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up under the rule?, and the following bills were 
passed, araoDg others: 
The one to amend the act allowing the continual 
use of co-partnership names in certain cases, so as 
to extend its provisions to firms only doing busi¬ 
ness in this country. 
Jn relation to District Attorneys, requiring them 
to file testimony in criminal trials, with County 
Clerks, within thirty days after the close of term 
of Court. 
To facilitate the completion of Lake Ontario 
and Hudson Railroads, 
To compel County Treasurers to pay over the 
amount of State tux in their hands before the 1st 
of March, or compel them to pay 20 per cent on 
same. Ayes 6(5, nays .33. 
Concurrent resolutions to abolish property 
qualification for colored persons, was taken up as 
special order, and debated. 
The concurrent resolutions for amendment to 
the constitution by abolishing property qualifica¬ 
tion, were taken up as a special order. 
Mr. Van Horn said the friends of these resolu¬ 
tions did not desire to debate them, but were 
ready to give thorn support. 
Mr. Callicott spoke at length in opposition to 
the proposed amendment, taking the broad 
grouud that colored persons were not citizens, 
and had no rights as such, but that citizenship is 
confined to white men. 
After debate the resolutions passed 70 to 36. 
The bill to enable Common Councils of cities 
to compel the attendance of witnesses, and pun¬ 
ish false swearing by such witnesses, was passed. 
secured with other nations, France being the 
only exception. 
Interesting accounts of the war in Morocco 
have been received here. It is stated that there 
were 60,000 Moors at the battle of Scactellegos. 
Col. Ltissara, about 3o years of age, a younger 
brother of the Spanish Minister at Washington, 
distinguished himself nearly at the head of his 
regiment. The most of the high officers of the 
Spanish array are young men. The array bad 
been obstructed in its operations, and suffered 
much from constant rains. Spain is prosecuting 
the war with vigor, and will have, before long, a 
force of 80,000 tnen in Morocco, incident to the 
unexpected delay of the passage of the I’o. 
&I)C Xcvos Conbmscr 
AGRICULTURAL. Pack. 
“Up to the Times,"...,, .. 61 ! 
English Agriculture - Effect* of Steam-Farming on L&- 
bor; American Horse-Powers and Reapers; Value of 
Straw for Food,.63 
Wonder* of the Bee,.63 
Leaf-Cutting Bee Megaebite (Illustrated). 63 
Agricultural Improvement,.S3, 64 
Hay vs. Gruiu, Straw, tie-, . .-.64 
ASorghum Experience,.. 64 
Transcript of a Builder'* Farm Bool,. 64 
Rural Spirit of the Pries — Advice to Young Farmers; 
Barn Cellars Underground Stables; Big Crop of Po¬ 
tatoes; Sheep and Bose; English Dairy Cheese,. 64 
Inquiries ittu( Answers Dog Power; Subsoil Flow; To 
Cure Ringbone; Clover In an Orchard; Stable Floors 
for Horses; Save the Sheep; Production of Rain, 64 
Agricultural Soctehee S. Y. State Ag. Society; Tomp¬ 
kins Co.; Ontario Co ; Moravia; Union; Lodi....... 64 
Agricultural Miscellany — Who'll be President; New 
kinds of Wheat; Comforts For Cattle; Premium Cattle, 64 
HORTICULTURAL. 
N. Y. State Ac. Soc'y— Horticultural Side,. 65 
American Strawberries in England, .65 
To renovate art old Apple Orchard,. 55 
Fruit Trees and the Winter, ... 65 
Fruit Growing Su Wisconsin, . . 55 
Horticultural JVoltS Fruits Received,.. .. £5 
Inquiries and Answers Australian Bose ; Mountain 
Ash Seeds; Currants no the Quince Root,. 55 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Kitchen Culture; Dyspeptics Pudding: Coloring Cotton 
Green; Restoring the Lustre to Stile; How to Keep 
Mains; Starched Collars; to make Yellow Butter in 
Winter,. 58 
LADIES' OLIO. 
My Little Boat [Poetical ) A Plea for Xantippe; Lost 
Opportunities; "Made to be Better than Man;” Leap 
Year,. 56 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Washington Irving [Poetical.J Libor; Put away that 
Frown; Value of Wit; Living too High; Wo Pass for 
What we Are, . 66 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Spirit of Hope [Poetical ) Hope,.56 
THE REVIEWER. 
