\ 50 MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
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Congressional Synopsis. 
t ! Tn» Rural New-Yorker has not shown itself Tub principal matters of interest noted upon 
| I “%/■ j upon our table since the commencement of the in the Senate last week were the following.— 
I ilvl j) flfil *)] &i] A I Si rJw j new volume. The French Spoliation bill was discussed and 
I ! ing of’the^'n^si ty'of'such^trcatment!'- do read ft sccond time ’ Mr ' Mallory’s bill, from 
£ ^ yo „ cons ideE. it just ? Wc have “done the the Committee on Naval Affairs, was passed. 
|______ | handsome” by you, and have a right to expect This bill graduates the pay of Captains, Com- 
| ROCHESTER FEBRUARY 10 185.5. I‘ air trcatmeilt at your hands. Reform at manders and Lieutenants, who are on leave of 
5 vwv.rt/w<,rt.‘\ 'v-i «wi »w„» s «»/•„•» « n.j’' /■ : once > or W( ‘ saa ^ idot your names fo.m the absence, or who are incapable of service. Mr. 
s ' *' ' ' r ' • ■' ; list of fair-dealing publishers.— Orleans Rap. ~ r , . , ... ... , ,, 
s TO AGENTS AND NEW SUBSCRIBERS. ; ^ T , i . . ... , ,, n n Scvrard P re sc nted a joint resolution of the 
£ - _ Tub Rubai, New-Y orker, published b\ . D. Legi s ] a t ure G f New York, in regard to grant- 
| Back numbers of this volume can still he. furnished 1 ' ^ We ev^ted^o be^bfe to°^iv* ing pensions to the soldiers of 1791, and widows 
I ?»»“», of deceased koldicn, of th„»e wA Batad 
I tbL*h>ZkhU mctL cmpuN2fUhffd tropfie l« disappointed us— Wdgrm Co. Whig, to Commit^ on Pensions. Mr. Douglas, from 
| renew or subscribe immediately. Until ovr edition is The Country Gentleman, published at Al- *' be Committee on . territories, reported a bill 
~ exhausted we shall send back numbers to all new sub - ; lmny by Luther Tucker, will be found just the to extend the provisions of the judicial fee bill 
£ scribers, unless othericise directed. Agents will please thing to fill the vacancy occasioned by the of 1853 to all the territories of the United 
C nnis. ihin Yirt.vftftTttnh — nr.il /-/Jstn ihni a tituttavh nvi hIyavp 11 ratiist.rnn'h ft.'' AATft adviflfi our fl'ifindfi htg. . i*n _ at. ..... > n... a? 
ROCHESTER, FEBRUARY 10, 1855. 
TO AGENTS AND NEW SUBSCRIBERS. 
ijSy In remitting Slf>, or more, ptoaso sond draft on 
Now York, Albany, or Buffalo, (lo.« co.-.t of exchange,) 
or check or cortilicato of do;;o : it on any Bank In this 
State,—payable to our order. 
timber. Will not. the friends of the Rubai, govern, „ of the “first rate notices” resolution directing the Secretary of the Treas- 
themsdves accordingly, and send oti the names and " .j 5 . , ury to allow an item of $853 to the Secretary 
funds of all who may del wish to join their companies ? v, ' e aave unwittingly, and most innocently, 0 f Minnesota., which had been paid by him for 
‘ --.- callt>d forth from some vcr - v elever ’ and othe! ' collecting and indexing the journals and judi- 
STECIAL NOTICES. TO AGENTS, &c. rather waspish, contemporaries. And as we cM decigiong of the mid ton . itory . Pas8ed by 
, , , occasionally give specimens of the best notices „ ri a„: TV . f ,„ a r ,„., . vr„ 
f$vj- In remitting 81 f>. or more. nfease sond dratt on l . , . ,, ,, . ,, , unanimous consent. Mr. Gwin, from the Na- 
New York, Albany, or Buffalo, (lo.« co.-t of oxchange,) ! favor o ne uf.al, now give lc m os val Committee, roported adversely to various 
or check or cortilicato of deposit on any Bank in this severe, not to say malicious, items on the 1Ilcmor j a ] 8 re f erred to that committee, inclu- 
State, payable to our order. ‘ ‘ other side ’ ’-for no picture is perfect with- ding that for the purchage of Bub - marine armor 
nsr AGEra-Any person s o disposed can act as agent out proper shading ! And, beside, we have no to bc placed on vegeeIs of war . A communi - 
fortho Rural New- YoasER,y-and all who remit according objection to showing our readers a peculiar cation was received from the Secretarv of War 
