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Tria l Of New Advertisements this week. 
Young: Men—H. 0. Eastman. 
Notice—A. O. Moore. 
Toledo Ntir^erv Association—A. Fahnestock. 
XJesfc Bargain hi Y extern New York—Peter » an Den sen. 
BrneeA i;<iko TUqhlnmi .Nui&OTies—E. C. Frost. 
JlaUtoad Ia’UhIs—(T. Homy. 
The Pest Books to Sell— K-owlcr A Bells. 
DaguerrOHti <-rallei>—<1- i‘rocker. 
Blackharrios—O. P Bisscll. 
Improved Railroad —1. Dttin*. 
Dociosticatod I)W tor Sr,To—0. N. Bement. 
Emit Trees for Sdfr-C. F. Weaver. 
7,000 Pear Trees for Sale—1 • Bowen. 
For Fait on Time—John Weart^r. 
Farm RniicrintcTHTent-—•». Honrj. 
7 000 Peafli Tree k for Sale—Uurat office. 
Farm for Sale—Cliautn ^y C. W alker. 
To the Young BunUist—John I J iiin. 
Mechanics* Hiildo—-Tohn Phin. 
Catawba and Isabella—F.flvi #itl Taylor 
Our Adverti-hxc Friends will please note that., alrhongh 
(bo R<TRAt.ha? larcel.T increased in circulation dMingtho pact 
T ear, its advertising rates remnro unchanged Thus, while it is 
decidedly- trnn bKst Tucditim of At:! cultural ie*d Horticultural 
Advertisme in ‘bo Union, it is also one o» tliocifKArEST. Our 
terms will remain the same as at present until the close ot the 
present vcst and Tolume, when they will probably be materially 
toeiease'd to correspond with our greatly augmented circulation. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., SEPTEMBER 5, 1857. 
Monetary Matters.— Where are we Drifting? 
Tee week past has been an exciting one in 
financial circles—failures and rumors of failures 
being the topic which moat interests both press 
and people. These have been for all sums, rang¬ 
ing from several millions of dollars to as many 
thousands, and have affected all classes—railroad 
corporations, Btock gamblers, bankers, merchants, 
mechanics, &c. The Now York Independent pub¬ 
lishes an individual list which numbers fifty-six, as 
the work of one week, ami some of these are of 
such magnitude that it is impossible to estimate 
the disastrous results wbich must inevitably result 
therefrom. Under the depressing effects created 
by the instability of our monetary institution?, and 
the feeling of insecurity pervading the entire mer¬ 
cantile community, it is natural to inquire why is 
it thus?—to trace from cause to effect,—and seek 
the remedy therefor. 
The first great evil under which we struggle 3a 
the excess of Imports over Exports. For the 
seven months, ending July Slst, our imports, at 
New York alone, amounted to the enormous sum 
of $150,872,000, while the exports for the 6ame 
period were but $38,725,000 of domestic, produce. 
Our imports arc $18,000,000 in excess of the same 
time last year, while our exports are about $0,000,. 
000 less. At the rate we are going on, there will 
be a heavy balance against us at the end of the 
year,—and, owing to the fine condition of the cropB 
throughout Europe, we must “square accounts” 
with specie. 
