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Kill; AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ROCHESTER, MAY 6, 1854. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
A new quarter commenced April 8,— a good time 
for new single and club subscriptions to begin ; and the re¬ 
newal of expiring subscriptions is now in order. 
fCjlC Additions to Clubs arc still in order. If back num¬ 
bers arc not wanted, we will send from Is! March or April 
to end of year for $1 —and count on premium. 
jr-gp” During the season of navigalion we can send the 
Rural to Canada West free of American post age, and hence 
will furnish clubs for six months from date at lowest rates. 
fl-ggr” Clubs for six. or nine months from this date at same 
proportional rales as for full year—and premiums allmced. 
Pack numbers of the present volume furnished if 
desired, or subscriptions may commence at any time. 
The Wheat Crop of the Genesee Valley. 
When spring first made its appearance in this 
latitude, the wheat fields looked unusually 
promising ; hut the subsequent freezings and 
thawing’s did some damage in the way of heav¬ 
ing out the roots. The late rains and cool damp 
weather, however, have done very much to reme¬ 
dy the evil, by giving the partially injured 
plants an opportunity to recover their strength 
and vigor before encountering the full blaze of 
the summer sun. We have been traveling 
through a portion of the Genesee Valley within 
a few days, and although some lots of wheat, 
for want of drainage or good culture in other re¬ 
spects, looked very unpromising, we venture to 
say that on the whole, the wheat crop of the 
valley has never appeared better in any spi ing 
during the past ten years. 
Some of the farmers, in addition to their usual 
amount of winter wheat, have also put in spring 
wheat, in the hope of realizing handsomely out 
of the high price of breadstuff’s. There is a 
large area of ground sown, and if the harvest 
fulfills the promise of the spring, the granary of 
Western New York will groan under such a 
burden of grain, as it has rarely been called up¬ 
on to bear; and the preparations for the next 
year’s crop will be also on a scale even moio 
extensive. 
*It is a wise man who makes use of the pass¬ 
ing opportunity, and many a farmer v hose broad 
acres are yet under an incumbrance, will avail 
himself of the present and prospective price of 
grain, to escape from the last shackle which 
debt has fastened upon his otherwise free limbs. 
Hardship of United States Troops. 
The same brave troops who suffered so m: ny 
hardships by the shipwreck of the San Francis¬ 
co, a few months since, have again been sub¬ 
jected to the perils of the sea through the in¬ 
competency, carelessness, or something worse, 
of those high in authority. It seems the gov¬ 
ernment chartered the unseaworthy old hulk of 
a steamer, the Falcon, to transport the troops to 
Aspinwall; and when two days out, she came 
| near foundering at sea, being obliged to put into 
Norfolk, Va., in distress. The Falcon has been 
laid up as unscaworthy, and was deemed by 
many, unsafe at the time of the embarkation.— 
The best her engines could do at sea was four 
revolutions per minute. 
The New York Times, speaking of the matter, 
says :_“ Gen. Scott, who ordered Major Wyse 
under arrest for ref using to order his detachment 
on board the Falcon, because he knew her to be 
unseawortliy, presided over the Court which 
made the disaster to the San Francisco the spe¬ 
cial subject of judicial inquiry. We should be 
most reluctant to ascribe this proceeding to a 
reckless disregard of the lives of U. S. troops, • 
but, under the circumstances, we find it very 
difficult to assign it to any other cause.” 
The Dark and Bloody Ground. 
Direful Casualty. 
Ox Tuesday night, April 25th, a fire occurred 
at a clothing store. No. 231 Broadway, N. Y., 
which soon destroyed the building with its con¬ 
tents ; and shocking to relate, resulted in the 
death of twelve firemen, and the wounding of a 
large number of others, by the falling of the 
walls. The rear wall, it appears, was built up¬ 
on an iron archway supported by pillars; and 
when these were burned away by the fire, the 
entire building tumbled into a mass of ruins, 
carrying down with it and burying in the burn¬ 
ing and heated pile, the brave men who were 
engaged in a combat with the confiagiation. 
