CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
AGRICULTURAL. Paof. 
Batter Making. '8' 
The Rural's Premium Bam—No. Ill, [Illustrated]. 181 
On Keeping Live Stock,. 181 
*' It Won’t Pay!”. 181 
Soil Analysis, and the Changeability of the Human Body, 182 
“What are Wolf Teeth in Horses,”. 182 
About that Four Minute Churn. 182 
Jackson's Improvements on Mowers and Reapers, [Ill..] 182 
Kuni I Spirit of the Press .—Culture of Parrots; t'ay 
Caps—Use and HowMade; Salt for Stock; Mowing Ma¬ 
chines, &o.; Fall Plowing for Roots.182 
A u riculturnl MisrelOmv .—The Crop Prospects; Give 
the Prices: How to Get Patent Reports, &c.: High Prices 
for Horses: Drainage in France; Michigan State Ag. 
Society: The Southern Cultivator: Market Fairs; Wool 
Growing in California; Monroe Co. Horse Show,. 182 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The Tulip. 183 
Genesee Valley Horticultural Society,. 183 
Perfect Tulip, [Illustrated,]. 183 
Gardening. 18* 
The New Grape. l s 3 
Curled Leaf in the Peach,. 183 
Sweet Potatoes,.188 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Salera*us; Vegetable Oysters; Chicken Pie, Butter 
Crackers: Extra Ginger Snaps; Window Shades; 
Floating Islands; Corn Meal Pudding; Hard Soap,... 183 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
The Deserted Village, [Poetical.] The Hoop Discussion; 
Auntie to the Boys: English Girls; Gallantry to Mo- 
man in Russia; Suicidal Women,. 181 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Hoping — Desponding, [Poetical.] Bygones—No. ITT; 
Sympathy of the Nerves; Quakers; Newspapers in 
the Olden Time,. 18* 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Thine. [Poetical.] “He Pnrgeth It:” A Glorious Thing; 
God Above All; Mr. Adams and the Bible,. 184 
THE TRAVELER. 
Letters from a Hungarian—No. VIII. 185 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Baron Von Humboldt, [Illustrated;] Mind and Body, .. 185 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
High Notions; A Young Lawyer; The Great Men of our 
Country ; Country and City Boys,. 185 
STORY TELLER. 
Jfay Morning, [Poetical.] The “Household Angels of 
Zuuge-Sladt,.488 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Homes for All—Am. Emigrant Aid and Homestead Co. 
Jackson's Improvements on Mowers and Reapers. 
Colored Fruit Plates—D. M. Dewey. 
Keepyour Feet Dry and I'restrve your Health—A. Brower. 
Wicks’ Atmospheric Churn—Daniel Variderbeck. 
Bring Down that Stream of Pure Water—I. S. H»bbie& Co. 
Fountains. Vases and statuary—Janes, Beebe &, Co. 
5,000 Agents Wanted—Ephraim Brown. 
Aren's Wanted in this S'ate—C, P. Whitten. 
300 Agents Wanted—M. M. Sanborn 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Ketcbum’s Mowing Machine. 
Monroe Co. Horse-Show—D. Warner. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 4, 1859. 
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is occasionally the case. 
Latest News, Foreign and Domestic. 
European "War Matters. 
Tiie belligerent armies seem to be enjoying a 
quiet repose, that, however grateful to them, is 
rather annoying to the lovers of exciting news, who 
are now growing rather impatient that something 
should be done. Two immense armies of over 
100,000 men each, are now within twenty miles of 
each other, and yet for days, so far as we can learn, 
nothing has been done. This looks little like the 
Old Napoleon, who astonished the world by the 
rapidity of his movements. But blood will flow 
quick enough and freely enough, we have no doubt. 
The conduct of the Austrians in rushing into the 
conflict so precipitately, and then, losing, by inac¬ 
tion, all the advantages that could possibly be 
gained, causes a good deal of speculation among 
those who profess to be wise in these matters. 
In our last we chronicled the departure of 
Napoleon from Paris for the seat of war. He had 
arrived at Genoa, on the 11th ult., where he was 
received with acclamation by the people. On the 
12th he issued an address to his soldiers. 
