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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOB KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
ROCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 23, 1854. 
Prospective Prices for BreadstufFs. 
Bankrupt Railroad. 
The committee appointed bj the stock and 
bond-holders to investigate the affairs of the 
Buffalo & New York City Railroad, which con¬ 
nects the former place with the Erie at Hornells- 
ville, make some very startling disclosures in 
regard to its management. They represent the 
concern as utterly bankrupt, and recommend 
that prompt and vigorous measures be taken to 
wind up its affairs. 
The committee say that four days previous to 
their arrival in Buffalo the Directors executed a 
people recognizes a greater supply of grain 
than was at first anticipated. The streams have 
to reduce the price of flour, and as a conse¬ 
quence also the market value of the grain. 
Again, the harvest in Europe is coming' in bo "g ht in b Y him in his own name, for the ut- 
abundantlv, and the weather, according to last terl y inconsiderable sum of $10,000. The road 
accounts, is most favorable for securing the crop. P a Y s neither dividend nor interest, and the 
California, which heretofore has been the recip- araount of the latter now over due on the mort- 
ient annually of thousands of barrels of flour S a S e b °nds, is $42,000. 
from the Atlantic States, will more than supply The man who own & but little stock in such a 
her own wants for the year to come, and thus corporation has reason to be thankful that he 
another drain upon the market will be cut off owns no more > for the lai ¥ er the number of 
and that amount throw r n back for home con¬ 
sumption. 
shares standing in any person’s name, the poorer 
he would be. With ten thousand shares he 
The reaction has already commenced in the vould be nominally worth a million dollars, 
New York market, on which the Journal of when at the same time there would be actually 
Commerce says: “ When the market shall be lib¬ 
erally supplied there must be a great falling off 
in prices, but how soon that will be even specu¬ 
lators cannot determine. Common State flour 
was sold on Saturday,' to be delivered at the 
option of the sellers, any time in October, at 
“ none so poor as to do him reverence.” 
Indiana Correspondence. 
Indianapolis, (Ind.,) Aug. 28, 1854. 
D. D. T. Moore: —After a long and circuitous 
$7 50, or about two dollars below the current tramp, by all sorts of conveyance, including 
rate. More would now be sold on the same « D an Bromley’s Packet,” on the Wabash canal, 
terms.” we find ourselves at this common centre of In- 
Still there is no occasion for farmers to be- diana. This is a level city, and contains 15,000 
come panic stricken in consequence of the prog- « Hoosiers.” It is regular in shape, and its Cap- 
nostics in commercial circles of lower prices; itol and Post Office are really capital fixtures, 
the margin for a decline between the present The workingmen here are in no hurry, and ap- 
and the lowest remunerative rates being so pear to be moderate in avarice as in motion — 
enormeus, that there is no probability of pro- Corn is the chief staple of this portion of the 
duce reaching the latter point for a long time State, and the crop is quite short, Irish pota¬ 
to come. Farmers have been wise, however, toes, in spite of the “Know Nothings,” are 
who have sold their.wheat at or above two dol- worth $1,60 per bushel; sweet potatoes are 
lars, as the interest of the money, the insurance sold from wagons in the street at $3. The hens 
against injury to grain, and the ehances of a stand the drouth better than the soil, and this 
lower figure very much counter-balance the year produce better—a bushel of e^rs costs less 
chances of a better market. than the same quantity of potatoes ! The city 
~ — of Lafayette, on the Wabash river and canal, is 
Rain Once More. More rain fell during last the smartest business city in the State—has 10,- 
week Thursday and Thursday night than has 0 00 inhabitants—is 91 miles north ot the Capi- 
fallen at any one time, or perhaps all times, tal, and is located handsomely and naturally 
since June. I he streets and sewers of the city, under the hills, with its canal and railroads on 
and in many cases the basements and cellars of the lower side. The chief railroad passing 
stores and houses, were flooded with water.— through the State terminates, south, at New 
Some damage was done to the sewers, especial- Albany, on the Ohio, and north at Michigan 
ly where they had recently been laid down and city. It is 288 miles long, is a new road, very 
the earth at the openings had not become sufli- level> and t he northern 72 miles is directly 
ciently compact. In one instance a gas pipe „ straight,” an “air line.” This road is con- 
was undermined and broken, which caused the ducted with eastern ability and sagacity ; all its 
escape of five or six thousand cubic feet of the officers are WO rking men. unstarched, active and 
fluid before it was cut off. The weather has 
been cool and the air bracing since the rain, and « yr, 
nearly all traces of the cholera wiped out. Wa- ^t ()1 
ter in the river is in much better supply, and j no . 
