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ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 28, 1866. 
Affair* In Washington. 
A bill 1ms passed the Senate (22 to 18) 
granting pecuniary aid to the Portland Bufferers. 
The nomination by the President of Alexander 
W. Randall as Postmaster-General, had not, at 
last advices, (July 23,) been confirmed by the 
8 enate. Mr. R. is from Wisconsin. 
The House passed a joint-resolution on the 
20th inst. restoring to Tennessee her former rela¬ 
tions in the Union. The ayes were 125, nays 12. 
A concurrent resolution passed the House on 
the 10th inst., to adjourn for the session the 25th. 
Members of both Houses are leaving the Capital. 
Attorney-General Speed has resigned, and the 
President nominated to the Senate on the 20th, 
Henry Stanberry of Ky., as Mr. S.’s successor. 
The President has approved the findings of the 
court-martial in the case of Lieut,-Colonel Pauld¬ 
ing, and directs that the sentence be carried into 
effect, although great efforts were made in his 
behalf by personal friends. 
Secretary Harlan received a dispatch the 18th, 
stating that another twenty-mile section of the 
Pacific Railroad had been completed, making in 
all one hundred and five miles. Commissioners 
have left to examine and report if it be suitable 
for the Government to accept. 
Freeman Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency, 
last week, tendered his resignation of that office 
to the Secretary of the Treasury, to take effect 
on the 24th inat. R. D. Hnrlburt of New York, 
has been appointed to fill the vacancy. 
Caleb Cushing of Massachusetts, Judge John¬ 
son of Ohio, and R. I. Meigs of Washington, 
have been selected as Commissioners to revise 
end codify the Statutes of the United States, in 
accordance with a late act of Congress. 
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has 
decided not to collect the ten per cent, imposed 
by the act of March 3d, 1865, after July 1st, 1866, 
although that clause is not repealed until the 
new act goes into effect on the first, of August. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed 
Hon. David A. Wells, Special Commissioner of 
the Revenue, being a new ofllce created under 
the recent Revenue Act, with a salary of £4,000 
s year. Mr. Wells is now Chairman of the U. 8. 
Revenue Commission. 
The War Department has ordered, at the in¬ 
stance of the President, that all persons who are 
undergoing sentence by military courts, who 
have been imprisoned six mouths, (except those 
who are under sentence for the crime of murder, 
arson or rape, and excepting those who are 
under sentence at the Tortugas,) be discharged 
from imprisonment, and the residue of their 
sentences remitted. 
The Second Comptroller of the Treasury has 
decided that when a soldier, on his return from 
desertion or absence without leave, is sentenced 
to make good the time of his illegal absence, he 
will be paid at the rates he obtained while he 
was absent, and will not be allowed the benefits 
of any law changing these rates until he shall 
have satisfied the sentence or served a time 
equal to that which elapsed between his deser¬ 
tion and the passage of the law. 
The following bills have been approved by 
the President during the past few days:—De¬ 
claratory of the law of bounty; to amend the 
act making a grant of land to the State of Min¬ 
nesota to aid in the construction of a railroad 
from St. Paul to Lake Superior, approved May 
5tli, 1864; making appropriations for the sup¬ 
port of the army for the year ending June 30th, 
1867; providing for making the town of White¬ 
hall, N. Y., a port of delivery; relating to pilots, 
and the internal revenue bill. 
Southern Item*. 
TnE condition of affairs in Tennessee are 
reported as very encouraging. 
The gambling dens in the city of New Orleans 
have been closed by the municipal authorities. 
General Rousseau has tendered his resignation 
as a member of the U. S. House of Representa¬ 
tives to Gov. Bramlette of Kentucky. 
The Raleigh (N. C.) Progress says a nephew 
of the King of Prussia has arrived there on a 
tour of inspection of the battle-fields of the South. 
Some young men, while bathing in Mobile 
Bay, recently, were attacked by sharks. One 
was bitten in two and then devoured. The 
others succeeded in escaping. 
