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NEWS DEPARTMENT. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y„ JANUARY 5, 1861, 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Matter* at WaNhington. 
Prominent among the subjects of interest is the 
abstraction of State bonds from the oflice of the Sec. 
retary of the Interior, and which we briefly noticed 
in the hist Rural. The telegraph on the twenty* 
seventh ult., gave us the following: 
The developments concerning the immense robbery 
in the Interior Department, have produced a profound 
impression, without exciting any extraordinary sur¬ 
prise, as all the parties known to be, or suspected of 
being implicated, liave long been under suspicion. 
4U$l ’J V* y y . *•*>*« .. .»*■■«»»» 
bonds, is from Charleston, South Carolina, though 
his appointment is nominally charged to Alabama in 
the Blue Book. His relations toward the Secretary 
of the Interior have been most confidential. Among 
his familiars lie has been regarded as a man of reck¬ 
less and dissipated habits. It is now ascertained that 
the amount purloined is exactly $870,000; for, while 
there arc drafts on the War Department, made by 
Messrs. Russell, Majors & Co., arid accepted by Secre¬ 
tary Floyd, deposited for a corresponding amount, 
and believed to be utterly "worthless, these drafts were 
ostensibly made on account of the transportation con¬ 
tracts held by the above firm, not really rendered. 
They were kiting operations, intended to raise money, 
and have been allout in Wall street and other marts 
for the last six months. Mr. Bailey’s reason for con¬ 
fessing his abstraction was, that he expected Mr. 
Thompson would retire from the Cabinet, and might 
not be able to e|«arhimself from complicity when the 
discovery came to bo made, as it eventually must be. 
It was to save him from suspicion when he was not 
guilty, All the coupons of the bonds were cut oil' 
and retained in the safe, so that the robbery might 
not have been detected but for the circumstances 
stated. The bondsmen of Mr, Bailey surrendered him 
to-day, and he is now in jail. 
On the 27th, the President received notice that 
Major Anderson had evacuated Fort Moultrie; the 
Major giving us reasons therefor a desire to allay the 
dissension about the post, and at the sumo time 
strengthen his own position. General Scott declares 
that Major Anderson’s movements had been made 
without consulting with him, and whether in accord¬ 
ance with instructions from the President, lie could 
not say. He considered that iu a strategical point of 
view, Major Anderson had done perfectly right, a.s lie 
is now in a strong position which was not tho case at 
Fort Moultrie, where his small force could have been 
overcome in a short time. The act of the Major is 
generally commended, for this among other reasons, 
that while Fort Moultrie was comparatively weak, and 
might provoke an assault by the mob, the impregna¬ 
ble defences of Fort Sumter place it beyond such con¬ 
tingency, as it could be reduced only by regular and 
protracted scige, tbusavoiding an immediate collision. 
The Poatoffice Department continues to receive 
resignations of postmasters in South Carolina, who 
give as their reason that they are out of the Union. 
The Commissioners from .South Carolina had a ses¬ 
sion with the Cabinet on the 28th ult. The Commis¬ 
sioners, in view of the alleged stipulation on the part 
of the President, that the garrisons at Charleston har¬ 
bor, should not be augmented, nor the military status 
of the posts changed, requested the President to 
inform them whether Major Anderson’s movements 
were in consequence of any order issued by him or 
from the War Department. The President responded 
negatively, and said that Major Anderson had acted 
on his own responsibility. The Commissioners then 
requested the President to remand Major Anderson to 
Fort Moultrie. They demand that the troops he with¬ 
drawn immediately or this shall he their last interview, 
and they will return to South Carolina and prepare for 
the worst. 
The proposals for the $6,0uo,000 loan iu Treasury 
notes, under the recent act of Congress, were opened 
on the 28th ult., at the Treasury Department. The 
bids were for less than $2,500,000 at an average of 12 
per centum interest. 
The Senate crisis committee of thirteen had before 
them on Hie 29th ult., Mr. Douglua' proposition, ns 
presented to that body on the 24th, Also one by Mr. 
