NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
The Rook for the Time*--.!. W. Bradley. 
Fruit and Ornamental Troon lor Spring of 3861 — Ellwanger k 
Barry. 
Howard's New Mower— U. I,, fiowani. 
Hailey s Original lockage* ot Stationery and Jewelry—J. L. 
Bailey. 
Wheeler* Wilson * Improved FamilvScwinp Machines — S. 
W. I)il>Me, Ay* ot, 
<’amMi,-er» Wanted -Dick *i Fitzgerald. 
New t’n , nlioga (imja-i- 0, 1’. Biwell k Salter. 
Experienced arid Reliable Agents Wanted. 
Farm for Sab- or to Rent— A. N. Wright. 
Agents Wanted 1' Beech. 
Apple Seeds for Sale- ,I. Rapaljc. 
Farm for Sale Cheap I, Van Deuaen 
HI'BCtAL NOTICES. 
Brown’s Troches for Public Speaker- 
thin )iH tlie reply to his deraaud, that the occupation 
of Fort Sumter jb no cause for irritation, but a pro- 
and to this principle he should stand forever. When 
I came here 1 took an oath to maintain the Constitu- 
tection to Carolina, is ironical for a grave subject. If tion of the United States. Does not that mean the 
let 
the responsibility rests on Carolina, that government 
is unconscious of the fact.' 1 
The President has approved and signed the $25,- 
(100,000 loan which passed both Houses as originally 
reported, with amendments providing that the reve¬ 
nue from the Joan authorized by the act of June, 
1W0, or so much as may be deemed necessary, shall 
be applied to the redemption of treasury notes issued 
under the act of December, and for no other purpose. 
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to ex¬ 
change at. par the bonds of the United States for said 
Treasury notes at legal interest and shall not be 
obliged to accept the most favorable bids as provided 
Union of the States? By that oath I shall stand. 
Whenever my immediate constituents instruct me to 
withdraw from the House, their wishes shall be com¬ 
plied with. I shall, however, not only withdraw, but 
resign my seat, hut after I do so, I shall continue to 
be a Union man, and stand under the flag of the 
country that gave me birth. 
The Speaker laid before the House a message from 
the President, inclosing a resolution from the Ken¬ 
tucky Legislature, which asks Congress to call a 
National Convention to amend the Constitution. He 
commends the proposition. 
The House proceeded to the consideration of the 
NEWS DEPARTMENT. the United States, and any portion of said loan not 
— taken under the first advertisement, he may advertise 
ROCHESTER, X. Y„ FEBRUARY 16 , 1861 . according to his discretion. 
- .— -- - — — By reason of the receipt of information of the 
DOMESTIC NEWS seizure of New 1 ork ships at Savannah, together 
with the recent action of the New Orleans Custom 
A flairs at Washington. House, in obstructing the interior commerce, in effect 
Tuk Peace Convention organized according to levying tribute, and the declaration of tin; Montgom- 
the programme, and has thus far been conducted wit h cry Congress in opening the Southern ports free to 
closed doors. On the 6th iust., a resolution was in- foreign commerce, John Cochrane of New York will 
trod need proposing to conduct the proceedings with ca " «p and press to a passage the bill introduced 
open doors. It was earnestly debated. The result heretofore by him providing for tlie thorough cxecu- 
was a restriction upon Commissioners cornmunicat- Don of the Federal Revenue laws for the protection 
ing their doings to outside parties. The Commis- of the commercial interests of the nation against 
sioners are social, harmonious, hut arc yet discussing flagitious attacks upon them by the seceding States, 
no movements looking to practical results. 
The nomination of Judge Pettit for Judge of the Congressional Proceedings. 
District of Kansas has been determined upon. Senate,—A message was received from the Presi- 
Secretary of State Black will probably soon be dent, transmitting from the Governor of Kentucky 
nominated as Associate Justice ol the Supreme Court resolutions applying to Congress to call a Convention 
in place ol Justice Daniels, deceased. to present amendments to the Constitution. The 
Steam frigates Colorado, Mississippi, and Minneso- President said it afforded him great pleasure to per 
ta, now at Boston, and the ltoanoake, at Brooklyn, form this duty. He felt confident that Congress 
are at once to be put in requisition for service, con- would act with" the consideration to which the reso- 
nected with collection of revenue at certain ports lotions are entitled, on account of their patriotic 
where the same can not he collected by the usual gource, as well as great imnortauce. The sublet 
for, unless he shall consider them advantageous to bill re-organizing the Patent Office, and amending 
the United States, and any portion of said loan not the Patent Laws. It came from the Senate last ses- 
taken under the first advertisement, he may advertise sion, and was now passed by the House with ainend- 
acoordiug to his discretion. j ments, 
By reason of the receipt of information of the An amendment appropriating $125,000 for the pnr- 
seizure of New York ships at Savannah, together chase of the Wendell establishment for a public 
with the recent action of the New Orleans Custom printing office, was debated and adopted. 
