MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOB KEll: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 4, 1854. 
, Election.—Who’ll be Governor? 
Next Tuesday, the good, and some indiffer¬ 
ent people of New York, will be called upon to 
vote for State and County Officers and Con¬ 
gressmen. From present indications, the result 
of the canvass will present some unusual char¬ 
acteristics, consequent upon the number of 
tickets and variety of “ platforms” presented 
for endorsement. There are some six or seven 
State Tickets in the field, with as many differ¬ 
ent sets or shades of so-called principles—in¬ 
cluding those of the regular Whig, Temperance 
and Anti-Nebraska, the two Democratic, (Hard 
and Soft,) and the Know-Nothings. The three 
first named parties, or factions, unite upon 
Clark for Governor, the Hards upon Bronson, 
the Softs upon Seymour, while the first Know- 
Nothing convention selected Ullmann as their 
standard bearer, albeit some people insist that 
he is an exotic. [Itumor asserts that a recent 
Convention of the K. N.’s nominated Clark for 
Governor, and Forb for Lieutenant.] Of course 
the “ organs” of the various parties are mani¬ 
festing especial zeal and industry, each appa¬ 
rently convinced (or anxious to convince its 
readers,) that the salvation of the country de¬ 
pends upon the success of its candidates. 
With such an array of principles and candi¬ 
dates as the several parties present, the most 
fastidious will probably be able to select a 
ticket which his judgment and conscience will 
approve—though we are not sure but the “noise 
and confusion” naturally resulting from the 
teachings and preachings of so great a variety 
of advocates and organs, will render it difficult 
for many to decide dispassionately. It is fair 
to assume, however, that all readers of the 
Rural have sufficient sense and intelligence to 
do their own thinking, and to vote accordingly 
—for we trust not one of the number is, literal¬ 
ly, either a soft or a know-nothing. Our advice, 
therefore, is for each to support the men who 
will best represent and sustain the principles he 
considers of paramount importance. If a Pro¬ 
hibitory Temperance Law is a cardinal princi¬ 
ple, vote for men pledged to its support, re¬ 
gardless of party or faction,—and so relative to 
any other prominent object or measure. The 
promotion of the best interests and permanent 
welfare of community, is of far more impor¬ 
tance than the temporary success of this or that 
man ox party ,—and we rejoice that the present 
aspect of the political horizon indicates the de¬ 
velopment of an unusual degree of conscience 
and independence. 
Our Campaign is just opening, while that of 
the politicians is rapidly closing. They have 
made the most noise, but we are bound to ac¬ 
complish the most good ,—and moreover render 
a better reward to those who assist in its 
achievement. For particulars we respectfully 
direct the attention of Agents and Subscribers 
—and the thousands who we trust will soon be¬ 
come such—to the Rural Premium List in our 
advertising department. We shall cheerfully 
forward extra numbers, prospecmses, bills, Ac., 
to any and all disposed to compete for the pre¬ 
miums, and also aid in extending the circula¬ 
tion and usefulness of the Rural. 
— By the way. Election Day will be a good 
time for our friends to commence the Rural 
campaign. Please take a sample number, and, 
after voting, obtain the subscriptions of your 
fellow townsmen. If you lose, wear out or give 
away any numbers, we will cheerfully furnish 
others to make your file complete. The oppor¬ 
tunity will be a good one to introduce the Ru¬ 
ral to notice and support, and we trust you 
will do us the favor to act upon the suggestion. 
Bad News from Kansas. 
Rise in Breadstnffs. 
