MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOB KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Railway Casualties. 
I , _ Dn Tuesday, the 27th ult., a train of cars on 
tbe Great Western, 0. W„ Railroad ran off the 
blliU As&atA* track near Princeton, some 80 miles west of the 
Falls, by which accident two men were killed 
_ and several others badly injured. It seems some 
ROCHESTER, JULY 8, 18sl ln ? "T’™ 77 ***** “' * T ^T*' 
and in doing so had removed several of the ties. 
From some cause the approaching train was not 
To Agents and Others. properly signalized, or the engineer failed to 
observe it, and as the locomotive dashed at full 
A new half volume of the Rural commences this week S p ee d upon the unsupported rails, they bent 
a fuvoiable time to aubftcribe or form clulm for either , ,, ■ , , . , ., , , r , . , 
, „ , , , , ,, under the weight, throwing the train off a high 
t months or a year. Agents and other kind friends ° ” ” 
roughout the country are requested to give the matter bauk > a,ul causing a perfect wreck of a portion 
To Agents and Others. 
—a favorable time to subscribe or form clubs for either 
six months or a year. Agents and other kind friends 
throughout the country are requested to give the matter 
Congressional. 
The session continues to drag its slow length 
along like a wounded snake ; the principal items 
of interest transpiring in the Senate are the fol¬ 
lowing : 
~Mr. Clayton, from committee on foreign rela¬ 
tions, reported a bill having for its object the 
more effectual suppression of the slave trade in 
American vessels. 
The bill making the port of Brownsville, 
Texas, one of entry, was- taken up, read and 
passed. 
Dcta |l;tntgntjrlj.s. 
' The Stale of Maine newspaper says that 
flctoa Srdritks. 
The port of Erie, opposite buffalo, has 
the bills of the Ranks of Canada now form no been declared a “ warehousing port,” 
inconsiderable portion of the circulating medi¬ 
um in Maine. The bills of the Rank of Mon¬ 
treal and of the Bank of British North America, 
circulate in Portland as readily as the bills of 
the local banks. 'Flic Atlantic and St. Law¬ 
rence Railroad make Montreal and Portland 
near neighbors. 
The difficulties between the Superintend¬ 
ent and Engineers on the Erie Railroad have 
been settled, and the latter have returned to 
-There are 1,475 churches in Massachu¬ 
setts, 41 of which are Roman Catholic. 
i oi i,ne csiiK oi nru.isn ixori.n America, non _ . , , ,, 
i, i vi *i i 11 r -Uver 3,0UU patents were granted bv the 
in Portland as readily as the bills of tt o J 
, , , r,,| ... T u. o. latent Unice during the past year. 
1 banks. 1 he Atlantic and St Law- , . .. .. U. -L 
ail road make Montreal and Portland , Aossuth s sister died in New \ ork, a few 
The bill passed by the House providing j their work. A gentleman extensively conneet- 
for the granting of lands by the United Stales per'day,besides the damage to be ^ on thrown out of employment by tlie fire at 
to Minnesota for railroad purposes, was taken paid oa freight—making a total loss to the com- ' V orcester > Mass - 
up, read a third time and passed. pany of over $100,000. -Late advices from Havana state that the 
The Senate.resumed the consideration of the jy The following Northern States will hold jf''to C r h,> ! C '' li wero P revadin U bi tli»t 
Boston memorial for the repeal of the fugitive their annual elections at the days named;— ^ ® <l ’ ex en ’ 
slave law, which was finally referred to a com- I«wa, Aug. 7 ; Massachusetts, Nov. 13 ; Califor- ~, Mn ™, the celebrated aronaut, is ex- 
nia, Sept. 5; New York, Nov. 7 ; Vermont, pected to make a balloon ascension at Bridgeport 
' ' Sept. 5 ; New Jersey, Nov. 7 ; Maine, Sept. 11 ; 0,1 the glorious Fourth. 
On motion of Senator Shields, the Senate Illinois, Nov. 4 ; Pennsylvania, Oct. 10 ; Michi- -Gov. Seymour has appointed Hon. Gilbert 
went into Executive Session, and discussed the gan, Nov. 7 ; Ohio, Oct.’10 ; Wisconsin, Nov. 7 ; Dean a Judge of the Supremo Court, in place of 
Mexican Treaty with closed doors, Indiana, Oct. 10. Judge Barculo, deceased. 
