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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-IOR KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ROCHESTER, JULY 15, 1854. 
To Agents and Others. 
A new half volume of the Rural commenced lust week 
—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 
such attention as may be consistent with their engage¬ 
ments. The Rural will be furnished for six months, from 
July to January, at half the yearly rates, or as follows:— 
Thiee copies for $2,50; Six copies (and one free to agent) 
for $5; Ten copies (and one to agent) for $7,50; Twenty- 
copies (and one to agent) fo: $12,50. 
The Sixth Volume of The Wool Grower and Stock 
Register, —improved and enlarged to 02 pages monthly 
—also commences the 1st of July. We will furnish the 
two journals, one year, at the following low rates :—Three 
copies of W. G. & S. R. and one of Rural for $3; Five 
copies W. G. and two of Rural for $5; Nine copies W. G. 
and three of Rural for $8 : Twelve copies of W. G. and 
four of Rural for $12. STJ^Specimen numbers, Ac., of 
both journals sent free to all applicants. 
Our National Anniversary. 
The Anniversary of our National Independ¬ 
ence passed off in this city -with the usual 
amount of joyful demonstration, and without 
any very serious or alarming accident. A few 
pyrotechnics exploded in store windows prema¬ 
turely, and one or two persons were run over, 
but not much injured ; a few bloody noses were 
made in a pugnacious way, but nothing further 
of a warlike character occurred. The proces¬ 
sion was imposing, the oratory and other exer¬ 
cises of the day creditable, but the fireworks in 
the evening, owing to a rain-storm, and perhaps 
some other causes, were a failure. Taken all in 
all, the Anniversary was pleasantly and proper¬ 
ly observed, and enjoyed in the right spirit, 
both by ancient and young America. 
The day was generally observed throughout 
the country, in many localities with the- usual 
concomitants of crime and casualty. Foremost 
among the latter, was the wholesale slaughter 
of men, women and children on the Baltimore 
and Susquehannah Railroad, an account of 
which is given in another place. The heat of 
the weather, in Albany, was very severe, and 
occasioned death in three instances,and prostra¬ 
tion by sun-stroke in several other cases. A 
party of Norwegian emigrants were in the city, 
and three of them died from the effects of the 
heat. Three of the members of the military in 
the city of New York were struck with the 
heat, and died shortly after. Some fifteen other 
persons also, in that city, suffered mutilation, 
from the loss of a limb down to that of a finger, 
from the careless use and bursting of guns, pis¬ 
tols, Ac. A German woman was shot dead by 
the careless discharge of a double-barreled 
shot-gun in the hands of a countryman. Mar¬ 
cus Baldwin, at Connecticut Farms, New Jer¬ 
sey, was drowned in the presence of two of his 
sisters. He drove his horse into a pond to let it 
drink, and got beyond his depth. At Susque- 
liannah, on the Erie Railroad, Rev. Horace R. 
Clark, appointed at the recent annual session of 
the Wyoming Conference to the Susquehannah 
and Lanesboro’ Mission, was crossing the street 
unaware of the proximity of the cannon, and 
not hearing the warnings of the bystanders 
when a premature discharge of the ordnance 
happened exactly as he came within its range, 
stunning, scorching and bruising him in such a 
horrible manner that he died almost immediate¬ 
ly. While a national salute was being fired at 
Johnstown. N. Y., the cannon burst, shockingly 
mutilating one of the men engaged in loading. 
At Trenton, N. J., the accidental discharge of a 
gun mutilated two men so that each had an arm 
amputated in consequence. 
Among the crimes may be enumerated the 
usual amount of drunkenness and fighting. At 
Philadelphia an affray occurred on the receiving 
ship Marion, between two seamen. One of them 
struck the other with a club, fracturing his skull, 
and causing immediate death. A keeper of p 
lager beer saloon, near New Schuylkill, was 
killed during a riot, in which his house was 
badly shattered. In Manchester, N. H., a fight 
took place between a large party of Americans 
and Irish. The latter were routed, and twelve 
or fifteen of their houses gutted, and furniture 
destroyed. The Americans then attacked the 
Catholic church, breaking the windows, when 
the authorities and police stopped the riot. Sev¬ 
eral Americans were seriously injured. The new 
Catholic church in Dorchester, Mass., was blown 
down with gunpowder, and nearly all destroyed. 
