RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 4, 1852. 
The Death of Webster. 
Closing Scenes of his Life — Incidents—Last II ords. 
Tiie announcement of the decease of Daniel 
Webster lias created a profound sensation of sor¬ 
row throughout the entire Union. In every city 
from New Orleans to Maine appropriate demon¬ 
strations have been made—minute guns fired, 
bells tolled, flags placed at half mast, Courts ad¬ 
journed on learning the intelligence, and public 
meetings convened. The press and people of all 
parties join in manifestations of respect and es¬ 
teem for the illustrious dead. This universal and 
apparently most sincere mourning, proves the 
strong attachment of the Nation to its gifted, pa¬ 
triotic statesmen—and demonstrates that,, even 
in the midst of great political excitement, our 
people do not forget what is due the exponents 
and defenders of American principles and institu¬ 
tions. 
Our last number contained only a brief notice 
of Mr. Webster’s death. Since then we have re¬ 
ceived many particulars relative to his final ill¬ 
ness and last moments. Some of the more inter¬ 
esting and prominent of these we condense and 
give below. 
Mr. Webster’s situation became dangerous on 
Thursday morning, the 2lst, and but faint hopes 
of his recovery were entertained. He continued 
to sink very rapidly until the Sunday morning 
following, when, at 38 minutes past 2 o’clock, he 
expired peacefully and happily. 
Whenever free from pain, Mr. W. conversed 
cheerfully with the friends around his bedside.— 
On Friday afternoon he had the people employed 
in his family and upon the farm called in, and, 
after giving them much earnest advice upon mat¬ 
ters temporal and spiritual, bade them a last 
farewell. 
On Saturday, in the course of the forenoon, 
he conversed freely and with great clearness of 
detail in relation to his private affairs and the con¬ 
dition of his farms, stating his plans fully, and 
the manner in which he wished to have them 
carried out. 
Toward evening he foiled rapidly, and his 
physicians came to the conclusion that his last 
hour was near. He received the announcement 
calmly, and requested that the female membeis of 
his family might be called in, viz.: Mrs. V kbstkr, 
Mrs. Fletcher Webster, Mrs. J. W. Paige and 
Miss Downs, of New York. To each, calling 
them invidually by name, he addressed a few 
words of farewell and religious consolation. 
Next he had called in the male members of his 
family, and the personal friends who were present 
at Marshfield, viz., Fletcher Webster, (his only 
surviving son,) Samuel A. Appleton, (his son-in- 
low,) J.%. Paige, Geo. T. Gurtis, Edward Curtis, 
of New York, Peter Harvey and Charles Henry 
Thomas, of Marsfield, and Messrs. Geo. J. Abbott 
and W. C. Zantzinger, both of the Stale Depart¬ 
ment at Washington. Addressing each by name, 
he referred to his past relations with them re¬ 
spectively, and one by' oue bade them an affection¬ 
ate farewell. This was about G}4 P. M. 
He now had Mr. Peter Harvey called in again, 
and said to him “ Harvey, I am not so sick but 
that I know you—I am well enough to know you; 
I am well enough to love you, and well enough to 
call down the richest of Heaven’s blessings upon 
you and yours. Harvey, don’t leave me till I am 
dead—don’t leave Marshfield till I am a dead 
man.” Then, as if speaking to himself, he said : 
“ On the 24th of October, all that is mortal of 
Daniel Webster will be no more.” 
He now prayed in his natural, usual voice— 
strong, full and clear—ending with, “Heavenly 
Father, forgive my sins, and receive me to Thy¬ 
self, through Christ Jesus.” 
At 7 y, o’clock, Dr. J. M. Warren arrived from 
Boston, ~to relieve Dr. Jeffries, as the immediate 
medical attendant. Shortly after he conversed 
with Dr. Jeffries, who said he could do nothing 
more for him than to administer occasionally a se¬ 
dative potion. “Then,” said Mr. Webster, “I 
am to be here patiently till the end ; if it be so,- 
may it come soon.” 
