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MOORE’S RU11AL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
BS PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY, 
BY 11, D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Office in Burns' Block, cor. Buffalo and State Sts 
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Monroe County, where it goes free,)—and cents to 
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fifteen cents per line — in advance. The circulation 
of the Rural Nkw-Yorickr is several thousand greater 
than that of any otbor Agricultural or similar journal in 
either America er Europe. Patent medicines, etc. will 
not be advertised in this paper on any terms. 
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be addressed to D. D. T. Moore, Rochester N. Y. 
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Town,) County and State. Write all names plainly. 
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4®~A Liberal Offer.—W e will send the Rural one year, 
and a yearly copy of either of the $3 Magazines, for $4;— 
and the Rural and either of the $2 Magazines’ for $3.’— 
On Saturday morning last Mr. Benson, fore¬ 
man of the Democrat press-room, had occasion 
to go upon the roof of the building to adjust 
the escape pipe of the steam engine, and 
while there observed 6moke ascending be¬ 
tween the partition walls of this and the ad¬ 
joining block. Search was immediately insti¬ 
tuted, and it was at length discovered that 
the fire was eating its way along between the 
plaster and flooring immediately over our 
office, and under the room in which the en¬ 
gine that drives the presses of the Democrat, 
Rural, and Evangelist is situated. For a few 
minutes considerable excitement prevailed, 
but prompt measures being taken to extinguish 
the fire, no great damage was done. Mr. 
Kennedy, the foreman of our office, who is 
an experienced fireman, took the matter in 
hand, heat in the lathing over head with an 
axe, and with a few buckets of water soon put 
an end to all lears of a conflagration. The 
fire originated from heat generated in the fire 
box under the boiler, and effectual measures 
My Brother’s Keeter. By A. B. Warner, author 
“Dollars and Cents,” “Mr. Rutherford’s Children 
&c. New York : D. Appleton & Co. 1856. 
A handsome volume, and, to our taste, 
capital story. An orphan, a high-minded, af¬ 
fectionate sister, wins her brother from the 
alluring paths of dissipation by her consistent 
piety and her earnest, unselfish care for his 
happiness. The characters are well sustained 
the end is “all right,’’ and the lesson a much 
needed one everywhere. Sold by D. M. Dewey 
The Tkaoikr’b Last Lesson ; a Memoir of Martha Whiting 
late of Charlestown Female Seminary. Consisting 
chiefly of Extracts from her Journal, interspersed with 
Remeniscences and Suggestive Reflections. By Cath¬ 
erine N. Badger, an Associate Teacher. Boston: Gould 
& Lincoln. 1865. 
This is a religious Memoir of an excellent 
and influential Teacher, one who was the in 
strument of much good within the sphere of 
her influence. It was prepared mainly for the 
benefit of her former pupils, giving them her 
“ last lesson,’’—that of a life, devoted to the 
were immediately taken to obviate all danger I service of her Divine Master. Sold by Wm 
in future. If the fire had been delayed twen- I U. ^age. 
ty four hours, so as to have occurred on Sun- 
day, when all hands were absent, instead of 
Saturday, the most calamitous consequences 
would have resulted, as, in addition to the 
three newspaper offices mentioned above, there 
aie other valuable offices and stores in the 
building. 
Bam urn's Baby Show. 
A Journey Through the Chinese Kaipirk. By M. Hue, au¬ 
thor of “Recollections of a Journey through Tartary 
and Thibet.” In two Volumes. New York : Harper 
& Brothers. 1855. 
The author of these volumes has enjoyed 
superior advantages for becoming acquainted 
with the internal affairs of the “Celestial Em 
pire.’’ His route lay from Thibet to Canton, 
and the journey was taken under the protec¬ 
tion of the Emperor, and his previous resi 
dence in that country for 14 years, further 
qualified him for the task. For sale by E, 
Darrow & Bro., 65 Main st. 
Rural Rambles and Records. 
ROCHESTER, MAY 19, 1855. 
Murder Trial and Conviction. 
The Court of Oyer and Terminer, Judge 
Welles presiding, which was in session last 
Mrs. E. Oakes Smith publishes a card in 
the New York Tribune, handling the great 
showman without gloves for an unauthorized 
publication of her name as one of the com¬ 
mittee on the award of prizes at the baby 
show which is to come off next month.— [From Our Own Correspondent.] 
