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AfRIL 11 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
Items of Mews, 
New York Legislature 
PUBLISHKH’S NOTICES 
In Boston last year there were 225 deaths l»v 
violence—59 of them were from drowning, 9 per¬ 
sons were killed on railroads, 29 were burned, 2 
poisoned, and 20 tumbled ont of windows, &c. 
The small pox is raging with fearful effect in 
the towns of Cundella and Lampasas, in Mexico, 
and some 700 have already died with it. It isalso 
said to be raging in Laredo, Texas. 
An extra session of the Minnesota Legislature 
is to assemble on the 27 h inst. to pass the neces¬ 
sary laws to enable the people to form a State 
Government, preparatory to their admission into 
the Union, and also to dispose of the Congression¬ 
al Land Grant, in uid of the railroads. 
The Commissioner of Patents lias received a 
letter from Austin county, Texas, in which it is 
stated that on the 13th ult., a strong north wind 
prevailed in that region, which caused extraordi¬ 
nary damage to the crops, destroying totally the 
cotton, corn and garden plants. These crops will 
have to be replanted. 
A woman was saved from drowning at New 
London, Conn., on the 27th ult, by the buoyant 
effect of the hoops in her dress. She was in the 
water, oil a dark night, half an hour before being 
rescued, and her hoops kept her from sinking all 
that time. 
Tme Albany Journal has a dispatch from New 
Orleans announcing ihe death in that city, on the 
31st ult., of Hon. Malbone Watson, of Catskill, one 
of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State 
Of New York. 
Toe Buffalo Republic states that a mad dog was 
killed in that, city on the 1st inst. A man, in at¬ 
tempting to kill him, was severely bitten. The dog 
bit several other brutes before he was killed. 
Some men engaged in cutting down a largo wil¬ 
low tree on North St. Paul st., Rochester, on the 
3d inst., lound a robin's uest with a full comple¬ 
ment of eggs, upon which her robinship was sit¬ 
ting. That is a last bird! 
We learn that Wm. B. Draper, formerly of this 
city, died at Washington from a stroke ol paraly¬ 
sis. Mr. D. was a native of Rochester, and has a 
mother and brothers still residing here. He was a 
telegraph operator, and in that capacity accompa¬ 
nied Commodoie Periy on the Japan Expedition, 
and erected a line and operated un instrument on 
the shores of that distant Empire. 
A bill of importance to Western New York, 
authorizing the extension of the Genessee Valley 
Canal passed both houses and has received the 
signature of the Governor. 
The following bills have passed the Assembly:— 
To appoint commissioners lor lands to be taken 
for Lake Ontario, and Auburn roads auil define the 
completion of them; to incorporate 
Premiums Extended! — £l Try, Try Again. - 
It will he seen by reference to listB in last Rubai, that we 
have extended the period ol Competition for our Labor 
General and State Premiums from Apiil to July, and 
renewed our offer c.i Specific Pumucms. We have con¬ 
cluded to adopt Ibis course, in order that many agents and 
friends who ore still in ihe Held may continue their efforts 
through the Spring Campaign-» good season lor obtain¬ 
ing subscriber* ; and also that those to whom the Rural 
— The city of Newbnryport has 200 groggeries. 
— The Pennsylvania House ol Refuge has 366 inmates. 
— It costs the city of New York $414,740 per year for 
gas. 
— Rishop Cretin, Catholic Bishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, 
is dead. 
— There is a town in Pennsylvania called “ Youngwo- 
rnanstown.'' 
— The science of Photography is taught at King’s Col¬ 
lege, London. 
— The Parliament of Canada is anti-prohibition on the 
liquor question. 
— A new Post-Office has been established at Fair Haven, 
Carroll Co., Ill, 
— A Beethoven Musical Association has been formed at 
Columbia, Ohio. 
— A revival in the Methodist Church is in progress at 
Ilackotlstown, N. J. 
