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Congressional Proceedings. 
Items of News 
Provincial Items, 
Senate. —On motion of Mr. Fish, a resolution 
was adopted calling on the Tost-Master General to 
inform the Senate whether any, and if so, what ad¬ 
ditional legislation is required to insure the trans¬ 
mission 
THEBE IS YET TIME AND ROOM 
Opr Canadian neighbors have been suffering 
from freshets and their peculiar calamitous inci¬ 
dents. The Hamilton Spectator says:—We regret 
to learn that great destruction has been caused by 
the sudden rising of the Grand River on Monday 
night, which rose four or five feet higher than was 
ever known before. The accounts that have reach¬ 
ed us are as yet but very meagre, but enough has 
been ascertained to convince us that, the destruc¬ 
tion of property most he immense. For some days 
the ice had been lodged a short distance above 
Balt, and on Monday it suddenly gave way, des¬ 
troying everything in its course, sweeping away 
bridges, fences, and bouses, and completely over- 
We are inform- 
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— John B. Gough is lecturing in Illinois. 
— Mad dogs seem to be abundant in Illinois. 
— There are 78 Wesleysn preachers in France. 
— Scarlet lever is raging in Northern Mississippi. 
— The new Ohio six per oent. loan was taken at 100. 
— Tho British army in Hindostan numbers 216,000 men. 
— The personal liberty bill has passed the Legislature of 
Wisconsin. 
— There are 30 new bank charters before the Missouri 
legislature. 
— The wheat crop of Ohio last year amounted to 19,669,- 
320 bushels. 
— The attempts to raise cotton In Australia are said to 
be successful. 
— Wild pigeons are very plenty in the woods near Staun¬ 
ton, Virginia. 
— The constitutionality of the State Bank of Indiana is 
to be tested. 
—There are 469 harbors on the Atlantic coast of the 
United States. 
— A hear weighing 160 pounds, was killed in Pittsfield, 
Mass., Ia6t week. 
— The Morris and Essex railroad, N. J., is to be extended 
to the Hudson river. 
— Mary Howitt, lire poetess, has been writing a History 
of the United States. 
— There were SO deaths in Boston last week, of which 19 
were of fcarlet fever. 
— Thirty thousand dollars have been subscribed to the 
first railroad in Kansas. 
— The surface of the island of Cuba covers a space of 
about 32,000 square miles. 
— The Nova Scotia Legislature has voted a want of con¬ 
fidence in me Government. 
— It is said that Gen. Concha la about to resign his office 
as Governor General of Cuba. 
— A bill to compel free negroes to leave the State has 
passed tho Alabama Legislature. 
— The “ Sons of Malta" in St, Louis have donated an¬ 
other J 1,000 in bread to the poor. 
— A bill is before the Michigan Legislature to establish 
an independent Supreme Court. 
— Florida papers say that the orange and lemon crop in 
that State is good this season. 
— Robins were seen on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 14th, in 
Newton, six miles irom Boston. 
— A white shad, the first of the season, sold at Wil¬ 
mington, N, O., on Tuesday, at $3. 
—A few daya ago, 11,300 smuggled cigars, of superior 
quality, were seized at Portland, Me. 
—Hon. Jno. R. Thompson has been re-elected U. S. Sen¬ 
ator by the Leglelaturo of New Jersey. 
— A large steam frigate is to be built in New York, by 
contract, for the Russian Government. 
— C. il. Demo, of Uje New Orleans Picayune, a poet of 
promise, died the last day of January. 
— In n dncl at Savannah on Monday, Thomas Daniel was 
killed at the first Ore by Daniel Elliot. 
— The price of tin has risen sieadily the past year. The 
ores'composlng it are becoming scarce. 
— Tho Lord Mayor of London has prohibited Tom 
Thumb's carriage from parading the city. 
— Huntington is now employed aa a book-keeper for Mr. 
Woodruff, contractor in Sing Sing Prison. 
— Tho oxirnditioD treaty between the United States and 
the Netherlands has been ratified by the Senate. 
— The damage by the freshet to the Illinois and Michigan 
canal will preveot its opening until the 1st of May. 
— Caleb Cushing, on retiring from his office of U. S. At¬ 
torney General, will return to Newbury port to live. 
— Ticknor k Fields announce a beautiful family edition 
of the Waverley Novels in forty-eight lGmo. volumes. 
