MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
ROCHESTER, AUGUST 28. 1851. 
Another Illustrated Number! 
We are making arrangements to issue another 
splendid PICTORI A L NUMBER of the Rural, 
_to be published during the holding of the State 
Fair, or the subsequent week. Our design is to 
present portraits and figures of some of the most 
prominent improved animals, implements, ma¬ 
chinery, &.C., on exhibition at the Fair, together 
with a brief history or description. Several ar¬ 
tists are now engaged in preparing illustrations, 
and we hope to furnish a handsome and accepta¬ 
ble sheet,— one which will not only prove valua¬ 
ble to all our readers, but again demonstrate our 
ability and disposition to make the Rural New- 
Yorker the most beautiful and useful paper of 
its class in America. 
Owners of such stock, implements, &c., as will 
form prominent features of the Fair, are informed 
that we shall be glad to receive from them accu¬ 
rate and well executed engravings, with descrip¬ 
tion, &c., at least a week previous to the opening 
of the exhibition. We are eclectic in this matter, 
and desire to notice such things only as will most 
interest and benefit our subscribers and the com¬ 
munity at largo. 
Testimonial to Enterprise and Worth. 
Industry and well directed enterprise are the 
main-springs of success in any calling and, 
when united with personal worth and a proper re¬ 
gard for the general weal, will ever meet their re¬ 
ward. All useful labor is honorable; and the 
American farmer or mechanic who is blessed with 
health and pursues his occupation understanding^ 
_who is both physically and mentally educated— 
may enjoy as much happiness in this life as the 
greatest millionare or highest official in tin Uni¬ 
verse. And he who directs the labor of others in 
such a manner as not only to promote his own in¬ 
terests, hut those of his employees and the com¬ 
munity, is worthy of all honor as a judicious busi¬ 
ness man, good citizen, and public benefactor. 
These thoughts are suggested from reading in 
the Seneca County Courier an account of certain 
proceedings in honor of two of the most enterpris¬ 
ing business men and manufacturers in YY estern 
New York. We allude to the presentation of a pair 
of Silver Pitchers to Messrs. H. C. Sii.lsby and 
Abel Downs of Seneca Falls, on the 8th inst— 
The Courier states that “these tokens of esteem 
were procured by the united contributions of a 
number of our prominent business men and me¬ 
chanics, to evince their appreciation of the enlight¬ 
ened enterprise and liberal public spirit manifested 
by the above named gentlemen in the prosecution 
of their manufacturing operations—and they were 
worthily besiowed.” The pitchers are said to be 
beautiful specimens of American skill and work¬ 
manship—and, from what we know, both person¬ 
ally and by reputation of the recipients, we can 
fully endorse the Courier’s remark that the tokens 
of esteem were most worthily bestowed. The 
gentlemen named are among the manufacturers of 
Seneca, what Dei. a field, Johnson, and others, 
are among her farmers—model men, worthy of 
imitation and entitled to great credit. May they 
long live to enjoy .the fruits of their industry, ener¬ 
gy and perseverence. 
The occasion was apparently very interesting 
and agreeable. At the close of the presentation 
ceremony, all present were invited by Messrs. S. 
and D. to a Feast which had been prepared for the 
occasion. The proceedings embrace some inter¬ 
esting statistics concerning the manufacturing 
business of the place. Instead of giving extracts- 
however, we add the following pertinent and torch 
ble remarks on the subject from the Daily Demo¬ 
crat of this city: 
What the people of Seneca Falls have thought 
worth commending in this special way, is the en¬ 
terprise, which, directed in the right channel, has 
produced its fruits for the general weal, as well 
as yielding its returns to the private pockets of the 
managers of a certain amount o( capital invested 
in manufactures. Messrs. Downs and Silsby 
have a pump manufactory, which gi\cs employ¬ 
ment, in its various departments, to 111 men, who 
receive good wages and support lamilics in the 
village. Now a firm doing business to the extent 
of $108,000 per annum, as the value of this siu- 
gle'article of manufacture is estimated, cannot fail 
to cause some considerable good to the entire town 
whore they conduct their trade. And if by skill 
and enterprise they have been able to build up so j 
large a business, give so many employ irient, and 
diffuse comfort to so many families, why are they 
not worthy of this popular ovation? As one ot the 
orators at the presentation very happily remarked, 
“the work-shop is the strength of the town,” as 
it is the means of the success and advancement of 
the workers. A fact stated by the same person, 
Hon. Mr. Sackett, we stop to note—Seneca Falls 
and iis contiguous neighbor, Waterloo, contain sev¬ 
en thousand people—four thousand of whom are 
mechanics, ongaged in manufacturing. It the 
work-shop is the strength of a town, as it most 
assuredly is, what a mighty influence ought these 
busy places to hold. And these men, who have 
been publicly and specially honored, are the chief 
of this army of the forge, the lathe, and the plane. 
