MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOB RER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ROCHESTER, JULY' 29, 1854. 
Extreme Heat.— The Cholera. 
During a portion of last week, tLe lieat of the 
weather was greater in this, and many other 
localities, than for several preceding years. On 
Thursday and Friday the thermometor rose to 
95 c and 98 ° in the shade, in this city. In 
eastern cities—Albany, New Y'ork, Philadel¬ 
phia, Boston, etc.—the range was from 96 c to 
102 0 in the shade—the hottest weather record¬ 
ed for eight or ten years. Letters from farmers 
in various parts of Western New York, speak of 
the recent weather as the hottest and most op¬ 
pressive they ever experienced—greatly imped¬ 
ing harvesting, and other out-door labor. 
The prevalence of the cholera in other locali¬ 
ties lias induced the Rochester Board of Health, 
and the citizens generally, to take extraordinary 
measures against the epidemic; and thus far 
their efforts have been crowned with the most 
gratifying results. It is true that a few scatter¬ 
ing cases of the disease, or something very nearly 
resembling it, have occurred during the past 
week, and some of them proved fatal; but the 
victims were mostly foreigners, addicted to in¬ 
temperance, inhabiting filthy localities, and ma¬ 
king use of improper food. As a general thing 
the city has rarely, if ever, been more healthy 
during the warm weather, than at present. 
Fight between Irish Leaders. 
Thomas F. Meagher, the Irish patriot, who 
last year escaped from the British penal colony 
in Australia* and has since been lecturing in 
this country, as also publishing a paper in con¬ 
nection with John Mitohel in New Y'ork, and 
James A. McMaster, the editor of the Freeman’s 
Journal, the Roman Catholic organ in New 
York, had a street fight in that city last week. 
McMaster has been publishing in the Journal 
articles against Meagher, in that strain of pecu¬ 
liar and vindictive bitterness for which he is so 
fatuous. This fired up the temper of the patriot, 
and lie sought out and attacked McMaster in 
the street. The latter, expecting an assault, 
had provided himself with a loaded cane and a 
revolver ; the former was wrenched from his 
hand by Meagher, who applied a cow-skin vig¬ 
orously to his shoulders, and finally knocked 
him down. McMaster, in the melee, fired off 
one barrel of the revolver, the ball of which 
grazed Meagher’s forehead, and the powder, 
blackened his face. As he was about to fire 
the second shot, however, a boy standing by 
wrenched the pistol out of his hand, and his an¬ 
tagonist, as above stated, knocked him down. 
The police at this time coming up, took both 
parties into custody, and a “Squire ” put them 
under bonds to keep the peace. 
The Journal man with the revolver, came 
very near performing what has hitherto been 
considered an impossible feat, to wit: making 
a know-nothing of an Irishman, in which case it 
would probably have been inserted in the next 
catalogue of miracles, Ex Cathedra. 
Great Drouth. — Fires in the Woods. —We re¬ 
gret to learn that a severe drouth is prevailing 
in Steuben and Alleghany counties, and other 
souther portions of this State, and adjacent lo¬ 
calities in Pennsylvania. The drouth is said to 
be" ’ptense—no rain having fallen for weeks.— 
The editor of the American, who has recently 
returned from Totter county, Pa., passing thro’ 
a portion of Alleghany county, says the streams 
are dry, and the fields parched and sere.— 
Thousands and thousands of acres of woodland 
are on fire, and great destruction of property is 
taking place. The inhabitants are out fighting 
the fire, which slowly and resistlessly is moving 
on to further ruin, and threatening houses and 
barns. Fires also are raging in McKean and 
Warren counties, Ta., in the extensive lumber 
districts of that wild region. It is fearful to see 
a vast section of country thus given up to des¬ 
truction. One may ride for forty or fifty miles 
together, and never be out of sight of the fires 
that rage in every direction. A drenching rain 
will put an end to the ravages of this element. 
The Havre steamship Franklin grounded in a 
fog, on the south shore of Long Island, during 
her inward trip last week Tuesday. Her cargo 
has been taken out, a portion of it in a damaged 
state, but the steamer is likely to prove a total 
wreck. She has been driven by the tide over 
the outer bar, and lays straining and cracking 
broadside to the force of the surf. 
