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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. AUGUST 29. 
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Inserted on any conditions. Cl tr~ The circulation of the Bubal 
New-Yorker largely exceeds that of any other Agricultural or 
similar journal in ihe World—-and is from 20*000 to 30,000 oreater 
than that of any ctbr- paper (ont ot New Twit city) published in 
this State or section at the Union. 
Cjy* Special Notices Fifty Cents a lane each insertion. 
List of New Advertisements this week. 
Sabbath School Convention—Commit toe. 
Paring and Slicing Apple Machine—lYn. Failing. 
Air-Tight Self Seal lug Cfin and Jar—R. Arthur. 
Nurserymen, Dealers A Planters—Mnywrdle, Bnmsden & Co. 
Gould's Premium Corn Htiskerr—E. Nadi. 
New York (Jonleieur, Seminary—John < Ferguson. 
Eastman's Couitni-icial Co J log'—G- W. Fast man. 
Music Without ft Mortor- t'fo'ftp Publication Society. 
Black Spanish Fowls for Sale—K. S. Ralph 
Superior Marble Bogltl—A 6 Shaver. 
Small Fann for Sole — Robert C- Case 
Wanted—E. It Thomas. 
An Imported Bnar—wi H. Clay. 
KK) Bushels of Winter Barter—John Williams. 
Celebrated Family Sewing Machines—Grover A Balter. 
1,000 Grape Cuttings—.T. C Idlborn. 
210,000 Pear Trees—Geo. W Wilson. 
Mules for Sale— W. H. Lee 
Oub Advertising Friends will please note that, although 
(ho Rural h38 largely increased in circulation during the past 
year, its advertising rates remain unchanged. Thus, while it is 
decidedly the best medium of Agricul'.ural and Horticultural 
Advertising in the Union, it is also one oi the cheapest. Our 
terms will remain the same as at present until the close of the 
present year and rolmne. when they will probably be materially 
increased, to correspond with out greatly augmented circulation. 
Items ot News. 
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil quotes potatoes, 
in that city, at $2,60 and $3 per bus., butter 60 
cents per lb., eggs 26 cents per doz., and other 
things in proportion. 
Work on the Hoosic Tunnel has been suspended 
for want of hands. The tueuntain has been pene¬ 
trated 720 feet from the eastern, and 310 feet from 
the. western side. 
Bince the 1st of January 830 men have been 
shipped at the United States naval rendezvous, 
Philadelphia. This is one of the results Of the 
late act of Congress in raising the pay in the navy. 
Financial and Commercial. 
The Chicago Journal of the 20th inst, publishes 
a financial article, viewing the gradual deprecia¬ 
tion going on stock, and admits that it shows bad¬ 
ly for Illinois banks. The Journal says:—“We 
are glad to see that our Chicago banks have so 
little circulation, whilst we are alarmed for the 
safety of some of onr country banks who can never 
withstand a ran; but must fail whenever specie to 
any groat amount is demanded. Our people 
should bo very careful how they take the bills of 
these distant Illinois banks, as many of them were 
got up to fail as soon as they had got out of all 
The New York American Inquirer says that Ca- the paper that it was in their power to get out.” 
ROCHESTER, N. Y„ AUGUST 29, 1857. 
Special Meeting of Editors and Publishers. 
In accordance with arrangements made at the close of 
the Fourth Annual Convention of tho Western New 
Yoee TvpoGRApincAi. Association, at Canandaigua in 
June last, a Special Meeting of the Association will lie 
bold at Haight's Hotel, in Elmira, on Tnursday, Sept. 
3d, at 10 o’clock, A.M.—during Ihe Fair of Ihe “Young 
Men’s National Agricultural and Mechanics' Society.’’— 
The Association is designed to promote the interests of 
the Editors and Publishers of Western and Central New 
Tork. The Constitution admits to membership aD.v Editor, 
Publisher or Master Printer who subscribes to it and the 
Rules and Regulations adopted in accordance therewith. 
As business of importance to the Members of the Asso¬ 
ciation, and the Fraternity of the State generally, will 
probably come before the Meeting, a full attendance of all 
interested is very desirable. 
D. D. T. MOORE, President. 
Jas. T. Norton, Secretary. 
Affairs at Washington, 
A Postal Convention has been concluded be¬ 
tween the United States and Hamburg. The mails 
are to be exchanged by means of United States or 
Hamburg mail steamers running direct between 
New York and Hamburg. Under this arrangement 
the postage is ten cents per single letter of one- 
half ounce and under—pre-payment optional; and 
two cents on newspapers—pre payment required. 
