MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
NOV. 1, 
Affairs in Kansas. 
Conflagrations and Casualties. 
Provincial Items. 
ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 1, 1856. 
REMOVAL! 
Special Notice to all “Ruralists.” 
The Office of the Rural New-Yorker has 
We copy from the iY Y. Tribune the follow- A destructive tire occurred in York, Pa., on The Woodstock, C. W., Sentinel condems 
ing relative to Kansas matters : the 20th ult. It broke out in a stable owned the practice somewhat common in that town, of 
A delegate Free State Convention was held by Granville Hartman, and in a short time poisoning fowls that annoy those who do not 
at Topeka on the 16th ult., at which it was de- eighteen buildings, all but one of wood, were own them. Cats have eaten of hens that have 
cided not to hold an election for electors of destroyed. The flames spread so rapidly been killed in this way, and immediately died. 
President and Vice President on the 4th of among the barns and other combustible build- and the Sentinel fears that the lives of persons 
November, on account of the disturbances and ings, that some of the occupants of small tene- may be destroyed in the same way. 
distress prevailing throughout the State. ments had barely time to escape, without There is a hog, three years old, in West Zorra 
A Mass Convention is called to be held at saving any of their furniture or goods. A range township, C. W., which measures seven feet 
Big Springs on the 28th, for the purpose of of buildings on Duke street were consumed, from the snout to the root of the tail, and is corn- 
providing for the election of delegates to Con- with much of their contents. pu ted to we igh, when dressed. 1000 pounds — 
The election of J. W. Whitfield being Tue Risl block> Dunkirk jf Y., was de- 
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been removed to the old City Hall, Buffalo repudiated by the settlers, as based on the 8 t r0 yed by fire on the 19th ult.’ It was discov- the pork, dressed. He asks $105 for the crea 
street, directly opposite the Court House, where fraudulent laws of the bogus legislature 
ered about 2 o’clock, and in a few moments ture, on foot. 
we are at home in pleasant and commodious An emigrant train of nearly 300 persons ar- wag beyond rescue . ft had numerous occu- 
quarters, and prepared to receive calls from all rived oa :l5 «>* ™ Nebraska, under the direc- f g who barely e8caped> saving scarcely any- 
^ 1 r tion of Col. Eldridge, all in good spirits.— -- - - 
friends who have occasion to visit the estab- aU arreste d bv the regular troops thiDg ' Ab ° Ut 6 ° German emi g rants had sto P- sembl y’ died ve, T suddenly in Quebec on the 
lishment ^ ^ P ped at Loeb’s Hotel, and one young man among 13th inst. He was about 70 years of age. Mr. 
- and brOU 8 bt “ aS V^ouers, but discharged on them wag su{focated , and losfc his life . Both 0 . was well known for his literary productions 
new quarter.—trial SUBSCRIBERS. arm a. the Dunkirk Tribune and Journal offices were as well as for his Parliamentary career. 
A new quarter of the Rural commenced with The Grand Jury are finding indictments degtroyed . The total losses foot lip about Brock’s Monument which was blown un du- 
October—a good time for subscriptions to begin, against the Free State prisoners charged with ^ 30000 . The disaster is charged to incendia- 
Trial Subscribers.- In order that strangers murder ’ and their trial be S ins to-morrow. ri sm. 
may give the Rural a trial, and to introduce it K F * M> Arny from the National Kansas A yiRE occurred in Keokuk, Iowa, on the 
in localities where it is comparatively un- Committee, ainved yes er ay to ascertain the g destr0 ying property to the value of $30,- 
known, we will receive both single and club condition of the settlers and effect an arrange- ^ ^ were 39 horses in sta- 
A fire occurred in Keokuk, Iowa, on the 
3 where it is comparatively un- ’ “ / ~ 8th, destroying property to the value of $30,- T . rori „ v ; rio . i , , . ,, ... 
will receive both single anti club co “ d . lt, »“ “ f “! a °f™” 8 , 6 ' 000. Among the lo M es wore 39 horses in etc- „ f Lanark lead vein near the vtllage 
subscriptions for three months-Oct. to Jan.- trommittee ror 
at the same proportional rates as for a year.— mutual co-operation. 