The Diseases of Cattle; Self-Help; Westminster Review; 
Books Received, 57 
SHOE FROM NEW BOOKS. 
The Religion of Burmsb; The Aboriginal City of Paris; 
A Heroic Woman: What Insures Sueeess in Life ; An¬ 
drew Jackson’s Marriage,.. 67 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Old Churches of New York; The Garden Street Church 
[Illustrated;] -Middle Dutch Church [Illustrated,).67 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
The Advantages of Wealth,.67 
STORY TELLER. 
Song for the Times [Poetical.] Busy Hands make Hap¬ 
py Hearts,.. 60 
Great Britain. — Parliament wag formally 
opened, by a speech from the Queen, on the 24th 
ult. We condense therefrom as follows: 
My IjOkiis and Gentlemen: —My relations with 
foteign powers continue on friendly anil satisfac¬ 
tory footings. At the close of the last session I 
informed you that overtures bad been made to as¬ 
certain whether a conference should be held by 
the great powers of Europe, for the purpose of 
settling arrangeincnts connected with the present 
state and future condition, of Italy, and that a 
Plenipotentiary would bo sent by me, to assist at 
such conference. I have since received a formal 
invitation from the Emperor of Austria, and from 
the Emperor of the French, to send a Plenipoten¬ 
tiary to a Congress, to consist of the representa¬ 
tives of the eight powers who were parties to the 
treaty of Vienna. The object of such a Congress 
is stated to be to receive communications of the 
treaties concluded at Zurich, and deliberate, asso 
dating with the above powers, the courts of 
Rome, Bardinia and fiicily, on the means best 
adapted for the pacification of Italy, and for 
placing its prosperity on a solid and durable 
basis. Desirous, at all times, to concur in the 
proceeding", having for their object the mainte¬ 
nance of peace. 1 accepted the invitation, but at 
the same time made knowu rhat in such Congress 
I should steadfastly maintain the principle that 
no extreme force should be employed to impose 
upon the people of Italy any particular govern¬ 
ment or constitution. Circumstances have arisen 
which have led to the postponement of the Con¬ 
gress, without any day having been fixed for a 
meeting; but whether in Congress, or in separate 
negotiation, I shall endeavor to obtain for the 
people of Italy freedom from foreign interference, 
by force of *nn a , in their internal concerns, and 
1 trust the affairs of the Italian peninsula may be 
peacefully and satisfactorily settled. 
I am in communication with the Emperor of 
France, with n view to extend commercial inter¬ 
course betw-en the two countries, ami thus draw 
closer the bonds of friendly alliance between them. 
A dispute having arisen between Spain and 
Morocco, 1 endeavored, by friendly means, to pre¬ 
vent a rupture, but regret to say without success. 
My Plenipotentiary, and the Plenipotentiary of 
the Emperor of the French, having, in obedience 
to their instructions, proceeded to the mouth of 
the Peliio river, in order to repair to Pekin to ex¬ 
change. in that city, ratifications of the treaty of 
Tien 'Tain 
— The Canadian Parliament is to assemble on the 2oth 
inst. 
— The American Board of Foreign Missions is $130,000 
in arrerg. 
— In 1859, 76 persons were killed and 41 injured by 
lightning. 
— Gerrit Smith, is about to sail for Europe, for the ben¬ 
efit of his health. 
— An Indian.near Kingston, Canada, lately captured a 
pare milk-white doe. 
— The total debt of the State of Minnesota, January 1, 
1860, was $105,015 55. 
— Alum, of a superior quality, has been discovered near 
Fort Buchanan, Arizona. 
— “ Crinoline Hall ” is the name of a new hall just 
completed in Bristol, R. J. 
— At a recent hall given in tVarrenton, Va., the belles 
appeared in linsey dresses. 
— Three young natives of Madagascar have been sent 
to study medicine in Paris. 
— Steamship communication is again resumed between 
Philadelphia and Liverpool direct. 
— A very fine wine from the Muscat grape, has been 
received in London, from Australia, 
— Marshall McMahon has been put in command of the 
French army of occupation in Italy. 
— A South Carolina paper notices the death of a mule 
whose age was known to be 64 years. 
— Seasoned maple wood is delivered at the door at 
West Bend, Wis., for only 87c. a cord. 
— A large slaughtering establishment has just been 
completed in Baltimore, 600 feet long. 
