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Benjamin F. Boiler, of Lowell. Lieut Governor— ordered that the cities of Jeddo, Nagasaki, Simoda 
S. C. Bemie, of Spi ingfield. Secretary of State— and Hakodadi should be united by telegraph, and 
Samuel W. Bowen, of Adams. Treasurer— Geo. a line was be>ng built from Jeddo too his summer 
Beamiest. Auditor— James E. Easterbrook, of residence. All the vessels of the Imperial fleet 
Worcester. Attorney General— D. H. llason, of were be to turned into steam propellers, and one 
Dedham. The Convention was quite harmonious, of them, tbe Niphon, bad already left on a voyage 
Tub annual election for Governor and members of disc<,very manned by a native crew, and native 
of the State Legislature of Maine, took place on engineers. An American having discovered a 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., SEPTEMBER 24, 185®. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
the Pith inst. Lot M. Morrill, tbe present Gover¬ 
nor, was tbe Republican candidate, and Mannas- 
8ah H. Smith the Democratic nominee. The re¬ 
copper mine, was permitted to work it on promise 
to divide the proceeds with tbe government. 
Sewing Machines. —Although this useful inven- 
Matters at Washington. State over last year. come. Here ana in hmgiana it is computed mat 
It is said the failure of the treaty between Vex- ip UE Republicans of Wisconsin have put in nom- n0 le8S than 200 diffeient patents have been grant- 
ieo and the United States was owing to the respec- j nation lbo following ticket:— Governor— A. W. ed > 1111,1 that 1 > 600 or 1 > r,0 ° nr0 8old we€kl J> at 
iive differences relative to the clause for the pro- u ttn( j a ii ) 0 f Waukesha. Lieut. Governor— B. G. P rices ranging from $5 to §500, and that the whole 
tection of the right of way proposed to be given to Nob)e> ’ 0 f Walworth. Secretary of State-h. P. numbor i n use i B near 150,000. 
this Government—the latter claiming to be the jj arvcy> of Rock. Treasurer —S. D. Hastings, of Frost and Snow in Northern New York. —The 
best judge when such protection should be under- x,. era p e leau. Attorney General- James H. Howe, frost of the 14th inst., did its work thoroughly in 
taken by itself, and the Joarez Government hold- 0 f UrowD. Lank Comptroller —G. Van Steenwyk, Cbateaugay and vicinity. Potatoes and all other 
ing the right that it should be exercised only in 0 f Columbia. State Prison Commissioner —Hans vines were cut to tbe ground. Tho degree of cold 
the event of Mexico being incompetent, and after neg, of Racine. Superintendent of Public In&truc- was so great as to form a hard crust on the ground, 
application for that purpose. tion— G. S. Pickard, of G/ani. There were snow and hail storms. 
turns indicate the re-election of Governor Morrill, tion has been widely advertised and talked about, 
and an increased Republican supremacy in the few people realize into what general use they have 
State over last Year. come. Here and in England it is computed that 
application for that purpose. 
Further reliable advices from Vera Cruz, dated 
August 31st, state that tbe Constitutional Govern¬ 
ment had paid the full amount of the French claim 
There were snow and hail storms. 
Irish Remittances Home. —It is authoritatively 
stated that the amount of money remitted home 
by Irishmen, residents in America, the last year, 
August 31st, state that tbe Constitutional Govern- Pfews Paragraphs. stated that the amount of money remitted home 
ment had paid the full amount of the French claim Liberia dates to July 12th have been received, by Irishmen, residents in America, the last year, 
out of the customs, being one of fourteen hundred The President, cmbaikmg on tbe new war vessel, for the purpose of assisting their friends to 
thousand dollars. This money came into the Quail, had gone to visit some of the more distant immigrate, was $2,360,000. The ten preceding 
hands of N. Gabriel, the French Minister, who bad settlements. Forty-two emigrants, of the McDon- years the amount remitted was $48,680,000. 
