MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER s AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
MOORS’S RURAL NEW - YORKER, 
IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, 
BY S. 1. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER H. Y. 
Office in Simpson’s Elocs, Exchange Diace, 
Opposite the Post Office. 
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obliged to pre-pay the American Postage on papers sent 
to th« British Provinces, our Canadian agents and friends 
must add 25 cents per copy to the club rates of the Rural. 
a * xhe postage on the Rural is but 3% cents per qua) 
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, r.nd business letters, should 
be addressed to D. D. T. Moors, Rochester, N. Y. 
The Rural is published strictly on the cash svs- 
tbm— sent no longer than paid for-and all orders shornd 
be in accordance with terms. 
ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 17,1855. 
Club Price of the Rural. 
In answer to inquiries, and for the informa¬ 
tion of agents and subscribers interested, we 
again state that the lowest club price of the 
Rural New-Yorker is $1,50 per year, and 
that, whatever “other papers’’ can he ob¬ 
tained for, our terms will he strictly adhered 
to, even if we lose every one of tie fifteen to 
twenty thousand subscribers who have here 
tcfore obtained the paper at a lower figure. 
We can spare them, and still have a larger 
list than any other weekly in the State, cut 
of New York city. People who take a paper 
merely because it can be had at a certain piles 
—without regard to value, merit, or morality 
—are not very desirable or appreciative sub 
scribers, and are not expected to aid in sup 
porting the Rural. Those, however, who do 
thiLk there is a difference in the expense of 
publishing different papers, are invited to 
compare the contents and appearance of this 
or any other number of the Rural, with any 
one of the so-called cheap papers, and govern 
themselves accordingly. 
The Late Elections. 
The American, or Know Nothing party, has 
generally triumphed in the late elections.- 
They carry most, if not all, their State ticket 
in this State, by a probable majority of 10,000 
to 15,000. The latest returns give for the 
Senate 16 Republicans, 9 Know Nothings, and 
7 Democrats ; in the House 42 Republicans, 
38 K. N., 42 Derm, and twelve to hear from. 
The 'Americans in Massachusetts have re¬ 
elected Gov. Gardner by a plurality of 15,000, 
and have also a majority of Senators. No 
party has a majority in the House. In Mary¬ 
land the same party has elected nearly all, .if 
not all, the Cor gressman. In Mississippi the 
Democrats have elected their State ticket by 
about 6,000 majority. In Louisiana the elec¬ 
tion is in doubt, though the chances favor the 
Democracy. As far as can be ascertained o 
Dtm. and 2 K. N. members of Congress have 
been eheted. The Democrats are regarded as 
triumphant in Wisconsin and New Jersey.— 
On the whole, “Sam” comes out of the 
many-angled contest decic'edly ahead of ail 
competitors throughout the country. 
Beautiful Weather.— Pleasanter weather 
than that of last week docs net usually occur 
at this seaeon of the year. The sun shone 
out most of the time frem a cloudlets sky, 
and when there were any obscuring vapers, 
the mellow tints of an Indian simmer lit up 
their fringes with a golden glory. On Mon¬ 
day morning of this week, a very brilliant 
rainbow appeared in the western sky, and 
was soon followed by scattering showers of 
rain. These settled down in the afternoon 
into a heavy storm, which lasted through the 
earlier part of the night, hut cleared away 
before morning ; and Tuesday was one of the 
mildest and most beautiful days wc have seen 
this fall. Farmers are having an admirable 
time to secure their root crpps, husk their 
corn, and do the thousand ether necessary 
labors preparatory to the setting in of winter. 
Beware of tiie Impostor !—We learn that a 
man who gives his name as Gio. Crippen, has 
recently be<n doing an extensive business in 
procuring subscribers to the Rural in Wyom¬ 
ing, Erie and other counties. Wc have no such 
agent , and wain all to beware of the impostor ; 
and moreover will pay a handsome reward for 
his arrest. A letter just received states tbat 
he generally represents himself as a Methodist 
(and sometimes as a Baptist) minister. He 
is represented as a man well calculated to 
deceive. 
