MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
smooth and firm, and troops of skaters sport 
upon its surface, while further out it is covered 
with a snowy crust.” 
The suffering throughout the country, much of 
which remains to he revealed, has heeu dreadful. 
A geutleman who resides in Northern Iowa, was 
in Rochester last week, and related to the editors 
of the Union something of the dreadful suffering 
and loss of life from cold which had transpired 
there. He states that within a circuit of 70 miles 
about his residence, some 30 persona have perished 
of cold the present winter. A party of eight 
hunters were lost iu the storm on the prairie, and 
all perished. 
Tiro degree of cold at the South the present 
season is unprecedented. In all parts of Virginia, 
the people are busily engaged in harvesting ice. 
They say that uo supply will he needed from the 
North next summer. The ice iu the Mississippi 
extends further south than it has for many years 
past. At St. Louis, navigation has been suspended 
for three weeks on account of jthe ice. On the 
22d ultimo, the thermometer at Minacoby, East 
Florida, stood at 12 deg. below zero at sunrise, 
which is the coldest weather ever known there. 
At time of writing, Tuesday, 27th, A. M., the 
weather is mild—thermometer about 40°—and 
raiu falling. The wind lor nearly 36 hours has 
been S. S. W., hut has suddenly veered about, and 
the weathercocks in this vicinity are pointing 
steadily to the land of cold and storm. 
Provincial Items, 
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For terms, Special Notices, Ac., seo lust page. 
Senate. — The Chair laid before the Senate a 
communication from the presiding officer of the 
Delaware Legislature, announcing the election of 
Mr. Bayard, Senator from that State for six years, 
and of Mr. Beates to fill the vacancy occasioned 
by the death of Mr. Clayton. 
James S. Green, Senator elect from Missouri, iu 
place of Mr. Atchinson, appeared and was qualified. 
The Sub-Mariue Telegraph hill passed the Sen¬ 
ate by a vote of 29 against 18. 
Mr. Fessenden presented the credentials of Amos 
Nourse, of Maine, to fill the vacancy occasioned 
by the resignation of Mr. Hamlin. Mr. Nourse 
then appeared, and was qualified. 
The Senate then passed sundry private bills. 
House. —A bill extending the land-laws to tho 
laud lying east of the Cascade Mountains was 
passed. 
The House passed the hill introduced from the 
Select Committee, to enforce the attendance of 
witnesses, and compel them to testify in the “ Cor¬ 
ruption Case.” 
Bills appropriating $30,000 for a penitentiary at 
Nebraska; establishing three additional land dis¬ 
tricts in that, Territoiy, and for completing and 
opening roads in Oregon, Washington and Min¬ 
nesota Territories v ere passed. 
On motion of Mr. Taylor, a resolution was adopt¬ 
ed, instructing the P. O. Committee to inquire and 
report on the general subject, the transportation 
of the mails to San Francisco, and whether it is 
not uow expedient to enter into a contract for 
weekly mails from New York and New Orleans, 
to Sau Francisco, via Teuhauntepee, whenever the 
said road shall be completed. 
A resolution was offered by Mr. Walker which 
was adopted, making a similar inquiry relative to 
making a weekly mail from Mobile to Sau 
Francisco. 
Mr. Morrell offered a resolution which was adopt¬ 
ed, calling on the President to inform the House 
whether resistance to organize or otherwise has 
been made, or is to be apprehended against the 
official authorities of Utah, and to communicate 
all correspondence relative to the appointment or 
declaration of officers in'that Territory since Janu¬ 
ary, 1852, and what laws thereof are practically 
administered with implicit justice to all the in¬ 
habitants of that Territory. 
