MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER i AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW- YORKER 
IS PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY, 
BY D. D. T, MOORE, ROCHESTER N. Y. 
ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 3, 1855. 
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A proclamation 
By Myron H. Clark, Governor of the Stale of New York. 
The Lord has been pleased to preserve our lives, and 
to deal graciously with us during another year. While 
sanguinary War has desolated the soil and saddened the 
homes of Europe, Peace has sat by our firesides, and 
Plenty has walked in our fields. The earth, parched by 
no drouth, and chilled by no unwonted frosts, has yield¬ 
ed her increa se bounteously. Pestilence that has rav¬ 
aged a neighboring'coast, has been stayed at our thresh¬ 
old ; and we have been enabled to minister to the 
wants and necessities of the suffering and afflicted. The 
Commercial, Mechanical, and various pursuits of our 
citizens, have been crowned with usual success. Science 
and Art have made liberal progress among us ; and Re¬ 
ligion, unawed by power and unchecked by bigotry, has 
imparted her divine teachjpgs and ministered her con¬ 
solations. Our Republican Institutions, with good and 
wholesome laws, have heiped to lighten the burdens of 
our people, and to advance the moral and intellectual 
improvement of society. 
In grateful remembrance of our manifold blessings, it 
becomes us to lift up our hearts to God, the giver of all 
good, who carefully considereth all the dwellers upon 
the earth. I do therefore, and in pursuance of estab¬ 
lished custom, set apart and appoint Thursday, the Twen- 
ty-ninth day of November next, to be observed through¬ 
out the State as a day of Praise, Thanksgiving and Pray¬ 
er ; and I respectfully recommend to my fellow-citizens 
to abstain from all secular occupations on that day ; to 
gather themselves in their assemblies and render to our 
Heavenly Father the homage of grateful hearts, remem¬ 
bering before Him the poor, the neglected, and the op¬ 
pressed. Let us as patriots and Christians, implore Him 
to bless our Civil and Religious Institutions ; and let us 
supplicate Him to continue His favor to this people 
throughout all generations, and withal to dispense to us 
individually that heavenly grace which, with faith in 
the Lord Jesus Christ, and virtuous action here, will 
prepare us for His Heavenly Kingdom. 
In witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my 
name and affixed the Privy Seal of the State, at 
[L. S ] the city of Aibany, this twenty-seventh day of 
October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- 
five. MYRON H. CLARK. 
By the Governor. 
Geo. E. Baker, Private Secretary. 
SPECIAL NOTICE TO AGENTS. 
Agents and all others interested, are re¬ 
minded that the lowest club price of the Rural 
New-Yorker is $1,60 per yearly copy. We 
have published no lower rate for months, yet 
many of onr agents continue to remit in ac¬ 
cordance with former terms. They will please 
note this announcement, and be governed 
thereby in forwarding subscriptions. 
Politics and the Election. 
The political cauldron is just now boiling 
furiously, and the leading orators of the sev¬ 
eral parties are stumping the State, and turning 
over every stone, in the hope of waking up one 
more sleepy voter on their side. Not content 
with native talent, speakers are imported 
from distant States, as missionaries to the 
New York political heathen; and office hold¬ 
ers, and those who hope to he, are called upon 
to bleed freely for the purpose of paying ex¬ 
penses. We venture to say that more money 
is expended in one animated political cam¬ 
paign, than would suffice to support the mis¬ 
sions for a whole year among the heathen 
and that a sufficient number of political lies 
are told to make, if evenly distributed, 
heathen of all Christendom. 
Next Tuesday is the day to decide the 
political shade of this State for another year. 
