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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
OCT. 9 
Contents of the Rural for October 9, 1858. 
AGRICULTURAL. Pag* 
What is Garget?.325 
Management of Stubble Fields....... 325 
The Potato Crop,. 325 
Arabian Horse “ Tartar,” [Illustrated,]. 325 
Pleasure Grounds. 326 
Work for the ScasoD.326 
Bees and Bee-Hives—My Experience—No. IV.326 
Productive Corn. 326 
Notes and Items from Illinois.326 
Potato Experiments,.326 
Crops, Ac., in Hinds Co, Miss.,.326 
Inquiries and Answers .—About Chinese Sugar Cane; Treat¬ 
ment of Poll Evil,.326 
literal Mtectiany .—State Fair; The Rural Festivals—Fairs; 
The Vermont State Fair; Extraordinary Wheat Produce; Sul¬ 
phate of Zinc as a Wash for Wounds; Wooden Water-Pipe; 
Leaking Cows’ Teats,.326 
HORTICULTURAL 
The American Pomological Association,.327 
Charter Oak Grape.327 
Keeping Dahlias.327 
Inquiries,. 327 
A Word to Our Readers,.327 
Fruit Growers' Society of Western N. Y.,. 327 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY 
About Bread-Making; Preserving Butter; Beef Steak Pie; Mut¬ 
ton Pie; Paste for Custard; Paste for Tarts; Green Apple Pic; 
Yeast Dumplings; China Cement,.327 
LADIES’ PORT-FOLIO. 
“ When I am Rich," [Poetical] Gleanings—No, 1; He Docs not 
Grow Old; Dreamiugs; How to Make Home Happy,.328 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Alone. [Poetical.] Tire Dreamer—No. 1; Pride; Education of the 
Feelings; Evils of Great Cities,. 328 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
“ Bringing our Sheaves with Us, [Poetical] What is Thy Hope? 
The Faith of Childhood; Seeking Christ,.328 
THE TRAVELER. 
Sketches from the Alps to the Adriatic,.329 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Independence Hall, [Illustrated,] Mahomet; Unhealthy Po¬ 
sitions, .329 
THE YOUNG RURALIST. 
A Country Girl at the Fair; Clerks and Farmers; Autumn in the 
Country.329 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
To Corniele—A Serenade, [Poetical ] Abigail Waters,. 332 
List of New Advertisements this Weelr. 
New Carpetings for tho Fall of 1858—Howe A Rogers 
Wm. R. Prince & Co., Flushing, N. Y. 
Fruit Trees nt the Iarwest Kates—Bert]. Fish A Son 
Desirable Farm for Sale—C. W. Nicholson. 
Llnmeus Rhubarb, Orange Raspberry, Ac—Freeman A Kendall. 
Guauo—Wood A Grant 
Deafness Cured, However Caused—Dr. Boardman. 
Rebecca and Delaware Grape Vines—Freeman A Kendall 
.ROCHESTER, N. Y., OCTOBER 9, 1858. 
FALL CAMPAIGN QUARTER! 
The Rural Three Months, on Trial, at Half Price! 
QJgr -At the suggestion of many of its friends 
and in order to introduce the paper more generally 
preparatory to the new volume, we have concluded 
to offer the Rural for the present quarter—Octo¬ 
ber to January, 13 numbers—at only Half Price, 
(25 cts.) thus placing it within the means and reach 
of all who wish to give it a fair trial. We will 
send 4 copies for SI; 8 for $2; 12 for $3; 20 for 
$5, &c., and mail to as many different persons or 
post-offices as desired. Of course, we shall not 
realize a farthing’s profit, yet wish to circulate at 
least Five Thousand trial copies of this quarter. 
