CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
AGRICULTURAL. Page. 
A Short Crop of Ilay. 221 
European Agriculture.—To Prevent the Ravages of the 
Turnip Fly; The Taste of Butter; How to Use Guano. 221 
Crop Prospects in this State.221 
House Building—No. IV.—Outside of Window, and One 
Half of Brick Arch, [Illustrated;] Inside of Window, 
One Half Cased up Square, [Illustrated]. 221 
Plowing, Plows and Teams.221, 222 
About Cheese and Cheese-Making. 222 
How to Shear Sheep. 222 
Culture of Carrots. 222 
Seeding to Grass—Light Wanted. 222 
Where are We Drifting ?. 222 
The Jenny Lind Potato. 222 
Rural Spirit of the Press.— How to Cure Clover; 
Value of the Earth-Worm; About Scare Crows; Tan 
Bark for Potatoes; Management of Horses. 222 
Agricultural Miscellany.— The Weather; Monroe 
County Horse Show; Trials of Mowing and Reaping 
Machines; An Informal Trial of Mowing Machines; 
The Homestead; Plowing by Steam; Plows and Plow¬ 
ing ; Agriculture in Ohio; Cure for Warts. 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Disseminating New Fruits—Peabody Strawberry. 223 
Genesee Valley Horticultural Society. 223 
Strawberry Culture. 223 
Fruit and Insects in Wisconsin; The Apple Bark Louse, 
[Illustrated].!.223 
Flower of the Tulip Tree, [Illustrated].223 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Bread Cake; Soda Sponge; Boiled Indian Pudding; 
Striped Cake; Trifles, or Tarts; Cheap SpongeCake; 
Economy Cookies; To Make Bread from Grown 
Wheat ; Rhubarb Pie ; Cocoanut Pie; Strawberry 
Cake; Keeping Eggs Fresh. 223 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
Kind Hearts, [Poetical;] Plain Talks to American Wo¬ 
men—No. XIV; The Old-fashioned Mothers; Culti¬ 
vate Domestic Peace; Weil-spent Time. 224 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The Old Institute Bell, [Poetical;] From the Woods 
Rural Life; A Beautiful Figure. 224 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Sabbath Musings, [Poetical;] The Spirit of Love; Lit¬ 
tle Sins; Value of the Scriptures. 224 
SPICE FROM NEW BOOKS. 
Mineral Springs, Strathpeffer, Scotland; Acclimating a 
Plow ; Secret of Pulpit Eloquence ; The Alpine 
Heights.225 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
Work and Study; Boys, Don’t Kill the Birds; The Sup¬ 
ply of Streams; Happiness. 225 
STORY TELLER. 
Waiting, [Poetical;] Rosamond, or the Youthful Error— 
A Tale of Riverside.228 
ROCHESTER, N, Y., JULY 9, 1859. 
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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Matters at Washington. 
The receipts into the Treasury for the week end 
ing June 27th, were $4,879,000, of which about 
$2,250,000 were from customs. The drafts paid 
amounted to $3,175,000, principally on account of 
treasury notes. The balance in the Treasury is 
$3,866,000. 
Information has been received from a source 
regarded as thoroughly reliable, giving the partic¬ 
ulars of the contemplated fillibuster descent upon 
Nicaragua. The names of certain parties who 
supplied Walker with arms and money are given, 
and the enjoyment of the benefits of the transit 
route are to compensate in part for the expense 
thus incurred. It is stated that the expedition 
will start by the middle of August, and that a party 
of fillibusters will rendezvous at Florida and be 
conveyed to Central America in the Scottish Chief. 
Whether or not this information is strictly true, it 
is certain our Government will endeavor to arrest 
all illegal enterprises, the orders to our naval 
vessels for this purpose heretofore issued being 
still in force. Gen. Juarez, before he left for Nica¬ 
ragua, was fully informed of the fillibustering 
movements. 
Advices from Mexico of the 11th ult., state the 
American Minister had addressed a remonstrance 
to Miramon’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, in the 
name of President Buchanan, expressing his great 
indignation at the withdrawal of the exequaturs 
from the American Consuls, and the murder of 
peaceful American citizens by Miramon’s soldiers 
at Tacubia. The massacres are characterized as a 
violation of national rights and treaty stipulations, 
and Miramon is warned that it will be remembered 
and redress demanded and ultimately obtained, 
whatever may be the result of the remonstrance. 
