MOORE’S RURAL NEW-IO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ROCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 16, 1852. 
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receive the present or either bach vol. of The IVool Grower. 
Death of Professor Norton. 
John Pitkin Norton died at the residence of 
his father, John T. Norton, Esq., in Farmington, 
Ct., on Sunday the 5th inst., aged 30 years. His 
health failed him early in the spring, but a south¬ 
ern voyage, and two months residence in Florida, 
gave his friends hopes of its restoration. On his 
journey homeward in May, he was taken with the 
measles, and from that time his health was flue 
tuating, sometimes improved, and then again 
much worse, until within a few weeks past, when 
his decline became rapid and hopeless, and soon 
hurried him to the grave. 
Prof. Norton as an author and lecturer is well 
known to the readers of Agricultural periodicals- 
He held for some years, and at the time of his 
death, the Professorship of “ Chemistry Applied 
to Agriculture” in Yale College, and has lectured 
frequently and with great acceptability, in this 
State, on subjects allied therewith. His treatise 
on “Scientific Agriculture,” prepared as a prize 
essay for our State Society, is widely populai, and 
in extensive use as a text-book for schools; and 
his notes to Stephens’ “ Book of the Farm,” to¬ 
gether with numerous valuable contributions to 
the Albany Cultivator and other Agricultural and 
Scientific Journals, have placed his name at the 
head of the class of writers to which he belonged. 
His death thus young, is a loss to the country, 
and one which every friend of improvement, and 
intelligent cultivator of the soil will deplore.— 
“ He had already,” says Prof. Silliman in a just 
tribute to his worth, “ made a strong impression 
on the public mind ; he had gained the confidence 
of all, and promised a long career of usefulness.” 
His character as a man and a Christian, was 
most estimable and winning, he was eminently 
happy in his social and domestic relations, and 
everything seemed to promise a pleasant and use¬ 
ful life. But in the midst of his labors and his 
success, and his promise for the future—in the 
prime of manhood—One “ who doetli all things 
well,” has called him away from the scenes and 
toils of mortal life to the rewards of Immortality. 
A Visit to Wycmmg County- 
Desiring to inhale a lit tie of the pure, fresh, 
invigorating air of the countiy, we embraced the 
time honored custom of “ going a fishing after 
harvest,” and spent a few days with some friends 
in Wyoming county. We purposely chose the 
round-about way of the Buffalo and New York 
City Railroad passing first over the Rochester and 
Buffalo road as far as Attica. It is customary to 
speak well of railroads, and we may be pardoned 
for saying the conductors on the road from here 
to Buffalo are among the best with whom we 
came in contact, as the road and its management, 
will compare favorably with any other. We 
found the cars on the new road very fine, and the 
road in quite as good order as could be expected 
for one so recently constructed. 
After leaving Attica, the country Las a decided¬ 
ly New England look ; the hills and valleys with 
patches cultivated liere and there, and little pleas¬ 
ant farm cottages peering out from among the 
brushwood of plum, peach and apple trees looked 
so natural that any one could readily believe they 
were passing though the Old Bay Stale. A halt 
at the hamlets of Lyndon and Middlebury, and 
soon the broad and fertile valley of Allen’s Creek 
with its rich, well cultivated farms lay before us. 
The road is high up on the hill side, enabling the 
eye to take in the whole landscape, embracing 
the villages of Wyoming and Warsaw. Further 
on we pass East Gainesville and Castile, and soon 
approach the great point of attraction—the Gen¬ 
esee river, with its falls and high bridge at 
Portage. 
