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MOOSE’S EUSAL KEW-YO RKEE: AR AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ROCHESTER, OCTOBER 1, 1853. 
PCBLISHEZl’S notices. 
rsr Agents.—A ny person so disposed can act as agent 
for the Rural New-Yorker,-— and all who remit accord¬ 
ing to terms will be entitled to premiums, &c. 
The Rcral is published strictly upon the cash 
system — sent no longer than paid for — and all orders 
should be in accordance with terms. 
Advertisements must be brief, appropriate to the 
objects of the paper, and accompanied with the cash. 
WBE Ron Terms, &c., see last page. 
An Explanation. 
For over three months the writer has been the 
only regular occupant of the Sanctum, and sub¬ 
jected to the principal labor and detail of filling 
and arranging each of the many departments of 
the Rural. Though valuable aid has been ren¬ 
dered by absent assistan ts, co n tribu toi s and corres¬ 
pondents, we have not had (Sundays excepted) a 
half day or even an evening’s leisure—scarce an 
hour for either rest, recreation or amusement.— 
Our principal associate, Mr. Bjxby, has been ab¬ 
sent since June, in consequence of the severe and 
protracted illness of his lately chosen partner for 
life— a most painful afiliction. Mr. White has 
often rendered timely assistance, but bis business 
engagements have prevented him from contribu¬ 
ting regularly. 
Although a portion of our time and attention 
have necessarily been devoted to the business af¬ 
fairs of the paper, and to the management of our 
monthly, the Rural has received all the care and 
labor we could well bestow upon its pages. Yet 
one person cannot properly perform the labor of 
two or three, and hence we often—perhaps often- 
er than many readers—notice defects and imper¬ 
fections. Our present number is incomplete—the 
more so from the fact that we are obliged to far¬ 
ms'll much of the matter while watching, (as we 
now are,) in the chamber of illness. Under such 
circumstances, we need not ask the indulgence of 
readers for imperfection in contents or arrange¬ 
ment. We are happy to assure all interested, 
however, that arrangements are nearly completed 
whereby two gentlemen of superior talent and ex¬ 
perience will soon be added to the editorial corps 
of this journal. By this addition to improve its 
Contents, and the decided improvements which 
will ere long be made in its Appearance, we hope 
to prove to our readers, not only that the unex¬ 
ampled measure of support accorded to the Rural 
New Yorker is fully appreciated, but that we ad¬ 
here to its motto—“ Progress and Improvement.” 
—This explanation and allusion to private af¬ 
fairs, which some may consider unnecessary, is 
made in justice to the parties most interested— 
subscribers and ourselves. 
The Russo-Tnrkish Affair. 
We have further intelligence of the situations 
in this tedious drama, by the arrival of the Arctic. 
The precise stage of the matter is portrayed in 
the following terms by the London correspondent 
of the Tribune; 
The political atmosphere is sultry, and difficul¬ 
ties are again looming in the future, which put 
the skill of diplomacy to a serious trial. It lias 
now been ascertained that the majority of the 
Turkish Ministry refused to accept the Vienna 
note, and that it was only the personal interfer¬ 
ence of the Sultan which decided its acceptance 
together with modifications which the Moniteur 
aud the Times have termed unimportant, but 
which excite some uneasiness with the Russian 
Organ. “ Great doubt,” says the oracle of Print¬ 
ing House Square, “ may be entertained as to the 
acceptance of these terms at St. Petersburgh in 
their altered form,” while its Vienna correspon¬ 
dent tells us, “but according to all the advices from 
the Principalities, Russia can hardly quit them 
now, and the inclemency of the autumnal weather 
will soon render their complete evacuation per¬ 
fectly impossible.” Now this is serious enough 
after the declarations which have fallen from the 
English Ministers about the evacuation, but the 
complication is augmented by the claim of the 
Porte for a guaranty against any further Russian 
interference and against these periodical occupa¬ 
tions of Moldavia and Wallachia. 
Lead in Northern New York. —The Albany 
State Register says one of the most valuable min¬ 
erals found in the Northern States is lead, which 
has lately been discovered in immense veins in 
Northern New York, near Ogdensburgh. Two 
incorporated companies have recently commenced 
operations there with satisfactory results, although 
they are yet comparatively in their infancy, 
namely—“The Victoria Lead Company,” and the 
“ Great Northern Lead Company.” A letter from 
one of the directors of the last named corporation, 
states that a vein of “ solid galena ” has just been 
discovered, eighteen inches wide, worth $500 per 
fathom. From five hundred feet in length, $240,- 
000 worth of lead has been realized, and there is 
little doubt that the new vein will yield in like 
proportion. 
