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ROCHESTER, N. T., NOVEMBER 5 , 1859. 
the Emperor of the French or the Queen of Eng¬ 
land in any differences arising between the nego¬ 
tiations in the question of indemnification and 
pecuniary arrangements. The importance may 
be seen in the fact that while this apparently 
provides for the settlement of difficulties which 
bare for years existed between Mexico and Spain, 
and on account of which Spain had assumed a 
warlike attitude towards Mexico, it is a hostile 
of $75,000. The saloons are ruined, furniture 
destroyed,and the machinery rendered completely 
useless. Add to this the cost of raising the 
wreck, and the total loss of propeity will amount 
to little less than $125,000, upon which there is 
but a partial insurance. The frame which sup¬ 
ported the walking beam was quite rotten, and 
the only wonder is that the accident did not occur 
long ago. The break occurred about five feet 
F011EIGN NEWS. 
proceeding against the government of Juarez. It from the top, and the force with which the heavy 
is said the Liberal party of Mexico will rejoice at 
this prospect of a war with Spain, as it will enable 
them through outside assistance to conquer Spain 
The Treasury receipts for the week ending 
Monday, were nearly $106,000 ; drafts paid, 
$1,213,000; drafts issued, $1,275,000. 
mass was thrown forward snapped large iron rods 
as though they were pipe stems. 
Great Britain— The London Times says that 
the terms of the Zurich treaty are almost identical 
with those of the Villa Franca arrangement. 
The London Pott say's the preliminary negotia¬ 
tions for Congress are only going on, it beiDg 
much easier to plan aCoDgress than to complete tbe 
necessary preliminaries. England is pledged to 
enter no Congress until the independence and free 
action of Italy are previously understood to be 
guaranteed. 
The Post had a dispatch from Paris, on the 19th 
ult., stating that three distinct instruments will be 
signed at Zurich. The treaty between France and 
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News Paragraphs. 
The arms recently furnished to a colored volun- 
Theamount teer company of the city of Philadelphia, have Sardinia will be signed in a dav or two The 
subject to draft is $4,508,000, being a reduction been taken away by the Adjutant-General, in con- tripartite treaty will be signed subsequentlv 
So 000 am ° UDt ^ the PreCediDg ^ ° f 8eq “ enCe ° f tbe Uarper ’ 8 Ferr ^ affair ' The Post further says, that assuming rts infor 
The Washington Constitution contains a list of mation being correct, the further proposals con- 
one hundred and seven post offices in the Southern cerningthe questions left open, which it is intended 
and Western States and Territories which were submit to the approval of the Congress, are of 
discontinued by the Postmaster General during such a nature that the diplomatists at Zurich 
the week ending Oct. 8 . have only heaped up materials for fresh difficulties, 
In Jolly Fraction, MoDroe County, Ohio, only Loglandcan and will take no part in any Congress 
one vote was cast for Senator, Representative and ot which the first principle be not the recognition 
Member of Board of Equalization. To poll that ^ le °f the Romagnese and Tuscans, no 
vote the employment of six persons were neces- 83 ^ an the Modenese and Parmesan States, to 
sary, viz: two clerks, three judges, gnd a messen- , 8 elf -g° v ernment. The first cannon shot fired to 
ger to bring the returns to the clerk’s office. The f° ice on the people of Romagna, Modena and 
cost to the county cannot be much less than fifteen Tuscan y. an J other rules than the Italian Prince, 
dollars for that single vote. * n whom they so fondly put their trust, will be the 
The largest bar of gold ever brought to this 81 8 nal of a conflict as deadly as the one just 
country w'as received on Monday week by the brought to a close 
American Exchange Bank, of New York, from France.— A treaty of peace was signed between 
California, by the steamship Star of the West. France and Austria on the 17th ult. 
It weighed 2,227 ounces, and worth $41,226. It The rumor that France demands 300,000,000 of 
has been sold to shipment for England. francs as a war indemnity from Piedmont is pro- 
The amount of salt manufactured at Syracuse, nounced false. She claims only a reimbursement 
New York, is seven millions of bushels yearly. of the 60,000,000 francs advanced to that govern 
The annual revenue to the manufacturers is three ment i Q arms and provisions, 
millions of dollars, and the income to the State ** was re P ort ed that the Arch-Bishop of Bor 
seventy thousand dollars, as a tax of one cent per deaux visit Rome to press on the Pope the 
bushel is charged by the State on all salt manu- Decess hy for a reform in the government of the 
Personal and Political. 