■—We again caution our readers to beware 
of all profes- ed traveling agents for the Rural 
The only safe course is to remit by mail, or 
hand your money to the Postmaster or other 
local agent. 
Tables Turned.—Passmore Williamson has 
commenced an action for false imprisonment 
against Judge Kane. The writ was served 
upon the Judge while on a visit to his broth¬ 
er-in-law in Delaware county, where the ac¬ 
tion will he tried. 
Railroad Casualties. 
On the second, instant, as a train of cars 
from the scene of the late terrible casualty on 
the Pacific (Mo.) Railroad was on its way to 
St. Louis, having on board many of the dead 
and wounded passengers, a bridge over a 
creek broke down with the weight of the lo¬ 
comotive, leaving the train with its freight of 
suffering humanity cn the further side. The 
passengers, after a long delay, had to he fer¬ 
ried over the creek in order to continue their 
homeward journey. Two accidents happened 
on tbs Great Western (C. W.) Road last week ; 
first engineer, named Geo. Tower, fell from 
his locomotive under the wheels, and was 
killed ; and recently a train ran off the track 
twenty miles east of Detroit, by which the lo¬ 
comotive was thrown down a bank fifteen feet, 
and almost buried in a pond of muddy water ; 
two freight cars were demolished, and the 
track torn up for 200 feet. 
An engine recently exploded on the Geor¬ 
gia Central Railroad, killing the engineer and 
fireman, and severely injuring a brakeman.— 
The fireman was blown high in the air and 
fell two hundred yards distant. A locomo¬ 
tive on the Boston and Worcester (Mass ) 
Road on Tuesday of last week, ran down a 
buggy containing a brother and sister named 
Taft, injuring the young lady so badly that 
her life is despaired of. Two trains were com¬ 
ing in opposite directions, and they observing 
but one, were struck by the other. The stone 
bridge at Principle, Cecil county, over which 
the trains of the Philadelphia Railroad pas3, 
troke down Nov. 3, and six freight cars were 
precipitated into the creek below. No lives 
lost. 
On Monday evening of this week, as a 
freight^ train of fiffy-cre cars, drawn by two 
locomotives, was proceeding out from this 
city on the Central Railroad, a portion of the 
train became detached and were left behind 
upon a down grade. The forward cars after 
running a short distance ahead partially 
stopped, and the detached came on, and run¬ 
ning into them threw twenty off the track, 
causing a sad wreck, and killing a brakeman 
named Solomon Graves. He was thrown from 
a bridge a distance of 90 feet into the stream. 
A man named Murray, while riding in a 
buggy was run down and killed by a train of 
cars on the Erie Railroad at Hinsdale, Catta¬ 
raugus Co., on Wednesday of last week. A 
boy in the buggy was also severely injured. 
A Predicament. —A Calcutta correspondent 
of the London Times states that a British offi¬ 
cer, supposed to have been killed thirteen 
years ago in the Afghan war, has turned up 
alive, having been a prisoner through all the 
intervening period. His name has been 
stricken from the army list, as dead, and his 
wife has contracted a second marriage, and 
given birth to a second family. The last hus¬ 
band may he supposed competent just at this 
time to repeat with peculiar effect the follow¬ 
ing passage of Macbeth : 
‘The time has teen that v>hen the brain wa3 out the 
man must die, 
But now .they rise again with twenty mortal murders 
on their crcwn3 
To push us from our stools !” 
Lake Disasters. —Two propt llers, the Dela¬ 
ware and Omar Pasha, are reported lost with 
all on beard, in a gale on Lake Michigan.— 
Several boxes of merchandize have recently 
been picked up near Sheboygan, belonging to 
the propeller Iowa, and fears are entertained 
that she may have been lost. The propelLr 
Fin try, Capt. Langley, burst her boiler cn the 
morniDg of the 8th, off Port Stanley, C. W. 
