ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 20,1859. 
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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
the most important of which were those embracing 
the programme of future action, under the head of 
WORK TO BE DONE. 
Whereas, In the opinion of this Society, the 
great object contemplated by the Temperance Re¬ 
form can never be fully realized till the traffic in 
the drunkard’s drink is prohibited by legislative 
enactment, and the organic law of the State so 
amended as to make that prohibition stable and 
efficient; therefore, ,. . 
Resolved, That the great work to which the ener¬ 
gies of the friends of Temperance in this State 
should now be directed, is the creation of such a 
public moral sentiment throughout its length and 
breadth, as shall secure those important objects; 
that as means to their accomplishment, the pulpit, 
the press, the temperance lecturer, and petitions 
to the law-making power should be employed to 
the greatest extent possible, and with no abate¬ 
ment of interest till the work is completed. 
Resolved, That we memorialize the Legislature to 
enact a Prohibitory law, and to place such a law as 
far ns nossible above the capricious action of our 
courts. 
Resolved, That we will use our best endeavors in 
primary meetings, and at the ballot boxes, to 
secure the election of friends of prohibition for 
office. 
Resolved, That we earnestly recommend the for¬ 
mation of a Temperance Society, in connection 
with every Sabbath School; the object of which 
shall be the ingathering, not only of all youth, but 
also of all the adults, in the community where the 
Society shall be established. 
Resolved, That we recommend to every Temper¬ 
ance Society the holding of stated meetings, at 
which a temperance sermon or address shall be de¬ 
livered, and the temperance pledge invariably 
circulated. 
Matters at Washington. 
The Interior Department has received dispatches 
from the Commissioner of the U. S. Texas Boun¬ 
dary Survey. The trip was made up the Pecos 
river until Captain Witples’ trail was struck. Much 
had been added materially to the geographical 
knowledge of a region heretofore little known. 
The Chevalier Massone, Charge d’Affaires of his 
Sicilian Majesty, has presented his credentials in 
that character to the Secretary of State, and M. 
Edward Blondell delivered his credentials to the 
President on the 10th inst., and was received as 
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 
of his Majesty the King of the Belgian Government. 
It is ascertained from an authentic source that 
on the 17th of June, the U. S. Deputy Marshal of 
Northern Florida, informed the government of the 
prevalence of reports that a vessel was expected on 
the coast of Florida from the coast of Africa, with 
a cargo of slaves, and made some suggestions as to 
the best mode of intercepting and arresting them, 
the Marshal himself being absent in another part 
of the State. The Secretary of the Interior on the 
reception of this communication immediately tele¬ 
graphed to the Deputy Marshal, informing him 
that a revenue cutter had been ordered from 
Charleston to cruise along the coast of Florida 
under his directions. The Deputy accordingly 
went on board the cutter on the 30th of June, and 
reached New Smyrna Inlet ©n the 3d of July. 
Two weeks thereafter he wrote he had boarded 
various schooners to which suspicion had attached, 
and made careful inquiries for many miles along 
the coast, but there was no information to verify 
the reports of the landing of Africans. It further 
appears that Marshal Blackman himself was far 
behind the times, as he did not inform the Interior 
Department of these rumors until his Deputy had 
investigated their truth with the above mentioned 
result. 
The National Teachers’ Association in session at 
Washington, elected J. W. Bulkley, of Brooklyn, 
N. Y., President for the ensuing year, and decided 
to publish a monthly periodical in the furtherance 
of the cause of education. In the afternoon the 
delegates had a pleasant time in visiting President 
Buchanan. 
Personal and Political. 
The officers of the American Scientific Associa¬ 
tion for the ensuing year, are — President, Isaac 
Lee, of Philadelphia; Vice-President, B. A. Gould, 
Jr., of Cambridge; Secretary, Joseph Leconte, of 
Columbia, S. C.; Treasurer, A. L. Elwyn, of Phila¬ 
delphia. 
