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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
JUNE 12 
Contents of the Rural for June 12, 1858. 
AGRICULTURAL. Vxar. 
Facts Abont Milk. 189 
The Progress of English Agriculture. 189 
A Rainy Day in the Library—No. II,.189 
Kirby’s American Harvester, [2 Illustrations,]. 189 
Racks and Mangers, again,.199 
Caked Bag,.19° 
Bees and Bee-Hives—My Experience.—No. It. 199 
Tile Drains—A First Experiment,.199 
Treatment of Cream in Butter Making,.199 
Weather in Illinois—Clover Seed. 199 
Leaky Roofs,.-. *99 
Potato Experiments,. 199 
Inquiries and Answers .—Ferrets Windmill for the Farm. 
Warts on Cows’ Teats. To kill Underbrush. Sweet Corn for 
Winter. Driving Bees from one Hive to Ar other. Rabbits and 
Peppermint Railroad Horse-Powers and Horses,.190 
Rural Miscellany.—The Season—Crop Prospects. Attend to 
the Young Colts. Exhibition of Horse-Tanning American Far¬ 
mer Gone to Europe. The Iowa Farmer. One-Horse Mowing 
Machine. Susquehanna Valley Ag. Society’s Fair. 
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 
Notes in the Garden, [Illustrated,]. 
Aspects of Vegetation in May,. 
Spurious Rebecca Vines from Massachusetts,. 
Tlie Grape—Training, Ac .191 
Hardiness of the New Rochelle Blabkberry,. 191 
Effects of Rain on the Color of Flowers,. 191 
Pears— New York Farmers’ Club,. 191 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Preserving the Teeth. Ginger Cookies Hot-Water Cake. Cook¬ 
ies. Cream Cake Silver Cake. Golden Cake. Pine Bur Pic¬ 
ture Frames. Rye Bread. Graham Cakes.191 
LADIES' PORT-FOLIO. 
•• Mother, Do the Stars e’er Sleep, | Poetical ] Euclid’s Geometry. 
Woman. A Lady’s Opinion of a Lady’s Man. Education of 
Young Ladies The Babe. A Mother's Anchor,.192 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The Beautiful land, [Poetical] Mr. Plowbandie Stirred Up. 
Happiness. Great Ideas and Small Unties, . 192 
SABBATH MUSING8. 
No Night in Heaven, [Poetical] Sermons. Humanity. Carnal 
Enmity. 192 
EDUCATIONAL. 
A Word About Books. A Word to Young Teachers. Mind and 
Heart-Culture for Farmers. The Teacher’s Duties,.193 
USEFUL OLIO. 
The Great Crevasse near New Orleans, | Illustrated.] Science 
Answering Simple Questions The Beginning of Newspapers. 193 
THE YOUNG RURALIST. 
Rural Thoughts. Self-Culture. Words from the Eyes,.193 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
Here Comes Summer, | Poetical ] Alice Millard's Disobedience; 
or, Too Lata to be Forgiven,. 196 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
The “Old Dominion" Coffee Pot—Arthur, Burnham A Gilroy. 
Hubbard A Northrop. General Dealers in Dry Goods. 
Kirby's American Harvester—Buffalo Ag'l Machine Works. 
Caiioon's Patent Broadcast Sower—J. E. Cheney. 
Advertisement—I. S. Hobbie. 
Black JIawk Horses — Challenge.—.!. G. M'Cracken 
Profitable Employment—Robert Sears. 
Grove Farm for Sale—J. If. Rodgers. 
Iron Stable Furniture—Janes, Beebe A Co. 
Pure Wine, made from Native Grapes—E. Ferguson. 
Nursery for Sale—Ohas. Moulson. 
Astor House. Broadway, New York—C. A Stetson. 
Ketctmm’s One-Horse Mower—H. L. Howard. 
Superior Writing Ink—S. O Masters. 
A Printed Recipe-Eddy A White. 
Wanted!—Maynard A Caswell 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Which is the best Machine for Cutting Grass and Grain—Wayne. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 12, 1858. 
