ROCHESTER, OCTOBER 28, 1854. 
Short-Lived Glory. 
The Baltic’s advices of the unprecedented 
successes of the Allies in the Crimea, have 
proved to be as baseless as “ the fabric of a vis¬ 
ion.” Rumor, li.ke the lying jade she ever 
proves herself to be, has played a real trick up¬ 
on our transatlantic neighbors; for it turns out, 
after a vast expenditure of jubilant patriotism 
in England and France, in which also our Can¬ 
adian neighbors joined, that Sevastopol has not 
been taken, 20,000 Russians have not been kill¬ 
ed, 22,000 have not been made prisoners, 800 
guns have not been captured, 10 ships of the 
line have not been sunk, and, in fact, the whole 
story is a sheer fabrication, or at least one hav¬ 
ing very slight foundations. 
The Allies have landed in the Crimea and 
quite a battle has been fought, in which the 
Russians were defeated and driven back upon 
Sevastopol, which is reported to be invested 
both by sea and land. The latest dispatches 
from Marseilles, Oct. 6 th, brought by the steam¬ 
er Fury from Constantinople Sept. 25th, state 
that the second line of defences had been car¬ 
ried, and that the siege was progressing, but 
without any absolute impression being made 
as yet upon the main body of the works.— 
That Sevastopol will fall is quite probable; but 
the premature announcement of its capture, 
was a cruel hoax upon the English and French 
people, and placed them in an extremely awk¬ 
ward and ridiculous position. 
Fate of Sir John Franklin. —The painful 
mystery that has so long hung over the fate of 
Sir John Franklin, has at last been solved, and 
the fact fully established that the whole num¬ 
ber of persons composing the expedition have 
perished. 
Dr. Rak. has written from York Factories, un¬ 
der date of Aug. 4tli, to Sir Georoe Simpson, 
Governor of the Hudson Bay territories, an¬ 
nouncing the discovery of the remains of the 
expedition, and stating that they starved to 
death as long ago as 1850. The facts were ob 
tained from Esquimaux who were cognizant of 
the circumstances. “No doubt” adds the Dr, 
“ is left of the truth of the report, as the natives 
had in their possession various articles of Euro¬ 
pean manufacture, w'hich had been in possession 
of the whites, among them were several spoons, 
forks, <tc., on one of which is engraved, “ Sir 
John Franklin, K. C. B.,” while the others have 
crests, and initials on them which identify the 
owners as having belonged to the ill-lated ex¬ 
pedition. 
Good for Wine Bibbers —The importing 
agent of the famous Sclirieder Champaign, re¬ 
cently prosecuted a home manufacturer of the 
article in New York, for falsely imitating and 
counterfeiting the genuine labels, and then 
greatly underselling the importer. It came out 
on trial, that Jersey cider is manufactured into 
Champaign, and sold in large quantities. Old 
bottles are collected from the hotels, and refilled 
with impure juice of the apple, and sold to green 
ones, at $2 per bottle, as pure juice of the grape. 
No one, it may be, puts new wine into old bot¬ 
tles, but there are a great many manufacturers 
of spurious liquors w ho put new cider into old 
wine bottles. 
The Boston Clironotypc once said they saw in 
the street a pile of rubbish which they would 
have mistaken for logwood chips, but were con¬ 
vinced it must be grape pomice, from the fact 
that the building near by was a wine manufac¬ 
tory. __ 
Another Douglass in the 1‘ ield.—Frede- 
rick Douglass’ Paper announces that “ the Ed¬ 
itor is just commencing an arduous campaign 
in the State of Illinois.” It is presumed this 
“ arduous campaign” is political in its nature, 
and that the celebrated Frederick takes the 
field against Stephen A. and Nebraska Bill. 
It must be a rich treat to hear the champions 
of extreme anti-slavery and slavery doctrines 
contending against each other. Frederick Doug¬ 
lass reverses the old Roman’s advice, to cany 
the war into Africa, and in his own person 
causes Africa to carry the war to Rome. 
