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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOK KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
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ROCHESTER, AUGUST 26, 1854. 
j An Explanation, or apology, is somethingwe 
> never could pen with grace or facility*, and hence 
> constantly aim to avoid the necessity of taxing 
| our ability in that peculiar department. Rut 
> whenever duty demands, we are bound to “ face 
^ the music,” and perform the proper evolutions, 
) however painful the exercise. Therefore, we 
i proceed to state, what most of our readers know 
) already, that the paper upon which the Rural 
| has been printed recently, was quite inferior,— 
) and moreover, as they did not know, deeidedly 
^ differefit from our contract and expectations. 
) We are furnished by contract, which calls for a 
) superior and uniformly good article — for which 
v we pay an extra price — but, alas, paper-makers, 
) being only human, fallible mortals, sometimes 
C “ fail to connect,” and the innocent publisher, 
) like poor Tray, suffers the consequences. In 
: our case there was no immediate remedy; tne 
> manufacturer having supplied an inferior article, 
f and a good deal of the same, we were obliged to 
) use it,or none, for several weeks,—for it was ira- 
) possible to obtain elsewhere, on short notice, a 
( sufficient quantity for even one week’s edition,— 
) (conclusive evidence of the great inconvenience 
( of having a larger circulation than all the other 
; Rochester weeklies combined !) But. the paper 
C upon which our last number was printed, took 
) the palm for inferiority. N o small portion of the 
c edition made a decidedly un-Ruralish appear- 
) ance, and thousands of copies were unfit to send 
r our subscribers — men and women of sense and 
) discrimination. 
) — There, friends, we have made a clean breast 
) of it; and shown, we trust, that “ the head and 
> and front of our offending” was altogether 
| involuntary — originating with the man who 
> makes the white, and not with the one who has 
| the honor of furnishing you the printed, paper, 
i Therefore please refrain from giving us any 
credit for a species of economy sometimes 
practiced by publishers, but which we of the 
Rural could never willingly adopt. 
Forest Fires. —Immense damage has lately 
resulted from fire in the woods in various parts 
of the country. The long continued drouth that 
has prevailed for many weeks, has converted the 
forest into a vast magazine of combustible ma¬ 
terials, ready prepared for the torch of the in¬ 
cendiary or the brand dropped from the hand of 
the careless passer by. On the line of Railroad 
leading up the Lake shore from Buffalo, hun¬ 
dreds of acres have been burned over ; large 
quantities of wood, hay, <fcc., have been destroy¬ 
ed ; fences consumed, and large tracts of pastur¬ 
ing—no small loss io the farming community— 
irreparably injured. Between Silver Creek and 
Dunkirk, the fences along the track of the Rail¬ 
road are mostly obliterated. 
On the line of the Plattsburgh Railroad fire 
has been raging, and a few days since as a loco¬ 
motive was attempting to pass a pile of burning 
wood, the fireman was so badly injured that he 
died. In Steuben Co., also the loss by forest 
fires has been very great. The Saco (Me.) 
Da/iocrat says that a fire raged five days in the 
woods of Biddeford, burning over 1,000 acres of 
fine wood land, and ruining the timber. 
Important Railroad Movement. 
The managers of the four trunk lines of 
western railroads, viz., the N. Y. Central and 
Hudson River, the N. Y. tfc Erie, the Pennsyl¬ 
vania Central, and the Baltimore <fc Ohio, held 
a Convention at New York on the 18th, at 
which it was resolved to advance the price of 
freight and fares 20 per cent.; to run their 
trains at lower rates of speed, and to dispense 
with the services of all outside agents and run¬ 
ners. By this means an increase of receipts 
and an important reduction of expenditures are 
anticipated, an army of bullies and blackguards 
dispensed with, and the interests of stockhold¬ 
ers promoted. The only thing to be regretted 
in the movement, is the increase of tariff rates 
on freight and passengers ; and it is a matter of 
some interest to know by what right the Central 
advances its passenger tariff, as the statute au¬ 
thorizing its' consolidation fixes it at two cents 
a mile. This inquiry, in case the managers are 
proceeding illegally, may be put to them in the 
shape of a quo warranto. 
