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s'e w* car and ccxiojke whiks ws MUST. MORGANTOWN, Ya. SATURDAY, September 23, 1854. OUR AGENCIES. ITT Mr.C.PIERCE, No. 40, South Third, at., Philadelphia, ia on* of oar mo?t obliging tad ?ttenthe Agenti. X. W, CARR, Third atreet, oppoaite the Ex change, Philadelphia, ia alio onr Agent for that City. Dr. E. PARSONS, Glady Creok, Barbour co. kna kindly conaented to act aa Agent for the Mirror. t>. M. AUVIL, Neatorrille,Barbour co., Vo. ?. CRff3A?,Em.,Kingwood, Preaton co., Ya Home Affairs. The Senior Editor has been absent for the last fivo or si.* weeks, attending, very Fntis factorily to the interests of the Messenger and Recorder. He now proposes to consti tute himself Secretary of the Home Depart ment? to make out bills tor the Mibbor nuil for Advertising, Jobbing, &c.. and present them at his earliest convenience. He hopes that those who have been neglected for a ceason, in this behalf, will excuso past ne glect, and be ready to settle up right cheer fully. We have never had a full settle ment of Mibror matters, during tho five ye^rs and upwards that we have boeo pub lishing this paper. Our finances requite an effort of this kind to be made this Fall. Extract from a tettar to the Editor. Mr. S SiEarittED: Since 1 have quit ta king the Monongalia Mirror there lias been a great drouth prevailing over the land, also a drouth in my family for the want of your paper. I wish to take it another year." Yours. &c., Well, the dtomh has been relieved .in a measure, by refreshing rain, since lie wrote that letter, and we trust that he and his family will no longer thirst for news.? \V? have eerit the Mirror promptly. Pestilence and Death. Our late exchanges bring us doleful accounts of the prevalence and fntality I of the Cholera and Yellow Fever in different parts of the country At Galctiton, Texas, the yellow fever ?was increasing in fatality and the num ber of c?see, on the Sth inst., and the panic among the populace was so great they were fleeing the city in numbers. At ATew Orleans the yellow fever pre vails, 8nd ilia, deaths at the Charity "^Hospital" in one we*ek to'?ppTTTl*rfumr bcred 12^ principally emigrants. At Savannah, on thtrllth inst., there were 46 deaths of yellow fever. The people are leaving in every direction, but the number of deaths was increasing in u decreased population. Ten bodies were -lying unburied, thero being no person willing to undertake their burial. The condition of affairs is represented *os horrible in the extreme. Pittsburg, Sept. 15?The cholora broke out lioro on Wed Destiny, am) in the past two days there have been about '5Q;;deaths, oud niiw cases are being hour: ly.reported. The excitemont is incfeas ' ingi' but 'tho rain last evening having : caused a risein the river, aiid a purifi cation of the atmosphere, hopes are en tertained that its ravages will be check ed. A later despatch says: There have been fitly deaths of cholera to-day not entered in tho noun repoit. The wea tther is milder. Tho Supreme Court od jahrned to-day in consequence of the ep t'idemic. Coluh/jia, Pa-, Sept. 15.?There wero ?even deaths from cholera to-day, mak r'..inu 91 in all sinco iho commencement of the disease. Four new cases to day. Boiifyfng the Farly. The wwliirigioiii P*., (Democratic) Ex aminer is nut agajnst the introduction of un namtoliztid foreigner! to vote at the prima ry election in that county. The editor of thai papersays : " It may be aaidj by those who act upon th? principle tlfnt ?' the' end juetifies the means," that the fifty or sixty Irishmen \v ho voted on Saturday (a number of the resident Democrats did not attimil the election) are naturalized, and, therofore, entitletf to vote. This we deny, for ivo have,the authority of a citizen of this place, who speaks by the book, that not mine than tin oi these men (who work on sections-28 and 30 of the Hempfield railroad) were entitled to the right i of suffrage. In it right that unnaturalized Irishmen should txerciee u controlling influence in,the "primary elections of the Democratic party! We are as friendly to ''civil and religious J"liberty" a? any b'xly; but. at the w time ? wu chori>h a pride, sn Anftrican pride, il ton please, in the manner ot conducting our election". i K7" The editor of the Democratic Senti nel, published at Unioutown, Fayette