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Items ol News. 
The Washington Election riot on the 1st inst. 
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A dispatch from 8 t Louis states that great ex¬ 
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D. T. Morlby, a respected citizen of Smyrna’ 
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— In this State, there is one pauper to every seventeenth 
person. 
— The epidemic among swine has appeared in Rhode 
Island. 
— The mint has paid out 6,000,000 of the new coinage 
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— It takes 800 clerks to do the business of the Bank of 
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— A silver mine has been discovered in Croosa county, 
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— An Antwerp lady has just given birth to her twenty- 
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— The Mobile Register acknowledges the receipt of plums 
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— The Sardinian government intends sending two vessels 
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— Fresh strawberries are among the delicacies of the 
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— Capt Isaac B. Dillon, of Illinois, has been appointed 
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_Wheat in California on the 1st day of April was three 
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— There are 4,000 men at work in the lead mines of 
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— Attorney Gen. Black, decides St. Paul to be the legal 
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— At Lake Superior, the snow is still a foot deep, and 
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— Col. McMullen has been commissioned Governor of 
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— A Bhip canal is talked of from Lake Michigan to Erie 
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— New potatoes, from New Orleans, are selling in Louis¬ 
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— Hon. John M. Botta has teen elected President of a 
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— The property belonging to Columbia College, in New 
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— It is stated that the horses are dying in large numbers 
in New Castle county, Delaware. 
— Seven females graduated at the Penn. Medical College 
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—Ripe strawberries are In the Cleveland market, brought 
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_Two steamboat captains were lately fined $200 each ) 
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— Chloroform is used in Berlin by thieves who steal 
porkers, to prevent their squealing. 
_Go itechalb, the American pianist, is said to be hope¬ 
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_A, publisher has issued a work called “Every Man a 
Lawyer.” Wbat a state of society. 
— Buildings are in progress In New York city, at a cost 
in all, of something like 6,000,CC0. 
_The price of leaf tobacco has advanced in the Louis¬ 
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— The anniversary of the Queen’s birthday was celebrat¬ 
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— The total number of insane persona in the various In¬ 
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_Mount Yeeiivin*, at lnrt «cconn<s, was in a state of 
violent eruption, and has been tor a week. 
— The Sophomore Class Iiar been dismissed from the 
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— It is said that a not. pros, has been entered in the case 
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— The culture of grapes has been introduced with sue* 
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— Lord Napier has cllldally denied the report that New 
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— Spiritual experiments are goleg on before the profes¬ 
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— An intelligent jury In Nevada found a man named 
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— A farmer from Cattaraugus Co., sold 7,000 pound b of 
maple sugar In a lot, at Rochester, on the 2d Inst. 
— The parishioners of Rev. T. Starr King have present¬ 
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— General Eyre, of Cunada, narrowly escaped drowning 
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— The ci tire us of Geneva are much excited and alarmed 
by several recent nndilagrant incendiarisms In that village. 
_Two girls and n boy in Bane have braided eight hun¬ 
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days. 
— Dr. Brandreth tells the Sing Sing Reporter he intends 
to complete the Washington Monument, at bi6 own ex¬ 
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_The English doctrine of “once a subject always a Bub' 
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Affairs. 
— A destructive freshet occurred at Port DepOBite, Md., 
on Tuesday of last week. Property was damaged to a large 
amount. 
_On the occasion of hia birthday, the Emperor of Rus¬ 
sia, issuod a further amnesty In favor of political and other 
offenders. 
_Three United States Senators from New Hampshire, 
have died in office in three years — Messrs. Norris, Ather¬ 
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_A beggar was recently fined at Washington, for being 
an impostor, and his wife drew the money from a bank to 
pay his fine. 
— A new article, called “ Refined Cotton Seed Oil,” baa 
been introduced into the market for burning and machin¬ 
ery purposes. 
_lVo thousand acres of land were burnt over, and 
about 16,000 cords of wood destroyed, recently, In Hooksett, 
New Hampshire. 
_The travel to Europe this season is immense. Nearly 
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— A petrified rattlesnake was recently found in Weaver- 
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spots and rattles. 
