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one will attempt to dispute. In short, wo ought to 
do jnstiee, iu a kindly spirit, to all nations, and 
require justice from them in return. It is our 
glory, that while other nations have extended their 
dominions by the sword, we have never acquired 
any territory except by fair purchase, or, as in the 
case of Texas, by the voluntary determination of a 
brave, kindred and independent people to blend 
their destinies with our own. Even onr acquisi¬ 
tions from Mexico, form no exception. Unwilling 
to take advantage of the fortune of war against a 
Bister Republic, we purchased these possessions 
under the tre.ity of peace, for a sum which was 
considered at the time a fair equivalent. Onr 
past history forbids that we shall, in the future- 
acquire territory, unless this be sanctioned by the 
law T s of justice and honor. Acting on this princi¬ 
ple, no nation will have a right to interfere or 
complain, if, in the progress of events, we shall 
still further extend our possessions. Hitherto, in 
all our acquisitions, the people, under the protec¬ 
tion of the American flag, have enjoyed civil and 
religious liberty, as well as equal and just laws, 
and have been contented, prosperous and happy. 
Their trade with the rest of the world, has rapidly 
increased, and thus every commercial nation has 
shared largely in their successful progress. 
I shall now proceed to take the oath prescribed 
by the Constitution, while humbly invoking the 
blessing of Divine Providence on this great people, 
James Buchanan. 
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The Supreme Court delivered an opinion af¬ 
firming the decision of the Supreme Court of New 
York, in the case of Ogdc-n and Fellows against 
Susan Blacksmith, executrix of John Blacksmith, 
deceased. The plaintiff; a native Indian, belonged 
to and was part of the Seneca tribe, and was for¬ 
merly ejected from the Tonawanda reservation, 
known as Tembrokp, comprising 12,800 acres. The 
court held that the treaty for the removal of all the 
New York Indians west of Missouri, made no pro¬ 
vision as to the mode and manner of effecting 
that object, nor did those treaties separate the 
Indians from the care of the Government The 
grantees derived no right to forcibly eject the In¬ 
dians. If such was necessary, it must be done by 
the Government 
The feature of the past week at Washington 
was the Inauguration of the new Administration 
and the ceremonies connected therewith are rep¬ 
resented as very imposing. The Inaugural pro¬ 
cession started for the Capitol at noon. It was 
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the Navy Y'ard, and several clnbs and engine com¬ 
panies. Mr. Buchauan reached the Capitol at one 
o’clock, where a tremendous crowd was waiting 
his arrival, and proceeded to the eastero portico 
of the Capitol, where a temporory stand was erect¬ 
ed, and in the presence of many thousands, pro¬ 
ceeded to read his Inaugural Address. Mr. Bu¬ 
chanan then proceeded to the Senate Chamber, 
where the oath of office was administered by Chief 
Justice Taney. 
The following gentlemen comprise the new 
Cabinet: 
Secretary of State —Lewis Cass, of Michigan. 
Secretary of the Treasury —Howell Cobb, of Ga. 
Secretary of Hoc—John B. Floyd, of Virginia. 
Secretary of the Navy —Isaac Toucey, of Conn. 
Secretary of the Interior —Jacob Thompson, Miss. 
Attorney-General— J ndge Black, of Pennsylvania, 
Postmaster - General —Auron V. Brown, of Tcnn. 
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ROCHESTER, MARCH 14, 1857. 
The Dred Scott Case. 
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The municipal election in Auburn, on the 3d 
inst., resulted in the choice of Dr. Lansing Briggs, 
the Republican candidate, for Mayor, by 350 ma¬ 
jority. The Republicans were successful in elect¬ 
ing every candidate on their city and ward ticket 
There is a gain of three Republican Supervisors 
over last year in Wayne county. The Board 
Btands 12 Republicans, and 4 Democrats and Amer¬ 
icans. 
The towns of Erie Co. elect 9 Republicans, 23 
Democrats, 5 Know-Nothings, and one tied. 
The Democrats of Oswego elected the Mayor, 
all of the Aldermen, all of the Supervisors, two 
Overseers of the Poor, four Constables, the Fire 
Wardens, and Inspectors ol Elections. 
