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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
JULY 17 
Contents of the Rural for July 17, 1858, 
AGRICULTURAL. Pack 
Facts About Manures.229 
Steeping Seeds,...229 
Short-Horn Cow “ Chatelaine,” [Illustrated,].229 
A Hint or Two About Homes,.229 
Sheep—Characteristics of Breeds—No. 1.230 
Some Other Things, and Draining,.230 
“ Watering Places" for Stock,.230 
Wintering Bees—Ci iticisms,.230 
Railroad Horse-Powers—Again,. 230 
The Diagonal Scraper,.230 
Hen Lice. The Best Crop to Plant in July. 230 
What Ailed the Steer. 230 
Barometers for Farmers,.21 
Wheat Growing in Water. 230 
Rural Miscellany .—Monroe County Horse Show—Premiums 
Awarded. State Agricultural College. Weather—Crops—Wheat 
Midge. The Midge in Canadian Wheat—Fruit An Early Har¬ 
vest Wajne Oo. Horse Show.230 
Injuirics and Answers. — Tiajlier Under-Drains. Black Ants. 
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 
The Rural and the Horticulturist,. 231 
The Currant Moth, [Illustrated,]. 231 
Strawbeiries,. 23 
Tine Scale Insect.. 231 
R. It S. on the Grand Island Orchard,. 231 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Raspberry Vinegar. To Pieserve Gooseberries. Gooseberry Jam. 
Rasplx rry Jam. Cherry, Gooseberry, or Currant and Rasi>- 
berry Budding. How to dry Cherries. Ilowto Boil Potatoes,.. 231 
LADIES’ PORT-FOLIO. 
1 Am Thinking, [Poetical ] A Voice from Ocean Depths. Farm¬ 
ers’Daughters. Murmuring Ladies. Female Inti ucnce and 
Energy. Florence Nightingale. 232 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The Pic-Nic, [Poetical ] Nature. Stuck-up Folks. The Philos¬ 
ophy of Laughter. Under a Tree,.232 
SABBATH MU8INGS. 
Only Waiting. [Poetical J They Have Faith. Be Cheerful A 
Christian Man’s Life The Sabbath. Isjve of God. Prayer 
with Study,. 232 
THE TRAVELER 
Letters from the Bavarian Capital—No. II. Italy,.233 
USEFUL OLIO. 
“ It Is Impossible.” The Art of < ’onversation. The Wonder of 
the Age. Customs of the Turks,. 233 
THE YOUNG RURALIST. 
The Wonders of Vegetable Life, [Illustrated] Fourth of July,. 2.33 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
The Land of Dreams, [Poetical.] Dead Letters,.230 
The Crops—Conditions and Prospects. 
List of New Advertisements this Week 
Arthur's SeU-Sealing Cans and Jars—Arthur, Burnham & Gilroy. 
Andrew J Ensign, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 
Angell’s Family Sewing Machine—1). H. Seelye 
Sodus Academy, Wayne Co, N. Y.—Isiwis H. Clark. 
The Wayne Co. Horse Show—DeWitt C. VanSlyck. 
5,000 Agents Wanted—Ephraim Brown. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Catarrh—Guilford D. Sanborn, M. D. 
A Lady Agent Wanted—Dr. Fleming. 
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THE RURAL IN ITS OWN STATE. 
This journal circulates largely among the hon¬ 
ored class from whom its title was derived—the 
Rural New-Yorkers, or the Ruralists of New York. 
No paper is so generally taken and read in Western 
New York, especially, as the Rural —while it has 
an extensive circulation in other sections of the 
Empire State, Central, Southern, Northern and 
Eastern. But, gratifying as is the large measure of 
favor and support accorded it throughout our own 
State, we verily believe that if Fifty Thousand 
more copies of the Rural were circulated within 
its borders, Individuals, Families and Communi¬ 
ties would be benefited tenfold the expense of the 
investment. It is not perhaps claiming too much 
to say that every person who cultivates a garden 
only, whether in country, village or city, would 
receive, in hints, suggestions and instruction, more 
than “value received” for his money—while any 
farmer would be sure to find it a paying invest¬ 
ment But in addition to the information it im¬ 
parts relative to Agriculture, Horticulture, &c., the 
Rural is a safe, pure, instructive and useful Lite¬ 
rary and Family Paper— a weekly visitor always 
eagerly welcomed by the various members of the 
Family Circle. Many aver that as an educator and 
fireside companion it is worth ten times its cost to 
any family, without regard to its value as a practical 
journal of Rural Affairs. Indeed, we are glad to 
know that it is taken and highly prized as a Family 
Paper by many professional men, merchants and 
mechanics in our villages and cities—in preference 
to the popular literary (but often very trashy) pub¬ 
lications of the day. 