The Tennessee Legislature has ratified the 
late proposed Amendment to the Constitution 
of the United States. The vote stood—House, 
43 ayes to 11 nays. Senate—14 ayes to 6 nays. 
Over seventy convicts were discharged from 
the Richmond (Ya.) Penitentiary on the 19th 
inst., under the recent order from the War De¬ 
partment directing the release of prisoners 
convicted by military tribunal. 
A severe storm occurred off the coast of Texas 
on the 13th, 14th and 15th inst. Four vessels 
are known to be lost. The fate of the steamer 
Potomac is not known, but it is thought that 
she has gone down with all on board. 
The remain* of our soldiers scattered in the 
vicinity of the James and York Rivers are to be 
disinterred by order of the Government, and 
'consigned to their final resting places in the 
cemeteries at Yorktown and Camp Hamilton. 
A Beaufort (S.C.) correspondent writes:—“The 
cotton crop promises to be the finest for many 
years. The planters have placed under cultiva¬ 
tion a larger portion of their land than for a 
number of years past, and reports received from 
reliable sources speak of a very heavy yield of 
the staple.” 
A piratical craft recently arrived In Galveston 
harbor, Texas, wearing the black flag and carry¬ 
ing six guns on each eide. City officers went 
out towards her in a row-boat, hut were fired 
upon and forced to retire. The pirates then 
steamed away. A U. 8. gunboat followed the 
vessel some time, but could not overtake her. 
A Savannah (Go.) dispatch of July 19, says 
“ the steamer San Salvador arrived at quarantine 
yesterday with 500 recruits for the 7th regulars. 
There were twenty-eight cases of cholera among 
them and three deaths during the voyage—[from 
Hart’s Island, near New York city.] One death 
occurred after arriving at Tybee Bar, and one or 
two after the troops landed on Tybee Island.” 
A Savannah (Ga.) dispatch of July 22, says 
“seven new cases of cholera occurred on Ty- 
bec Island yesterday. Five additional deaths, 
including Lt» J. F. Hayes, have also occurred. 
No cholera in the city." 
Conflagrations. 
A fiue in Charlotteetown, Prince Edward’s 
Island, on the 15th inst, burned one hundred 
buildings. Loss, $200,000. 
The Uniou Coal Oil Company’s refinery at 
Maysville, Ky., was destroyed by fire on the 17th 
inst. Loss very heavy. 
Thirty-three buildings were burned in Chicago 
on the 16th. Fifty families were rendered house¬ 
less. Loss $113,700. Insurance $48,500. 
A dispatch from Halifax of July 16, says 
“ Lower Canning was burned on Saturday night, 
the 14th. Over fifty stores and dwellings were 
destroyed.” 
A fire broke out at the “New Brighton” 
well, Smith’s Ferry, Pa,, on the 17th inst., and 
destroyed that well aDd nine others. The loss 
is estimated at $50,000. 
A house was struck by lightning In Bowdoin- 
ham, Me., last week, which was burned with 
two barns. Two children were killed by tbe 
lightning. A fire occurred at Stillwater Mills, 
Cherrylluld, Me., on the 15th. Loss $20,000. 
The cotton seed oil factory of the New 
York Oil Company in Nineteenth street, and 
the primary school house adjoining, in New 
York, were destroyed by fire on the ISth. The 
Maeearoni factory of Mr. Billings was damaged. 
Loss $50,000. Partially insured. 
From tbe Pacllic t oast. 
A dispatch from Victoria, dated July 13, 
announces the arrival of the bark Emeline'Wood 
from London, and the ship Mohawk from Graves¬ 
end, Eng., with wire for the Russian-American 
Telegraph. 