The rates to all countries and places beyond Ham¬ 
burg are identically the same in all respects as the 
rates charged via Bremen, under the U. 8, and 
Bremen Postal Convention. 
The General Land Office have decided against 
the pre-emption claim of a colored man to 360 
acres of land in Wisconsin, taking the ground on 
the Bred Scott decision, that a free negro whose 
ancestors were brought to this country and sold 
as slaves, is not a citizen within the meaning of the 
Constitution of the U, S, This decision applies to 
all Bimilar cases now pending. 
The Interior Department has received intelli¬ 
gence from a reliable gentleman and fagitive Mor¬ 
mon, that Brigham Y r onng is preparing to resist 
Gen. Harney; that he has relapsed into the rankest , 
infidelity and atheism, and that he continues to 
hold up the Government of the United States to 
the supreme contempt of the Mormons. \ 
The Secretary of the Navy has determined to ] 
shorten the cruize of National vessels from three \ 
years to two years. It iB expected that by this ( 
movement more efficient seamen will be induced ] 
to enter the naval service. t 
The President a short time ago received a letter i 
from Prof. Silliman, and others, including several t 
Doctors of Divinity, objecting to the employment 1 
by him of the U. S. Military forces to execute the j 
so-called laws of Kansas, and assuring him that ( 
they would not cease to pray that he might have , 
the proper course of duty pointed out to him—or r 
something to this effect. To this the President has - 
just replied, briefly but positively—denying their i 
premises, questioning their knowledge of those 3 
tawba wine is much imitated and adulterated.— 
That there is thirteen establishments in that city 
which “manufacture” champagne by saturating 
“still wines ” with carbonic acid, 
Mbs. Sabah Matthias, widow of Rev. J. B. 
Matthias, died at Staten Island on the*19th inst, 
aged 88 years. She was present at the inaugura¬ 
tion of Washington—saw the British troops evacu¬ 
ate New York and when very young was Bent by 
her mother with food to some who were in prison 
in the old sugar house. 
Senator Rusk, whose melancholy death we re¬ 
cently recorded, tvas the son of a very poor Irish 
emigrant, who, when he came to this country, set¬ 
tled in South Carolina on land belonging to John 
C. Calhoun. He was a stone-cutter by trade. 
Tbe actual number of men conveyed to Nicara¬ 
gua from the United States to the flag ol' Gen. 
Walker, during the last two years, as shown by 
the books of the old Accessory Tiansit Compa¬ 
ny of Chas. Morgan <& Sons, were no less than 7,006 
shipped up the San Jnan river, and 3,500 received 
from California. Mr. Bostwick, late Secretary of 
State to Geu Walker, says that he can prove by 
documentary evidence, that no less than 5,700 Qlll- 
basters have found their graves in Nicaragua. 
On the 17th inBt, about 10 o’clock, nearly 300 
emigrants arrived at Castle Garden, by the ship 
Liverpool, from London, and in less than three 
hours nine-tenths of them were on the cars and 
safely on their way to the West. 
The trial of counterfeiters, recently arrested iu 
Indiana, is progressing in Ripley county. Some 
of them have confessed their guilt, and told where 
a list of the gang, three hundred in number, could 
be procured. The list was found at the place 
named, and officers are in pursuit of the persons 
indicated. 
Mr. Washington Cabbol Tevis, of Philadelphia 
lately in the service of the Saltan aB Nessim Bey, 
has been made a Khan by the Shah, and received 
the title of Rnnjeet Khan. His rank is that of 
Lieutenant Colonel of Artillery, and he is employed 
to re-organize the Persian army entirely. He has 
also received from the Sultan of Turkey a medal 
for his services in the war with Russia, 
The Buffalo Courier understands that the West¬ 
ern and American Canal Transportation Compa¬ 
nies intend offering a premium of $1,000 to any 
one who will construct a propeller that will run 
from Buffalo to Troy in five days with 150 tons. 
The Revenue Returns from several principal ports 
for July, 1857, are stated as follows: 
New York,.$7,002,203 24 
Boston,. 762,313 65 
Philadelphia,. 047,541 07 
Baltimore,..<. 219,508 00 
New Orleans,. 174,053 00 
Estimated for minor ports,. 150,000 00 
Total for July. .$8,955,591 90 
The receipts for the present, month will he, as 
estimated from the last fortnight’s returns, not far 
from $0,500,000. The unexpectedly heavy receipts 
for this month justifies an estimate for the quarter 
of $20,500,000. 
