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List ol New Advertisements this week. 
Consolidation of MagRiitiCs—J- M. Emerson A Co. 
A New Monthly Mftgoritio—1'iiIJbn*. btuopson a. Co. 
Fafe Knmvy Heading— Hamper £ brothers. 
Harper’s Wrekly—U«Tpei'A Brothers, 
Kavenswood Fruit GardtO—Freeman A Kehuall 
Lyon's Copper Lightning Conductor— Brittan A Marsh. 
Liteiary Curiosity—Augustus P Throop. 
Fine Flowering Bulb*—Ellwanger A Rany. 
Fruit Trees ! Fruit Ttr' s ! —Graves A Warner. 
Fruit Tre.n for Sals—>1. M Ranney. 
Clover Street Nursery—Joseph Hull. 
Bulbous Viewer Roots—A frost A Co. 
Valuable Fund for Sale or Exchange-Michael O Kourk 
To Tree Peulers—1. lit dreth A Co 
JJU Anatomical JFiiyUiitlots—J. R. btanord. 
Newman's Thornless Blackberry—A A. BcnseL 
Cheap Ftult Trcce—ilepj Fish A Son. 
Air cuts—C. P. BiseelL « 
Millenary, Ac.—George W. Davis. 
To Inventors—J. Fraser. 
Lawton Blackberry Plants—Wm. Lawton. 
Pie Plant—T. C. Peters. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., OCTOBER 3, 1857. 
Death of David Ely, Esq. 
This event, which occorred on the 8t.h nit., and 
was briefly chronicled in the Rural of two weeks 
ago, (during oar absence.) is worthy of a more ex¬ 
tended notice. Having known the deceased long 
and Bomewhat intimately, we would fain pay some 
poor tribute to the virtues of au eminently useful 
and exemplary man. 
Deceased was the son of Rev. David Ely, D. D., 
of Huntington, Conn., and graduated at Yale Col¬ 
lege in 1800. Soon ufterwardB he engaged in 
mercantile business in New York,—the failure of 
his sight inducing him to relinquish a design to 
enter one of tke learned professions for which he 
was peculiarly qualified. Ab a merchant he was 
for many years emiuently successful. He subse¬ 
quently removed to Onondaga Go., engaged exten¬ 
sively in farming, and soon became noted as the 
breeder and owner of some of the best stock in 
this State. At one time he had a flock of over 
1,000 fine wooled sheep, and many choice cattle 
and horses. During this period Mr. Ely accom¬ 
plished much in behalf of Rural Improvement, for 
which he was and still is entitled to the gratitude 
of the agriculturists of the country. For many 
years previous to his decease, (which occurred at 
the age of 77,) he resided with his son, Dr. W. W 
Ely, of thiB city—and, though not extensively en¬ 
gaged in rural pursuits, he gave much thought 
and attention to Improved Agriculture, and was 
a frequent and able ooutributor to the press. As 
a contributor to the Rcbal from its commence¬ 
ment, and as a personal friend and adviser, we 
esteemed him highly while living, and regard his 
decease as a loss to the public. His ripe scholar¬ 
ship, sound judgment, and varied experience and 
observation, enabled Mr. Ely to impart in a lncid 
and forcible style, information of great valae, and 
which it is the fortune of few to possess. Leaving 
to his posterity, and the large circle of friends by 
whom he was greatly beloved for the kindness of 
his heart and the amiability of his manners, the 
brightest of examples—our friend has departed at 
an advanced age, to receive the reward of one who 
has lived an active, useful and Christian life. 
Political. —The N, Y. Republican State Con¬ 
vention met at Syracuse during thepastweek, and 
made its nominations as follows;—For Judge of 
Appeals —Timothy Jenkins, Ofitidn; Secretary of 
State —Aim On M. Clapp, Erie; Comptroller —Rob’t 
Denniston, Orange; Treasurer —John T. Hoge- 
boom, Columbia; Attorney General —Wm. Curtis 
Noyes, New York; State Engineer—Geo. Ceddes, 
Onondaga; Prison Inspector —ThoB. Kirkpatrick, 
Albany; Canal Commissioner —Ariel F. Thurston. 
Returns from 378 towns and 71 plantations in 
Maine give Morrill (Rep.) 53,891 votes, and Smith, 
(Dem.) 41,011. Morrill’s majority, 12,847, There 
are twelve small towns and seventeen plantations 
to be heard from. 