Agents and other friends who propose to form Advices from Lawrence, K. T., received at 
clubs for the next volume, will please observe Chicago, state that the emigrants arrested at 
this offer and give us their list of trial subscri- Plymouth had been released, and that Gov. 
i n 1 i r. ... r 000. Among the losses were 39 horses in mua- 
ment with the State Central Committee for,, . , ”, .. TT 
, , .. bles of the White House and of Dr. Egbert, 
mutual co-operation. & 
Advices from Lawrence, K. T., received at A F < KE broke out on the 21st ult. in Oswego 
Chicago, state that the emigrants arrested at 77 • * n Claik, Coyles & Perry s wagon shop 
destroying the shop and a dwelling house own- 
bers —thus preparing the way for a more gene- ^ ea, T oroereu uiein lo disperse or leave 
ral circulation in future. We shall be happy to the Territory. They retired to different settle- 
forward, free and post-paid, specimen numbers, ments and claims. The arms found in their Selleridge’s cotton and woolen factory, building, $1,200 ; Mr. Wyatt, $600 ; Mr. Arm- 
prospectuses, &c., to any and every person dis- ™g 0DS were stored. Philadelphia, Pa., was burned on the 22d ult. strong, a pedlar of jewelry, &c., and who had 
posed to aid in extending the circulation of the The Washington Union of the 24th ult., pub- Boss estimated at $80,000 ; insured for $40,000. amve d only that same evening, about* $1,500 ; 
paper, thereby augmenting its usefulness. We lishes a letter from Gov. Geary, announcing the Nearly four hundred hands are thrown out of Mr. Dooble,of Reach, one span of horses, wagon 
trust that hundreds of its ardent and influential restoration of peace in Kansas. He says that employment by this fire. and i oad of wbeab The names of the other 
friends, near and distant, will kindly prepare for two weeks no outrages have been committed, Great fires are raging in the woods of Clin- sufferers have not been ascertained. The fire 
for an early commencement and successful can- and many notorious agitators, belonging to all ton county, near St. Johns, Mich. Thousands is supposed to be the work of au incendiary, 
vass of the Rural’s Winter Campaign. parties, had left the Territory. He also says he of acres ol timber have been destroyed. The A meeting of the citizens of Montreal, called 
will shortly proceed with a small force in pur- loss is immense. by the Ma yor, bag been heldj adopfc meagureg 
for an early commencement and successful can 
vass of the Rural’s Winter Campaign. 
suit of a gang who are prowling about the 
southern part of the Territory. 
Miscellaneous Items. 
have been frequent and violent on the Lakes, the 0CCU P ants - The fl) S ht of ' some of the fami 
and facts touching disaster and death are re- lies wass0 sudden thafcthe y left manyvaluabl. 
ceived daily. S oods belund * 
The Agricultural and Mechanical Fair at St, 
That land of Revolutions, Mexico, is again 
en are thrown out of employment. numerous or so ravenous as they are this season 
The Albany Journal learns that a fire has in tbis ff oa <>*<*« country. It is regarded 
settled claims of British subjects for money lent the great powder manufacturing company at been racing in the woods at the Catskill Moun- as UDSa ^ e be a l° nc on the public highways 
to Mexico. 1 he repeated failures on the part Wilmington. Delaware, died at Nemours on tains for the past four days. It has already ex- a ^ er dark- A farmer in North Easthope had 
of the government to fulfil her engagements the 4 th i ns tant, aged fifty-eight years. He tended upwards of two miles, and at the last tbbt ^ sheep killed in a single night by them. 
have doubtless influenced Britain’s representa- was the eldest son of Irene Du Pont, who accounts has been raging at a fearful rate, 
tive m the course by him taken. I he amount founded the gunpowder, wool, and cotton man- m T u nr r> 
of these claims is upwards of fifty-one millions u f act ories of Delaware. T , & at bt ' ^\ B " ' 
of dollars, and the annual interest is close on 
four millions, of which six half yearly pay- 
A pair of horses ran away the other day at were destroyed. Loss $50,000. 
