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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
NOV. *9. 
The Pork Market at the West. 
ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 29, 1856. 
TYl’IS FOR SALE.-The Type upon which this 
paper is now printed will be sold at a bargain—delivera¬ 
ble the last week n December. It consists of some 800 
lbs. Brevier, 260 Agate, and 200 lbs. Nonpareil. 
Review of the Week. 
We do not observe anything of unusual char¬ 
acter to note in the affairs of our country— 
matters, since the election, quietly resuming 
the “ even tenor of their way.” A few weeks 
since, “ Who is to be the next President ?” was 
the eager query — that point settled, political 
speculators have taken the reins, and every 
variety of Cabinets and Ministerial Advisers 
have been manufactured on paper. The “course'’ 
of the incoming Administration is the theme 
for the press of each party, and the mode and 
manner thereof is as diverse as it could well be. 
Each prophet is certain of the fulfillment of his 
peculiar predictions, while the hangers-on are 
waiting—but with evident lack of that patience 
which so distinguished Micawber— for “some¬ 
thing to turn up.” 
The New York Times notices the arrival at 
that port of several vessels from Hamburg with 
cholera, and also a vessel from Liverpool with 
the small pox on board. Of the former disease, 
in four vessels, 119 cases are rejiorted. The 
small pox exhibited itself quite virulently.— 
The sick were removed and the vessels detained 
at quarantine. 
Gen. Walker, of Nicaraguan notoriety, is 
getting to be a terrible fellow. The New York 
papers contain revelations concerning Nica¬ 
ragua and Cuban matters. Gen. Walker’s first 
movement after the settling of affairs in Nica¬ 
ragua, was for the purpose of conquering Cuba 
and forming a Southern despotism as a counter 
balance to the United States. It will doubt¬ 
less be necessary, in this fillibustering age, for 
the Government to keep an eye upon so redoubt¬ 
able a hero ?, as he may have some designs 
upon the peace and safety of the “ Model Re¬ 
public.” 
The advices from Europe by the last steamer 
exhibit a strange condition of affairs. England 
and France seem to be on bad terms, owing to 
the more than probable formation of new alli¬ 
ances. Symptoms have manifested themselves 
of a close union between France, Russia and 
Prussia. It would appear that France supports 
the unconditional admission of Russia and Prus¬ 
sia to the second meeting of the European Con 
ference, while England is said to oppose the 
admission of the former, and Austria of the 
latter. The Treaty of Paris, which dazzled, for 
a time, the people, is no better than a dead let 
ter. Russia has refused to comply with some 
of the most important of its terms, so also Aus¬ 
tria, and thus dissatisfaction is felt and express 
ed, and murmurs are heard on all sides. The 
period assigned for the final evacuation of the 
Turkish territories, and for the closing of the 
straits of the Dardanelles to ships of war, ex 
pired some weeks since, but neither of the stip 
ulations has been executed. The Lon don Times 
is very severe upon the Czar, and charges him 
with all sorts of perfidy. It denounces him, as 
well because of his interference in the affairs of 
Naples, as of his attempt to undermine the 
Anglo-French alliance. It also indirectly as¬ 
sails Louis Napoleon, and admonishes the Brit 
ish people to be prepared for any denouement, 
as against England in that quarter. Whei 
this will end is doubtful, but the tone of both 
the English and French press is unusually se¬ 
vere. Further news will be looked for with 
interest. 
The Rural Show-Bill for 1857 is now 
piinted and will be mailed to most of our 
agents during the present week. Those who 
fail to receive it, and any other friends who de¬ 
sire copies for use in augmenting the circulation 
of the Rural, will be cheerfully and promptly 
furnished on notification. Good judges of such 
matters pronounce the bill a tasty and beauti¬ 
ful affair—one of the best specimens of print¬ 
ing in colors ever executed hereabouts. Be that 
as it may, we consider it a very rich and at¬ 
tractive poster, and exceedingly creditable to 
the taste and skill of our clever neighbor, Aid. 
Moret, and his aids, of the Union Job Office. 
