MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
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BY L. WETHERELL 
Oct. 1850. 
THERMOMETER. 
MAX. 1 MIN. 1 MEAN. 
RAIN. 
WINDS. 
ROCHESTER, OCTOBER 10, 1850. 
Local Agents. 
James Van Horn, Ovid; also general agent for 
South Jury District of Seneca county. 
S. E. Norton, Phelps, Ontario county. 
E. Hopkins, Lyons, Wayne dbunty. 
B. Farr and H. Goodrich, Albion. 
Samuel Heston, Batavia. 
R. B. Warren, Alabama, Genesee county. 
Theodore Dickinson, Newark, Wayne county. 
Silsby & Keeler, Seneca Falls. 
A. R. Frisbie, Clyde, Wayne county. 
Wm. Richey Sc O. A. Graves, Watertown, Jeff. co. 
John Harris, Sheldrake, Seneca county. 
Archibald Stone, Hinmanville, Oswego county. 
E. W. Fairchild, East Bloomfield, Ontario county. 
G. N. Sherwood, Camillus, Onondaga county. 
C. B. Dickinson and P. Parks, Victor, Ontario Co. 
J. W. Reed, Lockport, Niagara county. 
J. M. Trowbridge, Pekin, “ “ 
John B. Lowell, Yates, Orleans county. 
H. S. Frisbie, Holley, “ “ 
L. A. Morse, Knowlesville, " “ 
M. Scott, Arcadia, Wayne county. 
H. C. White, Mohawk, Herkimer county. 
Benj. Sill, Livonia, Livingston county. 
E. C. Bliss, Westfield, Chautauque county. 
J. I. Eacker, Sheridan, “ “ 
J. C. Sherman, New Baltimore, Greene county. 
L. D. Branch, Trumansburg, Tompkins county. 
W. K. Wyckoff, Lodi, Seneca Co. 
O. B. Scott, Woodville, Jefferson Co. 
B. F. Adams, Bridgeport, Mad. Co. 
M. Parke, P. M. Clifton Springs. 
0= We will send an extra copy to any person 
who remits payment for a club of from six to ten 
subscribers, and continues to act as agent. 
Back numbers from April, containing all of Prof. 
Johnston’s Lectures, can yet be supplied. 
Jenny Lind—Vive la Nightingale! 
This is a great country, and the sovereigns 
thereof potent and all-powerful! The manner, 
however, in which these facts are made manifest, 
“about these days,” in our principal cities and 
towns—by both -press and people —is not highly 
characteristic of good sense and soberness. Wit¬ 
ness the fever about one Jane Lind, a foreign 
singer who recently arrived at New York, and is 
now giving concerts in the Atlantic cities under 
the management of E. Pluribus_ Unum Barnum. 
“ The subject of this memoir” is the daily theme of 
almost every city paper in the country—so much so 
that it would be safe to offer a large prize for such 
a print without a paragraph about “the Nightin¬ 
gale.” Of course this fulsome adulation by the 
press will have and is having its legitimate effect 
in turning the heads and emptying the pockets of 
the “dear people.” For instance—the first ticket, 
giving choice of .seat at Jenny’s initial concert in 
New York, sold at auetion for $225! — and the 
like in Boston for the enormous sum of $625 ! 
But the result of this toadyism and bleeding may 
• prove beneficial in gratifying the vanity and regu¬ 
lating the currency of the worshippers of foreign 
idols. We fear, however, that many will do like 
unto others who can ill afford the expense—and 
that the people of each city in which a concert is 
given will expend thousands of dollars, that might 
more properly be devoted to home improvement 
or worthy benevolent objects. 
The truth is, disguise it who may, the American 
people lack stability and sobriety; they are alto¬ 
gether too subject to excitement—in a word, too 
fond of being humbugged! Jenny Lind is no 
doubt an exemplary person, and a superior singer; 
_lier daguerreotype represents a plump, honest 
looking Dutch woman. For her virtues she 
should be esteemed, and her vocal powers may 
vei'y properly be admired—but, inasmuch as she 
is only human, we see no reason for the laudation 
and idolatry which her visit to this country has 
created. Our people raised the Dickens with 
“ Boz ” during his visit here, and he repaid them 
(“over the left,” to be sure,) with interest, on his 
return. Other similar instances might be cited, 
but we presume they are fresh in the memory of 
those of our readers who participated. Let us 
take heed from the experience of the past, and not 
again sacrifice our sanity and siller on the altar of 
Toadyism. 
