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List of New Advertisements this Week. 
HlcVok's Keystone Cider Mill—W. O. Hlckok 
Gainesville Ferrule I intitule—M Hardy A C. A. Eldridgo. 
A Card—Geo Seymour A Co. 
Essex Pigs for Sain—C S. Wahiwrtght. 
Clarke's Chimney Sale —Gen. It. Clarke. 
Nursery Wanted—N. M Halbert 
SrBciAi None*. 
National Trial of Reapers and Mowers. 
ROCHESTER N. Y., AUGUST 1, 1857. 
Rain Storms —Tornado in Michigan. 
A terrible rain storm occurred at Albany on 
the morning of the 25th nit. The storm lasted 
three quarters of an hour, entirely suspending 
business and travel. Tbe stores and cellars on 
Beaver and State streets, Maiden Lane, Broadway, 
Ac., were flooded. A large amount of damage was 
done. While the storm was prevailing, a house 
on Hawk street was struck by lightning, and one 
man knocked down and severely burned, but it is 
expected be will recover. 
The Rochester Union states the Genesee Valley 
has been visited by another flood. Rain fell in 
torrents on Thursday week along the upper sec¬ 
tion of the Genesee Valley Canal. Tbe river rose 
Conflagrations. 
A little before 7 o’clock on Tuesday evening, 
the 21st nit,., another disastrous fire broke out at 
St Louis, causing a loss of over a hundred thou¬ 
sand dollars. It was first discovered in the mill 
of KeepB A Co., on Second, between Jefferson and 
Monroe streets, and destroyed a lumber yard, a 
table and bedstead manufactory, steam saw-mill, 
several brick residences and a large number of 
small dwellings and buildings. Nearly the whole 
digtrict comprised between Second, Main, Madison 
and Monroe streets, is in rninB. 
The extensive Btables, car-honse, and other 
buildings of tbe Brooklyn Railroad Company, 
eitnated on Thirty-sixth street and Fourth avenue, 
near Greenwood Cemetery, were fired in three 
places, by incendiaries, on the 18th ult, and wholly 
consumed. There were 197 horses in the four 
stables, of which 122 were got out, leaving 75 
burnt and missing; the carcasses of 62 were count¬ 
ed among the mins; the watchman saw the two 
incendiaries run out of the buildings, whom he 
pursued and fired at with a pistol as they escaped 
into tbe woods which skirt'the rear of the grounds; 
the loss is about $15,000, which i6 fully covered by 
insurance, mostly in Brooklyn offices. 
A fire broke ont at Hastings, Min., on Sunday 
evening, the 19th ult., destroying the stores of 
McCauley & Tickner, J. 8. Belden and D. 8. Howes, 
also several smaller dwellings. The fire is sup¬ 
posed to be the work of an incendiary. Loss $16,- 
000; insurance smalL 
A destructive fire occurred in the town of 
Cobourg, C. W., on the 21st ult. Tne Albion Hotel, 
Ragsn'e Livery-stable, and all the buildings be¬ 
tween Smith’s brick block and tho Globe Hotel, 
on the north side of King street, were burned.— 
Five tenements, a bakery, auction room, shoe- 
store and other shops were in the buildings de¬ 
stroyed. The total loss is estimated to be $10,000. 
There was a partial insurance upon the property. 
-- 
Terrible Poisoning Case in Cincinnati. 
Items of News. 
Two farmers living on the James River, Vo., 
expect to gather 30,000 busheU of wheat each, at 
the present harvest. Another farmer, on the Rap¬ 
pahannock, has 5,000 acres of land, and grows 
more wheat and corn than any other man in Vir¬ 
ginia. 
The London (Eng.) Times, of the 20th of June 
states that 300 artizana, from the dockyards at 
Woolwich, had embarked that day for Toronto, C. 
Political Matters. 
The August Elections. —During the first week 
in August the animal elections will take place in 
six of the States, as follows:—Alabama, August 3; 
Kentucky, August 3; Missouri, August 3; North 
Carolina, August fi; Texas, August 3; Tennessee, 
August 6. Alabama is to choose State officers and 
seven members of Congress; Texas State officers 
and two members of Congress; Tennessee a Gov 
ernor and ten members; Kentucky a State Treas- 
— Small-pox prevails in Springfield, Moss. 
