MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOU KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL, 
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ROCHESTER, MAY 8, 1851. 
Illinois—Her Condition and IF.-sgecU. 
It will be remembered that 1830 '•■■■<) '07 was 
a season of almost universal delusion i i 11 >t- liuan- 
cial world. States as well as individuals were 
seized with the mania of extravagance, anil under¬ 
took works involving the expenditure of sums fas 
beyond their means. 
Illinois commenced simultaneously, 1,300 miles 
of railroad, 100 of canal, and expensive works to 
We can still furnish back numbers of this vol. « -mono iuu o. cun.., a m expense m 
A Sts and other friends of the Rural will please improve the navigation of her rivers, at a time 
note* this fact, and take subscriptions accordingly when her population was but half a million, and 
Those who do not desire hack numbers, can com- j, er revenues less than her current expenses. T ie 
mcnco now or at any specified time. most objectionable means were used to obtain a 
-•a - 1 -- —- general acquiescence in these extravagant opeia- 
The Erie Railroad Completed. lions. A net work of improven ents was to en- 
Thf completion of thTRailroad from the Hud- compass nearly the whole State, and such coun- 
!>• _ J r a ke Erie through the southern tier ties as were not ifrersected by some of them, were 
rdL .hi within . few h„„„ of a *. ta the M*. of $200,000 .a an 
ofbrib aud !og rol |i„ 8 , , 
dne,ion. ofthe.ra.il. ” „L ftom n.a.'ly unanimon. vote « oblaiaed. and fnnd 
Of the State particularly, so long secluded from J. 
general travel, will now become a tnorougmarc 
for an immense amount of business, and cannot 
butsharo in the life and vigor coursing through its 
valleys. For the cattlo breeder and dairyman, no 
e south-western portion % this system of bribery and log rolling, a 
so long secluded from "early unanimous vote was obtained, and kind 
become a thoroughfare commissioners, loaded with State bonds, hastened 
if business, and cannot t0 tlie money marts, and were quite too successful, 
tror coursing through its The faith of the State was pledged for a sudden 
>eder and dairyman, no shower of g old - that did scarcely as much good, as 
1 rthfter mar- many a shower of rain. Engineers, contractor. 
be found,—and no better niar- 
beUer regions c 1 ^ and laborers were now needed by the wholesale, 
ket need be desired, than tie "as ern , As other States were also engaged in extensive 
brought within a ftw item works, they were obtained with difficulty, at great 
L,Un ' • ex ‘ orts . It is both excellent and expense, and quite too often totally unqualified for 
among tie l , their station. The public works were frequency 
abundant, and as it eciea.es - • ^ undertaken and located, more to suit the interest 
ill > ie im P rovemcllt » f .. --for fh. ,..,,.,,1 
will be extended: and we see no reason why, with 
a proper system at work, farming may not become 
as profitable in Steuben, Allegany, Ac., as in any 
part of the Empire State. 
ct<.(oo thin rnnri 
of individuals, and localities, than for the geneial 
welfare. 
The lines were mostly surveyed, many com¬ 
menced, some half finished, and one short road 
As an avenue to the Western States this road of small importance completed. . Cargoes of iron 
\ ' , • _ mlP ii M k were on their way over the ocean, and some land- 
( must be a popular and paying one. it is one hhk , J v 
- n v *, . ... ;u nnl , nnitp the Hud- ed on our shores. Stone were quarried, timber 
) of the great chain which will soou unite me nuu A. ... 
; ° K ...... rn Ua i vbore line of scattered along the lines, depots built, and slimpsy 
S son and the Mississippi. The Hake shore line oi b i ’ ** 
) .. , f . om Buffalo through Dunkirk, Eric, bridges thrown over streams, which bent and fm- 
! Cleveland! Sandusky, &c., to Toledo, alien com- ally fell with their own weight. The warning 
< ltd will connect with two lines already built to voice of a Duncan was little heeded, and las vetoes 
\ Cincinnati and one nearly completed to Pitts- were borne down by the weight of numbers. But 
. . r r V. Southern Michigan Railroad is al- our State was soon brought to a halt in this career 
( r X fiibed a large part of the way to Chicago, of m^sguidtd activity, debt and folly. Our bonds 
' while from Chicago westward, the Galena road is could no longer be hypothecated. Happily, our 
j in a good state of forwardness. In 18 months or credit was exhausted. 