St. Paul, and leaped sixty feet down a perpen- T _ w w 
accounts has been raging at a fearful rate. drove tbem to the barn y ard ’ and kilIed 
m ~ T , them there. A few nights previous they killed 
There was a fire at St. Johns, N. B., on the i u i • . .r t> 
„ , , , . , , ’ twelve belonging to the same man. Bears are 
22d, by which over one hundred tenements i „ i , , , 
J b also numerous and remarkably saucy. 
ments, amounting to $4,608,740 are unpaid, and n 1 , ... 1 he piopeller Falcon was burned in Chicago 
& w r > dicular cut m the cliff. One of them was kill- ,, u , ,. ... , rnnr , , . , 
if that which will become due on the 1st of , T , ,, . on the 17th ult., together with 15,000 busheb 
xi uxitu, w ed instantly; the other rose from the ground, * v . mu -n f ... . . , Tr 
January next be added, the sum due for arrears , ... , , ,, , , . of wheat. I he Falcon was sailing in the West 
___ nnn nnn and although badly crippled, plunged into the _ n __ * _. 
of interest will amount to close on $6,000,000, . , , 
, . , „ • ai r, i ^ i , river, and swam half way across it, when, be- ,, ono 
to meet which the sum m the Bank of England . , , . , , , , , worth $30,000 ; 
& coming exhausted, he sank and was drowned. 
_ „ _ , w ' The other day 300 loaves of bread were 
The propeller Falcon was burned in Chicago se5zed by fche Montreal city police, the proper- 
on the 17th ult., together with 15,000 bushels ty of different bakers, which were under weight, 
of wheat. The Falcon was sailing in the West- The Tor(mto ^ gale of ]and afc 
ern Transportation Company’s Line, and was J 
no insurance. 
St. Joseph’s Island, Lake Huron, closed on 
Monday. About 20,000 acres were sold, at au 
average of from six shillings and three pence 
is not more than $150,000 Loss $500. ’ ' By telegraphic dispatches received in Buffa- average of from six’shillings a 
One week from time of writing a political , „ ly on Saturday last, it is ascertained that the a u-n- . • 
battle will be fought among ouielvi. The ^ A ™ ° f f f “‘ “ ^ as propeller Toledo etiuck a reef off Port Wash! sev “ Bh,1 "“e 8 a ‘ d “*P““ 
ballot-box is to give to the American Govern- dmoovered a few days since at EdWM-dsville, ingtoBi on Lake Michigan> aud on board eompeffo n was generall y bmk 
ment a new head, and be the result what it may, a< ison oun j, uca a ep i o eet w jth the exception of three deck hands were r. - ( 
. . ,, , » _a„j ___i:_ a below the surface. , , , 1 . -r, ™ , . , , , , Celebration of Burgoyne s 
A vein of coal, six feet in thickness, was ^ on atuida-y last, it :is ascei tain ed that the to seven shillings and sixpence per acre. The 
iscovered a few davs since at Edwftrdsvilfo I”'’ 110 ^ 0 ^ 0 s luc a lee 0 fort Wash- competition was generally brisk. 
