MA2L€H M 
mocking birds, niartinB and numerous other 
birds, are as merry' as larlcs in midsummer. 
Bate, alligators, lizards and frogs are making 
their characteristic spring displays. Bees act as 
though they would swarm if they felt sure the 
cold weather was over. Leaves, buds, blossoms, 
flowers and green clover salute our eyes in all 
directions. Irish potatoes, peas, cabbage plants, 
celery, lettuce, radishes and other green vegeta¬ 
bles, appear in the gardens.” High water has 
broken through the levees Id Upper Louisiana. 
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The first Conference relative to the Principali¬ 
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settle the Schleswig-Holstein difficulties. Eng¬ 
land declined. The insurgents in Syria had all 
made submission to Turkey. Gen. Prim (in 
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Pokk AND Beef Packing at Chicago.— The 
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last year.] 
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Markets, Commerce, &c 
Rural Nkw-Yobkkr Oykice, ) 
Rocuxstkk, March 27, 1866.) 
Tjikrk Is very Utile change to note In our marketfor 
he past week. Wheat, Corn and Beans show it slight 
decline. Dressed hogs have fallen off $1 UK) cwt., 
with but lew offering. Bntter has declined a trifle, while 
eggs have advanced. Clover seed 1 * firm at quotations. 
W7 tot ten In Price* Current. 
FJ*o vo, F**r>. Grain, Rtc. Straw. mwatanri 
Flour,Wt W'b’t, $jt.r*xs.is,50 fbvits. Vk'ok'taiii'.kk Etc 
Do. red wheat, $y,i.'*rtiojio Apple*, green.. $1000175 
Do. extra Stale, 7,500 h,D0 1 ' jif W 
DO. buckw heat, "Jt}M 8,145 
Millfeod, coarse, .14,00014 ,00 
Do. tine .lH,Utop0AK) 
Meal.corn. cwt.. i.fiO 
Wheat, red.2,Wet 4.12 
Beat white.: L ■“ _ " 
Corn, old, * bn., iso® G>o i Uni** and'^etm* wc 
lto. new. 60® due. I Green hl^ irjnM'^a 7c 
£} ffi j g&WBS^u t £ 
eSS: **8 m SaR&^^^fgS 
Meats. sVkd* ^ wc 
Pork, old mess.$27.50028,0(1 Timothy » bu. $S0fva 8 w 
Do. new mens. 27.no®28.00 Clover, medium . 6 6 av 
Do. Clear. * !b. 100 1?« i»a •• MX® 
From NIt-xIco. 
Late advices from different parts of Mexico 
show that the promised pacification under the 
Imperial rule Is as Jar us ever from realization. 
The Liberals still maintain the contest itl many 
sections with stubbornness and energy. Not 
the slightest, indication of the withdrawal of the 
French troops is yet apparent. 
In the Pacific States the Imperialists were 
conliued to a few posts, the Liberals holding 
. /.The latter had boldly 
Paraguay.— Immense preparations are being 
made by Brazil and the Argentine and Uruguay 
Republics to carry on the war against Paraguay. 
The. allied army numbers 50,000 men, and is sup¬ 
ported by a large fleet on the Parana river, in the 
vicinity of Pazo de la Patria. The Paraguayan 
army numbers only about 20,000, but. they have 
defensive works of great strength. A desperate 
struggle is expected soon to take place. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH 
-- r . juiai 
rcrachee. 2 h<2 
Cbwtoe. K(i3 
Blums.. 
Potatoes, ? bu... 4il$ 
— I onions. r*xS 
a.!?;* 4,001 
Hide* and Skins. 
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nearly all the country 
attacked the garrison of Mazatlan several limes, 
with prospects of success. 
Ex-Lieutenant Maury, Maximilian’s Minister 
of Colonization, had left for England, and it 
was runqored that be had been thus disposed of 
to avoid giving further oflense to the Govern¬ 
ment of the United States. 
One of the Belgian envoys sent over to con¬ 
dole with the Empress Charlotte, on account of 
the death of her father, was killed in the stage 
between Vera Cruz und the Capital, by guerrillas. 
