similar character, relating to James Tenvilliger, 
chief clerk, and Charles J. Fairman, journal clerk, 
were adopted unanimously. 
Mr. Sessions moved to substitute the re-impos¬ 
ing of tolls, hut allowing the roads, if they so 
select, to commute the Baid tolls by paying $1,300,- 
000 in four years, or sooner if they desire, and 
removing existing restrictions on way-fare on the 
Central road, which road is to pay $1,000,000 of 
said commutation. 
The motion to substitute the commutation bill 
was carried—16 to 14. 
The Senate took up the Assembly bill, imposing 
a tax of 1J mills for the payment of the old 
canal debt, amended so as to reduce the tax to 1 i 
mills. Passed. 
The Governor sent in two more vetoes, one on 
the bill erecting Conhocton county, and the other 
on the bill legalizing the action of the New York 
Common Council respecting 63d street The 
vetoes were laid on the table. 
The Governor sent in a veto of the Susque¬ 
hanna railroad bill, taking ground generally 
against the constitutionality of the bill, and hold¬ 
ing that under any circumstances a constitutional 
vote would have been a two-third vote. 
A ('ter reading the message the Clerk announced 
that it bore no signature. 
Air. Abell thought it best to be returned to the 
Governor with our objection* 
nomination and support of a distinct electoral 
ticket, shall be finally determined in a State Con¬ 
vention, to be called at such time and place as 
the State Executive Committee shall appoint. 
The following gentlemen were appointed Dele¬ 
gates at large to the Baltimore Convention:— 
Washington Hunt, of Niagara; Eiastus Brooks, 
of New York. 
Delegates from the several Congressional Dis¬ 
tricts, with Alternates, were chosen. 
The following State Committee was also ap- 
James 
The following shows the amount of copper 
shipped from the Lake Superior mines for seven 
successive years: 
*863. 2,635 tuns. 1867_ 6,094 tans. 
1854—.3,500 a 1868.6,025 “ 
1855 4.644 * 1859., 6 345 “ 
®t)e Nctus &0ni)im0ct 
AGRICULTURAL. 
Inquiries and Notes,... 
Roll Evil—Causes and Remedy,. 
Mangel Wureel—Pliintinjr,. 
Killing Couch or quack Grass, [Tlluelratnd,). 
Black-Leg—Nature, Treatment, Ac,. 
Plan for a Cottage, (IlKmlrated,). 
Measuring and Building Ctetein*, [Illustrated,] 
Sweet German Turnip,. . 
The Bee-Keeper How <n secure Straight Combs; Re¬ 
newal of Brood Combi Italian Bees! Swallows destroy¬ 
ing Bees; Second Swarms; The queen Bee and her 
Progeny; Gilmore Bne-House,.....IS 
Inquiries and Answers— Sheep Polling Wool from 
others; Dairy Questions; Prilling and Cultivating Crain, 
Ac.; Should Horses lie kept ueur Oxen; A Tile Machine 
Wanted; Pampas; A Core for Sweeney,..13 
Agricultural Miscellany —The New Agricultural As¬ 
sociation; Rend the Advertisements; Potato Rot; An 
Agricultural Library; Superior Thermometers; Living 
Memento; Colcbrook Seedling Potato; Free Iiorse 
Show; Fat Cattle from Nebraska,. 13 , 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Spring Notes,.. 
Orchard Culture.......... 13 < 
The Black Knot and the Curculio,.jjg 
Cure for the Borer,. yn 
Horticultural Aofra—Look out for Good Roots; The 
V csteru Baldwin Apple, again. .. 13 > 
Inquiries and Answers Book on Horticulture —Cur- 
rants; Peanuts. (Illustrated,! The Turk's Cap. fill.,] 
Allen Hybrid Grape, Ac.; substitute for Gravel for 
Walks,... 13 j 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Antique Oak Carving; Papering Whitewashed Walls; 
Domestic Dyeing; To Color Cotton Black; Wash for 
the Eyes,.. . . 135 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
Sorrow, (Poetical. I Monuments to Women; Local Asso¬ 
ciations; The Wishbone; Needlework, .136 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The April Rain, (T'oetiral l Facts; A Drop of ink; Com¬ 
pany Maimers; ltaleg for Good Habits,.,. 136 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
A Prayer, (Poetioal.j “ I would not Live nhvavs:” A Lit¬ 
tle Child at Prayer; What the Leaves say; Off Guard, 136 
Paok. 
