MOOEE’S EURAL NEW-YORKERi AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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ROCHESTER, OCTOBER 20,1855. 
OF THE EURAL PUBLICATION OFFICE! 
Ox and after Saturday next, Oct. 20, the 
Publication Office of the Rural New-Yorker 
will he located in the second story of Simpson’s 
Block, Exchange Place — next door east of 
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bers, and the friends of the Rural generally, 
will find us at home and disposed to extend a 
cordial welcome to all who may have occasion 
to call at the establishment. 
Safe Return of Dr. Kane. 
On Thursday afternoon (Oct. 11) the Pro¬ 
peller Arctic, and the hark Release, which 
sailed from New York last spring in search of 
Dr. Kane’s Arctic expedition, returned to 
port, having the adventurous navigator and 
his associates on board, and, with the excep¬ 
tion of three who died in the Arctic regions, 
all safe. A good deal of excitement prevailed 
on the shipping in port, and upon the docks, 
as the news spread of the return of the expe¬ 
dition, and cheers were given and cannon 
fired as the vessels proceeded up the harbor. 
Dr. Kane, it will be recollected, went in 
search of Sir John Franklin in 1853, with 
two ships, the Rescue and the Advance, fitted 
out under the auspices of that prince of mer¬ 
chants, Henry Grinnbll. They penetrated 
the first season as far as the northern face of 
Greenland, and were frozen up in latitude 78° 
45', after having been as far as 82° 30' North. 
This is farther than any navigator except 
Parry has been towards the Pole. The ves¬ 
sels remained frozen in for two winters, and 
were finally abandoned to their fate by the 
crews. The cold experienced during these 
two long, cheerless polar winters was indeed 
most terrible, and for four successive months 
mercury congealed daily. 
After the first winter was passed, exploring 
expeditions by means of dog sledges and boats 
were fitted out, and extensive explorations 
made. The shores of Smith’s sound were ful¬ 
ly examined and charted, and the North and 
East coast of Greenland surveyed. A new 
land was discovered on the East, joined to 
Greenland by an ice range five hundred feet 
in perpendicular height. The navigators 
named the new land Washington. But the 
most interesting discovery was an open sea 
north of the ice and stretching toward the 
Pole. It is surrounded by an ice belt one 
hundred and twenty-five miles wide. 
After having spent the winters of 1853 and 
1854 on hoard the frozen ships, and seeing no 
hope of their release, and after having con¬ 
sumed all their fuel and most of their provis¬ 
ions, and having lost fifty-seven of their 
sledge dogs and three of their companions 
from the effects of the cold, the party started 
over the ice in boats and sledges towards 
home, drawing the sledges over the ice when 
that intervened, and embarking whenever the 
open sea lay before them. They subsisted 
upon game and fish during a journey of 1,300 
miles, and at length reached Godhaven, a 
Danish settlement in Greenland. Here, to 
their great joy, they fell in with the expedi¬ 
tion sent to their relief, and were brought 
back as above stated. 
Many of them have lost toes by reason of 
the frost, but most of them are in excellent 
health and flesh. Not' a razor has been ap¬ 
plied to any of their faces since they left, and 
the Doctor shows a length of heard truly 
patriarchal. The utmost affection and friend¬ 
ship exists between him and his men, and the 
poor fellows are overjoyed at their return, af¬ 
ter so many perils, to their homes and country. 
Second Trial. —A man named Merrington 
sued the city of Chicago for damages sustained 
by reason of a defective sidewalk, and recover¬ 
ed a verdict of $3,200. ’The city, not content 
with the verdict, obtained a new trial, and the 
twelfth juror failing to agree with the other 
eleven, the attorneys stipulated to take the 
verdict from the eleven, who thereupon gave 
the plaintiff six thousand dollars ! Better have 
submitted at first. 
Fearful Balloon Excursion. 