The tellers to count votes for President and Vice- 
President, are Trumbull of the Senate, and Wash- 
hum, of Illinois, and Phelps in the House. 
Several Alabama Post-Masters declined to render 
accounts, saying they would wait the action of their 
States. 
Additional evidence continues to he received of 
violation of private correspondence in the South. 
The President’s course in relation to the proposi¬ 
tion of Hay no was similar to that towards the former 
Commissioners, that he had no authority to treat 
for disposition of the forts and other public prop¬ 
erty. It was his duty to defend them to the best of 
his ability, and tho consequences must fall upon those 
who attack them. 
(Jov. Letcher, of Yu., was on the floor of the House 
on the tlth Inst., and was greeted byj.members from 
the North and South. He expresses the opinion that 
Virginia will accept no plan of Compromise guaran¬ 
teeing less than the Crittenden propositions, and 
adds that the Virginia Convention will recommend 
secession as their ultimate action unless that is com¬ 
plied with. 
The following in relation to the revenue cutter 
Robert McClelland, which was surrendered to the 
State of Louisiana, is derived from an official source. 
The cutler is one of the largest and best in the revenue 
service, just rebuilt ftud refitted. Her commander 
of the commercial interests of the nation against 
flagitious attacks upon them by the seceding States. 
Congressional Proceedings. 
Senate,— A message was received from the Presi¬ 
dent, transmitting from the Governor of Kentucky 
resolutions applying to Congress to call a Convention 
to present amendments to the Constitution. The 
President said it afforded him great pleasure to per 
form this duty. He felt confident that Congress 
would act with the consideration to which the reso¬ 
lutions are entitled, on account of their patriotic 
source, as well as great importance. The subject was 
laid on the table. 
Mr. Wigfall offered a resolution inquiring of the 
President why troops were concentrated in the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia. Mr. Pearce advocated the resolu¬ 
tion, which passed. 
A bill to provide a government for Idaho, was 
taken tip. Mr. Crecn’s amendment changing the 
Mr. Colfax called up a hill to suspend mail service 
in seceding States, which, after debate, was passed— 
131 against 2C. 
The House passed a hill for the adjustment of the 
claims of the Puget Sound Agricultural Co., under 
the treaty of Great Britain. It authorizes persons re¬ 
siding In Wasington Territory, within one year, to 
make application for confirmation of the title to the 
lands claimed by them. 
The Speaker laid before the House the message of 
the President, inclosing the correspondence between 
himself and Col. Hayne, of Booth < arollna. Referred 
te a select committee of live, and ordered printed. 
On motion of Mr. Boteler, a resolution was adopted 
requesting the President to communicate to the 
House the correspondence between our Government 
and that of Peru since 1854, on the subject of the free 
navigation of the Amazon and its tributaries. Adj. 
Legislature of New York. 
Senate.— The Virginia Commission Resolutions 
were taken up. Mr. Montgomery offered an amend¬ 
ment expressing a willingness to unite with the 
legislature of Virginia and other States, in an appli. 
cation for a Convention to assemble at an early day, 
to propose amendments to the Constitution for ratifi¬ 
cation by the several States. After a protracted 
boundary, was adopted. On motion of Mr. Wilson, session, the resolutions on the Virginia propositions 
the name was changed to Colorado. The bill passed, were amended by adding the names of John A. King 
Mr. Pearce reported the deficiency hill, with tho and Gen. Wool to the Commissioners, and then passed. 
House amendment, and recommended the Senate to 
insist on their amendments, and asking for a Com¬ 
mittee of Conference. Agreed to. 
The President sent a message to both Houses, 
giving the correspondence between himself and Col. 
Hayne, Ilayne's letter of Januaty 31, after stating 
the refusal to surrender Fort Sumter to he the occa¬ 
sion for war, and stating the question to be one of 
mere property, he says:—If the evils of war are to be 
encountered, especially the calamities of civil war, 
elevated statesmanship would seem to require that it 
The hill appropriating $50(1,000 to arm the State 
came up as special order, and was passe d. 
Mr. Hammond introduced a resolution asking the 
Convention at Washington to sit with open doors. 
Adopted. 
Thurlow Weed was appointed Commissioner to 
V ashington, under the Virginia resolutions, in place 
Of Addison Gardiner, declined. 