the thousand wheels of our busy city have yj 
once more resumed their tireless revolutions. 
obliging. A conductor, whose name I learn is 
“ North,” in his vocation certainly “ knows no 
North,” but does know and attends to his call- 
tne uiousana wneeis oi our Dusy city nave Michigan City has a local and transient pop- 
once more resumed their tireless revolutions. ulation of f)i0 00 to 7 . 000 , is a white sand town, 
Since the above was vwitten, there has been a ^ ^j ie south end of Lake Michigan, and in the 
another rain, viz., on Monday evening, with northern extreme of Indiana. The intersection 
cloudy and warm weather succeeding. 0 f the Great Indiana Railroad with the Miclii- 
gan Central Railroad is at this place. The very 
Good. The Grand Jury, which recently sat in bes fc railroad buildings, engine houses, manufac- 
this city in connection with the Court of Ses- turing and other combined conveniences, are 
sions, made a presentment of Alain street and here i ocate d and built in the most approved 
Court street bridges, and indicted them in con- modern 8 ty i e . Outside of this Lake City, and 
sequence. These two bridges have been com¬ 
plete death-traps for years, and it is high time 
throughout the county of Laporte, (signifying 
“ the door,” and being at the entrance of a large 
That Meteor,-Again. gfetaj f 
Eds. Rural :— I see some of your correspond-_ 
ents notice the meteor of the 17th of August. A gentleman in Washington, the other 
The writer had a fair view of it, and it was day, had occasion to send a letter to a friend 
ZW A gentleman in Washington, the other 
JLtos Dnbitits. 
-The Mormon population of Utah is 50,000. 
-There has been 1,774 deaths by cholera 
in Alontreal, this summer. 
-In Denmark, entire villages have been 
truly a most beautiful object. At this place it thiough the postoffice. Being destitute of a in Montreal, this summer. 
, , , , . ,, ... stamp, he gave a German boy in his employ t in , ... 
was seen about 14 past nine P. AI. 1 he night three cents with which to pa/the postage.- „ eiltire , 'l 11 
was cool and clear. The meteor appeared to The boy, on his way, slipped the pennies into C 61 , t0 the At(>rmon faith - 
originate near the zenith, and moved in a direc- the letter, deposited it in the box, and some- ^ ba, e ' R bl the Treasury 
t.ion n liit.lo north of east, mid it. ovnlndnd mid what astonished the recipient by the singular $'~:>JW 0 .U 0 U subject to draft. 
of United States 
tion a little north of east, and it exploded and ’"'hat astonished the recipient by the singul 
. , , on , , ,, . enclosure, for which he was obliged to pay iif- 
disappeared about 30 degrees above the horizon. t , c t postage 1 J 
The commercial papers East and West seem 1 ne comnnuce sa J T,,at Iour aa T s P revious 10 
to entertain the nearly unanimous opinion that their arnval 111 Buftal ° tllc Directors executed a 
the extreme high prices of breadstuffs which secret lease of the road and its appurtenances to 
have been ruling for many months past cannot Bie ^ resident, A. D. 1 atchin, for the term of 
be maintained for a great length of time to one or three years, at the option of the lessee ; 
come. With the advent of abundant rains b Y which lease he is to receive, out of the fiist 
which have recently fallen all over the country, earnings of the road, ten per cent, on its gross 
has disappeared much of the panic in regard to receipts a sum which, as near as the commit- 
the crops ; and the sober second thought of the * ee can estimate, must amount to about $ 20 ,- 
Its motion was comparatively slow, giving the ^ The citizens of Florida are engaged in -The Cincinnati Price Current, gives the 
beholder time to contemplate its astonishing the discussion whether they shall remove the hog census of 64 counties in Indiana at 2,168,833. 
