General Montalban, Commander-in-Chief of the 
French expedition to China, had embarked with 
his staff at Marseilles. 
The monthly returns of the Bank of France 
showed an increase of -15,000,000 francs, and an 
increase in discounts of nearly 40,000,000 francs. 
The marine telegraph cable had been success¬ 
fully laid between the Channel Island and France. 
Italy.—T he King Of Sardinia was expected to 
visit Milan in February. 
The commissioners to trace the frontiers be¬ 
tween Austria and Piedmont had commenced 
their work. 
Rome riotous demonstrations had taken place 
at Parma, the mob calling for a reduction in the 
price of bread, and the recall of Garibaldi.— 
Forces were required to restore order. 
Achtiiia.—T he Austiian and Sardinian commis¬ 
sion for the regulation of the boundary line, have 
already held three meetings. 
The Austrian custom officers have been rein¬ 
forced by the military, to avert any provocation 
from the other side of the frontiers. 
The Vienna Gazette publishes an imperial de¬ 
cree enacting that the testimony of Jews is to be 
regarded as of the same value as that of Chris¬ 
tians. The measure is considered preliminary to 
according lull civil and political rights. 
At Vienna it is fully believed that the govern¬ 
ment intends only to interfere In Ceutral Italy in 
favor of the exile. Dukes and Papal government 
Spain. —The I.e Nord states that on the 10th of 
January, the Spanish government had in the 
hands of the British Minister, at Madrid, the sugj 
due to the British government—about 10,500,000 
francs. 
A Madrid telegram of the 16th, announces that 
the Spanish in Morocco were masters of all the 
positions of Cabo Lagro. After having obtained 
a complete victory, they were commanding all 
the heights of the Valley Tetuan, and would be 
before Tetuan as soon as the artillery was able to 
pass. 
Late advices from Mogador state that CO,000 
men, the pick of the Moorish army, were en¬ 
camped on the hills beyond tbq Mogador, ready 
for action. 
India and China. —The Calcutta mail of Dec. 
10th, and llong Kong mail of November 27tli, had 
reached England. The goverment dispatch from 
Oude confirmed the complete overthrow and dis¬ 
persion of the remainder of the rebel army. All 
the leading rebels had been taken except the 
Begum, and she could not hold out alone. The 
salt tax was to be increased Is on the 80 lbs., add¬ 
ing nearly a million sterling to the revenue. 
The Chinese were reported to be making war¬ 
like preparations. Imports at Hong KoDg, and 
Canton were dull, but prices were generally sus¬ 
tained, owing to light slocks. Tea was quiet, but 
holders refused to reduce prices. Imports at 
Shanghai were quiet The tea business was al¬ 
most stopped, owing to the exorbitant rates 
demanded. 
At Japan trade progressed favorably. 
It was said the Chinese had addressed a demand 
to Russia that she evacuate all the country of the 
Amoor. 
Commercial — PteadstMjfa. —The Paris flour market was 
dull and Kales dlHic.ult. Wheat win quiet hut steady. 
Liverpool, Jan. 18. — l.ivn.rponl breadstuff^ heavy flour 
very dull at easier. tmt uot qootablv low er pricer. Wheal 
dull and dncJioe.d Id. Bed OeOdiiC'-Mhl. While 9sl0r|(a 
11 slid. Corn dull, hut steady. Yellow 3l8@32f;. Folk 
quiet. New Eastern 77hti>) Lard dull, and quotations 
nominal. 
London, Jan. 17.— Breadstuff's declined. Foreign wheat 
unchanged. 
FOREIGN NEWS 
®I)c Jfcros (Eonticnsa* 
mously. Ordered printed and made special order 
for Wednesday. 
Mr. Sunnier introduced a resolution in regard to 
the expediency of repealing hospital tax on sea¬ 
men, and Abolishing the present system of Marine 
Hospitals. Adopted. 
