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NEWS DEPARTMENT. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., OCTOBER 29, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia 
General Sheridan has again “met the 
enemy and they are ours.” The battle occurred 
at Cedar Creek on the 19th inst., Longstreet in 
command of the rebels. At first, as it will be 
observed, our men were likely to be defeated, 
when the brave Sheridan, who was returning 
from Washington, hastened to the field, restored 
order, “pitched into” the enemy, and won a 
splendid victory. We give the Jierald’s ac¬ 
count of the atlairs, from a correspondent 
The battle commenced before daylight, the 
moon shining brightly, and everything around 
calm and beautiful: 
While that stillness was prevailing, the en¬ 
emy had noiselessly massed a heavy col umn of 
troops behind the hills on the South-west side of 
Cedar Creek, and directly in front of the posi¬ 
tion occupied by our extreme, left pickets. At 
a given signal, as we afterwards learned, the 
enemy advanced rapidly in solid columns of re¬ 
giments. Our pickets were charged, some of 
them captured, and some of them driven in 
hastily, before they had time to discharge 
their muskets. In fact, what few jackets did 
come in, the enemy came in so soon after, and 
so close on them, that it was nearly a tie as to 
which parties first aroused the slumbering camp 
to the danger so near at hand. 
Having drivenjiu or captured our pickets on 
the_left line, the entire army of the enemy 
charged across Cedar Creek at the Ford, and 
was soon after on the bridge over said stream, 
and reached the hill and breastworks occupied 
by Thnrburn’s division of the 8th corps, 
The rebels hesitated not, but pressed on like 
a dashing cataract over all barriers, completely 
surprising, and in a measure stampeding the 
left of Gen. Sheridan’s line. 
By this success the enemy gained some artil¬ 
lery, I believe the 14th Pa. battery, and some 
prisoners of a regular battery. •*? - 
The suddenness of the attack and its wonder¬ 
ful success, for a short time bewildered the 
troops. Many of them were taken prisoners, 
but by far the greater part got away with their 
arms. -»«• • 1 --Ww'-s 
The other divison of Crook’s corps, which 
was allowed some time to form, did so, and 
were soon joined in line by the remaining por¬ 
tion of Coburn’s division. 
At this time the enemy kept pressing on, and 
pouring in on our men a rapid ancl murderous 
fire from musketry, as also from artillery post¬ 
ed upon the hills on the farther side of Cedar 
Creek. 
Having directed a column against Crook’s 
forces, the enemy quickly turned his attention 
toward the regiment of pickets, while the 19th 
corps, Gen. Emory’s command, was gathered 
into line, and his artillery got to work at short 
range. 
At this time a bold charge was made by the 
enemy, under cover of his guns, to capture 
Emory’s artillery. 
In a measure, this charge was successful, al¬ 
though it wag resisted with great vigor, and 
by a fire that would have done credit to the 
best veterans under the most trying circum¬ 
stances. 
In the charge, the rebels took one or two 
pieces of the 1st Me. battery, and I believe, a 
portion of the Chase battery. 
What most helped the rebels was the exact 
range which they got on our pieces from the 
one Etationed upon the elevated commanding 
position on the opposite side of the creek. 
As soon as the fight commenced, and it was 
known how the left had suffered, the 0th corps 
passed from its position, a reserve, to where 
the 8th corps was located in the commencement 
of the engagement. 
The trains, too, were got out as speedily as pos¬ 
sible, taking the Tike road to Winchester, where 
they arrived in safety. 
The enemy discovered the success ol' his sur¬ 
prise, and believing that it was now for him 
only to triumphantly advance, (and by the way 
I must mention that it was now broad daylight,) 
brought his columns and artillery across Cedar 
Creek to press the pursuit with vigor. While 
this was being done, and a brief lull prevailed, 
our line was concentrated and commenced slowly 
falling back. The enemy pressed the pursuit 
rapidly and with great persistency. 