This line of steamers has been exceedingly 
unfortunate, as the Franklin’s consort, the 
Humboldt, was lost in a similar manner a few 
months since, near Halifax. The loss on the 
Franklin Is probably covered by insurance. 
The New York A Erie Railroad have issued 
an order to their conductors to charge all pas¬ 
sengers ten cents extra who pay their fare in 
the cars. The object of the. regulation is to in¬ 
duce travelers to purchase tickets at the sta¬ 
tions, as it facilitates the business of conductors, 
and gives them more time to look after the 
duties of running their trains. It also furnishes 
an effectual check against the pecidations of dis¬ 
honest conductors, if any such there be. The 
New England roads adopted a five cent extra 
charge of the kind years ago. 
Congressional. 
The cholera has not been sufficiently malig¬ 
nant in Washington to frighten Congress out of 
the Capitol. The Senate have done some good 
things, as well as some bad ones, during the 
week, the following being the principal of each 
kind, named indiscriminately, and leaving the 
reader to give each the characteristic, good or 
bad, as suits his own conscience or fancy. Mr. 
Sumner presented memorials asking the repeal 
of the Fugitive Slave Law. 
Mr. Pettit, of Ind., asked that the Committee 
on the Judiciary Affairs be discharged from 
further consideration of petitions for the repeal 
of the Fugitive Slave Law, as he was of the 
opinion that any legislation upon the subject at 
the present time was wholly inexpedient. The 
request was complied with. 
The bill making provision for the better pre¬ 
servation of life and property from shipwreck 
or other disasters on the coast of the United 
States, was passed, as also was the resolution 
fixing the compensation of the employees of the 
Senate, and the joint resolution fixing the pay 
of officers and messengers of both Houses of 
Congress, and prohibiting extra pay for services. 
Senator Pettit’s resolution to print 20,000 
copies of the Nebraska aud Kansas bill, was 
adopted. 
The most important bill passed was the one 
known as “ The Homestead Bill,” which gives 
160 acres of land to persons settling in the terri¬ 
tories, who will locate upon and cultivate the 
same for five years. This bill, it is rumored, 
will receive the Executive veto; and it is quite 
probable, judging from the fate of the grant of 
land for the benefit of the indigent insane. The 
Civil and Diplomatic bill, and the Texas Indem¬ 
nity bill, were considered, but not finally acted 
upon. A number of private bills were passed. 
In the House, Mr. Phillips asked leave to in¬ 
troduce a bill in favor of incorporating the ter¬ 
ritory acquired by the treaty recently conclud¬ 
ed with Mexico into New Mexico. 
Most of the week has been consumed in dis¬ 
cussions on the Army Appropriation Bill, and 
in considering and disposing of amendments 
thereto. The bill reported by Mr. Olds from 
the Post Office Committee, proposing to raise 
the rates of postage on newspapers and period¬ 
icals, was decently interred by a vote to lay on 
the table, 76 to 67. 
The examination into the alleged attempt to 
bribe through an extension of Colt’s patent on 
revolving firearms, is still in progress. 
Notes by the Way. 
The Peoples College—Southern tier of Coun¬ 
ties — N. Y. and Eric Railroad, and its Superin¬ 
tendent — Binghamton, dec. 
I had occasion to attend the annual meeting 
of the stockholders of the People’s College, 
held at Binghamton, on the 12th inst Few 
who have only been in the central and western 
part of the State, have any adequate idea of the 
beautifuL country which is found in what has 
been so long known as the southern tier of 
counties. I do not believe there is a more 
charming ride in the Union at this season of the 
year, than from Hornellsville to Binghamton, 
on the New York and Erie Railroad. The 
meeting of the stockholders was much larger 
than had been anticipated. Among the new 
trustees elected, are Gov. Hunt, Horace Greeley, 
D. C. MoCai.lum, the celebrated Superintendent 
of the N. Y. A E. R. R.; and let me make a note 
of it now, since his appointment, the road has 
become one of the best managed in the Union. 
Its trains move with remarkable accuracy ; and 
the promptness with which all property is now 
carried over it has largely increased its efficien¬ 
cy and success. Few men possess the requisite 
qualifications for the successful superintendence 
of a railroad. Among that few, however, Mr. 
