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I MAX. I MIN. | MEAN. 
ROCHESTER, JULY 8, 1852. 
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Death of Henry Clay. 
Tnrs mournful event took place at W ashington, 
D. G., on Tuesday morning, June 29th, as was 
briefly announced in our last number. Though 
daily anticipated for some weeks, the departure 
from earth of a man of such giant intellect—one 
world-renowned for his wisdom as a statesman, 
love of country, and fidelity to its institutions 
has created a profound sensation of sorrow through¬ 
out the Nation. Of his last moments we gather 
some interesting particulars. Those who attend¬ 
ed upon Mr. Clay during Monday afternoon, saw 
that a change had taken place during the night, 
« He was calm, but his mind wandered, and in a 
]ow and distinct voice, he named his wife, son, 
and other relatives, in a disconnected manner. In 
the morning he continued perfectly tranquil, tho’ 
exceedingly feeble, and manifesting a disposition to 
slumber.” About 11 .o’clock he turned to his son, 
and said, “Don’t leave me.” Soon after he remark¬ 
ed, “I’m going soon,” and serenely breathed his 
last. His son, Thomas H. Clay, and Gov. Jones, 
of Tennessee, were the oidy friends present. “ His 
last moments were calm and quiet, .and he seemed 
in the full possession of his faculties, apparently 
suffering but little. His countenance, to the last, 
indicated a happy resignation, and a full knowl¬ 
edge of his condition. He had long since made 
every preparation for death, giving his son full 
instructions as to the disposition of his body, and 
settlement of his worldly affairs. In bis last in¬ 
terview with the Rev. Dr. Butler, the dying man 
expressed entire patience, resignation and confi¬ 
dence in the Redeemer.” 
Thus has passed away another of the few really 
great men of our country—a man who had scarcely 
an equal in the essentials of greatness, and to 
whom we are largely indebted for our national 
well being, integrity and prosperity. May his 
place be filled by one equally capable, and alike 
patriotic! Though the history of Henry Clay is 
as “familiar as household words” throughout the 
land—being written in that of bis country,—we 
condense from a contemporary tho following brief 
sketch of bis public and private life : 
Henry Clay lived to a green old age. He died 
full of years and full of honors. He was born 
on tlie 12th of April, .1777, in Hanover county ; 
Virginia, and in a neighborhood commonly called 
“the Slashes.” He was, therefore, upwards of 
seventy-five years of age at tho time of his de¬ 
cease. His father, the Rev. John Clay, was also 
a native of Virginia. So also, his mother, Eliza¬ 
beth Hudson. Henry was the seventh child.— 
His father died in 1781, bequeathing to his widow 
little else than an estate of seven children, Henry 
being then only four years old. It will thus be 
seen that long before he entered upon active life, 
he was an orphan, and was deprived of the coun¬ 
sels and example of a father. His mother, how¬ 
ever, married a second time, to a man of charac¬ 
ter and integrity, who extended the kindest care 
to her children. In 1791, at the age of fourteen, 
Henry entered a store at Richmond, and subse¬ 
quently became a desk clerk in the High Court of 
Chancery, Virginia. Soon after, he commenced 
the study of law under Attorney*-General Brooke, 
and was admitted to practice in 1797, by the Vir¬ 
ginia Court of Appeals. He moved to Lexington. 
Ky., in November, 1797, to establish himself in 
in the profession of the law. He was not then 
quite twenty-one years of age. He married early 
—in 1799—his bride being Lucretia Hart, daugh¬ 
ter of Col. Thomas Hart, of Lexington. Mrs. Clay 
was born in 1781, at Hagerstown, Md., being four 
years younger than her husband. They had eleven 
children in all—six daughters and five sons—and 
as early as 1845, had fifteen grand-children. 
Mr. Clay’s first duties as a legislator, were dis¬ 
charged as a member of the General Assembly of 
Kentucky, to which he was elected in 1803. In 
1806 he was sent to the Senate of the United 
States. In 1808 he was again a member of the 
Legislature of Kentucky, and in 1809, he was re¬ 
turned again to the Senateof theUnited States. .In 
1811 he was elected Speaker of the House of Rep¬ 
resentatives, and occupied that post in all, about 
thirteen years. During the administration of 
John Quincy Adams, he officiated as Secretary of : 
State, and was returned to the Senate again in 
1831, where he held his Seat without interruption 
till the 31st of March, 1842. His more recent 
career is familiar to every reader.. 