—Now, there is “ ample room and verge enough” 
to circulate, to the advantage of the people, tens 
of thousands more copies of the Rural in the 
State of New \ ork,— but who will aid us in intro¬ 
ducing it to notice and support in localities where it is 
note comparatively unknown ? Reader — Farmer, 
Merchant, Professional Man, or Mechanic, as the 
case may be — will your kind offices be given in 
the direction indicated? If you approve the char¬ 
acter and objects of the Rural, we frankly ask 
your assistance in making known its existence and 
merits. You are right among the people whom 
we desire to reach and benefit, and by exhibiting a 
number of the paper and speaking a favorable word 
in its behalf note and then, the work of introduc¬ 
tion in your locality may soon be easily and suc¬ 
cessfully accomplished. From your position and 
influence you can, if disposed, materially aid us in 
reaching the reading, thinking and enterprising 
people of this State, and any service you can con¬ 
sistently render in the premises will be most grate¬ 
fully appreciated and properly acknowledged. 
The United States and Mexico.—M r. Forsyth, 
in bis dispatches, says, that while he has ceased to 
hold diplomatic intercourse with the government 
of Zuloaga, he deemed it better to remain in Mex¬ 
ico to afford protection to the American citizens, 
if needed, and until he could learn the views of his 
government as to his course. 
From the correspondence of the Rural and also 
from our exchange list we glean the following in¬ 
telligence relative to the condition and prospects 
of the crops, both at home abroad. 
A correspondent, H. Wilson, in Florida, Henry 
Co., Ohio, under date of July 6th, writes that 
“ wheat, oats and grass are good—corn and pota¬ 
toes will not be over half a crop, even in many 
fields only just up, and a much less breadth of 
land in.” 
Joseph D. Kknady, of Wallonia, Trigg Co., Ky., 
on the 2d inst, writes that “the corn and tobacco 
crop is fine everywhere—better probably than 
usual. The tobacco crop throughout the State is 
larger than I ever knew it before. The oat crop is 
a total failure this year—there will not be enough 
old oats in the whole country to sow the hundredth 
part of the ground usually devoted to that crop.— 
The wheat is very slim, so far as I have been able 
to learn, and from all accounts will fall greatly be¬ 
low the average yield of previous years.” 
From Hastings County, C. W., a correspondent 
writes:—“The midge is making fearful ravages 
here just now, (9th inst,) which threatens the total 
destruction of the wheat crop. A very severe 
drouth has followed the excessive wet, so spring 
crops look very unpromising.” 
An intelligent resident of Leo Co., Iowa, just 
arrived in this city, informs us that the wheat crop 
is badly rusted over a large portion of South- 
Eastern Iowa. Both winter and spring wheat are 
injured by ruBt—also, barley and oats. Corn and 
other crops promise well Accounts from other 
parts of Iowa are generally favorable. 
We have received statements from twelve or 
fifteen counties in Ohio, and these may be sum¬ 
med up by saying, that the wheat crop will turn 
out at least an average; barley unusually large 
yield; oats and grass good; corn, though late 
planted, doing well; potatoes rather backward, but 
growing finely. 
In Duchess county, N. Y., the farmers have com¬ 
menced harvesting their wheat and rye, with a 
very abundant crop, especially of the latter. Clover 
hay has been cut to a considerable extent, and thus 
far both grain and hay have been secured in the 
best condition. 
Concerning the crops in England and France 
the London correspondent of the New York Com¬ 
mercial Advertiser, writing under date of June 25th, 
says:—“ The most important fact to record is that 
we are still enjoying a summer of the highest tem¬ 
perature ever known. Last week, the thermometer 
in the shade stood between 94° and 95°, and the 
average of the month has been 8° beyond its ordi¬ 
nary height. As this has not been accompanied 
by drouth, occasional storms having been expe¬ 
rienced in all parts, an abundant hay crop is in 
course of realization, and there is every prospect 
of an early and heavy grain harvest. On the con¬ 
tinent the experience has been somewhat similar, 
and the condition of the vines in the south of 
France is pronounced to be unprecedentedly 
splendid. There is likewise a great promise as re¬ 
spects grain. Hay, however, in France is short in 
quantity, although of high quality. For the silk 
crop, the European yield is estimated as certain to 
amount to at least five-eighths of a full crop, and 
loouing at tne results of the last two or tnree years 
this is a most favorable change.” 