— Detroit, with a population of over 50,000, has a police 
force of only ten men, 
— The young men of Fall River, Mass., have organized 
aChrisiian Association. 
— It was of the Washington epidemic that Mr. Lane, the 
President’s nephew, died. 
— The Baptists are about removing a collegiate school 
now at WUUesboro to Utica. 
— The measles are very prevalent in Newark, N. J. Two 
hundred new cases last week. 
— A census of the thriving city of Peoria, Ill., just taken 
shows a population of 17,482. 
— There me now living in Gardiner, Mass., 21 farmers 
bet we* n SO arid 90 years old. 
— The Legislature of Maine hits adopted resolutions of 
respect to ihe memory of Dr. Kane. 
— Gov. Williams, of Maine lias appointed April 23d for 
the annual Fast day in that State. 
— Brevet Major Sterne H. Fowler, Captain 5th Infantry* 
U. S. A , has resigned his commission. 
— The Buffalo papers are discussing the propriety of 
teaching German iu the city schools. 
— The Canadians are much exercised at the existence of 
American lottery ngencieB iu Montreal. 
— The Toronto Board of Trake are moving for free trade 
between Canada and all the lake region. 
— The eighth Philadelphia trade sale began on the 31st 
ult. The invoices are valued at $200,000. 
— Indiana papers speak of the extraordinary promise of 
the growing crop of wheat in that State. 
— A cotton factory — the first one in the State of Mis¬ 
souri, has just been erected in St. Louis. 
— A National Musical Convention is to be held at the 
Smithsonian Institution on the 4th of May. 
— The Methodist Episcopal denomination have determin¬ 
ed to build a College, near Palmyra, Kansas. 
— Governor Fletcher has appointed Professor Hitchcock, 
of Massachusetts, State Geologist of Vermont. 
— A woman named Mrs. Iiearto has been confined in jail 
at Hamilton, C. W., for debt, over seven years. 
— Five new townB have been founded on the north shore 
of Lake Superior, in the territory of Minnesota. 
— General Shields has been elected President, of the 
Minneapolis and Cedar Valley Railroad Company. 
— The cholera has made its appearance at St. Peters¬ 
burg, and is carrying off rts victims very suddenly. 
— A colony of 20,000 Belgians (4,000 to 5,000 families) 
ia about to be planted in the State ot Puebla, Mexico. 
been Introduced into the rhiladel- 
t.inre for the 
SiDg Sing Silver Mining Company; to incorporate 
tbe Emigrant Aid and Homestead Co.; to provide 
for the sale of the Albany and New York Arsenals 
and for the purchase of the New Yoik Arsenal by 
the city, and to appropriate the proceeds of said 
sale; incorporating Manhattan Savings’ Institu¬ 
tion; amendatory of revised statutes i dative to 
claims against ships or vessels: incorporating 
Trustees ol' the Universalist Relief Fund in New 
York; the Hudson River improvement bill, appro¬ 
priating §25.000; ihe hill to reduce stveial New 
York city court acts into one act; lo regulate col¬ 
lection of fare on the Central It. It; the bill ex¬ 
empting propci ty ol Firemen from taxation to the 
amount of §51-0, amended so as not include state 
or county tax; relative to Ihe Foreclosure of 
Mortgages by advertisement; for the incorpora¬ 
tion of the Atlantic Navigation Company; to 
amend the Revised Statutes relating to Weights 
aud Measures; to amend the act in relation to the 
New York State Agricultural College; to confirm 
sales by the Commissioners for loaning the United 
States Deposit Fund; to amend the 10th section, 
d part of the Revised 
Brittany and (.a Vjcndwk. Tales anil Sketches, with a 
None- *u the Lila and I.iteinry Character ol Km ilk 
Sot vksthk. Nl-w York : Dix, Kuwaitis A: Cn. 
