Pl/'UW'kl'^niOM'W'liKiWWVbAll'MWUWl/'U'U’W 1 
very little said, except that, each one cheered his 
fellow comrade on. Courage was thus kept up for 
two or three hours* auu 1 think for that space of 
time no ono bad drowned; hnt three who could 
not swim became exhausted. 
After this, gradually one by one passed away to 
eternity. The hope that boats would he sent to ub 
from the two vessels we bad spoken, soon fled from 
ns, and onr trust was alone in Providence—and 
what better trust conld you or I ask for? I saw 
my comrades sink fast, and at one o’clock that 
night I was nearly alone upon the ocean, some 200 
miles from Land. I heard, however, shouts from 
all that could do so, that were not iar from me, but 
I could not see them. Within an hour i>om this 
time I saw a vessel, which I judge ?» he about 
one mile from roe. Taking fret* to ige 1 struck 
out for the vessel and reached r : • y ex¬ 
hausted, and they drew me on Li ar d of it by ropes. 
It proved to be a Norwegian bark from Belize 
Honduras, bound for Falmouth. Eng. 1 found on 
board of her some three of my comrades, and at 
9i o’clock next morning we had 49 noble fellows 
on board, and these are all I know of having been 
saved. We stayed about the place until we thought 
Financial News 
Items of News 
The Albany Journal corrects the erroneous state¬ 
ment of the circulation of the banks for which 
securities have been surrendered, and gives the 
figures from the Department: 
Burned circulating notes of the Free Banks from 
August 16 to September 16tb,.$950,000 
Stocks surrendered during same period,,. 601 008 
Bonds and Mortgages,. lioiooo 
Total securities surrendered,.$611,000 
In addition to the above, the Incorporated Banks 
have returned. 160,000 
They have received new notes,. ..... 60,000 
$219,000 
The whole reduction of circulation is §2.009,000 
in one month; and the means of the banks have 
beeu strengthened by the sale of one half a mil¬ 
lion of stock* and over one hundred thousand of 
real estate securities. 
The Banker’s Magazine states that in the year 
185G, the whole amount of specie in circulation 
wus 5191.000,000; the amount of specie in the 
TEEMS OF THE RUSAL. 
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ihelr aid will bv arawbiUj appreciated. 
Reports of potato rot 
are now running in Arkansas. 
A Nicaragua recruiting rendezvous has been opened 
, at Mobile. 
— As a nation we have run in debt this year alone about 
$125,000,(100. 
— Fx-Gov. Bussell, of Norwalk, Ct., died on the 5th inst. 
aged 75 years. 
— A lot of new tobacco has been sold at Petersburg, Va., 
for $4 per cwt. 
— The Oiliest man in onr army is a Georgian, standing 6 
feet 6 1-5 inches. 
— Five hundred troops left Leavenworth on the 9th inst., 
for New Mexico. 
— Specie in New York-Sub-treasury $10,684,960 89; 
bunk* 12,000,000. 
— There are in New York 492 establishments where cloth¬ 
ing is manufactured. 
— Thomsa H. Holt has entered upon his duties as Com¬ 
missioner of Patents. 
— The Mormon, Biigbam Young’s organ in N. Y. city 
has been discontinued. 
—The Interest on the State debt of Virginia, amounts 
to $1,700,000 annually. 
Hon. B. F. Angel, new minister to Sweden, sailed from 
N. Y. on the 19th inst. 
lion. Martin W. Bates, U. S. Senator from Delaware, 
is reported seriously ill. 
— There Is a legalized company for the manufacture of 
counterfeit wines in Paris. 
— A hotel in San Francisco, that once let for $72,000 a 
year, is now let at $7,000. 
— During the last ten years, the public debt of England 
has been increased $215,000,000. 
— The steamship Kangnroo sailed, on the 17th inst., for 
Liverpool, with 242 passengers. 
— A negro woman in Louisville, recently bled to death, 
from having a tooth extracted. 
— The London Times says it will cost $600,000,000 to pnt 
down the insurrection tn India. 
— Two hundred and fifty acres of land near Stillwater, 
Min., recently sold Tor $24,000 cash. 
— A copper nugget weighing 8,600 pounds has been ship¬ 
ped from CHIT Mine, Lake Superior. 
— The Catena, III., Courier pays potatoes are now selling 
in this city for twenty cents per bushel. 
— The land-office for the Northwestern district has been 
removed from Ojibway to Ottertail city. 
