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The Fluke, or Prince Albert Potato. 189 
House Building.—No. Ill,. I*® 
To Plow Boys,. 189 
The Little Buffalo 11 arvester,—As a Mower, (Illustrated,) 189 
On Plowing Deep and Shallow. 190 
Draming With Tile. ICO 
Cement Roofs—Materials. Ac.,. 190 
Public Roads—How Should they be Formed ?.190 
Bees, Bep-Uives, &c.—Briefly. 190 
Kciv "'heat. 190 
China Tea Wheat.. 190 
Itwul Spirit of t/u> Press .—Sheep Shearing—When 
Should it be Done? Preparing for Shearing; Cautions 
about Shearing; Mode of Shearing; Salt for Sto.k,.190 
AurUniWwral Miscellany.— Weather, Crops, Ac.; A 
Hint about Horses; Veterinary College of Phila.t Trial 
of Plows; Bougbton Wheat; Cheap Salt for Manure; 
Beef for Fattening—and other Items,.290 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The Garden,. 191 
Trees and Fiuit in Southern Illinois. 19* 
Double Flowering Horse Chestnut, (.Illustrated,].191 
The A Hen Kaspbei .. 191 
Grapes, Summer and Winter,. 191 
Preventing the Maggot in the Onion. 191 
Susquehanna and Chemung Horticultural Society,.191 
About Strawberries,. 191 
I us* .. *91 
Raspberries,. 191 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Hard Soap; Cookies; Cheap Gingerbread; Boiled Po¬ 
tatoes; Baker’s Gingerbread; Mow to Park Eggs: Pie 
Mex-'co, announces to the Indian Bureau the per¬ 
fect safetj of the southern Overland Mail route.— 
Agent S'ook, who proposes to meet some ],50u In¬ 
dians upon ihc Gila to distribute the usual quota 
of agricultural implements, writes that the guard 
on the occasion will consist of ten Mexicans armed 
only with poles and whips. 
A dispatch says Attorney General Blacks’opin¬ 
ion conflicts with the military understanding ot 
the instructions to Gen. Johnson, and ibe inten¬ 
tion of the War Department when they were issued 
—hence further complications are apprehended. 
Plant and Gooseberry Pics; Cocoa Nut Pie: Minne¬ 
sota Peach l’ie; Minnesota Preserves; Dry, Mealy 
Potatoes,. 
190 
192 
La DIES’ OLIO. 
Who Loveth Best? [Poetical.] Plain Talks to American 
Women—No. 12,. 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Why I Love Her, [Poetical.) Memoirs of a Sabbath; 
What a Good P< nodical may Do; 'I lie Ploeked Lily: 
The Value of a Bit of Knowledge; The Necessity of 
Bodily Health,. 192 
SaBRaTH MUSINGS. 
Nature and Faith, [Poetical.] The Forest Funeral: The 
Blessed Country; Reasons for Being llolj. 192 
EDUCATIONAL. 
What Shall we Teach, and llow? The Will,. 193 
THE REVIEWER. 
The Life of American Insects; Hints Toward Physical 
Perfection,. 193 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Map of the Seat of War—Italy. [Illustrated,] Rise and 
Fall of bake Owario; Hands and Hearts,. 193 
YOUNG UURALIST. 
Study and Labor: The Supply of Streams; Writing; A 
Word for Farmer's Boys; Questions for Debate; To- 
Morrow, .193 
STORY TELLER. 
The War, [Poetical.] The *'Household Angels of Zunge- 
Stadt. 196 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Spurgeon’s Sermons—Jones & Smith. 
Henry W. Herbert's La-t, u ork—A. O. Moore A Co. 
What Every Business Man Needs*-Fdward L. Lee. 
The lu st Grain thill in America—Bickford A Huffman. 
Fresh Fruits all the Year—T. G. Yeomans. 
Wanted—Farmer. 
Th Farmers— L. M. Sinead. 
#30 Per Month—S. F. French A Co. 
Wanted—Jos. 1. Dudleston. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Farmers, Use Plaster and Guano—Dealer. 
Spurgeon's Sermons in New York Wav erly—Publishers. 
ROCIIEvSTEIt, N. Y., JUNE 11, 1859. 
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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Matters at 'Washington. 
