MOORE’S RURA1 NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
NOV. 6. 
Contents of the Rural for November 6,1858. 
AGRICULTURAL. Page. 
Notes on Manures, Ac.,.367 
Does Underdraining Pay ?. 367 
Insects Injurious to the Potato. [ Illustrated,].867 
Potato Insect—Henderson's Theory,.367 
Jottings from Connecticut,. 368 
Harvesting Coro—The Corn Jack. 358 
Rural Notes from Iowa,.358 
Town Fairs—Wyoming Valley.358 
Poll Evil.358 
The Rnral—Underdraining,. 358 
Sorghum—Subsoil Plow. 358 
JluraJ MisceHany —Transactions for 1851; Fast Corn Husking; 
Naples Town Fair; Wisconsin State Fair; The Potato Trade of 
Toledo, Ohio; Sorghum Cider; Wool-Giowing in California; Corn 
in Kentucky,.358 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Cause of the Cracking of the Pear,.359 
The Season,.359 
A Plea for the Cauliflower,.35S 
Productive Grape Vine.359 
Achimenes Atrosanguinea, [Illustrated,]. 359 
Treatment of an Apple Orchard,. 359 ! 
New Rochelle Blackberries,.359 
Large Vegetables. 869 ; 
Pear Culture in Canada,. 369 I 
Information Wanted. 369 
Preserving Onion Sets,. 869 ; 
Best Potatoes for Family Use.369 
Transplanting Trees,.359 
Second Crop of Peas from the same Roots,.359 
Chestnut Tices.359 
Kohl Rabi,. 359 
Raspberry Wine,. 356 
To Correspondents.359 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Steamed Apple Pudding; Preserving Citrons; To Color Straw 
Color; Ginger Snaps, Extra; Pickling Apples.359 
LADIES' PORT - FOLIO. 
"Mama is Dead,” [Poetical] The two Bridals; Mother; Sunset 
Fancies; How True; Siinplicityof Dress,. 
choice miscellany: 
" All’s not Gold that Glitters’’ [Poetical.] Casual Thoughts and 
Fancies—No. I; Happiness, True and False; Lingerjngs with 
Nature—No It; The Young Man’s Leisure; The Inward Mon¬ 
itor; True Courage. 300 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Voices Within, [Poetical.] The Day Book; Freshness of the Bi¬ 
ble; Promises; The Way and the Truth; The Shadow ot God's 
Wing,. 360 
EDUCATIONAL. 
“ Pcrseverantia Vincit Omnia;” Thoughts; Public Libraries in 
the United States; Fallacy of Premature Education. 361 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, [Illustrated,] Extent of the Roman 
Empire; Scientific Paradoxes,.361 
THE YOUNG RURALI8T. 
Clerks Unsuited for tire West, Again; Buena Vista Beans,.361 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
Washington blatters. 
The Ixrst One Found, [Poetical.] Esculapius, Senior and Junior; 
Scotch and Manchester Prudence; Addison.364 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
Godey’s Lady’s Book for 1858—L. A. Godey. 
Lilhographs and Paintings—Henry Preside. 
Patents—J Fraser 
Mazuud Cherry and Apple Seed—Wm. Day. 
Short-bom Bulls for Sale—C. K. Ward 
A Choice Lot of Apple Seeds—J A. Root 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER 6, 1858. 
The Rural for 1859 —Briefly. 