A Committee of Conference was appointed on jy Since the enactment of the Maine Law, -A nephew of Orner Pacha, a lad about 
days since, of consumption. She was 30 years 
of age. 
-A new Post Office has been established 
at South Schodack, Rensselaer county, on tho 
Boston Railroad. 
-Nearly one thousand operatives have 
such attention as may be consistent with their engage- of the cars. The wonder is that no more of the 
ments. The Rural will be furnished for six months, from passengers were killed. 
over $15,000 per day, besides the damage to be ^con tin own out of employment by the fire at 
July to January, at half the yearly rates, or as follows:— rt , ,i non i, ,, ,• , , 
, Oil the morning of the 2bth ult., the lightning 
Three copies for $2,50; Six copies (and one free to agent) . . ° . , 6 
for $5; Ten copies (and one to agent) for $7,50; Twenty train S oln g WC8t on the Michigan Central Rail- 
copies (and one to agent) foi $12,50. 
The Sixth Volume of The Wool Grower and Stock 
Register,— improved and enlarged to 32 pages monthly 
road, when about three miles from Wayne, ran 
into a carriage containing a farmer, bis wife and 
child, killing them all instantly. The train was 
also commences the 1st of July. We will famish the j thrown tiff the track, and tile locomotive and 
two journals, oneyear at the following low rates :-Three 8everal cars broken. No one on the train was 
copies of W. G. k S. R. and ono of Rural for $3; Five . - 
copies W.G. and two of Rural for $5; Nine copies W.G. klll(!d ’ but tbe cn £U»eer, fireman, and ten or | 
and three of Rural for $8; Twelve copies of w. G. and twelve passengers were more or less injured. 
four of Rural for $12. O^pecimen numbers, tic., of -- 
both journals seul free to all applicants. -j-, , - f O 4 - 
up, read a third time and passed. pany of over $100,000. 
The Senate.resumed the consideration of the jrgr The following Northern States will hold 
Boston memorial for the repeal of the fugitive their annual elections at the days named ;— 
slave law, which was finally referred to a com- Iowa, -Aug. ? J Massachusetts, Nov. 13 ; Califor- 
nj j ttee nia, Sept. 5; New York, Nov. 7 ; Vermont, 
I ! j ,. w .. Expulsion of a Senator, 
| ( Canal Enlargement. ' A RUMoa comes from Washington that an cf- 
I S fort is to be made to expel Senator Sumner from 
j ) Considerable feeling prevails in the commu- that body, because of his anti-slavery feelings 
j ( nity, particularly in Western New York, in con- and tendencies. The southern men declare his 
j ? sequence of a proposition made to the Canal sentiments to be treasonable and subversive of 
| ( Board by Mr. Clark, the State Engineer, to re- fundamental law ; and Mr. Sumner was interro- 
duce the dimensions ot the proposed enlarge- gated in the Senate as to whet her he would lend 
I i ment w °8t of Rochester. The lockage is down- his aid if called upon to return a fugitive slave. 
) r ' aid all tho v ay from Lake Erie to the Monte- He answered most emphatically he would not. 
/ zuma marshes, and the original plan was adopt- It is hardly credible that so foolish a move 
S ed with a view to turnish a supply of water as the attempt to carry the threat of expulsion 
S fi om the lake sufficient to feed the canal all that into effect will be made, but if it is done, and 
? distance. For this purpose it requires a dimen- Mr. Sumner returned to his constituents, he will 
S sion west of this city considerably above the be sent back again with credentials so conclu- 
? average of 70 feet width by 7 feet depth ; and [ sive of their approbation, that even a mad Sen- 
jS such a plan was entered upon the record, and j ate dare not refuse them. Mr. Giddings, oi 
J< was considered a basif * of operations for the j Ohio, was sent home in this way from the House 
!) ^ostein Division. Mr. Clark, in his own opin- of Representatives, and immediately returned 
j> ion, superior in wisdom to such predecessors as again to Washington by a special election, where 
j( the distinguished engineer McAlpink and otli- he has been kept ever since, while those who 
|> ers, alleges that the canal can be so fed on a voted his expulsion have gone to political per- 
( smaller scale than the one heretofore adopted, dition. 
; and urges its change. _, . ^ ,__ 
I The deficiency of the old canal has been all Postage North and South. 
