rn MOOKE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. JUNE 19. 
Contents of the Rural for June 19, 1858. 
AGRICULTURAL. Pag*. 
Aji Unsuccessful Farmer,. 197 
The Progress of English Agriculture.—Fertilizers,.197 
The “ Buckeye Rotating Harrow,” [Illustrated,!. 197 
"Substitutes for Wheat'’—More Stock. 197 
Minnesota—Climate Productions, Ac.198 
Wintt ring Beea.—Criticisms,. 198 
Suffolk and Mackay Pigs,.198 
About Farm Gates—The He Plus Ultra, [Illustrated,].198 
Rarcy Outdone,. 198 
Crop Prospects—The Weather, Ac. 198 
“ Watering Places” for Cattle.-.198 
Inquires and Answers .—To KiH Live-forever. Grass alter 
Oats. Scab on Sheep. Gapes in Chickens Spasm of the Muscles 
in Horses. AHint,. 198 
Rural HisctUany .—Prepare for the Agricultural Fairs Invi¬ 
ting Places at the West Prospects for Corn in Illinois. Mowing 
Machine is. Scythe. Brighton and Cambridge Markets. A Good 
Cow. To Eradicate White Daisys Large Calf A Good Crop. 198 
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 
Tire Discussion on Peer Cultivation. 199 
Horticultural Meetings and Shows,. 199 
Plaster and Apple Trees,. 199 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Silver Cake. Gold Cake. Dried Apple Pies. Bird Nest Pudding. 
Flour Pudding. Plum-Pudding. CupCake. AboutColfee,_199 
LADIES’ PORT-FOLIO. 
Friends. [Poetical.] lama Clayton. Exercise for Girls The Wire. 
A Good Daughter. A Word to little Girls. Yield a little. 
Romping,.200 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The Farmer, fPcctica! ] Our Manhood. What Will Wideswath 
Wants. Public auu Private Manners,. 2C0 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Tis Good to Pray. [Poetical] My Mother. The Bible The Do¬ 
mestic Altar. The Communion of Saints.200 
EDUCATIONAL. 
Schools and School Commissioners. Grouoings in History.—No IL 
Hugh Miller Evening Hours for Mechanics. Reading Aloud. 
Sensible. The Scbool-Hcuse. Importance of Education,.201 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Wamsley’s Marble Buildings, Roches’er, [Illustrated.] The Great 
Clock at Strasburg. Disputatious People,.201 
THE YOUNG RURALIST. 
"Nothing to Do.” “I Can’t” Parsnips, Vegetable Oysters, and 
Asparagus. W’indow Shades.—The Cypress l ine. The Shadow 
of Wrong,.201 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
Charity, [Poetical] Day-Dreams. Trifles.204 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
Important to Farmers—Robinson A Co. 
Sewing Machines—Wheeler A Wilsen. 
Ingersoli's Premium Portable Hay Press—Fairbanks A Co. 
Pioneers of Cleveland—E. C. Davidson. 
Com Cultivators—Iiallock. 
■Western Agency—H Wilbnr. 
Employment—Dickinson A Bates. 
8PECI4L KOTICK& 
Monroe Co. Horse Show—List of Premiums, RcgnlatPns, Ac. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 19, 1858. 
Editors’ and Publishers’ Convention. 
