CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. Attorney, as witnesses against certain white men^ 
who are strongly implicated in that crime. The 
t i • ,« » A r’! IC u LT r R H, L ' n **** other children will arrive at Leavenworth about 
Inquiries and Notes.—Catarrh m Cattle; Seeding Down „ . , n ini.v.ii 
to Grass; Sulphur Water for Butter-making. 253 tbe 10th of August, where l iam . > 
Thick or Thin Sowing.253 whose two sons and their wives were among the 
The Potato.—Potatoes Mixing in the Hill; Jenny Lind wounded emigrants, will receive them and return 
Potato: Potatoes Growing on the Haulm, [Illustra- , t their friend g in Arkansas. The initiatory 
The Apiarians.253,254 steps for their recovery were taken by Mr. Mia, 
"Wheat Culture.—Missouri Wheat.254 the former Commissioner, and Commissioner 
Agricultural Societies and Premiums. 254 Greenwood has zealously consummated that hu- 
About Plowing.—Answer to Criticisms.254 
Draining and Subsoil Plow, [Illustrated]. 254 maDe P U |"P ' .. > 4 - oAM in Min- 
Steam Plowing—Successful Trial. 254 The public lands adveris- ■- 
Dural Spirit of the Press.- The Farmer’s Creed; nesotafrom the 1st to the 14th of October, embrace 
On Butter Making; The WiUow and Willow Ware. 254 the government alternates within the six miles 
Agricultural Miscellany .—Seed Wheat—New Varie- limits of the railroad grants and the pine lands of 
ties, &c.; Wheat Growing in Central New York; A tfae northeastern portion of that State, consisting 
Premium Appreciated—Ketchum’s Combined Machine; 
People’s College; Spring Barley Sown in the Fall; 1>7©0,000 acies. 
Plants Upon One Acre; New Harrow and Seed Sower; 
A Bee-keeping Locality; Another Good Cow. 254 p ersona j and Political. 
HORTICULTURAL. „ „ ... , ,, 
An Extensive Pear Orchard. 255 The Republicans of Mas 
The Republicans of Massachusetts have called 
Hartford Prolific Grape. 255 their nominating Convention at Fitchburg on the 
Floral Wreath, [Illustrated]. 255 2 0th of September. 
Culture of Raspberries. 255 Several thousand electors of St. Louis have 
The Family of Currants. 255 petitioned the Mayor to submit to a vote the ques- 
An Editor’s Farm. 255 t ; on w h e ther the sale of liquor shall be prohibited 
Skewers for Vines. 255 1= <ri<*Twl hv nf 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Jumbles; Mountain Cake; Rusk; Cream Cake; Cur¬ 
rant Wine; Elderberry Wine; Cooking Mutton, Veal, 
Fish, &c.; Soda Pound Cake; Lemon Cake; Cooking; 
Cookies; Jumbles; Ginger Snaps; Pie-Plant and 
Gooseberry Pie; Crackers; Preserving Green Com; 
on the Sabbath. The petition is signed by men of 
all creeds, opinions and nationalities. 
Op what material the next House of Representa¬ 
tives will be composed is a matter of speculation. 
The political character of the members already 
Shrewsbury Cake. 255 elected stands as followsOpposition, 112; Dem- 
LADIES’ OLIO. ocrats, 51; Anti-Lecompton Democrats, 8; Ameri- 
Onr Idol, ("Poetical;] Plain Talks to American Women— __ ca n, 1. If the other States elect as they did to the 
No,XU ..... 3 last Congress, viz; —nearly all Democrats, the 
August, [Poetical:] The Autobiography of a Maple Tree; _ complexion will be Opposition, 112; Democrats, 
ttpniuTrrin Franklin's Tnt,i»£rrifcv : SMlmamindi.25 
Benjamin Franklin’s Integrity; Salmagundi. 256 102; Anti-Lecompton Democrats, 9 ; Americans, 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 13. Oregon will come in with her representatives, 
and make tbe total of the HouSe 237 memberS > and 
All Your Need; Life’sDuties; Almsgiving Not Charity. 250 require 119 to make a majority. 
