LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Geneva Nursery—W. T. & E. Smith. 
Great Sale of Ileal Estate—F. N. Albright, A. T. Wether- 
Wax, Executors. 
Trees—Trees-Trees—T. 0. Maxwell k Bro. 
Strawberry Seeds—Elizur E. Clarke. 
Sanford's Feed Mill—K. L. Howard. 
Johnston's Bean Harvester—K. L Howard. 
New Grocery Establishment—Jarvis & Dunbar. 
Rochester Boys’ Training School—Prof. Nichols. 
Rochester Female Academy—B. A. Ward, President. 
Gainesville Female Seminary—0. A. Eldridge. 
A Valuable Farm for Sale—William Garbutt. 
The Logan Grape—C. P. Bissell k Salter. 
The Water-Cure Journal—Fowler & Wells. 
Health, Happiness and Long Life—Fowler & Welli 
The Water-Cure Journal and Herald of Health—Fowler 
& Wells. 
Not a Humbug—M. B. Allen & Co. 
For Twenty five Cents—Fowler k WePa. 
No Drugs—No Poison—Fowler & Wells. 
SCO Agents Wanted—M. M. Sanborn. 
Physiology and the Laws of Life—Fowler & Wells. 
with Muhlenberg and Daviess:—For Beriah Ma- An iron spire is about to be erected on a church 
geffin, for Governor, 77,364; for Joshu F. Bell, for in Pittsburgh. This will be the first construction 
Governor, 68,739—majority for Magoffin, 8,625. of the kind in the United States, and it is fitting 
For Linn Boyd, for Lieut. Governor, 76,366 ; for that it should be put up in the “Iron City.” This 
| Alf. Allen, for Lieut. Governor, 64,843—majority church (St. Philomena’s, Catholic) has now a brick 
! for Boyd, 11,523. This is the largest vote, by several tower one hundred feet high, which is to be car- 
thousand, ever cast in the State, amounting in the ried np Bixty-five feet higher, and upon it will be 
aggregate to 146,103. erected a beautiful cast iron spire, eighty-five feet 
Thb Convention at Pike’s Peak formed a Consti- high, exclusive of the cross that will crown the 
tution in two days. It is to be forwarded to the 
President and Congress, with a request for admis¬ 
sion to the Union as the State of Jefferson. This 
is pretty rapid business. If States can be mami- 
apex. The style is to be the perforated Gothic of 
the middle ages. It will cost about $10,000.— 
There are now, it is stated, but two church spires 
in the world that are made of iron, viz: at Vienna 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., SEPTEMBER 3, 1859. 
Oun Advertising Department is somewhat ex¬ 
tended, as usual at this season, the favors of adver 
tisers exceeding the space ordinarily devoted to 
their announcements. We trust, however, that 
readers will find the department of interest and 
value—a seasonable directory relative to Nursery 
Stock, Implements, Seeds, Schools, and various 
other essentials. Attention is directed to all the 
advertisements, and especially to the timely an 
factured so rapidly, we need not resort to fillibus- fund Frankfort-on-the-Main. 
terism or bribes to increase the number of stars on Thb Madison (N. Y.) Observer says that some 
our flag. of the early rising citizens of that town saw traces 
The American Council of New York met at of frost upon the ground last Friday morning, 
Geneva on the 23d ult., and after considerable dis- and adds:—“If this is so, it is safe to predict that 
cussion it was resolved, that the President and 1859 will be noted for a frost occurring every 
Secretary of this State Council be authorized and month in the year.” 
directed to call a State Nominating Convention at John Ross, who has recently been re-elected 
Utica, on Wednesday, the 21st day of September Principal Chief of the Cherokee Indians, has held 
next. The officers for the ensuing year are as fol- that position for 31 consecutive years. He was 
lows:— President— G. A. Scroggs, Erie; Vice-Prea- elected under the first Constitution of the Nation 
ident —Amos H. Prescott, Herkimer; Secretary— in 1828, and has 'been re-elected every four years 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
James N. Hasted, Westchester. 
Conflagrations and Casualties. 
