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ROCHESTER, AUGUST 25 , 1855. 
A Timely Paragraph. 
The busy season of harvest is past, Autumn 
has arrived, and the long evenings come on 
apace. Albeit the yield of 'wheat is not pro¬ 
digious in this section, other crops are abun¬ 
dant, and, taking the whole country into the 
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of your friends and acquaintances. 
News of the Week. 
The foreign news of the America is of no 
very startling or exciting character. Fight¬ 
ing in the Crimea has been confined to a few 
sorties and skirmishes, since the affair of the 
18th of June, when the allies failed so signal¬ 
ly in the attack upon the Malakoff and the 
Redan. The approaches especially of the 
French are carried forward vigorously, and 
are now almost up to the outworks of the 
tower. The Russians in the mean time are 
making every effort to strengthen their posi¬ 
tion, and are also building other works to 
command the Malakoff in case of their failure 
to make good the defence of that stronghold. 
Probably another effort will be made ere long 
to take these forts by storm. • 
The usual amount of floating rumors reach 
us, among which are the following : that the 
siege of Sebastopol is about to be raised ; that 
a foreign contingent is to be enlisted in Spain, 
the allies in return to guarantee the integrity 
of the Spanish territory, including Cuba ; that 
the Bashi Bazouks, a sort of irregular Turkish 
cavalry, have mutinied, and murdered Gen. 
Bkatson, their English commander ; that there 
are symptoms of a revolution in Central Eu¬ 
rope, &c., &c. 
In our own country nothing of special pub¬ 
lic concern has transpired during the week.— 
The papers of Louisville, the exponents of the 
two parties, are each charging upon the other 
the responsibility of the late fearful riots in 
that city. The Journal publishes a long cata¬ 
logue of affidavits to show that the foreign 
residents were the guilty parties, and fired the 
first shots. The Courier and Democrat charge 
the Know Nothings with violence at the polls, 
and forcible resistance to the voting of peace¬ 
ful adopted citizens; that they were assaulted 
and beaten by bullies and ruffians, and hence 
the origin of the terrible riot and bloodshed. 
Probably both parties are in the wrong, and 
should be held jointly accountable for the con¬ 
sequences that ensued. 
The yellow fever is making sad ravages in 
some of our Southern cities. Even as far 
North as Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., this 
scouTge of the South has been very severe, and 
many officers and others connected with the 
U. S. naval station at the latter place, have 
fallen victims. Funds have been raised in 
several places in aid of the sufferers. 
Abbott Lawrence, a distinguished merchant 
of Boston, whose property is estimated at three 
millions, died last week, as will be seen in 
another place. A great fire occurred on the 
17th at Lewiston Falls, a manufacturing vil¬ 
lage of Maine. All the business portion of 
the pi a 36 was consumed, and the loss reaches 
$ 100 , 000 . 
Death of a Public Benefactor. 
Rambles and Records Westward No. 9. 
Abbott Lawrence, of Boston, died on Satur¬ 
day, the 18th inst., in the sixty-third year of 
his age. When a good man dies it is the duty 
of the public press to hold up the example of 
his life for the admiration and the imitation 
of his fellow men. 
Abbott Lawrence was born in the town of 
Groton, Massachusetts, in 1792, and went to 
Boston with his brother Amos in 1808. the 
two young men possessed no fortune except a 
good character, and no education except what 
was obtained in a common school. They en¬ 
gaged in trade in a small way at the outset, 
gradually enlarging it to an extensive import¬ 
ing business, aDd in the end built up for them¬ 
selves one of the most princely fortunes ever 
possessed in this country. The manufacturing 
business of New England is much indebted to 
the Lawrences for itg vast and varied succes¬ 
ses, and the cities of Lowell and Lawrence have 
to a great extent been built up under their aid 
and influence. Abbott Lawrence also held 
many important public trusts, among which 
may be mentioned a seat in Congress, Com¬ 
missioner to settle the Eastern boundary ques¬ 
tion, (which at one time threatened to involve 
our country in a war with Great Britain,) &nd 
Minister to England. The nomination for 
Vice President in 1848 lay between him and 
Mr. Fillmore, and probably if it had not been 
for the personal opposition and influence of 
George Evans of Maine, the former instead of 
the latter would have be^n General Taylor’s 
successor. But it is more as a munificent sup¬ 
porter of the educational and religious inter¬ 
ests cf the country that Abbott Lawrence dt- 
serves the gratitude of mankind. With his 
brother, among other things, he donated $50,- 
000 to found a scientific school in connection 
with Harvard College ; gave a large fund a’so 
to William’s College, and founded a splendid 
Academy in their native town. 