— The name “ Minnesota," or, as it was originally spell¬ 
ed “ Minnay Sotor," means turbid waters. 
— A Mexican sheep drover lost 1,090 head in one night, 
during the recent severe weather in Texas. 
— A St Paul paper estimates the fur trade of Minnesota 
at over a quarter of a million dollars a year. 
— The scarlet fever is very prevalent and fatal in New 
York. Ia*t weels there were 68 deaths from it. 
— The Government pays the California and Oregon 
Members of Cougres* $7,000 a term for mileage. 
— According to a correspondent of tho N. y. Times, 
coal has been discovered In the Rocky Mountains. 
— Granee Greenwood gave a lecture to the convicts and 
visitors in the Ohio Penitentiary on Sunday week. 
— The San Francisco correspondent of the New York 
Tiinea says there is not a poor-house in California. 
— There are about eight thousand J nslicos of the 
Peace in Commission in the State of Massachusetts. 
— There are eight military companies in Berkeley Co., 
Va. Before the Brown war, there was scarcely one. 
— The total exports of Mobile, Ala., mostly cotton, for 
three months past, have amounted to over $12,000,000. 
— The authorities of Troy offer a reward of $1,000 for 
the conviction of the incendiaries who infest that city. 
— The Fifth Avenue Hotel has a car in which the 
boarders are to be raised by steam to the different floors. 
— Madame Bodhco attended the President's last levee 
in her court dress, valued at $50,000. The masses stared. 
— In the Maine Legislature there are 82 farmera, 34 
merchants, 10 lawycis, and C physicians, outof 170 mem¬ 
bers. , 
— II IB sr.i.1 to bo fifty-throo yours since any necncate 
survey for a map of the State of Connecticut has been 
made. 
— At WestRosendalc, Wis., a few days since, the mer¬ 
cury registered 54?j below zero. But how did it get 
there? 
— They talk of having a Central Park in Baltimore that 
shall occupy between four and five hundred acres of 
ground. 
— Prof. Espy, the distinguished meteorologist, died of 
paralysis last week, at the house of a relative in Cin¬ 
cinnati. 
— The enlistment of Germans by the Papal Govern¬ 
ment had been protested against by ihe Sardinian Gov¬ 
ernment. 
— The Vermont Freeman is informed that a German 
pedlar named Stearns was killed by a bear in Stowe, week 
before Inst. 
— The Beaver (Me.) Argus records the marriage of John 
Colburn, only three feet high. No wonder he wanted to 
get married. 
— Illinois has 2,850 miles of railroad, being an increase 
of 808 miles since 1856. This is more than any other State 
in the Union. 
— President Lord, of Dartmouth College, though 75 
years old, is a very agile skater, and takes great delight 
in the exercise. 
— A gentleman was hammered out of twenty thousand 
dollar", in Memphis, Term., last week, by an implement 
called “ old sledge.” 
— The City Council of St. Louis have appropriated 
$8,000 to aid in the removal ot the Rock Islaud Bridge 
over the Mississippi. 
— The total vaLue of dry' goods entered at New York 
for 7 months, ending February 1, is $76,500,000, against 
$49,000,000 in 1868-9. 
— The infant recently presented to her loyal subjects 
by the Queen of Spain, has been christened, and received 
no less than 61 names. 
— Kossuth has recently written a long letter on Hun¬ 
garian affairs. There are evidences of a strong concerted 
movement in that country. 
— Among the projects of the French Emperor is a per¬ 
manent World’s Fair, at Paris, where articles may not 
only be exhibited, but sold. 
— Leavenworth, Kan., was illuminated with gas on the 
night of January 24th, for the first time, much to the 
gratification of the citizens, 
— The right to lay down aud operate passenger railroads 
iri the city of New Orleans, has been sold by the city for 
30 years for the sum of $130,000. 
— Four Liberian vessels, freighted with palm oil, cam¬ 
wood, ivory, sugar, svnip. and gold dust, have entered the 
ports of the U. S. within a few months. 
— Two recent cases of child-burning, in which the help¬ 
less ones had been Jeft alone for •' just one minute,” are 
chronicled by thv*Massachusetts papers. 
— It is believed that small pox prevails to a greater 
extern throughout New England at the present time than 
for any period for the past fifteen years. 
— James W, Jones, Jr., of Augusta, Ga,, for twenty 
years editor of the Augu-ta Chronicle, died in that city, 
on the 18th ult.. at the age of fifty-two. 
