Contents of the Rural for April 23,1859. 
AGRICULTURAL. Pace 
Oats, Their Use, Price, and Culture,. 133 
The Rural Skies Ilrightening !.133 
Facts are False, and Figures Lie. 133 
Kirby’s American Harvester, as a Mower, [Ill,,].133 
Wheat Growing,—The Midge, &c.,. 133 
About Sheep, and their Care,. 134 
Old Hay vs. New, and Other Things. 134 
Daines’ Drain-Tile Factory. 134 
About Rotation of Crops,.. 134 
Operation of the Hydraulic Ram, [Illustrated,].134 
Condensed Correspondence .—Government Farming; 
Hemlock and White Cedar; An Experiment,. 134 
Rural Spirit of the Press .—Ashes for Potatoes; An 
Experience with Carrots; Composting Hones. 134 
Agricultural Miscellany .—Michigan Piaster; Sheep 
Show; The Test Chest Experiment; Wooden Water Pipe 
Tested; The Byron and Bergen Ag. Society; A Farmers’ 
Club; About Market Fairs, Again; Fish Culture,.131 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The Apple Tree Borer,.133 
Fruit for Certain Localities,. 133 
Take Care of the Orchard,. 133 
Bartlett Pear on Gravelly Soil, &c„. 133 
Hardy Flowering Shrubs, L2 Illustrations,]. 135 
Pruning the Vine,. 135 
The King Grape,. 133 
Stones Under Fruit Trees,. 135 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Delicate Cake; Sponge Cake; Fruit Cake: Cup Cake; 
Cookies; Fried Cakes; Corn Starch Pudding; An In¬ 
quiry; A Poultice for Felons. Ac.; To Preserve Furs; 
A Remedy for Bronchitis; Information Wanted,.1 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
The Miniature, [Poetical.] Sympathy, [Poetical.] Loss 
and Gain; Mothers; Evening Before a AVedduig.136 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The Mariner, [Poetical.] Lamp Musings; Exercise; The 
New Born and the Dead,. 136 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
“Thy Will be Done.” [Poetical.] Vanity of Worldly 
Things; “I’ll Rest When I Get Home; Faith in God; 
Swearing,. 136 
THE APIARY. 
The Apiarians in Convention,. 137 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Who Invests in the IJ. S. Funds? The Falcon, [Ill.,] 
What People Eat; Mental Independence,. 137 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
“Hoe Out Your Row,” [Poetical,] Country and City 
Boys; The Two Fools,. 137 
STORY TELLER. 
To My Mother in Heaven, [Poetical.] A Slight Mistake, 140 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
Wooden Water Pipe Triumphant-—I. S. Hobble <fc Co. 
The New York Observer—Sidney E. Morse & Co. 
Kirby’s American and Little Butfalo Harvesters. 
The Best Fence Yet—Elisha West. 
Peas! Peas !!—J. Rapalje. 
For Sale—50,000 Strawberry Vines—Joseph Caldwell. 
Cowing & Co’s Improved Hydraulic Ram. 
25 Varieties of Vegetable Seeds for $1—E. i). Hallock. 
The King Grape—William King. 
Seed Onions! Seed Onions!—J. O. Bloss & Co. 
Flower Seeds—J. Rapalje. 
Agents Wanted—J. M. Daggett & Co. 
Red Top and Blue Grass Seed—J. Rapalje. 
Spring VVheaL-J. Rapalje. 
WM 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 23, 1859. 
Golden Humbug’s. 
Tirn rush to Pike’s Peak has fairly commenced 
and, judging from the reports brought us by our 
Western exchanges, bids fair to eclipse any move¬ 
ment for similar purposes that has occurred since 
the opening of the California gold fields. Our ex¬ 
changes inform us that the emigration amounts to 
2,000 daily, which, doubtless, is not an exaggera¬ 
tion. On the 30th of March 934 persons arrived at 
Kansas City, and on the 31st, 854—a total of 1,788— 
and this is only one of several routes parading its 
claims before the gold-seeker. The opening up of 
auriferous deposits in California, and the conse¬ 
quent settlement and development of the various 
interests of that State, gave a new idea to the 
world—an idea which both nations and indi¬ 
viduals have kept in active operation. “Money 
makes the mare go,” is an adage old and trite — 
gold will take a man to the ends of the earth if 
thereby he can clutch a few handfuls of the shin¬ 
ing ore. 
