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ROCHESTER, N. Y., AUGUST 22, 1857. 
The American Horses in England. 
It is known to our readers that several months 
since three horses were taken from this country 
by tbeir owner, Ik Thn Broeck, Esq., for the pur¬ 
pose of making a comparative test of the English 
and American modes of training. The intelli¬ 
gence concerning the first meeting was brought 
out by the steamer Canada, which arrived at New 
York on the 12th inst, and the result is adverse to 
our horBes. The French horse Monarque won the 
race by a head. The English horse Eiseber was 
second, Fisherman third, Arton fourth. The 
American horses Prior and Prioress were fifth and 
sixth, aud the English horse Melissa seventh. All 
the others pulled up. The finish is said to have 
been the most exciting ever witnessed. The En¬ 
glish papers remark, bat without assigning any 
reason, that the American horses would have 
figured more prominently had they been ridden 
by English jockeys. 
The Goodwood course is not a gravelled track, 
but a fine turf, and we believe sporting men bold 
that animals trained to a hard track cannot do as 
well npon turf. It was the determination of Mr. 
Ten Broeck, in the contingency which has hap¬ 
pened, to challenge the English sportsmen to a 
match on this side of the Atlantic, and some ol 
those who enter into such matters with a sort of 
“national” feeling, Bay that the trial will be in¬ 
complete nntil that is done. 
English sportsmen, in training their horses, de¬ 
sire speed alone, and the distances run are short— 
from one mile to two and a half—while the object 
among our turfmen is to combine speed with bot¬ 
tom, hence onr four mile hears. As all our horses 
are entered for additional races, we may hear of 
* something a little more favorable before the sea¬ 
son is closed. Pryor and Lecompte are entered 
for the Newmarket Houghton meeting, a single 
daab for four miles, one farlong and one hundred 
and seventy-three yards, to be run October 26th. 
Lecompte and Prioress are entered for the Sussex 
County cup, a two mile and a half dash, at the 
Lewis county meeting, on the 10th iDBt. At the 
Houghton meeting, Lecompte carries 128 pounds 
and Pryor 126 pounds, being the weights for aged 
and five yearB old. There are thirteen entries for 
the Sussex County Cap, Lecompte carrying 119 
’ pounds and Prioress 106 pounds. 
The following account of the performance of onr 
respective horses in comparison with that of other 
celebrated animals will prove interesting at the 
present time: 
Blink Bonny, the celebrated English racing 
mare, who won an enormous sum for her owner 
this summer, by winning the Oaks and Derby 
stakes, has ron one mile in 1 minute and 60 seconds, 
in a one and a half mile heat. Prior has run a one 
.mile heat in 1 minute 454 seconds. Prioress has 
run a one mile heat in 1 minute and 45 seconds. 
Lecompte has run 1 mile in 1 minute and 40j 
seconds, stid ran a 4 mile heat in 7 minntes and 
26 seconds, which is the best time ever made, ex¬ 
cept by Lexington, who ran 4 miles in 7 minutes 
and 194 seconds. The fastest time on record was 
made by Henry Perrett, an American horse, who 
ran 1 mile in 1 minute and 42 seconds. The above 
record shows that the American horses have all 
made faster time than the celebrated English hor- 
sep, and while Blink Bonny ran 24 miles at the rate 
of 1:50, Lecompte ran at the same rate of speed for 
four successive miles. 
State Inebriate Asylum.— The Locating Com¬ 
mittee of the State Inebriate Asylum met at the 
residence of Chancellor Walworth, in Saratoga, 
on the 11th inst. The following gentlemen were 
present. R. A. Walworth, Hon. Ransom Balcom, 
of Binghampton; Hon. Ex-Mayor Lambert, of 
Brooklyn, and Dr. J. Edwards Turner, of New 
York. Proposal fur the site were read and re¬ 
ported on varlou -. aces in this State. These pro¬ 
posals will he acted upon at the next meeting of 
the Committee, which will take placeatthe call of 
the Chairman. A resolution was adopted that the 
proposals to insure consideration must contain an 
offer of a free donation of at least 1,000 acres uf 
land. 
Affairs at Washington. 
Gkn. Herran and Secretary Cass have closed 
their informal conferences, on the New Grenada 
treaty, and the result, will be reduced to writing, < 
and the treaty concluded, it is supposed, during 1 
the next week. 
Orders have been issued for the recruits at Fort 
Leavenworth to move on the 5th of September for 
New Mexico, to reinforce the army in that quarter. 