ment a new head, and be the result what it may, . - r ___ — 1T , .. n WCIC _ 
let the defeated yield a ready compliance to below thc surface - lost. When she left Buffalo she had on board ° ELI f aATI0If 0F Burgoyne s Surrender.- 
the will of the majority, and the victors exhibit Ma - Brooks, a Western aeronaut, made the 40 or 45 passengers, and her crew numbered 20 LT? celEbratl0n at Jchuylerville, N. Y., on the 
a kindly spirit in the hour of success. With the trip from Dixon, Ill., to Rockford, a distance 0 r 25 men. It is thought that sixty-five have 17lh u J t ' came ln sp^ndid style. The 
J 1 ... aL:..4„ n .— ^ 4 ^ : , ° J anopfnnlp wnfl I rn I xr rninnuno' tbrnmor, A 
political matters we have nothing to do—except °f thirty-five miles, in twenty-five minutes, 
the exercise of the right guaranteed to American ®is balloon ascended to the height of about 
citizens, the elective franchise—and we leave ^ wo m Bes. 
the matter in the hands of those who elevate to Advices from Galveston to the 23d ult. an- 
- , , J spectacle was truly imposing. Ten thousand 
_ ’ . , . citizens, at least, were present. More than 
he t etai » o a iorm case ofpiiacyand 2^000 ladies graced the occasion with their pres- 
burning of a ship at Macoa have been received ence . Three fine military companies, and three 
the matter m tne Hands oi tnose who elevate to advices nom utaivesion 10 me uit. an- a t London. Eng. The Dutch shin Banca snifoH , ^ ■ ■/ 
public stations and public cares, and decree that nounce that Col. Vadauri had taken Mier with- from Macoa wilh between 300 and 400 Coolies clYtitufod^^ 
certain parties shall longer revel in the delights out resistance. He was subsequently to march for Havana, but was obliged to put back to re- „c,o , ? \ i n f 
of home quietude and domestic peace. upon Camargo, which place was defended by air dama ’ ges recoived S in a ' l « e war of 1812, delegates to the Convention. Ad- 
_- 1,300 troops. Yidauri has 3,000 men, and some refitting the Coolies rose to l Z dresses were made by Gen. Van Reosselear, 
A . tv t, skirmishes had already taken Dlace between , g ’ u au ^ ? th fficerS President of the day, and Alfred B. Street, Esq., 
An American Frigate in an English Port.— sKirmisnes naa aireaay taxen place between an d crew, but being promptly met and several _ f l.,-, v a ■ 
An American Frigate in an English Port. — skirmisHes Ha< 
One of the London papers, in announcing the ^Be two forces, 
appearance of the frigate Merrimac in an Eng- „ „ 
Novel Use of Mosquitoes. —Dr. 
and crew, but being promptly met and several Orator of the day, which were listened to with 
killed, the not was quelled. Subsequently raarked atie ntion, and responded to with re- 
tliey set fiie to the vessel, and in the confusion peated applause. Resolutions were unanimous- 
killed all the officers and seamen. In the ly passed for the erection of a monument in 
lish port, saysThe American steam frigate BlodehUj of New Orleans, has succeeded in kiUed al1 the ° fficers aad searaeu - Ia tbe ly passed for the erectic 
Merrimac now lying off Southampton, has crea- training the forger species of mosquitoes hnown meantlrae the flames reached the magazine, honor of the great event. 
ted considerable sensation m this country-we ifl 0rleans a8 „ gallinipper; . to perform which blew up with a tremendous explosion.- - 
would not be far wrong in saying that in certain _ i- J , , , Of the number who were on board, including PnmaaTm!. n-nv i 
quarters she has produced a panic. 
all the objects hitherto only accomplished by 
the leech or the cupper. A dozen of these in- 
Of the number who were on board, including Proclamation of the Governor of Nebras- 
crew and passengers about 500, only 150 es- ka Territory. —Governor Izard, of Nebraska, 
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ociacy an llu | ^ ... a ‘ D ? sects are equal to six leeches, and placed on ca P ed with their lives. 1 he remainder were in pursuance of an act of the Territorial Assem 
AAnPftntimi that, the xteDUbllfi f.Oll fl turn nut 71 1 Knvnf in fVixx clnn nv , , , . , . 
