MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
APRIL 18 
Hew York Legislature 
Conflagrations and. Casualties 
The time fixed by law lor the adjournment of 
onr Legislature being near at baud, Senators and 
Representatives are inclined to labor a little for 
their constituents, and consequently business has 
assumed a progressive appearance during tbe past 
week. 
Senate. —Tbe following bills of a public char¬ 
acter have passed the Senate:—In relation to 
weight marks, and tare on casks and packages; To 
incorporate the American School of Mines: In 
regard to the expenses of emigrants—[Appro¬ 
priates $30,000]; To establish the compensation of 
Jndges of the Court of Appeals and Supreme 
Court at $3,500; To incorporate the Niagara Canal 
Navigation Company; To authorize the city of 
Brooklyn to raise money to pay liabilities; In re¬ 
lation to the publication of legal notices; To de¬ 
velop the resources of Montezuma Salt Springs; 
To reorganize the Warden's Office for the port of 
New York; Relative to the office of Auditor of 
the Canal Department; To amend the Revised 
Statutes on the assessment and collection of taxes; 
To authorize the loan of money to the trustees of 
Onondaga Academy; Authorizing the Comptroller 
to loan money to the Ovid Academy; To loan 
money to the Susquehanna Academy at Bingham¬ 
ton; To establish hulk heads and pier lines for the 
port of New York; To authorize a loan to the 
trustees of Franklin Academy at Malone; In rela¬ 
tion to the enlargement of the Cayuga and Seneca 
Canal: To provide for the payment of lands for 
the manufacture of salt, and expenses of Onondaga 
Salt Springs; To appropriate from the general 
fund to the St. Lawrence University; To amend 
the charter of New Y'ork city; To establish regu¬ 
lations for the port of New Y r ork. 
Assembly. — Bills for tbe following purposes 
passed the House:—Making appropriations for the 
canal debt aud the maiutainage of the canals for 
the next fiscal year; To authorize the re-payment 
of $195,000 to the Canal Fund, erroneously paid 
to the General Fund, and for other pujposes; Pro¬ 
viding for the enlargement and completion of tbe 
canals under the Constitution: To provide means 
for the enlargement and completion of the canals 
of this State; To extend the Second Avenue in the 
city of New York; making it a misdemeanor for 
any person to “squat,” or erect a shanty, or any 
building, on any vacant lot ia any city or incor¬ 
porated village, and giving power to recover pos¬ 
session. 
BfsiiNKU.’s ship chandlery warehouse, together 
with several adjoining buildings at New Albany, 
Ind., was burnt on tbe 5tli inst Loss $40,000.— 
Insurance small. 
A large woolen mill and dye house, in North 
Adams, Mass., was destroyed by fire on the 9th inst. 
Loss $100,000. Insured $20,000. 
The Court House at Mount Carmel, Ill., was 
burnt on the 5th inst., together with all the county 
records. 
On Wednesday of last week a destructive lire 
occurred at Jacksonport, Ark., the loss resulting 
from which is estimated at $200,000. Out of the 
whole business portion of the town, only a drug 
store aud a hotel saved. 
On the 9th inst. the whole of the offices of the 
Grand Trunk Railroad Company at Point Levi 
opposite Quebec, C. E., were destroyed by fire.— 
Amount of loss unknown. 
The " Genesee Model School,” at Lima, was de- 
stroyeu by fire the 8th inst The li re was supposed 
to have been caused by a defective chimney. The 
buildings were insured for $10,000, which will 
probably pretty nearly cover the loss. 
The dwelling house of Mr. Grimshaw, near Cape 
Vincent, says the Oswego Palladium , was burned 
on the 4th inst. Mr. Grimshaw, his wife, and six 
children, perished in the flames. 
At Oswego, on the 5th inst., the dwelling house 
of Antoine Plante was destroyed by fire, and three 
of his children perished in the flame. 
