MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS AND READERS. 
We cannot become responsible for the return of reject¬ 
ed manuscripts. Those who send us literary wares at a 
venture, should preserve copies. 
Anonymous writers are again informed that our rule is 
to publish nothing from an unknown source—for reasons 
which must be obvious to the intelligent reader. By 
heeding this notice many will save themselves time, labor 
and anxiety. Though we do not require the author’s 
name for publication, it must be communicated to us as 
a guarantee of good faith and originality. We cannot 
spend time to even read articles which are unaccompanied 
by a responsible name, and therefore generally throw 
them aside without examination. 
For the information of many recent applicants we would 
state that we do not wish to add to the number of our 
paid contributors; and moreover that we rarely pay for 
articles by inexperienced writers — and especially “ first 
attempts” in the production of poetry, romantic sketches, 
&c. Skill and experience are of some importance in liter¬ 
ary as well as other manufactures,—to say nothing of such 
essentials as brains, grammar, orthography, etc. 
Domestic Economy _In an examination of the manu¬ 
scripts stored away for future use in this department, we 
find those bearing the date of every month since Decem¬ 
ber, 1857. So bounteous a feast have the “wives and 
daughters ” prepared for Rural readers that the “ good 
things" are constantly accumulating. This state of af¬ 
fairs will account for the non-appearance of certain of the 
“substantial” as well as “delicacies,” contributed by 
lady friends at the weekly board we spread. “ There is a 
good time coming,” the poet sings, and we hope to give 
all equal chances to exhibit their skill and taste in pro¬ 
viding for domestic wants before the year and volume 
closes. 
A Disputed Point.— In our previous “ Notices to Cor¬ 
respondents," we made some allusion to certain individuals 
whom we thought were trying to impose upon us by 
palming off, as the creations of their own fancy, the pro¬ 
ductions of others. One of these denies the “soft im¬ 
peachment ” as follows: 
“ Eds. Rural :—I can assure you I do not feel very 
much indebted to you for your assertion that I was on a 
piratical cruise on the ‘ sea of literature.’ Knowing that 
it is customary for editors to exchange, and also to print 
extracts from other papers* and never having seen ‘ The 
Dead Wife’ in the Rural, I took the liberty of sending it 
to you. It was not sent as being original, or, at least, 
I did not intend it so. 1 hope that, as gentlemen, you 
will, from a due sense of justice, retract what you pub¬ 
lished concerning me, on learning the facts of the case. 
Never before have I had my honor doubted in the least.— 
W , Burnt Hills, N. Y., 1858.” 
Our correspondent claims that the article in question 
“ was not sent as original, or, at least, did not intend so." 
What W.’s intentions were we cannot be expected to 
know; above the caption of the article sent W. wrote, 
very plainly—“For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.” It is 
not our desire to impute to any person the commission 
of paltry acts of which they are guiltless, and if wrong 
has been done in this instance, we hold ourselves in 
readiness to make amends therefor. It is not very pleas¬ 
ant for an editor, after giving publicity to an article as 
‘original,” to find that an imposition has been practiced, 
and if “ W.” would but realize this fact he will hereafter 
write—“ Selected for,” &c., previous to mailing the manu¬ 
script. 
tfiF For table of. Contents and List of New Adver¬ 
tisements, see next page. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 31, 1858. 
TERMS OF THE RURAL. 
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sent to as many different post-qffices as desired, and names 
added to a club at any time. 
Z3F Rack numbers from April or January can still be 
furnished, if desired. We will send Specimen Numbers, 
Show Bills, Q-c., to all applicants, and to the addresses of 
as many non-subscribers as may be forwarded. 
The Rural in the West. 
Though more largely taken in New York than 
any other State, the Rural has an extensive circu¬ 
lation throughout the Western States and Terri¬ 
tories, and Canada West Probably no journal 
published out of the Atlantic cities is so popular 
and widely circulated — and certainly no paper of 
its class was ever so highly favored and generally 
appreciated in all parts of the Union. People have 
ascertained, on trial, that the Rural is a National 
Institution, adapted to the wants and promotive of 
the welfare of individuals and families in all sec¬ 
tions of the country — East and West, North and 
South — and hence it has earnest friends and advo¬ 
cates in every State and Territory, and the British 
Provinces. This is especially true of the West — 
for the Rural has a very general circulation in 
Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, 
Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana and Minnesota. 
