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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
AUGUST 7. 
Contents of the Rural for August 7, 1858. 
AGRICULTURAL. PAGE. 
The Potato Disease: It« Cause and Remedies,. 253 
Whlltemore’s Apple Parer and Slicer, 11 Illustrated.].253 
To Make a Meadow—No III. 253 
Rural Life in Oregon,... 253 
Eas* and West,.251 
Ayn-bires in Lower Canada,. 254 
Hand-Hoeing Wheat,. 254 
The Hog Pestilence. 254 
Aitetian Wells, Again.254 
Leacaing of Sandy Soils. 264 
Timber Drain",......254 
Was ii Milk Fever?. 254 
Railroad Horse-Powers,. 254 
The Hooks or Haw,.254 
hu/mrita and Answers .—Velvet Bearded Wheat Care for 
Warts. Bloody Milk—A Rimedy.234 
Rural lUisctllany .—Announcements of Ag. Societies Another 
Strain Plow. The Wln-at Crop of the West The Art of Horse 
Taming Changing Pastures. The Crops in New England. Sale 
of Short-Horns. The Black Tongue. Com Soiling,. 254 
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 
The Small Fruits,. 2'5 
Experience in Strawberry Culture. 255 
FruBs in Season..255 
Unfruitful Grapes,. 255 
Summer Pruning the Blackberry,.255 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Delicate Cake. Snowball Cake. Cream Calce. Fruit Cake. 
Fried Cakes. Cookes Temperance Ginger Beer. r rtam 
Pudding Currant Wine. Information Wanted. To Prevent 
Musquitocs Biting,.255 
LADIES’ PORT-FOLIO. 
The Wife, [Poetical] My Childhood's Home. Farmers and 
their Wives. Education of Women for Employment Women. 256 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
The Old Cottage Clock, (Poetical] Where hast thou Gleaned 
To-D«y? Good Humor The Lesson ol the Sick Room. 
Beauty.256 
EDUCATIONAL. 
Schools and School Comnvssioners Bad Grammar. Schools in 
New York City. The True teacher,.257 
SABBATH MUSINGS 
Tell of Good, (Poetical 1 Prayer n Sign of Life. Life Influence 
of a IIolv Lffe. Death. The Sous of Preachers. The Soul's 
Welcome to Heaven. 257 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Scene at the Source of the Hudson. (Illustrated,]. 257 
THE YOUNG RURALIST. 
Working Roys. City Employment Juvenile Horticultural So¬ 
ciety. Industry. 257 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
In Memoriam, [Poetical ] Too Late.260 
List of New Advertisements this Week 
G. W. Eastman's Mode 1 Mercantile College. Rochester. N Y 
Sale of Shorl-Homs—S P. Chapman. 
A Gilt «ith every Kook—Evans A Co. 
W'lson’s Albany See ling—Wm. Rich irdsoit 
M Chinan Central Nm>crie»—Tomlin-on Brothers. 
Great National Work—E. D Barker. 
Steam on the Canals. 
A short time since a canal boat to be operated 
by steam was constructed in Buffalo, and after 
several experiments, she set out for Albany with 
load of 800 barrels of floor. The Albany States 
man thus chronicles her arrival and its results: 
“Considering that this was the first attempt at this 
great advance in canal navigation, its success was 
at once surprising and flattering. Not a single 
drawback appears to have occurred, attributable 
to the boat or its navigation. Not the slightest 
damage was inflicted upon the banks by the waves 
which it was feared might Ire raised by its motion. 
And although, through circumstances entirely ex 
traneous, the boat was nearly ten days between the 
two extreme points of the canal, the passage to tide 
water was actually made in five days. The speed 
averaged was three miles an hour, with wood fuel 
a iate which will be materially increased. The 
speed of a canal boat drawn by horses, averages 
one mile and a half an hour. The cost to propel 
the steam propeller, with coal, will be thirty-five— 
certainly under forty—dollars. The expenses of 
horse-boat for a single trip, average eighty dollars, 
The trip being made at half cost, in half the time, 
one boat will henceforth do the labor now per¬ 
formed by two, with a similar investment. The 
capital employed upon the canals will thus at once 
be doubled in value. Nor will the economy of the 
new system end here. A large and important 
saving will he made in the expenses of the winter 
months, when navigation is suspended, in the 
keeping of horses and the hire of hands. A steam 
boat, when laid up, will bear no expense except the 
interest upon her cost, and such help as is neces 
sary for her safe keeping.” 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 7, 1858. 
