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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
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ROCHESTER, JULY 1, 1852. 
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Rational Agricultural Convention- 
Tins body assembled on the21st ult., in Wash¬ 
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dense the following particulars from the Telegram. 
Judge Watts, of Penn., was appointed temporary 
Chairman. A Committee was then appointed to 
select permanent officers for the Convention, who 
reported for President, Marshal 1*. Wilder, of 
Massachusetts, with nine Vice Presidents and four 
Secretaries. 
A resolution was offered and adopted to form a 
National Agricultural Society, and a Committee 
of one from each State was appointed to draft a 
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., . ,. , . • i « .i * with power to the Executive Committee, by ap- , 
rapid increase of our circulation during the past [ of the Socicty> t0 hold occasional meetings 
six months,—notwithstanding the “hard times” elsewhere. 
and consequent great scarcity of “ material aid” At the evening session the majority of the 
in many sections of the country,—gives assurance Committee on Organization, reported in favor of 
that our efforts to furnish a journal which shall a Department on Agriculture by the Government, 
* meet the wants of the people, are duly appreci- and asking Congress to establish such a Depart- 
ated. The daily words of approval (accompanied ment. Mr. Holcomb supported the report in a 
with substantial tokens,) which we receive, are short speech. 
most encouraging, and incite us to more vigorous Judge Douglass, of Illinois, gave notice of a 
efforts to fully sustain, and increase, the intrinsic minority report of the following tenure : 
value and interest of our pages. As samples of Rerol/ed, That it is expedient to apply to Con - 
this testimony we may quote from a couple of let- g ress ^ or sucb changes in the Smithsonian Insti- 
the best paper I can obtain by subscription.”— 
The other is from Michigan, contains payment for 
The Committee on Organization were instruct- 
tertainment,—and shall act accordingly. Remind¬ 
ing agents, and other active and generous friends 
as follows: 
Your kindness has taken me by surprise, and I 
of the paper, that the present is a favorable time fear I have no suitable words for an ackaowledg- 
to make additions to our subscription list, we ment. I am happy to meet anil welcome you to 
refer to notices at the head of this column, and ^ ie Executive mansion. I appreciate the impor- 
tance of your association to the agricultural in¬ 
terns on last page. , . c a ,, , 
1 ° terest. I was brought up on a farm, and know by 
T _ ~ _ ~ 7 experience the trials and labor of a farmer’s life. 
Independence Lay —.1 he li,wr Gloreuo JAjmth vVlicn a boy I followed the plow till weary, and 
—will have come and passed before we greet our have swung the scythe and handled the sickle all 
readers again. Let it be appropriately,—joyfully, day. I am happy, however, to learn that these 
yet temperately and understanding! v-com mem- labor8 ha ! e bee ? by sui f ble “rachinery, 
J J . . q, , and the farmer’s life is now a happy and mde- 
orated by every tiue American. It should be pendent one. I am gratified to hear that you 
celebrated heartily, and made a day of rejoicing have formed a National Association for the pur- 
and thanksgiving for the Liberty achieved by our pose of collecting and diffusing information. In 
forefathers, and the present unexampled Prosper- lb ’ s N ou concentrate your energies and extend 
. , T , , i . \ ,, . • -.I , , your usefulness. As your occupation is the foun- 
ity and Position of the American People and ^ atioD> wealth and prosperity of the country, 
Nation. Let it be kept as John Adams said it everything calculated to advance it should be 
would and ought to be, in his memorable and hailed with pride. 
prophetic letter of July 5th, 177G, thus “ I am 1 shall always tike a deep interest in agricul- 
, , , v •„ , i j , j , 7 . ture and manufactures, and depend upon it, both 
apt to believe it will be celebrated by succecdmq ... . ,, T , • 1 1 . . ’ 
1 . J 0 v will prosper together. Hoping your infant So- 
generations as a great Anniversary Festival. It ciety will prove a blessing to the country, I re- 
ought to be commemorated as the Day of Deltv- turn my acknowledgments for the kind manner 
kranck, by solemn acts of devotion to Almighty you speak of me personally and of my official 
God. It ought to be solemnized with pomp, conduct. 
