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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
AUGUST S. 
Congressional. 
ROCHESTER, AUGUST 2, 1856. 
A Noteworthy Topic. 
The Presidential Campaign has at last fairly 
opened throughout the again-to-be-saved Union, 
and it is evident that the “ dear people” who 
are vouchsafed the inestimable privilege of par¬ 
ticipating in the contest are to have no more 
peace until it is decided. That the campaign 
will be an unusually warm and exciting one is 
already apparent, for the mind of the “Univer¬ 
sal Yankee Nation ” is becoming thoroughly 
aroused on the great questions to be determined. 
The political papers are daily waxing more 
enthusiastic and patriotic, as witness the elo¬ 
quent appeals and hold assertions, in type as 
bold and emphatic, with which their pages 
abound. The organs of each of the three 
prominent parties are apparently in good tune, 
and enter the arena with much spirit and con¬ 
fidence. Campaign documents, and lives of the 
candidates, are also abundant, and it is pretty 
evident that the country will be flooded with 
this peculiar species of literature, until the 
“ides of November” shall render their appeals 
and arguments useless—and at a ruinous dis¬ 
count. The valiant speaking champions of the 
respective organizations, are likewise “up and 
dressed” for the occasion, and, though their in¬ 
fluence will be less universal than that of print¬ 
er’s ink, a vast amount of lung-power will be 
exercised — for the salvation ot the country 
nominally, and the securing of the spoils of vic¬ 
tory particularly. Unsophisticated readers and 
hearers—those who do not read and hear both 
or all sides, and exercise their own judgments 
—will of course be swayed by the seeming 
sincerity, truthfulness and self-sacrificing and 
immolating spirit of this and that champion of 
party or principle. 
While the Rural stands aloof from any ac¬ 
tive participation in this temporarily great and 
exciting contest, it may be permitted to suggest 
to its somewhat numerous constituency—one 
which knows no party or section—that, what¬ 
ever may be the result of the pending cam¬ 
paign, the election of the candidates of this or 
that party, will not alone “ save the Union” and 
secure the prosperity of the people. Indeed, 
while we admit that important principles are 
involved in the contest, we cannot subscribe to 
the oft-repeated assertion that the country, 
people and posterity will be involved in inevita¬ 
ble ruin on the accession to place and power of 
the standard bearers of either of the cohorts of 
Republicanism, Democracy or Americanism. 
On the contrary, we have an abiding faith that 
_the Union will be preserved, and the people 
continue prosperous and happy, so long as in¬ 
telligence, industry, sobriety and morality pre¬ 
vail throughout the nation. 
Affairs in Kansas. 
Advices from Kansas to the 25th of July, 
state that Col. Lane crossed the Missouri into 
Kansas, on Monday, with 600 men, armed with 
Sharpe’s rifles,revolvers and bowie-knives. Af¬ 
ter crossing, Lane stated that he would force his 
way up the Missouri, with his other regiment. 
Gen. Smith says if Lane enters Kansas, he will 
arrest him if it costs him $500. Six hundred 
Missourians are said to be ordered to St. Josephs 
to intercept Lane’s party. 
Gen. Stringfellow, and other citizens of Wes¬ 
ton, issued a handbill, July 8 th, calling on all 
Missourians to go over to Kansas before August, 
to vote at November election, under Mr. 
Toombs’ bill. 
Gen. Harney, Col. Baker and Capt. Pleasanter 
have arrived at Fort Leavenworth and reported 
that a party of Cheyenne Indians had attacked 
the guard-house at Fort Kearney, and rescued 
Indian prisoners, making good their retreat 
with three killed. 
There are 300 Mormons at Council Bluffs, 520 
miles west of Iowa city. Several hundred 
others are near there. 
Havana News. —The steamer Philadelphia, 
from Havana on the 19th, arrived in New Y r ork 
July 23. The Philadelphia brings 115 passen¬ 
gers and $200,000 in Mexican silver for New 
York. The health of the Captain General was 
reported to be in a precarious state, when the 
Philadelphia left Havana. Advices state that 
the Ex-President of St. Domingo, Gen. Baez, 
sailed from that port on the 12th instant to St. 
Thomas, from whence he intends to make a de¬ 
scent upon St. Domingo. 
