Kilt: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ROCHESTER, JUNE 3, 1854. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
FJf' A nnc quarter commenced April 8,— a /rood time 
for ncu> single and club subscriptions to begin ; and the re¬ 
newal of expiring subscriptio7is is now in order. 
fjfcE’ Additions to Clubs are still in order. If bac/c num¬ 
bers are not wanted , we will send from 1st March or April 
to end of year fur SI —and count on premium. 
gjj?“ During the season of navigation we can send the 
Rural to Canada West free of American postage, and hence 
wifi fug-nish clubs for six mo 7 iths from date at lowest rates. 
Back numbers of the present volume furnished if 
desired, or subscriptio7is may commence at any time. 
Practical Workings of the Slave Law. 
A great excitement was created at Syracuse 
last, week Friday, in consequence of a telegraph 
despatch received by Messrs. Cobb and Wjieat- 
ox, stating that a fugitive slave in charge of the 
U. S. Marshal, on his way to the South, would 
arrive in the 6o’clock train. The bells rung, 
and a crow d of two thousand persons assembled 
on the approach of the train ; which, on coming- 
to a stand, was taken possession of by the crowd, 
but no marshal or fugitive found on board. 
Three colored men named Stephen, Robert, 
and James Pembroke, were arrested as fugitive 
slaves in New' York city, on Thursday, May 
25th. The first was claimed as “ owing service 
and labor” to one David Smith, and the other 
tw'o to Jacob H. Grove, both of Sharpsburg, 
Washington Co., Maryland. A hurried hearing 
was had before Commissioner Morton, during 
which the colored men admitted themselves to 
be the slaves of the claimants. They were 
therefore remanded to the owners and taken 
out of the State before news of the arrest was 
widely circulated, or demonstrations made for 
a rescue, which would probably have otherwise 
been done. The fugitives were forwarded 
hand-cuffed to Maryland on Friday, from 
whence a telegraph despatch announces that the 
chattels arrived in safety'. 
But the saddest chapter in the history of the 
law is yet to be told. A fugitive slave named 
Burns was arrested in Boston, and had an ex¬ 
amination before Commissioner Loring, on Fri¬ 
day, which hearing was adjourned over until 
next day. In the evening an immense meeting 
assembled at Faneuil Hall, and w'as addressed 
by Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, and 
F. W. Bird, who counseled open resistance to 
the enforcement of the fugitive slave law.— 
About nine o’clock in the evening word came to 
the hall, that a crowd of negroes were collected 
in Court Square, and were about to attack the 
Court House, in one of the upper rooms of 
which Burns was confined. This announce¬ 
ment caused the immediate rush of 2,000 to 3,- 
000 excited people to the Court House Square. 
An attempt was at once made to break open 
the Court House door on the east side, which, 
owing to the strong fastenings, failed. 
The leading rioters then went to the west en¬ 
trance, and with a heavy plank, used as a bat¬ 
tering eugine, stove through the panels of the 
door, and broke some windows. N umerous pis¬ 
tols were fired, and in the melee Jas. Batchel- 
dkr, the deputy marshal, was shot dead. The 
Centre Watch-House being in the immediate vi¬ 
cinity, a posse of determined watchmen dashed 
in, and succeeded in arresting eight or ten of the 
leading rioters, after a desperate conflict. 
On Saturday morning the hearing was resum¬ 
ed, a largo crowd in the mean time having as¬ 
sembled in Court Square. Two companies of 
United States troops, and two of the city com¬ 
panies were called out to guard the Court House, 
f and prevent a rescue of the prisoner. The May- 
5 or of the city read the riot act to the crowd and 
commanded them to disperse, and several ar¬ 
rests were made by the police. After an excit¬ 
ing session of the Commissioner’s Court, the 
lieariug was again further adjourned to Monday. 
A telegraph despatch was received from the war 
department, at Washington, directing the au¬ 
thorities to call out the troops stationed at New¬ 
port if necessary, to sustain the Federal law. 