Dispatches from the Indian agent of New Mexico 
to Commissioner Greenwood, state the Navajoes 
are again committing all manner of depredations, 
regardless of the authority of their chiefs, who are 
disposed to remain at peace with the whites. He 
thinks another Indian war is imminent. 
The postage stamps and stamp envelopes sold 
by the P. 0. Department during the two years and 
a half ending with December last, amounted to 
$14,000,000; about $1,000,000 have not been used 
in the pre-payment of postage. 
Notwithstanding the failure of the Post-office 
Appropriation Bill, it is probable that the clerk 
hire and all incidental expenses will be paid by the 
Deputy Post-Master as heretofore out of the accru¬ 
ing revenue on postages for the quarter ending the 
20th September. 
Personal and Political. 
Private letters received at New 1 ork by the 
California mail, report the death of M. Belly, the 
famous Frenchman whose canal schemes on the 
Isthmus have caused some commotion. 
A letter from Rev. William Aitchison, dated 
Shanghai, April 5th, announces the death of Rev 
William A. Macy, Missionary of the A. B. C. F, 
M., at that place on the 9th of April. Mr. Macy 
was a nephew of the late Benjamin F. Butler, Esq 
He was a fine classical scholar, of sound judgment 
and intelligent piety ; and his early removal from 
the Missionary work to which he had devoted his 
life, will cause many a tear in China, as well as 
among his personal friends, and the friends 
Christ in this country. 
Tiie recent English papers announce the death 
of the Rev. Dr. Burns, who was known as “the 
Father of the Free Church of Scotland.” This 
event took place towards the close of May, when 
in the 81st year of his age. He was ordained in 
1800; in 1820 he removed to Kilsyth, where his 39 
years of pastoral labors have been greatly blessed 
The next Electoral College, chosen in November. 
1860, to meet in February, 1861, will—if Kansas 
should be admitted at the approaching session of 
Congress—consist of 306 votes, 195 of which will 
be necessary to a choice for President. The non 
slaveholding States will have 186 Electors, and the 
slaveholding States 120. 
The Iowa Democratic State Convention assem 
bled at Des Moines on the 23d ult., and made the 
following nominations:—Governor, A. C. Dodge 
Lieutenant Governor, L. W. Babitt; Judges of the 
Supreme Court, L. S. Wilson, Charles Mason, and 
C. C. Cole. The Popular Sovereignty platform was 
adopted. 
The Democracy of Maine met in Convention on 
the 1st inst.— 625 delegates present. The Com 
mittee on resolutions reported a series which were 
adopted, declaring among other things, that the 
Democracy of Maine re-assert the principles of 
Popular Sovereignty as the basis of their policy in 
reference to the Territories, opposing any Legisla 
tion by Congress to establish, abolish, regulate or 
protect Slavery in the Territories; that the people 
of the Territories, like those of the States, should 
decide the question of Slavery for themselves; de 
claring it the duty of the Democratic party to resist 
all temptations to interpolate in its creed a Con 
gressional Slave Code for the Territories, on the 
doctrine that the Constitution establishes or pro 
hibits Slavery in the Territories beyond the powers 
of the people to control it; and declaring against 
the opening of the Slave trade. The resolutions 
also denounce the two year’s amendment in Massa¬ 
chusetts, and go for the annexation of Cuba as a 
measure of humanity in regard to the Slave trade 
and favorable to American Commerce. They en 
dorse the administration of President Buchanan in 
regard to its management of our foreign relations, 
the suppression of the Utah rebellion, the execu 
tion of the neutrality laws, and the exercise of re 
trenchment and economy. 
The first ballot for Governor stood as follows:— 
Menasseh II. Smith, administration, 305; E. K 
Smart, anti-administration, 284; scattering, 85 
On the second ballot, M. II. Smith received 367 
votes, and was nominated. George F. Sheply, of 
Portland; E. Wilder Farley, of Newcastle; A. M, 
Roberts, of Bangor, and Bion Bradbury, of East 
port, were elected delegates to the Charleston Con 
vention. The first two are claimed as administra 
tion, and the last two as anti-administration. 
