MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
anti darkit. James tic fonomii. 
HINTS AND GLEANINGS. 
The Blackberry.— This delicious fruit can 
be grown in the garden as readily as in the 
hedge or woodland thicket. Set the plants in 
rows five feet apart—keep the ground free 
from weeds, and mulch in the fall with leaves 
or saw-dust, adding a quantity of ashes when 
this covering is dug in early in spring. The 
same care is necessary as with the raspberry 
in regard to pruning and supporting the canes, 
and the crop is as sure and as bountiful. 
Planting Orchards. —On this subject “a 
reader ” of the N. E. Farmer, well remarks 
that on most “ old land” the use of some kind 
of compost in planting, to give the tree a 
start, is essential. Mud or muck, mixed with 
ashes, lime, salt, plaster, leaves, &c., or piled 
up alone to “ slack” a few months before being 
used, will put the inches on the ends of the 
twigs and on the body of the tree, the first 
year. A great many apple trees have been 
“set” within a few years past; yet a person 
will see but few thrifty young orchards, in a 
trip of a hundred miles in any part of New 
England. These remarks are equally applica¬ 
ble all over the country. 
Market Apples.— Say what people will, 
there are few better apples which the farmer 
can grow for the market, than the Rhode 
Island Greening and the Esopus Spitzen- 
burgh. We notice in the Report on Fruit 
made at the Herkimer County Fair in 1853 
and published in the last State Transactions, 
that they are the favorites in that county, as 
they are wherever they flourish in perfection. 
That there are other good apples we do not 
deny, but these are among the best and most 
productive in Central and Western New York- 
DOUBLE SWEET WILLIAMS. 
For the last five years I have been collect¬ 
ing and growing all varieties of double-Jlowered 
Sweet Williams I could obtain. 1 now have 
upwards of fifty very dissimilar and beautiful 
varieties, varying in gradatiou from a white 
ground spotted with red, crimson, and puqile, 
through the various shades of pink, rose, lilac] 
purple, scarlet, and crimson. I need not at¬ 
tempt to eulogize the flowers of this beautiful 
and lovely tribe; all admire Sweet Williams, 
and especially the double kinds. By proper 
attention to culture, I have my flowers not only 
very double, but three-quarters of an inch 
across; and these produced in fine coryinbous 
heads, give a fine effect, especially so when 
the fine colors are so distinctively arranged as 
to have the best contrast. They are beauti¬ 
ful, whether grown in masses or singly, and 
well merit a situation in every flower garden. 
Two years ago I had about twenty varie¬ 
ties; and procuring from Germany a packet of 
seed, saved from the best varieties grown by a 
celebrated florist, who had paid much atten¬ 
tion to these flowers, I have been so success¬ 
ful as to increase my stock of real double-flow¬ 
ered to fifty-seven very distinct kinds. 
I grow mine in a good, moderately rich, 
loamy soil, upon a dry subsoil. I increase 
them by taking off slips in July; these soon 
strike root in pots placed under a hand-glass, 
or in a frame, inserting them in a moist, yellow 
saud; they would most likely i oot as well in 
sandy loam or sandy peat I pot them singly 
towards the end of September, and keep them 
in a dry cool frame during winter, turning 
them out entire at the end of March.— Cor. 
of Floricultural Cabinet. 
EFFECT OF FROST ON VEGETABLES. 
As the season is at hand when greenhouse 
and other plants are liable to injury from frost, 
it may not be unwise to devote a few mo¬ 
ments to the consideration of the manner in 
which it affects plants and the best means of 
avoiding its influence. 
It is not the freezing that does the injury. 
