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290 MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
SEPT. 6. 
Congressional. 
ROCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 6, 1856. 
Review of the Week. 
Since our last issue, September, the first of 
the Autumn months has been ushered upon the 
stage. Now begins the Farmer’s Jubilee—his 
season of meetings, congratulations and rejoi¬ 
cings. We give, under an appropriate heading, 
a list of the places aDd an index of the periods 
at which these reunions are to be held. Success 
to each and all of them, say we! and hope that 
each Rural reader will readily join us in the 
wish and give to his own County Fair the 
light of his countenance and the best of his pro¬ 
ductions. 
The weather is and has been for a few days 
beautiful—though in some portions ofthecoun 
try Jack Frost has lightly left the impress of 
his icy hand. Along the Mohawk he was jour¬ 
neying during the last week and amid the lux¬ 
uriant corn fields breathed a chilly atmosphere. 
Tuesday morning, 26th ult., in Albany, the 
thermometer reached forty-eight degrees, the 
the coldest August morning for sixty-eight 
consecutive years with the exception of same 
date in 1816 and 1817. In our vicinity he made 
a stay—so short however that early risers only 
were aware of his August presence. Crestline 
Ohio, received a call on the same date of visita¬ 
tion in New York. Mount Washington, with 
other localities of lofty aspirations in that vi¬ 
cinity, donned winter garments on the 27th 
ult.; the day previous, at Mount W., the ther¬ 
mometer was at 21^ degrees. 
The whole country, however, has not exhib¬ 
ited so great a tendency to frigidity. At Wash¬ 
ington, judging from reports of transactions in 
Congress, it has been very warm. Members for 
almost two weeks have struggled to do nothing 
but talk and they have pretty much accom¬ 
plished it. The long agony has at length ter¬ 
minated, the Army bill has passed, and those 
of our Representatives who have not for several 
months absented themselves in the praisewor¬ 
thy occupation of electioneering—can now 
buckle on their armor and go forth to “ save 
the country. A portion of the patriotism 
which each member was supposed to possess 
previous to his election, but which has been 
kept so exclusive in the halls of legislation may 
be exhibited upon the “stump,” and the droop 
ing hopes of Uncle Sam be revived and invig 
orated by the display thereof. 
The actual state of affairs in Kansas is very 
little understood in this section. Reports 
therefrom vary so much that no inferences can 
be drawn. We give in its appropriate plac 
“ two sides of the picture,” and can only say 
“ look on this and then on that.” 
The California papers speak of the harvest 
in that State in glowing terms. Though it 
suffered from drouth there will be enough and 
to spare. Of fruits they are enjoying a plenti 
ful and varied su ply—such, perhaps, as is 
vouchsafed to no other land under the sun, va 
rying all the way from the hardy apple and 
plum, to the fig and the orange. 
Senate. —Mr. Cass presented letters from 
Gen. Persifer F. Smith, which he obtained at 
the War Department, giving an account of the 
movements of the United States troops in Kan¬ 
sas. The letters were read. Gen. Smith states 
that the reports which are going the rounds of 
the newspapers are gross fabrications, and that 
the troops have not done anything to interfere 
with the citizens excepting to guard the prison¬ 
ers charged with treason. 
A resolution appropriating $40,000 to pur¬ 
chase the ship Resolute, abandoned in the Po¬ 
lar Seas by her crew, while in search of Sir 
John Franklin, and present the same to the 
British government in token of the deep inter¬ 
est felt by the United States in the service at 
the time she was abandoned, was passed. 
A resolution was adopted, requiring the Sec¬ 
retary of the Interior to report at the next ses¬ 
sion the amount required to pay the allowances 
proposed by the House bill, for providing for 
the settlement of the claims of the officers of 
the Revolutionary Army and of the widows 
and children of those who died in the service 
A message was here received from the House, 
informing the Senate of their passage of the Ar¬ 
my bill, which having been taken up, on mo¬ 
tion of Mr. Hunter the Senate struck out the 
proviso attached to it by yeas 26, nays 7. The 
bill was then passed. A vote of thanks to the 
I resident pro. tern, was then unanimously 
adopted, and the usual committee appointed to 
wait on the President of the United States, and 
inform him that Congress was ready to adjourn. 