A woman named Margaret Ellis was murdered 
in Buffalo by Fred. Mitchell. In Cincinnati 
an Irishman attacked an American wearing a 
Know-Nothing hat. The American killed him 
with pistol and bowie-knife. 
So it goes throughout the world ; glory and 
honor, pleasure and exhilaration, high enjoy¬ 
ment and intoxicating excitement, go hand in 
hand with crime, casualty and death ! 
Conflagration. —A heavy fire occurred in 
Philadelphia on the night of the 5th, destroying 
Welch’s National Circus, the Chinese Museum, 
and between thirty and forty large stores and 
dwellings. The loss has been variously esti¬ 
mated, and probably will not fall short of $300,- 
000. An actor perished in the flames, and sev¬ 
eral other persons were badly burnt, one of 
them mortailv. 
The schooner Darlington foundered on Lake 
Ontario on Tuesday, and four persons perished. 
The Wheat Crop — Harvest. 
We have heard nothing during the past week, 
which would induce a modification of the opin¬ 
ion expressed in our last number,relative to the 
Wheat crop. Though some of our city papers 
seem inclined to estimate the damage by weevil 
as comparatively trifling, we are satisfied that 
it will prove serious in many sections of this 
State, Ohio, ami other portions of the West.— 
Within ten days we have received letters from 
farmers, merchants, and post-masters, in cor¬ 
roboration of the statement that the crop will be 
short in many of the best wheat growing dis¬ 
tricts of Western and Central New York, Ohio, 
and Michigan — and we have the verbal assur¬ 
ances of many intelligent persons residing in 
various localities, to the same effect. Hence we 
more than fear that the crop will be very light 
— in facta failure — throughout a large portion 
of the best wheat growing regions of New York, 
Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Though the dam¬ 
age by winter kill and the weevil may be over¬ 
estimated, there can he no doubt that it will 
prove large in the aggregate. 
The Wheat Harvest commences in this sec¬ 
tion the present week, though but few fields 
have yet been cut. The weather is now favora¬ 
ble, and the prospect fair for securing the crop. 
We trust the result will prove a larger yield, 
and better quality of grain, than is now antici¬ 
pated by farmers generally. 
Eailroad Casualty. 
It is our painful duty to record another fear¬ 
ful railroad casualty, such as chills one’s blood 
to contemplate, in consequence of its wholesale 
slaughter ! On the day of our National Anni¬ 
versary, about five o’clock P. M., an excursion 
train of fourteen cars, containing 2,000 persons, 
on the Baltimore A Susquehannah Railroad, 
came in collision with a regular train nine miles 
from Baltimore, killing thirty-six persons, and 
wounding more than one hundred others. The 
shock was awful, and the momentum was so 
great as to slide several of the car-bodies com¬ 
pletely through each other, like the tubes of a 
telescope, killing and maiming the passengers 
within. The wreck was so complete, that the 
broken cars had to be torn asunder by attaching 
locomotives to the fragments, in order to extri¬ 
cate the dead and wounded, many of the latter 
perishing before assistance could be rendered. 
These excursion trains, especially on single- 
track railroads, are the most perfect death-traps 
ever invented by an emissary of Satan. They 
run at irregular hours, and, in consequence of 
the heaviness of the trains and inadequacy of 
locomotive power, are sure to be behind time, 
and running on that of the regular trains. Add 
to this the chances of the employees on a 
Fourth of July occasion being drunk, excited, 
and reckless, and the late lamented collision is 
easily accounted for. 
The Coroner’s Jury severely censure the rail¬ 
road management, and it is hoped the guilty 
parties will be prosecuted, and made to suffer 
condign punishment for this wholesale murder. 
