MOORE’S RUEA1 NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
OCT. 18. 
ROCHESTER, OCTOBER 18, 1856. 
REMOVAL! 
Special Notice to all “Ruralists.’’ 
The Office of the Rural New-Yorker has 
been removed to the old City Hall, Buffalo 
street, directly opposite the Court House, where 
we are at home in pleasant and commodious 
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friends who have occasion to visit the estab¬ 
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forward, free and post-paid, specimen numbers, 
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posed to aid in extending the circulation of the 
paper, thereby augmenting its usefulness. We 
trust that hundreds of its ardent and influential 
friends, near and distant, will kindly prepare 
for an early commencement and successful can¬ 
vass of the Rural’s Winter Campaign. 
Review of the Week. 
The past week has been one of unusual 
calmness not only as regards the weather but 
the transactions of those inhabiting that por¬ 
tion of our mundane sphere, from which any 
accounts have been received. It may be but 
the lull preceding the storm which, politically, 
is to break over the country in November.— 
Elections have been held in four Northern 
States since our last issue. From Connecticut 
alone, have any returns been received, and so 
close is the contest, that it is a bone of conten¬ 
tion between politicians as to which party has 
been victorious. The results when ascertained 
will give much cause for congratulation among 
those who win. State and town elections and 
their results are very good capital for political 
journals that possess no other—and yet their 
bearing upon a general contest is very light to 
say the least. For instance, previous to a Presi¬ 
dential campaign not twenty years since these 
local elections resulted, almost in toto, for the 
interest of a certain party—four weeks later 
there was hardly enough left of that faction to 
mourn over their terrible defeat. The nicest 
schemes of the “ whippers-in” go frequently in 
the wrong direction and the public ear is re¬ 
galed for months thereafter, with “ defection,” 
“renegadeism” and the choice epithets for which 
political journals are so noted,—the losers are 
in bad temper while the victors quietly and 
calmly settle down to the work before them— 
securing the interests of the country in general, 
and providing for their own individual neces¬ 
sities in particular. 
The jubilees of the farmer are now about over 
—the representations, both County and State, 
have as a general rule been extraordinary, and 
all are, or ought to be, pleased with the results. 
The successful contestants for the various prizes 
offered are doubtless a little elated as being the 
possessors of the very best in the line from which 
they bore the palm, while those who lost this 
year, have arrived at the commendable conclu¬ 
sion that at the next exhibition they will do 
better, try again, and whoever is to be the lucky 
one at that period will have something indeed 
worthy. 
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Affairs in Kansas. 
The news from Kansas is limited, and that 
received is not very important. The Chicago 
press have advices to the 1st inst., stating that 
Gov. Geary, had caused to be arrested and con¬ 
fined in Lecompton, on a charge of murder in 
the first degree, one hundred and seven Free 
State men who were mostly under the charge 
of Col. Titus. H. Miles Moore of Leavenworth, 
was arrested on the 2d inst., while at Kansas 
City en route east, by Surveyor General Cal¬ 
houn, and carried to Wyandotte City and im¬ 
prisoned. 
Advices from Weston to the 4th inst., state 
Messrs. Berry & Walker, of Weston, having 
sold some flour to citizens of Kansas, a party of 
ruffians under Stringfellow arrested Berry de¬ 
nouncing him as an abolitionist and threaten¬ 
ing to hang him. The citizens of Weston as¬ 
sembled in force and after denouncing String- 
fellow and ordering him to leave the country 
in five days, drove him and his party from the 
town. 
We have meagre returns from Kansas, indi¬ 
cating the election of Mr. Whitfield to Con¬ 
gress, without opposition. No disturbance 
took place. 
Another Defaulter. —One of the clerks in 
the Comptroller’s Department of this State, Mr. 
A. W. Lee, has for several days been numbered 
among the missing, and in addition thereto, sun¬ 
dry sums of money, amounting to between §9,- 
000 and §10,000, cannot be accounted for. It is 
supposed, however, that the lucre and the young 
man are traveling in company. 