conception that the Republic could turn out beu “ " c a 1 either burnt in the ship or drowned ,, , - . . , 
a .*. ... , ai • a i the desired spot will at once commence to suck uumuu irabmpui urownea, bly, has issued a proclamation for an election 
anything half so formidable as this truly mag- ,, , r . „ , _ - . _ a u v u • al in a- • „ , m 
a & i mi -\/r r , a J c blood in the same way, and with far less trouble' : to be held in the several Counties in that Ter- 
ni icen vesse . e mac is u one o a ^ ban ^ be 0 } der institution. Clergymen of the Olden Time.—T he Rev. ritory, on the first Tuesday in November, for 
series which the American government is now ____ Solomon Williams, of Northampton, Massachu- thirteen Members of the Council, thirty-five 
ui ing, an mug 1 on y a nga e, s e is a - Heavy Receipts of Grain.—T he Courier and setts, when he died, aged 82, preached six Members of the House of Representatives, and 
initte to e a ma. c or any one o om s ups K n q U i rer 0 f the 2lst says the receipts of grain years before his death his half-century sermon, three County Commissioners for each County, 
of the line. There is not a navy in Europe that ^ . >T ,, / , , , , ■ , . , f ,, , J 
. . , . , ... , ,, yesterday per North river barges, canal boats and it is stated as a fact without a parallel, that -- 
has a vessel which can compete with her. . , , . „ , , . , ,, 1 , , 
_^ ^_ and plugs, were the heaviest of any day this bls great grandfather, grandfather and father United States Consuls in Russia.—T he con- 
season, viz :—181,500 bushels of wheat and a l so preached like sermons. The pastorates of sular agent of the United States at Cronstadt 
ORMONisM. ate uiopean a vices state 296,000 bushels of corn. These arrivals, how- f be f° ur clergymen of this family extended has demanded authority to hoist his national 
that Mormonism is making such progress in ever, were in consequence of a detention, a few beyond two hundred years. The Rev. Thomas flag, and to place the arms of his nation over 
Denmark as to excite considerable alarm in the dayg gincej Qn the canal _ Tbere were also 29j . Allen, a minister of Pittsfield, Mass., for forty- his residence. The Emperor has granted this 
that Mormonism is making such progress in ever, were in consequence of a detention, a few beyond two hundred years. The Rev. Thomas flag, and to place the arms 
Denmark as to excite considerable alarm in the dayg gincej 0Q tbe cana 2 _ There were also 29,- Allen, a minister of Pittsfield, Mass., for forty- his residence. The Empei 
minds of leigious am re ectmg men. I eti- 000 barrels of flour. five years, in addition to numerous published permission, and it is stated that the same per- 
tions uue ecu sent in ai b e num erstotie sermons, left 2,700 sermons, written in short mission will be given to all the other consular 
Government, asking that the Mormons may be Snow in New Hampshire.-^ White Moun- hand, which no one has yet been able to deci- agents who may request it. 
restricted from the more public practice of their tain Banner says : « The first snow of the sea- pher. _ , , 
ceremonies. son fell at tlm White Mountains, on_ Monday _ -- Bishop Onderdonk’s Sen 
evening last. Mt. Lafayette, of the Franconia Thanksgiving.— Gov. Clark has issued his The House of BishoDS liav 
ftttos Clippings. 
puted to weigh, when dressed, 1000 pounds.— 
The owner is offered 12 cents per pound for 
Robert Christie, Esq., for many years the 
representative of Gaspe in the Legislative As- 
Brock’s Monument, which was blown up du¬ 
ring the Patriot War, has been rebuilt and was 
duly inaugurated last week. 
