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FOREIGN NEWS. 
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The FranrA'PrUKiiinn War. 
On the 14th lost. there was it report f rom Tours 
that the French had achieved a great victory 
over the Prussians near Paris, and that the ter¬ 
rible artillery tire ol Fort tin Mont. Valerian has 
literally swept the country roundabout. Fora 
circuit ol' six kilometres the Prussian works 
have been destroyed. All the batteries that the 
Prussians have Sought In erect against .'font 
Valerian have been annihilated. The chateau 
of Meudon has uteo been destroyed. The Prus¬ 
sian engineers have been driven from Clamart, 
Meudon and Montretout, Villcjuif and Cacham 
have both been recovered from the French, tin 
the north the Prussians have been driven baek 
as far as Deutl and Bonnouil. The entire penin¬ 
sula around GenvllUcis has been freed front the 
Prussians by several strong cavalry reconnais¬ 
sances, and is now in French hands again. On 
the east of Paris ft lively cannonade lias been 
maintained toward llondy. The Prussians have 
also been driven from Cluunplgny, more than 
three miles east of Vincennes. The Prussian 
circle around Paris is therefore expanding daily 
instead of contracting, and (ho Parisians aVo 
greatly encouraged. On receipt of tho above 
nows Minister Gambol t-a issued the following 
proclamation, amid the greatest enthusiasm 
among the people; 
imi a iota vis or TorusI announce to you with 
laoxprossUiio satisfaction that on tbe Kth last, the 
ili ul Parts groa ">..* itu 
patient behind their ramtiarts. determined to nmreh 
forward against the enemy. Herein the hnlloiln of 
their lir*l Victory: On the entire zone around 
the city the Prussians have been driven out of 
all Hie posit urns which they had been occupying 
sliier three weeks. Toward St. Denis llievlllive been 
driven away beyond Stains. Plerrenite. and Hugny; 
on the east side, .lotnvjllu, Cratch. Ciianiplgny, nun 
the plateau of A vron havu been recaptured. They 
have been forced from I.e Jias-Mcitnlon and st. 
Cloud, and thrown hack on Versailles. Tlie onenty 
know now what a people will do who ore determined 
to save their institutions anil their honor. | invito 
ttii! provinces to do their dot y as Pari* has done nora, 
Vive Carls.' Vlvcla France! Vwe la ■ Hejmblique! 
It wns announced on tlie Htli that, the city of 
F.pimil was occupied by the Prussians after a 
stout resistance on tlie part of Ihe citizens. The 
town was considerably dunuigod by the cannon¬ 
ade of the Prussians. Advices from Rouen an¬ 
nounce that, the Prussians have captured Bre- 
teuit. Tho Guurdc Mobile repulsed tho first 
attack, but the Germans came up the second 
time with re-enforcements, before which the 
French were forced to give way. 
The details of tho lighting before Ft. Quentin 
have boon received, and furnish, according to 
one of the journals, “a story of true French 
heroism.” The Prussians hud not returned to 
make a second effort to capture the town, as 
they threatened. 
The Gorman garrison at Ftoiiay, captured by 
the French from Montmedy, numbered only 60 
men. There are 1,5(10 Prussians in hospital at 
Epornay. Many die dally. 
Numerous desertions i'rotu Metz indicate not 
less unerringly than the frequent sorties tho 
Condition of the garrison. Metz, which was tho 
chief depot of the French army, and os such 
early filled with large store#of food, has now 
been cut off from supplies for i wo months. Tho 
garrison is largo-the In tost estimate gives it In 
round numbers at 100,000 men. There is, in ad¬ 
dition, a largo population, which must bo sub¬ 
sisted from ihe army commissariat; and these 
mouths are not loss voracious because they arc 
useless. Bu/,nine's every sortie lias signally 
failed, and Ills troops, maddened by defeat, pos¬ 
sibly desperate from hunger, arc said to mutiny 
and refuse to engage in the uimjual conflicts 
with the quarter of a million who watch them. 
The Official account shows that tho French 
war vessels have captured thirty-two prizes 
since 1 tie commencement of tho war. 
The Francs-tireurs are springing up every¬ 
where, overrunning tho country, and doing 
much harm to tho enemy. 
