MOORE’S RURAL MEW-YORKER:' AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 21, 1850 
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Local Agents. 
James Van Hojin, 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, Newark, Wayne county. 
Silsby & Keeler, Seneca Falls. 
A. R. Frisbie, Clyde, Wayne county. 
Wm. Richey & O. A. Graves, Watertown, Jeff. co. 
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Archibald Stone, Hinmanville, Oswego county. 
E. W. Fairchild, East Bloomfield, Ontario county. 
G. N. Sherwood, Camillus, Onondaga county. 
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J. W. Reed, Lockport, Niagara countJ^ 
J. M. Trowbridge, Pekin, “ “ 
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H. S. Frisbie, Holley, “ “ 
L. A. Morse, Knowlcsville, “ “ 
M. Scott, Arcadia, Wayne county. 
T. Cunningham, Mohawk, Herkimer county. 
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O. B. Scott, Woodville, Jefferson Co. 
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M. Parke, P. M. Clifton Springs. 
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PiURAL. 
Acknowledgments. —Though w'e cannot or do 
not properly acknowledge the various acceptable 
favors of which we are the recipients, we beg to 
assure our friends, that their kindness is not the 
less appreciated. Two or three late favors have 
so come o’er us that we must be permitted to item¬ 
ize them in this wise : 
Choice Potatoes. —S. P. Chapman, Esq., of Mt. 
Pleasant, Madison county, has forwarded us a bar¬ 
rel of potatoes as is potatoes. They are the Long 
Pink Eyes, and a decidedly superior sample of that 
excellent variety, in both size and flavor. This is 
the decision of a Potato Convention held at a din¬ 
ner table where several reputable cooks and con¬ 
sumers were pre.sent—our portion of the “ last best 
gift” acting as steward. Our thank.s, Mr. C.— 
Previously cognizant of the fact that you were at 
home in breeding short-horns, we now have tangi¬ 
ble evidence of your success and good taste in an¬ 
other department of husbandry. 
A friend to whom we presented a few of the po¬ 
tatoes, would like a barrel or two “ of the same 
sort” for seed. Can Mr. C. accommodate him? 
Grapes. —Mrs. H. N. Langworthv, of Ironde- 
quoit, will please accept our best, for her very 
tempting and tasty present, in the shape of a (not 
smali) basket of large and luscious Isabella Grapes. 
We never saw finer ones, at this season. 
Saleratus. —We are indebted to Taylor & Co. 
of Syracuse, for a box of pure Pearl Saleratus 
(some 15 to 20 lbs.,) of their own manufacture.— 
It proves to be a superior article, and we return due 
thanks in behalf of the “ kitchen cabinet.” A note 
accompanying the box, explains that our mention 
of the Saleratus exhibited by T. & Co. at the On¬ 
ondaga Co. Fair, is the why of this remembrance 
—a circumstance the more gratifying from the fact 
that our commendation was a simple tribute of 
merit im noticing prominent items on exhibition.— 
Now, how’ever, we have better proof of the truth of 
our assertion, and again commend the establish¬ 
ment to the public. 
___ IT 
Caleb Lyon, of Lyonsdale, the poet and scholar, 
has been elected to the Legislature of this State by 
I. 500 majority. He ran thus well as a stump can¬ 
didate, and we are glad that men of talents and 
reputation, not exclusively politicians, are being 
chosen to represent the people. Mr. L. was one 
of the secretaries of the California Constitutional 
Convention. 
Letter from the Santa Fe Country. 