Assembly. — Reports on the Institution for the 
Blind, and criminal statistics of the State were sent in. 
The Governor presented resolutions from the 
to New Orleans and Mobile, to save if possible the 
two cutters in service there, ('apt. Morrison, a 
Georgian, commanding the Lewis Cuss, at Mobile, 
must have surrendered her before Mr. Jones' arrival. 
On the 29th of January the Secretary received the 
following telegraph dispatch from Mr. Jones: 
•' -Nkw Orleans, Jan. 29th. 
il To the lion. J. A. I fix. Sri 1 / qf the T/'raru ri/: 
“ Capt. Breshwood has refused positively, iu writ¬ 
ing, to obey any instructions of the Department. In 
this I am sure he is sustained by the Collector, and I 
believe acts by his advice. What must I do? 
“Signed, • W. H. Jones.” 
To this dispatch Secretary Dix immediately re¬ 
turned the following answer: 
“Tkeascky Dkcartmk.vt, Jan. 29 th. 
"To if in. II Jours. .Yno OrUnns : 
"Tell Lieut. Caldwell to arrest Capt. Breshwood, 
to assume command of the cut ter, and obey the order 
through you. If Capt. Breshwood, a Iter'arrest, un¬ 
dertakes to Interfere with the command of the cutter, 
tell Lieut. Caldwell to consider him a mutineer ami 
treat him accordingly. It any one attempts to haul 
down the American Hag, shoot him oil the spot. 
Jons A. Dix, Bec'y of Troa’s.” 
This dispatch it, is said must have been intercepted 
-both at Montgomery and Ncw^Orlcims, and withheld 
from Mr. Jones, nml.that the conduct of Capt. Bresh¬ 
wood was consummated by means of a complicity on 
the part of the telegraph line with the States of Ala¬ 
bama, and Louisiana, whichJatter State has accepted 
the cutter. 
The telegraph this (Monday) morning states that jeeted to the exercise of the right of eminent domain, 
the impression in Washington among gentlemen who hut il has political relations to it of a mnob higher 
are well acquainted with the^subject, is that no appre¬ 
hension need ho sustained relative-to an immediate 
attack on Fort Sumter, as that question will he refer¬ 
red to a Southern Congress. Meanwhile the South 
Carolina authorities will keep strict guard of the 
coast to intercept any attempt to reinforce Major 
Anderson. All domestic supplies and mail facilities 
arc to be denied and every possible means taken to 
weaken and starve out the garrison. 
The testimony of Lx-Senator Benjamin before the 
Indiana Bond Committee is said to have been very 
direct and damaging to Secretary Floyd. He assorts 
that when he became accidentally aware of Floyd’s 
manner of giving acceptances, lie warned him against 
it, and Floyd promised to desist. Afterwards Floyd 
issued them to the amount of $4-,000,000. 
should be accepted as an u.mvotdable alternative pf Kentucky and Minnesota Legislatures, which were 
something still more disastrous-such as National ordered entered on the journal and printed 
dishonor, or measures materially affecting the safety The Governor also transmitted a letter i’rom John 
or permanent, interests ol the people, that it should A. Dix, asking the passage of a bill to authorize the 
a a choice < eli irately made and entered upon, and indorsement of tho State to United States bonds to 
of set purpose; but that war should be incident or the amount of deposit fund in this State. On motion 
accident attendant upon policy professedly peaceful, of Mr. Robinson Uw letter was referred to the Com 
and not required to effect the object which was mittee on Ways Means 
avowed -us the only end intended, can only he ex- The Assombl/Tu o’clock, on the 5th inst in 
cnse.d where no warning has been given as to eonae- accordance with lav. proceeded to nominate a candi- 
quences. South ( urolina cannot, by her silence, dab- for United Stales Senator in place of William 
appear to acquiesce in the imputation that she is II. Seward. Ira Harris, of Albany, was nominated 
guilty of an act of unprovoked aggression iu tiring by all the Republicans except ADthony Field Finch 
on the Star of tin- West. Though an unarmed vessel, and Rice, absentees; Pender^ not v oi g' ‘ ^ 
^irhritT < TtT’. e " tCring ^ ti0 «* Oneida, was nominated Ly all the 
against he. v.II. Gov 1 icken s instructions to him Democrats except Cozzans, not voting, and Long 
aceompauied Hayne’" letter. OdeH and Woodruff, absent. For Harris 88* Bey- 
i ecietary Holt lOplicd on the 0th, acknowledging mour .Tl 
the President', receipt of Hajoc’s letter. He but The lion* then „„„,i„ated E. W. Leavenworth 
55 V., a auunitary of ilayne « instruction., which arc „,d .1. Carson Brcvoort, for liceents of tl.e Univer- 
° ‘ I! \ e CC ... »'ty. in Place of David Buell and George B. Checver. 
do not come as a military man to demand a the Democratic vote being cast for Jeremiah W 
mirrondc, of tbo lortress. l,„t as „ l. e .l .miner, a, the Camming, . .I„l„, D. Willard. The two lions,. 