—We therefore frankly ask each and every agent 
and friend of the Rural to aid in circulating the 
Fall Campaign Quarter. There is scarcely one of 
our readers who could not, if disposed, easily ob¬ 
tain from 4 to 20 or 50 Trial Subscribers, and 
thereby not only enhance the welfare of his or her 
friends and neighbors, but directly aid in aug¬ 
menting the future usefulness of this journal.— 
Friends of the paper and its objects, near and dis¬ 
tant—in the North and West, East and South— 
will you not give “ a long pull, a strong pull, and 
a pull altogether,” in behalf of the Fall Campaign 
Quarter of the favorite Rural Weekly? 
Review of the Week. 
The accounts from the Atlantic Cable, brought 
by the Arabia, are very gloomy. Electricians seem 
to have reason for believing that the lesion is 
about two hundred and seventy miles from Yalen- 
tia—a point where there is a sudden descent in the 
bed of the ocean—and such is the position of the 
break that it cannot be repaired. Prof. Thompson 
also pronounces, on the strength of indications 
furnished by bis delicate tests, that the electrical 
currents are drawn off at several points in the en¬ 
tire line. There was still hope, however, that 
communication might be restored by powerful in¬ 
struments, which were on their way from London. 
Mr. C. W. Lundy, the gentleman sent out to Trini¬ 
ty Bay by the English Directors, has arrived at 
Halifax, and telegraphs to Cyrus W. Field as 
follows:—“I briDg instruments and regulations 
for testing and working on certain days, when 
Yalentia will be particularly watchful for signals. 
It is hoped, that by establishing a system of unison 
between the two stations, to get signals through. 
The conductor is not broken; the defect is loss of 
insulation two hundred and eighty miles from 
Yalentia. It is possible, by sending a certain kind 
of electricity, to improve the insulation, and thus 
the difficulty may be overcome for a time. From 
the nature of the defect, signals even at present, 
may be received at Y alentia from Newfoundland, 
and not vice versa. Everything will be done to 
restore communication. Mr. Brett thinks the 
cable can be lifted and repaired.” 
There seems to be but little doing at Washing¬ 
ton. A telegram on the 28th ult, informs us that 
Judge Bowlin, Special Minister to Paraguay, would 
receive his instructions the day following, and 
proceed to New York, where he would embark on 
the Sabine on Monday, the -1th inst Dispatches 
from our Minister resident at Panama, say Presi¬ 
dent Lopez is making extensive preparations to 
receive onr Paraguay squadron. Mr. A. O. Bray- 
ton, Auditor in the Treasury Department—a posi¬ 
tion he had held for nearly twenty-five years—died 
on the 1st inst. 
During September, 978 warrants were issued 
from the Pension Office, to satisfy which 148,000 
acres of land were necessary. 
A telegram, dated New York, 4th inst, contains 
the gratifying intelligence that the Norwegian 
ship “Catarina,” Capt Funnemksk, has arrived at 
Quebec with twenty-two of the passengers and 
crew of the steamer Austria, the destruction of 
which, by fire, was noticed in the Rural of last 
week. The log of the “ Catarina” thus states the 
particulars received:—" On the 24th of September, 
at 2 A. M., Ion. 33.40, lat 41.39, the Catarina fell in 
with the steamship Austria, and took from the 
wreck twenty-two persons—sixteen passengers and 
six of the crew. In the number included a girl 
fourteen years of age.” 
Dispatches from Mr. Forsyth, our Minister at 
Mexico, were brought by Dr. Billings, who arrived 
at New Orleans on the 4th inst. The principal 
object of the Dr. is stated to be the purchase of 
Minnie rifles for the Liberal army, for which pur¬ 
pose he is well supplied with funds. He says the 
Americans are much thought of by the Liberal 
party, and occupy high stations of trust He 
thinks Sonora will soon be ceded to the United 
States for a consideration. On the 5th of Sept, a 
force was preparing to march on Jalapa and 
Cheagary’a head quarters. 
Schuyler County Pair.— Watkins. 