Washington Co., so far as heard from, elects all 
Republicans but one, and he a Know-Nothing. 
John Wentworth was elected Mayor of Chicago 
on the 4th inst, by 1,100 majority. The whole of 
the Republican ticket was elected by a large 
majority. 
In Ithaca the Republican Mayor, A. Hubbell, is 
elected. M. M. Jones (Rep.) is elected Justice, and 
J. McDonough (Rep.) Treasurer. 
The American candidate for Mayor was elected 
in Troy. 
In Poughkeepsie a Republican Mayor was chosen 
by 219 majority. 
In this city the Democrats elected the entire 
city ticket. Rufus Keeler, Mayor, was chosen by 
a majority of 1,135; Abram Karnes, Treasurer, 
430; Butler Bard well, Police justice, S00; Delos 
Wentworth, Justice of the Peace, 1,336, 
The Democratic State Convention of Rhode 
Island was held on the 5th inst. The following 
ticket was nominated for State officers:— Governor 
—Americas C. Potter. Secretary of Slate—An- 
derson C. Rhodes. Attorney General —Francis J. 
Ditkman. Treasurer —Gilbert Chase. 
Gov. King Las received the resignations of the 
Hon. Orasmus B. Mattisoo, of the Twentieth Dis¬ 
trict, and of the Hon, William A. Gilbert, of the 
Twenty-third District, of their respective seats in 
the 34th Congress. 
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention, 
in session at Harrisburg last week, nominated the 
Hon. Asa Packer for Governor, on the 25th ballot. 
Chief Justice Taney, on the 6th inst,,delivered 
the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in the 
Dred Scott case. The points decided are that 
Scott is not a citizen, that he was not manumitted 
by being taken by bis master, when a slave, into 
the new territory, and that the Missouri Compro¬ 
mise was an act unconstitutionally pulsed by Con- 
gsess. Seven of the Judges concurred in this 
opinion, Judges McLean and Curtis dissenting. 
Judge McLean delivered his views in the Dred 
Scott ease on the 7th inst, arguing that Slavery is 
limited to the States where it is established by 
muDicipal laws. If Congress deem slaves or free 
colored persons injurious to a territory, they have 
the power to prohibit them from becoming settlers 
tixciciu. ti.iv, jytinci i*j ctuvjuijc u*rmui v carries 
the power to govern it The master does not 
carry with him to the territory the laws of the 
State from whieii he removes. Hence, the Mis¬ 
souri Compromise was constitutional, and the 
presumption is in favor of freedom. Dred Scott 
and his family were free under the decisions of 
the last 28 years. 
Judge Curtis maintained that native-born color¬ 
ed persons can be citizens of States and of the 
United States; that Dred Scott and his family 
were free when they returned to Missouri; that 
the power of Congress to make ail the needful 
rules and regulations respecting the Territories, 
was not as the majority of the- Court expressed, 
limited to territory belonging to the United States 
at the lime of the adoption of the Constitution, 
but has been applied to 500 acquisitions of laud; 
that Congress has power to exclude slavery from 
the Territories, having established eight Territo¬ 
rial Governments without recognizing Slavery iu 
any form. 
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New York Legislature. 
Senate. —Mr. Toombs, from the Committee on 
Judiciary, to whom wa3 referred a resolution in¬ 
structing them to inquire into the proper construc¬ 
tion of the Congressional Compensation act, re¬ 
ported their opinion, that in all cases where a 
member is elected after the first day of the regular 
session, bis compensation does not commence 
till the time of his election, and is to be computed 
at the rate prescribed by the law until the end of 
his term. The report was agreed to. 
The Senate has agreed to the House amendment, 
to the Minnesota land Mil, giving 200,000 acres of 
land to Alabama for railroad purposes. The bill 
avoids nearly altogether the range of lands pro. 
posed in the bill heretofore repealed by Congress 
Minnesota is to have the entire disposal of them. 
This is the Minnesota bill perfected by the House 
Committee on Public Lands, and in connection 
with which subject, corruption was alleged. 