A pirb broke out in New Bedford, about noon 
on the 25th ult., in North Water street., which de¬ 
stroyed about 25 dwellings, and was finally arrested 
on Kay and North st., by blowing up several 
buildings with gunpowder. The buildings de¬ 
stroyed include Hallian & Sons’ machine shop 
and planing mill; Rider & Smith’s soap yard; 
nouncements of Nurserymen and Principals of I Durstrual’s turning mill; N. H. Ayre’s ship chan- 
first class Schools and Seminaries, in this and late | dlery; Edward M. Robinson’s oil yard, in which 
numbers of the Rural. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
3,000 barrels of oil were destroyed, besides some 
lots of oil belonging to W. G. E. Pope, B. B. How¬ 
land and David B. Camp. Several d welling houses, 
carpenter shops and groceries were included in 
the conflagration. A large number of bomb lances 
on the premises of Wilcox & Hathway, caused loud 
explosions, as also did the bursting of the oil casks. 
since, almost without opposition. He is an edu¬ 
cated man, of mixed Indian and Caucasian blood, 
somewhat more than 60 years of age, has the 
sense to write short messages to the Council, and 
enjoys unbounded popularity among the civilized 
red skiD3. 
This receipts of the American Board of Commis¬ 
sioners for Foreign Missions for July were $60,018 
82. This is the largest sum received during any 
one month since the Board was organized. The 
receipts for the months of June and July amount¬ 
ed to about $100,000. Of the amount received for 
July, Massachusetts gave more than one-third. 
The total receipts for the year ending July 31st, 
including donations and legacies, amounted to 
$326,000. Of this sum Massachusetts gave $120, 
000 . 
Stories of discoveries of remarkably rich silver 
mines, by a party of Americans, come to us from 
Matters at ■Washington. 
Tns Administration has assurance from the 
Government of Costa Rica of its preparation to ap¬ 
point, in conjunction with the United States, a sb *P dobn Edwards, lying at Wilcox <£ Rich- Arizona. It is said they have found the long lost 
Commission to settle all claims of our citizens mond 8 wharf, was burned to the water’s edge, celebrated Vega mine, whose richness was re- 
against that Republic. It is promised this Com- Sereral P er sons were injured, but none fatally. The nowned even upon the mining records of old 
missioner will be appointed shortly after the arri- *°tal loss is variously estimated at from $200,000 to 3pain. It was worked by the early Jesuit ex- 
val of Minister Dimitry at San Jose. 
The State Department has been officially advised 
that an order has been received at the Custom 
House, authorizing the reduction of the govern¬ 
ment export duty to five per cent, in favor of the 
exporter. 
The Washington correspondent of the Tribune 
states that immediately on the accession of Lord 
Russell to office as Foreign Minister in England, 
100,000, on which the insurance is small. plorers, who, when compelled to leave by the 
A special dispatch to the Democrat says that Apaches, destroyed their works, and blocked up 
thirteen buildings were burnt at Cairo, Ill., on the the mouth of the main shaft. 
24th ult. Loss $10,000. No More Free Colored Persons at New Or 
John Bouspield’s pail factory was burnt on the leans. —An announcement is made at New Orleans 
24th, in Cleveland, Ohio. Insured $8,000. that from the 1st inst., all free persons of color re- 
We learn from the Yates County Chronicle of the 8 ' d * D S Eiat city must be immediately lodged in 
25th, that a very destructive fire occurred at Ha- and Eiere remain until the departure of the 
vana, Schuyler county, the evening previous, com- boa * or vessel in which they came. 
he addressed to this government a dispatch earnest- fencing about 11 o’clock. A large portion of the Postage Stamps.— It is said that the issue of 
ly remonstrating against the re-opening of the business part of the town is destroyed, sixteen postage stamps by government anticipates the 
Slave trade, and against the lukewarmness of Mr. places of business being consumed. The entire amount required by the public for immediate use, 
Buchanan’s Administration in that respect. damage is estimated at $50,000, with only an insur- to the amount of not less than $1,000,000. So 
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Mr. Green- ance of about $15,000. The Chronicle does not government has constantly out a million of dollars 
wood, has received a dispatch, announcing the ar- give a list of the sufferers » but states that the office of promises to pay, on which it gains the same 
rival at Leavenworth of the children spared at the of the HavaDa Journal was entirely destroyed, permanent advantage as that accruing to a Bank 
Mountain Meadow massacre. They will at once be w ^bout a farthing ot insurance. TheS Montour 
taken to Carrolton, Arkansas, near the point from House was sli g htl ?> and the Observatory Buildings 
badly damaged. 
which the expedition to which they were attached 
set out, and there restored to their friends. 