failed to distribute it in the manner provided in 0 ugh household, bad arrived from New Orleans. Indian MiSSACRE.-The Utah papers furnish an 
the Constitution There was reason to believe in Public and business affairs were advancing favor- of another mass acre of a party of emi- 
official quarters tnat he intended to invest it jd a «h)v . . . , JT i 
. . . . . uu grants by inemins. The affair happened July 24th 
privaii. enterprise with Mi. union. Much indigria- j N th(J Theological Seminary connected with the on Raft river, Oregon, where the emigrants were 
tion continues to be expressed aga.nst lnm by the IUinoi8 State Universety) 
are fourteen Scandina- attacked by Shoshones and his men, and one 
French residents. . . . ., T 
. , . „ vian young men, preparing for the Lutheran woman of the emra.rants killed and seven wound- 
The State Department has received information ... . ~ v . « a a ■ 
r „■ ■ , , „ ministry, viz.:—One Dane, live Swedes, and eight ed, (some not expected to live.) The Indians then 
from our Minister at Berlin that Christian Earnest, w ... . , , 
. , .. . . ’ Norwegians. They are under the charge of Pastor robbed the wagons of $1,700 in money, and drove 
The State Department has received information 
from our Minister at Berlin that Christian Earnest, 
an American and naturalized citizen, who had n r r , ... r . 
, ,, , , . . , ’ . Ebsjorn, Professor of Theology and Scandinavian oil a large quantity of their stock. Tbe attacking 
been compelled by lorce to enter the Moravian , J . bJ T ,. 1 , J . , * 
army, bad, upon the remonstrance of the United langUagCS and llterature ‘ Ind,an3 warc tha sarae ^ r * cenU ? 
States government, been discharged from service. At 01d Point Comfort ’ a P art 7 of United State3 8everely chastlsed tr00 P 3 under Lieut - Gra ^ 
However much our Government may be im- ®° ld ‘ arS are . trJ1Dg to ' vear out a « un weighing Fulton’s Voyage.—T he Albany JowmaZ says:— 
pressed with tbe truth that the island of San Juan lo,00 ,° pou “ ds - U 18 ,oaded Wlth 10 P ounds of “ The Dean of R'pon, in England, has very recently 
belongs to us, there appears to be no doubt but V°' irdeT > and ca ™es a ball weighing 128 pounds. died . ] 3 y hia decease, the Hon. John Q. Wilson, 
that tbe Government of Great Britain and the U haS a ' read ? been bred more tban a thousand of this c u y> becomes tho la B t survivor of tbe part y 
United States will instruct their agents to act with Near t ar . e tw ° gl ' DS . wbl ° h were fi f ed of cabin passengers who accompanied Robert Ful- 
the utmost circumspection, in view of a satisfactory 2 >' ;0() times at 1lttsb “ r g- Tbe ob J ect of tbe finn g ton in his first steamboat journey from New York 
adjustment of the existing differences. It will be 1S .*° 1 teS , t th . G durablllt ^ of lhe ,r0D > alld tLe g un to Albany. The Dean was afterwards remembered 
recollected that Secretary Marcy, four years ago, W) b ° dlschar S cd “ ntl1 ll becomes useless. in thig coun t r y, the degree of Doctor of Laws hav- 
said that the title ought to have been settled before. Wm ' Owney, of Southampton county, Va., died i D g been conferred on him by Columbia College, 
Either party should exclude the other by force, or a few days since, aged one hundred years and five on motion of Bishop Wainwright. When the 
by the exerciseof complete and extensive sovereign montll s- He was engaged in the battle of Brandy- Persia had its trial trip, this gentleman was one of 
rights within tbe disputed points. This was the wine ’ and also at Petersburg, Va., when Arnold the specially invited guests, as having been asso- 
substance of bis letter to Mr. Crampton, at that P aid lbat town a vislt ‘ old soldier bad never ciated with the earliest successful steam voyage, 
time representing Her Majesty’s Government and takcn medicine in his life, and in bis last illness Between the equipment of the North River and 
to which much importance is now attached. From P ositive] y refused to have it administered. that of the Great Eastern, is a development of an 
will be discharged until it becomes useless. j n ^jjj g coun try, the degree of Doctor of Laws hav- 
Wm. Owney, of Southampton county, Va., died iDg been conferred on him by Columbia College, 
a few days since, aged one hundred years and five on motion of Bishop Wainwright. When the 
all that can be ascertained in well informed cir- During the present season, six steamers have 
oles, it is reasonable to infer that no serious difli- been totally lost on the Missouri river; the 
culties are likely to result between the two MonoDgahela, W. C. Sombart, Sallie West, 
positively refused to have it administered. that of the Great Eastern, is a development of an 
During the present season, six steamers have i nv cntion which, not often in the world’s history, 
been totally lost on the Missouri river; the it is given to one life to witness.” 
