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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
OCT. 4. 
ROCHESTER, OCTOBER 4, 1856. 
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vass of the Rural’s Winter Campaign. 
Review of the Week. 
Evert male specimen of the gctius homo that 
is, by law, entitled to the privileges of the elec¬ 
tive franchise, has arrived at the conclusion that 
ere long somebody is to be elected and, as a 
matter of course, somebody to be defeated.— 
Having definitely settled this important ques¬ 
tion, each one has put on the harness of party, 
and may be found laboriously tugging at the 
car upon which is mounted his hobby, eager to 
be first at the goal. The parties of New York 
have all put their men in the field—they are 
before the people—there we leave them until, 
«'in the course of human events,” it becomes 
known which faction has the most votes and 
the greatest amount of money. The victorious 
will doubtless “wear their blushing honors” 
with all due deference to the feelings of their 
opponents, while the vanquished will submit 
with that spirit of resignation for which politi¬ 
cians are so noted. 
In another column we give our readers a con¬ 
densation of the Inaugural Address of Gov. 
Geary, the recently appointed head of Kansas 
Territory. It is to be hoped that such measures 
as will lend to harmony and peace among the re¬ 
sidents of Kansas will be adopted—that strife 
and bloodshed will cease, and that those who 
violate the laws, whatever their station or po¬ 
litical bias, may be speedily made to answer 
therefor. 
Sad news comes to us this week from the 
western waters, in the announcement of the 
destruction of the steamer Niagara on Lake 
Michigan. As far as ascertained, sixty-five are 
known to have perished. 
In California matters are assuming their 
usual aspect. The Vigilance Committee have 
returned to the people the power they for a brief 
space usurped, and which was so fearfully used 
Various officers and active members of this as¬ 
sociation are indicted by the courts for their 
participation in the transactions of the organ! 
Ration. Endless litigation is likely to ensue. 
The last steamer from the Isthmus of Panama 
brings reports of another murderous riot at that 
place—particulars not received. 
From the world abroad we hare a precious 
item of intelligence. The English journals 
have taken upon themselves the counseling and 
warning of Uncle Sam. One of them says that 
in case of a dissolution of “ this glorious Union,” 
it is utterly futile for either portion to think of 
uniting its destiny with the " power that rules 
the waves.” In fact, it refuses admission to 
Miss Columbia. How hard-hearted must 
Johnny Bull have become—but when we 
glance at the doctrine of natural depravity, it 
is easily accounted for. However, we rayther 
cal’late the old gentleman had better wait till 
he’s asked. 
Conflagrations and Casualties. 
The East Boston Steam PlaniDg Alill was 
destroyed on the 22d ult. by fire Lossjf>75,000. 
There was an extensive fire at Macon, Ga., on 
the 23d ult,, destroying the Marine and Me¬ 
chanics’ Works, Washington Hall, and all build¬ 
ings on the north side of the Washington Hall 
Block, except the Bank of Middle Georgia.— 
Loss heavy. 
The Chapel and music building of the Glen¬ 
dale Female College, at Glendale, Ohio, was 
destroyed by fire on the 27th ult. 
The engine house and machinery for hoisting 
at the Baltimore Coal Shaft, near Wilkesbarre, 
were destroyed by fire on the 24th ult. By 
great exertions, the breakers and screens con¬ 
necting with the shaft and openings were saved. 
Loss $10,000. Partly insured. 
The stove foundry of Tumcliff <fc Co., Cin¬ 
cinnati, together with some adjoining frame 
buildings, were burned on the 25th ult. Loss 
about $15,000. 
The Baptist Church at Jamaica Plains, was 
burnt on the 24th ult. Loss 12,000. Insured 
$9,000. 
On the 20th tilt., a fire broke out in the ex¬ 
tensive pickling and preserving depot of Messrs. 
Numsen, Thomas & Co., Baltimore. The build¬ 
ing is supposed to have been strek by lightning, 
as there was a heavy thunderstorm at the time. 