Among other excellent things contained in Washington Co., n. y., May, 1865 
it protest, is the following : Two wee k s g j nce j ] e f t R, oc ] ieg t er j n an eag t- 
Ihe harmonious woman, to whom has ward bound train, and at Syracuse took stage 
rr r-* thh " 
self as one made holy thereby, and she will southeast A P lank road somewhat lessened 
profane neither herself nor child by any un- tbe cban £ e from swift cars to slow, jolting 
seemly or ostentatious display of either. If coaches, and after most of our twenty passengers 
left at Manlius, we went on comfortably, pass¬ 
ing through a fine country. The road from 
her culture he of high order, she will shrink 
from it as from deadly sin. If she have a 
• i. . shred of womanly pride in the fabric of her 
week m this city, was occupied in the trial of being, she will resent the implied insult offer- 
Martin Eastwood for the murder of Edward ed ber when invited to figure personally in a 
Brereton, on the 18th of January last, under human ‘ 11 ve cattle-show.’ ’’ 
the following circumstances. Two Breretons, Barnum gets blows from many a flail in 
cousins, were driving cattle into the city over these la tter days, and the publication of his verdure of spring, a clear stream winding its 
the Charlotte plank road, and when within a m emoirs has not tended very greatly to the 9 uiet way through their midst, and the forest- 
couple of miles from here, were overtaken by establishment of an honorable reputation. crowned hills swelling up on either side. 
° " De Huy ter is a plesant village of some five 
Oran to Delphi is especially pleasant, passing 
south-ward eight miles, through a rich valley, 
finely cultivated, with good farm houses along 
the road-side, the fields just showing the blight 
the prisoner and a companion named La Bock, 
both of whom were partially intoxicated and 
making riotous demonstrations along the 
road. A quarrel and fight ensued, in conse 
quence of insults offered by the rowdies to the 
Sad Casualty.— Last week Tuesday a sad hundred people, the centre of a rich dairying 
calamity, resulting in the death of five men, town - The valley in which it lies is surround 
occurred at the Brighton powder mills, five ed by hills, risiD S boldly up to a height almost 
, . - _ miles east of this city. Three buildings,'con- m °untainous, but often cultivated or cleared 
rovers, who it appears from the evidence, taming four or five hundred kegs of powder for P ast ure grounds to the very summit, so 
endeavored to avonl a quarrel and proceed were exploded, and all the workmen, except that field aud alternate, pleasantly to 
p C y T W1 their cattle. In the fight La one who had withdrawn a few moments before thee ye>profitablytotheownerofthesoil.— 
®? vercl >' liandled l, y tlie drovers, the casualty, were instantly killed. The The whirl and turmoil, the mighty rush of the 
and alter a time with his companion, followed buildings were so completely demolished, that great streams of ^vel aad business leave De 
n in pursui , ° ° em uttering threats scarcely a vestige of them remain. The bodies ^yter at a distance in comparative quiet, but 
vengeance. Y hen nearly opposite Buel of the victims were entirely denuded and U has life and stir cn °ugh to he cheerful, and 
Avenue, winch leads to the upper landing on some of them thrown over the tops of trees an Aoad emy under charge of the Seventh-Day 
e river they came up with the drovers, and into adjoining fields. No definite cause can Rl P tists ’ offers 8' ood educational advantages to 
arming themselves with clubs from a wood- be assigned for the casualty, as no one in Z " 
pile beside the street attacked them, knock- buildings at the time survives to tell the tale 
mg both down, and boating one of them so It is understood that new and unskillful wmt 
men were employed around the mill, and this 
may have been the reason ; at least that is 
the conclusion of the Coroner’s Jury. The 
explosion shook every building in the city, 
and occasioned some consternation. 
severely that he died a day or two afterwards. 
Both of/them struck the deceased, but the 
blow of Eastwood fractured the skull, and 
was the immediate cause of death. 
The prisoner, after a trial which lasted four 
days, was found guilty of murder, and sen- 
scnced, by Judge Welles, to be hung on the 
29th day of June next. He made a short 
speech_in extenuation of his guilt, and called 
on God to witness that he had no intention of 
blow. 
and the prisoner removed from the Court, a 
paper was handed in by the jury unanimously 
recommending the prisoner to the mercy of the 
Executive, so far as to commute his sentence 
to imprisonment for life, or such other term as 
would be deemed a fitting punishment. 
La Bock;, the other prisoner, was then, by 
consent of the Court and Counsel, arraigned, 
plead guilty to manslaughter in the first de¬ 
gree, and was sentenced to hard labor in State 
Prison for the term of eight years. 
its people. Many of the early settlers were 
Friends, and the genial hospitality which is 
their great social virtue, yet makes the homes 
of their children pleasant. 