The utmost excitement and horror prevailed, 
and the bodies of the dead, and even some of the 
living, were not rescued from their terrible situ¬ 
ation until the next day. The New Y oik pa¬ 
pers are unanimous in their condemnation of the 
frailness of the structure, and declare that half 
the architecture of Broadway is a shell, beauti¬ 
ful to look upon, but in fact little better than 
traps set by mammon, for the destruction of hu¬ 
man life. 
TnE State of Kentucky has doubly merited 
this title in the acquittal of Matt. F. Ward of the 
murder of Prof. Butler. The strongest case 
that could be made out of justifiable homicide, 
and that case even by witnesses called in part 
by the defence, is that -Matt. Ward went to a 
gunsmith in Louisville, on the morning of the 
murder, and purchased two pistols, which he or¬ 
dered loaded, and then with his brother, Robert 
J. Ward, Jr., went to Mr. Butler’s school-room, 
which he entered unceremoniously, and said to 
bim :—“ I have come for an explanation as to 
your having whipped my brother. Butler ask¬ 
ed him to step into his private room, where he 
would explain it to him. Ward refused, saying 
that was the place to settle it; Air. Butler nod¬ 
ded ; AIatt. said, what are your ideas of justice? 
which is the worst, the boy who begs chestnuts 
and throws the shells on the floor and then lies 
about it, or my brother who gave them to him ? 
Air. Butler said he would not be interrogated, 
putting his pencil in his pocket and buttoning 
up his coat; Matt, repeated the question; But¬ 
ler said, there is not such a boy here; Matt. 
said, that settles the matter; but you called my 
brother a liar, and for that I must have an apol- 
ogy ; Butler said he had no apology to make ; 
is your mind made up ? said AIatt.; Butler said 
it was ; then, said Matt., you must hear my 
opinion of you, you are a d—d scoundrel and 
coward.” 
The boys of the school swear that Mr. Butler 
did not strike Ward at all, but one or two of 
them state that he did put his hand gently on 
the prisoner’s shoulder. W ard’s brother, who is 
himself under indictment for participation in the 
same horrid deed, however, says Butler did 
strike, although with a weaponless hand ; but 
he swears under circumstances of the strongest 
inducement, if not under suspicion of peijuiy, 
and in direct opposition to a dozen disinterested 
and intelligent young men, scholars of Air. But¬ 
ler. Ward deliberately drew a pistol and shot 
the Professor, inflicting a mortal wound, from 
the effects of which he died that night. 
And yet, with a hand reeking in innocent 
blood, and desolation brooding in darkness over 
the home of his victim, a lovely woman left a 
widow, and a little boy an orphan, a jury com¬ 
posed of Kentucky chivalry, has set Matt. Ward 
loose again upon society. In contradiction to 
the common law every where, and the decision 
of all criminal courts guided by its precepts, 
this jury construes that laying of a hand gently 
upon an armed man’s shoulder under the great¬ 
est provocation and abuse from the latter, len¬ 
ders the life of the unarmed man a just and 
proper forfeiture under Kentucky law ! 
« Oh Justice! Thou hast fled to brutish beasts, 
And men have lost their reason!” 
Sinking of the Ericsson. 
The Caloric Ship Ericsson went on another 
trial trip on the 27th ultimo. When near Jer¬ 
sey City, on her return, a sudden squall struck 
the ship, causing her to careen so much that the 
water ran into an open port, out of which the 
firemen were throwing cinders and ashes from 
the furnaces. The port was a large one, and be¬ 
fore the vessel righted she shipped so much wa¬ 
ter as to sink her. She now lies in several 
fathoms of water, with the upper part of her 
wheel-houses and her bowsprit in view. A 
steam tug, ferry boat, and several other craft, 
went to her assistance on perceiving a'signal of 
distress, and rescued the crew and passengers, 
This experimental ship, about which so much 
has been written and said, which has been so 
much lauded and abused, has made so many 
unsuccessful trial trips, and been on the point ot 
sailing so many times without doing so, has 
finally concluded to take a trip to Da\y Jones. 