The committee subsequently reported that the 
President had no further communication to 
make^wben the Senate adjourned sine die. 
House. —A resolution from the committee on 
printing, to print 10,000 copies of the report of 
the assault of Mr. McMullen upon Mr. Granger, 
was tabled. 
Several gentlemen attempted to introduce 
bills, but objections were made on both sides of 
the House. The expressed reason being a dis¬ 
inclination to pioceed with general legislation. 
The House took up and passed the Senate 
Affairs in Kansas. 
The following, dated Lawrence, K. T., Aug. 
23d, was received in Chicago on the 27th ult. : 
The Quaker Mission, on the road from West- 
port to this place, was attacked by a band of 
Georgians yesterday. They plundered the 
place, taking all the horses they could find ; 
they threatened and insulted the peaceable in¬ 
mates, and said they would take some women 
there to their camp. The people of the Mission 
had to flee. Gov. Shannon made a treaty here 
a few days ago by which there was interchange 
of prisoners and the gun captured from Law¬ 
rence in May last was given up. This was 
done through the mediation of the dragoons and 
Shannon, and peace was supposed to be con¬ 
cluded. 
Three thousands Missourians are collected at 
Westport and Kansas City, and it is expected 
they will march on the 30th, in different de¬ 
tachments, along both sides of Ihe Kansas river, 
to surround the Free State settlements all the 
way west as far as Topeka. Gen. Richardson 
! iterarg ^troth. 
Tub Marble Worker’s Manual- for Marble Workers, 
LuUderB and Owners of Houses. New York: Sheldon, 
Blakeman & Co. 
A translation from a French work, filled with valuable 
information touching qualities, beauties and effects of 
Maibles, modes of cutting, polishing, carving, preparing 
Mosaic, Stuccos, &c., and new inventions and recipes — 
with an appendix descriptive of American Marbles. Full 
of interest to those who have to do with this material of 
use, convenience and ornament. For sale at Dewey’s. 
Chronological History of the United States, arrant 
ed with Plates on Bf-m’s Principle. By Elizabeth P 
Peabody. New York : Sheldon, Blakeman &Co. 
A school book highly commended. The plates embody 
a system of Mnemonics, impressing events on the mind 
by means of variously colored squares on the charts—a 
process easily understood. The questions and answers, 
filling 300 pages, give much information in a style full of 
beauty, as might be expected from the Dame of the gifted 
authoress, and are at the 6ame time well adapted to awa¬ 
ken interest, develop intellect, and lead to reflection on the 
causes and effects of facts recorded. Sold by Dewey. 
v . ,, , Life of Fillmore. —Messrs. Wanzer & McKim of Buf- 
* a ched noitll ostensibly to intercept and f.ilo, announce that they will publish in a few days “ The 
capture Gen. Lane, but actually to prevent as- Life °fthe Hon. Millard Fillmore, by W. L. Barre, 
sistance coming to Lawrence through Nebraska. Esq ’’ of Kentuck y-” 
The Missourians are concentrating in the vicin¬ 
ity of Westport. Troops are 'arriving daily 
from various directions. Gen. Lane’s troops 
are fortifying on the Wakarusa. Their main | The following is a list of the bills of a public 
Acts of Congress. 
body is at Lawrence. It is variously estimated character passed at the late session of Congress 
fiotn 1,000 to 2,000 men. Atchison will com- An act. to relievo the Commissioner of Pensions from 
mand the Missourians with Col. Doninlian and th .? l' 0rforman00 nf certain clerical dutiea. Thia bill pro- 
Capt. Reed, Adjutant. ^ S J?L*J?l! rk to Ri K n Commissioner's name to bounty 
It. is rumored that the Free State men have 
taken Tecumseh, and that the pro-slavery men 
had 30 killed. 