— Thirty-two steamers hate been lost on that part of 
the Missouri River between St. Louis and Alton (24 
miles) during the past twenty-two years. 
— Mens. Charles IJeidsiek, the celebrated Champagne 
Wine proprietor, has arrived in New York, en route to 
the West to huat buffaloes and other animals. 
— The increase of buildings in. Detroit was 342 in 1859 
over the number erected in 1858, besides which 228 were 
in progress of erection when the report was made up. 
Congressional Proceedings. 
Senate.— The. President sent a message to the 
Senate returning the joint-resolution passed the 
List day of the last session, appropriating money 
for removing the bar and obstructions at the 
month of the Mississippi. 
The Post-Office Deficiency Bill was taken up and 
read. 
The first amendment made by Ihe Committee on 
Finance, was to make provisions for wrapping 
paper, mail paper, Ac. Agreed to. 
The*2d amendment was to the 3d section, pro¬ 
viding that interest should only be paid to con¬ 
tractors themselves, and in full claim of damages, 
and provided that no interest is to be allowed on 
the last quarter. 
The 3d amendment provides for the abolishment 
of the franking privilege after the 1st of May, but 
that all persons now entitled to the privilge, are 
exempted from the pre-payment of postage. 
Mr. Hale moved to amend by changing the time 
till the 20th of April. 
Mr. Toombs accepted the amendment, which, 
after considerable debate, was agreed to—yeas 3J r 
nays 21. 
The following resolutions were introduced and 
adopted:—For the relief of Cora. H. J. Ilarstein, 
appropriating$6,000. AuthorizingCom.Shubrick 
to accept a sword from Uriquiza. Instructing the 
Committee on Post-Offices to inquire into the 
expediency of establishing a line of mail steamers 
between San Francisco and China via. the Sand, 
with Islands. To print 13,000 extra copies of the 
Agricultural portion of the Patent Report. Adj. 
House. —On motion of Mr. Morse, the Com¬ 
mittee on Commerce were directed to Inquire into 
the expediency of prohibiting, by law, all Ameri¬ 
can vessels from engaging in the Coolie trade, or 
transporting apprentices for the West Indies, or 
other parts of the world. 
Mr. Morse introduced a resolution that the seve¬ 
ral Standing Committees, who were authorized to 
employ clerks at the last session of Congress, be 
now authorized to do so, with the addition of tho 
Committees on Accounts and Territories. With¬ 
out disposing of it, the House resolved itself into 
a Committee of the Whole on the State of the 
Union, Mr. Washburn, of I1L, in the Chair. 
We give a list of such Committees as possess a 
National importance. 
Wavs and Means—Messrs. Sherman, Davis of Mil, 
Phelps, Slovens. Wuslilmrne of Me., Millson, Morrill, 
Crawford and Spniilding. 
Commerce— Messrs. Washlmrne of Tl)., Wade, John 
Cochrane, Elliott, Smith of N. O., Morehead, Lamar 
Nixon unii Clements. 
Military Alims—Messrs. Rtnnton, Curtis, Bunham, Buf¬ 
fington, <Uln. McRae, Pendleton, I.nngnecknr nnd Boteler. 
Naval Affairs—Messrs. Morris of Me., Bocoek Pottle, 
Winslow, Wil*ou, Curry, Sedgwick, Harris of Md., ana 
Schwartz. 
Territories—Messrs. Grow, Perry, Smith ofVa., Gooch, 
Waldwn, Clark of Mo,, Case, Vallaiidlngliatn and Ashley. 
Judiciary—Messrs. Hickman, Bingham, Houston, Tay¬ 
lor. Nelson, Kellogg of ill., Reyuolds, Robinson of It. L, 
aiei Porter. 
Pllhlio Lands—Messrs, l.ovejoy, Cobb, Covode, Davis of 
Ind., Trumbull, Vandever, Windsor aud Barretl. 
1'ost Offices nnd Post Roads—Messrs. Coll.ix. Woodruff. 
English, Adame of Ky., Alien, Davis of Miss., Craig of 
Mo., Helmick and Lee. 
Public Expenditures—Messrs Haskins, Palmer. Ed¬ 
mondson, Killiuger, Somes, Hindman, Wood, ClotT ami 
Fonlvp. 