Dispatches from the Prussian headquarters, 
via Berlin, dated the toll), contain the* following 
intelligence: “The French have shelled and 
wantonly tired the Palace of St. Cloud. Ten 
French battalions made a sortie from Pari# to¬ 
day, They wore easily repulsed by the Second 
Bavarian Corps, which lost only nineteen men. 
Prince Frederick Charles occupies the house of 
Priuoc Mosokcwn. The royal headquarters aro 
at I he west of tlie beleaguered city, and those of 
tin* Crown Prince to the east.” 
The special correspondent of tlie Tribune at 
Berlin under date of the 14th, sitjs:—“The 
armies investing Paris have been and are receiv¬ 
ing heavy reinforcements, comprising the laud- 
welirdivisions of the Corps of Guards hereto¬ 
fore at Strasbourg; tho bulk of iho nowly- 
tormed Thirteenth Corps before Toni; the Ba¬ 
den Division, now marching by Troyes, and 
also a reserve corps formed in Silesia, to be 
designated as tlie Fifteenth Corps, altogether, 
tthoiu 100,000 men. The Fourteenth Corps, un¬ 
der Werder. advances from Upper Alsace 
against the French Army of the Rhone, which 
ii is supposed Is forming at Lyons. The report 
of suffering from want of provisions among the 
troops before Paris, is authoritatively contra¬ 
dicted. The Chief of Staff of the. Thirteenth 
Corps reports tlull formal siege operations are 
commenced at Verdun and Soissons. Opera¬ 
tions at Paris ate delayed by Bismarck's desire 
to obviate shelling tlie city; but the beginning 
of tlie attack is expected next week.” 
A report from Tours on the 16th said there was 
no official news up to that da to from Orleans, but 
unofficial news was received to the effect that a 
recounoissnnce of the enemy in force was re¬ 
pulsed on the totli in st. after a sharp skirmish. 
That they have burnt tho villages of Vauze uud 
Etvi",. Thai, tiic Uhlans occupy Lcs Andolys, 
a town near Rouen. The French made a sortie 
from New Brisaoh on the I5th, but were as 
usual driven back. 
The Prussians in tho department of Somme 
number about 16,IKK). News lias been received 
from Alencon that the Prussian troops in that 
part of Normandy are hastily returning to the 
neighborhood of Paris. 
Garibaldi lias been appointed to tlie command 
of tlie irregular forces in tho Vosges with a 
brigade of the Garde Mobile attached. Gnni- 
betta, in a letter to Gen. Cu mb riels, command¬ 
ing in the Eastern Departments, announces this 
appointment, and says ho will rely on the pa¬ 
triotism of that General for prompt and able 
support of t lie operations of Garibaldi. 
The report from Loire to the 12th inst., is to 
the effect that Ihe French were defeated at. Or¬ 
leans, and that their retreat became a flight, the 
men throwing away their guns in their haste to 
get out of the reach ol the sharp and persistent 
lire of the Prussian#. It is said, however, that 
the Garde Mobile stood their ground manfully 
on the outset, and even kept on firing when all 
the regulars had quitted the field. The Foreign 
Legion fought very bravely, and was almost en¬ 
tirely destroyed. But t hose* t hat remained light¬ 
ing last of all,and held the entraneeof the town, 
were the Pontifical Zouaves. 
The special correspondent of the Tribune at, 
Berlin, telegraphed on the 16thBurnside has 
returned from ills second visit to Paris, has gone 
to Brussels, and expects to go to Versailles again, 
and thence proceed to Tours, if desired, lie 
carried to Paris suggestion# from Bismarck re¬ 
spect lug terms for an armistice which he t bought 
were reasonable under present circumstances. 
He made no headway. The Paris Government Is 
determined to continue to light. 1 learn from 
a good source that tho city will not bo shelled. 
An American diplomatist in Paris, having good 
relations with the Parisian Government, pro¬ 
poses that Lorraine and Alsace, with Luxem¬ 
burg. shall be annexed to Belgium, and tho neu¬ 
trality of tilts territory be guaranteed by the 
European Powers. It is Intimated that France 
will consent." 
There was a manifestation against the Gov¬ 
ernment at Pari# on tin* 11th, by some 500 armed 
men, but it was immediately put down by tlie Na- 
l ion&l Guards. On tlie 12th, Gen. Trochu visited 
the several forts south and southwest of the city, 
and found all in u fine state of defense. The 
batteries of Valerien and Montmartre cannon¬ 
ade Suresncsand exchange a sharp tire with Ft. 
