MOORE’S RURAL KEW-YOR KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
State Teachers’ Association. 
Sight Notes from Wisconsin. 
ROCHESTER, AUGUST 12, 1854. 
Adjournment of Congress. 
The long, long session of Congress Las come 
to an end at last; the members have pocketed 
their pay and departed on a furlong!) of three 
months, to re-assemble again in November.— 
Most of them have gone home to stand trial be¬ 
fore their constituents for the evil they have 
done ; and mene, tekel, upharsin, is written on 
the wall over against them. Not one out of ten 
of the Northern men who voted for the repeal 
of the Missouri Compromise will ever hold a 
place in Congress again. Some ofjthem volun¬ 
tarily retire, afraid to test a trial at the polls ; 
some of them have been unceremoniously laid 
on the shelf at nominating conventions, and the 
few who have succeeded in obtaining renomina¬ 
tions, magnanimously come forward to lay their 
own heads upon the block. If the newly elect¬ 
ed members could take their seats at the com¬ 
mencement of the next coming session, such a 
revolution would appear in the house as was 
never before seen ; but unfortunately the pres¬ 
ent incumbents hold on until the close of the 
next session. That, however, by a Constitu¬ 
tional provision, must take place on the 3d of 
March, as the political year commences on the 
4th. There are few men of any party, especial 
ly at the North, who uphold the acts of the 
present congress ; and the support of a few 
office holders is just sufficient to suggest the 
anxious inquiry of one of old ; “ why, what evil 
have I done that these men praise me?” 
The N. Y. State Teachers’ Association met 
in Oswego on the 1st inst., adjourning on the 
3d, after which they made a brief excursion on 
Lake Ontario in a steamer. The occasion is 
spoken of as one of much interest, and we give 
below a brief summary of the proceedings: 
The Association was called to order by its 
President, Hon. V. M. Rice, State Superintend¬ 
ent of Public Instruction, and a business and 
other Committees appointed. The Report of 
the Treasurer of the New York Teacher, was 
read by T. H. Bowen, of Albany. It shows the 
receipt up to Aug. 1st, of $1,585.75, and the 
disbursement for the same time of $1,461.75, 
leaving the balance in the treasury of $124, 
Mr. Valentine, the Resident Editor, gave the 
history of the Association and of the Teacher, 
and stated that not a single dollar had been paid 
for editing that periodical. This should not 
be so. 
A State Agent, at a salary of $1,000 per 
year, was proposed, and finally appointed. His 
duties are as follows : 
The Weather and its Concomitants. 
The weather continues here uncommonly dry 
There have been rains around us, in all direc 
tions, but scarcely any has fallen within the city 
limits for weeks. On Sunday an intense black 
cloud arose in the west, threatening torrents of 
rain ; but the storm slid along the horizon, lea 
ving us outside its track—although within a few 
miles of us, it is stated, there was a powerful and 
refreshing shower. The evenings are very cool 
and Monday night was uncomfortably so ; higl 
winds have prevailed occasionally for several 
days past. 
There have been a number of deaths from 
cholera during the week, several of the victims 
being children. Some of the fatal cases were 
very sudden, with scarcely any alarming pre¬ 
monitory symptoms, and they should serve as 
warnings to our citizens to be doubly watchful 
over themselves and their children. The slight¬ 
est indications of a diarrhea should be attended 
to at once, and medical advice procured. One 
of our best medical advisers recommends 
such cases perfect rest from all labor and exer¬ 
cise, and a dose of twelve drops of laudanum 
and eighteen of camphor, on a little sugar, re¬ 
peated, if necessary ; in the meantime, a phy¬ 
sician should be consulted. 
No special alarm exists in the community 
but an ounce of prevention is better than a 
pound of cure. 
The President has returned the River and 
Harbor bill to the House of Representatives, 
with objections to its becoming a law, on consti¬ 
tutional grounds. This result has been fore¬ 
shadowed by his antecedents as a member of 
the House and the Senate in years past, by his 
veto, this session, of the Insane Land bill, and 
the remark made in connection with his signing 
the bill to improve Cape Fear River, that he 
approved it on the ground that the obstructions 
resulted from, acts of the government. Still this 
veto will produce much dissatisfaction and dis¬ 
appointment to all those interested in Lake and 
River commerce. The bill, among other things 
of special interest to our State, appropriated 
$150,000 more for clearing out and extending 
the harbors of Buffalo, Dunkirk, the mouth of 
tho Genesee, Sodus Bay, Oswego, and Lake 
Champlain. 