— George Parish, of Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence Co., is set 
down by the Watertown Reformer as worth $6,000,000. 
— Hon. Wm. L. Dayton has been Dominated by the Gov¬ 
ernor ns Attorney General of the State of New Jersey. 
— Tho first party of New York emigrants for Kansas, 
will leave Bennett's Hotel, Buffalo, on the 6th of March. 
— Dr. Ure, the distinguished aulhorof the Dictionary of 
Arts, Science, and Mining, died in London on the 2d ult. 
— Some towns in Illinois offer as high as $25,000 to se¬ 
cure the location of the projected State Normal School. 
— The Hen. Samuel Ingham baa been unanimously re¬ 
nominated for Governor of Connecticut by the Democrats. 
— One of the patriots of the Revolution, John C. Rein¬ 
hardt, died in Philadelphia a few days since, at the age of 
98 years. 
— There are between thirty and forty thousand Jews in 
California, and they havo lately started a paper in San 
Francisco. 
— The income of the Provincial Canals during last year 
was £95,305, exceedmg the income of the year preceding 
by £14,221. 
— Nine out of ten of losses by mail, so far, have been 
registered letters, and in no instance has one of them been 
traced up. 
— A licence law has passed the Iowa Legislaaure which 
repeals the prohibitory law in all counties where the peo¬ 
ple so vote, 
— A man waa attacked by nine weasels, in Roxburyshire, 
England, lately They clung to hia legs until all but one 
were killed. 
— A flock of wild geese passed over Boston, on their 
way north, Sunday—a symptom of spring, unless the geese 
were mistaken. 
— Col. Rldler, of the Nicaraguan army, who returned on 
the Texas badly wounded, confirms the report of Walker’s 
recent success. 
— No leas than ten bridges are already built, projected, 
or in process across the Mississippi river, at various points 
above St. Louis. 
— The Cincinnati Commercial has fears for the coming 
peach crop in that vicinity, as the young buds are already 
bursting forth. 
— Tho average temperature at sunrise at Lancaster, Wis¬ 
consin, during the whole month of January was six de¬ 
grees below zero. 
— The damage to steamboats by the recent freshet in the 
Ohio is estimated at $170,000. About thirty boats were 
more or less injured. 
— A father and son, the former aged 40 years and the 
latter 13, wore arrested in Boston on Saturday week as 
common drunkards. 
— The damage to steamboats by the recent freshet in the 
Ohio ia estimated at $170,000. About thirty boats were 
more or less Injured. 
— A young man in Washington was so affected by unex¬ 
pectedly d.»wmg a lottery prize of $1,600 that he has be¬ 
come hopelesidy insane. 
— A letter assorts that Yah, the Governor of Canton, 
has, during the short time he has held office, beheaded no 
less than 70,000 persons. 
— The Rockford Republican says there has been sixty- 
two consecutive days ol sleighiug in that city this winter, 
and plenty of snow left. 
— An arrangement is about to be mado which will 
through the Post-Office and delivery to 
the persons td whom directed, of public documents, 
franked by members of Congress. 
The Central American treaty was discussed for 
several hours by the Senate in Executive session. 
Its further consideration was postponed by five 
majority, till the 5tb of March. 
The Semite has ratified the extradition treaty 
between the LTnited States and the Netherlands. 
A bill was passed in addition to an act to more 
effectually provide for the punishment of certain 
crimes against the United States, also the hill to 
amend tho act for the better organisation of the 
treasury, safe keeping and disbursement of the 
public revenue, also the hill confirming the settled 
States in swamp and overflowed landB therein. 
The bill to increase the pay of Army officers was 
passed. The bill to prevent the counterfeiting of 
United States coin was passed*, also, a bill supple¬ 
mentary to the act of March, I860,to ascertain and 
settle land claims in California. 
Tho hill establishing a judicial district in the 
Gadsden purchase, creating the office of Surveyor 
General, granting donations to actual settlers, Ac., 
was passed. 