Settlement ok Kansas. —The papers are just 
now filled with notes of correspondents from the 
Kansas territory. All unite in praising the 
beauty of the country, the fertility of soil, and 
the healthfulness and mildness of the climate. 
Settlers are pouring into the territory from all 
parts, particularly from the North and West.— 
The stories about mob law and forcible resist¬ 
ance to peaceful immigration are all moonshine ; 
as the residents, both of the territory and the 
adjoining States, understand too well the value 
of thriving and industrious communities upon 
their borders to offer any resistance to the in¬ 
coming settlers. They are received, both at St 
| Louis and throughout the entire route, with a 
most sincere welcome, and are forwarded to 
their destination with a hearty God speed.— 
Another convoy of immigrants leaves for the ter¬ 
ritory about the middle of September, and in a 
brief period Kansas will be writing herself be¬ 
side the older States, “E Pluribus Unum .” 
Burning of an Excursion Steamer. —Long 
Island Sound came very near being the scene 
of a tragedy on the 16th. The steamer May 
Queen, having in tow a couple of barges, which, 
together with the steamer, were crowded with 
two thousand excursionists, went up the Sound 
from New York on a pic-nic. On the return 
trip the steamer took fire and was burned to 
the water’s edge, but very fortunately not a life 
was lost. The captain, on the discovery of the 
fire, headed the boat for shore, and ran her 
aground in shoal water, whence such of the 
passengers as could not crowd upon the accom¬ 
panying barges, leaped into the waves and 
waded ashore. 
Powder Mill Explosion. —Some villain, on 
the 13th, set fire to the powder mill at Mays- 
ville, Ohio, containg 800 kegs of powder, and 
blew it to atoms, besides destroying thirteen 
houses by the explosion and the consequent fire. 
Strange to say, not a single life was lost. The 
citizens were so much alarmed that some min¬ 
utes elapsed before any one would go into the 
street; the general impression being that the 
day of judgment had come—when the citizens 
had sallied out, they found the streets covered 
with fragments of houses, «fcc. The damage to 
property is between $50,000 and $100,000, and 
the Mayor has offered a reward of $1,000 for 
information that will lead to the conviction 
of the rascal who set fire to the magazine. 
Anti-Nebraska State Convention.—A State 
Convention ol delegates opposed to the Nebras¬ 
ka bill and to the further extension of Slave 
territory, met at Saratoga on the 16th. The 
meeting was very large, and composed pf men 
of distinction from all parties, who assembled 
for the purpose of taking such action as might 
be deemed most expedient to promote the ob¬ 
jects aimed at by the Convention. After organ¬ 
izing, a Business Committee, with Horace 
Greeley for Chairman, was appointed, who 
subsequently introduced a series of strong reso¬ 
lutions against the further extension of slave 
power. Considerable debate arose on the ques¬ 
tion of nominating an independent ticket, but 
the matter was finally settled by the adoption 
of the following among other resolutions : 
Resolved, That when this Convention does 
adjourn it will adjourn to meet again in Auburn, 
at 10 o’clock a. m„ on Tuesday, September the 
26tli, charged with the duty of presenting can¬ 
didates for State officers to be supported at the 
ensuing election. 
The Elections. —Election news from Missouri 
and Iowa have come in much more disastrous 
to the Democrats (especially in the former 
State) than was anticipated; six Whig Con¬ 
gressmen out of seven being elected. They owe 
their election in a great measure to the split in 
the Democratic ranks, the Benton and Anti- 
Benton wings waging war against each other to 
the knife. In Iowa the Whig candidate for 
Governor leads his Democratic opponent 4,000 ; 
both branches of the Legislature, and one if not 
both the Congressmen elect belong to the same 
school of politics. Augustus Caesar Dodge, the 
Iowa'Senator who voted for the Nebraska bill, 
will have an opportunity to retire to the shades 
of private life. Both the Democratic candidates 
for Congress in Arkansas, have been elected. 
Marriage notices must be accompanied by a 
responsible name to secure insertion in the Ru¬ 
ral, —and if the proper fee is added, no excep¬ 
tions taken. Some think there is propriety in 
paying $1, others 25 cents, and others nothing — 
according to the taste and pleasure of the bride¬ 
groom. All we require, however, is a properly 
authenticated notice. 