Taking Time by the forelock, we wish to an 
nounce, very briefly bat decidedly, that such 
arrangements are being perfected as will render 
the Tenth Volume of the Rural New-Yorker 
“Excelsior” in both Contents and Appearance, 
and, we trust, worthy of a far larger and wider cir 
culation than any preceding volume has attained 
Profoundly grateful for the extraordinary encour 
agement and support it is receiving at the hands 
o f the Farmers, Horticulturists, Mechanics, Mer 
chants and Professional Men, from Canada to the 
Gulf and Maine to Minnesota, we have resolved to 
make su^h “Progress and Improvement” in Style, 
Terms, &c., as will, while fully maintaining it 
value and superiority, render it more attractive 
and interesting, and place it within the reach and 
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ence in their respective localities, the Rural’s 
pre-eminence as the first Journal of its Class in 
Merit, Usefulness and Popularity, will be more 
than maintained. All who desire to aid in the 
good work are cordially invited to manifest 
the same by preparing for an early and earnest 
opening of the Campaign. Show-Bills, Prospec¬ 
tuses, Specimen Numbers, &c., will be cheerfully 
furnished to all applicants. See Special Notices, 
&c., in first column of next page. 
Atuena:um Lectures.— The next Annual Course 
of Lectures before the Rochester Athemeum and 
Mechanics’ Association will commence on Thurs¬ 
day evening next, (Nov. 11.) The Course will con¬ 
sist of fifteen lectures, by some of the most emi¬ 
nent lecturers in this country — comprising such 
stars as Rev. Dr. Storrs, Rev. H. Ward Beecher, 
Geo. W. Curtis, Rev. A. Willets, Lieut. Maury, Rev. 
E. H. Chapin, Bayard Taylor, Rev. A. L. Stone, E. 
P. Whipple, Rev. T. Starr King, Geo. D. Prentice, 
Rev. Dr. Bellows, &c. It is needless to add that 
such an array of talent is rarely embraced in a 
single lecture course, even in the Atlantic cities— 
or that the course must prove popular, as well as 
profitable to both the Association and its patrons. 
The introductory lecture will be given by Rev. Dr. 
Storrs, of Brooklyn, on a semi-scientific subject— 
“ The Effects of Climate on Civilization.” Tickets 
for the Course can be obtained at the Bookstores, 
of either of the Directors of the Association, or 
of tljje President at this office. 
Congressional Elections.— To-day (Tuesday) 
Congressmen are to be elected in six States, New 
Y orb, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Illi¬ 
nois and Wisconsin. These States send sixty-five 
Representatives, who, in the present Congress, are 
politically divided as follows: 
Massachusetts,. P®™- 
New York,.21 12 
New Jersey,_ 2 3 
Michigan,. 4 _ 
Illinois,.. 4 5 
Wisconsin,... 3 _ 
Totals,.45 20 
A great struggle is being made by the Opposi¬ 
tion for a gain in New York, New Jersey, and Illi¬ 
nois in order to make the next House an Anti- 
Administration one. 
The movements of Gen. Walker are regarded 
with much interest, especially in diplomatic cir¬ 
cles. it being represented that he is well supplied 
with both men and money for his professedly peace¬ 
ful enterprise. There is reason to believe that 
should be attempt to land with his followers in 
Nicaragua, he will be repulsed by the British naval 
forces, as the Admiral on the W. L station, it is in¬ 
timated, has instructions to arrest filibustering 
expeditions into Central America from any quar¬ 
ter. Past, as well as present events, strengthen the 
assertion. 
New parties have recently been endeavoring to 
secure the government’s recognition of another ' 
contemplated Transit Line over the Nicaraguan, 
and with whom Gen. Jerez had been in communi¬ 
cation. No sucoeBB has thus far attended their 
efforts. While the administration will not inter¬ 
fere between citizens in matters relating to that 
subject, those who have already contracted with 
the Nicaraguan government will be fully protected 
in their rights and property. 
The telegraph, on the 3oth nit, informs us that 
the President has prepared, and will forthwith issue, 
a proclamation in the usual form for the prevention 
of {filibustering expeditions to Central America. 
The document has appeared, and we may revert to 
it hereafter. 
