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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
JULY 24. 
Contents of the Rural for July 24, 1868. 
AGRICULTURAL. Page 
Farm Economy,. 237 
Artesian Welle. 237 
To Make a Meadow—No II.237 
Cahoon's Hand Broadcast Seed Sower, [Illustrated.].237 
The Potato Rot—Its Cause and Cure,.238 
Lorn of Cow at Calving,. 238 
Hay Riggings, Again,. 238 
Butter-Making.238 
The Potato Rot,.238 
Cows Leaking their Milk. 238 
Culture of Barley—Rolling,. 238 
Rural ABsctUany .—Tie Wheat Crop. Mr. Plowhandle on 
Awarding Committees at Ag Fairs Minnesota Ag College. 
Applying Manure on the Surface Aiabian Horses Mass State 
Ag Society. A Haying time Hint,.238 
Inquiries and Answers .—Com and Gophers Cows Loosing 
Calves. Flax Cuituto. Information Wanted—Cobble-Stone 
Buildings. Analysis of Wheat. JKust on Oats. Garget The 
“Hooks," or “Haw.'. 238 
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 
Fruit for Market Purposes,.239 
The Gooseberry Caterpillar, [Illustrated,]. 239 
Horticul.ural Festival at Naples,.239 
Cultivation of Squashes.239 
American Pomological Society,. 239 
Fruit Grown for New York city,.239 
To Keep off the Bugs,.239 
Wild Onions,.239 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Swec* Com for Winter Use. Fmall Pctatccs for Bread Making, 
i Ai tidote for Mutqnitoes. Curr nt Wine. Lemon Peer. Rasp¬ 
berry Vinegar, Again. Rarpbetry Wine.249 
LADIES’ PORT-FOLIO. 
Beauty's Commission—A Dresm. |Poe'ical] Hope. My Mother. 
Female Accomplishments. The Ideal Woman,.249 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The Poor Man's Funeral, | Poetical ] Young Plowhandle in the 
Field. A Word to Fathers, our Corn Uy’s Responsibilities. 
Eaith's Fashions. Important Advice,.240 
SABBATH MUSING8. 
The Conquert of l ove. [Poetical] Rest in Heaven. Cur Heav¬ 
enly Home. The Daily Struggle Christian HabitsofMind. No 
Compromise. Chi it t.240 
EDUCATIONAL. 
Commencement Week in Roehetter-University of Rochester. 
Immediate Results. Connecticut Teachets’ Association. New 
Yotk State Teachers' A*sociation The liest Sc>olsr. 'ibe 
Teacher. A TchcWs Oflice. American Institute of Instruc¬ 
tion—Annual Meeting,. 241 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Central Pretbyteiian Church, Rochester. [Illustrated,] Are Thin 
leople Liable to Apoplexy? Minute Philosophers,.211 
THE YOUNG RURALIST. 
Hints to Young Ruralista Night Labor,.241 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
My Philosophy. [Poetical] Smiles fhr Home. A Tea Parly 
Among iho Alphabet New W »y of Paying a Subscription,.. 244 
List of New Advertisements this Week 
A Book for the Country—fowler ar d Wells. 
Wilson’s Albany Seedling!—W m . Richardson. 
The Atlantic Monthly— Phillips, Sampson & Co. 
Fort Plain Semi' ary—W. II. Bann stcr. 
Important to Farmers and Dairymen—J. L Alberger 
Premium Strawberries-Wm. R. Prirc» A Co. ° 
Fa rfield Seminary—R-v. J. B Vun Petten. 
Chines r Sugar < auc—f! Stone. 
Bass Bark—H F. Hooker A Co 
Sodus Academy—Lewis H. Clark. 
Winter Seed Wheat Wanted—Wm Kellogg. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Grover A Baker’s Celebrated Family Sewing Machines— 
H. G. Giles, Agent. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 24, 1858. 
TERMS OF THE RURAL. 