Revolution at New Orleans. 
Tiie country was startled by a telegraphic dis¬ 
patch received from New Orleans on the morning 
of the 3d inst., with the following import:—“A 
revolution broke out here last night A vigilance 
committee in large numbers took possession of 
the Arsenal, Jackson Square, and the prisons.— 
This morning the executive committee called for 
all law and order people to join them, and an¬ 
nounced a determination to carry out their meas¬ 
ures. Nothing else has yet transpired—7 o’clock 
A. M.,—hut cannon are posted about the arsenal, 
and 200 armed men are on guard.” 
Dispatches were sent out hourly as the excite¬ 
ment increased, and it was learned from these that 
the occasion of the rising was the numerous dis¬ 
orders, outrages and assassinations daily occurring. 
The forces of the committee were constantly and 
rapidly increasing, and the command was given to 
Maj. Duncan, late of the U. S. army, who was do¬ 
ing all in his power to increase military discipline. 
The committee tore up the streets, erected cotton 
hale barricades, and defied the municipal authori¬ 
ties. The press of the city were divided in opinion, 
the Picayune and Crescent being in favor of the 
city, and the True Delta and Delta in favor of the 
committe. The rest neutral. The respectable 
citizens were said to support the committee, and it 
was thought that the Mayor would be forced to 
yield. 
Thus matters progressed until 2 o’clock P. M., 
the municipal authorities endeavoring to retain 
power, hut the city forces “being little better than 
an armed rabble,” the Mayor resigned and the 
committee triumphed. Quiet was immediately re¬ 
stored by the new organization, and such measures 
alopted as were deemed advisable. The following 
extract from an official document exhibits the end 
and aim of the committee : 
“For the present, the ordinary machinery of po¬ 
lice justice is superseded, the Mayor and Recorder 
as we understand, yielding up the power which 
they confess their inability to exercise, for the 
preservation of property; and the Vigilance Com¬ 
mittee will therefore provisionally act in their 
stead, administering to each malefactor the pun¬ 
ishment due to his crimes, without fear, prejudice, 
or political bias. All citizens who have sympathies 
with this movement, and who think that the time 
has come when New Orleans should he governed 
like all well-ordered and civilized communities 
will report themselves without delay at the princi¬ 
pal office, where the character of this movement 
will be explained, and the determination of the 
people more fully made known. 
All has been done noiselessly thus far. All will 
continue noiselessly, dispassionately and justly; 
but the ruffians who have dyed our streets with the 
gore of unoffending citizens, and spread terror 
among the peaceable, orderly and well-disposed, 
must leave or perish. So the people have deter¬ 
mined. Fox populi, vox Dei.” 
Marine Disasters for May. —The number of 
American sea-going vessels reported the last month 
as total losses amounts to 28, besides one missing 
bark. Their value may be estimated at about 
$340,000, independent of their cargoes. 
(SangwisioMal. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —The amendment reported by Mr. Ma¬ 
son, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, to al¬ 
low Consuls and Diplomatists their salaries, while 
under instructions, and while proceeding to and 
from their posts, was agreed to, and Anally the bill 
passed by ayes 25, nays 13. 
Mr. Mallory offered a resolution asking the Sec¬ 
retary of War to inquire into the expediency of 
placing the fortiAcations at Key West and on the 
Florida coast, in a defensible condition. Agreed to. 
Mr. Seward called up the adjournment resolution 
and called for the yeas and nays on agreeing to the 
House amendment to adjourn on the 10th inst., 
which was carried by 29 to 27, consequently both 
Houses will adjourn on Thursday. 
