®l)e Cmtfonscr, 
to the Federal Diet to place a corps of observation 
on the Rhine, to be the 7th and 8th Federal corps 
d’a/vnee, under the superior orders of Bavaria. 
The proposal was referred to the military com¬ 
mittee. 
The Paris Siecle and Journal des Dcbats ridicule 
the idea of German mediation on the basis which 
lumor has placed in circulation. 
It was reported that the Emperor of Austria 
would soon have an interview with the Prince 
Regent of Prussia. 
The Nord publishes the following, dated Berlin, 
June 21st:—At a military conference held yester¬ 
day, it was resolved that the Guards shall remain 
at Berlin and Pottsdam, and six regiments of cav¬ 
alry and infantry shall be cantoned in the province 
of Brandonburg. Three corps d’armee will take 
up positions between the lower and central Rhine. 
Two other corps d’armee will be stationed upon 
the upper Rhine and the river Maine. One of the 
co^swill proceed to its destination through Sile¬ 
sia, Saxony and Bavaria. The departure of troops 
will take place about the first of July. 
Th c Journal des Debats asserts that the Bavarian 
Government has refused to allow Prussian troops 
to pass through its territory, until the Prussian 
Cabinet shall have answered the series of ques¬ 
tions as to the meaning and purpose of the reso¬ 
lutions it has taken. 
The naval expedition,possessing immense mean ? 
of destruction, is on its way to Venice. One Hun¬ 
dred and twenty flat-bott< m boats, keeled with 
iron and filled with cannon, are, it is said, to 
ascend the Adige and the Po. If Venice falls, the 
fleet may land a corps d'at'me-e on the Adige, and 
take the Austrians in the rear, while the land army 
attacks them in front. 
Prussia. — The official Preussische Zeitung of 
Wednesday, says the French and Sardinian army 
is moving near the frontiers of Germany. The 
Prussian Government regards the security of 
Germany as intrusted to its care. The Italian 
conflict is assuming even increasing dimensions. 
England and Russia are arming on the greatest 
scale. The Prussian Government would be faith¬ 
less to its duty and to the sense of the nation if 
she should neglect to act commensurably with 
that spirit by which Prussia has become great. 
Prussia is free from every engagement. She obeys 
only those obligations which spring from the in¬ 
most nature of her State interests. It will soon 
be seen whether Prussia’s initiative will be sup¬ 
ported with the necessary weight by the German 
States. Prussia’s policy stands firm, and whoever 
lays obstacles in its way may consider that he is 
^rendering service to the enemies of his fatherland. 
Turkey. —Advices from Constantinople say that 
Said Pacha had been summoned to send his con¬ 
tingent to Rommelia, but replied that the indeci¬ 
sive policy of the Porte compromises Egypt, and 
that therefore he will send no succor, but will put 
his army on a war footing. 
Rome. —Advices from Rome say that an attempt 
was made to display the tri-colored flag and pro¬ 
claim for the Dictatorship of Victor Emanuel, but 
General Gorgoi\ interfered to prevent. The Pope 
has notified his protest against the dismember¬ 
ment of his States, to powers represented at the 
Paris conference. He had also communicated to 
the Cardinals a letter of the Emperor Napoleon, 
guaranteeing independence. . 
Commercial — Breadstuffs. — Richardson, Spence & 
Co. quote breadstuffs tending downward, Flour was 
offered at higher prices, but sales quite unimportant.— 
The quotations are 10s6d@18s6d. The prices of wheat 
are easier, but without any decided change. Western 
red was quoted at8s@9sl0d; Southern white 10s@l‘2s. 
A11 quotations of corn had declined slightly. Mixed 
5sl0@5slld; yellow 0slld(®6s; white 8s@8s6d; and 
others quote pork dull. Lard heavy, and declined 
slightly. Provisions.— Messrs. Bigland, Althya & Co., 
James McHenry & Co., and others quote pork dull.— 
Lard heavy, and declined slightly. 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
News Paragraphs. 
A horse turned loose in the streets of Albany, 
recently kicked a litle boy in the head, so that he 
died; whereupon the owner was pronounced guilty 
of manslaughter by the coroner’s jury. 
native of Westmoreland, N. 
West Windsor, Vt., on 
i 8 months and 28 days. 
Capt. Josiah Fish’s 
Battalion, in the Rev- 
From the Seat of War.—A Great Battle. 