This really renders the things frozen warmer, 
by developing the latent heat of its watery 
parts. The thawing of the frozen water is 
what we have to guard against. In all thaw¬ 
ing the solid substance, as ice, takes up 
from surrounding bodies, or from the air, the 
heat necessary to render it liquid, and as soon 
as the process is commenced, by the sun’s rays 
or otherwise, it is continued by obtaining a 
part or the whole of the required heat from 
neighboring bodies; this loss of heat causes 
the bad effect. If we freeze the ear no harm 
is necessarily done. If we go near afire, or 
in any other way produce a rapid thawing, we 
are liable to lose the whole or parts of the 
organ, because the heat of the flesh is rapidly 
abstracted. If, on the contrary, we apply 
snow to it, we render the melting process so 
gradual that the flesh is not injured by the 
loss of heat. Many other instances of a sim¬ 
ilar character might be given were it necessa¬ 
ry. '1 he same rule holds good in the case of 
plants. When their leaves or fruit are frozen, 
all that is necessary is to apply snow, cold 
water, &c., or in some other way to prevent 
the rapid thawing of their ice. By attention 
to this point many valuable plants may be 
saved from the ravage of frost In cold cli¬ 
mates delicate trees or vines may be planted 
on the northwest slopes of hills, or on the 
same sides of fences or houses, and the tem¬ 
pering of the heat of the morning eun will 
prevent them from being injured by the rapid 
extraction of their frost.— JY. Y. Eve. Post. 
The bank where the wild thyme grows has 
declared a divideud of ten scents on the share. 
HEMORRHAGE OF THE NOSE. 
On reading a few days since an account of 
a person dying in your city of hemorrhage of 
the nose, I was reminded of a duty I owed 
the public, and which I had too long neglect- 
i ed, that of publishing what I think is a sov¬ 
ereign remedy for that difficulty. It is a rem¬ 
edy of my own discovery, and should be uni¬ 
versally published, and preserved by every 
reader, for no one knows how soon they or 
some of their friends may stand in need of the 
use of it:—Take as strong a decoction of white 
oak bark as you can conveniently make, and 
saturate it well with sugar of lead, and with a 
swab fastened to a small stick of four or six 
inches in length, you can carry this liquid fully 
through from the nostril to the top of the 
windpipe, and in doing which you are sure of 
applying some of this liquid to the ruptured 
blood-vessel, and if anything will stop the 
bleeding, this is sure to. It should be thor¬ 
oughly applied six or eight times a day.— 
Some five years since, I accidentally ruptured 
a blood-vessel in my nose, from which I bled 
at least three gallons in four or five days, not¬ 
withstanding all the efforts of skillful physi¬ 
cians whose remedies of application produced 
little or no salutary effect, but on the applica¬ 
tion of the above remedy, the bleeding was 
thoroughly stopped in twelve hours, and I 
have had nothing of the kind since. 
Dorastus Lawrence. 
Marcellus, Dec. 6,1854. 
TO CURE A FELON. 
A felon generally appears on the end of 
the fingers and thumbs; it is extremely pain¬ 
ful for weeks and sometimes months, and, in 
most cases, cripples or disfigures the finger or 
thumb that falls a victim to it. But it can be 
easily cured if attended to in time. As soon 
as the pain is felt, take the white skin of an 
egg, which is found inside of the shell; put it 
round the end of the finger or thumb affected, 
keep it there until the pain subsides. As soon 
as the skin becomes dry it will be very pain¬ 
ful, and likely to continue for half an hour or 
more, but be not alarmed. If it grows pain¬ 
ful, bear it; it will be of short duration com¬ 
pared to what the disease would be. A cure 
will be certain.— Exchange. 
[As felons are very painful, any remedy to 
relieve a person from their excrutiating pain is 
valuable. We do not know whether the above 
is all that it pretends to be or not, but within 
the past year we have known of the spinal 
marrow of an ox or cow applied by three dif¬ 
ferent persons, with the most satisfactory re¬ 
sults, in relieving the pain and securing a 
speedy cure of their felons. This, we are con¬ 
fident, will be very useful information to many 
persons. The spinal marrow should be ap¬ 
plied fresh every four hours for two days.— 
Scientific American. 