The New York Democratic State Committee met 
at Albany on the 4th instant, and unanimously 
adopted a resolution requesting the Democrats of 
each Assembly District to appoint one delegate 
from each district to a State Convention, to be held 
at Syracuse on the 14th of September next, for the 
nomination of State officers and the choice of dele¬ 
gates to the Charleston Convention, or to determine 
the manner in which, and the time when, said dele¬ 
gates to the Charleston Convention shall be chosen. 
A private dispatch from Houston, Texas, via. 
New Orleans the 8th, says that Gen. Houston is 
certainly elected Governor. 
Andrew Moore, (Dem.,) is re-elected Governor 
of Alabama by 15,000 to 20,000 majority. Stall- 
worth’s (Dem.) majority for Congress in the Mobile 
District is over 3,000. Clopton’s, in the Mont¬ 
gomery District, is 214. In the other five Con¬ 
gressional Districts there seems to have been no 
serious opposition to the Democratic candidates. 
Thirty counties in Tennessee have been heard 
from—more than half the State vote. Netherland, 
Opposition for Governor, gains 1,600, indicating a 
Democratic majority of about 8,000. Opposition 
elect their Congressmen in the 8th and 9 th districts. 
The State Senate is one certain, and probably three 
Democratic majority. The House is three and 
probably five Democratic majority. 
The American State Council of New York meets 
at Geneva on Wednesday, the 24th of August. 
The New York Republican State Convention to 
nominate State officers, meets at Syracuse on 
Wednesday, the 7th day of September. 
At the late electi<Tn in St. Louis, the vote taken 
upon the question whether the liquor selling estab¬ 
lishments should be closed or not upon the Sab¬ 
bath, resulted as follows : — For closing, 7,413. 
Against closing, 5,292. Majority for closing, 2,121. 
This is a most emphatic vote, and indicates, more 
significantly than any vote recently taken, the 
general estimation in which the Sabbath is held 
by men of all creeds and of all nationalities. 
The late Temperance Convention at Saratoga, 
closed its session on Wednesday, 10th inst. The 
delegates in attendance were numerous, and the 
meeting was more enthusiastic than any similar 
one for several years. 
Several resolutions were discussed and adopted, 
A California letter states that all the recently 
pending differences between Col. Fremont and 
other owners in his Mariposa estate have been ami¬ 
cably adjusted. All suits growing out of them 
have been withdrawn, and the Colonel is about to 
erect new additional quartz mills upon the river. 
Col. Fremont’s family and household are encamped 
upon the top of Mount Bullion, 2,000 feet above 
Bear Valley, and about 4,500 feet above tide-water, 
where the air is comfortable in the hottest season. 
News Paragraphs. 
The British government pays to the various 
steamship lines which ply between England and 
the United States and Canada, an aggregate bounty 
of $1,600,000, in the shape of mail contracts. This 
seems to be the only way in which steamship navi¬ 
gation can be maintained. 
The new cent is not a legal tender for any speci¬ 
fied amount. Neither was the copper cent of 
former years a legal tender for any sum. They 
are “lawful coins,” but they are not expressly 
made a legal tender in payment of debts. The 
Constitution of the United States prohibits the 
States from making “anything but gold and silver 
a legal tender in payment of debts.” 
It is calculated that upwards of $800,000 worth 
of cotton has been lost by fires at sea within the 
past year, mostly occasioned by the use of oil in 
the cotton presses at New Orleans or on shipboard. 
The first American woman who ever went ashore 
in Japan, was Mrs. Bailey, wife of Capt. Bailey, of 
Philadelphia, master of the ship Mary Ellis. She 
was surrounded and followed by a large crowd of 
Japanese, but all their movements were perfectly 
respectful. 
The grass has become so dry in some portions of 
Indiana, that it catches fire from the sparks of the 
locomotives. On the Terre Haute road they have 
cut ditches near the track to check the flames, and 
prevent their consuming the ties of the road. At 
several places on the Bellefontaine road, the trains 
have been forced to stop and extinguish the fires. 