Tiie other Side.—G en. Cass read the follow- 
land warrants. 
An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to 
change the names of vessels in certain cases. 
An act to define the jurisdiction of the District and 
Circuit Courts of the United States, for the District of 
East Tennessee. 
An act relating to punishment in the penitentiary. 
An act to continue temporarily the land offices atKala. 
fftos Clippings, 
— The taxation in St. Louis is $3,60 to the $100. 
The State Bank at Sackets Harbor has suspended pay¬ 
ment. 
President Pierce has been ill with a fever for a few 
days past. 
— Five prisoners escaped from Clinton prison the night 
of the 19th ult. 
It is estimated that 4,000 houses are beiDg erected 
this year in St. Louis. 
— Florence Nightingale has quietly returned to her 
home in Derbyshire. 
— At Fort Hamilton, N. Y., 49 persons have died of yel¬ 
low fever since July 24th. 
— New Bedford owns more than half of the whaling 
fleet of the whole world. 
— The population of Cuba is estimated at the present 
time at about 1,600,000. 
In Milwaukee pears are selling for 25 cents a piece, 
and peaches 60 cents per dozen ! 
The Fisheries this season promise to be very success¬ 
ful, both the cod and mackerel. 
The number of deaths in N. Y. city during the week 
ending Aug. 30th was 562. 
-Fifty-eight vessels arrived at New York in July, 
bringing 16,043 emigrants. 
— Two doors in the Capital extension at Washington 
have cost the sum of $47,000. 
A woman horse-thief has been operating upon livery 
keepers in Michigan and Ohio. 
Conflagrations. 
The flatting Observatory and thirteen houses 
were destroyed in New York on Saturday 
morning. The loss is set down at $200,000— 
insurance only $17,500. The flames also com 
municated with the eastern end of the Crystal 
Palace, and it was with difficulty the edifice 
was saved. 
The large brass rolling mill of Thomas & Co. 
in Plymouth Hollow, Conn., was burned down 
Sept. 1st. Loss estimated at $100,000. No 
insurance. 
Tiie extensive Oil Printing Establishment of 
Messrs. Claassen <fc Barclay, Albany, was en¬ 
tirely destroyed by fire on the 30th ult. About 
a fortnight since, Mr. Claassen received 
threatening letter, to the effect, that if he did 
not discharge a certain man and have another 
one in his place, he would wake up some morn¬ 
ing and find his factory in flames. A night 
watch was put in the establishment, who left 
the place at 5 o’clock in the morning, and in 
less than half an hour after, the factory was 
discovered to be on fire. The buildings, three 
in number, were about 100 feet long, 100 feet 
wide and 30 feet high, constructed entirely of 
wood. The loss will exceed $50,000. 
A livery stable and refrigerator manufactory 
were burned in New YY>rk on Friday, the 29th 
ult. There were nine horses in the stable and 
a large number of carriages, harness, hay and 
feed. The horses were burned to death in their 
stalls. Loss $14,000 ; partially insured. 
The rosin oil factory of Barres & Stoddard, 
in Brooklyn, was burnt on the 27th ult., together 
with a large stock of oil. Loss $12,000. No 
insurance. 
The Shawmut sugar refinery in West Ded¬ 
ham, Mass., with buildings attached, was de¬ 
stroyed by fire on the 29th ult. Loss $10,000 ; 
mostly insured. 
joint resolutions, permitting Dr. Kane and the 
officers connected with him in the Arctic expe¬ 
dition, to accept testimonials of respect from 
the British Government. 
A message was then received from the Sen¬ 
ate, returning the army bill, with an amend¬ 
ment, striking out the proviso. The House, 
under the operation of the previous question, 
then concurred in the striking out of the provi¬ 
so, by ayes 101, nays 98. 
