MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOR KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Woodland Fires. 
ROCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 2, 1854. 
Blessed Rain! 
About three o’clock on Saturday morning, a 
moderate shower passed over the city, accom¬ 
panied by slight electrical disturbances, and fol¬ 
lowed by a few scattering rain clouds ; just suf¬ 
ficient to lay the dust and moisten the parched 
and powdered foliage of the trees. These 
slight pluvial manifestations, however, were on¬ 
ly precursors of more plentiful showers, and on 
the afternoon of Saturday it commenced thick¬ 
ening up in the west and north, until the whole 
sky assumed an inky aspect. 
The rain commenced falling furiously about 
five o’clock, P. M., and lasted, with occasional 
cessations, for a couple of hours, washing the 
streets, filling the gutters with a floating accu¬ 
mulation of mud and filth, giving the thirsty 
earth one of the most thorough (in fact the on¬ 
ly ) wettings it has had for months, and demon¬ 
strating the truth of the declaration, if indeed 
it need any demonstration, that “ He causeth 
rain to fall upon the just and upon the unjust” 
All nature, both animate and inanimate rejoices, 
in the merciful dispensation; and the grass, 
lately so sere and brown, begins to put on its 
green once more. 
—Though the recent copious rains, both here 
and elsewhere, will prove of incalculable benefit, 
they were too late to save the corn and potatoes 
in many parts of the country, or to prevent the 
immense losses by fires, as well as drouth, in 
different localities of this and other States. But 
the unparalleled drouth has been checked in 
some, if not most places, and the fears of fam¬ 
ine at least partially dissipated. The aggregate 
damage, however, will prove immense, and must 
elevate and maintain the prices of food for the 
next twelvemonth. 
Look out for Bad Bills, 
The Dcmocr+t of Monday says: — “A de¬ 
spatch received by the Morse line on Saturday, 
says the notes of the following banks are dis¬ 
credited in New Y'ork : 
Bank of Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, Michigan ; 
Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Bank, of Adrian, 
Michigan ; Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank, of 
Memphis, Tennessee ; Bank of Carthage, Car¬ 
thage, New York; Lewis County Bank, Mar- 
tinsburg, New York; Bank of Sackett’s Har¬ 
bor, Buffalo, New l r ork ; Drovers’ Bank, of Og- 
densburg, New York; Bank of Milford, of 
Milford, Delaware; Bank of Commerce, of 
Carmel, New Y r ork ; Bank of Corning, of New 
York; Bank of Renssalaer, Indiana; State 
Stock Bank, of Peru, Indiana. There is no 
Indiana money which is really considered safe.” 
— Agents and others remitting payment for 
the Rubai,, will oblige us by forwarding New 
York or New England money, whenever con¬ 
venient. We do not require this, but it would 
save us much loss, and inconvenience in return¬ 
ing bad money. Where Western and Southern 
money is mailed, please give us the issues of 
the best banks —such bills as will not be likely 
to materially depreciate during transit, as have 
many (on some of above-named banks,) receiv¬ 
ed within past ten days. A discount of from 2 
to 5 per cent, is quite endurable, compared with 
total loss. 
Disastrous Conflagration. 
On the afternoon of Friday, the 25th ult., a 
tremendous conflagration occurred at Trov, by 
which nine lumber depots, a large number of 
manufactories and stores, and over two hundred 
tencme7its,vrere destroyed. Pour hundred fami- 
ilics are rendered houseless by this disaster, and 
property destroyed to the amount of $1,500,000. 
The loss on the lumber alone, comprising all 
the yards in the city, is estimated at half a mil¬ 
lion dollars. The fire commenced in the plan¬ 
ing mill occupied by Mr. Geo. Quiggins, and 
which is located on the corner of Division and 
Front streets. The planing mill was a wooden 
building, and the light materials in and about 
it were in a blaze in a few minutes, and the 
whole building was one mass of flame, whence 
it spread to the adjoining blocks, sweeping away 
whole streets, and laying in ashes within the 
brief space of a few hours all the eastern por¬ 
tion of the city. 