Terrible Railroad Accident. 
A little before midnight of the 28th ult., the 
night express train from Chicago to Toledo, on the 
Michigan Southern Railroad, when between South 
Bend and Mishawaka, passing over an embank 
ment spanning a ravine, at the base of which is a 
culvert, the embankment suddenly gave way, and 
the whole train was precipitated into the ravine 
which was filled with a perfect torrent of water, 
The engine was literally buried in the opposite side 
of the ravine in quicksand and mud, and the tender 
baggage and express car, and two second-class 
cars, were shattered almost into kindling wood, 
and piled on top of the engine. The two first-class 
passenger cars followed, and were torn to pieces 
and carried down the stream, while the sleeping 
car, although making the leap with the rest, was 
less injured. 
The stream is naturally but a rivulet, but was 
swollen by the extraordinary rains of the previous 
afternoon and evening. Flood-wood had probably 
checked the culvert, converting the embankment 
into a dam, and the great weight of water, with the 
concussion of the crossing train, caused the sad 
calamity. From 150 to 200 persons were on the 
train ; of these upwards of 50 have been taken from 
the ruins dead, and 50 or 60 more are wounded, or 
escaped uninjured; and the rest not heard from. 
As many of the dead were drowned in the ravine, 
it is feared that others not heard from have lost 
their lives in the same manner. The killed, as far 
as their names have been ascertained, are as fol¬ 
lows :—Hartwell, express messenger; engineer and 
fireman, both named Tulip; Ilabbington, baggage- 
master; C. W. Smith, road-master; Mrs. E. G. 
Gillett and child, Stone Mills, New York ; Thomas 
Misliau, Michigan City; J. McCarty, Ilolmesville, 
Ind.; Mary Cowan; Mr. Walworth, Adrian, Mich.; 
a man unknown, had on his right arm the initials 
W. S. E. S.; Richard Muldany, Calumet, Indiana; 
Streeter,Sparta, Wis; Harry Fleckinger, Reading, 
Pa.; B. P. McCullough, Lawrenceburg, Pa.; two 
boys named Tidwell; Mrs. Increase Sumner, Alice 
C. Sumner, Neville E. Sumner, Chicago; Mary Ann 
Curran, Dunkirk, N. Y.; McNealy, Fon du Lac, 
Wisconsin; Thomas Mishan, train boy, Laporte; 
woman and four children, named Tizwold; Mrs. 
M. H. Regan, Rockford; Jacob Smith, banker, 
Wall st.; Cornelius Walworth, Rome, Wis. Eleven 
bodies not recognized. Quite a number of passen¬ 
gers are missing, and it is supposed they were 
drowned, and their bodies have floated away. 
The unfortunate train left Chicago at 8:30 on 
Monday evening, and consisted of five passenger 
cars, besides the baggage and express car. It ar¬ 
rived at South Bend about 45 minutes behind time, 
and made the fatal leap at about 12)4 o’clock at 
night. 
The Great Balloon Voyage. 
The Rural has made brief mention of a contem 
plated trip of several aeronauts from St. Louis to 
the seaboard, as a species of test trip preparatory 
to a similar undertaking in crossing the Atlantic 
This aerial voyage was entered upon in good faith 
on the first instant. On the evening of that day 
the aeronauts, Messrs. Wise, Lamountain and 
Gager, with a reporter from the St. Louis Republi 
can, Mr. Hyde, embarked at St. Louis in the car 
attached to the Balloon Atlantic, and were floated 
off towards the empyrean. We next hear of them 
as having been seen, six miles north of Ft. Wayne 
Indiana, at 4 o’clock on the morning of the 2d.— 
Three hours and a half later, at 7:30 A M., the bat 
loon was seen from Sandusky, Ohio, so near as to 
admit of reading the name inscribed upon It. As 
it receded it seemed to fall into the lake. But w 
hear of it again, two hours later, at Fairport, 
where also it is said to have nearly touched the 
water, and then to have risen and disappeared. It 
was seen from Buffalo about noon, directly over the 
Niagara River. At 12:15 it passed Niagara Falls. 
