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The Power of Faith—Henry iloyt. 
Strawberries—T. Buchanan, Jr. 
Prince’s Strawberry Catalogue—Wm. R. Prince & Co. 
(irea' Curiosity—Shaw & Clark. 
Stock for Sale - Walter Cole. 
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SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Mosquitoes —Joseph Burnett & Co. 
by the resignation of Daniel Webster on entering 
Harrison’s Cabinet. At the close of his term in 
1845 he returned to Boston, and has since devoted 
his time to the practice of his profession. 
The Kansas Constitutional Convention has adopt¬ 
ed the Ohio Constitution, as embodying the lead¬ 
ing features which they would prefer to have incor¬ 
porated in the instrument they have met to frame. 
The vote stood, for Ohio 28, Indiana 23, Kentucky 1. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 23, 1859. 
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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
The Democratic State Convention of Mississippi 
assembled at Jackson on the 4th inst. The delega¬ 
tion in attendance was very large. The nomina¬ 
tions are i— Governor —John J. Pettus, of Ivempei* 
Secretary of State — Robert Webb, of Pontotoc. 
Auditor — E. R. Burt, of Noxubee. Treasurer — 
M. T. Haynes, of Yazoo. 
Tiie complete official returns of the recent elec¬ 
tion for Governor of Virginia make Letcher’s ma¬ 
jority 5,470. 
The Anti-Lecompton State Convention of Cali¬ 
fornia, met at Sacramento on the 15th ult., and 
made the following nominations for State officers : 
Governor — John Curry. Lieutenant-Governoi '— 
John Conness. Clerk of Supreme Court ■—Joseph 
Powell. State Treasurer — David R. Ashley.— 
Comptroller — Geo. Pierce. Attorney-General — 
J. C. Steele. Stale Printer —John O’Meara. Sur¬ 
vey or-General — James S. LoDg. 
News Paragraphs. 
The venerable David Smith, D. D., who spoke at 
the dinner of the Massachusetts Society of Cincin¬ 
nati, was probably the oldest person in the country 
who made an address on the 4th inst. He was a 
lad of nine years when the Declaration of Inde¬ 
dependence was signed! 
At Norwich, Ct., on the 4th, a party of juveniles 
paraded the streets with a banner, on which was 
inscribed the following words:—“ Young America. 
Give us liberty, or give us confectionery.” 
Matters at Washington. 
The War Department has adopted a regulation, 
fixing a tax upon settlers at posts occupied by one 
or more companies, at ten cents per month for 
each commissioned officer and enlisted man be¬ 
longing to the command in each regiment. The 
fund accruing to it, as above, or as much of it as 
may be necessary, will be appropriated to the 
maintenance of the band. 
The late Congress appropriated only $15,000 as 
a preliminary for taking the next census, for the 
preparation of blank forms, instructions to Mar¬ 
shals, Ac. Ample time will be allowed for the 
selection of reliable deputies, and such arrange¬ 
ments will be made by the Secretary of the Inte¬ 
rior as will secure the prosecution of the work 
■with more promptness and perfectness than here¬ 
tofore. 
There is authority for the assertion that, how¬ 
ever desirable the acquisition of Lower California 
may be to the Administration, no such proposition 
is now pending between the Government of the 
United States and Mexico, as had been stated. 
The Washington Constitution of the 14th inst., 
contains a copy of a dispatch from the State De¬ 
partment., recently sent to our Minister at Berlin, 
on the subject of naturalization. The case is that 
of a naturalized citizen of the United States, who 
is a native of Hanover, and who, when he left his 
native country, was neither in actual service in 
the Hanoverian army, nor had he been drafted to 
serve in it, but who has yet, on his return to Hano¬ 
ver, been deprived of his liberty, and compelled 
to perform military service. The President and 
Cabinet concur in the views expressed, taking the 
ground that the moment a foreigner becomes 
naturalized, his allegiance to his native country is 
severed. He is no more responsible for anything 
he may say or do, or omit to say or do, after assum¬ 
ing his new character, than if he had been born 
in the United States. Should he return to his 
native country, he returns as an American citizen, 
and in no other character. In order to entitle his 
original government to punish him for an offense, 
this must have been committed while he was a 
subject and owed allegiance to that government. 