To Keep Celery. —Celery should be taken 
from the trenches before the ground freezes 
hard. If to be kept in a cellar, it should be 
one kept not much warmer th&n just above 
the freezing point. Make a ridge of earth on 
one side of the cellar, next to the wall, on an 
angle of forty-five degrees. Then proceed to 
lay the celery close together in a row. Place 
about an inch of dirt over the layer of celery, 
and then another layer, ami continue until all 
is snugly stowed away. There should be a 
sufficient quantity of dirt to keep the roots 
nnd stalks from touching each other. It may 
be taken out at any time during the winter. 
It may be kept in the open ground by placing 
over the celery sufficient straw or coarse ma¬ 
nure to keep it from the frost. We prefer the 
former plan as the most safe. 
Light Suppers.— One of the great secrets of 
health is a light supper, and yet it is a great 
self-denial, when one is hungry and tired at 
the close of the day, to eat little or nothing._ 
Let such a one take leisurely a single cup of 
tea and a piece of cold bread with butter, and 
ho will leave the table as fully pleased with 
himself and all the world, as if he had eaten a 
heavy meal, and be tenfold the better for it 
the next morning. Take any two men under 
similar circumstances, strong, hard-working 
men, of twenty-five years; let one take his bread 
and butter with a cup of tea, and the other a 
hearty meal of meat, bread, potatoes, and the 
ordinary et ceteras, as the last meal of the day, 
and I will venture to oflirm, that the tea-drink¬ 
er will outlive the other by thirty years. 
Coi.dslaw. —Cut a hard white head of cab¬ 
bage in two, shave one half as finely as possi¬ 
ble, and put it into a stew-pan with a bit of 
butter the size of an egg, one small tea-spoon¬ 
ful of salt, and nearly as much pepper; add to 
it a wine-glass of vinegar; cover the stew-pan, 
and set it over a gentle heat for five minutes; 
shake the stew pau about; when heated thro’ 
turn it into a dish, and serve as a salad. 
'I o make Custard. —Take a quart of milk, 
the yolks of six eggs; beat the eggs, and stir 
in the milk: put it in a pan, and let it come 
very nearly to a boil, but not boil; sweeten to 
suit the taste, put a little grated lemon in; 
beat the white of the eggs to a froth, pour 
boiling water over it to cook it, and then put 
on the top of the custard. 
SuBSTITTTE FOR CREAM, IN Tea, OR COFFEE. 
—Beat the white of an egg to a troth, put to 
it a very small lump of butter, and mix well. 
Then turn the coffee to it gradually, so that it 
may not curdle. If perfectly done, it will be 
an excellent substitute for cream. For tea, 
omit the butter, using only the egg. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
Issued from the United States Patent Office, 
For the week ending Dec. 5, 1854. 
Aaron H. Allen, of Boston, for improvement 
in seats for public buildings. 
Gardners. Blodgett and Paul T. Sweet, Bur¬ 
lington, N. J., improved oven for baking. 
P. Clark, Rahway, N. J., for improvement in 
steam boiler alarms. 
Horace J. Crandall, East Boston, improved 
arrangements for reefing top-sails. 
Joseph D. Crowell, Boston, improvement in 
steering apparatus. 
Joshua Gray, Boston, for rotary pump. 
John T. Hammitt, Philadelphia, improvement 
in railroad switches. 
Samuel B. Kittle, of Buffalo, improvement in 
ra’lroad switches. 
John Lilley, Birkenhead, Eng., improvement 
in machinery tor separating the fibre from the 
woody portion of tropical plants. Patented in 
England, July 21, 1853. 
Leonard F. Markham, Cambridgeport, im¬ 
proved machine for rounding the back of books. 
Obadiah Marland, Boston, improvement in 
paper-making machines. Patented in England 
September 28, 1854. 
William H. Miller, Brandenburgh, Ky., im¬ 
provement in wash-stands. 
Henry R. Miller, Louisville,improved mill for 
shelling and grinding corn. 
Wm. H. Plumb, New York, improved machine 
for crushing ores. 
John A. Robling, Trenton, N. J., improve¬ 
ment in steam boilers. 
Michael Shimer, Union Township, Pa., im¬ 
provement in railroad car brakes. 
James E. Simpson, East Boston, for improve¬ 
ment in dry docks. 
