Meteorological Observations. 
BY A. J. ENSIGN, OBSERVER. 
ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 11, 1854. 
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Great Fire at Lockport. 
A very disasterous fire occurred at Lockport 
on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 2d, by which 
two Churches, two Hotels, and a number of 
stores and private dwellings were consumed.— 
The wind was blowing a gale at the time, and 
notwithstanding the most strenuous exertions of 
the firemen and citizens, the flames became un- 
controlable and spread from building to building 
with the most desolating effects. 
Soon after the fire broke out, a telegraph dis¬ 
patch was sent to Buffalo for aid, and the Rail¬ 
road Company, with commendable liberality, 
immediately dispatched an Engine to bring 
down the Buffalo firemen, The train arrived, 
bringing two Engine Companies with their ma¬ 
chines—a Hook & Ladder Company and a Hose 
Company, in time to lend efficient aid in staying 
the progress of the flames. 
1854. 
July. 
Aug. 
Bar. Ther. 
Bar. 
Ther. 
. . 29.69S 95“ 
29 60S 
95° 
. .29.214 61“1 
29.131 
56“ 
Run go. 
. . 4S4 33“9 
477 
39“ 
Monthly Mean. . 
. . 29.402 76“;7 
29.411 
70“74 
Coldest Dav. 
14th 
18th 
Wannest Dav. . 
20th 
30 th 
Amount of Rain. 
0.252 
1.826 
1854. 
Sept. 
Oct. 
Bar. Ther. 
Bar. 
Ther. 
Highest Obs. 
... 29.945 97“ 
29.912 
73“9 
Lowest do. 
. . 29.202 40“8 
28.707 
32“ 
Range. 
. . 743 6G“2 
1.205 
41 “9 
Monthly Mean.... 
. .29.503 6t“65 
29.529 
53° 
Coldest Dav...... 
30th 
11th 
Warmest Day. 
5th 
20th 
Amount of Rain. . 
6.1S5 
1.635 
July. —Most of this month the weather was 
delightful; fair days, sky almost cloudless, clear 
starlight evenings. The degree of temperature 
for the month ranges high—the heat during the 
last half, especially, being exceedingly oppres¬ 
sive. The monthly mean exceeds that for the 
same month last year by 6 ° 02. The warmest 
day of the month was the 20th, when the ther¬ 
mometer stood at 95 ° ; for that of last year the 
3d was the warmest, the thermometer standing 
at 87 °. But little rain fell. There was a rain¬ 
storm on the night of the 4th, and a slight 
sprinkle on the afternoon of the 9th. During 
the last half there were several small showers. 
The number of rainy days—on most of them 
there was but a slight sprinkle—was six. The 
amount of rain for the same month last year 
was 1.000. 
August. —Here, as in most places, but little 
rain fell during this month—none of note the 
first part, and but a few slight showers at the 
last part. It was extremely dry and dusty.— 
On the 14th, and again on the 23d, 20th and 
31st, there were light rains. There were, how- 
euer, other days on which there was a fine 
sprinkle, but none sufficient to be measured by 
the pluviameter. The amount of rain, as seen 
in the above table, was 1.826; that for the same 
month last year 2,010. The mean temperature 
of the month differed little from that of last 
year, being then 71 ° 4. The warmest day of 
this month last year was the 12th, the ther¬ 
mometer standing at 96 ° ; this year the 30th, 
the thermometer being al 95°. Two bright 
meteors were seen at 9 o’clock on the evening 
of the 17th. 
September. —In this month there were fre¬ 
quent showers of rain, and the amount of water 
fallen was considerable. On the 14th and 15tli 
there was a heavy rain storm. The number of 
rainy days was 13. Though the quantity of 
rain for this month was very great, compared 
with several of the preceding, yet there was 
less on the same month last year. The amount 
then was 6.833. There is very little difference 
in the mean monthly temperatures. That of 
last year was 62 s 7; this year 64° 65. The 
warmest day of this month last year was the 
6th, the thermometer being at 88 ® . Some frost 
at the close of the month, but not sufficient to 
affect vegetables. 
