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ROCHESTER, N. Y., OCTOBER 8, 1859. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Matters at Washington. 
The dispatches received by the Government 
narrate with minuteness the recent events in 
China. Flag officer Tatnall says that the British 
officer in charge of the gun boats, having visited 
him, said nothing about aid, but his silent appeal 
was powerful indeed, during the few moments he 
was on board the Powhattan. He looked anxious' 
ly at bis Admiral and his boats. After he left, con 
tinues Capt. Tatnall, I held a conversation with 
our Commissioner, Mr. Ward, and he agreed with 
me perfectly, that under the circumstances of our 
position with the English, and the aid the Admiral 
had tendered me the day before, I could do no less 
than tow the boats to his relief. I made the offer, 
which was thankfully received and promptly ac 
cepted. Capt. T. towed the boats through the Brit 
ish line to within a short distance of the Admiral 
whose flag was flying, when, casting off, he return 
ed to the rear of the line, and anchored for the 
night. He took up this position as it might enable 
him to visit the wounded, and should any boat be 
sunk, to rescue the crew, in other words, to afford 
all the aid consistent with the fieutrality. Having 
been informed by a British officer that the Admiral 
was dangerously wounded, Capt. T. went in a 
barge to visit him. When within a few feet of the 
Cormorant, a round shot struck the coxswain, Mr 
Hart, of Brooklyn, and slightly wounded flag Lieut, 
Trenchard. They reached the Cormorant before 
the boat entirely sunk. Capt. T. says the Chinese 
Commissioners had previously notified Mr. Ward 
of their agreements, and requested him to accom 
pany the British and French Ministers to the Peiho 
President Buchanan entirely approves of the ac 
tion of the Commodore in rendering the assistance 
he did to the British Admiral. 
Colonel Rankin, Register of the Land Office in 
Olympia, Washington Territory, has arrived from 
the Island of San Juan. He reports that if the 
intentions of Gov. Douglas had been carried out 
there would have been a collision between the 
British and American forces, as the Satellite and 
Plumber had been ordered by him to fire; but 
Admiral Bayne opportunely arrived and superced¬ 
ed him in the command of the English ships-of- 
war, five in number. 
The original misunderstanding was with the 
Hudson Bay Co., the interests of which were rep 
resented by Douglas. The Island of San Juan had 
been in the occupancy of the Americans for at least 
eighteen months. Nobody seems to question their 
rights, and it has been for a long period consider¬ 
ed and treated as belonging to Washington Terri¬ 
tory. It was not until Gen. Harney applied to and 
was informed by Boundary Commissioner Camp¬ 
bell, that- our title to the Island was dear and 
certain,' that he dispatched troops thither at the 
earnest request of the residents who claimed pro 
tection from British aggression, and especially 
from the predatory insurrections of the Northern 
Indians; who had even taken and held possession 
of a light house for three days, and against whom 
private expeditions had repeatedly been sent to 
chastise them. Col. Rankin says the people of 
Washington and the Pacific States are unanimous 
for our retention of the Island, and such is their 
enthusiasm, that if the United States troops should 
be directed to vacate, private parties in formidable 
numbers would immediately occupy that important 
position, and not surrender it without a severe 
struggle. 
Arizonian dates of the 15th are received. The 
presentation of the articles purchased for the Pi- 
mos and Maricota Indians, under the act of Con¬ 
gress of February last, was made by Lieut. Mowry 
©n the 10th inst. Between 4,000 and 5,000 Indians 
were present. About 2,000 farming implements 
and several thousand pounds of barley and other 
grains for seed, axes, &c., besides several thousand 
yards of cloths, calicoes, shirts, tobacco, and bread, 
were distributed. 
The reason of this large distribution was ex¬ 
plained in a speech by Lieut. Mowry, and in reply 
the Chiefs expressed great satisfaction of the kind¬ 
ness of their Great Father, the President, and 
promised to continue in the good conduct which 
had brought them so great a reward. 
