CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
AGRICULTURAL. Pa or.. 
nowand Where shall ire Begin?.. ."9 
Effects of Guano*.*9 
Prindle's Empire State am! Prairie Corn l’lanter, [111.1 — 29 
How Milk l* Condensed . 29 
StPHioiuK Food for Cattle . 39 
Destruction of Forest*.. 30 
Sward-Bound Meadow* . .30 
IturiU Sjnnt of the ['rent. American Corn; Cider 
iinkitiK in Gonnccueut; oortriium lor Hog Feed . 30 
Inyuiritt and Answers, -To Sweeten Rancid Hultc.r; Beat 
kniinuif and Mowing Machine*. How Shall I Save My^ 
bum'll, How to tute a »pruin.. .30 
Agricultural Societies. Vermont State; Philadelphia 
Sweietv, Chenango Co.; Delaware Co.; Gene*** 1 Co.; . 
Jelleiaon Co., Omdda Co.: St. Lawrence Co.; Inlonia- 
tiomil; Brookfield; C«*euov1a; Camden; Lenox; Sandy 
Creek Union.. ..... .39 
AoriaMurtU Miscrttuni/, Great Men Clows TLeir Lives 
iu tne Coonli.v, Wb"m'*' it Kmaiintc* “Stop My Pa¬ 
per t The Weather; l ire Iirill*b Wheat Crop; To Ad¬ 
vertiser*; Tin; Ohio Farm School . 30 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Fruit-Grower’* Society of Western New York Annual 
Meeting—Report of Di*cu*«ion.31 
To our Render)' . 31 
Blanching Celery with Sawiluct .31 
Ttw Phlox, (IUiiHtrutcd;|.;. .... 31 
Horticultural A'olcs. '1 he Apple Crop <f Niagara and 
Orlem h Countlm.. Wine and Intemperance; twilit Re¬ 
ceived: Grafting tin-G-npc; UivUlintr Pie Plant; Ku**et* 
from Micbigir , QualitieMinid Culture of the Strawberry; 
Tran on ctiona of the Ohio Poiuologbul Society; Milwau¬ 
kee (VVin.,> Hoitlcnltur.il Sonety; Adrian (Midi.,I Horti¬ 
cultural Soclete; KooUul: ilowaj Horlieiiltmal Society; 
Cincinnati Horticultural Society; A Cabbage-Tree Won- 
der. . .. ... 31 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Good Waahing Compound: Starch Polish; Leather Var¬ 
nish; Good (.opal Vurnitli! Truopaont Japan VnrniHi; 
Black Ink; la'inon Syrup; To Take Grease out of Roanln, 
Marble, &e.; Com- Frame*, iturrkel*, kc.\ To Fagtcn 
Knife Handler; To Parent* and Nurse*-Painted Toyw 31 
LADIES' OLIO. 
Mv Childhood'* Home [l’oeiical j The Clturndardiersand 
Plow hand lea: Unkind Word*; Content; Memories ol the 
Pant, Re a Mother to your Children, . .32 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Ualf-honr Muring* in a Court Room: What I Think; Well- 
Governed Chihli etii Live not lor Thy Kelt. The Laugh of 
a Child [Poetical;] Round the Hearth-SUine [Poetical] .32 
SABBATH MUSINQS. 
A Souf* Qne*<imi [Pod lea I;] IIo kuoweth our Frame; 
Tne Ijoylog-Kiuduesa of God . 32 
EDUCATIONAL 
Suggestions to Young Teacher*; Support your Teacher; 
Common School by stem of Mi**ourir Educational At 
fair* in Sacramento; Cu Itl voting the Faculty of Speech; 33 
YOUNG KURA LIST. 
Botany for Lvlie* [Two Illustrations;) A Grand Offer to 
Young People . 3.5 
STORY TELLER. 
Lydia Mathewson's Journal.,,...,. 36 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Spalding's Prepared Clue-Henry C. Spalding & Co. 