By the way, speaking of the Union Job Estab¬ 
lishment, we would remark, (having good rea¬ 
son to know whereof we affirm from almost 
daily experience,) that it is one of the progress- 
v.e institutions of this city, and hence take 
pleasure in referring our readers to the an¬ 
nouncement of the proprietors in our advertising 
department. 
Explanatory. —In consequence of the dry 
weathely and other causes, the manufacturers 
with whorti^we have a permanent contract have 
been unable to supply us a sufficient quantity 
of paper. Hence, for some weeks past, we have 
been obliged to print a portion of our edition 
•upon ordinary paper—and nearly all of our 
present number is published upon paper of a 
quality which we would not use were we not 
compelled to do so by a “ necessity that knows 
no law.” This is exceedingly vexatious, but 
our edition (thanks to the friends of the Rural 
for that misfortune I) is so large that we cannot 
readily obtain a sufficient quantity of paper, of 
superior quality, for even one number. How¬ 
ever, the heavens have been more propitious of 
late, and we have the assurance of receiving a 
.full and regular supply of good print in future. 
It appears, from the reports in the Western 
papers, that the price of pork will be conside¬ 
rably reduced the coming season below the 
rates paid at the same period last year, when 
there was a greater demand for the article.— 
The average figure then was a trifle over $6 a 
hundred pounds. Now we see it quoted at 
$5 25. The cause of this decline is ascribed to an 
unexpected diminution in the export to Europe, 
and not to any deficiency in the crop. While 
there is a falling off in Ohio, Indiana and Ken¬ 
tucky, it is made up by the abundant supply in 
Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. The excess in the 
stock, as compared with last year, is equal to 
100,000 hogs. 
The St. Louis Democrat, of the 12th, saysthat 
the pork packers had already established the 
opening price of hogs for the season, and men¬ 
tions a sale of 2,500 head, to weigh more than 
200 pounds each, and to be delivered between 
the 1st and 20th of December, at $5 25 per 100 
lbs. There were sales also of newly rendered 
lard at 11c ; new mess pork at $17 per barrel, 
and three thousand green hams, from the block, 
at 7j^c per lb. Packers were offering from $5 
to $5 50 for heavy hogs, prices at which, that 
journal thinks, the pork-growers would do well 
to close, inasmuch as swine are plenty in the 
West, and the old stock of pork and bacon is far 
from exhausted. 
The Louisville Courier, of the 14th inst.,says 
the market is quiet in all respects with light 
receipts, and we bear of a sale of 4C0 hogs at 
4)4 cents gross. We also hear of a sale of 1,000 
hogs at 6 cents net. The packing season here 
will commence next week. At Cincinnati on the 
13th the market for hogs was dull at 6 cents 
net, with sales the day previous of about 1,800 
hogs at 6 cents. The impression prevails that 
the hogs this season, owing to the partial fail¬ 
ure of the corn crop, will show an average 
lighter weight than last year. The stock of 
Turk’s Island salt in this city is light and all in 
the hands of packers—none in market for sale. 
The Cincinnati Gazette, of the 11th inst., says: 
The pork season, upon which dealers are just 
entering, commences with very little animation, 
and the general aspect of the market differs 
very much from that experienced at this date 
last year. Last season the whole country was 
bare of provisions, the stocks both in the West 
and on the seaboard having been entirely ex¬ 
hausted, the manufactured article found a ready 
sale as fast as it was turned out, at very full 
prices. Under the influence of this state of 
things, hogs, which opened at about $6 50, ad¬ 
vanced until they reached $7 ; and notwith¬ 
standing the constant pressure upon the market, 
arising from an anticipated increase in the crop, 
prices did not recede below the opening price 
until about the middle of December, and even 
then the decline was not extensive compared 
with the expectations of those who hesitated to 
make purchases at the rates previously current. 
The lowest figure touched during the season 
was $5 10; but few sales were made below 
$5 50, and the average was a trifle over $6. 
