NEW A1)VEET1SEiHENTt4. 
Home for the Industrious—J. W. Foster, Land Commissioner. 
A Card—Robbins It Appleton. 
Hard Times tirade Easy—George G Evans 
Schenectady Agricultural Works—G. Wwtinghousc & Co. 
Fruit and Ornamental Tree* T. C Maxwell At Bros 
Beardsley* Uav Elevator Ixvi A Beordxley. 
Agent# Wanted -Daughaday k Hammond. 
Crape Vi re - _ Wtn I'ertT A' Non. 
Agents Wauled—Hooker, Farley At Co 
Cranberry Vine*—Noble Hill. 
Nurseryman Wanted- Jar. Chappell. 
Berkshire Pwine Wm. J. Pettee 
Farm for Sale Alex. If Grant 
Native Evergreens D. 1, Hi in moil* & Co 
Doolittle Improved Black Cap Knepherry G. F Wilcox. 
Strawberry Plante —(', I». South worth 
The Nan Osmond Sweet Potato—C. B Murray. 
Grape Vine*— W. C. lA>omie. 
One Frice and Low l*rice Gilman 
Pear Seed* D. F. Holman. 
Dairy Woman Wanted T. C. Peter*. 
Prindle'g Patent AgricuRurai Cauldron and Steamer 
WUCIAI. NOTICSA 
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NEWS DEPARTMENT. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH 23, 1861, 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Affaire; at Washington. 
The telegraph this (Monday) morning says that 
the Cabinet came to no decision Saturday on the 
proposed evacuation of Fort Rum ter, in opposition 
to which some very strong arguments are made. 
Recent letters from Major Anderson resent with 
indignation insinuations against his disposition to 
hold the fort to the last extremity. 
A member of the Virginia Convention called on 
the President on the 16th inst., who assured him that 
no vessels would be sent South with hostile inten¬ 
tions, and there would he nothing done in regard to 
the affairs of the South for sixty days, and it was his 
purpose to restore peace and prevent the shedding of 
blood. 
Tt is said on good authority that Messrs. Crawford 
and Forsyth — the Commissioners from the Southern 
Congress — entertain the strongest hopes of preserv¬ 
ing the peaceful relations between the two Govern 
ments. There is no doubt but their diplomacy is 
judicious. 
It is estimated that there is between five and ten 
thousand applicants for appointments connected with 
the Post Office Department. 
The number of letters daily received is unprece- 
dently large, sometimes amounting to six or seven 
hundred. Nineteen clerks are engaged in attending 
to them. 
The applications for employment in the other 
departments of the public service are correspond¬ 
ingly numerous. 
A special dispatch to the N. Y. Post says startling 
rumors are circulated in Washington, to the effect 
that a collision has occurred at Pensacola. It is 
reported that the United States forces under com¬ 
mand of I.ieut. Slcmmer have been attacked by the 
Florida rebels, aud that a serious conflict ensued. 
Other reports, of u vague character, state that the 
outbreak did not occur in the neighborhood of Fort 
Pickens, but in the immediate vicinity of Pensacola. 
No intelligence of a’delinite character, however, lias 
been received, hut there is intense excitement and 
great anxiety to learnffurther particulars. 
It in understood that the Senate will adjourn next 
week. 
Orders have been received from the Navy Depart¬ 
ment for the sailing of several ships of war, but their 
destination is not announced. 
The correspondent of the N. Y. Herald states posi¬ 
tively and authoritatively that no foreign born citi- 
Eens will be appointed heads of diplomatic posts in 
Europe, during the Republican administration. The 
Secretary of State is immovable. His determination 
is fixed, and will not be shaken by any influences 
that may be brought Upbear on him. Remonstrance 
after remonstrance, both verbal and written, have 
been lodged with him, hut all to no purpose. He 
has made up his mind, and is prepared to take the 
consequences. 
Upon the data of Major Anderson’s last statement 
to the War Department, his stock of bread is reduced 
to fourteen days, and rice to about twenty-three. 
With the other supplies on hand he might maintain 
himself a month. 