— On July 17tb, 13 persons were killed by the heat In 
St. Louis. 
— The erection of a city gas works has been commenced 
In Iowa city. 
— All efforts to civilize the Winnebago Indians have been 
unsuccessful. 
W., to which place the cost of their passage had urer and ten members; North Carolina eight mem- —Gen Concha has issued a decree agaiust the slave 
been paid by a grant from the Imperial Treasury, bers, and Missouri a Governor to fill the vacancy tra<,e ln Cl) b*. 
and from private subscriptions. 
The number of opposition votes cast in the late 
French election is stated to have been about a 
million. Nine-tenths of these were cast in the 
eitieB and large town of the empire. It is alleged 
that if the opposition had had more time to or¬ 
ganize, it could have trebled the number. 
occasioned by the. resignation of Trusten Polk, 
who was elected to the United States Senate, and 
a member of Congrea in tbe Third District, in 
place of James 8. Green, who was elected to the 
vacant, seat of Missouri in tbe U. S. Senate. 
Tnn New York Republican State Committee met 
“ " uu,u UHVC ireuiw nQrntMj r. at Saratoga on the 23d ult., and issued a call for a 
Dr. Geo. R Loring, of Salem, Mass., had one of State Convention, to be held at Saratoga on the 
his feet nearly cut off by a mowing maebiue one 
day last week. He had the presence of mind to 
pre.Bs bis hand on the main artery in the upper 
part of his leg, and thus check the flow of blood 
until a physician arrived. 
When Geo. Peabody, the millionaire, was 12 
years of age, he paid for his lodging and breakfast 
at a hotel in Concord, N. H., where he stopped 
while on his way to Vermont, by sawing wood. 
The Spanish papers announce the death, at 
Ceuta, of Agostina Zaragoza, the heorine whose 
share in the. defence of the city, the mime of 
which she has bore, has been recorded in a glow¬ 
ing chapter of Southey's History of the Peninsu¬ 
lar War and immortalized by Byron's genius. Ac¬ 
cording to a note to Childe Harold, she was in her 
22 d year when the seigo occurred, so that she 
must have been about 70 at her death. Tho Span 
22d of September. Eacli Assembly District will 
send two delegates. 
In Mississippi the Americans have nominated 
a full State ticket, with J. L. Alcom for Governor. 
Hon. Thomas H. Hicks has been nominated as 
the American candidate lor Govej-norof Maryland. 
The American party of Mass., unfavorable to 
nomination of N. P. Banks, have called a 8tate 
Convention. 
The Kansas Herald of Freedom, of July 18th, 
says that a very large msjoriiy of the people are 
opposed to any farther action nnder the Topeka 
Constitution. 
The two parties in the Minnesota State Conven¬ 
tion hold separate meetings,and are proceediugto 
form separate constitutions. The Repnblic&ns are 
in convention in the Hall of the Capitol, with A. 
isb papers merely say that she was very young at P. Balcomb, President; and the Democrats in the 
the time of the seige. She held the rank of en¬ 
sign in the Spanish army, and wore several deco¬ 
rations, the reward of her exploits in the war of 
Independence. She was buried at Cents with mil¬ 
itary honors. 