At 10 o’clock he was still lower, but perfectly 
conscious of everything that passed within his 
sight or hearing. Dr. Jeffries offered to Mr. AVeb- 
ster something which he hoped might give him 
ease. “ Something more, doctor—more,—I want 
restoration.” 
Between 10 and 11 o’clock, he repeated some¬ 
what indistinctly the words, “ Poet, poetry, Gray, 
Gray.” Mr. Fletcher Webster repeated the first 
line of the Elegy, “ The curfew tolls the knell of 
parting day T .” “ That’s it, that’s it said Mr. W., 
and the book was brought, and some stanzas read, 
which seemed to give him much pleasure. 
From 12 o’clock till 2, there was much restless¬ 
ness, but not much suffering. The physicians 
were quite confident tliat there was no actual 
pain. A faintness occurred, which led him to 
think that his death was at hand. While in this 
condition, some expressions fell from him indicat¬ 
ing the hope that his mind would remain to him 
completely until the last. He spoke of the diffi¬ 
culty of the process of dying, when Dr. Jeffries 
repeated the verse : — “though I walk ibrough 
the valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no 
evil; for thou art with me,—thy rod and thy staff, 
they comfort me.” 
Mr. Webster said immediately, “The fact, the 
fact. That is what I want — thy rod, thy rod — 
thy staff, thy staff.” 
The following particulars we receive from an¬ 
other source: 
In reference to his funeral, he left explicit or¬ 
ders that his remains be entombed upon his farm 
at Marshfield, aud that they be followed to their 
final resting-place by his family and neighbors.— 
He also desired that the service be performed by 
the parish clergyman. He wished for no pomp or 
display. 
From this hour the great man failed rapidly.— 
Aroused from a lethargy at ten o’clock, his coun¬ 
tenance became animated, his eye flashed with its 
usual brilliancy, and he exclaimed— 
“ I Still Live !” 
and immediately sunk into a state of tranquil un¬ 
consciousness. Those were the last distinct words 
of Webster. His breathing now became fainter, 
and his strength seemel entirely prostrate. He 
lingered in this condition until twenty-two min¬ 
utes to three o'clock, when the spirit returned to 
its God-r-and pauiel Webster was no more ! 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKEll: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
Funeral of Samel Webster. Mass Temp erance Convention. 1)1] tjjt Jtlllil®. 
Funeral of Paniel Webster. 
£ Correspondence of the Rural New-Yorker.] 
Boston, Nov. 1, 1852. 
Messrs. Editors*. —lion have received long eie 
this, the sorrowful intelligence of the decease of 
the great statesman, Daniel Webster ; and per¬ 
haps also learned the particulars of the funeral 
services performed upon the occasion of the burial 
at Marshfield. It is not the intention here to go 
into a description of the mournful proceedings, 
but only to give a brief sketch of those matters 
and incidents that made the greatest impression 
upon my own mind. It was the request of Mi- 
Webster that no pomp or ceremony should be in¬ 
dulged in, but that his mortal remains should be 
committed to their kindred earth by the hands of 
his humble country neighbors of Marshfield. The 
behest however of the lamented statesman could 
not lie entirely obeyed. Too much reverence is 
entertained for Daniel Webster in all New Eng¬ 
land, to permit him to pass away unnoticed and 
unlamented. All the streets and public buildings 
in this city, were draped in mourning, minute 
guns were fired during the day, and all the flags 
of the shipping in the harbor, both American aud 
foreign, were flying at half mast. 
Marshfield is about thirty-five miles south-east 
of Boston, upon the sea shore. The Old Colony 
railroad to Plymouth runs within seven miles of 
the place; which is a pleasant rural district and 
very retired. At .8 o’clock on Friday morning 
(the day of the burial,) two heavy trains of cars 
left Boston for Marsfield, and hundreds of private 
and public conveyances from all the region round 
were on their way to the same point of attraction; 
moved by one impulse, merely to take a last look 
of the lamented dead, and to drop a tear of iegret 
and sorrow over his yet unburied ashes. It was 
a beautiful day, warm with the genial influences 
of Indian summer, and the flutter oi the falling . 
leaf as it left its parent stem aud fell upon the 
earth, to be trodden under foot or whirled away 
before the coming tempest, seemed a fit emblem 
of passing humanity. 