In the U. S. Supreme Court on the 15th inst., Judge 
Wayne announced the decision in the case of Mrs. 
Gaines. The decision was that she was the only 
legitimate child of Daniel Clark, and bis universal 
legatee, uuder his last will, arid as such entitled to all 
the property, real and personal, of which said Clark 
died possessed. The decision further states that she 
is entitled to recover possession of certain property 
purchased by defendant Henning, with the rents and 
profits, and measures will be at once taken to enforce 
this decree. 
Chief Justice Taney delivered the decision in the 
matter of Kentucky against Governor Dennison of 
Ohio. 
The court says the demanding State has a right to 
have every such fugitive delivered up, and that the 
State of Ohio has no right to enter into a question 
whether the act of which the fugitive stands accused 
is criminal or not in Ohio, provided it is a crime in 
Kentucky, and it is the duty of the Governor of Ohio 
to deliver, upon any proper process: that the act 
charged is crime in Kentucky; that the act of Con 
gross in 1793 determines what evidence is to be sub¬ 
mitted to the State of Ohio, and that the Governor is 
ministerial merely, like a sheriff or marshal, and 
appeals to his good faith iu the discharge of the 
Constitutional duty, for the reason that Congress 
cannot impose any federal duty upon ollieers of a 
State, and when such officers are called upon by act 
of Congress to perform such duty, it conceives good 
sense and good faith on their part; and on these 
grounds a mandamus was refused. 
1 he Post Office Department has been notified by 
the contractor that the cheap one cent stamped 
envelopes, combining the new improvement of the 
dissolving lines, are now ready for distrbution. 
These envelopes are chiefly intended for circulars 
and have been issued in response to memorials from 
publishers and merchants of New York and other 
cities. They will, during the present week, be dis¬ 
tributed among the most important post offices, for 
sale by them at one dollar and ton cents per thou¬ 
sand exclusive of the stamp, which is a deduction of 
40 cents per thousand upon the rates of the present 1 
cent stamped envelope, combining this improvement. 
Official dispatches from the East India squadron 
say that one of the vessels had been dispatched to 
Ningpo, for the purpose of finding out, if possible, 
the pirates who recently captured two American 
vessels. The Pacific Mail brought no information 
relative to the missing sloop Levant. 
r. S. Senate—Extra Setwion. 
The Senate took np Mr. Foster’s resolution for 
the expulsion of Wigfall, when, on motion of Mr. 
Firamons it, together with Mr. Clingman’s substitute, 
was referred to the Judiciary Committee. 
Mr. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Committee, to 
whom was referred Mason’s resolution about Carleton 
and Sanborn, referred back the resolution with the 
recommendation that it be postponed till the third 
Monday in December, which was agreed to. The 
committee deem it premature to order payment at 
this time. 
Mr. Fessenden offered a resolution directing the 
Secretary of the Senate to strike from the roll of the 
Senate the names of Senators from the seceded 
States who have declared that they are no longer 
members of the Senate. 
Mr. Clark offered a substitute which Mr. Fessenden 
accepted, viz.: 
Wherea*, The seats occupied by Brown, Davis, 
Mallory, Clay, Toombs, and Benjatniu, as members 
of the Senate, have became vacant, therefore, 
Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to omit 
their names respectively from the roll. 
Mr. Mason ineffectually proposed to amend the 
resolution by making it read “the gentlemen named 
have ceased to become members.” Mr. Clark’s 
substitute was adopted. 
Legislature of New York. 
Senate.— Mr. Ramsay moved a reconsideration 
of the vote upon the Judiciary Committee Report 
against incorporating an Association for the safekeep¬ 
ing of valuable packages, by means of burglar proof 
safes. Agreed to, and the bill was recommitted. 
The resolutions to appoint a Grinding Committee, 
were called up and adopted. 