) along made up of the waters of the Genesee, _ 
S to the immense detriment of the hydraulic pow- I T appears by a table carefully prepared by 
) er of this city ; and ior which unjust robbery, Mr. Haven, Congressman from Buffalo, and 
S the Slate lias thus far refused all compensation read by him in a speech against increasing the 
) An attempt was made, a few weeks since, to rates of postage, that thirteen of the slave States 
c feed from the lake, and the consequence was, do not pay the cost of transportation of the 
f tkat Ml loaded boats were aground west of the mails within their borders, while only four free 
) city ; so the Genesee is again laid under contri- States fall behind, and three of these are the 
> bution. Samuel B. Bugglks, that distinguished Ilew Status of Michigan, Illinois and California, 
J advocate and friend of the canals, has been ad- which will in a few years pay back all the sur- 
» dressing the people in remonstrance against the pl ,ls expenditures made in their favor. Thir- 
| proposed reduction. He spoke in this city last teen free States yield a postal surplus revenue 
, week Tuesday, on Wednesday in Albion, on of more than a million-and-a-half of dollars, 
i!k Thursday in Lockport, and on F’riday in Buffalo- while the thirteen slave States above stated fall 
|j j) The original plan is the true one, and a change sbort oi tbeir P ostal expenses above three-quar- 
>;i< from it is not only an outrage upon this city, ^ ers a million. New York girys $720,437 
r but it is impolitic, aud unjust to the rest of the more tban sbe take8 > while chivalrous Virginia 
|j{? State; and it is hoped the Canal Board will takes $129,762 more than she gives. Free Soil 
>|K take no backward steps in one of the greatest M assack iisetts yields a net postal revenue of 
||7 and most successful public improvements ever $323,843, while filibustering South Carolina 
Mexican Treaty with closed doors. Indiana, Oct. lu. .juuge LSarculo, deceased. 
A Committee of Conference was appointed on gy Since the enactment of the Maine Law, -A nephew of Omer Pacha, a lad about 
the disagreement of tho two Houses upon the a party of gentlemen in Norwich have started twelve or fourteen years of age, has just arrived 
1 a project to purchase Bradford's Island, which 111 1 aria for his education, 
resolution for the final adjournment. belongs to the State of New York, though sit- ——The cholera is reported very fatal at and 
On Saturday Mr. Sumner, of Mass., presented uated within a stone’s throw of the Connecticut near the city of Mexico. In one day there Lad 
another memorial for the repeal of the Fugitive shore, with the design of making it a sort of been two hundred deaths. 
Slave Law. He also gave notice to the Senate “ K U iped pig rendezvous for all that portion of -There are 1700 seres in the Ohio Valley, 
of his intention to shortly bring in a bill having 6 , la , ( . ! ~ , a,, d M’d acres in the Mississippi Valley, eui- 
,, .. .. ° ° 1 here were 531, a 91 soldiers engaged in ployed in the grape culture, 
the same ob ect in view. nr ti,;. ..... i. . .1 1 J b 1 
J tne levolutionary war. Ui this number, there _Air Friwin ftnrwtalt „„ „ 
The bill allowing exchanges and granting ad- are now less than fourteen hundred living, missionary' to the Armenians in Turkey at 
ditional lands for school purposes in the several whose ages must average nearly ninety years. Rocky Hill, Ct., on the 12th ult. 
land States, was passed. Seventy-three have died during the past year. _The cholera lingers about Boston The 
T , r PI e . A few years more, and these venerable octogen- i nc cnou.ta nngeis anout Boston. 1 lie 
House. -The House considered the Senate arians will only be known to the pages of his- Tim f 8 ! ,<>tices several cast '?' not, however, to 
resolution for an adjournment. Mr. Orr, of S. tory. create alarm among the prudent. 