IIon. Wm. Jarvis, of Vermont, who was a noted 
politician of by-gone times, and was appointed 
Charge d’Affairs to Portugal by President Jeffer¬ 
son, died last week at the age of 90 years, ou the 
farm where he has lately lived in retirement. 
Robert Stephenson, the celebrated Eoglish 
Engineer, whose death is announced, was born in 
1803. He first gained distinction by winning a 
prize for “ constructing the best locomotive,” in 
1828, being theh proprietor of a steam engine 
factory at Newcastle. He supervised the construc¬ 
tion of the London and Birmingham Railway and 
others then in progress, and was afterwards called 
abroad by tbe Kings of Belgium and Norway, to 
advise in regard to railroads in their dominions. 
The achievements which gave him his highest 
reputation, however, were the Tubular Bridges 
over tbe Menai Straits and the Conway, unparal¬ 
leled works in art. lie has been in Parliament, 
and was politically a Conservative and Protec¬ 
tionist. 
The Republicans of Kentucky will meet in Con¬ 
vention on Wednesday, Nov. ICth, at Newport, to f ac tured. The*whote amou^tTf salt*manufactured Statcs of the Church 
organize le party in tbe Sta*e; to form a Presi- j u the United States is sixteen millions of bushels ^ was assert ed that France will not recall her 
dential Electoral ticket; appoint two Senatorial yearly. troops from Rome until the form of government 
e egafes for the State at large, and transact such Middle names were almost unknown one hun- * bere renders their presence no longer necessary! 
oiher business as may come before the Convention, dred years ago. In an old Boston paper of Oct. Reputations from Parma and Tuscany had had 
All persons concede the election of Roger A. 1759, the Transcript says out of 68 names of satisfactory interview with Napoleon. 
Pryor, of the Fourth Congressional District, Va., persons in the paper, not one has a middle name. Several fruitless attempts had been made to 
by a majority of from 1,200 to 1,500. The annual income of the Marquis of Westmin- rev °l u tionize Venetia and Southern Tyrol. 
The official returns of the late election in Penn- ister, who owns about one-half of the “West-end” ^ was a8serted that the Pope, in concert with 
sylvania have been published from every county of London, besides vast landed estates in the ^ a P oleon >is about addressing a manifesto to the 
in the State except Venango, which has not yet Provinces, is £300,000, or $3,500,000 in our States of the Church. 
been received. Without Venango the vote stands m «ney. The late Dwaik.anauth Tagore, of Cal- Reports were current of approaching changes in 
as follows:—For Auditor General—Tlios. E. Coch- cutta, died of a broken heart some twelve years tbe I<reDcb Ministry, 
ran, Opposition, 179,813 ; Richardson L. Wright, a g°> because iu the commercial panic of 1847 his The ^oniteur explains that the French fleet will 
Democrat, 162,707—majority for Cochran, 17,106. fortune had dwindled down to only ten millions of be sen ^ Morocco on account of the attitude 
ForSurveyor General—Wm. H. Keim, Opposition, dollars. With us, when a man is supposed to be assumed England towards Spain—the English 
180,270; John Rowe, Democrat, 162,216—majority worth $100,000 he immediately obtains tbe title of deet ’ P rol)a bly being intended to counter-balance 
for Keim, 18,014. The returns from Venango will Millionaire. its operations. 
add a trifle to these majorities. The total vote of Paper money was first made by Massachusetts The Par ' S contradiots the element that 
the State will be about 23,000 less than it was in in 1690; by Connecticut, in 1709; Pennsylvania 
18oS, and abont 115,000 less than it was in the 1723; Maryland, 1740; Rhode Island, 1744-and 
Presidential election of 1866. in 1759 almost every province issued paper cur- 
In the details concerning the Insurrection at rency. It was first issued by Congress in 1775, 
Harper s Ferry, as heretofore published, the Hon. A bill is under consideration in the Legislature 
Joshua R. Giddings seemed to be more or less i — 
DOMESTIC KEWS. 
Matters at Washington. 
