MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOE KIR: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Minnesota Correspondence. 
St. Paul, Minnesota Ter, Sept. 12, 1854. 
Mr. Moore : — Here we are in Minnesota, near 
the northwestcorner of Uncle Sam’s dominions, 
many miles from home, early friends and asso¬ 
ciations ; “ among strangers.” 
- We left R. the 23d ult., and at 9 o’clock in 
ROCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 30, 1854. the evening found ourselves safely on board the 
,, .'v./v,« Plymouth Rock,” one of the splendid steam- 
A New Quarter of the Rural commences e rson Lake Erie, which run in connection with 
next week, and consequently the present is a the Michigan Central R. R„ and the nextmorn- 
I ) favorable time to subscribe, or renew expiring i„ g at iy o’clock found us in Detroit on board 
subscriptions. All whose subscriptions expire the cars for Chicago, where we arrived at mid- 
with this number will bear in mind that our night, and remained over the Sabbath. Mon¬ 
invariable rule is to send no paper longer than Jay morn ing we took an early train for Galena, 
paid for—that we never visit without invitation, distant some 250 miles. The Chicago and Ga- 
or if so, ask nothing for such unsolicited atten- i ena Union R. R. is nearly completed to the 
I tion. Hence, those who wish to continue, un- ] at ter point. This road, we are told, is con- 
broken, an acquaintance which we (rust has structed through the pleasantest and most fer- 
thus far proved both agreeable and beneficial, tile part of Illinois. It is certainly a beautiful 
will please notify us individually, or through country. Broad prairies extend on either side, 
some friendly medium—the nearest Post-Mas- witli here and there a grove of oak and a bub- 
ter or Local Agent. As the season of leisure bling spring. The farms along the road are 
and long e\enings is at. hand, many of our fine, and the neat dwellings and spacious barns 
friends can easily obtain new subscribers in led ug to believe that farmers in Illinois are in 
"Western Correspondence; 
Stkambr Empire State, Sept. 2, 1854. 
Having our tickets bought at Sheboygan, Wis., 
Hmis p.!r:tnnpl!.'i. 
The “ New' Fashion”' for hats elicits the 
through to Buffalo, (for $9 each,) we took the following from the New York Times: 
Great Michigan Southern Radroad at the “ T he gentlemen’s beavers ibis fall have the 
„ r, . ,, v- 0 -. <. m brims set, underneath, with white fur, instead of of Boston last, week Thursday. 
o’ 8 J’ black. The effect is very startling, for it gives -A new ship in the yard of Mr.. Hood, at 
and it was our good fortune to have contracted y ()U the idea that every man you meet has either Somerset, Mass., was burnt on the 21st—loss 
in advance with the company that furnish pure been born wfitli lint wfiiite locks, or has grown * 00 , 000 . 
air and water, and a cooler transit in a hot day prematurely gray. Fitzboodle says it looks as _ Xbe re( mipf« 0 f new - cotton at New Or- 
than any other railroad furnishes! To be able a man " OIe , hats, Jew Costerniongei leans are very large. In one day they reached 
J fashion. msr.pan nf nni». It is a vprv r.nrmns o.von * x ° j j 
air and water, and a cooler transit in a hot day prematurely gray. Fitzboodle says it looks as _ Xbe rece 
, j. . , . m , i, if a man wore two hats, Jew-Costermonger __ , \ 
than any other railroad furnishes I I o be able . r ... leans are very h 
■ . ,, . _ fashion, instead of one. It is a very curious Kimit now 
to breathe comfortably in a crowded railway fashion, and a very new one.” over oouu uaies. 
car, and in spite of one’s languid feelings, too, 
when the heat is up to 120 ° in the sun, is real¬ 
ly a matter not so inconsiderable, especially 
when a “ consideration” has been paid, and a 
constitution put in jeopardy by contact with a 
tainted atmosphere, made worse than common i utterly to destroy them. Ar. elegant piano that 
A wealthy banker of Chicago named 
railroad is already furnished with twenty-four 
passenger cars, having affixed Dr. George F. 
