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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
DEC 5. 
PUBLISHER’S NOTICES. 
TRe Weather.—Changes of the Week. 
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ent that we must necessarily lose much duriog the ensiling 
Rural Campaign, and therefore trust our friends will send 
ns the best funds conveniently obtainable in their respec¬ 
tive localities. If our Western aDd Southern friends can 
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—or in bills on New York, Canada or New England solvent 
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homej and not refused by us, yet we caunot at present use 
it without n great sacrifice; - hence this request. If our 
agents and other friends in all parts of the Union, the 
British Provinces, ,kc-, will comply with these suggestions 
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mium List for 1867-8, on last column of next page. 
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names and money of a part, before completing their lists. 
List oi New Advertisements this week. 
Andre LeRoy’s Nurseries— F. A. Bruguiere. 
Calkins' 'James at Words— Calkins A Stiles. 
-(0 Arms of Extra Land forSare—O. N. OadweU. 
Double Suii-Klower Seed—K H. Elder. 
Seneca Collegium Institute—J. W. Chickenug. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEMBER, 5, 1857. 
To Agents and Others.—I n answer to infinities just 
received, and f;r the information of all interested, we 
would state that not over twenty persons have yet secured 
either of the Tito Hundred Extra Premiums offered for 
the first lists of 12 or 20 subscribers to the Rural for 1858- 
Hence there is yet time to compete for all the Premiums. 
Affairs at Washington. 
Orders were issued on the 24th nit,, from the 
War Department, for two columns of tro' ps—one 
from California and the other from Oiegon, to 
proceed toTTt ih aasoonas the necessary subsistence 
can be obtained. 
The President, in a conversation with a gentle 
man on Kansas affairs, is said to have stated une¬ 
quivocally that he endorsed the aotion of the re¬ 
cent Convention. He stated a fact which is not 
generally known, that 43 out of 52 members of the 
Convention, signed the Constitution, and those 
who refused to sign it were ultra pro slavery men. 
Ai the Cabinet meeting on the 27tb, the Presi¬ 
dent stated Gov. Walker’s position in Kansas af 
fairs. The Cabinet unanimously united with the 
President in favor of sustaining the action of the 
Constitutional Convention in referring the Con¬ 
stitution to the people. A late dispatch says:— 
As far as can be ascertained, the Cabinet are uni¬ 
ted in sustaining the action of the Kansas Consti¬ 
tutional Convention. Whatever preference there 
may have been for submitting the entire Constitu¬ 
tion to the people, it is understood that all are 
agreed that the mode proposed, for the inhabitants 
to settle the question of slavery, as one of their 
domestic institutions for themselves, is in accord¬ 
ance both with ihe letter and spirit of the Kansas 
Nebraska Act. Gov. Walker has had another in¬ 
terview with the President on the subject of Kan¬ 
sas affairs, and those also to-day accompanied a 
large share of the Cabinet deliberations 
The N. Y. Times correspondence of the 26th nit. 
rays:—Gov. Walker had a long and very friendly 
interview with the President to day. They dis¬ 
cussed Kansas affairs at length, especially relative 
to the propriety of sustaining the action of the 
Constitutional Convention in not referring the en¬ 
tire instrument to the people. The gentlemen 
though differing radically, parted friends, ap¬ 
pointing another interview for the discussion of 
the same subject. Some of their mntual friends 
hope fur the nltimate reconciliation of their views, 
but that hope is fallacious, their differences are 
too radical for compromise. 
The Governor’s opposition to the Constitution 
is not founded on the slavery clause, which,is alone 
partially submitted, but on the refusal of the Con¬ 
vention to permit the people to vote against as 
well as for the Constitution. He regards this as 
a violation of the Federal Constitution, of the 
Nebraska-Kansas bill, of popular sovereignty, and 
of the rights of self-government The President 
insists that, as the Constitutional Convention was 
authorized by Congress, he is bound to snstiilu its 
action, whatever it may be while Walker holds 
that the application of his doctrine to sustain the 
efasal to Bubmit the entire Constitution to the 
popular vote, amounts to an assertion of the right 
of Congress to force any Constitution on the Ter¬ 
ritory, instead of leaving the people to decide for 
themselves. 
Gov. Walker has never yet seen the Constitution 
and nobody outside knows what it is. All effort* 
of the Government to obtain a copy failed. Gov. 
