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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, Freedom of Speech and of the Press! 
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Storm and Tornado. 
It rained for several days and nights in suc¬ 
cession during the early part of last week, 
soaking the ground and giving vegetation new 
life. The grass and wheat fields have improv¬ 
ed rapidly since, and are now clothed in ver¬ 
dure of the deepest green, and the buds df 
forest trees are swelling with the upward flow 
of sap. On Wednesday our city and vicinity 
was visited with a tornado of wind and rain 
mingled with hail. About 7 o’clock in the 
morning the storm came driving on so dense 
and dark that gas and candles had to be 
lighted in the shops and dwellings. The wind 
blew a gale, and the rain poured down in tor¬ 
rents, accompanied with thunder and light¬ 
ning. There was no great amount of hail fell 
here, but south and west of us the hail-storm 
was very severe. 
The general direction seemed to be from the 
north-west, passing towards the south-east, 
but not embracing a very wide track. It was 
severe at Toronto and Suspension Bridge, but 
just gave Buffalo a passing brush with the ex¬ 
tremity of its wing, passed on through the 
lake shore tier of counties as far east as this 
city, and then seemed to bo deflected in its 
course more towards the south. Hail stones 
of very large size, and doing much damage, 
fell atScottsville, Mendon, Corning, and other 
towns in that general line of direction. 
The Genesee river was uncommonly high a 
few days subsequent to the storm, and brought 
down an immense amount of floating timber, 
logs and drift, showing that the southern tier 
of counties received its full share of the fall¬ 
ing waters. The weather has been delightful 
since the storm has passed. 
Fatal Accident. —A fatal accident, resulting 
from the careless use of fire-arms, occurred in 
this city last Saturday. A young man named 
Robert Campbell, a cooper by trade, while in 
the act of adjusting a cap to a shot gun, acci¬ 
dentally fired the piece, lodging the contents 
in the body of a fellow workman named 
Shambo, a Frenchman, from Montreal, killing 
him instantly. The deceased was an indus¬ 
trious mechanic, and leaves a wife and large 
family of children. Campbell was at the time 
engaged in the reprehensible and unlawful 
amusement of shooting birds within the lim¬ 
its of the city. 
Anomaly. —The Geneva Gazette , of Saturday, 
says: “Our citizens for two days past have 
been considerably interested, and some of 
them a great deal excited, in reference to a 
strange, and thus far inexplicable, phenome¬ 
non, that has occurred in the waters of Sene¬ 
ca Lake. During the whole of Wednesday 
and yesterday, the waters would rise and fall, 
in spaces of time varying from ten minutes to 
half an hour, continuously through those 
days, from five inches to two feet in height. 
Just after sundown on Wednesday evening, a 
friend of ours made an exact measurement of 
the fall and time. In fifteen minutes the 
water fell 16£ inches, when it commenced ris¬ 
ing again.” 
On Saturday, the 14th, a couple of hundred 
citizens of Platte county, Missouri, assembled 
at Parksville, in that county, where they seized 
the press and fixtures of the ParJcsville Luminary, 
and threw them into the Missouri. They 
charged the editors with free soil proclivities, 
and would have used personal violence against 
them if they could have been found. Resolu¬ 
tions were passed declaring the Luminary a 
nuisance, and the editors traitors, &c., and an 
intention to throw them into the river if found 
in the place within three weeks, and to follow 
them and hang them if they went to Kansas. 
Free soilers were denounced, and it was deci¬ 
ded by the meeting that no Methodist preach¬ 
er should preach in the county on pain of be¬ 
ing tarred and feathered for the first offence, 
and hanged for the second. 
A wretched society that must be, whose 
principles and practices shut men’s mouths 
against free discussion. Mob violence against 
the freedom of speech and of the press, is a 
plea of guilty before the whole world. 