Prindle’s Empire State .and Prairie Corn and Bean Planter 
-D. R. Pi indie. . . 
TTniveisa) Knowledge Box—Dick K l itegerald. 
For Sale - A. It . Slnuson. 
flay Cutt-ei* *Ct>a*. E. Poiine. 
Tree Seed* R E. Sehrmder. 
For Sale— Jane I., 1‘owi*. 
For Sale—Benjamin Cm II. 
Harrow * Colored Fruit and Flower Plate* for Nursery¬ 
men F. Harrow A; Brother. 
Annual Meeting Slat-- Ag. Society -B. P.-Johnson. 
For Sale .1. II- Hixl.y, Agent. 
100 Agents Wautcil R. M. 1 adget. 
fi fleet Ah NOTICKS. 
Agricultural Owldron and Steatncr -D. R. Prindle. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JANUARY 28, 18G0. 
SPECIAL NOTICE TO CLUB AGENTS, &c. 
The continued large accessions to our subscription list 
—for which wo again tender grateful acknowledgments— 
have rendered it impossible for n* to make out and report 
the result of the competition for gratuities offered for 
early clubs as soon a» we desired and expected. We 
hope, however, to he able to give the result in a Supple¬ 
ment during the present week, and shall mail a copy to 
every person interested. Our pages arc so crowded that 
we cannot give the statement in our regular edition, but 
it will be published complete in the Supplement, and the 
gratuities promptly forwarded on the order of those 
entitled. 
_As we are obliged to omit all Publisher’s Notices 
this week, we refer to late numbers for information as to 
clubs, gratuities, &c. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington Jlntlcnt 
Official dispatches have been received from 
Vera Crup, confirming the newspaper accounts of 
the victories for the Liberals. Advices received 
there from England, favorable to the recognition 
of the Juarez Government, which is expected 
soon to take place, have, together with President 
Buchanan's recommendation relative to the Mexi¬ 
can affairs, heightened the hopes of the Liberals 
of complete success, and produced a correspond¬ 
ing depression among the Reductionists. The 
Mexican Cabinet, however, do not think it will 
become necessary to call for the aid of American 
troops in the contingency suggested by Mr. 
Buchanan. A number of military men have writ¬ 
ten to Washington as to the truthfulness of the 
report, that the Juarez Government have invited 
volunteers from the United States, but there is 
no official or any other authority to sustain it, nor 
would they he accepted without the concurrence 
of our Government The armed men who have 
gone, and others who are prepared to go South, 
may have other schemes in view, or be in expec¬ 
tation of a call for their services in Mexico. As 
the protest of Mr. McLane against the Tacubaga 
massacre, met with no recognition from Mira- 
inon, bo the protest of the latter against the 
recognition of the Juarez Government will receive 
no favor or official notice from our own. 
A report has been prevalent for several days, 
that l’ost-Master General Holt contemplated 
resigning his position. This originated from 
the understood difference betweeu him and the 
other members of the Cabinet, respecting the 
interpretation of the law relative to the curtail¬ 
ment of mail service, hut it is now understood 
that the conflicting views have been reconciled. 
The Treasury balance is under $8,000,000, 
including amounts subject to draft and reserved 
for the mint service, upon which advances are 
made by deposits of gold dust for coinage. Half 
of this sum is intended to meet the Post-Office 
deficiency du„ la6t July, whenever Congress shall 
pass an appropriation bill, and the reat is required 
for six months ending on the ,31st of December. 
Information 1ms been received at Washington, 
that thr. e thousand iiye. hundred men are now in 
New Orleans ready to embark for Vem Cmz. 
They go out as emigrants, and will be received 
into citizenship by the Juarez Government, when 
they will be. mustered Into service under Ameri¬ 
can officers, Much as Generals Ring and Wheat, 
and will sustain the Liberal Government until the 
Senate ratifies the McLanc treaty. The leaders of 
this expedition expect as a reward for their ser¬ 
vices the renewal of the grant for a railroad from 
Aranjas Bay to MnziUlnti, the original charter of 
which was granted under Hiinta Anna. The. im¬ 
migrants arc to remain as laborers in constructing 
this railroad—keeping up their military organiza¬ 
tion for self-protection. 
