MOORE'S RQ LVL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICTLTUKAL AXD FAMILI NEWSPAPER 



Boal Intelligence. 



The New York State Convention of the Ameri- 

 can party, raet at Albany on the 2*th nit. Nearly 

 400 deleg»tes »tre pre**l 



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 ^"'jr-. cf To-Hmj. lUCld 



T ' ' '' """'"-I ' nN.r... l:>'trT.#*rtfr« to Bpn.,1,, Ed Q («- 



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 Un of Kew Advertisements tMi Week 



: resident North- 

 who presided, presented en address from Jesse 

 v. Dana, President, which we* read and received 

 with applause. The address strongly nSrine-d ad- 

 herence to American principles, and opposed a 

 onfon not founded on these principle, A com- 

 mittee of eight was appointed to report a list of 

 officers for the ensuing year. The committee re- 

 ported the following officers fjr the ensuing year: 

 Pruidrtit— H. B. Nortbup, of Washington, tire- 

 I'rt.iim! — Goldsmith Dennison, of Steuben, iSec'y 

 — James W. Hasted. 7V«uur«r-B. 



John Gray, 

 tee was appointed to draft 

 be hereafter published, and also the 

 resolutions, to be submitted to the meeting:— Hon. 

 J. T. Headley, Geo. BrJggs, Dwight Bscbelder. J. 

 N. Reynolds. A. H. Hovey.E. J. Coons, Gilbert WIl- 

 on and Jjces P.. Thompson. 

 _ motion was maile and earned, that the Amer- 

 ican Electors of the State of New York be request- 

 ed to choose Two Delegates from each Assembly 

 i leet In State Convention at the city of 

 Syiajaie, on Wednesday, the 8th day of Septem- 

 b*r, at 12 o'clock, noor, fjr the purpose of pre- 

 senting candidates for the offices of Governor, 

 Lieutenant Governor, Canal Commisiioner, and 

 Slate Prison Inspector, and fur the purpose of trans- 

 acting brnh other business es may come before 



Official bettt^s from ail the coonties in Mis- 

 souri, except six, show the complexion of the 

 Legislature to be as follows:— House, democrat*, 



; opposition, 41. Senate, democrat*, 21; oppo- 



e official returns from 26 coumie 

 and partial returns from two more, \ 

 hear from, give:— Total vote 23,38 

 against the EnglUh proposition 6,448. 



SEPTEMBER 4. 



gfWS paragraphs. 



in Kin'i', 

 ; majority 



By Trans-Atlantic Telegraph, 



Dntira the put week tiro news dispatches came 

 over the wires of the Atlantic Telegraph— the Orst 

 •PPOlHng if, the d.llv press the raorniog afterdate 

 of transmission; the second wis publisher! In the 

 ovsolng papers of the same date. Wo give ench 

 portions as possess general Interest: 



LQg: 36th.— Later and highly impor 

 U.nt Intelligence baa been received from China. 

 A treaty of pcaoe has been concluded »llh China, 

 by xhlch England and France ob'ain .11 their de 

 mantis, including the cstal.lishnjeui I 

 P-kln, and indemnification for the eipenses of 



later Indian neon Is at hand, the dates from 

 Bombajlbogluningtholixhof July. The accounts 

 represent the mutiny as being quelled. 



Th ° ild '> ' : long and inter, 



eating report by Mr. Bright, tho Atlantic Telegraph 

 Company's Engineer. 



Umbos, Aug. -jTib.-The Etnreror of France 

 returned to I'aris on Satuiday. 



M l-russl. .as too ill to vUitQaee* 

 ^.^tvlllr.tarnu 



lost Uoder the treaty „t „„„ lh . ru " i 

 plrelaopantcn. trade o! .1 °, , l^'T.r!- 



Ta. Christian „U,<o„ „ ^ £".5°;™- 

 tho country. Foreign dlplonaUa agents are d 

 mitted, and ample Indemnity i, to be given t 

 England and France. 



T«t„-„ T Bar. Aug. I7_r. M,_The only addi 

 tlonal Intelligence received from London since „„ 

 report this forenoon, la that the Caller Insurgent 

 army.ln tndla has been broken op, and much pro 

 grew has been mode in the establishment of order 

 tnronghout all the distntbed districts. 