Accounts from Mogadore, Africa, state that the 
inhabitants had risen in rebellion against the con- 
stituted*authorities, and established a Republic.— 
Mogadore is a fortified city and principal seaport 
of the Empire of Morocco, on the Atlantic. The 
population is estimated at seventeen thousand, in¬ 
cluding four thousand Jews. 
A newspaper is about to be established in New 
York by the “Spanish American Printing Com¬ 
pany,” entitled El Notidoso de Nueva YorTc. It is 
“ dedicated to the defence of the interests of the 
Spanish-American Republics, and in which they 
should find at the same time a sympathetic expo¬ 
nent and advocate of their opinions.” 
A hackman of Chicago, sent to the penitentiary 
recently for five years, has just been informed that 
he is heir to $30,000, left him by a brother who 
died in California. 
A lot of land in St. Louis, nineteen feet front by 
seventy feet in depth, was recently sold for $33,- 
000, which is said to be the highest price ever paid 
for land in that city. 
The Corn Exchange of Boston have appointed a 
Committee to prepare a scale of grades, and devise 
a more uniform and reliable inspection of flour. 
The Philadelphia North American publishes 
several conclusive testimonials as to the superiori¬ 
ty, both in point of durability and cheapness, of 
rails made of Pennsylvania iron, over the imported 
British iron. 
The English naval estimates for the current year 
amounted to more than sixty millions of dollars, 
£12,682,055,) and very nearly equal the sum total 
of the expenses of the American government for 
the year 1856-7. 
Raymond, of the N. Y. Times, writing to his 
paper from Italy, since the declaration of peace in 
that country, attributes the successive defeats of 
the Austrian army to the incompetency and vacil¬ 
lating presumption of the Austrian Emperor. 
Telegraphic Blunder.— Justice to a well known 
and esteemed army officer requires the republica¬ 
tion, in a corrected form, of the following dispatch: 
“St. Louis, Aug. 7, 1859. 
“Salt Lake advices are to the 13th ult. A man 
named Brower had been arrested at Camp Floyd 
for having in his possession $80,000 in counterfeit 
Government checks on the Sub-Treasury at St. 
Louis, most of which were ready for issue, except¬ 
ing the signature of Col. Crossman, which is neces¬ 
sary to such documents. The engraver had also 
been arrested in Salt Lake City, and in his shop 
were found all the implements and materials used 
in preparing the checks, together with large bun¬ 
dles of unfinished checks.” 
The omission of points in the dispatch caused 
the statement in our paper that Col. Crossman was 
the engraver of the fraudulent checks, whereas he 
is one of the most efficient disbursement officers in 
the service of the Government. 
Statistics of Mormon Population. — The Val¬ 
ley Tan contains the following statistics of Mor¬ 
mon population:—The population of Mormons in 
the United States and British Dominions in 1855 
was not less than 68,700, of which 38,000 were resi¬ 
dents in Utah, 5,000 in New York State, 4,000 in 
California, 5,000 in Nova Scotia and the Canadas, 
and 9,000 in South America. In Europe there 
were 36,000, of which 32,000 were in Great Britain 
and Ireland, 5,000 in Scandinavia, 2,000 in Ger¬ 
many, Switzerland and France, and in the rest of 
Europe 1,000; in Australia and Polynesia 2,400; 
in Africa 100; and on travel, 2,800. 
To these, if we add the different branches, in¬ 
cluding Strangeites, Rigdonites and Whiteites, the 
whole sect was not less than 126,000. In 1856 
there appears to have been a decrease in the popu¬ 
lation of Utah—the number being only 84,022, of 
which 9,000 were children, about 11,000 women, 
and 11,000 men capable of bearing arms. There 
are 2,388 men with eight or more wives; of these, 
13 have more than nineteen wives; 730 men with 
five wives; 1,100 with four wives, and 2,400 with 
more than one wife. Recapitulation — 4,617 men, 
with about 16,500 wives. 
From California. — The North Star arrived at 
New York on the 11th inst., with California dates 
of the 20th nit., and Aspinwall, August 3d. Noth¬ 
ing important from California. 
The excitement on the Isthmus about the Indian 
mounds is dying out. 