culties are likely to result between the two Monongahela, W. C. Sombart, Sallie West, Sharp Practice upon Females. — One of the 
countries. If any danger at all is apprehended, it Kate Howard, MorniDg Star, and D. S. Carter, most successful and meanest efforts at rascality 
is consequence of the well known intrepid charac- Some of these boats were nearly new; and the that was ever heard of was brought to light on the 
ter of Gen. Harney. Col. Hawkins, of the British loss aggregates over two hundred thousand dollars. 7th inst. in New York. From the revelations it 
army, on the 13th inst., brought dispatches con- At Sidney Davis’ clothing establishment in appears that a shaker, named Williams, in I’hila- 
cerning the dispute, to the British legation, and BaDgor, a spring gun is set at night for the benefit delphia, advertistd'loT'a number of young ladies 
then left for New Yorkto take passage for England, 0 f burglars, but on Wednesday morning a care- to S° South to 1111 8ltuatioDS as teachers of music, 
with dispatches from Gov. Douglass to Her Majes- less clerk forgot the concealed weapon and receiv- Fifteen y° un g women were accepted by the adver- 
ty’s Government on tbe same subject. ed a charge of shot in one of his legs. tiser. They were to have remunerative employ- 
Gen. Scott left Washington on the 16th for New m , . , . , , ment in the families of wealthy Southern planters, 
York, and will sail on the 20th for the Pacific. TnE tel ^ rapb “ 0W 80 ™ed for and - n eyery respect their future pr08pects werc J 
The present delicate and complicated state of ^ orrespon ence a e ^ e | enue o ‘ e pos '° ice the most flattering description. It was simply 
t * „ “ department is a million dollars less annua y than . , , „ , ^ j 
affairs at San JuaD, growing out of Gen. Ilarnev s . 1 ,, ., . . J stipulated by the advcrtisor that the ladies should 
movements, require great care and caution on the . defray in part their expenses to their respective 
part of our Government to prevent a collision. ■ PnE Wltb tbe Mohave Indians by Major destinations. On arriving in New York, en route 
The Cabinet, in conference with Gen. Scott in re- -^ rmislead was a ra U ier serious allair. The In- f or South, the sharper took charge of the hag¬ 
gard to the matter, suggested the propriety of dians came inning up, yelliDg and whooping, gage of the ladies, collected from them about one 
sending some one there who was less impetuous and cliar S ed fearlessly, the bravest of them com- hundred and fifty dollars for their fare in the 
and more prudent than Gen. Harney. Gen. Scott up to Wllbin len or b ^ een yards of the muz- s t e amship, and while they werc waiting patiently 
at once informed the President that he would go, z ' es f bese > however, paid dearly for ^e hotel for him to conduct them on board, he 
and that as soon as his instructions were prepared fheir temerity, the steady and well-directed fire decamped with his plunder. Ilis race was a 
he would be ready to start. ol 11)0 men be ^ d them in check, when, after thirty s hort one, however, being overhauled at Washing- 
-- minutes hard fighting, Major A. ordered the com- ^ on> and be j s novv safely lodged in jail in New 
Personal and Political. pany to charge them, which was done. The In- York city. It i 3 to be hoped that he will meet just 