But he has passed to his last resting place on 
earth-. His departure, although long looked for 1 
as inevitable, will nevertheless startle and touch 
the millions who dwell within the length and 
breadth of this great Republic. The tributes to 
his memory will be heart-warm and soul-fraught, 1 
They will be given by every city, village and J 
bamlet in tbe Union. But more than all, a pro¬ 
found sense of national loss will everywhere be 
felt and experienced ; and although his mortal 
part part will soon mingle with the clods of the 
valley—yet the name of Henry Clay will ever , 
be regarded as “one of the few, the immortal , 
names that were not born to die.” ^ 
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The mean temperature of the first half month, 
63.75—second do., 69.05. Monthly mean, 66.40. 
Aurora borealis on the evenings of the 15th and 
16th. The month has been cool and wet. 
There have been several thunder showers not- 
withstanding.the cool weather. They have been 
unusually severe in Massachusetts and Connecti¬ 
cut—doing much damage, caused both by hail 
and electricity. 
The Wool Grower and Stock Register. 
The July number of this journal has just been 
published,—adding another to the many widely 
circulated publications emanating from Roches¬ 
ter. As its title indicates, the work is devoted ex¬ 
clusively to the interests of Wool and Stock 
Growers; and as it is the only periodical of its 
class in America, will be likely, if properly con¬ 
ducted, to attain a wide circulation, and exert a 
salutary influence. It certainly commences the 
fourth volume under favorable auspices, and, (if 
the reader will accept the testimony of an inter¬ 
ested eye-witness,) we may add, makes a credita¬ 
ble appearance, in externals at least. We annex 
tbe table of Contents : 
WOOL AND SHEEP HUSBANDRY. 
The New Volume,. 5 
Wool Growing in Texas,.• • •. 6 
New Leicester Sheep — Premium Buck and Ewe. 7 
A Challange; Sheep Husbandry,. 8 
Dogs Killing Sheep,. 9 
The Scottish Shepherd Dog; Hints to Wool Growers 
and Buyers,.10 
Review of the Wool Market for June, 1852; Wool aud 
Woolens,.It 
THE STOCK REGISTER. 
To the Reader — Introductory; A Stock Journal — 
Its Benefits, &c\,.12 
Mr. Chapman's Short-Horn Bull “Halton,”.13 
Pedigree of “Halton”; County Fairs, Premiums, &c.,. 14 
Portrait of an English Cart-horse, with terms denot¬ 
ing external parts of the Horse; Management of 
Farm Horses,.15 
The Wool Grower and Stock Register; Wool and 
Stock Interests of Illinois,.16 
L. G. Morris’s Sale of Stock,.17 
White Shanghai Fowls,.18 
The Cattle Markets,.20 
EDITOR’S BRIEF MENTION. 
Be Brief, but Definite; Encouragement; Appreciated; 
Notices of Books; State Fairs; Merino Bucks;— 
(and various brevities,).19 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
New Leicester Sheep,. 7 
A Scottish Shepherd Dog,.10 
Portrait of Sliort-horn Bull “ Halton,”.13 
An English Cart-horse,.• • •.. 15 
A White Shanghai Cockerel,.18 
For terms, and other particulars, see Prospec¬ 
tus on next page. 
Weekly Notes by a Naturalist. 
Another cool week—rain in abundance—the 
prospect for a corn crop begins to look rather du¬ 
bious. The ground is very wet, and consequently 
not very warm, and therefore corn cannot grow 
much in clay soil. Cold, wet seasons are said to 
be good for potatoes. 
Ailantus Glandidosa, tree of Heaven, in flower; 
so is Rhus Typhina, Staghorn Sumach. 
The Fourth falling on Sunday, to-day (Monday) 
is set apart for. the commemmoration of our Na¬ 
tion’s Birth-day. To-inorrow the sportsman may 
shoot snipe and woodcock. 
Monday, July 5. 