Nate Attorney to claim for tho State the tl.en went into Joint session, tho nominations iX 
exercise of .» undoubted right of eminent domain, found to agree l,a ..is was duly “to 2 
and to pledge the - late to make good all injury to the United Staten Senate, and Leavenworth and lirevoort 
rights of property which arise from the exercise of Regents of the I nivereity 
the claim.” J 
The proposition, therefore, is to buy Fort Sumter, The Secession .Movement, 
sustained by a declaration in effect that it Smith r, ... 
. ..... , ” 1 11 011111 1 he Secessionists met at Montgomerv Alabama 
Carolina is not permitted to make a purchase she „ „ luu,u b OI,lor L Aianama, 
... - . , .. „ ]*>"eu.isL, sue on the 4th inst. II. W. Barnwell was chosen chtir- 
wiil seize thefort by lorce of arms. As an invitation ... , . . . " cnosen cnair- 
t ,i . .. „ man pro tern. An impressive p raver was off-red bv 
lor tlo- negotiation for the transfer of m-onei-iv of * * 10,111 
. . ,, ,. 1 P ,,, J , tny oi j{ ag ji Manley, (in motion of R It Rhett ii„ w «n 
friendly Governments, this proposal impresses the . , ' KIKU ’ ll0 " e11 
D . . . , , . ' 1 1 u " Coho wus elected as permanent President hv •n ehi- 
Presidcnt ns having assumed a most unusual form 4 , , lesioem ny aeua 
lie has. however, investigate! the claim on which ii “ «»« <'>“« *« 1«" 
propose. be baaed. Apart the daeiarsiim, ^Vr V 'Son If L )^ ^ 
that accompanies it, the title of the United States , ’ , , ’ 
to the first is complete and incontrovertible. Now , C °f-?n T 1 , witl * CloHcd doors and 
as to its interest in the property proprietory in the 1 }’ ?, ,be D-'^actions have leaked out, 
ordinary acceptation of the term: It might he sub- 55 ™ ,T" the S,! ' ! ' ( ''" lstitutiori Vro- 
iected to the exercise of the right of eminent domain ^. ioua ^ Government were unanimously agreed upon. 
but it has political relations to it of a much higher ‘ T* g0V,Mnmcnt wiU 
and more imposing character than those of men- fi x operation with full power and ample 
— H !'«- s .iurisdictioi. .over the struct*n ^iilTe^Le" " rCC ° U ' 
sompatib'le' witli "elaims oTlUrt dolt^TWa J "TT" ? T'* °“ * ^ & 
LUthonty is derived from the peaceful cession of South federaev 0 'Ji'ieru ton 
Carolina herself, under provisions of the Constitution T .„ V,‘ -, . A 
•r the United States. South Carolina can no more nn ( !f T 1 appo,nt Committee8 
issert the right of eminent domain over Sumter than T’ f lia,ice -and naval, postal, 
Maryland can over the District of Columbia/ The ^ ^ of Mi88 ” 
ii*i ,• . was then elected President, and Hon. \. H Stenliens 
resident, however, is relieved from Iiirthornecessity ... ., , , . 1 ■> 
, ,i- , * , * of t,a., \ ice President of the Southern Confederacy 
■f prosei-utnig this mqniry, from the fact that he has ti.,. y ' 
. . , i he vote was unanimous, 
lot the constitutional power to cede or surrender it. , 
ti A lesolution was adopted for a committee of three 
Tho question of reinforcing Sumter was so fnily . 1 . " 0 ree 
, . - Alabama Deputies to report on what terms suitable 
lisposed of in my letter of January 22d, to Senator v,.:iau - ». * * terms muwoio 
.pa ii . k . builcJmgs in Montgomery for the use of the several 
•hoell, acojjy ot whieJ» ftccompauies this, that \u i > * z* ^ „ . * , 
departments of the Provisional Government ran he 
liscnssion need not be renewed. 1 then said:—- At obtained 'lovtrnmeni can oe 
he present moment, it is not deemed necessary to .., . , . „ 
einforce Major Anderson, because he makes no sue). ? m "T g ,D f ° rCe until 
cones,. Si, odd his ^ i,.. op attered by the ^ Congress, all 
and more imposing character than those of mere 
proprietorship. It has absolute jurisdiction .over the 
fort and soil on which it stands, which is clearly in¬ 
compatible witli claims of eminent domain. This 
authority is derived from the peaceful cession of South 
Carolina herself, under provisions of the Constitution 
ol ttie United States. South Carolina can no more 
assert the right of eminent domain over Sumter, than 
Maryland can over the District of Columbia. The 
President, however, is relieved from further necessity 