The Canal Enlargement. —The Canal Board 
closed an important session at Albany on the 
2d inst Three millions additional work, mak¬ 
ing six millions in all, is ordered to be put un¬ 
der contract It is distributed as follows :— 
On the Western Division of the Erie Canal, to 
the extent of $1,718,000 ; Middle Division, 
$425,000 ; Eastern, $425,000 ; Oswego Canal, 
$228,000 ; Cayuga and Seneca, $136,000 ; Black 
River Canal, $68,000. 
The work thus far has been let on very favor¬ 
able terms, at least 15 per cent below the esti¬ 
mates. An additional loan of $1,250,000 has 
been directed by the Commissioners of the Canal 
Fund—proposals to be received until the 31st 1 come 
inst The Canal Board adjourned to 12th Sept. 
Shameful Assault.— On Saturday evening 
last as the President was descending the steps 
of the Capitol, at Washington, he was accosted 
by three men (probably with the intention of 
insulting the Chief Magistrate) and invited by 
them to take a drink. On his declining to do 
so with the remark that he did not take drinks, 
he was hit by an egg thrown by one of the trio 
and his hat knocked from his head. 
There is no doubt that the three fellows were 
drunk. One of them lives in Charleston, one in 
SL Louis, and the other in New York. It was 
tho South Carolinian who threw the egg, and he 
was immediately arrested. It is said the Pres¬ 
ident has sent a request for his liberation. 
1. To assist in organizing Teachers’ Institutes. 
2. Report on School Systems. 
3. To encourage Union Schools. 
4. To awaken a general school interest. 
5. To assist and co-operate in general with 
the State Superintendent. 
6. To aid in circulating the New York Teacher. 
7. To assist teachers in getting situations, and 
schools to obtain suitable teachers. 
8. In general, to perform such duties as the 
officers of the Association may direct. 
Two prize articles were read,—the first an 
Essay by Prof. M. Wilson, of Canandaigua, on 
“ Radical Education the second, a poem, by 
Airs. C. H. Gildersleve, of Buffalo. Both are 
pronounced excellent, and premiums are offered 
for another year. 
Upon the subjecl of officers, Miss Anthont, 
of this city, introduced resolutions that women 
be included among them, and so far carried her 
point, that two were included in the Board of 
Editors to the Teacher, and one as Vice Presi¬ 
dent. The following is the list: 
Oliver Arey, of Buffalo; J. Al. Bulkley, Wil- 
liamsburgh ; A. J. Upson, Clinton ; T. H. Bow¬ 
en, Albany; S. W. Cole, Plattsburgh; L. R. 
Satt.erlee, Rochester ; J. Winslow, Watertown ; 
M. Wilson, Allen’s Hill; J. N. AIcElligott, New 
Y ork ; Delos Gary, Oswego ; Airs. Emma Wil¬ 
lard, Troy ; Alary P. Tenney, Binghamton. 
Horace Greeley made a speech on “ Practi¬ 
cal Education,” at the Evening Session of the 
second day. Other gentlemen lectured at dif¬ 
ferent times. 
On the third day, the officers were elected. 
Air. R. D. Jones, of this city, was chosen Presi¬ 
dent. The Vice Presidents elected are : H. Al. 
Aller, of Elmira ; I. B. Poucher, Oswego ; S.S. 
Kellogg, Buffalo ; Airs. H. B. Hughes, Syracuse. 
Corresponding Secretary, John FI. Fanning; 
Recording Secretaries, D. S. Heffron, of Utica, 
D. Cameron, of Johnstown; Treasurer, Al. H. 
Beach, Seneca Falls. State Agent, James Jo- 
honnot, of Syracuse. 