They cultivate this year 15,000 acres, and have 
supplied the Overland Mail Company with large 
quantities of grain. It is reported that next year 
their crops will be largely increased, through the 
facilities given them by the Government. 
Personal.— At the recent Commencement of the 
Vermont University, the degree of D. D. was con¬ 
ferred upon Rev. S. S. Cutting, Professor of Belle 
Lettres, &c., in the University of Rochester- 
honor worthily bestowed. 
Isaac Butts, Esq., the able and popular editor of 
the Rochester Union and Advertiser, who has, with 
his family, spent several months in Europe, re 
turned in the Persia, and was warmly greeted by 
many friends on his arrival in this city. Messrs 
S. Hamilton, of this city, and L. H. Tucker, of 
Albany, also returned in the Persia. 
Rodney L. Adams, Esq., formerly of the Wayne 
Co. Republican, succeeds Anson G. Chester as 
editor of the Syracuse Journal. Mr. A. is a tal 
ented writer and otherwise qualified for the posi 
tion assumed. We are glad to observe, by the 
way, that the Journal has recently been enlarged 
and greatly improved in appearance. 
News Paragraphs. 
The Kankakee (Ill.) Gazette says that on Friday 
week, a freight car on the Illinois Central railroad 
took fire about eight miles north of that city, and 
came in all ablaze. It was taken to the water 
tank, and subjected to a bath, which soon extin 
guished the flames. A considerable portion of the 
car was burned through, and a portion of the 
freight consumed. The car contained two kegs of 
gunpowder marked “ codfish.” The box contain 
ing the kegs was charred through, and on being 
taken out fell to pieces. 
A little tool has been invented for threading a 
needle. It is made with two blades, which holds 
the needle with its eye opposite a little funnel 
shaped opening, into which it is perfectly easy for 
a person of weak sight to pass the thread, and the 
thread inevitably passes through the eye. 
Capt. Simpson, of the Topographical Engineers, 
has discovered a route between Carson Valley and 
the valley of Great Salt Lake shorter than the 
route which he had been sent out to explore. The 
route is quite straight, and is equally good, if not 
a superior road, in almost every respect, to both 
the immigration line and the old line just explored 
by himself. The facts of the Surveying Expe 
dition have been reported to Gen. Johnson, and it 
is probable that hereafter the bulk of the travel 
between California and Salt Lake will go by the 
last discovered route. 
An engineer was walking on the levee at St, 
Louis one day last week, when a nimble thief 
snatched his watch, and ran oil'at a speed that bid 
fair to defy pursuit. It so happened, however, that 
the party robbed had with him a large Newfound¬ 
land dog, and instead of running himself, he spoke 
a few words to his four-footed companion. Off 
started the noble animal, and before the thief had 
gone many blocks he was dragged to the earth 
and secured by his singular captor. The fellow 
tho’t fit to submit to the warrant displayed — two 
full rows of formidable teeth—and made no resist¬ 
ance to the majesty of the law. 
The total number of houses in Boston in 1728 
was about 3,000, of which 1,000 were of brick and 
the rest of wood, and the population, after a set¬ 
tlement of nearly a hundred years, amounted to 
only 12,000. Now the number of buildings is 
probably upwards of 16,000, while the population 
is in the neighborhood of 175,000. 
The Dayton (Ohio) Empire says that Mr. H. H. 
Worman, of that city, on Thursday week, received 
a letter from his father, who resides in Damme, 
Germany, and who has reached the great age of 
one hundred and fourteen years. The centenarian 
writes a neat, legible, steady hand, and is able to 
wait upon himself and perform light labor. 
Elisha Scofield, a Revolutionary soldier, died 
in Jefferson Co., N. V., a few days since, aged 95 
years. He was a native of Bedford, Westchester 
county, where he resided until 1781, and for the 
five previous years was amid many of the most ex¬ 
citing scenes of the Revolution. 
