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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
JUNE 5 
Contents of the Rural for June 5, 1858. 
AGRICULTURAL. Rage. 
Always Propagate from the Best,. 181 
Cora on Snb-soil—Deep Plowing,. 181 
Make Home and Fanning Attractive,. 181 
Manures and Fertilizers,. 181 
A Ka'ny Day in the Library,. 181 
Hedges for Farm Fencing, [2 Illustrations,].-.181 
Canada Tbi-ties—Spring Wheat. 182 
1-etter from Kentucky,. 182 
Wegener's Seed Harvester, [Illustrated,]. 182 
To F, event Crows Pulling Coro,. 182 
Indiana—Farm Products, Ac. 182 
Prolific Com.182 
Rotation of Crops—Query for “Young Farmer,". 182 
About Old Iron. 182 
Heaves—Remedies Therefor,.182 
A Good and Cheap Roller,. 182 
Condtntai Cornsjmndcnce— Bloat in Cattle Remedy for Knots 
lu Cowb’ Teats. Information Wanted. Black Tooth in Swine. 
Crows Pulling up Cora. Disease of the Kye in Cattle—The IJaw. 182 
Rural Miscellany. — The Weather. Exhibitions of Horses. 
County Ag. Societies in Conn. Ag. Societies in Wis. Terra- 
Culture “Still I-ive*.’ Sales of Short-Horn a The Dioscorea 
Batatas. Sowing llect Seed. High Price for a Yearling Colt 
Kentucky State Fair. The Homestead,. 182 
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 
Flowere In Season,..183 
Pear Cultivation,... 183 
The Austrian Fine, | Illustrated.].183 
“Can Pears be Grown for market!’.183 
Letter from Northern Ohio. 183 
Will Canary Birds and Flowers Pay 1. 183 
Tan-Bark for Mulching,. 183 
A Failure,. 183 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Pound Cake. Cottage Beer. Home Made Beer. lajmon Pies. 
Cochineal Dye. Sea ing M actrines Bleachir g Cotton Cloth 
and Yum. To Secnre Dry, Mealy Potatoes Matrimonial Cake. 
How to Cook Iceland Moss Cure for Erysipelas. Washing 
Compound. 183 
LADIES’ PORT-FOLIO. 
Pleasures of Age, [Poetical] The Broken Spirit Yonr Absent 
Daughters. Hints to Mothers. Woman the Equal of Man. 
On Growing Old. Conversation,. 184 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Trip Lightly over Trouble, [Poetical] Teasing. Bird-Songs. 
Live Within your Means. Vanity of the “ Lords ef Creation.” 
An Old Man. 184 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Passing Away, [Poetical.] The Orphan's Prayer. The Bible. 
Heaven Faith in Aged Christians. Time,. 184 
EDUCATIONAL 
More About Irrcgnlar Attendance. National Convention of 
Teachera The Teachings of the Eye. Education of Fanners. 
Establish Schools,. 185 
USEFUL OLIO. 
The Mastodon Bathing. Fleetness of the Ostrich,. 185 
THE YOU.NO RURALIKT. 
To Save Vines from Bugs, pPTIluMrations] Inquiries from a 
Young Reader,. 185 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
The Golden Sunset, [Poetical] Diamonds,. 188 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
Premium List and Regulations for the Fair at Waterloo 
The best SsknratiiB, Ac—Thomas Andrews A Co. 
Now Ready—Downing's Fruits, Ac—Wiley A Halstead 
Sewing Machines—Wheeler A Wilson. 
Virginia Land for Sale—Dr Jtro. Minor 
Iron Garden Ornaments—Janes, Beebe A Ca 
Manny’s Combined Reaper and Mower—P D. Wright 
Barcy s Art of Taming Horses-Pirce, Bliss A Co. 
ToNursenmen and Florists—Paul Bafsange. 
Young Gifford Morgan—Daniel Ward. 
Thorough-bred Cattle. South-Down Sheep, Ac—II. T. WoOanJ. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Monroe Co. Horse Show—I. S. Hobbie. 