Mr. Douglas introduced a bill to revive and put 
in force the act of March 3d, 1839, in relation to 
the north-eastern boundary, with such modifica- 
tions as will make it applicable to the present con¬ 
troversy in regard to the right of search and visi¬ 
tation. The bill thus revived puts at the disposal 
of the President, to be used when necessary to re¬ 
sist the claims of Great Britain, the naval and mili¬ 
tary forces and the militia of the United States, and 
authorizes him to call into service 50,000 volun¬ 
teers. Also, puts at his disposal $10,000,000 with 
the right to borrow the same. Also, if he deems 
necessary, to send a special ambassador to Great 
Britain. The act is to continue in force until sixty 
days after the next meeting of Congress. The bill 
confers these powers in the precise language of 
the act of 1839, except that it strikes out the word 
“ boundary,” and inserts “visitation and right of 
search,”—with a few other verbal alterations; con¬ 
ferring in fact the same power on Mr. Buchanan 
as was conferred on Mr. VanBuren. This bill was 
made the special order for the 5th inst 
The bill as reported from the Committee on 
Commerce to surrender the stock of the United 
States, in the Dismal Swamp Company, on certain 
conditions, was passed. 
The bill providing for allotments of land to the 
New Y'ork Indians, was also passed. Also, for the 
payment of Wm. Heine, the artist of the Japan ex¬ 
pedition. Sixty or seventy other private bills were 
also passed. 
Mr. Houston, of Texas, announced tbe^death of 
his colleague, Mr. Henderson. 
House. —The House passed the Indian deAciency 
bill and Volunteer appropriation bill—the latter by 
101 to GO. 
The House concurred in the bill, as returned 
from the Senate, authorizing the Post-Master- 
General, Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney- 
General to make arrangements for the accommo¬ 
dation of the U. S. Courts, Post-Office and Custom 
House in Philadelphia. 
They also passed the Senate bill to continue half¬ 
pay to certain widows and orphans of officers and 
soldiers as provided by the act of Feb., 1853. 
The House amended the Senate’s resolution for 
the extension of the season, by substituting Thurs¬ 
day next, and passed it by 139 against 24. 
The House passed a bill confirming the settlers 
in their right to the pre-emption of their lands in 
Illinois. They also concurred in the Senate amend¬ 
ment to the Diplomatic and Consular appropria¬ 
tion bill, striking out the proviso confining the 
appropriations strictly to the fiscal year ending 
in 1849. 
The House passed the bill, giving a construction 
to the united section of the act of Feb., 1853, con¬ 
tinuing the half-pay of certain widows and orphans 
of revolutionary officers and soldiers, by which 
their pay will commence from the 4th of March, 
1848, and involving the expenditure of a million 
and a half dollars. 
The House passed the bill providing for keeping 
and disbursing all public documents through the 
Secretary of the Interior. 
The House concurred in the Senate amendment 
appropriating $11,496 for Maine, and $9,215 for 
Massachusetts, for the satisfaction of claims grow¬ 
ing out of the Aroostook war, and for which pro¬ 
vision was made in the Ashburton treaty. 
Washington Matters. 
The Secretary of War has received a telegraphic 
dispatch from General Harney, dated Leaven¬ 
worth, in which he says that the express has ar¬ 
rived, and reports Gov. Camming driven out of 
Salt Lake City. The dispatch does not obtain full 
credence, because Gen. H. merely repeats a report, 
and does not communicate as from direct intelli¬ 
gence from himself. It is believed as probable, 
that Gov. Cumming has returned to Fort Scott, for 
it is known to the Government that when he left 
there contrary to the advice of Gen. Johnston, he 
promised to be back in two weeks. Gen. Harney’s 
dispatch embodied a request for the re-inforcement 
to be hurried forward. 
The President told a member of the House to-day 
that the question of the right of search must now 
be settled definite!] 7 , and that the British Govern¬ 
ment must abandon its pretensions. It is the in¬ 
tention of the President to send the Saratoga to the 
Gulf next week, and the Constellation, now on her 
way home from the Mediterranean, will be ordered 
immediately to the same station. 
Mr. Burlingame’s report was unanimously con¬ 
curred in by the Committee of Foreign Affairs, and 
is accompanied by a resolution, requesting the 
President to obtain redress on account of the con¬ 
duct of the French government in relation to the 
American bark Adriatic. The report also recom¬ 
mends a review of the laws in relation to collisions 
at se8, and an arrangement by which the damages 
may he determined in such cases. 
