i. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
AGRICULTURAL. 
Pack. 
Waste of Food,.881 
Sterility—Mr. Hathaway Reviewed,.881 
What the Farm will Produce,.881 
A Clydesdale Stallion, [IlluatratedJ.881 
“Sorghum, where is it? 1 ’.381 
A Patent Chum Rug 1 .(81 
To keep Manure Heaps from Heating,.382 
The Rce-Kctptr~\)toncs how to Exterminate,.882 
Rural Spirit of the Press — Fattening Hogs on Dry 
Corn; Apparatus for Sailing Sheep; Mine und Wheat; 
Calves with Sheep; Light for Animals', Uow to Finish 
Rooms,. 382 
Inquiries and Answers- Carrots for HorseB,.882 
Agricultural Miscr.Uanv.- The Weather; Ag’l Science 
In Genesee; Another Xew Ag. Journal; The Kural’s 
Show-Bill for 1‘fil; Gov Seward's Arabian Horse—Opin¬ 
ion of the Committee; Valuation of Cattle, Ac., in Mass.; 
That Rural Ruining Advertisement; Uow Many?.382 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Double Asters,.283 
Tree-Mover,[Illustrated,]... 383 
Guidons,. .333 
Horticultural Aplrs-The French Raspberry; Tians- 
actiong of the Am. Porn. Soc’y; Genesee Valley Ilort. 
Society; Grapes at Kelley's Island; Pears — Ducbesse 
d’ Angmileme; Fruit In Michigan; Culture of the Ca¬ 
mellia iu the Parlor,.3S3 
Inquiries ami Answers. Bark Men; Hedges and 
Bones; Planting Peaches, Ac.; Apple Tree Borer; Grape 
Vines and Raspberries; Improved Tomato; Plant for 
Fame,.383 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Good Apple Dumplings; Sweet Apple Pudding; Citron 
Sauce; Hop Vepst; LitP’Olii Cake; i rul ers; llnwto get 
rid of Black Ants; Sausages; A New Sewing Machine; 
Cider Wine,.....333 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
That Little Chair, l Peel leal;] Hard Truths; Juvenile 
Imaginations; i.itile Fannie ; Great Men and Little 
Children; The Power of Women,.384 
CHOICE miscellany. 
T.ife and Love, [Poetical;] Milton; Was he a Man, or 
a Brute; Influence of Books on Character.ES4 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Ask, Reek, Knock. |Poetical;I The Pearl of Great 
Price; Simple Preaching,.SS< 
TnE REVIEWER. 
Gazetteer Of the State of New York: A Course of Six 
Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter; The Pro- 
gresiive Higher Arithmetic: First Greek Book; A f or¬ 
est Hymn; Critical and Miscellaneous Essays aud 
Peerus; <Jnii t Thoughts Tor Quiet Hours; The Iioise 
and His Diseases: Life of Wtu. T. Porter; Winre and 
Walter, Ac.; The Quarterly Reviews; Books Received,..235 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Views in Western Now York, No fX. Illlustrated,] 
Cuttle Fish; The Power of the Heart; What Causes the 
Hair to Turn Gray; The Excitement of Intoxication,_386 
YOUNG BURALLST. 
Pebbles mistaken for Diamonds; Fanner's Boys,.385 
THE STORY TELLER. 
The Leafless Woods, [Poetical;] My Autograph,.383 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
The Independent - Joseph II Richards. 
The Newspaper of New England—Samuel Bowles A Co. 
The School Visitor, 
Burrell's Patent Corn Sheller and Separator — Wm. D 
Burrall. 
Stock for ' J n]o—Benjamin Fish. 
The Universal Plow William M'Kendiee Bray. 
A Farm for Sale Geo Keech. 
Clover Street Seminary—Amy Moore. 
Important to Nurserymen. 
Berkshire Pigs for sale—Win. K. Gridlev. 
More Agents Wanted—Liberty Hall & Bro. 
