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ROCHESTER, OCTOBER 6, 1855. 
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the great Winter Campaign. 
The Fall of Sebastopol. 
The news of the capture of the Malakoff 
tower, and the consequent destruction of Se¬ 
bastopol, was brought over by the America, 
which arrived at Halifax on the 25th. After 
a siege of three hundred and sixteen days, 
preceded by two pitched battles, and interlu- 
ded by a third—after a winter campaign, in 
which the sufferings of the invaders have 
been exceeded in history by scarcely any 
other expedition, except that of the elder 
Napoleon into Russia ; after one of the most 
obstinate defences ever known since fortresses 
were constructed, has the arm of Russian 
power in the southern portion of her Empire 
been finally stricken down! Her army has 
been beaten back, her navy destroyed, and 
her great naval and military depot upon the 
Black Sea has ceased to exist. 
It is well known that the Malakoff was the 
chief point of attack, for upon the capture or 
maintenance of this the fate of the city and 
the harbor necessarily depended. Both par¬ 
ties well understood it, and hence concentra¬ 
ted upon this point the chief energies of the 
6iege and the defence. The Russians prepared 
a floating bridge across the harbor to furnish 
them the means of escape if they failed to 
maintain their position ; they mined the 
whole city, and prepared materials fcr burn¬ 
ing the fleet, when "the fortunes of war should 
finally turn against them ; and hence, the 
enemy had no sooner effected a lodgment 
within the Malakoff, and its longer defence 
shown to he unavailing, than the city, the 
fleet, and everything that could be destroyed, 
were converted into a mass of ruins, by the 
hands of the Russians. The example set 
them by Alexander and his people in the de¬ 
struction of Moscow, has been imitated at 
Sebastopol, so that after all the toil and suf¬ 
fering of the Allies, their booty consists 
chiefly in dismantled fortifications and blood¬ 
stained walls. 
What the future movements of the bellig¬ 
erents will be remains to be seen. The Rus¬ 
sians still maintain themselves in the strong 
forts on the north side of the harbor, and 
hold the country to the Isthmus of Perekop, 
so that a way of retreat is opened to them on 
the land side, although they are entirely cut 
off by sea. Winter is approaching, and it 
will be very difficult to supply themselves 
with provisions and munitions. Under these 
circumstances a retreat and abandonment of 
the Crimea by them seems to be inevitable, in 
which case they will undoubtedly adopt the 
old Scythian as well as modern Russian poli¬ 
cy of laying waste the country behind them, 
and thus cut off' the enemy’s means of sup¬ 
port in case he shall attempt pursuit. A na¬ 
tion like Russia adopting such a method of 
warfare, may be crippled, but can never be 
finally conquered. I 
State Conventions. 
Three Conventions were held in this State 
last week, but only two sets of State officers 
were put in nomination. The Know Nothing 
Convention met at Auburn, and the Whig 
and the Free Soil Conventions at Syracuse.— 
The former assembled on Tuesday, the 25th 
ult., and chose the Hon. Ebastus Brooks, 
editor of the New York Express, President of 
the Convention. After the preliminary de¬ 
liberation and discussions usual on such occa¬ 
sions were gone through with, the following 
ticket was agreed upon : For Secretary of 
State, Joel T. Headley, of OraDge ; for Comp¬ 
troller, Lorenzo Burrows, of Orleaas; for 
State Treasurer, Stephen Clark, of Albany ; 
for Attorney General, Stephen B. Cushing, of 
Tompkins ; for State Engineer and Surveyor, 
Silas Seymour, of Rockland ; for Canal Com¬ 
missioner, Samuel S. Wiiallon, of Chautauque, 
for Inspector of State Prisons, William A. 
Russell, of Washington ; for Judges of the 
Court of Appeals, William W. Campbell, of 
New York, for full term, and Geo. F. Com¬ 
stock, of Onondaga, for vacancy. 
The other two above named Conventions 
met at Syracuse, by previous understanding, 
on the 26th ; and after organizing separately, 
appointed committees of conference with the 
! intent of uniting in one body. The confer¬ 
ence was successful, the two Conventions 
fused under the name of theRepublican 
Party,” and nominated the following State 
ticket: For Secretary' of State, Preston King, 
of St. Lawrence ; for Comptroller, James M. 
