MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ROCHESTER, DECEMBER 3, 1853. 
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News of the Week. 
The arrival of the Canada brings news confir¬ 
matory of hostilities between the 'Turks and the 
Russians; and indefinite statements of several 
battles being fought, in all of which the forme - 
are victorious. The news has created a good deal 
of attention and excitement in England, coupled 
as it is with the rumor that the Czar is about to 
form a league offensive and defensive with some 
of the enemies of the British in East India; in 
which case, if the home government makes a de¬ 
monstration in favor of the Turks, her possessions 
in Southern Asia will be assailed by hostile bar¬ 
barians. It is well known that Great Britain 
holds in subjection, in India, a hundred and fifty 
millions of people, and that too by means of an 
army so small, that if the inhabitants possessed a 
tithe of the courage and energy of the European 
races, it would be swept away like the autumn 
leaves. The British arms in India have never re¬ 
ceived more than two permanent defeats, viz :— 
that in Afghanistan, and more latterly in Birmah. 
They have carried their conquests northward and 
north-westward, until they threaten to meet the 
opposite wave of Russian invasion, in whi#h event 
there will be a struggle between them for the 
mastery of the Orient. 
It will be the policy of Nicholas, if be can 
form alliances witli existing Asiatic sovereigns, to 
strike a blow at the British dominion, or at least 
by threats of so doing, endeavor to deter the lat¬ 
ter power from interfering in the Turkish quarrel. 
The efforts of Russian diplomacy to excite jeal¬ 
ousy and distrust between France and England 
have utterly failed, and all appearances indicate 
that the Gaul and the Anglo Saxon will stand 
shoulder to shoulder in the coming European 
struggle, if by chance such a struggle comes. 
The foreign news has also created much interest 
at Washington, and notwithstanding the pressing 
duties of preparation for the meeting of Congress, 
has received the attention of the President and 
Cabinet. It is to be hoped, as indeed it is be¬ 
lieved, that the course of Congress and the Ad¬ 
ministration will be wise, prudent, and pacific.— 
There is no occasion or justifiable pretext for our 
country to mix itself up with the matter in any 
shape, and there is wisdom at least in one branch 
of the Monroe doctrine, to wit, the nou-iuterfer- 
ence of America in European politics. 
The Erie excitement has somewhat subsided in 
consequence of the Railroad Company having 
postponed for a time the change of gauge. The 
military have either disbanded or gone into 
winter quarters, and the special police and con 
stables have gone home to their wives. The city 
of Erie and the State of South Carolina, or the 
State of Erie and the city of South Carolina, can 
now be set down in the Zodiacal chart as the 
Geminii of nullification, or as a newly discovered 
double star. 
The forwarding business is very active, and no 
boats as yet have been withdrawn. There has 
not a particle of ice been formed in the canal, and 
navigation bids fair to cominue yet for some 
time. The water is warm, no amount of snow 
having fallen this season, and the weather has 
been but little below freezing point. Nothing 
reduces the temperature of the water so rapidly as 
the melting of a large body of falling snow, which 
absorbs and renders latent 140° of heat. With¬ 
out the aid of this effective auxiliary, much se¬ 
vere weather is necessary to bind the water 
courses in icy chains. 
— Since the above was in type, the Collins’ 
steamer Atlantic has arrived, which confirms pre¬ 
vious intelligence of Russian and Turkish hostili¬ 
ties, in which the latter are everywhere victorious. 
The brunt of battle has not yet been reached, 
however, and fighting thus far may be set down 
as mere scattering drops before the tempest. The 
most important items of the Atlantic’s news will 
be found under tbe head of Foreign Intelligence ; 
to which the reader is referred. 
lukewarmness by day and frost by night; a com¬ 
promise between the temperature of the spring 
and the autumn equinoxes. 