The after portion of the boat was blown away, 
and she sank in ten fathoms. Seven men and 
one woman were lost. Fifteen persons were 
saved, clinging to portions of the wreck and 
the small heats, and were picked up by a 
schooner. 
Railway Uniform.— The Great Western R. 
Jt. Company furnish their conductors with 
two suits of uniform annually. It consists of 
a blue frock ccat, fashionably cut, and trim¬ 
med with black velvet collar and gilt but¬ 
tons, with a locomotive and cars, and the 
words “ Conductor, G. W, R. R.” on each; a 
blue miiitary-cut vest, and the buttons of tbe 
same stamp hut of a smaller size ; blue cloth 
cap with the word “Conductor” onthefront, 
and a button on each end of the front-piece 
of the same kind as those on the vest; the 
pants are of a dark mixed color. 
The Rochester Collegiate Institute, under 
the management of Messrs. Saiterlee and 
Dexter, with an able corps of assistants, has 
attained high rank among cur institutions of 
leaning. We had the pleasure of attending 
its literary exercises on Friday week, and 
have rarely seen them excelled. The Ancient 
and Modern Languages, Mathematics, Belles 
Lettres, &c., are taught, and no pains or ex¬ 
pense are spared by the enterprising proprie¬ 
tors to render the Institute one of the first of 
its class. The Winter Term commences on 
Monday next. 
Georgia Legislature. —The Legislature of 
Georgia met at Milledgeville on Monday the 
5th instant. The Governor sent in his mes¬ 
sage next day, a voluminous document, prin¬ 
cipally occupied by State matters ; but he re¬ 
commends the Legislature to provide for call¬ 
ing a State Convention in case Congress refuses 
to admit Kansas into the Union on account 
of her being a slaveholding State—in which 
case he advises a disruption of the Unicn.— 
He hopes, however, that the patriotism of the 
North will avert such a calamity. 
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Tub Congregational Fsalmjst ; a Collection of I'ea!m 
Tunes, to a selection of Hymns conta'rcd in the 
Psalmist, and intended for Congregational use in Bap¬ 
tist Churches. Rochester : Vfm. IN. Sage. 1865. 
Wrs liko good singing, and that in -which the whole 
congregation rutty join. This little book is designed for, 
and well calculated to promote, that end. The good old 
tunes—often used but never to ho worn out —with other 
more recent, favorites, aro given in connection with ap¬ 
propriate hymns, so that the congregation may join, 
more readily and with greater correctness and effect, 
with the choir, in the service of praise and thanksgiv¬ 
ing. The work was prepared by Rev. J. R. Scoit, Pas¬ 
tor of the 1st Baptist Church of this city. From the 
Publisher. 
Lucy Boston ; or Woman’s Rights and Spiritualism, il- 
luttrajting the Follies nr.d Delusions of tbe 19ih Cen¬ 
tury- Rochester : Alden & Beardsley. 1855. 
TitEREjmay be a demand for such books as this but 
if so, it is one in which we cannot sympathize. Of the 
follies it aims to illustrate, it may be well to say, in the 
words with which the volume closes : 
‘Spiritualism, and Woman's Rights ! 
Twins in tbeir birth and ill begot, 
Twins in their gravo—there let ’em rot” — 
and hence the less ihey are discussed, the better. In 
printing binding and illustration, it is a credit to the 
enterprising house by which it is issued. Frcm the 
Publishers. 
— 
The Life br the Right Honorable John Phiilpot Curran, 
late MWster or Rolls in Ii eland. By his son, Wm. 
Henry) Curran. With Additions and No’es by R. 
Shelton Mackenzie, D. C. L. New York: Redfleld & Co 
CurkaiI was cne of Ireland’s noblest patriots, orators 
and advocates, and this volume not only embraces his 
life, but describes the social End political condition cf 
Ireland during his career and previous to the Union.— 
Many extracts are given from Curran’s speeches and 
letters, illustrative of his style while tbe work is rich 
in anecdotes of the great advocate and his contempora- 
ties. Thb volume comprises over 500 pages, prefaced 
with a pcjrtrr.it of Curran. For sale by Dewey. 