In addition to the foregoing, private messages 

 have been almost constantly passing between the 

 opposite termini of the cable. Tho greatest fsclli 

 ty has. been displayed inthe transmission of a oon- 

 sratalatory d Uj( tch ,,„„, s . r 0ram . chairman 

 «Hhe,T«legr.phCo.,toAfr. Fisxn. Thiacontalnod 

 mo,°»i """ '*°" ,, ' *•"* le "ing Ireland in the 

 ?■»£?• !"" ""'"< * Mr r <™ ta *>» *>* 

 lh« el h"s°° 0D - " ' 8 " U b ? *•>• 'iMlrlclaii. 

 .hicreon.lt, *,'° "' "" * ad "l' m « «••-> 

 «i«A ° ° aUo,u 4rs •"« *>"»•** "f "■ 



MM. nit.., hfremr-sn. 



TUle, ..v. thst atoroieue ^'f""""? 600 - 

 arrived then the nigh, i^ , ^°" " d p * rt ' 

 , the purpose 0, *~£?££!Z£Z 

 -ght several 



IIbfobu in Cbimiuai. Law.— Lord Campbell Is 

 is about to introduce into the British Parliament 

 a bill dispensing with the practice of ren,airing a 

 uQfiriirT-.oua verdict from a jury. He does not 

 propose the majority principle.bat he wishes to 

 get rid of the practice of tampering with a jury 

 by placing one man upon it to hold ont agai-"' -" 

 the others. He desires that if, after certa 

 liberation by tbe juiy, they all agree except i 



Jw verdtot of those who had agreed shonld 

 n^idered aa good as the verdict of the whole 



■ ., hoffeMr, to be reviewed, 6„ 



necessary, set aside. This would tend completely 

 » break op the practice of packing jnri 

 urease the risks, by making it necessary to bribe 

 .ore than one of tbe juror-,. 



Fbom Ctaii.— Tbe Indians are more hostile 

 lan at any time since the Territory was firs 

 fed; nearly all the tribe3 are committing depi .__ 

 Hone, A number of settlera have been killed, and 

 boybtb] Lands of horses have been run off. i 

 the troops have not mide an (-Oort to prote 

 settlers. The soldiers received their pay in luo 

 -July, after which a large "n'imber 

 1 U k along some mules and citizen's 

 DlnthJng from camp. Cedar Valley la said to be a 

 pool place for wiuter quarter?, and Gen. Juhuston 

 is making preparations to send some of his animals 

 to other valleys. Gen. Cummiug still retains tbe 

 confidence of the community, and thna far his acts 

 and policy give general satisfaction. 



InroBTANT Action of toe N.Y. Canal Board — 

 The following measures received the unanimous 

 vote of the Canal Board, at a meeting held on the 

 25th alt:— Stop gates to protect the Irondeqooit 

 and Holley embankments, and the long leveL $25,- 

 000 further appropriation for strengthening the 

 Erie Basin at Buffalo. Priority at locks to steam 

 boats, and exemption of their machinery from tolls. 



The raising of Bridges, after an animated discus- 

 sion, was left to the discretion of the Commission- 

 be done on repairs. The cost will notex- 

 80,000, and the alterations will enable the 

 passage of boata carry ing 260 tons, or 2,320 barrels 



ri.i Li-. bTwrfjd DntDee. ri »\ 

 ounces of gold, and ci nSrm the exj 

 which are situatcJ 09 I 



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* of tbe 



A Teleckaph to India. — \ London letter says 

 Sat the construction of a line of telegraph to 

 Qdia by the Red Sea route has at length been 

 agreed npon. The Government are to guarantee 

 four and a half per cent on the requisite capital 

 for fifty years, and the shares of the Company by 

 work is to be carried out have, accord- 

 ingly, already been dealt in at a premium equal to 

 about five per cent The cable from Suez to Aden 

 is first to be laid. This will be about half the 

 entire distance, and the cost la estimated at 

 £600,000. Messrs. Newali, the manufacturers of 

 the Atlantic cable, have offered to construct it 

 and l*y it down at their own risk for that sum. 



