MOOllE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Contents of the Rural for October 16,1858. 
AGRICULTURAL. Pack 
Autumn Hints.333 
New York State Fair,.333 
A Pennsylvania Bam, [Illustrated,]......333 
Bees and Bee-Hives—My Experience—No. V,.334 
Crop Prospects in the West,.334 
Sorghum,.334 
Manures: Lcachtog vs. Decomposition and Evaporation,.334 
Burjing Potatoes,.334 
Product of a Head of Millet,.334 
Remedy for Bone and Blood Spavin. 334 
Sugar Cane,.334 
Rural bfisccUany .—The N. Y. State Fair; An Ohio Township; 
The Prairie Farmer; New Journals; Michigan State Ag. Socie¬ 
ty; Good Sale of Short-horns; Weighty Colts,.334 
HORTICULTURAL 
The Pear,.338 
New York State Fair,.335 
The BeurreBosc Pear, [Illustrated,]. 335 
Fruit Received,... 335 
Horticultural Hints,.335 
Fruit Trees in Oregon, [Illustrated,]...... 335 
New Prussian Muskmelon. 335 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY 
Ginger Cake; Tomato Pudding; Buttermilk Bread; Elderberry; 
Wine; Grape Juice; A Chance for the Girls; PacklDg Butter 
for Winter Use; Preserving Citrons; To Color Cotton Green; 
Query.335 
LADIES’ PORT-FOLIO. 
Music of Home, [Poetical] Hasty Tempers; A Sabbath Morn¬ 
ing in the State Prison; Differences in Wives; Advice to La¬ 
dies,.336 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Tha Autumn Wind, [Poetical] The First Frost; English Land¬ 
scape; A Childish Conceit; The Dreamer—No. II; Cultivate 
Cheerfulness; Envy,. 336 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
The Admonition, [Poetical.] The Image of Christ; Every Man’s 
life a Plan or God; The Value of Prayer; Preparation for 
Death,.336 
EDUCATIONAL 
Reading—Boobs and Newspapers; The School Master—His Fu¬ 
ture; Neatness; Labor,.337 
HOME JOURNESINGS. 
Connecticut Rambles.337 
USEFUL OLIO. 
The Great Wall of China, [Illustrated,] Water,.337 
THE YOUNG RURALI8T. 
The Law and the Farm; “ Constitutional Weariness;” Autumn; 
Pride,.337 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
Midnight Carol, [Poetical ] The Forged Patent; Avarice,.310 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
A Physician Wanted—II. H. Doolittle. 
Caution—J. J Bausch & Co. 
1,000 Saldsmen Wanted—L. Stebbins A Co. 
Real Estate Brokers—J. Gunnison & Co. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., OCTOBER 16,1858. 
Review of the Week. 
A new era in mail transportation to and from 
California Las dawned. The Overland Mail exper¬ 
iment promises perfect success. On the night of the 
9th inst. the mall arrived at St. Louis, being twenty- 
three days on the route. A public demonstration 
greeted the arrival, long processions, music, &c., 
hailing the procedure as a happy omen. The fol¬ 
lowing synopsis of news is taken from the Califor¬ 
nia papers: 
A line of telegraph from Placerville to Salt Lake 
City had been commenced. The news from Fraser 
river is unimportant, and water was still too high 
for mining purposes. Affairs at Victoria were 
much depressed. 
Dates from Oregon are to Sept 8th. Maj. Gar¬ 
nett had a skirmish with the Okanagans, in which 
Lieut Allen and six Indians were killed. A party 
of miners under Major Robinson, had been attack¬ 
ed by the Indians on the Wenatshe, in which one 
white was killed. A rumor had obtained credit at 
Fort Dallas that a party had been massacred near 
Okanagan. Good gold diggings had been found 
on the Wenatshe river. 
The condition of affairs at Washington will be 
found in another column, but the telegraph puts 
us in possession of rather an important item this 
A. M., (12th inst.,) as follows:—A grave difficulty 
on the Nicaragua question supervenes. Jerez now 
denies having made any stipulations as conditions 
to his reception by our Government, and refuses to 
perform any pretended stipulations. He will prob¬ 
ably be dismissed by Gen. Cass, and orders will he 
very likely given to take possession of the Transit 
Route by a naval force, until the demands of this 
Government shall be conceded by Nicaragua. 