But for the forethought of the proprietors, who, 
on arriving on the spot, immediately proceeded 
to the upper part of the house and started the 
vinegar tanks running, of which there were a 
number, containing some thousands of gallons; 
which spread itself over the floors, the front 
portion of the house would have been destroy¬ 
ed. The firm had a heavy stock on hand, and 
their loss will be pretty heavy. Loss between 
$30,000 and $40,000. 
Portions of Chautauque county have been 
visited by destructive fires during the past 
week. These originated in the woods, and 
have destroyed everything in their course. 
Another fire occurred in the village of Perry 
on Thursday, 25th ult., destroying almost the 
entire business portion of the place. 
The Piano Forte Factory of A. J. Keogh, 
Buffalo, was burned on the 27th ult. Loss 
$25,000. One of the walls fell, crushing the 
adjoining building, and killing a woman. A 
fireman also is missing, and is supposed to be 
buried in the ruins. 
The alcohol distillery of John Higby <fe Co., 
Baltimore, was burned on Saturday, 27th ult., 
together with a large amount of stock. Loss 
$30,000 
The extensive India Rubber Belting and 
Packing Factory of John H. Cheever, in New¬ 
town, Conn., was burned on Friday night, 26th 
ult., together with an immense amount of raw 
and finished stock. Loss $220,000; insured 
$160,000. 
The steamer Niagara was burned on the 24th 
ult., near Port Washington, Lake Michigan. 
Sixty-five lives were lost. The Niagara left 
Collingwood at 2 P. M. on Wednesday, with 
between 150 and 175 passengers. Twenty-life 
left the boat at Sheboygan, where she arrived 
at 2 P. M. When two hours out from Sheboy¬ 
gan, the passengers discovered fire issuing from 
the engine room, and in a few minutes the 
whole cabin was in flames. The wildest con¬ 
sternation followed. Boats were lowered, and 
all filled and capsized except one containing 
20 passengers. Numbers jumped overboard 
and were instantly drowned. 
The steamer Traveler was 10 miles distant 
when the fire was discovered, but saved thirty 
persons. The propeller Illinois, bound down 
also, picked up about 30 and landed them at 
Sheboygan. The life boat of Fort Washington 
rescued 20 persons. 
A collision occurred on the Michigan South¬ 
ern Railroad on Saturday, 27th ult., between a 
construction and freight train, near New Alba¬ 
ny and Salem crossing. Eight laborers were 
killed and twenty wounded. One passenger. 
Miscellaneous Items. 
Some Yankee mathematician characteristi 
cally calculates that if the cannon balls fired 
by the allies into Sebastopol, during the re¬ 
nowned thirteen days, were rolled into rail 
bars weighing sixty pounds to the yaid, the 
bars would extend three hundred and thirty- 
two miles, or, if laid as a railroad, would reach 
from New York to Albany, with all the neces¬ 
sary turn outs. 
One hundred and fifteen of the newly in¬ 
vented ballot boxes have been ordered by the 
city of San Francisco, and will be shipped in 
the steamer from N. Y No more “stuffing.”^ 
The oldest'"meeting-house” on this conti¬ 
nent is in Hingham, Massachusetts. It is a 
huge, square structure, with the belfry rising 
out of the center of the roof. Inside are the 
old square pews, which bear a look of singular 
antiquity. It is nearly u twofhundred years'old. 
In the adjoining Durying^ground, stones may 
be seen dated as far back as “1619.” 
A statement was made in the Cincinnati 
Chamber of Commerce recently, that within a 
circuit of some sixty or seventy miles in Ohio, 
1,500,000 pounds of leaf tobacco were raised 
annually, and of this 2,300 tuns were sent to 
Louisville last year, while about 1,200 tuns 
came to Cincinnati. 
During the proceedings in the Supreme Court 
in New York on the 22d ult., a distinguished 
British official, Sir Robert Lowe, occupied a 
seat on the bench. The Democratic appearance 
of our courts must have contrasted strangely in 
his mind with those of Great Britain, where the 
wig and gown are used. 
■ Six bears have recently been killed within 
five miles of Romeo, and several more in the 
vicinity of Pontiac, Michigan. They are all 
through the State, and would seem to have been 
forced to the open country by reason of the 
scarcity of water and the drying up of the frog 
ponds, which afford them their chief sustenance. 
