MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
OCT. 11. 
Affairs in Kansas. 
Miscellaneous Items. 
A letter to the St. Louis Republican, dated Dr. J. A. Morgan, a respectable gentleman 
Lecompton, September 26, gives the following of Cold Springs, Texas, died very suddenly a 
intelligence : 
few days since, from the effects of a small pim- 
The armed bands that have been ranging pie on his upper lip, which gradually swelled 
through the Territory are dispersed. Citizens and terminated in death in three days. He was 
ROCHESTER, OCTOBER 11, 1856. | are returning to their claims. Business is re- a native of Virginia. 
I vmng and confidence is restored, and peace The President has fixed the two new land 
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vass of the Rural’s Winter Campaign. 
Review of the Week. 
The storm which, at time of writing last 
week, was exerting its influence in a mild 
form in this section, gathered strength as it 
proceeded North and East. At Watertown its 
effects, as far as the State Fair was concerned, 
were both peculiarly and pecuniarily disastrous. 
The Show was cramped in its ability for dis¬ 
play, and the Treasury of the Society exhibited 
what“M. D.'s” would term a sympathetic ac¬ 
tion. At the east the storm raged in all its 
fury, to the destruction of life and property. 
In Essex Co., on the Au Sable, churches, facto¬ 
ries, dwellings, barns, &c., became the play¬ 
things of the waters—fields were covered—and 
desolation now marks the country surrounding 
this river. In the vicinity of Keeseville eight 
lives were lost. The Salmon River, in Clinton 
Co., rose to a height for many years unknown, 
and carried off dams, bridges, mills, <fcc. What 
amount of damage has been done is not yet 
ascertained—the loss will doubtless be heavy. 
Political news absorbs the public mind at 
the present, and all other matters give to this 
department the precedence. Elections have 
been held in several States, but up to time of 
going to press we have not received any returns 
except from some half-dozen towns in Connect¬ 
icut, which have gone Republican. The Kan¬ 
sas election was held on the 6th inst. Gov. 
Geary seems to be determined to keep the 
peace, and we hope that the turmoil, strife and 
bloodshed, which have marred the prospects of 
hat Territory, will be entirely suppressed. 
The news from abroad is unimportant, with 
the exception of an item in regard to Naples. 
England and France, under the allied flag, 
threaten the king thereof with severe chastise¬ 
ment unless their demands meet with a ready 
response. As Naples is powerless, when ar¬ 
rayed against such enemies, it is supposed that 
the required concessions will be made, and 
peace and tranquility will reign in Europe. 
British Minister. — As yet the British Gov¬ 
ernment have not seen fit to appoint any one to 
fill the vacancy occasioned by the dismissal o‘f 
Mr. Crampton, but it is thought probable that 
arrangements will be made when the pending 
negotiations with Mr. Dallas have been brought 
to a satisfactory conclusion—an event now im¬ 
mediately expected. The new Minister would 
then enter on his functions with a clear stage, 
free from all embarrassments and untoward 
recollections. Among the persons suggested as 
likely to be selected are Lord Howden and 
Lord Napier. 
The New Cent. —The new cent piece re¬ 
cently finished at the United States Mint, in 
Philadelphia, is the size of the old half cent, 
and is composed of fifty-seven parts of copper, 
seven of the nickel and one of zinc. It has a 
light appearance, with a faint red tint, and is 
in beautiful contrast with the American silver 
and gold pieces, and will not, as the old cent 
did, tarnish them by contact. The weight of 
the new cent is only seventy-two grains—that 
of the present one is one hundred and sixty- 
eight. 
Copper. —The propeller Manhattan, recently 
arrived at Cleveland, had on board 107,099 lbs. 
of copper from Lake Superior mines. The 
General Taylor brought down to the same place 
150,614 pounds of copper. 
reigns throughout the Territory. Warrants offices in Minnesota, as follows:—For the 
have been issued for the arrest of Messrs. Jones, northwest district, at Ojibwa, and for the north- 
Stringfellow and other pro-slavery agitators.— 
Gov. Geary has appointed Col. Titus to form 
east district, at Buchanan. 
