MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ROCHESTER. SEPTEMBER 26, 1852. 
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Editorial Correspondence. 
Clifton Spa, Sept. 18, 1S52. 
For three weeks, Rural Friends, we have been 
your peers— occupied an t xalted and enviable po¬ 
sition—in viewing the scenes, and inhaling the 
pure, Heaven-born atmosphere of the Countrj • 
Though invalids (we include family with self.) 
ana in search of, to us,the real philosopher’s sione t 
—Health,—we yet partake of and can appreciate 
many of the blessings vouchsafed to those who 
dwell not in cities, amid the noise, dust and con¬ 
fusion of crowded thoroughfares. To the over¬ 
tasked, weary and thoroughly city-sick, a change 
from the confinement of pent-up counting rooms 
and offices, to the genial breezes, open portals and 
fresh scenes of the God-made country, is gladsome 
aud invigorating beyond compare ! But this is a 
subject on which we need not dwell,—for we | 
would neither create the envy of citizens, who can 
best appreciate rural life aud employments, nor 
subject ourselves to the charge of flattery by over¬ 
coloring the pleasures and advantages of those 
whose good fortune it is to cultivate the earth. 
Clifton is pleasant and inviting, — the Spa 
House, and its surroundings exhibiting some im¬ 
provements over last season. It is not a fashion¬ 
able resort,—or, if so considered by some, the 
majority of visitors apparently come and sojourn 
hereat for recreation, health and substantial enjoy¬ 
ment. Under the auspices of the gentlemanly 
proprietor, Mr. Parke, the Springs House, has be¬ 
come deservedly popular. Indeed, the present 
season it has been crowded much of the time by 
those sensible people who prefer quiet, health and 
comfort, to such show, fashion and tinsel as one 
meets at more renowned resorts. The house and 
grounds are elevated, pleasant and convenient,— 
while the table of mine host affords all an oppor¬ 
tunity to “ fare sumptuously.” 
Among the numerous visitors here this season, 
we observe that Rochester and Buffalo are, and 
have been, well represented. Indeed Buffalo has 
furnished a large delegation, altogether surpassing 
in numerical force any other one place. We are 
surprised that the Springs are not more generally 
visited by citizens of Rochester, Syracuse, and 
other large towns. Nature has done much for the 
location, and it embraces advantages which, aided 
by taste and art, will yet give it high rank. 
The Water-Cure at this place, under the care of 
Drs. H. A H. Foster, is likewise well patronized 
this season. It now numbers some eighty pa¬ 
tients, and has no room, at present, for more— 
which indicates the success and good character of 
the “Cure.” 
Speaking of “cures,” there is a most excellent 
and intelligent old school physician here, to whom 
the writer and family owe a debt of gratitude for 
kind and skillful treatment. Fortunate indeed 
are those who, when ill among comparative stran¬ 
gers, can secure such attention as we have received 
from Dr. Crawford. 
Since our temporary sojourn here, we have vis¬ 
ited other sections of this, and some parts of 
Seneca and Cayuga counties, and taken notes of 
a few matters upon which we may hereafter com¬ 
ment We were prevented, by indisposition, from 
attending our own, and also the Ohio State Fair, 
as anticipated, — but hope to attend either the 
Canadian or Michigan Exhibition during the 
ensuing week. it. 
Address and Premium List. 
To the exclusion of much of our usual variety 
we give this week, the address of Hon. Horatio 
Seymour, at the recent Fair at Utica. It is to be 
hoped its length will not prevent its being gene¬ 
rally read by all, for we think any one who does 
so will be well repaid. His delineation of the 
“Age of the Axe,” is so truthful that it will read¬ 
ily correspond with the experience of many of the 
toil-worn pioneers of Western New York. In the 
shadowings of the “ Commercial Age,” the read¬ 
er will find a rich fund for thought, aud a good 
promise of the success which is ultimately to crown 
American Agriculture. 