Middlebury Academy M, Weed. 
The Oporto Grape—E. W. Sylvester. 
'Webster Academy—C. H. Darin. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., DECEAIBER 1, 18G0. 
DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Washington Mattel's. 
Toe Government was officially informed on 
the 21st inst., that Capt. Montgomery and his 
company havo again commonced operations in 
Kansas by hanging and hilling their opponents, 
and threatening to compel an adjournment, of tho 
land sales, advertised to take place during De¬ 
cember. Several days previous letters were re¬ 
ceived from responsible sources,addressed to tho 
proper authorities, stating that Capt. Montgomery 
had a force of probably 500 men, with plenty of 
arms, ammunition and other material aid, and 
that from time to time wav-like supplies had been 
received by him from the North. The writer# 
also say that tho demand to adjourn the land sale 
would be resorted to as a mere pretext for raising 
an armed force, and that the real object of this 
lawless organization is araid, fust on the frontiers 
of Missouri, and then on Arkansas and the west¬ 
ern border, to avenge the punishment of abolition 
emisarios. Gov. Medary has recently communi¬ 
cated some important particulars relativeto Capt 
Montgomery’s alarming movements. Orders will 
be forthwith dispatched, ordering the United 
States troops in Kansas, to such points as may be 
necessary for tho protection of the land officers 
in the performance of their duty, as well as the 
public property menaced, indunding Port Scott 
On the 22d tho President received a dispatch 
from Judge Wiliams from Warsaw, acquainting 
him with the alarming state of ail'airs in Kansas. 
Additional orders have been transmitted, to resort 
to all the available means within his reach to 
crush the insurgents. 
Mr. Floyd, the Secretary of War, has expressed 
the determination to hand over the forts and 
arsenals in South Carolina intact, to his successor 
on tho 4 111 of March. Any attempt, therefore, to 
seize them by the secessionists, as suggested by 
Mr. Rhett, would inevitably lead to serious con¬ 
sequences. 
Washington is alive with rumors of grave dis¬ 
agreements in the Cabinet. The President main¬ 
tains the illegality of secession, as well as its im¬ 
policy, and has resolved earnestly to rebuke it. 
Secretary Cobb and Thompson threaten to resign 
unless he suppresses his condemnation of the 
Secessionists. Postmaster Holt, to some extent, 
dissents from the President's position, but it is 
doubtful whether he will carry his opposition so 
far as to resign, in case the President adheres to 
his sentiments. 
The receipts into the Treasury for the week 
ending on Monday, were $1,432,000, including 
about $1,400,000 only from the customs. The 
drafts paid amounted to about $2,000,000, a por¬ 
tion for the redemption of Treasury notes. Leav¬ 
ing subject to draft $3,105,000. 
A? 
MOOHE’S MSIL 
1EW-Y OUKEE. 
The amount of lands sold during the year end¬ 
ing with June, were 3,401,000 acres. Amount 
received therefore, $1,844,000. 
The Postmaster General has ordered the prepa¬ 
ration of envelopes embossed with a or.e cent 
stamp, from a newly executed dye, representing 
the head of Franklin, to be used lor circulars and 
drop letters. Letter envelopes will alao be pre¬ 
pared with a one cent Btump in juxtaposition with 
the three cent stamp, to facilitate the necessary 
pre-payment of the carrier fee on letters taken 
from stamp boxes, or other stations in cities, to 
the Post Office for transportation by mall. These 
envelopes will be ordered both rated and unruled. 
A telegraphic dispatch, dated the 24th nit, 
says:—The position of the President is understood 
to be:—Though the South has just cause for com¬ 
plaint against the Noith, no State iB justified in 
seceding or revolutionary movements. Until 
every constitutional measure for redreBS has been 
exhausted, no State has a right to commit acts 
having the effect of precipitating such condition 
of Bffairs ns would induce or compel other States 
to join her in disruption ofthe Union; and calling 
dispassionate deliberation ofthe people, may rc- 
enlt in restoring confidence and positive integrity 
to the Constitution. 