to terms will be entitled tr premiums, etc. , ,, , . ... . , ,. r „ canon was receiveu nom tnesecretary 01 War, 
j®»Th 06 b who are furnishing clubs, (20 to 50 copies,) pkibe of l ^ e P 1 ^™ °f « > n 11 _ containing military statistics from the States, 
can send on the names and money of such persons as do sam P C (( ° . S P 10 ^ indicating a properly sea House.—M r. Jones, of Tenn., presented a 
not wish to wait, ani complete their lists afterwards. soned 1 ‘ variety. ’ resolution asking the Committee on Post Offices 
(&■ Tm: Rural is published strictly on the cisnsYsrrat Now', our friend of the Republican is perfectly and p ost Roads how much the Collins line of 
-sent no longer than paid for-and all orders should be right and just in his strictures. Weeks pro- steamers have received, up to the present time, 
in accordance with terms. vious to the commencement of the present f or f re ;<rht and ivassen^ers A arced to MY 
jSSrix writing us, please be particular to give your P. , , , . ,. , ,. ior ireigm, ana jKissengers. Agreea to. Mr. 
O. addre-’r correctly — the name of your Tost Office (not j volume and at the very time when a notice , Cutting offered a joint resolution disapproving 
Town,) County and State. Write all names plainly. would pi owe most Beneficial he dia the the action of the Minnesota Legislature, incor- 
g®” Those wishing their papers changed from one ad- handsome” by calling attention to the Rural poking the Minnesota and North West Rail- 
d*33 .to another, should give the names of both Post in the most-complimentary terms — saying, road Company. He also presented a resolution 
offices the former address, as well as the one desired. among other things, that it was “ in advance disaffirming 'the action of the Legislature 
JSZSXTJSJZX Trea« 50wiS U be ° f cora i )ctitors ’” and “ unsur P a8sed in of Minnesota in incorporating the transit rail- 
Ljt.onoffloo, hv ,5 per copy. ereafter, $~,o will bo coun t r y as an Agricultural and Family r ^ TTiriftT1Tr Tho TT mi c A r<^ 
chargod per copy, when loft at residence by city carrier. , r v ° J roau company. 1 ne Hoube went into Com- 
OS- Westers Money is at present almost unsaleable in P a P er ' And moreover lie added le terms of m ittce on the special order of the territorial 
this city, and we therefore request Western friends and ^ 1C paper, ano where and by whom published, bill, and afterwards passed the bill enabling 
agents to remit Eastern money-or drafts on Buflclo or [Quite different, this, from the course of many the people of Oregon to form a Constitution 
New York, less the cost of exchange. editors desiring an exchange. They speak of and statc Government, and for admission into 
4,35“ Annrnoxs to clubs may be made at any time, at the Rural in the highest terms, but omit the + i i .... 
the nriee ner codv Daid for the original club , . , . ., 6 . , , ,. the Union, and the bill establishing military 
me price per copy pa:u ior vne ouginai ciuo. most important items—price, place of publica- .. . ™ . 
ees=> v iinry \l orpru_We will send tlieRuiui one veer x- . , ,, , , , . posts m the territories. The resolution from 
LibERAL ofver. «e win sene tus Kuiui.onc year, tion, &c. And then, if wo do not send m ex- p,,,,,,,-.: • r . , , . ... ... 
and a yearly copy of either of the $3 Magazinos, for $f:— , , ’ ........ the Pennsylvania Legislature in relation to the 
and the Rural and either of the $2 Magazine.,, for $3.- chau S«> we arc coolly charged with injustice, expedition for the relief of ])r KanGj wa8 re . 
npm —We will send theRmui one .. „ . , ., , , , . yuoio m me icmwnw. me resolution iroui 
4 ®=a LibERAi uftth. w e win send KuiuLone year, tion, &c. And then, if wo do not send m ex- , • T ... . ... , ,, 
and a yearly copy of either of the $3 Magazines, for $f:— , , ’ tiie Pennsylvania Legislature in relation to the 
and the Rural and either of the S2 Magazines, for S 3 .- cllall S«, we arc coolly charged with injustice, expedition for the relief of ]3l , KanC( wa8 re . 