A Joint Stock Company from Hamilton is 
. , , . , I.* s~\ stables and sheds of Wyatt’s hotel, in 
A ^ f m ° 9w , e S«. the to<™ of Whitby, took fire o» Thursday, the 
' J- “ C ark Coyles J, Perry s wagou shop, 16lk wer / bu „ ed to t h egr0 „ nd . V- 
Plymouth Had been released, and that Gov. * “ I , merous wagons and some eight or ten horses 
Geary had ordered them to disperse or leave ® d b F Bell & Hyatt. Loss $5,000. Insured were a]go burned> Tbe sufferers by tbis catas . 
m. . , . • Obi Rllll J 
troplie are :—Mr. Scripture, the owner of the 
Review Of the Week. suit of a S aB g who are prowling about the We hear very distressing accounts of suffer- for a proper celebration of the completion of 
- southern part of the Territory. ing in Michigan, in consequence of the dense the Grand Trunk Railway. Resolutions were 
But very little of general interest to the _ _ •+•+■ smoke from the marsh and bog fires. In the passed in favor of a “grand demonstration,” 
reader has occurred at home during the past Miscellaneous Items. vicinity of Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., it is said and it is proposed to raise the sum of £10,000 
week. A dispatch from Gov. Geary', received ~ . that consumptive persons have died in spasms, (nearly $40,000). The demonstration will 
at Washington, states that “law and order -Nearly every house which was vacated in catlle bave suffocated, and poultry dropped take place about the first week in November, 
reigns in Kansas.” Immense and destructive Gow anus, on account of the yellow fever, during dead _ Thousands of acres have burnt over, The Grand Trunk Railway engages to carry 
fires are devastating the wooded and prairie tke B ast 8eaS0D ; was fouBtl to be robbed of an d immense damage has been caused to prop- the invited guests free. The outline of the fete 
regions of the country, East and West. Gales ®^eiyt mg wort carrying o , on t eieturn of er ty. is not yet agreed upon, but that it will be a grand 
have been frequent and violent on the Lakes, ie occupan s. le lg i o some o ie atm- Whipple’s Powder Drying House in Lowell one no one can doubt. The sum of £2,500 
and facts touching disaster and death are re- ^ a ^ e F e many va ua e Mass., was blown up on the 25th ult., killing ($12,500) had been subscribed towards the 
ceived daily. s ' two of the workmen who were smoking pipes celebration in two days. 
That land of Revolutions, Mexico, is again The Agricultural and Mechanical Fair at St. in the building. The Dumfries Reformer of the 15th ult. says : 
the scene of civil war. An aspirant for its offi- Louis, proved a decided success, and all the de- Tw0 destruc ti ve fi res occurred in this city “ 0ur P en bas seldom had to record a more 
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the scene of civil war. An aspirant for its offi- Louis, proved a decided success, and all the de- Tw0 destruct i ve dres occurred j n this city “ 0ur P en bas seldom had to record a more 
ces, named Vidaurri, has collected his friends, partments were well filled. Immense throngs lagt week> T he first on Friday night, which heart-rending circumstance than we are about 
and by force of arms is struggling for the su- from the interior of Missouri and the surround- desfcroyed seT eral dwellings, and the office and to relate - Som e ten days ago, in the northerly 
premacy. In addition, latest advices state that mg States attended it. The number of stran- sbedg be fo Dg i ng to tbe car f ac t 0 ry situated on extremity of the Township of Mornington, two 
the representative of Great Britain in that gers in the city was estimated at 50,000. The Hudson street. Loss about $4,000. There is fem ales went out in the evening in search of 
country has suspended diplomatic intercourse fair 18 pronounced the most extensive ever held lit tle doubt that this was (he work of an incen- tbeir cows, and not returning that night, search 
with President Comonfort’s government, and m the West. di a ry. The second, on Saturday night, de- was made in tbe morning, when, sad to relate, 
has withdrawn to Tacubaya, to await further A Mr. Church, on the Ste. Marie river, has 8 troyed the furnace buildings of Dublebeiss & tb eir skeletons were only to be found, their flesh 
instructions from London. The immediate made the present season, thirty thousand Schroeder on Buffalo street. Loss $20,000_ having been completely devoured by the wolves. 