The N. Y. Tribune, of the 10th inst, says:—“We 
talked on Wednesday with an intelligent old resi¬ 
dent of Illinois, from near the Mississippi above 
the Illinois river, in which section of the State he 
has lately traveled considerably, this spring and 
since the rains ceased, and he says the country was 
wetter in 1844, and that corn planted the last week 
in June made a good crop. This year, a very large 
surface, that had been given up to lie useless as 
late as the 20th of June, has since been plowed and 
planted, and the corn started up immediate]}', and 
is growing very rapidly, and may yet make a good 
crop. At any rate, it will make fodder plenty.” 
The New England Farmer, of the 10th inst, re¬ 
marks:—“The weather continues fine, and for 
several days the temperature was much more com¬ 
fortable than the previous week; but on Wednes¬ 
day and Thursday the mercury again showed an 
upward tendency, and the heat became oppressive. 
Showers fell on Saturday, since which we have had 
no rain in this vicinity. The clear weather is very 
favorable for haymakers, who have taken the field 
in strong force, and are securing a bountiful crop 
in excellent condition.” 
The Lansing (Mich.) Journal says:—“From all 
parts of the country, we have flattering reports of 
full crop. In our vicinity wheat never promised 
better. We hear occasional complaints in regard 
to the weevil, but even should that scourge take a 
third, we have the assurance of one who is posted 
that the remainder would prove more than an 
average crop. Grass is more than abundant; so 
are the indications in regard to potatoes, while 
corn, though it had a very wet road to travel when 
was first planted, bids fair now to prove a good 
investment.” 
The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Eagle learns that the 
eevil is working in the wheat, and injuring it 
materially, through the townships of Paris. Cascade 
and Ada. The corn and potato crops bid fair to 
be abundant 
From Utah and the Far West. 
Re-interment of President Monroe’s Remains. 
—The remains of President Monroe arrived at 
Richmond, Va., on the 5th inst., and were received 
by an immense throng on the wharf, including the 
military of Richmond. The remains were placed 
in an open hearse drawn by six white horses, the 
band playing a dirge in the meantime. The build¬ 
ings, shipping, &c., exhibited the appropriate signs 
of mourning, and minute guns were fired during 
the procession. When the corpse arrived at Holly¬ 
wood cemetery, Got. Wise delivered an address, 
giving a sketch, &c., of the life of Monroe and the 
circumstances which led to the removal of his re¬ 
mains. The coffin was consigned to the grave 
with the usual honors. 
Death of Kosta. —Martin Kosta, the Hungarian 
refugee who was rescued from the Austrian au¬ 
thorities in 1853, by Commander Ingraham, of the 
United States Navy, died recently, in very indigent 
circumstances, on a sugar plantation, near the city 
of Guatemala. 
Letters from the Utah correspondent of the St 
Louis Democrat, who is traveling with the head¬ 
quarters, says that Gen. Harney and staff reached 
a point on the Little Blue, 245 miles west of Fort 
Leavenworth, June 23d, all well and in excellent 
spirits. The letters contained no news. The roads 
were good and the weather fine. Head quarters 
progressing rapidly. 
The advices for Gen. Harney, which went for¬ 
ward on the 6th inst., direct the following move¬ 
ments:—Eight companies of the 2d dragoons, with 
Majors Phelps and Reynold’s batteries of artillery, 
and the 10th, and probably the 7th Regiments of In¬ 
fantry to remain in Utah. The 4th Artillery and 
two companies of Dragoons occupy the district of 
the Platte. The 1st Cavalry is directed to remain 
on the plains as late as practicable, and make ex¬ 
cursions among the Indians and keep them in sub¬ 
jection. The 6th and 7th Infantry proceed to Ore¬ 
gon in view of the recent intelligence from the 
Pacific of the Indian hositilies. Majors Harris and 
8. Hunt’s batteries are ordered to Fort Leaven¬ 
worth. The corps of Engineers now with the bat¬ 
talion of the 9th Infantry, are to return to West 
Point, after completing the work of opening a road 
to Camp Scott via the Cheyenne pass. The troops 
which accompanied Capt. Marcy from New Mexico 
are to return to that department. Brig. Gen. Har¬ 
ney is ordered to return to St. Louis and assume 
the command of the West, unless he may have re¬ 
ceived intelligence of the forcible opposition of 
the Mormons to the army now in Utah; in which 
case he is empowered to send forward the whole 
reinforcements and continue them to Utah, or re¬ 
turn to take command of his Department, if he 
may prefer. 
