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New York Legislature 
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Senate. —The case of the contested seat in the 
3d District, Mr. Barr, contestant, addressed the 
Senate in support of the petition and urged that 
the demurrer put in by Mr, Sickles, finally closed, 
strongly 
Sknatk. — On motion of Mr. Seward, a copy of 
the proceedings of yesterday, declaring Mr. Harlan 
not entitled to a seat, were ordered to be sent to 
the Governor of Iowa. 
The Senate passed the House bill, making ap¬ 
propriations for the support of the Military Acade¬ 
my. 
There was a long debate in the Senate on the 
House bill for the relief of Mary Reesive, propos¬ 
ing to pay her about $180,000, being a balance due 
from the government to her late husband for ser¬ 
vices for carrying the mails, with interest from 
December, 1841. The case has been before Con¬ 
gress for 12 or 15 years, and wasfavorably reported 
on by the Committee on Claims. The bill passed 
by a vote of 28 to 25, alter an amendment striking 
out the allowance for interest, 
Mr. Seward, from the committee, reported a bill 
for the protection of steamboats from damage or 
destruction by fire. Among other things it pro¬ 
vides that all wood work shall be removed a cer¬ 
tain distance from the boiler. 
Memoirs ok Washington. By Mrs. C. M. Kirki-and. 
Willi illustrations. New York : Appleton & Co. 
Here is an attractive ami readable volume of over 500 
pages, eminently adapted to tliei iistruction aud entertain¬ 
ment ot the yoyng—anil numerous as are the biographies 
of the 11 Father nf his Country,” this Memoir will prove 
iisclol and acceptable. In noticing this volume, a contem¬ 
porary says:—"Mrs. Kirkland is widely and most favora¬ 
bly known, Imtli as a graceful contributor to our own lit¬ 
erature. and as an accomplished instructress in the litera¬ 
ture and history of tho mother country. The talent 
which she so well employs for the literary culture of those 
who are privileged to attend her classes, is used in this 
volume to interest a wider circle in him who was Ibe moral, 
as will iui the military, hero of the Revolution. Mrs. 
Kirkland portray b Washington at homo, in private and 
social lilt 1 , rather than in the camp and the cabinet, and 
she has produced a picture eminently attractive for youth.” 
Sold by Dewey. 
—Tho school fund of Indiana amounts to $4,912,012. 
— The number of deaths in Chicago in 1850 whb 1,950. 
— There are now eighteen Presidents of nations in the 
world. 
— Fifteen negroes have been killed by their owners, in 
Perry, Georgia. 
— It is rumored that Lowell, Mass., can turn out ten 
miles of beauty. 
— Tho whole area of the State of Ohio is set down at 
25,570,960 acres. 
— Robert Nichols, ex-United States Senator from La., 
died on the 7tb insi. 
— Snow fell at Natchez, Mississippi, recently, to the 
depth of four inches. 
—The criminals in the United States cost nineteen mil¬ 
lion dollars annually. 
— It is said that in Paris, Me., there has not been a death 
for more than a year. 
— There are five hundred and fifty-nine newspapers in 
the State of New York. 
— There are upwards of one hundred thousand Germans 
in tho city of New York. 
— Tho Delaware Indians have sold lands in Kansas to 
the amount or $1,000,000. 
— Tho thermometer stood ten degrees below zero at Ne¬ 
braska City on the 5th inst. 
— It is Mated that there are now in the port of Oswego 
101 vessels of various kinds. 
— B. B. MiiBBoy, a well-known publisher of Boston, died 
iu lhat city on the 12th inst. 
— Scarlet fever is prevailing in Huron county, Ohio. It 
is very fatal among the children. 
— The Montreal snd Bytown Railroad was sold to Mr. 
Abbott on the 12th inst., lor £5,300. 
— A French paper, entitled Le Journal de L'Illinois, is 
soon to he published in Kankakee, Ill. 
— The Hindoos, in large numbers, are petitioning their 
government to abolish polygamy by law. 
— The Illinois river is navigable 280 miles in high water, 
and more than 60 steamboats ply upon it. 
— Sheriff Jones, ot Douglas county, Kansas, has resign¬ 
ed on account of difficulty with Gov. Geary. 