M. Cook, of Saratoga; for Treasurer, Alex. 
B. Williams, of Wayne ; for Canal Commis¬ 
sioner, Daniel H. Bissell, of Livingston ; for 
Attorney General, Abijah Mann, Jr., of 
Kings ; for Engineer and Surveyor, Georoe 
Geddes, of Onondaga ; for State Prison In¬ 
spector, Wesley Bailey, of Oneida; for 
Judges of the Court of Appeals, Bradford R. 
Wood, of Albany, (long term.) and Joseph 
Mullin, of Jefferson, (short term.) 
The resolutions of the Republican Conven¬ 
tion have one virtue, at least, frequently 
wanting in political manifestos, viz , explicit¬ 
ness. They take strong ground against slave¬ 
ry in the territories, and against the admis¬ 
sion of any more Slave States ; they condemn 
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and 
the armed invasion of Kansas by Missourians. 
They are hostile to all secret political organi¬ 
zations ; they advocate a speedy completion 
of the canals, and urge the policy of keeping 
them in repair by contract. The temperance 
question, however, is not alluded to at all. 
In Luck. —The Boston Transcript is informed 
that a young lady, one of the assistant teach¬ 
ers in the Webster Grammar School of Cam¬ 
bridge, has received information from the 
authorities in Para, Brazil, of the death, at 
that place, of a Mr. S. who has left property 
to her by will, to the amount of $70,000.— 
This bequest, so unexpected, comes from a 
disappointed suitor of the lady, who, in de¬ 
spair at his rejection some eight years ago, 
wandered away to South America, and made 
a fortune there. The teacher referred to is a 
lady of estimable character, who has many 
qualities of head and heart. 
This is a very bad precedent, and we would 
not recommend it to other young ladies as 
one worthy of imitation. 
Texas Cattle. —The Chicago papers say, a 
gentleman named McCoy, residing at La Salle, 
in the State of Illinois, with three or four 
others in company, are extensively engaged 
in the cattle trade with Texas. They pur¬ 
chase large droves of animals in the latter 
State and in Mexico, and drive them on foot 
to the North-western States, whence, after 
being fattened, they ultimately find their 
way to the eastern markets. At least twenty 
thousand of these cattle are now on their way 
north, and will arrive in Illinois in a week 
or two. 
A Public Benefactor. —The late Joseph P. 
Fairbanks, of Johnsbury, Vt., bequeathed ten 
thousand dollars to Middlebury College, ten 
thousand dollars to constitute a fund for the 
support of aged and infirm ministers, and a 
like sum in aid of poor yourg men preparing 
for the ministry. He was one of the Fair¬ 
banks’ brothers, who invented and have real¬ 
ized fortunes out of the celebrated platform 
scales. 
The Genesee Evangelist, advertised in this 
paper, is worthy the attention of the Religious 
community, and especially of the Presbyterian 
denomination, of which it is the organ. The 
editor has recently secured the co-operation 
of several able Professors and Clergymen, 
whose contributions will enhance the value 
and popularity of the paper. 
A Hop Growers’ Convetion is to be held in 
the Court House at Cooperstown, on Monday, 
the 8th of October, for the purpose of taking 
into consideration the subject of hops in all 
its ramifications, whether of culture, quality, 
picking, poles, prices, &c., &c. 
The Canal Board of Ohio have resolved to 
have the repairs made for the ensuing five 
years by contract, and the Board have adjourn¬ 
ed their proposals, which will be received at 
the office in Columbus till the 15 th of Novem¬ 
ber next. 
Chicago Grain Market.— The shipments 
from Chicago by lake to the 13th inst., since 
the opening of navigation, exceeds nine and 
a half million bushels. This does not include 
shipments by railroad, which amount to near¬ 
ly a million bushels more. 
JLHelrqlrl) 'ijecolS. 6^lifob)iq ]n]ielligen)ce. Clippings. 
Japan as it Was and Is. By Bioiiaed Hildreth, author of 
“ History of the United States,” etc. Boston : Puiuaps, 
Sampson & Co.—1855. 
This is the title of a sterling historical volume of 676 
pages. It comprises the cream of many works, the 
greater part not accessible to the general reader, yet 
containing much that is curious and interesting, and. to 
most people, new—presented in a condensed form, after 
arduous labor in collection and arrangement. In the 
advertisement to the volume it is truly remarked that 
“ the complete history of the Portuguese, Spanish and 
Dutch relations with the Japanese is not to be found else¬ 
where in English ; nor in any language, in a single work ; 
while in no other book have the English and American 
relations been so fully treated. Many extraordinary 
characters and adventures make iheirappearance on the 
scene, and the reader will have no ground to complain 
at least of want of variety.” The volume embraces an 
outline Map of Japan a Glossary, Appendix, etc., render, 
ing it altogether tbo most complete and valuable work 
on Japan yet issued in a form so cheap and acceptable. 