The Premium list is somewhat extended but 
very many are interested in knowing who are 
the lucky ones, for, as our Fairs are conducted, it 
can be but little else than luck that gives one 
animal or article a premium over another of the 
same class. Not that the judges do not discharge 
their duty fairly, but that in the hurry and ex¬ 
citement of a crowded fair there is very little 
chance for the most considerate to form a correct 
opinion. We ought to make that part of the re¬ 
port made on implements tried at Geneva an ex¬ 
ception, for in that instance there was time and 
opportunity to judge correctly, and to that part 
of the report the largest degree of confidence can 
justly be awarded. We trust we are to have 
more of those deliberate trials and exhibitions, 
from which we anticipate none but the best re¬ 
sults. We have a right to expect them from the 
State Society, whose measure of usefulness, we 
opine is not yet full. t 
Horticultural Exhibition'. —The Annual Fall 
Exhibition of the Genesee Valley Horticultural 
Society, will be held in Corinthian Hall, on Fri¬ 
day and Saturday next, 24th and 25th inst The 
Hall will be open on Friday morning at 7 o’clock, 
for the reception and arrangement of articles.— 
The exhibition will be open to visitors at 2 o’clock 
P. M, on Friday, Tickets of admission I2)A cts 
—to be had at Dewey’s, Darrow’s, Fisher’s, 
and at the door. Members and their families free. 
The Ohio State Fair. 
The Ohio Fair, held last week at Cleveland, is 
said to have been the best aud largest v et held in 
the State. The weather was delighlful, and the 
arrangements very complete. The attendance is 
estimated at 75,000 persons, and the total receipts 
were over §14,000. 
The Stock department, comprising contribu¬ 
tions from all parts of the State, was one of the 
most interesting features of the Show. The Cat¬ 
tle of this State and Canada were also represent¬ 
ed ; a bull from Canada West taking the first 
premium of §50. The display of Horses was 
large and choice—mostly of the Eclipse and Mor¬ 
gan stock. Of Sheep we find no mention. The 
collection of fowls was large and varied. 
Of Farm Implements, their was an extensive 
variety, but the sharpest competition was in plows 
and reaping machines. YYe understand that 
Emery & Co., of Albany, took premiums on their 
Endless Chain Powers. 
The Horticultural department was rather mea¬ 
grely fi lied. 
Premiums to the amount of $4,000 were award¬ 
ed. Among foreign competitors those of this 
State and from Pittsburg were the most success¬ 
ful. We condense the above from the telegraphic 
report in the N. Y. Times. Of the address it 
gives the following summary : 
The annual address was delivered by Professor 
Mares, editor of the Working Farmer, of New 
Jersey. He took the place of Hon. Daniel Web¬ 
ster, "who was, by indisposition, prevented from 
being present. He complimented the Society up¬ 
on the encouragement they offered to the Arts of 
Design. It was owing to her excellence in that 
department of skill, that France had found so good 
a market in this country for her manufactures.— 
Prof. Marks remarked that the two great agricul¬ 
tural improvements of the year are underdrains 
and subsoil plowing. He cited the case of the 
British Government, which had appointed Com¬ 
missioners of underdrainage, and were making the 
most strenuous efforts to bring this method of 
fertilization into general use. He claims that the 
chief benefit to be derived from these two 
progresses was security from drouth. The le- 
mainder of his address, which was compact and 
lucid throughout, was confined to the proper mode 
of feeding cattle, and the analyzation of the soil 
of Ohio. The leading deficiences of the soil were, 
he said, lack of potash and phosphate of lime.— 
These substances had been exported to the East 
in the form of cattle and wheat. The bones of 
an ox contain about fifty pounds phosphate of 
lime. Every bushel of wheat contains phosphate 
of lin e and potash. It is for this reason that the 
wheat crop of this State, which, twenty-five years 
ago, averaged 35 bushels to the acre, had fallen to 
15 Li bushels. 
The Cholera in Rochester. 
From all we have been able to learn, but little 
cholera exists in the city, and that little in un¬ 
favorable localities. The number of deaths have 
been but three or four a day for the week. In 
one instance, on Court street, and near our dwel¬ 
ling, a family has been broken up and all save an 
infant of three months, have died. We allude to 
the family of D. R. Raal. Airs. Raal, died on 
Thursday last, of cholera, aud on Sunday Air. 
Raal, and three children were attacked, all of 
whom died before noon on Alonday. There are said 
to be strong exciting causes in the stagnant water 
under the house, which had just been drawn off 
We do know there is now, and has been a stag¬ 
nant pool of watei emitting disease and probable 
death, in the immediate vicinity, covered with 
boards, but which the authorities have taken no 
measures to remove. YYho are next to fall victims 
to this wanton disregard of cleanliness and the 
public health, time a^ne can tell. 