Titk Toronto correspondent of the New York 
Commercial Advertiser says that the recent politi¬ 
co-religious discussions and agitations in Canada 
have resulted in tho formation of a new and power¬ 
ful party, called the “Reform Alliance,” whose po¬ 
litical planks are exceedingly popular in Upper 
Canada. The following is their creed: 
The abolition of a separate line between Upper 
and Lower Canada; and the adoption of popula¬ 
tion without regard to locality as the basis of Par¬ 
liamentary representation. The entire, separation 
of church and state, and the abolition of all ap¬ 
propriations of public money for sectarian pur¬ 
poses. National education; common school, gram¬ 
mar school and collegiate. Economy in the public 
expenditure, and a thorough reform in the depart¬ 
mental system. Uniform legislation for both sec¬ 
tions of the Province, Curtailment of the power 
and patronage of the Executive. A free trade 
national policy, as far and so rapidly as the main¬ 
tenance of the public credit will permit Incor¬ 
poration of the Hudson’s Bay territory as a part of 
Canada. A registration of qualified voters for 
Pari i am on t ary elections. 
From the report of 1866 of the Chief Engineer 
ot the Montreal Fire Department, it appears that 
the Brigade were called out for fires 124 times 
during the year. The property destroyed was of 
the value of £31,861 insured, and £3,000 not 
insured. 
Db. Tacue, Member of the Provincial Parlia¬ 
ment, has resigned his scat in the nouse. 
The Brant Herald 
— The harbor of Baltimore is entirely dosed with ice. 
— The receipts of tho patent office last year were $165,000. 
— Quite a number of lead mines have been discovered in 
Missouri. 
— Water is soiling in St. Paul, Minnesota, at ten cents 
per barrel. 
— Tho consumers of sugar paid $6,780,000 duties on su¬ 
gar last year. 
— New York has furnished Wisconsin with 200,000 of 
its inhabitants. 
— The thermometer has been down to 32 degrees at Jack¬ 
sonville, Florida, 
— It is reported that the small pox is prevailing to some 
extent in Cairo, Ill. 
— A company of sixty gipsies have their tents pitched 
in Culpepper C'o., Ya. 
— The St. Paul (Minnesota) Times says that flre-wood is 
selling in that city fur $9 a cord. 
— There is an unusual amount of suffering among the 
poor in Louisville this season. 
— Michigan derived $56,286 from interest on surplus 
funds during the last two years. 
—The Coppermine near tho summit of the Sierra Ne¬ 
vada, proves to be very rich. 
— The Indians ot California are fast becoming exterm¬ 
inated by disease aud famine. 
— The value of property lost by fire in Buffalo in 1856, 
was $339,200. There were forty-seven tires. 
— The cash receipts of tire American Bible Society since 
Oct. 1st, are $15,048. Expenditures, $14,983. 
— A discovery of quartz has been recently made at Mo- 
kelumne Hill which “ prospects" $.360 per ton. 
— The gas has been shut off from the street lamps in 
New Albany, Ind., owing to the scarcity of coal. 
— The sugar crop in the United States has diminished 
from 460,000,000 lbs.per annum to 120,000,000 lbs. 
— Isaac Shin wood died In Dublin, N. H., Dec. 12, at the 
advanced age of 103 years, 8 months and 15 days. 
— It is said that the Klamath (Cal.) county jail consists 
of a live oak tree with a staple and chain attached. 
— The moBt insidious destroyer of life in this country is 
consumption; it carries off 100,000 persons annnaliv. 
— Moses Carlton, at one time the largest ship o.vner in 
New England, died at W iseasset, Me., on the 5th inst. 
— Thirty thousand dollars liavo been suberibed to the 
first railroad in Kaunas—from Quindorato Lawrence. 
— The old New Hampshire Curette, the oldest 
ROCHESTER, JANUARY 31, 185’ 
The Cold Weather, 
During the past week, the inclemency of the 
weather throughout a large portion of onr country 
has been unprecedented. The storm of wind and 
snow commenced on Saturday, the 17th inst, and 
continued, with greater or less fury, until Monday 
morning. The range of the thermometer on Sat¬ 
urday and Sunday in New York city, we clip from 
the Tribune, It says:—“At 3 F. M. of Saturday 
the temperature rose to thirty degrees, when if 
commenced falling gradually, with the wind 6. 8. 