man Eaociea aown ana severely burned, but it is The Cincinnati papers are filled with an account There are more unemployed vessels in the port will continue to a 
6X |! C o v * r , e r C0Te,r l „ . „ °f a wholesale attempt at poisoning, which occur- of New York than ever before. Seven hundred tion, and that eac' 
e ochester Unon states the Genesee V alley red in that city on the 22d ult. It would seem and ninety-two, with an aggregate of about 300,- submitted to the t 
has been visited by another flood. Rain fell in that during tbe afternoon of Wednesday week, 000 tuns, are idle. The English screw propellers 
Uon^f thToItcsee VaTley CanT TberiJw rose of , 8maU lozeD « eB - aboa ‘ the size are crowding ns out of the carrying trade. Bonded Goons ■ 
n ? ° : Ufv 0f an ordinar ^ wflfer > but nearl y tbree times as The Lebanon (Ohio) Star records the death oi of April May an 
mmediatel. into a flood, sweeping away all the thick, were found scattered over the pavement, on four men from drinking whiskey with strychnine bond have passec 
br bew'en and Oramel. Tbe «. B ncke,e «, bet.een Poplar and Loc.,, and ,ev in in It d» .bat ten. of OtoneaSof 6°b House to Canada* 
wssumeige an )adly broken in tbree eral other streets in that locality, which is densely in the stream belowthe distillery have died. Two Albany and Troy- 
places. Just anove Belfast a culvert was washed populated by Germans. Those acquainted with tuns of dead fish have been taken out, a mill-race Among the good 
away, which will not be repaired in less than ten this section of the city are, doubtless, aware that being literally choked with them. hairs 157 tierSs a 
niant thinks it will require fnllv fifteen davs to 1Ji „ / , evening are playing upon the side- risen from 1,000 barrels per year to more than wine, 3,229 bars ol 
offbot repairs Me XVSXX ** "T7 * «* - '?** "Vf 
inundated and tbe >t ree « and cell,™ were dlled ,cZl toTlIiitotod 10 ^ “ e "*"»“*■ lea * er ’ » 
with water. So sudden a freshet was never known were picked up by a number of the children and * * * ^ great forwardaes8 ’ Id01& rubber ’ he “ 
to the oldest inhabitant eaten. In a short time they were taken sick and , °™ to apprehended difficulties and constant hangings, books, t 
The Adrian (Mich.) papers bring particulars of in one instance death soon ensued. Twelve or de P redat,ona of lbe Indians, the Secretary of War numerous to ment 
a furious tornado which swept through portions of fifteen children are still very ill and some of these b “ declded t0 8<?Dd an increased force of troops tbo * ew Yor 
Lenawee Co. on the 24th ult The storm passed may not recover. t0 Minnesota, and Gen. Scott is now engaged pre- Canada, go via Hn 
through Raisen, and through or near Welicsville. Between 1,500 and 2,000 of the lozenges were pttrmg the orderB -' &c * Portland and Islan 
At Raisen the hail stones were in size from that of picked up, and on examination have proved to international treaty between the United and some over the 
a robin's np to a ben’s egg; and everything, corn, contain equal parts of arsenic, sugar and flour — StftteB and Spain allow8 telegra P h,c commmflca. the winter season, 
oats, wheat, &c., fell before it, destroyed for every The man who scattered the poisoned lozenges tlon to be made betweei > the United States and “H goes by the Kru 
purpose except fodder. At Tecumseh and Man- along Buckeye at. was arrested on the 24th ult Caba; ftD ‘ J ,a rartberance 4 P ,4n to secure such a 
Chester the gale was still more destructive. Chim- and proves to be a drunken German who pursues f c ^ neation via Florida, a general law was passed 
neys and sheds were blown down, shingles torn off the vocation of making poisoned lozenges for the by J hat 8tate and a PP roved b y the Governor, Dec. flne, y a “ Montreal, 
and roofs seriously damaged. The wind blew with destruction of rats. Itis thought that those of the 2(th > m6 ' Providing for the organization of a 
tremendous fury, twieting shade trees and strewing children now Bick will recover. company to carry out tho enterprise proposed.— American Pou 
limbs in every direction. - ». »_ The Cuba government, has made the necessary Daily News, referri 
At East Rainesville great damage was done— The Grasshoppers are ravaging the crops in concession, and the ratification of the home gov- ener By ancl enterpi 
windows beaten in, garden vegetables out to some parts of Minnesota. A gentleman from the ernment is only needed to warrant the commence- States, says in Eng 
pieces and the crops badly damaged, if not wholly infected region informs the Prairie Farmer that a ment of tbe work, which will require but six unfortunately attra 
destroyed. Some of the hail stones fell with such section of 200 miles in extent and 30 to 40 miles months for Its completion. cesses or honest at 
power as to cut corn stalks entirely in two. The wide is being devastated by hordes of these pests --w—w- It then alludes to tl 
corn crop, some think, is entirely ruined. Entire —that nothing is left. Fields of wheat are de Another Attempt to Fire tub House of Rk- iog the Atlantic a: 
fields of oats and wheat were prostrated; the stroyed in a few hours. One farmer informs him FCGK -—^e learn from the Rochester Vnian that it says, will have 
former crop is probably lost Large trees were that two weeks ago his crops were worth five tbou- an otber unsuccessful attempt was made on the 22d sooner England fal 
Council Chambers, with H. H. 8ibley, President— 
The Republicans number 69, all of whom have 
presented their credentials, which have been ac¬ 
cepted, end a number qualified. The Democrats 
number 44. It seems probable that both bodies 
will continue to act as the Constitutional Conven¬ 
tion, and that each will form a Constitution to be 
submitted to the people. 