A private dispatch from Carlislie, Md., an 
nonnees the death of Hon. John A. Davis, of that 
State, formerly speaker of the U. S. House of Rep 
resentatives. 
Prof. Dimitry, Minister to Central America, 
will leave about the first of September with his 
family for Costa Rica. 
Lt. Ives, the Architect and Engineer in charge 
of the Washington Monument, has made an official 
report to the Society, in which he says that when 
raised to the height of 600 feet the entire weight 
of the shaft and foundation will be 70,000 tons.— 
The weight of the structure in its present condi¬ 
tion is 40,000 tuns. He has been unable to detect 
appearances of settling, or indications of insecuri¬ 
ty. By scientific calculation, he has arrived at the 
conclusion that the weight alone of the Monument 
at its full height, will offer a resistance nearly 
News Paragraphs. 
The mammoth steamship Great Eastern is 
advertised to leave England for Portland early in 
September. This vessel registers more tuns than 
Noah’s Ark, as estimated by Sir Isaac Newton and 
Bishop Watkins, viz.:—23,092 tuns! It is also 
longer and deeper, but not so broad as the “Ark.” 
The comparions is as follows: 
Noah’s Ark Noah’s Ark Great 
according to according to Eastern. 
Sir I. Newton. Bish. 'Watkins. 
Length between per- 
pendiculars. 
515.62 
547 
680 
Breadth. 
85.94 
91.16 
S3 
Depth.. 
. 51.56 
54 70 
53 
Keel, or length for tun- 
ii age . 
464.08 
492.81 
630.03 
Tunnage according to 
old law. 
18,232 
21,762 
23.092 
Sunday week the Mayor of St. Louis enforced 
the recently-adopted ordinance for preventing 
liquor selling on the Sabbath day. The good 
eight times greater than the overturning effort of I edec * ; ^ be ’J a y° r 8 action is shown in the fact 
the heaviest tempest, to which it would probably 
ever be exposed. 
Personal and Political. 
that up to 8 P. M. on Sunday, not a single arrest 
for drunkenness had been made. 
There will be no provincial Agricultural Exhi¬ 
bition in Lower Canada; but the Horticultural 
of issue from its notes. 
First QuakerI^eeijng in California. —On First- 
day morning, July Slst, Jsajs the San Francisco 
National, the room of the,, Board of Supervisors, in 
the City Hall, was entirely filled by those who de¬ 
sired to be present on the occasion of the first 
meeting of the “ Society of Friends ” in this State. 
Robert Lindsay and wife, who recently arrived in 
the country, are accredited ministers from the 
London Yearly Meeting. Their presence in Cali¬ 
fornia is welcomed by many who were members, 
or bad been accustomed to attend meetings of the 
Society of Friends in their former homes. Robert 
Lindsay delivered a sermon of an hour’s duration, 
marked by a simple eloquence, fervor, and grace, 
which charmed every hearer. His wife followed 
in a very brief and beautiful discourse. The whole 
assemblage evinced deep interest and close at¬ 
tention. 
Excitement in Maine — The Maine Law En¬ 
forced.— An extraordinary scene was witnessed 
at Portland, Me., on the 17th ult., that of the 
police entering the premises of a citizen, and 
breaking open his private iron safe on suspicion 
that it contained liquors. The building where 
this occurred was the Exchange Coffee nouse, 
the proprietor, Jesse Annis. The City Marshal, 
notwithstanding Mr. A. protested against this 
violent intrusion upon his premises, after consider¬ 
able hard labor, forced open the safe, found nine 
bottles of liquor, and bore them off in triumph to 
Wb gather the following details of transactions 
from the files furnished by the various arrivals 
during the week. The latest dates are by the 
Washington, of the 19th ult., which arrived off 
Cape Race on the 25th : 
Great Britain.— The sailing of the steamer 
Great Eastern from Liverpool to Portland, which 
was originally fixed for the first of September, has 
been postponed till the 15th of the same month, 
owing to an unavoidable delay in getting ready 
for sea. 
