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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
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ROCHESTER, MAY 5, 1855. 
Governor Reeder of Kansas. 
The Governor of Kansas was at Easton, Pa., 
on Monday. He was met and escorted to the 
Court house by a large concourse of friends, 
and a speech was made by Hon. J. M. Porter 
complimentary to the Governor’s courage and 
honorable conduct during the period of bis 
administration thus far in Kanasas. 
Gov. Reeder, in reply, expressed in a feel¬ 
ing manner and in eloquent terms the grate¬ 
ful impression made upon him by the warm 
and enthusiastic reception given to him 
by so large an assembly of his fellow citizens. 
He referred, among other things, to the re¬ 
ports of fraud and outrage upon the part of 
slavery men in the Kansas election, and em¬ 
phatically confirmed the very worst statement 
of them which had preceded his arrival. He 
said his opinions on the subject of popular 
sovereignty bad undergone no change, but 
that the conduct of the people of the border 
counties of North Missouri had astounded and 
amazed him by their reckless disregard of all 
laws, compacts and constitutions; that the 
Territory of Kansas in her late election had 
been invaded by a regular organized army, 
armed to the teeth, who took possession of 
the ballot boxes, and made a Legislature to 
suit the purposes of the pro-slavery party.— 
Kansas was subdued, subjugated and conquer¬ 
ed by armed men from Missouri, but her citi¬ 
zens were resolved never to give up the fight 
for freedom and the independence of their soil 
to foreign control and interference. 
Railroad Meeting at Coming. 
We learn from the Buffalo Commercial , that 
the stock and bondholders of the Buffalo, 
Corning & New York Railroad held a meeting 
at Corning on the 26th ult., the object of which 
was to raise $400,000 to fund the floating debt 
and finish the Road from Batavia to Buffalo. 
Speeches were made by several influential 
gentlemen, urging upon the stockholders the 
necessity of raising the funds, in order to pro 
tect their property, already invested, from 
sacrifice ; but after the most strenuous exer 
tions, only about $60,000 was subscribed, and 
that contingent on raising the whole sum. 
A Committee was appointed to visit each 
town on the route, and solicit subscriptions to 
the fund, and it was declared if unsuccessful 
the Road would be sold on the mortgage for 
the benefit of creditors. In its present incom¬ 
plete state, the Road of course cannot pay, and 
the only hope is to push it through. The 
prospect is, however, under present embarass- 
ments, that unless those interested come to 
the rescue, the Corning Road will go the way 
of the Canandaigua & Niagara Falls, and the 
Buffalo &N. Y. City, to the tune of “Jordan 
is a hard road to travel.” 
On© of the Aristocrats. 
A great deal of talk and excitement has 
been produced in England by the absconding 
of the Hon. (?) Frarcis J. R. Villiers, fourth 
son of the Earl of Jersey, and member of Par¬ 
liament for Rochester, who has been engaged 
in pecuniary operations that leave him in debt 
over £100,000. What the nature of these op¬ 
erations are is not stated, but gambling and 
horse-racing, to an extraordinary extent, are 
understood to be among his lordship’s amiable 
accomplishments. 
“On learning the circumstances Mr. Vil- 
liers’ Tory supporters,” says the South East 
ern Gazette, “ had a meeting, at which a depu¬ 
tation was appointed to wait on the honorable 
gentleman and call upon him to resign his 
seat. Everything had been arranged for the 
departure of the deputation to London, when 
it occurred to one of them, more sagacious 
than the rest, that the difficuRy was where to 
find him ; at this remark, taking every one by 
surprise, the deputation broke up in disgust.” 
A Costly Trifle.— The Empress of the 
French has made a present to the Empress of 
Austria of a lace dress, which will be seen at 
the Exhibition of Paris, and the pattern of 
which was designed by the Empress Eugenie 
herself. The value of this dress is estimated 
at 200,00Gf. If these royal personages were 
engaged scraping lint for the poor soldiers 
wounded and dying in the Crimea, it would 
he much more creditable than designing pat¬ 
terns for gossamer drapery for eacli other. 
Making shirts at a York shilling each, as some 
of our poor seamstresses have been compelled 
to do during the past winter, would spoil their 
taste for such costly trifling. 
