MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YOB KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
> V ROCHESTER, JUNE 17, 1854. 
( Breadstuffs—Present and Prospective 
S Prices. 
) Since the opening of the markets succeeding 
) the last harvest, the prices of breadstuffs, par- 
S ticularly wheat, have gradually experienced an 
) enhancement up to the present time. True, 
( theie have been periods of recession, when it 
> seemed that prices had reached the culminating 
( point, and commenced going down ; but the 
) decline was soon arrested, and the high figure 
c previously ruling, was again speedily reached 
> and passed. 
c Unfortunately for many of our farmers, the 
enhancement above twelve shillings has accrued 
) to the benefit of second and third holders, al- 
( though a large number of the first named 
) obtained higher figures for the produce of their 
( wheat fields ; and there are not a few who still 
) hold on to their wheat, setting their mark at 
l two dollars and a half. The highest fair offer 
) for pure Genesee has not reached that point by 
£ ten cents a bushel, and the news by the last 
) three foreign steamers shows a decided decline 
| in breadstuffs abroad. In the mean time an- 
) other, and it is to be hoped, by the blessings of 
' a kind Providence, a bountiful harvest is rapid- 
> ly approaching, when the hiatus which now 
> undoubtedly exists in the wheat and flour 
> market, will be amply filled. There is no prob- 
> ability that the price of grain or flour will go 
| down at any time during the ensuing year to 
> the low prices ruling in years past, neither i$ it 
I probable that at any time it will go up to 
twenty shillings for wheat, or twelve dollars for 
flour. The vast and varied products of our 
country, and the successive harvests of other 
grains and fruits, will affect the wheat market, 
and supply with wholesome food any deficiency 
that may arise at home in consequence of' an 
increased demand for American wheat abroad ; 
and any holder of the grain, who retains it in 
his bin with the expectation of obtaining any 
better price than that now ruling in his own 
particular market, it is believed, hugs to his 
bosom a delusive hope. 
Even allowing that a chance exists of wheat 
going up, at any time, above the prices offered 
for four weeks past, is it wisdom on the part of 
the holder to await that chance? It is worth 
, something to insure against fire, the depreda¬ 
tions of vermin and thieves ; the chances of in¬ 
jury in a thousand ways, to which all perisha¬ 
ble property is subjected. The interest of the 
money is worth something, and the extra chan¬ 
ces of grain being’ lower instead of higher, is a 
forcible argument against holding it longer. 
In plain terms, then, the best advice we can 
give to our friends, the farmers, who have grain 
still on hand, is to sell now. Prices have not 
materially declined, if at all, in our markets as 
yet; but if the harvest comes in as it promises, 
it will be quite likely to do so ; and the man 
who has held his grain over a whole year, will 
then have ample cause to regret his avarice and 
folly'. Prices are high enough as they exist to¬ 
day' ; and so noble a bird as can be now' taken 
in the hand, is worth more than two that may, 
by a mere possibility, be in the bush hereafter. 
To the consumer of breadstuffs, we would say: 
buy'just enough from time to time to carry' you 
through the few weeks yet remaining until 
harvest, and no more. The chances are in your 
favor for lower prices after that; and the tribute 
you aro now paying to the speculator, will, in 
all probability, be at least partially abated. 
Tux Wheat Croi*.— The editor of the Stand¬ 
ard, Salem County', Ohio, June 7, says:—“If 
the wheat should not be injured by the rust, 
there is every indication of one of the largest 
crops ever raised in this county.” 
A Virginia correspondent of the N. Y. Tri¬ 
bune, writes that paper that the joint worm has 
proved so destructive in some counties, that 
farmers are quite discouraged trying to grow 
•wheat. In Fauquier County many' fields will 
not yield a bushel to the acre. They say that 
the joint-worm is worse than the potato-rot in 
Ireland, for if the people were dependent upon 
that one crop, they w'ould starve. It is only 
the guanoed fields that are worth harvesting. 
Another, writing from Michigan, says:— 
« Our State will turn out a big field of wheat 
this season, and other things in proportion.” 
