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The profits Of the last year OF several OF the
leading papers Of New York are given by the
Mirror as follows: Tribune, SOS, 900, Herald
$4,000; Journal Of Commerce, $50. 600; Com
mercial Advertiser, $25,000.
The Ohio Legislature have rejected . hill
abolishing capital punishment.
The Worcester (Mass.) Spy says the Rev.
Mr.. Gibson, Of that city, christened q child, q
few days since, which was the fourth child Of
its mother born within q year.
Gen. Chambers has petitioned the Senate Of
Texas to charter a company to run certain ma
chimes Of his invention, which are said to b
capable Of superseding MISREPRESENTATION
and even traversing oceans.
L. D. Campbell a few days since stated in.
cidentally in the House Of Representatives that
the Congressional Library was destitute Of .
Bible. Some Industrious member has ~institut.
ed a search, and reports that there is a Bible in
the library, and what is more, it is in an excel.
lent state of preservation--in all probability
never having been opened.
The New Haven Register states that a gen.
tleman in that city has just obtained q patent
for an invention recently made by him, which
effectually prevents the counterfeiting Of bank
bills in any matter. The inveation is the re.
suit of chemical experiments.
There are 1900 miles of streets and 1000
miles of payment in New York city.
The Davenport Democrat says that the travel
between that place and Iowa City has qusdru.
pied since the opening Of the railroad.
Two million acres Of land are to be brought
into market in Kansas by the first Of June
next. 1t is probably all squatted on, however.
To show how mechanical skill and labor add
to the value Of raw material, the British Quar-.
terly Review gives the instructive calculation:
A bar Of iron valued at IS, worked into horse
shoes Is worth ten dollars and fifty cents;
needles, three hundred and ffty-fve dollars;
pen knife blades, three thousand two hundred
and eighty-fve dollars; shirt buttons, twenty
Zine thousand four hundred and eighty dollars,
balance springs for watches, two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
The Emperor Of Russia has em~anicipated
thirty-fve millions Of serfs. Slavery is abol-
ished in Egypt. Soon the Southern States will
be left alone in the glory ofhuman bondage.
The Supreme Court Of Ohio has decided that
railroad companies are liable for cattle killed
on the track. Fiai1
The Cincinnati Gazette says the number Of
students in the principal colleges Of the West
is unusually large. More young men Of the
West are pursuing a course Of study than ever
before.
Gen. Wool, now commanding the United
States forces in Oregon, upon being repeatedly
asked where he should make his head quarters,
has universally replied, "my saddle sir!"
A series Of resolutions, favoring the admis-
sion Of Kansas into the Union has been intro.
duced into the Maine leeislatass.
Alum and water are said to be IN efficient
remedy in case Of being frozen.
The Board Of Directors Of the Dubuque and
Pacific railroad, at a recent meeting, passeda
resolution to take immediate steps r. obtain the
right Of way for a second division Of the road
beyond Deyersville.
Hon. Charles Pinckney, Of South Carolina,
writing to his constituents on the passage Of
the Missouri Compromise, claimed il - .
Southern triumph.