Owing to the difficulty and expense of transport¬ 
ing English Troops, it is supposed that the British 
Government will employ its Sepoys and other East 
India soldiers in the contemplated attack on China. 
If so, the war between two half-civilized races will 
be marked by scenes of peculiar barbarity. 
Assays at the Philadelphia Mint show the real 
value of the Pike’s Peak dust to be only $15,80 
per ounce. Holders of the article have been con¬ 
fident that it was w r orth $17 or $18 per ounce. 
The property upon which is the Natural Bridge 
of Virginia, has recently changed hands for the 
sum of $12,000. Next to the Falls of Niagara, it is 
the greatest natural curiosity in the United States. 
As was the case with our Mexican war, the late 
war in Italy has demonstrated the uselessness of 
all extra display in army uniform, and a commis¬ 
sion is now sitting in Paris which has for its ob¬ 
ject the alteration of the present uniform of the 
French army, with a view to making it as simple 
and durable as practicable. 
Sunday morning week, the first Baptist Church 
of Chicago, was in debt $14,000. In forty-five 
minutes after the fact was stated, the congregation 
wiped out $12,500, and were prepared to cancel 
the remaining $1,500; but the pastor begged them 
not to do so, as several friends w r ere unavoidably 
absent who would not be pleased if nothing was 
left for them to do! 
A coin was deposited in the corner stone of a 
church at Jackson, Mich., last week, that had been 
taken from the corner stone of a temple in Rome, 
built during the reign of the First Ciesar. 
The corn crop in Illinois is greatly injured by 
the frost north of the Illinois river, there being 
hardly a corn field north of Lasalle which is not 
wholly or to a great extent ruined. In Minnesota 
no damage as yet has been done, and it is hoped 
the crops there may escape. 
By an arrival from Port-au-Prince, we have 
advices from Hayti to the 5th inst. The daughter 
of President Geffrard was killed by a gun-shot 
while occupying her father’s chair, on the evening 
of the 3d inst. The shot was fired from the gar¬ 
dens adjacent to the palace. Great excitement 
existed in consequence of the act. Business at 
Port-au-Prince was dull. 
The amount of iron thus far used on the dome 
at the new Capitol at Washington, is 2,500,000 
pounds; to complete the first section will require 
500,000 pounds additional, making a total of 3,000,- 
000 pounds. The total weight of iron for the 
whole dome will be about 15,000,000 pounds. 
This great weight will only be about fifty pounds 
to the square inch, in the thickness of the walls. 
The Missing aeronauts Safe. — On the 22d uli, 
Messrs. La Mountain and John A. Haddock— the 
latter gentleman being editor of the Reformer — 
made a balloon ascension at Watertown, Jefferson 
county, and were not heard from until the 3d inst., 
when the following dispatch, dated Ottawa, C. W., 
was received: 
“ Lost alL Landed 300 miles north of Water- 
town, in the Canada wilderness. We were four 
days without food. We were brought out by 
Indian guides in canoes, &c. Please inform my 
wife. (Signed) John La Mountain.” 
The intense alarm consequent upon their long- 
continued absence, has given place to feelings of 
thankfulness for their safety. 
Frightful Calamity. — The canal bridge at 
Albion, Orleans Co., N. V., broke down on the 
afternoon of the 28th ult. A large crowd had 
gathered upon the structure to witness a rope¬ 
walking feat, when it gave way and precipitated 
the mass into the water. Fifteen persons were 
killed, and a large number more or less injured. 
The following is a list of the dead:—Addfcert Wil¬ 
cox, West Kendall; Mr. Stillson, Sou* Barre; 
Jane L. Avery, Lydia or Sophia Harris, Thomas 
Cady, Albion; Sarah Thomas, Augusta Martin, 
Mr. Henry, Ransom Murdock, Carlton; Mrs. Ann 
Viele, Barre; One man, middle aged, name un¬ 
known; Thomas Handy, Yates; Sophia Pratt, 
Toledo, O.; Perry Cole, Benton Corners; Mr. 