Bn.t.s Passed.— A bill to incorporate the Bellevue 
Hospital and Medical College; to fix the corporate 
name of Hobart College; to extend the time for the 
construction of Lake Ontario and Hudson River Rail¬ 
road; to re-lease the interest of the people of New 
York in certain lands in the town of Prattsburgh; to 
incorporate the Veteran Scott Life Guards; to desig¬ 
nate as public holidays, the 1st of January, 4th of 
July, 25th of December, 22d of February, general elec¬ 
tion days, and fast days.—providing that promissory 
notes, Ac., falling due on such days, he due on the 
preceding day, was amended, so that the notes 
falling due on all legal holidays shall be payable the 
day after; to create the office of Commissioner of 
Lunacy. 
Assembly. —Under general orders, the House took 
up, iu the Committee of the Whole, the bill amend¬ 
ing the exemption law, by limiting the exemption of 
Clergymen to those in actual charge of a church or 
congregation, or who shall have been so in charge 
for fifteen years, A long debate was had on the bill 
in Committee of the Whole, aud the enacting clause 
was stricken out. 
Mr. Merrit moved to disagree with the action of the 
Committee of the Whole, and ordered the bill to a 
third reading. Carried—57 to 38. 
The Attorney General gave it as his opinion that 
the vote required to pass the Albany and Susquehanna 
Railroad bill is a majority vote only, and that the bill 
is not a two-thirds hill. 
The Annual Report of the American Institute was 
presented. 
The Speaker presented the statement of the New 
York State Commissioner, in relation to the cost of 
opening streets in the city for a series of years. 
The Senate hill to aid the construction of Lake 
Ontario and Hudson River Railroad was passed. Adj. 
Captain Hill, on the 6th inst. The News says that 
Fort Brown will be given up as soon as transporta¬ 
tion can be found for the Federal troops, the latter to 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Great Britain. —The House of Commons debated 
take to their post of destination two light batteries of the Syrian question. The conduct of the French 
artillery. The steamer Daniel Webster was still off 
Brazos waiting to take the Federal troops. Other 
vessels will probably be dispatched to take the remain¬ 
der. The Texan troops at BrazoB are represented to 
be fortifying the island so as to make it impregnable. 
Maryland. — The State Conference assembled 
again. The Chairman said that it was understood 
Gov. Hicks was still unwilling to call a Convention, 
and it was evident that the sentiments of members 
were somewhat modified. It is thought a Committee 
troops is generally condemned. Lord John Russell 
admitted that the occupation had been useful, but 
thought it desirable to terminate it as soon a* possi¬ 
ble. Lord Stratford de Radcliflc moved for the cor¬ 
respondence relative to Syria. The Government ob¬ 
jected, pending the sittings of the Paris Conference. 
Lord John Russell said that nothing had as yet been 
determined relative to a prolonged occupation. 
The Blavc trade was debated in the House of Com¬ 
mons upon resolutions offered, declaring that the 
will be appointed to confer with the Virginia Con- i efforts heretofore made are ineffectual to stop it, 
vention. 
Louisiana. — The Louisiana Convention voted 
down an ordinance submitting the Constitution of 
the Confederate States to the people — yeas 26, 
nays 74. 
The Legislature has passed a resolution approving 
the conduct of Gen. Twiggs in surrendering the Fed¬ 
eral property in Texas to the authorities of that State. 
Virginia.— Mr. Goggins’ proposed amendment to 
report of the Committee on Federal Relations, pro¬ 
vides for the withdrawal of the State from the Union, 
and without determining her future association, 
recommends a conference of the Border States at 
I-*xington, Ky„ in May next, to propose a plan for 
constructing a government to be formed by said States 
and the Confederated States of America, but which is 
not to be binding till ratified by the Convention, 
which is to adjourn'over to await the result. It 
declares that the Union can only be restored by an 
amendment to the Constitution, emanating from the 
non-slaveholding States, for the security of Southern 
rights, and urges a pacific policy throughout 
Routu Carolina, —The Charleston Courier of 
Thursday announces the commissioning of the Lady 
Davis as the first war vessel of the Southern Confede¬ 
racy. Rhe is armed with 24 pounders, and is under 
the command of Lieut. T. B, Huger, seconded by 
Lieuts. Dozier and Grimball, all late of the Federal 
Government. The Courier ulso states that the bat 
teries bearing on the ship channel are of the heaviest 
kind, and that they are now in a high state of perfec¬ 
tion, and ready for any force that might he sent 
against them. It believes the reinforcement of Fort 
Sumpter an impossibility. It estimates that there are 
3,000 highly disciplined troops in the various fortifi¬ 
cations. 