Riot in Chicago. —A very serious riot oc¬ 
curred in Chicago on Saturday last, growing, 
it is said, out of the Maine Law and the Li¬ 
cense question. A lot of intoxicated Germans 
and Irish assembled in Court House Square, 
where a crowd soon collected which became 
disorderly, and the affair ended in a general 
fight. The police attempted to quell the dis¬ 
turbance, whereupon one of their number was 
shot dead by the rioters. A prominent citizen 
named James Rees, was wounded by a shot, as 
also were some of the Germans. Several of 
the ringleaders were arrested and taken to jail, 
and their comrades threatened to release them 
by force. This caused a renewal of the dis¬ 
turbance, which resulted finally in calling out 
the military, and restoring quiet by an armed 
occupation of the city. 
Grape Culture. —Two natives of Baden, 
says the Boston Courier, have bought a small 
farm in the town of YValpole, N. H., and 
judging the climate there much the same as 
their native place, have imported grape cut¬ 
tings from thence, and devoted several acres 
to growing them. They commenced it last 
season, and intend to increase it this. These 
people, uncle and nephew, have heretofore 
been engaged in the grope culture, and are 
sanguine of success. 
Unless New Hampshire materially modifies 
the rigor of her winters, these grape culturists 
will be disappointed. Better for them to set¬ 
tle in Southern Ohio, Indiana, or Texas even, 
if they would pursue the grape culture on an 
extensive scale. 
Students in Leading-Strings.— The Massa¬ 
chusetts Legislature have passed a law that no 
“ inn-holder, tavern-keeper, retailer, confec¬ 
tioner, or keeper of any house or shop, for the 
sale of drink or food, or any livery-stable keep¬ 
er, for horse or carriage hire, shall give credit 
to any student in any incorporated academy, 
or other educational institution within the 
State. If any person shall give credit contrary 
to the provision of the act, he shall forfeit a 
sum equal to twice the amount so unlawfully 
trusted or credited, whether the same shall 
have been paid or not.” The Legislature 
might have spared themselves all this trouble, 
for the men who trust students usually have 
the worst of it. 
Who is my Neighbor ?—The Albany Journal 
speaks of an act of genuine benevolence per¬ 
formed by a citizen a few days since, which 
ought not to go unnoted. There were in the 
post office in that city ninety-seven letters re¬ 
tained under the new law for unpaid postage, 
the amount of which he paid, and sent the 
whole batch on its way. 
Who knows but more than one fainting 
heart may have been cheered by news con¬ 
tained in that package ? 
The Welland Canal. —Navigation was re¬ 
sumed on the Welland canal more than a week 
ago, and two cargoes of wheat arrived at Os¬ 
wego on Saturday from Chicago direct. On 
the 17th and 18th fourteen vessels passed 
down the canal. Our Canada neighbors usual¬ 
ly manage to get the start of us in canal nav¬ 
igation. Buffalo harbor is yet blockaded with 
ice, and forwarders are impatient at its delay 
in breaking up. 
Steamer Burned. —A telegraphic despatch 
from Cincinnati, under date of April 23d, says 
the steamer William Knox, from that place 
for St. Louis, was totally destroyed by fire 
that morning, below Louisville. The boat was 
crowded with passengers hound for Kansas, 
but it is believed they were rescued, as 
another steamer was seen to come up to the 
burning boat at thetimeof the fire. Nothing 
further h:is been ascertained in regard to the 
disaster. 
Mowing Machine Case.— In the U. S. Cir¬ 
cuit Court now holding at Buffalo, a decision 
was made April 21st in the Mowing Machine 
case, Howard vs. Forhush, against the defend¬ 
ant, establishing the validity of Ketchum’s 
re-issued patent, 1853, the originality of in¬ 
vention, infringement by defendants, and 
granting perpetual injunction against them. 
Panic at a Theatre. —The St. Charles The¬ 
atre at New Orleans, was recently the scene 
of a terrible confusion and alarm, in conse¬ 
quence of a panic occasioned by a cry of fire ! 
A rush was made by the audience for the pas¬ 
sages, and several persons were severely in¬ 
jured in the attempt to escape. 