W. declares that he cannot acquiesce in the action 
of the Convention without violating every pledge 
he ever gave, and sacrificing hia honest connec¬ 
tions and make himself inlamouB. If resistance 
is made to the establishment of the State Govern¬ 
ment, the President will necessarily call on the 
Governor of the Territory to exercise force to put 
it down. This with his sentiments, Walker can¬ 
not do and will not. Nor will he resign. 
No announcements have yet been made in re¬ 
gard to the transmission of the President’s Mes¬ 
sage in advance of its delivery. It is probable, 
however, that the Newspaper Press will be supplied 
with copies by the means heretofore adopted. All 
the reports of the heads of departments are in a 
sufficient, stage of forwardness. 
Tns extreme cold spoken of in our last issue, 
continued, with slight mitigation, until Thursday 
evening, the 26th nit., at which time milder winds 
commenced their reign, and up to the present, 
(Tuesday morning, Dec. 1st,) a soft, spring-like at¬ 
mosphere rules in the Court Of the Weather.— 
One week since we penned the following:—“Thurs¬ 
day night, the 19th, was what might be termed 
the first cold night of the season, and permanence 
seems to have been given Mils variety of weather. 
To-day (Tuesday 24th) the cold is severe, and 
everything wears a wintry aspect. The canal has 
closed, for the season we Bhould judge—ice having 
formed to such an extent that it would require 
more mild weather than can reasonably be ex¬ 
pected at this time of the year to thaw out and set 
thingB moving again.” Being ever ready to ac¬ 
knowledge the maize when clearly in the wrong, 
we are willing to admit that our conclusions were 
ill-founded—and that, through the coquetting of 
sunshiny days, and warm, heart and ice-BOftening 
winds, Jacx Frost has been coaxed into a relaxa¬ 
tion of bis grasp, and that a “ different order of 
things is observable in Denmark.” Our millers 
are bringing forward the wheat that was frozen in, 
and, as far as we can learn, the entire line of the 
canal ia again navigable. 
A dispatch from Albany last evening, the 30th 
ult., says:—“The weather continues to be very 
mild, and favorable accounts received from the 
west inspire us with the hope that all the produce 
afloat on the canal will get through to tide-water, 
and that navigation may be entirely resumed. A 
dispatch to the Auditor, received from Newark this 
morning, says the weather is mild and the ice 
broken, and boats are moving. A boat loaded 
with flour reached tbis city to-day from Port Jack- 
eon on Friday. This is quick time, A fleet of 20 
boats reached Waterford yesterday, where they 
were immediately locked into the river, and are 
now on the way to New York, with 75,000 boahels 
of corn and wheat. The Hudson is clear of ice.” 
From Lockport we learn that for three days it 
has thawed steadily, and that a warm rain set in 
on the 30th ult. The telegraph states:—The snow 
melts quickly and the Ice in the canal, though six 
inches thick, is breaking np. Superintendent,Fos¬ 
ter came from Medina last evening with an ice¬ 
breaker drawn by fourteen horses, and proceeded 
to Sulphur Springs, where he expects to meet a 
steam tug from Buffalo, with 40 to 50boats follow¬ 
ing her. Appearances now indicate tuat the nav¬ 
igation of thb canal will be resumed this evening. 
Seven propellers arrived at Detroit on the 2St.h 
nit from Chicago, and reported that, many vessels 
are ashore on Lakes Huron and Michigan. The 
weather is warm and the Ice at the mouth of the 
river is said to be giving away. The prospect iB 
fair for the fleet of vessels detained here by the 
ice to get into Lake Erie. 
At Cincinnati the weather is considerably mild¬ 
er than for some days past. The mercury marked 
40°. The water in the channel of the river ia fall¬ 
ing slowly. 
The Buffalo Commercial of the 30th says:—“The 
continued warm and rainy weather is opening the 
navigation of the lake and the cans’. The whole 
fleet at Detroit river iB expected here to-night and 
to-morrow. Tn regard to navigation here, we have 
to srv that there is no obstruction from ice, a»d 
we learn on application at the canal Collector’s 
office, that it is open hence to Tonawanda. On 
l’onawaada Creek the ice is expected to be broken 
up to-day. From Lockport to Medina navigation 
is already re-opened. A few more days of warm 
weather would be a blessing to those who have 
property on the canal.” 