of prosecuting this inquiry, from the fact that lie has 
uot the constitutional power to cede or surrender it, 
The question of reinforcing Sumter was so fully 
disposed of in my letter of January 22d. to Senator 
Slidell, a copy of which accompanies this, that its 
issued them to tl.e amount of $4,000,000. discussion need not be renewed. 1 tl.en said:-- At obtained . ^ wovernmem can oe 
Col. liayno, in reply to the President, on the Oth the present moment, it is not deemed necessary to _, 
inst, says;--Although an emphatic refusal to my reinforce Major Anderson, because ha makes no such - * , d ‘ . / '‘7 , t '" ntllilu,,g ’ n ° rCe unt '[ 
demand closes my mission, I desire a correct request. Should his safety, however, require rein- i. 1W s in force in tin iTn’t . / // ( ^ '* on k ross > a 
impression in prevail that Souih Carolina wished to forcemeuts, every effort will be made to supply them.” /* nvpn ,, T , . _ f ° n \ * 8t 01 
purchase Sumter. South Carolina would make com- The Vice-President announced that he had received a tariir '/ill' v i i.f i'' n' "" i un , ' r . 1 is law 
pensation alone lor the properly, but the idea of the resolutions of the Democratic State Convention lJnited Rtateg ' 0D “ g00f S broogIlt froru the 
purchasing it entirely ig inconsistent with the asser- of Ohio. Objection was made to their reception, on . „ , . .. A 
tion of the paramount right in the purchaser. South the ground that they were not specially addressed to /'/•'■ / 10 f v ' tisA op e >'is meting tie < ommit- 
Carolina claims to have dissolved her political con- the Senate. After some discussion, the resolutions 1 venue fn^tl 6 1 ”' < ' tn! ' tl - v a t:irin f ° r rai8ing 
nection and destroyed all political relations with were received. Yeas 33-nays 14. revenue fo. the support of the Government. 
your Government, with everything within her bor- The Naval Appropriation hill was taken up and '7 * C " ’’' . ns / °” Veu,lon Se¬ 
ders. She is a separate and independent Govern- passed, when the Senate adjourned till Monday "f w T the Centra » Gov ’ 
__ J ernment at Washington for postal arramrements and 
™L ?ZTT W ',T y "ri *“ *••'Tavlor K . n , to the Clerk', teble the the future te be provide,! lor hv the SouthernC 
except fort Biunter. Ihe avowed intention to hold Louisiana ordinance of secession, which was read, gress. Resolutions were passed ‘indorsing the action 
i ziz rrr: Mr - T - ,ook ,cave “ f *• ° f u,e u °' ngmy - 
course to be pursued. He asks tl.e President if he is Mr. Bouligney, another of the Louisiana Represen- Stephens'! ° gU '‘ S " ’ ” ' 1 " h ° n ° r °‘ 1,ftV>S a “ d 
aware that holding fortresses by a foreign power tatives, made an explanation that he had not received Pensacola advices of the 2d are received V truce 
£T „ " W b - «f «>e ordinance of ***** Ho ha,I boon condoled between Uen, Simmer and Z 
i C ! D 5 oHcred ‘ sa * vs houUl ' arolina was not elated by the Convention, and would not State forces. The Mississippians were to start for 
does not wish Fort teumter because of a misplaced be governed by their action. He was the only ruem- j home on the 4th. The Alabama troops remain until 
confidence in a government which deceived her. He her of Congress elected as an American Union man, relieved. 
November last. It is understood that under Ibis law 
a tariff will be laid on all goods brought from the 
United States. 
A resolution was adopted instructing the Commit¬ 
tee on Finance to report promptly a tariff for raising 
revenue for the support of the Government. 
Louisiana. — The New Orleans Convention de¬ 
cided for the present to recognize the Central G'ov- 
ernment at Washington for postal arrangements, and 
the future to be provided lor by the Southern Con¬ 
gress. Resolutions were passed indorsing the action 
and appointments of the Montgomery Congress, and 
a salute of lOrt guns were fired in honor of Davis and 
Stephens. 
Pensacola advices of the 2d are received. A truce 
had been concluded between Lieut. Slimmer and the 
State forces. The Mississippians were to start for 
home on the 4th. The Alabama troops remain until 
relieved. 