( go i t i s thought that a continuous line of Railroad The bubble burst. Our people looked at the 
; w j’|| j )0 0 j )enec ] f r oin Bangor, Me., to Galena, III., wreck in sullen silence, with too little courage to 
( which, from point to point, one may pass in make an effort to save the fragments, or ascertain 
) j esg t j ian p 0U1 . jays time. From this great route, the extent of the damage. Iron, lumber, and 
) pumerous branches will radiate to all imjxirtaiit stone, were freely appropriated to private or local 
places off the line. purposes. Industry and enterprise were paralized 
/ The paragraph going the rounds of the news- Men ceased to exert themselves, under the spec- 
; p a p CrB stating the income of this road one day, on i ous pl ea , that the more they got, the more they 
its opening, as over three millions of dollars, in would be taxed. Emigration turned from our bor- 
( ajghiou to the receipts from passengers, has this dors to lands less inviting by nature, hut also loss 
\ solution. When the charter was granted, 19 years cursed by man. 
j> a go, the State loaned the road $3,000,000. Ma\ T 0 t ] ie honor of our State, the highest practical 
<j 14th, 18-15, the Legislature passed an act releas- ra j es 0 f taxation were resorted to, hut even this 
< ing them from this debt, provided a single track wou ] d pay but a small fraction of the interest.— 
> was completed within six years from that date. Each annual assessment did indeed enlarge the 
) The affidavit required was made on the day above basis 0 f taxation, but nothing- in comparison to the 
) mentioned, reducing the liabilities of the company accumulation of our large public debt. 
> the amount specified a. a single stroke. What Qur improved condition, I reserve for another 
< ever Us prosperity, we doubt whether it accom- D w 
< plishes as much again. Indiantown, Bureau Co., III., April, 1851. 
; By the middle of the present month both freight- 
( a nd passenger trains will be running regularly, and Weekly Meteorological Abstract. 
/ Dunkirk will be within 16 hours of New York.— 
' Cincinatti or Detroit can be reached in 36 hours,_ by l. wetherell. _ 
■: and Chicago in about 12 hours more. Apr. 1851. thermometer. • 
( If the directors of this road know their own in- - -- 52 42 46. 83 - 
( terest they will seek to afford all possible accom- ;j , 5 ; 4 1.3 i svv. nw.' 
s modalion to the traveling public. Good manage- 1 43 33 38.33 sw. nw. 
I r' d 1 « e “ le,n “" ls ; " , ,‘ i c "t;' “ S l* SS z: ? 
> conductors, will make the Erie Railioad a profit- 4 49 4() 43 33 nw. n. 
t a b!e one, and a double track throughout an urgent 5 47 37 I 4^.06 nk. n. 
( necessity within a ve ry brief period . _ remarks. 
: Thk Fruit Garden.—T his is the title of a new 29. Very fine day—wind began to blow about 10 
j and handsome volume of some 400 pages by P. o’clock in the evening. 
[ Barry Esq , of the Mt. Hope Nurseries, this city 3Q. Rainy morning. 
I __j usl published by Chas. Scribner, New York. Ma Y 1- Cold and squally, with rain and snow- 
\ Wc must defer an extended notice, not having had ’"g' 1 w ,nd ; . 
, . , ,, 2. Continues cold and squally—nearly two niches 
J opportunity to give the hook that attention w mch q[ ^ ^ 
its appearance, and the reputation of the author. Cool _ a inkle of rain toward even5rig . 