Two freight trains collided on the Columbia 
Railroad, near Oakland, Pa., on the 6th inst, caus¬ 
ing the death of the fireman of one of the trains, 
who was crushed under a heavy truck. One per¬ 
son was thrown over the telegraph wires, hut no 
one except the fireman was serionsly injured. The 
flagman neglected to give the signal, and seeing 
the accident caused by his carelessness, he imme¬ 
diately fled. 
The Express train going West on the Michigan 
Southern Railroad, on the 9th inst., was thrown off 
the track by the breaking of an axle of one of the 
cars. One woman and one child killed and seve¬ 
ral persons badly wounded. 
On the 7th inst., the new steam boiler, recently 
put in the State Sentinal office at Indianapolis, 
while being tried for the first time, exploded, kill¬ 
ing instantly a young man named Homer, and 
badly injuring five others. The east wall was 
blown down. The damage to presses, type, &c., 
was great. 
Premiums Extended! — **Try, Try Again!” 
It will be seen by reference to li*t« on next puge that we 
hare extended tiro period ot Competition for our L.a nor. 
General and .State Premiums from April to July, and 
renewed our offer of Sracisic J'kkmhjms. Wo have con¬ 
cluded to adopt this enun-o, in outer that many agentnaml 
friends who are .still in the field may continue their efforts 
through llie Spring Cau.jinit'U- a good season lor obtain¬ 
ing subscriber* ; and also that those to whom the Rural 
has but recently been introduced may compete lor tbe Spe¬ 
cific and State Premiums. The extension will not, we pre¬ 
sume, be objected to by any r.t our agents, aud certainly by 
none who work mainly (hb most of them do,) to augment 
the circulation and usefulness of the Rural. Hy None 
ol the persons interested are aware of their present respec¬ 
tive positions nr chances for the Large and Slate Premiums, 
aud will not be until the result is announced, so that the 
competition aud ftrvarus will be perfectly fair aud honorable. 
fl'g’” As a new Quarter begins Ihis week, the present is ft 
good time to commence new clubs or make additions to 
those already formal!, and we trust agents and triends will 
continue their efforts in that direction. 
A System of Physical Geography ; containing a do 
scription ot the Natural Features ol the Land and 
Water, the Phenomena of the Atmosphere, aud the Pis- 
triburion ot Vegetable and Animal Llle. To which is 
added a Treatise on Ihe Physical Geography ot the United 
Stales. By D. M. Warrick, Philadelphia: Cowperth- 
Wftit A Co. 
The province of a work of this character ia to expound 
those laws operating upon our earth which more directly 
affect the growth aud progress of its inhabitants in civili¬ 
zation, morals and intellectual capacity. 11 treats of the 
earth as the Abode Of man and its adaptation to his neces¬ 
sities aud desire* — it describes the diversities ot its sur¬ 
face—its division of land aud water—the atmosphere that 
siuTnundsiis-and explains the wnudeiful process by which 
the water of tlio ocean is lifted into the air, and thence 
distitouted over the land to form lakes and livers and giro 
life to vegetation, which in its turn supports and sustains 
the animal system. lu the words or an eminent European 
wirier on the subject which this wojk embraces—“ Physi¬ 
cal Geography is the hiatory of Naturo in ita most attrac¬ 
tive lorm, the exponent of the wonders which the Al¬ 
mighty Creator hag scattered so profusely around ns."— 
This study most prove a very attractive one to the youthful 
mind, and gives just such uxeicise as is calculated to 
strengthen and elevate the mental powers. The maps and 
engravings, which are numerous, are produced with all 
the Bkill of the engraver, while the letter press is an orna¬ 
ment to the publishers. Sold by E. Harrow & Bro. 
—Bogus ten cent pieces, well executed, are in circulation. 
— The shoe manufacturers of Lynn have formed a Board 
of Trade. 
— There are about 700 clergymen iu New York city and 
Brooklyn. 
— A wide-spread disease is reported in the potato crop 
of Bermuda. 
— Through tickets from Chicago to New York are now 
sold for $20. 
— There does not exist any Book Post between the U. S. 
aud England. 
— Musqultois have appeared in Wilmington, N. C., in 
good condition. 