A letter dated Burlington, Iowa, June 2d, re¬ 
marks :—“ We never had a fairer show for farm¬ 
ers since low'a became a State. Corn bids fair 
to exceed any previous year.” 
Good Deed. —On Tuesday', May 23d, the la¬ 
dies of the village of Baraboo (Wis.) held a 
meeting, for the purpose of abating a monstrous 
public nuisance, viz : a set of tippling shops and 
saloons that were a disgrace to civilized commu¬ 
nity. Accordingly, it was determined to destroy 
the liquor by thoir own bands ; and, forming a 
procession, they marched down the streets, en¬ 
tered the liquor shops, and seizing whisky and 
beer barrels, they summarily emptied the con¬ 
tents into the street. At one place they found 
the doors barricaded, and the inmates armed 
with guns to defend the place. A riot very near¬ 
ly occurred, as the men at this juncture took 
sides for and against the women ; but the sheriff 
appeared, read the riot act, and succeeded in 
quelling the disturbance, after it was promised 
that the grievances of the sober part of the com¬ 
munity should be redressed. 
The Wheat Crop—Prices, &c. 
Deluxe the past week we have taken consid¬ 
erable pains to ascertain the facts relative, to the 
appearance and prospects of the Wheat Crop in 
Western New York, and the information ob¬ 
tained induces us to believe the yield will be 
less than has been anticipated. Making due 
allowance for the exaggerations of “ croakers,” 
we are of opinion that the crop, as a whole, will 
prove decidedly inferior to that of last year. 
While it looks fair in some localities, in many 
others it is poor and “spotted,” and it is be¬ 
lieved the yield will be much below the average. 
The late drouth was quite injurious, though the 
recent rains have been favorable, and the crop 
will partially recover. 
Whether this supposed deficiency will affect 
future prices, is problematical. Western New 
York cannot, as in former years, control the 
market,—and hence the prices of wheat and 
flour will depend greatly upon the yield in 
Ohio and other wheat-growing States, and the 
harvest in Europe. Though reports from the 
West, and Europe, are generally favorable, 
there is yet too much uncertainty, and too many 
contingencies (depending upon state of the 
weather, insects, Ac.,) to safely estimate the 
crop, or form conclusions as to prospective 
prices. Our opinion is that wheat will, after 
harvest, command from $1,50 to $2 per bushel 
for several months. 
Congressional 
Congress, during the week ending June 10th, 
did absolutely nothing except draw their pay. 
The Senate was not in session, owing to an ad¬ 
journment for the purpose of having their cham¬ 
ber renovated for a summer session; and the 
House up to Wednesday, had no quorum. On 
Friday, after reading the journal, Mr. Faulkner, 
of Va., aunounced to the House the death of 
Hon. John F. Snodgrass, Representative from 
the 12th District of Virginia. Some eulogistic 
remarks were made by Mr. Faulkner and other 
members, and the House, as is customary, ad¬ 
journed. The small amount of time the House 
was actually in session, was consumed by' talk¬ 
ers on the subject oi the Pacific Railroad—a 
project dead for this session, at least; and also 
in regard to Cuban annexation, not yet dead. 
The Senate passed a resolution previous to 
its adjournment, that if the House concur, an 
adjournment take place until August. This 
will give the members an opportunity of going 
home to see their wives, and what is equally 
important, drawing from the treasury eight dol¬ 
lars for each twenty' miles of the distance trav¬ 
eled, as extra mileage. Truly, this is a great 
country I 
Fatal Accident. —Last week Thursday, a 
little son of Garret Debow, of Farmington, 
Ontario county, was crushed to death beneath a 
heavy drag, which had been propped upon its 
side, and fell upon the lad when no one was 
near to witness the accident. These death-traps, 
and others of a like character, are quite com- 
' mon around farms and farm-yards accessible to 
children ; and not uufrequently' they' result in 
like lamentable consequences. Many children 
have been killed by' cart bodies dismounted 
from the wheels, and canted up against fences 
and the sides of buildings. Let farmers take 
warning from such accidents, lest similar ones 
occur in their own families. 
