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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Contents of the iiural for June 26, 1858. 
AGRICULTURAL Pack 
The He a- on and Crope,...205 
Progress of English Agriculture.—Karats ard Farming. 205 
Building Ciltema, |2 Iliuttinlionn,]...206 
I,cLtr from Iowa—Crop Froft|*ets,.206 
Turnips, Com, Ac.,.2 6 
Boles in the Bides of Cows' Teats.2>G 
Texas- Grasshoppers, Btoek Raising.200 
Harvesting and Coring Beans,...206 
Dudley’s Diagonal Bcraper, |Il]uttrated,]...20u 
What Ails the Sheep?—Grub in the Head,.20* 
Live for-ever—llow to Des'roy.200 
Oats for Ewes with Lamb,..206 
Chufas, Mode of Cultivation, Ac,.2 0 
Milk for Butter,. 
Jiurat ifisrtuanj .—The Weathe', Crops, Ac Exhibitions cf 
Boner, Ac Com Going West Veterinary Medical Association of 
Boston. To Cattle Growers. Ticks on Sheep. Protection of Ho. sea 
Against Flies. A Patriarchal Horse.206 
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 
Notes In the Garden.207 
Aspects of Vegetation.—No. II.207 
The Wiegela Rose, (Illustrated). 207 
Diseased Pear leaves, etc.-.2o7 
The Grape—Pruning, Ac.207 
Raising Watermelons,...2o7 
Gooseberries,. 207 
Notes from my Book of Agriculture,. 207 
Dwarf Pears, Ac,.207 
Aquilegia,. 207 
Sulphur ibr Bugs,... 207 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Pine Bnr Picture Frames To Color Madder on Woolen. Oook- 
iug Iceland Mesa Plum-Pudding Masks Molasses Fresh the 
Year Round. Yankee Loaf Inflammatory Kbeumatit-w. In¬ 
quiry, . 207 
LADIES’ PORT-FOLIO. 
Home of the Heart, f Poetical J Homo <‘harms of Solitude. A Frag¬ 
ment A Hmilo. Little Annie. The Faitoful Wife. No Scolding 
Tire Test of Friendship. What to Seek lor Children,.208 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The First Rose of Wlntt r [Poetical] Waifs—No VI A Poem 
life's Resting Day. Enthusiasm Refoimers What the Ago 
Wants. Science and Poe'ry. Clothing of the Eurth,. 208 
SABBATH MUKINGR 
The Evening Prayer, [Poetical | Ti e Foiiul Place. The Hirthday. 
Death Materialization. Faith,.208 
EDUCATIONAL. 
Skill In Composition. Education Restrains Degeneracy. Public 
Libraries. Wisconsin State Teachers’ Association. Neglect of 
Doty. Art and Habit,. 209 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Allegorical Representation of June, [Illustrated] Salt as an Ar- 
tick: of Food. Tall Men at Home and Abroad. Forgive.nets, 209 
THE YOUNG RURALI8T. 
The Herbarium. Don't Ask Favors,.209 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
The Two Villages, [Poetical] Wheat or Tares. Biography of a 
Genius,.212 
List of Kew Advertisements this Woek. 
Cahoon’s Patent Broadcast Power—J. E. Cbemy. 
Emery’s Journal of Agriculture—Finery A Co. 
Farmers Take No tee—Knickerbocker A Benjamin. 
The Best Apple Parer in the World—WltittoniuTPltrolbojK 
The Atluutlc Monthly—Phillips, Sampson A Co. 
Rare Chance for Boos Buyers—(} C. Evans. 
The Ir-tlcr Box—Simmons A Mekcel 
Splendid Farming Lands in Michigan—Geo IV. Thayer. 
Agents Wanted—I. M. Daggett A Co. 
Lop Eared Rabbits and Fan-Tail Pigeons— L. Jl Wright 
Something New—Box 67. 
Those Loving Good Honey—G G, Horry. 
SI’BCTet NOTICKS. 
Spurious Black Hawk—Levi H. Knit, it. 
