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Two-and a-half million feet of pine lumber were used in making clocks in Connecticut last year. The Oregon Constitutional Convention met at Salem on the 17th and was permanently organized on the following day by the election of Mr. Deady as president. Mr. Terry was chosen secretary. Two men at work on the lake shore near Oswego dug up a keg containing 1600 ancient French coins, said to be seven franc pieces, worth one dollar and ninety cents each. They left immediately for the Philadelphia mint. The Register of the Land Office in one of our Territories has been obliged to close his office in consequence of having so much land on his hands he could not clean them with soap and water. It is said that a secret understanding has been generally come to by the European Powers, that in future the Popedom shall not be held by an Italian so exclusively as it has been for several hundred years Gambling in grain, "selling short," &e, is extensively carried on in Chicago. One day last week the buyers pressed so hard on the sellers to deliver, that the price of wheat was forced up 6 or 8 cents per bushel. PAY YOUR LITTLE BILLS. - Nothing helps the money market more than the prompt payment of little bills. It keeps up trade, keeps money moving, helps the banks, and makes everybody feel good. When everybody holds on to all the money he gets because he fears times are going to be worse, he helps to make them so. Hartwick, Otsego county, N. Y., has been much excited of late by a case of crim.con., in which Elder S. B. Hayward, pastor of the Christian church in that place, and a female member of his flock, are the parties. A committee of leading members of the church having been appointed to investigate the charge, reported it sustained by their investigation. According to the decision of an Albany Justice, seducing young ladies of means is not an offence against the statutes. A young lady sued the father of her illegitimate responsibility for support for the infant. The defendant did not deny the paternity, but contended that complainant had $900 in bank, and was able to support the child without applying to the authorities. The Justice admitted the justness of this motion, and dismissed the complaint. This decision is an important one, and shows that it is much safer to "ruin" a young woman of means than a young woman of poverty. It would be well if those people who are foolish enough to contemplate drawing their deposites out of the Savings Banks, through fear, or at the instigation of designing knaves, should read the following from the Albany Evening Journal, and take warning: We are informed that an Irish woman, who, panic stricken, drew her deposites of several hundred dollars from the Savings Bank, a few days since, has either lost or had stolen from her $150 We presume she is not the only victim of folly of this sort, as the following from the Troy Times proves: A poor widow woman who had $149 on deposite in the Commercial Bank, falling into the general distrust of monetary institutions, which prevailed last week, on Saturday drew it out. On Sunday she was robbed of it."
