MOOEE'S EUEAL NEW-YOEKEE: AN AGEICULTUEAL ANE FAMILY JOUENAL, 
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ROCHESTER, OCTOBER 31, 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 county. 
B. Farr and H. Goodrich, Albion. 
Samuel Heston, Batavia. 
R. B. Warren, Alabama, Genesee county. 
Theodore Dickinson, New^ark, Wayne aninty. 
Silsby & Keeler, Seneca Falls. 
A. 11. Frisbie, Clyde, Wayne county. 
Wm. Richey & O. A. Graves, Watertown, Jell', co. 
John Harris, Sheldrake, Seneca county. 
Archibald Stone, Hinmanvillc, 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 coiinty. 
H. S. Frisbie, Holley, “ “ 
L. A. Morse, Knowlesville, “ “ 
M. Scott, Arcadia, Wayne county. 
H. C. Wl'.ite, .Mohawk, Herkimer county. 
Benj. Sill, Livonia, I.ivingston county. 
E. C. Bliss, Westfield, Chautauqtie county. 
J. I. Eackcr, Sheridan, “ " 
J. C. Sherman, New Ilaltimore, Greene county. 
L. D. Branch, I’rumansburg, Tompkins county. 
W. K. Wyckofl', Lodi, Seneca Co. 
O. B. Scott, Woodville, Jeflerson Co. 
B. F. Adams, Bridgeport, Mad. Co. 
M. Parke, P. M. Clifton Springs. 
W. G. Lacy, Scottsville, Monroe county. 
C. Moore, Gerry, Chautauque county. 
W. L. Palmer, Syracuse—Publishing Agent. 
/ Ik consequence of unusual space occupied by 
^ the Educational Department, this week, wo are 
J obliged to omit some departments, and give loss 
^ variety than ordinary in others. For the same 
) reason two or three engravings are deferred. 
Political Affairs. — State Election. 
The Political Cauldron—.judging from the tone 
of the political press and the fever heat of the pol¬ 
iticians wo have recently met—is not only becom¬ 
ing exceedingly warm, but contains a conglomer¬ 
ation of contents, including “fish, flesh and fowl,” 
rather difficult to cook, and perhaps a trifle indi¬ 
gestible when served. Both parties are fairly in 
the field, with all steam on, each bound to “ save 
the nation,” and—secure the offices, and the 
spoils thereunto pertaining! As they have a pretty 
clear track, it is expected that a terrible collision 
will take place on Tuesday next—a crisis in the 
affairs of State when the “ dear people” will bo 
piteously called upon to extend “ aid and comfort ” 
to either party for the salvation of this glorious 
Commonwealth,'and more especially for the exalt¬ 
ation of certain individuals. Much mock patriot¬ 
ism will doubtless emanate from the lips of politi¬ 
cians whose excess of learning hath made them 
mad, and some there are who will take the ipse 
dixit of such wise-acres, and obey their requests 
* and behests ; while others, who think, investigate 
and act for themselves, will permit all extra heat 
to ooze gently from their elbows, and vote consci¬ 
entiously and understandingly. 
To the latter class—to which wo trust most of 
our readers belong—it is perhaps unnecessary to 
offer a word of admonition. They will discharge 
the duty of freemen soberly and intelligently—vote 
with (not for) the parly who.se candidates will best 
represent their views and interests —ui)hold the 
right, by supporting men of moral worth, 
well aS of orthodox political faith. This is the 
true doctrine, and we are of those who believe it 
will ere long be practised at the polls by a suffi¬ 
cient number of independent men to induce both 
parties to be more careful in the selection of car.- 
didates whose election depends upon the exercise 
of the elective franchise. The trammels of party 
are not as strong as of yore ; men of unbending 
integrity will not continually do evil with a possi¬ 
bility only, or in the hope, that good will result 
from the action. The world is growing bettor— 
the people are advancing in the attainment of 
knowledge not only, but wisdom—and thousands 
who have heretofore been induced by pride and 
prejudice (two potent agents of his Satanic Majes¬ 
ty) to sustain their jmrttj, right or wrong, will soon 
assert and maintain their freedom from party dic¬ 
tation. 
— We have wandered from what we intended 
to say, and must omit contemplated comments 
upon the State and other nominations of both par¬ 
ties. We trust all our readers will bo guided by 
reason and justice in casting their ballots at the 
approaching election. If any politician object to 
what wo have said above, our only reply is—“ If 
this be treason, make the most of it.” 