The first of these Humbugs (because it gulled 
the experienced, and would seem to have had the 
sanction of a powerful government,) was known as 
the “Frazer River Gold Discoveries.” Great Bri¬ 
tain is supposed to look with anything but gratifi¬ 
cation at the giant strides of the Young Republics 
on the Pacific, (California and Oregon,) and would 
fain remove San Francisco to New Caledonia. To 
this end population is required — brain and blood 
and muscle — how shall it be most readily obtained 
is the problem. It was soon solved, and the fol¬ 
lowing couplet — got off by the victiinizers — tells 
the whole story : 
“ Full thirty thousand brawny men to Frazer River run, 
And find that Yankee-Doodlc do is Ynnkec-Doodle 
done." 
Next we hear large stories from Iowa concerning 
the wealth of the soil in gold deposits. When the 
State was nearly ruined in the mad haste of the 
inhabitants to got rich, the second sober thought 
took possession of the people and made all things 
right once more. There was wealth in the soil, 
but it could only be got out profitably by the aid 
of the plow—waving wheat-fields, golden corn, 
the produce of the dairy, the garden and the 
orchard, alone could supply a “circulating medi¬ 
um.” We have heard little of late concerning the 
“Gold Fever” as exhibited in Iowa, and suppose 
the sons of that thriving young State have found 
legitimate occupation for both body and brain. 
We have neither time nor space to array the nu¬ 
merous hoaxes that have been played upon poor 
humanity under a golden guise, but come at once to 
the question in mind when we sat down to pen 
this article, viz.:—Is “Pike’s Peak” the crowning 
humbug of the kind? As we have never tried the 
life of the professional “ gold-seeker”—have never 
“prospected for a lode”—we cannot be expected 
to give the results of personal observation in the 
case, but will spread such evidence before our 
readers as may be deemed reliable. 
The Chicago J'rcss and Tribune gives the result 
of an interview with Charles Nichols, a member 
of the first company tliat went out in search of these 
gold mines,—a man to be depended upon. Mr. N. 
and returning from the gold fields. He traversed 
the country, searching for “dust,” and “nuggets,” 
from the Spanish Peaks, on the South, to the Medi 
cine Bow, on the North—a distance of more than 
300 miles. He says that of the hundred that pros 
pectcd for gold, between October and the time he 
left, he did not think that those who found it aver 
aged a dollar per day, or even fifty cents. The best 
digging of which he had any knowledge was made 
by a company of six men, who daily averaged three 
dollars each for two weeks; they worked hard and 
had happened to find an extra rich placer. But the 
general average of the miners was not one-third or 
one-fourth so much. He does not pretend to say that 
richer diggings may not be found this season,— 
but judging from his own experience and observa¬ 
tion, he is not at all sanguine. His company pros¬ 
pected over a tract of territory 350 miles long from 
north to south, and from 40 to 80 miles wide from 
east to west. 
The Kansas Chief says that there is no doubt 
gold can be found in sufficient quantities to pay the 
experienced gatherer, provided the necessary im¬ 
plements arc at hand for obtaining it. Those un¬ 
acquainted with the labor required to a profit¬ 
able pursuit of the business of mining had better 
keep away ; such cannot make more than 50 to 75 
cents per day. Those who wish to see the “ele 
pliant” are informed that the animal is at the 
“Peak,” but are advised to bring money enough 
with them to “ cover all the expenses of a ‘home 
ward bound’ voyage.” *fhe editor of this journal 
states, upon the authority of a friend, that letters 
have been written to papers in Leavenworth and 
other places along the Missouri river, giving the 
dark side of the picture, pronouncing the mines a 
“take in,” and advising the people to keep away. 
No such letters have ever appeared in any of the 
papers, and the public can readily form an idea of 
the manner in which persons are being duped. 
The dark side is suppressed, and the bright side 
greatly exaggerated. Persons are induced to sacri¬ 
fice the comforts of home, good business prospects, 
and even their property, to go to the mines, only 
that they may be fleeced. 
Such testimony as the foregoing might be intro 
duced until our columns were filled—for those who 
have not had the “ fever,” the dose is sufficient; 
where the disease has fairly “ set in,” we are not 
aware of anything that will act so effectually as a 
change of climate—performing a journey of six 
hundred miles across the sterile plains stretching 
out to the base of the Rocky mountains. 