For sale by Dkwey. 
Tin; Exhibition Speaker, containing Farces, Dia'ogues and 
Tableaux, with Exercises fo Declamation in protvand 
verse. By P. A. Fitkoerald Esq. New York: Shel¬ 
don, Lamport & Biakeman. 
This work contains an excellent treatise on elocution 
and oratory, and, though designed primarily for school 
exhibitions, there are single pieces in prose and verse— 
Dramatic, Senatorial &c., which will make it a desirable 
companion of every school boy who aspires to be an 
orator. The plays, farces, tableaux, tragedies and dia¬ 
logues are well chosen, and the keen wit and humor 
which many of them contain, adds much force to the 
moral tone which pervades them all. The teacher will 
find it a valuable assistant in selecting pieces for decla¬ 
mation, and may gather from it many good hints as to 
the best means by which the greatest per fee: ion in the 
style of oratory can be attained. In addition to all this, 
is a complete system of Gymnastic and Calisthonic exer¬ 
cises, with instructions both for teacher and pupil, illus¬ 
trated with over sixty engrav.ngs. Sold by D. M. Dkwey. 
The Auraucanians ; or, Notes of a Tour among the Indian 
__Tribes of Southern Chili. By Edmond Reukl Smith, of 
the U. S. N. Astronomical Expedition in Chili. New 
York : Harper h Brothers —1855. 
This volume will contribute to the goneral stock of in¬ 
formation relative to the aboriginal races of America, as 
it imparts definite knowledge in regard to a tribe of In¬ 
dians who are but little known, “though they have won 
for themselves an enviable reputation by successfully 
resisting the encroachments of the white man for more 
than three hundred years.” The author states that his 
object has been to give such an account of the manners, 
religion and present condition of the Auraucanians as 
may be interesting both to the student and to the gene¬ 
ral reader. This object is accomplished in a pleasant 
and interesting manner. The volume is well illustrated. 
For sale by Dakrow & Br. 
Lioirr and Darkness ; or, the Shadow of Fate. A Story 
of Fashionable Life. New York : D. Appleton & Co — 
1855. 
The author avers, in the preface, that he (or she) has 
“ endeavored in this book to portray the bad as not whol¬ 
ly bad, nor the good as immaculate, since of human na¬ 
ture either is rarely or never true.” How successfully 
we cannot say,—but a friend who has permed the vol¬ 
ume, pronounces it entertaining and far above medioc¬ 
rity. For sale by Dkwey. 
Richard Hubdis.—A Tale of Alabama. By VVm. Gilmore 
Simms. New York : Redfikib. —1855. 
This is a r ew and revised edition of a work which 
proved successful on its first publication. It constitutes 
the second number of the new series of the author’s 
works now issuing under the general title of “Border 
Novels and Romances of the South.” Dkwey. 
Emancipation in Kentucky. —The Newport 
(Ky.) News has the following: 
It has been proposed to us by several gen¬ 
tlemen who own slaves in Kentucky, that 
they (the slaveholders) hold a Convention at 
Frankfort to adopt some plan for the Aboli¬ 
tion of Slavery, and that we so announce it; 
and that Hon. W. H. Luke, of Pendleton Co., 
a slaveholder, he appointed by the friends of 
the Convention, as one in this part of the 
State to draw up a proposition for its gradual 
abolition. 
"Effects of a Bombardment.— A letter writer 
giving an account of the recent bombardment 
of Sweaborg, says that the men employed on 
the gun-boats had, as usual, their ears padded 
with cot on, and few cases of deafness are re¬ 
ported, but all employed experienced great 
pain in the chest, and in two days some of the 
men had not recovered their voices. The 
mortar-boats threw 1,000 tons of shells ! 
The North-west Passage.— Lady Franklin 
has addressed a letter to the Chairman of the 
Arctic Committee, urging the claim of her 
husband to some portion of the reward offered 
for the discovery of a north-west passage.— 
She says that his party were found dead of 
starvation upon a spot which they could not 
have reached without having first solved that 
geographical problem. 
