CONTENTS 
THIS NUMBER. 
AGRICULTURAL. Pact?. 
The Beet Way and the Right Time.... 37 
Architecture. 37 
Grain vo. Hay, Straw, Arc.37 
A Rural Gothic Form House, (Illustrated]. 37 
IIi(rh Feeding and Manuring.. .37,38 
Making Ma|)]eSugar . _ ___.... 3H 
Block Spanish FowIh, Again. SB 
About Broom Corn . 38 
The Bee-lierper. The Queen iiep and Her Progeny ; 
Age 04 UttM Xi 
Inquiries und Aneuurrs. Tobacco; About Seeds; Bone 
Spavin anil Tliurougb-Bin . . . .». . .38 
Agricultural Press of 
K,™ “ 
United States 
Agricultural Miscellany. The 
America: KciMVriuie liurn.1 Prggrr**: 
Cenmm; Been tor (kilitort ia Novel < ‘itrsti; Live and Bend 
Weight tj| (kittle; pruu - for Manorial Experiments; l*»e- 
niiunm to Reporter*. Hnrghuni Paper; An Kxtta Big; To 
CorrcBpommite; Bout Make Alumnae* .. ...38 
Agricultural Sorulitu. ttidinnii Shite Board of Agri¬ 
culture; Krn**<-luer Go.; Seneca Co.; Wayne Co; Essex 
and Willalxtro Co.; The Union; Winfield Union; Farm- 
err’ and Mich:mica’ (Bub; New York State Ag. Sociely 38 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Winter Pear*..,.... 39 
Bello Rjiine Dunum Pear, t ii 1UMrated] .... . . 39 
Prince'* St. Germain Pear, (Illustrated].39 
Apple* for Wisconsin . ..39 
To Preserve Bqnaslt Seed Put® . . . ...39 
Design for a Suburban Garden, (IliuhiratodJ. 39 
Inquiries and Antvert. Making Raisins; Pie Hunt 
Wine; Summer Houses; The Burberry, llllustratedj .... 39 
JlorticuUvralNoirc. GoDrsoe Valley Hurt. Society; 
The Horticulturist; '1 tic Gardeners’ Monthly; The Peach 
Buds; Colored Print and Mower Plater; Convention of 
Wisconsin 1‘rail Growers; Horticultural Loctuie* , 39 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
An Old-fashioned Indian Pndoing; Indian Bread; Soda 
Cracker*: Vinegar Pie; Cure tor a Felon;.Dish for 
Breakfast; Good Pie-crust.. .39 
LAWKS* OLIO. 
Without and Within, (Poetical;] To a little Girl, [Poeti- 
cal:| Familiar Chut with Friend*; Girl Health; The 
Wife; Ambition.... . 40 
CHOICE MISCF.LLANY. 
Daylight. [Poetical;] “Life iSftDTeum;” True Heroism; 
Jerusalem by Moonlight; Avarice; The Silent Conflict* 
of Life. 40 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Hymns for Devotional Hours. [Poetical ;j lire Web of 
Life ; Outlived Sorrow ; Words of Man’s Wisdom ; 
40 
THE REVIEWER. 
Cooper's Novels; Farm Drainage, l v Hon. Henry F. 
French; Darlington's American ..Is and Useful 
J’lants: Stray Leaves from the Book ol Nature, hv 
Prof. JK: Veroj Books Received . 41 
SPICE FROM NEW BOOKS. 
Jackson at Twenty; The .Seclusion of the Soui 
USEFUL QIJ0. 
Tire Traveler’s Tree, (Illustrated). 41 
YOUNG RUIIALIST. 
Cone Frames; Crystallizing 
Pennington, and Fmith, of N. C., not voting.— 
Another vote wits taken previous to adjournment, 
the result of which v us precisely similar to the 
last above noted. Y« r e are, Consequently, still 
w ithout a Speaker. 
Hon. Wm. Appleton has addressed a communi- 
catiou to the Boston Board of Trade, suggesting 
that a memorial l,o presented to the President of 
the United States, requesting the mediation of 
our Government in the existing difficulties be¬ 
tween England and Fi ance and China. The Board 
of Trade at a special moeting adopted a resolu¬ 
tion to that end, and also invited the Boards of 
Trade of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore 
to join in the acL 
There are about §3,000,000 in possession of the 
Post-Office Department, hnt which cannot he 
paid out till an appropriation hill is passed. 
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Political Intelligence. 