House.—O n the 1st inut, the proceedings were 
ojiened with prayer by Rabbi Raphael. Itabound- 
ed with fervently expressed, patriotic and religious 
sentiment. He implored Divine blessing to direct 
the House in the election of a Speaker who may 
preside without favor or fear, and that the mem 
bers might speak and act for the glory and happi¬ 
ness of their common country. The prayer was 
listened to with marked «tl ntion. 
The Clerk having stated the question pending 
was the motion of Mr. Sherman, the House pro¬ 
ceeded to vote for Speaker. Upon a call of the 
House it was found that Mr. Bennington, of New 
Jersey, lacked but one vote of an election, where¬ 
upon Geo. Briggs, of New York city, remarked 
that a certain contingency alluded to by him a few 
days previous, had now arrived, and it became 
him to state his reasons for his vote. The time 
has come when my vote will elect a Speaker. 1 
have said on several occasions, 1 could cast my 
vote for any conservative gentleman, like Mr. Pen¬ 
nington or Mr. Corwin. Gov. Pennington now 
has 11G votes, and 117 will elect him. 1 give my 
vute to a gentlemen who I am assured will act 
fairly anfi impartially to all sections of the coun¬ 
try. Aware of the responsibility I assume in so 
doing, Mr, Clerk, 1 now withdraw my vote from 
Mr. McClernand, and cast it for Wm. Pennington. 
The vote was then announced. 
Whole number... . -- --28$ 
Pennington .. --D7 
McCleruand.. 80 
Balance scattering. 
The Clerk decided that Mr. Pennington was 
elected. 
On motion the House proceeded to a ballot for 
Clerk. The ballot resulted as follows: 
Whole number. “21 
Nfceosury for a choice.-. .ill 
Forney,. .-.- --D’f 
Allen,. 77 
Taylor,.. *2 
llttWHOn,_ _ •- “ 
McJCnew,. 1 
On motion of Mr. Sherman the House proceeded 
to the election of Sergeant-at-Arms. 
Mr. Hoffman was elected Sergeant-at-Arms, who 
received, 141; Mr. Glossbrunner, 92; Mi. Under¬ 
wood, 7. Adjourned. 
Great Britain. —The object of Lord Cowley’s 
mission to London was to resume the negotiations 
between England and France, which were institu¬ 
ted by the former, and interrupted by Count Wa- 
lewski’s resignation. The principle of these nego¬ 
tiations was non-intervention with the affairs of 
Central Italy. France adopting the same basis, 
is desirous that the whole of Europe should give 
its formal assent to the principle. With this view 
Lord Cowley was solicited to sound the feeling of 
the British Cabinet as to tLe advisability of ad¬ 
dressing a collective vote to the European Cabi¬ 
nets. In this cote, infraction of the principle 
of non-interveaiion was to be treated as a cojtvtts 
belli 
The British Cabinet, while expressing its readi¬ 
ness to support the principle of non-intervention, 
either at the Congress, or in its communication 
with the Foreign Powers, pointed out the impos¬ 
sibility of pledging it«elf, without the consent of 
Parliament, to a course of policy which might 
involve hostilities. The feeling of the Northern 
Courts gave rise to some fear that Europe would 
not submit to so threatening an intimation, and 
which also implied the adoption of principles op¬ 
posed to the independence of every State which 
possesses the right of forming alliances as it may 
think proper, at its own peril. The British Cab¬ 
inet having tbufl declared their proposition to enter 
into engagements havingsucb an important bear¬ 
ing, the question of an early meeting of the Con¬ 
gress has again revived. 
The Loudon Times editorially criticises the 
financial statement of the American Government, 
arid points out that, allowing the youth of one 
State and the maturity of the other, there is the 
strongest possible analogy between the proceed¬ 
ings of England and America, 
AGRICULTURAL. Pagb. 