The stock of bacon in the West, including 
New Orleans, at this time is estimated at 20,000 
to 25,000 hhds, against none at the correspond¬ 
ing date last year, and prices in this market 
compare as follows : 
„ „ Nov. 10, ’66. Nov. 10, ’55 
Mess Pork.$15 75 $20 00 
Bacon Sides. 08 12)4 
Bacon Shoulders.07 11)4 
Barrel Lard.3 lo>£ 10^ 
It is also to be remarked, while the market 
now is exceedingly dull at our quotations, it 
was active last season, for the simplereason that 
while in 1855 the consuming markets were 
bare, they are now over supplied; and while 
the West had no stock of old, it has now equal 
to 20,000 hhds to send forward with new pro¬ 
ducts. 
In view of these facts, and with hogs ruling 
slightly above the average of last year, the cau 
tion manifested by packers, and the indisposi¬ 
tion to operate except at lower rates, is easily 
accounted for. 
Miscellaneous Items, 
The Wabash Valley Road, from Toledo 
across Indiana to the connection with the Great 
Western, and thence over the Terre Haute and 
Alton to St. Louis, was opened on the lOthinst. 
The recent floods in British India, according 
to the Calcutta correspondent of the London 
Times, swept away whole towns from the face 
of the earth, and caused the loss of between 
4,000 and 5,000 lives, besides the destruction of 
incalculable amounts of property. 
Daniel Stearns, of Sandusky, Ohio, died 
lately, to all appearance. While the funeral 
services were going on it was discovered that 
he was alive. 
The sub-marine telegraph is now ready for 
operation between the United States and the 
island of Newfoundland, from which it is only 
about 1,600 miles to the nearest point in Ire¬ 
land, to which the cable will rapidly be ex¬ 
tended. 
Incendiarism has been so common of late in 
the City of Elizabeth, New Jersey, that the 
premium on insurance has increased at the rate 
of from 15 to 30 per cent. On barns and sheds 
standing alone it is difficult to get insurance.— 
The City Council has therefore offered a roward 
of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the 
perpetrators of the late fires in that city. 
There is to be a Congress of Fashion in 
Brussels next year, when the attention of the 
fashion-makers will be earnestly directed to 
getting up a substitute for the stove-pipe hat 
worn by gentlemen. May they prosper and 
succeed. 
Walker, President of Nicaragua, has issued 
a manifesto in favor of the burning instead of 
the burial of deceased persons. The Evening 
Post says that Walker was formerly a physi¬ 
cian, and that fact gives weight to his recom 
mendation of cremation as a sanitary measure 
The argument in favor of the custom is well 
reasoned. In hot climates there is evident pro 
priety in returning to the ancient rite. 
The eighth Triennial Mechanics’ Exhibition 
in Boston, was visited this year by about 100, 
000 people, and the net receipts are a little 
short of $20,000. 
f iitrarg HUtorir. 
Thu O’Briens and the O’Flaherttb, A National Tale. 
By Lady Morgan. Annotated by R. Shelton Macken¬ 
zie, D. C. L. New York : Redfield, 1856. 
This work comprises two volumes of about 350 pages 
each, and was first published nearly thirty years ago._ 
There is a remarkable freshness and spirit in the pen-por¬ 
traits of Lady M., and her vivid appreciation of the Irish 
character in all its phases, together with her keen humor, 
render this publication not only acceptable but exceeding¬ 
ly interesting. The story treats of the Irish rebellion of 
’98 ; the leading personages engaged therein, both for and 
against the government, are brought forth “ to the life,” 
and the various incidents connected therewith, and which 
finally led to the “ Union,” are depicted in glowing terms. 
Lady M. may have won the title of strong minded, as “she 
contended that love of country was of no sex—it had 
made Esther eloquent and Judith brave—and she boldly 
repudiated the oracular dictum that to meddle with poli¬ 
tics was an unfeminine presumption. Being written in 
the style of fiction-containing matters of fact and history, 
it embraces a field with which the lovers of either class of 
literature may be gratified. For sale by Dewey. 
frtos (flippings. 
Mexico : Its Peasants and its Priests ; or. Adventures 
and Historical P.esearches in Mexico and its Silver 
Mines during parts of the years of 1851-52-53-54, with 
an expose of the fabulous character of the story of the 
Conquest of Mexico by Cortez. By Robert A. Wil¬ 
son. New York : Harper & Bros., 1856. 