brillancy and beauty. In its progress it threw seat of Government, as the Constitution provides - The Mis80l , ri Legislature will stand 
off flashes or scintillations, causing many per- [ rom , lahahjisse, the present location, which is Whig, 60 : Anti-Bentonites, 60 ; Bentonites 4l’ 
, , 1 , ., two hundred miles from the geographical centre b ’ ’ "em.uiiues,»i. 
sons who only saw the light, to suppose that it of the State; and at i eas t one hundred and fifty -The Sandwich Islands will, it is said, 
lightened a number of times in quick succession, miles from the centra.of the actual population/ cease to be importers of flour from this time for- 
In size it appeared a little less than the full The ship Shannon, of Glasgow, with her waI <b 
moon at zenith. Its brilliancy was most intense, cargo, together valued at $ 100,00(1, was burned -7 K- Collins gave Miss Dix, the philan- 
fully equal to the sun, but of a different light, at sea on the 3d ult^, on her passage from Glas- thropist, a free passage to Liverpool in the 
, b gow to Montreal. She was 600 tons burthen, J a cific. 
Wgo qu.te.desp blue color. a„d one of the fine*, modelled vessels belong- —The Sanlt Canal Company have now 
But there was one circumstance connected ing to the Clyde. Her crew and passengers, 1,700 men in their employ, and the work is rap- 
with it, I have not seen noticed by any of your forty in all, were taken on board the ship Glen- idly advancing. ' 1 
correspondente, and that the deep, run,!,- Shells weighing 100 Ibe. were fired frn.n J eWeX^*# 1 ? 0 *!“ ’V"’? ,mi 
lmg sound which followed it, causing many Lancaster’s long-range gun the other day, on Network k f B ’ are in circulat,0)1 1,1 
persons who only saw the light, to suppose that board a vessel near the Isle of Wight with a " ‘ 
it lightened and thundered. This sound re- surprising result. One was sent 4,000 yards , ——.Cholera, since it first appeared in 1817, 
-The number of deaths in New Orleans 
last week, by yellow fever, was 125. 
- The Cincinnati Price Current gives the 
000 or $25,000 per annum. That he, (the 
President,) who is ex officio the agent of all par- 
commenced rising so as to enable the millers to ties in interest, has been permitted to obtain a 
enter upon a career of increased activity, and judgment against the company, without opposi¬ 
te forwarders to send on the flour towards the tion > for upwards of $150,000, without any le- 
sea board. This increase of supply will tend S al investigation of the sum due him. That 
the rolling stock, worth half a million of dol¬ 
lars, has been actually sold at Sheriff’s sale, and 
r ——The Missouri Legislature will stand. 
Whig, 60 : Anti-Bentonites, 60 ; Bentonites, 41. 
-The Sandwich Islands will, it is said, 
cease to be importers of flour from this time for¬ 
ward. 
-E. K. Collins gave Miss Dix, Ihe philan¬ 
thropist, a free passage to Liverpool in the 
Pacific. 
-The Sault Canal Company have now 
1,700 men in their employ, and the work is rap- 
Lealher Bank, of Boston, are in circulation in 
New Y'ork. 
—— Cholera, since it first appeared in 1817, 
sembled very nearly a distant train of cars in 'hstance. and reached the top of a cliff 500 feet yuo oVuie" human raT ^ ° f 7 ° ,00 °'' 
.. t. i i ■ , , , ,, high. It was calculated that in a tranquil sea, OI ll, e numan lace. 
rapid motion. It was heard in about half a so that good aim could be taken, a mark 7,000 -The executors of Samuel Appleton have 
minute after the meteor disappeared, was very yards distant might be hit by this gun. handed over $20,000 to the new Ipswich (N.H.) 
distinct, continued a half minute or more, and The Gacela of Costa Rica calculates the -^PP^ eton Academy. 
then closed by a number of sounds exactly re- destruction of locusts in that country, in conse- ^ he hand ot an active compositor travels, 
sembling the'discharge of distant artilery in qu^ce of the measures dictated by the govern- in picking up the types, in a single day’s Avork, 
.. b . b J ment, at 150,000,000 insects. Up to the 24th of nearly nve miles. 
rapid success*." July, J-°00 sacks of the insects, weighing each -The clerks in the Post Office at New Or- 
" his place is about fifty mdes South-west of 60 pounds, had been presented, for the purpose leans, lately left in a body, owing to a quarrel 
Rochester. AI. L. Ross. of obtaining the bounty offered by the govern- with the Postmaster. 