Ax inteiesling volume, cowprblug several moral tales 
and sketches by one of the l>eht and purest of French au¬ 
thors-the one to whose widow Ihe French Academy voted 
the testimonial founded hy M. Lambert fortbe recognition 
of the memory of the writer who hart been most uselui to 
hi* country. The sketches are very appropriately prefaced 
by a Biographical Notice of their author— finog an in¬ 
terest iug sUttch of ids life and labors. Wo have derived 
pleasure from a pwusal of the volume. Sold by F,. Har¬ 
row & Brother. 
Tub Drama or RartIi. By Jkuomb Kidder. New York : 
Adolphus Kauriey. 
Sucu is the title of an externally attractive and neatly 
printed volume ol 300 pages. It ia a singular work, but we 
frankly confess that the author's genius hns not so held 
our attention that we are prepared to offer a further opin¬ 
ion. The dramatis persona* are various—including Christ, 
tbe Holy and Apostate Angels, A UAH and Eve, NoaII, 
Herod and Columbus, with such modern characters ns 
Uncle Tom, Lkuree, and sundry slaves, llat-boulmen, 
whiskey-dealers, loatera, et id omne genus. The author 
avers that some portions ol the work were suggested by 
*• Milton’s Paradise Lost;’’ but it is not remarkably Milto 
niau, except some of the characters personated, and he 
could not have followed very closely in the footsteps of his 
illustrious model. 
ty Addition* to Clubs arc now in order, and can be made 
at tlie (Tub rate—$1,50 per copy. Agents and other friends will 
please bear tills in mind, and receive and forward Ibe subscrip¬ 
tions of all who desiru to secure tlie RURAL. 
jgz- Axv person so disposed can act ns local agent for the 
Rural, and all who do so will not only receive premiums, but 
their aid will to.- rr.-itcfiilly appreciated. 
Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one Tost 
Office to woollier, should ho particular iu specifying the others 
at which they ore uow received. 
Pje is ordering the Rural, bo sure and specify nnmc of 
Pas!- Office, County, and State, Territory or Province, 
tTi/™ Back Numbers of the present volume can still be sup¬ 
plied, bnt those desiring them should he particular in specifying 
that they are wanted. 
51 h title, 1st chapter, 3 
Statutes. A number of hills of' a private charac 
ter also passed. 
List of New Advertisements this Week, 
Fresh Books for Agents—Mourn, iVilstaen, Keys A Co. 
Fruit Trees—Adolph Boruenmnn A Co. 
Choice Garden Seeds—K l> Uullock. 
Wakclb-ld's Hand I’om Planter—Al. W. Simmons, 
2 UU,a»t—J TTen-tt .tones A Co. 
Chinese Northern r-ngar Cano—R. L. Allen, 
Whip >ir,d Glove Store—8. A Kills. 
Grove Farm for Sale—J. 11 Rnm rs. 
Chinese Sugar Cane—W K. Prince A Co. 
Osier Willow Callings—■Geo. J Colby. 
Trees tor Sale—Beni Fi.h A Son. 
Housekeepers—.Tames Pyles. 
Government Lands— w. Jl. Gardner. 
Kor'ln-rn Chinese Sugnr Cane—Mcllvain A Young. 
Wests' Patent Cement for Roofinp—N. F. Graves. 
B.lltll) Stocky Peach Trees—O. F Weaver. 
Durham Brill for Sale—K. Porccy 
Pea Vine Clover Seed—R J. Foster. 
Stump Machine—W VY. Willi*. (See 3d page.) 
Kansas Matters, 
Advices from Kansas state that the census 
takers are doing their work badly, missing whole 
neighborhoods in some instances, and not taking 
names of half the actual residents in others. 
There was much quarreling in various parts of 
tbe territory, between squatters and land associa¬ 
tions. 
Tbe Deputy Marshals were making numerous 
arrests of political prisoners, on charges growing 
out of the troubles of last summer. 
