MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
Items ol News, 
Election Returns.—Political Items, 
Financial Affairs 
The P. M. General has recently decided, that if 
the Post-Masters do not give publishers of news¬ 
papers notice when their papers remain in the 
Post-Office without being taken out by the sub¬ 
scribers within five weeks, they are liable for the 
pay. 
Mb. Uriah Trusts, the blacksmith who “drove 
the first bolt on the Frigate Constitution, in 1797,” 
died at Charlestown, Mass., on the 29th nit, at the 
good old age of 90 years. 
Thk farmers of ArooBtook county, Maine, boast 
of the wonderful yield of potatoes, Mr. Gerry, ol 
No. 3, says he has raised this year the peach blow 
variety at the rate of 340 bushelB to the acre, and 
the Jackson potato at the rate of 416 bushels per 
acre. 
Thk first railroad iron made in Indiana was 
rolled at DonglasB' mill in Indianapolis on the 29th 
nit They were T rails seven yards in length. 
Thk “ Ceredo Crescent,” is the name of a new 
paper started at Ceredo, Wayne Co., Va, a town 
on the North-western border, adjoining Ohio.— 
The Crescent contains an account of a large meet¬ 
ing held to give Hon. Ell Thayer an opportunity 
to address the people on his emigration scheme. 
The meeting fully endorsed his plan and encour¬ 
aged his scheme of raleing free towns in Old Vir¬ 
ginia. 
Five hundred loaves of bread will be distributed 
from the rear of the store No. 624, Walnut street, 
Philadelphia, every Wednesday and Saturday 
morning, at 10 o'clock, during the coming winter. 
Sixty freight cars passed over the Boston and 
Maine Railroad, two mornings in succession, last 
week, loaded with cotton from the Great Falls 
Manufacturing establishments, which is sent to 
Boston to be shipped to England; 16,000 bales 
have been thus disposed of. 
A steam carriage was seen in New York on 
Tuesday evening proceeding down Broadway on 
an experimental trip with three passengers. Its 
speed was about equal to that of an omnibus. 
The Galena lead mines advertise for ten thou¬ 
sand workmeo. Lot them provide for the trans¬ 
portation of laborers from onr principal cities, and 
they wonld not be in want of miners for many 
weeks to come. 
The Lake Superior Republican, np at Snperior 
City, saj s:—" Any amount of female help is wanted 
here, as girls to do house-work are very scarce. 
Good girls get from $12 to $30 per month.” 
Tub little Prince Imperial, ol France, ia entered 
npon the roll of the French Grenadier Guards, 
draws pay, and his name is called at master, when 
answer is made for him, “on leave with his family.” 
An apple tree in the nursery of Mr. Lindsay, at 
Union, Humbolt Bay, which is not much higher 
than a man’s head, bore eighty-one sppleB that 
would average half a pound in weight, making 
over forty pounds of fruit. The weight of the 
fruit would exceed that of the tree, roots, branches 
and leaves. 
A nonsB, valued at $300, owned by Henry Wal- 
dorpb, of the town of Kindtrbook, N. Y., was so 
much frightened by the sight of an elephant on 
Tuesday of last week, that It ruptured a blood ves¬ 
sel, from the effect of which it died on Friday 
night following. 
There is no such thing known amon ■ the Bur¬ 
mese as a drunkard. A Bur man knows that to be 
guilty of intoxication is to be punished with death; 
for the Government iuflicta thiB punishment for 
drunkenness as rigidly as it does for murder. 
The assets of the Islaud City Bank, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., which went into the hands of a Receiver 
some timeBince,on examination are found to con¬ 
sist of $1,500 in coppers and five inkstands! 
Tub milkmen have held a Convention in New 
York city to regulate the price of milk, fixing it at 
seven cents a quart for the pure article, and from 
that to five or six cents diluted to suit the taste of 
cheap customers. 
From the 1st of September to the 14th of Octo¬ 
ber inclusive, the day on which the banks upended 
Bpecie payment, the amount of notes of N. Y. State 
banks returned to the Register’s office and can¬ 
celled was $6,321,105. 
The Charity Hospital in New Orleans expends 
$75,000 annually, and treats an average of 15 000 
patients yearly. It is supported by an immigrant 
tax and by licenses paid by theatres, &c. The city 
contributes nothing. 