As an epidemic we think the cholera has near¬ 
ly, if not entirely disappeared, and we shall hear 
of only isolated cases in places where is only a 
wonder, that death has not sooner entered. Our 
country friends need be under no apprehension in 
coming in to transact business, and all that now 
is or has been necessary is care, regularity of hab¬ 
its and abstinence from exciting causes. The 
cleanliness of the city has been sadly neglected, 
aud as a consequence disease and death in its 
many forms has been in our midst. We trust the 
authorities and citizens may learn a lesson from 
the experience of this season and avert in future, 
much of the like evil. t 
Literary Notices, 
Cousin Cicely’s Silver Lake Stories. The 
Jumble; a Collection of pieces in Prose aud 
Rhyme. Auburn : Alden, Beardsley & Co.— 
Rochester: Waxzer, Beardsley cfc Co. 1852. 
This is an elegantly printed little book for the 
Juveniles, containing several entertaining stories 
with “ pictures to match.” It is one of a series 
of six volumes by' the same author, which will 
prove very acceptable to those for whom they are 
intended. Let those who would purchase chil¬ 
dren’s books examine the Silver Lake Stories. 
British Periodical Literature. —The Repub¬ 
lication of the London Quarterly, the Edinburgh, 
the North British and the Westminster Reviews, 
and Blackwood’s Edinburgh Alagazine, goes on 
with commendable regularity. The last named 
work for September is already before us. We 
eopy the terms in advance below, as follows: 
For any one of the four Reviews, $3 per annum ; 
for any two, $5; for any three, $7; for all four 
of the Reviews, $8; for Blackwood’s Magazine, 
$3; for Blackwood and three reviews, $9; for 
Blackwood and the four Reviews, $10. 
Leonard Scott <fc Co., publishers, 79 Fulton St., 
New Y'ork. D. M. Dewey, Agent. 
5 ^” The venerable George Washington Parke 
Custis, Esq., has consented to deliver the auuual 
address before the Prince George’s County Agri¬ 
cultural Society, at their exhibition, which is to be 
held at Alarlboro on the 19th and 20 th of Oc¬ 
tober. 
Intelligence from Australia seems to indi¬ 
cate that the tendency to republicanism is pro¬ 
gressing rapidly, and a Declaration of Indepen¬ 
dence is looked for ere long. 
Cuban News. 
Recent movements in Cuba have caused the 
authorities to suspect the existence of another 
conspiracy to overthrow the Government. The 
following is the latest intelligence from that quar¬ 
ter : 
Havana letters report the total number of per¬ 
sons under arrest at over one hundred, many of 
whom are in a most abject aud wretched condi¬ 
tion. 
Among those recently arrested was an old wo¬ 
man of 82 years, and her two grand daughters, 
aged 19 and 16. They were carried to prison 
with their ban is lashe'd behind them, and in a 
state of semi-uudity, merely on suspicion of bav¬ 
ins: concealed their father. 
Wealthy citizens were arrested on suspicion 
and stripped of their property at once by confis¬ 
cation. Alen of means are, therefore, consequent¬ 
ly in fear lest they may be suspected and beggared 
at once. 
Police officers, on going on board the Crescent 
City, were told by Lieut. Porter, that if they came 
to arrest any one answerable to Spanish authority 
the ship was open to them, but if they mean to 
watch the ship’s officers it would not be permit¬ 
ted, they must leave immediately, which they did. 
He also"stated that for any attempts to detain his 
vessel the authorities would be held responsible 
by the American government. 
Owing to the watchfulness o’ the Spaniards, it 
was impossible to get a letter on board the steamer. 
All those passing through the post-office are open¬ 
ed ; if they contain one word against the Gov¬ 
ernment, they are destroyed. 
The Captain General sent a spy by the Crescent 
City, to watch the movements in this country. 
The New Suspension Bridge. — The Buffalo 
Queen City gives some interesting facts as to the 
plan on which the Railroad Suspension Bridge at 
Niagara Falls is to be built. It will be a single 
span of 800 feet. The upper floor, which sup¬ 
ports the railroad will be 24 feet. The anchorage 
will be formed by sinking eight shafts in the 
rock, 25 feet deep,"at the bottom of which will be 
massive cast iron plates, firmly held down by solid 
mason work. Saddles of cast iron will support 
the cahies on the top of the towers, capable of 
supporting the pressure of 600 tons. The towers 
are to be 60 feet high, 16 feet wide at the base 
and 8 at the top. Weight of timber in the bridge, 
910,130 lbs. wrought iron aud suspenders, 115,120 
lbs.; castings, 44,333 lbs.; rails, 66,770 lbs.; ca¬ 
bles between the towers, 335,400 lbs. When the 
whole bridge is covered with a locomotive and a 
train of cars, it is estimated that it will have to 
sustain a weight of 1,273 tons, which amount of 
burden, though not likely often to occur, is less 
than is provided for. It will be the longest rail¬ 
road bridge between the points of support in the 
world. 