No Patent Medicine—Guilford 1>. Sanborn. 
aid — will do their neighbors, community and us 
the favor to lend their kind offices in behalf of the 
Rural, several thousand subscribers may easily be 
added to its list within a few weeks. In many 
localities the times have improved and money is far 
more plenty than in January last, so that those who 
were not then prepared to subscribe would do so 
now, if invited by some one taking an interest in 
the matter. Se,veral thousand, especially in the 
West, did not renew their subscriptions in January, 
merely for the want of money. Many wrote us to 
this effect—that they wanted the Rural, had plenty 
of produce, Ac., but as there was no market or 
money, they must defer renewing until April or 
July. We were almost persuaded to deviate from 
the cash system in order to accommodate them, 
but we could not consistently depart from the cor¬ 
rect and generally satisfactory plan upon which 
our business had so long been conducted. The 
consequence is that, though our subscription has 
been very well maintainet', considering the times 
and great scarcity of money, toe have abundant room 
on our books for full Five Thousand Iiuralists. In¬ 
deed, such an addition is actually necessary in or¬ 
der that our receipts may correspond with our 
expenditures — for while the former are thus far 
much less than those of last year, the expenses of 
publication are about the same, so that what little, 
if any, profit may be afforded tis, will probably be 
derived from advertising. 
— Such is our position, which we frankly state 
for the consideration and action of the friends of 
the Rural. Whether we lose or make money this 
year, we shall fulfill our obligations to subscribers 
and the public, and endeavor to maintain the 
superiority of the Rural New-Yorker as an Ag¬ 
ricultural, Literary and Family Weekly. 
Washington Matters. 
Congussioual. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 26, 1858. 
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A NEW HALF VOLUME. 
Room for Five Thousand more Iiuralists! 
This number closes the first half of Vol. IX, of 
the Rural New-Yorker, and our obligations to 
all whose subscriptions cease therewith. Those 
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that their loss will be greater than ours — for, 
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may derive far more benefit from a yearly copy of 
this journal than we do from the trifling profit its 
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scribe for single copies or form clubs for either six 
months or a year. And if Iiuralists generally — 
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fore bo generously and efficiently volunteered their 
The War Department laid Gen. Johnson's dis¬ 
patches before the Cabinet, on the 16th inst The 
President is much perplexed by the contradiction 
these dispatches give to those received from 
Gov. Cumming, and expiesses his regret at what 
he now considers his premature message to Con¬ 
gress announcing the end of the Mormon rebellion. 
Gen. Scott will remain here until further dispatches 
are received. 
Lord Napier, on the 14th inst, had an interview 
with Gen. Cass. Both gentlemen express confident 
hopes that all questions now open between the 
United States and England, will be amicably settled 
on a permanent basis before the next meeting of 
Congress. Napier has information that instruc¬ 
tions have been issued from bis Government, which 
will effectually stop all further causes of complaint 
A strong military force will be diverted from the 
troops intended for Utah, for Arizona. Lieutenant 
Mowry, Delegate from Arizona, will return thither 
charged with important government duties, but 
will be in Washington next December, the Senate 
having made the bill for the establishment of a 
Territorial Government, the special order for that 
time. 
The Navy Department, on the 18th inst, received 
advices from Capk Hudson, confirmatory of the 
newspaper accounts relative to the Atlantic Cable 
experiments, and the future movements of the fleet 
Sir William Ousley has completed his arrange¬ 
ments to leave WashinglOD, and is awaiting orders 
from his government 
The N. Y. Tribune’s correspondent, on the 19th, 
says, dispatches from England were laid before the 
Cabinet yesterday. They do not, in any substan 
tial form, correspond to the expectations of the 
administration, or the opinions authorized by Lord 
Napier's assurances, while they disclaim authority 
for any offensive acts on the part of the cruisers in 
the Gulf, and are prepared to make reparation to 
that extent, they insist upon the purpose of sup¬ 
pressing the Slave trade, by determined and effec¬ 
tive means. A disposition to exercise the right of 
visit in the most acceptable manner is avowed, and 
to that end Lord Malmesbury expresses his willing¬ 
ness and desire to receive any suggestions from 
the American government The unexpected tone 
of these dispatches has made much impression in 
the Cabinet 
The Chinese Difficulty. —The N. Y. Evening 
Post states, on the authority of a private letter, 
from China, that the Plenipotentiaties at Shanghai 
have agreed to make the following demands upon 
the Chinese Government:—First The opening of 
the coast and great rivers of China to foreign 
commerce. Second. The access of foreigners to 
the interior, under the restriction of passports.— 
Third. A reduction of duties on certain articles of 
commerce. Fourth. The residence of an Embassy 
at Pekin. Fifih. Indemnity, but no territory. 
