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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-IOR KElt: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
The New York Election. 
ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 25, 1854. 
PROCLAMATION, 
By Horatio Seymour, Governor of the State of IT. iork. 
An acknowledgment of our dependence upon God, and 
of our obligations to Him, is at all timeR the duty of a 
Christian People. But when the Almighty has again 
crowned the year with Hrs goodness, and we are enjoying 
the gathered fruits of His bounty, it is eminently filling 
that we should offer the sacrifice of praise and thanks¬ 
giving. 
I therefore appoint Thuhsdat, the 30th bat of No¬ 
vember, for this appropriate service; and irrvil'e the citi¬ 
zens of the State to assemble on that day, in their respec¬ 
tive places of worship, to present their acknowledgments 
to the Parent of the Universe for His multipKd mercies. 
And with our thanksgiving let us mingle prayers for a 
continuance of the numberless blessings we, as a People, 
enjoy, remembering that His wisdom alone can rightly 
direct—His power support, and His goodness give strength 
and security. 
^.In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my 
name and affixed the privy seal of the State, 
at the city of Albany, this tenth day of 
[l. S.J November, one thousand eight handled 
and fifty-four. 
HORATIO SEYMOUR. 
By the Governor. II. W. De Puy, Private Sec'y. 
Thanksgiving. 
ITitcrarji Uatias. 
Consonant to a time-honored custom of our 
ancestors, the Governors of most of the States 
have appointed a day for the anniversary of 
Thanksgiving. A portion of these States held 
the festival on the 23d, but a majority of the 
Governors, and ours among the number, have 
designated Thursday, the 30th, as the day. In 
the minds of some, the prominent idea of a 
Thanksgiving is a time for social enjoyment, 
a feast of fat things, and a rest from manual 
labors; but a great majority of our fellow 
citizens understand and appreciate the true 
intent of the sacred festival, and enter upon 
its duties in the higher and holier sense of 
its original appointment, viz., that of the public 
expression of a profound and lmmble gratitude 
to God for his countless mercies bestowed upon 
them during the year. It is true that this class, 
with the other, make it an occasion for a feast, 
and a re-union of friends ; but the feast is con¬ 
sidered an exponent of the bounties of a benefi¬ 
cent Providence, and is partaken of with a due 
sense of the source from whence all these 
bounties flow. 
All men are subject to afflictions, and few 
there are throughout the wide world, who have 
not experienced them in one form or another 
during the year. Friends near and dear have 
been removed by death, sickness has entered 
f (,o kowooktrlvlj a&viOcilbS Jltll C UdiillCn tome. 
and pecuniary misfortunes have come upon 
others,—but as a whole we are so free from ca¬ 
lamity, so much better off than we might be, 
and than possibly our merits deserve, that a 
reasonable and thinking man cannot but con 
fess that his life and happiness is in the hands 
of a beneficent and merciful Being. 
We are peculiarly blessed as a nation in all 
the elements of prosperity ; our harvests have 
been ample, our people prosperous, and our 
country free. The three great scourges of hu¬ 
manity and messengers of God’s wrath, viz., 
famine, pestilence and war, are at this moment 
withheld from us. Although the drouht and 
other causes have partially injured the crops in 
some portions of our wide spread country, we 
have enough, not only for our own necessities, 
but also for a partial supply to the deficiencies 
of other lands. The Cholera and Yellow Fever 
have scourged us in various localities, but they 
have been much less severe than at former 
periods, and have now altogether disappeared. 
War, that is at this very moment desolating 
other countries, has left us unharmed, and we go 
forth under the protection of our neutral flag to 
reap a rich harvest of commercial prosperity. 
In the enjoyment of our blessings let us rot for¬ 
get those less favored than ourselves, but lend a 
helping hand to alleviate the necessities of oth¬ 
ers. It is not the man who says to the pool', be 
ye clothed and be ye fed, but the man that 
does it, who proves himself a real philanthropist, 
Extension of Navigation. —Western papers 
gay that the steamer Sam. Ward is expected to 
pass through the Sault St. Mary’s canal the 
present week. This will be the commence 
meat of a new and important era in navigation, 
and adds near four hundred miles to the now 
unrivaled and extensive inland navigation of 
our country. With the reciprocity treaty in 
operation, which will open to our use the St. 