Foote’s [Buffalo,-N. Y’.] Patent Ventilator, and 
their respective localities, and thereby benefit ,. easy circumstances.” handkerchief let loose when the car is in mo- ^ heingfuli^fYmpuritv 
all interested. Those renewing their own sgb- Our trip from Galena to this place was very tion, will wander and fly about like a feather, percentage of saline matter. 
ease, being full of impurity, and with a large its ravages are frightful 
. .- -; »-. .our i.rip irom catena to this place was very use a learner, percentage ol saline matter. _There are 237 causes on the calendar, 
scrip Lions can at the same time readily obtain pleasant. We were so fortunate as to secure a and finally By away to a screened aperture in The Savoy Gazette mentions that during for argument before the Court of Appeals at its 
and forward the names and money' of a few passage on the low-water steamer “Luella,” the roof of the car. I procured the following an ascent of Mont Blanc by an English gentle- next session in Albany. 
friends and neighbors, (those who often read Capt. Sam. Boyce, Commander, and although 
the RuRAL. and intend to subscribe,) and thus our voyage was rather prolonged, owing to nu- 
|R materially increase the circulation of the pa- merou8 sandbai . s and a 8carcit of watcr> we 
P er ’ and augment its usefulness. were made to feel perfectly at home. With a 
pleasant boat, and a pleasant crew, a sociable lot 
Whig State Convention. of passengers, plenty to eat and drink of the 
_ _ r best quality, who could not be contented, to say 
The Whig Convention of this State met at nothing of tLe varied scenery which ^ thp 
Syracuse on Wednesday, the 20th hist, and eye 0 f the voyager up the Mississippi? On 
nominated the following ticket for Slate officers: landing in thig city we found a carri in wait . 
For Governor, Myron H. Clark, of Ontario; ffig from the American House, the Astor of the 
Lieut. Governor, Henry J. Raymond, ot New Northwest; and here we are, surrounded by all 
York; Canal Commissioner, Henry Fitzhugh, the «comforts of life.” Messrs. L Long & 
of Oswego; State Prison Inspector, Norwood b hotiif .r know wellhow to cater for the public 
brief and correct description of his invention: man named Blackwell, a curious phenomenon -The value of the diamond which has 
r,., , , ,, „ ... . . , was observed. During the night, by an effect been found lately in Manchester, Va., is said to 
j’® °P of tbc car at tlie centl .'° are placed 0 f electricity produced by a storm, all the rocks be three or four thousand dollars, 
sheet iron bonnets, (one on each side,) so 0 f tlie Grands-Mulets were illuminated, and f , • 
arranged as to receive the air when the cars are when the persons present raised their arms into N v i/o,,,'! n,j „ ’i ? t - , e 
running in either direction, deflecting it down- the air the tips of their fingers became phos- V‘tnon' l i F u " ? L! it liii/ to 103 / * b 10 
wards through air chambers (placed within and phorescent 1 b 1 of 3000 bags luo sold at 10>< to 12%. 
on each side of the car) into a box or tank sus- . T • , 0 ,, , , , -The Independent. Democrats of New 
l _ .i a i- , . , ./. At St. Louis, on the 18th, between two rr , 1 ,, . c . , r , 
pended beneath tlie Hour ; from which it, is “i , Hampshire have called a Stale Convention, to 
i... „• .1 ■ ,, and three o’clock in the morning, a building * . , ,, 
conducted bv air tubes opening up into the car . , . r „ ° meet at Concord, on the 20th October. 