cause of this rupture is said to be the refusal of pounds of raspberry jam, which he has sold at i asure d for $5,000. By this latter fire sixty F he wolves were never before known to be so 
the Mexican Government to grant the indemni- 20 cents per pound. men ave thrown out of employment. numerous or so ravenous as they are this season 
ty claimed by British merchants, and long un- Ma. Alfred Victor Du Pont, the head of 
ceremonies. son leu at tne^ w mte Mountains, on_ Monciay -- Bishop Onderdonk’s Sentence Remitted.— 
evenmg last. Mt. Lafayette, of the Franconia Thanksgiving.— Gov. Clark has issued his The House of Bishops have remitted the sen- 
Coal in Illinois.— It is estimated that the range of mountains, is also covered with the proclamation, appointing Thursday, the 20th tence of suspension against Bishop Onderdonk, 
mines in that State this year have turned out white mantle of winter. The snow has not day of November, to be observed throughout of Penn., pronounced twelve years since He 
362,000 tons. The use of this coal on locomo- held off so long at the mountains for quite a this State as a day of public Thanksgiving and resumed’his ministerial functions last Sunday 
tives is greatly increasing the demand. number of years.” Praise. i n Philadelphia. I 
— The population of St. Louis is estimated at 120,000. 
— The whole number of Banks of Discount in Vermont 
is forty-one. 
— The town of Colusi, California, has been entirely de¬ 
stroyed by fire. 
— Wine fresh from the press is Belling in Cincinnati at 
$1,15 per gallon. 
— Mrs. Robinson, wife of Gov. Robinson, has a book in 
press on Kansas. 
— A State Industrial School for girls has been opened at 
Lancaster, Mass. 
— There are 4,382 hand organs ground daily in the streets 
of New York city. 
— The coronation of the Emperor of Russia is said to 
have cost $5,000,000. 
— Counterfeit quarter and half eagles are in circulation 
to a considerable extent. 
— Two weeks ago water was sold at fifty cents per barrel 
in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. 
— Harvard College now numbers, in all its libraries, 
more than 100,000 volumes. 
— No less than five steamboats have sunk in the Missis¬ 
sippi river within six weeks. 
— There are in New York city rum shops enough to fill 
a street twenty-five miles long. 
— A corn speculator in Auburn recently realized a profit 
of $10,000 by a single operation. 
— The tobacco growers of the Connecticut valley held a 
Convention at Hartford on the 20th. 
— Adolph de Werdinsky, a Hungarian refugee, died in 
Hull, England, recently, of starvation. 
— The Persia sailed on the 22d for Liverpool. She takes 
out 49 passengers and $675,000 in specie. 
— The taxes in Boston this year amount to $8 per thou¬ 
sand on a total valuation of $248,721,100. 
— It is said that 2,COO,COO bushels of wheat are now 
leaving Lake Michigan for the enst, weekly. 
— It is said that Senator Douglas is to be maniedto a 
Washington belle on his return to that city. 
— They are having swimming races by dogs in the Con¬ 
necticut river at Hartford—purses $20 and $50. 
— There were fifteen thousand bales of cotton received 
at New Orleans on the 9th ult., by ten steamers. 
— It is estimated that there are at present 25,000 per¬ 
sons in the United States afflicted with insanity. 
— The cholera has reappeared at Constantinople with 
great fatality, though the cases are not numerous. 
— There are fifteen savings banks in Vermont, two of 
which are in the hands of the receivers in chancery. 
— There are eight persons before the U. S. District 
Court at Albany, charged with Post Office robberies. 
— The plant of Mr. Allen at Salem, called the Victoria 
Regia , which has excited so much attention, is dead. 
— They are making visiting cards in Germany whereon, 
besides the name, the portrait of the party is engraved. 
— The Indiana street M. E. Church, Chicago, are about 
building a new Church to cost from $30,000 to $40,000. 
— A nugget of pure gold, weighing fifty-four pounds, 
worth $13,824, was found recently at Geelong, Australia. 