On a motion to adjourn until the time con¬ 
currently fixed for the termination of the ses¬ 
sion, 3oclock the Speaker declared the House 
adjourned sine die, before the committee to wait 
upon the President was reported. 
ing letter from Gen. Smith, as addressed to the | ° f Michigan ’ and at Pa,m * ra - in the 
War Department, in the Senate. Gen. Smith 
says: 
An act to constitute the cities of Hannibal, Missouri, 
and Peoria, Illinois, ports of delivery. These ports are 
created for the purpose of avoiding the reshipment ofrail- 
“ I have received a letter from Gov. Shannon roa A d ir0 ?’ ,. 
t-:-~- a- A-i-- ,L. a- . . ’ I An act making appropriations for restoring and main¬ 
taining the peaceable disposition of the Indian tribes on 
fh 0 Dscific, and for other purposes. This bill appropriated 
- -— .-.yj r . uuaumm, 
asking me to take the field with the whole dis¬ 
posable force in the Territory, to prevent the in 
Casualties. 
Another Melancholy Warning ! — Philo 
Briggs, son of Reuben Briggs, of Duanesburg, 
N. Y., was accidentally shot, a few days since, 
in Iowa. Philo, with others, stood in front of 
a store, talking. A man inside had just pur¬ 
chased a new gun, and put on a cap to try it— 
when, unbeknown to him, it contained a charge 
which entered the side of the unfortunate young 
man, who exclaimed, “ I am shot dead,” fell and 
expired without uttering another word. i. w. b. 
One span of the Lehigh Valley Railroad 
bridge, across the Delaware river at Easton, Pa., 
gave way August 27th, while two engines were 
passing over it. One of the engines was pre¬ 
cipitated into the Morris Canal, a distance of 60 
feet; the other caught in an abutment. Of the 
persons on the engines, two escaped injury, two 
were seriously hurt, and one was killed. 
Prof. Avery, of Hamilton College, N. Y., was 
riding in Stamford, Conn., when the reins broke, 
the horse ran, and Mr. Avery was thrown vio¬ 
lently from his vehicle to the ground. Being 
somewhat portly and considerably advanced in 
age, injuries were inflicted of which fatal re¬ 
sults are feared. One leg was broken in three 
places ; also a wrist. On Tuesday the physi- 
thought amputation might be necessary. He 
is upwards of 60 years of age. 
George Howard, of Newstead, Erie Co., N. Y., 
had his leg torn off by having it caught in the 
rods of a threshing machine on the 28th ult., 
the chances are against his recovery. 
A sad accident occurred at Bellport, L. I., on 
the 28th ult., by the upsetting of a boat,—ten 
persons—residents of New York city were 
drowned. 
The Lockport Democrat says that two little 
girls, the one seven, and the other eleven years 
of age, daughters of Solomon Clapsattle, of that 
village, were drowned in a null pond, on Mon¬ 
day week. 1 hey had been sent to gather chips 
and not returning at evening, their friends be¬ 
came alarmed, and after seaching, their bodies 
were found, lying near each other, at the bottom 
of the pond. 
Two men, while lying on the track near 
Schenectady, on Saturday night last, were run 
over by the New York mail train, and killed. 
An accident occurred on the Little Miami 
Railroad, at the bridge over the Great Derby 
River, near Jefferson, 14 miles this side of Co¬ 
lumbus. Wednesday evening, the 27th ult., 
about 9 o’clock, the night freight train struck an 
ox on the track a few yards above the bridge. 