Canadian Reciprocity.— It is generally be¬ 
lieved, although the facts have not officially 
transpired, that a commercial treaty has been 
negotiated at Washington, which, if confirmed 
by Congress and the British and Colonial Gov¬ 
ernment, will be highly' advantageous to all 
parties. Among its terms are free trade in raw 
materials between the United States and the j 
Provinces, free navigation of the St. Lawrence, 
and free use to Americans of the Province coast 
fisheries. The latter has been a vexed question 
for several years, and at one period of great ex¬ 
citement, gave Mr. Webster, just before his 
death, occasion to say to his neighbors, “ Our 
fishermen must be protected, hook and line, bob 
and sinker!” 
The New Hampshire Legislature. -The 
New Hampshire Legislature met and organized 
at Concord June 7th. Democratic officers in 
both branches were chosen throughout—in the 
House by' a very close vote, the Wings and 
Freesoilers coalescing against the Administra¬ 
tion Democrats. The vote stood on the Speak¬ 
er, 156 Democrats, 153 opposition. Last year 
the Administration had over 90 majority in the 
House—the change now being occasioned by 
the Nebraska bill. 
The Legislature adjourned over a few days 
after receiving the Governor's message. Two 
U. S. Senators are to be chosen, both of which 
will probably be Administration men. 
Indian Wars. —The Indians in Western Texas 
are committing depredations extensively on the 
frontiers, and threatening a general war. Wild 
Cat, the Seminole chief, heads the Indians, and 
several squads of government troops, as well as 
emigrants and settlers, have been cut off, and 
large numbers of cattle and horses driven away. 
The Indians have been heard to say' that they 
will kill everything, and desolate the country to 
the Rio Grande, and a good deal of excitement 
and alarm exists in consequence. 
£1 $™The Argus estimates the total receipts 
for canal tolls during the fourth week of the 
month of May, at $130,000, which makes the 
aggregate lor the month, $502,4«7.11, against 
$418,558.18 same time last year. 
Our Albany Correspondence. 
Albany, June 12th, 1854. 
The State Department of Public Instruction 
have finally had rooms assigned to them in the 
basement of the State Hall. The Superintend¬ 
ent, Victor M. Riok, Esq., has got himself fully 
initiated, and will commence his visitations in 
different parts of the State very soon. The 
Department will lose the services of Samuel S. 
Randall, Esq., as Deputy, on account of his ap¬ 
pointment. to the Superintendency of Schools in 
New York city. Mr. J. J. Chambers will be his 
successor, and another clerk will be appointed 
in Mr. C.'s place. The clerk hire is limited to 
$3,000, of which $1,500 goes to the Deputy, 
$1,000 to the second clerk, and $500 to the 
third. After the organization is fully perfected, 
and the neglected business put in shape, active 
measures will be taken to advance the cause of 
education in general. 
The Whig leaders in Albany have had a fall¬ 
ing out. The General Whig Committee recently 
elected, was nearly' equally divided, and failing 
to agree on an organization, they appointed two 
sets of officers, and unless some galvanizing pro¬ 
cess is devised, a nice time may be expected.— 
It is unnecessary to mention that it is like much 
other political maneuvering, a personal matter, 
and unworthy of men. If it should result in 
breaking the spell attached to a Whig General 
Committee, and showing the people that each 
man should think and act for himself, and not 
follow blindly the beck of self-constituted com¬ 
mittees, whose real influence morally, intellec¬ 
tually' or socially', is not worth the brown paper 
required to write their names on, it would be a 
paying operation. King Caucus, and the Hon. 
Mr. Pipe-layer, and the respectful Office 
Seeker have ruled the roost about long enough. 
Let them be dethroned, and the virtue, intelli¬ 
gence, and industry' of the nation, sway' the 
scepter in the triumph of right. 
The great Musical Congress to come off in 
New York on the 15th inst., causes quite a stir 
even here. Many will attend trom this place, 
and among them your correspondent, from 
whom your readers may expect an account of 
the proceedings. *Owk.* 
Women’s State Temperance Convention. 