A San Francisco telegram of July 14, says that 
“ Honolulu advices report that the clipper ship 
Harry Mitchell from New York for San Fran¬ 
cisco, was burned at sea, May 3d, in lat. 2° N., 
Ion. 125 west. The captain, twelve of the crew 
aud two passengers, named Ferguson and Lan¬ 
der, have arrived at San Pablo, CaL, after being 
43 days in a loDg boat. Two other boats are yet 
out, containing the 1st and 2d mates aud about 
twenty others, who kept co\npany with the 
long boat niueteen day6, and then parted. The 
ship carried a large quantity of kerosene,' and 
burned rapidly." 
Another San Francisco dispatch, dated the 16th 
inst., says “the bark Keoka sailed last Saturday 
ostensibly for the Colorado River, but really for 
Sonora, Mexico. After getting outside she re¬ 
ceived 147 disbanded California volunteers, armed 
with Henry’s rifles and bowie knives, and amply 
supplied with both ammunition and money. 
Capt. J. B» Urney, who has a commission as 
Brigadier-General in the Liberal army, is in com¬ 
mand of the expedition." 
From Mexico. 
The N. Y. Herald’s city of Mexico corres¬ 
pondent of July 5th says:—A new naturalization 
law has been promulgated^rhich gives any for¬ 
eigner the right to become a citizen of Mexico 
in 24 hours after his arrival, by renouncing his 
allegiance to his native country and having some 
visible means of support. 
The system of passports has been abolished. 
An American named Jackson, formerly a captain 
in the 34th New York infantry, was ordered to 
leave the country by the Liberals, after having 
his stock stolen and his crop destroyed. They 
threatened to hang him if he did not leave. 
The capture of Matamoras was a severe blow. 
The Emperor and Marshal Bazaine are at logger- 
heads—not speaking to oue another—the latter 
being considered responsible for the surrender. 
Gen. Mejia and staff, who evacuated Matamo¬ 
ras, had arrived at Mexico. The Liberals claim 
that Tampico and Tuxpan are both in their 
hands. Geu. La Madrid, a Mexican Imperialist 
defending Tampico, has re-hoisted the Mexi¬ 
can flag and turned the guns of the city against 
the French soldiers and inhabitants. A small 
skirmish took place 13 miles from Vera Cruz, 
which# created considerable excitement in that 
town. The Liberals occupied Huadmango. 
Maximilian had recalled the Imperial Consul 
at Liverpool, for having disobeyed the orders of 
his legation. 
Colottan had been abandoned by the Liberals. 
The Liberal Chief, Martinez, had attacked Ures, 
in 8onora, but was repulsed. 
Garcia Morales was at the North American line 
receiving arms and powder. It is also said 
Corona had received six pieces of cannon at Al- 
tala, from SaD Francisco. 
A French iron clad gun boat had arrived at 
Tampico to aid the naval forces there. 
Letters from Monterey describe affairs in that 
section as very gloomy. The frontier is full of 
Liberals. Toluca was again invaded by the Lib¬ 
erals under Rc-gules. 
The departure oi the Empress is Baid to be for 
the purpose of attending to international affairs. 
The American Bible Society is flourishing 
finely in Mexico and other cities, notwithstand- 
ding a determined opposition from the Priest¬ 
hood, who recently raked np an old law and 
confiscated the stock in several places. The 
Emperor came to tbe aid of the Bible agents, 
however, and they ere free from persecution 
for the present. 
Indian Treaties.— A dispatch dated Omaha, 
Nebraska, July 16, says: — “Satisfactory trea¬ 
ties of peace have been concluded with the 
Upper Platte, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at 
Fort Laramie. The contradictory reports are 
without foundation.’’ [The dispatch is signed 
by E. B. Taylor, R. McLaren, and Thomas Wi6- 
tar, U. 8. Commissioners. An Omaha dispatch 
of July 21st, says that the treaty is a failure, and 
that there will be an Indian war.] By alatetreaty 
with the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, they 
covenant that slavery shall never exist among 
them, and in consideration of the snm of tbe 
$300,000, cede to the United States the territory 
west of the ninety-eighth degree of west longi¬ 
tude, known as the “Leased District," and obli¬ 
gate themselves to bestow upon all persons of 
African descent, resident in the Nations, and 
their descendants, all the rights, privileges and 
immunities, including the right of suffrage, of 
citizens; and also give them each forty acres of 
land on the same terms as tbe Choctaws and 
Chickasaws. 