, ° . , , I shall be happy to take the members of your 
shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfiies, and g oc jety by the hand, and wish them a pleasant 
illuminations, from one end of the continent to the sojourn and safe return to their families. 
other, from this time forward forever.” The Convention also visited Air. Webster, and 
"* “ was most cordially welcomed. 
Weekly Notes by a Naturalist. ___ 
other, from tins time forward forever.” The Convention also visited Air. Webster, and 
"* " was most cordially welcomed. 
Weekly Notes by a Naturalist. ___ 
Literary Notices. 
Another cold week. The season thus far, with - 
the exception of a very few days, has been cold. The Book of the Farm : Detailing the Labors 
It has been remarked by an old citizen of Poult- 
neyville, near Lake Ontario, that the lake comes 
to high water mark this year—that it has been 
rising for eight years, and during this period the 
seasons have gradually grown colder ; the water 
comes to the highest point in July, when it will 
gradually recede for another eight years—and 
that during this time the seasons grow warmer. 
of the Farmer, Steward, Plowman, Hedges, 
Cattlemen, Shepherd, Field-worker, and Dairy¬ 
maid. By Henry Stephens. With four hun¬ 
dred and fifty illustrations. To which are 
added Explanatory Notes, Remarks, etc. By 
John S. Skinner, Editor of the Farmer’s Li¬ 
brary. 8vo. pp. 1088. Auburn : Alden, Beards¬ 
ley & Co. 1852. 
This book has very properly been called the 
until the warmest is reached, when the lake is Timer’s Encyclopaedia. As no farmer’s mind 
lowest. If observation has established what is can be consi(Jercd wel1 fumished that does not 
related here as fact, to be so, then the inquiry put P ossess and bcdd a ^ read y command, the knowl- 
to us is an important one—to wit, How, or why 
does this effect the temperature of the seasons ? 
Indian corn, early planted, is beginning to tas¬ 
sel. Sarraeenia purpurea, Huntsman’s cup, in 
edge spread out upon the pages of this work, so 
can no farmer’s Library be considered complete 
that does not contain “ the Book of the Farm ” 
among its volumes ; with it, aud a good Agricul- 
,, . ,, 1 : ’ , r , , , tural weekly journal like the Rural, no one can 
flower ; so is the water lily, Nymphcaa odoraia ; , ■ 
J 1 1 rtlvnvrrn him hnruur n vth’u litonmn ptn 
yellow pond lily, Nuphar advena ; honey locust, 
Glcctilschia triacanthus ; clammy locust, Jiobinia 
justly charge him of having a very incomplete 
“ Farmer’s Library.” 
This volume contains a Tract on Manures, 
viscosa; monk’s hood, Aconitum Napellus; common , . . . . 
, , TT . , , r i ■ Ameliorators and btimulants—mode of manufac- 
henbane, llyoscyamus mger; unicorn root, llelomas , . .. r , 
diorca; bastard toad flax, Commandra unbrcllala; 
grass pink, Calopagan pulckcllus; wild ginger, 
Asarum canadcnsc, and many others. The season 
thus far, though cold, has been wet. Farmers are 
beginning to cut clover to-day.—W. 
Monday, June 28. 
ture, <fcc. ( by J. B. Dumas. Also, an Essay on the 
action of salt on vegetation — and its use in Ag¬ 
riculture—by M. Bkcquerel, For sale at Wanzer, 
Beardsley & Co.’s store, near the Arcade.—w. 
beginning to cut clover to-day. — VV. « Harper’s New Monthly AIagazink” for J uly 
Monday, June 28. comes filled with its usual variety of articles. The 
Armory at Springfield, an illustrated article, by 
University of Rochester.-! he following is Jacor m wiU b found entertaining. The 
the order of exercises for the commencement. On Lifc of Na leon continued; also, the Bleak 
the evening of July 11, the llev. Dr. Stow, of House> For ^ at Dewey’s. 