There is plenty of room to choose, as four or 
five parties are in the field ; and, although 
we make it a point not to meddle with politics 
in the columns of the Rural, we will depart 
from that course at present, just to give a 
word of advice as to which ticket our readers 
should vote ; and that is, vote just which ticket 
you have a mind to. Neither the country nor 
the State is going to ruin this year, let 
whichever party conquer ; and the ship, ad¬ 
vertised as up for Salt River, is large enough 
to accommodate all the defeated parties.— 
There will he a lachrymose set of passengers 
on board no doubt, but many of them know 
the navigation of the river already, and many 
others have yet to learn its tortuous channel. 
The best specific we can think of to teach 
the winners wisdom in their success, and to 
solace the losers in the midst of their afflic¬ 
tions, is to subscribe for the Rural, and in¬ 
duce their friends to do likewise; and the 
polls is a good place to call their attention to 
It, and to show them specimen numbers. If 
you approach a man with a vote in one hand 
and a paper in the other, and he refuses to 
take but one, he sure and see that he chooses 
the latter for his own good. 
The Central Railroad Robberies. 
Letter from Southern Illinois. 
Office in Simpson’s Block, Exchange Place, 
Opposite the Post Office. 
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Subscription — $2 a year -- $1 for six months. To 
Clubs and Agents as follows Three Copies one year, 
for $5 ; Six Copies (and one to Agent or getter up of 
Club,) for $10, Ten Copies (and one to Agent,) for $15, 
and any additional number at the same rate. As we are 
obliged to pre-pay the American Postage on papers sent 
to the British Provinces, our Canadian agents and friends 
must add 25 cents per copy to the club rates of the Rural. 
tp The postage on the Rural is but cents per quar 
ter, payable in advance, to any part of the State (except 
Monroe County, where it goes free,)—and cents to 
any other section of the United States. 
All communications, and business letters, should 
bo addressed to D. D. T. Moore, Rochester, N. V. 
gg - The Rural is published strictly on the cash sys- 
tEH-—sent no longer than paid for—and all orders should 
he in accordance with terms. 
All of the employees arrested for allegod 
robberies on the New York Central Railroad, 
have been indicted by the Grand Jury of Mon¬ 
roe county ; some of them for grand, and the 
remainder for petty larceny. The Union learns 
that since the arrest, circumstances have come 
to light which render it probable their depre¬ 
dations have been extended to the passenger 
as well as the freight trains. A letter was 
received by the railroad officers in this city 
from Mr. Sheldon, Superintendent of Schools 
at Oswego, stating that Mrs. Sheldon lost a 
valuable shawl some time since while travel¬ 
ing over the Niagara Falls Railroad. An ex¬ 
amination of the property found at the house 
of Lyon, one of the arrested conductors, re¬ 
vealed the identical shawl. It is valued by 
the owner, or cost originally, fifty dollars, 
and was taken from a ^ trunk carried on a pas¬ 
senger train. 
Indian Territory. —Advices have been re¬ 
ceived from Fort Laramie to the 29th of Sep¬ 
tember. Col. Cook has been ordered to the 
command of Fort Riley. Gen. Harney was to 
leave Laramie immediately to establish a new 
fort at White Earth River, for the purpose of 
overawing the Nunensango Indians, the most 
hostile tribe in the country. The Brule In¬ 
dians have agreed to deliver to Gen. Harney 
the murderers of the mail party, and hereafter 
to keep within their own boundaries. The 
impression at Laramie is, that there will be 
no more fighting. 
The Santa Fe mail arrived at Independence 
with dates to the 1st of . October. Gallegas 
had been elected to Congress. There was a 
a strong Anti-American feeling in the coun¬ 
try. A treaty had been made with the Apa¬ 
ches, and the Indian difficulties had nearly 
ceased. The mail party saw but few Indians. 