The Queen of England has issued a proclama¬ 
tion enjoining neutrality on the part of all British 
subjects, and declaring “that the Government is 
determined to abstain altogether from taking any 
part, either directly or indirectly, in the war now 
unhappily existing between the Sovereigns of 
France, Austria and Sardinia, and to remain at 
peace with, and to maintain a peaceful and friendly 
intercourse with all and with each of them, and 
their respective subjects, and others inhabiting 
within any of their countries, territories and do¬ 
minions, and to maintain a strict and impartial 
neutrality in the said hostilities and war unhappily 
existing between them.” 
There can now be no doubt but both England 
and Prussia have assured France of their neutrality 
during the war. The declaration of England that 
she would not protect German vessels in case of a 
general European tvar, will show the German States 
the necessity of remaining quiet during the contest, 
and there^is now a very great probability that the 
war will be confined to the limits laid down by 
Napoleon in his proclamation, to wit: a war for 
the emancipation of Italy, and with no acquisition 
of territory for France. 
Seat of War. — An Austian official dispatch an¬ 
nounces that the Austrian army has suspended 
operations in consequence of the heavy rains and 
floods, but adds that it will resume on the return 
of fine weather. The truth of this excuse for inac¬ 
tion seems to he doubted. The French and Sar¬ 
dinian army and position, it is thought, is too 
strong to warrant an attack. 
The Vienna official paper states that, as “infor¬ 
mation contained io the Austrian papers concerning 
the movements of the Imperial Royal Army may 
in a few hours become known to the enemy 
who m’ght ho able to take advantage ot it the 
movements of the army will therefore only he made 
known to the public in a general way.” 
Great Britain.—A highly important notice had 
been issued by the Secretary of War. It is ad¬ 
dressed to the Lord Lieutenants of the various 
conn ies in the Kingdom, sanctions the formation 
of volunteer corps, and explains the conditions 
under which the project is to be carried out. It is 
provided, among other things, that the volunteers 
will be liable to be called out in caseof actual inva¬ 
sion, or the appearance of an enemy in force on the 
coast, or in case of rebellion arising out of either 
of those emergencies—and that while thus under 
arms the volunteers will be subject to military law. 
For several days two French steamships-of-war 
have been lying-to outside of Portsmouth, and it is 
reported that two others are outside of Falmouth. 
On Wednesday a corvette, with about eighteen 
guns, with painted ports, and a schooner of twelve 
guns, all black, were observed for five hours four 
miles S. S. E. of the Eddystone, in the run of the 
homeward-bound ships. The schooner, when hail¬ 
ed by a pilot-boat, declared her nation, but declined 
answering any other questions. It is also stated 
that it had been discovered that a dealer in charts 
had contracted with agents ofthe Ptussian Govern¬ 
ment to furnish all the charts of the English coast. 
Such things cause a good deal of excitement. 
Tiie Papal States.— The neutrality of the Papal 
Government had been formally announced to the 
Austrian and French Governments, and formally 
accepted. A dispatch from Rome says that orders 
bad been sent to the Pope’s Nuncio to leave Flor¬ 
ence. 
France. —The Paris Pays states that Rear Admi¬ 
ral Jeurien de Lagraviere had left Genoa in the 
Algesiras for the Adriatic, to give notice to the 
military authorities that the ports of the Austrian 
coast are in a state of blockade. 
The Empress had already transacted business, 
and was to hold weekly reviews of the National 
Guard. 
The gunboats are not to be employed, but five 
frigates are to be immediately prepared for sea. 
Prussia. —A Parliamentary Commission had been 
sitting at Beilin to examine the exceptional laws 
rendered necessary by the present crisis. The 
Minister of Foreign Affairs declared verbally before 
the Commission that if ever it should happen that 
Hie efforts ofthe Italians to obtain a better adminis¬ 
tration should degenerate into revolutionary move¬ 
ments, Prussia nevertheless would see no reason 
for giving armed assistance to Austria. 