And yet, so vast is the Great West that there are 
hundreds of localities where the Rural has not yet 
been introduced, in each of which from ten to fifty 
subscribers might easily be obtained if some active 
and influential person would kindly devote a little 
attention to the matter. If individual subscribers 
throughout the States above named will show the 
Rural to their friends, and endeavor to introduce 
it to notice and support in their respective locali¬ 
ties, its aggregate circulation will soon be largely 
augmented. Many have kindly volunteered in this 
manner during the past year, and obtained from 
five to fifty subscribers in places where the paper 
was previously unknown. We are greatly indebted 
to subscribers who have moved from the East to 
the West for their successful efforts in circulating 
the Rural among their new neighbors, and thus 
largely increasing its usefulness. We trust others 
will do likewise. Having resided in the West for 
several years, we know something of the wants 
and wishes of the People, and also in regard to 
their generous and enterprising spirit. Hence, 
believing that we can furnish them an acceptable 
and valuable journal, and that those herein ad¬ 
dressed will appreciate and aid the Rural, we 
confidently submit the matter for their considera¬ 
tion and action. 
The Rural in the East and South. 
Ween we commenced the Rural, the idea of its 
ever having “hosts of friends” in New England 
and the Southern States was not dreamed of in our 
philosophy or calculations. But it has attained a 
very respectable subscription in the East and 
South — having lists of from five to twenty and 
fifty subscribers in numerous places from Maine to 
Texas, and en to California. Though the people 
of these regions do not exactly agree in politics, 
many of them concur in the opinion that the Rural 
New-Yorker is worthy their cordial approval and 
support—as numerous complimentary letters and 
substantial remittances from both the East and 
South abundantly testify. Indeed, whatever they 
may say or think of each other politically, a good 
many people in the Eastern and Southern States 
are sensible, discriminating and sound in regard 
to the merits of the leading and largest circulated 
Rural, Literary and Family Weekly in the 
Union. And as we have some spare room on our 
books, it will afford us pleasure to add the names 
of a few thousand “ good men and true” who abide 
in the regions of sunrise and geniality. We need 
not add that any influence which may be exercised 
in behalf of the Rural, by Eastern and Southern 
subscribers, will be properly appreciated,—nor that 
the present is a favorable time (just after harvest) 
for our friends everywhere to obtain subserptions. 
Washington Matters. 
Private letters from Mexico say Mr. Ottway, 
British Minister, has received direction from his 
government to suspend relations with the Zuloaga 
government, unless a disposition was evinced by it 
toward making reparation toward British subjects. 
Captain Langstreet ha3 been appointed by the 
President paymaster of the army, vice Dasniell, 
dismissed. 
Gen. Burnett, Surveyor General of Kansas, has 
made all his appointments, and will leave for the 
Territory next week. 
Dispatches from Utah, 25th of July, received at 
the War Department, state that orders have been 
issued that no one should leave the ranks in pass¬ 
ing through Salt Lake City, except from absolute 
necessity; and the greatest care was to be taken 
that the herds did not trespass upon the fields of 
the citizens. Among the documants received is 
Gov. Cumming’s pardon and peace proclamation 
to the inhabitants of Utah. 
An officer of the army, writing from Washington 
Territory relative to Col Steptoe’s defeat, says that 
the route eastward and northward of Colville is 
now virtually blockaded; that no one can cross 
Snake river, and that it will require a force ten 
times as large as is now there, before peace can be 
restored. 
The Treasurer’s weekly statement shows the 
amount on deposite to be $7,348,900, of which $4,- 
050,000 is subject to draft The receipts for the 
week were $1,088,000. 
The Secretary of the Navy has not yet decided 
on the application to change the terminus of the 
Collins’ line to Portland, which is now favored by 
the Post Office Department, as is believed. In con¬ 
sequence of this delay, the arrangements for the 
Oceanic mails are not yet completed. 