. alike demand. A glance at the arrangement and 4 Cool _ flolar halo 
; contents of the work, however, has impressed us . Coo]( disagreeable weather. 
1 mos t favorably, and we anticipate a rare treat in a _ _ 
careful perusal of its jiages. From whai little v^e Editoriai. Changes.—W e learn from the Syr- 
have already read, we predict that “ I he I ruil acuse Star that the following changes will soon 
Garden” will prove a most acceptable and valu- [ ake place, in several papers of the State. It 
able assistant to all practical gardeners and orch- saV8; _ 
BY L. WETHKRELL. 
Apr. 1851. j 
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REMARKS. 
29. Very fine day—wind began to blow about 10 
o’clock in the evening. 
3Q. Rainy morning. 
May 1. Cold and squally, with rain and snow— 
high wind. 
2. Continues cold and squally—nearly two inches 
of snow at sunrise. 
3. Cool—a sprinkle of rain toward evening. 
4. Cool—solar halo. 
5. Cool, disagreeable weather. 
Editoriai. Changes. —We learn from the Syr¬ 
acuse Star that the following changes will soon 
ardisls. For sale by E. Darrow, corner of Main 
and St. Paul streets, Rochester. 
New School. —The editor of our Educationa 
Department has just opened a School 011 the cor- 
says:— 
Dr. Foote, the distinguished editor of the Buffa¬ 
lo Commercial Advertiser, will assume in a few 
days, the editorial charge of the Albany Register. 
He will be succeeded in the Advertiser by Mr.• 
Follett of Sandusky, Ohio, formerly editor of the 
nor of Main and Clinton streets, as we observel Ghio otate Journal. 
. , . .■ c •, ,1 •]„ Mr. Seward, of the Albany Register, will re- 
from commem.atorj notices ... the daily papers.- gume hjs former t of edit( / r of t f ie Utica Dailv 
Mr. Wetherei.l’s long experience and success as Gazette. 
a teacher will undoubtedly secure him ample pat- 
The Lockport Daily Courier has been purehas- 
ronage, and we presume the new enterprise vvil ed by Messrs. Williams & Sloane—the former, 
prove advantageous alike to the public and princi- 1 late of the Post Orlice Department at Washing- 
pal. The DMy American says: ^istmXn 6UPP ° rt ** Ad ' 
Mr. It. Wetherell, so long the successful head_• 
of one of the most important departments of the Female Seminary. —The Dailv American of a 
Rochester Collegiate Institute, will open a school , , , 
on Monday, May 5th, in the rooms under St. ae aesa } s: 
John’s Church, corner of Main and Clinton sts. ” It is proposed to raise the sum of $50,000, to 
Mr. Wetherell will take charge of both Masters organize and endow a Female Seminary of the 
and Misses, and will give them instruction best highest class, to be located in the city of Rochester, 
adapted to develope and improve the powers of the The Seward Seminary and grounds will be occu- 
mind. All the usual branches will he taught, and pied for this purpose after the 15th of September, 
as many of the higher branches as may be neces- until a more suitable building shall be erected. A 
sary Attention will be paid to Botany. perpetual scholarship shall be secured to every 
It is unnecessary to add anything in reference to subscriber for each and every thousand dollars 
Mr. Wethereli’s capacities as an instructor of youth, subscribed. Several scholarships have been se- 
iJe is well known in this community, and will cured.” 
continue to receive the patronage of parents who , -- 
have hitherto availed themselves of his talents in Calestegia Pubesckn.s.—T his is the name of 
the education ot their children. a new and beautiful climber recently introduced from Chi- 
- 11 a, of which Messrs. Fooo & I5uo. have procured several 
THANK 3 .—Ill behalf of the “ Kitchen Cabinet,” specimens. It lias been reared in New England, and sur- 
we acknowledge the receipt, some ten days ago, of vived through the winter in the ground, and without pro- 
choice Asparagus and Pie Plant, from Mr. C. F. tection ' Trained t0 a P ilUir - tenfeetin height,itisabeauU- 
‘ . , fill object, covered with Iiandsome flowers of a delicate rose 
Chosman, of Brighton. In addition to seed grow- co]or . and p]anted inpatches , or ot her forms, it is equally 
illg, &.C., Mr. C. is one ot our most successful ornamental. Specimens may be procured at the Seed Store, 
market gardeners. No. 29 Buftalo-st.—Dein. 