The offence must have been complete before his 
expatriation. It must have been of such a charac¬ 
ter that he might have been tried and punished 
for it at the moment of his departure. Our Min¬ 
ister is instructed to demand the release of the 
naturalized citizen in question. 
Judge Rose, the American Consul at Guyana, 
reached Washington on the 14th inst., and ten¬ 
dered his resignation to the Government. He 
made a thorough exploration of Sonora, and pro¬ 
nounces it the richest mineral country in the 
world. Gov. Pescheira is now absent in Sinaloa, 
and the Indians are devastating all the upper and 
western portions of Sonora. Murders and rob¬ 
beries are every day committed. 
On the hillsides near Monte Cristo, California, 
the wind catches up the snow drifts and makes 
“ spouts of the feathery crystals thirty to fifty feet 
high, just as it would of the water at sea, only 
when the snow reaches the top of the spout it sepa¬ 
rates and falls over like spray. 
The proprietors of the Detroit and Milwaukee 
Railroad have authorized the erection of a force 
pump and convenient troughs in a building near 
their depot in Detroit, for the purpose of accom¬ 
modating their passengers with gratuitous ablu¬ 
tions, where they may bathe and cleanse themselves 
with pure and refreshing water, after a long ride 
in the cars. Dressing rooms are soon to be added. 
The remarkable exemption of the city of New’ 
Orleans from yellow’ fever this year thus far, it is 
believed, is due to the long continued overflow of 
the Mississippi river. The theory that overflows 
are preventives of this disease, is strongly defend¬ 
ed in the New Orleans Medical Review, and is daily 
becoming stronger in the public mind. 
Zinc is now produced in the lead mines near 
Mineral Point, Wis.; and it is believed the amount 
produced in Illinois and Wisconsin will be large. 
If so, a new source of wealth is opened up in the 
West. 
The legacy of five thousand dollars left to the 
city of Pbiladelphia by Elliot Gresson, has been 
paid over. The bequest is for the purpose of plant¬ 
ing shade trees in the streets of the city. From 
this wise investment there will be realized three 
hundred dollars a year—enough to pay for planting 
fifty or sixty trees annually. 
The climate of Arizona is slightly w’arm at this 
season of the year. On the 11th of J une the ther¬ 
mometer at Tubac, in the shade of a cool ball, with 
the floor sprinkled, stood at 106°, and yet it was 
said that the “hot season” had not commenced! 
At the Fourth of July celebration in Ironton, 
Missouri, Capt. John Hall, one of Marion’s men, 
was present. He is a native of North Carolina, and 
will be 99 years of age on the 21st of September 
next. He supports himself by making brooms and 
baskets, and has never received a pension, though 
he fought gallantly during the Revolutionary war, 
and distinguished himself at the battle of Guilford 
Court House, N. C., March 15,1781, where he was 
Lieutenant of a company. 
Mr. Nathaniel Mouse, of Newburyport, Mass., 
was lined $27 in the Police Court of that city, last 
Saturday, for shooting ten robins. His defence 
was that the birds visited the cherry trees and 
partook of the fruit. There seems to be a disposi¬ 
tion in all parts of the Commonwealth to enforce 
the law for the preservation of useful birds. 
Mu. Rauey is now’ again in London, taming fero¬ 
cious horses, giving lessons to cavalry officers and 
rough riders, and occasionally exhibiting his art 
in public. When he returns to this country he 
will briDg the famous horse Cruiser with him. 
Personal and Political. 
Gov. Seymour, late Minister of the United States 
at St. Petersburg, has arrived in Paris, en route 
for home. 
The New York Herald trots out George Law 
again for the Presidency. 
Three of the members of Congress elected to 
the next House of Representatives have died, viz., 
Hon. Thos. L. Harris, in the Sixth District of Illi¬ 
nois; Hon. Cyrus Spinck, in the Fourteenth Dis¬ 
trict of Ohio, and Hon. Wm. 0. Goode, in the 
Fourth District of Virginia. Messrs. Goode and 
Harris were representatives in the last Congress. 