Commencement at the University. —The com¬ 
mencement exercises of the Rochester Universi¬ 
ty have been in progress during the week. The 
annual sermon before the Judson Society of 
Inquiry was preached on Sunday evening in 
the First Baptist Church, by the Rev. J. G. 
Warren, of Troy. The preacher spoke elo¬ 
quently from the text contained in Hebrews 2; 
10—“For it became Him, for whom are all 
things, and by whom are all things, in bringing 
many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of 
their salvation perfect through suffering.” 
On Monday evening the Sophomore class de¬ 
claimed in Corinthian Hall. Tuesday forenoon 
was devoted to the preaching of the annual ser¬ 
mon by the Rev. Dr. Sheldon ; the afternoon 
to the ceremony of inaugurating President An¬ 
derson, and the evening to the literary address 
by Hon. Henry J. Raymond, of the N.Y. Times, 
and the poem by Chab. Thurbkr, of Worcester, 
Mass. The graduating ceremonies and closing 
exercises took place on Wednesday. 
Rival Cities. —According to the Transcript, 
Boston, a hundred years ago, outnumbered New 
Y~ork in population by two or three thousand 
people, but soon New York came up with her, 
and_in the year 1810 Boston had 33,000 and 
New York 96,000. This proportion was about 
maintained for several decades until the last, 
when New Y'ork had some 515,000 to 136,000 in 
Boston. The latter city is now left so far behind 
in the race of commerce and population, as to 
cease any longer from being considered a com¬ 
petitor. Many of her houses which established 
branches in New \ r ork, have become themselves 
mere appendages to the junior establishment. 
Even the newspapers of Boston are principally 
confined in their circulation to New England, 
while those of New York are sent by the car 
load, to all parts of the United States. 
New Hampshire Politics. —The Administra¬ 
tion have suffered a signal defeat in the New 
Hampshire Legislature. Hadley, the Hard can¬ 
didate for State Printer, has been elected over 
Butterfield, the friend ami lav orite of General 
Pierce. The House passed a series of strong 
Anti-Nebraska resolutions, with instructions to 
present a copy to the President, the Senators 
and Representatives of New Hampshire, Senator 
Douglas, Ac. After an indefinite number of 
ballotings for U. S. Senators, the whole matter 
goes over to the next Legislature, which gives 
the people an opportunity to elect Representa¬ 
tives with direct reference to this issue. No 
effort was spared by cither party to effect the 
choice of their own candidate. 
Stupendous Frauds. 
Wall Street was last week startled, as by a 
clap of thunder from a clear sky, by the as¬ 
tounding intelligence that Mr. Robert Schuy¬ 
ler, an extensive stock operator and President 
of the New Y'ork and New Haven Railroad Co., 
had surreptitiously over-issued 19,000 shares of 
the stock of that Company, amounting at par 
value to $1,900,000, and sold it on his own ac¬ 
count. Peculiar facilities for perfecting this 
fraud, were afforded, as the President was also 
the transfer agent of the Company, and conse¬ 
quently there was no check upon the over-issue 
by countersigning parties. 
Unless there has been some irregularity in 
the issue sufficient to put purchasers upon their 
guard, the Company will probably be compelled 
to assume the liability, which at a single stroke 
reduces the value of their stock two-fiftli3 ; the 
original amount being $3,000,000, which is now 
made $5,000,000. The firm of Schuyler it Co. 
heretofore has been one of unlimited credit, but it 
has lately been rendered bankrupt by Railroad 
speculations and depression in stocks. Several 
other corporation officers have likewise been de¬ 
tected putting out over-issues, and these tran¬ 
sactions have given to rotten as well as to sound 
Companies a sad shock, and a severe rattling of 
corporation bones. 
Heath of Thomas Ritchie. 
Thomas Ritchie, the venerable editor of the 
Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, which paper he has 
conducted for fifty years, died on the 3d of July. 