The Emperor of Japan is about twenty-one 
years of age; his title is Thiu-Kew, which means 
Heaven beneath. His palace is in the city of 
Jeddo ; it is surrounded by a strong wall, aud out¬ 
side the wall is a deep canal full of water ; his 
arsenal is close to his palace, built on a mound, 
where he retreats in case of war, which he is al¬ 
ways afraid of. He keeps a strong life-guard 
about him, and when he rides out, which is very 
seldom, he has ten or twelve of his ministers 
dressed in the same uniform with himself, so no 
person may know him, he is so much afraid of his 
own subjects. 
Cholera in Europe.— According to the late 
advices, this disease has assumed an epidemic 
form at Hamburg. So far there has been from 
160 to 180 cases, about two-thirds of them were 
fatal. The last accounts from Copenhagen give 
for that city, attacks 7,287, deaths 3,946. This is 
in a population of 200,000. The epidemic con¬ 
tinues to rage in the Province. At Stockholm 
268 had been attacked and 100 died. At Chris¬ 
tiana 174 cases and 102 deaths. 
Our Albany Correspondence. 
Albany, Sept. 26, 1853. 
Eds. Rural Politically, Albany is to the 
Empire State what Washington is to Uucle Sam’s 
united powers. Here, as at the “ city of magnifi¬ 
cent distances,” the political forces are congre¬ 
gated, public sentiment is manufactured and sent 
abroad, party platforms are prepared for erection, 
and the “ pipe ” and “ wire ” adjusted to suit the 
times. To be sure, the efficiency of the central 
power was nearly destroyed by the adoption ot 
the present Constitution, so far as the administra¬ 
tion is concerned, yet the political journals at this 
point exercise a leading and controlling influence 
on the press and the people at large. Dr. V eed, 
of the Journal; Dr. Croswkll, of the Argus ; Dr. 
Hammond, of the Register, and Dr. Cassidy, of the 
Atlas, if not actually called as the responsible 
practitioners in every case, are (one at a time) 
most certainly summoned as principal Counsel. 
At present the parties are cut up and confused 
to a greater extent than has occurred for many 
years. The rupture in the Democratic ranks is 
permanent and incurable. The hostile combat¬ 
ants are arrayed in full armor, and will carry the 
war certainly as far as into Africa. 
The Independent Democracy are seldom spoken 
of here, although the people may speak in tones 
clear and distinct next November. The friends 
of Temperance are rallying their forces, and have 
recently established a paper to further their noble 
purposes. Several meetings have been held and 
more are provided for.. The papers say but little 
of the movement, yet the work goes on quietly 
and effectually. 
The Whigs have been very industrious in ar¬ 
ranging their programme for the fall campaign. 
It is generally understood that the two factions 
have buried the hatchet in the “quick-sands” 
brought to view by “impeachment diggings,” 
and have commenced their superstructure on the 
“ hard-pan ” foundation. It is rumored that the 
ticket will be headed by Senator Beekman, as 
Secretary of State, and if it is throughout of a 
similar character, which it is claimed to be, it 
will, under existing circumstances, command the 
strongest vote ever polled in the State for one set 
of men. The office of Secretaiy of State is the 
most important one, as it embraces the supervi¬ 
sion of the school system. Mr. Beekman would 
not only be a good Secretary of State, but as 
Superintendent of Schools, he would take a course 
that would place him by the side of the late Col. 
Young, and others who found time, and improved 
it too, for visiting the leading institutions, aud 
actually doing something for the cause, which the 
present incumbent has failed to do. The election 
of the present Superintendent (it is said,) vras 
effected by the supposition that his name was 
Samuel S. Randall, a man who really had done 
something for schools. 
But I am digressing. The Barnburners have a 
ratification meeting to-morrow night, and the 
Hunkers have theirs Thursday night. Scores of 
their best speakers have been announced, aud a 
large gathering may be expected. As the politi¬ 
cal journals are of too partizan a character to tell 
the truth in such matters, I shall try to keep your 
readers informed of the true rise and fall of the 
political thermometer in this latitude. 