Long Island Lands. 
The attention of our agricultural readers is di¬ 
rected to the advertisement offering Long Island 
Lands for sale. From information derived from 
reliable sources, we are inclined to regard Ahese 
uncultivated lands as desirable to those who wish 
*) settle in a healthy location, convenient to mar¬ 
ket. Taking the price into consideration, the tract 
mentioned is believed to be one of the most valu¬ 
able within the limits of the State, for garden and 
farming purposes, and the only mystery to us is 
in the fact that it has so long remained unreclaim¬ 
ed and usettled. Of course we would not advise 
any one to purchase without a previous knowledge 
of all necessary particulars. The best way is to 
go and examine, and no man should buy until he 
is fully satisfied from his own observation, taking 
nothing from hearsay. 
We may herefter say something more specific on 
this subject—our present object being merety to di¬ 
rect the eye of the reader to the advertisement 
of Mr. Peck. 
A Specimen.— We send this number of the 
New-Yorker to many prominent farmers and 
other persons who are not subscribers, in order that 
they may give it an e.xamination and perusal. If 
its manner and matter meet the ir approval, we hope 
all who thus receive the paper will lend it their 
support and encouragement. 
jgf Single and club subscriptions for three 
months (Oct. 1st to Jan. 1st,) w ill be received at 
ame proportional rates as for a year. 
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REMARKS. 
Oct. 1st. Very fine morning—clouds up and 
rains a little in the afternoon. 
2nd. Thunder showers this morning at o’¬ 
clock—rainy with high wind in the afternoon and 
evening. 
3rd. Fair morning—a little ice formd. 
4th. Cool and fair—a slight frost—delightful 
day. 
5th. Warm and fair this forenoon—cloudy and 
rainy in the afternoon. 
6th. Fair and cool morning—squally soon after 
noon. 
7th. Cool morning—ice formd this morning. 
A Delegate to Panama. 
Mr. Charles Thellkr Wilson, who has 
been foreman of our office from the commence¬ 
ment of the New-Yorker, resignes his post this 
week and leaves in a few days for Panama. He 
goes to take charge, as publisher, of the Panama 
Echo, a journal owned and edited by his relative, 
Dr. E. A. Theller. Possessing the cardinal vir¬ 
tues of industry, sobriety apd integrity, and being 
withal an excellent printer, Mr. Wilson is well 
qualified to creditably discharge the duties of the 
position to which he has been invited. In parting 
with him we cannot but express tlie wish—in 
which we are sure his numerous friends, and all 
the members of the craft in this city will heartily 
unite—that health and prosperity may be his lot, 
and that all his reasonable expectations may be 
fully realized. 
Monroe County Teachers’ Association, 
This Association will hold its next montly meet¬ 
ing on Saturday next, (Oct. 12,) at 10 o’clock, in 
District School House No. 1, in Rochester. A 
full attendance of members is.desired, as business 
of importance is to be transacted. The resolu¬ 
tions appended to the report on Religious Educa¬ 
tion, as connected with the State Schools, are to 
come up for further discussion, then, and to be 
finally adopted or rejected, as the Association may 
deem proper. 
Michigan and Ohio State Fairs. —We ex¬ 
pected to receive, from correspondents who were 
present, reports of the doings at these Fairs, in time 
for this number, but they have not come to hand. 
Shall probably be able to give at least a synopsis 
next week. According to western papers, both ex¬ 
hibitions were good and largely attended. The in¬ 
clemency of the weather during the Michigan Fair, 
detracted much from the pleasure of visitors, and 
materially affected several departments of the show. 
We shall also give in our next notes of the do¬ 
ings at some of the County Fairs recently held in 
this State. 
Can’t do it. —The person who recently sent us 
a marriage notice bytmail, subject to postage, and 
without any name as authority for genuineness, is 
respectfully informed that we are too old to be 
caught in that manner. Such important matters 
we only publish “ by authority.” Much as it may 
please some people, we dislike to place any one in 
print, even in a “peculiarly happy attitude,” un¬ 
less we have their knowledge or consent. Nom 
verrons. 
Normal School. —The Town Superintendents 
of this county w’ill hold a meeting at No. 83, 
Smith’s Arcade, on Saturday the 12th inst., for 
the purpose of making appointments to the State 
Normal School. There are five vacancies to fill 
from Monroe county. 