Cornell, South Barre. 
Physical Phenomena. —The foreign papers 
state that the aurora borealis which was seen at 
Paris and in England on the 28th ult., was also 
visible in other parts of Europe, and especially at 
Rome—a curious circumstance, from its being so 
far south. We have also mention of spots on the 
sun being observed from various points; and a 
writer on meteorology in the London Times says 
th,at “the connection between solar spots, magnet¬ 
ism and aurora appears clearly established.”— 
With regard to disturbances beneath the earth’s 
surface, we find that the earthquake of Norcia oc¬ 
curred on the 22d. A strange occurrence is also 
notified from Belluno, at the foot of the Venetian 
Alps. In the district of Agordo, a volcanic erup 
tion has broken out, and been in full operation 
since the 20th August. 
Exportation of Flour. —A statement has been 
going the rounds, taken from the New York Jour¬ 
nal of Commerce, that a lot of 500 barrels of 
flour, to be sent to Liverpool, was the first ship¬ 
ment of breadstufls from New York for many 
weeks. This is a gross error. The Custom House 
returns for the week ending the 15th of September, 
1859, report 2,847 barrels cleared from New York 
to Liverpool. For the week ending the 8th of 
September, 1,323 were shipped from 
New York to Liverpool, 501 barrels to London, and 
3,201 barrels to Glasgow. For the week ending 
September 1st, 1,750 barrels were shipped to Glas 
gow, and 1,975 barrels to London. For the week 
ending August 25th, 950 barrels were sent to Liver¬ 
pool. For the week ending August 4th, 2,066 
barrels w r ere exported to Liverpool. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Great Britain. —It is officially announced that 
the Great Eastern from Portsmouth, for Wey¬ 
mouth, Oct. 8th, will finally sail from Holyhead for 
Portland, Me., on the 20ih of October. During 
this delay of three weeks, Mr. Scott Russell con¬ 
tracts to repair the damage occasioned by the 
explosion. This contract does not include any 
repairs which the boiler may be found to require, 
and although they apparently sustained no dam¬ 
age, it is said to have shown that the internal 
stays of the boiler most directly experienced the 
force of the shock, and had either been displaced 
or greatly weakened, so that the boiler cannot be 
safely used in its present situation. 
The Daily News states that the Government has 
decided on dispatching several additional steam 
frigates and corvettes, together with a sufficient 
number of sailing frigates, to augment the squad¬ 
ron in China. It is also expected that a force of 
one thousand additional marines will be dispatched 
to China. 
Isambard K. Brunei, designer of the Great 
Eastern, had died of paralysis. 
The Manchester Guardian and London Post 
both speak severely of General Harney’s conduct 
at San Juan Island, and threaten terrible things, 
unless the Government of the United States disa¬ 
vows his action. 
The British Government has contracted for the 
laying of a submarine telegraph cable from Fal¬ 
mouth to Gibralter. 
It is stated in London that France had returned 
an evasive reply to a question from England, 
touching the concentration of troops in the neigh¬ 
borhood of Gibralter. 
The Governments of France and England were 
to take immediate measures for inflicting chas¬ 
tisement on the Chinese for the treacherous out¬ 
rage at Peiho. 
France. —There was no improvement in French 
commercial affairs. 
The crops had fallen off greatly from last year’s 
figures. 
After several days suspension the Zurich Con¬ 
ference had resumed its sitting. 
The French laws in relation to the press are not 
to be modified. 
The Times’ Paris correspondent says it was 
stated that twelve thousand French troops had 
been ordered to be held in readiness to depart for 
China. General Wimpfen was talked of for the 
command. 
The Moniteur publishes an address to the Em¬ 
peror, signed by about ten thousand Bergamasks. 
The address expresses a hope that the conditions 
of peace which His Majesty is about to dictate will 
be calculated to alleviate the sufferings which 
appear to threaten the future of Venetia. The 
address is violent respecting the return of the 
Archdukes. 