Bigler, viz: The establishment, by the Constitution, 
of the line of 2tl degrees 30 min.; eight Senatorial 
Governments to be established north, and four south 
of that line, the geographical arpa being greater in 
the former than in the latter. When each Territory 
low population sufficient for one Representative in 
Congress, it is to he admitted as a State by proclama¬ 
tion of the President, thus removing the question 
from Congress; Slavery to be interdicted north and 
tolerated south of that line. The Committee also 
considered the proposition of Mr. Rice for the estab¬ 
lishment of a similar line, to admit all the territory 
north of this line as onc State, to be called Washing¬ 
ton, and all the territory south of this line as one 
State, to be called Jefferson, and admitted with slav¬ 
ery. All these were rejected. The Committee find¬ 
ing they cannot agree on any recommendation, will 
report to the Senate at an early day. 
The House Select Committee considered the propo¬ 
sition of Mr. Adams, of Mass. An amendment to the 
Constitution prohibiting Congress from passing a law 
interfering with slavery in the .States where it existe, 
was agreed to by nearly a unanimous vote, the several 
dissentanta considering that the Constitution gives 
that security already. 
An address or recommendation lias been prepared 
by authority, to submit to the members of the border 
Slave States for their signatures, requesting their 
respective States, by enactment or otherwise, to 
appoint commissioners to meet at Baltimore on the 
10th of February, for conference relative to the seces¬ 
sion of all the Cotton States, and devise a programme 
of action for the border States in Cams of such an 
emergency. It is thought, however, that not all the 
members will sign it, hut still there will be enough 
from each delegation to induce a favorable response 
from their respective States. 
Mr. Holt, the Postmaster General, has sent orders 
to the Sub-Treasurer at Charleston to remit all the 
balance* $55,000, on the Post Office account in his 
possession immediately to the credit of that Depart¬ 
ment. If tliin order is not complied with at once, ho 
will demand of the federal government to enforce his 
orders. He is also determined, as before suggested, 
to suppress mail matter to and from South Carolina, 
if the mails are interfered with in that State. 
The telegraph this (Monday,) morning provides us 
with the following highly interesting Intelligence: 
The Cabinet has just adjourned, alter a protracted 
session of six hours. The affairs at Charleston were 
the subject under consideration. Secretary Floyd 
stated to the President in writing that unless Major 
Anderson was withdrawn from Fort Surntcr he wouLd 
not remain in the Cabinet. Secretaries Thompson 
and Thomas were understood to entertain the same 
view, but the events of tho day changed their minds 
somewhat. The President determined, after full de¬ 
liberation, not to withdraw Major Anderson, and Mr. 
Floyd’s resignation was therefore accepted. 
Among the persons named as Mr. Floyd’s successor 
is Benj. F. Butler, of Mass., who has been in confi¬ 
dential consultation with the President for several 
days. A serious division occurs in the Cabinet, and 
a break np may at any hour be anticipated. Recent 
and highly important intelligence, from the South, re¬ 
ceived by the Government, may precipitate the event. 
The Secretary of the Treasury lias just received a 
dispatch from Charleston, stating that the revenue 
cutter in the port of Charleston had been seized by 
the authorities, and that the captain, who is n native 
of Charleston, lias resigned. This intelligence was 
immediately communicated to the Cabinet. Tho 
Navy Department ut 2 o’clock received a disputch 
W <IA WUAMNW • • » •• «»••••»* M • ^ 
Bonita, which was carried into Charleston, stating 
that his prisoner, the Captain of the slaver, bad been 
taken before a State Judge, by a writ of habeas eor 
pus; that the Judge remanded the prisoner to his 
custody on the ground that ho had no jurisdiction, 
and that on his way to the Bonita with his prisoner, 
he had been taken by force from his custody by a mob. 
Tim Seei'Hslon Movement. 
The latest advices from Texas state that Gov. 
Houston will convene an extra session of the Texas Le¬ 
gislature on the 21st of January, to consider the present 
crisis. The Convention of the people will be held on 
the 28th of January. The secession feeling is in the 
ascendant. 