The Genesee river at this point presents attrac¬ 
tions that are surpassed only by the might and 
majesty of Niagara itself. It is here about one 
hundred yards in width, and flows between banks 
from two to four hundred feet high, of solid rock, 
which in many places rise from the water’s edge 
almost as smooth and straight as walls of solid 
masonry. Within a distance of two miles, there 
are three fine cataracts well worth a visit by the 
lovers of the beautiful and picturesque in Nature 
Immediately over the upper cataract stands the 
bridge. From the bed of the river to the top of 
this immense structure, the distance is over two 
hundred and thirty-four feet; add to which a fall 
of eighty, and as you ride over the bridge in a 
train of cars, you look down a frightful abyss of 
over three hundred feet, which, as you cannot see 
the bridge, seems like riding on a car suspended 
in mid air. Of the bridge itself, we are not en¬ 
gineer enough to give an intelligible description, 
and therefore clip from the Home Journal one 
given by its editor on a recent visit to the place : 
“ Most of our readers probably know that it is 
eight hundred feet long, and two hundred and 
thirty-four feet above the surface of the water; 
that it was only nine months in building, and its 
cost only one hundred and forty thousand dollars ; 
that two hundred and fifty acres of heavily wood¬ 
ed land were cleared to furnish the timber ; that 
sixty tons of iron bolts were used to bind that 
timber together; that it is seventy-five feet broad 
at the base, and twenty-five at the top ; that there 
is not a mortise in any of its beams, and that the 
designer of the structure was Colonel Seymour, 
the engineer of the road. The simplicity of the 
plan is beyond all praise. First, there are twelve 
narrow stone piers, each eighty feet long, for the 
support of the bridge ; then timbers laid length-1 
wise, from pier to pier; then upright pieces, im¬ 
movably bound together at the top and bottom ; 
then more beams laid along the top; then uprights 
again, and so on. The bridge is, in fact, half a 
dozen bridges piled one upon the other ; and each, 
as we are informed, is self-sustaining ; so much 
so, that if the lower courses were cut away, the 
upper ones would not fall.” 
We might have lingered about Portage with 
pleasure to ourself and our readers, but our des¬ 
tination was still farther on. A ride of less than 
an hour brought us to the Nunda station, from 
whence by carriage, we proceeded to the flourish¬ 
ing village of Nunda. We should be pleased to 
convey to the reader an idea of the beauty of this 
place and its magnificent surroundings. It stands 
in the broad and fertile valley of Kishequa Creek, 
surrounded on all sides, save one, with highly 
cultivated hills, richly dotted with well tilled 
fields, interspersed with patches of bright green 
forest and with here and there a quiet farm house 
—the very personification of beauty and comfort 
in rural life. The village contains about one 
thousand inhabitants. The streets are smooth 
and regular, the dwellings exhibiting more than 
than usual taste and refinement, being well 
painted and surrounded with choice collections of 
shrubs and flowers. It is well supplied with 
stores and shops, besides the Novelty Works, 
which turns out steam engines, boilers and other 
machinery, as well as supplying the farmers with 
plows, <fec. The Valley canal passes through the 
village, as will the Genesee Valley railroad when 
completed, thus affordriug them every facility for 
business with the neighboring towns and cities 
and “the rest of mankind.” 
Leaving Nunda, we passed through an excel¬ 
lent farming country to Perry, crossing the river 
at St. Helena; the road being one of the worst, on 
account of hills, we have passed over for a long 
time. Perry is a pleasant, thriving village, on 
the outlet of Silver Lake, one of those beautiful, 
transparent sheets of water, for which Central 
New York is so justly celebrated. It is about, 
three miles in length, furnishing a small, but con¬ 
stant supply of water, which might be turned to 
good account, but being controlled by a wealthy 
individual, remains comparatively idle, retarding 
the growth of a thriving town. 
Wyoming county contains some of the best 
wheat lands in the State. It is also celebrated 
for the fine quality of its dairy products. The 
land is rolling and in some places broken, with a 
strong soil in which clay predominates. Fine 
fruit is grown in abundance, and no where in the 
State have we met the plum in greater perfection. 
Some attention is paid to raising stock and keep¬ 
ing sheep, though grain and the dairy engage the 
larger share of time and capital. As a whole it 
is one of the very best counties in the State, 
though in many parts quite new. t 
The Cholera.— From all we have been able to 
learn, there has been no diminuation of Cholera 
in this city. It was hoped the copious rain, and 
subsequent cool weather, would purify the atmos¬ 
phere, and check the epidemic, but such appears 
not to be the fact. The effect of cooler weather 
since the first appearance of the disease, has been 
to increase the number of deaths, though it is 
confidently expected that frosty nights will be the 
signal for its disappearance altogether. Every 
one knows how sensitive the human system is to 
the early cold of the fall, and how instinctively 
we hover around the stove on its first approach. 