We have been permitted to make the following 
extract from a letter of a young friend of ours, now 
with the Army near Santa Fe, to his brother in 
this city: 
Military Post on the Arkansas, near ) 
the Crossings, Ind. Ter., Oct. 12,1850. ) 
Our sod quarters are progressing rapidly, but 
we experience a great draw back in the want of 
timber. The nearest wood of any size, is on the 
Cimarone River and Pawnee Fork, 17 to 20 miles 
from our post, and of the poorest quality at that— 
cotton wood and hackberry, many of the logs of 
which are hauled by oxen that distance, and slit 
into boards by our horse power saw-mill, and will 
then make but three or four boards each. We 
have had no rain on the plains yet, but very fine 
weather for working. The thermometer yester¬ 
day morning, stood at 36.50, and rose in the after¬ 
noon to 87.90. We are in the latitude of Rich¬ 
mond, Virginia, and San Francisco, which is 37.30 
N. Latitude. 
Our command consists of 80 soldiers Co. D., 
Gth Infantry, with a large number of hired labor¬ 
ers in the service of the U. S., known as quarter¬ 
master’s men. Our encampment makes as im¬ 
posing and bustling an appearance as any new 
village in the midst of civilization. A new fort in 
the process of construction—two horse power saw¬ 
mills—Sutler’s store—mail and stage depot, &c.— 
the whole overshadowed by the glorious stars and 
stripes, floating gracefully in the breeze of the 
everlasting prairies. 
We have a goodly portion of horses and mules 
in our encampment, and a portion of our men are 
now cutting and stacking hay. While you in 
York State are roasting your shins before a good 
fire, we are engaged in the hay field, on the banks 
of the Rackensac, as the traders call it. 
Since I returned from our expedition of 160 
miles, after a band of marauding Arrapahoes and 
Cheyenne Indians, more than 20 large trains have 
passed our post en route to Santa F'e, Las Vegas 
and El Passo, or the States. 
I suppose I am a good way behind the light¬ 
house for news. I have just learned that Prof. 
Webster was actually hung, and that Jenny Lind 
had arrived in New York. You must be all crazy 
on this subject; I have heard singers in my day, 
and good ones too,^but I don’t think I went into 
such ecstacies as to loose my wits. Barnum ought 
to get that Broadway hatter who paid $225 for a 
ticket and exhibit him in his Museum along with 
the Hoosier infant with the big collar that was 
about the streets in Rochester last winter and now 
in New York. 
How I have envied your situation for the last few 
weeks—living on peaches, grapes and watermel¬ 
ons, and enjoying the good things of life in every 
imaginable way ; while we poor devils out here on 
this vast plain, are dreaming life away, and resort¬ 
ing to every possible expedient to kill time ; but 
when bleak winter sets in, and the whistling and 
snorting of the nostrils of old Boreas is our music, 
and one vast counterpane of snow covering the 
illimitable prairies, you can picture to yourself our 
situation. But perhaps I anticipate too gloomily. 
YVe have everything in the eating and drinking 
line ; what the U. S. does not furnish our sutler 
does. Last night Col. M_and myself pun¬ 
ished a can of oysters, and_another of hermetically 
sealed Baltimore peaches. I particularly relished 
the latter. But eating is a small part of the pleas¬ 
ure of life with me. 
Without the company or even the ready means 
of communicating with relatives, and the friends 
0 ^ early da^'s, existence is curtailed of half its en¬ 
joyments. At any rate, I have a goodly number 
of daguerreotypes of you all before me, which 
seem to regain animation and life while I look 
upon them.' By the bye, I think I should make 
a good subject for a picture, as the shears have not 
touched rny head, nor a razor my face since I left 
New York city. I have gained about 20 pounds 
in weight, and never enjoyed better health in my 
life. 
The river is full of ducks, geese and brant, and 
the prairies covered with buffalo, antelope, deer, 
and prairie dogs—the latter of which are esteemed 
very fine eating. They are a very singular ani¬ 
mal. In traveling over the plains, you cross thro’ 
their towns, where they burrow in countless num¬ 
bers. 