LifeSInsurance. 
Dem. Congressional Nomination. —We ob¬ 
serve that the Democrats of this district have nom¬ 
inated r. G. Buchan, Esq., of Rochester, for Con¬ 
gress. Politics aside, wo congratulate the people 
of Monroe, not th.o party (to whose political faith 
the writer doth not adhere,) upon so unexception¬ 
able a nomination. Judge Buchan is a gentleman 
of excellent qualifications and unblemished repu¬ 
tation—respected and esteemed in both public and 
private life. If the political conventions of both 
parties wore always to present candidates equally 
capable and respectable, the masses would bo more 
properly represented in our National and State 
Legislatures. 
City Assembly No.minatjoks. —The Whig of 
this district have nominated Wm. A, Fitzhugh 
for Assemblyman. Wm. F. Holmes is the Demo- 
ratic nominee for the same office. 
The above nominations not being satisfactory to 
many persons who have heretofore acted with the 
two dominant political parties, they have united 
and nominated Col. Geo. W. Pratt as the " Peo¬ 
ple’s Candidate.” 
[For the Rural New-Yorker.] 
There is an uncontrollable tendency in the 
American character to go to extremes. If any 
new and useful project or business is started, the 
entire community almost, incline to run after it, 
and are eager to engage in it. The great business 
of Life Insurance on “ the mutual plan, is com¬ 
paratively a new thing among us. And the prin¬ 
ciple alluded to above, seems fully illustrated, in 
the eagerness with which Insurance Companies 
are formed, and in the extent to which they are 
multiplied. Now it seems to me wise, to ponder a 
little upon this subject—to look at it with a calm 
and considerate eye. 
1 have heretofore considered Life Insurance, as 
calculated chiefly for the benefit of the insuring 
oompany, rather than that of the party insured.— 
But the introduction of the “ mutual principle,” 
has altered its character entirely, and rendered i* * 
capable of being eminently wise, and beneficial to 
the insured. To secure these results, however, 
the business of the Co. must be prudently and 
safely managed. The importance of this sugges¬ 
tion can hardly be conceived—indeed it cannot be 
fully realised. 
It is immensely important, that suitable and 
competent men should see to the safe and profita¬ 
ble investment of the accumulating funds. And 
it is immensely important, that’loise counsels 
should prevail, in regard to the character and ex¬ 
tent of the annual business of the Co. Now, the. 
Co. that presents the strongest claims upon the 
public confidence, in these respects, is the Co. to be 
safely trusted. 
Insurances for short or limited terms, are de¬ 
signed chiefly to guard against an unlooked for 
contingonce—to secure safety in the event of an 
unexpected death. The greater amount of this 
kind of business, therefore, the better ; as the 
hazard is comparatively small, and the advantages 
or gains are altogether in favor of the Co. In re¬ 
gard to insurances for the term of life, going upon 
the principle of a saving’s bank deposit, the ulti¬ 
mate gain is solely to the benefit of the insured. 
It is derived, not only from the accumulations of 
interest upon the premiums annually paid in, but 
embraces all the gains arising from limited insu¬ 
rances, together with a return of all the annual 
payments. It is presumed, therefore, that the 
principal amount of business is, for life terms. 
Suppose then, a Co. issues 100 policies a month, 
say 1,200 a year, for 20 5 ’ears. Suppose that 400 
of those are for limited periods, and 800 are for 
life—that the ages of those insured, are from 25 
to 40 years—and that the average period of life is 
60 years. Then, from 20 to 35 years from this 
sum, 80 deaths per month must be e.xpected yo 
occur; i. e., 960 per year—say, in round numbers, 
100 per annum. Suppose the amount of their 
policies is $ 1,000 each ; equal to $80,000 per 
month, or $960,000 per year—say in even num¬ 
bers, $1,000,000 per annum. Twenty years from 
this time, when those who are now forty years of 
age shall reach sixty years, the average period of 
life, the Co. will have liabilities, upon life jiolicies 
alone, of 20 millions of dollars. 