Cloild. Dates from Paris to tho llt.li have Just 
been received. The Prussians were driven from 
Uayneux and Cliatlllon on tlie 1.1th, by a heavy 
roconnoiterlng force from I lie city, supported 
by the guns of the fortifications. The destruc¬ 
tion of tlie Chateau of Ft- Cloud is confirmed. 
The bombardment of Paris is said to liave 
begun on Friday tlie 14th, but as only three 
shot# were fired t he damage to tho city cannot 
have been serious. The French report s speak of 
a grout battle in which *1,000 Prussians were slain 
before Paris on Saturday, the 16th inst, which Is 
very doubtful. 
M. Giimbetla left Tours on the 18th Inst, in 
Buoh haste and under such circumstances as 
lead to tlie belief that tlie new French capital 
Was being evacuated. This is not improbable; 
for it appears that the German army which oc¬ 
cupied Orleans evacuated it, ns the French re¬ 
ported, to cross tlie Loire and push farther 
south to La Forte Ft. Aubin, thirteen miles be¬ 
low Orleans, and between Tours and Lyons. 
The southern movement of t ills army and tlie 
westward march of the Germans from Colmar 
and tho Upper Rhine begin to assume import¬ 
ant preparations, nnd to threaten the South of 
Franco with tho fate of tho Champagne country, 
Gen. Bourbftki arrived at Tours on the 14th. 
He had an interview With Crum ieux, and con¬ 
firmed the previous statement thai the army of 
Marshal Bazalne wns in excellent condition,.and 
that the surrounding count ry was well supplied 
with fresh food. Gen. Bourbaki lias been ten¬ 
dered the command of till troops outside of 
Metz and Paris, which he promptly accepted, 
and has gone forward toward Orleans, whore it 
Is said a large army is being concentrated. The 
Orleans Princes have been enrolled in tin* army 
now forming at Rouen ; 1,000,000guns have been 
distributed by the* Committee of Armaments, 
and that thfly will have 1,000,000 more ready to 
distribute in u very short time. Enormous steel 
guns have also been placed on the fortifications 
that will carry 9,000 nfetors. 
Telegraphic despatches from Berlin of I lie 19th 
inst,, says:—“The capitulation of Metz is re¬ 
ported. Tlie ministerial organ declares that 
negotiations for peace on the part of neutrals is 
useless. France must herself sue for peace, or 
submit unalterably to the terras already stated.” 
Tho Parisians say they burned Ft. Cloud to 
prove to the enemy that they will hesitate at no 
sacrifice for tlie defense of the capital. 
A telegram from Tours to the 19th inst., says: 
The statement that Gen. Bourbaki lias accepted 
(lie ooruiufiud of the Army of the Loire is incor¬ 
rect. His hesitation nndapparent lukewarmness 
astonish his friends. It Is rumored thai lie 
despairs ol a reversal of lorinnc, and favors 
peace on the best terms at tainable ns I lie only 
prudent course. Gen. Palladiues, commanding 
the A rmy of 1 in- tad re, lias issued an order of the 
day, declaring that ha will shoot soldiers guilty 
of insubordination, and asking the men to shoot 
him if he fails in his duty. 
The garrison of Montmedy made another sortie 
in which they surprised the Prussians, taking 400 
prisoners and capturing a military chest with 
20,000 francs, and two wagons loaded with 
Clmssepots. On tlie fallowing day thev attacked 
an artillery train and captured a number ot 
cannon. Five hundred French prisoners (Gardes 
Mobiles) escaped from the Germans on the Kith 
nour Chateau Thierry, during an attack made by 
tlie Freneh-tirears. Fifty thousand rounds of 
ammunition were captured by the Prussian? in 
Foissons. The bombardment lasted only four 
day?, as has been before reportod, and there is 
much surprise expressed that no more vigorous 
defense was made. It is said that the people of 
tlie city insisted on capitulation. At Lille it is 
thought tlie surrender was due to treachery, 
and was brought about by tlie Bonapartists, who 
are known to be scheming with their allies in 
the Island of Jersey and in Loudon. 
NEW YORK STATE. 
