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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ROCHESTER, FEBRUARY 17, 1855. 
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“EXCELSIOR.” 
LIBERAL TOWNSHIP PREMIUMS! 
FIFTY DOLLARS IN CASH for the largest list of Sub¬ 
scribers to the Rural Nkw-Yorkkr (the subscribers all 
residing in one Town,) sent in according to our terms, be¬ 
tween the 1st of February and the 1st of May, 1855. 
THIRTY-FIVE DOIXAR8 in Cash for the next largest 
list, on the terms and conditions above specified. 
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS in Cash for the next largest 
list, on like terms and conditions. 
FIFTEEN DOLLARS in Cash for the next largest list, on 
like terms and conditions. 
TEN DOLLARS in Cash for the next largest list, on like 
terms and conditions. 
FIVE DOLLARS in Cash for the next largest list, on like 
terms and conditions. 
THREE DOLLARS in Cash for each of the next ten lists, 
on like terms and conditions. 
A HANDSOMELY and SURSTANTIALLY ROUND VOL¬ 
UME OF THE RURAL for 1854, (price $3,) for each of the 
next twenty lists, on like terms and conditions. 
Papers mailed to different post-officos, if desired, 
but all copies counted on premium must be for actual 
residents of one town at the time of subscribing. The 
subscriptions of persons residing out of the town, can he 
included in the list at club rate, but will not be counted 
toward premium. Subscriptions can begin with the vol¬ 
ume (for the present, or as long as we can furnish back 
numbers,) or with the first No. in February, March, 
April or May. 
SPECIFIC PREMIUMS, 
In order to reward every person who may aid in ex¬ 
tending the circulation of the Rural Nkw-Yorkkr, 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 1 si of May, 1855 : 
THREE DOIAARS, in Rooks, or a handsomely bound 
volume of the Rural for 1854, for thirty subscribers. 
To every one remitting for twenty copies ($25,) an extra 
copy of the Rural and either volume of the Wool Grower 
and Stock Register— or, The Horticulturist for 1855. 
The same premium to every one remitting for itftkkx 
copies, ($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 copios of tlie Rural, and 
either volume of the Wool Grower and Stock Register. 
For $4 wo will send one copy of the Rural, and either 
Putnam's, Harper’s, the Knidcerbodcer, lady's Book or 
Graham’s Magazine for one year. 
For $3, ws will send a copy each of the Rukai and the 
Horticulturist for 1855. 
All competitors for premiums are expected to adhere 
strictly to the following 
TERMS, IN ADVANCE • 
Two Dollars a Year. Three Copies, one year $5—Six 
Copies for $10—Ten Copies for $15—Fifteen Copies for $20 
—Twenty Copies for $25, and any additional number at 
the same rate. j&g“As we are obliged to pre-pay Ameri¬ 
can postage, our lowest Club price to Canadian subscribers 
is $1,50 per copy.“®8. To facilitate mailing, we prefer 
sending Club papers to one address at each Post Office, but 
the names of subscribers will be written on the papers if 
desired. Club papers sent to different Post Offices, and 
names can be sent in at different times. 
[The Wool Grower and Stock Rkgl?ter can be added 
to Rural clubs at 38 cents per volume, or 75 cents a year. 
The full price is 50 cents per volume, or $1 a year.] 
In remitting for clubs, please send Bank Bills, or 
Drafts on New York (deducting the exchange,) instead oi 
Checks or Certificates of Deposit on local banks. 
Specimen numbers, show-bills, prospectuses, etc., 
sent free to all disposed to compote for the Premiums, or 
who desire to extend the circulation of the New-Yorker. 
Subscription money should be properly enclosed, and 
addressed to D. D. T. MOORE, 
February 1, 1855. Rochester, N. Y. 
Our Christmas and February Premiums. 
Having carefully looked over the accounts 
of agents and competitors, we are this week 
enabled to announce the result of the compe¬ 
tition for the Premiums offered for the largest 
lists of Rural subscribers obtained previous to 
the 1st day of February iust. According to 
our figures (subject to correction if erroneous) 
the Cash Premiums are awarded as follows : 
The February Premiums. 
1. I. W. Briggs, Wayne Co., 827 subs.—$100. 
2. J. H. Stanley, Genesee, 359 subs.—$80. 
8 . B. Allen, Tompkins, 344 subscribers—$70. 