The Attorney General has given an opinion in 
reference to the proper construction of the Act of 
June last, which provides that the title to a land 
warrant issued after the death of a person who has 
applied for it according to the prescribed formp, 
shall vest in the widow, if there be one, and if there 
be no widow, the heirs and legatees of the claimant 
He draws the following conclusions:—1st That a 
warrant issued after the death of a claimant who 
has left a widow and children, is for the widow’s 
benefit alone. 2d. If the deceased claimant leaves 
a wife with two sets of children, the warrant enures 
to the benefit of the heirs and legatees. And, 3d. 
The heirs are those who are so declared by the law 
of claimant’s domicil. 
Information has been received that Paraguay has 
300 newly-mounted guns on stone batteries at the 
month of the Parana, A large land force will be 
needed to turn the fortifications from the land side. 
The War Department has a dispatch confirming 
the accounts of the engagement of Maj. Dorn with 
the Camanches. Fifty-two warriors and two women 
were killed. Secretary Floyd will take immediate 
measures to increase the force in Texas. 
It is said there is in course of preparation at the 
State Department a reply to the official dispatch 
informing our government of the purpose of Great 
Britain to suppress the {filibustering in Central 
America. 
The State Department having reason to sup¬ 
pose that some irresponsible persons in Eng¬ 
land and others there, writing under assumed 
names, have induced persons in this country to 
forward remittances thither for the recovery of 
estates which they are led to believe they are enti¬ 
tled to, cautions persons to whom such representa¬ 
tions are made to be satisfied as to the identity of 
their correspondents. 
The dispatch to the Times says that government 
has received dispatches from Gen. Lamar, announc¬ 
ing intelligence that Costa Rica promptly retracts 
her offensive language, and says that had M. Belly 
been as well known as he is now, the language 
would never have been used. The lake boats had 
proceeded up the river without interruption. 
The War Department has received official ac¬ 
counts of two late battles in Washington Territory. 
Gen. Clark presumes the success narrated therein 
is a surety of peace with the Indians,— the red men 
having been soundly beaten and some frightened 
into earnest overtures of peace. The centents of 
Lieut Tyler’s letters are all thus confirmed. 
The Washington Union of the 30th ult, speaking 
by authority, says the policy of the United States 
is not to acquire Central America or any part of it, 
hut to open the Isthmus routes and have them free 
to all the world. Meanwhile that it is but fair to 
claim that the covenants made with onr people 
shall be enforced. Not only has Costa Rica made 
ample apology to our government but received 
Gen. Lamar with great cordiality. He wifi attend 
the Convention of the Central American States 
about to be held, with a view to effect the confede 
ration thereof. 
Late News from the Oregon War. —The Hart¬ 
ford (Conn.) Times of the 29th nit., says: — “We 
have a lettle from Lt Clair, of the U. S. Oregon 
Army, dated at Coeur d’ Alue Mission, Washington 
Territory, of Sept 15, with fifteen days later news 
from there. The Shokan and Palouse Indians had 
been defeated, after two days’ fighting. The She- 
ken Chief was held by the U. S. forces, and 900 
horses had been taken from the Palouse tribe. All 
the plunder which the Indians took from Col Step- 
toe’s command had been recovered. Col. Steptoe’s 
pistol was found upon an Indian who was shot 
down in his saddle. The army did not lose a man. 
The Indians were begging for peace, and comply¬ 
ing with all the demands of the U. S. officers. Lt 
Clair considers the war in that quarter ended.— 
Ris letter was expressed to Fort Taylor on Snake 
river, near Wallawalla, by the Indian runners. It 
was directed to his father, who resides in this city, 
and was probably the only letter that came through 
by the California steamer, with news of the Oregon 
war.” 
Morphy and Harrwitz—Termination of the 
Match. —The Paris correspondent of the Boston 
Traveler writes that journal as follows:—“The 
match has just been settled, and Mr. Morphy de¬ 
clared the winner, all bets being paid. They were 
to have played until one or the other had won 
seven games; but when they stood Morphy five and 
Harrwitz two, the latter gave it up, laying the 
blame of his defeat to his ill-health; but the fact 
is, Morphy is by far the best player. When the 
termination of the match was announced at the 
Cafe de la Regence, the rendezvous of the chess 
players here, the Americans assembled there were 
quite uproarious in their exultation, while the 
Germans and the Prussians, who had bet upon 
Harrwitz, immediately suffered a terrible elonga¬ 
tion of countenance. Still they continue to have 
hope, for another person has been sent for to try 
bis hand at playing with the formidable young 
American, and the person is a countryman of 
theirs.” 