Mons. Godard, accompanied by four other 
gentlemen, recently made a balloon ascension 
from Cincinnati. It appears that they en¬ 
countered a violent thunder storm in the 
clouds, which drove the balloon on, it is 
stated, at the rate of seventy miles an hour, 
and that they attained an altitude of 17,450 
feet. At length they descended in the midst 
of darkness, and suddenly felt their vehicle 
rushing over the tops of trees. Mons. God¬ 
ard attempted to climb up the side of the 
balloon to adjust some part of the apparatus, 
and was thrown off, landing in a cornfield.— 
The balloon was then hurled onward half a 
mile over fences, stumps, and trees, alternate¬ 
ly rising and falling, until it finally brought 
up in the top of a dead tree. Mons. G. had 
his lip badly cut, and the flesh lacerated on 
one of his limbs. One of the amateur adven¬ 
turers had an ankle sprained, head, shoulders 
and body generally bruised ; a second had his 
breast crushed in, three ribs broken, and oth¬ 
erwise badly bruised ; the third his head and 
neck “ skewed,” and generally scratched and 
bruised; and the fourth was bruised some¬ 
what, but not materially injured. 
Railroad Depredations. 
For months past, valuable articles have 
been missed from packages of merchandise 
during transit over the New York Central 
Railroad. The packages were opened, the 
goods removed, and then closed so as to show 
no appearance of having been broken. Sus¬ 
picion of course fell upon employees of the 
road, and a vigilant police was organized to 
ferret out the depredators, which resulted in 
the arrest of two conductors and several brake- 
men, residing in this city, and two others re¬ 
siding at Niagara Falls. At their houses and 
hoarding places were found a great variety of 
goods, such as choice silks, velvets, cashmere 
shawls, furs, laces, gloves, cotton fabrics, but¬ 
tons, combs, clothing, caps, shoes, rubbers, 
and whatever articles would serve to fit out a 
dry goods or variety store in a country place. 
More persons are suspected, and more arrests 
will probably be made. Some of those men 
have been engaged upon the road for several 
years, and have heretofore been above suspi- 
The Weather. 
The first snow of the season fell on Friday 
night and Saturday of last week. The roofs, 
and walks, and fields, were quite white for a 
few hours, but copious rains, and a warm at¬ 
mosphere, speedily removed all symptoms of 
coming winter. Sunday night was the coldest 
of the season, and a white hoar frost settled 
down upon leaf and flower, bringing with it 
blight and decay. The vines, the tender 
plants, and the leaves of the forest, acknowl¬ 
edge its potency, and are rapidly changing 
their colors under its influence. Since that 
time we have experienced rain and sunshine 
alternately, with a sharp thunder-storm on 
Monday evening, by way of variety. 
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Railroad Accidents.— A brakeman on the 
Canandaigua and Niagara Falls road lost his 
life last week by falling under the wheels 
while the train was moving. A train going 
east from Dunkirk on the Erie road, on the 
9th, ran off the track by reason of a mis¬ 
placed switch. The baggage-master, named 
Gardener, was killed, and several passengers 
badly injured. A train from Erie, hound for 
Cleveland, ran off the track on the night of 
the 11th, badly injuring several passengers, 
but fortunately killing no one. 
The freight train from the north, on the 
Harlem road, was thrown off the track Oct. 
15th, and the engine and two cars smashed. 
The engineer and fireman, brothers named 
Road, were both killed. A rail had been 
placed across the track, with which the engine 
c i me in contact. 
Noteworthy. —On Thursday morning of last 
week, an employee of the Central Road, named 
Ray, whose business it was to cleanse the cars 
at the depot in this city, found on one of the 
seats a package of money containing $1,500, 
which he handed over to the railroad officer. 
It was subsequently returned to the owner, 
who rewarded the finder with the sum of five 
dollars. This was a small compensation most 
people will say, but it was not the hope of re¬ 
ward which induced the finder to surrender 
the package. His compensation is an approv¬ 
ing conscience and the confidence of his fellow 
The Elections. —By the steamer Northern 
Light, we learn that California has gone in 
favor of the American ticket and elected 
Johnson, Governor, over Bigler (Dem.) by a 
majority of several thousands. Pennsylvania 
has gone Democratic by a decided majority, 
but the official vote is not yet declared.— 
There was no State ticket except for a Canal 
Commissioner. • Returns from sixty-two coun¬ 
ties of Ohio are received, which give Chase 
(Free Soil) 10,000 over MeDill (Dem.) Thir¬ 
ty-seven counties are yet to be heard from, 
which will probably swell Chase’s majority to 
fifteen thousand. 
Struck by Lightning. —The barn of Mr. 
Silas Nyr of Pittsford, in this county, was 
struck by lightning and burned, on Monday 
evening last. About forty tonB of hay were 
consumed and some grain, but most of the 
last was removed and saved. 