JLifei'ni’l) ^ecolrL 
Practical Landscape Gardeding, with reference to the 
Impiovement of Rural Residences, giving the Genera 1 . 
Principles of the Art ; with Pull Directions for Plant¬ 
ing Shade Trees, Shrubbery, and Flowers, and Laying 
Out Grounds. By G. M. Kkr.v. Cincinnati : Moore, 
Wilstach, Keys &Co., 1855. 
Such a work as Mr. Kern has produced— 
one within the means and reach of the great 
majority of those wishing to improve and 
beautify their homes—has long been a desid¬ 
eratum in this country, and we therefore hail 
this volume with peculiar pleasure. It will 
prove a most acceptable and valuable auxiliary 
to those who have the taste and means for 
landscape gardening and home ornamentation, 
and to all such it is commended as a desirable 
acquisition. The volume is issued in a supe¬ 
rior style, which will enhance its popularity, 
as well as that of its enterprising publishers. 
The Practical Land Drainer ; A Troatise on Draining 
I-and, in which the most approved systems of Drain¬ 
age. and the Scientific Principles on which they depend, 
are Explained, and their Comparative Morits discussed, 
with full directions for cutting and making Drains, and 
Remarks upon the various materials of which they 
may he constructed. Numerously Illustrated. By B. 
Mcnn, Landscape Gardener. New York : C. M. Saxton 
& Co. 1865. Price, 50 cents. 
The subject of Draining is one'of very great 
importance, hut one not so practically under¬ 
stood in this country as it ought to be. Such 
works as the above are needed, and will be 
useful, in giving in a condensed form the sub¬ 
stance of former researches, systematically 
arranged with engraved illustrations. For 
sale at Dewey’s, also at Fisher’s Bookstore. 
The Practical Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Gardener's 
Companion. By Patrick Neill, LL. D., F. R. S. E., etc. 
Adapted to the United States, from the 4th Edition. 
Edited by G. Emerson, M. D. With Notes and Addi¬ 
tions by R. G. Pardee, author of “ Manual of the Straw¬ 
berry Culture.” Elegautly Illustrated. New York : 
C. M. Saxton & Co. 1855. Price $1. 
An encyclopedia of Horticultural operations, 
as complete, probably, as can be furnished in 
the space and at the cost of a volume of 400 
pages. It will supply the necessities of that 
class who have not time, or do not care for more 
extended and minute treatises on all the 
branches of gardening, and so far we commend 
it to our readers. For sale at Dewey’s. 
Tjii -colored Sketches in Paris, during tho years 1851-2-3. 
New York : Harper & Brothers. 1865. 
An illustrated volume, made up of letters 
written from Paris, for publication in a New 
York daily journal, but written at a time and 
describing the events of a stirring period in 
the history of Paris and Europe. It is a valua¬ 
ble book to those who would study the man¬ 
ners, feelings and opinions of the French peo¬ 
ple during the rise and progress of the new 
Empire, and will also afford much entertain¬ 
ment to the pleasure-seeker. For sale by E. 
Darrow & Brother, 65 Main street. 
Corsica: Picturesque, Historical and Social; with a 
Sketch of the Early Life of Napoleon, and an account of 
the Bonaparte, I'aoli, Bozzi di Ilorgo, and other Princi¬ 
pal Families. Suggested by a lour in the Island in 1852. 
Translated the German of Ferdinand Gi egorovius. 
By Edward Joy Morris. Philadelphia: Parry & McMil¬ 
lan. 1855. 
Corsica is but a little island, yet many in¬ 
teresting events have occurred, or had their 
rise within its precincts. The book before us 
is a neat volume of over 500 pages, and seems 
worthy of the high commendations it has re¬ 
ceived from foreign and home reviewers. 
The Wonderful Adventures or Captain Priest, a Tale of 
but few Incidents and no Plot in particular. With Other 
Legends. By the Author of “A Stray Yankee in 
Texas.” New York : Redfiold. 1855. 