October. —Some few of the first days of this 
month were cloudy, with slight showers. Then 
the weather became warm and pleasant. From 
the 9th to the 14th there were frequent rains— 
somewhat colder, hail and snow fell. The last 
half was mostly fine—Indian Summer. There 
was a thick fog on the mornings of the 26th 
and 27th, not clearing away on the 26th till 8 
A. M.—an unusual occurrence for this section 
of country. From the 21st to the close, fine, 
beautiful weather, excepting the last two or 
three days, on which there were slight showers 
of rain. On the night of the 20th the ground 
froze quite hard, and in exposed vessels of wa¬ 
ter ice formed a fourth of an inch in thickness. 
A beautiful rainbow was seen at sunrise on the 
30th. The amount of rain fallen was nearly 
equal to that of the same month last year, be¬ 
ing then 1.702—making a difference of only 067 
of an inch. The number of days on which rain 
fell, including those when there was for a few 
moments a mere sprinkle, was 16. The mean 
temperature was greater than that of last year, 
being 53 ° ; then 47 c 1, leaving a difference of 
5 ° 9. The warmest and coldest days were the 
20th and 11th, the thermometer being at 73 0 9 
and 32 ° respectively; for the same month last 
year the 3d and 15th were the warmest and 
coldest days, the thermometer standing at 
75 c 2 and 33 ° 1. 
The following table shows the amount of rain 
and melted snow fallen during each successive 
month of the two preceding years, and thus 
far of the present. The measurement is given 
in inches and decimals of an inch. 
January,... 
February,.. 
March,. . . 
September,, 
1852. 
1853. 
1854. 
.2.160 inches. 
2.470 inches. 
1.814 inches. 
. 0.856 
2.868 
2.863 
..3 213 
2.297 
1.073 
. .4.227 
3.245 
3.543 
..2.080 
4.725 
2.146 
.4.390 
1.480 
6 473 
. .4 990 
1.000 
0.252 
.1.330 
2,010 
0.908 
..2.970 
6.833 
5.183 
.3.890 
1.702 
1.635 
.2 865 
2.342 
..2.300 
1.723 
. .34,351 
32.095 
24.890 
The annual amount of rain, as indicated by 
the pluviameter, usually varies from thirty to 
thirty-six inches. 
University, Rochester, N. Y. 
Thanksgiving. —The Governors of Wisconsin, 
Maryland and Florida, have each appointed the 
23d inst. to be observed as a day of thanksgiving 
and praise, in their States respectively. The 
Governors of the following States have made 
similar appointments for the 30th, viz.,—Maine, 
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, 
Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. 
-The cargo of the Arctic is estimated to 
have been worth one million of dollars. 
Forest Leaves from the West.—Ho. 3. 
Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 27,1854. 
Friend Rural :—Since my last, I have re¬ 
turned from a trip west of here. I find the ad¬ 
joining States very much improved in every 
point of view, but of all the .States which I have 
visited west of this, I find none which I prefer. 
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Min¬ 
nesota are good countries in a general point of 
view, but there are exceptions which are mate¬ 
rial in my opinion. 
Michigan possesses many advantages over her 
sister States. She has almost an unbroken 
water navigation surrounding her borders, be¬ 
sides navigable rivers running through the in¬ 
terior, all emptying into Lake Michigan, on her 
western border. These advantages very much 
facilitate her commercial interest, serving, as 
they do, for transporting her products to their 
destined markets. Not only these means are 
valuable, but there are already two excellent 
Railroads spaning the State from east to west, 
besides the third, which is already in operation 
from Detroit to Pontiac, and is under contract, 
and now being extended to this city, so on to 
the mouth of Grand River, on Lake Michigan, 
and which is certain to be completed within 
two years. 
We do not mean to say that these other States 
do not possess these advantages at all, but they 
do not to that extent and uniformity which 
Michigan does. Michigan has other valuable 
considerations, which makes her more than de¬ 
sirable. It is a good wheat State, extensively 
so I think. Corn, and every other agricultural 
product raised in any Northern State, is luxu¬ 
riantly produced here. She has no superior in 
the Union, so far as my observation will allow 
the assertion, for agricultural purposes. Then, 
too, her commercial advantages are unequalled. 