We have not kept a record of the number of deaths, 
as that is haidly material to our distant readers, 
it being satisfactorily ascertained that the increase 
has been confined to a locality where filth and 
destitution abound. t 
Literary Notices. 
Ovid Academy.— We commend this institution 
as particularly worthy of attention. It possesses 
advantages which should be considered by those 
who send their sons and daughters abroad for ed¬ 
ucation. Its location in one of the most delight¬ 
ful and healthy villages in the country,—noted 
for its good society, and other attractions which 
will be appreciated by the judicious parent or 
pupil,—presents a strong inducement to all who 
estimate pleasant scenery and proper associations- 
We arc assured that the new Board of Instruction 
combines superior attainments and ability for im¬ 
parting useful knowledge. Farmer’s sons who 
desire to pursue the study of Agricultural Chem¬ 
istry, <Lc\ can receive the instruction of a compe¬ 
tent Professor at this Institution. For terms, and 
other particulars, sec advertisement in this paper. 
The Vermont Fair.— We hear good reports of 
the show of Sheep at the Vermont Shite Fair.— 
The numbers were not as large as was expected 
by many, but none wo believe, were disappointed 
in the quality and beauty of those exhibited. Of 
French Merinos, Messrs. Jewett, Bingham and 
Campbell, each brought out their finest speci¬ 
mens. We saw some of the choicest—two bucks 
and five ewes—on their way home to Niagara 
Co., having been purchased by Messrs. Sharpe <fc 
Taylor, of Lockport. of the gentlemen first above 
named. These sheep took high premiums at our 
own State Fair. 
The Premium List and Addross. — We have 
not yet received a copy of the List of Premiums 
awarded at Utica. Those first published in the 
daily papers are generally so defective as to be of 
little value. 'This is no fault of theirs as those 
best acquainted well know. We shall probably 
be enabled to give a full, corrected list next week, 
and mayhap the Address of Hon. Horatio Sey¬ 
mour, which we • hear highly spoken of by those 
who heard or have read it. The receipts we learn 
were about $8000, some $4000 less than last year, 
and less than for some years past. t 
Glimpses and Gatherings, during a voyage and 
visit to London, and the Great Exhibition in 
the summer, of 1851. By Wm. A. Drew, 
Commissioner of the State of Maine. Augusta: 
Homan & Mauley. Boston: A. Tompkins.— 
Price, $1. 
Tins is a well executed volume, of some four 
hundred pages. It is written in familiar letters, 
which were first published in the Gospel Banner, 
(Augusta, Me.,) of which the late Commissioner 
is Editor. We have met with no account of the 
World’s Fair, that has pleased us as well, and his 
descriptions of England aud her wonders, are of 
the same satisfactory character. It is a book that 
will be read with interest. New York should 
have been thus favored by her own worthy Coin 
missioner, B. P. Johnson, Esq. We are not aware 
that the work is for sale this side of Boston, our 
copy having come all the way from the Down 
East State, at our own expense. t 
ftSgF" Due lady-readers who design “goingshop¬ 
ping ”— and what lady does not? — will find 
something of special interest to them in the ad¬ 
vertisement of Conolly’s Fancy Dry Goods Store, 
at No. 8 State St. 
“The Scientific American” enters upon its 
eighth volume next week. It is unquestionably 
the best scientific and mechanical paper in the 
country, and is especially valuable to inventors, 
and all others interested in the mechanic arts.— 
It is very neatly printed, and each volume con¬ 
tains about live hundred original engravings of 
new patents, Ac. New York: Munn A Co.— 
Weekly, $2 per annum. 
“The North British Review ” for the August 
quarter lias been received, per Dewey, from the 
publishers, L. Scott A Co., New York. It is a 
number of more than usual interest. It contains 
a spicy article on American Poetry ; another on 
Ornithology; reviews of biographies of Lord 
Jeffrey and Niebuhr, and other papers of value. 
“ The Valley Farm ” has again changed hands 
and comes out for September, as edited by Messrs. 
J. E. Duryee A W. M. Hayward. Its form has 
been changed to quarto, and it is otherwise im¬ 
proved, and seems well worth the trifle asked for 
it—25 cents per annum. 
Ilnufi bq tig Mull a. 
Meteorological Abstract. 