The Atlantic Telegraph don't telegraph nowa¬ 
days, and we are again compelled to await the 
arrival of such “slow going coaches” as the 
steamers. It is really too had that we can hear 
from the “ Old Country” only two or three times a 
week, especially as we expected to be talking with 
Brother John just when we felt inclined. How¬ 
ever, we must submit; mistakes will happen. 
A project is on foot in New York to establish a 
hank, which, like the celebrated Bank of Amster¬ 
dam, shall keep all deposits in its vaults in gold 
coin, and charge depositors a per centage for keep¬ 
ing it. The advantage of such a bank would he, 
not so much that it would make money, or that its 
credit would be better than that of others in ordi¬ 
nary times, hut that once in twenty years, when a 
financial crisis and bank suspension occurred, it 
would he able to keep on making specie payments. 
Yankee Victory at Toronto. —A great yacht 
race came off at Toronto on Friday of last week, 
at the Provincial Fair, for a prize of $240, in which 
vessels from all parts of Canada and from the 
American shore of Lake Ontario participated. 
The prize was won by the Y’ankee sloop Coral, 
owned by Mr. Oades, of Frenc^i Creek. 
Disaster on Lake Ontario. —During the heavy 
gale which sprang up on the 7th inst, the schooner 
Ospray, of Buffalo, with a cargo of wheat from 
Racine, Wis., was driven against the east pier at 
Oswego, carrying away her spars, and sunk imme¬ 
diately. The captain’s wife and child and the mate 
were washed overboard and drowned. 
Deferred.— Several excellent communications, 
ard a number of editorial articles and items, are 
neoessarilly deferred. We will give the favors of 
our friends as early and fast as possible, but the 
Rural will only hold “bo much” each week— 
until enlarged. 
Destruction of the Crystal Palace by Pire. 
On the afternoon of the 6th inst, the New York 
Crystal Palace, with nearly the entire contents, was 
destroyed by fire. The American Institute was 
holding its Annual Fair in the building at the 
time, and a large amount of property was destroy¬ 
ed, consisting of mechanical and agricultural im¬ 
plements, pianos, melodeons, steam-engines, &c., 
which were on exhibition. The fire broke out in 
a lumber-room, which was filled with empty boxes 
and a large quantity of lumber, and is supposed to 
have been the work of an incendiary. When first 
; discovered, the Palace engine was brought out, but 
the hose was so full of holes as to be useless. The 
flames spread with astonishing rapidity, creating 
intense excitement among the visitors, (estimated 
at upwards of 2,000,) present. One of the exhibi¬ 
tors, Mr. L. D. Towley, gives the following state¬ 
ment, from which our readers can gain an idea of 
the fearful progress of the destroying element:— 
“About 5 o’clock the alarm was given, and my lit¬ 
tle hoy being with me I took him to the door, and 
. returned for my cases, one of which I succeeded 
in obtaining. I again attempted to return to my 
property but could not on account of the dense 
i smoke. At sixteen minutes past five the dome fell. 
When I first saw the fire it was about the size of a 
man’s hand, but in a moment immense volumes of 
i smoke poured into the building.” 
It is thought that turpentine was used by the in¬ 
cendiaries, as a strong smell indicating its presence 
was detected when the fire broke out. Previous 
to the fire, a hoy was seen dodging about between 
the palace door in 42d street and a liquor shop op¬ 
posite; and just before the alarm three boys were 
Been hurrying away from 42d street entrance, and 
running at rapid speed down the street Nothing 
was left standing but the iron towers at the angleB 
and a small portion of the iron sides. Everything 
combustible was reduced to ashes. The iron parts 
of machinery and other articles, together with the 
frame work of the building, fqrm one undistin- 
guishable mass. The glass fused into large masses. 
We cannot individualize the losses sustained, 
though many exhibitors, of whom there were 4,000, 
suffer greatly. The Palace originally cost $900,000. 
The loss of the American Institute amounts to 
$15,000, chiefly in motive power and machinery.— 
The articles on exhibition were valued from $500,- 
000 to $700,000. There was an insurance on the 
Palace—effected to protect foreign exhibitors— 
for $50,000. 
It is five years since this magnificent edifice was 
inaugurated with all the splendor and pomp that 
cosmopolitan importance could devise. In its 
architectural features it was the pride of all Ameri¬ 
cans, for we speak but the general sentiment* when 
we say that, in this respect, it eclipsed all similar 
buildings erected in either the Old or New World. 