Italy.— The latest news from Italy leaves little 
doubt of the determination of the Italians to rely 
on themselves. Garibaldi was preparing for a 
general concentration of troops on any given point. 
Gen. Fanti, Commander-in-Chief of the troops 
of the Italian League, had fixed his head-quarters 
at Bologna. The soldiers disbanded by Victor 
Emanuel were flocking around him. 
The KiDg of Sardinia had received the deputa¬ 
tions of the National Assemblies of Parma and 
Modena in regard to annexation. The King 
expressed acquiescence in their views, and prom¬ 
ised to support them before the great powers. 
He also expressed the hope that Europe, having 
recognized the right of other nations to form con¬ 
stitutions, will Dot deny it to Italy. 
Austria.— Austria was to increase her military 
force in Italy, and it was ascertained that France 
has still nearly 100,000 men there. 
China. —The China mail had reached London 
bringing full details of the conflict near Pekin. 
The Times prints a full list of the killed and 
wounded. The proportion of officers among them 
is very large. Rear Admiral Hope was wounded 
very severely. 
Mercantile letters from China generally concur 
in the view that the revival of histilities would not 
cause any material interruption to trade. The 
natives at Shanghai were much annoyed at what 
had taken place, and consequently no ill-feeling 
was anticipated there, but still it was believed that 
England would have to send out very large naval 
and military forces, and perhaps blockade these 
points in order to bring the Emperor to submission. 
Commercial— Breadstuffs— The Liverpool market 
had an advancing tendency. Richardson, Spence & 
Co. report flour firm, at full previous rates. Wheat firm 
and l@2d higher since Tuesday. Corn Arm and ad¬ 
vanced Cd per quarter. Provisions .—Market steady. 
Pork firm. Lard dull at 56. 
Clippings from Foreign Journals. 
A Hamburg paper contains a notice of the arri¬ 
val there of two Yankee craft, “all the way from 
the interior of North America and direct from 
Milwaukee, in Wisconsin, on the Michigan sea. 
She is loaded,” says the paper, “with Canadian 
timber, and the most noticeable thing about her is 
her masts, each made of one stick, and having 
each one large sail, unlike our vessels, entirely 
without yards. She requires only half the number 
of men to work her that our vessels of the same 
size require. 
General Sattler, Intendant of the Russian 
Army in the Crimea, has just published an account 
of the provisioning of the army during the war. 
It appears from this that at its commencement 
Russia had in the field 250,000 men and 100,000 
horses, and thal the number of troops for whom 
the Intendance had to furnish provisions in 1855, 
was 845,000 men, with 187,360 horses; and in 
1856, 796,973 men with 183,570 horses. The duty 
was performed under very great difficulties, the 
price of cattle and all provender and necessaries 
having increased five fold and even fen-fold, par¬ 
ticularly from the middle of 1855 until January, 
1856. 
It is calculated that the working cost of the 
Great Eastern, while under steam, will be £800 
per diem. Assuming that she runs to Portland in 
seven days, the cost will, therefore, be £5,600; 
the miscellaneous charges, £6,000. The Cunard 
steamers are asserted to cost £1 per mile, and the 
Great Eastern will average £2 per mile. The 
Great Eastern will not be liable to dock dues or 
pilotage at either Holyhead or Portland. Had 
she started from Liverpool the dock dues would 
have been about £1,500. 
Mr. Brunel, the celebrated engineer who con¬ 
ceived the idea of constructing the steamship 
Great Eastern, has suddenly died, just as he had 
been apprised of the success of the great ship. 
He was prostrated by a fatal stroke of paralysis. 
The Presse d' Orient announces that Mehemet 
Ali Pacha, the last son of Mehemet Ali, of Egypt, 
who has arrived at Constantinople from Marseilles, 
after having visited the principal cities of Europe, 
proposes to open his saloons to European society, 
which is considered a remarkable innovation on 
the part of a high Ottoman functionary. 
In one of his hustings speeches, Mr. Bright, M. 
