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ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 2G, 1853. 
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for the Rural New-Yorker, —and all who remit accord¬ 
ing to terms will be entitled to premiums, &c. 
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system — sent no longer than paid for — and all orders 
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In making up clubs for the Rural, the Wool 
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which is the lowest club price. 
£'"3?” Extra numbers of the Rural will be forwarded 
to all disposed to aid in augmenting its circulation. 
See Terms, Premium List, &c., on next page. 
News of the Week. 
Tiie news of the week is neither of a startling 
or exciting character. The Arabia brings out 
news, telegraphed from the Continent, on the 
eve'of sailing, that the belligerents have come into 
actual collision in the Danubian Provinces, but it 
is stated that strong efforts are put forth by inter¬ 
ceding powers to bring about a reconciliation, and 
hopes are yet entertained that it will be effected. 
If the ire of the hostile parties is still further ex¬ 
cited by the shedding of blood, it will be a very 
difficult matter to prevent war. Time only will 
determine the matter, and further advices are 
looked for with great interest on this side of the 
Atlantic. 
Politics have subsided into a state of quiescence, 
all parties submitting cheerfully to the arbitra¬ 
ment of the ballot box; the victors have expended 
the excess of their patriotism in powder and bon¬ 
fires, and the vanquished withdrawn into their 
own territories to recruit for the next campaign. 
In Massachusetts, the new constitution, which 
cost the State a conventional session of three 
month’s duration and $150,000, has been rejected 
by a majority of over five thousand. It was a 
miserable tissue of shreds and patches, made up 
of compromises between certain parties and satis¬ 
factory to none. Even the fathers of the nonde¬ 
script buntling were mauy of them ashamed to ac¬ 
knowledge the paternity of their own son. New 
Hampshire rejected one under similar circumstan¬ 
ces a yearortwo ago,and these two examplesought 
to serve as a warning to other States not to tam¬ 
per with their fundamental laws unless radical 
defects exist which imperatively demand a reform. 
There is great excitement at Erie, Penn., on ac¬ 
count of a change of gauge about to be adopted 
on the Erie and North-east railroad. As it is now 
all passengers and freight must change cars, on 
this short link of lake-shore road, twenty miles in 
length, passing through the north-west corner of 
Pennsylvania ; which change is a source of great 
annoyance to travelers, and an obstacle to the 
transit of freight. All this annoyance arises 
from the fact that the gauge on this road differs 
from that either above or below. The Pennsyl¬ 
vania legislature at its last session authorized the 
railroad company to change its gauge, and the 
citizens of Erie have resolved to resist it with 
arms, if necessary, and have mustered their forces 
in battle array, intent upon nullification. The 
Buffalo papers say the Erie folks are bent upon 
compelling the traveling public to purchase their 
pea-nuts, and eat indifferent food at a high price, 
by a compulsory stoppage in their city. The oys¬ 
ter war of Accomac is likely to be thrown into the 
shade, by this blood-threatening demonstration. 
Women’s Rights.— A call has been signed by 
a large number of the advocates of Women’s rights 
for a Convention, to be held in this city on the 
30th inst., and to continue in session two days.— 
The preamble to the call, among other things, 
gays :—“The wise and humane of all classes in 
society, however much they may differ upon spec¬ 
ulative points as to Woman’s Nature and Func¬ 
tion, agree that there are actual abuses of women, 
tolerated by custom and authorized by law, which 
are condemned alike by the genius of Republican 
Institutions and the spirit of the Christian Relig¬ 
ion.” No one certainly can gainsay the above, 
whatever opinions may be entertained as to the 
nature of those abuses, or their specific remedies. 
Many of the most distinguished champions of 
Women’s rights of both sexes will be present and 
address the Convention, among others, the Rev. 
Antoinette L. Brown, Lydia A. Jenkins, Emma 
R. Coe, Ernestine L. Rose, Elizabeth C. Stanton, 
Frederick Douglass, Rev. W. H. Channing, Rev. 
S. J. May, L. C. Cuyler, and Rev. Hiram Gregg. 
See advertisement in the dailies for particulars. 