Singular Fatality among Editors. —Benja¬ 
min B. Smith, editor of the Whitehall Chronicle, 
died at the residence of his brother m West- 
port, Essex Co., on Saturday, the 12th inst., of 
consumption. It is a singular fact, that three 
editors of the Chronicle have died in a little 
over three years; the first was J. D. Blount, 
who died March, 1854, the second C. G. Skin¬ 
ner, who died February, 1855, the third B. B. 
Smith, a late editor, who died as stated above. 
Steamboat Explosion. —A telegraph despatch 
dated New York, July 28, says :—The steamer 
Empire State, of the Fall River line, burst her 
steam chest on Saturday night, while rounding 
Point Judith, on her way to this city. Eleven 
persons were killed or subsequently died, and 
eleven others dreadfully scalded. Of the eleven 
who were injured, it is thought only four will 
recover. 
The matters of general interest which occu¬ 
pied the attention of Congress during last week 
were as follows : 
Senate.—S eparate bills were passed making 
appropriations for the improvement of the Del¬ 
aware break-water, the improvement of certain 
harbors in Maine, the harbors of Marquette, 
Michigan, Manatowac; the Wisconsin river; the 
harbors of Milwaukee and Sheboygan. 
The bill for the improvement of the harbor at 
the mouth of Grand Jtiver, was discussed, but 
not acted upon; the bill for the amendment of 
the act for fortifications, the alterations of small 
arms, (fee., was amended by reducing the pro¬ 
posed appropriations from $3,000,000 to $1,- 
800,000, and then passed, 27 to 10 ; also bills 
regulating the fees and costs and other judicial 
expenses of the government throughout the 
United States; amendatory of the act of Dec., 
1772, concerning the registry and recording of 
ships or vessels, the object being to make it 
conform to the present regulations of the Trea¬ 
sury Department; six private bills and one pro¬ 
viding for the compulsory payment of postage 
on all printed material. 
A bill was passed which provides that when 
any citizen of the United States shall discover 
new guano islands, &c., not occupied by per¬ 
sons of any other government, and occupy the 
same, they shall be considered as appertaining 
to the United States ; the discoverer to be al¬ 
lowed the exclusive right of selling and deliv¬ 
ering guano, and to receive $8 to deliver it at a 
vessel, and $4 at the place of deposit. The 
and and naval forces of the country are to pro¬ 
tect such islands, and the laws of the United 
States to extend over them. 
On motion of Mr. Hall a resolution was adopt¬ 
ed, calling on the President for information 
whether any instructions had been issued to any 
military officer in command in Kansas, to dis¬ 
perse any unarmed meeting of people of that 
Territory ; or prevent by military power any 
assemblage of the people in the Territory. 
MrfWilson submitted resolutions which lie 
lover, requesting the President to inform^ the 
Senate whether the reputed reply of Gen. Smith 
refusing to protect the citizens of Leavenworth 
from bands of armed marauders, was approved, 
and if so, whether such reply was authorized by 
instructions from the President or Secretary of 
War. 
House. —In Committee of the Whole, Mr. 
Barber offered an amendment to the Army Ap¬ 
propriation bill, declaring that no part of the U_ 
S. military force is to be employed in Kansas 
till the code of alleged laws be declared legal, 
nor shall any citizens locate as a posse commi- 
tatus to the Marshall or Sheriff of the Territory. 
After a warm debate the amendment passed 67 
to 56. Mr. Stanton moved an amendment de¬ 
claring the laws of Kansas null and void.— 
Agreed to by 67 to 56. Mr. Barbfer’s proposi¬ 
tion as amended was adopted by 72 to 57. 
A message was received from the President 
recommending an ajipropriation of $250,000 to 
complete the purchase of the building in Phil¬ 
adelphia for the Post Office and $50,000 for fit¬ 
ting up the same. 
The House considered the Nebraska contest¬ 
ed election case, and the committee on elec¬ 
tions reported a resolution that Bird B. Chap¬ 
man is not entitled to the seat, and that Hiram 
P. Bennett is the legal delegate. The same 
committee also reported a resolution declaring 
Mr. Whitfield was not elected to a seat from ‘ 
Kansas, and that Mr. Reeder be admitted as 
the delegate. 
Mr. Humphrey Marshall, from the judiciary 
committee, to establish a uniform rule of na¬ 
turalization. Referred to the committee of the 
whole. The daily hour of meeting was chang¬ 
ed from 11 to 12 o’clock. Twenty private bills 
were passed, including the Senate bill for the 
relief of the widows and orphans of the officers 
and seamen of the sloop of war Albany, and the 
brig Porpoise, after which"the House adjourned 
from Friday to Monday. 