Congressional 
In the Senate various matters have been dis¬ 
posed of, and others brought up for considera¬ 
tion. Among the first is the ratification of the 
Reciprocity treaty, and the Fortification appro¬ 
priation bill, also the confirmation of sundry 
Presidential nominations, among them our city 
Postmaster, A memorial has been presented 
and referred, from a number of American citi¬ 
zens, wherein is set forth their sufferings by the 
bombardment and burning of Greytown, by the 
sloop-of-war Cyane, and praying that Congress 
grant an indemnity for the losses sustained.— 
The Post Office appropriation bill has also been 
under consideration. Committees of conference 
have been appointed to arrange a basis of agree¬ 
ment on several bills reported back from the 
House non-concurred in. 
House. —The bills from the Senate constitut¬ 
ing the ports of Lakeport, La., and others, ports 
of entry, were passed, as were also the bills for 
the same creating a collection district in Texas 
and New Mexico, and one granting the right of 
way over, and a depot upon, the grounds of the 
military reserve at Fort Gratiot, to the Port 
Huron and Lake Michigan R. R. Co. The Army, 
and River and Harbor bills, were received from 
the Compromising Committee, and passed. 
Murder in New York. —Col. Loring, of Cal¬ 
ifornia, was instantly killed on the 2d inst., by 
being run through the body with a sword-cane 
in the hands of R. Al. Graham, of New Orleans. 
Col. L. was stopping with his family at the St 
Nicholas Hotel, and being much disturbed by 
the disorderly conduct of some drunken persons 
in the hall, came out of his room, and found it 
was Graham making the noise, and requested 
him to desist He then went in, but had soon to 
out and repeat his request, and was 
stabbed and killed as above related. Graham 
is in custody. 
Waushara Co., Wis., July 21*, 1854. 
Friend AIoork : —In compliance with a re¬ 
quest, and my promise, 1 commence my third 
epistle. 
Waushara Co., Wis., is bounded on the East 
by Winnebago, on the North by Wattpacca and 
Portage, on the West by Adams, and the South 
by Alarquette—the county I closed upon in my 
last epistle, Waushara has a vast variety of 
soil, timber and game—including fish l The 
eastern third is timber, the central oak open¬ 
ings, and the western prairie. The central por¬ 
tion I examined most particularly. At Saxeville 
—(the name of the place and Post Office,) in the 
town of Ontario, is a model three-story grist¬ 
mill, a good saw-mill, store, Ac. At this point, 
Capt. Edward Saxe, and his brother Jacob, 
(formerly of Sheldon, Vt„) have erected the 
buildings above named ; also a good dam across 
Pine River, and have a sure and enduring water¬ 
power, and a large one, having power to spare, 
for double their present amount of machinery. 
The river is quite rapid, and the banks bluff 
and good. Saxeville is twenty miles northwest 
of Berlin, formerly called and known as 
“ Strong’s Landing.” This is the terminus of 
steamboat navigation on the Neenah, or Fox 
River, 35 miles west of Lake Winnebago. A 
good passenger and freight steamer arrives 
and departs daily. Saxeville is ninety miles 
west and north of Sheboygan, which is on Lake 
Michigan. Sheboygan has the best dock or 
wharf I have seen on the lake, and about as 
good a harbor. The variations of altitude in 
the lay of the land, discoverable to the common 
eye, is about thirty feet, and the soil is loam 
and sand, with a gravelly bed about two and a 
half feet below. The soil is quick, strong, and 
very fertile. Springs abound, and the wells are 
of the best kind. This county is in latitude 
44°, and the climate is said to be excellent. 
On the 2d July the heat was only 105 c in the 
shade ! 
Y inter wheat is the kind that is grown here, 
and is a sure crop. Thirty bushels are raised 
to the acre upon the first plowing, and thiity- 
five bushels after is the common yield. Corn is 
four weeks in advance (says Air. Peck, who 
has just arrived from Utica) of that growing in 
Oneida Co., N. YU All kinds of grain excellent. 
Land here can be had to a considerable extent 
at $1,25 per acre, and from $2,50 to $5 per 
acre from second hands. This is the most fa¬ 
vorable section 1 have seen “in the west” for 
young and enterprising farmers with $300 to 
$500 in money to help themselves with, and I 
believe a better cannot be found. The first 
“ breaking ” is done easily with three yoke of 
oxen. By the way, the working oxen and other 
cattle are, through the entire summer and fall, 
in good beef condition, and hold their own. 
