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ROCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 22, 1855. 
News of the Week, &c. 
The news of the week is of no very great or 
stirring interest. Foreign advices represent 
the belligerents as partially resting upon their 
oars, probably gathering strength, and pre¬ 
paring for another bloody issue. At home, 
the results of the Maine election have been 
received sufficient to show a partial defeat of 
the Maine law, fusion, party. No Governor 
is elected, and the Whigs and Democrats have 
together a maj ority in both branches of the 
Legislature. Political parties in our State 
are beginning to manifest considerable activ¬ 
ity, and the nominees and other patriots are 
getting quite anxious as to the results. 
The usual amount of individual crimes and 
casualties have occurred, although no whole¬ 
sale slaughter has happened by railroad or 
otherwise. Among the individual cases of 
most notoriety, are the St. Nicholas Hotel 
affair, the escape of Fyler from the Insane 
Asylum, and the drowning of an insane man 
named IIeatiierly, who jumped overboard on 
Friday night of last week from the Hudson 
river steamer New World. No effort, it is 
stated, was put forth by those on board the 
boat to save him. Two firemen have been 
killed by the running off of engines, and 
several other persons injured. 
The weather has most of the time been 
warm and sunny, with occasional high winds, 
but no rain until Tuesday of this week ; at 
which time there was a profuse fall of water 
during the whole of the day. No frost has 
occurred in our vicinity, and fall crops are 
now mostly out of harm’s way. We hear of 
the blight among potatoes, but hope it is not 
so general or so virulent a3 to materially af¬ 
fect the crop. It would be strange if no rav¬ 
ages of this plague of the potato did occur, 
after such an unusual growth, both of the 
root and top. Buckwheat promises well so 
far as heard from, and we are looking forward 
to the good time coming. 
Indian Difficulties. —A despatch from Chi¬ 
cago dated Sept. 17th, says :—Mr. Morin has 
reached St. Joseph, Mo., with the remains of 
Capt. Gibson, who was killed at the mouth of 
Deer Creek by the Sioux. He reports the Si¬ 
oux to be troublesome. He had an engage¬ 
ment with them north of Platte Bridge, on 
the 4th of July, when two Indians were kill¬ 
ed. General Harney left Fort Kearney on 
the 4th of August with 1,300 men making 
forced marches. His purpose was unknown. 
Great Results. —The negroes who were held 
to bail for assault and battery on Colonel 
Wheeler, President Pierce’s Minister to Ni¬ 
caragua, have been tried at Philadelphia and 
sentenced to one week’s imprisonment, and 
the payment of a fine of ten dollars. 
The assault was committed at the time Jane 
Johnson and her two children, slaves of Col. 
Wheeler, were set at liberty under the laws 
of Pennsylvania, their master having brought 
them voluntarily into a free State. 
Maine Election. —The Maine election re¬ 
sults in no choice of Governor by the people. 
Returns from 384 towns in Maine, show the 
following result:—Whole number of votes, 
194,414, of which Morrel, Republican, had 
48,704; Wells, Dem , 45,229; Reed, Whig, 
10,381. The House stands 61 Republicans and 
67 Democrats, 21 Whigs, with two districts to 
hear from, which probqbly chose Democrats. 
Probate. —The will of the late Abbott Law¬ 
rence has been admitted to probate at Boston. 
It occupies nineteen folio sheets, and is dated 
January, 1855. A large number of donations 
to literary institutions and to public charities 
are contained in it, two of which, the Law¬ 
rence Scientific School, and the Model Houses 
for the Poor, amount each to the sum of fifty 
thousand dollars. 
Congressman No. 2. —The Free Soilcrs of 
Kansas have nominated Ex-Governor Reeder 
as their candidate for Congress, and have fixed 
upon the second Monday of October (one 
week after the day appointed by the Legisla¬ 
ture) for the election. 
Fatal Affray. 
Another personal encounter, similar to that 
which resulted last year in the death of Col. 