— A fisherman on the Potomac caught in that river, a few 
days since, a turtle weighing 366 pounds. 
— The Emperor of France pardoned over 900 persons on 
the occasion of the fetes of the 15th ult. 
— An oven which cost $40,000, and is to babe 500 barrels 
of flour per day, is being erected at Chicago. 
— The Freshman class at Yale College, numbers 115, 
which is smaller than for several years past. 
— Louisiana promises 300,000 hogsheads of sugar against 
less than one-third of that amount last year. 
— Mrs. Hayes, of Union Co., near Makanda, IU., died on 
the 18th ult, from the effect* of a spider bite. 
— The work of laying the foundation of the new Custom 
House walls, in Detroit, has been commenced. 
— The number of member* of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in the tj. S., is estimated nt 1,353,912. 
— Several marine disasters are reported at Key West and 
the Bahamas, involving, however, no loss of life. 
— Jos. Fulton, of Pbelpe, Ontario Co., has given $25,000 
to fomid a professorship in a new college in Liberia. 
— The Bauk of Commerce, N. Y., discounted business 
paper, on the 18th inat., to the araonnt of $600,000. 
— Dr. Wayland is urging the Baptist churches to try 
anew their ancient practice of congregational singing. 
— Some women vote in Kentucky. Every widow having 
a child between 6 and 17 year*, can enjoy that privilege. 
— According to a recent censu.-, the population of the 
Swiss Canton of Berne, is now only 449,129—7,000 less than 
in 1S50. 
— Five half barrels of Syrup, made from Chinese Sugar 
Cane, were sold in NewOrloans recently at 45 cents per 
gallon. 
— Rev. A. Proal, D. D., long Secretary of the Diocesan 
Convention of Western N. Y., died on the 14th inst., aged 
61 years. 
— An effort is being made by some benevolent minded 
person* to get up a library for the use oi the prisoners at 
Sing Sing, 
— It said that all the boasted wealth already obtained 
from California and Australia, would go into a safe nine 
feet square. 
— A band of Mormons, numbering six or eight, have lo¬ 
cated near Racine, Win., and are without any visible means 
of support. 
— The English papers are attacking, with vehemence, 
the rule that prohibits the wife from being a witness against 
her husband. 
— Benedict Arnold's silver watch hag been presented to 
the Conn. Historical Society, by Rev. I,. Smith Hobart, of 
Hudson, Mich. 
— St. Paulis hound to have a bridge across the Missis¬ 
sippi at that point. The city Council have resolved to sub¬ 
scribe $60,000. 
— To carry a Collins steamer from N. Y. to Liverpool 
requires 800 tuns of coal. Enough to keep an ordinary 
iamily 40 years. 
— in 109 towns in N. H., there has been a decrease of 
population of nearly 17,000, owing partially to the ravages 
of the vrestoru fever. 
— Extensive and valuable discoveries of coal and iron 
have recently been made in Louisiana, and near Vicks- 
burgb, In Mississippi. 
— The receipt* from Public Lands during the fiscal year 
ending 30th June, 1867, in the several States and Terri¬ 
tories, were $3,829,480. 
— Benjamin Haggle*, of St. Clairsville, O., who was a 
member of the l'. 8. Senate from 1815 to 1833, died a short 
time since, aged 74 years. 
— Tho Federal Government ha9 gathered over $2,000,000 
This has been collected 
List ot New Advertisements this week, 
Porter’s Spirit of the Times—Geo. Wilkes A Co. 
Astor House—C. A. Stetson. 
Chicago Purchasing Agency—Bragdon & Reilly 
Profitable Employment—Robert Sear, 
Horticu ltural Exfiibition— O. \V Scelye. 
Ob-ice Frtrrn for Bale— IT. IT. White. 
To Energetic Voting Men—Mason Brothers. 
Wanted—1). II. Wullbrd. 
To Nurserymen-P. & M. Drnke. 
Organize a Book Clnli in yoni Village—D. M. Dewey. 
The J.ast I'• 11—dual doing—Stone & Cook. 
Tho Yales Nursery—Vm. IT. Olin A Co. 
First Prize ffiiori-nom Bull for Bale—A B. Bonham. 
$101 a Year—Jon. E.Kinp 
An Orange Co. Dairy h arm for Sale —Oliver P. Reeve. 