4. T. H. Tookkr, Livingston, 305 subs.—$60. 
5. C. D. Langworthy, Allegany,262 subs.—$50. 
6 . S. E. Norton, Ontario, 250 subscribers—$40. 
7. A. Benjamin, Allegany, 184 subs.—$30. 
8 . Watrous & Allee, Wayne, 176 subs.—$25. 
9. R. D. Dickinson, Wayne, 176 subs.—$25. ® 
10. A. Probasco, Ontario, 173 subs.—$10. 
11. J. L. Clark, Wyoming, 147 subs.—$10. 
12. A. H. Toll, Onondaga, 142 subs.—$10. 
13. O. Kimberly, Onondaga, 142 subs.—$10. 
14. L. Plank, Wayne, 135 subscribers—$10. 
15. H. G. Baker, Livingston, 105 subs.—$5. 
16. W. A. Bigford, Orleans, 101 subs.—$5. 
17. E. W. Ford, Wayne, 100 subs.—$5. 
18. P. S. Carver,W alworth,Wis. ,86 subs.—$5. 
19. R. Fulton, Monroe, 84 subs.—$5. 
20. C. M. Brown, Elbridge, 80 subs.—$5. 
21. C. Steketee, Kent, Micli., 79 subs.—$3. 
22. D. Seaver, Genesee, 77 subs.—$3. 
23. G. T. Southworth, Genesee, 77 subs.—$3. 
24. G. F. Ramsdell, Livonia, 71 subs.—$3. 
25. E. II. Gilbert, Nunda, 70 subs.—$3. 
The Christmas Premiums. 
1. I. W. Briggs, of Wayne Co., 575 subs.—$50. 
2. J. H. Stanley, Genesee, 347 subs.—$35. 
3. T. H. Tooker, Livingston, 258 subs.—$25. 
4. B. Allen, Tompkins, 198 subscribers—$15. 
6 . C. D. Langworthy,A llegany,162subs.—$10. 
6 . A. Probasco, Ontario, 144 subscribers—$5. 
The following one hundred persons are each 
entitled to a bound volume of the Rural New 
Yorker for 1854, for the first hundred clubs 
of ten or more subscribers, as offered: 
Geo. Powers, N. J. Frost, A. A. Finney, M. 
L. Youngs, T. H. Tooker, H. D. Benjamin, D. 
B. Abell, J. P. Buckland, G. Quick, “ Royal ton 
Club,” J. R. Potter, N. Maltby, S. Baker, Tbos. 
Cushing, R. Boardman, C. M. Brown, A. Ben¬ 
jamin, E. L. Man waring, O. S. Williams, W. 
A. Bigford, C. Hurd, J. S. Hamblin, H. L. 
Plawley, A. J. Miller, C. Ayer, L. Austin, I. 
W. Briggs, J. Bently, J. Baker, W. Butler, 
E. Yeigh, S. H. Hughes, H. H. Holt, G. II. 
Hodges, J. R. Mitchell, A. J. Carpenter, L. 
Cone, S. A. Davidson, J. W. Earl, B. Farr, J. 
W. Finn, E. W. Ford, E. H. Gilbert, C. Gould- 
ing, Jr., G. Graves, C. Hancock, J. C. High- 
riter, Kingman & Persons, L. W. Kilby, C. D. 
Langworthy, A. Lewis, I. Lisle, J. Mason, G. 
B. McBride, L. Plank, E. P. Phelps, A. Pro¬ 
basco, J. W. Reed, W. Richey, O. G. Rexford, 
W. L. Rutherford, G. B. Sears, J. W. Seaver, 
* The 6th premium, as offered, was only $20, but as 
there is a tie we make it equal to No. 8. 
C. Steketee, S. C. Willey, E. G. Williams, 
Watrous & Allee, W. W. Nichols, W. J. Jor¬ 
dan, V. Reifsnider, J. II. Shepherd, A. Smith, 
II. Crandall, W. W. Avery, J. E. Cook, E. 
Pultz, W. NT. Boltwood, D. Baker, W. Gillam, 
H. Dean, G. P. Deitz, W. H. Gates, G. D. 
Phillips, S. S. Hammond, M. Hines. T. S. 