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Legislature ok New York. — The law-makers 
of the Empire State are entitled to reward for only 
one hundred days services, (a wise provision,) and 
the hundred days expired with the 13th inst. The 
“love of the thing” has been the ruling motive 
since the period referred to, and it is marvellous, 
compared with what was previously accomplished, 
to observe the amount of labor that has been com¬ 
pleted within a few days. A large number of bills 
have been passed, (one, the “Canal Bill,” over the 
Governor’s veto,) and all without the aid of such 
Senators and Assemblymen as were under arrest 
for violation of Parliamentary regulations. Our 
Representatives, however, will soon tire of such 
profitless employment, and an adjournment will, 
no doubt, be speedily effected. 
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Another Overland Mail. —The Overland Mail, 
with San Francisco dates of the 18th ult., arrived 
at St. Louis on the 11th inst. The steamer Uncle 
Sam had returned to California, after landing a 
large portion of the 0th Infantry at the mouth of 
the Colorado. Col. Hoffman was to commence ac¬ 
tive operations against the Mohave Indians about 
the 20th of March. Business was generally brisk, 
and the miners were doing well. Advices from 
Van Couver’s Island and the British Colonies were 
cheering. The British Government were making 
improvements, and encouraging emigration. The 
reception of the President’s Message at Guaymas 
created much excitement, and greatly enhanced the 
value of property. 
MexicanNews.— By the steamer Tennessee, which 
arrived at New Orleans on the lltli inst., we learn 
that there was great rejoicing — a national salute 
and a military parade there — in honor of Mr. Mc- 
Lane’s recognition of the Juarez government. The 
Liberals surrounding the capital were 13,000 strong. 
They had cut off the supplies of water and provi¬ 
sions. The garrison numbers 6,000 men. Mira- 
mon had sent 1,500 men to the capital from Oriziba. 
The forces of Juarez were pursuing Miramon.— 
Senor Mata has despatches confirming the news by 
the Tennessee. He returns to Washington in a 
few days. 
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Squaring ok Accounts with Paraguay. —The 
Buenos Ayres Commercial Times of February l'Jth, 
says that although nothing is certainly known of 
the terms of the settlement of our Paraguay diffi¬ 
culties, they are currently believed to be as follows: 
1. The Water Witch affair is to be apologized for 
by a salute to the American flag of 21 guns. 2. Ten 
thousand dollars is to be paid to the representa¬ 
tives of Samuel Chancey, killed in the affair at Fort 
Itapiru. 3d. The treaty of 1852 is to be ratified. 
The navigation of the Paraguay and Parana is 
to be acknowledged free. 5. The claims of the 
Navigation Company are to be settled by a mixed 
commission at Washington. 
Personal and Political. 
Mr. Abrams, of Henrico, Virginia, has announc¬ 
ed himself as a candidate for Congress, on the plat¬ 
form of Emancipation in Virginia. 
Du. A. Trowbridge died at Watertown, a few 
days since, aged 80. He has lived in Jefferson co., 
N. Y., 63 years, except when serving as a surgeon 
in the army during the last war. He was an able 
practitioner and a most estimable man. 
The death of Hallam, the Historian, left a vacan¬ 
cy in the Trustees of the British Museum, which 
has been filled with an another eminent historian, 
Mr. Grote. 
The Ann Arbor, (Mich.) Argus, (Dem.,) declares 
that it has no disposition to spread out the scatter¬ 
ing returns of the late election in that State.— 
“ They are,” it adds, “ decidedly too black for us 
to derive any comfort from so doing. ‘ The Quak¬ 
ers didn’t vote,’ and the Republicans had it all 
their own way, electing Martin by from 12,000 to 
15,000.” Decidedly good-natured. 
The Republicans of Wheeling, Virginia, have ad¬ 
dressed a memorial to the Republican National 
Committee, urging the selection of Wheeling as 
the place for holding the National Convention that 
is to nominate the next President. 
The people of Kansas, at the recent election, 
voted in favor of taking the necessary proceedings 
for the formation of a State Government, by a large 
majority. The vole was small, but about four-fifths 
of it were given for a Constitution. The election 
for delegates to a Convention to frame a Constitu¬ 
tion, will be held in June next. 