In our last issue it was stated that Napoleon was 
concentrating his forces for the purpose of attack¬ 
ing the Austrians, and that a decisive battle would 
soon be fought. The steamers Vigo and Adelaide 
arrived at St. Johns on the 3d inst., and the Hun¬ 
garian at Farther Point on the 8th, and we learn 
that the Austrians re-crossed the Mincio and at¬ 
tacked the Allies (with the expectation of beating 
them before the arrival of reinforcements,) but 
were obliged to abandon their positions and with¬ 
draw. Napoleon telegraphed to the Empress as 
follows: 
“Cavriana, June 24, 11:30 A. m. 
A Great Battle—A Great Victory. The whole 
Austrian army formed a line of battle extending 
five leagues in length. We have taken all the ene¬ 
my’s positions, many cannon, flags and prisoners. 
The battle lasted from 4 in the morning till 8 in 
the evening.” 
Pratt’s Patent Self-V entilating Covered Milk-Pan-Arthur, 
Burnham & Gilroy. . „ 
To Farmers and Manufacturers of Mowing and Reaping 
Machines— S. E. & M. P.Jackson. 
■Wilson's Albany Seedling—Wm. Richardson. 
Plain and Pleasant Tain about Fruit, 1 lowers and Farm¬ 
ing—Derby & Jackson. 
Horse Powers, Threshing and Mowing Machines—B. G. 
n. Hathaway. , TT „ 
Ingham University—Samuel Hanson Cox. 
Three Year Old Bull, Heilers and Bull Calf—L. A. Beebe. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
For the Complexion—Joseph Burnett & Co. 
— Railroad enterprises are active in Texas. 
— They have in Philadelphia, for a novelty, a vege- 
rian church. 
— About seven hundred important battles are record¬ 
ed in history. 
— A pickerel was caught the other day with a squirrel 
in his stomach. 
— A man went over Niagara Falls in a boat, on 
Wednesday week. 
— Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, paid last year 
for taxes $37,610,56. 
— Blondin crossed Niagara Falls, blindfolded, on a 
tight rope, on the Fourth. 
— The Asia brings the news of the appearance of the 
cholera at St. Petersburgh. 
— All the New England States support one clergy¬ 
man to less than 600 persons. 
— The number of dead letters annually returned to 
the department is about 2,250,000. 
— Rev. Dr. Whipple, of Chicago, has been elected 
Bishop of the Diocese of Minnesota. 
— Eight million bottles are annually made at a manu¬ 
factory of bottles at Folembray, France. 
— The receipts of the Treasury week before last were 
one million two hundred thousand dollars. 
— The emigration of free colored people from the 
United States to Hayti is rapidly increasing. 
— Horace Greeley thinks the child is now horn that 
will see Illinois a State of ten million people. 
— 8evcnty-three new counterfeits have been put in 
circulation in the United 8tatee since June 1. 
— A Portugese seaman, name unknown, died on 
Wednesday week in New York, from coupde solid. 
— A roan tamed Rosseau, living at Chippewa, is 
supposed to have gone over the Niagara Falls Saturday 
week. 
— The New Hampshire House of Representatives has 
325 members - the largest number of any State in the 
Union. 
— A recent charity concert by Jenny Lind in London 
cleared $6,000. She sings, it is said, with all of her old 
power. 
— The boy Mortara has been “confirmed,” with 
great display, in the church of San Pietro and Vincula, 
Rome. 
— For past six months the amount of imports is $52,- 
853.460—for the same period in 1857, it was only $45,- 
054,464. 
— Isabella Thompson, of Washington county, Ohio, 
although not quite six years of age, weighs over 200 
pounds. 
— Three out of four, says a Mississippi paper, of the 
imported Africans, bought by planters in that vicinity, 
have died. 
— On Friday morning, the 1st day of July, 1859, there 
was a white frost at New Boston village and in West 
Goffstown, N. II. 
— Saturday week Mount Morris, N. Y., was visited by 
a tornado which removed chimnies, battlements, balus¬ 
trades, roofs, &c. 
— The imports at New York for the week ending 
June 25th, exceed those of the corresponding week in 
1858 by $1,792,016. 
— A Kansas paper publishes a report that thine hun¬ 
dred persons starved to death on the Plains, on the 
Smoky Hill route. 
— The cotton exported to Great Britain this year is 
1,832,000 bales, and to France and other foreign coun¬ 
tries, 917,000 bales. 
— The names of no less than 24 individuals are now 
prominently before the country as candidates for the 
Presidency in 1860. 
— There are 830 patients in the California State Luna¬ 
tic Asylum, and the number increases at the rate of 
about one each day. 