The N. Y. Tribune speaks of it as being as “ beau¬ 
tiful as a fairy dream; as light as fancy could make 
it; as original as the age of iron could devise; as 
perishable, alas! as the grass of the prairie. * * 
* * * The loss is manifold, general, national, 
irreparable. We shall never have another Crystal 
Palace. Its glorious dome, seeming as though 
poising itself for a flight to the Empyrean, is no 
more; its galleries, its treasures, its magnificent 
expanses indispensable to the mass-gatherings of 
this great metropolis—its superb memories are all 
gone, and gone forever.” 
Steam on the Canals. —Judging from the para¬ 
graphs in the press at the present time, the invent¬ 
ors are fully determined to dissipate all the diffi¬ 
culties heretofore attendant upon the use of this 
motor in Canal navigation. The N. Y. Tribune 
learns that the Cathcart propeller, which has been 
working to great advantage for a year, on the 
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and is there regarded 
as a complete success, will he tried on the Erie 
Canal in the course of the present week. Two 
boats, equipped with this propeller, will he started 
to make a trip from New York to Buffalo, when all 
who are interested will have an opportunity to 
see for themselves what progress has been made to 
meet this acknowledged want of the State. Mr. 
Abner Burbank, a resident of Buffalo, has invented 
and put into operation, a new plan for propelling 
Canal and other steamers, by which the loss of 
power caused by placing the paddles close to the 
Btern, where they have to work in a sort of vortex 
and partial vacuum created by the passage of the 
boat through the water, is overcome. The simple 
idea of putting the propeller on the end of a shaft 
which could he shoved out so as to work some 
feet from the stern of the boat when in open water, 
and drawn in when entering a lock or other cir¬ 
cumscribed place, occurred to him, and he has put 
it into practice successfully. 
Balloon Race. —Considerable newspaper con¬ 
troversy has been had in reference to the relative 
merits of Prof. Steiner, the celebrated American 
icronaut, and Mons. Goddard, a French celebrity, 
and a trial of skill is to take place in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, on the 18th inst The Cincinnati Gazette 
says that the inflation of the balloons, each con¬ 
taining 36,000 cubic feet of gas, will commence at 
9 o’clock in the morning, and the ascension will 
take place at 4 o’clock precisely. A committee of 
five well known citizens have been chosen, who 
are to act as judges, etc. They will decide whether 
the weather in the morning shall justify the infla¬ 
tion of the balloons. When the inflation has com¬ 
menced the aironauts must go. Each may take 
up a passenger, at his own discretion. The suc¬ 
cess of either will be in relation to distance, not 
height Arrangements will be made for each 
aeronaut to send down, at every town passed, in 
a parachute, a “log,” or note, containing the name 
of the balloon which passes, and any incident oc¬ 
curring on the trip, which will be sent by telegraph, 
so that the citizens here and elsewhere may he 
continually posted of the whereabouts of the aero- 
nauts, and the success attending their aerial flight 
Each expects to occupy three or four days in the 
experiments. 
Debts for Liquor not Collectable. —Michael 
Scanlan sued Michael Markham at Boston, to re¬ 
cover $75 for liquor, and the Supreme Court has 
given a verdict to the defendant, because the liquor 
was not sold in the original packages, and the sale 
was not legal. Scanlan therefore loses the liquor 
and the costs of prosecution. 
“Rural” Letters from the People. 
Mr. Chas. Watts, of Bureau Co., Ill., remits $1 for the 
Rural 6 months, and says :—“ It is a good paper, but my 
neighbors think it is dear, considering the size and hard 
times—but they ought to know that a load of wheat is 
worth more than a load of hay or straw. Times are hard, 
it is true, but they would he much harder if our intel¬ 
lectual supplies were withdrawn or blighted, like our 
agricultural. ‘ Half a loaf is better than no bread 
therefore if I cannot afford your paper a year, I will take 
it for 6 months, till the arrival of that ‘ good time ’ which 
always is ‘ coming.’ ” 
Lv starting the Rural we determined that it should 
have a good, useful, beneficial influence upon all who 
might read and heed its contents—and especially upon 
the young—and that money-making would be ignored in 
its management. To this principle we have thus far ad¬ 
hered, and though we cannot count our profits in gold, it 
is awarded us in evidences of usefulness which are most 
satisfactory. Vide the following recent letter from Mr. 