Heathenish Ceremony Interrupted. —Quite 
an excitement occurred in Milwaukee on the 
18th ult., occasioned by the attempt on the 
part of a man named Pfiel to burn the 
dead body of his wife. Sixteen cords of wood 
had been drawn together and arranged in a 
funeral pyre, when the Sheriff interfered and 
put a stop to the heathenish ceremony, the 
husband all the time protesting vehemently 
that he had a right to conduct the funeral as 
he saw fit, and that there was no law to pre¬ 
vent him. The Sheriff told him that the in¬ 
dignant people would throw him on to the 
burning pile with his wife, if he persisted, 
and finally induced the man to yield. A 
coffin and hearse were procured, and the wo¬ 
man, under the direction of the officer, given 
Christian burial. 
Alton, HI., Oct. 25, 1855. 
This town is famous for Love joy memory, 
and for its attempts to rival St. Louis in busi¬ 
ness. I was here the same season, and soon 
after the riot, in which Lovejoy was killed. 
The city has grown rapidly since that time, 
and now has a population of about 8,000. 
It is a fine wheat region about Alton. The 
price of prime wheat has fluctuated from $1,30 
to $1,65. The present price is $1,65. The 
fall has been fine for sowing wheat, much is 
sown, and it looks exceedingly well, it being 
remarked that it is in some fields nearly 
“ knee high.” I hear of sales of corn fields, 
or the crops thereof, at $5 to $7 per acre, av¬ 
eraging 10 or 12 cents a bushel, as it stands. 
Peaches here are very fine and abundant., 
One farmer in the neighborhood, sold $6,000 
worth of peaches the past season. Apples 
abundant—good varieties selling for 50 cents 
per bushel; potatoes 40 cents ; flour $9 per 
barrel ; butter 25 to 32 cents per lb. The 
readers of the Rural will think these high 
prices for the West, the granary of the world. 
The times date not far back, when wheat sold 
in Central Illinois for 40 cents, corn at 7, and 
oats at 9 per bushel. The railroad system 
has done the work in bringing about this 
change, at least in part. Present prices of 
land and of wheat, give the “ Suckers” great 
advantages over eastern farmers. 
A Union depot is to be built in front of the 
Alton House, where a fine landing will be 
made for steamers along side the warehouses. 
Then the Illinoistown and Terre Haute cars, 
and the Chicago cars, will run into the city. 
The connection between Alton and St. Louis, 
for passengers coming down from Chicago 
over the Chicago & Alton Railway, is by 
steamers—a distance of about 20 miles. St. 
Louis, as the readers of the Rural generally 
know, is a place of great business, and has a 
population of 100,000. 
The weather is cold ; Saturday afternoon 
was rainy,—Sunday cold and very disagreea¬ 
ble. Prior to these days, the weather for two 
weeks was as fine as any traveler could de¬ 
sire. You may expect to hear from me in 
Jacksonville, where I purpose to attend the 
Morgan County Fair, which comes off this 
week. There is much in this part of the 
State which will interest the readers of the 
Rural. e. w. 
Rural Matters in Northern Illinois. 
American Surgeons in Russia. —The Balti¬ 
more Patriot states that there are at the pres¬ 
ent time eight American surgeons in the Rus¬ 
sian army in the Crimea—four from Mary¬ 
land, two from Pennsylvania, and one each 
from South Carolina and Louisiana. One of 
the number, Dr. J. B. Stoddard, from Balti¬ 
more, says they are treated with great con¬ 
sideration by the officers of the Russian army; 
that he witnessed the assault on Sebastopol, 
which resulted in the taking of the Southern 
portion, and the retreat of two hundred thou¬ 
sand Russians across the bridge, to the North¬ 
ern side, which, attended, as it was, by the 
conflagration, the explosion of mines, hurry¬ 
ing thousands into eternity, and the sinking 
of the navy, was a scene too fearfully tragic 
to be depicted in language. 