The second great evil ia the fraudulent inflation 
of every species of stock. Wall street has been 
charged with all the crime of this character, and 
all harm that has resulted therefrom has been 
attributed to its denizens, until,—in the eagerness 
with which we watch financial operators there,— 
those who live by peculation throughout the 
country, have had a clear field for the transaction 
of their nefarious schemes. We are not apologists 
for the iniquities committed by the brokers and 
Btock-gamblers of that famouB locality, hut the 
“bulls” and “bears” are not confined within its 
precincts; they wander np and down our land with 
scent as keen and appetite as ravenous as was ever 
possessed by the most eoullesB of the Wall street 
operators. They form a part of the “ rolling stock” 
of almost every railroad in the country. These 
concerns declare dividends—frequently ae high as 
ten per cent— when, if the trnth was known, they 
were every day losing money, and at the same time 
were in debt for amounts exceeding the entire 
worth of the road. These dividends elevate the 
stock, giving it a fictitious valuation; it is put 
forth into the market and immense amounts of it 
sold. In a short time a leak is discovered,— an 
examination is instituted, and the whole affair col¬ 
lapses—stock that yesterday brought a premium 
of 5 or 16 per cent., to-day is estimated at 75 or 80 
cents below par. We are not aware of any mode 
by which this rascality can he punished. If the 
authors could be made to serve an apprenticeship 
in a State Institution and learn a trade at which to 
earn an honest livelihood, it would be for the ad¬ 
vantage of all. Railroads thus conducted affect 
those properly managed—the good suffers with the 
worthless. The only way for buyers to act, is to 
stand aloof—let. all kinds of stock alone until its 
true value can be ascertained — pay no regard to 
the apparent price of anything, he its dividends 
ever so great, its business ever so flourishing, or 
profits ever ho large. This is the only safe rule; 
and if pursued, those destined to tumble will fall, 
and that speedily. 
A third evil is our extravagance. This last is 
observable in all departments of life. Enter into 
what business we will, either as individuals or in 
a corporative capacity, the amount of capital pos¬ 
sessed seems to he no guide in its progress. A 
writer on this subject says:—“A railroad is to be 
built. About half money enough is subscribed, 
and the rest is made on credit. The debt finally 
swallows up everything. A man undertakes to 
build a house. His plan at first is modest and rea. 
sonahle, But aB the work goes on his ideas en. 
large, and before be gets through, he finds that he 
has been constructing a palace, and he muBt either 
sell it or live under the embarrassment of a heavy 
debt, If he concludes to live in it at all hazards, 
his troubles have hut begun. He must furnish it 
in a style corresponding to its costliness,and here 
is another cause of vexation.” Who can tell how 
much Fashion and Folly has had to do with the 
suspensions or failares of the last six months? A 
case in point. A New York paper notices the 
“turn-out” of a young gentleman, (a son of a 
Broker who has recently failed,) at Saratoga. He 
appeared at that famous watering place with oue 
of the host teams of fast horsc3 seen on the drives 
in that vicinity, and having the reputation of being 
flush of money, was quite the liou among the la¬ 
dies. While he is flourishing in clover, his father, 
who was, he supposed, to supply the means for his 
extravagance, is obliged to suspend his business, 
and involves thousands in his crash. The picture 
is still incomplete. The father was arrested on the 
28th ult. and imprisoned for fraud. A desire for 
display is ruining our people. 7 en thousand dol¬ 
lars for an evening party ia becoming no uncom¬ 
mon expenditure among our republican nabobs .— 
And the press, it, too, must cast aside all its Amer¬ 
ican simplicity and transport its readers amid the 
glare and glitter of "fashionable society.” The 
details of these gatherings, ub given in our New 
York papery are detrimental to the best interests 
of the masses, and destructive of all that is neces¬ 
sary to build and constitute true, genuine homes. 
It is unnecessary for us to draw any conclusions 
from the facts presented. To the thinking mind 
these will present themselves, and suggest the only 
remedy applicable. 
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Explosion op a Powder Mill. —A terrible ex¬ 
plosion occurred at Wilmington, Del., on the 22d 
ult. Aiexis Dupont, assisted by seven workmen, 
was removing a large and heavy box from a Build- 
mg which had been used since 1812 as a powder 
house. The box coming ia contact with the wall, 
caused friction, producing fire, and an explosion 
followed, burning all hands in a shocking manner. 
Mr. Dupont leaped into a race near by, and the 
others made every effort to extinguish the fire on 
their clothes. Mr. P. having succeeded in extin¬ 
guishing the lire on his clothes, hastened to see if 
the press roof had caught fire. As he approached, 
a terrible explosion took place, shattering the 
building to atoms. By the flying fragments Mr. 
