occupation or settlement The work of the next 
season will extend from Columbia river to the 
Rocky Mountains. 
The authorities of the State of Chihuahua 
recently applied to the President fur the aid of 
our troops stationed near them, to prevent the 
depredations on American 
neer, when complaint is made of the condition of 
the track and bridges of any road, to examine the 
same, and if found unsafe, to apply to the court 
for an injunction, to prevent the running of 
trains until proper repairs are made. 
Three silver mines have been discovered in 
Calaveras county, within a week, represented as 
very rich. 
In Napa county, w iat was at first regarded as a 
silver mine, producing such an excitement that 
one thousand congregated at the spot at one time, 
turns out to be a very extensive vein of cinnabar, 
or quicksilver. About 400 people have taken 
possession ol if, and are continuing examinations. 
New gold diggings are also reported in Cavaieras 
county, and in extensive veins, easy of access 
from Tuolumne county. There are good accounts 
£l)c News Condenser 
AGRICULTURAL. Pack 
The Art of Feedinfr,... 77 
improvement iu Agriculture. Root Crops,...77 
KkirvinpV improved Purple T«p Swede Turnip [HI.].. 77 
l.Mutt'n improved Purple Top Swede, llliuftrated,]_ 77 
White Stone Glob© Turnip, [Illustrated,!. 77 
Kolil-Itabi, [Illustrated,].......„. 77 
Something mu»t be done,. 77 
The Clod Cru*hcr, .78 
Growing Carrots,. 78 
Pasturing on the Highway,. . 7H 
Will Sprinp Frost Injure Potatoes? . 78 
Rural Spirit af the Press la thin Anybody's Picture? 
Why Pork Shrinks in the Pot; How l/uderdraimOK 
Bay*,. 78 
Inquiries and Answers —The Scratches; Remedy for 
Bone Spavin, . 78 
Agricultural MiactUanv Proposed Western New York 
Agricultural and Mo,-hi Association; The Weather; 
Iowa Stall- Air Society; Cheinuntr Go. Apr. Society; Liv¬ 
ingston Co. lair; Kfleete. of Umlurdraiuiug. 78 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Dwarf Pear Culture in Canada, .... 79 
New Grape Trellis, [Illustrated,I. 79 
To Preserve Squash Seed pore. 79 
Inquiries and Answers Fruit Culture in Iowa; Dwarf 
Apple,.; Kingsley Apple, . 79 
Horticultural Rotes Fruit in Minnesota; The Hubbard 
.Squash; The Progressive Gardeners'Society; Calls, . 79 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
My Labor-Savior; Husband; Rap's; To Cure Chilblains; 
Good Pie Crust; Jenny l.iod Cake; Starch Cake,.79 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
Memory's Token, [Poetical.] Home Wants; Superficial 
Respectability ” "" ’• • 
Boats are loading at St Louis for St Paul. 
There are twenty banks, in Wisconsin, now windin 
citizens and property 
alleged to have been committed by marauders 
and banditti in the Interest of Miramon, who 
were drilling and organizing for the defeat of the 
Liberal cause. Orders have been sent to Captain 
Walker, commanding at Foit Bliss, near KJ I’asso, 
notifying him of their application, and directing 
his forces to be inarched Into Chihuahua for the 
purpose stated. 
Mr. McLean left Washington on the 6th inst., for 
Mexico. He is clothed by government with com 
[ilete authority and instructions to protect Amer¬ 
ican citizens and property in case of an attack by 
Miramon’* party. The movements of the Home 
Squadron will also he governed in a great degree 
by Mr. McLean’s orders, as he is fully empow¬ 
ered for any emergency that may arise. 
Mr. Geo. Sennett, counsel for Stephens and 
Hazlett, (two of those connected with the Harper’s 
Ferry raid, and now under 
Political Intelligence. 
A call has been issued 
The Common Schools of Ohio contain about 600.304 
scholars. 
— A brother of Congressman Keitt has been murdered 
by his slaves. 
A new copper mine has lately been discovered in 
Bristol, Conn, 
Blue birds have been seen in the neighborhood of 
Springfield, Mass. 
— The extra cost of collecting the taxes of Ohio semi¬ 
annually, is $80,000. 
— The gold mines of Missouri promise to rival those of 
more western lands. 
— According to a census just taken, Lockport contains 
a population of 9,446. 
— The Univers, suppressed by Louis Napoleon, was the 
Pope's organ in Paris. 
— The Missouri river has been spanned by a telegraph 
■wire 
in Virginia, directing 
all who aie opposed to the policy of the present 
Administration, and who favor the doctrines held 
by the Republican party, to meet at Wheeling on 
the 2d of May, to appoint delegates to the Chi¬ 
cago Convention. 