The Southern Confederacy. 
The following is the Cabinet of the Southern 
Confederacy, as at present constituted: 
Secretary of State—Robert Toombs, of Ga.; Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury—C. L. Memminger, of S. C.; 
Secretary of War—Leroy P. Walker, of Ala.; Secre¬ 
tary of the Navy—Stephen R. Mallory, of Fla.; Post¬ 
master General—John II. Reagan, of Texas; Attor¬ 
ney General—Judah P. Benjamin, of La. 
Advices from Montgomery say that President 
Davis has received most ominous communications 
from Washington, respecting the intentions of the 
Administration to blockade Southern ports, and 
attempt to collect the revenue. The Montgomery 
Cabinet, it is said, thereon resolved, as soon as a 
vessel was stopped outside of a Southern port, to put 
50,000 troops in motion for Washington, believing 
that the people of the border States would rally to 
assist them. 
An Ordinance has been adopted altering the free 
banking act, which substitutes the stocks of the Con¬ 
federated States for those of the United States stocks, 
and allows the issue of two for one; no foreign citi¬ 
zens or corporations are allowed to hold the stocks. 
The President and Vice President are to hold office 
for six years. The principal officers of departments 
and the Diplomatic service arc removed at the 
pleasure of Hie President. Other civil officers are 
removed when their services are unnecessary, or for 
other good causes and reasons. Removals must be 
reported to the Senate when practicable. No cap¬ 
tious removals are tolerated. Other States are to be 
admitted to the Confederacy by a vote of two-thirds 
of both Houses. The Confederacy may acquire terri¬ 
tory, and slavery shall be acknowledged and pro¬ 
tected by Congress and the territorial government. 
When five States shall ratify the permanent constitu¬ 
tion, it shall be established for such States; until 
ratified, the provisional constitution still continues in 
force, not. extending beyond one year. 
Mr. Davis’ veto of the African Slave Trade Act 
objects to the section authorizing the sale of Afri¬ 
cans to the highest bidder, as in opposition to the 
clause in the Constitution forbidding such trade. A 
vote to pass it over the veto was—15 yeas to 2 nays. 
The tariff published, goes into operation the first 
of May. Compared with the act of the States, moBt 
of 30 per cent, duties have been reduced to 25. The 
greater portion of 24 and 19 per cent, duties nave 
been reduced to 15 per cent. There is a large ton 
per cent, schedule and a small free list. 
The Government of the seceded States has 
appointed W. L. Yancey, Dudley Mann, and T. But¬ 
ler King, special commission to England and France 
to obtain a recognition of the independence of the 
Confederate States, and to make such commercial 
arrangements as their joint interests may require. 
The Secession Movement. 
Georgia, —The Georgia State Convention has 
transferred the forts, arsenals, arms, ami munitions 
of war to the Government of the Southern Confede¬ 
racy. An ordinance has also been passed, appropri¬ 
ating $500,000 lor the support of the Government, 
and authorizing the Governor to issue 7 per cent 
bonds to that amount. 
Texas. —The Galveston Civilian of the 11th inst., 
says that the surrender of Fort Brown was agreed 
upon quietly between the Texas Commissioners and 
Personal and Political. 
Hon. David Wilmot was elected United States 
Senator from Pennsylvania, on the 16th inst., in 
place of Simon Cameron. He received 26 Senatorial, 
and 69 Representative votes. Hon. W. Welch 
received 5 Senatorial, and 29 Representative votes. 
Scattering, 2, 
(Jen. Bkaukegarue, now in command of the rebel 
forces at Charleston, has much fame as a tactician. 
It is said that when Gen. Scott’s council differed in 
opinion as to the plan for attacking Mexico, after 
others had spoken. Gen. Scott called on Lieut. Beau- 
regarde, whose conduct at Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo 
and Contreras, had strongly attracted his attention. 