Austrian Barbarities. —The depredations com¬ 
mitted by Austria in Piedmont are now (says the 
Pays) explained. They are razzias executed, not 
for the immediate wants of the army, but in order 
to fill the storehouses of Lombardy. Every day 
long files of wagons laden with hay, vegetables, 
grain and provisions of all kinds, are seen passing 
by Novara and Yigevano for the left bank of the 
Ticino. The Austrians literally strip the Pied¬ 
montese provinces and carry off’ their booty to a 
place of safety. The Austrians cannot pay for 
what they take. If they were to plunder in Lom¬ 
bardy they would run the risk of an insurrection of 
the peasantry. They, therefore, go into Piedmont 
and make a clean sweep of everything that they can 
find. 
Latest European News. 
Just as we were going to press,—by the arrival 
of the Hungarian at Quebec, and the Ilammonia 
at New York,—we received London dates to the 
18th ult. The news from the seat of war is not 
very important. Napoleon had arrived at Alessan¬ 
dria, an important and fortified city 46 miles south¬ 
east of Turin. He was busy with his Generals 
laying plans. It was thought that as soon as 
Napoleon joined the main body of the army a de¬ 
cisive movement would be made. 
Austria has recognized the neutrality of the. 
States of the Church. Four Austrian merchant 
vessels had been captured by the French squadron 
in the Adriatic. The Austrian Lloyds had stopped 
rnnning all their steamers. The waters of the Po 
had risen. Women and children of the country 
were compelled by the Austrians to labor at the 
works. Several Sardinian Mayors who refused to 
comply with the Austrian demands for contribu¬ 
tions had been arrested. 
The London Morning Advertiser of the 18th, has 
the following:—“We are enabled to state that a 
very angry correspondence is just now going on 
between the French and English governments, 
relative to the permission granted by our govern¬ 
ment to Austrian vessels to take shelter under our 
guns at Malta. The French government energeti¬ 
cally complaiu of this as showing an undue friend¬ 
ship for Austria, inasmuch as French vessels, 
having no fear of Austrian ships, do not seek or 
require the same protection.” 
Commercial— Breadstuff's. — All descriptions are 
stightly higher. Flour quiet, but firm, at an advance of 
2dte)3d. Wheat firm, at an advance of 2d@8d ; quota¬ 
tions not given. Corn firm, and 3d higher for mixed 
and yellow. Mixed 6sl0d@6slld. While 8s4d(38s9d 
in retail. 
Matters at Washington. 
We are getting but little news of importance 
from Washington. A dispatch dated 27th ult., 
says that Lord Lyons is of the opinion that the 
British Minister in Mexico will soon, if he has not 
done so already, recognize the Juarez Government, 
and it is understood that he has instructions to that 
effect. 
Dispatches have been received from Gen. Larna. 
Lie states that the Belly contracts have not been 
ratified. It is understood that Juarez, the Nicara¬ 
guan Minister, lias received intelligence from Walk¬ 
er that the English and French Admirals on that 
coast have instructions to seize him and his fol¬ 
lowers—either ashore or afloat. 
There are but §5,000,000 subject to draft in the 
Treasury, which is barely the margin required for 
working smoothly. Large sums in Treasury notes 
are coming in and being re-issued. The amount 
over due now held in New York, would absorb 
every dollar iu the Treasury, and would require 
§2,OOi>,000 more. 
W. D. Bishop, the recently appointed Commis¬ 
sioner of Patents, has entered upon the duties of 
his office. 
A thorough reconnoisance of all the mail routes 
is being made with a view of curtailment at every 
point whete it is practical without serious detri¬ 
ment to the public, while in many cases the service 
has been altogether discontinued. In others the 
number of trips have been reduced from daily to 
tri-weekly, and from tri-weekly to weekly, Ac.— 
Acting on this principle, the Post-Olfice Depart¬ 
ment has, in the last few months, effected an annua' 
saving of about §1,500,000 exclusive of §500,000 
saved by the refusal of the Post-Master General to 
put into operation the nearly 700 routes crea'ed in 
1858, but for the support of which no appropria¬ 
tion was made. 
Pike’s Peak Collapse. 