The San Francisco Vigilance Committee.— 
It is said that in consequence of the reform 
brought about by the Vigilance Committee in San 
Francisco, that city has been governed during the 
past year at an expense of about $250,000, agaiust 
an average expense the previous year of one million 
five hundred thousand dollars, six times as mnch 
as it now costs. There was a jumor lately 
that some of the exiles were about to return, npou 
which Borne two thousand of the Vigilance Com¬ 
mittee boys were under armp, awaitiDg tbeir arri¬ 
val. But they didn’t come. The legal proceed¬ 
ings arising from the action of the Committee 
appear to have been dropped. 
The Cotton Crop. — The cotton crop of the 
United States for the present, year, is estimated at 
3,000,000 bales, allowing 000,000 bales for domestic 
consumption, and there will remain 2,100,000 bales 
for export The present price warrants an averrge 
Of sixty dollars per bale, which would give an ag¬ 
gregate value of exports from this source alone, 
of nearly $150,000,000. 
Washington Matters. 
Sbnator Berooine writes fromtbe city of Mex¬ 
ico that be has succeeded in making satisfactory 
arrangements with the Mexican Government, rela¬ 
tive to the Tehuantepec route, but, that he was 
thwarted by Mr. Forsyth to the extent of hie pow¬ 
er, causing a loss of a million of dollars, and he 
thought the administration should take Mr. For- 
sjth’s conduct into serious consideration, he hav¬ 
ing advised the movement which resulted in the 
annulling of the Sloo & Garey grants. 
The N. Y. Tribune’s correspondent says Col. 
Forsyth’s conduct respecting the grant to the 
LasereCo. is approved. He is ac ting under special 
instructions to procure such modifications of the 
8th article of the Gadsden treaty as will secure to 
the United States a right to convey over the Isth¬ 
mus of Tehauntepec mails, troops, and munitions 
of war. CoL Foisyth’s letters explain that he 
wished this negotiation to precede any private 
grant. 
The United States Indian Agent at Fort Lara¬ 
mie baa informed the Interior Department that 
the Mormons have initiated measures to control 
the trade with toe Indians, by making settlements 
every 20 or 30 miles. He calls on the Secretary 
to remove them, saying that it this is not done, 
the Mormons will become exceedingly trouble¬ 
some, and defeat any policy our Government may 
adopt towards the Indians. 
The information in possession of our Govern¬ 
ment relative to the complicity of Gen. Sam. Hous¬ 
ton with an expedition designed for the invasion 
of Mexico, is derived from reliable sources. 
During the fiscal year ending Jane 30th, the 
amount of public lands sold was nearly 1,153,000 
sores, and the receipts therefor upwards of $3,- 
600,000. 
The N. Y. Herald’s correspondent says:—“I 
hear a rumor, and from a source on which I am 
accustomed to place reliance, that there is Borne re¬ 
newed ill feeling existing between the government 
of Spain and this country. Recent advices from 
our Minister at Madrid, speak of the display of 
very marked indignity towards him, the causes oi' 
which have not thus far been made public. It has 
been suggested that Mr. Dodge may have incau¬ 
tiously approached the ministry on the subject of 
the purchase of the Island of Cuba,” 
Attorney General Black, in response to a 
question submitted to him by the Secretary of 
State, relative to the compensation of Consuls, 
gays the construction put on the act of Congress 
by the President, and Secretary of State under the 
advice of the Attorney General was, that a Minis¬ 
ter or Consul who was in service on the 4th of 
June, 1855, was, to all intents and purposes of the 
new act, in the same condition as if he bad re¬ 
ceived his compensation afterwards; in other 
words, the law converted the incumbent from full* 
paid into salaried officers. Mr. Black considers 
this the right construction of the law. 
Interesting Rewa from Kansas. 
The Lawrence Herald of Freedom, for the 12th 
nit., states that Col. Cooke received an order on 
Tuesday last, from Gen. Harney, in command at 
Fort Leavenworth, directing him to remove the 
six companies of dragoons under his command 
at Lawrence foithwith to that post, agreeably to 
the order of the Secretary of War. On Thnrsday 
the camp was broken up, and the troops crossed 
the river, en route for the fort. Gov. Walker had 
received two requests prior to this, desiring the 
troops to be returned to the fort, bat, deeming 
their service necessary to preserve the peace, he 
neglected to comply with the demand; hence, 
probably, the reason of the order from the Secre¬ 
tary of War. 