Northern Michigan contains the best pine timb¬ 
er for lumbering purposes of any State, except¬ 
ing Pennsylvania. Her timber is along the 
Grand and Muskegon, and other smaller rivers 
emptying into Lake Michigan, which afford 
navigable facilities to Chicago and other points 
among the “ prairie regions ” of the West. At 
Grand Rapids inexhaustable Plaster beds are 
found, of the best quality. When ground it is 
almost as white as Buckwheat flour. I visited 
the establishments to-day. The Plaster is sold 
for $3,75 to $4 per ton. 
About one hundred miles north-west from 
Detroit, stone coal is found, and it is confident¬ 
ly supposed to a large extent. Besides all these 
advantages, manufacturing Ls becoming promi¬ 
nent. Michigan has very many fine water 
powers, which but few States contain. At this 
place the power is magnificent. 
Frank Forest. 
Collision. — As the engine Lancaster was 
backing down from the engine house on Brown 
Square, in thig city, on Friday, when between 
Platt and John sts., it met the locomotive Onta¬ 
rio, with an emigrant train, bound out, and a 
collision occurred, which damaged the engines 
somewhat. The Lancaster>had come in upon 
the direct road from Syracuse, and on the way 
ran over three cows. Something of a day’s 
work in the extras.— Democrat. 
The Central road is greatly in need of another 
track from the engine houses down to the pas¬ 
senger depot; but obstacles seem to intervene 
in the too much cutting up of Central Park, now 
nearly ruined by the road. The most feasible 
way to avoid the difficulty, would be for the 
city and the railroad company to “swap hor¬ 
ses ;” the latter taking up the old Buffalo track 
across the Park, and running all their trains 
outside the city limits over the Lockport line 
Three tlacks would occupy less of the Central 
Tark in this way, than they do now. 
Fatal Railroad Accident. —On the night of 
Wednesday, Nov. 11th, the engine of a train 
going west from Chicago, on the Rock Island 
Railroad, ran over a horse near Joliet, breaking 
an axle of the locomotive, and precipitating it, 
with two passenger cars, down an embankment. 
The passenger cars were thrown forward upon 
the engine, and the hot steam escaping there¬ 
from fatally scalded ten or twelve persons. Not 
less than forty passengers and employes were 
either bruised or burned, and a sad wreck was 
#iade of the cars. Where the next accident will 
happen we are unable to say, but the ink is 
scarcely dry from recording one, ere another is 
upon us in all its varied and sickening horrors. 
A Domestic Difference. —In the London 
Times appear the two following advertisements, 
the one immediately after the other: 
Flown Away, from a villa in St. John’s wood, 
a most charming gray tarrot. It is a very 
lively bird; and although its articulation is in¬ 
distinct, it will talk for hours with the greatest 
ardor. Whoever has caught it is pressingly re¬ 
quested to treat the sweet creature well, not to 
pay attention to its biting, and to return it to its 
inconsolable mistress, who will pay a reward of 
Three Guineas. 
Address Mrs. De Poppelts, Acroceraunia cot¬ 
tage, St. John’s Wood. 
Flown Away, from a cottage in St. John’s 
Wood, a gray parrot, that can be recognized 
by its ill-nature as well as by its never speaking 
a word, but screeching for hours at a time in 
the most disgusting way without any occasion. 
Whoever has caught it, and will deliver it stuffed 
to the undersigned address, shall receive Four 
Guineas and grateful thanks. 
Mr. Dk Poppelts, 
Aucroceraunia cottage, St. John’s Wood. 
fgf" It is said that Russian agents abound in 
London, part of whose duties it is carefully to 
examine all the public papers, and immediately 
transmit everything important to St. Petersburg. 
A telegraphic communication between London 
and St. Petersburg occupies eight hours. The 
contents of the morning papers arc known by 
the Czar at three o’clock the same day. 
Dittos firagrajljs. 