The Editors and Publishers of Western, South¬ 
ern and Central New York very generally attended 
the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Typographical 
Association, held at the Osburn House, in this 
city, on the 10th inst. The occasion was apparently 
one of much interest to the members of the pro¬ 
fession; and though the objects of the meeting 
were mostly of a business character, the oppor¬ 
tunity afforded for better personal acquaintance, 
and social intercourse, was improved in a very 
gratifying manner, and we doubt not to the mutual 
pleasure and advantage of all in attendance.— 
Regretting that want of space precludes us from 
doing justice to the Convention and its proceed¬ 
ings, we condense the following from the reports 
given in our city dailies: 
The President, Mi'. Moore, of the Rural New- 
Yorker, on calling the meeting to order, welcomed 
the members of the Press on behalf of himself 
and his city colleagues, and expressed his high 
gratification upon seeing so large a representation 
on this occasion. The following gentlemen were 
present, viz.: 
Messrs. Stuart, Binghamton Republican; Fair- 
man, Elmira Advertiser ; Andrews, Albion Ameri¬ 
can; Beach, Brockport Republic; Hackstaff, Niag¬ 
ara Herald; Waite, Batavia Advocate; Cleveland, 
Penn Yan Chronicle; Adams, Lyons Republican; 
Beach & Wilsea, Albion Republican; Taber, Elmira 
Gazette; Whitney, Ontario Repository; Pratt, 
Corning Journal; Parker, Geneva Gazette; Sentell, 
Seneca Observer; Fuller, Seneca Falls Courier; 
Milliken, Ontario Times; Fairchild, Ovid Bee; 
Bridgman, Penn Yan Democrat; Mattison, Ontario 
Messenger; Johnson, Geneva Courier; Tarbell, Os¬ 
wego Times; Trum, Syracuse Journal; Norton, 
Livingston Republican; Saunders, Dansville Herald; 
Thompson, Le Roy Gazette; Reynolds, Franklin 
Visitor; McCall, Bath Advocate. The daily press 
of Rochester was represented by Messrs. Butts, 
Curtis and Purcell of the Union and Advertiser, and 
Strong and Rew of the Democrat and American. 
Mr. Norton, the Secretary, read the proceedings 
of the last annual meeting. On motion several 
Business Committees were appointed; among them 
one to recommend a tariff of prices for the city 
press — consisting of Messrs. Tarbell of Oswego, 
Strong and Curtis of Rochester, Truair of Syra¬ 
cuse, and Fairman of Elmira; and another to re¬ 
port for a like purpose in reference to the country 
press, consisting of Messrs. Waite of Batavia, 
Whitney of Canandaigua, Adams of Lyons, Beach 
of Albion, and Sentell of Waterloo. 
Messrs. Stuart of Binghamton, Tarbell of Oswego, 
and Hackstaff of Niagara Falls were appointed a 
Committee to consider the expediency of so chang¬ 
ing the name of the Association as to embrace the 
Press of the whole State, and to recommend a place 
for the next annual meeting. 
During the afternoon and evening several mat¬ 
ters of business pertaining to the profession, were 
discussed and acted upon by the Convention. 
The Committees appointed to report Scales of 
Prices for City and Country, reported, and their 
recommendations were adopted. 
The general subject of Advertising, and par¬ 
ticularly as respects extraordinary notices, was 
discussed, and resolutions in regard to it adopted. 
A committee was appointed to procure the prepa-. 
ration of an Address and Poem, to he read at the 
next annual meeting. Messrs. Tarbell, Truair, and 
Wilsea were appointed such committee. 
A proposition to change the name of the Asso¬ 
ciation so as to embrace the whole State was 
agreed to. 
Mr. Strong, of the Rochester Democrat, intro¬ 
duced the following resolutions, (originally adopted 
by the Press of Ohio.) which were passed without 
dissent: 
Resolved, That we regard it as the duty of the 
editor to cultivate more and more that kindly and 
courteous feeliug that should ever exist among 
gentlemen; and that in the controversies that may 
arise, political or otherwise, the personnel of the 
editor should never be named, but ever sunk in his 
articles or public course. 
Resolved, That we regard the devotion of the 
columns of the public journals to police reports 
and the record of crime, to so great an extent as is 
done by the press of the large cities of the country, 
as vicious and detrimental to the public morals, 
and catering to a depraved taste; and we would, 
therefore, discourage and discountenance it, and 
recommend to our brethren and the public so to do. 