A letter from Brownsville, Texas, states that 
a silver mine, worked by Judge Watson, in that 
vicinity, has provod to be very valuable. Sixty 
men are employed iu taking out the ore, and the 
force iB to be doubled. Specimens of the virgin 
metal have been sent to the north, and it is not 
doubted that millions will be extracted. 
The New Orleans and SL Louis packet James E. 
Woodruff; now sails equipped with a full force and 
materials for the regular publication of a daily pa- 
per on board, during her trips up and down the 
river, and a job office attached for printing bills 
of fare and other work. 
A newsboy who took a $10 piece from a man by 
mistake, for a cent, and persisted in keeping it, was 
turned out of the Newsboys’ Lodging House, Sat¬ 
urday night, in New York, after being compelled 
to give up the money. 
The election in New York resulted in favor of 
ihe Democrats, their State ticket having, as far as 
ascertained, about 10,000 plurality. The political 
complexion ot both Senate and Assembly 1 b unde¬ 
cided—Republicans and Democrats each figure 
themselves in advance — but it wonld not be sur¬ 
prising if the Americans, five of whom were cboBen 
for Assembly, should hold the balance of power. 
The successful candidates on the State ticket are 
the following:— Secretary of State —Gideon J. 
Tucker. Stale Treasurer —Isaac V. Vunderpoel, of 
Buffalo. Comptroller — Sanfcrd E. Church, of Or¬ 
leans; Attorney General— Lyman Tremaine, of Al¬ 
bany. Canal Commissioner —Van R. Richmond, of 
Wayne; State PrisoJi Inspector —W. C. Rhodes, of 
Elmira. 
The returns from Massachusetts Indicate the 
success of the Republicans. In 318 towns Banks, 
Rep,, has 60,044; Gardener, Am, 31,482; Beach, 
Dem., 31,842; Swan, Straight Republican, 11.— 
Banks over Gardener, 23,112. Ot the eight execu¬ 
tive councillors, the Republicans have choseB sev¬ 
en and the Americans one. Tne Republicans have 
carried both houses of the Legislature by large 
majorities. The Senate stands, Republicans, 34; 
Democrats, 3; Americans, 3—all elected In single 
districts. In the House there are, Republicans 162; 
Democrats 39; Americans 34; undecided,6. 
In New Jersey tbe Democrats have elected six 
oat ot the eight Senators to be choseD this year, 
and the new Senate will Btand 15 Democrats, four 
Americans, one Republican and one Fusion. In 
the House the Democrats have 35, and the Opposi¬ 
tion 25. 
The last, intelligence from Minnesota respecting 
the State Legislature is that the joint ballot will 
consist of 65 Democrats, uud 62 lie public an—Dem. 
majority 3 on joint ballot. Five of these seats are 
to be contested on the ground of fraudulent voting. 
In Louisiana the vote is small through the 
State. The Americans had a large majority in 
New Orleans. 
In the Detroit municipal election the Democrats 
have elected the Mayor and a large majority of the 
city ticket 
The official vote of Ohio for Governor is as fol¬ 
lows:—Chase, Rep., 160,568; Tayue, Dem., 169,065. 
Republican majority 1,603. 
The result of the eleotion In Wisconsin is in 
dcubt, and each party claims the election ot their 
candidate for Governor. The Republicans have a 
majority in the Legislature. 
Return's from Maryland do not show any mate¬ 
rial change from last year’s vote. The Americans 
will have a majority in both branches of the Leg¬ 
islature. 
In Baltimore the whole American ticket is elect¬ 
ed, including Harris and Davis in the 13th and 16th 
Congressional districts. The American majority 
iu the city ia over 9,000. Kenkel, Dem., gains in 
the 5th Congressional district. 
Retcrns from all bat five counties in Iowa give 
Lowe, Republican Governor, 2,338 majority. The 
five counties to come in gave 48 Republican ma¬ 
jority last April. Tie new Legislature stands po¬ 
litically eb follows:—Senate—Republicans 22, Dem¬ 
ocrats 14; House— Republicans 41, Democrats 31. 
Massachusetts has this year elected to her 
Legislature at. unusual number of txo iricncod or 
noted Legislators. Among them arc Ox-Governor 
MarcuB Morton, and his son, Marcus Morton, Jr., 
of Andover, the father and son belonging to differ¬ 
ent political parties; Caleb Cushing, of Newbnry- 
port, late U. S. Attorney General, who was in the 
Legislature thirty-two years ago; Hon. Julius 
Rockwell, Wilson’s predecessor iu theU. S. Senate, 
chosen in Pittsfield; James H. Duncan, repr<teu- 
tat We from Haverhill, and Charles W. Upliarn, from 
Salem, who were but recently members ot Con¬ 
gress. Charles Hale, of the Boston Dally Adver¬ 
tiser, is re-elected from Boston, and Robert 8 
Rantonl, son of the late Senator Robert Ranton^ 
Jr., represerua the town ol Beverly. 