Advices from Jacksonville, Florida, dated 24th ult., 
show that four-fifths of the delegates elected to the 
State Convention will go for immediate secession. 
Gov. Magoffin, of Kentucky, has called an extra 
session of the legislature for the 17th of this month, 
to consider the distracted condition of the country. 
All is quiet in North Carolina. Most of the mem¬ 
bers of the legislature have gone home. Meetings un¬ 
being held in the various counties, at which Union 
sentiments are prevalent, but hope is thought well 
nigh gone. 
The. Alabama Convention will have a large majority 
in favor of secession. 
Our latest advices from Charleston left the Conven¬ 
tion still in session. An ordinance entitled “An Or¬ 
dinance to Amend the Constitution of South Carolina 
In respect to the Executive Department,” was passed 
in the Secret Session of the Committee on the 27tb 
ult. It provides as follows: 
First—That the Governor have power to receive 
Ambassadors, Ministers, Consuls and Agents of For¬ 
eign Powers, to conduct negotiations with foreign 
powers, to make treaties by and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate, to nominate all officers hv and 
with the udv ice and consent of the Senate, to appoint 
Ambassadors, Public Ministers, and Consuls, as the 
General Assembly may previously direct, and also all 
other officers whose appointment has not otherwise 
been provided for by law. to fill vacancies during the 
recess of Urn Senate, by granting o.ornniissioiiH which 
expire the end of the next session of the Senate, to 
convene tho Senate whenever he thinks it necessary, 
provided nevertheless during the existence of the 
Convention that all treaties, directions for the appoint¬ 
ment of Ambassadors, Ministers, Consuls, <vi\, be 
subject to the advice and consent of tlm Convention. 
Second—That the Governor immediately appoint 
four persons, w ith the advice and consent of the Con¬ 
vention, w ho, with the Lieut. Governor, shall form a 
council, to lie called the Executive Council, whose 
duty it shall be to advise with him. 
All obligations of sec,rosy in regard to the above 
ordinance were w ithdrawn. 
The Convention also passed an ordinance, which 
reads as follows: 
Whereas, It is due to our lute confederates in the 
political Union, known ns the United States of Amer¬ 
ica, as also tin- citizens of South Carolina engaged in 
commerce, that no abrupt or sudden change be made 
in the rate of duties on imports into the State: and 
Whereat, It is not desired by this State to secure 
advantages in trade to her own ports above those of 
unv other of the slave holding States, her late confed¬ 
erates in the said Union; 
H7itr«i<, This ordinance, for considerations indi¬ 
cated, is designed to be provisional; therefore we, the 
people of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, 
do declare, ordain, and it is hereby declared and or¬ 
dained, 
First, That all citizens of this State who at the date 
of the ordinance of secession were holding office con¬ 
nected with the Customs under the General Govern¬ 
ment of the United States within the limits of South 
Carolina, be and they are hereby appointed to hold 
under the government of this State exclusively, with¬ 
out any further connection whatever with the Federal 
Government of tin; United States, the same offices 
they now till until otherwise directed, and that they 
receive the same pay and emolument* for their ser¬ 
vice. 
Second, That until this Convention, or General As¬ 
sembly, shall otherwise provide, the Governor shall 
appoint to all vacancies which may occur in snob 
offices. 
Third, That until it is otherwise provided by this 
Convention, or General Assembly, the revenue collec¬ 
tion and navigation laws of the United States as far as 
may be practicable, be, and they are hereby adopted 
and made laws of this State, saving that no duties 
shall be collected upon imports from the States known 
as the United .States of America, nor upon tin- tonnage 
of vessels owned in whole or in part by the citizens nf 
the said States, saving and excepting the act of Con¬ 
gress, adopted on the 2d of March, 1857, entitled an 
act authorizing the deposit of the papers of foreign 
vessels with the consuls of their respective nations, 
which said act Ls hereby declared to be of uo force 
within tlie limits of this State. 