Texas. — The Texas convention met at Austin bn 
the 28th. The ordinance of Recession passed on the 
1 I 166 to 7. The Governor, Legislative Supreme 
( ourt Judges and Commissioners were present. It 
is to be voted on the 23d of Feb., and if adopted, to 
| go into effect on March 2d. The Governor recog¬ 
nises the Convention. The people declare their at¬ 
tachment to the South, and desire a joint Southern 
l Confederacy, and if none is formed, will form the 
Republic of Texas. 
Virginia. — Very few delegates elected are sub- 
missionists. They intend to exhanst every honorable 
i means, but will go for secession unless the Southern 
rights are fully guaranteed. If the peace congress 
fails to effect a settlement, the convention will doubt¬ 
less refer the question to the people. 
Nokth Carolina. — The House, on the 4th inst., 
passed unanimously a resolution declaring that in 
case reconciliation fails, North Carolina goes with 
the other Slave States. 
The Late Storm. 
On Wednesday, the 6th inst., we were visited by a 
storm which has not had a parallel for many years. 
I he fall of snow was not very heavy in this immedi¬ 
ate vicinity, hat the wind blew with such force us to 
cause drifts which laid a complete embargo upon 
mails, railroads, etc.. The storm culminated during 
Thursday night, when the thermometers hereabouts 
indicated 13 or l b below zero, according to position. 
The storm hud a wide range as we are informed by 
telegraph. Rock Island, 2"; Chicago, 14°; Kala¬ 
mazoo, 5* below; Buffalo, «“ below; Nurida, 20° 
below; Oswego, 23* below; Utica, 30° below; Al¬ 
bany, 20 below; Ogdensburgh, 38° below; Water- 
town, 40° below; and thus it varied all through New 
York State. At Albany on the 7th, the thermom¬ 
eter at noon stood at 38' ; at 7 o’clock P. M., zero; 
at 11, 10“ below zero; on the 8th, 7 A. M., 28" below 
zero was observed by the registering thermometer — 
showing a fall of (i(! degrees iu 10 hours, and the 
lowest point on the record since the winter of 18.55, 
when the same thermometer, in the same position, 
marked 27 degrees below zero. The barometer rose 
about 11 inches during the same time, in N. Y. city 
the gale was very furious, unrooffing buildings, blow¬ 
ing down trees, chimneys, Ac., but it lacked the cold¬ 
ness observable in other portions. The telegraph from 
Baltimore stated that the gale unroofed thirty houses. 
Walls and chimneys were demolished and trees up¬ 
rooted. Tide lowered three feet. 
In Canada the thermometer indicated at various 
points from 10* 1o 40' below zero. There was much 
more snow than in New York. Tho telegraph from 
Collingwood on the 8tli, said, “The weather is 
clear. Snow 8 feet deep in drifts of half a mile. 
Thermometer 11" below.” 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Great Britain. — The London Times in another 
editorial on the American crisis, is very hitter on 
President Buchanan. It says few men who have 
been called upon to play so important a political 
part have been found so utterly unequal to their 
situation. 
A prospectus had been issued of an India Cotton 
Company. It is proposed to establish agencies. It 
is proposed to purchase cotton of the growers direct, 
and to endeavor to improve the nrocess of picking 
and cleaning by machinery. . 
An influential meeting took /lace at Manchester to 
deviRc measures to relieve the cotton trade of the 
anxiety resulting from their dependence on the 
Southern States of America, Resolutions were 
passed recommending efforts commensurate with the 
danger, and approving the steps taken for the forma¬ 
tion ot a Cotton Supply Co. Several American 
vessels were registered at Liverpool under the British 
flag, to enable them to carry salt to South Carolina, 
and return with cotton, without fear of capture. 
Franck. The proceedings in the Senate and 
Legislature are ordered and placed at the disposal of 
each journal every evening. 
France, it is said, l« making extraordinary military 
and naval preparations. The excuse is the menacing 
attitude of Denmark and the speech of the King of 
Prussia. There is great activity in the French 
arsenals and forts. A camp at Chalons is to he 
formed early in the spring, consisting of 00,000 men 
under Marshall McMahon. There was uncommon 
activity at Toulon arsenal, as the government intends 
sending three or four fleets to sea, together with 
twenty steel-clad frigates. 
Italy. —The batteries of Gaeta unexpectedly 
opened, on the morning of the 22d, a heavy fire 
against the Sardinians. The latter promptly replied 
and compelled the place to remain silent and the 
heseigers continued the lire. Fourteen vessels were 
before Gaels. At noon on the 22d the fleet got into 
line. The Sardinians are actively erecting new 
batteries. 