The Lawrences were wealthy men ; they 
earned it honorably and industrious y, and 
they used it for the benefit of humanity. 
Amos died in 1863, and Abbott in 1855.— 
Their wealth will now be of no further use to 
them, as men, but its benefits as bestowed up¬ 
on public institutions and chaiities, will en¬ 
dear their memories to every Ameiican heart. 
Heavy Mail. —The Boston papers say the 
largest mail ever received in that city arrived 
a few days since from New York and the 
South. It weighed fourteen and a half tons, and 
required an extra baggage car for its convey¬ 
ance. It was taken from the Worcester de¬ 
pot to the office in six wagon loads ! A large 
proportion of this matter was Congressional 
and Department documents. 
Probably electioneering and other printed 
matter helped to swell the amount and lum¬ 
ber up the mail, and was sent free of postage 
under a frank. The St. Louis Democrat says 
that mail matter to the amount of twelve hun¬ 
dred pounds, under the frank of Henry S. Gey- 
er, Senator from that State, came in one mail 
recently to that city. 
Boston Mayor Outdone. —The St. Anthony 
Falls Express, on learning that the Mayor of 
Boston had obtained a number of red and 
grey squirrels and let them at large upon the 
Common, says it is a good idea, and adds :— 
“ Here, however, we deal in larger game.— 
The Mayor of St. Anthony has ordered fifty 
fine buffalo and the same number of elk, from 
Pembina, to be turned loose upon the common 
of St. Anthony.” 
If some of those animals do not gore the 
editor of the Express, it will be because he 
does not sleep on the common o’ nights. 
Female Surgeons.— The New York Medical 
Times says that seven young and fair looking 
women may be daily seen at the New York 
Hospital, following the physicians and sur¬ 
geons on their rounds, and are present at all 
operations on males and females. 
There are many departments of medical 
practice for which women would seem to be 
peculiarly adapted, but prima facie, one would 
suppose surgery is not one of them. 
Letter from California. 
San Josk, Cal., June 30, 1865. 
Dear Rural: —We are having awful hard 
times here ; no money, and consequently, no 
market for Farmers’ produce. However, they 
are not likely to have much to dispose of this 
year. The grain in this part of the State is 
nearly ruined by the drouth, the rains having 
ceased much earlier than usual this summer,— 
while in the Southern part of the State it is 
spoiled with rust on account of late rains. 
The manner of hai vesting here would seem 
rather novel to a New York farmer. When 
the grain is fit for cutting, they go at it and 
cut it and bind it; then it is left until the 
threshing machine is ready, which is taken 
to the most central position in the field, and 
the grain drawn and threshed without the 
trouble of stacking. From the machine it is 
put in sacks, and, if to be marketed soon, is 
left corded up without the least danger of 
getting wet—a danger that the wheat of east¬ 
ern farmers is subjected to 
Our mountains, that two months ago were 
dressed in a beautiful coat of green, have now 
donned a golden dress of oats, not quite so 
beautiful to look upon, but still acceptable to 
the multitude of cattle and horses that roam 
there. 
The mines are paying the best of any busi¬ 
ness done in California at present, provisions 
being cheap and labor low, while gold is found 
nearly as plenty as ever. Our citizens here 
are making active preparations to celebrate 
the glorious Fouith. More anon. n. 
[F ons Onr Own CarresRondeBt.j 
Steamer *' Empire State,” Lake Erie, Aug. 14. 