Boston, will preach the annual sermon. On the _—- 
12th Ihe prize declamations by members of the Farm for Sale. —Those of our readers who are 
Sophomore class. On the 13th Anniversary of in quest of a good farm, will do well to examine 
the Pithonian and Delphic societies. Orator, Rev. that of the late Uri Webster, deceased, advertised 
Geo. B. Cheever, D. D. Poet, George William in this week’s paper. The land is of excellent 
Curtis, Esq., both of New York. On Wednes- quality, well located, and will be sold on favora- 
day, the 14th, the annual commencement exer- ble terms. Information concerning it may be 
N. Y. County Fairs, 1852. 
Cortland, at Cortland,.Sept. 15, 16 
Clinton, at Keeseville. “ 22, 23, 24 
Columbia, at Chatham 4 Corners, “ 29, 30 
Cayuga, at Auburn,. Oct. 6, 7 
Dutchess, at Washington Hollow, 5, 6 
Essex, at..Sept. 20, 21, 22 
Genesee, at Batavia,. Oct. 6, 7 
Greene, at Cairo,.Sept. 21, 22 
Herkimer, at Herkimer,. “ 28, 29 
Jefferson, at Watertown,. “ 16, 17 
Madison, at Eaton,. “ 22, 23 
Monroe, at Rochester,. “ 29, 30 
Otsego, at Atoms,. “ 22, 23 
Orleans, at Albion,. “ 23, 24 
Ontario, at Canandaigua,. “ 29, 30 
Putnam, at Carmel,. Oct. 5, 6 
Rensselaer, at Troy,.Sept. 22, 23, 24 
Saratoga, at Meehanicsville, .... “ 15, 16, 17 
Suffolk, at Huntington,. “ 22 
Seneca, at Waterloo,.Oct. 14, 15 
Wyoming, at. Warsaw,.Sept. 22,23 
town fairs. 
Galen, at Clyde,.July 2, 3 
East Bloomfield, at E. Bloomfield, Sept. 22 
We shall give others hereafter, as we learn the 
time and place of holding them. 
value and interest of our pages. As samples of Reiol/ed, That it is expedient to apply to Con- 
this testimony we may quote from a couple of let- g ress such changes in the Smithsonian Insti- 
tors before «,,-botb received yesterday The 
first is fiom Saratoga county, and says . I en- ciyut agent in the diffusion of knowledge among 
close within $2 to thee, desiring to have the Rural men ,; u 1 especially in promoting the great inter- 
New-Yorker another year,—feeling satisfied it is ests of agriculture, manufactures and scientific 
a club of new subscribers, and closes thus The ed to re P ort officers for the National Sociely-af- 
Rural New-Yorker comes up to my ideas of a terwhicb the members of the Convention signed 
Newspaper better than any other paper I ever saw.” the Constitution, each one paying $2 as required 
We might fill our paper with similar epistles, but thereby - Lar ? e “umbers signed. No report of 
only quote these because they are before us, and officer8 has yet been receive(L 
to the point. 8EOOND DAY ’ 
_ , , „ , , , The morning was occupied in discussing the 
— In regard to the future, we have no pledges r> r .. , . 
° 1 b Report of the majority in tavor of asking for a 
to offer,— but shall, as we advance, endeavor con- „ r 
, Bureau of Agriculture, ihe debate was quite 
stantly to bear in mind our comprehensive motto— . ., , . , , . 
_ J , T 1 , spirited, aud was interrupted by members of Con- 
Progress and Improvement,—and seek to render , . n r ,• , , 
, ° , 1 ii. . gress charging the Convention with political ob- 
the paper subservent to the best interests of its • , m, „ ,. , •, ,, , ,, 
j 1 , , , , jects. The Bureau question was laid on the table 
readers. We hope, at least, that the Rural will to be b ht u in another sbape . 
never be less worthy the confidence and support In the afternoon the member8 of the Conven- 
of all who look to its pages for instruction or en- tion waited on thc Pres ident, who welcomed them 
Terra-Culture, or Conaslocking. 
Wt. copy the following relative to this new 
theory, from the Daily Advertiser of Monday.— 
Not being posted in regard to the discovery, we 
are unable to offer any opinion on the subject— 
but propose to embrace the first opportunity of¬ 
fered to hear Mr. Comstock. Any in this vicin¬ 
ity who wish to see his circular of certificates, 
coutaining some ten newspaper columns, will find 
it at this office,— and can leave their names to 
hear him lecture, and receive notification of time 
and place. 