nal was submerged and badly broken in tbree 
places. Just above Belfast a culvert was washed 
away, which will not be repaired in less than ten 
days. There is another had break near C&nadea, 
and still a third near OraraeL The Union's infor¬ 
mant thinks it will require fully fifteen days to 
effect repairs. The village of Ox&mel was fairly 
inundated and the Btreets and cellars were filled 
with water. So sudden a freshet was never known 
to the oldest inhabitant 
The Adrian (Mich.) papers bring particulars of 
a furious tornado which swept through portions of 
Lenawee Co. on the 24th ult The storm passed 
through Raisen, and through or near Welicsville. 
At Raisen the hail stones were in size from that of 
a robin's np to a ben’s egg; and everything, corn, 
oats, wheat, Ac., fell before it destroyed for every 
purpose except fodder. At Tecumseh and Man¬ 
chester the gale woe still more destructive. Chim¬ 
in the stream belowthe distillery have died. Two 
tuns of dead fisb have been taken out a mill-race 
being literally choked with them. 
The exportation of palm oil from Liberia has 
risen from 1,000 barrels per year to more than 
1 ,000,000, within the memory of one President_ 
Cotton manufactures in the interior are represent¬ 
ed to be in a Etate of great forwardness. 
Owing to apprehended difficulties and constant 
depredations of the Indians, the Secretary of War 
has decided to send an increased force of troopB 
to Minnesota, and Gen. Scott is now engaged pre¬ 
paring the orders, Ac. 
An international treaty between the United 
States and Spain allows telegraphic communica¬ 
tion to be made between the United States and 
Cuba; and In furtherance ol * plan to secure such 
a connection via Florida, a general law was passed 
Bonded Goons to Canada.— Daring the months 
of April, May and June, 6,477 tons of goods in 
bond have passed from the New York Custom 
House to Canada via Hudson river route, through 
Albany and Troy,—numbering 32,766 packages.— 
Among the goods were 4,428 hogsheads, 3,100 
bags, 157 tierces and 17G barrels of sugar, equal to 
4,650 tuns; 1,056 casks, 662 cases and baskels of 
wine, 3,229 bars of railroad iron, woolen and cot¬ 
ton goods, hardware of every description, glass 
ware, leather, hides, fruit, nuts, paints and oils, tin, 
India rubber, hemp, drugs and medicines, paper 
bangings, books, fire arms, and other things too 
numerous to mention. Nearly all the goods pass¬ 
ing tho New York Custom House in bond, for 
Canada, go via Hudson river route. A few go via 
Portland and Island Pond, and some from Boston, 
and some over the New Yotk and Erie railroad, in 
the winter season. In tbe summer season nearly 
all goes by the Erie and Champlain canals. Of tbe 
eugnr jnenti«ned above, l<rv-tbirtla went to Canada 
East, probably because there is a large sugar re- 
and roofs seriously damaged. The wind blew with 
tremendous fury, twieting 6liade trees and strewing 
limbs in every direction. 
At East Rainesville great damage was done— 
windows beaten in, garden vegetables out to 
pieces and the crops badly damaged, if not wholly 
destroyed. Some of the hail stones fell with each 
power as to cut corn stalks entirely in two. The 
corn crop, some think, is entirely ruined. Entire 
fields of oats and wheat were prostrated; the 
former crop is probably lost. Large trees were 
months for its completion. 
Anotber Attempt to Firs tub Houbb of Rk- 
fcgk.—W e learn from the Rochester b/rion that 
anotber unsuccessful attempt was made on the 22d 
American Policy in England.— The London 
Daily News, referring to American affairs and the 
energy and enterprise of tbe people of tbe United 
States, says In England the acts of tbe flllibusters 
unfortunately attract more attention than the suc¬ 
cesses of honest and lawful American enterprise. 