The second annual meeting of the Women’s 
New York State Temperance Society, assem¬ 
bled at Utica, Wednesday, June 7th. The at¬ 
tendance was quite large, comprising persons 
from this and adjoining States. 
The Convention was called to order by' Mrs. 
Vaughan, President of the Society, who read 
the Opening Address. Mrs. Fish, of Ontario 
Co., read the Annual Report of the Executive 
Committee, in which Gov. Seymour is described 
as a political Judas. 
The Treasurer showed that the amount in the 
Treasury at the date of the last report was 
$246.37. Amount received during the year, 
$1,840.21. Total, $2,066.58. Expenditures 
during the year, $4,990.70. Balance in the 
Treasury, $86.92. 
During the absence of the Business Commit¬ 
tee, Miss Currie D. Filkins, of Rochester, briefly 
addressed the Convention. 
In the afternoon, letters sympathizing with 
the object of the Convention, were read from 
Mrs. Nichols, of Vermont, and Mr. Gerrit Smith, 
of New York. 
Mrs. Bloomer introduced a series of resolu¬ 
tions, denouncing Gov. Seymour’s Veto as a 
wanton insult to the people, declaring the ne¬ 
cessity' for more vigorous action on the part of 
temperance people, and that this field is a par¬ 
ticularly proper one for women. 
Resolutions denouncing the use of tobacco 
as conducing to drunkenness, were also offered. 
Mrs. Mary' C. Vaughan, of New York, was 
elected President, sustained by thirteen Vice 
Presidents. 
For Recording Secretary—Mrs. H. Atilla Al- 
bro, of Rochester. 
Corresponding Secretary—Mrs. Angelina Fish, 
of Victor. 
Treasurer—Mrs. E. C. Marsh, of Rochester. 
An Executive Committee of seven members 
was elected, after which the Convention ad¬ 
journed on Thursday. 
Canal Board. —At. the meeting of the Board 
on the 6th inst, the State Engineer submitted a 
report in writing, concluding with the following 
resolution, which report and resolution were 
laid on the table : 
Resolved, That the Enlarged Canal between 
Lockporf and Rochester shall be constructed in 
conformity to the following described dimen¬ 
sions, to wit,— The bottom of the Canal at Lock- 
port to he located eighteen inches below the top 
of the mitre sill of the lowest lock at Lockport, 
and descending two feet on a uniform declivity 
to the bottom of the Rochester Aquedlifct, the 
prism to be so constructed as to admit of 7LC 
feet depth of. water above the top of said mitre 
sill at Lockport, and 7 4-12 feet above the bot¬ 
tom of the Rochester Aqueduct, with a bottom 
width throughout of 52bj feet, and a surface 
width at Lockport of 75 feet, and at the west 
end of the l&ochester Aqueduct 40 83-100 feet, 
giving a surface declivity in the whole distance 
of 3 8-12 feet. The prism from Lockport to 
Rochester to diminish uniformly in size, except 
in localities where a saving in expense will jus¬ 
tify a wider dnd deeper channel. 
Of the volunteer guard of the slave in the 
E roccssion, the Boston Atlas thus speaks :—“ A 
ody of Borne one hundred and twenty-five in¬ 
dividuals, (we cannot call them men,) who had 
offered themselves to the Marshall for duty', 
were drawn up in the form of a hollow square, 
in the centre of which was the poor fugitive, the 
U. S. Marshal and his officers. They were 
armed with pistols and drawn cutlasses. This 
body-guard was composed of the dregs of so¬ 
ciety ; nearly all were blacklegs and thieves, 
most of whom have been, or ought to be, in¬ 
mates of our prisons. 
The Hotel business in New York lias been 
overdone, ami it don’t pay near as well as it did 
one or two years ago. This is principa ly owing 
to t he rivalry from the multitude of second class 
hotels, or large boarding-houses, which have 
sprung up in the back streets, under the unnat¬ 
ural stimulus imparted by the Crystal l’alace 
excit ement of last year. 
fleta fitnt{jra|I)8. 