Illinois State Fair. 
Chicago, 111., Oot. 13. 
Friend Moore :—Having attended the Third 
Annual Fair of the Illinois State Ag. Society, 
in this city, I will give you a brief sketch of 
what I saw during the Exhibition. The loca¬ 
tion selected is about three miles from the 
central part of the city, enclosed with a high 
fence, and containing about fifty acres, a large 
portion of it being covered with a beautiful 
oak grove. 
The exhibition of Cattle was as good as I 
ever saw,—the Durhams being the most nu¬ 
merous, and of the first quality. There was a 
two year old bull that weighed over 2.OG0 lbs.; 
a calf 9 months old that weighed 920 a pair 
of three year old steers, 4,185. There were 
cows, calves, heifers and hulls of tu ;i Dreed of 
cattle of the most elegant quality that I ever 
saw on exhibition. The Devons were nume¬ 
rous, and of a choice quality. But the Dur¬ 
hams are evidently the p revailing stock—the 
ni 03 t popular of the improved breeds in the 
Garden State. 
The show of horses was rather meager.— 
There was a very good display of jacks and 
mules. 
There was a very good show of Sheep—not 
so numerous as I have seen elsewhere, hut of 
fine quality. There was one French Merino 
buck, owned by Stipp & Latourette, of Can¬ 
ton, that weighed 300 lbs., and is estimated 
to have on a fleece that will weigh 40 lbs. (! f) 
The show of Poultry and Swine was very 
ordinary—especially of the latter. 
There was a fine display of Farm Imple¬ 
ments— particularly of Plows, Mowers and 
Reapers. The Mechanical Dep’t was good. 
The show of Apples, Vegetables and Grains 
was bountiful, and attracted much'attention. 
Floral Hall was not what I anticipated. The 
Temple of Art, and the Domestic Department, 
however, were very fine. • 
What attracted me more than any other 
feature of the Fair, was the intelligent and 
enterprising farmers whom I met during the 
days of exhibition. The Board of Officers is a 
noble band of men ; and they are entitled to 
the thanks of their guests for the manner 
they received and cared for them while in 
Chicago. 
Knowing that you can afford hut • little 
space to the details of what I saw, I will only 
add, in conclusion, that the weather has been 
exceedingly mild and fair,—the receipts about 
$13,000,—and that the number visiting the 
grounds on Thursday was estimated at 00,000. 
On the whole, I regard the Illinois State Fair 
as being second to none that I have hitherto 
attended in any other State. Yours, l. w. 
The South Boston Mercury says that the re¬ 
ligious services at the Methodist Church at 
Quincy Point, on a recent Sabbath afternoon, 
were interrupted by a most ludicrous fear on 
the part of the audience, of a winged insect 
called the ‘‘devil’s darning needle,” which 
flew into the church during the discourse.— 
The minister stopped preaching, a worthy 
deacon endeavored to expel the intruder, but 
failed, and “ the congregation deemed it pru¬ 
dent to retire,” fairly put to rout, although 
the frightful “ bug” bad vacated the premises. 
A Fight Stopped by a Dog.— Two men got 
into a fight recently, on Sugar alley, east of 
Third street, when a large dog rushed out of 
a house near b) r , and made a furious demon¬ 
stration towards the combatants, who imme¬ 
diately separated and decamped in opposite 
directions. One of the men being closely fol¬ 
lowed by the dog, was obliged to take refuge 
in a shed, and although he succeeded in clos¬ 
ing the door against the animal, he was com¬ 
pelled to remain there until its owner came to 
his relief.— Ohio Statesman. 
A letter from the Crimea tells the following 
tale: ‘‘Vultures are very numerous in the 
Crimea. They smell the powder and await 
the coming of the fight to throw themselves 
on their victims. After one of the recent 
combats, an English officer was found on the 
battle field, who had just expired, pressing in 
both arms one of these birds of prey, dead, 
like himself, and which he had crushed in a 
last effoit of agony.” 
Kendall on Royal Beauty. —Kendall, of 
the New Orleans Picayune, writes home that 
the ladies in waiting upon Victoria at Paris, 
were “a distressingly homely set,” nor does 
the profane Republican treat royalty any bet¬ 
ter. Listen to his description of the Princess 
Royal of England :—“ She is fat, chubby, and 
coarse specimen of a girl, a homely likeness 
of her mother, who never set up any preten¬ 
sions to beauty that I am aware of?” 