Ock Advertisisg Fries ns will please note that, although 
the Rural has largely increased in circulation during the past 
ye»T, its advertising rates rornuia nuehanged. Thus, while it is 
decidedly tub bsst medium of Agricpllnrai aud Horticultural 
Advertising in the Union, it is also one oi the cheapest. Our 
terms will remain the same as at present nntil the close of the 
present year and volume, when they will probably be materially 
increased, to correspond with our greatly augmented circulation. 
oration on the life and character of Washington, 
in the city of Montgomery, at the fair in Novem¬ 
ber next. He hae also consented to visit Mobile 
about the same time, for the same purpose. 
Tub President has signed the Proclamation for 
the sale of about 2.500,000 acres of public lands in 
California, and upwards of 450,000 acres in Mis 
sourl and in the nnlocated tracts in the Sioux 
Half-breed Reservation on Lake Pepin, Minnesota. 
The sales In California will take place in May, and 
in Missouri and Minnesota in March next. 
A FRIT ATS letter to the N. Y. Tribune, from 
Mississippi, states that officers are rapidly recruit- 
ing men for Walker’s army, destined for Nicaragua. 
Col Slater, of New Orleans, is doing the finaneier- 
! tug and talking for Gen. Walker, who expects to 
leave early in November. 
The Litchfield (Conn.) Enquirer says:—Rev. 
Etlian Osborne, of Fairfield, N. J., (a native of this 
town,) entered his one hundreth year on Friday, the 
21st ulL He was born here, Aug. 21, 1758; was a 
soldier of the Revolution; graduated at Dart¬ 
mouth College in 1784, and was for 54 years pastor 
of the Congregational Church in Fairfield. 
A bate Bloomington (Ill.) paper says:—“Wheat 
declined to fifty cents per bushel in this market on 
Thursday lost The main cause of the rapid de¬ 
cline is, that in the present unsettled state of 
iiil'nirseast, the Chicago bankers refuse to discount 
the drafts to produce realera, (or of anybody else, 
in fact,) many of whom are therefore unable to 
continue buying. At present rates, 
Ihk Chicago Tribune •• regrets to leaan’’ that the 
Rock River BaDk, Beloit, Wis, has suspended.— 
The notes are abundantly secured. It says there 
were rumors in circulation affecting the credit of 
two or three other banks in Illinois und Wisconsin. 
The Exohange and Banking house of Davis and 
Suydam, and Dnboi3 & Co., of Rondout, N. Y., 
close 1 their doors. 
The Miama County Bank, of Dayton, Ohio, failed 
on the 18 th inst. 
The Bank of Elgin, Illinois, has failed. The 
notes are received in Chicago on deposit, as they 
are secured. 
The Banks arc sending in Government stocks 
to Washington for redemption at the rate of $50,- 
000 per day, showing the continuance of the pres¬ 
sure. The Treasury return for this week will show 
a heavy reduction of the surplus. 
The Dayton Bank, at Dayton, Ohio, has lailed. 
It was an independent bank, giving security to the 
was a minute or two afterwards. We were all 
drawn under the surface at least 20 feet, and when 
we rose were nearly stifled. The ’rapidity with 
which I was drawn down tore the spar from my 
hands and the life-preserver from my body, and 
when I reached the surface my clothing was almost 
stripped off. J, however, had a friend who had two 
life-preservers, aud he gave me one, and we also 
seized on pieces of the wreck, which helped to 
sustain us. About 400 of the passengers were 
struggling about, most of them having lost their 
life-preservers, and others seizing pieeffb of the 
wreck which came up with ns. 
The Captain had ent away the upper works of 
the vessel, so that when the hull sunk they would 
float off, but they were all draggod down and came 
up in fragments. Many persons wore killed, 
stunned and drowned by being struck with pieces 
of the wreck, whilst the pieces were to others the 
ultimate means of safety. 
An occasional flash of lightning showed to each 
one a sea of struggling forms. Each strove to 
encourage his friend with hopes which he scarce 
felt himself. At first we were all together, in a 
mass, but soon the waves separated us, and at each 
successive flash of lightning we discovered that 
we were being scattered over a wide area, and soon 
found ourselves alone on the boundless ocean.” 
The following figures show the pecuniary loss hy 
this melancholy disaster: 
Treasure—On freight, from California 
In parse tigers’ hands. 
Value of ship and cargo. 