The civil appropriation bill was debated and 
passed. One of the amendments to it appropriates 
$75,000 for the collection of Agricultural statistics 
and the distribution of seeds from the Patent Of¬ 
fice, and $350 to enable the Commissioner to col¬ 
lect information respecting the consumption of 
cotton in all the countries of the world. Amend¬ 
ments were adopted granting $1,000,000 for the 
continuation of the Wusbingt.cn acqueduct, and 
$500,000 for the construction of a dome on the 
Capitol. 
Mr. Dodge presented the credentials of Mr. Doo¬ 
little, and Mr. Cass those of Hr. Bright, the former 
elected U. S. Senator from Wisconsin, and the 
latter from Indiana, from the 4th of March inst. 
Mr. Ynlee presented the credentials of Mr. Mal¬ 
lory, elected Senator from Florida, for six years 
from the 4th of March inst. 
Mr. Fish presented the credentials of Preston 
King, as Senator from New Y r ork, for six years 
from the 4th of March inst. 
Bills Passed .—The Army hill giving to Gen. 
Scott the arrearages which Secretary Davis refused 
to allow; House Post Route bill; The Ocean Mail 
Steamer appropriation bill; The Fortification hill; 
The bill for the construction of a Penitentiary in 
Nebraska and one in Kansas, and the Navy Appro¬ 
priation bill. 
The Senate amendments to the fortification bills, 
pay $180,000 to Fort Tompkins. $120,000 to New 
Bedford, $50,000 to Portland, Me., $100,000 to 
Kennebec, and some in the South. 
The Senate also passed 40 private bil's, and ad¬ 
journed. 
House.— Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, reported from 
the Committee of Ways and Means the bill to de¬ 
posit the surplus revenue, reserving $2,000,000 
with the States, to be refunded when the public 
exigencies require it. The bill was passed by a 
vote of 119 to 79. 
The House passed the Senate bill, requiring the 
regular Appraisers of the Government to de¬ 
posit their funds for better protection with the 
Treasurer, or some Assistant Treasurer of the Uni¬ 
ted States. Also to more effectually punish crime 
on the high seas. 
Mr. Campbell, from the Commerce Committee 
on the Tariit bill, said the bill had been unani¬ 
mously agreed to in conference, though not a sin¬ 
gle member was entirely satisfied with it. 
Af“>' ^ooopltulating tbv; I vInto VIr tne Villi, Oil. 
Campbell said the aggregate reduction would be 
about $14,000,000. He was satisfied the bill would 
give relief to the country, and stimulate and 
strengthen the arms of American industry. The 
committee had treated iron, sugar, hemp and lead 
upon principles of equality, reducing alL Report 
agreed to. 
The Mouse concurred in the Senate’s amendment 
to the bill providing for a monthly, semi-monthly, 
weekly or semi-weekly letter mail from the Missis¬ 
sippi to Ran Francisco; also the bill authorizing 
the Secretary of the Treasury to contract for the 
A Journey through Texas ; Or, a Saddle-Trip on the 
South-Western Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix. 
By Frederick Law Olhstrap. New York : Dix, Ed¬ 
wards & Co.—1857. 
IV e have taken great pleasure in the perusal of the above 
work. He who lms read •• Walks aud Talks ol an American 
farmer in England." by the samo author, ia fninilinrwith 
hia style, aud will be in readiness to pack saddles us eom- 
pagnon du voyage lorn “ camping out" on our South- 
Western Fi oulier. Mr. Ouistrad says liis motive lor the 
“journey was the hope of invigorating weakened lungs by 
the elastic power of a winter’s saddle and tent-life.” By 
his mode of travel the opportunities afforded for a 
thorough insight into the liat its, fast. sand reelings of the 
people wore of a siqierlor character, while the climnte, 
soil, productions,—iu short, all the resources, agricultural 
and manufact uriug, must pass under the observation. Up- 
pon these noting* we have a work of over five hundred 
pages—treating, in detail, every sulyect of importance to 
the emigrant, or the gtudeut of his country's history and 
capabilities. It is the latest woik upon the great State of 
Texas, and imparts much more general information than 
any other we have ever perused. For sale by E. Dakrow 
ABro. 
mgs. 
Tits Sultan and his People. By C. Obcanvan, of Con¬ 
stantinople. Illustrated by a Native ol Turkey. New 
York; Derby 4: Jaek»on—1857. 
