MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
A 011 * bo g rouncb It is the invention of Mr. Jearum 
‘ Atkins, of Illinois, and was exhibited by J. S. 
"Wright, Esq., of the Prairie Fanner. It is ccr- 
S tainly a most curious piece of mechanism, and 
^US ,l,o> simple in operation, must be seen to be un- 
derstood. The reaper cuts in the same manner as 
___ others with the Hussey knife, and the rake draws 
ROCHESTER JULY 7 " 29 1852. the grain across the platform and holds it against 
. .. -- -- a sheet iron palm, which turns with the rake a 
Trial of Implements at Geneva. quarter around, when the rake opens and the grain 
- drops in the rear and out of the way of the team, 
As previously announced a Trial of Agricultural when it again comes around. On the first trial, 
Machines and Implements commenced at Geneva, an accident prevented its successful operation,— 
on the 20th inst., under the auspeies of thb State but we understand that, on being repaired, it 
Agricultural Society, and continued during the worked admirably. AVe shall refer to this, and 
week. The occasion was one of considerable in- other machines exhibited, hereafter, 
terest and importance to manufacturers and users For result of the Plowing Match,held on Wed- 
of the various implements tested and exhibited, nesday, under the supervision of the citizens of 
as was manifested by the large number of both Geneva, see second page of this paper. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
The State Educational Convention, held 
Telegraph communication between Mexico 
ROCHESTER, JULY" 29, 1852. 
Trial of Implements at Geneva. 
- at Syracuse, appointed a Committee to draft a and Vera Cruz is now completed. 
Monday, July 19.—A petition signed by the Code of School Laws, consisting of TVm. Tracy, -The total length of the Mississippi River 
most eminent American authors was presented, of Utica, S. G. Andrews, of Rochester, C. T. Hul- with all its tributaries is 51,000 miles. 
asking for an International Copyright Law. The bu , rd ’ of Stockholm, St. Lawrence County, James _—There are fourteen victims ot spiritual 
Deficiency bill was taken up, and an executive Beekman, o“ New Yorkfand 6°G. Steele! o/bS- rapping8 iu lhe Lunatic Asulum m Utica. 
session held, when tlie Senate adjourned. Some falo. Resolutions in favor of a State Board of -The British naval establishment on the 
business was done in the House, but nothing of Education, with a State Superintendent at the U rea *' American Lakes, has been entiiely bra¬ 
very general interest or importance. head of a department of the government, and Su- ken up. 
perintendents in Assembly Districts: also, that ——Twenty pigs at one litter i3 among the 
Tuesday, July 20. A bill amending the Tariff the towns raise a part of the tax for the support strange things recorded in the Now England 
was reported and referred in the Senate. In the of schools; that the Normal School system be ex- Farmer, as having occurred at Westbrook, Mass. 
House the plank road bill was debated, and a po- tended; liberal aid be given to Teachers’ Insti- - The plication table was invented by 
litical speech made. tutes and that the formation of union schools Pyt hagoras, the Grecian philosopher, 528 years 
Wednesday, July 21.—A resolution to adjourn ® °re reaulsteTto mblish their renort Joarlv It beforc Christ ’ and is thus 2 ’ 391 years old ' * . . 
tutes, and that the formation of union schools .1 h •' I -i' V coq ■«. 
i v 4 i m n i X rythagoras, the Grecian philosopher, y 
should be encouraged The Code Committee before Chrik, and is thus 2,391 years old. * 
were requested to publish their report as early as ’ * . . 
" ^ “ ‘J were requested to publish their report as early as 
on the 31st of August passed the Senate, after the first of November, and call another Conven- 
somo hard words about the House and its action, tion. 
parties in attendance. As we were only present 
on Wednesday and Thursday, and have not re- 
On Saturday the Judges were engaged in test¬ 
ing Drills, Cultivators, Horse Bowers, Threshers, 
The river and harbor bill was up in the House.— 
The apportionment bill was passed. 
frfp An old lady, named Mrs. McElroy, is now 
living in Philaddlphia, who will be 108 years old 
on the 2f>th inst. Twenty-one years ago, she re- 
-Of the four hundred and sixty-six deaths 
in New York city, last week, three hundred and 
twenty were of children under ten years of age. 