The question of the propriety of changing the 
time of holding the Republican National Conven¬ 
tion, having been submitted to the members of 
the Republican National Committee, and their 
views having been communicated by letter, it has I 
been determined, in accordance with the wishes 
of a majority thereof, that the said Convention 
be held on Wednesday, the 16th day of May next, 
instead of the lGth day of June, as heretofore 
proposed. 
Three hundred delegates, Democrats of Doug¬ 
las’ native district, assembled at Vergcnnes, Vt, 
in Convention, on the 29th nit. John Carn, of 
Rutland, was chosen President, and Charles P. 
Eastman and P. W. Hyde, Douglas Democrats, 
were elected delegates to Charleston. 
Governor Letcher, of Virginia, on the 3d inst, 
Rent to the Legislature a communication from 
Gen. Starke, the Mississippi Commissioner, urging 
speedy action by Virginia in favor of a Southern 
Conference, for the preservation of the Constitu- 
at St. Joseph, Mo. 
The New York and Mediterranean line of steamers 
are doing a good business. 
— The river is open at Dubuque, for a space of half a 
mile, so that the ferry boat runs. 
— North Carolina used 29,000 bales of cotton in her 
factories last year ; Georgia 26,00. 
— A movement is making to extend the telegraph lines 
up the Mississippi river to St. Paul. 
— Europe i.i divided into 65 governments, 5 of which 
are republics, and 6 absolute monarchies. 
— There are 21 savings banks in Rhode Island; deposi¬ 
tors, 31,333; amount deposited, $7,766,771. 
— A stone from Bonaparte’s tomb on St. Helena has 
been obtained for the Washington Monument. 
— In addition to “ Births. Marriages, and Deaths," the 
Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury now adds the “ Divorces.” 
— The Massachusetts Legislature consists of sixty 
Senators and two hundred and forty Representatives. 
— An ingenious eastern artist thinks be has got up a 
pair of scales that will weigh the fiftieth part of a grain. 
condemnation,) arrived 
in Washington on the 5th inst., and had an inter¬ 
view with the President, in the hope of obtaining 
bis personal influence with the Governor and 
Legislature of Virginia, to obtain their pardon. 
The President treated Mr. Sennett kindly, and 
expressed to him his warmest sympathy and the 
hope that he would succeed in his mission, but if 
ho did not decline to act directly, he did not 
promise to take action. Mr. Sennett leaves for 
Richmond, having the assurance of Gov. Letcher 
that he should have a hearing before the Commit¬ 
tee on Pardons in behalf of his clients. He will 
ask for a general amnesty in their case. 
; Old Maid*; The Broken Heart,. 81 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
To my Old School mates [Poetical] Be Ready; Fashion¬ 
able Friends; Hints to Barents,. . fit 
SABBATH MUBINOS. 
Jacob's Ladder, [Poetic#!.] Progress in Holiness; Ilow 
to have light; Eternity; Bridging Death,..SC 
EDUCATIONAL 
Suggestions <0 Young Teachers; Corruptions of Langu¬ 
age; I be Public Schools of New Jersey,.. 81 
USEFUL OLIO. 
A Chanter on Fuel; Trenton Falls, llllustrated.) The 
Truth of History,. ....gj 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
Notes on Squashes; Hold On; The Lessons of the Garden 81 
STORY TELLER. 
Agriculture ami Horticulture, [Poetical.] Elfin’s Grove,.. 84 
FOREIGN NEWS 
Senate. —Mr. Collamar introduced a resolution 
that the Committee on Post-Offices and Post 
Roads inquire into the expediency of having 
letters, which may remain in any Post-Office 
undelivered for 30 days, returned to their writers. 
.Mr. C. advocated the resolution as necessary to 
On motion of Mr. Mason, a resolution was 
adopted calling upon the President to furnish a 
copy of any report made by the Commissioners 
for making the boundary between the United 
Stains and Great Britain. 
The Invalid Pension Bill was reported and 
passed, 
Mr. Grimes offered a resolution that the Secre¬ 
tary of the Navy inform the Senate as to the 
number of marine hospitals, the number of pa¬ 
tients, and the expenses since 1864. Adopted. 
Mr. Mason offered a resolution that the Presi¬ 
dent communicate every communication received 
from the Governor of Texas, relative to the dis¬ 
turbances on the Rio Grande. Adopted. 
With the exception of the passage of quite a 
number of private bills and some Kansas speech¬ 
making, the foregoing comprises the transactions 
of the week. 