Glover, R. Miller, J. Whitford, J. H. Brand, 
H. Lincoln, G. R. Lowe, H. Crockett, W. H. 
Gardner, S. PI. Allen, A. H. Savage, S. Eaton, 
G. W. Fellows, H. C. Wood, E. Hamilton, S. 
J. Lewis. 
A number of the above named premiums 
have already been paid,—and the remainder 
will be promptly cashed, or “booked,” on 
receipt of orders from those entitled, specify¬ 
ing tlieir wishes in the premises. We will 
duly honor drafts, remit by mail or express, or 
retain tlie money or volumes till called for per¬ 
sonally,—provided it is distinctly understood, 
that we pay as well as offer Premiums. 
jJfP It is proper to add, in this connection, 
that a large number of the efficient agents and 
friends of the Rural, preferred to compete for 
the Specific Premiums ; hence the Cash Prizes 
excited less competition than we anticipated. 
The consequence is that, while comparatively 
few entered the arena for the large prizes, 
several hundred (perhaps a thousand) persons 
have competed, and are competing, for the 
Specific Premiums offered. Still we are satis¬ 
fied with tlie result, thus far—and hope hun¬ 
dreds more will enter the lists, and secure 
premiums, before the 1st of May ensuing. Our 
Township Premiums are also worthy special 
attention. 
A Great Event. —The Panama Railroad is 
so far completed as to admit the running of 
the cars. The first passenger train passed over 
the road on the 28tli ult., conveying to Pana¬ 
ma the outward bound passengers of the North 
Star. The transit of her return passengers was 
made from ocean to ocean in four hours. This 
important enterprise, which has been built at 
an immense expenditure of life and treasure, 
will now begin to make some adequate return 
therefor. The sacrifice of those poor laborers 
who fell victims to the diseases of the climate 
while constructing the road, will be the means 
of saving many a passenger from an isthmus 
or an ocean grave, by hurrying him past the 
locality ere fever or other diseases will have 
fastened upon him ; and the money expended 
will be returned a thousand fold in the in¬ 
creased expedition, ease, and safety of the 
transit. California and Oregon are now united 
to the Union by indissoluble bonds. 
Crime in Rochester. —According to the re¬ 
port of S. W. D. Moore, Police Justice of this 
city, recently submitted to the Senate, it ap¬ 
pears that there were arrested and brought 
before him during the year 1854, 3,183 per¬ 
sons, 1,680 of whom were charged with being 
drunk and disorderly, and fifty-five were 
charged with felonious crimes, as follows :— 
Grand larceny, 20 ; burglary, 16 ; passing 
counterfeit money, 7 ; forgery, 3 ; rape, 3 ; 
perjury, 3 ; subornation of do., 1 ; bigamy, 1; 
and manslaughter 1. Of six hundred and 
fifty-five who were committed for trial charged 
with crimes, four hundred and sixty-six could 
be directly traced to intemperance. Eight 
hundred and forty-four were arrested for mis¬ 
demeanors and vagrancies, and one-lialf of 
those cases, at least, were the result of intem¬ 
perance. 
The Cold Days. —The Union of this city pub¬ 
lishes a table embracing the theometrical bear¬ 
ings in fifty different localities, on the morn¬ 
ings of the 6th and 7th. It awards the palm 
to West Randolph, Vt., stating the cold at 
that place to have been forty-fonr below zero. 
We think there is a mistake about this, as 
only a spirit thermometer will measure such a 
chill, mercury congealing more than four de¬ 
grees above that point. At Island Point, Vt., 
on the 7tli, the thermometer stood at minus, 
39 degrees ; at Gorham, N. H., 37 ; Nortlifield, 
Vt., 35 ; Quebec, 32 ; Syracuse, 26 ; Utica, 24 ; 
Baltimore, 20; and at Washington 15. This 
is a degree of cold so far South as Baltimore 
and Washington, unprecedented in history. 
Rochester thermometers stood at twenty-one 
below zero—a point never even approached 
before in this locality. 
Anti-Nebraska.—A Free Soil Senator has 
just been returned from Mr. Douglas’ own 
State of Illinois, the Hon. Lyman Trumbull 
being elected to supply the place of General 
Shields. The latter gentleman has heretofore 
been very popular, but his vote on the Ne¬ 
braska hill last session ruined his political 
prospects in a free State. It is undoubtedly 
lucky for Mr. Douglas that the ordeal in his 
case comes four years hence, or he also would 
be directed to retire from public life. Free 
Soil Senators have recently been elected from 
Massachusetts, New York, Wisconsin, Iowa, 
Illinois, and Indiana comes next. We said 
when the hill passed that men from the free 
States who voted for it were signing their own 
political death warrants, and the event verifies 
the prophesy. 