The Mt. Morris Union says:—Some time 
since we noticed the feat performeed by r Mr. G. 
Voorhies, of West Sparta, in carrying the mail, 
weighing forty pounds, on foot to Kysorville, a 
distance of seven miles, in one hour. We now 
learn that he is about to walk from Kysorville 
to Auburn, a distance of 76 miles, in one day, on 
a wager of $500—the feat to come off this month 
as soon as the preliminaries are settled. 
J.Hr’ The Lords Commissioners of the British 
Admiraity have issued instructions that sailors, 
natives of Findland, taken prisoners of war by 
her Majesty’s naval force, from on board Rus¬ 
sian vessels, may be permitted to enter the 
British merchant service ; they are, however, 
not, to be allowed to join any vessel bound north 
of the British channel, or eastward of Gibraltar, 
in the Mediterranean. 
SLUT - Seven persons in the employ of Mr. T. 
Gilliam, in Missouri, recently died of cholera 
within two or three days. They had been paid 
on Saturday for some extra work, and on Sun¬ 
day indulged very freely in beer, ale, cider and 
cakes, and at. night made a hearty supper on 
fresh fish. During the night and on Monday 
eleven were taken sick, of whom seven died. 
jug}’” The four Irishmen who were indicted for 
murder at the Kane County (III-) Circuit Court, 
for the killing of Albert Story, an engineer at 
La Salle, last winter, had their second trial at 
Geneva last week. They were all convicted of 
murder and sentenced to be hung. There was 
great excitement during the trial, but the result 
seemed to give general satisfaction. 
The oldest man married in Massachusetts 
the past year, was 76 years. Two brides were 
80 years each. The youngest girl who blushed 
and said yes to the question whether or not she 
would “ love, honor and obey a husband,” has 
seen the roses of only 14 summers bloom, while 
the youngest boy whose marriage is recorded in 
the table was 18. 
{•^“Information has been received by the 
Government, from Mr. J. Vallamit, of the discov¬ 
ery of immense deposits of guano on the Galla- 
pagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador. These 
islands are situated about- half way between Ban 
Francisco and Cape Horn, and it is thought 
might be easily acquired by purchase. 
A house near Vicksburg, Miss., was 
struck by lightning oil the 9th ult., and pretty 
much demolished. A loaded gun was fired off 
and broken to pieces, a keg of powder had two 
hoops knocked off it., but did not explode. Six 
persons were sleeping in the house, none of 
whom were injured by the stroke. 
The Mayville Sentinel learns that Grass¬ 
hoppers are thus early making their appearance 
in many parts of the county. In some parts of 
the county last year they destroyed the crops of 
our farmers, and 1 their early appearance, in large 
numbers, betokens the same calamity for the 
present season. 
{>:gp The office of the Louisville Courier was 
destroyed by firo June the 5th. Loss about 
$7,009; covered by insurance. The presses, 
books, and job office were saved. It was the 
work of an incendiary, and resulted in some 
way, probably, from tile Courier’s opposition to 
Matt. Ward. 
It is said that the English government 
has made arrangements for withdrawing the reg¬ 
ular troops from Upper and Lower Canada, witli 
the exception of one regiment and a company ot 
artillery for the garrison of Quebec, and the 
Canadian Rifle Corps for the occupation of 
Kingston. 
Mr. Van Buskirk, of North Adams, has 
been arrested on a requisition from the Gover¬ 
nor of New York, on a charge of poisoning cat¬ 
tle at Hoosac ; one of his brothers, with an 
accomplice, was arrested at Bennington, Vl, a 
few days since, for being concerned in the same 
deed. 
^g^The soldiers of the War of 1812 are in¬ 
formed that arrangements have been made with 
the New York Central Railroad Company, by 
which all members of the Convention to be held 
in Syracuse on the 20th inst.., will be passed 
over the road on their return home freed charge 
(►g” During the six months ending January 
31st, 1854, eleven emigrant ships were lost 
at sea, eight of them being bound to the United 
States or British America, and three ot them to 
Australia. The total loss of life by these disas¬ 
ters was eight hundred and forty-five. 