Loring, took place at the St. Nicholas Hotel, 
New York, on Saturday evening last. Capt. 
J. J. Wright and Mr. R. S. Dean, two board¬ 
ers at the Hotel, had a standirg difficulty in 
reference to some business matter connected 
with the steamer Jewess, which was lost sev¬ 
eral months since. They had several times 
previously quarreled upon the subject, and on 
Saturday evening, after some further alterca¬ 
tion in the bar-room of the hotel, Wright 
suddenly drew a rawhide from his pocket, and 
struck Dean a blow in the face, whereupon 
the latter inflicted two stabs with a bowie- 
knife upon his antagonist. On the third at¬ 
tempt to strike, Dean cut himself severely in 
the thigh, and both men now lie wounded in 
separate rooms in the hotel. The physicians 
say there is scarcely a hope of Capt. Wrigiit’s 
recovery. 
The Tribune, commenting upon this second 
homicide at the St. Nicholas, is particularly 
severe upon the bar-room, and says:—“We 
would urge on ail who value the sanctity of 
woman’s feelings, to at least save them from 
the contact of murderers and gamblers and 
robbers and rowdies, and take them only to 
hotels where no bar-rooms are kept. ’ ’ 
Railroad Casualties.— The morning express 
train from Cincinnati on the Mad River Rail¬ 
road, ran ofl the track Sept. 10th, three miles 
south of Kenton. Fireman instantly killed ; 
engineer, George Bristol, seriously injured ; 
conductor badly hurt. No passengers serious¬ 
ly injured. The accident was caused by the 
plank on a crossing being too near the track 
The mail train which left Harrisburg, Pa., 
the same day, for the west, was also thrown 
off the track by running over a cow near Cum¬ 
berland. Wm. Obeli, fireman, was instantly 
killed. Jno. G. Miller, mail agent; Jno 
Strutby, engineer ; Mr. Ratcliffe, conductor ; 
and Mr. Falls, agent of Adams Express, were 
seriously injured. No other persons hurt. 
A Bold Rascal. —The Democrat states that 
on Saturday afternoon of last week, when the 
train from Buffalo was within six miles of this 
city, and running at the rate of twenty miles 
an hour, a man who was arrested in Buffalo 
for house-breaking in Auburn, and who was 
on hoard the train in custody of an officer, 
jumped from the cars. He did not appear to 
be hurt, and immediately made tracks for the 
woods. The train halted, hut was obliged to 
com8 on, as a freight train was nearly due. 
The fellow left bis wife in the cars, hut she 
was no doubt apprized of his intended move¬ 
ment. He is an old offender, having twice 
before been in State Prison. 
Fatat Attempt to Ascend Mt. Washington 
Under the above head is an announcement 
from Gorham, New Hampshire, which states 
that at 3 o’clock on the afternoon of the 13th, 
a Mr. Bourne, of Kennebunk, Me., accompa¬ 
nied by his wife and daughter, attempted to 
ascend Mt. Washington without a guide, and 
that they lost their way and remained out 
through the night ; in consequence of which 
the daughter died, and the parents suffered 
greatly. They were discovered on the follow¬ 
ing morning, and the survivors are doing 
well. We desire to have further particulars, 
before giving full credit to the statement. 
Escape of a Murderer.—Alfred Fyler, who 
was convicted of the murder of his wife some 
time since at Syracuse, had his sentence of 
execution suspended in consequence of his 
supposed insanity, and he was placed in the 
Lunatic Asplum at Utica. On Wednesday of 
last week lie made his escape from that insti¬ 
tution, and has not since been heard of. 
This escape is not proof of Fyler’ s saneness, 
as lunatics frequently do the same thing ; but 
very many persons will entertain grave sus¬ 
picions that the authorities have been deceiv¬ 
ed in this matter by a cunning villain as well 
as a cold-blooded murderer. 