C. F. Goodrich, of Franklin Co., Mo., and which is simi¬ 
lar to many others received during the past year ^“In¬ 
closed I send stamps for the Rural New-Yorker three 
months. Also, please send me any three numbers you 
choose for specimens, and in return I will, as far as I can, 
aid its circulation in Missouri. I am and have been a de¬ 
voted friend of the Rural a number of years—although 
I have not seen its countenance but once since I left New 
York, my native State, several months ago. Its precepts 
and counsels inspired in my boyhood days, (though they 
are scarcely passed,) motives and principles which I trust 
will never be obliterated. I am also indebted to that 
most excellent paper for enkindling a thirst for literature 
and science—for first awakening a desire to read and to read 
good books and papers. And thinking that the same in¬ 
fluence may be exerted on some persons in Franklin Co., 
Mo., I will cheerfully lend my aid in introducing the 
Rural here.” 
— We trust many other young men who appreciate the 
Rural will volunteer their aid in augmenting its circula¬ 
tion and usefulness in their respective localities. Now 
is the best time to make the effort. 
A young lady, Post-Mistress in Tompkins Co., writes : 
—“ I have been without the Rural two weeks, and now 
send $1 to renew my subscription so far as it will. I have 
tried to get subscribers for you, but the hard times have 
been such as to prevent. But I intend to be on hand 
with the Rural in the fall, and if it does not take the 
place of the Ledger in about one dozen families it will 
not be the fault of your subscriber,” &c. The Rural is a 
universal favorite with the ladies, many of whom are 
active in extending its circulation. They are also among 
its most successful agents, for of course none but a hea¬ 
then can resist their appeals in behalf of the model fam¬ 
ily paper. 
In a recent letter containing pay for new subscribers, 
Mr. Jas. A. Sterling, of Kent Co., Mich., writes “ Be¬ 
lieving as I do the Rural to be the paper for the Farmer 
and the Home Circle, I feel willing to do what I can to aid 
in its dissemination. Thus far I have given my time to 
this object, and shall cheerfully do so while I feel I am 
placing wholesome, moral Literature in Community. I 
shall send some more in a few days. If I am spared shall 
also try to get up a club for the next volume.” 
Mr. Wm. Anthony, of Santa Cruz, Cal., remits pay for 
15 copies, and closes his letter in this wise“ Did not 
attend to this in time. Was so full of business I did not 
realize my situation until the significant words, ‘time 
up,’ aroused me. I cannot live without your paper in 
my family, and 1 will not. I will set the boys to work an¬ 
other year, and get up a larger list, if I have no time to 
devote to it myself.” That’s right. Let the boys—the 
“ Young Ruralists”—take the field in all cases where the 
seniors have not time. Some boys can do as much as 
men in getting subscribers. If our young friends will 
only take hold of the matter in earnest, the circulation 
of the next volume will be largely increased. 
Washington Matters. 
Me. Reed, the Minister to China, says in his 
official dispatches, that after he signed the treaty 
he made a provisional arrangement with the Com¬ 
missioner for adjusting claims of American citi¬ 
zens. He intended to visit in the summer such 
ports of Japan as might be accessible, and return 
in November. 
Commodore Tatnall, in his official dispatches, 
dated July 5th, after saying that the entire EaBt 
India Squadron will soon be shown to the Japa¬ 
nese, remarks that no better opportunity could be 
selected for the temporary absence from the coast 
of China, as the recent treaties and termination 
of hostilities, together with the swarms of English 
and French ships-of-war in the rivers, must place 
all the foreign interests of a lawful kind in perfect 
safety for the present. He should return with the 
squadron to the coast of China about the last of 
October. 
The correspondent of the N. Y. Courier and En¬ 
quirer says Gen. Jerez has been received as Envoy 
Extraordinary from Nicaragua, having previously 
engaged to exchange ratifications of the treaty of 
1857, unconditionally, and to pay an indemnity for 
the lives and property destroyed by the allied army 
during the fillibuster war. He also repudiated the 
Belly contract. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has, on appeal, 
decided that shaved shingles being manufactured 
by any other processes than hewing or sawing, are 
not embraced in timber and lumber, admitted free 
under the reciprocity treaty with Great Britain, but 
subject to a duty of twenty-four per cent. He has 
also decided that walnuts and limes in salt and 
water are each chargeable fifteen per cent. 
It is not true, as has been stated, that the rank of 
Admiral is recognized by the Navy Department, 
hut by the regulations flag officers who have been 
in commission twenty years and over are author¬ 
ized to hoist their flag at the fore, instead of the 
mizzen mast, and those under that period, at the 
mizzen as usual. 