Lake Superior News. 
The Lake Superior Journal has the following: 
We had been well aware that this country was 
very rich in minerals and some kinds of pre¬ 
cious stones, but we had not expected to see a 
Lake Superior diamond, yet such is the case. 
We were shown one yesterday that would 
measure three-fourths of an inch in length and 
at least one-fourth of an inch in thickness. It 
is a regular formed octagon, and all who have 
seen it pronounce it a diamond, but of what 
exact value is yet uncertain, it being in a rough 
state. It was found by the wife of Mr. Alfred 
Hauffman, whilst walking on the shore of the 
lake. The waves washed it up, and on reced¬ 
ing, left it exposed to the rays of the sun, when 
its brightness attracted her attention, and she 
picked it up. 
The Ontonagon Miner says that Mr. Wm. H. 
Stevens, of Copper Harbor, was very severely 
injured on the 4th inst., by the premature dis¬ 
charge of a blast placed in a rock. 
At the Northwest mine, two men were cele¬ 
brating the 4th, by firing charges placed in an 
old pump, when their cannon burst, and a frag¬ 
ment severed the arm of one of them almost 
from his body. At the Cliff two men were in¬ 
jured—one of them very severely—on the same 
day, by the bursting of a stamp head which 
had been used as a cannon in celebrating the 
day. _' 
“ Capt. Pate,” of Kansas notoriety, last week 
assaulted Mr. Hanscom, a Kansas correspond¬ 
ent of the New York Tribune, in Washington. 
The provocation assigned was a statement that 
the captain showed the white feather by sur¬ 
rendering with 25 men to 15 Free State men. 
Miscellaneous Items. 
President Pierce has pardoned Wagner, who 
is imprisoned in New York for his participa- 
Rural Rambles in Michigan. 
Charlotte, Eaton Co., Mich., July, 1856. 
Friend Moore :—I am writing in a plain 
tion in the enlistment business. This ends room, in a small house partly finished. The 
these matters, so far as our courts ore concerned, rude fence in front is got over by -walking up 
Tie Vermont Democratic State Contention down boards stuck between the rails on 
met at Montpelier July 15th, and nominated e.thers.de Opposite is a log cabin ; all around 
A u _... o ho I f flnr/no oi*rna o vo otnmTffl an si H no H 
fjtos Clippings. 
— The yellow fever is prevailing at Matanzas, Cuba. 
— The Ohio wine crop is estimated at 600,000 gallons. 
— Wm. Smith O’Brien arrived at Dublin, on the 8th ult. 
— Connecticut is about founding a State School for 
idiots. 
— New wheat is selling at Petersburg, Va., at $1,50 per 
, , T TT 1 ,, , o, -m--,!* over a half dozen acres are stumps and dead ' „ . . ,, * 
the Hon. Henry Keyes for Governor, Willis . 1 —New wheat is selling at Petersburg, Va., at $1,50 per 
T T . , i IT „ c Th„rc trees standing bare and grim among corn and buRbel 
Lyman, Lieut. Governor, and James S. Thuis- 8 r . Dusne ’ .. 
tc Tre s r wheat. But a melodeon is in the room, and a —Congress has finally agreed to adjourn on the 18th 
young woman sits by it who is spending at instant. 
George R. Perkins has been elected l’rofes- home - her Yacation from a College. Thus do ~ Seventy-one inquests have been held in Buffalo since 
sor of Mathematics in the Iowa State Umversi- ion<!er ]ife and classic culture, and the educa- «■>*- 
ty. Professor Perkins was formerly connected £ on of womM> CT „wd upon each olber in the .“my™.” ^ 
with the New York State Normal School, and „ Qf , iege tms year. 
— Seventy-one inquests have been held in Buffalo since 
January first. 
witn tneivew lorn oiaie norrnai ocucui, duu vom'rllv wnwimj West I , , T . 
. „ . . , lapitlly gloving Vv est — a flute, made of gold is on exhibition in London, 
was at one time its I rincipal. ^ few days 8 i nce a t a home not far distant, I valued at $650. 
The St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer sa}s that f ound the wife and mother gifted with rare — The steamer Isaac Newton, on the Hudson river, is 
good spring water carried about in that city, W ealth of soul and intellect, developed by edu- lighted with gas. 