Suspension of the Bank of England’s Charter. 
cares of business at home, the nttentionof foreign 
creditors will be given mainly to settlements here, 
a process requiring much time and attention with 
many embarrassments. The extent of the debts 
due abroad ia not appreciated. Three Dry Goods 
houses in the city of New York alone that have 
yielded to the storm, foot up $4,600,000.” 
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we caunot per- 
ceive wherein the Bauk of England has received 
permanent benefit from the suspension of the “ Peel 
Act” and the privilege of exercising unlimited 
issue, Such a process may put off the “ evil day,’’ 
but. the extra issue,—provided the demand for spe¬ 
cie continues, and we cannot Bee why it should 
abate,—not only renders a fall more certain but 
increases its disastrous effect in the precise ratio 
of use made of the means proposed for relief.— 
That such will prove the ultimate result in the case 
in hand we cannot doubt, unless the Bank Is again 
supported by some unheard of action of the 
British Ministry. 
Items of News. 
The Vanderbilt, which left Southampton on the 
14th nit., brought the intelligence of the suspen¬ 
sion of tne Bank Charter Act by the British Min¬ 
istry, for the purpose of alleviating, if possible, 
the commercial distress ao prevalent throughout 
Great. Britain. There was a fearful panic through 
the whole country, and, on the 11th inat, al! the 
Banks utterly failed to discount to their patrons, 
which naturally added to the wild excitement, un 
til the afternoon of Thursday, the 12th, whep a 
Treasury Letter appeared in London, and was in¬ 
stantly transmitted by telegraph to all the chief 
cities and towns, suspending the Bank Charter 
Act, and authorizing the issue of notes to any 
amount on approved securities. The effect at ev¬ 
ery point was instantaneous, and the panic ceased 
as if by magic. At Liverpool, Manchester, Glas¬ 
gow, and other important cities, the news was le- 
ceived with the most extravagant exclamations of 
joy. Every measure that could he adopted by the 
Bank for its preservation was brought into requi¬ 
sition, but to no purpose. The day previous to 
suspension, the rates of discount bad advanced to 
ten per cent., but the clamor of borrowers was as 
intense as ever, and they were not to be kept off 
by such increase of interest 
As regards the probab’e effect of this state of 
affairs, both upon England and this country, the 
N. Y. Express says:—“The suspension of the 
Charter of the Bank of England was not unex¬ 
pected here, and has produced rather a feeling of 
ease than otherwise, though it will not give the 
relief to American debtors which many suppose 
The Bank of England has not, like the Banks of 
the U ited Statep, suspended specie payments, for 
a £5 note yet commandsin London five sovereigns. 
The current of gold is now from New Yoilt to 
England, and, to the extent of the ability of our 
States to pay their debts. Great Britain will grow 
stronger. We, as the debtor nation, have failed 
with our hands fall of property, but it is in cotton 
and prodnee, which Europe alone can manufacture 
and use, and which they can still pay lor in our 
debts to them, if nothing else. The merchants ot 
Great Britain have, under the relaxed banking 
eystem, the means of continuing their business, 
and as a first movement will set about winding op 
their doubtful debts, of which bo large an amount 
is held there. 
Business between the two countries will for the 
present be conducted upon a cash or veiy short 
credit basis, and long time will not be given until, 
as in 1837, the wrecks of commerce have been 
cleared away, and people can see wherethey stand 
and who to trust A very large amount, however, 
will be paid, and at best England must be content 
to make great losses. Being relieved from the | 
Conflagrations and Casualties. 
On the morning of the 26th tilt, the extensive 
Lithographic establishment of Messrs. Wagner & 
Macquinan, situated in Franklin place, near Chest¬ 
nut street, Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire.— 
The Franklin House and other neighboring pro¬ 
perty was slightly damaged. The loss is $40,000, 
but there is a partial insurance. 
About six o’clock on the morning of the 22d 
nit., a fire broke out in the store of Rncklin & 
Crane, importers of tea», No. 80 Front street, New 
York. The stock was entirely consumed, together 
with part of the building. The Iofb is estimated 
at $80,000; fully covered by Insurance in city 
offices. 
The Hannah Moore Female Academy and the 
Episcopal Church in Reisterstowu, 15 miles distaut 
from Baltimore, Md., were destroyed by fire on the 
24th ult. AII the tenants escaped unharmed. 