The growth of tl:e West is forming quite a 
problem for the mathematically-inclined politi 
clans. The total vote for Governor in Wisconsin 
at the last election was 123,299. Estimating a 
vote to every 7 of population, the total population 
is 8(13,093, un increase of over 660,000 since I860. 
Estimated on the same ratio, the vote at the last 
election in Illinois would indicate that in Novem¬ 
ber, 1868, the population of that State was nearly 
1,800,000, which is probably not far from the actual 
figures. Illinois now lists nine members of Con¬ 
gress, and Wisconsin three—total twelve. If the 
ration he fixed at 106,000 for a member of Con¬ 
gress, it will give Wisconsin eight and Illinois 
seventeen members after 1801. 
Tub Democracy of Tennessee met in Conven- 
41 
Grasshoppers ; Making 
Gnu-HCM. 
STORY TELLER. 
“At the Igwt,“ (Poetics);] Lydia llallinwsori’s Journal 
41 
44 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY 4, 1800. 
THOSE GRATUITIES TO AGENTS, &c. 
__, tion, in Nhshville, on Wednesday week. They 
Chris dan* Kid th. , 8 °"^. 5 . . 5 .°^ * *“!" Wi ^"’ ; 40 | unanimously presented Hon. Andrew Johnson, of 
that State, as their first choice for the Presidency. 
The following are the delegates to Charleston:— 
Samuel Millegan, J. I). C. Atkins, Andrew Ewing, 
W. A. Quarles. 
The official vote of Kansas has been published, 
and is as follows:— Governor —Whole vote 13,283. 
Charles Robinson, (Rep.) 7,884; Sam’l Med ary, 
(Deni.) 6,399; Robinson's majority, 2,485. Chief 
Junlive —Whole vote 18,296. Thomas Ewing, Jr., 
(Rep.) 7,9'jC; Joseph Williams, (Dem.) 6,299; 
Ewing’s majority, 2,097. Member of Congress — 
Whole vote, 13,226. M. P. Conway, (Rep.) 7,CM) 
J. A. Halderman, (Dem.) 6,666; Conway’s majority, 
2,096. 
The Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society held 
its annual Convention on the 26th ult Francis 
Jackson, President of the Society, presided. The 
annual report of the Treasurer shows the receipts 
of the past year to he a little over $3,800, and 
expenditures $3,400. Most of the leading Aboli¬ 
tion orators were present 
The Legislatures of Kentucky, Tennessee and 
Ohio have been enjoying themselves the past 
week. The law-makers of Kentucky visited their 
Ohio brethren at Columbus on the 2<iUr, uud were 
conducted to the hull of the House ol Represen¬ 
tatives, where they were received by the general 
Assembly in joint convention, and heartily wel¬ 
comed in an address by Gov. Dennison. Gov. 
Magoffin, of Kentucky, responded, returning 
grateful thanks in the name of the people of his 
State for this most cordial welcome. He had 
expected a warm welcome from the people of 
Ohio, but was entirely utiprepured for such a 
greeting as had been given, lie would take home 
this welcome to the people of Kentucky, and tell 
them all we will have to do to keep the govern¬ 
ment together is to see each other oftenor and to 
know each otherbelter. Gov. Magoffin then intro¬ 
duced Col. Newcomc, of the Tennessee Legisla¬ 
ture, who responded in behalf of that State. He. 
Raid that while Congress cannot organize, Ohio, 
Tennessee and Kentucky can meet and greet each 
other as brethren, lie eulogized the Union and 
Constitution. His speech was received with 
great applause. After the adjournment of the 
convention a meeting was extemporized, a*, which 
numerous speeches were made. The best of feel¬ 
ing and greatest enthusiasm prevailed. 
The Republicans of Connecticut met in con¬ 
vention at Hartford on the 25th ult. A ballot for 
Governor and Lieut Governor resulted in the 
unanimous choice of Wm. A. Buckingham for 
Governor, and Julius Colton for Limit Governor. 
The following delegates, for the State at large, to 
Chicago, wore selected: — Gideon Wells, E. K. 
Wooster, Chauncey F. Cleveland, A. H. Holley. 
The Kansas Territorial Legislature re assembled 
at Lecompton on the 20th ult., in conformity with 
the special l’roclamation of Gov. Medury, and 
immediately passed a joint resolution adjourning 
to Lawrence. The Governor having returned this 
resolution with his veto, it was immediately taken 
up and passed over his veto by a vote of 9 to 3 in 
Council, and 29 to 8 in the House. 
the rain which is leferred to by the above corres¬ 
pondent is the first which has appeared in Egjpt 
for L.700 years. 