At the head of one of the graves in “ Old St. 
a volunteer battallion to preserve the peace in Mary’s,” Maryland, there stands a cedar slab 
the neighborhood of Lecompton, and he has which, as the inscription indicates, was placed 
awarded the same duty to Capt. V alker, in the b bere j n 1717, and is still perfectly sound. 
vicinity of Lawrence. 
On the 30th inst., Gov. Geary issued a pro- 
The Richmond, (Va.) Whig, notices the pro¬ 
gress of the “ addition ” to a mill nearly com- 
clamation to the sheriffs of the different coun- pleted in that city, the foundation of which is 
ties of Kansas to open the polls on Monday, Oct. 0 f stone, sixteen feet thick; the brick wall 
6th, for the election of a delegate to Congress averages five feet in thickness, fiom the foun- 
and members of the Legislature. 
The Milwaukie Sentinel says that G. W. 
dation. The length of the building is one hun¬ 
dred and ninety-five feet. When completed, 
Brown, whose Herald of Freedom was destroyed it will be eleven stories high 1 The cost of the 
at the sack of Lawrence, is back in Lawrence addition with machinery and every necessary 
with a new office. His paper will be re-issued to its operation, will not fall far short of 
Provincial Items. cvv 
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The Lower Canada Agricultural Show has 
proved a failure. A correspondent of the Mon- : . - ==: 
treal Transcript, writing from the Three River, —Senator S 
says:—The show is a miserable one ; it appears —There are 
to be retrograding instead of progressing, every — The num 
year. — Baltimore 
An action was recently brought by Mr. J. L. 80,000- 
Beaudry, the defeated Government candidate da ~^^ 1Sh 
for Montreal at the last general election, against _ Th ' 
Mr. Papin, M. P. P., claiming £10,000 dam- 30tb ult 
ages for remarks injurious to his character in — Atsunse 
speeches by Mr. Papin during the contest. He year 5617. 
was unsuccessful in his suit, the jury returning — Five hun 
a verdict for the defendant. copper mines. 
The next annual Fair of the Canadians will —The Asia 
be held at Brantford. George Alexander, Esq., 000 in specie, 
of Woodstock, was chosen President of the — Cleveland 
Society for the current year. morning of tl 
The Canadian Government offers extensive Department i 
tracts of land gratis to actual settlers, in the _ Mr getb 
region made accessible by the railroads recent- since, at an a 
ty opened, or in the process of building. The — Dr. Acke: 
lands are said to be of excellent quality. revolution, d: 
The grain harvest in Nova Scotia, is large.— — There ari 
lUtos Clipiitgs. 
— Senator Seward writes that he is in had health. 
— There are eight regular female physicians in Boston. 
— The number of deaths in BufTalo for Sept, was 199. 
— Baltimore has a Catholic population of upwards of 
80,000. 
— A Jewish Synagogue was dedicated in Syracuse a few 
days since. 
— There was a slight fall of snow at Chicago on the 
30 th ult. 
— At sunset on the 30th ult., commenced the Jewish 
— Five hundred persons are employed in the Minnesota 
copper mines. 
— The Asia sailed on the 1st inst. She took out $950,- 
in a few days. 
A letter to the St. Louis Republican, from Gov. 
Geary, dated 26ili ult., says that the U. S. 
$ 200 , 000 . 
Attorney General Cushing has declared 
that foreign Consuls cannot intervene in the 
troops will be stationed at points where trouble gettement of the estates of their countrymen 
is anticipated during the coming election, and du j D g in the United States, except in the way 
that any interference with the exercise of the of surveillance and advice. They cannot exer- 
right of suffrage, will be punished with theut- c j ge jurisdiction. 
of Woodstock, was chosen President of the Cleveland was favored with a snow storm on the 
0 . , r ,, , morning of the l6t. 
Society for the current year. 