An Editor on an Engine. — Neighbor Moore* 
of the Rural New-Yorker, had some extra experi¬ 
ence yesterday. Being engaged to deliver the 
Address at the Schuyler Co. Fair, at Watkins, at 2 
P. M,, he started on the 8 40 train from this city, 
having been informed that he could connect at Can¬ 
andaigua with a train on the C. and N. F. Railroad, 
which would reach his destination before noon.— 
On arriving at Canandaigua, however, he learned 
that the trains did not connect—that he was an 
hour behind time, and in a decided fix, being forty- 
seven miles from Watkins. In this emergency, 
Mr. Moore, who always endeavors to meet his en¬ 
gagements if among the possibilities, applied to 
W. G. Latham, Esq., Superintendent of the C. and 
N. F. Road, for aid and comfort in tho shape of an 
extra. After learning the circumstances, Mr. Lap- 
hain kindly consented to send an engine over the 
road. The good engine “ Dundee,” was, therefore, 
promptly “ fired up,” soon en route, and by putting 
on extra steam and speed, Mr. M. arrived in time 
to meet his engagement—much to the surprise of 
the large number of people in attendance at the 
Fair, as it had been announced that, having failed 
to reach there in the regular train, he would not 
be present. 
Mr. Moore wishes us to express his acknowledg¬ 
ments to Mr. Superintendent Lapham for his cour¬ 
tesy and accommodating spirit and action, and 
trusts the trains on his road may ever pass as safely 
as did the good engine “Dundee,” driven by Engi¬ 
neer W. H. Hayward, under command of Mr. Con¬ 
ductor Jeudevine, yesterday. He also avers that 
riding on an engine, especially through such a 
beautiful and picturesque region as that bordering 
Seneca lake, is a pleasure and novelty worth the 
investment required for a special train.— Rochester 
Daily Union, Sept. 30. 
— To the above veritable account of the manner 
in which the Schuyler Co. Fair was reached, it may 
not be improper for us to add a few words rela¬ 
tive to the result of the exhibition, and its loca¬ 
tion. In the first place, we were agreeably surprised 
to find from 3,000 to 5,000 people in attendance at 
the Fair, and to learn, from observation, and other¬ 
wise, that the exhibition had been unusually cred¬ 
itable and successful. Certainly, we never attended 
a Fair which closed more pleasantly and satis¬ 
factorily, — where all seemed so well pleased 
with the result of their efforts in behalf of im¬ 
provement. The farmers of Schuyler seem to he 
imbued with the right spirit, and the prosperity of 
their Society proves that they have manifested it 
by efforts in the proper direction. Personally, we 
are indebted to the officers and members of the 
Society for a most cordial and gratifying reception, 
as well as patient hearing and endorsement. Ac¬ 
knowledging the kindness which induced them 
to manifest so much appreciation of little merit, 
we trust our Schuyler Co. friends will never “ fail 
to connect,” hut always keep the track whereon 
glides the car of Improvement. They have already 
surpassed many older, larger and wealthier coun¬ 
ties, and no doubt will report decided progress, 
annually, in future. 
— The pleasure of onr brief visit to Watkins was 
greatly enhanced by the kind courtesy of Messrs. 
Freer and other residents of that favored locality. 
We shall long remember with pleasurable emotions 
our first view of “ The Glen”—one of the most re¬ 
markable and wonderful natural curiosities in the 
Union,— and from “Prospect Hill,” which over¬ 
looks the beautiful village and valley, Seneca Lake, 
and a wide extent of the rich and picturesque coun¬ 
try surrounding that rightly-named eminence.— 
Watkins is worthy of an annual visit by those who 
frequent Saratoga, Niagara, and other popular sum¬ 
mer resorts, in pursuit of health or recreation. 
To Correspondents. —We often receive letters 
from correspondents who consider themselves 
slighted, on account of the non-appearance of cer¬ 
tain prose or poetical articles contributed by them, 
when the facts in the case would exonerate us 
from all blame. Our rules require the author’s 
name and residence, and when communications 
are received with nothing hut a “ nom-cleplume ” to 
signify paternity, they are cast aside with little 
attention. We have now a considerable number 
of meritorious compositions from “Lulu,” “Gipsy,” 
“Kittie,” of Clyde, “Ivnick,” “Will Wanderer,” 
“J. Hinneo,” “Pleasant Bard,” “Plow-Boy,” &c., 
which, if the authors will recognize our law in 
such case made and provided, will receive consid¬ 
eration. If writers for the Rural would comply 
with the rules the press of the whole country have 
established, they would save editors much trouble, 
and no little vexation for themselves. 