Thunder Storms in California. —A friend in 
Marysville, Cal., writes under date of Aug. 28th 
that they have just had a very heavy thunder, 
shower, the first ever known there by any of the 
present inhabitants. The Indians across the river 
from Marysville were dreadfully frightened—the 
lightening struck three times in the immediate 
vicinity ; the thunder was, of course, terrific.— 
They have a tradition that the “ Great Spirit” 
once spoke to the Indians in a terrible voice, and 
they think this must be a similar one. The writer 
says he was at Salt Lake city three years ago last 
April, when they had the first thunder shower 
known there. He attributes the fact of the show¬ 
er to the clearing and breaking up of the surface 
of the ground, which is favorable to the formation 
of clouds. H® says, if, as the country becomes 
settled, showers should be of frequent occurrence, 
California will be one of the finest agricultural 
countries in the world. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO 
The Weather. 
The weather for the past week has been as 
mild almost as summer, although not altogether 
pleasant. The barometer fell as the thermometer 
rose, and on Sunday “cloud compelling Jove” 
enveloped city and country in mist, apd smoke, 
and rain. A super-stratum of water, and a sub¬ 
stratum of mud, were the principal geological 
features of the country ; and those luckless indi¬ 
viduals who were too poor to own umbrellas, and 
had too much conscience to - borrow them, 
either were compelled to get a wetting or to stay 
away from church, an excuse of which too many, 
it is feared, availed themselves,—and possibly the 
writer also is not altogether guiltless. Many of 
the days, howmver, have been really beautiful, and 
much like those of April and May, alternate sun¬ 
shine and shower. 
How long this etherial mildness is to continue 
it is impossible to say, but it is the part of wis¬ 
dom to take some thought of to-morrow T , and 
prepare to give old Boreas a warm greeting when 
he comes; and to aid the poor in like preparation. 
Do not let us fold our hands and say to the pov¬ 
erty-stricken and unfortunate, “ be you clothed 
and be you fed,” but let us, according to our 
means, be generous almoners of Heaven’s boun¬ 
ties, not as a loan, and with expectation of re¬ 
ward, although sacred writ says, “he that giveth 
to the poor lendeth to the Lord but with hearts 
full of gratitude for innumerable blessings be¬ 
stowed upon us by a benignant Providence. 
•fj’ofices. 
Talpa, or the Chronicles of a Clay Farm. —An 
Agricultural Fragment by C. W. H. ; with hd 
introduction and notes by L. F. Allen. Buffa¬ 
lo : Danfortf, Hawley & Co., 1854. 
This is a collection of a series of articles which 
originally appeared in the Gardener’s Chronicle. 
Their reprint in the present handsome form is a 
decided hit; for it is a work which is sure to sell. 
It is a history of a lawyer, who having a wet, 
clay, sterile, farm come into his possession, set 
about improving it himself. He underdrained, 
subsoiled, grew turnips with guano and kept a 
large stock, till from being the worst, the farm 
became the best in the neighborhood. Several 
chapters are devoted to a discussion on a steam 
digging machine, which the Author and Editor 
think will, in a my few years assuredly take 
the place of the plow. 
We have never read a work on Agriculture 
with more pleasure than this one. It is well cal¬ 
culated to awaken an interest in agricultural im¬ 
provement, w’hile innumerable suggestions are 
thrown out which will induce thought, and thus, 
though the book contains very little direct in¬ 
struction, it will materially increase the knowl¬ 
edge of every farmer. 
The New Hydropathic Cook Book, with receipts 
for Cooking on Hygienic Principles. By R. T. 
Trall, M. D. New York : Fowlers & Wells. 
The typographical execution of this work is 
most excellent. It is illustrated with abundant 
wood cuts, and written in a pleasing and popular 
style. It contains not merely receipts for cook¬ 
ing, <fcc., but enters fully into the “why and 
wherefore,” of the processes recommended. The 
chemical and physiological character of aliment¬ 
ary substances are discussed, as well as the rela¬ 
tive value of animal and vegetable foods. Rules 
for the selection and preservation of fruits, vege¬ 
tables, Ac., are given, and the theory of nutrition, 
and the general laws of health, explained. We 
consider this book quite an addition to our culi¬ 
nary literature. Without agreeing in many imppr- 
tant particulars with the author, we cannot but 
think the general circulation of the work will be 
attended with much good to all —inasmuch as all 
have to cook to eat, and eat to live. 