Their capital concentrates skill and labor, and 
makes it efficient and profitable to all engaged and 
to those who are helpers of it, in the way ot giving 
supplies of food and raw material. 
• , - — ---—---- 
Return of Mr. Greeley. —J e ediior ot the 
Tribufte returned from Europe in the steamer 
Baltic. He has had a very busy but most inter¬ 
esting tour, in the enjoyments of which hundreds 
of thousands have participated, through the me¬ 
dium of the valuable series of letters that he has 
written. We understand they are to he published 
in a book immediately. 
Letter from Michigan. 
New Buffalo, August 22, 1851. 
Messrs. Editors :—I have reached the extreme 
southwestern part of the Peninsula State, and 
here halt long enough to present your readers, 
some of whom I find scattered on the way to sun 
set, with some of the crude fruits of hasty obsei- 
vation. 
I have visited Michigan annually for six or 
seven years, my peregrinations being through the 
two south tiers of counties; and I am more and 
more pleased with the appearance of things and 
the prospects of this part of the State. There is 
a vast deal of thrift and enterprise seen in almost 
all the villages which I am accustomed to visit; 
and the greatest encouragement is here offered 
for the investment of capital and the expenditure 
of energy. It is a good wheat growing country, 
and the facilities for getting it into market are as 
good as could be desired. The Central Railroad 
runs through the central parts of Wayne, Wash¬ 
tenaw, Jackson, Calhoun, Kalamazoo and Ber- 
rian counties, and extends plump down to the 
shore of Lake Michigan at this point. The South¬ 
ern Railroad already extends through Lenawee, 
Hillsdale, and Brnach counties, and is worming its 
way through St. Joseph, and so on westward to 
Chicago, to which place it is to be completed the 
coming winter or spring. I am informed that 
eighteeen new engines have been contracted for 
recently for that road, and seven of them are now 
oil the ground—in daily motion, l suppose. The 
restare to bo delivered in a few weeks, when the 
army of steam war horses on the Southern road 
will be upwards of thirty. I learn also that Capt. 
Edwards, whom Lake Erie traveling people well 
know, lias contracted for two first class and very 
spacious steamers, to be done next spring, and to 
run between Buffalo and Monroe in connection 
with this Southern road. While the facilities for 
traveling^ between Buffalo and this place, via. the 
Central Railroad, are almost perfect, I am glad that 
people living in or wishing to travel through the 
Southerly part of the Slate, are soon to be well 
accommodated. Some ot the richest counties in 
the State lie in this neighborhood, and I rejoice 
that the people here and those of adjacent coun¬ 
ties in Indiana, are to be so well provided for with 
marketing facilities. 
The agriculturists of this young State ate wise¬ 
ly turning their attention to the subject of wool 
growing. I say wisely, for there is no branch ot 
farming, I believe, that yields so high a per cent 
as this. I have somewhere seen it stated that no 
other branch exceeds ten per cent, while this j 
ranges between forty and fifty. This may be ex- 
aggeration both ways, but there is no doubt, 1 
think, that wool growing is ah extrenily profitable, 
while it is a very safe, business. There is soon 
to be an annual deficiency, of over seventy million 
pounds of wool in this country, and such being 
the case, there can be no risk for years in grow¬ 
ing it. Again, sheep are not sc easily winterkill¬ 
ed as wheat and some other kinds of grain ; con¬ 
sequently, while the western farmer is not sure of 
a large crop of wheat, tie is generally sure of 
about the amount of wool he calculates upon. 