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Washington Matters. 
The course to be pursued towards Paraguay, 
which has occupied so much of the attention of 
the administration, is now determined upon. It is 
reliably asserted that from the isolated position of 
Paraguay, and the difficulty of access to it, it is 
capa >le of making a vigorous resistance to an out¬ 
side farce. Independent of the few small vessels, 
mounting altogether six or eight guns, Lopez had 
four steamers recently constructed in England, and 
at an eligible point on the river, a fort mounting 
100 guns of different calibre. He has also a stand¬ 
ing army of 12,000 men, and has recently received 
from England a cargo of arms and ammunition.— 
In his employ, as engineers and ordnance men, are 
several French officers. The administration will 
send a fleet of six or seven vessels, including the 
Harriet Lane and Fulton—the former to he the flag 
ship. Com. Paige, who has been selected to com¬ 
mand the expedition, has proceeded to the North 
in order t© charter such additional steamers as 
may be adapted to the expedition. Although it is 
not supposed it will be necessary to fire a single 
gun, yet in view of the defensive preparations of 
Paraguay, it is determined that our force shall be 
sufficiently formidable to meet all possible contin¬ 
gencies. The Commissioner has not been selected. 
The N. l r . Times Washington correspondent fur¬ 
nishes the official reply of Lord Malmesbury to Mr. 
Dallas, who had called the attention of the British 
Government to apprehended difficulties at Van¬ 
couver's Island, touching the passing of our citi¬ 
zens into the gold region. Lord M. assures Mr. 
Dallas that the British Government are disposed to 
deal liberally with the citizens of the United States 
who may desire to proceed to that quarter of the 
British possessions, but it will be necessary in the 
first place to look into the legal claims of the Hud 
son Bay Co. in connection with this question. 
The Telegraph Fleet. —The departure of the 
fleet from Qaeenstown, to renew the attempt to lay 
the cable across the ocean, had been postponed 
from the 17th to the 19th of July. Notwithstand 
ing the quantity of cable lost in the fruitless 
attempts already made, there remained still 
greater length on board the ships than was carried 
out on the first experiment in 1857. The corres 
pondent of the London Times, on board the Aga¬ 
memnon, says the most destructive storms that 
were experienced on the Black Sea, during the 
British and French occupation of the Crimea, were 
far less violent than that which was encountered 
in June by the Telegraph fleet. At one time sixty 
persons in the A gamemnon were on the sick list, 
chiefly from contusions; and in the gaping and 
closing of the timbers, one man, who had caught 
hold of an aperture for support, had his fingers cut 
off as with a knife. It seems marvelous that the 
ship was saved. Her capacity is 2,000 tuns less 
than that of the Niagara, yet she had the same 
weight of cable, and a portion of this, amounting 
to 250 tuns, was coiled upon the upper deck. 
Gen. Cass and the Nicaraguans. — The New 
York Times’ Panama correspondent records the 
substance of Secretary Cass’ letter to the President 
of Nicaragua on the refusal of the latter to sign 
the Cass Yrssari Treaty. The Secretary says: — 
“ You have insulted our Government by withdraw 
ing the treaty after pledging yourself to Gen, 
Lamar that you sent it by special messenger. You 
afterwards assigned as a reason for not having 
seen it, that you had written an autograph letter to 
President Buchanan, asking him to submit to cer¬ 
tain modifications of it, which letter you never 
wrote. I demand as the only reparation yon can 
make, a return to the treaty as ratified by the As¬ 
sembly.” With regard to the vested rights of Amer- 
can citizens in Nicaragua, Gen. Cass says “they 
will not submit to any arbitrary action of Nicara¬ 
gua. As that country is void of adequate tribunal, 
the Cabinet at Washington had no other recourse 
but to decide the matter for themselves, and there¬ 
fore a proper naval force has been despatched to 
both sides of the Isthmus.” 
British India. — The latest intelligence is dis¬ 
couraging to the prospect of a speedy restoration 
of undisputed British ascendency. Rebellion was 
rife at various points; Lucknow was still belea¬ 
guered by the enemy; the mortality from disease 
in the garrison was frightful. There are no strong 
places to take, nor do decisive engagements im¬ 
pend ; but bands of brigands, dispersed over a vast 
area, must he hunted down, and this is a difficult 
task for troops unused to such a service, with the 
mercury up to 134° inside of their tents. 