The following resolution, indicative of the inde¬ 
pendence and strong moral sense and dignity of 
the members of the Convention, was also unani¬ 
mously adopted: 
Resolved, That the publication of immoral and 
fraudulent advertisements should not be counten¬ 
anced; and we therefore recommend their rejec¬ 
tion by all conductors of public journals. 
The Committee on location of next Convention, 
and nomination of Officers, made a report, which 
was concurred in, naming Syracuse as the place, 
and making the following nominations: 
President —Tbos. S. Truair, Syracuse. 
Vice Presidents —F. Ottarson, N. Y. Tribune; 
Isaac Platt, Poughkeepsie Eagle; Geo. Dawson, 
Albany Journal; E. D. Baker, Sandy Hill Herald; 
D. E. Wager, Rome Sentinel; S. B. Fairman, Elmira 
Advertiser; I. Butts, Rochester Advertiser; D. D. 
Waite, Batavia Advocate. 
Recording Secretary —J. T. Norton, Geneseo Re¬ 
publican. 
Corresponding Secretary —R. I* Adams, Lyons 
Republican. 
Treasurer —D. D. T. Moore, Rural New-Yorker, 
Rochester. 
Resolutions, complimentary of the retiring Of¬ 
ficers, and of the Osburn House, were passed, and 
the Association adjourned to meet at Syracuse on 
the second Thursday of June next. 
— It is proper to add that the members of the 
Convention were most hospitably and excellently 
provided for by Mr. Walbridge of the Osburn 
House, whose attention and entertainment con¬ 
vinced all, we doubt not, that the host and hotel were 
both “first class” and worthy of commendation 
to the public. Such at least is our conviction, and 
we take great pleasure in commending the Osburn 
House to both citizens and strangers. 
Hurtle wional. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —The Senate passed the Naval appropri¬ 
ation hill. 
Mr. Mallory moved an amendment, providing for 
the construction of ten steam sloops of war. Mr. 
Hale proposed six,—lost 31 to 22. The original 
motion was lost also,—34 to 20. At a later period 
an amendment authorizing the construction of five 
propellers, and one side-wheel steamer for the 
China seas, was adopted,—18 to 17. 
The Army appropriation bill was discussed, and 
$25,000 voted for the alteration of the old army 
muskets with breech loading arms. 
Th appropriation for the pay of the Florida 
Volunteers of 1857, $385,000, provoked debate, as 
did the Military Committee’s amendment to the 
vote of $50,000 for the El paso wagon route, and 
Mr. Douglas’ amendment, from the Committee on 
Territories, to appropriate $100,000 for U. S. exten¬ 
sion to Albuquerque, all of which, however, were 
passed. 
The Indian appropriation hill was taken up and 
passed. 
The Ocean Mail Steamship hill was called up.— 
The Finance Committee’s amendment was for the 
transportation of the mails from New York to Liv¬ 
erpool and back, in pursuance of a contract with 
the Collins line, for $346,500, provided that the 
Collins steamers failing to sail, the P. M. General 
shall contract with some other Steamship Compa¬ 
ny to make the missing trip for a sum equal to the 
postage; also, providing that the P. M. General 
may, with the consent of the contractors, change 
the terminus from Liverpool to Southampton. 
The amendment was carried by 28 against 13. 
The Post Office appropriation hill was taken up 
and amendments were adopted increasing the 
rates of postage to five cents under 4,000 and ten 
cents over 4,000 miles ; abolishing the franking 
privilege of members of Congress after March 
next; repudiating the provisions for publishing 
lists of uncalled for letters in papers of the largest 
circulation, and giving the same to the lowest bid¬ 
der. The bill was finally passed, 30 to 14. 
House. —On motion the majority resolution was 
adopted, authorizing the Postmaster General to 
make arrangements for carrying the mail from St 
Joseph, Mo., to Placerville, Cal., in thirty instead 
of thirty-eight days. 