.1S3 
..133 
.133 
.133 
.133 
.133 
133, 134 
.134 
There were 451 deathB in New York city week before 
— In Houston, Texas, there is neither jail nor school 
house. 
— Queen Vic wears “hoops” on her head that cost 
$2,500,000. 
— It is said that Dickens has made. $350,000 during the 
last ton years. 
— The scarlet fever, 
mated at $2,000,000. The capital invested in the 
Iron interests of the State is $2,148,000. The total 
product of the mines for the year, was 9,100,000 
tuns. 
Salt in Michigan.— Valuable salt springs have 
been pierced in Grand Rapids, Saginaw and Balti¬ 
more, Mich. The latter was discovered in boring 
pointed;—Lorenzo Burrows, Chairman; 
Kidd, E. J. Brown, C. B. Freeman, Jonas C. Hart, 
James L. Smith, Wm. Duer, F. A. Tallmadge, R. 
F. Abraham Dnryea, A. H. Prescott Royal Graves, 
Jehiel Reed, El R. Jewett, Geo. A. Halsey, and A. 
R. Eno. 
The business of the Convention being conclu¬ 
ded, it adjourned. 
It is probable that eighteen Free States and 
five Slave States will be represented in the Re¬ 
publican National Convention in May, to wit: 
Wisconsin... 5 
Iowa. 4 
Minnesota.. 4 
California.. 4 
Oregon .. 3 
Delaware.. 3 
Maryland.. 8 
Virginia ..15 
Kentucky..12 
Missouri.. 9 
in its worfet form, is prevailing at 
Saginaw, Mich. 
— There are 939 clergymen in London, 429 churches, 
and 423 chapels. 
— Coal, of good quality, has been discovered on Gene- 
seo creek, Illinois. 
— The profits of the English cotton trade are five mil¬ 
lion dollars a month. 
— The Hungarian had $750,000 insured in London on 
the vessel and cargo. 
— A new Grammar of the Chinese language is aboat 
to appear in England. 
— The Straits of Mackinac are now open, and the lake 
trip to Chicago is feasible. 
— The Dismal Swamp is on fire, and the flames are 
raging with much violence. 
— Out in Ohio they have a lady-drummer who has 
received a diploma for her skill. 
— The legal weight of oats in Iowa is fixed, by recent 
enactment, at 33 lbs. to the bnshel. 
— A “ Convention of the brass bands of Ohio * is to 
be held at Wooster, Ohio, June 1st. 
About $25,000 will he contributed by the people of 
Hayti to the family or John Brown. 
The great revival in Ireland has resulted in the con¬ 
version of more than 100,000 persons. 
— There arc in France about 4,000,000 acres of land 
devoted to the cultivation of the grape. 
— The New York Seventh regiment are to have a 
gymnasium, and practice the Zouave drill. 
— Ncwstead Abbey, Byron's English home, is to be sold 
at public auction on the 13th day of June. » 
— It lias been established by the courts that the first 
stroke of the clock is the record of the hour. 
— Professor Agassiz, we learn from the Boston Journal, 
is greatly afliicted with weakness of the eyes. 
Tt is said there are $60,000 worth of fancy trotting 
horses id possession of the horse fanciers of Cinciunati. 
— The Colonization Society has appropriated $10,000 
to send free negroes, expelled from Arkansas, to Ijberia. 
— Mr. Buchanan has expressed an intention to turn 
author, and give the public reminiscences of hi* public 
Vermont....... 6 
Massachusetts_ 13 
Rhode Island_ 4 
Connecticut.. 6 
New York_35 
New Jersey_ 7 
Pennsylvania. 27 
Ohio __ 23 
Indiana_ 13 
Illinois.. 11 
Michigan.. 6 
Necessary to a choice, 
Thk following votes, says the N. Y. Tribune, 
are believed to be morally certain for Douglas 
on the first ballot at Charleston: 
Maine. ... .. .. 8 I Ohio...23 
New Hampshire.. 5 Indiana..Ill”" 13 
FOREIGN NEWS 
Great Britain. —Parliament had passed the 
income bill. 
In Commons, in reply to the question, Lord 
John Russell said Her Majesty had been advised 
to recognize the recent acquisitions of the King 
of Sardinia. 
Shocking revelations had been made concern¬ 
ing the Coolie trade in the Southern ports of 
China. 
