MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOR KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
New Yorkers Sold. 
A person, calling himself an agent for three 
companies of uniformed female militia, lately 
made his appearance in New York, and an¬ 
nounced that on Tuesday, the 9th inst., these 
Congressional. fife 
Washington, May 8. —In Senate —The Chair- 
laid before the Senate a statement from the jgg" Several of the Americans wlm left Paris 
Secretary ot the 1 leasury, in reply to the reso- for the East, with the intention of joining the 
lution as to the amount of stock and other gov- army of Omer Pacha, have returned, after a 
fletos §«lrife. 
Several of the Americans who left Paris —“Mr. Thackeray has arrived in Paris from 
for the East, with the intention of joining the his tour in Italy. 
army of Omer Pacha, have returned, after a _Ti,„ T.,.,iio c i, T i o-, 
short stav at Constantinople. Thev found it im- "T, 8 , arOUDd SaIt Lake City are 
ROCHESTER, MAY 20, 1854. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
6^* A note 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. 
I1T Additions to Clubs are still in order. If back num¬ 
bers are not wanted, ice will send from 1st March or April 
to end of pear for $1 —and count on premium. 
hand of music, then visit Barmim’s Museum in 
the afternoon, and the Crystal Palace in the eve¬ 
ning. The humbug agent made arrangements 
with the manager of the museum for a roduc- 
EF* J During the season of navigation we can send the tio " on tbe P rice of admission, for tile fair chiv- 
Rural to Canada U'csl free of American post age, and hence airy, and had conversation with Several hotel 
will furnish clubs for six months from dale at lotccst rales, keepers (among them the proprietors of the As- 
F Lack numbers of the jrresent volume furnished if tor,) ill reference to a dinner. 
. Curiosity was on tiptoe in Gotham, and when 
• c ' the day came, the whole city and country round 
Stirring Scenes rn Congress. about turned out to see the parade. The Park, 
The House of Representatives presented a the adjoining streets, and the ferry landing from 
>. The premium paid on general disorganization reigned throughout the -The Czar of Russia and Edward Everett 
)3, leaving outstanding li- country, that it was extremely hazardous to at- ale 01 Uxc 8ame a S e - 
I of $50,313,872 52. tempt any traveling. Messrs. Greene and Quin- .“7—* founder of the Menchikoff family was 
win s, to take up the Pa- cy Shaw, of Boston, are among the return ad- originally an itinerant pieman. 
mi n !? St r 131023 ‘ ., venturers. -The first ship from sea, this year, arrived 
• , | OM , 1< s t K 1 11 n ca.ne up as io spe- j^"The Roman Catholic bishops of Piedmont at Quebec last week Wednesday. 
nelt week was P ost P oned untrf luesday of me ^ ion> M one of the reasons 1 which should j -The Sultan of Turkey is thirty-one years 
' TT , , - T i i i-ii urge the Senate to reject a bill now before them, old, and has reigned since duly, 1839. 
House. The House reached the N ebraskabill the fact that it “consecrates as a truth, the com-! _Cant Tlmmaa T f TT q 
after laying aside 17 bills that had precedence, j plete equality of all Piedmontese subjects be- ! nrmv w' l 1 ,‘L f lLe IJ ‘ S ' 
A vote Mas taken on each bill Ayes 100, Nays fore the law, as if Catholics and Protestants 
20 or 30. W lien the Nebraska bill came along, were perfectly equal in the face of God and the I " ;u ! a u ,°.? eT1 deserted fron 
the House was the scene of no little tumult.— church, so as to enjoy the same rights and lib- I ° U Arse,,al at ' V(!St 1 r °7> last week. 
Members were on their feet, and clapping of erties in matters of worship 1” -The Y\ liigs of Vermont will hold thei 
hands was heard in all parts of the Hall. A .™ T1 , . . , , ,, , ,, 
, v - lii T he Batavia Advocate says that the sum 
motion to lav on the table was defeated bv a <• a non i i , . r, « ~ 
vote of 85 to 105 ■> of $90,000 has been secured to the Cary Colle- 
-Cant, i nomas L. Ringgold, of the U. S. 
army, died in Washington, May 12th. 
—— Some half a dozen soldiers deserted from 
vote of 85 to 105. 
