MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOR KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Congressional Proceedings. 
Jan. 31.—Nothing of importance done in the 
Senate - 
** n tke ^ ou8e » ^ r - Richardson, from tlic coin- 
mittee on Territories, reported a bill for organi- 
- - . zing Nebraska and Kansas. 
ROCHESTER, FEBRUA RY’ 11, 1854. Mr. English, a member of the committee, said 
the bill in its present shape did not meet the ap- 
Agents and Friends will please remember that we are proval of all the members of the committee, 
publishing a large extra edition, and can therefore furnish ' Feb j—S enate.—A resolution of inquiry, as 
back numbers of this volume to all new subscribers. Those . . , r . . 
disposed, and we hope they number hundreds and thou- f° f ke propiiety ot cons ) uc mg a - a lona 
Kinds, can yet form new clubs or make additions (singly, Foundry in Pennsylvania, tv as adopted. 
ROCHESTER, FEBRUARY 7 11, 1854. 
publishing a large extra edition, and can therefore furnish 
back numbers of this volume to all new subscribers. Those 
disposed, and we hope they number hundreds and thou- 
or in. fives, tens, twenties, or upwards,) to those already House.— In the House, considerable discussion 
started. We are prepared, this vear, for the “long pull, . , ,, . ,, , , , , , ,, 
strong pull, and pull all together,” which tlic friends of the took P lacc on tke '; rie R ;u1l '° a< trouble > anc * tke 
Rural are giving, and shall honor all orders for the com- disposition of the bill to punish mail abstractions, 
plete volume until our edition is exhausted. But as we but nothing definite was done. 
are receiving hundreds of new subscribers daily, those who qq 10 House went into committee oil the Defi- 
wish back numbers should not dolav. We send from the . . ■ _ . _ „ 
. . . ... , , ... , , ciency bill, but without coming to a conclusion, 
beginning of the volume, unless otherwise directed. . J 
23^” For a variety of particulars relative to terms, &c., Feb. 2.— Senate— The Printing Committee 
see Publisher’s Notices on next page — which answer most reported against the establishment of a Govern- 
of the questions propounded by agents and other friends, ment Printing Office. 
The House bill, granting live years’ additional 
The Foreign News. time for the location of bounty lands issued for 
... ... ~ ,. ... , war services in 1812, was passed. 
1 HE tide of war, like the tide of the ocean, has M) . clayton>8 Sandwich Islands resolution 
its ebb and flow. By the previous arrivals, the _ A 
Turkish affairs looked extremely dubious, and " “ Solution offered by Mr. Bright, calling for 
defeat and disaster seemed to menace them on Koszta con . esponde nce, was also adopted, 
every hand ; but the news by the Asia has put Thg Pkel (Vt) case , was discussed and the 
The Foreign News. 
The tide of war, like the tide of the ocean, has 
its ebb and flow. By the previous arrivals, the 
Turkish affairs looked extremely dubious, and 
defeat and disaster seemed to menace them on 
every hand ; but the news by the Asia has put 
a new face on the affair, at least so far as the tion was postp oned until Thursday. 
Danubian provinces are concerned. It is now After a ghorfc Executivc session, the Senate 
said and undoubtedly with truth, that on the ad - ourned 
4th of January the Turks gained a brilliant vie- , , „ P • i n 
, /inn- , ii House.— An amendment to the Deficiency bill, 
tory, and captured the Russian entrenched camp ^ „„„ „ , . 
at Citato, near Kalafat. and put 2,500 of tie cnc- appropruto* *40.000 for completing tie custom 
my to the sword. Tie Turks also attacked a *«••» ’a T,S° 
i i c iq noon • , . r n-t i one offered by Mr. Benton, appropriating $100,- 
body of 18,000 Russians, sent to relieve Citale, „„„ ■ J . 0 , i . , ., 
... , , 000 for a custom house at St. Louis, and another 
and, alter a sharp encounter, compelled them to . . nnn r , , 
. , rp , . ., 1 , . , , appropriating $125,000 for a custom bouse at 
retreat, the Russians are thus driven back 'I ‘ “ , _. ... 
t .. ... . , . Wilmington, Del. The committee rose without 
o ., ... . , . , ,, , , . Wilmington, Del. The committee rose without 
from Ike positions by winch they hoped to cross , . . 
the Danube. The Turkish force in battle was co,u ^ ut * n » 1 10 usiness. . 
r r non j r c The report of the directors of the Philadelphia 
15,000 men and 15 cannon. r . . . , . , , 
rP1 , , , ji-uni to Mint was received and ordered printed. 