A disastrous fire broke out in Glean, N. Y., on 
the morning of the 22d ult., and destroyed nine 
Btores, the post-offioe and one dwelling house. A 
heavy wind prevailed at the time, accompanied by 
snow, which made it impossible to subdue the 
flames until they had destroyed the business part, 
of the place. Loss about $70,000. About one-half 
insured in New York. 
The Eteamer Rainbow was burnt on the 21st ult., 
when 10 miles above Napoleon, Arkansas. She had 
347 persons on board, including a large number of 
coal boatmen on the deck. The fire is attributed 
to incendiarism, on the part of some of the deok 
passengers. Total loss of lives 75. When the fire 
was discovered the boat was run ashore, where 
she burnt to the waters’ edge. The wind at the 
time of the discovery of the fire was blowing a 
stiff' gale, so that in a very short time the whole 
boat was enveloped in flames. The steamer Min¬ 
nehaha from New Orleans carried the saved to 
Memphis. All the Bteamcr’s books were destroyed, 
so tbfct no list of the lost passengers can be fur¬ 
nished. All the officers of the boat were saved. 
The schooner Antelope, whioh left Chicago last 
week with a cargo of wheat for Oswego, was 
blown ashore at the mouth of 'he 8t Joseph’s riv¬ 
er, on the night of the 21et ult, and with bar cargo 
was totally lest. Capt. Bndd, and four of the sea¬ 
men were frozen to death. V 
The HChooter FlyiDg Cloud wftB lost on Lake 
Michigan last week, and seven out of nine persons 
on board perished. The Flying'Cloud when near 
Racine, encountered a heavy gale, which carried 
away her Bails, and drove her ashore near Great 
Calumet, forty miles from Chicago. The long 
boat had been lost the evening before, and four of 
the crew, Francis Fox, George Goodwin, Henry 
Col men and Mat. Balu, aa the only resource, at¬ 
tempted to swim ashore. Their companions were 
already dead or so badly frozen as to bo tumble to 
move. Goodwin and Bain made ont to get on 
shore, but could go no further, and laid down and 
died. Colman and Fox made out to get to a 
shanty, a mile and a half from the wreck, and 
endeavored to get assistance, and If possible to get 
off those who were alive when they left the wreck. 
The orily boat they bad was capsized, however, and 
they were obliged to abandon them. 
The steamer Cataract, on the Missouri river 
blew up on the 23d ult., killing ten and scalding 
twenty-one of the passengers,—seven of them dan¬ 
gerously. 
Death op Jas. G. Birnbt.— This gentleman died 
at *' Eaglcbwoud,” Perth Amboy, N. J., on the 25th 
ult, at the age of 65 years, Mr. B. had been suf¬ 
fering daring the past twelve years from attacks 
of paralysis, which had recently been complicated 
with heart, disease, and aggravated by the infirmi¬ 
ties of old age. The N. Y. Tribune fays that Mr. 
Birnky was born at Danville, Ky., in 1793. Ho 
graduated at Nassau Hall, N. J., and studied law 
with Mr. Dallas in Philadelphia. At the age of 
25 he became a planter iu Alabama, and the owner 
of 35 slaves, but soon afterward entered upon the 
practice of his profession again at Huntsville, Ky. 
Early in life Mr. Birnby became interested in the 
Anti-Slavery movement, and not only freed his 
own slaves, but induced hia father to make such a 
disposition of his estate « to leave him hi* 21 
slavc-s, when he set them free at once. In 1834 ho 
attempted to start an Anti-Slavery newspaper in 
Ky., but finding it impossible to procure printers 
there, commenced its publication in Ohio. In 
1814, when living in Michigan, he became the 
“ Liberty Party” candidate for the Presidency. As 
a reformer, James G. Birnky had none of that 
rancor and bitterness which sometimes disfigure 
the advocacy of even a noble cause. Hia charac¬ 
ter was singularly pure, and his reputation is 
without a blemish. 
Election of U.8. Sbnatok. —On Saturday week 
the two branches of the Legislature of Alabama 
met in convention, and ou the first ballot elected 
the Hon. C. C. Clay, Jr., to the Senate of the U. 8. 
for six years from the 4th of March, 1859, when 
his present term of office expires. 
From Tbxas. —TexaB advices received at Wash¬ 
ington, on the 27th ult., say the cotton fields on 
Red river were badly damaged by the recent 
Btorm. Not two-thirds of an average crop will be 
gathered. The yield of sugar in the same seotion 
will be un average crop. 
