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BOCHESTER, OCTOBER 13, 1855. 
OF THE KURAL PUBLICATION OFFICE! 
On and aftsr Saturday next, Oct. 20, the 
Publication Office of the Rural New-Yorker 
will be located in the second story of Simpson's 
• Block, Exchange Place — next doer east of 
Corinthian Hall, and directly opposite the 
Post Office — when and where office subscri¬ 
bers, and the friends of the Rural generally, 
will find ns at home and disposed to extend a 
cordial welcome to all who may have occasion 
to call at the establishment. 
News of the Week. 
No news of startling import, either at home 
or abroad, has been received during the week 
Foreign advices by the Pacific are principally 
occupied with details of the recent bombard¬ 
ment and capture of the South side cf Sebas¬ 
topol. No new movements have been made 
by either party, and future operations are left 
entirely to conjecture. The Russians still oc¬ 
cupy the Forts on the North side of the har¬ 
bor, and opinions are divided as to whether 
they will maintain their position as long as 
possible or fall back towards the peninsula of 
Perekop. Active operations cannot much 
longer be carried on in the field, and unless 
the successes of the Allies be followed up im¬ 
mediately, the army will go into winter quar¬ 
ters. Nothing further need be looked for 
from the Baltic fleet, the so-called destruction 
of Sweaborg closing the drama in that direc¬ 
tion. 
The chief items of interest at home, at 
least amoni the rural population, are the Ag¬ 
ricultural Fairs now being held throughout 
le Northern States and Canada. Our own 
State Fair cceurred at Elmira last week, com¬ 
mencing on Tuesday and continuing four days 
The weather was very inclement a portion of 
the time, hut notwithstanding these untoward 
uircumstances, the Fair was well attended 
and was quite successful. Further particulars 
of the event will be found in another column. 
One of the Kansas elections (that appointed 
by the Legislature) occurred last week — 
Wiiitefield, the pro-slavery candidate for 
Congress, was of course elected, as the Free 
Soil party, which repudiates the Legislature 
and its authority, did not vote. In some 
counties not an opposition vote wh6 polled.— 
Tne latter party also hold an election this 
week, at which Ex-Governor Reeder will un¬ 
doubtedly be chosen as delegate to Congress, 
and, with his credentials, will proceed to 
Washington to contest the seat with White- 
field. We may look for some warm discus 
sions over this matter in the next CoDgress 
The Georgia election has resulted in a Demo¬ 
cratic triumph, that party having elected the 
Governor and all the members of Congress 
except one. The Ohio and Pennsylvania 
elections occurred on Tuesday. 
A baby show came off in this city during 
the present week. About sixty entries were 
made, and among them four pair of twins and 
a trip'et. These shows so far have proved 
pecuniarily successful, tut like other new 
fangled manias w ill undoubtedly soon subside. 
A spirited demand for wheat has sprung up 
in the New York market, and prices have ad¬ 
vanced two to four cents per bushel. The 
purchase are said to be made on foreign ac¬ 
count, one broker having on Saturday and 
Monday purchased half a million bushels to 
export, supposed to be for theBri Lh govern¬ 
ment. It looks now as if a rise in the wheat 
and flour market was likely to take place, and 
we will endeavor to keep our readers advised 
upon this interesting movement. The last 
advice from abroad, however, do not seem to 
correspond with the home prospects. 
Teachers’ Institute. —The teachers of Erie 
County ia this State, are holding an Institute 
at Lanc^ter. It commenced on Monday last, 
and is to erntinue through next week. Able 
instructors are engaged, and (he State Super¬ 
intendent, Hon. V. M. Rice, is expected tote 
present. 
The Weather —Much rain has fallen for a 
week past, and the streams aie considerably 
swollen thereby. During Tuesday night and 
Wednesday of last week it rained emtinuous- 
]y ; on Thursday it cleared away and contin¬ 
ued pleasant ULtil Friday, when it commenced 
raining again furiously. Saturday was a wet 
day, but it cleared away again on Sunday 
with a chilly atmosphere indicative of frost, 
although none appeared in this vicinity. In¬ 
deed, the frost has held off wonderfully ; the 
foliage of the vines and some cf the tenderer 
trees shows a touch cf the destroyer, but 
much cf the forest ami the field remains un¬ 
changed and as green as in mid-summer — 
The dampness of the earth probably has some 
influence in counteracting the effects cf the 
cold atmosphere, as many nights which the 
thermometer indicated at a frosty tempera¬ 
ture showed no signs of its presence. It is 
quite mild again to-day, (Tuesday,) with 
slight appearances of more rain. 