Tee day after my last was mailed, I left 
Waupun in a private carriage for Oeonomewoe, 
forty-five miles southward, there to take cars 
for Milwaukee. It was a bright, clear morn¬ 
ing, the sun just rising as we started. For 
sixteen miles we passed through the alternate 
openings and prairies, the former predomi¬ 
nant, desci ibed in my former letter — a most 
charming series of beautiful views. Horicon 
Lake, an expansion of Rock River fifteen miles 
long and from one to three miles wide, fre¬ 
quently in sight toward the east Good im¬ 
provements and much land newly broken up 
along the r ad. We stopped for breakfast at 
Juneau, the county town of Dodge county, 
a small village in the centre of the comity 
where the Court House was placed to settle 
the rival claims of Horicon and Beaver Dam— 
a large town not far distant. The village is 
named after a Frenchman who settled on the 
spot where Milwaukee now stands, nineteen 
years ago, with his Indian wife and family— 
the first white inhabitant. I saw his son. at 
the hotel, an intelligent man, holding a coun¬ 
ty office, and much respected. 1113 father 
lives but a few miles distant, a man of mueh 
worth What a change for a few short years 
from the cabin of that solitary settler to a 
rich city of over 30,000 inhabitants ! 
Dodge county last year raised over 1,000,000 
bushels of wheat, and this season has a larger 
crop. Near Horicon is iron ore of excellent 
quality, and large furnaces in operation. 
Leaving Juneau, for some miles the country 
bore the same aspect, then we passed a sec¬ 
tion of rather hard clay soil, not so rich, then 
came to the Reck River to better land, and for 
some mile>s before reaching Watertown trav¬ 
eled through heavy timber, a deep strong soil 
and frequent clearings. We passed through 
Watertown without stopping— a busy city of 
8,000 people on the river, a large mingling of 
Irish and Germans among its population. In 
a few weeks it will be reached by a railroad 
from Milwaukee. Turning eastward we reach¬ 
ed a plank road, and went on through timber 
most of the way to Oeonomewoe, twelve miles. 
Just before reaching the village, two beautiful 
lakes were passed. In aa hour the cars left, 
passing more lakes and a mingling of opening 
and timber, two hours’ ride brought us to the 
city. 
Milwaukee has a fine location. Its business 
streets are the level ground along the river 
up which vessels come, and its many beauti¬ 
ful residences on the bluffs east and west ; 
those on the west commanding a fine view 
both of the city and the broad lake. The 
most common building material is yellow 
brick—an agreeable color and of excellent 
quality. The city has a healthy and increas¬ 
ing growth; scarce a failure has occurred 
among its business men for six years past— 
they are there with larger facilities and grow¬ 
ing trade A firm of hardware and iron deal¬ 
ers, doing a business of over $500,000 a year, 
are putting up a store of 60 feet front by 120 
feet deep and four stories high, all to be used 
in their business — a beautiful and excellent 
building, which will cost $75,000. Last sea¬ 
son over 2,000 vessels left the city, and 2,052,- 
389 bushels of wheat, 155,000 barrels of flour, 
and 1,200,000 bushels of other grain were sent 
away. Its total exports were reckoned at 
$5,785,000. What an idea this gives of the 
wealth and industry of this new State, in 
which twenty years ago there were not ten 
thousand peop le ! Other lake ports sent away 
about 3,000,000 bushels of grain. 
Leaving Milwaukee after two days’ stop, I 
called at Racine. A friend engaged in Com¬ 
mon School matters told me that the Princi¬ 
pal of their free High School received $1,100 
per year, and had excellent assistants. Two 
large school houses are being built, and the 
aggregate salaries of teachers la6t year was 
$5,100. Kenosha, a town twelve miles be¬ 
low, with a very intelligent population, is 
noted for its excellent schools. Back of these 
towns I have traveled the country many 
miles. From Racine to Janesville you pass 
several villages of from 500 to 2,000 people in 
a rich, well-settled country — praiiies and 
openings, with clear lakes and two or three 
belts of forest. 
I left Racine in the night, on a boat for 
Chicago. The gentleman whose state-room I 
shared was enthusiastic in praise of the green 
islands of Georgian Bay, the pure water and 
bracing air on Lake Huron, the fine scenery 
at Mackinaw, and the excellent fish served up 
daily. They had come by the Collingwood 
route — a favorite one in the warm season.— 
Reaching Chicago at early day, a rival boat 
from Milwaukee ran into us in a strife as to 
which should first enter the river. No dam¬ 
age done except a smashing of wood work, 
and the utterance of some earnest injunctions 
not wholly Apostolic. The day was very 
warm ; I drank freely of wretched water, and 
paid for it by fasting next day. After a few 
hours’ stop, left by cars, and in four hours 
was again on the banks of the St. Joseph, en¬ 
joying the evening breeze at a Mend’s house. 