About fifty Irishmen passed through Columbus, 
Ga., on the 18th ult., on tbeirway to Golosville, 
Ala., for the purpose of working the gold mines in 
that region. 
The Mobile Register says that in addition to the 
400 filllbusters who sailed with Walker from that, 
port, about 350 have gone from other ports of the 
United States ou sailing vessels, thus making the 
total between 700 and 800 men. 
Tub only place in the world whore money seemB 
to be plenty is St. Petersburg; it is to be had there 
at 3 per cent. Shareholders iu the newly planned 
Russiau railways anticipated theip instalments, in 
the fortnight preceding the 3d of November, to 
the amount of twenty-four million francs. 
M. Lamartinb, whose fortune was greatly im¬ 
paired by a series of baa years, and bis indulgence 
to poor tenants, had this year a magnificent crop 
of wine upon bis Macon estate. It is said that he 
has sold 3,000 casks at 80 francs each, aud has con¬ 
sequently realized the sum of 240,000 francs. 
Hon. Charles P. Chandler, Senator elect from 
Piscataqaa county, died very suddenly of disease 
of the heart, at his residence in Foxcroft, Maine, 
the 23d ult. The vacancy in the Senate will have 
to be filled iu joint ballot of the two Houses, from 
the two highest remaining candidates. 
Thb pulpit of the South Church, in Salem, Mas3., 
was occupied Sunday week by two brothers, Rev’s 
Reuben and Brown Everson, one of whom is 87 
years old, and the other 80. The brothers have 
been gettled within nine miles of each other for 
fifty-three years. 
A Southern paper says that Memphis, Tenn., is 
the best place iu the world for students of anatomy, 
as there are fresh killed subjects to be seen at the 
dead bouse every morning. 
The telegraph cable of the American Telegr aph 
Company, 3,000 feet in length, was successfully 
laid across the Delaware river last week. It con¬ 
nects Philadelphia and Camden, and completes 
the New York line. 
The chief Siamese Ambassador who arrived at 
Portsmouth, has fifty-eight wives; but he never¬ 
theless was smitten by the beauty of a young lady 
whom he saw iu the dock yard at Portsmouth, and 
offered to purchase her as his fifty-ninth wife for 
the sum of £3,000. 
A letter from Shelbyville, Tenn., sayB that there 
will be fatted for market, 150,000 to 200,000 hogs, 
within an area of fifty miles each way from that 
point. 
The barque Suwa, at New York from Hamburg, 
with 215 passengers, reports 41 deaths from chol¬ 
era, daring the pasBjge. The Loute Napoleon, 
from Bremen, had a large number of'Cases of 
measles ou board, and thirty children Blck of the 
disease were sent to the hospital. 
At Moscow (Russia) lately, great curiosity was 
excited by an experiment made with a new de¬ 
scription of locomotive, running along the streets, 
and 80 constructed as to cause the wheels to lay 
down a sort of wooden rails as they advanced.— 
The locomotive dragged after it a number of carts 
heavily laden. The experiment, though the first 
made, had perfectly succeeded. The authorof the 
invention is a trader of Moscow, named Prok- 
horoff. • 
Arvo an ins to the recent census of this State, 
one hundred and fifty-two thousand six hundred 
and forty-five pairs of woolen Bocks were knit by 
the women of New York, in their leisure moments 
in the year 1S56. Their cash value was $40,297. 
Of yarn spun in this State that year in the houses 
of the farmers, there were 6,070 pounds. 
A Paris paper of Nov. 1, announces that a re¬ 
cent imperial decree authorizes the permanent 
establishment of a School for Artillery in the city 
of Grenoble. The Municipal Council of the city 
has voted a grant of 250,000 fraucB towards its 
support. There are besides this, two other artillery 
establishments—one at Mtts, the other at Bourge*. 
The Gardeners of Cincinnati, Ohio, have or¬ 
ganized themselves into an association. On Mon¬ 
day week last they made a fine parade through the 
streets, on horseback, with appropriate banners and 
wagons bearing the fruitB of the earth. 
Tns frost at the South has entirely checked any 
further growth of Cotton, but wsb by no moans in¬ 
jurious to the ripened balls. The frost iu check¬ 
ing the farther growth of the plant, has »1 bu put a 
final stop to the progress of the rot, which was be¬ 
ginning to become prevalent. 