Much excitement has been caused by the pub¬ 
lication of letters from Greene C. Bronson, Col¬ 
lector, and Chas. O’Conner, U. S. District Attor¬ 
ney, declining to attend the Barnburner ratifica¬ 
tion meeting in New York. Such denunciations, 
from such authority, operate like a wet blanket on 
the hopes of the Barnburners. *0we* 
My. Hives’ Address at Saratoga. 
The address at the agricultural fair held in 
Saratoga, during the past week, was delivered by 
William C. Rives, of Virginia. Its subject was 
the importance .of agriculture, and the duties as 
well as the prospects of agricultural life. After 
a brief allusion to the times when Virginians were 
summoned to Saratoga, not to assist in subduing 
the earth, but to assist in subduing those who 
had taken forcible possession of it; contrasting 
the present scene with that presented in the same 
place seventy-six years ago, the orator spoke of 
the necessity, the dignity, and the relations of 
agricultural employment. He next compared the 
condition of the agricultural laborer in the Old 
World with that of the same laborer in the 
United States, dwelling paiticularly upon the 
state of the English farm-tenant and of the 
French peasant—the former seldom the owner of 
the land he works, and the latter owning, gener¬ 
ally, only a few yards of it, and marking the su¬ 
perior productiveness, as well as the more fruit¬ 
ful ingenuity of the American farmer. 
Mr. Rives closed with an argument against the 
common supposition that farming is a compara¬ 
tively unprofitable branch of industry. 
Public Buildings in Washington. —A corres¬ 
pondent of the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer says 
improvement has been less rapid in Washington 
during the present season, than for several pre¬ 
ceding ones. The work on the Capitol extension, 
the Monument and Patent Office, has proceeded 
but slowly. The Superintendent of the Capitol 
has refused to receive a large portion of the brick 
made under the contract of the Messrs. Mendall 
& Co. The whole contract was for fifty millions, 
and more than two millions have been refused, as 
inferior to the standard. 
The Revolution in China. 
Monroe Co. Fairs.— The three Fairs of our 
Society are all held this week—at Brockport on 
Tuesday,—East Rush on Thursday—aud at the 
Court House in Rochester on Saturday. The 
Annual Address will be delivered at 4 o’clock, on 
Saturday by John Delafield, Esq., of Seneca 
epunty. 
Le Roy Fair.— The Le Roy papers state that 
the Earmers, Mechanics, Artizans, and amateur 
gardeners are making extensive preparations for 
a magnificent Show and Fair in that village, on 
Thursday next, the 6th of October. 
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, will 
be dedicated on Wednesday, Oct. 5th. Dedica¬ 
tory Addresses by Hon. Horace Mann, LLD., 
whose inauguration as President will take place 
on the same day. 
We have before us a letter, not designed for 
publication, written by an American and Chris¬ 
tian gentleman long resident in China, principal¬ 
ly at Macao, aud favored with rare opportunities 
for acquaintance with the social and national 
character of the Chinese, which thus speaks of 
the insurgent movement in the Celestial Empire : 
“ The civil war in China is another mysterious 
feature in the politics of the East, with respect to 
its beneficial results on the well-being of the Chi¬ 
nese. Thus fin- its consequences have been dis¬ 
astrous and bad in every point of view, and worse 
seems likely to result, whichever party prevails. 
The Empire is weakened by the -want, ot specie, 
Ion" a"o paid out for opium, and the Government 
is crippled by the want of confidence in Usability 
and resources among the masses of the people.— 
Hereabout the insurgents have no great number 
of decided adheients, yet the appearance of even 
a small army would Dearly overthrow the consti¬ 
tuted authorities, owing to the prestige they have 
obtained. Foreigners generally wish them suc¬ 
cess.”— Com. Adv. 
Late frok Liberia. — Letters from Liberia of 
the 6th August have been received. The barque 
Shirley arrived at Monrovia on the 29th July. 
The Methodist missionaries at the different, 
points along the coast were in good health. 
The Rev. Mr. Horne, the superintendent of the 
Monrovia Academy, has suffered less from the ef¬ 
fects of the climate than any of his predecessors. 
Advices to this date say that the relations of 
the Government with the native tribes on all sides 
are such that it is thought lasting peace may be 
expected, or if there be interruptions at any time 
or place, it.seems impossible that they should be 
either extensive or of long duration. 
“ The international relations of the Republic 
are decidedly harmonious and profitable as far as 
we are able to take advantage of our treaty stip¬ 
ulations.” 
