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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
^Hblisfycir’s Notices. 
THE RURAL FOR 1855. 
Having completed our arrangements, we can 
safely announce that the Sixth A' olume of the 
Rural New-Yorker will, extraordinaries ex¬ 
cepted, far surpass either of its predecessors, in 
both Contents and Appearance. To redeem 
this pledge, no reasonable effort or expense 
will be wanting, for we are determined to ren¬ 
der the paper more and more worthy its ex¬ 
tensive National Circulation. In a word,—while 
we gladly extend the hand of fellowship to 
our contemporaries, for there is room for all,— 
we shall strive to make the Rural by far the 
best Agricultural, Literary and Family News¬ 
paper published. 
After bending low in grateful acknowledge¬ 
ment to Post-Masters, their Assistants, Agents 
and Subscribers, whose exercise of influence 
has enabled us to render Moore’s Rural New- 
Yorker the first Journal of its class in Circula¬ 
tion, Influence and Popularity, we invite at¬ 
tention to the substance of a Prize List which 
far exceeds, in both numbers and value, any of its 
predecessors—as follows : 
SPLENDID CASH 
PREMIUMS FOR SUBSCRIBERS : 
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for tho largo a list of Yoariy 
Subscribers to the Rural New-Yorker— the payment to 
bo remitted according to our Club terms, previous to the 
1st dav of February, 1855. 
EIGHTY DOLLARS for the next (second) largest list, as 
above specified. 
SEVENTY DOLLARS for the third list. 
SIXTY DOLLARS for the fourth list. 
FIFTY DOLLARS for the fifth li-t. 
FORTY DOLLARS for the sixth list. 
THIRTY DOLLARS for the seventh list. 
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS for the eighth list. 
TWENTY DOLLARS for the ninth list. 
TEN DOLLARS to each of tho five persons sending the 
10th. 11th, l£th, 13th, and 14th lists, as above. 
FIVE DOLLARS to each of tho five persons sending tho 
15th. ICth, 17th, 18th, and 19th lists. 
THREE DOLLARS to each of the six persons sending the 
20th. 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th, and ?5th lists. 
j8SJ“We also offar tho following very liberal list of 
SPECIFIC PREMIUMS, 
lx order to reward every person who may aid in ex¬ 
tending tho circulation of the Rural New-Yokker, we offer 
to such as do not compete for any of the preceding Pre¬ 
miums, the following liberal gratuities for subscribers 
forwarded previous to the 1st of April, 1855 : 
THREE DOLLARS, in Books, or a handsomely bound 
volumo of tho Rural for 1854, for thirty subscribers. 
To every one remitting for twenty copies ($26,) an extra 
copy of the Rural and either volume of the Wool Grower 
and Stock Register— or. The Horticulturist for 1855. 
Tiie same premium to every one remitting for eifteen - 
coplos, ($20,)—or for ten copies ($15.) 
To every one remitting for six copies ($10,) an extra 
copy of the Rural, or The Horticulturist for 1855. 
For $5 we will send three copies of the Rural, and 
either volume of the Wool Growbk and Stock Register. 
For $4 wo will send one copy of tho Rural, and either 
Putnam's, Harper's, the Knichcrboclcer, Lady's Book or 
Graham's Magazine for ono year. 
For $3, we will send a copy each of the Rural and tho 
Horticulturist for 1855. 
All competitors for premiums are expected to adhore 
strictly to the following 
TERMS, IN ADVANCE : 
Two Dollars a Year. Throe Copies, one year $5 —Six 
Cor.ie* for $10—Ten Conies for $15—Fifteen Copies for $20 
—Twenty Copies for $25, and any additional number at 
the same rate. Jft3“As we are obiised to pre-pay Ameri¬ 
can postage, our lowe-t Club price to Canadian subscribers 
is $1,50 per copy.-”®! To facilitate mailing, we prefer 
sending Club papers to one address at each Fon Office, but 
the names of subscribers will be written on tho papers if 
desired. Club papers sent to different Post Offices, and 
names can be ssnt in at different times. 
j@Cg“Specimen numbers, show-bills, prospectuses, etc., 
sent free to all disposed to compete for tho Premiums, or 
who desire to extend the circulation of the New-Yorker. 