This item will answer several inquirers, and perhaps ben and all that sort of thing !] And we supposed f clTed 3o jj ie Committee on Naval Aff'airs_ 
efit others. the Rural was continued to the Retndlimn, and ,_.... ...... ' 
j^»Si«Bcnn5.v numbers ot the Rural cheerfully for- ntber exebans-es in this State, until our atten- ‘ UI l C l _ es _' ab ' lshin S tlie 
efit others. the Rural was continued to the Republican, and rp. x _ . „ xi i-n x ii-.i- 
a&-Bncana numbers 01 the Rural cheerfully for- other exchanges in this State, until our atten- f , ^ ( " l ' d C \ l 5® * , 1S “ n ® f 1C 
warded to all disposed to aid in augment ing its circulation. .. n i i. u , , ^ olnce ot buiveyor (xeneriu of Utah, and for 
We will send to your own, or tho address of friends, all 1 _ ou ^ >a ' <3 cu , 0 . ie a r ''' ’ cx rac ur g ran (,mg lands to actual settlers therein. Af- 
tho necessary documents—extra numbers, show bills, directions on this point were explicit, but it ter some discussion and confusion, arising from 
prospectuses, etc It will afford us pleasure to respond appears that a portion of the transferring from the introduction of the question in relation to 
to all requests in this line. 0 l d to new r subscription books (fourteen in *i, A nf tko norniii.. 
---- number) was performed by recently engaged Ufcah by thc bi]1) the Houge 8truck out the 
Our Premiums.—T he result of the competi- clerks, wdio did not understand the directions, enacting clause by a vote of 109 to 74 which 
tion for our Christmas and February Premiums The consequence was that not only the above i<5 f iho v; ,i 
will be published in our next number. We and many other political, but several of our ^ZyLt r^nsf^ the vl L Ms 
intended to give it this week, but could not best Agricultural exchanges, were omitted ! proposition was agreed , md after gome 
get the names and figures in time. gsT For “ This is the head and front of ovr offending” amendments> the House passed the bill. ’Fhe 
new Premium List, see last week’s Rural. in the premises. Senate bill authorizing the construction of « 
otnci uu^ uul »tau office of Surveyor General of Utah, and for 
tion was called to the above extracts. Our granting lands to acfcuai gettlerg tberein Af . 
directions on this point were explicit, but it ter som e discussion and confusion, arising from 
ims IS cue neau uum, m ovr amendments, the House passed the bill. The 
the piemises. Senate bill authorizing the construction of a 
A word to our Wayne and Yates county subterranean Une of telegraph from the Mis- 
iemds. If the former will inquire of the far- siggippi or Missouri river to the Paeific ocean, 
ers in his own town and county, lie will lie waa ^ ken upj discufised> aild the enacting 
Intexse COLD.-Tuesday night was one of friends. If the former will inquire of the far- sigsi j or Missouri river to the Paeific ocean, 
the coldest ever experienced m this city,-the mers in his own town and county, lie will lie wag ^ discusscd> md the enacting 
thermometer at 7 o clock on Wednesday morn- very likely to ascertain whether thc Rural has claugc fina]]y stricken out Affcer bein ^ 
ing indicating 15degrees ; below zero. The sun been “discontinued since the last of Decern- Committee on priv ate bills, thirty-six were 
showed his disc through the day, but seemed b er.” The simple fact that one agent residing favorably reported but not enacted upon, 
nearly powerless to mollify the severity of the j n Wayne county, has already paid us over one there being no quorum present 
frost king. Through the week, so far, the thousand, dollars for subscriptions to the present ° . , , ,_ 
weather has been very inclement, but appear- volume, renders it quite probable that the Insubordination in the Navy. 
ances seem to indicate a softening down of the < < untimely catastrophe’ ’ didn’t “ come off ” as _ 
intense cold ere many days. We hope so, for announced! For the benefit of our Penn Yan Lieut. C. G. Hunter, commanding the U. 