The Georgia Legislature has made choice of all 
the Democratic nominees, viz:—Toombs, Senator; 
Watkine, Secretary of State; Thiveat, Comptroller; 
Tripp, Treasurer; Green,Surveyor General; Lump¬ 
kin, Judge of Judge of Supreme Court. Tbe offi¬ 
cial majority of Gov. Brown Is 10,772. 
A warm discussion is going on over the U. 8. 
Senatorship to bo filled at the coming session of 
the Kentucky Legislature. The Democrats have 
control over both Houses. • Hon. James Guthrie, 
President Pierce’s Secretary of Treasury, and Hon. 
Linn Boyd, ex-Speaker of the House of Represen¬ 
tatives, are the candidates. 
Complete returns of the Maryland election have 
been received. The vote for Governor was 41 764 
for Hicks, Am., and 36,199 for Groorne, Dem.,— 
making Hick’s majority 8,507. The Senate will be 
composed ot 15 Americans and 7 Democrats, and 
the House of 41 Americans and 29 Democrats — 
Birton, Dem., is elected Jadge of the Court of 
Appeals from the 1st district. Three Democrats 
and three Americans are elected to Congress. 
By telegraph from New York, on the 9th inst,, 
we learn there is a better feeling in business cir¬ 
cles, and money matters are improving slowly but 
surely. Six of the city banks are ready to resume 
specie payments, and others are gradually comiDg 
into line. The specie statement to-night will Bho w 
about $14,000,000 in the banks. Four banks were 
thrown out to-day by the Metropolitan—the West¬ 
ern Bank of Lockport, Powell's Bank of Newburgh, 
Chemung County Bank, and Ontario Bank of 
Phelps. Business to-day at the Clearing House 
nearly $15,000,000 clearing, and upwards of $900,- 
000 balances. 
In the Boston Board of Trade, men are battling 
against the Usury Laws of Massachusetts, and de¬ 
manding but one bank of issue for the whole State, 
whose bills shall be based on specie or Govern¬ 
ment securities. 
An editor In one of onr Southern cities says that 
the people there have not discovered that the 
times are bard. Let them undertake to pay their 
debts, and perhaps they will make the important 
discovery. 
The City Council of St Paul, Minnesota, has 
passed an ordinance that the corporation iesne 
orders for all the indebtedness of the city in suras 
of one to twenty dollars, which are to circulate in 
a commercial form. This will put into circulation 
upwards of $60,000. They will also convert the 
paid np stock of the St Pan! Gas Light Company 
arid the St Anthony Suspension Bridge Company 
into a currency, as well as Ramsey County and 
T< rritorial orders—all of which would amount to 
$300,000. 
The merchants, manufacturers and citizens of 
Dubuqne, (Iowa) have formally resolved to receive 
and pay our. as currency, secured notes to be issued 
by the Dubuque Harbor Company, The notes will 
be of various denominations from $2 to $20. The 
lack of a suffieieut, supply of bank bills or auy other 
circuiting medium compels this step. 
The Lodi Printing Works in New Jersey, expect 
to resume business next week with from 300 to 500 
hands. 
The Springfield (Ohio) Nonpareil says tbe citi¬ 
zens of that town last week adopted a new p'an for 
protecting their banks from being run by the bro¬ 
kers. Learning that a broker had reached town 
from a neighboring city to rnn the bank for coin, 
they promptly placed on one side of the bank en¬ 
trance a bucket of tar and a brush, and upon the 
opposite a long, rough looking fence rail, bearing 
this inscription“Nary red to nary broker!” As 
the broker approached the bank he read the in¬ 
scription glanced at the t&r backet and retreated. 
The bank went on as usual. 
As the stockholders of the “Free Banks” of New 
York are made individually responsible for the 
mismanagement or peculation of bank officers in 
case of failure, we wonder if they can recognize a 
“family likeness” in the following: — A couple of 
youngsters, about ten or twelve years of age, were 
looking into the window of a tobacco ahop when 
one exclaimed:—“ I’d like to smoke a cent’s worth, 
bnt I have’ut the cent.” “ Hold on 1 I've got two 
cents.” “ That’B the ticket!—just the thing— one 
for the pipe and one for tbe tobacco.” *• Oh, yes! 