Single Copy, one year, .$2 
Three Copies, “ . $5 
Five Copies, “ . $8 
Six Copies, and one free to agent, - $10 
Ten Copies, and one free to agent, - $15 
Subscriptions for Six Months received, at half the above 
rales, and free copies allowed in proportion. Club papers 
sent to as many different post-offices as desired. 
O - ' 1 ” Sack numbers from. April or January can still be 
furnished, if desired. We will send Specimen Numbers, 
Show Bills, ffC., to all applicants, and to the addresses of 
as many non-subscribers as may be forwarded. 
Washington Intelligence. 
The Peace Commissioners, in a despatch to the 
Government, on the 15th inst., state that they have 
settled the difficulties existing between the United 
States and Utah. 
The steamer Water Witch has arrived at Wash¬ 
ington. It is true, as reported, that Minister For¬ 
syth has been instructed to withdraw the legation 
from Mexico and return home. Mr. Henry, of the 
army, is the bearer of despatches to him. 
It is said that Gen. Scott has issued preparatory 
orders for all the available force on the Atlantic 
seaboard to be in readiness to re-inforce the army 
in Washington Territory. A detachment will leave 
New York for Aspinwall in the steamer of the 20tb. 
A semi official letter from New Grenada says, that 
in accordance with the laws having in view the 
better security of passengers over the I-thmus rail 
road, and in other respects to promote their com 
fort, the President of that Republic has appointed 
J. M. IJustado, Superintendent, with ample power 
for the fulfillment of the treaty. 
The War Department has received official de 
spatches, stating that Col. Steptoe, with a command 
of five commissioned officers, and 162 rank and 
file, was attacked and defeated by a large band of 
Indians, on the 17th of May, about 85 miles north 
of Snake river. The battle lasted from seven in the 
morning till a short time before sunset, when the 
ammunition being nearly exhausted, and the mus 
quetoons being nearly useless against the enemy, a 
retreat and forced march to the crossing of Snake 
river became necessary. 
The correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune says 
that Col. Henry took dispatches to Mr. Forsyth 
conveying the President’s views regarding the 
forced loan, and informing him that a steamer 
will be sent to Yera Cruz to convey himself and 
legation to Mobile. Col. Forsyth had written to 
the Department stating that after protesting 
against the forced loan he had thought of demand¬ 
ing his passports, but had finally deemed it best to 
remain in Mexico, though he had suspended all 
diplomatic intercourse. 
It is ascertained from a reliable source that 
about two years ago treaties were made with 
certain Indians of Oregon and Washington Terri¬ 
tories, including those who recently fought Col. 
Steptoe, and which the Senate failed to ratify. 
This omission has had the effect of producing an 
impression on the minds of these Indians of the 
absence of good faith on the part of the govern¬ 
ment. Several weeks ago, when the rumored de¬ 
feat of Colonel Steptoe reached here, the Indian 
Bureau promptly sent out direclions to the Indian 
agent to use all the available means at his disposal 
for such an emergency, to check at once the 
further spread of hostilities, and to prevent the 
commission of further outrages upon our citizens. 
Latest Intelligence from Utah. 
The Telegraph Fleet. 
The ship Alice Munroe, Capt. Joseph Cummings, 
from Liverpool, arrived at Boston on the 16tb, and 
Capt. C. reports falling in with a portion of the 
telegraph squadron on Sunday, June 27th, in lati¬ 
tude 22° 51' longitude 33° 15'. The log of the 
Alice Munroe runs as follows:—“Saw two ships 
heading to the eastward—weather foggy. On 
looking with a glass, found them to be the U. S. 