At half past twelve it was seen from Medina, N. Y 
It went rapidly over Lake Ontario, and at 2 o’clock 
the passengers hailed the propeller Young Amer 
ica, then twelve miles north-east of Oswego. Soon 
after, the balloon landed at Adams, in Jefferson 
county, New York. 
The editors of the Buffalo Courier have had an 
interview with Mr. Hyde, and obtained an account 
of the trip, which we condense, as follows: 
The aeronauts left St. Louis at 20 minutes past 
7 o’clock, on Friday evening, and took a course 
almost due east towards the eastern seaboard 
Their motion was very rapid throughout the night, 
with calm and beautiful weather. 
They reached Lake Erie, above Sandusky, about 
7 in the morning of Saturday, and about 12 M 
were opposite Buffalo. Ia the last 100 miles on 
this lake, a current of air in which they floated 
gradually bore them to the water, until on several 
occasions their elevation did not exceed 300 feet 
Soon after passing the Falls, the strength of this 
current rapidly increased, until they neared Sack 
ett’s Harbor. When over Lake Ontario, and about 
30 miles from shore, it became a violent gale of 
wind, blowing almost directly downwards. Every 
effort was made to keep the balloon up, by throw 
ing out ballast, stores and instruments, but in 
spite of all exertions, she made a tremendous dive 
striking the water, staving the boat, and nearly 
bringing about a fatal termination of the voyage 
to Mr. Lamountain. The balloon then rushed to 
wards the shore, which was reached in a few 
minutes, from whence it plunged into a dense 
forest, at a speed which Mr. Hyde estimates at 
about two miles a minute. The grapnels were 
cast loose, but the strong iron hooks were wrench 
ed off like pipestems. The boat, which was still 
below them, went crashing through the trees 
leaving a path as if the locality had been visited 
by a tornado. Mr. Hyde says that trees, of a foot 
or more in diameter, were snapped asunder as if 
made of clay, while the branches were flying in 
every direction. After proceeding about a mile 
at this rate, in momentary expectation of destruc¬ 
tion, the balloon was da»li^t-«*:gainst a huge tree, 
by which it was collapsed, and scarcely anything 
left of it but countless ribbons. 
The landing took place on the farm of a Mr. 
Whitney, in the town of Henderson, Jefferson 
county, near Sackett’s Harbor, at 20 minutes past 
2 o’clock P. M., (by the aaventurer’s time,) being 
just 19 hours from St. Louis, a distance of over 
1,100 miles, being by more than double the longest 
balloon voyage ever made. 
Conflagrations, Casualties, &c. 
Fourth op July Accidents. —Our city has usu¬ 
ally been exempt from those distressing calamities 
which are so apt to mar the festivities of our 
National Holiday, but yesterday formed a dread 
exception, and at an early hour a gloom was thrown 
over the community by the announcement that 
three young lads were dangerously, if not fatally, 
injured. A cannon in the possession of some boys 
on Main street, had been overloaded and burst, and 
the ragged pieces of metal were projected indis 
criminately amid the crowd surrounding the piece, 
wounding a son of L. Moore, flour merchant, 
Barney Suepardson, son of assistant in County 
Clerk’s office, and Chas. Fry. The first named 
had an arm broken and was fearfully lacerated 
about the throat; the second, his leg dreadfully 
mangled, and the third was shot through the body. 
Young Fry died at half-past one o’clock — the 
others are as comfortable this morning as possible, 
with hopes of their ultimate recovery. 
The ship Fleetwood, from Boston for Honolulu, 
struck a rock off Cape Horn some time in April, 
which caused her to leak so badly that she was 
abandoned by the crew, who took to the small 
boats. One of the boats was picked up and taken 
into Pernambuco. The other boats have not been 
heard from. One of the missing boats contained 
Capt. Dale, wife and child. 
The steamship Argo, of the Galway line, left 
New York on the 23d ult., for Galway, via. St. 
Johns, N. F. She went ashore near Trepassy, in a 
fog, on Tuesday morning, and sank in the evening. 
All the passengers and crew were saved by the 
prompt assistance from St. Johns. Boats were 
constantly passing from the ship to a cove about a 
mile distant, carrying ashore what could be saved. 
The fishermen plundered the ship. One hundred 
of them came around on hearing the signal guns. 