It then allades to tbe various projects for connect¬ 
ing the Atlantic and Pacific. The United States, 
it says, will have a policy in America, and the 
sooner England falls in with that policy, and what 
— There in a boy in the Indiana State Prison only four¬ 
teen year® of age. 
— A poticemsD waa shot dead by a burglar la New York 
city, Tueeday lost 
— A bi lilge to about to be built across the Mississippi at 
St. Paul, MmnfFota. 
— The yellow fever prevails extensively among the 
‘ Spanish fleet at Havana. 
— Shower-bathing has been successfully used in Kng- 
land ns a cure for Insanity. 
— The treasury balance, Jnne 30th, was $18,164,944, be¬ 
ing a reduction of S327 3C3. 
— There is to be a National Horse Show at Springfield, 
Maas., commencing Sept. 30. 
— A young lady of 16 Is about to marry Marshall Pells- 
Bier, who is 60 if he is a day. 
— There w«« a heavy frost on Ihe low ground at New 
Ipswich, N. H., on Thursday, July 2d. 
— Tbe Elmira Oszette aDuoucros that navigation has 
been resumed on the Chemung Canal. 
— Four large and powerful steamers are now building in 
Scotland, to run In the Canadian line. 
— The flrst division tl New York State Militia now num¬ 
bers 16 regiments, and over 6,000 men. 
— The famous Seminole chief. Wild Cat, is dead. He 
and forty of his tribe died of email-pox. 
-- Preliminary gtepg ore br ing taken for tho formation 
of a State Agricultural Society in Kmims. 
— There are 640 convicts In the Aobura prison. This 
is considerably under the average number. 
— There are 1 663 miles of railway in uae in Canada— 
344 miles more to process of construction. 
— The deaths jn New York last week were 471, being 
ninety-aeven more thnn Ihe week previous. 
— One day last week the mercury in the thermometer at 
Iowa city, indicated 108 degrees ln ihe shade. 
— Tbe total force included in all the revolted native 
regiment* in Brlilsh India, was but 8,000 men. 
— The N. Y. city Comptroller’s estimate of the sum to 
be raised by lax Iot tb« year 1857, is $7,716,768. 
— Oq Monday werk, two bushels of peaches of Indifferent 
qnality sold at Charleston, 8. C , at $16 per bunhtl. 
— A scheme is on foot tn London for orvsu r.ioir »n an¬ 
nual exhibition of works of Itrrtjsh Art In New York. 
— The Post Master General bna Fclectrd St- Lenta as the 
chief starting point tor the Overhmd Pacific M,ii Route. 
— The msnufsotnre ot bonnets in Mastachueetta for the 
last six moDtbs, amounts 20,000 cases, or about two million. 
— The Missionaries near Leech lake, near Fort Ripley 
(lately abandoned,) have been driven off ry tbe Chlpiewas. 
— On the 12th u>t, elghly-tliree flue sheep, belonging to 
Mr. Chandler, ot Picrmont, N. H, werekllle-l by lightning. 
— The profits of the Congressional printing tor the lust 
two etssions are estimated at four hundred thousand dol¬ 
lar*. 
— Gen. Walker has left New York for New Orleans, 
where he expects to find aid in a new attack upon Nicara¬ 
gua. 
— A farmer in Vermont placed a dozen eggs in his ma¬ 
nure heap, aDd eleven chickens were hatched, all doing 
well. 
— The powder mill of Mr. George Hathewaon, at New 
Durham, N. H., blew np on the 16th ult, killing two work¬ 
men. 
— The Scientific American sayg that cotton worn in the 
top of the hat is a protection from sun-stroke or coup de 
toleil. 
— The annual Coramenoement of the Wesleyan Univer- 
aity, Middletown, Conn,, occurs on the 2d, Sd, 4th and 6th 
of August. 
— Mr. A. H. Porter ia building two Ikctcries at Niagara 
Falls, just below Goat Island bridge. One ia ior an edge- 
tool factory. 
— The number of bodies taken from the wreck of the 
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twisted oft; and others stripped of their foliage.— sand dollars; now they ar e not worth twenty-five to fare the worb of ^ House ol Refuge ftoo* 1 afl d jnst in it, the better it wilt be able to Montreal is now given at 212. The wreck has been adver- 
At Wellesville one hundred acres of timber can be 
seen from one point almost entirely prostrated by 
tbe wind. 