Illinois Republican State Convention. —The 
Republican State Convention met at Springfield, 
on the 16th inst., and 1,000 delegates and alternates, 
representing 95 counties, were in attendance. Jas. 
Miller was nominated as the candidate for State 
Treasurer, and Mr. Bateman for Superintendent of 
Public Instruction. Resolutions were adopted ap¬ 
proving the Philadelphia Platform, denouncing the 
Dred Scott decision and re-affirming the power of 
Congress over the territories. 
Wool Shipment from California. — The San 
Francisco Pacific, of May 13th, says:—The clipper 
ship Ocean Telegraph from New York will take 
from this port fully 150,000 pounds of wool, the 
product of this State. The balance of her cargo 
will consist of hides, horns, &c., and will amount 
in value to a large sum, a more valuable shipment 
to all parties than the same amount in gold. 
U. S. Senator from New Hampshire.—Hod. 
John P. Hale, has been re elected U. S. Senator 
from New Hampshire. John S. Wells was the 
Democratic nominee. The vote was,—Ilale, 185; 
Wells, 111; scattering, 7. 
Arizona Selling Out. —Several hundred tuns of 
silver ore have been received in San Francisco 
from Arizona. It cost $300 per tun to get it across 
the country by wagons. 
Paving by Steam. — A steam paving machine 
is in operation in New York, which, armed with a 
row of fifty rammers, pounds down the cobble 
stones as fast as could be done by fifty men. 
Senate.—A communication was received from 
the President respecting the claims of St Regis 
Indians to Kansas lands. Ordered to be printed. 
Mr. Ilale’s credentials for the next six years were 
presented and received. 
Mr. Doolittle presented a resolution that the Com¬ 
mittee on Foreign Relations be instructed to in¬ 
quire into the expediency of acquiring by treaty, 
in Yucatan or Central or South America, the rights 
of citizenship for such free negroes as may emi¬ 
grate from the United States; and in consideration 
of the trade thus desirable, to protect such colonies. 
A vote was taken on agreeing to the recommend¬ 
ations of the conference committee on the P. O. 
appropriation bill, viz: that the Senate recede from 
its amendment abolishing the fraukiDg privilege 
and raising the rate of postage, and resulted, ayes 
33, nays 17. Consequently the bill was passed. 
Mr. Slidell moved the usual resolution to carry 
over the unfinished business to the next session, 
which was agreed to. 
Mr. Davis introduced a resolution that the Judi¬ 
ciary Committee inquire whether further legisla¬ 
tion is necessary, respecting the election of U. S. 
Senators — which was adopted. 
Mr. Mason moved to take up the British Aggres¬ 
sion Resolutions which was agreed to, and the 
resolutions were passed unanimously. 
A Committee appointed to wait upon the Presi¬ 
dent, having reported that he had no further com¬ 
munication to make, the Senate adjourned. 
House. —The naval bill passed both Houses, 
amended so as to provide for seven sloops-of-war, 
besides a steamer for the Chinese seas. The Indian 
Deficiency and the Twenty Million Loan Bill also 
passed. Also the Ocean mail steamer bill. Also 
the bill for the collection of Revenue. Also the 
House bill for the carriage of the mails from St 
Joseph, Mo., to Placervillf, Cal., and various pri¬ 
vate bills. 