— An omnibus was recently burnt at Philadelphia by a 
catnpheue lamp. 
— There were 240 arrests made in Albany last month for 
criminal offences. 
— The property of Now Orleans by recent valuation is 
worth $95,744,827. 
— Jcdediah Grant, the Mormon $aint, lately deceased, 
left seven widows. 
— It is estimated there are 25,000 Becret or open spirit¬ 
ualists in Boston alone. 
— Teas have advanced from two to three cents per pound 
in the New York market. 
— Wm. Denniston, of New York, has contributed $500 
to the Hadley Observatory. 
— The lighting ot Cincinnati with gas cost $25,000 for 
the year ending March, 1857- 
— It is slated that the experiment of making paper from 
basswood has proved a failure. 
— The President lias recognized Emil Spangeberg as 
Consul of Prussia at Milwaukee. 
— Tbe new Collector and the new Surveyor of the port 
of New York are both bachelors. 
— A Boston clerk mimed Perkins footed it from Boston 
to Lowell, 26 miles, iu six hours. 
— All the billiard rooms at Louisville, Ky., have been 
closed in pursuance of a State law. 
— The farmers in the American BottoD, in the southorn 
part of 111., have planted their corn. 
— Within the week ending March 21, over 1,000 emi¬ 
grants landed at Leavenworth, K T. 
— Yivus W. Smith, of Syracuse, is re-appointed Super- * 
inteadent of Onondaga Salt Springs. 
— Missouri has pledged her State credit to railways to 
the enormous amount of $10,250,000. 
— Eight thousand eight hundred and twenty girls are 
employed in the factorise at Lowell. 
— The Philadelphia County Prison receives within its 
walls 14,000 or 15,000 inmates yearly. 
— A stock company has htt-u formed in Dayton, O., to 
run a steam wagon on common roads. 
— The bank-note circulation of the U. S. at present is 
estimated to represent about $190,000,000. 
— It is estimated that at least 4,t)00 men will leave New 
Hampshire the present season lorthe West. 
— Rats are getting so scarce in Paris that the price of 
kid gloves has gone up to 5 fraucs per pair. 
— In Philadelphia they are just now giving particular 
attention to tbe subject of steam lire engines. 
— The hoot aud shoe manufacturers of Philadelphia have 
voted to Increase their prices twenty per cent. 
— It is 6tnted that in the city of New Y'ork alone there 
are between 800 and 1,000 lottery policy offices. 
— The wife of Horace Mann announces a new work un¬ 
der the title ot “ Christianity in the Kitchen." 
— lion. Chaa. B. Penrose, Senator from Philadelphia, 
died at Harrisburg, Pa , on the 6tli iuat. of Pleurisy. 
— Hon. Sampson W. Harris, Representative in Congress 
from Alabama, died in Washington Wednesday week. 
— At New Orleans, on the 20th ulL, the editors of the 
Picayune partook ol strawberries grown in tbe open air. 
— The St. Paul Times estimates the recent grant of land 
to Minnesota for railroad purposes to be 7,200,000 acres. 
— George Sunley, Mayor of Guelph, died suddenly on 
Monday ot last week. The deceased was highly esteemed. 
— The liu*t speech ol Louis Napoleon, 1,000 words long, 
was transmitted to Rouen, sixty miles from Paris, in two 
hours. 
— Thirteen persons were killed and wounded by the ex¬ 
plosion of the steamboat Forest Rose, near NapoleoD, 
Arkansas. 
— The Louisville Journal says that the fruit in the 
neighborhood of Danville, Ky., was killed by the frost on 
the 1st inst. 
— The amount of money now in all the depositories 
subject to the draft ot the Secretary of the Treasury is 
*28,703,000. 
_The Ohio Senate has passed a bill to prevent the use 
of jails for the conllnement of fugitive slaves, under a pen¬ 
alty of $500. 
— The last 13 public works for irrigation executed in 
Madras by the Iudian government have returned a profit of 
134 per cent. 
_The post of Keeper of the Poor House in Newton, 
Mass., was applied for by one hundred persons. The salary 
is $350 a year. 