But little of importance is transpiring at Wash, 
ingt.on. The Navy Depat tment received a letter of 
June 2d, from Capt. Furragut, commanding ihc 
United States ship Brooklyn, dated Vera Cruz, 
Hay 21, in which he soysAs Minister McLnne is 
desirous of having a ship at Tampico, in anticipa¬ 
tion of an attack on that place by the Miramon 
party, I shall direct Commander Turner to proceed 
thi'hcr immediately, with orders to land a force of 
marines and others, if necessary, for the protection 
of the American Consulate, and such Aerican citi¬ 
zens as may seek his protection ; and, in the event 
of the town being carried by assault, to require of 
the Commanding General the assurance of protec¬ 
tion to the Consulate and all American citizens. 
Mr. Mason has tendered his resignation as Min¬ 
ister to Paris, but he will be retained, as it is now 
decided not to displace Mr. Dallas from his post as 
Min ister to Great Britain. 
Secretary Cobb’s recent circu*ar, requesting 
American Captains to hoist the Stars and Stripes 
in the presence of foreign vessels of war, is princi¬ 
pally designed lor application on the coast of 
Africa, where they manifest an indisposition to em¬ 
barrass British cruisers stationed there. 
Dispatches went out in the Persia to Judge 
Mason, our Minister at Paris, directing him to inti¬ 
mate to the French Government, that in case 
Germany should be drawn into the war, this Gov¬ 
ernment will not suffer any interruption of the 
service of the Hamburg and Bremen steamers now 
carrying the U. S. Mail, so long as those steamers 
do not carry articles contraband of war. 
The War Department is in receipt of intelligence 
from the head-quarters of the Depai tment of Cali¬ 
fornia, announcing the complete success of Lieut. 
Col. Iloffmau in his Colorada expedition against 
the Mohave Indians. The troops engaged, with 
the exception of two companies, are now in march 
for economical stations upon ibe sea coast. 
The Indian Superintendent Collins, of New 
Storms and Casualties. 
A Water Rpour on titb Prairie. —A corres 
pendent of the N. Y. Tribune gives an account of 
a VVater Spout on the Pra rics near Iowa City on 
the 24th ult., accompanied by destruction of pro 
petty and life, as follows“Last evening, while 
yet it was light, there arose suddenly a violent 
wind, accompanied by strong indications of rain 
In a few moments, the whole horizon became 
pitchy black, and the most vivid lightning darted 
athwart the sky. A terrible thunder storm burst 
upon us. While yet it was raging fearfully, the 
sky suddenly appeared unclouded in the east for a 
space several degress in width. Many of our citi¬ 
zens, who were watching from their windows the 
raging of the storm, discovered, indistinctly at 
first, the rapid approach of an immense water 
spout. The phenomenon was so unusual that the 
attention of hundreds was drawn to it. The ap 
pearance of the huge volumeof waterasit reached 
from earth to sky—swaying to and fro like a rope 
hung in the wind—was exceedingly grand. The 
water spout remained in sight nearly fifteen miu- 
utes, when the sky becoming obscured, it was lost 
sight of. 
The next express from the country brought us 
information that a family, by the name ot Morgan 
three in number, had been struck, two of its mem¬ 
bers killed instantly, and the mother so seriously 
injured that it is thought impossib'e for her to re¬ 
cover. Mr. John Frick, who was in a brick house, 
which was entirely demolished, by some provi¬ 
dential circumstance, escaped with but slight in¬ 
jury. Two men, whose names I could not learn, 
were killed instantly. Many have had their legs 
or arms broken, and others have suffered from 
contusions and fractures, occasioned by the fall of 
houses, which had been blown down upon them.— 
But it is impossilfle to give correct details in the 
midst of the confusion and rumors incident to so 
distressing an event. I have only given such.facts 
as I know to be correct. Eight are thus far known 
to be killed.” 
IIaii. Storm. — A destructive hail storm passed 
over Holly Springs, N. C., recently. Ttie hail in 
some places fell to the depth of twelve inches, de¬ 
stroying corn, cotton, wheat, and, indeed, almost 
everything within its range. Ou the next day, at 
2 o’clock, I\ M., the bail on the ground in some 
places was six inches deep. Fences were blown 
down, windows in houses broken to pieces, fruit 
trees destroyed, <fcc. 