The Scientific American always prophesied that 
this enterprise would prove a failure. 
The storm for the past week has so damaged 
the telegraph wires, that very uncertain and 
meagre reports were received from the seat of 
government. 
The most important act is the confirmation, 
by the Senate, of the treaty with Mexico. The 
injunction of secrecy touching the Senate’s action 
has not been removed, but it is stated that Santa 
Anna’s government is to receive $10,000,000, and 
the United States a certain portion of territory 
to secure a Railroad line to the I acific , and also 
is to be released from the 11th article of the 
present existing treaty, which requires the lat¬ 
ter government to defend the Mexican frontier 
against inroads of the Indians. Air. Pearce re¬ 
ported a bill appropriating $5,000 for the por¬ 
traits of the five first Presidents, by Gilbert 
Stuart, to be placed in the President’s mansion. 
Passed. In the House of Representatives, the 
consideration of the bill granting lands to the 
several States to aid in the construction of Rail¬ 
roads and for educational purposes, was resumed. 
Air. Disney, of Ohio, spoke in opposition to the 
bill, when it was postponed. 
On Friday and Saturday the Senate was not 
in session, neither was the House on Saturday ; 
the time on Friday being also mainly consumed 
in a personal altercation between Mr. Smith, of 
Virginia, and Air. Giddings, of Ohio. Air. Sapp 
spoke in opposition to the Nebraska bill. 
Popular Indignation. 
Nathan Wolfe, one of the Counsel of AI. F. 
Ward, has excited against him the indignation 
of the people of Louisville, and his residence 
was besmeared with rotten eggs, on Friday 
night, the 28th ult. Air. Wolfe, in his speech 
on the trial, complimented the people of Louis¬ 
ville, in this wise :—“ Aly client, the interesting 
and innocent young man at the bar, has been 
forced to flee a city where mutterings of revenge 
were heard from every mouth—where the pop¬ 
ulation was black-hearted and bloodless, seek¬ 
ing with blood-hound avidity the punishment 
of an individual who I believe, in the sinceiity 
of my heart, is wholly guiltless.” 
The citizens whom he lia3 thus defamed are 
very properly indignant at the imputation, al¬ 
though the manner of expressing it is not per¬ 
haps in the most appropriate manner. 
Telegraphing Per Se.—O n the-afternoon of 
the 27th ub„ the telegraph wires at Albany be¬ 
came so highly charged with the electric fluid, 
from the atmosphere, as to cause in the opera- 
A touching incident occurred recently 
at a steamboat sinking in the Alissouri river. 
Among the persons swept overboard, were a 
woman and a boy about 12 yearsof age. A man 
on the steamboat, seeing the boy buffeting the 
waves lust beyond the boat, threw him a rope, 
and called to him to take hold of it. 1 he little 
fellow replied, “ never mind me, I can swim— 
save mamma.” The little fellow, with liis deal 
“ mamma,” was saved. 
The chaplain of a country prison in Eng¬ 
land , not long since, was dismissed from his situa¬ 
tion by the magistrate, for forcibly holding the 
finger of a woman, who was under sentence ot 
death, in the flame of a candle, until it was in a 
blister, as he said, to give her an idea of the eter¬ 
nal punishment to which she would be doomed, 
if she did not confess lier guilt to him. 
The Detroit Democrat announces numer¬ 
ous arrivals at that point on the Underground 
Railroad. On the morning of the 13th ten pas¬ 
sengers went over into Canada ; two the evening 
previous, and the day before sixteen ; ten others 
were expected hourly. The Democrat says 
facetiously, “ No traveler by this line has ever 
met with an accident.” 
silla Valley difficulty, pr 
for a railroad, abrogates the 11th article ot the 
treatv of Guadalope Hidalgo, and recognizes the 
inter-oceanic transit grant in 1853 ovei the l e- 
huantepcc, for all which $10,000,000 is to be paid. 
jrsg” The fixtures having been completed, 
Bunker Hill monument was lit for the first time 
with gas on the evening of the 17th ult. There 
arc ten “ bat-wing burners,” and the pine passes 
up the well or inner circle, two hundred and 
twenty feet. The expense of its introduction 
was between two and three hundred dollars. 