An Executive communication was received from 
the President, covering Lt P. St. George Cook's 
account of his fighting the Bois Brule hand of 
Sioux Indians, in which 75 Indians were killed, 44 
taken prisoner 
flowing the banks in many places, 
ed that scarcely a single bridge iB left standing 
between Berlin and Galt. At the latter placed 
property to the amount of several thousand dol¬ 
lars has been destroyed. Houses in tlielowerpart 
of the town were removed bodily, and nearly the 
whole of the north side of the town submerged._ 
At Brantford a great deal of damage has also been 
done. Families had to desert their houses; and 
we hear that many were compelled to make their 
exit Irom the upper windows. 
The Hamilton Banner states that the Home 
Directors of the Great Western Railroad, have 
directed that an action be brought to recover from 
Sir Allan McNab £5,000 which was jtaid for cer¬ 
tain water lots, said not to he worth £500. 
The Dundas (C. W.) Tribune says that the oldest 
inhabitants of that town never before saw so much 
soft weather and hard times mixed np together at 
this season as now prevail there. 
Tiie Hamilton Board of Trade has resolved to 
pay the expense of a survey of the Ontario and 
Lake Huron Ship CanaL 
Tdf. citizens of Montreal are making strenuous 
efforts for the passage of the Maine law in that city. 
The imports of Canada last year were $41,977,- 
135. 
The income from the Canadian canals last year 
was $371,680. 
tir Back Numbers— In order to supply the supposed de¬ 
mand, we commenced this volnmo by adding 20,000 copies to onr 
former edition The prospect now is That this extra edition will 
be exhausted soon ; hence those who wish the volume complete, 
should not delay in Bending in their subscriptions. Back num¬ 
bers will be furnisbod to new subscribers (unless otherwise 
ordered) until our edition is exhausted. 
tzr Additions to Clubs are now in order, and can be made 
at the Clnb rate—$1,60 per copy. Agents and other friends will 
please bear this in wind, and receive and forward the subscrip¬ 
tions of all who desire to secure the Rural 
■s, and 14 mules captured. Copt. 
Howe’s company of the 4th artillery, Capt. Heth’s 
were en- 
Bacr Numbers Wanted. —About twenty papers of No. 30 
vol 6, 1855, wanted to complete sells. For thc-se in good order 
we wiU give twelve cents each in postage stamps or cash. ’.Mail 
to Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, Rochester, N. Y. 
ISP" For terms, Special Notices, Ac., see last page. 
company infantry, and the 2d dragoons, 
gaged in the fight. 
House. —Motion to reconsider the vote by which 
the sub-marine telegraph bill was referred to Com¬ 
mittee on Post-Offices—the question on recon¬ 
sidering, was carried. Mr. .Tones, of Tenn., moved 
to lay the bill on the table—negatived by 77 to 121, 
He then ft oved to refer the hill to the Committee 
of the Whole. Carried. 
The House passed by 20 majority the hill repeal¬ 
ing all the laws of Kausas, declaring the Shawnee 
Mission Legislature spurious, and providing for a 
new election. 
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, reported hack, from the 
Committee of Ways and Means, the Senate Sub- 
Marine Telegraph bill, with the following amend¬ 
ments, viz:—That, citizens of the United States 
shall have the right to the use of the line for all time 
instead of fifty years—recognizing the equal rights 
to its use, and of all lines which at any time may 
connect with its terminus at Newfoundland, and 
providingtbat it shall be in the power of Congress 
after ten years to terminate the contract by a year’s 
notice. An ineffectual effort was made to table 
the bill, hut it was passed as amended, by a vote 
of 112 to 81. 
The Post-Office Appropriation Bill, giving $16,- 
000,000 to the inland service for next year, was 
passed. 
A petition numerously signed by citizens of 
California, asking the expulsion of Mi*. Herbert, 
has been referred to the Committee on Elections 
in the House. 
Mr. Washburn, of Hlinois, reported to the 
House on the IGth inst., some fifty Senate bills, 
among which are those for the improvement of 
Lake Michigan, the Hell-gate channel, the Hudson 
and Illinois rivers, and the harbors of Providence, 
Cape Cod, Chicago, Erie and Michigan City. The 
programme is to unite them all in one bill, in favor 
of which it is ascertained there is a Jare majority. 
The House has concurred in the Senate’s amend¬ 
ment to the coinage hill, (authorizing the payment 
of the new cent for old Spanish silver at the old 
rates for two years,) and that bill is now fully 
through both houses. 
that town. 