National Funds. — The following was the 
amount of public funds in various United States 
Depositaries in the West, May last, as offidaUy 
furnished to the Committee on Banking and 
Currency in the United States Treasury and sub- 
Treasurie6 $193,827,578; in National banks $467,- 
655.90. Total $2-10,593,109. Of the above there 
was to the credit of the United States Treasury 
$192,070,999: and to the credit of disbursing 
officers $4S5,15L?0. Total $240,593,169. Dis¬ 
tributed as follows:—In the Treasury, Ac., 
to the credit of the Treasurer $163,572,640; to 
the credit of disbursing officers $30,254,931. 
Total $1,938,275,978. In National bankE to the 
credit of the Treasurer $28,505,352; in National 
banks to the credit of disbursing officers $1S,- 
260,239. Total $46,765,591. 
Important to Heirs of Deceased Sol¬ 
diers. —In answer to the question — “ Can the 
mother of a soldier, non-resident at the time of 
the decease of her son, but who had subse¬ 
quently come to this country, receive the boun¬ 
ty ?”—the Second Comptroller of the Treasury 
has decided that all the right the party had came 
into effect the moment of her son’s death. If 
she had then no title to the bounty, she could 
not acquire it by subsequently coming to this 
count ry. To allow bounty in such a case as 
that above set forth, would, in effect, make void 
one of the provisions of the law granting it, and 
leave accounts for bounty indefinitely open, and 
liable to be decided by the advent to this coun¬ 
try of the heirs named in the law of July 11,1862. 
The British Cabinet.— The following is the 
complete list of the new Cabinet of Great Brit¬ 
ain :— Premier — Lord Derby. Chancellor of 
the Exchequer—Mr. Disraeli. Foreigu Secre¬ 
tary — Lord Stanley. Home Secretary — .Mr. 
Walpole. Colonial Secretary—Lord Carnarvon. 
Secretary for India—Lord Cranbornc. Secretary 
of War—Geu. Peel., First Lord of the Admi¬ 
ralty— Sir John Packington. President of the 
Couucil—Duke of Buckingham. Privy Seal — 
Lord Malmesbury. Lord Chancellor — Lord 
Chelmsford. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland—The 
Marquis of Abercorn. President of the Board 
of Trade—Sir Stafford Northcote. President of 
the Poor Law Board—Mr. Hardy. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The Cholera. —For some days past the chol¬ 
era appears to have been extending its ravages 
in and around New York city. On the 20tb, 10 
deaths were reported on Governor’s Island and 9 
on Hart’s Island. Seven cases were reported in 
New York the 20th—2 were fatal. Sixteen cases 
were reported in Brooklyn the 20th—5 were fatal. 
The disease has been quite severe in Elizabeth¬ 
town, New Jersey. [One fatal case in Boston.] 
Five deatli6by cholera were reported in New York 
on the 21st, and twenty cases and seven deaths 
in Brooklyn. During the week ending the 21st 
inst. at noon, 1,102 burial permits, from all dis¬ 
eases and casualties, were issued in N. York city. 
Salt in Yates County.— W. D. Green has 
opened a well of salt water in Italy, Yates 
county, N. Y., which promises to be highly pro¬ 
ductive. The specific gravity of the water as 
indicated by the salometeris 90 — considerably 
stronger than the water at the Syracuse works. 
The well is 300 feet deep and pumps about 200 
barrels per day. A company is about commenc¬ 
ing the manufacture of salt at this point. 