The Tribune’s correspondent says, our Consul 
will remain in Mexico, and communication will be 
continued with the Mexican Minister here until 
some decisive policy is adopted, which will depend 
entirely on the further development of events. 
There is no encouraging news attending the 
ratification of the Treaty with New Grenada.— 
Meantime ships of war will he stationed at Aspin- 
wall and Panama, to keep open the Transit, with 
instructions to send a force ashore in case of an 
outbreak. A considerable naval force is also to 
be ordered off San Juan, with a view of intimidat¬ 
ing the Nicaraguans into a ratification of the Cass- 
Yrsari treaty. 
Gold in Australia. —The production of gold in 
Australia begins to decrease steadily, owing, as the 
Melbourne Herald says, to the wasteful and un¬ 
steady habits of the miners, who having exhausted 
the surface diggings, do not care to undertake the 
sinking of shafts, unless they find, by the success of 
some more patient and persevering digger, who 
opens a lead near to their claim, that they may ex¬ 
pect to find gold under the soil. New places are 
discovered continually, which show that the prec¬ 
ious metal is widely diffused over the island, and 
only requires systematic mining to produce it in 
larger amouts than ever. 
Sand Spring. —This is the name of a new Post 
Office, established in Delaware Co., Iowa, Truman 
H. Bowen, Postmaster. The town takes its name 
from a noted Spring, and is situated on the 
Dubuque Western Railroad, 34 miles south-west of 
Dubuque. It is in the centre of Bowen’s prairie, 
a tract of some 25,000 acres, and the adopted town 
site of the Exodus Colony now settling there from 
New England. The Bowen Brothers, we under¬ 
stand, have located some twenty farmers and 
about a hundred villagers. 
Kansas. —The Kansas Herald says that General 
Calhoun has issued certificates of election to all 
those elected under the Lecompton Constitution. 
The Free State members from Leavenworth 
county receive certificates which give that party a 
majority in both branches of the Legislature. The 
returns for State officers will be made to the Legis¬ 
lature, in whose hands the whole subject rests. 
Large Quantities of Furs.— The St. Paul Pio¬ 
neer of the 21st ult., says some two hundred and 
fifty carts from Pembina, laden with furs, are en¬ 
camped on the outskirts of that city, and enough 
others expected to swell the number to six hun¬ 
dred. Altogether they will bring furs to'the value 
of $50,000. The carts are of the most primitive 
character, and drawn by oxen and the stunted po¬ 
nies of the plains. 
The Coolie Trade.— Mr. Reed, Minister in 
China, has forwarded a communication to the State 
Department, and has addressed a circular to our 
Consuls in China, against the trade, stating that in 
his belief it was illegal, and certainly against the 
instincts of humanity. He has also addressed the 
Spanish Consul to the same effect. 
Latest from Utah and the Plains. 
The Leavenworth despatches of the 20th, per 
U. S. Express to Boonville, say the express which 
left Fort Leavenworth on the 2d, with orders for 
Gen. Harney to halt and wait instructions from 
Washington, has returned. 
The express with orders from the War Depart¬ 
ment for Gen. Harney, was only about six miles in 
his rear. 
The General intended going to Ash Hollow to 
meet the principal chiefs and a considerable body 
of Cheyennes, who, being aware of the presence of 
Harney in their country, were desirous of holding 
a council with him, for the purpose of renewing 
their assurances of friendship towards the whites. 
Gen. Simpson, who was despatched with orders 
countermanding the advance, was at Fort Kearney 
on the 11th, and probably came up with Gen. Har¬ 
ney’s head-quarters on the 16th. 
The troops and trains were all getting along well, 
although the latter are somewhat delayed by high 
water. 
Col. May’s column was met on the 9th near 
Ofallon’s Bluff; Col. Morrison’s above Plum Creek 
on the 10th; CoL Sumner encamped near Fort 
Kearney on the 11th; Majors Emery and Whitney’s 
column was near the Little Blue on the 13th. 
A gentleman direct from Salt Lake City states 
that communication is kept up daily between the 
Peace Commissioners and Brigham YouBg, and a 
peaceful feeling prevails. 
