the hopes of an early winter were postponed.......... Phebe Ann Tillinghast, wife of Dr. H. Courtney Atwood, of New York, died. Mary Tobin, wife of Capt. Wm. L. Thompson, died in New Orleans, of yellow fever, aged 26. 3. Air, h. 30, 1. 25. 4. Air, h. 35, l. 17........ George Searles died, aged 45. 5. Air, h. 20, 1. 16......... At an election for directors of the New York and Albany rail road company, the following were chosen : Joseph H. Ramsey, Thomas W. Olcott, Robert H. Pruyn, Erastus Corning, Jr., Samuel Schuyler, John Tracey, of Albany; George Talbot Olyphant, Robert H. Kennedy, John McB. Davidson, of New York; Homer Ramsdell, of Newburgh; David Butterfield, of Esopus: Thomas Cornell, of Rondout; Edmund Eltinge, of New Paltz. Inspectors of election, John W. Harcourt, John A. Goewey, William L. M. Phelps. At a meeting of the directors, held the same day, the following officers were elected Joseph H. Ramsey, president; Daniel Butterfield, vice president, Thos. W. Olcott, treasurer; Erastus Corning, Jr., secretary. : 6. Air. h. 28, l. 19.........James D. Pinckney died, aged 61. Francis Hunt died, aged 68. 7. Air, h. 39, 1. 29. 8. Air, h. 33, 1 10.........The Rev. Dr. Clark preached his fifth anniversary sermon before the First Reformed Dutch church in North Pearl street, in which he stated that during the five years of his ministry, 226 persons had been added to the church, making the total number 716. He had administered the rite of baptism to 114 children and adults, and officiated at 93 funerals. The total amount contributed to benevolent objects, and collected from the pews, during the period under consideration was $9,674.56. The Sunday school numbers 450 officers, teachers and scholars; and during the last two years had contributed for missionary and other purposes, $2,335.74. In the Park Chapel, founded and sustained by the Sunday school and the church the gospel was preached every Sunday morning and evening; a weekly prayer meeting was held, a Sunday school had been gathered, numbering over 300 members. The Young People's prayer meeting, established about two years since, continued to be very prosperous and useful.........Catherine Quirk died, aged 24. 9. Air, h. 21, 1. 0....................... Work was begun on the New Capitol under the superintendence of John Bridgford. A hundred men were set at work in excavating that portiou of the ground on the corner of State and Hawk streets. The thermometer at the time was below zero. The earth was dumped in Canal street.........Navigation was effectually closed during the day, the last tow of the season having succeeded in getting up at 6 o'clock in the morning. So large a number of canal boats were still on the canal, that great efforts were made to get them forward, though the water in the canal had in some places become solid ice..........Sarah Kidney, wife of Peter R. Clute, died, aged 64. 10. Air, 1. 4.........The double track of the Hudson river rail road was completed throughout from Albany to New York. 11. Air, h. 26, l. 12.........The Hon. John V. L. Pruyn called the attention of congress to the want of a government building at Albany for the public offices. 12. Air, h. 27, 1. 0..........................Cold day, thermometer 6° below zero........ No trains reached this city from New York after dark, that city having 18 inches of snow on the streets, and a heavy wind. 13. Air, h. 0, 1. —3.......................No mails from New York to-day; thermometer 4° below zero..... ...Valentine French died, aged 57. Catharine McAllister died, aged 49. 14. Air, h. 5, 1. 14 below zero. The many warm and personal friends of Hugh J. Hastings, editor of the Knickerbocker, recently returned from a trip over the continent, assembled in the evening, and, accompanied by Schreiber's band, visited the residence of Mr. Hastings on State street and honored him with a serenade. Mr. Hastings reciprocated the compliment paid him, by inviting his friends inside, when Ald. Wm. H. Taylor welcomed Mr. Hastings back to his home in a neat and appropriate speech. This was responded to by Mr. H., after which the hospitalities of the house were extended. and a general good time had. During the evening speeches were made by Hon. Hamilton Harris, Hon. Francis H. Woods, Ald. John N. Parker, Major D. S. Benton, Walter Dickson, Dr: Herrick, Charles Craft, Frank Vosburgh, and others. The serenade and welcome was a most cordial one, and was duly appreciated by the recipient-Knickerbocker. Ellen, wife of Bryan White, died, aged 67. 15. Air, h. 9, 1.5.........Simon Rosengarden died, aged 20. James W Carter died, aged 26. 16. Air, h. 18, 1. 9......... Mrs. Ann Taylor died, aged 64. Hattie Fitch, wife of S. R. Earls, died, aged 25. James Allen died, aged 37. Lieutenant James Mulcahy died, aged 34. 17. Air, h. 21, 1. 