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MGOKE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER i AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
S3 PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY, 
BY D. D. T. MU OllE. h OCHKSJ EB N. Y. 
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ROCHESTER, AUGUST 11, 1855. 
Meteorological Record. 
When any tmusual state of the weather ex¬ 
ists for a length of time, people are apt to be 
forgetful of similar occurrences in times past, 
and to say such and such things are unprece¬ 
dented. How many thousand times are Oh¬ 
s' rvations made like the following:—“Such 
a cold season — such a hot one—such dry 
weather, or such wet-such high winds or 
such a calm — such thunder or such hail was 
never known before.” Two truly unprece¬ 
dented occurrences, however, have taken place 
meterologically within a year, viz —the in¬ 
tense severity of January and the extreme 
wetness of July. 
Mr. E. 5! ere i am, of Brooklyn, has made a 
tabular statement of the rainy days in July, 
compiled from data of observations kept in 
three different places within a circle of five 
miles diameter in and around New York city, 
which observations extend over a peiiod of 
67 years, from 1789 to 1855, inclusive. From 
this table it appears that in July, 1855, rain 
fell not only on a greater number of days, but 
also on a greater number of consecutive days, than 
on any other July since the record began.— 
The least number of days on which it rained 
during the month, were 3 each in the years 
1790 and ’91. In the years 1792, 1813, '17, 
'22, '27, '41, ’44, '50, and '54, it rainod ten 
days in the month of July ; in 1829, '37 and 
'44, eleven days ; 1798, 1835 and '46, twelve 
days ; 1796, 1808, 1809 and’51, thirteen days; 
1803, '28 and'42, fourteen days; 1836 and 
'53, fifteen days ; and in 1855, nineteen days ! 
July, 1803, rain fell from 23 to 28— 6 consecutive days. 
1807, 
1829, 
1836, 
1861, 
1855, 
19 “ 23— 6 
2 “ 6 — 5 
9 “ 15— 7 
• 6 “ 10 — 6 
19 « SO—12 
Thus it will be Been that July, 1855, stands 
at the head of the pluvial record for the space 
of nearly three-fourths of a century at least, 
and how much longer there are no means of 
determining. 
Incendiary Fire. 
Fourierism Defunct. 
The New York Tribune contains an acoount 
of the sale of the estate of the North American 
Phalanx, at Monmouth, N. J., consisting of 
seven hundred acres of land. It remaiks that 
“ the sale of this domain and the breaking up 
of the Phalanx, will be generally regarded as 
in some sort closing the socialist movement 
which commenced in this country some fifteen 
years ago, and which in the various phases of 
its progress has certainly exhibited many no¬ 
ble instances of devotion to ideas the most 
lofty and purposes the most generous. In the 
public mind this movement has been connect¬ 
ed with what has been called F'ourierism, but 
the truth is that while the inculcations of 
Fourier have had more or less influence on 
the opinions of those engaged in the various 
practical experiments, still we know of no in¬ 
dividual among them who has adopted all of 
the doctrines, true or fanatic.” 
Between 1840 and ’45 there were establish¬ 
ed four associations in Massachusetts, five or 
six in this State, and several at the West. 
Most of them died in infancy, and this of 
New Jersey, the last of the race, survived 
only to its thirteenth year. We do not be¬ 
lieve the early decease of Fourierism is to be 
attributed to the cause recognized as the old 
proverb, viz:—“Whom the gods love die 
young.” 
Jaques Balmat 
Tins celebrated guide, who was the first to 
make the ascent of Mont Blanc, lost bis life 
in 1885, by falling down a precipice. He lay 
buried amid perpetual snows of the mountains 
for the space of twenty years, and his body 
has recently, says the Gazette de Lauserne, been 
recovered at the foot of the great glacier, the 
“ Mer dc Glace,” in a perfect state of preser¬ 
vation. 
It is necessary to state to those unacquaint¬ 
ed with the phenomena of the glaciers, that, 
as the lower portion melts away under the 
influences of a warm climate, the vast bewly 
moves imperceptibly forward to supply its 
place, and new portions are formed above.— 
Thus the body of Balmat has descended a dis¬ 
tance of from three to five miles in its icy 
shroud ; and after twenty years have elapsed, 
is in this strange manner brought to light. 
He was seventy years old at the time he lost 
his life. 