-The Rochester, Lockport and Niagara 
Falls Railroad is doing a largo business, the re¬ 
ceived intelligence in regard to the proceedings Tbe ' trial was concluded on Monday, the Thursday, July 22.—The Senate discussed a ceived wh at is termed second sight, and can now ceipts being $1,000 to $1,200 per day, 
since, we are unable to furnish many particulars, 2 6th,—the Judges giving the Railroad or Chain bm authorizing the construction of a ship canal see as clearly and distinctly as ever. She does all -The New York Horticultural Society has 
this week, and hence, shall only refer to the Trial jjorse Bowers a most thorough test in various around the Sault Stc Marie. In the House, a her housework; waits upon her youngest daugh- resolve 1 to distribute $500 worth of premiums 
generally, awaiting the Report of the Judges, s . We are informed that in this, as in other Right-of-way bill for all sorts of roads was passed- Jf 1 * ™ at its next exhibition. 
Avhich we presume will bo made in h week or two, departments of the trial, the test was more par- 
for more definite and full information. The fol- ticularand comp lete than ever before made in 
lowing list embraces the principal machines enter- ^his country, and hence the decision of the Corn¬ 
ed for trial. mittee will probably be reliable and satisfactoty 
reaping machines. , ,, , 
to the public. 
J. II. Mannay, Wadliam’s Grove, HI., Reaping Machine. 
“ Manny’s Patent Adjustable.” In addition to those tested in the field, many 
(Self raker.) implements, Ac., were on exhibition—three large 
C. II. McCormick, Illinois, Reaping and Mowing Ma- tents being thus occupied. These articles we are 
chine. , ® , * . . „ . 
Tlie Fishery difficulty then came up on a call for ! hrce 7 ea ™ past ; and atte ? ds a store °>. sbo P &W 
. J .' . 1 T j- keep in the front room, bhe was married in 1790 
information. 1 be bill granting lands to Indiana w ]ien 40 years of age, and is the mother of seven 
and Illinois, for railroad purposes, was taken up, children, three of whom are dead. She has a dis- 
but. no final vote was reached. The Brinting tinct recollection of Gen. Washington, and various 
Committee reported in favor of giving Ritchie 01 V f ’ Iau e b Y 10 ™ 
*rr.ono * i ii- ii u-i • 1 » German, lived to be 107 years old. She wa 
$60,000, for old claims and losses. lhe river and born at Allentown Benn. 
harbor bill then came up. , , 
T , ml r,- , ,, Millie most enormous profits have been real - 
Friday, July 23. I be Fishery difficulty was j zed 0,, t,}jo assignees of Woodworth’s pianino 
\_i.A.__ -_n r .. •r_ a* - mi~ i • i , 1 
-Judge John McKinglev, Associate Justice 
of tlie U. S. Supreme Court, died at Lexington, 
Ky., on the 8th instant, of apoplexy. 
-The Republic officially announces the ap¬ 
pointment of Mr. C. Lane as Governor of New 
i was reached. The Brinting tinct recollection of Gen. Washington, and various DO ; n t mPn t of Mr C Lane as Governor of N 
i ■ f ,_„ nf scenes of the revolution. Her father, who was P 01ntm . ° ff p f, , 
cd in favor of gmng Ritchie a German> lived to bc 107 oltL ’ yhe J" Mexico, in place of Mr. Calhoun, deceased. 
A. C. Powell, Syracuse, Rugg’s Reaping and Mowing 
Machine. 
E. Danford & Co., Geneva, Kane Co., Ill., Danford's 
Double Sickled Reaping and Mowing Machine 
A. S. Cook, Enon, Ohio, Reaping and Mowing Machine. 
T. I>. Bui-rall, Geneva, N. V., Convertible Reaper and 
Grass Cutter. 
Seymour & Morgan, Brockport, N. V., New York Rcajier. 
J. Rapalje it Co., Rochester, N. Y., Dantord’s Reaping and 
Mowing Machine. 
Aaron Palmer, Brockport, N. Y., Palmer’s Self Railing 
Reaper. 
John S. Wiiglit, Chicago, Ill., Reaper and Self raker. 
Obed Hussey, Baltimore, Md., Reaper and Mower. 