1>. D. Owes-, State Geologist of Arkansas, re¬ 
ports to the State Board of Agriculture that 
during the progress of the survey of the State, 
several beds of iron ore were found, usually either 
interstraAificd with the coal measures, or near the 
margin of the coal basin, some of which ores 
evidently contain a large per ceutage of iron. 
Mil Thomas Mahcy, one of the early settlers of 
the Western Reserve, died at Freedom, Portage 
Co., Ohio, on the 12th of January, aged 90 years 
lacking one month, lie removed to Ohio from 
Otis, Bcikshiie Co., Mass., and traveled the ground 
from Massachusetts to Ohio thirty-four times with 
his own team. 
A flat boat of immense dimensions is :n pro¬ 
gress at St. Paul, Minnesota. It is designed t<> 
carry a load of ice down the Mississippi. The 
boat is built with three compartments, each 104 
feet in length, and 18 feet widev 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
We were unable to completejuulpublish,last week,the 
result of the competition lor the Extra Gratuities A<\, 
offered fur early club« of subscriber* to present relume, 
as the labor wan greater than anticipated. Tire report 
and awards are, however, now published iu full in a Sup. 
plerncnt, which will he sent, to all interested (every per. 
son who has formed a club) during the present week.— 
The statement is full, and we think will be found accurate 
in all respects Wo bike this occasion to again tender 
acknowledgements to nil who have contributed to the 
large increase of our circulation during the past two 
months—an Increase which has, tor once, far exceeded 
our most sanguine expectations. 
ff.’if'’ See notice 11 To Correspondents’’ on second page. 
13'’” Publishers' Special Notices, &«., on next page. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington Matters. 
In the examination by the Harper's Ferry In 
ventigating Committee nothing of special impor 
tancc lias been elicited. 
The intelligence of the disastrous defeat of the 
Liberals in Mexico, by Miramon, has damaged the 
prospects of Mr. Me Lane's treaty, it being mani¬ 
fest that Juare z has no foothold out of Vera Cruz, 
and that oven there bis tenure is frail. 
The President has ordered from the National 
Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, one hun¬ 
dred and fifteen thousand muskets for Southern 
use, to be stationed at Charleston, South Carolina; 
Augusta, Georgia; and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; 
and also nine thousand rifles from the Watertown 
and Watcrville arsenals for Southern use. 
The exciting topic in the “City of Magnificent 
Distances” just at the present time, is the selec¬ 
tion of a Speaker for the House. On Friday a 
vote was taken, and, had the members been com¬ 
pelled to stand by their previously assumed posi¬ 
tions, W 7 m. N. H. Smith, of North Carolina, would 
have been chosen. The result of the ballot was 
as follows: 
Whole number of votes_ 228 
Necessary to a choice... 115 
.Sherman___106 
Smith. N. f. ...... J. ll'J 
Corwin...._ 4 
Scattering_ 6 
Several withdrew from the support of Mr. Smith 
voting for Corwin and Pennington. After this 
vote the House adjourned until to-day, (Mon¬ 
day.) Caucuses have been the order since, and 
we would not bo surprised were a choice speedily 
obtained. Telegraphic dispatches seem to indi¬ 
cate the dropping of Sherman and the substitu¬ 
tion of Corwin or Pennington, in which case it is 
thought the chances will favor the Republicans. 
The telegraph of this morning (Tuesday,) gives 
tire result of the three ballots taken yesterday, as 
follows: 
Whole number.. 234 
Necessary to a choice... 118 
Pennington_ 116 
Smith. N. C. 112 
Scattering.. 6 
Mr. Winslow moved that the House proceed to 
another vote. The House again voted. 
Whole number.. 232 
Necessary to a choice. .. 117 
Pennington ..._ 115 
Smith... 113 
Davis, of Ind.:... 2 
’ll.. 1 
aggregate vote was lessened by Messrs. 
Tnn Spanish war in Africa is becoming unpop 
ular at home. It has already cost 7,000 lives and 
fifty millions of francs, without being anywhere 
near an end, and latterly the Moors are gaining 
upon the Spanish troops. 