An Army Board is to assemble at the Washing¬ 
ton Arsenal, for the purpose of examining the re¬ 
cent improvements in small arms. 
Indians Robbing the Mails. —The Indian Bureau 
at Washington, received a letter from Dr. Forney 
on the 4th inst, confirmatory of the report of the 
Indians robbing the mail 350 miles from Salt Lake 
city. He says that no attempt was made to kill 
the conductor, drivers, or guax-ds; that the Indians 
on the Humboldt have been committing depreda¬ 
tions for ten years past; and that this was the first 
outbreak of the present season. Gen. Johnston, at 
the request of Gov. Cumming, had sent a military 
force of 150 men for the protection of the mails 
and travelers. 
A Yessel in Distress.— New Orleans papers of 
the 4th inst, state that the steamer Orizaba, from 
Key West, found the British brig Esperanza drift¬ 
ing about in the Gulf, the captain dead and all the 
crew sick with fever, and towed her into Apala¬ 
chicola. 
The New Bedford Mercury understands that the 
late frost has destroyed the greater portion of the 
cranberry crop on Nantucket. The yield would 
have been unusually large, as the people have 
turned their attention to the business considerably 
of late. 
The Assay Office is at present doing considera¬ 
ble in the way of receipts of silver for recoining. 
Four hundred thousand Mexican dollars are now 
waiting to he turned into American money, and 
more will be sent in next week. 
TnE Methodist Advocate regrets to have to say 
in answer to many anxious inquiries, that Bishop 
Simpson’s health has not improved, and that pre¬ 
sent indications do not promise an early recovery. 
He is greatly reduced in flesh and strength during 
the past month. 
The Harrison (Mo.) Democrat states that a Mr. 
Johnson, of that place, a reliable young man, who 
had just returned from Pike’s Peak, pronounces 
the stories about extensive gold deposits in that 
region, wilful fabrications. The most industrious, 
well provided with tools, do not average over $1 
per day. 
The Milwaukee Sentinel of the 28th nit., says 
the freight train on the Milwaukee and Mississippi 
Railroad on Wednesday morning consisted of 101 
cars, all loaded to their utmost capacity, and most 
of them carrying wheat. 
The oldest and at the same time the smallest city 
in New England, is that of Yergennes, Vt, which 
was incorporated in 1783. It is the only city in 
Vermont, and in 1850 contained 1,378 inhabitants. 
There is a strong sentiment among the people 
of the Society Islands in favor of annexing those 
islands to the United States. At a council of Pro¬ 
vincial Governors it was resolved to ask this Gov¬ 
ernment for annexation, and a paper to that effect 
was drawn up and banded to the American Minis¬ 
ter, who forwarded the document to Washington. 
The French and English residents, however, are 
opposed to this movement, and have already stir¬ 
red up an insurrection to prevent its attainment. 
The Wool Grower estimates an increase in round 
numbers of 500,000 lbs. in the wool crop of Ohio, 
over last year—only one county, Knox, showing 
any considerable decrease. 
Forty-nine of the camels belonging to the Uni¬ 
ted States are now at Campe Yerde, sixty miles 
from San Antonio. Only one of those imported 
has died, while ten have been added by birth.— 
These young American horn camels thrive well, 
and promise to grow up equal in all respects to 
those imported. 
London astronomers do not regard the present 
brilliant comet as identical with that of 1565, 
which is now expected. The present visitor will 
not re-appear for two or three hundred years. 
The new Custom House at Pensacola, Florida, has 
just been finished. The cost was $50,000. The 
amount of revenue collected at that port for the 
year ending June 30,1857, was in round numbers 
$478. To collect this sum it cost the government 
S3,012. 
Twelve cast-iron colums, said to he the largest 
in the United States, are now in process of con¬ 
struction at Cincinnati. They are each fifty feet 
in height, four feet two inches in diameter, weigh 
between 200 and 300 tuns, and will cost about 
$30,000. They are designed for the State House, 
Madison, Wis. 
In the town of Zahlagen, Wurtemburg, therehas 
been lately opened a new printing establishment, 
by M. Theodore Helgerad. All the compositors 
and pressmen jire deaf and dumb, to the number 
of 160; eleven of the former are women. 