The ice upon the ponds has not yet been formed ? 
although skates and sleds are in readiness to greet 
its coming, and the boys like an impatient audi¬ 
ence before the drop curtain of a theatre which is 
slow to rise, are watching closely, but as yet have 
received no sign. Not being however a very 
wicked or very perverse generation, a sign will un¬ 
doubtedly be given them ere long. But when it 
comes there are certain words of caution and ad¬ 
vice we would give the juveniles, of the masculine 
gender, and earnestly impress upon their minds 
and hearts. Let them not he tempted by tbe 
glassy surface of the lake or pond to descrate the 
Sabbath nor play truant from school; and let 
them beware of venturing upon thin or treacher¬ 
ous ice, and of skating and sliding in places where 
the depth of water ancWthe safety of the ice has 
not been tested. Many a bright eyed boy has 
lost bis life, and many a parent’s heart has been 
wrung by a neglect of these precautions. Skating 
is a healthful exercise and an innocent diversion, 
if temptation does not carry one either morally or 
phvriially too far. 
The apple frolicks and husking bees have most¬ 
ly been banished from the land, but their memo¬ 
ry comes back with the returning season, like 
ghostly shadows on the wall; or rather like glow¬ 
ing images lit up by wandering sunbeams. The 
highest attributes of human perfection are asso¬ 
ciated in our boyish recollections with those young 
l adies who were at that time, just sufficiently our 
seniors to be beyond our reach, and enough so to 
enable them to smile upon us, without the impu¬ 
tation of receiving us as beaux. Time since then 
has made long s rides towards its consummation, 
ai d daughters now occupy the place which was 
then their mother’s in the affections of young 
America. 
6^lifoh)ig •{fetes, 
Arrival of the United States. 
The steamship United States, from Aspinwall, 
arrived at New Orleans, Nov. 25th, and brings 
California dates to the 1st iust. The Illinois left 
Aspinwall for New York on the 19th, with $1,- 
000,000 in gold, and 150 passengers. 
The news is of but little importance. The most 
absorbing questions are the proposed removal of 
the capital, and the election of a U. S. Senator to 
take his seat in 1855. 
Two steamers, the American Eagle and Stock- 
ton had exploded, killing 10 passengers. 
The mining news was interesting, and the mi 
tiers were generally prosperous. Many new placers 
had been discovered. 
Emigration to Australia has ceased. 
The Sonora Filiibustering expedition had at¬ 
tracted much attention and there was but little 
sympathy for it among the people. It will prob¬ 
ably prove a failure. 
The complimentary dinner to John Mitchell 
took place on the 24th Oct., and he sailed on the 
j 1st of November, en route for New York. 
The whaling ship Citizen, of New Bedford, had 
j been lost in tbe Arctic Ocean. A portion of the 
j crew were saved after having undergone terrible 
suffering. 
The total amount of treasure shipped from San 
Francisco on the 1st of November, by both routes, 
was $2,750,000, mostly for New York. 
Arrival of the Prometheus. 
New York, November 29, 
The Prometheus arrived at 1 o’clock, with 650"] 
passengers and $1,754 000 on freight. 
The Prometheus put into Havana for coal, and 
left there on the 23d. The Falcon, for New York, 
was still in port undergoing repairs. 
Among the passengers by the Prometheus are 
John Mitchell and Gen. McDougal. 
Our Albany Correspondence. 
The Weather and its Suggestions. 
Bright skies are over head at the time of pres¬ 
ent writing, and the sun looks down upon us from 
out the deep blue sky, with a mild and genial, 
although a declining ray ; as if reluctant to ap¬ 
proach the winter solstice. Within a month of 
this he will have reached the extreme limit of 
southern declination, the tropos of the Greek, and 
commenced again his returning journey. The in¬ 
clination of the earth’s axis, which Milton poeti¬ 
cally ascribes to the shock experienced by physi¬ 
cal nature in the fall of man, has rendered essen¬ 
tial service to the seasons; for without this, the 
god of day would have retained the eternal equa¬ 
torial position of a March and September sun, 
and instead of the pleasing variety from summer, 
to winter which we at present experience, we 
would have had in our latitude through all time, 
Albany, Nov. 2S, 1853. 
The past two weeks have developed nothing 
very striking in this locality, 'as every body is 
absorbed in the approaching opening of Congress. 