Hon. Rufus Choate died at Halifax on the after¬ 
noon of the 12th inst. Mr. Choate sailed from 
Boston for Europe a couple of weeks ago, but was 
obliged to leave the steamer at Halifax, where he 
remained up to the time of his death. Mr. C. was 
one of the most distinguished advocates and jurists 
in the United States, lie was a native of Essex, 
Mass., and 60 years of age. He graduated at Dart¬ 
mouth College, in 1819, and subsequently studied 
in the Cambridge Law’ School and the office of Wm. 
Wirt at Washington. Success and elevation fol¬ 
lowed every step of his professional career after 
his admission to the bar in 1824. He was a year 
in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and 
the same period in the Senate. In 1832 he was 
elected to the United States House of Representa¬ 
tives and served a single term. In 1841 he was 
chosen to the United States Senate by the Massa¬ 
chusetts legislature, to fill the vacancy occasioned I 
A Tornado in New York City. —The tornado 
of last evening, (13th inst.,) was the most violent 
of the season, and lasted for two hours, accompa¬ 
nied by incessant lightning and torrents of rain. 
Many trees in the city and suburbs were uprooted 
by the wind or shivered by the lightning. Build¬ 
ings were unroofed and streets flooded. Many of 
ihe railroad tracks in the city and vicinity were 
made impassable by falling trees. A conductor 
of one of the horse cars at Williamsburg ivas 
struck by lightning and badly injured, and several 
horses were killed in the streets. A pleasure boat 
was capsized on the Passaic, near Newark, and 
two young men drowned. Two young girls were 
also killed. 
TnE Kansas Gold Mines. — Later advices, to 
Leavenworth, from the mines, say that prospect¬ 
ing south of the present diggings has resulted in 
further gold discoveries. Good leads have been 
struck seven miles below Jackson’s, on Clear 
Creek, and rich discoveries are also reported near 
Boulder City. Denver City is increasing largely 
in buildings and population, and there was an ac¬ 
tive demand for provisions. All the indications 
point to the re-establishment of confidence and 
the steady development of the Kansas mines. 
American Institute of Instruction. — The next 
Annual Meeting of this body will be held at New 
Bedford, Mass., August 2-3d, 24th and 25tli, 1859. 
It is anticipated that the meeting will be of more 
than usual interest, and a rich programme is 
promised. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
From the Seat of War. 
Several steamers have arrived during the week, 
and each has brought more or less intelligence from 
the field of battle. At the battle of Sol ferino, (abrief 
acount of which was given in last Rural,) no less 
than 400,000 men were engaged, and Mr. Raymond, 
of the New York Times, writing from the scene, 
remarks, “of this number not less than 30,000 
were killed or disabled.” In a description of the 
position of the contending forces, Mr. R. says: 
“Just back of CastiglioDe rises a high range of 
hills. The Austrians had taken position upon 
these hills, planting canDon upon those nearest to 
Cast.iglione, which they could approach, and bad 
stationed their immense army all over the sur¬ 
rounding plain. Napoleon promptly accepted the 
challenge and commenced the attack as soon as it 
was light this morniDg, by placing cannon upon 
the hills still nearer to Castiglione than those held 
by the Austrians, and opened a fire upon them on 
the heights beyond. He took his own stand upon 
the highest of these—a steep, sharp-backed ridge, 
which commanded a magnificent view of the entire 
circuit of the yflain, and from that point directed 
the entire movements of his army during the early 
portion of the day. The French soon drove the 
enemy out of the posts they had Dearest the town, 
and followed them into the small villages of the 
plain below. The first ofthese was Solferino, where 
they had a sharp and protracted engagement. The 
Austrians disputed every inch of the ground, and 
fought here, as they did throughout the day, with 
the utmost desperation. They were three times 
driven out of the town before they would stay out.” 
The Austrians have abandoned the line of the 
Mincio and fallen back on Verona, after having 
burned the bridges at Monzambano, Vallegio and 
Goito. 
A private dispatch from the French head-quarters, 
dated the 3d says:—This morning at 7 o’clock, the 
Emperor quitted Volta in order to cross the Min¬ 
cio, and establish his head-quarters at Vallegio. 