Lowell Factories. —The number of mills, in¬ 
cluding the machine shop (in which all the ma¬ 
chinery for the mills is made) is 50, and the ag¬ 
gregate of capital invested in them, is $13,362,- 
400. In these mills are 325,000 spindles, aud 9,- 
906 looms, which turn out 2,190,000 yards of cot¬ 
ton, 20,477 of woolen, and 15,000 carpets per 
week. The number of families employed the 
first of last January was 8,274; males, 3,702.— 
The average wages of females, clear of board, is 
$2 per week ; males 80 cents per day. The num¬ 
ber of pounds of cotton consumed per autium is 
575,400 ; of wool. 69,000. The latter material is 
used on only two of the corporations, while there 
are nine corporations devoted wholly to the man¬ 
ufacture of cotton cloths, and one other in part. 
Among other articles consumed are 28,220 tons of 
anthracite coal per annum; 25,000 bushels of 
charcoal; 2,270 cords of wood ; 68,500 gallons of 
oil; 39,000 gallons of lard : 1,395,000 pounds of 
starch; and 1,640 barrels of fiour.— Buffalo Adv. 
Connecticut Clocks. —Some idea of the ex¬ 
tent to which clock making is carried on in Con¬ 
necticut, may be formed from the fact that, in the 
town of Bristol alone, a capital of $300,000 is in¬ 
vested in the manufacture of clocks. The num¬ 
ber of this description of time-pieces annually 
finished is 150,000. One hundred thousand sam¬ 
ples of inside work, in addition, are turned out, 
and sent to other factories for completion, that is, 
to be supplied with cases and other external em¬ 
bellishments. Between three and four hundred 
bauds are employed in the different establish¬ 
ments besides a large number of females, who do 
the ornamental part of the work, such as painting, 
ifce. Other flourishing factories exist in various 
parts of the State, equally worthy of notice, 
particularly at Terryvilie, Plymouth, and Litch¬ 
field. __ 
Guano. —The Lobos Islands, or the right of 
Americans to the line quality Guano there, is a 
matter worth coutendingabout. Liebig, the world 
renowned Agricultural Chemist, says that “ one 
pound of guano imported into a country, is equal 
In value to eight pounds of wheat, or twelve aud 
a half cents." It was stated a few davs since that 
teu tons was worth to the farmer $600 net profit. 
Liebig’s calculation would make it worth a much 
larger sum : and instead of furnishing a family of 
ten with bread six years, it would do so for twen¬ 
ty-five years.— Daily Union. 
Traveling. —How the opening of new facilities 
for traveling increases the amount of travel, is 
exemplified by the fact, that the Hudson River 
steamers carry more passengers this year than 
last, notwithstanding the great number' that pass 
over the Railroad. The report of the Albany & 
Schenectady Railroad also shows that the num¬ 
ber of passengers over that road during the month 
of August, is 4,146 greater than in August, 1851. 
A part of ibis great increase is doubtless to be 
attributed to the increased facilities between here 
and New Y'ork.— Albany Jour. 
Latest Counterfeits.— l’s on the Harrisburg 
Bauk, Pa. Good imitation—there is no [.] pe¬ 
riod after the word bearer, and the ss in the word 
« Assemblv ” join, while in the genuine they are 
open. 
5’s on the Grocers’ Bauk, New Y'ork City, al¬ 
tered from genuine ones of same bank—vig. a 
view of YY'ashington Market on the right of the 
note—a female with spear and roll on lower left 
comer. __ 
A Productive Team.— James S. YY’adsworth, 
Esq., of Geneseo, made sale of his ten yoke of 
oxen, which took the first prize, at the late State 
Fair at Utica, for $170 the pair, or $1,700 for the 
lot. They are destined for the Eastern market. 
A son of Mr. YY'adsworth, a lad some twelve years 
of age, took one or two prizes for some fine ani¬ 
mals which he had presented for exhibition. 