Wiscoy, Allegany Co., N. Y. men t for their destruction. -Alurdock, the actor, has iust returned to 
WLscoy, Allegany Co, N. Y. men t for their destruction. -Alurdock, the actor, has just returned to 
-♦ ♦- IW A newspaper called the News and Ad New Orleans from California, having made a for- 
„ ci mi n /■ vertiser, has been established at the town of tune there. 
alamities AT the . ouTH.-The yellow fever Hampton, Va„ in the famous congressional dis- -A recent fire in Halifax destroyed the 
has been raging with great severity m some of tnct of Virginia known as Wise’s, from the fact central portion of the Government Role in- 
tlie Southern cities, and particularly at Savan- lts having been tormerly represented by the volving a loss of some £2,000 
nab. So terrible did it. manifest it«elf in the U°n. Henry A. \\ ise. It was his boast at, that _,i. T ... i, , 
^ e time that there was no newspaper printed in the <• T i^' B ? raar f ne lias J l ! st sold a history 
bodies district. 1 * F of Turkey, in six volumes, to the proprietors of 
latter city, that one day last week ten bodies district. IFF 
were left unburied, and the sick and dying were ^ It appears from the report of the Insper- 
destitute of attendance or visitation. In addi- tor, that the enormous capital of five million 
tion to the epidemic, the city and vicinity inland dollars is employed in the milk business, in 
for a distance of seventy miles, have been visit- ^ olb and vicinity. 3 he amount paid for 
a Paris daily newspaper, for £4,800. 
-The grand exhibition of the industry of 
Nova Scotia, will commence at the Government 
House, Halifax, sometime in October. 
for a distance of seventy mdes, have been visit- NeW T ‘«* aild The amount paid for - October. 
, , , ,. .. . , ... . , .. pure country milk is eslunated in the report at -The Newfoundland Times understands 
ed by a destructive tornado, winch ruined the $1,350,000; for swill milk from the distillery fed that there has been a great falling off in the 
crops, unroofed buildings,and did an incalcula- cows, $2,450,000, for water and adulteration, fisheries on the French shore of the Island. 
ble amount of other damage. 
$1,250,000. 
On Tuesday week the house of Mr. Bald- 
--T he Princess Zeniade Charlotte Julie win, at Alo'riah, Essex county, was burned down 
Indian AIassacre. —The Indian tribes on our ’’°naparte died at N aples, on the 8 tli. She was and himself, wife and four children perished in 
imp o Hnnryhtnr t r* . ... .in * 
Western and South-western frontier, are becom- 
the eldest daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, King 
of Spain, and was born at Paris on July 8 th 
i«no «i,„ i..• r> • , ’ 
the flames. 
-Over 100 citizens of Montreal visited 
ing more and more hostile and troublesome.— 1802. She married her cousin, Prince Charles’ p T~ 1 V ° of J” ont , real visited 
The War De, arlrncM has recently received in- »»<1 JeaTei. 1,'L' LllAhe Q Ln ''MouSo B„y| and 
formation from the commander of Ft. Laramie of eignt enuaren. ^ ^ left delighted. J 
the death of Brevet Second Lieut. Grattan, of the f ^^H^e^ St CaU ?! ^, -Donnybrook Fair, in Ireland, once so no- 
Sixth Infantry, and 20 of the men of tl.at post, f t3 left leg broken, some time befoTe -IKSS "'/Tl f °!i. f ; e y drit ' s ’ commenced on the 20th 
who went out to the Sioux, under his command, mage is of a brownish hue. Its wings measure, i 1 H • ff. •. 
They were killed in a fight with the Indians on when fully extended, 6 feet 6 inches, and its 1 " d <U '* 
the 18th of August. height from the floor, when the beak is fully 
__ drawn up, 4 feet 3 inches. The skin is to be 
. „ stuffed for preservation. 