We have had occasional touches of frost for 
many weeks past, sufficient to sear the leaves 
and give to vegetable creation the symptoms of 
decay; but the bitter, blighting effects of the 
hoary old destroyer has not been felt in all its 
blasting power until Wednesday evening of last 
wrnek. The sky was calm and clear, and the 
white rime came down, settling in a thick coat¬ 
ing upon leaf and flower, and prostrating the 
glories of Autumn vegetation in the dust.— 
Many a vine and shrub that was.flourishing in 
green luxuriance the day previous, was black¬ 
ened by the touch of Jack Frost’s all-destroy¬ 
ing finger. Ice formed in the open air, which 
in shady places did not melt away until a late 
hour of the following day. 
Since that time we have had a succession of 
glorious days, which is a partial remuneration 
for the severity of those nights; but the warn¬ 
ing cannot go unheeded, that Winter is treading 
close on the heels of retiring Autumn. Besides 
the frosts of the week, there was a slight sprink¬ 
ling of snow, not sufficient, however, to lay up¬ 
on the ground or show white upon the house¬ 
tops. The birds have mostly departed for more 
genial climes, and those yet lingering are col¬ 
lecting together preparatory to a hasty migra¬ 
tion. They have not during the past summer 
wholly shunned even city limits, and many a 
shady walk along our streets has been enlivened 
by the presence of the robin, the blue biid, the 
sparrow, and other wild-wood songstcis. 
Arrival of the Asia, 
Whig Convention of Monroe.— The Whig 
County Convention met at the Court House in 
this city on Saturday last, and renominated Dr. 
Davis Carpenter for Congress. The American 
of this city bolts the nomination, saying, among 
other things, “ it is in all respects a nomination 
unfit to be made,” and refuses to place the 
name of the nominee at the head of its columns. 
The remainder of the county ticket is as fol¬ 
lows: For Treasurer, Lewis Selye, of Roches¬ 
ter; for Superintendent ot the Poor, Addison 
W. Durfek, of Rochester; for Justice of Ses¬ 
sions, John K. Buell, of Perinton. 
The Royal steamship Asia, from Liverpool 
arrived at New York on the 20th. Her files 
are principally taken up with counter state¬ 
ments in regard to the false news brought by 
the Baltic relative to the fall of Sevastopol. 
The London correspondent of the A cw York 
Tribune accounts for the origin of the false re¬ 
port as follows: 
A Tartar—that is to say, a Turkish postman 
_Pad arrived at Bucharest with dispatches from 
Constantinople for Omer Pasha, which, as the 
General was absent, had to be sent to him un 
opened—therefore we don’t know their con 
tents. But the postman related that at his de¬ 
parture from Constantinople the town was illu¬ 
minated, and that orders were given to continue 
the illumination for ten days. He concluded, 
therefore, that Sevastapol was taken, aud gave 
just such details as a Turkish or London post- 
bov could give in a pothouse. He mentioned 
18,UUU Russians killed, but only 2U0guns taken 
though the forts contain above 500 guns; 22,000 
Russians were of course prisoners, since it w as 
known that the garrison amounted to about 40, 
000. The fleet was first taken; then again : 
portion of it was destroyed, and Prince Mens 
chikoff was on the point of blowing himself up 
with the remainder, Ac., Ac. 
A private dispatch in reference to the battle 
of Alma says that the English loss was nearly 
2,000 men, that of the French was but 1.400, 
but Gen. Bonet was killed. The Russians 
numbered 40,000 men and 100 cannon, and their 
loss is variously estimated at from 6,000 to 10 ,- 
000 , the former being probably the more cor- 
ect. Early in the day Menscliikoff had but 
25,000 in his entrenched camp on the Alma; but 
having learned by his scouts that the Allies 
were in such force, he brought up 15,000 more 
from Sevastopol. A large number of Poles 
deserted to the Allies. 
Sevastopol was invested on the 27th. The 
second line of the defence was carried, and the 
place entirely surrounded. The Russians are 
shut up in the fortress, which was to have been 
attacked by sea and land. One account states 
that the Russians had some eight line-of-batlle 
ships at the entrance of the harbor; another 
account says four. 
Does a Sinking Snir Produce a Whirlpool? 