„ r, „ , ~ , . —The annual cost of maintaining the New York Police 
The Canadian Government offers extensive Departm ent is $ 800 , 000 . 
tracts of land gratis to actual settlers, in the _ Mr Seth Yates died in ProvideDCe) K . L> a few days 
region made accessible by the railroads recent- since, at an age of 100 years. 
ty opened, or in the process of buildiDg. The — Dr. Acker, formerly of Va., and father of the Texas 
lands are said to be of excellent quality. revolution, died on the 22d. 
The grain harvest in Nova Scotia, is large.— — There are said to be 3,0C0 grog shops in Cincinnati. 
The wheat crop in particular is very superior. Not one of tbem pays liceDfce ‘ 
The potato crop, says the Pictou Chronicle, is ~ There ! 8 * Pr< f y , ter!a “ Cburch in Nortbampton Co '* 
r . Va., comprised entirely or ladies, 
likely to prove an entire failure, m consequence _ CoD8iderab]e dafflage wa8 done by the recent 6torm on 
of the appearance of the rot. the Hudson river and its tributaries. 
Twenty-two new Post Offices were establish- 
— Gov. Price has appointed Thursday, November 20th, 
most severity. Mr. Whitfield is the pro-slavery 
candidate for Congress. A letter to the Demo- 
The national Kansas committee in a recently 
published statement estimates the real Free 
ed by the Postmaster General on the 1st of m a day of Thanksgiving in Missouri. 
August and the 1st of September, of which — Over four hundred students are in attendance at the 
nineteen are located in Upper Canada. Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. 
„ T ~ , , ... 2 —It is reported that Senator Douglas is soon to be mar- 
Hon. Jean Cabot has been appointed one of rled t0 a ]ady of Washington city. 
crat, dated the 24th ult., says the Free State state inhabitants of Kansas at the present time 
prisoners had been examined before Judge Cato 30j000> and the pr0 . B l a very settlers at 5,000. 
and committed for trial at the special term of , . 
the Court John A. Clark, who resided near Dunkirk, 
*_" ~ _ was killed by a stroke of lightning, on the 24th 
— ult., while returning home from the village in 
The Election of President by the House.— , . , , , r . 
—- , , . - t, . , , - . - tt i his wagon. One of the horses he was driving 
In the election of a President by the House of 7® , ... , , ,, ° 
. . was also killed, and the other stunned by the 
Representatives each State has one vote, given s j 10C j, 
by a majority of the delegation from that State. 
The election, if there is a failure by the peo- Thet had a bear h,,nt in Ca P e Ma Y C0UDt ^ 
the Judges of Her Majesty’s Superior Courts 
for Lower Canada. 
The Cabinet manufactory of O. W. Everett, 
Esq., Dundas, was destroyed by fire on Tues¬ 
day night last. The fire is said to have been 
— Letters from Mississippi, Alabsma andTennessee state 
that the cotton crop is only a half one. 
— Engagements have been made for fall pork in Mont¬ 
gomery Co., N. Y., at $7 per hundred. 
— There were eleven deaths by yellow fever at Charles- 
the work of an incendiary. We regret to learn bon Saturday and Sunday, 27ih and 28th ult. 
pie, would go to the present House in February ^ ew Jersey, a week or so since, which resulted 
next. Fremont has a majority of the delega- in the ca P ture of a bear weighing over 400 lbs. 
tions of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, 0ther bears are * et in the neighborhood, and a 
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con- g rand hunt is shorll y t0 come off - 
necticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylva- The Toledo Blade says the severe frost in 
nia, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin— August (27,) has materially injured the corn, 
in all twelve, sixteen being necessary to a especially those fields which were planted late, 
choice. The States of Delaware, Maryland and a good portion of which was quite soft. 
Kentucky have a majority of Fillmore mem- The total cost of the furs imported this year 
bers. The State of Tennessee is tied, having into the country, was $1,928,000—more by some 
five Democrats and five Americans, as are Illi- $400,000 than last year. The fancy furs’ for 
uois, Missouri, Texas and Iowa. In Illinois ladies’ use have this year been sold in New 
there is a vacancy to be filled, which will de- York to the amount of $1,375,000. 
s wagon, one 01 rue noises ne was unvmg that Mr< Everetthad no insurance on his factory, 
as also killed, and the other stunned by the Hisloss will be heavy , excee ding $12,000. 