The Atlantic Telegram. —The last news from 
England represent the arrangements on board 
the Niagara and Agamemnon, for laying the At¬ 
lantic Telegraph Cable as about completed. The 
British Government had detached two Naval Engi¬ 
neers for the purpose of assisting in taking charge 
of the machinery on board the Agamemnon, and 
very efficient and competent persons are placed in 
charge of that on board the Niagara. New and 
well adapted machinery has been made to prevent 
the accidental breaking of the cable from excess 
of strain in paying out, or the pitching of the ves¬ 
sel in a storm. 
Qtw fatagt’iipltjs. 
Some $300,000 in the new decimal coins, have 
been shipped for Canada from England. About 
$100,000 are in 20 cent pieces, $75,000 in 10 cent 
pieces, the same amount in 5 cent pieces, and $50,- 
000 in bronze centa 
In the State of Louisiana alone, there are 15,000 
square miles of fertile alluvial soil, which lie below 
high water mark, and require to be protected by 
artificial embankmenta 
The London (C. W.) Free Press says Sir William 
Logan is now at Bowmanville, investigating into 
the coal matter. The specimen submitted to him 
in Toronto, is declared to he genuine coal—but 
whether it came from the so-called mine, he went 
to ascertain. 
The Cincinnati Gazette has put its corps of re¬ 
porters upon the duty of tracing out the lacteal 
stream which daily pours through that city. They 
find several places where the cows are stabled and 
fed upon distillery slops, and expose the foulness of 
the swill-milk-men. 
The County Treasurer of Cincinnati, Hamilton 
Co., Ohio, gives bonds with sureties to the amount 
of five hundred thousand dollars, for the faithful 
performance of the duties of his office. 
Tiie Canadian Parliament has passed to a third 
reading a bill to amend the naturalization laws, re¬ 
ducing the period of residence subsequent to which 
foreigners can claim naturalization, from five to 
three years. 
A Manilla cable, seventeen inches in circumfer¬ 
ence, weighing four tuns, and measuring in coil six 
feet and a half in diameter, has been sent from De¬ 
troit for use at the Cliff Copper Mine, Lake Superior. 
Mil John Briggs publishes a card in the Louis¬ 
ville papers, complaining of the officers of the 
Branch of the Bank of the State of Indiana, at New 
Albany; he having presented $1,000 of their notes 
for redemption, they met his demand by paying 
him the entire amount in five cent coins. 
The Detroit Tribune states that a gentleman who 
is engaged in taking the water assessment census, 
reports a considerable increase in the population 
of that city. 
The Waterville Times reports that a valuable 
lead mine has been discovered on the farm of Mr. 
Bartholomew, at Kirkland, Oneida county. The 
specimens are said to be purer than those from 
Galena. 
Mayor Tiemann said recently, he had no doubt 
but that the city of New York had been swindled 
out of eight millions of dollars within the past few 
years, by officials and others. 
The law passed by the California Legislature 
prohibiting the immigration of Chinese and Mon¬ 
golians into California after the first of October 
next, is said to be in conflict with the treaties of 
the United States. 
From Utah.—Important InteUigence. 
A dispatch from Leavenworth, 1st inst., says that 
intelligence from Camp Scott to the 6th of May 
had been received at the Fort. On that day, two 
Mormons came into the camp from Salt Lake City, 
having dispatches from Gov. Cumming for Secre¬ 
tary Cass. The troops were expected to move to¬ 
ward the Valley by the end of May. Nothing was 
known at the camp, at the date mentioned, of any 
proceedings within the city. The foregoing came 
by mail to the Fort. The Expressman who brought 
it supplies the following additional particulars:— 
He left Fort Laramie on May 18. At Fort Kearney 
the commanding officer directed him to inform 
Col. Monroe that he had information that Governor 
Cumming had been expelled from Salt Lake City 
and that the Mormons were in arms, determined to 
resist the army to the last, and requesting Colonel 
Monroe to push on as speedily as possible. This 
communication, it is understood, was received at 
Fort Kearney through the mail brought by this 
messenger, to whom it was committed probably for 
lack of time. 