The House concurred generally in the action of 
the Committee of the Whole on the state of the 
Union, striking out the appropriation of $1,252,000 
for fortifications, and agreeing to the amendment 
to repeal all laws authorizing the sale of the Forts 
or Reservations which have or may become useless 
for military purposes. 
The Senate hill for the construction of five pro¬ 
pellers for the China Seas was amended to read 
ten, and a bill for the construction of four additional 
new steamers for service on our north-western 
lakes, was also passed. 
A message was received from the President, on 
the 12th iDst, in which he says that it is his indis¬ 
pensable duty to call the attention of Congress to 
the condition of the Treasury on the 19th of May. 
The Secretary intimated that $27,000,000 would 
probably be required for the first two quarters of 
the next fiscal year. This does not include such 
amounts as may be appropriated over and above 
the estimates then submitted, and the probable de¬ 
ficiency caunot be ascertained till the appropria¬ 
tion and private bills shall formally be passed. 
He recommends Congress to provide the neces¬ 
sary means before the adjournment. The failure 
to do so will he a disgrace which should not fall on 
the country. It will be impossible for him to as¬ 
certain the amount required before Monday next— 
it now being half pa3t 11 o’clock of Saturday. Ht 
repeats the statement in his annual message, and 
says he is deliberately determined to approve n< 
bill which he has not deliberately examined, and 
thatjhe will not depart from this, except in extrenit 
cases. He asks a postponement for a brief period, 
for the reasons stated, and says he will not detail 
Congress an hour beyond the time necessary to 
ascertain the amount of appropriations. 
Storms at the West and South. 
The entire West, and a large portion of the 
South, seem to have suffered severely from violent 
storms and excessive rains. We give below, ex¬ 
tracts from our exchanges in Ohio, Michigan, Indi¬ 
ana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and Mississippi, 
the general tenor of which is anything hut gratify¬ 
ing to the agricultural interest: 
The prospects for crops in Northern Illinois, says 
the Chicago Democrat, has been rather poor for the 
past month, as it has rained, we are credibly in¬ 
formed, on twenty-five of the thirty-one days of the 
month. Under these circumstances it has of course 
been impossible for farmers to put in their spring 
crops, and the work of the country is in a very 
backward condition. Since the clearing up of 
Sunday night last, the weather has, however, been 
very pleasant, and should it continue, we may still 
hope for a fair return for the labor of the husband¬ 
man. Corn in this latitude will come to maturity 
if planted by the 10th of June, unless it should he 
cut off by premature frosts. In ordinary seasons, 
it may, however, he calculated on with considera¬ 
ble certainty. Of spring grains some were sown 
late in March and during the early part of April 
All such sowiDg, where not drowned out, is looking 
well 
The Rockford (TIL) Register, of the Cth instant, 
says:—“The almost unprecedented rains of the 
past week, in this section, culminated on Thursday 
night The rain fell in torrents, hour after hour, 
raising the river to a higher point than it has ever 
been known before, with the exception of the mem¬ 
orable time one year ago last spring, when the 
ice went out We then saw a mark made at the 
highest point the water reached, and the water rose 
on Thursday night to within thirteen inches of the 
former mark. During that night the water in the 
river could not have risen less than five feet, and 
in Kent’s creek, in consequence of the water being 
dammed up at the railroad culvert, it reached 
a higher point by six or eight feet than was ever 
before known. Of course a large amount of dam¬ 
age has been done along the streams—buildings 
and fences carried off, stock lost, &c., which it is 
impossible as yet to ascertain.” 
The Scioto river, in Ohio, has overflowed its 
banks, and a local paper says the water is from 10 
to 20 feet deep along the river bottoms. The 
fences, corn fields, &c., are completely submerged. 
At Beloit, Wis., 10.294 inches of rain fell in the 
month of May. At Joliet, 9.751 inches; at Ottawa, 
8.551 inches during the month. The papers from 
all parts of the State continue to bring accounts of 
the loss of life, and the destruction of property 
caused by recent freshets. Planting in many sec¬ 
tions, for the present, is out of the question. 