Dupont had his right thigh fractured, three of his 
ribs broken, and one of his lungs perforated. On 
the 23d Mr. Dupont, Anthony Dougherty and Ed¬ 
ward Hurst died. Another individual, named 
Louis Yache, was mortally wounded. 
Sugar and Molasses ry the Acre. —The Bos¬ 
ton Journal states that there is now stored on the 
Boston wharf. South Boston, in bond, over six acres 
of these two articles. There is a similarly large 
stock in all the principal cities of the United 
States, showing clearly that it was not a scarcity 
of these articles, now become a necessary of life, 
that has run np the price more than double with¬ 
in a year. There i3 now in Boston, New York, 
Philadelphia and Baltimore, more than three times 
the stock of sugar that there was a year since.— 
The Philadelphia Enquirer Bays that a wholesale 
dealer in that city reports that he has not sold a 
tenth part of the amount of these articles this 
year, compared with former sales. 
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Cost hu the Atlantic Telegraph Cable.— 
The partial failure of the Inter-Oceanic Telegraph 
will entail great loss on the Company. The cable 
cost, simply for the manufacture, $1,044,310, at 
contract prices—2,500 miles of deep sea cable at 
$469 48 per mile; ten miles of deep sea core, with 
steel wire covering for mid-ocean, at $1,403 per 
mile; and 25 miles of shore-ends at $1,210 per 
mile. Besides this great sum for cable only, there 
has been a vast contingent outlay for apparatus, 
machinery on board steamers, alterations of the 
Niagara, and innumerable other expenses, which 
are not yet reckoned. 
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Later from California. —The following is a 
copy of a despatch received at New Orleans, on 
the 30th ult:—The steamship Empire City has ar¬ 
rived here from Key West* all welL The steam¬ 
ship Illinois, from Aapinwall, with 500 passengers 
and $1,600,000 in Bpecie, would leave Havana for 
New York on the 30th ult. She had been on Col¬ 
orado Reef. 70 miles west of Havana for three days, 
bnt after throwing off 200 tuns of coal she got off 
without iDj ary. She was hauled off by the steam¬ 
ship Empire City, assisted by the war steamer 
Blanco-de-Gray. 
The Mobmon Alphabet.— The new “Deseret 
Alphabet” is completed, and a font o^Pica type 
has been cast in St. LouiB. Specimens of the type 
are published in the St. LouiB Democrat, hut are, 
of course, unintelligible to Gentiles. The type¬ 
founders have supplied the Mormons with moulds 
and other apparatus for re-casting their old metal, 
bo that the Deseret News will probably hereafter 
he a profound mystery, at least in part, to ail but 
the initiated. The new characters are forty-one 
in number, and bear a striking resemblance to 
those of the Ethiopic alphabet 
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Grain Crop of Minnesota. —The St Paul Ad¬ 
vertiser estimates the grain crop of Minnesota, 
the present year, as follows: — Wheat, 1,800,000 
bushels; corn, 1,500,000; oats, 1,700,000 buahcla.— 
In addition to this it puts the yield of potatoes at 
800,000 bushels, and other prod nets of the farm, 
in proportion—“ an aggregate,” says the Adverti¬ 
ser, “nearly sufficient to feed the large annual in¬ 
crease of population—which haB heretofore made 
ua dependent on the neighboring States to supply 
the deficit.” 
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Bank Failures. —The following banks, it is re¬ 
ported, have failed to redeem:—Kanawha Bank, 
Va.; Farmer’s Bank, Wiokford, R. L; Tiverton 
Bank, R. I.; Rhode Island Central Bank; Woob- 
ter Bank, Gt.; Warren Co. Bank, Pa.; Farmers’& 
Drovers’ Bank, Waynesburgh, Pa.; Fort Plain 
Bank, N. Y.; Ontario Bank, N. Y.; Reciprocity 
Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.; Hollister Bank, Buffalo, N. 
Y. A large number are in dubious position—how 
they will work oat remains to he seen. 