Tub Sumter (Ala.) Democrat says:—“The annual 
tide of emigration to the We at has fairly set in.— 
Hardly a day passes that we do not sec perfect car¬ 
avans of wagons, men, women and children, and 
frequently considerable numbers of negroes, goiug 
through our streets on tbeirway to seek new home*. 
Some go to Texas, others to Louisiana, and others 
still to Arkansas, while some of them atop in our 
neighboring State, Mississippi. 
Tbk Galveston News says of direct trade with 
Europe:—“There arc several vessels now in port 
which will probably soon commence loading with 
cotton for Homo European port. In fact, the cir¬ 
cumstances of the times seem to be opening a di¬ 
rect trade to Europe sooner than had been antici¬ 
pated. The new ship, the National Guard, will be 
here next month, for the purpose oi taking a cargo 
of cotton to Liverpool.” 
Tub Lockport Journal says the damage by the 
recent snow storm in that section, is very great.— 
It has informal ion to the effect that more than half 
Ihe corn raised in Niagara county is in the field 
uugathered, and a large portion of the potatoes 
and other roots nndng. 
Mkkiam, the wcather-scer of Brooklyn Heights, 
writes to the papers that the temperature on Sat¬ 
urday, the 21at ult., before sunrise, fell to nineteen 
degrees. Bunday, the highest was twenty eight 
degrees at twelve M. and one P. M. Excepting the 
year 1838, this is the coldost weather in the month 
of November in New York for a period of sixty- 
nine consecutive years, both us to the intensity 
and duration of the cold. 
Information Wanted— Of the P. O. address of 
Wm. H. Watson. Five years since he was a Su¬ 
perintendent in a Cotton Factory at Cohoes, N. Y. 
Two or three years ago he resided on a farm eight 
or ten miles from Rochester, in a southerly direc¬ 
tion it is believed. Mr. Watson, or any other 
person knowing his address, will please inform H. 
D. Benjamin, of Albion, N. Y. 
Hmis Clippings. 
— The Mormons have 20,000 Indian allies. 
— The village of Little Falls is infested with burglars. 
— The Court of Claim* has resumed its sessions in Wash¬ 
ington. 
— The Washington Union is out against a general bank¬ 
rupt law. 
— Eggs are but six cents a dozen in many portions of 
Virginia. 
— About 20 men left Rockiand, Me,, on Monday week for 
California. 
— The new Constitution of Oregon positively prohibi's 
paper money. 
— There were 21,661 marriages consummated in N Y 
State last year. 
— Mr. Coolidge’s church, in Boston, has discharged the 
choir to save money, 
— The high water damaged the fine salt works at Salma, 
to the extent of $10,000. 
— Rumor says that Kossuth will pay the United States 
another visit before long. 
— The bakers of Philadelphia have formed themselves 
into a Protective Association. 
— Gen. Harney says it will require 20,000 troops to put 
down the Mormons. He knows. 
— Winfield Scott, nephew of Lt, Gen. Scott, died in 
Louisians, lately, tged 45 years. 
— Twenty-five miles west of Fort Laramie, flour is sel¬ 
ling at $38 per hnudred weight. 
— The Herald advocates tho establishment of martial 
law in some IccaJltie? in New York. 
— The Legislature of Georgia has unanimously pro¬ 
nounced lotteries a curse and swindle. 
— There 8Te 672 convicts in the Auburn State Prison.— 
The average ia 700 a year, and deaths six. 
— The only prison in the State which pays its way and 
makes money, is the Albany Penitentiary. 
—.There ate now in the port of New Bedford, 23 whale 
ships, only two of which will sail this season. 
— The Pittsburg Gazette says there will be at least seven 
editors in the next Pennsylvania Legislature. 
— In Rockville, Conn., 1,300 frogs have been found to¬ 
gether in a spring only four feet in diameter. 
— Female bwglars are at work in Oheslea, Mass. A 
party of them were caught one night last week. 
— Pnnch calls the poem “ Nothing tn Wear,” an Ameri¬ 
can invention which takes ojl the ladies dresses. 
— Navigation is almost entirely suspended on the Illi¬ 
nois and Missouri, on account of heavy floating ice. 
— Two brothers named Denson, fought a duel at Water¬ 
loo, S. C,, last week, and the yi unger one was killed. 
—The Germans of Chicago are getting up a relief socie¬ 
ty, for the purpose of taking care of their own poor. 
— A leading cotton manufacturer ssys there is not a 
three months supply of cotton goods in the country. 