Cheese and butter are the great sources of 
material wealth in that region, and for the 
past few years darying has been peculiarly 
profitable. Three years ago, one agent of New 
York dealers paid over $2,500 a week for but¬ 
ter, for the California market, and cheese is 
made more than butter. 
1 visited a factory where cheese boxes are 
and 6old 
icinity. The circular 
Singular and Fatal Accident.— On the 1st 
instant, Gustin Liner, who was blasting rocks 
in a field of V. P. Brown, in Wheatland, in 
l-W After the ecntarce had been plied ?"* “ nd »P «*. 5® the e ” “ the ™imt y . Th, 
P > giound. He was cautioned in regard to the b3p aild bottom, and the single hoop which 
danger of such a proceeding, hut made answer ^ orms tbe sides are cut, shaved, sawed and put 
“ that he knew business.’’ While driving the toget h er with wonderful quickness. The day 
filling the blast exploded, probably by a spark bef ° re a hundred and fifteen had been made, 
from the drill, killing him instantly. A boy Last year sixtecn thousand were turned off, 
and a span of horses close by the rock escaped and some thirty thousand will be ready for 
uninjured. Deceased was a native of Ireland, raarbe1, *be coming season. Each box holds a 
35 years of age, and leaves no family. 
the children, told of a long journey, and we 
soon found they were bound for Michigan, 
wheie the husband and father had wisely used 
his more abundant means to buy a cultivated 
farm. Two men soon climbed on to the stage 
top—strange to say, they were not going west 
but both had friends there. Thus are hill and 
valley, forest and prairie, linked together, not 
only by the iron bnad of the railroad, but by 
the ties of kindred, the bonds of affection the 
pleasant memories of the old homes, hones 
and fears for the new. 
Leaving Syracuse eastward, in the night 
early dawn found me in Albany, and at seven 
o’clock I took cars north for Schaghticoke (if 
not spelled right please put in a few more con¬ 
sonants,) twenty miles up the Hudson. We 
passed rapidly by Troy, caught a glimpse of 
Waterford and Lansingburgh—fair towns in 
the broad, pleasant valley—rolled slowly over 
the high bridge crossing the Mohawk in full 
view of the Cohoes Falls; the swollen stream 
pouring its foaming waters over the rude 
rocks; crosseii the Hiidson to its eastern side, 
whirled along the hill sides and across the 
plains a half hour, and reached the Depot.— 
Schaghticoke is Dutch, unmistakably in as 
peot as well as in name. The hotel'comfort¬ 
able qmet, spacious and old-fashioned • the 
streets narrow, the houses many of them s’neri 
mens of the antique. But a lar-e stvlish 
church, with its tall spire ambitious and city 
hke and signs of innovation in some modern 
ball p d , Welhn f ’ tel . 1 11 0f c bange. The scream 
of the locomotive will soon frighten away the 
last of the Knickerbockers, and “ Youns- 
America, slightly sobered, reign in their 
stead. 
A few moments delay and I -was in the staue 
on the way a dozen miles northward again- 
the road passing through a rich rural district’ 
not a village of twenty houses the whole dis 1 
tance, but substantial farm houses at frequent 
intervals, large barns, good orchards—signs of 
thrift and wealth. The road passes near the 
hills on the east side of the valley, most of the 
way partly up their sides, so that the rich and 
well cultivated country is spread before the 
sight.. Ihe grass is just now springing up the 
plow just turning up the soil. When the lux- 
uriant green of June clothes fields and trees, 
the eye seldom gazes on a finer landscape than 
is seen from some points along this road 
The valley is four or five miles wide, more 
uneven and broken than that of the Genesee 
but the soil usually rich, all good. Eastward, 
close at hand, green forests crown the hill tops 
hundreds of feet high ; north hill and valley 
grow blue and dim in the distance, at Glenn’s 
Falls, thirty miles away; now and then the 
Hudson can be seen, a belt of silver amidst 
the verdure; westward, beyond its waters 
stretches a range of hills, the same from which 
men looked down with anxious eyes upon the 
battle field of Saratoga, in olden times. The 
angry rattle of musketry then vexed the air 
of this now peaceful valley, and the roar of 
cannon woke the sleeping echoes of these hills. 
Since that trial-time Peace and Industry have 
had their triumphs, and won these fair fields 
and happy homes from the tangled swamps and 
ancient forests. 