A Russian loan of twelve millions sterling, and 
an Indian loan of five millions had been introduced 
in the London market. 
Parliament was prorogued on the 13th. 
The Daily News says that the strike among the 
men belonging to the Building Association was 
likely to last loDg. 
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News 
learns from a good source that the Empeior in¬ 
tends to publish a political amnesty on the 15th. 
It is reported that it will include Gen. Changar- 
nier, Col. Charray, Louis Blanc, and even Ledru 
ltollin. 
France.— All the troops that are to return to 
France from Italy had arrived. 
The Constitutionel, in an article on the French 
army, conveys a threat considered to mean Eng¬ 
land. The writer says that when once there shall 
have been completed the service of the maritime 
transports which will permit the sudden and 
unexpected throwing of a corps d’armec on the 
enemy’s shore, the enemies of France or those who 
were jealous of her, will think twice before pro¬ 
voking her. 
It was reported that the Austrian Ambassador 
to France would refuse to attend the Paris fetes if 
the colors taken from the enemy were allowed to 
be carried in the procession. 
The Bank of France had gained 67,500,000 francs 
during the month of July. The 3 percents, on the 
Paris Bourse had declined to 69f. 
There was a vague rumor that Prince Napoleon 
was to be made Sovereign of Tuscany. 
Telegraphic advices from Paris state that the 
Zurich Conference is in daily session, but as yet 
but little progress in the questions has been made. 
The Grand Duke of Tuscany has arrived in 
Paris, and met with a very friendly reception from 
the Emperor. 
It is stated in Paris that all the warnings hitherto 
given to the French newspapers by the govern¬ 
ment, are to be considered hereafter as nullities. 
Austria.— It was reported by way of Vienna, 
that the Red Republicans had proclaimed in Parma, 
that the Piedmontese were driven out — that the 
friends of order were everywhere taking to flight. 
A threatening collision had taken place between 
some Austrian and Prussian soldiers at Frankfort. 
Prussia.— The King of Prussia was not expected 
to live. 
Sr aik.—S pain had resolved to increase her forti¬ 
fications in Cuba. ( 
®I )t €mtbenser. 
— It is reported that the Emperor ot China is doad. 
— The yellow fever at Havana has become epidemic. 
— New wheat is selling in Muscatine, Iowa, at sixty 
cents per busheL 
— Bloody battles are reported between the Sioox and 
Arrakea Indians. 
— There is a child in St Louis, two years old, that 
weighs 145 pounds. 
— The number of visitors in Saratoga was mover 
greater than at present 
— Pears are a drug in California, so are blackberries 
—three lbs. for 80 cents. 
— A State Military Convention » to be held in Iowa 
on the 6th inst, at Muscatine. 
— Baltimore enjoys the notoriety of having the worst 
rowdies of any city in the Union. 
— A movement is on foot in Chicago for a Reform 
School for girls. A noble project 
— The taxable property of Georgia is said to have 
increased $50,000,000 the past year. 
— The venerable widow of ex-Prestdent Harrison is 
very ill at her residence in North Bend. 
— It is said a revival of a very gracious and interest¬ 
ing character has commenced in Jerusalem. 
— It is calculated that the books in the Library of 
the British museum occupy 12 miles of shelf. 
The Vigilance Committee of Napoleon, Ark., are 
violently expelling all gamblers from the town. 
— The excitement at the Isthmns in relation to the 
golden images in the Indian mounds is dying out. 
— A bear attacked Cyril Eandall, his keeper, in 
Providence, B. I., recently, and nearly tore his leg off, 
— Twelve hundred passengers sailed for foreign 
ports by the steamers leaving New York on Saturday 
week. 
— A little boy at Lexington Ky., running with a 
knife open, stumbled and fell, the blade piercing his 
heart 
— The blackberry erop of Indiana is estimated to 
have yielded nearly a half a million of dollars this 
season. 
— A Homcepathie Medical College is to be estab¬ 
lished at 8L Louis. It will be open on the first day of 
October. 