A Touching Incident.—A melancholy acci¬ 
dent, resulting from a feeling of filial affection, 
occurred at Swanton Falls, Vt., on the morn¬ 
ing of the 7th of October. Mr. Ralf Landon, 
a citizen of Burlington, attempting to jump 
upon the cars while in motion, fell under the 
wheels and was killed. The Burlington Free 
Press says : “A strong desire to reach the bed 
side cf his father, who lay at the point of 
death was, as we learn, the cause of Mr. Lan¬ 
don’ s anxiety to reach the train, and led him 
to forget his customary caution. His father 
died at Rutland soon after, having lived long 
enough to learn that the son, fc-r whose oom- 
ing he was, as it were, waiting his own de¬ 
parture, had gone from earth before him.” 
Fire. —We learn from the American, that 
the barns (three in number) of Truman Mat- 
teson, of Peyre* ' ' ' '•ounty, were burn¬ 
ed on the night o. * *sday of last week, 
together with a large quantity of grain and 
hay, harnesses, carriage, horse-power, thresh¬ 
er, &c., valued in the whole at twenty-five 
hundred dollars. The property was insured 
for $567 in the Western Farmers’ Mutual 
Company of Batavia. The fire was undoubt¬ 
edly the work of an incendiary. 
Complimentary.—Prentice of the Louisville 
Journal, commends Gov. Wise of Virginia, for 
refusing to address the Boston Society on 
Slavery, hut is particularly severe upon the 
manner in which he has done it, and says : 
“ Mr. Wise, in writing this letter, has made 
an ass of himself, and caused the people of 
the South to pray to be delivered from all 
such furious and imprudent friends.” 
Rockyale, Ill., Oct. 26, 1855. 
Dear Rural :—Having been for a long time 
one of your weekly readers, and now being 
deprived of your presence, I doubly realize 
your importance, and feel confidant that as 
soon as we erect our tent in Minnesota, I 
shall hail you again as a welcome visitor.— 
As there was a time when Rock River country 
was the “El Dorado” of the West, a few items 
may be interesting. 
For some years past winter wheat has not 
been sown generally, owing to the drynesB of 
the winters. Spring wheat was generally 
good, but damaged seriously in some parts by 
the ravages of the “Chintz Bug.” This bug 
ig about the size and color of the Pea bug, 
and has an odoriferous smell similar to the 
bed bug. It commences its depredations 
when the wheat is filling by boring into the 
stalk just above the ground, and sucking out 
the juice. In some parts it injured the corn. 
It commences it ravages on the east side of 
the field, and passes west in swarms, devour¬ 
ing everything. The kinds of wheat sown 
are Canada Club, Red Rivor, and Rio Grande, 
the Club succeeding the host. 
The corn crop of this year was greatly dam¬ 
aged by the grub. It has not only injured 
the corn, hut the fields of timothy in this 
section. The grubs are becoming so numer¬ 
ous and destructive that unless something is 
done to destroy them, the farmers of Rock 
River will have to lay by the “ shovel (piow) 
and the hoe.” Notwithstanding all this, 
there being a much larger number of acres of 
corn planted this year than usual, there will 
he a very large amount in Northern Illinois 
for export. 
I notice that the Osage Orange is being 
tried in nearly all sections of the West, and 
it is thought it will succeed admirably. It 
has been grown only one or two years gene¬ 
rally. 
The numerous railroads crossing the State 
in all erections, have imbued the farmers 
with new life, and the day is not far distant 
when the Rock River country will compare 
favorably with Genesee Valley. I am sorry 
to see the want of interest taken in the rais¬ 
ing of fruit. Nurseries are quite plenty, but 
it is not uncommon to find farms that have 
been cultivated from five to ten, and even 
more years, without a single fruit tree grow¬ 
ing thereon. Yours, D. B. Waite. 
Thanksgiving. —We call the attention of 
our readers to tho proclamation in another 
column of Gov. Clark, of this State, recom¬ 
mending the 29th of this month to be observ¬ 
ed as a day of thanksgiving and praise. The 
proclamation is a well written paper and 
hreatheB the true spirit. 