Secret of Unpaid Letters. —The New York 
Commercial Advertiser states that a gentleman 
of that city recently sent a porter to obtain a 
supply of postage stamps, which, on being re¬ 
ceived, were found destitute of the adhesive 
gum required to make them stick. On in¬ 
quiry he ascertained that the porter had pur¬ 
chased them at txoo cents each, of a candy deal¬ 
er near the post office, who, it is believed, 
received them of boys carrying merchants’ 
correspondence to the office. They were un¬ 
doubtedly stolen from the letters by the hoys 
to pay for candy. 
The Boots Reversed.— The Connecticut and 
Passumsic railroad of Vermont recently sued 
one Thomas Nelson for damages done to a 
train which was thrown off the track by run¬ 
ning over defendant’s cows. It was proved 
that the cows were of a vagabond and unruly 
disposition, and were accustomed to forage on 
the track, &c. The judge charged the jury 
in the plaintiff’s favor, and they gave a ver¬ 
dict for $159 damages and costs. Heretofore 
tire loser of animals has usually obtained dam¬ 
ages of railroads for injury done to them by 
the cars. 
On Monday of this week, the House of Ref¬ 
uge in this city was set on fire, probably by 
some of the juvenile delinquents confined in 
the Institution. Shavings were placed within 
the wooden cold-air duct leading to one of the 
furnaces, and then ignited ; a great draught 
was thus created, and of course the rooms 
whose hot-air pipes were connected with this 
furnace were speedily filled with dense smoke, 
causing great consternation. By means of an 
axe with which the air-duct was broken to 
pieces, and a few buckets of water properly 
applied, the flames were speedily extinguished. 
The House of Refuge is a State institution 
designed as a reformatory prison for juvenile 
offenders, and is doing incalculable good.— 
Instead of sending young convicts to State 
Prison to be confined with old and hardened 
offenders, they are here taught a useful trade, 
and regularly instructed in school. The build¬ 
ing is an extensive and costly structure, and 
its destruction would have been a great pecu¬ 
niary loss, as well as a great moral calamity. 
State Teachers’ Association. 
The late session of the Teachers’ Association 
at Utica was a pleasant and interesting affair, 
and lasted three days. Besides the addresses 
made by the speakers heretofore announoed, 
Ex-Gov. Seymour and others addressed the 
Convention. On Thursday afternoon, agree¬ 
ably to invitation from Hon. O. B. Matteson, 
nearly 600 partook of a collation at the City 
Hall. 
The following officers were chosen for the 
ensuing year: —S. Hazeltine, N. Y., Presi¬ 
dent ; Vice Presidents, 8. W. Clark, Albany, 
Edward North, Oneida, K. A. Sheldon, N. 11. 
Atkins. Corresponding Secretary, C. H An¬ 
thony, Albany ; Recording Secretaries, A. G. 
Salisbury, F. H. Wild ; Treasurer, M. II. 
Beach, Seneca Falls. 
The next annual session is to be held at 
Troy August 8, 1856. 
Misnomer,— A statement has been going the 
rounds that Matt. Ward, the infamous, has 
been put iu nomination for Congress from a 
district in Texas. A Southern paper, correct¬ 
ing the statement, says: “The Mathew 
Ward who is nominated in Texas as a candi¬ 
date for Congress, is not the Kentucky mur¬ 
derer, but a well known merchant, formerly 
residing in Jefferson, Texas. He is a very 
good man, with a very had name.” 
Served Right. —One of the naval surgeons 
on duty at the Crimea was recently court 
martialed upon chargee of neglecting Ihe 
sick, behaving in an unfeeling manner towards 
them, and calling them by offensive names. 
Being found guilty, he was sontenoed to be 
mulcted of the pay due to him, to be dismiss¬ 
ed from Her Majesty’s service, an 1 to be im¬ 
prisoned for a term of two years in one of 
Her Majesty’s jails. 
Supposed Piracy. —An arrival at New York 
August 4th from the Bahama Islands, brings 
intelligence that the Danish brig Janet had 
drifted ashore on the 14th ult., with sails 
loose, and the crew all aboard dead. It was 
supposed that they had been murdered the 
day before by pirates, as a brig answering her 
description was then seen with a schooner 
along side. 
Alarming Sickness, &o.— Sickness and the 
mechanic arts seem to be making rapid progress 
in our city and environs since the prohibitory 
law went into effect. One of the agents, a 
wholesale manufacturer, it is stated, has sold 
since the 4th of July eleven thousand gallons of 
whisky. 