— Since the first of June, in Boston, no less than 
fifteen hundred and twenty-eight dogs have been 
Blaughterod. 
— Jose Joaquin Fernandez, aged 99 years, and for 
80 years a citizen of New Orleans, died in that city on 
the Sth nit 
— The Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, and Detroit Rail¬ 
road was opened, on Thursday last, between Cincinnati 
and Toledo. 
There will be a double delegation from Illinois, 
in the Charleston Convention. 
Advices from the Sandwich Islands state that Society are making active preparations to supply 
Judge Pratt, of Michigan, U. S. Consul at Honolu- this deficiency. 
In, has been for some time past seriously ill with A cable about 3,000 feet long, was laid on Mon 
the asthma. ^ day week across the Mississippi at St. Louis, com- the polie'e office 
The American State Convention of Maryland posed of four strands of the Atlantic Cable, 
have nominated Wm. H. Pulmell for Comptroller. Three tuns of No. 6 wire were used on the outside Later From California. The steamer Moses 
of the main wires, which adds greatly to its Taylor arrived at New York on the 27th ult., from 
Aspinwall the 18th, with California mails of the 
A Sr*™ Convention of colored men meet, in onls “ lc mres ™» ia tl.e ^Cant'Cnn 
Troy on Tuesday, the 13th of September nent, for ■»»•»-OSS,ng of the UlBM .s.ppi by the above line. ^ S^ad”.,^ .nd Melt 
a session of two days or more, and the Suffrage Potable steam saw mills are about to be Wins i ow> together with ten officers and commander 
question is to be discussed. A large attendance is sbl PP ed to Louisiana from the Novelty Works, 0 f the sloop-of-war Decatur. The Moses Taylor 
e *P ected - New York. They are designed for the sugar reports the u. S . ships Merrimac, Vandalia and 
Returns from the greater portion of Alabama P lanter ® us ® in procuring fuel for boiling the Warren at l> ana ma, and Roanoke, Sabine and 
indicate that Gov. Moore’s majority will consider- Car “ e ' 1 laccd m a forest ' the ^ cut the trees down Preble at Aspinwall. The most prominent points 
ably exceed 20,000. andsaw th ® m lnto four feet ^ngths, effecting with of California news have been anticipated. Affairs 
The Minnesota Democratic State Convention a +1 ° P ° ^ h3S UP t0 tbiS time on tbe Is thmus The gold excitement at 
was held on the 18th ult., and the following ticket Cen e W01 ' 0 «ony. Chinqui continued 
nominated :-Govemor-George L. Becker; Lieut. They bave been bavin 2 a g reat flood on Long From Kansas.—T he Express arrived at Leaven- 
<7o»efw-SylvanusB. Lowery; Secretary of State Island - 0n Saturda y> the 13 thult., they had a worth on the 23d ult>> with D enTer dates to the 
Francis Bansen; Attorney General — John B. tremendous storm of rain, accompanied by inces- 15th, six passengers, and 16,000 in gold dust. A 
Brisbin; State Treasurer -Samuel B. Abbe. sant thunder. At Mattituck the rain fell to the portion of the rece ntly framed Constitution had 
The Democratic State Convention of Wisconsin, 6p , ° twenty inches, according to a corres- been published. No allusion is made to the Slavery 
on the 25th ult., nominated II. C. Hobart for Gov- P ° n ’ W , .° , Wn be could &° * n a ^ oa t question in the bill of rights. The right of suffrage 
ernor, and A. S. Palmer for Lieutenant Governor. 3 ,° „ r 1S .. arm ! wbicb is situated is restricted to the whites. The local papers are 
It is doubted whether the delegates to the Charles- ° U f " n ‘ ^ 1 a 1I1 E ri ver the new bridge silent with respect to the provisions of the Con- 
ton Convention will be elected by the present Con- was sVNe P a '' a T’ a “ e mi am broken, and the gtitution. The richest gold discoveries have been 
Tention, which is decidedly Anti-Lecompton. ^J" oun a ™ e pon oo e and borne off made since the last arrival, between Cape Lapon- 
to the Sound. The roads were terriblv cut ud- i , ,, T , ... , ,, 1 
, J P> dre and the Cheene Pass, although the opening of 
turnpikes, a dozen years old, were plowed awav , , . , .. b . F , 
