MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
publisher’s notices 
Chief Justice oi Utah. All the Territorial offices 
are now filled, except that of the Marshal, the du¬ 
ties of which wi i continue to be performed by Mr. 
Dobsou. 
The President on the 16th inst., gave the dele¬ 
gates of the Indians from Kansas an audience, in 
the presence of the Cabinet. They represented to 
their Great Father the manner in which the whites 
trespass on their reserves, and claim their rights 
to the lands—the half-breed CawlaDds.oi the north 
Bide of the Kansas river, opposite and above and 
below r Le Compion. They are willing, if necessary, 
to make a new treaty. The President referred 
their complaints to the Commissioner on Indian 
Affairs. 
From Mexico. 
Vera Crvz dates to the 7th are received, via 
New Orleans. The British steamer Dee left Vera 
Cruz on the 5th with §130,000 iti specie. Gen. Al¬ 
varez had gained several successes over Vicaro, 
but the latter was not Eubdned. 
Mexican papers of June 27th are received. The 
Eco Nacional Bays the trials of the assassins of the 
Sjiamsb subjects at Sau Vincente are concluded, 
and a verdict of guilty brought against four of 
the culprits, who will soon suffer death. 
The Vera Cruz Progress says it is currently re¬ 
ported that all the demands pressed against Mexi¬ 
co by the British legation have found a pacific 
solution. To this arrangement is attributed the 
facts that the last British steamer had arrived at 
Bacrificio and saluted the city, and the departure 
of one of the frigates which preceded that event. 
It is said the other naval forces will Boon depart 
The Traite Umon reports the Mexican Treasury 
empty, public confidence shaken, and the future 
The elections 
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Kurai.. and all who do bo will not only receive premiums, hut 
their aid will be gratefully appreciated. 
— The population.of Louisville is 57,5S5. 
— The Mormons are increasing in Connecticut. 
— The rot hatt injured the Cincinnati grape crop. 
— A draebm of attar of rotes requires 2,000 rose blooms. 
— Peaches have been sold In Mobile, lately, for 16 cents 
a piece. 
— The Columbia Co., N. Y., poor house was burnt on the 
2 d inst. 
— Three persons were sun-struck in Cincinnati on the 
13 th inst. 
— Geo. W. Clutter, first Auditor of Virginia, died on the 
16tb inst. 
— Col. Fremont Is quite ill at the Brevoort Home in 
New York. 
— Port Hope, C. W., is to be lighted with gas by the 16th 
of October. 
— Archbishop Hughes has gone to Rome to be absent 
about a year. 
— Judge IC. G. Smith, late oi California, died in Wash¬ 
ington on the 13th inst. 
— A vessel is being built in Cleveland, Ohio, intended to 
sail direct for Liverpool. 
— The great tragedienne, Rachel, is dying of consump¬ 
tion at Montpelier, France. 
— A Vigilance Committee has been organized in Detroit 
to break np houses of ill fame. 
— A Bostonian has for the last four years lost a member 
of his family on the 4th of July. 
— Seneca Lake is fire feet higher than last fall, and 
higher than was ever before known. 
— The local elections in Mexico have closed, and are 
generally In favor of the Government. 
—The Auburn Advertiser announces the resignation of 
President North, of Hamilton College. 
— Ex-Secretary Gnthrie is Baid to be the richest man in 
Kentucky. His annual tax is $50,000. 
— The very latest novelty in dress in Paris is crinoline 
sleeves. Ndw, then, stand off entirely! 
— Three fatal cases of sun-stroke are reported at New 
York on the 16th inst., and two at Albany. 
— Operations were renewed on the 15tb, on the propos¬ 
ed St. Mary’s and London Railway, Canada. 
—The Douglas millB in Montreal were destroyed by fire 
on the night of the 14th inst. Loss $30,000. 
— It is asserted that the singing in one of the Boston 
churches oosts at least $1 for every stanza sung. 
— It is thought the Chemung Canal will be navigable 
this week. The late storms almost destroyed it. 
— The steamship Hammonia, from nambnrg, arrived at 
New York on the 10;h inst., with 424 passengers. 