Missionary Meeting. —The American Mission¬ 
ary Association convened at Worcester, Mass., on 
the 28th ult. The attendance was very slim. Ad¬ 
dresses were made by Revs. J. G. Fee, of Ky., and 
Danforth, N. C. The annual sermon was preached 
by Rev. Dr. Thurston, of Me. The Treasurer’s re¬ 
port shows receipts during the year, of $ 40 , 000 . 
The expenditures during the year were $44,000. 
War Declared against Texas.— Galveston pa¬ 
pers of the 21st nit. are received via New Orleans. 
They say that the Northern Camanches, Kiowas 
and a party of the Apaches, numbering fourteen 
hands in all, had declared war against Texas. 
The Kansas Gold Mines. 
Gov. Denver, writing to the Secretary of the 
Interior, at Washington, under date of September 
17th, Bays that late news from Pike’s Peak leaves 
no room to doubt the correctness of the reported 
discoveries of gold in that vicinity. The explor¬ 
ers found gold on the Arkansas, en the heads of 
Kansas, and South Fork and Platte rivers, embra¬ 
cing an extent of country of more than 300 miles. 
The richest mines yet found are on Cherry Creek, 
a tributary of the Platte, directly north of Pike’s 
Peak. 
Gov. D. has not yet heard of quartz viens, but the 
best information would seem to indicate a great 
similarity between these mines and the first dis¬ 
coveries in California. In view of the present con¬ 
dition of affairs in that region, Gov. D. advises that 
the lands there he withdrawn from pre-emption, if 
they are open to settlement, leaving them as in 
the mining districts of California, free for all who 
may see fit to engage in working the mines. 
The country, he believeB, is or has been claimed 
by the Utahs and Cheyennes, the Kiowas and the 
Arrapahoep, and he does not know that their title 
has ever been extinguished. If it has not there 
will be no trouble in withdrawing the lands from 
the operations of the pre-emption laws, but if it 
has they ought to he withdrawn any way, and the 
facts and reasons reported to Congress next winter. 
It would, he adds, be advisable to send out some 
competent person to examine the mines and report 
facts. 
Mexican News. —The New Orleans Picayune is 
in receipt of late and interesting news from Mexico, 
of which the following is a summary:—The papers 
report the vomito as still prevailing quite exten¬ 
sively in Vera Cruz, and numbers dying daily. Up 
to the 5th inst., Gen. Robles had not made a land¬ 
ing, hut remained on board the British steamer 
Clyde, at anchor off the port. It was the impres¬ 
sion among quite a number that he might be called 
upon to succeed Zuloaga at the head of the Gov¬ 
ernment. The proposition recently offered for the 
recall of Santa Anna, was strongly opposed by 
Gen. Echeagaray, who threatened to join the Liberal 
army incase the proposition should be persisted ir. 
The final success of the Liberals was not doubted. 
Mr. Forsyth, the American Minister, was still in 
Mexico, (at Tacubaya,) where he would remain for 
several weeks, or until the vomito had disappeared 
sufficiently to render traveling safe. 
Ocean Steamers Lost. — By reference to the 
following list of steamers which have been lost in 
the Atlantic, it will he seen that the destruction of 
life by the Austria is greater than has occurred on 
any one vessel for many years: 
1. President,. 
2. Columbia,__ 
3. Humboldt,. 
4. City of Glasgow,_ 
5. City of Philadelphia, 
6. Franklin,. 
7. Arctic,... 
8. Pacific,.. 
9. Lyonnais,.... 
10. Tempest,... 
11. San Francisco,_ 
12. Central America,_ 
13. Austria,.. 
.Never heard of. 