(yfT The Supreme Court lias reversed the 
decree of the Circuit of Ohio, which recently 
declared against giving the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, South, part of the assets of the Cincin¬ 
nati Book Concern, which have been held exclu¬ 
sively by the Al. E. Church, North, since the 
separation of that denomination in 1844. 
rr»-«F”A bequest of a hundred thousand francs 
has been made to the French 1 nstitute, as a pi c- 
mium for the discovery of means for curing the 
Asiatic Cholera, or of the cause of the pestilence; 
and until the cure can be found, the interest ot 
the money to be given encli year to him 'who 
does the most in combating the disease. 
The National Intelligencer published a 
letter from Col. Fremont to Col. Benton. He 
makes no mention of the loss of but one man.-— 
He says he has had reasonable success in the ob¬ 
ject of his expedition, and that his explorations 
thus far have been decidedly favorable to the 
central route for the Pacific Railroad. 
The Pittsburgh Journal says thata weal¬ 
thy farmer in Alleghany county, by the name of 
McCormick, has just had a verdict of $l,->00 
endered against him for breach ol promise of 
narriage. The joke of the thing is, that the 
ting office, a couple of explosions resembling | p a kliless swam is" in his second childhood, being 
the discharge of fire-arms. Three relay bat¬ 
teries were torn asunder before the operator 
could cut off the communication ; the wires in 
the office were disarranged, and the covering 
burnt off. The flames run from the relays and 
over the wires with great rapidity, not only de¬ 
stroying them, but burning the wood work over 
which they passed. 
This exhibition of telegraphing per se, put an 
end to all further action by the operators for 
the day, as effectually as John Tyler’s veto did 
to a United States Bank. 
A bill is now before one of the branches 
of the Legislature of Ohio, providing, among 
other tilings, for the payment of wages by the 
State to the convicts of the Penitentiary. 
The famous car of Juggernaut, in India, 
has been destroyed by fire. 
Fulso me Fla ttery. 
The Mobile Advertiser relates the following 
piece of fulsome flattery, and calls it “ an inci¬ 
dent of exceeding beauty;” and several other 
papers which ought to be ashamed of such a 
falsehood, as well as violation of good taste : 
endorse the sentiment. It occurred during the 
ex-President’s late tour to the South, possibly 
to let the Presidential electors know that “he 
still lives 1” 
“ Air. Fillmore had all along expressed a great 
desire to see a magnolia in bloom, but nowhere 
among the groves which we passed could one 
be found, though there were buds in great pro¬ 
fusion. It was conceded on all hands that it 
was a few days in advance ot the time for 
blooming. But upon arriving at Hollywood, af¬ 
ter being presented to the ladies and inmates of 
the house, one of the ladies presented him with 
a large, magnificent full blown magnolia flower, 
on the broad white leaf of which, in plain and 
neat characters, was the inscription, ‘ I bloom 
in honor of Alillard Fillmore.’ ” 
Air. Fillmore made an excellent President, 
and would do so again, no doubt, if he should 
chance to be re-elected, but such a piece of flat¬ 
tery to mortal man is as disgusting as it is 
sycophantic. 
Freshet in the Hudson. 
A tremendous freshet has been experienced 
in the usual placid waters of the Hudson, and all 
the lower part of the city of Albany is flooded. 
The telegraph of Alay 1st says : 
The flood which has been increasing in the 
river here since Thursday night, reached a 
height this morning seldom if ever known in 
this city. Last night the whole lower part of 
the city was under water. Thousands of cellars 
and basements were filled. All the streets run¬ 
ning to the dock were navigable for skiffs, and 
parts of Quay and Dean sts. and Broadway. No 
trains on the Hudson River Railroad have reach¬ 
ed here since yesterday P. M. 
In Troy the flood lias been nearly as great as 
here. The loss of lumber is incalculable. The 
river has been covered with it all the morning. 