Singular Case. —A communication in the 
New York Courier and Enquirer, states that 
among the officers of the navy “dropped” 
from the list, is the 1st lieutenant of the U. S. 
sloop-of-war Dale, who has been, for two years 
past, fighting the malaria on the African coast. 
During his service on that coast, the Dale is 
said to have earned a name as a “ model tem¬ 
perance ship.” 
There is quite a curiosity in Bangor, in the 
form of a bod cord made from the sinews of a 
whale. It was brought into this country in 
1640, and has been in possession of Uncle Tim. 
Colby for forty-seven years, in constant use, 
and never was broken. It is as good as ever, 
and has been in the possession of the Colby 
family for two hundred years. 
Powder Mill Explosion. —The powder mill 
at Gorham, Me., took fire Oct. 12, and blew 
up, killing seven men and wounding several 
others. The fire took to the new mill which 
was blown to atoms. The mill was formerly 
owned by Oliver Whipple, of Lowell, whose 
mother and son are among the killed. 
By the Hudson barges, on Monday week, 
there were received at New York 17,500 bhls. 
of flour, 41,000 bushels of corn, 20,000 bushels 
of oats, besides the arrivals kept private by 
the forwarders. 
6^ifob|iq Clippings. 
Arrival of the Northern Light. A Kansas party left Boston on Tuesday. 
- There are 214 lawyers and 125 physicians in 
The steamship Northern Light arrived at Chicago. 
New York Oct. 13, with California dates to the Three thousand land warrants were issued 
20th of September, upwards of 400 passen- last week. 
gets and $461,000 in treasure Yellow fever has nearly disappeared from 
Col. Kinney had resigned the Governorship both Norfo]k and Portsmouth, 
of San Juan, and another meeting of the cit¬ 
izens had been called. The English Consul Queen Victoria gave the bearer of the first 
assured him, it is said, that his government news of the fall of Sebastopol a present of fifty 
would recognize him if re-elected. pounds. 
Col. Walker was still at San Juan del Sud, Another un*uccessful attempt, by an insane 
recruiting from California passengers. He man, has been made upon the life of Louis 
had fought no battles since the last steamer Napoleon. 
sailed. . __ _ The President is afflicted with chills every 
The Golden Age arrived at San U rancisco on third day, but notwithstanding, constantly 
the 12th Sept., and the Nicaragua steamer attends to business. 
Uncle Sam on the 14th Sept. This latter Sixteen negroes have just been emancipated 
steamer it will be remembered, put into Aca- b Arthur Allen of North Carolina. They 
pulco with cholera on board, and before she bave g 0ne Ohio. 
reached San Francisco the disease had carried _ T , _ T n ± „ , 
off 100 of her passengers, of which 98 were The London llnstrated News has a genealo- 
adults. Seven others subsequently died in g ,ca \ sketch, proving that Louis Napoleon is a 
the hospital, and 14 remained under treat- COU6in Q uecn ictona. 
ment. No new cases of Cholera had occurred # An epidemic.of unusual violence is attack- 
at San Francisco, and the city was quite i Q g the horses in New York. One stage com- 
healthy. pany lost forty last week. 
The State election had resulted in favor of The Lutherans are endeavoring to raise 
the Know Nothings. Johnson’s majority $15,000 for their Illinois University, by fifty 
over Bigler is over 4,000. The vote on the subscriptions of $300 each. 
lyi u ° r l a JUj s clo8 £ a X d - n /? 1C Senate The health of the Pope is declining ; he 
stands 1/ Know Nothings and 10 emocra s. expresses doubts whether he will live 
Assembly t>4 K. Is. s and 20 Democra s. to gee ano ther anniversary of his election. 