The Government received a dispatch from Min¬ 
ister Clay on the 2(>th nit, Btating that lie had, 
pursuant to instructions, demanded his passport, 
and wag on his way home. Shortly after this 
information came to the Executive, the Peruvian 
MinUter to the U. S. was promptly furnished with 
his passport, and thus all diplomatic intercourse 
between the two countries is terminated. The 
amount of unadjusted claims against Peru, on 
account of the seizure and confiscation of the 
vessels Georgiana and Lizzy Thompson, is $150,- 
000. Mr. Clay has been our Minister to Peru for 
nearly 14 years. 
Political Intelligence. 
Wk give the official vote in the recent elections 
as far as it has been ascertained: 
New York. —The official footing on electors, as 
far as heard from, assuming Orange and KullivaD 
as heretofore reported, are as follows:—Lincoln 
electors, 302,040; Fusion electors, 312,510. The 
canvassers not, having received returns from 
Orange or Sullivan, completed the canvass with¬ 
out their vote, and adjourned to meet December 
7th, to canvass the State ticket. 
The official vote on the question of Negro Suf¬ 
frage in tho Stato of New York, is ascertained 
to boas follows:—Against, 273,073; for, 172,477. 
Majority against, 100,SOU. 
Pennsylvania. —Tho official vote of this State 
for President gives Lincoln a majority over all 
opposition of 02,518, and a plurality over the 
Reading ticket of 02,622. The following are the 
figures:—Lincoln, 208,518; Fusion, 175,80(1; Doug¬ 
las, 17,350; Bell, 12,754. 
II.LINOI8.-—The official vote of Illinois is a3 fol¬ 
lows:—Lincoln, 172,545; Donglas, 100,540; Bell, 
4,816; Brcckenridge, 2,272. Increase in vote since 
185(1, 103,132. 
At the late election a law was submitted to the 
popular votoof Maryland, compelling freeuegroes 
to hire out on certain conditions, and voted down 
in every county. 
California. —The People’s Reform ticket for 
municipal officers for San Francisco, is elected 
by majorities ranging from COO to 4,000. This is 
the filth time the Reform government, whioh was 
inaugurated by the Vigilance Committee of 1856, 
has been indorsed, and the majorities just given 
are larger than ever before. Presidential election 
returns still lack 5,000 or G,000 votes from beiDg 
complete. Total vote returned, 111,618. Lincoln, 
3G,5SG; Douglas, 35,990; Brcckenridge, 31,2X6; 
Bell, 8,020. Lincoln ovur DougUp, 3DG. This is 
the most favorable account for Douglas published, 
other authorities placing him nearly 1,000 behind 
Lincoln. The balance of the returns will proba¬ 
bly reduce Lincoln's majority, but the State is 
generally conceded to have gone Republican, 
though the official account is required to settle 
all doubts. 
Oregon. —A dispatch from Ycrka, near Oregon, 
on the 13th, snys the latest advices from Oregon 
give 250 majority for Lincoln over Breckenridge. 
Douglas was 0,000 behind Breckenridge, with 
throe small counties to hear from, which cannot 
vary tho result. 
Kentucky.— The official vote of this State is 
as follows:—Bell, C6,01G; Breckenridge, 52,S3C; 
Douglap, 25,344; Lincoln, 1,466. 
Tlie Secession Movement—Re-action. 
Georgia. —The largest mooting ever held in 
(^reene county, Georgia, came off on the 23d nit. 
The most influential men in the county took part. 
Resolutions of a conservative character were al¬ 
most unanimously adopted. They urge the call 
of a State Convention of all partiep, to calmly 
consider the evils threatening the destruction of 
the National Union—appealing to the people of 
the Union to discard the counsels of agitating 
politicians and demagogues of all sections, and 
rally to the support of our imperilled government 
They soy the politicians, instead of allaying the 
excitement, hare stirred it up; instead of repress¬ 
ing mutual distrust and dislike, they have pro¬ 
moted it.; instead of removing causes of dispute, 
they have created them for the sake of power and 
office. 