House. —Mr. Gurley, from tlic Committee on 
Printing, reported a resolution that there be 
printed for the use of the House 25,000 extra 
copies of the President’s Aimmil Message, with 
the reports proper of the Heads of Departments 
and Chiefs of Bureaus connected therewith, omit- 
| ting the statistical parts, and that there also be 
printed 6,000 extra copies of said message and 
accompanying documents complete. Adopted. 
On motion of Mr. Fenton, a resolution was 
adopted calling on the Secretary of the Interior 
to report to the House the present condition of 
the trust lands west of the Missouri, set apart for 
the New York Indians, and whether the same has 
been brought into market as a part of the public 
domain, and if so, by w hat authority. 
Mr. Sherman reported a bill proposing in place 
of the present mileage to members of Congress, 
to allow 20 cents per mile, to lie computed by a 
straight topographical line, and repealing all acts 
and parts of acts on this subject. Adopted—128 
to 44. 
On the 2d inst.,' theJHouse managed to choose 
a printer. Thomas Ford, of Ohio, receiving a 
majority of the votes cast, was declared elected. 
The votes were, Ford, 96; Glosbrenner, 72; Sea¬ 
ton, 7. 
Bills Passed.— For the payment of the invalid 
and other pensions; for the support of the Mili¬ 
tary Academy; making appropriations for carry¬ 
ing into effect the treaty and stipulations with 
the Indians of Washington and Oregon Territo¬ 
ries; authoring publishers to print on their papers 
the dates when subscriptions expire. Adjourned. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH 10, 1860. 
touching that annexation without first consulting 
the Great Powers and obtaining the consent of 
the inhabitants. 
A motion in the House to abolish flogging in 
the Navy was negatived. 
It is denied that Austria has replied to the pro¬ 
positions of England, touching the Italian ques¬ 
tion. It is also reported that Russia rejects the 
propositions. 
The land forces of England are fixed at 143,000, 
being an increase of nearly 6,500, in addition to 
the East Indian army, which numbers 52,000. 
It is rumored that the Government has late in¬ 
telligence from Pekin, via. St. Petersburg!], lothe 
effect that the Emperor is disposed to make every 
concession for averting further hostilities, and 
that his disposition is met in an honorable spirit 
by England. All further contest may thus be 
— John Angel! James, a distinguished divine, died at 
Birmingham, England, February 1 st, aged seventy-one 
years. 
— A young girl of Bristol, R. I., died there, lately, in 
consequence of injuries received from a faff, while 
skating. 
— Very extensive ruins of an ancient city have been 
discovered iu New Mexico, ninety miles northeast of Fort 
Stanton. 
— A story is going the rounds about the drowning of 
49 children, at Hardin, Ill., in which there is not a word 
of truth. 
— Mr. Daniel Fanshaw, of New York, one of the oldest 
in the country, died on Mon- 
DOMESTIC NEWS, 
Washington Matters. 
In consequence of information received at the 
War Department from Gov. Houston, of Texas, 
Col. Lee, who commands the Department of Texas, 
is especially ordered to pursue and capture Cor- 
tenas and his band, whether they go into Mexico 
or not, the purpose being to strike a decisive 
blow, even if other consequences he involved. 
There are 642 men, belonging to the infantry and 
cavalry arms, stretched from Fort Brown, near 
Matamoras, to Fort Clark, about 25 miles above, 
under competent officers, and with special instruc¬ 
tions as to vigilance. Information received at 
Washington represents Corlenas as an American 
citizen, who recruited his followers by opening 
the jail at Brownsville, and then plundering on 
both sides of the river. The belief is, that he 
has more Americans than Mexicans in his hand. 
The letter of Gov. Houston to the President has 
not been, but may soon be made public, in 
response to the resolutions of both branches of 
Congress, calling for information in relation to 
troubles along the Texas border. 
nates tor President, with entire unanimity. The 
proceedings were harmonious and enthusiastic.— 
The platform adopted protests against the doc¬ 
trines of the National Democratic party, in rela¬ 
tion to slavery in the Territories. 
The delegates at large from Maine to the Re¬ 
publican National Convention, chosen by a legis¬ 
lative caucus, are as follows:—George F. Talbot, 
m. H. MeCrillis, II. Cram. It also declared 
itself enthusiastically for the nomination of Mr. 
Fessenden fdr the Presidency. 