The information is derived from the deposition 
of 105 men taken from the receiving ships, and 
an inquiry was ordered by the allied Commander- 
in-Chief, and it was found that in three Coolie 
ships, two American and one Oldenburg barque, 
the Coolies had been kidnapped, and a nominal 
consent to an eight years engagement in Cuba 
wrung from them by horrible modes of torture. 
It was reported that the Great Eastern would 
be ready to sail with the squadron which accom¬ 
panies the Prince of Wales to Canada early in 
June. 
France. 
It was so returned, 
and again sent in bearing bis signature. After 
discussion, it was passed over the veto by a vote 
of 16 to 8. 
A hill was introduced and passed, amending the 
supply bill so as to correct an error which pre¬ 
vented the ofiioers from drawing their extra pay. 
The Clerk was authorized, under the direction 
of the Joint LibraryCommitt.ee, to publish 1,500 
copies of the Journal of the Legislative Council, 
for the years 1691 to 1776, provided the entire 
cost to the State would not exceed the sum of 
$3,500. 
Messrs. Goss and Grant were appointed to 
wait on the Governor, and Messrs. Lapham and 
Conolly to wait on the Assembly, to inform them 
that the Senate was ready to adjourn. 
The usual parting address was made by Lieut. 
Gov. Campbell, and the Senate adjourned sine die. 
Assembly. — Mr. Yan Horn, from the Select 
Committee, appointed to 
Connerticut.. (1 Wisconidn. ’ 6 
Vermont.. 6 Iowa....4 
New York. 35 Minjn-sota 4 
New Jersey. 7 Mihsouri... 6 
Pennsylvania_10 Arkansas ■> 
Maryland. 4 North Carolina4 
Total, 170; whole number of Electoral Votes 
(excluding Kansas,) 303; absolute majority, 152; 
Douglas 18 more than an absolute majority, or 
37 more than all others. On the second or third 
ballot—Douglas’ friends standing firm—the fol¬ 
lowing are confidently expected to come over to 
his support: 
Kentucky_ 
Tennessee_ 
California_ 
Florida_ 
Virginia . 
Total 
Increasing his total to 254, or £ 
two-thirds required to nominate, 
The Democratic State Convention of South 
Carolina, held at Columbia on the 18th jnst., 
re-affirmed the Philadelphia and Cincinnati plat¬ 
form and the Dred Scott decision. The proceed- 
Balnuce of Pennsylvania.. 
“ “ North Carolina 
“ “ Maryland. 
“ “ Missouri_ 
“ “ Arkansas_ 
“ “ Massachusetts.. 
examine into State 
Prison contracts for convict labor, reported testi¬ 
mony, coupled with a resolution, recommending 
the Attorney General to examine contracts to see 
if they need reforming. Nothing that reflects in 
the slightest degree on tho integrity or efficiency 
of the .State Prison Inspectors is intended, but the 
resolution is simply one of technicality. 
Mr. Fisher moved a vote of thanks to the offi¬ 
cers of the Hitise, Adopted unanimously. 
The veto of the hill erecting the new county of 
Tho House 
The Paris journals published a tele- 
I graph from. Chambery, according to which thc- 
election of deputies in tho provinces claimed by 
.Switzerland, bas resulted in the return of five 
partisans of France and one of Switzerland. 
On Thursday some persons from Geneva made 
a menacing demonstration at Thanon, and hoisted 
the Swiss flag. A steamer with armed people 
left on Friday for Thanon. 
The Paine states that the Savoyards, being 
collected in some force on the shores of Lake 
Geneva, have energetically repulsed the 300 per¬ 
sons from Geneva who had arrived inastoamer 
with the intention of attacking Cbaplais and 
Fancigny. 
It was stated that the inhabitants of Savoy and 
Nice would vote in a few days, by universal suf¬ 
frage, on the question of annexation. 
The Moniteur notices that the treaty of com¬ 
merce with England has already begun to exer- 
more than the 
— A terrific hurricane passed over Urhana, Ohio, on 
Monday week, unrooting and demolishing several build¬ 
ings. 
— A manuscript history of the Gospel, in the Celtic 
tongue, has recently been discovered in Northern Scot¬ 
land. 
— The expenses of Connecticut for the fiscal year end¬ 
ing March 31, were $222,270, against $242,404 the previous 
year. 
—Hon. Wm. Cost Johnson, formerly a member of 
Congress from Maryland, died in Washington on Sunday 
week. 