Manufactures — Messrs. Adams of Mass., Scranton, 
McQueen, Leake, Moore of Ky., Freach, Duun, Riggs 
and McKean, 
Agriculture — Messrs, Butterfield, Cary, Whittle}’, 
Stuart of J'a., Wright, Bristow, Aldrich, Burch and 
Grow. 
Indian Affairs—Messrs. Ethridge, Burroughs, Woodsen, 
Farnsworth, Clsrk of N, Y , Scott, Leach of Mich., 
Edwards and Aldrich. 
Militia—Messrs. Tomkins, Irvine, Jenkins, Webster, 
Ruffin, Wells, Packer and Simons. 
Foreign Affairs —Messrs. Corwin, Burlingame, Barks¬ 
dale, Morris of Pa., Brunch, Boyce, Hill, Miles and Hum* 
Political Intelligence. 
The citizens of Rhode Island who are not 
Democrats, and who are opposed to the regular 
Republican nominations for State Officers, held a 
Convention on the 8th inst., and nominated the 
following State ticket:— Governor —Col. William 
Sphagtr, of Providence. Lieut. Gutter nor —Isaac 
Saunders, of Scituate. Attorney General —Thou 
K. King, of North Providence. Secretary of 
Stair— John R. Bartlett, of Providence. Treasu¬ 
rer —Samuel A. Parker, of Newport. 
Very strange modeR for transacting business 
has the Legislature ol' Pennsylvania. Governor 
Packer lately sent, in one batch, seventeen veto 
messages, which were nearly all unanimously sus¬ 
tained by the legislative power. First, the law- 
enactors passed bills which they knew were 
wrong, threw upon tho Governor the responsi¬ 
bility of vetoing them, and then nearly unani¬ 
mously sustained him in defeating bills which 
they had solemnly sanctioned. 
Virginia has been expressing her choice upon 
the Presidential question,—at least, so says the 
Richmond Enquirer: —“Of the fifty-one counties 
whose proceedings have been published in the 
Enquirer and Examiner, twenty-eight, polling 
17,601 Democratic votes, have declared a prefer¬ 
ence for Henry A. Wise, Twenty-two counties, 
polling 12,355 Democratic votes, have expressed 
no preference. And one county polling 298 Dem¬ 
ocratic votes, has expressed a preference for R. 
M. T. Hunter.” As there arc one hundred aud 
fifty-two counties in Virginia, this statement 
affords no indication of Democratic preference 
in the State. 
Judge Smalley, Chairman of the Democratic 
National Committee, has just returned to New 
York from Charleston, where he has been making 
arrangements for the meeting of the National 
Convention. He secured the Charleston Insti¬ 
tute, which is sufficiently large for the purposes 
required. It will accommodate nearly three 
thousand persons. He says ample accommoda¬ 
tions will be made for all persons desirous of 
attending the Convention. 
It will be remembered that at the Southern 
Convention held in Vicksburg last May, the vote 
of .Mississippi was east in favor of opening the 
African slave trade. The present Legislature, 
however, has set the fit,ate right on that subject. 
The bill to repeal the State law against the intro¬ 
duction of Africans into that State, was rejected 
on Thursday, the 2Ctb ult, by a rule of three to one. 
On a motion to indefinitely postpone the whole 
subject, the yeas were GG, nays 22. 
In the last issue of the Rural, we gave a brief 
extract from the Message of Gov. Houston, defi¬ 
ning his position in reference to a Southern 
Convention for the purpose of forming a South¬ 
ern Confederacy. The New Orleans Picayune 
endorses the message. We quote as follows: 
** These arc sound Southern as well as Union 
sentiments for the Southern States to adopt and 
live by. They express the all hut unanimous 
opinion of all parties in the South—that the con¬ 
stitution, ‘fairly and honestly interpreted,’ and 
the law ' faithfully and impartially administered 
by the Federal Government’ to protect the rights 
of property and guarantee the same — make a 
union which it would be faction and frenzy to 
assail. So long as a government exists 'ready 
and willing to maintain the constitution and 
guard every man in the enjoyment ol bis indi- 
ui final a tinrl ‘fViA PftflftMl firm ic fn 
, in pursuance ol the 66th clause of 
that treaty, their further progress was opposed by 
force, and a conflict took place between the Chi¬ 
nese forts, at the mouth of the river, and the 
naval, by which the Plenipotentiaries were es¬ 
corted. The allied forces displayed, on this occa¬ 
sion, their usual bravery, but after sustaining a 
severe loss, they were compelled to retire. I am 
preparing, in concert and co-operation with the 
Emperor of the French, an expedition, intended 
to compel redress, and the fulfillment of stipula¬ 
tions of the treaty. 
