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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
JULY 18 . 
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List of New Advertisements this Week. 
Great Sale of Cattle and Shce o—Lewis F. Allen 
Vilia Decorations—Janes, Bc«be & Co. 
Desirable Residence for Sals—O. J Deland 
Self-adjusting R. R Door Honcers—A. W. Morse. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 18. 1857. 
Our Premiums —The result of the competition 
for the Premiums offered for subscribers obtained 
for the Rural previous to July 1st, will be an¬ 
nounced in our next,—or in a circular which will 
be mailed to all interested. We hoped to give it 
this week, hut the clerk having the matter in 
charge, has not completed aDd revised his figures, 
and we desire to have it accurate when announced. 
Matters in Washington. 
The Navy Department, on the 9th inst,, received 
a letter from Capt. Hudson, of the Niagraa, of 
June 27th, in which he says:—“I have the honor 
to report that a Bhip load of telegraph cable has 
just been got along side this ship, which we shall 
at once commence coiling into the forehold. We 
have a promise of a second vessel, now nearly full, 
oa the 31st., and shall commence coiling from her 
into the ward-room tier, abaft. During the time 
in which we shall be coiling from these vessels, 
we shall coil away on tbis ship, 100 miles in 24 
hours. As stated in my letter of the 21st inst., the 
two vessels above referred to, briDg off about 760 
miles of cable.*’ 
R. S. Stevens, Special Superintendent for the 
sale of the trust lands in Kansas, belonging to the 
Karkarkia, Plankeshaw and Peoria Indians, in- 
Items of News. 
H. E. B. Stowb, abou of Mrs. Harriet Beecher 
Stowe, a member of the Freshman Class in Dsrfr 
month College, was drowned in the Connecticut 
river on Thursday afternoon. 
The Coal Fields of Pennsylvania are very exten¬ 
sive, the Appalachian Beam being the largest. 
According to Prof. Rogers, iis extent is 770 miles 
in length, while its greatest, width is 100 miles. 
The Boston Transcript says that the graves of 
Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence, from 
Massachusetts, are in the Granary Burial Ground 
of Boston, without monuments to mark them. 
A German woman named Maria KUuchner, 
died in Cincinnati Monday, at the advanced age 
of one hundred and seven years. She would have 
had, had they all lived, fifty four children, grand¬ 
children, great-grand-children, and great-great- 
grand children. 
The Female Medical College, of Pennsylvania, 
located in l J hiladelphia, has entered upon its 
eighth year, under prosperous circumstances.— 
There are some two hundred students in the Col¬ 
lege. Among the Faculty are ProiessorBOf Physi¬ 
ology and Anatomy, who are women. 
Mr. Young, the proprietor of the Paraffine Oil 
Works at Bathgate, Scotland, testified in a lawsuit 
that the ps 6 t year he made 400,000 gallons of 
lubricating oil from Cannel coal, which he sold at 
five shillings ($ 1 . 10 ) a gallon, and that the princi¬ 
pal part of the money received was profit. 
A new Pacific Railroad Co., says the St- Louis 
Intelligencer of the 29th, was organized at Omaha 
early in the present month, under the Nebraska 
territorial law, for the construction of a Railroad 
to the South Pass. General Robinson, of Penn., 
is President, and Mr. Hosmer, of Ohio, Secretary. 
The capital is to be $60,000,000. 
The resolution which was offered in the Board 
of Aldermen of New York, on the 6 th instant, 
authorizing the Mayor to send a special Ambas¬ 
sador to London, at an outlay of $2,500, to induce 
the agent of the Great. Eastern to send that naval 
monster to that port, has been passed, and will 
doubtless be concurred in by the Councilmen. 
Hbnby Winter, an American, is at the bead of 
the shipbuilding establishment of the Danube 
Navigation Company, one of the largest and most 
successful in the world, whose invested capital 
amonnts to $17,000,000. They have at present in 
constant employment 95 side wheei steamers, 19 
propellers, 450 barges, and 150 landing bridges, 
roads, and coal tenders, all of iron, and they are 
constantly adding to their number. 
Since the opening of navigation in February, 
there are said to have been at least two hundred 
persons drowned in the Ohio river, between Wheel¬ 
ing and Pittsburg. The Wheeling Times says that 
there is scarcely a day in which it does not hear of 
the recovery of a body, or the drowning of some 
unfortunate person. Daring the past mouth there 
were dragged from the Mississippi river, at St. 