American Powder. —A large amount of the 
powder used by the Allies in battering the 
walls of Sebastopol, was furnished by Ameri- 
| can manufacturers. Two clipper ships be- 
| longing to Grinnell, Minturn & Co., of New 
Yoik, were despatched to the Crimea during 
the past summer with full cargoes cf powder 
from the Hazard (Conn.) and the Dupont 
(N. J ) mills. 
Our English friends complain of the Yan¬ 
kee furnishing Russia w-ith a cargo or two of 
Colt’s revolvers, but are very willing to avail 
themselves of the “contraband of war.”— 
Jonathan, however, is not so particular about 
furnishing either with the article, as be is of 
having his supplies intercepted by r the cruisers 
of the other party. 
Ohio. —The election in Ohio came off on 
Tuesday, but we go to press too early to learn 
the result. There is great interest manifested 
both in and out of the State in the result of 
this election, as the issue between the new 
Republican fusion party and the old liners is 
more direct than at any election yet held in 
any of the States. Ex-Senator Chase is the 
Republican, Gov. Midill, the Administration, 
and Trimble the Know Nothing candidates 
for Governor. It is stated the latter party 
were to abandon their ticket and join the 
Administration party, thus leaving the course 
to Medill and Chase. 
Mt. Vernon Estate. —An Association of La¬ 
dies has been formed for the promotion of the 
purchase of the Mt. Vernon Estate,— the 
grave of Washington,— in order that the 
property, in which there exists a strong na¬ 
tional interest, shall not pass into the hands 
of speculator, as was at one time feared.— 
The members of the Association reside prin¬ 
cipally in Southern States. Its officers are 
wives of prominent individuals in the South. 
They propose to raise subscriptions toward the 
object for which they have been united.— 
North Carolina has already guaranteed $12,- 
000. The sum wanted is $200,000 
Sudden Death. —On Saturday evening last, 
Mrs. Grmiam, of this city, stepped into a shoe 
store, and while in the act of trying on a pair 
of gaiters suddenly fainted. Medical atten¬ 
dance was immediately procured, but the lady 
expired before being removed frem the store 
It app ared from the verdict of a Coroner’s 
Jpry that her sudden decease resulted from a 
disease of the heart. She was thirty years of 
age, and leaves a husband and young children 
to mourn her loss. 
Official Corruption. —It is well known Vbat 
several of the Aldermen and members of the 
Common Council of New York city are under 
indictment for official corruption. The New 
York papers of Saturday say it is rumored 
that bills have also been found against two 
justices and several of the police, although 
no official announcement has yet been made. 
New Yoik is certainly a great city ! 
Railroad Accident — A train of cars on the 
Boston and Maine road came in contact with 
a cow on the track on the morning of the 8th, 
by whi.h the cars were thrown off and the 
eDgine overturned down an embankment.— 
Two persons connected with the road were 
killed, and four others severely (one of them 
mortally) injured. 
Celebration. —The English residents of 
Chicopee, Mats., fired fifty guns and had a 
gTand supper, on Saturday cvtniDg, the 29th 
nit., in honor of the fall of Sebastopol.— 
Speeches and sentiments, aDd a few of the ■ 
songs of “meirie England,” were rehearsed in 
honor of the occasion. 
Georgia Flection. —Returns from Georgia 
show that the Democratic party have swept: 
the State with aclean broom. JonssoN (Dem.) ! 
will have from 7,0C0 to 10,000 majority, and 
Cobb and Stevens are elected to Ccngre.-s — 
“ Sam” 1 b stated to be banished from Georgia. 
Sickness on Shipboard. —We heard last | 
evening, that the barque Extract, from Savau-1 
nah, h id arrived at quarantine io this harbor, ' 
the captain and one of the mates having dud 
on the voyage, and almost every other man j 
i on board was down with a riinaso shoo S 'd to 
^ be yellow fever. —Mobile Advertiser, Srjjt. 29. 