A despatch from Independence dated the 19th 
inst., per U. S. express to Boonville, says the Santa 
Fe mail has arrived with dates to the 1st inst All 
the water courses on the route were very high.— 
Great preparations were making at Santa Fe to 
celebrate the 4th of July. The surveying party on 
the Canadian river report the country supplied 
with an abundance of water, and grass, and every 
way suitable for a railroad. The mail party had 
suffered no molestation from the Indians. Some 
of the trains which left here in the spring, had ar¬ 
rived at Santa Fe. Those on the Plains were get¬ 
ting on finely. The grass was never better. 
The Latest from Utah—Mormons Returned 
to Salt Lake. —Telegraph dispatches from St. 
Louis, of the 26th, give the following:—By the ar¬ 
rival of the steamer D. A. January, at Boonville, 
we have Leavenworth dates of the 23d inst. 
Mr. Livingston, an old trader on the Plains, ar¬ 
rived there the previous night from Salt Lake City, 
with dates to June 30th. 
The army had marched from the Capital for 
Cedar Valley, forty miles below. 
Brigham Young and the heads of the Mormon 
Church had returned, and the people were follow¬ 
ing them en masse. All was quiet in the Valley. 
Some of the returned teamsters are circulating 
a report of rich gold deposits in the vicinity of St. 
Berairi’s fort. 
Their statements do not receive full credit in 
the absence of information from authentic state¬ 
ments. 
Dispatches from St. Joseph dated 22d ult., per 
steamer January, state that advices from Salt Lake 
City of July 3d have been received. The Mormons 
had all returned to the city. 
Gen. Johnston had marched through the city 
with his forces, and encamped thirty miles the 
other side of it No troops in the city. 
The Government had been duly installed in their 
various offices, and were preparing for the proper 
division of their duties. 
Brigham Young was anxious to be tried on the 
charge of treason, but insisted that the Jury should 
consist of Mormons only. 
A Great Storm. 
On the 21st inst., a great storm occurred in the 
Western part of this State, and was particularly se¬ 
vere in Niagara Co. The storm was accompanied 
with high wind and hail stones as large as hens’ eggs 
fell in great profusion and with violence. Windows 
were broken, out-doors battered in, and the grow¬ 
ing vegetables cut down as with a scythe. The 
storm seems to have been felt inost sorely in the 
town of Hartland, Niagara county, and we are in¬ 
formed that corn stalks that were in the silk were 
shivered to pieces by the hail stones, and cucum¬ 
bers, melons and squashes, as large as a man’s fist, 
were smashed as if trodden upon by a horse; while 
the vines were shorn of their leaves and shattered 
as if riven by a streak of lightning. The hail 
stones were so thick at this point that they could 
be gathered up by the buBhel, an hour after the 
storm had passed. 
The storm seems to have been of pretty wide 
extent though it barely touched our city. North of 
the city a few miles, where we happened to be at 
the time, it was quite severe, though doing no 
damage. Whitby and various parts of Canada 
seems to have been visited in the earlier part of 
the day. A dispatch from the former place, says, 
“ a frightful hail storm occurred here this morning, 
during which houses were unroofed, and the crops 
in the vicinity totally destroyed. The storm lasted 
an hour.” We hear little of its doings east of this 
city except at Albany, which place it reached at 
104 o’clock in the evening, and is represented as 
being terrific. About an inch of water fell, as 
shown by the rain gage in half an hour. 
The next day, July 22d, there was a severe storm 
in Boston, accompanied with lightning, which did 
some damage in the city, as well as at Cambridge 
and other places in the vicinity. 
The Canada and America. —The Detroit Trib¬ 
une of Thursday s tates that intelligence has reached 
there, that N. P. Stewart, Esq., of Detroit, who 
purchased the steamers Canada and America of 
the Great Western Railway Co., and took them 
over the Rapids of the St Lawrence river, at great 
risk, has sold them to parties in New York city for 
the sum of $200,000. They are to be taken around 
Cape Horn to California, and are to run between 
San Francisco and the new Eldorado, upon the 
Frazer river. The upper cabins of the steamers 
are to be taken off for the trip around the Cape, to 
be replaced on reaching San Francisco. 
BuRNiNg of an American Ship.—T he ship L. 