Ketchum's Reairer and Mower—Premium List lor 1S5& 
Seneca Co. Horse Fair, at Waterloo. 
Catarrh Permanently Cured—Guilford D. Sanborn, M. D. 
IT* The KFRAL is pnt to press Tuesday hood, and hence adver¬ 
tisements should reach us on Monday to secure insertion. 
ROCHESTER, N, Y., JUNE 5, 1858. 
EDITORIAL CONVENTION. 
Tire Fifth Annual Convention of the Typographical 
Association op Western New York will be held at 
the Osburn House, Rochester, on Thursday , June 1 Of A, 
1858. A full attendance is desired, as matters of vital in¬ 
terest to the Association and the Fraternity generally 
will probably be submitted for discussion and action. 
The Assocation is designed to promote the interests of 
the Press of Western, Southern and Central New York, 
and all Editors and Publishers connected therewith are 
cordially invited to attend the Convention and participate 
in its deliberations. It is hoped that the occasion will 
prove both pleasant and profitable to all Vho respond to 
thiB announcement in the manner desired. 
D. D. T. MOORE, President. 
J. T. Norton, Secretary. 
It may not become ns to add any special appeal 
to the above announcement, yet we cannot refrain 
from expressing an earnest desire that the Repre¬ 
sentatives of the Press of Western, Southern and 
Central New York will very generally respond to 
the call by attending the Convention. We are 
confident that those of our brethren who met at 
Canandaigua last June, will be present if consistent 
with their engagements, and that they will unite 
with us in cordially inviting all others interested 
to attend and participate in the proceedings of an 
Association designed to promote the business inter¬ 
ests and £greeablte relations of the brotherhood.— 
Aside from any pecuniary advantage that may he 
derived from if, the re-union cannot fail of proving 
pleasant and profitable, socially—affording an occa¬ 
sion for those who are only known to each other 
“ on paper,” or by reputation, to become personally 
acquainted. We can safely promise one and all a 
kind and hearty welcome, and trust the meeting 
will prove by far the most numerously attended and 
agreeable one ever held by the Association. 
— In noticing the official call for the Convention 
our neighbor of the Daily Union saysWe sir. 
cerely hope our brethren of the Press will turn out 
in large numbers on the occasion, and that it will 
be such a re-union as has not before occurred since 
the Association was organized. What little we can 
do to render the meeting an agreeable one, shall 
not he wanting. And our brethren may safely 
anticipate such a greeting from the proprietor of 
the Osburn House as will add greatly to the plea¬ 
sure of their visit to our city. We repeat the 
request that there shall be a general turn-out on the 
10th of June. These annual meetings can he kept 
up in no other way than by investing them with the 
interest which a general attendance alone can im¬ 
part” 
The First New Flour of the Season. — A 
sample of flour from new wheat, the first of the sea¬ 
son, was exhibited at the New York Corn Exchange 
on the 25th ult. It was from the Carmichael Mills, 
Georgia. 
Washington Matters. 
The Committee on Foreign Affairs had under 
consideration recently various propositions for giv¬ 
ing the President more power to suppress the out¬ 
rages upon American commerce. They are quite 
unanimous and decided in their views, and will 
report in favor of giving the President full power 
in the premises. 
It is understood that Lord Napier has given his 
opinion that his government will contend for the 
right of visitation as distinct from the right of 
search. Should the dispatches from Mr. Dallas 
confirm that expectation, the relations of the coun¬ 
tries will soon approach a casus belli. The admin¬ 
istration promises to meet this contingency with 
vigor. The intimations thrown out are that orders 
will he given to bring in for adjudication all British 
armed vessels committing acts of outrage upon our 
commerce. 
The sale of the military reservation at Rock 
Island, Ill., has been postponed by the Secretary of 
War for the present. 
The postponement of the land sales in Kansas 
from the 1st to the 25th of November, is officially 
announced. 