C., moved to amend so as to adjourn sine die,on The Constantinople correspondent of the , ~~. Thc . cb(de ™ has appeared on several 
the 3lst of July. Rejected, yeas 80, nays 8!).— Daily News says:—It is said that the com- P ^Mat'onsin Florida and Louisiana. Oneplan- 
The vote was then taken on the Senate amend- manders of the army have expressed their de- 11 *' ' s CK ^ 1 10 ' lseasc - 
. .. c t i termination to have no reporters in the camp; - lli e Great Western Railway Company 
ment lor «i lccess tiom tlic 1/th of July to tho «i *. 1 .. • « .. . . , * * ± mwi .._ n ,.i_„ a. V .1 
J that our generals are afraid ol publicity, and re- <U V to P a 7 yearly r$iit for the use of the 
• HLiipeo pig rendezvous ior ail mat portion ot -There are 1700 seres in the Ohio Valley, 
the otate. ^ ^ atl( j acres j n t ] ie Mississippi Valley, ern- 
5®” There were 531,7.91 soldiers engaged in ployed in the grape culture, 
the revolutionary war. Of this number, there -Mr. Edwin Goodell was ordained as a 
tor y J ifa-- create alarm among the prudent. 
The Constantinople correspondent of the , be . cb<d < ;1 . a has appeared on several 
Dauy News says It is said that the com- P'aMaUonsin Fiondaaud Loumiana. Oneplan- 
manders of the army have expressed their de- el os1, 3 slaies by the disease. 
termination to have no reporters in the camp ; -The Great Western Railway Company 
that our generals are afraid of publicity, and re- are to pay $45,000 yearly rent for the use of the 
solved to tolerate no report of their doings, ex- Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge. 
cept such accounts as it may suit them to send -A neat little church edifice was dedicated 
home. with appropriate services by the colored Baptist 
Postage North and South. 
l()th of October, and this also was rejected, yeas solved to tolerate no report of their doings, ex- -Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge. 
71, nays 105. The House thus adhered to its cept such accounts as it may suit them to send -A neat little church edifice was dedicated 
original resolution and appointed a conference home. with appropriate services by the colored Baptist 
committee. The London Law Times laments the church at Alton, Ill., on the 28th ult. 
The House was engaged most of the week co,llI,1 1 ncd decline of the bar in London. It Erastus Brooks, of the N. Y.Ex- 
... .... . .. says that the business ot the whole, if equally press, will deliver the address before the gradu- 
discussing the appropriation bill, especially the ( i iv ided, would hardly pay for the rent of their ating class of the Normal School, the 13th inst. 
appropriation of $10,000,000 to carry out the chambers; and that many young men,intended -It, is stated that of eighty-four German 
provisions of the Mexican treaty. The treaty for the bar, have wisely abandoned their inten- papers which supported Gen. Fierce’s election, 
was ratified on Saturday, July 1st. tion, and gone into more hopeful pursuits. only eleven remain friendly to his administration. 
--—-It is in contemplation to have a course -In the New York Marine Court Tuesday 
Burning of a ship at Sea. <d botanical lectures delivered at the Queen’s week, a verdict of $350 damage was rendered a 
_ garden at Kew, in the summer months, mainly young man for injuries sustained by the bite of 
The British transport ship Europa having '^^ded for the scientific improvement of the a dog. 
I ^ gardeneis, but of sucli h nature that the public _’pi . ta a* 1 ^ • i 
troops and stores oil board for the army of the may also avail themselves of this opportunity 1 Buffalo Commercial snvs n ,. ,,- 
east, was burned on the Atlantic, 200 miles from for instruction in botanical knowledge. 
papers which supported Gen. Fierce’s election, 
only eleven remain friendly to his administration. 
-In the New York Marine Court Tuesday 
week, a verdict of $350 damage was rendered a 
young man for injuries sustained by the bite of 
the English coast, on the 31st of May. A por- J. P. Milliner, of our city, has purchased 
tion of the crew and troops took to the boa-8 Uie Dank ot Auburn the beach Mill proper- 
: u °, uu '» a nature um pum.c -The Buffalo Commercial says an un- 
Also avail themselves of this opportunity known man fell overboard from the Inter,in¬ 
struction in botanical knowledge. Uonal ferry boat, on Sunday evening, and was 
" J. P. Milliner, of our city, has purchased drowned. 
and a number more clung to the wreck of the a «ar the Aqueduct, for the sum of 
. , ° , , , , $30,000—one ot the finest water-powers in the 
mainmast and spars that floated from the burn- (State—including the privilege of 30 runs of 
ing ship, and were picked up by passing vessels, stones. There are in the mill ten runs, now in 
One of the recovered officers writing of tho operation. 