The Middleport (Ill.) Republican says: — “ The 
prospect for the agricultural interests has been 
gloomy for two weeks past—gloomy enough in all 
conscience, hut it has now become alarming. We 
can’t hear of more than five or six acres of corn 
having been planted in the county, while hut little 
ground has been plowed, ready to be planted when 
the season does become favorable.” 
The Detroit (Micb.) Adverttser, of the 5th inst, 
remarks:— “ The crops throughout the State, espe¬ 
cially wheat and grass, never looked better. Corn, 
on account of the v/et weather, does not promise 
so well, yet if we have good weather hereafter, 
there is time for a good crop. 
The Watertown (Wig.) Democrat says that there 
probably was never, in the history of Wisconsin, a 
greater breadth of land planted and sown than 
there is, and will be, the present season. Farmers 
thereabouts have sown more largely than usual, 
with wheat, and the crop has a very promising ap¬ 
pearance. 
The Grenada (Miss.) Republican says: — In many 
portions of this and adjoining counties, the wind 
and rain on the 28th ult., was very disastrous to the 
growing crops. In many localities, an immense 
deal of timber was blown down—in others, planta¬ 
tions were dreadfully washed, and in some places 
under water. This has been truly a remarkable 
season, hut we hope our planting friends will he 
able to say when harvest time shall come, all is well. 
The levee at St. Louis, Mo., is under water.— 
High water is coming down the Mississippi from 
all the upper rivers, and in fearful quantities. 
Drays and wagons of all kinds are engaged in re¬ 
moving freight, hut much property will he totally 
destroyed or floated down the river. 
The Lockport (N. Y.) Courier, of the 11th inst., 
after alluding to the heavy rains, says:—“The con¬ 
sequence is that all water-courses are overflowed, 
low lands are inundated, crops are left unplanted, 
and those that are planted are rotting. Unless 
there should he a change—of which there is little 
prospect at this writing — the worst consequences 
will ensue to the farming interests of Western New 
York.” 
The Montreal (Canada) Advertiser has the follow¬ 
ing:—“We hear from the country parts of Lower 
Canada, that farming operations have been much 
retarded by the constant wet weather. Yery little 
late wheat has been yet sown, and some days’ dry 
weather will be required to get the ground in order 
for it. Early sown grain has suffered upon low 
lands, and those not thoroughly surface-drained. 
Meadows and pastures, however, look well—the 
grass in spite of the cold weather being heavy for 
the season.” 
Distress Among the Clergy in England.— The 
Rev. W. G. Jervis, Secretary of the clerical fund,' 
tells an awful story about the distress of the work¬ 
ing clergy in England. Four hundred of these 
poor fellows, known to Mr. Jervis, in one year ap¬ 
plied for any sort of relief—money, clothes, or food. 
The Bishop of one diocese says that the poverty of 
his clergy is so great that fresh meat is a luxury to 
them; another Bishop lately stated that he knew 
many clergymen in his diocese, who, together with 
their wives and families, seldom tasted meat 
Terrible Steamboat Accident. —Telegraphic 
dispatches from Memphis, Tenn., state that the 
steamer Pennsylvania exploded her boilers on Sun¬ 
day morning at 6 o’clock, at Ship Island, some 70 
miles below Memphis, and burnt to the water’s edge. 
There were 350 passengers on board, and it is be¬ 
lieved that 100 of them are killed, or are missing. 
The Pennsylvania was on her way from New Orleans 
to St Louis. 
Steamboat navigation between the Mississippi 
and Lake Michigan, by way of the Fox and Wiscon¬ 
sin rivers, will ere long be achieved. The Com¬ 
mittee on Internal Improvements in the Wisconsin 
Legislature, have made a report upon it3 necessity. 