The United States Consul at Tobasco in¬ 
forms the Government that in recent explora¬ 
tions he bad discovered tiie ruins of two ancient 
cities which had remained unknown since the 
conquest by Cortez. The Consul is informed 
that along the southern border of the State of 
Vera Cruz both of the contending parties are In 
the habit of massacring their prisoners. 
A Brownsville dispatch says the Imperials are 
organizing for a vigorous campaign we6t of the 
Sierra Madre mountains. 
The situation of Lite Imperials at Tampico is 
represented as critical. The Liberals were pre¬ 
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at me uiucrcnt tuunance m Aioany, 860 men 
“struck” on the 19th inst., in consequence of 
the action of the recent Iron Founders’ Conven¬ 
tion in that city. 
Dr. Charles Beck, formerly a professor in 
Harvard College, died of apoplexy at his resi¬ 
dence in Cambridge, on the 19th inst. He was 
seventy years of age. 
Bt the defeat of the Reciprocity Bill, the 
trade in live stock fails trader the general tariff 
law of 1862, by which all living animals may be 
imported free of duty. 
Miss Florence Nightingale is in extremely 
delicate health. In a letter dated Feb. 23, she 
says: — “ I am always and entirely a prisoner to 
my room, and latterly to one position.” 
All the stage line, express and dispatch 
companies west of the Missouri River, have 
been consolidated under the name of Holiday's 
Overland Mail and Express Company. 
John P. Hale, U. S. Minister at Madrid, 
(Spain,) has written to prominent members of 
Congress, urging an increase of his salary. His 
salary now.'amounts to $12,000 in gold. 
TnE State of Wisconsin abolished, several 
»nrw flip 4 *rIrtAth a., _* 
Little Bee, a Chippewa Chief, died last 
week in Washington. Thejquestion of making 
Utah a State !h now being considered in Con 
gross. A mail route (700 miles) has been estab¬ 
lished from San Antonio, Texas, to Fort Clark, 
through El Paso. A hill has passed the Senate 
to authorize a bridge to be built across the Mis¬ 
sissippi at£St. Louis; also, to punish forgery of 
U. S. securities by ten years’ imprisonment. 
The House has passed the Loan Bill, S3 to 53. 
An application lias been made to the Senate bva 
delegation of Indians from the Indian Territory 
to admit that Territory into the Union. Orders 
have been issued to fit out a squadron for service 
on the British North American coast. The cot¬ 
ton frauds of the South are still being investi¬ 
gated by the Treasury Department. Richard C. 
McCormick has been appointed Governor of Ari¬ 
zona. H. T, Carter, Secretary. Major-General 
Franklin has resigned. 
PROVISION MARKETS, 
NEW YORK, Match 41-Cotton 40«20c.formidtlMnaK 
Floobratipts irorn $6.7wail,25 a* to quality. Whoat $1 « 
&2.0U. live, ilkjoSGc, Barley, $i.t 5 . Coni, 66 fi«i 8 c (mi* 
ii Fork, new u.etr, $25w2.V45 old 
fs^muL-h ^ UC ' Tun0Uiy ' 
ALBANY, Makch 24.— Flour, $IK# 1 S, 25 . Buckwheat 
flour #H,7Tkfliit.87. Ci.ru meal f 1.60 m 1,75 *• luO a* Wheat 
Rye. 80c. Earioy.SSciftfl. Coru TiffvtSc. Oats' 
Fork, $29(3)84. thiOnldcra, 17c. Hams. 2le.— 
Smoked heel 25r. Butter, tales at 4.1®(l8c. Lard 5** 
21 c. Llieese 4)w22c. Hons, 2N*40c. Cl. v. i seed 12 ®lxv 
large do. U®15c V it., timothy, <Lo|.- 
ISGFFALO, March 2-4.— Flour, sales at $7,25012 50 — 
Wheat, $t. 6 ti(, 2 , 75 . corn, 58®.Cie. Rye. S0@80c. Bariev 
8 Oe 0 $lAO. Oat* 85047c. Ben* $1,65. Beans $l 5001 75 ^ 
P„ r «** P A. ho ks. tl0..5. Clover seed, $C r S7M,fi2: timothy 
$8,*,> 08 , 00 ; flax, $ 4 , 4502 , 5 ( 1 , Balt, $2,5002,55. ' 
,..V: 1! 1 ^ AKc .'! 1 ‘ Flour, aalea at $7,75018250.— 
Wheat,Wtrljl,??,w, l(ye,49ffl4lle. Corn ,35041 I^r.. rials 21 
@25e. Barley, h 0 e<j$! 2 -‘ 5 , Fork, $ 252 J 5025 , 5 (l Hbuib it 
@i 8 c. Bhoulder*. '.I013XC. Lard, lt ^r*>o. Butter, 220 
3Sc. Chee*i-, 18028c. Clover seed | 5 <i» 5,75 * hn. flai *2 . 