Letter from [Nebraska Territory. 
Tkt Rurtl—First Ag-Fair */ Otoe CoKKty — JgrictUturoi 
7‘rooncU — Fr*il Croinug., 4 -., A-c. 
Nblrarka City, Oct. 9th, 1858. 
Eds. Bubal: —Among the many eastern news¬ 
papers which I take, there is none so welcome in 
my family as yocr valuable Kkw-Yoeker. We 
look for its coming every week, with no ordinary 
feeling of pleasure, and I can assure you that its 
pages are well scanned over. It has occurred te 
me that a few jottings from this out of the way 
place would not come amiss to some of your read¬ 
ers, and I have thought proper to take up my pen 
and give yon, in my random style, some few re- 
’’ arks about matters and things appertaining to 
onr Territory. 
have this week had a taste of agricultu: 1 
niiGiora. The Agricultural Society of Otoe County 
have, the last two days, been holding their First 
Fair in this city, and, taking all things into con¬ 
sideration, the exhibition of horses, cattle, hogs, 
sheep, and the products of the soil, has been such 
as wifi compare favorably with a good many such 
Shows in the States. For the raising of corn, pota¬ 
toes, and pumpkins, the soil of Nebraska cannot be 
excelled. We have raised pumpkins here weigh¬ 
ing one hundred and seventy-five pounds, and corn 
that takes only eleven ears to make a half bushel. 
Our first Fair was very well attended. The ladies 
turned out with all sorts of fancy articles for exhi¬ 
bition, and a spirit of laudable emulation has been 
created that wifi tell at the next Show of the 
Society, and wifi materially advance the interests of 
farmers and the county generally. Agriculture in 
this portion of the Territory, is now securing a 
good deal more attention than it hitherto has done. 
Speculation in paper towns and town lots has in a 
great measure subsided, and a good deal more 
attention is directed towards cultivating the soil. 
We have here farmers from almost every State in 
the Union, and the extensive praries, that some 
four years ago were used only as the hunting 
grounds of the Pawnees and Otoes, are now dotted 
over with cornfields, and the huts of the settlers 
are getting thickly scattered over the country, 
showing a degree of prosperity in this Territory 
of a permanent character. 
A new impetus has been given to improvement, 
and our Fair has brought our farmers together. 
There has been an entire change of sentiment, and 
the excellent address, delivered by the Hon. 
Samuel W. Black, has sent the farmers home 
wiser and better meD, and with a still stronger de¬ 
termination to “stick to the plow.” 
The South Platte Country is settling up very 
fast with an industrious, thriving population. The 
postponement of the land sales in the Territory, 
was a god-send to the settler, and wifi secure to 
the actual tillers of the soil many thousands of 
acres of rich land, which would otherwise have 
fallen into the capacious maw of the land specu¬ 
lator. 
The streets of Nebraska City have lately been 
crowded with wagons and cattle, owned by parties 
on their way to the newly discovered gold region 
at Pike s Peak, and a good many of onr citizens 
have caught the gold fever, and are now on their 
way to the auriferous region. This city, for the 
upper Missouri, is about the best starting point, the 
gold mines being some G50 miles distant. The 
news received from the gold region continues to 
be of a very favorable character, and emigration 
from Iowa, Missouri, and this Territory, wifi this 
fall be very large. 