steam frigate Niagara and H. M. ship Gorgon, tele¬ 
graphic squadron; and as they were lying still, I 
at once tacked ship, and stood toward them. At 
11 noon was boarded by Cyrus W. Field, Esq., and 
a Lieutenant from the Niagara, from whom we re¬ 
ceived a letter bag and the following communica¬ 
tion, viz:—‘That the Fqnadron has experienced 
very had weather from its leaving port, and was 10 
days in reaching their destination, and that they 
had made two unsuccessful attempts to lay the ca¬ 
ble. Ou the second attempt on the 20 th they suc¬ 
ceeded in laying forty miles, and were going along 
finely, when the communication suddenly ceased 
at 12 o’clock on Sunday morning, 27th June. The 
ships then returned to their starting point where 
they waited for the Agamemnon and the Yalerous, 
and as soon as they met a splice would be made 
and another attempt to lay the cable.’ 
We lost sight of the Niagara at 3.30 P. M., and 
as the fog set in soon after, I did not think the 
squadron met before the 23th. The wea'her since 
for some days has been foggy. Mr. Field seemed 
to be in good spirits, and thought they should suc¬ 
ceed in laying down the cable. The stormy 
weather had interfered much with the success of 
the enterprise. One of the ships had sustained a 
8 1 injury,—a coal bunker breaking loose, by 
which one sailor had a leg broken, and another an 
arm. All was well on board the Niagara. Her 
machinery worked well, and the ship performed 
well.” 
Raising the Sunken Fleet at Sebastopol._ 
The Boston Transcript states that letters have been 
received in that city from Sebastopol, dated May 
24th, which report that the work of raising the 
sunken Russian fleet progresses rapidly, and with 
remarkable success. A sixteen g an vessel-of-war, 
with over two hundred tuns of mud in her, had 
been raised whole, with all her rigging and’eon- 
tents, and has since been repaired. Only one fifth 
of the power of the caissons was exerted, and there 
is no doubt that the whole of the sunken fleet can 
be raised. The Company engaged in the work is 
the Marine Exploring Company of Philadelphia. 
Death of John N. Wilder. — The telegraph, on 
the 15th inst,, startled this community by the intel¬ 
ligence of the sudden demise of John N. Wilder. 
Mr. W. had been complaining for a day or two, but 
the difficulty was not serious, and he had fully 
recovered. On the afternoon of the 15th, while in 
the transaction of business, he complained of a 
pressure at the chest, and seemed so seriously ill 
that a physician was ordered. The Argus says:_ 
“Dr. Armsby afterwards came in, and walked with 
Mr. W. to the Delevan House—he refusing the aid 
of a carriage. He went to his room, Dr. Armsby 
accompanying him, took off his coat and cravat, 
and lay down upon the bed. Presently he com¬ 
plained of being worse, and as Dr. Armsby was in 
the act of ringing the bell for assistance, he heard 
the exclamation, ‘Ob, dear, Doctor,’ and looking 
aronnd saw him convulsed. He instantly applied 
the lancet, first to his arm, and then to his leg, but 
he immediately expired.” 
Few men were more widely respected than Mr. 
W., throughout the State, and indeed the country, 
wherever he was known, and his sudden death will 
cause mourning in many a community, where dur¬ 
ing his life, the liberality and benevolence of his 
character had made itself felt. Mr. Wilder was 
President of the Board of Trustees of the Roches¬ 
ter University, and also a member of the Dudley 
Observatory, at Albany. 
Genesee Valley Extension.— The Olean Ad¬ 
vertiser says:—Messrs. Britton & Townsend, the 
contractors, have now 125 laborers at work, divided 
into seven gangs. About a mile of the canal is 
completed, and at the rate the contractors are now 
pushing their job, we shall look for a completion, 
or such a state of forwardness by fall, as will war¬ 
rant its opening by the 1st of June, 1859. Messrs. 
B, & T. are old contractors, and they have taken 
hold of this proposed improvement with the avow¬ 
ed determination to made short work of it. 