Subscription money, properly enclosed, may be mailed at 
our risk, if addressed to D. D. T. MGOHE, 
Rochester, N. Y. 
ROCHESTER, JANUARY 6, 1855. 
Our New Volume. 
In an experience of some fourteen years as 
editor and publisher, we have been greatly en¬ 
couraged, annually, (for every journal which 
has been under our control, continued to in¬ 
crease in circulation during that control,) yet 
we never commenced a new year or volume of 
any publication with such substantial encoui 
agement, and favorable auspices and prospects, 
as those with which we enter upon the Sixth 
Volume of the Rural Nkw Yorker. Indeed, 
we have been most agreeably surprised, aaily, 
for the past three weeks—for that whereas, in 
stead of a moderate increase in our receipts 
over the corresponding period of last year, as 
anticipated, they have exceeded our figures 
some thousands of dollars. This is the moie 
gratifying and encouraging from the fact that 
we were forewarned to be cautious that the 
times were hard, and we must be content with 
what never yet satisfied our ambition, oi idea 
of progress, viz., to retain our present sub 
scription, without any increase of circulation. 
But, more hopeful and confident, we detei- 
mined that the Rural should merit increased 
support,—believing its friends, who have ever 
honored our drafts, would accomplish their 
part if our duty was propcily discharged. 
And, furthermore, though aware that the times 
were hard in cities and large villages-—and es¬ 
pecially among the extravagant ana non-pro¬ 
ducing, and the over-trading classes— we be¬ 
lieved that the farmers, and great mass of other 
producers throughout the “Rural districts, 
were prosperous, and therefore abundantly 
able, if not willing, to give the paper increased 
support. Hence, our arrangements were made 
on a liberal and expensive scale, and, thanks 
to tho kind and zealous friends of the Rural 
all over the land, we are already reaping the 
fruits of the risk and investment. And it is 
with no ordinary emotions that we are en¬ 
abled to add, foi the information of numerous 
earnest and influential advocates and sup¬ 
porters, that the volume of the Rural upon 
which we now enter bids fair to attain a circu¬ 
lation of from twelve to twenty thousand above 
that of the one which has just terminated.— 
This will certainly be the result, if the remit¬ 
tances of the agents and friends from whom 
we have not yet heard, equal those who have 
already reported progress. 
— With this brief salutation, and profound 
acknowledgments to all friends and supporters 
of the Rural, we enter upon the arduous and 
constant labors of the new year and volume. 
New Year in the City. 
SPECIAL NOTICES.—TO AGENTS, &c. 
jgvy* Agents.—A ny parson so disposed can act a* agont 
for the Rural Nkw-Yorkkp.,-~- and all who remit according 
to terms will bo entitled to premiums, etc. 
if-ir Those who are furnishing clubs, (20 to 60 copies.) 
can send on the names and money of such persons as do 
not wish to wait, and complete their II -ts afterwards. 
Tire Rural is published strictly on the cash system 
— sent no longer than paid for — and all orders should be 
in accordance with terms. 
In remitting for clubs, please sond Bank Dills, or 
Drafts on New York (deducting the oxehango.) instead of 
Checks or Certificates of Deposit on local banks. 
lx writing us, please be particular to give your P. 
O. address correctly — the name of your Pod Office (not 
Town,) County and State. Write all names plainly. 
Tnor-'K wishing their papers changed from one ad¬ 
dress to another, shcul 1 give the names of both Tost 
Office ’.—the former address, as well as the one desired. 
pfpp Tire lowest club price of papers delivered at pub¬ 
lication office, is $1,50 per copy. Hereafter, $2.50 will bo 
charged per copy, when left at re-Lienee by city carrier. 
fj'iP Western Money is at present almost unsaleable in 
this city, and we therefore reque-t Western friends and 
agents to remit Eastern money—or drafts on Pufialoor 
New York, less the cost of exchange. 
Additions to clubs may be made at any time, at 
the price per copy paid for the original club. 
l t. offer.—W e will sen ! the Run. r ■- - •- - ear. 
nuu. a yearly copy of either of the $3 Magazines, for $4;— 
and the Rural and either of the $2 Magazines, for $3.— 
This item will answer several inquirers, and perhaps ben 
efit others. 