Two of the daughters of the late ProfpFscr 
! Webst- r, who was executed (or the muider « f 
i Dr. Paikman, have mariied intothe family of 
I Mr. Dabney. *n Am rican at Fayal, cf great 
I influence and fortune. 
The State Census. 
We have received from the rffice cf the 
Secretary of State, through Mr. J. Distuinel), 
the following table of the census returns of 
the State. With the exception of six coun¬ 
ties, they are official—though anotefrom Dr. 
Hough, who has cha r geof this department in 
the Secretary of State’s office, eajs that they 
have not yet been care’ully revised, and may 
hereafter require correction : 
Counties. 
Pop 1850. 
Pop. 1855. 
Incr’e. 
Decr’e. 
Albany . 
... 93 279 
103,600 
10,221 
— 
AUegany . . . 
. . . 37,868 
42 919 
8,111 
— 
Broome. 
... 3u 660 
36 660 
6,000 
— 
Cattaraugus .. 
... 38 950 
39,682 
632 
— 
Cayuga. 
.... 55,468 
53 571 
— 
1,887 
Chautauque... 
... 50.493 
52’, 179 
1,686 
— 
Chemung .... 
. . . 28 821 
27 289 
— 
1 532 
Cnenaugo .... 
... 40.311 
39 912 
— 
3 0 
Clinton. 
.... 40,647 
42 483 
2,436 
— 
Columbia .... 
.. .. 43,i 73 
— 
— 
— 
Cort.and. 
,... 25.140 
24,574 
— 
566 
Delaware .... 
.... 39 834 
39.756 
— 
78 
Dutchess .... 
.... 68 992 
60.636 
1,644 
_ 
Krie. 
....100 993 
132 342 
31.349 
_ 
Essex . 
... 31158 
58,539 
— 
2 609 
Franklin.. 
.... 25.102 
25,477 
375 
_ 
Fulton. 
.... 20 171 
23 282 
3,111 
— 
Genesee.... 
.... 28,488 
31 034 
2,846 
— 
Greene . 
. . 33 126 
31 137 
— 
1,989 
Hamilton . . . 
. . . 2,188 
2,540 
382 
— 
Herkimer...., 
.... 38 24i 
38 566 
322 
— 
JeQerson . . . 
... 68,158 
65.421 
— 
2,737 
Kings . 
.. .138 882 
— 
— 
— 
Lewis. 
.... 24 564 
25.229 
565 
— 
Livingston ... 
...40 S75 
37.943 
— 
2,932 
Madison .... 
. . . 43,072 
43 688 
616 
— 
Monroe . 
,... 87.650 
96 324 
8 674 
— 
Montgomery.. 
... 31 992 
30 763 
— 
1,229 
Niagira. 
... 42,276 
48 325 
6 049 
— 
New York_ 
...516 647 
624.17&* 
— 
— 
Oneida. 
... 99 566 
1 7.151 
S, 188 
— 
Onondaga_ 
. . . 85.890 
86 491 
601 
— 
n ario. 
. .. 43 929 
40,674 
— 
3.255 
Orange. 
.. .. 57.145 
60.857 
3,712 
— 
Or e ns . 
.... 28 501 
28.662 
161 
— 
O-wego .... 
. . . 62.198 
69.400 
7,202 
— 
Otsego . 
.... 48.638 
49 749 
1,111 
— 
Putnim. 
... 14.138 
13 933 
-- 
206 
Queens . 
... 36,638 
— 
— 
— 
Rensselaer .... 
,... 73 363 
79.253 
5 890 
— 
Richmond. 
.. .. 15 061 
21 390 
6,329 
— 
Rocklaud . 
. .. 16.982 
20,508 
— 
— 
St Lawrence . 
...68 617 
74 979 
6,362 
— 
Siratog i. 
... 45 648 
49,381 
3.733 
— 
Schenectady .. 
... 20 054 
19,572 
— 
482 
S hohaiie .... 
... 33,548 
33,618 
70 
— 
Schuyler. 
— 
18 786 
— 
— 
Seneca. 
.... 25 441 
24 817 
— 
624 
Steuben. 
... 63,771 
62,976 
— 
796 
Suffolk. 
.... 36,922 
41.148 
4 226 
— 
Suit, van. 