1 regret that i have not been able 10 obtain full 
statistics in regard to the wool business in this 
Stale, that your many and widely scattered read¬ 
ers might see what the Wolverine farmers are 
doing in this line. At Ypsilanli, thirty miles west 
of Detroit, the number of pounds shipped during 
the year ending August 1, 1851, is 183,234 ; and 
this is but one of the many shipping places tdong 
the Central Railroad line. The amount shipped 
at Kalamazoo, is about 115,000, and the figures 
for the whole'of Kalamazoo county can not vary 
much from 100,000. I’robably more has been 
shipped at Niles than either of the towns men¬ 
tioned. There are several places on the two rail¬ 
roads, where the figures would not range widely 
from 100,000 ; and one can see in a moment, that 
the cash receipts for wool annually iu this btu;c 
are an important item of income. One of the 
best seasons of the year for collecting newspaper 
dues, and for the cancelment of other moneyed 
obligations, is just after the “ clip.” 
I am going westward into Illinois and YViscou- 
sin, after which I shall return into this State and 
pass a few more days here, where you may hear 
from me again. Yours, “ Westward ho. ’^ 
Crops in northern Indiana. 
By a private letter from Noble Co., Northern 
Indiana, we learn with pleasure that the crops of 
wheat just harvested is good o r quality and abun¬ 
dant in quantity. The oat crop lias been unusu- 
suallv large and good, and corn promises to repay 
the faithful labors of the husbandman by a golden 
hai vest. True it is not as abundant as last year. 
But little attention has yet been given to growing 
fruit except some orchards of common apples 
and peaches, the labors of the hardy pioneer 
having been directed to removing the forest and 
. erecting cabins and outhouses to shelter himself 
and family, and his crops—reserving labors for 
comforts, luxury and embellishment, until the pro¬ 
ducts of his well tilled fields should furnish means. 
Northern Indiana offers a fine field for farmers, 
: though some distance from a good market. The 
I lands are a rich gravel loam, adapted to the grow- 
1 ing of wheat, and other grains. Marshes furnish 
abundance of wild grass upon which cattle sub¬ 
sist during the summer months, and from which 
: the tarmer gathers his supply for winter. Fruit 
; glows in great perfection, and since the lands have 
been cleared and tilled, the country is healthy. 
The Michigan Southern R. R., now building, 
passes wo believe through a part of Northern ln- 
j diana, and will afford a good market, rendering 
j this portion of the west inferior to none, in soil, 
! climate, natural and artificial advantages. Noble 
| county is favored with good water power, and has 
* now some extensive flouring mills. Some of the 
I towns furnish bog iron ore, which we think is 
worked at the thriving village of Rochester. f 
Literary Notices, &c. 
Agricultural Fairs this Autumn. 
items of Hems, &r 
History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps As the season of Fairs is at hand, we give be- -- 
and Gorham’s Purchase, and Morris’Reserve; low the time and place of holding most of the - The Potato Rot is prevailing extern 
with a supplement embracing the Pioneer His- State and several of the New Y r ork County Exhi- throughout Western and Central New York. 
tory of Monroe County. By O - Burner. bitions. The list, will be continued hereafter, os - The Southern Michigan Railroad is no\ 
Rochester: William Ailing, leal. PP- ’~ 4 - fast and as far as we can gather the information isheil to the Indiana State line—24;) miles. 
Toio W.W is n valuable contribution to the early ... H ... nmn_:_,_:.i ... 
-The Potato Rot is prevailing extensively s 
roughout Western arid Central New York. 
-The Southern Michigan Railroad is now fin- i ■ 
This hook is a valuable contribution to the early 
history of our country, and one which has been 
waited for with interest by the still remaining pio¬ 
neer settlers of Western New Y’ork Assured by 
the author’s “ History of the Holland Purchase” 
of his eminent qualifications for the work, they 
have looked here for a record of facts and rerni- 
nisences of the times they saw, and the deeds they Ohio. —Columbus, Sept. 24, 25&26. 
witnessed or performed, and will not fail to be grat- Michigan. —Detroit, Sept. 24, 25 & 26. 
ified that this laborious undertaking has been so Wisconsin. —Janesville, Sept. 16, 17 & 18. 
well and ably consummated. To their descend- Georgia. —Macon, Oct. 29, 30 &31. 
ants the history will prove equally acceptable. Maryland. —Baltimore, Sept. 23, 24, 25 & 26. 
The preparation of this volume has been at- Rhode Island. —Providence, Sept 10,11 & 12. 
tended with great labor—a large portion of it be- Upper Canada. —Brockville, Sept. 24, 25 & 26. 
ing drawn from fugitive manuscripts, gathered American Institute, Castle Garden, New Y’ork, 
from the lips of surviving pioneers—the whole Oct. 1 to 6; Plowing Match, 7 & 8; Cattle Show, 
collected and sifted with that indefatigable indus- 15, 16 & 18. 