Spbcimkn numbers of the Rural cheerfully for¬ 
warded to all disposed to aid in augmeming its circulation. 
We will send to your own. or the address of friends, all 
the necessary documents — extra numbers, show hills, 
prospectuses, etc. It will afford us pleasure to respond 
to all requests in this line. 
Tile Rural New-Yorker is a paper, the fame of which is 
without a blot. Characteristically Agricultural, it is in the 
broadest sense a Family Paper, ono which may he admitted 
withost doubts as to its tendency It has an immense 
circulation, and merits patronage wider still. Its readers 
are like Oliver, always asking for— Moore. — -N. Y.Recorder. 
Moore’s Rural New-Yorker has become a giant among 
its kind. With a subscription verging fast to 30,000, and 
with a conductor who knows how to polish it with every 
grace of the art, and how to accomplish it with the best 
talont of the age — it is not surprising that it is now tho 
leading agricultural paper of the country .—Christain Adv. 
The Rural New-Yorker is decidedly the best Agricultu¬ 
ral paper in tho UnitedgStates, in each and all of its depart¬ 
ments, and well merits the eminent success which has 
attended its enterprising Proprietor .—Boston OHw Branch. 
All that is Nbcbssary to largely increase 
the circulation of thp Rural in almost any 
locality where it is known, is a little personal 
attention—giving people an invitation, and an 
opportunity, to subscribe. Such at least is the 
general testimony, oral and written, of those 
who have the best means of knowing, from 
experience, what may he accomplished.— 
“ Why,” said a friend to us five minutes ago, 
(after paying for fifty-throe subscriptions,) “ if 
I had time to attend to the matter, I could 
easily get two hundred subscribers in our town 
—for all like the paper, and not one that I’ve 
asked has refused to subscribe.” Many others 
have recently talked and written in like man¬ 
ner. Now, we repeat, all that is necessary is a 
little attention,—but who will bestow this in 
localities where the Rural has no active friend 
or agent ? If seme one—you, reader,—should 
take the matter in hand, in each town, we 
shotdd have, within three months, at least 
fifty thousand subscribers in Western New 
York alone. Who will volunteer in the good 
cause in your locality ? Cannot you, consist¬ 
ently, or some influential person of your ac¬ 
quaintance ? We will furnish all the necessary 
documents—extra numbers, hills, &c. f -—and if 
any of your regular numbers are lost or worn 
out in the service, they will be duplicated on 
notification. 
The Nkw Year apparently “opened rich, 
like a honey-comb, having sweets in every 
cell,” in this locality. The weather has been 
charming during the three days which have 
elapsed since the inauguration—and while we 
write (Wednesday, P. M.) the sun is shining as 
brightly, and the air is as balmy, as in June. 
Everybody and “all the rest of mankind,” 
seem to appreciate the “good time,” and are 
happily enjoying the holiday season. They 
have nearly all made presents to each other 
and their children, and some to their children’s 
children—rendering thousands of the “little 
folk” extremely happy and jubilant, and lining 
the tills and purses of numerous shop-keepers. 
The “Natal Day” was properly observed in 
the city—for there was less excess and intem¬ 
perance, and consequently more real enjoy¬ 
ment, than usual on such an anniversary.— 
Mayor Strong instituted a very wise and cred¬ 
itable reform, by receiving his friends at the 
Court House, in a quiet manner,—instead of 
opening his house, and furnishing the crowd 
eatables, drinkables and smokeables, as did his 
predecessor. Having last year protestod against 
the then custom as a nuisance to the incum¬ 
bent, and disgrace to the city, we rejoice at the 
change, and trust so decided a revolution will 
never ‘ ‘ go backward. ’ ’ 
Death, of Thomas W. Doit. 