Col. Hoffman's command was not seventy-five 
miles beyond Fort Laramie. They had encounter¬ 
ed snow two to three feet deep, and lost many 
animals. All the streams were very high. The 
Peace Commissioners had passed Fort Laramie; 
they were obliged to swim the Platte at that post 
It is reported that the troops at Camp Scott were 
living on mule meat No official information had 
been received at the Fort, but the authority fur¬ 
nishing this intelligence is regarded as unques¬ 
tionable. 
The Washington correspondent of the Evening 
Post says that the Secretary of War has dispatches 
from Col. Johnson, confirming the report that Gov. 
Cumming had been driven out of Salt Lake City. 
Indian War in Minnesota. 
Our Minnesota exchanges bring intelligence of 
an Indian battle, with all the characteristics of 
savage warfare, which was waged between a par¬ 
ty of Sioux and Chippewas, at Shakopee, about 25 
miles above St Paul, on the 27th ult The Sioux 
had been encamped for several days near Shako¬ 
pee, to the great annoyance of the citizens. The 
Chippewas, thirsting to revenge the murder of 
four of their number, which took place near 
Chengwatana, on the 5th ult., “pitched into” this 
miscellaneous assortment of Dakotas. It is said 
that IIole-in-the-Day led them on. 
On the morning of the 27th, an old Sioux, from 
an encampment of his tribe near by, on the south 
side of the Minnesota River, was shot and killed 
by a Chippewa, whose party was encamped on the j 
north side. The war whoop was sounded, and the 
Sioux crossed to avenge the death of their fallen 
warrior. The whole number of the Sioux con¬ 
sisted of only fifty men, and leaving their families, 
they poured en masse to the field of battle, with 
guns, tomahawks, and every conceivable weapon 
they could lay their bands on. The battle was a 
desperate and bloody one—there being four Chip¬ 
pewas killed and six dangerously wounded, and 
two Sioux killed and twelve wounded, two of them 
fatally. The Chippewas were beaten off, but they 
are gathering their warriors, and will soon set out 
upon the war trail. The conflict, terrible as it 
was, was witnessed by the inhabitants of Shakopee, 
the camping ground of the Sioux being about 
tbree-fourtbs of a mile distant. 
Tim Life and Times of HuGn Miller. By Thomas N. 
Brow.v. New York: Rudd & Carleton. 
Among the most prominent of the self-educated men 
of the first half of the nineteenth century is the subject 
of this biography. A Scotchman by birth, he exhibited 
in his life and character the peculiar traits by which that 
race are so readily distinguished. This sketch of the 
Life and Times of Hugh Miller furnishes to the Ameri¬ 
can reader the details of the rise and progress of that 
remarkable man, who chose for his field of usefulness the 
study of the rocks, and unfolded with an unusually clear 
and vivid descriptive phraseology the truthB and wonders 
of the hidden treasures which lie imbedded in the crust 
of the globe which we inhabit. The man who, with a 
reverential awe of the majesty of the Creator, first un¬ 
dertook the task of demonstrating from actual observation 
the compatibility of the main points of Mosaic history with 
the more recent developments of the Geologist, is worthy 
the highest respect of men. Without any means of sup¬ 
port other than was provided by his manual labor as a 
stone mason, he perseveringly prosecuted his earlier 
studies amid the hardships and vicissitudes of an opera¬ 
tive’s life, and avoiding the popular demonstrations so 
common in the old world amongst operatives, he looked 
steadily toward a higher and nobler field for the exercise 
of his great intellectual powers. The great struggle of 
the Church of Scotland with the despotism of the State, 
which, in 1839 and a few succeeding years, convulsed 
Scotch society, brought into play the power of Hugh 
Miller’s intellect, and doubtless at the same time fur¬ 
nished him a means of support, while he spent his leisure 
among the stones and fossils of his native hills, battling 
vigorously for moral truth while he unfolded with a mas¬ 
ter mind the hidden truths of Nature and the Creation.— 
The needy operative stone-cutter, without such an office 
as that of Editor of the great Free Church Organ, The 
Witness, could never have reached the point of useful¬ 
ness and eminence he acceded to, without the barter of 
his indomitable spirit of independence, which he never 
sacrificed. No honors, such as those which are lavishly 
heaped on literary sycophants, awaited him. No Profes¬ 
sor’s chair was tendered to this child of Natural Science, 
to aid him physically, while he labored mentally; and 
thus he owes the less to man and more to nature. Natu¬ 
ral Science, especially the difficult and perplexing study 
of Geology, could illy afford to lose her noblest student. 