The grasses start early in the spring, and are so 
nutritious as to fatten cattle in spite of the ex¬ 
cessive labor they are required to perform. 
The face of the soil resembles prairie, and dif¬ 
fers only by the many fine and valuable oaks 
growing upon it. These trees are deep-rooted, 
and do not hinder tlie plowman. Pine lumber 
is sold here for $8 to $.10 per Al. 
“ Stephens’ Point ” is thirty-two miles fur¬ 
ther north, and is at the “ Pinery.” Just here¬ 
abouts are thirty-five to forty good saw-mills.— 
The village has 600 inhabitants, and is about 
four years old. This section affords a good and 
extensive market for the products of Northern 
Wisconsin. At “Strong’s Lauding” (Berlin) 
the surplus is sent east, via Lake W r innebago 
and Fox River to Green Bay. A Railroad is 
chartered, and put under contract, being work¬ 
ed, and soon to be finished (excepting acci¬ 
dents,) from Florricon in Dodge Co., to Berlin. 
Another R. R. from Berlin northwest to Ste¬ 
phens’ Point, is surveyed, and will soon be 
“put through. .” This “ air-line” road will pass 
ft eta fantgrapljs. 
J'gf” A fire originated at the farm of Mr. Alar- 
tin Jacoby, in the upper part of Roxborongh, 
Pa., a few days since, under the following curi¬ 
ous circumstances :—A girl was frying some 
fish, when the melted fat ignited, and in remov¬ 
ing the pan, the blazing fluid fell upon a cat. 
The animal ran into the hay stack, and the hay 
was immediately in a blaze ; the barn caught 
fire, and was soon consumed ; and the flames 
extended to the dwelling of Air. Jacoby, which 
narrowly escaped destruction. The total loss is 
estimated at $500. 
The fly-wheel of the rolling-mill at 
South Boston, burst on Thursday night, Aug. 3. 
It weighed ten tons, and broke into hundreds 
of fragments, doing great damage to the build¬ 
ing. A piece was thrown across the yard and 
descended through the roof of the main build¬ 
ing, where two hundred people were at work, 
but no one was injured. The damage amounts 
to several thousand dollars. 
The N. Y. Evening Post of July 29th, 
devotes more than two columns to a table, 
showing the name, age, residence and nativity 
of all the persons who died of cholera in that 
city, from the first appearance of the disease, 
a period of nine weeks, ending on the 22d July. 
The footing shows a total ot 624 deaths, of 
which 502 were foreign, and 122 native-born 
citizens. 
Htta Sitatifs. 
-One column rvf ;l 
Times is worth £6,00 : ' 
-There is a Bib! i, 
University of Gottengci. w 
leaves. 
ingin the Lijidon 
brary / f the 
47 i palm. 
——A man in Wheeling, va., the r 
rendered himself a cripple for life, : t, : , ' 
cold bath while sweating, 
—■— The sum of $88,802 has been expended 
in street clearing in New York during the last 
three months. 
2^” It is reported that nearly 2,000 dogs have 
been slaughtered at the public pound, New 
York, since the Alayor’s edict went forth on the 
26th ult., and that nearly an equal number have 
been redeemed alive by their owners. Over 
$2,000 have been paid to the dog-catchers. The 
war against unmuzzled dogs will be continued 
until tiie 1st of September. 
U3F* A suit, in which damages are laid at 
$2u,u00, has been instituted by a gentleman of 
West Roxbury, against Alayor Smith, Marshal 
Freeman, Gen. Edmands and others, for injuries 
sustained on the occasion of the rendition of the 
fugitive slave, Anthony Burns. Writs have 
been served on tlie above parties for their ap¬ 
pearance at court. 
I'lie Oswego Journal notices that the 
cholera appears almost exclusively in low, wet 
and filthy localities, and takes off the intempe¬ 
rate and imprudent. The Journal adds :—“ It 
seems to be a terrible schoolmaster, sent to teach 
the nations the great lessons of morality, clean¬ 
liness, temperance and prudence in all things.” 
The Philadelphia Sun says that Air. 