State Normal School. — We learn from the 
Albany Evening Journal, that the Executive 
Committee have appointed Samuel B. Wool- 
worth, A. M., as Principal of the Normal School 
in place of Professor Perkins, resigned. Mr. W. 
is well known to the friends of education through¬ 
out the State. He has been, for many years, the 
popular Principal of the Homer Academy—an 
Institution which, under his direction, has ac¬ 
quired a wide-spread reputation. There are few 
men in the country better fitted to assume the 
Chair which has been so honorably and so use¬ 
fully filled by the lamented Page, and by his 
worthy successor Perkins. Mr. Woolworth 
enters upon his new duties at the begining of the 
term. 
Strawberries. —It is rather late in the day to 
speak of this delicious fruit, for it is daily ou the 
tongue of the people. We are not forgetful of 
the favor of frieud M. G. Warner, who not only 
raises large, fine, delicious strawberries, but is 
withal mindful of the tastes of the corps editorial. 
We are also under obligations to Jas. Luitwteler 
of Greece, for a Bowl of Prolific Hautboys, which 
to our taste surpass all other varieties of which 
we have been enabled to judge. W e really hope 
the cultivation of this fruit will be so extended 
and perfected, that they shall become “ as plenty- 
as blackberries,” and exceedingly cheap withal. 
Richer than Gold. — The north-west lead 
mines have been, and are more productive of 
wealth than any surface of equal area in Califor¬ 
nia. Their average annual yield is 41,000,000 of 
pounds. The amount shipped from one place 
within twelve years has been 458,997,251 pounds, 
valued at $18,329,885. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Mr. Bennett’s Land Bill, which passed the 
House on Saturday appropriates to Missouri, Ar¬ 
kansas, and California 3,000,000 of acres each; to 
Michigan, Wisconsin, and Louisiana, 2,500,000; to 
Mississippi and Florida, 2,000,000 acres each ; to 
Illinois 1,000,000 acres; to Indiana all the public 
land not sold, located, or reserved, lying within 
her limits, and 1,000,000 acres in addition thereto ; 
to Ohio, all the public land not sold, located, or 
reserved, lying within her limits, and 2,000,000 in 
addition thereto; and to each of the States of 
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, 
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Y r ork, New Jer¬ 
sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina, 
South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Virgina, Ken¬ 
tucky, and Tennessee, at the rate of 150,000 acres 
for each Senator and Representative in the thir¬ 
ty-second Congress from said-States respectively ; 
and to each of the organized Territories and the 
District of Columbia, 150,000 acres. The eleven 
States first named are to apply their shares in the 
Construction of Railroads, and the remainder of 
the States and Territories and the District of Co¬ 
lumbia, are to expend theirs for the support of 
schools, or for other useful purposes. 
Monday, June 28.—Chevalier Hulsemann has 
called out another spicy letter from Mr. Webtser, 
which was to-day laid before the Senate. In the 
House, Mr. Olds charged fraud on the Commis¬ 
sioners on Mexican Claims, and called for a com¬ 
mittee to examine the matter. 
Tuesday, June 29.—Both Houses on receiving 
a report of Mr. Clay’s death, immediately ad¬ 
journed. 
Wednesday, June 20.—In the Senate the cus¬ 
tomary resolutions were moved ou the National 
bereavement, in the death of Henry Clay. Mr 
Cass gave an eloquent tribute to his memory.— 
Messrs. Hale, Clemens, Hunter, Seward, Brooks, 
and others followed. The following resolutions, 
offered by Mr. Uderwood, were then adopted : 
Resolved, Tliat a Committee of six be appointed 
by the President of the Senate to take orders for 
superintending the funeral of Henry Clay, late a 
member of this body, which will take place to¬ 
morrow at 12 o’clock Meridian, and that the Sen¬ 
ate will attend the same. 
Resolved, That the members of the Senate, from 
a sincere desire of showing every mark of respect 
to the memory of the deceased, will go into 
mourning for one month, by the usual mode of 
wearing crape on the left arm. 