0002 , 75 ; timothy $2,7503,00. Dreaseuboge $ 10 , 25011 ,’ ’ 
TORONTO. Ma r.cri 22 — Flour range* from $5 0008 88- 
' Vb « lt • U.2 M 01.,:4O-, spring Wheal, (l.lMesl.OT; itTrl'cy' 
Wkafi.c; I'.'as, Ul0tv.«: ; OaU, :-O03Jk:: ft Vi Sftaiiua. (tuttvr 
15023C: Cbeehe LlvVilV.; Ecu^llfftiaV; F irk. Me U, $20® 
'• $16019; 1J tuns, 13® 14c; Lard, 12>i@l3j<.c; lit- 
con, 10@llc. Beef haniB, 11012 c. Potatoes, « hu 
h“y. $<09.50 1 Straw. $fi®7. Clover seed, * 527000 - Tim¬ 
othy, $ 2 , 2503 ; Flax, $l,ikl; Tares, 90c. 
F ield, garden and flower 
8 >1 B D IS . . 
WILLIAM HACKER, 
Office *238 South Third St,*Philadelphia, Pn. 
Importer and grower ol Agricultural and Garden Seeds, 
Trees. Plants and Bulbs. Country Merchants, Dealers 
and Druegist# supplied at the lowest rates. 842-4t 
Phices Falling.— The N. T. Post of March 
20th, says the prices of goods of all descriptions 
are falling. The decline was great on the 19th. 
So much eflort. to make sales lias rarely been put 
forth, and the disposition was everywhere mani¬ 
fested to close transactions and to realize. The 
concession in dress goods ie largo. It- extends 
to prints of fine fabrics. Ou standards and 
woolens it is lightest. The fall of one month 
on the basis of some of the prices of goods sold 
at auction on the 19th, is reported to be fully 
100 per cent. There is a very general feeling of 
insecurity in business circles, amounting almost 
to a panic in some quarters. [On Saturday, the 
24th just., the price ol'gold had declined in New 
York to 124%—the lowest figure since the war.] 
W ML. WEBSTER, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
LANDSCAPE GARDENER, 
Tojfigraphlcui Engineer cfc Consulting Horticulturist. 
Surveying done. Map* and Plan* lor Laying out Ceme¬ 
teries, Park* and Gardena, furnished. 
Those at a dist ance, by scndfig size of Ground, location 
of House, *c , can have Ma|A for laying out forwarded 
by iuall. Address as above. 
years since, the •■ueam penalty.’' An attempt 
was made recently to restore it, but the hill was 
defeated in the House on the 17t.h inst. 
From recent scientific investigations in Europe 
it has been shown conclusively that in localities 
where impure water has been drank by the in¬ 
habitants, the cholera has principally prevailed. 
The “Ashland” farm near Lexington, Ky., 
has been bought, at a cost of $90,000, for the 
location of the Agricultural College of that 
State, in connection with the University. 
Minnesota is in immediate need of laborers 
A Minneapolis paper says that in that city alone 
at least five hundred additional mechanics would 
find speedy and remunerative employment. 
It appears from the final report of the Sanitary 
Department of the Prefecture of Police that the 
total number of deaths in Paris from the recent 
epidemic cholera, amounted to 0,383 to the 14th 
of January last, at which time it had nearly 
disappeared. 
The official record of the deaths by the cattle 
disease in Englaud during January show that 
the number was double that of December. Fear 
is expressed that few cattle will lie left in Edit- 
land in a short time unless an effectual remedy 
for it is discovered. 
The papers say coal is going to be lower all 
over the country. The excess of the production 
of the mines this year over a corresponding 
P EAK NleRj-D— Imported from France* 
Now In sand, In prime order, and warranted to be 
the growth of 1865. 