The Cunard steamer Persia which left New York 
for Liverpool on the 19th inst, took $1,712,507 in 
specie, and one hundred and thirty passengers. 
New York city is flooded with counterfeit mo¬ 
ney. The Evening Post of the 20tb inst., says 
that as near as can be astertaiued, between thirty 
and forty men and women were engaged on Tues¬ 
day night in circulating throughout the city coun¬ 
terfeit $5 bills, purporting to be genuine bills on 
the Lee Bank of Massachusetts. Several parties 
have been arrested. 
The stock of pork at the New Orleans Inspection 
Warehouses, on the 1st inst., was 12,684 barrels, 
against 11,660 corresponding time last year. 
The Cincinnati Ga-s.tte, of the 19th inst., hears 
a sale of 1,000 hogs, deliverable within the last 
fifteen days of November, at $7. There were 
several buyers at the same figure, but sellers did 
not seem disposed to meet them. Owing to the 
scarcity and high price of products, packing will 
commence early and the first offerings will be¬ 
taken freely at full rates. 
The Cincinnati Gazette of the 18th inst., sayB 
the quantities of wheat in Covington, Ky., and 
daily arriving, are immense. Countless bags are 
piled in the depot, although dreys and wagons by 
the dozen are employed to hanl it away, and as a 
consequence, prices are downward. There was a 
rumor yesterday, of some having been sold at 95 
cents, but we were unable to ascertain the names 
of the parties. There is a great stagnation in the 
Covington market. 
Political Items. 
North Carolina has amended its constitution 
The Affairs of Gotham. 
T%t Municipal War—Mrs. Cunningham—An Universal 
£,au> and Medical School i Cui Bono7 — Woe-begonc 
Fillibtisters—Cure for Uneasy Youths. 
Have the readers of the Rural any interest in 
New York city matters? Is there one among them 
who has succeeded in following onr municipal af¬ 
fairs through the bewildering labyrinth of injunc¬ 
tions, quo toarrantos, certioraries, and other legal 
technicalities, in themidstof which they have wan¬ 
dered for months past, while the uninitiated have 
obtained new conceptions of the multitude of 
sharp turns available to those versed in law, and by 
which they are enabled to escape the seemingly 
inevitable grasp of consequences which follow 
close upon their heels? Is there one who has not 
formed a mental image of Mrs. Cunningham, in 
which hoofs and a forked tail fitly accompanied 
the demure Bait of black with which that amiable 
body testifies to her undoubted reBpect for her 
murdered Harvey's -money? 
It cannot he that the circumstances by which 
the metropolis has been agitated Ehonld have 
escaped the attention of onr good friends of “the 
Rural districts,” who have so kindly volunteered 
of late, to take a hand in the control of our domes¬ 
tic affairs. Doubtless the principal events in tbe 
recent history of this city are nearly as familiar to 
Rural readers as to us who have lived in the midst 
of the excitement they occasioned. 
We have been justly proud of the general diffu¬ 
sion of knowledge in this country, bat the progress 
of education up to a late date is as nothing com¬ 
pared with its more recent advance. The multi¬ 
tude are no longer confined to the meagre learn¬ 
ing of the common school, but the mysteries of 
professional knowledge have been thrown open to 
them with an unstinted hand. New York haa be¬ 
come a great school of law and medicine, con¬ 
ducted upon tbe most democratic principles, and 
thanks to Mayor Wood, Mrs. Cunningham, and 
liberal minded officials, we have all received gra¬ 
tuitous instruction in jurisprudence end medical 
Bcicnce until even our newsboys are fitted for 
practising attorneys or professors of obstetrics.— 
The tendency of these things is, at the best, ques¬ 
tionable. What good is to result from filling onr 
dailies with descriptions of the routine of lying-in 
hospitals to serve as a jest for overgrown boys 
and vulgar minded men. 
A little law can do ns no harm, but we have been 
overdosed with it until our systems begin to re-act, 
and it is a question whether we shall not rid our¬ 
selves of it altogether. It by no means increases 
one’s respect for law, or its dispensers, to see how 
evidently they are biased by partisan feeling, 
which has brought them so directly in collision 
that there is no mistaking it. “ What is one man’s 
meat is another mau’a poison,” however, and what 
disgusts us, furnishes huge enjoyment to others.— 
The lawyers of course are in a special state of fee- 
licity, while Mayor Wood seems to be in bis ele¬ 
ment. 