— A snow bank, ten feet deep, is reported at South Rut- 
costs about thirty cents per barrel, and river ca ti on and social advantages. She spoke of her —The Book of Mormon has been translated into the 
water from ten to fifteen cents, according to the childhood’s home in Concord, Massachusetts, Hawaiian language. 
distance. In winter time the rates are much an d we t a lked of the old elms, the green mead- J. Insco Williams, an artist, of Cincinnati, is painting a 
, . , . panorama of the Bible. 
higher. ows along that peaceful river, the ancient home- r , 
, . , ° 1 . —The total number of deaths hv the Philadelphia col- 
On the New York and Erie Railroad, one stead, rich with sweet household memories j ision tbug far is 66j 
day this week, a single engine drew a train of going back a century ; of the scholastic lore, _ A ’ Bnow baakj ten feet deepj ig rep0 rted at South Rut- 
151 cars, loaded with coal, from Great Bend to the beautiful domestic life, the quiet ease of land, Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
Binghampton, the load consisting of thirteen manner so often found among its people. Then — There are now on the criminal docket New Orleans, 
hundred and one tuns. The train was fully up she spoke of her long journey across the Plains, fifteen cases of murder. 
to time. of sitting alone in a rude wagon one day and —The Richmond (Va.) people had a shock of an earth- 
There are twenty-one thousand pianos made being robbed by scores of painted savages, of a quake on the 17th ult 
in the United States each year, affording em- six months’ stay among the Mormons, of huge ”* “* ““ ° ““ 
ployment to upwards of three thousand five grizzly bears snuffing among the bushes around _ ^ ^ ^ ^ juicy June ;ipples now abonnd 
hundred workmen. The largest establishment the door of their hut m the California hills. in the Louisville market. 
in Western NewY T ork is that of A. & J. Keogh What strange transition fiom refined culture — The p 00 j e murder w ni, it is estimated, cost the city 
Buffalo. They employ fifty hands, and turn to rudest border life I All around this rude of New y ork $ 100 , 000 . 
out one piano a day. clearing is the dense forest. A half mile dis- _a child was born on the Michigan Central Railroad 
, ... . . , „ , taut is the village—two hundred houses, lialf cars on Monday,the 28th ult. 
A letter leceivec a a l ax a e or eau, in two years, on a. lovely prairie a mile in — The schooner Dean Richmond cleared for Liverpool 
Labrador, June 22d, states th at there had boon ^ Court House shows that justice is with a cargo or wh„,. 
out one piano a day. 
A letter received at Halifax dated Forteau, 
in the Louisville market. 
— The Poole murder will, it is estimated, cost the city 
of New York $100,000. 
— A child was horn on the Michigan Central Railroad 
an excellent catch of furs at the Labrador, and 
“ dispensed with”—as the worthy Mrs. Par- ~ A car S° of 750 negroes was landed at and distributed 
1 IhnKo,- nfPoho n o o lo+olrr 
considerable quantities had been shipped to * r from the bay of Caban as, lately. 
_ , mi A -x rr> V 1 f 1 11 tington says—for the county; which has also J J 
Quebec. The straits of Belisle were not wholly J ^ ** 
— Rev. E. H. Chapin has received the honorary Degree 
dear of ice as late as June 20. The prospects doubled its popakUo. in four years, mostly of D . , r0 „ H .™,d u«, 
of the fishery were very-good. ^ ,0m ’ *1 ea ’ 01 • carae ac ' —The capital invested in omnibuses in Chicago, bj one 
. son twenty-five miles north to Eaton liapids company, is put down at $40,000. 
The brig Ade, of Baltimore, rom Aspinwa , & Yillage on Grand River about the size of this _ since the dog law went into effect in New York, two 
was stiuck June - l- 1 , y a waei spoil , an —over a plank road. The soil part of the way thousand canines have fallen victims, 
capsized. 1 he captain s son and thiee seamen cold, but in this vicinity good. Com- —The cost of the new dome for the centre of the uapi- 
were drowned. The captain, mate and two iQg from the Rapids here> one hardly loses tol at Washington, will be $1,000,000. 