the take of man and beast, for both are being neighbor, and other parties interested, we beg 8. Brig Bainbridge, one of the squadron on the 
sorely pinched by the lingers of fi igid old to add that, in addition to the one mentioned coast of Brazil under Commodore McKkbver, 
Winter. by him, there are several weeklies worthy the asked his superior officer’s permission to sail 
. j attention of those “ who want a good Agri- to Paraguay to protect the rights of American 
Know-Nothing Triumph.— A special election cultural paper.” Among these we would men- citizens residing there, who, it was contended, 
has been held in the 29th Senate District, tion the American Agriculturist, New York— needed the presence at that time of a man-of- 
composed of the Counties of Ontario and Liv- Boston Cultivator, New England Farmer, and war. Com. McKeeyer not deeming it neces- 
ingston, for the purpose of filling the vacancy Mass. Ploughman, Boston— Maine Farmer, and sary, refused permission, whereupon the testy 
occasioned by the resignation of Governor Drew's Rural Intelligencer, Augusta— Granite Lieutenant hoisted sail, without orders, and 
Clark. The contest resolved itself into a Farmer, Concord— Ohio Farmer, Cleveland, and brought tho brig home to the United States. 
Know-Nothing and an Anti-Know-Notliing go forth. Though not exactly indigenous to This disobedience of orders is a very grave 
one.'in which the former carried the day by a Western New York, these are all valuable offence, the punishment of which is death; 
majority of at least two thousand. The Rev. journals, and each merits, and we trust is re- and Hunter must have been mad indeed to 
Mr. Goodwin, a Methodist Clergyman of Ge- ceiving, increased support. And wc shall not have risked the consequences of such an act. 
neva and formerly of this city, is the success- object to their introduction hereabouts—for At the very least it must involve an ignomin- 
ful candidate; and his election marks a new there is “ ample room and vergo enough” for ious dismissal from the service, even if the 
era in New York politics, in which the toga aP u V e, flourish, and do good. 6tern sentence of a Court Martial should be 
of the Senator is donned in connection with —. Q ne -^ ord, in conclusion, to our country commuted. The offender has been previously 
the sacerdotal robes of the priest. exchanges, and the scores who wish to become six times before a Court Martial, and twice 
such. We have ever been liberal in this mat- dismissed, and subsequently restored to the 
Fires. On the 80th ult. a fire broke out in ^ er —i ^ O0 mucb go for our interest—and service. It is to be hoped this time will finish 
the village of Port Byron, Cayuga Co., destroy- naturally wish to accommodate. But it is an thc naval career of Lieut. Hunter, or else that 
ing r tavern, a jewelry and dry goods store, expensive luxury, and a most costly manner a Court Martial be established speciallj r for him 
Loss estimated at fnty thousand dollars. On 0 f advertising—considering the cuffs, instead and kept in perpetual session. 
the evening previous the engine house of the of oompRments, too often received. We shall, -———- 
Buflalo, Brantfoid & Gooderich Railroad, at bow ev Cr , continue sending to all our princi- TuKNEwYoRKCHKONiCLE,aReligiousnews- 
Foit Eiie, C. YY., opposite Buffalo, was burned pa j exchanges, albeit few of them, though paper of some note, celebrates its sixth anni- 
and several locomotives badly damaged there- excePcn t papers, are of the least use or benefit versary by appearing in new raiment, consid- 
Ly. ^ I he fire was undoubtedly the work of j n making up the Rural — leaving our friends erably enlarging its dimensions, and installing 
an incendiary, and may perhaps be traced to ^ dec j de ag t 0 the character and amount of Rev. P. Church, D. D., formerly of’this city, 
the recent riox and difficulties -with the labor- rec j proc ity. But, to the numerous applica- and Rev. J. S. Backus, as editors and proprie- 
ers on the line of that Rood. The loss is re- ^ions we are receiving from all parts of the tors. Dr. Church is an able writer, having 
ported variously from $20,000 to $60,000, and ^untry, we would say that we cannot consist- already made his mark as an author, and also 
will piove a seiious embarrassment to a Road erd ] y make additions to our already large and possesses a good degree of the talent and en- 
whose finances are not at present in a very expen8 i V e free and exchange list, without thusiasm requisite to success in the new and 
sound condition. some adequate return—either in advertising, responsible position assumed. The editors are 
’* v — . or a notice embracing the terms of the paper, assisted by several Regular and Occasional 
Suffocation . On the night of Tuesday, the jtg location, and the name of the publisher. Contributors of distinguished ability—among 
30th ult., the*Philadelphia County Prison was----the former Prof. T. J. Conant and Mrs. H. C. 
die scene of a fearful casualty, by which one Hyperborean.— The telegraph announces Conant, of this city. Published every Satur- 
eound condition. 