School House Burned. —We learn by a gen¬ 
tleman from Iloneoye Falls that the Union 
School House, in that village, was consumed 
on Monday morning. The fire was first dis¬ 
covered about four o’clock, but had made such 
progress as to render all efforts to save the 
building or its contents unavailing. The 
School house was built of stone, and was a 
very creditable structure, both in appearance 
and internal arrangement, and its loss just at 
this time, when the winter term is in full 
progress, is irreparable. 
The fire is without doubt the work of an 
incendiary, as there had been no school nor 
fire in the building since the previous Friday. 
Congressional Synopsis. 
Last week in the Senate the following bills 
were passed, viz., bills appropriating $12,000 
for improvements of the port of Baltimore; 
for continuing improvements on the Hudson 
river ; to refund to citizens of Wilmington, N. 
C., the amount expended by them to improve 
Cape Fear river; for improving Arkansas 
river ; Tennessee river ; deepening the channel 
over St. Clair Flats; improving the Des 
Moines and Rapids, and the Harbor of Newark, 
N. J.; continuing numerous public works al¬ 
ready commenced in the State of Maine ; ap¬ 
propriating $20,000 to continue improvements 
at the mouth of San Diego river, Cal., and the 
sum of $161,000 for removing obstacles in the 
mouth of Savannah river ; granting pensions 
to all Indians who have served in the army of 
the United States in time of war; to change 
boundaries of Champaganote Land district in 
Arkansas ; a bill dividing the State of Illinois 
into two judicial districts; Mr. Brodhcad’s 
Bounty Land hill. 
Among the hills introduced was one by Mr. 
Sumner to continue certain public works in 
Massachusetts. Bead twice and placed on the 
calendar. Mr. Seward introduced bills to re¬ 
move obstructions at Ilurlgate, and to improve 
the Piers at the mouth of the Genesee river, 
and he also gave notice that he should soon 
introduce divers hills for improvements in 
harbors. 
Gen. Wilson, Senator from Massachusetts, 
was qualified and took his seat. A communi¬ 
cation was received from the Secretary of the 
Treasury in relation to the fineness and value 
of certain foreign gold coins. 
Mr. Stuart presented a joint resolution from 
the Legislature of Michigan, instructing their 
Senators and Representatives to use their best 
exertions to procure the passage of the act 
prohibiting the introduction or existence of 
Slavery in any of the Territories, especially in 
Kansas and Nebraska, and to introduce with¬ 
out delay a hill for the latter purpose, and 
also to procure the immediate repeal of the 
act of 1850. 
Mr. Dodge presented the resolutions of the 
Legislature of his State, instructing their 
representatives in Congress to oppose any al¬ 
teration in the existing Naturalization laws. 
House.— The bill for the relief of Messrs. 
Moore and Haskell, proposing to extend their 
patent for their harvesting machine was con¬ 
sidered, the enacting clause stricken out. The 
bill was concurred in by a vote of 96 to 34, 
which is equivalent to its rejection. The 
House took up the hill remodeling the Diplo¬ 
matic and Consular system, and passed it— 
yeas 143; nays 33. They also passed the 
Texas Creditors’ hill, after cutting the appro¬ 
priation from eight and a half millions to six 
millions five hundred and fifty thousand.— 
Also bills relating to the holding of courts of 
the United States in Tennessee and Florida ; 
authorizing the opinions of the Attorney Gen¬ 
eral to he printed ; regulating the Judges’ sal¬ 
ary of District Courts ; dividing Illinois and 
Ohio each into two judicial districts; concern¬ 
ing the apprehension and delivery of deserters 
from foreign vessels; providing for the accom¬ 
modation of courts in the districtof Maryland, 
and the Post Office in Baltimore ; amending 
the act for making satisfaction for the Virginia 
military land warrants. The Speaker laid be¬ 
fore the House the annual Mechanical and 
Agricultural report of the Commissioner of 
Patents. Referred to the Committee on Print¬ 
ing to inquire into the expediency of printing 
extra copies. A copy of the treaty with the 
Chippewa Indians, was laid before the House. 