14.........Justus Harwood, principal manager of the Shaker village in Watervliet, died, aged 78. Few men were better known by the aged and medium aged classes of Albany than was Justus Harwood. He was born in Cummington, Berkshire county, Mass., the 20th of August, 1789, making him at the time of his death a few months over seventy-eight years of age. He became a Shaker in 1802, sixty-five years ago, and has been a firm upholder and a zealous upbuilder of the faith and principles of the society. With the thousands he came in contact with in Albany, none speak or have ever spoken but in terms highly eulogistic. Hundreds of anecdotes might be told of Justus, which had their scene in Albany; among others we will narrate the following: A certain bank of Albany, being at the time pretty heavily run, Justus exerted himself in its behalf, and elbowing himself through the ravenous crowd, he with considerable bluster deposited a few thousand dollars, which was no sooner heard than the run ceased. The extensive brewer, Ballantine, now of Newark, N. J., but formerly of Albany, was once on the point of suspending business by a failure of funds to meet a large indebtedness. Walking up North Market street (now Broadway), almost or quite in despair, he met with Justus to whom he opened the burden of his heart. Among other things, he stated that he believed he could pay the amount he at present needed in twenty days. Justus immediately gave him the check for the amount (which was several thousand dollars), and as Ballantine told us a few years ago, "that money saved me, and it has always been a wonder to me that he never even took my note for the amount." This man, whom Justus saved from commercial ruin, is now worth his hundreds and thousands. Several years ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis. This, with neuralgia and cancer, has made him a helpless sufferer almost ever since.................... Michael McClure died, aged 67. Michael Ferguson died, aged 63. 18. Air, h. 24, 1. 17.......... Teams crossed the river safely upon the ice.........A. L. Van Buren, president of the Young Men's Christian Association, perished by a disaster on the Lake Shore rail road. The remains were so fearfully burned as to be unrecognizable. Thus suddenly and terribly terminated the life of a good man, whose life has been devoted to active religious labor. He was ready for the change; but his friends and those who best knew how ardently he loved to be engaged in his master's business, will none the less mourn the sudden and sad manner of his departure. Last sabbath week he spoke, as usual, at one of the mission stations of the Association. In the course of his remarks he expressed the fear that he would not be again permitted to address those who heard him, as he had a premonition that his contemplated journey would be his last. How truthfully was his end foreshadowed to him. All who knew him will mingle their tears with those of his bereaved family-whose deep sorrow is intensified by the harrowing record of the disaster by which he perished: It is a slight consolation to know that those whom he so dearly loved are not left unprovided for. Although in very moderate circumstances, he had a life policy of $5,000, and, we are told, an accident policy of the same amount - the latter renewed at Cleveland on the day of his death. We have no heart at present to do more than thus briefly refer to the death of this good man. Few better men have ever lived or died, and the record of his life will prove a rich legacy to those who survive him. Happy will they be who are equally prepared for the great change which awaits all of us.-Journal.........Bridget, wife of John Rahal, died, aged 47. Cornelia, wife of Gerret Hotaling, died, aged 68. James Burke died, aged 34. John Sullivan died, aged 29. 19. Michael Finn died, aged 21. Mulligan died, aged 20. James Dooley died, aged 54. Eliza 20. James McCann died, aged 63. Catharine, wife of Donald McDonald, died, aged 27. 21. Elizabeth, widow of Jonathan Burdick, died, aged 87. 22. Michael Scannel died, aged 26. Mary L., wife of Richard. Schmidt, died, aged 48. Sarah M. Gardenier, wife of Elliot Parrott, died. John Fauth died, aged 39. 23. The Mastodon, which had been mounted at the Geological rooms, was put on exhibition and attracted numerous visitors.........Henry Ruelle died, aged 26. Sarah Richards died, aged 85. 24. The Hon. J. V. L. Pruyn having broached the subject of a government building at Albany for custom house, post office, the United States courts, &c., the Board of Trade this day took action on the subject and appointed a committee to report upon it. 25. Mild day, a rain in the afternoon rendered the streets dangerous to pedestrians.........John D. Bartley died, aged 35. John Boyd died, aged 56. Thomas Acheson died, aged 45. 26. The weather more resembled April than December, the little ice and snow that lay upon the earth was converted into water and ran down the streets like spring-tide rivulets.........Bridget Farley died, aged 43. 28. The south wind and rains of the last few days raised the water in the Mohawk and broke up the ice. The skaters still kept upon the ice in front of this city, although teams began to be wary of crossing. ........ Wm. Poe died, aged 23. Mrs. Ann Calaghan died, aged 64. Michael Cushman died, aged 46. Catharine Doran, wife of Thomas D. Coleman, died, aged 35. ...... 