Commerce of Mexico. —The number of ves¬ 
sels of all descriptions having entered Alexican 
ports during the year 1851, Is 839, of which 435 
were American, 108 English, aud only 68 Mexican 
The number of passengers arrived is exceeded by 
the departures by 3,687. 
jpgp The Canadian Government have issued 
notices calling for plans and estimates for a vice¬ 
regal residence at Toronto, on the site of the old 
Government House. The square upon which 
the new residence will be erected exceeds five 
acres, and is handsomely planted with trees — 
some of them by the hand of a former Governor, 
Sir Perigran Maitland. The estimated cost of 
the building is $40,000. This indicates the set¬ 
tled purpose of the Government to redeem its 
pledge to Upper Canada to return to Toronto in 
four years. 
Sgp D was formerly the practice in many of 
the towns in Connecticut to toll the “ meeting¬ 
house ” bell on the death of an inhabitant, and 
after striking it for a few seconds, to cease for an 
instant, and then toll the age of the deceased.— 
YY'e had supposed that the practice was generally 
abandoned, but it still prevails in some parts of 
the State. Last week the bell in the Presbyteri¬ 
an church in the good old town of Wethersfield, 
one of the largest in Connecticut, was tolled one 
hundred strokes, on the death of a Airs. Ayrault. 
The New York Daily Times entered upon 
a new volume on Saturday the 18th inst. Thti* 
Times has been highly and remarkably successful. 
Since its commencement there have been printed 
7,550,000 copies of its daily issue, which is equal 
to a daily circulation of 24,198. It has now a cir¬ 
culation of 25,000. The proprietors have ex¬ 
pended upon their enterprise not less than $100- 
000, of which over $13,000 was paid to editors, 
correspondents and contributors, $25,000 to prin¬ 
ters, and $40,000 for paper. 
Provision was made during the last ses¬ 
sion of Congress, for the making and distribution 
of letter envelopes, bearing postage stamps, which 
are to be supplied to the public at the cost of pro¬ 
curing them, as near as may be. The advantage 
of this is obvious, and the public have long de¬ 
manded it. All postmasters are to be furnished 
with them for sale, and as “other persons” may 
buy them by the quantity of the government 
agents, doubtless the bookstores will be supplied 
with them. 
Hon. Rev. Baptist Noel, in speaking of the 
British or Established Church, remarks : “ Of its 
16,000 ministers about 1,568 do nothing : about 
6,681 limit their thoughts aud labors to small 
parishes, which contain 150 to 300 souls, while 
others in cities and towns profess to take charge 
of 8 or 9,000 souls; and of the 12,953 working 
pastors of churches, I fear, from various concur¬ 
rent symptoms, that about 10,000 are unconverted 
men who neither preach nor know the Gospel.” 
From Alarch 4, 1789, to Jiyie 30, 1844, our 
Government expended on the War Department 
$6,633,438,851. The interest of this sum, at six 
per ceut, would build YY'hitney’s great Railroad 
from the Lakes to the Pacific, of 2,500 miles in 
length, at $15,000 per mile, and thus erect a high¬ 
way for the commerce and communication of the 
family of nations, which should be reckoned in all 
coming time one of the greatest enterprises that 
ever blessed the race. 
The Nantucket Alirror says tliatduringthe 
last two mouths there have been taken atQuiduit, 
Siasconset, and the south side of the island, from 
800 to 1,000 sharks, varying in length from five 
to twelve feet. On Thursday of last week, sixty- 
one were taken at the south shore by three boats. 
Considerable quantities of oil are obtained from 
their livers, and the bodies are sold to farmers of 
the island for manure. 
There is a male Turkey near West Ches¬ 
ter that has set upou and hatched out a brood of 
Guinea Fowls. The old fellow manifested a de¬ 
sire to “ set,” when the G-uinea eggs were placed 
under him as a matter of experiment. The young 
fowls are now about half-grown, and have been, 
and are still watched over by their protector with 
the maternal care of a female turkey. 
During a thunder storm in East Bridge- 
water, a day or two since, the lightning entered 
in a cellar of a barn, passed through a pile of hay, 
some teu or twelve feet in thickness, and escaped 
through the roof, leaving a hole clear through the 
liav, twelve inches in circumference, but, neither 
the hay nor the barn was set on fire by the light¬ 
ning. 