Tlie Uefr Three-Cent Coin. 
i The'Washington Union, referring to the new 
| three-cent coin, pul lishes a letter from a gentle- 
i man in the Mint, which contains the following 
i information respecting it, which is interesting. 
• The coin will be ready for issue by the first of 
! May. 
I The metal is composed of three-fourths silver 
| and one-fourth copper, and will always retain a 
i silvery color, though not quite equal in that re- 
! spect to the other standard. It leaves a margin 
! of profit, to the Government, which the other 
\ coins do not; the reason of which may be cx- 
, plained as follows: The original bill for this coin¬ 
age, prepared before the postage bill was initiat- 
1 ed, contained another provision by which the 
j worn out Spanish money which circulates large- 
; ly among us, and which is everywhere regarded 
i as a nuisance, should be drawn into the mintand 
: worked up. But in order to effect that, it was 
j necessary to provide means for buying them at 
their nominal value, or not much below it; oth- 
j envise the people could not be expected to make 
| the sacrifice—those coins being really worth ten 
or twelve per cent, loss than their current value, 
by reason of w«atf. 
The reduction of fin: 1 ness from nine-tenths to 
three-fourths in the three cent pieces, was there- 
j fore intended to enable tlie Government to call 
in tlie lips, levies and quarters, as also to pay cx- 
! penses of transportation, insurance, etc. 
! But in getting up the new. postage law, the 
! framers took pne leg of that coinage bill—namely, 
j the issue of the three cent coin as auxiliary to 
; their projeot— and left out or overlooked the 
! other, which contained the only ground or rea- 
| son for alloying tlie coin more largely than the 
; other silver. It is not too late, however, to rem- 
| edy this defect. Congress could hardly benefit 
: the country at large more effectually than by 
taking the subject in hand ; for although these 
little eoin« *.iay seem to be little matters in them¬ 
selves, they are of all things the most diffusive, 
as they come into everybody’s hands, and arc 
incessantly in requisition. 
The Treasury Department has authorized the 
mint to withhold the issue until there shall he 
an accumulation of half a million to start with. 
They will no doubt be ready by the beginning 
of May, as the coinage has commenced. They 
are to be paid out, in order of application, in 
sums of from thirty to one hundred and fifty 
dollars—that is one thousand to five thousand 
pieces—and will be exchanged for American gold 
or silver, or foreign silver coins. 
An Exposure of the Rappings.— Mr. Burr 
who recently favored our citizens with several 
! lectures, exposing the most monstrous delusion 
known as the “ Spiritual Rappings,” last week 
visited Hydesvillo, Wayne County, where the 
spirits first manifested themselves. -There Mr. 
Burr was put in full possession of all the facts 
connected with the history of the imposture. A 
relative of the Fox family residing there—a lady 
of unimpeachable character—told Mr. B. in the 
presence of witnesses, C. G. Pomeroy, M. D.,and 
Rev. D. S. Chase, how the rappings were produc¬ 
ed by the Fox family, viz: by tlie toes and knees; 
that she was taught by one of the Fox girls how 
to produce the sounds; that tlie secret was given 
to her on the promise that she, too, should be¬ 
come a medium, die. We understand Mr. Burr 
will soon give this matter to the jaublic. While 
its entire truth cannot be doubted, it most effect¬ 
ually disjioses of the whole humbug. The lady 
who gave Mr. Burr the information is Mrs. Nor¬ 
man Culver, of the town of Arcadia. 
[Syracuse Star. 