A Message was received from the President, an¬ 
nouncing to the House tl at he has approved the 
bills for the Supplemental and Deficiency Indian 
Expenses, for the Establishment of Post Routes, 
the Transportation of the Mails in Ocean Steamers, 
Proyiding for the Civil Expenses of Government, 
for the Support of the A my, Providing for the Ex¬ 
penses of the Collectior of the Revenue, for a Mil¬ 
itary Road from Astoria to Salem, (Oregon,) and 
several of a private character. 
Mr. Stanton, of Ohio, offered a joint resolution 
for the repeal of the clause in the Post Route bill 
authorizing the Postmaster General to make such 
arrangements for the transportation of the great 
through mails between Portland and New Orleans 
as will ensure the most opeedy and certain connec¬ 
tion, including in the rout.;, for all of the daily 
mails, the seaboard commercial cities, 23 may be 
consistent witli the greatest, despatch. The resolu¬ 
tion passed by a large majority. 
The bill granting pensions to officers and soldiers 
of the War of 1812, was made the special order for 
the 2d Tuesday in December next 
At half past 2 o’clock, of the 12th inst, the 
House took a recess tttl a quarter to 6. At 6 
o’clock the House re-as,-embled, but nothing was 
done. An ineffectual attempt was made to have 
some documents printed, when the House ad¬ 
journed sine die. 
Letter from the “Monumental City.” 
Baltimore, June, 1858. 
This city is, indeed, compactly built Baltimore 
and Philadelphia are somewhat alike. The white 
marble, and white shutters of each, are quite a con¬ 
trast to the brown stone and green blinds of New 
York. The town looks well, and is thronged with 
a busy multitude, aud bears the evidences of thrift 
The foreigu trade has fallen off. No town can com¬ 
pete with New York for this trade. It is the 
mighty mart of the Western Continent The cur¬ 
rents favor New York, and its spacious harbor is 
unequaled. Baltimore shares largely in the domes¬ 
tic trade, and will always be an important town.— 
Goods find their way west much earlier in the sea¬ 
son than by onr great central route. In that re¬ 
spect they have a very great advantage. 
Baltimore street is the Broadway. It is lined 
with many beautiful stores, and is gay and business¬ 
like. In the afternoon it is thronged with the wo¬ 
men of Baltimore, and their beauty is nowhere 
surpassed. 
This is the “ Monumental City.” Why cannot the 
beautiful cities of Rochester and Syracuse have 
some monuments? It strikes us that a statute of 
De Witt Clinton anywhere along the line of the 
canal would be appropriate. The Washington 
Monument, in this city, was erected at a cost of 
S200,000, and is one of the finest on the continent 
It is 180 feet high, and the top is reached by a spiral 
stairway with 228 steps. The monument is on high 
ground, and the. view from the top is beautiful.— 
The city and country, dotted all over with villages, 
is spread out before you. A few days since a gen¬ 
tleman ascended with a party, and on reaching the 
top looked over, suddenly drew back, and could not 
be persuaded to look again. He said he felt as if 
he should throw himself over. He had such an 
impression, and he would not expose himself.— 
Many others have expressed the same feeling when 
in a place of exposure, and doubtless some have 
fallen victims, and we have called it suicide. 
Market gardening is a great branch of industry 
here. The country around the town is fine, and 
there are many beautiful places and highly culti¬ 
vated grounds on all the avenues leading to the 
city. n. f. o. 
Wholesale Desertion. —A Carrolton (Mo.) pa¬ 
per states that the troops designed for Utah, as¬ 
cending the Missouri river, are deserting every 
chance they get On the steamer Oglesby, recent¬ 
ly, there were three hundred troops, out of which 
there were fifty desertions before that boat passed 
Hill’s Landing. 
Female Government Clerks. —The Newbury- 
port (Mass.) Herald says that Mr. C. H. Hudson 
Register of Probate in that county, Las been com¬ 
pelled from the small income of that office, as a 
matter of economy, to substitute female clerk help 
for males. 
Effort is being made in New Haven to make up 
a contribution of books for the Library of the Cal¬ 
ifornia College. Sevejal members of tbe Faculty 
of Yale College have made large donations. 
Mrs. Betsey Eastman, of HopkiutOn, N. H., on 
her ninety-eighth birth-day spun over nine skeins of 
stocking yarn, and has during the past year spun 
over one hundred skeins of yarn, and knit about 
fifty pairs <5f stockings and socks. 