It is stated in the Sandwich Island pa¬ 
pers, that tobacco seed from the Island, of Cuba 
has been planted in those Islands, and the ac¬ 
counts state that the crop is not only abundant, 
but that the cigars manufactured from the tobac¬ 
co are of the finest quality and flavor, equal in 
everv respect to the best regalias of Havana. 
t3F” An English publisher, Air. Bosworth, the 
successor of Air. Fraser, in view of the many 
cheap and interiorly printed editions of Uncle 
Tom’s Cabin in England, has written to Airs. 
Stowe, that he will publish another and better 
edition, and give her “ three pence ' r upon every 
copy sold. His work is also to be a cheap edition. 
The YY'haling bark Belle, of Fairhaven, ar¬ 
rived home on Friday last, after an absence of 
seven and three quarter years ! But one man of 
her original crew came home in her. She brought 
home 350 barrels of sperm and 400 of cocoanut 
oil; but had previously sent home 2600 barrels 
sperm, 950 whale aud 1450 cocoanut oil. 
ff'IP A drove consisting of 400 fat hogs, was- 
last week brought down from Air. \Y r oolcott r s es¬ 
tablishment on the Feeder, near this city, to be 
shipped by cars to Boston. Some of them weigh¬ 
ed over 400 lbs. each, [and quite a number drop¬ 
ped in the street, being too fat to endure the fati¬ 
gue of a journey of three miles oil foot. 
nrgp Postofiices have been established in this 
State, as follows:—At Lyon’s Falls. Lewis Co., 
Gordins H. Gould. Pastmaster ; at Putsville, Es¬ 
sex Co., Aaron Wright, Postmaster; at Fenton- 
ville, Chautauque Co., Luther Furbusli, Postmas¬ 
ter. The office known as “The Purchase” in 
Westchester Co. is discontinued. 
To form an idea of the health of New 
Alexico, it is said there is but one drug store m the 
whole Territory, containing a population of over 
sLxty thousand, aud the proprietor of that one 
has been compelled to purchase groceries, so that 
he may have something in his store that will sell. 
Prof. Henry P. Tappan, of the University 
of the City of New Y'ork, has accepted the Pres¬ 
idency of "the Michigan State University ; and 
Prof. Long, of Dartmouth College, has been elect¬ 
ed to the Professorship of Moral Philosophy va¬ 
cated by this acceptance. 
»«-*The Moniteur Is now sold at a low price 
wludi interferes sadly with the circulation of the 
other journals. The'/Ytyi and the Constilutionnel 
have been compelled to reduce their subscription 
list. The French newspaper press is in almost ru¬ 
ined condition. 
*«- Upwards of 3000 fat hogs have been ship¬ 
ped from Dayton, Osborn and Enon, during the 
past three weeks, destined for New Y'ork. They 
go by the way of Mad River and Lake Erie, and 
N. Y. and Erie Railroads. 
tuns of Hrais, &t. 
-Butter is retailing at Albany at 25 cents 
per pound. 
- 1,500 persons are engaged in the pearl 
fisheries at Panama. 
-Oswego harbor receives $40,000 under the 
River and Harbor bill. 
-Benj. YY'elcb, Jr., has been decided to have 
been legally elected State Treasurer. 
——A sale of 2000 hogs has been made at 
Aladison, Indiana, at $5,00 per cwt. 
-The Coroner’s fees in New Y'ork during 
the last eight months amounted to $6,523. 
-Rufus Porter has a flying ship nearly com¬ 
pleted. He expects to navigate the air with it, 
-Catharine Hayes goes to California in Oc¬ 
tober. Air. Busbnell continues to be her agent. 
-The working expenses of the London and 
Northwestern Railway for six months are £423,- 
304. 
-Every street, lane, court and alley in Lon¬ 
don, is parolled at least once every half hour by 
the police. 
-The Postmaster General in Canada has re¬ 
commended the adoption of the penny postage 
system. 
-A vein of copper of unsurpassed richness 
has been struck in a coal mine near Valley Forge 
Pennsylvania. 
-The citizens of Stonehara, in Alassachu- 
setts, are taxed thirty dollars on a thousand. This 
is spreading it on pretty thick. 
-The number of Seapoys or Hindoo troops 
in the service of the East India Company is 200,- 
000, chiefly infantry. 
-Since November last, there have been 
coined at the British Mint, 3,500,000 sovereigns 
aud half sovereigns. 
-Several districts in the Crimea have been 
devasted by locusts, which descended on the near- 
iy ripe cornfields. 
