The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-12-26

hundred housana dolara be- and the same hereby APP
popriated to carry the provisions oil TINS az. .h p
SEC 10 And be il further enacted, Ihat the rresF
dent be advised forthwith give the one years notice
provided for in the second article OF the treaty OF inc o
treaty between the United States and Great britain
signed at London October 90 1915 and all other feaes
for the joint occupation OF the oregon lerr'oiy'
Farmers Club.
TUESDAY Dec. % An extra meeting of the Far
mers' Club was convened yesterday, at the Amer-
can Institute, not ostensby much for the purpose
of discussing the regular subjects before the Club,
as for the disposal of an almost infinite quantity OF
agricultural communications, which formed an OBJ
stace to the exclusive objects Of the Club.
Mr. Livingston was elected to the Chair.
specimen OF the pear known as the Warden
meadow pear" was exhibited, and ITS peculiar
properties, method OF cultivation and season OF saw
ing were explained In communication from MT.
Schuyler Warden, OF Oswego. Thus Is an abort
gpal tree, and may be traced spontaneously
growing in many parts OF the district OF M
agara Canada West. and is found valuable
material for the manufacture OF perry
communication was received IRON Mr. Travers GIVING
raj honors which repudated the principle OF premium
ising the sheep and not the system by which
the animals thus unwiedily enlarged and recon-
mended he reward to be conferred the essay which
would illustrate the culture and means which had
Travers advocated the Scotch system OF premiums for
esssysthat seemed fully to meet the desires OF the
eabtO facilitate his na1tia ihs oSposss en-
preerrng optional contribution from the members to
effect this object communication was received from
Charles f. Starr, Croton Commissioner, upon the Guilt
walton and of the turnp and sugar beet On
the subject OF cheese the process Of preparation Sc
Colonel Clark stated, that in 1929 he had a gift Of
double GloHce cheese which he has to extent
since preserved by scrapiDg the substance and ifusng
it in bfany occasionally accepting the stock by the
here on the comparative consumption OF catie ana
sheep in London and New York by which 1t Is est u,
II cd hat Maui Nnr W "A n
500 600 annually 10000 head OF cattle aver
aging 673 pounds each making total OF 49, 100 600
pounds of beef; while London, with popul tion OF
about 900 OOO It's 900 head averaging 100
pounds each-or 1871 $50 OOs pounds Of beef or sheep
London consumes 46s 800 head being increase over
New York OF s6s 900 head and each animal at least 10
Mcdonald Esq, OF Barbara county Alabama, who
visited the agricultural club OF Tins CITY, last August
and after snem on ner corprv
submitted to their inspection specimen OF the snort
staple cotton raised this year on his farm-the qua'e
OF which were highly recommended IN an article reau
from the Southern Shield. Mr.. Hawey produced aspe-
merino wool taken from the breed OF sheep in.
troduced into this country by the late Living
ston fine every respect, but degenerang from the
original from circumstances OF too close affinity An
article read upon the properties green SANG mari
from Green county the Delaware, testified by
lyzaon A member stated that the same formation ex
tends from the Chesapeake, through New Jersey and
under this Island until it is lost in the ocean Within
the last fifteen years. similar formations were found IN
Brooklyn the depth of about forty feet paper
read from Professor Wye, of Alabama showing the i'm
portance of the cultivation OF the earth the prnci
4 ples of commerce. and showing the pyedomiDance OF
England over other countries the extent and fertility
OF her colonies The time being nearly exhausted the
subject OF the best season for cutting timber io fuel and
mechanical purposes, introduced by Col Clark.
He gave several reasons derived from the circulation
and suppression Of the aqueous matter OF the tree de-
pendent seasons for the period OF cutting timber
either fuel mechanical purposes The matter IS
still subject OF interest to the club and may be extend
Durham heifer in plaster Paris presented to the
club by MIR Shield which for symmetrical proportions
emneny fathtul and aitec short conversation an
adjournment took place to the first Tuesday Ia January
Fact and Fancy.
! man named Jeremiah PEABODY hung himself IN
Newport r. L. last week during fit If mental aliena-
ton.
The quantity OF wheat in store at the Lake Mlchi-
gan m pseubsr s s5s soe bushels
Total aggregate OF shipments for the season, 6345o
bushels AT Little Fort the s total receipts o wheat up 70
- 255 bushels. In store, 10 62s bushels At Racine
100 900 bushels shipped and bushels N store a,
store at that time, 72el0 bushels
The Green Bay Republican Of the Sd speaks OF
the mercury 10 degrees belos Zero and states that a
CT azy frozen to death there on the night
Of the 2sth Of Nov His was Sleeper, and was from
Erie county, Pa.
The inebriate head Of a family in Harrison town
ship on the opposite side OF the Passaic ~ j who has
been some eek two affected with derium tremens,
about o'clock Wednesday morning, sprung out OF bed
on seeing an old no has been his family many
We rs in the door, seized gun standing near and
bot him The charge entered the left side Of the face
carried away the and passed through oy the side Of
the ear into the door. l.. A. Hall, Of Newark,
Immediately called and dressed the wound-which 1t is
feared may prove fatal At his suggestion Sanford the
| inebriate, is to be taken to an asylum.
4 A new kind of cotton, which has received the
name OF mastodon cotton has been introduced and a
small portion cultivated in Mississippi 1t is said to be
more certain crop and its value than double the
common Mexican cotton The staple is two inches long
remarkably firm and strong, and pronounced by good
II 30 ri from he n, Abbey,
Mississippi who originally introduced the seed, was
recently sold in New Orleans NJ sixteen GENTS per
10 fourteen cents lot Of six bales is held at twenty
cents supposed that about two hundred oaes nave
! hoen raised this year
| AT Ptsburg, on Monday, the river had tour feet
OF water in the channel The Cincinnati Gazette OF
Saturday last ssysThe river filled yesterday with
large cakes Of ice all day which increased in size and
/ treugth from morning till night. One or two steam.
boats number Of fiat boats that were ready to put
ont were kept in port Several Of the latter much
damaged by the ice and them cut into and sunk
A., this point the river is declining slowly and apprehen
sions are entertained of another closing
There were seventeen deaths In Baltimore last
week by small pox In Philadelphia there were 24-s
adults and IS children.
The steamboat Neptune, bound from New Orleans
Tor Louisville and Cincinnati, was sunk last week az
Plumb Point. Her machinery and par1 OF her cargo WI"
probably be saved.
The twenty-ninth annual meeting OF the Colonial.
lion Society will take place in Washington on the third
iuesnay =, Ell On The sane day at 70 o'clock at
the Colonization Rooms.
The packet ship Washington Irving, which ar
rived at Boston on Wednesday from Liverpool had on
board and sheep, consigned to the lion
Daniel Webster. This will be good stock for Marsh
I field.
Advices have been received from the copper coun-
try on Lake SupeIio late the th ult They state
that the explorations there every location that has
been worked have proved far hey ond the expectations
OF their further splendid veins have been
discovered upon the locations Elm River secured by
MIR Kinzle and party, belonging to the " Elm River
Mining Company" new vein at Eagle uver, oeiong.
the Boston Company lately been opened aud yields
almost pure metal. They are obliged TO blast out
the copper Further in the rttsburg Com.
parry locations have been made, also on many others
in the vicinity OF Copper Hsrbor and Eagle River
The Savannah Republican states, that Lieutenant