Ig j re d -More than 2,000 emigrants arrived at New 
Y ork on Friday last, and over 28,0,)0 last week 
STATE EXHIBITIONS. -] n Southern Illinois, the tobacco crop will be 
New York. —Rochester, Sept. 1 6, 17, 18 & 19. at least double that of last year—the corn crop 
Pennsylvania. —Harrrisburgh, Oct23, 24 & 25. a ] s0 promises an abundant yield. 
Vermont. —Middlebury, Sept. 10 &. 11. -A new Post Office has been established at 
New Hampshire. —Manchester, Oct. 8, 9 &• 10. Rawson, Cattaraugus county, N. Y'., ot which Jo- 
Ohio.— Columbus, Sept. 24, 25 &26. siali O. Perry, is Post Master. 
try, which Mr. Turner’s love of his subject, and 
extensive information on ail connected therewith, 
leads him to bestow, and enables him to give— 
We hope the extensive sale of the work will be 
commensurate with its ability and importance. 
The Daily American in its notice of the book 
very justly remarks that Mr. T. may claim an un¬ 
usual degree of originality for bis production. 
It adds : 
“ The account of Indian Treaties—of the Les¬ 
sees —of the long series of events that warded off 
threatened British and Indian border YVars after 
the settlement of the Genesee country commenced, 
_all that is connected with Charles Williams, 
Jemima Wilkinson, aud with the Mormons, is 
either drawn from hitherto neglected records or 
from the lips of living witnesses, while all that 
part of the work in reference to the details of 
Pioneer Settlement is from personal relations made 
to the author. He has been fortunate in securing 
those relations iu many cases just before death 
sealed the venerable lips that uttered them—no 
less than n'u*e of his Pioneer informants having 
within the jast ten months passed away. Nine- 
tenths of the whole work are entirely made up 
from sources purely original.” 
Four editions of the work will be issued. The 
first—the one before us—has an appendix specially 
devoted to Monroe County. The second will in 
like manner embrace Livingston and Allegany ; 
the third Ontario and Y'ates; and the fourth, 
Wayne. In this way, each locality will have the 
•reneral history of the whole region, and a large 
NEW YOItK COUNTY SOCIETIES. 
Allegany. —Angelica, Oct. 1 and 2. 
Cayuga. —Auburn, Oct. 1 and 2. 
Chenango. —Smyrna, Oct. 1 and 2. 
Cattaraugus. —Elicottville, Sept. 24 and 25. 
Dutchess. —Washington, Oct. 1 and 2. 
Erie. —Lancaster, Sept. 9 and 10. 
Essex. —Elizabethtown. Sept 17 and 18. 
Genesee. —Batavia, Oct. 2 and 3. 
Greene. —Coxsackie, Sept. 24 and 25. 
Herkimer. -Sept. 9. 
Jefferson. —Watertown, Sept. 10 and 11. 
Lewis. —Turin, Sept. 10 and 11. 
Livingston. —Geneseo, Oct. 1 and 2. 
Onondaga. —Syracuse, Oct. 1 and 2. 
Otsego. — -Oct. 1 and 2. 
Oswego. —Oswego, Sept. 10 and 11. 
Oneida. —Utica, Sept. 9, 10, 11 and 12. 
Ontario .—Canandaigua, Oct. 1 and 2. 
Orleans. —Albiop, Oct. 2 and 3. 
Queens. —Jamaica, Oct. 2. 
Seneca. —Waterloo, Oc.t. 9 and 10. 
Saratoga. —Mechanicsville, Sept. 9, 10 and 11. 
Wayne. —Lyons, Sept. 24, 25 and 26. 
Wyoming. —Wethersfield Springs, Sept. 24 
and 25. 
Washington. —So. Hartford, Sept. 17 and 18. 
TOWN AND DISTRICT SOCIETIES. 