Garibaldi calls for fresh donations to procure the 
necessary means for facilitating to Victor Emanuel 
the enfranchisement of the rest of Italy, The Vigil¬ 
ance Committee are urged to penetrate every Italian 
with the idea that in spring Italy must have a million 
of patriots under arms. 
ArsTiuA—Has issued au official ordinance relative 
to the 30,0(10,000 florins loan already announced, 
Spain. —Rumors have been current of disturbances 
in certain provinces in Spaiu, but the Correspondence 
Autographa says that they arc unfounded. 
Denmark. —Tho Denmark Minister of Marine 
ordered the equipment of 22 steamers. The reserved 
corps of sailors are ordered to assemble the 1st of 
March. A committee is appointed to purchase gun 
boats, 
Hanover. — A dispatch says the last difficulty in 
reference to the redemption of the State dues is 
removed. 
India and China.— Tien Tsin dates are to Novem¬ 
ber 21st. An installment of the Admiralty had been 
paid. A great part of the expedition have arrived 
at Hong Kong. Twenty-live hundred English troops 
and a quota of French troops were left at Tien Tsin. 
Lord Elgin and Hope Grant arrived at Shanghai, 
December 4th, und on the 7th both started for Japan. 
The Peiho was completely frozen up. Baron Gros 
and Mr. Ward had been at Canton. A steamer had 
been up the inland waters near Canton with perfect 
safety. The rebels were still in force and gained 
strength. The Yamgts was much infested with 
pirates. 
Calcutta dates are to December 30th. Monster 
meetings had been held protesting against the 
Government gift to Tippoo Saltan's descendants. 
Troops had been ordered to Daugeling. 
Commercial Intelligence — Breadstuff s. — Wakefield, 
Nash A: Co.. Richardson. .Spence & Co.. Riglaml, Althva K 
Co., report (lour dull, and a decline of tkjgjls per barrel ou 
the week. Quotations 28sd(l(a}31efld. Wheat dull. ld@M per 
centum lower Red western 11 s(l 13. Corn dull and declined 
6dw9d since Tuesday; mixed ;t0s9d(a3Ts; yellow 30s<gi39B6d. 
1‘rorisions. —I’ork dull. Lat'd Steady. 
JTcrue Conbettser. 
— The debt of Virginia now exceeds $32,000,000. 
— Liquor sielling has been entirely stopped in Harden, Iowa. 
The English Duke of Athol has a deer pasture of 400,000 
acres. 
— The Great Eastern is undergoing repairs at Milford Haven, 
England. 
— The St. Louis cathedral spire, in Louisville, Ky., is 286 
feet high. 
— Diptheria is making sad ravages in Hancock and Franklin 
counties, Me. 
— State of Kentucky leases its State Penitentiary now for 
$8,000 a year. 
The Capital of Washington Territory has been removed 
to Vancouver. 
All the free negroes have been driven out of Charleston, 
South Carolina. 
The Postmaster at Mobile denies that letters have been 
violated in his office. 
Three deaths of children in New Vork, Thursday week, 
from burns and scaldB. 
The next State Fair of the Illinois Agricultural Society 
is to be held in Chicago. 
— Seventy thousand persons are employed in connection 
with the French railroads. 
The cultivation of cotton in Asiatic Turkey is receiving 
some attention in England. 
— Rev. Mr. Spencer lost all his five children in a fortnight, 
by diptheria, at Pawlet, Vt. 
— There are 0,000 miles of canal in Great Britain, represent¬ 
ing a capital of $200,000,000. 
— The Florida volunteers, under Col. Chase, are said to 
have retired from Pensacola. 
— Ex-Secretary Cobb was defeated as a candidate to the 
Georgia seceding convention. 
— A family which applied to a charitable society in New- 
buryport for aid, keep. 17 cat*! 
— In Providence. R. I., during the year 1S60, 102 persons 
died, aged 70 years und upward. 
Last year’s wheat crop of the six Northwestern States 
is estimated at 94,000,000 bushels. 
1 here are in London 36 refuges, homes, and industrial 
schools—15 for boys and 21 for girls. 
The earnings of the N. Y. State prisons last year were 
$238,627, and the expenses $282,705. 
— Mrs. Burch died recently at Junius, N. Y., aged 112 
years. She. was married 90 years ago. 
— The military force of Pennslyvania is 355,000 men, of 
whom 19,000 are uniformed volunteers. 
The plague is said to be raging in the Southern parts of 
Asia, hundreds of deaths occurring daily. 