A large meeting in Hancock county on the 21th 
nit., adopted firm conservative resolutions, deny¬ 
ing that tho mere election of Lincoln was a cause 
for disunion, but declaring the unfriendly legis¬ 
lation of many of the free States an outrage on 
the comity of the Union. 
Judge Wayne, of the Supreme Court, has, it is 
understood, wxitten a letter to a friend in Wash¬ 
ington, saying, among other things, that four- 
fifths of the people of Savannah are opposed to 
secession. 
North Carolina. — The Legislature has as¬ 
sembled. A strong Southern feeling is manifest. 
The Governor’s message takes strong Southern 
gronuds, and recommends a Conference with the 
neighboring States, and then a State Convention 
on federal affairs. He recommends the enroll¬ 
ment of all men between 18 aud 45 years, and the 
raising of a corps of 10,000 volunteers with arms 
and equipments. He goeB for resisting any effort 
at coercion in any event. 
Virginia.— Gov. Letcher has published a letter 
iu reply to that of John J. BrUben. of Penn., wbo 
ridicules Secession, and states that 200 Virginians 
had tendered him llieir command in the event of 
disunion, Ac. The Governor, in his reply, admin¬ 
isters a severe rebuke to the Northern nullifica¬ 
tion States, and shows that dereliction on the part 
of the North is the prime cause of the present 
dangerous trouble. He advises the people of the 
North to correct public sentiment at home, and 
discharge their constitutional obligations with 
stiict fidelity. He then indicates his determina¬ 
tion to defend the State of Virginia, and stand as 
a mediator, an armed mediator, If necessary, be¬ 
tween the Southern States and their assailant*, 
come from what qnarter they may. 
South Carolina.— The conservative sentiment 
ill the South appears to bo disgusted at the un¬ 
ceasing sectional wrangles, and considers that 
the Northern States should promptly convene 
their Legislatures and repeal their unfriendly 
laws, and urge a Convention of all the States to 
make a prompt and united effort to preserve the 
Union and conntry from bankruptcy, anarchy, Ac. 
MisstgsirPI.—The Congressmen of this State 
met in Jackson on the 21th ult., and unanimously 
declared for a. Southern Confederacy. The seces¬ 
sion movement creates great enthusiasm through¬ 
out the State. 
Maryland. —A telegram dated Nov. 2Gth, says: 
—An association calling themselves “Southern 
Volunteers,” displayed the Palmetto flag, and was 
greeted with groans aud hisses from the crowd, 
and with plaudits from the volunteers. Captain 
Jones, of the hark Isabel, also displayed the Pal¬ 
metto Hag from the mast head ol his vessel this 
morning, when all the ships in the vicinity im¬ 
mediately ran up the Stars and Stripes. 
Kansas Troubles eiiexveil. 
The citizens of Kansas, it would seem, are in 
a fair way of once more getting into hot water. 
One Montgomery, with the title of Captain, has 
been inciting a certain jiortion of tho inhabitants 
to deeds of violence, and if the statements fur¬ 
nished us by the entire press (which we condense 
below,) are to lie relied upon, that gentleman and 
his band are certainly committing outrages 
which will receive the attention of the govern¬ 
ment, and result seriously to the perpetrators. 
The intelligence received is as follows: 
Kansas City, Nov. 22.—Dr. Massey of Fort 
Scott arrived here this evening. He left Fort 
Scott Tuesday last. Rumors of burning of the 
town on Monday night are incorrect. He con¬ 
firms the acconut, of the murder of five men and 
the capture of others, who have probably met the 
same fate. Montgomery’s gang are well armed 
with Sharp's rifles and Navy revolvers; they have 
plundered the town of Paris and arrested many 
of its citizens. The people have petitioned the 
Secretary of the Territory, in the absence of Gov. 