A strong north-west wind was blowing at the 
time; every combustible material was dry as 
tinder, and leaped into flame wherever a spark 
touched it; reservoirs and hydrants were desti¬ 
tute of water, and all the circumstances conspir¬ 
ed to make the confiagation extensive and dis¬ 
astrous. A million and a half is a sad loss, even 
for a city like New York, but to a young, vigor¬ 
ous, and enterprising community like that of 
Troy, where every dollar of available means is 
actively employed, such a calamity must be 
well nigh overwhelming. 
A Village Nearly Destroyed.— Last week 
Friday, the village of Waldoboro, Me., was near¬ 
ly destroyed by fire. It broke out in the first 
instance in a hotel, and from thence spread in 
various directions, consuming everything in its 
course, until arrested by the river. The proper¬ 
ty destroyed included two banks, the Custom 
House and Post Office, every store in the vil¬ 
lage, one timber yard, and two ships on the 
stocks, and will not fall short of five hundred 
thousand dollars. 
Our record of forest tires still continues.— 
Among the Green Mountains in Vermont the 
conflagrations have been very destructive. In 
the woods in the vieiuity of S wanton, near Lake 
Champlain and the Canada line, fire ran along 
either side of the Vermont Central Railroad 
track, a distance of more than two miles. Hun¬ 
dreds of trees were burned down, falling across 
the track, not only obstructing the movements 
of the cars, but burning the cross ties, and en¬ 
tirely destroying the track. Passengers have to 
be carried in wagons eight or ten miles around 
the fire. 
On Catskill Mountain two extensive fires have 
been lagingin the woods west of the Falls for 
several days, and fears were entertained that 
the observatory and boarding house near the 
Falls would be destroyed. 
A large fire of very singular appearance has 
been prevailing for several days upon the high¬ 
est mountain peak southeast of the village of 
Williamson, Me., and overlooking it. It is liter¬ 
ally a cloud of smoke by day and a pillar of fire 
by night. It stretches around the crest of the 
hill in a huge semi-circle. It will continue 
probably until there is rain, of which there is a 
great want thereabouts. 
The Argus says the fire in the pine words be¬ 
tween Albany and Schenectady has been so ex¬ 
tensive for several days as to envelop the Dutch 
capital in smoke, when the wind is in the right 
quarter. Its ravages are said to have been ex¬ 
tensive. 
A frightful fire is now raging in the woods at 
Cuyahoga Falls, Franklin, Randolph, Ravenna, 
Robertson, Northfield, and parts of Summitt 
and Portage Counties, Ohio. Even the soil is 
burning to the depth of one and a half feet. As 
the flames are driven forward by the wind, 
trees, both dry and green, are ignited in an in¬ 
stant, and almost as quickly consumed. Sever¬ 
al barns in the vicinity of the woods, stored 
with hay and grain, have been destroyed. Ap¬ 
prehensions are entertained for the safety of the 
town of Hudson. 
The woods near Painesville, for a mile in 
length, arc all on fire. 
Infamous Mobocracy. 
We learn from the Cincinnati Columbian of 
August 16th, that some time since an itinerant 
lecturer, who gave his name as Graham, passed 
through the interior of Kentucky, and was sus¬ 
pected of having seduced a number of slaves to 
leave tlieir masters and run for Canada. The 
masters, if they had caught him, would have 
inflicted summary punishment, but he managed 
to escape, and has not since been heard from 
A few days since, a respectable farmer of the 
same name, from Preble Co., Ohio, visited Cyn- 
tliiana, Ky„ at the time of the session of the 
Court, for the purpose of exhibiting an improv¬ 
ed plow of his own invention. A suspicion hav¬ 
ing arisen of his being the lecturer mentioned 
above, he was set upon by a mob, and, notwith¬ 
standing liis protestations of innocence, and his 
offer to produce ample testimony to the proof 
of his assertions, he was pelted with rotten eggs, 
his clothes ruined, his face blackened with in- 
dellible ink, and he was then ordered to quit 
the State under threats of still more serious 
personal violence. What renders the deed pe¬ 
culiarly infamous, is the fact that the man was 
as innocent of the charges brought against him 
as the child unborn. 
Catastrophe and Loss of Life. 