The Front Royal (Va.) Gazette says :—“The 
drouth in Rappahannock, as well as here, has 
been excessive. In the upper part of the coun¬ 
try, along the Blue Ridge, the corn crop is tol- 
erablygood, but in the lower portion of the 
country it is almost a total failure—worse than, 
perhans. ever known. 
We learn from the Geneva Gazette that a son 
of ¥m. Johnson, Esq., President of the Ontario 
Agricultural Society, was shockingly gored by 
a bull while he was driving the animal, with 
others, to the County Fair, on Tuesday last.— 
He lay in a critical situation for twelve hours, 
but we are pleased to hear that he has since 
rallied, and bids fair to speedily recover from 
his injuries. 
The proprietors of Goat Island have an iron 
bridge nearly completed on the foundation of 
the old wooden structure, connecting Goat 
Island with the main land at Niagara Falls..— 
There are five spans, or arches, supported by 
stone piers. The bridge will cost some $20,000. 
The total number of acres in the U. S. devo¬ 
ted to the cultivation of cotton is 5,000,0000 ; 
the number of acres devoted .to the cultivation 
of hay is 13,000,000. ^ 
Christopher Mildeberger, an active busi¬ 
ness man in New York when it contained but 
60,000 inhabitants, died in that city last Tues¬ 
day, aged 83. 
Elements or Algebra ; on the basis of M. Bourdon , 
embracing Sturm’s and Horner’s Theorems and Practi-’ 
cal Examples. By Charles Davies, LL. D. 
Elements oe Geometry and Trigonometry, from the 
works of A. M. LegeDdre. Revised and adapted to the 
course sf mathematical instruction in the United States, 
By Charles Davies. 
The treatise on Algebra by M. Bourdon is recognized as 
a work of singular excellence and merit. In France it has 
long been a standard textbook. As proof of its superior¬ 
ity it may be added, that every subsequent work of this 
nature issued either in Europe or this country has taken 
it as the ground-work upon which to rear the mathemat¬ 
ical structure. In the compilation of this treatise as 
adopted in the schools and colleges of the United States, 
Mr. Davies has had the assistance of W. G. Peck, Assist- 
tant Professor of Mathematics in the West Point Military 
Academy. Prof. Davies, in his work on Geometry, has ta¬ 
ken as a model and guide A. M. Legendre, but has exercised 
his own judgment as to choices of a standard. Both of 
these works have been so long before the American 
scholar as to stand in no need of commendation. A. 3. 
Barnes, New York, Publisher. 
That sterling periodical, Blackwood?s Edinburgh Mag¬ 
azine , for September, bns come to hand. It contains its 
usual variety of well digested articles, smong which are 
the following :—The Scot abroad—the Man of Diplomacy ; 
Sketches on the way to Stockholm ; The Athelings, or 
the Three Gifts : Sea-Side Studies ; A Chapter on Penin¬ 
sular Days ; Oldtown, a Brookside Dialogue ; The Poetry 
of Christian Art; Macauly, etc., etc. 
Affairs in Kansas. 
Provincial Items* 
A Family or Priests. —Bishop Hopkins, of 
Vermont, recently officiated at St. Paul’s church 
Burlington, assisted by three sons in orders, one 
being a Minister and the other two Deacons. 
gentleman from New York, was also killed. 
Political Items. 
The next Legislature of Maine, on joint bal 
lot, will stand—Republicans 155, Coalition 27. 
The town of Ripton, Addison Co., Vt., gave 
every vote to the Republican candidates, and 
elected a Representative to the Legislature by 
an unanimous vote. 
The Republican State Convention of Califor¬ 
nia have nominated Ira P. Rankin, merchant 
and Thomas Cox, a miner, for Congress. 
The American State Convention of Califor¬ 
nia have nominated B. C. Whitney and A. B 
Dibble for Congress. 