Political Intelligence- 
A private dispatch was received at Washing¬ 
ton, on the 20th iusL, stitiug that the Democratic 
State Convention, Tenn., on the 18th, nominated 
Senator Johnson of that State tor President, sub¬ 
ject to the decision of the National Convention. 
The Delegate* selected for the State at large are 
Langdon C. Haynes and N. C. WliilUionie. The 
other delegates are Andrew Ewing, Samuel Mallo- 
ghan, Win, M. Quarles and J. C. Atkins. 
The Minnesota Democratic State Convention 
met at SL Paul on the 10th inst, for the purpose 
of electing delegates to the Charleston Conven¬ 
tion. Resolutions were adopted endorbing the 
Cincinnati Platform, opposing the re-opening of 
the African Slave Trade, denouncing the Harper's 
Ferry raid, desiring Stephen A. Douglas to he 
their first choice for the Presidential nomination, 
instructing their delegates to vote for him as 
long us such support will prove available, and 
declaring the democracy of Minnesota will sup¬ 
port the Charleston nominee, whoever lie may 
be. A resolution Instructing the delegates to 
vote for Douglas until the majority decided 
otherwise, was voted down by 38 majority. 
The Iowa Legislature, on the 16th inst,, re¬ 
elected James Harlan, U. S. Senator. The vote 
stood "3 to 32 for A. C. Dodgo. 
Gov. Stew akt has refused to sign the bill lately 
passed the Missouri Legislature for the exclusion 
of free negroes from the State. 
The two wings of the Kansas Legislature still 
remain at their respective points, the majority at 
Taiwrencc, the minority at Lecompton. An at¬ 
tempt to reconcile the difference on the question 
of a temporary Capital will soon he made the 
introduction of a resolution into both bodies 
favoring an adjournment to Leavenworth as a 
compromise. Lawrence correspondence says 
quite a strife occurred in the organization of 
the two Houses, by the Senatorial aspirants— 
Lane and Winchell entering the field for their 
respective friends, in which Lane seems to have 
been worsted. The principal Republican candi¬ 
dates for the Senatorship arc Gen. Pomoroy, Gen. 
Lane, James M. Winchell, M. J. Parrott, II. J. 
Adams, J. C. Vaughn, and A. Danfore. 
Congressional Proceedings. 
Hex ate. —Mr. Douglas' resolution, instructing 
the Judiciary Committee to report a bill for the 
better suppression of invasion, &c., was specially 
assigned for 1] P. M., on Monday, '23d inst. 
A debate of .some length took place on the 
point whether the Senate had a right to transact 
any business until the House organized. 
The Senate finally, by a vote ol' 45 to 7, over¬ 
ruled a point of order to that effect, and refer¬ 
red a private hill on which the debate had sprung 
up, to the Committee on Private Land Chums. 
The Senate Investigating Committee com¬ 
menced the examination of Mr. Arney, a member 
of the Kansas National Committee, lie informed 
the Committee that he was acquainted with mat¬ 
ters appertaining to Browiffis affairs in Kansas, 
which may throw some light upon his movements 
at Harper's Perry; hut that before testifying lie 
would be obliged to return to Kansas to procare 
certain books and papers (this privilege lnm been 
refused,) so that he could give a more full and 
accurate statement of money placed in his hands 
by individuals and committees, and how it was 
appropriated, thereby showing definitely how 
much was paid to Brown, by whose order, and 
for what purpose. Ho accounted for large sums 
of money and a great quantity of arms collected 
in 183(1 and 1857, to In; employed in Kansas, but 
nothing was elicited from him couerning Brown's 
raid. Realf, the Secretary of State iu the “Pro¬ 
visional Government” of John Brown, is under 
examination, hut nothing of importance has, as 
yet, been elicited. 