_A writer in the New York Evening Post, un¬ 
der the above caption, alleges that the common 
idea among sailors and others, that a sinking 
ship causes a tremendous vortex sufficient to 
swallow up everything within reach, is a falla¬ 
cy. He says this popular delusion was one of 
the causes why the Arctic was deserted by her 
crew, and the boats so early and hastily pushed 
off to a distance from the ill-fated steamer. 
In proof that a sinking ship does not cause a 
whirlpool, the writer gives a chapter from his 
own experience, as follows:—“I was in a vessel 
which capsized some years since, and with 
others got upon her bottom. Her boat was cut 
from the wreck, and as she sunk some of the 
old sailors (who had the chimera in their heads) 
plunged overboard and struck off to clear the 
< whirlpool’—the less experienced ones stood 
upon the vessel’s bilge until the water slowly 
rose to their shoes, and then got into the boat 
without wetting their ancles!” 
Battle Creek, Mich., Oct., 20th, 1854. 
Friend Rural :—Once more in tins Western 
land of promise, we are viewing the changes of 
one long year. It is really pleasant to mark the 
progress and improvement that this wondious 
age effects in so short a space of time. Michi¬ 
gan is fast becoming an old State—fast rolling 
back the forest curtain, and converting its rich 
alluvial soil into fine farms. 
On the evening after leaving your comfortable 
“Sanctum,” we went aboard the steamer Ply- 
moth Rock, of the Michigan Central Line. M e 
had a pleasant sail to Detroit, with nothing to 
mar the pleasure of our trip, until we enteied 
Detroit river, where we met the A estem A olid 
with flags at half-mast, which is the signal of 
death. The boats were stayed sufficiently to as¬ 
certain that Captain Stannard, of the Western 
World, was dead, and his remains were on board 
for the reception ot his family and friends at 
Cleveland. At Detroit we learned the particu¬ 
lars of his death. He seemed well up to the 
moment he was to leave on his downward trip. 
He was ringing the bell while the boat was 
turning in the river, when he exclaimed to his 
mate, “tend to her,” and fell backward, and 
was caught in his arms lifeless. Capt. Stannard 
was said to be the oldest commander on the 
Lake, as well as an excellent one. 
At Ann Aarbor we made a short stay. The 
University of Michigan has just begun its fall 
term, and its Freshman class is the largest it has 
ever commenced with. This is the only institu¬ 
tion we know of which offers to the student, 
from any part of the Union, an education, liter¬ 
ary and professional, free of charge ; it also has 
an able faculty in the departments ot Literature, 
Medicine, and Agriculture, and is pleasantly 
situated in the city of Ann Aarbor, forty miles 
west of Detroit, on the Michigan Central R. R. 
An Astronomical Observatory is nearly com¬ 
pleted, at a cost of several thousand dollars, 
which is a very important consideration to the 
student, connected as it is with the University 
Wheat on the ground looks fine. Potatoes 
are plenty in this section of the State, at three 
shillings per bushel. It has been very dry with 
them here, but nothing severe. Corn is a fair 
crop. The wool trade is extensive and good. 
As far as my observations could extend, the 
wheat looked fine through the State to this 
place. The present crop is fair, but not as large 
as anticipated before harvest. It is selling to¬ 
day at $1,25 per bushel. It has been higher, 
($ 2 ,) but only for a few days, just before, and 
shortly after, harvest. 
Real estate has advanced beyond all precedent 
within the past year. Fine improved farms, 
with good buildings, orchards, Ac., are held at 
from $50 to $50 per acre, on the Central Road. 
You will hear from me again on the Grand 
River. Frank Forest. 
Jail Delivery without the Oyer.—Arthur 
C. Nelson, of Keeseville, late editor of the 
Keeseville Democrat, and Postmaster of that 
place under the appointment of President 
Pierce, was recently detected robbing the mail, 
and confined in the Troy jail, awaiting trial 
therefor before the U. S. District Court. On 
the night of the 15th inst. he made his escape 
by means of a small saw and a rope, with the 
former cutting off the gratings, and with the 
latter let himself down from the window of his 
cell. Before attempting .to escape, he induced I ze,is 
a fellow prisoner, who complained of being un¬ 
well, to take a dose of “ medicine”—giving him 
chloroform, from the effects of which the pa¬ 
tient did not recover until morning. 