The barking, screaming, screeching, and howl¬ 
ing of wolves at night, hovering about the camp 
in thousands, is exceedingly annoying to those un¬ 
accustomed to the plains. A single cat, mewing 
and yowling will harrass you of the “ downy bed 
and overstrained refinement” so seriously as to 
banish rest, but were you environed by these mon¬ 
ster animals resembling huge mastiffs, you would 
have sometliing to complain of. I am getting 
quite used to it, and now listen to their infernal 
music ” making night hideous,” quite complacent¬ 
ly. I occasionally sally out with rny double-bar- 
rel ’stub and twist, and give them particular Jesse. 
My professional duties now call me oft’; but in a 
few days I will give you my views of this country, 
its capabilities, formation and resources. Adieu— 
Remember me to all; feminines in particular. 
* * a 
Lectures on "ifentilation. 
11. Ruttan, Esq., of Cobourg, Canada, read 
two lectures in Minerva Hall, in this city, last 
week, on the subject of ventilation. At the close 
of the second lecture Dr. McGregor was called 
to the Chair, and I. M. 'Winchell, Esq., appoint¬ 
ed Secretary—when the following resolution wus 
olFered by L. YVetherell, Esq., and unanimous¬ 
ly approved by the audience: 
Resolved, That H. Ruttan, Esq., is entitled to, 
and we hereby tender to him our cordial thanks for 
his interesting and highly instructive lectures on 
the important subjects of warming and ventilating 
our dwellings and public buildings. 
51;^^ Allowing 25 cents as the average price per 
bushel for peaches, the farmers of New Jersey, re¬ 
alized the handsome sum of $334,625 this year. 
The Free School Law. 
The Argus states that returns have been receiv¬ 
ed from all the counties but seven, and the indica¬ 
tions are that the Free School Law has been sus¬ 
tained by a majority of about 25,000. YVe shall 
probably be able to give the official vote next week. 
The Albany Journal says:—YVe are requested 
by the State Superintendent to state for the benefit 
of officers and inhabitants of school districts gen¬ 
erally, that in his opinion and that of the Attorney 
General, who has been consulted on this subject, 
the late decision of Judge Shankland, of the Su¬ 
preme Court, adverse to the constitutionality of the 
existing law, is conclusive only as between the 
parties to the suit before him ; and that until such 
judgment is, in some way affirmed by the Court of 
Appeals, the law must be deemed constitutional 
and valid to all intents and purposes. Both the 
Superintendent and the Attorney General are de¬ 
cidedly of opinion that the law was constitutionally 
enacted ; and that there is no probability that the 
Court of Appeals, should the question ever come 
before that tribunal, will otherwise decide. 
YVeekly Meteorological Abstract. 
BY L. WETHERELL. 
Nov. 1850. 
THERMOMETEF. 
MAX.* 1 MIN. 1 MEAN. RAIN. 
WINDS. 
12 
48 
31 
1 38.66 
S W N W. 
13 
43 
40 
41.00 
N W. W. 
14 
52 : 
32 
1 43.33 
S W. S E. 
15 
58 
41 
49.00 
1 s w. 
16 
38 
33 
34.66 
N W. 
17 
38 
34 
35.33 
W. 
18 1 
34 
vv. 
RE.MARKS. 
Nov. 12th. Cool and fair—largo meteor seen 
this evening. 
13th. YVarmer—some signs of rain. 
14th. Cooler—fine day—a little cloudy in the 
afternoon. 
15th. Fine morning—a little rain in the after¬ 
noon. 
16th. Cloudy—began to snow about 9 A. M., 
and snowed all day. 
17th. Cloudy—snows and rains a little. 
18th. Continues cloudy—snows a little—about 
4 inches of snow have fallen since Saturday 
morning. 
Literary Notices, &c, 
The Farmer’s Guide to Scientific and Practical 
Agriculture. New York: Leonard Scott & Co. 
D. M. Dewey, Agent, Rochester. 
YVe have received the first eleven numbers of 
this work, though in the press of other matters they 
have not been noticed regularly. No. 8, contains 
the first part of Prof. Norton’s American Notes, 
which adapt it peculiarly to this country. No. 10 
contains a steel plate of ‘‘Fat YVethers,” both use¬ 
ful and embellishing. No. 11 has the commence¬ 
ment of Prof. Norton’s Notes on Spring Practice. 