The crops of corn, potatoes, pumpkins, &c., in this 
Territory, have this year been very large and good, 
and the corn is now out of the way of any danger 
from frost I have been a resident of the Territory 
some three years, and have noticed that our first 
frosts come generally about the 15th of October— 
from that to the 20th. The planting of fruit trees 
has the past season been carried on extensively, 
and the trees have done remarkably welL 
To the poor man, wishing to pre-empt a quarter 
section of as good land as the sun ever shone on, 
the Territory of Nebraska offers immense advan¬ 
tages. Thousands of acres of fine rolling prairie 
yet invite the settler, and the soil yields an ample 
compensation to the farmer for his labor. 
But I am afraid I shall trespass too much upon 
your indulgence, and therefore conclude. 
J. Garside. 
Intelligence, 
Arrival of the Persia and Vigo, 
Obituary.— Hon. Alvah Hunt, formerly State 
Senator from the Chenango District, N. Y,, and 
more recently State Treasurer, died in Brooklyn, 
on the 28th nit. His disease was paralysis, brought 
on by mental anxiety on account of the serious 
illness of his wife. He was a man of fine abili¬ 
ties and rare social qualities. His age was sixty 
years, 
Hon. Robert Rantoul, of Beverly, Mass, died 
at Beverly, Sunday week, at the age of 79 years. 
Mr. Rantoul has been an honored and distinguish¬ 
ed citizen of Massachusetts, and has taken an ac¬ 
tive part in the legislation of the State in days 
gone by. He first served in the Legislature in 1809. 
Death of Rev. Mr. Sawyer, at the Age of 
103.—The Bangor papers bring intelligence of the 
death of Rev. Father Sawyer, of that city, at the 
age of one hundred and three years and four days. 
He was probably the oldest clergyman in the Unit¬ 
ed States. 
Submarine Cable across the Niagara River. 
—The Buffalo Commercial of the 30th ult., says:_ 
“ As we go to press, a submarine telegraph cable 
is being laid across the Niagara, by the Montreal 
Telegraph Company. The cable, we are informed, 
is a portion of that employed in the Gulf of New 
Foundland, but abandoned on account of being 
too heavy. It is wound upon a large reel, which 
was placed on a scow, and towed by a steam-tng 
across the river. The cable is about one inch and 
a half in diameter, and contains three conducting 
wires, each one being thoroughly insulated. Its 
weight and strength peculiarly fit it for the swift 
current of the Niagara. Its length is something 
over three-fourths of a mile. The machinery em¬ 
ployed in the submersion is the same that has been 
used by the same Company in laying cables in the 
Si Lawrence and other rivers.” 
The Persia from Liverpool 4 P. M„ 16th inst, 
and the Vigo from the same port, 13th, arrived in 
New York on the 26th ult 
Great Britain.— The race for the Cesarewitch 
handicap was won by Rocket by a head. Prioress 
and the Brewer ran a dead heat for the second 
prize. The fact that Prioress a second time ran a 
dead heat for this race, though this time for the 
second prize, is one of the most remarkable inci¬ 
dents connected with the Cesarewitch. 
At the regular meeting of the iron masters at 
Birmingham, a greatly improved tone was observa¬ 
ble. Buyers were numerous and prices were firmly 
maintained, while the principal manufacturers were 
j reluctant to enter into contracts for delivery at dis¬ 
tant dates. 
The officers and crew of the ill-fated Austria had 
published a letter claiming that they did all that 
was possible to do under the circumstances, and 
that the captain did the same. 
France. —The mediation of a friendly power has 
been accepted by France snd Portugal, in the dis¬ 
pute between them. It was suggested that the 
Portuguese Government should order the Charles 
Georges to be given up on condition that the French 
ships of war should previously withdraw from 
the Tagus, and return to France, so as to let it ap¬ 
pear that the surrender was not made under the 
menace of the guns. 
The decree permitting the importation of foreign 
iron into France, was about to be renewed with 
modification. 
The monthly statement of the Bank of France 
shows a decrease in the bullion of £1,770,000. The 
discounts had increased £1,350,000. 