° C ^‘ The Hamilton, (C. W.) Banner says :—“ Mr. 
They had a bear hunt in Cape May county, Doutre , candidate to represent the district of 
at Mr. Everetthad no insurance on his factory. — Th® number of votes to be cast in the next presiden¬ 
ts loss will be heavy, exceeding $12,000. tial election wil1 probab,y reach 3 ’ £00 ’ 000 - 
— The Legislature of Texas has passed a bill for the 
The Hamilton, (C. V .) Banner says :—“ Mr. establishment of an asylum for the blind, 
lutre, candidate to 1 epresent the district of — The Oswego Times s 9 ys the water of Lake Ontario is 
De Salabery in the Legislative Council, has 37 inches lower than at this time last year. 
declared himself in favor of the annexation of —The total capital and debt of tbe New York Central 
Canada to the United States.” Railroad Company iB forty millions of dollarB. 
Thursday was a busy day in the wheat mar- —The New York Herald has ordered two new twelve 
ket, Toronto, over 12,000 bushels having chang- cyllnder preeses which are t0 C08t $30 ’ fc0!) eacb - 
ed hands. The price was about $1,38@1,44 , - The village of Gowanda, Cat. Co desolated by fire 
... . 1 . . . V last summer, 18 being rebuilt with great energy. 
per bushel, acd nearly $17,000 was paid farm- . . „ . r A . T 4 . 
1 j > i —The Annual Fair of the American Insti 
ers aloDe foi this cereal. progress at the Crystal Palace, New Yoikcity. 
The London Free Press says, that on Satur- _ A revolvin „ rifle has been invented in New 
— The Annual Fair of the American Institute, is in 
progress at the Crystal Palace, New Yoikcity. 
— A revolving rifle has been invented in New York city, 
cide the vote of that State between the Repub¬ 
licans and Democrats ; and in Missouri a mem¬ 
ber is to be elected in August, where the dele- 
Religious toleration in Turkey, notwithstand¬ 
ing the violent opposition of the fanatical 
Turks, is proving a reality. Since it was es- 
day, the 4th inst., while several children were which can be fired seven times in eight seconds, 
playing on the farm of Mr. Andrew Emerson, —The child of a family named Bellair, residing near 
near that place, one of them, the yoimgest Dubuque, was choked to death by a grain of corn, 
child of Mr. E., was stimg to death in the fol- — The largest and best opera house in this country has 
lowing manner The children, in their play, been erected in Philadelpbia at a C08t ° f S 300 > C0 °- 
had disturbed, near the woods, a yellow wasp’s ~ The tea p!ant has been BUC ' eB8fu,ly ™ ltlva £ d at San ‘ 
... . , . . , ta Cruz, in California, from seeds tound in a caddy, 
nest, and being attacked, ran away, leaviDg the ,. „ , .. . , . 
.... . . 0 _ _ . . J — There is another small revolution going on in Mexico, 
child ; and the alarm being given, its face was Veda8vri bas taUen possession of the town of Meir. 
found completely covered with wasps. The _ The amount in the various United States deposito- 
gation now stands three Democrats and three tablished, 106 Christian churches have been child ; and the alarm being given, its face was y e aasvri has taken possession of the town of Meir. 
Americans. In Texas there is one Democrat repaired or constructed. The Sultan alone I° un d completely covered with wasps. The _ The amount in the various United States depc 
and one American, and in Iowa one Democrat contributed $5,000 for a building in tbe Island P oor sufferer lingered until Monday ries subject to draft on the 22d ult., was $23,495,000. 
and one Republican. of Candia, and in fact everything is done morning. — There are ten times as many newspapers printi 
-- by bis government to conciliate his subjects -- German in the United States as there are in German; 
The Wine Crop in Missouri. —The vintage and improve the condition of the empire, 
in Missouri, which commenced a week or two 
ago, will terminate in a few days. According 
to the German Yolksblatt of Hermann, the 
quality of this year’s yield of wine bids fair to 
Tobacco in the Chemung Valley. — This 
— There are ten times as many newspapers printed in 
German in the United States as there are in Germany. 