FboxSanta Fb.— A dispatch from Independence 

 of tho 12th nit, by the D. a Express to Bounville. 

 sn}3 tbe ^cmaFe mail withdatesto tie 2d vilt, has 

 arrived. A private letter from Bauta Fe intimates 

 that a war with the Navajo Indians is inevitable, 

 they having determined not to surrender the mur 

 derer of Maj. Brooks' negro, and had even invited 

 the Sioux to fight Business In Santa Fe was very 

 bri;k. The Uizette states that $200,000 worth of 

 goods had been sold there within two months. An 

 abondant rain had fallen throughout New Mexico 

 tendering irrigation unnecessary. The crops were 

 in a very fine condition. 



PlOTcca at TiDE.WATxa._The aggregate quan- 

 water' fro "' ^"^ COrn Md B " Xey lefl at tiJc - 

 as follows: 



Dir!#T,buj. 

 .6*6,133 i*,flj« 1 683 



lool Commissioners and 

 Ciry Superintendents of the S'ate of New York, 

 will be held in Elraixa, commencing Tuesday, Ser^ 

 tetnW-r 14, 1S68. 



Fiosr baa bean seen in parte of Ohio, and in tbe 

 - Syuthern Tier*- of this Suite, within a few days. 

 In Hudson, Ohio, it was sharp cnongh to do some 

 ■amsge. In alamchmrttta it was still more severe 

 Taa papers in Tate* Tompkins. Erie and other 

 oonttea in this State, complain of Ox 

 avageg of grasshoppers in tte meadows and corn- 

 fields. I n some instances they hare taken to the 

 tobacco, and aeriotuly ir.jured that crop. 



Tub powder tued i n firing a cannon at Sand- 

 wich, Mas*, to celebrate the succees of the Atlantic 

 Telegraph entwprite, was rurchased in 1812 to 

 fight the EogHsb with. 

 A wisa coupant has jus* been organized In AI- 

 -25.000, all of which has 

 been subscribed. It is called the -Mobile Wine 

 Company,- and baa for its ot ject the growth and 

 production of native wine. 



Wm. A. BtjBT, widely and favorably known _ 

 the inventor of "Burt'e Sular Compaw," died lately 

 in DetroiL His death was caused I 

 tbe heart He was 67 years of age. 



Thb ytllow fever [Availing at New Orleans is 

 particularly fstal to the young. The Crescent says 

 that tbe badges worn by about every alternate pro- 

 ire white, indicating that the deceased per- 

 youth. The cemetery in one district is 

 overflowed, and the coffins are only submerged. A 

 dreadful stench and miasma most arise from Buch 

 Golgotha. 



Fbom atactics carefnlly collected in England, 

 appears that In that country three hundred and 

 'ly-seven Intemperate persons die for every one 

 hundred and ten of temperate habits. 



The St Joseph Gazette, Mo,, Btates that gold had 

 been found in large quantities about seventy miles 

 from Fort Laramie, in the direction of Laramie's 



The value of coal annually mined in this coun- 

 try is nearly equal to the yearly production of gold 

 in California, and at the present rate of increase, 

 the coal crops will soon be of greater value. 



Toere is an ordinance in the city of London re- 

 ciuiringaflve-elghtha inch tube to bsinf 

 tbe ceiling in every room, for the purpose of letting 

 off the gaa in case of accident or carele-sness. 

 wry good precaution whereihisiUamlnator is nsi 



To purify the river Thames, about 250 tons 

 lime are every d*y thrown into it near the Lond„„ 

 sewers, at an expense of S7,500 per week. Men 

 have also been engaged during the period of low 

 water, in covering both banks with lime. 