The treaty, and a recommendation of an ap¬ 
propriation to carry it into effect, were laid on 
the table. Mr. Babcock, from the Committee 
on Naval Affairs, reported a hill authorizing 
the construction of seven sloops of war. Re¬ 
ferred to the Committee of the Whole. 
JLifei'qi‘1) ^ecolri). 
Legislative Synopsis. 
The great event of last week was the choice 
of U. S. Senator, which resulted in the re- 
election of Wm. H. Seward, as was announced 
by telegraph on the eve of our last number 
going to press. 
In the Assembly on Friday, the Temperance 
bill, after a severe struggle, was taken from 
the Committee of the Whole and referred to 
a Special Committee to report complete, with 
instructions to report on Monday. Wednes¬ 
day, the 21st, was also fixed upon for the final 
vote. The use of the Assembly Chamber was, 
by a vote of the House, granted to Frederick 
Douglass on Friday evening of this week for 
a lecture on the Rights of Man. 
The houses adj. on Friday over to Monday. 
Sayings of the Little Ones, and Poems for their Mothers. 
By Mrs. L. H. Sigourney. Buffalo : Phinney & Co.— 
New York : Ivison & Phinney. 
The little work before us will interest a 
large class of readers, as not only parents, but 
all who love the little ones, will read with 
pleasure the sayings here presented. They 
are given under the heads of “Humorous,” 
“High Principles,” and “Piety,” or dying 
words. The Poems for Mothers, are among 
the best of the many of which Mrs. Sigourney 
is the author. _ 
Harpers’ Statistical Gazetteer of the World. With 
Special Reference to the United States and British 
America. By J. Calvin Smith. New.York : Harper & 
Brothers. 
One more number will complete this valua¬ 
ble work, and give us the best Gazetteer ex¬ 
tant, its size and cost considered. It contains 
seven accurate maps, and the latest Social, 
Agricultural and Industrial Statistics to be 
obtained, of every place of any importance in 
the civilized world. Sold by E. Darrow & Bro. 
The Capitol Extension. —Already the sum 
of $2,350,000 has been appropriated for the 
extension of the United States Capitol ; of 
which there has been expended $1,267,869 30, 
leaving available for the year ending June 30, 
1855, $1,082,130 67. For the service of the 
year 1856, there will he required tlie sum of 
$325,000. If the contractors for marble sup¬ 
ply the material as fast as they have engaged 
to do, the Superintendent sees no reason to 
prevent the next Congress from meeting with¬ 
in the walls of the new chambers. 
Read the Advertisements in this number. 
As we give only such as are likely to interest 
and benefit, and continue none for a long pe¬ 
riod, the advertisements should never be over¬ 
looked. By the way, our advertising friends 
are reminded that “ brevity is the soul of wit,” 
(and economy, too, in advertising,) and that 
we prefer to give no advertisement more than 
four consecutive insertions. 
Avili.on, and other Tales. By the author of “Olive,” 
“Agatha’s Husband,” &c., &c. New York : Harper & 
Brothers. 
This work forms No. 195 of Harper’s “ Li¬ 
brary of Select Novels,” and is by a well- 
known and deservedly popular writer. Sold 
by Darrow & Bro. 
Colton’s Ati.as of the World, Illustrating Physical and 
Political Geography. By Geo. W. Colton. Accompanied 
by Descriptions, Geographical. Historical and Statisti¬ 
cal. By R. S. Fisher, M. D. New York : Colton & Co. 
Part Y. [From R. G. Murray, Agent, Smith’s Arcade, 
Rochester.] 
The Westminster Review for Jan., commences 
a new volume of that able quarterly. Re¬ 
published by L. Scott & Co., N. Y. D. M. 
Dewey, Agt., Rochester, N. Y. $3 per ann. 
About Letter Writing—Again. 
Mr. Moore: —I read with interest your arti¬ 
cle on “Letter Writing.” It is a subject 
which can hardly he too often brought before 
the masses. At the close you say, “ We rest.” 
If you meen by that to invite the experience 
of others, let me cite a case or two in point, 
which will clearly show how indispensable 
plain and full directions are in the transaction 
of business by mail. 