.All hands saved. 
All hands saved. 
Never heard of. 
.All hands saved. 
All hands saved. 
.322 lost—87 saved. 
.Never heard of. 
.144 lost—16 saved. 
.Never heard of. 
.240 lost—460 saved. 
.422 lost—170 saved. 
.508 lost—89 saved. 
■itevavy ilotias. 
The Public and Private History of Napoleon the 
Third, Emperor of the French ; with Biographical 
Notices of his most distinguished Ministers, Generals, 
Relatives and Favorites, and various details descriptive 
of France under the Second Empire. By Samuel M. 
Smuckkr, A. M., author of “ Court and Reign of Cath¬ 
erine II.;” “History of Nicholas I. of Russia“Life 
Hamilton,” etc., etc. Philadelphia : J. W. Bradley. 
In a handsome volume of over 400 pages, we here have 
an elaborate and apparently impartial history of the pub¬ 
lic and private career of one of the most remarkable and 
prominent men of the nineteenth century. In Ms pref¬ 
ace the author avers that in the preparation of this work 
he has exhausted all the reliable materials which were 
accessible. “ These include everything that is valuable, 
which the literatures of France and England contain in 
reference to the subject. Several biographies of the 
Emperor of the French have already appeared in this 
country; yet none of them are complete even as far as 
they go j none bring the narrative of events down to the 
present time ; all of them speak of the subject of their 
narratives with the exaggerated ardor and unfair color¬ 
ing of partisans; and they have been indiscriminate 
either in their censure or their praise. The present 
writer has endeavored to avoid these errors ; he is not 
conscious of yielding to the least degree of prejudice in 
either direction ; and he has aimed at elaborating such a 
history of the public and private career of Louis Napo¬ 
leon in all its stages, as will describe it precisely as it 
occurred. The reader himself will judge how far the au¬ 
thor has been successful in achieving a correct historical 
portrait of the most extraordinary man, beyond all com¬ 
parison, who has flourished during the middle epoch of 
the nineteenth century.” 
The work is rendered more valuable by the addition of 
a variety of interesting and useful matter relative to 
France under the Second Empire. The volume is got up 
in superior style, and comprises several fine steel engrav¬ 
ings. Reliable and interesting in contents, and creditable 
in externals, we can cordially commend it as worthy a 
place in every library. From the Publisher. 
Courtship and Matrimony : with other Sketches from 
Scenes and Experiences in Social Life. Particularly 
adapted for Everv-day Reading. By Robert Morris. 
Philadelphia : T. B. Peterson & Brothers—1858. 
These Sketches, by the editor of the Pennsylvania In¬ 
quirer, on account of the moral merits they possess, will 
take a prominent position among the best books issued by 
the American press. Not one of the one hundred and 
twenty articles the volume contains but manifests a sin¬ 
cere desire to do good. The tendency of the work is to 
present a true picture of life—life practical, energetic. 
The clear common-sense and high-toned integrity of the 
author have enabled him to happily grasp the length and 
breadth of every subject to which he has devoted his pen, 
and the result is one—from the influence it is destined to 
exert upon the minds of the young—with which Mr. 
Morris may justly be gratified. It is truly a family book, 
and the home-circle which places it in its every-day read¬ 
ing will be the recipent of kindlier feelings therefor. A 
remarkably excellent steel engraving of the author is 
given. Dewey has it for sale. 
Our favorite—the London Quarterly Review —was re¬ 
ceived as usual, and the July number is fully equal to its 
predecessors. Admiral Blake; History of Civilization in 
England; Iron Bridges; Life of WyclilTe; Professor Blunt 
and his Works; Shipwrecks; British Museum, British 
India,' are the titles of the articles which make up the 
present issue. Those who desire standard reading should 
subscribe for this Review. Leonard Scott & Co., New 
York, Publishers. Dewey, Agent. 
The Peruvian ship Mercedes,was wrecked on 1st 
of May, 1854, and 731 perished out of 820. 