The State of Ohio has recently lost a valuable 
set of documents,—a complete series of Legisla¬ 
tive papers, from the organization of the Territory 
to the present time—the only one extant. These 
documents were ruined by fire, which desti’oyed 
the contents of a store-room in the State House at 
Columbus, a few days since. 
The gold mines of Guina, South America, be¬ 
lieved to be the veritable El Dorado so fruitlessly 
Bought for by Sir Walter Raleigh, have been re¬ 
cently visited by a correspondent of the New York 
Tribune, who says that companies well organized, 
and with the requisite machinery to work the gold 
quartz, and drain the pools at the various cascades 
will, undoubtedly, realize vast fortunes. 
The catalogue of books published by the Amer¬ 
ican Sunday School Union numbers over 1,000, the 
largest list by far in the country, if not in the 
world. Although most of these volumes are small, 
yet many of them sell largely, and the aggregate 
of the entire sales is large, not much less the 
present year, it is said, that a quarter of a million 
of dollars. 
The State Sunday School Teachers’ Con¬ 
vention. —The annual meeting of Sunday School 
Teachers, at Brooklyn, which opened on Tuesday 
week, was very largely attended from all parts of 
the State. Hon. E. A. Lambert was chosen Presi¬ 
dent The Secretaries of the County Associations 
made their reports, of which the following is a 
partial summary:—New York county contains 300 
schools, 7,000 teachers, and 72,000 scholars; Alle¬ 
gany county 32 schools, 303 teachers, and 1,122 
scholars; Erie county 119 schools, 1,534 teachers, 
and 9,356 scholars; Monroe county 159 schools, 
1,932 teachers, and 15,522 scholars; Ontario coun¬ 
ty 25 schools, 401 teachers, aad 2,898 scholars; 
Richmond county 35 schools, 217 teachers, and 
4,191 scholars; Schenectady county, 30 schools and 
2,000 scholars. No statement was received from 
either Yates, Washington, Chenango, and other 
counties, hut the delegates gave some very inter¬ 
esting accounts of the progress of the school in¬ 
terest in their different towns. 
Genesee Valley Railroad Extension. — A 
correspondent of the Rochester Demoerat, writing 
from Mt Morris, under date of the the 6th inst., 
says that the iron for the road has been purchased, 
and is on it way to its place of destination. A 
portion has been received, and the work of laying 
will commence at Avon on the 10th. The Direc¬ 
tors are determined te have the road completed 
by the 1st of December, or as soon thereafter as 
possible. 
OCT. 16 . 
She grttiji Condenser. 
— Pike’s Peak gold dust is said to he worth $21 
per ounce. 
— Railroad fares are up again on the competing 
roads in this State. 
— The Democrats carried Delaware on Tuesday 
week by a majority of 750. 
— The city of St Louis has entirely abandoned 
the use of hand fire-engines. 
— One firm in New York, employs 780 girls in 
the manufacture of crinoline. 
— More than one hundred miles of railroad will 
be completed in Texas in 1858. 
— The Natchez Courier says New Orleans is the 
filthiest city in the United States. 
— Brigham Young is worth $3,000,000, besides 
controlling the church property. 
— In Sweden, a man who is seen four times drunk 
is deprived of a vote at elections. 
— A Pennsylvania dentist advertises that he will 
pull out teeth for one dollar a dozen. 
— There are 205 citizens in Providence, E.I., 
who pay a tax of $5,000 and upwards. 
— GeD. Monagas, ex-President of Venezuela, has 
died of ill-treatment received in prison 
— The Howard Association of New Orleans warn 
the unacclimated against going to that city. 
— It is said the Utah army transportation con¬ 
tractors will clear half a million of dollars. 
— The men and officers of onr Indian army are 
doing a brisk business in buying up squaws. 
— Hon. W. B. Preston, of Louisville, Ky., has 
accepted the appointment of Minister to Spain. 
— S. A. Smith recently fished up a rifle, marked 
1805, from a depth of 180 feet, in Lake Ontario. 
— The report that the Pope intends to make a 
pilgrimage to Jerusalem, has been contradicted. 
— The Boston Board of Aldermen have voted 
eight to four that the police shall wear uniforms. 
— G. P. R. James has sailed for Venice, where 
he is to hold the position of British Ambassador. 
— A new company has been formed for purchas¬ 
ing the Great Eastern, and running her to America. 
— The President has appointed Dr. James Mc¬ 
Dowell, of Missouri, Consul General to Constanti¬ 
nople. 