Serious Canal Break. 
News reached here yesterday morning of a se¬ 
rious break in the Canal at or near Orangeport, 
four miles this side of Lockport. We learned 
from Capt. Warren, of the Packet Saratoga, who 
reached here at 7 o’clock last evening, that the 
breach is from 100 to 112 feet, and the bed of the 
canal is carried away, on the towing-path side, to 
{he depth of 15 or 20 feet. 
Commissioner Hinds is at the place of the 
break, and has taken efficient measures for its re¬ 
pairs. Capt. Warren thinks it will require forty- 
eight hours to repair the damage. 
This break occurs at a peculiarly inopportune 
period; but we know that under the direction of 
Com. Hinds, there will be no unnecessary inter¬ 
ruption to navigation.—Dem. of Tuesday, 
Extensive Fire —$30,000 Loss- Boston, 
Wednesday, Oct. 2.—Three large buildings near 
the Slate Prison in Charlestown, occupied by 
Murdoch’s Saw Mill, Phinner’s Coffee Factory 
and Burdett’s Sash Factory, were totally destroy¬ 
ed by fire last night. The fence of the Prison 
was burned, and the roof was several times on 
fire. The prisoners were not taken out, al¬ 
though the walls of the prison at one time quite 
hot. The loss is $30,000,—only 3,000 in¬ 
sured. 
The Dorchester and Milton Bank Robbery. 
—Jack Wade, who was recently arrested near 
Rochester by a portion of the Buffalo police, and 
committed to the Jail in Dedham, Mass., has ac¬ 
knowledged that he was one of the persons who 
robbed the Dorchester and Milton Bank of about 
$32,000. He has given up some $10,000 of the 
stolen money, disclosing the spot in South Boston 
where he had buried a portion of it. 
Failure of a Large Dry Goods House.— 
Boston, Oct. 4, 1850.—The extensive dry goods 
house of Messrs. Gassett, Balch & Co., in this 
city, failed yesterday. Their liabilities are esti¬ 
mated to be between $300,000 and 400,000. 
Foreign Intelligence. 
BY THE CAMBRIA. 
The Atlantic arrived at Liverpool at half-past 
8 o’clock • Friday, and the Europe at 1 o’clock 
Monday morning. Both report heavy easterly 
winds. 
Cotton advices caused great excitement, and 
prices immediately advanced ^ penny per pound, 
with large sales. After Wednesday noon dispo¬ 
sition to sell was evinced on the part of holders, 
but the Atlantic’s advices having confirmed the 
reported injury to the growing crop, the market 
closed on Friday with great firmness at an ad¬ 
vance I on common and middling, and on 
the better qualities of American; Orleans lair 8f; 
Mobile 8: middling Orleans 7g; Mobile 7J. The 
business for the week is estimated at 66,92U bales, 
of which speculators have taken 26,030 bales,and 
exporters 6650 bales. The American descrip¬ 
tions sold consist of 15,790 Uplands at 6|a8i; 
29,740 Orleans GialOJ; 5490 Mobile 6§a8, and 
180 Sea Island 13a24d per pound. The stock of 
cotton in this port is estimated at 451,000 bales, 
against 659,000 bales same time last year. The 
stock of American is called310,000, against473,- 
000 bales at same period last year. 
Advices from Havre ol the 19th state, that on 
the arrival of the Europa’s news, 4000 bales of 
cotton changed hands at an advance of 4f.a5f., 
and the market closed with firmness. 
Provisions in moderate demand at rather easier 
prices. Sales of Pork made with difficulty. Ba¬ 
con in good demand at full prices. Hams inqui¬ 
red for at reduced rates. Lard 343. Cheese.— 
More inquiriry and market neatly over. Tallow 
active at 6d advance. Coffee—Plantation Cey¬ 
lon advanced 2a33 per cwl.; Jamaica does not 
participate in the improvement; native Ceylon is 
quoted at Liverpool at 40e., and at i.ondon, Fri¬ 
day, 488 9d for good ordinary. Teas—Greens 
and blacks, very inactive, and previous prices 
barely supported at London; Friday a slight re¬ 
duction was established, and sales were made to 
a fair extent. Sugar—Large business at Liver¬ 
pool and London, at an advance of 6d to Is.— 
Markets closed firm. 