The Senate iu Executive session have confirmed 
Samuel Smith of Tenn., Commissioner of General 
Land Office; Col. Stambaugh of I’a., Surveyor 
General of Utah; Geo. Griffin of Indiana, Re¬ 
ceiver of Public Money at Washington, Oregon; 
W. Maeuboy of Wisconsin, Register of Land 
Office at Superior, Wis.; K. Means of Iowa, Re¬ 
ceiver of Laud Office at Iowa City; W. A veils of 
Arkansas, Receiver of Land Office at BatevIUe, 
Ark.; M. Hose of Ark., Receiver of Laud Office 
at Clarkville. Ark.; H. A. Sctseer, Receiver at 
Cambridge, W. T.; J. R. Culver, Register at Port¬ 
land, W, T.; J. Clark, Receiver at Fort Scott, 
Kansas; H. McGill, Secretary of the Treasurer of 
Washington Territory. 
Hocse still unorganized. Voting for Speaker 
is occasionally indulged in, with similar results 
to those last noted. 
New York Legislature. 
Assembly.—A large number of hills have been 
introduced and referred to the various commit¬ 
tees. Everything seems to be in working order 
at present, and should the session escape the vari¬ 
ous “sensation” matters, which so much retard 
business, it is probable that all needed legislative 
action will be had ere the period for adjourn¬ 
ment arrives. 
Bills Passed .—Making appropriation for the 
payment of interest on temporary loan; to pro¬ 
vide for the payment of the floating debt of the 
State; to legalize certain doings of the Charles¬ 
ton Congregational Society of Lima; to authorize 
the shareholders of the Lockport Gas Co. to 
reduce the number of directors. 
Senate.—A large number of bills have been 
presented. 
The following bills were reported favorably 
from committees:—To confer additional powers 
on CourtB of Special Session; to compel the 
attendance of witnesses before the committees of 
Common Councils, and puuisli false swearing by 
such witnesses; to make general election day* 
public holidays; fiixing the fees of Justices of 
the Peace, in both civil and criminal case*; ex¬ 
empting firemen from taxation to the amount of 
$500, and making appropriations for the Canal 
debt, and the maintenance of the Canals for the 
next fiscal year; authorizing the County Clerks 
to enter satisfaction of judgment* lolutive to 
division; relative to unclaimed deposits in Sa¬ 
vings Bonks; to amend the Revised Statutes rela¬ 
tive to punishment of crime. 
The bill to compel the attendance of witnesses 
before the committee* of Common Councils of 
cities was read a third time and passed. 
From the Pacific Hide. 
By the arrival of the Overland Mail at St, i/ouis, 
we glean the following items of interest: 
Business at Sau Francisco unchanged Since the 
departure of the mail, and the large number of 
vessel* due tended to increase the indisposition to 
operate. 
The ship Franklin, from Bristol, Eng., arrived 
at San Francisco, Dec. 24, with 1,500. tuns railroad 
iron for the Sacramento Valley Railroad. 
The Christmas festivities engrossed the sole 
attention of the people of San Francisco, on the 
day the mail left. The weather had been rainy 
since the 23d. 
The crop of grapes in California was less per 
vino this year than any Reason since 1832. Thin 
diminution was caused by unfavorable weather. 
There was but little doing at the Indian Creek 
mines, though there are several claims on the 
Creek which continue to yield well and probably 
will for a year or two longer. Quartz mining is 
still going ahead; both the Liskigon and New 
York companies are doing well. The Liskigon 
mill has been laid up for repairs. Before slopping 
the company crushed some rock for the Cherry 
Creek Quartz Co., aud it yielded over $32 a tun. 
Several quartz IeadB are being opened in the 
neighhood of OYotino. 
The Portland [Oregon) Advertiser of the 7th, 
says the United Statce Bteamer Massachusetts, 
bound for Vancouver with the soldiers who had 
lately occupied San Juan Island, was detained at 
that port by ice. 