EY L. WETIIKRELL. 
ig. 1852. j 
THERMOMETER. 
MAX. | MIN. j MEAN. 
j RAIN. 
| WINDS. 
1 
tii 
55 
58.00 
N W. 
2 
67 
50 
6 .00 
N W. 
3 
69 
58 
03.00 
N W. 
4 
75 
02 
00.00 
S. 
S 
08 
01 
63.06 
S. S W. 
6 
62 
1 03 
63.00 
N K. 
7 
77 
05 
09.33 
N W. 
8 
77 
06 
70.33 
S W. 
9 
73 
65 
08.00 
8 \V. 
10 
71 
60 
06.00 
8 \V. 
It 
71 
58 
65.33 | 
N W. 
12 
77 
57 
05.33 
N W. 
12 
81 
01 
68.60 
t 
N W. 
14 
86 
68 
74.00 
w. s w. 
15 
75 
05 
60.00 
s w. w. 
16 
OS 
57 
01.00 
>■ w. 
17 
72 
51 
02.00 
N W. 
18 
81 
02 
08.00 
N W. W. 
19 
89 
07 
77.00 
8 W. W. 
20 
74 
07 
70.00 
N W. 
21 
82 
70 
74.00 
N W. 
22 
84 
70 
75.33 
S. 8 W. 
h 
89 
70 
81.00 
8. S W. 
24 
83 
72 
78.00 
8. S W. 
25 
77 
09 
73.00 
S W. N W. 
26 
81 
09 
73.33 
N W. 
27 
77 
04 
70.33 
W. N W. 
28 
OS 
00 
04 00 
N W. 8 W. 
29 
70 
56 
01.33 
N W. 
30 
72 
57 
02.33 
N VV. 
31 
79 1 
50 
60.00 | | 
N W. 
Monthly mean . . 
REM AUKS. 
The month of August was not unusually warm 
here. The drouth over many portions of the 
State was very severe. During the last week of 
the month, rain began to fall. The wind in the j 
interior of Massachusetts, where I was then stop¬ 
ping, had been blowing from the north-east for 
8oven days. There were some dashes of rain from 
the 25th to the 28th, when they had a very pow¬ 
erful rain, also, the 29tl —a storm it seems that 
had been travelling backwards, that is to say, 
against the wind from the Gulf of Mexico, at the 
rate of about 250 miles a day. The storm was 
very severe at Mobile, Savannah, aud other At¬ 
lantic cities — in some cases doing much damage. 
The storm did not extend far west of Lake Cham¬ 
plain. Here Saturday and Sunday were both 
very line days—rather cool. I have not seen ac¬ 
counts that have enabled me to trace the storm 
on the coast much further than Salem, Mass.— 
This was one of our most extensive storms. It 
has been seen from late arrivals, that from the 
10th to the 18th of August, over England, Wales, 
Scotland and Ireland, they were visited with 
thunder storms of unprecedented violence. The 
losses occasioned by these storms both of proper¬ 
ly and life were very great. 
Wool.-The Clip of 1852. 
The Ohio State Journal published at Colum¬ 
bus, says the wool clip in that State is much less 
than last year, owing to the hard winter and neg¬ 
lect of sheltering sheep. Wool has sold there for 
six cents per pound less than last year. It adds ; 
“It is now ascertained that the clip, through¬ 
out the whole country, is much loss than last 
year. It amounted, then, to about 52,000,000 
pounds. This year it will fall six or seven mil¬ 
lions short. This deficiency is partly attributable 
to the hard winter, and partly to the fact, that the 
farmers are selling more sheep to the butchers.— 
This deficiency has caused a rapid rise in the 
price of wool iu the Eastern markets. Sales in 
New York from 3.5 to 45 cents, and not much 
fleece can be bought for less than 40 cents. 
The wool produced this year is less than our 
manufacturers need, and the balance will have to 
be imported. This shows there is still room for 
extension in the wool growing business.” 
ftsf" The plan adopted for the New York 
World’s Fair building is a Greek cross, with a 
dome over the intersection. Each diameter of the 
cross is 365 feet long and 149 feet broad, and the 
dome is 130 feet high. There will be in this 
building tll.UDO square feet of space on the 
ground floor, and 62,LOO square feet in the galle¬ 
ries. It is estimated to cost $195,000. The 
building is to be entirely of iron and glass, and 
is already advertised to be open on the 2d day 
of May, 1853. The other plans were beautiful 
and ingenious, but the directors are confident they 
have selected the best. 