— A fashionable duchess in Paris recently issued invita¬ 
tions for an evening party, with the words sans crinoline 
written on her cards. 
— Two children, buried five years since in Allentown, 
Pa., were recently exhumed, and it was found that their 
bodies wore petrified. 
— The Petersburg (Va.) Express complains thus early of 
the muaquitoes, and states that large swarms have made 
their appearance there. 
— The Governor of Pennsylvania has appointed James 
M. Armstrong, of Lycoming, Judge of the Supreme Court, 
in place of Judge Black. 
— Luke Jackson, in Florida, is gradually disappearing. 
Land proprietors on its shores are already gainers to the 
extent of over 1,000 acres. 
— A Springfield, Cnno., paper records the death of “ Je¬ 
hu Brickct," a well known horse in that city, who was said 
to he full fifty years of age. 
_John Hutchinson, of Gaines, one of the oldest and 
beBt known settlors of Orleans county, N. Y., died at his 
residence on Monday week. 
— In St. Petersburg there are five successful literary 
magazines. Oue of them, tbe Russian Messenger, has 
more tiiau 3,000 tubneribers. 
— It is said that the London Journal, an illustrated 
weekly, retailed at two cents a copy, has the enormous 
circulation of 600,000 a week. 
— A steamboat is to be put On the Susquehanna river at 
Harrisburg, where It hss bceti thought hitherto nothing 
could ride hut a raft in a freshet. 
_Capt. Horace Chase, an old aud esteemed resident of 
Medina, died on the Sth inst. He built, In 1827, the house 
In which he lived until his death. 
— There nre now iu Washington twenty gentlemen from 
Maine, whose average weight is 224,'a lbs. The heaviest 
weighs 225, and the lightest 200 lbs. 
— A bevy of the fashionable ladies in Cincinnati appear¬ 
ed on piotneuadua few days since without hoops, and with 
robes descending “ classically straight.” 
_II U reported in the Boston papers that a student at 
Harvard College has been suspended from his college con¬ 
nections because he is a spiritual medium. 
— A despatch froui Belgrade mentions that the only 
daughter ol Omar Pacha has poisoned herself, iu conse¬ 
quence ol the ill-treatment of her husband. 
£SF‘Adpitioks to Clubs are now iu order, aud can be made 
at Uie Club rate—$.1,50 per copy. Agents and other friends will 
please bear this la mind, and receive and forward the subscrip¬ 
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that they ore wanted. 
Hooper's Western Fruit Book: A compendious collec¬ 
tion or Facts, from the notes and experienced Fruit Cul- 
turists, arranged for practical use iu tbe Orchard nnd 
Garden. By E. J. HOOPER, member of the Cincinnati 
Horticultural Society, xc. Cincinnati: Moore, Wil- 
stach. Keys & Co. 
This is a neatly printed book ol 333 pages, embellished 
with four colored plates—the Yellow Bellflower Apple 
the Bartlett Pear, the Roman's Red Cling Peach, and the 
MoAvoy's Superior Strawberry. The trontispieco is a fine 
group of tlio principal horticulturists of Cincinnati, among 
which we rueognizo several I.miliar faces, such ils N. 
Lo.ygworth, Erq., Dr. Warder, and A. If. Ernst. The 
whole hook, with the exception of about, twenty-five pages 
at the close, ia filled with brief descriptions of fruit. The 
book must be exceedingly valuable, if these descriptions 
are made with such care as to render them perfectly relia¬ 
ble. We notice that the Mien ftaspberry is described as 
“ a reddish black." Our readers will recollect that this is 
what we reported Mr. IIoih.K to euy of its cr.lor at the last 
meeting of the Fruit Growers' Society ot Western Now 
Y'ork, and that Mr. H. thought we reported him incorrectly. 
Irish of Hew Advertisements this Week, 
French, English and Am Goods—J. Z. Newcomb & Co. 
Hickey's Improved Patent Corn Planter—John Outram. 
Alien’* Mowing Machine—K. 1,. Allen. 