— A Firemen's Tournament will take plaoe at Auburn 
on the 20th and 30th of July next, to which firemen from 
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_Two men at New Orleans, have recovered $800 dama¬ 
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destroyed by a mob. 
__ On the 31st ult., Adorns & Co.’s express reached Louis' 
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to tho Philadelphia mint. 
— Lord Napier was the guest of the “ Ancient and 
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Washington Matters, 
Catt. Davis, of the U. S. Sloop, St. Marys, in re¬ 
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It is the opinion of those who had better means of 
knowing than himself, that a month before the dis¬ 
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moment passed the enemy’s lines and maintained 
himself in the open country. Since that time the 
desertions had become so numerous and frequent, 
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Rivas. The time therefore had arrived for deter¬ 
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The Pennsylvania American State Convention 
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date for Governor. 
Thb Democratic State Convention, of Alabama, 
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The American National Council have held a 
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post of Lieut. Governor of that State, made vacant 
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New York, Consul to Southampton, and Gabriel 
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English language before they shall be permitted 
to vote, He deems it necessary to protest against 
the Dred Scott decision, and suggests pecuniary 
aid to settlers in Kansas. 
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ROCHESTER, JUNE 13, 1857. 
Speculators in the Cattle Markets, 
Interesting Intelligence from Utah. 
The St. Louis Democrat contains an account of 
the arrival at Weston, of the United States officers 
and others who have been compelled to leave Salt 
Lake City, from which we clip the following inter¬ 
esting items. It will be seen that the reports of 
these persons fully confirm the statements relative 
to the antagonistic position of the Mormon leaders, 
heretofore published. 
The Mormons, daring the past winter, have been 
perpetrating many outrages upon the gentiles and 
the United States authorities. It is worse now in 
Salt Lake City than it was at the time Drummond 
left Several have been murdered and many rob¬ 
beries committed by the Mormons during the past 
winter. The laws and courts of the United States 
are repudiated by order of Governor Young.— 
Judge Stiles’ Court had been compelled to adjourn 
in consequence of the mobocratie spirit manifest¬ 
ed in opposition to it, by the devoted followers of 
Yonng, rendering it impossible to issue a process 
in Utah emanating from the district courts estab¬ 
lished there by act of Congress. The Mormons 
claimed exclusive jurisdiction, and repudiated the 
idea that government has any authority in that 
territory in any manner whatever. 
The Mormons express themselves determined to 
resist to the death every attempt of the general 
government to establish any authority in Utah.— 
“ That was their country, and no power on earth 
shall interfere with them.” They had a code of 
laws made by themselves and they should enforce 
them, establish and maintain their own courts in 
spite of all opposition. 
Judge StileB and Gen. Barr consider it absolute¬ 
ly necessary for the government to take the most 
stringent, measures for the restoration of “law and 
order” in that territory, the Inhabitants of which 
were in open rebellion against the laws and au¬ 
thorities of the United States, and unless some¬ 
thing was done, no one could tell the evils that 
would result from delay, Life and property are 
not safe, and injured parties have no means of ob¬ 
taining redress. 
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Herald of the 30th 
ult., gives further information derived from several 
who bad recently arrived from Utah, These per¬ 
sons left Salt Lake on the 15th of April, and report 
“ grass six weeks later than was ever known, snow 
on the mountain averages 20 feet—everything 
quiet on the plains—Baw but few Indians; met 
Col Sumner with two companies U. S. troops at 
Vermillion, one hundred miles out Met the first 
emigrant train 20 miles this side Fort Kearney, 
lost by their “ closing up”—such failure was a 
blessing to community. The producing classes 
have not been benefited by the interposition of 
these “ go-betweena”—tbe butchers have not real¬ 
ized by their transactions—while the people have 
been compelled to submit to extortion in order that 
these phlebotomists might grow and fatten. Stag¬ 
nation iu trade, or the financial embarrassment of 
those engaged in laudable pursuits, Is a matter 
much to be regretted, but when men forsake hon¬ 
orable employments and seek a living by such 
means as the cattle speculators have called into 
requisition, their speedy commercial dissolution 
is, if anything, cause for rejoicing. 