Tennessee Election. —The returns from the 
recent election in tlie above-named State, 
come in slowly, and do not yet indicate which 
party i6 successful. Two of the K. N. Con¬ 
gressmen at least are elected, and the vote on 
the State ticket will probably be a close one. 
Rambles and Records Westward—No. 7. 
[From Our Own Correspondent.] 
Chicago, Ill , July, 1855. 
Left Matoon Saturday and returned to Ur- 
bana, a town of 1,600 people, eighteen years 
old, (the tenon not the people,) with no public 
school house, one Universalist Church, a de- 
centish Court House, dwellings small and ill- 
constructed, town lots surrounded by Virginia 
fences and grown over with rank weeds. A 
shade of Egyptian darkness there. It is, how¬ 
ever, quite a temperance town, is improving 
outward aspect of late, and has new public 
buildings going up. It stands near a “ tim¬ 
ber island.” The early settlers chose spots 
near forests and streams, and paid the penal¬ 
ty of sickness. It is healthier to settle on the 
prairies and plant your own groves. I stop¬ 
ped at an excellent hotel in a new village 
growing up at the depot. Southward were 
broad fields of wheat, yellow for harvest,— 
one of a hundred acres I judged good for thir¬ 
ty bushels to the acre. 
Reapers and mowers are moving over tlie 
fields, (machines, not men,) cutting a wide 
swath as they go. The yield of grain and 
grass is good. The wheat crop of the State is 
estimated at 25,f>00,Ol O bushels—far more than 
ever before. I found a Western New Yorker 
on his new farm. He intends to get a thou¬ 
sand peach trees and set them out, selling his 
fruit in Chicago. Peaches grow here better 
than farther north, and he will doubtless do 
well. 
Twenty miles west of Urbana on the San¬ 
gamon river is a famed grazing region. A 
fanner in that section last fall sold a hundred 
cattle at the Urbana depot, for the New York 
market, at $120 per head. They averaged 
2,069 pounds— said to be the heaviest lot over known. 
One of his neighbors has 200 head which he 
means shall weigh 2,500 pounds each, a year 
hence. They are part of his own raising and 
part bought in the Southern counties. 
The ease of railroad building may be judged 
from the fact that on this road, from Calumet 
to Matoon, 160 miles, there are but four slight 
curves. 
Stopping at the depot here, a stone ware¬ 
house eighty feet high towers up across the 
river, and close by are the foundations for 
another to hold 760,000 bushels of grain.— 
Thus the wealth of this broad land pours into 
this central depot. Twenty years ago Chicago 
was a mere village,—now a city with its five- 
story stone blocks with chiselled fronts that 
would ornament Broadway, — its splendid 
churches and pretty crowded houses within a 
stone’s throw, its splendid salo ns and filthy 
groggeries, its reading rooms and libraries, 
scores of hotels, a crowd of steamers in the 
river flowing through its midst, new streets 
daily spreading further over the level plain, 
seventy to a hundred daily trains of cars go¬ 
ing in or out over roads reaching in various 
ways 3,000 miles, exports last year of over 
13,000,000 bushels of grain an amount great¬ 
er than Odessa, Dantzic or Riga, ports called 
the granaries of Europe send away—and of 
750,000 pounds of wool. This miracle of mod¬ 
ern industry tells of many a broad prairie and 
dense forest during that short time brought 
under culture, or made to yield something for 
man’s sustenance, comfort or luxury. 
Am northward bound, and in my next shall 
say something of Wisconsin. Meanwhile per¬ 
haps some of your subscribers can tell why the 
Wiscontincrs call themselves Badgers,—so en¬ 
terprising a people likened to a slow animal, 
noted for dogged obstinacy, is singular. 
G. b. s. 
Attempted Suicide. —The Buffalo Commercial 
states that on Friday afternoon of last week, 
a lady arrived at Niagara Falls whose strange 
behavior attracted the attention of several 
persons at the Table Rock, and she was ac¬ 
cordingly watched. Having walked up the 
river for a considerable distance, she suddenly 
threw off her bonnet, and plunged into the 
rapids before the men, who saw her inten¬ 
tions, could reach her. One of them, howev¬ 
er, who was below the rest, ran rapidly down 
the bank, and wading in at a convenient spot, 
caught the female as she was swept down 
towards him, and succeeded in drawing her 
from the water. When taken out, she was 
quite insensible, but was restored to con¬ 
sciousness. She stated that she was from To¬ 
ronto, and that domestic difficulties led her to 
make the rash attempt upon her life. 