The American Cattle Doctor. —By G. II. Dadd, 
M. D. New York : C. M. Saxton. 
From a slight examination, we believe this will 
be found a most valuable work, and one which 
every owner of animals should possess. There 
is a great and increasing need of a scientific and 
practical treatise on the veterinary art. Besides 
that invaluable little book, “ Cole on the.Diseases 
of Animals,” we had no American work that was 
reliable and practical on this important subject. 
This new work discusses at some length, the gen¬ 
eral principles of physiology and pathology; much 
of it is merely a compilation, and there are some 
things introduced which are irrelevant in a work 
of this kind, but, on the whole, the book will be 
found a valuable accession to every farmer’s libi a- 
ry. Price, $1. ._ 
A Catalogue of Amherst College, just re¬ 
ceived, shows the number of undergraduates in 
that institution to be 201. Scientific course 10. 
The College has an efficient faculty, at the head 
of which is Dr. Hitchcock, of Geological and 
Scientific celebrity. 
Graham’s Magazine for December has been re- ; 
ceived form the publishers. It is as usual a su¬ 
perior publication and contains the prospectus of 
the volume for the ensuing year promising an in¬ 
crease of its attractive features. 
Goedy’s Lady’s Book for December has come 
to hand. It is embellished with a fine steel en¬ 
graving entitled “ Christ healing the sick,” and 
other plates, and is for sale by Dewey in the , 
Arcade. 
The Utah (Salt Lake) paper says:—“On 
the 13th of Sept, President Young presented us 
with as fine a bunch of grapes as we ever ate in | 
California, weighing one pound, grown in his : 
garden. We also helped President Young meas¬ 
ure an onion in his garden 18 inches in circum¬ 
ference. Peaches, of the highest flavor, have ri¬ 
pened well in the valley this season, and very 
plentifully for the number of trees existing.” 
rker: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Our Albany Correspondence. 
•Jfetos 
Albany, Nov. 22,1853. 
The great pitch battle is over. Defeated can¬ 
didates have had time to estimate the extent of the 
depletion to which their purses and their honor 
have been subjected"in the contest; and the suc¬ 
cessful ones are already studying schemes by 
which they can make up their extravagant out¬ 
lays. Philosophers of all schools are trying to 
assign a cause for the peculiar turn of events.— 
The Hards say that the Softs have been weighed 
in the balance and found wanting; the Softs 
claim that Whig votes given for the Adders (a 
new name for the Adamantines,) are the cause of 
their falling behind the Hards ; while the Whigs 
are chuckling over their triumph, brought about 
by the aid of the Hards. 
But, facts and figures go farther than reasons.— 
The Whigs have a decided majority, and there is 
a Maine Law Legislature probably. It is also^a 
notorious fact that the State House contains quite 
a number of very long faces, though their owners 
are known as “ short boys.” 
Speculations have commenced with reference 
to the Speakership of the Assembly, which con¬ 
venes iu January. 
Robert II. Pruyn, of this city, is probably the 
one who will receive that honor, as he has dis¬ 
tinguished himself as a legislator in a previous 
session. A stupid Speaker, such as we sometimes 
have, is a disgrace to the State. Raymond, now 
editor of the N. Y. Times, is as good a one as the 
State ever produced. He was quick, forcible and 
accurate. Pruyn would make a similar one. 
The sale of land for taxes has been going on for 
some time, and will be continued till the list is 
exhausted. The system of disposing of lands in 
arrear for taxes has been altered, so that hereafter 
the sales will take place in the different counties, 
rendering it much more convent for delinquents 
to attend in person. The time for redemption 
remains two years, the same as now. 