That young officer observed that, inasmuch as he 
differed in totu with his brother engineers, he felt 
great diffidence in expressing his views; but he 
finally agreed with the plan of Gen. Scott, it was 
acted upon, and tbJ city was taken. 
The Ohio Jt*gij|^fC l.■. twenty one votes for 
United States Senator, on the 16 inst., without a 
choice. The lust one was Horton, 1; Sherman, 24; 
Dennison, 26; Schenck, 22; Harlan, 3. Adjourned 
to the 20th inst. 
51k. Roswell Stocking died in York, Livingston 
County, on the 13th inst., aged 7.3 years. Mr. Stock¬ 
ing emigrated from Massachusetts to the Genesee 
Valley about 1814. For nearly 50 years he has been 
a resident of York, and an occupant of the same 
farm on which he died. 
Mil Faulknkr, Minister to France, has applied for 
a discharge, and awaits with patience the arrival of 
his successor. 
Election returns from 122 towns in New Hamp¬ 
shire foot up: For Berry, (Rep.) 32,376; for Stark, 
(Dem.) 28,169. The majority for Berry thus far is 
about 4,000. 
Col. J. B. Brant, a veteran of the war of 1812, 
died at, St. Louis on the 15th inst., in his 71st year. 
He was in the hard fought battles of Fort George, 
Lundy’s lAine, aud Fort Erie. Between 1815 and 
1838 he passed through all the stages of military pro¬ 
motion to Lieutenant Colonel, and resigned in 1839. 
He was twice married—the last time to Miss Sarah 
Benton, niece of Thomas H. Benton. 
The bill to repeal the Personal Liberty Act has 
passed the Senate of Maine, by a vote of 17 to 10. 
News Paragraphs. 
The evaporation from the surface of the American 
Lakes, is estimated at 11,800,000,000,000 cubic feet 
per annum, which accounts for the enormous differ¬ 
ence between the large volumes of water which enter 
the lakes, and the comparatively small quantity which 
leaves them at Niagara Falls. 
The Corlis Steam Engine Company of Providence 
have just completed an engine of 130 horse power 
for Messrs. Pirie & Son, iberdeen. Scotland. The 
fact is very gratifying to our national friends, as the 
most celebrated manufactories of steam engines in 
Europe are located in Scotland. 
A new writing apparatus for the blind has been in¬ 
vented by the Rev. Mr. Ward law, of Scotland, origi¬ 
nally for his own use. The hand and pen are kept at 
work on the same line, but the paper moves upward 
at the proper distance, as each line is completed, by 
a slight touch from the left hand. 
The influx of specie is so great that the United 
States Mint in Philadelphia is now worked to its ut¬ 
most caparite. The coinage for February will prob¬ 
ably exceed $9,000,000. From July, last year, $400,- 
090 have been received from Pike’s Peak. Messrs. 
Clark, Gruber &c Co., have a small mint in operation 
in Denver City, where $5 and $10 pieces are coined 
of various degrees of fineness. 
Gold and silver are found in the same quartz 
together in Utah territory. At one place a tun of ore, 
valued at$30,000, was found in a “ packet” of the lead. 
At Carson river preparations are made to establish 
quartz mills in the summer. Coal has also been dis¬ 
covered which promises to he very valuable, since 
wood is scarce at $10 a cord. 
The recent publication of unclaimed dividends and 
deposits, in the banking houses of Newark, N. J., 
has been the means of informing many parties of 
moneys lying to their credit, which they had entirely 
forgotten. In one case the amount had been lying in 
one institution for over thirty-two years, the first inti¬ 
mation of it being conveyed to the owner by the pub¬ 
lished notice. 
and providing for the introduction of free labor in 
the West Indies, as the most effectual way of suppress¬ 
ing it. 
Russell and Palmerston strongly deprecated the 
policy of the United States, in prohibiting the right 
of search, and permitting the prostitution of its flag. 
Mr. Braxton feared that the Southern Confedera¬ 
tion would revive the slave trade. He hoped the 
Government would never recognize them without 
express stipulations. 