Lawrence and the Canada canals, a vessel can 
load for Europe or China even direct from the 
head of Lake Superior. Truly, America is the 
land for the accomplishment of gigantic enter¬ 
prises, rivaling the pyamids in magnitude, and 
infinitely surpassing in utility the works of all 
antiquity. 
Great Snow Storm.— The Lake Superior 
Journal, of Nov. 4th, says: A season of beau¬ 
tiful Indian Summer weather suddenly conclu¬ 
ded on the last day of October, since which 
time we have had a series of rain and snow 
storms of the severest kind. There was quite 
a body of snow on the ground yesterday and 
to-day, the weather having grown colder, the 
sleighing is passable. The ground was frozen 
last night hard enough to bear horses, but a 
bright sun to-day and an easterly wind will 
soon dissipate the frost, and we shall have two 
or three weeks, in all probability, of “fair sail 
ing** before the close of navigation. 
Rarely if ever has a Gubernatorial contest 
been conducted in this State with so neaily 
balanced forces as in that which has just been 
concluded. Day after day, as the returns came 
in, the papers were watched for a solution of 
the question who is to be our Governor for the 
ensuing term; and day after day the question 
remained unsolved. The tables have been 
turned and returned upon the candidates of the 
two leading parties, now one being pronounced 
the victor, and now the other; now one shoot¬ 
ing ahead sufficient, it was believed, to ensure 
his election, and then his opponent coming up 
unexpectedly until they stood shoulder to 
shoulder. 
There has been a wonderful change in the 
prospects of the election since the results first 
began to come in. The telegraph reports of the 
first day seemed to indicate unmistakably that 
the contest lay between Seymour and Ullman. 
Clark was pronounced a distanced courser, and 
as such migl t as well be withdrawn at once by 
his friends. Afterwards, to the surprise of all, 
and particularly of his political foes, he begun 
to recover ground, slowly at first but afterwards 
more rapidly, until he passed the Know Noth¬ 
ing candidate by more than forty thousand.— 
Seymour was then pronounced elected by the 
wiseacres, at least by a plurality of 6,000, 
and preparations were made by some of his po¬ 
litical friends to celebrate the victory; but this 
plurality was pared down as the official vote 
came in until he actually falls behind his oppo¬ 
nent. 
The returns arc all official except those from 
the city of New York, which last are footed up 
and reported at a majority for Seymour of 14,- 
581, by the County Clerk. In this view of the 
case Clark is elected by the remarkably small 
plurality of 277 votes out of 455,074 which 
were polled. The report of the votes for the 
various candidates stands as follows: Clark, 
154,869; Seymour, 154,592; Ullman, 113,761; 
Bronson, 31,S52. 
The decision of the State Canvassers may 
upset this calculation, but the papers generally 
concede that the Whig candidate is the suc¬ 
cessful man. 
fhtos |ardtjraj)tjs. 
War Cloud Vanishing. —Letters from Lon¬ 
don state that the diplomatic difficulty touch¬ 
ing Mr. Soule has been settled. The letter 
says, among other things: “ Louis Napoleon 
had a personal interview with Mr. Mason, in 
which he withdrew the restraints upon Mr 
Soule’s passage through the French territory 
disclaiming all intention of insult to the United 
States in the person of its Envoy. The manner 
of the Emperor was dry and curt, and it is be¬ 
lieved that this disclaimer was a diplomatic 
move, understood to have been dictated by 
tmglaiKi, me English Cabinet advising that the 
initiatory against Mr. Soule, personally, should 
be taken, if at all, by their Government. The 
banquet proposed to be given to Mr. Soule by 
the Refugee Republicans in London, will pro 
bably afford the Home Office an opportunity 
for action.” 
The war-horse of Uncle Sam will therefore 
probably be unsaddled, and the cloud end in 
smoke merely. 