It is understood that a special messager has been 
sent b* Lord Napier, with instructions for the 
British Admiral of the North American fleet 
wherever he can be found. He will first proceed 
to Halifax. The tenor of the instructions is not 
known. 
The Washington correspondent of the Philadel¬ 
phia Press, says:—Chief Justice Taney is about to 
retire from the Supreme Court, A number of 
names are suggested in connection with the 
vacancy. 
The La Sere and Benjamin party of the Tehuan¬ 
tepec route have succeeded in effecting a contract 
with the Post-Master General for transporting the 
mails to the Pacific coast They receive $285,000 
per annum. The Cabinet, however, refuse to sanc¬ 
tion the contract 
Present Condition of the American Navy.— 
The Navy Register for 1858, states the number of 
vessels in the American Navy to he 78, with a bur¬ 
then of 124,812 tuns. This would seem to be a 
formidable fleet, but an analyzation of the list shows 
that of the 10 line-of-battle ships, only 2 could 
be put into service, and of the 10 frigates, only G; 
and of the 8 first class propeller frigates, 2 are on 
the stocks; of the 6 second class frigates, 5 are on 
the stocks; and 6 permanent receiving ships are 
all nnseaworthy. The remainder of the fleet con¬ 
sists of 21 sloops-of-war, 2 brigs, 2 schooners, 4 pro¬ 
pellers of the third class, 7 paddle-wheel steamerp, 
and 3 store ships. So that of the 78 war vessels, 
only 50 are at the present time in condition for ac¬ 
tive service, and of those 50, only 30 are now in 
commission. 
Our Trade with Canada. — Under the Reci¬ 
procity Treaty our trade with Canada has become 
important. In the year 1857 the importations of 
Canada by sea amounted to $K1,1G4,000, and the 
importations through and from the United States 
to $2,646,081. In the same year the exports from 
Canada to the United States were $1G,38G,530, of 
which one-half nearly consisted of agricultural 
productions. The exports of Canada to Great 
Britain in the same period amounted to $12,332,148, 
and the imports to $19,490,510. The aggregate ex¬ 
ports of Canada to, and the aggregate imports 
from, all other countries, hut little exceed one mil¬ 
lion per annum. 
The Jews and the Messiah. —The Boston Tra¬ 
veler says that Mr. Buas, Assistant Secretary of the 
Society for ameliorating the condition of the Jews, 
Vas at the business men's prayer meeting at the 
Old South Chapel, in that city, the other day, and 
gave an account of his conversion to Christianity. 
It reports him as having said that be had recently 
received a letter from England, giving an account 
of the meeting of Rabbis in that count ry to discuss 
the question whether Christ was the true Messiah, 
and that they had agreed if the Messiah did not 
come in fifteen years, to accept Christ as the true 
Messiah. 
The Wisconsin Lumber Trade. —fhere are 
within the State of Wisconsin 590 saw-mills, 336 
water and 254 steam mills. The amount of lumber 
manufactured last year was 174,000,000 feet, of 
which there was manufactured on the WincoDsin 
and its tributaries, 149,800,000 feet. The total 
value of the lumber manufactured in" the State in 
1857, was $9,358,400, and the. number of men em¬ 
ployed in the business was 10,567 — of whom 4,890 
were employed on the Wisconsin river and its trib¬ 
utaries. f 
The Gulf Fleet.— The U. S. vessels of war now 
on the Gulf station,, and under sailing orders for 
that station, are as follows: ~ * 
Same of Vessels. 
Guns. 
Steamer Colorado . . 
.15 
Steamer Fulton .. 
..5 
Steamer Wabash. 
..40 
Steamer Water Witch.. 
2 
Steamer Arctic_ _ 
. 2 
Frigate Savannah_ 
..50 
Sloop Jamestown . 
. •..& ■ 
Brig Dolphin . 