There were about 10,000 persons present at ti e 
funeral; most of them the hardy sons and daugh¬ 
ters of New England, all in simple citizens dress; 
not an epaulette of a military or naval officer, or 
the star or garter of a foreign embassadar 'was 
there—although many of our most distinguished 
literary man honored themselves as well as the oc¬ 
casion, by their presence. The funeral service was 
performed by the minister of the rural parish, at 
the late home of the deceased. The coffin enclos¬ 
ing the remains were placed under a tree in the 
yard, and the cover entirely removed therefrom. 
There lay the pulseless form, quiet and composed, 
with the same god-like majesty seated upon his 
brow. 
He was dressed for the grave—not in a shroud 
or winding sheet—but as he was accustomed to 
appear in life ; and nearly as you saw bis picture 
in Fanueil Hall, in company with us the past 
summer when you wore here. A blue dress coat 
with brass buttons, buff vest, white cravat and 
pants, aud patent leather gaiter boots. I stood 
and gazed upon the face with an awe never felt 
before while viewing what is always awful, the 
tenement of clay from which an immortal spirit 
has taken its departure ; and then,laying my open 
palm reverentially upon the massive forehead 
turned away. He was carried to his grave in a 
plain, open, low boxed wagon, painted black, and 
drawn by two black horses. His family, includ¬ 
ing the domestics (white and black,) followed his 
remains ; immediately aft er whom came the hum¬ 
ble citizens of Marshfield. After these the city 
government of Boston with their distinguished 
guests, and then the people generally—the whole 
procession being on foot. The body was entomb¬ 
ed upon the farm in an old burial ground, where 
was once a church, long since abandoned and torn 
down. The place is upon a rising ground over¬ 
looking the sea and country round, and three- 
fourths of a mile from the highway. It is a con¬ 
secrated spot, being one of the earliest burial places 
in New England. Peregrine White, Ihe first 
European child born in the Plymouth colony, was 
buried here. Gov. Winslow and family occupy a 
place of rest in the same ground. 
Mr. Webster’s tomb is a plain, grass-cover¬ 
ed mound of the simplest construction, surmount¬ 
ed by a single marble slab, without ornament, 
bearing only the inscription 
DANIEL WEBSTER. 
This is all that is required. The nation’s history 
is the record of his life. The body was placed in 
this tomb beside bis first wife and children who 
had gone before ; and we who laid him there 
turned away with the tearful reflection that we 
should see his honored face no more. 
Yours, truly, e. w. 
Speculation in England. 
A careful review of the market accounts by the 
Niagara, renders it quite evident that the specu¬ 
lative feeling, so long dormant in England, and 
to which so severe a blow was dealt in 1847, be¬ 
gins to revive in the Corn, Iron, and Colonial 
Produce interests. 
Iu regard to the Corn market—embracing all 
our cereal grains and flour—the activity of demand 
and the tendency to speculation appear to grow 
out of the enormously enhanced use of cheap 
breai all over the kingdom. Of the Irish con¬ 
sumers, it is observed in one of the Circulars, that 
“ the low price of food aud the full price of labor, 
produce a reckless extravagance in consumption,” 
and that labor has become tbe standard ot value 
where the population of 1852, immensely reduced 
by emigration, use more food, and of better qual¬ 
ity, than in 1845, when the population was at its 
zenith. The granaries of Great Britain and Ire¬ 
land are treated tis comparatively bare of surplus 
stock,although the imports now reach thirteen or 
fourteen million quarters, against two or three 
millions previous to 1846. The quotations come 
over a shilling sterling advance on flour, and 2d. 
on wheat—equal, respectively, to 25 cents the bar¬ 
rel of flour, and 4 cents the bushel of 70 pounds. 