Gov. Walker left Lecompton on Tuesday noon 
last, for Fort Leavenworth, it iB said, with the view 
of telegraphing the President, and resigning his 
commission unless sustained by the United States 
troops. 
The Leavenworth Fret State says:—The United 
States Circuit, Judge Lecompte presiding, is now 
in session in this city. The docket is large, but 
most of the cases are about disputed claims, and 
of the character of unlawful detainer, injunctions, 
&c., nearly all of which will be continued until 
after the opening of the Land Office, where they 
will all be finally adjudicated, except so far as court 
costs are concerned. 
The correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat 
writeB concerning the late Convention, as follows: 
—The adjournment was a ent-and-dried affair from 
the first. It was well understood by the leaders of 
the party, and was only objected to by a few dele¬ 
gates who came from distant parts of the country 
and were not posted. The ostensible object of 
the adjournment was to “ allow the business com¬ 
mittee time to make reports.” The real objects 
of the adjournment may be briefly stated as fol¬ 
lows:—It is the intention of the Convention to 
form an exceedingly violent Pro-Slavery Constitu¬ 
tion. They well know that. If such a Constitution 
as they promise to adopt be made public at present, 
the cause of National Democracy in some of the 
Northern States, where elections are soon to be 
held, will be very much damaged. They also wish 
to do nothing which could deter the Free-State 
party from attempting a participation in the oom- 
ing elections, though they will take very good care 
to prevent the party from gaming anything there, 
by. They also wish to be at home making prepa¬ 
rations for the coming Territorial election; the 
said preparations to consist of the formation of 
fradulent returns, stuffed ballot-boxes and Blue 
Lodges. 
The Supply of Sugar in France. —Mr. Walsh 
in his Paris letter, of Aug. 6th, to the N. Y., Jour¬ 
nal of Commerce, says: —“Sugar is falling, the 
best root factories will supply, this year, two hun¬ 
dred and forty million pounds; the IbIc of Re¬ 
union (Bourbon) will produced one hundred and 
twenty millions; the French West Indies will prob- 
bly send a hundred millions; the supply will ex¬ 
ceed the demand in France. 
Col. Benton’s Health. — Despatches from 
Washington speak of Col. Benton as in immediate 
danger of death, though his iron constitution may 
hold out for a few days longer. He had sent de¬ 
spatches to his family and friends to be with him, 
and some of them had arrived. 
Monetary Matters. 
The excitement relative to Bauking Institutions 
throughout the country still keeps up— in fact, in 
some sections it, is much stronger than at Ibe time 
Of our last issue. The State of Pennsyl vauia seems 
to be in a ferment, and the run upon the banks of 
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Reading, &c., is describ¬ 
ed as without a parallel. We gather tbe following 
particulais from the telegraph reports:—A meet¬ 
ing of the PrcridentH of the Philadelphia bankB 
was held on the evening of the 25th tilt., and it is 
reported that for a want of concert of action they 
adjourned without arriving at fmy determination. 
Tt. was thought they would determine on a full sus¬ 
pension as pr.ctised by some of the banks to day, 
but which was not general on account of the North 
America, Mechanics and some of the other banks 
receiving a supply of specie. There was also a 
meeting of the Cashiers of the various banks, but 
their action is not yet known. It is understood 
that application will be made to the Governor for 
the call of en extra session of the Legislature, with 
a view of affording relief to the banks from the 
penalty ot forfeiture of charter imposed by the law 
of 1850. 
On the 2Gth tbe Pennsylvania Bank re-opened, and 
5 b transacting business, but paying no specie. The 
Mechanic’s Bank is paying specie for 10’s. The 
Bank of North America is paying all its notes. It 
received specie from New York last night, and 
represents that they have more in their vaults than 
the amount of their bills. They are certifying 
their checks. The Bank of Commerce is paying 
no specie, bnt is paying out notes for checks. The 
Tradesmen's Bank pays everything—checks and 
all. The following banks are paying specie for 5’s: 
Commercial, Manufacturer's and Mechanic’s, and 
Philadelphia. The Farmer's and Mechanic’s sre 
paying specie for 10’e. Tbe Northern Liberties 
and Western pay specie for o'sin case of necessity. 