Medary, to come to their assistance with federal 
troops. 
Leavenworth, Nov. 24.— The latest informa¬ 
tion received here front Fort Scott, shows that np 
to Tuesday night no demonstration had been 
made there, it is thought here that Montgom¬ 
ery’s object is only to drive off some obnoxious 
settlers, and that he has no intention of molesting 
the government officers at Fort Scott, or of invad¬ 
ing Missouri. His original band bas been largely 
reinforced by men recently driven from the New 
York Indian lands, and rendered desperate by 
want. 
Osceola, Nov. 24.—A gentleman just in from 
Osceola informs us that the citizens of that sec¬ 
tion were in a great state of excitement, appre¬ 
hending that Montgomery would push on to that 
place for the purpose of taking possession of the 
bank and contents, which could be easily effected 
in tho present unarmed condition of the inhabit¬ 
ants. Tlie last news of Montgomery's movements 
was that a portion of his hand were at Ball’s Mill, 
only 25 miles from Osceola, and it is feared he 
will march on to the latter place. 
"Warsaw, Mo., Nov, 23.— Judge Williams, U. S. 
District Judge of Southern Kansas, arrived here 
to-night. A meeting of the citizens wa3 immedi¬ 
ately called, and Judge Williams delivered a calm 
and cool statement of affairs in the Territory. He 
has been for 29 years the presiding Judge on the 
border of civilization. Judge W. said since 
Saturday night, ho had been in the saddle. He 
came to warn Missourians of the approaching 
danger. Southern Kansas had been delivered 
over to addition outrages under Montgomery and 
others. For three and a half years he had been 
Judge, striving to maintain the supremacy ofthe 
laws, and to that end has used his efforts, on and 
off the bench faithfully, notwithstanding the evi¬ 
dence of marauders and lawless men who were 
there for that purpose only. lie had organized 
and held courts in all the counties of this district. 
These marauders and murderers are sustained hy 
men who procure means in the States under the 
pretense of aiding the sufferers of Kansas, but ap¬ 
propriate them to carry out their designs of re¬ 
bellion against law- They are tho same men who 
procured a passage of the amnesly and other in¬ 
digencies, by their promise that they would 
maintain the law, and preserve order in Southern 
Kansas. But this has only proved a respite to en¬ 
able them more effectually to prepare for the ac¬ 
complishment of their designs. 
St. Lons, Nov. 25.—The Brigade of Missouri 
volunteers, under the command of Brig. General 
Frost, mustered into service by order of Governor 
Stewart for the protection of the Western frontier, 
left on an extra train for the Pacific Railroad, at 
11 o'clock to-day. The Brigade numbered about 
700, embracing eight companies of infantry, en¬ 
gineer corps, one company of cal vary, three pieces 
of artillery, fully armed and equipped for one 
month’s campaign. Major Bell, of the U. S. Arse¬ 
nal, furnished a full supply of shot and cannister 
lor the battery; forty thousand rounds of Minnie 
balls, sixty rounds for each of Colt’s revolvers. 
The Laic Storm on the Lnlies. 
It was feared that the gale which set in on 
the night of Friday, the 23d, and continued 
through Saturday and Sunday, would result in the 
destruction of life and property upon our inland 
waters—and the telegraph this, (Tuesday) morn¬ 
ing, brings us the following melancholy intelli¬ 
gence: 
Buffalo, Nov. 27.—The storm of Saturday and 
Snnday was the most severe that has occurred for 
many years. The damage to bnildings in the 
city was heavy. The marine Iosbcb as far as heard 
from are rb follows —The schooner Comet, ashore 
in the bay, cargo of oats. The barque Torrent, 
ashore near Barcelona, cargo of coal. The 
Bchooner Fanny Gardner, ashore near the Comet, 
no cargo. Fropeller Forest Queen, ashore at 
Bailey'# Harbor, gone to pieces. A large propel¬ 
ler, supposed to be the Dccotah, of the New York 
Central Railroad line, is ashore at the Eighteen 
Mile Creek. She left Buffalo Friday afternoon, 
with a double crew on board, all of whom have 
perished. The propeller Jersey City, of the New 
York and Erie Railroad line, is reported to have 
foundered near Dunkirk, and nil on board per¬ 
ished. Two or three propellers and a number of 
Bail vessels are ashore on the Canada side. Most 
of the fleet bound down have arrived safely, the 
loss being confined mostly to vessels bound np. 