Resolved, As a further mark of respect enter¬ 
tained by the Senate for the memory of Henry 
Clay, and his long and distinguished services to 
his country, that his remains, in pursuance with 
the known wishes of his family, be removed to 
the place of sepulture selected by himself at Lex¬ 
ington, in Kentucky, iu charge of the Sergeant- 
at-Arms, and attended by a Committee of six 
Senators, to be appointed by the President of the 
Senate, who shall have full power to carry this 
resolution into effect. 
Resolved, That as an additional mark of respect 
to ILlo mcniurv Of tli© dooocuaod, tKo feonuto do 
now adjourn. 
The House passed resolutions of like character, 
and several members spoke of the patriotism and 
virtues of the deceased. 
Friday, July 2.—A resolution was adopted to 
print 10,000 copies of the funeral discourse of the 
Rev. Mr. Butler, and the eulogies of various 
members, upon the lamented Clay. In the House 
several laud bills were laid upon the table, and 
the Deficiency bill taken up. 
Saturday, July 3.—House only in session and 
nothing of importance done. 
Who is “Exchange?”—W e see many of our 
articles copied into other papers credited to “ Ex.,” 
and “ Exchange,” aud sometimes to “ Exchange 
paper.” Now this occurs so often, that we are 
led to to think those who “hook” these articles 
know full well what paper they originate in,— 
nay, that they are often direct from the Farmer. 
Is this doing the honest thing, brethren ? When 
you thunder with our thunder just have the good¬ 
ness to label it correctly.— Maine Farmer. 
Served them right, Brother Holmes. Why 
should editors be held guiltless who appropriate 
your labor for their benefit, without as much as 
“ by your leave, sir ?” Your neighbors are mod¬ 
est, aud have some conscience left yet. Certain 
of 4 the fraternity, of whom ayc wot, appropriate 
articles from the Rural, placing them conspicu¬ 
ously in the Agricultural portion of their papers, 
didy leaded, serving them up as the lucubrations 
of their own brains. We have felt inclined to 
speak in meeting, but some of the trespassing 
ones Avithhold their paper, so their generous selec¬ 
tions may not come to our knowledge. t 
State Fairs and Cattle Shows — Are to be held, this 
year, as follows : 
New York —At Utica, Sept. 7, 8, 9, 10. Trial of Reapers, 
Mowing Machines, &c., at Geneva, about 20th of July. 
Ohio —At Cleveland,.September 15, 10, 17 
Michigan —At Detroit,. “ 22,23,24 
Vermont —At Rutland,.. “ 1, 2, 3 
Rhode Island —At Providence,. “ 15, 16, 17 
Canada West —At Toronto,. “ 21,22,23,24 
Maryland —At Baltimore,.October, 20, 27, 28, 29 
Indiana —At . “ 19 
Pennsylvania —At L^fccaster,. “ 20,21,22 
Georgia —At Macon,«». “j 19 to 23 
Wisconsin —At Milwaukie,.. “ 6, 7,8 
News Clippings- 
fl[3jp”A puppy dog, says an exchange, Avas 
thrown into the Niagara river, the other day, with 
his feet tied, and went over the falls. His master 
took that method of getting rid of him, but, 
strange to say, when he returned to his house, he 
found that the dog had come out safe, and was 
drying himself in the sun. 
The old frigate Macedonian, which Avas 
captured in the war of 1812 by the frigate United 
States, has been cut down and rebuilt, at the 
Brooklyn Navy Yard, to a corvette, and is to be 
named the Raleigh. A new frigate, uoav on the 
stocks, is to be called the Macedonian. 
Rev. Mr. Little, of Starksboro, Vt., has a 
hen which produced an egg measuring seven 
inches and a half longitudinally, and Aveighing 
one-fourth of a pound. She is a common Amer¬ 
ican hen, having neither Chinese, French, nor 
English parentage at all. 
The Crops. —A trip as far West as Cherry Val¬ 
ley, Illinois, has just enabled us to see a good 
portion of that State as Avell as part of Michigan, 
Northern Indiana and Ohio, Avilh the Southern 
counties of New York. Everywhere the crops 
are in a backward condition, aud are suffering se¬ 
verely from drouth. For nearly a fortnight little 
or no” rain has fallen through this entire region, 
until Tuesday night, when there were some in¬ 
sufficient showers, and unless there is soon a copi¬ 
ous fall of rain the consequences must be serious. 