The “war of the Shells” is expected to be re¬ 
newed at Washington with great activity. The 
questions that will test the relative strength of 
the two factions, being the election of a Speaker 
and the confirmation of Mr. Bronson’s successor 
as Collector of New York. Members of Congress 
are passing through this city in considerable 
numbers. 
State politics are in rather a quiescent state.— 
The newly-elected officers are selecting their 
deputies and planning their future policy. Asa 
Canal Board, they will use their influence for a 
speedy consummation of the enlargement policy 
It is expected that one of the first acts of the 
new Legislature will be the re-enactment of the 
amendments of the Constitution. This will be 
done probably during the first fortnight. 
It then remains for them to decide when and 
how the vote of the people shall be taken. A 
special election will undoubfedly be ordered to 
be held some time in the winter. If the vote be 
favorable (which of course it will) the same Leg¬ 
islature will pass a law for putting the work un¬ 
der contract. By this plan, the work of enlarge¬ 
ment will be resumed early in the Spring. BA- 
less the members forget their duties, this course 
will be pursued. 
The old State officers are busy making out tlieir 
reports for the Legislature. It is hardly worth 
while to comment on the figures and recommen 
dations they will present. I may glean some¬ 
thing of interest for next week from the figures. 
As to their recommendations, it is hardly to be 
supposed that they will have much influence 
with the people’s representatives, who are of a 
very different faith. As an illustration of the 
recommendations of retiring officials, the case of 
Secretary Morgan may be mentioned. He rec¬ 
ommended the separation of State Superintendent 
of Schools from that of Secretary of State, but 
this was done just as he went out of office. Secre¬ 
tary Randall, his successor, thought it was well 
enough as it was. But after consuming a large 
portion of his time in observation (though he was 
professedly a school man) he has concluded to 
recommend the same separation. But the next 
administration may do some as he did, till near its 
close. Thus the people are fooled. But it is 
really probable that Mr. Leavenworth will mark 
out a different plan, and accomplish something 
while he is in office, and the separation of these 
offices will be one of the first objects of his atten¬ 
tion. As a matter of congratulation to the peo¬ 
ple, and to the class of teachers in particular, I 
may mention that Mr. Leavenworth ■null select 
a practical teacher as his deputy Superintendent, 
instead of a mere politician. This first act shows 
his wisdom and foresight. 
The tax sales have closed, but a county sale for 
a similar purpose will take place during the com¬ 
ing winter. 
The lectures before the Young Men’s Associa¬ 
tion, continue to be very interesting. Rev. Dr. 
Magoon had for his subject “The Westward 
March of Empire,” in which he showed that all 
improvements in arts rind civilization have gone 
west. Commencing with Western Asia, they 
appear in Egypt, then in England, and then in 
America, a fact of no little interest. Wendell 
Phillips, Esq., the distinguished advocate of the 
abolition of Slavery, lectured on “The lost Arts.” 
He showed that the ancient Egyptians were far¬ 
ther advanced in arts and sciences than we are, 
but that these were lost during the “ dark ages.” 
He further showed that the civilization of this 
age is generally diffused, while that of the ancients 
was kept in the hands of Priests and Princes, who 
used their attainments to deceive and sway the 
people. 
The Hendrickson case is to be decided next 
week. *Owe.* 
Method in Madness. 
An inmate of the Insane Hospital in Augusta, 
Me., named Samuel M. Whelpley, but who calls 
himself Edgar Maurice, made his escape a few 
days since, obtained a horse and wagon of a hotel 
keeper, on the representation that he wanted it to 
pursue a crazy man who had just escaped from the 
hospital, (he being the very man,) and thusequip- 
ed left town. The only clue to his whereabouts 
is derived from a letter since received from him 
by the Superintendent of the Hospital, who had 
taken special pains to securely lock up the insane 
man on tbe night previous to his escape. The 
letter is one of the coolest imaginable, and reads 
as follows : 
“ Five o’clock. I am somewhat in a hurry, so 
you must excuse any informalities of address, <Lc, 
I find that swimming a river in November, in th 
climate, is no envious job. Thank you, dear doc 
tor, for the remarkable care with which you had 
me secured last night. I was really afraid some 
thing might have happened to me if I had not 
been so snugly ensconced. If you happen to see 
or hear anything concerning that key. please in 
form me by return mail. I got one this morning 
that answered as well. I am writing in a fellow 
shop, and he is so d-surley,and lam so con 
pletlv qhilled, that I must close. To all inquiring 
friends please quote those admirable Hues from 
Harper’s Magazine: 
“ Is it any bory’s business 
What another's business is ?” 