He left behind a very complimentary letter 
addressed to the sheriff, thanking him and oth¬ 
ers for personal favors, and requesting that the 
effects he left behind, and any letters that 
might come to him, should be sent on to his 
friends at Plattsburg. 
rSp” In September last a box of fulminating 
mercury was found buried beneath the track ot 
the railroad between Lille anil Tournal, in 
France. The mercury, which possesses an ex¬ 
plosive force thirty times stronger than gun¬ 
powder, was connected with a wire which ex¬ 
tended a long ways beneath the sand. The 
apparatus was without doubt intended by the 
agency of electricity to blow up and destroy a 
train of cars. 
nr«” A physician writes to the editor of the 
Louisville Courier, that a few days ago, “ a 
young lady of Oldham county, m her ordinary 
health, (perfectly well, the family says,) rode 
two miles to a physician and had a tooth ex¬ 
tracted. Almost immediately a paralysis on 
one side of the body occurred, then stupor, and 
death followed in a few hours.” She had not 
inhaled chloroform, or anything of that kind. 
ness- Archbishop Whately has succcded in 
establishing a society for the protection of the 
rights of conscience ; the object of which, it 
appears, is to find employment for those per¬ 
sons in humble condition in Ireland, who are 
turned out of work for their religious opinions, 
or to provide goods at reasonable prices for 
those who c ‘would otherwise be practically ta¬ 
booed on account of their religious opinions. 
Some of the MSS. of Ardgo, containing 
2,1)56 pages of writing, of which 2,599 are by 
his own hand, have lately been presented to the 
French Academy of Sciences. They contain 
observations upon magnetism, and the resultsof 
73,000 experiments in that science. A commit¬ 
tee has liven appointed to examine these pa¬ 
pers, with a view to their publication in the 
Memoirs of the Academy. 
ivgf Rev. Dr. Ives, late Episcopal Bishop of 
the North Carolina who went over to the Ro¬ 
man Church, returned to this country by the 
Canada and is now sojourning in New' York 
with his brother-in-law, Rev Dr. Hobart, The 
Times states that he has been kindly received 
by all his old friends, as well as those newly 
found in the Catholic Church. 
The New York Evening Post says that 
nearly every railroad company is postponing its 
usual half-yearly dividends, needing the re¬ 
ceipts of the road for discharging expenses ot 
new works of improvement entered upon be¬ 
fore the change in the money market was evi¬ 
dent, and for which they cannot now borrow' 
money. 
Nine thousand men continue to work 
incessantly at the fortifications of Cracow, 
which place it is intended to make one of the 
strongholds of the Russian empire. It will be 
some years ere the works are complete. The 
advanced works extend nearly five English 
miles beyond the city. 
The dead letter bureau of the Post Of¬ 
fice is now making up and transmitting mails to 
theirlresf ec ive countries as follows: For Eng¬ 
land, 30,000 letters ; Canada, 7,000 ; Nova Sco¬ 
tia, 350 ; New Brunswick, 600; Bremen 6,000; 
and for Prussia 2,000. All these letters are thus 
returned unopened here. 
Mg” The Cardinal Vicar of Rome has issued 
an edict in which, after attributing the cholera 
to the sins of the Romans, he directs that the 
finger of St. Peter, the arm of St. Roc, the 
heart, of St. Charles, and other relics, shall be 
exposed to the adoration of the faithful, in or¬ 
der to avert the wrath or the Almighty. 
Moses Stebbins, of South Deerfield, 
Mass., has an apple tree which was planted 
about one hundred years ago, is eighteen feet 
in circumference near the surface of the ground, 
covers an area by its spreading branches of 
about seventy feet in diameter, and bears s 
sweet apple. 
-The human heart gives 96,000 strokes 
every twenty-four hours. 
-It is said Tom Hyer is soon to fight Mc¬ 
Gowan, of St. Louis, for $3,000. 