This seems to have been one of the most disas¬ 
trous of humbugs; and now that, the bubble has 
burst we are beginning to see its bitter fruits. The 
charge is freely made that the whole excitement 
was got up by speculators — owners of real estate 
and those with stocks of goods on the frontiers, 
that the owners were anxious to dispose of to the 
adventurous seekers after gold. 
The regular correspondent of the St. Louis Dem¬ 
ocrat, writing from Denver city, in sight of the 
diggings, on the 9th inst., recounts a most deplor¬ 
able condition of things on the Plains. Many of 
the emigrants were dying of starvation, while 
others were subsisting on prickly pears and wild 
onions found along the road. The stage agent re¬ 
ports picking up a man named Blue, who was re¬ 
duced to a skeleton from starvation. He had 
started with his two brothers. One of them died, 
and the remaining two atehis body. Another died, 
and lie in turn was nearly devoured by the surviv¬ 
or. A man named Gibbs had reached the mines 
in a starving condition, and he expressed the opin¬ 
ion that his party, numbering nine, bad all perish¬ 
ed. Many graves are reported along the route, 
and much property had been abandoned and de¬ 
stroyed on the road. There arc some returning 
who have not a cent to take them back, while 
those who have anything are hurrying hack as fast 
as they can to keep from being robbed by the rest. 
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, who 
dates bis letter “ In Sight of Pike’s Peak,” speak¬ 
ing of Denver city says—“The city folks are lying 
around, smoking and playing cards, and when 
asked about the diggings they will say, ‘ Oh, we 
have not bad time to prospect yet, but no doubt 
there will be good diggings discovered sood.’— 
There is a little fine gold here on the streams on 
the bed rock. There have, no doubt, been a few 
instances where men have made §3 or §5 per day, 
but all acknowledge that there is no place yet test¬ 
ed where it will pay more to work it, and they all 
acknowledge that letter-writers have humbugged 
us poor emigrants; bat they dare not say much 
about their town lots, for they have been threaten¬ 
ed with mob violence,(and I fear something of that 
kind may take place wet.” 
Over ten thousand!discontented emigrants are 
on their retiY.rn, manvkof them in a starving condi¬ 
tion, and feaits are entertained that the small towns 
on the frontiers will be sacked by these starving 
men. Such threats have been made, and the in¬ 
habitants of these places are endeavoring to place 
themselves in a proper attitude for defence. 
In the face of these facts the Rocky Mountain 
News, speaking of the disappointment and return 
of so many says:—“All this has been brought 
about by the action of a few restless spirits who 
are of no advantage to any country. They arrive 
in the vicinity of the mining region, stop a few 
hours or a day or two, perhaps prospect a little in 
places the most unlikely in the world for finding 
gold, and because they cannot shovel out nuggets 
as they have been accustomed to dig potatoes, they 
raise the cry that it is all a humbug; that there is 
no gold in the country, and take the back track for 
home, where it is to be hoped they will ever after 
Ncujs poragraplj: 
An English Yacht in New York. —On Sunday 
evening, the 15th ult., the citizens of New York 
were surprised by the arrival at that port of a little 
foreign craft of only ICO tons register. The vessel 
proved to be the Yacht Ursula, owned by Mr. 
Tennet, of Glasgow. With a couple of friends 
and three young ladies, his nieces, he sailed from 
the Clyde on the 15tli of April, made the Azores 
on 25th, and arrived at New York on the 15th of 
May. 
The Ursula is a pretty little craft, built on the 
model of the famous yacht America. She has 
sailed 14 knots an hour, and in entering the bay 
she is said to have outstripped a fast clipper ship 
and some of our crack pilot boats. Brave girls 
these, to undertake a journey across the Atlantic 
in such a small vessel. It is rumored that she is 
to take part in the next regetta, and endeavor to 
win back the honor lost by England in the celebra¬ 
ted Yacht America. 
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Important Biblical Discovery. —The London 
Athcnaium says that Prof. Cischendorf, who had 
been sent by the Russian Government on a journey 
of scientific exploration, in a letter from Cairo, 
dated 15th March, states to the Minister of Saxony, 
Herr Yon Falkenstem, that he has succeeded in 
making some valuable discoveries relative to the 
Bible. The most important of these discoveries is 
a manuscript of the Holy Scriptures, from the 
fourth century; consequently as old as the famous 
manuscript of the Vatican, which, hitherto, in all 
commentaries, maintained the first rank. 