N. Y. State Agricultural CoUepc. .45 
Polled Cattle—Fat Galloway Cow, [Illustrated].40 
The Onion Fly, [Three Illustrations],. .<0, 46 
Hornless Cattle . .— •••.4® 
Management of Wood Lois. —.... 46 
Pojudnff Our Misfortunes Alumr. 46 
How to Sure the Sheep -Curing Filins... 46 
Hay for WlnteriiiK Hogs . 4® 
Jlural Spirit of the J'rerr Reducing Bones to Pow¬ 
der; Auric ul tend Mechanics; A query for Dairymen 46 
Iwiuiriei and Anetrm. Coloring Wool on the Skin; 
Stabling Horses will) Cow?; Guano; Treatment of Spraltus 46 
Jpricvtlurat Mttccllany . Johnston John, My Jo, 
[Poetical.) AifrU’iiJtninl Fairs lor 1WO; Fanurrg Clubs; 
The Gram Lnuriv i f Sen sen County; The “Weighty 
Steers” Beaten. Blin k Hawks the Best Huadsteis^ Ex¬ 
tensive Stock Feeding; Hartlind Agricultural Society; 
Susqiirlianriit Valley Agricultural Society; Cmmwraga 
Agricultural Society; Uuiubridge Agricultural Suciety 46 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Horticulture at the Went ... . <7 
Winter iv.irs .., <7 
Winter Nells Pear, lljlustrated]. 47 
The Jaroinette Pear, [Illustrated] .. .. 47 
Delaware Crape, Again . 47 
Horlirultural ftotet Be.auty and Song in the Winter; 
Peach Btnls »n Missouri . 47 
Inquiru* unit Ahticeri Packing Trees, [Three Ills.] . 47 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Keeping Hums; Honey; To Remove Iron Rust from 
While Cloth; New Wheal Poor Bread; Remedies for 
Chilblains .. . . . 47 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
My Nanny, [Poetical;] Aunt Msg on Matiimony; How 
to Take life; A Word About School Gills; Beautilu) 
• v. i .*..48 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The Messenger of life, I Poetical;] Tim Author; Manly 
Men; Superstitions of Childhood; Keo hi it Yourself; 
Earthly and Heavenly Interest,[Poetical). 48 
SABBATH MDSINGS. 
Let in the Sunlight, [Poetical;] Jesus Wept; Say Jesus; 
Charity; Run lor Jtt .. .. . 48 
EDUCATIONAL. 
School Matters of New York; Patience In the Scliool- 
Rooin; Kduention; Educational Interests of Wisconsin; 
The School-Master Abroad; Evil Effects of Excessive 
Study; Educations! Matters in Georgia: Country School 
Districts, Si'lnn.| Houses iu the Rural Districts; School 
Population of New York ..49 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Monthly Varying Level ol Lake Ontario; Wild Geese; 
Pope and Swift; Nature; Good Health flow to Pre¬ 
serve it; Mining in the United States; The Human Mind 49 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
Tire Farmer, (I’oeii<vd;J Chicken Coops, [Two Illustra¬ 
tions;) Kindness; Energy of Miml. . . . .. 49 
STORY TELLER. 
JJttlo Car), i Poetieal:| Lydia Mathewson’s Journal; Old- 
fashioned Comforts.... 62 
— On Wednesday week, six fires occurred in New York 
city. 
— Ilomc-spnn meetings and resolutions are in order in 
the South. 
— The defalcation cf Treasurer Peck, of Maine, amounts 
to *94,073. 
— Counterfeits on the Chemung Bank of Elmira, are in 
circulation. 
— The Washoe Indians are dying in scores by cold and 
starvation. 
— The financial condition of Iowa is decidedly better 
than last year. 
— The public debt, according to Mr. Cobb's showing, is 
*00,202,777 66. 
— The tax for city purposes in New York for 1860, is 
$14,392,219 59. 
— The people of Spain are diesatisfied with the war 
against Morocco. 