The allied fleet have entered the I31ack Sea, I 
and will probably blockade the Russian vessels k e ^‘ Senate. ^ 1<? ^ eIia ^ c < u tcd on 
in the harbor of Sebastopol. This will render P rivate calender. When that was through with, 
the navigation of the sea comparatively safe for the Nebraska bill came up, and Senator Chase 
Turkish transport* and enable them to throw s P oke - The S alleries and lobbies were filled to 
supplies of men and stores upon the Asiatic excess, and even the repoiters were driven fiom 
coast, in order to retrieve the losses lately ex- their seats by women. 
perienced there. As before stated, the hopes of House.—T wenty-six private bills were passed, 
the Turks for ultimate success, depend upon the Correspondence relative to persons claiming the 
active interference of the Western powers in her protection of this Government, between Secre- 
behalf; for without this aid, the overshadowing tary Marcy and our Charge de Affairs at Aus- 
potency of Russia will be sure to crush her in tria, was submitted, in which the case of one 
the end. Simon Toussie, claiming protection as a citizen 
Matters have now reached a crisis, and must of the United States, is canvassed. But it being 
be decided either the one way or the other era shown that Toussie is a subject of Austria, the 
long. The activity of France and England has Secretary decided that this Government cannot 
heretofore been manifested in quiet preparation interfere in bis behalf. The House adjourned 
and in the department of diplomacy ; but the till Monday, 
movement of the fleet into the Black sea, and 
the submission of a final proposition as a basis The Popes NlUlcio. 
of settlement to the Autocrat, must decide the \ ." AT . . . 
. „ The Pope’s nuncio, Bedixi, who has been pre¬ 
alternative of peace or war. , T - . i 
„. . , Y ... . tt tj. ambulating the United States and causing so 
The arrival of the Arabia, at Halifax, F eb. 4th, , ? ; . , , . „ 
, , . , , . , , , much excitement, finally departed for Europe 
with seven.day’s later news, has not yet solved ,, , , , . ^ „ ,.. , . 
J *■' Qnfnv/lav locf m fh/i (1m lnc* cronmor Athntip 
The Pope’s Nuncio. 
The Pope’s nuncio, Bedini, wlio lias been pre¬ 
ambulating the United States and causing so 
, / , ,, . , , . , J ,, , Saturday last, in the Collins’ steamer Atlantic, 
the problem, but the telegraph states that Eu- „ ,. . . J ... i . , 
1 ... ... , °Politicians, revolutionists, and sectarians have 
rope was waiting with trembling anxiety for the , . . . ,, 
„ , f . made the appearance of this Roman functionary 
final answer of the Czar, which it was appre- V . . .. . . 
, . , , , , . . , . , ’ among us, the occasion of extraordinary activity 
bended would be of a character equivalent to , . , , ... A , , 
. . „ . , , T , andexcitemenL,notunattendedwiththeshed- 
a declaration of war against England and I ranee. , .. , . 
ding of blood. So far as bis own conduct on 
this side of the Atlaiftic is concerned, we do not 
Amendment to the Constitution. find anything offensive or out of place ; and the 
same acts in anv other individual would have 
Ox the 15th instant, the people of our State beeQ passed by as unworthy of any sort of no¬ 
will be called to pass upon an amendment to tice The whole trouble bas arisen in conse- 
the fundamental law. ihe question is one of q Uence G f one portion of our foreign population 
vital importance to the interests of this State, and regarding him as a man of extraordinary sancti- 
of all the West, and it will settle the canal policy ty? and one who could not be spoken to or 
for all time to come. 1 he question is whether abou t except with a reverence such as is due to 
the canals shall be finished at once, and put into tbe head of the church manifest in the flesh, 
efficient working order so as to stand before and yrhile another portion of tbe same population 
out of reach of all competition in the carrying do no ^ hesitate to pronounce him a blood-thirsty 
trade of the great Y\ est, or whether the public tyrant, hiding his head under a bishop’s miter, 
works shall be suffered to linger along for an in- g Q far M Araerica ns themselves are concerned, 
definite period, or perhaps never be completed t & f(;w toad _ eating politicians and office- 
at all. Over sixteen millions have already been . r ., T , • , 
. J seeking or office-lioldmg waiters on Providence 
expended and nearly unproductive for years and the polls, his coining, abiding, or departure, 
past, simply because the canals cannot be used . , c ... 