Terrible Storm in Illinois. —Our Western 
papers contain gloomy accounts of a most terrific 
hurricane that visited Central Illinois on the 2Gtb 
ult. It appears that the storm started some¬ 
where at or near the Mississippi river, in Calhoun 
county, and passed up in a northeasterly direction 
through the centre of G reen and Morgan counties, 
touching the southeast corner of Cass and the 
northwest corner of Menard, and through the mid¬ 
dle of Mason and Tazewell counties, spending its 
force somewhere in Woodford county, northeast of 
Peoria. Its track was about one hundred yards 
wide, but it appears to have been most powerfully 
destructive in Morgan county, near Jacksonville, 
where it swept every tiling in its course, uj lifting 
anti destroying houses, barns, fences, cattle, trees 
and everything else that, was movab'e In Morgan 
county, as far us heard from, fifteen persons were 
killed. Besides these, it is thought that several of 
the wounded cannot recover. There were some 
fifty seriously injured in Morgan county. 
In other counties through which the tornado 
passed less injury was done, so far as beard, but 
houses were blown down in great numbers, fruit 
trees ruined and many persons seriously, if not 
mortally injured. So severe was the sionn in 
Morgan and Tazewell counties, that men, beasts, 
wagons and heavy logs and other solid substances 
were taken up into the air and carried off hun¬ 
dreds of yards. The air was literally filled with 
flying timbers, splinters, stones, fowls and animals, 
rushing along, in lerrihle confusion, with the ve¬ 
locity and on the wings of the wind. Many beau¬ 
tiful farm houses are scattered into atoms, orchards 
completely stripped, stock killed, and even fields 
of grain torn up as if freshly plowed. 
The Tornado in Wisconsin. —The Chicago Jour¬ 
nal says :—“ We leai n that on the same duy of the 
tornado here, a destructive storm passed ihiougli 
Ccntrul Wisconsin,from Madison westward, doing 
much damage, though less disastrous than that in 
our State. In Madison, buildings were unroofed 
and chimneys blown down, and the little lakes in 
that vicinity were lushed into a perfect fury, doing 
much damage to fishing bouts and to other pro¬ 
perty along the banks.” 
The Hurricane in Michigan. —The tornado of 
the 2Gth, it seems, extended to Michigan, for on 
the same day, at Pipestone Township, Berrien Co., 
Mich., one house was blown down, another was 
lifted bodily from its foundations, carried over 
several stumps, from three to five feet high, and 
thrown down upon three other stumps. Several 
persons were injured. 
More of the Storm.— We seem to have been 
visited with a series of storms, commencing at the 
West, and extending east as far as New York.— 
Thursday morning, the 3d inst., a little after mid¬ 
night, one visited London, C. W. The Free Press 
says;—“ The rain poured down in great streams, 
deluging the city and surrounding country. The 
thunder was particularly loud; sometimes like the 
roar equal to the discharge of artillery, and fre¬ 
quently only to be compared to the sharp crack of 
thousands of rifles. Many persons state that their 
houses were shaken by the concussion of the thun¬ 
der clouds; while, in many instances, loss of life 
and damage to property was caused by the dis¬ 
charge of the electric fluid.” I 
On Thursday evening it reached Albany, un¬ 
roofed buildings, damagiog Vessels at the docks, 
'earing up trees by the roo's und doing mud 
other mischief. The telegraph of Friday frou 
New York announced a “tremendous ra n atom 
accompanied by thunder and lightning prevailing 
there,” but we licarof no casualties. 
A Destructive Hail Storm — Great Damage 
to the Crops —On Monday evening, May 31s*, u 
storm of hail swept over a strip of country, about 
two miles in width, lying a few miles south went o' 
Hagerstown, Md., wb'ch is reported to have been 
very destructive to the growing wheat crop within 
its raDgc. The Torch says:—“Some of the hail 
were as large as a hen’s egg, and ufter the storm 
was over they could have been gathered by the 
wagon load. Clover fields, orchards and gardens 
were also completely destroyed, presenting the 
bleak and melancholy aspect of mid-winter. 
Great Hail Storm at York. —The York (Pa ) 
Gazette states that on Monday afternoon, the same 
date as the above, that borough and vicnity was 
visited by one of the heaviest hail storms that has 
occurred there for many years. The storm lusted 
for nearly half an hour, and in some places the 
hail entirely covered the ground. Tbe stones were 
very large, and it is feared great damage has been 
done to the crops and fruit. 