Indian corn is also dearer.— N. Y. 'limes . 
Mass Temperance Convention. 
During the past week a Mass Temperance Con¬ 
vention, and also the Annual session of the A\ est- 
ern Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance, 
was held in our city. The weather was very un¬ 
pleasant a great part of the time, yet tnere was a 
large assemblage, and much enthusiasm exhibited 
for this great Reform of the day. The Hon. N eal 
Dow, was present, and spoke on the workings of 
the famous Maine Law, which he, as is well 
known, originated. Dr. J ewf.tt, an eloquent New 
England lecturer; T. AV. Brown, editor of the 
Cayuga Chief, and Rev. Mr, Parker, agent of the 
New York Temperance Alliance, were among the 
speakers, and the occcasion was one of much in¬ 
terest to every friend of Temperance. 
The session of the Grand Division was one of 
the largest gatherings of the order ever held in 
the State. About five hundred representatives 
were present. The following officers wero elected 
for the ensuing year: 
James O. Bray man, G. AA r . P„ Buffalo ; Thurlow 
AY. Brown, G. AA r . A., Auburn ; Wesley Bailey, G. 
S., Utica; Henry A. Newland, G. T., Utica ; Rev. 
A. L. Brooks, G. Chap., Albion ; AA'ilson Hoag, G. 
Cond., Jeddo ; A\ r . B. Andrews, G. Sent., Branch- 
port. __ 
Meteorological Abstract. 
BY L. WKTIIERELL. 
Out. 1852. 
THERMOMETER. 
1 MAX. | MIN. | MEAN. 
j RAIN. 
| WINDS. 
1 
75 
51 
61.00 
N W. 
2 
76 
52 
62.33 
N W. 
3 
74 
62 
67.00 
s w. 
4 
68 
51 
60.00 
N W. 
5 
57 
47 
51.50 
N W. 
6 
68 
51 
59.00 
N W. 
7 
72 
53 
61.66 
1 
S. N W. 
8 
63 
53 
60.33 
| N W. N*. E. 
9 
77 
49 
61.33 
S W. 
10 
6(1 
57 
62.33 
N \V. 
11 
60 
45 
52.66 
S W. N W. 
12 
51 
43 
51.33 
N W. 
13 
51 
35 
41.33 
S W. 
11 
62 
39 
49.33 
N W. 
15 
45 
39 
42.00 
N W. 
16 
43 
33 
37.33 
N W. 
17 
56 
38 
48.00 
N W. 
18 
68 
53 
58.00 
N W. 
19 
49 
35 
42.33 
N W. 
20 
56 
29 
43.00 
N W. 
21 
66 
39 
51.33 
n vr. 
22 
49 
41 
46.66 
N W. 
23 
50 
34 
39.66 
N W. 
24 
61 
32 
48.66 
N vr. 
25 
Of 
45 
51.33 
y w. 
26 
42 
37 
38.0(5 
N. N E. 
27 
50 
43 
47.66 
S w. 
23 
05 
55 
59.66 
S NY. 
29 
50 
49 
49.06 
N K. 
30 
58 
52 
54.66 
N E. 
31 
50 
48 
49.00 
1 
S W. 
REMARKS. 
About 20 presses and 250 operatives are 
employed in the manufacturing department, of the 
American Tract Society with a daily product of 
about 50,000 publications. The amount of print¬ 
ed matter in the periodical form is equal annually 
to a million volumes of 200 pages each. The 
gratuitous issues of tracts and hooks amount to 
$45,000 annually, besides appropriations of $20,- 
000 in cash, for distribution in more than 100 
languages in foreign aud pagan lands. The num¬ 
ber o colpoteurs in this country, including near¬ 
ly 100 for the foreign aud emigrant population, is 
between 400 and 500. More than $1,000 are re¬ 
quired daily to meet the current demands on the 
treasury. 