Safety <*~y Ralroads. —The annual reports of 
tlie Massachusetts railroad corporations for ill* r 
1850, show that during that time, there were Ifflh d 
on iho roads thus reported, forty-three jicrons, and 
that thirty-four were badly injured. Of those kill¬ 
ed, eighteen were connected with the road, in va¬ 
rious capacities, eleven were killed while crossing 
the track, and five in consequence of being intox¬ 
icated. Two persons were killed by evidently 
falling from the cars; but only three while actual¬ 
ly occupying their proper seats. The number 
killed on the various railroads throughout the coun¬ 
try, during the last three years, is reported to have 
been 152. 
Wheat Crop in Michigan and Indiana. —An 
extract of a letter, dated Sturges, St. Joseph Co., 
Michigan, says:— 
“ The report circulating east, relative to a prob¬ 
ably small wheat crop this season in Michigan, is 
wholly without foundation. The jirospects for a 
very heavy crop were never so favorable ill ibis 
State or Indiana, as at the present time. Our road 
will groan thi$ season with the freight. We are 
running down any quantity of wdieat and flour 
now, and I think the new crop will come in as 
soon as the old is olF, if not before.” 
Gale at Buffalo. —The water was higher on 
tho 1st inst., than it has been since 1844—the 
Hats being principally submerged. 
The Mt. Vernon went ashore outside, laden with 
corn from Chicago. Several vessels were injured, 
ns were several canal boats, by being jammed; but 
none were sunk. There was one serious casualty; 
Oscar Burbank, of Haverhill, N. H., having both 
liis legs broken, and otherwise so mangled as to 
forbid of survival. 
Reminscencks of a Lawyer and Politician.— 
I.evi Beardsley, Esq., a Veteran in Law, Politics, 
Finance, &c. iSrc., lias been devoiingsome leisure 
time to the preparation of a book which is to con¬ 
tain recollections, incidents, criticisms, essays, «fec. 
Ac., on men and tilings, personal, political, and 
legislative, commencing with the early settlement 
of Otsego county. It will we, doubtnot, bo an in¬ 
teresting work. 
Death of E. J. Roberts. — r I'he Detroit Free 
Press records the death of Gen. Elijah J. Roberts, 
which took place on Tuesday last. Gen. R. was 
a member of the Michigan Sena ( e, and has been 
distinguished in his day as an editor. It will be 
remembered that in 1828, he commenced tlie pub¬ 
lication of the “ Craftsman” in this city, which 
he continued for several years.— Rochester Dem. 
Death of a Gallant Soldier. —Died, at Phil¬ 
adelphia, on the 24th inst.. Brevet Major Thomas 
B. Linnards, of the Topographical Corps of En¬ 
gineers. He was a brave and accomplished offi¬ 
cer, served with distinction in the Florida war, and 
in the staff'of Gen. Taylor, at Buena Vista. 
Singular Casualty. —A little girl aged twelve 
years, the daughter of Mr. II. John, of Muscan- 
line, Iowa, died in that city about two weeks ago, 
from the effects of jumping tho rope. She had 
jumped the rope in the usual way two hundred 
and sixteen times without cessation. 
Alteration of Bank Notes. —One dollar notes 
of the Merchants’ Bank of Syracuse, have been 
altered to ten’s. The alteration is skillfully done 
and is calculated to deceive any one not familiar 
with the two denominations. 
To the Town and Ward Assessors of the State 
of New-York. 
Comptroller’s Office, ? 
Albany, 28th April 1851. 5 
In order to furnish early information of the 
changes made in the assessment laws during the 
recent session of the Legislature, the Comptrol¬ 
ler loses no time m transmitting to the respec¬ 
tive county clerks, copies of the Act of April 
15, 1851, for distribution to the assessors of 
tlie different towns and wards throughout tho 
State. 
Those changes, though few, and simple in their 
character, open a way by which assessors may, 
in a great measure, relieve themselves from what 
has become a false and embarrassing, position, 
and the public at large from a source of irritating 
and serious injustice. 