The Indians in Nebraska. — A dispatch from 
Nebraska City 23d ult., states that the intelligence 
from Gale county, Nebraska, say that a conflict had 
just occurred between the settlers and the Kiawah 
Indians, in which one chief was killed, and a num¬ 
ber of stolen horses captured. There wa3 much 
complaint of Indian depredations in that section 
of the Territory. 
Flour by Canal. —The shipments of flour by 
canal, at Buffalo, from the .opening up to the 19th 
ult.. a period of three weeks, have been 88,422 
barrels against about 200 barrels for the same 
period in 1S57. The total shipments for the whole 
season of 1857 were 88,092 barrels. The shipment 
this spring were therefore 330 barrels in excess of 
the entire shipment of last year. 
U. S. Lake Survey. —The government surveying 
steamer Search Hnder the command of Lient. Pot¬ 
ter, left Detroit on Saturday morning with a party 
of Topographical Engineers and their assistants, 
hound for Thunder Bay, which is to he the scene of 
operations for a thorough survey during the com¬ 
ing season. The party is under the charge of Lient. 
Lamson. 
Robert Gallup, a soldier of the Revolution, and 
probably the last survivor of the Fort Griswold 
Massacre, died at Greene, Chenango county, on the 
19th ult He. had attained to his 98th year. 
Steps are being taken to secnre land for the 
location of a large Irish colony in Brown or Shaw¬ 
ano conntv, Wis. It is supposed that about six 
thousand will come in a body from the vicinity of 
Boston. 
From a calculation carefully made by an intelli¬ 
gent gentleman in Columbus, Ohio, we learn that 
the eggs annually produced by hens in that State, 
would pay the yearly interest on her public debt 
The Boston Liquor Dealers Association, have 
paid $1,000 each to Choate, Bartlett and Goodrich, 
Boston lawyers, for opinions against the liquor 
laws of the last few years. 
The ship Mountain Wave, from Boston, has taken 
a> cargo of ice for Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. Ice 
carts and other requisites for the delivery of the 
article, have been forwarded from Boston. 
A gold placer has been discovered on Cowan’s 
branch of Grand River, in Gentry county, Missouri, 
and several old Californians are said to be making 
$6 per day there. 
Tuk supply of real pearls in the Patterson, New 
Jersey, brooks does not appear to be exhausted.— 
The Guardian says a number of pearls were recently 
put on exhibition at one of the stores there,—one 
of which was very fine, weighing thirty-two grains, 
or eleven carats, and being about the size of a pea. 
The pearls were of different lustres—some of them 
pink, and others of the orient, and very beautiful. 
An entire Chinese regiment, for having aban¬ 
doned an untenable fort during the recent attack 
on Canton by the French and English forces, has 
been sentenced to wear women’s clothes for five 
years. 
Bayfield has been very strongly recommended 
for the Capital of the State of Superior. A State 
government is proposed, with some expectation 
that it may be organized. 
The French journalists insist that, seeing what 
passes in and respecting Kansas and Utah, the gov¬ 
ernment of the Union is not carried on at all. There 
is only impotence or anarchy. 
The Dead Letter Office is one of the most impor¬ 
tant departments of the government business.— 
During a single year, besides some $50,000 returned 
to lawful owners, there have been found in letters 
and restored, drafts, checks, and other valuable 
papers to the amount o$-'$3,500,000. 
An attempt is to be made to recover the million 
and a half of dollars that went down in the Central 
America, although she sank in water over five- 
eighths of a mile deep, and in a spot that is nearly 
ninety miles from the nearest land. 
In New Haven, with a population of 35,000, the 
losses by fire during the year ending May 1st, 
amounted to only $5,785 on buildings, and $10,578 
on personal property. 
Hon. Henry B. Antd . v, Ex-Governor of Rhode 
Island, and Editor of uvf t’tovidence Journal, was 
elected U. S. Senator for six years by the General 
Assembly, on the 28th l ' , receiving 92 out of 100 
votes. f 
A i.etter from London to the New York Com¬ 
mercial, says that the starting of the expedition for 
the laying of the Atlantic cable, is expected to he 
about the 10th of June, in order to reach the mid¬ 
point of the Atlantic, between Newfoundland and 
Ireland, on the 15th of June. At that period there 
will, in that latitude, be only about four hours of 
night, and a full moon at that, so there actually 
will be no interval of darkness throughout the en¬ 
tire operation. 