Indian corn is everyAvhere very small and feeble; 
the best Ave have seen is in Tioga and Chemung 
counties, N. Y.; and Avheat and other grains are 
far less adA'anced than is usual at the season. The 
grass crop is also somewhat injured, but had got 
forward much better in the cold aud Avet weather 
of the spring, and suffers less accordingly; potatoes 
are also looking comparatively well.— Tribune. 
Henry Clay’s Family. —Mr. Clay leaves but 
three sons and no daughters. Only one of his 
family, Thomas, Avas with him when he died. He 
is the eldest, and a farmer, residing at Lexington, 
near Ashland. He is almost 50 years old. James 
B. Clay, the second son, our late Charge to Por¬ 
tugal, is a farmer, engaged in heavy business near 
St. Louis. He is about 36. John, the youngest 
son, is about 30 years old, and resides at Ashland 
Avith bis mother. Mr. Clay has had twelve cbil • 
dren, and but three of the number survive him.— 
It is said that he has left a competency for his 
family. 
Monument Association Formed. —A number 
of gentlemen of NeAv York have formed an Asso¬ 
ciation with tbe view of removing the remains of 
11,500 martyrs of the prison ships, now piled up 
beneath the navy yard wall in Hudson Avenue, 
to a more decent and appropriate place. It is de¬ 
signed to re-inter these relics on Fort Greene, 
(Washington Park) and to erect a suitable monu¬ 
ment over them to forever mark the spot Avhere 
they lie. 
The State Paper. —Some time since, the Dem¬ 
ocratic State Officets awarded to the Albany At¬ 
las the publication of all legal notices required by 
law to be published in tbe State Paper. The 
Argus asserted its right to publish such laws in 
virtue of the contract of 1846. The matter has 
been carried to the Supreme Court where last 
week, the decision Avas made in favor of the 
Argus. 
An Ancient Tree. —The old oak, beneath Avhose 
branches Eliot preached to the Indians,-at South 
Natick, in 1690, is still standing—a “hale, green 
tree,” aud still affords a grateful shade to the 
weary traveller. A neat monument has been 
erected to the memory of Eliot near this place, 
which bears on one side his name, and on the 
other the title of his Indian Bible—“ Up Biblum 
God.” 
The Crystal Palace. —The total number of 
pieces of cast iron employed in the erection of tho 
Crystal Palace, was 136,665, weighing 3,784 tons. 
There Avere 400,417 pieces of wrought iron, Veigh- 
ing 702 tons ; 264,972 pieces wrought timber, and 
412,364 cubic feet of rough timber. The Avages 
paid at the park for the erection of the building, 
came to £58,238, and the total cost Avas £176,030. 
Longevity at the South. —The deaths in 
Charleston last year were 922, of which 533 were 
blacks and 389 Avhites. 10 of tbe blacks were 
over 100 years of age, and 10 between 90 and 100. 
Of the whites none were over 100, and only three 
over 90. The statistics are cited as showing that 
longevity in Southern climates is more common 
among blacks than whites. 
British Ignorance of America. —Mr. Walter, 
Member of Parliament, and principal proprietor 
of the Times, stated recently in the House of 
Commons, that the U. S. Senators were elected 
for life ! The Times endorsed the error. The 
strangest fact of all, (says Mr. Walsh) is that no 
member of tbe House corrected it. Cau it be that 
no one discovered it ? 
Poisoning. —Two children, under our observa¬ 
tion, have lately been poisoned by eating banana 
fruit drops, supposed to contain fusel oil, the ethe¬ 
real preparations of which are employed by con¬ 
fectioners. Tbe symptoms were those of cholera 
morbus, but the cause in both cases Avas obvious, 
though only a few of the drops had been eaten.— 
Medical Gazette. 
Uses of Iron. —An iron bridge, five hundred 
and thirty-eight feet long, is to be erected by the 
Central Ohio Railroad Company over the Mus¬ 
kingum, at Zanesville. It is to have four spans, 
1241^ feet each, containing 67 tons of wrought 
aud 130 tons of cast iron. The only timber used 
will be the floor,. Avhich Avill require 65,000 ft. of 
lumber. 