1. Not long since I received a tolerably well 
written letter, with money inclosed, specifying 
the seeds desired by “ return mail,” and sign¬ 
ed by a son of Esculapius who did not forget 
to prefix the title of “ Dr.,” but without dale, 
Post Office, County or State. The post-mark was 
unintelligible, and of course the best I could do 
in the case was to ‘ ‘ fob the cash. ’ ’ 
2. I have this day (Feb. 2,) mailed a pack¬ 
age of seeds after solving an enigma under the 
following circumstances : —Letter contained 
money and request for seeds—dated “Bethany, 
Jan. 12, 1855”—no name attached to it, no 
County, no Stale. Here was a dilemma. Though 
the post-mark was unintelligible, the letters 
“ J. A.,” scarcely visible, was a second point 
gained. Then, I had recourse to the subscrip¬ 
tion books of one of your cotemporaries, (a 
paper in which I had advertised,) and there I 
found a single subscriber corresponding with 
the points already gained. (What if there 
had been more?) To him I sent the package, 
at a venture. 
Sir, I do sympathize with you, because I 
have been thoroughly “bored” in the same 
way. My ‘ ‘ instruction to letter writers ’ ’ who 
may need it, is—Let the first scratches of your 
pen give Post Office, County, State and Date. — 
Then, and not till then, “go-ahead.” 
i. w. B. 
Death has laid a heavy hand upon England 
during 1854, and taken away many illustrious 
and celebrated men, among others the Mar¬ 
quis of Anglesey and Prof, Wilson ; among 
lawyers, Plunket, Denmann, and Talfourd ; 
among literary men, Wilson, James Mont¬ 
gomery, Crafton, Croker, Lockhart, Samuel 
Phillips, and F. K. Hunt; among artists, 
John Martin, Clint, Ramsey, Brockedon and 
Bartlet. 
One of our ice dealers, says the Chicago 
Press, drove his wagon through the streets, a 
few days since, with a pair of elks in harness. 
They were an odd looking team and drew a 
crowd wherever they passed along. They 
obeyed the hit well enough, but stepped along 
carefully, as if apprehending danger, and evi¬ 
dently bewildered by the strange sights and 
sounds of a city. 
The English Church Missionary Society has 
an annual income of £120,000, or about half a 
million of dollars. Its mission agents now 
include above 290 Europeans, exclusive of 
their wives, spread over its stations through¬ 
out the heathen world ; its native horn cate¬ 
chists amount to 1,600, its communicants num¬ 
ber near 16,000. 
One million three hundred and fifty-eight 
thousand and fifty-five dollars were coined at 
the Mint of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, during 
the past year, and five millions five hundred 
and eighty thousand dollars at tlie Mint in 
Guanajuato. 
Information has been received at the Trea¬ 
sury Department, that a judgment has been 
rendered in the Circuit Court against Joseph 
Bates, late Marshal of Texas, for $20,000 due 
the United States. 
The Portuguese Consul C eneral giveB official 
notice that corn and corn meal will be allowed 
to eater the Cape Verd Islands free of duty 
until July 31st, in consequence of the dearth 
prevailing there. 
The Utica Gazette says that the extraordi¬ 
nary expenses for repairs on the Morse Central 
Telegraph Line, during the year 1854, amount¬ 
ed to about $22,000. This is exclusive of the 
ordinary contingent expenses. 
During the year the sum of £199,674 was 
expended by the Government of Upper Cana¬ 
da on the public schools. It is also stated that 
about 20 per cent of the population can neither 
read nor write. 
There are thirty-eight towns named Salem 
in the United States. 
A new Gas Company is projected in Albany, 
to compete with the present monopoly. 
Nineteen hundred hales of cotton were de¬ 
stroyed by the late fire at Gainesville, Alabama. 
Advices from Paris state that Mr. Mason, 
our Minister to France, continued to improve 
in health. 
January 22d, 1813, forty-two years ago, the 
battle of the River Raisin was fought at Mon¬ 
roe, Michigan. 
On Monday morning of last week the ther¬ 
mometer at Springwater Valley stood at 22 de¬ 
grees below zero. 
The total export of lard from this country to 
foreign ports, in the years 1853-4, aggregated 
21,281,951 lbs. 
It is stated to be the intention of the Queen 
to confer the vacant Blue Riband upon the 
Earl of Aberdeen. 
Prince Paul Sapieha and Count Ignatius 
Plater, who had vast estates in Lithuania, have 
just died in Poland. 
A memorial is in circulation in New York 
city asking the Legislature to repeal the char¬ 
ter of the Tammany Society. 
The Lapeer (Mich.) Democrat says that sev¬ 
en wolves have been killed in that town with¬ 
in the last two months. 