Dr. Forney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs of 
Utah, writes to the Indian Bureau, that he has made 
several treaties with tribes who have been in en¬ 
mity many years. The nations he had visited had 
always been friendly, but are in a position to have 
done, if so disposed, much more harm than the 
Mormons. Indian affairs are represented to be in 
a very mixed position. He intends to visit all the 
tribes from Salt Lake City to Carson Valley. 
Gen. Redfield, writes from Fort Pierce, Nebraska 
Territory, that the Sioux are much excited on ac¬ 
count of the treaty of the United States with the 
Yanctons. They claim that the land belongs to 
them, and protest against the Yanctons being paid 
anything. They are in an irritable and disturbed 
state of mind, and Mr. Redfield could not transact 
any business with them, if it had not been in pres¬ 
ence of the troops. They are insolent and fault¬ 
finding, and it may be necessary to chastise them 
severely. The stipulations of the Laramie treaty 
are not observed, nearly all the nations and tribes 
being at war, and depredating on one another, as 
well as on the whites. 
A dispatch from Nebraska says that the emigrant 
trains were returning from Fort Kearney, all in fine 
condition, and report good roads. A number of 
trains were awaiting the arrival of the government 
freight 
Washington Matters. 
The War Department has dispatches from Gen. 
Johnson, dated June 11th. They contain nothing 
of opcoial interest. The army was lu good condi¬ 
tion. According to the copies of the different 
orders, the troops were to march forthwith, in three 
divisions, on as many consecutive days, to Salt 
Lake Valley, in compliance with the instructions 
of Gov. Camming. 
The President has determined to protect the 
American Ship Canal Company in their contract 
with Nicaragua. The Cabinet advises this course, 
and Costa Rica favors it. Instructions will be dis¬ 
patched to Gen. Lamar, directing him to impress 
distinctly upon the authorities of Nicaragua the 
fact that our policy toward that Republic has been 
changed, and that remedies against all existing or 
future evils will be enforced in u summary way. 
The receipts into the Treasury from the 21st to 
the last of Jane were $1,081,169. On deposit, $8,- 
120,000. Drafts drawn but not paid, $2,269,000.— 
Amount subject to draft, nearly $6,565,000. 
It appears from the army orders just issued, that 
within the past year there has been fifty-four pro¬ 
motions, thirteen resignations, sixteen deaths and 
thirty-six appointments, including those of twenty- 
six cadets to Brevet Second Lieutenants. 
Com. Page, who is designated to command the 
naval force for Paraguay, has had an interview with 
the Secretary of the Navy on the subject That 
government, it is said, has very effective war steam, 
ers, and a fort which commands the navigation of 
the I’arara river. It is of great power, and under 
French Engineers. Hence it is deemed important 
to the success of the mission that the United States 
shall be prepared for all possible emergencies, the 
President having been clothed by Congress with 
ample power to enforce all just demands of our 
government. 
The Secretary of the Interior, on appeal revoking 
the titles of Monticello, Lower Monticello, Mori- 
torious, Minnesota, has decided that under the law, 
the only beneficiaries of the trust are the occupants 
of the towns. No other proprietors are recognized, 
nor can the Department protect the claims or in¬ 
terests of non-resident shareholders or lot owners. 
The quanty of land for town purposes cannot ex¬ 
ceed 320 acres under the law regulating the subject 
The Cabinet Council, on the 7th inst, had under 
consideration the affairs of Mexico, and Mr. For¬ 
syth’s conduct with reference to the forced loan. 
Attorney General Black subsequently had an inter¬ 
view with Gen. Cass on the subject. He is pre¬ 
paring to give it a formal decision. 