— Elegant wigs are now manufactured in London 
from hemp, which is dyed, greased, and curled to re¬ 
semble the natural hair. 
— Twenty lives are reported to have been lost by fire 
in the Pineries that divide Gregory’s and Jackson’s dig¬ 
gings, near Denver City. 
— Gold has been discovered among the hills of Bos¬ 
ton Co., Mo., and the excitement of the neighborhood 
is up to Pike’s Peak pitch. 
— The Court of Appeals has unanimously decided 
that the Atlas & Argus, (Dem.,) and not the Journal, 
(Rep.,) is the State Paper. 
— The Sullivan Republican says gold has been found 
in small quantities at South Charlestown, N. II., on the 
land of Roswell Robertson. 
— Among the prisoners in the Schenectady jail is an 
old man of 90 years, who is charged with assault with 
intent to kill his son-in-law. 
— An automaton chess player is now being exhibited 
in N. Y. city. It is the form of a solemn old Mussulman, 
and plays a very good game. 
— A Philadelphia real estate owner says there is this 
difference between his houses and his tenants, the form¬ 
er settle, while the latter don’t. 
— F. W. Bond, of Hudson, Wis., claims to have in¬ 
vented a process by which music may be printed by the 
act of playing it on the piano 1 
— Ex-President Pierce expects to return home next 
month, recent indications in Mrs. Pierce’s health being 
less encouraging than heretofore. 
— The Archbishop of Agram has written a pastoral, 
in which he describes Victor Emanuel as “ a cock spar¬ 
row presuming to peck at the eagle.” 
— The library of Baron Humboldt, left as a legacy to 
his body servant, has been purchased for $4,000, by Mr. 
Wright, the American Envoy at Berlin. 
— A block of gold, valued at $3,830 has been received 
as the result of one month’s contribution to the Mount 
Vernon fund by the ladies of California. 
— John Gorrie, M. D., of Apalachicola, has invented 
an apparatus for freezing by steam! The next step will 
be to warm ourselves with a snow-bank. 
— Friends of the Bible cause in New York are now 
making contributions for supplying the armies now in 
the field in Europe with New Testaments. 
— The Henry Clay monument at Lexington is more 
than 108 feet high, and nearly ready for the capital, on 
which is to stand the statue of the statesman. 
— The drinking-fountain movement is spreading.— 
There is one of the merciful dispensations in Pittsburg, 
and they are agitating the subject in Baltimore. 
— Some women in Kansas are signing petitions to 
the new Convention, asking for equal political rights 
with men, on the popular sovereignty principle. 
— Rev. J. W. Ricks, of California, has been fined $500 
for marrying Miss E. McDonald to John Yale, without 
the consent of her parents, she being under age. 
— The Florence correspondent of the Newark Adver¬ 
tiser writes that many of the Americans who wintered 
at Rome are now there, generally on the way for home 
Jersham Sawin, a 
II., died at liis residence in 
the 23d ult., aged 100 years 
The deceased was a private in 
Company, in Col. Fletcher’s 
olutionary War. 
Yale College is said to own ninety acres of 
land in North Canaan, Ct., which has grown up to 
alders and hardbacks, and is so worthless that the 
lessees will not pay two shillings an acre for it.— 
The papers thereabouts suggest that rusticated 
students should be sent out to cultivate the wilder¬ 
ness. 
The Charleston Mercury says that Mr. Antonio 
Canale, a well known fruiterer of Charleston, who 
recently sent 300 bales of cotton to Genoa by the 
barque Hollander, has been impressed into the 
Sardinian army, while in Genoa on business con¬ 
nected with his shipment. 
The Louisville papers note the death of Victor 
F. Ward, aged 20 years. He was whipped by But¬ 
ler, the school teacher, which whipping was the 
first act in the Matt Ward tragedy in Louisville. 
The New London Star says that at the present 
time there is not a single whaler fitting in that 
port, and it is said that the business is rapidly 
declining. 
It is now proposed in Philadelphia to tax the 
Insurance Companies some $10,000 for the water 
used in extinguishing fires. The reason for this 
is that the city pays $50,000 annually to Fire Corn- 
while all the property belonging to the city 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 16, 1859. 
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July 2d, Now is the Time to fonn Clubs for either Six 
Months or a Year. All persons who form new clubs to com¬ 
mence with July, or introduce the Rural in localities 
where it is not now taken, will be liberally remunerated for 
their time and attention. 