Price of 25 tt.H„ $100; price of 50 tbs., *175; price of 100 
tbs., $ 325 . We have nl*<> a lew thousand 
Mazzauij Ciikuut Stocks, 2d eiass, at $10 * M. 
Pi.ttv Kt nrvu at * 1 ^ 
cattle markets. 
NEW YORK, Makoh 20-—ftaies Beef Cuttle, $10,00@1 
Cowa ami Calve.*, $:**&100; V.al Calves, ?®lSe; she 
imdI.iunbs,5K09e; bwlnc,l0‘,®!05ic. 
ALBANY, Makch 23.—Beeves, sales at $4,0009.25 
hiF»f»n nt * fif .N fJI fiiiMnn luL.b Ok/A iAt//. pt 
Plum 8TOCK8, *^d at $15 v M. 
Honkt Locust, l year, at $» h M, 
BRONSON, GRAVES & SELOVER, 
$42~4t Washington Street Nutserles, Geneva, N. Y 
that will treat colored passengers respectfully. 
The Loyal Georgian, published at Atlanta in 
the interests of the freedmen, claims to htive 
among that class regular readers and subscribers 
to the extent of twenty thousand. 
The 4th Ohio regiment at Galveston, Texas, 
recently mutinied, asserting that their term of 
service had expired. Sixty of the mutineers 
havc^been Jarrested. 
The St. Louis papers are full of advertisements 
pointing to a great increase in the river trade. 
Most of the Southern educational institutions 
are resuming operations. The University of Vir¬ 
ginia was the only Southern College that did not 
suspend during the war. 
Gen. Howard lms enjoined upon the blacks the 
necessity of cleanliness, and also rebukes those 
who arc addicted to idleness,—telling them tlmt 
they w ill not much longer be fed on rations. " 
The Lexington (Mo.) Express Bays the war so 
thinned out the live stock in some portions of 
the State that cattle, mules and horses, espe¬ 
cially, will have to bo imported. 
A man by the name of King, arrested in Lou¬ 
isville,; Ivy., for theft, says he, and not Payne, 
attempted the assassination of Mr. Seward. He 
has attempted to commit suicide. 
Ali;thc newly elected city officers in N ftw 
Orleaus^have been duly installed except Mayor 
Monroe aud oue Alderman. General Canby has 
appointed a Mayor pro tern. 
Most of the planting in Louisiana is finished. 
The Planters' Banner, published in St. Mary’s 
Parish,* (the 15th inst.,) says: —“ Spring has 
opened apparently in good earnest. Blue birds 
From Tnu West Indies. — Numerous firoe 
have occurred recently lr. Havana, caused by 
negro iucendiaries. The Royal Commission to 
investigate affairs in Jamaica report that a delib¬ 
erate plan had been formed among the negroes 
in the late rebellion to murder or drive ail the 
whites from the Island. A strong feeling is 
manifested among the people to annex the island 
to,'the United States, Sixty persons had been 
arrested in Hayt.1, charged with being concerned 
in revolutionary movements. An earthquake 
lately occurred in the Island of St. Domingo. 
A number of houses were destroyed. 
pREIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES 
FOR. SPRING OF 1866. 
ELLWANGER & BARRY have the pleasure ol offer¬ 
ing; for Spring Planting, their usual large and wel 
grown stock of 
STANDARD AND DWARF FRUIT TREES, 
ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS AND PUNTS. 
GREEN-HOUSE AND HOT-HOUSE PUNTS. 
Including the splendid large] 
iu.ua.i j, MAJ.U 1 <A-PCTVI«, sales at $4,0009.45 — 
Sheep, at $708,60. Swine, bales at &V01O)*c. * 
ft CAMBRIDGE, March 21—Beeves, sales 
♦1750275* pair. Handy steers 
$900150 Yearlings$£@28; two-year olds, $35043; tbree- 
vear oblS, $60070. Mlicli COWS, *500100. Heller*, $400 
45 Sheep ahdlauib*507tfc. * lb; lu lots, $4,5006 * head- 
extra old sheep. $3,5007: or 7>;es&c.w tb. Sho^s-whole- 
sale 120fik).; retail 1S015C. Rides 9X01Oc. * lb ; conn 
tallow < S@9.ljc.; calfskins 25c.; pelts. $2 
Beef cattle, 1st class, $6,M@7; 
, 425005. Sheep, prime heavv, 
005,00 each. Lambs, each, $8. 