Total loss 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., SEPTEMBER 2G, 1857, 
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and give ns their lists Of trial subscribers —thus paving 
ihe way for large clubs in January. 
we presume 
farmers will generally withhold their grain from 
market,” 
Political News, 
Toe American party of this State held a Con¬ 
vention In Syracuse dnriDg the past week, aud pnt 
in nomination the following ticket:— For Judge of 
the Court of Appeals- —Hiram Ketchnm, of New 
York; Secretary of State —James O. Putnam, of 
Erie; Comptroller —Nathaniel S. Benton, of Her¬ 
kimer; Treasurer —Lyman Odell, of Livingston; 
Attorney General —Henry T1 Ross, of Essex; Ca¬ 
nal Commissioner —Goldsmith Dennisfon, of Sten- 
ben ; State Engineer and Surveyor — Roswell 
Graves, of Kings; State Prism Inspector—i ohn 
M. StevenB, of Rockland. 
Tub Republicans of Minnesota held their first 
“State” Convention ever assembled in that Terri¬ 
tory, at St. Paul, on the 9th ol this month. The 
following nominations were made:—For Governor 
—Alexander Ramsey; Lieut. Governor —J. C. Ide; 
Secretary of Stale— L. K. Stuunard; State Treasu¬ 
rer —Frank Man tor; State Auditor —A. P. Lane; 
Attorney General —Geo. A. Nourse; Members of 
Congress — M. S. Wilkinson, Rico Co.; Henry A 
Swift, Nicollet Co.; Cyrus Aldrich, Hennepin Co.; 
Clerk of the Supreme Court —Alexander B. Russell, 
Scott Co.; Delegate to Congress —Charles McClure, 
Goodhue Co. 
The following is the American State ticket ip 
Mississippi:— For Governor —Edward M. Yerger, 
of Yazoo; Secretary of State —James B. Ross, of 
Heavy Mail Contract.— The contract for car¬ 
rying the U. 8. mail over the land route to Califor¬ 
nia was signed on the lGth inst. Messrs. John 
Bntterfield, Wm. B. Densmore, Wm. G. Fargo 
Alex. Holland, J. V. P. Gardner, M. L. Kenyon' 
Hamilton Spencer, and others, are the contractors. 
The Government was represented by Mr. Dundae, 
second assistant P. M. General. The contract,' 
which is to run six years, I* to go into effect 12 
months from date. Six hundred thousand dollars 
per annum is the price to be paid the contractors. 
This will doubtless prove to be a profitable job,ss 
it is in the hands of energetic parties, who have 
ample means, and who understand thoroughly the 
business they have undertaken. 
$2,550,1X10 
Of this sum $1,000,000 is known to be covered 
by insurance. 
How little comfort does the possession of great 
wealth afford persons placed in such fearful posi¬ 
tion as were the passengers of the ill-f ated Central 
America. 
me steamer ttioaerea, ana oi the 626 persons on 
board—the ci w numbering 101, passengers 525— 
only 150 are reported saved. Henry H. Childs, 
one of those secured by the Norwegian barque 
Ellen, furnishes tbe New’ York papers the follow¬ 
ing account of tills dreadful disaster: 
••I left Havana in the steamship Central Ameri¬ 
ca for New York on Sept. 8. Oo the afternoon qf 
the day of sailing from Havana fresh westerly 
breezes sprung np. On tbe following morning the 
wind blew very strong, the gale continuing to in¬ 
crease in violence as the day advanced. At night 
there was no abatement in its fury, and it com¬ 
menced raining torrents. On Thursday it blew a 
hurricane, the sea running very high. On Friday 
tbe storm raged learfully. At 11 -o’clock in the 
morning of this day it was first known among the 
passengers that the steamer had sprung aleak, and 
was making water fast A line of men was imme¬ 
diately formed, and they went to work bailing ont 
the water from the engine rooms, the fires having 
been extinguished. We gained on the water so 
much that, we were able to get np steam again; 
but we held it but a few minutes, and then she 
stopped forever. Bailing continued, however, and 
was kept up in all parts of the ship nntil she finally 
went down. During Friday night the water gain¬ 
ed gradually, but all on board beiDg in pretty good 
spirits, they worked to the best of their ability, 
feeling that whm the morning came they possibly 
might speak some vessels and thus be saved. The 
fatal Saturday came at last, but brought nothing 
but increased fury in the gale. Still we worked 
on, and about two o’clock in the afternoon the 
storm lulled a little and the clouds broke away._ 
Hope was renewed, and all now worked like giants. 