“ If you wish to know concerning my hegira, 
have not time to write the particulars, but can say 
with warlike Richmond, ‘ Thus far into the bow 
els of the laud have we marched on without im 
pediment. ’ 
“ God bless you and yours, and farewell. 
“ E. Maurice.” 
-JYctes 
The jurors on safes, at the Crystal Palace, 
have issued a circular to the exhibitors of safes, 
proposing to have them tested by a fire under 
tlieir authority. The time for such an interesting 
exhibition is not yet fixed. Those who have been 
so long wrangling as to who was the maker of 
the best safes will now have an opportunity to 
try their works. There are about a dozen on ex¬ 
hibition in the palace, and these, with the others 
which will be contributed for the trial, will make 
a large fire. This seems to be the only proper 
way to test the quality of these articles. 
An Irishman out shooting ducks near 
Whitewater, Wisconsin, on the 13th iust., was ac¬ 
costed by a Norwegian boy named Hans Johnson, 
who asked him what he was doing. “None of 
your business,” replied the Irishman, who raised 
his gun and shot the boy through the head, kill¬ 
ing him at once. The murderer was arrested. 
A Negro Killed. —A negro was killed in St 
Louis, on the 25th ult, in a very singular manner, 
He had been sent to Dr. E’Dowell’s Medical Col 
lege, and on the way, was told that the doctor 
was a terrible man, and if he got him inside the 
College, would be very apt to cut him up and 
pickle him. This frightened the negro, and when 
lie got to the Doctor’s room, he wouldn’t go in.— 
The Doctor started towards him, when the negro 
stepped back suddenly, fell down a pair of stairs, 
and injured himself so severely, that he died the 
same night. 
The utility of Sixpenny Savirg Banks is 
exemplified in their prosperous condition in New 
York, where they have been established. The 
amount of sixpenny deposits in the Institution 
there has reached the sum of $23,000. This sum 
raised bv sixpenny deposits, proves that there are 
thousands of persons who are ready to avail them 
selves of the advantages of such an institution, 
as soon as the opportunity is presented. 
Hiram Powers, the distinguished artist, has 
declined the Commercial Agency at Florence, 
tendered him by President Pierce, as being wholly 
incompatible with his pursuits. He has recent!) 
been elected one of the honorary Vice Presidents 
of the European Association for the encourage¬ 
ment of Arts and Industry, a more appropriate 
compliment. He was notified of his election by 
Lord Biello, in a very complimentary letter. 
In the United States and the Territories there 
are 234 colleges, with 1651 teachers and 27,159 
pupils. Annual income, from endowment, $452,- 
314; taxation, $15,485; public funds, $184,549 ; 
other sources, $1,264,280 ; total, $1,916,52S. Of 
public schools there are 80,991 ; teachers, 92,000 ; 
pupils, 3,354,173. Income, from endowment, 
$182,594; taxation, $4,636,414; public funds 
$2,574,669 ; other sources, 2,147,853 ; aggregate, 
$9,591,530. 
Advices from Rome state that the exciting 
news from the banks of the Danube has created 
much excitement among the young soldiers of tbe 
French Army of occupation, and also amoDg the 
veterans in the service, and that numerous applca- 
tions have been transmitted to the competent au¬ 
thorities for permission to witness the operations 
of the Turkish army. 