Of those bound up the schooner J. 8. Newhonse 
is afthore near Goderich, C. W. Schooner Wm. 
Maxwell, ashore above Sugar Loaf. Crew all 
perished except one. Schooner Enterprise, ashore 
at Long Point, Schooner Artie, ashore at Pres¬ 
que Idle. Schooner Scalawag, ashore near Port 
Stanley; goneto pieces. Schooner William Case, 
of Chicago, and W. H. Goodel, o! Buffalo, wore to¬ 
day lowed int > t if river at Sarnia, completely 
covered with ice, with every man on the Goodell 
more or less frozen. Brig Cnrtisa Mann, from 
Chicago to Buffalo, is ashore near Goderich, C. 
W.; crew Bavod, vessel a total loss. The Cadet, 
of Detroit, arrived at Goderich, safe. She reports 
seeing a loaded vessel in tho lake running under 
bare poles, shipping heavy seas, and thinks she 
must have foundered. Three other vessels, names 
unknown, are ashore at Point Albino. The hark 
Sunshine and schooner Kenosha, are safe under 
Long Point, but damaged. The schooner Marco 
Polo is capsized near Long Point, Schooner Sac¬ 
rament, ashore near Port Colborne. 
From Lake Ontario we get the following:—The 
schooners St, George, Mary, The Wild Rover, and 
two or three others, names unknown, are ashore 
near South Bay. Schooner Forrest, frozen in the 
ice near Trenton, in the Bay of Quinte; Cascade, 
driven to Sackett's Harbor, disabled, sails gone— 
she was loaded with wheat; Mary Selina, ashore 
in Chamnont Bay—lumber; Comet, ashore near 
Big Sodas—grain; propeller Coaster, ashore three 
miles below Stone Mills, Canada, gone to pieces; 
schooner Augusta Hardy, in South Bay. Seven 
vessels ashore between Kingston and Sackett's 
Harbor, reported by steamer from former place. 
Dr. Longshow, who went out with Dr. Hayes’ 
Arctic Expedition, bas returned. He left the ex¬ 
plorers frozen in the ice, where they expected to 
remain until June next. All well and hopeful. 
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FOREIGN NEWS. 
Great Bkitian.— At Lord Mayor’s banquet, in 
London, the only European Embassadors present 
were those of France and Sardinia. Per6igney 
spoke for the diplomatic corps in a cordial and 
friendly spirit. 
The projected Cotton Company, in Manchester, 
was assuming definite shape. The capital is fixed 
at £100,000 sterling. 
The African mail steamer had arrived at Liver¬ 
pool The slave trade was reported brisk. The 
American Bhip Lauretta is supposed to have left 
Wbydah on tho 28th of September, with COO 
slaves on board, and the American bark Buckeye 
sailed a few days previous with a cargo of slaves. 
The bullion in the Bank of England had de¬ 
creased £230,000. The banks bad raised the rate 
of interest to 44 per cent. 
No intelligence had been received of the Prince 
of Wales, but t*o vessels, supposed to have been 
the Hero and Ariadne, were seen passing Pill, off 
Portland, during the night of the 8th inst. 
Prince Albert arrived at Plymouth on the morn¬ 
ing of the 9th inBt. 
Franck. —The monthly return of the Bank of 
France shows a decrease in cash of twenty-five 
and a third millions of francs. 