The unexpected and continued rise in bread- 
stuffs for the past few weeks has received a 
still stronger upward impulse from the recent 
foreign news by the Pacific, which arrived on 
Monday. Only four days later intelligence 
comes by this steamer, and yet during that 
brief interval flour has gone up abroad three 
shillings sterling on the barrel and wheat six¬ 
pence to ninepence on the bushel. Corn sym¬ 
pathizes with wheat, so that we may now bid 
adieu for the present to the prospect of cheap 
bread. The chances now are that grain, within 
a few days, will command the extreme limit of 
the season, although what causes the remarka¬ 
ble high price is beyond the comprehension of 
the observant men. Dealers in grain who are 
| accustomed to scrutinize carefully all the prog¬ 
nostics of a rise or fall, have been in as much 
doubt of the way things would turn as any 
other set of men. They dared not purchase 
largely and shipped off all they did purchase 
to market as quickly as possible, through fear of 
a decline upon their hands. The fluctuations 
have been erratic both up and down. There 
was no more reason for wheat declining to 
twelve shillings a few weeks ago, than there is 
now for its going up to seventeen. What the 
result will be no man can tell, but the proba¬ 
bilities are in favor of the seller and against 
the consumer. “Oh a merry life is the farmers!” 
wdien he lines his pockets with cash as he has 
been doing for the past two years. 
A correspondent of the Milwaukee Sentinel, 
writing from Kansas states that a very hostile 
feeling exists between the emigrants from the 
free states and the Missouri squatters ; that dis¬ 
putes and collisions occur daily, and that open 
rujrtures are quite probable. The Missourians 
regard the emigants as interlopers, whose inten¬ 
tions are to prevent the introduction of slavery, 
a measure on which they have set their hearts, 
“ Everything,” says the writer, “ betokens war. 
God grant it may not come! but the passions of 
desperate men are the most unreasonable things 
in the world. They say ‘ No Yankee but Cil- 
ley was ever known to fire.’ They sadly for¬ 
get history, but will certainly find their error 
corrected if they commit any more aggressions.” 
All these things seem to be the legitimate re¬ 
sults of “ Squatter Sovereignty ” as interpreted 
by our modern Solons. The address of the an¬ 
cient Briton, touching the character of the Ro¬ 
man invaders, as recorded by Livy, is not inap¬ 
propriate in this connection. “ They rob, they 
plunder, they murder under the false name of 
sovereignty, and when they make a solitude 
they call it peace.” 
Carlisle Seminary.— Those wishing the best 
educational advantages for their children, are 
referred to the circular of the Carlisle Seminary 
in our advertising columns. Its present high 
reputation has been well-earned, and will no 
doubt be well sustained by their flourishing 
institution. 
Shocking Bailway Casualty. 
A terrible collision between two trains of 
cars occurred on the Great Western (C. W.) 
Railroad on the 27th ult., by which three pas¬ 
senger cars were demolished, about sixty pas¬ 
sengers killed, and an equal number more or 
less injured. 
On the afternoon of the 26th the Express 
train left the Falls for Detroit with a baggage, 
an express, and three first and second class pas¬ 
senger cars, which were detained east of Lon¬ 
don several hours by encountering a freight 
engine off the track. Having overcome this 
difficulty, they proceeded three miles west of 
London, where another detention occurred by 
the bursting of a cylinder head, so that when 
they arrived at Chatham they were eight hours 
behind time. Thirteen miles west of this place, 
and while running at the rate of twenty miles 
an hour through a dense fog, they came in col¬ 
lision with a gravel train backing east, com¬ 
pletely demolishing the passenger train and 
causing an amount of human destruction rarely 
equaled even in these days of wholesale 
slaughter. Almost the entire load of the second 
class cars were killed or wounded. All were 
not extricated until more than four hours after 
the collision. 
Such a sight as presented itself to the eyes 
of spectators, human language is inadequate to 
portray. The greatest amount of suffering and 
death occurred on the second class car, which 
was forward of the first class. The poor emi¬ 
grants, men, women and children, who had left 
their homes in the old world to seek more com¬ 
fortable ones in the new, and had encountered 
disease and privation on ship-board, when near 
the end of their long and tedious journey, are 
subjected to a calamity, in comparison with 
which even the sinking of the Arctic is a mer¬ 
ciful dispensation. There a speedy termination 
was put to all sufferings; here maimed and 
wounded survivors, are left to wail in bodily 
and mental anguish over slaughtered wives and 
husbands, parents and children. It seems as if 
the infernal fiends were plotting schemes of 
human destruction, and demanding thousands 
of victims both in war and peace. 