But he has gone, hurried himself away, having done too 
much for his physical good. We are pleased to find the 
veil of sympathy and true charity drawn around the last 
scenes of Hugh Miller’s life by the moral censors of the 
day. Few of them can claim to have done half so much 
for true religion as he did, though his end was not in ac¬ 
cordance with Divine law. The noble brain was racked 
by disease and intense study, and owing little to man, but 
all to God, he went to his account before he was summon¬ 
ed—leaving a deathless lame to apologize for the act. 
— The volume contains about 350 pages, and is issued 
in superior style. Sold by D. M. Dkwky and Stkkt.k, 
Avery & Co._s. 
Captivity of the Oatman Girls: BeiDg an Interesting 
Narrative of Life among the Apache and Mohave In¬ 
dians. By R. B. Strattan. New York: Printed for 
the Author. 
This volume contains, as stated in a portion of its title, 
“an interesting account of the massacre of the Oatman 
family, by the Apache Indians, in 1851; the narrow escape 
of Lorenzo D. Oatman; the capture of Olive A. and 
Mary A. Oatman; the death by starvation of the latter; 
the five years’ suffering and captivity of Olive, and also 
her singular recapture in 1856—as given by Lorenzo D. 
and Olive A. Oatman, the only surviving members of the 
family, to the Author.” We have perused the volume 
with much interest. The dreadful massacre of the family, 
and remarkable preservation and hair-breadth escapes of 
the survivors—furnishing material sufiicient for a volumi¬ 
nous and absorbing romance—are related in a manner 
which renders the whole narrative pathetic, interesting 
and instructive. The work has already reached its third 
edition, and as the family are benefited by its sale, we 
trust it will be widely circulated. The volume comprises 
some 300 pages, and is neatly printed and illustrated.— 
Sold by Dewey. 
Our Little Ones in Heaven. Edited bv the Author of 
“ The Aimwell Stories,” etc. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 
This is the title of a neat volume containing many 
sketches, in prose and verse, designed for the consolation 
of bereaved parents. In the words of the editor “may 
the soothing words of sympathy, the sweet and precious 
consolations, and the wise and gentle counsels, which are 
scattered over these pages, distil like heavenly dew upon 
many a bleeding heart, and help to allay those griefs 
with which the stranger may not intermeddle.” For sale 
by Cole, Adams & Co. 
The Three Beauties. By Mrs. Emma D. E. N. South- 
worth, Philadelphia—T. B. Peterson & Bros. 
This volume of upwards of 500 pages,is by a celebrated 
lomance writer, and presents an inviting appearance.— - 
For sale by Dewey. 
The London Quarterly Review was duly received, hut 
we have delayed a notice thereof until we could give the 
readers of the Rural a taste of its quality. With this 
week we have given an extract upon the “ Progress of 
European Agriculture.” The articles contained are eight, 
as follows:—Early Life of Johnson; Fictions of Bohemia; 
Italian Tours and Tourists; The Progress of European 
Agriculture; Michael Angelo; Public Speaking; Siege of 
Lucknow; France and the Late Ministry. Published by 
Leonard Scott & Co., New York. For sale by Dewey. 