The examination was continued on Monday, 
the conclusion of which has not come to hand. 
It is stated, however, that Burns is no doubt the 
slave of Col. Suttle, the claimant, and will be 
returned to him. Troops continued to occupy 
the Court House during the examination, and 
a telegraph despatch was received from the 
President, directing the Marshal to enforce the 
laws at all hazards. There is no abatement of 
the excitement, and great numbers are flocking 
into the city from adjoining towns. 
Reaping Machine Decision. 
It will be recollected by most of our agricul¬ 
tural readers, that McCormick sued Seymour cfe 
Morgan, of Brockport, for violating his patent 
on the reaping machine, and recovered against 
’ them a judgment for damages to the amount of 
$20,000. The case was carried up by the de¬ 
fendants to the Supremo Court of the United 
States, by whom the decision has been reversed 
on the following grounds—1st: That where a 
patent is for a part of a machine, the rest of the 
machine being public property, the patentee is 
entitled to recover damages only for the value of 
that part, and not for the value of the entire 
machine embracing that part; and 2d : That 
where a defendant infringes a patent by making 
and selling the patented thing, the patentee is 
entitled to recover as damages, not the profits of 
manufacturing the patent thing, but only the 
patent fee for it. 
The Eclipse. 
The solar eclipse on the 2Gth ult., was witness¬ 
ed in the most satisfactory manner, by the citi¬ 
zens of this city and its vicinity. On Wednes¬ 
day night, two days previous to the appearance 
of the celestial phenomenon, it rained quite 
hard, and continued cloudy through much of 
the day, Thursday. Towards evening, however, 
it cleared away", and the sun set in a cloudless 
sky. The rain had settled the dust and cleared 
the atmosphere of all obscuring vapors, so that 
the sun arose on Friday morning without a 
cloud to be seen in any direction above the hori¬ 
zon, and not even a wreath of mist appeared 
throughout the entire day. As the time ap¬ 
proached which the Astronomers had foretold 
would place the sun, the moon, and the earth, in 
a straight line, many a curious eye was turned 
in the direction of the god of day, but shielded 
from the fierce blaze of liis unclouded rays by 
a smoked glass. A few minutes past four the 
edge of a dark disk was seen to slide over the 
western side of the luminary, keeping a little 
northward of a central direction, until it cover¬ 
ed nearly eleven-twelfths of the entire surface, 
but leaving a magnificent crescent of undimmed 
light on the sun’s southern limb. The light 
gradually diminished up to the time of greatest 
obscuration, having all the appearance on the 
earth’s surface of a near approach to sunset, ex¬ 
cept an absence of the lengthened shadows. A 
robin sat upon a tree caroling his evening lay, 
close by the spot where the writer stood, and he 
seemed somewhat astonished to see the sun re¬ 
appearing in full blaze; so making short work 
of the closing measure of his strain, he flew 
away, under the idea, no doubt, that he had mis¬ 
taken the time of day. 
Many people were a little disappointed that 
the darkness was not more manifest, and could 
not have been made to believe, unless they had 
seen it, that one-twelfth of the sun’s face in a 
cloudless sky, could give such an amount of 
light. Such a phenomenon as we witnessed last 
week, will not occur again for many years, and 
most of us can truly say, that 
“ Taken all in all, 
We ne’er shall look upon its like again !” 
Powder Explosions and Loss of Life. 
Two more powder mills have been blown up 
within a few days, involving a sad loss of human 
life. On Thursday morning of last week the 
powder mills of Alessrs. Lokkin & Smith, locat¬ 
ed about three miles from Saugerties, Ulster Uo., 
N. Y., blew up, killing seven men, and blowing 
six houses in the vicinity all to pieces. The 
buildings were of no great value. The principal 
loss will be from the destruction of stock and 
interruption of the works. The latter loss will 
be pretty serious, as this is the largest mill in 
the State, and next to the largest in the United 
States. These mills have been destroyed by 
explosion five or six times before, but never with 
such fatal consequences as the last. 