• . ^-11 b I H -1 temporarily occupied as a magazine for fare- „„ „ , , , , 
. Peaces along the aisle, wor l kS) wa8 struck by lightning, and a tremen- ,- ihe fro&t bas touched the leaves upon 
The bu k ^ (, P eni ”f 1,1 the U, P- dous explosion immediately ensued. The build- tbc trees ' V hlte Mountains, and the for- 
m mm-e Of n is P h c° ‘° ‘ U ing was entirely destroyed with all its contents, ests Ilow wear lbtir niagmfaeent autumnal liv- 
oi more ot water—allowing a tree passage of ’ er v 
„i. m . T „ ja F . ° and two men who were sleeping on the prem- vr J % 
nines le-dintr to a «m<dl 'mt ' - ms water, are j ses we re instantly killed. The loss of proper- -Lieut. Jolly, who had the passage with 
SKSttJL i P um P attached ty is about $2,500. P 1 Commander Hollins at San J nan, has hem. pro- 
to tlie truck iraroe, (which is driven by u belt. J ^ ... , % i, 1 • . 
passing around the axle of the car wheel,) then EUT Illinois is a healthy State, one would U . d to t)ie Iailk ol coniuia iider in die British 
back again to the tank and air chambers, where suppose, from the fact stated by the Jackson- seivice. 
Bowne, of Delaware. taste, and make the stranger feel at home in 
A senes of eleven resolutions were adopted, this far-off territory, 
the first of which asserts the patriotism of the Saint Paul is a very flourishing village of 
party and its unalterable attachment to the some G ,000 inhabitants, and growing finely, ev- 
Urnon. The seven next refer to the slave ques- ery steamer which arrives adding to its num- 
tmn, approving the ordinance of 1787; condemn- bers . Land speculation rages some in the towns 
mg the Nebraska Bill; repudiating ail compro- a i ong the river> from ^ l00 to $200 per foot be- 
mises( except those contained in the constitution) ing as ked for lots in favorable business locali- 
with slavery ; eulogizing the course of t! e New tie8 , and many have lately sold for the above 
York Senators, and the opponents of the Ne- prices . Farming lands, however, are more rca- 
braska Bill in Congress generally ; denouncing 8onable , raan y getting them at government 
the administration, its organs and supporters, prices, $1,25 per acre 
as slavery propagandists; declaring their aim We see in one of our daily papers, the wheat 
to be an extension of slave territory, and the crop of the territory, for the present season, is 
re-establishment of the slave trade. The ninth estimated by an intelligent farmer at two hun- 
resolution congratulates the people of the State d rcd thousand bushels. He says over forty thon- 
on the triumph of Whig principles in reference 8and bushels have been raised by the farmers in 
to the canals, and the prospect of their early the single district of Cottage Grove, and if this 
completion. The tenth denounces the late be not an over-estimate, Minnesota will have 
I residential veto of the River and Harbor Bill, nearly raised her own bread, 
and suslains tlie doctiine ot Federal legislation A new enemy to the potato crop is found in 
in aid of internal commerce. The eleventh and this vicinity, in the shape of a little animal 
last resolution pledges the Whigs of New York called the Gopher, about the size of a rat — 
to wage uncompromising warfare against the They dig their holes under the hills, and throw 
present administration, which, the resolution out the potatoes, destroying the choicest, and 
says, has proved so reckless of duty, and so re- leaving the others on the top of the ground — 
gardless of the rights and interests of the We will inform you more particularly of them 
. ... „ , when we have learned their nature and manner 
Nothing is said in any of the resolutions on of operations. They are strictly a prairie ani- 
the subject of Temperance or the Maine Law, mjd , therefore eastern farmers need not appre- 
but tlie fact of the gubernatorial candidate be- hend any trouble from them. 
Northwest; and here we are, surrounded by all air ab ® ve , i > J n connection with this water, are 
T pipes leading to a small rotary pump attached 
1 1 Messrs. L. Long <fc to the truck frame, (which is driven by a belt. 
Brother know wellhow to cater for the public passingaround the axle of the car wheel,) then 
taste, and make the stranger feel at home in Back again to the tank and air chambers, where 
-Lieut. Jolly, who had- the passage with 
Commander Hollins at Ban Juan, has been pro¬ 
moted to the rank of commander in die British 
by a simple arrangement of diffusers the water ' (Be Journal, that in the year 1829, (twenty- 
in its passage is scattered into a fine spray, fall- five J ears ago,) four families having emigrated 
ing into the tank to be used over again. When frora one of lh e older States to Illinois, settled 
the cars are in motion the air rushes’ in with in Morgan county. In these four families there grounds. 