Tub New Bedford Standard understands that six- 

 teen young men, recent graduates from school, 

 have arrived there within a few days from Syracuse, 

 N. T., all of whom are going to ship in the same 

 vessel— the Othello, Oapti in KUmeD, lor the North 

 i. whaling, 



Tbbre was a singular occurrence in one of the 

 Philadelphia ConrU tbe other day. It consisted 



the trial and acquittal of a woman, who died in 



ison on tbe 4th of July last. The fact of her 



death was made ltnoivn to the Court, but the case 



called— a plea ol not guilty entered— a verdict 



of acquittal rendered. The charge was arson, and 



the extraordinary fact of persisting in the trial 



the circumstance. , ia accounted for by that 



pertinent circumstance, that the officers of 



the Court receive fees for their servicea. 



l it ! wr Lf ctUf ^__ ®k%mm&^; 



worthy of rero-i) by ill in;*rr»t*J ia the M 



been pnWiihed, mm .« . m*« < t piper* i 

 k&ovnSootuhMvnpigMr, 'Td» Wt or..." T 

 the Tolas, « (Mr. Si mom.*. I statM th»l tfceaty 

 meets of Hi ob atiLuu an M ; 



MV ***r Uta New To* ., 



- A •• century plant" is bo. m ' ' prw 



ta^M.?eS. 4 * C ~ dbw » , *^-UT0wi 

 ^(U^RegUtrycr^.^ 



— St. Louis has jn«t added a sixth 

 to ner fire department. 



,~ r??." «**■«! * re h 'ld to 23 eagine-hoiiae 



n eaiia. 



Doctor Tsos.vi:. 



ior of •• Pi I I 



New York, Harper k Brothe 



CHI ol Philadelphia. 



la .bJ&SJr.'^Tara. 1 " mCChl " l£i " "" k 

 ™ im of ^'"•.ci.o. of OjJ«dal« has 



> .raphsl'. 



-- "'7 , 1 »"*-'vWpp«s)tn» arreslcd In 



psrsorrs In England v,ho 



— Tvro . 

 New York, 



— Thare 



have Incomes of £160,000 „ j.. 



-Tha old fashioned plsano I, naaina arnal 

 ravages In Ih» torvas of Tripoli. Afrlc" S 8 ^ M 



— Tbe yellow fevor In Cuba, this year, ia more 

 .Btruotiveiban it baa been for SO jean, 



— All cliildren who enter tho pabllo lohoola In 

 Washington are required to bo vaccinated 



Trro thonsand colored Baptists held a Camp 

 Meeting, near SI. Catharine., c. W., l..t „"cki ' 

 r — . "■"•'■ <"vr»ler from tho artesian vrell In 

 Lonlavill., Ky., aro dall; ahlp-pcd lo Now Voik. 



— Tho wind in Boston has been east for over a 

 month. The weather Is cold enough for frosts. 

 «dT 7 k !h''?f'' br ""''''' '''""■ nnd tobacco Import. 



ffiaUfomia |ntctlij)(ncf. 



Arrival of the Mosea Taylor. 



Tub Moses Taylor arrived at New York on the 

 rih ult, with the California mails (o the 5th Au- 

 gust, and nearly a million and a half of Bpecie. 



■ Oregon, from San Francisco bound 



The Hasvsst on the Coktinent— The Echo 

 grkolt aaja:— The wheat harvest ia nearly fermf- 

 ited iti Prance. Generally speaking, it will not 

 ! of such good quality as that of 18ST, and MS 



eigh on an average four to live kilogrammes less 

 . ;r hectolitre. The harvest of 1868 will oonse- 

 quenlly be less than the preceding; but it must 

 -ot be forgotten that that of 1857 was above the 



wage. 



From Sweden it is reported that the accounts 

 om the Governors of provinces say the crops 

 show a very middling prospect. The export of 

 otton from the North of Europe will, therefore 

 e very limited this year. Tdces are moving op 

 l all the markets in Sweden. 

 The cropB in the grand duchy of Finland are . ... 



' of, and an Imperial ukase has 0pt ^ ,T A . 

 during which corn ma* L.L"?^"??'*" 



- Cyrus V7. Field, being tho beat 



,ISI1 : 



.ullei 



— The African coast slave trade la active. Tho 

 pnwa fall to tne Ittitlsh cruisers. Oor ships are 

 too heavy. r 



— A colony of white peoplo has Joal batn net 

 led in Florida, on tho ground deteitcd by Hilly 

 Ilowlegs. J ' 



— The New Haven papers notice a herring, 

 Caught in Ihlit Vl, irnly. ulii. h n...i,;!,i„,. [ 0l Ty ...yul 

 ponndB. o e j 



There El to be a National Exhibition of norscs, 



at Kalamazoo, Mich., on tho l'-iih, Lit!, 



October, 



— A servant girl at Louisville. Ky., was relieved 

 Of lOOkjafTOn the Ulh ult„ by tho application of 

 chlorotuim. 