In connection with this subject we note that in 
Philadelphia last week a meeting of the Butchers 
and Drovers was held, for the purpose of devising 
some means of circumventing speculators in cattle, 
and reducing the present high prices of meats.— 
One of the objects of the meeting was to arrange 
for tbe calling of a Convention of the butchers of 
all the principal cities, for the purpose of forming 
an Association, and to recommend the establish¬ 
ment of a Board ol Purchase, under the control 
of the butcherB, to purchase all cattle and Bheep 
from the original feeders and graziers, Ac. Nothing 
definite was accomplished, however, owing to the 
state of the weather, and the meeting was post¬ 
poned. 
One prominent butcher made the following ex¬ 
pose of some of the rascalities practised upon 
them by speculators:—“ 
Conflagrations and Casualties 
On the Gth inst., a lire broke out in the extensive 
store-house of George TV. Baxter, in Furman 
street, Brooklyn, near the foot of Clark street.— 
The building was of brick, about seventy-five feet 
front by two hundred feet deep. It was only one 
story in height The rear extended nearly to the 
river. The fire originated in a bundle of hay in 
the front of the building. The flameB spread 
rapidly and soon extended over the whole con¬ 
cern. There were stored on each side a number 
of tiers and hogsheads containing sugar and mo¬ 
lasses, of which about 1,500 were sugar and the 
remainder molasses. The building belonged to 
the estate of Henry J. Sanford, and was valued at 
$12,000. The loss on the Bugar and molasses is 
estimated at $150,000. The whole is covered by 
insurance. 
A niiE in Manchester, N. H., on the 4th inst, 
destroyed the saw-mills of Messrs. Baldwin A Co., 
cansing a loss of $25,000. One man was killed 
and several iDjnred by the falling of the walls. 
A dispatch from New Orleans announces the 
burning of the steamer Louisiana at Galveston on 
the 3 lHtnlt. Eleven persons are known to be lost 
by tho catastrophe, and Col. Bainbridge, U. S. A., 
and thirty-one others are missing. 
The paint-shop attached to Morrill & Bowers’ 
Car Factory, Cleveland, O., was burned on the 4th 
inBt, with four passenger cars belonging to the 
Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, and two bag¬ 
gage cars. The loss of the Railroad is covered 
by insurance. Loss $14,00(1. Insurance $10,200. 
A fire occurred in the Western Ponitentiary, of 
Pa., at Allegany City, on the 2d inst. The fire origi¬ 
nated in a flu?, and damaged the roof and upper 
floor to the amount of $ 2 , 000 , which is covered by 
insurance. None of the prisoners escaped. 
The entire block of buildings known as the 
Dane County Block, MadiBon, WiB., were destroyed 
by fire on the fith inBt. Losa $75,000. Insured. 
Thb extensive Iron Manufacturing Establish¬ 
ment owned by a stock company in Nashville, 
Team, was destroyed by fire on the 3d inst. After 
many years of laborious effort to establish itself, 
it had just begun to pay, and had at least $ 100,000 
worth of work on hand, and 150 mechanics con¬ 
stantly employed. It is estimated that the loss to 
the company will not fall short of $100,000. The 
company was insured to the amount of $50,000.— 
Several individuals, who bad machinery repairing, 
lost to the amount of $5,000 or $0,000. 
The entire furniture manufactory of Mr. Eoux, 
Mercer street, New York, and a largo portion of 
that of Mr. Campbell, were burnt on the Gth inst. 
Two dwellings were also much injured. Loss 
$50,000. Insured. 
An accident occurred on the Erie Railroad on 
the 3d Inst, near Addison by which Dr. Wm. i’cclo 
of Cincinnati, was killed and three others badly 
injured. 
Tub fisp in Reading, Mass., on the 7th inst, de¬ 
stroyed Carter’s stoam cabinet manufactory. L oss 
$15,000. Insured $10,000. 
