be a wise and sound poiicy at this time 
to pass a general law, reserving all auriferous, silver and 
cinnabar mines irom sale, for the use and occupancy of 
the people of the United States, uucer such regulations 
as Congress may prescribe, and leaving those lands con¬ 
taining copper, iron, lead and coal, subject to the ordinary 
laws of settlement and 6sle for their development. The 
extent of these defies estimate, and gives assurance to 
our people, in the future, of unbounded wealth. 
The w-hole number of army pensioners under the 
various acts of Congress is 10,732, requiring for their 
payment the annual sum of $902 700. Tne whole num¬ 
ber of navy pensioners is 892, aud the aggregate amount 
of their payments is $130,501. It appears that the taiat 
disbursements for pensions up to litis date is about $90,- 
000,000. If to this sum be added the bounties in lauds 
(62,739,632 acres,) estimated at $1 25 per acre, the total 
amount granted for pensions aud bounties will be $168.- 
424 202. ’ 
From the 1st of January to the 30th September, 1858, 
4,091 applications for patents were received and 606 
caveats filed, against 4,095 applications and 820 caveats 
for tbe corresponding quarter of last year. During the 
same period, 2,816 paten's were issued, 15 extensions 
granted, and 1,256 applications rejected. 
INDIAN AFFAIRS. 
The Commissioner states that the whole number of 
Indians within our limits is eetimated at about 350,000. 
The whole number of tribes and separate bauds is 175, 
with 44 of which we have trea’y" engagements. The 
number of ratified Indian treaties since tne adoption of 
of the Constitution is 393, nearly all of which contain 
provisions still in force. The quantity of land ac¬ 
quired by these treaties is about 581,163,186 sees. The 
entire cost of fulfilling ihese treaties will be $49,816 344. 
The Commissioner points out three fatal errors which 
have marked our policy towards the Indians from the 
The Fresno Indians in California are killing 
their “medicine men.” They declare them to be 
witches—that they cannot cure the sick, and that 
there will be no more rain or grass seen until they 
are exterminated. Seven or eight of their doctors 
have, in consequence, already suffered martyrdom. 
A company of one thousand Germans is being 
formed on the Rhine and Moselle, with the inten¬ 
tion of emigrating to Mariposa, California, and 
settling on Fremont’s claim, for the purpose of 
mining and farming. Each of the one thousand 
members is to famish $1,000, making a capital of 
$1,000,000, but they may dispose of $100 shares to 
third parties. 
It the figures in the London Times are correct, 
Great Britain uses more cotton than all the rest of 
the world. The proportions cf the raw material 
used in the cotton consuming countries are: out 
of every hundred pounds Great Britain 61.28, 
France 13.24, Northern Europe G.84, the United 
States 23.58, other countries 5.00. 
The Japanese officials have undertaken to learn 
English in five years, after which time all commu¬ 
nications with that court are to be in onr mother 
tongue. It is to be hoped that the authorities at 
the State Offiee in Washington will understand 
this to be a reciprocal duty, and that they will im¬ 
mediately apply themselves to the pleasant and 
useful task of mastering the Niphon dialect. 
A new and valuable gold mine is said to have 
been recently discovered in Montgomery county, 
N. C., from which the owner, at an expense of 
$300, secured $30,000 worth of gold in three 
months. 
A bill has passed the House of Representatives 
of Georgia by a vote of 56 to 52, prohibiting the 
marriage of first cousins, under a severe penalty 
and cutting of the inheritance of issue. 
Earthquakes are reported in Spain and Porta- 
sqaaw^ Iventa cUsm has been marrjiHg a Kickapoo 
thousands?™ ™ raSi ° 8 JdpaI1, 8nd carr J in 2 off 
in "Boston 6 ^ 35 ' 0 °° places where alc °k<>! is sold 
— Ttie first shad has made its appearance in the 
bavanLaa River. 
— R- Colbert has been elected Governor of the 
Chickasaw nation. 
Four otters were killed in Luzerne county 
Pa, week before lait 
— The corn crop in Italy is a failure, and prices 
there are on the rise. 
— Inflnenza prevails to a considerable extent at 
present in Louisville, Ky. 