To Coldwater I came over the same route 
traveled going out, stopping at several places. 
Wheat is poor through Southern Michigan, 
injured by the insects and more damaged by 
a wet harvest. Other crops good—early wheat 
excellent. 
East of Coldwater I stopped at Jonesville— 
a pleasant rural village with an intelligent 
population—and at Hillsdale, the county town 
of Hillsdale county, a place of some 2,000 
people. Just south of the town is a large 
building to be opened for a college, under the 
auspices of the Free-Will Baptists, this fall, 
with the same Faculty formerly at Spring 
Arbor, near Jackson. It will open, I believe, 
under favorable auspices with all the stu¬ 
dents, probably, they can accommodate. The 
people of the town gave $17,000 towards 
erecting the building. It is true such dona¬ 
tions are no loss pecuniarily in the end, but 
they are never made except where there is a 
good degree of liberality and intelligence. 
Stopping at Adrian, I found that town had 
enlarged its borders during a year ; many 
new homes and old ones enlarged and beauti¬ 
fied as their owner gained means. It is a 
busy town, its business streets full of people, 
and it3 ranges of large stores having no lack 
of customers. 
From Coldwater to Adrian are timber and 
openings, a rolling broken surface, some 
marshes, a rich soil. 
After a day’s stop, I left Adiian this morn¬ 
ing for Toledo, and in an hour we were in 
sight of the city, and soon crossed the canal 
which runs west to the Wabash, and down its 
valley to the Ohio, bringing the produce of a 
rich region to Toledo, and helping to make it 
the great grain mart it is. We rolled past 
large warehouses, with the Maumee river, 
boats, and shipping on one side, and the city 
on the other. Came on board the boat, and 
we were soon out on the lake. There is no 
land in sight, we are making good headway 
against a fresh breeze that stirs the water up 
in grand commotion, making the white caps 
foam and curl on the tops of the waves. Bui 
our boat feels it little — it takes a heavy sea 
to stir a craft of 1,700 tons greatly. I have 
just been down on the lower deck ; the space 
forward is filled by a hundred head of fat cat¬ 
tle from the prairies of Illinois. I sit by a 
table in the spacious cabin, and can look 
through a plate glass window and see the 
polished steel and brass ©f the beautiful en¬ 
gine, and beyond the great piston-beam mov¬ 
ing up and down twelve feet at every stroke. 
There are a hundred passengers on board ; 
the great tide of travel ebbs just now, cars 
and boats are not crowded. 
To-morrow at dawn I hope to be in Buffalo, 
and to breakfast at home —a welcome thought 
after thirty-three hundred miles of travel, of 
which I have given some brief sketch, g. b. s. 
History of tor Council ok Tkxnt. From the French of 
L. F. Bungenkr. With a Summary of the Acts of the 
Council, by John McCuntock, D. D. New York: Har¬ 
per & Brothers. 
This work is by the author of the “Priest and the 
Huguenot,” and discusses a matter of great historical in¬ 
terest. In his introduction, the translator and compilor 
remarks that “ the doctrines of Rome should be called 
Tridentine, rather then Catholic. It was the Council of 
Trent which gave them thoir form and pressure. Dog¬ 
mas which had for ages floated in uncertainty, were at 
Trent stereotyped forever ; the theories of the schools 
were trimmed, revised, composed and arranged, until 
at least a semblance of harmony was obtained, and 
they were stamped by the Council with Infallibility.”— 
At the present juncture, when so much is being said and 
written relative to Catholicism, this volume, which com¬ 
prises five hundred page 3 , will prove very acceptable 
to those interested in polemical discussions. For sale 
by Darrow & Bno. 
Church Music ; with Selections for the ordinary occa¬ 
sions of Public and Social Worship, from the Psalms 
and Hymns of the Pro.-byterian Church in tho United 
States of America. Adopted and recommem ed by St. 
Peter’s Church, Rochester. Published by E. Darrow 
& Bro., 60 Main st., Rochester.—1S55. 