To Advance the Cause of Truth — God-given, and 
of Humility — God-made — Prof. Russel Com¬ 
stock’s Vegetable Discovery is rate! as worth 
all the discoveries of the present age combined, 
by four-fifths of the U aited States Senate Com¬ 
mittee, and by their Chairman—thus rated after 
experimenting 10 years. 
A company is made up to invite the discoverer 
to disclose to them, in this city, a knowledge of 
his discovered Natural I .aw in Vegetation, which 
—it is asserted by many reliable and distinguished 
men—forms an exact and unerring natural rule by 
which all vegetable productions should be culti- 
i vated, and of great practical value. 
In several States lie has disclosed his system to 
the satisfaction an ! gratitude of audiences almost 
daily, since Alarcli 3lst 1851, and the results are 
truly astonishing. 
Air. Comstock’s Postofficc address is at Mab- 
bettsville, Dutchess County, N. Y. 
Correction. —In a brief notice of the Christian 
Ambassador, last week we stated that the Rev. A. 
S. AIanley and wife would spend a year or two 
in Germany. It should have read Rev. AY. E- 
AIanley. 
A Large Calf. —Mr. A. Upper, of Thorold, C 
W., has a Short-horn calf, which at one day old 
weighed 132 pounds. 
Wisconsin. —This thrifty young State was first 
known (as a Territory) to the United States Cen¬ 
sus in 1840, when it had 30,000 inhabitants ; in 
1850, they had swelled to 300,000—a tenfold in¬ 
crease in ten years. Now they do not fall short 
of 400,000, aud are increasing at the rate of at 
least 50,000 per annum. No other State in the 
Union lias grown with equal rapidity. 
A Lady Frightened to Death. —The Rocking¬ 
ham (Va.) Register states that Airs. Dietrick, 
wife of Air. Jacob Dietrick, residing near Alount 
Crawford, in that county, was frightened to death 
a few weeks since. Her little daughter, for sport, 
threw a tree frog upon her lap, which commenced 
jumping up towards her face, and so frightened 
her that she died in two or three days. 
Rochester and Niagara Falls Railroad.— 
The first train over this road ran yesterday. The 
road is 76 miles in length. The stations on it are 
Rochester, Spencerport, Adams Basin aud Brock- 
port in Alonroe county ; Holly, Murray, Albion 
and Aledina in Orleans county ; Middleport, Ma- 
bees, Orangeport, Lockport, Pekin, Suspension 
Bridge and Niagara Falls in Niagara Co. 
Mail Gleanings. 
The bar at the mouth of the AlisSissippi 
is all the talk at New Orleans. A distinguished 
engineer offers to maintain a channel of 20 feet 
depth for $100,000 per annum, while another 
projector proposes to dam some of the smaller 
outlets, so as to deepen the water in the principal 
ones. 
On Friday evening week, at Stamford, Ct., 
Airs. Nathaniel Weed, wishing to have a tooth ex¬ 
tracted, requested that chloroform should be ad¬ 
ministered. The dentist complied witli her desire, 
but she had hardly begun inhaling the fumes, 
when she sank back upon the sofa and expired. 
A factory girl at Blackstone River, R. I., 
recently opened a letter which her aunt gave her 
three years ago, aud found it to contain papers 
putting her in possession of $8,000, which her 
aunt, since deceased, left her by will. She has 
obtained the cash. 
cises will take place. 
obtained at this office. 
It is rumored that the Alormons intend to 
form an alliance with the Indians and excite them 
against the Government, and that they are pre¬ 
paring for a conflict. Alauy of the Alormons say 
they have fled for the last time, that they will die 
where they are. 
A few days since, while an unfeeling boy, 
who resides in Old Cambridge, Alass., was engaged 
in the cruel sport of robbing birds’ nests, he was 
attacked by a robin, whose nest he bad just rob¬ 
bed of its young, which flew at him and came near 
picking out one of his eyes. 
A troupe of well trained monkeys is now 
performing at one of the New York theatres, 
which must be a genuine curiosity. It was bro’t 
from Paris. They mimic the human actors in 
great style, just as the latter frequently imitate 
them! 
5 ^” Genin one warm day lately, gave away 
twenty thousand palm leaf fans ! They probably 
cost some $500. This is another proof that he un¬ 
derstands better than most people, how to “ raise 
the wind.” 