E. Bloomfield Ag. So. —E. Bloomfield, Sept 24. 
Union Ag. Jj* Mrch. Fair 4' Guttle Show .— 
J , . , , , . , . -1 ■ . .■ unton Xl£. <y mecn. ran iv ysauuc 
amount of biography and local details, interesting . ,, „ 0 - . 9 , ; 
to every reader, as containing sketches of persons " ’ _ - ____ 
and places, and events, with which he is himself Death of Rev. Dr. Olin.—W o see announced 
acquainted. • ,l„ papers, the death, on the 16ih in 
-A letter from Alexandria states, that an army > 
of li),0i;0 Turks was expected there, on its march 
against the Wochabites. 
-The turnip, in Russia, is eaten mi fruit by alj j 
classes. In the houses of the nobles, sliced turnip j 
with brandy is offered to the guests. 
-A bell cast by Henry N. Hooper & Co., cf jj 
Boston, for the city of New York, was exhibited ' j 
on Tuesday week. It weighed 21,612 pounds. (j 
-The postmaster general has decided that a f 
mark drawn over an advertisement ill a newspaper t 
does not subject it to letter postage. 
-The Tallahassee Floridian says the corn crop j 
is very promising. There will be a better yield } 
than has been before for several years. 
-Seven slaves, sheltering‘from the rain under I 
a tree, near Bolivar, Tenn., were recently killed by (i 
lightning, all at one stroke. 
-At tiie monastery of Waidemir. not far from (? 
Moscow, a bridge gave way as a religious proces. ; j 
sion was crossing, and 158 monks were drowned. ,i 
-The proviiuial journals in France state that ■ 
the potato crop, so far as is known, presents no , j 
traces of malady. { 
-A block of granite for the Washington moir ,1 
ument bears this inscription:—“ From the home of ' j 
Stark, by the ladies of Manchester, N. If.” 
-The New Jersey newspapers speak of indi. j 
cations of the potato rot in the western part of the 
State. | j 
-The New England Farmers annually raise 
35,000,000 of bushels of potatoes, 22,500,000 bush. ) j 
of wheat, rye. corn, which yield $15,000,000. (j 
-Mr. Leachman. of Florida, Illinois, has a | 
mule, which kills and eats every snake that falls in j 
its way. 
-A New York paper states that some thirty ) 
young lawyers of that city have apprenticed them. 1 
selves to trades. ) ; 
-Five men in Fitzhugh & Co.’s extensive ' 
flouring mill at Oswego, packed, with the aid of the : 
old fashioned packer, 650 bids, of flour m one day. J 
-The competition has become so strong ou.i be ( 
Western steamboats, that pnssengers are carried ) 
between Cincinnati and Louisville for 50 cents. 
-The Livingston Republican says there was } 
• --—- - -l lie Livingston wepuoiicun says wiere was 
quaiute . , in the papers, the death, on the 16th inst., ot the a s jjght white frost in Geneseo, on the night of the 
If we are not much mistaken, a large edition Rev Stephen Olin, President of the Wesleyan but we t]o , lot i earn that it did any injury to 
ill be required to supply this city and county, University at Middletown, Connecticut. A cor- the vegetation. 
respondent of the N. YU Evening Post, says: 
for the pioneers aud their descendants will every¬ 
where be anxious to possess a book which has 
been prepared so especially for their use and en¬ 
tertainment. 
the vegetation. 
•-It is said the owner of the slave 
Dr. Olin was in his fifty-fifth year, a native of who was claimed at Buffalo as a Fugitive offers to 
Vermont, and a graduate of Middlebury College, take $1,601) for his freedom. The Agent of tho 
lie was for several years President of Randolph owner swore that'he cost §700. 
VI IU ,Virginia In 1 hft TYinrlft Ji nrn. . _l. K_.. „ n_+ L ~ 
. , , „ ... , , . Macon College, in Virginia. In 1837, he made a- 1 IU! nvuuuun unikoh /, 
The Scalpel: « Journal °* aaa P^‘^ voyage to Europe, and published, after his return, UlliteJ States WM cr08 .scd by Reread, for the first l\ 
popular and professional reading, ana me expo interesting narrative of his travels. In August, . , . • - . , , (j 
sure of Quackery. Edited Enw.ur. H. upon his duties a, President ot ttme,. few rf.y. .mce, by a top from St. Jol.n. , 
Dixon, M. D, New York; Published by the ^ Univcr , ii , in tbis p i ace , which office he filled to R °» se 8 
Editor. Quarterly, 25 cts. per JNo. with great acceptability. As a public speaker, he -Recent rains and fine weather have greatly j; 
This periodical was started in 1S49, and has at- ranked among'the most eloquent and effective benefited t.hc tobacco crop in Kentucky and Ten- L 
traded a large share of notice in the medical and men of the age. His enlarged philanthropy, and nessee . It is estimated that Kentucky will pro* ( 
r, 11 TV Diyon is a vigorous writer his truly catholic spirit, endeared him to all sects ,i ue0 this year, double the crop of last year. 