Madison University. — The Commencement 
of the Collegiate Department of this ( Baptist) 
Institution, was held on Wednesday week, at 
Hamilton, N. Y. Fourteen graduates received 
the degree of A. B., and one in the literary and 
scientific course. The Theological class gradu¬ 
ating, numbers four. Among the exercises of 
the week, were addresses on China, by the Rev. 
Dr. Dean, of China ; on the Romance of His¬ 
tory, by Rev. Dr. J. C. Lord, of Buffalo ; a poem 
by Augustine Duganne, Esq., of New York, and 
a sermon by the Rev. J. L. Burrows, of Phila¬ 
delphia. 
Plymouth Church. -The beautiful new 
church on South Sophia street in this city, is 
assuming shape and proportion such as it will 
present to the eye when fully completed. The 
brick portion of the tower is erected, and the 
framework of the lofty spire has been raised 
to its intended height, surmounted by a vane 
225 feet above the pavement. It presents a 
very graceful aspect, and is a conspicuous ob¬ 
ject from all parts of the city and surrounding 
country. It will be the most superb church 
edifice in the city, and one of the finest this 
side of New York city. 
A Peaceful Army. —The Grand Trunk (Ca.) 
Railroad have now employed on their works 
an army of 13,821 men and 1,846 horses, dis¬ 
tributed as follows : 
Divisions. 
Men. 
Horses. 
Montreal ai <t Toronto. 
954 
Eastern Division. 
50 
Central Division. .. 
253 
Western Division. 
240 
Toronto and Sarnia. 
74 
Victoria ISrid|<e. 
200 
Quebec and Kiclimond. 
75 
Quebec und Trois l’istoles. 
— 
Total. 
.13,821 
1,840 
How much better this is than to engage them 
for purposes of war and subjugation 1 
The Advertisements in our present issue will 
be found worthy of more than a passing glance. 
They includo several matters de erving special 
notice, but we can only mako this general ref¬ 
erence. 
A Brilliant Meteor. 
Eds. Rural : — A meteor of extraordinary 
brilliancy and magnitude having just appeared, 
I give its apparent locality in the heavens, with 
the hop,e that in connection with observations in 
other places, its distance may be determined, 
and an estimate of its real magnitude thus be 
found—which would certainly be a discovery 
of much interest in connection with these mys¬ 
terious bodies. 
It was about ten minutes past nine in the eve¬ 
ning, (Rochester time,) standing in the open 
air, I was suddenly startled with a brilliant 
light, like that of a flash of lightning, which, 
however, continued, and looking up towards 
the zenith, beheld a magnificent meteor, giving 
about one-half as much light as the full moon, 
moving rapidly across the clear sky. It must 
have commenced near the constellation Aquila, 
or the Dolphin, and soon after passing the head 
of the Little Bull (Taurus Poniatowskia) it be¬ 
came suddenly obscured, or nearly disappeared, 
changing at the same time from its first dazzling 
light blue color, to a faint and dull reddish hue, 
and at the same time throwing off several frag¬ 
ments. It disappeared near the star Zeta in 
Serpentarius, south about 40° west. Its whole 
time was not probably over two or three sec¬ 
onds. The suddenness and magnificence of its 
appearance prevented that accurate observation 
of its exact path which otherwise might have 
been attained, but it is believed the above is 
nearly correct. J. J. Thomas. 
Macedon, Wayne Co., N. Y., 8 mo., 17, 1854. 
Great Rains —Not in this region, sweltering 
reader, but in Europe. England and France 
have the deluge, while our skies are brass, and 
all nature is prematurely becoming sere. While 
every section of our country is suffering from 
the drouth, protracted beyond precedent, it 
may be slightly refreshing—if it chances not to 
be aggravating — to read of copious showers 
elsewhere. The Paris correspondent of the 
Journal of Commerce, under date of 30th July, 
writes:—“In the afternoon of Saturday sen*- 
night, Paris was flooded beyond any precedent 
this century ; several principal streets in the 
interior became unnavigable; a gentleman, 
resident in the Rue de la Victorie, has assured 
me that he saw boys swimming below his win¬ 
dow ; the omnibuses were everywhere inunda¬ 
ted, and all the cellars and shops in the square 
near the l iver. Tenants and landlords, builders 
and their employers, are at law on the point 
who are to bear the extensive damage to mer¬ 
chandize and structures of one kind or another. 