Gen. Lane Acquitted. — The examination of 
Gen. Lane on the charge of having murdered Mr. 
Jenkins, was concluded at Lawrence on the 30th 
ult., and resulted in the acquittal of the prisoner. 
A Lawrence correspondent of the Leavemvorth 
Ledger says the decision of the Court was to this 
effect:—“ In making out a case against the defend¬ 
ant, it was necessary, first, to prove that a murder 
had been committed; and, secondly, by Gen. Lane. 
The prosecution had failed to establish the first.— 
The Court were unanimously of the opinion that 
no murder had been committed; and, as the Terri¬ 
tory having failed to establish this primary fact, 
the only charge contained in the affidavit, the de¬ 
fendant, Gen. Lane, was accordingly discharged. 
grit's! gavitpijilusi. 
A gentleman named Legare, of South Carolina, 
has succeeded in making articles of furniture out 
of cotton—made so* compact, as to be hard as 
wood. Out of the same material he has obtained 
a fire and water-proof substance, suitable for walls 
of buildings, and capable of any amount of build¬ 
ing and relief A house, it is said, may be built 
from foundation to roof-tree of compressed cotton, 
nearly as bard as stone, and quite as impenetrable 
to the elements; and it may be built in half the 
time it would take to lay the bricks in a brick 
house of the same size, and at about one-third of 
the cost. 
An officer of the U. S. steamer Georgetown 
writes from Bombay, that he had jnst attended the 
marriage of two children—with all the solemn 
rites of the church—who were each only five years 
old. Children are there married by their parents 
when mere infants. They think it a great disgrace 
not to be married at five years old. A boy unmar¬ 
ried at six is an old bachelor. 
A nEN in Philadelphia, has hatched out 56 chick¬ 
ens at one batch. The lad who had charge of the 
fowl made a large nest in the ground, and had the 
hen setting on some wads of cotton for a day or 
two previous to putting in the eggs. He then 
placed the eggs, fifty-six in number, under her in 
two tiers, and each day changed the tiers, placing 
the upper one beneath the other tier. In twenty- 
one days the entire batch was hatched out safe and 
sound. 
The fifth annual commencement of the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Female College took place in the Hall of the 
House of Representatives at Harrisburg on the 1st 
Degrees were conferred on the young girls who 
graduated, and the class of ’55 were dubbed with 
the title of “Mistress of Arts.” 
There are yet standing in sight of the Olympian 
Springs, Bath county, Ky., fourteen log cabins 
built by a regiment of U. S. soldiers in 1812, under 
command of Colonel Owens, whose head-quarters 
were there. 
The Louisville Courier publishes a list of disas¬ 
ters on western rivers for the six months ending 
June 30th. The following are the figures:—Boats 
snagged, &c., 29; boats burnt, 18; boats exploded, 
6; collisions, 2; fiatboats lost, 7; lives lost, 347; 
total number of boats lost, 54; total value of boats 
and cargo lost, $1,069,000. 
At the first annual commencement of Mount 
Union College, Ohio, the Degree of Bachelor of 
Liberal Sciences was conferred, among others, 
upon Miss Jane W. Chapman. 
The papers announce the death of the Earl of 
Glengall, who died rather suddenly at Cowes, Isle 
of Wight He was 64 years of age. In default of 
male issue the earldom becomes extinct. 
The Asiatic cholera has again made its appear¬ 
ance in London. Its first victim attributed his 
malady to the poisonous stench arising from the 
Thames, on which river he was employed as a 
lighterman. 
Mackenzie gives a bill of costs in the County 
Court, at Brant, for the collection of a note of £54, 
due the Bank of Montreal. The costs and fees 
amounted to £74 Us. 2d. There was no defence 
set up on the suit. The Canadian lawyers evident¬ 
ly cut it pretty fat 
There are forty-one thousand men in Massachu¬ 
setts who work upon leather, either in manufactur¬ 
ing the article or moulding it into various forms. 
Every eighth man in the State is a shoemaker. 
According to the New York City Inspector’s Re¬ 
port, the number of fatal cases of sun stroke last 
week was tbirty-one; dropsy in the head thirty-one; 
inflammation of the brain ten. Diseases of the 
stomach are not yet very prevalent. The total 
number of deaths daring the week was 447. 