Louis, nineteen dead bodies. 
Lord Napier has communicated to Secretary 
Cass a disavowal of the cession io Englaud of the 
forms the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, that a Islands in Panama Bay. He also denies the alle- 
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large number of persons were present from every 
State in the Union; that the best, state o" feeling 
prevailed, and that there was therefore no neces¬ 
sity as was anticipated of ranking auy requisition 
for troops. Nearly four pieces of the land claim, 
ed bythe settlers was taken at its valuation. What 
was not thus taken brought $3 per acre. 
Mr. Mandeville, formerly of New York, has been 
appointed Surveyor General ot California, in place 
of Col. J. Hays, who has been appointed Surveyor 
General of Utab. 
The Tribune’s correspondent says three members 
of the Cabinet express regret that. Gov. Walker 
throws his official weight into the scale of a sub¬ 
mission of the prospective constitution of Kansas 
to a vote of the people. Gen. Cass, on the other 
hand, regards big course as unobjectionable. The 
Administration fully sustains Gov. Walker in ad¬ 
vising a submission to a vote of ibe people. 
The Herald’s correspondent says the Secretary 
of the Navy baa ordered the frigate Independence, 
now at Panama, to discharge those men whose 
term of service has expired, if it can be done with 
safety to the ship, and then proceed to San Fran¬ 
cisco, to be used as a store ship. 
Emigration to Kansas. —The Herald of Free¬ 
dom of the 27th ult., estimates the influx of popu¬ 
lation to Kansas the present season, at 30,000, and 
is of opinion that before winter sets in 100,000 will 
have been added to the permanent population of 
the Territory. Meantime the human current pourB 
on with UDdiminished volume. Many stop in 
Western Missouri, and others continue on to 
Northern Texas. There is a regular stream of 
emigrants flowing south through Lawrence and 
other places in Kansas, says the Herald, to the 
number of hundreds a day, looking lor a warmer 
climate. 
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An Old Newspaper.— We are indebted to Mr. 
J. N. Miller of Port Gibson, for a copy of the 
Ulster County Gazette, bearing date January 4th, 
1800. The paper is dressed in mouruing on ac¬ 
count of the death of George Washington, the 
intelligence of whose demise, on the 14th of Dec. r 
1799, had just been received by the editor. The 
entire sheet does not contain more "matter” than 
is furnished on a single page of the Rural, and in 
typographical appearance, quality of paper, &c., is 
quite a curiosity. 
The Commencement Exercises of the “Univer¬ 
sity of Rochester,” and the “Rochester Theolog¬ 
ical Seminary,” last week, were ot a highly inter¬ 
esting and entertaining character—alike creditable 
to the institutions and gratifying to the friends of 
Literary and Theological Education. Want of 
Bpace precludes further notice this week, but we 
shall endeavor to give some particulars in onr 
next number. 
From the Far Webt. —Reliable advices from 
Fort Rand nil state that the band of Sioux Indians 
who recently committed the murder and other 
outrages at Spirit Lake, are now near the head 
waters of JarneB River, 60 miles from Fort Pierre. 
It is supposed that troopB will be sent after the 
murderers. 
gation that tbs Cbinca Islands were conveyed to 
British subjects, or have been placed under a 
British and French protectorate. He furthermore 
disclaims generally the policy of territorial acqui¬ 
sitions in or near this continent, but admits that 
Her Britannic Majesty’s Government will oppose 
the monopoly by any power of the rights and priv¬ 
ileges, commercial or of other description, right¬ 
fully appertaining to the general use of the world. 
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The “Montreal” Massacre. — The Toronto 
Globe of tbe 8 th inst., says:—“Up to Saturday 
evening last, the bodies of two hundred and forty- 
four of the hapless victims of the lato frightful 
catastrophe, had been recovered. The list of tbe 
dead, when fully completed, cannot fall much, if 
any, short ofih re e hundred. Bo dreadful a slaugh¬ 
ter never before occurred within this Province, 
and with the mass of facts already before ns, we 
cannot wait the tedious course of a Coroner’s in¬ 
vestigation, without forming some judgment ou the 
question, whether the calamity wsb one which no 
human foresight or prudent care could have pre¬ 
vented, or one which waa the result of criminal 
human negligence. We are not yet in a position 
to pronounce on the precise degree of culpability 
attaching to the several parties concerned, but that 
much human life was sacrificed by a wanton neg¬ 
lect to comply with the most Obvious requirements 
both of the statute book and of reason, we think 
does not admit of a doubt.” 