Tnc last mail from England brought advices to 
the Government, fiom distinguished sources, 
respecting the present unsettled condition of 
affairs in Europe, by which it appears none can 
see how the difficulty attendant on the Italian 
question can be settled, or what will be tbe result 
of the Zurich Conference. It is evident that tbe 
various sovereigns are all armed, being apprehen¬ 
sive of a general war. England, it is said, has 
no power to depend on excepting Germany, and 
being favorable to the reform movement in Italy, 
she knows not how to act between the two, as she 
is fearful of losing the friendship of the one in 
the advocacy of the other. Russia, who, since the 
Crimea war, has had no more continental alliances, 
awaits events before coming to a decision as to’ 
what part she will take, and with the view of 
acting intelligently, the Emperor has ordered his 
ministers from the principal courts to join him at 
Warsaw, in order to give him ample information 
on the state of the respective courts to which 
they are diplomatically assigned. For prudential 
reasons, more than the usual caution seems to be 
observable in official quarters, in concealing from 
the public the present condition of the San Juan 
Island question, and hence the contradictory 
statements prevalent concerning it. 
Intelligent gentlemen who have just arrived in 
Washington from the Pacific coast, saj that the 
people there will be surprised at the visit of Lieut, 
Gen. Scott to San Juan, as only in the Atlantic 
States has that island been magnified to the im¬ 
portance of a continent, while it belongs to the 
JJnited States, and will he retained. They add 
it is really not worth quarreling about, and 
that its value has been surprisingly over-estimated. 
The Heralds Washington correspondent says 
that a treaty has been signed between Spain and 
the Miramon Government of Mexico, upon the 
following basis: 
1 st. Acknowledgement of all existing treaties 
between that Government and Spain, and perhaps 
of all conventions. 
2 d. All crimes committed at Cuernarca and at 
other places, to be punished. 
3d. Pecuniary indemnification for damages and 
losses suffered by public and private interests on 
account of said crisis, and in consequence of 
Mexico having failed to fulfill the conditions of 
former conventions, with regard to Mexican and 
Spanish subjects. Finally, the arbitration of either | 
the Sultan had ordered the suspension of the 
works on the Suez canal, but it nevertheless 
asserts that the works had been entirely dis¬ 
continued. 
Italy. — The news from Italy is interesting, 
~ m ... , ,, „ - and indicates approaching trouble. The banking 
timately connected with the movement. Mr. G., color "^eighteen and unde^fifty h °T f & BorV,reer ’ at Wi,an > had 8ub ' 
at a meeting in Philadelphia the other day, denied shall either leave the State or go into slavery ’ 
all knowledge of the affair. „ r • t. , J 
„ a he St. Louis Democrat says that on Wednes- 
Cook, another of the Harper’s Ferry fillibusters, day last, 25,000 pounds of New Mexican wool 
was arrested at Montello, fourteen miles from arrived at St. Joseph from Leavenworth city, for 
am ers urg, 1 a., on the 26th ult. His printed shipment to the East by the Hannibal and St 
commission, signed by Brown, was found upon his Joseph Railroad. The consignees at St. Joseph 
person. e was fully armed, and made a despe- are looking for the arrival of 150,000 pounds more 
rate resistance. He was almost starved, and came in a few days. 
from the mountains into the settlement to obtain Of the three thousand voters of Washington 
Cnv i>„ v a ° V ‘ Wl J e re( l ulsltion > and Territory, two thousand are desirous of entering 
‘ . . ar surren ered him to the Virginia the matrimonial state, but there are no marriage- 
authorities. He arrived.n Charleston on the 28 th. able girls there. The Puget’s Sound Herald 
The Kansas Democrats held their State Conven- plaintively calls for New England damsels to 
tion at Lawrence on the 27th ult., and nominated satisfy the demand for “a good article ” 
?*7'‘ Med ‘‘ r? T I G r e ’”°ni J “ hn A - Holdcm “ A " mi “° ls •>« recognized the legal 
lor Cod ress, and Judge Williams, present Surro- chorncler of the Jewish Sabbath, which begfns 
ffate Judoft. for DhiAf Jnaf7/>n , ~ ,, 9 6 
at three o clock P. M., on Friday, and lasts for 
twenty-four hours. How many Sabbaths have 
Sinking of the Steamer New World. 