Thomas J. Sloan, New York, improvement in 
casting metal window sashes. 
David G. Smith, Carbondale, improvement in 
running gear of railroad cars. 
Mathew Stewart, Philadelphia, improvement 
in the manufacture of brushes. 
Amasa Stone, of Philadelphia county, for 
method of extinguishing fire in accessible places. 
Thomas T. Tasker, Philadelphia for mode of 
regulating the furnace of hot water apparatus. 
James Taylor, Newark, N. J., improvement 
in covering cotton thread with wool. 
Wm. D. Titus, Brooklyn, for improvement in 
lanterns. 
Ellis Webb, Parkersville, Pa., for hydraulic 
ram. 
Elbridge Webber, Gardiner, Me., improve¬ 
ment in churns. 
Cyrenus Wheeler, Jr., Poplar Ridge, N. J., 
improvement in grain and grass harvesters. 
Franklin Darracott, Boston, assignor to Geo. 
Darracot, of same place, improvement in dry gas 
meters. 
John Pepper, Jr., Portsmouth, N. H., assignor 
to the Franklin Mills, Franklin, N.H., improve¬ 
ment in knitting machines. 
Joshua Register, Baltimore, assignor to Elias 
Clampitt and Joshua Register, of same place, 
improved lubricating apparatus. 
Jno. W. Cochran, New l r ork, improved quarts 
crusher. Patented in England, Nov, 21, 1853. 
Calcium Light. — Mr. Robert Grant, of 
New York, has been for several years endeav¬ 
oring to perfect the Calcium Light as an illumi¬ 
nator for light-houses; and some recent experi¬ 
ments on the Latting Tower would seem to 
indicate some prospect, at least, of brilliant 
success. The Latting Tower is a public ob¬ 
servatory, erected in the upper part of the 
city, the top being just 300 feet above the 
earth. A full-sized apparatus was placed on 
the summit a few weeks since, and the shadow 
projected by its most intense flashes, at the 
distance of eleven miles, was judged to be 
equal to that from the moon in its first quar¬ 
ter. The light is thrown from the focus of a 
large pavbolic reflector in one pencil of rays, 
which is made to travel round the horizon 
once in seven seconds. This light is made to 
repeat any required number of occulations in 
the following manner:—To give the number 
twenty-one, the reflector is turned twice with 
the light burning; then the light is put out, 
excepting a small point of hydrogen, and the 
reflector turned three times; the light is then 
increased again by the same machinery, and 
turned once; lastly, the light is suppressed du¬ 
ring five revolutions. Any other number can 
be made by simply changing a cam-wheel.— 
The cost of producing a light of this intensity 
is represented by Mr. Grant as being half the , 
sum required for a first-class Fresnel light.— 
The lime-point employed in this modification 
of the oxhydrogen light, is said to burn or 
rather glow with intense brilliancy for twenty- 
four hours without disintegrating. —The Plow, 
Loom and Anvit. 
A Great Gun. —Some experiments in gun¬ 
nery have been made recently at the Washing¬ 
ton Navy Yard. The object was to test the 
metal (cast-iron) of which a heavy piece of 
ordnance is constructed, with a view to its 
adaptation to the navy. The gun is the larg¬ 
est in the country, with a bore of 11 inches, 
and weighing 16,000 lbs. Upwards of one 
thousand and forty rounds have been fired 
thus far — generally thirty a day. Fifteen 
pounds of powder serves for single charge, and 
the shot average each one hundred and sixty- 
eight pounds. Twelve men are required to 
work this mammoth piece of artillery. The 
effects of each discharge on the metal are care¬ 
fully noted.— Scientific American. 
How Guns are Spiked. —A correspondent 
of the London Herald describes how the Rus¬ 
sians spike the guus:—“The spikes are about 
four inches long, and of the dimensions of a 
tobacco-pipe; the head flat; a barb at the 
points acts as a spring, which is naturally 
pressed to the shaft upon being forced into the 
touch-hole. Upon reaching the chamber of 
the gun it resumes its position, and it is im¬ 
possible to withdraw it. It can only be got 
out by drilling—no easy task, as they are 
made of the hardest steel, and being also loose 
in the touch-hole, there is much difficulty in 
making a drill bite as effectually as it should 
do. Its application is the work of a moment 
—a single tap on the flat head with the palm 
of the hand sufficing.” 