The message of Gov. Gholson, of Washington 
Territory, expresses astonishment that the war 
debt of that territory had not been paid by Con¬ 
gress, and is partlcukvly severe upon Gen. Scott 
on account of his concessions in the Ban Juan 
affair. 
The Governor state]- the number of acres of 
land surveyed in the territory at 2,000,000, over 
11,000 of which have been entered during the past 
year by 73 persous. Ho speaks favorably of the 
explorations and labors of Lieut. McMullen, for 
the opening of a military roinl from the Walla 
Walla to Fort Benton, on the Missouri river, and 
says the ex pin ratio ns have developed large quan¬ 
tities of fine farming and grazing lands upon this 
route, which lie regards as a favorable one for 
emigrants and the transportation of the mail, and 
for a railroad. 
Sandwich Islands dates are to the 6th inst. The 
fall season was about over. More than half the 
whalers had gone out, hut seine few were to return 
in the spring for provisions, cordage, whalemen, 
Ac. The amount of oil aud hone being shipped 
for Atlantic ports this season is estimated at, 9,730 
bbls. of whale oil, 808,091 lbs. of bone, showing 
a large falling off from the usual amount of ship¬ 
ments. _ _ 
News Paragraphs. 
In the South of France the weather has been 
so severe that a sentinel was found dead of cold 
iu bis sentry-box at Lyons. Several persons have 
perished in the snow iu the mountains of Dau- 
phine, where they imprudently ventured in pur¬ 
suit of game. Two boys, of eight and ten years 
of age, died of cold while returning from school. 
The annual meetiug bf the American Coloniza¬ 
tion Society was held at the Smithsonian institute 
during the past week. The attendance was large. 
Addiesses were delivered by Hon. Mr. Kytor, of 
Tenn., Dr. Styles, of Georgia, aud Rev. Dr. Fenny, 
of New York. The receipts of the year amount 
to nearly 8161,000, and the expenditures $80,000. 
The Society have sent about 300 emigrants to 
Africa during the same period. 
The number of hogs packed in the principal 
packing cities of this country the past year is 
estimated to be 1,502,329—a decrease from 1858 
of 50,870. 
According to the report of the managers of the 
State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, it appears that 333 
deranged persons were admitted during the past 
year. 
Thf. Tea plant is cultivated in Louisiana with¬ 
out any difficulty. It has shown its power to 
withstand the hottest days of Louisiana, and also 
the late freezing cold weather. Labor, however, 
is too dear in Louisiana to permit the Tea plant 
to be cultivated for commercial purposes. 
The female nose in America is now the subject 
of philosophical discussion. A German traveler 
says of our ladies;—"They cannot be called in 
general beautiful, because they are apt to be 
wanting iu that fullness of form which perfect 
beauty requires; and because the majority of 
these have long noses!” The Home Journal asks 
if the length of the American nose is owing to 
the fact that the sex of our country does not 
allow its nose to be snubbed? 
The lake traffic has, of late years, become per¬ 
fectly enormous, the increase of the Western nav¬ 
igation being unprecedented. For example, 3,0t;5 
steamers passed up from Lake Erie to Lakes 
Huron and Superior, by Detroit, in 1859; and 
3,121 passed down. The greatest number i.p in a 
single day was 85; down 73. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Gf.kat Britain. —A scheme for the conversion | 
of the public debt of Canada into one consolida- j 
toil 5 j*:r icnf. stock, irredeemable for the twenty- 
live years, baa been generally promulgated in 
London, and attracted considerable attention. 
The liabilities of the Colony are stated at £11,- 
600,000. 
The London 'rimes says that present appear¬ 
ances indicate that the contemplated European 
Congress will not take [dace. Other authority 
says nearly the same thing, but the statement 
lacks confirmation. 