f , . 1 J , has been a matter of perfect indifference. Vve 
in their enlarged capacity until completed . , . y . .. , . ,, 
, , , , „ / H . . „ f are glad he is gone, however, for if he is the 
throughout: and the length of time that must . , , . , , , - , , 
, & ’ . , . , . .. butcher his opponents assert, we certainly do 
elapse yet during all which period the expendi- . , . . t , ... . , 
r ", , Y . 1 , 1 not want him here ; and it he is not, the resident 
ture will be a dormant investment, unless tbe r , „ .. , ,. .. 
, , , . „ Roman Catholic clergy even then are quite as 
amendment passes, ought to open the eyes of all , , . . , , f 
, 1 m, competent, to take care of their flocks, as a for- 
prudent and right thinking men. that the en- 1 , 
f , eigner who is unacauainted with our language 
larged canal, besides conferring incalculable . , . , t , . . 
G ° m- nws. jhiH wno la hors nndfir least a snsm- 
i ,, c,. i j ^ or laws, and who labors under at least a suspi- 
benent on the btate aud on the nation, will pay . -rannv 
for itself without a dollar’s expense to any man, CUm ° J !an, U • 
is as clearly demonstrable as that the sun will 
rise in the east. The vast saving in distance, Side Musingg . B y Bexj/f. Taylor, niustmted. New 
for over 30 miles of sinuosities will be cut off — York: S. Heusto.v,— 1854 . 
the vast saving in the traction of boats, for three This is a live book — abounding in life-like 
horses will draw an enlarged boat of 240 tons, sketches, and delineations of .Nature’s handi- 
as easily as two horses will now draw one of 90 work and teachings, from preface to finis. We 
tons—the vast economy of time, for two days at received it several weeks since, but (as we rarely 
least, will be saved each trip—the vast saving in commend a book on trust, from appearances, or 
interest, for the money already expended will what “other people say,”) delayed noticing 
then be made a productive and active capital, until more than a glance could be given its 
and a thousand other considerations for, and not contents. Having at last an opportunity to open 
one against the enlargement, all call trumpet- it, we did so, and read one sketch, then another, 
tongued to the voters of the entire State, to put and another,— until we finally perused nearly 
an end to this torpid and vascillating policy, half the volume, of some 280 handsomely print- 
whick policy, if an individual or a private cor- ed pages, at one sitting. And yet it’s not a 
poration should pursue in the management book which should be read hastily—it contains 
of their affairs, would render them a byword too many gem-thoughts for that,—but is just the 
and a reproach. The previous Legislature pass- companion for long boreal evenings, or June 
ed the law by a large majority, and the present days—for those addicted to thinking or musing, 
one without distinction of party passed it again The author is a true poet, and, though favorably 
unanimously in the Senate, and with but one known for some years as a racy sketcher, Janu- 
dissenting vote in the house; and the people ary and June will give him an enviable reputa- 
will incur, as they deserve., an eternal reproach tion. The volume embraces some fifty prose, 
if tbe bill is finally lost through their supineness, and ten poetical, coinings from the genuine mint. 
Readers of the I4ural in this State ! go to the The book will pay —not the author and publisher 
polls and call out your friends, and let one only, but the reader also. So believing, we com- 
uqanimous aye be deposited in the ballot-box, mend it, thinking or musing friend, to your 
on the canal question, if you would have pos- perusal. 
January axd June: being Out-Door Thinkiugs and Fire- 
Side Musings. By Benj. F. Taylor. Illustrated. New 
York : S. Heustox, —1854. 
This is a live book — abounding in life-like 
terity rise up and call you blessed ! 
Notices of several books necessarily deferred’ 
Our Albany Correspondence. 
Albany, Feb. 6, 1854. 
The leading topic of legislation for the past 
fortnight lias been the Maine Law. YVhat is 
somewhat peculiar is, that both houses are en¬ 
gaged on the same question at Ihe same time. 