The parts already issued, as well as tho.se to 
come, can be procured of the agent. 
Three Lectures on Hygiene and Hydropathy. 
By R. S. Houen roK, Ai. 1>. pp. I3'.i —price, 25c. 
An Introduction to the YVater-Cure. By T. 
L. Nichols, M. D. pp. 46 — price, 12i cts. 
YVe have received the above pamphlets from 
the publishers, Fowlers & YY’ells, New York, 
and from a hasty glance should think them valu¬ 
able to tho.se interested in the subjects of which 
they treat. 
Life, Here and There ; or .Sketches of Society 
and Adventure at Far-apart Times and Places.— 
By N. P. YVillis. New i’ork: Baker &, Scrib¬ 
ner. 
This is a companion volume to the ‘‘Rural 
Letters,” which appeared some time since and 
won among a class of readers of refined tastes 
who were, perhaps, prejudiced against him, a large 
advance of fame to their author. YVe here find 
the same inimitable style, and vigorous description 
of natural scenery whieh charmed us there, with 
well-lirnned sketches of life and character, as .seen 
in his early and later years ; the whole illustrating 
‘‘ with what difi’erent eyes men look about them at 
far-apart times and places.” Buy the book as tee 
have. For sale by Dewey. 
The Twelve Qualities of Mind ; by J. YY’. Red- 
field, .YI. D. New Y'ork; J. S, Redfield. 
This is a second part of the ‘‘Outlines of a New 
System of Physiognomy.” It is a clever booklet 
worthy of all the attention it demands; whieh 
finds in different parts of the body the signs of En¬ 
durance, Attractiveness, and Repulsiveness, under 
which are classed the ‘‘Twelve qualities of mind.” 
For sale by D. M. Dewey, Arcade Hall. 
QyEEN Joanna.— By G. YV. M. Reynolds. Illus¬ 
trated. New Y’ork: Long & Brother. 
YVe ‘‘ notice” that Dewey has this for sale, 
and that is all we can say of it—having, as a gen¬ 
eral thing, neither time nor inclination to devote to 
novel reading. 
Correction. —A sad blunder appears in the ar¬ 
ticle on Early Education, by YVm. Garbutt, Esq., 
published in our last number. The error is in the 
first sentence of the fifth paragraph, which reads 
“ No child should be sent to school to learn its let¬ 
ters, nor its abs, (if they do but know them”)— 
whereas the portion in parenthesis was written, and 
should read, ‘‘if their ])arents do but know them.” 
The error was marked in the proof, but overlooked 
by the compositor—a circumstance that %vill some¬ 
times happen in the best regulated printing offices. 
YVe, of course, feel ourself highly honored by 
the Eaton (Mich.) Democrat copying from one of 
our editorials in our twelfth number, and placing it 
as his leader. YVould it not have been better, had 
it been either quoted or credited.— Industrial 
Times. 
YVe are happy to learn that the Times has been 
honored so highly. Hope friend Pain can now 
appreciate our ‘‘ feelinks,” when we observe arti¬ 
cles taken from the New-Yorker, and leaded out 
in the Times as original—a “ cucumstance” so 
common of late that we hardly prize the compli¬ 
ment ! 
Next Fair of the State Agricultural Society. 
[From the Daily Democrat.] 
It will be observed that a meeting of our citi¬ 
zens is to be held on Thursday evening next to 
take into consideration the subject of obtaining (he 
decision of the State Agricultural Society in fa¬ 
vor of holding the next annuel Fair in this city.— 
The Society meets in January, at Albany, and 
this question will then come up for discussien. It 
is necessary in older to have the choice fall upon 
any particular locality, that the citizens of the 
place asking the favor pledge themselves to raise 
a certain amount of money to provide for the 
erection of suitable buildings and the enclosure 
of the grounds upon which the Fair is to be held. 