The Bank of Philadelphia Township and the City 
Consolidation Bsuk pays nothing. All the bank?, 
however, except the Girard, certify checks. The 
Girard has entirely suspended business. 
The Pittsburg, Harrisburg, Lancaster and Read¬ 
ing Banks have suspended. 
The Banks of Providence, R. I., have resolved 
to suspend specie payment. The liabilities of the 
Banks to the public are not over 20 per cent, of 
tbeir capitals. It is said that the circulation of 
the Rhode Island Banks, is so scented under the 
individual liability clause, that the property of the 
stockholders is held ior the last dollar, without 
reference to the amount of stock held by the sub¬ 
scribers. 
The banks in Washington, D. C., have got into 
close quarters. The telegraph on the 26th nit. 
brings the following intelligence: —The Bank of 
Washington has suspended specie payments on 
everything but 5's and small checks. Tbe Bank of 
the Metropolis has resolved to continue full pay¬ 
ments, feeling themselves secure against all de¬ 
mands. The Patriotic Bank is redeeming its 5’a 
and small checks. There is an unusual crowd at 
the bank. 
The Presidents of all the banks of Baltimore 
had a meeting on Saturday, the 26th ult, and resolv¬ 
ed to suspend specie payment. The suspension is 
total. 
The Bank Commissioners of Hartford, Conn., 
served a temporary injunction against the Bank of 
Hartford Co., on the 23d ult., and have closed its 
doors. The bill-holders and depositors will be 
paid in full, and there are hopes that the Bank 
may, in the course of 30 or CO days, open again. 
The Bank of Commerce, at Georgetown, D. C., 
has resolved to pay all depositee of $100 and 
under, and to pay the interest on large sunm 
until sufficient assets are received to pay them, 
which are hoped for in a few days. The stock¬ 
holders acknowledge their individual responsi¬ 
bility for all liabilities. 
The Western Bank, at Lockport, N. Y., suspend¬ 
ed payment on the 22d ult. Tbe President, C. A 
Mask, says:—“I believe the asset?, together with 
my private property, (every dollar of which shall 
be appropriated to this object,) are amply sofficient. 
to pay every liability of the bank.” 
The Medina Bank of Medina, N. Y., closed its 
doors on the 21th ult. It is a free institution, and 
its circulation is said to be quite limited, and well 
'secured. 
We learn from the Milwaukee papers that the 
Rock River Bank, of Beloit, closed its doors on 
Monday, having made an assignment protecting 
its depositors, and the bills are tully secured by 
good stocks, and worth their face. 
Tns Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, npon the 
application of the Bank Commissioners, has plaoed 
an injunction upon the Hancock Bank at Ells¬ 
worth. The bill-holders, it is said, will not suffer 
any loss. 
The New York Herald says it was reported iu 
the streets on Wednesday, that a consultation had 
taken place between the banks of Rhode Island 
and the Governor of that State, in relation to a 
suspension of specie payments, The banks of 
Rhode Island are up to their eyes in railroad secu¬ 
rities taken from circulating notes to distribute 
through the western coumry. The railroad securi¬ 
ties taken are of the very poorest character. 
Tns Canada papers announce that a spurious 
Eve dollar bill on the Niagara District Bank has 
been issued, which is evidently well calculated to 
deceive. It is an alteration from a genuine one. 
The necessary changes have been effected by the 
aid of acid and lithography, instead of the leas ar¬ 
tistic and more easily detected system of cutting 
and pasting. The only safe meuna of detecting 
thiB counterfeit is to observe that the plate is a 
fao simile of the genuine one dollar plates, having 
the flguro 5 at each end on the upper corners; 
whereas the genuine five dollar plates of this bank 
(we believe there arc two) diller altogether in tbeir 
arrangement and design, from the one dollar plate. 
Twenty dollar altered bills of the Commercial 
Bank of Canada, are in circulation; they have 
been altered from fours. This counterfeit, can 
scarcely be detected except by comparing the 
vignette and figures on the four anil twenfy dollar 
bills. On tho former the vignette is u railway 
train, and the figures two female portraits; while 
the vignette on the twenty dollar bill should be a 
single female figure between 2 and 0, and the por¬ 
traits of the Queen and Prince Albert at, the side. 