Gerritt. Smith, of New York, and Brecken- 
The Batavia Advocate says that the sum 1 <l c ° i m elltlon ab Rutland on the 7th of June, 
of $90,000 has been secured to the Cary Colic- "7— I be Newfoundlanders are said to have 
giate Institute as an endowment by Col. Alfred suffered dreadfully the past winter from famine. 
Carv, its munificent founder, and that the sum -An Indian woman died at Knight’s Fer- 
scene of the most intense excitement, during the Jef sey city, were blocked up by a dense mass of ... - . , -.«...u y at 
long session of Thursday and Friday of" last b ™ beings assembled to witness the display. May 9.-SicNATE-Nothing essential done. that another Semi.mry bSfng wil? beTected ” du ‘ 
week, no adjournment intervening for thirty-five but no any Lights made their appearance, House— The House was in committee of the immediately. f T , , . “ . 
and a half consecutive hours. and tbe disappointed New Yorkers finally re- Nebraska bill until 10 o’clock, P. M. J'fT’ The Cashmere Goat has been successfully Monument bave^roaeli ed' 000 ! FraakBn , 
Seventeen bills having been laid aside in turne d to their homes and business, sadder and May 10 .—Senate—M r. Morton, from the Ag- introduced and bred in South Carolina. The erected in Philadelphia ^ ’ ' 1H ° )e 
order to reach the Nebraska bill n rrmt™ wiser men. They had been fairly sold, and the ricultural Committee, to which was referred the Charleston papers say that the animal seems _ , ' P y , , . V, _ 
oraer to react! the js ebiaska bill, a motion w as . / , , • Maryland resolution, relating to the British mo- perfectly at tome in the climate,and is as hardy , ~ J - J- Speed, late President of the Tomp- 
mat e >y tlr. Richardson, of Illinois, to termi- j . * ‘ - . i ‘ \ nopoly of guano, reported a resolution referring and as easily raised as the common goat. The r ir ! s , olinf Y Agricultural Society, was killed by 
nate the debate on Monday, for the purpose of P art or . 1 ie fdae °b ) tnc b t-hey are in the habit the resolution to the President. Carried. fleece obtained is in weight about equal to that ltnin S a lcw daj-s since. 
passing the measure through the Committee. P ,a }'‘ !l g on strangers; viz., that a man for a House—M r. Richardson notified the House °f l be choice varieties of sheep, while its value ——• Wm. Richards, of the first Presidency of 
This motion was resisted by the opponents of wager is ab0ut to climb to the cross 0,1 Trinit J thathe would, to-morrow morning, move to ter- is tcn times greater. the Mormon Church, died last month. The va- 
tlie bill, (who are in the minoritv 5 spire. The head of Wall street has more than minate the debate on the Nebraska bill—the IW" A t a AYhiskey Manufacturers’ Conven- c:uu '- v ^s not been tilled. 
’ ' 11L J , J various . .... . tiww, c... . u ,i _ i .... a. .v:.... i.„i.i _ e: -1» i...r i„„* * _ _ AT,- Wtumn..,. r n:i.i„„ ,i_„ _ j i i • i • 
ridge, of Ivy., were appointed tellers. Some of " k icunaer, ana mat tne sum — An Indian woman died at knight’s For 
111c members hitherti opposed to the bill, now fi 3 ’ 000 , luls be - e f " ral8edb 3 r tbe Clt,zens f of 0a . k ‘ r ^’ Callfornia > recently, at the age of 142 years 
voted for taking it up. * 1 he] \ l and vicil , llfc {: fo " tbe of repairs Twenty-one fugitives from slavery arrived a 
A lay 9. —Senate —Nothing essential done. 
House —The House was in committee of the 
Nebraska bill until 10 o’clock, P. M. 
parliamentary expedients resorted'to in order to once W n blocked up by the green ones, await- 
nove to ter- 1S ten times greater. I rnc mormon Ol.iurch, died 
a bill—the At a Whiskey Manufacturers’ Conven- j Gailc ^ kas I10t keen ff ded * 
2 opponents tion, held in Cincinnati, week before last, twen- | -Mr. Ebenezer Tilde 
Tilden dropped dead in his 
stave off the vote. Motions in great numbers ing tbe advent of the aforesaid man, who will 
were made, on which the ayes and nays were P robabl N make his appearance about the time 
demanded ; such as motions to adjourn, motions tbe “ f' air Y Light Guard” visit Barnum’s 
to excuse from voting, motions of reconsidera- Museum - 
tion, appeals from the decisions of the chair, <fcc., a c *1^ 
etc. The opposition divided themselves into A ®P ecd5: ” ar * 
platoons of 30 members each, tAvo sets of which n . ... 