If our business men are unwilling to do this, the 
Fair will go elsewhere. They are decidedly in¬ 
terested in the matter and we believe appreciate 
the advantage which the assemblage here of the 
large concourse which is always gathered on such 
occasions would be to them. When the Fair was 
held here in 1843, the expense was less than at 
present, and there were less people to pay it. The 
President of the Society paid a large proportion of 
the cost of buildings, &c., and our merchants 
and others received the benefits while contribut¬ 
ing but little. All the circumstances to favor the 
decision are now in our favor, and if we choose 
to accept the offer, it is ours in 1851. The offi¬ 
cers of the Society agree that Rochester has the 
preference above other localities that may apply 
for the boon. We can make the show one that 
will reflect honor upon our city. Shall we have it? 
The Result of the Election. 
As far as heard from, the election returns sum 
up as follows : 
Hunt’s, whig, majority over Seymour, 347. 
Church’s, dem., majority over Cornell, 7,225. 
Mather’s, “ ‘‘ “ Blakely, 978. 
Benton’s, ‘‘ ‘‘ ‘‘ Smith, 6,478. 
Angel’s, “ “ ‘‘ Baker, 9,581. 
Average democratic majority on the whole tick¬ 
et, 4,803. 
This includes the olficfal returns from all the 
counties except St. Lawrence. 
Census Items. 
The Marshal, says the Utica Herald, has kind¬ 
ly furnished us with the population of four addi¬ 
tional counties, as determined by the recent cen¬ 
sus. We compare the present returns with those 
of 1840 : 
1840. 
1850. 
Chenango,.... 
40,313 
Hamilton,. 
.1,907 
2,198 
Madison,. 
.40,033 
53,081 
Orleans,. 
.24,992 
28,464 
In Chenango county there has been a decrease 
of 466 ii^ten years. Each of the other counties 
and towns shows an increase during the same pe¬ 
riod, as follows : 
Hamilton,. 291 
Madison,.3,042 
Orleans,.3,169 
The number of farms in thoeo counties at pres¬ 
ent, is appended, with the approximate ratio of the 
number on the farms: 
Chenango, .4,409, or a farm to every 9 persons. 
Hamilton,.. 284, “ ‘‘ “ 
Madison,. .3,982, “ “ “ 
Orleans,.. .2,297, ‘‘ ‘‘ ‘‘ 
Population of Wisconsin. —The following ta¬ 
ble shows the population of the counties so far as 
heard from, showing an increase of over sixty per 
cent in two and a half years. 
1847. 
1850. 
Brown,. 
.... 2,914 * 
6,1.53 
Columbia,. 
.... 3,761 
9,550 
Kenosha,. 
.... 8,782 
10,778 
LaPointe,.. 
367 
496 
Milwaukee,. 
.... 22,791 
31,071 
Rock,. 
.... 14,729 
20,879 
Sauk,. 
.... 2,178. 
4,390 
Marquette,. 
. ... 2,261 
8,638 
Lafayette,. 
.... 9,335 
11,605 
67,148 
103,569 
- 
Cattle. 
Sheep (Si- 
Lambs. 
Swine. 
Horses. 
Maine, 
229 
N. H. 
620 
2,200 
5 
Vermont, 
514 
1,815 
18 
Mass. 
66 
120 
50 
14 
New York, 
Canada, 
45 
8 
13 
Total. 
1,429 
4,135 
95 
58 
Should the other counties .show the same rate of 
increase, we have now about 350,000 inhabitants 
in this State .—Milwaukee Sent. 
Catti.e Trade in New England. —During the 
week ending Nov. 13, 95 cars came over the 
Fitchburgh railrod, and 50 over the Boston & Lo¬ 
well railroad, loaded with cattle, sheep, horses, 
swine and fowls. 
number from each state. 