The entire Territory of New Mexico has been 
constituted a new land district Wm. Pelham has 
been appointed Surveyor General, and the lands 
will soon be brought into the market and opened 
to pre emption. The land office has information of 
the immense richness of the soil in precious metals, 
particularly the Mesilla Valley. 
The weekly report of the New Orleans Board of 
Health shows that eight deaths occurred in that 
city last week, of yellow fever, being an increase of 
six over the previous year. 
We learn from the Niagara Falls Gazette that 
Canadian Engineers have been making surveys, 
within a few days, for a tubular bridge across the 
Niagara at that place. The surveys are made for 
the proposed Southern Bailroad through Canada. 
A London paper tells a story of a man who 
placed fish-hooks, barbs downward, in his pocket, 
and when a pick-pocket inserted his hand, caught 
him by the fingers and held him there a sufficient 
length of time to punish him for the offence. 
From Mexico. —The bark Brilliant arrived at New 
Orleans on the 9th, and brought advices from Vera 
Crnz to Jnly 6th. Business still prostrate. The city 
was healthy, but vomit prevailed among the troops. 
A violent earthquake had occurred at the Capitol, 
June 18th, killing 50 persons. The British and 
French Ministers had advised their countrymen to 
pay the forced loan under protest, but the Ameri¬ 
can Minister refuses the demand, and has asked 
for his passports, and was waiting instructions. 
General Yiadauri and Garea were marching on the 
Capitol. Echragaryhad returnedto Jalapa. Osal- 
las was shut up in San Luis. Gen. Salas had been 
recalled by Zuloaga. The decree for the forced 
loan, was being ridgidly enforced. Advices from 
Yucatan are to June 30th. Government had im¬ 
posed a duty of fifty cents per barrel on foreign 
and domestic flour. An earthquake occurred at 
Ainitilan. 
A Steamer Burned—Seven Lives Lost.— On 
the morning of the 1st inst, the steamer Galena 
took fire at the landing at Red Wing, Minnesota.— 
The origin of the fire is unknown. The flames 
spread with such rapidity that the boat was soon 
enveloped in flames. ABout seventy-five passen¬ 
gers were on board, sixty-eight of whom were 
saved. The following are known to be lost:—John 
Tyson, Holly Porter, Nancy Porter, Chas. Porter 
and Lydia Porter, of Michigan. The books and 
papers were all lost The boat wus valued at $50,- 
000. No insurance. 
ilrus (Condenser. 
— The famous English steamer Styx has gone to 
Halifax. 
— Boston appropriates $2,000 this year for open- 
air concerts. 
— A pestilence has broken out among the cattle 
and deer of Florida. 
— There are about fourteen thousand British 
subjects in California. 
— John Sherman, of Ohio M. C., is a grandson 
of old Roger Sherman. 
— There were 284 deaths in Philadelphia, last 
week, 21 by sun-stroke. 
— Frogs are in demand in New York, and sell 
for one dollar per dozen. 
— Small-pox is very prevalent in N. Y. city, and 
has appeared in this city. 
— Ripe peaches are selling in Memphis, Tenn., 
at three dollars per bushel. 
— Fourteen of the wounded on the Pennsly vania 
left at Memphis, have died. 
— Five million acres of land are to be sold in 
California, next February. 
— It was rumored in Europe that Prussia is 
about to increase her Navy. 
— The military buildings at Mackinac, Mich., 
have been destroyed by fire. 
— Independence passed off with comparatively 
very few accidents this year. 
The City Council of Louisville, K,>, has estab¬ 
lished a paid fire department. 
— In Louisville, the other night, a man and his 
wife both died of mania ccpotu. 
— The waters of Lake Erie continue higher than 
the oldest inhabitant remembers. 
— A new style of skirt, called the “ Leviathan 
Crinoline,” has been brought out. 
— The Bostonians are raising a fund of $50,000 
to build a female medical college. • 
— The rate of taxation in San Francisco for this 
year $2 30 on every $100 valuation. 
— At Birmingham, Eng,, eight tuns of wire per 
week are made into hooks and eyes. 
— There are more prisoners in the Indiana Pen¬ 
itentiary than can be accommodated. 
— The New Orleans Picayune says that city is 
more than usually peaceable and quiet. 
— The nomination of Prince Napoleon to the 
Governorship of Algiers, is abandoned. 
— Saturday was observed in many places at the 
west as the anniversary of Independence. 