We are only four leagues from Peschiera, the siege 
of which was begun two days ago by the Sardini¬ 
ans. Cannons were beard night and day in that 
direction. The Austrian advance post is but a 
short distance from Villa Franca, which is occu¬ 
pied by the corps of Marshal Neil. It is much 
doubted that the Austrian army will venture to ac¬ 
cept a battle in the condition of demoralization and 
stupor into which they have fallen since our victory 
at Solferino. 
Flume, July 4. — It is asserted that French 
troops, amounting to 10,000 meD, have disembarked 
at Lossino I’iccalo, an island in the Adriatic, and 
that the bridge to Churso, an adjacent island, had 
been destroyed. 
Vallegio, July 4.—(Official.)—The French army 
increased by Prince Napoleon’s corps, will operate 
against Verona, whilst part of the Sardinians be¬ 
gin the seige of Peschiera. The Emperor having 
sent back the ivounded, without exchange, and 
having requested an exchange of prisoners, an 
Austrian has arrived with the announcement that 
the Emperor of Austria will also send back, with¬ 
out exchange, the wounded prisoners of the allies, 
and that his Majesty is equally desirous for the ex¬ 
change of others. 
Turin, July 4.—-(Official.)—On the 29th ult. the 
Sardinians more closely invested the interior forti¬ 
fications of Pesch'era, situated on the north bank 
of the Mincio. Our army crossed the river on the 
SOtb, to invest P$*5isra„ also on the left bank. 
Berne, July 5.—The Austrians have withdrawn 
from Bormio.’ Th<? Piedmontese are advancing to¬ 
wards the Stelvio pass. A report was current that 
the Austrians bad entered Verona. The Herald’s 
Turin correspondent says, that 20,000 beds had 
been ordered down from Milan to Breschia and 10,- 
000 from Turin. There were great complaints of 
scarcity of provisions in the village occupied by the 
allies. 
Kossuth left Parma on the 28th for Napoleon’s 
head-quarters. He had an enthusiastic reception 
at all the places he passed through, from Turin to 
Parma, and delivered many addresses. The organi¬ 
zation of the Hungarian legion advanced rapidly. 
Still Later Intelligence. 
Tue steamer City of Washington arrived at New’ 
York yesterday P. M., and the telegraph this 
morning (Tuesday,) puts us in possession of the 
following additional intelligence: 
The Paris correspondent of the London Times 
says, letters from the headquarters of Prince Napo¬ 
leon state that another great battle is expected on 
the banks of the Adige, and the Austrians are be¬ 
lieved to have 200,000 men in the line. French 
battalions are organizing at Paris. The Times 
also says that it is now pretty clearly understood 
that Prussia will only act on the defensive. 
Reliable information had reached Vienna that 
Garibaldi’s men had violated the Tyrol by entering 
Tonale Pass. Prince Windischgratz had been 
absent to Berlin to acquaint the Prussian Govern¬ 
ment of this fact. 
A Frankfort letter announces that the Austrian 
Government, having been compelled by the battle 
of Solferino to dispatch to the theatre of w’ar those 
troops which it had in reserve in the Tyrol, that 
province being consequently menaced by invasion 
by Garibaldi’s corps, intends to propose to the 
Diet in virtue of the treaty of Vienna, which re¬ 
quires the German States to guarantee each other’s 
German territory, to send a German army into the 
Tyrol. 
Kossuth has issued a proclamation, calling the 
Hungarian nation to arms to struggle for liberty, 
and announces that he will soon be among them. 
The Invalide Eusse discusses the possible com¬ 
plications of the war. Prussia, it says, has called 
out an army of 300,000 men, wiiich will be rein¬ 
forced by a federal contingent of 150,000 men, and 
it is with such an enormous display of force that 
she proposes to offer her mediation to France, and 
to hasten the conclusion of a peace, but such an 
armed mediation constitutes a kind of ultimatum. 
Is not France entitled to reply that the conditions 
of peace ought to be proposed by all the great 
powers, conjointly, not by Prussia alone, and that 
such an armed mediation made by a single power 
is equivalent to a declaration of war? But when 
to maintain the Austrian possessions in Italy, a 
German army of a million men shall be put in mo¬ 
tion to attack France, can the Palmerston-Russell 
administration remain indifferent spectators to a 
new’ confederation ? The English Ministry w’lll 
most certainly not allow’ the new war to begin 
without first exhausting all the powers of persua¬ 
sion. 