Latest From Havana. —Advices from Havana 
say that an American ship had landed a cargo 
of slaves at Cardenas, numbering 700. Nearly 
250 died on the passage from starvation. A Span¬ 
ish officer had been sent to Cardenas to investigate 
the matter. The health of Havana is improving. 
A letter from Havana in the N. Y. Herald, says a 
number of secret agents of Santa Anna had arrived 
there from St. Thomas, en route for Vera Cruz.— 
They had plenty of gold, and left on the English 
mail steamer, after having interviews with the son 
of the ex-Dictator and some Spanish officials. 
It was said that the Spanish Government would 
lay the cable to Key West at its own expense. 
A Break Discovered in the Atlantic Cable.— 
A recent issue of the N. Y. Times says that the 
workmen employed in cutting up the cable in the 
machine shop at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, found 
a break in the communicating copper wire, about 
three-eighths of an inch long, through which the 
saw passed in the solid gutta percha, showing that 
the disconnection must have occurred during the 
process of manufacture, and therefore leading to 
the very great probability that other similar lesions 
may have occurred to other parts of the cable.— 
What have the electricians to say in regard to this 
fact, which is reliably authenticated? 
Terrible Suffering from Thirst. — A long 
letter appears in a Texas paper concerning the 
passage of McCullough’s emigrant train across 
the staked plain to California. The Great Ameri¬ 
can Desert, through which the train passed, is a 
barren waste, and poorly supplied wiih water.— 
Out of 1,G00 head of cattle, G50 died for lack of 
water, and for a period of seventy-six hours were 
without a drop to slake their thirst. The men also 
suffered terribly, and many shot down famishing 
bullocks on the road, pulled off their hoots or 
shoes, caught the thick hot blood, and drank it 
freely. 
Better than Gold Mining. —It is said that the 
lead mines of Wisconsin and Iowa are just now 
yielding extraordinary quantities of Galena. Two 
young men at Fairplay, Wis., are taking 30,000 lbs. 
per diem from a lode which they have recently 
opened, and from which they have raised 3,000,000 
lbs. Mines in Grant county are also said to be ex¬ 
ceedingly rich. On the opposito side of the river, 
in Iowa, in Clayton county, and near Dubuque, lead 
mining pays better than gold digging. 
From the Pacific Wagon Road Expedition. 
—Letters from the Pacific wagon road expedition, 
dated Big Sandy, Oregon, Sept. 7tn, say that CoL 
Lander was pushing tho work with all possible dis¬ 
patch with hopes of reaching Soda Springs before 
bad weather set in. Two hundred miles of road 
were finished, and a forcelwas at work beyond Salt 
River. The expedition wiUl winter at Laramie.— 
Col. L. starts for Washington Oct. 10. The health 
of the expedition was goodV 
The Louisville Young Men’s Christian Associa¬ 
tion have remitted $1,070 to aid in the support of 
a yellow fever hospital under the care of the Young 
Men’s Association of New Orleans. 
A steam wagon, or traction road locomotive, is 
used in Marysville, Cal., and draws trains of heavi¬ 
ly laden wagons on common roads with great ease, 
turning corners with entire facility. It moves 
through loose sand a 3 well as on hard roads, and 
without increase of power. 
On Monday week, the Spanish Minister paid into 
the State Department twenty five thousand five 
hundred dollars, interest of the debt of Spain to 
American citizens. 
Mr. Daniel Weed, four miles south of Mosinee, 
informs the editor of the Waupnn Wisconsin, that 
he has killed seven bears within the past two weeks 
in his immediate vicinity, and all within half a 
mile square. 
There is great repugnance in Australia to Chi¬ 
nese emigrants, and the Colonial Assembly have 
passed a bill taxing them ten pounds per head.— 
The miners are not satisfied with this, but demand 
their exclusion from the country. 