Their.accumulations also, during this same pe¬ 
riod of twenty years, from ptemiums by this time 
paid in upon life policies, and gains upon limited 
insurances may amount to three-fourths of this 
same, say fifteen millions ; and interest on these 
payments within the twenty years, on the com¬ 
pound principle, may amount to half this sum, 
say seven and a half millions more—equal to 
twenty-two and one-half millions—say 20 , 000,000 
dollars. Their funds on hand therefore, at the 
expiration of twenty years froih this lime, can by 
no possibility, as I think, amouiit to lo.ss than twen¬ 
ty millions of dollars! And how, and where such 
funds, belonging to one Co. only, are to be safely 
invested, arc questions of momentous interest. 
Now as to their disbiirsments. Twenty years 
hence, when those now forty years of age shall 
reach sixty years, the average period of life, their 
liabilities upon life policies will begin to mature.— 
They may be equal annually to the amount of 
policies annually issued, say $ 1 , 000 , 000 , and inter¬ 
est and gains, say 1 , 000,000 or even half a million 
more. And this sum is to be derived partly from 
the sale of stocks, but chiefly from the calling in of 
loans. 
Now all this is a great business, and requires 
the wisest counsels, and the soundest and great- 
e.st financial talents, to its successful management. 
It is a great business, oven if there was but one 
such institution in the country. But we have rival 
institutioi s, I know not how many. Rivals, who, 
to gain business, reduce the annual premiums from 
the old, tried, and safe standards; and of course, 
thereby, diminish their security, and reduce the ul¬ 
timate gain on all life policies. And still they all 
seem to do a large business. 
But suppose a Co., in its ardor and ambition. 
There is a limit in the business of a Co. as well as 
in that of a private individual, within which, safety 
and prosperity may be confidently expected ; and 
beyond which, neither safety nor success can or¬ 
dinarily be found. It is of vital importance there¬ 
fore to the insured, to be interested in an institu¬ 
tion, governed by men of experience and wisdom, 
of enlarged business capacities, of the soundest 
financial views, and whose known integrity is as 
gold tried in the fire. n. 
Rochester, Oct., 1860. 
Weekly Meteorological Abstract. 
BY L. WETHERELL. 
Oct. 1850. 
thermometer. 
MAX. I MIN. I MEAN. 
22 
61 ! 
44 
53.00 
8 W. 
23 
57 
49 
53.66 
W. N. 
24 
50 ] 
42 
46.00 
sw.se. 
25 
47 
38 
42.66 j 
SW. N E. 
26 
43 
41 
42.00 1 
N E. N E. 
27 
43 
36 
39.66 
3.86 
N E. NW. 
28 
I 53 
35 
w. s w. 
REMARKS. 
Oct, 22d. Fine morning—Indian summer. 
23d. A little rainy—Indian summer—fall crick¬ 
ets heard this evening—fall crickets heard during 
the day. 
24th. A sprinkle of rain—Indian summer. 
25ih. A little rain this morning—rainy afternoon 
and night—wind N. E. 
26th. Raniy morning—very rainy day and night. 
27th. Rainy morning—began to snow about 9 
o’clock this morning and snowed until 11, when 
it cleared off. First snow this autumn. It began 
to rain about 3 o’clock Friday .afternoon and storm¬ 
ed incessantly, so far as known to the observer, 
until 11 Sunday morning. The quantity of water 
that fell during this storm was unusual. Before 
this rain the river was said to be lower than ever 
known before at this season of the year. It is 
rising to-day. 
28th. Fine day—wind high—ijiver high—river 
rising. 
Note. —Wild geese were seen on their tour to 
the South on Thursday last; also on Sunday dur¬ 
ing the storm. Signs of approaching winter are 
multiplying. Fanners! are you all ready to meet 
and endure his desolating reign ? 
Lawyers and the Offices. 
A CORRESPONDENT complains that the legal pro¬ 
fession, being a small portion of the community, 
monopoli7.e all the offices. We can only say there 
is too much truth in the allegation. And just such 
men as our correspondent should “correct the pro¬ 
cedure.” 
The time to attend to such matters is not after 
Lawyers are elected, nor even after they are nom¬ 
inated to office; but, when nominations are to be 
made. Not a fiftieth part of our inhabitants are 
lawyers; but if the forty-nine fiftieths choose to 
nominate lawyers for every office, great or small, 
so be if. The time to remedy this state of things 
is before the mischief is done.— Daily Adv. 