Back numbers from April or January can still be 
furnished, if desired. We will send Specimen Numbers, 
Show Bills, &c„ to all applicants, and to the addresses of as 
many non-subscribers as may be forwarded. 
pames, 
is insured, thus making the Insurance Companies 
gainers by this expenditure. 
The Express bag sent by the United States Ex¬ 
press Agent at St. Louis for New York, in the 
balloon Atlantic, was picked up on the 4th inst., 
on the lake, six miles west of Oswego. It contain¬ 
ed over forty letters to New York correspondents, 
among which is a draft of $1,000 on a bank. 
It has just been discovered that a young man 
sent a year ago to State Prison for ten years, for 
shooting a private watchman, is innocent, one of 
the really guilty parties having confessed their 
crime. The wounded man swore to his identity, 
and collateral evidence pointed to him as the crim¬ 
inal, and in spite of his assertions of innocence, he 
was convicted. 
Recruiting in the U. S. army, which was stop¬ 
ped some months ago, in consequence of the ranks 
being full, as was given out at the time, has been 
revived to a limited extent, for the purpose of fill¬ 
ing vacancies which are constantly occurring, 
especially in the Infantry service. 
From Utah. —Later advices from Salt Lake state 
that Judge Cradlebaugb, who had just returned 
from his Circuit, had issued during his tour nearly 
100 warrant?? against persons engaged in the Foun¬ 
tain Meadow massacre, and various other mui llera. 
The Judge says that for eight miles along his 
route, before reaching Santa Clara, he found 
human skeletons on almost every camping ground. 
He also says tbateighty white men were concerned 
in the massacre of Mountain Meadow. • 
Metternich’s Death. —The London News felic¬ 
itously says :—“ Metternich was the fanatic of the 
status quo whom Paul Louis Courier beheld in a 
vision on the morning of the creation of the world, 
crying out in indignation an alarm, ‘ Mon Dieu! 
conserrons le chaos.’ Political life and liberty, na¬ 
tional independence, the dignity of man as man, 
ivere chaos to him. Darkness was his ‘ order,’ and 
when the darkness broke, he had the wit to die.” 
Arrival of the Overland Mail.— The overland 
mail arrived at St. Louis on the 5th inst., with 
California dates to the 13tb ult. Business at San 
Francisco continued dull, and most of the leading 
staples had declined. Money was scarce, but the 
next shipment of treasure to the eastward would 
be large. The accounts from the mines continue 
favorable. Advices from Oregon state that the 
Legislature had adjourned without electing a U. S. 
Senator. Advices from Frazer River mines con¬ 
tinue unfavorable. Crowds of emigrants were re¬ 
turning to California, and many others were set¬ 
tling in Oregon and Washington Territories. 
The Late Kidnapping Case.— The trial of Low, 
Jennings, Mitchell, and Davis, for kidnapping, was 
commenced in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 6th inst.— 
At the instance of their counsel an arrangement 
was made by which nolle prosequis were entered 
in their cases, and those of the Oberlin rescuers 
who awaited trial, and the prisoners on both sides 
were discharged. 
The Japan Minister. —The following is an ex¬ 
tract from a letter written by an officer of the U. 
S. steamship Mississippi:—“Simoda, Japan, April 
5th.—The Japanese Minister declines going to the 
United States until next February. We expect to 
have to wait for him, as cabins have been built for 
him upon our deck, and our ship detailed to take 
him to the States. We shall, at all events, spend 
the summer months in these waters. We will sail 
for Nagasaki in two or three days. Letters for our 
ship will reach us if sent to Hong KoDg as hereto¬ 
fore.” 
The Pike’s Peak Gold Stories. —Advices re¬ 
ceived at Leavenworth, July 2d, state that the news 
from Pike’s Peak is still encouraging. A letter 
from Horace Greely says there is gold in paying 
quantities. Some claims were yielding $600 a day. 
A hundred dollars per day for each sluice, was con¬ 
sidered a fair average. New and rich discoveries 
were being made every day, and it was calculated 
that 500 sluices would be in operation by next 
August. Large prospecting parties were being 
organized for an extended exploration of the 
mountain districts. Business was reviving in Den¬ 
ver City. 
We have again flattering accounts from Pike’s 
Peak, but the statement of Mr. McCoy to the 
St. Joseph’s Gazette is more reliable. He says 
that the mines on the Gregory road are profitable, 
and will support 5,000 people, while there aie 25,- 
000 or 30,000 people there who are unable to earn 
a livelihood. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Matters at Washington. 