Twenty-eight canal boats lie upon the flats 
above the city. A half-dozen more have gone 
past the city. A sloop was also carried down, 
with two men on board. The lumber district 
here has been swept of piles of timber, and small 
buildings have been carried off. 
Foreign News. —There have been two foreign 
arrivals since the Arabia, viz : the Havre steamer 
Nashville, which reached New York April 28tl 
but with dates older than those by the last pre¬ 
ceding steamer; and the Pacific. 1 he latter 
steamer has four days later news, as will be seen 
under our column of Foreign Intelligence. She 
reached her dock on the afternoon of Alonday, 
but the telegraph being deranged in conse¬ 
quence of the recent storms, her reports up to 
the time of going to press, are somewhat meagre. 
They are sufficient, however, to show that no 
decisive blow has yet been struck in the Conti¬ 
nental fight. Breadstuffs are again on the rise, 
with a still further prospective increase. 
The Hendrickson Case. —Great effort is put 
forth to secure Executive interference in behalf 
of Hendrickson, convicted at Albany of the 
murder of liis wife. The case has been succes¬ 
sively carried up to the Supreme Court full 
bench, and to the Court of Appeals, both of 
which tribunals denied a new trial. 
The most distinguished names of scientific 
men are produced by Hendrickson’s friends to 
show that the chemical analysis to detect the 
poison, from the effects of which it is alleged 
the woman died, is unfounded in fact, and led 
to an unjust conviction. 
Opening of the Canals. — 1 he canals of this 
State were advertised to be ready for navigation 
on the 1st inst., and the water was let in on many 
of the levels some days previously thereto.— 
Navigation, under the most favorable circum¬ 
stances, would not be freely resumed for a week 
after the time appointed, and the late bad weath¬ 
er has tended greatly to retard early operations. 
By the beginning of next week, however, the 
fowarding business will be in full activity, unless 
breaks of a serious nature occur along the line. 
about 70 years of age. 
Alexander Heilbronn, whose extradition 
under Die Ashburton treaty created some excite¬ 
ment, in New York a few months since, has been 
sentenced in England to transportation lor a 
term of six years, on a different charge, however, 
from that of forgery, for which he was arrested 
here and remanded. 
A man named Alonzo Smith has been 
arrested at Palatine, on suspicion of being en¬ 
caged in extensive thieving operations on the 
freight trains of the N. Y. Central Railroad. Ills 
arrest promises to be the means of uncovering a 
gang of rascals who have been carrying on sim¬ 
ilar depredations. 
KS" A family in an old-fashioned covered 
wa ir on, with a dog tied to the hind axle, passed 
through Cleveland on the 16th ult., on their way 
to Nebraska. The man said he had a large 
familv of boys, and he was going to spread him- 
self on a free farm, under the action ol the Home- 
stead bill. 
No colporteur is allowed to enter Russia; 
nonprinting presses for printing the Bible , no ver¬ 
sions of the Scriptures allowed to be imported, 
except those in foreign longues ; and since 1823- 
’4, there has not been printed in Russia, a sin¬ 
gle copy of Scriptures in the modern Russ. 
° The Louisville Journal of the 20th ult, 
8a y S; —About thirty negroes came down on the 
Frankfort train yesterday from Lexington.— 
They are on their way to Liberia, and were 
emancipated by parties in Fayette. The railroad 
companies carried them free ot charge. 
The Late Storm —The late severe storm 
seems to have taken a very wide range ; in some 
localities presenting features of a tornado, at 
others of a wintry snow storm, and at others 
again, of a long, drizzling, and uncomfortable 
rain. The latter was its feature in this vicinity. 
Accounts come to us from the region of the 
Lakes, from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, 
and Boston, of its effects, some of which are dis¬ 
astrous to property both on land and sea. 
A drover in Albany received $1,250 in 
Cochituate Bank notes a few hours before it 
failed. The Atlas says he looked anything but 
amiable when he ascertained the value of his 
notes. 