It is stated that, at the average of the last 
twenty years, a ton of corn is estimated not to be 
worth hauling by wagon when 170 miles from 
market; while at the same distance, upon a line 
of railroad, it would be worth $22 10. A ton of 
wheat 330 miles from market, is not worth haul¬ 
ing by wagon ; but by railroad, it would be worth 
$44 55. 
The tonnage of vessels through the Welland 
Canal this year, according to returns made up to 
the 30th September last, is 780,335 tons, an in¬ 
crease of twenty per ceut. over the same time of 
1852 ; and the large fall business of October and 
£5grThe following statistics exhibit the strength 
of the Universalists at the present time in the U. 
States:—1,099 societies, 837 houses of worship, 
612 preachers, 20 periodicals, 10 academies or 
schools, 119 ecclesiastical associatious, including 
State conventions, missionary, tract and education 
societies. 
The Directors of the Rutland and Burling¬ 
ton Railroad have assigned the property of the 
Road to the Trustees of the Second Mortgage 
Bonds, for the benefit of all concerned being un¬ 
willing to pay the present high rates of interest 
for money to meet tlieir floating debt on six per 
cent, bonds falling due. 
KSg^The Christian Times informs us that tbe 
German Infidel paper in Peoria, Illinois, has been 
discontinued for want of support. Its iufiuence, 
so much as it had, was pernicious in the extrqjne, 
and its short continuance rebukes the boastful ex¬ 
pectations of its patrons, that it would live to see 
all forms of religion abandoned. 
It is understood that Secretary G^Jhrie is 
in lavor of the reduction of the duty on iron of 
all kinds to 25 per cent, ad valorem. It is said 
that he will also recommend that salt, dye¬ 
stuffs, mahogany, and other furniture woods, raw 
silks, crude drugs and fruits be put on the free 
list. 
The Washington Monument has reached 
a height of 146 feet, to which it is hoped four 
feet more will be added before tbe weather shall 
be so cold as to require suspensions of operations 
for the season. The number of hands at present 
employed, including watchmen, is about fifty. 
Phicbe Ann, wife of Comly Randall, aged 
28 years, died at Tullytown, Bucks county, Pa., 
on the 3d ultimo, from the effects produced by 
sleeping and breathing the gas arising from burn¬ 
ing stone coal, in a coal stove which was placed 
in a close room, wherein she slept. 
The Treasury statements of revenue and 
expenditures have been made up to the 30th of 
June last. It appears that the revenue from cus¬ 
toms for the fiscal year was fifty-eight millions. 
The receipts from the lands were very small, 
about a million and a half. 
£ 5 f"A correspondent of tbe Christian Observer, 
resident in Texas, says, that “of the ninety-six 
counties in this State, there are between forty and 
fifty in which there is no stated preaching from 
either the Old or New School branches of the 
Presbyterian Church.” 
fgp" The anniversary of the Methodist Mission¬ 
ary Society will be held at Cincinnati on the 5th 
and 6 th of December. The Mission Committee, 
at its recent sitting in New York, appropriated 
$260,000 for general missionary purposes for the 
ensuing year. 
By the will of Daniel Kieffer, who died on 
the 20th October last, at his residence in Oley 
township, Schuykill county. Pa., ten thousand 
dollars is bequeathed to the Theological Semina¬ 
ry of the German Reformed Church, at Mercers- 
burg. 
51 ^” A late English traveler in the United 
States, says :—“ I do not hesitate to say that no¬ 
where in the world is there so wide spread do¬ 
mestic unhappiness as here in the United States 
of America—especially among the more wealthy 
classes.” 
"CW The French Propaganda sent out eighteen 
Roman Catholic Missionaries to Asia within the 
last six months, viz :—Seven to China, two to 
Cochin-China, one to Siam, one to Thibet, four to 
Pondicherry, two to ToDquin,and one to Mesoune. 
jrgr One of the first, if not the very first, ex¬ 
press agents from Boston to New York, was sent 
with an account of the destruction of tbe tea in 
the Boston harbor, and he made the entire dis¬ 
tance in the incredible short space of four days. 