,... 26 083 
29,389 
4 3'1 
— 
Tioga . 
.... 24 880 
26 976 
2,096 
— 
Tomokins. 
... 3S 746 
31 517 
— 
7,229 
Ulster. 
... £9 484 
— 
— 
— 
Warren . 
... 17.199 
19,675 
2 476 
— 
Washington ... 
... 44 750 
44.407 
— 
353 
Wayne. 
.... 44,593 
46,722 
2,129 
— 
Westchester.. 
.. 68.263 
-— 
•- 
— 
Wyoming .... 
... 31 981 
32,153 
172 
— 
Yates. 
... 2 n ,690 
19 812 
— 
778 
Total. 
.3,137,041 
3,002,146 
* Not official. 
The five conntiis that are not given in the 
above return, namely, Columbia, Kings, 
Queens, Ulster, and Westchester counties, 
have probably an aggregate population of 
380,9(0, which would fix the population of 
the State of New York at about 3,382,146 
souls, beirg an increase of 245,105 over the 
census of 1859. Though this figure is not so 
high as sanguine people anticipated, it is more 
than sufficient to exhibit our great prospe: it v. 
The following is the popu’atiou of the princi¬ 
pal cities, as compared with 1850 : 
CUio 3 . Pop. 1850. Po >. 1855. Inc. L’ec. 
AI ban v. 60 763 67.153 6 390 
Albany . 
. 60 763 
Aubur . 
. ' 9,643 
BROOKLYN 
: v 
Bush wick. 
. 3.739 
Wiliamsburgh 
.30 780 
Brooklyn. 
.96,868 
Total. 
131,387 
BCsrALO: 
Bla^k Rock. 
7.608 
Buffalo. 
42 261 
To al. 
- 49 769 
Hud>on. 
. 6 289 
New York. 
.515,-45 
O-wego. 
. 12 205 
Poughkeepsie.. 
Ro nester. 
. 36 403 
Schenectady ... 
. 8 921 
Syracuse. 
. 22.271 
Troy. 
. 28 795 
Utica..... 17,742 22,877 6,185 
It will thus be seen that the cities, especial¬ 
ly New York, Brooklyn. Buffalo, Roshet-ter, 
and Dtica, show a very fair increase of pop- 
ulat on. In two only is there a decrease, viz: 
ia the small towns of A,ubu:n and Schenecta¬ 
dy.— N. Y. Daily Times. 
Steamer Cleveland Blown Up —We are in¬ 
formed by a passenger who came up on the 
Huron last night, from Manitowoc, that the 
steamer Cleveland had met with an accident 
at Green Bay, having burst her condense r day 
before yesterday just as she was about start- 
iog from the pier, doing considerable damage 
to the boat, but no one was injured, except a 
woman, who was scalded. 
The captain of the Cleveland came up on 
the Huron, on his way to Chicago. We do 
not learn the amount of damage to the boat.— 
Mdwaukee Daily American, Oct 2. 
Warning to Parents —Mbs C'ara Haskins 
was found ad in her bridal chamber near 
Na’clnz M ss., on the 2d ult. After being 
dressed bv h-r bridesmaids she requested them 
to retire f >r a short time, and when they re¬ 
turned they found her lying lifeless upon her 
couch, with an empty vial which had con- 
tiineri piussic acid still clasped in her hand. 
She had adopted the desperate al ernative of 
s If-destruction rather than marry a man she 
cou’d not love in obedience to parental au¬ 
thority. 
Guano Project. — A Guano Company has 
been termed in New York, with a capital of 
j $10,000,0(10. They profess to own an island 
in the Pacific, covered with a deposit of over 
two hundred trillion tons of ammoniated 
guano, and to have dispatched a ship with 
men to take possession. They further say that 
[ tnev expect to sell the first year 400.000 tons, 
' at $39 a ton, out <f which they will realize a 
! profit of $2,400,000. These expectations, how¬ 
ever, are yet to be realized. 
Fleet Destroyed at Sebastopol —According 
to the Courier des EtitsUois, the Russian flag 
counted »t S-bastmol, in the month of Sep- 
I temher, 1854, 17 ships 5 of 120 guns, the re- 
[ inaiedrr of 84 guns; four frigatts of 69 guns ; 
' four corvettes or brigs ; tw lve steamships ; 
and lighty two ship? of inferior rank ; in all 
i 108 sbi os oa'rying 2 2 0 guns. I hit cob s al 
j armament »aj destroyed by tee Russians 
lhems> Ives, to prevent it fxom falling into the 
hands of their entmts. 