The Democracy of New York met in Convention d ' aDS m every dire i ctl0D > perfectly discom- pun i s bment,—a few years in the State Institution 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
ingly large, and the proceedings anything but were Blightly W0U nded. ' - 
harmonious. After considerable discussion, and . . . Great Britain. —The report was in circulation 
something that very much resembled a general ^ IIE ■ [d ' lwau ce ^entincl gives the names of 101 a ^ Gibraltar on the 27th of August, that the Em- 
old fashioned row, tbe following ticket was nomi- new8 P a P eis > Imglihb and German, published in peror 0 f Morocco was dead, and that a serious 
nated by one section of the party: Wisconsin, and adds: I he aggregate weekly affray had taken place on the Island of Ceuta, 
For Secretary of State —David It. F. Jones, of 1S8UeS 1S ° V T J 0 ’ 000 ’ and wc are between the Spaniards and Moors. Troops were 
Queens. For Comptroller—Sanford E. Church, of ’ti ^ rae Dear, y four milhon c p pies called out. Seven thousand Moors had collected, 
Orleans. For Attorney General— Lvman Tremain a °, rm ' C grand total every year are printed an d at last accounts these parties were in a fight 
zrr of aU - - -. . *7- «• 7-»^ 
K. Kichmond, of Wayne. For State Treasurer — The English mail steamer Indus was fired on 
Isaac V.Vanderpoel, of Erie. For Canal Commis- N n ^ "cck the Biooklyn post-office w r as twice from the Spanish fort at Tarifa, on the 27th 
sioner —W. I. Skinner, of Herkimer. For State CrC , ‘* n ™l ar ^ lve hmidicd letters were open- 0 f August, while her ensign was flying. At the 
Prison Inspector —Noble S. Elderkin, of St. Law- ’ an a ,oa P UI oine< > as was ascertained second fj rc a ] ai ge round shot fell within 50 yards 
rence. For Judge of Court of Appeals- Alexander £° m tbe ^ c ^ elo P e3 f trc ^ d the floor. of lhe gteaffiCr . 
S. Johnson, of Albany. For Clerk of Court of ° rC ma y avc a an ’ 11 ® n S that amount had j g SU gg C3 ted in the London papers that the 
Appeals— John L. Lewis, Jr., of Yates. aCa ascer ainc • o c ue as yet been discover- g r j n g on ^be steamer Indus, from Tarifa, was for 
of the steamer. 
It is suggested in the London papers that the 
been ascertained. No clue has yet been discover- • ,, , T i r m - r , 
,,,,,, J u c firing on the steamer Indus, from Tarifa, was for 
ed to the robbers. r 
France. —The Paris telegram of l«’riday, says 
. ,. r A letter from Paris says the Queen of Spain 
A Washington dispatch contains a rumor that , , , . ., . n . r 
r ir * .. . had sent to the various Courts of Europe a protest 
The ticket belonging to the other section was ’ the purpose of learning the state of affairs at 
similar, except for Clerk of Court of Appeals, for ma y be a curious fact for some of our readers Ceuta. 
which position Edward Timpson, of New York to know that tbe regular weekly consumption of France.— The Paris telegram of Friday, says 
city, was chosen. Mr. T. resigned, and the ticket flour in this Clt ^ 18 llft 7 thousand barrels, or a the French Government has instructed Turkey 
was finally adopted as above. little over seven thousand barrels per day. So says that Prance would 8upport the Su ez Canal project. 
The following State Committee was appointed:— the N. Y. Sun. , a . 