The Opposition State Convention of North Car¬ 
olina, on the 22d, nominated Wm. A. Graham for 
the Presidency. The Hon. Kenneth Raynor made 
a vigorous speech against the Democracy. He 
said the South Americans from North Carolina 
in Congress, should never have voted for a Demo¬ 
crat to defeat a Republican, and lauded Winter 
Davis for his manly, independent, and patriotic 
conduct. _ 
From California, 
Tjik Overland Mail coach arrived atMaloy’s 
Station on the 3d inst, with San Francisco dates 
to the 10th, and telegraphic dispatches of the 
11 th nit. We gather the following items of in¬ 
terest: 
The Pacific Railroad Convention has been in 
session at Sacramento since the Gth. It is com¬ 
posed of about seventy members, representing 
California, Oregon and Washington Territory.— 
Its object is to concentrate public sentiment, me¬ 
morialize Congress, and recommend legislative 
acliou on the part of California and Oregon. A 
resolution has been unanimously adopted, urging 
the California Legislature to offer a bonus of 
$60,000 to any company that shall first complete 
an overland mail telegraph to the Atlantic States, 
and $10,000 to the company completing a second 
line, by a different route, provided both lines are 
finished within eighteen mouths. 
Several days have been spent in discussing the 
propriety of recommending the Legislature to 
pass a law subject to the ratification of the peo¬ 
ple of California, at the next general election, 
creating a State debt of $18,000,000, for the pur¬ 
pose of building a railroad to the eastern bound¬ 
ary of California. Members of the Legislature 
have been invited into the Convention, to express 
their views on this subject. The proposition will 
probably he rejected as premature, and an appro¬ 
priation be recommended sufficient to thoroughly 
explore all tbe mountain passes through which 
the Pacific Railroad may be built. 
Petitions in favor of a Sunday law continue to 
be sent into the Legislature, so numerously 
and most successful printers 
day week. 
— There is a project under consideration for forming a 
new county, from the counties of Greene and Albany, in 
this State, 
— The Papal treasury has been replenished by the 
addition of £207, the contributions of the Pope’s friends 
in Ireland. 
— A Mr. Arnunn, late from India, has arrived in London 
with a parcel of diamonds, for one of which he askB 
$1,600,000. 
— The total production of gold last year, throughout 
tbe world, is estimated at $260,363,000, and of silver, 
$50,883,000. 
— The King of Siam has expressed his admiration of 
American character by naming his youngest son George 
Washington, 
— A thousand Chinese in San Francisco are preparing 
for a stampede to Washington Territory and the gold 
regions thereabout. 
— The Bostonians are “down” upon the copper coin 
of the country, and petitioning government for the aboli¬ 
tion uf that currency. 
— The New York Journal of Commerce says that more 
vessels have been fitted out in that part for the slave 
trade than ever before. 
— The authorities of Springfield. Mass., have ascertain¬ 
ed that there were 325 cases of small pox in that city last 
year. Deaths, about 30. 
— The national revenue for the six months ending the 
31st December, exceeds, by $4,23S,000, the revenue for 
the same period last year. 
— A dispatch from Now Orleans says the great Almaden 
quick-silver mine case in California, had been decided in 
favor of the United States. 
— Old Jerome Bonaparte has been ill again. He is the 
last of the original Bonaparte breed, and perhaps of the 
French Waterloo generals. 
— A recent letter to a New York Journal, reports the 
death, iu Germany, of Caroline Richter, widow of the 
world-renowned Jean Paul, 
— The Maryland House of Representatives has passed 
an act withdrawing its contributions of $5,000 per annum 
to the Colonization Society. 
— In Prussia, the Minister of the Interior has ordered 
that the bastinado, as an instrument of punishment for 
prisoners, shall he abolished. 
— Fire was discovered in the ship Yorkshire, about to 
start from New York for Liverpool. It originated from 
matches packed in the cotton! 
— Foreign letter writers say that Louis Napoleon, like 
Henry IV, of France, is in great danger of assassination 
by the hand of some Catholic. 
— The bill for the expulsion of free negroes from the 
State, which passed the Mississippi House of Representa¬ 
tives, was defeated in the Senate. 
— The winter has been very severe in Italy, and, judg¬ 
ing from the accounts we have seen, the Italians have 
had more snow than the Yankees. 
— The post-master of Racine died,a few days since, and 
before his burial, there were over 100 applications for the 
office on their way to Washington. 
-r A lady and child, the first that have ventured, we 
believe, were among the passengers by the last Overland 
Mail from San Francisco to St. Louis. 
— It appears that every dollar coined at the mint, in 
Georgia, costs 12 cents, and every dime coined at the 
branch in Charlotte. N. C., costs one cent! 
— The Mississippi Legislature has appointed seven dele¬ 
gates to the Southern Convention. This is the only 
State that has responded to South Carolina. 