It has thus far been ascertained that in this 
last calamity 25 men, 11 women and 11 children 
have been killed, and 21 men and 20 women 
and children badly injured, one-half probably 
fatally. 
Destructive Conflagration.—A very de¬ 
structive fire occurred at Cleveland, Ohio, on 
the morning of the 28tli ult,, destroying pro¬ 
perty, it is stated, tothe amount of half a million 
dollars. The fire originated in the stables of 
the New England House, destroying the Hotel 
and three entire squares on the hill where it 
stood. In the safe of J. Morrison, broker, were 
$20,000—supposed consumed, as the safe was 
in the hottest of the flames. Twenty tons of 
tallow in the cellar of P. Anderson’s store, 
and the entire stock in several stores in the 
same block, were consumed. The amount of 
insurance is heavy, although not yet ascertained. 
Democratic Conventions. —The Democrats 
held two County Conventions recently in this 
city, the Hards on the 24th ult, and the Softs 
on the 25th. The former nominated Jos. Sib¬ 
ley for Congress, and the latter John Williams, 
late Mayor of this city. Some effort had been 
made to coalesce, but it proved abortive, and in 
the first named convention resolutions were 
adopted adverse to a fusion. No resolutions 
were presented in the Soft Convention, they 
confining their action simply to the duty of 
nominating candidates for office. 
Gen. Gaines. —It may not be generally known 
that within the precincts of the old cemetery of 
this city, repose the remains of the gallant vet¬ 
eran whose name heads this article. Within a 
small lot enclosed by a brick wall near the cen¬ 
tre of the cemetery, covered with a coarse flat 
stone not an inch above the surrounding earth, 
without an inscription of any kind to mark the 
tomb of a man so distinguished in military an¬ 
nals of the country, lies the body of “ Gen. Ed¬ 
mund Pendleton Gaines !”—Mobile Republican. 
Mobbing A Slave Catcher. 
On Sunday last, the name of Asa R. Buttman, 
the chief instrument in the capture and return 
to slavery of the two fugitives, Symms and 
Burns, was discovered booked at the American 
House, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was 
immediately posted throughout the city and a 
vigilance committee appointed to watch his 
movements. They' went to the hotel in the eve¬ 
ning and were threatened by Buttman, who 
flourished a pistol, declaring he would use it 
upon them. On Monday morning he was 
brought before a Magistrate and held to bail on 
the charge of carrying concealed weapons. 
A large and excited crowd gathered around 
the Court Room, and it becoming evident that 
Buttman’s life was in danger, Mr. Geo. F. Hoar, 
Free Soilcr, and son of the venerable Samuel 
Hoar, who was driven out of South Carolina, 
several years ago, moved to let the kidnapper 
go in safety out of the city. 
The crowd gave way, and Buttman, accom¬ 
panied by a strong guard went to the depot, 
followed by the populace, where the colored 
men fell upon and would undoubtedly have ta¬ 
ken his life, but for the interference of Martin 
Stowell, Jas. A. Howland, Mr. Hoar, Rev. Mr. 
Higginson, S. S. Foster, and other Abolitionists. 
Buttman was hustled into a carriage, accom¬ 
panied by Mr. Higginson, and thus escaped with 
his life. Mr. Higginson was considerably cut 
by the missiles thrown at the carriage, and 
Buttman was pelted with rotten eggs and stones, 
and was kicked and beaten almost to death. 
Site 
Forest Leaves from the West— No. II. 
Ce.ytrevilt.e, Mich., Oct. 26,1851. 
Friend Rural: —As near as I can learn the 
last crop of wheat will average, through the 
State, about two-thirds the usual yield. But it 
is of good quality—the drouth being the chief 
cause of its falling short of a full crop. On the 
line of the railroads it is now selling at $1,25@ 
1,37. The fall-sown wheat, in this part of the 
State, looks well. There is, however, much 
complaint about an insect which seriously in¬ 
jures early-sown but does not affect late. The 
sowing is but just finished in man^ places. 