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Death of a Celebrated Horse. — The re¬ 
nowned imported stallion, “Glencoe,” died at the 
stable of Mr. Keen Richards, in Scott county, Ixy., 
on the 24th ult He was a splendid racer in Eng¬ 
land, In his younger days. He waa 26 years old. 
Mr. Richards purchased him a few months Bince 
| for $3,000. 
Correspondence of the Rural. 
McGregor's Landing, Ia., Aug. 25, 1857. 
Dear Rural:— Leaving Chicago on the 13th 
inst, by way of the Chicago and Galena Union Rail¬ 
road, your correspondent passed north-westerly 
through the counties of Upper Illinois, striking 
the Mississippi at Dnnleith, in the north-west cor¬ 
ner of the State, and opposite Dubuque. We 
crossed a magnificent prairie country, watered by 
rather Bluggish streams, and interspersed with 
groves and patches of timber, sufficient, it seems 
to me, if properly husbanded, for all the wants of 
the inhabitants. 
The wheat crop was magnificent, fully ripe, and 
waiting for the harvester. Not over one-third of 
it was cut, and it seems to me a vast amount of it 
must inevitably waste for want of being gathered 
in time, particularly as the weather since has been 
exceedingly nnpropitiouB. We observed a large 
number of reapers engaged in the grain fields, 
driven by four horses invariably. The Illinoisans 
do not appear to do a “one-horse” business raising 
grain at present, whatever may he their future fate 
when the midge shall have taken possession of 
their fields. I made many inquiries concerning 
the crop, and the answer was universal in favor of 
a large yield. No winter wheat is raised in these 
regions. 
The road passes through several thriving places, 
among which may be mentioned Elgin, Rockford, 
Freeport, Galena, Arc., each and all sanguine that 
their place, especially, is to be one of the greatest 
cities of the West The confidence of our friends 
out here, of the progress of their own locality, is an 
exponent of the universal elasticity of spirit in all 
new and thriving communities. They are very 
apt to imagine their own town to be the centre of 
the world, around which Bach places as New York, 
Boston and New Orleans, revolve like planets 
arflund the son. 
The "Father of Waters” did not strike me so 
majestically as I expected. It is perhaps half a 
mile wide, and at this season somewhat shallow. 
All the steamers are built exceedingly flat, aud 
carry their boilers and machinery above deck. 
Dubuque, situated on the western or Iowa side 
of the river, is an active place of twelve or fifteen 
thousand inhabitants, (they themselves rate it at 
eighteen to twenty thousand,) and is manifestly 
destined to go ahead. The harbor is being dredg¬ 
ed to a greater depth, and the low grounds in the 
vicinity are being graded into streets, and elevated 
above high water. The Duhnque and Pacific Rail¬ 
road, passing westward across Iowa to the Mis¬ 
souri atSioux City,isuowrnnning thirty-five miles, 
aud another section will be completed by Novem¬ 
ber. Dubuque is built under the bluffs whichhere 
rise precipitously from one hundred to two hun¬ 
dred feet. They are very picturesque, the rocks 
in many places assuming the appearance of round 
towers and artificial battlements, so symmetrical 
and regular, that it is difficult to believe they are 
not, in many instances, gigantic fortifications.— 
The railroad winds up a ravine at a rapid grade, 
until, at the distance of a few miles, it reaches the 
elevated platean of the prairie country, after which 
no farther obstacle is presented. 
Iowa is a magnificent State. There may have 
been a better country made, but my eyes never ex¬ 
pect to see it, if I travel from the rising to the set. 
ting sun. Its disadvantages, however, must not be 
lost sight of—its distance from a sea-board mar¬ 
ket—the severity of its winters —the scarcity of 
its timber; but for grain and grass—for the beauty 
and fertility of its rolling prairies—for the salu¬ 
brity of its climate—lor the intelligence, industry, 
and frank, open-handed hospitality of its inhabi¬ 
tants, it is unsurpassed. There are rogues in Iowa 
as in all other States, and the comparative eparse- 
ness of the inhabitants has offered facilities for 
their operations in passing counterfeit money, 
ranning off horses, &o., &c., which has led to acts 
of lawless violence in punishing the offenders, 
which every friend of lav/ and order there as else¬ 
where, regrets; but the people, as a whole, have 
noble hearts and generous hands. 