Tins work is well adapted for social and congregational 
sieging—tho Music accompanying the words, or being 
conveniently arranged on opposite pafos. A friend well 
versed in Church Music, pronounces it a superior com¬ 
pilation, embracing a large proportion of the best and 
most popular tunes adapted to Religious Worship. The 
external appearance of the work is highly creditable to 
the enterprising publishers. 
A Visit to thk Camp before Sebastopol. By Richard C. 
Molormiok, Jr. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 
This is a very readable volume of some 2C0 pages, il¬ 
lustrated with several panoramic views, etc. 3he work 
is the more interesting and reliab’e from the fact that 
the author describes what he has soon and experienced, 
rather than heard or imagined. Sold by Dlwey. 
Clevb Hall. By the author of “ Amy Herbert,” etc_ 
New York : D. App eton & Co. 
Tms volume is from tho pen ef Miss Sewell, an au¬ 
thoress of merit and celebrity. It comprises some 600 
pages, and though formidable in size has an inviting ap¬ 
pearance. For sale by Dewey. 
Timboo and Fanny ; or, Tho Art of Self-Instruction. New 
York : Harper & Brothers. 
This is No. 9 of the series of “ Harper’sStory Books.” 
It is a soquel to *• Timboo and Jo.iba,” and will delight 
all tho little people whe have become Interested In tho 
hero. 
History of California. —On the first of September en¬ 
suing, D. Appleton & Co., Now York, will publish “The 
Annals of San Francisco and History of California ; by 
F. Socle, John H. Gihon and James Nisbkt ” The pub¬ 
lishers announce that the work “ is the result of several 
years of observation, labor and research, of gentlomon 
who have occupied positions affording ample means for 
correct information,” and we presumo it will prove a 
reliable history. It will comprise a volume of over 800 
pages, and be illustrated with 150 fine stenl and wood 
engravings. Advance sheets of a portion of the work 
have been roceived, from an examination of which wo 
infer tho volume will be one of great interest. 
Yrar Book of Agriculture. —This is the title of a work 
to bo published in October ensuing, by Childs & Pktkk- 
bon, of Philadelphia. Its object is “ to aid in the pro¬ 
gress and development of that science ui>on which tho 
prosperity of our country so eminently depends,”— ex¬ 
hibiting the progress and discoveries in Agriculture for 
the year 1855. The author, David A. Wells, A. M., is 
eminent y qualified to prepare a valuable and timely 
Rural Encyclopedia, and thus supply an important de¬ 
sideratum in our Agricultural Literature. See announce¬ 
ment in our advertising department. 
Lira of Gkn. Cass —One of the most enterprising New 
Y’ork publishers, J. C. Derby, will soon publish by sub¬ 
scription, “ Tho Life and Times of Gon. Cass.” It Is to 
bo issued in one large volume of 800 pag03,—uniform in 
style and manner with “ Benton’s Thirty Years in the 
Semite,”—and will be under the superintendence of Gen. 
Cass himself. 
The vintage in Italy is failing again this 
season. 
The apple crop now maturing promises to 
be very abundant. 
“ Punch ” teaches book-keeping in one les¬ 
son of three words, “never lend them.” 
A convention of t-lie editorial fraternity of 
Michigan is to be held in Jackson, Sept. 15. 
Tiir extension of the General Post-Office 
building is progressing with equal care and 
rapidity. 
Great numbers of surgeons from different 
parts of Germany, had formed engagements 
with Russia. 
Thk Scientific American gives it as its opin¬ 
ion that railroad trains will yet be running at 
100 miles an hour. 
The Russian government is filling the places 
vacated by English mechanics, on account of 
the war, with Americans. 
A few days since a drove of 1200 hogs cross¬ 
ed over the Niagara Suspension Bridge, hound 
for the New York maikets. 
The Cayuga New Era states that fifteen con¬ 
victs in the Auburn State Prison, were bap¬ 
tized a few Sabbaths since. 
The Universalist Convention at Saratoga 
meets on the 28th, and not, as has been erro¬ 
neously stated, on the 21st inst. 
The city treasury of Louisville, Ky., being 
empty, Mayor Barber has loaned the corpora¬ 
tion $8,000 out of his own pocket. 
A convention of Locomotive Engineers of 
New Jersey and adjoining States, will be held 
in Newark, N. J., on the 30th inst. 