-The Utica Telegraph states that the 
Oneida County Fair proved a total failure— 
not a dozen exhibitors remaining on the 
great force, passing through the spray of water were tbi, ty children, cousins to each other, all 
which washes down all dust, smoke, cinders, or wb orn are still living, 
other impurities coming up into the car as pure A fund of $1,GOO has been subscribed 
as a summer’s atmosphere after a shower, and by gentlemen in Boston, New York, Fhiladel- 
very much cooled. The water is changed daily phia and other places, towards erecting a monu- 
-YYm. Parrot, aged over 100, died in Lnu- 
rey, Y r a., on tlie 20th. He fought under Wash¬ 
ington, voted for him and every other President 
down to Pierce. 
very much cooled. The water is changed daily phia and other places, towards erecting a monu- _ An Englishman named Anthonv TRker 
when the roads are dusty The amount of air ment to the memory of the late Mr. Downing, ^ rob td, 2b^Tft upS 
received is easily regulated by a valve in each the Horticulturist. It is proposed to emu, it in Galena railroad track, near Chicago, on Satur- 
air chamber. the public grounds of Washington, upon the da , night week. 
During winter instead of water a stove is arrangement of which Mr. Downing was en- ,. T . . . . 
ulaced in a tank below the floor wlfisL l.natotLo the t.ime of his death. --Many of the Irish journals are now 
the public grounds of Washington, upon the 
During winter instead of water a stove is arrangement of which Mr. Downing was en- 
placed in a tank below the floor which heats the gaged at the time ot his death, 
ail in its passage, thereby ventillatiug and KiP” A meeting of the Board of Emigration 
warming all parts of the car alike, and that too was recently held in New York. It appears 
without the loss of any seats, which in other from their reports that there are 2,191 emigrants 
printed on straw paper, and it is expected that 
cars are removed to make room for a stove. at . Ward’s Island, and 177 at the Marine Hospi- 
From a gentleman who had tested the hot ta1 - TLlc t(,tal number of emigrants arrived at 
air arrangement last w inter, I learned that the 
ventilator was perfect in its w'orking and results, 
and is as useful and as necessary in the cold 
winter as iu the hot summer, as it affords to the 
passenger a pure and even temperature of air, 
IlSP” A- meeting of the Board of Emigration tJiev will soon be printed on paper made of 
was recently held in New York. It appears their own bo> r s. 
from their reports that there are 2,191 emigrants u ° , T , T 
. i, t i a i ii • 5 •' --Abram Greenlialt and Jacob Levy, two 
at VV aid’s Island, and 177 at the Marine Hospi- r , , , ... - 
, , mi , . i i e ■ , J wealthy Germans, have been arrested in Alha- 
tal. I he total number of emigrants arrived at. f ; . ... ,, 
• ■ A, . nv for robbing emigrants on the steamer llen- 
New York so far tins year is 2*7,136, be..,g an dr;cb Hudson? b 
increase ot 34,883 on the same time last year. 
- Lx-Gov. vVood, of Ohio, now lies dan- 
5T^° Dr - y* ddman, who recently introduced gerously ill at the Irving House, New York.— 
winti-y «« In .Vpi,,,* Lv ,. . munated tincture of iron iu Hie treatment of His disease is Panama fever, contracted on his 
w inter as n. the hot summer as it affords to the yell( ,w fever, at, Savannah, died of the prevail- return from South America. 
passenger a pure and even temperature of air, ing epidemic at that city on Sunday, the 17th _ . , , , . ... 
none being too hot or too cold, and a continual mst. It is said that he had cured upwards of , )oat atI ) el Tofi on^tL "l3th 'nit."* "hundred 
comfort to body and lungs. The common sort <>ne hundred and falty patients with luspeculiai 
c . ,, . . „ , remedy since the 21st of August, 
of cars in the train w'ere in all cases tenantless, .. . , 
• i . • lhe editor of the Providence Journal is 
so long as a single seat in the patent ones re- ** . 