Gen. Sheridan was on his way from Washing¬ 
ton back to his headquarters, when the attack 
was made. He reached Winchester the night 
before the attack, and remained there for con¬ 
sultation. Early In the morning he heard the 
cannon, mounted his horse and pushed forward 
to the front. On his way up ho met a string of 
teams going to the rear, accompanied by the 
usual number of wounded and stragglers which 
proceed from a reverse. Dressing onward, he 
found some considerable opposition was being 
made to the exultant foe. He seemed to come 
prepared to comprehend the state of affairs at a 
glance, and at once proceeded to remedy the 
evil that had been brought upon us. 
Organizing his forces, then seemingly more 
given to a retreat tnan an advance, he promptly 
changed the as|>ect of our military affairs, 
and turned the tide of battle, so rapidly grow¬ 
ing toward a disastrous defeat, into a glorious 
victory. 
The cavalry was. then sent upon the right, the 
19th corps placed next to it, the 8th corps in 
the center, and the 6th corps on the left. Gen. 
Howell’s division was for a time cut off' on the 
left. 
Our cavalry is pursuing the flyiug enemy, 
with our infantry following as fast as they can. 
Three rebel Generals are known to bo wounded, 
viz: Gen. Ramseur, who is a prisoner, Lomax 
and another General whose name I am unable to 
ascertain. 
Prisoners captured say that Longsteet lost 
three-fourths of his artillery. 
Nothing could withstand the impetuosity of 
Sheridan’s army. Charge after charge was made 
with the most brilliant success. We captured 50 
pieces of artillery and some 2,000 prisoners, and 
drove Longstreet, shattered and scattered, far 
up the valley. 
Sheridan's losses foot up, all told, 5,000 met. 
The rebel loss is set down at 10,000 men. We 
lost 24 guns—26 less than the rebels lost. 
When the news of Sheridan’s victory reached 
the Army of the Potomac, Gen. Grant ordered 
a salute of 100 shotted guus to be fired. The 
enemy, therefore, received u substantial token 
of Grant’s appreciation of Sheridan’s army. 
We have no news of importance from before 
Richmond. “ It is all quiet in the Army of the 
Potomac.” 
Movements in the West and Sonth-WeBt. 
Kentucky.— A train of cars was fired into 
near Paris on the evening of the 18th. The 
train was stopped, when the passengers got out, 
and another volley was fired, wounding some 
of the passengers. The train immediately put 
back to Irvington. Hon. Montgomery Blair 
was one of the passengers en route for Lexing¬ 
ton. He was missed when the cars reached 
Irvington. 
The rebels entered Mayfield on the 19th, and 
burned the Court House. They committed 
many other depredations. 
Tennessee. — On the IStb, a band of guer¬ 
rillas attacked 3nd destroyed a train of ten 
freight carson the Nashville and N. H. Western 
railroad, en route Irom Nashville to Johnson- 
ville. The engineer was killed. 
Eighty men of Col. McArthur’s colored regi¬ 
ment under Lieut. Johnson, were attacked near 
Fort Donelson on the loth, by two hundred 
guerrillas. Three charges were repulsed, when 
the rebels fled, leaving 40 killed anil wounded 
on the field. Our loss was four killed and ten 
wounded. Among the killed was Lt. Johnson. 
A friegbt train of thirteen ears of army sup¬ 
plies was thrown off'the track on the Nashville 
railroad, near Woodburn, by guerrillas, on the 
22d inst. The care and freight were burned- 
Arkansas. —Advices from Little Rock to the 
lGtb, represent all quiet there at present. Geu. 
Steele has a strong force under his command. 
Seouting parties have had several skirmishes 
with the rebels south of Little Rock. A num¬ 
ber of the enemy have been killed and wounded, 
and several captured. The rebels have captured 
some Government horses, mules and wagons. 
Missouri.— The rebels captured Glasgow on 
the 15th, and destroyed $150,000 worth of prop¬ 
erty. The place was held by six companies of 
the 43d Missouri 12 months’ men. 