An injunction had been granted against persons 
engaged in London lithographing notes of the King¬ 
dom of Hungary, purporting to be issued by Kossuth 
bearing arms of the Kingdom. It is said the issue 
contemplated was 150,000,000 florins, and 3,000 per 
sons had been engaged in the manufacture, and the 
notes were on the eve of delivery. The Austrian 
Minister called at the British Foreign office to inter¬ 
fere, but Lord John Russel declined. Application 
was then made to one of the city courts, 
The Great Eastern will probably he ready next 
month for another voyage to America. 
The Duke of Sutherland is dead. 
The Australasian is safe. Capt. Hickey reported 
that she broke both flanges of screw, Feb. 20, lat. ,30 
deg., long. 24 deg., but continued on her voyage 
westward, till the 26th, under canvass, when a heavy 
gale was experienced from the westward, and she put 
before it, reaching Queenstown on the 3d. During 
one day site made 280 miles under canvass. 
France. —The French Senate was warmly debating 
an address in response to the Emperor’s speech. 
Prince Napoleon justified the policy of Piedmont, 
and uttered sonic sympathetic words relative to 
Venice, but would deplore an untimely attack. He 
opposed the union of the temporal and spiritual 
power of the Pope, hot said the indepedence of the 
Pope must he insured. 
A pastoral letter by the Bishop of Poictiers, com¬ 
paring the Emperor to Pontius Pilate, created a great 
sensation. The Government was debating what mea¬ 
sures to take. 
M. Tbouvenel officially assured the American Min¬ 
ister at Paris, that no delegates from any seceding 
Rtates had been received by the Emperor or himself. 
The Committees to the Senate adopted the project 
of address with responses to the Emperor’s speech, 
indorsing the Emperor’s policy and lauding his pro¬ 
tection of the Pope. 
The Paris letter in the Daily News mentioned a 
rumor iu accredited quarters, that Prince Metternich 
just communicated to M. Thouvenel an important 
note from the Court of Vienna, asserting therein that 
the Austrian Government declares that it will never 
recognize Victor Emanuel King of Italy, but if 
France withdraws her troops from Rome, she will 
immediately replace them by an Austrian army, and 
if the ltevolutioniuta make tin* least in (five meat in 
Venetia or Hungary, she will cross the Miucio. 
Italy.— The seige of Messina, by Admiral I’esano, 
was soon expected to commence. Sardinians occu¬ 
pied the heights commanding the Citadel. It was 
said the resistance of the Governor of the Citadel 
arose from orders from Francis II, and representa¬ 
tives from foreign powers. .Messina protested against 
the damage that might ensue. 
The Italian Senate, by a vote of 129 to 2, adopted 
the project of a law conferring the title of King of 
Italy on Victor Kmanuel and his successors. 
The assertion is repeated that the Piedmontese 
brigade is now to enter Rome, and that the Romans 
were secretly preparing to receive Victor Emanuel. 
The Papal Government were preparing a statement 
to the effect that all the responsibility of late events 
lies with Napuleon. 
The French were about to occupy a portion of 
Trisinone. 
An accident happened on the Casoita Railroad, by 
which nine persons were killed, and 41 wounded. 
Cardinal Bruuelli was dead. 
The inhabitants of Vitorbo had petitioned the 
Italian Parliament for annexation to the Kingdom of 
Italy. 
Austri a.— The Emperor of Austria has signed the 
new Constitution. The Diet, which is composed of 
the Upper and Lower House, has the right of legisla¬ 
tion. The Hungarian Constitution remains intact. 
Gen. Klapka, in a conference of democrats at Turin, 
spoke against any revolutionary attempts iu Hungary, 
representing that country unprepared. 
Prussia.— Prussia has not yet assented to the 
French project in reference to Syria. 
Russia.— Fearful inundations at Galatz are report¬ 
ed. Hundreds of persons drowned, and immense 
quantities of grain lost. 
The Governor of Rt. Pttersbngh announced that no 
Government measures relative to peasants will be 
published till the 2d of March. 
Turkey. —A serious insurrection had broken out 
in Rutornia. An insurgent body numbering 5,000, 
supported by the Montenegrins, pillaged and set fire 
to the city of Behar, after killing over 50 Mahomme- 
dans, including several women. 