McC. is first and foremost. His directions to the 
engine drivers, of “ safety first, and speed after¬ 
wards,” has given the public a confidence in the 
road never before possessed, especially since he 
showed that there was a power and a will to 
make every man upon the road responsible in¬ 
dividually. 
But I intended to say something about Bing¬ 
hamton, and the business which is going on 
there. I was very much gratified to see that a 
large and rapidly increasing trade has sprung 
up on the Chenango Canal, which terminates 
here. Iron ore is brought from Clinton county, 
by the way of our canals, and shipped hence to 
the iron works in Pennsylvania, while the coal 
from her beds is shipped to tlie north by the re¬ 
turn boats, many of which were waiting for 
loads, the Scranton Railroad not being able to 
deliver it as fast as wanted. Ultimately, a large 
business must be done here in coal and iron. 
The Syracuse and Bingkampton Railroad is 
in a forward state, and will be completed at a 
very early day. This will be of great impor¬ 
tance to that part of the State between those 
two points, as it is now rather isolated. 
The crops are more or less injured by the dry 
weather, and the weevil, that almost universal 
pest of the wheat crop this year. If Dr. Fitch, 
who is engaged by the State to hunt up all the 
bad bugs, can put us in the way of getting 
around this little vagabond, be will have done a 
great service. Y'ours, v. 
Seymour’s Grain Drill is a superior machine, 
and possesses some peculiarities and advantages 
not claimed for others. His Broadcast Sower is 
also a valuable and popular machine, worthy 
the attention of grain-growing farmers. We 
have heretofore strongly recommended these 
machines to the public, and would now direct 
the attention of all interested to Mr. S.’s adver¬ 
tisement in this paper. 
Sight Notes from tlie West. 
Waukegan City, Lake Co., III., July. 1854. 
Friend Moore : — Having just returned to 
this city, from a five weeks’ tour through the • 
great State of Wisconsin, I propose to dis- ' 
course about the country, soil, crops, Ac. Could ; 
and would write a long yarn, but not being a i 
“ man of letters,” propose a Belle -letter of small ‘ 
items in a practical way. ( 
The crops here in Northern Illinois arc ex¬ 
cellent—never better. The land north of this i 
place, and between this and Milwaukee, is of i 
two general varieties; from this to Kenosha 
(old Southport), tlie land is level, and chiefly of , 
the Prairie sort—burr oak openings, soil black , 
and deep—distance fifteen miles. Kenosha was 
one of the fast cities, but one day “sort ’o gin 
out;” now it is on the rise, and we are assured 
is going ahead in a proper, direct course, and 
sure of a permanent locality—with a live pros¬ 
pect of adding, and at a rapid pace, to its pres¬ 
ent 6,000 active population. The city has ma¬ 
ny excellent buildings, a splendid park, and 
many valuable and permanent fixtures of a de¬ 
sirable character. 
The soil and crops further north—a distance 
of eleven miles to Racine—are quite similar to 
those south. 
The soil between Racine and Milwaukee, near 
the Lake, resembles that upon Lake Ontario, in 
the best portions of Orleans and Niagara coun¬ 
ties, New York. The crops are generally good 
—the winter wheat plenty and excellent. Tlie 
land from Racine to Burlington (twenty-five 
miles west,) is chiefly rolling prairie, and of the 
best kind for all sorts of farming—average 
price $20 per acre. In some places in the town 
of Burlington, the wheat is badly “used up” by 
the locusts. Have seen no locusts except in this 
vicinity. In the edge of Walworth county, 
town of Hudson, the crops are excellent. The 
town is made up of prairie and openings. Here 
the Mormons flourished years ago. Lime of a 
superior quality is made here, and quarry stone, 
for buildings and pavements, is found in great 
quantities. Waukesha, on the north, is a “ tim¬ 
ber ” county, and a good one for farming and 
fishing. (All the counties I have traveled thro’ 
abound in beautiful lakes, located, apparently, 
“ expressly for family use.”) 