Gen. Sweeney —Who has been under arrest 
at St. Albans for some weeks past, has been ad¬ 
mitted to bail in the snm of $5,000, aud left that 
place for New York city on the 19th inst. Gen. 
Spear and Col. Meehan, who were under arrest 
at the same time, have also been admitted to bail, 
the former in $5,000, and the latter in $3,000. 
The Presbyterian Church on Franklin avenue, 
Brooklyn, was slightly damaged by lightning on 
the 19th inst., and two persons were killed in 
the street. 
The Firemen’B Association of New York city 
have voted to send forty men and an elegant 
steam fire engine to Paris on the opening of the 
Great Exhibition. 
Two suspected colored women were arrested 
in Toronto, C. W., a few days ago, when it was 
discovered that they were disguised deserters 
from the British army. 
“ Long John Wentworth ” is a candidate, 
we learn, for the next Congress, from the 
Chicago district, and the canvass has already 
become very animated. 
The cholera still continues to rage at Stettin 
and Berlin, (Prussia,) and is increasing. On 
the 7th of July, 148 cases were reported at Ber¬ 
lin, Of which 71 proved fatal. 
Ten persons were poisoned, recently, at a 
Camp Meeting near Oak’s Comers, Wayne Co., 
from eating beef tongue. The parties were 
very sick, but have all recovered. 
A large number of persons were prostrated 
by the intense heat in Baltimore on the 17th 
inst. The thermometer stood 103“ in the shade. 
There were eight deaths from sun-stroke. 
New York papers of Monday morning, the 
l6tb inst., were delivered in Cincinnati at 12.30 
on Tuesday. The Commercial says this is the 
fastest time ever made between the two cities. 
A revolution broke out at Gonaires, Haytl, 
July 5th, and spread through the adjoining ter¬ 
ritory. All communication was cut off between 
the north and the Capital. All business was 
suspended. 
The gentlemen who ‘went bail’ for Head Center 
Stephens a short time since, in the suit of A. P. 
Slnnot of Boston, for $4,000, have surrendered 
him to the authorities, and he has been com¬ 
mitted to jail. 
The Virginia papere record the death of Gen. 
John H. Cooke, at the age of 86 years. He was 
a Brigadier-General in the war of 1812. For 
many years Gen, Cooke was a distinguished 
“Apostle of Temperance.” 
Wool from the Rocky Mountains, in regions 
where alkalies abound, has been found almost 
worthless to the manufacturer; so says the Ore¬ 
gon Agriculturist, on account of rottenness of 
the fiber, particularly next to the skin. 
A rope factory in Williamsburg, N. Y., on 
the 18th inst., was struck by lightning. Four 
boilers exploded instantaneously, which made 
great havoc with the building. It is remarkable 
that but one life was lost in the general wreck. 
The organ now being placed in Mr. Beecher’s. 
Church, Brooklyn, has 52 sound stops and 3,458 
pipes; the coupling and comet has 15 stops and 
1,276 pipes. The width of the organ is 27 feet; 
depth, 22 feet; height, 41 feet. It cost $25,000. 
A party of Americans traveling in Austria 
have been arrested as spies for having in their 
possession Lloyd’s Military Map of Europe, 
which is, (so far as Austria is concerned,) an ac¬ 
curate re-productlon of the “Austrian Private 
Military Map.” 
Tns whole quantity of salt inspected on the 
Onondaga Salt Springs Reservation from Jan. 1 
to July 1, 1866, is 1,280,350 bushels. The whole 
quantity inspected daring the same time in 
1865, 843,006 bushels; increase-over last year, 
443,344 bushels. 
Head Center Stephens was arrested in 
Boston last week on complaint of P. A. Sennat, 
who claims $4,000 for delivering lectures on 
Fenianlsm, together with expenses incurred by 
him in the Campo Bello expedition. Stephens 
gave hail to answer in $7,000. 