In this (St. Jo.) county the corn was much af¬ 
fected by the drouth. I find that the late drouth 
has been more serious in some parts than others, 
but yet the crop is pretty fair. Potatoes are 
small in some parts of the State, but in the 
eastern counties they are fine, large and plenty, 
and selling for three shillings per bushel. Buck¬ 
wheat is large, and appears like a fair yield, 
much better than any 1 saw' in New York. 
Real estate has advanced largely within two 
years. Improved farms are held from $10 to 
$50 per acre. Certainly, Michigan is the best 
of the Western States, and is bound to be 
second to none of her size in the union, in view 
of her agricultural, mineral, commercial and 
educational interests. Her internal improve¬ 
ments carried on by private enterprise are nu¬ 
merous and rapidly advancing. Ye seekers of 
new' homes, in a fine, well timbered, well wa¬ 
tered and healthy country, where soils are rich 
and well diversified for all purposes, come to 
Michigan! You w r ill hear from me again on my 
w’ay toward the northern part of the State. 
Frank Forest. 
An Ocean Steamship Company that Pays.— 
The report of the Royal Mail Company, issued 
to-day, preparatory to their meeting on Thurs¬ 
day, shows a surplus on the wmrking account 
for the half-year ending the 30th of June, of 
£112,207, being equal to 12jJ per cent, on the 
company’s capital of £890,400. Out of this, 
how’ever, allowance has to be made for depre¬ 
ciation. The dividend proposed is the same as 
for. the previous half-year, namely, £2 per 
share, or at the rate of £6 13s. 4d. per cent, per 
share on the amount paid up. 
The disbursements have been increased by 
the freight of coals, Ac., but on the other hand, 
with one exception, there has been an increase 
upon every head of receipt for trade and passage 
money, while the amount received for the con- 
vej-ance and victualling of troops has been 
£65,720. Reference is made to the satisfactory 
speed attained by the Tamar, the Atrato, the 
Solent, and La Plata, and anticipations are ex¬ 
pressed that the Tyne, fitting at Black wall, will 
exhibit an equally good result, The fleet of the 
company consists of twenty-four ships, and as 
they now require ouly 20 for the contract ser¬ 
vice, they propose ultimately selling the extra 
four .—London Times, Oct. 10. 
One ok the Patriarchs. —The North Adams 
(Mass.) Transcript gives an account of an odd 
and venerable genius, living somewhere in the 
vicinity of Conway, who is now nearly 92, goes 
out to w T ork at threshing by the day, and does 
a good day’s work. The winter he was 89, he 
went into the woods and chopped and hauled 
wood, for the winter, and last winter thinking 
he was rather old for the woods, he contented 
himself with chopping his own wood at his 
door. He keeps a cow, lives three miles from 
town, and once a week, rain or shine, takes his 
butter in a pair of saddle-bags, and starts on 
foot for the store. He furnishes himself with 
all the necessaries of life, and we are sorry to 
say reckons liquor among them. The winter 
he was 90, a gentleman from New York met 
and proposed to give him, a $5 bill for each suc¬ 
ceeding birth day ; he has already had one, and 
says if he don’t overdo himself he thinks he 
will get nine more. 
Emigration to Africa. —The ship Euphrasie 
is to sail from Baltimore on the 1st of Novem¬ 
ber for Liberia, under charter of the American 
Colonization Society. She will take emigrants 
from Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Virginia, 
for that Society, and also those emigrating from 
Maryland to Cape Palmas, for the Maryland 
State Colonization Society—some two hundred 
in number. She is the largest vessel sent out 
for many years. The Estella is to sail from 
New York with emigrants on the 28th, and we 
learn that another expedition is to be despatch¬ 
ed from Savannah on the 1st of December. 
-The Arctic made forty-five trips prior to 
the recent disaster. 
-A pumpkin was recently sent to the Paris 
market, which is said to weigh 478 pounds. 
_One man died and one child was born at 
the recent advent camp meeting in Lxter, N. II. 