— The practice of soiling free negroes to pay jail fees, 
has been abandoned in the Distilct of Columbia. 
— About $420,000,000 worth ot gold has been found and 
Who has it all ? 
asserted that gross irregularities Lad 
actually taken place in the canvass, and attacked 
the argument and testimony offered by Mr. Sickles. 
He charged that the police of the Oth ward had 
assisted in these irregularities. 
Mr. Noxon moved preamble aud resolutions to 
the effect that the committee having reported, with 
the understanding lhat the case was to he finally 
adjudicated on demurrer, and it appearing proper 
j that the testimony should he taken therefore, 
Resolved, That the Report he referred hack with 
instructions to take the testimony and report final¬ 
ly on the 27th or January. 
Mr. Cuyler moved to the preamble, the word 
“properly,” so as to make it read “that the com¬ 
mittee had pvoperLy reported,” &c. 
The amendment was accepted. 
Mr. Bradford offered as an addition, that the final 
vote he taken on the 27th oi January, at noon.— 
The amendment was accepted. 
Mr. Madden called for ayes and nays on the reso¬ 
lution to admit testimony, being in fact, the deci¬ 
sion of this present issue in favor of Mr. Sickles, 
was then adopted. 
Gov. King sent in a communication received by 
him from the Governor of New Jersey, complain¬ 
ing of violation of agreements between the two 
States, of the anchorage of infected vessels bound 
to the port of New York, ou waters within the 
jurisdiction of the State of New Jersey. 
Assembly.— Bills authorizing Syracuse to raise 
money to pay outstanding debts by tax, was read 
and passed. 
The Attorney General sent in a communication 
in response to a resolution adopted a few days 
since, informing the House of the condition of all 
suits against contractors, all the bonds in the office 
proceeded against, and the suits, with few excep¬ 
tions, are noticed for trial. 
Mr. Hogeboorn’s resolution, calling for informa¬ 
tion from the Attorney General as to the parts of 
the Maine and old excise laws in force, was called 
up and adopted. 
The Appropriation bill of 1856 was read the third 
time and passed. 
On motion, Mr. Wood’s bill amending Buffalo 
charter, was taken from Erie county delegates and 
referred to committee on cities and villages. 
On motion of Mr. Leavenworth, Cisco Educa¬ 
tional Society hill was moved back to the commit¬ 
tee of the whole. 
Mr. Hogeboom introduced a resolution calling 
for the Attorney General’s opinion as to what por¬ 
tion of the Maine law and old license laws are now 
in force. Laid over. 
/.ken sign. 
ROCHESTER, JANUARY* 24, 1857. 
Twenty-two Years a Si avk, and Forty Years a Free¬ 
man ; embracing a Correspondence o! several years, 
while President, ot WilbeiT'orce Colony, London, Canada 
West. By Austin Sikwakli. Rochester, N. Y.; Wil¬ 
liam AUiug—1857. 
The life of Mr. Steward has been an eventful one. He 
was born in Prince William Co., Va,, where the days of 
his boyhood were passed. His master sold ids property in 
that Stale, and with a reserved portion of his slaves moved 
to New York, and settled in the vicinity of Hath, Steuben 
Co. While at Bath his master hired him out, and as the 
laws of tho State gave freedom to any bondman thus 
placed, Mr, S. obtained his liberty. In the year 1817 he 
commenced business in this city—and many of the citizens 
can testify to his high personal, moral and Christian char¬ 
acter. Mr. 8. remained in Rochester until 1831, and had 
amassed a competence, when he was induced to become 
the head of an organization for the purposo ot settling in 
Canada And founding the Wilberforce Colony, but the 
scheme falling through, in 1837 he retnrned, having lost 
everything he possessed, and furthermore, hud become in¬ 
volved in difficulties which required years oi alter labor 
to settle. The book is plainly written, but as a record of 
facts and experiences will recommend itself to all. Sold 
by the author and booksellers. 
The state and oilier 
rooms to be protected by iron, and flames to be 
extinguished by steam and other appliances, to be 
worked by machinery, outside the fire-room. 
Sixteen private hills were passed, when the Sen¬ 
ate adjourned. 