W., till after 6 P. M., when it changed to the west¬ 
ward and northward, and at midnight was within 
ten degrees of zero. At 6 A. M. of Sunday it was 
at zero, and at 7, 8 and 9, two degrees below zero. 
At 8 and 9 P. M., it was four degrees above zero, 
the highest between sunrise and midnight. From 
10 o’clock Sunday night to 8 o’clock Monday 
morning the temperature was stationary at two 
degrees above zero. The following table shows 
the temperature of the previous week: 
Highest. Lowest. Change. 
Monday, Jan. 12. 20 deg. 10 deg. 10 deg. 
Tuesday, Jan. 13_28 11 12 “ 16 « 
Wednesday, Jan. 14_30 ?i 14 “ 16 « 
Thursday, Jan. 15_25 « 6 “ 19 “ 
Friday, Jan. 16_ 18 “ 6 “ 12 “ 
Saturday, Jan. 17, to 3 P.M. .. 30 “ 13 « 12 « 
This is an extraordinary low range for so long a 
period at once in New York city.” 
The sufferings of the sailors in the vicinity of 
New Y r ork harbor were intense, and in many in¬ 
stances terminated in death. On Sunday morning 
the brig Emeline, of Penobscot, Maine, was run 
ashore near Sandy Hook, and though every exer¬ 
tion that could he made to save her crew and pas 
sengers was brought into requisition, the whole 
perished. They were utterly unable to help them¬ 
selves. 
In Boston it was equally severe. The Traveller 
says:—"One of the heaviest storms we have ex¬ 
perienced in this vicinity for twenty years past, 
visited us on^Sunday. During the entire day, the 
weather was intensely cold, with the wind from 
North. Towards evening the wind changed to 
Northeast, and blew with great violence, continu¬ 
ing until Monday. Snow fell very fast from six 
o’clock Sunday evening until Monday afternoon, 
giving us.about three feet on a level. Hi the city 
moRt of the streets were rendered for a time al¬ 
most impassable, and early on Monday the city 
teams werc^sent about to break paths. The drifts 
of Bnow piled up by the gale were truly formidable, 
reaching as high as six feet, and in some places 
even higher.” 
In the vicinity of Boston the shipwrecks were 
numerous. The bark New Empire struck on the 
rocks at Cohasset. Three of the crew were saved 
—one drowned. Of the three saved, one had a 
leg and another an am broken. The bark Tedesco 
Conflagrations and Casualties. 
A Fire broke out on the 20th iost, in the North 
College at Amherst, and the whole building was 
consumed. None of the students were injured. 
Most of the furniture was saved. The building 
was brick, and the newest and best constructed of 
the College, it was insured lor $5,000. 
A Fire broke out on the 25th inst., in a large 
building known as the Manufacturers’ Block, situ¬ 
ated iu North Watertown. The building was oc¬ 
cupied by a great number of mechanics. The 
large bridge leading to North Watertown was also 
burned. Loss $20,000. No insurance. 
While the storm was raging at Philadelphia on 
the 17th inst., the new and not quite completed 
Tabernacle M. E. Church took tire, and was en¬ 
tirely consumed. The congregation had occupied 
it iu its unfinished state. Loss about $13,000. 
Twenty-fork dwelling houses were burned in 
Gloucester, N. YE, on the 22d inst. They all be¬ 
longed to the Gloneester Bleaching and Printing 
works. 
Tiie machine shop, engine house and four loco¬ 
motives. belonging to the Concord and Montreal 
Railroad, were burnt at Lake Village on the 23d 
inst Loss $40,000. 
Tbe Maberick Block, Boston, occupied as ahotel 
and stores, was partially destroyed by fire on the 
25th inst Loss $35,000. 