Singular and Fatal Casualty. —It is custo¬ 
mary among the people of seaport towns to 
make the launching of a Bhip a gala occasion, 
and usually many persons go on board for the 
pleasure of the thing. At Fair Haven, R. I., 
on the 28th ult., a ship was being launched, 
when, just before she was ready for starting, 
the people who had assembled upon hor deck 
began running from one side of the vessel to 
the other, when tlie shores gave way, causing 
her to keel over suddenly upon the side, 
throwing the people off hor deck to the 
ground below, killing six persons, and severe¬ 
ly injuring twenty or thirty others, some of 
whom are not expected to survive. 
Collision and Loss of Life at Ska. —A des¬ 
patch from Philadelphia, dated August 6th, 
says: “ The steamer General McDonald last 
night came in collision with the schooner A. 
C. Pease, about 9 o’clock, off Lazaretto. The 
schooner struck the steamer on the larboard 
side, raking her wlieelhouse, &c., completely 
aft. Some ten or twelve persons who were in 
the barber shop at the time were Bwept over¬ 
board and drowned.” 
J. iiei^lrg Reeoird. 
Thk Rahuit Fancier ; a Treatise upon the Breeding, Rear¬ 
ing, Feeding and General Management of Rabbits. By 
C. N. Bkmknt. author of the 4 American Poulterer's 
Companion.” New York : C. M. Saxton & Co —1866. 
Tins is a handsome work of about 100 pages, Issued as 
one of the publishers’ series of “ Rural Hand-Books.”— 
It comprises, in a convenient and cheap form a very 
completo and valuable treatise on the subject discussed 
— Including remarks upon diseases and remedies, full 
directions for the construction of hutches, rabbitrles, 
Ac., and recipes for drossing rabbits for the table. It 
is finely illustrated with portraits of representatives of 
the various breeds, plans of hutches, etc. Such a work 
has long been a desideratum, and the author (who is 
favorably known as an agricultural writer,) lias done 
the public a good service in its production. 
Waikxa; or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore. With 
sixty illustrations. By Samuel A. Bard. New York : 
Harper tc Brothers—1856. 
This is the title of a very entertaining narrative of 
travels in a portion of Central America to which late po¬ 
litical events have imparted interest. Thongh some¬ 
what Robinson Crnso-isli—the author relating how he 
was wrecked on a desert isle, and othor hair-breadth 
'scapes—the volume Is very readable, embracing de¬ 
scriptions and illustrations of various interesting novel¬ 
ties and exciting scenes along tbe Mosquito coast. We 
shall give some extracts from tbe work in a future num¬ 
ber. For sale by Darrow & Bp.o. 
Litters to thh People on Health and Happiness. By 
Cathkhi.ni' E. Beecher. New York : Haiper & Bro.’s 
Though limited in dimensions, thls’volume discusses 
an extensive and important subject. It is divided into 
five parts—embracing an outline of the organs of the hu¬ 
man body, their proper treatment; bow the organs are 
most frequently injured ; tlie results of abuse and mis¬ 
management; and the remedies for the evils enumer¬ 
ated. For sale by Barrow & Bro. 
The Heiress ok Haughton ; or the Mo'hors Secret. By 
tbe author of Emily Wyndham, etc. NewToik-— 
Harper & Brothers. 
This Is No. 199 of tlie “ Library of Select Novels.”— 
Of its contents wo “know-nothing.” 
Decisions Under the Liquor Law. 
The Albany Evening Journal publishes an 
abstract of decisions under the prohibitory 
which have been made smee the statute went 
into effect, July 4th. Some of these are de¬ 
cisions of Police Justices aud Justices of the 
Peace whose courts are not of record, and 
therefore their decisions are of no great legal 
consequence: 
By Birdsall, N. Y., Justice Marine Court, 
July 11th.—That selling imported liquor by 
the glass is a violation of tbe law. 
By Court of Sessions, Buffalo, 13th.—That 
a constable cannot he compelled to testify to 
its violation, when his evidence would crimi¬ 
nate himself. 
By Recorder of New York, 19th.—That im¬ 
ported liquors may be retaileel in any quan¬ 
tities. 