Sad Affair.—A telegram from New York, dated 
17th inst, says five girls, belonging to the House 
of Mercy, were drowned last night in the North 
River, at the foot of lGth street They had gone 
into the river to bathe, and were wading out to¬ 
gether from the shore, with their hands joined, 
when they suddenly got beyond their depth, lost 
their footing, and were swept away. Their names 
are, Asjaval Van Gilder, Hannah Bryan, Ellen 
Smith, Margaret Smith, Louisa Ever. 
Fkenciiy. —It has been intensely hot in Paris, 
whereupon many Parisians have converted night 
into day, in order to enjoy the more moderate 
temperature of that portion of the twenty four 
hours. The Bois de Boulogne was crowded with 
carriages of all descriptions, from nine in the 
evening till two in the morning. 
The Fat Men on Parade. —The Falstaff Brigade 
at Mansfield, Ohio, on the 5th, numbered fifty. The 
lightest man weighed 2 @ 0 ; the officers weighed as 
follows:—Capt, J. Emiger, 248; IstLt., Dr. Chand¬ 
ler, 290; 2 d Lt., R. Carter, 237; 3d Lt., John Finney, 
252; Orderly Sergeant, John Cral!, 250; Surgeon, 
Dr. Mitchell, 235. 
The Utah correspondent of the St Louis Repub¬ 
lican, under date of June 18th, says that the condi 
tions agreed upon at the conference between Gov. 
Cumming, the Peace Commissioners and the Heads 
of the Mormon Church, are that the troops shall 
enter the city without opposition; that the civil 
officers shall be permitted to perform their duties 
without interruption; unconditional obedience to 
the laws of the land. On the other hand, past 
offences are to be forgiven, as wa3 stated in the 
Piesi len'.’s proclamation. 
All houses in the city had been closed, both 
against civil officers and strangers, except one. 
which was occupied by the Govenor and his fami 
ly. Everybody else was obliged to Bleep in wagons 
or on the ground. 
The persons in the city were Gov. Camming, 
Secretary Hartnett, Messrs. Howell and McCulloch 
Peace Commissioners, Dr. Forney, Supt of Indian 
Affairs, Mr. Craig, Indian Agent, and Mr. Dodson, 
Marshall of the Territory. 
The Republican says:—We have dispatches from 
Leavenworth 13th inst., by the U. S. Express to 
Brownville, saying that an Express arrived jester 
day from Gen. Harney, who was on the Gth inst in 
camp 75 miles beyond Fort Kearney. 
Col, Monroe’s column was beyond the south 
fork of the flat, and Col. May was a short distance 
in the rear. The headquarters and all were in a 
splendid condition. 
A dispatch dated Nebraska City the 15th inst, 
says trains just arrived from Fort Kearney, report 
that the officers at the Fort had received intelli¬ 
gence that Gen. Johnson had entered Salt Lake 
City with his troops. This, however, is probably 
a mistake. 
Letters from Fort Kearney of June 20th, say 
that General Harney's headquarters had been en¬ 
camped there for six days, in expectation of the 
arrival of new instructions from the War Depart¬ 
ment. 
The Independent’s mails, with dates to the 15th, 
has arrived. The news is unimportant A diffi¬ 
culty had occurred, growing out of the persistence 
of the Indians in driving cattle and horses upon 
the hay grounds, known as Ewell Camp, near 
Fort Defiance. Major Brooks has been obliged to 
send a company of soldiers to drive the horses off, 
and to take the grounds from them. Several cattle 
and ponies had been killed, and a skirmish occur¬ 
red between the troops and Indians, but none of 
either party were killed or wounded. 