Congressional. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
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Monday, June 21.—The general bill relating to 
; the salt spring land, in Michigan was passed in 
j the Senate. House met—and adjourned. 
Tuesday, June 22.—Senate in executive session. 
1 Several Territorial bills, and the California Mint 
bill were passed in the House. 
Wednesday, June 23.—Considerable business 
was transacted in the Senate, but none of general 
public interest. In the House, ditto, 
tion bill was passed over. 
Thursday, June 24.—Nothing worthy of note 
in either House. 
Friday, June 25.—Senate in Executive session. 
House occupied with the land distribution bill. 
Saturday, June 26.—Senate not in session.— 
Land bill passed the House, 96 to 86. 
AIonetary Affairs. —Fallkill Bank, Poughkeep¬ 
sie, will commence business on Atonday next. 
Thompson’s Detector gives the annexed descrip¬ 
tion of a new batch of counterfeits : 
3’s, on the Orange County Bank, Vt.—Vig. a 
female, agricultural implements, <fcc.—two reapers 
on the right, and bee hive on the left—not like 
the genuine. 
2’s, on the City Bank, of Hanford, Conn., imi¬ 
tation of genuine—engraving coarse—Ailing up 
poor. 
3’s, on the Hudson River Bank, N. Y.—Vig. 
sheaf of giain, with a human figure each side of it 
—ship on the right, steamboat on the left, and 
steamboat between the signature—imitation of 
genuine. 
10’s, on the Franklin. County Bank, Alass.—a 
large X in the centre of note—on the left a fe¬ 
male, ship, merchandise, <fcc.—on the right a fe¬ 
male, shield, Ac.—not like genuine. 
10’s, on the Genesee Valley Bank, N. Y.—al¬ 
tered from one’s—Vig. milkmaid, cows, Ac.,— 
“ payable to bearer”—the true tens are payable 
“ to D. H. Fitzhugh.” 
10’s on the Wyoming County Bauk, N. Y.—al¬ 
tered from genuine one’s—well done. 
10’s, on the Yates County Bank, N. Y.—altered 
from genuine ones. 
Emigration via. Liverpool. —The number of 
emigrants leaving the port of Liverpool continues 
on tne increase. In toe month of May, 71) emi¬ 
grant ships left the Alersey with 26,827 souls on 
board, the largest number ever known to leave any 
port in a corresponding period. They were com¬ 
posed of Irish and Germans, who sailed chiefly 
for the American ports, and Scotchmen, Welch¬ 
men, and Englishmen, whose destination, for the 
most part, was Australia. In the six months of 
the present, year 92,377 emigrants have sailed 
from Liverpool. 
Fine Wheat. —A bunch of twenty-five heads 
of wheat has been shown to the editor of the 
Newberry (S. C.) Sentinel, by Gen. James H. 
Williams of that town, which the Sentinel says 
is hard to beat. The heads are from six to seven 
inches in length'; and the one has shelled sixty- 
one heavy, well filled grains. The seed from 
which this sample was grown was brought from 
Mexico by Gen. Williams, on his return from the 
late war. It may bo sown about the first of De¬ 
cember, and it matures about one week later than 
May wheat. 
A Nice Field of Barley.—A correspondent of 
the San Joaquin Republican, California, Avrites 
from Fort Miller, Alariposa county, that Aiaj. Alil- 
ler was about to commence gathering one of the 
most plentiful crops of barley—of between 200 
and 250 acres—ever seen in California. “ On this 
occasion, he calls in the males of five tribes, mak¬ 
ing a perfect Waterloo army of red-skins; his veg¬ 
etables of ail kinds are plentiful. The Alajor is 
doing much to civilize the Indians.” 
Arctic Ice. —Weuham Lake and Rockland 
Lake ice merchants will hereafter be compelled 
to give up their customers on the Pacific coast, for 
a competitor on “this side the laud,” has been 
found, whose resources are perfectly inexhausti¬ 
ble. On Sunday the bark Backus arrived at San 
Francisco, in sixteen days from the Russian set¬ 
tlement of Sitka, Avilh a cargo of two hundred and 
fifty tons of ice for the Pacific Ice Company.— 
(Sacramento Union. 