The latest accounts from Paris say no doubt was 
entertained of a pacific solution of the difficulties 
with Portugal. 
Austria.—A panic was prevailing on ’change at 
Vienna, caused by fears of the speculators at the 
approaching resumption of cash payments by the 
bank. 
The Cologne Gazette says Austria will demand 
explanations from the Pope, respecting the aug 
mentation of the French forces at Rome. 
Portugal. —The free importation of breadstuff's 
is permitted until the end of May, 1859. 
^ Morocco. — The Vice - Consuls of Spain and 
France at Tetuan, Morocco, had been assassinated, 
No particulars. Energetic measures to obtain sat¬ 
isfaction were expected. A Paris telegram says 
the two ships of war lately sent to Lisbon would 
proceed to Tetuan to avenge the massacre. 
Turkey.— The Turks in Candia had again made 
such a display that it was feared the massacre of 
the Christians was intended. Great excitement 
prevailed. Two additional battallions of troops 
were to be sent to the Island. Reports are received 
that the Porte had refused to cede the Island of 
Perim to England. 
India. — The Bombay mail of Sept 24th, had ar¬ 
rived at Suez. The disarmed at Mooltan mutinied 
on the 21st of August, and their almost total exter¬ 
mination was the consequence. The fugitive 
rebels from I.owree were defeated with great 
slaughter Sept. 10. The Gwalior fugitives, after 
occupying the town a week and securing a large 
amount of treasure and forty guns, were again de¬ 
feated, on the 13th of September, and dispersed in 
all directions. A private telegram says that a re¬ 
newed alarm has arisen at Calcutta, and that the 
troops were kept under arms. Seven thousand in¬ 
surgents were said to be in the Province of Cal¬ 
cutta, but avoiding engagements. 
China.— The Hong Kong mail of Ang. 24tb, had 
reached England. 
It is rumored at Canton, that one of the Com¬ 
missioners who met the Embassador at the North, 
and who bears a character for conciliation, had 
been appointed Viceroy of the Canton Province. 
The town of Canton was spared by the British, 
though the forts were destroyed. The report that 
the place was sacked, was unfounded. 
The Chinese were coming back by degrees to 
Hong Kong and Macao. Trade continued dull at 
Hong Kong. At Amoy, little or nothing had been 
done in Teaa, At Shanghai the exports were 8,000,- 
000 pounds short of last year. 
Australia.— The Australian mail of Aug. 16, 
had reached England. The news anticipated. A 
nugget of gold weighing 2,100 ounces was being 
exhibited at Melbourne. The electric telegraph 
was in operation between Melbourne and Ade¬ 
laide. 
Commercial Intelligence. 
Breadstuffs. — Flour dull. Western canal 20@22s. 
Ohio 22s@24s6d. Wheat very dull and nominal. Red 
Western 5s3d@6s6d. White 6s3d@6s6d. Corn lower but 
nominal at 31s@32s. White 33s6d@34g. 
Provisions. — Pork quiet. French and Irish rather 
lower. Bacon dull at late rates. Lard l@2d cheaper. 
Sales at 58s, and market dull at decline. 
News Paragraphs. 
The Queen Dowager of Spain has two millions 
of dollars invested in this country. Other crowned 
heads of Europe also have large investments here. 
Louis Napoleon has from three to five millions. 
The petty German Princes, it is stated, are interest¬ 
ed in American securities about §50,000,000. 
The vein of plumbago, in Puzzle Mountain, in 
Newry, Me,, has been worked through, and the sup¬ 
ply, which was supposed to be almost inexhaustible, 
has proved to be very limited. Not a great quan¬ 
tity was procured. 
California law says neither negro, mulatto nor 
Indian shall be accepted as evidence against a 
white man, either in civil or criminal suits. But 
lately a local Judge has over-ruled the harsh 
statute so far as to admit the proscribed classes in 
all cases where they are the injured parties; and 
since then colored evidence is freely accepted in 
the criminal courts, showing a revolution in pub¬ 
lic sentiment. 