-The value of salt manufactured at the 
Onondaga salt works, in 1853, was $1,939,168. 
-Bank of England notes are now signed 
by machinery, by which a saving of £10,(100 a 
year is made. 
-There were but six barrels of flour ship¬ 
ped from the port, of New York to Liverpool 
during the whole of last week. 
-Rev. Dr. Jennings, one of the founders of 
the Methodist Church, died at Baltimore last 
week Thursday, at the age of 84. 
-W. II. Egbert, law student of Peoria, Til., 
has recently been arrested for forgery. The 
evidence against him is conclusive. 
-Fifteen million pounds is said to be the 
value of the potato crop in Ireland this season 
—the largest ever known. 
-All burial places in the churches and 
cliurch-yards of London have been closed by 
authority, for the benefit of the public health. 
-The quantity of land given by Congress 
to the Illinois Central Railroad, is equal in num¬ 
ber of acres to the whole State of Connecticut. 
-It is expected that the American Hotel, 
in Paris, will be completed about the first of 
May. It will accommodate, when finished, 
about 1,500 persons. 
-The New Orleans papers are very severe 
upon the New York jury that found Dr. Gra¬ 
ham guilty. They fconfidently expected an ac¬ 
quittal. 
—r— A white frost has made its appearance 
at fckrwirmah, Ga., and absentees on account of 
the fever, are advised that they may no\v return 
in safety. 
-The Governor of New Brunswick has, by 
Message, requested the Legislature to consider, 
favorably, the treaty of Reciprocity. They will 
do so. 
-The N. Y. Mirror says a distinguished 
military gentleman informs us that there is not 
a good map of the scene of war in the East, to 
be had in the United States. 
-A live toad in a torpid state was recent¬ 
ly dug out of “ hard pan,” at Rutland, "V t., some 
15 feet below the surface, where he must have 
reposed for centuries. 
-Powell’s flour mill at St. Louis, was 
burned on Tuesday of last week, together with 
300 barrels of flour and 6,000 bushels of wheat. 
Insured for only $16,000. 
-The principal edifice of the Illinois Col¬ 
lege at Jacksonville, was destroyed by fire, a 
few months since. A new and elegant building 
has been erected, and dedicated. 
The Star says the cost of reclaiming the 
fugitive slave Burns amounted to twenty-seven 
thousand dollars, fifteen thousand of which was 
paid from the U. S. Treasury on the 25th ult. 
- A letter received at Washington from 
Hong Kong, announces that Commander Ring- 
gold, of the U. S. Surveying Expedition, lia§ 
been sent home in consequence of insanity. 
-A girl in Bethlehem recently broke thro’ 
the well platform, and was precipitated a dist¬ 
ance of thirty feet. She was soon hauled out, 
without suffering any material damage from the 
fall. 
—ITlie Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad 
is now in operation. It is a wide gauge, and it 
is proposed to extend to Oswego by laying a 
third rail upon the present track. 
California linns. 
Arrival of the George Law and Star of 
the West. 
The steamer George Law, from Aspinwall 
the 17th inst., arrived at Sandy Hook Oct. 27. 
She brings California mails to Sept. 20th, 
$1,000,000 in gold, and 515 passengers, brought 
down by the Sonora. 
The steamer Yankee Blade, which left San 
Francisco in company with the Sonora, had not 
been heard of at Panama up to the sailing of 
the George Law from Aspinwall, and fears 
were entertained that some accident had be¬ 
fallen her. 
A report had been brought to the crossing of 
the Colorado that a company of emigrants, 
numbering fifty—all from Texas—were mur¬ 
dered on the 31st of August by the Indians.— 
Several women and children who were in the 
train were doomed, it was feared, to a more 
horrid fate. Six hundred head of cattle were 
also driven away. The news was brought by a 
small train in the rear, which happily escaped. 
Other parties of Americans encountered the 
Indians near Trieson, and one American was 
killed. The Apaches were becoming more 
troublesome every day. Twenty-five Amcri- 
cens had perished for want of water. 