MOWING MACHINES. 
Howard & Co., Buffalo, Ketelium’s Mowing Machine. 
T. Rush Spencer, Genei a, Bronson & Murray’s Mowing 
Machine. 
C. H. McCormick, Cliicago, HI., Mowing Machine. 
A. C. Powell, Syracuse, Mowing Machine. 
A. S. Cook, Enon, Ohio, Mowing tVlacliine. 
T. D. BurralJ, Geneva, Grass Cutter. 
J. II. Manny, Wadliam’s Grove, lib, Mowing Machine. 
Obed Hussey, Baltimore, Md., Mowing Machine. 
unable, for want of space, to mention in this con- & " . . 
nection, but presume thev will all be included in bir * V aca a PP ro l )l la,lon 
,, T3 . e T , " , . , , ,, . Senate adiourned till Mond; 
the Report of the Judges, which we shall pub- , . J , , , ... 
t i „ ,, ii-j- . up the river and harbor bill, 
lisbassoonas received. On the whole, judging * _ _ . . _—_ , . 
c , , , ,7 i ° " Saturday, July 24.—House only in soesion- 
irom what we have seen and heard, we think this < j * 
Trial of Implements highly creditable to tlie So- Nothln S of consequence acco mplished. 
ciety, and its results must prove most beneficial to r> 
r Triad ov Reapers and 
the Agricultural Interest. assemblasre of agriculturists 
brought up on a call for information. The Mili- machine during the twenty-four years the patent 
tary academy appropriation was passed and the has existed. It is said that James G. Wilson h;is 
Senate adjourned till Monday. The House had f^oi'-ed, in sales, assignments and tariffs, $2,131,- 
, . , , , i 11 ; o2. John Gibson, ol Albany, has received near- 
Triau or Reapers and Mowers. —-A large I turns oil l(),000._^eet each. 
ly as large a sum. Charles Gould, of Albany, has ’ arm 
also received a very large sum. Gibson, it is fur- -A young printer of Cincinnati has ra¬ 
ther stated, is in the receipt of $1 for every thou- cently inherited a fortune of $60,000, left him 
sand feet planed in one hundred mills, each of by a deceased uncle in Ireland. Good “fat take,” 
-The month of June in England was one 
of almost continuous rain, and so cold 1 bat fires 
and winter clothing were required for most of the 
month. 
-Ten liberated slaves, formerly owned by a 
Mr. Dickon, of N. C., reached Toronto a few 
days since. They had each $1,000 to buy a 
farm with. 
-A young printer of Cincinnati has re¬ 
cently inherited a fortune of $60,000, left him 
assemblage of agriculturists recently took place General Scott is a Brotestant Episcopalian, The library ana reading room oi tne 
at the Woodside Farm, Springfield, Ohio, for tho and worships at St. John’s Church, Washington. Young Men’s Mercantile Library Association of 
purpose of witnessing the competition for the Mr. Graham is by birth and education a Brushy- Cincinnati, is now considered the finest m the 
medals offered by the State Agricultural Society, teriau, though not a communicant of any church, Union. 
for the best mowing and reaping machines. Af- ho worships, part of the time at least, with that -Marshal Tukey has been discharged from 
ter an animated contest, the gold medal, for tlie denomination. General Bierce is by education a the position which he has so long held at tho head 
best reaper, was awarded to Densmore’s self reap- Congrcgationalist, though not a member of the of the Boston Bolice. Mr. Gilbert Nourse has 
er, and the silver medal for the next best, to Hus- Church. Mr. King is a Brotestant Episcopalian been appointed in bis stead. 
soy’s improved reaper. The gold medal for the in his preferences. So says the Bresby teriau. _Thomas Lack in, a boy of 13 years, while 
best mower was awarded to Ketchum’s Buffalo Cattlo in Wisconsin are very scarce and bathing in the river at Windsor Lock, Conn., was 
mower, and the second medal to Huascy’s Ur- The California emigrants have stripped h 7 a fish ™ ^ fleshy part of the leg, 
-•* The library and reading room of the 
ui>eu iiussey, .Baltimore, iyiu., iteapcr ana mower. x 
Literary Notices. 