They cut away the masts, and completely skinned 
her. At 4 P. M. the ship filled, and fell on her 
beam ends, in six fathoms of water. The bag¬ 
gage of many of the passengers was lost. There 
was no house within eight miles of the shore where 
she struck. The Argo was a superior ship—cost¬ 
ing at the time of her construction £55,000 ster¬ 
ling. She was employed in the transport service 
during the war in the Crimea and in India. She 
was lately purchased by the Galway Co., and in¬ 
sured at Lloyd’s for £45,000 sterling. 
The steamer Geo. Lambert, bound up the Mis¬ 
souri with a valuable cargo, took fire four miles 
above St. Louis on the night of the 25tli ult., and 
was burned to the water’s edge. The boat and 
cargo were a total loss. The boat was valued at 
$28,000, and was insured for $15,000. The cargo 
as insured. No lives lost. 
News Paragraphs. 
Mr. Alfred Jansen, of Le Claire, Illinois, died 
a few days ago from the stiDg of a bee. He was 
stung in the neck. When stung, he said it was a 
serious matter for him, as he had once, after being 
stung, swooned away and remained insensible for 
several hours. Saleratuswas applied to the wound, 
but he was soon violently ill, became insensible, 
and in a few minutes had convulsions, and three 
quarters of an hour from the time he was stung 
was dead. 
A “Wild Cat” Bank, located at Hartford, Ohio, 
and called the Manufacturers’ Bank, was recently 
broken up, and the principal banker was arrested. 
The property of the institution consisted of a trunk, 
called the “ safe,” which contained a California of 
worthless notes, two shirts, one waistcoat, and two 
sections of a flute. The chief banker said that he 
had paid a certain New York Counterfeit Detector 
$1,900 to quote the bank as good. 
A machine to manufacture paper bags, such as 
are used by grocers, has recently been put in ope¬ 
ration in Cincinnati, and turns out from 60,000 to 
75,000 bags per day. 
A leading drug house informs the N. Y. Tribune, 
in view of the ginseng excitement in Minnesota, 
that the autumn is the time to gather ginseng, and 
that the root dug in the spring is valueless as an 
article of export. Perhaps the Minnesotians, by 
rooting up the Big Woods so thoroughly, have 
rooted out the crop, and thus destroyed the goose 
that might have laid the golden egg. 
TnE average expense per annum to the members 
of the different denominations throughout the 
United States, for the support of their different 
church services, is estimated to be about as follows: 
Baptist and Methodist about $3,40; Presbyterian, 
$7; Congregationalist, $10; Roman Catholic, $15; 
Episcopalian, $18; Reformed Dutch, $22; Unita¬ 
rian, $23. 
When the workmen suspended work on Minot’s 
Ledge Light-House, last fall, they put a fish six 
inches in length in the well room, leaving him in 
close confinement, with nothing to eat. When 
work was commenced in the spring, he was found 
as lively as ever, having grown six inches in length 
during the time, but from his long confinement in 
a dark place had become totally blind. When the 
fish caught in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, 
were exhibited a few years ago, it will be remem¬ 
bered that they were not only blind, but eyeless. 
The total number of sea-going vessels in port at 
New York, most of which are lying idle for the 
want of remunerative employment, is 620, includ¬ 
ing 24 steamers, 153 ships, 121 barques, 118 brigs, 
and 204 schooners. The freight trade continues 
surprisingly dull, except to France, whither con¬ 
siderable coal is being shipped. 
A recent debate in the Spanish Cortes, upon the 
increase of the army, shows no want of patriotic 
determination, both on the side of the Government 
and of the opposition, not only to maintain the 
dignity and honor of Spain, but to retain her 
Island possessions in the Mediterranean and the 
West Indje.s, against every power, European or 
American. 
The first newspaper established in North Ameri¬ 
ca was issued in Boston in 1690. The oldest exist¬ 
ing newspaper in Massachusetts is now published 
in Worcester, established in 1770. 
The Supply of Gold. —The Philadelphia Penn 
sylvanian learns from the Hon. James Ross Snow¬ 
den, Director of the Mint, that there is every reason 
to believe that the yield of gold, during the present 
season, from our gold-producing States, will afford 
a favorable comparison with that of any former year. 