Borrowers of the Rural. —Judging from the 
allusions to them by suffering subscribers, we con¬ 
clude that the borrowers of the Rural are on the in¬ 
creased certain sections. Many complain that they 
cannot preserve the numbers for binding, on ac 
count of the borrowing and keeping propensities of 
neighbors who are abundantly able to take and pay 
for the paper. In answer to sundry inquiries as to 
how this nuisance can he abated, we would suggest 
that all borrowers be iD vited to read their own Rurals 
—by becoming subscribers at a cost of 3 to 4 cents 
a week. If that don’t succeed, our friends must 
either stop lending, or (as some of our subscribers 
have done) make the most persistent borrowers a 
present of the paper for a year. The following 
notice from a Western subscriber explains itself: 
Notice— Fifty - Two Dollars Reward offered !— 
Borrowed or stolen from the subscriber, some time 
in 1857, two numbers of Moore’s Rural New- 
Yorker. Any person returning the same, in as 
good condition as when taken away, shall be fur¬ 
nished with fifty-two numbers of the Rural New- 
Yorker, free of charge. I wish it further under¬ 
stood that I lend the Rural to have it read and re¬ 
lumed. —A Neighbor, Three Rivers, July 5, 1858. 
Terrible Railroad Accident.— The Express 
train on the Erie Railroad which left New York on 
the evening of the lGtb, met with an accident 
when a few miles east of Port Jervis, by the break¬ 
ing of a rail. The last two cars in the train were 
thrown down on an embankment thirty-feet—five 
persons killed, and a large number injured. Lewis 
Lay, of New Orleans, lost a son; Mr. Brown, Iowa 
Valley, son killed; Mrs. A. Ray, Wm. Childer, and 
H. Wood. Mr. Wood and Mrs. Brown are not ex¬ 
pected to recover. A dispatch from Port Jervis, 
on the 17th, says, “the Jury on the Erie Railroad 
disaster have returned a verdict exonerating the 
Company from all blame. The evidence before 
the jury was, that the speed of the train was about 
25 to 30 miles an hour—not so fast as usual. The 
track was in good condition and on a straight line. 
The injured are all comfortable to-day, and are 
leaving for their homes.” 
Great Earthquake in Mexico.— The New Or¬ 
leans paper contain details of Mexican news. The 
earthquake in the Valley of Mexico was very dis¬ 
astrous. The loss in the city of Mexico alone is 
estimated at five or six millions of dollars. Many 
churches, theatres, acqueducts, convents, railroads, 
Ac , were damaged, or entirely demolished. The 
villages along the valley were more or less injured. 
The country seat of Gen. Gadsden, late American 
Minister, was almost entirely destroyed. Fifty 
lives were lost, as far as known. 
Guanajuato had been sacked and captured by the 
Constitutional troops. The vomito was making 
fearful ravages among the troops at Yera Cruz. 
Old People. —Mrs. Elizabeth Shearer, aged one 
hundred and four years, a native of Washington 
Co., Md, who emigrated to Paris, Ky., in 1793, when 
there were only three houses in that region, died 
on the 3d inst 
Micah Balcom died at his residence in Methuen, 
Mass., on the 11th inst., at the advanced 8 ge of 
one hundred years, eleven months and six days. 
Mr. Isaac Cobb died at Exeter, Me., June 24th, at 
the age of ninety-six years and three months. He 
was one of the few who, having voted for ’R ash- 
ington for President, lived to vote in 185G. 
Death op Gen. Quitman. —The telegraph an¬ 
nounces the death of Gen. John A. Quitman, at 
Natchez, Miss., on the 17th inst. Ilia death is said 
to have been occasioned by the effects of disease 
contracted at the National Hotel, iu Washington, 
during the remarkable epidemic which occurred 
at that house winter before last. 
Great Decline in the Price of Meat. —The 
N. Y. Evening Post of Wednesday says:—“At the 
different city markets, during the week, the number 
of sheep offered for sale has exceeded 20 , 000 , an 
increase of G,000. The average price for beef has 
been 7£ cents per pound, from two to three cents 
lower than heretofore; and sheep and lambs are 
selling at a dollar a head lower. At Washington 
Market to-day, our reporter informs us that mutton 
was sold at two cents a pound.” 
The editor of the Indianola (Texas) Courier says 
he has in his office a French sugar beet weighing 
sixty pounds, measuring a yard in circumference 
and over a yard in length. 