The Hon. E. V. Whiton, Chief Justice of the 
Supreme Court of Wisconsin, died at his residence 
in Janesville, 6n the lltli inst. 
The Hon. Nicholas Brown, formerly American 
Consul at Rome, and Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode 
Island, his native State, died at Troy, recently, of 
congestion of the lungs. He was 66 years of age. 
Geo. Wilson, Esq., editor of the Canandaigua 
Repository, died in that village on the 27th ult., 
aged 64 years. Most of his life had been devoted 
to educational pursuits, as author and teacher, and 
in all that he undertook he exhibited the scholar 
and the Christian. 
The Cleveland Plaindcalcr takes a philosophic 
view of the result in Connecticut. It announces 
the fact thus:—“ Farewell old Nutmeg ! The last 
nest egg of New England Democracy was knocked 
to immortal smash on Monday last.” 
New Discoveries ok Gold in Kansas—Great 
Excitement. —A telegram from Leavenworth on 
the 12th inst., says late private advices afford 
ample evidence of the discovery of rich placers in 
the mountains. Statements from different sources 
corroborate the statement that paying deposits of 
shot gold exist in bowlders, through a section of 
thirty miles in extent. There was much excite¬ 
ment at Denver City and along Cherry Valley, and 
all the reports are more sanguine than ever and 
entirely consistent. There have been several let¬ 
ters received from parties who went from t , 
and perfect reliance is placed in their statements. 
The Daily Democrat, of this city, has just donned 
a new and beautiful dress, vastly improving its 
appearance and readability. The dress was fur¬ 
nished by Nathan Lyman, of Buffalo, and is credit¬ 
able to his taste. We are glad to note this evidence 
of enterprise and prosperity on the part of our 
spent some eight months prospecting, going to, i cotemporary. 
Destructive Fire in Bufkalo. —On Thursday 
morning, the 14th inst., a fire broke out at Bidwell 
& Mason’s ship-yard which resulted inconsidera¬ 
ble loss. The buildings consumed were a large 
planing and saw-mill, sixty feet in length by fifty 
in width. A barn two hundred feet in length, used 
for horses, and also in connection with the Marine 
Railway. In this building were three valuable 
horses, which were consumed before assistance 
could reach them. A blacksmith shop, forty feet 
in width by fiByin^iength. A machine shop, with 
engine hou.^f^runboiler house, thirty by forty feet. 
Two joiner shops, hach thirty by forty feet. Three 
dwelling houses occupied by poor families. From 
them the families saved most of their property, the 
average loss to each being one hundred dollars.— 
The saw-mill belonged to the Marine Railway 
Company, and contained about $1,000 worth of 
finished lumber. Total loss $24,300; insurance, 
$9,000. The origin of the tire is clearly ascribed 
to incendiarism. When the tire was discovered, 
the barn and the joiner shops were all on fire, al¬ 
though the buildings were over two hundred feet 
distant from each other. 
Commissioners to Equalize Taxation. —Gov. 
Morgan has appointed T. C. Peters of Genesee, 
A. S. Thurton of Chemung, and Thomas Clowes 
of Rensselaer county, Commissioners to Equalize 
Taxation in the several counties of this State, un¬ 
der the law passed at the present session of the 
Legislature. The great inequality in the valuation 
of real estate, in the counties, has long called for 
some remedy. It is anticipated that these Com¬ 
missioners will endeavor to ascertain the proper 
and equitable standard, so that the burthen of sup¬ 
porting the Government may be equalized, and a 
true equilibrium established throughout the State. 
— The Rural congratulates its Contributor, Mr. 
Peters, upon his appointment—believing it emi¬ 
nently proper, and one in which his hosts of friends 
and the people of Western New York generally, 
will cordially concur. 
Missionaries for India. —On the evening of the 
8th inst. five Missionaries, bound for India, were 
ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 
Lynn, Mass. These men are Messrs. Judd, Downey, 
Parker, Waugh and Thoburn. The ordination was 
by Bishop Ames, assisted by the Rev. Messrs. 
Durbin, Merrill, Taylor, and others. The services 
were of an interesting character; Dr. Durbin gave 
a brief account of the rise, progress and prospects 
of the British Empire in India; connecting it with 
the rise, present condition, and prospects of the 
mission under the care of the Methodist Church. 