The D.ily News remarks that the projected 
Congress was indefinitely postponed, and that no 
friend of the cause of freedom in Italy need 
regret the temporary difficulty in which the diplo¬ 
macy finds itself, ns every mouth gained confirms 
the liberties of the Italian Stales, and justifies 
tlicir revolution before the world. 
Lord Macaulay, the Author, died in London on 
the 28th ult, of disease of the heart, after a fort¬ 
night's illness. 
France. —Nothing had transpired relative to 
the Congress, and it was still uncertain whether 
it would assemble. The rctiiement or dismissal 
of Count Walewiski from the French Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs attracted more attention than 
any thing else in a political way in Europe. The 
English journals construe it as evidence that 
Napoleon intends to espouse the Italian cause. 
It was rumored that the visit of Lord Cowley, 
British Embassador at the French Court, to Lon¬ 
don, had reference to the settlement of the Italian 
question, without the assemblage of the European 
Congress. 
Marshal McMahon had succeeded Marshal Val- 
liant as commander of the French army of occu¬ 
pation in Italy. 
It was stated in official quaiters that the budget 
of the Ministry of War for I860 would be prepared 
for a strictly peace cstablii-hment, the army being 
reduced to less than 400,000 men. 
Commercial and financial affairs in France 
were, in a less favorable condition, owing to the 
uncertainly which had arisen relative to the Con¬ 
gress. 
A rumor has prevailed that the Pope’s Nuncio 
had threatened to demand his passports on ac¬ 
count of the recent pamphlet, hut the Paris cor¬ 
respondent of the London Past pronounces the 
rnrnor untrue. An official denial was also posted 
in the PariB Bourse. 
It was reported at Paris that Guizot was engaged 
on a pamphlet upon the temporal power of the 
Pope. The Paris Pays publishes an article by 
Granier Dc Cassagna on the pamphlet, in which 
it. is asserted that the pamphlet has been errone¬ 
ously interpreted by the press. It says tbe pam¬ 
phlet does not propose to deprive the Pope of the 
Legations, but advises His Holiness to submit to 
the present state of things. 
Italy.— The Milan Cnzette announces that the 
ex-I)uke of Modena had advanced with his troops 
towards the frontiers of Modena. Part of his 
army was already at a frontier town. 
Gen. Guyon, commander of the French forces 
at Rome, had been ordered, by telegraph, to pro¬ 
ceed to Paris. This, in some quarters, was inter¬ 
preted into a menace to the Pupal Government. 
A dispatch from Modena says, that in conse¬ 
quence of a demand made by the family of tbe 
hoy Moitara, who had given proof that the kid¬ 
napping of the child was ordered by the Rev. 
Father and Inquisitor Scilette, the latter had 
been arrested, and judicial proceedings had been 
instituted, 
Garibaldi had been honored with an enthusi¬ 
astic ovation at Milan, although be endeavored to 
pass through that city — en route for Turin— 
quietly and unobserved. Garibaldi’s mission to 
Turin is said to have reference to his probable 
appointment as Commander-in-Chief of dll the 
National Guards of the Kingdom. 
A general amnesty in Naples had been deferred. 
But fifty individual pardons had been granted. 
Si'Aix.—Dispatches to Jan. 2d from the Spanish 
%rmy furnish the following items: 
Yesterday the Spanish squadron horned and 
blew up the fort at the mouth of the river Tetuau. 
Two tribes not wishing to continue the war, have 
withdrawn to their mountains. 
Madrid, Jan. 1.—On Friday evening the Moors 
vigorously attacked our encampment, hut were 
repulsed with great loss. The Spaniards displayed 
great bravery. Their loss, however, w.ts not con¬ 
siderable. The rumor of peace having been con¬ 
cluded is altogether false. 
Madrid, Jan. 2.—Alter a glorious light the 
Spanish army, commanded by Gen. Prim, defeated 
the Moors on the whole line, and advanced as far 
as Yastiligos. The Hussars executed several 
heroic charges and captured a Hag. The Moors 
were 40,000 strong, and lost at least 1,500. The 
Spanish Iobs was from 400 to 500. The greatest 
enthusiasm prevailed in the army. 