A revolution is in prospect, to which ’93 is 
pale! The authoress of the hooped circle, the 
LmpresB Eugenie, has appeared in public without 
hoops. Paris will follow her example, and New 
Y'ork will speedily copy Paris. 
The Legislature of Michigan adjourned on Mon¬ 
day week. Among the ads passed by that body 
was one for a bankiug law, granting aid to Michi¬ 
gan emigrants in Kausas, and organizing an inde¬ 
pendent Supreme Court, Resolutions in favor of 
admitting Kansas as a Free State were also adopted. 
The Great Ganges Canal is nearly one-third 
longer than the Erie, has more than two and a half 
times its breadth, and is three feet deeper. An¬ 
other canal ba3 been constructed in the Punjaub, 
470 miles in length. 
Accounts from Missouri state that great damage 
had been done by recent freshets in that State._ 
The loss to the Iron Mountain Railroad is estimated 
at $200,000. 
In view of the dai^er to which American com¬ 
merce has been exposed for the past two years 
from pirates infesting the Chinese seas and the 
East Indian Archipelago, the Boston Board of 
Trade has petitioned government for armed ves¬ 
sels that could puisne piraticaJ crafts into shallow 
water. 
Accurate observations during the recent floods 
in Illinois are said to have es-.^ishod the fact that 
the new grade (six feet or so above low water mark) 
List of New Advertisements this Week, 
The Nevr York Spectator— Francis Hall A Co. 
For {fcnllcmen Only— Derby A .Jackson. 
Important to Farmers—Richard li, Pc use. 
Every Former should Own Them—C. M. Saxton. 
Selitnecwdy AgT Works—G. WestingboiUo A Co. 
Book Agents Wanted—}J. Ctfwpentnvait A Cn. 
Two hiuali and Choice Farm, for Sale—C. A M. Boughton. 
Monroe County Faongs Institution—'Clms, W. Dundas. 
Important to Farmer*— BiooSOvd Fertilizer Manni g Co. 
Dickey's Improved Patent Corn Planter—John Outram. 
King Philip Improved—I. W Briggs. 
Farm for Sale—W. W Gorham. 
King Philip Con,—Geo. P. Hooker. 
Rare Seeds—L \V. Bnggs. 
Pine Hill Nursery—G. Zimmerman. 
Farm and Patent Lime Kiln for Sale or Rent—H. L. Hall. 
Desirable Form for Sale—Goo. W. Root, 
Chinese Hngai Cane Hoed—W. T. Goldsmith. 
Pure Sliort-homg for Sale—E. Marks. 
Conflagrations and Casualties, 
A fire of occurred at Burlington, Iowa, on Sat¬ 
urday week, destroying four stores in the centre of 
the city. Loss $80,000. The principal losers are 
Kimball A Co., dry goods — $43,000. Insured 
$31,000. J. W. White, stoves — $10,000. Insured 
$8,000. Martin & Co., hardware — $5,000.—Fully 
insured. 
The Print. Works of Garnar A Co., at Wapin- 
gers Falls, Dutchess county, were totally destroy¬ 
ed by fire on Tuesday week, together with all the 
stock and machinery. Loss about $100,000 —for 
which amount the works were insured in New York 
city. 
The cotton factory of Matthias Gorges, on the 
Wissahickon, near Philadelphia, was burnt on the 
18th inst. Loss $10,000,—partly insured. 
The Arey Block, and two adjoining buildings in 
Frankfort, Me., occupied by various firms, were 
burned on the 23d inst. Loss about $117,000. 
A startling casualty happened on the railroad, 
abont four miles this 'side of Canandaigua, on 
Wednesday night. The mail train, which left Al¬ 
bany at 9.30 A. M., on Tuesday, the 17th, and Syra¬ 
cuse at 0.05 P. M., with the engine Daniel Webstar. 
ROCHESTER, FEBRUARY 28,1857 
Washington News, 
Rumor says that the Investigating Committee 
in the Corruption Case will recommend the expul¬ 
sion of at least four members of the House — 
Messrs. O. B. Matteson, of Oneida; and Gilbert 
and Edmonds of New York, and Welch, of Con¬ 
necticut. The evidence against Matteson and Gil¬ 
bert, it is said, will ensure their expulsion. They 
are charged with land and book speculations to a 
heavy amount. The Committee will also recom¬ 
mend that the Times correspondent be expelled 
from their Hall. Those who profess to know all 
about this report, say that it will create such astir 
in the Halls of Congress, that no further legisla¬ 
tion will be done this session. 