There was a long Cabinet meeting on the 14th 
inst., at which Kansas, Central American and In¬ 
dian affairs were considered. Official adviceB con¬ 
firm the report that a regular Government has been 
established in Nicaragua, with boundaries giving 
her full jurisdiction over the Transit route. This 
Government will he recognized. 
Official despatches received at the State Depart¬ 
ment 6peak in favorable terms of the ameliorating 
influences of the new Russian Tariff, saying the 
commencement of its operations affords evidence 
that the present Emperor entertains views differ¬ 
ent from his predecessor, and affords hope that, 
other important reforms may follow. Books of all 
languages, duty tree, subject only to the usual 
censorship. Russian subjects living in foreign 
countries can now travel for five years with a re¬ 
duction in the passport fees. 
If it be t.rne, as stated, that CoBt.a Rica has dis¬ 
posed of the Nicaragua Transit route, and has ac¬ 
quired part of the Territory of the latter, onr Gov¬ 
ernment will unquestionably ol'ject to that ar¬ 
rangement, it UeiDg known that Mr. Carey Jones, 
is specially instructed to represent the views of the 
administration, as being adverse to such a course 
of policy. 
Until the meeting of Congress no diplomatic ap¬ 
pointments will be made, excepting 8uch as may 
be demanded by the public exigencies, ss it is 
desired that successors to the preBcnt incumbents 
shall not go abroad until their appointments shall 
have been confirmed by the Senate. 
Gen. Denber, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 
will shortly repair to Nebraska for the purpose of 
making treaties with the Ponca and Pawnee In¬ 
dians. 
Items ol' News. 
The Postmaster General Iisb decided thatpos 
tage stamps are not redeemable by Postmasters. 
If persons receive them as remittances, they must 
rely on the sale of them for reimbursement. 
A party of Newton pedestrians reached the 
Tip-Top House, Mount Washington, on the 5th oi 
August Up to that time they had walked 184 
miles. They climbed np to the summit of Mount 
Washington, via. Tuckerman’s ravine, Ac., passing 
through tbe great snow arch, which is 75 feet long, 
10 feet high, and 25 feet wide! 
There is an old squaw among the encampment 
of Oneida Indiana at Saratoga, who is aged 109 
years, and named Honoria Pacotharer. She was 
born at Oneida Castle in 1748. Her husband fell 
at the battle of Saratoga in 1777, and her three 
sons at Lundy’s Lane and Chippewa in 1814. 
Tee year 18C2 will complete a thousand years 
since the foundation of Russia. It is proposed to 
erect a commemorative statue at Novgorod, the 
capital of the first Russian ruler. It will be built 
by a national subscription under the patronage of 
tbe Czar. 
Richard Winslow, one of the oldest Commer¬ 
cial meD in" Cleveland, died on the 9th inst. He 
was nearly 88 years of age, and went to Cleveland 
in 1830, when the population was less than 1,000. 
He was well known all along the chain of lakes.— 
He had amassed a good fortnne and secured the 
high respect of the community. 
At Macbias, Me., within a few days, nearly two 
million feet of boards have been sold and shipped, 
principally for the West India market, at an aver¬ 
age of $12 per thousand. 
The short weight in some of the cents of the 
new coinage has been noticed. The directors of 
the mint say, in explanation, that they are com¬ 
posed of materials never before melted together 
for coinage, aud there is some difficulty in obtain¬ 
ing an invariable accurate weight The difference 
is yet within the limits allowed bylaw. When the 
workmen become "more experienced in the new 
manufacture it will be corrected. Forty-six tons 
have been coined since the work began, and the 
variations are trifling in view of the rapidity with 
which the coin has been issued. Every coin of 
gold and silver is tested separately by weight—a 
superfluous care in the small valuation of the 
The Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Supreme 
Court, Hon. Ww. L, Lee, died at Honolulu, on the 
28th of May, aged 36 years and 3 months. He had 
resided at Honolulu since October, 1856—less than 
a year. 
Oft of the fifty-nine members of the Senate da¬ 
ring the last Congress, no less than five have 
pasaed away, viz : Messrs. Clayton, of Delaware, 
Bell, of New Hampshire, Adams, of Mississippi, 
Butler, ol South Carolina, and Rusk, of Texas. 