He was carried along by the locomotive until 
the train reached the bridge, when he caught 
the timbers. The locomotive and one or two 
the cars passed over him with no serious in¬ 
jury, but eight or nine cars of the train were 
thrown from the track. A number of them 
were left standing on the bridge, completely 
wrecked, and three were precipitated into the 
river—a distance of from sixty to eighty feet I 
A brakeman who fell with them, was instantly 
killed. 
gress of Lane’s party by the northern boundary f30 f ) ’ 000 for Indian purposes in Oregon, and to arrest the 
of tbe Territory. The in for mat ion iriven to the* Indian \var. 
Govornnr e , , . , » . ; 0me An act making appropriations for the payment of inva- 
uovernor iias been so exaggerated, and IS to my lid and other pensions of the United States for the year 
knowledge so incorrect, that I decline making endin F the 30th of June. 1857. 
a movement that would introduce as much rlis- . An npt to , cban * < ? th0 times of holding the U. S. Courts 
orderas exisfpd six weeks ' I® the Southern District of Illinois. 
„ p„ . ■ ' T ,, r ' a F f ’’ . . An act making appropriations for the support of the 
uapiain t. j. Wood, with ills company of Military Academy for the year ending the 30th of June 
cavalry, is upon the northern frontier, and I 185 , 7 ’ 
shall depend upon his reports to govern no . A " act , to rp i lpal partof an act 0 nmied, « An act to pro 
fion «L" 'fT 1 • ? gm J Q !?y ac * vi <J 0 for the safe, keeping of the acts, records and seal of 
_ u - oome of the companies along the Kansas the United States, and for other purposes.” 
River were sent by the commanding officer An act amendatory of an act entitled, “An act to regu- 
there at the Governor’s reauest fo break nn late the fees and costs to be allowed clerks, marshals and 
camps of amwrl men oi ’i V . ” attorneys of the Circuit and District Courts of the United 
camps oi aimed men at several places he de- states, and for other purposes.” 
signated. On the arrival of tbe troops at the An act to alter and amend an act entitled, “ An act to 
points designated, not only were no camps pstab,isb ft Circuit Court of the United States in and for 
K Si KJSMf ss 3 - *-* * - - - 
each party is trying to engage the action of the Ad act to surrender to the State of Illinois the Cumber- 
troops in expelling their adversaries, and I ’“^road in said state. 
place DO denendonrp in tVw> ronAvfa a * An act to amend the act in addition to certain acta 
* I , . T UCe 1D . , reports ( *° not granting bounty land to certain ofiicers and soldiers who 
come liom Avnat I consider to be good authpr- have been engaged in the military service of the United 
ity. Your obedient servant, . 
— The coinage of the U. S. Branch Mint of New Or¬ 
leans for July was $3,171,165,87. 
— The steamship Baltic sailed one the 30th ult., with 51 
passengers and $204,000 in specie. 
— The amount in the U. S. Treasury on the 25th ult., 
subject to draft, was $24,771,274. 
— In Lubec, Me., not far from 500,000 boxes of herring 
are annually put up for market. 
— Revollo, one of the founders of New Grenadian in¬ 
dependence, died on the 28th ult. 
— O’Donnell, the Spanish leader, is seventy-five years 
of age, and six and a half feet high. 
— The American Instructors of the Deaf and Dumb are 
holding a convention in New York. 
The citizens of St. l’aul, Min., are taking means to 
drive out the gamblers that infest that city. 
— The news from sugar growing countries is unfavora¬ 
ble. The prospect is very bad in Louisiana. 
The number of Shaker Societies now in this country 
is eighteen, located in seven different States. 
— Artists are busy at Niagara painting new views of the 
Falls and Rapids, to be engraved in Germany. 
— The receipts of grain at Chicago for Ihe month of 
August will amount to nearly 5,000,000 bushels. 
— The 300 laborers discharged last week at theHarpers’ 
Ferry Armory are forming a company for Kansas. 
The National Kansas Committee of Chicago acknowl¬ 
edge the receipt of $3,COO from Gerrit Smith, Esq. 
— The appropriations for California during the first ses¬ 
sion of the present Congress amounted to $1,300,000. 