Great consternation prevailed in different 
parts of this State on the 20th inst., occasioned 
by the shock of an earthquake, which was sensi¬ 
bly felt in New York city. We have not learned 
of any damage being done other than the 
throwing down of chi mutes, in Hudson City, and 
the rocking to-and-fro of ihe buildings. The 
shook was perceptibly felt in the Run At New- 
Yorker office at 11.20 A*. M. In some parts it 
was.so sensibly felt that the people lied from 
their buildings in Hit* greatest alarm. East, 
West. North and South In this State the news of 
the shock is reported, Montreal was also visited 
by it. The duration of tlie earthquake was es¬ 
timated to lie thirty seponda or more. 
Two men have been shot, in Brooklyn by the 
United States Revenue officers for interfering 
with them when destroying illicit stills. 
The registration in New York city the llretday 
was58,409. Mayor Hall recommends by procla¬ 
mation that the places for registration remain 
closed until October 31st and November 1st. 
The proclamation was issued so as not to con¬ 
flict with Hie Uniled States authorities, who 
claim that the registration on the 19th of Octo¬ 
ber would be illegal. 
About 30,000 barrels of apples are being 
shipped by canal this fall from Mount Morris, 
Marlon Landing, and Cuylervilic, Livingston 
Co, for the New York market. 
Hapgood, one of the three Perry (Wyoming 
Co.) bank burglars, proves to be Ned Ryan, a 
noted repeater <*r New Yurie, who lias several 
! aliases, and who has served in State Prison. 
The $100,000 appropriated hist winter towards 
paying certitinates issued to the militia of this 
State for services In the war of 1812, and now 
held by survivors living within the State, will 
bo ready for distribution the last of this month 
or ihe first of November. Tho apportionment is 
being completed at tbeofflceaof the Comptroller 
and Adjutant General. 
An armed vessel is to be stationed in New 
York harbor to see that the provisions of the 
President’s neutrality proclamation are carried 
out. 
The French man-of-war Prlmauget, now in 
New York harbor, did good service in the war 
against China, under Admiral Raymond. 
'Ulie free sctiool for women In telegraphy, at 
the Cooper Institute, New York city, isopen for 
the winter season. During 1809 there were 
eighty-two pupils in the school,of whom thirty- 
one graduated. About thirty new pupils have 
been admitted for 111© coming year. The school 
in telegraphy for young men open# November 1, 
and lusts unt il May 1. 
Mrs. Sherowof Washington Hollow, Dutchess 
Co., presented her husband with three daughters 
one clay lately, whoso aggregate weight was 
twenty-nine pounds. 
Tho New York Slock Exchange liave given 
$25,000, the Gold Exchange $19,000, and indi¬ 
vidual merchants and broker# about. $15,000 to¬ 
ward the fund for the relief of the sufferers by 
the recent freshet in tlie Valley ol Virginia. 
Several of the largest butcher firms of 
New York City, on the 14th, announced 
that tho immense cost of ice during the past 
heated term hud so ent irely swallowed up what 
ought to be their profits ns to make it impossi¬ 
ble for t horn to pay up their little bills at the 
(daughter-houses. They declare that they hope 
to make an installment of about sixteen cent? 
on the dollar that is, if, after paying tbe ice 
companies, such a residue Is forthcoming. 
David C. Burdick was sentenced Oct. 14th, at 
I. Rile Valley, to bo lmngcd on tbe $5ill of No¬ 
vember, for the murder of Henry 11. Baker, 
colored, In Glean about n year ago. 
The Mercantile Library of New York City, 
has 10,503 members, and during tDo past year 
circulated 231,000 volumes, and expended $20,000 
for tbe purchase of new books. Number ol 
volumes in the library, i 18,000. 
A shocking accident occurred at the North 
Ft,, Rochester, Central railroad yard on tlie totli 
inst. While Alonzo Houston was engaged in 
coupling a passenger caboose to a freight, car, 
the couplings slipped by each other, and the 
bumpers locked, crushing the unfortunate man 
in a terrible manner, from which he died in 
about six hours. 
The well-known suit, of John O’Mahoney 
against August Belmont for the recovery of 
Fenian funds, lias been finally decided in favor 
of Belmont, through a dofault of tho plaintiff. 