Our neighbor’s logic is very good, apparently; 
but while ho is on the stand we beg to propound 
one or two queries, iu behalf of the forly-iiine fif¬ 
tieths of the people. What shall farmers, mechan¬ 
ics, and others who have little leisure, do when 
they find that they are forestalled at the primary 
meetings—when it comes to light that their action 
in caucus is useless, from the fact that professional 
or other “gentlemen of leisure ” have laid the 
pipe'HO snugly as to prevent an honest and fair ex¬ 
pression by the electors of a district? 
We hear of numerous cases in which the one- 
fiftieth part make the nominations, and call upon 
the forty-nine fiftieths to “go it blind” and secure 
the election of the candidates. No matter about his 
qualifications or moral character; he belongs to the 
party, aftd it is perjury to bolt. Take, for exam¬ 
ple, the nominations by both parties for Assembly 
iu the city district. Can our neighbor enlighten 
the public as to the fairness and honesty exercised 
in their selection ? 
should venture to issue rising four hundred poli-J Some American Seamen having been reported to 
cies a month!—what are we to think of it ?—say | bo in captivity among the Arabians, Commander 
Powers recently received instructions to go to Port' 
say 
five thousand policies a year — five times the 
amount of the one I have been considering! Its 
accumulations, upon the basis 1 have assumed 
above, if my estimates have been reasonable and 
fair, and this amount of business is continued, 
must be, at the expiration of twenty years from 
this time, at least seventy-five millions ; and inter¬ 
est thereon half as much more! The vei'y thought 
is astounding! Who that is a sane and a sound 
man, would give a bird’s feather, for a life policy 
of ,$1,000, to fall duo in the course of events, 
somewhere between twenty and thirty-five years 
hence, to an institution, engulfed in such im¬ 
mense responsibilities ? And still the amount of 
business of a Co. is blazoned, as the highest evi¬ 
dence of public estimation, and the highest reason 
for the public confidence. In so far as the policies 
issued, are for short or limited periods, it is no mat¬ 
ter to what extent they are multiplied. But in so 
far as any Co. exceed 80 or 100 policies per month, 
for life terms, at $1,000 each, in so far is their se¬ 
curity diminished, as I view the subject. 
1'wo Thousand Fugitive Slaves —Detroit, 
18th.—Much excitement still exists in this city, in 
reference to the Fugitive Slave bill. Every 
steamer, propeller and vessel, from the ports in 
Ohio to this place, have a large number of fugi¬ 
tive slaves who have resided for some time in va¬ 
rious sections of Ohio, on their way to Canada.— 
Some bring their families with them. Fear of 
the slave catchers, and of a return to bondage at 
the "South neaily distracts them; consequently 
they are flocking to free Canada tor protection. 
The cars from the west also bring a great num¬ 
ber to this cit’’, and they go over the ferry to Can¬ 
ada with double quick time. 
The numbers gathering in the villages of Mal¬ 
den, Sandwich and Windsor, is now estimated at 
near 2000. 
'I’he commandant of the British garrisons at 
Sandwich and M ildon, have given up the bar¬ 
racks to lodge them in. The barns and vacant 
houses, all up and down the river are full of them. 
Some aio suflering for food. The Canadians are 
very hospitable to them and much has been done 
for their relief. [Milwaukee Gaz. 
Seamen Captives among the Arabians. 
laudic and ransom them,$1000it was said having 
been demanded for them by these pirates. Com¬ 
mander Powell reached Porllandic on the 25th of 
July last, and despatched officers to open com¬ 
munications with the Arabs, but their inquiries 
were fruitless. A note addressed to the chief was 
left ill the care of a few fishermen found on the 
const, to the effect that a ship of war had been 
sent according to his request; that the ransom had 
been paid to Mr. L'oyd, which the chief could ob¬ 
tain when the men wore produced; that Senegal 
was close by—to lake them there, and the certifi¬ 
cate that they were in Cliristinn hands in Senegal 
would be sufficient Ccmmaiider Powell believes 
that the story of the capf-vity has no foundation. 
Something that Every Body did not see.— 
During the Jenny Lind excitement in Boston, the 
coachman who drove her from the steamboat to 
the Revere House, thus ridiculed the insane ad¬ 
miration which his “fellow-citizens” were exhib¬ 
iting. ' Mounting the steps of the Hotel, he cried 
—“Here’s the hand that lifted Jenny Lind out of 
the coach. Gentlemen you can any of you have 
the privilege of kissing it for five dollars—children 
half price.” 