John Todd, a member of an organized 
band of thieves and desperadoes in Philadelphia, 
called the Schuykill Rangers, has been arrested, 
and committed for trial on a charge of burglary. 
It is stated that these Rangers number twenty- 
five men, all armed with pistols and bowie 
knives. The dread of the gang is spread thro’ 
all the western section of the city. 
At a recent meeting of the British Acad¬ 
emy of Science, Col. Cliesney stated that there 
had been for many years a well organized sys¬ 
tem of life-boats in Liverpool, by which 1,329 
lives had been saved since 1840, and 312 vessels 
rescued, which would probably give 60,000 tons, 
and taken at £10 a ton, would give an amount 
of £60,000 property saved by that means. 
The Boston Courier speaks of a new 
style of gold pen, which lias just appeared in 
that city. This pen has four points, two of 
which are protected with a substance called im- 
idum. These points or blades are protected by 
the other two points. It requires filling with 
ink but twice an hour, thus rendering it of as 
little trouble as an ordinary' pencil. 
(gf* The Baltimore American says the cost 
to the Susquehanna Railroad Co., in conse¬ 
quence of the Fourth of July collision, is, so 
far, including the damages paid to the sufferers, 
about $30,000, there being but one more claim¬ 
ant yet to settle with, who demands $5,000 for 
the injuries he sustained. 
A Mr. Morton, of Greenfield, who lodged 
at the hotel in North Adams, a few nights since, 
put his wallet, containing $200 in bills, between 
the beds for safety, and thought no more of it 
till after his arrival home, when he wrote back 
to the landlord, who found it according to di¬ 
rection, and despatched it to the lawful owner. 
jr^” The receipts of Breadstuff's, oats and 
barley at Buffalo, on the 1st inst., were the 
largest for any one day this season, amounting 
to a total of 290,000 bushels of grain and 9,000 
barrels flour. The receipts of wheat were 60,- 
000 bushels. 
jf§F*The warm weather has delayed the 
commencement of the pork packing business 
at the West, but hogs are being “mustered” in 
large numbers on the field of slaughter. The 
Louisville Courier, of Thursday week, announ¬ 
ces the arrival of over six hundred porkers by 
railroad, and other lots have arrived on foot. 
A great depreciation in real estate is ap¬ 
parent in New York and its vicinity. Seven 
houses in Brooklyn, were sold at auction a few 
days since at from nine to eleven thousand dol¬ 
lars each, being much less than their cost. They 
are among the most elegant and costly in the 
vicinity of New York. 
At this moment Bomarsund belongs to a 
tailor. Sic transit gloria mundi! Gen. Bara- 
guay d’Hilliers made a present of the ruined 
fortress to a tailor named Claes Bergren, and 
this person is now selling brioks, ifcc., from the 
ruins to any one who will buy. Bergren had 
served the French General as interpreter. 
Alexander Von Humboldt was in the 
enjoyment of his 85th birth-day on the 14th 
ult. The illustrious philosopher is in the en¬ 
joyment of full bodily health and intellectual 
vigor, and continues, as heretofore, to devote 
himself with wonderful activity to the interests 
of science. 
The Reading, Pa., Steam Forgo is mak¬ 
ing hollow axels for Railroad cars, the first ever 
turned out on the continent. They have been 
scientifically tested, and are not liable to frac¬ 
ture, can sustain more weight, and last longer 
than the solid axle. 
Ten thousand dollars have been raised 
in England, to do honor to Lt. Bellott, who lost 
his life in searching for Sir John Franklin. At 
the Greenwich Hospital, a granite obelisk is to 
be erected for $2,000, and the rest of the money 
to be equally distributed among his five sisters. 
mgf” Mr. Carey, Sunday School Agent at St. 
Louis,says that 4,000 Sunday Schools have been 
organized in Missouri and parts of Illinois and 
Iowa, in the last nine years. There are between 
600 and 700 in Texas. 
5*7gF" The Lake Superior Journal says: — 
“ Eight years ago the first steamboat was put on 
Lake Superior, at which time we had but one 
small steamboat plying between the Sault and 
Mackinaw ; now we have eight steamers here 
in one day.” 