The Kentucky law, prohibitingthe circulation of 
aDy foreign bank notes, or hills of a less denomina¬ 
tion than five dollars, goes into operation on the 
1st of July prox. 
In boring an artesian well at Louisville, a depth 
of 1,700 feet has been reached, and a jet of salt 
water now rises fifty feet into the air above the 
earth’s surface. 
The Minnesota papers state that Dacotah Terri¬ 
tory is receiving a fair share of immigration.— 
Numbers are pouring in by way of the Missouri, 
bound for the valley of the Big Sioux River. * 
The Canadian authorities have reduced the Wel¬ 
land Canal tplls equal to 33$ per cent, on the lead¬ 
ing Agricultural prodoctions of the West, and on 
the principal articles of merchandize. The reduc¬ 
tion took effect on the 18th inst 
Grain Trade of Canada.— The following com¬ 
pilation will show the exports of wheat and flour 
from Canada in 1856 aDd 1857, according te the 
Trade and Navigation Returns: 
Wheat. Flour. 
1856. 1857. 1856. 1857. 
Bayfield,.155,359 80,683 
Cobourg,. 75,271 13,805 6,972 
Credit,. 99,904 73,120 30,018 13,340 
Clifton,.. 542,534 _ 61,655 
Dalbousie,... 78,647 -131,141 55.684 20,553 
IloTer,.. 1 Hi,399 101,811 16,164 11,161 
Dundas,... 85.461 9,536 8,806 
Dunnville,. 66,878 _ 14,889 
Hamilton,. 559,005 222,489 130,306 113,193 
Hope,. 127,895 87.540 . . 
London,. 118,091 59,706' _ 
Montreal, . 448.084 189,182 189,438 155,373 
Newcastle,_ 96,658 _ 
Oakville,. 282,206 77,493 _ 
Quebec,. 187,183 232,200 83,861 35,505 
Stratford,_ _ 49,268 _ 
Stamford,.... 189,332 _ 61,990 . ” 
Stanley,_.... 172,553 102,142 ... _ 
Toronto.1,161.545 279,926 83,851 39,725 
Whitby,... 379,756 169,238 6,140 _ 
Woodstock..._ 111,986 _ _ _ 
Other Ports, ........ 483,437 363,282 184,023 286,874 
4,997,656 2,762,454 878,775 743,949 
The Toropj'. GYLe says this table shows a de¬ 
crease of over tv.'.u..million two hundred bushels of 
wheat, and one hundred and thirty-four thousand 
barrels of fi - .r—the total decrease in value being 
five million six hundred thousinddoll.flfs. Redu¬ 
cing the flour to wheat; we find tli‘r.?totju export of 
wheat to have been nearly three miiH.m (2,gO. ; .’&32)'< 
bushels less thaii it was in 1856, a falling off of near¬ 
ly fifty per cent.—a fact alone sufficient at account 
for the state of money matters in $ie province. 
A New Territory. —A Washington letter writer 
states that the House Committee on Territories 
have agreed to report a bill organizing a Territo¬ 
rial Government for Nevada, the western part of 
Utah, including the rich Carson Valley. 
(SYttjjWStoinal. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. -*The Senate passed the hill for the im¬ 
provement of Chicago harbor; also, for the im¬ 
provement of the harbor of Milwaukee. 
Mr. Mason, of Va., from the Committee on Foreign 
Relations, to whom was referred a resolution in¬ 
quiring whether additional legislation is necessary 
to place certain power in the hands of the Execu¬ 
tive, submitted a resolution, of which the sub¬ 
stance is that the official statements show a succes¬ 
sion of acts of aggression by the British cruisers 
in the Gulf of Mexico, so marked and extraor¬ 
dinary, as to awaken the indignation of the country. 