A mine of tin ore, which promises to be ex¬ 
tensive and valuable, has been discovered in 
Paulding county, Georgia. 
The annual meeting of the New York State 
Agricultural Society will be held in Albany on 
Wednesday, Feb. 14th, 1856. 
Some of the Pennsylvania journals are advo¬ 
cating the removal of the Capital of the State 
from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. 
The amount expended for the purchase of 
hooks by the Astor Library, New York, since 
its organization, is over $100,000. 
The Columbus Journal states that there has 
been an unusual number of deaths in the Ohio 
Penitentiary during the past year. 
One of the Louisville millers has gone to St. 
Louis to purchase wheat, on account of the 
scarcity of the article in Kentucky. 
The first locomotive ever constructed in Ita¬ 
ly, left the factory at Sampier d’Arena, (Pied¬ 
mont,) on the 29th of December last. 
Lord Clarendon is said to have written his 
history of the rebellion at Swallowfield Manor, 
on the place Miss Mitford lived and died. 
A man named White was found frozen to 
death last week near Mineral Point, Wisconsin. 
A nearly_empty_whiskey_ jug was by his side. 
Mr. Leonard Sedgwick, pipe maker of Barns¬ 
ley, has despatched 5,000 pipes of his own man¬ 
ufacture to the Crimea, for the British forces. 
The owners of the steamer Golden Gate, at 
Cincinnati, have been prosecuted for bringing 
200 foreign paupers from New Orleans to that 
city. 
The Sons of the Pilgrims in New York (N. 
E. Society) are to give a magnificent ball at 
the Astor on the 22d instant, Washington’s 
birthday. 
The number of emigrants who arrived in the 
Province, in 1854, by Quebec, was 53,183. Of 
these, 3,421 were paupers, 2,071 being from 
Ireland. 
Tiib Revenue arising from Customs at the 
port of Toronto for 1853, was £157,026 ; and 
in 1854, £172,670 ; showing an increase of 
£16,044. 
The Maine Law passed the House of the In¬ 
diana Legislature Feb. 9th, and is now a law. 
There is great rejoicing at Indianapolis in con¬ 
sequence. 
A portion of an expedition against Cuba is 
understood to have left New Orleans and other 
southern ports, and some more are soon to 
follow. 
TnE enforcement of the State Liquor Law is 
going on in Cincinnati. Indictments have 
been found against the most celebrated hotels 
in the city. 
The Parisian Jews have introduced organs 
into their synagogues, and the Greeks have 
done the same. This is an innovation upon 
old customs. 
The schooner Wilmington, Capt. W. Brown, 
sailed a day or two since from New London for 
Japan. She has on board an assorted cargo of 
merchandise. 
It is stated that Ex-Governor Bell, of Texas, 
is to take a leading position in the new Repub¬ 
lic in Central America, to he established by the 
Kinney expedition. 
TnE citizens ofToronto have raised $40,000 
as a temporary loan to a large manufacturing 
firm in that city, recently burned out, to ena¬ 
ble them to go forward. 
The Texas Rangers have all been mustered 
into the national service. Three of the compa¬ 
nies have been sent to Fort Clarke, and three 
to Fort Chadbourne. 
The Zanesville Aurora states that a crowd of 
Gipsies have taken up their winter quarters 
in the vicinity of that city, and their appear¬ 
ance attracts great numbers. 
TnE Vienna Press states that, with the con¬ 
sent of the Porte, Austrian engineers are about 
to ascertain tlie difference of level between the 
Mediterranean and Black Sea. 
The contributions to the Washington Na¬ 
tional Monument during 1854, amounted to 
$31,763.93, all of which was expended, with 
the exception of $272.73. 
At the instance of Mayor Wood, of New 
York, over one thousand barbers have signed 
a paper, binding themselves not to keep open 
their shops on Sunday hereafter. 
The Cincinnati Commercial says, a mechanic 
in that city is wasting his talents in trying to 
construct a flying machine, and thinks he can 
succeed if he can only raise the wind. 
It is reported that the Mormons are not on¬ 
ly docile, hut are much pleased with their new 
Governor, (Gov. Steptoe,) whom they soon 
hope to convert to their religious faith. 
January was a hard month for ship owners. 
In that month 43 American vessels, valued 
with their cargoes at over a million of dollars, 
wore wrecked, mostly on our Atlantic coast. 