EDUCATIONAL. wi YrT , V n «cflo PrtncHfi-iHnnnl C, 
educational. The Kansas Constitutional Convention has fixed 
A Defect and the Remedy: Reading Aloud; Out-and- ,, , , . ... c. , , , , , 
Dried Teachers : Industry and Genius; I Will ; Edu- the boundaries of the new State as already delined, 
cate the Perceptive Faculties . 257 exce pt U p 0 n the west, where the twenty-third 
USEFUL OUO meridian of longitude is taken as the line. This 
The Human Hand; Singing of Birds; Controversy; The , „ 
Moon’s Surface. 257 makes the State 300 miles long by about 210 from 
YOUNG RURALIST. north to south. The Constitution is radically anti- 
Trimming Melon Vines—Well-Trained Tomato Plant, slavery, but differs from the Leavenworth instru- 
[Illustrated ;] A Good Character . 257 . , ... , 
STORY TEII El? ment inasmuch as it does not extend the right of 
There’s Work Enough to Do, [Poetical;] Rosamond, or suffrage to negroes. The State Legislature is to 
the Youthful Error-A Tale of Riverside; Important consist of 72 Representatives and 21 Senators. The 
to Every One. 260 r 
___ Business Convention disposed of, with tolerable 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. expedition, the question of apportionment, the 
- temporary Capital being the only measure which 
Burnett’s Cocoaine—Joseph Burnett & Co. offered serious obstacles. Topeka is selected tem- 
Public Sale of Devon Cattle and Southdown Sheep—Lewis poranly as the Capital, Lawience being the com- 
* Cfimon Liberal Institute-Prof. N. White, A. M„ Principal, petitor. The efforts of the partisans of both these 
Premium Strawberries—Wm. R. Prince & C 9 . places revealed considerable corruption both inside 
Hickok's Patent Portable Cider and Wme Mill and Press— 1 , „ ,, „ .. , 
W. C. iiickok. ^ and outside of the Convention, and one or more 
WUson^s > and^Pea^ody’s"iee^)ings—I?W.^Briggs. members are implicated in charges of bribery. 
Teacher— Va “ mten ’ A " M " 1>linci » al - The Convention adjourned on the 29th ult. by 34 
Grape Vines—M. D. Freer & Co. to 13, all the Democrats voting against it, and 
special notices. refusing to sign it. 
The Toilet Companion—Joseph Burnett & Co. 
Beauty—Joseph Burnett & Co. Letter from President Buchanan. —Mr. Bu- 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Ilf® 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 6, 1859. 
TERMS, IN ADVANCE: 
places revealed considerable corruption both inside 
and outside of the Convention, and one or more 
members are implicated in charges of bribery. 
The Convention adjourned on the 29th ult. by 34 
to 13, all the Democrats voting against it, and 
refusing to sign it. 
Letter from President Buchanan. —Mr. Bu¬ 
chanan writes to a friend, under date of July 25th, 
as follows: 
“My Dear Sir: —I have received your kind note 
of the 19th inst., together with the leader from the 
Post. Whilst I appreciate, as it deserves, the 
ability and friendship displayed in that editorial, I 
yet regret that it has been published. My deter¬ 
mination, not, under any circumstances, to become 
a candidate for re-election, is final and conclusive. 
My best judgment and strong inclination unite in 
favor of this course. To cast doubt upon my pre¬ 
determined purpose is calculated to impair my 
influence in carrying out important measures, and 
One copy,_1 year, ....$2 One copy, 6 mo’s,.$1 OO affords a pretext for saying that these measures 
iix r cSplS e8 ’.-.V.:.V.::.10 I OO have been dictated by a desire to be re-nominated. 
Ten copies,.15 Ten copies,. 7 50 
Sixteen copies,. 'X 2 Sixteen copies,_ 11 OO 
Twenty copies,.20 Twenty copies.... 1 3 OO 
Thirty-Two copies,...40 Thirty-Two do. 20 00 
And an Extra Copy, free, to every person remitting for a 
dub of six or more copies; and Two free copies for every 
club of Thirty or over. As a new Half Volume commenced 
July 2d, Now is the Time to form Club3 for either Six 
Months or a Year. All persons who form new clubs to com- 
With kindest regards, 
Respectfully, your friend, 
James Buchanan.” 
From the Pacific Side. 
The steamship Moses Taylor, from Aspinwall, 
arrived at New York on the 27th ult., and the 
mence with July, *r introduce the Rural in localities Northern Light on the 31st. The former brought 
where it is not now taken, will be liberally remunerated for $2,145,000 in specie. From the files we gather the 
their time and attention. following intelligence : 
ew Back numbers from April or January can still be Business at San Francisco remains without any 
furnished, if desired. We will send Specimen Numbers, improvement. 