Farmers should not he discouraged about the 
corn crop this year. An old farmer informs the 
Springfield Journal, that he has raised fifty bushels 
of corn to the acre which was planted on the 21st 
of June. 
Private letters from Sonora represent that the 
dominant party there have determined to declare 
their independence, and apply for annexation to 
the United States. 
Commander Rogers, of the Water Witch, writes 
from Key West that a British vessel has been dis¬ 
patched after the steamer Styx, with official in¬ 
structions to cease the visitation of American 
vessels. He further states that the British cruisers 
are acting under no new orders, hut those of 1847. 
The blame seems to rest with the subordinates, 
who have exceeded or abused their powers. 
A conference between the Lords and Commons 
of England has resulted in a compromise, by which 
Jews will he admitted to seats in Parliament. The 
result will he the speedy admission of Baron 
Rothschild. 
The British loss in storming Lucknow was 70 
officers and 1,100 men, killed and wounded—that 
of the Sepoys is computed to have exceeded 4,000 
killed. The Sepoys can more easily lose ten thou¬ 
sand men than the British one thousand. The war 
is not yet ended. 
Several American Counts, it is reported, have 
been made in Italy in this way:—The government 
not being able to finish a certain railway for lack 
of money, offered the title of Count to every 
foreigner who would subscribe the sum of five 
thousand dollars to the road. The required sum 
was soon obtained, and a few more noble families 
were let loose on society. 
Strawberries are unusually plentiful in Cincin¬ 
nati. Over a thousand bushels were exhibited for 
sale in Fifth street Market on Tuesday week, and 
sold for from 5 to 20 cents per quart. 
The birthplace of Gen. Warren, of Bunker Hill 
memory, was sold the other day. It is situated in 
Roxbury, Mass., and was sold for a little more than 
twenty-two thousand dollars. 
A marine monster of the viper tribe was caught 
in the East river at New York, on Saturday week, 
with a hook and line. It was 9£ feet long, and 12 
inches in circumference in the largest part, cover¬ 
ed with brilliant diamond-shaped spots, in yellow 
and black, and very handsome when first caught 
It was probably a juvenile sea serpent Similar 
creatures are found on the Florida coast 
The President has officially advised Congress of 
the restoration of the supremacy of law in Utah, 
and that no occasion exists for calling into service 
the regiments of volunteers authorized to he raised. 
It is a matter of congratulation to the country, that 
civil disorder is allayed and domestic insurrection 
averted, without recourse to arms. 
In New York the Postmaster has placed a lady 
on duty to attend the window at the Ladies’ Post- 
office delivery. The'example might he followed to 
advantage in other cities. 
John O’Connell, Esq., clerk of the Hanaper in 
Ireland, died suddenly on the night of the 24th ult., 
at the residence of Mr. Patrick Vincent Fitzpatrick, 
Kingstown. The deceased gentleman was, it will 
he recollected, son of the late Daniel O'Connell, 
and was associated prominently with his father in 
the great repeal agitation, extending from 1842 to 
1847. Since the death of his father, O’Connell has 
taken but little part in political concerns. 
The English papers announce the presentation 
of the Victoria gold medal by the Geographical 
Society, to Prof. Bache, of the U. S. Coast Survey, 
through Mr. Dallas, who acknowledged the honor 
in a speech. 
Kansas News. 
The Missouri Democrat says that the latest news 
received from Lynn and Bourbon counties gives no 
intelligence of further outrages or actual hostilities. 
A Missouri force is reported to he gathered at West 
Point, Butler, and other places, and small parties 
occasionally venture a short distance over the line,* 
but immediately return. The Free State men are 
not in force at any one point They have not the 
means to keep a large body of men in camp. They 
remain at their homes, holding themselves ready, 
as minute men, to march at a moment’s warning, 
to any point that may be attacked. Sheriff Walker, 
of Douglas county, has gone down to arrest Mont¬ 
gomery, by the orders of Denver. He was to raise 
a posse amongst the people of Lynn county for that 
purpose. 