Great Hurricane and Loss of Life.—A ter- 
ble gale swept across Illinois on Sunday evening 
the 30th ult. It was severely felt in Chicago and 
other places along the lake. The storm commenced 
at Chicago, about 9 in the evening, while some of 
the meetings at the churches were still in session, 
and the people were alarmed by the rocking of the 
buildings—in one case so much so that they all 
rushed out The village of Ellison, Warren county ; 
about twelve miles north-west of Monmouth, was 
nearly altogether destroyed by the hurricane. Ev¬ 
ery building in the place, except three small shan¬ 
ties, were blown to the ground. Nineteen persons 
were killed, and several others fatally injured. El¬ 
lison contains about 500 inhabitants, and it is re¬ 
ported that not one escaped uninjured. Floods of 
rain fell during the night, and the streams were 
swollen so as to carry away bridges, overflow farm 
lands, and intercept the passage of railroad trains. 
The town of Cairo was submerged. 
The Flood at the West. —A dispatch from St 
Joseph, Mo., says that section of country has been 
visited by one of the heaviest rain storms ever 
known. The Platte, Grand, and several other rivers 
have overflowed their banks, doing immense dam¬ 
age to crops, bridges, &c. The worst consequences 
are feared. 
Lake Superior Pig Iron. —The Cleveland Lead, 
er says that ten tuns of charcoal pig iron, manu¬ 
factured from Lake Superior ore, have been sent to 
Cleveland to be tried in the Boiler Plate Rolling 
Mill of that city. Confidence is felt in the success 
of the experiment now making. 
—They have got the small pox at Chicago. 
— Cholera is raging in the Republic of Guate¬ 
mala. 
— The wealth of Wm. B. Astor is estimated at 
$50,000,000. 
— A temperance political party has been organ¬ 
ized in Boston. 
— The balance in the U. S. Treasury amounts to 
nearly $7,000,000. 
— A promising revival of religion is in progress 
at Hamilton College. 
— The hog cholera is very prevalent in the inte¬ 
rior counties of Indiana. 
— Four silver watches were plowed up last week 
in a field in Akron, Ohio. 
— Early cucumbers are being enjoyed by the 
citizens of Kalamazoo, Mich. 
— The first white man born in Kentucky is still 
living, and is residing in that State. 
— In case of a war with England, who will own 
the Suspension Bridge at Niagara? 
— The cultivation of the grape for wine-making 
has been commenced in South Carolina. 
— Maryland rejects the proposed Constitutional 
Convention by a majority of about 9,000. 
— The number of foreigners reaching the U. S., 
in the last 15 years, is nearly four million. 
— Corn is selling at the warehouses in Terra 
Haute, Ind., for twenty-five cents per bushel. 
— The bills of the Woodbury Bank of Conn., 
were thrown out Saturday last at New York. 
— Strawberries, in great quantities, are now for 
sale in Cincinnati, at 10 and 20 cents per quart. 
— Ex-President Pierce and wife were to leave 
Lisbon on the 1st of June for a tour of Europe. 
— Over fifty thousand men have applied to the 
President to till the two new regiments for Utah. 
—Jersey City, by a census just taken, has a pop¬ 
ulation of 27,000—an increase of 4,000 in one year. 
— The amount expended by American travelers 
in Europe is estimated at over $10,000,000 annually. 
— Over four and a half millions of dollars is in¬ 
vested in the manufacture of gas in Massachusetts. 
— The Waterville Times says lead has been dis¬ 
covered in a stone quarry in the town of Kirkland. 
— In view of the many incendiary fires in Buffa¬ 
lo, the appointment of a Vigilance Committee is 
urged. 
— Mrs. Caines is in Washington actively urging 
her claims to a pension as the widow of General 
Gaines. 
— The last society spoken of in California is the 
“Pay Nothings.” It is said to be alarmingly pros 
perous. 
— New wheat has appeared at Augusta, Georgia. 
The mills are busy grinding for the New Y'ork 
market. 
_It is rumored that the President intends to 
appoint Senator Slidell, of Louisiana, minister to 
France. 