MOWING MACHINES. _ 
Howard & Co, Buffalo, Ketelium’s Mowing Machine. The Musical World and Times.—’ This is to 
I. Rush Spencer, Geneva, oruuson & Murray s Mowing 
Machine. " be the name of a large weekly quarto, formed by 
tlie union of the Musical World, note published 
A. s. Cook, Enon, oiiio, Mowing iViaciiiue. by O. Dyer, and the Musical Times, edited by R. 
T. D. BurraU, Geneva, Grass Cutter. „ ,, r , ,, . . . . T _• , 
J. H. Manuy, Wadliam’s Grove, lih, Mowing Machine. otorrs Willis, both now issued in New York 
Obed Hussey, Baltimore, Md, Mowing Machine. city, and valuable publications to all interested 
grain drills. iuniusical matters. The newvolumewillcom- 
P. Seymour, East Bloomfield, 2 Grain Drills. ___n.. in. i m .... ,,,, 
Henry Huffman, Macodon, Grain Drill. nrance on the 4(.h of September. T erms, $3,00 
Kapalje & Co, Rochester, Wheat Drill. a year — address. Dyer d: Willis, 257 Broadway, 
Foster Jessup & Co, Palmyra, Grain Drill. , r 7 J 
S. M. Drake, Skaneatelcs, Grain Drill. A a or k. 
HORSE POWERS—SWEEP OR LEVER. _ T . 
J. A. Pitts, Buffalo, Pitt's Lover Power. Tiie Ladik8 Repository.-! lus magazine for 
Eddy &. Co, Union Village, Taplin’s Circular Horse August contains, as usual, two fine steel plates, 
Power. 7 ? . , ,0 „ , . 
bitten by a fish in the ileshy part of the leg, 
drawn under and drowned. 
UtlUiU _ __ the country of some of the best stock. So they drawn under ana drowned. 
Black and White Ages. —A tabular statement are bere a11 ^ partly from the same cause. Fresh — Au American ship, called the Ticondero- 
in the Charleston (S. 0,) papers, of the annual beef 1S 8old at our .market at 7 cents per pound, ga, has been chartered by the English Govern- 
mortality in that city, gives some interesting sta- and no prospeot of its being Less for some time, meut’s commissioners, to take passengeis 10m 
tistics tending to show that, as a general thing, len years ago, beef could be bought in Dubuque Australia to Liveipool. 
there are more instances of deaths at an ad vane- ~ ceil ts a pound or less by the quarter. Bur- -The constabulary force of Ireland is over 
tistics tending to show that, as a general thing, 
Daniel Woodbury, Palmyra, Lever Horse Power. 8 G\eial pages of music, and 48 pages of clioice 
B. u. Wakely, Elmira, Lever Horse Power. reading matter. W. C. Larrahee, Editor. Cin- 
horse powers—endless chain or railroau. cimiati \ Swonnstedt <t Roe. $2 per annum. 
Emery- & Co, Albany, Railroad Power. . __ 
Geo. Westinghouse, Central Bridge, Horse Pow-er. . 
Ezra W. Badger, Ely Creek, one and two Horse Power. I HE I'lSHERT OUTRAGE. —The British Govern- 
j! Ka,Sc’& S' KoeSer^do’ Tnent bav0 P’R a construction on a 
Geo. E. Jerome, Hempstead, Horse Power. Treaty made thirty years ago, and now for the 
iron horse power. first time, and without previous notice, refuse to 
Jolm A. Pitts, Buffalo, Iron Horse Power. allow Americans to fish along their coasts. Two 
threshers and separators. vessels have already been seized by British steam- 
Id^^^o.^ umon'villagef'Threshor?^ 01 ^ 01 '' crs cruising off New Brunswick for that purpose. 
J. A. Pitts, Buffalo, Tlu-esher and Separator. Congress and the President will doubtless take 
Daniel Woodbury, Thresher ind Separator. , ,. . ,, ., . . 