Swamp Lands. —The swamp landB of Whit- 
side Co., Ill., were sold at auction on the 16th 
ult., and some of the tracts brought ten dollars 
per acre, and all of them sold for over one- 
third more than the appraisal. These lands, 
designated swamp, were donated to the several 
States in which they are situated, by the Gen¬ 
eral Government, and good natured Ijncle 
Sam lias been shamefully fleeced in the ope¬ 
ration, as they, in many instances, embraced 
some of the most valuable portions of the pub¬ 
lic domain. Those in YVhltslde Co. amounted 
to 70,000 acres, and brought $200,000. How¬ 
ever, as the avails go to the County School 
Fund, we are not disposed to complain. 
The Crops &o., in North-Western Pa. 
Vernon, Pa., Oct. 27,1855. 
Eds. Rural :—I wonder if you would not 
desire to hear from this quarter of the globe, 
and especially from North-West Pa. We live 
here, this year, having an abundance of every¬ 
thing. How different the prospect this fall 
from last. Then there was, in consequence of 
the severe drouth which visited this region, a 
great scarcity, and the farmer appeared sad 
and gloomy, as he saw the cold winter ap¬ 
proaching, with but little to feed his nume¬ 
rous flocks,—but this fall, plenty is on every 
hand,—his barns are filled, and there is a smile 
on his countenance, as he looks on the falling 
leaf and fading meadow. 
Corn is unusually good—much better than 
was anticipated during the rainy July. Pota¬ 
toes are an excellent crop, though some afflicted 
with the rot. Wheat, for the season, looks 
fine, and if the freezing March does not de¬ 
stroy its root, there will be more than an av¬ 
erage crop for Crawford Co. Fruit never was 
fairer, and but few years have witnessed a 
more abundant supply. Peaches are a nui¬ 
sance here —being extremely inferior and 
scarce. For a few days past, we have been 
favored with a peep at old Sol, which seemed 
like a real treat, and the farmers improved 
their time to a good advantage, in securing 
their buckwheat, apples, potatoes, &c. 
Last week, our County Fair was held at 
Conneautville. The attendance was unusually 
large, and everything which called itself a 
biped was present for exhibition, including 
a few Shanghais. There was an excellent dis¬ 
play of vegetables and fast nags ; hut in fine 
blooded cattle the show was almost a failure. 
There were a few mfedium-sized Durham hulls, 
and cows with their calves. On the whole, 
the fair was not as good as was anticipated, and 
fell far behind the one held last year. There 
was evidently mismanagement on the part of 
the Directors, which prevented many farmers 
from bringing specimens of the products of 
their farms for exhibition. To close up the 
affair, they exhibited a few ladies on horse¬ 
back, who amused the large crowd in riding 
around the ring, and falling gracefully from 
their horses. May the good Lord bless onr 
dear fair ones of Conneautville with more of 
that better material, “Common Sense, ” in 
the future. More anon. H. b. w. 
The first frost of the season at Newbem, 
N. C., appeared on the 8th ult. 
The census of Wisconsin is completed, and 
shows a population of 552,109. 
Capt. IIarstein, of the Arctic expedition, 
has been ordered to Washington. 
Ex-Gov. Reeder left Kanzas City for Vir¬ 
ginia and the East on the 24th ult. 
Eighteen newspapers are published in Min¬ 
nesota, though it contains but 60,000 people. 
The Oswego, N. Y., Palladium announces 
the arrival at that plaoe of twenty tons of 
pigeons. 
_ It is calculated that the yearly consump¬ 
tion of tobacco in Turkey reaches 300,000,000 
of pounds. 
The City of Lawrence. 
Little more than a year ago there was not 
a single hut erected on the site of Lawrence, 
Kansas Territory, nor a single inhabitant 
within its “limits.” Now there are one 
hundred and twenty log cabins and frame 
houses, three or four large and substantial 
stone stores, a large stone-built hotel — the 
“Free State House” is nearly completed; 
three saw-mills are in incessant operation; 
between twenty and thirty stone and wooden 
edifices aTe rapidly progressing ; three large 
weekly newspapers are printed there; the 
Baptist, Congregational, Methodist, United 
Brethren and Unitarian denominations hold 
religious services regularly every Sunday, to 
an industrious, energetic and select popula¬ 
tion of between eight and nine hundred souls. 