The boiler at Callighan <fc Renget’s Brass Foun¬ 
dry, Buffalo, exploded on the 23d inst, demolish¬ 
ing the outer building, in which it was situated- 
killing the engineer’s child and dangerously 
wounding the mother, and also seriously injuring 
the engineer. 
The British ship Lord Ashburton, from Tourin 
for St. Johns, N. B., was totally lost on Grand Ma- 
nan, on the 29th iust All officers were lost, and 
only three men out of 29 were saved, and they 
were badly frozen. 
The ship Manlius, from New Castle for St Johns, 
was totally lost on Grand Manan. The crew were 
rescued after being over a week in a boat and in 
the woods. 
We regret to learn 
that Messrs. Smith, Brother & Co.’s Foundry and 
Finishing shops, Bishopgute, township of Burford, 
were destroyed by fire on the 13th nit., with the 
exception of the pattern shop, which was partially 
saved, the premises and their valuable contents 
were totally destroyed. Loss estimated at £2,000. 
The reconstruction of the buildings will be 
speedily commenced.” 
A meeting of the committee appointed to select 
a location for a Baptist College, was held at Paris, 
C. W., on the 17th ult„ and Woodstock was fixed 
upon; that town having offered three acres of land 
and $16,000. Liberal otters were made by Fonthill, 
St. Catharines and Brantford. 
A gentleman of Toronto who has purchased a 
large tract of land in the township of Delaware, 
has proposed cutting a canal from a point of the 
river Thames, a short distance east of Lobo bridge, 
to another point of the same river, close to the 
village of Delaware. Asa fall of twenty-two feet 
is thus caused, and also the water now running by 
way of the river for several miles will ho brought 
into about a mile and a half, a force may be ob¬ 
tained, enough to propel any kind of machinery. 
Grist mills, a brewery, distillery and other build¬ 
ings, where water power is required, are expected 
to he erected immediately after the completion of 
the canal If a settlement cannot be made in time 
with parties holding land on the proposed route, 
the canal will be commenced early in the Bpring. 
As Mr. Wynn, the mail agent on the Great West¬ 
ern Railroad, was handing a lady into the cars, 
near Paris, his foot slipped, and as the train was 
in motion, to save his life, he threw himself on his 
face between tb 
pajier in 
the country, has just entered upon its second century. 
— The directors of the bnnk ot the State ot New York 
gave each of their clerks $100 as a New Year's present. 
— The ice on the Ohio, opposite Cincinnati, is so solid 
that teams haul wood over on it from the Kentucky side. 
— The population of Montreal increased about 6,000 du¬ 
ring last year, while the number of arrests decreased 500. 
—The product of the Ohio Valley exceeds by 100 per 
cent, the entire product of England, Ireland and Scotland. 
— On the 4th September the American consular flag was 
unfurled for the first time in the mystical empire of Japan. 
— The population of 8t. Anthony, Minnesota, as appears 
by the recent census, is 3,150, and that of Minneapolis 1,555. 
— By recent survey the total length of the five great 
lakes is made 1,534 miles, and their surface 90,000 square 
miles. 
— A bill has been introduced in the Indiana Legislature 
to increase the salary of the Governor from $1,500 to 
$2,500. 
— The product of the Ohio valley exceeds by one hun¬ 
dred per cent, the entire product of England, Ireland and 
Scotland. 
— Tbe gold mirns of Australia yield largely. In Mel¬ 
bourne, iu the 10th of Oct., 4,982 ounces were entered for 
shipment. 
— It appears by official returns that the sale of church 
property in Mexico, up to the 26th of Nov., amounted to 
$17,277,833. 
— Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines lias Instituted another suit in 
the U. S. Circuit Court of Louisiana against the city bf 
New Orleans. 
—The friends of the President elect will erect a tempo¬ 
rary building lor the inauguration ball, and the tickets will 
be ten dollars. 
—It is reported trom Washington that President and Mrs. 