Ecclesiastical Usurpation. — The Roman 
Catholic Vicar General of San Fiancisco has re 
cently assumed a very dangerous exercise of 
power, in annulling the marriage of James Mul 
queen and Sarah J. Summers, who were united 
in a parish church in Ireland, in 1848. He alst 
married Mulqueen to another woman last June, 
The reasons he gives are that Sarah Summers, 
the first wife, was not baptized—that dispensa 
tion has been given in order to contract legall 
before the church, and further that they were 
not married by any magistrate legally author 
ized. He therefore declares that such a mar 
riage never existed, and that the marriage is null 
and void. 
The numbskull who thus submitted to the 
judicial usurpation of the priest, is clearly liable 
to prosecution for bigamy under our laws, and 
it is to be hoped that the people of our Pacific 
metropolis will see to it, that he does good ser 
vice for two or three years in State Prison. 
Promotion on Merit. —The London Standard 
says, it is understood that Lord Raglan will be 
raised to the rank of Field Marshal after the 
operations at Sevastopol. The committee of the 
House of Commons reported in favor ot addi 
tional Field Marshals of repute being made.— 
We believe it is decided to give his Lordship 
£50,000 in lieu of pensions ; his private fortune 
was merely £1,000. 
It seems by this, that the English people re 
gard the fall of Sevastopol, and the consequent 
subjugation of the Crimea, as a foregone conclu 
sion. There was a certain milkmaid who once 
went into minute calculations upon a brood of 
chickens, before even the eggs were laid to pro 
duce them ; but she failed sadly in her calcula 
tions. If his Lordship takes the back track 
with Sevastopol uncaptured, will the Field 
Marshalship and the £50,000 be forthcoming V 
Webster and his Master-Pieces. By Rev. B. F Tkfft, 
D. i).. i.L D., author of “Hungary an i Kossuth.” in 
Two Volumes. Auburn and Bullalo: Miller, Orton a. 
Mulligan. 
This work gives the most complete Biogra¬ 
phy of Webster yet published, and refeience 
to the contents of Volume One will show that 
it enters fully into the subject. It treats of the 
Webster family, of the youth and College life 
of Daniel, and of his career as a lawyer, a 
Representative and Senator in Congress, as Sec¬ 
retary of State and again a Senator—giving the 
most interesting and important incidents and 
achievements of his varied and eventful life.— 
The Second Volume gives a selection of Mr. 
Webster’s acknowledged master-pieces in each 
department of his great field of intellectual 
action—as a Constitutional Lawyer, as an An¬ 
niversary, Dedicatory, and Funeral Orator, as 
a Representative and Senator m Congress, as a 
Literary and Scientific Lecturer, Public Dinner 
Speaker, and Official Letter Writer. The work 
is well got up, and very creditable both to 
Author and Publisher. Sold by D. M. Dewey, 
Arcade Hall. 
Maxims of Washington; Political, Social, Moral and 
Religious. Collected and arranged by John Frederick 
Schuokdkk, L> 1)., a citizen of the United States. New 
York: D. Appleton & Co. 
The Maxims of the “Father of his Country” 
cannot be too prominently or too frequently 
brought before the people. They contain les¬ 
sons to be learned and pondered by all—les¬ 
sons which can but make men wiser, better and 
happier, as members of social, political, and 
religious communities. This work is a hand¬ 
some and valuable one, and we hope it will 
have a wide circulation. Sold at Dewey’s. 
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Anthony Burns. —It may be some gratifica¬ 
tion to Anthony’s Boston friends to learn that 
Anthony left here on Friday, the 3d inst., in 
possession of Daniel McDaniel, Esq., of Nash 
county, N. C., who purchased him for the pur¬ 
pose of putting him to work in a cotton field, 
or where duty calls .—Hichmond Enq. 
The editor who would exult over such an 
event ought himself to be put to work in a 
tread-mill, or some other proper place “where 
duty calls.” 
Rachel’s programme of conditions for an 
engagement in this country exacts, it is said, 
a salary of twelve hundred dollars a night, and 
the payment of all her expenses. 