Short-hom* for Sale—David Uiooks. 
Young Gilford Morgan—Daniel Ward. 
Ho I for tbe Nortb-Vr'est I! — Seriveu A Gallagher. 
Wakefield's Hand Corn Planter. 
Devon Cuttle—Lewis F. Allen. 
D'hr. Liiiiii:-.' Annual—J. t naileu- 
A Rare Chance—H. C. White. 
To Nurnerymen. Ac—G. W. Eastman. 
Seed (Jorn—1 >. li- Tookcr. 
Poultry for Sale—G. H. Crain. 
Biographical and Historical Sretciiks. By T. Bab- 
i.noton Macaulay. New Yoik: D. Appleton & Co. 
An interesting volume of Macaulay's Miscellaneous 
Writings—principally composed of brief, condensed and 
admirably written Biographies. The woi U contains sketches 
of nearly a hundred noted personages—including Bunyan, 
Goldsmith,Samuel Johnson—Tariouscelebrated Monarchs, 
Earls, Dukes, Lords, Princesses, Duchesses, aud Archbish¬ 
ops—Rich. Baxter, Wm Penn, Judge Jeffreys, John Locke, 
Dryden, Geo. Fox, Dean Swift, and may like famous histor¬ 
ical characters. It is a valuable book for tho Ubraty. Sold 
by Dewey. 
Recent Elections. 
ROCHESTER, APRIL 18, 1857, 
Alt, the towns in Connecticut have been heard 
from, except the town of Franklin. The vote for 
Governor is, Holley 30,960, Ingham 30,741. To the 
House the Union have elected 138 Representatives, 
the Democrats 93. The Senate stands, Union 15, 
Democrats 9. Jn the 4th Congressional Districts, 
the run is so dose that, the result will probably not 
he known until the official count 
Scattering returns from Wisconsin indicate the 
election of Whiton, Ilep., for Chief Justice by a 
decided majority. 
At the city election in Cincinnati on the Sth 
inst., N. W. Thomas was elected Mayor, and Bel¬ 
lamy Storer, Judge of Supreme Court. They were 
both on the Citizens' Ticket. 
The complete returns of the oily election in St. 
Louis, Mo., on the Gth inst., foot up for Mayor:— 
Wymer, emancipationist, 4,331; Platt, Dem., 3.080; 
Lane, American, 1626. Wymer’s majority will be 
about 1,500. The majority of the emancipation 
ticket is probably elected. 
The Republicans of Geneva elected their charter 
officers on the 7th inst. The Republican Supervi¬ 
sor had 117 majority. 
At the charter election in Cleveland, O., on the 
7th inst,, the Democratic ticket was elected. 
The entire American ticket in New Orleans, for 
District Judges is probably elected. The Demo¬ 
cratic nominee for Judge of Supreme Court is 
undoubtedly elected. 
Detroit, Mich., gives 200 Democratic majority 
for Judges of the Supreme Court, with two wards 
to hear from. Returns from the interior of the 
State are scattering, and indicate that but a very 
small vote was polled. 
The Feople’a ticket has been elected in Milwau¬ 
kee, Wis., with the exception of Mayor and Treas¬ 
urer. Cross, Democrat, for Mayor is elected.— 
Judge McCarthy, Dem., is elected Judge of the 
Circuit Court. 
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Items of News. 
Remember that we will send four copies of the 
Rural for the current quarter, (thirteen numbers,) 
for $1—oil trial. Many have already responded to 
the offer in last number by sending handsome lists of 
Trial Subscribers, while others order the paper sent 
to friends and neighbors, as a present. All who 
wish to introduce the Rural in their localities, or to 
friends at a distance, can now do so at Just halt price 
by sending for four, eight, twelve or more copies. 
A neoro slave at Louisville, Ky„ drew a prize of 
$15,000 in a lottery, from which his master deduct¬ 
ed the value of the chattel, and gave him the bal¬ 
ance and his freedom. 