The stolen bug belonging U> the American 
Merchants’ Union Express Company, at ttoches- 
i.er, was found on tho 14ih in a race-way, minus 
tbo $15,000 which it contained when stolen. 'The 
paper# wore all in tlie bug together with three 
silver spoons. 
A remarkably fine display of the Northern 
lights was witnessed in different parts of New 
England and in the West, this Elate, City ami 
vicinity on the evening of tho 14th inst. 
The Ontario iron Company Inis a blast furnace 
in successful operation. The Company was or¬ 
ganized hut a few months since, with a capital 
of $75,000. It purchased seventeen acres of land 
in Hie town of Ontario, Wayne Co., which con¬ 
tain very valuable ore bed#. 
A dispatch from Saratoga announces the death 
al that place, of Hod. Henry Buck ol South Car¬ 
olina, one of the most widely known of Hie large 
planters of the South. 
The Brockport Republic says:—About $10,000 
a day is paid out at that village for farm pro¬ 
ducts. 
The following named Board of Director# for 
the ensuing year, were unanimously elected by 
tlie stockholder# of the Western Union Tele¬ 
graph Company on the 13th, at New York City: 
Hugh Allen, Montreal; J. H. Banker, New York; 
R. S. Burroughs, Albion: Ezra Cornell, Ithaca; 
n. F. Clark, New York; Emory Cobb, Illinois: 
Alonzo Cornell, New York; Wm. E. Dodge, New 
York; Harrison Dnrkce, New York; .1. A. Ellis, 
Chicago; Marvin Greene, Louisville; A. W. 
Green I oaf, Now York;J. A. Griswold, Troy; 
J. II. Howe, Wisconsin; W.G. Hunt, New York; 
Geo. Jones, New York; Cambridge Livingston, 
New York; E. D. Morgan, New York ; Win. Or¬ 
ton, New York; E. F. Sanford, Brooklyn; Au¬ 
gustus Schell, New York ; Hiram Sibley, Roches¬ 
ter ; F. G. Siuimouda, Wisconsin; John Stewart, 
New York; Moses Taylor, New York; Daniel 
Torrance, New York Geo. Walker, Springfield, 
Mass; E. B. Wesley, New York ; Stillman Witt, 
Cleveland. 
Tlie Bark Commission in Brooklyn expended 
$59,902.05 in September, ami laid $43,479.71 re¬ 
maining on October 1. The commission will ask 
for $100,000 to be expended oil the parks. The 
pedestrian course at Prospect Park is to cost 
$42,000. 
The receipts of tho Clinton County Agricultu¬ 
ral Society, at its annual Fair last week, were 
larger than at any previous fair of the Society. 
The Fair ot the American Institute in the city 
of New York, is to remain open only a few weeks 
longer. Those who visit tho city should improve 
the opportunity to see one of tlie finest exhibi¬ 
tions ever held by t he Society. 
Tlie city of Cohoes, to save farther trouble, is 
now laying a twenty-inch sewer on Canal street, 
to convey the surface water under the railroad 
arch. 
J. L. Martin of Clinton, Oneida Co., this year 
raised 34,800 pounds of hops from 21 acres. 
Theenulraot for removing tho overslaugh rock 
in the river at Troy has been awarded at $13 per 
yard. 
The commissioners for land damages of t he 
Ithaca and Cortland Railroad have awarded at 
p n '.sen t $5,701.52. 
Engle Mills, Rensselaer county, contains two 
extensive manufactories now in operation, a 
hoe factory and a bit and augur factory. 
One mile of rail has been laid on the Ithaca 
and Cortland Railroad from Frccville, and ten 
car loads of iron are standing on the track, 
which will be at once laid. 
Large forces of men are ul work on the north¬ 
ern division of tlie Ithaca and Athens Railroad, 
from Spencer to Ithaca, and tlie contractors ex¬ 
pect to have it completed ready for the track by 
the 1st of January. The southern division, from 
the under-crossing of the Erie to Spencer, is 
now ready for The track. 
Rev. Anson G. Chester, formerly of the Buffa¬ 
lo press, has accepted the pastorate of the First 
Presbyterian Church at Albion. 
It is asserted that the test lately made of the 
grapes and wine at Hammondsport, showed a 
richer fruit than has ever been found in Ohio 
grapes. 