An amusing volume, containing sundry 
chapters in the life of a Long Island “ Skip¬ 
per,” and various other things “too numer¬ 
ous to mention.” The readers of the Knicker¬ 
bocker will recognise sundry old favorites origi¬ 
nally enjoyed in that periodical, but just as 
good for a second perusal. For sale at Dewey’s. 
The New York Quarterly, devoted to Science, Philoso¬ 
phy, Literature, and tho Interests of our United Coun¬ 
try. Vol. IV., No. 1. April, 1855. New York : Jas. 
G. Reed, Publisher. 
Among the interesting topics treated upon in 
this number, arc “ New York Governed,” 
“Post Office Improvements,” “Washington 
Irving—his home and his Works,” and “ The 
Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands.” Terms $3 
per annum ; 4 copies $10. 
The Country Neighborhood. By Kiss L. A. Duply, au¬ 
thor of “The Conspirator,” “Celeste,” “Florence; 
Or, the Fatal Vow,” etc., etc. New York : Harper & 
Brothers. 1855. 
This is No. 107 of the “Library of Select 
Novels,” and may be found at Darrow’ s. 
Robert Graham. A Novel. Ry Caroline I.kk Hertz. (a 
S equel to “Linda.”) Phila. ; Parry & McMillan. 
Mrs. Lee IIkntz is a well-known writer of 
tales and novels, and this is her latest pro¬ 
duction. 
The Chrlstian’s Triumph. A Sermon preached at the 
funeral of Albert G. Smith, F-sq., April, 1855. By W. 
G. Howard, D. D., Pas-tor of the 2d Baptist Church, 
Rochester. Wm. N. Sage, publisher. 
Prank : or the Philosophy of Tricks and Mischief. Har¬ 
per’s Story Books, By Jacob Abbott. No. 5. Month¬ 
ly, 25 cents each. [From Darrow & Brother.] 
Fatal Eailroad Accident. —The Democrat 
learns that Nathan L. Hall, of West Bloom¬ 
field, was run over by the cars and instantly 
killed, at Canandaigua on Monday. Two oth¬ 
er persons were injured, it is feared fatally, 
but no further particulars are received. Mr. 
Hall recently established himself at Bloom¬ 
field in the practice of the law, and was a 
young man of much promise. 
Steamboat Casualty. —The steam propellor 
Oregon, from Cleveland for Detroit, burst her 
boiler on the 20th inst., near the latter city, 
killing ten men and wounding five or six 
others, and among them Capt. Stewart, who 
had one of his legs broken. The propellor 
was completely shattered, and sunk shortly 
after the disaster. Tho explosion was caused 
by a defect in the boiler. 
Acta Passed by the Legislature. 
The Legislature at its recent session, passed 
669 bills and acts, only about sixty of which, 
however, are of interest to the public, as the 
majority were private bills, or bills of local 
application. We publish below a selection of 
those of general interest. 
Authorising a loan for the enlargement of the Erie, 
the Oswego and tho Cayuga and Seneca Canals, nnd for 
the completion of the Black River and Genesee Valley 
Canal, and to provide for tho paymont of certain Canal 
Revenue Certificates, and for other purposes. 
To provide for the education of the children of the 
Oneida Indians upon tho Oneida Reservation, situated in 
tho counties of Oneida and Madison. 
Ceding jurisdiction to the United States over lands to 
be occupied as sites for light-houses and keeper’s dwell¬ 
ings within this State. 
For the prevention of Intemperance, Pauperism and 
Crime. 
For the appointment of a Commission for the preser¬ 
vation of the Harbor of New York from encroachments 
and to prevent obstructions to tho necessary navigation 
thereof. 6 
To amend the Revised Statutes relative to tho timo of 
sending in the annual report of Academios subject to the 
visitation of the Regents. 
Repealing the act prohibitory of the circulation of tho 
hills of banks not chartered by the laws of this State un¬ 
der the denomination of five dollars. 
To amend an act entitled ‘An act to provido for the 
incorporation of Insurance Companies,’ passed April 10 
1849. ’ 
To authorize the County Judge of the several counties 
of this State to appoint a Crier of the Court of record to 
be held in and for said county. 
