New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-02
Mail Gleanin2s, SC.

u l.. A. Hine In letter from Norwsi,
O., to The Cincinnati Nonparsil, complains that the
eight counties in the Western Reserve are suffering
from the effects OF Land Monopoly Connecticut
sold these reserved lands to capitalists for school
fund.- &C. q. an average price Of 20 cents per acre,
and the purchasers charged the pionsers who settled
the country IS per acre. Many lots were settled
on credit cleared but never paid for, and the spscu.
lators took back the farms in many cases, and sold
them for ten, fifteen, and twenty dollars per acre
Some whole townships were purchased by single IN
dividuals, and these townships are quarter Of
q century behind other townships 10 everything
plessant and excellent.
~ While Calvin FaiIbank, has been
convicted at Louisville, KY, OF stealing negroes and
been sentenced to an imprisonment Of h!teen years
George Alber for stealing free negro, and selling
him into slavery, got ten years and this wa ~
garded as monstrous By some, says The PhiladsIpAm
Nsws while Gov. Bgler thought eighteen months
TOO long period Of imprisonment. Was George %
the Reverend the more criminal
u Messrs. Conant and Maginnis, Pro-
fessors in the Rochester Theological Seminary,
have published long statement OF their nsgosia'
tons for the purchase Of Neander's Library, en-
trely exculpating DR.. TwesteD, whom they con-
slider to have been very unjustly criticised In tho
matter DR.. T. was the agent OF the Seminary In
Berlin, and has been accused OF untairness toward
the other bidders for the Library.
u The last number of The Cherokee
Advocate gives the substance Of the Presidents Mes
sage in verse after The Of the singing gcos-
raphy, adapted TO The tune Of :" The Winding way
The editor states that these documents aptto be
oI liant for
the accommodation of that large portion OF the publ
which is Mortified at these annual infections in their
usual shape"
II The value of all the milk sold in
Massachusetts, for the year ending Jace $780, was
$276 se7. Dedhsm isthe largest town in the milky
way" having cold $4,000 worth. The above does
no. include the milk made into butter and cheese.
u Madame Fanny Wright, formerly
Madame D'Arusmont,) met with severe accidents
few DAYS since, at her residence Seventh A., be-
tween John ard Moun.-sts, Cincinnati. While
walking In the yard she slipped and broke her leg
II Three hundred prisoners IN the State
Prison at Chares.own have petitioned the Legisla'
ture to pass the Maine Liquor Law. There are now
4g2 convic.s IN the institution Upward Of fifty con-
yicts in the NewYork prisons had always been total
abstinence men.
II In the Southern portion Of Arkansas,
near a mountain OF iron, a mountain OF emery OF
corondum has been discovered, equal, II not So
perior, TO the Russian emery. In Russian emery,
rubies are found and that in Arkansas 10 Of hs
same componens.
EY" The Legislatures Of New-Hamp'
shire, Florida, Rhode Island, Vermont, Alabama,
and other States have recommended the establsa'
men. of an Agricultural Bureau by Congress.
II Cassius M. Clay was TO speak on
Hurg arian Independence, at Frankfort, Ky, on sas
Gath ul..
u The expenses of taking the Seventh
Census will amount to $i,,OO,ooe, exclusive Of mo
printing, which yet obe ordered By Congress
~ Two thousand five hundred and NIFTY
four marriage licenses were issued IN haina''n
County, Ohio, during the year 1851.
T. There are Mass Meetings held In
various parts Of Pennsylvania 70 promote the pa|
sage of the Maine Law.
w February 25th completed the oAe
hundred and fourteenth day OF continued so'a
sleighips at st. Albsns, Vermont.
e We note some skirmishing with the
Indians in FLORIDA. A.,
" Report says that Judge Pliny Mef'
rick, Of the Massachusetts, Common rieas' ""''
apr oiated Attorney General.
r. Chief Justice Wells, % the Mass
Common Pleas, is recovering
u Hon. John Dickson ey III. =. VI
We.t Bloomfield, Ontario Co, died on the ga ui1