Wheat is raised here less than formerly—the 
n X. jurying is carried on to consider 
able extent; flax has within a few years be¬ 
come quite a crop. It sells, unrotted and un¬ 
broken just as it is pulled, for an average of 
about $30 per acre, and is prepared for use at 
mills m the vicinity, of which there are fifteen 
within as man y miles. An acre yields from 
loO to o00 pounds of dressed flax ; except the 
pull mg its culture requires no more labor than 
that ol wheat, and exhausts the land no more. 
aV 8 pu !™ d at a cost of six dollars an acre.— 
xYbout 400 tons were raised in the county the 
past year. J 
But 1 must close. The cold north wind is 
blowing from the snow banks of Essex county 
In two days I go to New York, leaving the 
abundant hospitality of these rural homes for 
the cold life of a hotel, where the keeper has 
speculation in his eyes as he looks at you and 
measures the length of your purse by the cut 
of your coat. G B g 
Bank Bobbed.— The Peninsula Bank at De- 
tioit was robbed on the 7th of a package of 
hills containing $6,900. They were new bills 
the denomination of $5 and $10, and there 
was but $1,600 of the new issue as yet out¬ 
side the bank, and that divided between three 
persons. Measures were immediately taken 
to recall this, and the new issue was suppress¬ 
ed. The adroit thief thereupon finding he 
could not use the money without detection, 
threw it into the yard of one of the hank 
officers, where it was recovered. 
An excursion to Sebastopol is talked of by a 
New York steamboat company. Tickets $600. 
00(11 minee yielded last year 89,- 
400,000 tons of coal. 
The farmers in portions of Texas had finish¬ 
ed the planting of com on the 1st of March. 
The census says there are 239 colleges in the 
United States. 
They have a chain-gang at Toledo, in which 
drunkards and rowdies are set to work. 
. It . is said there are about 2,000 Chinese liv¬ 
ing in New York. 
. A colored man has been elected town clerk 
m Brownhelm, Ohio. 
Marshal Waver siezed 1,500 gallons of 
liquor m an apothecary shop at Bangor, a few 
days since. 
It is said in London that the Toet Laureate 
renn y son, is preparing a poem on the events 
oi the War. 
. A SI / E , Kr> shearing festival and plowing match 
is to take place at Ann Arbor, Mich., on the 
6th and 7th of next month. 
Mrs. Fjtzsimon, the favorite daughter of O’- 
ConneH has completed the first volume of his 
Life and Times. 
Ihe sloop-of-war St. Louis, the scene of the 
Rozsta rescue, has returned from the Mediter¬ 
ranean, and reached Philadelphia. 
The British government has offered to annex 
their colony of Sierra Leone to Liberia, and 
the proposition will probably be accepted. 
A pair of united black twins, joined back to 
back by a ligature some 8 inches in diameter 
are on exhibition at Boston. 
Postmaster Kendall, of New Orleans, has 
been again arrested on another charge of rob¬ 
bing a letter from Galveston, of $500. 
It is said that the gamblers of San Francisco 
subsenhed $10,000 to defeat the bill in the leg¬ 
islature prohibiting gambling. 
Eleven huge blocks of Tennessee marble for 
the Yv ashing ton National Monument, reached 
Savannah a few days since. 
Feed. Douglass, has written a narrative of 
US i !• v m press and will shortly be 
published by Miller, Orton & Mulligan. ‘ 
The widow of the late Emperor Nicholas 
known in court language as the Dowager Em ¬ 
press of Russia, is about to visit Berlin. 
Mrs. Sarah Gregory, late of Hartford, bc- 
and a $8 e nm!°’?i 00 i O T ri x ity Colle 8 e ) Hartford, 
and $3,000 to the Protestant Church, Norwalk. 
ATT™ wa « find $2 and costs, 
on Wednesday week, in a police court for 
smoking a cigar in the streets of Boston. 
n ,p ri ; 1 / uffal T ° Courier announces a sale of $60,- 
000 of the Niagara Suspension Bridge stock at 
a premium of 60 per cent. 
Miss Cushman has been reading Shakspeare 
on S hakspeare s own ground to Shakspeare’s 
countrymen. 
The Ameiican Colonization Society has re¬ 
solved to commence a settlement in tho in- 
weevil is too destructive ; corn” oats and gra^ I terior of Africa 
yield well ; dairying is carried on to connirW- I Two agents of the British Government have 
been arrested in New Orleans, for endeavor?nr 
to enlist soldiers for the Crimea. 