It is estimated, says the Washington corres¬ 
pondent of the Philadelphia Press, that the new 
dome for the Capitol will weigh 7,500 tons, and 
that its erection will take ten years. The new 
Houses of CongresB will be ready for occupancy 
by a year from next December, and not in the 
coming session, as was expected. 
Excursions from and to Eurofe. —It Is Btated 
that the Great. Eastern Steamship Company propose 
to reduce the price of tourist tickets from £100 to 
£50, and intend also to iBsue tickets on this side of 
the Atlantic for a European trip. The route lor 
tourists in this country will be such as to embrace 
everything worthy of attention between Portland 
and Chicago, Washington and Quebec. 
♦ »» 
Later from Mexico.— In the Prensa of Havana, 
we find dates from Mexico to July 20. The revo¬ 
lutionists in the neighborhood of Lake Chalopa, 
who were intended for service in Lower California, 
rebel against the military leaders of their country. 
Considerable skirmishing had resulted, and the 
mutineers were still at large on the 6th. The revo¬ 
lutionist, Miguel Correa Bravo, who was captured 
by the troops of Gen. Alvarez, was Mhot in Chilpa- 
neygo. It is thought some additional light will 
soon be thrown upon the Sonora fillibuutering ex¬ 
pedition. All of Crabb’s correspondence had fal¬ 
len into the hands of the Mexicans, and is to he 
published. 
Correspondence of the Rural. 
Chicago, Hi., August 12th, 1867. 
Dear Rural:—M y last, on board an Erie steam¬ 
er, was only one of a few instalments of notes and 
observations on men and things being taken du¬ 
ring my progress outward and homeward bound. 
On rounding Malden point, C. W., to enter De¬ 
troit river, tbe Northern shore is much the most 
attractive, being several feet above the water, high 
and dry; but tbis, as well as our owu shore, grad¬ 
ually subsides as we go up, until both banks of the 
river present a wide border of irreclaimable and 
sedgy marsh. 
Detroit is a fine, active commercial city, and r 
cannot fail to increase both in population and 
prosperity. Several railroads making great trunk 
lines are either running, or will be Boon, across 
the peninsula; among the former of which may 
be named the two Michigan roads (Central and 
Southern) and among l he latter, the Detroit and 
Milwaukee which wilL be in operation next spring 
through to Grand Haven. 
The land around Detroit for fifteen or twenty 
miles is very flat and wet—not worth cultivating, 
while other lands are cheap, but will, by and by, 
when extensive draioing can be resorted to and 
made to pay, become among the most productive 
of the State. The rust and midge have done much 
damage in the counties north-east of Detroit, and 
wheat is not hall a crop in that direction; other 
grains and grass are excellent. That fatal insect, 
the midgo, is passing as surely to the West, aseini 
gration itself; and the prairies of Illinois, Iowa, 
and Wisconsin must bide their time, for the enemy 
is at tbeir gates. Where the scourgo is to end no 
man can tell. 
Tbe Geological features of the lower portion of 
Michigan are wonderfully similar, from lake to 
lake; rolling gravelly ridges interspersed with wet 
prairies of limited extent. Oak is the prevailing 
timber, and wheat on tbe upland* the predomina¬ 
ting crop. It is all harvested, and, so far aa I 
could jadge while the Central cars sped past the 
farms, is a fair yield. Peaches and peach trees 
throughout the State are killed by the frosts of 
our recent severe winters. In many places I ob¬ 
serve orchaids and nurseries of leafless trees, 
which, to me, as to all lovers of the delicious fruit, 
is a melancholy sight. Indeed there seems to be 
a greater lack of enterprise in tbe rearing of fruit 
than I expected to see in Southern Michigan.— 
Even a scarcity of good currants, to say nothing ol 
grapes, choice cherries, and pears, is met with 
everywhere. The farmers are well to do, with 
good buildings, stock, and tools, and ought, not to 
be deficient in a choice variety of fruits and flow¬ 
ers. If your correspondent had half a dozen of 
their waste acres beside his bed blanket of a gar¬ 
den spot, he would make a paradise of it in ten 
years. ( Paradise in the original Greek means a 
garden.) 
The rolling fertility of the soil, as yon approach 
Lake Michigan at New Buffalo and Michigan City 
is transformed into a sandy desolation. The New 
Albany and Salem road may make the latter place 
a shipping point, but the danger is, that railroad, 
' city, and all may wake up - mile windy morning and 
find themselves buried in tbe drift. 
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Conflagrations and Casualties. 