Pierce will visit Cuba in March, on account of Mrs. Pierce's 
feeble health. 
— Eighty-eight persons committed suicide in New York 
ity the past year, and precisely tho same number the 
year previous. 
—Eour hundred and fifty houses have been erected in La 
Crosse, Wis., during the past year, and the population lias 
nearly doubled. 
— The subject of removing the seat of government of 
Missouri from Jefferson City to St. Louis, is agitated to a 
limited extent. 
—The probability almost amounts to certainty, that 
New York Legislature, 
Senate.— Mr. Brooks introduced a resolution re¬ 
quiring information as to the number of pardons 
granted by the Governors’ for the past four years. 
It was amended to eases of ten years and then 
tabled. 
The bill relative to Courts of Sessions in Kings 
county, was passed. 
Assembly.— The general tax extension hill was 
ordered to a third reading, after being amended so 
us to exclude Brooklyn, Troy, Rochester and 
Buffalo. 
Mr. Pomeroy introduced hills in relation to Su¬ 
pervisors of New York, and organizing the Metro¬ 
politan Police of New York. 
The Supply hill was lost by a vote of 58 to 39. 
The Legislature have been taking a play-day, 
which accounts for the meagreness of our report. 
e rails, and the train passed over 
him. The poor fellow got his hack grazed so much 
as to prevent him proceeding with the mail hags, 
which is consequently delayed thereby. There is 
little doubt, however, of his ultimate recovery. 
The Baptist Church in Brantford, C. W., recent¬ 
ly took fire, and was consumed. The fire origina¬ 
ted from the hot air furnace. The church was 
new, liav ing been built only a year ago. It was in¬ 
sured for £ 1 , 200 . 
Criminal Action of Parents. — Every week 
we read of the burning of children, through tbe 
carelessness or negligence of their parents. The 
Buffalo Republic relates the particulars of the 
death, by burning of a little girl four years old, 
daughter of Air. J. T. Holt This child and two 
others, one of seven years old and the other an 
infant, were left at home, while their mother went 
out for a few moments. The fire went out, and the 
little girl of four attempted to re-kindle it, by 
lighting shavings at a candle and putting them in 
the stove. While so engaged, her clothes took flrt t 
The eldest girl removed the infant to another room', 
then threw upon her sister’s clothes a pail of 
water. This failed to extinguish the flames, aud 
she ran to the neighbors, followed by the unfortu¬ 
nate child, who went but a few steps, when she fell 
and expired, burned to a crisp. 
The following item, from an eastern paper, is an 
additional horror, belonging in the same category. 
Two children, respectively named Scott and Cros¬ 
by, of Milton, Ulster county, were burned to death 
within the last day or two. What is most singular 
The highest salary paid a Governor of any 
State in the Union is paid in California, $10,000; 
and the lowest is in Vermont, $750. Louisiana 
pays $6,000, and Virginia $5,000. 
There were manufactured at Maehais, Me., last 
year, 32,300,000 feet of lnmber, and 47,500,000 laths. 
One hundred and forty-three railroad accidents 
have occurred the past year, involving the loss of 
195 lives, and tbe wounding of 629 persons. 
By the operation of a general law of the State 
of Maine, the charters of all the Banks in that 
State, will expire during 1857, and all have to 
wind up their affairs, unless re-chartered by the 
Legislature now in session. 
The U. S. Navy, in November, 1856, consisted of 
The 11 ships of the line, 13 frigates, 19 sloops of war, 
d at 3 brigs, 1 schooner, 7 screw steamers of the first 
, i( 5 ; class, 1 of the second class, 2 of the third class, 3 
rL at side wheel steamers of the first class, 1 of the Bee¬ 
be- on<l class, 5 of the third class, 3 steam tenders, 6 
at, 8 storeships, and 1 permanent receiving vessel.— 
t 24 Total 75 vessels, carrying 2 , 243 guns. 
hove During the eleven months, ended November 30, 
4 P. 1856, upward of sixty-tw 
Carelessness of an Apothecary.— A terrible 
tragedy occurred in Baltimore ou the 21 st instant. 