The Missionaries were expected to sail for India 
on the Monday following. 
Nctus $)aragrnp!)s. 
The Anti-Rent Cases Decided—Mr. Patison’s 
Bill Sustained. —The Bvenintj Journal of Friday 
week announces that “ the several cases involving 
Van Rensselaer claims to rents from lands con¬ 
veyed in fee, in this county, have been decided by 
the Court of Appeals. The decision is adverse to 
the tenants. All the Judges concur in the opinion 
that the rents and arrears must be paid. This ac¬ 
tion of the Court of last resort is necessarily final. 
It has been looked for with deep interest by the 
parties concerned and the public, and terminates a 
long and excited controversy.” 
A bill has been introduced into the House of 
Assembly of Canada, “for th a protection of spend¬ 
thrifts, and the custody and disposal of their real 
and personal property.” 
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decided 
that an orphan is a fatherless child. This was a 
question arising from the refusal of the Directors 
of Girard College to admit a boy that has lost but 
one parent, they contending that an orphan meant 
only one who had lost both parents. 
They must have some women of stamina in Mass¬ 
achusetts. Last week, Miss Elenore Itosebooks 
wheeled a barrel of flour from her father’s store to 
her minister’s house. Her father, who is a bitter 
infidel, gave the flour to the minister on condition 
that she should wheel it to him. The young men 
gave her a purse as a reward for her spirit, and she 
imme'diately bestowed that upon the minister also. 
The great fact in Continental news is, that the 
war papers still pronounce for hostilities, notwith¬ 
standing the coming Congress to promote peace. 
The Siecle goes so far as to argue that the convoca¬ 
tion of Congress is a reason why warlike prepara¬ 
tions must be pushed with fresh vigor. 
An instance of almost unprecedented disinterest¬ 
edness is related by Mr. Warren, M. 1\, the author 
of Tan Thousand a Year. A short time ago, a 
gentleman in England of large fortune—worth £40,- 
000—was indignant with his daughter, an only 
child, for marrying against his wishes. He quar¬ 
reled with her, disinherited her, and left the whole 
property to his attorney and other gentlemen. His 
attorney went to his co-legatees, got them to sign 
their claims over to him, and then paid the whole 
$40,000 to the daughter. 
A Russian merchantof Berdiansk announces the 
sale in his warehouse at Odessa, Nicolaicfl, and 
Sebastopol, of 451,000 pounds, or 7,351 tuns of iron 
and cast iron, coming from projectiles picked up 
in the Crimea after the war. This will give an idea 
of the prodigious consumption of shot and shell in 
the siege of Sebastopol. 
The Baltimore Patriot sates that never has Balti¬ 
more enjoyed the quiet and freedom from disorder 
that she now does. This change it attributes in 
great part to the re-organization of the Fire De¬ 
partment, the observance of the law prohibiting 
the sale of liquor on Sundays, the vigilance of the 
Police Department, the conviction of offenders, the 
wholesome dread inspired by just verdicts, the 
awful sentence of the law, and the active exertions 
of Christian Associations among the depraved 
classes. 
A great many people are going to Europe the 
ensuing summer. About sixty passports have been 
issued daily by the State Department for a month 
past, and probably that ratio will continue till July. 
None are necessary for England, and thousands are 
obtained from our Minister at London for conti¬ 
nental travel. 
The bodies of six men and women and four chil¬ 
dren, who met with violent deaths, awaited the 
attention of the Coroner in New York on Saturday. 
One was the body of an old man aged 70 years, who 
had been stoned by a lot of rowdy boys, and re¬ 
ceived a blow which caused his death. 
Gold having been found in the crop of a defunct 
turkey at Wesley, Ark., the neighbors of the man 
who found it, are killing their turkeys, and pros¬ 
pecting for gold in their gizzards. 
The N. Y. Tribune of Monday says, yellow fever 
arrived at Quarantine yesterday from Rio. We 
learn that in Cuba the pestilence has commenced 
unusually early, and with extreme violence. 
From a return made to the Bishop of London by 
his clergy, it appears that the annual cost of the 
ministrations of the Episcopal Church in London, 
is over twelve dollars to each man, woman and 
child belonging to the Episcopal congregations. 
At the excavation of the ground on which St. 