Wagon Road over the Western Plains. —The 
National Intelligencer learns from a private letter 
dated independence, July 1st, that a portion of the 
Wagon Road Expedition under Win. M. F. Mag- 
raw had taken up tbe line of march, and that the 
remainder would follow immediately. Thirty 
wagons, and the larger portion of the force ol 120 
men were npon th» plains. The equipment of 
this expedition are complete, and much is expect¬ 
ed from the well organized corps of Messrs. Mag- 
raw, Annan and Lander, the superintendent, dis¬ 
bursing agent, and engineer of tbe expedition. 
This route has been designated by tbe Department 
of the Interior as the Fort Kearney, South Pass, 
and Honey Lake Pacific Wagon Ii >ad. 
More Inman Murders Reported at Spirit 
Lake, Iowa. —Tbe Galena Advertiser is informed 
by Capt Parker, of tbe steamboat Fred. Lorenz, 
who left St. Paul Saturday eveuing, that a messen¬ 
ger had just arrived from Spirit Lake, bringing 
intelligence that the Sioux Indians had made 
another attack on tbe white inhabitants bordering 
on Spirit Luke, in Iowa, that more whites were 
killed, many taken captive, houses burned, &o. 
The white inhabitants and friendly Indians of the 
neighboring settlements bad started in pursuit 
Fruit Trade of Chicaoo. —The Tribune states 
that James E. Stacey, fruiterer of Cincinnati, has 
expressed to the Chicago market this season 1,600 
bushels of strawberries, and is now shipping Irorn 
Cleveland, Sandusky and northern Ohio, over the 
Southern Michigan road, about a ton of straw 
berries per day. He is now sending from Cincin¬ 
nati to Chicago about fifty bushels of raspberries 
per day. 
Conflagrations and Casualties. 
Thirty tenements were burned at Davenport. 
Iowa, on the (ith. Loss $30,000 ; partly insured. 
The distillery of Curtis <fc Ballently. Chicago, was 
burned on the 11th inst Loss $30 000. 
A terrific fire broke out at New Orleans on 
the 8 th inst, on the Levee, between Gravicr and 
Common streets. It broke out in tbe Commission 
bouse of Lusk A Co., and the whol- block, occupied 
by Wheeler & Forstall ns a foundry, by Lusk A Co., 
tbe Cairo mail office, Waldo A Heugb’s hardware, 
R. W. Adams grocers, Snapp A Co., steamboat 
agents, and several other parties, was cousumed. 
The rear block on Fulton street was also destroyed. 
There wsb great difficulty in getting water for 
some time after it broke out, and no progress 
could bo made made iD putting down the lire. 
The loss is immense. 
A fbw minutes before eight o’clock on Sunday 
morning, oue of the cow sheds in the rear of Wool- 
ford’s Hotel on Washington Avenue, was discov¬ 
ered to be on fire. It was filled with bay and sur¬ 
rounded by some fifteen bnildiDgs, constructed of 
combustible materials, all of which were destroy¬ 
ed. It will be remembered that these sheds were 
on the ground used by cattle drovers, and known 
as the “ Albany Cattle Market” Loss $4,000. 
The steamer Boiline City exploded her boilers 
on the Oshkosh river on the 1st inst. Four per¬ 
sons were killed and several others seriously 
injured. 
On the 8 th inBt., Ambrose Christian, of Port 
Byron, Philip Ostrander, of May’s Point, and Henry 
Clemmeuce, au engineer, were instantly killed by 
the explosion of an engine boiler, which occurred 
on a temporary track, which had been laid from 
May’s Point in the town of Tyre, Seneca county, 
which branches off from the Central Road at tbe 
Point, to a gravel bed. While tbe train was on its 
way from the bed to the Point the boiler burst, 
instantly killiDg the above named individuals, all 
of whom were on tbe locomotive. The bodies 
were fonnd some fifteen rods from tbe track, hor¬ 
ribly disfigured. AU had families. 
There was a melancholy termination of the 
Fourth of July celebration in Boston, which other¬ 
wise was equal in patriotic display to any that 
has preceded. The weather was delightful, and 
the city wsb thronged with crowds from the 
country. As the fireworks were progressing on 
the Common in the evening, the mortar used for 
throwing shell Tockets burst, killing George P. 