Gilchrist, of ThomastOD, Maine, took fire July 5th, 
in the harbor of Havre, and was destroyed. She 
had on board a portion of her outward cargo of 
cotton, tobacco and staves. 
glnrs fraptpfe. 
The number of visitors at the eastern “watering 
places ” and summer resorts, is said to be mueh 
less than usual. The hard times, and the expense 
of keeping up dress and appearances at home, 
render a visit to the Springs a forbidden luxury. 
Two fine lake vessels, the Black Hawk and Chief¬ 
tain, sailed from Cleveland for Liverpool, on the 
6th of June last, intending to make a trial of speed. 
They reached Quebec in fifteen days, and Liverpool 
in twenty—making thirty-five days for the entire 
trip. 
The gold on Frazer river was first discovered by 
an American named Charles Adams, who fell a 
martyr to the discovery, having been shot by his 
partner, Charles McDonal, in a controversy about 
the gold. 
Some of the telegraph stations in Newfoundland 
are twenty miles from any habitable place, and 
the operators live in a state of original simplicity. 
They are well posted, however, in the news of the 
day, and know all about the prices of cotton. 
Prof. Morse sailed for Europe, with his family, 
on Saturday, the 14th inst., to be absent a year or 
more. The Professor has already received the first 
instalment of the $80,000 presented to him by the 
European Governments, for his telegraphic in¬ 
vention. 
A railway from Paris to Madrid is projected 
and under contract This new enterprise, which is 
to fulfil the saying of Napoleon, that “ the Pyranees 
no longer exist,” is to be completed next summer. 
The Telegraph Experiment. 
According to the New York Evening Post, Mr. 
Morse has never expected that the expedition now 
upon the Atlantic would be successful, though he 
is quite sanguine that a cable can be laid and 
worked between the terminis which the company 
has selected. He does not disguise his conviction 
that the cable on board the company’s steamers is 
much too heavy, and that one of half its weight, or 
less might be laid and worked effectively. 
His views upon the subject andthe consequences 
to which they have led, are said to have been the 
controlling reasons for his being left out of the 
Board of Direction, at the election which immedi¬ 
ately preceded the reduction in the price of the 
stock. 
Of course the company did not make the cable as 
heavy as they did, except to increase their chances 
of laying it successfully; and nothing hut atrial 
will probably ever determine whether Professor 
Morn's view is correct. His opinion unquestion¬ 
ably possesses great weight, and will be carefully 
considered if any new experiment is made. There 
are other provisions which have been suggested to 
us, against the accidents to which the plans for lay¬ 
ing submarine cables have thus far proved to be 
liable, which we will submit without argument for 
what they are worth: 
“A cable coiled cannot be uncoiled without kinks'. 
Therefore, the cable must be reeled to be laid. 
The vojage to England is easier, shorter and 
safer than the voyage from England: 
Therefore, the vessel with the cable should start 
from this side. 
There is one vessel, and one only, of tonnage and 
room sufficient to carry the whole of the cable, to 
wit., the Leviathan: 
Therefore, the cable, if ever laid at all, must be 
stowed on a succession of reels in the Leviathan, 
and the Leviathan must sail from our shores.” 
If these views should be deemed to possess any 
value, it would be easy for the Leviathan to bring 
the cable here to this country and lay it on her 
first trip home. 
A Relic of Mungo Park.—A relic of Mungo 
Park’s travels in Africa has been discovered by 
Lieut Glover, of Baikie's West Coast Expedition. 
The incident is thus related by the Cape Literary 
Magazine:—“Lieut. Glover, of the officers under 
the command of Captain Baikie, has stumbled 
upon a valuable relic of Mungo Park, and has of 
course secured it Passing through a native vil¬ 
lage near the scene of Park’s melancholy death, an 
old man accosted the Lieutenant, and showed him 
a book which bad for years been in his possession. 
It was a volume of logarithms, with Mungo Park's 
name and autographic notes and memoranda. The 
possessor offered it to Mr. G. for 200,000 cowries. 
Inestimable as the prize was, the price demanded 
was enormous, and it was impossible to pay it— 
After some consideration the Lieutenant took from 
his pocket a clasp knife, and asked the native what 
he thought of that This was too tempting a bait 
to be refused; the native joyfully took the knife, 
and the Lieutenant still more joyfully secured his 
valuable memento of the distinguished African 
traveler.” 