’* v ** ' or a notice embracing the terms of the paper, assisted by several Regular and Occasional 
Suffocation. —On the night of Tuesday, the its location, and the name of the publisher. Contributors of distinguished ability—among 
30th ult., the^Philadelphia County Prison was----——- the former Prof. T. J. Conant and Mrs. H. C. 
the scene of a fearful casualty, by which one Hyperborean. —The telegraph announces Conant, of this city. Published every Satur- 
of the prisoners lost his life and twenty others that on Monday morning (Feb. 5) the ther- day, at $2 per annum, by Church & Backus, 
came near perishing. It appears that a large mometer at Quebec stood at thirty-two degrees New York. 
smoke pipe connected with the furnace became below zero; at Montreal it was twenty degrees - 1 ‘ ' 1 *-- 
detached, thus permitting the noxious gases below, and at Ogdensburgh twenty-five. Our Melancholy Shipwreck. At midnight ol 
to escape into the corriders. In the morning, weather is mild compared with that, and leaves Sunday, the 2<Sth ult., the bark Argyle, of 
when an officer went tho rounds, he discover- us no reason to complain much, as wc have Nova Scotia, bound to New York, went ashore 
ed one of the prisoners in a state of insensi- been disposed to do so. at Squan Inlet, on the coast of New Jersey.— 
bility, and immediately gave the alarm. It ---—- The crew, ten in number, and one passenger 
was. ascertained that twenty of the prisoners Fowlers and YY ells’ Journals, advertised in clung to thc rigging, in plain sight of specta- 
were overcome, and all appeared in a statc of this week’s Rural, are among the most wide- tore on the beach, who could render no assist- 
asphyxia. Immediate relief was administered awake and progressive publications extant, ance, and one after another chilled by the 
by the physicians, and all recovered except Their new weekly, heretofore commended to freezing waves which dashed over them, fell 
one, who, although still alive when removed, our readers, is a taut and beautiful craft, car- into the sea and perished ; a single person 
died soon afterwards. Tying a rich cargo on each voyage. only reaching the shore alive. 
.■Legislative Synopsis. 
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A large number of bills have been intro¬ 
duced, and others reported upon by commit¬ 
tees, many of which are of a private character, 
the session not having yet sufficiently ad¬ 
vanced for final action on general bills. 
One of the chief items of interest in the 
Senate has been the consideration of the 
Eedesiastical tenure bill, introduced by Sena¬ 
tor Putnam, of Erie. It has been the aim of 
thc Romish church to divest the societies of 
all pecuniary interest in church property and 
vest the titles in the Bishops. In some in¬ 
stances, where the congregations have insisted 
upon their rights to manage the temporalities 
of the church, the thunders of the Y T atican 
have been hurled against them for contuma¬ 
cy, and the trustees have been excommunica¬ 
ted. The priests have been removed, the 
rights of baptism and burial denied to the 
congregations, and all the spiritual enginery 
of the church brought in order to enforce the 
decrees of the Pope. In this way they have 
succeeded in vesting in about fifty ecclesiastics 
twenty-five millions of property, which is 
daily increasing in amount and value; and it 
is to break up this dangerous and anti-repub¬ 
lican centralization of property, at which thc 
hill aims. Senator Putnam made a most pow¬ 
erful speech in favor of the bi 1, and it will 
probably pass, as it ought to do. 
The grand and absorbing matter, which, 
like Aaron’s serpent, swallowed up the rest, 
was the election of United States Senator.— 
Caucusing, log-rolling, &c., were the order of 
the day. The election was to take place to¬ 
day, (Tuesday,) and Wir. H. Seward’s chances 
for a. re-election seem very favorable. 
Seward re-elected U. 8. Senator! 
The following telegraphic dispatch from our 
Albany Correspondent, was received while clo¬ 
sing this number for the press: 
Seward is triumphantly elected. He had 
69 votes in the House, and 18 in thc Senate. 
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 
Mr. Editor :—In your paper of Jan. 27th 
you have a cut of the New York Deaf and 
Dumb Institution, in New York city. It is a 
noble charity, as all our charities are, but there 
is a little matter connected with its manage¬ 
ment that the tax payers ought to understand. 