Died, in Hunter’s Bottom, Ky., Sept. 14th, Mar¬ 
garet Hoyt, aged 91 years. She was a native of 
New York, and landed at Maysville, Ky., 70 years 
ago. She was the first white woman in Cincinnati 
Over thirty colored families, embracing some 
150 persons, residing in Boston and vicinity, have 
organized themselves under the title of the “ Cam¬ 
bridge Liberian Emigration Association,” for the 
purpose of emigrating to Liberia. Some forty or 
more of these persons hope to embark in the colo¬ 
nization ship Mary Caroline Stevens, the 1st of 
November prox. 
A New Orleans paper says of the overflowed 
district known as the “Bell Crevasse,” that the 
spot looks like a desert. Not a blade of grass ap¬ 
pears where once was smiling plantation verdure. 
The ground is furrowed into every shape, and the 
channel of the crevasse is wide and deep enougli 
to form a respectable river. 
Affles are not very dear in New York city, ac¬ 
cording to the Courier and Enquirer:—“Washing¬ 
ton market is overstocked with windfalls, and 
prices rule very low. There is little prime fruit 
offering. The current range paid is 75c to $1,50 
per barrel, but choice qualities bring $2@$2,25. 
Russets are a drug — hardly saleable at any price. 
Baldwins, also, are not wanted. A better market, 
however, is anticipated as soon as the offerings are 
restricted to winter fruit.” 
The vintage, which is now in active progress in 
most parts of France, is likely to prove one of the 
greatest abundance known for many years past— 
The grape disease appears to have been completely 
mastered, and the apprehensions of its ravages, 
especially in the Bordelais and Claret districts, 
have fortunately been without foundation. The 
accounts, too, from all parts of Italy, from Savoy, 
and from Lisbon, represent the vintage of 1858 as 
most splendid. In Savoy, in particular, it is said 
that never within the memory of man have the 
vineyards been so exuberant and prolific. 
Catutrnsrr. 
— Sweet potatoes are cultivated with success on 
Cape Cod. 
— New York has had 18 Governors in a period 
of 81 years. 
— A telegraph line has been established to Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
— There was a smart white frost at Utica on Fri¬ 
day night week. 
— Snow fell briskly in Rutland, Vermont, on 
Wednesday week. 
— Baltimore oysters are selling in St. Louis, at 
76 cenis per caD. 
— There are now 270,000 members of the French 
Legion of Honor. 
— They are talking at Boston about a uniform 
for their policemen. 
— Potatoes are said to have been first planted in 
New England, in 1719. 
— Three convicts have escaped from Sing Sing 
Prison within a few days. 
— Ice formed in Hartford, Ct, on the morning 
of the 29th of September. 
— One of the principal streets in Galveston, 
Texas, is paved with shells. 
— The N. Y. Times says the bills for the cable 
celebration foot up $20,000. 
— Thirty-five of the captured Africans have died 
since they reached Charleston. 
— At the recent Book Trade sales in N. Y. city, 
about $250,000 worth was sold. 
— A gentleman of Cincinnati has realized $12,- 
000 from the sale of peaches, this year. 
— The Turkish Government is about to establish 
a journal at Paris to represent its interests. 
— The crop accounts from Russia are unsatis¬ 
factory, particularly in the vicinity of Odessa. 
— About 2,000 persons had returned to Califor¬ 
nia from Fraser river since the 1st of August. 
— In the attack upon the Columbia miners in 
Oregon, 100 Indians and 10 whites were killed. 
— The colonial assembly of Australia has passed 
a hill taxing the Chinese ten pounds per head. 
— An Italian woman, who owns three houses and 
lots in Chicago, has been arrested for begging. 
— The business of horse-stealing is said to be 
very brisk, in Kansas, during the present season. 
— A feminine imposter, who passes for Mrs. H. 
B. Stowe, is receiving much attention in Europe. 
— A fire at Greensburg, Pa., destroyed buildings 
to the value of $30,000 on the night of the 21st ult 
— Theodore Parker, of Boston, has in his pos¬ 
session the first fire arm captured in the Revolu¬ 
tion. 