Italy. —Advices from Naples say that 15,000 
Neapolitan troops, 4,000 horses and 32 guns, be¬ 
ing pursued by Sardinians, took refuge in the 
Papal Stites. Their progress was arrested by 
French aud Papal authorities, and they will be 
disarmed. 
After the fall of Gaeta, Garibaldi will, it is said, 
retire to private life for a time. 
Official result of the Sicilian election on annex¬ 
ation—Ayes 433,054; noes GG7. 
Victor Emmanuel formally accepted the Sover¬ 
eignty ol" the two Sicilies, and the deed of annex¬ 
ation was drawn op. Garibaldi and his Ministers 
rtfcigned on the 9th, and the former departed for 
his home. Victor Emmanuel was received at 
Naples moBt enthusiastically. 
Investure of Gaeta on the land side continued, 
and the departure of Francis If. was considered 
imminent. It is reported that the commander at 
Gaeia had commenced negociations with General 
Fanti for the evacuation of the fortress. 
The British Legion at Naples were dwindling 
away on account of the disgraceful conduct of itB 
members. 
The Loudon Post's Paris correspondent says 
that the dissolution of the Pope’s army is posi¬ 
tive, and that he will only have left to him a sim¬ 
ple guard of 3,000 meD. 
Commercial I.vtelugence — Breadstuff*. —Richardson, 
Spence (i Co.. Kil l others, report Hour dull, amt 7il lower. 
Wheat dull, au<! 2d@3d lower on the week. Corn tends 
downward, and bmera demand a reduction of 6d@ls; 
mixed 38s@39a. Pruottuins .—Pork steady. Lard firm, 
at 
London Markets. —Barings quote breadstuff* quiet. 
American stocks qmet, but steady Railroad rtneks are 
considerably lower. Illinois Central shares 29@31 dis¬ 
count. New York Central shares 75@78. 
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®I)C News dcmimtscr. 
— A lyDX has been shot near Saratoga. 
— The population of Nashville is 17,020. 
— Five persons were burned to death on the prairies, L 
recently, I * 
— Providence, R. I., sold 33,000 pieces of printed cloths 
last week. • 
— There are 15,000 hotel and travern keepers in New 
York State. 
— Nearly 1,000,000,000 tumblers of ale are drank annu- 
aUy in London. 
— Diptheria is making sad havoc in Chester county, 
North Carolina. 
— Thirty thousand tourists visited Niagara Falls dur- 
ng the past season. 
— There are 700 lady stockholders of the Bank of Com¬ 
merce of New York. 
— A splendid meteor was observed in Philadelphia on 
Wednesday evening. 
— Three million cocoanuts are exported annually from 
the island of Ceylon. 
— Mr. Lincoln is said to be in the receipt of a half a 
bushel of letters per day. 
— Lamnriciere has been created a Roman noble, and a 
me.dal struck in his honor. 
— The gold yield of the Pike’s Peak region for the cur¬ 
rent year, is about $5,01)0,000. 
— Four magistrates of Hamilton, C. TV., have been 
cashiered for malfeasance in office. 
— Miss Hattie Smith has been elected Clerk of the 
Board of Supervisors of Genesee Co. 
— Among the Texas recruits, is an old Scotch Crimean 
soldier, wearing the medal and clasp. 
— At Fort Kent, Aroostook Co., Me,, chimneys were 
thrown down by the recent earthquakes. 
— Three deaths hy railroad accidents have occurred in 
one family, in Albany, In about 24 months, 
— Ten thousand pounds of a choice quality of tea have 
juet been received in New York from Japan. 
— Tho diptheria, or putrid sore throat, iR prevailing in 
many parts of Indiana, with alarming fatality. 
— There is little excitement at Washington about 
secession. Members of Congress are arriving. 
— The subscriptions raised in France for the relief of 
tb# Syrian Christians, amount to 404,165 francs. 