This is a new edition of the author’s work on Mexico, 
revised, corrected and enlarged to meet evident wants ex¬ 
hibited since the first publication of the volume. All these 
Mr. W. has endeavored to supply. The first edition has 
been hitherto noticed in the Rural, and we will but add 
that the romance in which the expedition of Cortez has 
always been clad, is effectually stripped by the “ plain, un¬ 
varnished tale” of the writer. To those desiring a knowl¬ 
edge of Mexico and her resources, this book will prove 
valuable. For sale by all booksellers. Copies sent by the 
publishers on ieceipt of price, $1 25. 
Conflagrations and Casualties. 
Washington Items. 
On the 18th inst., Capt. Meigs’ office, in the 
south wiDg of the Patent-Offiice, caught fire 
from the furnace, and when discovered the 
flames were extending to the other rooms. It 
was soon suppressed, and the damage done is 
comparatively small, including plans and draw¬ 
ings. 
It appears by the returns received at the Gen¬ 
eral Land Office that the number of Bounty 
Land Warrants located under the Act of March 
3, 1855, is 73,564, covering more than 8,500,000 
acres, leaving, on the 1st of October, 99,000 un¬ 
der the same law unlocated. 
The Treasury Department will shortly issue 
a volume embracing the Revenue laws, with 
additional instructions and explanations with 
regard to the whole subject. 
The Land and Indian Bureaus have sent out 
oint instructions to Kansas to guard against 
combinations 0 1 speculators for the purchase of 
Delaware reserved lands. The sales are to be 
stopped should such associations appear. 
The Herald correspondence says the Hon. 
Isaac E. Morse, formerly M. C. from Louisiana, 
and who has been Attorney General of that 
State, is expected here in a day or two, when 
he will receive the appointment of Envoy Ex¬ 
traordinary to New Grenada. His duty there 
will be to endeavor to effect an arrangement 
with the New Grenadian Government in refer¬ 
ence to claims of our citizens against that 
government, arising out of the Panama Massa¬ 
cre in April last, and also for security from a 
“ petition in the future. 
Cabinet meetings have been held in regard 
to this matter, but no definite conclusion had 
been.^iTisiyl-at; 
On the 7th inst. about 5,000 cords of the N 
Y. & E. R. R. Co.’s wood was burned at Scho 
hola. 
Two buildings in Pearl street, New York 
were destroyed by fire on the 22d inst. One 
was occupied in the upper story by the family 
of Patrick Hayes, who escaped by the scuttle 
with the exeeption of the eldest son, aged 17 
who perished in the flames. 
The extensive saw-mills in Oldtown, Maine 
owned by Rufus Dwinell, were burned on the 
19 th inst. Loss $30,000. 
The block warehouse on the levee, St. Louis 
belonging to the city buildings, consisting of 
sixteen stores, w>s burned on the 19th inst. 
There were abo< forty tenants, including some 
of our heaviest merchants. Loss estimated at 
half a million. 
On the 21st inst. a fire broke out in 86th st, 
New York, and before it could be extinguished 
destroyed a large amount of property. The 
fire is supposed to have been caused by an in¬ 
cendiary. It commenced in a stable occupied 
oy Mr. Dye, which gentleman had two valua¬ 
ble horses in the stable, both of which were 
burned up in the building. The fire burned 
furiously and spread rapidly in spite of every 
effort that was made by the firemen to extin¬ 
guish it until it reached the 19th Ward Station 
House, and leveled it with the ground, thence 
it swept over three adjoining dwelling houses, 
burned them down, reaching Mr. Dye’s lumber 
shed, destroying the building and about $1,000 
of lumber which was in. 
An accident occurred on the 22d inst. at Hud¬ 
son, N. J., on the tunnel which is being con¬ 
structed for the Erie Railroad Co. The hoist 
ing apparatus gave way precipitating five men 
to the bottom of a shalt, killing three instantly 
and badly injuring two others. 