— A chimney, 235 feet in height, is in process 
of construction at the Navy Yard, Charlestown, 
Mass. 
— The Astor Library, New York, contains ten 
thousand volumes that have been published since 
1849. 
— The steeple of the Universalist church in Au¬ 
burn wa3 blown down during the gale of Thursday 
week. 
— Of the reformers convention held in Utica, a 
newspaper says “ the only thing out of order was 
a blush.” 
— Prof. Morse has been decorated by the Em¬ 
peror of France, with the insignia of tne Legion 
of Honor. 
— There are in the United States225,000 persons 
who makes their living partially by the sale patent 
medicines. 
— The total gold circulation of Great Britain is 
estimated at $250,000,000, and paper money at 
$158,000,000. 
— There are now issued from the Louisville, 
(Ky.) press five dailies, nine weeklies, and three 
monthlies. 
— The Russian Government has it in contem¬ 
plation to re-establish a metallic currency through¬ 
out the Empire. 
— The American stable islooking up in England 
Prioress has won the great Yorkshire handicap 
race at Doncaster. 
— The Leavenworth City Herald says the newly 
discovered gold region is about as large as the 
(State of Missouri. 
— Wild turkeys are reported to he more plenty 
than usual, at the west. This will be good news 
for the sportsmen. 
— About 75 of the Sionx Indians intend to adopt 
the dress of their pale-faced brethren, and pursue 
an agricultural life. 
— The continued drouth is advancing the price 
of tobacco. In Lynchburg, V&, four hogsheads 
were sold for $921. 
— It is reported that Louis Napoleon is negoti¬ 
ating for the mammoth Leviathan. The Company 
ask $3,000,000 for her. 
— The little mountain Republic of San Marino, 
in Italy, has awarded a medal to Miss Mitchell, the 
astronomer of Nantucket. 
— Peaches have been raised in great abundance 
in Southern New Hampshire; this is an exception 
to the general experience. 
— An effort is making in Arkansas to induce tho 
Legislature to compel the whole colored popula¬ 
tion to leave the State. 
— A beautiful cave in the mountains at the 
north, near Paterson, N. J., was explored last wc-ek 
to the distance of 250 feet 
— A council of Baptist churches, at Gloversville, 
N. Y, have decided that a man cannot he both a 
Christian and a Free Mason. 
— It is stated in the German journals that the 
ladies of the Court of Wurtemberg have resolved 
no longer to wear crinoline. 
— It is stated that J. J. Alston, of Tipton Co., 
Tennessee, has lost GOO hogs by the hog cholera, 
which is raging in that section. 
— The oldest grist mill in Pennsylvania is at 
Germantown. It is still in operation. It is built 
of stone, and was erected in 1683. 
— The first week in September was five degrees 
warmer in England than the average of the same 
week for the last forty-three years. 
— A hand of gipsies have pitched their tents 
near Columbus, O., and have made several attempts 
to kidnap children from that city. 
— Duties received at the N. Y. Custom House 
for the first eight months of 1858, $18,021,530; 
against $30,227,371, same time 1857. 
— The tobacco in the Conn. Yalley is mostly 
gathered, and very favorable, too, for there have 
been some smart frosts there lately. 
— The town of Catainaca, in Morocco, (Africa) 
has been in a state of siege for upwards of twenty 
years, with short intervals of relief. 
—There are boats now navigating the Erie 
Canal with greater tonnage than the ship with 
which Columbus discovered America. 
“' The first lot of new rice was received at 
Charleston on the 20th ult. It is of a very hand¬ 
some quality for the first in the market 
— Dr. Hind, the English astronomer, states that 
Donati’s comet, now visible, can he seen presently 
in the daytime, by the aid of telescope. 
— The reading of the bible in common schools 
is a subject of warm discussion in Kentucky. The 
Roman Catholic Bishop is opposed to it 
— The consumption of Cochituate water in Bos- 
t on the last year, was equal to 73 gallons per day 
for each man, woman, and child it the city. 