Items of Foreign News. 
A stork was shot lately while siting on a hay¬ 
rick at Monkscalon. 
A singing mouse, with notes like a linnet, has 
been trapped at Rochester, England. 
The Roscommon Journal says that grouse are 
so numerous this season that scythes are used for 
mowing them down. 
The “Catholic Annual Register” for this year 
f ives a list of seventy clergymen who had left the 
higlish Church and joined the Roman Catholic 
religion. 
The Marquis of Westminster has lowered his 
Cheshire rents ton per cent, and presented his ten¬ 
ants with £5,000 worth of bone manure. 
Out of about 340 criminals executed at York 
within the last century, twenty-eight asserted 
their innocence to the latest moment of their ex¬ 
istence. 
A large number of vessels have arrived at the 
port of Gainsborough within the last fortnight, 
from Hamburg and other ports, laden with barley. 
The people of St. John’s, Newfoundland, are 
taking up the subject of a line of steamers from 
Glasgow or the west coast of Ireland, running to 
Quebec, but calling on the way at St. John’s, New¬ 
foundland. 
•Miss Sarah Buffin, the celebrated miniature 
painter, who had neither hands nor arms, died in 
Liverpool, aged 66. 
Several sons of Methodist ministers have recent¬ 
ly graduated at Cambridge University. 
It is stated iu a ,St. Lucia paper that the Emper¬ 
or Fauslin I., of Hayti, had been assassinated by 
his Prime Minister. 
. M. Poitevon made a balloon ascension from the 
Hippodrome, Paris, mounted on the back of an 
ostrich. 
The proportion of crime to population in Leeds 
is not more than one-half what it was twenty-five 
years ago. 
Upwards of £900 have already been subscribed 
towards a bofitling monument to William Words¬ 
worth. 
The low fares on the Sheffield and Rotherham 
Railway continue to yield a larger return than 
double the amount yielded before. 
Argo is indisposed, and has been unable to at¬ 
tend the Academy of Science. 
The Pope has named a committee to take into 
consideration the best steps to be adopted relative 
to the transport of articles of Roman manufacture 
to the great exhibition of London. 
General Haynau dined with Baron Rothschild 
the day after his arrival at Vienna. He dined 
with the Prime Minister Schvvarzenburg on the 
following day, and on the day after the Emperor 
gave him a grand dinner. 
That periodical visitor, the floating Island in 
Derwent Lake, Keswick, has made its appeariice 
above the surface of the water, after having been 
submerged exactly twelve months. 
At the University and Lyceums of Paris the 
number of pupils entered is much greater than 
usual. The facility with which admission is grant¬ 
ed, and the freedom of the public libraries, are giv¬ 
en as the cause of the increase. 
On one day over 400 couple applied to the mu¬ 
nicipal authorities of Paris to be married. Those 
learned in such matters calculated, that before the 
same day next year there will be 250 separations. 
A beautiful bronze bust of Napoleon, after the 
design of Chaudot has been placed in the groat 
hall of tho National Archievee, at Paris. Jazet is 
engraving the picture of the President, lately paint¬ 
ed by Horace Verner. 
Tho largo building called the Hotel de Nantes, 
has been levelled to the ground ; and thus the 
great square between the Louvre and the Tuiller- 
ies is rendered perfect. 
Messrs. Couttsifc Parkinson, of Newcastle, have 
received another order for a large iron East India- 
man, to be about l,O0T) tons register. This ves¬ 
sel will be the largest iron sailing vessel over con¬ 
structed. 
From 1840 to 1848 tho English men-of-war 
captured six hundrad and twenty-five vessels, con¬ 
taining thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and 
three slaves, of whom near four thousand died be¬ 
fore an adjudication. Tho latest advices from Si¬ 
erra Leone, represent the slave trade to be flour¬ 
ishing. 
The various companies in Paris, sending out la¬ 
borers to California, have collected a gieat deal of 
money; one of them ha.s, however, attracted the 
attention of tho police, and its goods have been 
put under sequestration. One of the directors has 
appropriated a largo portion of the subscription to 
his own use. 
A mad dog has done much mischief near Hali¬ 
fax by biting animals, that appears to have attack¬ 
ed others, a horse, a donkey, a mastiir, two sheep 
and twenty deer, in Kirkless Park, have fallen vic¬ 
tims to h 3 ’drophobia, in addition to the original 
BufTerer. 