He was near eighty years of age at the time of 
his death, and during the whole period of his 
editorial life, wielded a more powerful political 
influence, especially throughout the South and 
South-west, than any other political editor.— 
He was a forcible writer, an uncompromising 
partisan, and in all respects a leading man. A 
candidate of his own party was as sure of de¬ 
feat if he incurred the censure of the Enquirer, 
as he frequently was of election if he gained its 
support. Mr. Ritchie’s political course was as 
bitterly denounced by his opponents, as it was 
warmly supported by his friends; but in his 
private life, all unite in pronouncing him an 
amiable, accomplished, and honorable man.— 
Like many others who have spent their lives 
fighting in the political arena, he died, pecunia¬ 
rily, not far above poverty, although the U. S. 
printing, which was awarded him under the 
administration of Mr. Polk, somewhat mended 
his fortunes. 
Harvesters Wanted. —The St. Louis Intelli¬ 
gencer of the 29lh ult., states that a very large 
portion of the wheat crop in St. Charles, and 
other counties in Missouri, will likely be lost for 
want of harvesting hands. Two and as high as 
three dollars per day is being paid for hands to 
work in the harvest fields, and many farmers 
cannot get them Sri that. Every reaper and 
scythe in the country is running from early 
dawn until dark, and still there are hundreds of 
acres of over-ripe grain untouched. 
Mowing Machine Trial. 
Canandaigua, Friday, July 7. 
In the case of Howard and others versus For- 
bush and others, in the U. S. Circuit Court, 
Judge Hall presiding, a verdict has just been 
rendered by the jury in favor of plaintiffs on 
every issue. The jury found first, that Win. E. 
Ketchum was the original and first inventor of 
the improvements in mowing machines claimed 
in his re-issued patent of April, 1853. Second, 
that the re-issued patent of Ketchum of April, 
1853, is for the same inventions desired and in¬ 
tended to have been patented in his original 
patent of July, 1847 ; and third, that the For- 
bush machine embraces both the foregoing 
claims, and is an infringement of Ketchum’s re¬ 
issued patent. 
Fatal Accident—Death of Prof. McFail.— 
A party of the students belonging to the Carlisle 
(Schoharie Co.) Seminary,accompanied by Prof. 
Alfred McFail and others, proceeded on Satur¬ 
day last to explore the celebrated Cave, located 
a few miles from the Seminary. They had 
closed their explorations, and were returning, 
when an accident occurred which resulted in the 
death of the Professor. It happened in this wise: 
The party had been in a pit of some hundred 
feet* deep, and all had ascended by means of 
pully ropes, except Mr. F. He was ascending, 
and had nearly reached the platform, when, by 
some means, he slipped from the rope seat, and 
fell to the bottom of the cave. On being ap¬ 
proached, he was found senseless, and died in a 
few minutes. He was a gentleman of rare en¬ 
dowments, well beloved by the students, and 
highly respected by all. He leaves a stricken 
wife to mourn his sudden departure. 
Parliamentary and Complimentary.—Thos. 
H. Benton thus compliments Senator Pettit, of 
Indiana : 
Washington, June 17, 1854. 
James Howe, Esq., Lafayette, Ind.—Sir: Your 
letter has just been received, informing me that 
Mr. Pettit, in a public speecli in your town, 
stated that I was the first man to break the 
Missouri Compromise—that 1 had a law passed 
by Congress, annexing to the State a large ter¬ 
ritory, Ac. Sir, your Senator is a great liar and 
a dirty dog, falsifying public history for a crim¬ 
inal purpose. ****** 
Mr. Pettit must feel that his cause is villain¬ 
ous when he can thus stand up before his.con¬ 
stituents to falsify public history, and to justify 
his own violation of the Missouri Compromise, 
by telling a lie upon me. 
Respectfully, Thomas H. Benton. 
Another Railroad Casualty. —The express 
train which left the Suspension Bridge, going 
west on the Great Western Railroad, on the 
evening of the 5t.h, came in collision with a 
horse at Thorold, throwing two emigrant cars 
off the track, killing seven, and severely wound¬ 
ing ten more, part of whom are not expected to 
live. All the first class passengers and em¬ 
ployees escaped unhurt. 
A gathering of five or six hundred Abo¬ 
litionists took place in Framingham, Mass., on 
the 4th inst. Speeches were made by Messrs. 