Two massive granite stores, five and a half 
stories high, just completed on Broad street, 
Boston, tumbled into a mass of ruins on the af¬ 
ternoon of the 21st. The settling and cracking 
of the walls gave the inmates due notice to 
withdraw, most of whom did so in time to save 
their lives ; but one clerk inside, and two little 
children on the sidewalk, were crushed to death. 
The cause of the lamentable occurrence, was 
the failure of a portion of the foundation wall, 
which was not of sufficient strength to support 
the immense superincumbent pressure. The 
building was a magnificent and costly block, 
and the loss will be near $100,000. A fire after¬ 
wards broke out amid the ruins, and raged vio¬ 
lently, destroying what of the goods had been 
spared by the wreck of the buildings. 
Arrest of Capt. Hollins. 
The New York Times states that Capt. George 
N. Hollins, of the Lfnited States sloop of war 
Cy.ane, has been arrested in New Y'ork city, by 
Deputy Sheriff Yultee, at the suit of Calvin Du¬ 
rand, for destruction of property at the bom¬ 
bardment of Greytown. The order of arrest 
was granted by Judge Oakley, of the Superior 
Court. The damages are laid at $14,000. The 
amount of bail given by Capt.IIollins was twen¬ 
ty thousand dollars. His sureties were Hon. He- 
man J. Redfikld, Collector of the Port; John J. 
Cisco, Sub-Treasurer ; and J. Romeyn Brod- 
head, Naval Officer. The arrest was made just 
as the Captain was leaving the City for Boston, 
and after giving bail, he prosecuted his journey. 
Judge Bronson, the candidate of the Ada¬ 
mantine wing of the Democratic Party, who 
declined in advance, but was nominated, not¬ 
withstanding his declension, for Governor, has 
been waited on by a committee, and at their 
earnest solicitation, has consented to allow his 
name to be used. There will be a triangular 
contest in this State, if not one of more sides 
lian even that; and whichever party wins will 
probably act upon the motto, “ to the victor be¬ 
longs the spoils.” That motto is the ne plus 
■ultra of modern patriotism. 
Got His Pay. 
It will be recollected that at the time of the 
rendition of the fugitive slave, Burns, at Bos¬ 
ton, and while the hearing was going on before 
the U. S. Commissioner, Richard II. Dana, one 
of the Counsel for the slave made some severe 
but just criticisms upon the character of the 
Deputy United States Marshals, a number of 
whom were notorious bullies and blacklegs.— 
One of them named Wm, IIuxkord, a’ias Sulli¬ 
van, alias Oxford, assaulted Mr. Dana in the 
evening, knocking him down with aslung-shot 
and injuring him severely, for which assault he j 
was arrested and held to bail. Forfeiting his 
bail, however, he fled to New Orleans, whither 
he was pursued by an officer, and brought back 
in irons, tried and convicted, and on Thursday, 
the 24t,h ult., sentenced by Judge Perkins to 
eighteen months’ imprisonment in the peniten¬ 
tiary. 
A Strange Phenomenon. 
Wild Lands for Sale in Canada. —The Ham¬ 
ilton Gazette says about 2000 lots of land are 
offered for sale by the Government in the coun¬ 
ties of Wellington, Perth, and Huron. Part of 
them are school lands, and will be sold for $2 
an acre; the others are crown lauds, and will be 
sold for $1,50 per acre, in ten annual instal¬ 
ments, with interest. The sale will be condi¬ 
tioned upon actual settlement, as indeed itought 
to be. On payment of the first instalment, the 
purchaser wdl get a license of occupation, and 
he is expected immediately to go upon the land, 
build a house at least 16 <by 18 feet, and clear 
not less than two acres a year. The license will 
become void on neglecting any of the condi¬ 
tions, and is not transferable without permission. 
Cami’iior Producing Insanity. —The Toronto 
Colonist says :—“ We are informed that no less 
than eight persons have been admitted into the 
lunatic asylum in a state of insanity, occasioned 
by consuming quantities of camphor to prevent 
cholera. Some of them carried it about in 
their pockets, and kept from time to time 
eating small quantities of it. Others took 
it dissolved in brandy. In all cases where it 
was taken in any quantity, it produced insani¬ 
ty. It is a fact well known that a comparative¬ 
ly small quantity' of camphor will set a dog 
mad, and that he will soon afterwards die.” 