The ordinary expenses of the French Govern¬ 
ment have in crease d^as follows:—They were, in 
1847,1,431,774,014f; in'l848,1,597,000,OOOf; in 1857, 
1,645,000,OOOf; in 1858, 1,736,000,OOOf. 
Statistical tables recently published show that 
the revenue raised on tobacco in France amounts 
to about $20,000,000, and in England to about $23,- 
000 , 000 , or to a total for both countries of about 
$53,000,000 a year. Nearly all this is grown in the 
United States. 
Col. Colt, in consequence of the extreme heat 
at Hartford, uses mules instead of cattle in the 
meadows. They do the work better, and stand 
everything in the way of heat 
In France, the wild chestnut tree is grafted 
when three or four years old, and the product of 
the tree is a farinacious nut which the people cook 
and serve as desert at their meals, finding not only 
palatable but nntricious. The tree becomes very 
graceful, and is planted as an ornament, and for 
shade. 
Philadelphia has just received the sum of five 
thousand dollars, from the estate of Elliot Cres- 
son, devised by him as a perpetual fond, the in¬ 
come to he annually expended in planting and re¬ 
newing shade trees, especially in situations now 
exposing citizens to the heat of the sun. 
The Canadian Ministry have announced to Par¬ 
liament that they had resolved upon a general 
reduction of official salaries, commencing with 
those of the Ministers of the Crown, and extend¬ 
ing to the whole body of the Government em¬ 
ployees. The salaries of members of the Execu¬ 
tive Council, which are now £1,250 a year, to be 
reduced to £1,000, those of the Solicitors General 
from $750 to G00. Ten per cent, is to be deducted 
from the salaries of the public employees in the 
different departments of the service. 
Three are 117 brick or stone, and 373 frame 
buildings—in all 490—now going up in Milwaukee, 
at an aggregate cost of one million one hundred 
thousand dollars. 
TnE Lyons, France, academy has offered a prize 
of 1,200 francs for the best work on the means of 
opening fresh sources of labor to females, and of 
placing the wages of women on a level with those 
of men, where there is equality of service render¬ 
ed, or of labor performed. 
William Evans, of Boston, Mass., a wealthy 
man, but whose parents during his infancy were 
supported by the town of Smithfield, Mass., has 
made a donation to that town of $ 10,000 as a grate¬ 
ful tribute for the support then given them. 
It is said that each milk train that goes into 
New York by the Erie Railroad, carries 22,500 gal¬ 
lons of milk, at least. The trade by the same road 
in berries is also immense. 
The duties on “brandy and buttons” received at 
the New York Custom House last week, were very 
nearly the same in amount. Each article paid 
about $24,000. This is a queer balance in trade. 
There are about one hundred artesian wells in 
Iroquois Co., Ill. Their average depth is about 
one hundred and twenty-five feet, and their cost 
about $ 200 . 
At a recent "meeting of the New York Histori. 
cal Society, Dr. Bacon read a paper on the lan¬ 
guages spoken in that city, giving an interesting 
account of each, showing its origin and character. 
Eighty languages, he stated, are used in business 
and social intercourse among the inhabitants, be¬ 
ing a greater number than any other city in the 
world. 
The Bangor Whig says the Penobscot Indians 
are now doing a smashing business in manufactur¬ 
ing hoops for ladies’ dresses, out of basket stuff— 
The red ladies have also adopted the fashion in its 
greatest amplitude. 
A New Hampshire man, who is now at the gold 
diggings in Iowa, says that three days exploration 
with a spade had enabled him to find “several 
very small grains of gold, and several tuns of ex¬ 
aggeration.” 
A Convention is to be held at Ontonagon, Mich., 
on the 25th of August, to consider the project of 
forming a new State from those portions of Michi¬ 
gan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, adjoining lake 
Superior. 