— The sword of Tiberius, the Roman Emperor, is for 
sale at Msycucc—the Mngentum of the Romans. 
— The Georgia woods are teeming with a heavy crop 
of note ami roast, and hogs are fattening rapidly, 
— Great prairie fires are said to be in progress in Ne¬ 
braska, and much damage has been done by them. 
— A farmer in Watertown, Conn., has been fined for 
letting Canada thistles go to seed on his own land. 
— A drayman in 8t. Louis has become totally blind in 
consequence of over-exertion and strainiDg in lifting. 
— A grizzly hear in the mountains of California is sup¬ 
posed to have killed no less than seven mon in the last 
year. 
— A young dog, alive and kicking, was picked np at 
sea, not long ago, though neither land nor vessel was in 
Bight. 
— A glutton at Oyster Point, Conn., ate a bushel of 
oysters, last week, as fast as an expert negro could open 
them. 
— The defalcation of Bates, the late Vermont State 
Treasurer, a* far as ascertained, is $53,810, with more to 
come. 
— Georgey, the Hungarian traitor, is living in com¬ 
parative poverty and obscurity, as a Professor of Chem¬ 
istry. 
— Vermont has increased, instead of decreased, as 
heretofore announced, in population, since 1850, about 
2,500. 
— Asa M. Wagner, a Revolutionary- pensioner, died 
recently in Ashland, Yt., at the advanced age of 110 
years. 
— The Rockland (Me.) Gazette says that a subterranean 
retreat has been discovered in Megunticook Mountain, 
Camden. 
— A project is on foot in New York to supply water 
through meters, on the same principle that gas is now 
supplied. 
— The friends of tho Middlebury (Vermont) College 
have appropriated $15,000 for the erection of a new 
building. 
— In the Island of Ceylon, in September, a man, and 
his wife and three children, wero destroyed by a huge 
anaconda. 
— Wise, the balloonist, made a trip from Richmond to 
Hampton, Va., on the 3d ult.,—90 miles—in two and a 
half hours. 
— Fifteen hundred men have been enlisted in and 
about New York within a few months, and have been 
sent West. 
— The omnibus receipts of London for a week, end¬ 
ing October 10, were some $60,000, an average of $2,000,- 
000 a year, 
— The Supreme Court at New York city has affirmed 
the decision of the lower court against German Sunday 
theatricals. 
— It is asserted that Russia has positively refused to 
enter into any engagements with Austria which might 
lead to war. 
— There was a report in London that a treaty of peace 
had been concluded between the Allies and the Chinese 
at Tlen-tsin, 
— It is stated that the Government of the British East 
Indies has abandoned the attempt to cultivate cotton in 
that country. 
— Calvin Fletcher, one of the pioneer merchants of 
Cincinnati, died, on Thursday afternoon week, of disease 
of the heart. 
— The commission given -to Governor CoddiDgton, hy 
Cromwell, in the year 1650, has recently been found in 
Rhode Island. 
— The Faculty of Harvard College have suspended 
nine Sophomores, for an attack upon two Freshmen, and 
riotous conduct. 
— One of the acts passed by the Hawaiian Legislature 
of 1860, is an act to prevent married persons from desert¬ 
ing one another. 
— No less than three daily papers are published at 
Denver City, Fike's Peak—a place of less than five thou¬ 
sand inhabitants. 
— On Sunday week, 40 homeless, houseless wretches, 
sought shelter from the night at the ninth 6treet station 
house, Cincinnati. 
— It is said that Col. Rudler, the fillibuster, is loaded 
with chainB, and imprisoned in a mine in Honduras, 100 
feet under ground. 
— A pauper recently died in Holland, Yt., and so little 
had he been cared for that, when removed, maggots were 
scraped out of his bed. 
— An old elm at Somerset, Mass., one hundred feet in 
height, and sixty-six in girt, was blown down by the 
high wind of Saturday week. 
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