In an attractive volume of 456 pages, we'are hero present¬ 
ed a vast amount of historical and other Interesting infor¬ 
mation. The work is a very entertaining one, and must 
prove widely popular. It comprises n very complete his¬ 
tory of the Turkish nation—discussing the origin, progress 
and condition, religious creeds, goverfimeut, education, 
domestic amt social affairs, polygamy, marriage, personal 
appearance, costumes, eta., etc, of that singular people.— 
We purpose giving some extracts from itapngrs, but mean¬ 
time commend Ihe volume as one of unusual interest to the 
historical reader. For sule by Dewey. 
How to Write : A Pocket Manual op Composition 
and Letter Writing —embracing Hints on Penmanship 
and ihe choice of Writing Materials ; Practical Rules tor 
Literary Composition in general, and Epistolary and 
Newspaper Willing arid proof-correcting iu particular; 
and Directions lor Writing Letters on Business, Relation¬ 
ship, f riendship and Love — illustrated by numerous ex¬ 
ample* ol genuine epistles, from the pens of the best 
writers. To which ure added Forum (or letters of In¬ 
troduction, Notes, Cards, etc., and a collection of Poetical 
Quotation*. New York : furrier A Welis-1867. 
In a neat volume of only 156 pages, we hero have a most 
valuable manual for the million — comprising the gist of 
practical and Useful information oo the subjects indicated 
in its title. The hints, directions and examples given in 
regard to the mechanical execution, accuracy, brevity, 
etiquette and proper forma of tire various kinds of corres¬ 
pondence, exhibit exc-Llent seme aud judgment. The 
author is entitled to the special acknowledgments of the 
Press for his admirable and explicit chapter relative to 
“ Orders for Newspapers and Magazines,” — for editors can 
appreciate the importance Of makiug such knowledge 
patent to a great portion of mankind. Formal, puerile, 
Miss-Nancytoh books on “LetterWriting” are generally *a 
senseless as the people for whom they are intended, but 
tills work will prove a valuable assistant to a great many 
impulsive and care lets people, beside some whose principal 
education was obtained during vacation. Sold by Dkwey. 
Lake Erie.— TheBnff.ilo Express says that Lake 
Erie is apparently fall of ice, as far as the eye can 
extend, and it is predicted that at least one month 
will transpire before navigation will be open. 
Senate.— The following bills have been passed 
by the Senate:—The Rochester Charter bill; The 
Watertown Bridge bill; To authorize the town of 
Lowville, Lewis Co., to borrow money; The town 
of Schodack, Rensselaer county. Justice of the 
Peace bill; To enable the city of Schenectady to 
borrow money to pay its debts; Amending the 
charter of the village of Tonawanda; To amend 
an act for incorporating companies formed to nav¬ 
igate lakes and rivers; For the relief of the desti¬ 
tute children of seamen; To amend the charter of 
the Manhattan Savings Institution; Relative to the 
Hannibal, Sterling and Wolcott plank-road; To 
amend ihe charter of the Mechanics’ and Traders’ 
Savings Institution; To continue in force a ferry 
right across Lake Champlain; To amend the 
charter of the Buffalo Savings Bank; For the re¬ 
lief of wives and minor children of drunkards; 
To confirm the location of the People's College; 
To incorporate the Centnry Association; To amend 
the act relative to the New York State Agricultu¬ 
ral College. 
A resolution introduced in the Senate by Mr, 
Cuyler, of Wayne Co., for an amendment of the 
constitution to allow colored men to vote, was 
carried. 
Assembly. —Bills Passed. — To amend the act to 
re-organize the New Y'ork City School Law; To 
prevent the re-burning of charcoal within the 
city limits of Brooklyn; To pay for certain servi¬ 
ces rendered Ihe State by members of the Legis¬ 
lature of 1856, after the expiration of their terms 
of office; To amend the law of proceedings against 
the Great Western Railroad Company, a foreign 
oorjioration, in courts of law; To amend the 
charter of the Erie county Savings Bunk; To 
amend the General Manufacturing law; Tire 
House concurred in the Semite’s amendments to 
the Rochester city charter bill, and it was passed. 