A Seminary Struck by Lightning—Wonderful 
Escape. —The Genesee Vulley Seminary, at Belfast, 
Allegany Co., N. Y , a wooden structure G4 by GG 
f.-et, and 50 feet high, with cupola of 30 feet, was 
struck by lightning May 27th. The fluid str uck 
the northwest corner of the cupola, shattering it, 
descended to tbe garret and ihe rooms below, to 
the ground, in its passage bursting off casings 
and plaster, shivering doors, tearing off siding, 
splintering studs, collecting in tbe window weights, 
exploding there and destroying the window frames 
and casing, and tearing off lath and plaster in its 
wild career. It also collected in pipes and stoves, 
and from them shivered the floors, tore up carpets, 
blackened or burned all around. 
Nearly fifty persons were in the building when a 
sharp, quick, deafening report was beard with the 
crash of shivered timbers and falling plaster. In 
one room the teacher and all her class were pros¬ 
trated, senseless, on the floor. After a few mo 
ments they recovered. In another room some also 
were prostrated. Tbat all among so many, with 
such near contact of the mysterious agent, should 
escape unharmed, is the most remarkable of all 
a miraculous deliverance. 
News Paragraphs. 
A Strawberry Party is to be given for the 
Benefit of the Industrial School — to defray cu 
rent, expenses — in Corinthian Hall, on Thursday 
evening, June lG'li. The country friends of the 
institution areadvised that stiawberries andcream, 
or other donations, will be gratefully received by 
the Managers. 
Whaling Unprofitable.— Whaling of late seems 
to have been quin; unprofitable. The New Bedford 
Mercury of the 23d ult., says :—“Five whale-hips 
returned to this po rt on Saturday, after an absence 
of from four to fi ve yeaus each, all of which liuve 
made losing voyages, amounting to an aggrega'e 
of §75,000 to §80,000. This ill-success i*-o» ing to 
the small catch, heavy expenses incurm) in fitting 
and recruiting during the voyage, and the reduc¬ 
tion in the price of oils. Another whaler aimed 
yesterday has had no better luck, the whole six 
ships having made losing voyages.” 
Liberty and Toleration. —The Revolutionary 
Tuscan Government, fitly opens its reign by pio- 
claiming religious freedom, and the Jews of the 
Grand Duchy have tendered to the Provincial 
Government an expression of the grateful sense of 
'he seasonable act which makes all religious sects 
equal before the law. This is consistent. The 
Tuscans deserve to succeed. 
A Delightful Place.— A Denever City corres¬ 
pondent says the place contains about 100 log 
cabins. Corner lo's range in price from §50 to $500. 
The inhabitants are Indians, Mexicans and white 
people — about equally divided — all hard cases, 
drinking and fightmg all the while; some one 
killed Dearly every week. 
A Child Killed by Whisky. —In Buffalo last 
week, a boy six years old was sent by his father 
for whisky. On the return lie stopped to drink 
with another boy, deeming that good for him 
which liis father prized so highly. Both boys 
were found soon after helplessly intoxicated, and 
one died therefrom the same night. This is melan¬ 
choly, hut we have known many poor children 
and women, too, killed by whisky that they never 
touched. 
Wiiolf.sale Desertion.— Sir Charles Napier says 
that thirteen thousand sailors have deserted the 
British naval service within three years; and thut 
too, with more than $130,000 due them. So long 
as the brutal practice of flogging seamen is con¬ 
tinued, it will be a difficult matter, even were there 
no other drawback, to make any service popular. 
If the civilized governments of the world ever learn 
to treat sailors as men, then they may expect their 
ships to be well manned. 
Annual Expenditures of the War Depart¬ 
ment. —The following table shows the annual ex 
penditures of the War Depai tment from 1850 to 
)8G0 inclusive—the latter year being the amount 
appropriated by Congress: 
1S50.$ 9,401,239 00 | 1857.$19,261,774 16 
1851 _ 11.811. 