The Governor of Nebraska lias Indian blood 
in his veins. He was born in Wayne Co., Mich¬ 
igan, in 1809. His father was captured when a 
child, by the Wyandot Indians, and married a half 
blood Wyandot girl. The Governor, Wm. Walker, 
is her son. He was educated at Kenyon College, 
Ohio. He was seventeen years Postmaster at Up- 
per Sandusky, Ohio. In 1836 he was elected 
Chief of his nation, the Wyandots. In 1843, he 
removed with them to their new home west of the 
Mississippi, and on the 26th July, of the present 
year, as our readers already kuow, was elected 
Provisional Governor of Nebraska. Such an 
amalgamation of savage and civilized life as that 
involved in the history of Governor Walker could 
not be comprehended by our Trans-Atlantic 
friends. 
The Maine Gold Mines. —The Watervilie Mail 
says that several persons have juSt returned from 
the diggings at Madrid, on Sandy river, Me. The 
company engaged in digging consists of six per¬ 
sons, most of them from Springfield, Mass. They 
have bought twenty or thirty acres of land, and 
are engaged in sinking a shaft and washing the 
earth for gold. The amount obtained thus far 
will pay them moderate wages, nothing more.— 
The gold is found in fine black sand, in places 
ranging from about the size of a wheat kernel to 
the smallest perceptible particles—though pieces 
are said to have been found as large as a kernel of 
corn. The opinion is expressed that the quanti¬ 
ty is small, and that the mines will not pay for 
working. 
Regulating the price of Bread. —The follow¬ 
ing is a sample of the manner iu which t he French 
Government regulates the price of bread : 
Messieurs ct chers Confreres —We hasten to an¬ 
nounce to you that by superior decision tbe Pre¬ 
fect of Police maintains the price ot bread at 40c. 
tbe kilogramme for the first fortnight of Septem¬ 
ber, instead of 45c., to which the return of the 
last fortnight of August had brought it. The 
Government has formally engaged to indemnify 
the bakers for this loss by some ulterior compen¬ 
sation. Accept, Ac. Signed by the Syndics. 
New Orleans, Sept, 26—The steamer Texas, 
with dates from Vera Cruz to the 22J, and Mexico 
city to the 18th, arrived here last evening. Gen. 
Tomell, Minister of War, died on the 15th, of 
apoplexy. No successor has been appointed.— 
Gen. Manuel Michael Torrena died iu Mexico on 
the 7tli ult. 
The number of deaths in the 24 hours ending 
on Sunday morning were 35—of yellow fever 16. 
The deaths this A. M. were 40—of fever 17. No 
more daily reports are to be issued. 
The deaths at Mobile in the 24 hours ending 
the 26th were 16—of fever 9. 
Insanity from Excessive Study. —In Buffalo, 
N. Y., a young man belonging to Rochester, but 
for the past six years a student in the schools of 
the former city, became a raving maniac. His 
physician attributes bis melancholy condition to 
an excess of study, and the constant ambition to 
excel, by which lie was inspired. He bit off one 
of bis attendant’s fingers, and also assaulted a 
youDg lady to whom he was engaged. 
Universalist Convention. —The general Con¬ 
vention of Universalists has just closed a session 
at Columbus, Ohio. They adopted unanimously 
a series of resolutions agaii st the sins of Slavery, 
Intemperance and War. A resolution fully en¬ 
dorsing the Maine Law, was passed with but one 
dissenting voice. A resolution in favor of estab¬ 
lishing a Theological Seminary in the State of 
New York, has also been adopted. 
Small Game for a Thunderbolt. —In New 
Burne, N. C., recently during a severe thunder 
shower, a large turkey buzzard was soaring at a 
great bight. A vived flash of lightning was seen 
and the bird came tumgling from aloft, but, liter¬ 
ally torn to pieces. The electricity, probably, in 
passing from one cloud to the other, struck him 
and sealed his fate. 
Female College -Miss Mary S. Legare, sister 
of the late Hugh S. Legare, of South Carolina, has 
given $1,000 to the Des Moines College in Iowa, 
and $3,000 fora Female College in the same place. 
The latter will open in November next, with 
Miss L. as its Principal, and Professor of Litera¬ 
ture and the Modern Languages. 