Liquor L,vw.—Nicholas Hill, a distinguish¬ 
ed lawyer of this State, and former reporter for 
the Supreme Court, has given an elaborate 
opinion that the prohibitory law is unconsti¬ 
tutional ; and much satisfaction is expressed 
by the dealers and others on that account. 
This extrajudicial opinion of Mr. Hill is of 
about as much value as a row of pins, and no 
more. He is probably feed to write out the 
most cogent argument he can frame against 
the law, and has done so just as he would 
argue any side of a cause before the Court of 
Appeals, for pay. Daniel Webster and Judge 
Bronson gave opinions, under similar circum¬ 
stances, in favor of the Canal Loan Law four 
or five years since, and yet the Court of Ap¬ 
peals pronounced that law unconstitutional. 
This practice of obtaining and publishing 
legal opinions on law questions, in advance of 
judgment by the tribunals, for the sole pur¬ 
pose of inclining public sentiment in a desired 
direction, is in the highest degree reprehensi¬ 
ble, and deserves severe censure. 
Distressing Railroad Accident.—A s the six 
o’clock accommodation train from this city 
over the old road East was running into Syra¬ 
cuse, about 10 o’clock Sunday night, it ran 
over a horse, throwing the last car off the 
track and down an embankment about twenty 
feet, smashing it to pieces. The car contained 
eight persons, only one of which escaped in¬ 
jury. M. O. Wilder, a lawyer of Canandai¬ 
gua, was instantly killed ; R. H. Ingersoll, of 
New York, was seriously injured, and Clinton 
Brainard, of Neve York, Wm. Hall and Z. 
Furman, of Skencatelas, Chas. Isenring and 
Jos. Lkib, of Syracuse, and Mr. Backer, of 
this city, a brakeman, were badly hurt. 
Bridge Burned.— The large bridge, atTaines- 
ville, Ohio, on the line of the Cleveland, 
Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad, was destroy¬ 
ed by fire on the night of the 26th ult. The 
night watchman had crossed it just previous 
to the discovery of the fire, but the spread of 
the flames was so rapid as to preclude all 
chances of saving the structure. The bridge 
was the largest on tho line, being 700 feet 
long and 80 feet high, built on the principle 
of Howe’s truss ; and its destruction at this 
time is a serious loss to the company, and a 
great inconvenience to the public. 
Old State House Going. —The old State 
House at Albany is about be demolished, to 
make room for a new and elegant structure. 
The building has been occupied for several 
years as a depository of the State Geological 
Cabinet, but is really unfit for such a purpose. 
The new structure will be four stories high, 
and properly arranged. 
Eire in Boston, —A destructive fire occurred 
in Boston last week Friday, destroying prop¬ 
erty to the amount of $600,000. It originated 
at the'north end of the city, on Battery Wharf, 
destroying the buildings on that and the ad¬ 
joining wharves, including those of the East 
Boston Ferry Company. Two thousand bales 
of cotton, and a large quantity of beef, pork, 
resin, and other merchandise, and ship stores, 
were consumed. An area of two or three acres 
was burned over, but most of the buildings 
w r cre of no great value. 
Mornings with Jesus : A series of Devotional Readings 
for the Closet and the Family. Carefully prepared 
from Notes of Sermons preached by the late Rev. Wm. 
Jay, of Bath. Philadelphia : Parry & McMillan, (Suc¬ 
cessors to A. Hart, late Carey & Hart.) 
This is a handsome 12 mo. volume of 480 
pages, with a text, and meditations and reflec¬ 
tions thereon, for every day in the year. It 
is a new compilation from Notes and Sketches 
of Sermons, by that “Prince of Preachers,” 
Wm. Jay, and is full of bis remarkable char¬ 
acteristics—bis ‘ ‘ originality and naturalness 
of manner, perspicuity and impressiveness of 
style, evangelical and experimental savour, 
practical and devotional tendency, fullness 
and felicity of scriptural illustration, and cath 
olicity of spirit,” so strikingly displayed in all 
his discourses, and peculiarly adapted to pro 
mote the study of God’s word. Those who 
read religious books for instruction and im 
provement, will find this a treasury which will 
never disappoint them, and which they will 
not soon exhaust.” 
Letters to Postmasters. 