Show Bills, &c„ to all applicants, and to the addresses of as Much excitement was caused on the Isthmus by 
many non-subscribers as may be forwarded. the discovery of large quantities of golden images 
-in the Indian graves in the Chiviqui District. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. Many hundred of miners have gone there, and 
already several thousands of dollars worth had 
Matters at Washington. been sent to p anam a. 
Advices received here from Nicaragua give A serious disturbance took place at Aspinwall 
assurance of a fair prospect of satisfactory settle- the 20th of July, occasioned by a scurrilous article 
ment of the transit difficulties, and speak in confi- published in a little news sheet printed in that 
dent terms of the ability of Gen. Juarez to secure place, reflecting on some of the railroad employees, 
the rejection of the Lamar-Seeladon treaty, ob- The printing office was attacked by a mob, and the 
jected to by our Government. 
presses and all the other printing materials thrown 
The balance in the treasury on the 25th was into the sea. During the seizure the propietors 
nearly $5,000,000. The receipts for the week end- attempted to defend the office, and several shots 
ing on that day were $2,253,000. The drafts paid were fired upon the assailants, resulting in the 
amounted to $1,616,000, and the drafts issued to killing of one man and wounding five others. 
$2,114,000. Horatio Lyon, proprietor of the paper, and three 
A letter from Supt. Johnson has been received printers, were arrested and committed, 
at the Jndian Bureau in which speaking of the Chm has at last a eed to S15)000 indc mnity 
difficulty between the Pawnee Indians and citizens to the owners of the Ame rican ship Franklin. 
of Nebraska, he says: — “ho white person was m. , e . , . ,, . , , 
, } , The town of Ancud, in the province of Chili, had 
killed, but the whites have killed two Indians and , , , , , , , ~ T 
’ T ,. . been almost destroyed by fire. Loss $o00,000. 
wounded one. lhe Indians made no resistance ,, , , , T i m, , , , 
, , Callao dates are to July 12th. The late attempt 
when approached by the citizens, who were more , , .. . ,, ,, e -n , , , , 
, , ” at revolution in the south of Peru had been put 
culpable in producing the difficulty than the In- j , , . , , , , * 
m , 1 J , down, and an amnesty had been granted. Gen. 
mans. The newspaper accounts are greatly exag- •, -r, TT . , , , J , . . , 
. , „ J s Castilla and Dr. Ureta had been defeated by the 
gerated.” , , J 
Information has been received at the Department ^ . . 
, , Accounts from Peru indicate that the revolu- 
of State to the ellect that the proper steps have , , 
, , , tionary movements still continue. Castilla had 
been taken by the Chinese Government to carry , , . , 
„ , JV , , , n ■ . issued amnesty to all soldiers and private parties 
into eflect the arrangements made by Ex-Minister , . .. ., , ,, , f. , , 
d . , . „ engaged m it, provided they report themselves be- 
Reed, for the payment of the various claims of f , e T , „ . , , , . , , 
. ’. ... .. , , , fore the end of July. Castilla had also determined 
American citizens amounting to about $170,000 to dedare war aingt Equad and pr0 p 0Sed 
The steamship Tennessee brings from Garzai of lead - the forces in n _ 
Tamaulipas, a request for 3,000 Americans, to 
prosecute the civil war in Mexico, but it is not 
understood that he acts under the authority of the Young America in Europe AToukg Iour- 
Constitutional Government. The expedition is to IST "^ James E. Thompson, of New Haven, a lad 
be fitted out at Tampico, where GeD. Degollado thirteen J ears of a ge, kas recently returned from 
now is, and is to organize solely under the State an-European tour, including a visit to Paris, where 
authority. he went alone and unprotected, and remained 
A letter from Dr. Forney, Superintendent of about a week - His schoolmates in the Levell 
Indian Affairs for Utah, states that two of the School of New Haven have honored the young 
children spared from the Mountain Meadow mas- traveler with a public reception, at which addresses 
sacre have been detained by the U. S. District of congratulation were made and responded to. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
There have been four arrivals of foreign steam¬ 
ships during the week—the Ocean Queen, Anglo 
Saxon, Eurojoa and Kangaroo — and the news 
brought by them we condense as fellows: 
Great Britain.— In the House of Commons on 
the 13th, the bill abolishing Church rates was de¬ 
bated, and passed to a second reading by a vote of 
262 to 193, amidst loud cheers. 