In relation to Oneida River Improvement. 
In relation to debts against plank road and turnpiko 
road companies. 
In relation to the redemption of non-resident lands sold 
for taxes. 
Relative to unclaimed dividends of Insurance Compa¬ 
nies. 
To amend the act entitled ‘An act to enforce tho re¬ 
sponsibility of tho stock holders in certain banking in¬ 
corporations and associations, as proscribed by the Con¬ 
stitution, and to provido for the prompt payment of dam¬ 
ages again.-t such corporations and associations,’ passed 
April 5, 1849. 
An act to extend the provision of the Code of Procodure 
to forfeited recognizances. 
To amend the eighth title of chapter eight of part third 
of the Revised Statutes, entitled ‘ Of proceedings for the 
collection of damages against ships and vessols.’ 
To prevent the sale or removal by Indians or other 
persons of stone, wood, timber or bark from the Onon¬ 
daga Indian Reservation. 
To amend two several acts each entitled ‘An act to re¬ 
vise tho charter of the city of Syracuse,’ passed severally 
Feb. 26th and April 15th, 1854. 
To provide for tho puni-hment of the fraudulent and un¬ 
authorized issue and transfer of the stock and bonds of 
corporations and joint stock companies, 
To doclare tho intention and to make more certain an 
act entitled ‘An act to amend tho general law rolative to 
the incorporation of Insurance Companies,’ passed June 
29, 1853. 
In relation to the Natural History of the State of New 
York. 
To amend an act entitled ‘An act to provide for tho in¬ 
struction of Common School Teachers,’ passed June 17, 
1853. 
To regulate the distribution of the assets of Saving 
Banks, or Institutions for Savings, by Receivers thereof. 
In relation to plank roads and turnpike roads. 
Allowing illegitimate children to inherit roal and per¬ 
sonal estate in certain cases. 
To provide for tho compiling tho laws of this State in 
relation to the assessment and collection of taxos. 
To amend an act entitled ‘An act in relation to tho 
Blank Road and Turnpike Road,’ passed March 28, 1854. 
Appropriating moneys for the completion of buildings 
for the New York Asylum for Idiots and provido for the 
clothing of pupils in the same. 
To amend an act entitled ‘An act to provide for the en¬ 
rollment of the Militia and tho organization of uniform 
corps and the discipline of Military of this State,’ passed 
April 17, 1854. 
In re atiou to the census or enumeration of the inhab¬ 
itants of this State. 
In relation to school moneys. 
To release the right, title and interest of tho State to 
certain lands and projiorty in Columbia and Rensselaer 
counties to the United States of America. 
Making appropriations lor tho support of Government 
for the fiscal year commencing Oct. 1, 1855. 
For the protection of immigrant second class, steerage 
and deck passengers. 
To authorize the recording of chartors of Colleges and 
Academies and alterations and amendments thereto by 
the Regents of tho University, in the olhee of tho Secre¬ 
tary of the Board of Regents. 
To amend an act passed July 1, 1S54, entitled ‘An act 
to amend an act to provide for the incorporation of com¬ 
panies to construct plank roads,' passod May 7,1847, and 
the acts amendatory thereof. 
To facilitate tho forming of Agricultural and Horticul¬ 
tural Societies. 
Relative to the stealing and forging of Railroad tickets. 
To amend tho 153d sectien of tho Code of Procedure. 
To amend an act ontitled ‘An act for tho more effectual 
suppression of gambling,’ passod July 10, 1851. 
Requiring tho Ovorseers of the 1 oor of the several 
towns ef this State to give bonds. 
In relation to Turnpikes and Blank Roads, and to pre¬ 
vent encroachments thoreou. 
In regard to unclaimed Express Freight. 
For tlie duo apportionment of taxes and assessments 
and for the sale of real estate to pay the same. 
To allow the Trustees, Directors or Managers of incor¬ 
porated Asylums to hind out orphans or indigent childron 
surrendered to their care. 