At 4 P. M. we espied a sail, and fired guns and 
placed our flag at half-mast. It was Been, and the 
brig Marine, of Boston, bore down npon us. We 
then considered safety certain. She came near us, 
and we spoke to her und told our condition. She 
laid by about a mile distant, and we, in the only 
three boats saved, placed all the women and chil¬ 
dren, and they were safely pnt on board the brig. 
As evening was fast approaching we discovered 
another sail, which responded to onr call and 
came near ns. Capt. Herndon told them our con¬ 
dition, and asked them to lay by and send a boat, 
as we had none left. She promised to do bo, but 
that was the last we saw of her except at a dis¬ 
tance, which grew greater and greater every mo 
menL At 7 o'clock we saw no possibility of keep- 
Tbe following, which we clip from the 
N. Y. Tribune, furnishes a partial solution to the 
query—“ What wonld a man not givo in exchange 
for his life?” 
“It is stated by many of the survivors of tho 
Central America's passengers, that there was sel¬ 
dom so large an amonnt of money owned by pas¬ 
sengers us was in the case of those who came by 
the Central America. Many were persons of large 
means, and there were hnt very few whose imme¬ 
diate wealth did not amonnt to hundreds, while 
numbers reckoned their gold by the thonsands of 
dollars. The greater portion of the passengers 
were returned miners, somo coming hither to in¬ 
vest the capital they bad realized in hopes to live 
a life of greater ease as the result of their indus- 
! try, and others to get their families and once 
more go to the land of gold. Bat as the storm 
continued to rage, less and less of gold was 
thought of, and when, on Saturday, it became evi¬ 
dent that they were likely at any moment to be 
buried beneath the waves, wealthy men divested 
themselveB of their treasure belts and scattered 
the gold npon the cabin floors, telling those to 
take it who would, lest its weight—a few ounces 
or pounds—carry them to their death. Full pnrsos, 
containing in some instances $2,000, were laying 
untouched on sofas. Carpet-bags were opened by 
men, and the shining metal was ponred out on the 
floor with the prodigality of death’s despair. One 
of the passengers, who has lortonately been res¬ 
cued, opened a bug and dashed about the cabin 
$20,000 in gold dnst., and told hint who wanted to 
gratify his greed for gold to take it. But it wns 
untouched as the veriest dross. A few hours be¬ 
fore be would have struck down the man who 
wonld have attempted to take a grain of that 
which he now spurned from him.” 
The Tribune gives the following recapitulation 
of the number on board, gathered from the most 
authentic sources attainable: 
Passengers saved,. 120 
Officers and crew saved. 30 
Whole number saved,.150 
Names given as on hoard and not heard from, about.. .100 
Supposed number of passengers,.492 
Of crew (at Havana,). 101 
Total on board.593 
Landed at Havana,. 6 
Saved as far as heard from.160 
Supposed to have been lost,.437 
Literary Piracy.— In the Rural of the 5th 
inst., is a composition entitled “ Childhood's Mem¬ 
ories,” with the signature “T”Girard, Pa.,attach¬ 
ed. As the pnrloiner baa had sufficient time to 
make exhibition of it us original, aud ina itate a 
self-admiration committee thereupon, wenow state 
that a theft was committed on or about the period 
referred to, and that the true author is “ Winnie 
Wjllian,” of this city. If "T.” possesses the fee 
simple to the minutest brain-mine, we recommend 
a little labor therein, and also the frequent pornsai 
of the commandment intended particularly for 
such individuals, and peculiarly adapted to the 
case in hand—" Thou shalt not steak” 
The State Library. — Daring tho month of 
July the State Library building at Albany was 
closed, and within that period the interior has 
been thoroughly renovated. The Library now 
contains 50,000 volumes, and the increase this year 
will not be less than 5,000. Among others the 
State has added, by purchase, Munsell’a “Blblfo. 
graphical Works.” Within, everything is moBt 
conveniently arranged for the seeker after knowl¬ 
edge, and it is daily becoming a more popular 
rtBort, with the student. It is, indeed, an intellec¬ 
tual fountain, of whioh the State, and more espe¬ 
cially Albany, may well be proud. 
A New Prospect fob Enuland.—W e clip the 
following from Porter's Spirit of the Times :—"We 
understand that a movement is ou foot to get np 
a new stable of American horses, to contend 
against the racerB of the English Turf. It is the 
opinion of our principal turf-men and breeders, 
that the stable of Mr. Ten Broeok is not In all re¬ 
spects well chosen, and that his horses have never 
been brought to the post in that country, in a 
proper condition to contend for the honor of the 
American Torf. Nicholas I. is spoken of at tho 
head of the new lot, and it is said that if be goes, 
Gilpatrick will go with him. We shall hear more 
of the matter after the great four mile race on the 
29th September, over the Fashion Course. Hold 
your horses! Our turfme-n are not going to give 
it up bo ! 