Mr. AVebster was arrayed for the tomb in 
the dress he usually wore when he addressed the 
Senate or Court on important occasions—in a blue 
dress coat with gilt buttons, white vest and pan 
taloons, white cravat, over which the collar of his 
shirt was turned ; his hands were clad in white 
gloves, and his feet in white stockings and patent 
leather shoes. The sickness which the great man 
had endured previous to his death, had reduced 
his form to a skeleton. But his broad, massive 
forehead, and noble features bore still, in tbe re¬ 
pose of death, the majesty which distinguished 
the presence of the Statesman in life. 
The city of New York possesses a roost 
The monthly mean temperature of October is 
51.75 ; last year, 50.57—about 1% degrees higher 
this October than last. The month was unusu¬ 
ally mild and agreeable—exceedingly favorable 
for farmers to close up their fall work. 
The AYeather.— The first three days of the 
past week were very pleasant, while the last four 
have been rainy and drizzling enough to suit the 
millers, who are desirous of seeing the river fill 
up—for it is low, and has been for the most of 
the time since about the first of August. Friday, 
Saturday and Sunday were all rainy days. Mon¬ 
day was sunny and mild—but rainy at 9jA in 
evening, and continued so through the night aud 
Tuesday morning.—w. 
Cattle Sale.— Farmers in this region who 
desire to purchase stock, arc referred to the ad¬ 
vertisement of Mr. Dickinson, in this paper, an¬ 
nouncing a sale of cattle at AVheatland on Satur¬ 
day of this week. 
Attention is likewise directed to Gen. Harmon’s 
advertisement, offering for sale a large number of 
Faular Merino Bucks. 
The Election.— As this paper goes to press on 
Tuesday, while the cohorts of party are warmly 
contesting the Presidedtial battle, we are unable 
to give any election returns. 
Old Bank Notes.— Among some old papers 
which had accumulated in the rooms of the late 
Dr. AVing, of Albany, there were recently found 
three bank notes, amounting to $15 apparently 
laid aside by the father-in-law of that gentleman 
to pay a certain bill. They were on different, 
banks of tbe date of 1804, and it fortunately, tho’ 
somewhat strangely, considering the number of 
“commercialcrises” the country has gone through, 
happened that all the banks are in existence and 
solvent, ready to redeem these venerable relics. 
Hayti—Important Movement.— It is stated 
that two American gentlemen, officers of the army 
of the Dominican Republic, in the Island of Hay¬ 
ti, have made arrangements with certain parties 
in the United States for the purchase of a steamer, 
in which they propose to trike a large number of 
emigiants to Dominica. Eight hundred men, it is 
said, have already enlisted for colonization among 
the Dominicans, tho terms offered being highly 
advantageous to men of enterprise and intelligence. 
A Mammoth Literary Institution.— Genesee 
College, and the Genesee AVesleyan Seminary, 
which are associated in their operations, constitute 
the largest literary institution, of the higher grade, 
on this continent. The College has about eighty 
in its regular classes, while over tive hundred a 
year are taking irregular instruction in it; and 
the Seminary, now twenty years old, will report 
lor tho past year between twelve and thirteen 
hundred students. 
Tonvwaxda Indian Lands.— The long pending 
issue between that branch of the Senecas, located 
at. Tonawanda, and the Ogden pre-emptionists, 
has been decided by the Court of Appeals in favor 
of the Indians. The decision is in effect, that the 
Ogden company not having complied with the 
terms of purchase, arc not entitled to possession 
of the Tonawanda Reservation.— Roch. Union. 
Mr. Webster’s Disease.— A post mortem exam¬ 
ination of the body of Mr. AVebster ascertained 
the fact that lie died of disease of the liver. The 
immediate cause of death was hemorrhage from 
the stomach arid bowels, owing to a morbid state 
of the blood consequent upon the above disease. 
There was also dropsy on the abdomen. 
Deferred. —Sundry articles intended for this 
number— including literary notices, acknowledg¬ 
ments, Ac. 