The Virginia legislature has passed the hill 
providing for the payment of the Harper's Ferry 
expenses. The bill appoints the Secretary of the 
Commonwealth, the Auditor and Attorney-Gene¬ 
ral, a Board to audit the claims and issue war 
rants, to bo paid by the Auditor, provided not 
more than $160,000 be so paid; that all claims 
shall be presented within six months; and provi¬ 
ded when doubts arise as to the claims, they shall 
be reported to the IIcase. The bill also excepts 
and requires to be reported to the legislature the 
claims of all general, staff and field officers, and 
all railroad companies. 
It is a remarkable fact that nearly all of the 
candidates for the Vice Presidency in the Demo 
cratic National Convention at Cincinnati in June, 
1866, have since paid the debt of nature. Lynn 
Boyd of Kentucky, J. C. Dobbin of North Caro¬ 
lina, General Quitman of Mississippi, General 
Rusk of Texas, Aaron V. Brown of Teuticssee, 
were presented as candidates by their respective 
Htates, and obtained a large support. They are 
now ail dead! 
The London correspondent of the New Y’ork 
Herald, writes that the Government of Great 
Britain lms appropriated £200,000, about a million 
of dollars, to keep up the slavery agitation in the 
United States. 
Aukam F. Scranton of Madison, Conm, who is 
now seventy-six years of age, has never ridden in 
a railway car in bis life, and has determined that 
he never will. He invariably walks from Madison 
to New Haven, when business cails him, and per¬ 
formed the feat on Tuesday, returning on Wed¬ 
nesday, a distance of twenty-one miles, in about 
five hours and a half, without serious fatigue. 
Tjig Habancrou are quite enthusiastic in regard 
to the Moorish war. A number of young gentle¬ 
men have o'lermf themselves us volunteers, and 
the Spanish Bank at Havana has put at the dispo¬ 
sition of Her Majesty three hundred thousand 
dollars, without interest, for one year. This bank 
can well afford to be patriotic, as it lias just de¬ 
clared a semi-annual dividend of fifteen ««• cent. 
At the last President's levee in Washington, 
considerable amusement was created during the 
evening by the rather strange conduct and uni 
form worn by a gentleman present, who made 
himself unusually conspicuous, it was ascer¬ 
tained that he was a stranger from the West, and 
had been persuaded to adopt the attire he wore 
by some wags, who informed him that lie must 
wear a court dress or military uniform on his 
appearance at the reception of the President 
News Paragraph*. 
Tun St. Anthony News says that the Sioux Indi¬ 
ans, to the number of 2,300, have been scattered 
through the Big Woods, Minnesota. They have 
killed about 2,000 deer, cutting off the supply 
upon which many of the poor whites relied. 
They are inveterate beggars, and sometimes en¬ 
force their applications by threats, though they 
always retire when they are met boldly by the 
whites. 
A statement of the imports and exports ut the 
Port of Toronto for the year 1859 has been pub¬ 
lished. The imports show an increase over those 
of 1858 of $249,000, and the duties collected an 
increase of $127,000. The increase in the vulue 
of the exports is $268,299. 
Sir Archibald Alison, in his history of Europe, 
writes as follows:—" It never rains in Egypt; cen¬ 
turies may elapse without more than a shower of 
drizzling mist moistening the surface of the soil. 
It is said that it has not rained in Egypt for 1,700 
years.” A correspondent of the Times writes 
from Alexandria, Oct. 31, 1S59, as follows:— 
“Englishmen express their astonishment at the 
heavy raius we have lately experienced, having 
come with the erroneous impression that it never 
rains in Egypt” Upon this, it is asked whether 
Eight persons were drowned near Rhincbeok 
on Tuesday week. A party of 20 or 25 persons, 
Bom the opposite side oi the river, were crossing 
on the Jco in a largo covered sleigh drawn by four 
horses, when the ice gave way and the sleigh 
went down, currying with it eight of the passen 
gers, who were drowned. All but eight succeeded 
in getting out of the sleigh before it went clown. 
The horses were saved. 
An Exiled Frenchman in a Station House.- 
The Boston Bee speaks of an elderly man, a 
Frenchman, 62 years old, who is in such straight¬ 
ened circumstances as to be compelled to lodge 
in station houses. He was banished from France 
by Napoleon Til,, for ail article which appeared iu 
one ol the Paris papers on the Italian question, 
the views taken in it being a little anti-Napolconic. 
He sailed from Havre six weeks since, deprived 
of everything in the shape of money and valua¬ 
bles. He is a learned man, being master of seven 
languages. 