The farmers of Tama county, Iowa, held a meet¬ 
ing recently, resolving that all difficulties shall be 
settled among themselves, by arbitration, and to 
nominate no man for office unless he is a laboring 
man. Office-seekers will please make a note of it. 
The ship Black Hawk was cleared at New Orleans 
on tbe 23d ult., for Liverpool, with 11,225 barrels 
of flour; the largest cargo of flour that ever left 
that port. 
Patrick Riley was plowing in Oneida county, 
and his hands coming in contact with some poison 
ivy, commenced swelling. He paid no attention 
to it, and the poison soon became so transfused 
into bis system that he died from its effects. 
A msrATCH from Memphis sayp, as far as ascer¬ 
tained, eighty-five cabin passengers and one hun¬ 
dred and twenty deck passengers have been saved 
from the burning of the steamer Pennsylvania, on 
the evening of Sunday week. This would leave 
the number of lost at fifteen cabin and eighty 
deck passengers, or a total of ninety-five. 
The Newark Advertiser makes an arithmetical 
computation that the produce of a single fly, by 
successive generations, in one summer is 1,080,820! 
Mr. Swayne, an inmate of the Connecticut State 
Prison, was discharged on Monday week, through 
a mistake in the office of the Secretary of State, 
where the resolve of the Legislature rejecting 
Swayne’s petition for a pardon, was somehow 
changed into an order for his release 1 
The Oswego Times says a small show wagon 
containing a Leopard, was upset on the road near 
FultoD, the other day, and being burst open by the 
accident, the enclosed animal taking advantage of 
the chance, at once started for the woods, in which 
all search for him proved in vain, and the Leopard 
now roams a denizen of our forests. 
At Preston, near Brighton, (Eog.) one of the 
most extraordinary marriages which have ever 
taken place, was celebrated in the parish church, 
it being that of the Dowager Countess of Effingham 
to Mr. Holmes, who has filled the bumble position 
of Scripture reader in connection with one of the 
churches of that celebrated watering place. The 
bride is upwards of eighty years old. and the bride¬ 
groom about thirty, so there is only a disparity in i 
their ages of half a century! The aristocratic rela¬ 
tives and connections of the bride are said to be 
terribly excited by this most unexpected and ec¬ 
centric conduct of this aged and noble lady. 
The most distressing single casualty resulting 
from tbe floods and tornadoes that have visited the 
West this season, is that at Roscoe, on Rock river, 
near the Illinois and Wisconsin line, by which the 
house of Rev. Horatio Ilslcy, formerly of Maine, 
standing on the river’s bank, was overturned and 
swept in by the flood, when the whole family were 
asleep in their beds. Father, mother, and eight 
children went down in tbe catastrophe; the father 
escaped, he hardly knows how,—but all the rest 
perished. 
The vote of Maine, at its recent election on the 
liquor question, is about 35,000 for “tbe prohibi¬ 
tory law of 1858,” and 1,000 for “ the license law of 
1856.” Half of the 1,000 were cast in Bangor alone. 
8o Maine returns again to the prohibitory Bystem. 
The Mexican bondholders in England held a meet¬ 
ing lately, and expressed their approval of Gen. 
Houston’s plan of a Mexican Protectorate by the 
United States. They think we would be good for 
Mexico’s debt, which it is more than doubtful if 
she can ever pay herself. 
The Brownsville (Texas) Flag, announces that 
Mr. Peter Seuzeneau, U. S. Consul at Matamoras, 
died at his residence in that city on Sunday morn¬ 
ing, the 23d ult. Mr. S. was for a number of years 
Recorder for the Third Municipality of New Orleans. 
During the session of Congress just closed, no 
lees than five personal altercations have taken 
place between members, viz:—Grow and Keitt, 
Clay and Cullom, Hughes and Harris, Davis and 
Benjamin, and Gwin and Wilson. Nobody was 
hurt, except in loss of good name; which, unfortu¬ 
nately, involves with the brawlers the reputation 
of the body to which they belong, and tends to bring 
the country into discredit with foreign nations. 