The Star of the West connected with the 
steamer Cortez, which left San Francisco on the 
afternoon of the 30th, brings 550 passengers 
and $800,000 on freight. 
The Congress of New Grenada had com¬ 
menced its session and was installed by \ ice 
President Jose, of Albis, General Arbeleda 
had advanced to Lamaia, and in A'cania, Col. 
J iron had been defeated by the Government 
forces. All accounts agree that Melos is on his 
last legs. 
From Oregon we learn of a terrible massacre 
of overland emigrants by the Snake Indians, 
on the Boise River near Fort Boise. The per¬ 
sons killed were Alexander Ward, wife and 
seven children, Samuel Milligan and Mr. Bab¬ 
cock, of Lexington, Miss.; Dr. Adams and bro¬ 
thers from Michigan; Mr. Arnon and Mr. White 
and child from the same; two Germans and a 
Frenchman, names unknown. The Indians 
carried off forty head of cattle, five horses and 
two or three thousand dollars. A force had 
been sent in pursuit of the savages. 
San Francisco Market, Sept. 27.— Very lit¬ 
tle of interest has transpired in the way of bus¬ 
iness during the last two weeks. Money mat¬ 
ters are very tight. 
Some lots of grain have been purchased for 
the Australian market. Flour—No large sales 
—Gallego $11 75@$12 50. Bacon 13c; prime 
pork 16c. 
The product of the silver mines of Mexico for 
the year 1850, exceeded that of the rest of the 
world by one million of dollars, the total yield 
being thirty-three millions. 
The N. Y. Journal ot Commerce says the 
Russian ship which took refuge some time ago 
in the Atlantic dock basin, has been libeled for 
the value of provisions put on board of her at 
Liverpool. The captain cannot communicate 
with her owners in Russia,and don’t know what 
to do. Even were the vessel offered for sale, it 
is doubtful whether a purchaser could be found. 
There is an individual at present in 
Greenock, named Patrick Murphy, the Irish 
giant, a lad of 18 years of age, and of the extra¬ 
ordinary height of 7 feet 5jA on his stocking 
soles. Flo weighs twenty-one stone, and meas¬ 
ures fifty-two inches round the chest. Murphy 
is a native of county Down, Ireland. Where is 
Barnum? 
T,ie Rutlaiid Herald records the exploits 
of an absconding debtor who waslatelj' pursued 
bv an officer, both taking the same train of cars 
on the Passurasic Railroad, the debtor stepping 
out upon the platform of the rear car and hold¬ 
ing fast the door till the train had passed the 
border into New Hampshire, then jumping from 
the cars while under full headway, and so es¬ 
caping the officer. 
The Lawrenceburg (Tnd.) Press gives an 
account of a fracas which recently took place in 
that town, between the Hon. J. H. Lane, mem¬ 
ber of Congress from that district, and John B. 
Vail, Esq., of that place. Lane assaulted Vail 
with a cane in the street, when the latter shot. 
Lane in the side. The combatants were sepa¬ 
rated. The wound was not dangerous. 
|jpgjp* Two persons in Vermont, named Sweet 
and Davis, obtained pensions some years ago for 
two widows, on fraudulent papers. The fraud 
was not discovered till a presecution was barred 
by the statute of limitations. In this state of the 
case, civil suits were commenced against the 
parties, which have just terminated in judgments 
for the amounts fraudulently obtained. 
jpgy" Under the direction of the Department, 
Lieut. Maxwell Woodhull, U. S. N„ is ordered 
to make sundry experiments, to ascertain the 
set of the currents on the Long Island coast. In 
the course of these experiments, Lieut, W. will 
cast into the sea, at stated points, a large num¬ 
ber of bottles, containing printed circulars, and 
directions what to do with them. 
Mr. Finney, a dentist, late of Alexandria, 
Egypt, is reported to have found a stuffed tooth 
in a mummy, and several teeth in other mum¬ 
mies. which bore marks of filling. If true, this 
is certainly one of the most remarkable facts 
which modern perseverance has yet brought to 
light, concerning the arts of the ancients. 