Mrs. Sigourney’s New Work. — Messrs. 
Phinney A Co., of Buffalo, have just issued a 
new work by Mrs. Sigourney, entitled “Say¬ 
ings of the Little Ones, and Poems for their 
Mothers,” abounding in diverse illustrations of 
youthful character, and highly interesting as 
depicting the gradual development of the men¬ 
ial and moral faculties of children. It is taste¬ 
fully got up, and one of the most appropriate 
of Holiday gifts for mothers. 
The Nrw York Teacher. —The second num¬ 
ber of Volume third of this periodical is receiv¬ 
ed. It is replete with excellent matter, and 
commends itself by its contents to the support 
of every one interested in the subject of edu¬ 
cation. The Teacher is published under the 
auspices of the State Teachers’ Association 
and hence directly interests the ablest instruc¬ 
tors throughout the State in making it what it 
purports to be, one of the foremost in the ranks 
of educational publications. It is issued month¬ 
ly in a pamphlet of fifty pages reading matter, 
and is furnished at the low price of one dollar 
a year. Let all intelligent men. both in the 
Stale and out of it, lend the Teacher a helping 
hand, and receive for their money an ample 
equivalent. Truman H. BowEn, late Professor 
of the State Normal School, Publishing Agent, 
Albany. 
Later from the Shipwreck, 
The shipwreck of the emigrant vessel New 
Era, on the coast of New Jersey, which was 
announced by telegraph just as we were going 
to press last week, proves to have been a rnucl 
more melancholy affair than was at first sup¬ 
posed. At least three hundred of the unfortu¬ 
nate passengers either found a watery grave or 
perished from cold and exposure. The survi¬ 
vors remained through an entire night and part 
of a day clinging to the rigging and spars of 
the wreck, and when rescued by the surf boats 
were so chilled and exhausted that many of 
them subsequently perished. The inhabitants 
in the vicinity of Deal Beach threw open their 
houses for the reception of the survivors, and 
did everything in their power to alleviate their 
sufferings. 
Great Bank Robbery. —A dispatch from 
Hartford, Conn., dated Nov. 18th, says that the 
Windham Bank was robbed the previous night 
of $22,000, $7,000 of which was in specie, the 
balance in bills of the bank. The robbery was 
effected by three men, who entered the bank 
early in the evening. To prevent alarm, the 
watch dog was first poisoned, and when the 
clerk, who slept in the bank, entered, about 
o’clock, the robbers gagged and bound him 
and one of them stood over him with a revol¬ 
ver, while the others, with crowbars and other 
implements, opened the safe and secured the 
booty. 
Since the above was in type the following 
dispatch has been received: 
New London, (Ct,,) Nov. 19.—The money 
stolen from the Windham Bank, on Friday 
night, was recovered last night at Allyn’s Point, 
and four men arrested. 
Mr. Sheriff Bliss suspected a party of four 
men who were hanging about the steamboat 
wharf, at Allyn’s Point, just previous to the 
departure of the boat for New York, and ar¬ 
rested them as they went on board. On search¬ 
ing their baggage $20,000 of the $22,000 stolen 
were found, and the balance secreted on board 
the steamer. The robbers have been safely 
lodged in jail at this place. We have not 
learned their names. They were said to have 
the appearance of genteel and finished scoun¬ 
drels. 
g-gf” The influx of immigrantsover the Plains 
is season into California is variously estimated 
between 18,000 and 20,000. It would perhaps 
be fair to put it at 20,000—which, added to the 
excess of arrivals by sea, would give a net ad¬ 
dition of 46,744 to our population during the 
first three-quarters of the year. The total in¬ 
crease by the end of the year will be about 
55,000—altogether a very satisfactory result. 
The teachers of the Buffalo public 
schools are about to contribute a stone to the 
Washington Monument. The stone is what is 
called “ Buffalo Plains Stone.” It cost $100, 
and the design of the carving is as follows:—A 
hand extending a flambeau towards another, 
representing the giving of light to the young 
mind. 