Robert J. Walker,Mn his letter to the President 
accepting the post, of Governor of Kausas, says:_ 
“I understand that you and all your Cabinet 
cordially concur in tbe opinion expressed hy me, 
that tlie .actual buna fide residents of live territory, 
hy a fair and regular vote, unaffected hy fraud or 
violence, must he permitted, in adopting their 
State Constitutions, to dc-cidc for themselves what 
shall be their social institutions. This is the 
great fundamental principle of tbe act of Con¬ 
gress organizing that territory, affirmed hy tbe 
recent decision of the Supreme Court of tbe Uni¬ 
ted States, and is in accordance with tho views 
uniformly enteitained and expressed by me 
throughout my public career. 
I contemplate a peaceful settlement of this 
question by an appeal lo the intelligence and pa¬ 
triotism of the whole people of Kansas, who 
should all participate freely and fully in this de¬ 
cision, and hy a majority of whose vote the deter¬ 
mination must he made, as the only proper and 
constitutional method of adjustment. 1 contem¬ 
plate no appeal to military power, in the hope that 
my countrymen of Kansas, from every section, 
will submit to a decision of this matter hy a full 
and fair vote of a majority of the people.” 
The President has made the following Kansas 
appointments: — John L, Whitfield, ex-delegate 
from Kansas, Register, and David Woodson, ex- 
Seeretary of Stale, of Kansas, Receiver for the 
Delaware Land District Frederick Emery, Reg¬ 
ister, and James T. Downer, Receiver for the 
Western Land District. Wm. IT. Doak, Register, 
and Epaphroditus Ransom, of Michigan, Receiver 
for the Osage Land District Charles Mix, Chief 
Clerk of the Indian Office, has been appointed 
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, ad interim, vice 
Com. ManDypenny, resigned. 
Vascoxsklos— A Romance of the New World. By W. 
Gilmore Simms. New York: Redfield. 
Tuis is another of the series ol Simms’ historical series 
of romances, now being rc-published in nuifonn and at¬ 
tractive style. Though not successful as a lecturer, Mr. 
Simms has long been a popular author, and his principal 
works are too well know n to require extended notice. Sold 
by Dewey. 
Skrmons Preached before tbe University of Cambridge, by 
Richard Ciievk.mx Tkkncii, D. D , Dean of Westminster. 
Reulteld.: New York. 1857. 
A very tastefully printed book of 140 pages, containing 
five sermons—CuBIBT, the only Begotten of the Father— 
Christ, the Lamb ol God— Christ, the Lamb of the World 
—Christ, the True Vine— Cubist, the Judge of all Men. 
For sale by D. M. Dewey. 
Conflagrations and Casualties. 
TnE Greenwood Tannery at Tuckhannock, Lu¬ 
zerne Co., I’a., was burnt on tbe 29lh ult,, together 
with a large stock of leather. Loss $40,000; in¬ 
sured $25,000 in New Yoik, where it was owned. 
Five warehouses in Michigan City, Tnd., belong¬ 
ing to Messrs. Blair k Case, and Thomas Francis, 
and a steam Flouring Mill, owned by Messrs. Blair 
A Smith, were deseed hy fire on the 30th ult.— 
Over $5,000 worth of property was consumed in 
them, and the buildings cost $15,000. Tbete was 
a policy of $1,000 insurance in favor of Francis. 
There were four men killed and a number 
wounded in the accident that happened t.o a con¬ 
struction train on the Illinois Central ruilroad, at 
La Salle, last week. Six others were more or less 
severely injured. The men were employed iu 
making an embankment on the top of which the 
track was laid. The rains Boftened the earth, while 
there remained a ridge of frost in the centre, and 
a slide was occasioned. This happened when the 
engine and tender were upon it, and they were 
precipitated down the hank CO feet, the engine 
turning over three times in its descent. 
The steamboat White Bluff, of Cincinnati, for 
Aikunsas River, was run into hy a tow boat and 
sunk at Cairo on the 27th ult. The second clerk 
and a woman were drowned. 
The steamer Forest Rose was blown up near 
Napoleon, Ark., on the 1st, and it is reported that 
many persons were killed. 