Table TrIits. with Somethmg on Them. By Dr. Doran 
author bf “ Habits and Men,” etc. New York : Red 
field, 1S55. 
Tms is a pleasantly seasoned volume, troating of the 
history, poetry and philosophy of the Table—d scussing 
the various items of the “ bill of fare,” to which we 
mortals give so large a share of our time and attention. 
Ancient aad modern Literature is rau.sicked for items 
with which to spread tho board, and wo are surprised 
to find a book so spirited, interesting and ins'rirtive, 
upon a subject seemingly so barren. Frcm Dewey’s. 
Tiik Physiology or Marriagf. By an old Physician. 
Boston : John P. Jewett & Co. 
The great majority of hooks on Marriage are written 
by charlatans, or men devoid of principle, for the pur¬ 
pose of mai ng money, regardless of consequences, and 
hence aro worse than useless—often extensively' irjuri- 
ous. The work above named, however, is an exception 
to this rule.; It is evidently written by a man of expe¬ 
rience and ability, with a conscientious desire to pro¬ 
mote the welfare of its readers, and certainly embodies 
valuable advice and suggestions. For sale by Dewey. 
Juno Clifford. A Tale. By a Lady. New York : D. 
Appleton & Co. 
This is an attractive volume of some 400 pages. It is 
an exciting narrative, embracirg sundry plots and 
counter plots. In contrast to some gentle characters, 
that of ttehproine shows bow bad motives and want of 
principle miy render beauty and accomplishments a 
curse rather! than a blessing to Society. For sale by 
Imperial Superstition. 
Tiib Czar of Russia, on his late passage 
through Moscow, visited all the sacred places 
in company with the Royal family, kissing 
the relics of Saints, &c., and in order to forti¬ 
fy the courage of his army, determined on 
carrying to it a relic of Saint Serguis, consist¬ 
ing of a painted image of the saint from one 
of the sides of his coffin, wlrch is supposed 
to be of great sanctity and virtue, and which 
figured in the wars of the Czars Michael Feo- 
dorowitch and Peter I., and in that of Mos- 
oow in 1812. The Metropolitan Bishop, on 
presenting the relic to the Emperor, thus ap¬ 
pealed to the Saint: 
“Saint Serguis ! Thou gavest thy blessing 
to Prince Demetri, to the Czars Michael, Pe¬ 
ter and Alexander I. Look down favorably 
on the Czar Alexander Nicolaiewitch, who 
comes to demand from thee thy holy image, 
in order to show it to his army, as the sacred 
mark of thy prayers of benediction and pro¬ 
tection. Cease not to pray to God that he 
will pardon our sins, for which we have mer¬ 
ited chastisement, that He will bless our most 
pious Czar and his army, and that He will 
give him victory which will make a victorious 
peace.” 
The Rag-Picker ; or. Bound and Free. New York : Ma¬ 
son Brothers* 1855. 
This valurne has an invitirg appearance, and a friend 
who has peruse^ it, speaks of its contents as meritori¬ 
ous, while its apparent objects and moral tendency are 
commendable. iFrom tho Publishers. 
— 
Winnie and I. New Yoik : J. C. Derby. Boston : Phil¬ 
lips, Sampson j: Co. 1855. 
A simple Tale of every-day life and scenes, written in 
a pleasing style, without any exciiing plotting or tragi¬ 
cal terminations. Sold by E. Dariiow & Brother. 
Fall of an Elf.vator. —The fine building, 
erected during ;the past season at the mouth 
of the Genesee:river, and used as a grain ele¬ 
vator for loading and unloading vessels and 
railroad cars, and for 6toriDg grain, fell on 
Sunday morning under the immense weight of 
80,000 bushels of wheat stored therein.— 
About 10,000 bushels fell into the water, and 
the remainder wr.s left in a huge pile upon the 
site of the demolishes structure. The build¬ 
ing was erected upon piles, and the cause of 
the disaster wa3 the settling of the foundation. 