— The citizens of New York have remitted 100,000 
francs to the sufferers by the late inundations in France. 
— Austin Wilcox, of Bergen, Genesee Co., died at his 
residence on the 18th ult. He has lived in that town since 
1815. 
Persifer F. Smith. 
Miscellaneous Items. 
By late news from Mexico, it is reported that 
hundreds of priests are being expelled from the 
country, and tbe church property is being rap¬ 
idly confiscated. 
A Convention of the officers and soldiers of | 
the Revolutionary war and the war of 1812, or 
their descendants, is called to assemble at Be- 
mis Heights, Saratoga county, on the anniver¬ 
sary of the surrender of Buigoyne’s army, 
the 17th of October, 1777. 
The Detroit Tribune states that an engine 
— On 0110 of the railroads In France excellent beds are 
States This bill authorizes parol {estimony to be received furnished to passengers at the extra chanre of two cents 
in proof of service. ocly b 
An act making a grant of land to the State of Iowa, in 
alternate sections, to aid in the construction of certain — The Waukesha (Wis.) Plaindealer says that the fruit 
railroads id said State. crop in that part of the State is pretty much a failure this 
An act to supply deficiency in the appropriations for the rear 
service of the fiscal year ending the 30th June, 1856. 
An act to provide for at least two election precincts in — Rev - Mr. Schaflider, priest at St. Mary’s church Buf- 
poses War< * tllR C * ty ° f " aR hington, and for other pur- falo, fell dead on Sunday, 24th ult., as he was rising to 
An act granting public lands, in alternate sections, to pr€ach ’ 
the States of Florida and Alabama, to aid in the construe- —One thousand bushels of whortleberries have been 
tion of certain railroads in Raid States. crathered in th« Q , , , “ D 0n 
An act to incorporate St. Thomas’ Literary Society in 6 tb nei S hborhood of Sandwich, Mass., this 
the District of Columbia. season. 
An act to transfer certain rights and duties conferred 
upon the trustees of the town of Vincennes, Indiana to 
the Common Council of the city of Vincennes. 
An act for the benefit ot the Hebrew congregation in the 
city of Washington. 
An act granting public lands, in alternate sections, to 
tbe State of Alabama, to aid in the construction of certain 
railroads iu said State. 
An act making a grant of lands to the State of Louis- 
— The cholera is committing terrible ravages in Madeira. 
In Funchal alone, 5,010 cases and L600 deaths had oc¬ 
curred. 
— Park Benjamin, the lecturer and poet, is about to 
take editorial charge of “ Frank Leslie’s Illustrated News¬ 
paper.” 
costing $50,000, is in process of construction iana . to ald in * he construction of railroads in said State. 
1 • . , , o UI piuu.SK UI Lonsuucuon, An act granting public lands to the State of Wisconsin 
which is to be used for pumping water into the to aid in tbe construction of railroads, 
reservoir of the waterworks of thatcity. This 
— The Swiss emigration to this country, which has fall¬ 
en ofi for the last two years, has received a new impulse 
this season. 
— Hon. James Meacham, Member of Congress from Vi 
engine is guaranteed to raise 1,000,000 pounds I ^ An act to cban K 0 th0 P la0 e of holding the courts in the mout ’ <lied at Mid dtebury, in that State, Aug. 23d, after a 
« . -- r I District of Delaware. 1 4 *”- 
one foot with 100 pounds ot coal, less than two An act to leviveand continue in force the provisions of 
pounds of coal per hour for a single horse power ac ^ °f, ,833 ’, in relation to “ suspended entries of pub- 
ji i • i . iii.^r* ’ lie lands, and the act ot 1846, in relation to “suspended 
the highest guaranteed dutv nf nnv Onrrirrr, nreemntion land clnimn ” ^ 
short illness. 
highest guaranteed duty of any engine preemption land claims.” 
known. An «ct changing the time of holding the District Court 
of the United States at Wytheville, in the Western Dis- 
Tiie Saratogian says that from the 23d of tnct of v, rgmia. 