The American Convention held last week 
in this city, put in nomination the following 
ticket of State Officers :—For Governor, Eras 
tus Brooks, of New York ; Lieutenant Cover' 
nor, Lyman Odell, of Livingston ; Canal Com¬ 
missioner, Amos H. Prescott, of Herkimer; 
Inspector of State Prisons, James P. Sanders, 
of Westchester ; Clerk of the Court of Appeals, 
Alexander Mann, of Monroe; State Electors, 
Daniel Ullman, of New York ; Jesse C. Dann, 
of Buffalo. 
Tickets have been formed in all the States 
for Mr. Buchanan ; for Mr. Fillmore, in all ex¬ 
cept Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, Maine, and 
New Hampshire ; and for Mr. Fremont in all 
the non-slaveholding States except Pennsyl¬ 
vania ; also in Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia, 
and Missouri. South Carolina appoints Elec¬ 
tors by Legislature. 
Recent advices have emanated from the 
Navy Department to the commander of the 
Pacific forces, with reference to the protection 
of our citizens on the Isthmus of Panama.— 
Their character is not known. 
During the absence of his wife, a farmer of 
Blenheim, Canada, poisoned himself and his 
five children with strychnia. 
According to the census just completed, To¬ 
ronto has a population of 42,000. In 1852, the 
number of inhabitants was 30,775. 
The Cobourg (C. W.) Sun says a disease 
somewhat resembling the common cholefahas 
prevailed during the past few weeks, in the 
Townships of Cavan and South Mongaham 
A good deal of mortality has been caused by 
it. It does not seem to be infectious and its 
effects are confined to the above townships. 
The Brantford (C. W.) Courier says that last 
week near Princeton, a young man named 
Joseph R. Bastidoe, while in the act of greas¬ 
ing the machinery of the horse power of his 
threshing Machine, his clothes caught between 
the spur and pinion wheels, and before the 
horses could he stopped, his right arm was 
drawn in, and the bone from the elbow to with¬ 
in two inches of the shoulder joint, was liter¬ 
ally ground to atoms. The flesh of the arm, 
shoulder and chest, was lae'erated in a shocking 
manner. Amputation was necessary, and but 
little hope entertained of his recovery. 
The much coveted awards of the Paris 
(France) Exhibition, have at length been made, 
with a result of which Canada may justly be 
proud,no less than forty-two having been trans¬ 
mitted to that Province. Twelve medals of 
the first and thirty of the second class have 
beeD received. Of all the Canadian competi¬ 
tors, Montreal has returned the largest num¬ 
ber of successful ones, seven medals of the 
first class and seventeen of the second having 
been awarded to her citizens. Toronto is next 
on the list, gaining four first-class and six 
second-class awards. Quebec follows with one 
of the superior and four of the inferior dis¬ 
tinctions. 
Young Charter Oaks. —The Messrs. Hovey 
<fc Co., at their nursery in Cambridge, have an 
oak, now about ten feet in height, grown from 
a cutting from the famous Charter Oak at Hart¬ 
ford, and the Hartford Press says that Hon. 
Mr. Stuart, on whose grounds the tree stood, 
has two legitimate successors of the original 
tree raised from acorns. 
We give below a condensation of the Inaugural Address 
of Got. Geary to the inhabitants of Kansas. It is dated 
at Lawrence, Sept. 11th, 1866. The Gorernor gives “his 
platform” as follows: 
Fellow Citizens :~l appear among you a stranger to 
most of you, nnd for the first time have the honor to ad¬ 
dress you as Governor of the Territory of Kansas. The 
nosition was not sought hv me : hut. was voluntarily ten¬ 
dered by the present Chief Magistrate of the nation. As 
an American citizen, deeply conscious of the blessings 
which ever flow from our beloved Union. I did not consider 
mvself nt liberty to shrink from any duties, however deli¬ 
cate and onerous required of me by mv country. With a 
full knowledge of all the circumstances surrounding the 
executive office. I have deliberatelv accepted it. and as 
God may give me strength and ahility. I will endeavor 
faithfully to discharge its varied requirements. When I 
received mv commission I was solemnly sworn to support 
the Constitution of the United States, and discharge my 
duties as Governor of Kansas with fidelity. By reference 
to the act for the organization of this Territory, passed hy 
Congress on the 36th day of March, 1854, I find my duties 
more particularly defined. Among other things, I am “to 
take care that the laws he faithfully executed.” The Con¬ 
stitution of the United States and the Organic Law of this 
Territory will he lights by which I will be guided in my 
executive caree:. 