House. —Mr. Morgan offered a resolution in¬ 
structing the Committee on Commerce to report 
what additional means are necessary to prevent 
loss of life from shipwreck on the Long Island and 
New Jersey coast. 
Mr. Raymond, editor of the New York Times, 
was examined to-day before the House Committee, 
to investigate into the alleged corruption. 
Mr. Kelsey, rising to a question of privilege, 
offered a preamble setting forth that Joseph L. 
Chester had been duly summoned before the Cor¬ 
ruption Investigating Committee, and has neglect¬ 
ed to appear, and concluding with a resolution, 
that the speaker issue a warrant directed to the 
Sergeat-at-Arms, commanding him to take into 
custody tho body of tho said Chester, wherever 
found, and tho same forthwith bring to the bar of 
the Houso to answer for contempt of its authority. 
Passed nearly unanimously. 
The House passed the Senate hill relative to for¬ 
eign coin. It provides lhat 1-4, 1-8 and 1-16 pieces, 
shall bo received by tho federal officers at 2 ft, 10 
and 5 cents, but not again paid out The new cent 
to consist of 88 parts copper and 8 nickel. 
The Superintendent of Public Printing has re¬ 
quested the House Committee ou Ways and Means 
to report an appropriation of nearly $247,000 as a 
deficiency to print the printing ordered during 
’• rsf -.--inn nf iff. p-vsi i t * ‘digress. 
The House tabled the Senate bill allowing fish¬ 
ing bounties to six vessels which had failed to 
complete their cargoes. 
On motion oi Mr. Greenwood, a resolution was 
adopted, calling on the President for a complete 
list of persons charged with the disbursement of 
public money, also a list of all those who have fail¬ 
ed for more than 12 months to settle their accounts, 
and tho i-casous for the neglect. 
brought from California since 1S49. 
— The Fremont grant in California ]>8s been assessed at 
one million dollars—taxes, seventeen thousand dollars. 
. —Tho number of blind persons in Japan is raid to bo 
J enormous. lu Jedno, alone, 30,000 is the computation. 
— The value of the imports of coffee is $10,000,000 an¬ 
nually, or one seventh of all tho Imports of the country. 
, —A letter from Gov. Geary to a friend in Washington 
C City, D. C., estimates the population of Kansas at 25,000. 
— Latest dates from Texas, report that the negroes in 
Houston county had attempted to revolt,hut were quelled. 
— Judge Drummond, iu Utah, has charged the grand 
jury to take action at once and decidedly against polygamy. 
— The Toronto Globe strongly advocates the prosecution 
of ship-building as a Tegular branch of business in Toronto. 
— It ia estimated that tho coal product of Pennsylvania 
for the year 1S56 will he six aud a half to seven millions of 
tuns. 
— John Biekel, Postmaster of JnmestowD, Lebanon Co., 
Pa., has held tho trust of Postmaster of that town for fifty 
years. 
-—In Belleville, Iowa, on the 6!h inst., the thermometer 
Htood 21 degrees below zero, being the coldest day of the 
fc cason. 
— The South is bailing the appearance of a “Reply to 
Dred,” in a novel entitled “ Tit for Tat,” by a lady of New 
Orleans, 
— The Hudson river is now frozen over as far down as 
Peekskill, and at Albany heavily laden sleighs cross with¬ 
out fear 
— Tho whole number oi deaths in tho city of Providence, 
during tho year 1856, was 1,085—an increase of 74 over the 
year 1855. 
— The Toronto Leader (ministerial) says that Parlia¬ 
ment will meet for the despatch of business on the 26th of 
Febraary. 
— During the past four years the sum of $4,504,840 40 
has been paid in liquidation oi the public dobt of the State 
of Illinois. 
— The indications aro that the bill to increase the pay of 
the Army officers will pass both Houses of Congress at 
this session. 
— One of the London newspapers is astonished to learn 
that Kentucky, though a slave State, went for Fremont at 
the late election. 
— The Austrian government are about despatching one 
Of their vessels, the “ Novara," for a scientific expedition 
nround the globe. 
— The *• needle gun," a late invention by Mr. C. D. Schu- 
barth, of Connecticut, van be loaded and fired in six sec¬ 
onds, by the watch. 
— Hon. Samuel Cuslis, Judge of the l T . S. District Court 
of Vermont, and for many years U. S. Senator, died at 
Montpelier last week. 