At 7 o’clock on the evening of the 26th ult., a 
terrific accident happened to the steamer New 
World, while on her way from New York to 
Albany. She was opposite Tnbby Hook, about 
twelve miles from New York, when the engineer 
was startled by the ringing of the alarm bell. lie 
was in the fire-room at the time, and instantly 
springing toward the machinery, saw that it was 
out of order, and, stopping the engines, gave 
orders to the firemen to put out the fires, hut 
before this could be done, the walking-beam 
broke, and in its course took the piston rod along 
with it. These carried the rest of the machinery 
with them, which fell, breaking through the bot¬ 
tom of the steamer with a heavy crash, and leaviDo- 
a large hole through which the water rushed 
with dreadful force. In a few moments it was 
ascertained that she was sinking rapidly, and 
the excitement became intense. Three hundred 
passengers were on board, and inevitable death 
appeared to he stariDg them in the face, as no 
vessels were near. The night was pitch dark, 
and the snow fell thick and fast. The pilot had 
turned her bow towards the west shore, with 
the intention of running her aground, hut she 
only went a short distance, as her machinery 
being broken, the propelling power soon ceased. 
About fifteen minutes after the accident occur¬ 
red, the shouts of the passengers on the hurricane 
deck, had attracted the attention of the crew of 
the sloop Jack Downing, Captain Erastus W. 
Crane, bound for Albany, from Elizabethtown, 
with a cargo of coal. By the exertions of the 
Captain and the crew, she neared the sinking 
steamer, arid ropes were thrown from the vessel. 
With her heavy load of coal the little sloop could 
not,with safety, take but one-quarter of the passen¬ 
gers; and the ropes were castoff. At this mo¬ 
ment—the steamer, sinking lower and lower—the 
steamers Ohio and Mercury came alongside and 
carried off the rest of the passengers. It is 
thought that all were saved—if not those who 
perished were the victims of uncontrollable fear. 
The New York papers say it is estimated that 
at least $20,000 worth of freight has been destroy¬ 
ed, and the damage to the boat cannot fall short 
Gov. Weller, of California,has just transmitted 
$ 1,000 to the Washington National Monument 
Society, being the amount the State, through its 
Legislature, has resolved to contribute annually 
until the monument is finished. 
A firm in Portsmouth, Va., has received a con¬ 
signment of two tierces of sugar and two tierces of 
molasses from Liberia. The consignment was 
from Chas. Cooper, a colored man who left 'that 
city in 1856, and was the product of his farm 
Tukre are within the limits of the city of Selma, 
Ala., fourteen artesian wells, which have an aver 
age depth of about four hundred feet, several of 
them throwing water to the extent of 600 gallons 
per minute. 
Trial of “ Ossawotamte ” Brown. —Prosecu¬ 
tion and defence iu this trial closed their labors, 
as far as the introduction of evidence is concerned, 
on Saturday evening, 29th ult., and were to sum 
up to-day,—Monday. Messrs. Green and Botts, 
counsel for Brown, threw up the case, because of 
the defendant’s declaration of a lack of confi¬ 
dence in them. Hoyt of Boston, Magruder and 
Chilton, of Washington, had it in charge at last 
accounts, and Judge Tilden of Ohio, was expected 
to assist. We learn by telegraph that Cook has 
been all day busily writing, and is understood to 
be preparing a full confession, by the advice of 
Gov. Willard, in hope of obtaining a pardon. 
Arrival of the Overland Mail.— The Over¬ 
land Express from Denver City, the 20 tb, with 
$6,000 in dust, arrived at St. Louis on the 27th 
ult. The election of Dr. Williams as Delegate to 
Congress, is confirmed. An electionforor against 
a provisional government was to come off' on the 
24th. Mining operations were drawing to a close 
for the season. 
Female SiiARp-SnooTiNc.—At Hartford, Ct., on 
Friday, Mr. Robert Chadwick, having just finished 
a contract for one million cartridges, gave an en¬ 
tertainment to his employees at the Sharp’s Rifle 
Factory, one feature of which was a target shoot 
by thirty young ladies, who handled the Sharp’s 
rifles with a skill that would have been creditable 
to the other sex. 
100,000 francs towards the Garibaldi fund 
for purchasing muskets. It is stated that the 
whole Neapolitan frontier was lined with troops, 
and the Moutreassini fortified with cannon. 