George Severns, viclualer. Second and Lombard 
streets, whose maiden aunt, some months since, 
left him £9,000, received intelligence recently 
that £5,000 of the money had been sent him 
by the steamer Glasgow. There was no insu¬ 
rance upon the money, and it is a total loss. 
One man near Cambridge, Alas.®., raised 
this year, on eight acres of ground, strawberries 
which sold for near $10,000, and yielded a net 
profit of $3,000. The encouragement was such 
that the same man is stocking eight acres more 
with tlie plants. The picking, weeding, Ac., are 
all done by German women. 
of 
It is estimated that since the appearance 
tlie cholera at Jessore, in British India, in 
-A Yankee has been in Copenhagen to get 
permission of the Danish Government to lay 
down telegraph wires. 
-The grasshoppers, in some parts of Ver¬ 
mont, have eaten the pastures so close that they 
look like a dry road. 
-The Utica Herald says a number of gen¬ 
tlemen in that city are endeavoring to get up a 
Kansas emigrating party. 
-The cholera is making sad ravages at St. 
Peter’s Orphan Asylum, Cincinnati. There is 
an increase of cases in the city. 
r -More than thirty of tlie students of the 
University of Georgia have made a profession of 
religion during the past year. 
-The Louisville Democrat advertises for a 
“ teacher wanted.” The sporting season is prob¬ 
ably about to commence in Kentucky. 
-The Utica Herald says there are between 
800 and 900 Know-Nothings in that city, and 
100 members ot the Guard of Liberty. 
-The electric telegraph is now in opera¬ 
tion between Calcutta and Bombay, a distance 
of over a thousand miles in a direct line. 
—— It is proposed to drain Beaver Lake, in 
Indiana, and thus bring nearly one hundred 
square miles of rich arable lands into cultivation. 
It is said that a quarter of a million of 
money was expended upon the dresses of 
image of the V irgin Alary in the city of Ror 
one 
city of Rome. 
Three head of young cattle belonging to 
II. T. Phillips, of Royal ton, N. Y., and valued 
at. $80, were killed by lightning on the 1st inst. 
—— Subscriptions for the relief of the suffer¬ 
ing families of the ill-fated passengers on board 
tlie City of Glasgow, are going on in Philadel¬ 
phia. 
~— It is stated that the authorities of the 
various States of Germany are beginning to he 
alarmed at the immense emigration lotlie United 
States. 
The Canadian Elections. —The result of the 
recent Parliamentary elections is stated as i 
promising the ultimate triumph of the friends'of j 
Constitutional Government. Up to the 1st inst 
64 Reformers to 22 Conservatives had been re¬ 
turned, but some of the papers say this is an 
unfair classification—that the Reformers are still 
further ahead. 
£2g”The Quebec Mercury is in the receipt of 
a private letter from St. John (N. B.,) stating 
that Sir Edmund Head has received the ap¬ 
pointment of Governor-General of British North 
America, 
through Waushara Co., and within a mile of 
Saxeville, which place, by its location, is des¬ 
tined to be permanent head-quarters of the 
eounty. 
The lauds along the lake from Sheboygan 
through Ozaukee (old “ Port Washington”) to 
Alilwaukee, fifty-five miles, are timber lands, 
worth, average, $20 per acre. The crops upon 
them are excellent. The crops en route to 
Aladison—(West a “squar” 100 miles from 
Alilwaukee,) are not uniformly good ; as you 
approach tlie city, they are very good. The 
grasses of the State, tame and wild, or native, 
are good—generally very good. Aladison is a 
Capitol place, the “ pride of the west,” and as a 
place, the great beauty of nature and of North 
America. Its citizens are very intelligent, fast, 
permanent and hospitable. The Alilwaukee 
A Alississippi Railroad is complete as far west as 
Madison—is an excellent road, as well manned 
by officers, conductors, Ac., as the New York 
Central or Alicbigan Southern. The cars on 
this road have been conducted for an average of 
three years without an accident to any person. 
From eacli and all of the cities along the west 
side of Lake Michigan, including Chicago and 
Sheboygan,there are good plank roads extending 
west Irom fifty to ninety miles. These roads 
pay bounteously to their shareholders, and 
prove a great convenience to settlers and <&- 
plorers. 