— There v„* a slight iYoat In lowploCM nenr 

 Boston, oo Tuesday week, but not enough to do 



Monday week, 

 — The crop of rattlesnakes in Alleghany Co., 



Md., la large. Ten were billed ,»n the ,.,rr,j f ,,„,, 



last week. 



— At one of the 

 ix thonsand glasae 

 scent Sauday. 



— The "pearl m 



public gnrdrnn in aiOOlooftU, 



night of tie 



fur Victor! . 



21st July, but subsequently got off uninj 



confusion, passengers jumped over- 

 board, and six were drowned. Names unknown. 

 tail from Salt Lake City, under the 



, arrived at Placervllle on the 31st of 

 July, and the first mail eastward, via Salt Lake 



extended the time during which corn may be 

 imported free of duty in that country. 



The latest Accounts from Odessa say that some 

 damage baa been done by rain to ihe crops in 



■■,-.'■■■-/■<•' lHaao 



2,&iS,S61 



- . 



By reduolng tbe wheat to flour,' the quantity of 

 the latter left at tide-waterthi3 year, compared with 

 the corresponding period of last year, shows en 

 ! iseof I.0S3.U1 barreU of floor. 



of San Francisco contemplate 



Grenada, and have entered into 

 vith Gen. Bosquea, who invites 



left on the 2i-h. 

 The colored m 

 migrating to X. 

 correspondenc 



A party of sixty apostate Mormons ha9 arrived 

 with their families in Carson Valley. 



But little is said about Frazer river. 



Health neverbetter. Eu&lnesa improving. Pro- 

 visions still in active demand. Money abundant, 

 and collections easy. 



Obeoon-— News from Oregon to 26th July state 

 that the Government had organized on the 8th 

 when John Whittaker, Governor elect, took the 



ith of office. Nothing from the Indian war. 



Isthmts and Sonn Amebica. There was a 



ivere gale at Aspinwal! on the loth, but no dam- 

 age occurred. 



The cholera had disappeared from Guatemala. 

 Hon. Beverly C. Clark, the new American Minister 

 had been received in friendly terms by the Preai- 

 dent of Goatcmala. There had been severe shocks 

 of earthquake in Guatemala 



No news from Nicaragua. 



Valparaiso datea are July 16th, and Callao 27th. 

 The crops are promising. 



In Pern, the general impression w 

 Cartold would be declared President, 



a satisfactory. All rumors of Bel- 

 ceased. 



J that Gen. 



Io. ?i<ai"n the harvest of Castile is much better 

 than had been hoped for. 



The favorable prospects of abundant vintage 

 whioh existed a few weeks back in Sicily have 

 been completely destroyed by tremendous sirocco 



Starvation at Fbashk River— A correspond- 

 ent of the Newark (N. J.,) Adotrtuer, writing from 

 Fraser River, sayH:-"Ma D y companies make from 

 60 cents to $2,25 per day, to the man; the richest 

 bars in the river have yielded an average off I per 

 diem, and the woifcing has only been continued 

 because of a belief that the river would fall, and 

 in the bottom of the bare rich deposits could be 

 found. Tbe stories of $5o, $100 and $150 per day 

 are false. The stories regarding the commence- 

 ment of want and danger of starvation, are true 

 ones. Some report to me that they have lived on 

 boiled nettles and sqjIIs, and have paid fi ngr 

 pound for horse meat, Ac. Pork, beef and flour 

 are selling at Borne of the points where the crowds 

 have collected, at (1,50 to <2 per pound. It needs 

 no more than this to assure me that starvation will 

 be the fate of many. Boiled nettle? and snails may 



i for a 

 does not then c 



reeft i 





e in, that n 



presses i 



— The people of Virginia are disonjgiog the 



project Ol introducing tteuru uu the James river 

 anu Kabnawa canaL 



— Th« capture of an Aaorfoan r*Ml 



EiizaGibbs, with all the j j = La - - j r . ■, , 



on board, Is reported. 