There is such information in Washington as 
warrants the belief that the recent change of the 
British Ministry will not affect the present position 
of her Majesty’s representatives abroad, with the 
exception perhaps of Lord Cowley at Paris. 
One of the conventions concluded by Minister 
M’Lean with the Juarez Government, has been 
forwarded hither by him, and others are in a fair 
way of consummation, there being no difficulties 
about the preliminaries. While the import and 
export duties at Yera Cruz have considerably di¬ 
minished in consequence of the unsettled affairs in 
the interior, the receipts at the other ports on the 
Mexican coast have largely increased. 
It is estimated that a reduction of from $200,000 
to $300,000 will be effected during the fiscal year 
just commenced, by the retrenchments in the ex¬ 
penses attending the collection of the custom reve¬ 
nue now in progress. These will continue to be 
made from time to time, as reliable information on 
the subject shall reach the Secretary. 
A Washington dispatch to the N. Y. Times says 
it is now understood that the Russians wholly re¬ 
pudiate the Perkin’s claim for ammunition con¬ 
tracted for during the Crimean war, as being 
entirely without merit or proof. 
A dispatch to the Tribune says an effort is being 
made by interested parties, both in Washington 
and in New York, to press upon the administration 
a treaty with Mexico, stipulating for a perpetual 
right of way for the Tehuantepec and other routes 
to the Pacific, and a right of a way on the line of 
the line of the Rio Grande to the Gulf of California, 
for the consideration of $25,000,000. 
Among the measures contemplated in our inter¬ 
course with Mexico, is a limited reciprocity treaty. 
This, however, will not be proposed during the 
pending negotiations on other subjects. 
September next. The basis of Representation is 
to be two delegates from each district. 
The Maine Republican State Convention, held 
at Portland on the 7th inst., nominated Hon. Lott 
M. Morrell, for Governor. The customary resolu¬ 
tions were passed and the Convention adjourned. 
The Republicans of Wisconsin will hold a Con¬ 
vention at Madison, the Capitol, on Wednesday, 
the 31st day of August next, to nominate candid¬ 
ates for Governor and other State officers, and to 
select delegates to the National Republican Con¬ 
vention, should the Convention deem it advisable 
to do so. Each Assembly district will be entitled 
to two delegates. 
The Republicans of California held a State Con¬ 
vention at Sacramento, on the 1st of June, and 
adopted resolutions re-affirming the Republican 
platform of opposition to slavery propagandism ; 
also, in favor of a Pacific Railroad, a central mail 
route, a homestead bill and Mr. Grow’s land bill. 
The following are the State nominations:— Gov¬ 
ernor — Leland Stanford, of Sacramento. Lieut. 
Governor— J. F. Kennedy, of Santa Clara. Judge 
of the Supreme Court —O. L. Shatter, of San Fran¬ 
cisco. Clerk Supreme Court — S. D. Parker, of 
Trinity. Treasurer — Philip P. Caine, of Butte. 
Comptroller —J. R. Clarke, of El Dorado. Super¬ 
intendent of Public Instruction —S. W. Brown, of 
Sonora. Survey or-General— A. G. Randall, of 
Amador. Attorney-General — II. S. Love, of San 
Francisco. 
In one of the counties of Wisconsin, it is said, 
there are three candidates for the Legislature:—J. 
M. Root, Democrat; Robt. Hogg, Free Soil; and 
T. H. Dye, Whig. So the people can have their 
choice ,—“ Root, Hogg, or Dye.” 
present itself, to exert |he moral influence of Great 
Britain to assist in restoring peace to Europe. In 
regard to the reformation, Lord P. simply says, 
that he trusts his Gotjernment may be able so to 
deal with the subjects is to strengthen the institu¬ 
tions of the country, bj placing them on a broader 
and firmer foundation, 
The elections for Mimbers of Parliament to fill 
the seats vacated by thise who have accepted office 
in the new Ministry, i’ere generally resulting in 
the return of the Government candidates. Mr. 
Gladstone, however, \ns being close pressed for 
Oxford University by he Marquis Chodas. 
An alarming and destructive fire took place at 
Cork on Thursday nigl t, the 23d. Loss not stated. 
France.— It was am ounced in Paris on Friday, 
that a corps d’armee <f 40,000 men, mainly from 
African regiments,is expected shortly in the Adri¬ 
atic sea. 
The advices from Frankfort-on-the-Maine state 
that on the 25th of June Prussia made a proposal 