Governor Dorr, as lie has been called in 
Rhode Island and elsewhere, died at Provi¬ 
dence on the 27th ultimo, after a painful 
and lingering illness. Several years ago he 
headed the revolutionary party of the little 
State, which at the time made nearly as much 
talk as the famous nullification movement of 
South Carolina. For the part Gov. Dorr took 
in resisting the regular authorities, lie was 
tried for treason, and finally sent to State 
Prison. Subsequently be was pardoned out, 
but the rights of citizenship withheld until 
last year, when the Legislature enacted an un¬ 
precedented law, to expunge the records of the 
court, thus leaving “ the Governor” untainted 
by the smell of treason. The New York Eve¬ 
ning Post says.of him:—“ For what he believed 
to be true and right he was willing to suffer, 
even to ignominy—the severest test of a stead¬ 
fast attachment to principle. He did suffer to 
this extent, though in a cause in regard to 
which he made what seemed to us an impor¬ 
tant mistake of judgment. Those who knew 
him in private life speak in strong terms of 
his amiable temper and the strict purity and 
uprightness of his character.” 
Posted on Chemistry. —One of our Roches¬ 
ter cotemporaries says:—“At Copperas Hill, 
Strafford, Vt., there is annually manufactured 
three million pounds copperas. Thirty men 
.are employed in making copperas, and twenty 
in raising the copper ore. To melt the copper 
ore 2,600 cords of wood arc annually burned.” 
For the enlightenment of our cotemporary and 
any others who need it, we would say that 
copper forms no constituent of copperas, the lat¬ 
ter being sulphate of iron, and manufactured 
by burning the sulphuret of iron ore, and then 
leaching. The combustion converts the sul¬ 
phur of tho ore into sulphuric acid, which in 
turn unites chemically with the oxide of the 
metal, forming a soluble compound, which, on 
being evaporated, produces the green crystals 
known in commerce as copperas. 
New York Legislature. 
Advertisers are particularly desired to note 
our terms,—remembering that, we not only re¬ 
quire payment in advance, hut that we wish no 
lengthy advertisements, and prefer to insert 
none more than four weeks in succession. Al¬ 
though we this week add about 20,000 copies 
to our former regular edition,—and shall pro¬ 
bably continue to issue fifteen (if not twenty) 
thousand more than formerly,— our adverti¬ 
sing rates wall not he increased for the present. 
But as the space devoted to advertisements will 
be limited, as heretofore, to an average of only 
two or three columns weekly, precedence will 
always be given to such announcements as are 
brief, and also appropriate to the character and 
objects of the Rural. For want of space, 
several advertisements intended for this num¬ 
ber are deferred. 
Provoking, but Unavoidable. —Our present 
issue, or at least a large portion of the edition, 
is not printed so well and neatly as anticipated. 
The truth is our pressmen have had a variety 
of ill luck, rendering it impossible to work the 
paper as well as usual,—probably because we 
were resolved that this should be the hand¬ 
somest number of the Rural ever issued ! It 
is certainly provoking, after procuring the 
most beautiful and expert' vc material for the 
new dress, to have all marred by poor printing 
and paper,—for, to “ cap the climax of calam¬ 
ities,” the paper mill upon which we depended 
for a superior article for the whole year, 
“broke” just in time to prevent our order 
being filled. All we can say is, that if money, 
labor, attention and patience arc of any avail, 
the Rural will, in a week or two, present a 
decidedly improved appearance. Meantime, 
this deponent will suffer more than any other 
party interested. 
Congressional. —There was nothing of inter¬ 
est or importance done in Congress last week. 
Several bills were discussed or referred in each 
house, but no votes were taken indicative of 
the spirit or position of Congress. The Senate 
adjourned on Wednesday to Friday, and then 
again over to Tuesday. The House held short 
sessions, adjourned from Wodncsday to Satur¬ 
day, and then to Tuesday. The holidays took 
away all inclination to work and consequently 
nothing was done. 
The Legislature of this State met and organ¬ 
ized on Tuesday. In the Senate the same offi¬ 
cers as those of last session were continued, 
with the exception of the President. The 
Lieut. Governor holds this office ex officio, and 
consequently the Hon. Henry J. Raymond suc¬ 
ceeds ex-Lieut. Governor Church. 
In the Assembly the following officers were 
chosen :—For Speaker, tho Hon. Db WittC. 
Littlejohn, of Oswego ; Clerk, R. U. Shear¬ 
man, of Oneida; Sergeant-at-Arms, Byron 
Ellsworth, of Chautauque; Door-Keeper, PI. 