To provido lor the payment of Academies appointed to 
instruct in Common School teaching during 1854. 
l or the prevention of Bauds upon thoCunal Revenues. 
To extend the provisions of an act entitled ‘An act to 
provide lor the letting of certain canal ropairs by con¬ 
tract.’ passed April 15, 1854. 
To amend the act to incorporate the New York Central 
Collego, passed April 1, 1851. 
To amend title two, part third, chapter five of tho Re¬ 
vised Statutes entitled • Brocoodings to compel tho deter¬ 
mination of claims of real property.’ 
Appropriating the revenues of the Literature and U. S. 
Deposit Funds. 
To amend tho several acts in relation to State Prisons. 
In relation to steamboat excursions. 
To enlarge the powers and duties of Commissioners of 
Highways. 
To amond an act entitled ‘An act for tho protection of 
birds in public cemeteries,’ passed July 21, 1853. 
To provide for compensating parties whoso property 
may he destroyed iu consequence of mobs and riots. 
In relation to tho compensation and expenses of the uni¬ 
formed Militia when called iu aid of the civil authorities. 
To establish a Board of Railroad Commissioners, and to 
define their powers and duties. 
Removal. -— Messrs. Darrow & Brother, 
whose Bookstore for the last nine years has 
been located on the corner of Main and St. 
Paul streets, have removed nearly opposite, 
into a commodious and elegant store in Os- 
burn’s new block, No. 65 Main street. Their 
old customers will be pretty sure to find them, 
and new ones cannot resist the many attrac¬ 
tions. 
Canandaigua Lake. —The American says a 
handsome steamer of commodious and suffi¬ 
cient size is nearly completed at Canandaigua. 
It is designed to ply between that village and 
the village of Naples on the beautiful Canan¬ 
daigua Lake, during, during the ooming sea¬ 
son. It is difficult to imagine a more delight¬ 
ful excursion than this conveyance will afford. 
Tue National Medical Association will hold 
their annual meeting at Philadelphia on the 
1st of May. Arrangements have been made 
with the railroads in almost every direction 
to pass the members at half price from the 
24th of April to the 12th of May inclusive. 
Coals to New Castle. —The steamsip Illinois, 
on her last trip, took out $200,000 in gold, to 
pay the United States government officials in 
California. 
Ketog Clippiiigg. 
The safe of the burned steamer E. K. Col¬ 
lins, was brought up a few days sinoe. 
Mr. Green, the “Reformed Gambler,” is 
speaking in Iowa, upon his favorite topics. 
The New York journals state that a lady of 
that city has made $250,000 by keeping school. 
.It is said the advices from the copper re¬ 
gions of North Carolina were never more flat¬ 
tering. 
One of the Protestant schools in France has 
been prohibited by the prefect and departmen¬ 
tal council. 
The City Councils of New Orleans have ap¬ 
propriated $8,000 for the purchase of a steam 
fire engine. 
The island of Mackinac is about ten miles 
in circumference, and is 315 feet high at its 
highest point. 
The colored Baptist church in Richmond, 
Va., numbers some twenty-seven hundred 
communicants. 
There are said to be more women in Boston 
—the tax hook being the text—than in any 
city in the Union. 
Mayor Wood, of New York, has determined 
to prohibit the sale of oysters in that city from 
May until September. 
Cardinal Antonelli, who has for a long 
while been the Pope’s Prime Minister, has re¬ 
tired from the cares of office. 
Tnr. N. Y. Mirror says that the pay of sol¬ 
diers in the U. 8. Army is now double that in 
any other army in the world. 
There are employed on the canals of New 
York State, during the season of navigation, 
about 25,000 boatmen and 6,000 boys. 
A woman was recently fined seventy-eight 
dollars in Milwaukee for throwing “ suds” at 
a neighbor. Live place is Milwaukee. 
Mrs. Tabitha Twiggs, wife of Major Gene¬ 
ral Twiggs, U. S. A., died of diseaso of the 
heart in New Orleans, on the 25th ult. 