A Mr. Piilf.ger, of Pennsylvania, has con- 
scructed a locomotive for burning anthracite 
coal, which promises to reduce the expenses of 
railroad transportation very greatly'. One of 
this locomotive engines has been running daily 
between Philadelphia and Havre de Grace, on 
the Wilmington <fc Baltimore Railroad, for over 
two weeks. It has been attached to the express 
train, consisting of six or eight pas-enger cars, 
and, as we are informed, consumes only two 
dollars cost of coal per day. The wood-burn¬ 
ing locomotive which it replaced, consumed 
twenty-four dollars worth of wood per day. 
Sinking of a Railroad. —The track of the 
Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad, near Mad¬ 
ison, Wisconsin, has sunk about eight feet 
below its proper level, and now lies, for the dis¬ 
tance of half a mile, six feet under water. The 
road at this spot was built over marsh land, and 
the accident was caused by the heavy weight of 
the superstructure. The detention of passen¬ 
gers, and the cost of extricating the rails and 
filling up, will involve much inconvenience and 
expense. 
Severe Sentence. —A man named Porter, 
who keeps quitea celebrated hotel at Cambridge, 
Mass., has been sentenced, for violating the 
liquor law, to imprisonment in the penitentiary 
for four years, and to pay a fine of $350. The 
accused has appealed from the sentence. 
Dittos |Jara§ra$|8. 
Eds. Rural: —A meteor corresponding very 
nearly to the description of one given by Mr. 
Thomas— see Rural of Aug. 26—passed over 
this place Thursday evening, Aug. 17, at about 
'9 o’clock. It was visible but a few seconds, be¬ 
ing first seen in the east at an altitude of about 
30 deg, passing directly over this place towards 
the west. 
This may prove the same witnessed by Mr. 
Thomas. In size, it almost equaled the apparent 
magnitude of the moon at the zenith. It gave a 
very brilliant light, and although the night was 
quite dark, surrounding objects were as plainly 
visible as in a clear moonlight. This place is 
situated about two hundred and fifty miles east 
of Rochester. E. G. Storms. 
Crum Creek, Fulton Co., X. Y., Aug. 27, 1S54. 
One of the Pioneers. —A magnificent loco¬ 
motive from the works of Rogers, Kktchum & 
Grostenor, Patterson, N. J., passed through 
this city over the Central road on Monday, 
bound west. The name of the engine i s Nebras¬ 
ka, and was built for the Chicago and Galena 
Union Railroad. There are some of the most 
splendid engines ever constructed now running 
on the New Y’ork Central, but for magnificence 
of proportion and style of finish, the Nebraska 
bears away the palm. There is no doubt but 
that in its rush over the prairies, the Suckers 
will mistake it for an earthquake. 
A correspondent of the Ohio State Jour¬ 
nal says, that numerous frauds have been com¬ 
mitted by packers in flour, many barrels being 
short of weight from 12 to 14 pounds. This is 
quite an item at the high price now held, and 
somebody derives a large profit from roguery. 
It is also stated that barrels have been opened 
which were filled at the ends with superfine 
flour, and the center was a poor mixture of 
coarse grade and middlings. Packers are care¬ 
ful not Jo put tlieir brands on such barrels. 
Mary Sabilla, wife of Vincent Novello, 
the eminent musical composer, died at Nice, in 
Sardinia, on the 26ili July. She was an accom¬ 
plished woman, a loving wife, and a devoted 
mother, and the author of some literary works 
of a high order, and among the children whom 
she leaves are Mary Oowden Clarke, the author¬ 
ess, and the Countess Gigliucci,(Clara Novello) 
a lady of most brilliant talents as a vocalist. 
The largest picture on glass executed in 
modern times lias just been terminated at Mu¬ 
nich. It is to cover a window in the Church of 
St. Catharine, at Hamburgh, 45 feet high, and 
14’^ wide. It has been painted by M. Feruster, 
from designs by Overbeek, representing our 
Savior teaching the apostles to pray. The su¬ 
perb work has been executed at the cost of M. 