V « acknowledge tie rccc.pt of a basket of 5 ^ By the census ,,0850 the population of 
very fine pears from Mm C. S. H, of Clinton, the Cnitod .States was over twenty-three mill- 
Oneida co„ N. Y r . ions; of which eighteen millions were native 
-- ■-*. - ■ * * • ^ - wliites, over two millions were foreign b?>yn r 
Nebraska Indians Starving. —The Iowa Ga- lb ‘ rt Y' n ’ n ® thousand were of unknown nativi- 
zette savs the condition of the Otoe and Mis- ties, and three millions two hundred thousand 
ettri TtJi.ne ic ^niovePo ci __a...:_wereslaves. 
oi August, but has now become an extremely 
-Two members of the Swiss Rifle Com¬ 
pany, New York, on Alonday fired ninety times 
at a target ninety paces distant, and missed it 
but twice. 
-The Halifax Sun of the 12th inst., savs : 
filiation. Loss $15,000. 
-The French Government is removing 
from office all public administrators and medical 
officers, who deserted their posts on account of 
the nuisances were abated, as it is quite proba- prairie ,) the corn and grass, also wheat, is an 
ble they will now be. The city and county abundant crop , and tbere appear8 to have been 
have been waiting for an appropriation from the n0 8uffering from tbe univeTsal drouth , for a dis- 
State in aid of the re-construction of the first tence of 40 to 50 miles south ; but as vou pro- 
named bridge, but the application to the Legis- ceed further south , the are pinch ‘ ed down 
lature has been unsuccessful. In tbe mean time sbort corn and « 8mall potatoes.” Near 
the structure has been approaching the extreme Monticello> the county sea t of White county, a 
point of dilapidation, until it is now utterly un- „ liye stock company> » located hereabouts, were 
safe for the passage of man or beast fading upon the cars of this new railroad 570 
~ ' head of fat cattle, destined to the New York 
Maine Election.— The election in Maine , . m, . - 
market. Ihese cost from $3 to $o per cwt., 
took place on the 11 tli inst. Parties were much . m ■ 
, r . (live weight.) iliey were grazing upon as 
split upon various issues, prominent among . , . ,, , . , , , , . , 
1 r * 6 sweet and tall grass as heart or head could wish 
which are the Maine Law, the Nebraska Bill, r , • . ,... , , , 
’ ’ for, and were in extra condition for the butcher, 
and Know Nothingism. Free Soilers and Whigs 
Maine Election. —The election in Maine 
united, in many cases, under the title of “ Fu- 
sionists,” and elected a large majority of their 
candidates. Of the officers chosen, the Anti- 
Nebraska party have the Governor, all the Con- 
The Wabash canal extends from Toledo, in 
the northwest corner of Ohio, a distance of over 
500 miles, to Evansville, in the southwest corner 
of Indiana, and is decidedly a great canal, pass- 
"“J f vymiLuu, the United States was over twenty-three mill- - namax oun oi rue imn mst,, savs : 
Oneida co., N. Y. ions; of which eighteen millions were native Jhe orders for the immediate embarkation of the 
-. ^ „__ whites, over two millions were foreign born regiment and a company of artillery f»»>m 
Nebraska Indians SiARViNG.-The Iowa Ga- thirty-nine thousand were of unknowli nativi- tll,s g™n^.r England, is countermanded. 
zette savs the condition of the Otoe and Mis- ties ’ a , ,iiree milllons two hundred thofisaud --The Washington Globe says:—The treaty 
souri Indians is deplorable, Government having veie slaves. annexing the Sandwich Islands to the Uuited 
neglected to comply with treaty stipulations. T be Knoxville, Tenn„ papers relate that ‘ ,atL ‘. s ’ al j e assare d from good authority, is 
Those tribes are suffering from hunger, and 011 the 10th of July last, Sarah E. Davis was U °" 1,1 ,be State Department. 
have commenced ravaging the gardens, and married to Patrick Welch, who left her a widow -J be subscription for the monument to 
plundering file whites sojourning in Nebraska at the end of fourteen days, and on the 12th of Prof. Wilson, progresses most favorably. The 
of everything they could put their hands upon. r sbe ^ a ' d aside her weeds and became the subscriptions already exceed £900. The sum 
The whites have each paid over teu dollars, tvife of Thomas Collins. required is about £1,400. 