Vessels under our flag, pursuing lawful commerce, 
had been fired into, stopped, interrogated as to 
cargo, destination, Ac. Wherefore, 
Resolved, That these aggressions'demand such 
an unequivocal explanation from Great Britain as 
shall prevent their recurrence forever in future. 
Resolved, That the Committee approves of the 
action of the Executive, and are prepared to recom¬ 
mend such future legislation as circumstances may 
require. 
Without taking a vote, the Senate adjourned. 
House. —The House passed the Post Office, Army 
and Ocean Mail Steamer Appropriation bills. 
The House acted on the Naval Appropriation 
bill reported from the Committee of the Whole on 
the State of the Union, and non-concurred in that 
for filling in the new purchase at the Brooklyn 
Navy Yard. The bill was then passed by 110 
against 75. 
The bill appropriating four millions for the ex¬ 
penses of the collection of the Revenue, waspassed. 
The House took up the Senate joint resolution 
for the adjustment of the difficulties with Paraguay. 
After some discussion the resolution was passed. 
The House went into committee on the Supple¬ 
mental Indian Appropriation hill, which was sub. 
sequently passed. 
From Santa Fe.—A dispatch dated Independence 
21st ult, says the Santa Fe mail arrived there on 
that day. News unimportant Grass on the plains 
very good. The outgoing trains were progressing 
finely. A daring robbery had been committed by 
a party of U. S. soldiers upon Antoine Lundabol, 
four miles below Albuquerque. Three thousand 
dollars worth of specie and one thousand dollars 
worth of plate were stolen, and bonds to the 
amount of $60,000 burnt The conductor of the 
train reports meeting a few Indians, and they were 
of a friendly disposition. 
Santa Fe papers of May 1st are received. On the 
17th of April a party of Mexicans from Mesilla 
Valley, attacked the camp of the Apache Indians, 
near Fort Thorne, butchering indiscriminately 
men, women and children. Liet Howard, of Fort 
Thorne, subsequently captured the Mexicans and 
held them prisoners at the Fort. On the 7th of 
April a tremendous storm of rain, hail and snow 
occurred near Turkey Creek, flooding the prairie 
two or three feet The animals of the trains stam¬ 
peded, involving heavy losses to the traders. 
Cotton Manufactures in the United States. 
—In 1850, there was employed in the cotton manu¬ 
factories of the United States, a capital ©f $74,500,- 
000. The amount of cotton thus consumed was 
estimated at 641,240 hales per annum. The number 
of persons employed in this single branch was 
92,286, of whom 33,150 were males, and 59,136 
were females. The woolen manufacture of the 
United States employed a capital of $28,000,000, 
and consumed something like 71,000,000 pounds of 
wool per annum. A ccording to the census of 1850, 
the manufacturing and mining of the U. S. were as 
follows: 
Establishments,_ 121,855 
Capital,. $527,209,193 
Raw material,___ $654,655,038 
Males employed,_ 719,479 
Females,_ 125,512 
Annual wages,_ $229,736,377 
Annual .pzoduct,_ $1,013,726,493 
Genesee Valley Railroad. —According to the 
Mt. Morris Union, this loEg contemplated avenue 
of trade and travel bids fair to he speedily con¬ 
structed. The Union says:—“ The shadow of un¬ 
certainty which has so Ibng lowered over our rail¬ 
road, we are rejoiced to say is dispelling, and its 
final completion is now no longer a question. The 
Directors met at Geneseo, on Saturday and adjourn¬ 
ing, met on Monday and completed their arrange¬ 
ments with the contractors, so that by the first of 
September next the Iron Horse will he snorting and 
screaming from our village down the Valley to 
Rochester. This long looked for consummation 
will be hailed with joy by the citizens of our vil¬ 
lage and those above and below us; then the far 
famed “Genesee Valley” will have what, years 
since, she so richly deserved—one of the best built 
railroads in the State.” • 
From Mexico. —The steamship Tennessee, from 
Vera Crnz, arrived at New Orleans on the 25th ult., 
with dates to the 21st ult. Admiral Zerman, of the 
Mexican Navy, came passenger in her. We have 
by the Tennessee advices that communication be¬ 
tween the interior and Vera Cruz had been deferred 
again. The city had been blockaded for three 
days by the government steamer Guerrero, hut in 
consequence of her fuel giving out she was obliged 
to leave for a supply. The hopes of the Revolu¬ 
tionists were considerably damaged, and the confi¬ 
dence of the Constitutionalists proportionately re¬ 
vived, and they were anticipating an easy victory. 