Cheap Railways !—Mr. H. Carpenter, of Rome, 
offers to enter into bonds, to any amount that may 
reasonably be required, Avith responsible sureties, 
to furnish any railroad company Avith materials 
for a railroad track, at the rate of one thousand 
dollars per mile. The cost of the material for an 
ordinary track is about four thousand dollars per 
mile. 
The Upas. —The Philadelphia North American 
thinks that the Upas of Panama is nothing more 
than the Avell known Manckineel tree, which is 
poison enough, and even dangerous (to some sus¬ 
ceptible persons) to sleep or pass under—as is the 
case, though in a less noxious degree, with the poi- 
1 sonous oak and swamp sumach nearer home. 
Bravo ! for the Girls of Lowell !—The Di¬ 
rectors of tAvo of the mills having cut off the 15 
minutes hitherto allowed for the men’s luncheon, 
all the girls in the mills, 800 in number, indignant 
at tbe outrage, refused to Avork, and the mills are 
now standing idle ! We fear the men would not 
have done as much as the girls.— Boston Trans. 
Glad to hear it. —The New York Times says, 
that for the last seventeen weeks the amount of 
foreign importations at Ncav York has fallen over 
nine millions of dollars short of the amount du¬ 
ring the same period last year. Sixty per cent, 
of "all our foreign importations come into the 
Union through the New York Custom House. 
Bank of England Notes.— The old water¬ 
mark on the notes issued from the Bank of Eng¬ 
land has been abolished, and a new one substi¬ 
tuted. The system adopted, of burning the old 
notes Avill be discontinued, and by a simple and 
ingenious plan they will be reduced to a pulp, 
and again manufactured into paper. 
The Missouri. —The contract of Wells & Gow- 
an of Boston, to remove obstructions caused by 
the sunken steamship Misssouii, in tho bay of 
Gibraltar, has been completed to the satisfaction 
of the British Government—price paid, $59,000. 
items nf ferns, &c. 
-The Battle of Chippewa was fought on the 
5th of July, 1814—38 years ago. 
-Hawthorne, the author, is engaged in wri¬ 
ting the life of Gen. Pierce. 
-A recent exhibition of American flowers 
in London has been greatly admired. 
-The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol en¬ 
joys an income of $35,000 a year. 
-The Imperial territory of Austria covers a 
space of 12,120,46 geograpical square miles. 
-In Irondequoit, in this county, there are 
860 acres now in potatoes. 
-A new postoffice has been established at 
Gasport, Niagara Co.—Alfred Colwell, P. M. 
-A subscription for a monument to Henry 
Clay, has received numerous signatures iu NeAV 
York. 
-The New York Herald intimates that the 
Japan expedition has been abandoned by govern¬ 
ment. 
-Subscriptions are being taken up in South 
Carolina to erect a monument in honor of John 
C. Calhoun. 
-Indiana State Stocks, since the passage of 
the Free Banking laAV, have advanced about 15 
per cent, and are now at par. 
-Seven railroads will terminate at Buffalo 
before the expiration of 1853. Four terminate 
already at Rochester. 
-It is said that Mr. Macaulay will be put 
in nomination for Parliament from Edinburgh, 
provided he Avill give his consent. 
-Mr. Clay was born on the 15th of April, 
1777. He was therefore in his 76th year at the 
time of Iris death. 
-The Toronto Examiner says the crops 
throughout the Province are luxuriant, and give 
promise of an abundant harvest. 
-Seven out of twelve coavs were killed by 
a single stroke of lightning, near Port Montgome¬ 
ry, Orange Co., lately. 
-The regular army of Austria comprises 
728,624 men—exceeding the entire population of 
Yienua by nearly 300,0u9. 
-The income of the city of Edinburgh, 
from its property, is about two aud a half millions 
of dollars a year. 
-Gov. Powel tendered the U. S. Senatorship, 
to fill the vacancy caused by Henry Clay’s death, 
to James Guthrie, Avho has declined. 
-The Whigs of Michigan have nominated 
Z. Chandler, of Detroit, and D. S. Walbridge of 
Kalamazoo, for Governor and Lieutenant. 