1st District, W.D. Kennedy, New York; Peter B. A Washington dispatch contains a rumor that , , ° A*" . r ,° m aris 8, U S 6 uecn 0 ‘ P a,I | 
Sweeney, New York ;■ 2d, Aaron Ward, Westclies- the recent Costa Rican Revolution was in a great 1U . Se ” , ° )e various oui s o .u rope a pro es 
v- t» i . b against the eviction of her cousin from Parma. 
ter, James Ciaig, Kings; 3d, Peter Cagger, Al- measure the work of the British Minister, Sir a i r a <i -n , 
u TT 1 i t> t, . ’ Cols. Charras and Barber refused the Emperor’s 
bany, b. G. J^afiin, Lister; 4th, R. H. Cushney, Wm. Gore Ouseley, who had failed to gain I’resi- , r .... 1 
Montgomery; R. G. Stone, Clinton; 5th, J. Stryker! dent Mora’s assent to a treaty proposed to him. Namleon agamSt 
rh!ntt , o-n W TT° In an artic,e upon diarnonds . in Harper’s Mag- The Newfoundland mail at Paris brought the 
T? p n ’ . t. 1. ‘ aU ’ az 'ue, it is stated that the best quality of silex, announcemement of a full triumph of the French 
p ’ A T , . ga .’ ’ U ‘ in 1C mon ’ which enters into the composition of the admira- Admiralty over the English, in the question con- 
, . . .tning, jn'ie. ble imitations of diamonds made in Paris, is found cerning the fisheries. 
Tub death of the Hon. T. L. Harris, of Illinois, in Khode Island, and is exported to France for that a Paris letter says there is no doubt that the 
left a vacancy in the next Congress. Gov. Bissell purpose. 7„ ri ch Conference will disagree about man v nninta 
left a vacancy in the next Congress. Gov. Bissell 
has issued a proclamation for a special election, 
to be held on the 8th of November. 
The Hunterdon Republican, published at Flem- 
iinout island, ana is exported to J* ranee lor tnat a Paris letter says there is no doubt that the 
1I P ose- Zurich Conference will disagree about many points 
A mammoth balloon is being made in New 7 ork touching the peace of Villa Franca, and the opinion 
a Ml. Lowe, lie is going to try to cross the is nrrnwinnr afrnnrrpr Avcrv dnv that n flnnarcsa 
him of his nomination, declining to be a candidate 
of that faction. 
The Democrats of Massachusetts held a State 
Convention at Worcester on the 15th inst. The 
State ticket nominated is as follows:— Governor — 
by a Mr. Lowe. He is going to try to cross thi 
Atlantic, and expects to reach London in forty 
U, uuvcmuei. oy “ 118 is going to try to cross tne is growing stronger every day that a Congress may 
The Hunterdon Republican, published at Flem- Atlantic, and expects to reach London in forty- be held, 
ington, tbe residence of Col. Clark, the “straight e ight hours. At a meeting of tbe Zurich Plenipotentiaries on 
American ” nominee for Governor of New Jersey, Telegraph to California and Utah. — Ar- the 1st of September, the regulation of the Lorn- 
says Col. Clark received the official announcement rangements are in progress for the extension of a bardian frontiers and separation of the civil and 
at Camden, for the first time, on Friday last, and line of telegraph from St. Louis to Fort Smith, ecclesiastical jurisdiction was discussed, 
that on the same day he addressed a letter to the 500 miles on the overland route to California, and It was reported at Paris on Thursday that Met- 
Chairman of the Committe appointed to inform also from St. Louis to Atchison and Utah. This ternich, the Austrian Ambassador, was about to 
him of his nomination, declining to be a candidate will give us California news three or four days leave on a visit to Vienna. 
of that faction. earlier than now, and news of events in Utah and Uneasiness was felt in Paris on account of the 
Tns Democrats of Massachusetts held a State Kansas the same day they occur. Zurich Conferences, and rentes declined. 
Convention at Worcester on the 15th inst. The Japanese Matters.— We have news dated on Austria. —Advices from Vienna state that Aus- 
, tate ticket nominated is as follows: Governor — | the 5th of June from Japan. The Emperor had tria had decided to discount that portion of the 
Austrian debt which is to be apportioned to Lom¬ 
bardy, and also sell the public domains. 
Italy, —Advices from Italy stale that the people 
are becoming impatient at the inactivity of the 
Zurich Conference, and the various contradictory 
reports, touching their doings, also state that 
Piedmont demands from Austria the cession of 
Mantua and Peechiera. 