A new movement, which has a fair prospect of 
success, has recently taken place in London, for 
the construction of the projected railway between 
Halifax and Quebec, the nucleus of a company 
having been formed, with the approbation of the 
Queen’s Ministers, for carrying out the undertaking. 
The distance between Halifax and Qaebec is 635 
miles; but as there are already short lines at either 
end of the route, the amount of road to be con¬ 
structed would he about 450 miles. 
Political Intelligence.— The Union State Con¬ 
vention of Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg on the 
14th inst, and organized by electing Gov. Reeder, 
President. Have not received authentic proceed 
ings of the Convention. 
The New York American State Council are sum¬ 
moned to meet at Albany on the 24th of August, to 
fix upon the time and place of holding the State 
Nominating Convention. Each Council is to send 
one delegate. 
The Republicans of Ohio held a State Conven¬ 
tion at Columbus on the 14th inst. The following 
ticket was nominated:—For Supreme Judge— Wm. 
Y. Peck, of Sciota. Attorney General — C. P. Wol¬ 
cott, of Summit Comptroller— W. B. Thrall, of 
Franklin. Board of Public Ilorfo—John S. Mar¬ 
tin, of Butler. 
The Wine of California. — California, like 
Missouri, will soon rival Ohio in the product of 
native wine. There is one firm in San Francisco 
which produced, last year, two hundred thousand 
bottles of champagne from their own vineyard, in 
Los Angelos. This is hut one of many instances 
of California enterprise in wine growing. Almost 
every State in the Union now adds its quota- 
small in many cases, hut always increasing—to the 
annual product 
(The ilrit'si (Cmutcnscv. 
— There are but three Revolutionary soldiers in 
Ohio. 
— All the officers of the Kane Expedition are 
now dead. 
— The reported sale of the Collins steamers is 
contradicted. 
— Carlington, an Irish lord, has perfected a fly¬ 
ing machine. 
— The silk and wine crops of France are very 
promising this year. 
— There are 20 0C0 women employed in watch¬ 
making in Switzerland. 
— Shurtleff College, Illinois, has graduated only 
three Btudents this year. 
— The capital of the Atlantic Telegraph Com¬ 
pany is about $1,500,000. 
— The number of muscles in an elephant’s 
trunk amounts to 40,000. 
— There is a decided decline in the value of 
real estate in Philadelphia. 
— Most of the three hundred California post¬ 
masters are hotel keepers. 
— The annual expenses of the French Govern¬ 
ment amount to $230,000,000. 
— G. P. R. James, the novelist, has been tendered 
a British Consulate in Russia. 
— The peach and apple crop of Delaware is 
likely to be short this season. 
— The people of Oswego have refused to tax 
themselves $6,000 to repair the Pier. 
— The Sioux Indians are still continuing their 
ravages on the borders of Minnesota. 
— Green corn with ears full a foot long was on 
the tables in New Orleans a week ago. 
— General Quitman is seriously ill at Natchez, 
and doubts are entertained of his recovery. 
— Ill health, it bas been decided in England, 
is legal ground for breach of promise to marry. 
— A negro woman, 82 years old, living near 
Lebanon, Tenn., lately gave birth to twin children. 
— The accounts from all parts cf Ireland re¬ 
specting the growing crops are highly satisfactory. 
— Tn Virginia a man sent to the Penitentiary 
the third time is never allowed to quit the institu¬ 
tion. 
— A child ten months old, and weighing ninety 
pounds, was seen in New York on Independence 
Day. * 
— The N. Y. Board of Health have adopted the 
white washing report of the Committee on Swill 
Milk. 
— The income from the Custom House, New 
York, last week, averaged seventy thousand dollars 
a day. 
— The census shows that there are five hundred 
thousand more men than women in the United 
States. 
— The New Hampshire Legislature adjourned 
on Saturday last, after a session of only three 
weeks. 
— Four thousand eight hundred water-melons 
were shipped from Savannah for New York, on the 
3d inst. 