Bat what am I to doV” ‘ You? On, yon shall be 
Ihe stockholder; you cm spill ” 
The Currency of thr Coc.ntkv is so deranged at pres¬ 
ent that we must necessarily lose much During tbe eusniug 
Rural Campaign, and iherefoie trust our Iriends will Bend 
us the beet funds conveniently obtainable in their respec¬ 
tive localities. If our Western and Southern frtetris can 
remit in Drafts •» New York at tnrm-r rates Ol exchange, 
—or in bills on New York, Canada or New England rolveot 
Banks,—they will save us both trouble and expense.— 
Though Western and Southern money ia perfectly good at 
home, and not refused by os, } et we cannot at present ure 
it without a great sacrifice;-hence this request If our 
agents and other friends in all parts of the Union, the 
British Provinces, &e,, Will comply with these suggestions 
so far as convenient, the favor will be appreciated. 
— German and Italian emigration is said to be on the in¬ 
crease. 
— The Masonic Order in the U. 8., numbers some 800,000 
members. 
— The Lord Mayor of London, receives a salary of £7,000 
per annum. 
—Tbe Fair at the Crystal Palace, New York, closed on 
the 6th lost. 
— Charles F. Moting, Hanovnri&n Consul at Boston, died 
on the 7th inst. 
— Gen. Pierce is going to take a pleasure trip to toe 
Maderia Islands. 
— It is said that Queen Victoria will soon declare hers, i 
Empress of India. 
— The Mobile and Ohio Railroad ia finished 110 miles, o 
Crawfordville, Miss. 
— The Canada from Liverpool brought to New York 
$1,000,000 in specie. 
— The public debt of Russia amounts to 6,933,000,0001, 
about $1,386,600,000. 
— There are 2,600 sngar plantations in the U. S , yielding 
the South $12,000,000. 
— The American horse Prior, the property of Ten Brcecki 
died lately in England. 
— Judge Sinclair, Associate C. 8. Justice for Utah, has 
left for his post of duty. 
— A man in England died from a wound caused by strik¬ 
ing his wife in the mouth. 
— Gen. Von Reyor, Chief of tho Grand General Staff of 
the Prussian army, Is dead. 
— The fall emigration to Kansas, says the Herald of 
Freedom, is arriving overland. 
— The tobacco manufactories In Richmond, Virginia, have 
an aggregate capital of $5,000,000. 
— The present population nf Spain is near 17,000,000, an 
iucrease of about 8,000,000 elece 1849. 
— Among the advertisements in a late London paper, we 
read that “Two sisters want washing!" 
—There were 139 deaths in New Orleans week before 
last, of which 37 were from yellow fever. 
— Ice made on the 29th nit., of the thickness of a quar¬ 
ter of an inch in the suburbs of Boston. 
— Tho value of the tobacco crop in the Connecticut River 
Valley this year, is estimated at $600,000. 
— There are now loading at New York 30 ships with 
grain and flour, for Liverpool and Glasgow. 
— In Philadelphia, small notes from neighboring States 
are making their appearance in great numbers. 
— Mr. Thomas Stcvonsnn, one of the first settlers of Bel¬ 
fast, Me., died on the 20th ult, at the age of 31. 
— A new counterfeit ten on the Gloucester (Mass.) Bank 
bag made its appearance. It is poorly executed. 
— An English paper (rives an account of a party of 60 
old women, who were the mothers of 869 children. 
— Baron Liebig, the celebrated chemist, has received the 
order of Charles the Third from the Queen ot Spain. 
— The total number of failures since tLe flint of August 
is 900, and the liabilities are estimate d at $90,000,000. 
— Hog cholera has made its appearance iu Logan Co., 
Ky., and Sumner and ndjoiniog counties iu Tennessee. 
— It is stated that an offer of $10 per barrel for crai-ber- 
rles has been refuted by several growers ot Cape Cod. 
— It is said thut sugar and molasses from the maple tree, 
were first made in Beruardstowc, Fninklin Co, in 1766. 
— A machine has just been put in operation at a cigar 
factory in Berlin, Pruteh, which roll* out 5,000 cigars daily. 
— The Now York stuck market remains active, and Ihe 
recent arrivals of gold Lave helped prices to some expert. 