_‘ Baer, a German astronomer, calculates 
that when we shall have an instrument nine times 
more powerful than Lord Rosse’s, it will bring 
the moon within a German mile of us, so as to 
show an object as small as a man. 
U 3 g”The official paper at Naples records anoth¬ 
er miracle. This time an image of the “Mother 
of God, the Holy Virgin,” caused flames to issue 
from her chest. The whole affair is very gravely 
printed in the government paper. 
The money required by the Board of Ed¬ 
ucation for Public Schools for the city of New 
Yo k, in the year 1854, is $624,263 43. Of this 
sum $33,000 will be wanted for the support of 
the Free Academy. 
Some boys, amusing themselves by firing 
loailed pistols in a yard in New York, shot a wo¬ 
man who was banging up clothes. She ran into 
the house screaming that she was shot, and died 
in five minutes. 
The citizens of Dunkirk, with commenda¬ 
ble liberality and enterprise, have voted to raise 
the sum of $5,000 for the purpose of building a 
village school-house, after a plan for an elegant 
structure. 
£§f”The Printers in all the daily newspaper 
offices of Cincinnati struck on the 25th ult. The 
proprietors agree to pay the prices demanded, but 
efuse to submit to other terms dictated by the 
Union. 
At the late North Carolina State Fair, at 
Raleigh, a mule of extraordinary size was exhib¬ 
ited. It measured six feet six inches in height, 
and was as active as a horse. It was raised in 
Geotgia. 
Chauncy Johnson, a noted thief, was ar¬ 
rested in New York on Saturday last, and $3,000 
out of the $37,000 lately stolen from the Bank of 
the State of New York, were found secreted in his 
room. 
•{(etes |> I e b i t i e s. 
-The tax sales in this State were brought 
to a close on the 25th ult. 
The Star of the West sailed for San Juan 
on'the afternoon of the 19tli with a large num- 
November will doubtles raise it to twenty-five or I ber of passengers, and the George Law for Aspiu- I paid to agricultural improvement, especially in 
thirty per cent. * wall on Monday the 21st. I fruit-growing. 
-The Upper Mississippi was. filled with 
floating ice on the 14th of November. 
-In Chicago there are 17,063 children — an 
increase of nearly 5,000 in two years. 
-The notes of the Patchin Bank, of Buffalo, 
are redeemed at the Agency in Albany.. 
-The ship Hibernia from Liverpool, last 
week, had 33 deaths out of 330 passengers. 
-Judge Edmonds will devote much of the 
winter to lecturing on Spiritualism in our princi¬ 
pal cities. 
-The first cargo of new figs arrived at Bos¬ 
ton, from Smyrna, in the Race Horse, on Monday 
of last week. 
-Thirty-one of the nine hundred officers of 
the United States army, have died since the 1 st 
of January last. 
-Warren Wood, the murderer of thepedler, 
at Oatskill, has been sentenced to be hung on 
the 20th of January. 
-Mrs. Mitchell, the wife of the Irish patri¬ 
ot, sailed from Melbourne with her children Aug. 
25th, for San Francisco. 
-The Miller doctrine is spreading in-Maine. 
There are thousands who believe the world will 
be burnt up next s-p ing. 
-The total population of Cleveland is 31,- 
214, of whom 8,426 are young Americans between 
the ages of five and twenty-one. 
-The steamboat Bay State ran down, in a 
fog on L. I. Sound, the sloop Sylph. Two of the 
crew were saved and two drowned. 
-The last of the mackerel fishermen arrived 
at Gloucester, Nov. 21st. The season has been 
the most unprofitable for many years. 
-Whitney & Co., of Mt. Morris, have sued 
the Valley Railroad Company for the payment of 
40 cars built by that firm for the Company. 
-In the Broadway R. R. case, Judge Ducr 
has delivered his decision making the injunction, 
prohibiting the laying of the road, perpetual. 
-It is supposed that the first Thanksgiving 
in the Uuited States was observed at Plymouth, 
Mass., about the 11 th of Dec., old style,4621. 