Dodge is also a prairie and “openings ” coun¬ 
ty, with a good sprinkling of “ timber ” land.— 
Has valuable iron ore beds in it, which are now 
being worked with good success. A good qual¬ 
ity of cast iron (“ litters of pigs”) is made at 
$9 a ton. This mineral abounds in great abun¬ 
dance, and is wrought with much profit. Ju¬ 
neau. the capital town of the county, is in an 
oak grove of great beauty ; it is as yet a small 
village, but, like all the west, growing. Its 
principal men are eastern—enterprising and 
progressive. Fond du Lac, bordering upon 
Dodge on the north, is really a good county— 
the southern part is prairie, as is the northern 
portion of Dodge. At Waupun, on the county 
line, is the State Prison. This prison would 
compare favorably wj;4? the jail and yard in Or¬ 
leans county, N. Y., though more numerously 
inhabited with vile animals, most of whom 
claim to be “ down easters.” Marquette, north¬ 
west, is a rich farming county, more than half 
prairie, of the best kind, and has a stout share 
of Western New Y'orkers among its enterpris- 
ing population. These are all good workers and 
rich livens. The crops are uniformly excellent 
and abundant. 
This county abounds in magnificent lakes, de¬ 
licious fish, prairie chickens and pork, while 
butter is said to be an indigenous commodity. 
My next “ epistle ” will tell of Waushara, one 
of the newest and best counties in the State.— 
The. facts in regard to it will prove interesting 
to farmers commencing on a limited capital, who 
desire ease and riches, and are willing to ac¬ 
cept “ an opportunity ” on the other side of 
Fox River. Truly yours, Peter Saxe. 
A Lazar House. 
In consequence of various rumors concerning 
a large number of deaths by cholera at the 
Poor House in Buffalo, a large party of physi¬ 
cians and citizens visited the house on Satur¬ 
day, July 21st, and found everything connected 
with the establishment in the most horrible 
condition. 
Within twenty-four hours fifteen insane per¬ 
sons and seven sane persons had died of cholera, 
and four more were then in a collapsed state. 
The house was found to be so foul and filthy, 
that it was almost impossible for persons to en¬ 
ter it Its inmates are in the most awful con¬ 
dition imaginable. On inquiry, it was found 
they had been kept on insufficient food, and 
that of the worst quality. Their regular diet 
has been—for breakfast, a piece of bread cut in 
pieces about five inches square, with coffee 
made from barley, and a piece of salt pork ; for 
dinner they had the same fare, with the excep¬ 
tion of the coffee, and for supper they had 
bread and tea. This is the kind of food the 
poor inmates have been accustomed to. Scurvy 
was also found to be raging in the building, as 
well as cholera. Several deaths from actual | 
starvation bad taken place, particularly among 
the children. 
Filial Dwvotion Rewarded. —Mention is 
made in a Paris paper of the filial devotedness 
of a soldier named Chassard, who, after having 
served for seven years in Africa, found, on his 
return home, his mothor in great distress tor the 
means to pay 1,400 francs, for which she was 
very closely pressed—and who immediately en¬ 
listed as a substitute for 1,500 francs, paid the 
creditor, and giving the remaining hundred 
francs to his sister, then set out to join his new 
regiment The Emperor, on hearing the facts, 
ordered him to be admitted to the Imperial 
Guards. 
nrSf~The soil of Siberia, at the close of the 
summer, is found still frozen for fifty-six inches 
beneath the surface, and the dead that have lain 
in their coffins for one hundred and fifty years, 
have been taken up unchanged in the least 
ittos frflnte. 
Tlie Attorney General has decided that -A second emigrant party for Kansas will 
an officer of the army is subject to trial f<«r one leave Boston on the 1st of August 
and the same act by the civil courts, as for a -In Chicago there is said not to be a single 
violation of the ordinary law of the land, and American in the municipal government. 
also by a court martial for a violation of the -Kendall, of the N. 0. Picayune, is now in 
military law. thus, where an officer was »- Paris> en routc for the seat of wa / in Uie Eas t, 
dieted lor murder on account of the death ot a 
soldier, and acquitted, he may still be tried by ie Russians have lost 50,000 men 1 
court martial and punished. battle and disease, since they stt foot in t,l 
Dr. Linton, formerly surgeon in the Uni- ___ ^ 
toil 8lat.es Navy, shot two men at Laredo Tex- jn ^ Uni ’ 
as, recently. He was subsequently seized by a 0Q )()() bugl J s> 
mob, and hung on a gallows erected upon tlie 
public plaza. Linton, it is said, was on board # 1 lie Johr 
.» tt *. i cu i v • . o —I,itht on SxPiir»r*n I 
-The Russians have lost 50,000 men by 
battle and disease, since they stt foot in the 
Principalities. 