Tewksbnry, former harbor master, and a highly 
J respected citizen, Asa L. Libbey, cabinet maker, 
Patrick Cook, employee of Hovey A Co., the 
pyrotechnists, and a boy named John McMahon. 
Wiseman Marshall, a tragedian, and John W. 
Robinson, were badly injured, but not fatally.— 
This sad disaster terminated the pyrotechnic 
display abruptly. 
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Arrival of the Empire City. —The Empire 
City, with Havana dates of the 9th inst, arrived at 
Quarantine, N. Y., on the 13th inst The health of 
Havana remains good for the season, tbo’ yellow 
fever is said to prevail extensively among the 
newly arrived troops. Tbe Spanish expedition 
against Mexico is generally considered as aban¬ 
doned. Business is exceedingly dull, and prices 
are nominal for all the products of the Island. 
Several cargoes of slaves are said to have been 
recently lauded near Trinidad. Sugars are firmly 
held at previous prices. In consequence of the 
enhauced value of rum, there has been more de¬ 
mand lor distilling. Molasses saleB have been 
made at a slight adnance. 
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Anniversary Exercises of Princeton Col¬ 
lege. —The 110th Anniversary of Princeton Col¬ 
lege, New Jersey, took place on the 24th ult Lib¬ 
eral donations for scholarship have been recently 
made to this College. They are said to amount to 
$50,000. Each subscriber of $1,000 is entitled to 
name a student whose tuition will be free. A 
wealthy New Yorker has given $80,000 in addition 
to the above. The liberal donor has enjoined 
secresy on the subject during his life, but it is 
hinted that be is a retired sea captain of ample 
means. The graduating class consisted of fifty- 
Dine members. Upon Hon. Wm. L. Dayton was 
conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. 
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Another Serious Riot in New York. —By 
telegraph from New York, we learn that another 
riot occnred, of ft very serious character. A 
mob of 500 Ii isL and Germans attacked the Metro¬ 
politan Police with missiles and fire-arms. Tbe 
Police were driven back, as was also a squad sent 
to their relief. Another detachment of 100 men 
were immediately sent to the Beene of conflict, and 
a requisition was made for a detachment of mili¬ 
tary, This riot, it is said, was premeditated, but, 
was not to take place till night, when it was in¬ 
tended to commence with an attack on the 17th 
Ward Station House. We have no farther partic¬ 
ulars. 
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The State Lunatic Asylum Burned! —A dis¬ 
patch just received (Tuesday noon) from Utica, 
states that the Lunatic Asylum caught fire at 7J 
A. M. in tbe cornice of the south-west corner of 
the main building, and has been burning for four 
hours. The entire structure will probably lie de¬ 
stroyed, as the water conveniences on the premises 
are insufficient. Some 500 patients were in the 
building. Those nearest the fire were removed to 
the grove in rear of the Asylum. The loss cannot 
be less than $200,000. Dr. L. F. Bosk was serious¬ 
ly if not fatally burnt while engaged in combating 
the fire and removing property. 
Ambkican Champagne. — A writer in the Scal¬ 
pel says that the beat brands of champagne are 
manufactured in America, chiefly in New York. 
He says that at the present time there are, in New 
York city, no leBS than thirteen establishments 
which manufacture champagne, or in other words, 
convert still wines into sparkling ones, for no pio- 
cess has been discovered for producing an ariifl- 
cial wiDe which possesses the flavor and other 
qualities of the product of the grape. 
New Counterfeit. — Counterfeit five dollar 
notes, on the Exchange Bank of i’iitsburg, Pa., are 
in circulation. They are well executed, and ad 
mi.ably calculated to deceive. The vignette rep¬ 
resents two angelic females, navigating the air on 
a cloud. Look out for the notes. 
fjetos Clippings. 
The STOUKXT'a Gihbox The llist ry i>f the D dine and 
F>nl of the Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon,— 
Aniidjxi, Incoi porHiimr the researches of recent omn- 
mem store, by William Smith, LL. D, editor of tbe 
niHfsicd end Latin Dictionaries, &c., ka. Nevr York: 
Hat per h Brotheis. 