The schooner E. C. Foster had arrived from J 
Japan. The Foster sailed from Honolulu with The widow of Robert B. Thomas, of ‘ ‘ Farm- 
stores for the Japanese, hut the Japan author- er’s Almanac” fame, has just died near Clin- 
ities refused her permission #o trade, alleging Ion, Mass., at the age of seventy-five years, 
that the treaty made no provision. for any- Mlgs m’Donald, a Highland girl of the ex- 
tliing more than a temporary residence at traordinary height of six feet six inches, was 
Hackadulo. England and Russia had conclu- recently on exhibition at Sterling, Scotland, 
ded treaties with Japan similar to ours. . „ • , 
The town of Grass Valley was totally de- Attorney General Cushing has given an 
stroyed by fire on the 14tli of Sept. Loss es- opinion that the fugitive slave law extends to 
timated at $400,000. A large fire also occur- thc organized territories of the United States, 
red at Weaversville, Trinity county. Loss Connecticut will pay $3,600 towards a mon- 
$100,000. ument to General Putnam, on condition that 
Manchester, the defaulting Cincinnati bank- a like sum is obtained by public subscription, 
er, after frequently eluding the police, had Tennessee naners furnish accounts of the 
been arrested and was tobylent back to Ohio. ,J cWllgot t £o negroes, in different parts of 
prise, 0 o’ *. fefon!°C ^ been lost near St » te - T >* »<««"* 
Beussole Strait. The vessels and cargoes a c * 
total loss. Crews saved. The ship Jefferson, Lombardy, no less than 46,480 cases of 
of New London, was lost on Cape Elizabeth, cholera had occurred up to the 3d of Septem- 
and Edgar, of Cold Spring, off Jonah Islands. p er. 0f the se 13,153 recovered, and 22,987 
The loss of 14 whale ships this season are re- de¬ 
ported, hut no other names are given. An- The penalty of adultery among the Mor- 
other ship was seen off Jonah Islands, bottom mons is death, or marriage to the woman, 
up, and could not make out her name. The so says a female correspondent of a western 
ship belonging to Silas E. Burrows, bound paper. 
from San Francisco for Hong Kong, had been Hop vines grow spontaneously in Kansas, 
wrecked near Landores. Ship and cargo a aad } n some places are so abundant, that they 
total loss. Crew saved. None of the whaling m ight he gathered with profit as an article of 
fleet had done anything up to July 1st. commerce. 
Markets.—T rade was pretty active. Flour, The Springfield (Ill.) Journal thinks that 
under large orders from Chili, had advanced the census returns, now coming in, will rank 
to $9 for domestic. Illinois as the fifth State in the Union in point 
Provisions were active. Pork $31 a $35.— of population. 
Ham in brine 19 a 19R Bacon 244 • Lard 18. m ... ... , , ,, 
Butter 55 a 571 The “brary of the late Thomas Moore, was 
The California wheat crop would be about presented by Mrs. Moore, as a memorial of her 
2 000 000 bushels husband s taste and erudition to the Royal 
’ ’ ___ Irish Academy. 
... ... __ , The Merchants’Line, Albany,* talk of build- 
Startlmg News from Kansas. ing boat larger than ’ tbe Ne " World . S he 
is to be 372 feet loDg, 52 feet beam, and to 
A correspondent of the Cleveland Plain- CO st $180,000. 
dealer writing from Leavenworth, Kansas, ^ -• XT e n 
Oct. 2, the day after the election, states that Mr ' , D ™’ g^ve digger in Norfolk, after 
the band of armed Missourians who went conveying twenty-three hundred victims of 
across the border to support Whitefield for J?. ver (jading his wite) to the grave, has 
Congress, carried their riotous behavior to the hims lf followe d them. 
extent of actual murder ! A young man who At the Great Paris Exposition, an instru- 
refused to vote or to drink, was seized with ment is exhibited, by which the force of the 
the cry of “ Hang him, lynch him,” &c. He winds can be measured with great facility and 
knocked down one of his assailants and ran, the utmost exactness. 
when he was shot at, the hall passing through The Moniteur estimates the French killed 
his hat and into a house, killing a young child and woim ded in the final assault upon Sebas- 
that was playing on the floor, ihe cries of t 0 p 0 ) a t 7 t 000, while military men at Paris 
the mother aroused the Free State men, who coun t }t io 000 at least, 
assembled and armed themselves. In the ’ ’ 
meantime a young man was arrested in the Urom the 1st of January to the 1st of Aug., 
street by the invaders, knocked down and there were three hundred and twenty murders 
stabbed, so that he died the following day.— an( ^ lynchings in California. Iwo persons 
Fearing the consequences of these acts, the were lawfully hanged. 