India and China, —India and China mails were 
received. Private letters report that the rebels had 
taken Woosung, and commenced a general massacre. 
The French had interposed on the score of humanity. 
Liverpool Markets.— Breadstuff’s dull, with a de¬ 
clining tendency. Richardson. Spence & Co., and 
Wakefield, Nash & Co., report flour dull. Prices are 
easier, hut quotations unchanged. Wheat quiet and 
irregular, with a partial decline of ld(g2d per cwt. 
Corn dull; mixed, 31s 9J<(£.37 b. 
Provisions quiet. Beef quiet. Pork dull, and bacon 
heavy. Lard dull, aud slightly declined — 54s@56s. 
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®l)c Conietser. 
—Japanese Tommy is dead. 
— The population of Ohio, official, is 2,383,789. 
— Barnums monster brook trout, a four pounder, c dead 
— Hay is selling in Brunswick, Me., at twenty doR rs per 
tun. 1 
— An earthquake shock was felt in New Jersey a fe\ days 
since. 
— The population of San Francisco is between 5T.OOG an( j 
58,000. 
— Michigan alone consumes annually about 220,000 bar>] g 
of salt. 
of Illinois, as officially declared. $ 
— The population 
1,711,738. 
— Five million pounds of lead were made at Dubuque, th- 
past year. 
Camphor is said to be an antidote to that terrible poison, 
Strychnine. 
— Five printers occupy the pupits of five churches in Ports¬ 
mouth, Va. 
— The official census returns show the population Califor¬ 
nia to be 376,000. 
The Siamese Twins, Chang and Fug, are giving exhibi¬ 
tions in California. 
— The United States take annually about $40,000,000 worth 
of silk from Europe 
— The correspondent of the London Times has been 
ordered to quit Rome. 
— The value of dry goods imported into New York, the 
past year, is $101,944,900. 
— There are said to be 30,000 veterans of the war of 1812 
in New York State alone. 
In the United States there are nearly six times as many 
journals aa in Great Britain, 
— Since 1857, 600 naval cadets have joined the British navy 
from the Royal Naval College. 
— Coal, to the amount of 60,000,000 bushels, is annually 
taken from the mines in Ohio. 
— Prince Albert’s progress through South Africa cost the 
Colonial Government $60,000. 
In the city of Canton, China, there are, on an average, 
about 5,000 suicides every year. 
Steamboat navigation of the Hudson, between Albany 
and New York, has been resumed. 
— The United States forts built in Southern waters have 
cost the country nearly $19,000,000. 
— The amount of Northern manufactures sold to the South 
in 1869, is estimated at $240,000,000. 
— Rosa Bonhcur has been adding to her fame by executing 
beautiful statuettes of animals in bronze. 
— A couple living in Stormont, Canada, have 26 children, 
all residing with them In the same house. 
— Of the 1,168 persons who died of old age in Massachu¬ 
setts, I860, 460 were males and 608 females. 
— Among the articles sent to Paris from China, are said to 
be 75 splendid pieces of for for the Empress. 
— The rates of postage just adoped by the Confederate 
States are more than double those of the U. S. 
— An embezzlement to the amount of $67,000 has been 
discovered in the Commercial Bank of London, 
— The totat population of New Jersey is 672,024. Of these 
644,080 are whites, 24,936 free colored, and 8 slaves. 
— Gaeta ha* one memorable circumstance connected with 
its history. It was there that Cicero was assassinated. 
— Col. Fremont’s journey to Europe is for the purpose of 
Becking foreign investments in his Mariposa gold fields. 
— Three hard-working miners took out of a quartz vein on 
Feather river, Cal.. $20,000 worth of ore in three days. 
— A pictoral pocket hible, finely illustrated, has been pub¬ 
lished in London, at a cost of eighty-seven and one-half cents. 
— The Iowa State Board of Agriculture have reduced the 
salary of the Secretary from eight to seven hundred dollars 
— At a recent snow-shoe nu-e in Montreal, mostly Indians 
engaged in it, four miles were run in a little short of half an 
hour. 