Fourth, All vessels built in South Carolina or else¬ 
where, and owned to the amount of one-third by a 
citizen or citizen* of South Carolina or any other 
slave holding Commonwealth of North America, and 
commanded by citizens thereof, and rio other, shall ho 
registered as vessels of Soutli Carolina, under the au¬ 
thority of the Collector and Naval Officer. 
Fifth, All official net* of the officers aforesaid, in 
which it is usual and proper to set forth the authority 
under which they act, or style of document issued by 
them or any of them, shall be in the name of the 
State of South Carolina. 
Sixth, All moneys hereafter collected by any officer 
aforesaid, shall, after deducting the sum necessary for 
the compensation of Dio officers and other expenses, 
be paid into the Treasury of the State of Booth Caro¬ 
lina for the use of said State, subject to the order of 
this Convention, or of the General Assembly. 
Seventh, Tbe officers aforesaid shall retain in their 
hands nil property of the United States in their pos¬ 
session; custody or control, subject to the disposal of 
the State, who’ will account for tho same upon a 
final settlement with the government of the United 
States, 
A dispatch from Charleston statesthat the proposed 
State loan of $400,000 is already parceled out among 
tbe wealthiest men of the State, mostly at Charleston, 
and each one is expected to furnish his share, under 
the penalty of being considered disaffected, 
Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinckney wi re taken pos¬ 
session of by the South Carolina Militia on the night 
of the 27th. Capt. Humphries holds possession of 
the arsenal. Castle Pinckney and Fort Moultrie art- 
occupied by State troops, under instructions of the 
Governor of the State to hold peaceable possession of 
these forte, and for the purpose of protecting tho 
government property. Castle Pinckney and Fort 
Moultrie were hold by about twelve men, who peace¬ 
ably surrendered. There was no collision and none 
was anticipated when the troops left the city to garri¬ 
son these forte. 
The following statement of the evacuation of Fort 
Moultrie by Major Anderson is from the Charleston 
Courier: 
The evacuation of FortMoultrie commenced a little 
after sundown on Wednesday. The men were order¬ 
ed to bold them selves in readiness with knapsacks 
packed, but up to the moment of leaving had no idea 
of abandoning the fort. They were reviewed On pa¬ 
rade and were then ordered to two schooners, lying in 
the vicinity, when they embarked, taking with them 
all necessary stores, Ac. Several trips were made 
during the night, under cover of which a great portion 
of the provisions and camp furniture were transported, 
A great portion of the labor expended on Fort Moul¬ 
trie was upon the citadel or highest position. This 
citadel Major Anderson had strengthened in every 
way loopholes were cut and everything so arranged 
that in case a well conconctcd attack was made, he 
would have retired from the outer bastions to the cit¬ 
adel and afterwards blown it up. In other portions of 
the fort, for this duitwic, mines had already been 
sprung and trains laid ready for the application of 
the match. 
The barrack rooms and every other part of the fort 
that was indefensible w oirid have been blown np at a 
touch. Under tbe ramparts of the fort fronting Fort 
Sumter were nine K-inch columbiads mounted on 
wooden carriages, and us soon as the evacuation was 
complete, these carriages were burned and the gun.- 
thereby dismounted. These guns, as well as those 
constituting the entire armament, were spiked before 
the fort ivies abandoned. This is the only damage 
done to the fortifications, further than cutting down a 
flag staff and breaking up of ammunition wagons to 
form rampart* on the walls of the fori. Confusion 
conld not have been more complete had the lute occu¬ 
pants retired in the face of a besieging force. The 
entire place was littered with odds and ends and 
fragments of war declarations. The Hpiked guns, 
and those dismounted by the burning of the carriages, 
will soon be in position to respond to any hostile de¬ 
monstration against the place. 
From the Pacific Side. 