An Introduction to Practical Astronomy, with a Collec 
tion of Astronomical Tables. By Silas Loomis, LL. D., 
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 
the University of the city of New York, author of “ A 
Course of Mathematics ,’> etc. New York : Harper & 
The instruments for the outfit of an Obser¬ 
vatory, the methods of employing them, and 
the computations growing out of their use, are 
described in this volume. It is a work de¬ 
signed for the use of amateur observers, prac¬ 
tical Surveyors and Engineers, and all who 
would gain a knowledge of Astronomy as ap¬ 
plied to determining time and place. Sold by 
E. Darrow & Brother, 65 Main street. 
Foster’s First Principles or Chemistry. Illustrated by a 
series of tho most recently discovered and brilliantex 
periments known to the .Scienco. Adapted specially for 
Classes. New York : Harper & Brothers. Price GOcts. 
A little work of much value to the chemical 
student, and aiding the teacher very material¬ 
ly in making the subject interesting by exper¬ 
iments. It is very neatly printed, bound and 
illustrated. Sold by E. Harrow & Brother. 
The Literary Lira and Corrustonlenck of Lady Blessing- 
ton. By R. R. Madden, Esq. In two volumes. New 
York : Harper & Brothers. 
These volumes throw new light not only on 
the character of LadyB., hut upon those of 
most of the Literary notabilities of the last 30 
years, and will thus interest a large class of 
readers. The free use made of the private 
correspondence of people still or so recently 
living, however, can scarcely be defended.— 
Lady Blessington appears to have been a person 
of generous, winning disposition, and tho vic¬ 
tim of,'rather than a willing partaker in, the 
social sins of the age. Sold by E. Harrow & 
Brother. 
The New Pastoral. By Thomas Buchanan Read. ITiila- 
delphia : Parry & McMillan. 
A poem in blank verse, touching with vary¬ 
ing power of description, all the aspects of 
American rural life. In our judgment it is 
creditably written, but as a Pastoral, does not 
come up to the standard of excellence. Buy 
ant, Lowell and Street have given detached 
pictures, superior to any we find here, altho’ 
Mr. Bead has been pronounced the greatest 
American poet,by one of the British Quarterlies. 
It is a pleasing poem nevertheless, and will 
find many readers. 
Calamities in School. —The ceiling and joists 
of a school house in Brownsville, Licking Co., 
Ky., fell last week while the school was in 
session, breaking a number of desks and seats, 
but not seriously injuring a single child. 
A sadder calamity happened at Arcadia, 
Madison Co., Mo., on the 17 th ult. During a 
severe storm the High School was struck by 
lightning, and four boys, pupils, who were in 
the building, burned to death. 
Large Donation. —According to the N. Y. 
Courier Enquirer, a collection was taken up 
recently at the Church of the Holy Commu¬ 
nion, to raise funds in aid of St. Luke’s Hos¬ 
pital. On examining the contents of the box, 
a small roll was found consisting of five one 
thousand dollar bills. The donation was 
dropped in so unostentatiously that it is im¬ 
possible to tell who was the donor. 
The Canal. —The Superintendent let the 
water iji through the Genesee river feeder on 
Monday, and the canal has been slowly filling 
since that time. It is not probable much 
movement of boats will take place during the 
week, although in this city they have been 
hauled out of dock and are getting ready for 
a start. Until lake navigation opens, Western 
freights of course cannot come down. 
Tiik Practical American Cook Book ; or, Practical and 
Scientific Cookery. By A Housekeeper. New York 
D. Appleton & Co. : 
“At the bottom of good housewifery is the 
all-important art of good cooking—a matter of 
joint science and experiment.” We have here 
a book furnishing a good supply of recipes 
known to he valuable, and giving the scientific 
information necessary for the understanding 
and use of the same. Many young house¬ 
keepers will gladly avail themselves of the aid 
furnished by this neat little volume. Bold at 
Dewey’s, Arcade Hall, 
Tub Relations ok Chemistry to Agriculture, and tho Ag¬ 
ricultural Experiments of Mr. J. B. Lawes. By Justus 
V. Lii big. Translated by S. W. Johnson, at tho author’s 
request. Albany : Luther Tucker. 1855. Price 25ets. 
This pamphlet is an interesting and valuable 
contribution to Agricultural Chemistry, and 
throws new light on some disputed points.— 
Liebig claims that Mr. Lawes’ experiments 
disprove the theory which he would establish, 
going rather to show the correctness of that 
advocated by Liebig. One must read the book, 
however, to get much of an idea of its aim and 
contents. 