Five persons were killed by strokes of light¬ 
ning ; two were drowned in a narrow street, 
being swept from the pavement.” 
The Drouth. —The Tribune of Saturday sums 
up reports of dry weather from all parts of the 
country, with the assertion that the drouth now 
prevailing is more widespread and more destruc¬ 
tive than any heretofore known in America. The 
corn in many of the best counties of Illinois and 
Indiana, that promised an average yield of sixty 
bushels per acre, will, in many fields, not pro¬ 
duce a single bushel, and the product cannot 
possibly equel one-half the usual average, if in¬ 
deed, it equals one-fifth. This drouth is no long¬ 
er confined to few isolated localities; it extends 
from Maine to Missouri ; it has not only cut off 
Indian corn, but potatoes, turnips, and buck¬ 
wheat, and the fall feed for cattle. In some 
places the poor brutes are literally starving.— 
Some feed them out of their winter store, and 
some drive them to the woods to browse ;—all 
sell them as fast as they can, and many are sent 
to the shambles, though only fit for the knack¬ 
er’s yard.— Democrat. 
A Pioneer Gone. —The Milwaukee papers 
notice the death in that city, on Friday last, of 
Michael Dousman.the “ patriarch of Mackinac,” 
at the age of eighty-three years. He had been 
at Milwaukee, visiting his children, where he 
was taken sick, and for the first time in his life, 
within his recollection, was confined by illness 
to his bed. It was not supposed, however, that 
the attack was mortal; but on Friday afternoon 
he suddenly expired. His disease was an affec¬ 
tion of the heart. Mr. Dousman was one of the 
oldest pioneers of the northwest. He emigrated 
to Mackinac in 171)1, and had resided there con¬ 
tinuously for 63 years. By his prudence, indus¬ 
try and sagacity, he had acquired a handsome 
estate. A wife and six children survive him— 
four of his sons being prominent citizens of] 
Wisconsin. 
The State Agricultural Fair.— The New 
York State Agricultural Society have signified 
to the Common Council their acceptance of the 
offer of the use of Hamilton Square for their 
next annual exhibition. The American Institute 
having abandoned its annual fair for this season, 
will co-operate with the Agricultural Society in 
rendering the coming exhibition as extensive 
and interesting as possible. Hamilton Square 
has area of about eighteen acres. The ground 
is to be prepared for the purpose of the exhibi¬ 
tion by the 25th of September, and will be 
opened to the public on the 3d of October. As 
the Crystal Palace exhibition will be open nt 
the same time, a great influx of visitors from the 
country may be anticipated.— N. Y. Eve. Post. 
Gigantic Railroad Monoroly. —The Governor 
of Texas has awarded the Hon. Robert J. Walk¬ 
er and Thomas Butler King, as representatives 
of the Atlant ic and Pacific Railroad Company, 
the contract for building the road to the Pacific, 
which grants sections of land for each mile of 
road. The company, by this grant, will acquire 
about 11,000,000 acres of land. The contractors 
have deposited three hundred thousand dollars 
as security for the completion of the road. 
Widows and Pensions. —By a law on pen¬ 
sions, passed on the last night of the session, if 
the widow of a soldier marries, she loses her 
claim, but if that husband dies, she again be¬ 
comes entitled to her pension as formerly. The 
amount of the new act is, that whenever the 
lady is a widow, the government holds itself 
bound to protect her. 
Peaches are in market, and selling at 75 cents 
per peck. Though ripe, they are very diminu¬ 
tive in size, and of inferior flavor—items attribu¬ 
table to the severe and long-continued drouth. 
Crum Creek is the name of a new Post Office 
in Fulton Co., N. Y.,—E. G. Storms, I*. M. 