which was to secure them from molestation.— A Mormon train consisting of nine -A raft of timber, being towed from New 
The Indians, when upbraided for their breach wagons and some fifty persons, crossed the Alis- ^ orb to New Haven, separated in the Sound, in 
of faith, state that the Great Father has broken souri at Belleview, Nebraska, on the 14th of » storm, and only three sticks reached their des- 
hispledge to them, and they are compelled by August, on their return from a six years'resi- filiation. Loss $15,000. 
hunger to break their faith with the emigrants, deuce at Salt Lake. They lefton account of the -The French Government is removing 
- ♦ • --- immorality and oppression of the Mormon from office all public-administrators and medical 
The Iron Foundries ok Pittsburgh.—T here C 111 rcb - officers, who deserted their posts on account of 
are now in Pittsburgh thirty-eight iron foun- SSP"The Price Currant’s annual statement the approach of the cholera. 
dries, of which nine are almost exclusively em- sets down the cotton erop at 2,930,000 bales, and -Letters from residents in the western 
ployed in the manufacture of steam engines, the year’s receipts at New Orleans at 1,141,000 part of the State of Ohio, mention that the crop 
and twenty-nine in the manufacture of various ba l es : the value of the cotton received at $54, of apples in that vicinity is very large, and the 
kinds of hollow-ware, machinery, <tc. The 2.>0,000, and the value of olher articles at $60, fruil is sold at low rates. 
foundries which are employed in the manufac- JJJjMjg • the value of the year’s exports at $84, -A couple of German Jews, smugglers 
ture of steam engines, consume yearly 3,200 UU0 ' U0 °- have been arrested in New York, wlio had in 
tons of wrought iron, 1),:200 of pig iron, employ Chief of the Police of Poston reports belts around their bodies $150,000 worth of dia- 
040 men, and produce 120 steam engines every for the past month these facts and figures:—For- monds, watches and jewelry. 
year. Their net capital is $540,000. eigners arrested, 1,679 ; Americans, 440. The -The proposition to sell the public markets 
--- number of Americans, it will be seen, is but a in New York city, has met with a recommen- 
Reciprocitv.—G ov. Gorman, of Alinnesota, is r'i'L.T'ru 1, ns is significant, and datum to do so, by the Finance Committee of 
ex officio agent for the Minnesota Indians. At criminals?” the question, “Who are our the Board of Aldermen, 
a recent council of the Chippewas, he threaten- . _ . . , r . , -Dr. T. Wood, of Cincinnati, recently re¬ 
ed any of them.who might be found drunk, &T ft sad effect of the Maine law in Port- moved a large tumor from the shoulder of a flve- 
with the loss of their annuities, and said what ‘fuel is that the city is driven to luring men to year-old Alley, while the animal was under the 
was thus forfeited should be divided equally “° tb f wo l rk hirmerly done by the inmates of influence of chloroform. 
among the sober ones. Hole-in-the-dark, a , anns-house. Go badly has the alms-house _r rl T ^ -ii T n l ... 
distinguished warrior^. remarked in reply that b ^e ls food for the thoughts of standing tie shortnels 8hc% 
it was just, but that the same rule ought to be . . , countywillthisyearfattenforthemarket80,- 
applied to the agent, who was a great man, and ZW there is a sum of about £15,000 aecu- 000 hogs Twiee as many as last vear 
had a great annuity. It ought to be taken from mulated from unclaimed property in the English Vi m ‘ J 
him and divided like tlie others,/or Aew/druwit Post Office, and this amount is about to be ded- f i , 6 ]■ asbl "? ton City Uouncil has re- 
very often. icated, with the consent of the treasury, to pro- fu f et to e . nfo , rc « the P. rohlb ' b >ry liquor law, 
-- moting life assurance among the post office wbicb leceived the sanction of the people at the 
The Crops in Canada.— A Goderich corres- servants. ... reCeilt mun,cl P al electlon in that c,t Y- 
pondent of the Toronto Colonist, writes that the 5-iF” Hooped dresses, it is said, are likely to -Daniel Ames died at Mottville, Conn., on 
crops in the United Counties of Huron, Perth come into vogue again, as the fashionable lead- the 29th lilt., aged 10t) years one month and ten 
and Bruce, are now secured in good order. Ho are of Paris are taking the preliminary steps to days. He was wounded at Bunker Hill, and 
considers that crops in those Counties are one- accustom the eye to the increasing rotundity.— was in several other revolutionary battles. 