— Henry Floyd, a printer in the office of the Savr.nnah 
Georgian, has fallen heir to a fortune of $306/(10 in Eng¬ 
land. 
— Forty-seven vessels, with about 600,000 bushels of 
wheat, are now afloat from the Upper Lake ports for Os¬ 
wego. 
— Swimming is a passion with tbe lsdios of Paris-and 
a sensible one, too. The Parisian belles are all diving- 
belles. 
— The Onondaga Courier says that salt is being shipped 
in lar.e quantities, greatly to the relief of the manufac¬ 
turers. 
— The late vote in Kansas will range between 15,000 and 
20,000. This indicates a population bordering closely upon 
100,000. 
— Gen. Henningsen isin Washington, and reports Walker 
receiving constant accessions of men and money at New 
Orleans. 
— The Constitution of Minnesota has been ratified by 
the people. It received over 40,000, with about 1,000 
against it. 
— In view of the influx of gold, the New York papers 
are strongly urging the immediate resumption of specie 
payment*. 
_Wild game is said to be abundant in the forests of 
Ohio and Indiana. Quails are more plentiful than for some 
years past. 
— Eight States hftve appointed Tlwnkagiv ing on the 26th 
of November, two, Maiue and Mississippi, on the 19th of 
that month. 
— Rev. J. 8. Dubes, pastor of the German Reformed 
Chnrch at Allunton, Penn-, has married, since May, 1823, 
1,563 couples. 
— Thp inmates of the workhouse in New Orleans made 
a revolt on the 21st nit., in consequence of the bad fare 
furnished them. 
— A powder magazine at Roundpore, Persia, exploded 
by lightning, and over 1,000 persons were killed and 600 
houses destroyed. 
The Galena Advertiser thinks that the lead mines of 
that region, afford excellent “openings” for the unemploy¬ 
ed in eastern cities. 
— Tbe Governor of Minnesota lias declined to call an 
extra session of tbe Legislature to act with reference to 
the financial pressure. 
— Gov. Biset>ll, of Ill., is iu a very precarious condition 
and sulforing severely from the disease under which he has 
been laboring for years. 
The editor of a medical journal in France has been 
committed to prison for three monthe, for speaking disre¬ 
spectfully ol the Emperor. 
— John Hagan, Sr., a soldier under Jackson, and for 
many years a cotton merchant of New Orleans, died in 
Paris, France, on the 1st ult. 
— The Frovideuce Journal advocates the establishment 
of a Calico Society, and urges the ladies to wear the pro¬ 
ducts of home manufactories. 
— Senator Douglas is said to have lost heavily in tha 
current revulsion, having been engaged in extenrivo time 
speculations in Western lauds. 
— In Wolverhampton, the head-quarters of the iron 
manufacturing of England, the weekly transactions in that 
metal avenge above $0,000,C00. 
-r- fn Guatemala the cholera is raging with great violeDce, 
taking, among its victim", the wife of the President, and 
J3F” Agknts of thk Rural, and all others disposed to 
aid in extending its area of usefulness, are relerred to Pre¬ 
mium List for 1857-8, on last column of next page. 
List ot New Advertisements this week. 
School? y'n Patent Preseivstory— J L. AJberger. 
Mei car tile College—Bassett A Co. 
Arthur's Home Mavarine—T. 8 Arihm. 
200 Agei ts Wanted—Wm. J. Moses. 
Quince and Oh rry Stools—H. M. Ranney. 
Look!—K. Nash. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER 14, 1857, 
The Rural New-Yorker for 1858 
As the period for the commencement of the 
Ninth Volume ol the Rural is rapidly approach¬ 
ing, it may be proper to briefly announce, That 
such arrangements are being perfected as will 
fully maintain, if not augment, the Value and Use 
fulness of the paper—That no proper effort or ex¬ 
pense will he spared to make it continuously one 
increasing’y worthy ihe immense circulation it is 
attaining among all classes of community through¬ 
out the Country—That, Inasmuch as Da friends 
never sngpend their hearty encouragement »nri 
support, we are determined to furnish, during the 
year 1858, a journal which shall, more than ever, 
merit tho enviable distinction the Rural New- 
Yokker has attained as the leading and largest 
circulated Agricultural, Literary and Family 
Newspaper. 