Geo. Westinghouse, Central Bridge, Overshot Thresher I prompt action 111 the matter, and certainly will 
there are more instances of deaths at an advanc- [‘ jr ~ cents a pound or less by the quarter. Bar¬ 
ed age among tlie blacks than the whites. The txngton ( Iowa ) Iclegraph. twelve thousand persons, who cost the Covern- 
total number of deaths in Charleston for the year gygp - The crops in this section of our county are mont ovei two millions and a half ol donais an- 
euding May, 1852, was 922, of which 533 were looking very fine, and will well reward the bus- nuab y- 
black, and 389 whites. Ot the blacks ton were bandman. Corn, which was supposed would not -In Oregon they pick wild strawberries in 
upwards of one hundred years of age at the time be a full crop, from the lateness of the spring, January, and the weather is said to be very mild, 
of their death, and ten were between ninety and looks very well, fully equal to any former year though in latitude as far north as any of thenor- 
one hundred ; ol the whites only three were over that we remember of. The only thing that has them Atlantic states. 
failed is the grass crop. Some of our farmers in 
• The “ Association for tlie Exhibition of 
tioned below, at most of which members of Con¬ 
gress are to be elected :—Alabama, Aug. 2 ; Ken- 
United States is 416,226, or more than double Washington, after fourteen months labor in New 
that of Great Britain, employing, as officers and Y'ork and Brooklyn, lias succeeded in collecting 
crew Q!) 037 men Tlio l-ennri shows 1h-.it of tho C-1 (lr:i te 
and Separator. 
J. Rapalje & Co., Rochester, Thresher and Separator. 
Ezra W. Badger, Ely Creek, Thresher and Separator. 
Haines Scovill, Tompkins Co., Tlu-esher. 
C. B. Salmon, Palmyra, Separator. 
E. B. Palmer, Palmyra, Separator. 
seed planters, for horse or hand power. 
Emery & Co., Albany, Seed Planter. 
C. C. Van Every, Victor, Corn and Bean Planter. 
P. Seymour, East Bloomfield, two Seed Planters. 
Rapalje & Co., Rochester, two Drills. 
Foster, Jessup & Co., Palmyra, Corn Drill. 
D. P. Daggett, Palmyra, Seed Drill. 
Chas. A. Wakefield, Essex Co., Seed Planter. 
cultivators for general purposes. 
P. Seymour, East Bloomfield, Horse Cultivator. 
Rapalje & Co., Rochester, Corn Cultivator. 
D. P. Daggett, Palmyra, tlin* Wheel Cultivators. 
BROAD CAST SOWERS. 
P. Seymour, East Bloomfield, two Brood Cast Sowing 
Machines. 
STEAM ENGINE FOR FARM PURPOSES, &C. 
Hoard & Bradford, Watertown, Portable Steam Engine. 
The Mowing Machines were first tried, on Tues- 
not allow such an outrage of National courtesy 
to pass unnoticed. 
World’s Fair. —The Banorama of the Crystal 
Balace is still on exhibition in this city. It has 
been changed from Concert to Corinthian Hall 
where it will remain during the present week. It 
is well worth visiting. 
American Institute Fair—Buogramme.— Oct. 
1, 2, and 4, Oastlo Garden will be open for the re¬ 
ception of goods and specimens. 
Oct. 5. The Fair will be opened for the admis¬ 
sion of visitors at 8 a. m., and remain open from 
8 a. m. to 10 p. M. until closed. 
Oct. 9. Flowing, testing of plows and spading 
match at Nyask, Rockland Co. Boat leaves Jay 
street at 8 a. m. 
Oct. 18. Special exhibition of roses and dahlias. 
Oct. 20, 21, and 22. Cattle show at Madison 
Oct-4; Maryland, Oct. 6 ; South Carolina, Oct. muet y-hve lives. on the stocks. 
11; Ohio, Oct. 12 ; Benusylvauia, Oct. 12. Mr. C. G. Halpine, Boston, has now in his -By the census returns of tho Province of 
——-- possession a manuscript Bible of the 12th century. Nova Scotia, taken in 1852, and just published, 
Miiitary Bower of the United States. —The very richly illuminated with gold and colors, and the total population amounts to 2i(>,l 1 / . I ho 
Hiding army of the United States numbers 10,- oucc in tlie possession of Pope Leo the Xth, population by the previous census was 200,090. 
standing army of the United States numbers 10,- ouce m tlie possession ol Pope Leo the Atli, population by the previous census was i’LU,UJU. 