— It is officially proclaimed by t tics rommfsxton- 

 crs that the Eu^li ib prop ■ ■ 



killed lately by lightning. 



— The British flag was hoisted on Capitol III1! 

 Was-hiugton, on the iuihull, for the first time since 

 the last war with England. 



— Tho English papera aay that Sir John Dean 

 Paul, the awindlng banker, in now u boneless luna- 

 tic in the Pcntonvillo prison. 



— Miss Nightingale's health ia *t)< I. 



-It^'-'d 



to Malvorn for rho 

 moulded by machl, 



lit of the .._ 



Bomb-shells _._ . 

 foundry In Auburn. Three 

 keep a cupola in fall blast 



— The deepest coalpit In England, and 



._ tbe world, bus ben a op_'iu'<j bid} at U ji.i;e/,u- id, 

 Cheshire. It \a 2flW feet deep. 



— The Marquis of Queensbnry, «>■■■■.■ 



^an of the Jjoogloa iarally, atcJ-Jently *bot him- 

 self, when gunning, Aug. 5th. 



— It will take $30,000 to payoff tbe en* of the 

 lagara. It < 



Stats Sacbatb School QbawnoN. — The New 



York State SabbAth School Teachers' AwociaUon, 

 will hold a Convention in tbe city of Brooklyn, on 

 the 5th, 'ith, and 7th of October nex-. 



AmEBICAX LlTBTBATraB Di NOKTBTRM EtTtOPt— 



Bayard Taylor, writing from Poland, says: — A 

 young Pole waa our companion the first night I 

 was Interested in hearing from him that Longfel- 

 low's poem's have been published in the Polish lan- 

 «*nage, at Lublin, a large city about a hundred 



BxTWBBtOX op America* 

 -Not only does the London TimeB open- 

 Dnexation of Cuba by the United 

 States, and demonstrate the advantages that would 

 result to Great Britain from such a change; but 

 the London Morning Herald, the reputed organ of 

 the Derby Cabinet, and the month-piece of conser- 

 vatism in England, as openly advocates the acqni- 

 aition by the United States of a portion of Mexico, 

 and the fi'ibiiahment of a protectorate, proposed 

 by Gen. Houston, over the Mexican Republic, in 

 such form and to such an extent aa should he nec- 

 essary to secure to the Union good neighborhood, 



and to the people of Mexico the benefit i_ _ 

 and well-regulated republican governmet 



Yzllow Fsv 



i orderly 



._..-, be said 



lothitig about laying the cabli 



physician I? abstain tfc~ '" 



— The 



indulge 





i on State* Islakd.— A list of 

 mUfl aoaIh . ea , t of Wimw ne distinguished ' twen*j-.h«e cas« of yellow fever on State* I'- 

 PoUsh poet, Adam Mickicwicz, be stated, was | I 3 la nd is reported by Dr. W. C. Anderson. The deUiEed 

 eiu*il ■ daurer of E *«son, whom he freqnently | New York Board of Health have endeavored to L - ~ J 

 cues in prose writings." suppress - i-"'»*ii".<'s "' '*» '— »- 



wledge of the fact*. 



„ ...jlng ietts, o« n ^u 

 of her health. 



tbe Minnesota Legislature 



delightful practice of smoking dor 



bosfness hours of the Legislature. 

 . The Convention of the Diocese of Western 

 {., at its recent session, voted Iiiehop De Lancey 

 oo to enable him to vi E it Europe, 

 . Connecticut papers announce the death of 

 ., . . ,.,-.■. 

 State, at tbe advanced age of 82. 



— A gentleman recently renewed : 



tlon to the Worcester Spy, who has taken that pa- 

 ptr for iLct v . tf rm years successively. 



— A gold fever has broken out oo ■ 

 ..ver, Maine, where It is said that ■ 

 metal baa been discovered In small qusnliiies. 



— Swamp fever has broken ooi 

 whites and blacks iu the lowlands t ] 

 sippl, occasioned by the receding of the water. 



— The health of Gen. Cosa hw continued to Im- 

 prove, and It is hardly likely that he will be looger 

 deuioed from bii <. r..:J -J^ienat the Department 



in Maine, in adver- 

 need apply 



rwa!kwit:iy 