Items of News. 
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Letters from Syria report the total destruction 
in the deBeit of a carava". The latter, consisting 
of 500 persona and 1,000 camels, laden with mer¬ 
chandise, started from Damascus on the 19th of 
Jane, and by some mismanagement lost its way.— 
Tho entire caravan perished, with tho exception of 
some twenty persons. 
Among the curiosities which the ladies of Wor¬ 
cester county have forwarded for exhibition at 
th' Mechanics’ Fair in Worcester, Mass., is an in¬ 
fant’s blanket wrought a hundred and forty years 
ago by the bands ol the mother of Samuel Adams, 
of Revolutionary fame. 
The Montour Iron Company have determined to 
pay off their laborers and cIobb their rolling mills 
at Danville. This will throw ont of employment 
some two thousand men, and with tbeir families, 
at least six thousand people. T|je concern was 
largely engaged in the manufacture of Railroad 
iron. 
An extensive depositor aaitbas been discovered 
on Saline Creek, sixty-five miles below St. Louis 
and three and a half above St. Mary’s on the line 
of Geneiveve and Perry counties, Mo. 
The Upper Sioux Indians are reported to be in 
a very wretched condition—their crops having 
been destroyed by the grasshoppers, and they be¬ 
ing entirely destitute of powder or money. 
The following are tho receipts of several arti¬ 
cles of foreign fruit since September 1st, 1S56, by 
the tables of the Boston Shipping List:—61,723 
boxes lemons, 119,812 boxes oranges, 490,000 pack¬ 
ages figs, 96,000 packages raisins. 
The Chicago Tribune of tbe 9th, eays it has no 
disposition to cither “brag, boast or banter,” but 
simply mentions eb an item of news, that on the 
8th iust., Chicago Harbor contained a fleet of two 
hundred and fifty vessels. These were all either 
discharging or receiving cargoes,—none were idle. 
Intelligence has been received by tbe Interior 
Department from Colonel Sites, Superintendent nf 
the Nebraska wagon road expedition, dated at 
Omaha City, Sept. 1st, in which he states that he 
entertains no doubt of the completion of the road 
by the advent of winter, if the weather continues 
favorable. 
It is said that the United States Post Office De¬ 
partment ia in the same depressed condition as for 
several years past. The financial results of low 
postage have been moat unfavorable, and the aver¬ 
age annual deficit is between three and four mil¬ 
lions of dollars. 
The present Morman population of Utah is esti¬ 
mated by Elder Richards at 60,000. There have 
been some fluctuations in tbe population since the 
last census, bnt the airivals have exceeded the de¬ 
partures. Tbe total population of the Territory- 
Gentile and MorrnoD, is 80,000. 
A steamer has been built at St. Louis for the 
navigation of the Kansas river. Its draft is bo light, 
only seven inches without cargo or supplies, that 
it is believed it will be able to navigate tbe Kan¬ 
sas to the town of St George, a higher point than 
has been reached by boats hitherto, except once 
or twice a year, at timeB of freshets. 
Later Foreign Intelligence. 
The British Steamer Jura arrived at Halifax on 
the 28th nit., and we condense the following from 
the telegraph reports: 
The cholera prevailed in Hamburg, and out of 
239 persona attacked 136 have died in eight days. 
At Arslan more than 200 persons had died. The 
disease was also prevalent at Stockholm. 
The Bombay portion of the Indian mail had 
arrived at Marseille?, and was expected to be de¬ 
livered in London about noon on the 10th. Bom¬ 
bay advices are to the 17th, and Delhi to the 29th 
of July. Sorties were repulsed on the 13th and 
23d of July, with great loss to the rebels. 600 
men were killed and wounded on the side of the 
British. From the 23 d to the 29lh, there waa no 
fighting. 
At Benedelcnnd there were signs of disturbance. 
The mutineers at Leal Kato weie destroyed on 
the 16th of July by Gen. Nicholson. 
Gen. Neil joined Gen. Havalock on the 231 of 
Joly, aud waa on the full march towards Lucknow. 
At Tiu.balpose the 31st native infantry, -10th 
foot and 3d irregular cavalry, under the native 
fires, only attacked on the 7th of August the muti¬ 
neers, consisting of the 12d native infantry and 3d 
irregular cavalry. 