A Valuable Bank Bill. —The Bank of Eng¬ 
land, it appears, issued four notes of the denomi¬ 
nation of one million pounds, equal to five mil¬ 
lions of dollars, and after these four were engraved 
the plates were destroyed. Of these impressions 
the Rothschilds have one, the late Air. Coutts 
had another, the Bank of England the third, and 
Mr. Samuel Rogers, the poet and banker, now 
decorates bis parlor Avith the fourth, suspended in 
a gold frame. 
Minnesota.— The inhabitants of Stillwater, in 
this Territory, situated on Lake St. Croix, have 
been gratified by a most extraordinary and useful 
movement in real estate. A land slide of some 
eight or ten acres has taken place, and constructed 
thereby an excellent steamboat landing-place just 
where one was wanted, besides creating many 
new building lots in a most convenient place.— 
Stilhvater is so situated as to command a most 
extensive lumber trade. 
Remarkable Sheep. —Air. S. D. Siucerbox, of 
Stormville, in this county, bason his farm a sheep 
fifteen years old which has sheared fourteen fleeces 
of avooI, averaging A% lbs. of the finest quality, 
bringing 60 cents a pound. For fourteen years 
past she has churned the milk of from four to five 
coavs, and is ready to do it hoav as ever. Remark¬ 
able and profitable sheep that .—Poughkeepsie 
Telegraph. 
Seventeen Year Locusts. —As was predicted 
last year, the seventeen year locusts have made 
their appearance in Connecticut. Iu 1818, and 
in 1835, their presence on a lot of land about 50 
rods square, some three miles north from Glaston¬ 
bury post office is chronicled. The Avoods on that 
spot are now alive Avith their music. 
Liberality of Slaves. —A gentleman from 
Maine, on a visit to Charleston, S. C., Avrites the 
Christian Mirror, that there are five thousand 
Methodist colored communicants in and near 
Charleston, and their contributions for benevolent 
purposes during the year past amounted to more 
than three dollars to a member. 
Items of Htnis, &c. 
-The population of Washington is now 
40,001. 
-Gen. Cushing has resigned the office of 
Mayor of Newbury port. 
-Alany persons are preparing to leave Can¬ 
ada for the Australian gold diggings. 
-The Indiana free banking laAV goes into 
operation on the 1st of July. 
- Two men died of coup de soldi at Alontreal, 
on the 15th uit. 
-The Albany Journal says Air. Weed will 
sail from Liverpool so as to reach home July 10th. 
-Bills have passed the Indiana Legislature 
to print a eliousand copies of the laAvs in German. 
-The army Avorm, in various sections of the 
west, is doing great mischief Avith grass and grain 
fields. 
-Gov. Slade has transported 275 female 
teachers to the Avest, 205 of whom have since 
married. 
-The shade trees of Jersey City, in common 
with other cities in the Aficinity, are afflicted with 
millions of worms. 
-Hamilton I. Cooms has been held to bail, 
in New York, for receiving 30 per cent, interest 
on a loan of $9,000. 
-The Western Planet states that during the 
past three years 30,000 negroes from the U. States 
have gone to Canada. 
-Watermelons and peaches are plenty in 
Savannah, Ga.; the peaches are sold at $6 per 
bushel. 
-Kate Hayes has been making a triumph¬ 
ant torn - to the West, via the Lakes, as far as 
Milwaukee aud Chicago. 
-Three days and nine hours is the shortest 
trip ever made by steamboat from Neav Orleans to 
St Louis. 
-Salutes in honor of thc nomination of Gen. 
Scott have been very generally given throughout 
New England. 
-A little girl, eight or ten years old, was re¬ 
cently suffocated iu a croAvded car on the railroad 
between Albany and Utica. 
-Airs. Betsy Grimes, an invalid, died a feAV 
days since, in Boston, from drinking too much 
iced lemonade. 
-Some forty or fifty thousand dozens of eggs 
have been shipped at Milwaukee, for New York, 
this season. 
-A professorship of “Public Economy” has 
been established in Trinity College, Hartford, Ct., 
and Rev. Calvin Colton appointed to fill it. 