Groesbeck, of Monroe ; First Assistant Door- 
Keeper, Samuel Hall, of Albany ; Second As¬ 
sistant Door-Keeper, Wm. Buttre, of New 
York. The usual resolutions, for Chaplains, 
Newspaper, Stationery, &c., were adopted, 
when the Governor’s Message was presented 
by J. J. Chambers, Esq., Private Secretary, and 
read ; after which the Assembly adjourned. 
In for It. —The city of Rochester, by a vote 
of its inhabitants, subscribed $300,000 to the 
Genesee Valley railroad, and subsequently sold 
out its interest to Freeman Clarke, who has 
paid in on the contract about $28,000. The 
latter gentleman has sued the city to recover 
back the amount and damages, on the ground 
that the law authorizing the city to issue its 
bonds to nay the subscription is unconstitu¬ 
tional. it looks very much now as if tax pay¬ 
ers will have to bleed pretty freely before the 
city is extricated from its “entangling alli¬ 
ances” with railroad speculations. It is hoped 
the burning we are likely to get will teach us 
to keep our fingers out of the fire hereafter. 
Fire in Toronto. —A destructive fire occur¬ 
red, on the night of the 28th ult., at Toronto, 
in the large cabinet manufactory of Messrs. 
Jacques & Hayes, one of the most extensive 
establishments in Canada. The flames were 
discovered about half-past ten o’clock, in the 
varnishing room, situated in an old building, 
and owing to the combustible naturo of the 
contents, all efforts to stay the progress of the 
fire were vain until it had entirely consumed a 
fine new building adjoining and recently eroct- 
ed, with all its contents. Loss $200,000. 
Read the advertisements—always. Those 
in this number are interesting, and ought to pay 
all parties—reader, advertiser and publisher. 
The Governor’s Message. 
Advance sheets of Governor Clark’s Mes¬ 
sage were forwarded to all the dailies, and the 
document itself was published at length in the 
Tuesday evening and the Wednesday morning 
papers. It is quite a lengthy and interesting 
document, a synopsis of which is given below : 
The receipts on account of the General Fund 
during the last fiscal year, were $1,955,527.42; 
and trie payments during the same period were 
$1,817,850.98. At the close of the fiscal year 
ending Sept. 30,1853, there was a deficiency in 
the revenue of this fund of $419,212.96 ; this 
has been reduced during the past year $140,- 
158.58, and the deficiency on the 30th of Sep¬ 
tember, 1854, was $279,054.38. This reduction 
has been effected by the increase in the State 
tax, which was raised from one quarter of a 
mill to one mill on the dollar by the Legisla¬ 
ture of 1853 : over half the amount thus rais¬ 
ed, however, $657,145.86, was paid in accord¬ 
ance with the requirements of the law, to the 
Auditor of the Canal Department, for the pay¬ 
ment of debts due to contractors, for damages, 
&c. During the next fiscal year the State tax 
will bo only three-quarters of a mill on a dol¬ 
lar ; and, according to the estimates of the 
Comptroller, the income of the General Fund 
will not be sufficient to meet the ordinary ex¬ 
penses of the Government, including the in¬ 
debtedness of the State Prisons—so that the 
deficiency now existing will be still farther 
increased. 
The capital of the School Fund at the close 
of the fiscal year, was $2,425,211.97, which is 
an increase of $41,954.74 during the year.-— 
The receipts on account of the revenue of this 
Fund were $144,116.97. The capital of the 
Literature Fund is $268,620.12, and the reve¬ 
nue received from it during the year was $16,- 
332.14. The capital of the United States De- 
posite Fund is $4,014,520.71, and the receipts 
on account of its revenue were $257,699.08. 
The receipts of the State Canals from tolls, 
rent of surplus waters and interest on current 
Canal revenues, during the past year, amount¬ 
ed to $2,988,665.21 and the aggregate ex¬ 
penditures for repairs, superintendence, &c., 
were $1,237,886.20. The surplus revenue was 
thus only $1,750,799.01. 
The loan of $2,250,000 made for the purposes 
of the enlargement realized a premium of 
$342,952.77. The total amount of contracts 
entered into for work on the enlargement of 
the several canals, is $4,538,741.84, at prices 
averaging over 21 per cent, less than the esti¬ 
mates of the Engineers. 