— Large cakes of silver are getting to be quite common 
in San Francisco. 
— The amounts in the various Savings Banks of Massa. 
chusetts is *34,494,000. 
— Prof. James P. Espy, a famous meteorologist, died in 
Cincinnati on Thursday week. 
— Accounts from New Mexico represent the Navajo 
Indians as beiDg again hostile. 
— The Great Eastern Steamship Co., have negotiated a 
loan of £45,000, at "N per cent. 
— M. Cloquet has succeeded in raising good dates on 
his estate near Toulon, in France. 
— In the past week, 371 emigrants have landed at New 
York ; and I £24 since 1st January. 
— Jenny Lind has made up her mind to endow and 
erect an asylum for decayed singers. 
— A proposition is before the Virginia Legislature to 
exempt one slave from levy for debt 
— The Ohio Editors' and Publishers’ Convention was 
held at Tiffin on Wednesday, the 18th nit 
— Active measures aro being taken in Baltimore 
towards establishing an asylum for inebriates. 
— A movement has been started In England to encour¬ 
age young women to learn the watch-making trade. 
— From one of the newly discovered oil wells in Penn- 
pyltaniu, a gallon of oil every minute is pumped up ! 
— A letter from Lake Superior, dated January 8th, 
reports the snow four feet deep in the mining districts, 
— Advices from California to the 10th ult., announce 
the capture at Pitt ltlver, by Gen. Kibbo, of 460 Indians. 
— Madame Bodisco attended the President's last levee 
in her court dress, valued at *60,000. The masses Btared. 
— Over two thousand dozen of quails havo been 
shipped Easthy a single dealer at Galena, 111., this season. 
— The Governors of Florida and Missouri have refused 
to sign the bills excluding free negroes from those states. 
— There have been about 200 murders committed in 
Utah during the last three years, but not a single arrest. 
— A human skeleton has been found at Marietta, Ohio, 
under six feet of loam and three feet of conglomerate 
rock. 
— John Frost, the writer of many popular historical 
and other books, died at Philadelphia on Wednesday 
week. 
— An ovarian tumor weighing fifty-two pounds, was 
taken from Mrs. Eddy, of Painesville, Ohio, a few days 
since. 
— There are hut four ex-Presidents living — Martin 
Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin 
Pierce. 
— The Secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society of 
England has proved to be a defaulter to the amount of 
*10,000. 
— Gen. Cass has given to the Board of Education of 
Detroit a lot of land, valued at *16,000, for a Union 
School. 
— The Massachusetts State Prison at Charlestown con¬ 
tains 401 convicts, of which number 3G are incarcerated 
for life. 
— The first quarter of the month of January of 1S60 
was the coldest that has been experienced in Boston for 
36 years. 
— Hon. Henry W Miller, of North Carolina, has added 
four thousand dollars to the Mount Vernon fund by Ids 
lectures. 
— The hill abolishing slavery in the Territory of 
Nebraska passed the House on the 17th ult., by a vote of 
21 to 17. 
— The Denver correspondent of the New York Times 
states that coal has been discovered twelve miles from 
that place, 
— During the past week the Central Railroad brought 
to Albany some *60,000 worth of furs. These furs came 
from St. Louis. 
— There Is prospect of a brush between our country 
and Peru. The Peruvian bark will not be followed by 
much of a bite.. 
— They are manufacturing brogans at a great rate in 
Marietta, Gn., but cannot sell them, in consequence of 
the high price. 
— The number of gallons of milk sent into the city of 
New York from Orange County, by the Erie R. R., in 
1839, was 5,359,839. 
— A bill has passed the Legislature of Kentucky, 
appropriating *5.000 per annum to the Kentucky State 
Agricultural Society. 
— The Pennsylvania Senate has under consideration a 
bill to prohibit the circulation of bank-notes of a less 
denomination than *5. 