— The good and loyal citizens of Toronto are about 
making arrangements to properly receive the Prince of 
Wales. 
— One hundred and fifty thousand hmshels of corn and 
wheat were destroyed by fire, on the 7th ult., in Havana, 
Illinois. 
— The Ohio State Journal estimates the damage done 
to the Public works of the State, by the late freshet, at 
$50,000, 
GT— Yithin a few days past, some 10,000 pigeons have 
been shipped from Grand Rapids, Mich , for the New York 
market, 
— There have been destructive and wide-spread fires 
in the woods north of Coldwater, Mich., doing great 
damage. 
— The Legislature ol Missouri have given aid to the 
railroads of that State, by a late act, to the amount of 
$3,130,000, 
— Mr, Holmes Greenwood, a Revolutionary Patriot, 
died in Providence on Monday week, at the advanced age 
of 95 years. 
— The St. Joseph West says the Kansas Legislature 
has granted one hundred and fifty hills of divorcement 
in forty days. 
— A pair who were married in Buffalo two years ago, 
and subsequently divorced, were re-married in Cattarau¬ 
gus Co., last week. 
— The Capital of California has been permanently 
located at Sacramento, and $100,000 appropriated towards 
the Capitol building. 
— The fund for the relief of the Pope, which is being 
collected in Ireland, will be very large. In Dublin alone, 
it amounts to 4115.000. 
— The people of Bine Earth. MiuD., and adjoining 
counties, are waging a war of extermination against a 
gang of horse thieves. 
— The latest intelligence from the spirit world, an¬ 
nounces the marriage of Edward, the Black Prince, with 
a deceased New York lady. 
— The legislature of Iowa has passed a law exempting 
from taxation for fire years, 40 acres of land where five 
acres of timber ure planted. 
— A child about four years old. belonging to a family 
at l ties, it is supposed, was fatally injured by swallowing 
oil of vitriol, Sunday week. 
— There is a young fellow in a lunatic asylum, Ind., 
whose insanity, it is thought, was produced by a morbid 
development of self-conceit. 
— Twenty-five million dollars worth of goods from 
Europe, by the Canadian lines of steamers, have been 
landed at Portland thiB month. 
— The imports of foreign dry goods at New York, for 
March, are one and a half million dollars less than for 
the corresponding month of last year. 
— In the town of Somers, Conn., whica has a popula¬ 
tion of five hundred souls, there are between eighty and 
ninety persons over seventy years of age. 
— The oil fever has extended to Cleveland, O. The 
papers announce that parties are engaged in boring for 
the grease about a mile or so from tht city. 
— Lord Brougham has introduced a bill in the English 
Parliament to exempt prisoners from the necessity of 
pleading guilty or not guilty to indictments. 
— Real estate in New York, except in favorite loca¬ 
tions, i9 dull, and in some sections of the city sales can¬ 
not be forced, except at a material reduction. 
— The story has obtained general circulation in Cuba 
that Gen. Jose de la Concha had been recently killed in 
a duel, in Spain, with the Marquis de la Pezuela. q 
— It is quite singular, when so much of the cargo of 
the Hungarian has been washed ashore, that only five, j 
out of 205 bodies lost, should have been received. 2 
Canisteo, was taken from the table, 
sustained the veto and the hill was lost. 
The House sustained the Governor’s veto of 
the Susquehanna hill by a vote of 55 to 48. 
The usual Committees to inform the Senate and 
Governor that the Douse was ready to adjourn, 
were appointed, and the Speaker addressed the 
House in a feeling manner, and declared the 
House adjourned fine die. 
Bills Passed .—To re-organize the New York 
alms-house department; the New York police bill; 
the Steuhen monument association hill; the. bill 
to preserve the public peace on Sunday: the Flat- 
bush avenuo grade bill, Brooklyn; to encourage 
and provide for general vaccination in tho State; 
to regulate the sale of poisons; to protect board¬ 
ing house keepers, giving them the same lien on 
baggage with inn keepers. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 28, I860. 
News Paragraphs. 