-A cotton factory has just been put in ope¬ 
ration at Van Buren, Arkansas. It is capable of 
working 2,000 spindles. 
-It appears from the last census that there 
are in Vermont 281 idiots—172 males and 1G‘9 
females—more foolish men than women. 
-Cattle in Western Wisconsin are very 
scarce and high. The California emigrants have 
stripped the country of some of the best stock. 
-Mons. Petin has announced that he Avill 
make a balloon ascension on horseback from New 
York, on the 4th of July. * 
-- The export of tea from China shows an in¬ 
crease of 1,800,1)00 Hjs. compared with last year; of 
silk the decrease is equal to about 3,000 bales. 
-The California Legislature has passed a law 
taxing all foreign miners $3 per month, and the 
Chinese were being expelled from the mines. 
-The Emperor of Russia, near the frontier 
fo Poland, Avas in a railway car recently, which 1 
ran off the track, and very nearly cost him his 
life. 
-The Abenzeitung, of New York, says the 
Germans in the United States amount to five 
millions of persons, or one-fifth of the total 
population. 
-The total number of acres of land in Ken¬ 
tucky returned for taxation is 19,848,672 ; A’alue 
for same purpose, $146,417,116 ; average price 
per acre, $7,39. 
-A case Avas lately decided in the Superior 
Court of N cav York, Avhere a man Avho had lost a 
large fortune by gambling, recovered back $3,500 
paid by liim on a gambling debt. 
-The Galt Reporter says a great number of 
teams are daily occupied in drawing iron rails 
from Hamilton to their raihvay. The rails are 
made of the very best Welsh iron. 
-The number of students at Oberlin Col¬ 
lege is between six and seven hundred, exclusive 
of theological students, and one thousand are ex¬ 
pected next year. 
-Hon. Henry Barnard, of Hartford, Ct., has 
been elected President of the Michigan Univer¬ 
sity. Air. Barnard is distinguished for his zeal in 
the cause of education. 
-The number of military land warrants is¬ 
sued to a recent date is stated to lie 111,000—of 
Avhich 17,000 were for 160 acres, 37,000 for 80 
acres, and 57,000 for 40 acres. 
-An unique gold seal representing a “dig¬ 
ger,” with all the tools and appurtenances of the 
gold seeking craft, carved out of a solid piece of 
virgin metal, Avas recently sent to Troy from Cal¬ 
ifornia. 
-The Toronto Globe says the population of 
that city, as appears by the census returns just 
completed, is now 30,763. In 1850 it Avas 25,166, 
making an increase of 5,697 in two years; almost 
2,800 per annum. 
-We learn from the Chicago Tribune that 
the Superintendent of the Michigan Southern 
Railroad has notified the Ministers of the Gospel 
in that city that until the first of January, 1853, 
they Avill be charged only half fare on that road. 
-The family of GeD. Worth, it is said, have 
applied to Congress for a pension, to be paid them 
in consideration of the public services of Gen. W., 
Avho at bis death Avas unable to leave them any 
property. The sum asked is $600 a year. 
-Belton Young, of Greenbush, Wis., offers 
bis house and farm, all his property, for the re¬ 
covery of his child, two years old, which was 
probably stolen by Indians while its mother Avas 
washing at a brook. 
-Air. N. Longworth, of Cincinnati, has in 
his garden a Century Plant, so called, from the 
fact that it blooms only once in a hundred yeaia 
It is expected to floAver in a feAV days, and Avill 
probably be A'isited by a great many persons. 
-The Teachers’ Association of Vermont Avill 
hold its Second Annual Meeting at St. Johnsbury, 
oil Tuesday, Aug. 10. The proceedings Avill oc¬ 
cupy three days, and will consist of reports and 
discussions bearing upon the interests of education. 
Quick and Cheap.— One can hoav go from -At the grand military fete at Paris on the 
Cincinnati to New York by Avay of Cleveland and 10th ult., it is said that of that largo army of 80,- 
Dunkirk, iu one and a half days, and for a cost of 000 men under arms in a hot sun, and of 300,000 
sixteen dollars. Only- a few years since it took or 400,000 spectators, not a single man was to be 
ten days to make the journey, aud cost $50. seen in the slightest degree intoxicated. 