A Cruel Wager. —A piece of outrageous cru¬ 
elty was lately committed upon two noble horses 
in Oramel, Alleghany county. They were raced 
eighty miles for a stake of $400, the winning 
horse making the distance in eight hours and 
eight minutes, including stoppages, and the other 
dying iu less than half an hour after the race. 
Jgf The State Normal School opened on Mon¬ 
day, Sept. 19th, under the most favorable auspices. 
Nearly every seat was filled during the first week. 
IJetos 
jrigf" The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 
says that there is a man in Fairhaven, Mr. James 
Webb, aged 58,#ho, from infancy, has lived in a 
state of perpetual thirst. Under ordinary circum¬ 
stances tiree gallons of water is rather a short 
daily allowance for him, and it would be impos¬ 
sible, it seems, for him to live through the night 
with less than a pailful. With this amount of 
cold water daily poured into the stomach, Mr. 
Webb Las been In good health and spirits. 
J3§T The catalogue of railway disasters in the 
United States, for the last eight months, is thus 
summed up “ Sixty five casualities, one hun¬ 
dred and seventy-six deaths, three hundred and 
sixty-three maimed or injured.” On the other 
hand, in the Empire of France, not one life has 
been lost in two years, on all its Railroads. Tru¬ 
ly, these old and new despotisms do care for the 
lives of their subjects. 
jpgr Mr. Do Lamater, President of the Long 
Island Fire Insurance Company, gives a list em¬ 
bracing one hundred and twenty Explosions of Burn¬ 
ing Fluid, from July, 1851, to August, 1853 ! — 
The list is confined mostly to New York, Brook¬ 
lyn and Philadelphia. In a majority of the cases 
t wo or more persons were either killed or serious¬ 
ly injured. 
At the Cattle Show and Fair held at Can¬ 
ton, St. Lawrence county, a spirited horse was 
being exhibited, which, on passing an old man, 
was struck by him with his cane on the flank.— 
The horse returned the blow with his heels with 
compound interest, and with such violence that 
the man died of the injury in about fifteen min¬ 
utes. 
jrgp'We learn that Manlius W. Gage, Post 
Master at Port Glasgow in this county, has been 
arrested by a United States Marshal and held to 
bail in the sum of $1,000, charged with breaking 
open and detaining letters addressed to persons at 
that office. We forbear to mention farther par¬ 
ticulars at present.— Wayne Co. Whig. 
The printery of the Manchester De Laine 
works, at Manchester, N. H., was destroyed by 
fire on Thursday morning week. The loss of 
building and machinery is estimated at from 
$200,000 to $250,000. Finished de laine goods 
worth $25,000 were destroyed. An insurance of 
$150,000 mitigates the loss of the Company, 
SL^IF” An engine on the Ohio and Pennsylvania 
Railioad exploded lately, instantly killing the 
engineer aud fireman. The force of the explosion 
was tremendous, lifting the locomotive from the 
track and hurling it over the bank, a distance of 
some fifty feet, leaving the track entirely unin¬ 
jured. 
A French Catholic Missionary, conspicu¬ 
ous a few years since as a bible burner at Cham¬ 
plain, has become a Protestant, publicly disown¬ 
ing the Church of Rome, at Burlington, Vt, a 
brother missionary and six other persons were his 
companions in the act. 
jrgpThe B >ston Advertiser of Tuesday, the 2:7d 
ult., states that Prof. Andrews Norton, for many 
yearn connected with Harvard University, and a 
distinguished Theological writer and eminent 
scholar, died on Sunday evening in Newport, after 
a protracted illness, aged about 68 years. 
(*5SP*A meeting of parties interested in the 
Saratoga and Sackets Harbor Railroad, was held 
in New York last Tuesday. The road is under 
contract at $5,000,000 and it is understood that 
about one half of tbe line at the eastern end of the 
road will be completed by December, ’54. 
Tbe latest novelty in the way of fraud, is 
that of making chicory to resemble the coffee- 
berry. Tbe chicory is ground and made into a 
stiff paste, and iu this state is so moulded as to re¬ 
semble the real berry. The imitation is so per¬ 
fect as to deceive the keenest eye. 
Mr. Robinson, a justice of the peace in 
Milford, Ohio, was whipping his dog, when the 
animal caught him by the throat; his wife with 
an axe aimed a blow'at the dog, but it fell upon 
the head of her husband, and killed him. Mrs. R. 
was nearly deranged in cousequeuce. 