Iowa University. —Hon. Amos Dean, of 
Albany, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in 
the Albany Medical College, and also Profes¬ 
sor in the Law School, in that city, has receiv¬ 
ed the appointment of President of the State 
University of Iowa, and will probably accept 
the position. Prof. Dean is an able and eru¬ 
dite man, eminent for his practical views, and 
highly esteemed for his personal qualities. 
The Crimea.— The peninsula, to which so 
much interest is attached, is considerably 
larger than the State of Massachusetts. It 
contains a geographical surface of upwards of 
nine thousand square miles ; its climate is 
mild and soil fertile. It has about 200,000 
inhabitants. 
A Noble Gift. —Rev. Dr. Bethune announ¬ 
ces that a lady of Philadelphia, Mrs. Anna 
Hertzog, has given the noble donation of 
thirty thousand dollars, in aid of the build¬ 
ings connected with the Theological Semina¬ 
ry of the Reformed Dutch Church, N. B. 
The Indianapolis Sentinel thus notices the 
Post Office in that city: “The Post Office in 
this city is doing a flourishing business. Per¬ 
sons desirous of procuring letters or newspa¬ 
pers, will do well to give the P. O. a call be¬ 
fore inquiring elsewhere.” 
Samuel Robbins, a lad of 18 years, son of | 
Mr. Samuel S. Robbins, of Salisbury, Ct., died I 
on the 8th tilt., of a disease of the lungs, oc- { 
casioned by a piece of herdsgrass which he ; 
accidentally drew into those organs nine years 
ago, while running with it in his mouth. 
Arrival of the Star of the West. 
The steamship Star of the West, Capt. E. 
W. Turner, arrived at Quarantine on Sunday, 
the 30th ult., with 551 passengers and $1,- 
150,000 in treasure. A large number of deaths 
from cholera have occurred on the passage. 
The frigate Amphitrite arrived at San Fran¬ 
cisco from the Amoor river on the 21st Au¬ 
gust, having left that river on the 15th July, 
touching at Sitka on her way. Again, a 
small town or river of that name was visited, 
but found to he deserted. A proclamation 
was issued declaring that private property 
would be respected. A small iron steamer 
belonging to the Russians was blown up. 
A slight shock of an earthquake was felt in 
San Francisco on the morning of the 28th 
Aug., at about 3 o’clock. The new Custom 
House and Post Office is nearly completed, 
and meets with general admiration. 
The first trip on the Sacramento Valley 
Railroad was made on the 18th August. The 
train, consisting of three platform oars, was 
densely crowded. Invited guests from all 
parts of the State were present on the occa¬ 
sion, which forms an era in the annals of 
California. 
Oregon. —The news from Oregon is up to 
the 27th ult. The Colville gold mines, first 
pronounced a humbug, are now well spoken 
of again. Mr. Bouton, just arrived across the 
plains, reported a terrible Indian massacre of 
emigrants this season, at Devil’s Gate, on the 
Sweet Water river. A train of 300—men, 
women and children—were attacked by the 
Cheyenne Sioux, and 150 killed, and all their 
stock, provisions, &c., captured. The re¬ 
mainder of the train reached Salt Lake City 
in a starving condition. Among the shain 
were Gen. Lane’s brother and family. It is 
reported that 70 whites have been murdered 
near Fort Colville by the Indians. Lieut. 
Derby has just completed the survey of the 
military road from Salem to Astoria—a dis¬ 
tance of 100 miles. 
The Polynesian, a paper published at Hon¬ 
olulu, says the bark Nile, Captain Scott, ar¬ 
rived recently from Petropauloffski. She re¬ 
ports that place to have been deserted by the 
Russians previous to the arrival of the allied 
fleet before it. On May 31, when the Nile 
first reached that place, the President, the 
Dido, three steamers, and one French vessel, 
were lying off the harbor, which they had 
previously been blockading for several days. 
On or about May 29, a steamer entered the 
harbor, and discovered the real state of the 
case, the place having been evacuated on 
April 17. 1,400 Russians, male and female, 
soldiers and civilians, had left in three vessels 
of war and two transports, probably for a 
Russian settlement in the Bay of Anadir. Be¬ 
fore receiving the order to quit from St. Pe¬ 
tersburg, the Russians had been actively en¬ 
gaged in preparing the town for defense.— 
New forts had been built, and many guns re¬ 
mounted. 