— The Mayor of Philadelphia has ordered the 
arrest of all street beggars. 
— There is a general agitation in Asiatic Turkey 
Insurrections are freqnent. 
— More than 300 lads are seeking appointments 
at Albany as Legislative pages. 
— There are five hundred applicants for the ten 
vacant cadetships at West Point. 
_ Santa Anna’s wife has left him, and is now 
the “reigning belle” of Havana. 
— Three small whales were captured a few days 
ago off Narragansett, Long Island. 
— Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has been elected 
Lord Rector of the Glasgow University. 
— Two lines of stages are already advertised to 
leave eastern Kansas lor the gold region. 
— Arrangements are new being made to com¬ 
mence washing for diamends in Georgia. 
— Nearly four hundred men were discharged 
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard Wednesday. 
— The salaries of the clergy of the United States 
do not average five hundred dollars a year. 
— There is at present $150,000 worth of dried 
fruit in Nashville, Tenn., awaiting shipment. 
— A Kentucky drover says that he lost $3 000 in 
the gambling hells of New York last week. 
— They are now talking of the Astor House as 
a suitable site for a post office in New York. 
One hundred thousand hides a month are 
shipped from the La Platte River, S. America. 
_ — Watermelons and shad are among the luxu¬ 
ries of the Columbus, Geo., market at present. 
— In the city of Milwaukee there are 13,COO 
children who are constant attendants at school. 
— The population of Cincinnati in 1831 was 
29,831; the city now has a population of 275,000. 
— The public debt of the consolidated city of 
Philadelphia amounts to twenty millions of dollars. 
— A Shoe Manufacturer in Boston has invented, 
and ismakiDg boots expressly for ladies to skate 
with. 
— During October the coinage at the New Or¬ 
leans mint amounted to $571,651, and the deposits 
$751,994. r 
— Meetings in tbe aid of the new reform gov¬ 
ernment continue to be held in various parts of 
England. 
— Pierre Descombe, a Frenchman, died at St. 
Roch, Canada, on the 15th ult., at the great age of 
112 years. 
— The Middlesex company at Lowell are making 
heavy woolen Balmoral skirt? for the girls *o skate 
in this winter. 
— Three persons returning from Pike’s Peak 
bring $300 or $400 in scale gold with them, found 
on Platte river. 
— Col. Fremont's Mariposa claim yields from 
$1500 to $3,000 every week. The quartz mill is 
worked by steam. 
— A bill has been reported in th8 North Caro¬ 
lina Legislature to remove the free colored popu¬ 
lation from the State. 
Remarkable Longevity.— In the town of Lodi, 
Seneca Co., N. Y, in one neighbordood, may be 
fonnd four persons over 80 years of age, six over 
76, and about the same number over 70. Three 
have died within the past few years who were over 
90. In one family there are four brothers and a 
sister living, (two of the brothers now in Lenawee 
Co., Mich.,) whose ages respectively are 87,83, 80, 
77, and 69 years, making a total of 306 years. The 
wives of the four brothers are all living, two being 
over 80 years old, and the others respectively 72 
and 68. They have been married an aggregate of 
over 300 years. One brother died a few years 
since nearly 70, and a sister over 73. One of the 
two brothers in Lodi has seen his great-grand¬ 
children, aud at the present time (at the advanced 
age of 83) “his eyes are not dim, nor his natural 
strength greatly abated,” and he bids as fair to 
live in the full enjoyment of a good state of health 
and of mental faculties for many years, a 3 at the 
age of 60. So writes a correspondent. 
One Hundred and Fifty Bushels of Char¬ 
coal on I' ire. —The Auburn Advertiser, of the 
27th ult, says:—“At about 10 o’clock this morn¬ 
ing a large pile of charcoal in the cellar of the 
American Hotel, consisting of some 150 bushels 
was discovered to be on fire. The fumes spread 
through the entire building, affecting the inmates 
to such a degree that they found it necessary to 
escape from the building, and some were much so 
much affected as to require a physician. If it had 
occurred in the night, when all in the house were 
asleep, it must have resulted in most shocking and 
fatal consequences.” 