-Rev. F. W. Bogen, minister to the Ger¬ 
man emigrants in New York, estimates the total 
$30,000—one of the finest water-powers in the ,n / iT Twoni n 
(State—including the privilege of 36 runs of J/™! 1 P S a t «U,000 or 
stones. There are in the mill ten runs, now in ‘ * .’ , . , , T . 
operation. -A despatch from Hartford says an lce- 
a T.nniW kou8c > containing two thousand tons of ice, was 
catastrophe, says : A late number of the Daily Minnesotian burned Monday night. About one-third of the 
nr., , • • „ notices a sale of land, about two miles from St. 
Ofthe number originally embarked on the Paul, at two hundred and seventy-five dollars lce was destroyed. 
Eurojia, twenty-one have doubtless perished ; per acre> which ()ne year ag0 C(H1 f d have bt!0I1 — Locusts are infesting northern Illinois m 
two officers (Lieut. Gol. Moore and Veterinary purchased at thirty dollars per acre. The man nadst In many parta of that region they 
burgeon Kelly) are among the missing, and six that bought it made a fool of hirnselt, no doubt. c< ’ v T r ‘‘ very . 8br . ub ’ a,,d ,nakt! the woods vocal 
non-commissioned officers, ten privates, two ot rn , .... .... .... with their singing. 
the .Ship’s company, and one woman, have W f?is now in“S^ of ,l Mc3!mii ^ nSZ -The Twelfth Anniversary Celebration of 
shared the same late. Fhe greater number ot , T V pioccss oi erection, it is to be p r() t cs tftiri Eni««,i,al Smir 
and most successful public improvements ever 
made in this or any other country. 
The Genesee Valley Railroad. 
The wrotched quarrels, misunderstandings, 
and cross purposes of the directors, stockhold- 
goes to the treasury a beggar for $44,184. 
Papal Bulls.—John Timon, Roman Catholic 
Bishop of Buffalo, has fulminated a bull of major 
excommunication against the trustees of St. 
Louis church, in that city, because they will not 
shared ttie same fate. Fhe greater number of 
these were washed away from the wreck of the 
masts, to which they had clung, but Lieut. Col. 
Moore remained at his post to the last; and hav¬ 
ing repeatedly declined to leave the burning 
vessel until alt his men had been safely removed, 
was at last driven into the mizzen channels by 
the flames, and there unfortunately perished.— 
From the concurrent testimony of those left on 
vvis., is now in process ot erection, it is to be 
built of stone. It stands on an eminence of 100 
feet, a mile west of the Capitol, in a park of 55 
acres. It was a fund of $100,000, and will soon 
be a prosperous and flourishing Institution. 
2^* The professorships of mathematics and 
astronomy, also of oratory and belles lettres, in 
astronomy, aiso oi oratory ana Denes lettres, in , . ’ . ,. 
the University of Georgia, are now vacant, ami lure °* Connecticut, 
will be filled by the trustees of the institution -Tho Boston Grr 
the Frotestant Episcopal Sunday Schools of 
Baltimore, was holden, as usual, on Whitsunday 
afternoon, June 4th. 
-A resolve appropriating $3,000 for the 
erection of a monument to the memory of Gen. 
Putnam, has been introduced into the Legisla¬ 
te burning wreck, from 11 t.j'P. M. of the 31st at commencement, in the first week of August *™d bills against the Rev. T 
ult. to 2>j,' A. M. of the 1st inst, it would appear nex ''- The salary of each will be $1,700. " endell Phillips. Dr. Howe an 
that the conduct of the master (Mr. Gardner) Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles, in his late ‘ n g Di the late slave riot. 
was marked by great coolness and intrepidity speech in the City Hall, Rochester, on the sub- -The Lockport Courier is ai 
rand Jury has refused to 
3 Rev. Theodore Parker, 
Howe ami others, for aid¬ 
ers, friends and enemies of the above-named ! 8urre,,der tbe temporalities of that church into 
road, seem likely never to come to a termina¬ 
tion ; and the prospect is, that those persons 
who expected to see the road in operation a 
the hands of the said Right Reverend John. 