795 out of the United States. Among tho latter 
are enumerated the following : “ England 22,824; 
Ireland 133,730; Scotland 7,660; AVales 847 ; 
Germany 55,476; France 4,990; Spain 303; Portu¬ 
gal 128;*Belgium 95; Holland 611; Turkey 109; 
Switzerland 764 ; Russia 472; Norway 216; Den¬ 
mark 292; Sweden 499; Frussia. 665. 
The Boston Mail says tho yearly income of 
Ebon Francis, a rich citizen of Boston, would buy 
twelve hundred forms. His income, six per cent, 
on bis entire wealth, would amount, daily, to nioic 
than the wages of two hundred hard-working men. 
His income would buy a pair oi boots every three 
minutes. Every breath the old man takes is 
worth another nine-pence. His enormous capital 
commands the toil of one thousand laborers and 
mechanics yearly, to pay the interest. 
jpgT The Rochester Daily Advertiser says that 
the new road from Batavia to Buffalo, for the use 
of the Buffalo and Rochester Railroad Company, 
was opened for traffh on Monday last. This ef¬ 
fects a saving of eleven miles in the run from 
Rochester to Buffalo. The old line passes into the 
hands of the Buffalo and New York Oily Railroad, 
making the line complete from Jersey City to the 
Queen City of the Lakes, by the Erie route. 
The “ Lecture Season ” was opened in N. 
York on Tuesday evening of last week, by a lec¬ 
ture from Dr. Hobnes —the same he delivered here 
last winter. There is to be a “People’s course” 
at tbe Tabernacle, for which the most popular 
lecturers have been engaged. It is understood 
that Mr. Emerson has been engaged, during the 
summer, in writing a new series of lectures for the 
coming winter. 
Jpgp After four weeks of extraordinary success, 
the Fair of the American Institute was closed 
Friday evening. So far as attendance and receipts 
indicate, this Fair has been better than any of its 
predecessors. The receipts reach about $25,000, 
being 20 per cent over tbe previous year. The 
number of visitors must have reached 200,000. 
A hog raised by Mr. Nathaniel Lamb, of 
Milltown, stands seven feet six inches high, and 
girts six feet eight inches, and weighs twelve hun¬ 
dred pounds—it is one year and six months okl. 
If any one has a greater hog than this we should 
like to know it. If this hog was fat, he would 
weigh 1,400. So says the Calais (Me.) Advocate. 
John AYadleigh, a soldier of the Revolution, 
died at Shaker A'illage, N. H., October, 23, aged 
85 years, 7 mouths and 23 days. He was at the 
battle of Bunker Hill, and was one of tbe last to 
leave the scene of action. He was one of the 
founders of the Society of Shakers, having been 
a member of that fraternity over 70 years. 
A Cast Iron Monument to Henry Clay is 
now in process of erection at Pottsville, Pa. The 
statue is to be a correct likeness of tbe Great 
Commoner, made of cast iron, 15 feet in height, 
and will stand upon a Grecian doric column, also 
of iron, starting from a base of rock. The entire 
height of the column will be 63£ feet. 
jpg?" Over thirty tons of eggs were brought into 
Sandusky one day recently, on the Sandusky, 
Mansfield and Newark Railroad. Tbe Register 
learns that they are all from one point, viz., Mans 
field. The Richland hens must have had a lively 
time of it, and are clearly entitled to the “ skates.” 
jrgf” Messrs. Harper A Brothers state that they 
will publish in a few days an authentic account 
of the Private Life of Paniel Webster, from the 
pen of Charles Lauman, Esq., who has for two 
years past been the Private Secretary and confi¬ 
dential friend of the great man of Marshfield. 