Indian Murders on the Plains.— The Council 
Bluffs Chronotype, of Nov. 5th, gives an ac¬ 
count of the murder of Mr. Babbett, Secretary 
of Utah, on his way out to that Territory. His 
advance party was attacked, and nearly all 
murdered, and the stores in their charge taken 
possession of by the Indians. He pushed on, 
notwithstanding this massacre, and when 150 
miles from Fort Laramie was himself attacked 
by tbe Cheyennes, and killed, together with his 
two companions. The Indians were subse¬ 
quently compelled to restore a portion of the 
plunder they had taken, but seem to have got 
off with whole skins. 
Prices of Produce in Boston.— The Journal 
says Farmers’ produce, of all descriptions 
commands high prices in this city now. Pota¬ 
toes sell at retail to consumers at $1 a bushel • 
apples at $1 to $1,50, and scarce at that; tur¬ 
keys and chickens 16 to 22 cents per pound ; 
corn and turnips, &c., are high ; beef costs 12 ^d 
to 18 cents per pound, according to qualitv~; 
butter 25 to 30 cents ; eggs in proportion.— 
These high prices are hard on working men and 
mechanics who live by their labor. 
A Melancholy Record.— The Chicago Jour¬ 
nal publishes a list of vessels lost during the 
recent gales on the lakes, which foots up 5 
steamers, 8 propellers, 2 tugs, 5 brigs, and 27 
schooners. Besides the total loss of these ves¬ 
sels and their cargoes, at least one hundred 
lives must have been sacrificed with them._ 
The loss of the Superior and 35 lives is not in¬ 
cluded in the above. 
The Edinburgh Review for October has come to band. 
Tbe articles tbeiein comprise ten in number, and treat of 
the following subjects The Life and Writings of Fran¬ 
cis Arago ; New Poets ; Sinai, Palestine and Mecca . 
Vehse’s Courts of Prussia, Saxony and Bavaria; Alpine’ 
Travelers ; Beaumarchais and his Times ; De Candolle’s 
Geographical Botany ; Perversion ; M. de Tocqueville’s 
France before the Revolution ; Tbe Political crisis in the 
United States. The last article, although we are not pre¬ 
pared to endorse fully the ideas of the writer thereof is 
well worthy the attentive perusal of every American’as 
exhibiting the views and conclusions of our trans-Atlan¬ 
tic brethren relative to tbe political element in our coun¬ 
try , and the destiny of the Republic. Published by Leon¬ 
ard Scott & Co., New York. For sale at Dewey’s. 
Provincial Items. 
From a recent article in tbe Montreal Gazette 
we derive tbe following interesting statistics : 
“ In population, Montreal bas made steady pro¬ 
gress. The census of 1800 showed it to be 9,000 ; 
that of 1816 to be 16,000; that of 1825 to be 
22,000 ; that of 1831 to be 27,297 ; that of 1851 
to be u 7,715; and now, in 1856, the present popu¬ 
lation may be estimated at 75,000 or over. The 
1 evenue of the city has kept pace with the popu¬ 
lation. In 1856 it was from all sources £71,258. 
Montreal is the head quarters of the principal 
banking institutions of Canada,and employs an 
incomparably larger amount of capital than any 
other city in the province. Its imports last 
year amounted to £3,093,145, or $12,372,580 ; 
and this year it is estimated the imports will 
be nearly £1,000,000, or $4,000,000 greater 
than thofip of laat. yoRV.” 
The Toronto Globe, of Thursday, has the fol¬ 
lowing remarks on the wheat market of that 
city :—“Farmers have done well this fall in so 
freely bringing out their wheat, and the losses 
of last year appear to have had a salutary effect. 
The purchases of the new crop this year amount 
to 501,057 bushels against 335,593 bushels last 
year. The average price since August 1st this 19th mst ’ 
year would be about 7s—last year 10s per bu¬ 
shel. In the shipments, however, there is a 
greater increase, owing to our extended railroad 
connections. The shipments from August 1 to 
date, this year, amount to 666,791 bushels, 
against 319,493 bushels for the same period last 
year. Of that date about 6a8d was the ruling 
figure for white wheat. There were left in store 
about 43,000 bushels of wheat and 7,000 barrels 
of flour. Oats, potatoes and apples are higher 
than with us. Beef was selling at 5i^@5% for 
Canadian, and 6 @6%c for prime American, live 
weight. 