These trustees, by deciding to hold on to the 
real estate as intended by the donor, for the 
! couple of years ago, will die of old age before 1 benefifc ° f 8<>clet ^ have tllureb > r incurred the 
the thunders ofthe iron horse will wake ^ | displeasure of the high church functionary, who 
echos of the valley. First, a survey was made ra P re8entH thc Po P e ’ a,ld bave b ^>* 
with a view of .connection with the Buffalo & [ e accur8cd for c o nt ™ a <T- The time 
N.Y. City road above Nunda; then a quarrel bas S OIie wh en a bolt ecclesiastical can knock 
about a gauge; then a purchase ofthe city d °™ even kings and princes, like a row of nine- 
stock, and a partial payment of the purchase- pinS ; J b * aggregation of church property in the 
money by the president of the road ; then, after bands of tbe Dishops, is as anti-republican as it 
the expenditure of a large sum for grading, Ac., ! 18 dail S eroU8 to civd libert J* aIld trustees 
south of Avon, an effort was made to stop the ! evinced the n « ht H P int in listing such an 
road at that place ; then an injunction against <>u ^ ra ^ e *__ ~ 
the city directors, and a summons for them to j The Weather is becoming~unendurable in 
show cause why they should not be superseded, the cifcy> the brick and stonewalls and pave- 
smee the city had sold out its interest in the | mente indicating a “sissing” temperature. The 
road ; then a rumor of a sale of the line to tho. 1 . e * m 
_ ’ , occupants of stores, oflices, and sanctums on 
Central, and an immediate completion on a nar- 1 • • . ... 
, , , 1 our principal business streets, are suffering, like 
row gauge ; then a lease to the Buffalo, Corning . ,, , , . e . . . , ? . 
. , , > the banks, on account of a restricted “ circula¬ 
te IS. Y. road, on the most advantageous terms, ! .• „ 
, .. n b I turn.” But while we of the city are thus “ pent 
to wit—the payment of 8 per cent, annually for ,, , , 
, . f J , . . 1 J j up,” and nearly suffocated, our friends m the 
its use, besides keeping in repairs; an issue of . . 
, K , country are enjoying life amazingly, and their 
> $300,000 of bonds to be made by the Valley • ' • , , , . , , 
> w J - crops corning righL along to maturity and a 
' road to complete the same; and lastly, an in- , , , ' . . . 
. good market, flic recent copious rams have 
junction against the issue of those bonds, and a , ,, . . , 
been favorable to most crops, and they are con- 
wet blanket upon all its prospects. . . . 
was marked by great coolness and intrepidity speech in the City Hall, Rochester, on the sub- -The Lockport Courier is assured by far- 
throughout these trying hours ; he was the last ject of the canal enlargement, said the trade of ? Tiers Niagara county,that the weevil is milk¬ 
man to quit the wreck, and had his zealous en- the canal, in ton years, will amount to $2,245,- ' n g 8l,cb havoc in the wheat, that the crops may 
deavors to maintain order and save life been as 000,000, or enough to buy the fee simple of New be regarded as an entire failure. 
ably seconded by bis ship’s company, there can York, and have half a million balance. -It is estimated that the revenue of the 
be little doubt that the list ol casualties would The Board of Underwriters of New United States, for the fiscal year terminating 
have been reduced. York have resolved that insured vessels aban- duly 1st, will be $7;>,000,000 ; an increase of 
’ ’ doned at sea must not be fired, as has been the $ 14,000,000 in the present year. 
Death, of Madame Soilta?. practice. The ostensible reason for firing has -It is stated that Prof. Henry will soon 
Death of Madame Sontag. 
The queen of song, Madame Sontag, Count- 8 U 8 F^ arc uppermost 
ess Rossi, died of cholera in the city of Mexico .. Hf The examination of the witnesses before 
^ the Grand Jury at New Orleans, in reference to 
on the 17th ult., where she was engaged with an | the expected Cuban expedition, was unsatisfac- 
operatic corps. She was announced to appear | tory, they being excused from answering tne 
on the evening of the 11th, in the opera of Lu- 
cretia Borgia, but being attacked with symp¬ 
toms of the epidemic, the performance was de¬ 
ferred. She did not recover, however, and died, 
as above stated, in the fiftieth year of her age. 
000,000, or enough to buy the fee simple of New be regarded as an entire failure. 