— The grand jury at Washington have letters which fasten 
complicity upon Floyd in the bonds robbery 
Timothy Maloney, editor of the Tompkins County Demo¬ 
crat, died of consumption, Wednesday week. 
— A plan is being adopted for lighting the ships in the 
British navy with gas, manufactured on board. 
On the 31st of Dec. last, there was, in the New York 
State Treasury, u cash balance of $5,040,470 99. 
The quantity of gold, silver, copper, and bronze coin¬ 
age, in Great Britain, i* valued at $45,000,000,000. 
A brilliant meteor paaseil over Bermuda, Jan. 5, explod¬ 
ing some distance from land with u terrific report. 
— The census marshals of New York return 32 cases of 
intermarriage between whites and colored persons. 
— A proposition to erect a marble statue to Ex-Gov. Banks 
has been rejected by the Massachusetts Legislature. 
— A young man. who, two years ago, inherited $70,000, is 
now posting bills at Chicago. Rum has ruined bim 
— By letters from Liberia, December 15, it appears that the 
Liberian Republic bail captured two slave schooners. 
I be Savings Banks in Rhode Island have deposits to the 
amount of $9,163,760 in the names of 35,406 persons. 
— It is said the Pope has recently disposed of some line 
works of art, from the Vatican, to the Emperor of Rnesia 
— The measles are now prevailing in Kllicottville, N. Y., 
to such an extent that all the schools there have been closed. 
— There is some talk of a reduction iu the postage rates 
between France and England, from four pence to two pence. 
— A boy was- iu prison, iu New York, from Saturday night 
to Monday morning, for stealing a pickle, valued at half a 
cent. 
— The house in which Thomas Jefferson was born, at 
Shadwell Depot, Albemarle Co., Ya was burned on Thursday 
week. 
— Hon. Allen Ayrault, a leading politician and agricul¬ 
turist of Livingston count)', died at Genesee, on Monday 
week. 
— The oyster-packing trade of Baltimore, for the year 
I860, reached the sum of three and a half million dollars in 
value. 
— A diseuse, something like the black tongue, lues made 
its appearance, recently, among the horses and cattle of lies 
Moines. 
A little boy in Oxford, Mass., a few days ago, fell into a 
pig-sty, and was dreadfully mangled by a hog before he was 
rescued. • 
— Draidioal remains, similar to those iu Ireland, and the 
hoar-stones of England and Scotland, liuve been discovered 
in India. 
— Two Jewish converts, of the name of Leman, have 
been ordained priests, and are in the Romish Church service, 
at Lyons. 
— The medical colleges in the United States, so far- as 
reported, graduated, last year, 1.497 students, as doctors of 
medicine. 
* 
— A gun has just been cast at Pittsburg, with a twelve-inch 
bore, which will throw a ball over six miles. It is called the 
“ Union.” 
— The snow in the northern towns of Herkimer Co. is said 
to be full five feet deep. A sudden thaw would cause a terri¬ 
ble freshet. 
— The census of Missouri shows that State to have 1,407,536 
whites, 113,188 slaves, and 3,902 free negroes, or, in the aggre¬ 
gate, 1,524,626. 
— There are now thirty-six living of the five hundred and 
eighty-six who mustered into service from New Orleans, in 
December, 1814. 
— The New Orleans journals are explaining and apologizing 
for the interference, by force, of the free channel of the 
Mississippi river. 
— From the French postoflice returns for 1860, it appears 
that, on an average, every inhabitant of France writes eight 
letters per annum. 
— A soldier of the war of 1812 committed suicide in Missis¬ 
sippi, a few days ago. He was moved by grief for the disso¬ 
lution of the Union. 
— The Glasgow Examiner states that one day in Christmas 
week, the thermometer was actually, in some parts of Scot¬ 
land. 40” below zero. 
— The Jordan Transcript announces the death of James 
Martin, at Elbridge, on Sunday week, at the age of one him 
dred ami twelve years! 
— Henry Dow. a lad of 16 years of age, has been sentenced 
by Judge Yredeuberg, of New Jersey, to be executed on the 
4th of April, for murder. 
— The contractors of the Southern Pacific Railroad have 
bound themselves to complete 25 miles of the road, west of 
Marshall, Texas, by May 1st. 
— A piece of land was recently sold in London at the rate 
of $1,900,000 per acre, sufficient to cover it with silver equal 
to half a dollar in thickness. 
— Henry L, Wilson, brother of Charles L. Wilson, of the 
Chicago Journal, and the business manage*' of that establish¬ 
ment, died on Saturday week 
— The school mistresses sent out to Oregon by Gov. Slade, 
of \ t., were to pay a line of $500 if they married under one 
year. Most of them paid the fine. 