— On the Saginaw river, Mich., in a distance of 
25 miles, there are more than 50 saw-mills. 
— Henry James, the noted theological essayist, 
arrived from England in the steamer Persia. 
— A firm in Boston have 60 sewing machines 
operated by steam, at work making bay-caps. 
— Some green leaves in the hat crown are said 
to be a certain preventive against sun-strokep. 
—The Moravian congregation at Bethlehem, 
Penn., have over one million dollars at interest. 
— They are beginning in Boston to ornament 
their pulpits and sacrament tables with flowers. 
— The London Times is about to be printed on 
the beet-paper, at a saving of two cents per pound. 
— The N. Y. Express says peaches and ripe ap¬ 
ples are arriving in that city from South Carolina. 
— The tax rate in Washington city, is 31 cents 
on the $100—a reduction of five cents since last 
year. 
— The Brooklyn City Directory, for the present 
year, contains 50,000 names, against 30,000 last 
year. 
— The four leading journals of Chicago have 
adopted the cash system with regard to subscrip¬ 
tions. 
Col. Kane, the returned messebger of peace to 
the Mormons, lies very ill of bilious fever at Phila¬ 
delphia. 
— A planter living near Choctaw Island, Missis¬ 
sippi, had 240 head of cattle drowned in the late 
freshet 
— Correspondents from Kansas say there is no 
doubt of the almost unanimous defeat of the Eng¬ 
lish bill. 
— A railroad has been surveyed in Kansas from 
Elwood to Topeka. The work will be crowded 
forward. 
— The Legislature of Louisiana has abolished 
capital punishment, substituting therefor hard la¬ 
bor for life. 
— The wheat in Virginia will generally yield an 
average crop, and the tobacco crop promises to be 
very large. 
— It is stated that, altogether, there are between 
forty and fifty thousand fancy birds sold annually 
in N. Y. city. 
— Transcendentalism is two holes in a sand bank 
—a storm washed away the bank without disturb¬ 
ing the holes. 
— The Episcopal Convention of South Carolina 
has voted its bishop six months holiday, and $1,200 
to take it with. 
— Twenty horses were burned to death, in the 
destruction of the Pennsylvania House stables, at 
Davenport, Iowa. 
— The hog cholera is making havoc with the 
hogs in Pulaski Co., Ill. Many farmers have lost 
their entire stock. 
— In the late floods of the Missouri river, one 
man lost thirty acres of land which were carried 
off in the current 
— It is said that the swamp lands of Arkansas, 
Mississippi, and Louisiana produce 600,000 bales 
of cotton annually. 
— Ice-water, ice-creams, cobblers, juleps, gossa¬ 
mer garments, umbrellas, and shady nooks are 
now at a premium. 
— It is estimated that not less than $100,000 
worth of plain thimbles are worn out or destroyed 
in the U. S., in a year. 
— A gold boulder, weighing 44 pounds, and 
valued at $4,000, was on exhibition at San Francis¬ 
co at two bits a sight. 
— Mrs. Sarah Prescott, aged 86, and a niece of 
Col. Prescott, the hero of Banker Hill, died, in 
Boston, on the 18th ult. 
— The wheat harvest is progressing very finely 
in Central Ohio. There is a great yield. The corn 
is coming on splendidly. 
— The St Louis Democrat gives a list of nearly 
thirty counties in Missouri where the slave popu¬ 
lation is rapidly diminishing. 
— There are only 26 towns in Massachusetts with¬ 
out a Congregational Church. The remaining 
have from one to fourteen each. 
— A bust of John Howard Payne, author of 
“ Sweet Home,” by Jackson, the sculptor, is to be 
placed in the Music Hall, Boston. 
— One thousand barrels of flour are contracted 
for in Cincinnati, to be delivered in September, at 
$3 per barrel, by parties in Indiana. 
— The Saratoga papers say that the arrivals at 
the Sprin gs, up to the present time, are about double 
the number to the same date last year. 
— As July 4th came on Sunday, many preachers 
in Boston took that occasion to comment on the 
Christian duties of patriotism and progress. 
— A “ National Dress Reform Convention ” was 
held in Cortland Co., June 24th and 25th. There 
was a decided opinion in favor of short skirts. 
— The subject of making a new mouth for the 
Missouri river, near the town of Portage de Sioux, 
is being agitated by the Alton Board of Trade. 