Dctos %TaragrapIjs. 
Miss Manning, one of the Cambridge 
teachers, was toasted at the late school festival 
in that city, in this style :—“ She has found her 
match, but we could never find her equal.”— 
The President asked the lady if she would not 
appoint a gentleman to speak for her, when one 
of the quick-witted youngstersexclaimed, “ She 
has already been spoken for.” Master Everett, 
son ot Hon. Edward Everett, then responded 
for Miss Manning in an appropriate manner. 
About a year and a half since, some 
persons in searching at West Milford, Passaic 
county, N. J., for iron ore, came across a bed of 
clay, with the nature of which they were unac¬ 
quainted. Until recently it has not been im¬ 
proved, on account of ignorance of its value; but 
a scientific investigation has revealed the fact 
that it is lvoalin, an exceedingly valuable porce¬ 
lain clay. 
A Washington correspondent of the Bal¬ 
timore Sun, learns that a fugitive slave, who 
had gone to a foreign country, upon sustaining 
in that country what he conceived to be a wrong 
from its government, applied to the American 
minister for protection as a citizen of the Uni¬ 
ted States. The decision of the minister was 
adverse to his right to claim the intervention 
sought. 
On Wednesday, the 2d inst., a quantity 
of old rags, some of which had been saturated 
with oil, were found to be on lire in the garret 
of a store in Doylestown, Pa. It, is a clear case 
of spontaneous combustion, as the tags had 
been in a box for several days, and no fire or 
cigars had been taken into the room. The fire 
originated about the center of the pile. 
The Salem Gazette says :—“ The sect 
of Millerites, worshipping in this city, who hold 
that Christ will come to judge the world before 
the year 1854 expires, have made quite a num¬ 
ber of converts, and baptized them, within the 
last few months. A gentleman who has held 
an important office in our community, within a 
year or two, was baptised on Sunday last.” 
JvfF"The Duke d’Elchingen, second son ot 
Marshal Ney, died recently at Gallipoli. The 
Duke had felt for some days a slight indisposi¬ 
tion, when he heard of the death of his mother. 
That melancholy intelligence caused him a most 
lively emotion, and immediately after alarming 
symptoms appeared, and at four in the afternoon 
he ceased to exist. 
5*^” A scarcity of Agricultural laborers seems 
to prevail in France, and the Minister of War 
has ordered that the soldiers throughout the 
country may assist in harvesting, in case of ne¬ 
cessity. The prices are to be fixed belore hand, 
and as long as there is a civil laborer unoccupied, 
no soldier will be permitted to harvest. 
Of iron foundries there are in Pittsburg 
thirty-eight, of which number nine are steam 
engine factories, and twenty-nine for the manu¬ 
facture of hollow ware, machinery, tfec. The 
former have an aggregate capital of $541),000, 
produce 120 steam engines yearly, and consume 
3200 tons of wrought and 9200 tons of pig iron. 
A young man named Lusk, student of 
Yarn College, was knocked down in Norwich 
city, Ct.., on Sunday evening week, badly beaten 
and stamped upon, by a clan of men none of 
whom he could identify, and all for no other 
conceivable reason than that he wore a Know- 
Nothing hat. 
The long continued drouth has caused 
nearly all the private cisterns in Brooklyn to be 
deficient in water, and it is said that some of 
the residents have been glad to obtain rain¬ 
water even at the cost of paying sixpence per 
pail to their more fortunate neighbors. 
jaTThe Louisville Journal of Aug. 10,says:— 
The river presents a sorry sight, fcxtemboats are 
almost getting a curiosity. None but stern- 
wheelers are running above this, and they plow 
their way over many of the sand bars with great 
difficulty. 
jrgfHon. George Underwood, of Auburn, 
has given $500 to Hamilton College,the income 
of which is to be annually given as a prize for 
proficiency in Chemistry ; and Hon. Aaron 
Clark, of New York, has provided, by a similar 
donation, for the same proficiency in Oratory. 
iflgr Ceylon has been visited with great storms 
and destructive floods. In some pails people 
had to seek refuge in the tops of trees. At Co- 
lumbo, the lightning struck down nearly a 
whole company of the Ceylon rifles, but only 
one man was seriously hurt. 