— Alexander Buchanan and Beaver Buchanan, second 
cousins to the President elect, died very suddenly in Fin- 
tonia, Ireland, recently. 
— The sale of lands by the Illinois Central Railroad Co. 
during tho first, week of December reached $113,700, an av¬ 
erage of $10 50 per acre. 
— Tlie oldest church in America is said to bo in Virginia. 
It is built of timber imported from England during the 
reign of Charles the 1st. 
— Dr. John King, an old resident of Toronto, and for¬ 
merly of the Faculty of King’s College, died in that city 
on tire Oth inst., aged 53. 
— The London Christian Witness compiles a slatement, 
from which it appears that tho total numherof Protestants 
in the world Is 88,250,000. 
— Col. Reali Frazer, formerly a distinguished member of 
tho ha,- iu I .an caster county, Pa., died at tho Iusane Asylum 
near Harrisburg, last week. 
— There were 404 students in the State University of 
Michigan last year, of which one hundred and fifty-three 
were in the medical department. 
— Tho boot, shoe and leather trade of the city of Boston, 
have subscribed the sum of $20,000 to tho stock of the 
New England Emigrant Aid Company. 
—Three hundred recruits were sent from Governor's 
Island on the Oth inst., to re-enforce the command of Gon, 
Harney, and enable him to closo tho Florida war. 
—During last mouth, tho coinage at the U. 8. mint in 
Philadelphia amounted to $424,585 28, of which $249,529 
72 was gold, $172,000 silver, and $2,005 50 copper. 
— During tho past year Prescott, tho historian, him re¬ 
ceived $20,000 from his literary labors. That is inoro than 
Gon. Walker him made with Ills sword in Nicaragua. 
— Tho Chicago and Alton railroad, and all its fixtures, 
including $2,000,000 subscriptions, was recently sold at 
auction for $5,000, Gov. Matteson lining the purchaser, 
— The Buxton Post says that a large-hearted gentleman 
has contributed $5,000 toward liquidating tho debt of 
the Am. Board ot Commisiuonern for Foreign Missions. 
— The Racine (Wisconsin) Advocate states that recently 
a Danish Baptist Church of twenty members was formed 
at that plane, and one of their number set apart as pastor. 
— Mrs, Eleanor Hanna, aged 112, died in New York a 
few days ago. J. McDonald died at Port Stanley, C. W., 
i n the 23d nit, aged 104. nis wife, aged 100, stiU survives. 
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days previous. Scott had quarreled with him and 
stopped running his boats, and Walker hud seized 
them for his own use—all the steamers on the lake 
and river. 
A letter from Grenada of Dec. 1st states that the 
church of Gaudaloupe was still held by 200 Yan¬ 
kees, who refused to render aid under the sum¬ 
mons of Urn. Dalleso. They wore to be attacked 
immediately, after which, the allied army were to 
proceed to operate with General Nucos against 
San Jmm and Virgin Bay. T he loss of the filli- 
blisters since the 2 -lth of November had been 300; 
that of the allies smaller. 
Private letters state that the Indians at Ometc 
had risen against Walker and killed 25 of his men. 
Walker had attempted to take Grenada, but was 
repulsed. 
Later.— Advices had been received that Walk¬ 
er had arrived within one league of Rivas and was 
preparing for iiti attack against 600 men. A few 
skirmishes had taken place between the advanced 
guard. Walker's men arc said to be badly on; with 
scarcely anything to eat, and dying from dysen¬ 
tery. A few hundred men at the church of Guada- 
loupe, Grenada, were destitute of food, and were 
subsisting on their horses. They nevertheless ob¬ 
stinately refused the quarter offered. 
Items of News 
The New York Mirror says it is estimated that 
one of “our rich men” (Wm. B. Astor) has now a 
“regular income” of $3,000 a day; or about 1,000,- 
000 a year. 
Recently a gentleman of New Smyrnia, Flori¬ 
da, arrived at Charleston, S. C., with 20,000 or¬ 
anges, which he disposed of at $40 per thousand. 
They were raised from an orchard only four years 
old. 
Tite annual statement of railways in the Union, 
makes the total number of miles of railway 2-1,132, 
being an increase of 3,434 over the preceding year. 