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A Humane Invention. —A correspondent of the 
Boston Journal writes from on board the U. S. 
ship Dale, just arrived at Portsmouth, N. II., from 
the coast of Africa. He says:—“ On board the ship 
Dale has been invented an apparatus for instantly 
lowering a boat into the water, and detaching it 
from the ship, also for attaching. It is simple and 
economical, and will doubtless attract the attention 
of shipmasters. Countless lives have been lost by 
the inability to lower boats safely at sea; the Da¬ 
vidson boat-lowering, detaching and attaching 
apparatus seems to fill up the want of a century.” 
Tiie Sixth Annual Meeting of the N. Y. State 
Editorial and Typographical Association will be 
held at Syracuse, on Thuisday next, June 9th. 
It is a singular fact that the numberof emigrants 
now going liom the Eastern States to California 
is, by actual count, greater than it was during the 
height of the gold lever. At this rate the Pacific 
coast will soon be populated. 
Movements are quietly progressing among some 
of our enterprising American houses for charter¬ 
ing vessels for Genoa, and to load them with flour, 
tobacco, and rum, or whisky, for the use of the 
belligerent forces in Sardinia. 
A Zouave, on s'epping on board of a vessel at 
Marseilles bound for the seat of war, was stoppea 
by tbc Colonel of the regiment, who recognized, in 
the soldier’s dress, a young girl, who bad assumed 
the uniform iu order not to be separated from her 
lover. 
A rumor circulates at Madrid, that the Pope 
will, in case of war, retire to the Beleare Island, 
and that an application for such an emergency has 
been submitted to the French Government. 
The friends of Washington Irving will be glad 
to hear that his health is now becoming quite 
settled. He made his first appearance in New 
York the other day for the first time in many 
months. Mr. IrviDg’s illness has been the result 
of hts long continued application, and had become 
so seiious a3 to cause many fears as to the final 
result. He is now past 76 years of age. 
The furniture at Rydal Mount, near Ambleside, 
the residence of Wordsworth, was announced fur 
sale by auction on the 5th and 6th of May. Mrs. 
Wordsworth is dead, and the home that was the 
poet’s is broken up. 
When Mr. Russell, of the London Times arrived 
at Marseilles, on his way borne from India to 
England, a telegram from Printing-House Square 
reached him, with a request to turn his steps, not 
to Loudon, but to Lombardy. His reply is under¬ 
stood to have been that, for the present, he pre¬ 
fer! ed the banks of the Thames to the banks of the 
Ticino. 
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Personal and Political. 
The London Illustrated News says that Mr. 
Rarey has made arrangements with the Horse 
Guards to teuch the British Cavalry, and will enter 
upon his duties in June. At last accounts Mr. 
Rarey was successfully exhibiting at St. Peters¬ 
burg, Russia. 
Mr. Ernest Noel, a son of the non. and Rev. 
Baptist Noel, of London, arrived in New York a 
few days since. 
Mrs. Aiiow, a Chinese woman, has been baptized 
in the Bohemian Church (Protestant) at Berlin, 
(April 15, last,) and is going out as a missionary to 
China. 
About 12years since, Dr. Gregory, then living in 
Geneva, lost a purse containing §200, of which no 
trace was ever found until a few weeks since, when 
the Recorder of Geneva advertised the money, 
stating that the person who bad found it had be¬ 
come re’igious, and felt tbat be could no longer 
keep property which did not belong to him. 
A report is current that Kossuth is now in Sar¬ 
dinia, and in communication with the Hungarian 
troops in the Austrian army. 
Harriet Martineau says:—“The Bonapartes 
are not men of character, of political wisdom, of 
patriotic temper, of philosophical sagacity.” 
Richard Ansdale, the well-known animal painter 
of London, proposes to visit this country during the 
present season, for the purpose of studying the buf¬ 
falo of our western prairies. 