BEDDING-PLANTS-1 _ . ■ 
leaved Cannae, Wiyandia , Aralia Patocasta, etc. 
Each of these Departments contain all of real value, 
old and new. 
The following Catalogues, which give full particulars, 
will be sent pre-pald noon the receipt of postage stumps, 
as follows:—Nos. l anil 2, ten cents each ; No. 3, 5 cents; 
No, 4, three cents. 
No. 1.—A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of 
Fruits, 
No. 2 .—A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of Or- 
namcntal Trees, Shrubs, Rosea, Ac., &c., ftc. 
No. 8.—A Catalogue, oi Dahlias, Verbenas, Petunias, 
and select new Green-House aud Bedding Plants, pub¬ 
lished every Spring 
No. 4.—A Wholesale Catalogue or Trade List. 
KLLWANGKH ft BARRY, 
8424 1 Mount Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. 
WOOL MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, M sin'a 20.—We have still to note a verv 
irregular and unsettled market for domestic fleeces In 
prices we note a slight decline:—52055c lor Native and V 
Me rinos; 5506.5C for X and v do; 58070c for lull-blood 
do; 70o»she lot saxony ;,S9a-l0c tor No. 1 pulled ; 58058c 
tor sunei'flne • 600650. for extra do ; 2002 ‘c for common 
unwarned California, and 40042c for fine. For elan — 
Chilian unwashed, 3<i0X4e : Kntre Rios washed, 40042c • 
Cordova, 4504iC; East India, 85015c; African, 32045c ; 
Mexican. 30085c ; Smyrna, 250,15c—.V. Y. Jxist. 
BOSTON, makcii 29—Tlie following are tb© Advertiser’s 
quotations:—Ohio and Pennsylvania,— Choice. 78085c; 
tine, 70Q TSC; medium. 65070; ,•< arse, 55060c M,rn L -un 
New York and Vermont — Extra, (Nialflc; line. tkkwiTJc- 
GO0*5c; coarse, 50,;. Xai. Oli.i-i Western - Pine’ 
j>O07Oc; medium, 50@ii0c ; common. oO0;\5c; California, 
25055c; Canada, 5U<S80c; pulled, extra, 6 r j®S0c, suner- 
flne, 55070c; No. 1 , B5059C; Smyrna, 28058c; Buenos 
Ayres, 250.50c; Cape Good Hope, ;-8® 4.5c; Chilian, •R.siiac- 
Peruvian, 30085c; African, 20050c; East India, 24058c. 
CINCINNATI, March, 81.—C'OHrse fleece at 450.V'c.- 
medlum to line do. i.S055c.; tub waabed, 55060c., aud 
unwashed, Stic—(lunette, 
CHICAGO. March 23.—We quote prices nominal!v f.s 
followst—Common to >4 blood 45047c.; W to v: do, 470 
50C.; W to \ do, 5O055u.; A 10 V do. extra, 55(5700.; tul, 
washed, o'saiw.ic. One-tlilrd off for all buck fleeces, un¬ 
washed and unconditioned wool.- Tribune. 
Great FntE in Cincinnati.— Pike’s opera 
house, the Enquirer office, Adams’ Express 
buildings and several others, were destroyed by 
fire on the night of the 22d inst. Mr. Pike’s loss 
is estimated at 51,000,000,—insured only ?38,000. 
Very little properly was saved in the budding 
except the money and papers in the office. The 
total loss by the fire is reported at $2,000,000. 
[An extensive fire also occurred at Petroleum 
Centre on the 22d. Over thirty buildings were 
destroyed, (three of them refineries,), and three 
men fatally burned.] 
LOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS, 
The Fenians. — Extensive preparations for 
some important movement are being made in 
New York city by the Fenians of both factions. 
Funds continue to pour into the treasury, and 
large quantities of arms are being accumulated. 
The total strength of Sweeney’s forces organized 
into regiments and battalions in the city is esti¬ 
mated at 5,360 men. 