They fought bravely for five hours, but were 
finally overpowered by superior numbers, and 
surrendered. The enemy bad four cannon. 
The steamer West Wind, lying at her wharf, 
was sunk. The City Hall and several other 
buildings, were burned. 
Ridgelv, in Platte county, was plundered by 
guerrillas on Sunday night, (10th.) and Smith- 
ville, Clay county, was burned the next day. 
Leavenworth. Kansas, is being fortified. 
Bill Anderson and sixty of his crew, entered 
Danville, Montgomery county, a few nights 
since, and murdered five citizens, mortally 
wounded another, snd burned eighteen build¬ 
ings. The county records were destroyed. 
The militia overtook the miscreants the next 
day, and killed fifteen and wounded seventeen. 
Lexington was occupied by the rebels on the 
15th, it having been evacuated by our troops the 
day previous. Price made Lexington his head¬ 
quarters. 
Gen. Curtis drove the enemy out of Inde¬ 
pendence on Sunday, the 16th. 
A Jefferson City correspondent of the St. 
Louis Democrat, under date of the 19th, says the 
news from Gen. Curtis is most cheering. Rose- 
crans has taken the field, and is now many mile9 
from here. 
Price has declared an amnesty to rebel de¬ 
serters, and they are bushwhacking and join¬ 
ing him. 
Bill Anderson and Holtselaw arc to join him, 
Quantrell is to be made a Brigadier-General, and 
Jackson is to have the command of a division. 
This proves that these guerrillas are regularly 
commissioned officers. It is thought that Price 
has 30,000 men. 
A dispatch to Sti Louis from Jefferson City of 
the 20th, states that the rebels re-crossed the 
Missouri river at Bermuda on the 18th. 
They now hold Brunswick, Keatsville and 
C’arrolton, and are plundering them. 
Col. Perkins is in camp at Fayette, Howard 
Co., with a regiment of bushwhackers. 
Gen. Fisk is repairing railroads west of Jeffer¬ 
son City. 
The last heard from Price was, that his camp 
was in the north-eastern corner of Lafayette 
county. Rosecrans is on his trail. 
Price’s train numbers over 400 wagons, which 
he is trying to get through the south-west por¬ 
tion of the .State, while he goes through Kansas. 
Price and the bogus Governor are reported to 
have had two quarrels — the latter thinking it 
practicable to bold the State, while the former 
deems it impracticable. 
Many of his officers declare they will not go 
back to Arkansas, but will remain in Missouri, 
whether Price does or not 
The Bt. Louis Democrat's Jefferson City special 
of Oct. 21, pays Gen. Curtis has been fighting 
Price's advance all day, on the Little Blue river, 
ten miles from Independence. 
Curtis holds a good positiou, and will stand for 
a regular engagement, if Price will continue the 
conflict. Rosecrans will he near, or at Lexing¬ 
ton. Everything is working finely. Re-enforce¬ 
ments will he on hand at the proper time. 
Gen. Sanborn is reported skirmishing with 
Shelby near Boonville. 
The guerrilllas, under Todd, entered the Ger¬ 
man settlement of Lafayette county, recently, 
(in the night.) and killed twenty-eight Germans, 
They also burned their houses. 
Leavenworth papers of the 20th, say that 
General Blunt with 2,000 cavalry and four pieces 
of artillery, entered Lexington on Tuesday, the 
18th, the rebels having evacuated the place. 
On Wednesday, Price attacked him with an 
overwhelming force, and after a sharp fight 
drove him from the city. 
Blunt fell back to the Little Blue river, figbt- 
ing desperately and retarding the advance of the 
enemy. 
On Thursday, skirmishing continued. Gen. 
Blunt lost about 50 men in killed and wounded. 
We glean the following from a dispatch from 
Kansas City, dated the 22d inst:—We fought 
General Price lor at least five hours. McLean’s 
Colorado battery silenced the rebel guus. Col. 