An incendiary, on the 14th iDBt, fired some 
I know not what terms to apply to tho cify of wooden buildings on Point Levi, opposite Quebec, 
Chicago; it is a wonderful place in more respects c and 20 oi them were destroyed, 
than one; and, in activity and business enterprise, 0 N the 19th inst., the stables of Hart & Ibornae, 
exceeds anything of the kind 1 ever creamed of. Jn Now Orleans, were destroyed by fire. Seventy 
The writer is not an enthusiast, nor a neophyte mn * lea per5gbed in the Q ame8 , and fourteen omni- 
who has never seen a city before; but one who has bngeB were destroyed, loss $30,000; insured for 
lived in Boston, and been many times in New 
Y’ork. Now take the map, look at the location of t ’ hk Merchants Powder Magazine, containing 
Chicago, and mark the prediction. This city is thg whole st ock of powder in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 
destined to anrpass, in business and population, loded B>j0rtly after rnid night, on the 14th inat, 
anything West of New York and this side of the ^ & terrlflc concu8Biou . One man was killed 
Rocky Mountains. More of Chicago by-and-by. w. and gf teen seriously injured. Five houses were 
Z . ‘ * demolished, and several others damaged. The 
Poli tical Ite ms. Government Magazines and tbe new barrackswere 
The Chicago Tribune, of the 17th inst., has re- mnch shattered. Nearly all the windows in the 
tarnB from 34 counties in Iowa, which give a ma- northern part of 1 ic city were ro en. e am 
jority of 4,556 for the Constitntion. a S ea "« at * 100 - 0 ^ ^ he M0 g az,na 19 
. supposed to have been heed by an incendiary. For 
Ninety counties in Missouri give Rodins, In exC!ite meni was intense. Many persons 
dependent, about 3,000 majority, but the returns hftd be(m from their bed8| and other8i be . 
are so conflicting that the figures cannot be given. wi]deredt rlisbed through tbe streets for safety 
Rollins is probably elected by about 1,600 maj. beUeving an earthquake hud oocurred. 
The following footings have been received of ^ collision occurred on Long Island Sound on 
the result, of the recent election in Nebraska for the morning of the 16th inst-, between tho Bteamer 
delegate to CoDgrees. One county remains to be Metropolis, of Fall River line, and tbe propeller J. 
heard from. Fergoson, Bern., 1,470. Thayer, Op- w . Harris, from New York for New London. This 
position, 1,309. Chapman, Democrat, and present occurr „<i between Faulkland Island and New Ha- 
inenmbent, 1,114. Rankin, Dejn., 1,090. veiu Metropolis was bound to New York.— 
The Kentucky Legislature stands as follows:— The Harris sunk almost immediately. She had on 
In the 8enate the Americans have twenty members board 25 persons—passengers and crew—of whom 
to eighteen Democrats; in the House forty are eleven went down. 
Americans to fifty-nine Democrats, making a dem¬ 
ocratic majority of sixteen on joint ballot, and 
enabling them to elect the United StateB Senator. 
The Kansas election returns indicate a nearly 
unanimous vote in favor of the Topeka Constitu¬ 
tion. 
From the Far "West- 
Fort Laramie dates to the 14th alt., have been 
received. Col. Sumner had arrived at Bent’s Fort, 
and would leave on the 12th for head-quarters at 
_ . ^_ the Republican Fork, in pursuit of the Cheyennes. 
„ „ „ . t , The California trains had all passed Fort Laramie. 
From Kansas.— The Kansas correspondent of 0ae of M Mw , 8 wagon r0 ad trains-was at Fort 
a Q t T rmio Pirvi o/ivnt ontio In/i rrCs h one, rma fin h. ° 
the St. Louis Democrat says, Judge Kane has pub¬ 
lished an opinion, stating that the payment of taxeB 
is essential to tbe preliminary right of voting. 
The sheriff of Douglass county has given notice 
of his intention to collect the taxes. 
Rumor Bays that Cieim. Lane and Robinson, and 
Messrs. Phillips, Convay aud Blood, and others 
have been indicted by grand jury of Lecompton. 
In a speech on the 5th inst., Gen. Lane announced 
the organization of 11,000 men to protect tbe polls 
at the election in October, and that the number 
would be increased to 25,000. 
AdviceB of the 8th inst, state that Gov. Walker 
had retnrned to Lawrence with the troops, the 
Kearney. 