The Rural baa become a favorite medium of 
communication, and a cherished Friend and Guide, 
in tens of thousands of Families throughout the 
States and Territories of this Confederacy, and tbe 
British Provinces. For this large and wide meas¬ 
ure of appreciation we are sir cert lyand profoundly 
gratefnl —and shall, In the future as in the past, 
endeavor to so conduct tbe paper, in each and all 
departments, as to make the most suitable retarn 
in onr power for the extraordinary favor it is re¬ 
ceiving at the hands of Farmers, Horticulturists, 
Merchants, Mechanics, and Professional Men, from 
Canada to the Gnlf, and Maine to Minnesota,— 
While wishing well to all our contemporaries who 
seek, as we do, to promote the Interests and Hap¬ 
piness of the People, we sha'l earnestly endeavor 
to maintain the Ruraf’s pre-eminence as the first 
Journal of its Class in Merit, Usefulness and 
Popularity. 
Conflagrations and Casualties, 
The depot of the Illinois Central Railroad at 
Cairo, with all ils contents, was destroyed by fire 
on the night of the 1st inst Four freight cars and 
the engine house were included in the property 
destroyed. The loss is estimated at $200,000.— 
Part of tbe depot was occupied by the agent of the 
Company, the clerks and expressmen, who lost 
everything. A package of $1,600 belonging to 
tbe Express Company was destroyed. A package 
of the same amount belonging to Adams, Graham 
& Co., was also destroyed. The amount ot insur¬ 
ance is not ascertained. This big depot wus a 
small town of itself. A number of the agents and 
employees of the road lived in it with their families. 
The building was of wood, very iiflammable, and 
set upon posts, to be above high water. This gave 
a great draft under it. The fire was caused by the 
bursting of the gasometer which was under the 
building, and the flames spread so rapidly that 
within ten minutes after tho accident the entire 
depot was a mass of flame. There was no time to 
save anything—indeed, some of the inmates barely 
escaped with their lives. 
On Wednesday night, the 4th inst., a fire was die- 
coveredintbe basement part of tbe wooden build¬ 
ing known as the “yellow store bonse,” situated 
on the dock side and close to the Erie canal, and 
in tbe rear of the Armstrong Block, Rome, N. Y.— 
The fire extended aud destroyed the “green store¬ 
house” adjoining. The property belonged to E. 
B. Armstrong & Co,, and was occupied by them. 
Their loss is some $10,000, and they are fully 
insured. The fire is supposed to have been canted 
by incendiarieB, as it originated in an unoccupied 
room. 
A fire occurred at Brownsville, Texas, on tbe 
16th nit. By the explosion of 95 kegs of gun¬ 
powder, four persons were killed and several oth¬ 
ers badly wounded. 
A locomotive on the Eazletcn Railroad burst 
its boiler on the 3d inst., at Hezleton, Pa., killing 
the engineer ana fireman and scalding two brake- 
men badly. 
A btkam boiler in Hayward’s India Rubber 
works, Providence, R. T., exploded on tbe 29th alt., 
aud the five buildings constituting the works were 
destroyed. 200 people were at work in tbe estab¬ 
lishment. Many of the girls jumped out of the 
windows, and some of them were Injured, but none 
very seriously. The boiler was thrown 200 feet, 
and in Hr course, carried away the side of a bouse 
where tbe family were at breakfast. Two of the 
workmen were severely injured, but it is hoped 
not fatally. The loss is $50,000, insured in New 
York. The cause of tho explosion was the lack of 
water in the boiler. 
Washington Matters 
The War Department on tbe 7th inst received 
despatches confirmatory of previous reports that 
the Mormons are bent on a resistance of tbe United 
States. Intelligence had been received that the 
Mormons were calling into Salt Lake City all their 
forces from the surrounding country, and were 
organizing to resist the U. 8. troops- Orders have 
been sent to Gen. Harney to remain at Fort Lea¬ 
venworth for the present. In case the Mormons 
do resist onr troops, another large force, under tbe 
command of Harney, will be immediately ordered 
to Utah. Jhe appointments of the army and gene¬ 
ral preparations are each that no fears are enter¬ 
tained for the result. 
The Administration has received no particularly 
important despatches hi relation to events ia Cen¬ 
tral America, or to the Costa Rican movements.— 
No matter what other Governments may do with 
regard to these affairs, oois will pursue an inde¬ 
pendent American policy, without entangling alli¬ 
ances. 
Omaha City, Nebraska, haB been designated by 
tbe Secretary of the Treasury a3 a new depository 
for public money. 