The Duke of New Castle stated that the govern¬ 
ment did not intend renewing alliances, by which 
the Hudson’s Bay Co., held their North American 
Territories. 
Lord Somerset said that the expediency of enter¬ 
ing into arrangements for arming the Ocean Mail 
Steamers, had been under consideration, but as 
the Committee of Naval Affairs, in 1852, reported 
against such a measure, on the ground of expense, 
nothing had been done. A general survey, how¬ 
ever, had been recently ordered, of the steam brigs 
and other vessels, at the mouths of the rivers, in 
order to ascertain how far they might be rendered 
available for defensive purposes. 
On the 15th, in both Houses, reference was made 
to the treaty of peace. Lord Derby pointedly in¬ 
quired if the King of Sardinia was a party to the 
treaty, for it was understood that the Emperor of 
the French was his ally, and not the principal in 
the quarrel. Lord John Russell, in the House of 
Commons, said he did not know whether the 
parties to the treaty of Vienna had been consulted, 
but so far as England was concerned no particulars 
beyond those published had been furnished. Lord 
Cowley had called on the French government for 
the details of the peace. Walewski told him he 
could afford him no information until the Emperor 
arrived in Paris, which it was expected he would 
on the 18th. 
Sir James Graham inquired if the Government 
was aware that a powerful French fleet was sta¬ 
tioned at Cherbourg and Brest, with gun-boats for 
landing troops. Lord John Russell replied that 
France had made no extraordinary preparations, 
and consequently no explanation had been de¬ 
manded. 
The English government has fully determined 
on laying a cable direct to Gibralter and thence to 
Malta. 
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has introduced 
his budget. He stated that the total revenue re¬ 
ceived during the past financial year, was £65,- 
477,000, while the expenditures were £64,663,000, 
leaving a surplus of over £810,000. He estimated 
the revenue for the current year at £64,340,000, 
and the expenditures at £69,207,000, leaving agross 
deficiency of £4,867,000. To meet this deficiency 
the Government preferred direct to indirect taxa¬ 
tion, and instead of increasing the existing duties 
or imposing new ones, they propose to add 4d to 
the income tax on incomes of over £150, and j^d 
on incomes of between £100 and £150 per annum, 
making the former 9d and the latter 6J.^d. The 
debate which ensued was generally favorable to 
the scheme proposed, and the consideration of the 
budget in detail was postponed to the 21st of July. 
France. —The state men t .of the Bank of France 
for the month of July, sjWJs a decrease in caish of 
over 11,000,000 francs. ? 
The Norde says the treaty of peace, although 
arranged in principle at Villa Franca, will be defi¬ 
nitely draw up at Zurich, and will then be officially 
communicated to the Courts of Europe—the adhe¬ 
sion of these Courts being indispensable to the 
organic and internal stipulations which form part 
of the public law of Europe. 
A Conference to settle the affairs of Italy has just 
been arranged at St. Cloud, and the early part of 
next month is spoken of aS the time at which the 
representatives interested will assemble, but the 
place of their doing so is not yet mentioned. The 
same correspondent learns, on very high authority, 
that both Emperors are convinced that the bases 
for peace which they so hastily agreed upon, are 
in many respects impracticable. 
The Peace Congress, it was settled, would meet 
at Zurich in about ten days. M. Bourguenz would 
represent France, and Count Collaredo would per¬ 
form the same office on the part of Austria. 
Letters from Paris assert that much discontent 
prevails there in regard to the terms of peace, and 
the small results of the war. Although the peace 
itself gave general satisfaction, the Siecle, the or¬ 
gan of the French Liberals, is dissatisfied, and says 
France will have everything to begin in a few 
years, if the minutest Austrian influence is suffered 
an abode in Italy. It calls for an expulsion of the 
petty Italian Princes, the confederates of Austria. 
The Emperor arrived at St. Cloud on Sunday 
morning, July 17th. 
The announcement of peace is said to have al¬ 
ready caused signs of commercial improvement in 
France. 
Austria. —The Emperor of Austria has ordered 
an immediate cessation of the recruiting just com¬ 
menced. 
It was rumored that the Emperor and Empress 
of the French would visit Vienna. 
The French army were reported to have com¬ 
menced their counter-march two days before the 
armistice, and a war tax was imposed on Piedmont 
amounting to one-tenth bf all the taxes on property, 
customs, taxes, &c. 