— Several business houses in Buffalo have concluded 
to decline receiving the bills of the Illinois, Wisconsin, 
Iowa and Missouri banks. 
— Over one hundred soldiers of the war of 1812 were 
in convention at Columbus, O., Jan. 10th, and much 
attention wus shown them. 
— A child was killed in New York city lately by having 
ars«nic administered to it, by mistake for rhubarb. How 
could such a mistake occur? 
— Several members of the Virginia Legislature re¬ 
turned to their seats, after the holidays, in full suits of 
homespun gray woolen cloth. 
— The Richmond correspondent of the New York 
Herald represents that the cost of living is advancing in 
au intolerable ratio, in that city. 
— The cost of .transportation of troops, arms, and am¬ 
munition to and fro from Charlestown during the Brown 
rebellion, is estimated at *26,000. 
— Henry D. Gilpin, United States Attorney-General 
under President Vac Buren, and ex-Mayor of Philadel¬ 
phia, died in that city last week. 
— There is a remarkable skater, one of the actors at the 
Broadway Theatre, New York, who turns a somersault 
while gliding over the ice on his skates. 
— Chief Justice Taney has so far recovered from his 
attack of pneumonic catarrh as to believe that he will 
I soon be able to resume his seat in tbe Supreme Court. 
In another leader 
this same journal expatiates on Mexican affaire, 
in connection with the President's Message. Jt 
says there is not a question, but what Americans, 
if they are ro pleased, can march to Mexico.— 
Nor is it to be doubted that tbe advance would be 
attended at least with a temporary benefit ol tran- 
quility. Serving British interest we should look 
on such a proceeding with but little dissatisfac¬ 
tion; but as Mr. Buchanan's description is a faith¬ 
ful picture, it will require far more than one cas¬ 
ual intervention to restore the country to the rank 
of an organized State. 
In anticipation of the meeting of Parliament on 
the 24th of January, Lord Palmerston had issued 
the usual circular to his supporters in the House 
of Commons, requesting their attendance at the 
opening of the session, as business of great im¬ 
portance is at once to be brought forward. Tho 
leaders of the respective parties had likewise is¬ 
sued invitations to the customary dinners which 
are given prior to tbe assembling of Parliament. 
The Times 1ms eulogistic articles of Garibaldi 
and Cavour. The return of the latter to power, 
it considers as a proof that an Italian policy will 
now be permitted nrM protected from Paris.— 
Venice, we may hope, will become again Italian 
by purchase, but bow will Naples? The King is 
acting, like those who build little white villus half- 
way up Vesuvius. The article concludes by ex¬ 
claiming:—How dry must be the elements of com¬ 
bustion laid upon such a Kingdom, and how read¬ 
ily may they catch fire, when Cavour will bring 
biskiug-like influence close up to the frontier. 
France. —Napoleon's address to bis Ministers 
of State was a most important free trade mani¬ 
festo. It is dated Jan. 5th, and published in the 
Monitcur of the 15th. The letter, in effect, is as 
follows: ”v' 
Despite the uncertainty which still prevails on 
certain points of foreign policy, a pacific solution 
may be confidently looked forward to. The mo¬ 
ment has therefore arrived to occupy ourselvc" 
with giving greater development to the different 
brunches of the nationul wealth. 1 communicate 
to you hero the basis of a programme of reform, 
suveiul parts of which will have to receive the 
approbation of the Chambers. Our foreign com¬ 
merce must be developed by exchange of pro¬ 
ducts; but we must first improve our agriculture 
aud free our industry from all interior impedi¬ 
ments which place it in a position of inferiority. 
A general system of sound political economy 
alone can, by increasing the national wealth, 
spread prosperity among tbe working class. 
Every year the State grants considerable Bums 
to agriculture for clearing wmods and lowering 
billy grouuds; great works of draining, irrigating 
and clearing ground are to be continued. To en¬ 
courage manufacturing productions, it is neces¬ 
sary to exempt from all duties primary articles 
indispensable to industry, and to advance capital 
at a moderate late of interest w hich will assist in 
perfecting it materially. 