An unauthorized proceeding, by an officer of 
the United States, in regard to the Island of Kan 
Juan, between Vancouver’s Island and the main 
land, might have led to a serious collision between 
my forces and those of the United States, but the 
collision has be< n prevented by the judicious for¬ 
bearance of my naval officers on the spot, and by 
the equitable aud conciliatory provisions, and the 
arrangements proposed iri this matter, by the 
Government of the United States. I trust that 
the question of boundary, out of which this affair 
has arisen, may be amicably settled, in a manner 
conformable with the justice of the two coun¬ 
tries, and defined in the first articles of the treaty 
of 184(1. 
The last embers of the disturbuuee in my East 
Indian dominions have been extinguished. The 
Viceroy has made peaceful progress through the 
districts which had been the principal scenes of 
disorder, and by a judicious combination of firm¬ 
ness and generosity, my authority has heeu every¬ 
where solidly, and, I trust, permanently, estab¬ 
lished. 
The remainder of the speech is devoted to local 
matters of interest 
The public revenue is pronounced in a satisfac¬ 
tory condition. The estimates have been pre¬ 
pared with a view of placing tho army and navy, 
and the defences of the country, upon an efficient 
looting. The volunteer movement is referred to 
with pride and gratification. 
In the House of Lords, Earl Fitzwilliam moved, 
and Lord Truro seconded, the address to Her 
Majesty, in response to the speech. 
Earl Grey, after giving a disapproval in the 
genera) foreign policy of the Government, and 
questioning the advantage to be derived from the 
new commercial treaty with France, complained 
that the Ministers bad not called Parliament to¬ 
gether, before undertaking the expedition to 
China, and moved an amendment, expressing re¬ 
gret that they did not adopt such a course. 
Lord Derby spoke on the same side, regretting 
the conduct of the Government in the Chinese 
affairs. He also entered into the Italian question, 
and urged a strong non-intervention policy. 
The amendment was negatived, aud the address 
was voted. < 
France. —M. Thonvenal had assumed the office 
as Minister of Foreign Affairs. On the 24th, he 
issued a circular to the various Ambassadors, 
pledging his best efforts to maintain and consoli¬ 
date the existing friendly relations. 
The commercial treaty between France and 
England continued to attract attention and spec¬ 
ulation. The Constitutionel publishes several 
articles of the treaty, among wbieh are the 
following; 
On and after the 1st of July next, the import on 
duties on cotton and wool will be suppressed. 
English coal and coke will be subjected to the 
same duty as in Belgium after October next A 
duty of seven francs will be substituted for the 
actual duty on iron in December next. Duties on 
machinery will he diminished in January, 1801. 
The sugar duty will be reduced from June, 1801. 
Prohibition of the importation of thread and 
hemp will be replaced by a duty not exceeding 
thirty per cent., and from Oct. 1st, all remaining 
prohibitions will be abolished. 
The project for the annexation of Savoy and 
Nice to France, was being openly alluded to by 
French semi-official journals as an almost accom¬ 
plished fact. 
Italy. —The Independent, of Turin, Count Ca- 
vour's organ, says nothing now opposes Carrig- 
naci's assumption of the Regency. 
Turkey. —Sir Henry Bulwer had ordered the 
British Consul in Rodosti to break off official 
relations with the authorities. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., FEBRUARY 18, I860. 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
Washington Matters. 
Tiiere is reliable information from Vera Cruz 
that Gen. Degollado has been appointed Secretary 
of Foreign Affairs, to serve during tbo absence of 
Mr. Ocampo, who is expected to arrive here this 
week, on a special mission from the Constitutional 
Government, and more especially to arrange such 
details of tho McLano treaty as are left to the 
Executive authorities of both Governments, in¬ 
cluding the designation of the places through 
which merchandize from the United States may 
either pass free, or at such rates of duty as our 
own Congress may impose, and also, to arrange 
that the bouudary of the Rio Grande shall be 
better protected, and persons guilty of crimes 
committed on either side, pnnished. 