— The Governor of Wisconsin has signed the new bill 
giving the land grant to the La Crosse & Milwaukee R. R. 
— The Hon. Jeremiah M. Burrell, Judge of the Supreme 
Court of Kansas, died at Greensburg, Pa., a few days since. 
— Boston city, says the Transcript, owns seventy-eight 
school houses, which, with the land, have cost $1,602,333. 
— Rev. James V. Watson, editor of the North Western 
Christian Advocate, Chicago, died at Cincinnati on Friday. 
— Chief;Justice Taney has returned to Washington. 
The Star of Thursday says he is looking remarkably well. 
— On Saturday niDe thousand one hundred ard eighty- 
nine tuns coal arrived at Boston by sea from Philadelphia. 
— In Mississippi, near Corinth, there died, on the 22d of 
September, a negro named David Rolfe, at the age of 117 
years. 
— Three men and a woman traveling in an ox wagon, 
were burnt to death by a prairie fire nearBuckheart Grove, 
Hlinois. 
35- No less than 836,850 pounds of quicksilver were ex¬ 
ported frem California during the last six months ending 
July 1st. 
— The number of looms employed in France inweaving 
articles in which silk forms a part, may be set down at 
180,000. 
— EightJ cases, and 60,000 cigars, smuggled into Port¬ 
land, Me., in a Cuban vessel, have been seized by the in¬ 
spectors. 
— Five thousand cords of wood belonging to the Lake 
Shore Railroad, took fire near Dunkirk last week and was 
consumed. 
— LastjTuesday, the 69th birthday of Father Matthew, 
the great Apostle of Temperance, was^celebrated in [New 
Y ork city. 
— Baron Humboldt; attained his 87th year on the 14th 
ult. The venerable philosopher is in the full enjoyment 
of his faculties. 
— Hon. Solomon Foot, of Rutland, Vt., has been re¬ 
elected United States Senator, for six years, from the 4th 
of March next. 
— A band of English gipsies have’pitched their tents 
near Albany, where} they intend to spend the w inter tell¬ 
ing fortunes. &c. 
— The great scheme of tbe'[Horduras Railroad Compa¬ 
ny, with a capital of $10 000,000, under a British charter, 
is again talked of. 
-The San Francisco Sun describes a flying machine ten 
by twenty feet in diameter, which is soon to be put to test 
in that vicinity. 
— The first grist] mill ever erected in Pennsylvania, is 
yet in existence. It“is acquaint old stone]building, and 
bears date about 1680. 
— The British Arctic discovery ship Reselute'is ready 
for sea, and will leave when orders are received from Wash¬ 
ington for her sailing. 
— Gov. Grimes, oLIowa, has written a letter to the 
President, asking for'aid to the^citizens of Iowa who are 
settled in Kansas. 
— John R. Driscoll, of Andover, Mass., on a charge of 
cruel treatment of a cow, haB been sentenced to ten months 
in the House of Correction. 
— Vast tracts of lowland in Venezuela, South America, 
have been prepaiedjfor cotton,fwhich will in a few years be 
the staple crop of that country. 
— Dr. Thrall, of Columbus, who went to Russia some 
eighteen months since to enter the medical staff in the 
Russian army, has returned home. 
— The people of Jefferson Co., Va.,who have had a free 
school system for eight years, have voted down a proposi¬ 
tion to abolish it, by 975 against 202. . _ 
— Last week a large bear was killed within the city 
limits jof Flint, Mich.^ Several others have been shot in 
immediate proximity to that place. 
— « From the Sublime to'the Ridiculous” there is but a 
step. |7 Donald G. Mitchell, (lk Marvel) obtained a premi¬ 
um on swine at a late cattle show. 
— News'from Nicaragua states that Walker has repealed 
the law forbidding slavery, and is now openly talking of 
annexation to the United States. 
— A few days since forty-two mules and four horses, the 
property of M H. Parker, of Fayette county, Ky., died 
very suddenly. It is supposed they were poisoned. 
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