1852 . 8.2^ 
1865 . 9 94] 
1856 . 16,94; 
Free and Easyi 
Saturday contaii 
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‘Isaak Walton,| 
opinion ” in oun 
from this office q 
portance to our 
an extra will be 
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kst.— Ships haJ 
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unprofitable a 
whether scuttll 
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but the owners 
pectation of a 
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1859 
1860 
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15,5U3,638 0U 
-The Daily Dunkirk Journal of 
Jie following cool announce- 
ileof that good old reformer, 
having several of “ the same 
[iloy, no paper will be issued 
jonday next. If news of im- 
ss men should come to hand, 
i )N of toe Shipping Inter- 
1 , up to this moment., says 
1 e, for a year or two past, “ so 
y, that the question has been 
[ailing was the wiser course 
is just as bad on the lakes; 
living in hope, under the ex- 
Fbusincss in the autumn. 
Personal and P lit:cal. 
An association has been organized and incorpo- 
■nttd f.<r ihe purpose of erecting ft monument in 
Now York city, to the memory of Dr. Kanb. 
Mii. Angel, our Minister toSweden, Mr. Daniels, 
<>nr Munster io Turin, and Mr. Dodge, our hoc 
Minister to Spain, were all in Paris a fortnight 
since. 
Gov. Morgan visited tbe State Prison at Sing 
Sing, without notice, form or ceremony. He went 
for the purpose of making personal examination 
of ttie numerous convicts who have made applica¬ 
tion for pat dons. This looks right. 
Foreigners should be cautious about returning 
to tbe land ol their nativity duting the war. The 
Indianapolis Journal says that Mr. Fredeiick 
Rusch, of that ci'y, who went to Europe six or 
eight weeks since, on a visit, immediately on his 
arrival in Prussia was churned as a conscript, 
forced into ttie army, and is now held there to seive 
out his three years as a Prussian soldier. In an¬ 
swer toalc'ter from a gentleman of Tennessee, 
Secretary Cass writes;—“In reply I have to sta'c 
that it is understood that the French Government 
claims military service from all natives of France 
who may be found within its jurisdiction. Your 
naturalization in this country will not exempt you 
from that claim if you should voluntarily repair 
thither.” 
Smito O’Brien the Irish patriot who has just left 
this country for his home, at his farewell speech 
in New York, gave the following wholesome a I vice 
to his countrymen:—“I have seen a great many 
individuals, both in America and Australia, who 
coming into the country with nothing but the 
labor of tbeir arms to depend upon, have ended in 
piling thousands upon thousands, hut I do not re¬ 
member any single instance of a place-holder 
making a magnificent fortune. Therefore, it would 
give me a very great pleasure to learn that there 
was notone single Irishman in the United States 
who was seeking office as a pluce holder.” This is 
excellent, and just as good for natives as Irishmen. 
Bishop Delancky, of Western New York, the 
Bishop of St. Andrews, the Bishop of Edinbuigh, 
and other prelates, took part on Easter Tuesday 
in the consecration of the new Bishop of Glasgow, 
at St. Paul’s Chuicb, Edinburgh. 
The large sum of §100,000 was given by a jury 
in St. Louis, to Miss Curstang for breach of prom¬ 
ise. Tbe defendant was rich, and his counsel en¬ 
deavored on the trial to destroy tbe character of the 
young woman, but failed, and this is supposed to 
be tbe reason for the huge verdict, and it is right. 
Tbe man who would allow his counsel to attempt to 
ruin ibe character of a woman to save himself a 
few dollars, deseivcs no more consideration than a 
rattlesnake. 
Mr. Richard Cobden has been visiting the Con- 
nec icut Legislature. lie is not on his way to Pike’s 
Peak, as was reported. 
Mr. Hamilton E. Towle, who graduated at the 
Lawrence Scientific School, connected with the 
Harvard University, and was subsequently em¬ 
ployed on the Government works at Rouse’s Point, 
some three years ago went wiih his wife to Austria, 
for tbe pit * pore <>t-*reeiing ex'en&ive fortifications 
at PoIigAiu' tire Adriatic, about ninety miles south 
ic.s«e. T he works were nearly completed ut 
I mist accounts. 
3Scro0 fionbcnscr. 
Clippings from Foreign Journals. 
English Neutrality.—H on. Mr. Bright, M. P., 
is addressing the English people io favor of peace 
and neutrality. The Press is almost unanimous in 
favor of peace. The London Punch serves up the 
following: 
Let France delight to go and fight, 
If 'tis her folly to ; 
Let Atis'rin cry for “territory!” 