Cg" The Hudson River Railroad Company 
maue a trial last week, of running some of its 
engines with coke made from Cumberland coal, 
which proved very successful. The use of coke 
will effect a saving of two-thirds of the present 
expenses of working the engines. 
jg” A letter from Leipsic states that the fair 
at that place is this year very badly attended, 
and little business is done. In other years there 
have always been a large number of purchasers 
from Turkey, Russia and Poland, but this year 
there are scarcely any. 
jg" The government of Harvard College 
are said to be completely nonplussed by a re¬ 
cent bequest of $15,000, left by Miss Caroline 
Plummer, lately deceased, for the endowment 
of a new professorship on the “ Philosophy of 
the Heart.” 
£g" Commissioner Wilcox, of Ohio, as is stat¬ 
ed by the Cincinnati Enquirer, refused to act 
one day last week, when applied to by a gentle¬ 
man from Kentucky, to issue papers to reclaim 
a slave, but shut up his office and fled from the 
place. 
»g" Two emissaries of Kossuth were hung 
on the 29th ult., at a place called St. George, in 
Transylvania. Two of their companions were 
reprieved, but will have to endure an imprison¬ 
ment lor eighteen years in irons, and with hard 
labor. 
t'W The Springfield Republican says, a gen¬ 
tleman in an adjoining town informs us there 
are two parties in that town on the Nebraska 
question. They are composed of the Postmas¬ 
ter on one side, and every body else on the other. 
Uetos Dwbite. 
jg” The result of the examination of the 
parties arrested in the fugitive slave riot at Bos¬ 
ton, before the Police Court, is that Bishop, 
Stowel, Jackson and Morrison have been fully 
committed for the murder of Batchelder. 
]»g” Miss Melinda M. Ball, formerly a teacher 
in one of the public schools in Troy, has been 
discharged by the Board of Education, on the 
ground that she was a believer in the “ spiritual 
rappings,” and attended the “ circles.” 
Jg” The election of Directors for the Great 
Western Railroad was held at Hamilton on the 
5th inst. Considerable excitement was preva¬ 
lent, and Sir Allan McNab and two or three 
more of the old Board were ousted. 
£g" Conrad, the candidate for Mayor of the 
Y'mgs, Natives and Know-nothings, and the 
whole Whig ticket, is elected in Philadelphia. 
-Lord Elgin has left Washington for Mon¬ 
treal. 
• -The King of Portugal is about to visit 
England. 
-Paris is being rapidly emptied of the 
beau mondc. 
-Forty-five new planets have been dis¬ 
covered since 1608. 
-New Haven has chosen her charter offi¬ 
cers, Whigs in the main. 
-The cholera exists to an alarming extent 
in various parts of Jamaica, W. I. 
-Tiie British army consists at present of 
one hundred ami iort.y-two thousand men. 
-The expense of the rendition of the fugi¬ 
tive Burns, is estimated at trom $30,000 to 
$50,000. 
-A California paper says that the price of 
camphene is “eternal vigilance ” and $3.50 per 
gallon. 
-Over three millions of dollars have been 
expended for the relief of the poor in Ireland 
the past year. 
• -The cash receipts of the Erie Railroad 
for May will be about $550,000, the largest ever 
known in any month. 
-The Board of Education, of Syracuse, are 
discussing the question of reading the Bible in 
the Public Schools of that city. 
-A Cadet has just entered West Point 
from Tennessee, 6 feet 8 inches in height. He 
will do to lead the Grenadiers. 
-A Convention of the editors of the State 
of Maryland, was held at the Agricultural 
Rooms in Baltimore, on Friday week. 
-Mad dogs are plenty in Albany, and the 
Common Council have taken action against the 
canine race, with a view to their destruction. 
-The commencement at Bowdoin College 
this year, occurs on the first Wednesday in 
August, instead of September as heretofore. 
-There has been an exciting contest for 
Mayor at, Washington. The anti-administration 
candidate, elected last year, is again successful. 
-The time for the acceptance of bids for 
the million State loan, in aid of the Canal En¬ 
largement, has been postponed until the 22d inst. 