The old managers of the National Monument at 
Washington have been restored to power, and 
promise to complete the shaft, if nothing more, as 
soon as they can get the money. The column is 
now 175 feet high. The plan is to have it 500. 
The New Orleans Picayune states that a ship 
and a bark, the former having eighty and the latter 
forty camels on board, had arrived off the South¬ 
west Pass, and have been ordered to Galveston.— 
These camels are imported by private enterprise. 
A correspondent of the St Louis Democrat, 
who has undertaken a careful exploration of the 
Pike’s Peak gold mines in Kansas, writes that the 
stories of the discoveries of large lumps of gold 
and of great yields, are wholly unfounded, and that 
the gold found in that region is “wash-gold,” from 
which careful men may possibly realize $2,50 to $3 
per day. 
Somebody has said that the marriage between 
Jonathan and Miss Great Britain, which was so 
brilliantly celebrated a short time ago, is evidently 
a very unhappy one. At all events, no words have 
passed between them since the bridal day. 
The Chicago Board of Trade, have responded to 
the Boards of Canada, in favor of such a change in 
the Reciprocity Treaty as will allow flour manu¬ 
factured in Canada, from wheat grown in the 
United States, to he admitted in our ports free of 
duty. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided 
against the free admission, much against the inter¬ 
est of the Canadians. 
Shf Lett’s (Eowlmsrr. 
— Thanksgiving in New Jersey on the 18th of 
November. 
— There are 305 places of worship in the city of 
Philadelphia. 
— Philadelphia is the healthiest of the large 
cities in the Union. 
— Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania Nov. 18th, and 
Massachusetts 25th. 
— The Natchez Courier says New Orleans is the 
filthiest city in the U. S. 
— There were 2,436 deaths in Montreal for the 
year eading July 4tb, 1868. 
— Nearly all the mills of Lowell, Mass, are now 
running, and all on full time. 
— The soil of Turkey is found to be very favora¬ 
ble to the growth of cotton. 
— An organization is about to be made in New 
York for a steam fire engine. 
— The Costa Rican Government has apologized 
for the doings of Mons. Belly. 
— More than one hundred miles of railroad wifi 
be completed in Texas in 1858. 
— The line of telegraph from Placerville to Salt 
Lake City has been commenced. 
— Silver is arriving at San Francisco from Ari¬ 
zona at the rate of $1,000 per week. 
— It is said a child was recently born in Can¬ 
ada, weighing “ twenty-two pounds.” 
— Charles S. Stratton, the original Tom Thumb, 
is showing himself ia Manchester, Eng. 
— The Great Western Railway Co. are about to 
replace all their wooden bridges by iron ones. 
— Snow fell in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, on Thursday 
night of last week, to the depth of nine inches. 
— The great horse exhibition on Long Island 
closed on Friday week. It was very successful. 
— It has been decided, lately, in court that the 
word “ children ” in a will includes grandchildren. 
— Brigham Young has been sued for $25,000 
damages, by a Mr. McNeill, for false imprisonment. 
— A child, four years old, with a fine growth of 
beard and whiskers, is on exhibition in New York. 
— The New York Times predicts that Kansas 
wifi be admitted this winter without much resist¬ 
ance. 
— Stewart, the proprietor of the “Marble Halls” 
in Broadway, employs, in that establishment, 263 
clerks! 
— A yonng lady, 15 years of age, sent to the 
State Fair in Connecticut a quilt containing 10,000 
pieces. 
— Alexander Duncan, of Providence, is taxed 
for over $4,000,000. He is the richest man in New 
England. 
— A batch of New York city officials and con¬ 
tractors have just been indicted for frauds and 
swindling. 
— The first new corn of this season was sold in 
Chicago, IIL, a few days ago, at 40 cents per bushel 
of GO pounds. 