Fifteen banking associations have been or¬ 
ganized, and eight individual bankers have 
deposited securities and received circulating 
notes, during the last fiscal year. The total 
amount of circulating notes issued to banking 
associations and individual bankers, and out¬ 
standing on the 30th of September, 1854, was 
$24,661,572, for the redemption of which there 
was held in trust by the Superintendent secu¬ 
rities amounting to $25,962,160, of which $6,- 
718,248.11 was in bonds and mortgages. The 
whole number of banks, banking associations 
and individual hankers in the State was 334 ; 
the amount of circulation was $43,962,535, and 
the whole amount of banking capital was $83,- 
773,288, being an increase of $7,081,213 over 
the previous year. 
The Governor discusses at some length the 
punishment of public offences, rocommends 
certain reforms in the criminal laws and prison 
discipline, and is sovcrc on the past fraudulent 
management of our State Prisons. He com¬ 
mends the efficiency and beneficial influences 
of the two Housos of Refuge, recommends an 
extension of the Lunatic Asylum at Utica, and 
the erection of another elsewhere. The Mes¬ 
sage favors the report of the Trustees of the 
Idiot Asylum, and thinks that institution one 
of the greatest benefactions to an unfortunate 
and helpless class. It also recommends further 
legislative aid to the Institution for the Blind, 
and remarks that the condition of the Institu¬ 
tion for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb 
is highly satisfactory. What Is said on the 
subject of public instruction will be given next 
week in our educational columns. 
Ute arrivals of alien emigrants in our ports 
for tho year ending December 27, lo&4, was 
313,747. For the year ending December 27, 
1853, 283,332, showing an excess for the year 
just closed over the preceding, of 30,415. 
The Governor strenuously urges a revision of 
our excise statutes, and vindicates the consti¬ 
tutionality of the Maine Law. He opposes the 
repeal of the Usury Laws, but on the other 
hand urges a repeal of the statute that forbids 
corporate bodies to plead usury ; is severe up¬ 
on the Board of Brokers as a set of gamblers’ 
agents, who, by the system of buying and sell¬ 
ing stocks on time, lead directly to insane 
speculations, breaches of trust, frauds and de¬ 
falcations. He reviews the Lemmon slave case 
now at issue in court, between Virginia and 
this State, and recommends a vigorous and 
efficient defence ; and finally closes with criti¬ 
cisms upon the course of Congress and the 
National Administration in the repeal of the 
Missouri Compromise, and urges such action 
on the part of our Legislature as will tend 
most effectually to its restoration. 
The Legislature of New Jersey will meet on 
the 9th of January. 
The Female Seminary in Peoria, III., was re¬ 
cently destroyed by fire. 
The hotel at Bergen was destroyed by fire 
on Tuesday night. 
Gov. Clark has appointed Joseph J. Cham¬ 
bers, Esq., his Private Secretary. 
TnE Excise Question has been referred in the 
Assembly to a select committee of seven. 
A charitable lady in Cincinnati, says she 
found 500 suffering poor in the 15th ward. 
Venison, fresh, fat and tender, sells at St. 
Louis for 4 to 8 cents the pound. 
A Masquerade ball is announced to come off 
in Albany on the 8th inst. 
A California paper says that a trip from 
there to Honolulu is getting quite the fashion. 
.4 A part of the type for the New Bedford 
Mercury is set up in the house of correction. 
PnELPs, convicted in Albany of the murder 
of his wife, is to be hung on the 19th inst. 
The Legislature of Florida have elected Da¬ 
vid L. Yulee as U. S. Senator from that State. 
CnARLES Sigourney, Esq., the husband of 
Mrs. Sigourney, the poetess, died at Hartford, 
Ct., on Saturday. 
One train on the Eric Railroad carried into 
New York on Thanksgiving day ninety tons of 
poultry. 
There is a deficiency of 50,000 in the re¬ 
ceipts of hogs at Cincinnati, compared with 
last year. 
Wadsworth & Sheldon, bankers, Wall st., 
N. Y., suspended payment Jan. 2. Liabilities 
about $2,500,000. 
Mr. Wise, the Democratic nominee for Gov¬ 
ernor in Virginia, has taken the stump and 
will go through the State. • 
The Troy Times claims that the population 
of that city will number at least eighty thou¬ 
sand, ten years hence. 