— A man accused of stealing in Wis., was acquitted be¬ 
cause the indictment read twenty dollar gold pieces, in¬ 
stead of double eagles, the legal name of the coin. 
France. —It is said the French Government has 
entered into relations with Prussia, as a member 
of the Zoll Verein, with a view of negotiating a 
commercial treaty similar to that with England. 
M. Thouvenais’ circular to the French diplo¬ 
matic agents, in response to the late encyclical 
letter of the Pope, is published, and is attracting 
attention. It apparently convicts the Pope of im¬ 
properly using bis spiritual office for temporal 
purposes. A despatch from M. Thouvenais to the 
French ambassador at Rome, is also published, 
explaining the present state of affairs in legations, 
and tbe causes for the same. 
The Paris correspondent of the Times says 
that orders were given on Thursday morning to 
the newspapers, not to allude to the annexation 
of Savoy to France, bat in the afternoon counter- 
ordered, and the papers were instructed to write 
it up as before. 
Austria. — The Vienna correspondent of the 
Times reports that Austria is about to make 
another attempt to bring about a coalition be¬ 
tween Russia, Prussia aud herself. 
A large number of political prisoners from 
Venetia are being sent to Sciavonia and else¬ 
where. Austria had seized a large quantity of 
arms on the way to Servia through her territory. 
Italy. —The King of Sardinia arrived at Milan 
the 15th of February, and was received with ex¬ 
traordinary enthusiasm. 
A new Roman loan had been negotiated with 
Belgium capitalists. Nine hundred Bavarians 
enlisted for the Papal army, had arrived at An¬ 
cona, and more were expected. 
Prussia. —The First Chamber has discussed 
government matrimonial law, and rejected civil 
marriage in every form. 
Spain. —Advices state that Marshal O’Donnell 
is actively engaged in reconuoitering the country 
surrounding Tetuan. He had received a delega¬ 
tion from the Moorish Government, asking on 
what terms peace would be granted, and had 
referred the question to his Queen, who had 
despatched a messenger to Tetuan with the con¬ 
ditions upon which peace will be granted. The 
public spirit in Spain, however, is warlike, and 
it is believed that war will continue. 
Commercial. — Brettdslujfs. — Breadstuff's quiet. Flour 
nominally unchanged, but difficult to sell Quoted 
g3s@23s6u. Wheat inactive and unchanged. Corn dull, 
aud easier. Yellow 33s@33s6d. Provisions .—Pork sell¬ 
ing freely, at 75s@80s for new; 49s(g,52s6d for repacked. 
London commercial market firmer. 
It is under¬ 
stood, however, that Gov. Houston, among other 
things, represents the existence of actual war, 
and urges immediate succor, and indicates his 
intention to call out volunteers in sufficient force 
to pursue and punish the enemy to the fullest 
extent. It is known from the latest Texas dates, 
that he is vigorously prosecuting his plans to the 
letter. A reply has been sent \>y tbe President, 
who, there is reason to believe, is opposed to 
this independent course in waging war, especially 
as our affairs with Mexico are in a critical condi¬ 
tion, and as orders have been dispatched for the 
marching of large bodies of troops to the frontier, 
and these instructions are of such a character as 
to accomplish the objects contemplated without 
unnecessary delay. Gov. Houston has been so 
informed by the President; also, that the calling 
out of volunteers for the purposes mentioned, 
properly devolves on Congress. 
The order of the War Department for the relief 
of New Mexico and the Texas frontier, have just 
been completed, and will be at once forwarded to 
tbe proper officers. They direct the withdrawal I 
of two regiments from Utah as soon as tbe move¬ 
ment can be effected. The first column will 
march by Bridgets Pass, and take the eastern 
foot of the Rocky Mountains in the advance 
toward New Mexico, near Fort Massachusetts. 
The other column will pursue the route over 
which Col. Loring returned from Fort Bridger. 
These forces are to scour the plains in the region 
of the hostile Indians, and where the mails have 
been obstructed in Navajo county. They will be 
posted in strong detachments in New Mexico. 
The troops now stationed there, thus relieved by 
these forces, will march to the Texan frontiers 
and take a post in the regions where the greatest 
disturbances from Indian hostilities exist. In 
addition to these arrancements. aud the ordering 
Telegraph detween France and America.— 
An overland route for telegraphic communica¬ 
tion with America, has been proposed in France, 
making use of the existing lines frem London to 
Dresden, and from thence entering the Russian 
Empire, and passing through Moscowand Kasau; 
then crossing the Ural Mountains to Yakoutsk 
and on to the Behring Strait, crossing this and 
passing through Russian America to Canada and 
the United States. 