It was said that Garibaldi was about to issue a 
proclamation, and it was considered doubtful if he 
would lay down arm3. Up to the 11th the forma¬ 
tion of the Hungarian Legions had proceeded pros¬ 
perously—five thousand men having joined. 
Italy.— StroDg indications of discontent at the 
terms of the peace were visible in some parts of 
Italy. At Florence great agitation prevailed, and 
the Provincial government had issued a proclama¬ 
tion which describes the peace of Villa Franca as 
betraying the finest hopes, and says that the Tus¬ 
can government participated in the sentiments of 
the Tuscan people on the subject, and declares that 
TuscaDy will not be replaced under the yoke and 
influence of Austria, against her will and rights. 
Sardinia. —The limes correspondent at Turin 
says that peace has produced the greatest exaspe¬ 
ration and dejection in that Capital. The Emperor 
Napoleon is accused of being a traitor to Italy, 
and his portraits have been withdrawn from the 
shop windows, to prevent their beiDg broken. 
By the 'Times correspondent of the Daily News 
the Piedmontese are described as being a prey to 
grief and stupor in consequence of the peace, which 
leaves Sardinia without a fortified frontier. 
The Opinione of Turin does not conceal the dis¬ 
satisfaction with which it sees Venice remain in 
the hands of Austria. 
Latest. —A Ministry has been formed. The Min¬ 
ister of War and President of the Council is Gen. 
Dabormei, and the Minister of the Interior is Signor 
Rattazi. 
The government of Lombardy has cautioned 
editors against using invectives in regard to recent 
events, and recommends them to assume sentiments 
of moderation, under the pain of suppression or 
suspension. 
Switzerland.— The Federal Council have re¬ 
solved to disband the troops in the Canton Ticino, 
where a guard for Austrian vessels will alone re¬ 
main. They have also resolved on enforcing severe 
measures to prevent the enrollment of the Swiss 
for foreign military service. An order has been 
issued to disband the troops called out during the 
war, and repealing the measure against the expor¬ 
tation of arms, ammunition, &c. 
Prussia. —The Prussian Gazette says, that in 
consequence of the treaty of peace, orders have 
been transmitted to the troops on the march, to 
halt at the respective places where they may hap¬ 
pen to be; also, that the proposal made by the 
Prussian Ambassador to the Federal Diet, in re¬ 
gard to the Federal troops, had, under present 
circumstances, been withdrawn by the Prussian 
government. 
Naples. —Additional details of the recent partial 
mutiny of the Swiss troops are received. A party 
of troops mutinied in the barracks, killing the 
Colonel and several officers of the 4th regiment, 
and afterwards repaired to the Royal Palace, but 
were driven back by the Chasseurs and Hussars on 
duty, to the Champede Mars, where they were sur¬ 
rounded. The Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss 
called on them to surrender. They replied by a 
discharge of fire-arms, wounding the General and 
about twenty privates. Orders were then given to 
fire on the mutineers, when 75 were killed and 233 
wounded. 
Commercial.— Breadstuffs.— The weatber has been 
favorable for the crops, aiid the harvest prospects are 
excellent. Flour was very dull, and Freneu was offered 
at a reduction of ls3d per sack. American was quoted 
at 10s(®12s6d per cental. "Wheat dull but nominally 
unchanged, though parcels were pressing on the market. 
Western red 7s6d@9s ; White 9s@9sCd ; Southern white 
10si©lls. Corn dull and nominal. Mixed and yellow 
5slci@5s3d ; White 7s@7s9d. Provisions- — Bigland, 
Althya & Co., Richardson, Spence & Co, James Mc¬ 
Henry and others, quote pork heavy and slightly lower, 
but quotations nominal. Lard quiet 
Clippings from Foreign Journals. 
Miss Florence Nightingale is so extremely ill 
that the worst results are apprehended. Her 
strength is diminishing sadly. She has been re¬ 
moved from Highgate to London, hut is now con¬ 
fined to her room. 
In London there are only nine chartered Banks 
besides the Bank of England. Not one of these is 
allowed to issue notes payable on demand. Their 
united deposits are about £40,000,000 sterling, or 
two hundred milliifn dollars. 
Count Arese, the new Prime Minister of Sar¬ 
dinia, appointed to fill the vacancy caused by 
the resignation of Count Cavour, is a young man 
of not very prominent position in Sardinian poli¬ 
tics, but one who has had some little diplomatic 
experience, having been sent by Cavour to Paris 
last spring as Envoy. He is a warm admirer of 
Louis Napoleon, and will be governed by liis 
influence. 