Burglar Convicted. —We learn by the Toron.- 
to Patriot, that Geo. Lay, one of the burglars who 
figured so conspicuously in this city last summer, 
has just been convicted of burglary at the Assizes 
in that city. Sentence had not been passed. It 
will be a matter of satisfaction to some of our citi¬ 
zens who were robbed by this arch burglar, to 
know that our Canadian neighbors have provided 
a home for him whore ho will not be like to annoy 
anybody for some years to come.— Roch. Adv. 
New Jersey. —According to the Newark Daily- 
Advertiser, the new Legislature of New Jersey is 
divided politically as follows : 
Senate —YVhig, 10 I House —Whig, 21 
• Dern. 10 | Dem. 23 
Democratic majority in joint ballot, 2. 
Exemplary. —A gentleman in Boston bought 
two tickets for Jenny Lind’s concert for $10, and 
presented them to his wife. She like a sensible 
woman, disposed of them to a neighbor, and with 
the proceeds paid the bills of the butcher and the 
milkman, and had $2 left to buy shoes for the 
children. Sensible woman. 
American Apples. —In a letter in the Buffalo 
Commercial Advertiser, from London, the writer 
says, he finds American apples are wanted. There 
have been no shipments for two year from abroad 
—15,000 barrels will find immediate sale at good 
prices. 
Items of NeYvs, &c. 
51:^ The population of Detroit is full 22,000. 
The Missourians are pushing the Pacific 
Railroad project. 
An old lady% named Mary Sowers, recently 
died in Columbus,'Ohio, aged 110 years. 
The oldest Episcopal bishop in the Union 
u Bishop Chase, of Illinois—aged 83 years. 
8;^ Harvard College was founded 212 years 
since. An ancient institution. 
Mr. John Goodale is now living in Bel¬ 
mont, Ohio, at the advanced age of 102 ! 
Col. Bliss is preparing for the press a His¬ 
tory of the Campaigns of Gen. Taylor. 
11^" The present number of Post-mistresses in 
the United States is 81. 
11^*' Wm. Curtis, plasterer, at Cincinnati, has 
fallen heir to $7,000,000 in England. 
Boston with a population of over 150,000 
shows but 50 deaths per week. 
In Mexico, Gens. Arista and Almonte, are 
both contending for the Presidency. 
A patridge, which was perfectly white, was 
recently shot in the town of Lebanon, Tenn. 
Com. Stockton will be a candidate for the 
U. S. Senate in the New Jersey Legislature. 
A negro man died in Nottingham, Md., 
last w'eek, at the advanced age of 109 years. 
55:^” The quantity of gold coined at the Phila¬ 
delphia Mint, this year, to the first of November, is 
$19,685,927. 
Lately, a living trout was found swimming 
in the ‘‘ new milk” supplied by a contractor to the 
Killarney Workhouse. 
An officer of the Government writing from 
Texas, states that fears are entertained of a serious 
conflict with the Indian Tribes of the south-west. 
Hay is so scarce in Ohio that it is already 
selling at Cleveland at from sixteen to eighteen dol¬ 
lars per ton. Many farmers are selling their cows 
at ten dollars and under. 
From 1840 to 1848 the English captured 
625 vessels and 38,803 slaves, of whom 4,0.00 died 
before adjudication. 
12;^ Collamer, of Vt., late Post Master General, 
has just been elected Circuit Judge of the Second 
Judicial District of that State. 
Five hundred and twenty-eight German 
emigrants recently reached New Orleans, from 
Bremen in one dajL 
12^“ There are 21 flouring mills in St. Louis, 
with 56 runs of stone, capable of turning out alto¬ 
gether some 2,800 barrels of flour. 
2;^” Long John Wentworth wasattacked in the 
streets of Chicago a few days since, by the editor 
of the Chicago Journal. Not much damage done- 
2^” At Greenville, Tenn., there was a severe 
snow storm on the 2d. It extended around that 
place for ten miles. 