York, and have half a million balance. -It is estimated that tlie revenue of the 
The Board of Underwriters of New United States, for the fiscal year terminating 
York have resolved that insured vessels aban- duly 1st. will be $75,000/100; an increase of 
doned at sea must not be fired, as has been the $11,000,000 in the present year. 
practice. The ostensible reason for firing has -It is stated that Prof. Henry will soon 
been to prevent collision, but the underwriters resign his position as the head of the (Smithsonian 
suspect other motives are uppermost. Institute, Washington, and accept the Chemical 
2 ^j?“ The examination of the witnesses before Professorship in Princeton College. 
the Grand Jury at New Orleans, in reference to -In Ash field, Conn., a son of Mr. Lott 
the expected Cuban expedition, was unsatisfac- Hall, aged two and a half years, while playing, 
tory, they being excused from answering tlie fell into a barrel of swill, and before his condi- 
principal questions on the slip-halter plea, that lion was discovered, life was extinct. 
they might criminate themselves. -Continued Indian depredations are re- 
2^” Gerrit Smith has resigned his seat in ported from the Mexican frontier. The Mexican 
Congress. In a letter to his constituents, an- and American troops have succeeded in captur- 
iiouiicing his resignation, he says he will hold ing some of the marauding parties, 
the place until the close of the present session, __ L AWez i„ 
^ I*.,- . v, --- ..... J - MJU uauc UIII/11 me uwbb vi iuu urewiiii seBSlon, t . 
Henrietta Sontag was a native of CoblentzJ so that his successor need not be chosen until i ir . ru „ ^ 1 •, '{■ , un P in U <> jump her 
™ tlie kingclt.. ... w„ caHj Jis . I U.. genera! elecU.,, in Ore fail. ^3 
• t i p ii it • i.i I An lUmrlwii nnnor covro fliof a . i i J i . 1 . . J 
sequently improving in appearance. \V r e hear 
When is this shuffling, vacillating policy to com p]air lt s of the ravages of the weevil in va- 
end? Is it to be when the road slumps through rious directions, a,id fear the crop will be seri- 
entirply, the sale of the city stock is canceled, ously injured b y this insect in some localities 
and we are required as a municipal body corpo-_ t i i % _ 
rate, to thrust our hands into the treasury, and .. , , . , - 
, . . , „ , J Melancholy Accident.— A little girl fi 
extract therefrom an amount of hinds to pay - , dom r 
, .. , 1 J years oi age, on the morning of June 28th, f 
the city debt made in behalf of the road, that . . . ,, ... fT . 
over the precipice known as the “ Devil’s Hole 
will make the tax-payers groan? lhe road , A. ... , . 
Rossi, a nobleman of Sardinia, and retired from full fifty years, and passed the former part of 8 *! lce t n °tifying him to prepare for the arrival of 
the stage for some years ; but her husband be- bis ld 'c on the farm adjoining. Quel^^ 6 ° migrant8 ’ n0W <>n thcir from 
ing reduced to poverty during the political rev- lhe Juno report of the Health Physi- ^ _ t i t i i i • • . . 
, 1H ,„ , „ t ,, ciaus of Buffalo shows that during that month —John Johnson has been imprisoned six 
olutions ot 1848, slit once more engaged heiself tbere were jeo deaths, against 167 for May. Of weeks and b,u ‘ d btt Y dollars, in Philadelphia, 
as an opera singer, in order to repair their shat- tbese g were f rom cholera. Of these 8, only 2 <t,r 8ellu, g lott€r .V policies. A few years ago 
tered fortunes. She made a successful tour in were citizens. The others came to Buffalo with ^lurches wore built and colleges endowed by 
Europe and this country, and left here for Ha- the disease upon them. otter}. 
vana and Mexico, at which latter place she EL^~ 11 stated by a cotemporary that the ' o ! „ C °7 8 w^ d , an OX ’ the P r .°Pf r ^, of 
... - * , i <» » j i coalitionists of tli( x ^c*\v Haftnisliirp I ^covillo, oi utcriown^ wore killed by 
»“ a ,r< " tcd ller 1 a the band of Jcth. are cbarge<i b lhc Do , n „ crat ( wilb titery” , “I ‘j? 12t J' »“• <>"» «f the eow, 
buying votes against their candidate for 8ena- valued at $.1/o, and one of tlie oxen, with his 
A Fiendish Outrage.— An infernal machine tor> aiul a j HO with having drugged their liquor! mate ’ at 
in the shape of a box containing a loaded bomb- Thirteen pupils of the Indiana Deaf and TTT ' l h ® J lobil « P a P er8 8a y t b at the Mobile 
in the shape of a box containing a loaded bomb- 
500 female emigrants, now on their way from 
Quebec. 