Y’orbeck, of Hamburgh. 
Hon. Sberrard Clemens, Ex-M. C., and 
now a candidate for a Judgeship in Western 
Virginia, in a recent speech at Morgantown, in 
which he denounced the Know-Nothings, as¬ 
serted that one-third of the signers of the De¬ 
claration of Independence were foreigners, 
which is a falsification of history. There were 
48 native born, to 8 foreigners, who signed that 
glorious document. 
IfSF’The Washington Star says Gen. Joseph 
Lane, of Oregon, has been quite ill at the Presi¬ 
dent’s house, since the adjournment of Con¬ 
gress. We hear that on learning of his indispo¬ 
sition, the President sent for him from his 
hoarding house, and he remained a guest at the 
Executive Mansion while sick. We are happy 
to say that he is again convalescent, however. 
H-SF” We are assured, says the Albany Atlas, 
that an agent of Cunard’s ocean steamers visit¬ 
ed this city a few days since, and purchased one 
thousand tons of coal for the use of their vessels. 
The supply in market is so limited that they 
cannot secure a sufficiency without making pur¬ 
chases elsewhere than at the mines. 
At a recent sale in Paris of the library 
of Armaiid Bertin. the late Editor of the De¬ 
buts, M. tie Rothschild gave 3900 fr. for a copy 
on large vellum paper of the original edition of 
the CEuvres de Voltaire, and to which M. Ber¬ 
tin had added more than 1000 autographs, por¬ 
traits, d'C. 
-There have been 1,174 deaths by cholera 
in Montreal this summer. 
-In Florida the papers tell of water-mel¬ 
ons weighing 50 and 81 pounds each. 
-It is supposed that the Mormon popula¬ 
tion of Utah territory, now reaches 50,000. 
-A camp meeting with one hundred 
tents, is progressing in Fairfax Co., Va. 
-The next elections will he held in Ver¬ 
mont and Maine, on the 5tli and 11th of Sep¬ 
tember. 
-The St. Louis firemen have contracted 
for a new steam fire engine, to be built in Sep¬ 
tember next. 
The Buffalo Democracy gives currency to (lie 
following, it sounds to us very like a humbug, 
and our readers may put such faith in it as they 
deem it to deserve, until some Hamburger (not 
humbuger) authenticates or denies it: 
A singular occurrence, resulting in a melan¬ 
choly maimer, took place, a few days since, in 
the town <4‘ Hamburg, in this county. An 
Irishman. »» sugaged in digging a well, and, 
after getting down to the depth of some 18 or 
20 feet, foiBi'J signs of water very perceptible.— 
At last he stuck his pick through a thin layer of 
slate, when, all at once, and with a noise like 
thunder, sufficiently loud to be distinctly heard 
all over the neighborhood, a stream of mingled 
gas and water burst through the orifice, instant¬ 
ly killing the unfortunate man, and filling the 
well to the depth of ten or twelve feet with wa¬ 
ter. Gas still escapes profusely, and the water 
is in constant and violent motion, resembling a 
large cauldron of boiling fluid. 
5^" Dr. Peter Smith, of Alexandria, Va., 
has invented a rifle which throws coideal slugs 
(ten to the pound) a distance of GOO yards, and 
with such astonishing accuracy that ten success¬ 
ive shots hit a target fifteen inches in diameter, 
and four of then, perforated the centre or bull’s 
eye. 
The Boston Traveller tells of a “solid 
man ” of that city, who moved out of town 
just in time to dodge his tax bill, and who, on 
returning, tound his forsaken mansion had been 
robbed of silver plate, clothing, ifcc., to the 
amount of several thousand dollars. 
The diamond for the finding of which a 
Brazilian slave received his freedom a few 
months since, has been deposited in a London 
banking house. It weighs 254 carats, anil its 
estimated value is £280,000—or, in round num¬ 
bers, $1,400,000 ! 
Hobbs, the American lock-maker, when 
in .Liverpool last month, was shown the strong¬ 
room of the Union Bank, and when asked if he 
could pick the lock of the door, a very strong 
one, he astonished John Bull by acconqilishing 
the feat in a very few minutes. 