Y 
to Valpa 
Panama, 47 sailing days, w 
cently. All well. This is a remarkably short, it 
not. the shortest passage ever made. 
Thomas O. Larkin, Esq., formerly of New 
York, has given to Bishop Kip, of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, 640 acres of laud in Califor¬ 
nia. for an Episcopal College. The site selected 
by the Bishop is in Sonora valley, about thirty 
miles from Sacramento. 
A liquor seller was brought before the 
Police Court at Boston, charged with Belling 
whiskey punch to some person “ unknown , he 
proved that he sold it to John Houlton, instead 
of an unknown person, and was for that reason 
discharged. 
rrs?f“ The General Assembly of the Presbyte¬ 
rian Church (Old School) in the United States, 
will hold its next annual meeting in the Central 
Presbyterian Church, in the city of Buffalo, at 
11 o’clock A. M., on Thursday the 18th mat. 
■ rSf The General Assembly of the Presbyte¬ 
rian Church (New School) in the United States, 
will meet on Thursday, the 18th of May, at 11 
o’clock A. M., in the First Presbyterian Church, 
in the city of Philadelphia. 
The London Lancet records two cases 
of serious illness among physicians, occasioned 
by the inhalation of poisonous gas, the escape 
from decaying corpses in' a grave-yard that re- 
auired to be inspected. 
* Rev. Dr. Todd, on being asked bis opin¬ 
ion of Edward Beecher’s “Conflict of Ages,” 
said he had concluded there were three sets of 
people in this world—saints, sinners, and the 
Beecher family ! 
rvj®” Nine whalers arrived recently at New 
Bedford, Mass., with 1,950 bhls. of Sperm anil 
15,200 bbls. of Whale Oil. The Ship Mohawk, 
of Wood’s Hole, for Nantucket, has 2,200 bbis, 
of Sperm Oil. 
rgff” A postmaster entitled to the franking 
privilege is not permitted to exercise it by means 
of a printed stamp, his name being in print in it. 
He must sign his signature in liis own band- 
writing. 
--Archbishop Hughes is in Washington. 
-Both the candidates for Governor in Iowa 
are editors. 
- St. Peter’s church at Rome can hold 
54,000 persons. 
_The area of all the States of Europe is 
given at 3,634,832 square miles. 
_The papers of Milwaukee estimate its 
present population at about 35,000. 
_The Maine insurance companies now in¬ 
sert the war clause in their policies. 
_d’here are said to be sixteen thousand 
more women than men in Philadelphia. 
_The next meeting of the American Med¬ 
ical Association will be held at St. Louis. 
_Immense quantities of railroad iron are 
waiting at Albany for shipment westward. 
_Louisville can now boast of five of the 
largest and handsomest market houses in the 
West. 
_Not more than half the usual quantity of 
maple sugar has been made this season in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. 
_Four sailors were washed overboard from 
the brig dander Ap. 27, on Lake Erie, and were 
drowned. 
_Seventeen large canal boats, built the 
past winter at Ithaca, says the Journal, are ready 
to launch. 
_St. Paul and "Stillwater have both been 
promoted to the dignity of cities by the Minesota 
Legislature. 
_It is stated that the Black Swan, Miss 
Greenfield, is about to be married to a white 
Englishman. 
_Tacony, the celebrated trotting horse, 
was sold at Philadelphia, April 20th, for $3,500, 
to James Hammill. 
_Ohio is to be explored, geologically. The 
expenses are estimated at $40,000 per year until 
the survey is finished. 
_p r . E. L. Jones, of Cincinnati, has been 
sued for slander by a young lady of that city. 
Damages laid at $20,000. 
_The London papers state that large num¬ 
bers of small farmers will emigrate this year 
from England to Canada. 
_The snow was eighteen inches deep at 
Staunton, Va., on the 17th inst., when the cars 
left j and continuing to fall rapidly. 
_Hugh Jameson, Esq., Naval Store Keeper 
at Charleston, Mass., and brother-in-law ol Pres¬ 
ident Pierce, died YVednesday week. 