The Dunkirk Journal of recent date, says 
that a marine monster was lately seen in that 
place. He was of serpentine form, from thirty 
to forty feet in length, and was distinctly seen 
to move about in the water with an agility equal 
to that of the most expert of the finney tribe.— 
Nahant must look to her laurels, or the sea sar- 
pint will be outdone. 
In Adrian Co., Missouri, several weeks 
since, as Mr. Nelson Carter and Air. Win. Keene 
were riding along a road, they encountered two 
large bucks engaged in a regular set-to, with 
their horns so locked that they could not disen¬ 
gage themselves, and therefore fell a prey to 
Air. Keene, who killed them both with his pock¬ 
et knife. 
jfgp" The whole number of volumes in the Li¬ 
braries of the Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Mass., is as follows :—In the College Library, 
6,500 ; Aledical Library, 1,600 ; Law Library,. 
14,000; Theological Library, 4,500; Society 
Library of Students, 13,000 ; total, 98,100. Be¬ 
sides these volumes, there are 25,000 pamphlets. 
The executors of the late Hon Samuel 
Appleton have transferred stock to the par value 
of $25,000 to the Boston Athenaeum, from the 
fund of $200,000 belonging to that estate, which 
they were directed by the deceased to distribute 
at their discretion for “scientific, literary, relig¬ 
ions or charitable purposes.” 
The Washington Globe coincides in the 
opinion expressed by many other papers, that a 
withdrawal of a juror in the trial of Dr. Graham, 
clearly annuls the verdict, inasmuch as it does 
not seem to have been authorized by any stat¬ 
ute of the State. 
jggr- The second track on the Buffalo and 
Rochester Road is laid, all but six miles, between 
Buffalo and Batavia, and that link will be laid 
by Nov. 1st. and the second track of the Roch¬ 
ester and Syracuse straight line road will be 
laid probably by spring, 
A tournament took place at Louisville, 
Ky„ on t-lie 16th ult., on the grounds of the 
State Fair, then being held tn that city. The 
tournament being the first ever held in Kentucky 
created great excitement, and there were from 
12,000 to 15,000 persons present. 
A writer in Blackwood states that among 
the officers of the Queen’s household in Spain 
are “ grease spot extractors.” Their duties do 
not include the task of renovating the characters 
of the household. 
jpgp The Ogdensburg Sentinel states that a 
man concealed himself under the bed occupied 
by Air. Lathrop, Express Messenger, at the St. 
Lawrence Hotel, with a view to rob him. He 
was arrested and put in prison. 
A gentleman from Montreal,via. the At- 
lauuc and St, Lawrence Railroad, reports that 
in the vicinity of Sherbrook, Canada, on Mon¬ 
day week, the snow was four or five inches deep, 
and somewhat impeded the progress of the cars. 
jrg” The papers of Pensacola, Fla., are ear¬ 
nestly advocating the annexation of Pensacola 
to the State of Alabama. It is probable the 
Legislature of Florida, at its coming session will 
be called to lake some action on the subject. 
The leaves of the beach tree, collected in 
Autumn, in dry weather, form an admirable ar¬ 
ticle for beds. The smell is grateful and whole¬ 
some ; do not harbor vermin, are very elastic, 
and may be replenished annually without cost. 
There was to have been an illumination 
in Kingston, Canada, over the victory of the 
Allies at Sevastopol. But the Whig of that 
place says,—“ The news by the Africa put out 
all the lights.” 
|»^p" Alaxwell Badgely, a policeman of New- 
wark, N. J., was almost instantly killed on 
Monday night of last week, by a drunken Italian 
whom lie was taking to jail. The wretch btab- 
bed him to the heart. 
A majority of the Board of the City of 
Charleston, Mass., are opposed to annexation to 
Boston, and refused to certify to the returns of 
the late election. They are to be compelled by 
a writ of mandamus. 
jcg- It is said that $8,000 has been received 
towards the endowment of a new Bishopric of 
the Church of England, the diocese to embrace 
all that part of upper Canada lying between 
the Grand River and the Detroit River. 