literary world. Dr. Dixon is a vigorous writer, ftnd partieg . H e was, withal, diffident and anas- _ The committee of the New Hampshire Ag- 
-The Boundary line between Canada and the 
United States was crossed by Railroad, for the first 
—The committee of the New Hampshire Ag- (j 
aud boldly brings common sense m co.uaci wun ■ most loved by those wbo knew- n.nn. uest Society , on honey, is composed entirely 
theorv and pretension; giving no quarter to quack- The departure of such a man, in the vigor ot J ’ . 
e, ekl“ iu u, ou. of .he "reguL prof Jion.- moobooS, iu « I. no, only ,o .be ,!euo,„i„«uo„ of of «kfo„. SwoeU to the „»eot, „„ . Lowoll .. 
crj euner i , , . „ • which he was a minister, but to the country and paper. 
YVitty and sarcastic, nc cuts keenh, as we ass i- ^ wor ] d . At Ilondout, N. Y\, five men were suffocated 
entifieally, and his hits tell, wherever they may --by smoke, while descending into a well which they 
fall. The Journal may be perused with benefit Mr. Wetherell’s School.— An advertisement were bl , sting . The bodies were not recovered un- 
and pleasure by all. Dewey receives it regularly, in to-day’s paper announces that Mr. L f;th- e time nfter the accident. 
1 . ... 7 ,-Tiifi i who is known to our citizens as an expe- \ 
•uni w il! »ripply subscribers in this citv rienced, competent and trustworthy Instructor, -The distance from the gulf to the Pacific 
--- w ;u 0 p’ n his “English and Classical School for shore, by the Nicaragua route, is only 198£ miles, 
Clifton Springs.— A few days just passed at J3 0VS and Girls,” on Monday next, Sept. 1st., at 0 f which 12J are by land, and the rest by steamers 
ibis pleasant resort for invalids, city-sick folks, his former rooms in the basement o‘ St. John’s on the river San Carlos and the lake Nicnrauguu. 
people of leisure, and lovers of comfort and gen- j as f 'we" no doubt Sih"- V Sioux c!liof - nt a ,atc conference with Gov. J 
nine rustication, hath impressed us most favorably crease(] sup p 0r! awaits it in future. That it will Ramsay, expressed an earnest hope that m futur 
in regatd to its beauty and salubrity. The Spring deserve the entire confidence of parents and guar- the Great Spirit would send the red men mi re hoc 
House, by mine host Parke, is most excellently dians of youth, is certain.— Doily American. and less thunder. 
House, bv mine host Parke, is most excellently dians of youth, is certain. Doily American. 
managed— with a bill of fare which would ro-in- p or advertisement of Mr. VV.’s School, 6ee 
vigorate and make glad the veriest epicure, and next page of this paper, 
other interior arrangements equal—while the sur- —-- 
otner interior lUTttuguiiremo . , . . 
roundings, a fine grove, walks,bathing house, &c., American Association.— 1 The American Asso- nanc pjsca . , . f . • ( 
Some notes ol mattets a k the bpiiugs, and ruia attendance from abroad is large, and the week at the town of Litchfield. A large number 
affairs in the vicinity, will be given in our next. Church was well filled. The Rt. Rev. Alonzo 0 f visitors were present. 
-----Fetter 1). D., President of the Association, took .. ,, , ... 4 T > » 
The Cub am Massacre.—T he daily papers are the Chair. After Frayer by the Rev. Dr. Duffield, rho i lit < esex, iuia( :l °‘ s ’ ro \ 
oitemnted Cuhan Rev- of Detroit, President Potter delivered the annual says that the potato disease lias appeared in diller- 
fiiled with accounts of the attempted Cuban Rev ot ft wa8 rep!et „ wilh the choice ent parts of the country. The wheat crop it de- 
olution, and state the melancholy news that h ty t ,‘ A. of the Scholar, the Patriot, the Philan- c ; ares to be t be best, ever harvested in C. W. 