Peter’s Church recently stood, at Albany, a double 
coflin was discovered, supposed to be that in which 
Lord Howe, who was killed at the battle of Lake 
George, July 6,1758, was buried. 
Fast Day Observances. —Friday week was ob¬ 
served as an annual Fast, in Massachusetts. In 
Boston there were religious services in the morn¬ 
ing at the churches, and the places of amusement 
in the afternoon and evening, were thronged. On 
the Common there were numerous ball and cricket 
clubs indulging in their invigorating sports which 
were viewed by large numbers of spectators. 
Weather of First Half of April. 
The average heat of this part of April, for 22 
years, is 40.9°, and this is also the mean for this 
half of the month. It has not been as warm as in 
this part of April last year, but warmer than for 
the same in 1857, and the same as in 1856. Con¬ 
sidering the warmth of the three preceding 
months, this has been middling. Vegetation has 
moved on ; the roads have been soon settled; the 
wheat-fields in a distance of a few miles of the city 
look finely and promise well. Abundance of rain 
has fallen. A high wind and much rain came to 
us on the 3d and 4th, with some snow. Much rain 
again on the lltli, and again on the 14th and 15th. 
A good deal of wind strong and gusty, has fallen 
to our share. Thunder at a distance on the 11th 
at eve, and a heavy thunder shower in New York 
at 10 P. M. of that day. 
The highest heat was the 14th, giving us the 
temperature of 65° at noon, and 51° for the mean; 
yet the 11th was only up to 63° at noon, but hotter 
all day, being 53.3°. Well may we be satisfied, 
and rejoice in the kindness which has been shown 
to us. 
The warmth of the first three months of this 
year has often been noticed. Some of those three 
months have been as warm in other years; but 
each of them has not been so warm in 22 years, 
except in 1842. That winter was very like the 
present, though there was more mud. In this 
winter there has been more uniformity of heat, and 
the earth kept frozen at the surface most of the 
time. The first three months of 1842 had each of 
them a little higher mean temperature. Here both 
may be seen: 
1842.Jan. 29.64°. Feb. 81.08°. March, 89.77°. 
1859.Jan. 28.85°. Feb. 80.00°. March, 89.80°. 
As the mean of the first half of April is the 
average of it for 22 years, we may well call this 
year, so far, unusually warm and pleasant. I con¬ 
gratulate the lovers of uncommon weather and 
singular seasons on the fact just stated. They will 
enjoy the result. c. n. 
®l)c fionbcnscr. 
— A whale was seen in Chesapeake Bay last week. 
— Bayard Taylor has lectured 10S times since Decem¬ 
ber 1st. 
— The small pox has again broken out at Buffalo and 
Rochester. 
— Measures have been taken to light the city of Hon¬ 
olulu with gas. 
— The 22d is set apart ns a day of fasting and prayer 
by the Governor of Iowa. 
— Some of the Southern States have recently been 
visited with considerable frost. 
— Thirty-nine divorces were granted in the supreme 
court at Providcnco, last week. 
— An Englishman named Adams, recently walked 
seven miles in flfly-flvc minutes. 
— The English pnpers state that the Great Eastern 
will be ready for sea in four months. 
— The boiler for the new war steamer, building at 
Philadelphia, weighs 80,000 pounds. 
— A war dance by the Winncbagoes, at Washington, 
lately, attracted a large street crowd. 
— Cincinnati has nine steam fire engines, costing 
$66,000, and means to purchase two more. 
— According to dispatches, they are discovering gold, 
and getting excited very fast out in Kansas. 
— The birthday of Henry Clay was commemorated 
in New York by a banquet at the La Fargo. 
— The London Morning Post intimates that the tyrant 
King of Naples has become veritably insane. 
— The Jackson Monument on the New Orleans battle 
ground is now 79 feet high, at a cost of $30,000. 
— The Camanclics have killed several families in 
Denton Co., Texas, and run off with their stock. 
— Another company of boys have been sent from New 
York to the West, by the Children's Aid Society. 
— There was a slight fall of snow at Athens, Ga., on 
the 18th ult., and also at Dalton on the same day. 
— No less than nine murderers were arraigned in the 
New York Oyer and Terminer on Monday week. 
— A lady, named Miss Mary Way, is making balloon 
ascensions in New Orleans, generally on Sunday. 