129 men—commissioned officers, 896; non-com- whose handwriting occurs in marginal notes in _ rf] j i]k manufactory at Newport, 
missioned officers and privates, 9,233. The mini- various places throughout the volume. The work R whi(;h ,, ag been j n operation about four 
ber of buglars employed is 60, and the number of > s clasped with silver, and is altogether a gem— ^rs, and manufactures cravats, handkerchiefs 
musicians, 258. The head-quarters of the army So says the Boston Lee. and ves tings. 
are in Washington, D C. The number of com- ^ The Dayton Item says that a citizen of - T h e English abolitionist, George Thomp- 
missioned officers m the militia is 74,962, and of that County, now m lus 109th year, and who has 80 n, has lost his election in the English Parlia- 
o° 1 or C roA mlSS1 ra ed offiEe r s ' masiEia °® a ' ld F 1 ™ for A be past two - ycar f’ been deprived of the pow- ment So muc h for neglecting his own business 
2,105,524, making a total of 2,180,4b6 fighting er of speech, was lately, by some accident, thrown to attend to that of other people. 
men - upon his head, receiving a severe injury, but r , T , . 7, r , •_ ai. 
-—-- ' , ,, , J J> -The San Francisco Wing states that 
Good Scholarship. — The groat Do For«t » a ?&y doSTThs Ho "within tiro la»t three month, no lost than foor- 
prize, the largest ever awarded in Yale College, - 1 teen pairs of twins have been born on the sterile 
_ . ta to strange to say, he has been able to converse as 
Good Scholarship. - 1 he great Do Forest fluen ft y as at “ any period of his i ife . 
prize, the largest ever awarded in Yale College, 
has been assigned to Honor B. Sprague, of East 
Recently a Mr. Isaac Barber, of Guilford, lulls of San Francisco. 
day. The field upon which tlie trial was had was Cottage. Entries can be made on the ground on 
uneven and somewhat stoney, and the grass light, *- be 18th, 19th, and 20th, or at any time previous- 
but of the kinds most difficult to cut. Yet we l 7> by addl ^ sbj g , A ’ Chandler, Corresponding 
.... ..Secretary, 3ol Broadway. _ 
but of the kinds most difficult to cut. Yet we f* ouauuiw ’ ^ orrea l 
are informed that most of the machines worked Qct. 21. Anniversary address. 
admirably, notwithstanding the disadvantages i__ 
mentioned, and demonstrated to the large number The Fishery Difficulty. — Boston c 
of practical farmers in attendance the feasibility Juty 28, says :—A memorial addressed t 
of cutting grass by machaniery,—a matter beyond d .® lb ?ilbnoio is being numerously and in 
. 7 , i . T r ally signed here. It represents that 2100 
dispute by any who have once witnessed Ketch- 30,000’seamen, are now engaged in the fi 
um’s and other good machines in operation. representing property valued at $12,000,01 
The trial of Reapers commenced on Wednes- * be people of New England and their 
Douglas, Worcester county, in this State. It is a Conn., killed fifty-six black snakes in a ledge or _ G pj ne has gone from New York with 
massive gold medal, of the value of $100, given pile of rocks near his house. They were from seventy men, for the purpose of constructing a 
to the best writer and speaker of the senior class, three, to six and a bait feet long. Under one of wooden railroad from Lake Nicaragua to the Pa- 
which this year numbers 93 members. This is the stones which upturned in search of the rep- c ; dc abovd twelve miles 
the first of a series of annual prizes established tiles were found fifty eggs of the same loathsome _ Jonathan Ful]or dicd in North Chelsea on 
bv the late John De Forest, of New Haven.— Sa- race, which were also demolished. oo l ii11CP ; n 
by the late John De Forest, of New Haven .—Sa 
lcm (Afass.,) Observer. 
Extraordinary Calf. —YY. Young, Esq., of Co N y H. B. Lafarge, B. M. The office at 
_ : :_l.„n —if —ra,a - - _ 
ills wbig iuuuu liny bbbs ui Lilt: aciuiB luaiusume T i- l • at 
,-7 , J , bb I-, 7 -Jonathan Fuller died m North Chelsea on 
race, winch were also demolished. m , , , 7 t o-> • *1 _„ 1, • 
’ Tuesday, at the age of 83, in the same house in 
SLIP 1 ” During the last week a new Post Office which he was born, and bc had never slept from 
has been established at Lemon Creek, Richmond under its roof a night in his life. 