At Lebanon, Tenn,, recently, four children 
became citizens of this breathing world at one 
birth,— two boys and two girls,— each weighing 
six pounds. AB parties are doing well. A simi¬ 
lar event happened a short time since in Michi¬ 
gan, but all four of the children have died. 
A new Jewish synagogue, in Berlin, Germany, 
is just completed at a cost of $750,000 in gold. 
The huge dome is visible from every house-top 
in Berlin. It is provided with 8,000 chairs for 
the worshipers. These arc of oak and richly 
carved. To occupy one of these chairs costs 
about $500 a year. 
The 17th inst. was the hottest day ever known 
in the city of New York. The thermometer at 
3 o’clock P. M., stood at 102 in the shade. 
Forty-three cases of sun-stroke were reported; 
twenty-three proved fatal. There were also six¬ 
teen cases of sun-stroke in Brooklyn on the same 
day, niue of which were fatal. 
Seven counterfeiters of National Currency 
were arrested in New York city one day last 
week, aud a large amount of bogus money, 
plates, dies, presses, &c,, was captured. The 
parties arrested are believed to lie the leaders of 
a gang of counterfeiters in that city. Their 
arrangements for prosecuting their nefarious 
work were admirable. 
The losses of insurance offices by the Portland 
fire foot up $3,517,000. These losses range 
from $-8,000 to $391,000 for the different offices, 
being fifty-one in number. Since the fire it has 
been ascertained that some 12,000 people were 
rendered houseless by the calamity. The burnt 
district has been accurately surveyed, and found 
to cover an area of 327 acres. 
The proprietors of the “Fort Pitt Cannon 
Foundry'" at Pittsburg, contemplate sending to 
the Paris Exhibition a cannon of 20-inch bore, 
22 feetlong and 5)^ feet in diameter at the breech; 
weight, fifty tons. It is to be mounted on a 
carriage (iron) weighing eight tons, and will be 
accompanied with shot, shell and cartridges. 
After the gun is cast it will require two weeks 
tor it to cool. 
List of New Advertisements. 
Combined Clover Thrasher and Hnllrr—J C Birdsell. 
Parkrr's Patent Fruit Gatherer—Holden & Howard. 
Wanted, Aeenu—G W Crowell A Co. 
I.XL Onguent—E A Zimmerman. 
See Advertisement. 
t£l)c News Conbenscr. 
— Albany has raised $8,000 for Portland sufferers. 
— Ladies are driving “ tandem teams " at Newport. 
— Lord Monck, Governor of Canada, is to be made 
a peer. 
— There is another anti-rent excitement in Albany 
county. 
— Bonner, the Ledger man, reports an income of 
$165,609. 
— William B. Aetor returns an income for 1865 of 
$1,154,059. 
— Tbe U. S. Paymasters office in Albany has been 
discontinued. 
— Blackberries are dull at Petersburg, Va., at 25 
cents per peck. 
— The journeymen plasterers of Memphis, Tenn., 
demand $6 a day. 
— Two sisters lately met in Baltimore after forty- 
years’ separation. 
— At Chicago 50 families were rendered honseless 
by fire Monday week. 
— The currant worms are ruining the currant bush¬ 
es in Sullivan county. 
— The apple crop in New Hampshire it is said will 
be quite small this year. 
— A Cotswold ram in Massachusetts lately sheared 
14 lbs., and a ewe 12 lbs. 
— A fire in Philadelphia lately de9troyd property 
valued at about $2,000,000. 
— Tbe New York collections in aid of the Portland 
sufferers amount to 109,553. 
— The people of Boston and Philadelphia are con¬ 
structing free public baths. 
— The gambling dene of New Orleans have been 
ordered closed by the Mayor. 
— John Walker of Columbus, Ga., recently died 
from the effect of a rat’s bite. 
— Gen. Hooker is improving in health, and will 
soon be able to return to duty. 
— A boy died in Macon Co., Ill., recently, from the 
effects of a etlDg from a catfish. 