-No English convicts have been transport¬ 
ed to Australia since 1843. They are now sent 
to Y'an Deiman’s land aud Norfolk islands. 
-Letters from Washington mention that 
arrangements are being made for the speedy de¬ 
parture of the Japan expedition. 
-The Buffalo Commercial notices the exist¬ 
ence of counterfeit gold dollars. A spurious coin 
of that description was passed here on Friday. 
-Letters from Pittsburgh, state that the 
price of iron of all kinds has advanced, particu¬ 
larly pig and blooms. 
-YYeng Fun, a young Chinaman from Hong 
Kong, recently gained the first prize in botany at 
the University of Edinburgh. 
-It has been proved, from the books of a 
grocer, who lately failed, that he lost £30 a week 
by selling “ cheap sugar.” 
-A few grains of wheat, taken from an 
Egyptian mummy, have produced a stalk which 
has no less than twenty-three branches. 
-The number of Wesleyan dissenters in 
Great Britain is 281,263, being a decrease of 20,- 
934 as compared with last year. 
- The subject of ventilating Alines is attract¬ 
ing a good deal of attention just now throughout 
the Schuykill county coal region. 
-The whole of the year’s stock of the Hud¬ 
son Bay Co.’s Buffalo Robes have been sold at 
$5,00 per robe, at Montreal. 
-The Utica Herald says that the citizens of 
that place, as well as those of Rochester, have 
had enough of State Fairs for some years. 
-Aluch excitement exists respecting land 
titles in New Mexico, aud consequences will pro¬ 
bably be serious unless government interferes. 
-The House of Representatives of Hayti, 
lately granted to the Emperor Soulouque §250,- 
000, Haytien currency, for “ unforseen expenses.” 
-There has been more shooting at the 
mackerel fishermen by the English cutters, be¬ 
cause they would get inside of the three mile 
boundary. 
——There are in San Francisco, 14 Protestant 
congregations, and 11 organized churches with an 
average attendance of 2,86-5. There are 483 church 
members. 
-The population of San Francisco is esti¬ 
mated at 30,000 ; there are 4,330 houses ; its ex¬ 
ports amount to $75,000,000. And all in five 
years I 
-It lately is estimated that there remain in 
France, notwithstanding the slaughter of 200,000, 
4,000:900- of dogs. The skins of those killed this 
year sold for §37,009. 
-The English government has put the 
Afaine law in operation among the miners in Aus¬ 
tralia. Grog-shops are burned down as soon as 
they are discovered. 
-The “ air line ” railroad between Batavia 
and Buffalo is drawing near to completion. It 
shortens the railroad distance between the two 
places ten miles. 
-Queen Victoria has at Windsor, a Sabbath 
and a day class-of children, belonging to the do¬ 
mestics, to which she unremittingly attends when 
the court is held there. 
-About 3;000 dozen of real kid gloves were 
sold in New York at auction the other day. La¬ 
dies’ colored, black and white, from §5 to §6 the 
dozen, and gents, $7% to $7%. 
-It is estimated that four millions of roses 
are annually sold in the Parisian markets, inde¬ 
pendently of what are furnished for officials and 
private fetes. 
-The Boston Courier has placed the name 
of Daniel YYebster for President, and C. J. Jen¬ 
kins for Yiee President' at the head of its col¬ 
umns. 
-The deaths By cholera in Buffalo from the 
1st to the I2?th inst., are reported at the large num¬ 
ber of 309: since the 12tii, however, it has- al¬ 
most entirely disappeared. 
-At Reading, Pa., ft;*r youngwomcn, while 
walking upon the track, were run over. Two of 
them were instantly killed, and ; the other two 
were severely injured. 
-Alacaulay, the historian’s health is so fee¬ 
ble, that it is doubted if he will be able to take 
his seat in the new Parliament, to-which he-has 
been elected for Edinburgh. 
—The Peruvian Government, it in said} are 
raising 10,000 men, and are about purchasing 
steamers from the British steamship Company 
for the protection of their guano islands. 
-Twenty-three Irish paupers, sent to Bos¬ 
ton at the public expense, have just been returned 
on the same principle, the authorities of Ireland 
being obliged to pay their passage both ways. 
-The marble quarries in Vermont are be¬ 
coming important; $400,000 worth of the stone 
was sold from one of them the last year. Statua¬ 
ry marble, said, to equal the Italian, has been ob- 
i tained. 