’ Contrast to previous reports, it now appears 
were constantly present, while the others were *. n q ■ t n , r . 11 . 
, . r , . that the Spanish Government refuses to comply 
absent recruiting their exhausted energies, in ,, , , f 0 . . 1 • 
, . R ’ 1,1 with the demands of Air. Soule, our minister to 
order to continue the resistance. ., . , • , , ,, ... . 
that court, in regard to the affair of the Black 
The succeeding Tuesday had been specially Warrior; and the Washington Union recom- 
of the bill. If they choose to go on and debate ty-three establishments, mostly in Ohio, were | ^old at Lebanon, Conn., while holding his plow, 
it, he was disposed to allow them until Alonday, represented, the whole of which are said to con- [ His son was driving the oxen, 
when the Pacific Railroad will be the special sume over 14,000 bushels of grain daily, or up- ! -The Albany Atlas notices Georo-ia Pena 
order. The House then went into committee on wards of four millions per year, out of which at $8 per bushel, as among the delicacies of the 
the Nebraska bill. ten million gallons of whiskey arc produced. season offered in that market. 
May 11. Senate N o business of importance £yg?“ A burglar named Palmer, was shot by a ri -The city election in New Orleans on 
d,,n(> • little negro boy, on the 1st inst., while robbing Tuesday week, resulted in the success of the Re- 
House in Committee on the Nebraska bill.— the house of Airs. Arnett, in Augusta, Georgia, form ticket by 1,700 majority. 
Great excitement prevailed, the question being The boy, waking in the night, found the door -There is a report from California that 
on terminating the debate. open, and seizing the gun, gave the alarm, and Aliss Catharine Hayes has married Capt. Wm. 
The House remained in session all night, and shot the robber as he rushed down stairs. Pal- E. Bushiiel], a steamboat captain 
f'P a Vvf °T Cl n Ck ’- !; ?•’ a j mer Wa8 dan £ erousl y mounded. -The Elbridge Manufacturing Company’s 
vhich time the friends ot thebil 1 yielded and jgg- A quarrel occurred on the steamer Sier- Factory at Elbridge, Onondaga Co., was burned 
the Home adjourned over until Monday. ra Nevada, on her last trip up from Nicaragua, on the 11th inst. Loss $15 000 
- ^ - i n which a passenger, John Gardner, stabbed - It is confidently anticipated that the 
Transit at the Isthmus.— The Panama Rail- and killed the second mate, Mr. Pratt. Gardner House Printing Telegraph will speedily super- 
road Company has received the following ad- has been indicted. 1 he deceased is represented cede all other systems in Eixdand 1 
vices, dated Aspinwall, 30tli April, from the to have been an estimable man and leaves a wife * f f i - . . , “ .’ 
Company’s agent: and child in Rhode Island. M.TTTnn, w wi C J e ^ n VJ Provide ; ,c f’ 
, f 1 1 1 n, May 10th, the F higs elected the Alayor and al- 
“ V\e still expect to reach the summit with A stage loaded with passengers, ran off mos t the entire Board of Aldermen. 
■The Albany Atlas notices Georgia Peas 
“T T s , —usteu energies, in wit ,h the demands of Mr. Soule, our minister to 
order to continue the resistance. , , ,, ...... . 
that court, in regard to the affair of the Black 
The succeeding Tuesday had been specially Warrior; and the Washington Union recorn- 
fixed upon for the consideration of the Pacific mends an immediate blockade ol Cuba, in case 
Railroad bill, and the Anti-Nebraska members of persistence in the refusal, 
believed if the vote could be put off until that The Union is the ostensible organ of the ad- 
time, the Nebraska bill must go over, at least ministration, and is usually supposed to express 
for a time ; and they were determined, if neccs- its sentiments, although it does not always do 
May 11.— Senate —No business of importance 
done. 
which time the friends of the bill yielded and 
the Houi-e adjourned over until Alonday. 