At the recent State Fair, a patch-work 
quilt was exhibited containing samples of the 
dresses worn by the wives of all the Presidents 
except Washington’s. It was made by Mrs. 
Linn, widow of Hon. Lewis F. Linn, former U. 
S. Senator from Missouri. 
5 ^” The Journal of Commerce remarks that 
the ship building interest in New York and 
on Long Island is suffering much at present.— 
There is not much demand for vessels, and ev¬ 
ery material has risen to such a height that ship 
building is not profitable. 
A suit was recently in progress in Cincin¬ 
nati, before a magistrate, to recover from the 
publishers of a weekly journal the amount of a 
week’s salary of an editor, which was withheld 
in consequence of the said editor being absent 
on a trip to the east. 
Dr. Clark lias accepted the Bishopric of 
the Diocese of Rhode Island, and Judge Sta¬ 
ples has been elected Chief Justice, and Alfred 
Bosworth and Sylvester Sherman, Associate 
Justices of the Suj reme Court. 
Delmonico, in New York, pays a hand¬ 
some sum, at his place down town, to young 
men for eating oysters every forenoon. The 
example afforded is profitable during the tem- 
porory prejudice against the bivalves. 
Gov. Winston, of Ala., was fined $10 a 
few days ago, by a Circuit Judge in one of the 
counties of"Mississippi, for wearing his hat and 
puffing a cigar in the Court room during the 
session of the day. 
jrTgT The Rev. Dr. Potter, Il'shop elect, is to 
be consecrated on the 22d of November. The 
Albany Register says that the Bishop will not 
take up his residence in New York until the en¬ 
suing Spring. 
A letter dated Marion, Ala., Oct. 16, says 
that Howard College had been burnt to the 
ground, and that twenty boys were greatly in¬ 
jured by jumping from the windows. Two of 
the number were reported to have died. 
It i 8 8a ’d that $8,000 have 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. 
j^TThe proprietors of the Collins Line have 
oraered five metallic life boats for each of their 
steamers, which, with what they now have, will 
provide for 400 persons, with water and provis¬ 
ions for several days at sea. 
—— The receipts of the New York State Fair 
amounted to nearly $10,000. 
-It is stated that the Mormons contemplate 
a settlement in Kansas. 
-The British Post Office pays the Railway 
$370,000 a year for carrying the mails. 
-Upwards of three million gallons of lager 
beer are consumed annually in New York city. 
-The loss of cotton by the late storms in 
Texas is estimated at 30,000 to 50,000 bales. 
-The receipts of the Brattleboro Horse 
Show were $4,000, and cover expenses. 
•-- The Paris, Maine, jailbeen tenantless lias 
for more than six months last past. 
-Tunis Love Snook has been appointed, 
by Lord Elgin, Notary Public in Upper Canada. 
-The New York Assay office now receives 
deposits on the same terms as the Philadelphia 
mint. 
-Six Detroit hunters killed four fine deer 
in the swamp, four miles from Detroit, last week 
Saturday. 
-Mrs. Gen. Gaines is about to renew her 
famous land suit. She is in Washington for this 
purpose. 
-The total number of emigrants which 
arrived at the port of New Y r ork up to the 1st 
inst., was 273,551. 
-The best winter apples are selling in 
Washington city fifty cenis less than potatoes, 
by the barrel. 
-A company of Chinese have gone from 
San Francisco to Utah, having been converted 
to Mormonism. 
-It is rumored that Gen. Pillow, of Mex¬ 
ican notoriety, is to be sent to Utah, as Gover¬ 
nor of Mormondora. 
-A colony of Germans from Cincinnati 
are preparing to emigrate to Kansas. They 
propose to found a city. 
-There is a boy in Chicago, fifteen years 
of age, who measures in his boots (low-heeled) 
six feet and eight inches. 
-It is estimated that there is in this coun¬ 
try of last year's stock 200,000 bbls. of pork 
and an amply supply of bacon. 
-The Lake Superior Journal continues to 
urge the proposition to form a new State north 
and west of the Lake. 