The London Chronicle says that the Mormon 
agents in England have stopped emigrating from 
Europe during the pending difficulties, but proba¬ 
bly will resume operations as soon as it is decided 
to what quarter they shall direct their steps. 
The New York Chamber of Commerce was es¬ 
tablished in 1770, at the solicitation of the New 
York merchants, and it co-operated with the British 
during the Revolutionary war. 
Bears abound this year, in the northern part 
of Nermont, more numerously than ever before, 
“ within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.” On 
Sunday, May 30th, they killed three cattle for 
Hazleton Rice, and badly mutilated the fourth. 
The Wine Culture in Europe. — The French 
vineyards, the present season, are reported to be 
generally in good condition. It is officially com¬ 
puted that within the territories of the Austrian 
empire, the wine of all kinds produced, is upwards 
of five hundred millions of gallons; more then 15 
gallons for each man, woman and child of the pop¬ 
ulation. The Austrian Government is earnestly la¬ 
boring to bring about, through tbe Zollverein, a 
reduction of the high duties on the wines in other 
States of Germany and the North. 
From Texas. —The southern mail brings Galves¬ 
ton dates to the 9th. The United States surveying 
schooner Vixen had arrived there. All crops in 
the north-east section of the State excel anything 
ever known. The Indians on the Pecos were 
troublesome, and Capt. Polk had lost a number of 
horses. Tbe crops on the Ilio Grande were fine.— 
There had been a tremendous hail storm at Fort 
Davis. 
St u 
— Cardinal Wiseman is said to be dangerously ill. 
Great commercial distress is experienced at 
Paris. 
— There are 803 nunneries in Spain, comainiDg 
20,913 nuns. 
— The Erysipelas is prevailing among the Catta¬ 
raugus Indians. 
— Red skirts and red shoes are the latest femaia 
agony at New York. 
— Gov. Winslow, of North Carolina, accepts the 
Sardinian Mission. 
— Dr. James Deane, the Geologist, died at Green¬ 
field, Mass., last week. 
— The Secretary of the Treasury anticipates 
heavy importations in the fall. 
— In Providence, on the eighth trial, the mem¬ 
bers of the Legislature were elected. 
— The largest and finest strawberries are selling 
in Cincinnati at five cents per quart. 
— Ex President Pierce is said to be engaged in 
writing a history of the Mexican war. 
— The number of land warrants issued in May, 
under the act of March, 1855, was 5,583. 
— The floating debt of the Erie Railroad is $2,- 
000,000. Its funded debt is $25,835,593. 
— During the first week in May, the births of 
1,688 children were registered in London. 
— Salt Lake, in Utah, is salter than the sea. Two 
quarts of its water will make a pint of salt 
— Cotton is in bloom down in Georgia and 
Louisiana, a fortnight earlier than last year. 
— One hundred and four years ago, the 19th 
inst, the first Colonial Congress met in Albany. 
— Two white burglars were caught a few night3 
ago in New Orleans, by means of bloodhounds. 
— President Monroe’s remains are to leave New 
York in the steamer Alabama on the 3d of July. 
— A sturgeon was caught in one of the Canal 
locks at Lockport, on Friday week, weighing 35 lbs. 
— There is every assurance of one of the greatest 
grain crops this year, ever yet harvested in Cali¬ 
fornia. 
— The number of trains arriving and leaving 
daily at Chicago, is set down at one hundred and 
twenty. 
— The appropriations made by Congress at the 
session just closed, are said to amount to eighty 
millions. 
— Col. Titns, of South Carolina, Kansas and Nic¬ 
aragua notoriety, is now organizing a company for 
Arizona.. 
— On the 15th and 16t,h inst 119 cars of live 
stock were brought into Cleveland, all destined for 
the east 
— Forty thousand dollars worth of horses were 
sold in Cincinnati at various stables, during the 
last week. 
— Lord Napier, in company with Senators Cam¬ 
eron and Seward, is on a visit to Pennsylvania 
coal mines. 