The London papers, of late date, record the 
death of Lieutenant General Proctor, who played 
such an important part in the last war with Great 
Britain, having commanded the 82d regiment at 
the battle of Fort Erie, and subsequently shared 
in the campaign along the Niagara frontier. He 
was colonel of the 97th regiment. He died a few 
weeks since at his seat in Wales, suddenly, from 
disease of the heart. He had been sixty years in 
the army. In July, 1814, he commanded the 82d 
before Fort Erie from September 2d, and 
throughout the successive operations of the cam¬ 
paign, on the Niagara frontier. He received the 
brevet promotion of lieutenant colonel for his 
conduct in repelling the attack on the battteries 
and position before Fort Erie, on the 17th of Sep¬ 
tember, 1814. 
Lord Palmerston stated in the British House 
of Commons, on the 4th ult., that no reform 
measure could be introduced into the British Par¬ 
liament at present. 
A Paris letter in the Independence, of Brussels, 
gives the following account of the circumstances 
which preceded the armistice :—“ The Emperor of 
Austria having caused a demand to be made in the 
French camp, if it were not possible to obtain the 
remains of Prince Windischgratz, who was killed 
at Solferino, the Emperor Napoleon caused them 
to be sought for—and they were recognized partly 
by his uniform, and partly by some letters from 
his newly married wife, which he had about him. 
The corpse was placed in an artillery wagon, and 
conveyed, accompanied by an officer of the staff 
and an escort, to the Austrian head-quarters. The 
officer expressed to the Emperor the condolence of 
the Emperor of the French; and his Austrian 
Majesty (who was just recovering from a some¬ 
what severe indisposition) begged, not without 
emotion, the officer to convey his thanks to the 
Emperor Napoleon, and to express his sorrow at 
the death of so many brave men in the French 
army. This led to some remarks on the cruel ne¬ 
cessities of war, and from what was said the Em¬ 
peror Francis Joseph was able to perceive that 
those necessities were regretted as much by his 
opponent as by himself. The Emperor Francis 
Joseph afterwards sent the son of Gen. Urban 
with a flag of truce to the French camp, as is 
known, and the Emperor Napoleon, by an auto¬ 
graph letter, proposed a suspension of arms.” 
Rarey has been very successful in London in 
taming .a vicious horse, the “ King of Oude.” The 
News says the audience fairly trembled when he 
unlocked the iron pole, gave it to the groom, and, 
with not even a stick in his hand, stood in the ring 
with that screaming savage of a horse, and then 
fairly outmanoeuvred him by his weird-like tact. 
®i)£ Nobs Condenser. 
— The Ohio is very low. 
— Yellow fever is prevalent hi Havana. 
— Blackberries are abundant In Kentucky. 
— A late Pike’s Peak express brought $5,800 in gold, 
— Btrect Railroads are to be constructed in Cleve¬ 
land. 
— Gen. Paez, of Venezuela, has returned to New 
York. 
— Green corn is selling in Cincinnati at 10 cents per 
dozen. 
— A volcanic eruption is in progress at the Sandwich 
Islands. 
— But one thousand miners are In the Frazer River 
diggings. 
— The revolutionists of Yucatan have been quietly 
dispersed. 
— New gold mines are talked of in Humboldt Co., 
California. 
— New wheat has been sold in Cincinnati for a dollar 
per busheL 
— It is said that the Emperor of Austria wept at the 
result of the last battle. 
— England has 751 vessels of war; Franco 450; Rus¬ 
sia 15S; United States 75. 
— Seventy bushels per acre for wheat are talked of 
in some parts of California. 
— Thirty-seven feet of snow, it is reported, fell on the 
Sierra Nevadas last winter. 
— A company at Massilon, O., is building a steam 
yacht to navigate the canal. 
— The ginseng excitement has nearly died out in Min¬ 
nesota and the adjacent States. 
— A Sunday School picnic has been held at San 
Francisco. The world moves. 
— There are 2,095 collieries in Great Britain, yielding 
annually 65,894,707 tuns of coal. 
— There are now 400 gas works in operation in this 
country, with $50,000,000 capital. 
— An editor in Charleston has been presented with a 
peach 27 inches in circumference. 
— In some Ohio counties the hay crop has been re¬ 
duced fifty per cent by dry weather. 