Austria. —Vienna letters say that a very un¬ 
friendly feeliug towards the French agaiu pre¬ 
vailed in that Capital. 
The addresses to the Pope, which had been lying 
in the Vienna Churches, were not so numerously 
signed as was expected. 
An Imperial order directs that there shall he no 
levy of recruits iu i860, and that no more than 
the ordinary number of rnen shall he raised in 
]bill. The Emperor had announced his intention 
to dissolve 34 regiments, and effect such other 
reductions as would shortly place the army on a 
peace footing. 
The statement that the aristocratic officials in 
Austria had placed their pay at the service of the 
Emperor, is denied. It was put forward as a hint 
for them to do so, but they did not respond. 
Vienna letters say that the Austrian statesmen 
are beginning to see the impossibility of restoring 
the Italian Dukes, and were almost reconciled to 
the idea of Central Italy organization. 
ComiKROiAi.— Iirta&sluffs. —Rictmra'tpn, Spence fz Co. 
report Hour <lull and -lemi v at 24@27*Gd fov American in 
barrel*. Wheat tending downward. Out price* Bnehaugeil. 
P.ed 9s3d£*10*; white 9s6d^lla6<t. Coru dull; yellow 
31*@2J2<. l’ork firm, with a speculative demand for old 
at 60@&2 b; new quiet, 7o*@77*6d. lauxi dull. Sugar firm. 
Coffee Hteady Rice quiet. 
£l)c JTctxis (EonicitscT. 
— There are 210 vessels laid up at Chicago. 
— Lake Erie has fallen two feet since April last. 
— Unprotected female. Tbe Goddess of Liberty. 
— The total indebtedness of Indiana is $10,286,855,57. 
— The first jury ever empanelled was in England, in 
970. 
— The yield of wheat in Minnesota averages 20 bushels 
per acre. 
— The tax on negroes in Wilmington, N. C., is $-3,39 
per bead. 
— Ice-houses, to hold 50,000 tuns of ice, have been 
erected in Pari*. 
— Twenty million bushels of coal are consumed annu¬ 
ally in Cincinnati. 
— Bueno* Ayres has become a member of the Argen¬ 
tine confederation. 
— Important discoveries of gold, platina and tin have 
been made in Missouri. 
— The total debt of the State of Minnesota, January 
1st, I860, was f102,015,65, 
— At u recent ball, given iu Warrenton, Ya., the belles 
appeared in linsey dresses. 
— A fox was caught in the cellar of an old vacant house 
in Pittsburg a few days since. 
— Sharp’s RiUe Co., at Hartford, manufacture 250 of 
these life-destroyers per week. 
— Eight mile* of a horse railroad are in the process of 
construction In Detroit, Mich. 
— Andrew Titrr recently died near Paximos, Northum¬ 
berland Co.. Pa,, aged 110 years, 
— i n Newcastle, Switzerland, 20.000 women and girls 
are employed at watch-making. 
— It i* stated that there are now in Canada 45,000 fugi¬ 
tive slaves valued, at $45,000,000. 
— Steamship communication Is again resumed between 
Philadelphia and Liverpool, direct. 
— A large slaughtering establishment has just been 
completed in Baltimore, 000 feet long. 
— Elder Knapp ha# been holding revival meetings in 
Boston, but they were thinly attended. 
— During the present century, the year will end on 
Saturday in 18C4, '70, "81, '87, '92 and '98. 
— The schooner Sandusky, with a load of wood, arrived 
at Chicago on Saturday week from Saginaw. 
— The population of the province* (Canada East and 
West.) i» now estimated to be exactly 3,000,000. 
— The Hudson North Star state* that the people about 
Superior are suffering for the necessaries of life. 
_Five thousand builders in London are still “ out on 
the strike” and reduced to the greatest poverty. 