The examination, under oath, of persons feel¬ 
ing dissatisfied with the estimates of the asses¬ 
sors, places in their hands an efficient auxiliary 
in the prosecution of their labors; while the 
sanction of their own oaths to the fidelity of their 
work when completed, must afford reasonable 
certainty of as equal an apportionment of the 
public burthens among the tax payers, as is with¬ 
in our reach. It is believed' that far greater 
binding force will be attached by these officers to 
an oath pointing directly to what is done, and 
stands recorded before themselves and before the 
world, than to an ordinary affirmation as to the 
prospective performance of a general duty: and 
it is confidently hoped that a determination to 
pursue the course plainly indicated by the act, 
will be so universal as to relieve all from the 
thraldom in which those charged with the valua¬ 
tion of real estate for the purpose of taxation, 
particularly in the country, have been heretofore 
involved. 
In regard to the taxation of personal property, 
the Legislature do not appear to have considered, 
the present law so defective as to require a- 
mendnient. The power to assess the full amount 
lias always been in the hands of the. assessors ; 
while the security against over assessment has 
been equally in the power of each citizen asses¬ 
sed. 
Every consideration connected with public equi¬ 
ty and good t'aith; every inducement to banish a 
crying gi ievance which has been felt and deplored 
for years past; every sincere desire to promote the 
greatest good of the greatest number, urges upon 
the assessors now in office in this State, a united, 
unwavering, and persevering effort to administer 
the assessment law as it now stands, in its true 
spiiit, according to their best skill and judgment. 
The Comptroller, perceiving no necessity for | 
any particular explanation under this act, and full 
instructions in regard to the general assessment laws 
having been furnished by his predecessors, does 
not feel justified in saying more on a subject which 
must commend itself to the earnest attention of ev¬ 
ery one acting upon it officially; nor under the 
strong conviction entertained by him of its impor¬ 
tance, especially of tlie necessity that the first 
steps under the new enactment should he well ta¬ 
ken, could he reconcile it to his ideas of duty to 
say less. PH. C. FULLER, 
Comptroller. 
P. S.—It has been suggested that the proper ex¬ 
ecution of the new provisions would he facilitated 
by holding a meeting of the Assessors in each 
county on tho 20th of May, or such other day as 
may be convenient, be‘ore entering upon their an¬ 
nual duties. It would enable them, after proper 
consultation, to proceed upon uniform principles, 
securing that equality which is the first object of 
the law. 
This suggestion meets the entire concurrence of 
the Comptroller, aud the State Officers with whom 
lie ha3 conferred on the subject 
Plank and Turnpike Road law. 
AN ACT in relation to plank roads and turnpike 
roads, passed April 9, 1851. 
Tlie People of tlie State of New York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 
§ 1. The following persons, ai d: 10 others, shall 
be exempt from the payment of tolls at the gates 
of the several plank road companies, formed Un¬ 
der the act entitled “ An act to provide for the in¬ 
corporation of companies - to construct plank 
roads,” passed May 7lh 1847: 
1. Persons going to or from religious meetings, 
held at the place where such persons usually at¬ 
tend, for religious worship, m the town where 
they reside, or an adjoining town, or within eight 
miles of their residence. 
2. Persons going to or fi om any funeral, and all 
funeral processions. 
3. Troops in the actual service of this State or 
tlie United States, and persons going to or from 
a militia training, which by law they are requir¬ 
ed to attend. 
4. Persons going to town meeting or general 
election at which they are entitled to vote, for 
the purpose of voting or returning therefrom. 
5. Persons living within one mile of any gale 
by the most usually traveled road, shall be per¬ 
mitted to pass the same at one half tho usual 
rates of toll, when' not engaged in tho transpor¬ 
tation of other persons, or the property of other 
persons. 
6. Farmers living on their farms within one 
mile of any gate by the most usually travelled 
road, shall be permitted to pass the same free 
of toll, when going to or from their work on said 
farms. 