— A ship canal to the Gulf from the river below New 
Orleans, is talked of. Cost, $1,500,000. 
— Instances of death from heart disease are reported 
with alarming frequency in California. 
— The cannonading at Solferino was heard at Trieste, 
a distance of 150 miles, as the crow flies. 
— An Indian has been committed to the District of 
Columbia Penitentiary for horse stealing. 
— A wagon and four horses were swallowed up by a 
sewer caving in at St. Louis the other day. 
— Nine inquests were held in St. Louis on the 19th, in 
cases of death from the effects of the heat. 
— La Crosse, "Wis., has a jail that cost $19,000, some¬ 
thing more, It is said, than all her churches. 
— The Pacha of Egypt has ordered of Wasson & Co., 
of Springfield, Mass., $50,000 worth of cars. 
— The government revenue paid into tho Bank of 
England amounts to nearly a million of dollars a day. 
— The P. O. Department has issued stamps and en¬ 
velopes during the last quarter to the amount of $1,604,- 
000 . 
— The Court of Common Pleas of Ohio has pro¬ 
nounced the recent Black Law of The State unconstitu¬ 
tional. 
— They are taking a census in Iowa, and from some 
returns it is inferred that the population of the State is 
700,000. 
— A rule is enforced in the Boston Superior Court 
which requires lawyers to stand up while examining 
witnesses. 
— The Danbury (Conn.) Times says that the mercury 
rose to 112 degrees in the shade, in that village on Mon¬ 
day week. 
— The latest advices from Utah, state that a move¬ 
ment is on foot among the Mormons t© abandon 
polygamy. 
— The last Legislature of Texas, it is said, contained 
thirteen “ men of mark.” Not one of them could write 
his name. 
— Mary Zecher, aged eighteen, died in Lancaster, 
Pa., last week of lock jaw, caused by running a nail 
into her foot. 
— Forty cells are to he added to the female depart¬ 
ment of the Sing Sing Prison. Is crime on the increase 
among females? 
— The daily war expenses of Franco are estimated 
at 8,000,000 francs; of Austria at 1,200,000 florins, or each 
at about $600,000. 
— Most kinds of flour can now be bought in New York 
three dollars per barrel cheaper than during tho first 
week of last April. 
— A recent assessment shows the number of hogs in 
Kentucky to be 815,588, an increase of 179,241 head over 
the number last year. 
— Another Railroad war is threatened. The agree¬ 
ments they patch up don’t seem to last long. Stock¬ 
holders are to be pitied. 
— A letter from Christiana states that Hans Michelseu, 
the oldest and the most celebrated sculptor in Norway, 
died on the 20th of Juno. 
— A sewing machine company of Boston have re¬ 
cently manufactured a splendid machine to be present¬ 
ed to the Empress Eugenic. 
— Over $1,000 in gold and silver were found in a bag 
of flax-seed offered at a sale of the personal property of 
a Mr. Oaks, in Dauphin Co., Pa. 
— A correspondent of the Toronto Leader says they 
are agitating the question of annexation to the United 
States in the Red River country. 
— From the 16th to the 21st ult., inclusive, there wero 
31 deaths by sunstroke at Cincinnati, being about one- 
fourtli the entire number of cases. 
— A suit has been instituted in Kentucky for tho re¬ 
covery of over 40,000 acres of land in Harrison, Bour¬ 
bon, Nicholes, and other counties. 
-- The people of Southern Kansas are holding meet¬ 
ings in favor of a railroad from the mouth of Kansas 
river to the southern boundary of Kansas. 
— The Hamburgh papers notice the arrival of 500 
tuns of Cincinnati pork, to provision the garrisons of 
Mayence, Ehreinbreitstein, Radstadt, and Ulm. 
— The imports at Baltimore for the quarter ending on 
the 1st were $2,985,000 ; exports $2,275,000; tunnage en¬ 
tering and arriving 875,000; number vessels 1,053. 
— A sturgeon weighing over 200 lbs. was caught b> 
the revolution of the wheels of the Isaac Newton, and 
thrown up into the wheel house where it was found. 
— The total vote of Virginia in the late election, wa 3 
only about 150,000. The vote of Ohio, which, some 
years ago, wms a county of Virginia, is about 400,000. 
— A hoy swam over the Detroit river from Detroit to 
the Canada side on Saturday week. The distance is 
half a mile, and the current three or four miles an hour. 