< 2 ^” Mr. Maj'or Bigelow, according to the 
Transcript, stands a fair chance of being Gover¬ 
nor of Massachusetts. 
(23^ Steamboat racing is again becoming com¬ 
mon on the Mississippi. The western papers 
chronicle several of these criminal affairs. 
12^” The children of fugitive slaves, born in the 
free States, are not liable to capture under the new 
law. 
5^“ Virginia has a law, forbidding the landing 
on her shores of foreign convicts. The penalty is 
fine and imprisonment. 
’ 12^” The new Constitution of Michigan disfran¬ 
chises duellists and their accessories, and disquali¬ 
fies them from holding office. 
12^” The bill for bridging Lake Champlain has 
passed the House in the Vermont Legislature, 150 
for and 11 against it. 
12^” An old negress died near New Orleans a 
week or two since, supposed to have been 130 
years old. 
(2^^" There are five thousand men at work on 
the unfinished division of the New York and Erie 
Railroad, and it will be completed by the first of 
May next, the period fixed by the Company. 
2^ ” Mrs. Henry Clay is a cousin of Mrs. T. H. 
Benton, and both these ladies are distinguished for 
their devotion to their families and the domestic 
duties of life. 
The man who never told an editor how he 
could better his paper has gone to Schenectady to 
marry a woman that never looked into a looking- 
glass. 
12^” Only two persons died of cholera in the 
Cincinnati hospital last week. The Commercial 
says the doctors comjilain that the city is ‘‘ most 
distressing healthy.” 
Phillips’ Patent Fire Annihilator, that was 
itself said to have been annihilated some time ago, 
in London, has recently been further experiment¬ 
ed with, with entire success. 
The number of dogs in the United States 
is computed at three and a half millions. The ex¬ 
pense of keeping is equal to that of keeping twen¬ 
ty millions of sheep, or two millions of cows. 
12;^" The Warsaw Mirror says a son of Mr. 
Burt, of Attica, aged 12 years, was killed on ffi- 
day, by jumping from the cars as they started.— 
He fell back upon th6 rail, the wheels passing over 
.his neck. 
2^" At Hermann, Me., a Mr. Allen has four 
hundred acres of vines, from which it is anticipated 
he will this year produce from three to for thou¬ 
sand gallons of wine, which will average him$l,- 
25 per gallon. 
12^" A white crow was taken in Kennebec, Me., 
last week. Two of them were seen together, and 
fired upon ; and a wing of one of them being bro¬ 
ken, it was taken alive. 
(2^” Milton Jones was hung at Mt. Carmel, Ill., 
on the 11th ult., for the murder of Joseph K. Mil¬ 
ler. At least 5,000 witnessed the execution, of 
whom one third were females. Bad taste. 
(2^”The whigs of Ohio have just elected a mem¬ 
ber of Assembly by one vote —and that member 
may decide, it is said, the vote for a U. States 
Senator. 
12^” Hon. Joshua Giddings, in a speecVi in 
Cleveland, said that ‘‘ the policy of Gen. Taylor 
\\-ould have consecrated to freedom, with the cer¬ 
tainty of fate, every rod of territory acquired by the 
Mexican war.” 
Dr. Holmes and the Sedgwicks live in Old 
Berkshire co.. Mass. Prof. Longfellow has bought 
a farm at Stockbridge, and Hawthorne has bought 
one at Lenox, both in the same county. Bryant, 
the poet-editor, was born in that part of the country. 
12^” The reception meeting at Faneuil Hall to 
Geo. Thompson, the English abolitionist, was a 
complete row. The audience would listen to no 
speeches and it was a scene of extraordinary ex¬ 
citement. No violence however was attempted. 
I2^“ A steam’’company is on the eve of being 
formed at Constantinople, for towing vessels thro’ 
the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles. The capital 
is to be £150,000, in 1,500 shares of £100 each. 
The Sultan and most of the ministers are on the 
list. 