It is stated that the proposals made by Prussia 
on the extraordinary sitting of the Federal Diet 
on the 4tb, were the following: 
1st. The junction of the 9th and 10th corps de 
armee to the Prussian army. 
2d. The appointment to the commander-in-chief 
of the four non-Prussian and non-Austrian corps 
de armee. 
3d. The placing of all reserve contiDgence in 
readiness to march. 
Great Britain. —In the House of Lords, Lord 
Brougham called attention to the war rumor, ask¬ 
ing if there was aDy truth in the report that Gov¬ 
ernment intended to reduce the navy estimates. 
Duke Somerset denied the truth of the report. 
Earl Hardwick eulogized the late Government for 
their efforts to strengthen the navy, and gave vari¬ 
ous statistics to show that even yet it was not what 
it ought to be. Lord Ellenborough fully recog¬ 
nized the necessity of placing the navy in a proper 
condition, but trusted that some attention would 
also be devoted to the army. 
In the House of Commons Palmerston announc¬ 
ed the intention of ihe new Ministry to pursue the 
policy of strict neutrality with reference to foreign 
affairs. Also announced that a reform bill would 
he introduced immediately after the meeting of the 
next session of Parliament. 
Mil nor Gibson had accepted Ihe Presidency of 
the Board of Trade, declined by Mr. Cobden. 
France. — A Te Deum was chanted at Notre 
Dame on Sunday, for the victory at Solferino. The 
same thanksgiving took place in all the places of 
worship throughout France. 
Naval preparations were never more active at 
Toulon and Brotite. Another division of the army 
of Lyons leaves for Italy, and immense quantities 
of projectiles of all kinds continue to be forwarded. 
Prussia. —Prussia is said to have given positive 
assurance that the recent measures with regard to 
her military forces are not taken with a view of 
hostilities, and that France may remain perfectly 
tranquil on that score. 
On the 14th there was an extraordinary sitting 
of the Federal Diet at Frankfort, when Prussia 
presented new and further proposals respecting the 
establishment, extension and command of the corps 
of observation on the Rhine. 
A Berlin correspondent of the Times says, that 
the Prussian proposals were in the hands of Eng¬ 
land and Russia. The writer says, that by the end 
of the week the Prussian army will be in full 
march. Two co?ps de armee will be stationed on 
the Silesian frontier, in case of an unexpected 
attack on that part by Russia. On the lower and 
middle Rhine 140,000 Prussians will be stationed. 
When these preparations are completed, Prussia 
will probably make her proposals to France, and 
will unquestionably be refused. The same corres¬ 
pondent gives an outline of the propositions, which 
include the erection of Venice into a separate King¬ 
dom, with the Arch-Duke Maximilian as King. 
Commercial — Bread-stuffs. — RicliardsoD, Spence & 
Ce. quote breadstuff's tending downward. Flour was 
offered at higher prices, but sales quite unimportant — 
The quotations are 10sGd@18s6d. The prices of wheat 
are easier, but without any decided change. Western 
red was quoted at 8s@9a4d; Southern white 9s® 10s. 
All quotations of corn had declined slightly, "ixed 
5sl0®5elld ; yellow 5sl0d®63ds ; white 7s®7s9d. Pro¬ 
visions.—Vork is heavy, with but little inquiry. Bacon 
unchanged. Business moderate. 
Clippings from Foreign Journals. 
The Vienna correspondent of the London Times 
asserts that for the Iasi ten years matters h avo been 
so terribly managed in Austria, that it will be al¬ 
most miraculous if the Empire escapes dissolution. 
There are now fourteen steamships employed by 
Scotch Companies in the whale and seal fisheries 
of the Arctic regions. We believe that none of the 
American Companies have yet employed steam 
vessels in fishing operations. So successful have 
been these Scotch fishing steamers that their 
number is increasing every year. 
Many of the Austrian prisoners will be dispatch¬ 
ed to Algeria, to be employed there on the railways. 