This tornado seems to have passed from the 
southern up to the central part of the State. It 
was very destructive in Livingston Co., uprooting 
dollars. A St. Anthony paper says that one gen¬ 
tleman, in that place, “thinks there are several 
hundred bushels of grasshoppers in his garden!— 
In Hennepin county one man gathers them by the 
bag full on bU premises, dips in Bcaldlng water, 
and feeds them to his hogs!” MoBt of the vandal 
in this city. Three boys it is supposed set fire to 
the shops where cane Beats are made. The fire 
was discovered and suppressed before serioua 
damage ensued. An investigation was made of 
tbe affair by Supt. Wood, who succeeded in fasten¬ 
ing the crime upon two boys. They confessed to 
repress that spirit of lawlessness which has some¬ 
times been associated with it 
Famine in China.—T he Friend of China, of May 
9th, received by the last overland mail, says that 
the famine prevailing ia that country exceeds all 
large trees, leveling fences and wheat, breaking horde are small and unable to fly; but us their having committed the act, and nrgedVs an excuse that the oldest living man has ever witnessed._ 
down corn, Ac. 
The Ann Arbor Ncwb says the hail storm com¬ 
menced near the south line of Dexter, taking a 
southerly direction, and from all accounts com¬ 
pletely destroying all vegetation in its course, 
making a track from a mile and a half to two 
miles in width. 
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Matters at Washington. 
The report that the military expedition to Utah 
has been postponed, is unfounded. Orders have 
been issued for the recall of Col. Sumner’s com¬ 
mand, consisting of the 1st Cavalry, 2d Dragoons 
and 9th Infantry, together with a company of 
Light Artillery now at Fort Snelling. They will 
repair immediately to Fort Leavenworth or Lara¬ 
mie, preparatory to their march to Great Salt Lake 
City. 
The steamer on the 22d ult, carried out the 
removal of Col. Jack Hayes as Surveyor General 
of California, and a commission to his successor. 
This action of the Administration is brought about 
wings grow, they set sail before the wind and move 
off in clouds. 
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From Kansas.—A despatch wa9 received at 
Washington on the 22d nit, from Kansas, stating 
that a collision between the U. S. troops and the 
Free State men at Lawrence was regarded as in¬ 
evitable. A special messenger was despatched 
with instructions to Gov. Walker and General 
Harney. 
Gov. Walker was camped ontside of Lawrence 
with eight companies of dragoons on the 17th._ 
The citizens had decided not to negotiate with 
him. They will not resist tbe troops unless fired 
upon, when civil war will be declared. Gov. 
that they hoped to escape during the conflagra. 
tion, or it detected they expected a short sentence 
to the Work House, at the expiration of which 
they would have liberty. Mr. Wood ordered them 
to wear the ball and chain for the space of three 
months as a punishment for the offence. A third 
boy was supposed to know something of the affair, 
but as he did not confess, and the crime was not 
fixed upon him, he was permitted to resume his 
occupation as heretofore. 
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From Utah. —The Salt Lake mail, with dales to 
the 2d July, arrived at Leavenworth on the 19th. 
The country was in a peaceable condition, and 
great prosperity prevailed. -Rumors of the expe- 
Ci'y. Barley from California.— It is but a few 
The steamer on the 22d ult, carried out the years since Barley, Malt, &e., were shipped from 
removal of Col. Jack Hayes as Surveyor General New York to California, but the tables are now 
of California, and a commission to his successor, turning. An Albany paper learns that there waa 
This action ot the Administration is brought about shipped from San Francisco, on the 18th June, per 
by the fact that Cot. Hayes in making contractsfor ship Andrew Jackson, 40,000 bnshels new barley. 
surveys in California, exceeded the appropriation 
made by Congress by nearly $175,000. 
Gen. Herrara, tbe Lew Grenadian Minister, ar¬ 
rived at Washington on the 22d ult He addressed 
a letter to the Secretary of State, informing him 
that whenever it was convenient he was ready to 
open negotiations for the settlement of pending 
questions. 