The French Minister, Mr. Sartiges, has recently 
represented to this Government that a large 
amount of property, belonging to French subjects, 
had been destroyed in the bombardment of Grey- 
town, by Capt. Collins. The French Government 
require that this Government shall make up the 
losses. The Secretaiy of State is now making up 
his reply. What course will be pursued is not 
known, but if the demand is acceded to, the Eng¬ 
lish Government will also make a demaud. 
Mr. Beelem, Secretory of Legation at Chili, ar¬ 
rived at Washington last week with important, des¬ 
patches to our Government. 
The bill, increasing the pay of officers in the 
Army, approved by the President, will increase 
Lt Gen. Scott's salary, $1,828 — making his yearly 
compensation $10,620. The bill increases each of 
Brig. Generals’ salaries, $1,100; Colonels, $800; Lt 
Col.’s, $660; Maj.'s, $550; Captains, $400; and 
Lieutenants, $300—making the salaries respective- I 
ly, $7,500, $3,000, $2,500, $2,200, $1,600 and $1,600. 
Average increase, $500 to each officer; ditto in all, | 
$525,000. An old law provides that any increase 
in the pay of the Army shall relatively affect that, 
of the Marine Corps. 
The War Department has received intelligence 
from Gen. Wool, dated Benicia, California, Jan. 3d, 
says that peace and quiet prevailed throughout the 
department of the Pacific, and that he has no 
doubt but that it will continue as long as the In¬ 
dians arc treated with ordinary justice. The dis¬ 
position of the troops is such as not only to give 
protection t.o the white settlements, bntto restrain 
the Indians should they exhibit indications to re¬ 
new the war, which from the imformation he has : 
received, he does not in the least apprehend. 
Western Items. —The Governor of Nebraska 
has vetoed all the hills of the Legislature for char¬ 
tering new hanks. 
The Minnesota Legislature has been occupied 
with plans for a State organization. 
The Wisconsin Legislature has passed a bill giv¬ 
ing S. M. Booth, the editor of the Milwaukee Free 
Democrat, the power of replevin, over hia press, 
which was seized by the U. S. Marshal. TIh'b is 
•another step in the progress of the Garland slave 
case. 
A Reliable Advertisinq Agency is a “good 
institution,” and ought no more to he discredited 
because there are bogus and fraudulent agencies, 
than should a safe bank on account of “wild 
cats.” As many of our readers are aware wc have 
now and again used some very plain language 
touching the transactions of certain advertising 
agCDts, yet we regret to notice, in some of our re¬ 
cent Western exchanges, certain denunciations of 
good as well as of uncertain agencies—a condem¬ 
nation of all for the sins of some (or perhaps the 
majority.) Now, although our experience has been 
somewhat limited, (for we pay no attention to the 
orders of advertising agents who dictate terms, 
commissions, Ac.,) we have found at least one 
agency to be prompt, fair and honorable. Wc re¬ 
fer to S. M. Pettengill & Co., of New Y’orlc and 
Boston,—a firm which we know to be prompt and 
reliable, and consider every way worthy the confi¬ 
dence of both advertisers and publishers. 
—We say thus much injustice to the firm named, 
because it has been included, unwittingly we pre¬ 
sume, in some of tho strictures in our exchanges, 
uiid not from any other motive—for we have no 
occasion, as is well known, to solicit advertising 
from any source whatever. We only desire to 
accord—“ honor to whom honor,” Ac. 
Lake Ontario Steamers. — The Ogdensbnrgh 
Sentinel understands that arrangements for run¬ 
ning of the American line of steamers of Lake 
Ontario, for the season of 1856. have already been 
completed. The steamers New York and North¬ 
erner, are to form the American Express Line, and 
will run the old route, touching at Toronto each 
way. The Bay State, Ontario, Cataract and Niag¬ 
ara, form the U. 8. Mail Line. In addition to the 
old route, they will cross from Rochester to Toron¬ 
to, coming down. 
Belladonna in Scarlatina. — Ex-Governor 
Briggs, in communicating to the Berkshire county 
Eagle a letter from Dr, Wm. H. Tyler of Adams, in 
favor of the use of belladonna as protection against 
scarlet fever, remarks:—"I have distinct recollec¬ 
tion of the use of this article in my own family, 
and waa then and am now satisfied that it saved 
my two sons, then children, from the disease, 
which my daughter and many of my neighbors’ 
children had severely.” 