— A “matrimonial broker” in New York has 
recently retired from business with a handsome 
fortune. 
— The jail at Freehold, N. J., was forced on the 
night of the 9th inst, by the prisoners, all of whom 
escaped. 
—The expenses of the British Patent Office for 
this year have been $138,990 over and above its 
receipts. 
— Carl Mozart, a son of the great composer, snd 
a man of considerable ability, is living in poverty, 
at Milan. 
— The Governor of New Hampshire has ap¬ 
pointed the annual Thanksgiving on the 25th of 
November. 
— According to the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer 
the marine losses for the past month foot up 
$1,128,000. 
— Gen. Scott has returned to New York, nearly 
recovered from the effects of his recent fall at 
WeBt Point. 
— In Mexico, everybody is supposed to be an 
ex-President who wears a clean shirt and keeps his 
hands washed. 
— Twenty-five of the Maine editors have started 
on a tour to the Aroostook country, to examine 
its capabilities. 
— James Thorp, a colored teamBter, of Newark, 
N. J., has had $75,000 left him by a gentleman of 
North Carolina 
— Later news from Utah represent everything 
to be quiet. There had been heavy snow storms 
on the plains. 
— An acre of vines in California yields from 
800 to 1,050 gallons of wine. In Ohio and Europe 
only about 400. 
— The bursting of a camphene lamp caused the 
destruction of $10,000 worth of property at Mil¬ 
waukee, last week. 
— An official report shows that the Federal 
Government owns 578 acres within the limits of 
Washington City. 
— The steamer Cleveland, about whose safety so 
much anxiety was felt at Milwaukee, haB arrived 
at port all right. 
— The Cincinnati Gazette learns that cases of 
yellow fever have occurred at Louisville within 
the last few days. 
— Charles Sumner was at Aix la Chapelle, 
France, when last heard from, and very much im¬ 
proved in health. 
— The typhoid fever, which had assumed an 
epidemic form in the Penitentiary, at Columbus, 
Ohio, has subsided. 
— Gov. Cumming retains the confidence of the 
Mormon community, and his acts and policy give 
general satisfaction. 
— The total mortality in New Orleans by yellow 
fever, up to September 24th, was two thousand four 
hundred and twenty. 
— Mrs.' Cunningham, now sojourning in Upshur 
Co., Va., is 106 years old. She has 39 descendants 
of the fourth generation. 
— Lord Elgin has gone on a mission to Japan, 
to induce the Japanese to enter into a treaty of 
Commerce with England. 
— The Postmaster-General, notwithstanding the 
reports to the contrary, has not yet selected a site 
for the New York Post-Office. 
— The French have successfully tried the ex¬ 
periment of slicing and drying potatoes for future 
use. It is done by machinery. 
— A. Keene Richards, of Georgetown, Ky., is 
about to purchase the celebrated English race 
horse “ Fisherman,” for $30,000. 
— Dermott Dempsey, of Macon, Ga., who died 
on Sunday week, wills $5,000 to his relatives and 
$495,000 to the Catholic Church. 
— President Benson writes from Liberia that the 
prospects of that colony, as a cotton producing 
region, are improving rapidly, 
— From the returns of the census of Texas, now 
nearly completed, it is ascertained that its popula¬ 
tion will not fall short of 450,000. 
— The Paraguay Expedition will he composed 
of 16 vessels, carrying 205 guns, and a land and 
naval force of 2,800 men and officers. 
— A man killed the favorite cat of a neighbor, 
who sued him for damages. The jury decided that 
cats were not property in New Jersey. 
— It is a remarkable fact that the Cleveland mar¬ 
ket is sending grapes to Cincinnati, the crop at 
the latter point having proved a failure. 
— Two Chicago ladies went to a ball the other 
evening, in a furniture wagon—no ordinary car¬ 
riage could contain the dresseB they wore. 
— The wife of State Prison Inspector, Rhodes, 
while out hunting, one day last week, in Clinton 
Co., had the good luck to shoot three deer. 
— A son of A. G. Talbot, M. C., from Kentucky, 
has made his debut in the ring as a clown. His 
family is one of the wealthiest in Kentucky. 
— All Switzerland is in a state of insurrection 
against the railroad lords, whose political power 
is rapidly extending over the whole continent. 
— A great fire occurred at Jacmel, Island of 
Hayti, on 15th Aug. The commercial part of the 
city is in ruins. Loss, a million and a quarter. 