— The Wyandot Indians near Quindaro, Kansas, have 
subscribed $7-50 towards the bnildlng of a church. 
— Mrs. Swisshelm, the well known writer, is about tak¬ 
ing up her residence at St Cloud, in Minnesota Territory. 
— The two hundred and forty-seventh victim of the 
steamer Montreal, was recovered from the water on Friday 
week. 
— Number of emigrants arrived at New York during the 
last week, 3,694—for the year, 98,376; same time last year, 
66,256. 
— The pilot Roy, who ran the Canadian ashore at the 
Pillars, has been sentenced to be deprived of his branch 
for life. 
— A party of gentlemen purchased a lot of land in St. 
Louis, a few months since, for $130,000 and sold it ior 
$292,000. 
— Aid. Preston, of Brooklyn, having been convicted of 
bribery, was expelled trom the Common Council by a vote 
of 31 to 1. 
— The Toronto Globe announces the death at Quebec, on 
the 11th inst., of John Egan, Esq., M. P. P. for the County 
of Pontiac. 
— The schooner Maderia, from Liverpool, arrived at 
Chicago, last we?k, being the first vessel from Liverpool 
to that port. 
— It is said that $760,000 Iisb been subscribed in the 
South for the equipment of a new expedition against Cen¬ 
tral America. 
— Of a party of twenty-two young men who went from 
Newark, N. J., to serve under Walker iu Nicaragua, only 
three survive. 
— The Troy papers record three cases of sun-stroke as 
occurring in that city the past week. Neither of the three 
had proved fatal. 
— A boy*four years old was bitten upon the leg by a 
spider, in Manchester, Vt., and waB considered to be in a 
critical condition. 
— The State House for South Caroline, commenced at 
Columbia, is to be of pure white marble, and to cost two 
millions of dollars. 
—The Montpelier (Vt.) Freeman has four regular cor¬ 
respondents whose ages are over seventy-five years each, 
and one over ninety. 
— A promising vein of coal similar to the Breckinridge 
coal, is said to have been discovered in the town of Rock¬ 
land, Sullivan county. 
— There ia now lying at New York the yacht Charter 
Oak, sloop-rigged, with which the owner intends making 
a voyage to Liverpool. 
— An English paper gives an account of a tea party of 
sixty old women, who were the mothers of eight hundred 
and sixty-nine children. 
— The land sales of the Illinois Central Company in 
June amounted to the large sum of $616,000 against $241,- 
000 same month last year. 
— Twenty-five camels arrived at San Antonio on the 22d 
ult, for the use of Leut. Beale's party, in opening the 
wagon road to tire Paeifio. 
— A quarrel broke out between the proprietors of seven 
or eight mowers, in a field near Chicago, which required 
the interference of the police. 
— The New Yoik Academy of Medicine have arrived at 
the conclusion that the source of the National Hotel 
disease was malarial influences. 
— The Chicago Journal chronicles the COth burglary 
recently perpetrated in that city. The burglars still evade 
the vigilance of the night police. 
— Tbo Gerrlt Smith Library, at Oswego—founded by the 
liberality of the gentleman whose name it bears—is now 
open. It contatus 8,000 volumes. 
— The butchers have just been holding a meeting at 
Pittsburgh, to make arrangements for the forthcoming 
General Convention at Baltimore. 
— A gentleman of Norwalk, Conn., had seated at his 
table last week, five relatives, whose united ages amounted 
to four hundred aud twelve years. 
— The celebrated Congress Spring, at Saratoga from 
some unexplained cause, lias become muddy, and has been 
boxed up to await the purification. 
— The new wheat crop ia Virginia, la some sections, is 
the best in 25 yearn ; in others very poor. In South Car¬ 
olina, the crop is uncommonly good. 
— George Peabody has given $60,060 more to the Pea¬ 
body Institute at Baltimore, upon a hint that the $300,000 
he had already given won not enough. , 
— The time for holding the State Teachers’ Convention, 1 
at Binghamton, has been changed from the 28th—30th of * 
July to the 4tb, 6th and 6lh of August. 
— Cspi. Rudolph, of the Montreal, lately lost on the < 
St. Lawrence, has been arrested at the instance of the < 
counsel for tbo survivors of catastropbo. 