A careful and dispassionate examination of our Organic, 
Act will satisfy any reasonable person that, its provisions 
are eminently just, and beneficial. The great leading fea¬ 
tures of that act is the right therein conferred upon the 
actual and bona fide inhabitants of this Territory “in the 
exercise of self-government, to determine for themselves 
what shall he their own domestic institutions, subject only 
to the Constitution -rid the laws duly enacted by Congress 
under it.” The r> Opl ’. accustomed to self-government in 
the State from wh., <e they came, and having removed to 
this Territory with the bona fide intention of making it 
their future residence, were supposed to he capahle of cre¬ 
ating their own municipal government, and to he the best 
judges of their own local necessities and institutions.— 
This is what, is termed “popular sovereignty.” By this 
phrase we simply mean the right of the majority of the 
people of the several States and Territories, heiDg qualified 
electors, to regulate their own domestic concerns, and to 
make their own municipal laws. It is the great right of 
self-government for the establishment <H which our ances¬ 
tors, in the stormy days of the revolution, pledged «their 
fortunes and their sacred honor.” 
No imd, conversant with the state of affairs' now in 
Kansas, can close his eyes to the fact that much civil dis¬ 
turbance has for a long time past existed in this Territory. 
Various reasons have been assigned for this unfortunate 
condition of affairs, and numerous remedies have been pro¬ 
posed. The House of Representati ves of the United States 
have ignored the claims of both gentlemen claiming the 
legal right to represent the people of this Territory in that 
body. The Topeka Constitution, recognized by the House 
has been repudiated by the Senate. Various measures’, 
each in the opinion of its respective advocates suggestive 
of peace to Kansas, have been alternately proposed and re¬ 
jected. Men outside or the territory, in various sec¬ 
tions of the Union, influenced hv reasons heat, known to 
themselves, have endeavored to stir up internal strife, and 
to array brother against brother. 
” Let us banish all outside influences from our delibera¬ 
tions. and assemble around our council board with the 
Constitution of our country and the Organic Law of this 
Territory as the great charts for our guidance and direc¬ 
tion. The bona fide inhabitants of this Territory alone 
are charged with the solemn duty of enacting her laws, up¬ 
holding her government, maintaining peace, and laying 
the foundation for a future commonwealth. J 
^The inhabitants of the Territory better understand what 
domestic institutions are suited to their condition —what 
laws will be most conducive to their prosperity and happi¬ 
ness—than the citizens of distant or even neighboring 
States ? This great right of regulating her own affairs and 
attending to our own business, without interference from 
others, has been guaranteed to us by a law which Con¬ 
gress has made for the organization of this Terri’ory._ 
This right of self-government — this privilege guaranteed 
to ns hy the Organic I,aw of our Territory, I will uphold 
with all my might, and with the entire power committed 
to me. 
In relation to any changes of the laws of the Territory, 
which I may deem desirable, I have no occasion now to 
speak ; but these are subjects to which I shall direct pub¬ 
lic attention at the proper time. 
I am sure that there is patriotism sufficient in thejpeo- 
ple of Kansas to lend a willing obedience to law. All the 
provisions of the Constitution of the United States must 
he sacredly observed—all the acts of Congress having refe¬ 
rence to this Territory must be unhesitatingly obeyed, and 
the decisions of onr courts reppected. It will he my im¬ 
perative duty to see that, these suggestions are carried into 
effect. In mv official action here, I will do justice at all 
hazards. Influenced by no other considerations than the 
welfare of the whole people of this Territory, I desire no 
party, no section, no North, no South, no East, no West. 