ROCHESTER APRIL 11, 1857, 
Rural 
Words ok Christ—all thb Rfcorded Sayings of 
Christ. By Harmon Kingsbury. New York: Calk¬ 
ins H Stilts. 1857. 
A pocket volume of 200 pages, containing Ihe parables, 
sermons, anil all the sayings, as far as known, of Him who 
“spake ns never man spake.” These sayings are arranged 
in chronological order, aud divided iuto sections for com¬ 
mon referemm. 
Among the many encouraging and sub9tantially- 
lined business epistles received yesterday, (April 
6,) two are so emphatic and suggestive that we 
are constrained to depart from onr usual rule and 
give them, verbatim et literatim. The first is from 
a subscriber in Lowndes C’o„ Mississippi, and reads 
in this wise: 
Mr. Moore-— Dear Sir: The “Rural" has been regular¬ 
ly received up to this time, ond as you have so often heard 
the ort told tale. “ I am very much pleased with it,” I will 
not Tepeat it, hot will give you to understand my opimon 
Of it by sending you three dollars for the last year’s num¬ 
bers, (Vol. 7.) I don't know your price for the past vol¬ 
umes, but i( this is not enough send it anyhow, and you shall 
hare the balance. 
1 think 1 shall send yon a few subscribers in a week or 
two. You deserve at least ten thousand in every State in 
the Union. Every friend you have could send you one. or 
more, good paying putroDs, and really, it is their duty to 
do it. The -wonder wrtb me is, how U is profitable for one 
paper to contain so much that is valuable, wilhout a 
sprinkling of nonsense. But 1 promise not to praise it, 
as you are a better judge than I am of such things. 
If you tbiDk it. is unsafe to trust n bound volume in the 
mail, send the volume unbound. You must let me have it. 
Youib tally, Scon Thompson. 
As we could not, send a hound volume by mail, 
we have forwarded the numbers, and given Mr. T. 
credit for $1. [We can still supply bound volumes 
of last year’s Rural, but have only a very few 
unbound copies of that volume, suitable for send¬ 
ing by mail.] We appreciate the good opinion 
expressed of the Rural, and cordially concur in 
the remark that every friend of the same could 
send us “one or more good paying patrons”—and 
perhaps thousands of our readers would do so, 
straightway, were they aware how easy it could be 
done, and how much benefit would thereby be 
conferred upon community. 
The other letter is from a person who has re¬ 
ceived the numbers of the Rural for the first 
quarter of this year, on trial, (as have nearly a 
thousand other people, in various parts of the 
country, in accordance with an advertisement, 
issued some six weeks ago, offering said quarter’s 
nombere, as specimens or on trial, for 25 cents.) 
It is from Tioga Co., N. Y., and reads thus emphat¬ 
ically: 
Mr. Moore— Dear Sir: Inclosed is $1 60 (in cash snd 
stamps,) for which I want the “Rural” for the rest of the 
year, having taken it Ihe past quarter “on trial.” I am 
more than satisfied with your paper, and you may put mv 
name on your “life list,” and when I neglect to remit the 
amount, you may consider that I am dead, and publish toy 
decease in the “ Rural” accordingly. I think yonr paper 
ought to be in the hands ot every farmer in the land. I 
want- you to send me Nos. 6 ami 11 of the first quarter ol 
the present volume, »s I wish to get them bound. 
Yours truly, PuiLir R. Benner. 
Many of those who took the first quarter on 
trial are becoming permanent subscribers, being, 
as they aver, highly pleased with the Rural. We 
are therefore induced to renew or extend our former 
proposition, and will send four copies of the pres¬ 
ent quarter, (13 numbers) or any three month’s 
numbers between Jan. and July, on trial, for $1, 
Those of our readers who wish to introduce the 
Rural in their respective localities, or place it, in 
the hands of friends and relatives at a distance, 
will please note this liberal offer. By obtaining a 
few trial subscribers (and almost any reader can 
easily get from four to twenty,) clubs of permanent 
or aunnal subscribers may readily be formed on the 
expiration of ihe limited subscription. How many 
of its readers will try the trial plan of introducing 
the Rural to the thousands of families that would 
he benefited by its visitations 1 
— riiouogrujiby hua 
phia Normal School as a regular branch of education. 