Jpg?" A very cool way of earning a living, is 
diving for coal in the Ohio river, at Cincinnati.— 
Men work up to their chins in water, and make 
good work of it at that. They obtain during the 
day some 80 or 100 bushels of coal, and occasion¬ 
ally secure a barrel of molasses, a barrel of whis¬ 
key, and various miscellaneous articles of hard¬ 
ware, Ac. There are some strange ways of ma¬ 
king money iu the world, and surely this is one 
of them. 
TLe Ogdeusburg News says that at the 
late lire in that town, one very remarkable fact 
occurred, creating a good deal of alarm, by the 
explosion or bursting of tiie flagging in front of 
tlie burning buildings. The flags were of 1’ots- 
dam stone, and the action of the heat caused them 
to explode, with a noise as loud as the report of a 
musket, throwing the fragments as high as twen¬ 
ty feet in the air. 
SfiF’ The New York Musical Times states, on 
what it describes as reliable authority, that the 
net product of the partnership between Jenny 
Lind and Mr. Barnum was $61U,(J0D, of which 
the latter had $3,000 more than half. The story 
is quite in tlie style of the Arabian Nights. Is it 
at ail wonderful that the first talent of the world 
hastens to America, when the harvest is so splen¬ 
did ? 
The Magnetic Telegraph Company, own¬ 
ing the liue extending from Washington to New 
York, during the year ending on the 1st of last 
July, transmitted over their wires 253,857 mes¬ 
sages, the tolls received on which, amounted to 
\ $103,232 37. During the six years and a half 
the line lias been in operation, its receipts have 
amounted to $485,641 44. 
jjrgr A girl about fourteen years of age, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, lost the use of speech some two years 
since, and during the succeeding time lias uttered 
no intelligible words. Lateiy, she pronounced 
the name ot her mother, and several domestic 
utensils very distinctly. There are now hopes 
that she will recover her speech. This is indeed 
a singular case. 
jpg^Tlie following wore the contents of two 
newspapers which passed through the Northamp¬ 
ton Post Office, on Tuesday : No. 1—Oue pair 
white cotton hose, one piece embossed leather.— 
No. 2—One imitation coral bracelet, one pattern 
for a lady’s collar, one piece of music—“Old folks 
at Home,”—one recipe for making fruit cake. 
jc^’Tlic London correspondent of the National 
Intelligencer says, Chevalier Clausseu’s flax com¬ 
pany is progressing very favorably ; all the. shares 
have been subscribed for, and an adequate amount 
of capital for carrying business paid up. Exten¬ 
sive works at Bromley, in Middlesex, have been 
taken, aud will be soon in operation. 
jpg?” Mr. O. A. Brownson, who lias for some 
time been a strenuous Papist, after having em¬ 
braced and rejected various other forms of religion, 
seems to have gone back to infidelity. A book 
Las been recently published by a Catholic priest 
of the Diocese of Boston, entitled, ‘ Atheism of 
Brownson’s Review Detected and Refuted.” 
£.11?” The citizens of Burton, Geauga Co., Ohio, 
pledge fifty dollars that they will present 50 head 
of young, red cattle, from two years old, down to 
calves of this year’s raising, which cannot lie sur¬ 
passed by an equal number of the same ago aud 
color from any other township in the State. 
The Alton and Springfield Railroad will 
be in operation for the entire route, by the mid¬ 
dle of September. Arrangements have been made 
to extend the road from Springfield to Blooming- 
ten, sixty-tb.ee miles, the whole to be completed 
and in running order by June, 1853. 
A correspondent of the Boston Atlas, 
writing from Bytown, Canada West, says there 
is a river named Gattinenu, forming a confluence 
with the Ottawa near Bytown, which has seldom 
found a place on the maps, and yet it is twice as 
large as the Hudson river. 
The agent of the Virginia Colonization 
Society reports one hundred and seventy-three 
free-born persons of color, and eighty slaves, 
emancipated in 1850 and 1851, as preparing to 
emigrate in the Nov. expedition from Norfolk. 
jrjjp’ Letters from Zante, dated the 5th instant, 
mention the state of the currant crops is worse 
than erer, and the growers are almost m despair. 