— An unusually large quantity of pine apples 
have been brought into the United States this 
season. 
— Fifteen millions of dollars are supposed to he 
spent by the people of the United States for lcws- 
papers. 
— Wm. Gilmore Simms, the novelist and poet, 
is named for United States Senator from South 
Carolina. 
— The Legislature of Wisconsin have passed a 
law exempting homesteads from being attached 
for debt. 
— The New York Times says the small pox 
is now a “ permanent institution ” in the me¬ 
tropolis. 
— A “ Century Plant,” belonging to Charles H. 
Stuart, of Philadelphia, will be in full bloom in a 
few days. 
— One hundred and fifty thousand pounds of 
wool have been shipped from San Francisto to 
New York. 
— Robert Brown, probably the most accom¬ 
plished botanist of the age, died in London on the 
10th ult., aged 85. 
— A French fire engine is about the size of a 
wash-tub. ODe American machine would fill 
eighteen of theirs. 
_There is to be a bridge across the St. Clair 
River at Port Sarnia, if Michigan consents—and 
she will, we guess. 
_It bas been decided in a Cincinnati court that 
the delivery of ice on Sunday is “ a work of ne¬ 
cessity or charity.” 
— It is said that a cheese painted over with 
melted suet, so as to form a thin coat over the out¬ 
side, never has mites. 
— J. Smart, of Yergennes, Vt., sheared a year¬ 
ling buck this season, whose fleece, unwashed, 
weighed 17| pounds. 
— Rev. A. B. Chapin, D. D., a well known Epis¬ 
copalian minister and editor, died at Hartford, on 
the 9th, aged 50 years. 
_One of Lola Montez's husbands, named Pat¬ 
rick Hull, a printer by trade, died recently in 
California, at the age of 36. 
— The overflow has made wood for steamers 
very scarce along the Mississippi, and the boats 
are troubled to procure fuel. 
— Oneida Co. appears to be pretty deep in the 
liquor business; the sum of $7,800 having been 
received this jear for licenses. 
_The skeleton of another mastodon has been 
found in excavating for the Brooklyn acqueduct. 
It will be exhumed and preserved. 
_Twenty-five hundred dogs have been drowned 
by the police in New York, since the Dog Law 
went into operation this summer. 
_The New York Times thinks the Atlantic 
Telegraph fleet has gone back to Coik. The en¬ 
terprise has undoubtedly met an estoppel. 
_The valuation of the city of New York tbi3 
year is $531,194,290, an increase of SI 0 634,808 over 
the last year. Taxes to be levied, $8,470,741. 
_The Hampshire Gazette says the frogs in 
Northampton are in danger of being extirpated, 
they are so eagerly sought after by epicures. 
— Russia is on very hostile terms with Austria, 
and on the best terms with France. She is quite 
inclined to form an alliance against England. 
_The cotton is brought into the southern ports 
in larger quantities than usual—a sure sign that 
the coming crop is expected to be a large one. 
_There was a severe storm of wind and rain at 
St. Pauls on the eveniDg of tbe 8th inst., which 
did damage to the extent of $10,000 or $12,000. 
— A meeting was held at St. Paul on the fth 
inst, to consider the feasibility of opening an 
overland route to the Frazer River gold mines. 
_Frazer’s River is navagable for steamboats 
ninety-four miles to Fort Hope. Tbe centre of the 
gold district is sixty-six miles above Fort Hope. 
— One hundred and fifty men left New York on 
Tuesday for Minatitlan, Mexico, having been en¬ 
gaged as laborers on the Tehuantepec Railroad. 
_Over 900 Norwegian and Swedish, emigrants 
have passed over the Galena R. R., withina few 
days, bound for La Crosse and McGregor’s, Wis. 
— The yellow fever is prevailing on the Gulf 
shore in Louisiana, and excites much uneasiness 
in New Orleans, where several cases had occurred. 
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