The money which will be expended useless¬ 
ly upon that building, would found two in 
other parts of the State, that would accommo¬ 
date in each as many pupils as will be accom-^ 
modated there. The building will cost, when 
completed, about four hundred thousand dol¬ 
lars ; and among the items that go to make up 
that expense, is one of paying $28 per thou¬ 
sand for Milwaukee brick, when as good in all 
respects, save the fancy color, could be had 
for six or eight dollars. 
YVhile there can be no objection to building 
good and substantial structures for our public 
charities, there is a very great objection to 
making them ornamental at the expense of 
both utility and propriety. One hundred 
thousand dollars, properly expended, would 
have been ample for all the purposes of erect¬ 
ing a good building to accommodate as many 
students as ought to be brought together in so 
expensive a locality as New York city. But 
there are other things connected with this ex¬ 
travagant waste of public funds, connecting it 
with the pockets of certain persons interested 
with the management, which I do not now 
propose to bring before the public, as the 
time has not come for that. I suppose it will 
do no good now' or ever to call thc attention of 
that patient goose, the Public, to any of those 
sources of plunder. I am aware, from personal 
experience, that he who does so, or strjves to 
bring the public plunderers to justice, gets 
from the good people neither thanks nor as¬ 
sistance, but, on the contrary, only kicks.— 
Y r et I am not disposed to yield to the plucking 
without at least making a squall. 
One Who Knows. 
•ffetos 61 if>f)iy)cjs, 
California Quicksilver. — During 1854, 
1,449,000 pounds of quicksilver, the product 
of the new Almaden mine, were shipped from 
California, which, at 60 cents per pound, 
amount in value to $724,500. The shipments 
during 1853 -were 1,410,000 pounds. “ It will 
be observed,” says a San Francisco paper, 
‘ ‘ that the shipments are pretty nearly the 
same from year to year, although the new 
Almaden mine is capable of yielding unlimited 
supplies of the metal. Sufficient only is pro¬ 
duced to supply the demand, and not enough 
to overstock the market. The mine is far 
more valuable than all the rest of the quick¬ 
silver mines in the world put together.” 
New Lunatic Asylum. —The three Commis¬ 
sioners appointed by the Legislature to locate 
a second Lunatic Asylum, are Abijah Moss, of 
Lockport; D. T. Brown, of Bloomingdale, and 
Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, of Binghamton.— 
These Commissioners are authorized to receive, 
by gift or purchase, at an expense not to ex¬ 
ceed $5,000, suitable lands not less than fifty 
acres, nor more than 100 in area—the Com¬ 
missioners to receive $3 per day for every day 
actually employed by them in the discharge of 
the duties imposed. 
Queer Matrimonial Freak. —A letter from 
a citizen of Livingston county, Ky., to the 
Dansville Tribune, relates the following bit of 
family history in that neighborhood : 
“A widow took an orphan boy to raise, quite 
sma’l, and when arrived at the age of eightheen 
she married him, she then being in her fiftieth 
year. They lived many years together, happy 
as any couple. Ten years ago they took an 
orphan girl to raise. This fall thc old lady 
died, being ninety-six years of age, and in 
seven weeks after, the old man married the 
girl they had raised, he being sixty-eight years 
old and she eighteen.” 
There are 100 churches in Pittsburgh. 
There are 502 students now in the Universi¬ 
ty of Virginia. 
A 7,000 dollar bed lias been made in Paris 
for a Turkish gentleman of fortune. 
In California a line of telegraph wire is be¬ 
ing stretched between Sonora and Stockton. 
Fresh shad have got as far up the coast as 
Portsmouth, Va., but are not yet abundant. 
Hope Chapel, in Broadway, New York, has 
been converted into a NegTo Minstrel Saloon. 
The Court House at Freehold, Monmouth co., 
N. J., was destroyed by fire on the 2d of Feb. 
The Canal Commissioners have advertised 
for another loan of $1,000,000 for canal pur¬ 
poses. 
Hon. John Slidell was elected Senator from 
Louisiana, on the 24th ult. This disposes of 
Mr. Soule. 
The bill altering the Constitution of Den¬ 
mark, has passed the first reading of the Leg¬ 
islature. 
A six fold land tax, payable in twenty-four 
instalments, is to be imposed by Russia on 
Polish proprietors. 
The Grand Jury have found bills of indict¬ 
ment against the five leading gambling houses 
in New Y’ork city. 
Several of the manufactories of Pittsburgh, 
which have been idle for some time, are about 
to recommence operations. 