Transit at tiie Isthmus. —The Panama Rail¬ 
road Company has received the following ad¬ 
vices, dated Aspinwall, 3Utli April, from the 
Company’s agent: 
“We still expect to reach the summit with 
sary, to continue the session uninterruptedly so. It is to be hoped, that in the matter of the the track, in all the month of May. The track an embankment twenty or thirty feet high, ma- __Wm Slonaker 1-fo • pi 
until then. Plank Warrior, and other ,mad inst ed mwinno is now over the upper Obispo bridge. Bv the king a complete somerset in its descent, between -. • \ . navy ^® nt , at 1 hlla 
until then. Black Warrior, and other unadjusted questions 
At half-past eleven on Friday night Mr. Rich- between the two Governments, a pacific and 
ardson gave notice that the friends of the bill satisfactory arrangement will be made, as in case 
yielded, and consented to adjourn over until of hostile demonstrations just at this juncture, 
Alonday, which was accordingly done. No the United States might lay themselves open to 
great degree of ill feeling was manifested during the imputation of seeking a rupture just at the 
the long session, except that Edmudnson, of Va., moment when England and France are other- 
ana Campbell, of Ohio, came near having a fight, wise engaged. Let justice and moderation rule 
The Sergeant-at-Arms, aided by several mem- the councils of our own and the Spanish Gov- 
bers, interfered and parted the belligerents. eminent, and all difficulties can be amicably 
It is altogether probable, although the final adjusted without either blockade or filibustration 
consummation i lav, and probably will be post- ----- 
month from this time, we shall be at the sum- When the French troops embarked at 1<! 1 "y ( - <H, P ons come back protested, 
mit. Toulon for Constantinople, an old man who wit- ~ bbe Ontario County Times states that 
“ The forces are now spread two miles beyond nessed their departure, exclaimed, in a mournful ^ ke Canandaigua Female Seminary has been 
the summit, while the Chinamen are coming on voice :—“ There goes my only child to fight for stdd a gentleman lately from the South. 
states that 
the summit, while the 
rapidly from Panama.” ~ a cause be does not understand, and against men -A new Baptist Church, in New Y r ork, 
--»_with whom he never bad a difference.” that cost $75,000, under the charge of Rev. Dr. 
The First Fiuut ok War. —A letter from the Tbe hri % Lawrence, bound for N. Y'ork, Bowling, was dedicated on Sunday week. 
Rev. Wm. G. Sfiauffler, of Constantinople, draws has been detained at New Orleans, in conse- -Five hundred and ten bushels of mail 
a melancholy pr*ture of the distress which the fiuence of two slaves having beon found secret- matter, for distribution, arrived at the Post-office 
Eastern war has already occasioned among the ed 011 board. They are supposed to have come in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday morning. 
poorer classes of Constantinople. He says that * r6m a plantation on the coast, where the vessel -The Croton Dam being repaired, the N. 
there is no commerce, no business going on, but w as l°a d‘ng a cargo of molasses. Y. Mirror says the New Yorkers are again in 
little money to be seen, and thousands of hu- {TsT* Two Frenchmen who were conveying the receipt of their regular supply of— milk! 
man beings are dying, of hunger, thirst, naked- the mails from the Sault St. Alarie to Mackinac, - A smart, shock of earthquake of short 
•The First Fruit of War. 
Rev. Wm. G. SlTauftler, of Co 
•A letter from the 
poned for a brief time, that the Nebraska bill 
will pass, since nearly the entire South are in 
Religious Anniversaries. —The various Re¬ 
ligious and Philanthropic Societies held their 
favor, and a large number of Northern members annual meetings in New Y'ork city, during the 
also, who are backed by the whole weight of P a5d ' vef -k, and were largely attended, from all 
the administration. Next in the catalogue after parts of the country. Alost of them are in pros- 
tlie passage of this bill, will perhaps be the P er °us circumstances, and in their various fields 
question of annexing Cuba, involving possibly labor have done, and are doing, an incalcu- 
little money to be seen, and thousands of hu¬ 
man beings are dying, of hunger, thirst, naked- 
in the issue a war with Spain. 