Letters Irom Naples state that Cardinal Wise¬ 
man is to be appointed Librarian of the Vati¬ 
can, m the place of Cardinal Mai. 
Nine thousand shad were taken at one haul 
at Hoke s shore, Ilarve de Grace, Md. on 
luesday week, and at Vandiver’s shore, eight 
thousand were caught. 
The Albany Evening Journal learns that a 
company for manufacturing Locomotive En- 
gines has been organized in Albany with a can- 
lull of half a million dollars. 
Dr. Buokland says the coal fields in South 
Wales are alone capable of supplying all the 
demand of the United Kingdom for two thou¬ 
sand years. 
Twenty-six hands employed in a gold mine 
Columbia Co., Ga., recently procured, in nine 
days, $9,660 worth of gold from surface ore 
some of which had been thrown aside 15 years! 
Within the first ten days of navigation to 
the port of St. Paul, the number of emigrants 
to Minnesota Territory for permanent resi¬ 
dence exceeded 8,000. 
Missing Youth.—George B. Morey, a young 
man sixteen years of age, left his father’s 
house, (Rev. B. Morey,) in Wyoming, N. Y., 
on the morning of April 11th, since which 
time no tidings of him have been received._ 
Buffalo, Corning & N. Y. Railroad. —xln 
adjourned meeting of the stock and bondhold¬ 
ers of the above road, was held at Le Roy on Said lad is tad of his a 8 e i bas dark hair and 
the 9th inst., at which, after various proposi- e T cs » and was dressed in a black dress coat 
tions, it was resolved to issue a million dollars under a dark coarse sack overcoat, sheep’s 
worth of income bonds, payable in 1865, and grey pants over a P air of black satinet ones, 
that these bonds bo first offered to holders of and black clo ^b ca P- Any one giving infor- 
preferred stock, at fifty cents on the dollar. mation of bim to his parents at the above 
With the avails of these bonds, it is tlie in¬ 
tention of the directors to proceed to the com¬ 
pletion of the road from Batavia to Buffalo. 
named place, will confer upon them an inex¬ 
pressible favor. Exchanges please copy. 
Bringing it Home.— Mayor Hayden of our 
city, has been fined five dollars at the Police 
Court for violating a city ordinance which 
forbids the leaving of horses unhitched in the 
street. It is hut justice to state, on the au¬ 
thority of the American, that it was a boy in 
the service of the Mayor who violated the 
ordinance, for which that functionary was 
held responsible. 
Upper Lake Navigation.— A letter from 
Toronto states that Georgian Bay and Lake 
Superior are free from ice, and navigation has 
fully commenced. There is a railroad just 
completed running across Canada to the bay 
and that is the most direct route to the ex 
treme northwest. 
Minister Expelled by a Mob.— Tlie Rev. 
Frederic Starr, Ji-. , a native of this city, 
and for a few years past officiating clergyman 
of the Presbyterian church in Weston, Mis- 
souii, has been compelled to withdraw from 
his charge in consequence of threots of per¬ 
sonal violence from a mob. Mr. Starr’s hos¬ 
tility to slavery is understood to he the cause 
of the trouble, and the demonstration against 
him is only an extension to other denomina¬ 
tions of the resolution that no Methodist cler¬ 
gyman should preach in Platte County, on 
pain of death for the second attempt. 
The woods on the promontory known as St. 
Anthony g Nose, on the Hudson River, were 
on fire on Monday evening week and has been 
burning since Sunday night. 
cheese of from fifty to one hundred and fifty 
pounds weight, and is sold at from fourteen to 
twenty-five cents. In 1854 over fifty thousand 
boxes were made and sold at this and other 
factories within thirty miles. Suppose these 
to be filled with cheeses averaging 70 pounds, 
and they would hold seven hundred and fifty tons, 
worth at seven cents per pound, $245,000.— 
This is a moderate estimate both of quantity 
and price, and many are sold too, without be¬ 
ing boxed ; hut it will give some idea of what 
is done and earned among the hills, and show 
that farming has its profits there as well as in 
the fertile valleys where golden grain ripens 
for the harvest. 
Going back to Syracuse by the same route I 
fell into a slight ripple of the tide of emigra¬ 
tion that is pouring westward this spring, 
more strongly, perhaps, than ever before. On 
the same seat with myself, in the stage, sat a 
young lawyer fresh from his hooks, with some 
small modicum of the lore of Blackstone in his 
head, going to Illinois to find his first client. 