The grain was mostly owned by millers in this 
city, and was insured against fire, but net 
against such an unlooked for casualty. 
Libel Suit. —The New' York Times some 
time since published innocently a bogus mar¬ 
riage notice, which was imposed upon them 
as genuine ; and for this the proprietors were 
unjustly subjected to an action of libel. The 
cause was recently argued at Plattsburgh be¬ 
fore the Supreme Court, and a decision given 
for the defendants—the Court deciding that 
no presumption of malice in law can arise 
from the bare publication of a marriage notice. 
Grain Movement. —The Chicago Democrat 
states that during six days recently, cne of 
the most extensive operators in grain pur¬ 
chased at the rate of 100,000 bushels of wheat 
per day, paying for the same, on an average, 
$150,000 daily. It is supposed the purchases 
are made for Messrs. Grinnkll, Mintuhn & 
Co., New York, who are buying on foreign 
account. 
Paid Down.—Joseph Wagner, a British 
agent for the Crimea, was last week sentenced 
by the U. S. Circuit Court, sitting at New 
York, to pay a fine of one hundred dollars 
and be imprisoned two years. A British Con¬ 
sul in Prussia has als© recently been fined and 
imprisoned in that country for a similar of¬ 
fence against their neutrality laws. 
Crime at the Ballot Box. —Two bullies at 
Albany, named Wm. McJbossen and Michael 
Brennan, quarreled at the polls on election 
day, which resulted in McC&ossen drawing a 
pistol and shooting his antagonist through 
the heart, killing him instantly. The homi¬ 
cide was arrested and committed to jail. 
News Items. 
The civil debt of California, according to a 
late report, is $3,314,584. The war debt, for 
which an appropriation has been passed by 
Congress, is $1,022,335. 
Selkirk Settlement, between five hundred 
and a thousand miles north-west of St. Paul, 
is said to he in one of the most extensive grain 
growing regions in the West. 
F. O. J. Smith’s right to one undivided 
fourth of all Prof. Morse’s telegrapli’c inven¬ 
tions, was established by a decision in the 
U. S. Court at Boston la6t week. 
The United States have just recovered a 
judgment of between $14,000 and $15,000 
agaiust Hyde, the collector of tbe port of 
Detroit, Michigan, under the late administra¬ 
tion. The suit has been pending some time. 
The Queen has consented to the creation of 
two new Bishoprics in Upper Canada. A por¬ 
tion cf the funds necessary for the endowment 
of the Sees will be granted by the British 
Government, aud the remaining part will be 
raised by private subscriptions. 
At the funeral of a Mr. Ireson, at Lynn, 
Massachusetts, on Monday week, the entry 
floor fell through, precipitating some twelve 
ladiis into the cellar. No one wa3 seriously 
injured. The house was built one hundred 
and thirty years ago, and Mr. Ireson has re¬ 
sided in the same house eighty-six years. 
The Cincinnati Times says, that on the 24d 
ult., a number of persons in that city plainly 
saw a balloon in the air, which, by a power¬ 
ful glass, was discovered to be a wreck, and 
infers that it may have been the balloon of 
the missing aeronaut, Winchester, who made 
an ascension at Norwalk, Ohio, on the 2d ult., 
and has not since been heard of. 
A new pater, called the “ Free Love Advo¬ 
cate ” has just made its appearance as an ex¬ 
ponent of shameless ’ism, “ Passional attrac¬ 
tion.” Nothing is so disgusting or immoral, 
that does not find its apologists or defenders. 
The next newspaper issued will probably be 
the Burglar’s Chronicle, or the Pickpocket’s 
Gazette, or Fusion Missionary uniting the two. 