An immense mass of pure copper, valued at 
$150,000, has been recently taken from one of the 
Lake Stipe ri or mines. It is forty-five feet in length, 
and in the thickest part os mnch as eight or nine 
feet in thickness. If it is as pure as it appears to 
be, it contains, probably, more than 50 tuns of 
metal, nnd it is certainly worth, as it lies, more 
$150,000. 
A Chicago paper states that one of the grain 
and produce firms in that city handled within the 
laBt year in their business, $12,600,000, their checks 
on a single bank amounting to $8,000,000. Two 
million two hnndred lifly-six thousand bushels of 
grain passed through their bands. 
It has been ascertained that tbe population of 
New York exceeds 000,000, and the church sittings 
are not equal to 200,000. To meet tbe deficiency, 
it would require 000 new churches, to be built at 
an expense of more than $8,000,000. 
A letter from the Crimea states that measures 
have been taken for repairing, in tbe spring, tbe 
towns which suffered from the late war, and espe¬ 
cially Kertch, F.npatoria and Sebastopol. The 
materials for the repairs are to he obtained from 
Odessa and Nicolaieff. The latter town is now 
the center of the different branches of the admin¬ 
istration ol Southern Russia. 
It is reported from Naples that the submarine 
electro cable which is to unite the two Sicilies, will 
be submerged by the 1st of May, and that all points 
of tbe Island will be by that date in communica¬ 
tion with the continent. 
It is said that the water so long lying stagnant 
in that immense tract of country known as the 
Everglades of Florida, has recently found an out¬ 
let through which it is discharging itself into the 
Gulf of Mexico. This will leave many millions of 
acres dry and capable of cultivation. It is said to 
be exactly the land best adapted to the growth of 
the sugar cane. 
Stories of titk Isi .and World. Bv Ciiarlks NoRintOFF, 
author of “JIan-of- War Lite,” "The Merchant Yessel," 
•■Whaling and Finking," &c. New York: Harper & 
Brothers. 
AN excellent work by ono who knows whereof he affirms. 
It is intended for the instruction and entertainment of the 
young, aud tlie design is well fulfilled, in a series ol eve¬ 
ning stories related by the author to Iris brothers nnd sis¬ 
ters. The subjects nre, Madagascar, Java, Iceland, Ceylon, 
and New Zealand, about each of which, aud their habi tans, 
much interesting information is pleasantly tmpnited. The 
volume is well executed, and cowpiisea several fine illus¬ 
trations. Scdd by Dkwjcy. 
■Washington Matters, 
Yjvia : or the Secret of Power. By Mrs. Emma D. E. N_ 
Sooth worth, author or the “ Lost Heiress," " India,’’ 
“ Missing Bride," “ Curse of Clifton,” etc. Philadelphia: 
T. B. Peterson. 
An absorbing romance by a prolific and powerful writer. 
Though first published in a newspaper, “ Vivia" will find 
many admiring readers in tbe handsome volume of 540 
pages in which it now appears. 
The Administration ba3 completed its arrange¬ 
ments relative to China, and Wm. B. Reed, Esq., of 
Philadelphia, has been tendered the mission. 
Theland offices in Minnesota have been directed 
to continue the withdrawal of lands falling on the 
probable line ol the railroad routes established un¬ 
der grants of Congress. Pre-emption claims based 
on actual settle meat and not for speculation, made 
up to the time when the lines or routes were defi¬ 
nitely fixed on auy of the lauds withdra wn, will be 
allowed, provided testimony is clear and explicit 
The offices of the newiy created land districts will 
be established at Brownsville, Dacotah and Ne¬ 
braska cities. 
Gen. Cass has completed a letter to Lord Napier, 
copies of which will also be furnished to the 
French and Russian Ministers, laying down the 
policy of the Administration on the Chinese diffi¬ 
culties. It contains two points. 1st, Protection 
of persons and property of our citizens. 2d, Pro¬ 
tection of our commerce, by opening new avenues 
into that country. 
The Administration have decided to send an in¬ 
creased force to the Chinese seas. 