Gen. Harrison’s old log cabin at North Bend, 
where he resided when he was nominated for Presi¬ 
dent, was burnt to the ground on Sunday morning 
the ,23d nit It was occupied by Col. Wm. II. Tay¬ 
lor, (who married a daughter of Gen. Harrison,) 
and family, and such was the rapid progress of the 
fire, and so late its discovery, that the members of 
the household barely escaped in their night-clothes. 
Latest from the Mormon Territory. — The 
Salt Lake correspondent of the Times and Tribune, 
gives interesting accounts of the entrance of the 
army into Salt Lake City, and of the attitude and 
temper of the Mormons. Gen. Johnston’s command 
entered the city without encountering the least 
opposition,-on the 26th of June, and marched on 
the 30th to West Creek Canon, 18 miles from Salt 
Lake, whence they were to remove to permanent 
quarters in the Cedar Valley, distant 45 miles from 
the Capital. At this point, barracks were to he 
erected, and a permanent military post established. 
Gen. Johnston had made a military reconnoisance, 
with a view to the selection of suitable sites for 
other posts. The army was in fine condition. The 
Mormons were rapidly returning to their homes in 
Salt Lake City and other parts of the Territory. 
Our New Excise Law.— A novel case under the 
Excise Law, has arisen at Geneva, It seems that 
Mr. George Barkley, one of the Excise Commis¬ 
sioners, procured a judgment against an offender 
for violating the law. Execution was issued, and 
the officer finding nothing to levy on, seized a 
jug of whiskey, but being in some doubt as to his 
rights to sell without a license, he appealed to Mr. 
Barkley, who directed the official to sell the con¬ 
traband fluid. The sale was consummated, and tb e 
commissioner was at once sued as a violator of the 
excise law he had been trying to enforce. Able 
counsel was engaged, and the trial was a protracted 
one. The justice gave judgment for the defendant, 
holding that it was no violation of the law to sell 
whiskey on execution. The opposing party is 
taking steps. 
The London Times on Cuba. 
The London Times seems to be taking the posi¬ 
tion of a special pleader for Uncle 8am. The issue 
of the 14th ult, contains an elaborate article upon 
the Slave Trade, and a transfer of Cuba to the 
United States is advocated with a warmth that 
could not fail of gratifying the most ardent annex¬ 
ationist to be found within our borders. We quote 
the closing paragraph: 
“At this time, if we really wish to stop the slave 
trade, and are ready to sacrifice onr national 
jealousies to that object* we have already hinted at 
at a most effectual course. The United States are, 
unfortunately, not above allowing the irregular 
use of their flag in the slave trade between Africa 
and Cuba. But they stand rather too high in the 
scale of nations, as well as in their own esteem, to 
permit a slave trade in their own ports. Cuba 
once annexed, the whole trade comes to an end, 
and not a port will remain open where a slaver 
can land his wretched cargo. Spain has long 
since forfeited all absolute claim to our interposi¬ 
tion in her behalf. Indeed, by this time we pre 
sume, she would rather not be assisted by ns, be 
the cause good or bad. Are we, then, prepared to 
make this sacrifice of national feeliDg for the sake 
of that philanthropy which we are al ways preach¬ 
ing to the world at the point of the bayonet and 
mouth of the cannon? We ask no reply; we only 
suggest that if England chooses to regard the slave 
trade as the greatest of human crimes, and its ex 
tinction an object worth fleets, quarrels and wars, 
then she may some day be called on to prove her 
sincerity by acquiescing in the only means to this 
end, however disagreeable. We only wish that 
Spain could be warned in time; but warning is not 
for Spain. Had she listened to warning she might 
still have stood in the first class of nations. But 
as far as Spain is concerned, we must bow to Lord 
Palmerston’s authority. She only regards force. 
Unfortunately, with all onr cruisers, we have not 
the same leverage upon her as that in the hands 
of our American cousins. We may vainly attempt 
to watch her ports and scrutinize her traffic; once 
they step in, they will wipe out not only the slave 
trade, but Cuba itself, from the list of Spanish in¬ 
iquities.” 