Mr. Hastings called tip the joint resolution, pro¬ 
hibiting any canal contractor from leasing the 
waters of the cauul, upon a forfeiture of his con- 
ract. It was agreed to. 
care of the sick sailors and boatmen where there 
are no Marine Hospitals, and the Semite bill per¬ 
fecting the home valuation principle in the tariff 
act of 1846. 
The joint resolution providing medals for Dr. 
Kane and his companions, was passed. 
Vurious bills and resolutions, principally of a 
private character, were passed, including those 
giving usual extra compensation to the employees 
of the Honse, and increasing the pay of West 
Point cadet6 to $30 per month. 
Mr. Aikin offered a resolution of thanks to 
Speaker Banks. Resolution passed, 119 to 25. 
Mr. Banks delivered a brief anu eloquent ad¬ 
dress in return for the honor bestowed upon him, 
when the Honse adjourned sine die. 
The Holden Legacy: A Story of Life’s Phases. By a La¬ 
dy New York: D. Appleton & Co—1867. 
A aoop story and well told. Each character stands as 
the representative of one of those peculiar trails In hu¬ 
manity which tie admire or detest. In treating these the 
writer wields* ready pen. and, whin Deeds be, tips the quill 
with lire. Though incognito, we do not believe it to be the 
author’s first appearance in tire world of literature. For 
sale by Dew kt. 
True Heroine op Poutaki, and other Poems. By Edward 
VAJJrufcLL, A*c»t « via.: iL’iua Co, 
That “poetry don’t pay” is becoming a proverb, yet the 
devotees of song persistently conlinuc to climb tbebeigbtB 
of Parnassus, giving utterance to “thoughts that breathe 
and woids that burn" through the aid ot tiro “black art.' 
Iu a handsome volume of 334 pages, the above entitled 
work comprises a variety of sensible and beautiful poems, 
and we doubt not it will have many appreciative readers. 
Tun Children’s Bread, in Crumbs, from the Master’s 
Table. New York ; Dana & Co. 
A CHOICE collection of Scripture texts, « which, by their 
brevity or einplkity, are bestadapted to the comprehension 
of young children/’ The volume ia a very attractive one 
in appearance each page being illustrated with emblematic 
borders. 
The Amended Tariff. 
Provincial Items. 
The Toronto Globe of the 5th inst. says:—“We 
yesterday referred to the rapid disappearance of 
the ice at the mouth of our harbor, and in connec¬ 
tion therewith have now to chronicle the first 
shipping movement. The schooner Pacific cleared 
out from the Queen’s Wharf on Wednesday for 
Whitby. We also learn that the schooner Athcn®- 
urn with a cargo of wheat, detained in the Welland 
canal the past winter, cleared from Port Dalhousie 
on Wednesday for Oswego.” 
Hamilton, C. W., has a population of 25,000 
persons. The entire bill of mortality for the year 
shows 618 deaths. This evinces a houlthy climate. 
The mortality is about two per cent, of the popu 
lation. 
Mr. George Brown, M. P. P., will, it is said, 
bring forward a motion on the subject of Repre¬ 
sentation by Population. 
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A New Canal.— In the Senate of New York, on 
the 3d inst., Mr. Wadsworth presented a petition 
to incorporate the Lake Erie and Michigan Transit 
Ship Canal Company. Itis proposed to cut a canal 
across the base of the peninsula of Michigan,thus 
bringing Chicago and Bullalo on a direct line of 
communication, and saving ihe tediuus and dan¬ 
gerous navigation of Lake Michigan, Huron, St. 
Clair, and their connecting rivers. 
A Wealtov Client. —By the report of the 
Secretary of the Treasury, we perceive that the 
government has brought 1,200 suits during the 
present century, against defaulters, to recover 
$6,213,000. In all these cases, the conclusion of 
the suit lias been that the defaulter has not been 
found, or is dead or insolvent, and the government 
has had to pay the costs. 
Among the acts pissed at the close of the last 
Congress, was that amending the Tariff of 184G. 
The New York Tribune gives the following as its 
principal features: 
1. A large extension of the Free List, placing 
thereon many articles scarcely produced or rival¬ 
ed in this country which enter as raw materials 
into the composition of our manufactures. 