-The anniversary of the American Associa- 
m for the Advancement of Education, will be 
Id at Newark, N. J., on the 10th of August 
01 cuiung grass oy macnamery,—a matter ueyona „ . T ;° . A ‘A-, rlav list it was eleven weeks old and weighed HU, n 1 n 7 ,7 .. 0 uext - 
,. . , I , .. , Tr ally signed here. It represents that 2100 vessels, aay 11 w<is eleven weeuu om aim wer neu e d to “ Humphrey Centre.” mi • 1 
dispute by any who have once witnessed Ketch- 30 000 seamen are now eno-nred in the fifsheriea 200 pounds ! During the two weeks proceeding, „ -1 here is a good deal of dysentery and 
um’s and other good machines in operation. renresentinirpronertv valued at *#112 000 000 • that it had gained seventy pounds, an average of five 1 he New York Tribune says that there cholera at Washington. Members of (yingiess 
, • 1 f p , w 7 Gie neonle of New” England and their fathers pounds per dav. It is a cross of the Bakewell are raore cb ‘ rb8 in tbe stores of that city who re- are becoming alarmed, and two or three cases of 
I he trial of Reapers commenced on TV ednes- b P P j f r i«Jit' to fish in the now nro’ aad Durham. Who can match it.— Warren ( O .) ceivc under $300 a year, than there are who re- cholera might create a stampede among them, 
day, and was continued unfl Fnday. The m- TramcrijU. cctv, over $500. _ It also says tlmt notwithstand- _ Ttae „ rc 40m Indians m tlie Ul iw 
chines were first tried in wheat, and afterwards in 
barley. Both fields were rolling, and quite une- 
new constitution of the treaty of 1818, will ruin 
many families in New England ; therefore the 
ven in surface. The wheat field also presented a memoralists pray tlie President to send a naval 
variety in the crop—some portions being light P rG ^ ec ^ tbe hslieiincn in their lawful oc- 
and others heavy, while the grain stood fair in * j_ ■ 
some parts and lodged in others. Such ground Butter.— The aggregate value of butter pro- I 
and grain were well calculated to try the quali- duced in the United States, is larger than that of 
ties of the various machines entered, and afford a ? vbeab *. be P |- i ce g°°d butter has very much 
fair test to the large uumber of spectators, direct- 
increased in the last few years, and at particular 
seasons has been exorbitant. Some of the agri- 
Transcript. ceive over $500. _ It also says that notwithstand- -There are 40,000 Indians in the United 
- ing the toil of a journeyman printer, the average States Territories west of the Mississippi— 
Destruction of Crops. — A large species of wab k B ln e C1 J carnt , oes no exeee $ pu Among them, are laboring 200 ordained missiona- 
grass-hopper has made its appearance on several wee ’ , lies besides assistants, and 10,000 Indians are 
parts of Long Island, particularly in the vicinity d Mrs. John Quincy Adams w r as communicants. 
of Jamaica. On one farm, that of Captain Buy- n , iarricd in tbe year l 8b4 > and h °\ e berba f ba , nd _The General Assembly of the Prosbyteri- 
dam, they have destroyed about 3,000 heads of threesons-GeorgeWashington, John, and Charles an C]iuroll ]ia8 published a new music book for 
cabbage, together with a large amout of grass, Francis—of whom the latter is the sole survivor, their congregations, the object of which is to re¬ 
corn, wheat, Ac. They also attack the potatoe Gei.rge died unmarried and John left several cln - the old c] f 1TC ] 1 tunes that have 
tops, and the potatoes, too, if not housed as soon ( h' e ". who reside in the home of their grand- p agscd ou t 0 f use . 
asdu b ril P- mol 4l r " TT „ . . , 77 -, -The cost of Telegraph and Marine intelli- 
--- .Tr®** HVvra/'A ATnrm fn lip. PrfiRKipnt. of Aatinrfi . 
ly or indirectly interested. We never saw more cultural societies in Pennsylvania are recommend- 
interest and anxiety manifested to see and know ing that greater attention be paid to putting up 
the operation and result of machinery on any oc- fh'km butter, which, as made in the State of New 
cag j ou York, for the Navy, has kept sweet for two years. 