Miscellaneous Items. 
A new Eldorado is reported in Bolivia, 
where the miners make their eight ounces per 
day and by agreement work only in the fore¬ 
noon. The accounts are of the most exciting 
nature, eclipsing anything told of California or 
Australia. 
In grading near the house of Garret M. An¬ 
derson, Hackensack, N. J., last week, seven 
swords and eighteen pistols were dug up, lying 
in a heap and evidently concealed by the Brit¬ 
ish officers who occupied the premises at one 
time during the revolution. 
A powber-horn was discovered a few days 
since on one of the “ Hunting Islands,” near 
the mouth of Morgan River, South Carolina, 
marked “ 2 Rudolph.” It is the only trace ever 
discovered of the revenue-cutter Hamilton, 
Captain Rudolph, which was lost off the 
Charleston (South Carolina) Bar, in 1853, and 
never heard of. 
Two men, named, Cassils, have been sent to 
the State Prison for two years for placing ob¬ 
structions upon the track of tne Galena and 
Chicago Railroad. 
Advices from the Sandwich Islands state 
that the eruption of the volcano at Mauna Loa 
still continues. About two hundred thousand 
acres of land are now overspread with the lava, 
and must forever remain a barren waste. 
The largest shipment of flour ever made to 
any port in Spain, is taken out by the ship At¬ 
lanta of New York, which takes 9,000 bbls. of 
flour and 5,000 bushels of corn. 
A planter in Georgia has made experiments 
with a Chinese sugar cane, which yields a prof¬ 
itable amount of excellent syrup. The same 
person intends to pursue his experiments on a 
large scale, and hopes tQ be able eventually to 
produce sugar. 
During the last month there were six acci¬ 
dents to railway trains, four of which were 
occasioned by collisions and two by the break¬ 
ing of axles. Twenty-one persons were killed 
and twenty-seven wounded. 
The San Antonio (Texas) Herald says that a 
gentleman residing some thirty miles west of 
San Antonio, has a “live” wolf, some eight 
months old, which attends his stock of sheep 
in the same manner as a shepherd’s dog, going 
out with them in the morning and returning 
with them at night. His wolfship was captured 
when young, and has been trained with the 
sheep. 
Owing to the failure of the apple crop in 
Europe, there is a large demand at New York 
for apples for exportation, and at least 10,000 
barrels of Newtown pippins, embracing the 
best of the crop, will be sent this fall. One 
firm already has contracts for England to the 
amount of 6,000 barrels. This variety of ap¬ 
ples has the preference above all others, though 
Baldwins and Russets are exported to some 
extent. 
It is stated that up to the present time, no 
less than about 23,000 American patents have 
been issued averaging 362 annually, since the 
first general patent law was enacted in Feb¬ 
ruary, 1793. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has purchas¬ 
ed, for the sum of §20,000, a site in Nashville, 
Tennessee, lor the new custom house, post 
office and court rooms, authorized to be erected 
at the recent session of Congress. 
Conflagrations and Casualties. 
The stores of Harrison & Co., and Yantine & 
Price, of Peck Slip, New York, were partially 
burned on the 9th inst., and a large amount of 
groceries and cartoons injured by fire and water. 
Loss from §30,000 to §40,000. 
The Woolen Mill of R. Steenson, situated in 
the 19th ward, Philadelphia, was burned on the 
9th inst. Loss heavy. Two men were killed 
and two wounded by falling walls. 
In Syracuse on the 9th inst., the building 
situated on the Oswego canal, owued by Messrs. 