The powder mill of Messrs. Hammer & For¬ 
bes, situated at East Hartford, Connecticut, ex¬ 
ploded on Friday morning, May 26th. Two 
men were killed by the accident. 
Powder manufacture is at all times, and under 
all circumstances, an extra hazardous employ¬ 
ment, and the workmen stand every moment 
upon the brink of an abyss ; but at these times 
of warlike preparation, the demand for powder 
prompts the cupidity of manufacturers to go 
beyond the limits of common safety even of a 
powder mill; and in the drying process a de¬ 
gree of heat is employed that would endanger 
the combustion of less explosive materials than 
gunpowder. There have been, including these, 
four similar casualties within a fewmenths. 
A Heroine. 
A few days ago a woman named Horton, liv¬ 
ing on the line of the Erie railroad, a few miles 
west of Owego, saw a large pine tree fall direct¬ 
ly across the track, at a short curve in the road. 
She instantly laid down a small child and call¬ 
ed her husband, who was at work a short dis¬ 
tance away, in a neighboring field. They both 
ran to the track he taking an axe, but the tree 
was not less than two feet through, and the time 
of a passing train near at hand. 
The man then took off a pair of red woolen 
drawers, tore them in two, and he with one part 
went up the track, while his wife went in the 
opposite direction, eacli waving the red signal 
as a token of danger. In a few minutes the 
mail passenger train approached at full speed, 
when it was arrested by Airs. Horton standing 
on the track, waving the leg of the red flannel 
drawers on a mullen stalk, who by her presence 
of mind undoubtedly prevented a casualty.— 
Such a woman deserves a pension in addition 
to “honorable mention.” 
Bank Robbery. —On Wednesday, the 24tli, 
some bold rascal entered the office of the Canal 
Bank, Cleveland, and abstracted from a pile 
containing $20,000 near one-fourth part ol the 
amount The successful rogue reached around 
from the front of the counter, in order to get at 
the funds, and there is no suspicion who the 
thief is. A reward of one thousand dollars has 
been offered for the return of the money and 
thief, or five hundred dollars for. either alone, 
and a proportionate amount of any part of the 
money. The bank officers expect to recover the 
funds—when they find them. 
A man named Gongle Negus, Weigh 
Clerk in the U. S. Mint, robbed several deposit¬ 
ors to the amount of $100,000, and when accus¬ 
ed of the crime, restored the amount and sailed 
for Europe in the Washington. 
Our Albany Correspondence. 
Albany, May 29th, 1S54. 
“Things is working.” It is the prevailing 
opinion here, that the time lias arrived to organ¬ 
ize the party of Freedom. The issue is forced up¬ 
on us by the South, and must be met. 1 here 
will be no farther tampering or truckling to the 
slave power. Laws will not be violently tram¬ 
pled upon, but an organization effected that will 
look to the repeal of every statute against Free¬ 
dom, within the jurisdiction of Congress, and 
which can be effected by freemen’s votes. Such 
is the aspect of things at present, and every day 
gives strength to the opinion. 
Albanians are somewhat excited about the 
celebrated murder case in Troy, by Airs. Rob¬ 
inson, as is charged. Her trial came to a close 
Saturday, and the verdict of “ Guilty” was ren¬ 
dered. This morning the sentence was post¬ 
poned, and the probability is that we shall have 
a repetition of the Hendrickson case. I am 
glad that there is one paper, the Rural, that is 
sustained without devoting its main space to the 
awful details of crime. In this latitude, special 
reporters are sent, and broadsides of daily and 
weekly issues are filled with them. 
Political matters in general are quiet The 
extension of the Capitol is soon to be commenc¬ 
ed. Also, the enlargements and reconstruction 
of the old Sram House, known now as the Geo¬ 
logical and Agricultural Rooms of the State.— 
The Albany and Susquehanna Railroad Com¬ 
pany have had some difficulty with regard to 
their stock subscribers, who refused to pay.— 
The decision is in favor of the Company, and 
the probability is, that the extensive section 
from Albany to Binghamton, will soon be open¬ 
ed to the world. Railroads are certainly im¬ 
portant institutions. 