Important from Kansas 
The St Louis Democrat of the ISth inst., has 
advices from Kansas that Gov. Walker has issued 
a proclamation declaring his intention to put 
down all opposition to the territorial laws by 
force, ~ 
Broekport OoHeeiste Institute—David Burbank. 
Chinese and African Sagar Cane—C. J1 Saxton k Co. 
Lindsey’s Rotary and Force Lift Pump—James M. Edney 
Bernes—An invitation—H. H. Doolittle. 
Bone Dust! Bone Dost 1 !—Uxrris A Preston 
Devons for Sale—Charics A. Ely. 
Farm for Sale—W. P. Coates 
Virginia Illustrated: Containing a Visit to the Vir¬ 
ginian Caiman, and the Adventures of Ports Crayon 
and his Cousins. Illustrated from drawings by Porte 
Crayon. New Yovk: Harper A Bros. 
This is a racily written, and entertaini eg volume, embrac¬ 
ing mndry inoidente and adventures of traveling party 
lu the more interesting portions of the- Old Dominion.” 
Its descriptions of Virginia life and scenery arc sketched 
in a pleasant aud instructive meatier, and profusely and 
and beautifully illustrated by the artist leader of the party. 
Tnougb originally given in their Magazine, many will 
thaDk the publishers for issuing these amuBing Adven¬ 
tures in b handsome octavo volume of 300 pxgeB. Sold by 
Dbwky. 
A New Magazine —It is announced that the enterpris¬ 
ing publishing house of Phillips, Sampson k Co., of Bos¬ 
ton, propose to start, the ensuing fall, a new monthly maga¬ 
zine, of a higher literary order than any now published in 
this country, to be entitled. The Northern Magazine.— 
The best American taleut has been secured—and it is said 
that such men as Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Felton 
and Agassiz, are to be its master spirits. 
He censures the citizens of Lawrence, and 
warns them not to attempt to organize under the 
Topeka Constitution. It is said that 400 troops will 
march against Lawrence, and that it is the design 
of Walker to retain the troops in Kansas, and to 
break up the Utah expedition. 
The Washington correspondent of the N. Y- 
Herald says:—The President has received a dis¬ 
patch from Gov. Walker stating that on the day 
previous a serious outbreak had occurred at Law¬ 
rence, and that he had summoned the troops to 
suppress it The cause of the outbreak is not al¬ 
luded to, but it is supposed to have resulted from 
an attempt to collect taxes imposed by the Terri¬ 
torial Legislature, which the Free State citizens 
had resolved not to pay. 
Later advices from St. Louis state that Gov. 
Walker’s proclamation to the people of Lawrence 
has been received. Its issue grew out of the fact 
that a committee acting in behalf of the citizens 
of Lawrence had framed for submission to the 
popular vote a city charter, differing essentially 
from that granted by the Territorial Legislature, 
thereby bidding defiance to the Territorial Gov¬ 
ernment. This act of the committee, Gov. Walker 
pronounces to be treasonable, and he has ordered 
a body of troops to the vicinity of Lawrence in 
order to prevent further proceedings in the prem¬ 
ises, and to enforce the tax. The statement that 
itia Walker’s design, through this movement, to 
keep in Kansas the troops destined to Utah, as a 
pretext for the Administration to back out of the 
Utah expedition, is mere speculation. 
overcast with threatening clouds, 
in Tuertrato and Pnebla were favorable to the Pro¬ 
gressionists. The papers were full of rumors of 
another invasion of Sonora, based upon private 
letters from San Francisco. One of them says 
that the expedition is to consist of 1,000 men,— 
Fatal epidemic fevers were prevailing at Gucrreri. 
Death of Prof. Mitchell.— The body of Prof. 