sembled at Trenton on the 25th nit., and it was the by the extemporized rivers, and the lawns covered l T ° h ^ 0CCl ™ ce - f g^at rush 
largest and most stormy ever held. There were with sand. It is thirty-three years since any such madC bj ^ minerS toward tbe Cheene 
flood lost visited the Lland ? ^ ™ T' ‘TV* 10 , 0 to * 
day was being made by a single hand. The emi- 
Death °f a Well-Known Publisher.— Moses gration continued light but steady. Business at 
. hillips, of the firm of Phillips, Sampson & Denver city was brisk, and merchandize and pro 
Co.^Boston, died at his residence in Brookline, visions were selling cheap. The Omaha Republi- 
on Saturday week, aged 46. He commenced busi- can says that Charles Leslie, of Marion county, Pa., 
ness in Worcester, but went to Boston in 1844, arrived there on the 14th with 1,038 ounces of gold 
and, by his energy and remarkable business tact, dust, from Clear Creek. Leslie professed to have 
soon acquired aleadmg place among the publishers discovered the richest diggings yet found, and re- 
of the country. I he “Atlantic Monthly” was turns to the States for the purpose of procuring 
among his last successful enterprises. quartz mills to work them 
over 2,000 delegates present. On the 6th ballet 
Gen. E. R. V. Wright, of Hudson, was nominated 
for Governor. The next highest competitor was 
Charles Skeleton, of Mercer. 
We have received, says the Louisville Courier, 
officially and otherwise, the vote of 104 counties in 
the State, which sum up as follows for Governor 
and Lieutenant Governor. The vote of McLean 
county is included only in part, as it is the new 
county, several precincts of which were counted 
Clippings from Foreign Journals. 
TnREE fatal cases of cholera have been reported 
at Dundee, Scatland. 
ALi Khan, embassador from Persia to Paris and 
London, has arrived in Paris with 25 young men, 
who have come to France to be educated. 
The widow of Gen. Espinasse has requested the 
Second Regiment of Zouaves to accept her son as 
child of the Regiment. 
An East Indian Pagan Prince, immensely rich, 
has conquered the prejudices of an English lady, 
Miss Hodge, and celebrated the union of the colo¬ 
nial and home governments by one of their own— 
the first of the kind that ever took place. 
The Journal Des Debats gives particulars of the 
killed and wounded in the late Italian War, mak¬ 
ing a total of 24,350 killed and wounded Allies, to 
38,650 Austrians. 
Tiie exports of silver from France continue on 
a scale which bids fair soon to drain the country 
of that metal. During the first six months of the 
present year the quantity which has left France 
has been 288,858,880 kilos, against 114,498,160 im¬ 
ported, or more than double the exhaustive process. 
A few years ago the Duke of Tuscany imprisoned 
the Madiai for circulating a few copies of the Word 
of God. To-day the Duke is a fugitive from his 
kingdom, and the Madiai are busily engaged in 
circulating the Scriptures, the Provisional Govern¬ 
ment of Tuscany having proclaimed freedom of 
conscience and full religious liberty. 
The Pope has condemned to death seven of the 
inhabitants of the town of Perugia, for participa¬ 
tion in the disorders which took place in that city 
on the 14th of June. The accused, however, have 
been judged by default, and it is most unlikely 
they will be found when wanting. 
On the “ Victor Emmanuel ” Railroad there was 
a very bad accident near the station of Turin. Two 
trains, going at full speed, ran against each other. 
One of them had a Sardinian battery on board, and 
the other a corps of French infantry; 15 soldiers 
were killed and 60 wounded. Poor fellows, to meet 
such a fate, just after they had got safely out of a 
bloody war! 
The system of insurance against Railway acci¬ 
dents is now brought to such complete perfection 
in England, that at almost any station there are 
agents empowered to issue the requisite policies— 
which are simply tickets. Two or three pence ad¬ 
ditional, paid on purchasing a ticket, secures the 
repayment of any loss or damage to person or 
property during the trip. 