The Rev. Dr. Hague is giving a series of dis¬ 
courses on domestic life, which are of great 
utility. In speaking of parents, last Sabbath, 
he used the text, “Train up a child in the way 
he should go, and when he is old, he will not 
depart from it.” This subject was handled in a 
practical manner, inculcating doctrines of edu- 
cation seldom heard in the pulpit, but often 
found in the columns of the people’s paper, the 
Rural. But you will accuse me of flattery if 
I speak my mind further. *Owk*. 
Notes from Saratoga, 
A trip to any part of God’s country, at this 
season, cannot fail to be a treat to any one in 
whom there remains a spark of nature. Sara¬ 
toga, in spite of sand and stones, is getting to be 
very sprucely dressed in beautiful and fragrant 
green. The winter, though long prolonged, was 
not severe, and the scanty supply of fodder was 
eked out to a full sufficiency, there being now a 
plenty for sale at moderate prices. The long 
and drenching rains this spring, have put back 
the work of the farmer to a very late period.— 
Alany fields of corn and potatoes are yet to be 
planted, at this writing, (May 27.) But every 
thing now grows as if by magic. Oram is extra. 
I am told that cattle never did belter than they 
have since pul to grass this spring. This has re¬ 
duced the price of butter very much. At the 
Springs the reduction is lrom 23 to about 17 cte. 
for cash trades. Grain is winter-killed to an 
alarming extent I saw several fields of rye 
and wheat into which cattle had been turned on 
this account. 
The people of this county rely very much on 
the summer market at Saratoga Springs. Hence 
they deal in little things much more than the 
farmers of the middle and western counties.— 
Their dairies are on a very small scale, some 
keeping five, some ten, and others perhaps as 
high as twenty cows. This, of course, prevents 
the realization of the full profits of dairying as 
a business. They deal in stock extensively for 
the beef market; and veal, lambs, and poultry 
constitute their important staples. Eggs, vege¬ 
tables, and a few sage cheeses fill np their cal¬ 
endar. Teaming is one of their important 
avocations. The extensive country north, into 
which no Railroad or Canal penetrates, must be 
supplied with even food by land carriage. But 
the Saratoga and Sacketts Harbor Railroad, now 
in progress, will make a revolution amongst 
them, which will be largely in their favor.' 
Saratoga Springs begins to brighten up. The 
large hotels are going through with thorough 
repairs, including a nice coat of paint. Union 
Hall is already open. The United States and 
others will soon follow suit. This village con¬ 
sists of about 5,000 permanent inhabitants.— 
There is very little done in the way of manu¬ 
facturing, from the want of water power or other 
facilities. There is a small inland mercantile 
trade, consisting principally of barter; but the 
main strength anil capital of the place is em¬ 
ployed in watering and waiting upon visitors. 
The principal improvements in building the 
present season, consist of private houses, in¬ 
tended for boarding and leasing to private iami- 
lies. I am told that the leasing of houses by 
families is becoming more and more common 
every year. Saratoga is now' easy of access by 
Railroad from Troy, Schenectady and Albany on 
the South, and Rutland, Lake George. <Lc.,on the 
North. Though it is easy to get. there, it requires 
dimes in abundance to stayl Some of the Hotels 
will probably charge four dollars per day.— 
How' true it is that “ a fool and his money are 
60 on parted.” *Owk.* 
Wednesday, the 31st inst, was appointed 
in New Brunswick, as a day for humiliation and 
prayer for the success of British arms in the 
Eastern war. Contributions were to be taken 
up for the wives and children of soldiers who 
may fall in battle. 
Congressional. 