Mitchell, whose disappearance on the Black Moun¬ 
tain of North Carolina we have noted, has been 
found. A correspondent of the N. Y. Journal of 
Commerce, writing from the scene of the casualty, 
gives the particulars of the sad event, from which 
it appears that the life of the Professor was sacri¬ 
ficed to bis passion for the science to which ithad 
been devoted. Two or three years ago there had 
been a controversy between Mr. Mitchell, of Chapel 
Hill, and the Hon. T. L. Clingman, concerning the 
height of the Black Mountain; the former contend¬ 
ing that Mitchell’s Peak is the higher. A few weekfl 
since, at the commencement of the summer vaca¬ 
tion, Dr. Mitchell left the University fully prepared 
to ascertain exactly the height of all the different 
reaks. On Saturday, the 27th of June, he began 
to ascend the mountain, and a party in search of 
him found his body on the 7th inst He had ap¬ 
parently fallen from a precipice. His grave was 
to be made on the highest point of Mitchell's Peak, 
the most elevated spot east of the Mississippi- 
Prof. Mitchell had been connected with the Uni¬ 
versity of South Carolina for over fifty years, and 
was State Geologist at the time of his death. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 25, 1857. 
Our Township Premiums, 
John Carter, of that place, a revolutionary soldier 
who died on the 4th inst.. aged one hundred and six 
years. 
It is said that Gen. Walker has requested his 
officers to meet him at New Orleans, preparatory 
to a return to Nicaragua, on the invitation of 
President Rivas. 
The barque C. T. Kershaw has sailed from De¬ 
troit for Liverpool with a cargo of staves. She is 
to return with goods for Cleveland, Detroit and 
Chicago merchants. 
A movement is on foot for the cultivation of 
cotton in the Sandwich Islands. It is said that the 
soil and climate are as well adapted as those of 
Georgia to the crop. 
During the quarter ending June 30th ult., 25,727 
quarterly accounts of Deputy postmasters were 
received and audited in the bureau of the Auditor 
(6th) for the Post-Office Department. 
Col. Schooler, formerly of the Boston Atlas, 
now of the Ohio State Journal, has been grossly 
swindled out of some thousands of dollars, by one 
Great Mail Arrangements in Wisconsin.— 
The Milwaukee Wisconsin, for the encouragement 
of those who have correspondence with the north¬ 
ern portion of Wisconsin, relates some facts in 
relation to the delightful certainties of the mail 
arrangements in that region. The mail for Supe¬ 
rior and the Lake towns, is sent np the Mississippi 
to St. Paul, and then is dispatched to its destina¬ 
tion on the backs of half-breeds. Mr. Fargo, who 
was the first man through last spring, found some 
four or five U. S. mail bags hanging on trees, at the 
mouth of Kettle river, where the carrier had left 
them, rather thau carry them through in bad 
weather. The water had trickled into some of 
them, and they were pretty badly wet. The carrier 
was sorting out the wet letters, throwing them into 
the river, and putting the dry ones into the other 
bags, thus relieving himself of the extra weight of 
moisture. Perhaps he wanted to test the different 
modes of conveyance, by sending 6ome by water. 
Extent op the Fire at Utica.— The central 
edifice of the Asylum, consisting of four stories 
and a cupola, was entirely destroyed. The fine 
colonnade in front, seems uninjured, and the outer 
walls are in fair condition; but the partition walls 
have suffered much. This part of the building 
was occupied by the offices, reception rooms, 
diniDg rooms, store rooms, library, &c., with the 
kitchen in the basement. The library was mostly 
saved. The portion of the building extending 
east from the centre was considerably injured._ 
About sixty feet of the roofing and the attic are 
destroyed. Borne thirty-six apartments in this 
part of the building were made unfit for occupa¬ 
tion. The west wing, occupied by the male pa¬ 
tients is not materially injured. Tn our report last 
week we stated that no lives were lost and but one 
person injured,—Dr. Rose. Subsequent explora¬ 
tions amid the ruins have revealed the body of 
one of the Utica firemen, and Dr. Rose has since 
A Shark Caught off Nahant.— A shark weigh¬ 
ing 900 pounds, was caught ofl Nahant, on the 15th 
inst, by a party of amateur fishermen. The fol¬ 
lowing tacts touching this monster of the deep, 
were in a letter from Prof. Agassiz: “A very 
remarkable shark was caught this morning off 
Nahant, and is lying on the steamboat wharf, The 
species is known to the fishermen by the name of 
Man-Eater. It belongs to the genus Carchurodon 
and it is particularly interesting to the naturalists 
as a liviDg representative of those huge sharks, the 
teeth of which are found in a fossil state in the 
tertiary beds of the Middle States and at Martha’s 
Vineyard, 
The Terrible Railroad Accident in Eng¬ 
land. —The London correspondent of the N. Y. 