The reports from the manufacturing districts 
continue favorable. The woolen trade continues 
brisk everywhere, and in laces and hosiery the 
demand has materially increased; in bottom dis¬ 
trict great activity prevails, and large orders are 
being executed both for home and foreign ac- 
eouni 
England— Securities have fluctuated but little 
during the week. Money continues abundant, 
but its value is slightly increased. Bullion in the 
Bank is a trifle less than £15,000,000. Consols 
opened on Monday at 96g; closed Wednesday at 
J; Friday at |. 
American Securities. —Bell «&• Son state that 
there is more bona fide business doing, and they 
quote United States 5’sat 93; fi’s ’62 103 to 104; 
’68 1085 1095: Boston 5’s ’58 '62 at 92 ex-di¬ 
vidend ; Pennsylvania 5*s 82J to 83J; Ohio 6’s 
’70 ’75 105 to 106; Massachusetts 5’8 107 to 108; 
Maryland 5’s 91; Canada bonds, one to two. 
Freights. —Owing to the prevalence of easter¬ 
ly winds, there have been few arrivals, and the 
upward tendency of freights has continued. 
England. 
The chief feature of English news has been 
the publication of decrees of the Cabinet Synod 
of Thurles, in reference to the educational colle¬ 
ges of Government in Ireland, which have been 
condemned in toto, greatly to the surprise of all 
well-wishers of that unfortunate country. The 
Liverpool Journal and Chronicle, which, being 
edited by Catholics, are supposed to represent 
popular feeling among that body, are loud in their 
disapproval of the course adopted by a section of 
the Irish Bishops, at the command, it is said, of 
the Pope. The Chronicle says : 
This is a mournful announcement over which 
the statesman may well ponder, for the blackness 
of the past is unredeemed by the slightest hope 
of the iutuie. The difference of creeds, which 
it was the object of an enlightened patriotism to 
heal, by uniting the youth of Ireland, by which 
each would be cared for, is to continue, it seems, 
under ecclesiastical sanction, with all its horrid 
brood of evils, bad passions, and peisonal secta¬ 
rian antipathies. The curse of the past is doom¬ 
ed to hang over the land, and a system of educa¬ 
tion admirably adapted to the requirements of the 
country, is rudely pushed aside by the prejudices 
of the Irish Bishops ” 
At several public meetings it has been propos¬ 
ed to present the brewers and draymen of Barclay 
& Perkins’s establishment, a suitable testimonial 
of public approbation, for their treatment of Gen. 
Haynau. As an offset, the Times says that pre¬ 
parations are making to receive Gen. Haynau on 
his return to Vienna, with what that journal calls 
a “splendid demonstration of loyal devotion.”— 
Garrison is to serenade him by torchlight,and that 
he is to be raised to a Marshal of the Empire, by 
the Emperor. It is also stated, on the authority 
of an Austrian journal that instructions have been 
sent to the Austrian minister in London to demand 
the punishment of the men who assaulted the 
butcher in London. 
A frightful railway accident occurred upon the 
Eastern railroad line on the 17th. Nine lives were 
lost. 
The Gorham dispute has now commenced to 
agitate the public mind. 
A destructive fire occurred in London on Thurs¬ 
day, in the vicinity of the Corn Exchange. That 
building was materially injured,and a large amount 
of property destroyed. 
The Atlantic had booked 150 passengers, a d 
was to sail on the 25th. 
The weather has been uninterruptedly fine 
through the Kingdom for securing the last re 
nant of the harvest. 
The London press of Friday publish later news 
from India, received by telegraph via Trieste.— 
The Cholera has broken out in China, and the 
Governor of Macoa died of it. Commercial aff¬ 
airs at Bombay were improving. The same re¬ 
marks apply to Madras, but at Calcutta trade was 
less active.' The prospects of the indigo crop are 
said to be encouraging. 
Frauce. 
The only important political incident of the 
week has been the discovery of an Orieanist plot. 
The documents connected with which, whilst 
they do not appear to implicate any person, afford¬ 
ed the London and Paris Press food for very long 
editorials. 
The President returned to Paris on Thursday, 
and his tour is said to have been attended with 
brilliant success. Some of his friends have com¬ 
menced to agitate the question of allowing him 
3,009,000f. for his personal expenditures. The 
proposition meets witlk but little favor, in conse¬ 
quence of which he has, it is said, come to the 
determination of making no farther progress this 
year. 
Of the whole number of 85 provincial councils 
49 have passed resolutions in favor of a revision 
of the Constitution, with the view, as is under¬ 
stood, of prolonging the power of the President. 