Washington, Alay 22d.— Senate —Air. Smith 
presented resolutions of the Legislature of Con¬ 
necticut on the subject of the Nebraska bill, and 
against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. 
Air. Chase gave notice of a bill to abolish the 
franking privilege, and to provide for the distri¬ 
bution of documents. 
Air. Clayton offered a resolution directing the 
Committee on Foreign relations to enquire into 
the expediency of restricting the powers of 
American Consuls in the Spanish Island, so as 
to prevent their protecting American vessels 
engaged in the African slave trade. 
House —The final passage of the Nebraska 
bill was under consideration until llj '2 o’clock 
1’. M. f at which time it passed, and the House 
adjourned. 
Alay 23d.— Senate —Mr. Alason introduced a 
resolution calling upon the President to send to 
the Senate such copies of whatever correspond¬ 
ence had been had with this Government in 
relation to the slave trade in Cuba. 
Air. Stuart, of Alicli., reported a bill to extend 
the patent of Samuel Colt, the well known man¬ 
ufacturer of revolvers. 
Air. Rush reported the House bill regulating 
the pay of Deputy Postmasters. The bill was 
amended and passed. The Nebraska bill as 
received from the House, was then read once. 
Mr. Sumner objected to a second reading. 
Air. Douglas submitted a resolution of inqui¬ 
ry, relative to the expediency of recognizing the 
Independence of Dominica, and opening with 
the Republic Diplomatic relations. Laid over. 
The Indian Appropriation bill was resumed. 
Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, asked permission of the 
House to introduce a motion, the object of which 
was the printing of 5,000 copies of the proceed¬ 
ings yesterday upon the Nebraska bill. He said 
it was important that these proceedings should 
be sent as early as possible throughout the 
country, and it was desirable, therefore, that the 
printing be immediately ordered. Objections 
were made, and the permission refused. 
The House then went into committee and 
took up for consideration the amendment adopt¬ 
ed by the Senate to the Deficiency Appropria¬ 
tion bill. 
Alay 21th.— Senate— Mr. Seward, of N. Y., 
presented a number of petitions in opposition to 
the Nebraska bill. 
Air. Benjamin, of La., introduced a series of 
resolutions passed at the recent session of the 
Legislature of that State, relative to the annexa¬ 
tion of Cuba to the United States. A debate 
ensued, after which the Nebraska bill, as corn¬ 
ing back from the House, was read a second 
time. 
House —The House went into Committee and 
took up the Pacific Railroad bill. It was, how¬ 
ever, laid over till to-morrow, and the consider¬ 
ation of the Deficiency bill resumed. The 
amendment appropriating a sum for the A\ ash- 
ington AVater Works was debated. 
Alay 25th.— Senate —After the report of sev¬ 
eral bills, the consideration of the Nebraska bill 
was resumed. After an exciting sessions of 
thirteen hours the bill passed the Senate at half 
past one o’clock A. Al., by a vote of 35 to 13. 
House —The House went into Committee of 
the Whole, and on motion, set aside the Pacific 
Railroad bill, and resumed discussion on amend¬ 
ments to the Deficiency bill. After disagreeing 
to t he amendment of the Senate for the comple¬ 
tion of the Custom Houses and Marine Hospitals, 
the Committee rose and reported to the House, 
when an adjournment was carried. 
Alay 26th.—Senate not in session. 
House —Mr. Lancaster introduced bills to es¬ 
tablish the office of Surveyor General of Wash¬ 
ington Territory, and for the construction of 
military roads in that Territory. The House 
then took up for action, in Committee, the Sen¬ 
ate’s amendments to the Deficiency bill. 
Lord Malmesbury said in the House of Peers, 
“posterity, in his opinion, was even more inter¬ 
ested than those now living in the issue of the 
struggle, and believing, as he did, that the whole 
empire of Europe would belong and must belong 
to the Russian prince, who was enabled to ob¬ 
tain possessmn of Constantinople, and hold it, 
he could not but believe that it was necessary 
for England to spend both blood and treasure, 
even to the last soldier and the last shilling, in 
its defence.” 