Wi'R that wetve nought to da 
Our shout must be “ Neutrali'y !” 
To England peace is sweet; 
But. fricn-'s, that she may neutral be, 
Let's Man our Forts and Fleet t 
TnB Vienna journals say that the Government is 
anxious to see free corps raised in all parts of the 
Empire except in Italy, and tbat where tbe inhabi¬ 
tants of towns are lukewarm on the matter, it is 
taking measures to stimulate them. 
The Augsburg Gazette calls on the German ladies 
to give up [lurch sing any French articles of milli¬ 
nery. “ We must not, ” it says, “ let German 
money pass from our pockets into those of the 
French, and enable them to make war on us. 
France. —Orders have been sent to Baron Gros, 
the Fiench Ambassador, at China, instructing him 
to return to France. The French fleet has also 
been recalled from China. 
The Rothschilds —Advices say that the utmost 
consternation prevails among the family of the 
Rothschilds in Europe. The Vienna Rothschild 
lately posted to Paris, to confer with the Baron, 
James, who is suid to be the ablest man in the 
family. 
Freedom in France. —The present war is stir¬ 
ring up a feeling in Paris which may lead to strange 
results by and by. It is said tbat in all the caba- 
rets und drinking shops in the Faubourge St. 
Antoine and St. Marcel, nothing now is heard but 
the “Marseilles” and “Mourir pour la Patria,” 
which have been for so many years forbidden to he 
sung. Nor is this all. A freedom of political dis¬ 
cussion is observed, which has not been permitted 
of late years. The result of the war has, according 
to Paris gossip, occasioned both surprise and dis¬ 
gust to the Emperor. This surprise and disgust is 
very likely to be further increased. 
Naples —The King still survives. Great in¬ 
trigues were on foot to procure the crown of the 
Two Sicilies for the Queen’s eldest son. 
Tiib Marquis of A1 fieri, President of the Sar¬ 
dinian Sena'e, has put his palace at the disposal of 
Canrobert, and the General has taken it for his 
residence. 
Tue Atlantic telegraph enterprise is not yet 
abandoned, according to tbe account. In spite o) 
war in the South of Europe, this bond of friendship 
iuv attach Europe and America to tbe interests ot 
peace. A general meeting of the Atlantic 'Icle- 
graph Company has been called to sanction the 
beads of tbe agreement with the Government, and 
issue of preference shares of £600,000, new capital. 
— Spectacles were Invented in the year 1290, by Spi na _ 
— Tlie King of Siam has named a son George Waah- 
ington. 
— In Southern Illinois the farmers commenced cut¬ 
ting wheat June 1st. 
— Washington Irving has Just completed his fifth 
volumeof Washington. 
— Pennsylvania, this year, mines nearly a million 
and a quarter tuns of coal. 
— One establishment in Vermont has made two tuns 
of maple sugar this season. 
— New Jersey ranks the fifth Stato in the Union, ia 
point of manufacturing industry. 
— Rosa, the beloved daught of Charles Macksy, died 
at Naples ou the 2Gtti of February. 
— Forty-one years ago Saturday, the 25th ult, tbo 
first steamboat was floated on Luke Erie. 
— M’lle Piecolomliii suited fur Europe on the 4th inst. 
She made $30,000 in this country besides gifts. 
— Connecticut State Prison, with 203 convicts, pays 
its way and yields the State a net profit of $1,800. 
— A small lot of floor made of new wheat was sent 
from Augusta, Ga, to New York on the 10th May. 
— Tlie crop of turnips, mangold wnr'zel, Ac., in 
Great Britain, is estimated at twenty million tuns, 
— The Troy Times sajs the Niseajuna Shakers have 
lost another couple. They went off and got married. 
— The Emperor of France has decreed the erection 
of a statue to Humboldt in the galleries of Versailles. 
— At Key West, Florida, on the lGtn ult, 1(>0 houses 
were destroyed by fire, involving a lots of over $260,000, 
— Count Teleki, the former Embassador of Kossuth 
in Paris, has just left for Italy as a volunteer of the 
army. 
— Two hundred thousand copies of Spurgeon's Ser¬ 
mons have been sold by Sheldon & Company, of New 
Y or k. 
— Since the flrstof January foreign goods to the value 
of $5,500,000 have been imported into Philadelphia 
direct. 