§ 2. It shall not at any time hereafter be law¬ 
ful for any plank road company formed under 
the act of May seventh, eighteen hundred forty- 
seven, or for any turnpike company to erect or 
put any toll-gate, gate-house, or other buildings, 
within’ a less distance than ten rods from tlie 
front of any dwelling, barn or other out-liouse, 
without the written consent of the owner there¬ 
of: and if any toll gate or other such building 
shall hereafter be located, by any such company 
within said distance, without such consent., the 
county judge of the county in which such build¬ 
ing shall be located, shall o:i application, order 
the same to be romeved. 
§ 3. Any thing contained in the act of May 
seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, or in 
any subsequent act which is inconsistent with 
the provisions of this act is hereby repealed. 
Kossuth. —The Boston Times makes a sensible 
suggestion that, instead of making a show of this 
unfortunate patriot, and feeding their vanity under 
pretence of rendering honor to him, we should ex¬ 
pend the money which this would cost, in purchas¬ 
ing for him a substantial home and placing him in 
a good position to earn an independent living.— 
YVe wish that this advice would be acted upon, 
and that public enthusiasm might be turned into 
this profitable and judicious direction. 
Movement of Troops. —Six companies of the 
7tli infantry left Jefferson Barracks on the 17th, 
in the steamer Pacific and Grand Turk, cn route 
for Texas. Four companies of the same regiment 
left Fort Leavenworth a week before by tho land 
route to Fort Gibson, Arkansas. It is reported 
that they are ordered to Texas, to act as a check 
upon the Indian tribes. 
Stuns of Jhm 
s, &r 
-I ’lie nnrne of tho post-office at Burton, Chan- 
tauquo Co., has been changed to Allegany. 
-1 he amount of coal brought to Philadelphia 
by canal and railroad last month ivas 45,000 tons. 
-8ixteen vessels bringing 3,702 passengers, 
chiefly emigrants, arrived at New York during one 
day and morning last week. 
-A lady lias appeared in Boston in the Turk¬ 
ish costume. The young bachelors of course ad¬ 
mired, while the old maids envied. 
-There was ice made on .Staten Island, on 
Friday morning last, as thick as a quarter of a dol¬ 
lar. 
-A greater breadth of land is now being flowed 
up in Ireland for potatoes than during the last four 
years. 
-On a second trial, Prof. Page's electro-mag¬ 
netic locomotive made eleven miles per hour, on 
nearly a level piano. 
-The Tribune says there is a pear tree in a 
yard in Frankfort street, New York, about two 
hundred years old 
-Major Malley, of N. C., Clerk in the Indian 
Bureau, died at his dcslt in Washington on tlie 29th 
ult. 
-A new Post Ofliee has been established at 
Centre Canisteo, Steuben Co., of which P. O. Ste¬ 
phens, Esq., is Post Master. 
-The posts for the Rochester and Dansvillc 
Telegraph are already set some 8 or 10 miles south 
from this city, along the West Henrietta road. 
-We hear that the work on the Attica and 
Hornellsville milroad is going forward with consid¬ 
erable activity. 
-The Oswego Times of a late date says there 
are r.ow some 300 sail vessels in that harbor, besides 
the canal craft. 
-Mr. Asa Whitney has written a letter to the 
London Times upon his Pacific Railway project, it 
occupies nearly two columns of that paper. 
-A Revolutionary Patriot, Air. Nathaniel Ray¬ 
ford. aged 9G years, died at Tomworth, N. II. on 
the 25th ult. He was at the battle of Bunker Hill. 
-Col. Bruce, of Madison county has been ap¬ 
pointed Inspector General under tlie new militia 
law, by the Governor. 
-By the late gale fourteen vessels have been 
driven on the Canada shore of Lake Erie, with wlmt 
loss is not known. 
-The Schr. Minona, was lost off Eire Island 
Light on Thursday evening last, and all on board, 
numbering sixteen, perished. 