Brazil.— Brazil now occupies a very respectable 
position in tbe list of powerful nations. Her gov¬ 
ernment is stable and permanent. There is con¬ 
siderable popular liberty, aiid the masses of her 
people are progressing rapidly in civilization. Her 
military and naval resources are large. She has a 
fleet of sixty-two vessels of war, of which thirty 
are fine steamers. Her navy is more efficient and 
larger than ours. She has a standing army of 25,- 
000 i?«d, and her national guard numbers 400,000. 
A New Counterfeit Bill —The Hamilton Spec¬ 
tator puts the public on their guard against coun¬ 
terfeit two dollar bills on the Bank of Upper 
Canada, that have recently made their appearance. 
They are produced by the photographic art, and 
are, of course fac similes of the geniune bills, in 
everything except the quality of the paper, and the 
dingy blackness of tbe coloring. They are easily 
detected by a comparison with the genuine notes, 
and by bearing in mind, also, that the paper is 
somewhat whiter in the bogus bills. 
— The. Belgian journals record the marriage of 
four brothers to four sisters, celebrated at the 
same time, at Mons. 
— A Black Hawk colt, five months old, was ta¬ 
ken out in the steamship Canada, on the 1st. Its 
destination is Scotland. 
— A Texas paper mentions having received a 
letter from a friend, accompanied with the scalp 
of a Camanche Indian. 
— Two thousand mackerel were taken in one 
haul off Provincetown last week, and in three 
nights 10,000 were taken. 
— A new Snow Shoe Club is being formed in 
Montreal which it is expected will compete suc¬ 
cessfully with the old one. 
— A new census of the city of Raleigh, N. C., 
has been completed. The aggregate population, 
white and black, is only 4 352. 
— Forty-two thousand bushels of potatoes have 
been received at the port of Boston, from the 
British provinces, since Nov. 22d. 
— The Calfornia wine crop of this year promises 
to exceed in quantity, and excel in quality, the 
product of any previous vintage. 
— General Scott, in his report, will, it is under¬ 
stood, recommend one or two additional regi¬ 
ments, to be used on the frontiers. 
— The estate of the late Ebenezer Francis, of 
Boston, is found to amount to $3,483,000, of which 
sum $2,200,000 is cash on deposit. 
— The Hartford, a fine United States steam 
sloop-of-war, was launched at the Charlestown, 
Mass., Navy Yard on Monday week. 
— Mr. Foster Hale, the inventor of raised letters 
for the use of the blind, fell down dead on a pave¬ 
ment in Selma, Ala., on the 26th ult. 
— On Christmas Day a large hog is to be guessed 
for in New Brunswick, N. J. The man who guesses 
nearest to his weight ia to have him. 
— The Pope has thrown British and Roman 
sportsmen into despair by decreeing that there 
shall be no more fox hunting at Rome. 
— In the Cincinnati Common Plea3 there are 
just now no fewer than one hundred and seventy-five 
applications for divorce on the docket. 
— A pork packer of New Albany, Ind., it is 
stated, has cleared $15 000 this season on a single 
lot of hogs purchased by him at $5 net. 
— A girl twelve years of age fell upon a pair of 
scissors in New York, while playing. The jugular 
vein was pierced, and she bled to death. 
— A boy, eleven years of age, was arraigned 
before the Police Court at Boston, last week, 
charged with being a common drunkard. 
— Mrs. Edwards was frightened to death in 
Washington, last week, by a dog attempting to 
seize her as she was passing along the Btreet. 
— Picolomini is said to have received an offer . 
of marriage from a fashionable and very young 
New Yorker, Bince her arrival in this country. 
— On Thursday last messages were sent without 
interruption over the telegraph wires from New 
York to New Orleans, a distance of 1700 miles. 
— A lady, eighty years of age, made the jour¬ 
ney overland, from Illinois to California, via Salt 
Lake, and reached Sacramento in good health. 
— Quite a number of Americans have died 
lately at Paris. Three corpses came in the Arago, 
Hob. B. F. Butler, Mr. Hodges, and Mr. Tuttle. 
— A jury was burned in effigy at Springfield, 
Ky., last week, because they failed to convict on 
circumstantial evidence a man accused of murder. 