The treaty between St. Domingo and Great 
Britain has been signed. It was to endure for ten 
years, and permits the right of search for the pre¬ 
vention of the slave trade. Dominican vessels 
suspected of being engaged in human traffic were 
to bo delivered up to tho local authorities, and 
judged according to the laws of tbo Republic. 
Items of News, &c. 
MbRDER — Arrest. —Yesterday afternoon, at 
about 5 o’clock, a man named James Tool, was 
pushed into the river c.t the Nail Factory dock, 
from coal boat No. 22, by tho captain of tho boat, 
and was drowned. Tool had been vvorkiug for 
the captain, when a dispute arose about his pay, 
and both parties becoming excited, the captain 
rushed upon Tool and threw him into the river 
as above stated The captain’s name is Reuben 
Alexander. Ho was immediately arrested by of¬ 
ficer Russell, and lodged in jail to await an ex¬ 
amination. Coroner Defreest held an inquest on 
the body Inst night, and saw fit to bold three of 
the witnesses to appear against the defendant.— 
The verdict of tho Coroner was, that “ Captain 
Reuben Alexander wilfully and maliciously push¬ 
ed Tool into tho Hudson river, thereby causiug 
his death by drowning.” Tool was a laboring 
man, and it is said was much respected by all 
who knew him. 
The captain was b'ought up before the Police 
Court this morning for trial. Tho examination is 
now progressing. Budget. 
Geographical Discoveries in Central Af¬ 
rica. —About two years ago, the scientific world 
was surprised by tho amioucement that Doctors 
Krapf and B.ebmann, who had been for some 
lime zealousy employed in connexion with the 
Church Missionary Society in Eastern and Cen¬ 
tral Africa, had discovered a mountain or moun¬ 
tains within one degree from the Equator, and 
about 200 miles from the sen, which were cover¬ 
ed with perpetual enow, and which there was ev¬ 
ery reason to suppose wore no other than Ptole¬ 
my’s “Mountains of the Moon.” It now appears 
that there is no doubt of the fact. 
The Frontier Batik is the name of a new 
institution just established at Watertown, Jefferson 
county, by Henry Keep. 
51:^' There were brought into New York from 
Now Jersey, during the past peach season, no less 
than 1,338,500 bushels of peaches. 
I^The Whigs of the 30th district (Steuben 
and Allegany,) have nominated Philip Church for 
Congress. 
2;^“ The amount jiaid for the support of tbo 
poor ill Erie county during the past fiscal vear was 
$36,277 98. b r j. 
UfS^The entire military force of the United 
States for the present vear is estimated at nearly 
3,000,000 of men. 
2 ;^” James Brooks of the New York Express, 
has been nominated for re-election to Congress by 
the Whigs of the 6th district. 
S®** M e learn from the last Jamestown Journal, 
that explorations have already been commenced 
on tho route of the contemplated branch railroad 
from Little Valley to Erie, Pa. 
2^ The Governor General of Canada has di¬ 
rected tho organization of an Independent Rifle 
Company, to be formed of the colored men of tho 
county of Iladlimand. 
2 :^" Rev. C. W. Denison, junior editor of the 
Boston Olive Branch, is appointed an Inspector of 
the customs at San Francisco. The salary is 
.$2,200 per annum. 
Sr^~ ^V. Ilotchkis.s, of Lewiston, N. Y, harvest¬ 
ed from 6J acres of wheat, this year at the rate ef 
over 63 bushels to the acre ; weighing 63 pounds 
to the bushel. 
2^^”At the Westboro’ cattle .show was exhibited 
a JIalsteiii cow named “ Jenny Lind,” with a bull 
•calf by her side named “Barnum!” Compli¬ 
mentary! 
2 ;^ A complete histoiy of tho Indian tribes who 
once owned the soil of Connecticut is about to be 
published under the auspices of the Historical So¬ 
ciety of that State. 
Lieut. McPherson, of the filst regiment, 
shot a hippopotamus at Keeskama, Cape of Good 
Hope, which weighed 5,000 pounds. The jaws 
of the huge creature expanded four feet. 
2^ Louisiana appropriates annually $550,000 
to the support of education ; being more in pro¬ 
portion to her wealth and population, than is be¬ 
stowed by any other State in tho world. 