Great salt mines have recently been opened 
ai]d worked in south-western Virginia. The 
salt is very line and pure. 
It is said that the steamer Pacific takes out 
67,000 letters ; the largest letter mail ever 
conveyed across the Atlantic. 
President Pierce reached his 50th birth-day 
on the 27th of November, the Thanksgiving 
day of the District of Columbia. 
The Pennsylvania Legislature met at Harris¬ 
burg, January 2d. The House elected H. R. 
Strong, Whig, Speaker, by 75 maj. 
The Cleveland trade on the Ohio canal in 
flour, whiskey, wheat, corn and wood, has de¬ 
creased $8,584,563 since the year 1852. 
Turee German stone cutters were a few days 
ago precipitated from the roof of a five story 
building in Louisville. Two were killed. 
Wm. S. Wetmore, of Newport, R. I., distrib¬ 
uted $100 worth of poultry among the poor of 
that city on Saturday before Christmas. 
The Toronto Colonist says that the British 
Government has purchased 18,000 buffalo robes 
for the use of the army in the Crimea. 
Mrs. Roxana, wife of Rev. Horace Foot, 
Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. in Syria, diod 
on board tho steamer Washington, 24th ult. 
Fitzgibbons, convicted of abstracting money 
from letters in the New York post office, has 
been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. 
Edmund Lafayette, the grandson of General 
Lafayette, and the only lineal descendant of 
the illustrious deceasod, is now in Washington. 
The Illinois Legislature organized at Spring- 
field, Jan. 2d, and elected Thomas Turver, an¬ 
ti-Nebraska, speaker, and E. T. Bridges, do., 
clerk. 
By comparing the vote on members of Con¬ 
gress this year with that of 1850, it is estima¬ 
ted that the population of Wisconsin is now 
504,580. 
In five years the number of believers in spir¬ 
itual rappers has increased in this country over 
two hundred thousand, and they now support 
eleven newspapers. 
I)r. Kane’s party consisted of nineteen men. 
The last letters received from him were dated 
at Uppernavik, the northernmost of the Green¬ 
land settlements. 
The Barbadoes Legislature has voted £100 to 
aid in sending specimens of the products of 
that island to the great Exhibition to bo held 
in Paris in 1855. 
A correspondent of the Illustrated News 
says that the men of the Russian cavalry are 
strapped to their saddles so that if wounded 
they may not fall off. 
The main trunk of the Illinois Central Rail¬ 
road from Chicago to Cairo opens for traffic on 
the 8th of January, and tho branch from Cai¬ 
ro to Galena on the 15th. 
The signatures to the petition from Boston, 
asking for the abolition of the duty on foreign 
coal, reached clear across the hall of the House 
of Representatives. 
Robert Schuyler, the great defaulter, it is 
stated, has bought “a place” on the Rhine 
where he now resides, and has sent for his 
family to join him. 
Only ono voter in the city of Mexico threw 
his suffrage against Santa Ana. Ho was a 
carpenter. In Vera Cruz, the Mexican ruler 
had it all his own way. 
Tub schooner Syracuse having been libera¬ 
ted by the ice near Point an Peloe. is now drift¬ 
ing about Lake Erie without cap min * or crow, 
they having abandoned her. 
It is said that the Russian loss on the 5 th 
must have reached 15,000 men in the killed 
and wounded. The allies buried 6,000 Rus¬ 
sians left dead on the field. 
A delhgation fi'om the Cherokee nation is 
now in Washington endeavoring to sell to the 
government about eight hundred thousand 
acres of land located in Kansas Territory. 
We notice by our exchanges, says the Weekly 
Wisconsin, that school-teachers are in great de¬ 
mand. We scarcely receive an exchange paper 
that does not contain inquiries for them. 
q'uB Philadelphia papers are of opinion, from 
information received at Harrisburg, that Gov. 
Bigler has pardoned Beale, the dentist, altho’ 
the fact has not been officially announced. 
The Legislature of Michigan met at Lansing 
January 3d. The Governor’s Message states 
the indebtedness of the State to be over 
$ 3 , 000 , 000 . 
It was understood that the State Prison In¬ 
spectors would meet at Sing Sing on Monday, 
q heir first business will be the removal of the 
' present Agent, Mr. Lockwood. 
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