Gen. Walker, in a letter addressed to tbe Secre 
tary of State, says that so far as acy violation, on 
his part, of the acts of Congress is concerned, he 
denies the charge with scorn and indignation, and 
will not so far forget hfs doty as an officer of Nica- 
rangas, as to violate the laws of the United States, 
As th’e military organization is abandoned, about 
2,500 men from various Southern States, have en¬ 
rolled as emigrants to Nicaraugna. 
It has been heretofore stated that Lieut J. C, 
Ives, of the Topographical Engineers, had been 
assigned to the important duty of exploring tbe 
Colorado. This gentleman with his corps of as¬ 
sistants at last accounts had arrived at San Fran¬ 
cisco. The expedition was to sail for San Diego 
and cross from thence to Fort Ynma. From 
that pofnt they will descend the Colorado to its 
debouchere into tbe gulf of California, and there 
meet the schooner which was to Bail from San 
Francisco with supplies. After putting the little 
iron steamer together, Lient Ives and his party 
complete, will at once embark and proceed on 
their exploration. 
Hunger Biots. —For some days tbe telegraph 
has daily informed ns of meetings in New York 
city and Philadelphia by those unemployed, of 
fiery speeches and flaming banners, but it was 
thought that a'l would pars by without any overt 
acts of violence. The news received last night 
(9th ins*.) states that the hunger mob are ge'ting 
turbulent, and fears are entertained of an outbreak. 
They gathered in front of the City Hall to-day, 
calling the Mayor a humbug, and threatening to 
drag him from his office. A squad of Metropoli¬ 
tan Police were sent for and the crowd dispersed. 
At 3 o’clock the gates of the City Hull were closed 
and guarded. In consequence of certain threats 
thrown out, by the mob, Assistant Treasurer Cisco 
has telegraphed to Washington for authority to use 
the Government troops on Governor’s Island nrid 
the Navy Yard, il needed, to guard the United 
States funds in the Sub-Treasury and Banks. Mar¬ 
shall Rynders has also telegraphed to the same 
effect- 
What Becomes of Mexican Dollars — The 
demand for Mexican dollars in California, for ship¬ 
ment to China, causes the exportation of all that 
kind ol specie almost as soon as It arrives from 
Mexico. Tbe amount, exported during the last 
quarter amounted to $1,309,249; of which $1,121- 
48 went to China; $65,000 to Australia; $103,492 
Sandwich Islands; $15,000 to North America. Da¬ 
ring the first half of 1857 the exports of silver by 
sailing vessels amounted to $788,817, making the 
combined shipments for the nine months $3,098,- 
066. 
From Texas.— The Southern mails have been 
received. Dates from GalvestoD, Texas, aretothe 
27th ult. Tbe crops in San Augustine and Sabine 
counties were excellent. The cotton crop was 
later than usual. Below, several vessels were load¬ 
ing with cotton for European ports. A carefnl 
estimate of the cane crop in Brszoria Co. shows 
that 3,085 bogsheadB of sugar, arid 6,000 barrels of 
molasses have been made. Acres of cotton bales 
are piled np in Houston, and the warehouses are 
fall to overflowing. The general disposition is to 
ship direct to Liverpool. A company of 75 ran¬ 
gers, ordered by the Governor, had passed up 
through San Antonio. 
Australia. —The news from Australia by the 
steamer Royal Charter, whose arrival was reported 
by the Persia, Is of little importance. At Sydney 
wool was decidedly firmer; flour unchanged; to¬ 
bacco in speculative request at higher rates. At 
Melbourne tbe gold escort returns were in excess 
of the corresponding time last year, although the 
winter had been unusually dry. The Import mar¬ 
ket was overstocked. Flour and grain were inac¬ 
tive and prices wavering. Money market firm. 
Camklr. —The Washington Star thinks that in 
five years camel trains will be well nigh as com¬ 
mon in the far West of ihe UuHed States as on the 
most traveled routes of the EaBt. By this time 
next year they will doubtless bo imported on pri¬ 
vate aeconnt, and be in aetaal ubo by citizens 
crossing tbe great North American desert. 
Another Fillibustbbing Expedition. — The 
Evening Post states, on good authority, that Gen. 
Walker will sail thiB week from New Orleans for 
Nicaragua with 1,600 troops, in a fine steamer, with 
plenty of ammunition and provisions. Col. Dun¬ 
can, of the U. 8. army, goes out to command tho 
artillery. 