Chicago Grain Trade.— The total flour and 
grain receipts at Chicago for tho season, as given 
by tbe Times of the 12th inst, are as follows:—152,- 
•1G0 bbls. flour, 3,92G,0G6 bushels of wheat, 5,545,67(3 
bushels of corn, aud G48.G60 bushels of oats, or a 
total equivalent to 10,978,695 bushels of grain. 
The total shipments for the season now amount to 
70,G17 barrels of flour, 3,457,605 bushels of wheat, 
0,124,712 bushels of corn, and 181,9(39 bnshelH of 
oats, or a total equivalent to 10,227,721 bushels of 
grain. On Tuesday, com sold at 50 cents in store, 
spring wheat at 72 cents, oats at 26 cents for 32 
pounds, and flour at 4 dollars per barrel. 
in the Sub-Treasury at St. Louis, 
for the troops at the West. 
— The Providence Journal mentions a dangerous coun¬ 
terfeit purporting to bo a new issue of $5 notes of the Bank 
of Kent, in Coventry, R. I. 
— Some of tho New York firemen have nominated Henry 
Howard, the present Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart¬ 
ment, for the 0 Hice of Mayor. 
— Tho estimated number of messages passing over tho 
telegraphic line* in tho U. 8., is 4,000,000 per annum or 
about 13,300 oath bunities* day. 
— The Cambria Iron Works, at Johnstown, Pa., com¬ 
menced operations lest Wednesday week, and aro busily 
employed making railroad iron. 
— The saddle-homo which took the premium at the Na¬ 
tional Fair nt Louisville, has boon purchased for a present 
to Gov. Floyd, Secretary of War. 
— Win. It. Calhoun, of South Carolina, has receired the 
appointment of Secretary of Legation at Paris, vice O. 
Jennings Wise, of Va., who ha* resigned. 
— The Aramingo Print Work* on the Schuylkill, oppo¬ 
site Conshocken, were burnt on tho Stir inst. Loas about 
$70,000, of which about ono half in insured. 
— Macaulay, it is said, has given up the idea of continu¬ 
ing his •' History of England down to a period within the 
memory of living men," ns at first announced. 
Salt in Kansas, — The Squatter Sovereign 
states that suit, has been manufactured from a vein 
of saline water, struck while digging a well about 
thirty-eight miles from Atclimon. The vein of 
salt wuter was found at a depth of SG feet after 
passing a vein of fresh water. The water rose in 
the well abont twenty feet. The water is very 
Btrong, fifteen gallons of It, after being mixed with 
fresh water, yielded one gallon of salt. The pro¬ 
duct is of remarkable fine quality, being as fine in 
grain as tho first quality of Liverpool table salt. 
From New Orleans.— We have the New Orleans 
papers of the 8th inst., containing late advices 
from Texas. Judge Hemphill aud Gov. Pease were 
candidates for the U. S. Senate. The Houston 
Telegraph, of the -1th inst., states that cotton pick¬ 
ing whb actively progressing, and that more cot¬ 
ton would be raised this year in Texas than in any 
previous year. It also states that the sugar crop 
will not be over three-quarters of the usual average- 
The Mobile Register Htates that $150,000 has 
been raised in Georgia for Walker, to make a new 
descent on Nicaragua. 
Advices are reported to have been received 
from Washington that the scurvy is prevailing to 
an alarming extent, among the troops destined for 
Utah territory, and that of the 3,000 cattle collect¬ 
ed by the troops as supplies, the Indians had run 
off one thousand. Col. Johnson, it is Baid, is ap¬ 
pointed totbecommand of the expedition. Forced 
marches, it is thought, will be made, in order to 
reach the territory before the winter sots in. 
Survey of Montreal Harbor. —The Harbor 
Commissioners of Montreal have engaged Capt. 
John Childs, of Springfield, Mass., A. MoAlpine of 
Chicago, and John Kirkwood, of New York, to 
survey that harbor and report tho best plun by 
whioh it cuu be enlarged. Capt. Childs was one 
of the gentlemen who anccessfully advised the 
plan to be pursued in deepening Lake Peter, and 
Mr. Me Alpine was late chief engineer of this State. 