LOOMS FOR WEAVING BAGS. 
A very excellent improvement has been 
made in looms for weaving seamless bags, by 
George Copeland, of Lewiston, Me., who has 
taken measures to secure the same by patent. 
This invention does not change the general 
character of the loom, from those commonly 
employed for weaving plain or twilled fabrics, 
but consists chiefly in certain modes of con¬ 
structing, arranging, and operating some of 
the parts which require to be duplicated. A 
loom constructed according to this invention 
requires two sets of harness, either for plain or 
twilled weaving, according as a plain or twilled 
bag is required, and all the mechanism neces¬ 
sary to operate the two sets of harness inde¬ 
pendently of each other. It also contains 
two shuttle races placed one above the other 
in front of the same reed, and employs two 
shuttles, which are both in operation at all 
times. In weaving a bag, though only one 
warp is used, two independent sheds are open¬ 
ed one above the other, and the two shuttles 
follow one another through the upper and 
lower sheds, and thus produce a fabric com¬ 
posed of two parts united at the edges, one- 
half of the warp from which the upper sheds 
are formed, composing one-half, or one side 
of the bag, and the other half from which the 
lower sheds are formed, composing the other 
half of the bag, the two parts of the fabric 
thus formed only requiring to be united at 
certain intervals, corresponding with the re¬ 
quired depth of the bags, to form a continu¬ 
ous web of bags, which, when finished, only 
requires to be cut across at proper intervals to 
separate them. The bottoms of the bags are 
formed without any stoppage of the weaving, 
by the harness, and all the changes are effected 
by mechanism which works with the loom, the 
whole being self-acting.— Scientific Amer. 
DRAIN TILES. 
The subject of drainage, although well un¬ 
derstood, and its advantages appreciated by 
our agriculturists, has been applied but to a 
very limited extent in onr country, owing to 
the great expense of forming the drain prop¬ 
erly. Every improvement, therefore, which 
tends to lessen such an expense, whether it be 
in digging the drains or in the material to 
form them, is of immense advantage to our 
farming community. An improvement relat¬ 
ing to the latter object stated, namely the tiles 
or material to form drains, has been made by 
Selah Hills, of Jersey City, who has taken 
measures to secure a patent. It consists in 
providing a suitable cylinder, in the mouth of 
which a piston furnished with a conical guide 
plug traverses, and forces the concrete mass 
of tempered clay (which is thrown into the 
cylinder) into suitable molds, ready to be dried 
and burned. Each mold has a core, an ad¬ 
justable head rest, and adjusting screw, and a 
rotating knife cuts off the clay between the 
piston and the molds, into the proper length 
for each tile. The piston presser receives a 
reciprocating motion, and the machine can be 
worked either by hand, horse, or steam power. 
The rapidity of manufacture, and an improve¬ 
ment in the quality of the tiles, are the objects 
believed to be obtained by thi3 improvement. 
—Scientific American. 
Cylinder for the Mammoth Steamer.— A 
late London paper mentions that the last of 
the four largest cylinders in the world, had 
been successfully cast at Millwall. It was 18 
feet long and 6 feet in diameter; 33 tons of 
metal was poured into the mould, which when 
bored out and finished, will weigh about 18 
tons, or 62,720 pounds. The cylinders are in¬ 
tended for an iron steamer of proportionally 
monstrous dimensions. Her length will be 675 
feet, her beam S3 feet, and her height 60 feet. 
She will be built entirely of iron, and divided 
into compartments of 60 feet, each perfectly 
water tight About ten thousand tons of iron 
will be nsed in her construction. 