—— Ohio is the greatest, corn-growing State 
in the Union, growing in 1850 upwards of 59,- 
The John Arnot, a fine steamer, is ply- 
the United States brig Somers when young ing on Seneca Lake, much to the gratification 
Spencer was hung by Commander McKenzie. °f the citizens of Geneva. 
UrST" Pittsburg, with a population in the city -Some of the New York papers assert that 
proper of 70,000 persons, only averages about Tammany Hall has been purchased by the St, 
20 deaths in a week 1 Not a single case of Patrick Society. 
cholera has occurred in that city during the -A car on the Northern Railroad, loaded 
present season. There seems to be something with cotton, was burned with its contents, on 
in the coal smoke and atmosphere of Pittsburg Friday week, at Troy. 
that is conducive to health. -Madison County Jail was tenant.less for 
iA truly Californian incident occurred on some days, and the Morrisville Observer says it 
the north fork of Yuba early in June. A man has now only a solitary inmate. 
was detected stealing gold from a company, and - Dr . J 0 i, n ]>. Gray has been appointed 
it being Ins first ofienee, the boys frightened Superintendent of the State Lunatic Asylum at 
him considerably with a preliminary process of Utica, by the Board of Managers. 
lynch law, and then presented him with a purse _ tu r; i vi, t n oi t>i 
J e I i • v- -1 lie Middlesex, Mass., Cattle Show, Plow- 
ot money and gave turn a hint to tea\e. xie . , , , . „ ’ , 
took U,/purse a,«l .he hint, .ml left. JJ* “*£$ 
Foote ’ - the A nd - ivkU,al . Wh .° £ rcWa -Edward Mulligan, the local mail agent 
at St. Louis, has been held to bail in $100, on a 
charge of purloining letters from the mail. 
-Senator Seward is in Saratoga, acting as 
pistol upon “Old Bullion ” in tlie U. S. Senate 
Chamber, has been at his old tricks at the Cali¬ 
fornia bar. Feeling himself agrieved by some 
remarks of the District Attorney, Mr. Inge, 
Foote made a violent effort to use his knife upon counsel in the great railroad spike case, on trial 
that official in open court. The Californians did there before ex-chancellor Walworth, referee. 
not appear to relish this dish of chivalry. 
■The New Hampshire Legislature, which 
A beautiful mirage was witnessed, says has just adjourned, passed a law to prevent the 
the Kenosha Telegraph, on the lake on Sunday, fraudulent issue of railway stocks and bonds. 
Vessels were seen at immense distances, appa- -The Edinburgh Review is just fifty years 
rently sailing in the air, occasionally duplicated, old ; the Quarterly, 44 ; the New Monthly Mag- 
and sometimes triplicated. Tlie Michigan shore azine, 33; Blackwood, 38 ; and Fraser, 24. 
was said to be visible a pait of the day, whilst -A petition for the repeal of the Fugitive 
some insisted that they could distinguish the Slave act, signed by 600 citizens of Worcester, 
sand hills, trees and bushes, 
p-si” A farmer writing to the New York Eve- 
Mass., has been forwarded to Washington. 
-The St. Paul Minnesotian savs, that a 
ing Post, says he once cut. and shocked one- p ress and types have been sent up the Minne- 
. . n -l, n ol tl.irtonn (lave ViofYiro 1 . * 1 . ~ 
half of an acre of wheat thirteen days before 
the remainder in the field was supposed to be 
ripe enough to cut. and when he thrashed that 
first cut, sixteen days after, found it in prime 
order. 
sota, to start a paper at St. Peter’s City, Gov. 
Gorman’s new town. 