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 
decided last week to report on the treaty, but this 
was deferred in order to ascertain the opinions of 
Republican Senators, some of whose votes are 
necessary for its ratification. Nearly all the Dem¬ 
ocratic Senators are already in favor of it. The 
explanations xvliich will be made by Mr. McLane 
and others, as to the actual legal status of the 
Juarez Government, must, it 
confidentially 
assorted, have the cfl'ect of removing the objec¬ 
tions which are now interposed. The indications 
phrey 
I’atents—Me«sW- Millward, Stewart of Md., Burnham, 
Nihlack and Frank. 
Expenditures in the State Department,—Messrs. Mc¬ 
Kean, Stout, Ran', Love and Dawes 
Expenditures in the Treasury Department—Messrs. 
Luumis, Quarles. Wells, Thomas and Train, 
Expenditures in the War Department—Messrs. Stuart 
of Fa,, I,nraliee, ’turnpkins. Cooper and Morrill. 
Expenditures in the Navy Department—Messrs. Hat¬ 
ton. Underwood, Blair. Hughes and Sherman. 
Expenditures in tile Fust Office Department—Messrs. 
Fainter, Martin o! Va., Moore of Ky,, I.andmm aud 
StMUtOD. 
Expenditures in Public Buildings—Messrs. Brayton, 
Walton. Harris of Va., Bell aud Nelson. 
New York Legislature. 
Senate. —A memorial was presented from 
the State Medical Society, asking fora law to com¬ 
pel general vaccination. 
The hill to empower members of Charitable 
and Religious Societies to vote by proxy, 
vidual Rights,' and ‘the Federal arm is to be 
stretched forth as a barrier against all attempts 
to impair them.’ the South is contented and the 
Union perpetual.” 
A Republican State Convention is called for 
Missouri, to meet at St. Louis on the 10th of 
March, to send delegates to Chicago. 
The New Hampshire State Election takes place 
on the 13th of next month. Both parties are 
engaged in an active campaign, as the result will 
show what maybe expected from New Hampshire 
at the Presidential Election in the fall. 
was re¬ 
ported favorably. 
Mr. Msnniere brought in a bill to facilitate the 
sale and foreclosure of the N. Y. & Erie R. R. It 
provides for selling the road, its personal prop¬ 
erty and franchise, together as a whole, under the 
fourth or fifth mortgage, subject to the third, sec¬ 
ond and first. Also for the organization of a new 
There is a company of gentlemen now in 
Washington, who are about to make a proposition 
to Congress, to carry the entire inland mails of 
the United States, provided the franking privilege 
is abolished, for the revenue arising therefrom. 
The company is abundantly able to perform the 
work. Should the franking privilege he abolished 
this session, there are a number of members who 
have resolutions already prepared, abolishing the 
whole Post-Office system, and allowing the mails 
to he carried by private enterprise, or in the same 
manner as express matter is now conveyed. 
The Interior Department will shortly send pre¬ 
liminary instructions to various Marshals for 
taking the next Census. The schedules will soon 
follow. 
.Minister Faulkner has, in accordance with the 
views of President Buchanan's Inaugural Message, 
been instructed to propose to the French Govern¬ 
ment the removal of its discriminating duties, 
both on tunnage and on. other articles—the 
growth, produce or manufacture of the one coun¬ 
try when arriving in vessels belonging to the 
other, which restrictions seriously aflect Ameri- 
The object is to obtain such 
From Texas. —The steamship Arizona arrived 
at New Orleans on the 11th, with Brownsville, 
Texas, dates of the oth inst A courier from Col. 
Ford to Maj. Heintzlman, reports that the Amer¬ 
ican steamer Ranchero was fired into, 30 miles 
above Brownsville, by Mexicans bearing the Mex¬ 
ican flag. Several shots passed through the 
steamer. Subsequently the Mexicans fired upon 
Col. Ford's forces, from the Mexican side of the 
river, dangerously wounding one man. Col. Ford 
returned the fire, and crossed the river in pursuit 
of the enemy. Capt. Siordman's dragoons had 
been reinforced, and now number 200 men. The 
people of JIatamoras sympathize with Cortenas. 
War was considered inevitable. 
Aeout twenty thousand tuns of ice are being 
packed in Peru, Illinois, this season. Thirty-six 
hundred tuns of it are loaded on barges for Baton 
Rouge and other places South. 
jgk can commerce. 
yr principles of reciprocity as this Government has 