Tiik Standard Fourth Reaper, for Public and Private 
Schools ; containing a thorough course of preliminary 
oxorcises in Articulation, Pronunciation, Accent. Ac. 
Numerous exercises in Reading, a new System of Ref¬ 
erences, and a copious Explanatory Index. By Eras 
Sargent, author of tho “ Standard Speakor,” etc., etc. 
Third thousand. Boston : Phillips, Sampson & Co. 
A neat and valuable School Keader, the rules 
concise and practical, and the selections choice 
and appropriate. Sold by D. M. Dewey. 
IIarper’3, the National, Putnam’s, Graham’s 
and Blackwood,'s Magazines ; Godey’s Lady’s Book, 
the Ladies Repository and Dickens’ Household 
Words, for the current month, have come to 
hand, by mail or through Dewey, Darrow, or 
McMahon. We see no falling off in either of 
these standard and popular monthlies. 
The following decision by the P. O. Depart¬ 
ment, relative to the transmission of unpaid 
letters directed to Post Mafcters, will be inter¬ 
esting to many of our readers. It will be 
seen that the privileges of Post Masters are 
not abridged by the recent Act, and that all 
letters directed to Post Masters, though un¬ 
paid, should be forwarded, unless the person 
addressed is known (by the P. M. where the 
leiter is mailed) not to be entitled to the frank¬ 
ing privilege : 
Post Office Department, I 
April 14, 1855. j 
Sir: —Yours of the 12th instant is received, 
and the Post Master at Newark has been writ¬ 
ten to, on the subject of letters to your ad¬ 
dress. 
With regard to letters and manuscript com¬ 
munications addreesed to Post Masters, but 
not on “ Post Office business,” as the late 
Postage Act has made no alteration in the per¬ 
sonal privilege of Post Masters to frank or to 
receive free letters, not exceeding the weight 
of half an ounce, written by or to themselves 
on their private business, and as every Post 
Master is, by his official oath, to charge him¬ 
self, in his accounts with the Department, 
with the postage on all letters sent or received 
by him not privileged as free, you will trans¬ 
mit as free all such letters addressed to a Post 
Master, unless you know him not to be enti¬ 
tled to the franking privilege. 
There is now no unpaid rate of postage on 
letters within the United States. 
Kespectfully, &c., 
Horatio King, 
First Ass’t P. M. General. 
prospects of the Crops. 
The recent rains and mild weather is devel¬ 
oping the wheat and grass very finely. In 
other parts of the country the prospect is also 
favorable. The Cincinnati Gazette says of the 
weather and the farms thereabout: “It is old 
fashioned April weather, and gives hope of a 
merry summer and bountiful harvest. From 
our farmers we learn that they have made 
good use of the time, and have been diligent¬ 
ly bringing up their spring work. They rep¬ 
resent that although the season is very late, 
peaches are just beginning to blossom, yet it 
is highly favorable for fruits aud vegetables, 
and wheat never looked better.” 
- The effect of the recent rains and the present 
warm weather has been, as we learn, most 
beneficial to the growing crops. There is eve¬ 
ry indication of an unusually full harvest of 
wheat, oats, barley, &c. For the latter crops, 
the farmers are busily preparing their lands, 
wisely availing themselves of the delightful 
weather that now prevails through the coun¬ 
try. Should, however, the heat, from which 
w'e towns-people are suffering, continue any 
great while uninterrupted by rain, the most 
serious consequences would ensue.— Louisville 
Courier. 
In this vicinity, and generally throughout 
the Reserve, the promise is fine for grain.— 
Late rains have made the ground very wet, 
and may retard the sowing of summer crops, 
but there is yet time for the dropping of the 
seed. Wheat never promised better. Of fruits 
the prospect is said to be quite fair. Teaches 
are not all killed, and apples and cherries are 
in apparent plenty. —Sandusky Reg. 
Wo believe there has not for many years 
been a spring when the wheat throughout the 
country gave such promises of an abundant 
harvest as it does now. From all parts of our 
own State we have the same intelligence.— 
The fields of Iowa and Missouri are also very 
promising, and we receive none but the most 
favorable accounts from Wisconsin, Michigan, 
Indiana, Ohio, and the wheat growing por¬ 
tions of New York and Canada. —Chicago Bern. 
The promise of an abundant wheat harvest 
almost throughout the entire West, was never 
more flattering than now. If Nature keeps 
her promise a while longer, there will be a 
grand harvest song by and by. —Chicago Jour. 