Bates and Williams, and occupied by them as 
a tannery, was discovered to be on fire, aud in 
a short space of time the entire building was 
completely enveloped in flames. A strong 
wind was blowing from the northwest at the 
time, and the building being of very combusti¬ 
ble material, the fire spread rapidly—.the heat 
being at one time so intense that the fire could 
scarcely be approached within ten rods. The 
loss to Messrs. Bates & Williams on the build¬ 
ing and stock is estimated at §12,000. Insured 
for §8,000. Mr. Lorett occupied a room in the 
building as a cigar box manufactory. His loss 
will be about §1,000. No insurance. The fire 
communicated to two or three small dwelling 
houses, which were adjoining, and they were 
burned. 
A fire broke out on the 6th inst., in the 
Queen City Mills, at Black Rock, which con¬ 
sumed the entire mill and adjoining buildings. 
There was between 3,500 and 4,000 bushels of 
wheat but no flour, the last having been shipped 
the previous forenoon. The Mills were owned 
by Hiram Smith, of Wheatland, in this county, 
and were valued at about §60,000, and were 
insured we learn for §40,000. Total loss 
§70,000. 
The residence of P. Barry, Esq., on Mt. 
Hope Avenue, in this city, was totally destroy¬ 
ed by fire on the 11th inst. Mr. Barry had 
recently been making extensive improvements 
in his house and the mechanics employed had 
not completed their work. It is supposed that 
in making the the alterations some defect oc¬ 
curred in a chimney by which fire escaped into 
the upper rooms. The beautiful trees, shrub¬ 
bery and flowers, by which Mr. Barry has 
adorned ‘his residence, were considerably in¬ 
jured both by fire and by the tramping of the 
multitude who went to the spot. Loss §5,000. 
Provincial Items. 
The warehouses of Messrs. Nixon & Swales, 
Hamilton, were totally destroyed by fire about 
2 o’clock, Friday morning. The buildings, to¬ 
gether -with their contents, were fully insured. 
The fire is supposed to have been the work of 
an incendiary. Loss §25,000. 
The following startling statement appears in 
the Lambton Observer :—“We have just heard, 
on the authority of a statement made by the 
mate of a vessel which arrived at Sarnia last 
night from Chicago, that the steamer Lady 
Elgin, while on her passage from the latter port 
to some port on Lake Superior, was recently 
lost—how, or from what cause we did not learn 
—and that eighty-five persons perished by the 
calamity.” This is doubtful, nothing being 
received by telegraph relating to any such 
catastrophe. 
On Monday evening the 6th inst., five persons 
in a wagon were crossing the track of the Grand 
Trunk Railroad between Berlin and Guelph.— 
At the moment a train was approaching at a 
rapid rate. Two of the persons were enabled 
to escape out of the wagon and reach the side 
of the road in safety, but, melancholy to relate, 
the other three persons met with instantaneous 
death, the train coming into collision with the 
wagon and smashing it into pieces. 
A frightful accident, which might have re¬ 
sulted in appalling consequences, occurred on 
the Great Western Railroad, about one mile 
west of London on the 9th inst. A train of 
seventeen cars, laden with horned cattle, was 
coming east, when it met the train going west. 
The result was a collision, entirely destroying 
five passenger cars by the violence of the shock, 
while one passenger car, the baggage car and 
post office car were burned. The American 
mail consisted of from fifteen to twenty 
bags, and the Canadian of about six. Every¬ 
thing was consumed — not a letter saved.— 
The train caught fire from the ashes scattered 
from the four or five stoves used for heating the 
cars. Nearly the whole of the passengers’ bag¬ 
gage was burned, together with the Express 
Company’s baggage, two tons in weight, so furi¬ 
ously did the fire spread. 
. The amount realized at the Provincial Fair, 
held at Kingston, from the sale of tickets, was 
§ 8 , 000 . 
Political Items. 
In Upper Michigan a Democratic State Sena¬ 
tor and two Representatives have been elected 
by considerable majorities. 
Gov. Adams, of South Carolina, announces 
that he will convene the Legislature of that 
State on the first Monday of November to 
choose Presidential Electors. South Carolina 
is the only State in the Union where Electors 
are not elected by the People, but appointed 
by the Legislature. 