Tuts work is well calculated to supply a much felt de¬ 
ficiency in onr historic** literature. Ol the work of Gib¬ 
bon it is of courrc unnecessary for us to speak. It will 
proDably remain at the head of its clans of histories as 
long ae the Engllfh language haa an existence. No per¬ 
son can possets good or even passable knowledge of His¬ 
tory until he understands all the principal parts of Gib¬ 
bon's “Decline and Fall." To gain this by reading the 
six formidable volumes Ol the original requires more time 
than caD be afforded by many for the purpose. To reach 
such persons, be tbey students or general renders, is the 
design ot this velum*, and for this ohj-ct we commend it. 
By the aid of tbL moderately sized volume, odo enn ac¬ 
quire, in a comparatively short timo, a good knowledge of 
Gibbon, although we would recommend ihe unabiidged 
work to those who can afford the timo necessary for its 
its perusal. Sold by Dkwky. 
Thk Orations of Demosthenes, translated with Notes, 
&c. By Cdarlkb Rank Kennedy. New York : Harper 
& Brothers—1867. 
These Orations comprise two volumes of 320 and 480 
paces, and contain, in addition thereto, a ohronological 
abstract of events daring the life of Demosthenes. The 
author has had favorable opportunities tor consulting tbe 
translations that have been put forth by I.RLAND, Jacobs, 
Lord Brougbam, and others, and wc can lately say that 
tbe present version, if not superior to all previous trans- 
lalious, will rank highly. One thing we could have wish¬ 
ed, the insertion of the oration of AiarwiNKS, for we think 
the student would then have been better able to grasp the 
arguments of the “ Mighty Athenian" and appreciate their 
power. Theee volurtiea belong to the series of Harper's 
Clsssical Library, all of which are Issued in uniform style. 
From the pubUhers. 
A Manual of Ancient Geography. By Dr. Leonard 
Schmitz, F. B. S. E.. Rector of the High School of Ed¬ 
inburgh, Author of “ a Manunl of Ancient Iliatory." 
etc. With a Map showing the retreat of Ihe 10,000 
Greeks noder Xenophon. Philadelphia : Blanchard & 
Lea-1867. 
This is a work of 42(5 pages and is designed aa a com¬ 
panion to thu Manual of Ancient History, and is intended 
to furnish the student with that amount of geOgr»| hical 
and ethnological information necessary In reading Greek 
and Latin authors, or in studying the history of tbe na¬ 
tions of antiquity. Such a work aa oould bs readily ac¬ 
quired and possessirg Ihe feature of a great deal in a small 
space has long been needed, and we doubt not that it haa 
been rally supplied by the present issue. The book has a 
copious Index. From the publishers. 
Text Life in the Holy Land R" "Wm, C. Prime, author 
ol ' Boat Life in Egvpt and Nubia," “The Old House 
by th» River," “ Later Years," etc. Kew York: Har¬ 
pers-1867. 
An interesting snd readable volume of aome 600 pages. 
It is replete with descriptions of a country and people re¬ 
garded with great interest by all Christendom, and com- 
pr*seB scenes aud incidents which render the work amusing 
and entertaining as well as instructive. No one who 
haa perused the author’s “ Boat Life in Egypt and 
Nubia," will fail to scan toe pages of this record of inci¬ 
dents during his continued journeyingsin the East. Sold 
by Dkwry. 
Lknora D'Orko. A Novel. By G. P. R. James, Esq.- 
New York: Harpers. 
This is No 204 of tbe “ Library of Select Novels" Issu¬ 
ed by tbe Harters In pamphlet form. Dkwky. 
Later from California. 
The steamer Star of the West arrived at New 
York on the 13tb, from Aspinwall, with a million 
and half of specie. 
The U. S. steamer Roanoke has 250 of Walker’s 
men, two-thirds sick. 
Nothing important from California. Crops in 
the Southern part of the State are suffering seri¬ 
ously with drouth. 
General Lane is elected delegate to Congress in 
OregoD, by a largely reduced majority. 
Adxices from Peru state that Yivanco wa 3 at 
Ceripiqua, and would soon yield. 
Nicaragua unsettled. Rivas refuses to act in 
concert with the allied Generals, and a collision 
is expected between the Leon party, who favor 
Walker, and the Charnoristas. 
The steamer Star of the West connected with 
the Golden Age from San Francisco on the 20th of 
June, which brought down nearly $2,000,000 in 
specie. The latter passed the steamer Sonora with 
passengers and mailB Irom New York June 5th: 
aud on the fid of July, the John L. Stephens with 
the mails of 20th Jone. 
California markets are generally dull. Bread- 
stuffs depressed. Money inactive. Mining ope¬ 
rations active, and increasing largely. 