Generally, a measure is passed by one branch 
and then taken np by the other. This bill re¬ 
ceives the conjoint discussion of both, which 
may be accounted for by tbe transeendant im¬ 
portance of the subject, and tbe necessity of 
having the bill perfect in all its details.- The 
Hon. Mr. Dewey from Jefferson County has 
brought in a report from the minority of the 
Assembly Committee, which is acknowledged 
to be one of tbe ablest paper? of tlie session, and 
it will do much toward pruning the bill of tbe 
majority from errors and unconstitutionalities. 
There seems to be a desire on the part of the 
friends of the bill, to make it so strong that it 
shall not only stand the test of judicial scrutiny, 
but shall appeal to the intellect and conscience 
of tbe entire people, being impressed as they are 
with the idea that no law can long be efficient 
that does not come up to such a standard. 
The Assembly bold an afternoon session to 
consider this all-important measure. They have 
already passed over about half of the sections, 
and have made some wholesome amendments. 
One is to strike out the clause which provided 
a fee to the complainant It is clear to be seen 
that a reward to the person who should make 
complaint against a vender of liquors, though it 
might do some good, would work much injury, 
as persons would be charged with entering a 
complaint to get the fee. This would destroy 
the moral force of the law, and it was therefore 
struck out. The matter of searching for liquor 
on the complaint of three witnesses has been 
slightly modified, to do away with some of the 
objectionable features. 
But the enemies of the bill seem to lose all 
discretion in their debates, and tbeir amend¬ 
ments. One moves to include opium. Another 
will cure this great evil by making drunken¬ 
ness a punishable offence, and so on, with a 
view of befogging the subject, or its friends, or 
so choke it with amendments, as to insure its 
defeat. 
NEBRASKA. 
The Nebraska question bas been opened by 
the introduction of resolutions of instruction to 
our representatives and Senator in Congress, in 
opposition to the Douglass scheme. As this in¬ 
volves the Slavery question, the occasion is taken 
to let off a little of the pent-up bile of 1850.— 
But without commenting farther on that phase 
which is foreign to the main point at issue, I 
will remark that there is a probable majority 
opposed to the repeal of the Missouri compro¬ 
mise which pledged all territory north of 36 ° 
70 min. to freedom. Another objection to the 
organization of tbe new territory is that it was 
set apart as the future residence of the Indians. 
And Senator Brooks has introduced a resolution 
lo the effect thaj the Indian title shall be ex- j 
languished before the government can be or-: 
ganized. 
THE CONTESTED SEAT. 
Tbe case of Adams and YVillis, the occupant 
and contestant of the scat irom 2nd district of 
Jeff. Co., bas been decided in favor of Mr. Willis. 
The opponents of the Maine Law made strenu¬ 
ous efforts to retain Mr. Adams till that measure 
should be disposed of, as Mr. Willis was elected 
as Maine Law candidate. But tlie House got 
out of all patience with such delays, and came 
to a direct vote last Friday. 
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 
This long-deferred measure lias finally been 
reached, and will probably receive, as it justly 
demands, careful and prompt attention. Senator 
Robertson bas brought in a report and a bill 
creating tbe office, and providing for the election 
of the Superintendent by the joint ballot of the 
Legislature on the first Tuesday of April next, 
and every three years afterwards, the salary to 
be $2,500, and a deputy and clerks to be allow¬ 
ed sufficient to perform the labor. It is bis duty, 
in addition to those performed by the Secretary 
of State as now organized, to visit schools and 
examine into the discipline and condition there¬ 
of, and report the same to the Legislature. This 
measure will find great favor with the friends of 
education throughout the State. 
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 
The exercises at the Normal School have been 
of a very interesting character. Samuel S. Ran¬ 
dall, Esq., addressed the literary societies on 
Saturday, Jan. 28. Essays and Music constituted 
a part of the order. The young men did them¬ 
selves great credit, and Mr. Randall pronounced 
one of the best addresses I ever heard. The ex¬ 
amination of pupils, in the Normal department, 
was conducted on a more comprehensive plan 
than that heretofore pursued, each class being 
reviewed in all the studies pursued. I under- 
, stand that these examinations arc regarded as 
tests of the standing of pupils, and not as an en¬ 
tertainment to visitors. The closing exercises 
took place last Thursday, before a large and 
intelligent audience. Gov. Seymour addressed 
the pupils, and Prof. Wooi.worth conferred the 
diplomas. Such is the demand for teachers who 
graduate from this institution, that a very large 
number of the class first graduated are already 
engaged, and several commence their labors to¬ 
day. I should sav more of these exercises if 
space would permit. 