_q’Fe St. Lawrence is now clear of ice 
through its whole length, and there have been 
arrivals and departures from Quebec. 
_q’jie Legislature of Nova Scotia, in con¬ 
sideration of the “ unwarrantable aggressions of 
Russia,” lias ordered out the militia . 
_Three lives were lost by the sinking of 
the steamer John McFadden, ran into on the 
Ohio by the Tribune, on Wednesday week. 
_The amount of notes of the Bank of Eng¬ 
land in circulation, exceeds twenty-five millions 
sterling—or one hundred millions of dollars. 
_j Ten human skeletons were found lately 
in Trenton, N. J., about two feet under ground, 
supposed to be those of Indians or Hessians. 
_Mary E. Shaw has recovered a verdict of 
$15,0(W against the Worcester Railroad Com¬ 
pany for injuries received by an accident on tbeir 
road. 
_In some parts of Aroostook county in 
Maine, hay is selling at forty dollars per ton, 
and oats at one dollar and twenty-five cents per 
bushel. 
_Rev. J. C. Richmond, who was under ar¬ 
rest in Austria some time since, is now in the 
Turkish camp, acting as correspondent of the 
London News. 
_George PcaRody* Escj., of London, <ui~ 
thorizeS his °agent to purchase 2000 volumes of 
standard books for the new Peabody Institute, 
of Danvers, Mass. 
_Mr. Nathaniel O. Greene, son of Col. 
Greene, of the Boston Post, lias returned home, 
having made a tour of the world, and been ab- 
sent about 20 months. 
_By advices from Puerto Cabello to the 
9th, we learn that the Venezuelan Congress pass¬ 
ed a law on the 24th ult,, abolishing Slavery 
throughout the Republic. 
_q’he system of negro apprenticeship lias 
been fully adopted in Cuba, and assignments of 
newly-arrived cargoes of negroes have been 
made among the inhabitants. 
_A public meeting has been held at Chica¬ 
go to express the indignation of merchants against 
the Great YVcstern Railroad Company for delay 
in the transportation of goods. 
_Patrick Nolan, a man who committed an 
outrage upon Mrs. Christiance, in Schenectady, 
lias been convicted and sentenced to the State 
Prison for twenty-five years. 
_The Cage farm in the town of Cates, four 
miles from the city, containing sixty-five acres, 
with five buildings, &c„ has been sold to Judge 
YV in. Buell for $120 per acre. 
_Mr. Webster’s friends do not respond to 
his dying wishes, and his estate is announced to 
be insolvent. George W. Nesmith is administra¬ 
ting upon it as commissioner. 
J_Cholera had made its appearance in Leeds, 
England. Out of thirteen cases, six proved fa¬ 
tal. In Ireland, also, the epidemic had broken 
out in a very malignant form. 
_The Court House, Documents of the 
Post Office, and many dwelling houses m War- 
rentown, S. C. were destroyed by fire on the 23d. 
Loss estimated at over $150,006. 
_Over one thousand human lives have been 
lost by disasters at sea, during the past four 
months, and several vessels are yet to be heard 
from which are supposed to be lost, 
_In Utah, on the death of a man, his pro¬ 
perty descends to the Mormon Church, his wives 
and children not being recognized as heirs. The 
church is the sole heir of all property. 
__1 1 , is calculated by those who are on the 
ground that one thousand buildings will be erect¬ 
ed at Toronto, Canada West, the coming season, 
and mechanics ot all kinds are wanted there. 
_A patenthas just been taken out in F i ancc 
for making sugar from pumpkins. Ike quanti¬ 
ty produced will be at least as great as could be 
obtained from an equal quantity ol beet-root. 
_Rev. James Wood, pastor of the Presby¬ 
terian church in Stockton, California, lias been 
compelled by the failure of his health to resign 
his pastoral charge, held for the past five years. 
_Wednesday was kept as ai Fast in Mon¬ 
treal, to pray for the success of the Allies against 
Russia, and for making collections for the fami¬ 
lies of the soldiers who have gone to Turkey. 