He also states that there are large amounts of bul¬ 
lion, (principally silver,) being received at New 
Orleans and San Francisco, from Mexico. The 
Branch Mint of the United States, at San Francisco, 
is pushed to meet the business thrown upon it, by 
reason of the increased yield of the mines of Cali¬ 
fornia, and the receipt of silver from Mexico.— 
These circumstances, together with the fact that 
the semi-monthy California steamer, which was at 
New York on the 28th, had on board $2,600,000, 
justify the belief that whatever may be the shipment 
of specie to Europe for some time to come, it will be 
more than equaled by the product of our mines, 
and that our specie reserves will consequently be 
increased during the next few months instead of 
suffering such a diminution as to excite alarm, 
much less produce a money panic. 
Lake Trade wiTn Europe. —Since the inaugu¬ 
ration of a direct trade with Europe from Lake 
ports in 1856, no less than thirty-seven vessels 
have cleared for foreign ports from ports on the 
lakes—chiefly from Detroit. Of these twenty-one 
have been sent out the present year. Their car¬ 
goes have been principally lumber and staves, 
with some wheat and a few hides. The Detroit 
Free Press furnishes the following table of the dif¬ 
ferent articles exported during each year: 
1856— Wheat, bush. 15,000 
1857— Hides, No. 8,000 
Staves, No. 120,000 
1858— Wheat, bush. 12,800 
Lumber, feet. 575,000 
Staves, No. 700,000 
1859 - Lumber, feei.1,100,000 
Staves, No. (West India standard).2,000,000 
Overland News. —The Overland Mail from Cali¬ 
fornia, the 6th, reached St. Louis on the 28th ult. 
A passenger states that the Indians on the route 
are quite troublesome. At Mohawk station the 
Company employees had refused the Apaches wa¬ 
ter, in consequence of the great scarcity of that 
article, there being none for forty miles on either 
side of the station. The Indians were gathering in 
considerable numbers around the Correl, and 
threatening violence. 
About forty miles this side of Fort Davis, some 
four hundred Mexican families, comprising over 
eight hundred souls, had crossed the Rio Grande. 
They were Liberalists, and had been driven out by 
the Church party. They were at Smith’s station 
when the mail passed, and represented as being in 
a destitute condition. 
New York State Temperance Society.- —The 
adjourned Annual Meeting of the New York State 
Temperance Society will be held at Saratoga 
Springs, on Wednesday, August 3d, commencing 
at 10 o’clock A. M. 
®t)e Neros Conbcnser. 
— Another revolution has broken out in Sonora. 
— Exchange is selling in Chicago at 2# per cent. 
— An Inebriate Asylum is about to be started at 
Cleveland. 
— Strawberries arc worth only $2 50 per pound in San 
Francisco. 
— The “mumps” are raging in Petersburg, Va.,as 
an epidemic. 
— A man 74 years old has been arrested as a common 
thief in Buffalo. 
— Snow fell at Hamilton, C. W., between 12 and 1 p, 
m., on the 21st ult. 
— Two persons in Sterling, Ill., have recently been 
bitten by mad dogs. 
— A hail stone fell in Saratoga Co., on Tuesday week, 
that weighed five pounds. 
— A woman was killed last week at a fire-works ex¬ 
hibition in Boston, by a rocket. 
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— The sum of $2,204 44 has been raised in New York 
for the benefit of the Italian fund. 
— The Treasury balance is brought down to $3,000,- 
000, being $2,000,000 below the working point. 
— It is now confidently believed that either the Queen 
or the Prince of Wales will soon visit Canada. 
— They are now using steam power to help the guests 
up and down stairs in the New York city hotels, 
— The people of St. Joseph, Mo., having built two 
theatres, are now thinking of erecting a church ! 
— A board six feet and seven inches in width, cut 
from a California saw-log, has arrived in Boston. 
— During a recent tornado in Iowa, a tree ten inches 
in diameter was uprooted and carried seven miles. 
— A land terrapin, bearing upon its shell the date 
of 1832, was seen near Wheeling, Va., a few days since. 
— “ In a month’s time,” said Napoleon, “ I will date 
my proclamations from Milan.” He keeps his promise. 