Orders have been issued by the Navy Department 
for the steamers Minnesota and Mississippi and the 
sloop of-war Germantown, to bo immediately pre¬ 
pared for the East Indies. Their officers are not 
yet designated. The sloop-of-war Cumberland 
will be the flag ship of the squadron. 
The A dministration has had under consideration 
the. subject of the Indian difficulties in Florida, 
and such measures are now in progress as lead to 
the belief that their removal will be peacefully 
effected. 
The Secretary of State has completed an ar¬ 
rangement with Denmark for the abolition of the 
Sound Dues, 
Chapman’s American Drawing Book _No. 4 of this 
valuable aerial, devoted to ‘‘Sketching from Nature—Paint¬ 
ing," is both beautiful nnd instructive. A juvenile in our 
household, who hue a precocious taste for drawing, is de¬ 
lighted with tlie work-in whose behalf we bespeak the 
preceding numbers. Published by Rkdfield, New Y'ork, 
and for sale by Dewey. 
IIow Lieut. Maury was Crippled. —When 
Lieut. Maury lectured here last winter, many were 
the inquiries and surmises as to the cause of his 
lameness. We find in the Buffalo Commercial the 
following particulars:—In October, 1837, Lieut. 
Maury was on bis way from the West to New Y'ork 
to join the Home Squadron, then engaged in the 
Coast Survey. At Somerset, Ohio, the stage in 
which he was a passenger, capsized, and Lieut. M. 
received a severe injury of the knee, lie iay at 
Somerset for two months, suffering much. He 
finally reached Philadelphia, and was then assign¬ 
ed to shore service in the Observatory at Washing¬ 
ton, and has since then acquired his brilliant repu¬ 
tation. 
Land Sales. — Three great land sales are now 
advertised by the U. S. Government. The first 
will occur at Iowa Point, in Doniphan county, 
Kansas, beginning on the 6th of May. This sale is 
for the benefit of the Iowa tribe. Another will 
occur at Paoli, in Lykins county, Kansas, commen¬ 
cing on tbe 2fith of May, for the confederated 
bands of Kaskaslrias, Peorias, Piankeshaws and 
Weas, The third will commence at Osawkce, in 
Kansas, on the 23d of June, for tho Delaware tribe. 
For the benefit, of tbe Iowa tribe 95,000 acres will 
be sold; for tbe confederated 214,000; nnd for the 
Delaware tribe 345,000, making in all 654,000 acres. 
Tub Late Snow Storm.— The cold of the 7tli 
inst., extended over a large portion of our country. 
At Dunkirk, N, Y., the snow was eighteen deep; at 
Elmira, N. Y., ten inches. By telegraph we learn 
that at Augusta, Geo., the frost of Tuesday killed 
tho corn, cotton and wheat crops in this region.— 
At Nashville, Tenn., snow fell to the depth of three 
inches. Thermometer at 7 A. M., on the Sth inst., 
25° above zero. Much damage is apprehended to 
the corn, and it, is feared that the first crop is en¬ 
tirely destroyed. Iu J.ouisville, Ky., the storm pre¬ 
vailed. The tobacco crop in Kentucky and Ten¬ 
nessee is seriously injured. 
Important Decision. — It will be recollected 
that a few years ago, Mr. Willis, of South Carolina, 
visited Cincinnati to manumit his children by a 
slave mother, and died on the wharf, leaving a will 
giving all his property to those children, and ap¬ 
pointing John Joliffe, Esq.,liis executor. Tbe will 
was contested on the ground of alleged insanity of 
the testator, and in the Barnwell District, S. C., was 
in October last pronounced valid. It was carried 
up to tbe Court of Appeals, and last week a jury of 
South Carolinians, returned a verdict that the will 
was valid. 
Tbe amount we pay is $380,000, 
while England pays nearly $6,000,000. 
The State Department are constantly receiving 
letters from onr Ministers and Consulates, asking 
to be relieved. 
The President has appointed Christopher Car- 
son, the "Kit Carson” of Fremont’s expedition, 
Indian Agent for New Mexico. 