Jt. was generally thought that the produce would 
not be a fourth of that of last year. 
Nearly 500 bottlenosed whales were driv¬ 
en ashore at West Soo and Queendale, in Shet¬ 
land, on the 27th and 2Sth ult., and the large 
quantity of blubber that was obtained from them 
was sold at the rate of £10 per ton. 
feet. 
(Inns of Hfirais, &r. 
■Gas in Boston costs $2,50 per thousand 
The Tanneries of the United States.—T he 
! total number of establishments in the O’. States 
is 6,263 ; capital invested, $18,900,557 ; value of 
hides prepared, $6,128,970 ; skins $2,653,865; — 
value of raw material, $19,623,237; number of 
hands employed, 20,909 male, and 102 females, 
monthly wages, $416,214 to males and $970 to 
females; number of skins produced, 2,653,865: 
sides of leather, 12,257,940; aggregate value of 
annual products, 32,861,796. There are about. 6,- 
000,000 sheep, goat, and other small skins tanned 
and dressed annually, which are not included in 
the above. Of the various States, New York has 
the largest amount of capital invested, and Penn¬ 
sylvania next. The products of these two States 
are also the largest. 
William’s College. —At the recent Commence¬ 
ment anniversary of this Institution, the honor¬ 
ary degree of A. M. was conferred on Leander 
Wether ell, our Educational Editor. 
The Fire Department in Buffalo, recently 
disbanded by the resignation of a majority of the 
various companies, has been re-organized. The 
new companies made their first appearance on 
Monday. The papers highly commend their ap¬ 
pearance and skill. 
Chinese in California —It is estimated by a 
San Francisco paper that there are now 27,058 
Chinese in California. Of this number, but 22 
are women. The average monthly arrivals are 
set down at 4,500, which would give an aggregate 
Chinese population of 46,588 by the close of the 
year. The California fever had just reached the 
northern provinces of China, and the tide of emi¬ 
gration was expected to receive fresh and greatly 
increased accessions from the populous cities of 
Pekin aud Shanghae. 
Important Decision. —The Freeholder, an anti¬ 
rent paper, announces that Judge Harris has de¬ 
cided the case of the People vs. Wm. Van Rens¬ 
selaer, involving the validity of the Manor title— 
and that, the decision is adverse to the title. That 
is, that Mr. V. R. holds the occupied lands by vir¬ 
tue of possession—but that to the unoccupied 
lands he has no title. 
-There are 3,566 Presbyterian Ministers in 
the United States. 
-The Mirrors alone, at the Metropolitan 
Hotel, cost $18,000. 
-The English Parliament will not be con¬ 
vened until the 11th of November. 
— The cities of Rochester and Buffalo were 
visited with great mortality during the month. 
--New York has 942 tanneries, with a cap¬ 
ital of more than five millions. 
-- Prof. Kingsley, of Yale College, died at 
his residence, New Haven, on the 31st ult. 
-The cost of the San Francisco Mint build¬ 
ings and machinery is limited to $3U0,000. 
-There are 4,500 languages throughout the 
world, besides tbe language of the eyes. 
-The National Exhibition at Copenhagen! 
opened in the Crystal Palace on the 16th August- 
-It is said that Senator Seward will visit 
England during the recess of Congress. 
-Good Bartlett pears have boon sold in 
Faneuil Hall market at $1,50 per bushel. 
-The tobacco crop throughout Maryland has 
been very generally injured by the late rains. 
-We notice a statement in the Atlas, givino- 
the number of strangers now at Saratoga Springs 
at i 7,57 U ! 
-The salary of deputy naval < fficers is raised 
to two thousand dollars ; it was formerly fifteen 
hundred. 
-Thirteen thousand cows are kept in Lon¬ 
don, confined in cellars and sheds in various parts 
of the city. 
-The city of New York is now accessible 
in one day’s journey from every New England 
State. 
-The Railway Suspension Bridge at Niag¬ 
ara will have to sustain a weight ot 1,273 tons 
when a train is crossing. 