Tiie Democratic State Convention of Ohio, met 
at Columbus on the 26th ult., and made its nomi¬ 
nations for State Officers. Judge R. P. Ranney is 
the candidate for Governor. 
European Rumors. — Mr. Biglow, of the N. Y. 
Evening Post, writing from Paris, intimates that 
the Emperor’s delay in leaving Paris, was owing 
to the discovery of a combination among the dis¬ 
affected Orleanests, to make trouble in Paris du¬ 
ring his absence. Generals Changarnier, and La- 
moricicrc are said to have been in the combination. 
The Emperor made no arrests, as he did not wish 
to give the matter publicity, but for greater secur¬ 
ity recalled the Duke of Malakoff from London, and 
placed him at the head of the home force consist¬ 
ing of 200,000 men. 
Kossuth, it is said, is also causing Austria a good 
deal of anxiety, as there can be no doubt but be is 
operating on the Hungarians and watching for the 
favorable opportunity to strike a blow that shall 
be felt by his old and hated enemies. 
The War of the Three Sovereigns. —It is a 
singular coincidence, that during the first cam¬ 
paign of the French Empire in 1805, in which the 
French army obtained the appellation “ le grand 
armee," there were three sovereigns in the field— 
the Emperor Napoleon, the Emperor of Austria, 
and the Emperor of Russia. On this account the 
battle of Austerlitz was baptised “ The Battle of 
three Emperors.” Now, in 1859, Napoleon III., 
the Emperor of Austria and the King of Sardinia 
are expected to fight at the head of their respective 
armies, and their first grand engagement will 
probably be called “The Battle of the Three Sov¬ 
ereigns.” 
Statue of Commodore Perry. —A year ago the 
citizens of Cleveland were taking measures to 
erect a statue of the hero of Lake Erie in a beauti¬ 
ful park that overlooks the Lake. Tbe work is now 
in progress, the marble being ready and contracts 
made, the whole to cofet the sum of six thousand 
dollars, and to be completed and ready for inaugu¬ 
ration on the 10th of September, I860. 
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Female Preachers. —At the late session of the 
Des Moines (Iowa) Conference of the United Breth¬ 
ren, it was “ Resolved tbat we recommend those 
sisters who have grace and ability to preach, to act 
as co-laborers with us.” According to this action 
Phebe Benton and Elizabeth Frankhouse were 
granted recommendations to act as preachers. 
tEljc Ncros dkmkrtscr. 
— A gray liound was lately sold in England for $1,000. 
— Muskets were invented, and first used in England 
in 1421. 
— The valuation of property in Cincinnati Is $110,- 
000,000. 
— Strawberries from the South sell in New York for 
$3 a quart. 
— In North Carolina the wheat crop is reported dam¬ 
aged by rust. 
— The Empress Eugenie, on the 3d ult, completed 
her 33d year. 
— Copper ore, very pure, has been discovered in Mc¬ 
Henry Co., III. 
— The manufacture of silk was introduced in Europe 
in the year 551. 
— Gunpowder was first made in 1320, by a Hollander 
name Schwarts. 
— On the 20th ult., Queen Victoria reached the 40th 
year of her age. 
— Mr. Richard Cobdcn has joined Horace Greeley on 
his Western tour. 
— Several schooners are loading with staves at De¬ 
troit for Liverpool. 
— Mrs. Douglas Jerrold died in the Isle of Thaneton 
the 0th ult., aged 54. 
— In four da) s of last week, 5,301 European emigrants 
arrived at New York. 
— A French writer estimates the whole number of 
vcssles afloat at 1*9 948. 
— A. J. Horton, of Suffolk, L. I., raised 70^ bushels 
of rye last year on 1% acres. 
— The streets of London, Eng., were first lighted 
with gas in the year 1814. 
— The shoemakers of Massachusetts are to meet in 
State Convention June 7th. 
— A shipment of 1,200 barrels of flour was made in 
Chicago lately for St. Paul. 
— A movement is contemplated for the purchase of 
Ashland from James B. Clay. 
— Ripe strawberries, raised in Kentucky, have made 
their appearance in Cincinnati. 
— The Illinois Agricultural Society offers a premium 
of $3,000 for the best steam plow. 