Hoyt made a gallant saber charge with a bat¬ 
talion of the 15th Kansas. The 2d Colorado 
lost GO killed and wounded. Our total loss was 
over 400. We evacuated Independence, falling 
back to the Big Blue. The militia have arrived. 
This morning we hold the line of the Big Blue. 
Gens. Curtis, Blunt and Pietslor were on the 
ground. 
Another dispatch says: —At 10 o’clock this 
morning, (22d f ) Col. Jennison, with the 15th Kan¬ 
sas, and several guns, was attacked at Byron by 
a heavy column of the enemy. About 2 P. M. 
the rebels forced the lord, Jennison falling hack 
toward Christopher and State Line. CoL Moon¬ 
light went to his assistance. Both commands 
got separated from the main force. 
A portion ol' the Kansas militia fought near 
Picknow's Mills, but had to retreat, and falling 
back m Shawneerown. the main body of the 
militia marched to Kansas City. They now 
occupy intrenohments there. Cols. Jennings, 
Moonlight, and Maj. Hart, with General Curtis’ 
body guard, fought the enemy until some time 
after dark, driving them four miles over an open 
prairie. Our loss was small; That, of the rebels 
more than 400. 
A message has been received from General 
Pleasanton, stating that he was pressing Price 
with 20,000 men; that he fought the rebels on the 
field yesterday, drove them from Independence, 
and was pursuing them. Price Is heading for 
Kansas, and may cross the State line in his re¬ 
treat. Our rear hud a sharp skirmish at the 
Big Blue this evening the rebels coming off 
second best. 
A dispatch from Kansas City of Oct, 23, says 
a general battle has been fought, and a victory 
won. Price’s whole army is retreating rapidly 
south, and our cavalry is in hot pursuit. The 
enemy may strike at Fort Scott, but will not be 
able to do much damage. 
Pleasanton captured, yesterday, a large num¬ 
ber of prisoners and three pieces of artillery. 
This morning our line Was formed five miles 
south of Kansas City on the Westford road. 
Skirmishing continued several hours, when the 
whole force advanced, and heavy fighting en¬ 
sued. The enemy fell back aud formed a new 
line a mile and a half from the first position. 
An artillery engagement succeeded, our in¬ 
fantry, meantime, slowly advancing. Fighting 
was kept up for ten miles from this point, the 
enemy falling back. 
Gen. Pleasanton then came in on our left and a 
grand charge followed, resulting in the total 
gout of the enemy. 
When our informant left the front, our whole 
cavalry was in vigorous pursuit, the infantry 
following them. 
Gem Blunt had command of the volunteer 
force on the left, aud Dietsler that in the center, 
composed of militia, who behaved gallantly. 
The 2d Colorado, Col. Ford, in the thickest of 
the fight, made several brilliant charges. 
Generals Curtis and Dietsler were constantly 
with the advance. 
Our loss was heavy. That of the rebels, from 
the number of the dead and wounded scattered 
over the field, must have been enormous. 
Nokthw-wkstkkn Gkokgia.— The impor¬ 
tance ol' our victory over Gen. Hood at Altoona 
was not made apparent by the first report. It 
appears by the corresjjondence of the N. Y. 
Dost, that there were stored there one million 
and a half of rations, of which Hood was in¬ 
formed by some women who ascertained the 
fact Besides, Altoona is so situated that with 
10,000 men Hood could have held the place 
against ten times his number. Hood attempted 
a surprise and capture, but Sherman, as soon as 
he learned the direction Hood had taken, sent 
forward three columns of troops, with fifteen 
days’ rations, with orders to hold the place. 
How well he held it is already known. 
Nashville advices of Oct. 18, say that Hood’s 
army destroyed the railroad for twenty-three 
miles, between Tunnel Hill and Reseca, turd 
also between Big Shanty and Atlanta. 