Ambiguity. —The Ohio Stale Journal says :— 
‘ ‘ Charles Harper, a charcoal hauler, got 
drunk, got on the track of the Camden & Am¬ 
boy Railroad, near Cooper’s Creek bridge, 
when the train ran over and killed him and 
and his horse. The poor beast was to he 
pitied.” 
The ambiguity of the above paragraph con¬ 
sists in the difficulty of ascertaining whether 
the pity is expressed for the coal hauler or 
the horse. 
Horrible Suspicions. —In the island of Cuba 
several prisoners have been brought from the 
country to Havana, formerly engaged as 
agents for slave traders. Among them Pio 
Diar and his family are called upon to ac¬ 
count for human bones secreted on his estate, 
said by him to he the remains of negroes who 
had died of cholera ; by others, the crews of 
vessels killed for concealment of the trade. 
Deceptive Appearance. —An “exiled Hun¬ 
garian” has been recently lionizing, it is said, 
at the White Sulphur (Va.) Springs, and cre¬ 
ated a great sensation among the fashionables 
of that resort generally, and the unmarried 
ladies in particular. The celebrity turns out 
to have been a journeyman barber from New 
York. 
Fx-Gov. Metcalf, of Kentucky, died of 
cholera on Satuiday last, at his residence, 
Forest Retreat. 
Conversion of a Deseit into a Lake. 
Captain William Allan, of the British na¬ 
vy, has published a hook advocating the con¬ 
version of the Arabian Desert into an ocean. 
The author believes that the great valley ex¬ 
tending from the southern depression of the 
Lebanon range to the head of the Gulf of 
Akaba, the eastern branch of the head of the 
Red Sea, has been once an oc an. It is in 
many places 1,300 feet below the level of the 
Mediterranean, and in it are situated the Dead 
Sea and the S; a of liberias. He believes that 
this ocean, being cut off from the Red Sea by 
the rise of the land at the southern extremity, 
and being only fed by small streams, gradual¬ 
ly became dried by solar evaporation. He 
proposes to cut a canal of adequate size from 
the head of the Gulf of Akaba to the Dead Sea, 
and another from the Mediterranean, near 
Mount Carmel, across the plain Esdraelon, to 
the fissure in the mountain range of Lebanon. 
By this means the Mediterranean would rush 
in, with a fall of 1,300 feet, fill up the valley, 
and substitute an ocean of 2,000 square miles 
in extent for a barren, useless desert ; thus 
making the navigation to India as short as 
the overland route, spreading fertility over a 
now arid country, and openiug up the fertile 
regions of Palestine to settlement and culti¬ 
vation. The conception is a magnificent one, 
hut no sufficient survey has been made to de¬ 
termine its practicability or its cost. 
One of tiie “ Old Masters. ” —A few months 
since a lady in this city on her wedding day, 
received from a friend in New York a very 
shabby looking picture, with the wish it 
might adorn her parlor. It was so obscure 
that one would scarcely detect the outlines of 
the figures which it represented, but on ac¬ 
count of the giver it was sent to be restored. 
While there, an Englishman saw it and offtr- 
ed fifty dollars for it, which offer was refused 
by the lady on account of its being a gift.— 
The Englishman urged his offer, and calling 
upon the lady said he should regard it as a 
favor if she would allow him to present her 
with one hundred dollars, and take the paint¬ 
ing- Of course she refused, when he increas¬ 
ed his bids gradually from one hundred to one 
thousand dollars, and finally asked her to set 
her own price, as it was one of six paintings 
by Murillo, two of which were destroyed by 
fire, and three of them were iu Europe. So 
certain is he of this, that he stands in readi¬ 
ness to pay as high as $10,000 for the paint¬ 
ing. Quite a pretty sura for a young bride.— 
Boston Gazelle. 