Exciting' Foreign Hews. 
The news from the seat of war is of a very 
decisive and important character, and shows 
clearly that the hostile armies and navies are 
lable amount of good. Large sums of money 
have been received and disbursed by them, and 
it is hoped their energies will not be crippled 
during the coming year, for want of the means 
necessary to carry forward the good works. 
Forrest vs. Willis.— It will be recollected 
many to allay the cravings of hunger, and peo¬ 
ple who but a few months since were compara¬ 
tively rich in worldly goods, now beg for bread. 
Mr. Skauffler states, that although he has resid¬ 
ed twenty years in Constantinople, through all 
the horrors of war, plague, famine and fire, he 
never saw such distress as now exists. 
not disposed to remain idle. Odessa, the most that personal difficulties and animosities have 
important Russian port upon the Black sea, and for a foug time existed between Edwin Forrest, 
one from winch the Western powers have been t h e tragedian, and N. P. Willis, one of the edi- 
accustomed to draw immense supplies of grain, tors of the Home Journal. Several suits at law 
has been bombarded by the combined fleet, and have been instituted between them, the last of 
a portion of the city laid in ruins. Several of wb ich was a libel case, (damages laid at $20,- 
the bombarding vessels suffered severely in the 000,) Forrest being plaintiff.' The cause wiLs 
attack, and a detachment of British marines, tried last week, and resulted in a disagreement 
1.200 strong, in attempting to land were repulsed 0 f the jury, the differences in opinion°as to the 
e horrors of war, plague, famine and fire, he 503,305; aged 75 and upwards, 107,041 ; a°ed - Tbe noxt annual Fair of the Vermont 
iver saw such distress as now exists. 85 and upwards, 33,201 ; upwards of 90,' there Agricultural Society' will be held at Brat- 
-» - ■» • •»— -were 7,720 ; above 95 there were 1,545 ; and 215 tleboro’, on the 12th, 13th and 14th days of Sept. 
Massachusetts Tax.— Of the State Tax of were upwards of 100. . -The Bridgeport Standard says that among 
$200,000 ordered by the late Legislature to be Hydroscopia is the name of a new species the many articles which came floating down the 
assessed upon the different towns and cities of of humbug introduced into France; it is the Naugatuck river during the freshet, was a pulpit. 
Barnstable, Nantucket, or Dukes. Afore than 
There are said to be some 17,000 of the 
one-half of the whole tax is paid by the thirteen Jewish faith in the U. States. Their churches 
cities of the Commonwealth. The two smallest number 31. Probably 6,000 Jews arc to be declared 'T 
sums are those paid by thv “rural districts” of found in the city of New York. They are not i bim8e Soluble to liei bill pievious to 
Boston Goner in Berkshire 9 cents and Monroe frequently found in our hospitals, and never in ^ _° e * 
Franklin, 36 cents .—JBbston paper our poor-houses -John Looney is under arrest in New 
--The New Haven Register says the recent J° T \ f ° r tbe premise f he occl ’P. ied ’ with 
Movements of Matt.Ward.—FT e have already unreasonable weather can only be accounted for J, “ ffiTeffeete? ^ ^ ^ ^ msuranco 
in Jim rope. 
-It is said that Aliss Dix threatens to make 
a publication, showing that President Pierce had 
by the Russians. amount of damages, ranging, it is stated, between 
The latter are reported as retreating from ten thousand dollars and six cents! 
some of the Turkish provinces, pressed by the -* . . ♦- 
fi.rces of Omar Pasha. A proclamation of the Sufferings of Col. Fremont’s Party. 