The English steamer Parametta was still lying 
on the reef near St. Thomas. All her cargo had 
been thrown overboard, and divers were at work 
blowing up the coral rock on which she was lying. 
Advices had been received of the revolutionary 
movements at Carthagena, of July 23d, when the 
Liberal party pronounced against the authorities 
and appointed ex-Governor Juan Jose Victor pro¬ 
visional ruler. 
California markets dull, with little prospect of 
immediate improvement. 
From Santa Fe.— The Santa Fe mail with dates 
of the 25th inst., arrived at Independence 13th ult. 
Another treaty had been concluded with the Nava- 
joes. Large numbers of Indians had been seen on 
the plains but they were all friendly. The troops 
at Pawnee Fork were all well. The mail party met 
a company of U. S. troops en route to New Mexico. 
“Nothing to Wear.” —In our money column, 
remarks a recent issue of the New York Express, 
will be found a statement of the business we have 
been doing at this port in foreign dry goods for the 
current month. The totals, compared with the 
previous two seasons, stand thus:—1857, $66,716,- 
283; 1858, $30,169,358; 1859, $71,782,985. These 
figures show how soon Flory Me Flimsey has for¬ 
gotten all about the panic her extravagances helped 
so much to bring on two years ago, and how ready 
she is with her silks, s atjus and velvets, to “ go it 
blind,” and to “ go itjjv^^^ish” again. Seventy- 
one millions worth of 
“Nothing to Wear,” H 
Is in seven months! 
A Missionary Class.-- The late graduating class 
from Andover Theological Seminary numbered 
thirty-four; of these, eleven have offered them¬ 
selves to the Missionary Board, and before the 
close of the year all expect to be in foreign fields 
of labor. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
The arrivals during the week have been more 
than ordinarily numerous, and the news received 
is of considerable importance. We condense as 
follows: 
peace footing with the least possible delay. He 
was generally regarded as sincere, and his inten¬ 
tions were considered pacific. 
The Zurich Conference has not yet been held. 
The Morning Post says that according to reports 
in Paris, Count de Persigneyhas deferred for a day 
or two his return to London from Florence, on his 
mission from the French government. 
The Invalide Russe says the Cabinet3 of Paris 
and Vienna may make whatever treaties they please, 
but in fixing the lot of Italy they are bound to ask 
the concurrence of the rest of Europe. 
The French army of observation on the Rhine 
had been disbanded. 
The Norde denies that any French troops are to 
occupy the Duchies. Those who are at Rome will 
remain for the present where they are. No where 
else will there be any intervention in Italy. 
Austria. —The correspondent of the Independ¬ 
ence Beige thus remarks of the project of reform 
entertained by the Emperor of Austria:—All pro¬ 
vincial councils of the Emperor are to be convoked 
simultaneously, in order to answer a series of 
questions on the amelioration which they may 
think necessary to the internal government of the 
States, especially in the provincial organization. 
The councils will have complete liberty in their 
deliberations, and may make known openly and 
sincerely to the Emperor the wants and wishes of 
the population. Important financial and military 
reforms are likewise projected. 
The Austrian war department has directed that 
the first army shall be maintained for the present on 
a war footing. Its effective strength is estimated at 
nearly 200,000 men. The other corps are on the 
march to their former cantonments in Galicia and 
Hungary. 
Italy. —The official Piedmontese Gazette pub¬ 
lishes a circular of the Minister of the Interior to 
the Governors and Intendants Generals, which 
says the change of Cabinet does not produce any 
serious variation in the character of the policy of 
Sardinia. The new ministry will continue to favor 
as largely as possible, the development of the great 
principles which are the basis of public right. The 
Minister goes on to ask for support in the tranquili- 
zation of discouraged minds, in strengthening the 
belief in the rights to liberty, and in preparing the 
annexed Provinces for liberal institutions. The 
circular concludes by promising reform in the ex¬ 
tension of commercial and provincial liberty. 
Preparations were being made at Milan for a 
grand illumination, to take place on the arrival of 
the King of Sardinia, who was expected in a few 
days to visit the new Lombardy capital. 