— The Mobile Tribune confirms the report that a 
cargo of slaves was recently landed on the Florida 
coast. 
— Rev. Mr. Millburn, the blind preacher, is lecturing 
in Montreal on “ What the blind man saw in Eng¬ 
land.” 
— Two convicts have been discharged from the In¬ 
sane Department of the Auburn Prison, perfectly 
cured. 
— A nugget of gold found recently in Tuolumne 
county, California, yielded melted gold to the value of 
$5,750. 
— One firm in Cincinnati has sold during the present 
season sixteen thousand five hundred bushels of straw¬ 
berries. 
— The editor of the Charlotte (N. C.) Bulletin brags 
of having eaten several of this year’s growth of ripe 
apples. 
— In 27 days, Italy has been strewn with 27,000 
corpses—poor fellows who sought an epaulet and found 
a grave. 
— A noon-day prayer meeting of business men is 
held in Philadelphia every day in the week, except 
Sunday. 
— Mons. Blondin, a French rope-walker, crossed the 
Niagara river last week on a cable stretched from shore 
to shore. 
— The Macoupin county (Ill.) delinquent tax list is 
40 columns long About the whole county will be sold 
for taxes. 
— A block of gold worth $3,330 has been received 
from California as a contribution to the the Mount Ver¬ 
non fund. 
— A tobacconist at Cincinnati says that he sells up¬ 
wards of 200 pounds of snuff in the course of a month 
to ladies. 
— The most of what is called court plaster, used in 
this country and Canada, is made at Portsmouth, New 
Hampshire. 
— Some modern translator of the Bible lias made the 
discovery that the prophet Elijah was fed by Arabs, and 
not by ravens. 
— Apple-Jack, two drinks of which will make a man 
pick his own pocket, is extensively manufactured in 
North Carolina. 
— The Auburn Advertiser announces thirty-nine ar¬ 
rivals and thirty-four departures form the State Prison 
for the last week. 
— A “ Women’s Dress Reform Convention” was held 
at Auburn last week, but adjourned without doing any¬ 
thing worthy of note. 
— In 1S40, $4,000,009 worth of dry goods was sold in 
Cincinnati. In 1850, $10,000,000. This year it will foot 
up over $26,000,000. 
— It is said that the recent frost was so severe in 
Chautauque Co. as to cut down everything except town 
and county accounts! 
— The news of the triumph of the French at Monte¬ 
bello was received with manifestations of joy by the 
French at New York. 
— “ Skunk Valley,” in Iowa, is said to be a splendid 
country. It ought to have its name changed, to induce 
very rapid emigration. 
— Eleven English cricket players are coming to this 
country in September next, to play against the cricketers 
of America and Canada. 
— A man in Massachusetts recently drank three quarts 
of milk without stopping; then rested a moment and 
swallowed another quart 
— Ninety-five clerks were discharged from the New 
York Custom House last week. Their united salaries 
make over $100,000 a year. 
— The entire amount for purchasing Mount Vernon 
has been subscribed. The money now taken goes to 
repair the dilapidated premises. 
— The ship Bolton of Bath was wrecked near Ma- 
chias, on the coast of Maine, on the 16th ult. Only three 
out of the crew of 18 were saved. 
— Thirty or forty feet of rock in the centre of St. An¬ 
thony Falls, Mississippi, has been broken off, leaving 
the falls like a horse shoe in form. 
— Mr. Greeley endorses Pike’s Peak as a rich gold 
region, but warns miners against going there without 
taking with them a supply of provisions. 
— The entire receipts of the Bible Society from New 
Jersey, for the year ending the 81st of March last, were 
$15,585 35, being greater than ever before. 
— Five Americans who had been imprisoned at Rome 
had been released at the command of the American 
Commodore, and were on board the Wabash. 
Three Irish families in Springfield, O., narrowl) 
escaped death, on Thursday week, by eating stramoni¬ 
um, commonly called jimson weed, for greens. 
We hear of a brutal old scamp up North who has 
perpetrated the atrocious joke of hanging up a dilapi¬ 
dated hoop skirt in his corn field for a scarecrow ! 
— Milton Curtis, of Piermont, turnod a large boar into 
a pasture with a horse, and the latter was found dead, 
ripped open by the boar’s tusks, the next morning. 