The first National Assembly of the Romagna 
was opened at Bologna, Sept 1st, by the Governor 
General, who, in a speech, congratulated tbe peo¬ 
ple on the alacrity with which they had hastened 
to the electoral districts to record their votes. He 
had, he said, provided for the defense of the coun¬ 
try against aggressions from all sides, by forming 
a league with the neighboring States. 
A letter from BologDa states that at the popular 
elections the priests deposited their votes as freely 
as tbe citizens, aDd tbe result was an immense 
mnjority in favor of the liberal party, which goes 
against tbe establishment, on any conditions, of the 
temporal power of the Pope. The aristocracy was 
at the head of the movement. 
Tbe finances of Romagna were in excellent con¬ 
dition, and there was no doubt that the new gov¬ 
ernment would be able to go on without a loan. 
Since the overthrow of the temporal power of 
the Pope, the banditti and the smugglers, who had 
infested the Romagna, had entirely disappeared. 
Russia. — Advices from Russia state that tbe 
expedition into Daghestan had been completely 
successful. A company had been formed in St. 
Petersburgh for the construction of the Commer¬ 
cial Fort there on a large scale. The government 
had ordered three corps de ai'mie, under Prince 
Gortschakoff, to be placed on a peace footing. 
Spain. —Accounts from Madrid state that Spain 
had withdrawn her Consul from Tangier, and de¬ 
cided to demand satisfaction at Morocco for out¬ 
rages at Ceuta. Orders had beeu given for the 
formation of an expeditionary corps of 10,000 men. 
Later advices from Madrid state that Gen. Pitt 
will command the expedition fitting out against 
the Moors. 
A cyclone passed over Calcutta on the 25th of 
July, and 46 vessels, including two steamers, were 
lost in the river Iloogly. Immense damage was 
done on shore, and many lives were lost. No par¬ 
ticulars. 
Clippings from Foreign Journals. 
Four crosses of the Legion of Honor were 
bestowed by Louis Napoleon on the Paris Press on 
the occasion of the grand fete. The Emperor’s 
well known antipathy to newspapers precludes 
the idea that the French press has been “crossed 
in love.” 
The coal consumed in Manchester, England, and 
its environs, for motive steam power, is 30,000 tuns 
per day, and is equal in power to 1,200,000 horses. 
The tranB-Atlantic steamers consume 700,000 tuns 
per year, and in the manufacture of gas 10,000,000 
tuns per year. It is estimated that England alone 
could furnish coal enough for the consumption of 
the whole of Europe for 4,000 years. 
The latest English Court gossip is that the Duke 
of Rutland has offered marriage to Princess Mary, 
sister of the Duke of Cambridge, who had accepted 
him ; but that the head of the family, viz.: tlie 
Queen, forbids the match. Both parties arrived at 
“years of discretion,” years ago, but Princesses, 
less fortunate than dairymaids, cannot marry the 
man of their choice. It is stated to be the settled 
policy of the Crown to have no marriages in the 
Royal Family except with other Royal Families. 
Leigh Hunt, tbe veteran essayist and poet, i B 
dead, at tlie age of 75. lie was the intimate per¬ 
sonal friend of Lamb, Coleridge, Ilazlett, Shelley, 
Keats and Wordsworth. He was for many years 
editor of tbe London Examiner, and its liberal 
tone drew on him the persecution of the Govern¬ 
ment. The two Hunts were prosecuted and sen¬ 
tenced to pay a fine of £500, which the costs of the 
defence made a sum of £2,000, and to be impris¬ 
oned two years in IIorsemoDger Jail. After his 
connection with the Examiner was broken off', lie 
engaged in numerous literary enterprises, and 
wrote books, more or less of which are to be found 
in every library. He was a genial and discrimi¬ 
nating critic, and one of the most chatty and 
agreeable of English essayists. In 1847, Queen 
Victoria, perhaps as an atonement for the perse¬ 
cutions he had endured from her uncle, granted 
him a pension of £200 per aunum. 