Hudson Bay Co's Property in the U. S —The 
N. Y. Times states that an offer is pending from 
the Hudson Bay Company to dispose of all their 
property in the United States to our Government 
Under the provisions of the treaty of 1845, the 
Company hold a number of forts, posts, and trading 
houses situated in our territory, together with 
large stocks of horses, sheep and cattle. Lord 
Napier has been authorized to sell the entire of 
this property for the sum of $GOO,000, which is 
considered by competent judges to be very cheap, 
Several meetings were held on the subject at the 
State Department during the last winter, and the 
Secretary of State was favorable to the purchase, 
but there was a doubt as to the disposition of Con 
gress to make the necessary appropriation, and, 
therefore, the sale was not effected. 
Political Crisis in Canada.— The late Ministry 
of Canada have been fighting a hard battle with 
the Liberals and were totally routed upon the 29tb 
The cause of discomfiture was a vote on the seat of 
government question, the House annulling the de 
cision of the home government to make Ottaway 
the Capital. The Ministry immediately resigned 
Geo. Brown, the leader of the Opposition, was in 
trusted by the Governor-General with the forma 
tion of a new ministry, but has not yet succeeded 
in completing that important duty. The House 
met on Saturday and a further adjournment until 
Monday was asked for, in order to allow Mr. Brown 
more time to accomplish his task. Up to time of 
going to press we have not heard the result. 
jptewjf Notices. 
Lake Superior Silver. —The Detroit Tribune 
has several beautiful specimens of silver ore taken 
out of the Lake Superior mines. One of the 
specimens is a large mass of snowy quartz, thick¬ 
ly dotted with silver. Another is composed of 
silver bulbs, so to speak, resting on a mass of na¬ 
tive copper. The other is a beautiful specimen, 
freed from the quartz, and exhibiting the white 
pure ore. In shape it resembles some of the fan- 
like varieties of sea-weed, and is now, before the 
manufacturer’s tool has touched it, perfect enough 
for the ornament of a vase or other article of sil¬ 
ver ware. Its weight is about six ounces, and its 
purity as high a3 could be. 
Appointment of a U. S. Agent to the Frazer 
River.— The President, before leaving for Bedford 
Springs, appointed John Nugent, editor of the San 
Francisco Herald, who is now in Washington, 
Agent to proceed to Frazer River, to make proper 
representations to citizens of the United States, 
with the view of preventing collisions or out¬ 
breaks in that quarter—onr Government being 
satisfied, from official and other sources, that a 
liberal policy will be pursued towards them by the 
British authorities. 
Re-appearance of the Plague. —The plague, 
after an intermission of twenty years, has re ap¬ 
peared in a district of the Pashalik of Tripoli, 
named Bengaji, and at last accounts was continu¬ 
ing to make ravages as an epidemic. There was a 
rumor that it had reached Constantinople, hut it 
was thought to be unfounded. The most stringent 
quarantine regulations had been resorted to, and 
it is to he hoped that this scourge of the earth will 
be confined to the precincts of the .districts in 
which it has re-appeared. 
Gold Production for 1858.—The production of 
gold in Australia for the past year is set down, by 
the best authorities, at one hundred millions of 
dollars. The production in other countries is esti¬ 
mated as follows:—California, $65,000,000; Russia 
and Siberia, $20,000,000; other parts of the world, 
$15,000,000; total, $100,000,000. We thus have two 
hundred millions as the gold crop of 1857, and the 
actual amount is likely to be rather more than the 
estimated aggregate. 
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Lieut. Mowry departed for Arizona, on Monday 
evening. He is ordered to report upon the num¬ 
bers, disposition and location of the Indians of the 
Territory, and upon the silver mines. He will re¬ 
turn in the middle of November. 
Bleeding in Apoplexy and Sunstroke. — Dr. 
Samuel DicksoD, of London, who was formerly a 
medical officer in the British army, disapproves 
entirely of bleeding in cases of sunstroke, but re¬ 
lies upon ammonia, quinine and alcoholic stimu¬ 
lants, and the prompt application of cold water to 
the head. This is upon the principle that opening 
a vein diminishes the power of the heart already 
deficient, while the stimulants tend to restore the 
circulation to the standard of health. 
A Fair Profit. —The New York Times says it 
is enabled to affirm that there is, in the State De¬ 
partment at Washington, proof to show that the 
capital of three million dollars invested in the 
Slave Trade produces a profit of eighteen millions 
of dollars a year. 