Gov. Denver had promised Sheriff Walker that 
he would meet him in Lynn county with a large 
force of troops, and that he was going down to 
drive out the invaders. He had not got down to 
the vicinity of the massacre at the last accounts, 
although he was reported to he on the way. All 
the arms that could be spared from Lawrence were 
sent down to Lynn and Bourbon counties, and 
some to Lykins. 
The election under the Lecompton Constitution 
is to take place on the first Monday in August— 
Two meetings of the Board of Election Commis¬ 
sioners had been held. Gov. Denver was elected 
President, and Mr. Walsh, Secretary of the Board. 
They are to appoint election precincts, and Judges 
of Election. 
There is a great excitement about the gold dig¬ 
gings. A great many parties are fitting out, or 
have started to the gold region. It lies in West 
Kansas, and the most prolific mines are said to he 
in the vicinity of Pike’s Peak. Specimens of the 
gold have been exhibited. The veins are said to 
he fully equal to those of California. 
It has been discovered that a gang of horse 
thieves have come into the Territory within the 
past two wetk? and that they are completely 
organized. One or two of them have been taken, 
and have made confession. One man is in jail at 
Lawrence. He has made confession implicating a 
number of persons in the Territory and Missouri. 
He says the gang is completely organized. 
She Condcnsst*. 
— The Legislature of Minnesota met at St. Paul 
on the 3d inst. 
— Ripe cherries have made their appearance in 
New York city. 
— The American Chapel in Paris, was dedicated 
on the 2d of May. 
— There was a frost in Hartford, Conn., on Sat¬ 
urday night week. 
— The population of the city of Washington is 
now estimated at 70,000. 
— They are employing convicts, men and women, 
in digging a canal in Virginia. 
— Walker is trying to get up a third Filibuster 
Expedition against Nicaraugua, 
— The wind was so violent on Sunday week, in 
Boston, as to blow down buildings. 
— Gen. Scott was 72 years old the 14th inst. He 
has been in the army half a century. 
—Three vessels sailed simultaneously from Cleve¬ 
land for Liverpool, one day last week. 
— The late Anson C. Phelps, of N. Y. city, left in 
legacies for public purposes, $102,000. 
— Counterfeit five dollar bills on the Bellville 
Bank, of New Jeisey, are in circulation. 
— Nice potatoes are selling for 8 cents a bushel, 
and butter at 10 cents a pound, in Wisconsin. 
— Seven dead infants were picked up in different 
parts of New York city on Wednesday week. 
— The Vermont Democratic State Convention 
meets at Bellows Falls on Thursday, July 8th. 
— It is said that $40,000 have been paid to citi¬ 
zens of Whatley, Mass., this spring for tobacco. 
— A case of sun-stroke occurred in Philadelphia 
on Tuesday week, the thermometer being at 90°. 
— The number of converts to the doctrines of 
Spiritualism is rapidly on the increase in the South. 
— The actual number of miles of telegraph in the 
United States at the present time, is at least 88,392. 
— The Leviathan was opened for exhibition on 
the 24th ult. The vessel is now said to be in full 
trim. 
— Kewanee is the most musical of the names 
proposed for the new State, to he made in northern 
Michigan. 
— It is said that, at the very lowest estimate, 
Kansas has already cost this country fifty millions 
of dollars. 
— The amounfexpended annually in the manu¬ 
facture of beer within the limits of St. Louis, is 
$1,769,700. 
— In France there are nineteen Presidents of 
commercial societies, awaiting trial for fraudulent 
operations. 
— Dr. Dionysius Lardner positively denies that 
he ever pronounced ocean steam navigation im¬ 
practicable. 
— The Virginia Legislature has petitioned the 
President to let Mr. Mason retain his post as Minis¬ 
ter to Paris. 
— Samuel A. Elliott and Robert C. Winthrop, are 
added to the candidates for the Presidency of Har¬ 
vard College. 