William Lyon McKenzie was recently pelt¬ 
ed with iotten eggs by the citizens i f Bratnp- 
t r n, Canada, wmie advocating a riLsolutiun 
I of the union bttwctn the provinces. 
Prom the Great Salt Lake. 
The Deseret News, up to the 1st ult., gives 
among other things the following items : 
The Mormons are busily at woiknpon their 
new Temple. A new settlement has been 
ooened in the Elk Mom tains, under tne Pres¬ 
idency of Elder Alfred N. BilliDgs. Hon. John 
M. Bernhisel, the delegate to Congress from 
Utah, has been on a tour cf observation to 
Fillmore and other places in the vicinity of 
Salt Lake City. The new State House is ex¬ 
pected to be finished for the occupancy of the 
Legislative Assembly in December. Garland 
Hurt, U. S. Indian Agent, returned to Salt 
Lake City on the 22d of August, from a suc¬ 
cessful visit to the Indians on Mary’s river. 
There will, it is said, be a heavy yield of the 
crops, notwithstanding the ravages of the 
grasshoppers. 
Salt is now gathered in immense quantities 
from large lakes, which, during high water, 
form part of Great Salt Lake. After the wa¬ 
ter recedes, the salt remains on the ground 
from three to six inches deep, at a distance of 
two miles from the Lake. The salt is clean, 
white and course. 
The Surveyor General for Utah, Mr David 
H. Burr, arrived at Salt Lake on (he 27th of 
July. He reports having seen butfew Indians 
on the route from Fort Leavenworth. 
The deaths of a number of Mormon mis¬ 
sionaries are announced. Among the deceased 
are Elder Albert Gregory, Elder Andrew L. 
Lamoreux, late President of the French mis¬ 
sion, and Elder Jacob Sechrist, late of the 
German mission. 
Sale of Lands in Minnesota Territory.— 
The President has ordered the modification 
of the proclamation for public land sales (No. 
542) to be held in Minnesota Territory in Oc¬ 
tober and November next, so as to restrict the 
sales at the Brownsville^ Winona, and Red 
Wing land offices to the lands in the vicinity 
of the Mississippi River. The sales as hereto¬ 
fore ordered at the remaining three offices, 
Minneapolis, Sauk Rapids and Stillwater, will 
take place without reduction. The new pro¬ 
clamation, as modified, will make no change 
in the days heretofore appointed for the sales 
to commence, and will cover the following 
quantities : 
L-nd Offices. Acres. 
Minneapolis,.111662 
Re t Wing,.147,249 
Winona,.*0x689 
Brownsville,.284.370 
Stillwater.161,374 
Sauit Rapids.277,759 
Total,.1,178,003 
Rain in Minnesota. —The St. Paul Pioneer 
of the 26th Sept, says the long cont’nned 
rainy weather is the source of surprise to 
many of “the oldest inhabitants” cf Min¬ 
nesota. It is not often we have over three 
days of rain, but it is now eight days since 
the sun made its face visible. The quantity 
of rain fallen is large, the rivers are quite 
high, and we think there can be no doubt, but 
the lumb rmen will be erabled to send down 
their logs in great numbers. The want of 
lumber has retarded the growth and prosper¬ 
ity of almost every city and town in the ter¬ 
ritory. This hairier removed, Minnesota will 
shoot ahead with unparalleled rapidity. We 
1< arn that, some of the logs have already come 
down, and that others are on their way. 
Splendid Park.— The New York people are 
perfecting Ihe preliminaries for the opening of 
a paik, a mile above the Crvstal Palac?, ex¬ 
tending from Fifly-ninth to One Hundred and 
Sixth street, two and a third miles, and from 
Fifth to Eighth Avenue, about 3,000 feet. It 
is near’y twice as large as Hyde Park, in Lon¬ 
don. The Commissioners for assessing dam¬ 
age to lands taken. &c., estimate the total 
amount at something over five millions, but 
$1,675 329 of which is assessed upon adjacent 
property. The city is to raise the remaining 
funds n cessary by a five per cent, loan, to run 
forty-five years. Two years nearly have b»en 
occupied by the Commissioners in making the 
estimates, surveys, assessments and examin¬ 
ing titles to lands taken.— Rochester American. 