Wars. —A “curious correspondent” of the 
New York Mirror rep rts that out of 287 wars 
—the present excepted — which have been 
waged in Christendom, since the Christian 
era, 15 mainly resulteel from the defire of 
territory, 22 from tbe defire of plunder, 24 
from revenge, 8 to settle questions of honor, 
6 from disputed claims, 41 from disputed titlc-s, 
30 from pretence of assisting allies, 23 from 
jealousy of rival greatness, 5 from commercial 
difficulties, 53 from rival animosity, and 28 
from religious bigotry. England atd Fiance, 
who are now so friendly, ard aro united 
against a common enemy, have had the>‘f 
“ tug at war.” From 1110 to 1814, a period 
704 years, there were 270 years of war between 
England and France. There were twenty- 
three distinct wars. 
A Singular Will. —A man named J. De 
Dios Chacon, recently died at Lima, Peru, 
leaving a fortune of one million e f dollars, all 
won at the gambling table. He w lied the 
whole to a woman residing in the city, on 
condition that she should give a peseta (quar ter 
of a dollar) each day to every convalescent 
discharged from the hospital, and receive a 
hundred poor men aud women daily at her 
table. Ia case of the legatee neglecting to fill 
either of the provisions above mentioned, the 
usufruct of the money is to be vested in the 
governments of France and England, on the 
same conditions. 
Amusing. —It is customary in many of our 
city churches for the congregation to join ia 
singing the last hymn. On Sunday last a 
gentleman accompauied by his little girl of 
some five years of age, strayed into one of the 
aforesaid churches, and his fine voice materi¬ 
ally assisted the choir in getting through 
‘ Winchester.” Just hi fore the benediction, 
the little girl observing the fine effect pro¬ 
duct d by her parent on the occupants of the 
surrounding pews, cried out in ah audible 
voice, “ Papa ! please sing * Villikins aud his 
Dinah !’ ”—Boston Post. 
A Miser to some Purpose —The fortune left 
by the late baion Dietrich, of Vienna, to his 
grandson, Prince Sulkowski, anuunts to 18,- 
000,000 of floriER, ($9,000,000 ) There were 
found in the cellar 22 bags, each containing 
1,000 ducats in gold, and in different chests 
securities out of date and lost for a sum of 
180,000 florits Thia practice of hoarding 
gold is said to be very common in Austria, 
where the paper currency is greatly depreci¬ 
ated. 
Wisconsin. —The population of this State, 
according to the census just, completed, is 
552 109, being a gain of 246 718 since 1850. 
Of the present population, 296 258 are white 
males, and 255,063 are white females; 461 
are colored males, and 857 colored females ; 
200 are returned as deaf and dumb, 123 blind, 
and 240 insane. 
•{fetog Slipping, 
Joshua Gidbings is spoken of for U. S. Sen¬ 
ator from Ohio. 
Ole Bull is about to make another profes¬ 
sional tour of the United States. 
Tub oldest citizen of St. Louis, Caleb Lock- 
wood, Esq., recently died in that city. 
Snow has fallen quite freely at various 
points in the Nevr England States. 
The Michigan Central Bailroad steamers 
will be drawn off on or about the 20th. 
The peach and cherry trees in some parts of 
Mason county, Ky., are in bloom again. 
Nbw Orleans has had ten epidemics of yel¬ 
low fever and cholera within eight years. 
Three clergymen were among the killed by 
the recent railroad disaster near St. Louis. 
It is said that the fortune of General Cass 
amounts to the modest sum of five millions ! 
It is said that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe 
intends to make Hartford. Conn., her home. 
Sunday week was tho 363d anniversary of 
the discovery of America by Christcpher Co¬ 
lumbus. 
Within five months, eleven postmasters 
have been arrested in Ohio for depredations 
upon the mails. 
In the New York Chamber of Commerce, 
a report has Iwen adopted in favor of a reDeal 
of the Usury Laws. 
Tue Great Western Railway Company's 
steamers on Lake Ontario are to lay up Nov. 
10, as per official notice. 
It is said that one of the daughters of Sir 
Allan MoNab will shortly be led to the hy- 
menial altar by Loi’d Bury. 
A man was blown from a bridge near Phila¬ 
delphia, by a strong current of wind a few 
days since, and much injured. 