Situated as it is at the confluence of the two 
great thorough-fares of New York—Broadway and 
— A good early vintage is expected in France. 
— The valuation of Ratine, Wis., is 3,219,553 75. 
— There has been a fresh eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 
— Eugene Sue, the novelist, died in Paris on the 3d inst. 
— The Queen of the Netherlands is on a visit to Liver¬ 
pool. 
— The season in England has been unusually free from 
rain. 
— Mules were selling in Minnesota, at from §350 to $500 
per pair. 
— Thero is a great demand at the west for eastern school 
teachers. 
— The U. S. steam frigate Mississippi left on the 19th inst,, 
for China. 
— New hay sells at Chicago at $4 a tun. The old in June 
sedd at $40. 
— There were 24 deaths last week in N. Y. city from vio¬ 
lent causes. 
— The Bn Halo Courier says there are 92 practicing physi¬ 
cians in that city. 
— Tho body of the son of Napoleon I, is soon to be 
brought to Paris. 
— There are on an average ten deaths a day by cholera 
at St. Petersburg. 
— A general census of the Russian Empire has been or¬ 
dered to be taken, 
— The sale of the Delaware Kansas Indian Trust lands 
yielded over $578,000. 
— Mr. George Peabody has taken $50,000 worth of At¬ 
lantic Telegraph Stock. 
— The Chippewa Indians killed 30 Sioux Indians on the 
1st inst., on Red River. 
— Extensive frauds have been discovered in Portugal in 
the manufactory pf wine. 
— Mr. Struss, of the Cincinnati Commercial, died very 
suddenly, on tire 19th inst. 
—The cotton mills generally in New England are run¬ 
ning but five days in a week. 
— About thirty artesian wells are now in successful opera¬ 
tion in Iroquois Co,, Illinois. 
— Boston intcuds to widen her business streets, at an ex¬ 
pense of half million of dollars. 
— Counterfeit dimes are in circulation. They are an ex¬ 
cellent imitation of the genuine. 
— The King of Naples has fortidden the practice of the 
photographic art in his dominion. 
— A boy was billed by a vicious ox at a slaughter-house 
in Philadelphia, Wednesday week. 
| §—A British paper predicts that before 1900, every wooden 
hull will disappear from the ocean. 
— The specie taken out from England by the last nine 
India packets amounts to £6,924,050. 
— Dr. Griswold, who Las figured a good deal as a literary 
man, is dangerously and hopelessly ill. 
— The potato rot appears to be very troublesome in the 
lower part of the State of New Jersey. 
— White oak staves for the West Indies have become 
quite an article of export from Detroit. 
— No new cotton lias yet reached New OrleamB. Last 
year, the first hale arrived on July 15th. 
— Several cases of yellow fever occurred on board the 
bark Oakland from Havana, at New York. 
— The original manuscript of tv alter Scott’s Peveril of 
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went into the cellar of the purifying house, to as¬ 
certain the cause of a leakage in one of the main 
pipes. A match was ignited in the cellar, when 
an instantaneous explosion occurred, tearing off 
the roof of the building, destroying six purifiers, 
and doing other damage, to the amount of $5,000. 
Both the men were thrown down, stunned and 
burned, but were not dangerously wounded. 
Stoppage of Cotton Mills. —The New York 
Journal of Commerce has been famished by a re¬ 
spectable Boston house with a list of looms, lately 
running on heavy cotton goods, which have been 
stopped, or are soon to be stopped, on account of 
the high price of the raw material, and the impos¬ 
sibility of realizing cost at present rates: 
Name of mills. No. of looms Description of goods, 
stopped. 
Lawrence,. 
<160 
. } 390 
oirid rills, 
on sheetings. 
Boott Company, ... 
. 4S0 
on drills and fine goods. 
Salomon Falls Co., . 
. 300 
on drills. 
Mass. Mill,. 
. 500 
on drills. 
Laconia Co.,. 
. 500 
on drills and fine goods. 
Portsmouth Co., ... 
. 200 
on sheetings. 
New Market Co.,... 
. 500 
on jeans and fine goods. 