O f , • f f„„ n ,i nrmiP -A contract has been made with Gilbert 
first, cut, sixteen days alter, lounu it in prime . . . . 
, ’ J 1 & Secor, of N ew Y ork, for the construction of 
01 or ‘ , „ . , . -itt i t-iv i a marine basin and railway near San Francisco, 
rsg” Alfred Huntington, of W est Killingly, , ^ 4() 0()0 
Ct! lately had a tight with a warlike rattle- v ^ ^ Q v 
snake, which he succeeded in despatching. The . “7“ Mr - Graham late Secretary of the Navy, 
reptite had eleven rattles, and in the course of .>A 8a | d ^ he a candidate for U S. Senator from 
the ftoht inserted his fangs through Mr. Hunt- North Carolina, in place of Mr. Badger, who 
ington’s pantaloons, barely missing the flesh of S oes out d > L ‘ ai 1<?nc ®‘ 
the leg -Twenty-one journeymen tailors were 
The press-house of Brayton, Walworth arrested at Toronto on a charge of conspiracy 
A Co.’s powder manufactory, near Cleveland, against a draper, who relused to pay the prices 
exploded July 17, killing one man and a horse, ol tlie trade society. 
and destroying some property. There were but -In Jeffersonville, Tazewell county, Y'ir- 
600 pounds of powder in tlie building—1,000 ginia, good butter is selling at einht cents per 
pounds had been removed but a short time be- pound, fresh eggs six cents per dozen, and fat 
fore the explosion. The cause is not yet known, chickens one dollar per dozen. 
»re the explosion. The cause is not yet known. 
The town council of Marion, Alabama, 
-John G. Metzgei, a barber in the shop of 
hav?raised the price of license to retail liquor Mr. Packard at the Quincy House, Boston, lias 
to three thousand dollars. The council at first received the title to an estate in Germany worth 
raised the price to fifteen hundred dollars, but 
hearing that it would be paid, they concluded 
to double the sum. 
-A well known colored man in Detroit, by 
the name of Mitchell, 104 years old, died of chol- 
jqgf” A young man at Bayonne has just in- j c ' ra 0,1 Gie 18th. He had eaten veiy fieeli of 
veined a mode of electric telegraph, by which | cherries. 
the despatch is printed in ordinary letters or 
Ylr. Burnap, a well known agricultural 
Conventional signs, by tbe telegraph itself, at. writer, says that the fences'in the United States 
the point of departure, at the end, and at sev- cost more than twenty times the specie that is 
oral intermediate stations simulantaneously. in it, 
jngT The Waterbury (Conn.) American says -Four journeymen printers have been held 
that, two beds of peat have recently been dis- by a Philadelphia Alderman for conspiracy to 
covered about two miles from that eit,y, and that injure the business of the proprietors of the 
two joint stock companies have been formed. Evening Register. 
with abundant capital, lor the purpose of sup- -Gov. Mattison, of Ill., has commuted the 
plying it as fuel. sentence of the three Lasalle rioters to imprison- 
The water of Lake Michigan, at Mil- ment, for life. It will be recollected they were 
waukee, Wis., was recently so clear and trans- convicted of murder. 
parent, that it is said a pin could be seen at the 
bottom in fifteen feet depth, and several lost ar- 
-The ladies who took part in the liquor 
riot at Baraboo, Wis., have had their examination 
tides of merchandise were thus discoveted and a;u j were discharged on the ground that no crime 
fished up. hat l been committed. 
5i^~ M- M. Howes, of New Milford, Ct., who -We hear of many cases of snn-slroke 
was sent to State Prison for ten years on a ( ] ur ing the hot weather of last week. In some 
charge of attempting to kill a school-mistress in j n st,anccs furnacemen and other mechanics were 
his neighborhood, died m the prison at V eth- ob b ge( j to suspend work, 
ersfield on Sunday week. He had been confin- b 1 
eisnciu on uu j -James Hewitt has been convicted at the 
ed about wo yeais. Albany Circuit Court of incest, and sentenced 
Dlrii:.. r* O T.Qnrvnr nf 'rnvw PUPA J 
ed about two years. 