Capsizing of Sail Boats.— About one half of 
the papers we open contain accounts of the drown¬ 
ing of persons, mostly ladies, by the upsetting of 
sail boats, while on pic nics and other pleasure ex¬ 
cursions. Last week three ladies of the Atlantic 
Street Methodist Church, in New York, while on a 
Sabbath School excursion, were drowned. Were 
we to give all the reports that come to us, we be¬ 
lieve we could show as many as fifty each week 
during the warm season, that lose their lives in 
this way. Small sail boats with large sails are dan¬ 
gerous things, and the least squall upset them, even 
when under the care of experienced hands, bat 
when those on board are inexperienced and easily 
frightened, this kind of amusement is exceedingly 
dangerous, and those who are of any use to them¬ 
selves, or their friendp, should keep on shore, or 
else secure good, substantial row-boats. 
Sons of Malta. —A Grand National Convention 
of the Sons of Malta was held, in Philadelphia, on 
the 20th inst Visiting members were present 
from Havana, France, England, Germany and Mex¬ 
ico, and were admitted to the floor. They appear¬ 
ed greatly interested in the proceedings. A uni¬ 
versal Convention of all the Lodges in the world is 
spoken of, and will probably take place in 1859. 
Railroad Accident. —As a coal train was pass¬ 
ing over a bridge on the 21st inst, which spans the 
Little Lehigh, at Allentown, Pa, it broke down, 
killing the fireman and engineer. 
JULY 31. 
ike Stott# Condtnofv. 
— An active tool never rusts. 
— Peaches are to be had in the Chicago market. 
— Only five unmistakable autographs of Shaks- 
peare are known. 
— There are about fourteen thousand British 
subjects in California. 
— There are 20,000 women employed in watch¬ 
making in Switzerland. 
— The population of the City of Washington is 
now estimated at 70,000. 
— Five million acres of land are to be sold in 
California next February. 
— Ripe peaches are selling in Memphis, Tenn , 
at three dollars per busheL 
— A steam machine for manufacturing ice has 
been made by a London firm. 
— The City Council, of Louisville, Ky., has es¬ 
tablished a paid fire department. 
— The Bostonians are raising a fund of $50,000 
to build a female medical college. 
— A boat attatebed to a sperm whale, in the Pa¬ 
cific, was drawn 32 miles an hour. 
— The inhabitants of Minnesota are much ex¬ 
cited about the Frazer river minea 
— The new prohibitory liquor law went into op¬ 
eration in Maine, on the 15th inst. 
— Important additions to the fortifications of 
Gibraltar are being rapidly completed. 
— A new idea has been started in New York that 
coal is liable to propagate yellow fever. 
— The Moravian congregation at Bethlehem, Pa., 
have over one million dollars at interest. 
— The London Times declares the Thames to be 
the uncleanest, foulest river in the world. 
— The Atlantic Telegraph Cable cost £100 per 
mile. Some 500 miles of it have been lost 
— On the Saginaw river, Mich., in a distance of 
25 miles, there are more than 50 saw-mills. 
— Naval forces are to be stationed to protect 
both the Nicaragua and the Panama route. 
— Six persons in Manchester, N. H., were poi¬ 
soned a few days since by eating bad cheese. 
— Some green leaves in the hat crown are said 
to be a certain preventive against sun-stroke. 
— The Bath (Maine) Tribune states that a whale 
was seen inside of Ram Island, a few days ago. 
— The N. Y. Express says peaches and ripe ap¬ 
ples are arriving in that city from South Carolina. 
— The 157th anniversary of the founding of De¬ 
troit was celebrated with great spirit, on the 24th 
inst. 
— G. P. R. James has accepted the Consul Gen¬ 
eralship of Odessa, and is about to leave Rich¬ 
mond. 
— The last California steamer from New York 
carried out a number of emigrants for Frazer 
river. 
— Since the discovery of gold on Frazer river, 
real estate has depreciated 50 per cent in Sacra¬ 
mento. 