According to the Belgian papers, 500,000 quarts of 
beer were drunk in the beer shops of Brussels during the 
late fetes. 
June to the 23d of August, the total number of | in Tenne S see ChaBee thC Ume ° f h ° ldiDg the U ’ S ’ Courta 
— A Bed River train, consisting of seventy-seven carts, 
loaded with a superior quality of furs, arrived at St. Paul 
in August. 
arrivals in town have been something over 20,- An act K rantin g to certain citizens of the State of Mis- — In France > in 1852 » tb0 value of the alcohol distilled 
000, and since the commencement of the season, | Distdct tn'^ CCrt “ in lands tb ° i>lalUb " rg | siTooaooo ™ * 100 ’ 00 °- in 1855 “ had leased to 
over 25,000. Before the season finally closes, 
the arrivals will exceed 30,000. 
On the 27th instant, the Superintendent of | 
the Armory at Springfield received orders to 
discharge all the workmen there who do not 
hold commissions from the President. The 
reason for this is that the money for this ser¬ 
vice is exhausted, and Congress has not, as yet, 
made any new appropriation. The number of 
men discharged is about 200. 
A letter from a bank, containing a genuine 
bill for one thousand dollars, was a few days 
. , $ 10 , 000 , 000 . 
An act to remove obstructions to navigation in the 
mouth of the Mississippi liver at tbe Southwest Pass and _ 
An ,;° Ut l e - ■ , , I 20th in the Alleghany Arsenal. Cause-want of appro- 
.An act making appropriation for deepening the channel priation bill. PP 
over the flats of St. Mary’s river in the State of Michigan. 
■ One hundred and thirty artizans were discharged Aug. 
An act making an appropriation for deepening the chan 
nel over the St. Clair Flats in the State of Michigan 
An act granting the light of way to the St. Louis and 
Iron Mountain Railroad, through the Arsenal Magazine 
and Jefferson Barracks tracts. 
Several of the freight engines belonging to the Hud¬ 
son River Railroad Company are being prepared for the 
burning of coal. 
An act to explain the act approved 12th April, 1855 en¬ 
titled, “ An act to establish additional laud Districts in the 
Territory of Minnesota. 
An act to establish two additional land districts in the 
Territory of Minnesota. 
-The water in Lake Ontario has fallen ten inches since 
the first of July, and is now two inches lower than it was 
last ye ar at this date. 
— An ancient document lately published states that 
An act to authorize the President of the United States 16 “ 7 tb IsIand of Manhattan (New Yoik) was purchased 
to cause the southern boundary line of Kansas Territory of tb e Indians for $42. 
to be surveyed and marked. J 
fh„ at ;i' , , ) L tb ? °[ a r . oad fro “ Fort K,d g lp y. - Th0 Memphis Inquirer learns that six men were killed 
since returned to tbe dead letter office at Wiish- in the territory of Minnesota, to the south pass of the T ai , . , n . 
• , . , , . “ Rocky Mountains, in the territory of Nebraska at Linden, Arkansas, last week, in an affray growing out 
ington, the pre-payment having been omitted. Ail act for continuing the improvements at the Des ofa P° litical dispute 
ThlS Mt . ° f thrown . p p„ pt ,. u „ D „ a - « tho, h„, „ »ta Meb c „„ 
more or less blame on City post-offices. consular expenses of the government for the y ear ending manufacture lce at the rat0 of a ton a day, at an expense 
The Edgefield (S. C.) Advertiser, says tha J T!Vf 67 V, • of about $5 per ton. 
at w n e t- i ■ », . a An act for the improvement of the navigation of the 
Mr. W m. Gregg, of Kalmia, Edgefield District, P,lta ( ,fC o river, and to render the port of Baltimore ac- 
has realized this year very near four thousand th. «., 
dollars from sales in the New York market, of c ° unt of the Bauk of tho state of Missouri, for money 
advanced for the subsistence and transportation of volun- 
— The Cincinnati Sun speaks favorably of the grape 
crop, and says vaults of the manufacturers are well stock¬ 
ed with all varieties. 
peaches raised upon the sand hills of that Dis¬ 
trict. 