— One hundred and four Musquakee Indians have renounced 
ed their savage habits, and settled at Tama county, Iowa, on 
farms. 
— It is said that the venders of lottery policies in New 
York, draw, from the poor of that city, over $200,000 per 
annum. 
— The Educational Journal of Forsyth, Ga.. reckons the 
total number of slaves connected with Christian churches, at 
465,000. 
— Owing to the recent drouth in India, it is estimated that 
four millions of persons are deprived of the means of sub¬ 
sistence. 
— The income of the South Carolina Railroad, for the year 
I860, shows a falling off of $97,000, as compared with that 
for 1869. 
— The Tremout nouse in Chicago, about 400 feet square, xb 
being raised from its foundation by 5,000 screws, worked by 
600 men. 
— It is said that the Empire Spring, Saratoga, has been 
sold to D. A. Knowlton, of Westfield, Chautauqua Co., for 
$100,000. 
— A raving lunatic in an asylum in California was restored 
to reason by seeing her father, from whom she had long been 
separated. 
— Ripe strawberries were on sale at New Orleans on the 1st 
inst. At Raleigh, N. C., on the 6th, the peach trees were in 
full bloom. 
— On Wednesday week one of the richest veins of oil that 
has yet been discovered, was struck in Walnut Bend, Ven¬ 
ango Co., Pa. 
— The Delavan House in Albany has presented a bill of 
one thousand dollars for.entertaining the President and suite 
a single night. 
— The American residents of Japan observed November 29 
as Thanksgiving day, in accordance with a proclamation by 
Minister Harris. 
An Act to prevent married persons from deserting 
from each other, was lately passed by the Hungarian 
Legislature. Strange that a people just emerged from 
barbarism, enacts means to perpetuate a tie the 
sundering of which Christian Legislatures are en¬ 
deavoring to facilitate. 
The missionary station at South Borneo has been 
abandoned. In May last seven missionaries were 
murdered, every statiou, withitsschoolsaudchurches, 
was plundered and burned, the native Christians per¬ 
secuted and dispersed, and the society lost £3,000. 
The mission, established in 1836, consisted in 1859 of 
ten stations, under eleven missionaries, 435 members 
of the church, 1,295 pupils, and 700 manumitted 
slaves. 
— The Homestead law-, which has passed the Mich. Legis¬ 
lature, donates to the actual settler 80 acres, instead of.40, as 
under the old law. 
— Vinal Nelson, a carpenter, fell a distance of but five 
feet, while at work on the Melodeon building, Boston, and 
was instantly killed. 
— A manufacturer at Hadley, Mass., has contracted to fur¬ 
nish 30,000 wooden soles for thick boots and shoes. They are 
made of buttonwood. 
— President Lincoln’s Inaugural, some three thousand 
words, was telegraphed to New Orleans entire, in the short 
Space of three hours. 
— The total value of the annual products of American in 
dustrv. is estimated at $4,000,000,000, of which $200,000,000 
is the value of cotton. 
— The wife of President Davis, emulating the custom of the 
White House, is giving receptions at the “ Executive Man¬ 
sion," in Montgomery. 
— The recent rains have caused the young grass in the 
New York Central Park to shoot forth, making the sward 
look green and pleasant. 
— Anderson, the fugitive slave, was in Montreal on Tuesday. 
He remains in that city till the opening of navigation, when 
he proceeds to England. 
— The first Connecticut shad of the season was caught on 
Monday week, at Stratford, the earliest ever caught in that 
vicinity for twenty years. 
— The Dubuque Fanners’ Club, at their last meeting, 
decided almost unanimously that Hungarian grass is an 
injurious crop to raise as fodder. 
— Upwar d of one million papers of vegetable and flower 
seeds have been put up at the Agricultural Division of the 
Patent Office within the past sixty days. 
— 0 Granger, who died in Iloraeliaville, last week, was 
captain of the boat that conveyed Gov Clinton and suite over 
the. Erie canal at the time of its opening. 
— In the summer of 1859, the Volunteer Riflemen of Eng¬ 
land numbered but 1,500 men. Now a force of 140,000 men. 
perfectly equipped, are fit to take the field. 