Found iier Character. —On Saturday last a 
middle aged Irish woman called at the First 
Police Station for a trunk which was deposited 
there some eight or ten weeks since, and which, 
she stated, contained her “ char au-ter.” The 
trunk was produced, and on opening it the ar¬ 
ticle was found in the shape of a mutilated 
piece of paper on which was written the fol¬ 
lowing certificate of character : 
“ This certifies that Kata Quadd is a good 
domestic, capable of doing all kinds of work, 
but she will gel drunk whenever she gets an opportu¬ 
nity.” 
Miss Quadd’s eyes sparkled as she gazed on 
the treasure, and carefully folding it, remark¬ 
ed, as she left the station, “It’s worn a hit, 
and it’s a long time I’ve had it, sol guess I’ll 
go and get it copied.”— Boston Jour. 
The Fever to Travel North. —A Dr. Knott, 
who has been examining into the Norfolk 
plague, has broached a theory, according to 
which, the pestilence may be expected at 
Washington and at Baltimore and Philadel¬ 
phia next year, and the following season in 
New York, Boston and Portland, thus com¬ 
pleting the range of desolation along the At¬ 
lantic seaboard. Dr. Knott believes it has 
been traveling northward by regular stages 
from Janeiro, where it re-appeared with great 
virulence as an epidemic four years ago. In 
1852 it ravaged the West Indies. In 1853 it 
desolated New Orleans, and in 1855 decimates 
the towns at the foot of Chesapeake Bay. 
The Changes of Life.— The Boston Post says 
that a man, once well known to the business 
community, hut who for several years has been 
fast running down, was brought before the po¬ 
lice court on Saturday, and sentenced as a vag¬ 
abond to four months in the House of Indus¬ 
try. It is related of his assumptions in his ear¬ 
lier days, when surrounded with the advanta¬ 
ges which wealth gave him, that he objected 
to having another party, less favored, sit next 
to him in church. In the revolutions of the 
wheel of fortune he is a vagrant, and his de¬ 
spised neighbor one of the largest ship owners 
in the city. 
More than she Wanted —Margaret Cain, at 
Albany, a few days since, stole a covered bas¬ 
ket from the steps of a grocery, and made 
haste to get away with her booty. What was 
her astonishment and chagrin to discover, on 
opening the basket, a pretty little baby snug¬ 
ly tucked in and sleeping. Margaret having 
as large an assortment of that commodity as 
she wished for, wisely concluded to return the 
stolen goods, which she did speedily, and the 
mother of the child, on its recovery, let the 
thief go harmless. 
Salt Lake and Ocean Salt. —It is said that 
the saline properties of Salt Lake in Utah, are 
so great that meat will he cured if suspended 
in its waters. We have observed that the 
water of the ocean at Cape May, Newport, and 
other fashionable summer resorts or some other 
local liquidity, has the same effect. Flesh 
bathed in it one hour will become thoroughly 
corned the next, with, a strong flavor of mint, 
lemon-peel or bitters. If natural science can¬ 
not assign a reason for this phenomenon, we 
must refer it to the bar.— Philadelphia Sun. 
An Appropriate Connection. — A dwelling 
house, in South Boston, is now being remod¬ 
eled, by putting stores in the basement story. 
When finished, the easterly store is to be used 
as an apothecary store. The house overhead 
is to he occupied by a physician. The other 
store is to he occupied as a ccftin warehouse, 
and the house over it has been leased by an 
undertaker. The four doors will be in a row, 
and bear in order the signs of a druggist, doc¬ 
tor, undertaker and coffin maker. 
The Agricultural Works of II. A. Pitts, 
were destroyed by tire at Chicago Sept 10th. 
Loss twenty-five thousand dollars, among 
which were twenty-five patent grain separa¬ 
tors lately victorious at the Paiis exhibition. 
The N. Y. State Fair for 1855. 