It ia difficult for one who has been reared In a 
wooded country, where forty years are necessary 
to clear a farm of trees aud stumps, to believe, as 
he sees a field of fifty acres of wheat, corn and oats 
ripening before him in the sun, that three years 
before it was the solitary aud undisputed haunt of 
the wild fowl and the deer; that the badger found 
a home unmolested upon the prairie, and the fox 
dug bis hole unscared; hut so it is everywhere in 
the State, and the wonderful transformation is 
going on to-day. 
One thing I am alraid Iowa must forego, and 
that is fruit. I do not believe that anything but 
apples, the hardiest kinds of cherries, and some 
other similar fruits, can he raised here, aud possi¬ 
bly not even these. The experiment has not yet 
been fairly and thoroughly tested, but looks that 
way. Thirty-five to forty degrees below zero iB a 
temperature not to be endured, either by the writer 
or the peacheB and apricots that grow in his 
garden. _ . ^_ w. 
Export of Treasure from Mexico.— Accord¬ 
ing to the official Custom House report, the exports 
of the precious metals from Yera Cruz, for the first 
five months of the present year, were $5,777,326, 
of which all hut $161,281 were in Bilver. The ex¬ 
porta in June are not officially statei 1 , but they 
were over two millions, making a total for the ex¬ 
ports from Yera Cruz, alone, during the first half 
of the present year, of nearly eight million dollars. 
Those from Tampico, Acapulco, Mazatlan, &c., 
would swell the amount to not less than 10,000,000. 
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The American Camels. —The camels first im¬ 
ported, are, it is reported, employed with tolerable 
success in transporting supplies between St. An¬ 
tonio and Camp Yerdo, Texas. Three little ones 
were horn in March, and five or six more births 
are expected. The principal remaining point is 
the character of thB Btock that may he produced. 
The officers in charge are, however, sanguine that 
it will fully equal that of the parent stock, and 
may, by proper attention, be more highly de¬ 
veloped. 
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The Canadian Seat of Government,— The 
Montreal Transcript says that private letters re¬ 
ceived by the Arabia, state that Her Majesty has 
selected Montreal as the permanent seat of Gov¬ 
ernment, but that the official announcement of ihe 
fact will not be made nntil the Provincial Parlia¬ 
ment again assembles. 
Climatology ok the United States, and of the Tem¬ 
perate Latitudes of the North American Continent. By 
I.oiun IIi.odgkt. Philadelphia: J. B. I.ippincott & Co. 
Tins is a large octavo volume Of 540 pnges, filled with a 
vast amount, of matter, from authentic source?, on the 
climate of the Northern Hemisphere from latilute 20 de¬ 
grees North, and especially on that of our own country, 
extending, as it (loos, across the continent and of such 
breadth of latitude. It contains the mean temperature of 
a multitude of place a for the several mouths of the year, for 
the four seasons, and for the year itself, with their latitude, 
longitude and elevation above the pea, as well as the au¬ 
thority for these facts, and the mean fall of water in rain 
and snow. Alt this is illustrated to the eye by Isothermal 
aud Rain Charts, one of each for the Northern Hemisphere, 
and also each of these Charts for the four seasons aud for 
the year, over the United States. At page 210 is the Chart 
which Bbows the line ol equal mean annual tempera¬ 
ture at well-known places from the Pacific Ocean west 
across Asia over Europe to the Atlantic Ocean, and then 
across the Atlantic and North America to the Pacific on its 
West. In respect to temperature, a matter of so much con¬ 
sequence in climate, moTe information is thus pictured be¬ 
fore the eye and ohtaiued with high pleasure by this mode 
in a few moments, than would otherwise require days ot 
attention. The same may he said in respect, to the knowl¬ 
edge derived from the Rain Chart on page 220. Then, in 
respect to the United States, the five C-haits of each kind 
are rich and full in the resulta already obtained by a host 
of observers, The work is the only treasure on Climatol¬ 
ogy accessible by our citizens, aud should find a place in a 
multitude of oiii libraries, public and private. 