The city of Washington, according to a re¬ 
cent census, contains sixty thousand inhabi- 
ants. Its growth is very gradual. 
A Mr. Sinclair of Janesville, Wis , having 
a fortune of $150 000, imagining himself on 
the verge of poverty, cut his throat. 
Gov. Mktcalf, of New Hampshire, has ap¬ 
pointed Thursday, November 29fch, for the 
annual thanksgiving in that State. 
In Perry county, Ind., at the late term of 
the County Court, there were no less than 
twenty-two applications for divoice. 
The Seneca Indians have a law to the effect 
that no treaty is valid without the consent of 
two-thirds of the mothers of the tribe. 
Judge Grier of Per nsylvauia has decided 
that the laws of the United States fix the 
weight of a ton of coal at 2,240 pounds. 
Samuel Stsphanowisoh, the Armenian Arch 
Bishop of Lemberg, the Nestor of Christian 
priests, has just completed his 105th year. 
Elizabeth IIabker, under sentence of death 
for the murder of her husband and sister, 
died in jail at Huntington, Pa., last week. 
There is a project on foot for the convertirg 
the building and grounds in the city known 
as the Hippodrome, into a Zoological Garden. 
TnE women of Indianapolis must be rather 
squeamish. A day was set apart especially 
for the ladits to visit the statue of the Greek 
Slave. 
The Louisville Journal says that one of the 
Pork Houses iu that city sold to an English 
packer 20,000 hogs recently, at $6 from the 
hooks. 
Tub Chicago Times say6 that the First Pres¬ 
byterian Churc h in that city has been sold to 
a gentleman who intends to convert it into a 
theatre. 
At Davenport, Ia., recently, when some lots 
of ground were to be sold at auction for the 
non-payment of taxes, the sale was opened 
with prayer. 
Dr. Kane is in New York, where he has 
made arrangements with an artist for tho 
preparation of the maps, charts, plates, &c., 
for his report. 
A youth in Chicopee, Mass., while attempt¬ 
ing to kiss a young lady, slipped and fell just 
before reaching her, thus losing his kiss and 
two front teeth. 
Thf. baik Cora sailed from Baltimore for 
Libeiia on Thursday last, with seventy-six 
colored eim'gran’s, many of whom were eman¬ 
cipated slaves. 
In Paris, apothecaries are obliged to put up 
all poisons in red paper, while white lib Is 
must be used for medicine intended for inter¬ 
nal application. 
The New York Mirror states that Thomas 
Francis Meagher, tbe Trish patriot, is about to 
lead to the hymenial altar one of the loveliest 
belles of that city. 
A party of hunters are engaged in the lower 
part of New Jersey in bear hunting. There 
are many of these animals in swamps in that 
section of the country. 
The Cleveland Herald says it has added to 
its printing establishment a Folding Machine, 
which will fold papers at the rate of twenty- 
five hundred per hour. 
A person in Mobile has brought suit for 
damages against a shoemaker, for failing to 
comply with a promise to have a pair of boots 
made at a specified time. 
The famous racer Henry Perritt, said to 
have made the fastest mile on record, fell dead 
a few days ago. after winning a four mile heat 
on the Nashville course. 
There were twenty-two fires in the United 
States last month, exclusive of all losses 1 ss 
than $10,000. Fifteen manufacturing estab¬ 
lishments were consumed. 
A Small quantity of vinegar will generally 
destroy any insect that may find its way fcjto 
the stomach ; and a little salad oil will kill 
any that may enter the ear. 
An adjourned session of the Missouri L°g ! s- 
lature commenced on Monday week. In the 
business before it is the election of a Senator 
in Congress, in place of Atchison. 
The commission appointed to locate a state 
reform school in New Hampshire, have select¬ 
ed a part of the Gen. Si ark farm in Manches¬ 
ter, paying $10,000 for the same. 
The laws of Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin 
allow a divorve “ for gross neglect of duty,” 
which being liberally constructed, allows tho 
parties to separate almost at pleasure. 