A critical analysis has demonstrated that 
the excessive use of saleratus in cooking is ex¬ 
ceedingly pernicious. 
At Ogdensburgh, Feb. 2d, teams were cross¬ 
ing the St. Lawrence River on the ice for the 
first time this winter. 
It is stated that the English government has 
sent large orders to the New York butchers for 
beef to supply the British army. 
There are thirteen newspapers in foreign 
languages published in New York,—7 German, 
3 Spanish, 2 French, and one Italian. 
There are at present 125 patients confined in 
the State Insane Asylum at Stockton, Califor¬ 
nia, twenty of whom are females. 
The saw mills in the vicinity of Steven's 
Point, on thc Upper Wisconsin, are cutting 
2,600,000 feet of lumber every month. 
The Massachusetts Legislature has directed 
the Clerks, &c., to provide themselves and the 
members with American stationary. 
A conference is about to be opened with a 
view of adjusting the existing difficulties be¬ 
tween Austria and Switzerland. 
It is stated that the winter in Minnesota has 
been thus far remarkably open. There was no 
snow at all until the 5th of January. 
Mr. Tupper, the author of Proverbial Phi¬ 
losophy, has given a gold medal “for thc en¬ 
couragement of literature in Liberia.” 
The formal taking possession of the Messiila 
Valley by the United States authorities, is 
t officially announced iu thc Mexican papers. 
In London, with two and a half million of 
inhabitants, there is published but one news¬ 
paper in a foreign language, Le Courrier de l’ 
Europe. 
The Phi'adelphia North American says the 
scarcity of money will have but little effect on 
building operations in that city during the 
coming season. 
At the late election at Oxford University, 
Rev. Dr. Pusey, the leader of the Romanizing 
party, was elected on the Governing Board by 
a very large vote. 
The famous Elder Knapp was last week at 
Penn Yan, Yates county, and baptised between 
forty and fifty people, the fruit of his preach¬ 
ing there. 
The Nevada Democrat learns that a large 
quartz boulder was recently found at Orleans 
Flat, which weighed seven pounds, and yield¬ 
ed $150. 
The Legislature of Maine has authorized a 
loan in bebaff of that State to the amount of 
$218,000, payable at Portland at various times 
from 1867 to 1860. 
Mr. John Craig, late of Middleport and now 
of this city, has purchased the residence of 
Hon. A. Boody, on East Avenue, with four 
acres of land, for $20,000. 
Halsted Hall, on Buffalo street in thi6 city, 
has been sold to a gentleman from Riga, for 
$20,000. The purchase includes also eleven 
and a half acres of land. 
G. G. Foster, author of New York in Slices, 
&c., was married on the 25th, in Moyamensing 
Prison, to Madame Marguarettes. He is in jail 
on a charge of forgery. 
The Belfast (Ireland) Mercury makes the 
strange announcement, that the corporation 
of that city is bankrupt, that it has in fact 
failed, with a debt of £280.000. 
A Northern gentleman has purchased a farm 
of 260 acres near Norfolk, Va., for $19,000, 
with the design of raising fruits and vegetables 
on a large scale for that market. 
The valuation of real estate in Chicago, for 
the year 1854, is $18,990,744 ; personal prop¬ 
erty, $5,401,495—total, $24,392,239. The total 
valuation for 1853 was $18,067,113. 
The militia force of Maine numbers 2,617 
men; 27 companies have been petitioned for 
during the year past, and 15 organized. Seven 
companies were disbanded last December. 
The correspondent of thc Times reports the 
health of Hon. Hamilton Fish is so poor that 
he is compelled to vacate his seat in the Sen¬ 
ate for most of the remainder of the session. 
The Ohio river at Cincinnati is filled with ice, 
and navigation suspended. Accounts from 
Louisville say that the river was full of float¬ 
ing ice, and that the boats had ceased running. 
Rents in San Francisco have fallen 35 per 
cent., wages 40, and salaries 60 per cent., and 
real estate is positively unsaleable. So writes 
an intelligent Californian to the National Int. 
Gov. Gorman, of Minnesota, had a fight with 
an auctioneer named Collins, in St. Pauls, on 
the 10th inst. Strange as it may appear, in 
this case the auctioneer was “knocked down.” 
Since the introduction of thc postage labels 
into Great Britain for thc pre-payment of post¬ 
age, not less than 350,000,000 of the “ heads ” 
have been manufactured, sold, and obliterated. 
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