Maury's Wind and Current Charts. Gales in the At¬ 
lantic, Observatory, Washington—1857. 
To us landsmen, these Charts are a great curiosity.— 
nere wo have the Atlantic Ocean, divided into spaces of 
five degrees ou a side, forming squares near the Equator, 
aud oblongs both north and south of it, and in the great 
Lues of commerce or portions commonly passed over by 
vessels ou their outer passage or their homewards return. 
On those, the coloring shows that in this part a storm may 
be expected once in six days, in another, once in six to ten 
days, and in another, once in fourteen days. One Chart is 
drawn too, for each month in ihe year, ns the places and 
frequency of stonns vary in different seasons of the year. 
The knowledge is derived from the log-books of naviga¬ 
tors, and tlio Charts are, therefore, the delineation before 
the 0)11 or actual experience and future anticipations. To 
seamen, the Charts have an interest unknown to those who 
have never heard the howling? of ocean gales. But words 
arc unnecessary in the case. Lieut, IiIauky has performed 
and is performing a work of high commercial value to the 
dwellers on the land, as well as to those traverse the “ vasty 
deep.” The world acknowledges him as a benefactor.— d. 
The Westminster Itevietc for July, has been received.— 
The •‘Table of Contents” exhibit ten articles, as follows:— 
Ancient Political Economy; English Courts of Law; Sui¬ 
cide in Life and literature; French Politics; Pa6l and 
Present; The Sonnets of Shakspcare; “ Manifest Destiny” of 
the American Union; The Testimony of the P.ocks; Naples 
arid Diplomatic Intervention; The Life of George Stephen¬ 
son; Contemporary Literature. Tho article on the Ameri¬ 
can Union, in which tho author attempts to show that we 
are in the midst of a revolution which ia destined to prove 
the ruin of our Republic, Is worthy of special perusal by 
Americans. For sale by Dewey. 
Items of News. 
The emigration from Germany to America lias 
taken an increased start this summer, 10,000 able- 
bodied men having departed from the duchy of 
Mecklenburg Schwerin alone. 
Col. Benton has written a review of the Dred 
Scott decision. He takes ground with Judges 
Curtis and McLean, and against the majority of the 
Court. The book is now in press. 
Ir is a curiouB fact that in the ffrst territorial leg¬ 
islature of Alabama, the upper branch of that body, 
or the Senate, was composed of one member.— 
James Titus sat alone in the Chamber and decided 
upon the acts of the lower bouse. 
The merchandise transported across the Plains 
annually from the States for New Mexico amounts 
in value to between six and seven millions of dol¬ 
lars ! This is independent of the vast stock trade 
and overland travel to California, and the value of 
the United States mail. 
The Elora (C. W.) Backwoodsman warns its read¬ 
ers against taking bogus money, and states that a 
number of American “ quarters,” dated 1853, and 
an excellent imitation of the genuine coin, are in 
circulation ia that neighborhood. They are man¬ 
ufactured, it is believed, in the vicinity of Vienna, 
Canada West 
It is stated that the work of constructing the 
Minnesota and Pacific Railroad will soon be com¬ 
menced, and that from 600 to 1,000 men will be 
placed upon the road between St Paul and St An¬ 
thony this fall. The ground will be broken as 
early as October, aud by summer the iron horse 
will bound across the prairies like the wind. 
It ia a remarkable fact that there has been a rise 
in the Ohio river in every month since it broke up 
in February last, and there has been a good stage 
of water in the channel. In despite of all that, 
there never has been a season when business was 
so dull. 
Hon. John Trumbull Van Alien, died at his 
residence, near Poughkeepsie, on the 22d ult. Mr. 