It is reported that Agra had fallen into the 
hands of rebels. 
A despatch dated Sept 8th, received at the 
Jallia House, says:—Gen. Havelock’s forces, after 
re-occupying Cawnpore, finding Bittour evacuated, 
burned it to the ground. Ou the 20th and 30th of 
July, they found the rebelB at Bufferel Geauga, 
about 18 miles from Cawnpore, numbering 10.00U, 
wholly defeated with the loss of 15 guns. They 
expected to reach Lncknow the next day. Nona 
Sahib perpetrated a fearful massacre at Cawnpore, 
at which nearly all the European inhabitants per¬ 
ished. 
Sir Colin Cambell had assumed command of 
the Indian army. Tranquility is restored in Cen¬ 
tral India. 
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Another Submarine Telegraph. — Another 
link of submarine telegraph communication has 
just been laid. France is now united to her colony 
of Algeria. Hitherto a sea distance of 116 mileB 
between Cagliari, in Sardinia, and the Algerine 
coast has remained to bo completed. Notwith¬ 
standing tho shortness of the distance, tho depth 
at one part is equal to the greatest depth in the 
Atlantic plateau. The cable, however, wa3 paid 
out rapidly and without accident, and little doubt 
is entertained of ita permanent safety. Newall & 
Co., of Birkenhead, Liverpool, were the manufac¬ 
turers, and they had contracted to take all the risk 
Of the operation. The length of lino used was 172 
miles, and Its cost $50,000. It construction was 
different in some important respects from that of 
tho Atlantic cable, and Newall & Co., consider that 
a considerable economy might have been effected 
in the latter. 
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Cheap Corn.— South of Springfield, in Illinois^ 
on the railroads, some of the farmers are offering 
their corn at 15 cents per bushel in the field; oth¬ 
ers at $5 per acre. 
SWds Clippings. 
— The State debt of Ohio amounts to $16,000,000. 
— Boston, Hass,, was 227 years old on the 24th ult. 
— Six heavy houses in St. Louis, suapendt d on Saturday 
week. 
— Steel axles and tires are largely used on the German 
railroads. 
— Hemp is extensively collected in the northern part of 
Kansas. 
— Seventy-two failures are reoorded In last week's N. Y. 
Tribune. 
— Gen. Henderson, Ex-Senator from Miss., died on the 
16th ult. 
— In France new wheat is coming to market in . urge 
quantities. 
— Cotton faotones at Newmarket, N. H., have suspend¬ 
ed operations. 
— Papers to the value $1,000,000 are annually exported 
from Cincinnati. 
— Washington Irving is gathering the materials for a 
life of Kit Carson. 
— They sell tomatoes by the tun in Sacramento, say the 
papers of that city. 
— There are at present in New York, nearly a thousand 
professed Mormons. 
— The Bummit of Mount Washington was covered with 
snow, on the 10th ult. 
— A Kalamazoo paper says that wheat has risen to $1 
per bushel in that town. 
— There are 60 miles ol railroad, of 3 feet 9 inch gauge, 
worked successfully In Belgium. 
— There are 150,000 Swiss in this country, most of whom 
reside in the northwestern States. 
— The work on the Tehuantepec road has been suspend¬ 
ed in consequence of bad weather. 
— Caat-eteel bolls aro being used on locomotives. Their 
sound is quite clear and sonorous. 
— Charles Sumner, at last accounts, was traveling in 
Switzerland, with improving health. 
— The public works in New York are to be suspended 
about the 1st inft., for want of funds. 
— Tho regent census of Spain shows population of that 
country to amount to 16,340,606 BOuls. 
— Virginia papers announce the prevalence of the pota¬ 
to rot in various counties of that State. 
— The highest speed ever mado on the ocean was by the 
clipper Flying-Scud, 460 miles in 24 hours. 
— The sugar crop in Texas will be better than was an- 
ticipated, in consequence of the late rains. 
— In 1856 there were 800,000,000 cigars consumed in 
Austria. All of them Havanas, ol course. 
— The Freshman class at Yale College numbers 115, 
which is smaller than lor several years past. 
— The total valuation of Virginia, as shown by the re¬ 
cent return ot the Assessor, is $214,000,000. 
— The Money Panic in New York has lasted four weeks, 
and Is not over. Over 150 houses have failed. 