Lumbering on an Extensive Scale.— The 
Portland Advertiser gives an account of a 
mammoth lumbering establishment recently 
completed by C. S. Clark & Co., of that city, 
on the St. Francis River, six miles beyond 
Sherbrook, C. E. These mills, it is said, will 
saw in a season, (working day and night) 20,- 
000,000 feet of long lumber, and two trains a 
day will be required to get this lumber to 
Portland, whence it will be shipped to all 
parts of the world. To accommodate this 
business the proprietors have leased a large 
wharf in Portland, capable of allowing ten 
vessels to load at one time. 
Grain Mills. — A patent has been taken 
out in England by J. H. Johnson, and in this 
country, for improvements in grain mills re¬ 
lating chiefly to the inode of driving the mill¬ 
stones. A number of pairs of stones are ar¬ 
ranged in a ring, and are all driven by one 
large horizontal pulley, acting frictionally, and 
set in the central space between the mill-stone?. 
This large pulley actuates small pulleys upon 
intermediate shafts, carrying pinions in gear 
with spur-wheels on the spindles of the seve¬ 
ral mill-stones. 
Brick Machines. — An improvement in 
brick presses has been made by Ilcnry Young, 
and assigned to Reuben Culp, of Degraff, O. 
It consists in so combining a moulding and 
pressing apparratus with the pug-mill, that 
the clay is forced by the arms of the latter out 
of an aperture in its bottom into a suitable 
charger, where it is pressed by a follower into 
the brick-moulds. A suitable molud carriage 
is also provided to move in uud out laterally 
beneath the charger, iu correspondence to the 
movement of the follower. 
Mr. Hobbs has been awarded the Telford 
Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers 
in London, for the paper on locks, which he 
read during a recent session of the Institution. 
fto faragrayjjs. 
The floating batteries in course of con¬ 
struction in England will be the most formida¬ 
ble ever projected. They are of forged or ham¬ 
mered iron plates, four and a half inches think, 
lined inside with wood, and will measure 1,500 
tons. From actual experiment it has been 
proved that they will be impervious to any shot 
or shell. The construction of these engines of 
war is a very difficult and expensive task. 
VW" According to the census of the Canadas, 
35 persons are reported to be upwards of 100 
years old, and about 400 are found between the 
ages of 00 and 100. The Indians, those ancient 
or aboriginal lords of the soil, still number 
5,208 in Upper, and 2,520 in Lower Canada._ 
Colored persons amount to nearly 5,500, more 
than five-sixths of whom are in Canada West. 
j^”The English papers state that the num¬ 
ber of revolvers manufactured by Mr. Colt 
during the last two years amounts to 200,000. 
As the profit on each of these pistols is said to 
be not less than $5, at wholesale price, it fol¬ 
lows that his profits must amount to the snug 
little sum of $1,000,000 for that period. 
P&T" Through Chauncey Jerome, now Mayor 
of New Haven, the British Government have 
reduced the duty upon American clocks from 
20 to 10 per cent, and all clocks shipped to 
England for re-shipment to the British Colo¬ 
nies, dependencies or possessions in British bot¬ 
toms, are subject to a nominal storage duty in 
the government warehouses. 
England formerly purchased her cheap 
clocks of German manufacturers, mostly made 
in Scharwzwaltz, but since the introduction of 
the American clock, their beauty and cheapness 
has nearly annihilated the trade with Germany. 
About one-fourth of the clocks made in the 
United States find a market in England for 
home consumption and shipping. 
StUP The whole of South Florida now occu¬ 
pied by Indians is to be penetrated and survey¬ 
ed under the authority of government, and 
emigrants invited Vo settle the same. The war 
department is to make surveys, roads, <fcc., and 
protect them by stationing troops in close prox¬ 
imity. The savages are to be removed. 
{gg” Of the seventeen great London brewer¬ 
ies, the house of Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & 
Co. stood last year at the top of the list, having 
consumed 140,000 quarters of malt, and paid to 
the excise £180,000, or enough to build two 
ninety gun ships, at the usual cost of a thous¬ 
and pounds a guD. 