The Camel Expedition. —The Washington 
Star has some particulars of the progress of 
the expedition to the Levant in search of 
camels to be used on the western deserts be¬ 
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The 
U. S. store ship Supply was at Tunis on the 
4th of August. Major Wayne, the chief of 
the expedition, and the officers of the ship, 
were presented to the Bey of Tunis, who, on 
hearing of the object of the expedition, imme¬ 
diately sent them a present of t wo fine camels. 
The Supply left Malta Aug. 10th, and took 
on board a beautiful block of marble from the 
ruins of Carthage, for the Washington Monu¬ 
ment, presented by Mr. David P. Heap, son 
of our late Consul. The block is of variegated 
— red and white — marble, and was cut from 
one of the columns of the temple of Esculapius. 
The Baby Show. —The Board of Aldermen 
of Providence, R. I., have refused to grant a 
license for the baby show. The Providence 
Journal says : 
“ For so doing, they will have the wannest 
thanks of every man in the community not 
low and brutal in his instincts, and of every 
woman not coarse and vulgar in her nature. 
The statute provides, that if any owner of any 
house or room shall allow any such exhibition 
without license, he shall forfeit and pay the 
sum of fifty dollars : and every person acting 
or performing in any such unlicensed exhibi¬ 
tion shall forfeit and pay as a fine for every 
such offence the sum of two hundred dollars. ’ ’ 
The Ontonagon Band of Chippewa Indians. 
We understand that the quantity of four sec¬ 
tions of land, in a compact body, have been 
selected for the reservation of the Ontonagon 
Indians, under the first article of the Chippe¬ 
wa treaty of July 30, 1854. The lands are 
situated on the shore of Lake Superior, in 
township fifty-three, range thirty-eight West, 
some ten miles Northeast of the mouth of the 
Ontonagon river, and will doubtless prove a 
pleasant permanent home for those Indians. 
Washington Star. 
A Just Rebuke.— In a recent criminal trial 
in Michigan, the wife and infant child of the 
accused, accompanied by a minister of the 
gospel in the relation of a friend of the family, 
were constantly present, and afforded the 
counsel for the defence an opportunity, which 
was not lost, to make a very pathetic appeal 
to the jury. The judge thereupon took occa¬ 
sion to state, in his charge, that he “hoped 
never again to witness such tliiDgs brought 
into court as a part of the machinery of the 
defence.” 
Cincinnati Chivalry.— On Tuesday week, 
two rich, young sprigs of Cincinnati, fought a 
duel, about a young lady, of course. They 
fired three times without effect, when one of 
the seconds stepped forward, and declared that 
he himself was engaged to be married to the 
youDg lady about whom the principals were 
fighting. This announcement put a new faco 
upon affairs, and all parties professing them¬ 
selves satisfied, the belligerents retired from 
the bloody field. 
Interesting Relic. —The Philadelphia North 
American says :—“ We have been shown the 
identical gavel with which General Washing¬ 
ton performed the ceremony of laying the 
comer stone of the National Capitol, as Grand 
Master of the State»of Virginia. 'Phis inter¬ 
esting relic is in excellent preservation. It 
belongs to Potomac Lodge, No. 4.” 
Flour is selling at Elmira, according to the 
Gazette, at $6,60 per barrel. 
The Madison (la.) Banner says that apples 
are selling for five cents a bushel. 
A farmer in Fayette county, Ky., has rais¬ 
ed 9,000 bushels of potatoes this year. 
Brigham Young has ninety wives, and be¬ 
tween three and four hundred children. 
John Mitciiel, the Irish exile, is said to be 
busily engaged in farming in Tennessee. 
The reciprocity treaty is said to have won¬ 
derfully increased trade in Buffalo this year. 
The Governor has appointed Thursday. Oct. 
26th, as a day of public thanksgiving in North 
Carolina. 
It is definitely decided to locate a Theolog¬ 
ical institution of Freewill Baptists at Lewis¬ 
ton, Maine. 
There was an insurance on the life of the 
late Abbott Lawrence to the amount of forty 
thousand dollars. 
The Water Works of the city of Hartford, 
Conn , have thus far cost $189,577. They 
approach completion. 
The widow of Louis Philippe is in Belgium, 
on her way to visit her daughter-in-law, the 
Dutchess of Orleans. 
The cost of lighting the Palace and Garden 
of Versailks on the evening of Queen Victo¬ 
ria’s visit was £6,520. 
Tiie cool weather has driven the Silver Lake 
Snake into his den, and the summer visitors 
have mostly returned home. 
The surplus funds in the hands of the Gov¬ 
ernment at the present time amounts to about 
thirty-one millions of dollars. 