-Many of the heavy business men in New 
York are now closing their stores and maim fac¬ 
tories in the city at 3 o’clock P. M. on Saturday. 
-A State Convention is to be held at 
Columbus, Ohio, on the 13th of July, of all op¬ 
posed to the late aggressions of the slave power. 
-The amount of oil used by the Hudson 
River Railroad, for greasing axle-trees, <fcc., is 
so great that it takes $15,000 a year to pay for it. 
-The Cleveland Herald learns there are 
indications ot more trouble at Erie in relation to 
the Railroads. There is again talk of tearing up 
t he track. 
-The stockholders of the Utica and Bing¬ 
hamton Railroad, have voted to build the road 
on the canal route to Sherburne, and thence to 
Binghamton. 
-J. V. Himes, one of the chief leaders of 
the Second Adventists in 1843, has no confidence 
in the calculation that the end of the world is to 
come in 1854. 
-A woman with five small children un¬ 
dertook to ford ;i creek in Alania, Ill., but her 
wagon was carried down stream, upset, and three 
of her children drowned. 
-The Detroit Advertiser states from a re¬ 
liable source that five hundred pounds of silver 
were taken from the Minnesota mine on Lake 
Superior, a short time since. 
-The shop-keepers in Paris do not like 
the idea of closing their boutiques on Sunday, 
although the Archbishop is doing his best to 
bring them into the measure. 
-The Chicago Journal of Saturday week 
announces the arrival of twenty-five editors in 
that city, who were on their way to Rock Island 
and the Minnesota Territory. 
-The American Institute of Homcepathy 
met at the City Hall, Albany, on Wednesday of 
last week. A large number of physicians of 
that school were in attendance. 
-Since May the competition for passen¬ 
gers on the sailing of the California steamers has 
been so groat, that lately through steerage 
tickets were sold for $25 and $30. 
-The first election under the new Charter, 
was held at Kingston, N.Y., on the 6th of June, 
and the ticket supported by the “Know-Noth¬ 
ings ” elected by a large majority. 
-We can form some notion of where 
specie is tending, from the fact that already 
225,000 soverigns have been sent to the British 
army in Turkey, and $25,000 in silver. 
-A farmer named Cantin, near Quebec, 
was lately killed by a bear. The animal had 
attacked his cows, and his gun failing to dis¬ 
patch him, the bear dispatched Cantin. 
-The Seminary at Charlotteville, Scho- 1 
baric county, was destroyed by lire on Wednes¬ 
day week, the result of an accident. It. was 
under the patronage of the Methodist Confer¬ 
ence. 
-The Republic says the .Board of Trade 
of Buffalo have petitioned the Canal Beard fora 
weigh-lock near that city, to -enable them to 
take light weights when boats are discharged 
there. 
-The young Empress of Austria is very 
handsome, very accomplished, and quite a poet¬ 
ess. Her father was a clever man, hut her uncle 
is the celebrated personage who was the protec¬ 
tor of Lola Montez. 
-The Palmer Worm, a deadly foe to fruit 
trees, is making its re-appearance in Western 
Massachusetts, and fruit growers are obliged to 
destroy all infected trees, to prevent worms 
from reaching others. 
-In Newark, Ohio, a tavern keeper was 
bound over in the sum of $300 to answer at the 
Probate Court, on the complaint of a wife for 
selling liquor to her husband. This is the first 
case under the new law. 
-An expedient to procure Irish Catholics 
to vote at the municipal election in Philadelphia, 
was to print the name of the candidate for Mayor 
upon an American flag, with the liberty cap 
displaced by a Romish mitre. 
-During Holy week in Florence, Italy, 
boys were seen in the Jewish quarters making 
grating discords on a wooden instrument re¬ 
sembling an American horse fiddle, in token of 
resentment of the Messiah by their progenitors. 
-An Elephant escaped from a menegarie, 
between Providence and Fall River, on Monday, 
and attacked everything that came in his way. 
lie killed three horses, destroyed wagons, and 
injured several persons before he was secured. 
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