Mr. Edwards, President of the Honduras 
Railroad Company, has arrived at Mobile, and 
reports that the Congress has ratified the con¬ 
tract granting to the company two and a half 
million acres of land, to aid in the construction 
of the road. 
Thomas Alurray, mate of the schooner 
Ellen Barnes, of Wareham, Alass., and a negro 
sailor belonging to the same, have been arrested 
and committed to jail at Norfolk, Va., for trial 
on a charge of aiding in the escape of slaves. 
2 ^" F. M. Marion, who ascended in a balloon 
from Fairmotint, Philadelphia, on Monday week, 
made a safe descent at Pea Shore, having trav¬ 
eled 12 miles in about 25 minutes, notwithstand¬ 
ing the calm that prevailed. 
The Louth ([reland ) Advertiser states, 
that Admiral Hatnelin, commander-in-chief of 
the French expeditionary fleet engaged in the 
eastern war, is an Irishman by birth, and a na¬ 
tive of the county Louth. 
j^TTlio Senate Committee on Foreign Af¬ 
fairs, which has Mr. Slidell’s bill under consid¬ 
eration, are divided and opposed to Filliblister¬ 
ing, and do not recommend giving the war 
power t<> the President. 
Mgr There is a gentleman named Standard 
now living at the aue. of 88 years, who distinctly 
remembers hearing the first volley fired in the 
Revolutionary war, at Lexington, on the 19th 
of April, 1775. 
Over 3,000 head of cattle have been driv¬ 
en Horn the counties of Crawford, Sebastian, and 
Scott, Arkansas, this season, for California ; as 
also large droves from other frontier counties 
and the Cherokee nation. 
Dttos fSrtbitks. 
-The vine disease has appeared in Madeira. 
-There have been several decided and fatal 
cases of Cholera in Providence, It. I. 
-The Emperor Napoleon III. completed 
the 46th year of his age on the 20th ult. 
-The weather in April was as cold in 
England as in this part of our own country. 
-The Great Western Railroad now makes 
the trip from the Falls to Detroit in eight hours. 
-Ex-President Fillmore returned home on 
the 2lst of Alay, after an absence of some two 
months. 
-Count Aledem is the new Russian Min¬ 
ister to this country', in place of AI. Bodisco, 
deceased. 
-The Troy Budget notices the arrest of D.D. 
Sheldon, a boy of fifteen, for firing a barn in 
that city. 
-The Women’s State Temperance Conven¬ 
tion is to be held in Syracuse on the 7th and 8ih 
days of June. 
-Marshall Paskieweitsch, the Commaml- 
er-in-Chief of the Russian Army, is a veteran of 
seventy years. 
-Five colored men were drowned the 23d 
of May,while on an excursion from Philadelphia 
to Burlington. 
-The Assay Office in New York city is 
now fully organized, with a capital for assaying 
$10,000,000 per annum. 
-The Common Council of Buffalo have ap¬ 
propriated $1,000 for the celebration of the ap¬ 
proaching 4th in that city'. 
-Senator Everett has written a letter to 
Gov. Washburn, resigning his seat in the Senate 
in consequence of ill-health. 
-Large strawberries, of fine flavor, were 
selling in Cincinnati market on Alonday week, 
at twenty-five cents a quart. 
-The annual meeting of the Connecticut 
Newspaper Association, will be held at Bridge¬ 
port on Wednesday, June 7th. 
-The Democratic State Convention for the 
nomination of a Governor in New Hampshire, 
is called for the 15th of June. 
-Drs. Early, of Va., Price, of Georgia, and 
Karanan, of Ky„ have been elected Bishops of 
the Methodist Church, South. 
-The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge 
will be ready for the cars early in the autumn.. 
It will be a magnificent structure. 
-Mr. Winslow, bearer of dispatches from 
Mr. Soule, arrived at Washington May 23d, and 
had an interview with Mr. Alarcy. 