— There are 50,051 rice plantations in the South, 
the annual product of which is worth about $4,- 
000,000. 
— The Portsmouth (O.) Tribune estimates the 
damages by the late freshet in the Scioto Valley at 
$400,000. 
— The damage to plantations, caused by the rise 
of the Mississippi, is estimated at thirty millions 
of dollars. 
— A calliope or “ steam piano” is to be placed 
on board the Armenia, of the Albany and New 
\ r ork line. 
— The Mayor of Lafayette, Ind., has been pre¬ 
sented to the Common Council of that city, as a 
“ nuisance!” 
— The Daggets at Attleborough consume two 
tuns of steel each week in the manufacture of 
ladies’ hoops. 
— Barnum has settled with all his creditors, ar¬ 
ranged all his affairs, and is now a greater million¬ 
aire than ever. 
— On the 20th of April no less than 1,700 per¬ 
sons sailed from San Francisco for the Frazee river 
gold diggings. 
— A new street-sweeping machine, resembling a 
piano on wheels, has been got up by some enter¬ 
prising Yankee. 
— Bishop Scott, of the M. E. Conference, ii about 
to sail for the Pacific, to preside over the Califor¬ 
nia Conference. 
— Albert Pike, aged 12 years, son of the poet 
Pike, was drowned in Arkansas river, at Little Rock, 
on the 10th ult. 
— It costs twenty-six dollars an hour to light the 
new hall of the House of Representatives at Wash¬ 
ington, with gas. 
— The Emperor Napoleon is preparing for the 
press a work upon rifles, to form a pendent to his 
treatise on artillery. 
— C. R. Buckalew, of Pennsylvania, is to go to 
one of the South American ports as Minister Resi¬ 
dent, at $7,600 a year. 
— There is a paper published at West Chester, 
Pa., called “ The American, Republican & Demo¬ 
crat.” Comprehensive. 
— Twenty-three dollars per barrel have been 
procured in New York within three weeks, for 
Cape Cod cranberries. 
— A great pigeon population is concentrating 
about four miles from New Boston, in the western 
part of Lewis Co. N. Y. 
— The lumbermen of Wisconsin are piling their 
lumber in the pineries, the price being too low to 
pay for running it to market. 
— Several fields of wheat grown the present sea¬ 
son at Montgomery, Ala., have been harvested re¬ 
cently, and the yield was fine. 
— One hundred and nine thousand trees have 
been engaged for the New Y r ork Central Park, all 
of which are to be transplanted. 
— The California papers contain the prospectus 
of a Catholic journal, the first ever issued on the 
Pacific coast of North America. 
— The report of the British ship firing into an 
American vessel and killing a man, is now affirmed 
to be a canard, got up for effect. 
— The death of Rev. Anson Tucker removes the 
last but one of a remarkable family of five brothers, 
all celebrated as Baptist preachers. 
— A special train on the Canada Grand Trunk 
Railway, on Monday week, ran 28 miles in 25 min¬ 
utes,—a rate of 66 miles per hour! 
— A canal boat has cleared at Buffalo, loaded 
with 180 tuns of corn. This is 20 tuns.the largest 
load ever carried on the Erie Canal. 
— It is rumored that Gen. John E. Wool will Ue 
detailed to Utah to take Gen. Smith’s position at 
the head of the United States forces. 
— W. A. Lell, formerly President of the Common 
Council in Boston, died on Sunday week, in con¬ 
sequence of falling out of a window. 
— The New Bedford (Mass.) Register says a bass 
weighing 28 pounds was caught from the South 
Dartmouth bridge on Thursday week. 
— A comparison of the grand lists of Connecti¬ 
cut for the years 1847 and 1857, shows an increase 
of 60 per cent, in the wealth of the State. 
— The Sacramento Union acknowledges the re¬ 
ceipt of a strawberry measuring seven inches 
round, from a ranch near Knight’s Landing. 
— There was a celebration at Cleveland, O., on 
Friday week, honoring the sailing of two barks, 
and two schooners from that port tor Liverpool. 