-Messrs. Clay and Fitzpatrick have been 
elected by the Legislature of Alabama to the 
Senate of the U. States. Both are secessionists. 
•-It is estimated that during the years 1848, 
’49, ’50, and ’51 the Irish in this country sent to 
their friends in Ireland the immense sum of $15,- 
000,000. 
-For whipping his daughter, aged 19 years, 
on Sunday week, Oliver Shaw, of Palmer, Mass., 
has been sent to the House of Correction for nine¬ 
ty days. 
-A lad fell between tbe rails of the Central 
Road at Geneva, a few days since. He laid still, 
and the approaching train passed over him with¬ 
out injury. 
-On tbe banks of the Miami Cana] may be 
daily seen females of German descent, engaged in 
unloading and loading boats. They work like 
laborers. 
-The wife of Prof. Butler, who was murder¬ 
ed at Louisville by one of the Wards, is over- 
whelmned with her loss, and has been at times 
delirious. 
-The arrivals of steamboats at St. Paul, 
Minnesota, for the last few years have been as fol¬ 
lows :—in 1850, 104; in 1851,119; in 1852, 171 ; 
in 1853, 229. 
-Lawrence Fogarty was executed in Buffa¬ 
lo on the 25th ult., for the murder of Mr. Brown, 
of Alden. He asserted his innocence of the mur¬ 
der to the last. 
-The total number of buildings erected in 
Indianapolis, during tbe past season, is two hun¬ 
dred and sixtv-six, the cost of which is estimated 
at $559,150. 
-The whaling ship Citizen of New Bedford 
has been lost in the Arctic Ocean. A portion of 
the crew were saved after having undergone terri¬ 
ble sufferings. 
-A monster eagle, of tbe Rocky Mountains 
variety, according to the Galt (C. W.) Reporter, 
was shot recently, in Puslinch. It measured ten 
feet in length. 
-The Bank of British North America, at St. 
Johns, N. B., was robbed on the 25th ult., of £800 
all in ten pound notes. The money has since 
been recovered. 
-A boy about 12 years of age, named Jas. 
Kelly, fell into a lime kiln, at the foot of 13th 
street, East River, on Friday morning week, and 
was burnt to death. 
-A lady in the south of France, who wore a 
cap, mounted on wires, was recently struck by 
lightning, which in the opinion of the doctors was 
attracted by the metal. 
-The Pittsburghers are now in the midst of 
bustle and activity. The rivers are up. and the 
steamboats are up for all points from Beaver to 
the Falls of St. Anthony. 
-A German Bible, printed in 1580, and con¬ 
sequently 273 years old, was sold lately, at the 
sale of Henry Shenk’s property, in Manor town¬ 
ship, Lancaster county, Pa. 
-The New Haven Palladium predicts that 
when the National Baby §how takes place, West¬ 
ern Massachusetts will take the prize for the 
greatest product to the square mile. 
-Elihu Burritt has returned from Europe 
where he has been engaged in Peace efforts, and 
in furthering the Ocean Penny Postage system. 
He will agitate this system in this country. 
-The latest news states that the Indians 
had become very bold, committing mauy depre- 
datiouson the Mexican border. Eight companies 
of infantry had left San Antonia for Eagle Pass. 
-New cars have just been built for the 
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad 
Company, intended to be used as ladies’ sleeping 
cars. They are furnished with patent spring seats. 
-The mortality of this year, iu Boston, the 
Traveler says, has been considerably larger than 
last year, tbe number of deaths to tbe present 
time exceeding tbe number in 1852, bv more than 
500. 
-The Commissioners appointed by the 
Governor, have decided upon Corningas the half¬ 
shire town of Steuben county. Tbe friends of 
that measure expected that Addison would be the 
town. 
-A young lady of Hancock co., Indiana, has 
recovered a verdict of $3,000 against a young 
man in a suit for slander. A twin sister of the 
lady some time since, recovered $1,700 from the 
same man. • 
-Iowa is described by a correspondent of 
tbe New York Independent as growing rapidly 
in wealth and population. Much attention is 