A druggist filled a prescription ordered by Arnold, 
a German physician, for a child. The child took 
the medicine and died immediately. Arnold took 
the remainder of the medicine to the druggist and 
told him he had made a fatal mistake. The drug¬ 
gist persisted that the medicine was right, and to 
show his confidence in his correctness he swallow¬ 
ed a portion himself. He was immediately attacked 
by horrible convulsions, and died in five minutes. 
The doctor, who merely tasted the preparation 
and spit it from his month, was also attacked, and 
was with diflicnlty saved. The affair occasioned 
great excitement. The druggist had mixed cyam- 
mtiriate of potassium with lemon juice, developing 
enough prussic acid in the preparation to have 
killed three hundred people. 
anew 
British expedition is to Iks sent in search of the remains of 
Franklin's party. 
—The mechanics of Elizabeth City, N. C., hare held a 
meeting to take measures for preventing free negroes con¬ 
tracting for work. 
— Philo Seeley, his two sons, and another man, were 
burned to death recently in a lumber camp near St. George, 
Now Brunswick. 
— A bill is before the Arkansas Legislature to compel all 
free negroes to leave the State, under penalty of immediate 
s&lu into slavery (or Hie. 
— The retail liquor dealers of Morgantown, Iow r a, had a 
visit from tin? Ladies recently, who emptied all their liquor 
into the street from them. 
— Massachusetts, with all her boasted enterprise and in¬ 
telligence, has no State Agricultural Society. The organ¬ 
ization of 0110 is called for. 
— Bellona Arsenal, 14 miles above Richmond, tho proper¬ 
ty of the United States, was sold at auction for $2,660. It 
cost Uio government $176,000. 
— The earnings of the Great Western Railway for the 
weekending the 9th of January amounted to $45,598.— 
Number of passengers 13,140. 
— Gen. Wool will soon be recalled from the command of 
tiie Pacific division of the army, at his own request. His 
successor has not been app ointed. 
— Eight persons, ail residents of the country on the lino 
of the stago road from Dubuque to Iowa City, were frozen 
to death ou Sunday night week, i 
— Chicago is becoming the religious metropolis of the 
West; there will soon be within and around it not less 
than five theological seminaries. 
— The first issue ol paper currency in Cuba was author¬ 
ized by a special decree of the Captain General on the 24 th 
ult, to take effect on the 3d inst. 
— The London correspondent of the New York Com¬ 
mercial Advertiser says that Lord Napier is said io be the 
new British Minister at Washington. 
— Thirty thou gaud pmsengors were carried last year by 
the steamships between Europe and tho United States, in¬ 
cluding eastern and western passages, 
— Tho coldest weather yet reported was at Winona, M. 
T., on the 10th ult., when the thermometer at sunrise 
marked 38 degrees below zero, and at sunset 31. 
— The Mayor of New York refuses to grant licenses to 
bookmen who drive broken down horses or shabby ve¬ 
hicles. Thirty or forty huckmen are thus thrown out. 
Murder by Indians in Texas.— The murder of 
the people of Texas by the fierce Indian tribes 
which surround them, Rtill continues. Seven citi¬ 
zens were lately surprised by a party of thirty 
Indians; three of the whites were killed ou the 
ground; two others were wounded, one mortally, 
the other slightly, aud the remaining two made 
their escape. One of the wounded men suecoeed- 
ed in reaching some rocks and hiding in their 
clefts. The Indians pursued their course to Sister- 
dale, in Comal county, where they killed a young 
man. 
From Havana. —The steamship Isabella, from 
Havana and Key West, on the 10 th inst,, arrived 
at Charleston on the 14th inst. The health of Dr. 