JTff A Liverpool paper says :—“Within little 
more than half a century Russia has advanced 
her frontier, towards Berlin, Vienna and Paris, 
700 miles ; towards Constantinople, 500 ; to¬ 
wards Stockholm 630 ; and towards Teheran 
1000 . 
A man in Chicago fled from his wife, who 
had the premonitory symptoms of cholera, tak¬ 
ing with him three children, and leaving an in¬ 
fant with his wife. The poor woman died for 
pwant of that immediate attention which her ljus- 
band should have rendered. 
The Spanish revolutionists were success¬ 
ful m their recent rising by means of a secret 
organization, on the plan of the “ Know Noth¬ 
ings,” throughout the Kingdom, and it is be¬ 
lieved to extend over Italy, Hungary, Germany, 
and even to Russia. 
£ 3 gp The Annual Fair of the Erie County 
Agricultural Society will be held in the village 
of Aurora, on the 20th and 2lst days of Sept. 
The Address will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. 
Lord of Buffalo. 
The late election in Oregon was very 
exciting, and resulted in a triumph for the 
Democrats. The Convention party were badly 
beaten, and it will be sometime before Oregon 
applies for admission as a State into the Union. 
There are sixteen ships now building at 
East Boston. Among them is ship Commodore 
Perry, which is nearly ready tor launching. 
She is 2,000 tons, and is intended for a Liver¬ 
pool liner. 
There is to be another Regatta at Na- 
hant, on a scale so extensive as to eclipse all 
former ones which have taken place in this 
country. The prizes will bo headed with a 
$1,000 uote as the first. 
-The steamer Huntsville, loaded with 
dry goods, recently struck a snag about sixty 
miles from St. Louis, and was lost. 
-It lias been ascertained that the average 
duration of the life of a London “ oinnibus- 
horso” is under four months. 
It is said that Mormonism is rapidly 
spreading in Denmark. Entire villages have 
gone over to the new faith, and so rapidly is 
proselytism progressing that the government is 
growing uneasy, and is taking measures to pi t 
a check to the evil. The Danish women arc 
more easily converted than the men. 
The Green Bay Advocate learns that on 
Monday, 7th iiist., the boiler of the steamer 
Barlow, running on Lake Winnebago, burst 
while lying at the dock in Oshkosh, killing sev¬ 
eral persons. Others were blown into the river 
and more or less injured. 
The Clinton County Ohio Imposing 
Company lately sold tlieir stock at Wilmiiilnui, 
at profitable prices. Cows brought as nigh 
as $1,675; bulls, 2 years old, $3,700 ; heifers, 
$l,U60; calves, $125; and sheep, $125. YVe 
give the highest figures—others sold lower. 
It is stated that Victor Hugo is a dis¬ 
heartened exile in the Island of Guernsey ; La¬ 
martine is nearly forgotten ; Alexander Dumas 
is neglected ; only Guizot, Villemain, Augustin 
Thierry, and Victor Cousin remain, of first class 
French writers, and of these last, Guizot alone 
is active. 
-Col. Richardson has been nominated for 
re-election by the Democrats in the Quincey 
(III.) district. The Anti-Nebraska candidate is 
Archibald. Williams. 
-There arrived at the port of Quebec this 
year, up to the 12th inst., 39,000 emigrants— 
14,000 more than for a conesponding period 
last year. 
-'Fhe store of Martin, Owen <fc Co., burn¬ 
ed at New Orleans on the 5th,contained 15.000 
barrels of whiskey, every barrel of which was 
lost 
-The crop of breadstuff's in California is 
more than sufficient for the next 12 months, 
and large shipments have already commenced 
to Australia. 
-The Syracuse and Binghamton railroad 
is completed to 'Fully, twenty miles From Syra¬ 
cuse, and a regular passenger train has been put 
upon that section. 
-The sexton of All-Saints’ Church, of 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Eng., has been commit¬ 
ted to trial for stealing lead from the coffins in 
the grave yard vaults. 