By these measures agriculture will find an issue 
for its products of industry, freed from all interior 
obstacles, will advantageously compete with for¬ 
eign products, and commerce will make a fresh 
advance. To counterbalance tbe reduction of 
duty on primary materials and provisions of great 
consumption, the redemption of the public debt 
will be provisionally suspended. 
The letter sums up the intended reforms, viz.: 
—Suppression of duty on wool and cotton, suc¬ 
cessive reduction Of duties on sugars and coffee, 
vigorous improvement of the measures of com¬ 
munication, reduction of canal duties by a general 
lowering of transport costs, loans to be granted 
to agriculture aud industry, considerable works 
of utility, suppression of tbe prohibition in cus¬ 
toms, and commercial treaties with foreign pow¬ 
ers!. The 160,000,000 of francs remaining dispos¬ 
able from the last loan, will be applied in three 
yearly credits to the erection of great public 
works. 
The Emperor concludes:—" I am convinced that 
1 shall obtain the support of the Senate and Leg¬ 
islative bodies to these reforms, I am anxious to 
inaugurate with them a new era of peace and as¬ 
sure its blessings to France.” 
The letter attracted great attention. With 
scarcely an exception the Paris press applauded 
the project, and in England it giveB great satis¬ 
faction. 
The Renton Why—Pick k Fifegerald. 
8toel Plows--Buyre A Remington. 
Water Pipe LB. Bobbie. 
Bullock's Circular nod Cross-Cut Saw-Mil] E. D. Mullock. 
Short-horn Durham Bulls -K. Marks- 
Extra Devon Stock—Wm. It Booth. 
t'i7~ Wo are again under the necessity of deferring sev¬ 
eral advertisement* for want of space. We give prefeieneo 
to the first :unl briefest received. 
Maine _ 8 Michigan _ ' 
New Ilamjisbire .6 Indiana.-13 
Vermont. 6 Illinois —..— 11 
Massachusetts- . .18 Iowa...4 
Rhode Island .4 Wisconsin... - 6 
Connecticut_.. . _6 California - 4 
New York _36 Minnesota. .. 4 
New Jewry _ 7 Oregon 3 
Pennsylvania 27 Kansas-.... • .3 
Ohio .... . .23 ~~ 
Total...-18® 
The Southern States will be entitled to votes in 
the electoral college as follows: 
Virginia.. ....16 Louisiana- 6 
Delaware ... 3 Arkansas. 4 
Mary land . .. 8 Tennessee.12 
North Carolina . 10 Kentucky. . 12 
South Carolina..8 Missouri—. 9 
Georgia 10 Florida. 3 
Alabama. O'Texas--- 4 
Mississippi .............. 7 — 
Total..... 120 
Total vote ol Northern States. 186 
Total vote of Southern Slates - 120 
Majority for Northern States. . 66 
Aggregate vote of Northern and Southern States.30(5 
N umber necessary to elect a President,. ... 164 
The New York Republican State Central Com¬ 
mittee met at Albany on the 31st ulL, and agreed 
to call a State Convention, composed of two dele¬ 
gates from each Assembly district, to meet at 
Syracuse on the l'Jtli of April, to elect delegates 
to the Republican National Convention. Borne 
discussion as to the election of delegates by Con¬ 
gressional districts was had, but the final action 
of the committee was unanimous. 
A bill for a Convention to frame a State Con¬ 
stitution lias passed both Houses of the Nebraska 
Legislature, and has received the Governor's 
signature. 
In the Ohio legislature, on the 2d inst, Ex-Gov. 
Salmon 1\ Chase was elected U. 8. Senator on the 
first ballot. The vote stood — Chase, 75; Pugh, 
64; Corwin, 6. 