Of the 36 others 12 only passed resolutions deci¬ 
dedly adverse to the proposed change. 
About 700 emigrants, chiefly belonging to the 
Old Guard Mobile, are about to leave for Califor 
nia. The reported changes in the Ministry are 
said to be wholly unfounded. The increase of the 
revenue during the first eight months over last, is 
stated at 25.000,000 francs. In the Bourse, on 
Thursday, Fives opened at 93 85, and closed at 
93 60. 
Tbe Dutcbies. 
Advices from Hamburgh state, that on the 12th 
the Holstein army made a forward movement, 
with the intention of attacking the fortified bridge 
across the Schlye, at Messunde. The Danes were 
driven from their unfortified positions at Koshen- 
dorff and other points into their entrenchments. 
They canonaded the Holsteiners, for about an 
hour, but without effect, when firing ceased, and 
they began to retire. The Danes then replaced 
the bridge, which they had previously removed, 
and crossed over with the intention of harrassing 
the retreat of the Holsteiners, but found them so 
strong as to render it unadvisable to press them 
closely. Gen. Willisen took possession of Re- 
kenford, and established his head-quarters at that 
town in the afternoon, but was subsequently forc¬ 
ed to retire, owing to the near proximity of the 
Danish ships. The army bivouacked at night at 
points somewhat in advance of their previous po¬ 
sition, and on the following day the Danes still 
declined to give them battle. They re-occupied 
the positions which they held previous to the ad¬ 
vance, and up to the 14lh. No further movement 
had been made. The Holsteiners lost about 130 
and the Danes about 170 men. In Gen. Willi- 
sen’s proclamation, he srys: “ We have offered 
the enemy battle in the open field, under the most 
favorable circumstances for him. We have de¬ 
stroyed all his field works in the east by Reken- 
ford. Holm and Hornmolfeldt, and his camp at 
Koshendorff, and thus proved that he is not so 
fully master of Schleswig as he gives himself out 
to be.” 
Hesse Cassel. 
The Germans have been occupied last week 
with the sudden and precipitate flight of the Prince 
of Hesse Cassel. Disputes having occurred be¬ 
tween the Prince and the Chamber ah to his right 
to impose taxes without the consent of the latter, 
and the people having obtained the sanction of 
the legal tribunals to their resistance of the illegal 
taxes imposed ^by the Government, the Prince 
found the place too hot to hold him and fled. The 
Hessiery appear to be getting on very well with¬ 
out the Elector and his infatuated Ministers, and 
it is said to be probable that other States will 
shortly follow their example. 
Austria and Prussia are viewing this outbreak 
with no little anxiety. It is said that Austria will 
take sides with the Elector. 
Genesee Conference Appointments. 
From the Buflalo Christian Advocate. 
The Genesee Annual Conference closed an ex¬ 
ceedingly pleasant and harmonious suasion in the 
village of Rushford, Allegany county, yesterday, 
Wednesday, at 11 o’clock. Through the atten¬ 
tions of Rev. Thomas Carlton, we are enabled to 
present the appointments thus early. Many of 
our readers will be gratified at the result. We 
have notes prepared for a considerable notice ef 
the doings of the Conference, but have no time 
this week to present them. 
The following are the appointments for the 
Conference year: 
Buffalo District. —Thomas Carlton, P. E.— 
Buffalo— 
Niagara Street—Allen Steele. 
( Swan Street—Schuyler Seager. 
I Elk Street—To be supplied. 
) Pearl Street—Eleazer Thomas. 
^ Seneca Street—Julius Stevens. 
Black Rock—To be supplied. 
Williamsville—Edwin R. Keyes. 
Clarence—John Timmerman. 
Akron—David Nichols. 
Eden and Harr.burgh—Wm. S. Tuttle, Alonzo 
Newton. ^ 
Aurora—John Bowman. 
Lancaster—Qustavus Hines. 
Wales—Henry Butlin. 
Java—Josiah F. Mason. 
Darien—John W. Vaughn. 
Attica—Charles M. Woodward. 
Alexander—Milo Scott. 
Bethany—Jacob Hager. 
Wyoming—Harvey K. Hines, 
Warsaw—King D. Nettleton. 
Gainesville—Jason Miller. 
Castile—Chauncey S. Baker. 
Perry—Charles D. Burlingham. 