The city limits embrace an area of one mile 
square. The streets running east and west 
are named after the Revolutionary leaders and 
sagas ; while the cross streets, those from 
north to south, receive their names from the 
various States on both sides of Mason & Dix¬ 
on’s line. 
Of the adult population of Lawrence, it was 
found by a recent census that one-sixth are 
graduates of colleges and universities! and a 
majority are members of tho Christian church. 
Not more than one-fourth of the population 
are of the gentler sex. Female domestics and 
marriageable ladies are in great demand.— 
Missouri Democrat. 
The ocean steamer Union, which lately left 
New York for Southampton and Havana, re¬ 
turned to port again having broken her shaft 
when two days out. 
Thb Boundary Commission. —We learn from 
the San Antonio Texan that Major Emory, 
the United States boundary commissioner 
under the Gadsden treaty, accompanied by 
the Principal Assistant, Surveyor, and sur¬ 
geon of the commission, arrived in San Anto¬ 
nio on the 24th ult., escorted by a company 
of the 7th infantry. The Texan furnishes 
somewhat in detail an interesting account of 
the progress and completion of the survey. 
From this account it appears that the United 
States has secured by the Gadsden treaty 
both the passes to the Pacific ; that both are 
practicable for railway, and that the newly 
acquired territory is rich in mineral resources. 
— Washington Union. 
A Venerablb Clergyman. —The Tennessee 
Conference of tho Methodist Episcopal Church, 
South, met at Nashville on the 10th ult. In 
addressing the candidates for the ministry, 
the Rev. Joshua Soule, the senior Bishop, 
said, that he had been fifty-six years in the 
ministry. The Bishop still enjoys his usual 
health. The only disease of which he com¬ 
plains is the asthma, which has troubled him 
for many years. 
Mosquitoes at Behring’s Straits. —It seems 
that these insects flourish even in a high 
northern latitude. Some of the officers of the 
British sloop-of-war Trincomatee, recently at 
San Francisco, from Port Clarence, in Behr¬ 
ing’s Straits, say that the mosquities were 
more numerous than in Central Amerioa.— 
They inhaled them by the mouthful, and 
could not walk without a handkerchief or 
veil over their faces. 
A quantity of bayonets and spear heads 
were turned up in digging a grave in the yard 
of the Second Presbyterian Church at Charles¬ 
ton, S. C., a few days since. They are sup¬ 
posed to have been buried in 1812 by the then 
sexton of the church, who was implicated in 
a projected insurrection of the slaves. 
On tho night of the 9th, a valuable flock of 
French and Spanish ewes belonging to Harry 
Adams, Esq., of Vergennes, Vt., were attack¬ 
ed by dogs. Between twenty and thirty fine 
sheep were killed or missing, and about fifty 
others more or less bitten. 
At the County Fair in Lewiston, Me., some 
twenty runners entered the lists for a foot 
race. Tho winner, S. H. Manning, of Lewis¬ 
ton, ran a quarter of a mile in 68 seconds. 
An onion weighing two pounds seven oz., 
and measuring nineteen and one-half inches 
in circumference, was brought from California 
by the last steamer. Where is Wethersfield ? 
Mr. Johnson, the new Governor of Califor¬ 
nia, is from Indiana, and is only about thirty 
years of age. 
The devotees of “ free love,” who were ar¬ 
rested in New York the other night, have all 
been discharged. 
The Lake Erie Michigan Central Railroad 
boats are to continue their regular trips until 
the 1st of December. 
TnERE was a heavy frost in New Orleans 
week before last, and it was generallv preva¬ 
lent along the coast. 