-Martin Kenoe has just been convicted of 
murder at Toronto. He killed his wife. 
-The Africa brought interesting intelli¬ 
gence as to the situation of Queen \ ictoria 
-A Company left Cleveland on Monday 
week for Kansas. 
-Cassius M. Clay is coming north, to lec¬ 
ture, this winter, says the Tribune. 
-The Swedish Royal Medalier and Mint 
Engraver, is a lady. 
_The New York Kansas League despatch¬ 
ed another train for the west on' Tuesday, with 
150 in company. 
-The province of New Brunswick is said 
to have more ships of 1,000 tons, than tiie whole 
Empire of France. 
-Adams A Co.’s Express Officer in Wil¬ 
mington, Del., was robbed on the 20th, of a 
package containing $ 2 , 200 . 
-Rev. Mark Trafton, a Methodist minister, 
of Westfield, Mass., has been nominated for Con¬ 
gress by the Know-Nothings. 
-The Life Insurance Companies in New 
York, it is said, suffer to the extent of $80,000 
by the loss of life on the Arctic. 
-The Legislature of Prince Edward Isl- 
land has ratified the fishery treaty, and adjourn¬ 
ed to the 13th of February. 
-Rev. Dr. Jennings, one of the founders of 
the Methodist Church, died at Baltimore on 
Thursday week, at the age ot 84. 
-There were 950 passengers on a single 
t ain of the Great Western (Canada) road on 
Wednesday week. 
_A Jeweller in Paris intends to exhibit at 
the Grand Exhibition next year, a silver statue 
of the Emperor of France, as large as life. 
_Col. John O’Fallon, of St. Louis, receiv¬ 
ed last year for rents, $151,000. He is just as 
well off as though he was a rich man. 
-All the Maine papers are loud in the ex¬ 
pression of their indignation at the late outrage 
upon a Catholic priest at Ellsworth. 
-The wife of Samuel Oliver, of Water- 
ville, was burned to death of Friday by her 
clothing taking fire from a lighted match. 
-Levi Lacy, Esq., an old resident of 
Wheatland, died on Friday evening week, at 
his residence near Scottsviile. 
-The Kennedy Clock Factory, at South¬ 
ington, Ct., was destroyed by fire on Friday 
week. Loss $20,090. Insured for $15,000. 
-Genin, the well-known hatter, who re¬ 
ceived the Independent nomination for tlie 
Mayoralty of New York City, declines. 
-For the quarter which ended on the 30th 
of September, the Baltimore Post-office yielded 
tl... f'.i.roi nnionI n of *24.029.60. 
to the Government a balance of $24,029.60. 
-George Eskridge, Superintendent of the 
Virginian Institution tor the Deat aud Dumb, 
and Blind, died on the 6 th inst. 
-Fifteen million pounds is said to be the 
value of the potato crop m Ireland this season— 
the largest ever before known. 
-The hull of the wreck of the steamship 
Franklin, as she lies on the L. I. beach, has been 
sold at auction for the sum of $1,625. 
-During the first eight months of this 
year, up to August 31st, there arrived at New 
York about 119,000 German emigrants. 
-Accounts from Wheeling state that the 
Ohio river is rapidly rising, and an early re- 
j sumption ot navigation is confidently auticipa- 
I ted. 
One of the escaped seamen of the Are- ; _The pj t ; ca Observer says a bear weigh- 
tic shipped on board the Atlantic on Saturday j 30 Q p,* was s } u ,k near Cold Brook, Herki 
week. Just as the steamer was about, »o sail he m ° r Co ( 
was discovered by Captain West, who took him 
by the collar and marched him ashore, saying 
he wished no such men to go to 6 ea with him. 
r^” The American Celt advises adopted “citi¬ 
zens” not to vote at all at the coming election 
except, in two cases, 1 st, when it is certain from 
figures that, they can give a majority against 
the Know-Nothings, and 2d, when a candidate 
has voluntarily declared against the Know-No¬ 
things. 
Fifty years ago a celebrated mode in 
mer Co., on Friday by Thomas Upright, of 
N ewport. 