Hilaries H. Leonard, claiming to be a member 
of a Masonic Lodge, in Espcrance, Schoharie 
county, by which means he obtained money 
from the treasurer of Webster Lodge, Webste r, 
Monroe county, and who was subsequently 
siiown to lie an impostor, has been arrested and 
committed to jail for sixty days. 
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FROM THE WEST. 
Tnn University of Michigan, at Ann Arbotr, 
has 345 literary students, 225 laws and238medic:*. 
More are arriving every day. 
Valuable silver mines have lately been discov¬ 
ered by three adventurers about 75 miles from 
Fan Bernardo, Cal. The ore is said to be rIchor 
than any yet found in California. 
Tho canal extension to Rock island, III,, is no w 
being surveyed by order of the Secretary of War. 
Tbe survey is to include the main linefroin Hen¬ 
nepin to Rook Island, and tho feeder from the 
Summit, at Sheffield, to Dixon. 
There are over fifty mile# of dilobes for irri¬ 
gating purposes, within a space of live miles 
square around Los Angeles, Cal. 
An attempt was made on the 14th inst., to rob 
the Kunsas Railroad Company of $100,000 wort h 
Of bonds, by means of a forged check, but wns 
detected and defeated through Hie vigilance of 
an official. 
A company with a capital of $.50,000, is being 
organized at Buchanan, Berrien Co., Mich., for 
t he manufacture of agricultural implements. 
A boy named Bowers, living near Columbus, 
Ohio, was killed a few day# since by a pet bear, 
owned by ids father. The child was literally 
lorn in pieces, and the father anil mother were 
botli severely Injured in attempting to rescue it 
in August, 1809. Mr. Ephraim Diffin took up 
100 acre#of wild timbered land in the township 
of Gladwin, Gladwin Co., Mich., on Sugar River, 
and with lii# own two good hands and the assist¬ 
ance of two men four months, lie had crops of 
millet, hay, potatoes, turnips, etc., amounting 
in value to at least $1,000 cash, a houge and 
luini built, and thirty acres of land cleared and 
fenced. 
The Walla Walla Union says the yield of 
wheat in this valley and the adjacent tributa¬ 
ries of llii! Walla Walla River is about 500,000 
bushel#. Some pieces of wheat we have beard 
of yielded forty bushels to tho acre. 
lies Mulnes, Iowa, is to have another iron 
bridge over Hie Dos Moines. It will consist of 
three spans, each 200 feet. 
Army worms are so numerous in Southern Il¬ 
linois, that fanners arc afraid to plant winter 
wheat. 
TiiC Blackburn University at Carlinville, Illi¬ 
nois, Is in a prosperous condition. The Endow¬ 
ment Fund amounts to $90,000 in cash, and 1,400 
acres of unsold land, while the building# are 
worth at least $50,000. 
Owing to delay* upon the part of the contract¬ 
ors for building the bridge aero## tlie Mississip¬ 
pi at Rock island, the Government has taken 
the work into its own hands, and ft will now be 
completed under tiic charge of Government 
officials. 
Tho California fast-freight line have just 
made another reduction in rates from New 
York to Fan Francisco, Sacramento, Marysville 
and Fan Jose, Oal„a#follows:-First-classgoods, 
per lot) pounds, arc now reduced to $0.50; sec¬ 
ond class $5.50; third chi®, $1.50, and fourth 
class. $1. Eleven days is tin* quickest, time yet 
made for first class goods from ocean to ocean. 
The Legislature of Oregon proposes to exact, 
a license foe from every Chinaman for the 
privilege of shaving his head or wearing ills cue. 
Mr. H. M. Yale of Coldwater, Mich., raised this 
season 1,338 bushels of oats from thirty acres. 
A malignant disease, supposed to bo ship 
fever, 5s prevailing in Etui Claire, Wis., to such 
an extent that, eight burials were made iu one 
day, recently. 
The total shipments of fruit from Centralia, 
III., for tho season were:—Strawberries, 0,860 
bushels: raspberries, 2JJ00bushels; blackberries, 
4,340 bushels: peaches 138,028 bushels. 
The production of Lake Superior copper ore 
Hus year is estimated at a million tons, which is 
t wice as much as produced in the entire United 
State? in 18-13. 