CoL Alexander’s regiment, and Spencer’s bat¬ 
tery, of the Utah expedition, were met 225 miles 
west of Fort Leavenworth. Another regiment 
was at Rock Creek; Capt. Van Vliet at Cotton¬ 
wood, and Ueso's battery at Big Blue. But little 
damage had been done to the trains. The Indians 
feared to attack large paities. 
Warhsd again broken out between the Crows 
and Sioux. 
Several surveying parties were seen. Nothing 
has been heard of the murders reported last week. 
Nothing was received from Utah. 
Later advices from Fort Kearney Btute that a 
— There were 651 deaths in N. Y. city last week. 
— The Chinese sugar plant is thriving well In Texas. 
— Forty-six tuns of the new cent have been coined. 
—There are two hundred and sixty lawyers in Chicago. 
— Ex-8onator Turney, of Tennessee, died suddenly last 
week. 
— Grasshoppers are very troublesome in New Jersey, this 
season. 
— In Bermuda, the gardeners arc lamenting the absence 
of rain. 
— The American Dental Convention is in session in 
Boston. 
— Chief Justice McLeod, of Bexar Co., Texas, died on 
the 21st nit. 
— Tho mraiber of papers now existing in Minnesota, is 
thirty-three. 
— The British have_C0 armed vessels in the China sea.s j 
carrying 783 suns. 
— A converted Turk is preaching the Gospel of our Lord 
in Constantinople. 
— Honduras has concluded a treaty with France, guaran¬ 
teeing a railway route. 
— A French war steamer lias arrived at New Orleans 
with yellow fever on hoard. 
— Dysentery ia very prevalent and fatal at Saginaw, Mich.j 
especially among children. 
— The Newark N. J. Advertiser chronicles a case of 
Asiatic cholera in that city. 
— Die New Hampshire papers speak discouragingly of 
the apple crop in that State. 
— Tho Fnlmyrn, Wayne Co., Sentinel says the crop of ap¬ 
ples in that Co., is very light. 
— The taxes in New York city have increased fifty per. 
cent., during the last three yeans. 
— Eight hundred bushels of berries were brought into 
Boston market on Saturday week. 
— The Eastport, JIo., Sentinel says the potato rot has 
made its appearance in that section. 
_Ex-Mayor Towers, of Washington, died in that city on 
Tuesday week, after a prolonged illness. 
_The New York Police Commission have adjourned for 
one month, leaving the vacancy unfilled. 
_Tho steamer August, which cleared from Savannah, on 
the Stb inst., had on hoard 3,64*1 watermelons. 
— The Indiana editors are calling for a State Convention 
to protect the craft against rascally advertisers. 
— The Tohuantecpec transit is said to lessen the distance 
from New York to San Francisco, Cal., 2,200 miles. 
— Four hundred and fifty recruits arc to he sent to New 
Mexico, from Fort t*avcnwortli, early in September. 
— The amount of gold now on the way to England from 
Australia, is about five and a half millions of dollars, 
— The widow of Henry Clay, now seventy-six years of 
age, is failing in health, and cannot possibly live long. 
— Nicholas Thompson, Esq., father of the Secretary of 
the Interior, died at Leesburg, Miss., a few days since. 
—A cargo of 1,400 bushels of new white wheat sold in 
Georgetown, D. C., on Wednesday, for $1 70 per bushel. 
_Col. Modary has notified the citizens of Minnesota to 
hold themselves in readiness to volunteer against savages. 
— A new Croton Reservoir is about to ho constructed, 
covering 106 acres of land, and measuring 36 feet ill depth. 
_Iowa Ciiy, according to a local census just taken, has 
a population amounting to 7300, or adding its suburbs, 9000. 
— The Very Rev. Lawrence Kenehan, President of May- 
nooth College, Ireland, died on the 2Tthuit.. at the College. 
— The citizens of Danaville have subscribed $15,000 for 
the ostublishnmut of a first-class Seminary in that village. 
— Mr. Guthrie, of Chicago, Til., has ono field of 850 acres 
of hay enclosed with good pine hoard and cedar post fence. 
— The Congressional Library at the Capitol now numbers 
no loss than 65,000 volumes, many of them rare and valu¬ 
able. • • . , , 
— David Nettleton, of Bridgewater, was killed Ang. 7th, 
* by a restive horse, who crushed him on tho teeth of a hay- 
rake. 
— The health of Joshua R. Biddings is so feeble that he 
will probably not be able to take bis seat in the next Con¬ 
gress. 