— New wheat has been sold at Athens, Tenn., for 
65 cents per bushel. “ Old wheat will hardly sell 
at any price.” 
— The official vote in New Hampshire was:— 
Haile, Republican, 36,215; Cate, Democrat, 31,679; 
scattering, 92. 
— Dr. Bernheisel, the Mormon delegate, it is said, 
does not credit the rumors that the Mo/mons were 
leaving Utah. 
— A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, 
mentions that Gov. Wise, of Va., is somewhat seri¬ 
ously indisposed. 
— Among the new converts received in the 
Presbyterian church in Mansfield recently, was a 
lady 95 years of age. 
— Rufus Choate is suggested by a Democratic 
paper as a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts 
at the next election. 
— A Washington letter-writer calls Mrs. Senator 
Douglas, “that beautiful, charming Sonnet upon 
Health and Beauty.” 
— B. C. Brainard, President of the Albany Board 
of Trade, died at his residence in that city, of con¬ 
gestion of the brain. 
— They dug an elephant’s “tooth” twenty inches 
long from a gravel pit forty feet deep, at Needham, 
Mass., the other day. 
— The amount of wool shipped from Cleveland 
daring the last year, was 4,000,651 pounds, which 
cost over $1,800,000. 
— They extract teeth without pain in New York 
now, by passing a slight current of electricity 
around the doomed molar. 
— The dog law has gone into operation in New 
York city. 218 unmuzzled canines were captured 
and drowned the first day. 
— It is rumored that the Hon. Chas. Sumner will 
not return to the Senate, and that Gov. Banks will 
be chosen as his successor. 
— It is proposed to pay each of the fifty or sixty 
clergymen who have officiated daring the present 
Congress, the sum of $50. 
— The French Government has published a de¬ 
cree, putting a stop to religious controversy in the 
newspapers of that country. 
— A vicious hull gored to death Mr. Abner Rob¬ 
inson, of Troy, Oakland Co., Michigan, a man 75 
years of age, on the 31st ult. 
— Rev. Dr. TyDg’s Church, in New York city, 
has contributed, duiing the last year, to benevolent 
objects, the sum of $27,641. 
— It is said that durirg the year 1857 58, there 
were 1,325 graduates from the Allopathic Medical 
Colleges in the United States. 
— Total number of emigrants arrived at the port 
of New York from January 1st to June 9th, 27,204. 
To same date last year, 71,478. 
— The Mobile and Ohio Railroad, now in opera¬ 
tion 232 miles, run no cars on the Sabbath, either 
for passengers, freight, or mails. 
— The religious revival is again ascendant in 
New York city. The business men’s and other 
prayer meetings are fully attended. 
— The Herald of Freedom estimates the present 
population of Kansas at 100,000, and thinks it will 
be 120,000 before the year closes. 
—A dispatch from Naples says another earth¬ 
quake has completed the destruction of the houses 
in the provinces already devastated. 
— The barque Kershaw has arrived at Detroit, 
on her return trip from Liverpool. She will im¬ 
mediately re-load for another voyage. 
—“Dipsomaniacs” is a word coined in England 
to denote persons who have a craving for intoxi¬ 
cating drinks that partakes of insanity. 
— The impression in Washington is, that the 
session of Congress will be extended two weeks 
beyond the time fixed for adjournment 
— Since the Senate have evening sessions, Vice 
President Breckenbridge has ordered the private 
drinking-room of the Senate to be closed. 
— A youn g American in Paris is writing a histo¬ 
ry of Louis Napoleon, for publication in America. 
It is not apologetic, though complimentary. 
— The assessment of the city of Lexington, Ky-, 
just completed, shows there are 8,246 inhabitants, 
a decrease of 606 in population since last year. 
— A Kansas correspondent of the Boston Travel¬ 
ler, states that Thomas Allsop, the English friend 
of Orsini, is now residing at Leavenworth city. 