*Owe.* 
A fight occurred on the Mississippi river on 
board the steamer Dresden on Tuesday of last 
week, during which three men and one woman 
were killed. There were, it appears, a large num¬ 
ber of Irish families on deck, going to New Or¬ 
leans, and when the boat arrived at Memphis, a 
young Kentuckian got on board, and by some 
means got into a quarrel with some of the Irish 
passengers, several of whom undertook to whip 
him, when he drew out a revolver and fired into 
the party six times, instantly killing three men 
and one woman. 
The Kentuckian was afterwards set upon by 
others of the deck passengers and badly beaten, 
so much so that he was not expected to recover. 
The Commissioners iu the case of the Northern 
Indiana and Chicago Railroad Co. vs. the Illinois 
Central Railroad Co., have decided that the track 
of the Central Railroad Co. shall cross the track 
of the complainants at the same point as hitherto, 
but that the crossing shall be by means of a bridge 
which shall be built by the defendants at least 
eighteen feet in the clear above the surface of the 
rails of the complainants. It was at this crossing 
where, it will be recollected, the terrible collision 
occurred between the trains of the Michigan Cen¬ 
tral and the Michigan Southern Roads, the form¬ 
er going into Chicago on the Illinois Central, and 
the latter on the Northern Indiana. 
Rev. Mr. Pease, Missionary at the Five Points, 
New York, in an address before the Sabbath 
School of the Church of the Puritans, made 
the following statement: When he commenced 
giving outwork to the destitute who thronged his 
rooms, he was cautioned by those who furnished 
the materials, as well as those of whom he pur¬ 
chased bread, that his hearers would probably 
steal from him at every opportunity, and that he 
would never see half his work returned. But af¬ 
ter three and a half years’ experience, although, 
by their own confession, some of the articles were 
made in the Station-house, and others by the 
light of the street lamp, he had never lost one ar¬ 
ticle. 
In one of the interior towns of Chili there 
has arisen a dispute between the curate, who is 
represented as a worthless man, and the local 
Governor of the town or department. In conse¬ 
quence, the Archbishop has laid the town under 
interdiction ; ordered the cemetery to be closed, so 
that the dead have lain unburied; and depiived 
the people of all other religious ordinances in the 
meantime. It is thought the Government will 
yield to the demands of the church, replacing the 
curate, and ejecting the Governor. Shame on 
such a priest-ridden people ! They are fit only 
to be temporal, as they certainly are spiritual, 
slaves! 
The Murder Record of New York city was 
lessened on Saturday, by the conviction of Hoare, 
for the murder of his mistress, and the sentence of 
De Corn to the State Prison. The latter prisoner 
avers that he entertained no malice toward the 
murdered man, and adds that he shot him in self- 
defence, fearing that the assault of Melville upon 
him was to be immediately attempted. De Corn 
pleads guilty to a feeling of sudden alarm, aud 
declares that the pistol was fired at random, aud 
only after he believed his life to be in danger.— 
N. Y Times. 
The outside form of the Journal of Com¬ 
merce for the morning of the 10th, weighing 800 
pounds, while going to press, fell a distance of 
sixty or seventy feet, penetrating through the 
basement and into the ground, and of course be¬ 
coming a mass of pi. In large metropolitan print¬ 
ing offices the type are set iu the upper stories of 
the building, while the press-room is in the base¬ 
ment, to which the formes are let down through a 
scuttle, by means of a wheel and axle. 
Mrs. Minerva Bradshaw recovered, in the 
Marion Circuit Court, a judgment for $4,000 
against the Peru and Indianapolis Railway Com¬ 
pany, as damages for the death of her husband, 
who was an employee of the Company, and was 
killed from injuries received on a train while in 
the service of the Company. This decision is in 
opposition to the common law and the decisions 
of the Courts of some of the States, where it is 
held that a paid agent assumes his own risk. 
The Superior Court in New York last week 
awarded Mr. Richard M. Crane $1,750 damages 
against the Hudson River Railroad Company, 
for injuries sustained by a collision on the 4th 
of September, 1851, at Peekskill. 