- * a man, every inch of him. when he advises , , ■ , , - . 
mained unoccupied. A general amen and “God farmers to drive men with guns in their hands ? , 1 the ^ e a *! riv f 1 "! 
bless the Doctor” went out, and will continue off their premises, and says: We never believ- <Uie ’ 11 ee undred and 
to lx>. the erv until all the ^ t i„, ed that God made birds to be killed for sport; ' . . 
boat at Detroit, on the 13th inst., a hundred 
pound sturgeon bounded into their midst and 
was killed by them. 
-The Boston Courier says that during the 
to be the cry until all the passenger cars iu the 
land have been doctored and new Foot-ed .— 
The sagacity of the officers of this road bv 
and w'e are sure that one live bird, in a civilized 
country at least, is worth a dozen dead ones. 
-Depredations to the amount of $13,000 
had been committed in. the Augusta Post Office 
by a negro, w ho confessed his crime, and re- 
ing a strong advocate of the law', is deemed by 
the knowing ones sufficient to catch temperance 
votes, while an absence of a direct endorsement 
Yours, Ac. 
R. A. Nichols. 
vines, " une an aosence oi a erect endorsement Brother T. C. Peters, senior editor of the 
in the resolutions will save to the ticket the Wool Glwer and Stock Register, has been 
Whig lovers of good liquor, if any such there be. a£ rain nominated for Assemblv in tb. let DR. 
Frightful Railroad Accidents. 
On the 12th inst. a locomotive on the Yfirginia 
and Tennessee Railroad w'as throw'll from the 
track, which there rests on Iressel work, to the 
ground, a distance of sixty feet The conduct¬ 
or and tlie fireman, a free negro, went down 
with it, but the engineer escaped by jumping 
into a gravel car, three of which had been care¬ 
lessly left on the track by some laborers. The 
engine was completely wrecked, of course. The 
negro was immediately killed, and the con¬ 
ductor seriously, perhaps fatally, injured. 
again nominated for Assembly in the 1st Dis¬ 
trict of Genesee county. Mr. P. has represent¬ 
ed the District for the past two years, and liis 
re-nomination is alike creditable to the candi¬ 
date and constituency. Though his elevation 
to the Gubernatorial office was properly in or¬ 
der, be is not a man who will be likely to dete¬ 
riorate ere another State election. 
Pioneers ok Western New York. —The next 
Annual Meeting of the Pioneers of Western 
New Y'ork is to be held at the Eagle Hotel, in 
this city, on Tuesday, the 10th of October en¬ 
suing, at 10 o’clock a. m. All who were resi¬ 
dents of Western New' Y'ork on or before the 
adopting first, generally, this invention, has told j^Rob^ stored most of the money. 
immensely already to the purse of the compa- e , s not in the hands of bona fide purchasers are ve rSffit giveKetw to o!m ' K, hfio 
ny, by the increase of travel on this route. An of no intrinsic value, and therefore, not proper- agaillht Pari8b & O o , for the upsetting of astSe 
appreciating traveling public will be quite sure l Y : and b Y Ins direction the jury acquitted An- q lie verd j ct wa8 f or ojo QUO 1 
to advertise gratuitously for this railroad. Th. fcauXS’ticS — M, IMAM in ft. Frank!,,, 
company are putting the ventilating “masheen” (N. H.) estate is to be bought by Mr. Paige, one 
to all their passenger cars, and at an expense of JoHj prizes of £8 each are, to be> award- of the trustees, and outside competition is nei- 
.jtnnt in o.ni, ° ’ ed to the students of the schools of art through- ther expected or desired at the sale. 