There is nothing said in the advices of the where¬ 
abouts of Guarez and his Cabinet 
Good News for the Boys. —For the last year 
or two, there has been a deficiency in the supply of 
Chinese fire-crackers, owing to the rebellion in 
China. The consequence has been a great advance 
,in the price of these indispensable articles for the 
Fourth of July; but this year there is likely to he 
an abundance, which will bring the prices down. 
From July 1st, 1857, to February 27th, 1858, there 
were shipped from Hong Kong to the U. S. 140,361 
boxes ©f fire crackers, against 42,978 on the pre¬ 
vious year, and 85,320 boxes in the year before that 
The net profits of the Connecticut State {Prison 
for the year ending 1st March were $3,058 88. To¬ 
tal number of prisoners at the date named, 212. 
®ht ileus fimulfttstt 
— The wheat crop in Texas is ready for harvest 
— The annual allowance of Queen Victoria is 
$2,000,000. 
— The national debt of Spain amounts to £141),- 
000,000 sterling. 
— Bears are getting hold, and are killing sheep 
at Stamford, Vt 
— According to the articles of war, it is death to 
stop a cannon ball. 
— The Hessian fly is said to he destroying the 
wheat crop in Delaware. 
— Counterfeit $10 notes on the State Bank of 
Ohio are in circulation. 
— The coal bed found at Bowmansville, C. W., is 
150 feet below the surface. 
— Over one million pounds of copper is ready 
for shipment at Ontonagon. 
— Typhoid fever prevails in Central Alabama, at 
present, in an epidemic form. 
— Selling papers on Sunday has been stepped by 
Mayor Henry, of Philadelphia. 
— Snow fell at Summit, Allegany county, the 20th 
ult, to the depth of two inches. 
— It is now thought that Hoffman, the Poet, will 
recover from his long insanity. 
— Charles Sumner has a relapse. His physicians 
advise him again to go abroad. 
— The Twiggs Court Martial at Cincinnati, it is 
said, cost the Government $6,000. 
— Forty cows per week is the average mortality 
in the New York still slop stables. 
— The Erie canal has been shortened twelve 
miles between Syracuse and Rochester. 
— The Elkton (Md.) Democrat says that pheasants 
are now very numerous in that country. 
— There is a “pigeon roost” in Decatur county, 
Indiana, 58 miles long by 14 miles broad. 
— Sarah Marsh died at Heath, Mass., on the 9th 
nit., aged 100 years, 8 months and 7 days. 
— Owing to Bishop Potter’s health, an Assistant 
Bishop of Pennsylvania will be appointed. 
— There are twenty-seven theatres in Paris, 
twenty-three in London, and ten in New York. 
— Fillibuster Walker is said to he at New Orleans 
preparing for another descent upon Nicaragua. 
— The British Navy are extending their search 
and seizure into the land on the Island of Cuba. 
— The army worm has appeared in immense 
numbers in the wheat fields around Norfolk, Va. 
— New evidence in favor of Rev. Ebenezer Wil¬ 
liams’ claim to the throne of France, has arisen! 
— In Guilford, Conn., lives a lady who has seen 
her great grand father and her great grand-child. 
— Twenty-three vessels have arrived at St Johns, 
Newfoundland, with a catch of about 89,000 seals. 
— The land sales in Kansas, which were to take 
place in July, have been postponed until November. 