A total of 6,000 people went through tlie Michi¬ 
gan Stale Prison during the State Fair, paying 
$1,350 admission, which goes into the library 
fund of tho prison. 
A million bushels of wheat aro in store in To¬ 
ledo, awaiting an advance in price. 
Four immense squashes liave been brought 
into Bay City, Mich., which weigh together near¬ 
ly 500 pound?. Tin* largest weigh? 1 OOjtf pounds, 
and i? seven feet in circumference. They were 
all raised on one vine. 
By u law passed by the .Minnesota Legislature 
last winter, the statute of limitation of actions 
on mortgages was reduced from t wenty to ten 
years. Tlie act took effect tlie 6th of September 
last; and it behooves Eastern mortgagees to look 
to their securities, or they will outlaw under 
this curious legislation. 
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FROM NEW ENGLAND. 
CitAur.ES Keene, Esq., ft well-known mechan¬ 
ic and Free Mason in Augusta, Me., died on 
Tuesday last, aged scvenly-eeven years. 
The Supreme Court, of New Hampshire has or¬ 
dered tlie receivers of the Concord Railroad to 
pay the State tax on the corporation, amount¬ 
ing to about $50,000, and it will probably soon 
order a semi-auitual dividend to stockholders, 
not to exceed five per cent, of its earning#. 
The lowest rate of taxation of any town in 
Massachusetts is in Easton, where it is only $3.50 
on a thousand. 
There are five families living in the southeast, 
part of Spencer, Mass., within the distance of a 
mile, consist!ng of flfleet) persons, aiuong whom 
there arc nine whose united ages are 702 years, 
tin* oldest being 86 and the youngest 69. 
The value of church property in Massachu¬ 
setts is estimated at $24,487,285. 
\V. \\\ Chenuery lias recovered $10,000 of John 
Z. Goodrich, lute Collector of tho port of Bos¬ 
ton, as the result of the suit which lie brought 
against him far charging him with defrauding 
the Government in dishonestly passing good) 
through the Custom-house. 
The Gazette says that there are upwards of 
forty saloons in Taunton, Mass., open for the 
sale of liquor# on Sundays, in this progressive 
age ol “liberty.” 
It Is said that a large dam In front of the com¬ 
munity buildings at Wallingford, Conn., on tho 
Quirinipiac, would furnish a thousand horse¬ 
power for the village, and an Inexhaustible sup¬ 
ply of water to New Haven. 
New Haven boasts of tbe largest spectacle 
manufactory in the world-that, of James E. 
Spencer & Co., which turns out an aggregate of 
300,090 pairs each year. 
The Lippitt Woolen Co., at Woonsocket, R. L, 
are making a large and imporlaut addition to 
their mills. 
Marshall Goff, the customs officer, who shot 
Albert Harris at Riobf'ord, Vt., in a quarrel two 
years ago, has been acquitted by the jury before 
which lie was tried, in the Franklin county court 
at St. Albans, on thoground that he killed Harris 
in self defense. 
The wife of Hon. Charles N. Davenport, lute 
Democratic candidate for Governor of Vermont, 
while riding with her husband In tho village of 
Brattlcboro’. In that State, died almost instantly 
from heart, disease. 
During the past, six months there have been 
paid into the municipal court at Portland, Ale., 
nearly three thousand dollars for fines. 
At the recent term of the Supreme Court, in 
session at Nashua, N.H., forty lndictmentswere 
found by tho grand jury, nearly thirty of which 
were for state prison offenses. 
On the 11th inst., a fire occurred in tho large 
stone building of the American Flask and Cap 
Company, Watcrbury, Conn., which destroyed 
i lie wing of tlie building which was used for the 
manufacture of powder flasks and similar metal 
goods, and for stamping, pressing, and drawing 
metals. It was about 150 feet long by 40 feet 
wide. The main building was saved. Loss 
$35,000; insurance, $28,000. 
The Bn pot, Vt., cheese fuctory sold their en¬ 
tire crop Including all they make during the re¬ 
mainder of the season, to Reynolds of Granville, 
N. Y., at 12,Vcents for July make, and 13>i cents 
for August, September and October make. 
According to tlie Lowell (Mass.) News, some 
7,945 squirrels were recent ly captured by a hunt¬ 
ing party at East Weare, Mass. 