Tub New York Anti-Slavery Convention held 
its closing session in Albany on the 28th trft, with 
a poor attendance. Addresses were made by 
Messrs. Phillips, Pillsburv, Powell, Robinson and 
others. Revolutionary and insurrectionary doc¬ 
trines were advocated. A resolution was adopted 
strongly censuring Gov. Morgan and the Legisla¬ 
ture, for Inviting the man-stealing Governors and 
Legislatures of two Slave States to visit New 
York, as the guests of the Htate. The invitation 
was denounced as an insult to the people of this 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY 11, 1800. 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
Washing!on .Halters. 
The President has prepared a special message 
recommending the Pacific Railroad, which will be 
submitted in a few days. He favors no particular 
project 
Mr. McLane returns to Washington by order 
of the Government, that he may be present to 
explain and aid in the ratification of the Mexican 
treaty. 
The President sent to the Senate a message, in 
which he says lie deems it. a sufficient reason for 
having retained the bill appropriating $56,000 1'or 
deepening the channel over the St. Clair Flats, 
that it was not presented to him until the last day, 
when he had no opportunity to examine it. He 
says that a Constitutional mode may, in its dis¬ 
cretion, raise money to improve Uiis channel. 
He does not mean to intimate a doubt of the 
power of Congress to construct such Internal 
Improvements as may be necessary for defence 
and protection against the invasion of a foreign 
enemy, but doubted whether this belonged in that 
category. 
The Harper's Ferry Investigating Committee 
does not seem to be making much progress.— 
Thaddeus Hyatt, President of the National Kansas 
Aid Committee, has written to Senator Mason a 
letter in answer to the subpoena, to appear before, 
tbe Investigating Committee, in which he informs 
the Committee, that while lie will so.far regard 
the summons as to appear before them, he 
will not answer any of the interrogatories, lie 
calls in questiou the exercise by a legislative 
body of powers purely judicial, that are neither 
incidental to the Government nor conferred by 
any express provision of the Constitution. In 
this position Mr. Hyatt is said to be sustained by 
the best legal advice of Massachusetts and New 
York. 
James Redpath, of Malden, Muss., author of the 
Life of John Brown, has also been subpeened to 
appear and testify, but he, in a very spicy, and 
what might be considered a very saucy letter, 
refuses to comply with the summons. 
Congressional Proceedings. 
Senate. — Owing to the lock in the House, 
at last so happily broken, but little business 
has been transacted aside from the introduction 
of various measures. We make note of such mat¬ 
ters as possess general interest: 
A message was received from (die President, en¬ 
closing a statement of the foes paid at the Consu¬ 
lar office. 
Mr. Hale introduced a resolution, that the Com¬ 
mittee on Military Affairs, be instructed to inquire 
into the expediency of paying the officers of the 
army a gross sum per annum, instead of allow¬ 
ances. Mr. Grimes moved an amendment to in¬ 
clude marines. 
Mr. Davis introduced a series of resolutions rel¬ 
ative to obligations imposed on the States by the 
constitution, the rights of the people in the Ter¬ 
ritories, Ac. lie said he offered them with the in¬ 
tention of having a vote taken on them separately. 
He would be glad if they could be adopted unani¬ 
Peale’s "Court op Death.”— Mr. G. Q. Col¬ 
ton has undertaken something new in the world 
of art He is issuing 100,000 large engravings of 
Rembrandt Peale’s celebrated painting, “The 
Court of Death” — and instead of selling them at 
$5 a copy, the usual price of such works, he fur¬ 
nishes them for $1 each (as advertised in this 
paper,) under the conviction (hat, at this small 
price, he can sell 100,000 copies. Mr. Colton 
and his enterprize is thoroughly indorsed by 
such papers as the New York Observer, Christian 
Advocate and Journal, and the Independent We 
have received a copy of the engraving, and can 
sty it is a beautiful and impressive picture. 