Rev. Eleazer Williams, the Bourbon of 
Putnam, is now at Montpelier prosecuting the 
claims of the St. Regis Indians before the Ver¬ 
mont Legislature. The Oaughnawaga or St. 
Regis Indians claim to have for a hunting 
ground all that part of Vermont lying north of 
Otter Creek. 
Zion’s Herald publishes a letter from 
Rev. George Fletcher, dated at Poplar, near 
London, in which the venerable man states that 
he is in the 108th year of his life. He adds 
that he is still able to preach, and is invited to 
do so by different denominations from all parts 
of England. 
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, the British 
Ambassador at Constantinople, lias succeeded 
in procuring a firman to suppress the trade in 
Circassian and Georgian slaves. Some persons, 
taking the peculiar features of Oriental life into 
account, think this a measure of questionable 
philanthropy. 
A vessel containing some 300 casks of 
Haris’ struck a part of a sunken wreck off Nor¬ 
walk, Ct., a day or two since, and went down 
in about ten minutes after the accident Her 
cargo was consigned to a house in New York, 
and was not insured. 
The scaffolding used in the building of 
the county workhouse in Patterson, N. J., gave 
way Nov. 14, killing immediately three persons. 
One is so seriously injured that but little hopes 
are entertained of his recovery, and four others 
are more or less injured. 
The St. Louis Democrat, Senator Ben¬ 
ton’s organ, has published several strong articles 
to prove that it is for the interest of Missouri 
-The ye.arly income of Wm. B.Astor is 
$1,309,000. 
-The price of frogs in Cincinnati is three 
dollars a dozen. 
-Rich silver mines have been lately open¬ 
ed on the Chatahoochee river, Georgia. 
-The State of Connecticut is out of debt, 
and has money loaned at interest. 
-The great balance dock at Williams- 
burgh, L. I., will raise vessels of 8,000 tons. 
■ -Very valuable copper mines have been 
discovered at Woodstock, N. B. 
•-Working oxen arc worth $250 to $300 
per pair, in California. 
-The library of the Hon. Edward Everett 
contains from 7,000 to 8,000 volumes. 
■ -There are seven thousand two hundred 
and thirty-nine farms in Worcester Co., Mass. 
-Ice formed at Charleston, Savannah, and 
Columbia, S. C., on the night of the 24th inst, 
-The Episcopal Church at Granville, 
Washington county, was burned last week. 
-The Buffalo Express reports a woman 
living upon the Cattaraugus Reservation 111 
years of age. 
-Among the English force at the Black 
Sea, is a corps of five divers and a sergeant, 
equipped with submarine armor, Ac. 
-Pork buyers in Cincinnati are paying 
$3,60 and $3,70 per hundred, nett, and are not 
anxious to buy largely at that. 
-During the present year 2,514,943 tons 
of coal have arrived at Philadelphia from the 
Pennsylvania mines. 
-W. W. Corcoran, the rich Banker, is build¬ 
ing a handsome and substantial edifice in Wash¬ 
ington city, for a Mechanics’ Library. 
-The Canton (Miss,) Madisonian says 
there was a slight frost at that place on the 
morning of the 18th inst. 
-A return of the population of Ireland 
shows that the number of inhabitants has fallen 
off two millions in the past five years. 
-During service on Sunday week, the 
Presbyterian Clinch at White Plains, N. Y„ took 
fire from the chimney, and was destroyed. 
- The annual election of the Directors of 
the N. Y. Central Railroad Company, will take 
place in Albany on the second Tuesday of Dec. 
On the morning of Sunday, the 5th inst., 
that Kansas should be a free State. In prose- the body of Mr. Joseph White, of Clinton, Me., 
curing the argument, the Democrat is unsparing 
in its deprecation of the existence of slavery. 
It is said that the house of A. Belmont 
A Co. have commenced a chancery suit against 
the New Haven R. R. Co., for $G5,00U damages 
oil stock of the Schuyler issue, which was hy¬ 
pothecated with them. Several either suits are 
also understood to have been commenced. 