Col. E. C. Frost, a member of the Ex. Com. 
of our State Ag. Society, furnished the Elmira 
Republican an interesting article relative to 
the place for holding the next Fair—Elmira— 
the facilities for access, egress, probable at¬ 
tendance, accommodations, &c. We give the 
following synopsis of the article for the benefit 
of the large number of our readers interested— 
to wit., those who propose attending the Fair : 
This being the first Fair held in the South¬ 
ern part of the State, the inquiry may be 
raised — 1st, Whether Elmira is a suitable 
place for holding such a Fair ? 24, Whether 
convenient facilities for reaching it from dif¬ 
ferent parts of the State exist ? and 3d, Will 
the usual number attend ? 
Elmira contains a population of over ten 
thousand—about the same as Poughkeepsie, 
where the Fair was held in 1844 ; only two 
thousand less than Utica in 1845, when the 
Fair was held there ; four thousand more than 
Auburn in 1846, and six thousand more than 
Saratoga Springs in 1847, when the Fair was 
held at those places. Whether it is a suitable 
place will depend somewhat on the answers to 
the remaining questions. 
Second, as for the facilities for reaching El¬ 
mira. From Elmira, the Erie Road runs west 
to Dunkirk. South, the Williamsport Road 
runs through Central Pennsylvania to Phila¬ 
delphia. East, the Erie Road to New York ; 
and North, the Elmira and Niagara Falls. — 
Thus there are railroads diverging from Elmira 
in four directions, giving that place the advan¬ 
tage over any other, at the time Fairs were 
held, except New YYark. 
Should we stop here, those unacquainted 
with the geography of Southern New York 
and Northern Pennsylvania, would have hut 
an impel feet knowledge of the railroad facili¬ 
ties for reaching Elmira Passing West along 
the Erie Road, eighteen miles to Corning, 
where the Buffalo and Corning Road diverges 
north, traversing the Conhocton Valley to the 
Genesee ; and also the Tioga Railroad south 
to Blosshurgh in Pennsylvania, forty miles 
through the Tioga Valley. Further West, at 
Hornellsville, the Buffalo and New York City 
Railroad diverges north through the Canisteo 
Valley to Buffalo. At Owego, thirty - seven 
miles east of Elmira, on the Erie Road, a Road 
diverges noith to Ithaca. At Binghamton 
another north to Syracuse. At Great Bend 
the Scranton Road diverges south into Penn¬ 
sylvania, connecting with other roads in the 
north-eastern part of that State. Twenty-one 
miles north of Elmira, on the Elmiia and Ni¬ 
agara Falls Road, a connection is formed with 
steamboats on the Seneca Lake, running to 
Geneva, and further on, at Canandaigua, with 
the Central Road, from Albany and Rochester; 
and further west with the Genesee Valley 
Road. 
Thirdly, in relation to the exhibition.— 
Those who own, and are raising the best stock 
in the State, wish to place it before the public, 
and will find it greatly to their interest to ex¬ 
hibit at the Fair, for the following reasons : 
As we shall hereafter show, the population of 
a vast territory in Southern New Y r ork and 
Northern and Central Pennsylvania, have 
never enjoyed a convenient opportunity to at¬ 
tend a State Fair. 
Whenever they examine such stock as will 
he exhibited, they will he fully' persuaded 
that their own interest will he greatly pro¬ 
moted, and that of the community in which 
they reside, by introducing it. We know of 
some of the best breeders in the State, who 
will exhibit. Those who are manufacturing 
or vending agricultural implements, or new 
and valuable machinery, will not fail to dis¬ 
cover the importance of exhibiting at this 
point. 
The fourth question, whether the usual 
number will attend, we believe can he safely 
answered in the affirmative. ^Vhcn the State 
Fairs have been held at Buffalo, Rochester and 
Syracuse, there were no railroads—no cluap 
and expeditious means for the masses residing 
in Southern New York and Northern Penn¬ 
sylvania, to attend those places. The great 
mass will not turn out with teams for a circuit 
of mere than thirty or forty miles, hut when 
they can ride one hundred milts in three to 
five hours, at half the usual rates, the whole 
community is ready to move. 