— A paper recently started somewhere out ‘West 
styles itself the “ Prairie Chicken.” 
— Religion and medicine are not responsible for tho 
faults and mistakes of their doctors. 
— Post offices were first established in Europe in 
1404, and in the United States in 1710. 
— No less than three hundred persons were burned 
to death in the city of London in 1858. 
— The expenses of the last Congress being $5,OSS,513, 
each member cost the country $10,954 05. 
— There are upwards of one thousand six hundred 
vessels navigating the northwestern lakes. 
— Wm, Adams, Jr., of West Brookfield, has a sow 
two years and a half old, which has 52 pigs. 
— Subscriptions in favor of Lamartine in France has 
reached to $80,000 from about 45,000 persons. 
— The Rocky Mountain News is the name of a paper 
just started in the mining region, Pike’s Peak. 
— A London correspondent of the Charleston Mer¬ 
cury intimates that Buhver, the novelist, is insane. 
— A tornado in Southern Arkansas three weeks 
since, prostrated the forests five or six miles in width. 
— The British Government have offered a bounty of 
fifty dollars to able seamen willing to enter the service. 
— Mad dogs are becoming plenty. Accounts of their 
biting cattle, horses, men and boys have been frequent 
of late. 
— In Longwortli’8 Wine House at Cincinnati, tliero 
is enough wine, of last year’s growth, to fill 90,000 
battles. 
— Denison Olmsted, LL. D., Professor of Astronomy 
in Yale College, died on tbe 19th ult., in the 03th year of 
his age. 
— Of all the different species of wood, that of the 
Pomegranate tree is said to have the greatest specific 
gravity. 
— Professor Agassiz delivered a eulogy on Humboldt 
before the Society of American Arts and Sciences at 
Boston. 
— A letter from Milan says that in consequence of the 
war, travelers staying there are exposed to the greatest 
annoyance. 
— A colony numbering nearly a thousand Norwe¬ 
gians and Swedes are about removing from Illinois to 
Minnesota. 
— Quite a number of the U. S. soldiers in Utah have 
turned Mormons, through the influence of crinoline, it 
is intimated. 
— Newspapers were first published in Europe in 1562. 
The first paper published in the United States was at 
Boston In 1704. 
— An old man, upwards of 70 years old, has left Fox 
Lake, Wis., for Pike’s Peak. The ruling passion knows 
no abatement. 
— Power’s statue of the Greek Slave has been pur¬ 
chased A. T. Stewart, New York, and will be placed in 
his dry goods store. 
— About 500 workmen are employed on board tho 
monster steamship Great Eastern. She will be com¬ 
pleted by August next. 
— They have a rose grafted on a peach tree at Pen¬ 
dleton, S. C., and the tree being in full bloom, presents 
a beautiful appearance. 
— The Empress of France wore on a recent occasion 
a bonnet of white crape, with a small humming bird 
placed on a spray of lilac. 
— Two propellers were lately discovered at the east 
end of the Island of Cuba, abandoned. They are sup¬ 
posed to have landed slaves. 
— Three boa constrictors, of tbe pure African breed, 
were brought to Salem, Mass., by the brig Potnmac, 
from Sierra Leone, last week. 
— The death of Dr. Lardner, already announced, oc¬ 
curred at Naples on the 21st ult. lie was ill but a few 
days of inflammation of the chest. 
.— A French translation of Chinese poems, from the 
7th to the 10th century, is in course of publication by 
the Marquis d’Hervey Saint Denys. 
— It is said that the Rothschilds have lost 75,000,000 
francs by the great Viennese house that has just failed; 
but this is probably an exaggeration. 
— The fourth annual meeting of tho “ National Dress- 
Reform Associations” (Bloomerites) is to be held at 
Auburn, N. Y., on the 22d and 23d of June. 
— Paul Morphy arrived at Boston on the 2Stli ult., mid 
was received at the depot by a committee of the Boston 
Chess Club and escorted to the Revere House. 
— The idea of Christianizing Japan finds much ap¬ 
proval, and missionaries are going out there quite nu¬ 
merously. Fourteen sailed from New York on the 7th. ^ 