Two manufactories of fire works recently ex¬ 
ploded in London, and the number of persons in¬ 
jured is stated as high as three hundred; one or 
two had died, and others were not expected to 
recover. 
Letters from Europe and India speak of the 
remarkable heat of the season. The last accounts 
from India reported the intense heat of the coun¬ 
try appears to have a fatal effect upon the English 
troops. In the 35th Regiment, eighty-four deaths 
of apoplexy are announced. The London theatres 
have been deserted on account of the great heat, 
and several persons are reported to have died from 
the same cause. 
Tns Washington correspondent of the Philadel¬ 
phia Press says that a caravan of camels is berng 
organized to facilitate the transit of emigrants to 
the Territory of Arizona. The camels are to 
cross the intervening desert toward the Gulf of 
California. 
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser says the 
lake commerce of that city thus far this season 
far exceeds that of any previous year, and “we 
have every reason to expect to record at thejelose 
of navigation an increase of an least one-third in 
the flour and grain receipts over those of any 
former season.” 
Thb Canadian Ministry have been defeated by 
a majority of two on a proposition of their own, to 
lay a duty of ten cents per tun upon all vessels en¬ 
tering the St. Lawrence. 
The Minnesota Assembly have passed a law fix¬ 
ing the rate of interest at fifteen per cent per an¬ 
num on money. It is thought the Senate will stick 
for eighteen per cent. 
Briggs’ melon patch, near Marysville, Cal, from 
which melons were sold at $8 each, in 1852, is now 
converted into a nursery, where fifteen thousand 
peach trees are growing, many of them bearing; 
5,000 apple, 3,600 pear, 3,000 nectarines, 3,000 apri¬ 
cots, 2,600 cherry, and 100 fig trees, besides grape 
vines, and other fruits. The nursery is 160 acres 
in extent 
— Dred Scott is now a “ citizen” of Vancouver’s 
Bland. 
— The 
empty. 
—More gold mines, it is reported, have been 
found in Georgia. 
— An agent of the government is to he sent to 
Frazer river Mines. 
— Tbe cost of the Atlantic Cable is said to be 
about $500 a mile. 
— The poor do not have the gospel preached to 
them in New York. 
— There are about fourteen thousand British 
subjects in California. 
— The population of the City of Washington is 
now estimated at 70,000. 
— Fish are advertised in Chicago “ only 35 hours 
out of New York water.” 
— A New York gentleman caught off Boston a 
bass weighing 43J pounds. 
— There is to be a Convention of Infidels, at 
Philadelphia, in October next. 
— The wheat crop of Iowa is poor. There is 
also a great scarcity of money. 
— A man lately died in Boston from the effects 
of the growing in of a toe nail. 
— Rev. Dr. Fisher, of Cincinnati, has accepted 
the Presidency of Hamilton College. 
— The Mississippi river, at Vicksburg, when the 
flood was highest, was 97 feet deep. 
— The Minnesota Legislature have established 15 
per cent, as the legal rate of interest. 
— The first appearance of the “ sea serpent,” this 
season, has been at Newburyport, Mass. 
— A company of Germans has been organized 
in New York to proceed to Frazer river. 
— The London Times is strain out in favor of the 
annexation of Cuba to the United States. 
— Tbe contest of the Pope with some of the 
Swiss Cantons is assuming a serious aspect 
— At the Public School Festival in Boston, on 
Tuesday week, 1,200 children joined in singing. 
— The Germans in this country are making col¬ 
lections to erect a monument to Baron Steoben. 
— A Dew church, called the “Beulah Particular 
Baptist Church,” has been organized in New York 
city. 
— Beal estate has depreciated 50 per cent, in 
Sacramento, since ihe discovery of gold on Frazer 
river. 
— The late fire in the London Docks has settled 
the long disputed question that saltpetre will ex¬ 
plode. 
— Emeline Torrey, a young woman of Chicopee, 
is seriously ill from the effects of a bite of a black 
spider. 
— The coroner of San Francisco complains that 
the navigation to Frazer river has cut short the 
suicides. 
— Col. Kane is going to publish a book about 
his trip to Salt Lake, and his efforts to bring about 
a peace. 
— The heat, this season, in India is excessive.— 
In one regiment 84 deaths from apoplexy are an¬ 
nounced. 