Genesee College—Daniel C. Houghton, Pro¬ 
fessor. D F. Parsons, Agent. 
Genesee Wesleyan Seminary—Wm. H. De- 
Puy, Principal of Teacher’s Department. 
Genesee District. —Asa Abell, P. E. 
Batavia—William M. Ferguson. 
Stafford—John B. Jenkins. 
Le Roy—H. Royn Smith. 
Scottsville—Hiram Hood. 
Chili and Churchville—John Fuller, E, M. 
Buck. 
f Byron—Alfred W. Luce. 
( Elba—Micah Seager. 
Careyville—Richard L. Waite. 
Alabama—William Barrett. 
Murray—J. P. Kent, Sumner C. Smith. 
Brockport—Joseph R. Cheesman. 
Ogden—Horatio M. Ripley. 
Parma—John P. Laucton, Amos Hard. 
Clarkson—E. S. Furman. 
Kendall—Wm. D. Buck, John H. Wallace, 
Sup. 
Covington—Hiram May, G. W, Terry, G. 
Benedict. 
Pavilion—William O. Fuller. 
The next Conference is to be held at Le Roy, 
Genesee co.. Sept. 10, 1851. 
DestrnctlTe Fire in Buflalo. 
Buffalo, Sept. 4, 
About half past one o’clock*thi8 morning the 
the lorge and spacious Hotel known as the Mer¬ 
chants, situated on Commercial and Lloyd streets, 
fronting on the canal also—built and occupied by 
the brothers Thomas, was discovered to be on fire 
and notwithstanding the active exertions of the 
firemen, the building was destroyed. There 
an insurance on.the building of $28,000, which 
we are informed, is sufficient to cover the actual 
loss. Yet, however, it must bear severely on the 
Messrs. Thomas, as it throws them out of the 
best business season of the year. The house was 
filled wite travelers. As to the origin of the fire, 
there exists some doubts ; when first discovered 
the whole upper part of the building was in 
flames, and it either must have taken from some 
crevice in the chimney, or is the work of an in¬ 
cendiary—the latter, supposed by many. One of 
the boarders lost a gold watch and one hundred 
and fifty dollars in money. [Buff. Rep. 
Steamboat Explosion. 
Buffalo, Oct. 4 . 
The boiler of the steam tug, employed in tow¬ 
ing mud scows back and forth from the ship ca¬ 
nid to the lake, exploded to-day about 12 o’clock. 
She sunk almost immediately. There were three 
men on biard, who were saved. 
Items of News, &c. 
The population of Auburn is 9,548. 
The Universalist church in Watertown, 
was destroyed by fire on the 22d ult. 
_Out of 150 appointments acted on by the 
Senate on the 25lh ult., only two were rejected. 
No intoxicating liquors are sold at any of 
the depots on the Erie Railroad route. 
1^” Mr. Giddings of Ohio has been re-nomi¬ 
nated for Congress. 
Preston King has been nominated for re- 
election to Congress from St. Lawrence Co. 
_There is not a distillery in the State of 
Rhode Island. 
The Tobacco of Virginia has been seri¬ 
ously damaged by hail storms and frost.. 
Springfield, Mass., according to the recent 
census, has a population of 11,720. 
The Right Reverend Archbishop of Can¬ 
ada died at Quebec on Friday last. 
Nearly 1000 passengers per day pass over 
the Michigan Central Railroad-r-a large increase 
over last season. 
The popular feeling in Texas, is said to be 
decidedly in favor of accepting the proposition of 
Congress. 
6^ Edward B. Morgan, of Aurora, Cayuga 
county, has been nominated as the Whig candidate 
for Congress in that District. 
_Mr. Ashman, member of Congress from 
Massachusetts, has signified his intention not to be 
a candidate for a re-election. 
gentleman in California writes to his 
wife in Ohio, that his crop of tomatoes on an acre 
and a half of ground, was worth $18,000. 
stalk of corn 18 feet 4 inches high, with 
35 ears upon it, was raised this year in Warren, 
Macomb county, Mich. 
_It is rumored that the Esquimaux Indians 
have found a cask with a canister of papers in it 
relative to Sir John Franklin. 
The official vote of Missouri shows the 
following result:—Whig 31,709; Anti-Benton, 
25,265; Benton, 20,221. 
_Several horses were stolen in Genesee Co. 
last week, for which liberal rewards have been of¬ 
fered. 