-The fare to San Francisco by the North 
Star has been reduced, for cabin passage, from 
$150 to $100; steerage from $75 to $50. 
-Cotton growing in Australia has been 
successfully tried. One planter reports a profit 
of over $70 from the product of five acres. 
-The Boston Pilot states that Dr. Brown- 
son has declined the chair in the new Irish Uni¬ 
versity, proffered by the Rev. Dr. Newman. 
-The Rev. Antoinette L. Brown, owing to 
previous engagements, has declined accepting a 
call by the Free Church of Cazenovia, N. \\ 
-Within a short time immense quantities 
of precious stones, sent from Constantinople to 
be converted into cash, have arrived in Paris. 
-The sum raised in England, and placed 
in Mrs. Stowe’s hands, for the promotion of the 
anti-slavery cause in the United States, is £ 1,800. 
-Tiie Rev. Robert Newton, the celebrated 
English Methodist divine, is dead. It will be 
recollected that he visited this country in 1810. 
-The Press of the country, North and 
South, is nearly unanimous against the suspen¬ 
sion of onr neutrality laws in reference to Cuba. 
-It is stated that Capt. Fitch is about to 
ret ire from the command of t he Washington, and 
is to be succeeded by Capt, Lines, of the Hum¬ 
boldt. 
-The Evening Express train from Detroit, 
on the Alichigan Central railroad, ran over an 
ox. Alay 24th, causing the train to upset, killing 
four persons. 
-The “ Jerry Rescue ” trials are set down 
for June, at Canandaigua; but they are likely to 
be postponed on account of the illness of District 
Attorney Garvin. 
-The Democratic Committee of Suffolk 
County, Mass., after considerable discussion, have 
adopted a resolution endorsing the Nebraska 
bill; yeas 43, nays 8. 
-Havana lias been selected by the Com¬ 
missioners appointed to designate the county 
seat for the new county of Schuyler, lately 
erected in this State. 
-The first of the line of steamers to run 
bet ween New York and Genoa, was to leave the 
latter port on the 28th inst She is a 1200 ton 
ship, built at Glasgow. 
-The remains of John Howard Payne, the 
author of “ Sweet Home,” are to be removed to 
the Congressional burying ground, at the ex¬ 
pense of the government 
-The Washington Star says, that accord¬ 
ing to the Post Office regulations the mailing 
postmaster must m all cases cancel the stamps 
of pre-payment on letters. 
-Such has Iveen the drain upon the fish in 
the streams in California, that they are already 
so scarce that petitions are before the Legislature 
to prohibit fishing with nets. 
-A sufficient supply of coal can be obtain¬ 
ed from a mine at Ezakli, on the southern coast 
of the Euxine, for the use of the English and 
French steam navy in that sea. 
-Late advices received from Central Amer¬ 
ica, report that the city of San Salvador lias 
been entirely destroyed by an earthquake, and 
51)0 persons buried under the ruins. 
■-The clipper ship Golden Fleece, recently 
wrecked near San Francisco, was owned in Bos¬ 
ton, and was insured for a large amount. She 
was only two years old, and valued at $80,000. 
-The Grand Rapids, Mich., Inquirer, esti¬ 
mates the export of lumber from Grand and 
Muskegon rivers, the coming season, at 100,- 
000,000 feet, worth about one million of dollars. 
—i—“ Not a single Jew requiring temporary 
relief.” is the report of the Missionaries and 
Colporteurs appointed by the New York Socie¬ 
ty for Ameliorating the Condition of the Jews. 
-Government is expending $5,000 in trans¬ 
planting salt-grass on the shores of Cape Cod. 
It is thought that the grass will prevent the 
shifting of the beach sands by the action of the 
waves. 
-The Newark Cricket Club opened the 
season on Monday week, with a match between 
the married and single men of the Club, which 
was won by the latter, with nineteen runs to 
spare—thus reversing the decision of last year. 