Van Allen was well known in the commercial and 
political circles ol the State. He held a diplomatic 
position at Ecuador under an appointment by 
President Taylor. On the election of President 
Pierce he retired from public life, and spent some 
time abroad. For the past five years he has been 
living in a quiet country village in this State, in 
comparative seclusion. 
The haying harvest in Connecticut is quite late 
this year. Some farmers in Windham, Tolland and 
Hartford counties commenced cutting last week. 
The quantity of the crop is very large, but in qual¬ 
ity it is inferior. Corn and potatoes promise well. 
In Cincinnati, the other day, a man appeared 
drawing a wagon in which were seated his wife 
and five children. He was a Kentucky emigrant 
to Illinois, aud was, owing to the sickness of his 
family, removing back to Kentucky. His horse 
had diBd, and ho had harnessed himself in. Ho 
had drawn his wagon thus over 40 miles. 
Gen. Scott has arrived at Washington in an¬ 
swer to a telegraph dispatch. He is to consult 
with the Secretary of War in reference to military 
movements in Kansas and Utah. 
Tk 001'8 for India. —The steamer Constitution, 
of the Belgium line, and the City of Washington, 
of the Liverpool line, the latter now iu New York, 
have been chartered by the British Government to 
carry troops to India. 
— Picking cotton has fairly commenced in the interior of 
Texas. 
— Nearly SO,000 people ride every day in New York city 
stages. 
— There are 2,022 paupers in the Philadelphia alms 
house. 
— All red tinted $6's on the Lee Bank, Mass., are coun¬ 
terfeits. 
— Chicago, by a census just takeD, contains 120,000 in¬ 
habitants. 
— Four females committed suicide in Philadelphia the 
past week. 
— Hogs are said to be dying of “ hog cholera,” in Carroll 
county, Md. 
— Hostilities hnve again broken out between the Sioux 
and Chippewas. 
— The yearly expenses of the Chicago Post-Office amount 
to about $74,000. 
— The potato rot has made its appearance in many of the 
fields iu Danvers. 
— There were 184 deaths in New York last week of 
cholera infantum. 
— Some of the South Jersey papers deny that the poach 
crop is a failure, 
— The National notel property at Washington, is lying 
idle and going to waste. 
— George Bancroft, the historian, is spoken of as the 
next Minister to England. 
—A project is on foot to tunnel the Hudson river at 
Albany, instead of bridging it. 
— A negro who had been guilty of several murders was 
lynched ia Arkansas recently. 
— Last week there were 700 deaths in New York city 
against 636 the week previous. 
— Emigration reduced the population of Ireland over 
half a million from 1851 to 1857. 
— The “ Great Eastern" steamship will cost, when com¬ 
pleted, threeYnillions of dollars. 
— A strawberry measuring six inches in circumference 
was raised this year in California. 
— Nathan Burlingame, a soldier of the revolution, died 
at Windsor, N. Y., aged 90 years. 
— Washington Irving, though 75 years of age, is still 
vigorous, both in Intellect and body. 
— The steamship Catawba, at New York from Havana, 
reports sugars drill and prices declining. 
— It is said that the estate of tho late Ex-Gov. Sprague, 
of Rhode'Island, amounts to over $6,000,000. 
— The New Orleans journal ol‘ the latest dates reiterate 
that thejhealtb of that city was never better. 
Rufus W. Griswold, the Poet, died in New York on 
the 2Sth ult., after a lingering illness, aged 42. 
— According to the latest advices, the harvests in every 
European country, promise unusual abundance. 
— Sugars and molasses have declined considerably in 
price,*and> further decline is strongly apprehended. 
— Therefore now over a hundred female practitioners, 
regularly'educate'! physicians, in the United Stales. 
—The first bale of new Sea Island cotton was received at 
Savannah on the 26th ult. It was raised in Florida. 
— Edward S. Mylott, Assistant Geological Surveyor, of 
Ky., wusjlrowncd in the Ohio Rapids a few days ago. 
— The East Tennesseean says the wheat crop in that 
section'heats anything of the kind ever known there. 
— AJbook of American songs, edited and arranged by- 
Howard Paul, has recently been published in England. 