2. A reduction of the present rates of duty on 
iron, cotton aud woolen fabrics, hemp, sugar, wool 
costing over twenty cents per pound, and most 
other articles now charged thirty, to twenty-five 
per cent. 
3. Wool costing less than twenty cents per pound 
will henceforth be free. 
4. Distilled spirits, liquors, Ac., hitherto charg¬ 
ed one hundred per cent,, are reduced to seventy- 
five per cent. 
5. Wines, cut glass, meats, raisins, snuff, cigars 
and all forms of manufactured tobacco, all manu¬ 
factures of mahogany, rosewood, Ac., sweetmeats, 
prunes, Ac., arc reduced from forty per cent to 
thirty, if not to u lower figure. 
6. A general reduction of twenty per cent, on 
all articles not carried to the Free List or reduced 
either to four or eight per cent. 
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The Public Purse.— It is said that the appro¬ 
priations made by the lust Congress will amount 
to between sixty and seventy million dollars.— 
Among the appropriations made during the last 
hours of the session were the following:—For flu 
exploration atid verification of the surveys for a 
ship canal at the Isthmus of Darien. For tie 
completion of the exploration of the Panama aid 
Paraguay rivers. Seventy-one thousand dolkrs 
for one year’s duty pay to dropped officers not re¬ 
stored. Ten thousand dollars fqr testing uteful 
inventions designed to advance the efficienty of 
tire Navy. One million dollars for five sloois of 
war with screw propellers. 
Revolt in Auburn State Prison. —Two at¬ 
tempts were made on the 7th inst., by two convicts 
to kill tlie agent of tbe Auburn Prison. Ono as¬ 
sault was made with a knife, end the other with a 
hammer. By the prompt interference of the 
keepers no injury was done. Fears of further 
difficulty are entertained. Twenty-seven convicts, 
belonging to the lutrnc shop, where the difficulty 
occurred, are now confined in their cells. 
— Steamers are plying on Seneca Lake. 
— There are 11,090 common schools in Ohio. 
— There are 144 colleges in the United States. 
— There are 46 theological seminaries in the IT. S. 
— The British army In Hindostan, numbers215,000 men. 
Lamartine is back in Paris. His health is fully re¬ 
stored. 
— Oats and corn are $1 50 a bushel in the Lake Superior 
country. 
— In England and Wales there are 51,086 children in 
workhouse. 
— Long Tsland Sound has been closed thirty days by ice 
this winter. 
— The attempt to raise cotton in Australia is said to be 
successful. 
— A submarine cable has been laid down across the Ohio 
river at Cairo. 
— Seals were seen in large numbers in the Vineyard 
Sound, last week. 
— The ISth of January was the coldest day in New York 
city for fifty years. 
— There ia nbout twenty-one and a half million dollars 
in tire U. S. Treasury. 
— There is a slave in Memphis who is said to possess an 
estate worth $50,000. 
— The Morris CaDal, it is stated, will be open for boating 
about the first of April. 
— There were one hundred and eight steamboats built 
at Pittsburg Inst year. 
— The exports from New Orleans to Boston, amount to 
some $.1,000,000 a year. 
— There are nine feet of water in the channel of the Ohio 
river, and it is lulling. 
— It is stated t hat $4,000,000 worth of oysters are sold 
in New York annually. 
There were thirty-one millions of bushels of corn 
raised in Iowa last year. 
— Texas has prospectively the largest educational fund 
of any State in the Union. 
— The peach and plum trees were in blossom near Mari¬ 
anna, Fla., on the 10th nit. 
— A monument to be erected to Henry Clay, at Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky., is to coat $50,COO. 
— Mollie Jennings died recently in Pittsylvania county, 
Pa., at the age of 107 years. 
— There aie now living in Gardner, Mass., 21 farmers be¬ 
tween 80 and 90 years of age. 
— Accounts from Salt Lake state that Brigham Young is 
fast declining toward the grave. 
— A hall in New Y'ork for a nursery for poor children, on 
the 5th instant, realized $7,000. 
— Theve were 322,(140 children in attendance upon the 
public schools In Ohio last year. 
— The receipts of Ihe railroads in the United States last 
year arc put down at 110,000,000. 
— Tire Michigan legislature has appropriated $13,500for 
the support of the normal school. 