-Thomas Hurst was killed on Saturday by 
falling from a railroad bridgo in Tivoli Hollow, Al¬ 
bany. 
-Wm. B. Astor is assessed in New York, on 
$2, GOO, 300, and pays annually into the city Treas¬ 
ury a tax of $23,891. • 
-Hon. Charles Sumner, lias been elected Uni¬ 
ted States Senator for Massachusetts, after more 
than one hundred ineffectual ballotings. It is re¬ 
garded as a Free Soil triumph. 
-Counterfeit fives on the Champlain Bank, 
Edinburgh, are afloat—paper light—printing badly 
done. Letter A—dated November 1, 1849. Look 
out for them. 
-The king of Prussia has sent to Prof. Morse 
a magnificent gold snuflffiux of elaborate workman¬ 
ship and design, enclosing the Prussian gold medal 
for scientific merit.. 
-The Boonsboro’ Odd Fol'ow says that the 
hogs are dying in that vicinity from eating locusts, 
which they root out of tho ground and devour with 
avidity. 
-The Mexican Minister in Washington has at 
length made n formal comjdaint of tlie Indian out¬ 
rages on the frontier, against which the U. States 
are bound by treaty to protect Mexico. 
-A quantity of linseed oil came aslio e in the 
breakers, at Mnnoment Ponds. Tlie oil was in for¬ 
ty-gallon casks, and had evidently been long drift¬ 
ing in the sea. 
-A despatch from Nashville, on Friday, says 
a severe frost the previous night, nearly destroyed 
the cotton and tobacco plants. We have similar 
reports fiom other parts of Tennessee. 
-Strang and nearly all his Mormon band have 
left Beaver Island, and intend going to Salt Lake 
and placing themselves under the jurisdiction of the 
colony there. 
-The Albany Journal snys the receipts of the 
Mohawk road for tho first, two weeks in April ex¬ 
ceeded by 40 per cent those of the same period last 
yer. 
-Tho income of the Sunday School Society 
of Ireland last year, was £2,452; number of schools 
3,004; scholars, 22G.512; gratuitous teachers, 19,- 
753. 
-The President and Cabinet with a number of 
citizens visited the Great Falls on tlie Potomac on 
the 1st inst. The City Military paraded and en¬ 
gaged in target firing. 
-On the 6th inst., tho line of Railway from 
Dresden to Prague, completing the Southern line of 
communication with Vienna, was opened. The 
Railroad runs from Dresden through tlie finest part 
of the valley of the Elbe. 
-The Chicago Democrat of the 25th, says 
that the brig Banner cleared on the day previous 
for Buffalo. Her cargo consisted of 25,072 bushels 
of oats, and 159 barrels of high wines, which is 
probably the largest ever taken out of Chicago. 
-Letters from Berlin say, “ As fruits of tho 
late war there are at present in the Romantic and 
South Sclavonic districts of Hungary 25,000 wid¬ 
ows and 80.000 orphans of soldiers almost entirely 
without food, clothing, or shelter.” 
-The new steamship Winfield Scott, a four 
decker of 2150 tons, which c .n accommodate over 
300 passengers, is to bo placed immediately on tlie 
line between New Orleans and New Y'ork, in con¬ 
nection with the steamer Union. 
-The Emperor of Russia, having nearly com¬ 
pleted the railroad from St. Petersburg)! to Moscow 
is now about to begin a railroad from St. Peters¬ 
burg to Warsaw, between 700 and 800 miles. The 
chief engineer will be Maj. T. S. Brown, engineer 
of tho Erio Railroad. 
-G. W. Allen, an unauthorised agent for va¬ 
rious Eastern magazines and papers, has been ar¬ 
rested, tried and convicted of swindling in Mercer, 
Pa., under the name of “ Dr. Williams.” Wc have 
a rod in pickle for one or two pretended agents for 
the Rural, and shall yet make their hoads swim ! 