A cattle train on the Great Western Rail¬ 
way was thrown off the track near Stoney 
Creek, where a slide had taken place on Friday. 
All except the engine and tender went down a 
high embankment. Some sixty or seventy 
of stock were killed. The conductor jumped 
off and rolled down the embankment, without 
injury. 
The Corporation of Hamilton are advertising 
for plans for a Market House, the cost of which 
is not to exceed $120,000. They offer for the 
best plan $500 ; for the second best $390, and 
for the third best $200. 
Destruction of property by fire is still an al¬ 
most daily occurrence in Hamilton, C. W., and 
sometimes two fires occur in one day. 
It is said that the British and North Ameri¬ 
can Royal Mail Steamship Company, (Cunard 
line,) have determined to place four of their 
large screw steamships upon the Canada route 
early next spring. 
The safe of the City Bank of Quebec was 
undermined and robbed a few nights since.— 
Fortunately, it contained only $4000. 
The Toronto Globe speaks of the great rail¬ 
way from the head of Lake Superior to Van¬ 
couver, on the Pacific, as a work to be underta¬ 
ken within a few months. Our Canadian neigh- 
bors are certainly getting excited on the sub¬ 
ject of railroads ; and with what they have 
achieved, and the initial results of their enter¬ 
prise before them, they may well feel encour¬ 
aged to go on to the full extent of their re¬ 
sources. 
Five years ago there was scarcely a hundred 
miles of railway in the Province, now there are 
nearly two thousand, including roads, or por¬ 
tions of roads, nearly ready to be opened. 
There are now 116 counties in Texas. 
— There has been a very serious earthquake at Malta. 
— Gov. Robinson, oi Kansas, has returned to that terri¬ 
tory. 
— At Mackinaw, Mich., 8 now was a foot deep on the 4th 
instant. 
The Tribune Kansas fund on Saturday amounted to 
$15,523 91. 
An asylum for the reform of inebriates is to he estab¬ 
lished at Albany. 
— Indianapolis contains churches enough to seat the 
entire population. 
— A machine has been invented for thelayiDg of rail¬ 
road track by steam. 
— Iu Florida they put thieves in the stocks and pelt 
them with rotten eggs. 
— General William Walker is still growing in power in 
the State of Nicaragua. 
— John G. Saxe, the poet, is now so ill that his recov¬ 
ery iB considered doubtful. 
Dr. J. W. Gorham, of Boston, has been appointed 
U. S. Consul at Jerusalem. 
— Rich gold discoveries have been made in Honduras 
about forty miles from Truxillo. 
— The Russian Grand Duke Constantine, talks of visit¬ 
ing the United States next spring. 
•— Fifty thousand copies of Emerson’s « English Traits” 
have already been sold in England. 
— Cranberries are grown in great abundance at all the 
towns along the Upper Mississippi. 
— An American inventor has patented an intensely 
brilliant electric light in England. 
— Twenty-two and a half tuns of printed matter are 
daily sent from the Boston post ofiice. 
— It is estimated there are at present 25,000 persons in 
the United States afflicted with insanity. 
It is rumored that Mr. Buchanan Is about to take 
a female partner in the presidential business. 
— Advices from Mexico say that the sale of the church 
property has reached five millions of dollars. 
— The Michigan newspapers are already complaining of 
the mails being delayed by severe snow storms. 
— Russia has promised to refer the question of the Me 
of Serpents to Constantinople for settlement. 
— A mammoth owl was shot in Buffalo last week. It 
measured four feet seven inches from tip to tip. 
— The steamship Baltic sailed on the 22d inst. for Liv¬ 
erpool, with 19 passengers and $415,000 in specie. 
— A very huge and ferocious bear was killed near Mus¬ 
kegon, Mich , last week. He weighed 864 pounds. 
— The Chinese have set up a wooden god in San Fran¬ 
cisco, and thus worship Buddha on American soil. 
— A new sect of Quakers have appeared in Pennsylva¬ 
nia, calling themselves the l - Progressive Friends.” 
— In London, out of a population of two and a half 
millions, only five hundred thousand attend church. 