— Rev. Eleazer Williams, the Bourbon prince, is 
now dangerously sick at Hogansburg, Franklin 
Co., N. Y. 
— In St. Paul, less than an acre of land that was 
bought in 1848 for $1 25, was sold in 1858 for $10,- 
250 cash. 
— In Mexico, Viduarri has captured San Luis 
Potosi, and it was rumored that Zuloaga had left 
the capital. 
— Prince Albert is the President of the “Sons 
of Malta,” in England, and Stephen A. Douglas in 
this country. 
— There have been 60 amalgamation marriages 
in Boston, the past year, all of white women to 
eolored mer. 
— Sir Allan McNab is, according to rumor, to be 
the first Governor of New Caledonia—the Frazer 
river Povince. 
— A party of thirty gunners killed 449 squirrels 
in one day’s hunt, within four miles circuit, near 
Almena, Mich. 
— It is said there is not a boot or shoemaker in 
the town of Weldon, N. C., nor is there any within 
eight miles of it, 
— The Cincinnati Enquirer says good wheat has 
been sold four miles from Bristol, Tenn., at 37| cts. 
cash per bushel. 
— Delazon Smith, formerly of this city, is a can¬ 
didate for the United States Senate in the new 
State of Oregon. 
— Seven serpents, of monstrous size, were bro’t 
into Salem, Mass., on Sunday week, in the M. Shep¬ 
herd, from Para, 
— A steam tug was destroyed by fire in Phila¬ 
delphia, on Saturday week, and 48 mules were 
burned to death. 
— Mrs. Marcet, the authoress of Conversations 
of Chemistry, and other similar works, died lately 
at the age of 90. 
— A strawberry plant vras on exhibition in Al¬ 
bany, last week, on which could be counted up¬ 
wards of 400 berries. 
— The Secretary of the Navy has decided against 
the request of the Collins Line, to make Portland 
the western terminus. 
— Eight whalers arrived at New Bedford, Mass., 
last week, three of which will lose to their owners 
from $60,000 to $70,000. 
The St, Louis Price Current of the 15th nit., says 
of Buffalo robes:—“The traders’ boats, with the 
annual season’s stock of robes, are now all in, and 
it is ascertained that the supplies fall short 40,000 
to 50,000 of last year. As the stock on hand, held 
over in the eastern cities, is estimated at about 40,- 
000 robes, these, with hunters’ recent returns, will 
make up only the usual season's supply.” 
Orange county sends about 90,000 quarts of 
milk to New York, daily. About 13,680 quarts go 
each day from the Chester depot, which is the 
most extensive milk freighting place ih that coun¬ 
ty. In addition to this amount of milk, 200 gal¬ 
lons of cream are sent from Orange county to the 
city each day. 
— The Mormons, at last accounts, had quietly 
settled down at Fillmore City, and their “News” 
was remarkably pacific. 
— It is proposed in South Carolina to erect a 
monument to Gen. Francis Marion, the “ Swamp 
Fox” of the Revolution. 
— The Woburn Budget thinks there has been 
considerable “ wire pullipg ” lately between Eng¬ 
land and the United States. 
— The editor of the Savannah Republican boaris 
of having received a watermelon weighing 55£ 
pounds on Thursday week. 
— John McDisb, a giant from Georgia, passed 
through Norfolk, on Friday week. He weighs 300 
pounds, and is 7 feet in height, 
— There are now 24 vessels infected with yellow 
fever and anchored at New Yoik Quarantine.— 
Deaths and new cases occur daily. 
— A Salt Spring, of great purity, is said to have 
been discovered at Clyde, Wayne Co., to work 
which a company has been formed. 
— The Austrian journals complain that PriDce 
Frederick William is going to make himself the 
head of the Free Masons of Germany. 
— There were 607 deaths in N. Y. city last week, 
462 of which were under ten years of age. Theie 
were 139 deaths from cholera infantum. 
— Tbe Mexican Government has suspended the 
operation of the law imposing an extraordinary 
tax upon all residents, foreign and native. 
— There are at present about 7,000 cases on the 
dockets of the different N. Y. City Civil Courts, 
seme of which have been on for three years. 
— Peaches have begun to arrive at New York 
from the South. One thousand boxes, sent from 
Charleston, reached that city on Monday week. 
— At the Commencement dinner in Cambridge, 
Prof. Agassiz announced that he was no longer an 
European, but should spend his life in America. 