All of our accounts from the country agree 
in representing the condition of the growing 
wheat as first rate, and giving promise of an 
abundant crop, and the farmers are putting 
into spring wheat a great breadth of land.— 
Milwaukee Sentinel. 
The Michigan papers are unanimous in their 
report that the prospect in the Peninsular 
State was nevermore favorable for an abun¬ 
dant harvest. 
O. A. Brownson on the Destiny of the U. S. 
Barnum Outgeneraled. —At a recent circuit 
of the New York Supreme Court, the jury 
rendered a verdict of $15,234.55 against the 
prince of humbug, and in favor of Orson D. 
Munn. Munn, it seems, was about to procure 
an injunction against the Crystal Palace asso¬ 
ciation at the time Barnum became President, 
and the latter agreed to purchase Munn’s 
stock (223 shares) at or about $70 per share, if 
he would 6tay the proceedings, which was 
done ; Barnum failed to purchase, and hence 
the suit. 
Mr. Brownson lectured at New Orleans on 
the 14th ult., on the above-named subject. 
The Creole, published in that city, giving an 
abstract of the lecture, says he took the follow¬ 
ing among other positions: 
He affirms the majority has no right to rule. 
Who, then, is to be the arbiter in political 
matters ? What agency is to direct the action 
of the State and stay the movement of the in¬ 
dividual? Religion. What religion? The 
Catholic religion—the church. 
For, said the speaker, Protestantism cannot 
do it. It is the creature of the State or of the 
individual. If it be a religion of the State, it 
is its assistant, performs its commands, allies 
itself with power to oppress and crush the in¬ 
dividual. If it be not recognised by the State, 
it is the creature of public opinion, and chang¬ 
es with the popular breath. It is the creature 
of man, and is changed whenever it suits his 
convenience. In most parishes it is the ex¬ 
pression of a few wealthy men and old spins¬ 
ters, who grind out of their minister, as from 
a hand-organ, tunes to suit their tastes. 
If he refuse, he is bid to go, and another is 
called ; but there is rarely independence of 
this kind, for all have families, and would 
stand all day idle in the market places, with 
no one to employ them. He had been a Pro¬ 
testant minister, and spoke from personal ex¬ 
perience. Protestantism cannot speak with 
the voice of authority. It comes from below 
up, instead of descending from above. The 
Catholic religion, universally adopted and be¬ 
lieved, is, then, necessary to the accomplish¬ 
ment of the “ Mission of the United States.” 
It must become the arbiter between the State 
and the subject. It must guard the man by 
interposing its flaming sword as a defence. It 
must construe constitutions and expound laws, 
deciding where is the limit of centralized pow¬ 
er, and what is its absolute duty to perform. 
No stronger ground in favor of the Pope’s 
interference in the affairs of government, could 
possibly be taken. 
Clippings. 
Potatoes are worth $1,25 per bushel in San¬ 
dusky. 
Anthony Burns lectured on Tuesday evening 
week in Lowell. 
The London Daily Times costs in this coun¬ 
try only $45 per year ! 
I'lour and wheat are higher in Fort Wayne, 
Ind., than at Toledo, Ohio. 
A new work on slavery, by the Hon. II. A. 
Murray, R. N., is announced in London. 
Senators Mason and Hunter, of Virginia, 
have both taken the stump for Henry A. Wiso. 
Ex-Governor Seymour, of New York, has 
gone to Iowa, and will he absent one or two 
months. 
It is thought that the business of the Wa¬ 
bash and Erie canal will be larger this year 
than any previous year. 
The Supreme Court of Vermont have, for 
the third time, declared the prohibitory law of 
that State constitutional. 
People of Wethersfield, do you bear this 
announcement? “Onions are selling at two 
cents a piece in Philadelphia.” 
A sturgeon was caught in the Hudson liver, 
off Teller’s Point, on Monday night, weighing 
three hundred and fifty pounds. 
Wendell Phillips has been invited to ad¬ 
dress the literary societies of ten different col¬ 
leges within the past few months. 
riiE United States Trust Company, receiver 
of the Knickerbocker Savings Institution, has 
declared a dividend of 33£ per cent. 
A lady in Baltimore staked a dollar against 
an infant child belonging to another lady, at 
a game of cards, and won the child. 