Commercial Advertiser says of the accident men¬ 
tioned in the news by the last arrival:_“The 
scene of the disaster was the Lewisham station, 
near Blackheath. A train foil of passengers was 
waiting at the platform, when another ran into it, 
at the rate of twenty miJes an hour, killing eleven 
persons and frightfully wounding thirty others.— 
It must have been in consequence ol" gross neglect 
of signals, and the engine drivers and others are 
in custody. The hour of the accident was a little 
before eleven at night. The tender of the incom¬ 
ing train rushed completely over the carriage con¬ 
taining the principal sufferers, and two hours and 
a half elapsed before the whole of them could be 
extricated. An officer in one of the carriages, 
who had been present at Inkerman, described the 
present sight as much the worst of the two.” 
to M. Hutchinson, of. Erie Co.; the first for In¬ 
diana to G. W. Robson, of Marion Co.; the first for 
Wisconsin to M. E. Congar, of Walworth Co.; the 
first for Canada West to H. C. Bingham, of Brant¬ 
ford—all and singular of whom are ardent friends 
of the Rural. The competitors for all onr Large 
Premiums will soon receive a circular containing 
full and detailed particulars—and will meantime 
please accept our grateful acknowledgments for 
their zealous exertions in behalf of the Rural. 
Strange as it may seem, this genus has 
not yet been mentioned among the sharks living 
upon our coast. — L. B. Agassiz, Nahant , July 15, 
1857.” 
Matters at Washington, 
A Counterfeit. —The Buffalo papers notice the 
appearance of a new counterfeit three dollar bill. 
The bill is on the Rockville Bank of Connecticut, 
E. B. Preston, Cashier, A. Cammond, President— 
Vignette, woman sitting, her right arm jesting on 
a sheaf of wheat; sickle on hc-r arm; plow in 
background; ink very faint, has no engraver’s im¬ 
print, appearance of the hill at first sight good. It 
will not be easily detected in the night time. 
Strawberries.— The Paterson, (N. J.) Guar¬ 
dian states that it is probable that the gross 
receipts in the counties of Passaic and Bergen this 
season for strawberries alone, have amounted to a 
quarter of a million dollars. The value of those 
shipped to New York by the Erie road can hardly 
have been less than $100,000. Strawberries are 
rapidly becoming one of the great staples of agri¬ 
cultural industry in this part of the country. 
The Weight ofComets—M r. Bahinet, inapapei 
which was published in the Comptes Ren dm, ex 
plodes the idea of danger to the earth from col 
lision with a comet. In the course ol the essay, 
he gives the weight of comets. He estimates the 
mama, »uu mis is tne more remarkable, as wages 
are now much higher than in former years, and all 
branches of agriculture are in a state of unusual 
prosperity.” 
It will be recollected that Borne time ago a bal¬ 
loonist was picked up on Lake Erie, and that 
shortly after, his balloon took wings and passed 
in the direction of Canada. We learn from the 
Toronto If lobe that it has been found in the vicini¬ 
ty ol that city. It thus traveled a long distance 
on its own responsibility, it would seem. 
Boston. 
Horrible Death of Three Children, 
learn from tbe Lewis Connty Banner, that 
a most 
distressing occurrence took place on Tuesday at 
Bash’s Mill Pond, in LowvJIle. A little girl waded 
into the water, and sinking info the mire, her little 
sister went to her rescue, and she, too, became 
helpless. Their little brother, standing on the 
bank, plunged manfully into the water, and he, 
with his sisters, found a watery grave. Their 
Laving of the Submarine Cable Across De 
troit River. 
The operation of laying the sub¬ 
marine cable across the Detroit river at Detroit 
was performed successfully on the 16th inst. The 
whole distance was less thau a mile. No test has 
yet been made of its powers, as the wires at the 
ends were not connected with the land telegraph 