The rebel commander demanded the surrender 
of Resaca, threatening the garrison with death 
if Ills demand was not complied with. 
Colonel Weaver of the 8th Ohio, commanding 
the post, refused to surrender. After some 
brisk skirmishing the rebel force withdrew. 
The enemy advanced upon Dalton, which was 
surrendered without firing u shot, by Col. John¬ 
ston of the 41th colored infantry. 
But the tables have now been turned it seem*. 
Instead of Hood being able to cut off General 
Sherman’s communications, that notable rebel 
General with his whole army are moviog with 
more than usual celerity to get away from the 
Unionirts, evacuating the whole country In their 
flight. Some skirinlshliig has taken place, but 
the once valiant aud boastful rebel now slink 9 
away like a whipped cur from before the 
sturdy mastiff - . Sherman has in vain sought to 
Ilood- wink the rebel General into a fight. He, 
however, is on the wing to a more congenial 
climate. 
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AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
The President has appointed the last Thurs¬ 
day in November to be observed as a day of 
Thanksgiving and Prayer. 
Provost Marshal General Fry has decided 
that persons drafted who do not report them¬ 
selves to the Provost Marshals of their respective 
districts will not he allowed on the quotas. It 
is for the interest of the people in sub-distiicts 
where the draft has taken place to see that the 
delinquents make their appearance. 
A large number of merchants in Washington 
and Baltimore have been arrested for contra¬ 
band trading with the rebels. 
The War Department has given instructions 
that disabled soldiers in hospitals in the Depart¬ 
ment of the East, under General Dix, have fur¬ 
loughs to the 12tli of November. This will en¬ 
able them to vote at the ensuing election. 
To facilitate the soldiers voting by proxy in 
the State of New on the 8th of November, the 
Postmaster-General has directed all postmasters 
to notify persons having ballots sent to them of 
the fact, provided the documents are not called 
for on the day of receipt. 
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NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
There is great excitment in Kansas. Price’s 
rebels are expected at Leavenworth. The mil¬ 
itary and .State authorities are very active in 
measures for defense. 
The people of Maryland adopted a new Con¬ 
stitution on the 11th and 12th of this month, 
which rorever excludes slavery from the State. 
It had about 2,000 majority. 
In C’ojienhagen, at grand leasts, some wine 
of Queen Margaret’s vintage, 400 years old, is 
always produced. It is only drank from curi¬ 
osity, and has to be sweetened. 
The Postmaster of Lawrence, Mass., has 
been placed in an awkward position. He has 
received by mail a letter directed to “ the hand¬ 
somest young lady in Lawrence.” 
A dog employed by the rebels to carry mes¬ 
sages from one part of their lines to another, 
was lately captured in front of Hancock’s corps, 
and has been taken to Washington. 
In a little village in Canada there are as many 
uncalled for letters in the post-office now as 
there are people in the place. They are to 
skedaddlers from their friends here. 
The Maine papers say that all the crops in 
that State have come to maturity, with an aver¬ 
age yield; and the potato crop will be the lar¬ 
gest the State has produced In many years. 
The petroleum produced in Pennsylvania 
was sold at the wells for $50,000,000 during 
the last twelve months, and the iron and coal 
of Pennsylvania only produced $51,000,000. 
During the month of September, nearly 
sixty new works were issued by the Ameri¬ 
can publishers. Historical, biographical and 
other solid works are In the greatest demand. 
We hear from all over the country glowing 
accounts of the excellence of the potato crop. 
Such yields as 200 bushels to the acre, and such 
weights as three or four pounds are common. 
A Yankee has a pie factory in New York 
which turns out 40,000 every week. He oc¬ 
cupies four buildings and has ten horses and 
wagons engaged in delivering his pies about the 
city. 
A Milwaukee detective arrested nine boun¬ 
ty-jumpers on Thursday last. One of them 
had nine hundred dollars in greenbacks in his 
possession, and the others had various smaller 
amounts. 