Thirteen persons are employed at a 
manufactory for preserving tomatoes, in Tren¬ 
ton, N. J. About half the number are girls.— 
Some of them are steaming, others are cutting 
off the skins and filling the cans, while three 
persons are engaged in soldering up the cans. 
A large barn situated in the south part 
of Barre, Mass., was recently entirely destroyed 
by fire, with all its contents, consisting of hay, 
grain, and a new outfit of farming tools. The 
fire was set by some children who were playing 
with matches in a hay mow. 
U^"The Rev. Josiali Grinncll, late of New 
York city, with a number of New England 
people, has purchased thirty or forty thousand 
acres of land in Iowa, about half-way between 
Davenport and Iowa City, and commenced the 
work of building an enterprising town. 
There was brought up from the bottom 
of the lake at Blattsburgh the other day, the 
wheel of an old cannon-carriage, and it has 
been ascertained that the gun, a P’rench one, 
still lies there. This relic must date back to 
the time of the P’rench occupation of the country. 
All the parties of Government Engineers 
recently engaged in running experimental 
routes for a Pacific Railroad, are now in Wash¬ 
ington, engaged in bringing up their several 
reports, which are to be ready by the next meet¬ 
ing of Congress. 
It is not generally known, says the Leb¬ 
anon Advertiser, that Lindley Murray was an 
American, and born within the present limits of 
Lebanon county, Pa. He was born in the year 
1745, on the Swatara, in East Hanover towilship, 
then Lancaster, now Lebanon county. 
M. P'ranz Kroger, a goldsmith at Frank- 
fort-on-the-Main, who died, has, with the ex¬ 
ception of a few private legacies, left the whole 
of his fortune, amounting to nearly 400,000 
florins, to the charitable establishments of that 
city. 
Some genius at the West, who has an 
arithmetical turn of mind, has figured up the 
cost of extending the area ot freedom to Alexi- 
co, Cuba, Hayti, Porto Rico and Canada, at one 
thousand million of dollars. 
Gov. Wright, ot Indiana, has been invit¬ 
ed to deliver the annual address before the New 
York Slate Agricultural Fair in October next. 
The value of the premiums to be delivered on 
that occasion will exceed $8,000. 
Deta Drebiti^. 
-The recent fire in New Orleans destroyed 
property to the amount of one million. 
-The Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad 
is to be opened on the 12th of September. 
-The President threatens to remove all 
the Know-Nothings who hold office. 
-A paper called the Omaha Arrow, has 
been started at the City of Omaha, Nebraska. 
-Blackberries, if thoroughly ripe, are not 
only a very palatable but a thoroughly health¬ 
ful fruit. 
-Congress appropriated $1,500 in the Ar¬ 
my Bill for a sword to Brevet General John E. 
Wool. 
-The Boston Atlas says there was a severe 
frost at hast Moultonborougli, N. II., on Tues¬ 
day night of last week. 
-There are seventy-two hotels in Boston, 
and the amount of capital invested in them is 
estimated at $4,000,000. 
-The salary of the Mayor of St. Louis has 
been increased to $2,750, and the City Engineer 
to the same amount. 
-The average expense of a voyage from 
New A ork to Liverpool, of the Collins’ steamer, 
is $76,200. 
-Brevet Lieut. Bonaparte, now in France, 
has sent in his resignation to the War Depart¬ 
ment, and the same has been accepted. 
-Com. Hollins, of the sloop-of-war Cyane, 
lately went to Washington, and had an interview 
immediately with the President. 
-Secretary Mi rcy has for several days been 
so ill of cholera morbus as to be unable to leave 
his house. He is, however, getting better. 
-Ex-Senator Downs, of Louisiana died at 
Crab Orchard Springs, Ky., on the 15th. Ho 
had been sick for some time. 
-Thirty-six yellow fever cases have oc¬ 
curred on board the P’rench man-of-war steam¬ 
er lying off Norfolk, Va. 
-Secretary Dobbin is said to be one of the 
candidates for the vacant Senatorship of North 
Carolina, to be filled next winter. 