The success of tho Fair of the Berkshire 
County, Mass., Agricultural Society was greater 
than reported. The total receipts were $3,900, 
to which the State add# $000, making the grand 
total $4.500,—tlie most successful exhibition 
over held by the Society. The entire number of 
entries was 1,813. 
A new loom was exhibited a few days since in 
Providence, R. I., and was operated by the in¬ 
ventor in presence of a large number of manu¬ 
facturers and business men, and produces cloth 
of tiie best quality nt the enormous rate of 
nearly a thousand yards a day. 
Apples are ripening and falling a fortnight 
earlier in Northern Berkshire, Mass., than in for¬ 
mer seasons. Apples, pears and raspberries are 
generally blossoming a second time. 
Robinson Fogg of Bath, Mo., has a small 
peach tree from which over 2.000 large, fine 
peaches ha ve been gathered, and it has been so 
loaded that nineteen props were found to lie 
necessary to cuable the branches to support 
their burdens. 
Eire broke out recently, in the paint shop con¬ 
nected with tho repair shop of the New York, 
Providence and Boston railroad company at 
Providence, B. I„ and destroyed tlie engine 
house, in which were seven locomotives, tho car 
bouse with three passenger and two baggage 
ears, a machine shop and blacksmith shop, with 
new and valuable machinery. The locomoi i\ os 
were damaged about halt their value. The total 
loss is estimated at from $105,000 to $126,000 with 
litt le insurance. The operations of the road will 
not be interrupted. 
Miss Mary Clarke, of Bellows Falls, N. If., has 
willed $15 ,000 to tlie Missionary Society of tlie 
Methodist Episcopal Church and the Preachers’ 
Aid Society of the Vermont Conference. 
In the ease of the town of Danville, Vt., 
against tho Lamoille Valley Railroad Company, 
the Supreme Court has issued an injunction re¬ 
st raining tho company from collecting the town 
subscript ion of $100,000. Tlie ground governing 
tho decision is that the subscription was made 
on condition that the road should be located in 
a certain portion of tho town, which terms the 
company has not complied with. 
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FROM THE SOUTH. 
It is contemplated to connect tlie Northern 
neck of Virginia with Richmond by a railroad, 
with a market for its produce, a bill for which 
passed tlie lower House of the Virginia Legisla¬ 
ture at its last session, and is expected to be con¬ 
sidered In tlie Senate at. an early period of tlie 
approachiug assemblage of that body. 
Fifteeu gunsof the United States frigate Cum¬ 
berland, sunk in Hampton Roads iti April, 1802, 
by tlie Confederate Iron-clad Morrimuc, have 
been raised and taken to Richmond, where 
they will lie converted into railroad iron and cur 
wheels. This ie not exactly turning the sword 
into the plowshare, but the next thing to it. 
The Nashville Banner says:—“ About thirty 
English settlers arrived recently from New Y ork, 
by way of Washington, and went out on Hie 
Edgefield and Kentucky Road, eighty-five miles 
from Nashville, to settle on farms on tlie Cum¬ 
berland River. They have purchased 5,000acres 
of land, to be settled on by 1,$00immigrants, who 
will arrive here soon. They are all farmers nnd 
mechanics. Their land was purchased by an as¬ 
sociation gotten up in Now York and England, 
for $2 per acre, and five years to pay it in. Let 
nil sucb people come—we welcome them.” 
A second crop of June apples, says the Colum¬ 
bus, Ala., Sun, are now growing at Dr. Robt. A. 
Ware's plantat ion, in Lee Co. In June the trees 
bore an unusually heavy crop: again bloomed, 
and now a second crop is on the trees, while 
blooms are burst ing forth for a third crop. Il a 
late fall is had, a third crop will be made. 
A Fluvanna county, Va„ correspondent of tho 
Richmond Whig, relates an incident of the late 
flood, in which three heroic white citizens, 
named Davis, Fuqua and Agee, lost their lives in 
an unsuccessful attempt to rescue a colored fer¬ 
ryman and his wife. 
A fire at Charleston, West Virginia, recently 
destroyed buildings and stock to the amount of 
$50,000. 
The railroad from Chetopa, Ark., is extending 
into the upper part of the Indian country, and 
trains are now running ten miles into tlia ' 
Cherokee Nation. 