The town of Petersburg, Texas, was re¬ 
cently sold for debt, tor less than a hundred 
deillars. The Court House sold fe>r sixteen dol- 
lars, and the tavern for fifteen deillars, the dif- 
ference being considered due to the dignity of 
the Court! 
A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette says 
he nas been over the States eif Indiana, Ken¬ 
tucky, Illinois, Missouri, Ac., and lie finds the 
number of hogs at least 2ri per cent larger than 
lost voar _that there it uu increase of a million 
and a half. 
In New York on Thursday evening 
week, one of the main pipes of the aqueduct, 
,,n 125th street, burst with great violence, near¬ 
ly overwhelming the inmates of some Irish 
hovels contiguous. The pipe was upwards of 
A Proposed New County. —At the late 
meeting of the Board of Supervisors, a propo¬ 
sition was introduced to divide the County of 
Monroe, making the city of Rochester a county 
by itself, and uniting the country towns under 
a distinct organization. Several of the' country 
members favored the proposition, but a majori¬ 
ty promptly laid the resolution on the table. 
hovels contiguous. The pipe 
four feet in diameter. 
grggr* The American Bible Society have is- 
stu cl a work entitled “Testimony of Distin¬ 
guished Laymen to the Value of the Sacred 
Scriptures,” containing the opinion of kiic. 1 i men 
as Crotius, Newton, Erskine, Clay, Webster, 
Everett, Silliman, and others. 
iy^pT. B. Cumming, the acting Governor of 
Nebraska, has issued his proclamation ordering 
a census of the territory to be taken immediate¬ 
ly, in order that an election for a delegate to 
U on-i-ress, and for members of the territorial 
Legislature, may be held at an early day. 
The water is extremely low on St. Clair 
Flats. At one time last week, there wer* be¬ 
tween fifty and sixty vessels aground. Those 
who vote" against harbor and river improve¬ 
ments should be made to answer to their con¬ 
stituents for such a slate of things. 
Miss Lydia Root, Principal of the Cot¬ 
tage Hill Seminary for young ladies in Pough¬ 
keepsie, died on Monday week, of apoplexy.— 
She enjoyed her usual good health on Sunday, 
rose as usual on Monday morning, and died be¬ 
tween 6 and 7 o’clock 1’. M. 
Out of one hundred and ten steam pack¬ 
ets now employed in carrying the U. S. mails, 
fifty-four are built of wood, and fifty of iron: 
of these, eighty-nine are propelled by paddle- 
wheels, and twenty-one by screws. 
The year 1854 began on Sunday, thus 
having fifty-three Sundays. January, April. 
July,°Octoher and December have each five 
Sundays. Such an array of Sundays, it is 
said, will not occur again until 1882. 
jrgp* At the Jefferson County, Wisconsin, Fair 
the Messrs. Ayer, of Aztalan, exhibited samples 
of Dent corn, a measured acre of which yielded 
114 bushels, shelled; and this was no better an 
acre than the other seventeen in the same field. 
Twenty thousand acres of land were 
sold recently at the land office at Jeffersonville, 
Indiana, at 12)^ cents per acre, the price au¬ 
thorized by the late law' of Congress for all 
lands that have been in market thirty years. 
The oldest inhabitant of Astoria, Oregon 
Territory, is an old half-breed negro and Ma¬ 
lay, who has lived at the settlement forty-six 
years, and is now, with his family, of partly In¬ 
dian extraction, w ell to do in the world. 
gj3f~ Instead of a salary, Mr. Aspinwall, 
President of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com¬ 
pany, receives two and a half per cent commis¬ 
sion on all receipts, which, for the nineteen 
months ending Oct. 1st, amounted to $84,328. 
gj^gr* Vespasian Ellis has established a Native 
American Know-Nothing paper at Washington, 
entitled the Native American Organ. The first 
number was issued on the 13th inst. 
Tom Thumb has withdrawn from public 
exhibition for this winter. He has taken up 
his residence with the family of Mr. Barnum, at 
I ranistnTi, Connecticut. 
When the British army embarked from 
Varna 5000 horses were turned loose; discharg¬ 
ed from service to be picked up gratis by the 
inhabitants. 