The Charter Election in Baltimore has re¬ 
sulted in the election of the Fillmore candidate 
for Mayor, by a majority of 1,200 or 1,500, out 
of an aggregate vote of 23,000. The same 
party carry 13 of the 20 Aldermen, and the 
Board of Assistants is tie. A serious riot oc¬ 
curred at Lexington market. Twenty, more or 
less, were wounded. Charles Brown and two 
others, named Walters and Sparks, and another, 
name unknown, were killed. Two or three of 
those wounded are dangerously so. 
The general assembly of Vermont met on 
the 9th inst. The House organized by the 
choice of Geo. Grandy as speaker, and Geo. R. 
Thompson, clerk. The vote for speaker stood 
as follows :—Grandy, Rep. 196. Watson Dem. 
16. The Senate chose Charles H. Chapman 
Clerk, and the Rev. A. Webster, chaplain. 
California, by the votes cast in the State, is 
the eleventh in the confederacy, but taking the 
population, is only the twenty-fourth State in 
the Union. This is caused by there being more 
full-grown men in proportion to the population 
than in any other State. 
The Americans in Florida have carried Du¬ 
vall, Madison and Columbia counties, the latter 
by a large majority. Returns from Middle 
Florida show large American gains and it is 
believed the Americans have carried the State. 
Further returns from the Florida election in 
16 counties, show that the Democrats have 
carried 8 counties and the Americans 8. The 
Democrats have thus far gained 350 votes. 13 
counties remain to be heard from. 
Elections for members of Congress and State 
officers were held on the 14th inst., in Penn¬ 
sylvania, Ohio and Indiana. Pennsylvania 
elects twenty-five members of Congress, Ohio 
twenty-one, and Indiana eleven, mading fifty- 
seven in all. In Indiana a Governor and a full 
corps of State officers were chosen. 
A Decidedly Cool Operation. —One of the 
workmen upon Green’s rifles at the Massachu¬ 
setts Arms Company’s works, was so unfortu¬ 
nate, a day or two since, as to slit the thumb of 
his right hand upon a circular saw. Conclud¬ 
ing, upon inspection, that the member was used 
up, he coolly went back to the saw, and hold¬ 
ing the damaged thumb with his left hand, 
made a clean amputation of it, and then pro¬ 
ceeded to have it dressed by a surgeon. 
A Good Load. — The monster ship Ocean 
Monarch, Capt. Page, for Liverpool, will com¬ 
plete her loading to-day. She has the follow¬ 
ing enormous cargoon board, viz :—One hundred 
and twenty thousand bushels of wheat and corn ; 
one hundred and fifty tierces rice ; one hundred 
and fifty tuns fustic. She has still the capacity 
on her upper deck for fifty thousand bushels 
more, but owing to her heavy draught of water, 
(being 23 feet,) her owner has deemed it pru¬ 
dent to dispatch her, with her main deck 
empty.— N. Y. News, 1th inst. 
!tttrarjr lltrorL flttos Clippings. 
The Rural Poetry of the English Language— Illustra¬ 
ting the Seasons and the Months of the Year, their 
Changes, Employments, Lessons and Pleasures, topical¬ 
ly paragraphed ; with a complete Index. By Joseph 
Wm. Jenks, M. A. Boston : Jno. P. Jewett & Co. 
Such is the attractive title of a large and beautiful oc¬ 
tavo volume, comprising 544 pages, appropriately dedica¬ 
ted to the Hon. M. P. Wilder, President of the U. S. Ag. 
Society and of the American Pomological Society, “and 
also to the members generally of the above named useful 
and honorable National Societies.” It is a most charming 
work—such a contribution to our Rural Literature as has 
long been a desideratum. The arrangement, illustrations 
and typography of the volume are admirable, and will add 
to the wide popularity which the merit of its contents will 
alone create. It will furnish pleasant reading to all classes, 
and is especially commended to Ruralists who desire a 
work delineating the varied phases, scenes and pursuits of 
Rural Life. Would that it could not only be read but 
carefully studied by the numerous would be Poets who 
are mounting untrained Pegasuses all over the country 1 
Sold by Dewey. 