Robert H. Morris, one of tho justices of 
the Supreme Court in New York city, died on 
Wednesday evening week. 
The Clevelander says there are at least two 
‘ ‘ free love” circles in Cleveland, and it prom¬ 
ises some developments in due time. 
St. Petersbuegh journals announce that an 
Exhibition of fine arts will be held in the 
Capital, this year, in spite of the war. 
Lieut. JonN N. Matfit, one of the officers 
furloughed by the retiring hoard, has been 
ordered on duty again on the coast survey. 
Tub Fleming_ oounty, Ky., Court has just 
mulcted a man in $6,000 for indulging In the 
delicious amusement of “courting for fun.” 
On Monday, the 15th ult., there was snow 
in the town of Lexington, Greene county in 
this State, which fell to the depth of ten 
inches. 
The Texas Legislature, it is said, accept 
the Texas debt bill passed by the last Con¬ 
gress, notwithstanding the popular majority 
against it. 
A party of squirrel hunters in Ohio recent¬ 
ly killed 815 in one day, averaging over 40 
to each one. One, person, a Mr. A. L. Down 
killed 119. 
Cait. Nyh, of the steamship Pacific, will 
retire from the service on his return from his 
present voyage, and will be succeeded by 
Oapt. Eldridge. 
A respectable and wealthy widow lady of 
Middlesex county was arrested at the Boston 
and Maine railroad depot in Boston last week, 
for stealing a shawl. 
A Paris correspondent of the National In¬ 
telligencer estimates the expenditures of the 
war at $300,000,000 per annum each for 
France and England. 
The Cincinnati Gazette says :—“More pro¬ 
perty has been destroyed in this city by fire 
during three days of last week than during a 
whole year previous.” 
Tns Montreal Chronicle, of the 12th ult., 
states that the Commisslariat advertises for 
a vessel to convey 6,000 barrels of cartridges 
from Quebeo to England. 
Inoculation for the yellow fever is reported 
to have been tried in more than one thousand 
cases at New Orleans, during the past sum¬ 
mer, with perfect success. 
At an Idiot Asylum in tire north of Eng¬ 
land seven out of ton of the patients are the 
children of parents related to eaoh other by 
tho laws of consanguinity. 
Bartlett pears have been selling in New 
York market at wholesale for $9 per barrel. 
One cultivator of this delicious fruit realized 
at the rate of $2,200 per acre. 
In the New York court, on Wednesday 
week, the case of Alderman Herrick, one of 
the indicted officials, was given to the jury, 
but they were unable to agree. 
A Swzdb, who latsly arrived at New York 
having $1,600 in gold, was dogged by a party 
of thieves, who managed to rob him of every 
cent before he got to Cleveland. 
IIiram P. Hunt, of Troy, has been awarded 
$8,600 for damages sustained by a collision on 
the Hudson River railroad at Bath, opposite 
Albany, in the summer of 1854. 
Tub father of Passmore Williamson has al¬ 
ready paid $4,000 for legal proceedings in the 
case of his son, now imprisoned in violation 
of law and justice by Judge Kane. 
Leonard Kipp has been committed to jail 
in New Orleans, charged with conversing with 
slaves, a supposed consequence of which wa« 
that the slaves became insolent. 
The consumption of ammunition in the 
present war not only exhausts all thq mills 
make, hut calls out the larger part of the con¬ 
tents of the provincial magazines. 
Tub population of Paris may be considered, 
with the environs, at 1,200,000. An average 
of 70,000 receive aid and food from the ad¬ 
ministration of Assistance Publique. 
The propeller Illinois, from Buffalo, with 
six hundred tons of merchandise, sunk on 
Wednesday night week in eighteen feet of 
water, near the mouth of Detroit river. 
The Saut Journal of the 13th nit., say6 :— 
“ The largest load of freight ever up to Lake 
Superior, was on the steamer Illinois last 
week. It amounted to 3,500 bids. bulk. 