It is mentioned that the army in Italy is almost 
without shoes, and that owing to the scarcity of 
labor in Paris, the government cannot get them 
made by contractors. The Mayor of each arron- 
dissement has intimated to all the shoemakers, 
large and small, that the government will require 
about 70,000 pairs to be ready in fifteen days. — 
Every shoemaker will have to send in a certain 
quantity, according to his means, and it is hoped 
to collect about a million pairs in this way. 
Accounts from Scotland state that the drouth 
during May and part of June, was more severe 
than during any past year since 1826. The rivers 
Earn and Tay were nearly dry—the famous Doon, 
immortalized by Burns, would slide through a 
measure, and other well known streams and rivers 
were thoroughly dried up. 
The impression existing that the Emperor Fran¬ 
cis Joseph is himself responsible for the defeat of 
his army at Solferino is confirmed. He insisted on 
giving battle on the 24th, in opposition to the wish 
of Gen. Hess. The result is very unfortunate for 
him, and must have a dispiriting effect on the 
Austrian army. 
The North China Herald of April 27th, thinks 
there is considerable doubt if the proposed em¬ 
bassy from Japan to the United States will take 
place. The conservative party, who are opposed 
to all innovations, are determined to prevent the 
infraction of the law which prohibits Japanese 
from leaving their country. 
Wheat Lower than Corn.— Says the Chicago 
Tribune of the 14th inst:—“ Yesterday afternoon, 
an operator offered to give 1,000 bushels Standard 
Spring Wheat for the same amount of No. 1 Corn; 
but he could not find any one io trade with him.— 
The fact is, that No. 1 Corn was nominally one 
cent higher than Standard SpriDg Wheat—rather 
a singular fact in the grain trade. Since the fore¬ 
going was penned, our “Commercial ” informs us 
that subsequent to the above offer being refused, 
wheat rose to the level of corn, and several thou¬ 
sand bushels were exchanged even.” 
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Large Deposits in the Savings Banks—Pros¬ 
perity of the Working Classes. —The New York 
Herald says the best evidence that the late financial 
revulsion through which we have passed has not 
very seriously affected the working classes in that 
city, is to be found in the amounts deposited in the 
Savings Banks. In the Savings Banks of New 
York and Brooklyn, there are upwards of thirty 
millions of dollars deposited, bearing interest at 
rates varying from four to six per cent., which 
have been made since the 1st of January, 1859. 
<£l)t $tcros Condenser. 
— The cholera has made its appearance at St. Peters- 
burgh, Russia. 
— The public debt of the United States on July 1st 
was $65,264,000. 
— The Central Park of N. Y. city is the largest city 
park in the world. 
— An upholsterer named Blair, in Albany, i 8 making 
5,000 beds for the French army in Italy. 
— More than 1,500 hogs were killed by the falling of 
a pen-building in Cincinnati last week. 
- “ Thompson’s Saloon,” a famous Broadway estab¬ 
lishment, is closed to be opened no more. 
— Brevet Major Ridgley, of the United States Army, 
died at Washington on Wednesday last. 
— Three United States Senators, viz : Messrs. Seward 
Clingman and Sumner, are now in Paris. 
— The State of Maine will have a larger hay crop this 
year than has been known for some time. 
— The New York Common Council have ordered fifty 
free hydrants for the bei eflt of the thirsty. 
— A chicken was hatched in Gloucester, Mass., which 
had four legs, one body and head, and two bills. 
— The horse Jack Rossiter has been matched for 
$2,000 in England to trot, 20 miles within an hour. 
— There are in Middleton township. Bucks county, 
Pa., 148 persons of the age CO years and upwards. 
— The Tioga county bank and the bank of Lawrence 
Co-, Penn., have been discredited at Philadelphia. 
— In Albany, complaints have been made agalnrt 
nine of the city bakers for short weight in their loaves, 
- The Emperor of Austria is one of tho beet linguists 
in the empire. Be speaks thirteen languages perfectly. 
— Daniel E Sickles has become reconciled to his wife, 
and is now living with her in a state of devoted attach¬ 
ment. 
— The Handols-Zeitung states that tho capital em¬ 
ployed in the St. Louis beer breweries is nearly $20,- 
000 , 00 - 
— A man died in city the of New York Wednesday 
week supposed of yellow fever. Ho was buried in a 
hurry. 
- The Coinage Commissioners of Great Britain have 
decided against the use of the Decimal Bystem at 
present. 