A Far West Sanctum. —The Kansas correspon¬ 
dent of the Richmond Enquirer, in a recent letter 
to that paper, thus describes the sanctum of tbe 
editor of the Weekly Herald, printed in Leaven¬ 
worth City, (Kansas) at the time he made a visit: 
It will not be amiss here to give you a sketch of 
the office as presented to the eye of a stranger 
from Louisiana. “A visit to the printing office 
afforded a rich treat. On entering the first room 
on the right hand, three law ‘shingles’ wero on the 
door; on one side was a rich bed — French blan¬ 
kets, table cloths, shirts, cloaks and rugs, all to¬ 
gether; on tbe wall houg bams, maps, venison and 
rich engravings, onions, portraits and boots; on 
the floor were a side of bacon, carved to tbe bone, 
corn and potatoes, stationery and books; on a 
nice dressing case Btood a wooden tray half full of 
dough, while crockery occupied the professional 
desk. In the room on the left—the sanctum—the 
hoasewife, cook uud editor lived in glorious unity 
—one person. He was seated on a stool, with a 
paper before him on a piece of paper, writing a 
vigorous knock down to an article in the Kicka- 
poo Pioneer, a paper of a rival city. The cooking 
stove was at his left, aud tiu kettles all round; the 
corn cake waa a doin’, and instead of scratching 
his bead for an idea as editors often do, he turned 
the cake und went ahead.” 
Death of Wild Cat —From a letter in the San 
Antonio Texan, dated Loredo, Texas, May 25tb, 
we learn that Wild Cat, the celebrated Seminole 
Chief, who gave the United States so mnch trooble 
in Florida during the Seminole war, is dead, he, 
with forty of bis followers, having fallen victims to 
the small pox. 
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The Mighty West. —The Boream of the steam¬ 
er’s whistle is now heard twenty-seven hundred 
miles above St. Louis, in the upper waters of the 
Missouri and Yellow Stone. 
— There is st-id to be a great scarcity of engineers In the 
navy. 
— The Hinckley Bank of Commerce iu Chicago, hag 
failed. 
— The population of Minnesota is believed to come fully 
up to 20,000. 
— Of those injured by the Cincinnati railroad disaster, 
six have died. 
— Cases of spider poisoning are becoming almost alarm¬ 
ingly frequent. 
— The Lake Superior Journal of the 4th announces the 
Lake clear of ice 1 
— Jud 'O Mason has not resigned the office of Commis¬ 
sioner of Patents. 
— The cost of printing each note on the Bank of Eng¬ 
land is five pence. 
— (n France there are only 36 cities which contain over 
18,000 inhabitants. 
— A child and an old man were burned to death at Mon¬ 
treal on the 0th inst. 
— It is said there is a Mormon church in New York con¬ 
taining 600 member*. 
— There were 30 dead horses fonnd in the streets of 
New Y T ork last week. 
— New prairie hay was offered in Davenport, la., on the 
4th inst, for $8 a ton. 
— The whole number of Post Offices in the United States 
on July 1st was 20,197. 
— Choice pieces of sirloin beef sell in Paris at fifty cents 
a pound. A fowl brings *1,25. 
— Gas-lleht ts to be tntrodocod in the cars of the Great 
Northern Railway Co., England. 
— A swarm of bees stung a man to death in Maryland 
recently, while be was hiving them. 
— The Department of State has received the resigna¬ 
tion of Mr. Spence, Minister to Turkey. 
— It is estimated that strawberries to the value of $21,- 
000 are sold each d ry in New York city. 
— A band of borse thieves were lately lynched in Clin¬ 
ton Co., lows—three bnng and one shot. 
— Oue hundred houses wore burned at Port au Prince 
June 12. Lo‘B $1,000,000 and three lives. 
— It is said that from tbe top of the steeple of Trinity 
Church, N. Y., 11,000 grogshops can be seen. 
— Col. Crabbe, whom the Mexicans shot recently in So¬ 
nora, leaves a mother and sister in New Orleans. 
— A new Canadian Bank is to be started in Cayuga, C. 
W,, which is to be called the International Bank. 
— The number killed iu the New York riots is nine, and 
seventy or eighty wounded more or lees severely. 
— Mr Everett's oration bas already netted $.6,000, to be 
devoted to the purchase of tbo Mount Vrrnon estate. 