Mr. James Anderson, of Edinburgh, 
proposes a system of railways along the coasts 
presenting no natural means of defence, and 
placing upon these railways trains of carriages, 
each bearing a gun, so arranged as to be very 
readily available. Such a railway train would 
be a flying train of artillery. 
The Chief of the Choctaw nation has 
issued a counterblast to the American Board of 
Missions, in the form of a message to his peo¬ 
ple, denouncing the action of the Board upon 
the subject of their missionaries teaching.slaves. 
He recommends that all the missionaries from 
the North be excluded from the territory. 
I n Paris there are annually consumed 
I, 6UU,000 kid and lamb skins, for fabrication 
into gloves in Brussels 806,000; in Grenoble 
800,000; in Amonay 3,200,000; making a total 
within these four cities of 6,400,000. To work 
this into glovea requires 12,800.000 eggs, at an 
annual expense of b30,000f. 
jpg” A company of capitalists have purchas¬ 
ed 30,000 acres of land in Atlantic county, N. 
J. , to be divided into shares of 20 acre farms.— 
The land is situated upon the Camden and At¬ 
lantic railroad. It is said that the project has 
been received with much favor, but that a 
moiety of shares remained irnsold. 
j£gf“The total cost of the National Capitol 
and adjacent grounds, up to the time of the 
commencement of the great extension, wa 3 
$2,690,459. The additions now making will 
add five millions more to this sum, and the 
accommodations then will probably require no 
further increase for many years to come. 
jggT The Journal de Petersburg says there 
passed, on September 2d, through Nijnii-Nov- 
gorod, (celebrated for its great annual fairs,) a 
transport of gold from the mines of Altai, on 
its way to the Capital. The transport contained 
17,000 pounds of pure gold—worth $5,000,000, 
if we estimate a pound of gold at $300. 
j^pThe Kremlin is a fortress in Moscow, in 
the very centre of the city. It is two miles in 
circumference, and surrounded by brick walla 
and a deep moat. On entering, churches, pala¬ 
ces, public buildings, and the arsenal, just as it 
remained after the conflagration, present a most 
extraordinary appearance. 
jgjp Although emery has been sought for in 
all piarts of the world, it has been only found 
in two places—in the island of Naxos, in Greece, 
and a few spots in Turkey. The annual pro¬ 
duction is at present limited to two thousand 
tons of Naxos stone and sixteen hundred tons 
of Turkish. 
|£fp Dr. Griscom, of New York, in his annual 
address before the Academy of Medicine, said 
of the sanitary police of that city, which is 
composed of twenty-nine men, that no more 
than one of them could designate incipient 
small pox from the effeets of a mosquito bite. 
One day last week, says the Bangor 
Journal, there was cut out by one gang of saws 
in Gen. Veazie’s new mills at Oldtown, 106 M 
of boards. We think this is really the greatest 
day’s works ever done on the Penobscot, or 
anywhere else, by one gang. 
{gsp Mr. Kincaid, who was in the party mas¬ 
sacred by the Indians near Fort Laramie, and 
who was left as dead on the field, having been 
pierced with three arrows, escaped to the Fort, 
a distance of five miles, and his recovery is 
hoped for. 
jpfp Upwards of forty million gallons of 
whiskey, six and a half million gallons of rum, 
and upwards of one and three-quarter million 
barrels of ale, are annually manufactured in 
this country, requiring the rise of fourteen mil¬ 
lion dollars’ worth of grain, hops and apples. 
the authority of the Newark Adver¬ 
tiser, it is stated that by the death of the vene¬ 
rable Mrs. Susan Bradford, of Burlington, N. 
J., a valuable property comes into the posses¬ 
sion of the General Assembly of the Presby¬ 
terian Church. 
tW” The Boston Courier picks out as a text 
for the Rev.’ Samuel Iv. Lothrop, of Boston, who 
is to preach the election sermon to the next 
Legislature, Job, chap. 8, verse ix: “ For we are 
but of yesterday, and know nothing.” 
The New York Railroad Journal says 
that various new roads, the aggregate cost of 
which has been something like $60,000,000, 
will be rendered available next year. 