— The city council of Toledo has contracted for boring 
and finishing twenty Artesian wells In different parts of 
that city. 
— Seventy fugitive slaves lately arrived in Canada 
from Tennessee, the largest company that ever escaped 
together. 
— The degree of A. M. has been conferred upon Miss 
Martha Haines Butt, by the Harrisburgh (Pa.) Female 
Institute. 
— Complaint is made of a long protracted drouth in 
certain districts of Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, and 
Louisiana. 
I — Mr. Paul, a trader at Superior City, shipped about 
! $20,000 worth of fine furs a few days ago to Europe via 
New York. 
— A New Haven boy, a son of Samuel Ware, Esq., is 
head mechanic in the railroad machine shop, St. Peters¬ 
burg, Russia. 
— There were thirty-six American seagoing vessels 
reported during the last mouth as wrecked, missing, or 
otiicx w lau loot. 
— Gov. Hicks, of Maryland, has lost his eldest 
daughter and his youngest son within the short space 
of seven days. 
— The town of Woodbury, Conn., last week celebra¬ 
ted the occasion of its reaching the ripe old age of two 
hundred years. 
— The first street railroad in St. Louis has just been 
completed. Great rejoicings followed the progress of 
the initiatory car. 
— The Chicago Tribune claims a population of 143,- 
000 for that city, takingthe last two directories as abasis 
for the calculation. 
_The nutmeg tree in Ibe East Indies has been seized 
with a disorder that not only is ruining the crop, bat 
killing all the trees. 
_The Pope has made a demonstration in token of 
his neutrality by canonizing on the same day an Austrian 
and a French saint. 
— A party of four persons from New Bedford caught 
700 pounds of sword-fish Thursday week, twenty-five 
miles below the city. 
— A new paper is soon to be commenced in London 
by Dr. Chas. Mackay. Several distinguished AmericJW 
are to be contributors. j 
— The fruit crop in California this year, accorffifo t0 
the San Francisco Herald, will amount to betw^ 3 * IX 
and seven million dollars. 
— The papers are freighted with 4tli of Jul/ ca3 "^‘ 
tics. Scores of youth have been killed or male 1011 frow 
the careless use of powder. 
— The Albany Argus estimates that the canal ro ' c ‘ 
nues of the State of New York for 1859, wi’tbc $200,000 
or $300,000 lower than in 1857. 
— Since the North Carolina Unive/W bestowed the 
degree of LL. D. on tho President, of the papers 
speak of him as Dr. Buchanan. 
— New revolutions have broken out ' n Chili, leru, 
and Equador. In the latter State he defeat of the gov¬ 
ernment is considered certain. 
- A fleet of canal boats, flv*/n number, arrived at 
Oswego, from Canada, with ovQ hundred tuns eac o 
leached ashes for New York’ 
-The Fall River (Mass.) News says that it is 19 months 
since the services of the fire department have been re¬ 
quired within the limits of that city. 
- The Probate Conrt of Cincinnati has awarded the 
city $‘260,000 damages for the use of certain of its hig. - 
ways by the Street Railroad Company. 
- McMahon, the new Duke of Magenta and Marshal 
of France, is descended from one of the refugees who 
camo to France with English James II. 
— One of the passengers in the late disaster upon the 
Michigan Southern Railroad settled with the company 
for the loss of his wife and child for $500. 
— Men in Milwaukee are gambling in breadstufis. 
They engage to sell or to buy 50,000 to 80,000 bbls., when 
the daily receipts are not over 15,000 bbls. 
— The sale of the Collins steamships of the Pacific 
Mail Co. is confirmed. The steamers sold are the At¬ 
lantic, Baltic, and Adriatic-price $300,000. 
— During the eight days following tho Fourth, no loss 
than 200 patients were admitted to Bellevue Hospital, 
New York, to bo treated for cuts and bruises. 
— It is reported that Charles 8umner, now in Paris, is 
about to be married to Mrs. Thayer, (nee Granger,) 
widow of tho late John E. Thayer, of Boston. 
— At alate anniversary of the San Francisco Sunday 
School Union, it was stated that the association coni 
prises 263 teachers, 1,460 scholars and 14 schools. 