Garrison, Phillips, Remond, and others. Mr. Gar¬ 
rison concluded his speech by burning the Con¬ 
stitution of the United States, also copies of the 
Fugitive Slave Law, the decision of Loring, and 
Judge Curtis’ charge to the United States Grand 
Jury. The act was followed by applause, and 
cries of shame, Ac. 
There was a report in circulation about 
London that Carlyle had gone mad. It arose 
from the fact that one of his neighbors kept 
fowls, whose noise near the library windows an¬ 
noyed him. He sent word to their owner one 
day that if they were not removed, they would 
drive him mad. The owner of the liens proba¬ 
bly took his eccentric neighbor at his word, and 
gave out that he had gone mad. 
j’Tgp Alex. Dumas’s chateau of Monte Christo, 
built by himself, on an island of the Seine, near 
St. Germain, has been sold by auction. It cost 
the romancer over 450,000 francs, and is a 
charming residence for those who love the fan¬ 
tastic. It brought but 31,000 francs. Just now, 
country houses maybe had for little or nothing. 
Rossini’s villa, at Asmieres, is for sale at 40,000 
francs, less than half its cost. 
j^gT” It is stated on the authority of the Cath¬ 
olic Herald, that Mrs. Ives, the wife of the late 
Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, had fol¬ 
lowed her husband into the Romanish commun¬ 
ion. It is said that, her reception took place at 
Rome on Good Friday. On the following Mon¬ 
day she received confirmation at the hands of 
Cardinal Fransoni, with two other perverts, 
Mr. and Mrs. Schenck. 
The Bangor Whig learns from an Old- 
town correspondent, that there are GUO acres of 
logs, in many places two or three deep, in the 
booms above that, place—the main boom being 
filled to Eber’s Point two miles, the Cuba boom 
three-fourths of a mile, and the Argyle boom 
three miles—making six miles of logs, covering 
an average breadth of fifty rods. 
During the confusion incident to the 
sinking of the steamboat Buffalo, at New York 
last week, a German immigrant who had a 
trunk of treasure and a treasure of a wife on 
board, threw his wife overboard and dragged 
the trunk ashore. The woman was rescued by 
the bystanders, and restored to the arms of her 
affectionate spouse. 
j>'^ p "The Washington Star announces author¬ 
itatively that when a sealed package, chargeable 
with letter postage, is opened in presence of a 
postmaster, and found to contain printed matter 
only, without anything secreted therein, the 
postmaster may remit the letter postage, and 
deliver the package at the rates charged for 
printed matter. 
j[^”Lady Franklin refuses to accept a widow’s 
pension. Sir John, she says, is not dead. Act¬ 
ing, however, in accordance with the contrary 
conviction expressed by the Lords of the Ad¬ 
miralty, the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 
has granted probate of the will made before his 
embarkation by Mr. Thomas Blanky, master of 
the ship Terror. 
Some fiend in human shape recently 
placed twin babes about a week old, on the 
track of the Railroad from Chicago to Daven¬ 
port. They were discovered by the engineer of 
the train, which was stopped just in time to re¬ 
frain from running over them. The conductor 
took possession of the babes, and intends to rear 
them. 
jrgp A goose belonging to Mr. James Rooke, 
of Chester county, Pa., died the other day at an 
advanced age. It came into the possession of 
Mr. Rooke on his wedding day, thirty-three 
years ago, being the property of his wife. It 
was probably near forty years old at the time 
of its death, to which age, it is said, a goose will 
live. 
jgg” Charles Francis Adams has nearly com¬ 
pleted the collection of the last volume of the 
works of his grandfather, John Adams. The 
publication of them will soon be commenced. 
They will embrace ten volumes. Four addi¬ 
tional volumes are also to be issued, containing 
the family correspondence, Mrs. Adams’ letters, 
Ac. 
jTf'p’ The cable of the Mediterranean Electric 
Telegraph has just been completed. It is 110 
miles in length, and weighs about 800 tons. It 
contains copper wires or conductors for the fluid 
to traverse, protected by a gutta percha cover¬ 
ing, secured in hempen rope, and finally sur¬ 
rounded by twelve iron wires. 