-During the week ending July 31, one 
thousand houses were destroyed by fire at Con¬ 
stantinople. 
-Tbe number of steamboat arrivals at the 
port of Cincimiati, for the past year, ending Sept. 
1st, was 3,675. 
-The churches in New York having been 
closed during the warm weather, have been 
opened again. 
-The celebrated “ Donnybrook Fair,” passed 
off quietly this year—not a fight could be had for 
love or money. 
-The immigration at. New York for August 
amounted to 3-1,513, against 30,251 during the 
same month last year. 
-Otsego Hall, the late residence of J. Feni- 
moro Cooper, is about to be converted into a hotel 
It was built by the novelist’s father. 
-During the week ending the 22d ult., ten 
ships with 3,000 emigrants, sailed from the port 
of Liverpool to Australia. 
-The Lake Shore Railroad is now open to 
C< n icaul, O., which is in the extreme north-east 
corner of the State. It will be through to Erie 
soon. 
-There are 49 County Agricultural Fairs in 
Ohio this fall, and 19 of them will be held the 
first week in October. 
-The steamboat fare from New York to 
Boston lias been reduced to from four dollars to 
three dollars and twenty-five cents. 
-The Treasurer of Kentucky is bound by 
law to give a bond of $330,000 for the strict per¬ 
formance of his duty. Ills salary is $1,700. 
-The cultivation of tobacco is increasing in 
Algeria. Last year there were only 416 hectares 
under the plant, this year there are 1,095. 
-The citizens of Lockport, in public assem¬ 
bly, have decided to apply for a city charter. The 
vote was very decided. 
-The present force in Ireland is larger than 
it has been for the previous six mouths, amount¬ 
ing to upwards of 22,000 men. 
-Seven girls and one man were drowned in 
the Casadaga Lake, Chautauque Co., a few da}s 
ago. They were out on a pleasure excursion—a 
pic nic. 
-There has been during the past year, 
twenty-one steamboat accidents involving loss of 
life, 'flic number of persons killed and drowned 
is 728, and 100 injured. 
-At Worcester, Mass., at the rooms of tbe 
Antiquarian Society, theie is a copy of the Bible 
printed in Venice, m 1417, being forty-fite years 
before the discovery of America. 
-Judge Edwards has decided 1 hat I ho own¬ 
ers and officers of the steamboat Henry Clay 
shall lie held to bail in the sum of $10,000 each 
to take their trial for manslaughter. 
-Chinese villages are springing up all over 
the diggings. Pekin, Canton, and Hong Kong 
are among the names given to those settlements, 
some of which number 1,501) souls. 
-The Washington Telegraph says a patent 
right has been recently granted to a citizen of 
Ohio, for the preservation of fresh butter by a 
chemical process to stand climate for any time. 
-The Twenty-fourth Annual Exhibition of 
tbe Massachusetts Horticultural Society takes 
place at Horticultural Hall, School street, Boston, 
on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 21st, 22d 
and 23d i lists. 
-A correspondent of the Louisville Journal, 
writing from Temiesfee, says that the tobacco 
crop in that State is not a good one, averaging 
about one-half a fair crop. In Kentucky it is not 
much better. 
-There are 18,000 inhabitants in tHe city of 
New Bedford and so wealthy is it that were its 
property divided between every man, woman and 
child in the city, each would have upwards of 
$ 1 , 000 . 
-The New York Herald says that the rail¬ 
road fare from New Voik city to Washington is 
the highest of any in that vicinity, and has the 
slowest speed. The fare between tbe two cities 
is $7,80 ; tbe distance 227 miles. 
-We perceive by statistics published in the 
Buffalo Republic, of Saturday. 5th inst., that the 
total number of deaths in that city by cholera, 
during the month of August, was 338—an aver¬ 
age of about eleven a day. 
-Mr. Samuel D. Hubbard, tbe new Post¬ 
master General, is from Middletown, Ct. He was 
a member of the 29th and 30th Congresses, and 
was very generally regarded as one of the most 
clear-headed, energetic business men of the House. 
-A new house of entertainment has recent¬ 
ly been erected on tbe White Mountains, on the 
summit of “ Mount Washington,” which is 6,226 
feet about the level of the sea. A daily post horse 
line of communication is kept up with the world 
below. 