— The population of Davenport is put down at 
17,500; that of Rock Island 9,600, and Moline 3,000. 
— The great Mechanical Bakery in Philadelphia 
is now baking about ten thousand loaves of bread 
a day. 
— The number of houses erected at Cincinnati 
for the year ending May 1, was 386, at a cost of $1,* 
040,000. 
— On the 21st ult, the County Treasury of 
Henry county, Indiana, was entered and robbed of 
$11,000. 
— The consolidated debt of the city of Boston 
amounts to nearly eight and a half millions of 
dollars. 
— The subscriptions to the Havelock monument, 
proposed to be erected in Sunderland Park, amount 
to $5,000. 
— The Hieksite Friends held their yearly meet¬ 
ing in New York on Wednesday and Thursday of 
last week. 
— Mr. Layard has arrived in London from an 
extended tour through the disturbed districts of 
East India. 
— The Bedford Democrat says that many of the 
wheat fields in that county are entirely destroyed 
by the fly. 
— No less than 23 American vessels have been 
illegally boarded by the British cruisers in the Gulf 
of Mexico. 
— Subscriptions are being raised in New Orleans 
for the sufferers by the inundation of the Missis¬ 
sippi river. 
_Two citizens of Oswego recently shot and 
killed a panther, within a mile of that city, with 
pigeon shot. 
— A riot took place in Quebec lately, in conse¬ 
quence of an attempt by the Council to tax real 
estate higher. 
— The crops in France are said to he 15 days in 
advance of ordinary years, and grain is rapidly fal¬ 
ling in price. 
— On the 5th of May, the Empress of France 
entered her thirty-second year, and Her Majesty 
wears bravely. 
— “The Grasshopper” is the name of apapersooD 
to he issued at Grasshopper Falls, in Jefferson 
county, Kansas. 
— Snow fell at Bellows Falls on Monday week to 
the depth of two inches, and in the neighborhood 
to a greater depth. 
— The first church of Hartford, Conn., has never 
dismissed a pastor, but all settled there have died 
among the people. 
— Hon. David S. Reid, of North Carolina, arrived 
in Washington on the 20th ult. His health appears 
to be entirely restored. 
— A private despatch from New Orleans gives 
the receipts of tobacco at that port since the 1st 
ult, at 14,600 hogsheads. 
— Tt is stated that two hundred and thirty years 
ago $24 purchased the land now composing the 
city and county of New York. 
— Ellis Gray Loring, the well known anti-slavery 
lawyer, of Boston, died after a short illness, on 
Monday week, at the age of 65. 
— The religious revival i3 the United States is 
described by the French editors as an epidemic dis- 
temperature of American reason. 
— The Connecticut House of Representatives has 
defeated a hill which passed the Senate, making 
the 1st of January a legal holiday. 
— Four sharks, measuring respectively 10, 9J, 
7$ and 6 feet, were lately caught at Charleston, 
S. C., from the steam packet wharf. 
— The estimates for the next year, for the gov¬ 
ernment of Canada, are given as follows:—Receipts, 
$3,366,400; expenditures, $5,261,411. 
— Fifteen soldiers were tried for desertion at 
Newport barracks, Ky., and, on conviction, were 
punished with from 25 to 30 lashes each. 
— A Canadian paper states that over 20,000 bar¬ 
rels of flour have already been landed, and passed 
over the line from Collingwood to Toronto. 
— Observers of things in Virginia and the other 
Southern States, say the harvests in those sections 
will this year be a month earlier than usual. 
— A Moravian Mission Church has been dedicat¬ 
ed in Providence, for the benefit of a German pop¬ 
ulation of about 700, who reside in that city. 
— Twenty-eight thousand five hundred and 
thirty-one “laborers”—negroes, coolies and ^uca- 
tan Indians—have been sent to Cuba since 1853. 
— Mr. Hollister, of Licking county, O., started 
a Company of 13 young men, for the purpose ot 
driving 10,000 sheep from Missouri to California. 