Tbe War Department on tbe21st ult, received a 
deepstoh from Gov. Medary, requesting a permit 
to muater volunleera, hb a defence against the sav¬ 
age Indians now at tbe Upper Sioux Agency, but 
Secretary Floyd, by telegraph, denied the request 
Orders have been sent to Forts McHenry and 
Walker has warrants for the arrest of the city offi- dition fitiiug oat by tbe government had reached 
cers and other citizens of Lawrence. Utah, but attracted little attention. The emigrant 
- trains were progressing rapidly. Grass was abun- 
Barley from California.— It is but a few dant on the plains. The Indians were friendly.— 
years since Barley, Malt, Ac., were shipped from Dispatches had been received from Gov. Young 
charging the Surveyor General with dishonesty; 
and the sworn statements of hia assistants were 
published, accusing him of reporting to the gov¬ 
ernment and pocketing the money, where the 
work had never been done; of withholding the 
pay of his assistants and appropriating it to him¬ 
self, and of general neglect, and then reporting to 
the U. S. government that the posts had been re¬ 
moved by the Mormons ; together with other 
serious misdemeanors. 
cost on board seventy-eight cents per bushel. It is 
[ said to be a choice article; light in color and 
plump, fully equal to Jefferson county, N. Y., which 
recently sold about $1,40@1,50 in this market- 
We reckon, however, that this reported shipment 
will not affect ihe market, though its publication 
has a sqnint in that direction. 
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Asylpm fob Inebriates. — The committee ap- 
Counterfeits.— Tens on the Bank of Rbine- 
Asylpm for Inebriates.— The committee ap- beck, New York, raised from I’s. Vignette, man, 
pointed to locate the State Inebriate Asylum, of wornau and child—female on the left. Genuine 
which Chancellor Walworth is Chairman, will meet 
at Saratoga on the 14 th of August next. All per¬ 
sons wishing to present oilers are requested to 
transmit the same to Chancellor Walworth, or pre¬ 
sent them through represents live at u e office of 
Mackinaw for troops to join those at Forts Ridge- sent them through represent- 
ley and Snelling, in view of apprehended distur- the Chancellor, on the d«y ns 
bancea among the Indians of Minnesota. -■— 
A Voyage on an American River.— The St. 
Louis Democrat publishes the manifest of the 
Bteamer Twilight, wb'ich left that city Mai' 31st 
with the government stores for the river Au Tram- 
ble, a distance of 2,520 miles! She was absent 
fifty-one days. 
Naval ContraOt.—T he U.ir...| Sates Navy 
contract for pork and beef was i-a,t!deu last week 
to two houses In New York tiiy, one of whom 
took the contract to supply nine thousand bands 
of navy beef at $19 per barrel, and the other took 
the contract to supply six thousand barrels of 
mesB pork at an average coBt of $21 26 per bbL 
has a female seuted, puil and cows on the left.— 
Bills on tho Judson Bank, Ogdenstmrg, altered 
from I’s to 20’s, are in circulation. The bank Is¬ 
sues nothing larger than fives. One dollar bills on 
the Mechanic’s Bank of Syracuse, New York, done 
by photographic process, are afloat. They have a 
blurred appearance. 
California Brandy.— The Patent Office lias 
received from California a new brandy, which iB 
called California grape brandy. Thin liquor is 
said to poBsess an excellent flavor, and to be far 
more palatable than the best brandy Imported 
from Euiope. 
. The rebels arc making progress, the capital of the 
’ province of Kwang-Si, Kvvei-Lung, having fallen 
i into their bands, in the province of Kwangtung, 
t the famine is so severe that even the women are 
i forming themselves into bands of robbers, aud 
have seized the sword and gone forth plundering 
in order to obtain sustenance. 
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How WE LOOK IN Greek. — A life of Washing¬ 
ton has just made its appearance at Athens, Greece. 
That noble people appreciate fully, as they have 
reason to do, our great struggle for liberty, nnd 
especially the characters of the revolutionary he¬ 
roes, but they make shocking work with their 
names. Washington ia rendered Quasigkton; 
Hancock, Agkuk; Banker HUI, Bononton Bong- 
ker; and old Dinwiddie figures in the classic lan¬ 
guage of Homer, Demosthenes and Plato, as 
Diocketes Dinouiddes. 