The Rev. Antoinette Brown lias resigned 
the pastoral charge of the Congregational 
church at South Butler, Wayne co. 
was found frozen to death, with a keg of rum 
beside it. 
-It seems that the Marylanders consider 
their oysters still worth fighting about; as they 
have commenced their annual warfare with the 
Pennsylvania oystermen. 
-The citizens of Texas are warning the 
transient Mexicans, those not freeholders, to 
leave the State, as they tamper, it is said, with 
the slaves. 
-Frogs that would make a Frenchman’s 
mouth water, are brought to the Sandusky 
market in abundance. They are caught with a 
hook among the marshes. 
-The Hartford Courant has been sold, on 
account of the death of John L. Boswell, to M. 
Day. The price was $24,000, half ca.-h and half 
iu six mouths. 
-A slave over sixty years old was whipped 
to death by James Maye, in Alabama, a lew 
days since. A warrant was issued for the wretch 
but he escaped. 
-The two girls who were arrested in Man¬ 
chester, N, H., a short time since for horsesteal¬ 
ing, Ac., were sentenced to four years hard la¬ 
bor in the Slate Prison. 
-A large proportion of the land at ]2}4cbs. 
per acre, at the Chilcothe office, in Ohio, is en¬ 
tered by colored persons, who are actual settlers 
on or near the soil they purchase. 
-Letters from Rochelle and Cognac, say 
that as the vintage will scarcely he sufficient tor 
home consumption, there will be no brandy 
made this year for export. 
-The Express says it is a common practice 
in New York to smoke while attending a fune¬ 
ral. It often sees long files of persons with 
cigars in their mouths, following a hearse. 
-During the unsuccessful cruis-e of the 
clipper John Clemens, in search of the Arctic’s 
boats, she picked up a flag-staff which was rec¬ 
ognized as having belonged to the Arctic. 
_The propeller Bucephalus foundered 
during a severe gale, in Saginaw Bay—seven of 
the crew were drowned. She was loaded with 
corn for Buffalo. The vessel is a total toss. 
_The inhabitants of the White Mountain 
region are rejoicing in a clear, cool, invigorating 
atmosphere. Snow is three feet deep on the 
summit of Mount VV ashington. 
_q’he interior of the new capitol at Wash¬ 
ington is to have ornamental columns, pilasters 
ami panels, of verd antique marble, from Ver¬ 
mont, mingled with those of white marble. 
_On the day of the suspension of several 
private banks in Cincinnati, over nit e hundred 
private dispatches were transmitted from one 
telegraph office in that city, to all parts of the 
Union. 
_The farmers of California, who bring 
their produce to San Francisco, at present, cam 
hardly realize enough for it to pay the expenses 
of raising, so abundant have the crops been this 
year. 
_The Superintendent of New York city 
says there are about one hundred and fifty thou¬ 
sand boys in that city of an age to attend school. 
Of this number only fifty thousand on an aver¬ 
age are constantly there. 
_Prof. J. Milton Sanders has been con¬ 
victed at Memphis, Term., of attempting to aid 
in the escape of slaves, and has been sentenced 
to the penetentiary for three years. A motion, 
however, is now pending for a new trial. 
_At the Burial of Marshal de St. Arnaud, 
the flags of France and of England, for the first 
time in history, covered the same coffin, and 
Mussulman cannon resounded in a sign of grief 
at the funeral of a Christian General. 
_The Hamilton (C.W.) Banner says that 
the Bench of Magistrates have dismissed the 
charge preferred against the Directors of the 
Great Western Railway Company with refer¬ 
ence to the late lamentable accident. 
_Some of the Oregon papers denounce in 
the severest terms the agents of the Hudson 
Bay Company, particularly those at Fort Boise, 
which is one of the Company’s trading posts,for 
selling arms and ammunition to the Indians. 
-At New London, Butler co„ Ohio, Nov. 
16th, the tower of the new Congregational 
church, in course of construction, fell on the 
workmen, killing three of them and wounding 
ten others. 