Sargent’s Standard School Primer ; or, First Steps in 
Reading, Spelling and Thinking. On a new and approv¬ 
ed plan. With Illustrations. Boston : Phillips, Samp¬ 
son & Co. 
The very work to start “ Young America” in a pleasant 
and correct, as well as easy and rapidmanner. Guided by 
an intelligent parent or teacher, we are confident that al¬ 
most any child will learn more in a single week from this 
Primer than he could in a “quarter’s schooling” with the 
books and Fystem of teaching popular in our youth— 
which was not very “ long ago.” Sold by Sage. 
The Agf. of Progress ; or, A Panorama of Time. In four 
Visions. By David A. Moore. New York : Sheldon, 
Blakeman & Co. 
Not having perused this work, which has been highly 
commended for originality, we will only mention the sub¬ 
jects of the several Visions, viz :—The New Eden; the 
Overthrow of Slavery ; the Trial of Beelzebub ; the Tri¬ 
umph of Man. Those who wish to ascertain the author’s 
manner of disposing of these important and difficult mat- 
■ ters are referred to the volume. Dewey. 
Latest News from Mexico. 
A Matamoras correspondent of the Herald 
furnishes a detailed account of the movements 
of Bicanzie, in Northern Mexico. Yiadurri de¬ 
manded the removal of Comonforte from the 
position of President, on the ground that he 
had violated the peace of Agutta, in endeavor¬ 
ing to render all the States entirely subservient 
to central rules. He also demanded the inau¬ 
guration of Juan Albarez, as President pro tem., 
until the new Constitution, then under consid¬ 
eration, should be formally passed by Congress 
and promulgated. Comonforte denying these 
positions, Vidaurri openly denied his authority, 
and threatened to resist his orders by force if 
necessary. 
It is said that Yiadurri would be aided by 
fillibusters from the United States, and this re¬ 
port had prejudiced a great many people against 
him. Great excitement exists at Monterey, 
owing to this new complication of affairs. 
Five thousand excited men were under arms 
there, and it was considered that a deso lating 
civil war was at hand in Mexico, should Com¬ 
onforte attempt to execute any of his late de¬ 
crees against Yiadurri. The latter has, at la- 
jest dates, taken possession of Salpillo. 
The mail communication between Matamoras, 
Nuevo Leon and Coahuila had been stopped by 
official orders. There was much sickness at 
Matamoras and trade was dull. The crops were 
very good. The Comonforte officials were about 
to negotiate a loan of §500,000 with some mer¬ 
chants in Tampico. 
New Route for the Transport of Cotton.— 
The cotton dealers of the South-Western States 
are trying the experiment of sending their pro¬ 
duce North by the way of the river and lakes. 
The Chicago Press says that a recent shipment 
of 250 bales via. the Mississippi, the Illinois 
Central and Michigan Central Railroads, pro¬ 
pellers from Detroit to Dunkirk, and the New 
York and Erie Railroad to New York promises 
to be but the fore-runner of a large business of 
like character. We shall be glad to see the 
promise kept, and we believe that the route 
named will prove the safest and most profitable 
for the shipper. 
Cast-Iron Chimney Caps. — A correspondent 
of the Country Gentleman inquires if cast-iron 
chimney caps will attract lightning. They 
will not —because they form no continuous con¬ 
ducting current. They will not have any 
more influence than a metallic roof (which has 
none at all,) and not nearly so much as the 
soot inside a chimney, which is a good conduc¬ 
tor, and extending all the way down, is a 
prominent reason why chimneys are so often 
sharp above, and deep in the earth below, will 
protect from danger in all cases.— Inventor. 