By Court of Sessions, Buffalo, 20th.—That 
imported liquor is only exempt from the pro¬ 
visions of the law while in the hands of the 
importer. 
By Justice Morris, Supreme Court, Sarato¬ 
ga, 22d.—That a person arrested for selling 
may give bail to await indictment, and can¬ 
not be compelled to go to trial before a called 
jury. 
By Congar, Justice of the Peace, Utica, 
23d.—That the law is unconstitutional. 
By Waldron, Justice of the Peace, Buffalo, 
25th.'—That the law does not authorize the 
apprehension of a man for being drunk in his 
own house. 
By Justice Johnson, Supreme Court, Cort- 
landville, 80th.—That Grand Juries should 
not presume the law to be unconstitutional, but 
do their part towards its enforcement. 
By Justices’ Court, Rochester, 81st.—That 
Lager Bier is an intoxicating liquor. 
By Justices Oakley and Duer, Supreme 
Court, New York, Aug. 1.—That the commit¬ 
ment of a person found drunk, must state 
where he was found. 
By Justice Parker, Supreme Court, Albany, 
Aug. 2d.—That the right of Bail and Trial by 
Jury are constitutional rights and cannot be, 
and are not, taken away by the statute. 
Massachusetts State House. 
For a couple of years past contractors have 
been at work putting an addition upon the 
venerable old pile which crowns Beacon Hill, 
Boston, yclept the State House. The old 
building is painted a sort of dull, undefinable 
color, such as the dry goods clerk described 
when a lady customer asked for caps of a 
subdued mouse color. “ We have nono of 
that description,” he answered, “but have 
those of an enraged rat color. ” It 1 b desira¬ 
ble to establish a uniformity between the two 
parts, and the new is therefore made to match 
the old—on which subject the Boston Post 
says: 
Workmen are engaged in painting the new 
part of the State House in the antique style, 
to make it correspond with the old, and the 
Chinese tailor who imitated the captain’s 
nankeen trowsers by putting a patch upon 
each knee, finds an exact fac simile in the ar¬ 
tists engaged upon the State House. The an¬ 
tique imitation is perfect, and those of queer 
taste who would make old houses of new ones, 
bad better engage the services of the commis¬ 
sioners of the State House. 
George S. Park. —A correspondent of the 
St. Louis Democrat, writing from Parkville, 
Mo., thus speaks of Geokge S. Park, the edi¬ 
tor of the Parkville iAimmary, whose press 
was thrown into the river by the “ regulators” 
in Western Missouri, says : 
“ Unfortunate Park—calamities have accu¬ 
mulated on his head of late. Within a year 
past, death has deprived him of his wife—a 
woman, bb his friends and enemies alike con¬ 
fess, universally beloved—of his sister-in-law 
and two infant sons. A political couspiracy 
has driven him from his home and robbed 
him of thousands of dollars. His last sur¬ 
viving child died ten dayB ago, and his sister 
on Saturday. She had come up to see after 
his property.” 
Lettehb from St. Petersburgh admit that the 
provisioning of the Russian army in the Cri¬ 
mea is this year excessively difficult. 
jtetos Slipping?. 
A bear weighing 876 pounds, was shot at 
Colbrook, N. II., the 21st ult. 
A Waukesha (Wis.) papers says both applets 
and plums are ripe in that region. 
Postage to California, whether by the Isth¬ 
mus or overland, is still ten cents for the sin¬ 
gle letter. 
A Woman’s Rights Convention is to be held 
at Saratoga Springs on the 16th and 16th of 
this month. 
Ninety young men received the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts at the late commencement of 
Yale College. 
Prof. J. R. Boyd, of Geneva, has declined 
the offer of the Presidency of the new Female 
College at Elmira. 
Jacob Strawn, the well-known cattle raiser 
of Scott county, III., has four thousand acres 
of corn in a single field. 
At Norfolk, Va., on Tnesday week, two 
persons were killed and three vessels damaged 
by a stroke of lightning. 
The merchants of Chicago have established 
a line of steamers between that place and Su¬ 
perior City, Lake Superior. 
The Duke of Cambridge is to be immediate¬ 
ly appointed Generalissimo of the Foreign Le¬ 
gion enlistiDg for the Crimea. 
The Chicago Press says that a few cases of 
cholera have occurred at Bridgeport,, on the 
Chicago River, and also at Chicago City. 