A Texan Diana.— Within a few miles of the 
city of Austin, there lives a lady whose accom¬ 
plishments for the ball or drawing-room, if 
equalled, are not surpassed by anv in the 
State. This lady has, io the last eight months 
killed three bears, two of enormous size, sev¬ 
eral deer, and considerable BmaH game. She 
has, moreover, in her possession, a power¬ 
ful stallion of the Mustang breed, which she 
caught with the “lisso” on the prairies and 
“ broke in” herself She will follow the 
mountain or mule-eared rabbits over places 
which have caused the heart of many an old 
hunter to quail. She has frequently been 
known, when fo’lowing a wounded deer, to 
plunge into the river with her horse and con¬ 
tinue the pursuit. 
Singular Incident. —Six yea T s aero a gentle¬ 
man and h's familv moved to this city from 
Philadelphia, bringing with them a favorite 
dog, which remained with them about six 
months, and disappeared suddenly, since 
which time until Monday morning wetk, noth¬ 
ing had been heard of him. Ou that morning 
the gentleman snd family were to start at 4 
o’clock for California, and on entering the 
room where their baggage had been p'actd the 
night previous there they found the long lost 
dog, who seemed by his fondling to crave par¬ 
don for bis absence, and followed Hum to the 
boat, giving strong evidence of his dtsire to 
accom party them on their journey.— Alexan¬ 
dria Gazelle. 
Moustache worn byClxroym*n. —When the 
Ep’scopal wig rsme into fashion, it would 
seem that the heard was no longer wmn by 
clergymen In looking over a collection of 
prints, I find Wickliffa, William Tydale, Dean 
Donne, Geoig-> He)be r t, Robert Herrick, Rob¬ 
ert Burton, Bishop J.remv Fay'or, Archbishop 
SpottiswooH, Thomas Ft llnr, Usher and Pri¬ 
mate and Robert Knox Banyan. The Jesuits 
in India, I believe, ttill wear it. I have been 
unable to trace tl e latest instance of a cler¬ 
gyman wearing his gown and c ( ssrek in the 
i streets ; the custom apparently died out. in the 
reign cf one of the early Georges — Notes and 
Queries. 
A party of about fifty inrgrauta from Rap¬ 
pahannock and Culpeoper count!: s, Virginia, 
)if'. Washington in the former county, last 
Monday, bound for Kansas. 
Ciijrf)h)gs. 
Springfield, Mass., has a population of 
13,780. 
It is stated that less than 20 0A0 barrels of 
fish will be shipped from Mackinac this season. 
One firm in New York has manufactured 
600,000 cans for preserving fruit, during six 
months past. 
Arrangi ments have been made in Canada to 
raise immediately a force of 2,000 recruits for 
the British army. 
P. T. Barnum and a son of Moses Y. Beach, 
of Wallingford, Ct., have started a new Bank¬ 
ing House in New York. 
Nearly eleven thousand persons visited the 
Patent Office and Gallery, at Washington, 
during the last month. 
The papers chronicle the prevalence of the 
yellow fever in many of the interior towns of 
Louisiana and Mississippi. 
TnE whole number of applications made for 
bounty land under the law of last March, 
have been upwaids of 217,000. 
The accumulated loss by fire in the United 
States during the first nine months of the 
year is stated at $9,863,000. 
Since 1810 thirteen persons have died in 
Boston aged one hundred years and upward. 
Eight were women, and five men. 
The ealaiv of the Chief Engineer of the 
New York Fire Department has teen raised 
from $2,000 to $3,000 per annum. 
Several fishermen from the Banks have ar¬ 
rived from Barnstable within a few days, with 
large fares of fish ; one had 40,000. 
The census of Salem, Mass., recently taken, 
shows the present population to be 20,934.— 
The population in 1850 was 19,911. 
There was quite a sharp snow sterm Sun¬ 
day morning between Buffalo and Hornells- 
ville, in the vicinity of the latter place. 
The late destructive fire in Carhcndale, Pa., 
originated in the carelessness or drunkenness 
of some cf Washburn’s circus company. 