29. The Mohawk freshet reached the Hudson, and cleared the ice before the city of Troy. The water in rising poured through the opening at the upper end of the pier, and nearly carried away one of the abutments of the Columbia street bridge. This obstruction saved a vast amount of property lying in the basin below. The whole body of ice in the river moved about a hundred feet without breaking up, and lodged again.........Mary, wife of Dennis Grogan, died, aged 49. 30. John Haynes died, aged 73. Eliakim F. Williams died, aged 52. 31. There were 76 fires during this year, involving a loss of $73,052. ....... According to a report just made, the lumber trade for the year 1867 has been marked by more fluctuations than is usual in the business. The stock held over in Albany from 1866 was estimated at 65,000,000 feet, and at the sources of supply there was also wintered a large quantity. The winter of '66 and '67 was not very favorable for stocking, but so anxious were manufacturers to avail themselves of the high prices which had been obtained for the last few years, that extraordinary exertions were made, and, at increased cost, a full stock was got in. So the supply of lumber was large. The official receipts by canal at Albany during 1867 were boards and scantling, 382,883, 955 feet, shingles M. 26,880; timber 62,705 cubic feet; staves, 31,460,271 pounds. The official receipts by canal at tide-water were: Board and scantling, 675,055,455 feet; shingles, M. 44,392; timber, 3,369,800 cubic feet; staves 273,889,571 pounds. We have no means of ascertaining the receipts at Albany by the river and by rail roads. The canal auditor's estimate of the value of the above receipts at Albany is $11,853,086. The stock on hand in Albany, January 1st, 1868, is estimate at 85,000,000 feet, and there is a heavy stock held over at the mills and in transitu. Manufacturers all talk about reducing their operations for the present year, so as to materially decrease the supply, but to what extent this will be done cannot at this time be definitely determined. The demand for the coming season depends so much upon the action of congress in relation to the currency and other matters, that no satisfactory estimate of it can be given although the demand for houses, in all parts of the country, was never greater, and there is a probability of larger foreign shipments, particularly if prices rule low.-Knickerbocker. THE CRUISE OF THE KATY-DID. The Hudson above Waterford has always been an aqua incognita, an unknown water, to our boatmen here. To Waterford the Phantom went a month ago, being the first Albany club-boat that ever disturbed the Hudson's waves above the Troy dam; and Hills once rowed a race past Lansingburgh; but above Waterford all was unknown. No one could get any definite account of the impediments to shell-boat navigation, which existed in that far-off country. Only this could be extracted from the various statements: A universal belief that no boat could go more than three miles above Waterford. However, two members of the Pioneer boat-club, having three days to spare, went on an exploring expedition, last week, in the Katy-did, a canvas covered double scull. Never did an expedition start on such light marching. order. Its baggage consisted of two tooth-brushes, one rubber blanket, and six handkerchiefs. Going away at three o'clock in the afternoon they slept the first night at Waterford, the second at Stillwater, and the third at Schuylerville. Thence they shipped their shattered bark to Troy by canal-packet and pulled her from there to Albany, where a reception, by their club, closed as pleasant a fifty mile excursion as ever was pulled, comprising the roughest traveling that ever doublescull witnessed. They penetrated a region where shell-boats were as unknown as steam boats to Mr. Lo, the indigent savage of Hendrik Hudson's time. Being clad in club uniform they were generally taken for sailors on furlough, and were asked if the Pioneer, which name was on their hat fronts, was a steamer or sailing vessel. Four miles above Waterford a scene occurred, which if it had been photographed and inscribed "The first shell-boat on the Hudson," would have made the photographer's forThe boat was at the shore, one of the crew having gone in search of some milk, when an old man toddled to the bank. He had probably never seen a steam boat or a railway train. He sat down and clasped his hands on his cane, rested his chin on them, and looked long and fixedly in silence at the boat. Then he spoke: "Mought I ask if that is a revenue cutter?" When the bow-oar was perambulating Schuylerville he was hailed by a man: "When are you going away?' To-night." "Oh, thunder! why don't you stay here to-night and give the boys. some fun?" Whether he took the Pioneers for a menagerie, or what he did take them for, no one will ever know. tune. Ten miles of the channel from Waterford to Stillwater consist of rapids, more or less swift and shallow. Up these, rowing, wading, dragging, splashing, tumbling, wet from the breast downward, the crew of the Katy did worked their way from ten in the morning till six at night. Then an accident occurred, which will give some idea of the strength of the current they were fighting. Their mode of proceeding was this: Having dragged the boat into a spot where rowing a little was practicable, |