When railways were in their infancy in England 
it was supposed that they would injure the estates 
through which or near which they ran, and the 
English Cabinet Minister, Mr. Laboucherd’sfather, 
received the compensation of $150,000 for an imagi¬ 
nary detriment of this sort. After his death, his 
son, finding that there was no injury to the estate 
from the vicinity of the railway, but to the con¬ 
trary, refunded the $150,000. 
The London Advertiser gives the following curi¬ 
ous news in its Paris correspondence :—Engineers 
have been sent to Cologne to survey the whole line 
of posts, thence to Calais, that they may fix on a 
spot for the formation of a seaport sufficiently 
spacious to contain a fleet of fifty transports, and 
the Minister of Marine had notified his subalterns 
that fifty transports, each capable of containing 
2,000 men, must be ready and waiting on the coast 
opposite Dover, by the commencement of the en¬ 
suing year. The writer says that this statement 
reposes on excellent authority, and that full confi¬ 
dence of its authenticity has been telegraphed to 
the English Government. He throws out the con- 
| jecture that the French altercations with Belgium 
will supply a pretext for a rupture with England. 
This story was regarded as a ridiculous “ canard.” 
Obituary. —We regret to announce the death of 
Mr. Reuben B. Warren, of Alabama, Genesee Co , 
known to many of our readers as an enthusiastic 
amateur Horticulturist, and an ardent friend and 
promoter of Rural Improvement. Mr. W. died on 
Saturday last, after a brief illness, at the age of 38 
years. He was highly esteemed, and will be sin¬ 
cerely lamented. 
— The telegraph announces that C. H. Wither, 
Esq., one of the most respectable and wealthy 
citizens of Suspension Bridge, was drowned there 
on Saturday last. Mr. W. was a most earnest and 
influential friend of tbe Rural and its objects, and 
an estimable citizen. He was between fifty and 
sixty years of age. 
®f)e tos 
— Horse railroads are about to be Introduced 
Milwaukee. 
— A pair twins were born In the ears, near Boeton 
one day last week. 
— Three smart shocks of oarthqnako occured at Fajal 
on the 25th of May. 
— At tho last accounts Greeley was on a visit to CoL 
Fremont, in California. 
— A Siberian lynx was lately eaptured en Mount 
Hayes, New Hampshire. 
— Personal.—Jack Frost is now making a tour into 
the lowlands of New England. 
— The swallows disappeared from tho vicinity of 
Boston this year on tho hth inst. 
— Tho U. 8. Treasury is rapidly recovering from the 
effects of the late financial crisis. 
— Lamartine has had a house granted to himself and 
family for life by the city of Paris. 
— Gen. 8cott has been called to Washington for con¬ 
sultation upon the San Juan affair. 
— Barey, tho horse-tamer, has got the London cav¬ 
alry under his charge at a good price. 
— Prof. Agassiz is on his way having embarked at 
Liverpool on the lOili inst., for Boston. 
— Bears are becoming common among the mountains 
of Western Pennsylvania and Virginia. 
— Paulsen is about visiting New York to challenge 
Paul Morphy to a match game of chess. 
— The upper Mississippi and Minnesota are so low 
that all the largo boats have been withdrawn. 
— The recent fire at Halifax is said to have destroyed 
property to the amount of one million dollars. 
— The fortifications of Dover, England, are about to 
be enlarged at an estimated expense of £150,000. 
— Water froze at Palmer (Mass.) on Sunday night 
of last week to the thickness of an eighth of an Inch. 
— The area of China proper is nearly two million 
square miles—about one-half as much as all Europe. 
— The issuing of passports to foreign countries has 
fallen off nearly one-half from the rate of last spring. 
— A monument, or some other tribute of remem¬ 
brance, is proposed for Horace MaDn. He deecrvcs it. 
— A New York correspondent says that ten millions 
of hooped skirts arc manufactured in that city per year. 
— The returns from the late election show tnat Texas 
contains a voting population of above seventy thou¬ 
sand. 