— Paris proper has increased two hundred thousand in 
population since Louis Napoleon first assumed sway. 
— The St. Paul Times says that firewood is selling in 
that city at $9 a cord, and hay from $16 to $18 a tun I 
— The Hon. Joshua L. Martin, an ex-Governor of Ala¬ 
bama, died at his residence in Tuscaloosa on the 2d inst. 
— The Grand Jury of New York have found twenty- 
seven bills of indictment against Huntington, the forger. 
— It is estimated that the next year’s tax bill for the 
city of New York will amount to ten millions of dollars. 
— A survey has been made for a railroad from La Crosse 
to Prairie du Chien. It is sixty-one mileswith easy grade. 
— Concha gets $51 each for permits to land negroes in 
Cuba from Africa, and his deputies get $25 for each negro. 
— The New York Times estimates the money expenses 
of the election campaign iust closed at about $26,090,000. 
— Not fewer than 71,000,000 of newspapers per annum, 
or about 200,000 every day, pass through the London Post 
Ofiice. 
— The expenses of the Czar Alexander’s coronation were 
fifteen million silver roubles, three times as much as his 
father’s. 
— Seven thousand live turkeys and three thousand 
chickens, from Upper Canada, arrived in Boston on the 
— There wasji mile and a half of dinner table spread at 
the great railroad banquet at Montreal, and every seat was 
occupied. 
— Pierre Soule, the late minister of Mr. Pierce to Spain, 
has recently purchased a hacienda in Nicaragua at a cost 
of $50,000. 
— There are between thirty and forty thousand Jews in 
California, and they have lately Btarted a paper in San 
Francisco. 
— Mr. Hoe is to send in a packet on the 27th, one of his 
mammoth cylinder presses for Lloyd’s (London) Weekly 
newspaper. 
— Solomon Juneau, the first white settler of Milwaukee, 
died on the 14th inst., at the Indian payment ground, 
Shawano Co. 
— The heir presumptive to the crown of Holland has 
fallen in love with the princess Alice of England, and has 
made advances. 
— The steamer Texas sailed from New York on the 22d 
inst., for Nicaragua, with a large number of recruits for 
Walker’s army. 
— The Bhip Lyra cleared at Richmond, Va., last week, 
for Liverpool, with a large cargo of 1,231 hhds. tobacco, 
valued at $263,000. 
— By a dictatorial edict, Walker has annulled all laws 
in Nicaragua in opposition to the slave trade, and of sla¬ 
very, in that State. 
— Samuel Swartwout, Esq., formerly Collector of New 
York, is lying very low, aud but faiDt hopes are entertain¬ 
ed of his recovery. 
— A new bill for the better prosecution of the Liquor 
Law, has passed the House of Representatives in Vermont, 
by seventy majority. 
— Since the opening of the Greenwood Cemetery on 
Long Island, in September, 1840, the interments have 
amounted to 47,223. 
— The Troy Budget inti rates that a party of capitalists 
are about starting at Cohoes a factory for the manufacture 
of looking glass plates. 
— The Cincinnati Gazette states that several horticultu¬ 
rists of that city are filling large orders for fruit and other 
trees to he sent to Kansas. 
— Barnum sailed for Europe in the Baltic on Saturday, 
iu company with, and as manager for little Cordelia How 
ard, the theatrical prodigy. 
— It has been decided by the Supreme Court of tbe Uni¬ 
ted States, that it has a right to inquire into and interfere 
with local tax legislation of a State. 
— The exportation of grapes, wines, vinegar, tartaric 
acid, and potash, from the Roman States, has been pro¬ 
hibited until the 7th of September, 1857. 
— Col. Titus, who is in charge of the prisoners of Kan¬ 
sas notoriety, has offered any of them his liberty, and a 
free passage to join Gen. Walker in Nicaragua. 
— The General Assembly of Rhode Island has just re¬ 
fused to raise the pay of its members, which is now but 
one dollar per day. Good luck to “ little Rhody I” 
— The hark Maury, an American vessel, recently beat a 
whole fleet of English clippers in a long run from the seas 
of China. The London Times gives up the contest. 
....c.,............... 
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