Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1856-01-04
Mus atrns.
UNITED STATES AGRIcU1ruRAL So

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is to be held at Washington, Jan. 9, 1856.
Agricultural Societies are requested TO
send delegates. During the sessions
there viii be lectures and discussions on
subjects connected with agriculture, and
an excellent opportunity for the friends
Of improvement in different parts Of the
country to become acquainted with each
other and gather useful information.
SIGNIFICANT AND GRATIFrNG.-The
/ Legislature OF Missouri has adjourned
without electing Dir. Atkinson to the
IU. S. Senate, and after voting down the
resolution approving the Kanzas-Nebras-
ka bill
( AN editionof the Bible has been rrint-
ed in Nashville, Tennessee the first
published south Of the Ohio and Poto-
mac rivers.
/ GEN. CAss AND THE PREsIDENCT.-|
The Washington Jnioa is authorized TO
say that in the caucus of Democratic
Senators on Wednesday last, he declared
that he was no candidate for the Presi-
Idency, end that he was unwilling for his
name to be presented as such at the Ma
t:onaI Convention. The General has al
50 written a letter to the same effect, da-
ted Detroit, Nov. %, and addressed to
Andrew J. Webster, Esq, and others,
The Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT
The entire receipts of the Post Office
/ Department for the fiscal year ending on
the 30th June last are stated at $685.
I044, being S35Q,O00 in excess of the re-
Iceipts of the previous year. But the
extension Of the mail service and the in
crease in the expense of transporting the
mails have been proportionally increased,
and caused the outlay to exceed the rev.
enue.
I - Prot. Zadock Thompson, of Bur
Engton, was one of the 81 Americans
who received prizes at the great French
Industrial Exhibition, just closed. A
medal of the second class was awarded
him for -uncuItivated natural products, >
I-specimenS Of woods, sc.
gKossuth says, in a letter to the n.
Y. ZTnaes-"I have the most positive in
formation that the French and the Eng
fish are on the worst possible terms in
the Crimea. Neither men nor officers
cultivate familiar intercourse. The
French treat the English with supereili-
Gus haughtiness since the Redan affair
just as the English have treated the Turks
from the beginning
g Vera Cruz dates to the 8th repre-
sent 3Iexico as anything but tranquil
A conspiracy to put Gen. Maya in TIT
Presidency had been discovered, and sew
eraI important arrests were made in con
sequence. Col. Robes has been name,
p Minister to the United States in place 0
. Gen Alm0ute.
e t. 4 great fire occurred in Cana
= Street, New York, on the 22d ult.. which
! destroyed property to the amount Q
P 100000.
d % Two persons belonging in Chip
Pewa, Canada, were carried over Maya
IA Falls in a small boat on the 18th.
: q On the 26th the Academy a
II Sher6roote, c. E., was destroyed by fire
= It IS supposed to be the work of an in
e cendiary.
n Is Miss Jenny Campbell, aged on
hundred and fifteen years, diedin Orang
County, Va, on the 6th ult.
g 4 Kanzas emigration society ha
" been formed at Gainesville, Miss. at
: public meeting there which adopted res
} oIutiOns thanking the Missouri borderer
for what they have done in Kaazas.-
The object Of the society, as stated b
> the resolutions, IS to raise money to de
.e fray the expenses of emigrants from tn
~ South to Kanzas, ito meet their foes a
the balIot-box, and, if necessary, with r
fe balls"
N "a An extraordinary bear was re
E. Gently caught near the head of Pilc
at Creek Diseh, California, which was Del
tectly white, except the feet, all four {
which were black. He was very fsrc
-e ciogs.
NJ 70 Missionary advices state that III
fail Of SebastopoI has quoted the adhel
ents Of the old Armenian church. VII
before had hoped that the triumph ,
: Russia would annihilate Professionalism i
n Turkey. Another most extraordiaar
Of sign of the times, which IS referred to
4 every recent letter, IS the readiness
70 Mahommedans to read the Bible.
: 8 The Kanzas Herald Of Freedo,
It says the immigration into that territory
~ very c-~1at sr,J .-t;-,~.-- L - Il