The President has appointed Ex-Governor 
Pillsbury, of Maine, as consul to Halifax, in 
place of R. M. Frazier, removed. 
Nebraska Terbitory already contains taxa¬ 
ble property to the amount of $619,816, ac¬ 
cording to the returns of the assessors. 
Belgium is said to have now nearly forty 
Protestant church congregations. Twenty- 
five years ago, not one could be found. 
Three hundred and eighteen cases of Con¬ 
necticut Seed Leaf Tobacco were sold in New 
York on the 21st inst., at 7 a 14 cents. 
The wife of Chief Justice Taney is very ill 
at Old Point Comfort. Medical assistance has 
been summoned there from Baltimore. 
Ex-Gov. Slade passed through Buffalo on 
Wednesday, Sept. 26, in company with some 
forty female teachers, bound for sundown. 
Corks bearing the Heidsick brand are worth 
ten cents apiece in New York, and are sohi by 
bushels at that price to the wine merchants. 
Tiie Governor has appointed Dan. II. Cole, 
County Judge and Surrogate for the county of 
Orleans, in place of Henry R. Curtis, deceased. 
The Democratic Press gives the receipts of 
lumber at Chicago, for one week, at over 
8,000,000 feet, and for the season over 205,- 
000,000. 
Two thousand and seven hundred new 
buildings have been erected, or are in pro¬ 
gress of erection, in Chicago during the pres¬ 
ent season. 
The wife of the Hon. Tlietdme S. Fay, our 
Minister resident near the F®eral Govern¬ 
ment of Switzerland, died at Berne on the 
31st of August. 
A suit has been commenced in the U. S. 
Circuit Court, against Passmore Williamson, 
for the value of the abducted slaves belonging 
to Mr. Wheeler. 
The State Fair of Pennsylvania, at Harris- 
burgh, closed Sept. 28. Upwards of 20,000 
spectators were present, and listened to the 
address of Mr. Watts. 
A retail merchant in Buffalo says that his 
business increased from $11,000 to $37,0C0 in 
a single year, by just adopting a thorough 
system of advertising. 
Thomas Dunbar, a Revolutionary soldier, 
aged 103 years, died in Madison county, Ky., 
on the 31st ult. He was present at the sur- 
renier of Lord Cornwallis. 
The New Haven Journal and Cornier says : 
“Dr. Townsend, the Sarsaparilla man, has 
paid $43,000 for a house and farm in Stam¬ 
ford, and intends to live there.” 
Tiie Convention of Delegates of the Young 
Men’s Christian Association have appointed 
Montreal as the next place of meeting, be¬ 
tween July and September, 1856. 
There are 18,COO sewing machines in opera¬ 
tion in Boston, performing the work of 40,000 
seamstresses. Formerly Boston sustained over 
80,000 seamstresses in New England. 
On Sunday night week, Mr. S. Francis, of 
Livonia, Liv. Co., had a stack of barley con¬ 
taining about 500 bushels of grain destroyed 
by fire—the work of an incendiary. 
The New Orleans Delta says that in more 
than three thousand cases, during the present 
season, innoculation for the yellow fever has 
b ee n tested, and with entire success. 
Returns have been received from Texas 
which indicate that Ward (Dem.) has been 
elected to Congress over Evans (K. N.,) by 
about one hundred and fifty majority. 
A farmer in Bond county, Missouri, has an 
orchard of two thousand 8ix hundred trees, 
from which he receives an income of $50,000. 
The surplus is mostly sold in St. Louis. 
A gentleman writing from Cuba to Louis¬ 
ville, Ky , says that the sugar crop now grow¬ 
ing on the Island of Cuba, will probably he 
the largest ever gathered on the Island. 
A girl named Brown recently disguised 
herself in male attire, and joint'd the Lnited 
States army at the Rome rendezvous. Her 
sex was not discovered for several weeks. 
Francis J. Webb, of Philadelphia, husband 
of the “ Colored Siddons,” has been refused a 
passage to Rio Janeiro, in the barque Sam 
Slick, Capt. Mayo, on account of his color. 
Shipments of wheat were made from Mem¬ 
phis, Tenn., last week, destined both for New 
York and Liverpool. The like bad never 
been known previous to the present season. 
The New Jersey State Census is at length 
completed. In gross, the population of the 
State at this time is 669,499, being an inert aso 
of 80,160 over ihe aggregate of the year I860. 