A letter from Singapore has been received in 
Washington, stating that owing to the obstruction 
at Hong Kong and Canton, tbe disaffection among 
the Chinese against the English, is rapidly spread¬ 
ing throughout the Celestial Empire. Singapore 
was for the prepent quiet, but there were appre¬ 
hensions of an insurrection among tho Chinese 
portion of the population in consequence of the 
obnoxious police regulations of the British au¬ 
thorities, who, however, had made-preparations to 
suppress any disorders which might arise. It was 
ascertained that the Chinese had been plotting 
secretly against tbe English. 
Kirby Benedict has been appointed Associate 
Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. 
Emigration. —It is stated that there were more 
emigranlR in Liverpool, np to the 20th of March, 
waiting passage to America, than were ever known 
in previous years, except in 1854. The price, 
which had averaged up to that time £3 to £3 10s., 
was raised to £4 and £4 10s. The fact that there 
was a scarcity of ships contributed to this rise iu 
the price of passage. 
Mexican Items. —New Orleans papers of Friday 
last contain details of the Mexican news to the 
‘20th. The new Constitution was promulgated on 
the 1st of March. The Vera Cruz di.igence w r ns 
robbed at Acajeto, and after taking $400 from a 
Holy Father who was one of the prssengers, the 
robbers compelled him to give them absolution. 
Tbe El Moniteur says Santa Anna is in constant 
communication with certain Mexican emissaries. 
The rejection of tho Forsyth treaty had not 
transpired at the capital up to the 14th. A rumor 
that it had been accepted caused great rejoicings. 
The Slave Trade. —It is calculated that the 
profits realized yearly from the African Slave 
Trade, amount t o about $11,000,000, while the capi¬ 
tal invested does not, perhaps, exceed $4,000,000; 
that there is a fleet of forty vessels manned by a 
total force of nearly a thousand men, and that by 
means of the fleet some thirty thousand slaves are 
exported yearly from the Coast of Africa. 
Western Weather. — A despatch from Jack- 
son Mo., states that six inches of snow fell there 
on the 1 *2tit inst., and tbe Missouri river bad over¬ 
flown its banks at Norton, Lexington and other 
towns. The ice is still solid in Lake Pepin, but 
the river is opcu above that point to St. Pan!. 
For Kansas. —A Colony has been formed in 
Cayuga Co., consisting of ninety families and em¬ 
bracing men of all vocations, fifty of whom will 
set out for the " eat in a few days. On the 16th 
inst., a company left Buffalo for Kansas, under 
the Patronage of tiie State Kansas Association. 
Havana News.— The steamer Black Warrior, 
from Havana, April 3d, arrived at New Orleans on 
the 6th lust.. The Mexican question continued to 
be the general topic of conversation, hut nothing 
was officially known regarding the movements of 
Spain. Two Dutch ships, with 300 coolies ou 
board, had arrived at Havana. There had been 
copious rains throughout tho Island. 
Papers from Texas are to the 2d inst. The crops 
were in tolerable condition, hut were suffering for 
want of rain. 
A Wrecking Vessel for Sebastopol. —The 
schooner Silver Key, Capt, Currier, cleared at the 
Boston Custom House on the 11th inst. for Con¬ 
stantinople and the Black Sea, to aid in the opera 
tions of the Boston Submarine Company in raising 
the sunken fleet at Sebastopol. 
The Next Congress. —Tbe Washington Union 
says that so far, C4 Democrats and 90 Opposition 
have been elected to the next Congress. In the 
States to elect, the delegations in the last Congress 
stood 47 Democrats, 32 Opposition, which, if no 
changes were made in the coming elections, would 
given an Opposition majority of twelve. 
Discharged. —Tn our Court of Sessions the case 
of Joseph Westfall, of Greece, indicted for perju¬ 
ry, ended in a verdict, of acquittal by direction of 
the Court. We understand it was made to appear 
that what the defendant swore to was the truth. 
The Legislature of Delaware has followed the 
example of its neighbors of Penn., and Maryland, 
and passed a bill prohibiting the banks from issu¬ 
ing bills of a less denomination than five dollars 