-A schoolmaster in Poughkeepsie whip¬ 
ped a female pupil who was 17_ years of age, 
was tried therefor, and fined $365. 
-Captain Dana, quarter-master at Fort 
Snelling, is charged with speculating with the 
official funds entrusted to his care. 
-It is stated that in the western portion of 
Indiana, the best quality of Irish potatoes can 
be purchased for 25 cents per bushel. 
-Twenty-five prisoners recently attempted 
to escape from the Baton Rouge Penitentiary, 
when two were shot and the others recaptured. 
_The war taxes now imposed directly up¬ 
on the British people, and paid for in hal'd cash, 
amount to $5t),()0U,Ul>0 annually. 
-A letter from Capt, Calhoun, in com¬ 
mand at Ft. Cliadbourne, Texas, says “ we may 
now consider ourselves at war with the 1 ndians.’ 
_Twenty slaves, men, women and child¬ 
ren, decamped from St. Louis on Sunday week. 
Men and bloodhoudns were out after them. 
-The price for a trip in M. Godard’s bal¬ 
loon is $6U, and one of the editors of the N. Y. 
Mirror, who has tried it, says it is cheap at that. 
-A petition to Congress to repeal ail du¬ 
ties now existing by law upon the introduction 
of foreign coals, is now circulating in Boston. 
_The Clergy Reserves Secularization bill 
passed to a second reading in the Canadian Par¬ 
liament, by a vote of 93 to 15, on \\ ednesday 
week. 
Samuel Drake, the pioneer of the drama 
in the west, and grand-father of Julia Dean,the 
actress,died in Kentucky on the 17th ult., at the 
age of 86 years. 
_Dr. Brandeth.the pill man, and Professor 
Morse, the telegrapher, are Democratic candi¬ 
dates for Congress in their respective Districts of 
New York State. 
-A Chicago paper estimates that the pop¬ 
ulation of that city will reach nearly 120,000 by 
the 1st of January, 1857. The present number 
is about 60,000. 
_A baggage car on the Providence and 
Fishkill road took fire the other day at Willi- 
mantic, and partially consumed several bales of 
cotton. 
_The English papers mention the re¬ 
markable fact of the parish church of Seath- 
wait having had only two pastors in a period of 
120 years! 
_The Methodists have a larger church 
membership than any other denomination of 
Christians in the world, numbering nearly two 
millions. 
_It is said that Dr. Ives, late Episcopal 
Bishop of North Carolina, is about to assume 
he editorship of a Roman Catholic journal in 
Lew Y'ork. 
_The Maine Law- has passed the Legisla¬ 
tive Assembly of Canada by a vote of 85 to 5, 
and it will doubtless pass the Council, and im¬ 
mediately become a law. 
_An exchange, describing a counterfeit 
bank bill, says the vignette is cattle and hogs, 
vith a church in the distance. A very good 
illustrations of this world’s doings. 
-Many private families in New York are 
said to be forming clubs, to supply themselves 
with provisions, «fec., to avoid the enormous 
profits demanded by speculators. 
_Asa Thomas, a resident of Nelsonville, 
Putnam co., while partially deranged, wander¬ 
ed from home and fell down a precipice 175 feet 
in height. When found he was dead. 
Dr. Townsend, of N.Y.,has donated four lots 
of ground, valued in the aggregate at $10,000, 
as a site whereon to erect a building for the 
“ Christian Home for Female Servants.” 
_The emigration to Iowa this fall is beyond 
all precedent. The Burlington Telegraph an¬ 
ticipates an addition of 100,1)00 to the population 
of the State during the present year. 
-The life-boat of the Arctic, which has 
been bro’t to Philadelphia, is pronounced quite 
capable of sustaining from fifty to sixty persons, 
instead of which it brought to land less than 30. 
-Fifteen persons fell victims to cholera at 
Campbellsville, Ky., from Monday, the 16th, to 
Friday, the 20th ult. The disease was abating. 
The population of Campbellsville is only 400. 
-It is stated that Worcester has in prepa¬ 
ration a new unabridged English dictionary, 
which will contain upwards of tJn thousand 
words not to be found in any work of the kind. 