The Grand Duke of Tuscany had written to his 
partisans to abstain from every attempt in favor 
of his dynasty. 
The idea of occupying Parma with Sardinian 
troops had been abandoned. 
Great activity was apparent in the arsenals of 
Naples. The army was also being placed on a war 
footing. 
A dispatch from Florence states that the exequa- 
ter of the American Consul at Leghorn had been 
withdrawn on account of his having engaged in 
political intrigues. An explanatory dispatch has 
been sent to President Buchanan by the Floren¬ 
tine Cabinet. 
The official Piedmontese Gazette states that on 
a representation made by Sardinia, Austria had 
suspended the works at Bocco de Orfo, and had 
notified her that the mines were blown up by 
mistake, expressing at the same time regret at the 
occurrence. 
The Sardinian Government was considering the 
expediency of fortifying Brescia, Lonata and Cre 
The report that Naples had promised military 
assistance to Rome is discredited, as the King of 
Naples fears the invasion of his own territory. 
A Revolutionary Committee at Ferrara was 
giving the Austrians great annoyance. It was 
formed for the purpose of assisting the Venetians 
to join the National Army. 
The Neapolitan corps de armie on the frontiers 
was continually increasing, and will amount to 30, 
000 men. 
China. —The Times' correspondent regards the 
reception of Mr. Ward as a most politic stroke of 
the Pekin Cabinet, but it does not at all remove 
the treachery to the British Ministry. 
The Friend of China says, that as tbe American 
treaty gives the United States liberty to tender 
their good offers in any difficulty with the Western 
Powers, Mr. Ward will soon have an opportunity 
of testing the virtue of this clause. 
India. —Late news had been received from India 
by the Red Sea Telegraph. 
Central India was still unsettled. The frontier 
districts of Nepaul were occupied by Nana and his 
followers. The Maghers were still in insurrection, 
and a force was to be sent against them. The 
authorities at Pekin are represented as ready to 
receive the British Minister on friendly terms; 
meanwhile the India Government had been applied 
to for 15,000 troops for China, and two regiments 
were under orders to depart. 
Commercial Breadstvffs .—Breadstuff's depressed, 
the improvement noted at beginning of the week beina 
all lost. Flour 22sGd<g27s; Red Wheat OsSdfaflsGd; 
Wheat do. 9s9d@lls, Yellow Corn 6s(S6s4<l; Wmte 
do. 6s3d@7s8d. Provisions. - Very little doing in beef, 
bales of pork at 50s. Lard quiet. 
— Money is worth in San Francisco from 24 to 80 per 
eenl. 
— Bishop Kemper, of the Episcopal Church re¬ 
signed. 
— The population of Mobile Js set down at thirty-two 
thousand. 
— Amicable relations are established between Turkey 
and Persia. 
— Mills’ Statue of Washington was cast last week at 
Washington city. 
— In the wine districts of France, each person drinks 
730 bottles in the year. 
— The emancipation of the peasants of Russia has 
been adjourned for one year. 
— A fire at Louisville, Ky., Saturday week, destroyed 
propeity to the value of $105,000. 
— A well-preserved colossel bronze bust of Cicero 
has been discovered near Tompeii. 
— Advices from Houston and Galveston to the 18th 
nit., state that the fever is unabated. 
— Advices from Northern Mexico indicate the tho¬ 
rough disorganization of the Liberal forces. 
— Troops have been sent to Brownsville, Texas, to 
protect our citizens from the Mexican banditti. 
Sardinian Journals speak of an insurrectionary 
movement having shown itself lately at Palermo. 
— The ranches on the Texas side of the Bio Grande 
have been abandoned on account of Indian depreda¬ 
tions. 
— General Scott left Acapulco on the 9th nit,, and 
must be at tho seat of the San Juan difficulties by this 
time. 
— Tho loss to English spinners by the “sanding” 
of American cotton is computed at £1,500,000 sterling 
yearly. 
— Colonel Hebron, of Vicksburg, Miss., hag 10,000 
pear trees, from which he realized over $30,000 last 
Beason. 
— P. T. Barnum is doing the people of East Bridge¬ 
port a great service in planting shade trees on their 
streets. 
— Senator Douglas has recently had born nnto him 
an heir of his fame and estates, who will be known as 
“Ellen.” 
— Deaths from eating toadstools are recorded in 
various quarters. Mushroom seekers should take 
warning. 