— There are 2,000 sewing machines in operation at 
Troy, mostly shirt making, and 500 in New Haven. 
— The Eastern manufacturing companies are advanc¬ 
ing the wages of operatives—a favorable symptom. 
— Many of the “ flying ” rumors of the day would be 
more appropriately designated by leaving off the f. 
— There arc 500,000 books in the British Museum, 
30,000 of which were published in the United States. 
— The State of Ohio has purchased in New York 
eighty thousand dollars’ worth of school library books. 
— General Sir William Eyre has tendered his resig¬ 
nation as commander-in-chief of the forces in Canada. 
— Nearly eighteen tuns of human hair are annually 
worked Into wigs and other fabrics by civilized nations. 
— An infant seven months old was saved in the 
Princess’ disaster by a life preserved being made fast 
to it. 
— The Ohio Canals are to be leased on the 15tli of 
August next to the highest bidder, for a term of five 
years. 
— The Atlantic Bank, Brooklyn, has obtained some 
$20,000 of the funds abstracted by the defaulting teller, 
Field. 
- The shoe business is so brisk in Marblehead, Mass.,' 
as to make it difficult to get hands to man their fishing 
vessels. 
— The School of Design attached to the Maryland 
Institute, at Baltimore, Is very prosperous. It has 048 
pupils. 
- Upwards of 50,000 skunk skins have been shipped 
from New York to Russia and Turkey within two 
months. 
- There is to be a grand international celebration of 
the completion of the Victoria bridge at Montreal, in 
October. 
— The Quebec Gazette notices the death of Michael 
Lefever in that city. He leaves 171 children and grand¬ 
children. 
- The gas company of Dublin import coal from Eng¬ 
land, and supply good coal gas at 80 cents per 1,000 
cubic feet. 
- Wm. Andrews, of Schoharie Co., stole an umbrella 
in Troy, and was sent to jail for 25 days as a punishment 
for the theft. 
— The receipts at the Patent-Ofllcc during the last 
month are said to be fourteen thousand dollars above 
the expenses. 
— No less than 47 vessels, says the N. Y. News, clear¬ 
ed from the Custom House, on Saturday week. Times 
are getting better. 
— The Gloucester (Mass.) Telegraph says that at a 
wedding which took place in that town lately, there were 
62 cousins present, 
-For loving a Gentile, says a Salt Lake letter, a 
young Mormon woman was publicly flogged by the 
Frogtown Mormons. 
-A company of twelve or fifteen hundred men has 
been formed on the frontier of Texas for a descent upon 
the Lower Indian Reserve. 
— During the reign of Napolenn III, the French debt 
hns increased more than 50 per cent.—from nbout£220,- 
000,000 to about £840,000,000. 
— The Southern Presbyterian states that the late 
James Allen, of Mississippi, left an estate worth $70,000 
to the Oglethorpe University. 
— General Twiggs publishes a proclamation in the 
Texas papers, warning citizens against engaging in 
lawless expeditions to Mexico. 
— Timothy Taylor, of Lisbon, ninety-five yoars of 
age, is believed to be the oldest person who voted at the 
late New Hampshire State election. 
— It is stated that Jenny Lind’s fortune has been 
squandered, and she is to attempt to make another. 
She is advertised to sing in England. 
— A hundred cattle, from Texns, died recently from 
starvation, on Lick Creek, Sangamon Co., Ill., where 
they had been driven for wintering. 
— The National Academy of Design opened to the 
public on Tuesday week. The exhibition is said to be 
superior to those of previous years. 
— One passenger by the Star of the West, at New 
York, a Cornish miner, hns one hundred and fifif 
pounds of gold dust, valued at $60,000. 
— Theodore Parker writes to his friends in Boston 
that the tropical air, sea-bathing and horseback-riding 
have been very beneficial to his health. 
— Rev. Dr. Mngoon, of Albany, has declined the call 
of the First Baptist Church of San Francisco, who ten¬ 
dered with the invitation a salary of $5,000. 
— An installment of 4,500 dead letters was sent from 
the Lowell (Mass.) post-office to Washington on Thurs¬ 
day, it being the accumulation of one quarter. 
— Intelligence reached Fort Smith, Ark., on the 81st 
ult., of the death of the famous Chief, Billy Bowlegs. 
Suspicions are entertained that he was poisoned. 
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