POULTRY AND STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 
Preparations are actively making for the show 
of Poultry, and for the session ot the Agricul¬ 
tural Society. It is said that barrels are pro- ! 
vided for those chickens that oat corn from their 
tops, and other “ fixins” of which I will speak 
in due time. The Assembly have resolved to 
give up their chamber for the Agricultural So¬ 
ciety. 1 
ADJOURNMENT ok the legislature. 
The Legislature will adjourn from tbe lOtk to i 
the 16th, in order to allow the members to vote 
at tbe Special Election on the 15th. *Owe*. 
ftas |I((ntgni|I]s. 
jrSgjp Gov. Stevens, of Washington Territory 
writes from Olympia, Puget’s Sound, Dec. 5th/ 
that, having made a thorough survey of the 
Northern Pacific Railroad route, he is convinced 
of its entire practicability. Lie describes the 
country as well wooded and watered, and ad¬ 
mirably adapted to settlement and cultivation. 
In each of the mountain ranges two passes were 
discovered through which a railroad can be 
easily constructed. The distance from Missis¬ 
sippi to the Pacific, is 1,800 miles; that the coun¬ 
try is rich and level, and the grade 40 feet to the 
mile, through Cadotte’s Pass. 
A bequest of a hundred thousand francs 
has been made to the French Institute, as a pre¬ 
mium for the discovery of means of curing tlie 
Asiatic Cholera, or of the cause of the pestilence. 
There is no limitation as to country. Thus—our 
medical savans may enter into the competition. 
According to the London papers, 15 or 20 deaths 
by cholera now occur daily in Paris. 
The Buffalo Rough Notes states that 
hydrophobia prevails to an alarming extent on 
the Indian Reservation, at CattaraugusJCreek.— 
Several of the family of Bluesky, one of the 
chiefs of the tribe, have died within a few days, 
from eating the flesh of a cow which was bitten 
by a rabid dog, and Bluesky himself is thought 
to be beyond medical aid. 
milf” The Parliament house at Quebec was 
destroyed by fire Feb. 1st. The fire originated 
in tbe south wing, from the furnace, it is believ¬ 
ed. Part of the valuable library was saved, but 
tbe literary and historical library and apparatus 
was almost entirely destroyed. Insurance on 
building, £30,000 ; on provincial library, 50,000. 
£31?” The present equipment of tbe Great 
Western C. W. Railway, consists of 22 locomo¬ 
tives, 25 passenger cats costing $2,500 each, 150 
covered freight cars costing $700 each, and 200 
open freight cars costing $550 each. The pas¬ 
senger cars are 45 feet long and u wide, with 
seats for 66 passengers. 
The new Mayor and Aldermen of Bos¬ 
ton, have taken preliminary steps to enforce the 
prohibitory liquor law of Massachusetts, in that 
city. The Chief of Police is directed to use the 
most efficient measures in the power of his de¬ 
partment to secure the immediate enforcement 
of the statute. 
Flame and smoke still issue from the 
ruins of Lafarge Hotel. In the centre of tlie 
waste of brick and mortar there are two im¬ 
mense coal heaps, containing, together, 17Utons, 
which heat the bricks above almost to whiteness. 
It is now a month since the conflagration oc¬ 
curred. 
The Livingston Republican says:—Some 
years ago we were told by an aged farmer resid¬ 
ing about two miles south of Mount Morris, that 
he had drawn his wheat crop to this village and 
had received therefor one yard of common cot¬ 
ton cloth per bushel! 
jrgp The U. S. Senate passed a bill granting 
six months’ extra pay to the surviving army and 
navy officers, soldiers and seamen, who were on 
board the San Francisco, and giving pensions to 
those who were rendered widows and orphans 
by tbe sad calamity. 
j”^T“ Over thirty tons of silver com was weigh¬ 
ed in the United States Mint last Monday week, 
and is now ready for distribution. Under these 
circumstances there is no more need of a shin- | 
plaster circulation then there is for a fifth wheel 
to a tv agon. 
Jgf” The correspondents in Washington, says 
the Nat ional Era, generally credit the report that 
is known in high quarters here, that there will 
soon be a coup d’etat in Spain,and that the now 
government will offer Cuba for sale to our gov¬ 
ernment. 