The poet Longfellow is engaged, it is said, 
upon a translation cf Dante, which will be 
ready for the press some time next year. 
John Maloney, statienman at Canawaugus, 
Liv. Co., on the Buffalo. Corning and N. Y. 
railroad, was killed by the cars Saturday. 
A frightful explosion took place at Miners- 
vi le, Pa., Oct. 4, in the mines on Wolf Creek. 
It is reported that five persons were tilled. 
The schooner Ivanhoe, bound from Cleve¬ 
land to Mackinac with coal, was run into and 
sunk on the night of the 4th. No lives 1 st. 
Since the application of steam on the Wi st¬ 
ern waters, there have been 39,672 livis lost 
by steamboat disasters, 381 boats and cargoes. 
A tomato has been raised in Morgan Co., 
HI., weighing over two pounds. The vine 
was trained to a pole, and kept well trimmed. 
Trains were iun Oct. 4. for the first time, 
over that portion of the Grand Trunk Rail¬ 
way west of Toronto, as far as the village of 
Brampton. 
A California eagle, measuring between the 
tips of wiDgs over tix feet, was lately caught 
near Mount Diabolo, and is exhibited in San 
Francisco. 
Among the recent promotions in the Nary, 
are these of Commanders Icgiaham and Hol¬ 
land, to be Captains, and Lieut. Houston to 
be Commander. 
The Methodist publishing house in Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn., has been operation only five 
months, but it has in that time printed 49,- 
689,000 pages. 
The American Express Co. offers $10,000 for 
the recovery of the $60,0(0 id gold recently 
stolen, and $5,( GO for the airett and convic¬ 
tion of the thieves. 
A National Convention of locomotive en¬ 
gineer met in Baltimore on the 6th inst., fur 
the purpose of foiming an Engineers's Na¬ 
tional Association. 
Lord Landsdowne has given £100 to Miss 
Frances Browne. One of her poems in the 
Athenaeum led h : m to find out that Biie was 
suffjriug in poverty. 
Judge Roosevelt, of the Supreme Court, 
has set down the second Monday in November 
for the trial of Biker and ctheis, indicted for 
the murder of Bill Poole. 
The Austrian Minister at Washington has 
notified the Department of State “ that pass¬ 
ports dated more than three years ago are not con¬ 
sidered valii in Austria. 
Mr. J L. Woolley, of Ogdensburgh, raised 
a squash which he intends exhibiting at the 
St. Lawrence County Fair, weighing two hun¬ 
dred and twenty-one pounds. 
The Cleveland and Erie Railroad Co. are 
now grndiDg preparatory to laying another 
track. The work will be dene next season 
the entire distance to Erie. 
The Earl of Carysfort has applied to the 
Irish Court of Chancery to draw cut £184 COO, 
accumulat'd during tne life of the deceased 
peer, he having been a lunatic. 
The President has appointed Geo. H Hop¬ 
kins, of Virginia, t hief Justice for theTJ. 8. 
Circffit Court for the Distiict of Columbia, 
vice Judge Cranch, deceased. 
A miser named GrundeiBm died rccert’y in 
Chicago for want of proper food and comforts. 
After his death it was discovered that he pos¬ 
sessed a property worth $4,000. 
Amoso the monsters in the nort'cnltural 
Exhibition, New York city, are a pumpkin 
nearlv eight feet in circumference, and a 
squash from Stamford, Ct., five fett. 
A lad named W. st, sixteen years cf age, 
has b en tried in the St. Joseph county court, 
Michigan, for having put obstructed s on the 
track of the Southern Michigan Railroad. 
The Austrian Marshal Radetsfei has just 
completed his 89ih vear, and has served in 
the army 71 years. Heis siiil in good health, 
but has tequtsted to be allowed to retire. 
There are in Georgia between fifty and six¬ 
ty cotton factortes. conducted in the must 
skillful manner, wiih all the aupliai c sin the 
way of machinery found in Nt.w England. 
A roBK dealer in Clfvdard has contracted 
for 20,Ct 0 hogs. At Cla kaville «i d B -wiii g 
Green, Kv , pork-pa ke s arc ocrtrectirg ter 
hogs at $4, gicss; at Ten© Haute, lnd., $5. 