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Later from Mexico.— Tbe brig Isaac Carver 
brings dates fiom Laguna, Mexico, to June 25th. 
That place was healthy, but the votuito bad made 
its appearance at Vera Cruz. There was an un¬ 
successful attempt at, revolution at Lsguiift,on the 
night of the 10th of June, the object being to de¬ 
pose the present Governor of tbe Province. The 
Captain cf the port, the Collector, and several 
other persons, implicated in tbe affair, were under 
arrest, and would be sent to Vera Cruz. 
Gbassttoi'Fkrs in Maine.— The Lewiston (Me.) 
Advocate Btatcs that, tbe grasshoppers are com¬ 
mitting terrible devastations in that region, and 
the crops of several farmers in the south eastern 
part of Durham are in danger of being utterly 
ruined. On the farm of Joshua Lambert they 
have eaten all his growing corn and attacked his 
wheat and oats, bo that he has been obliged to 
mow them for fodder. 
Hawaiian Literature. —The first book by a 
unlive of the Sandwich Islands ha# appeared. It 
is entitled “ He Kuhtkuhio ke Kanaka Hawaii," and 
the author ia J. *V, Kauwakl, a native lawyer.— 
Judging from its title, the book must be very 
interesting! It Is a volume of law forms. 
- Used for sals. 
— The Coninmn Couucil of New Haven have ordered the 
Alianthus trees to bo cut down, ou account of their dlsa- 
, greeable odor. 
; —The grepea In many vineyards In Cincinnati arc drop¬ 
ping from the vines so rapidly that a total failure of tho 
crop ia feared. 
— The laud within the enclosure of the Illinois Central 
railway lor muny miles has been planted to potatoes by 
the employers. 
— The receipts of the varions discoveries of peurls. In 
Paterson, N. J., aggregate $12,0u0. Several valuable ones 
remain unsold. 
— There are more than 26,000 tuns of iron ore dug in the 
town of Suli-bury, Conn., every year, and some 11,000 tuns 
of pig Iron ni «de. 
— During tbe first six months of tbe present year, there 
have been 40 person* killed and 99 wounded by serious 
railway aoc1> enta. 
— There are, In Austria, 213 colleges, where 64,186 pupils 
are taught bv 2.766 professors, of whom 1,678 are ecclesias¬ 
tics, and 1,177 laymen. 
— The atock of cnfT-e in first hands In Boston on the 1st 
of July, waa 16.6*0 hags, against 11,600 bags at the corres¬ 
ponding datajAst year. 
— Of twenty-eight persons wounded in the riots In N»w 
York, taken to the City Hospital, 22 remain—three have 
died aud three recovered. 
— At the sixth annual commencement of the Peno Fe¬ 
male Med. College, the degree of doctor of medicine was 
conferred on seven ladies. 
— The Chicago Democrat states that 800 pereona and 
firms lo that cl’y have pnld the liquor license of $30 each, 
making a revenue of $40,000. 
— The Mobile Tribune eayB that for several days past, 
large, flee peaches have been sold la the streets of that 
city at fifteen cents u piece. 
— Tor corner stone of the Michigan State Ayelum for 
tbe deaf, dumb and blind, was laid, on Wednesday last, 
with appropriate ceremony. 
— T»o vessels filled with emigrants have been detained 
atth« N. Y. Quarantine, in consequence of the number of 
oases Of etoall-pnx on board. 
— Tbe mi inter of basket* of strawberries sent from 
Ramsay's Station, Bergen Co, N. J., to market, from June 
12th to July 9ih, was 1,093,493. 
— The coal trade of Pittsburgh ha* been unusually ac¬ 
tive this season, the shipments for the l»*t five months 
having reached 16,477,619 bushels. 
— Richard Bnylston, oneot the oldeat newspaper editors 
in New Hnnpabire, died at hi* residence In Amherst, on 
the 26th ulr. f nged seventy flvo year*. 
— A schooner with eighty pansengers on board, was lost 
among ihe Sandwich Inlands, recently, through the stu¬ 
pidity of a diuokeo c*pt*ln »ud crew. 
— Blnoct l»*t OcNr’*' r, 106 inquent* have been held by the 
coroner of Buffalo, upon tbe bodies of muidered and 
drowned people, and death* by casunlities. 
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