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Queer Premiums. —Among the premiums of¬ 
fered at the recent Coles Co. (Ill.) Fair, were 
the following : 
To the Ugiiest Man in this or the adjoining States (to be 
adjudged by a Committee of Ladies).$10 Mirror. 
To the Tallest Man....$5 Walking Stick, 
“ Shortest Man.5 pair of high-heeled boots. 
“ Smallest Animal of any kind of its age, 1 vol. of 
[Prairie Farmer. 
Do our friends of the Prairie Farmer consider 
that last item a compliment ? 
Pork from Europe. — The Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer says that letters have been received in 
that city from New York, stating that the 
French Government has shipped to the United 
States twenty thousand barrels of piime mess 
pork, which was bought here during the late 
war. The Government has no use for it, and is 
sending it back to find a market. 
Arrival of Fishermen. — The Marblehead 
correspondent of the Salem Observer, says that 
eleven of the fishing fleet have returned with 
an aggregate of 194,700 fish. Most of the fish 
landed this season has already been sold at 
fair prices, and our citizens are reaping a rich 
harvest for their toil and hardships. 
— Thanksgiving in Maine on the 20tli of November. 
— The yellow fever is quite prevalent at Charleston. 
—American apples are now exported to British India. 
— There are nine daily papers now published in Chicago. 
— The bridge across the Hudson at Albany has been 
commenced. 
— In Buffalo, this fall, there have been naturalized some 
1,500 foreigners. 
— Coroner Nott, of Buffalo, has held 110 inquests since 
the 1st of January., 
— Col. Sumner left Syracuse on Thursday last to resume 
his command in Kansas. 
— The United States Court of Claims meet again at the 
Capitol on the 10th inst. 
— In the neighborhood of Cincinnati there are more 
than 2,000 acres in grapes. 
— The canal tolls for the season foot up $1,743,999. Last 
year they were $1,790,368. 
— The steamer David Latam is reported as Bunk in Mis¬ 
souri river. Loss $50,000. 
— Lead has been discovered in Crawford county, Mo.— 
The veins appear to be very rich. 
— Mr. Forsyth, our new Minister to Mexico, started last 
week on his mission from Mobile. 
— Four and a half millions of raw silk are exported an¬ 
nually from China into this country. 
— The yellow fever was prevailing to a serious extent in 
the Beimudas at last dates—Sept. 22. 
— Over 1,000,000 bushels of grain are afloat on the 
Lakes destined for the port of Oswego. 
— There are at present over twenty Jewish Synagogues 
in New York city, and almost 30,000 Jews. 
— A German chemist has discovered the means of ob¬ 
taining crystalized sugar from birch wood. 
— It is said that 2,000,000 bushels of wheat are now 
leaving Lake Michigan for the East weekly. 
— The total number of emigrants arrivingat New York 
for the first Dine months of 1866 was 103,531. 
— The Baltimore Patriot announces the death of the 
Hon. John Johnson, Chancellor of Maryland. 
— Red River has dammed up its own mouth, and makes 
its way to the Gulf through Atchafalio Bayou. 
— The whole population of Nebraska, in 1855, was 3,408. 
A recent census shows the population to be 10,716. 
— The Governor of Maryland has appointed the 20th of 
November to be observed as a day of Thanksgiving. 
— The steamer Canada sailed on the 8th inst. for Liver¬ 
pool, with nearly $000,000 in specie and 67 passengers. 
— The sugar crop in Louisiana is said to be a Bhort one, 
but recently improving, and likely to be a fair average. 
— The County of Erie, Pa., has voted to subscribe $200,- 
000, to the capital stock of the Sunbury and Erie railrood. 
— In one year New York city eats 185,000 oxeD, 12,000 
cows, 550,000 sheep and lambs, 40,000 calves, and 280,000 
swine. 
— The cotton crop this year promises poorly. The Mo¬ 
bile Register estimates that it will not exceed 3,200,000 
bales. 