At all the places in Wisconsin, from North to 
South and East to West, ’Iwas my fortune to 
meet with A. C. Scoville, Agent of the Michi¬ 
gan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad— 
a large, active, clever man. What is his busi¬ 
ness 7 thought I. What good thing is lie trying 
to do ? A close inspection satisfied me that 
this “ gem” of an agent was all the time work¬ 
ing for his road, and getting a’most all the busi¬ 
ness of the east and west to go and come by his 
road. Of this we didn’t wonder — for ’twas 
our fortune to come west upon it, and upon 
their steamer “ Northern 1 ndiana.” Our family 
aver that the boat and road are delightful, ac¬ 
commodating, sure in time, and character above 
suspicion or question. I regret now, for the 
sake of my kind, that I did not make mention 
of this line in my first epistle. At the time, I 
was fully satisfied that these westerners were 
all men—fast, gentle and sure. Try ’em, friend 
Moore, and believe me yours, sincerely, 
Petek Saxe. 
1817, not less than eighteen millions of the hu 
man family have fallen victims to it—about fif¬ 
teen to sixteen millions of whom have died in 
India and other parts of Asia, and the remain¬ 
der in Europe and America. 
At one of the salt wells on the Aluskin- 
gum river, opposite AlcConnelsville, gas is emit¬ 
ted of sufficient strength to throw the water to 
the surface of the earth, and of such an inflam¬ 
mable nature as to require only two bushels of 
coal a day to furnish heat enough for all manu¬ 
facturing purposes. 
23^“ The Dahlia is a native of the marshes of 
Peru, and was named after Dahl, the famous 
Swedish botanist. It is more than thirty years 
since its introduction into Europe, and it is now 
the universal favorite of florists. The number 
of known varieties is about 500. 
The Litchfield Republican says that 
Lorenzo Wheeler, while at work on a road in 
that town, a week or two since, found a hollow 
dish of soap stone, probably used by the Indi¬ 
ans for cooking. It weighs nearly 30 lbs., and 
lias a handle on each side. 
An alligator four feet in length was cap¬ 
tured in one of the streets of Savannah a few 
days since. He had crawled out of the river, 
and was quietly taking a survey of the town, 
when he was discovered by a watchman, who 
arrested him on suspicion. 
poffee is now regularly served to the 
French soldiers when in active service or in 
camp ; and new hay and oats are no longer 
prohibited to the horses of the army, recent 
scientific examination having exploded the idea 
of their being injurious. 
The Turks at Varna were recent ly much 
surprised by the appearance of the young and 
beautiful Countess of Ernst, who accompanies 
her husband, a Captain in the English Rifles in 
the campaign. In her belt she sticks a brace of 
Colt’s revolvers. 
Easter, a negro woman, the property of 
Airs. Eliza F. Carter, near Upperville, in Fau¬ 
quier county, died on the 16th July, having at¬ 
tained the age of one hundred and forty years. 
This is one of the moBt remarkable cases of lon¬ 
gevity on record. 
Airs. Lovina Baker, of Guilford, Chenan¬ 
go county, N. Y., who is now in her ninetieth 
year, has spun from the flax, and woven the 
present season, forty-four yards of kersey cloth 
which for smoothness and fineness is pronounc¬ 
ed unequaled. 
The valuable water power and factory 
property at Harper’s Ferry, Va., was sold on 
Tuesday last for $25,000—A. H. Herr, Esq., the 
purchaser. This property, including machinery, 
Ac., for a cotton factory, cost the company about 
$ 100 , 000 . 
The Carrolls, of Carrollton, have recent¬ 
ly enlarged the church at Carrollton, and built 
a monument to their heroic old ancestor of rev¬ 
olutionary memory, who was so determined that 
his place of residence should not be mistaken. 
T Six counterfeiters, three men and three 
women, have just been arrested in Buffalo.— 
Large quantities of bogus coin were found in 
their possession. Their manufactory was in a 
log hut six miles from the city. 