Nothing hut Kansas and my country.; 
Let us all begin anew. Let the past be buried in obliv¬ 
ion. Let all strife and bitterness cease. Let ns all hon¬ 
estly devote ourselves to the true interests of Kansas — 
develop her rich agricultural and mineral resources—build 
up manufacturing enterprises — make public roads and 
highways—prepare amply for the education of onr chil¬ 
dren—devote ourselves to all the arts of peace—and make 
our Territory the sanctuary of those cherished principles 
which protect the inalienable rights of the Individual, and 
elevate States in their sovereign capacities. 
Then shall peaceful industry soon be restored—popula¬ 
tion and wealth will flow upon us—“the desert will blos¬ 
som as the rose”—and the State of Kansas will soon be 
admitted into the Union the peer and pride of her elder 
sisters. John W. Geart. 
We are in receipt of advices from Kansas to 
the 20th. The territory was tolerably quiet. 
The borders remained closed against the Free 
State men in going or returning. Gen. Lank 
arrived at Nebraska City on the 18th. Col. 
Harney, with the Chicago Company has cap¬ 
tured the famous lone star flag of the South 
Carolinans. It was received in Chicago on 
Saturday evening. 
itftos Clippings. 
Storm on the Lakes. —The recent equinoc¬ 
tial storm has caused great damage among the 
shipping on Lake Erie and the upper Lakes. 
Thirty vessels are known to have gone ashore 
on Lake Michigan. The steamer Cora Linn 
is also ashore on the Canada side of Lake On¬ 
tario, near Kingston. Many of the vessels are 
total losses ; some are already going to pieces. 
Several other vessels have reached different 
ports badly damaged, and it is feared that there 
have been other and more extensive losses. 
- Law and order now reigns in California. 
— A Kansas election came off on the first inst. 
— The bona-fide population of Lawrence, K. T., is now 
about 1,0C0. 
— The Equinoctial Storm is paying its annual visit to 
this vicinity. 
— During the past month there were exported from Bos¬ 
ton 10,164 tuns of ice. 
— The Mechanics’ Fair, Boston, was visited hy 6,(®3 
people on the 16th ult. 
— In Canada West they are manufacturing excellent 
wine from_wild grapes. 
— The highest peak of the Himalaya is|said to reach 
the altitude of 30,000 feet 
— Hon. Edward Fuller, [of Readfield, Me.,'died on the 
26th ult., at the age of 74 years. 
— A hotel has just been'erected Jn St. Paul, which 
with its furniture, cost $150,000. 
— Orders have been received at Norfolk to fit out the 
sloops of war Dale and MarioD. 
— The number of Indians in Wisconsin is 7,181 ; in 
Minnesota, 21,224. Total 28,405. 
— The latest accounts from Polynesia describe severe 
shocks of earthquakes in Hawaii. 
— A hear weighing 325 pounds was killed in the city 
limits of Grand Rapids, Mich., lately. 
— A child was born the other day in Boston" without 
eyes. There were nas uui, no ejouaiiB. 
— Wild hops are said to grow aounaantly in the neigh¬ 
borhood of g Carverand Glenco, Iowa.' 
— The Ohio State Fair, at Cleveland, closed last Friday. 
It was very successful in every respect. 
— A needle factory is in successful operation at Holyoke, 
Mass., where all sorts of needles are made. 
— Nine-tenths of the olive oil in this country is manu¬ 
factured in France from American lard oil. 
— An artist in Louisville lately received half a million 
of dollars by the death of a California uncle. 
— A cargo of flour from Baltimore, Md., was recently 
sold at Trinidad, W. I., at $13,64 per barrel. 
— The Board of Supervisors of New York county have 
appropriated $20,000 to the Juvenile Asylum. 
— A revolving rifle has been invented in New York city, 
which can he fired seven times in eight seconds. 
— Since the first of April there have been two hundred 
and fifty dwelling houses put up at La Crosse, Wis. 
— The hog trade has opened, snd bops were quoted on 
the 17th ult. in Cincinnati at $5,25s$5,50 per hundred. 
— A young woman has been hound over for trial in 
New York, on the charge of haying married two husbands. 
— Late advices from SaDta Fe, N(w Mexico, state that 
gold in large quantities is found in that section of country. 
— A new bridge is to he built at Gov<rnment expense 
over the Potomac at Washington. It will be over a mile 
long. 