Clark AIills, the sculptor, is on a visit to his 
friends in Cour laud county. He formerly drove a 
horse about a circle, propelling the machine in a 
brick yard. 
Tiik House committee of patents have agreed 
upon a unanimous report against the extension of 
(he Woodworth patent This buries the case be¬ 
yond resurrection. 
Tnr. Cincinnati Gazette oi the Oth inst. says the 
ice bridge over the Ohio was completed ou the 8 th 
—a year within a day of the time of its becoming 
passable last year. 
The Philadelphians are projecting a nnw park. 
Two gentlemen have already given $10,000 each; 
and various sums, varying from $5,000 to $500, have 
been pledged to the movement 
The Indians in the Southern part of California 
are in a distressed condition, on account of the 
failure of the acorn crop, and the extreme dryness 
of the streams, which prevents their obtaining a 
supply of fish. 
It is said that Dr. Kane's ti Lease is inflammatory 
rheumatism, contracted ou his first Arctic voyage, 
and from which he RuOorcd greatly all through his 
second expedition. The disease has now attacked 
the heart, and threatens his life seriously. His 
mother and brother have gone to him in Cuba. 
Arrival of the Texas 
The steamship Texas, from San Juan, Nicaragua, 
arrived nt New Orleans on tho 16th inst. The 
Purser reports that the Costa Ricans, protected by 
the English fleet, had seized every steamboat on 
the San Juan river. The steamer Sun Carlos left 
Virgin Hay on the 3d Jannary, lint was captured by 
the Costa Ricans soon after she got info the river. 
Col. Lockrulgo, with 250 men, had possession of 
Punta Arenas, but the Costa Rican force ol 1,000 
men held every other point on the river. It is 
confirmed that Gen. Ilenuingsen in i beaten the 
allies at, Grenada and joined Walker at Rivas.— 
Walker’s army is represented to have been in good 
spirits, and never more confident of success, while 
the allies were fighting among themselves, 
The steamer Auger, with the passengers which 
she took from the T ennessee at Norfolk, arrived at 
San Juan on the iRb inst., but in consequence of 
the difficulties an the Transit route she sailed next 
morning for Aspinwall to forward her passengers 
by the Panama route. 
Indian Fight.— A party of Indians, seventy 
men, with their women and children, who bail en¬ 
camped at Teekclet, Puget's Sound, Washington 
Territory, and had committed various deputations 
upon white settlers, were attacked by a company 
of twenty-two U. S. soldiers, under Lb Simms, and 
routed. The Indians came ashore in the evening, 
and made an attack on the soldiers, hut were 
driven oil. The Indians lost 22 killed and 21 
wounded, the Boldiers 1 killed and 1 wounded.— 
Subsequently, the Indians were surrounded, and 
taken to the English possessions, where they 
belonged. 
- - 
Canal Loan. —The new Canal Loan of $1,000,- 
000 was taken up at an average of $114 54 per 
S 100 . The loan of October last was taken at 
$113 71. The following were the successful bid¬ 
ders:—?. Perrett, R. P. Seamans, Savings Bank. 
$350,000, at $115, J. C. Green, for the N, Y, Sav¬ 
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Albany, $280,000 at $114 03. Coukling Brush, of 
Brooklyn , at $114 20, $5,000 at, $114 60 and $5,000 
at SI 15. Warren Newton, of Norwich, $5,000 ai 
$114 25. 
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adVMTii.tjW'M nf Mils i6 mmocostary. 
Havana News.—H avana papers of January7th, 
contain full details of the recent storm in tho gulf. 
The steamer Iturtdde was at anchor off Vera Cruz 
when wrecked—89 of her crew were lost—17 saved 
by floating ashore on pieces of the wreck. The 
brig New Fane, a New York packet-, was a total 
wreck—crew saved. The steamer Calhoun was 
driven off, hut subsequently reached Alvarado.— 
Tho steamer Montezuma was wrecked, and nearly 
all on board perished. T he steamer Daniel Webster 
was driven ashore. Several foreign vessels were 
wrecked near Vera Cruz. 
A party of Mexicans bad arrived at Havana, to 
take possession of tho runaway steamer, but her 
former commander and crew refused to surrender 
her. 