Drinking shops and saloons were closed at 
Washington ou Sunday, and stable-keepers for¬ 
bidden to let carriages. The same regulations 
mil be extended to all places where soldiers are 
stationed. 
The miniature brig, Vision, left New York 
for Europe on the 20th of June. She was spo¬ 
ken July 20th, when about midway across the 
Atlantic, but since that time nothing has been 
heard of her. 
A detachment of colored troops, in an ex¬ 
pedition near Natchez, seized a rebel mail, 
and thirteen Union flags previously taken from 
our troops, which were being carried to the 
rebel capital. 
Among the drafted men in the Sixth Ward 
of St. Louis, on Tuesday last, were Brig.-Gen. 
E. C. Pike, now in the field in Missouri, Ex- 
Congressman Richard J. Barrett, and other 
prominent citizens of the ward. 
A rebel raid was made on St. Albans, Vfi, 
on the night of the 19lh inst., and several pei> 
sons were killed and wounded. About $300,000 
were stolen from the banks. The thieves also 
(about 23 In number) helped themselves to 
horses anti other property. 
The Canadian Union Convention for the pur¬ 
pose of perfecting the confederation of the 
North American British Provinces, assem¬ 
bled at Montreal Monday last. Thirty-five del¬ 
egatee were present from several Provinces. 
Resolutions were passed affirming the pro¬ 
posed confederation, and it is now a fixed fact. 
The Colored People's Convention, in session 
at Syracuse, N. Y., hist week, was largely at¬ 
tended, and Its procedings were of great inter¬ 
est. lt was a National Convention of eolored 
citizens of the United States, called for the 
purpose of promoting sound morality, educa¬ 
tion, temperance, frugality, industry aud thrift 
among the colored people newly freed by the 
List ol New Advertisements. 
Eastman National Businr a College—II. G. Eastman. 
Webster's Unnl’rHto ii Dictionary—G. AC. Me mam. 
New Sheep Eiir-Biog*—C. H. D;ui:t. 
"Westward Ho!—Emery A Co. 
Delaware and Concord Grape Vines- D. C. Ryder. 
Farm foe Rent or Let on shares— 11. 1*. Hutch. 
For Sale—N. 1’. Husie.J. 
Apple Seed-.L a. Root. 
The Whole Att or Ventrllo.pilsm—Julius Rising. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Bryant, Stratton A Chapman's Business College. 
Atlantic Monthly—Tlcluior A Fields. 
aijc News (Eoniicnser. 
— Mace and Coburn did not fight. 
— The yellow fever is prevailing in Charleston, S. C. 
— It costs New York city $100,000 a year to clean its 
streets. 
— The cod-fishery the present season is said to be n 
failure. 
— A man choked his wife t.o death the other day in 
Springfield, Mass. 
— Miners in Idaho get $12 per day. Shoeing n span 
of horses costs $ 12. 
— A " live and let live ” association has been formed 
at Manchester, N. II. 
— The Atlantic cable about to be laid will bear four 
times Its own weight. 
— The North-western Indians want gold instead of 
greenbacks for their annuities. 
— Mr. Robbins, an old Chicago merchant, died lately, 
leaving $8,000,000 to hla heirs. 
— There arc nearly 800 Southern refugees in Louisi¬ 
ana In destitute circumstances. 
— Lord Lyons says our government is not aware of 
the utter weakness of the rebellion. 
— Fifty pears on a stem eight inches In length are 
exhibited at a Fair in San Francisco. 
— A man in London has sued a photographer for 
making his legs crooked in a picture. 
— Fifteen thousand dollars worth of lace was sold in 
N. Y. city the other day by one houBO. 
— The vintage in France is a wonderful one this year. 
It Is difficult to obtain casks to put It in. 
— Bernard Murray was arrested in Philadelphia last 
week for murdering WiUlani Kncass in 1858. 
— Sir. Libby, owner of the Libby prison at Rich¬ 
mond, was recently captured by our troops. 