Czar has been issued, declaring the contest a - 
holy war, and one waged by him in defence of The following extract from i 
Boston Goner in Berkshire 9 cents and Monroe frequently found in our hospitals, and never in 
in Franklin, 36 cents.— Bbuton paper our poor-houses. 
noticed the arrival of Matt. Ward and brother at °u die supposition that the persons in search of 
Cannelton, Ind. They had been in the town Sir John Franklin have gone through the north- 
holy war, and one waged by him in defence of The following extract from a letter to the 
the Orthodox faith, thus mingling a feeling of editor of the Salt Lake Hetos, contains a brief 
religious hatred with that of national hostility, statement of the sufferings of Col. Fremont 
As spring advances, greater activity will prevail and his party, while engaged in a winter recon- 
througkout the hostile camps, and we may look noisance of the central route for a Pacific Rail- 
for decisive actions with each successive arrival road : 
of news from the seat of war. A few such On the 6tli of February, the man on the look- 
act ions as that at Odessa, will serve to stimulate out Parowan reported a company, supposed 
the already determined animosities of the bellig- to b(: ^ nd ' an ®’ coming into the north end of the 
, , J , , & valley, twenty miles distant from Parowan, and 
erents, for the dogs of war are rendered more about 11 o’clock on the morning of the 7th, Col. 
and more sanguinary with every succeeding Fiemont, with nine white men and twelve Dela- 
confliet. * • ware Indians, arrived in Parowan in a state of 
—-. --starvation ; one of his men had fallen dead from 
Democratic Convention.— The Democratic bis horse the day previous, and several more 
c.. ^ , • , ,, „ must inevitably have shared his fate had thev 
btate Committee (Soft) have issued a call for a not had succor that day. They reported that 
State Convention to be holden at Syracuse on they had eaten twenty-seven broken down ani- 
the sixth of September, for the purpose of nom- rn,-ds • that when a horse or mule could go no 
inating a State ticket. The Convention is to hirther, it was killed and divided out, giving 
LA 11 one-half to the Delawares, and the other to the 
but a short time, before, as we learn from the w est passag 
Haivesville Eagle, a committee of citizens waited after them 1. 
upon them and desired them to leave the place. Jt 
Thereupon they went to Judge Huntington’s, come to this country this year from Norway and .• T _ 1 m ? rn8 S ^ ur pemine yam near me Atlan- 
somc distance in the country, and afterwards Sweden. These emigrants are generally sub- ^ 1C dock ’ in Brooklyn, was burned May 11th.— 
took passage on the Eclinse for Arkansas.— atantial agriculturists, and the emigration is so Pa rge quantitiespf naval Stores were consumed. 
When the steamer reached Henderson, a large greafc a9 to seriously affect the value of farms L ° SS u P wards of ^0,000. 
crowd, collected on the wharf and ordered the there. -An impression exists among the ship- 
Captain to be off with his boat and cargo. The »a-TG l\mnn ofATidrld #.f flioOLitt, „n:, builders of London, almost amounting to a moral 
SX l— 1 rad " eha certainty, that there 13 a IWan Jy in every 
Conner. _ the French ambassador, was about to give uphis ° ne ° f tLo Bntlsh dock Y ard *- 
u,u r uu,lulc UU U V accGunceuior h is effects, 
on the supposition that the persons m search of 1 
Sir John Franklin have gone through the north- - raere " as a prize fight, near New Bed- 
west passage, and neglected to shut the door bird on Thursday week,in which a Y’ankee and 
It is estimated that 14,000 persons will 
an Englishman were the combatants. Jonathan 
beat, of course. 
-Alorris’s Turpentine yard near the Atlan- 
' Accident at Niagara. —Several days since a 
where they lodged, 
the horses escaped ’ 
the other was killed 
with the exception 
precipice 
usly affect the valu^ of fmmis u P™ da of #^000. 
-An impression exists among the ship- 
.a, of Madrid, of the 24th ultimo, budde ^ of tl Lo “ don ’ al . niost i amounting to a moral 
mentions a report to the effect that de Turgot, certa ”‘ tbat l. tbe f “ a Puasian WY m every 
the French ambassador, was about to give up his ° ne ° f lbe British . duck Y ard «- 
post, as the pain he experiences from his wound T -Fight indictments have been found at 
is so great that he is unable to discharge his Hew Orleans against Philip Pendergrast, a no- 
1 ■' tarv public, and Wm. Wilder, a lawyer, for forg- 
t pending for 50 years, Alexan- ing a PP licati °i'* for bount Y la nds.' 
ing at one time the lawyer on -Cucumbers aro selling in Cincinnati at 
been decided, and gives* fik50 - twenty-five cents apiece. Green corn, aspara- 
_• AT__IT P, x W t.imotnnc oii.l f,™l, 
consist of four Delegates from each Assembly 
District, making the large number of five hun- 
Colonel and his men ; the hide was cut in pieces 
and cast lots for. After the bones had been 
died and twelve. The resolutions of the Com- made into soup, they were burned and carried 
mittee endorse General Pierce’s administration, along by the men for luncheon. The entrails 
»„<] approve the Maine Law veto of Governor £ to ,“d eyL“ ttt 
Seymour. mu l e . They stated that they had traveled forty - 
. .- h ve days living on this kind of fare. 