— The earnings of the Auburn State Prison for the 
nine last months exceed the ordinary expenditures 
$9,193 90. 
— Thomas Francis Meagher has gone to Costa Rica 
as bearer of dispatches to the United States Minister at 
that point. 
— Cast-iron axle boxes have been lined with glass 
and in a few instances the wearing condition proved 
satisfactory. 
— Port-au-Prince advices to Oct. 1st represent the 
city to be in a state of siege ; the excitement was abat¬ 
ing, however. 
— The dome of the court house in St. Louis, which 
cost $30,000, has been condemned as insecure and 
perilous to life. 
— A consignment of 10,060 cigars for Louis Napoleon 
has arrived at Norfolk, Va., en route for Franco. They 
cost $300 per M. 
It appears, from a report just published, that 
during 1858 the railroads of Great Britain trans¬ 
ported 140,000,000 persons, of these only twenty- 
six were killed —one in Jive millions. 
At the opening of the Court of Common Pleas in 
Cleveland, last week, there were 55 applicants on the 
docket for divorce. 
— All the women of the villages on the Gulf of Mex¬ 
ico are in the habit of swimming. The young ladies 
are all diving belles. 
— Some of the members of Rev. Dr. Chapin’s church, 
in New York, have presented him with a $24,000 house, 
on Thirty-Fifth street. 
M. Victor Menniet, a well known scientific writer, 
informs the world that the next deluge will not take 
place for 0,300 years. 
— The natives of the Sandwich Islands, like the In¬ 
dians of this country, appear to fade away upon the 
approach of foreigners. 
— Letters from Naples say the KiDg had offered to 
lead troops to the Pope, in consequence of the with¬ 
drawal of tho French. 
— The San Francisco Times of the 10th ult. says three 
distinct shocks of earthquake were felt at Mariposa on 
Monday night previous. 
— The ampitheater at the Fair Grounds near Inde¬ 
pendence, Ky., was destroyed by fire on Sunday week. 
Loss $5,000; no insurance. 
— Intelligence has been received at Boston of the 
death of Mrs. Marsh, one of the Missionaries of the 
American Board at Mosul. 
— Shipments of wheat from Milwaukee last week 
were 500,000 bushels—five times as much as during cor¬ 
responding week last year. 
Gen. Garibaldi has issued a Proclamation sum¬ 
moning the Italians of the Legations to arms, and a 
collision is shortly expected. 
— Recently Mr. Treshaw, late Rabbi of the Jewish 
synagogue in Quebec, was, with his whol e family, bap¬ 
tized in the Methodist church. 
— J. C. Gangooly, the converted Brahmin, is writing a 
book to correct the erroneous ideas of Americans with 
regard to the Hindoo religion. 
— A New York paper says that “ Rev. Wm. H. Mil- 
burn, the blind preacher, lectured last evening upon 
1 What he saw in England.’ ” 
— A Revue Spirite, containing reports of table-turn¬ 
ing, spirit-rapping and other like manifestations, has 
been recently started in Paris. 
— The Utica Herald says “ marriages have become 
epidemic among us. Bachelors and maids will soon bo 
as scarce as summer flowers.” 
— Hotel life is to be eschewed by many of the mem¬ 
bers of Congress, who will take houses and reside with 
their families in Washington. 
— Tho receipts of gold dust at Leavenworth and 
vicinity during the last fortnight, amount to two hun¬ 
dred and fifty thousand dollars. 
— The papers of Prussia complain that great numbers 
of young men leave that country clandestinely for the 
U. 8 . to avoid military service. 
— A frightful explosion took place at Birmingham, 
Eng., Sept. 25, in a percussion cap manufactory. Eigh¬ 
teen killed and as many wounded. 
— The monument of Henry Clay, in Lexington, Ky., 
is nearly completed. It is said to be one of the hand¬ 
somest works of art in the country. 
Gold has been found in some of the cobble-stone* 
brought from the mining district east of Sacramento to 
pave the streets of San Francisco. 
The British aristocracy, says a London paper, like 
our modern ships, is not built of British oak only, but 
of timber from all parts of the world. 
— Mr. Fawks, the inventor of the steam plow, has 
has received an order from a gentleman in Scotland, to 
manufacture and ship a plow to that country. 