The Rev. Jno. Scudder, Missionary of the 
American Board in India, died near Capetown, 
Africa, on the 13th of January, of apoplexy. 
Messrs. Little & Brown announce the first 
and last volumes of the Life and Writings of 
John Adams, by his grandson, Charles Francis 
Adams. 
The Archbishop of Paris performed solemli 
service in Notre Dame, in memory of the un¬ 
fortunate soldiers lost in the ship-of-war Sem- 
illante. 
On the 2d inst., a man plowing near Bristol, 
Pa., turned up with the plow a roll of coun¬ 
terfeit $2 Relief Notes on the Bank of Mid¬ 
dletown, Pa. 
A barrel of oats fell from the third story 
of a warehouse in Norfolk and struck the head 
of a negro underneath. The barrel got the 
worst of it. 
The clay model of Mr. Greenough’s statue 
of Franklin has been completed, and a east 
in plaster taken. Ere long the figure will ap¬ 
pear in bronze. 
A monument to the clergymen and physi¬ 
cians of Savannah, who died there during the 
yellow fever epidemic, last summer, is about 
to be erected. 
A brother of the Mayor of New York baa 
purchased an interest, for $50,000, in the 
management of the Maryland State lotteries. 
More fool he ! 
The Philadelphia City Councils have before 
them a project for the construction of a tubu¬ 
lar arch viaduct of malleable iron across the 
Schuylkill river. 
It is said the Messrs. Dupont the great pow¬ 
der manufacturers in Delaware, have received 
an order for a large quantity for the French 
army in the Crimea. 
A steam fire engine has been invented by 
a mechanic at Pittsburg, which, it is said, will 
throw more water, and is less cumbrous than 
the Cincinnati invention. 
It has been proposed to have a memorable 
convocation in Boston, in August next, of the 
Sons of New England, from the various States 
in which they are settled. 
An autograph letter of George Washington 
was sold at auction in London for £5. The 
sale of the Bernal collection of curiosities con¬ 
tinued at enormous prices. 
There were, at the time of the Presidential 
election of 1852, about 5,222,314 persons en¬ 
titled to vote, of whom only 3,126,378 availed 
themselves of the privilege. 
After the present session the Canadian 
Government goes to Toronto for the next four 
years, according to the compact entered into 
in 1849 and reiterated in 1851. 
It is calculated that 200,000 men have per¬ 
ished in the present war with Europe. This 
is a very pleasant game for monarchs, but a 
very sorry one for the people. 
Chief Justice Gilchrist, of New Hampshire, 
resigned his seat on the 16th of last month, 
and is now in Washington, to sit upon the 
bench of the Court of Claims. 
The farmers along the line of the Steuben¬ 
ville railroad, Ohio, tore up the rails near 
Dresden, a few days since, because the Com¬ 
pany would not settle their bills. 
The Illinois and Wisconsin, and the Rock 
River Valley Railroads have been consolidated 
and the name changed to “ Chicago, St. An¬ 
thony and Fond du Lac Railroad.” 
Christopher MuRrnY went to Galena the 
other day, got drunk, and fell into a well.— 
He remained there twenty-four hours before 
he was discovered and taken out. 
The London Watchman, announcing tho 
sudden death of Rev. Dr. Beaumont, describes 
him as one of the most eloquent and brilliant 
of the English Wesleyan preachers. 
Rf.v. Dr. Wiley, of Utica, has been invited 
to the Presidency of Milwaukee University.— 
Dr. Wiley is a man of extensive scholastic at¬ 
tainments and a brilliant pulpit orator. 
The ship building statistics of the various 
yards in New York city, show at present an 
aggregate of only 11,180 tons on the stocks, 
spread over fourteen vessels of all classes. 
The Apprentices Library in Philadelphia has 
now 15,700 volumes—11,000 in the boys and 
4,700 in the girl’s library. During the past 
year it was used by 1,750 boys and 1,791 gills. 