— The last nine- India ffiail-j-aclm* < which sailed from 
England,'took out specie to the amount of $34,000,000. 
— Mortimer Livingston, one of the most wealthy ship¬ 
pers iu N. Y., died on the S3d ult., cf apoplexy, aged 53. 
— A convict was discharged from Sing Sing prison, on 
the 5th ult., who has spent thirty years in Slate Prison. 
—The Pacific Railroad is being graded at the rate of two 
mileB per week. Five hundred hands were at work on it. 
— Mr. Ten Broeck has sreured the ■services of Charlton, 
the fortunate rider nt •* Blink Bonny," on the Berby Day. 
— A sportsman of Now Jersey has a cat w-hich he has 
trained„to accompany him on all his hunting expeditions. 
— In New York and Brooklyn one hundred liquor dealers 
have been arrested for refusing to shut up shops on Sunday. 
— The Nantucket Minor says tho potato rot is very pre¬ 
valent on that Island. Some fields will not pay for digging- 
— A sale of $18,000 worth of mules was made in Lynch¬ 
burg, Va,, cm the 25th ult., at from $145 to $160 per head. 
— The Albany Journal records no less xban 7S sudden 
deaths and fatal casualties, culled from one day’s exchanges. 
— A parly of gentlemen recently took one thousand and 
five trout, in ten hours, at Moose Hillock, Haverhill, N. H. 
— More than 28,000,000 of specie have thus far in 1857, 
been exported from N. Y., an excess of 8,000,000 over last 
year. 
— The crops of Minnesota, notwithstanding the ravages 
of the grasshoppers, were never better than tho present 
year. 
— During the first 24 days of August there were receiv¬ 
ed at Augusta over the Georgia Railroad 269,768 bushels of 
wheat. 
— Joseph Hayes, an old farmer in Lawrenceburg, Indi¬ 
ana, sold 30,000 bushels of corn last week for 80 cents per 
bushel. 
— Mr. Roberts, of Aurora, Maine, shot a bear coming out 
of his cellar one night last week, that weighed over 400 
pounds. 
— Charles K. Sinclair, has been appointed one of the 
associate Justices of Superior Court of Utah, vice Stiles, 
removed. 
— A severe drouth prevails on the frontier of Texas.— 
The accounts of tho cotton crop in the interior are en¬ 
couraging. 
_Judge Taney was appointed to the Supreme Bench, 
by Fresident Jackson, in 1836. He has held his great of¬ 
fice, 21 years. 
— Mrs. Porker, an old lady 99 years of age, waa burned 
to death at Port Richmond, on Sunday week, by a Uuid 
lamp accident. 
— Extensive and valuable discoveries of coal and iron 
liwvo recently been made in Louisiana, and near 1 icksburgh, 
in Mississippi. 
— Alexander Chambers, a resident of Jefferson Co., In¬ 
diana, died, ti few days since, in the one hundred and second 
year of hishge. 
— Sales of apples have been made in Marietta, O., of en¬ 
tire orchards at $1 25 to $1 40 per barrel, delivered on the 
bank of the Ohio. 
— The Western Recorder, a Baptist paper, contains an 
account of the expulsion of a member of that church, on 
charge ot laziness. 
_qq,„ Portuguese government has invited tenders for 
the construction of an artificial port at the Island of St. 
Michael, in the Azores. 
_The salmon fishery has proved a complete failure, on 
the Labrador coast thiB season, and tho other fisheries are 
less prosperous than usual. 
— Tlio Minister of War iu Prussia, has authorized the 
employment of soldiers in getting in tho crops* similarly to 
the system adopted in France. 
_Mr. Benjamin Pickard died, aged 101 years, at Paris, 
C. E. Ho was a Canada Loyalist, aud served in tho British 
army during the American Revolution. 
— The organ-grinders at Boston, do a flourishing busi¬ 
ness. Tlio Sicilian Consul at that port has upwards of $16- 
000 in his hands, entrusted to him by them. 
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