— Major Ross of Kansas has been appointed to fill 
Senator Lane's nnexpired tenn. 
— There is no tax upon imported cigars in the In¬ 
ternal Revenue Bill just passed. 
— A child was devoured near Galveston, Texas, by 
an alligator. In full view of her father. 
— About 200 of the British officers who bore a part 
in the battle of Waterloo still survive. 
— The American Watch Co. is manufacturing time 
pieces which will wind up themselves. 
— Wm, M. Wise of Greenfield, Mass., picked ripe 
tomatoes from his garden the J2th inst. 
— A severe shock of an earthquake was felt at Sac¬ 
ramento, Cal., the night of the 15th inst. 
— Three girls aged 7, 9 and 11 years were drowned 
lately at llavcrhill. Mass., while bathing. 
— The cattle plagne haB swept off 200,000 head of 
cattle in England, and is still unsubdued. 
— Over $50,000 in gold has been subscribed in Mont¬ 
real Tor the relief of the Portland sufferers. 
— A little boy was frightened to death by the shriek 
of a locomotive In Lancaster, Pa., recently. 
— The overflow of the Alabama river is said to 
have cost the planters 3,000 bales of cotton. 
— 11 is estimated that $300,000 worth of furs will he 
received at St. Paul, Minnesota, this season. 
— The 131b, the last of the Maine regiments, arrived 
at home last. week. They numbered 190 men. 
— The Mayor of Montgomery, Ala., fines the hack- 
men of that city $5 for swearing in the street. 
— The Memphis and Ohio Railroad is so near com¬ 
pleted that trains will soon run through to Louisville. 
— Arrangements are being made for the holding of 
a “ National Horse Show " in Dublin September next. 
— The only American flag exhibited at Gallatin, 
Tenn., on the 4th of July was torn down by a rebel 
mob. 
— The St. Clair farm at Hampton, Va., upon which 
1,300 freedmen are quartered, has bees restored to 
its owners. 
— Mr. Pike has determined to erect an immense 
Merchants’ Exchange in Cincinnati instead of an 
Opera House. 
— Several New York cotton speculators are already 
at Columbus, Ga., endeavoring to get hold of the 
forthcoming crop. 
— The principals of the New Haven public schools 
have had their salaries raised 20 per cent., and now 
receive $1,750 each. 
— A hoy died in Chicago lately from the effects of 
Bwimining in a pond where the carcasses ol' animals 
had been deposited. 
— It is reported that the injury to the cottan crop 
by the floods in the Arkansas river wM not be so 
great as anticipated. 
— One of a late band of Norwegian immigrants to 
Wisconsin was a woman 106 yea's old, who had 78 
descendants with her. 
— A new law in Connecticutprovides a severe pen¬ 
alty for the crime of procuring the publication of a 
bogus marriage notice. 
— The Preable cheese factory, Cortland Co., made 
17,660 pounds of cheese last year, which they sold 
for 19% cents per pound. 
— A young colored woman recently graduated at 
the Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N. Y., and bore oft 
the honor of the third prize. 
— The statue of Cleopatra, by W, W. Story, has ar¬ 
rived in New York, and will adorn the residence of 
Paran Stevens in Fifth Avenue, 
— B. Green Clark, an aged and wealthy farmer of 
Minisink, Orange Co., committed suicide by hanging 
himself Wednesday ol last week. 
— A call is published /n southern papers for a con¬ 
vention of cotton planters, on the question of free 
labor, to be held in September next. 
— Complaints come from South Carolina that crime 
and disorder are rapidly increasing in -districts from 
which the troops have been removed. 
— About JJ0 apple trees were torn up by the roots 
on the farm of J. S. Wilson, near Baldwinsville, On¬ 
ondaga 60 ., during a storm last week. 
— A case of successful treatment of the hydropho¬ 
bia has been announced in England, in which the 
patient was cured by profuse salivation. 