To sum up, can such a crowd find comfort¬ 
able quarters at reasonable rates ? Elmira 
contains some of the largest and Lest hotels in 
the State. Fifteen publichouses, including the 
principal hotels, have published prices rang¬ 
ing from one dollar and fifty cents to two dol¬ 
lars per day ; and the citizens generally ex¬ 
pect to open their houses during the Fair. If 
a stranger should walk out of the town, one 
or five miles, he would find a thickly populat¬ 
ed farming district, with as large and fine 
dwellings, and owned by as generous and hos¬ 
pitable farmers as are to be found in any sec¬ 
tion of the Empire State. A committee will 
he appointed and charged with the duty of 
providing quarters for strangers. 
Now, if all these chances for comfortable 
quarters shall fail, several trains on each of 
the four railroads, will leave Elmira every 
evening, and will sell tickets out and hack at 
half price or less. Strangers can thus visit 
and find ample accommodations in pleasant 
and populous villages within easy and cheap 
reach of Elmira. 
Behring Straits Surveying Expedition.— 
The Navy Department have dispatches from 
Licnt. John Rodgers, commanding this expe¬ 
dition. llis ship (the Vincennes) arrived at 
Petropaulowski on the 8th of July last, from 
Hakodadi, Japan ; and the Iftnimore Cooper, 
acting Lieut. Commanding Wm. Gibson, (one 
of the ships of the expedition,) on the 9th.— 
All was well with the expedition, and those 
engaged on it.— Washimgton Star. 
Suit for Damages. —The N. Y. Tribune is 
informed that an attorney in that city has 
commenced a suit in the United States Cir¬ 
cuit Court, against the Camden & Amboy 
Railroad Company, to recover damages for in¬ 
juries sustained by two members of his family 
who were passengers in the cars during the 
recent catastrophe at Burlington. 
An extensive fruit dealer of Alton, Illinois, 
recently received au order from New York for 
twenty-four boxes of the best peaches to ha 
procured in the ina ket. They were accord¬ 
ingly shipped, and came through uninjured. 
Ten years ago the idea of sending peaches 
from Alton to New York would have been 
considered absurd. 
•{feto? Clippings. 
Ex-President Fillmore is in Paris. 
Galena, Ill., is soon to be lighted with gas, 
the pipes being laid down. 
The thermometer registered at Toledo, Sep¬ 
tember 12, 93 deg. in the shade. 
Most of the Churches that have been closed 
through the month of August, have opened 
again. 
The Indianapolis Republican tells of a bean 
raised in that city three feet long ! It must 
be a human bein. ’ 
The Paterson (N J.) Mirror hoists the name 
of Theodore Frelinghuysen at its head for the 
next Presidency. 
The result of the census of Boston has just 
been obtained. The total population of the 
city is 162,929. 
The fever has broken out at Suffolk, Va., 16 
miles from Portsmouth, and the people are 
flying panic stricken. 
There arc no seats in any of the Greek 
Churches—and eve^ the Emperor himself must 
stand during the service. 
The total population of Chicago, as by the 
census just taken and completed^ is 80,028.— 
In 1850 it was 28,620. 
A sample of corn seventeen feet four inches in 
length, passed through Builalo last weekLfroin 
Indiana to New York. 
At the late term of the Superior Court for 
Litchfield county, Ct., twenty-six persons were 
divorced from each other. 
The Chicago Post Office is the second distrib¬ 
uting office in the Union. The receipts for 
the past year were $321,000. 
There is an orange tree in the garden of 
Versailles, France, which is more than 400 
years old. It is perfectly vigorous. 
A young man named Geo. Clark was shot 
dead by the guard recently, at Alton, while 
attempting to escape from prison. 
Santa Anna’s family is really on its way to 
New York—he to follow them shortly. He 
will be a lion when he get9 there. 