— The fund raised in San Francisco forthe family of the 
murdered James^King, of William, now amounts to noz,- 
000 . 
— There were recently brought to Salem, Mass., several 
monster anacondas,—one 18 feet long, and another 32 feet 
long. 
— At Lyons, N. Y., a Mr. Henry Goodchild gave a frog 
feast, at which a pailfull of the swamp waiblers were de¬ 
voured/” 
— The wheat crop of Winnebago county, Illinois, for the 
past year, is estimated by a caieful faimer at 833.(00 
bushels.^ 
— The total imports of Cincinnati, for the yfar, reach 
$75,295,901, and the exports for the same period, $50,- 
744,76. 
— The Ohio River is said to be lower than ever before 
known. Droves of cattle have been driven over at Cin 
cinnati. J 
— The treaty of friendship and commerce between Siam 
and the United States has been received at the State De¬ 
partment. 
^— On the 2d' Tuesday of tbe r prerent month, will come 
off the general State elections of Indiana, Ohio and Penn¬ 
sylvania. 
— About $35,000 have been raised in New York city, to 
be appropriated to the erection of a monument to the Pil¬ 
grim Fathers. 
— Asa Twicholl, of Barre, died last week from theeffects 
Of virus imbibed in dressing a wound on the leg of one of 
his horses. 
— Advices from the Cape of Good Hope announce the 
murder of the Rev. Mr. Thomae, a Wesleyan missionary, 
by the Caffres. 
— A new machine has been invented that will manufac¬ 
ture, out of cold lead, 200 bullets, of four different kinds, 
in one minute. 
The Viceroy of Egypt has determined to establish steam 
communication between various points on the shores of 
the Red Sea. 
— It is stated that the bituminous coal found in Chat¬ 
ham county, N. C„ yields more gas of superior quality 
than English coal. 
— The California Vigilance Committee have disbanded, 
but it is understood hold themselves in readiness for fu¬ 
ture emergencies. 
— Mr. George Peabody, the eminent banker, arrived in 
New York a few days since, on a visit. He has been ab¬ 
sent about fifteen years. 
— Advices as far south as Clarkesville, Tenn., state that 
the tobacco crop in Tennessee and Kentucky had been se¬ 
riously injured by frosK 
— A crazy man was found riding on the cow-catcher of 
the locomotivp, on the arrival of a train of cars at Wauke¬ 
gan, Wis., on the_16th ult. 
— In consequence of the existence of yellow fever at 
Charleaton and other Southern ports, quarantine has been 
established at Philadelphia. 
— The New York Academy of Music have resolved to 
erect a magnificent;College in that city, at the eost of be¬ 
tween $80,000 and $90,000. 
— General Winfield Scott reviewed the Cadets at West 
Point on the 12th ult. He appeared for the first time in 
his uniform of Lieut. General. 
— On the 25th of July, a party of five Englishmen as¬ 
cended Mount Ararat, being the first persons who have 
retched that place since Noah. 
— A man named L. J. Brown, from Stockbridge, Yt., 
was suffocated with gas, at Chicago, on Thursday last.— 
On retiring, he blew out the light. 
— Mr. O’Sullivan, a dog-killer, connected with the 
pound in New York city, died on the 20th ult. of hydro¬ 
phobia, from the bite of a rabid dog. 
— The Rock Island Railroad Bridge across the Missis¬ 
sippi, being now repaired, the railway trains pass over it 
regularly from Chicago to Iowa City. 
— Samuel K. Wiley sent to Miss H. D. Durham, a vile 
valentine, and sbe’recovered $6C0 dsmages from him, be¬ 
fore the Court in'Chenango Co., N. Y. 
— The decimal system of weights has been adopted 
throughouVthe;whole of the Prussian monarchy and in 
several States of the South of Germany. 
— Capt. Benj. Watts, of Howard county, Mo., was re¬ 
cently killed hy an elk, which he kept, with deer, in his 
park. The animal horned him to death. 
— A paper published in British India, publishes a letter 
from a person at Karrachee, who says that he is deter¬ 
mined to export 129,000 salted rate to China. 