seamen escaped in a long boat, landing near • of a house the whole twelve miles; log —Fifteen tons of slippery elm bark have been shipped 
Carthagena, after rowing four days, and arrived cabing and p ] ain f rame houses. frora HillBdalc > Michigan, this season, 
in New York July 25 in a schooner. j have just traveled through’Barry and Alle- . ~ Commodore Stockton has withdrawn from the posi- 
Wm. Arrison was convicted of manslaughter, gau C0UI ities west of here almost to Lake tl0n 0 Lan iae e resi ancj ‘ 
July 21, on the third trial, foi causing the death Michigan, a region away from the great routes the (leath of sbado trees in that p]ace . 
of Mr. Allison, by an infernal machine, almost of travel, and find it better settled than I ex- _ A company intends constructing a high bridge across 
seamen escaped in a long boat, landing neai g j ^ 0 f a house the whole twelve miles; log 
Carthagena, after rowing four days, and arrived cabing afld ]ain frame ho uses. 
Mam V /\vlr Twltr 9 * ivt o onlinAmiv - _ _ ...» 
in New York July 25 iu a schooner. 
I have just traveled through Barry and Alle- 
Wm. Arrison was convicted of manslaughter, gau couri ties west of here almost to Lake " . , . 
J uly 21, on the third trial, foi causing the death Michigan, a region away from the great routes the death of shade trees in that p]ace . 
of Mr. Allison, by an infernal machine, almost of travel, and find it better settled than I ex- _ A company intends constructing a high bridge across 
two years since. Great dissatisfaction is ex- p ected—filling up still, and the soil good— the Mississippi at St. Paul, Minnesota. 
pressed at the verdict. 4 he sentence will be heavy timber land and openings mingled. In — Prof. Locke, an eminent mechanician and man of sci- 
deferred, and he will be put on trial for the north-east part of Barry county, reaching once, died at Cincinnati on the 16th ult. 
murder of Mrs. Allison, for which an applica- oyer into Eaton, is a rich deep soil, bearing —T^o rain has fallen in the vicinity of Charlestown, 
tion has been made for a change of venue. beavy crops> wild land can be bought for ClarkCo., Ind., since the 17th of May. 
The steamer Tennessee, from Porto Cabello from five to ten dollars per acre, and cleared for 
July 12, via Porto Rico the 17th, arrived at New a crop at about the same cost. Ihe “Rural” _ Camphor> given in the formofa tincture and powder, 
York July 25. Among her passengers, is J. If. is an “ established institution” through this re- is said t0 be an ant idote for strychnine. 
Young, U. S. Consul, at Caraccas, with de- gion. In post offices and hotels are its large — a regiment of troops from the Crimea arrived at Que- 
spatches announcing the conclusion of an lm- ou > 3n pioneer homes it is found bec on Sunday, in the steamer Vulcan. 
portant commercial treaty between the U. S. gl Twn^eSq ^sit^AlTeS colTv - An invalid sailor who returned home in the Saranac, 
and. Venezuela. V enezuela was quiet and going north from Kalamazoo over a plank road 
business dull. r l’he cholera was still prevalent liflebn miles through a rich and well-settled 
Two weeks since I visited Allegan county hftd S50 0 presented him by his shipmates. 
ane: north frora Kalamazoo oyer a plank road , , , , , 
miles through a rich and well-settled ~ The steamer Northern Ind.ana was valued by her 
at Caraccas country, then turning west ten miles along the owners at $200,000, and was not insured. 
Kalamazoo river,—passing a fine nursery culti- — The steamship Fulton sailed July 26thfor Southamp- 
The Toledo Times says that Mrs. ohoemaker vabed by a Western New Yorker,_going' thro’ ton and Havre, with 101 passengers and $687,000. 
of Maumee City, lays upon the steward of the Otsego, a village of five hundred people, be- —J. H. Mathews, District Attorney of Worcester Co., 
burned steamer “ Northern Indiana,” a serious yond through openings, dragging wearily over Mass., died suddenly in his office on the 19th inst. 
charge. She had sought out a life-preserver, sandy roads near the river, until a plank road —In the heaven of Mahomet, the Koran says, there is 
which she desired the Steward to inflate for ^ as reached, and we rolled along rapidly an angel whose eyes are 70,000 day’s journey apart. 
her, which job he readily undertook, but put it ^TcOTnty sea? 0 * * ~ T1)U Senate passed a bil1 ’ on the 23d ult > a PP ro P riat - 
ou himself, and left her to look up another— Eighteen years ago in ‘the days of “ wild-cat iug S1 ’ 800 ’ 000 for altering and lmproving fire ' arms ' 
Numbers of the “preservers” had been render- banks," Allegan whoL^prSfed^rBeekm"S^ettChu?h 
ed valueless by hat mg been use as pin-cus i- peQple> amid g t a r fch country, with a - Prof. Conrad, of Wittemberg College, Ohio, estimates 
ions by lady passengers on letinng. large lumber trade, on a river navigable to its the number of Germans in the United States at 4,000,000. 