The Mormons are making an effort for the 
conversion of India to the creed of Joe Smith.— 
Thirteen “ ministers” arrived there from the city 
of the Salt Lake, via California, and their “biffh 
priest” has induced one of the newspapers to pub¬ 
lish his manifesto. 
gff Mrs. Maria Hatch, of North Leverett, Mass., 
has raised the present season a Dahlia, which is 
seven feet and seven inches in height— measures 
four inches round the trunk, and has on it at the 
present time seventy buds aud blossoms. It was 
raised in a box. 
jpgpA steam saw mill on the TonawandaCreek 
in the town of Penhleton, owned by Messrs. I. G. 
and J. B. Atwood, was destroyed by fire, Friday 
morning. It was a very fine establishment, and 
the loss is estimated at $4,000 ; partly insured. 
The project of a railroad from Hoboken to 
Canandaigua is attracting considerable attention 
in New York. Boston capitalists are connected 
with those from this state in canvassing the prob¬ 
abilities of its success if attempted. 
The grand jury of the city of Quebec has 
found bills against fourteen persons “ for riotous¬ 
ly beginning to demolish the Chalmer’s Church, 
and dwelling house,” during the outbreak when 
Gavazzi was lecturing in the church. 
The story of “ Uncle Tom,” dramatized on 
the European stage, has caused the death of an 
actor, Mr. Loeve, who was wounded by a pistol 
shot during the mock attack of Degree in the 
rocks, aud died from the wounds. 
Miss Kline has recovered $500 of Mr. Suy- 
dam, a widower in New Jersey, for breach of 
marriage promise. She proved her case by a fe¬ 
male friend, who overheard the contract through 
a hole iu the floor ! 
In Biddeford, Me., at the late election, an 
old man who performed the duties of sweeper at 
the machine shop, was brought forward as a can¬ 
didate for the State Legislature— and elected by a 
majority of 198 ! 
A Virginia farmer has introduced succes- 
fuliy a beautiful variety of wheat, called the white 
Mediterranean, from which lie has obtained the 
extraordinary yield of forty-two bushels to the 
The aggregate valuation of the real and 
personal property in Michigan, as fixed by the 
State Board of Equalization, is $120,362,474— 
nearly four times as much as in 1851. 
Kgr The Manchester (N. H.) Mirror estimates 
the loss of the fire in that city on Thursday morn¬ 
ing at $125,000. Three firemen were seriously 
injured at the same fire, 
Mrs. Thompson, a widow lady, last week 
obtained ajudgraent against It. Barnes, at Bards- 
town, Kentucky, for $2,000. He had publicly 
impeached her chastity. 
•jT c to 5 i* c b i f i e s. 
-Tom Corwin deliverd the Address at the 
Ohio State Fair. 
-Bricks are very scarce in Boston, selling as 
high as $9 per thousand. 
-There were nine deaths by yellow fever in 
Philadelphia on Saturday last. 
-The newly entered class in the Rochester 
University numbers about forty. 
-The Bank of Binghampton has increased 
its capital from $150,000 to $200,000. 
-The amount in the treasury on the 23d, 
subject to draft, was over $25,000,000. 
-Iu some parts of London, land is valued 
at the rate of two millions dollars an acre. 
-The Lowell Mills are to run 11 hours per 
day during the present fall and winter season. 
-Ex-Senator Hannegan is said to be now 
an active supporter of Temperance reform in Ind. 
-Deacon Elijah Tryon, a soldier of the Rev¬ 
olution, died in West Haven, Vl., on the 8th iust. 
-Mettleberger’s Elevator, at Cleveland, last 
week lifted 2,200 bushels of wheat in forty min¬ 
utes ! 
-General complaint is made at the South 
of the damage to the cotton crop from excessive 
rains. 
-The receipts of the A. B. O. F. M., for the 
year ending on the 1st of August List, are $805,- 
055 58. 
-Nathan Stanan,a brakeman on the Roan¬ 
oke, Va., Railroad, was killed last Thursday by a 
collision. 
-The Grand Jury of New York have in¬ 
dicted over one thousand persons for illegally sel¬ 
ling liquor. 
-Shocks of an earthquake were felt on the 
11th at Biloxi, and several watering places on the 
Gulf of Mexico. 
-Large quantities of native grapes have 
been this year exported to the northern cities from 
Norfolk, Virginia. 
