New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-04
Total increase of grain in 1855, bush.

ANIMAL MEETING OF THE NEw-YoRK STATE TEN
PERAscE SocIETY.-The Annual Meeting OF the New
York State Temperance Society will be held IN the
CITY of Albany on Wednesday, the 10th day Of Jan
uary at O'Clock D. M, 20 be resumed at 10 o'clock
the following morning. The time was mis.stated in
The Prohib,tionia for December.
The officers of the Society solicit large attendance
of the standing members of the Society anu respect
fully invite every other Temperance Society, Order
Alliance and League in the State to send delegations
10 consult upon the interests OF the cause anu the duties
of It's friends and generally to hasten by the united
agency of moral and legal uason the aims and objects
for which the Society was established. by order OF
the Executive Committee. +: Z. DELAvxs, rrest.
spectfully solicited favor 10 the Society and to
Temperance, to give publicity to the above cal.
OLD MEMBERS OF THE LEGIsLATuRE-in the
main the Legislature s composed Of new Members,
but there are few members who have served in
former Houses. The following were in the last As
sembly:
Paine Rep, Of Wyoming Benjamin smith Rep OF Mo9roe
oSario William H. buckley K NJ Of sulivan-eisht in all
Peter Dawson, Dem, OF New.York; Andrew j:
Mills, Dem of Orange, and Joseph Baucus, Dem, OF
Saratoga were Members Of Assembly in the Legisla-
lature Of 1854. Erastus w. Glover, Dem, of New
York, Assemblyman in 1883. Benjamin Bailey
of Putnam, the Hard candidate for Speaker, was q
Barnburner Assemblyman in 1876. -Four Members OF
the last Senate have also been returned to the present
Senate. They are Mark Spencer, Dem; Erastus
Brooks X. N, both of New-York; Zenas Clark, Rep,
of ST. Lawrence and George w. Bradford, Rep, of
Cortland. a. T. Upham, esq, OF Genesee, was III the
Senate Of 1928.
jim SrRASo the MoRNos KISG.-Strang, the chief
of the Mormons on Beaver Island, is the Editor of
paper and in q late number he fills fourteen columns
with defense Of his people from charges brought
against them by Michigan papers. We quote speci-
men paragraph to illustrate his style;
yet we walk in conscious security. We laugh In
bitter scorn at these threats And we tel these Edit
ors, marsha your nyImdons and SEND theh alohg 70
II IS Lao,, md bDOtV A. -OO a.
please We bid them bloody welcome TO hosptable
graves over which each year we will pile stones with
muttered curse, against the day Of resurrection OF
damnation.
CAR.-On Wednesday, after the emigrant train from
the East on the Pennsy wanna Railroad mad changed
ears at Altoona, the conductor, ON looking INTO car
which had been left behind, was hor11ned 70 nhd the
dead bodies Of two children aged respectively about
two and FIVE year,. The matter was teegraphed
West and was ascertaned that the parents OF the
children were poor German emlgrants, VINO yeti thep
unbured from necessity. The citizens Oh Altoona haa
the unfortunate babies decently buried The youngest
supposed to have died from exposure while teething
and the other from fever. Pittsburgh Union
I,sGAL DrcJsIos-Wm. Wells, who was several
wears since sentenced to death in the District of Co
Ivmh;a fnr murder had his sentence committed by
President Fillmore 10 imprisonment for life. Ibe case
wa. brought up before the U. :. Court last week
on the ground that the President has no right 10 com
mute and could only grant an unconditional paf19h
The Court on Friday uecIaeo loi tue P'IsoH'' "N ~
was set at liberty n -,
The Coat fRADE-IRe Miners tPal Journal
states that nearly all the colheres are suspended 70
that region for the present The operators arc en-
gagged in settlng up the years business and, from
present prospects, but little coal will be mined IN The
region during the Winter season, except that "hich
l. taken out Of the working OF gangways, anu other
dead work" which il necessary to be done 70 pre-
mare the mines for next Springs business
The Pass RrPREsEsrED.-Ihe Csefk Oh Tue
Senate ia printer and editor himself and so are three
Of his deputies, Messrs. Terrilliger, Potter, and
Webster In addition t. the fact that their conspcu-
"a. ss,x;ces In the cause Of Republicanirm entitled
them to the appointments they have received, their
professional education aud habits have prepared them
Tor prompt and Intelligent discharge OF their otisiai
duties. lAnany E'su"K 3yuiuai'
TIE We,teAester Record, Jan l, ssys; We under
stand that party Of men have been travelling differ
emit parts OF Chester County passing of new coun-
"tsrf,it hvc-doar note the Farmers Bank OF tue
State Of Delaware and have succeeded In distrDa,-
ing a great many Of them We mcntionei last week
that counterfeit re on the same Bank were ai~o IN
circulation