Chevalier Farini, Governor of Modena, has by 
order of the King of Sardinia, withdrawn from 
Sardinia authority, and published a proclamation, 
in which it remits the government to the municipal 
members. 
The populace assembled in crowds and pro¬ 
claimed the authorities municipal by acclamation 
the dictators of the country. 
The Dictator of Modena has convoked the popu¬ 
lar assemblies. All persons competent to read and 
write, and whose age is not less than 21 years, will 
be entitled to vote. Perfect order prevails. 
Piedmont. —Garibaldi has issued the following 
order, dated Levere, July 29 : 
“ Howsoever political affairs may go in the pres¬ 
ent circumstances, it is the duty of the Italians not 
only not to lay down their arms and manifest dis¬ 
couragement, but to swell the ranks and show to 
Europe, that, guided by the heroic Victor Eman¬ 
uel, they are ready again to confront the vicissi¬ 
tudes of war, in whatever form they may present 
themselves.” 
Great Britain. — The English Ministry an¬ 
nounced that they would not accept an invitation 
to send a Plenipotentiary to a European Congress 
until the result of the Zurich Conference is known. 
Lords John Russell and Palmerston had made 
important speeches in Parliament on European 
affairs. They admitted that England had acted as 
the medium for conveying terms to France and 
Austria, but said that in doing so she did not in¬ 
dorse them. The subject of the national defences 
had also been debated, and the speeches on the 
government side exhibited an intention to vigor¬ 
ously prosecute the work. 
The London Herald has the following:—We have 
reason to believe that Mr. Dallas has recently 
placed in the hands of Lord John Russell, a dis¬ 
patch from Washington, in which it is stated that 
the U. S. Government has resolved to abandon 
privateering, and thus to accept the declaration 
respecting this portion of Maritime law, agreed 
upon in the Congress at Paris, in 1856. 
The London Post says that Garibaldi has sent a 
circular to all the free States of Italy, in which he 
declares his army to be ready at any moment to 
continue the Italian war of independence. 
The London Times of the 25th says that four 
notices are offered in the House of Commons on 
subjects connected with the naval and military de¬ 
fences of the British Empire. 
The same journal gives the preliminaries of the 
peace of Villafranca as follows:—The two sover¬ 
eigns will favor the creation of an Italian Confede¬ 
ration, that Confederation shall be under the hon¬ 
orary presidency of the Holy Father. The Emperor 
of Austria cedes to the Emperor of France his 
rights in Lombardy, excepting the fortresses of 
Mantua and Peschiera, which rights the Emperor 
of France will hand over to the King of Sardinia. 
Venetia forms a part of the Italian confederation, 
but remains under the crown of Austria. The 
Dukes of Tuscany and Modena are to return un¬ 
der the condition of granting a general amnesty. 
Both Emperors will ask the Pope to introduce in¬ 
dispensable reforms. A full and complete amnesty 
is to be granted to all the people. 
France. —The Minister of War has addressed an 
order to all Colonels of regiments to send home all 
soldiers whose absence had been recalled, and like¬ 
wise all those who are entitled by their services to 
leave of absence for six months, so that they may 
be at the disposal of the farmers who may require 
them for getting in the harvest. The accounts 
from the agricultural districts are not unfavorable. 
The harvest, altogether, will exceed that of a good 
ordinary year, and there will be an overplus for 
exportation. 
The Emperor Napoleon had decided that the 
French army and navy should be restored to a 
Papal States. —The Times correspondent from 
Rome says that there is a great dissatisfaction felt 
here, and I have no hesitation in saying that the 
French soldiers alone keep down a general out¬ 
break. The Jesuits have been driven out of Faenza, 
Forli and Ferrara—in the last city only oufe' hour 
was given them to leave, and in the other two 
twenty-four hours. 
The Bologna Gazette published a declaration to 
the effect that the Province of Romagna had shaken 
off the Papal )mke, never to retaiu it again, and 
that it is their wish to be annexed to Sardinia. 