-Col. Colt’s pistol factory at Hartford, em¬ 
ploys about 500 hands, whose wages average $2,- 
50 each per day. 
-The Democrats of the 5th District have 
nominated Hon. Ward Hunt, of Utica, for Justice 
of the Supreme Court. 
-To obviate the inconvenience of crowded 
streets, a system of underground railroads is to be 
introduced iu London. 
-Miss Ida W., eldest daughter of the poet 
Morris, was married on the 15th ult., to Lieut. 
Henry F. Witzer, U. S. A. 
-There is to be a General Council of the 
Six Nations, at Tonawanda, on Thursday, Friday 
aud Saturday of this week. 
-The schooner Sovereign, is supposed to 
have been lost on Lake Ontario, in a recent gale, 
and with her all on board. 
-Hon. Geo. W. Clinton is to deliver the 
Address at the Erie County Agricultural Fair, on 
the 5th, at Cold Springs. 
_John Wintemute, of Fort Erie, C. W., has 
invented a kneading machine for tbe especial ac¬ 
commodation of the ladies. 
--The citizens of Binghamton have deter¬ 
mined by a vote of five to one to light their 
pleasant little city with gas. 
-There was a “tournament” at Augusta 
Springs, Va., lately, followed by a gander pulling, 
iu which tli' 1 . goose lost his life. 
-There is to he a military encampment at 
Elmira this week, in which ten or twelve com¬ 
panies are expected to take part. 
_The Buffalo Courier states that the Der¬ 
rick and works destroyed by the gale about the 
wreck of the Erie, cost $30,900. 
-An elderly lady died almost instantly a 
few days since, at Palmyra, to, from the sting of 
a hornet inflicted on the wrist. 
-The Methodists of Maine are taking mea¬ 
sures to raise $25,000 for the establishment of a 
Female Collegiate Institute. 
-An elderly lady died almost instantly, a 
few days since, at. Palmyra, Mo., from the sting of 
a hornet, inflicted on her wrist. 
_A fire occurred at Michigan city recently, 
which destroyed 40 buildings on the square.— 
Loss $50,000'; partially insured. 
-Attorney General Cushing has consented 
fo deliver the opening address at the Maryland 
Exhibition on the 3d of October. 
_John McCann hung himself in the Phila¬ 
delphia county prison on the 16th. He was about 
60 years old, and leaves a wife. 
_There is some trouble with the Meriden 
Bank, Conn. Its bills are rejected by the Suffolk 
Bank, Boston, and its correspondents. 
_The navy of Mexico consists of two fishing 
smacks and a raft — the former mounted with 12 
marines, and the latter with a hen coop! 
_An independent Convention, for the nom¬ 
ination of candidates for county offices, is to be 
held at Lockport on the 8th of October. 
_C. II. Beecher, Esq., vacates the editorial 
chair of the Angelica Whiff. That journal will 
hereafter be conducted by W. II. Beecher. 
_During the month of August 515 vessels 
passed through the Welland Canal. During the 
corresponding month of 1852, 485 passed. 
_Horace Mann, the well known politician 
and orator of Mass., has removed to Ohio, to as¬ 
sume the Presidency of the Autioch College. 
_The Syarcuse Star says the Onondaga 
County Bank has determined to close business on 
the expiration of its charter in January next. 
_A bov, about nine or ten years of age, 
named John Sloman, was accidentally drowned 
in the river, at the Lower Falls, on Saturday last. 
_A counterfeiting establishment in Dayton, 
Ohio, has been discovered aud two of the coun¬ 
terfeiters and a large quantity of bogus coin cap¬ 
tured. 
_Travelers can now get from Chicago to 
St Louis in twenty-six hours, taking six hours’ 
rest in Springfield, and traveling twenty miles by 
stage. 
_Xt is estimated that notlcss than $4,000,000 
of dollars have been spent by Southerners this 
summer in sight-seeing aud pleasuie-huutiug at 
the North. 
_The Florida Sentinel says that the cater¬ 
pillar has appeared in several parts of that State, 
and is devastating the cotton fields to an alarming 
extent. _ 
_Three men were instantly killed at Cohoes 
on Thursday week, by the falling of a heavy stick 
of timber, which was being placed in the trame ol 
a factory. 
__ Mr. Tufts, of Medford, who gave the site 
for the Universalist College on Walnut Hill, has 
made his will, giving two hundred thousand dol¬ 
lars to the College. 