— There was on deposit at the U. S. Depository in Buf- 
ago, will terminate in a few days. According Conflagrations and Casualties. 
to the German Yolksblatt of Hermann, the - 
quality of this year’s yield of wine bids fair to The packing Defuse of Phillips, Best <fc Co., 
be excellent, as the grapes have attained a uni- Glass Works, Pittsburgh, Pa., was burned on 
form ripeness and perfection hitherto unequal- the 28th ult., together with 50 dwelling houses, 
ed. The fruit does not exhibit any symptoms rendering 100 families houseless. Loss $250,- 
of decay. We regret to add, however, says the 000, nearly the whole of which falls upon Phil- 
Volksblatt, that in point of quantity the crop lips tfc Co. 
does not realize our expectations. The severe ^ large warehouse, corner of Barclay and 
cold of last winter injured the vines to a greater Washington-sts., New l 7 ork, was burnt on the 
extent than was at first supposed. It is not, 3 d i n gt. The building was not entirely com- 
therefore, probable that the prices of Catawba piete. It was eight stories high, and was built 
crop has become one of the staple productions Tid°» on Monday, Sept. 223, subject to draft, $102,039.i4. 
of the soil of the Chemung Valley, and is said - The Dean Richmond, from Chicago, arrived at Liver- 
, , ,, T , . pool on the 7th ult., in twenty-three days from Quebec. 
to be more profitaole than any other. It is _ Dr . Rapball) the learned and distinguished Rabbi, is 
only about threo years sinoo it wno iutrodnr.ed preparing a bistory of tbo Jews up to the present time, 
among us, and this year, we learn, two or three — Fulkurt, postmaster at Hasbinsvilie, Ohio, for ten 
hundred tuns have been raised in this County years, has been an ested on the charge of robbing the mail, 
alone. The drouth somewhat impeded its — The receipts of the cotton crop in the United States 
growth, and rendered the quantity less than it for the y ear ending August 31st, 1856, were 3,527,845 bales, 
otherwise would have been. But the quality — John G. Saxe is reported as being much worse, and 
is good, and the producer has been fairly re- his disease is likely to terminate in permanent prostration. 
wine will recede this season. by jj r Lilienthall, tobacconist, for his factory. 
The prospects for next year are highly favor- Loss $75,000. 
able. The vines present a healthier and more The J be d t of the various railroadg at 
vigorous appearance this fall than ever before, AtalaBt3j in Georgia> was destroyed by fire on 
and unless the coming winter should prove as the 26th ult _ Logs $100)00 o. 
severe as the last, Hermann and its vicinity will , 
next season produce at least thirty thousand Eleven houses ™ re deatro Jed by fire at 11- 
gallons of wine. linoistown on the 28th ult. 
numerated for his toil .—Elmira Gazette. 
Aged Clergymen. — “Father Sawyer,” of 
Maine, as he is commonly called — although a 
— Hon. Leicester King, of Ohio, died at North Bloom- 
field, Trumbull Co., on the 18th inst. He was 67 years old. 
— It is estimated that the strangers who were at Cleve¬ 
land duriDg the Fair week, expended the sum of $500,000. 
— At Cincinnati on the 29th ult., “Torpedo” Arrison 
hundred years and several months old, it ap- waR sentenced t0 ten year8> imprisonment in the Peniten- 
pears is not the oldest clergyman in New Eng- tiary. 
land. The Manchester (N. H.) American re- —Among the passengers in the Baltic, just arrived at 
ports that the Rev. Laban Ainsworth, senior New York, is Miss D. L. Dix, the indefatigable pbilan- 
pastorof the Congregational Church in Jeffrey, thropiat ' 
00 J a li_7 aa1a a ;ao 1 Gordnno in T rc. 
Eleven houses were destroyed by fire at II- 
linoistown on the 28th ult. 