-Mr. D. Van Vleit, of Forestville Clynitau- 
que Co., brought a five year old fast trotter to 
Buffalo last week, and sold him for $1,000. 
-At Syracuse, the jury found Deputy Mar¬ 
shall Allen not guilty of kidnapping the fugitive 
slave Jerry, without leaving their seats. 
-The number of deaths in Boston last week, 
Avas only 43—a very remarkably small number, 
aud probably unparalleled for several years past. 
-Hon. Christopher Morgan, Ex-Secretary of 
State, has resumed the practice of law at Auburn, 
in connection with Messrs. Blatchford ik SeAvard. 
-Mr. Graham, in accepting the nomination 
of Vice President, immediately sent to Mr. Fill¬ 
more his resignation as Secretary of the Navy. 
-Ripe apples have already been taken from 
trees in Georgia. Maryland farmers are harvest¬ 
ing winter wheat. They pronounce it a good 
yield. 
-There is a little boy in England, only 12 
years old, whose income, or allowance, is $200,000 
a year. He is the queen’s eldest son, the Prince 
of Wales. 
-The Government has ordered the Pacific 
squadron to cruise near Lobos, for the purpose of 
protecting American shipping engaged in gather¬ 
ing guano,, 
-A company is now engaged in Avorking a 
rich coal vein at Portsmouth, R. I. The coal is 
25 feet thick, and resembles the Pennsylvania 
product. 
-The Toronto Colonist understands that the 
quarter’s Custom duties, at that port, fall short 
by £6,000, of the amount collected the corres¬ 
ponding quarter, last year. 
-It is said that a deposite of mineral coal 
has been discovered iu the township of Adelaide 
C. W., on the banks of Bear creek, and not far 
from the line of the Great Western Raihvay. 
-The letters of acceptance of Messrs. Pierce 
and Scott have appeared. Both candidates une¬ 
quivocally accept the nomination and the plat¬ 
forms of their respective parties. 
-There is a family of five brothers living in 
Newark, N. J., Avhose united height is 30 feet, and 
4% inches. The tallest is 6 feet, 2)4 inches, aud 
the shortest 5 feet 11 inches. 
-Doct. Joseph Prescott, (until now) the last 
surviving member of the original Society of the 
Cincinnati, died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Friday 
last, 25th inst, in the 91st year of his age. 
-A physician was carried to the insane 
asylum in Jacksonville, 111., in chains, a victim of 
the spiritual rappings ; aud a respectable lady iu 
TazeAvell county is insane from the same cause. 
-Madame Goldschmidt was met, on her ar¬ 
rival in England, by an offer of £6,000 for 12 
concerts—a sum greater than has ever been gain¬ 
ed by a singer in Europe by a similar engagement. 
-During the Aveek ending the 26th inst., the 
number of bushels of salt inspected on the Onon¬ 
daga Reservation, Avas, at Salina, 90,807 ; Syra¬ 
cuse, 35,914 ; Liverpool, 12,052; Geddes, 14,138. 
Total—152,912 bushels. 
-The Printing Committee of Congress have 
rejected all the copies of the President’s Message, 
Avith the exception of eight for each member, on 
the ground of the miserable manner in Avhich the 
printing has been exectued. 
-Dates from Lake Superior of the 23d have 
heed received at Buffalo. The mines are of a very 
encouraging character. The whole Western dis¬ 
trict from the forest to Lake Agogebic, is believed 
to be one vast mine of the richest ore. 
-Mr. Webster expects to leave Washington 
in a few days for Marshfield, where some impor¬ 
tant treaties Avith the British Minister are to be 
negotiated. All other business pertaining to the 
State department Avill also be transacted there. 
-It is calculated that the amount of ocean 
commerce of the American ports on the Gulf, in¬ 
ward and outward, foreign and domestic, exceed 
$250,000,000 per annum, besides that of tho 
Mexican and other ports on the Gulf. 
-Mr. Webster, it is stated, has expressed 
his intention of resigning as soon as he can ar¬ 
range the business of the State Department. . As 
Mr. Lawrence is coming home, it is supposed tho 
mission to England may be tendered to him. 