Breathe fresh air if you wish to live long. In 
New England, farmers, w'ho pass their days out of 
doors, live to an average age of 64 years. The aver¬ 
age age of persons who have in-door occupations 
is, In Massachusetts nu<2 Rhode Island:—Shoe¬ 
makers, 43; tailors, -12,1; druggists, jewelers, and 
teachers, from 39 to 40; machinists, 3 k#; printers, 
364. Fresh air, therefore, almost doubles a man’s 
I life, while it more than doubles his capacity for 
enjoyment 
Some one who has been curious enough to 
fathom the April fashions for the ladies, as set 
forth in the magazines, says, in respect to the sea 
of flounces on the full feathered dress, that the 
busy hand of the seamstress must Btitch and sew, 
to finish this one dress, to the extent of rune hun¬ 
dred and seventy-seven fee./! Add to Ibis twenty- 
three feet for the waist, and you have one thou¬ 
sand feet, or one mile of Bewing in about five 
dresses. This is frightful. 
Tiie trustees have been appointed for a new 
Great Exhibition, in London, in 1861. They are 
Earl Granville, the Marquis of Chandos, the Rt. 
Hon. Thomas Baring, and C. W. Dilke, Esq. Of 
course, Prince Albertis the active head and man- 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
Political Intelligence. 
The Republicans of New York met in Conven 
tion at Syracuse on the 18th inst. 
The attendance 
was large, and embraced very many of the lead¬ 
ing Republicans of the State. 
A permanent organization was effected, with 
the following officers:— President— Hon. E. W. 
Leavenworth, of Onondaga. Vice-Presidents—Geo. 
Opdike, Edgar lvetchnm, Henry Smith, E, F. 
Shonard, Peter Townsend, Lucius C. Andrews, 
Wm. Buuton, John M. Parker, Wm. Hasten, Jas. 
M. Horton, S. Belding, A. C. Broff, A. G. Thomp¬ 
son, Peter M. Warren, A. W. Severance, Levi 
Dimmick, J. R. Allaben, Joseph R. Dixon, John 
Adams, N. J. Milliken, Theron R. Strong, Joshua 
II. Darling, L. D. Cobb and Jacob Buyer. Secre¬ 
tariat —Andrew Williman, Lucian Birdseye, A. J. 
Van Allen, Samuel Ames, B. A. Hodgekiss, Tbos. 
C. Platt, N. T. Stevens, John F. Smith. 
Mr. Strong, from the Committee on Resolutions, 
made the lollowing report: 
Resolved, That the Republican electors of the 
State of New York, represented in this Conven¬ 
tion, present the name of William H. Seward to 
the Chicago Convention for the office of Presi¬ 
dent, not only in obedience to the universal and 
unbroken public sentiment, but because they re¬ 
gard him as eminently the representative of the 
principles upon which the Republican party is 
based, and to whose hands ull the great interests 
of the confederacy may he safely committed. 
This report was adopted, aud subsequently the 
resolution was carried by a unanimous vote. 
The Committee of Thirty-three reported as 
Delegates at large, William M. Evans, Preston 
King. John L. Schoolcraft and Henry It. Selden. 
Alternates Isaac A. Sherman, A. B. Dickinson, 
Martin I. Townsend and Jacob Brier. 
District Delegates were also appointed, a vote 
of thanks to the President passed, a response 
from Mr. Leavenworth, and the Convention ad¬ 
journed. 
The National Union State Convention of New 
York was held in Troy last week. Over fifty 
counties were represented, and the proceedings 
resulted in an almost unanimous action. An 
organization was effected as follows -.—President—' 
W. 0. Hasbrouck, of Orange. Vice-Presidents—J. 
De Peyster Ogden, R. F. Stevens, Abel Smith, F. 
ington but for the apprehended difficulty of pilot¬ 
ing Die vessel through the Potomac. 
The question involved in the protest of the 
Spanish Minister against the capture of the Marin 
steamers, is as to their legal transfer from the 
Spanish owners to Gen. Miramon, previous to that 
occurrence. 
The Marshal of Ohio reports that the inhabit¬ 
ants of Ashtabula Co. are ready to take up arms 
to resist the authority of the Senate for bringing 
John Brown, Jr., before the Committee of Inves¬ 
tigation of the Harper’s Ferry affair. 
Secretaries —N. B. Lord, Geo. A. Halsey, Geo. B. 
King, S. S. Pomroy and Peter Cartine. 
The following resolution, offered by Hon. Wm. 
Duer, after a long debate, was unanimously 
New York Legislature. 
Senate.— Mr. Spinola moved a vote of Dianks 
to Hon. Robert Campbell, Lieut. Governor, for the 
able, dignified, and impartial manner in which he 
has discharged his duties as presiding officer of 
the Senate, This motion, together with others of 
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