-The steamer Isabel, from New Orleans 
for St. Louis, struck a snag near the latter city, 
last week Thursday evening, and sunk to the 
boiler deck. 
-Hiram Powers, the great American sculp¬ 
tor, has given directions tor the purchase ot leal 
estate in the new city of Leavenworth, Kansas 
Territory. 
-The Philadelphia Ledger estimates, o.n 
competent authority, that there will be 10,000 
Massachusetts of curing the insane was to whip rs ‘ ons out 0 f employment in that city, during 
them severely and then immerse them in water » he enl w i, ller . 
.—it—it.cnnoiWu It was claimed that i r 
and 
A Scandalous Outrage. —Twenty or thirty 
rowdies in Ellsworth, Me., recently tarred and 
feathered the Rev. John Bapst, a Roman Cath¬ 
olic clergyman of Bangor, and formerly a resi¬ 
dent of Ellsworth. The only alleged offence of 
the priest was that he had at one time been en¬ 
gaged in a school controversy which led to a 
law suit, and that certain parties had threaten¬ 
ed him with personal violence if he ever return¬ 
ed to the place. It was stated last w'eek that 
he had died from the effects of injuries received 
but the rumor is not well authenticated. 
A Costly Advertisement. —The N. Y. Weekly 
Tribune charges fifty cents aline for advertising, 
and its columns are filled at that. A recent ad¬ 
vertiser paid that paper, for a single insertion of 
a long advertisement, eight hundred and sixty-one 
dollars ; the largest sum ever paid for a single 
advertisement in this country ; and yet the ad 
vertiser probably considers it, and truly, to be 
the best investment lie ever made for the pur 
pose of giving publicity to his business. 
Widely circulating papers are the best medi 
urn for advertising, even at higher rates, and one 
insertion in a paper which circulates twenty-five 
to thirty thousand copies, like the Rural New- 
Yorker, is equivalent to fifty insertions in a 
paper that circulates but five hundred. 
Choice Seeds.— Messrs. Wetmork and Briggs, 
advertise in this number a variety of choice 
Melon and other seeds. The three varieties 
first named in Mr. B.’s list are superior, as we 
can attest from recent experience, and presume 
those of friend W. are also worthy of trial. 
Perils of the Sea. —The Rev. Henry Ward 
Beecher, in his recent sermon on the late ship¬ 
wreck of the Arctic, made the following start¬ 
ling declaration : 
“ During the past twelve months, more than 
4,000 American vessels, including those on the 
lakes and rivers, have been lost. This is no 
Minister’s calculation, who are not expected to 
know anything of such matters, but lias been 
computed by those who are expected to feel 
these losses most severely. During the same 
length of time, the number of vessels lost thro’ 
out the whole world was 10,000. Can it be 
said that it was chance alone that has caused 
the United States to furnish 4,000 out of the 10,- 
000 that have been lost ? Up to the year 1850, 
the average number of vessels lost all over the 
world, averaged 3,000 a year. The amount of 
insurance paid by the Marine Insurance Com¬ 
panies in New York, last year, amounted to 
twelve millions. The losses on land by railroads 
and otherwise, amounted to eighteen millions, 
making a total loss by sea and land, to be thirty 
millions of dollars.” 
until they were insensible, 
they would recover their consciousness 
sanity at the same time. 
"W Col. John Allen, of Louisville, publishes 
a card stating that a fillibustering expedition, 
which has been organized there for some time 
past, numbering 15,000 persons, lias been dis¬ 
banded. The cause is stated to have been a 
want of means. 
Among the ladies who have achieved the 
ascension of Mont Blanc the past season, was a 
French woman, who, after reaching the summit, 
caused herself to be lifted upon the shoulders 
of her guides so that she might be able to boast, 
of having been higher than any man in Europe. 
m^i- A most singular and fatal occurrence 
took place at the Sorrel Horse stable, Philadel¬ 
phia/on Saturday. A man named James Pol¬ 
lock was bitten in the neck by a horse, and his 
windpipe being severed, ho died soon after¬ 
wards. 