It was stated in tlie House of Lords on 
Tuesday, on the authority of Lord Coke, that a 
marriage had once been set aside because the 
husband had upon one occasion stood godfather 
to the second cousin of his wife I 
The Deaf Aluteshave contributed $2,500 
for a monument to Rev. Thos. H. Gallaudet, the 
originator of deaf mute education in this coun¬ 
try. The monument will be erected in Hartford 
on the 6th of September. 
-The people of Hartford have voted not to 
appropriate any money to buy liquor to be sold 
by the Town Commissioner for medicinal pur¬ 
poses. 
-Tlie longest railway in the world, is said 
to be the Illinois Central, which is 731 miles in 
length, and is very rapidly approaching com¬ 
pletion. 
-Sir Allan AlcNab, of the steamer Caro¬ 
line burning memory, has been elected to the 
Canadian Parliament, for Hamilton, by a large 
majority. 
-The Universalists are soon to have a col¬ 
lege in Somerville, Mass., to be presided over by 
Hosea Ballou, D. D., now in Europe purchasing 
a library. 
-Thos. W. Swectzer, late of Salem, Alass., 
lias left a bequest of $10,000, for the purpose of 
furnishing the poor inhabitants of that city with 
cooking stoves. 
-Last year by far too large an amount of 
goods were imported ; the Custom Flouse statis¬ 
tics indicate a falling off this year of nearly 
$ 20 , 000 , 000 . 
-Cassius AT. Clay has just completed an or¬ 
atorical tour of Northern Illinois. He lias made 
some twenty speeches, and always to large and 
attentive audiences. 
-The Vicar of Peterborough, who has 
commenced a system of open air preaching, an¬ 
nounces his intention to persevere in it during 
the summer months. 
-The official statement of the U. S. Trea¬ 
surer’s Department for the last quarter, shows 
the receipts to have been $16,854,793, and the 
expenditures $23,745,102. 
-Bodry Cart, a laborer, while digging a 
cellar in Louisville, Ky., found a box under the 
ground which contained gold and silver coins 
to the amount of $1,000. 
-Princeton College numbers among its 
graduates more than six hundred clergymen, 
and more than two hundred judges, statesmen 
and members of Congress. 
-It is said that French troops form at 
present the larger portion of the garrisons of 
Rome, Athens, and Constantinople, tlie great 
capitals of the ancient world. 
-Zebina Aloody, of Granby, Mass., while 
spreading bay, almost stumbled backwards over 
a rattlesnake, four feet long with fourteen rat¬ 
tles. The man captured the snake alive. 
-Mr. Janies Smith, of New York, is build¬ 
ing an engine for Eagle Engine Company No. 
4 of Brooklyn, which will cost the Company, 
when completed, nearly or quite $7,500. 
-The offer of a bounty of 160 acres to 
each single man,and 320 to each family settling 
in Oregon, holds good till December 1st, 1855, 
having been extended by the last Congress. 
- It is said by a physician that beer-drink¬ 
ers in London can scarcely scratch their fingers 
without risk ot their lives. Every medical man 
in London dreads a beer-drinker for a patient. 
-A Presidency of a College is about to be 
established in Calcutta, having the power to 
confer degrees. Pupils from all government 
schools throughout Bengal are to be admissible. 
-Among the Swedish emigrants who ar¬ 
rived at Boston last week, were one hundred 
and fifty Mormons, on their way to Salt Lake 
City. Their leader glorified in four buxom 
wives. 
-Since the first discovery of gold in Cali¬ 
fornia the yield has averaged about $60,000,000 
yearly, or $5,000,000 a month,$1,250,000 a week, 
$178,571 fa day, $7,440 an hour, or $124 per 
minute. *“ 
-Bathing is recommended as one of tlie 
best inodes of preventing cholera. Among the 
16,000 who frequented the public baths of Paris, 
during a cholera season, it is said that but two 
died of the epidemic. 
--The native congregation, under the care 
of the missionaries at Beyroot, Syria, sent 1,000 
piastres, and the church at Hasbeiya 700 pias¬ 
tres, to aid in furnishing a million copies of the 
New Testament for the Chinese. £ 
-The Buffalo Courier is informed that the 
Rev. Dr. Lord, of that city, preached his farewell 
sermon to the congregation of the Central Pres¬ 
byterian Church, on Sunday week. He has 
preached in that church for twenty years. 
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