Great Falls Co.,,,., 
. 450 
on fine goods. 
Suffolk Co.,. 
. 375 
on drills. 
Amoskeag Co.,. 
. 500 
on drills and sheetings, 
Lyman Mills,. 
175 
on sheetings. 
Pepperell Mills. 
530 
on drills, jeans, fine goods. 
Total looms,. 
.5,050 
In addition to this, about 800 looms on extra 
wide goods have been stopped, and we also learn 
of further stoppage in Rhode Island. 
Eastman’s Commekcial College. —This Insti¬ 
tution—located at Oswego, as advertised in our 
last number—is worthy the attention of yonng 
men desirous of perfecting themselves in Penman¬ 
ship and Book-Keeping. We learn from Mr. 
Eastman that a gentleman recently donated $400 
to his Institution, to encourage the Art of Writ¬ 
ing. The annual interest of tbe amount, or $30, is- 
to be expended in prizes to pupils, as follows:— 
“ To the student making the greatest proficiency 
in Penmanship in completing the Collegiate 
Course, or in six weeks after entering the course 
of study, is to be awarded three of the best jour¬ 
nals in the United StateB for a term of three years 
—one to be devoted to Agriculture, &o., one to the 
interest of the Merchant, and one to Mechanics.” 
The Committee have decided in favor of Moore's 
laws, and after acknowledging their validity, he Rural New-Yorker, Hunt’s Merchant’s Maoa 
calmly assures them that by the help of God he zinb, and the Scientific American, as the three 
will enforce them, in accordance with his oath of best journals. , 
office. -- 
Information has been received at Washington From Mexico.—N ew Orleans papers of the 12th 
of the seizure of the Island of Formosa by a inst., contain articles from Yern Cruz papers of the 
United States naval force. It is to be held as an 29th tilt, and 2d inst., in relation to the Tehuaute- 
indemnity for the losses sustained by American P ec route. They urge the Government to make 
citizens during the present war. The Island lies suitable provision for tbe opening of business, 
about ninety miles off tbe southeast coast of Chi; which is to take place iu October, and they say 
na, embraces an area of about 16,000 square miles, that everything is progressing in a satisfactory 
and contains over two millions of Chinese inbabi- manner. 
tauts, besides an unknown number of natives, who A favorable issue of tbe negotiations with Spain 
inhabit principally the eastern portion of the Isl- was much doubted. The defences of Yera Cruz 
and. Ihe Chinese who live on the Island are gen- an ^ the Castle of San Juan were beingpushed with 
erally of a bad character, as Formosa has for a much activity. Troops from distant provinces 
members of the House of Commons, to vote also 
for senators. Heretofore a property qualification 
has been necessary in the latter case. 
The adoption of the New Constitution in Iowa 
settles tbe fact that there is to be an election for 
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and members of 
the Legislature, on the Second Tuesday in October. 
The Democrats hold their State Convention to 
nominate State officers, at Iowa city, on the 26th 
instant. 
The St Louis Republican of Tuesday 18tb, gives 
the official returns from ninety counties in Mis¬ 
souri, and unofficial from the balance of the State, 
save four counties. Its footings show a majority 
of nine votes for Stewart. The counties to be 
heard from gave Buchanan about four hundred pin- 
jority last November. The Republican thinks 
Stewart’s election may be regarded as a fixed fact. 
The Democrats have elected their Governor 
in Tennessee by 10,000 majority—and a majority 
of the Legislature. Two U. 8. Senators will be 
chosen, to succeed Gov. Jones and John Bell. In 
Texas, the same party succeeded, in the late elec¬ 
tion, by 12,000 majority. The Legislature will also 
choose two Democratic U. S. Senators. 
The Minnesota Democratic Convention, on the 
19th inst., passed a resolution for the appointment 
of a committee to confer with the Republican 
Convention for the purpose of arranging for the 
submission of hut one constitution to the people. 
It is not probable that the members of the two 
bodies will meet in one Convention, but tbe great 
obstacle to the immediate settlement of the diffi¬ 
culties is removed. 
The Galveston Civilian gives returns from 98 
counties in Texas, showing the Democratic candi¬ 
date for Governor 4,600 ahead. 
Tub Iowa Republican Convention met on the 
l’Jthinst. Gen. Lowe was nominated for Governor, 
and Orin Faville for Lieut. Governor. 
Kansas Intelligence. 
The correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat 
Bays, that nearly two hundred indictments have 
been found against persons residing in the neigh¬ 
borhood of Topeka, and that six men had been 
arrested in Franklin county, by dragoons, and 
taken to the camp. Rnmor says that Gov. Walker 
is indignant at Judge Cato’s decision that pay¬ 
ment of taxes is the requisite qualification for 
voters. Ex-Gov. Robinson had been notified to 
appear at Leeompton on the 8th inst, on the old 
charge of usurpation of office. 
Gov. Walker, in official despatches recently re¬ 
ceived, sayB that on one point he has been grossly 
misrepresented, viz: as desiring that every man 
should vote who happened to be in the Territory 
on tbe day of the election for the ratification of 
the Constitution. This, he remarks, would be de¬ 
sirable, if there were conclusive evidence that all 
such persons were actual bona fide settlers; but 
the only sufficient and UBual proof of such a fact 
would be some previous residence. On this point, 
which is one of detail, he had never proposed to 
make suggestions to the Convention, although 
erally ot a bad character, as Formosa has for a much activity. Troops from distant provinces make suggestions to the Convention, although 
long time been used as a sortof penal colony for were concentrating at the cities of Mexico and when asked his opinion by members of that body, 
the Chinese Empire; the natives are half civilized Yera Cruz. \ ho had indicated aprevious residence of three or 
and cruel. 1 lie country is well watered and fer- The Texas news is unimportant. The papers six months; and that the B ame qualifications should 
tile, and produces great quantities of cotton, rice, abound in contradictory statements with regard be adopted in the Constitution iu regard not only 
with wheat^maize, and various tropical fruits. to the crops. to that, but to all future elections. 
politicians, fillibuaterers and others whose objeot 
is to draw a crowd. Quite a sensation was created 
there to-day by a meeting of the latter class, con¬ 
sisting of some 2C0 deserters from Walker’s Nic- 
araugan army, who had just arrived in the Tennes- 
’ see, friendless, moneyless and forlorn. The poor 
fellows bad gathered there to excite sympathy and 
the mute eloquence of their wasted forms, hag¬ 
gard visages and bruised and wounded limbs, 
moved the heart of many a foe to fillibusterism in 
their behalf. 
Never did we see so sorry a set. The diet of 
dead dogs, rata and other unclean beasts, upon 
which, they for some time subsisted, had furnished 
them with but little flesh to hide their broken 
bones. Although, as a general thing, they appear¬ 
ed to enjoy ordinary health, their bronzed and 
shrunken features told of no ordinary degree of ex¬ 
posure and suffering, while here and there was one 
whose corpBe-like countenance or gangreened 
limbs, prophesied of a speedy termination of his 
adventures. They were dressed, as a general thing, 
in nothing but filthy shirts and trowsers and 
slouched hatB of all descriptions, with bare feet 
encrusted with dirt and ornamented here and there 
with rags around the toes. 
Their case was presented to the crowd by vari¬ 
ous persons, assisted at intervals by some of tbe 
more tlnent among the unfortunates, and several 
hundred dollars was soon raised for them. They 
are said to be principally farmers from the West¬ 
ern States, who went to Nicaragua to settle, and not 
as soldiers, but were impressed by Walker, whom 
all Carso most bitterly. They are said to be anx¬ 
ious to return home, and they certainly looked it. 
One intelligent appearing man we found fast asleep, 
with his head pillowed upon a stone—dreaming, 
no doubt, of “ those he left behind him ” in his 
Western home. Have any of your readers sons 
whom they wish to cure of a taste for roaming?— 
Let them send for a returned flllibusterer and if It 
does not have a salutary effect, nothing will. 
Yours, Wilkirk. 
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Tremendous Storms. — A terrible hurricane 
passed over the town of Woodland, Wig., on tbe 
22 d inst-, destroying every house in tbe place. 
Mr. Fox, a Railroad station agent, was run over 
and instantly killed, while endeavoring to stop a 
train of freight cars which the wind had got in 
motion. The telegraph lines were prostrated, and 
the railroad track much injured. 
There was a tremendous storm at City Point, 
James River,Va., on the 18th inst The ships Rigo 
and Willard, and the schooners Jamestown, Susan, 
and Fanny Beach, were badly damaged. Loss 
about $5,000. 