Ca1.1torn i a. As often as two or three times per 
week, some company with a nominal capital stock, 
ranging Ml the way from $500,000 up to several mil 
lions, files articles of incorporation with the Secretary 
of State, elects officers, and appears to be earnestly 
preparing to commence silver mining. Some of them 
comprise men of wealth and character, while many 
are doubtless stock jobbing speculators. 
Some lino specimens of coal, resembling in appear¬ 
ance the West llartly coal, are on exhibition at Ban 
Francisco, and purport to have been brought from 
the newly discovered mines about 80 miles from Car- 
son Valley, where a company have claimed 3,000 acres 
of land, covering the mine, and are prepared to com¬ 
mence developing. The coal is very much needed in 
the Washoe silver mines, as other kinds of fuel for 
smelting purposes are scarce and difficult of access. 
The Keystone Co., who have been some months en¬ 
gaged in opening the new copper mine in Culevenis 
Co., claim to have struck, during the past week, the 
richest vein ever discovered on the l’acilio coast, be¬ 
ing nearly as line as the best copper of I-oike Superior, 
The vein was struck 35 feet below the surface, ami ap¬ 
pears to be inexhaustible. Arrangements are making 
to ship the ore to Baltimore, and it is believed that it 
can be put in eastern markets cheaper than the Lake 
•Superior article. 
The Fremont mines at Mariposa are regularly re¬ 
ported as yielding at the rate of $70,000 per month, 
but the expenses are not given, so that the actual profit 
cannot be calculated. 
The Republican papers charge that a secret organi¬ 
zation is concerting measures for the establishment of 
an independent Republic on the Pacific coast, in case 
of the dissolution of the Union. The charge does not 
seem to be sustained by evidence. 
Oregon. —Reports are published that members of 
Lieutenant Mullen’B Wagon Road Expedition have 
discovered gold at the head waters of the Columbia 
River, and also on the tributaries of the Missouri, 
while making the passage through the country this 
y car. 
British Columbia. —There is nothing of interest 
from British Columbia. 
The steamer Otter had arrived at Victoria from 
Frazer River, with $20,000 in gold. 
The Americans in Victoria generally observed the 
20th Nov. as Thanksgiving day. 
Trade at Forts Hope and Yale is represented as 
lively, the merchants being busily employed in pack¬ 
ing goods for the upper country. The prospects for 
the spring trade were flattering. 
Sandwich Islands. —Honolulu dates of Nov. 1st 
have reached San Francisco via Victoria, The news 
is four days later. A complete change in the Ameri¬ 
can Consulate office was made at Honolulu on the 27th 
of October. (J, W. Harden, Consul, and T. T. Dough¬ 
erty, Deputy Consul, were removed pursuant to order 
from Washington, and F. L. Hawks appointed to the 
latter position. The latter appointment was followed 
by the removal of the physician and surgeon of Die 
hospital. 
New* Paragraph*. 
The Mobile Tribune says that Captain S. S. Taylor, 
has rigged out a schooner, mounted two heavy guns, 
and taken on board fifty hardy, active, well drilled 
Bea-rovers, with which he intends to defend the Ala¬ 
bama coast. 
Tn Octoher, at Pesth, Hungary, an old man made 
his appearance who was supposed to have been killed 
in battle thirty years before. All his relatives but one 
were in the grave. 
British capitalists hope to make money out of the 
deranged state of our affairs. It is said that one 
English banking house has a million of dollars now 
on its way to this country for investment in pjoperty 
which has been depreciated by the panic. 
A number of young men at Bridgeton, Pennsylva¬ 
nia, have associated themselves under the name of 
“Zouave Oddities,” for the purpose of sawing and 
splitting wood for destitute families. They work with 
a will, and tbe roBulta of their labor have thus far 
been very beneficial. 
It is feared that Rome cases of actual starvation 
arnongtbo families of lab rers working in the Brooklyn 
Navy Yard really exist. No money having been re¬ 
ceived from the Treasury lately, payment could not, 
of course be made, and from the provision dealer to 
the landlord, all refuse any longer to trust the poor 
workmen. 