" The tea grown im South Carolina is said to 
bo much better flavored tnan Chinese, which loses 
its flavor in the passage. 
A building is now going up in New-York, 
which will have in it 140 distinct residences. It 
is to be rented to people of small means. 
_Littlefield has abandoned the wax figure 
exhibition of Drs. Webster and Parkman, owing 
to the censures of the press. 
51;^ The Louisville Examiner, the anti-slavery 
paper formerly edited by Cassius M. Clay, has 
been discontinued for want of patronage. 
The population of Georgetown, D. C., is 
7,957. At the census of 1840, the population 
was 7,312. Increase in the last ten years 645. 
_The receipts at the U. S. Mint in Phila- 
deiiihia, for the week ending Sept. 14, were $113,- 
244,20. The payments were $21,392,99, leaving 
a balance of $1,380,162.92. 
Hon. Ira Harris, LL. D., has been called 
to the temporary Chancellorship of the Rochester 
University, to preside until the appointment of a 
President. 
53^ There are 56 lawyers in Chenango county, 
and on an average but 35 causes on the County 
and Circuit Court calandars—less than one cause 
to a lawyer. 
51;^” A fire occurred at Carbondale, Pa., on the 
23d ult., which consumed three hotels, a large 
number of stores and the Post Office. The loss is 
estimated at $100,000. Insurance $15,000. 
tpg** The recent census has ascertained that in 
Milford, N. H., there are 169 persons bearing the 
name of Hutchinson—including the “ tribe of Jes¬ 
se”—the far-famed Hutchinson family. 
_ DMUND Burke, formerly Editor of the 
Washington Union, has purchased the establish¬ 
ment in conjunction with Mr. Overton, one of 
the present editors, Mr. Ritchie, retiring. 
The population of Massachusetts accord¬ 
ing to the U. S. census, will be at least one mil¬ 
lion. By the State census it was only about 970,- 
000 . 
12;^” The streets of the city of Aberdeen, Scot¬ 
land, are swept every day, at an annual cost of 
£1400, and the refuse brings in £2000 a year— 
being a nett gain of £600. 
ff^”The Watertown (Wis.) Chronicle .says— 
“ The corn crop in this State is unsurpassed and 
unsurpassable.” Hay is also abundant, but pota¬ 
toes are affected by the rot. 
2;^” An apothecary in New York gave a child 
strychnine for some other medicine prescribed, by 
a physician, which killed it in a few hours.— 
He has been arrested. 
The propeller Monticello ran into the 
schooner Northwestern of Oswego, on Lake Hu¬ 
ron, and sunk her in three minutes. She had a 
cargo of salt. 
Gov. Seabrook, of South Carolina, has 
recommended that the fourth Thursday in Octo¬ 
ber be observed throughout the State, as a day of 
thanksgiving, humiliation and prayer. 
ftjg ** The electric telegraph between Vienna 
and Cracow has just been completed, and the first 
despatch over it—a military one—was received 
by the Minister of War from Cracow, in five min¬ 
utes. 
J. S. Wadsworth, Esq., of Geneseo, has 
presented the Rochester University with his sub¬ 
scription of one thousand dollars, which the 
Trustees of that institution most thankfully ac¬ 
knowledge. 
Suicide. —We learn that Mr. Russel Warren, 
of the town of Warren, Herkimer county, com¬ 
mitted suicide, by hanging himself in his barn, 
on Tuesday morning. He had been working on 
the farm with his son, and complaining that he 
was unwell, the latter advised him to go to the 
house. He left and was not seen again until noon 
when the son went to the barn with his horses.— 
Finding the doors locked on the inside, he burst 
them open and immediately discovered the life¬ 
less body of his father suspended from one of 
the beams. The deceased was about 50 years 
old, and is believed to have committed the fatal 
act while laboring under a fit of insanity. 
[Utica Obs. 
Louisville, Oct. 5. —Extraordinary Telegraph' 
ifig—Beating Time.—-The Cambria’s news^ was 
received in New Orleans, by the “O’Reilly” 
and “ House” lines, at hedf-past seven Y M. on 
Thursday, having left New York at 8 P.M. ! the 
differonoe of time between the two cities, being 
about one hour. The actual time occupied in the 
transmission, was thirty minutes. 
Thanksgiving in Massachusetts. —The Gov¬ 
ernor has appointed Thursday, November 28th, 
as a day of general Thanksgiving in Massachu¬ 
setts. * 