Railroad Disaster. —On Saturday last a train —-> , ♦ . -- .... 
of cars on the Hudson River Road, overtook and Served him Right. —The New Orleans Delta 
ran into another train near Greenbush, The * eds a stor .Y °f a man in that city, who being 
engine of the after train went half way through aboid to elder ?P on a doubtful speculation, dis- 
„ . „ , . ... x . J . . ° posed of all his real estate, and deposited the 
t, ie passenger cai, smashing it to pieces, injuring proceeds thereof in the Bank, in the name of his 
the conductor and every passenger in the car, wife, that the money might be beyond the reach 
but fortunately no person was killed. The °b creditors, should his speculation prove un- 
trains ran within five minutes of each other from preb'-able. d be finding herself the suddpn 
Tr,.y, a. latter being also the to,eat train.- 
Such close proximity of time deserves severe leaving her loving spouse to consider, at his 
censure. leisure, the truth of the old adage. 
Mail Transportation.—T he extent of the 
transportation of United States mails by Rail- da list and speculator, Las gone to Chili, to con- 
road has very largely increased within a few 8l, m as to means of forming a railroad from Val- 
living horse was with some difficulty lowered to Co., N. Y., with his wife and two sisters, were f ranklin and his crew. I lie Admiralty have 
a raft beneath, by means of ropes, and towed drowned by the upsetting of a skiff in the Sus- cD vt “ n orders to institute a search for him. 
thence safely to the landing place. quehanna ri\cr, on Funday week, i hey were ..James Brooks, senior editor of the N Y' 
crossing the river on their way to church. Express, has left for Europe, proposing to pass a 
jpg?” Air. Buchental, a wealthy Brazilian cap- months in France, Germany, Ac., furnishing 
letters for the Express during his absence. 
-Omer Pacha has six aides-de-camp.— 
years past. Instead of 4,327,400 miles, as in the P ara ' 8 .° tbe Fosario, a stupendous underta- They are all Hungarians, andare remarkable for 
fiscal year 1847-8, the transportation of mails by kb,g ’ i ,T1 plying a tunnel through the Andes. the speed with which thev go over the ground. 
Railroad last year, was no less than 12,986,705 |»^”The U. S. Alinister to Nicaragua, Hon The ^ s P eak Freucb and Tarb Fh very well. 
8 ■? tbe oif 52 * 3 , ’ iu Micld gai» from government, and “still lives.'” ° brought up to Paris to be preserved as a relic. 
in Ohio from 96 9°8'miles*to^ Paul’s Church, in Baltimore, was de- -Col. Fremont has not been heard from 
in Ohio Horn Jb,Wb miles to 1,224,999 miles. 8fcr0 yed by fire recently. It cost $140,000, and lately. Some of the men who accompanied him 
was insured for $20,000. It had been built some remained in the Ut ah valley, and from their 
A postmaster in Vermont wanted to be thirty years, and was considered one of the finest j statements, the whole affair, thus far, has proved 
“ dead headed” over the railroads, and for that churches in the city. a failure. 
purpose, it is alleged, represented himself to be A verdict of $3,600 was obtained recent- -The electric telegraph to St. Petersburgh 
a special agent of the I O. Department. This ly in the Superior Court, in New Y'ork, against has been connected with the Prussian telegraph, 
came to the notice of 1 ostmaster-General Camp- the Hudson River Railroad Company, for cans- and by this means St. Petersburgh is pi; ©e I in 
e i j i j „ hc ‘ al iead .’ awaking him a ing the death of a gentlemau named Burton, in direct communication with the capitals of West- 
real “ dead head.” Served him riedit l _ v .. r 