Cattle,” he said, “are put 
upon the scale to be weighed for tbe butchers in a 
condition oftentimes dangerous, from the effect of 
what ia known as * stuffing.’ This is done by feed¬ 
ing tbe cattle corn, salted and wet hay, aud they are 
then, kept without, water until the morning of sale, 
when they are allowed to drink so much that the 
cattle are sold at more pounds to the live weight 
than they would make if put upon the scales in an 
honest condition. Instead of now buying cattle 
at 55 pounds to the hundred weight, the butchers 
are compelled to pay for G 2 pounds—thuB allowing 
on every bullock weighing 800 pounds 73 pounds 
more weight to the speculators, amounting at 
Xiresent prices to $9 49.” 
Emigration from Germany. —Bremen and 
Hamburg, the two principal seaports of Germany, 
are crowded with emigrants for the new world.— 
In Bremen a cheap eating and lodgiug-houBe, up¬ 
on an extensive Beale, haB been established for tho 
accommodation of emigrants daring their sojourn 
there. The dining-room will seat three thousand 
persons at once. In the mouth of April, 1857, 
0,597 persons left the port of Bremen, against 
4,177 in tho same month last year; and since tbe 
first of January, 11,214 passengers have been for¬ 
warded in 47 vessels, against 6,983 passengers iu 
33 vessels during the same time last year. From 
Hamburg, 6,888 persons emigrated in the month of 
April, ol who 3,572 were bound to New York, and 
1,795 to Quebec. The number that lelt Hamburg 
since the first of January Is 7,344, against 4,768 
during the same time last year. 
Emigration. —Tbe Green Bay (Wis.) Advocate 
says that seventy Belgian emigrants came on the 
first steamboat arrival at that port, who stated that 
5,000 more of their countrymen might be expected 
this summer. It expects an accession of 12,000 to 
the population of Bro'vn county this season. 
Proposals to Insure the Submarine Cable.— 
Tho Washington correspondent of the Baltimore 
Sun learns that the directors of the Atlantic Sub¬ 
marine Telegraph Company have had offers from 
responsible parties in England to insure the suc¬ 
cessful laying of the cable for a premium of ten 
per cent., and that parties iu New York oflerod 
insurance at the rate of twenty per cent 
getting along very well and generally healthy.— 
Met more or less every day in large numbers com¬ 
ing from the south western part of Missouri, with 
large numbers of stock; estimated that 10,000 
wagons and 30,000 cattle would cross the plains for 
California.” 
Salt Lake mail passed down on the 29th nit—259 
wagons, with 1,000 emigrant seceders from Utah, 
will come to the States, and about 1,000 will go to 
California, 
Surveyor General Burr, who was obliged to fly, 
stateB that Brigham Young, with 350 followers, left 
Salt Lake on April 20th, to visit and treat with the 
Indiana in the north part of his Territory, the Da- 
naka, Flatheads, Ac. It is supposed that the ob¬ 
ject of his mission is to unite these tribes with the 
Mormon force, in preparation for a war with the 
U. S,,—determined, if it does commence, to secure 
the possession of the country thereabouts, and put 
a stop to the emigration across the plains. The 
The Frigate Niagara.— This new steam frigate 
left New York on the 24th of April, aud arrived 
at Plymouth, Eng., on the 12th of May,— eighteen 
days. This passage was longer than was expected, 
but during one day she ran 300 miles—an average 
speed of twelve and a half knots per hour, which 
is very good, but not extraordinary. 
Flour and Wheat from the West.— The ag¬ 
gregate shipments from Milwaukee, from the open¬ 
ing of navigation to 1 st Jnne, amount to 95,072 
barrels flour, 89,435 bushels wheat. Last year, 
same time, 60,161 barrels flour, and 380,294 bushels 
wheat. Chicago shows a still larger shipment of 
wheat, with a trifle less of flour. 
_The, great tunnel on tlie Iron Mountain Railroad iu 
Missou ri, has Just been completed. It is S00 feet long, 18 
leet wide, and 16 feet high. 
— A letter from Rome, of April 7th, says that two or three 
hundred person* from the United States have taken up 
residence in the “ eternal city.” 