— Mr. B. A. Mathews, of Virginia, has a diamond 
weighing 144 carets. It is valued at two million 
dollars. 
— Mr. E. C. Delevan has paid off the whole debt 
of the N. Y. State Temperance Society, amounting 
to $9,168. 
— It is stated that, altogether, there are between 
forty and fifty thousand fancy birds sold annually 
in N. Y. city. 
— Among the receipts of the American Coloni¬ 
zation Society last month was $5,000 from the Mc- 
Donugh estate. 
— The whole number of Indians in Oregon and 
Washington Territories, according to the latest re¬ 
turns, is 39,700. 
— The sugar crop of Louisiana is estimated 
(provided the weather hereafter proves favorable,) 
at 350,000 hhds. 
— William T. Porter, the well-known editor of 
“Porter’s Spirit of the Times,” died in New York 
on Monday week. 
— On the 16th inst, there was frost on the moun¬ 
tains of Oakland, Aleghany Co., Md. It did no 
damage, however. 
— The subject of the propriety of admitting fe¬ 
males into the University of Michigan, is now be¬ 
fore the Regents. 
— Mr. A. F. Snow, of Brunswick, says a few ap¬ 
plications of castor oil will kill all kinds of warts, 
on man and beast 
— Messrs. Talcott Brothers, of Vernon, cut from 
30 square rods of ground, 1,700 pounds of good 
quality herds-grass. 
— The St Louis Democrat gives a list of nearly 
30 counties in Missouri where the slave population 
is rapidly diminishing. 
— Dred Scott was at the Burnet House, Cincin¬ 
nati, on the 22d inst, in the capacity of servant to 
A. Christie, of St Louis. 
— The Mount Vernon Fund has now reached the 
considerable sum of $123,675. Of this, Mr. Ever¬ 
ett’s labors collected $80,000. 
— Two men in West Haven, Conn., have raised 
this season 7,000 quarts of strawberries upon an 
acre and a quarter of ground. 
— The next meeting of the Medical Society of 
South Western New York, will be held in James¬ 
town on the 14th of August 
— There is a movement on foot for the federa¬ 
tion of all the Australian Colonies. It is said to 
meet with very general favor. 
— Mammoth bones were found the other day at 
Spring Creek, Long Island. One tooth, an incisor, 
measured 14 inches in length. 
— Myriads of locusts have made their appear¬ 
ance in the southern part of Mississippi and the 
northern portion of Louisiana. 
— Gen. Quitman died, on Monday week, at his 
residence near Natchez, of the disease contracted 
at the National Hotel last fall. 
— The title of Col. Fremont to his Mariposa 
estate is approaching to a final settlement, which 
will ensure to him the revenue. 
— Mobile papers say that Col. Dunn, recently 
appointed Consul to Havana, died at his residence 
in Mississippi, on the 13th inst. 
— Elliott Cresson, deceased, has left $5,000 to 
the City of Philadelphia, to be expended in plant¬ 
ing shade trees along the streets. 
— Dr. Hayes’ Arctic Expedition is receiving en¬ 
couragement, and another attempt will certainly 
be made to reach the North Pole. 
— Henry A. Wise. Jr., son of Gov. Wise, was or¬ 
dained a minister at the Protestant Episcopal The¬ 
ological Seminary, near Alexandria. 
— All the officers of the Kane expedition are now 
dead, the last of all, Lieut Brooks, having died of 
apoplexy, a few days since in New York. 
— A Naval Court Martial has been ordered to 
assemble at Gosport, on the 28th inst, for the trial 
of Passed Assistant Surgeon, J. L. Burtt 
— Wm. Gratt, at Wareham, Va, has been sen¬ 
tenced to six months imprisonment at hard labor, 
for kissing a young woman against her will- 
— The Chicago Democrat says:—“We have, in 
store, in this city, a million bushels of wheat, and 
this, too, right in the face of an incoming crop.” 
— Charles Stautz, a pauper in the Franklin Co. 
(Ohio) Poor-House, received intelligence that an 
uncle, who had lately died, had left him $100,000. 
— Dr. Van Deusen, First Assistant Physician in 
Lunatic Asylum at Utica, has accepted the post of 
Superintendent of the State Asylum of Michigan. 