HUT' The number of females at present hold¬ 
ing the office of Postmaster (or rather mistress) 
in the United States, is 128. They are appoint¬ 
ed, give bonds, are commissioned, and receive 
the same compensation for their services as other 
Postmasters. Unmarried females only can hold 
the office of Postmaster. 
STS?” Mr. Marsh, U. S. Minister at Constanti¬ 
nople, says that the lands belonging to Rev. Dr. 
King, American Missionary to Greece, which 
were sequestered by the Greek government, 
were worth $100,000, and that the only chance 
for redress lies in the action of the government 
of the United States. 
The St. Louis Republican advises parties 
who have arranged excursions to Jefferson Bar¬ 
racks on the 11th, to abandon their intentions, 
as the sickness of the troops at that post Is 
such as to render visits of large companies quite 
hazardous. 
The New Hampshire Superior Court, at 
its late term, held at Concord, heard arguments 
in eighty-three divorce suits. Thirty-three of 
the applications were granted, seven denied, 
and the decision of forty-three reserved. 
The religious statistics of Texas are as 
follows:—Baptists, of all varieties, 9,000 ; Pres¬ 
byterians, 6,000 ; Episcopalians, 2,000; Metho¬ 
dists, number not known, but larger than that 
of any other denomination in the State. 
jggpThe Houston Star says that the grading 
of the Galveston A R. it. railroad, under Major 
Burke’s contract, is progressing rapidly. Only 
a mile-and-a-half remains to finish tho first 
twenty-five miles out from Houston. 
The value, in sterling money, of the im¬ 
ports and exports of France in 1853, was £138,- 
000,000, being an excess of £15,120,000 over 
1852, and £35,480,000 over 1847—the year pre¬ 
ceding the revolution. 
|f*IVo bodies, one that of a female, and 
the other a young lad, were found floating in 
the river below Niagara Falls on Sunday week. 
Nothing was found upon them by which they 
could be identified. 
Joseph Emery, the Postmaster at New 
Vineyard, Me., has been sentenced tolen year’s 
imprisonment for purloining a letter containing 
$150. Verily, the way of the transgressor is 
hard. 
ffcta fttbities. 
-The jail of Wyoming Co., at Warsaw, N. 
Y., is tenantless of prisoners. 
-Six persons died of sun-stroke in New 
Orleans, on the 29th of June. 
-The movement in favor of a decimal 
coinage in England is progressing. 
-New and valuable coal beds have been 
discovered in South-western Kentucky. 
-The re-construction of the Wheeling 
Suspension Bridge is being rapidly pushed on. 
-A famine, unparalleled in the history of 
the country, is prevailing in the land of Judea. 
-The valuation of the real and personal 
estate of the city of Portland, this year, is $18,- 
962,514. 
-There are two hundred and seventy-one 
prisoners in the Indiana State Prison, at Jeffer¬ 
sonville. 
-The Niagara Iris says “the village is 
rapidly filling with visitors from all parts of the 
Union.” 
-Capt. Bodisco arrived from St. Peters- 
burgh recently, with despatches to the Russian 
minister. 
-The Central Association of Universalists 
in Illinois, met in Pekin, Illinois, on the 13th 
and 14th of May. 
-A boy fell from the high scaffolding of 
the new Presbyterian Church, in Detroit, and 
was instantly killed. 
-The receipts on the Central Railroad 
during the month of June, amount to more than 
half-a-mUiion dollars. •, 
-About 4,000 people signed the call for the 
Anti-Nebraska Mass Convention held at Jack- 
son, Mich., on the 6th inst. 
•-Murrell, who kidnapped Solomon Nor- 
thup, was arrested near Fonda lately, he having 
been recognized by Solomon. 
-Among the passengers lost in the steamer 
City of Glasgow, was Rev. J. S. Reynolds, of the 
Baptist Church in Portsmouth, Va. 
-Work is at a stand at present on the At¬ 
tica and Allegany Valley R. R., in consequence 
of the tightness of the money market. 