Caprkra, the island home of Garibaldi, is a small 
island just off the northeast coast of the island of 
Sardinia, and is nearly due west from Naples. It 
measures about live miles from east to west, and is 
Icbs than that distanco across. The island affords 
good pasturage, and until its occupancy by (iaribaldi, 
bad no permanent inhabitants. 
A very old craft has come to her end recently on 
Die English coast — the Flying Fish, wrecked off 
Filey. She was built at Whitby, in 1783, and was 
consequently seventy-seven years old. Mr. Edmund 
Woolverton, the master and owner, has weathered the 
storms of seventy-one winters, having spent sixty of 
them at sen, and fifty on board the Flying Fish. 
How the French view Disunion. The Presse of 
December 4 th, has a strong article on the subject of a 
Southern Confederacy, which may seek “moral sup¬ 
port” from European powers. That paper says that 
“ France, who abolished slavery herself, cannot even 
seem to protect it in other countries,” and closes its 
article in the following terms:—“ For tho American 
Union, separation is suicide; It is the murder of a 
great nation and a great principle. France cannot 
lend a hand to this suicide and this murder. Bhe has 
helped to make this people — she will never help to 
destroy them. Such are, we are convinced, the senti¬ 
ments of our Government,” 
Discovery ok Coal in Utah.— According to the 
Sait Lake correspondent of tho New York Times, 
there is uo doubt that coal exists in large quantities 
in tho Great Basin of Utah. On tbe Weber river, a 
tributary of Great Balt Lake, from the western slope 
of the Wahsatch range, coal is now regularly mined, 
ami selling at the pita for $5 per ton; though the price 
in Balt Luke city is $25, on account of Die expense of 
transportation. The discovery is one of the utmost 
importance, as it will remove the chief obstacle to the 
construction of the Pacific Railroad, that of a supply 
of fuel for locomotives. 
♦ • -♦ • 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Great Britain, — It is again reported that the 
passport system between England and France is to be 
abolished. 
The bullion in the Bank of England had decreased 
£2,000,000 during the month. 
The London Times says the President’s Message is 
an evasion of all responsibility, and contrasts Bu¬ 
chanan's timid policy with the bold action of Jackson. 
The Globe characterizes the message as an appeal to 
the North to make concessions to the South. 
It is reported that 40,000 weavers are actually starv¬ 
ing at Coventry, England. 
The London Times calls attention to the new article 
of commerce from America, viz: Oil from Union 
wells in Western Pennsylvania. 
France. — The monthly returns of the Bank of 
France shows a decrease in cash of two and three- 
fifths millions of francs. 
The Empress of France had arrived home. 
The Archbishop of Lyons has published a lengthy 
pamphlet againHt stamp imposition on pastoral letters 
treating of political matters. He denounces the im¬ 
position as humiliating and not to be submitted to. 
Austria. — The Hungarian conference opened at 
Grau the 19th, and promptly adopted the electoral 
vote of the fourth. 
Italy. — An attempt had been made to assassinate 
Colonel Duhn, of the Sicilian army, which gave rise 
to a rumor of Garibaldi’s assassination. 
The bombardment of Gaeta had recommenced. 
Francis II. calls upon the garrison at Gaeta to de¬ 
fend it to the last. The French fleet would leave soon. 
The Province Riterdo continued insurrectionary. 
It is reported that the French were preparing to evac¬ 
uate it. 
The Bavarian Minister at Turin having been recalled, 
the Sardinian Minister at Urich was also recalled. 
The Pontifical troops are about to march against 
the town of Potonterno, to overthrow the Provisional 
Government established there. 
China. — Intelligence was received ut the Foreign 
office through Bt. Petersburg, dated Pekin, Nov. 19. 