The model of a transparent ballot box, de- entrance into the Lake (twenty-five miles be- — Bonaparte is to remove the French troops from Rome, 
signed to prevent frauds in voting, is on exhi- low) bv rafts and small steamboats. West and where they have loDg upheld tyranny in the name of a 
bition in New York. It is a simple globe of north but a few miles are pine forests. I went Republic. 
j . north and north-east some ten miles and found —R ev , Joseph Cummings, D. D., President of Genesee 
glass, and supported upon four pillars, v fill a & roll5ng C 0 U ntry, rich and productive in wheat college, has been elected editor of Zion’s Herald, published 
brass cover on the top and a small aperture tor grass and corn, becoming well settled, and re- a t Boston. 
the admission of votes. The inventor intends minding one in its aspect of Wayne county, —The liquor dealers in Boston find it difficult to collect 
to apply to the Common Council for the pur- New Y oik. . liquor debts, and some have abandoned the business on 
chase of this contrivance and its adoption at the c °f v flife to ?l?ns for milroadJ 
next election. It will effectually prevent the 0n / ig tal £ ed of to cross the Southern Railroad - The case of Passmore Will.amson against Judge Kane 
th* “ utnflW” o-nrrwv n.ntr.l wod of .Ta-W. n four is P ut down for the Au g ust term of the Common Pleas of 
perpetration of the “stuffing” game. 
at Hillsdale, the Central west, of Jackson a few B * 
miles, and going north past Eaton Rapids and a ' varu 0- > a 
Lansing to Traverse Bay or Mackinaw; another - One hundred millions of dollars’ worth of hay will be 
Gonnagrations. through Sturgis and Kalamazoo, past Otsego to rai « ed on Uncle Sam ’ s farm tbis Y ear - c 1 Kal in value to 
" Grand Rapids, and ther.ee north to some dis- the cotton crop. 
A large number of fires have occurred re- tant point not resolved upon. A few years will —The Legislature of New Brunswick has repealed the 
cently, the news of which reached us during probably see them built. Prohibitory Liquor Law by a vote of 38 to 2, and revived 
the past week. Among them may be mention- A good evidence ot the interest in education the license law. 
ed that occurring Sunday morning week at the °f tb ® settlers in these counties is the large _ Martin Bryant, Esq., of Pembroke, is said to be the 
, . . -vt t>, j i i • i-i m school houses, well arranged and convenient, proprietor of fourteen cats, and spreads a table especially 
depot in New Philadelphia, on the I uscarawas taking place of the i og buildings used at first, f 0r their benefit. 
extension of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Rail- What a lesson of persistent energy the life of a _ Sunday; the 20th ult>> wa8 the annivei . sary of the 
road, which was destroyed, together with its pioneer! Their children can never realize j e wi B h Fast, in memorial of the destruction of the Temple 
conterfts, two baggage cars, and all the private how much they are indebted to their toiling and taking Jerusalem. • 
property stored iu the depot. It is said the fire ^ sn?otTroad?think C little by?liat “ Commo “ schooIs are iccreasin ° in Nortk 
property stored in the depot. It is said the fire 
was set by design. 
The large tanning establishment of Mr. Gere, 
in Alexander, Genesee Co., was destroyed by 
travel over smooth roads, think little by what -Common schools are rapidly increasing m North 
toil and sweat, and many blows, rude obstacles C:uol, “ a ’ and ^ attended last year by 120,000 scholars, 
were removed and rough places leveled. I a S a «st 19,000 in 1840. 
stooped a few weeks since at a pleasant farm- - The drouth in New Jerse Y is becoming quite severe, 
house, with its 2 -reen vard aud flowers and The water in the streams is very low, and vegetation eve- 
; house, with its green yard and flowers and The water in the streams is 
fire week before last, and by the conflagration shrubbery) aud orchards and broad fields, with rywhere 1 b suffering, 
one life lost. The body of the man was found rising high on every side. — A man named Galvin W 
the giant trees rising high on every side. — A man named Galvin Wheeler has been fined in Sken- 
on the following day in one of the vats. “ Seventeen years ago,” said the gray-haired eateles, $50 and sentenced to the Penitentiary three 
A Lager Bier establishment and seven or whose toil had carved these fields from the months for girdling trees. 