Mrs. Webb, a mulatto woman, is about to 
appear in public in Philadelphia, giving read¬ 
ings from Shakspeare and other poets. 
G P.ASsfioi’PF.its are eating up the crops in some 
parts, of 'lexas,. and flocks of plover on the 
prairies are eating up the grasshoppers. 
The Baltimore American says the cost of 
living in that city is fully one hundred per 
cent higher than it was ten years ago. 
Quite a number of the heaviest liquor deal¬ 
ers in Few Tork are selling out and closing 
business, in view of the prohibitory law. ° 
t The. mint in San Francisco has commenced 
the coinage of silver. The arrangements were 
only complete for the coinage of half dollars. 
W. A. Cornwall, Secretary of the Califor¬ 
nia Senate, has been expelled from office for 
using insulting language tp one of the mem¬ 
bers. 
It is estimated that the travel on railroads 
the present season is fully fifty per cent greater 
than during the corresponding period of last 
year. 
. The Washington. Star has received informa¬ 
tion that Louis Napoleon has been investing 
large sums in California, in the names of other 
parties. 
The Evansville (Ind.) Enquirer states that 
the Canal Trustees have reduced the tolls on 
freights by the Wabash and Erie Canal forty 
per cent. 
The Richmond Whig says the shad and her¬ 
ring fisheries of the Potomac are proving 
much more profitable this year than was an¬ 
ticipated. 
Aeout sixty cases of Assyrian antiquities, 
from the excavations of Mr. Layard, Mr. Ras- 
sam and Mr. Loftus, have arrived at the Brit¬ 
ish Museum. 
The Marchioness of Ely has been selected 
by the Queen to be Lady-in-Waiting to tho 
Empress of the French during her Majesty’s 
stay in England. 
A family named Lawrence, living at Water- 
town, Mass., have been declared by the Eng¬ 
lish Court of Chancery to be the heirs to a 
fortune of $125,000. 
Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry to her Majes¬ 
ty, has been selected by the Queen to be Lord- 
in-Waiting to the Emperor of the French du¬ 
ring his visit in England. 
Mr. William IIowitt is about to publish a 
narrative of his experience in Victoria, Sydney 
and Van Dieman’s Land, under the title of 
“ Land, Labor and Gold.” 
Several milliners in New York have made 
fortunes by their business. One of these re¬ 
sides in a superb house, and has sent her 
daughters to Paris to be educated. 
In Adair county, Ivy., on the 27th of March, 
the venerable John Pendleton, aged 82 years, 
was married to the amiable Mrs. Mary Adams, 
aged 72 years, who is entirely blind. 
A boy four years old, son of Mr. Molton, 
died in Portland four weeks after getting £fn 
acorn into his windpipe. It passed into tho 
left lung, and caused inflammation. 
In the Pennsylvania Legislature recently, 
the Senate received from the State Treasurer 
a list of the defaulters to the State, the amount 
of their defalcations being $500,000. 
A negro and a ram are advertised in Callao, 
Peru, for a hutting match. The negro had but¬ 
ted in tlie head of a porter cask, upon which 
a heavy hammer made no impression. 
Up to Thursday, the 12tli ult., there had 
been received at the Pension office 65,000 ap¬ 
plications in all, for land under the bounty 
land law of the last session of Congress. 
Twelve hundred and fifty-four brick build¬ 
ings were erected in St. Louis during the year. 
Some of them cost from $30,000 to $100,000. 
The total cost is estimated at $3,811,000. 
The New York city railroads report a rapid 
falling off in receipts—the Sixth Avenue road 
a decrease of $5,000 per month. Reason— 
rigid economy on the part of the people. 
A young soldier from Glasgow has sent 
home from the Crimea a pistol bullet imbed¬ 
ded in a teetotal medal. He carried it in bis 
waistcoat pocket, and it arrested the bullet. 
It is suggested that the U. S. Government 
should issue stamps for twenty-four cents each, 
to enable persons corresponding with Europe 
to pre-pay their postage without any delay. 
Twenty-eight hundred and seventy-six dol¬ 
lars worth of butter, the product of Canada 
and Nova Scotia, were entered at the custom 
house, N. Y., per bark Halifax on List week. 
A boy has been put in prison at Elmira for 
the unnatural crime of whipping and abusing 
his mother ! “The vultures shall pick out 
his eyes and the young eagles shall eat them.” 
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