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Indian Troubles Renewed.— A letter from Lo- 
redo, Webb Co., Texas, says that since the with¬ 
drawal of the United States troops in thut part of 
Texas, the Camunche Indians have become a terror 
to the inhabitants. Within u month twelve men 
had been killed in that vicinity, and a general 
break up among the Btock farmers was taking place. 
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Tuk Hog Disease. —This disease, which has 
proved so fatal to hogs at the West this season, lias 
broken out among the Western swine arriving at 
Philadelphia, and also among the hogs in the dis¬ 
tilleries, The disease appears contagious, and 
large numbers have died. 
The New Cent Coinage. —The new cent piece, 
soon to he issued, is composed of copper and 
nicklc, and is abont the size of a quarter eagle, as 
thick as the present cent, and but little darker than 
German silver. The obverso is a well-executed 
figure of ati eagle in full flight, with the date un¬ 
derneath, and the words United States of America 
above. The reverse is a fine executed wreath, rep¬ 
resenting all the principal staples of the country 
— cotton. Corn, tobacco, wheat, grapes, Ac., with 
the words one cent in the centre. It is stated by 
the officers of the Mint, that at the present price 
of copper, and for several years past, there has 
been little or no profit on tho issne of copper cents, 
and in consequence of the low value of this coin, 
it might bo issued at one-half Its present weight 
with a seigniorage profit, and without tempting 
the counterfeiter, because the profits on their issue 
would be too small to undergo the risk of detection. 
As ocr Terms of43ubsckiftion are invariably 
in advance, wo cannot consistently comply with re¬ 
quests to send the Rural on other conditions— 
We receive many applications to send the paper, 
with promise of payment in one, three or six 
months,—yet, as we keep no accounts with sub¬ 
scribers, hut adhere strictly to the cash system 
(which we are satisfied, from experience, is the 
best for all parties,) a departure from the plan 
adopted would soon involve us in confusion.— 
People who want the Rural must therefore for¬ 
ward the subscription price in order to he hooked. 
— Again: occasionally some good friend of the 
Rural “flares up,” because we “stop the paper”_ 
saying he is “good for the amount,” and some¬ 
times talking as. though we intended to insult him 
by discontinuing. Now, we beg to assure each and 
all tha t it is onr invariable rule to “ stop the paper” 
in all casee at the expiration of the time paid for, 
without regard to the financial ability of the sub¬ 
scriber—whether rich as Dives or poor as Lazarus. 
Pardons.— The Secretary of the State of New 
Y'ork has furnished the Senate with a statement 
giving the number of pardons, Ac., granted by the 
Governors for ten years past, as follows:—By Gov. 
Young, 208. By Gov. Fish, 100. By Gov. Hunt, 
411. By Gov. Seymour, 465. By Gov. Clark, 680. 
Restored to citizenship, 409. Total cases of Ex¬ 
ecutive clemency, 2,283. 
The New Y'ork Spectator, advertised on next 
page, is one of the very best and most reliable 
journals on our exchange list. Though the oldest 
newspaper published in New York, it retains the 
vigor und enterprise of earlier years. 
The New* Advertisements in this number com¬ 
prise a variety of timely and useful mutters. We 
bespeak for all a careful perusal, especially as we 
shall not probably be able to give some of them as 
many insertions as ordered. Several advertise¬ 
ments, received at a late hour and after our space 
was occupied, aie necessarily deferred. 
ensure 
the opening of a channel over the St. Clair Flats in the 
course of the coining season. 
— A couple was married in the cars of tho Memphis and 
Charleston railroad a few weeks since. The bride was a 
“widow” aged sixteen years. 
Strangers in Washington. —The National In¬ 
telligencer says the hotels of that city are even 
now occupied to their ordinary capaoity by stran¬ 
gers from all suctions and distances who propose 
to witness the inauguration ceremonies. 
A Good Pio.—O. A. J. Hollister, Esq., P. M. at 
Reynoldsvilie, N. Y'., killed a pig nine months old 
that weighed four hundred and fifty pounds. Not 
of the “ dumpy sort,” probably. 