-Lieut. Payne, U. S. A., died at Jefferson 
Barracks on Friday week. Some cases of chol¬ 
era have appeared, it is said, at that post. 
-The National Intelligencer predicts that 
in 1856, the Whigs will elect to the Presidency 
some sterling old school National Whig. 
-The President has sent instructions to 
Gen. l’ersifer F. Smith, at Texas, to call out vol¬ 
unteers to quell the Indian disturbances. 
-Every shell fired by an army, during 
siege operations, costs, with the powder with 
which the mortar is charged, the sum of $8. 
-The United States Circuit Court, at New 
Orleans, is proceeding vigorously against the 
parties supposed to be implicated in a design 
upon Cuba. 
-The Western Texan learns that there are 
now between seven and eight thousand head of 
cattle and other stock on the way to California 
from Texas. 
-A grant of $10,000 has been made to the 
Wesleyan University of Connecticut, on condi¬ 
tion that $30,000 shall be raised by the friends 
of the institution. 
-R. W. Eskridge, of Sumpter county, Ala., 
has been sentenced to the Penitentiary for eleven 
years, for maliciously shooting and wounding 
one of his slaves. 
-A young lady eloped from Washington 
on the 2d, to escape a forcible alliance with a 
disagreeable lover. She met her favorite in Bal¬ 
timore, and was married. 
-The papers at the east, south and west, 
report the weather to be exceedingly warm. In 
many places the thermometer has indicated from 
90 to 101 degrees in the shade. 
-The Troy Whig of Wednesday week says, 
that on Monday last snow' lay on tho Green 
Mountains, east of Burlington. The peaks of 
the mountains -were white for miles. 
-The Alexandria, Va:, Gazette deprecates 
the division of the Whig party, and says that 
the Whigs of the South do not desire to see 
political parties made sectional ones.. 
-The annual Convention of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Western 
New Y'ork, will be held in Trinity Church, Uti¬ 
ca, on Wednesday, the 16th of August. 
-Nearly sixty patents, or about ten each 
dav, have been issued within a w r eek. The whole 
number of new cases favorably decided will 
probably exceed 3,000 for the past year. 
-Cassius M. Clay is announced to speak on 
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, at Quin¬ 
cy, Ill., on the I2lh inst.. and at several other 
places at different times during the month. 
-Horace Vernet, commissioned by the 
government to transfer to canvass such episodes 
of the Dannbian battles as may seem to deserve 
it, leaves Marseilles for Constantinople soon. 
-During the month of June 39,363 emi¬ 
grants arrived at the port of New Y’ork ; 11,117 
were Germans, 18,950 British, 7.900 French, and 
the remainder Spaniards and West Indiamen. 
-An unknown man deliberately placed his 
neck on the rail of the Michigan Central Road, 
a few days since, as the train was approaching. 
His head was instantly severed from his body. 
-Advices from Barbadoes to the 15th ult., 
have been received. The cholera was raging 
fearfully at that place ; deaths averaging 400 per 
day. The total number of deaths thus far is 
5,000. 
-The very last dog story is told of a fine 
Newfoundland at Sunderland, Georgia, which 
seized a carter by the throat and threw him 
down, because he was beating his horse without 
reason. 
-The Philadelphia North American says 
that grass hoppers, in innumerable swarms, in¬ 
fest the fields in mai y parts of Eastern Pennsyl¬ 
vania, carrying devastation to all vegetation of 
the fields. 
-The time of receiving proposals for the 
purchase of the main line of public works of 
Pennsylvania has expired ; and as no bids were 
made, no sale can now bo made without further 
legislation. 
-Wombwell’s famous black-maned lion, 
“Wallace,” almost the last of the species in 
England, died lately at Kidderminster. Tho 
carcass has boen purchased by a Shrewsbury 
naturalist. 
-A man named Miller visited the Buffalo 
Cemetrey on the morning of the 2d, selected his 
place of burial, gave a description of it to a 
friend, and in two hours, while bathing, was 
drowued—apparently accidentally. 