-John Johnson has been imprisoned six 
weeks and fined fifty dollars, in Philadelphia, 
for selling lottery policies. A few years ago 
-Three cows and an ox, the property of 
Win. Scoville, of Watertown, were killed by 
lightning on the 12th ult. One of the cows was 
valued at $175. and one of the oxen, with his 
mate, at $ lOO. 
-The Mobile papers say that the Mobile 
Melancholy Accident.— A little girl five 
years of age, on the morning of June 28th, fell 
over the precipice known as the “ Devil’s Hole,” 
on the Niagara River, a few miles below the 
shell, or some other explosive missile, was, on Dumb Asylum, are the offsprings of cousins in- a ! ,d , Dew Orleans Railroad is now in a fair way 
the evening of June 26th, sent into the Marine terrnarrying. Thus it appears that idiocy is not ' ’ . . -wdl lbrm tbo last T link * 
Hospital at Cincinnati, directed to the Steward, -aly ftuit of thi» nu.^io.mbie practice of " ™ ^ W 
f . “ keeping up the blood ” of the family. loIK - 
will cost nearly twice as much as it ought to have - ,, ’ i ,,,,,, 
. . J . . ° falls, blie was playing near the bank, aud los- 
doue, in intarest, depreciation of materials, Ac., , , , , ,7 .. . r . , , , 
, , 1 . . , ing her balance fell a distance of one hundred and 
Ac., and a consummation of tlie matter, either , . - . ., r , , , . ... 
, , . , , , twenty feet. \V hen taken in> she was insensible, 
oneway er the other, is devoutly to be wished. ,,i , v , . , . , , 
, . ,, , , / although alive, but her recovery is doubtful. 
A railroad, or no railroad ; that is the question. ,, . 
^ Falling such an immense distance, the force of 
her descent musrhave been broken, or she would 
2^“T1 io Richmond Enquirer estimates the have been dashed to pieces, 
boot and shoe trade of Y irginia at $2,000,000, There is a bloody reminiscence connected with 
(including $500,000 at Richmond,) of which not this spot, for it was here the French and Indians 
over $200,000 is manufactured in that State, the drove over the precijiice a detachment of British 
balance, amounting to $1,800,000, coining from and Colonial, troops, during the time of the old 
the north. French war. 
G. H. Allison. In the evening about 10 o’clock, T , . . - 
. . , . „ E38? One of the London correspondents of 
the Steward and Ins wife being alone in the fch * New y ork Tribune writes that Prince Met- 
room, opened the box, when it exploded with ternich says that “ the present is not to be look- 
-The Bridgeport gasometer blew up the 
other day, during a thunder storm, while it was 
being examined by the Superintendent. Seven ! 
tenific force, mangling the bodies of both in a "d upon as a state of war, but merely of disor- H 0 ™*!' 18 wer ® hll U b Uy injured. It is supposed 
.. L„,I eanued diplomacy.” that it was struck by lightning. 
. , , , , , (lintnmiiflv» mat it wasstruca uy iiguining. 
horrible manner. Mrs. Allison had both her diplomacy. 
arms blown off and her skull fractured, while , A- splendid gold watch and chain have — rb V rsda ^ last , an ^tensive blast was 
.. , . .... , . f been presented by tbe citizens of Plymouth, mmte at Marble Hill, Ind., which had the effect 
Mr. A. was dreadfully mangled. The furniture, Jo8eph Hays, of Boston, the officer to move 10,000 tons of marble. It was effected 
windows, ceiling of the room, Ac., were shattered who resigned his post rather than execute the by three separate blasts, in making which one 
to atoms. Both the wounded persons have since Fugitive Slave law. 
died. The police have discovered the place 
Over 2,000 lights of glass were, broken 
hundred and thirty lbs. of powder were used. 
-One of the weighty argument** used by 
where the box was made, and it is believed a a ^’ methport, 1 a., on the —.Id ult., in about fi\c British statesmen to reconcile the men of ’7b to 
, , , ... , ... minutes, by a severe hail storm. Its track was the tea tax, was dug up on Bunker Hill a dav or 
due has been obtained which will lead to the h&]{ a mil ' wi()( . ( a „d all kinds of grain were two since. It was a cannon ball which is sun- 
detection of the fiend who perpetrated the deed cu j, down and ruined. posed to have weighed nine pouuds originally. 