. ' . , ,7 7. Liberal premiums forthe best firkin butter, would 
All being ready, the machines started singly, in probably produce a better article than is usually 
order to afford the judges a fair opportunity to offered under that name.—A r . E. Farmer. 
witness the performance of each separately. Bur- -- 
Horace Mann is to be President of Aatioch 
ralPs Convertible Reaper was first started, per- No Speculation in England.— Notwithstand- 
forming its work in a creditable manner, and ! ' n S * be unparalleled ease in the English money 
• • r .7 , market, there has never been less speculation.— 
receiving many ecomiums from the spectators.— nra + • • i • i 
6 , - . 1 Every new enterpnze, involving large expendi- 
1 Ins was followed during the day by Manny’s, tures, is examined with unusual caution. We 
Densmore’s Self-Raker, Seymour A Morgan’s New consider this the most favorablo sign of a sound 
York Reaper, Hussey’s, McCormick’s, and several commercial prosperity. 
others. Most of these machines worked very well> 
The Collins Steamers.— The additional ap- 
and each attracted much attention from the eager propriations for this line of steamers, which hns 
and excited spectators. On Thursday the same just passed both Houses of Congress, increase the 
machines were again in operation, and also Dan- annual allowance for twenty-six trips from $385 • 
ford’s Double-sLcklod Reaper, and Atkin’s Au- £ $ 858 - 000 . or $83,000 a trip. The law reserves, 
, _ , 7, 7 „ n»i. 7 . ,, , , the power to the government to terminate the 
tomaton Raker This last machine attracted extra allowance after 1854, on giving six months 
more attention, from its novelty, than any other notice. 
( ------- , -BBT n«™uui Sl u gence to the N. Y., Associated Press, seven in 
Another YanykeYacht Victorious. -An College .Ohio the corner stone of wlucli was laid ^ l]mb is 8aid to amount to about $100,000 
American Yacht, sent over by Mr Grmnell, of on the 23d ult 11ns College is of the denonu- annum . This does not include special de- 
New York, took the prize at the late race for nation of people called New Lights, or Chris- ^ x i 
yachts of the first class belonging to the Birken- tians, and is now endowed with $200,000 in schol- ' *' " . 
head Model Yacht Club. The distance run was arships, at $100 each selection. .-Lowe 11 Mason of Boston who is now on 
sixmUes and back and after the first mile the ^ T l.e editor of the Charlotte (N. C.) Whig, thelT^ 
Yankee boat took the lead and kept it, beating Ba ^f a d or two ag0 , a diamond of the first of Da mstadt, the whole of his large and valua- 
the best of the three British, sixteen minutes. wator . weighing four grains, found by Mr. J. TV. bl 0 musical library. 
"2 ~ Atwood, of McDowell county, while working a _ 0 nlv olovon vears ac-o one canal boat 
Americo-Bohemian Glass.— It is not generally gold mine, about 5J£ miles west of Charlotte, on l i f j f fft Z 1ie ^week sufficed for 
known that most of the richly coored^.id deco- what is called the Todd Branch. IS^demand^ 
faSredTuhe 6 New England* Glat!'Works near I5T At the commencement of the Ohio Female quires one hundred and twenty loads weekly, and 
Boston. The company has the advantage of a College, at College HiU ncar Cincinna i, on is increasing. 
charter and large capital, which enable them thus Thursday last the degree of Mistress of Arts was -A rail on tlie track of the Western Rial¬ 
to compete successfully with foreign raanufac- conferred on the senior c ass consisting of seven roa d, between Palmer and Warren was so ex- 
in tliiqwork young ladies. 1 he whole number of students panded by the heat recently as to bc dislocated 
_’ __ during the last term was 102. f rom its position. A freight train was thrown off 
New Counterfeits. —.Counterfeit 3’s on tho Some idea of financial operations on a the track in consequence. 
Saratoga Bank have just made their appearance large scale may be obtained from tho fact, that in -It is said that the wolves have left those 
an d the bill abou 
than the genuine. 
one millions l 
for traps is not 6aid. 