— The Rev. Dr. MeClintock, of New York, it is stated, 
will take charge of the American Chapel 111 Pari*. 
— According to a correspondent of the N. Y. Times, 
coal ha* been discovered la the Rocky Mountain*. 
_During the past week, pearly ten tuns of eel* have 
been sent to New York by parties in Orleans, Mass. 
— The Missouri Legislature have voted $26,000 for the 
erection of a monument to the late Thomas II. Benton. 
— Gen. Blanche, who fought at the battle of New 
Orleans, died in that city on the 2d Inst., aged 75 years. 
— A golden bedstead and carpet have lately been pre¬ 
sented to Queen Victoria, of tbe value of over $700,000. 
— The iron exported from the Lake Superior mine* 
during the past season, i* estimated at $402,000 in value. 
— The Mississippi iu frozen over from Galena to St. 
Paul. Tbe ice is from eight to fifteen inches in thickness. 
— The London Times recoimnexidB the expenditure of 
fifty million dollar* iu defence* for the const of England. 
— A tenement house to accommodate 5,000 people, with 
ample room lor each family, is a bo ut to be built In New 
York. 
— The New York Aim* House “Governors” have 
voted themselves $250 each for carriages, liquors and 
cigars. 
— The Mayor of Trenton, N, J., was recently fined by 
an alderman, for last driving through the streets of that 
town. 
— January 1st, the spirit thermometer in St. Paul, 
Min., was 50 degrees below zero, the mercury being con¬ 
gealed. 
— Three States have abolished the death penalty, viz.: 
Michigan in 1546, Rhode Island in 1852, and Wisconsin 
in 1853. 
— The Comptroller of New York city haa submitted 
hi* report. The expenditures last year were upward of 
$19,000,000! 
.— In the U. S. Senate on Tuesday-, Mr. Bowman was 
elected Printer. He received twenty-seven out of forty- 
eight votes. 
.— Eighty-eight divorces were granted in Brooklyn last 
year. The hv mnial halter evidently sits uneasily upon 
many neck*. 
— A petition has been pro*ented.to the Legislature of 
this State requesting them to pass a law compelling citi¬ 
zens to vote. 
— During the past year, 186 applications for divorce 
were filed in the Court in Philadelphia, and 70 couples 
wore disunited. 
— The use of the decimal system, as regards measures 
of length, is to be obligatory in Portugal from the 1st of 
January next. 
— The authorities of Wisconsin estimate the population 
of that State at 663,093, taking the vote at the late elec¬ 
tion as a basis. 
— The amount of flour manufactured in Chicago in 
1859 was 1S5,029 bbls. against 140,602 bbls. iu 1858, and 
90,000 in 1857. 
— The Viceroy of Egypt is us extravagant as a Sultan. 
He had a royal railway carriage built at Springfield, M.-ibs., 
which cost $10,000. 
— In the Pike's Peak regions, such delicacies as chick¬ 
ens bring $4 a pair, eggs $2 per dozen, and sweet potatoes 
45 cent* a pound, 
— There are 934 prisoners confined at the Auburn 
Prison; the largest number that has ever been in this 
prison at one time. 
— It is proposed to divide Livingston county, and make 
Nunda the county seat. “ Carroll ” is the proposed name 
of the uew county'. 
— A stream of salt water hus been found at the Mon¬ 
tezuma salt works which yields 62 per cent. The yield 
at Syracuse is 63 per cent. 
— Two elk calves have been introduced into Bell Co., 
Texas, from Russian America. Au experiment is to be 
made domesticating them. 
— The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has affirmed the 
constitutionality of county, town and city bonds issued 
iu aid of railroads iu that State. 
— A Court in Massachusetts ha* decided that subscrip¬ 
tions for benevolent and public purposes are valid in law, 
and Collection can be enforced. 
— It hus been ascertained by careful investigation that 
there are in the city of London, one million persons who 
never enter a place of worship. 