Silver Product ok California _The silver 
discoveries iu California promise to bo of far 
more importance than the discovery oi' gold in 
1848, inasmuch as the product of the lighter 
metal will bo now more abundant, and its com 
parativc appreciation iu value, growing out of its 
relative scarcity, will cease, thus removing the 
apprehensions of a troublesome change which has 
given so much uneasiness to political economists. 
The sample of siLvcr-bearing quartz fully justifies 
the reports just published. The ore is worth, iu 
its richest development, about $5,000 per ton, and 
the field of discovery appears to bo a solid mine 
of this wealth, thirty miles in length. 
The Chinese Official Organ,—A copy of the 
Pekin Gazette, the organ of the Government, 
issued daily, and the only paper in the Chinese 
language now published in that country of lour 
hundred and fourteen millions of people, hits 
been received by the Boston Traveler. It is 
printed, says the Traveler, on rice paper of a 
dingy, urab color, with a yellow paper cover. 
Each page contains twenty-six lines, of seven 
characters each. In ail there are seven pageB of 
about lour inches in width and ten in breadth. 
Its entire contents would not fill a half column of 
the Traveler. It is a remarkable fact that this 
paper was received via Japan and California. 
Great Britain.— An address to Lord Palmers¬ 
ton, praying the Government to use its influence 
in maintaining the integrity of the Pope's do¬ 
minions, was in course of signature by the Roman 
Catholics in Ireland. 
The London Times regards the dismissal of 
WulewHki as a declaration that Napoleon is dis¬ 
posed to commit himself to the more liberal and 
generous line of policy, to caRt himself into the 
Italian cause, and to maintain it against all the 
power of despotism and all the hostility of the 
Church. The Times warns the Emperor that al¬ 
though he may count on the sympathy oT England 
in his stand for the Italians, he mu 9 t not expect 
that she will join him in an offensive alliance 
against the other powers. Other English journals 
regard the change as hopeful for the Italian cause. 
7 he fane 1 al of Lord Macaulay took place at 
at Westminister Abbey on the 9th inst. 
The London News, commenting on the sum¬ 
mary of the President's Message, says there is no 
reason to complain of the manner in which the 
President deals with the general relations between 
England und the United states. 
France.—A Paris dispatch says it was becom- 
ingevery claymore doubtful whether the Congress 
would assemble, and the Paris correspondent of 
the London Times says the chances of the Con¬ 
gress meeting were of the most shadowy kind. 
A French journal— The Opinions Nationale— 
which was Bupposed to speak with some author¬ 
ity, believes that if Italy decided for the annexa¬ 
tion of the northern and central parte of the 
Italian peninsula, England would gladly accept 
the combination, whilst Franoe would accept it 
with still greater eagerness, on condition that 
Savoy should ho restored to her. The Optnione 
does not anticipate that the Cabinet at Turin 
would object, and after arguing that neither Aus¬ 
tria, Russia or Prussia will, or have a light to in¬ 
terfere, says it is assured that this combination iB 
seriously entertained by the governments of Lon¬ 
don and Paris. 
Lord Cowley has returned to Paris. The Patrie 
says his mission to London is truly one of impor¬ 
tance. Ho is represented, by one authority, to 
have announced Count Walewski’s retirement 
very materially facilitated the relations between 
the Cabinets of England and France. 
Iu Paris, the appointment of McMahon to the 
command of the army iu Italy, numbering 60,000 
men, was regarded as a sign of war like compli¬ 
cations. 
Italy.-— The news of Count Walewski’s resig¬ 
nation had produced a very painful impression on 
the Pope. He called together the principal mem¬ 
bers of the Sacred College, and declared to them 
that lie would never fail in the mission which God 
entrusted him with, but that, like hi* predecessor, 
Pius VII., he would suffer exile and even martyr¬ 
dom, rather than do so. 
It is said that France supports the protest of 
Piedmont against the enlistment of foreigners for 
the Papal army, und particularly against the 
wholesale introduction of Austrian recruits into 
Ancona. 
Letters from Genoa speak of tiie probability of 
hostilities being resumed in Italy. It was believed 
that the Papal troops, reinforced by the Austrians, 
would enter the legations, and in that case War 
dinia would send a force to the aid of the Roman 
insurgents. The King of NnpleB was reported to 
be largely increasing his army. The Pope had 
addressed another note to all the Catholic powers 
except Sardinia. Rumors had been current of 
an intention on the part of the Pope to quit Rome, 
but the Paris Patrie gives denial to the report 
Austria. — Charges were rife against Austria 
of disguised irruption in Italy. 