Commercial — Breadstuffs. — Liverpool breadstuff 
market was dull. Wheat and flour had undergone no 
change since Wednesday. European corn was" offered 
at a slight reduction. In the Liverpool provision mar¬ 
ket, prices had a general downward tendency. 
Clippings from Foreign Journals, 
Count Cavour is to have a medal subscription, 
got up by the National Guard of Turin, because he 
would not subscribe to the villainous treaty of Villa¬ 
franca. 
The Financial Reformer states that the present 
British Parliament is composed of 225 representa¬ 
tives of the aristocratic interest, 208 representatives 
of the military and naval interests, 119 representa¬ 
tives of the legal interest, 27 representatives of the 
money interest, 60 representatives of the mercantile 
and manufacturing interests, and 43 representa¬ 
tives of miscellaneous interests. 
The Paris correspondent of the Manchester 
Guardian tells the following anecdote:—“ When, 
after the peace, M. de Cavour found himself for the 
first time face to face with the Emperor and King, 
he found it impossible to remain within the bounds 
of etiquette, and his indignation burst violently 
forth ; so violently that at length Louis Napoleon, 
under control as he is, lost temper in turn, and 
threatened! The word ‘arrest’ escaped his lips; 
at which the betrayed Piedmontese minister turned 
round, saying, ‘Arrest me! Try it! But you 
would not dare; for then you would have no choice 
left you but to go back to Prance through the 
Tyrol!’ ” 
Zurich, where the Europen Conferenco is to be 
held, is a Swiss town, about the size of Pough¬ 
keepsie. It is the capital of the Swiss Canton of 
the same name, a sturdy little Republic, of a quar¬ 
ter of a million of people, who talk German and 
belong to the Protestant Church. It is near the 
northern frontier of Switzerland, and is easily ac¬ 
cessible by Railroad, both from France and Austria. 
Near Zurich, just sixty years ago this month, 
(August 26, 1799,) the French defeated the Aus¬ 
trians and Russians in a pitched battle. It is 
questionable whether the latter will now achieve 
as much by diplomacy, as the former did then in the 
field. 
$l)e Herns (ttembenstr. 
— Great Britain is putting the Island of Jamaica in a 
state of defence. 
— The mining news of California is good, and the 
grain harvest abundant. 
— Two hundred French policemen were at the Turin 
reception of the Emperor. 
— A farmer of Maryland has been very successful in 
threshing wheat by steam. 
— The cost of the Earl of Elgin’s special mission to 
China amounted to £11,500. 
— The subscribers to the Austrian loan have been 
released from their obligations. 
— There had been 230 deaths from yellow fever, at 
Reynosa, Mexico, at last accounts. 
— The war of races in Yucatan in reported to have 
ceased, and final peace is restored. 
— The most important towns of the Roman States 
have sent deputations to Garibaldi. 
— A conspiracy has been discoverd in the city of 
Mexico to place Marqueza in power. 
— They are putting the lower provinces of British 
America in a good state of defence. 
— California has exported $23,685,552 in gold during 
the first six months of the present year. 
— The hay crop in the State of Maine the present 
year is estimated at ten million dollars. 
— Five men were killed last week on the South Caro¬ 
lina railroad by the explosion of a locomotive. 
— During the past fortnight 26 cases of suicide have 
been reported in various parts of the conntry. 
— The Pacific Railroad is now finished to Syracuse, 
108 miles from St. Louis, and 90 from Kansas City. 
— The fortifications of Dover, England, are about 
to be enlarged at an estimated expense of £150,000. 
— It is said there are two thousand husbands and 
wives in Indiana and Illinois applying for divorces. 
— Gold is a legal tender to any amount; silver to the 
amount of five dollars. Copper is not a legal tender. 
— Gold diggings have been discovered in Williams- 
ville, Ct., and sluices are now being put in operation. 
— During the week ending July 24,15 deaths were 
reported in the city of Memphis, Tenn., from sun-stroke. 
— A cat thrown out of a car window at Fonda, N. Y., 
astonished her mistress by running thirty miles home 
again. 