about $1 ID each. out the British kingdom who shall most distui- _i ■ a 
Leaving the cars at Monroe, we walked di- guish themselves during the present year, so wost iLvl’i rk, u.ider the care" of the 
rectly on to the “Empire State” steamer, a that they may have the means of visiting Pans Children’s Aid S< c ety. Tluy will be appren- 
splendid craft The Captain and his Steward next 8U,nmer ’ “unng the exhibition. licecl to western i am i bes> 
arc every inch gentlemen, took proper care of I'our of the Unci,,uati dailies, the En- -A uniform penny postage is to be pro- 
their vessei and passengers, gave as a safe and ££ 
pleasant journey, and landed us on board the from ten to twelve cents per week. The in- „ f „ t ?„ ,' st d b ” ti " ! “‘ e '‘1’ ^ 
great Empire Slate at Buffalo. creased cost of paper, labor, &c„ is given as the ....... ‘ , . , 
After a laborious tramp -out west- of a *f’'*"% . fhRTrviSg.dii^evs wholertd nid'erV“d«J- 
whoie hot summer, I assure you friend Moom, , ov ^ e wkrfIf beshS7,rS’erSJh™ I'll !»*JS?*' fiS * *‘ -'lldam, 
it is not snrnrisin<r. wlipn hrnmrlif. 1 i _ a —4-1,^ 1. *i UB3T otel tin, at the age 01 nearly J2. 
-Mr Webster’s interest in the Franklin 
(N. II.) estate is to be bought by Mr. Paige,one 
of the trustees, and outside competition is nei- 
ty orphan children have just gone 
New York, under the care of the 
• 1 . r . Ullliei, VSUIUUJCJl'lO.ly i nucc, rtliu VfiUUIIimail, 
their vessel and passengers, gave us a safe and g ave agrecd to raise their terms of subscription 
pleasant journey, and landed us on board the 
great Empire Slate at Buffalo. 
After a laborious tramp “out west” of a 
whole hot summer, I assure you friend Moore, 
it is not surprising, when brought to a focus by 
from ten to twelve cents per week. The in¬ 
creased cost of paper, labor, Ac., is given as the 
cause of the advance. 
do any that flows in the veins of human kind. 
The upward and down trains on the Missis- lst day G f January, 1820, are requested, by 
sippi and Chicago railroad, met on the same ofHcial callf to attend without farther notice.- 
day near Joliet, and the latter being entitled to Xhe Pioneer Porlra it Gallery will be open on 
the track, the down train bad to return to Jo- the day of the meeting, and free to all members, 
liet, the first turn-out. In backing it was close- a pleasant and profitable re-union is antici- 
ly followed by the upward-bound train, and p a ted. 
the two together made an immense w r eight on -, ■ » . __ 
the rails; and when crossing over the Des The Forrest Divorce Case.— This celebrated 
such pleasant associations as those afforded by Just put a couple of generous pieces on plates 
the Michigan Southern Railroad and Empire ncar y^nr bed at night, and you will sleep un- 
State, that a fellow feels glad that he has lived, trmib 1 d b ^ ^ le j e l Hh,s ' 
and that he is still alive. I have a few notes T be L ” rd , S of . tbe T ^ eas, ”T have 
ed Mr. John Dicker, inspector of mails, the sum 
near Stettin, at the age of nearly 92. 
-A fire in Brooklyn, on Sunday night 
week, destroyed several buildings, and a wo¬ 
man, named Ellen Flanagan, perished in the 
fiaiues, after getting her child out safely. 
-Pittsburgh and Alleghany cities, both 
taken all over Michigan, that I may possibly 0 f £f>00, as a compensation for his invention of of which suffered severely from the drouth and 
frame into a future missile. Till then I am an apparatus for transferring mail bags to and the cholera, united on the 21st in the observance 
yours, very truly. 
Peter Saxe. 