third greater than they ever produced before. ^ ven now some have their dimensions enlarged _mi,„ Qlirm i v • , . , 
h. he lid an during use of crinnlin. and wba,W 
the present summer of viewing and examining Among the curiosities to be transmitted re-manufactured and used over again, the ink 
-Dr. T. Wood, of Cincinnati, recently re¬ 
moved a large tumor from the shoulder of a five- 
year-old Alley, while the animal was under the 
gressmen, every State Senator, and eighty-two in S direct1 ^ tlirou S h twenty-seven counties and 
out of ninety-eight members of the lower ei S bt cities> ^ is the main artery of the State, 
koufte and imparts a business life and activity to full 
-♦ . - one-half the area of Indiana. The other half 
Riot at New Orleans.—A fearful riot com- is now being supplied with the best of railroads, 
menced at New Orleans on the evening of the diverging and converging to all sections and 
10th, and was kept up at intervals for three points. The “ Hoosiers” are of themselves, 
successive days, not being finally suppressed notwithstanding, a slow and easy lot of workers, 
until the entire Police force and the Alilitary and have an especial regard for a dog and gun, 
were called into requisition. Five persons were a leisure day and a large melon patch, and 
killed, and a large number wounded during the “reckon” fifty cents on the dollar a fair price 
various affrays. The .two hostile parties were for a wagon load of twenty to thirty big melons. 
Americans and Irish, and national antipathies Fruit is not abundant, so far as I observed, 
the moving cause. There must be something though there is a fair supply for the small num- 
radically defective in Irish character, for of all her of trees planted. The general carelessness 
immigrants from abroad they alone seem to be of the people I count tlie prime cause of their 
mixed up with nearly every scene of broil and deficiency in almost all varieties of orchard fruit- 
bloodshed. Peter Saxe. 
A lntfor wv • One-fourth of them find a market in England. 
Coal Consumption by Steamers. —The coals A letter from Waukau, M is., in the Ste- 
consumed by the West India and Brazilian mail y 111 , 1 inery, gives the number of feet of An English writer says you can tell when 
steamers amount to about 140,000 tons a year, J , 1 , 1 , 111 ,er 8 ? wed b Y °/l® P air saws in six days. Y ou are surrounded by a dozen Americans, by 
at a cost of from 40s. to 50s. per ton. The / he v numb er ^ 1 On,968, not counting the refuse the following unerring test—three will be found 
large steamer Atrato, belonging to that compa- Ij 1 " 1 ^ 1X inea were employed in tending smoking cigars, ami nine reading newspapers. 
ny, consumes about 1,300 tons in eleven or ie 1111 ’ -A rich citizen of Cologne lias given to 
twelve days. Thu extra expense of fuel latter- Twenty-five years ago—four families, that town some $70,000 to build up a public 
ly to the Peninsula and Oriental company, has having emigrated from one of the older states to gallery of the Fine Arts, an example which 
nearly reached a quarter of a million sterling Illinois, settled in Morgan county. In these might”be followed elsewhere with great advan- 
annually. four families there were thirty children—cous- tage. 
--ins to each other-all of whom are still living. _ The deepest well in the world, is said to 
An Old Printing Office.—A l. Barth, printer, (j®" Cassius M. Clay is sowing sentences and be the artesian well at St. Louis, which the 
of Breslau, celebrated, a short time ago, the reaping men throughout Illinois on the slavery Messrs. Belcher A Brother, of that city, have 
three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the first question. At Freeport, one of the banners of been boring for six years past. It is now 2,- 
book printed in his establishment. This book the delegation which turned out to receive him 2U0 feet in depth. 
is a German legend of some rank, and appear- b «re for a motto, « Help us, Cassius, or we sink!” -The Washington Union announces that 
edm 1504. M. Barths printing office is the jfBarnum’s showmen had a desperate orders have been received for the withdrawal of 
oldest in Europe, and has been for three lain- fight with rowdies at Rappahannock, Va., the the British fleet in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and 
dred and fifty years uninterruptedly in the other day. Many persons were knocked down, to throw open the prohibited fishing grounds to 
hands of las ancestors and himself. including the Magistrate. tho United States. 