— The Central Park Commissioners in New York 
announce the completion of the first portion of their 
labors. 
— Prof. Morse has had a public dinner tendered'to 
him by his neighbors and fellow-citizens of Dutchess 
county. 
— A National Convention of the drovers and shippers 
of stock was held iu Pittsburgh, on Wednesday the 8th 
of Juno. 
— Angus Macfeay, Queen Victoria’s favorite Scottish 
piper, was recently drowned in the river Nith, Duin- 
frieshire. 
— McCormick, the reaping machine man has given 
tbe O. 8. Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Chicago 
$100,000. 
— New York State Editorial and Typographical 
Association held its Clh annual meeting at Syracuse, 
June 9ih. 
— Four hundred and flfy United States troops ar¬ 
rived at S'. Louis on the 26ih for the Plains, to protect 
emigrants. 
— The New Orleans papers say that, contrary to the 
reports, there has not been a case of yellow fever there 
this season. 
— The Cincinnati Gazette says that strawberries are 
selling in that city at live cents a quart. Ilero twenty- 
five cents. 
— The. Emperor of Austria'has sent an autograph 
letter to tlie Pope, assuring him of his eagerness to 
serve him. 
— The wealthy Mrs. Wi'linm B. Astor, of New York 
ci'y. supports a female orphan asylum at Red Hook, 
Dutchess Co. 
— Mr. Wise, the aeronaut, has eompleted his arrange¬ 
ments f..r a balloon journey from Su Lotus to the Atlan¬ 
tic seaboard. 
— Jacques ManVico, author of “ K. N. Pepper Pa¬ 
pers,” lias assumed the editorial management of the N. 
Y. Pieaj une. 
— Four of the officers of our army have pone to 
Europe to observe the warlike movements of the French 
and Austrians. 
— A lot of flour was delivered Tuesday week, in Al¬ 
bany, from the interior of ludiuaa, for iwcntj-nine 
cents per barrel! 
— Mexico, since its establishment as a Republic 81 
years ago, has had 50 Presidents, an averugo of one and 
a half annually. 
— Some of the political papers have already com¬ 
menced the foolish praeliee of tulking about bets on the 
next Presidency. 
— The Insurance Companies of Boston offer $10,000 
reward for the person who set fire to the Mechanical 
Bakery in that city. 
— The Trustees of the Inebriate Asylum make an 
appeal to the clergy to have one collection taken in each 
church in its behalf. 
— Extensive preparations are being made to work 
the gold diggings in Plymouth, Yl Whether it will 
pay remains to be seen. 
— The Chicaen. St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad 
was sold June 2d to the first and second mortgage bond¬ 
holders for a nominal sum. 
— Twenty of the camels belonging to the U. 8. Gov¬ 
ernment iri California, lately strayed. It is thought llio 
Mohave Indians have them. 
— Movements are progressing among some enter¬ 
prising American bouses for chartering vessels for Genoa 
with flour, tobacco, rum, Ac. 
— The Emperor of the French is a great smoker, and 
bis subjects emulate his example, having consumed 
523,G3G 000 ci ars during 1857. 
— There are men in San Francisco whose families 
are destitute, who. a few jears ago, were worm hun¬ 
dreds of thousands of dollars. 
— Mr. Everett is reaping money for the Washington 
fund by his lecturing tour in North Carolina, Ho has 
thus far received about $3,000. 
— A box containing a lot of wooden-soled shoes, sup¬ 
posed to date buck to the time of Penn, were exhumed 
in Philadelphia, on the 80tli ult. 
— The Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal learns that six miles 
north of that city tlie locusts are appearing in swarms, 
eating up everything in the gardens. 
— An iron bridge over the Sandusky river at Upper 
Sandusky fell on Monday week, together with a man 
named Yonkers and a span of horses. 
— In Medina a house incumbered by mortgage, and 
about to be sold, was moved, one night, off the mort¬ 
gaged lot without disturbing the family. 
— The iron crown of Charlemagne was carried off 
on the nights of April 22d and 23d, from Monza to 
Mantua, escorted by a troop of hussar^. 
— The Hamilton (Iowa) Freeman says a man re¬ 
cently saw over a hundred swans floating on one of the 
prairie ponds a mile or two this side of Wall Lake. 
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