Prince Albert, who lias heretofore been 
content with his position as husband of the 
Queen of England, is now said to have been 
busy with the war question, throwing his influ¬ 
ence in favor of Russia. 
J>5gP The Hudson River Railroad is doing an 
immense freighting business. The Albany Atlas 
says tlie enormous quantity of 18,666,886 lbs. 
have been shipped oft this road, from the station 
at East Albany, during tbe month of January. 
A cotemporary says that war on tbe 
Danube—cholera in England — conflagration at 
home—wrecks on the sea—have given to the 
present winter a pre-eminence among disastrous 
seasons. 
It is stated that the young King of Por¬ 
tugal is about to marry his Coburg cousin, the 
Princess Charlotte of Belgium. The consequen¬ 
ces will be the production of a few more royal 
fools. 
Steps are being taken to establish a Lit¬ 
erary and Theological Institution in California. 
In June last, at a meeting of the San Francisco 
Baptist Association, the California Baptist As¬ 
sociation was formed. 
The Hon. Wra. Appleton, of Massachu- 
setls, presented to the Colonization Society the 
sum of $2,400—the amount necessary' to secure 
the emancipation of the 80 slaves of a Mr. Bell, 
and their colonization. 
About two hundred personsare employed 
in the straw manufactory at Nantucket. Among 
tlie operatives are the daughters of some of the 
leading men in town. Some of the young ladies 
make five dollars a week at the business. 
Gen. Cass’s allegation that “ violence” 
had been offered to the Nuncio in New York, 
is indignantly repelled by' the press of that city, 
and the venerable Senator called on for bis 
proof. 
jgfT Two shocks were felt at Palmer, Mass., 
Depot last week, the first on Tuesday and the 
second on Wednesday morning. They were ac¬ 
companied by a short rumbling sound, and 
caused tbe buildings to oscillate sensibly. 
Jig?” The Boston Post says :—“ There are 13,- 
OOU marriageable girls now in tbe factories at 
Lowell. It is pleasant to know in this World of 
misery, that there are 13,000 men yet to be made 
happy.” 
The Louisville papers tell of a young 
couple leaving that city for Cincinnati to be 
there tied in the bonds of wedlock. They were 
a Mr. Webb, aged 16, and a Miss Susan Rady, 
aged 13, both scant. 
The Cleveland Plaindealer, says, A. U. 
Gray, proprietor of an iron y'ard in that city, lias 
bandied since 1849, 131,565 tons of Railroad 
iron, or sufficient to lay 1,400 miles of track. 
(jgp” The number of students in attendance 
upon tlie lectures at the four Medical colleges in 
Philadelphia, is between thirteen and fourteen 
hundred. 
-It is said that every Judge in the State 
of Tennessee is a Son of Temperance. 
. -The number of students at present at¬ 
tending Victoria College is 150. 
--The town of Brockville was lighted with 
gas for the first lime on Thursday last. 
-The Mayor of San Francisco lias prohib¬ 
ited Sunday evening theatrical performance. 
-The Mississippi is frozen over at St. 
Louis, and there is excellent crossing on the ice. 
-Tbe first part of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Pro¬ 
gress, translated into Chinese, has just been 
printed in London. 
-The revenue of New Brunswick for tbe 
years 1851, 1852 and 1853, was respectively, 
£117,362, £138,220 and £180,850. 
-The mansion house on the Mount Vernon 
estate is now one hundred and eight years old, 
having been built in 1745. 
-The North River is frozen over as far as 
Tarry town, and the ice, at that place, is thick 
enough to admit its being crossed in vehicles. 
-The Rochester American says that the 
county of Monroe produces more wheat, yearly, 
than the six New England States together. 
-The Washington Star says, that M. Be¬ 
dini will receive a passport such as is accorded 
to an ambassador. 
-The ship Hartford, 90 days out from 
Liverpool for Mobile, has not been heard of and 
is supposed, to have been lost. 
-The St. Louis Cathedral was injured to 
the extent of $10,000 by fire on the 26tb. It 
Avas insured. 
-The Ministers in Maine are endeavoring 
to break up tbe practice of burying tlie (.lead on 
the Sabbath. 
-The Portsmouth Journal nominates Ed¬ 
ward Everett as the next whig candidate for the 
Presidency. 
-The epaulettes worn by Prince Albert, 
when in full costume, are worth £500 ; a small 
farm on each shoulder. 