Missourians then decamped, and succeeded in According to the late census, the popula- 
getting across the river before the people of tion of Boston and its immediate suburbs, 
the town could overtake them. Shots were Charlestown, Cambridge, Roxbury, and Chel- 
fired, and the correspondent intimates that S ea, is 233,424 persons. 
one of the Missourians was wounded or killed. • w ._ T , r v;i„ 
If the above be true, it is difficult to see how att ti to dr ’ wn P / cat in the North River 
the General Government can refuse longer to w l eel > fell in himself and met with the 
Territory 1 * 1 prC8erVG the peace m the fate intended for poor puss. 
_, __ Com. Perry predicted the failure of certain 
T rm. n • n ,, ... . merchants to establish commercial relations 
An Attractive Lai a .—Ihe Springfield (Ill.) w jth Japan. The treaty shows that it is mere- 
Journal of a late date, relates the following j one 0 F f frie ndship and amity, 
singular occurrence : 
“ Yesterday afternoon, while a lady of this A dispatch from Washington says it is ru- 
city was engaged with her household duties, mored that Santa Anna has been for several 
a swarm of bees entered the room, settling days privately quartered with Gen. Almonte, 
upon her head, neck and arms. As may he Mexican Minister in that city, 
supposed, the lady was sadly frightened, and \ little daughter of Mr. Whitney, proprie- 
quickly brushing the intruders away, she tor of St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, was run 
sought refuge in an adjoining apartment.— over i, y a carriage in Philadelphia on Wednes- 
The window being inadvertantly left open, da y ( nnd almost instantly killed, 
the bees immediately entered, and again took , _ ., 
possession of the lady, who finding they did The BntWi Government has withdrawn its 
not harm her, and unable to remedy the evil, a ™ ual f ant °. f a ^usaml pounds to the Roy- 
quietly went about her work, experiencing al Society for the Encouragement of Science, 
but little inconvenience. Thc bees continued on the P lea of g reat war ^P ens e s - 
to hover round tho lady till near sundown, ' The postmaster general has authorized his 
when they departed as suddenly as they came, deputy postmasters to sell single stamped en- 
having paid no attention to several children velopes, when the purchaser can make the ex- 
who were in the house the whole time.” act change, for three and one-fifth cents. 
— - ■*"*~-*"*"*"- There are in New York and Brooklyn not 
Kossuth on the War.—Kossuth writes that less than five thousand “ ladies,” whose dress 
he considers tho “fall” of Sebastopol only the hills average annually two thousand dollars 
beginning of the war. He says : each, or ten million of dollars for all. 
Ihe taking of Sebastopol decides, nothing, TnE Louisville Journal says that three ap- 
solves no question, and brings nothing to an j eg were i e ft j n that office recently, the lar- 
end. .Quite the reverse. Success at Sebasto- g ^ 0 f measured 16 3-8 inches in cir- 
pol will make peace impossible—-mil ra ther cum f erence an d weighed 28 lbs. 14 oz. 
inaugurate a real and protracted war. That 
will be the veritable beginning of the war, Mr.- Clandot, French architect, has devised 
but not the beginning of the end. a way of covering stone with a composition 
_ t _ resembling marble. It is hard, bright, smooth 
and capable of receiving any shade or tint. 
A curious custom prevails in Paris of annu- . _ , , , T „ 
ally proclaiming the King of the Pumpkins, . A French merchant named Lucillon has 
anil of making a solemn procession in honor been airested at New York, mu ei he ox 
of the largest vegetable of the species which * 10n wlth ? ran £ e > char S ed with forging 
can be discovered The “ King” of the pres- to a lar S e amouut at Be8ancon ’ near 1 ans - 
ent year was grown at St. Maude, and weighed On Monday, Mr. Dellicker, a well known 
three hundred and forty-eight pounds, being a merchant, a resident of Brooklyn, died almost 
little less than seven feet in circumference. instantly, on receiving the intelligence of tke 
- 1 — », . > —- death of his wife, who was absent from home. 
A numiibr of young American physicians in Bayard Taylor, who went with the tole- 
tke Russian army at the Crimea find them- graphic excursionists to St. Johns, says that 
selves unexpectly bound to keep their places Newfoundland dogs of the pure breed are as 
till the close of the war. hard to get in Newfoundland as anywhere else. 