Kane was improving. A great storm had occurred 
off Vera Cruz. Numerous vessels were wrecked, 
including the ship-of-war Gaudnlonpeano and 
steamer Iturbide, Eighty persons on board the 
latter were lost The fish monopoly at Cuba had 
been annulled, and foreign vessels were allowed to 
sail. The weather was cold and beautiful. Sugars 
firm but inactive. New molasses was coming in 
freely. 
o thousand pounds of opi¬ 
um were imported into England, of which thirty- 
nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seven 
pounds were entered for home consumption. 
Pegu, the province recently acquired in the 
East Indies by Great Britain, promises to be veay 
productive. Its exports of rice lastseason amount¬ 
ed to two-thirds of the average annual exports of 
Bengal. 
Kansas Judiciary. —It is reported from Wash¬ 
ington that in secret session, yesterday, the Senate 
discussed tbe removal of Judge Lecompte, of 
Kansas Territory, and the nomination of Judge 
Harrison in his place. Mr. Toombs opposed the 
removal, denying the President’s power, which, 
however, has been settled by the Supreme Court, 
its decision having been that the Territorial judi¬ 
ciary are subject to removal by the President. 
New Railway in India. —An Oude Railroad 
Company has been formed under the auspices of 
well known aud highly respectable commercial 
gentlemen of both England and the East Indies. 
Three Hues are contemplated, extending over four 
hundred and fifty miles, but it is proposed first to 
complete one of fifty miles in length, to connect 
Cawuporc, on the East India railway, with Luck¬ 
now, tho residence of the Governor General’s po¬ 
litical agent. 
The Florida Indians.— A published letter from 
Captain Carey, late Indian agent, dated Tampa 
Bay, and written Lnt two days before his death, 
shows that he had given up oil hopes of a peace¬ 
ful removal of the Seminoles. Other accounts 
from South Florida show the prevalence of great 
alarm among the frontier settlers. Several com¬ 
panies of volunteers, in addition to those already 
in the service of the United States, were being or¬ 
ganized for the purpose of affording protection to 
the inhabitants. Gen. Harney, now in Florida, 
has declared war against the Seminoles, and fight¬ 
ing will soon commence. 
Foreclosing Mortgages,— There is a hill be¬ 
fore the State. Senate which proposes to ehungc 
the manner of posting notices of mortgage fore¬ 
closure iu an important respect Iu addition to 
posting the usual notice on the Court House door, 
it proposes that a copy shall be registered in a 
hook to he kept by the County Clerk for that 
purpose. 
A Bridge over Detroit River. — Notice is 
given in tbe Canadian papers that application will 
lie made at the coming session of the Provincial 
Parliament, for a charter to construct a bridge 
over the Detroit river, at any suitable place be¬ 
tween Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair; also for a 
charter to construct a bridge across the Niagara 
river, at Fort Erie, or some point below. 
Severe but Just Penalty. — One man, con¬ 
victed of practicing the garrote, in New York, 
was sentenced to State Prison for his natural life. 
Another, whose offence was less aggravated, was 
condemned to fifteen years imprisonment. The 
New York papers of Saturday notice three more 
instances of this kind of highway robbery. This 
is a new and diabolical scheme. The victim is 
caught by the throat and choked until insensibility 
ensues—oftentimes hours supervene between the 
attack and the return of consciousness, 
National Kansas Committee. —The Report of 
the Secretary’ of the National Kansas Committee, 
now in session, states that $90,000 had been sub¬ 
scribed to the fund of the Committeesince July 
last—of this $81,000 have been expended in for¬ 
warding emigrants arid furnishing supplies to set¬ 
tlers. The number of emigrants forwarded by the 
Committee is 2,000. 
Pursuit of Office under Difficulties. —The 
New Jersey Railroads being blocked up by the 
snow, the Governor elect w r fts obliged to walk 
twelve miles through it, in order to reach the 
Capital on the day of his inauguration. When 
the Legislature met, it consisted of two Senators 
and three Assemblymen. 
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