-There are now six thousand men at work 
on the Lake Erie, Wabash, and St. Louis Rail¬ 
road. 
-There died at Moscow, on tlie 11th of 
October, a certain Peter Sosnowsky, aged 122 
years, 1 month, and 25 days. 
-Dr. Perkins, of Oroomiah, Persia, writes 
that the Nestorians now have the Bible com¬ 
plete in both the ancient and modern Syriac. 
-Tbe refractory New Y'ork Alderman, 
Sturtevant, is locked up in jail, awaiting the sit¬ 
ting of tbe fall bench of the Supreme Court. 
-A writer in the North British Review re¬ 
marks, that the novelist and the poet have come 
to rival the preacher in influence. 
-A pah of oxen are on exhibition in Bos¬ 
ton, which weigh eight thousand pounds. They 
belong to the Messrs. Cone of West Stockbridge. 
-The Missouri Iron Works, at Wheeling, 
were entirely destroyed by fire on last week 
Tuesday. The loss is estimated at $6U,0U0. 
-The steepest railroad grade in Europe, 
is upon tbe Piedmontese Railroad, between Tu¬ 
rin and Genoa, and the ascent is one hundred 
and eight}'-live feet to a mile! 
-A dividend of $30 per share has been de¬ 
clared by the Minnesota Copper Company, 
which is $8 more than had been paid in by the 
stock-holders. 
-The distance from the Mississippi to the 
Pacific by the northern (Gov. Stevens’) route is 
1,800 miles. By the southern it is upwards of 
2,500. 
-The son of the Emperor of Hayti, an in¬ 
telligent and gentlemanly youth, has arrived in 
England, to complete his education under a 
clergyman at Dawlish. 
-A man named Butterfield was found fro¬ 
zen to death in Concord, N. H., on Sunday 
morning of last week. He was found dead in 
the road. 
-Tlie consumption of water in Boston has 
reached thirteen millions of gallons in 24 hours ! 
The supply is not equal to this demand, or rath¬ 
er this waste. 
-The underwriters have accepted the 
abandonment of the clipper ship Great Republic. 
They pay on her about $250,000, and her wreck 
is to be sold at auction. 
-At the late term of the Superior Court, 
held at Concord, N. H., no less than 40 applica¬ 
tions were made for divorce, of which 33 were 
granted. 
-A teamster in Boston injured his eye a 
few days ago by tlie end of bis whip-lash. He 
took cold in it, and in three days died from 
lockjaw. 
-It is stated as a fact that Sir Robert Col¬ 
ton rescued tbe original Magna Charta from the 
hands of a tailor, who was on the point of cut¬ 
ting it up for patterns. 
-The steamer Eagle, from Columbia to 
Apalachicola, was burnt on Monday of last week, 
together with 1,300 bales of cotton. Four ne¬ 
groes were also burned. 
•-Major Howell, a brother-in-law of Col. 
Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War, is about to 
leave New Orleans, it is said, with a volunteer 
corps to aid tbe Turks. 
-Fred. Douglass accepts tlie appointment 
to address tbe Literary Societies of Western 
Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, at tbe com¬ 
mencement in July. 
-A meeting of tlie people of Massachu¬ 
setts to express their opposition to the project of 
repealing the Missouri Compromise, will beheld 
in the Faneuil Hall, on the 16th inst. 
-Thirty thousand men are employed in 
the United States in iron castings; twenty-five 
thousand in the manufacture of pig iron ; and 
fourteen thousand in wrought iron. 
-The Hon. Malcolm Cameron, Postmaster 
General of Canada, has reduced the postage on 
YVeekly Newspapers from 2s. 2d. f.er annum to 
Is. 4d. when the postage is paid in advance. 
-At Oneonta, Otsego county, N. Y., a man 
sent his boy, ten years of age, to a distillery for 
whiskey. Tlie boy drank about a pint, and died 
the next day. 
-One of the Boston Editors thinks that 
the raising of the physicians’ fees in that city, 
will have a very beneficial influence on the 
health of the population. 
-The Scientific American contains a com¬ 
munication of H. A. Frost, of Worcester, in which 
he claims to have invented a “ marine locomo¬ 
tive” which will cross the Atlantic in four days. 
-The New Y 7 ork Methodist Book Concern 
turns out about 5,000 bound books daily, or 
about ten per minute, allowing ten hours as a 
day’s work. 