A quail hunter shot a young lady near 
Chicago a few days since, wounding her severely 
in the arm. There is a great difi'creiice between 
quails and girls. 
2,5^ It is affirmed that any fugitive slave having 
been once on British soil, might return to the Uni¬ 
ted States with impunity, as lie could not be again 
reduced to Slavery, and that the courts both North 
and South had so decided. 
2^” A Trumbull (Ohio) paper says :—One day 
last week a gentleman drove through town in a 
buggy having two elks attached to it. They 
measured space quite briskly. 
2^ Some of tho women at Jenny Lind’s last 
concert in Boston, fainted and were taken into her 
apartment, where they received her personal at¬ 
tention. It was well that it was not announced at 
the time, or half the men would have fainted too. 
2;^” A great price is oflerod in the German 
journals for the discovery of the moaning, or in¬ 
terpretation of the last speech of the King of 
Prussia. It is said to be the most intricate puzzle 
ever invented. 
Outrageous Conduct of a Boat’s Crew. 
One death, and the attv.npted suicide of two Fugi¬ 
tive Slaves. 
Fro'm the Syracuse Journal. 
We are called upon to record this morning one 
of the grossest and most inhuman outrages that 
has ever come under our notice. It is the dit bolic- 
a! conduct of the crew of one of the beats upon 
the Erie Canal towards a colored family who 
were passengers with them, resulting iu the at¬ 
tempted suicide of the father and mother, and the 
drowning of their child ! It appears that the man 
named Wm. Harris, and his wife and child, suc¬ 
ceeded a few weeks since in escaping from their 
master in South Carolina. At Philadelphia they 
cameunder the notice of tho friends of the Fu¬ 
gitive, who aided them northward. At Albany 
some friends paid their passage to Rochester, 
whence they were to cross the Lake to Cana¬ 
da. On Monday last, the crew of the boat on 
which they were, learned that they were fugitives 
and immediately devised a plau to trouble aud ter¬ 
rify them, probably thereby finding amusement.— 
On Monday night some of the human fiends, iu 
prosecution of their plans, went to the berth of 
the man Harris,and awakening him informed him 
that his master was on the boat, and they would 
surrender him and family, into his hands. Harris 
drew a dirk with which he was armed for self- 
defence, and drove the scoundrels on deck, and 
by his decisive manner and actions kept them at 
bay till morning. In the morning he was inform¬ 
ed that his master had left the boat and gone on 
to Syracuse, but would there meet him on the 
arrival of tho boat. 
On Tuesday evening, about 5 o’clock, tho boat 
came to a stopping place at the first Lodi lock, 
about a mile east of this city. As is often the case 
a number of persons went aboard the boat. Har¬ 
ris supposed they came to take him, being so in¬ 
formed by some of the crew. In his desperation 
he seized his razor aud drawing it forcibly across 
bis throat, jumped into the canal. His wife with 
their child in her arms leaped after him; all de¬ 
termined to die rather than again come under the 
Slave holder’s power. Effbrls were then made 
to rescue the drowuiug family. Harris aud his 
wife were got out, but the child was drowned. 
Harris was immediately conveyed to the office 
of Dr. Hoyt, who dressed his wounds, and gave 
him other needful attention. It was fouud that 
the'eut was not so bad as might have been altho* 
severing the wind-pipe, but too high up did not 
prove fatal. 
We cannot pass suitable expression of indigna¬ 
tion, or surprise, at these outrages. We have in 
this outrageous affair one of the effects of the 
“ bills of abomination,” which at the least serves 
to render wretched the colored portion of our pop¬ 
ulation. We are, however, happy to state that 
Harris aud his wife are now iu good hands, they 
will be suitably cared for, and as soon as possible 
put beyond the danger of the slave catcher’s 
grasp. _ 
Farms in Maine for Nothing. —A law hss 
passed the Legislature of Maine, giving any man 
from one to two hundred acres, as he may desire 
at the nominal price of fifty cents an acre, pay¬ 
able in two or three years, in work 011 the high¬ 
ways, a kind of remuneration of as great advant¬ 
age to the purchaser as to the State. The farm¬ 
er must, however, clear up a certain number of 
acres within a given time, and erect a house for 
his residence; or iu other words he must go to 
work, improve his farm, and make it his home. 
Much of that offered to settlors outhe above con¬ 
ditions lies iu Aroostook county. 