The finishing department of the Brittania 
Magnificent Cypress. -In the gardens of Works at Kin wood, near Albany was burnt on 
Chapultepec, near Mexico, the first object that tbe 2d lnst * Loss $ 3() > 000 0 ™r in insurance. 
xr , • • • 1 • 1 1 j — A lioness at the Zoological Gardens in Liverpool, re- 
New Hampshire, is now in his one hundred m . ’ 
1 cently gave birth to three cubs, and is now rearing them 
and third year, having been born July 16,1754. in her cage 
He is the oldest graduate of Dartmouth College, — A wedding came off at Havana, Ill., lately, in which 
and probably the oldest clergyman in the the bride was fourteen and the bridegroom seventy-odd 
strikes the eye is the magnificent cypress, call- 
destruotive conflagration occurred in 
ed the Cypress of Montezuma. It had attained Louisville Iiy., last week, destroying property 
its full growth when that monarch was on the to the amount of $125,000. Insured $91,000. 
throne, (1520,) so that it must now be at least The extensive tannery of John C. Pitts, at 
400 years old ; yet it still retains all the vigor Salisbury Centre, Herkimer county, N. Y., was 
of youthful vegetation. The trunk is 41 feet in wholly consumed by fire on the 3d inst. A 
circumference, yet the height is so majestic as large quantity of leather—near 3,000 hides— 
to make even this enormous mass appear slen- was wholly or partially consumed. The loss 
der. At Santa Marie de Tula, in Oaxaca, is a of stock is about $18,000, and the entire loss is 
cypress ninety-three and a half feet in circum- n ot less than $25,000. Insurance from $12,000 
ference, which does not yet show the slightest to $15,000. 
symptom of decay. Lhe percussion cap factory of Mr. Goldmark, 
in Thirty-sixth street, New York, was burned 
President Pierce to Engage in Ag’l Pur- on the 4th inst., together with several adjoining 
suits. —President Pierce has written a letter of buildings- An explosion took place soon after 
response to an invitation from the New Hamp- the commencement, blowing out the side walls 
shire Agricultural Society to be present at the anc i the roof, killing one man and fatally lnjur- 
State Fair, in which he indicates a determina- i D g mother. Loss $20,000. 
tion on his retirement, to devote the remainder The dwelling of Jackson Dawson, at West 
of his life to agricultural pursuits in that State, UnioD) Do dridge Co., Va., was burned on Fri- 
and says that personal matters in connection day even j Q g the 25th ult., and all his children, 
with this determination leads to his present five ia numbe r, perished in the flames, also 
V1S1 ^ _ _ Miss Sevina Myers, a girl that lived with him. 
Mr. Dawson was so badly burned in attempting 
Dead LEXTERS—The Post-Office Department, to gaye cbildreDj that his reC overy is considered 
on Tuesday of last week, returned to their re- doubb f u i 
spective countries the dead letters which for the .... ,, , 
, , , , , , 1 • ,, /V. x On the 27th ult. a collision occurred between 
last quarter have accumulated in the offices of . , 
the United State., There were for England, a eonstructionTram and a freight tra.n on the 
150,000; Bremen, 2,617; Cologne, 5,374 ; Can- So0lb ' r ” M.chrgan Railroad, near Kent Albany 
ada, 7,500; No.a Scotia, 439, and Netr Bruns- aod Sa em fT"* c0 “ tr ” ctlOT tnu ” 
countrv. years of aee ‘ 
J ' _ _ _A prohibitory liquor bill has been postponed indefi- 
The Potato Rot-The CROi>s.-The Salem nit ?7 byt ( he Wisconsin As8emb,y * with onIy tbree dis ’ 
sentiDg voices. 