— Dudley Observatory has received fresh donations. M. 
Mall, Belgian Consul, gives $100, umlThomas Sufft-rn, $500. 
_In New Oilcans, during the last six months, the po¬ 
lice arrested 15,202 males and 8,337 females ; total, 18,599. 
_Tho imports of tho United States for the two quarters 
of the present fiscal your exceed the exports by $9,000,000 
— It is now said that eating the young and tender shoots 
of the sugar cane is certaio to cure consumptive tenden¬ 
cies. 
— The town council of Athens, Ga,, have voted that the 
bodies of suicides shall bo given to physicians for dissec¬ 
tion. 
— The Sandwich Island Christians contributed last year 
over $10,000 for various cbaritablo and benevolent institu¬ 
tions. 
— One hundred nnd fifty acres of land at Spuyten, Duv- 
vll Creek, New York, vrure sold on the 27th ult., for $900 
per acre. 
_The Evening Post says that Mr. Walker's commission 
ns Governor ol Kausas, is to take effect on the second Mon¬ 
day in May. 
— In Chester, Vt., a week or two since, an infant was 
frown to death i n ils cradle, which it had occupied through¬ 
out the night 
— A lawyer ol Louisville, Ky., has just been paid $90,- 
000 in Washington, (or his services as attorney in a mail 
contract case. 
— Mr. John A Washington has consented again to 
place the Ml Vernon Estate in the hands of the Common¬ 
wealth of Virginia. 
— The cllimis of Madison, Wig , have voted nearly 
unanimously, to iisne $50,000 in bonds to aid the Slate in 
extending the Capitol. 
— The salary of Louis Napoleon is five million dollars a 
year, and his revenues Irom the palaces, about one million 
aud a quarter a year. 
— Tho Savaunah Republican describes an orange grown 
in that city, perfectly formed, containing another orange 
equally perfect within. 
— Mrs. Pilate, in Laurens Co., Ga., died on the 22d of 
February, at the great age oi 116 years. She was a wife 
during the Revolution. 
— The disease called “brain fever,” is prevailing to an 
alarming extent among Ihe Onondaga Indians. Two or 
thri-ii deaths occur dally. 
— Eaton Co, is the great maple sugar producing district 
in Mich. It is expected that 250 tuns will be made there 
Provincial Items 
Parliament adjourned from the 3d to the 14th 
inst,, for the Easter holidays. 
A boat crossing from Kingston to Cape Vincent 
on the 3d inst., capsized, and ten men were drown¬ 
ed. Names unknown. 
It will he recollected that a few weeks ago tbe 
Government of Nova Scotia was defeated on a vote 
of want of confidence. New elections took place 
on the 2Gth ult, when all the members of the old 
Ministry were returned by large majorities. 
The Toronto Times says that the circulars ad¬ 
dressed to Municipal authorities by the Minister of 
Agriculture, have been answered by many, show¬ 
ing a want of 10,000 male and 4,000 female farm 
servants, 8nd 5,000 boys and girls, irrespective of 
many hundred mechanics. 
Tun system of keeping the public Recounts in 
Canada iu dollars and cents, is rapidly gaining 
favor. A hill has passed the House of Assembly, 
providing for the adoption of the decimal curren¬ 
cy (dollars and cents) for the Provinces, and has 
reached its second reading in the Upper Chamber. 
Andrew Nbsbit, who was telegraph operator at 
the Dundas station at the time of a collision be¬ 
tween a freight aud mail train near Hamilton, 
when four lives were lost, was tried for manslaugh¬ 
ter on Monday last. The jnry returned a verdict 
of guilty, recommending him to the mercy of the 
Court. 