— From noon of the 4th inst., to 6 A. M of the 5th, rain 
fell in Waahington city, to tho depth of six and onc-tcnth 
inches. 
— Chicago paperfc report the discovery ofm. large bed of 
coal on the lino of tho Illinois Central Railroad, of superior 
quality. 
_The Hudson River Railroad Company, it is stated, have 
ordered four w roqght iron passenger cars, fpr the use of 
their road. ♦ 
_Tire Chicago Tribune has returns from thirty-four 
counties in Iowa, which give a majority of 4,555 for the 
Constitution. 
_Die hotels at Saratoga are well filled now, and the 
daily arrivals are equal to those of corresponding weeks in 
former seasons. 
_The ProvinaiAl Wesleyan states that the Wesleyan 
Methodist Church in Nova Scotia, numbers 12,720 members 
and 102 ministers. 
_Some of the grain buyers of Springfield, Ill,, are mak¬ 
ing contracts for wheat at $1@1 10 per bushel, delivered 
during this month. 
_The Peterborough (N. II.) Transcript announces that 
the factories in that town are about to suspend operations. 
Cause, hard times. 
— On Saturday and Sunday, the mercury ranged from 98 
to 100 dugrees, at Cincinnati. Five men were sun-struck— 
two of them fatally. 
_A Paris correspondent prediets the collapse of crino- 
liuos in 1858, anJ thinks tho ladies will subside from bal¬ 
loons into May-poles. 
_The Florida Democrat states that a gentleman in 
Santa Rosa Co., Fla., recently discovered a quantity of gold 
measuring two bushels. 
— Tho Hon. William L. Dayton is recovering from the 
severe illuoss under which he has been sufferiug for some 
time past, at Long Branch. 
_Spain has accepted tho mediation of England and 
France in the matter of her dispute with Mexico. Santa 
1 Anna had an ugent in Madrid. 
_More than twenty.eight millions of specie have thus 
1 far in 1857 been exported from New York, an excess of 
eight millions over hist year. 
‘ —It. was reported at Vera Cruz, at latest dates, that Ex- 
. President Santa Anna, had died, but of tlio reliability of 
the report wu are not advised. 
Rev. Peter Sanborn, died at Reading, lines-, Aug. 8th, 
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apprehension of an attack upon lort Riley by the nineteen drovers, charged with upward of ** TT * * that place, June rth.lTOObut 
Indians proving groundless. j iead cat ^ destined for tho benefit of tho 
‘ Utah expedition, were attacked 21 miles above the 
Revolution in St. Domingo.— The Bchooner j,, or ^ on 2 i s t inst,, by a party of 160 Cheyennes.— 
Castillian, from Port an Platt, reports that a revo- tl , e tat tle and 20 muleB were rim off, and one 
lution broke out at. Santiago, South Ride of fat. niaa wa s killed and another severely wounded.— 
Domingo, on the 10th of July, against President Three of the Indians were slain. CoL Sumner had 
Baez, and that a battle had taken place in the in- B t ar ted in pursuit of the Indians. 
terior, during which 160 men were killed. The 
President had a force of 1,000 men before the city 
of St, Domingo. 
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A spirited Temperance Conference was held 
on tho 4th inst, at Saratoga Springs, relative to 
temperance organizations among the children and 
youth of the country. Mr. Delavan presided. 
From Santa Fk. —The Santa Fe mail has 
reached Iudependenco with advices to the 17th 
nit. The news is unimportant. Tbe Cheyenne 
Indians had refused to receivb presents from the 
Indian agent, or make a treaty with him, saying 
they can make more by stealing. The PawneeB 
also threaten hostilities. 
retired from the pulpit in 1820. 
—There are more than twenty cities m the Union whoso 
municipal expenses every year exceed those of the Federal 
Government under Washington. 
— The Brighton, C. W., Flag #ya that within ten days 
not loss than fifty-seven thousand wbito fish liavo been 
taken from the lake at that place. 
— Counterfeit gold dollars are being circulated iu Balti¬ 
more in largo numlwis. They are made of tin, of the size 
of tho new omission, *u>d galvanized. 
— The Barnstable, Mass., Tab-jot mentions a novel sight 
in that town, viz: that of a gonUeumn and lady on a horse, 
with the old-fashioned saddle and pillion. 
_General Denver, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, will 
shortly repair to Nebraska, for tho purpose of making 
treaties with the I’onoa and Pawnee Indians. 