— Baron Hess has been made Field Marshal, and 
will command the largest force any Austrian general 
ever did. 
— Four of the gang who planned the burning of Osh¬ 
kosh, Wis., are arrested. One confesses to several 
murders. 
— The first public hydrant in Philadelphia was 
erected Saturday week, under a recent ordinance of the 
Councils. 
— The Papal Government is attempting to explain 
away the massacre at Perugia, making it out a very 
mild affair. 
— Two convicts attempting to escape from the Ohio 
State Prison were terribly mutilated recently. One wiii 
not recover, 
— The Tehuantepec Company have sent to our Min¬ 
ister at Yera Cruz to protect them against governmental 
oppressions. 
— The Chinese have a temple in San Francisco which, 
cost $20,000, and have imported an idol from China at 
a cost of 30,000, 
— Mrs. Brackman, of Huntington, who recently gave 
birth to four children, has now given birth to three more 
— all doing well. 
— Two hundred thousand cords of wood, piled along¬ 
side the Little Miami (Ohio) Railroad, was destroyed by 
fire a few days since. 
— Two trains arrived at Kansas City, last week, from 
Now Mexico, one of them bringing 39,000 and tho other 
59,000 pounds of wool. 
— A hail-storm in Conway, Mass., on the 29th ult., 
caused several fields of tobacco to be made into cut 
too early to be profitable. 
— The Sea Island cotton crop of Texas will be two or 
three times as large as that of last year. The crop now 
promises remarkably well. 
— The Iowa State reporter estimates the population 
of Iowa at not less than 800,000, and thinks the next 
census will show one million. 
— Six hundred Africans have been landed near 
Tampa, Fla., says the U. S. Marshal, Blackburn. Tho 
vessel was immediately burnt. 
— A tin mine has been discovered near Los Angeles, 
Cal., the ore of which has been assayed and found to 
contain 82 per cent, of metal. 
— The Provincial Councils of the Austrian Empire 
are soon to meet to advise with the Emperor upon the 
amelioration of their condition. 
— There is a Burmese native at the Madison Univer¬ 
sity to be educated. He came over with Rev. Thomas 
Allen, a Missionary in Burmali. 
— It is said that the late Horace Mann suggested Rev. 
Dr. Bellows, of New York, as his successor in the Presi¬ 
dency of Antioch College, Ohio. 
— John N. Pattison, a young man whose parents 
reside in Niagara Co., is making considerable sensation 
in Berlin, Prussia, as a musician. 
— Fruit dealers of Boston are being prosecuted for 
selling berries by wine instead of dry measure; the 
penalty is a fine not exceeding $10. 
— Mr. Wm. Wooster, of Columbia, Me., killed a bear 
in a logging road, on tlie 6th inst. A bullet between the 
eyes fixed the flint of his bearship. 
— The Hon. Jefferson Davis is lying very ill at Clif¬ 
ton, a point on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Ilis 
condition is said to be dangerous. 
— The Great Eastern will be ready for sea in four 
weeks. When completed her cost will be about four 
and three-quarters million dollars. 
— The yellow fever has been declared epidemic at 
Tampico, and generally along the coast of Mexico. 
Much alarm exists in consequence. 
— A Baptist Church in Indianapolis is about to extend 
a call to the Rev. Anthony Burns, the hero of tho cele¬ 
brated fugitive slave case in Boston. 
— The contract for the building of the Museum ot 
comparative zoology at Cambridge has been made foi 
$41,800, and the work is commenced. 
— Mr. Wise made an ascension at St. Louis on the 
Cth inst., intending to come East, but he only made 30 
miles, being beaten down by the rain. 
— Com. Stewart has just entered on his 82 year. Ho 
was in the navy 62 years ago, and is almost as old as au 
officer as the navy to which he belongs. ^ 
— The last week in June and the first three weeks o 
July were very warm in France. The thermometer in 
Paris was over 90 for 12 days in succession. 
— A visitor to St. Petersburg was gratified to see one 
sign in the English language. It was as follows“ ! ’ a ' 
loon for schaving, Cut, and frizing the Hairs.” 