P., spoke of Louis Napoleon as “ a crowned crimi¬ 
nal.” An English paper advises the Emperor to 
sue him for libel. 
The Submarine Telegraph Company, of London, 
now possess ten conducting wires between Eng¬ 
land and France, besides six stretching to Belgium, 
and five to different parts of the north of Europe. 
It is also proposed to lay a cable between the 
Channel Islands and the French coast. The cables 
belonging to this Company have been lately ex- 
anfined and found to be in excellent order, not¬ 
withstanding they have been laid for seven or eight 
years. 
The present English system of franking, in use 
since January 10th, 1840, provides that each pub¬ 
lic department shall absolutely pay the postage 
upon every letter and document it sends out. 
Even the Queen’s privilege of franking was, by 
her own consent, abolished in 1840, but her own 
letters, when sent through the post-office, pass 
free by virtue of bearing the Queen’s head stamps. 
Progress of Civilization. — English papers 
record a case of horrible cruelty, where a soldier 
of the British army was flogged for desertion. 
The record is revolting in the extreme. “ Davis, a 
youDg recruit, protested his innocence of the 
crime of desertion, bellowed and screamed for 
mercy, and supplicated Col. Talbott and the medi¬ 
cal officers, and others w r ho were present, to have 
compassion on him or he should die. His back 
w T as covered with large, red, inflated boils, which 
bled profusely at every stroke, and reddened the 
ground under his feet, upon which the cat was 
ordered to be withheld for a few moments, when, 
finding that his punishment was not at an end, he 
gave vent to exclamations for mercy, and partly 
succeeded in delivering himself by force from the 
straps which bound him to the halyards. The 
punishment w T as again ordered to be continued, 
when at every succeeding stroke his cries and 
exclamations were most lamentable, insomuch 
that the officers and men swooned away at the 
sickening spectacle, and had to be carried into the 
open air.” 
— Kossuth and his family are at Thunin, in Switzer¬ 
land. 
— Ottawa, Ill., was visited on "Wednesday by a snow 
storm. 
— The total receipts at the National Fair in Chicago 
were $38,000. 
— City railroads were Inaugurated in Cincinnati on 
Wednesday week. 
— In Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, hay 
is selling at $18 to $19 per tun. 
— It is stated that Spain intends to extend a more 
liberal form of government to Cuba. 
— The Irish Protestant delegation preached to crowd¬ 
ed houses in New York on Sunday. 
— It is said .that our government has made a per* 
emptory demand on Chili for redress. 
— In sinking a coal shaft near Centralia, I1L, recent¬ 
ly, a vein of strong salt water was struck. 
— Madame Jumel, the widow of Aaron Burr, is now 
at Saratoga Springs. She is SO years old. 
— There are now going up in the city of Brooklyn 
nearly 900 buildings of various descriptions. 
— More than five inches of rain fell at Bloomfield, 
Pa., during a recent storm of two days duration. 
— Freeman Rawdon, of the well-known engraving 
firm of Rawdon, "Wright, Hatch & Edson, died on the 
22 d ult. 
— The blackberry crop of Indiana is estimated to 
have yielded nearly one-half a million of dollars this 
season. 
— Mr. Alfred Tennyson, England’s Toct Larueate, 
contemplates a tour to the United States the coming 
season. 
— The plate of the first engraving of the Declaration 
of Independence has recently been discovered and 
restored. 
— The Gonzalez Inquirer says that 200,000 sheep 
have been brought into Texas, from Mexico, since the 
first of January. 
— The St. Paul Times says the crops of every sort in 
Minnesota this year are extraordinary in quantity and 
sound in quality. 
— Our naval force in the Pacific consists of 8 vessels 
of war, of 11,828 tunnago, carrying 150 guns, and a 
force of 2,850 men. 
— A citizen of one of the pleasant towns in Middle¬ 
sex Co., Mass., bequeathed the eum of $000 to the silent 
poor of the village. 