The Austrian government had ordered Prince 
Metternich to declare to the French Cabinet, that 
it would decline to enter into negotiations on any 
other basis than the agreement of Villafranca, or 
treaty of Zurich. 
Agitation against the Concordat waa increasing 
The Austilan Public openly speaks of the pro¬ 
priety of selling Vepetia. Employees and some 
government officers have received orders not to 
take part in publio conversation respecting the 
events of the times. 
India and China. —A Trieste dispatch gives 
additional news from China and India, under date 
of Canton, Nov. 25th, and Calcutta, Dec. 8tb. 
The treaty between the United States and China 
had been put in force. 
Part of the English troops designed for opera¬ 
tion against the Chinese, had already left for the 
North. 
India dispatches announces that Jung Baliador 
was operating against the rebels in Serin. 
®l)c Nctus €oniimsn;. 
— In I860 there died 26 British peers. 
— The Prussian peace army is to be increased by 65,000 
— Lord Holland, the distinguished literary Englishman 
is dead. 
— A monument to Luther is about to be erected in the 
square at Worms. 
— A monster catamount was shot in Monroe Co., Ohio, 
a few days eince. 
— The total value of the Kentucky tobacco crop last 
year was $2,964,670. 
— The total receipt*, of the Croton Aqueduct Board for 
1859 were $800,210. 
— The Eastrop (Texas) Advertiser is rejoicing over the 
luxury of a Eloigh-ride. 
— Twenty-six persons aged 100 years and over, died iu 
the United States in I860. 
— Saturday week a man's nose was bitten off in Cin¬ 
cinnati by a vicious horse. 
— The receipts of the fur trade at St. Louis, for the 
season, amount to $529,402. 
— The taxes in St. Louis now amount to 2>.( per cent., 
and yet the poople don't grumble. 
— The Watcrville Mail puts down the measure of cold 
in that region to 30 3 below zero, 
— Ohio has more colleges in it at the present time 
than any other State in the Union. 
— The largest Orthodox church in New Hampshire is 
in Nashua, numbering 401 members. 
— The duties at tbo port of Portland, Me., amounted 
to $30,000 more in 1859 than in 1858. 
— Railroad communication is now complete from Hol¬ 
land to Switzerland along the Rhine. 
— A chimney has been built near Boston ten feet high¬ 
er than the Unnhir Hill Monument. 
— The tolegraph line between Sydney and Melbourne, 
Auntralia, pays 15>$ j>cr cent, dividend. 
— Fifteen hundred persons are employod In LansiDg- 
burg, N. Y., in manufacturing brushes. 
— New Orleans, just now, is very gay. Money plenty; 
health never better; weather magnificent. 
— The telegraph work of the London Telegraph Com¬ 
pany ia to bo carried by female employees. 
— The King ot Sardinia has ordered a frigate to proceed 
to China, und represent hi* interests there. 
— The new Canadian Capital is a cold place. The mer¬ 
cury went to 38° below zero on the 29th nit. 
— Alfred Tennyson, the poet, has received $50 per line 
for a poem lately, from an English publisher. 
— The California steamer Baltic took out from N. Y., 
on the 19th iuat., several hundred liivea of (tees. 
— Col. Fremont has obtained possession of all tire 
mines adjusted to him by decisions of the courts. 
The agent of the Viceroy of Egypt has recently 
concluded a contract for u large supply of Sharp's rifles. 
— Sewing machines have been introduced into some of 
our female seminaries, and instruction is given thereon. 
— The Marquette Lako Superior Railroad conveyed 
from the mines during the lust season 80,000 tuns of iron 
ore. 
— The shipment of gold du*t from Victoria during 
September, October, and November amounted to $460,- 
000 . 
— From statistics published, it is inferred that the 
income of the Sheriff of New York U at least $90,000 a 
year! 
— The value of coal shipped from the Pennsylvania 
coal districts, last year, amounted to thirty-five million 
dollars. 
— All law officers in France have been ordered to dress 
in black, with white cravats, and to Btop smoking ia the 
streets. 
— The Leavenworth (Kansas) Register states that the 
ice in the Missouri river at that place is 21 inches in 
thickness. 
— Small-pox continues very prevalent in the towns 
around Boston, it is said, although there are not many 
fatal cases. 