-In town of Niles, Mich., which has a 
population of two thousand five hundred souls, 
no death has occurred since the 24 th of P'ebruary. 
- -Dr. J. C. Patterson, Postmaster at Mc- 
Whii terville, Tenn., has been arrested for rob¬ 
bing the mail, and committed for trial. 
-Nineteen thousand six hundred and eigh¬ 
teen foreign emigrants landed in New Fork from 
the 1st to the 12th inst,., inclusive. 
-The President has appointed Thomas C. 
Porter as Collector of the port of New Orleans, 
vice Solomon M. Downs, deceased. 
-A man fell from the Railroad Bridge over 
Allen’s Creek, near this city, a few days since, 
a distance of 90 feet, receiving fatal injuries. 
—— A strong tide of emigrating Savoyards is 
setting in at. Genoa for America ; upwards of 
500 having arrived there in the course of a week. 
-Not one-fourth of the present rank and 
file of the U. S. army are Americans, while about 
three-fourths of those in the service are Germans 
and Irish. 
—— Another and a larger party of emigrants 
for Kansas, will leave Boston on the afternoon 
of the 29th, and probably pass through this city 
on the 30th. 3 
-As nearly as can be ascertained, ten per¬ 
sons were killed in the recent riots at St. Louis, 
and some of the wounded are not expected to 
recover. 
-The citizens of Louisville voted Monday 
week on the proposition to appropriate $100,000 
to complete the School System, and carried it 
by 1,800 majority. 
-The will of Commodore Porter, recently 
deceased, has been entered for probate in the 
Orphan’s Court. The entire property is be¬ 
queathed to Mrs. Porter. 
-The emigration of Hollanders to this 
country, during a few years past, has been very 
great. One colony in the west part of Michigan 
numbers 2,902. 
-Judge Edmonds is preparing a second 
volume on “Spiritualism,” the completion of 
which, however, has been interrupted by his 
serious illness. 
——The New York Tribune recommends the 
election of Fred. Douglas as the successor of 
Gerrit Smith, in the Oswego and Madison Con¬ 
gressional District. 
-The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Ohio 
and adjacent Stales, has passed a resolution not 
to admit to church membership any persons be¬ 
longing to secret societies. 
-The opening of the Bytown and Prescott 
(Canada) Railroad to Kemptville, a distance of 
24 miles, was celebrated on the 9lh, with appro¬ 
priate ceremonies. 
-It is rumored that the eldest son of the 
Prince of Prussia is to marry the Princess Royal 
of England, when she is sixteen—which will be 
in a little more than two years. 
-On June the 24th, there was upwards of 
one ton of letters accumulated at Constantino¬ 
ple from England, but no one had authority to 
break the seals on the bags. 
-Three out of the four Swedish chambers 
have adopted a law allowing Jews to live in any 
Swedish town. This is a small beginning of 
Christianity and toleration. 
-The Mayor of Toronto has refused to 
permit Franconi’s Hippodrome to perform in 
that city. The authorities of Yorkville refused 
a similar application. 
-Count Casimir Bathyani, one of the most 
prominentfigurers in the Hungarian struggle for 
independence, died suddenly at Paris, on the 
12th of July, in the 46th year of his age. 
-Thus. II. Benton, being defeated for the 
House, has announced his intention to stump the 
State of Missouri, for the purpose of securing his 
election as United States Senator. 
-A man, who had the appearance of being 
a farmer, and who was under the influence of 
liquor, recently jumped overboard from the 
steamer Southern Michigan, and w as drowned. 
-Capt. Chapman, of Austin, Texas, while 
encamped out, was bitten in the night by a tar¬ 
antula. He suffered for some days, but finally 
obtained relief by repeated applications of soda. 
-The first white male child born in Ne¬ 
braska since the passage of the organization bill, 
was born at Dr. Clark’s Hospital, Nebraska 
Centre, in June, and was christened Bill Ne¬ 
braska Kinney. 
-The Wisconsin University, at Madison, 
is now in process of erection. It is to be built 
of stone, on an eminence a mile west of the cap- 
itol, in a park of fifty-five acres. It has a fund 
of $400,000. 