On the back seat a young man and his wife, 
who had thus far apparently waged a strong 
warfare with poverty, won some small gain, 
kepi good courage, and were going far west¬ 
ward for cheap land and good crops. On the 
front seat were two young men, sturdy workers 
—one with rifle in hand, showing a love for 
game as well as gain—on their way to the for¬ 
ests and openings of Northern Indiana. x\ 
lady was telling of her sister in Wisconsin, 
when we stopped, and a mother with an infant 
in her arms, and three bright girls, hut a few 
years its senior around her, found place 
among us. The leave-taking at the gate of 
the farm house, tho “good bye’’ uttered in 
subdued toues. the kisses se 
Judge Loring.— Both branches of the Mas¬ 
sachusetts Legislature voted the address to 
Governor Gardner, praying for the removal 
of Judge Loring from the office of Surrogate, 
in consequence of his action in the Burns case 
at tlie time the latter was remanded to slave¬ 
ry. The Governor, however, declines to act 
in the premises, so the Judge undoubtedly 
feels much more secure in his seat than he has 
done for a few months past. The tenure of 
Massachusetts Judges is during good behavior. 
Resignation of a Bishop. —The Chicago 
Journal states that Bishop Whitehouse, of the 
diocese of Illinois, has issued a private circu¬ 
lar to the clergy and vestries of the Episcopal 
Church in that State, to the effect that he in¬ 
tends to retire from his present position. It 
is understood that his resignation will be ac¬ 
cepted. The Bishop states, among other rea¬ 
sons for his step, “ that he is not adapted to 
the present social condition of the West.” 
Steamship Company.— A bill has been intro¬ 
duced into the Massachusettss Legislature to 
incorporate a United States and European 
Steamship Company, with a capital of two 
millions. Several prominent merchants and 
business men of Boston are the proposed in¬ 
corporators. 
Depot Burned.— The passenger depot of the 
Michigan Southern railroad at Chicago was 
burned on tho 11th inst. r Ihe cars were all 
saved, but the building was entirely consumed. 
me - i » . •• 
The first newspaper printed in Western New 
j oik was ‘ 4 Ihe Ontario G azette and Geneseo 
Advertiser,” which was established at Canan¬ 
daigua, prior to 1800, by Lucius Cary. 
A libel suit has just been decided in Lon- 
don < by a verdict against Cardinal Wiseman 
of $o,000 damages. The plaintiff was a Cath¬ 
olic priest, by the name of Boyle. 
Louis Napoleon offers 1,000 guineas, open to 
Great Britain and Ireland, for a perfect broke 
charger for the Flmpress. He must be thor¬ 
ough-bred, quiet with troops, and stand fire. 
A Louisiana baby, nine months old, weigh¬ 
ing 66 pounds, and gaining at the rate of five 
pounds per month, is on the way to Barnum’s 
baby show. 
The London Morning Herald assumes ts< an¬ 
nounce “by authority,” not only that the Em¬ 
peror will go to the Crimea, but that the Em¬ 
press will go with him. 
Tip Boston Herald says:—A certificate of in¬ 
tention of marriage between a black man and 
a white woman was issued from tlie City Reg¬ 
ister’s office on Monday week. 
Recently a railroad entitled the Great Cen¬ 
tral, has been inaugurated in Norway. The 
road is 67 French leagues long, and unites 
Christiana with Lake Myosen. 
Baron de Steiglitz, the Russian court bank¬ 
er, has proposed to erect in the Stock Exchange 
a monument to tho late Emperor, as a protec¬ 
tor of commerce. 
The hill to amend the Great Western Rail¬ 
way Charter, passed in Committee in tho Ca¬ 
nadian Parliament last FYiday. This will en¬ 
able them to build a double track. 
The $6,500 stolen from the Peninsular Bank 
of Detroit, has been recovered, except $600.— 
It was found thrown into the yard of the cash¬ 
ier’s residence. 
The Governor-General of India has raised the 
salary of Dr. O’Shaughnessy, the Superinten¬ 
dent of Eloctrie Telegraphs in India, to £3,600 
per annum. 
Three new screw steamers have been launch¬ 
ed at Liverpool. The Jourdain, 1,260 tons ; 
the Empress Eugenie, 750 tons, and the Re¬ 
triever, 600 tons. 
One of the largest distilleries in Scotland, the 
Leith distillery, where 1,200,000 gallons of 
whiskey used annually to be made, has iust 