— The Salem, N. J., Standard speaks of a lost hog in 
that vicinity which, for five weeks, lived without eating 
or drinking. 
People have died in Louisiana lately in consequence 
of the Kcvere cold; the thermometer indicating 7° be¬ 
low freezing. 
— During the reign of Napoleon III, the French mints 
lmvo coined upward of £100,000,000 in gold, and .69,000,- 
000 in sliver. 
— A bill has been introduced into the Alabama Legis¬ 
lature to protect females from insult and injury at pub¬ 
lic assemblies. 
— The Philadelphia Ledger complains that business in 
that city is thoroughly prostrated. There is literally 
notliing doing. 
— llou. Theodore Freiinghuysen married two years 
ago, when 72 years of age, and last week had born to him 
a son and heir. 
Commercial — Breadelujf &.—James Hewitt & Co's. or. 
cui ir reports breadstuff's: A slight advance noted on the 
close ot last week lias been tost during this week. The 
demand continued limited but theae was no general dis¬ 
position to posh busiuows, consequently no material 
variations, The deliveries tiy farmers continue large, 
apparently indicating a more abundant supply in their 
hands than was generally supposed Stock in Liverpool, 
Dec. 31 . Wheat. 287.000 quarters. Indian Corn, 185.000 
quartern Fine.-, 10K.IJOO sacks, 113,000 barrels Pro . 
cislows. No change »»f importance has occurred in prices 
oi American prow*ions, but there is an improved demand 
fur most description*. Pork lias been In good demand, 
and several lots of nil, repacked, have Lee n bold al ahuut 
o 0 j. Lord remains extremely Inanimate, aud prices are 
but httlo better. 
The \\ inter jn Great Britain, —The weather 
was very severe in London on the 19th ult On 
the 18th it was estimated .that there were at least 
12,000 skaters and sliders upon the Serpentine, 
Several accidents occurred. In the Regent's 
Park the nnnibors are stated to have been about 
20,000, and skating and sliding were kept up 
throughout the day with the utmost vigor. Large 
quantities of snow Lave fallen in the Nurlh of 
England and Scotland. In the neighborhood of 
Edinburgh the trains on the North British Rail¬ 
way have been stopped completely by the drift, 
tlie snow lying for several miles four feet deep or 
more upon the track. The stoppage of traffic on 
this line ia unprecedented during its thirteen 
years' existence. 
J n 1835, only twenty-five years ago, there were 
not five thousand white inhabitants between Lake 
Michigan and the Pacific Ocean. Now there aie 
more than two millions. 
— Shocks of an earthquake were felt at Charleston, 
Augusta, Macon, and other other points, at 6 o’clock on 
Thursday week. 
— There is preserved in the Alnwick Museum a bottle 
of Egyptian perfume which still retains its odor, though 
2,000 years old. 
— The California Telegraph Line, via the overland 
route, is completed to about two hundred and fifty miles 
west of St. Louis. 
— A man in the vicinity of North Adams, Mass., lost 
his wife, married another, and had one child, all in the 
year 1859. Fast. 
— The Indian Chief, Gov. Blacksnake, of the Seneca 
Tribe, died lately, on the " Alleghany reservation,” at 
the age of 110 years. 
— There are one thousand six hundred tin peddlers in 
Massachusetts. A queer set of fellows they are. Sharp as 
some of their wares. 
— A new process of making paper from African plants 
is in operation at Bordeaux and Marseilles, France, by 
which 30 per cent, is saved. 
— Throe or four hundred men are now at work making 
the oxcavations tor the Parliament buildings at Ottawa, 
the new capita! of Canada. 
— It is estimated that if the Great Pyramid of Egypt 
was to he built, with all the aids of modern science and 
art, it would Cost $135,000,000. 
— A preacher in Wisconsin offers a reward for “ a Wis¬ 
consin Christian who can he recognized by the world as 
such, without the aid of a church label! - ’ 
— Mayor Lincoln, of Boston, in hisanunal address, said 
he hoped soon to see the Fire Department of that city 
supplied exclusively with steam fire ongiues. 
— flie largest chime of hells in the United States, nine 
In number,the iargest weighing 1.700 pounds, has bcc-n 
placed ou the St. John's Church, Newark, N. J. 
— Mr. Derby, proprietor of the Dusseldorf collection, 
has it in contemplation to build several large fine art gal¬ 
leries in the vicinity of Union Square, New York. 