Tub London (Eng.) News has the following:— 
“The Parliament of Canada voted last session ft 
sum oi £2,000 for procuring a proper exhibition, 
at the Crystal Palace, of the products, both raw 
and manufactured, of that country, together with 
models of almost all the important public works 
there. A large Bpace has been allocated for this 
purpose by the directors of the Crystal Palace 
Company, aud In a short time an exhibition ex¬ 
ceeding in extent and interest that displayed by 
Canada at the ‘ Exposition Universelle’ of 1855, 
will be completed. A sum of about £500 a year 
will be expended in maintaining and adding to the 
collection.” 
Recent Elections, 
Washington News, 
Full returns of the election in New Hampshire 
are received, from which ii appears that Haile, the 
Republican candidate for Governor, is elected by 
a plurality of 3,339 over Wells, the Democratic 
candidate, and a majority oi 3.130 over all oppo¬ 
sition. Tbe Legislature is Republican iu bolli 
branches, and all the present Republican Congress¬ 
men are re-elected. 
The following is the vote at the election in 
Rhode Island on the 31st ult. For Dyer, Republi¬ 
can Governor, 8,C00; Potter, 4,300. There were 
three candidates for Lieutenant Governor, and no 
choice. Turner, Republican, will be elected by 
the Assembly. The Senate stands Republican 26, 
Democrats 6; no choice 2. House—Republican 
Cl; Democrats 8; no choice 2. Durfee’s majority 
for Congress is nearly 3,600. Blanton’s 800. 
The town elections in Orange Co., N. Y., have 
resulted in giving the Democrats 8 Supervisors, 
Republicans 7, and American 2. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y.. elects 15 Republican and 
8 Democratic Supervisors. 
Out of 17 towns of WeBtehester Co., the Demo¬ 
crats carry 12, the Know Nothings C, the Straight 
Whigs 1. Six towns to hear from. 
Tbe .Tewisu Passover.—' The commemoration 
of this festival of the Hebrew people will soon 
take place. Already tho members of the Jewish 
community are beginning to make preparations 
fortbe observance (according to tbe customs of 
their fathers) of the feast which celebrates the 
escape of the Israelites when the first-born or the 
Egyptians perished, and their exodus from Egypt. 
Tho Passover commences on tbe 9th inst., (the 
first full moon of spring) which is the filth day of 
the Jewish month Nison, of their year 5017, and 
lasts seven days. During this month they only 
eat “ mazot,” or unleavened bread. For this rea¬ 
son some cull tho festival the “feastof unleavened 
bread.” The “ rnazot ” is manufactured in the 
large cities in various parts of the country, and 
sent hence to all other parts of tho country where 
it is needed. It is made of the finest wheat flour 
and of the purest water, kneaded by a wooden 
lever, aud afterwards rolled out between wooden 
rollers, and then cut into disks by machinery, 
without being touched by human baud. It looks 
and tastes like some kinds of water crackers. 
Munificent Gift to the Colonization Society. 
—The National Intelligencer publishes a letter to 
the Secretary of the Amertcau Colonization Socie¬ 
ty, announcing a donation to the Society oi $25,- 
(100 from David Hunt, of Rodney, Miss., an aged 
gentleman who has long been a firm friend of the 
Colonization cause, having for several years given 
$500 annually, and about a year ago making a gift 
of $5,000 to the same object. He adopts the wise 
plan of being the executor oi his own benevolence 
—a policy commended to all who have means 
which they wish devoted to benevolent purposes. 
Snow in Natchez. —The Natchez (Miss.) Courier 
gays:—“To cap the climax of the cold weather of 
late, our citizens bad presented to them yesterday 
morning, (March 13,) tho singular appearance of a 
Notches snow storm in March! aud thut, too, while 
the peach orchards are in full blossom. For un 
hour or more snow fell in abundance, but melting 
as soon as it touched the earth. It was a rare 
spectacle for our climate. 
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