persons, the flower of the expedition, were taken lhropist alld lhe Christian. The Address was ex- _^ ^ individua , ha8 o(M six tll0tlwmd 
Drisoners and shot immediately by the Spanish cee dinglv appropriate und eloquent, and was list- 1 . P nt < 
tv Manv of these were Americans, and ened to with marked attention throughout. A >r.ns for the sword of I.berms < resar, found at 
soidicrs. Ma “ Ll?!r A 3ev SL “d Chit- Many of the experienced and able Educators of Mayence. but the proprietor will not part with it \ 
among them a > l > - ^ ■> , the country are in attendance, and the Sessions of under double that sum. N 
tinden. We cannot apo ogue or <- ca s > y tbe Association will no doubt be full of interest.— _Among the objects in the Groat Exhibition, ) 
were engaged in, or for the barbarity o! their Cleveland, Herali, I9tk. are three elephant tusks, each measuring eight feet 
captors. -- - ' six inches in length, and twenty-two inches in cir- 
The accounts given of the various movements Immense Flight of Grasshoppers —On bun- f and each weighing one hundred and 
and proceedings are very conflicting and unsatie- day last, at about 12 o’clock, tvi, a flight of Gr “ 8f -' . , pound*. 
*4.»- «*• *•“ “ • -7Z^ *.. n.v„ . r •; 
detail. _ west, which in point of number, exceed all com- colm t of a destructive fire, on Monday week, in 
-".'I; ~ ~ n . nutation. The sky was perfectly full and the rays the village of Fulton, by which property to the 
Spring Wheat-Fair Crop—O ur readers ^ lhe 6Ullf myriads could be seen, looking like * l0i , 0 Q0 was destroyed. Only a small 
will recollect an article on spring wheat in our snow .fl a kes, moving about in circles, and appa- ' , . insu . unce . 
... ne , of Julv 31st. Mr. T. Matteson, of Pen- renilv going southward. Some eight years ago, a su • ..... , 
pipei ot J y similar phenomenon was observed in this city, but -AtL.owell,ayoungm:irriedgirlarida hncli- 
field, in this county, who uimsie 1C a J 1 » tb j s j s sa id to have been on a much larger scale. elof uno ff ; the husband saw them as they got 
informs us that at harvest, the acre of Ganada _ Reading% (p a .) p ress , 12 tk. seated in t h e ears, gave three«heers, waved his hat, 
chub wheat yielded thirty-seven bushels, and a —-- badc them en j oy themselves if they could, and 
fine plump berry as specimens shown us prove j) R Beecher,the Elder.—T he venerable Dr. tben went backhome a happy man. 
besides a bushel and a half which went into the Beecher is employing the leisure of his old age in __ New Vork Star 6J(V9 that a new corps 
screen box. The weevil did not injure this varie- preparing for publication his previously published „ PM nive«l in Hint' eitv to attend the ; 
w holly destroyed. name. The works will occupy some six or eight << New York Life Savers.” I heir object is to at- 
From the same acre of land, he harvested last volumes, and soon to be issued by Messrs. Jewett tund ilre8( for tbc sole purpose of saving lives and , 
reason 1.055 lbs. of prime broom corn brush. Who & Co., of Boston. property. 
vi ill say such farming is unprofitable ? " " “ , p , —'The subscriptions in Detroit for the stock for 
J __A new phase has occurred at bhasta. Gal- the Canada Railroad, connecting Detroit with tne 
„ rp « „ t L„ o^vertisement of J J » f o ri,ia ’ in g old di ?g i “e- The ,S old g r ® ws t0 l! f New York Central Line of Road, says the Detroit 
Fru.t Trees—S et the advertisement of . of the K The grass is pu led up, and a i ready amount to more than $100,000. 
Thomas, of Macedon, N. Y. Friend T. is not the ^ old 8 haken off, as gardeners pull up the vines , mount required to be raised in that 
oulv good authority as an author, but a careful to shake off young potatoes. This is told for sober j • ' ' 
and reliable nurseryman. truth in a recent California paper. 1 clt ?’ 
and less thunder. 
-Mrs. Rebecca Swan, of Nantucket, on Tues¬ 
day attained her one hundredth birth-day. She is 
in fine health, and fill y retains her faculties, men- 
were engaged in, or for the barbarity ol tneir 
captors. 
The accounts given of the various movements 
.The New York Star says that a new corps 