(L3ir* Philip C. Scott, a Lawyer of I rovidence, 4e]) y ea ,. s > imprisonment in the Clinton State 
was taken in the streets ot Boston dressed in • on J 
to — Key Ifcnry Ward Boccher decline in 
•j* wk ft Yr%, issjf £ 
thing, concluded to wear it a few daj s himself. venturi 
um.g, CU..CUUUO o, „ ~ ; lo ; a sUde tW a first venture. 
Owen O’Brien, asred 80 years, lias just 0 . . . , , . T r. 
been sent to State Prison from Boston, for three —The “Angel Gabriel” preached at Kings- 
ve^s for polygamy. The accomplice of his ton, Canada, on Sunday week and a terrible 
crime’, Carolinelute, a young woman, was row was the consequence. A large number of 
sent to the House of Correction for 15 months, arrests were made. 
Mr Crane, who recently confessed to , -The Charleston (S C.) News says in a 
hS issued fraudulent railroad bonds Bos- ^te number M e saw this morning a small 
ton lLTinter subscribed one million to the snap bean the produce of a seed from the in- 
Philadelphia A Sunbury road. To raise the ten &lde of d " ™ um 
ner cent required, probably, with other things, --Dr. Smith, of Bingham, 1 a., has a night 
induced'these fraudulent issues. blooming cereus, upon which three rnagiuficent 
ear The aeronauts tvh,, went up at Hartford » molt.neoosW bloomed, iloomhed and 
„„ 6 !e V ‘hat as they reaoU a g rcat fell, on the earn, stalk. _ 
height over the river, the water became perfect- —- “ w dd Maggie, who fills an interesting 
Iv nellucid, and they coulj see any object in it, part in the celebrated “Hot Corn Stories, is 
even to the bottom, as distinctly as they could now one of the pupils of Miss Leavitt s school 
look through clear water. 
A late work on Utah and the Mormons, 
savs a Mr. Mtoodruff, of Avon, Conn., has risen 
C (V . W. 1 _ A ..oeflno ITfal, o..(l 
for young ladies, at West Stockbridge. 
_The Syracuse Journal says that 300 cases 
of tobacco, raised on a farm in the town of Ca- 
tx. be one of the Twelve Apostles in Utah, and to, Onondaga county,were lately sold to a dcal- 
that he is “ constantly marrying new and young er in France, to be shipped forthwith. 
women.” -The French have strongly fortified New 
U-dS- Some dwellings in the western part of Caledonia, and have hoisted their flag on the 
Svracuse, together with about 4.000 cords of Isle of Pines, intending, probab y, to bring all 
wood, the property of the New York Central the neighboring islands under their dominion. 
Railroad Company, also the buildings contain- -The approaching Anniversary of the 
ing it, were entirely destroyed by fire on Satur- University of Vermont, will be one of more 
day, the 15th. Loss about $20,000. than common interest. The special meeting of 
Dig” The Charleston, S. C., Christian Advo- the Alumni to celebrate the 50th commence- 
cate makes mention of an interesting religious ment. 
revival among the colored people in that city. -M r m. H. Arrison, who stands accused of 
More than a hundred have professed conversion, having sent t he box containing a bomb to Mr. 
The meetings are crowded and increase in iu- Allison in Cincinnati, the opening of which re- 
tei . e8fc- suited in the death of the latter and his wife, has 
rsg” An English church is about to be estab- been arrested in Iowa. 
lished at Constantinople, as a Christian memo- -Forty-one of the traveling preachers con- 
rial of the English ministry at present in that nectcd with the M. E. Church South, have died 
country, and the .Episcopal Bishop of Gibraltar during the past year. The increase in member- 
is now on a visit there for that purpose. ship for 1853 and ’54 was near 30,01)0. Cne- 
rar John Randolph once said he “ expected fourth the increase is colored. 
t,o live to see the time when slaves in Virginia -Matt. Ward is to sail shortly from New 
would advertise for runaway masters, as it took Orleans for Europe. Before leaving Hot Springs, 
all the corn to feed the bogs, all the bogs to feed Ark., where he went for his health, he threw 
the negroes, and there was nothing left the aside his crutches, was able to dance and waltz, 
planters.” ' and seemed to be in fine spirits. 