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Death op Thomas Dick, LL. D.—Dr. Dick, the 
author of “The Christian Philosopher,” and many 
other works of areligio-6cientific character, which 
have been and are still very popular on both sides 
of the Atlantic, died at Broughty Ferry, near Dun¬ 
dee, Scotland, on Wednesday, the 29th of July, at 
the advanced age of eighty-three. Up to the close 
of his life he tvas an earnest devotee of the sciences, 
Astronomy being his favorite study, and that in 
which he was probably most at home. 
The Sardinian government has abrogated the 
usury laws: the Prussian, at the next session of 
the chambers, will do the same, at the instance of 
the Tribunals of Commerce. 
— Joseph Hull, of Ky., Las been tendered, but declined 
tho appointment of Commissioner of Patents. 
— Tho Cunard steamship Persia, Eailed from New York 
on the 19tb Inst., ami took $1,742,507 in specie. 
— The Bishop of London has issued a prayer to be used 
in churches and families for Englishmen in India. 
— A person swam over the St. Lawrence, opposite to 
Montreal, a distance of three miles, In 55 minutes. 
— The total mortality in iioston in July, was .".03, the 
smallest number during that month for many years. 
— A statue of John Adorns, for the Mount Auburn Ceme¬ 
tery ia now at Rome in readiness to ship for Boston. 
— Mr. Colliday died of bydrophol ia in Pliiladtdpbia on 
the 10th inst. fie was bitten by a small cur last March. 
— Letters from France say that the silk harvest there is 
from one-third to one-fourth below a fair ordinary crop. 
— New York city lias now a large force ol men at work 
on their new, and what will be, magnificent Central Park. 
— The Scgoine’a Point Hospital, on Staten Island, about 
which so much fuss has been made, is to be discontinued. 
— The Hudson River Railroad has ordered four wrought- 
iron ears to be made, and used on their road by way of trial. 
— The late Gov. Morey, when he left his New England 
home to study law, received from Ills father $13 as an outfit. 
— A Racks have been made on tbe chapel of the Mormons 
in Birmingham, England, and attempts mado to destroy it. 
— Professor Silliman had his pocket picked of a hundred 
dollars while attending the Scientific Convention at Mon¬ 
treal. 
—The steamer Fulton sailed on the 22d inst., for South, 
ampton and Havre, with 97 passengers and $597,000 in 
specie. 
— At Seville, Spain, recently, 25 “rebels ’’ were shot.— 
The soldiers fired so widely, that three spectators were also 
killed. 
— The splendid harvest weather in England continued 
until August 1st, and the wheat was being gathered iu fine 
order. 
— A dispatch to tbe London Post Bays Marshal Serrano 
was expected to leave for Cuba to take tho post of Captain 
General. 
— An explosion occurred in a coal mine at Ashton-under- 
Tyne, Eng., on the 31st ult, and about 40 of the miners 
were killed. 
— There is to bo a general R. R. Convention in N. Y. city, 
Sept, 1st, to take into consideration the present condition 
of tho system. 
— A settlement of free negroes has been established on 
the Popoloapaut, near Vera Cruz. They were emigrants 
from Louisiana. 
— A bear, weighing 200 pounds, was killed a few day s ago 
by Mr. Albert Dewitt in the woods near the Bleecker facto¬ 
ry, Fulton county. 
— A remarkable suufish, weighing 500 pounds, was lately 
left iu a hollow by the receding tide at Hempstead, Long 
Isiund, and captured. 
— The Rev. Dr. Cummings, of Genesee, has been unani¬ 
mously elected to tho Presidency of the Wesleyan Univer¬ 
sity at Middletown, Ct. 
— Another comet was discovered at tbe Paris Observato¬ 
ry, by M. Dion, on tho 28th ult., and on the 30th ult., by 
Prof. Habieht, of Gotha. 
— The jail of Lehigh Co., Pa., on tho 21st inst., night, 
experienced a general delivery, by tire escapo of all the 
prisoners, four in number. 
— The now wheat in France was proving of excellent 
quality, ami realized an advance of from one to two francs 
per hectolitre upon the old. 
— All tho members of the East India Co.’s civil service, 
at present on leave of absence, have, except the sick, been 
ordered to return forthwith. 
— Tho widowed mother ot F.ugeno Sue marriod Dr. 
Nathaniel Niles, formerly of Boston, and for several years 
Charge d’ Affairs at Sardinia. 
— A Miss Wood recently recovered ten thousand dollars 
damages for a breach of promise, from a faithless swain.— 
High price for wood, we think. 