Mark Chauncey, an American sailor and ring¬ 
leader at the Isle of Pines, it was thought would 
suffer death lor his conspiracy. 
Dangerous Illness op Hon. Joshua 17. Gn> 
dings.— We learn by telegraph that Mr. Giddings, 
while earnestly engaged in discussing a private 
hill in the House, on the 17th inst,, was seen to put 
his bund to his head and fall into his seat, being 
seized with atrophy of the head. The members 
and spectators were ; t once thrown into a high 
state of alarm, the Speaker and numerous Repre¬ 
sentatives crying out to those who pressed around 
him to stand back and give him air. Amid tho 
excitement, an adjonrriuientensued. Mr. Giddings 
Historical. —January has been qnite aa impor¬ 
tant month iu American History. The Stamp Act 
wu-s passed by the British Parliament January 10, 
1765. The battle of Princeton was fought January 
3, 1777. The battle of Cowpens Occurred .January 
16, 1778. The cessation of Hostilities between 
Great Britain aud the United States were agreed 
upon in January, 1783. The battle of New Orleans 
was lought. January 8 ,1815. 
Cold Weather — With the exception of the 
“cold term” of Feb. 6 th to Sth, 1855, the one which 
commenced on Sunday morning last, (18th inst,,) 
and from which we arc now emerging, is the most 
severe experienced in this locality for many years. 
The following paragraph from Prof. Dewey, in¬ 
cludes the comparative facts and figures: 
Except the Bovere cold ol' Feb., 1855, when the 
mercury Cel! to 25 degrees below cypher, the cold 
of last Sabbath, Dec. Ik, is the greatest known here¬ 
in the twenty past years. The thermometer in 
some of the earlier of these twenty years did not 
fall even to zero during the winter, and rarely to 
6 or G degrees below zero. But on the morning 
just noticed, the temperature fell from 12 to 22 de¬ 
grees below zero, iu different localities in and near 
the city. My standard thermometer was at—16° 
before and after 7; a!^14° at 8 ; — 8 ° at 9j; —4° at 
104;—1° at 1 P. M.; + l° at 1*;—1° at 2;—3° at 44; 
—5° at 04 ;—3° at 7, and at 4 above at 7 on Monday 
morning. The papers show a severe cold on every 
side.— 0 . D. 
Mbxtc a n A i-i-airs. —New Orleans papers of Tues¬ 
day week are received, with advices from the city 
of Mexico. Matters there are quiet. Gen. Alva¬ 
rez had declared Ids intention of supporting the 
government of Cornrnoufort, as the only one like¬ 
ly to restore peace to Mexico. An engagement 
bad taken place at Oriziba, between the govern¬ 
ment and a revolutionary force—tho latter were 
defeated with loss of artillery, Ac. Advices from 
Tampa Bay state that Gen. Harney was dispatching 
troops to various points. 
Salt.— The whole amount of salt inspected on 
the Onondaga Springs Reservation, during the 
year 185G, is 6,968,810 bushels. This falls 120,000 
bushels short of 1606. The Superintendent’s bal¬ 
ance sheet shows: 
Cash received, 1856,.$59,946 44 
Expenditures, “ . 60,256 65 
Surplus revenue,. $9,690 79 
Election of U. S. Senators.— The Massachu¬ 
setts Legislature re-elected Chas. Sumner. Penn¬ 
sylvania chose Simeon Cameron. The Missouri 
Legislature elected Jos. S. Green, for the short 
term, aud lion. J, Polk for the longterm. Hon. 
Zacuariah Chandler has been elected from the 
State of Michigan—time, six years. 
Oswego Harbor Company. —A hill has been 
introduced in the Assembly for the incorporation 
of the Oswego Harbor Company, for the purpose 
of constructing a harbor, l>y the erection of one 
c r more piers or docks, in Oswego. The capital 
stock to be $300,000, to be increased to $500,000. 
Failures,— The N. Y. Pay Book gives a list of 
the iailnres in the various States of the Union 
during tho past year. New York beads the list 
with 708. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, 11 
linois, Virginia follow, the first with 241, and the 
last with 147. No other State lias a hundred, and 
but one sums up her number in a single failure. 