— The dealers in earthenware, china and glass, of New 
York, have formed an association. 
— George F. Upton of Salem, Mass., has been appointed 
U. S. Consul at Rio Grande, Brazil. 
— An act repealing the law against betting on elections, 
has passed the Louisiana Legislature. 
— The number of postage stamps sold during the last 
year, was one hundred and fifty million. 
— The number of passengers carried by the railroads of 
the United States lest year, was 74,000,000. 
— A squirrel white a* suow, hag been caught near Darncg- 
towo, Va,, and iuslweine tome and playlut. 
— Tbe cotton factory of Capt. Willard, at Madison, Fla., 
was recently destroyed by fire. Loss $40,000. 
— Dr. Hayes, the Ullow voyager with Dr. K&ne, and sur¬ 
geon of the expedition, is lecturing in Boston. 
— Tbe Cauadian Parliament is classified thus :_Minis¬ 
terial 90 ; regular opposition 43; independent 23. 
— They are making a wine in Alabama called Ulrica, 
which is much praised, and has no logwood in it. 
— Merchants arc taxed upon their business in Galena, 
and $3,507 were received on their lioemea last year. 
— Grasshoppers have appeared at Middlesex, Mass.; b)e 
bird* In Pittsfield, Mars.; robins at Hartford, Conn. 
— Ralph Waldo Emerson has been quite ill with the 
measles since his return from his late lectariDg tour. 
— Such bavoc has been made inThomasville, Go,, y the 
small pox, that town is «ld to be nearly depopulate 
— A passenger who jnstcame down the Miasm rl river, 
says the hosts up are crowded with emigrants to Krusaa. 
— Tbe London Star of February 7th has news bat the 
Mississippi river was froten over as far up as Tiasburg! 
— A city government for Mound City, near Cairo, IL’-, 
has been Organized, and a Mayor and Common Counril 
chosen. 
— The Tehuantepec stage rood had been cat through to 
the 1’a.cittc, and w ill probably by open for travel hy tfce first 
of July. 
Michigan has a new law diminishing the sentences of 
State ftison convicts one day for every moath of good 
behavior. 
— Tbe New Orleans Crescent says tint the free negroes 
of thit city ore possessed of property to the amount of 
$4,00»,000. 
—Jon. A. J. Donaldson, late candidate for Vice Presi¬ 
dent was recently robbed on a steaaboat ol $4,000 and a 
golc natch. 
—It is estimated that 30,000 persons passed over the New 
Je'ay Railroad In a week, to attetd the inauguration at 
WHefiioglon. 
—Carnal), inspector of mines In Prussia, estimates the 
Thole amount of gold mined in 1854 at $120,000,000, and 
.f iron $150,000,000. 
— A Committee of the Ohio Senate has reported favora¬ 
bly on petitions asking for the extension ol the elective 
franchise to lemales. 
— Goa costs but cents per thousand cubic feet in Lon¬ 
don and Liverpool; In the United States the average price 
is $2 50 per thousand. 
— In 1057, a man was prosecuted In London for selling 
coffee, then just introduced, as “ a nuisance and prejudice 
to the neighborhood.” 
— The I^gDlnture of Iowa, hare passed a joint resolu¬ 
tion, removing the ieat of government of that State from 
Iowa City to Desiuotoes. 
— The brig William Clark, was seized recently at the 
mouth of the Mississippi river, on suspicion of b log en¬ 
gaged In the slave trade. 
— The Court House of Peon county, Oa., was burned a 
few days ago. All the records of the Supreme Court and 
docimerits were consumed. 
— Five more convicts have escaped from the Michigan 
State Prison at Jackson, by cutting through, the top cells 
an! tbe roof of the prison. 
— The remains ol Mr. Sberrard, who was recently shot 
at Leeompton, arrived at 8t. J.ouia on Monday, and are 
now on the way to Virginia. 
— For the first it days after beginning to purchase the 
rid Spanish coin, the Philadelphia mint took in $68,0C0 
forth, chiefly ia small sums. 
— A steamer attempted to sail from Detroit on the 6th 
lust., but waa prevented by the ico, which wus found in 
large fields six miles from Detroit. 
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