Hickman County, Ky., is situated on the 
Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The Argus says, 
what we very well know, that the land of that 
part of the State, is well suited to the production 
of fruit and hay. The soil is clayey and uneven, 
and very convenient to shipping ports of easy 
access from New Orleans. It is only very recent¬ 
ly that the people have found out that these two 
products are more profitable than corn and tobacco. 
jf^pTbe canal boat “ Ira B. Carey,” owned by 
J. Chappell & Co., of this city, sunk in the East 
River, at New York, a few days since, with a car¬ 
go of 2,800 bushels of wheat, and 15 tons of 
cheese, valued at $8,000. The boat was being 
towed to Brooklyn by a steamer at the time of the 
accident, and went down in 40 feet water. The 
cargo is nearly a total loss. Insured for $3,000. 
2 ^” The first American Magnetic Telegraph 
Line was established in 1844, between Washing¬ 
ton city and Baltimore. The aggregate number 
of main and branch lines in the United States at 
the present time, is about one hundred. There 
are completed and in operation, 27,000 miles,and 
10,000 more in process of construction. 
Kf* The discoverer of gold iu Australia is to 
be rewarded by the British government. The 
Colonial authorities of Australia propose to give 
to Mr. Hargraves, the discoverer, £10,000, but the 
Duke of Newcastle, who is the head of the Colo¬ 
nial Department in the Ministry, offers him only 
half that sum, which Mr. Hargraves objects to. 
ttSF" In the office of the Green Castle Banner, 
published at Gosport, Indiana, there is said to be 
a blind printer, who sets from 5,000 to 7,000 ems 
a day ! His partner i»ads the copy to him, and 
as he has an extraordinary memory, he can com¬ 
pose half a dozen lines without it being necessary 
to report the words to him. 
2Sjp“ The tomato is a native of South America, 
and was first introduced to cultivation in Europe 
in 1596. The French and Italians are said to 
have been the first to adopt its extensive use, and 
during the early part of the preseut century there 
were fields of the crops growing in the vicinity 
of Rome and Naples. 
One hundred and twenty-seven emigrants 
to Liberia sailed from Baltimore last week, in the 
ship Parmlee, chartered by the American Colo¬ 
nization Society. The Parmlee will touch at 
Norfolk, where she will take on board one hun¬ 
dred and sixty-eight more emigrants, and nine 
white missionaries. 
2§f" The London Chronicle announces the re¬ 
covery of £1,800 from au English thief who 
robbed his employer, and fled to America; it 
states that he was followed to the United States 
by an English detective policeman, and traced to 
a “place called Geneva, in the State of Albany .” 
The three survivors of the Harvard Col¬ 
lege Class of 1787, represent the three learned 
professions:—Judge William Cranch, of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., the Legal; Rev. Dr. Abiel Abbott, 
of Peterboro’, N. H., the Clerical, and Dr. Walter 
Hunnewell, of Watertown, the Medical. 
Illl 5 ” Three Inspectors of Election have been 
arrested in New York, for alleged frauds in can¬ 
vassing. It is charged that they had a batch of 
tickets printed off the day after election, which 
they surreptitiously placed in the ballot box, re¬ 
moving others in their stead. 
In the Boston Police Court, recently. Sa¬ 
rah Flynn was charged with a severe assault upon 
her husband, James, with a chair. Sarah was a 
second wife, and much the most vigorous of the 
two. She was sentenced to two months’ impris¬ 
onment in jail. 
jggT The Ohio State Teachers’ Association 
meets at Columbus, ou the 28th and 29th of Dec. 
next. President Thompson, of Delaware, will 
address the Association on the morning of the 
28th, and Horace Mann, of Antioch College, in 
the evening. 
Shelly, a slave belonging to W. Paddley- 
ford, of Georgia, who recently ran off, returned 
and begged to be taken back, saying that he had 
been persuaded by white men to run away. His 
master consented, aud he is now on his way to 
Savannah. 
2^“ The sinking of the West Newton, below 
Lake Pepin, last week, is the first accident that 
has ever occurred to a steam vessel on that part of 
the upper Mississippi, between Galena and St. 
Paul, although steam has been used there for 20 
years. 