— Judge Minot, the Commissioner of Pensions, has re¬ 
signed his office, to take effect when his successor is ap¬ 
pointed. 
— It is expected that the Wisconsin Legislature, nowin 
session, will pass a bill for the removal of the Capitol from 
Madison. 
— David Hunt, Esq., of Jefferson county, Mississippi, 
has just presented to Oakland College the munificent sum 
of $50,000. 
— The spire of St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Philadel¬ 
phia is 233 feet high, and represented as the highest in 
this country. 
— A Yankee at Panama sought shelter at the American 
Consul’s from the earthquake. He thought it would re¬ 
spect our flag. 
— At the horse show in Manchester, N. H., on Wednes¬ 
day last, Lady Sutherland made a mile in 2,30, and took 
the purse of $65. 
— The State of Illinois hat the largest coal area on our 
continent, and greater by 26,696 miles than the whole coal 
area of Europe. 
— The heavy September frosts have nipped the tobacco 
crop in,Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri. The crop is 
seriously injured. 
— Twenty thousand six hundred dollars have been col¬ 
lected in this country for the relief of the suffereisby the 
inundations of France. 
— A California pamphlet alleges, upon pretty good evi¬ 
dence, that 5.000 murders have been committed in that 
country in six years. 
— A French tailor has invented a cutting machine ca¬ 
pable of cutting out fifteen suits at once, almost with the 
rapidity of lightning. 
— The skeleton of an Indian, sitting in an upright post¬ 
ure, was found in excavating on the railroad near Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass., last week. 
— Frosts have injured the cotton in Mississippi, Ala¬ 
bama, and Tennessee, and it is stated that the yield will 
not be more than half a crop. 
— GeD. Sir William Eyre has arrived, and is making a 
tour through the States. Hs led the third division of the 
British army at Sebastopol. 
— It is reported that the amount of business paper ma¬ 
turing at the banks in New^Yoik city between the 1st and 
25th inst., is $48,000,000. 
— Some $200,000 have already been conti ibuted for the 
establishment,[in the South, of a Theological Seminary for 
the BaptisUdenomination. 
— A Mr/G. W. Carlton claims to have invented a appa¬ 
ratus by which a conversation car. Jje carried on, on water 
a distance of twenty miles. 
— Rev. J. Morris Tease, agent of the New York Coloni¬ 
zation Society ior exploring Western Africa, died in Au¬ 
burn, N. Y., on the 29th ult. 
— A gentleman in San [Jose Valley, Cal., has twenty 
hives of flourishing bees, which produce one hundred and 
lifty pounds of honey a month. 
— It is stated that the Rip Van Winkle and Commodore, 
running from Troy to New York, huve taken, this season, 
3,000 horses tojthe N. Y. market. 
— By a recenVorderJof the directors of the Pennsylvania 
railroad, the conductors and brakemen in their employ are 
required to uniform^,themselves. 
— The fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of Rev. 
Davis T. Kimball, pastor of the Congregational church, 
Ipswich, was’celebrated on the 8th. 
— The loss by fires in the United States duiing last 
month, so far'as information has been received is $1,336,- 
0C0 ; making for[the year $13,390,000. 
— About 1,000 immigrants arrived at Castle Garden 
dally, on the six days ending Oct. 3. In the number were 
fi'ty-nine organ[grinders with their monkdys. 
— A hog at [the Chilicothe, Ohio, Fair weighed 1,135 
pounds, measured 9 feet in length, and about the same in 
girth. He was two years and three months old. 
— Of the thirty'[American doctors who served in the 
Russian army during"the war, it is said about one-third 
d ed. The rest hove returned without exception. 
— The Louisville, Ky.,[Courier says that the weather 
was sufficiently cold on Wednesday morning to form ice 
one-fourth of“an inch in thickness in Pewee Valley. 
— A Chancery [case has recently been decided in one of 
the English [Courts, by which John McDougal, of South 
Boston,[a hard laboring man, receives Dearly $75,000. 
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