— Within a few months the police of New York 
have made 20,000 complaints for violations of the 
Sunday laws. 
— The Grand Division Sons of Temperance of 
the State of Kentucky is in session at Richmond, 
in that State. 
— There were three hundred and sixty deaths in 
New York last week, a decrease of seventy on the 
previous week. 
— On the night of the 12th nit., 12 births were 
reported in the family of Heber C. Kimball, at Salt 
Lake City, U. T. 
— It seems to be settled that the British Govern¬ 
ment wifi lay a second Cable between Ireland and 
Newfoundland. 
— Jonathan Robbins, who died in Middlesex 
Co., Mass., last week, weighed four hundred and 
sixty-five pounds. 
It is thought the trip of the overland mail 
between St. Louis and San Francisco will ultimate¬ 
ly be made in 20 days. 
— Judge Balcom, last week, directed a Grand 
Jury in New York to find indictments against 
adulterators of liquor. 
The Hebrews of Norfolk, Va., have formed a 
military company of thirty-five men, and elected 
J. Umstadter captain. 
— The State of Virginia taxes the railroads of 
the State one mill per mile for every passenger 
carried over their roads. 
— The work of breaking up the iron remains of 
the late Crystal Palace, under direction of the 
corporation, is in progress. 
— A gentleman in New Haven picked ripe straw¬ 
berries from his garden on the 27th nit. At least 
the Boston Post says he did. 
— Three men, named McGrade, Butler and Roach, 
were lately suffocated to death by foul air, while 
sinking a well near Chicago. 
— A convention to secure more uniformity in 
Telegraphing was held in New York during the 
last three days of last week. 
— A large emigration from North Carolina to 
the West is goiDg on. A caravan of 59 persons 
left Lincoln Co., N. C., last week. 
— The Jockey Club at Paris, the senate of ele¬ 
gants and dandies, has just been passing laws on 
evening costume for gentlemen. 
— Mr. Peabody has added $200,000 to his former 
donation to the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, mak¬ 
ing the whole endowment $500,000. 
— M. Donati, the discoverer of the comet lately 
visible, has been appointed Assistant Astronomer 
of the Imperial Museum of Florence. 
— The members of the Cabinet at Washington 
are reported to be busily engaged in preparing 
their respective reports for Congress. 
The costume of the Spanish ladies has not 
changed for 200 years. They wear the same style 
of dress their great grandmothers did. 
— The official list of passengers on board the 
burnt steamer Austria, arrived by the Europa. It 
shows that456 lives were lost, 88 saved. 
— Daring the year 1850 there were 230,000 per¬ 
sons employed in the collieries of Great Britain, 
and 66,000,000 tuns of coal were raised. 
— Bishop Soule, of the M. E. Church South, is 
in very feeble health, and incapacitated from re¬ 
plying to his numerous correspondents. 
— The St. Louis steamers, the “ Flying Cloud ” 
and “Rudolph,” were sunk on the 17th ult, with 
large cargoes, one of them very valuable. 
— An extra session of the Legislature of Indiana 
composed of newly elected members and Senators 
holdingover, wifi convene on the 20th inst. 
— The London Times says that the duration of 
a ship of war in a seaworthy state, built of British 
oak, is only thirteen years of active service. 
— A private meetiag of prominent New York 
firemen was held on Saturday week, to consider 
the subject of procuring a steam fire engine. 
— The salt pond proprietors of Turks Island re¬ 
cently held a meeting to devise measures for im¬ 
porting a supply of laborers into the colony. 
— The Apache Indians, at the last accounts were 
preparing for a hostile expedition into Sonora, and 
the Mexicans raising an army to oppose them. 
— The “Derby Dilly,” the last of the mail 
coaches running out of Manchester, Eng., suc¬ 
cumbed to railway competition on the 9th ult 
— The Governor has refused to interfere in the 
execution of the sentence passed upon the boy 
Rogers, the murderer of Mr. Swanson, in N. Y. city. 