It states that a peace was concluded with China on 
the 20th of October, and the ratifications of it were 
exchanged on the 5th of November. The French and 
English troops had evacuated Pekin, and the Emperor 
was expected to return to the Capital immediately- 
The allied army commenced their advance ou the 
same day that Pekin was taken. The summer palace 
of the Emperor was taken and completely sacked, 
affording an immense amount of spoils. The chief 
share of the plunder appears to have fallen to the 
French. A quantity of the treasure taken is to be 
divided between the French and English. Borne pri¬ 
vates are .slid to have sold their shares for 30,000 
francs. The entire British share, including both 
treasure and private property, is estimated at about 
$900,000. The Tartar army is still in the field, though 
Die Emperor has fled. 
Commercial IntklliokNCE. — The Liverpool breadstuff mar¬ 
ket had an advancing tendency. All qualities had slightly 
advanced. 
Breadstuff !— Flour firm at an advance of 6d; wheat ad¬ 
vanced 2d; corn firm at an advance of fid©Is. Provisions 
dull; pork quiet; lard quiet at 70s. London breadstuff* firm 
at an advance of l(a’2s for both wheat and Hour. 
$1)C 3fcu)6 Con&cnser. 
— The Earl of Aberdeen is dead. 
— Women exceed men in England by 800,000. 
— Garibaldi has retired on an income of $280. 
— A Garibaldi Club hasbeen organized in Chatanooga, Teon. 
— A large deputation are to invite Garibaldi to vhat England. 
— A copy-right treaty has been concluded between England 
and Sardinia. 
— The total loss of life on the lakes, during the past season, 
is stated at 5fi0. 
— \t ith the exception of Queen Isabella, no Bourbon now 
reigns in Europe. 
— It is said that $.325,000 of i: Peter’s pence ” had arrived 
at Rome from America, 
— The New York restaurants sell, on an average, 53,1251* 
square feet of pies daily. 
— The total taxable property of Texas, for the year 1860, 
amounts to $291,827,684. 
— Glass was broken in 2.800 houses, in I-eipsc, by the hail 
on the 27th of November, 
— Mr. Pickens, the new Governor of South Carolina, was 
tbe late Minister to Russia. 
— The total amoont of the State debt of Pennsylvania, 
Dec. 1st, 1860. was $37,969,000. 
— Calcium lights have been tried on the New York skating 
pond, and are found to succeed. 
— The library of the Mechanics’ Institute at Quebec, has 
been sold to pay for rent and gas. 
— The receipts of grain of all kinds in Chicago, since Jan. * 
1st, amount to 34,375,00(1 bushels. 
— Tbe Jamaica people are discussing the policy of annexing 
that colony to the United States. 
— Fremont’s mines in Mariposa yielded the amount of 
$11,833 in gold bars, in six days’ run. 
— Dorothea Dix, the philanthropist, is in New Jersey, 
visiting the prisons and poor houses. 
— Within a few weeks, Home 1,700 negroes from the coast 
of Africa have been landed in Cuba. 
— Garibaldi’* Island of Caprera lies near to Elba and 
Corsica, and contains 2,600 inhabitants. 
— A woolen factory him been started at Cleveland, Ohio. 
It i* the first of the kind at tknt place. 
— The total cotton crop of North Carolina for the last year 
was 182,007 bales, valued at $9,000,000. 
— White oak is the newest substitute for whalebone in 
umbrella ribs, and 1* said to be superior. 
— The revenue of the Inland of Jamaica shows an increase 
on the year ending October 30, of $80,000. 
— Forty thousand head of cattle, worth $1,600,000, have 
been sent East from Jowa, in the past year. 
— The Trumansbtirg News tells of a man who now reside* 
in Ulysses, Tompkin* Co., who is 108 years old. 
— About one hundred and fifty thousand sheep have been 
driven out of Vermont and sold since July last. 
— The policemen of New York have a line of 803.?* miles 
to gnard. A force of 400 more men is asked for. 
— Gold, in considerable quantities, has been discovered at 
San Juan, in the Rio Grande District, New Mexico. 
— The Brazilian Corvette Dona was lost on the coast of 
Morocco, with 22 of her officer*, and 100 of her crew. 
— Another English Prince will shortly visit this country. 
U is Prince Alfred, the second son of Queen Victoria, 
— The Prince of Wales ha* kept a diary of all his adventures 
in the cities of British America and the United States. 