— The ceosus of all Massachusetts except the small 
town of Tollaid, shows an aggregate of 211 432 voters. 
— The St. Catharines Planet says the weevil has ap- 
pcartd in the wheat in that section of Western Canada. 
— The government cf Great Britain disclaims tbe pur¬ 
pose of acquiring more territory on or near this continent, 
— A new Croton reservoir is about to be constructed 
covoring 106 acres of laud, and measuring 36 fret in depth. 
— Spider bites can be cared, it is said, by welting the 
place affected with cold vt ater, as fast us it absorbs or dries 
up. 
— The fare on the Erie road from Buffalo to New York 
has been reduced to five dollars, and to Boston nine dol¬ 
lars. 
— The receipta of the New York Custom Honse on 
Thursday and Friday last exceeded half a million of dol¬ 
lars. 
— It hag been reported that the bills of the Zimmer¬ 
man Bank wero discredited. This, it is now talil, Is not 
true. 
—Five hundred and thirty-seven Mormons from Europe 
arrived in Philadelphia on Friday, on their way to Suit 
Lake. 
— The London Times advocates the abolition of Slavery 
in Cuba as the only effectual means of checking the slave 
trade. 
— About 160,060 crates of crockery, measuring abont 
125,000 tons, are annually sent from Liverpool to this 
country. 
— There is a mule in St. Lonis which measures eighteen 
hands to height. He is thought to be the largest mule in 
the West. 
— The Indian Bureau is informed that the Iowa Indian 
trust lands brought ono hundred and eighty thousand dol¬ 
lars cash. 
— Two merchants fa high standing a t Leeds, England, 
have been sentenced to life transportation for extensive 
forgeries. 
— It is recorded aa a “ hopeful sign," that one of the New 
York police has made a business caB “without a cigar in 
his mouth." 
— The whole number of newspapers published in the 
United States is 3,634 ; some 419 ol which are in the State 
of New York. 
— In the State of South Carolina, the marriage laws ar 
so string* nt that not a single divorce, it is Baid, haa ever 
been granted. 
— Tbe marine losses for Juoe amount to 26 vessels ; 
value, $819 680. Total for 1857, thus far, 386 vessels ; val¬ 
ue, $10,282,500. 
— There are eight surviving ex-Governors of thin State, 
via : Van Buren, Tbroop, Seward, Bonck, Hunt, Fish, Sey¬ 
mour iv.d Clark. 
— There are in Boston, Mans., 627 persons of the name 
of Smith, 373 Browns, 297 Sullivans, 227 Clarks, 208 John¬ 
sons, 183 Jones. 
— A gang oi thi-vea took forcible possession of a 2d Av¬ 
enue railroad o*r iu New York on tbe 10th iuHt., and rob¬ 
bed the conductor. 
— Near 100.000 pounds of wool were purchased in Cadiz, 
Ohio, during the past week, at prices ranging from 45 to 
66 oents per pound. 
— A young man at Throg’s Neck, after being ten min¬ 
utes in the water, end apparently dead, was rt stored after 
two hoa*a of effort. 
— At the tlandcl Musical Festival, at Sydenham, Eng¬ 
land, on the 26th ult, “ Old Hundred” was sung by thir¬ 
teen thousaud poople. 
— A London psper says that the beautiful yacht Ameri¬ 
ca lies »t a shipbuilder's yard at Tilbury, Eng-, completely 
destroyed by dry rot 
— Mr Ben Mills of Hanrodgburgh, Ky, has invented a 
gun with ihree harre's. Two of the barrels are for shot, 
and the third is a rifle. 
— The Louisiana sugar crop Is expeoted to yield from 
260,000 VI 300.000 hogsheads this year. Last year only 
78,000 were produced. 
— Tliree thousaud four hundred emigrants arrived in 
Obtosgo during the 6th and 6th inst They were designed 
for the North ami We*t. 
— 2,000 barrels of new potatoes were shipped last Thurs¬ 
day from Norfolk for the New York market The price 
per barrel In Norfolk is $3. 
— Ab >ut a million aud a half of dollars have been ex- 
I coded in Missouri by tbo (General Government In fittiog 
out the expedition to Utah. 
— Snow—veritable flakes of enow—fell in Covington, 
Kv , for the space of two minutes, during a storm which 
ooourred there on the 2d tust 
— Out of fifty of the largest manufacturing establish¬ 
ments In New England, the stock of only six companies 
will ul the present time *ell above par. 