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana have 
just chosen fifty-seven members of the 34th 
Congress, and out of the number only four are 
Nebraska men. These are all from Pennsylva¬ 
nia. Ohio and Indiana are a “ unit,” 
A MiscniEVOUS Parrot— The Albany 'Tran¬ 
script, probably on the authority of some of its 
Boston cotemporaries, tells the following tough 
story in ornithology. The narrator does not say 
whether or not that bird lived to an extraordi¬ 
nary old age: 
« In Boston, a parrot that was kept aboard a 
ship, was much interested in watching the drays 
that came to leave goods on the wharf. One 
day the driver of a dray left his team and went 
down to the cabin of a ship. The parrot watched 
him, and, when he was out of sight, began to 
imitate his talk to the horses. ‘ Whoh ! back 
t ] iero _back, I say !’ said the bird. The horses 
backed ; and the parrot, encouraged by the suc¬ 
cess of his experiment, continued to scream,— 
‘ Back ! back I say !’ until the team backed 
over the wharf into the water, and one of the 
horses was drowned.” 
There are between six and seven hundred 
Union Sunday Schools in Texas, most oi them 
supplied with good libraries of the American 
Sunday School Union. 
_The Bangor Whig learns that Thomas 
Drew, Esq., recently deceased, has left by Ins 
will the sum of $ 20,000 for the establishment of 
a Farm School lor boys. 
_The opinions of Judge Bronson and Dan¬ 
iel Lord are published,contending that the New 
York and New Haven Company, is liable for the 
Schuyler over issue. 
-Samuel Dunham, a soldier in the Rev¬ 
olutionary war, died at Mansfield, Ct., on the 
12 th inst,, at the age of one hundred years and 
twenty days. 
-Screw steamer Cleopatra, from Quebec 
for Liverpool, put into St. Johns, (N. 1’.) on l e 
2d inst., short of coals. She has on board 383 
men of the 71st regiment. 
_Among the passengers by the Africa, 
were the wife and daughter ot the Rev. Jonas 
King, the well-known missionary of ihe Amer¬ 
ican Board at Athens, Greece. 
_The Washington Monument has attained 
. a height of one hundred and sixty-six feet, or 
r§f“The Common Council of Chicago have une _third of that which is contemplated, 
assed an ordinance authorizing the mayor and j wol .p g 0es on very slowly. 
_The Boston theatres are not allowed to 
exhibit on Saturday evenings, that being, ac¬ 
cording to the old Puritanic style, the com¬ 
mencement of the Sabbath. 
_The great Second Advent Camp-meeting 
at Exeter, N H., is now in progress. Crow ds of 
people are in attendance, numbering many thou¬ 
sands, and from every section of the Union. 
_By the judicious management of the 
' finances of the Buckeye State, Governor Modiil 
1 has been enabled to pay off $1,500,000 of the 
State debt of Ohio, since the first ot Jan. last. 
_The Petersburg (Va.) Express chronicles 
I an extraordinary feat, accomplished a day or 
! two since, by Mr. Henry Covington, of Chester- 
passed — 
City Clerk to close a contract with the Ameri¬ 
can Submarine Tunnel Co., for the constiuction 
of a cast iron roadway under Chicago river. 
Hon. Jacob Collamer, Gen. Taylor’s 
Postmaster General, has been elected U. S. Sen¬ 
ator from Vermont for six years, and Hon. Law¬ 
rence Brainnrd, free soiler. for the vacancy 
which S. S. Phelps tried to fill out. 
Six mills in St. Louis ceased operations 
on Saturday week, in consequence of having no 
wheat to grind. The millers are unwilling to 
buy wheat for flouring at present relative 
prices of wheat and flour. 
rsg- The Russian journals announce that the 
celebrated aquatic plant, from the river of the 
Amazons, the Victoria Regia, has commenced 
flowering in the hot-houses of th 
anical gardens at St. Petersburg. 
oSUA 'a1S» I a bss 
in that city, 
ijKZJtE l^enM^ j field, lie killed ffty-seven wild ducks at 
shot, 
_Rossini is now very unwell, in Florence. 