— It is stated that a Certain military tailor in Paris has 
received an order to prepare 3,000 Hungai i:m uniform*. 
— The once national and popular air, Yankee Doodle, was 
hissed in the Memphis (Tenn.) Theater, the other night. 
— A smart Yankee is coining money in Havana, by a 
microscope and telescope, stationed in the Plaza d’Armas. 
— Ralph Earn ham, the last survivor of the battle of Bunker 
Hill, died last week, aged 104 year*, 6 months, and 19 days 
— The number of matches manufactured in the United 
Stales, daily, is estimated ut 35,700,000; at a cost of $3,000. 
— One John Burnham, of Wisconsin, it is said, has just 
Inherited a fortune of $22,000,000 from an English ancestor. 
— In Boston, there is a woman eight feet high, and large in 
proportion. She is estimated to weigh upward of 600 pound*. 
— Within one week, four persons died in Danville, VL, 
whose united ages were 321 years; one was 79, two 80, and 
one 82. 
— A few of the English provincial papers think the election 
of Lincoln one of the effect* of the visit of the Prince of 
Wales 
— The bill to abolish slavery in Nebraska passed the 
Legislature of that Territory, on the 10th ult., by a vote of 
35 to 2. 
— From return* received from the towns in Massachusetts, 
about 33.000 dogs were licensed in 1859. paying a tax of 
$36,00(1. 
— California possesses 400 saw mill*, erected at a cost of 
$2,500,000. One-half are propelled by steam, the remainder 
by water. 
— The sum total of subscriptions received by the committee 
in New- York, for the relief of tho Syrian sufferers, is 
$25,979.93. 
— There are now on the Atlantic ocean no less than ten 
ocean mail steamers, on their way to New York, Boston, and 
Portland. 
— The annual trade in snails, during the days of ancient 
Rome, is said to have reached, in our money, a value of 
$4,000,000. 
— While boring for oil at Youngstown, Ohio, a vein of salt 
water was struck, three quart* of which produced a teacupful 
of fine salt. 
— It is cHtimated that, on the 1st iust., there will be 400 
miles of railroad in Texas, and still the work has but fairly 
commenced. 
— A hand car, containing 20 laborers, was run into by a 
locomotive on the Hackensack road, on the 19th ult., and one 
person killed. 
_The number of slaves in Maryland is found to have been 
diminished more than 16.000 since 1850. The whole number 
is about 75.000. 
_An English Baronet is now a gas fitter in New York. 
His name is William Norwick, —perhaps we ought to say Sir 
William Norwick. 
_Every year France imports between 11,000 and 12,000 
horses, at an expense of about 18,000,000 franc*, and still the 
supply fall* short. 
— An English company have proposed to the Italian 
Government to establish a regular steamboat service between 
Italy and America. 
— Forty-two young Persians, between the ages of 14 and 30, 
are now pursuing the regular course of studies in the various 
colleges of Fi ance. 
_William Henry Ovenden, the British Consul, died at 
Baltimore, cm Monday week, of a disease of the brain brought 
on by a severe cold. 
— The dying advice of the empress dowager of Russia is 
reported to have been:—‘ Don’t, Alexander, don't make any 
alliance with Austria.” 
— The British Queen’s thanks to the American people for 
their kindness to her son have been communicated by laird 
Lyon to Secretary Can*. 
— The surgeon to the London Zoological Society recently 
successfully extracted a broken tooth from the jaw of the 
large male hippopotamus. 
— The Georgia House has passed a bill compelling negroe* 
to make choice of a master by the 1st of May, 1861, or be sold 
by the sheriff into slavery. 
— The corouer of New Orleans reports 85 murders during 
tho year. 32 suicides, 109 accidental deaths. 79 deaths from 
intemperance, and 105 cases of drowning. 
— On Thursday week, a large black bear was mutilated by 
the cow-catcher of a locomotive near Wheeling, Va., and 
subsequently killed. He weighed 280 pounds. 