. , , , 3 • -jkj forest, “ not a blow was Struck here. What a —Hon. Thomas Gotee, of Indiana, who is nearly seventy 
eight dwel mg louses, weic uinc ^ m l e\\ rebuke the life of such a man to those who idly years of age, was recently married, after remaining a 
York city July 21 ; loss $140,000. Two sheds a R mv golden opportunities to pass by, and live widower just two months. 
filled with stores of tar and turpentine, togethei without knowing what sti engtli lies in earnest — A b oy about sixteen years of age, in St. Louis, shot 
with twelve large buildings occupied as tenant effort—what high virtue in doing something for hs mother with a pistol, wounding her severely, because 
houses, were burned in Brooklyn July 23d. the common good. Sitting in that house at s he attempted to correct him. 
The inhabitants were obliged to flee for their ?? 11 IjroaU on "the -Three-quarters of all the mechanics in America are 
.. „ & at breakfast tnat a ciecr trespassing on me working themselves to death to pay for the follies of fash- 
hves to avoid the flames. wheat fields had been shot, G. n. 8. . , ,,_ 
— Three-quarters of all the mechanics in America are 
working themselves to death to pay for the follies of fash¬ 
ion for themselves and families. 
lives to avoid the flames. ^ ^ wheat fields had been shot, g. b. s. , on for B thcragelves acd fam ii ies . 
For a number of days fire has raged in the —Elder Marshall, a negro preacher, 101 years old, from 
woods on Grand Island, and on the line of the State Elections. Ihe following States will Q eor gj a) preached, Sunday, the 20th ult., in Rev. Mr. 
railroad, between Niagara Falls and Tonawan- hold their elections previous to the great contest jiagoon’s (Baptist) Church, New York. 
A number of fires have also done consid- for the Presidency, Nov. 4 : 
— Daniel Linden, aged 16, shot and mortally wounded 
erable damage on farm* between Tonawanda Kentucky.Aug. 4 California.Sept. 4 a boy of the same age, John Boyle in a quarrel about a 
eraoie aamaue on laims ueuween luuawauuii ., 7 '. a,,X a Mnino Sekt 8 , . , , , . ' 
, ^ _ , ° . . £ t i f , , Alabama. Au S- \ Maine.. b ^ p r 5 girl! Both were going to school at Harris, Ill. 
and Buffalo. A tavern and a field of wheat, Texas.Aug. 4 Georgia.Oct. 6 . . . , , 
. ,, , ., , . Missouri .Au«. 4 Florida.Oct. 6 —During the last seven years fourteen hundred murders 
about four miles fl orn that city, W ei e burned on Arkansas.Aug. 4 Pennsylvania.Oct. 14 j g gtdd b ave been perpetrated in and about San Fran- 
Friday week. The disaster resulted from the Iowa . Au ff- £ P b i°. cisco, and the city Itself has been burned down seven times. 
„ ' J J v „ e tvt v North Carolina.Aug. 7 Indiana.Oct, 14 a J 
fire that IS raging along the line Ot the A . 1 . Tennessee.Aug. 7 South Carolina .. .Oct. 14 _ j. H. Doane, General Superintendent of the Illinois 
Central Railroad. 
Vermont.Sept. 2 
Elections in other States will he held as fol- 
_J. H. Doane, General Superintendent of the Illinois 
Central Railroad, slipped on the track on the 25th ult., 
A large part of the village of Amsterdam, • E ’ 1 ^ UiUUB 1U ” bUO ‘ . . . ““ ™ d ; vas ruu over and both legs broken ’ He died 600n 
Montgomery Co., N. 1., was desolated last Miggisg . Nov. 3 Illinois.Nov. 4 — At the late meeting of the Trustees of the University 
week. Among the property destroyed was a Louisiana.Nov. 3 Michigan.Nov. 4 0 f Rochester, the Hon. Wm. Kelly, of Rhinebeck, was 
nrintine office, several stores, a tavern, barns, Massachusetts.K°v. 4 Wisconsin.elected a Trustee, in place of his lamented brother, the 
Ac. Loss $50,000. New Jersey.Nov. 4 Delaware.Nov. 11 late Robert Kelly. 
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