The disbursements of the Sergeant-at-Arms 
tcers. 
An act to establish a library for young men in the Dis- 1 ’ 0ra homo in this country, 
trict of Columbia. 1 
Among the passengers by the Niagara is a Russian 
Baron, from one of the Baltic Provinces, who is looking 
An act to amend the act to establish a court lor the in- 
Immigration. —According to a table of immi¬ 
gration, covering eleven months, ending on the 
30th of July, it appears that only 105,707 had 
arrived for settlement in the United States._ 
Of these 8,000 were destined for the New Eng¬ 
land States; 3,000 to the Slave States; 10,000 
to Wisconsin, and 39,943 for New York. The 
cash means of the whole were $5,398,369,54. 
in the Iiouse,on accountof the pay and mileap-p vesrigatien ofdaims against the United States. 
... 1 ’ X UU UUledgt I A bill granting public lands in alternate sections to the 
State of Mississippi, to aid in the construction of railroads. 
of members and delegates up to Friday, the 
29th ult., is $1,097,000, or $400,000 more than 
it would have been under the former compen¬ 
sation laws. 
— A band of regulators lias been organized in Illinois to 
abolish the dens of thieves and desperadoes that infest 
Bloody Island, near St. Louis. 
Tiie Exports of Grain from Russia. —“The 
exports of corn from Northern Russia,” says the 
Anncdes du Commerce Exterieur, “ do not appear 
likely to be very considerable this year; and 
even admitting that there is a large supply of 
rye in the interior, it cannot in any case be 
brought to the Russian ports before the month 
of August. As to the Southern Russia, the 
ports in the Sea of Azoff are the only ones that 
can export wheat; but the low state of the 
water will prevent any shipments for some 
time, as all tiie barges and small craft were de¬ 
stroyed by the allied squadrons.” 
A bill to provide for carrying’into"^effect"the7irs“t article I — Widow Catharin0 Smoot, of Jeff. Co., Ky., has arrived 
of the treaty between the United States and Her Majesty ia Cincinnati with eleven slaves, whom she intends to lib- 
or G, “‘ *” 5 1 “*<• “ a <•<*• 
A bill making appropriations for tbe legislative, execu- 
tive and judicial expenses of the government for the year 
ending 30th June, 1857. J 
An act making appropriations for the naval service for 
the year ending 30th June, 1857. 
Some idea of the low stage of the water in the 
Ohio, may be gathered from the fact that on 
Saturday last, Mr. Patterson, one of the Super¬ 
intendents of Adams’ Express, and two other 
— The present postmaster at Jonestown, Lebanon Co. 
1’a., was appointed under Thomas Jefferson’s Administra¬ 
tion, the 23d of Sept., 1802. 
— l’rofessor Morse has been invited to the coronation of 
the Emperor of Russia, and has contracted to establish 
lines of telegraph in the empire. 
— Tke President has signed the bill making an appro¬ 
priation for the purchase of the ship Resolutoaud itspre- 
sintation to the British Government. 
— The steamer Boston and propeller Protection 
gentlemen connected with that Company, rode collision on th0 St. Lawrence^n th’e28thult. The latter, 
entirely across the channel in a buggy! The containin 8 a valuable carg#^was sunk, 
point of crossing was near Louisville, a short “ Jam0s Kussell Lowell, the poet, enters this month 
distance below the falls. UP ° n the d “* ies of Pr °f 0 ssor of French and Spanish Lan- 
guage and UitcraturG at Harvard University. 
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