— Iron ore is found, In some extent In Mahaska Co., Iowa, 
and coal is found in greet abundance in Johnson Co. 
— There are now at Norfolk 109 colored emigrant* await¬ 
ing the Mary Caroline Stevens, to embark for Liberia. 
— Seventy mnnnmitted slaves from Prince Edward Co., 
Vs., arrived at Richmond, ou the 24th nit., for Liberia. 
— Prof. Swallow, formerly of Maine, has accepted the 
chair of natural sciences in the University of Missouri. 
— Samuel Lamprey, of Salisbury, Mess., has a Turkey, 
which, he lays, has laid 180 egns iu 180 successive days. 
— Judge Ingraham, of N. Y. city, is about to retire horn 
the Court of Common Pleas, after twenty years’ service. 
— Several able writers in England sre striving to Induce 
the fashionable people to adopt more economical customs. 
—Sugar is selling la the New Orleans msrketat 4'A cents 
per pound, and molasses nl from IS to 20 cents per gallon. 
— A piano ban Vin brought forward at Dresden, which 
supercedes tbc assistance ofsixty vocalists and instiuments. 
— A course of lectures has been inaugurated in Port¬ 
land, tho proceeds of which are to go to the poor. A good 
idea. 
— The Friend of India states that the dominant races 
throughout the whole continent of Asia are fast sinking 
away. 
— The increase of paupers at the almshouse, at Warier, 
Mass., is 23 per day, many of them being able-bodied me¬ 
chanics. 
— The several religious societies in Bangor, Me., con¬ 
tributed $500 for a thanksgiving offering to the poor of 
that city. 
— Austrian engineers are using gun-cotton for blasting 
purposes with great success. The saving is two-thijds over 
powder. 
— It is reported from Washington that Ex-President 
Lamar, of Texas,-will probably be the the new minister to 
Nicaragua. 
— The Rev. Daniel Whitaker, Missionary, who left this 
country iu 1852, died at Maulmain, Burmab, on the 16th 
of An gust. 
— The Herald states that half a dozen Wall st. adven¬ 
turers have each made $100,000 in speculations during the 
last week. 
— The officers of the Galveston aud Opelousas, which 
recently came into collision on the Gulf of Mexico, have 
been arrested. 
— The painted surface of the Great Eastern, inside and 
outside, is nearly 120,0C0 square yards in extent, or more 
than 24 acres. 
— Three weekly newspapers in Washington Co., N. Y., 
have ceased to exist since the commencement of the present 
ftnancial crisis. 
— The family of the last king of the French, resident in 
England, have sustained a loss in the demise of the Duch¬ 
ess de Nemours. 
— Governor H. G. Runnels, of Texas, was quite sick at 
Houston, on the 29th ult., aud no hopes were entertained 
of hia recovery. 
— The St. Louis Democrat says that Marcus J. Parrott, 
delegate to Congress, trorn Kansas, has received his cer¬ 
tificate of election. 
— There is a report that the dowager empress of Russia 
has spent £3,000,000 since tho death of the Czar, or within 
a very short period. 
— Henry Ward Beecher says:—“ Women made out of 
women are God’* noblest work: but women made ont of 
men are his poorest.” 
— On Saturday, 21st ult., the boys were skating on the 
Mississippi at Prairie du Chien. Navigation is closed ther#- 
way until next spring. 
— Tho Connecticut banks are canvassing the establish¬ 
ment of a Clearing House in that State, and the cutting 
off of Boston redemption. 
— At New Orleans, week before last, 8,633 emigrants ar¬ 
rived in sailing vessels from Europe. They were principal¬ 
ly from Bremen and Havre. 
— Sergeant Leflerts, of the N. Y. city Police Detectives, ■ 
is causing to be taken the daguerreotype of every noted 
rogue who fall* into his hands. 
— Queen Victoria iH about to be proclaimed Empress of 
India, and the government of that country, forever taken 
from the East India Company. 
— Up to thn 16th ult-, there had been 924 steamboat ar¬ 
rivals at Bt. Paul, the present season—an increase of 87 
over tbo-e of the previous year. 
— According to the report of the Croton Aqueduct De¬ 
partment there aro but 138 miles of fewer* to nearly 600 
miles of paved streets In N Y. city. 
— The el tort* of the Methodists among tho Germans in 
this country commenced in 1835, and number nH Its results, 
120 Gorman preachers and 16,000 German members. 