— The St. Paul Pioneer says that more buildings are 
in progress in that city than in any city on the river 
North of St Louis. 
— Several hundred thousand Chinese tea plants are 
in vigorous growth at the forcing houses of the Patent 
Office in "Washington. 
— A New York paper gives the names of 15 large 
vessels, beginning with the Great Eastern, whose unit¬ 
ed length is one mile. 
— It was a negro soldier who, at Bunker Hill, shot 
the man who gave the first order against us in the war 
which that year began. 
, — A woman in Bangor has an infant nine weeks old 
that weighs two pounds and a half. The child weighed 
just one pound at birth. 
— A “gobbler” in Massachusetts has developed 
maternal instincts so far as to set upon and lihtch a 
brood of young turkeys. 
— The "Waterviile (N. Y.) Times reports that during 
the last week about 60,000 pounds of new hops have 
changed hands at 10@llc. 
— A tremendously large bed of oysters, said to be 
three or four miles square, was discovered a few days 
since off Huntington, L. I. 
— David Melville, of Newport, Ii. I., was the first 
person to use gas in this country. He lighted his house 
and factory with it in 1812. 
— The case of jewelry exhibited at the recent Chicago 
Fair, was found on removal to have been robbed of 
$3,000 worth of diamonds. 
— Charles Spencer, of Canastola, has in process of 
construction two powerful microscopes for Prof. Agassiz, 
costing about $1,000 apiece. 
— Mr. P. T. Barnum has dammed a creek in East 
Bridgeport, Conn., and formed a lake 40 acres in area, 
for which the citizens praise him. 
— Metallic window blinds are coming into use in 
New York. The frame is made of malleable iron, and 
the slats of corrugated sheet iron. 
— "We have seen it stated that the aggregate of cold 
is greater the present year than during any one for 70 
years past, except that of 1845. 
— Robert Wickliffe, the recently deceased millionaire 
of Kentucky, commenced life as a laborer at 60 oents a 
day, and never was ashamed of it. 
— Mr. Andrew Porter, of South Danvers, Mass., has a 
squash in his garden which girts six feet seven inches, 
being as much as a good sized ox. 
— A lady in Middletown, Conn., has recovered $35 
and costs from a chap who dressed himself up as a ghost 
and nearly frightened her to death. 
— Mr. Champlain, of Yates Co., is “cultivating” a 
pair of buffalo calves which he recently brought with 
him Kansas. They are doing finely. 
— At Port Huron, Mich., there recently arrived a 
quantity of dry goods, by direct shipment from England 
and Scotland, brought over in 24 days. 
— The sum paid for gas in England is estimated at 
$25,000,000 per year, yet but very few private houses 
burn it. The people are afraid of it. 
— A fearful tornado swept over a portion of Sumpter 
district, S. C., on the 16th ult., laying waste several 
plantations and doing great damage. 
— The Buffalo Republic predicts the speedy construc¬ 
tion of a Lake Erie steamboat larger than the Great 
Eastern, to make thirty miles an hour! 
— Vigilance Commitees have been formed in several 
parishes of Louisiana, but the Governor has issued a 
proclamation ordering them to disband. 
— A circus in Chicago was recently sold by the sheriff. 
The tent was bought by the Young Men’s Christian As¬ 
sociation, who will fit it for religious services. 
— Sparrows have been sent from England to Austra¬ 
lia in the hope that they will increase sufficiently to 
keep down the worms that annoy the farmers. 
— A man named Hicock gave an exhibition of walk¬ 
ing on the water at Toronto, C. W., Saturday week. He 
walked two or three hundred rods with success. 
_The treasury receipts of Cuba for the first half of 
the present year were upwards of ten millions of dol¬ 
lars an increase of half a million over last year. 
— A statement was made at a Convention of the 
Congregational churches of New Hampshire that not 
one pastor in the whole connection used tobacco. 
— Steam navigation has been commenced on the 
Tigris by an English company. They have a new 
steamer, and carry a large number of passengers. 