Baron A r on Hamboldt celebrated bis 83d 
birthday at Berlin on the 14th of September, by 
giving a feast to his friends and admirers. Tlic 
“ Nestor of Science” is in excellent health, and is 
engaged daily for some hours on a fourth volume 
of the “Cosmos.” 
j^fThe Black River (S. C.) Watchman gives 
an account of some earthen jars or coffins thrown 
up by the late flood on the Congaree river, in 
which were found the bones of some of the ab¬ 
origines of the country, which must have laid 
there undisturbed for unknown centuries. 
By a calculation made, it appears that it 
costs New York, for eight meals for forty Aider- 
men, one dollar and thuty-ouo cents each meal, 
while the poor paupers cost but one cent and two 
mills a meal! That is to say, ono alderman eats 
as much as 109 paupers ! 
Some Christiau Jews are making groat ex¬ 
ertions to promote an interest in agriculture in the 
vicinity of Jerusalem, and they solicit donations 
of seeds, plants and implements, from the United 
States. Several valuable gifts have already boon 
sent them. 
D. AYebster is the second Socretary of State 
who has died in office : Mr. Upshur, of Virginia, 
was the first, he having been killed by an acci¬ 
dent on board the United States steam frigate 
Princeton, February 28, 1844. 
Great Salk of Shout-horn Cattle. —There 
was rocently an auction sale of imported short- 
horned Durham cattle made at tho farm of Dr. 
Watts, at Sciota, Ohio, at which sixteen animals 
sold at the enormous price of $21,785. One bull 
sold at $2,516, another at $2,210, another at 
$1,825, and so on. Ono of tho cows sold at 
$1,650. These prices are enormous, many of the 
purchasers were members of the Company selling, 
and bonce interested in running up the prices. 
Stas of Mms, &r. 
--Louisville has a population of 43,196. 
-The Duke of AYellington left a will made 
in 1818. 
-Seven thousand persons have emigrated 
to Australia from Scotland, within a month. 
—— Kossuth is residing iu privacy at Kensing¬ 
ton Terrace, Brompton, near Loudon. 
-Hon. John C. Clark, Solicitor of the Treas¬ 
ury, died at Chemung, on Monday, the 25th ult. 
-Another dry goods palace similar to that 
of Stuart’s is going up in New York. 
--Marshfield is about 30 miles south-east of j 
Boston, in the county of Plymouth. 
-- The Executors of Mr. AVebster are bis 
widow, son and R. M. Blatcliford, Esq,, of New 
York. 
-John G. Saxe, the poet and editor, is said 
to be so ill that little or no hope of his recovery 
is indulged in by his friends. 
-Ohio will be fifty years old (since her .ad¬ 
mission as a State) on the day of the Presidential 
Election. 
-The men who are traversing the route to 
Australia are reckoned to be in proportion of fif- j 
teen or twenty to one woman. 
—— The House Line of Telegraph between 
Washington, Baltimore and New York, has been 
completed. 
-Livingston’s Law Reporter says, there is 
but one lawyer in the United Slates named John 
Smith. He lives at St. Albans, Vt. 
-The aggregate wealth of tlie United States 
amounts to $i2,U()0,000,000, and the population 
is 24,000,1)00 souls. 
-There are at present, 294 students at Dart¬ 
mouth College; and in the different libraries con¬ 
nected with the College, arc 23,400 volumes. 
-It is reported that n wealthy citizen of 
New York has offered two millions for the right 
to construct a railroad in Broadway. 
-The Neapolitan Government has decided 
on constructing a railroad between the Mediter¬ 
ranean and the Adriatic—from Naples to Manfre- 
dernis. 
-By one train on the Fitchburg Railroad, 
seven thousand bushels of potatoes were brought 
from the town of Rutland, Vt. r to Boston, re¬ 
cently. 
-A cartmnn in New York, 80 years of age, 
renewed his license recently. His first license 
was signed by De Witt Clinton, Mayor of New 
York in 1803. 
-The Blue Ridge Tunnel has penetrated 
the mountain about 1,900 feet from the western 
base, and about 800 feet from the eastern side- 
making 1,900 feet. 
—— A letter from a merchant at the Sandwich 
Islands says that more oil has been taken this 
season by American whalers than was ever taken 
before in one season. 