The Forrest Divorce Case. —This celebrated Death of a Bishop. — The lit. Rev. Jona- 
Plaines River, a short distance from Joliet, one case is yet in Court undecided. It has been 
of tbe freight cars in the down-train jumped carried up on a bill of exceptions to the Court 
the rail, and falling from the sleeper broke the of Appeals, and is awaiting argument before 
tresseling of the bridge, and tbe whole work, that august tribunal. Mrs. Forrest obtained 
with eight cars, went down into the river to- a verdict in her favor, and an award of alimony, 
gether. The cars were literally smashed to we believe, by the jury, of about $3,000 a year, 
pieces, and a large amount of dry goods, boots, during life, for her maintenance. This decision 
shoes and general merchandize, destined for St- of the Circuit was affirmed by tbe Supreme 
Louis, totally destroyed or badly damaged.— Court, and the decree of the present tribunal, if 
from railway carriages at full speed, without of a day of public fasting and prayer, 
stopping. _ _ -The Bank of England has adopted a 
It. is computed that the Mormons in new plan of impressing the hank notes as well 
Great Britain number about 60,000, in Utah54,- a g the checks of that establishment, by very 
than M. Wain weight, provisional Episcopal 000, and that not less than 40,000 are scattered considerable improvements in‘the machinery. 
Bishop of the Diocese of New York, died in over Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and other west- . 
that city on Thursday, the S W, after an Ulncns « f “ »“ - eo^.S Cf,,r«K,™ 
of about three weeks. His disease was the Ty- 
, ., , , , . „ . , tot The new Legislature of Iowa stands:— •, , , . c ,. . , 
phoid lever, brought on by fatigue and exposure _Anti-Nebraska 16 • Nebraska 14_ llary and naval stores are of prodigious value. 
in the discharge of his official duties. He was House—Anti-Nebraska 40 ; Nebraska 27; giv- -Some idea of the extent of the depot 
a man of eminent learning and piety, and al- ing an Anti-Nebraska majority in each branch, which is to be erected in Albany for the New 
though a firm supporter of the creed of his own a,,d 15 majority on joint ballot, and which se- York Central Railway may be formed from the 
, . . r . cp' ii* , , cures an Anti-Nebraska Senator this winter. tact that it is to contain eighteen railway tracks, 
church, he was on terms of friendship and good J 
will with his nastoral brethren of all other de- Upwards of 400 vessels on the Atlantic -Not long since, Messrs. Evans & Arrow- 
computed to be £20,000,000. The fortifications 
have cost not less than £7,000,000, and the niil- 
Fortunately no person was injured. 
confirmatory also, will be final; but if adverse 
On tbe 20th, as tlie 1 J o’clock train from to Mrs. Forrest, the cause goes back to the Cir- 
Dayton, on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day- cuit for a new trial. It is rather expensive busi- 
ton Railroad, was running round a heavy curve ness for a man to law it with his wife, inasmuch 
near the depot in Cincinnati, the two hinder- as he is compelled to pay the expenses of both 
most passenger cars ran off the track and fell sides whether he wins or loses. 
down an embankment, a distance of ten feet, - * • ♦ . -- 
into the canal,resting bottom upward. No one, Another Missing Steamer. —The steamer 
so far as ascertained, was killed, but upwards of City of Philadelphia, consort of the City of 
thirty persons were badly injured. Galsgow, lately lost at sea with all on board, 
--- sailed for Liverpool on the 30th of August, since 
The Weather has been quite warm and which time nothing has been heard from her, 
pleasant for the season, during the past week, and very serious anxiety is manifested on her 
This, with the previous rains, improves the ap- account. The recent violent tornadoes that 
j earance of mother earth, elongates the pr.s- have prevailed on the Atlantic afford ground for 
turage, and indicates that the season of verdure reasonable fears that she also may have found- 
is “ to be continued.” ered at sea. 
church, he was on terms of friendship and good 
will with his pastoral brethren of all other de- 
cures an Anti-Nebraska Senator this winter. 
Upwards of 400 vessels on the Atlantic 
Ocean, ninety miles distant, were counted from smith, of Bristol, England, received at their es- 
nominations. The New Y ork press are united the Summit House on Mount Washington, on tablishment a sheet of paper weighing 3 cwt. 
in his praise. 