— The amount of coal consumed annually by the Ameri¬ 
can people, is estimated at five millions of tuns. 
— Over $12,000 have been collected in N. Y. city, for the 
sufferers by the disaster to the Central America. 
— Five thousand boxes of herringB were caught at Treat’s 
Island, near Newport, Me., in one week, recently. 
— The wedding pocket hankerehief of the English 
princess roy al is worth £500 (or $2,000) it is add. 
— “ Old Ironsides," a new locomotive, was run on a road 
out of Pa., one mite in 6T seconds, by careful timing. 
— The Texan friends of Gen. Houston pronounce the 
reported Tamaulipaa expedition a piece ol’ flummery. 
— The amount on deposit aud subject to draff iu the U. 
S. Treasury is $17,413,838—a reduction of $1,897,870. 
— On tho. Liverpool and Manchester road, of England, 
axles were in regular use for 20 years without failure. 
— The new Artesian Well at Charleston, S. C., has reach¬ 
ed the depth of 913 feet, and the bore is eight inches. 
— The Montreal papers say that n general election will 
positively take place before next meeting of Parliament. 
— Wheat in Iowa City is now worth but 60 cents; flour 
$4 50 to $6; oatB 25 cents; butter 20 cents; eggs 11 cents, 
— The Detroit Advertiser has private information tlmt 
Lewis Cass, Jr., has positively resigned his position in Rome. 
— The Post-Office receipts during the first half of the 
last fiscal year were $3,494,114, showing a gain of $150,000. 
— The track of the Boston and Worcester R. R., crosses 
the “ back-bay,” at Boston, at a level, 5 feet below high 
water. 
— Rev. J. C. Fletcher, lately of Brazil, has been appoint¬ 
ed provisional Professor of Modern Languages, at Bowdoiu 
College. 
— Report have already been received of the loss of 48 
vessels in the sarno gale in which the Central America 
foundered. 
— Capt. Herndon, of tho Central America, had his life 
insured at the New England Mutual Insurance Company, 
for $5,000. 
— Hog dealers in Madison, Ind., have secured, by ad¬ 
vances, some 70,000 or 75,000 hogs for the coming season’s 
operations. 
— The town of Hackensack, N. J., with a population of 
1,500, has five churches, and only three rum-drinking es¬ 
tablishments. 
— An ingenious Baltimorean has invented a new mode 
for laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, and a patent for 
it is taken out. 
— A movement is on foot in N. Y., to bring all tho banks 
to adopt an agreement to allow no interests on deposits 
after the 1st inst. 
— It is stated that there are 1,900 sermons by John Cal¬ 
vin extant, and that not one of them has a text taken from 
the four Gospels. 
— The heaviest rail in use on any railroad in the country 
is believed to be that of the Camben and Amboy railroad, 
92 pounds per yard. 
— Saturday w eek was celebrated in many cities aud vil¬ 
lages by the Israelites with religious observance as the 
Jewish New Year. 
— Judge Probssco, n distinguished practitioner, and a 
partner of Hon. T. Corwin, died of typhoid fever, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, on the 18th ult. 
— A letter received from a reliable mercantile House in 
New York, states that $2,000,000 in gold it on its way from 
Liverpool to New York. 
— A bed of coal four feet and four inches in thickness, 
has been discovered near Neargo Station, on the Chicago 
Branch of Central Railroad. 
—Three CJ. 8. Senators from N. H., have died within 
three years, and all while in office, viz:—Moses Norris, C. 
G. Atherton and Junes Bell. 
— There are two newspapers in Western Virginia, that 
boldly advocate tbe eauso of free labor—the Wheeling In¬ 
telligencer and Wellaburg Herald. 
_Virginia lias twenty one thousand square miles of 
coal fields, a bituminous coal area nearly three times 
greater thau that ol Great Britain. 
— The artido of sponge which has become no inconsider¬ 
ate itc-ru in commerce, has been found growing in small 
quantifies at Meigs Wharf, California. 
— The Racine Journal says that the receipts of lumber 
at that port for month of August was 7,600,000 feet, against 
4,387,000 during same mouth last year. 
_B. F. Swott, of Mt. Morris, N. Y., cut a single corn¬ 
stalk, from a field on the fiats, upon which were six ears, 
measuring together 42% inches in length. 
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