The editor of the Columbia Democrat has 
received a specimen of cotton grown from seed 
brought from California two years ago, where it 
was found growing wild. The staple is said to be 
longer than the Dean cotton, and nearly as fine. 
2 ff" The Railroad Record, of the 10th, says : 
“There are now 1,600 miles of railway finished 
in Ohio, which have cost about forty millions of 
dollars. These roads will pay about four millions 
per annum on the cost of construction.” 
2 §f” The number of acres of swamp land lying 
in the State of Missouri, is reported to be 2,765,- 
871, and in Illinois 2,370,635. Much of this laud 
can aud will be reclaimed, aud, in general, the soil 
is so rich as to make it very valuable. 
The Independent says there are now seven 
churches in Kentucky designated as “ free church¬ 
es, having no connection with slavery ”— and 
that though they have encountered opposition, 
they regard their prospects as brightening. 
23 f”The Chicago Democratic Press states, witb- 
iu the last three weeks one house in that city has 
paid out $145,000 for beef cattle. The shipment 
of beef, by lake, from that port during the last 
month, amounted to 11,499 barrels. 
The English papers state that among the 
emigrants who perished in the British ship Annie 
Jane, wrecked on the coast of Scotland, were a 
hundred house-carpenters and joiueis from Glas¬ 
gow—fresh, able young men. 
jr^pTlie first premium for plowmen at the Vir¬ 
ginia Agricultural Fair, was awarded to Mr. Rich¬ 
ard Sampson’s negro man Randolph, who man¬ 
aged his four mules without lines. The premium 
was fifty dollars. 
ty St. John papers of the 5th inst., mentions 
numerous desertions of British soldiers at Freder- 
ickton aud St. John. At the latter place, on Sat¬ 
urday night, 13 deserted iu a body, taking with 
them their side arms. 
2 ^” A house at Birmingham had received from 
a pen-maker at New York, an order for fifty work¬ 
ing girls. The order was executed in less than 
one week, and passages were secured for the whole 
party at £8 per girl. 
2^“ Pleasant M. Huffman, a cabinet maker of 
Hartsville,,Tenn., was killed by his partner in 
that place* on Wednesday week. The two were 
making a coffin, and came to some misunderstand¬ 
ing about a plank. 
K e to s ^l'ebifies. j 
~ i 
-Over 36,000 imigrants have arrived at i 
Quebec this season. < 
-The cordwainers of St. Louis have struck •] 
for an increase of wages. , 
-The King of the Sandwhich Islands re- 1 
ceives an annual salary of $16,000. 
-The Jeffersonville Railroad expects to take ( 
75,000 hogs to Louisville this season. i 
-The notes of the Genesee River Bank at 
Mt. Morris, have been put in circulation. 
-A thousand a day is the average number 
of immigrants now arriving at New Y^ork. 
-In ten years preceding the year 1851, the 
population of Upper Canada increased about 104 
per cent. 
-On Wednesday of last week, the ground 
at Quebec was,covered with snow to the depth of 
six inches. 
-The right of way for the Grand Trunk 
Railway has been secured between Toronto aud 
Kingston. 
-The London papers announce the death 
of the Bishop of Derry and Raphos. He was 83 
year of age. 
-Within two years past, no fewer than 27 
Sailors’ Homes have been established in the Unit¬ 
ed Kingdom. 
-The Roman Catholic population of Detroit 
is about 12,009, and the Protestant population 
about 21,800. 
-A London physician says if men would 
wear their beards in winter, sore throats would go 
out of fashion. 
-A bridge on the Ohio and Pennsylvania 
Railroad, near Euon valley, was destroyed 1 y fire 
on the 7th inst. 
-The Grand Trunk Telegraph Co. have al¬ 
most completed the line from Montreal into the 
Ottawa district. 
-Andrew M. Many, an able writer, and one 
of the editors of the San Francisco Prices Current, 
died on the 6th nit. 
-The success of the Cincinnati steam fire 
engine, has induced the city of Louisville, to or¬ 
der a similar machine. 
-The new State Capitol of Texas will not 
be completed in time for the approaching Legis¬ 
lature to convene in it. 