— The Monroo (Wie.) Stato Eights acknowledges tho 
receipt of three ripe figs grown by Mrs. Pheips, of that 
place. 
— Incendiaries are still at work in Lexington, Ky. 
Last week a church and stable was fired by the mis¬ 
creants. 
— The harvest in Spain was not so abundant as an¬ 
ticipated, but sufficient for the consumption of the 
country. 
— As much as live hundred barrels of oil have been 
scooped up from the water since the recent Are at Now 
Bedford. 
— Hon. J. Harvey, a member of Congress during 
Gen. Jackson’s administration, died in New Hampshire 
on the 23d ult 
— The rematns of a fossil elephant have been found 
in a marl pit on the farm of non. Kolia Gleason, of 
Richmond, Vt. 
— Lead Is being shipped from Kansas City to St. 
Louis in considerable quantities. It is hauled over one 
hundred miles. 
— A calf, weighing five hundred pounds, fourteen 
weeks old, was sold at the Washington Drove Yards, 
N. Y., for $37 60. 
— It is stated that a fund of 20,000 lias already been 
invested in Massachusetts for the benefit of the children 
of Horace Mann. 
— The Portland people are making great prepara¬ 
tion to receive tho Great Eastern, putting their hotels 
In order, <tc., &c. 
— There are 1,400 buildings of various kinds now in 
process of erection in Memphis, Tenn., at an estimated 
cost of $3,000,000. 
— Letters from Zante (Ionian Islands) ofl 6th August, 
1S59, stato that the currant crop this year is in a very 
prosperous condition. 
— The first Arab newspaper ever published in the 
Turkish Empire and out of Constantinople has been 
commenced at Bejrout. 
— Robert Murray, found guilty of an attempt to mar¬ 
ry his niece, in Trinity Co., Cal., has been sent to the 
State Prison for one year. 
— During the last four weeks, two thousand six hun¬ 
dred and fourteen people have gone from New York to 
their final resting place. 
— The novel occurrence of a thunder storm in Wash¬ 
ington Territory is recorded by the Olympia Democrat 
It occurred on the 27th nit. 
— A sovcrc shock of an earthquake was felt at Iron- 
ton, Mo., and in i»s vicinity, Saturday week, which 
lasted about thirty seconds. 
— The Boston Transcript learns from private letters 
that Mrs. Elizabeih Barren Browning is lying seriously 
ill at her home near Florence. 
— An exchange says Congress represents some of the 
wisdom and all of the folly of tho nation—it might have 
added, a good deal of the rascality. 
— A small boat, containing ten persons, was upset 
off St. Johns, Saturday week, and four women, one 
man, and three boys were drowned. 
— Gen. Jackson’s old horse is dead at last, at the age 
of 41 years. For several years he has been unable to 
masticate and was fed with bran, &c. 
— Upwards of two hundred thousand cases of sick¬ 
ness are annually treated, gratuitously, at the different 
dispensaries established in New York. 
— The First Congregational Church, East Hampton, 
dismissed its pastor throe years ago and is still vacant, 
after having tried more than 70 ministers. 
— The editor of tho N. O. Bulletin acknowledges tho 
recoipt of pumpkin raised in Texas which weighed 100 
pounds and measured 7 feet in circumference. 
— Scarlet fever has prevailed extensively at Louis¬ 
ville, Ky., this year. A largo number of children have 
also died in Cincinnati from the same disease. 
— Horses in South America, Bays a gentleman who 
accompanied the Paraguay expedition, are so abundant 
as to be slaughtered for their hides and tallow. 
_Tho Indian Bureau remitted to Oregon, by tho 
steamer on Monday week, $111,000 for the Indian ex¬ 
penses In that State during the present fiscal year. 
— The Portage (O.) Sentinel reports the death of a lad 
in that town from tho effects of tho daugerous practico 
of walking on his hands, standing on his head, &c. 
— The Africans sent out by our Government are all 
doing well. Not a death has occurred. They are chief¬ 
ly at Monrovia, or on farms on the St. Paul’s river. 
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