— The new long hridge over the Potomac near 
Washington is completed at a coat of $50,000. 
— A Bank Note and Lithographic Company has been 
organized in Chicago, with a capital of $50,000. 
— The distress of the inhabitants of the cotton man 
ufactoring districts or England is increasing daily. 
— The Chicago Board of Trade gave Gen. Hooker a 
magnificent banquet on his recent visit to that city. 
— The Danish government, it Is said, is anxious to 
sell its West India possessions to the United States. 
— The Third Rhode Island Artillery have lately 
contributed and sent $1,000 to the Sanitary Commis¬ 
sion. 
— It is reported that Queen Victoria is furnishing a 
story from her own pen for one of the London maga¬ 
zines. 
— The French are creating kitchen gardens in con¬ 
nection with all their garrisons, to be cultivated by 
troops. 
— An effort is beiug made in New York to abolish 
huckstering, and bring producer and consumer to¬ 
gether. 
— A little child in Canada was lately struck by 
lightning, and every particle or clothing stripped oil 
of her. 
— At a wedding in New York the other night, Wm. 
Fisher, one of the guests, shot himself and will proba¬ 
bly die. 
— Letters from Caprera, speak of the sound health of 
Garibaldi, who devotes himself entirely to agricultural 
pursuits. 
— Pittsburg, Pa, has 40 foundries, consuming 46,000 
tuns of metal annually, and paying a million dollars 
in wages. 
— The new opera house in Chicago will be four sto¬ 
ries high, with a marble front, and capable of seating 
3,500 persons. 
— Thos. 8. Cushman of Raymond, Mass., planted 13 
white beaus last spring, and the product is three pounds 
or 11,568 beans. 
— It is said that the iron-clad Monadnock can rnn 
from 11 to 13 knots per hour, and that she is the fastest 
iron clad afloat. 
— In the Island of Martinique 43S vipers were killed 
last year. Thirty-eight eggs was the highest number 
found in one nest 
— The yellow foyer has broken out afresh at Bermu¬ 
da. The panic was so great that some parishes left 
their dead unlmried. 
— A man In Canada 1ms offered to purchase ail the 
flax which can be raised in btratheay. This is done to 
encourage raising it. 
— Mr. S- D. Case of Canton Center, Conn., finds that 
by grafting hL* chestnut trees the nuts are not only lar¬ 
ger, but ripen earlier. 
— The supply q! apples and pears is so plentiful in 
England this year, that they hardly pay for transporta¬ 
tion to the market towns. 
— A butter dealer in Montreal is on trial for the 
criiuo of not putting on his butter tubs the number of 
pounds contained in them. 
— The colored people of Chicago have published a 
protest against the exclusion of their children from the 
public schoolB or that city. 
— A cannibal has been discovered living near JEidlltz 
inBohemi i. He killed an old woman and boiled her 
flesh with potatoes lor food. 
— A white ox weighing 4,000 pounds, a present from 
Carlos Pierce to Gen. Grant, recently appeared in a 
Boston torchlight procession. 
— At a circus in Philadelphia, lately, the perform¬ 
ance was stopped while the funeral procession of a sol 
dier passed the doors outside. 
— A Pennsylvania oil story relates how a man named 
Wallace, who could not buy a pair of boots a year or 
two ago, is now worth $’5,000. 
— A gentleman In Rent, England, lately ate a plum 
in which a wasp was hidden, which stung him so se¬ 
verely in the throat that he died. 
— The bonded warehouses in Boston are filled with 
goods, and the owners are waiting for gold to come 
down before they pay the duties. 
— Mr. II. H- Hunnewell hasgiven $ 2,000 to the Mass. 
Hurl ticulturn! Society as a fund for the encourgement 
of the art of landscape gardening. 
— Yale College 1ms lately received large and valua¬ 
ble additions to its collection of coins. There are now 
about 5,000 efiins in the collection. 