At Fort Leavenworth, forty-six persons 
have died of cholera. Among its victims are 
Major Armstead, U. S. A., and wife. 
Gov. Seward has been invited to deliver 
the oration before the Plymouth Rock Asso¬ 
ciation on the 22d of December next. 
Mr. Thackeray is to deliver a course of 
lectures next winter before the N. Y. Mercan¬ 
tile Library, on “ Men of the World.” 
The venerable Rev. Father Sawyer, who is 
within two months of being a hundred years 
old, is dangerously ill at Bangor, Me. 
We see it is intimated that the successor of 
Rev. Dr. Wayland to the Presidency of Brown 
University is to be Prof. Barnas Sears. 
Gov. Pease, the Democratic candidate is 
supposed to be re-elected Governor of Texas. 
Ex-Governor Bell elected to Congress. & 
Since the Louisville riot, the City Engineer 
and four members of the City Council have 
resigned their respective official stations. 
Tub Zouave theatre at Inkerman lately 
posted the following notice upon its door 
“ No performance on account of wounds.” 
A wholesale dealer, in Sandusky, Ohio, has 
been offered 2,600 bushels of potatoes, deliv¬ 
erable on the 1st of Oct., at 25 cents per bu. 
The Aztec children, who were formerly ex¬ 
hibited in New York, are now in Paris, and 
are said to have been received by the Emperor. 
Gen. Sutter, the veteran pioneer of Califor¬ 
nia, is said to have sustained a damage of 
$10,000 this year in his crops by grasshoppers. 
Large orders are on the American market 
from the Continent of Europe, for stocks! 
The demand from Germany continues 6teadv! 
The Union Convention that was to have 
met at Milledgeville, Ga., on the 8th, was 
not held, and has been indefinitely postponed. 
The New York Times insinuates to the ba¬ 
kers that now is the time for them to make 
money, “ while alum is a drug and potatoes 
cheap.” 
Mr. Fillmore, at last advices, was in Ire¬ 
land, having visited the birthhlace of Bums, 
July 19, and crossed over from Scotland to 
Belfast. 
Tub Vermont Republican says that petty 
thieves and robbers are quite plenty in Ver¬ 
mont, traveling about “disguised as fools and 
stragglers. ” 
Mr. Nathaniel Haggott, a Tennessee - gen- 
tleman, arrived in Cincinnati on the 7th inst. 
with nine slaves, all of whom he caused to be 
manumitted. 
Excellent wine is made from grapes that 
grow wild, in immense quantities, in Green 
Co., Ill. Two gentlemen manufactured fifty 
barrels last fall. 
Rev. Payson Williston, D. D., of East- 
hampton, was ninety-three years old on Tues¬ 
day week. He is the oldest living graduate 
of Yale College. 
His Excellency Count de Persigny has wait¬ 
ed on Lady Raglan, to convey to her perso¬ 
nally, the deep condolence of the Emperor and 
Empress of the French. 
The Boards of French railways have given 
orders for a very reduced fare for all English 
officers and soldiers passing through France 
to and from the Crimea. 
The Rev. Dr. Cone, of the First Baptist 
Church in New York, was prostrated by a 
paralytic stroke on Friday week. His life is 
not considered in danger. 
Cholera is spreading desolation and dismay 
through the fertile provinces of Navarre, Ar- 
ragon and Andalusia. In other districts the 
public health is not affected. 
Mike Walsii went out in the Atlantic. Ho 
goes to the Crimea, through Germany and 
Russia, and will make the filth Congressman 
that has gone from this country. 
The yield of wheat in the Fox River region, 
Wisconsin, is said to be larger this year, by 
five bushels to the acre, than it was lost. It 
is also said to be of far better quality. 
An immense conflagration has taken place 
at Novogorod, in Russia, during the fair. 
Merchandise to the amount of three million 
roubles (£480,000) has been destroyed. 
Three deaths from yellow fever have oc¬ 
curred on board 'he U. 8. sloop-of-war Ful- 
mouth, lying near Staten Island. The sloop 
has been placed in strict quarantine. 
The London Times publishes the evidence 
of a London wine merchant, named Osborne, 
givir g the particulars of the manner in which 
condemned sour wines are made into fine old 
ports in the London docks. 