-Hon. Chas. G. Atherton, U. S. Senator 
from New Hampshire, died at Manchester, in that 
State, on the 15th inst. 
-On the 13th ult., Mr. FI. C. Carpenter 
washed out six pounds of gold from his claim on 
Stockton Hill, California. 
-The Toledo Blade advises people not to 
take the notes of the Indiana State Stock Bank, 
located at Peru, Indiana. 
-Nearly one million of pounds sterling have 
been expended in the expeditions to ascertain the 
fate of Sir John Franklin. 
-The showers of meteors that usually occur 
about the middle of November, do not seem to be 
forthcoming this year, as yet. 
-About 3,000 dead letters were sent to the 
dead letter office fcom Council Bluffs P. O. for the 
quarter ending 31st September. 
-In 1S52 Canal navigation closed on the 
16th of December; for the 3 year previous it closed 
on the 5th of the same mouth. 
-The Columbus (Georgia) Times, speaks of 
some fine strawberries in the gardens there,—on 
the 1st of October,—and in spite of frost. 
-Hudson, the British “ Railway King,” is 
said to be worth £250,000, after all the changes 
of fortune to which he has been subjected. 
-Oberlin College has a larger number of stu¬ 
dents than any other college in the country. The 
number is 1,303, of which 579 are females. 
-Since the introduction of chloroform and 
ether only thirty deaths have resulted from its ap¬ 
plication throughout the United Kingdom. 
-The Defendants in the notorious Martha 
Washington case, before the U. S. Circuit Court 
at Columbus, Ohio, have all been acquitted. 
-The Canadian Colonist is the name of a 
new journal issued in Quebec, for the defence of 
Irish Catholics iu that section of the Province. 
-The total amount of California gold de¬ 
posited in the Philadelphia Mint from the first 
discovery up to Nov. 1, is stated to be $204,000,- 
000 . 
•-This year’s product of shawls by the sev¬ 
eral manufactories iu this country, is nearly half a 
million, of which the Bay State Mills turned out 
300,000. 
-Gerrit Smith is suffering from a severe il : - 
ness, caused by a rush of blood to the head. It 
is*feared that he will not be able to take his seat 
in Congress. 
-M. De La Rosa, formerly Mexican Minis¬ 
ter of the U. S. and Gen. Roubles late Mexican 
Minister of War, have both been shot by an order 
of Santa Anna. 
-The Sandwich Islands— 12 in number— 
embrace a superficial area of about six thousand 
and one hundred square miles. Four of the islands 
are rocky aud uninhabitable. 
-The entire Canal receipts from the open¬ 
ing of navigation to the close of the second week 
in November, compared with those of last year, 
exhibit an increase of $41,764. 
-The President’s Message will be sent to 
the Postmasters of the most important cities in 
advance, to be given to the newspapers the mo¬ 
ment it is presented iu Congress. 
-At a public meeting held last week in 
Brantford, the credit of the town was staked to 
the amount of £ 150.000, to aid the improvements 
in the navigation of Grand River. 
-The Board of Supervisors of Chautauque 
county, have erected a new town, and called it 
Kiantonc —a word said to be of Indian origin, ai d 
the name of a stream in that section. 
-Seven thousand five hundred mules have 
passed this season through one toll gate in Ken¬ 
tucky, on the road leading to Cumberland Gap, 
destined for Georgia and South Carolina. 
Dr. Mercer, of New Orleaus, has founded aud 
endowed St. Annas Asylum, an institution de¬ 
signed as homes for destitute females. The 
amount of his benefaction will be $15,000. 
-Some benevolent ladies of Brooklyn have 
started a “ ragged school ” for vagrant children.— 
A substantial dinner is furnished for them every 
day. About 40, all females, are in attendance. 
_A case is on trial on the U. S. Circuit 
Court at Philadelphia, to recover $50,000. alleged 
to be due to the estate of the late Daniel Webster 
tor fees in the great case of Matthias Apsden’s 
estate. 
_The fishermen from the British North 
American coast, report that the weather has been 
terribly severe there for the past few weeks, and 
that the British fleet was going into quarters for 
the winter. 
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