-The sale of Prescott’s Histories is esti¬ 
mated at 160,000 volumes, and of Bancroft’s 
History 30,000 volumes,—a sale, for such a 
work, entirely unprecedented. 
-—The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of 
Ohio and the adjacent States, has passed a reso¬ 
lution not to admit to church membership any 
pei-son belonging to seeret societies. 
-The National Democrat says: — “YYe 
have reason to believe that Mr. Buchanan will 
resign his present position, and return to the 
United States within three months.”' 
-According to the returns received at the 
Auditor’s Office, the number of hogs in Ken¬ 
tucky over six months old is 1,515,699—an in¬ 
crease of 153,957 over last year. 
-The Boston Post estimates the amount 
invested in the book business in that city at 
nearly $3,000,000, exclusive of newspaper and 
periodical establishments. 
-Among the changes which the presence 
of the allies has wrought in Varna, Turkey, is 
a London “gambling bell ’’ thatshines in great 
glory, and draws in a great many victims. 
-The Rev. Dr. Huntington, of Albany, 
has accepted the appointment of professor of 
sacred languages arm biblical criticism, in the 
Auburn Theological Seminary. 
-The New Albany Tribune says a suit 
for damages against the Jeffersonville Railroad, 
for refusing to convey over it a colored passen¬ 
ger, has been decided against the road. 
-The water is so low in the long level of 
the Erie canal, east of Syracuse, that no boats 
can pass. There are a large number of boats 
in Syracuse waiting to be locked through. 
-A block of buildings, principally stores, 
on Main street, in Chatham, 0. W.,hasoeen re¬ 
cently destroyed by fire. The bridge across 
the Thames also burnt. Loss nearly $100,000. 
-A man named Humphrey Duncan, a 
slater, was brutally murdered by rowdies du¬ 
ring a fight in South Boston on Sunday night. 
The murderer, an Irishman, has been arrested. 
-It is said that boys are wading across 
the Ohio River at Kanawha. The river has not 
been so low since 1838. 
-The total value of taxable property in 
Boston, real estate and personal, is set down at 
$225,000,000. 
-The loss of life on western steamers for 
s : x months is about 250 ; and of property about 
two millions. 
-The famous fast-sailing yacht America 
is advertised for sale at Gosport, England, with 
all her costly and elegant equipments. 
-Mrs. Sarah Ellett, of Salem, N. J., has 
gathered one hundred good ripe lemons from a 
single tree the present season. 
-The Cleveland Herald is informed that 
a malignant dysentery is prevailing at Oberlin. 
There were four burials on Sunday week. 
•-Hopes are still entertained that the 
steamship Franklin will be got off so little dam¬ 
aged as to render it possible to repair her. 
-It is estimated that a decided majority 
of the 3-10,000,000 of Chinese population ac¬ 
knowledge the insurgent chief as Emperor. 
-Captain Maryatt’s daughter is about t.o 
appear before the public as a novelist. Her first 
work, in three volumes, is entitled “ Temper.” 
-The Illinois State Agricultural F’air at 
Springfiidd lias been postponed from the mid¬ 
dle of September to the first week in October. 
-The Newberry (S. C.) Sentinel, August 
16, says that gold has been discovered in that 
district, on a plantation owned by N. A. Hunter, 
-A house for tlie governor is nearly com¬ 
pleted at Springfield, Illinois. It is built by 
the State, of fine red brick, and will cost 
$25,000. 
-The Utica Herald is informed that many 
of the farmers in Oneida county are cutting up 
their corn in consequence of the continued 
drouth. 
-Mr. Conover, of Victor, met with a se¬ 
vere loss on Friday last. Several stacks of oats, 
containing from 600 to 800 bushels, were burn¬ 
ed. 'Fhe fire caught from the burning of stumps 
in a neighboring field. 
— The captured chief of a gang of Greek 
pirates has confessed that he was hired and 
paid to turn pirate, and prey on the French and 
English ships, by the Commissary of l’olice at 
Athens. 
-It is said that the mint of the United 
States at Philadelphia, uses $80,000 worth of 
nitric acid a year; and that the new Assay Of¬ 
fice in New Y'ork will require at least $60,000 
worth to start with. 