-A single sale of Wool, to the extent of 
210,000 pounds, was made in Cincinnati lately.— 
Prices have advanced in that market, and rule as 
in quality, from 28 to 45 cents. 
-At the Oxford county, Me., Cattle Show 
and Fair, at Bethel, on the 7th inst., a gentleman 
exhibited 144 bushels of shelled corn, raised on 
one acre of land. 
-In consequence of tbe recent counterfeits 
on tbe Bank of Montreal, that institution has or¬ 
dered a new issue, water marked, like the notes of 
the Bank of Eugland. 
-During the past week, upwards of twenty 
thousand pounds of butter arrived at Georgetown, 
D. C., in wagons, and met with ready sales at 
from $18 to $20 per hundred pounds. 
-The Superintendents of the poor of Erie 
county, during the last year have assisted 10,375 
paupers at an expense of $54,365,—an average of 
$5,21 for each individual. 
-There is a falling off in the New York 
canal tolls, up to the 14th ult., of $201,000, in 
comparison with a corresponding period last year, 
attributed to the reduction on the up freight. 
-The price of railroad iron in England has 
gone up from $21 to $31 per ton. This adds, 
under our ad valorem tariff, $6 per ton to the duty, 
thus increasing the protection on onr side. 
-AVe are informed that the residence and 
ground of tbe late A. J. Downing, at Newburgh, 
has been purchased for a family residence by 
Chas. C. Alger, of Hudson. 
-Madame Goldschmidt is at present at 
Leipsic, residing with her husband’s relatives.— 
She has purchased a bouse at Dresden, and it is 
said she intends in future to live in that city. 
-Gov. Ujhazi, the Hungarian, and Governor 
of Comorn advertises his form and possessions in 
Iowa for sale. He is going to Texas, the climate 
of Iowa being too severe for him. 
-Snow fell on Sunday, the 17th ult., at 
about fifteen miles south-east of River du Loup, 
C. E., to the depth of eighteen inches, it be¬ 
ing measured in several places on Monday moni- 
ing. 
-A new organ just completed by Erben of 
New York, for the Cathedral at Albany, has three 
sets of keys, two octaves of pedals, forty-two 
stops, and nearly 3,000 pipes. It is 25 feet high, 
30 wide and 20 deep. 
-An Artesian well, 334 feet deep, tubed 70 
feet with sheet iron, and 32 feet with cast iron, 
six inches in diameter, and throwing up 300 gal¬ 
lons of water per minute, has l>een sunk at Selma, 
Ala., at a cost of $300. 
-It is intended to build a water-works 
at Cleveland, with a reservoir which has a capaci¬ 
ty to bold 10,000,000 gallons, and to furnish for 
daily use 3,000,000 gallons. The water will be 
brought from the lake by engines. 
-There is now only eleven miles of track 
to lay to complete the entire line of Lake Shore 
road from Cleveland to Buffalo, and if no delay 
occurs in receipt of iron this gap will be filled 
by the 10th of November. 
„_James Sheridan Knowles, the author of 
“The Hunchback,” “Yirgiuius,” ‘‘The AYife,” 
and other plays, was recently immersed in Scot¬ 
land, and is now a Baptist preacher, So says the 
Christian Advocate. 
A reoont census of Cleveland, taken for 
school purposes, shows the population of tho 
“ Forest City ” to bo 25,670 an inoroase of 4,530 
since October, 1851. The population of Cleve¬ 
land and Ohio oitios togethor is 33,134. 
— Tlie amount of the public debt of Great 
Britain lias been reduced in tho last thirty years, 
$250,000,000, about one-sixteenth of the whole 
amount. The interest has, however, been reduced 
about one-half. 
-An egg within an egg, both shells perfect¬ 
ly formed, was left at the office of the Exeter 
Nows-Letter, last week, by Franklin Clark, of 
Stratham, N. H. Tlie interior of the inner shell 
was “ an empty void,” 