Teachers’ Institute. —At a meeting of the 
teachers of the county, held in this city on the 
23d inst., the following resolution was adopted: 
the 11 tli inst., when the best view since the and measuring 2,784 feet in length, or more than 
house was erected was enjoyed. half a mile. 
A correspondent of the Builder says -The pulpit frora which the Rev. G. Whit- 
that houses should be painted in the autumn; field, formerly of Crypt Church, preached his 
woodwork painted in October, he says, looks first sermon, has been purchased for the new 
better at the end of four years than, if painted Congregational chapel at Painswick Edge 
Resolved, That we request the Town Super- in June, it would at the end of two. Gloucestershire. 
intendents of Schools in this county to establish 5 * 3 ^" The late violent gale and storm appear -A gigantic painting on glass, represent- 
an Institute in said county this fall, pursuant to to have extended along the entire range ot coast ing Jesus Christ teaching the apostles to pray. 
the act of the Legislature of 1850. 
The meeting then adjourned to the first Sat¬ 
urday (Gth) of October, at which time a Coun¬ 
ty Association is to be organized and further 
action taken in regard to the Institute. It is 
hoped that a full delegation of teachers will be 
pr esent. 
from Florida to Bangor, Me. That portion of has been executed at Munich, to cover tbe win- 
coast from Georgetown, S. C„ to Brunswick, dow of a church at Hamburg. It is forty-five 
Ga., seems to have suffered most severely. feet high and fourteen and a half wide. 
2 ^” The Commonwealth newspaper of Bos- -Arch-Bishop Hughes has summoned a 
ton has been suspended for want of patronage, council of the Bishops of his Province, with 
The good will and effects have been transferred their theologians and the leaders of religious 
to a party who will publish an anti-Slavery, orders, to assemble at the Cathedral on the first 
Temperance and Protestant paper. Sunday in October. 
fhta Ihtbitifs. 
-Flour lias declined in Cincinnati to $7 
per barrel. 
-A smart frost was visible in the vicinity 
ac i • ,, v 1 r -i -Alexander W. Btow, first Chief Justice 
A fashionable New York family on re- of Wisconsin, died at Milwaukee on Friday 
urn.ng to their city residence last week after a inorning of last wec k. 
brief sojourn in the country, found that during ^ f 
their absence tbe rats had gnawed through the . --Lorenzo Saunders shot his brother dead 
water pipe and let in such a flood of Croton j n jOUlsa ^ (>i ndv, \ a., recently. The murderer 
water on to the carpets and furniture as almost ^ een arre 8 t °d* 
poison, often, by the diseased bodies and low cost $380 was sold for $70, in consequence of Green has been arrested on suspicion of having 
“spirits” of vile distilleries and nature. This the injury and the carpets, rugs and mats were poisoned his wife. 
•i 1 • 1 j r • 1 j , r so rotted that they fell to pieces. -The Dundee, Yates county, Record 8 avs 
railroad is already furnished with twenty-four n i „„„ _• *1 ♦ 1 m i 
nassenffer cars bavin? affixed Dr Georg* F 2 HTThe city of Quebec is about to be sup- ed n ! at P bice on 1 uesday week, 
passenger cars having affixed Dr. George F with ' water f rom the lake at Lorette. P ro8trated Lel "-« O'cua. 
Fooie & [buffalo,- N. Y .] 1 atent \ entilator, and xbe ) a t e i 8 abou t t.en miles distant, and suffi- -The General Convention of Uni verbalists 
by the use of which the dust is entirely subju- ciently elevated to enable the water to be con- of the United Slales met in Philadelphia on 
gated, and the air replenished perfectly purified, v eyed to the top of the highest houses in tlie Wednesday the 20th inst. 
and in quantity almost unlimited. A pocket ci, Y The w »ter has hitherto been carted from --The yellow fever still continues to rage 
i f , ,, . : the river, and has proved a fertile source ol dis- fearfully in the Southern cities. At Galveston 
faandkercluet let loose when the car is in mo- „ 00 „ „r . 1 . c.- 11 