_(jpm'ral Scott’s seventy-second blrih-Jay «■«» 
celebrated in New York, by a military parade, 
salutes, Ac. 
— Col. Kane, who has been prominently instru¬ 
mental in quieting tbe Mormons, has reached 
Washington. 
— A minister prayed fcrrwntly for those of Lis 
conglegation who were too proud to kneel, and too 
lazy to stand. 
— With the exception of two bouses in which 
are American partners, there is not an Amu lean 
firm in Havana. 
— Major Patrick Calhoun, of the U. S. Army, son 
of the S. C., statesman, died recently at Pendleton, 
S. C., aged 38 years. 
— Claims have been presented against the broken 
firm of Lawrence, Stone & Co., of Boston, to the 
amount of $2,900,000. 
— A young mechanic in Baltimore has construct¬ 
ed a complete model of Mt. Vernon, house, estate, 
tomb and all, in wood. 
— Whole caravans of travelers are said to be 
leaving Russia, intending to pass the summer in 
France and Germany. 
— The Philadelphia Evening Journal learns that 
Mr. Reed, the American Ambassador to China, is 
about to return home. 
— An attempt had been made to assassinate Lord 
Castlemaine, at Athlone, Ireland, by a former at¬ 
tendant on his person. 
— The British schooner Vivid arrived at New 
York on Saturday week, with 4,530 bushels of pota¬ 
toes from Nova Scotia. 
— John Stockton, of New Jersey, son of the 
Commodore, has been nominated Minister to Swit¬ 
zerland, vice Fay, recalled. 
— It is officially announced that the steamship 
Leviathan will not be ready until next year. She is 
to seek harbor at Portland. 
— The farmers out west use the new skeleton 
skirts as scarecrows in their cornfields. They thus 
answer an admirable purpose. 
— Moses Y. Reach, the enterprising proprietor of 
the New York Sun, has invented a press that prints 
both sides of his paper at once. 
— The Central Park in New York, is now likely 
to go forward in earnest. The Common Council 
has appropriated $300,000 for it 
— The Washington Union contradicts, by author¬ 
ity, the rumor that Me-srs. Cobb and Floyd were 
about to retire from the Cabinet 
— Since the swill milk war opened in Now York, 
the quantity of milk consumed at the hotels has 
diminished at least fifty per cent 
— Oregon remains out of the Union until next 
session, and the territories of Dacotah, Arizona and 
Nevada, still remain unorganized. 
— The Princess of Prussia, Queen Victoria’s 
daughter, is suffering much in health lately, in 
consequence of a fall down stairs. 
— The Mississippi river has commenced falling 
at Kt JohDH, and what is better, the upper Missis¬ 
sippi and Missouri are both falling. 
— On the six great railways in process of con¬ 
struction in India, nearly one hundred millions of 
dollars have already been expended. 
— The Con. House of Representatives has passed 
the amendment to the State Constitution, granting 
the right of suffrage to colored men. 
— Prof. Morse returns to this country with $80,- 
000, awarded him by the ten Continental poweis 
who have adopted the telegraph system. 
— Prince Danilo, of Montenegro, paid a ducat 
for each Turk's nose that was brought to him. The 
number cut off is stated as high as 2,000. 
— Travis, tbe pistol shooter, is teaching his art 
to the ladies of Lexington, Ky. This is a new 
feature, but a most dangerous precedent. 
— Right Hon. William Yates Peel, brother of Sir 
Robert Peel, died at his residence in BagiDgton- 
hall, Warwickshire, England, on the 1st inst. 
— Robert Harvie, of Richmond, Va., has been 
awarded the contract for building a section of a 
railroad in Brazil, for the sum of $4,000,000. 
— An original portrait of Franklin was recently 
discovered in Paris, and it is to be brought to Bos¬ 
ton, having been purchased by an American. 
— The people of the Azore Islands, particularly 
the inhabitants of Fayal and Funchal, are reported 
to be again in the most deplorable condition. 
— Up to the 26th ult. there had been exported 
this season from Bermuda to the U. R. 20,034 barrels 
of new potatoes, and 283,000 pounds of onions. 