Tun census of Milwaukee has been comple¬ 
ted, and sIiowr a population of 30,149—an In¬ 
crease within the past five years of 10,088. 
The Corporation of the Female Medical 
College have decided to establish it at Wor¬ 
cester, M»ss. Several sites have been offered. 
The Syracuse Railroad Company have paid 
two persons who were injured by a recent ac¬ 
cident near Geddes, Onondaga county, $3,000 
each. 
It is thought that Lord Melville, at p-csent 
commander of the forces in Scotland, will g® 
out, to the Crimea to take command of a di¬ 
vision. 
A BRANCn of the Bank of British North 
America is about to be tstablishid at Windsor, 
the w. s'ern terminus of the Gnat Western 
Railway. 
Leonard Unoas one of “the last of the 
Mohegan” Indians, was fined $20 and costs 
for - etting drunk at Windham, Conn., last 
week. 
A free colored boy has been kidnapped near 
Cincinnati, Ohio, and his kidnappers have 
been traced to Kentucky, where he was offered 
for sale. 
FmY New England clergymen have become 
life members of the Emigrant Aid Society, by 
the payment of $20 each, by themselves or 
their friends. 
In Trenton, Maine, while William Haynes, 
Esq., was milking one of his cows, he was 
kicked by her in the abdomen, and survived 
but 86 hours. 
Gavazzi has delivered his farewell address 
in Exeter Hall, previous to his departure for 
America. Subject—“England on the royal 
road to popery.” 
The tree on which Mayberry was hnng at 
Janesville, was cut down last week, and the 
wood distributed among the mob as a memen¬ 
to of their work. 
A freight train on the Rock Island Rail¬ 
road parted in the middle recently, and the 
engineer steamed on twenty miles before he 
discovered the accident. 
The peach crop in New Jersey, says the Sa¬ 
lem (N. J.) Sunbeam, this year will be heavy, 
in proportion to the number of trees ; tb.« 
trees are in fact too full. 
A day or two since, a special train on the 
Great Western Railway ran the distance be¬ 
tween London and Hamilton, 76 miles, in ooe 
hour and forty minutes. 
Arrangements are being made whereby pas¬ 
sengers will reach New York from St. Louis, 
via Michigan Central and Great Western rail¬ 
way, in forty-two hours ! 
All the accounts which arrive from Bel¬ 
gium, Holland, Prussia, and Sweden, agree in 
giving the most favorable intelligence as to 
the state of the crops. 
Rev. Mr. Warren, of Troy, N. Y., has ac¬ 
cepted the office of Home Secretary of the 
Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, in place 
of Rev. Dr. Bright, resigned. 
The Philadelphia Bulletin says that “ lo¬ 
custs have made their appearance in great 
numbers in our squares. Their * sultry song' 
is heard throughout the day. ’ ’ 
A lad in Shrewsbury, Vt., last week, while 
leading a horse to water, fastened the halter 
around his body, when the horse took fright 
and ran away, killing the boy. 
The Halifax Journal learns that all the 
money necessary for the construction of the 
projected Nova Scotia railways can be obtain¬ 
ed in London on favorable terms. 
The report current in the English press of 
Lord Elgin being about to relieve Lord Stew¬ 
art de Redcliffe at the Embassy at Constanti¬ 
nople, is an idle on dit of the day. 
A gentleman traveling through East Missis¬ 
sippi, writes :—“ The crops of cotton and oora 
in the prairies are splendid. I am told on all 
sides that they never were better.” 
Among the French officers who were killed 
at the capture of the Mamelon, on the 7th of 
June, was Capt. Decasso, a Bon of Louis D®~ 
casse, Esq., of Elizabeth City, N. J. 
The damage to the western division of tho 
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad by tearing up 
the rails, was committed by Irish laborers 
who have not been paid their wages. 
A colored minister, Rev. S. Dutton, of tho 
Baptist denomination, committed suicide at 
Paterson, N. J., on 26th inst., by cutting hia 
throat with a razor. Cause—insanity. 
At the Southern Railroad Convention, just 
held at Washington city, a committee was 
appointed to request the Postmaster Cencial 
to dispense with the running of Sunday mails. 
The St. Paul Pioneer of the 19th ult., says: 
“ Reger Bagley, of Olmstead Co., Minnesota, 
107 years old, came into Brownsville a few 
days since to exercise his right to pre-emption. 