(Mass.) Gazette says that potato rot prevails p x- —^ Teachers’ Institute for the County of Seneca, will 
tensively in some parts of Essex county. In be opened in Waterloo’on Tuesday, October 14th, and con- 
Boxford it is, doing much damage, and about tinue two weeks. 
Newbury it is still more destructive. With - There was a brass wire screen on .at the 
J . ... ... Ohio State Fair, so fine that there were 2o,600 holes in 
regard to crops in general, in that neighbor- eyery fquare jnch 
hood, glass is plenty, but has been cured with — ,p be n]j no j 8 central Railroad is completed. On Sat- 
great difficulty, and much has been left uncut, urday, the 27th ult., the last rail was laid down and the 
on account of the wetness of the season. There last spike driven. 
is a fair crop of corn, and the small grains turn — The steamship Washingion sailed from New York on 
out pretty well, but the crop of apples is ex- Saturday for Southampton, with sixty passengers and 
, „ ir $163,000 in specie, 
ceedingly small. , v , r t 
__ —The pair of beautiful bays which prance before Louis 
University of Chicago— The Baptist denom- ^poieon-s ^ al ca ™ a *®> purcha£ed of E - B - nom¬ 
ination have in view the establishment of a 
collegiate institution in the city of Chicago.— 
of Lewis Co , for $3,000. 
— W. R. Taber, Esq., editor of the Charleston Mercury, 
was killed on the 25th ult., in a duel with Edward Ma- 
The sum of $200,000 has been subscribed by a gratb, on the third fire. 
single church congregation of that city, aided —The total assessed wealth of Providence, R. i„ the 
somewhat by the members of another church, present year, is $58,064,576, on which the tax is 7714 cents 
The Christain Times states that an additional on the hundred dollars * 
wick 619 had on board a large number of laborers, seven 
’_ 4 , »_ of whom were killed, and some twenty injured. 
The Old Connecticut Charter. —The old They all lived at La Porte, 
original charter, which was deposited in the A portable steam engine exploded on the 
trunk of the Charter Oak, has been enclosed in 2d iDst. in the Delaware County (Ohio) Fair, 
a frame of wood of the tree which preserved it killing fourteen persons and wounding several 
one hundred and sixty-nine years ago. others. 
amount of $50,000 will be secured, which looks ~ At the Bay ,f tate Mi ' ,8 - in Ea ™ n “* MafiPaohus8rt8 ’ 
. . . there are annually manufactured 400,000 shawls, valued 
as if the people of Chicago were in earnest in at npwards 0 f $ 1 , 600 , 000 . 
theii determination to have a peimanently — The Health Officer of New York will receive, forthe 
established religious institution in their midst, three summer months this year, diiectly and indirectly, 
-- fees to the amount of $100,000. 
The Kinderhook Rough Notes states that —it is? said that from thirty to forty children are stolen 
the potato rot has again made its appearance from their parents, in New York city, annually, and never 
in that section of Columbia county, and that beard of a 8 ain b y tllcir rv Iat > Tes - 
. . ... , , . . . . —At the Haropshiie (Mass.) Cattle Show, a hog was 
immense losses will be sustained by farmers. exhiMted which , within eight years, has been the mother 
It says the disease made its appearance during of one hundred and fifty-two pigs, 
the recent hot weather, and so rapid has been — The first patent to a citizen of Arkansas, has just 
its progress, that whole fields have already been been granted to James B. Miles, of Chicot, in that State, 
nearly destroyed and will not pay for digging. f o raa improvement in cotton gins. 
_ 4 , # _ —Mr. James Roosevelt, the eldest son of Judge Roose- 
Russian Losses. —A return published by the v * U , (,f tbe ?™ l° lk Sup ^ 8 C ° urt - died ve ’ y Buddenly 
... onr ■ d la(,asecf the heart on Wednesday, 1st inst. 
British Admiralty shows that 205 Russian ves- 
— The receipts of wheat at Chicago are now about 80,- 
sels were either captured or destroyed during 0 , 0 bushels per.day, and the total receipts of all kinds of 
the war. 
grain amount to one million bushels per week. 