The Liverpool Times, in commenting upon the 
American naturalization question, says:—“Itis a 
remarkable fact that there is no great Power in 
the world with so small an army and navy as the 
United States, and yet which makes itself more 
feared and respected.” 
The Dirty Mouth of the Mississippi Cleaned. 
—Craig & Tighley, the contractors for cleaning 
out the mouth of the Mississippi river, publish a 
statement in the Cincinnati papers exonerating 
their sureties, and stating that the work was 
formally accepted by the government, and the 
money paid. 
— An old advertisement, of 15CS, reads“ Wanted 
—A stout, active man, who fears God, and can carry 
200 pounds.” 
— Twenty-seven thousand bags of coffee, lately im¬ 
ported from the West Indies, are lying in the warehouse 
of Baltimore. 
— The Artesian Well of Columbus, O., ha6 reached a 
depth of fi,056 feet, the anger going down at tbe rate of 
four feet a day. 
— More iKor> vnrwLnoo >omner and 49,000,000 
shingles were received at West Troy by canal during 
the past week. 
— The Gonzalez Inquirer says that 250,000 sheep 
have been brought into Texas, from Mexico, since the 
1st of January. 
— Over fifteen million baskets of strawberries are 
estimated to have been brought to New York during 
the reoent season. 
— Chief Justice Taney, of the United States Supreme 
Court, is eighty-two years old. Some of the other Judges 
are over seventy. 
— Extensive fires are raging in the woods west of 
Rome, N. Y. Between Rome and Verona, the fire is 
becoming alarming. 
— The list of lands In Erie Co., N. Y., to be sold for 
non-payment of taxes, fills nearly 12 columns of the 
Courier, in small type. 
— The American built frigate General Admiral excit¬ 
ed particular attention at a grand naval review held at 
Cronstadt on the 25th of July. 
— A French cook has stated that there are precisely 
181 different kinds of wine which a gentleman may put 
upon his table without a blush. 
Some eighty Europeans havo been massacred by 
the natives on the Island of Borneo. Among them 
were five German missionaries. 
— London is about to spend $20,000,000 on draining 
her streets, on keeping filth from flowing into the Thames 
and on saving it for agriculture. 
- Letters received at Portland give full assurance 
that the mammoth steamship maybe expected to arrive 
at that port the present month. 
— Metallic window blinds are coming into use in New 
York. The frame is made of malleable iron, and the 
slats of corrugated sheet iron. 
— Mmlle. the Baroness de Pierres, dame d'honevr of 
the Empress of the French, is a daughter of Herman 
Thorne, just deceased in New York. 
-Two bars of gold, weighing 1,200 pennyweights, 
are the product of the labor of fourteen hands, seven 
weeks in a mine in Lincoln Co., Ga. 
— The Providence Journal says there are “ a great 
many lovely women at Newport” Very likely. Bal 
there are a great many more at home. 
— Four men went out sharking from Kenyon’s Stone 
Bridge House, R. I., last week, and in a few hours 
caught 82 sharks, from 4 to 8 feet long. 
— Vigilance Committees have been formed in several 
parishes of Louisiana, but the Governor has issued a 
proclamation ordering them to disband. 
— The Jackson gold snuff-box was presented by 
proxy to Gen. Burnett, at Nashville, on the ISth ult, 
Gen. Pillow representing Gen. Burnett 
— The papers suggest that hereafter duels be done 
away with, and that quarrelers be invited to walk across 
Blondin’s rope instead of standing Are. 
— Zinc is found in immense quantities in Southern 
Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, and shops have been 
erected at La Salle, Ill., for smelting the ore. 
— Alabama papers are exultant over the success of 
the copper miners in the Northern part of that State. 
Very rich veins have been found in Coosa Co. 
A spring has recently been discovered at Little 
Falls, N. Y., the water of which contains all the charac- 
istics of the White Sulphur Springs in Virginia. 
Thirty-six bank note plates and $18,000 in counter¬ 
feit bills were found recently in the house of two men, 
Potter and Clark, who were arrested in New York. 
— The frigate Chesapeake, captured by the Shannon 
in 1812, has been enlarged and converted into a propel¬ 
ler, and is now the British flag ship in the China seas. 