The Grenada Republican, Mississippi, says 
that the cotton crop is suffering in that region 
of country from the rust, rot and drouth. 
One hundred and eighty-two blackfish were 
driven ashore at Truro on Saturday week.— 
They will make about one barrel of oil each. 
Mrs. F. A. Pike, of Calais, authoress of Ida 
May, is said to be building a handsome r< si- 
dence with the proceeds of her successful book. 
Peoria, Ill., numbers a population of 11,- 
909, and adding 472 in the suburbs outside the 
corporation limits, 12,381. In 1850 it was 
5,096. 
Prof. Pierce, of Harvard College, is said to 
be of the opinion that the zodiacal light is 
occasioned by a nebulous ring around the 
earth. 
Lucy Stone, of Women Rights celebrity, now 
Mrs. Blackwell, has purchased a fine farm on 
the Fox River-, a short distance above Cedar 
Rapids. 
According to the St. Louis Democrat, there 
ate two branches of Know Nothings in Mis¬ 
souri-one who follow Atchison and the other 
Doniphan. 
The Virginia tobacco crop will, this season, 
much exceed that crop of last year. The in¬ 
spections thus far show an excess of 9,600 
hogsheads. 
A party of 50 first class mechanics left Sy¬ 
racuse Sept 11, for Kansas. They are engaged 
to work on government buildings at Fort 
Leaven woith. 
A Southern paper announces that the whip¬ 
ping post has been revived in Virginia, a thief 
at Parkersburg having been punished with 
twenty lashes. 
In the town of Beverly, Mass., which con¬ 
tains a large and prosperous community, there 
is not, it is said, a single hotel or place of pub¬ 
lic entertainment. 
The change of the Seat of Government in 
Canada is to he made on the 1st of Ootoher.— 
On that day the public officers are to leave 
Quebec for Toronto. 
Lx the neighborhood of Albany, N. Y., the 
potatoes are so large that (the Knickerbocker 
says) the dealers paint them green and sell 
them for watermelons. 
It is rumored that the receipts of the New 
York Central for August, will reach $700,000, 
and that the Southern Michigan will show an 
increase of $30,000. 
A few days since the citizens of Province- 
town. Mass., chose a committee to proceed to 
the West, to contract for flour sufficient to sup¬ 
ply the families in town. 
The story of an old man in Belgium having 
willed 600,000 francs to Alexander Dumas, the 
French author, is contradicted by Dumas him¬ 
self. It is a sheer fabrication. 
The gas Co. of Providence, R. I., in conse¬ 
quence of the reduced cost of coal, will reduce 
the price of gas on the 1st of October to three 
dollars per thousand cubic feet. 
A Mr. Pease, of Limerick, Me., was recently 
swindled out of $1200 by some Gipsies, who 
persuaded him that the sum of $4,000 wa3 
buried somewhere on his farm. 
Five of the twelve statues destined for St. 
Stephen’s Hall, London, have been completed. 
They are figures c-f Mansfield, Selden, Falk¬ 
land, Hampden and Clarendon. 
The gold and silver stamped by the differ¬ 
ent mints of Mexico, from 1521 to 1852, to¬ 
gether with manufactures from the precious 
metals, amounts to $3,562,205,000. 
A Berlin letter says that Count Nesselrode 
had addressed another letter to the Russian 
Ambassador, in which he says the Czar is wil¬ 
ling to make honorable terms of peace. 
Two hundred to three hundred blackfish 
appeared in New Bedford Bay, off North 
Lo !ge, on Thursday week. They were of all 
sizes, from ten to twenty feet in length. 
On the 30th ult. the train from Chicago, on 
the Alton and St. Louis Railroad, ran into a 
flock of sheep ISsYar Joliet, and killed or se¬ 
verely injured about two hundred of them. 
The President has confirmed the findiog and 
sentence of the Couit Martial at Santa Fe, by 
which Brevet Major Philip R. Thompson was 
tried and cashiered for drunkenness on duty. 