coun ty, Fa., has waked up on the same subject. Ho pays: -i "Since the investigation ot the fraud* charged to have been committed at the late Efpiary election, has commenced, (nets and circumstances have been hrouitht to light that are a bnrninir rind withering disgracc to the Democratic party." (Xylite Western Virginia Agricultural Fair came off at Wheeling, on the iSih. 14th end ISth innt. Among the premiums a warded were the following: Beit sponce cake, Mrs. Dr. Carr, Wheeling, i two dollars. lest pickles, tlir?e kioii*. do do tiro dclla, OUR EXCHANGES, Ac. After a long absence from the Editor's Table, and a laboring pilgrimage through a region of country where lull forests abound more than newspapers, the pile of reading; matter awaiting our return looks peculiarly attractive. Our old exchannes seem to greet us with a smile*, and new ones invite our acquaintance. We have only time and space at present for the following notices: United Stales Magazine. A very attractive periodical, bearing this title, was commenced in New York in May | last. It is issued monthly at the low price j of One Dollar a year, and will be furnished j to Clubs at a further reduced price. It is ' | devoted to Science, Art, Manufactures, Ag-1 riculture, Commerce and Trade. The em j bellifhmeuts are. in the best style of the en-1 1 graver's ort, and the reading matter is en tirely the reverse of the trashy nonsense to be found in most of the mammoth weeklies. | The publisher* are A. Jones & Co. j We shall take pleasure in exhibiting ppe cimen numbers, and receiving subscribers to I this work. Those of our citizens who are 'engaged in Patent Right matters should have ihi* Mueazine, as it devotes considera 1 ble space lo the interests of Patentees, &u. The People's Journal, Of which we have frequently made honora ble mention, is now merged in the Scientific Amebican, one of the foremost periodicals of the age, in intrinsic excellence and popu lar appreciation. Subscribers to the Jour nal will bo gainers by this arrangement, as the American* is a weekly, while the other was a monthly publication. We are pleased with this change, as we shall again enjoy the Tegular visits of the Scientific American to our editorium. We have missed it much of late, and hope it will not again play truant. Independent Jonrnal. Mr. A. H. Shaw has commenced the pub lication of a weekly pappr, under this title, at Brownsville, Pa. It is of luige size,print ed on new type, and look* well, ft is said that " some things can be done as well as others," anil the success of this undertaking will establish the truth of the maxim. K?" The Scientific American commenced its tenth volume on the 16th iust., with en ti-e new tjpe of a beuuiiltil face, and with " 30,000 patrons." Long life to it. 07" IVe are stiuck with the splendid ap pearance of the New York "Home Joiikn'al." ] It looks as though printed on silvcr-faccd type, and its pages are always filli'd with the choicest matter for its lady patrons. The Monthly Mirror, is the title of a neat and spicy little Temperance paper published I at Pittsburir, Pa., by David L. Fleming, at 25 cents a yiar. To Clubs, 10 copies for S2 00. It is well wortljy of an extensive patroua^c. "" ? _" ?> ~~ r~~ ; Ladies' Christian Annual.?'This is a month ly iMagazine of elegant appcarance, publish ed in Philadelphia, by James Chullen, at 81.00 per annum. It is "devoted to pure Literature, and to the great inteiests of Reli gion, free and untrammelled from all secta rian influences.*' .The Nob. before us are 1 and 2 of Vol. 3. Call aud examine them. Itiot in IVcw Orleans. A riot recently occurred in New Orleans, which commenced by a man shooting a fierce dog that had attacked him and ended, afier several affrays, during as many nights, in a com but between the Irish and Know Nothings. Several lives were lost, but the. number could not be ascertained with cer tainty. K7" Our Suspension Bridge \* being ureed forward. Nine yoke of Oxen were employ ed on Thursday in drawing the Cables to ward the weitern towers. Rumor pays the Bridge will be ready for crossing before New Year. D2T Arrangement* arc in progress for hold ing a World's Fair in Paris, on an .extensive scale, next year, under the patronagp'of the French government. The principal build itig :s now being erected, anil is to covet ten aires of ground! ITT* We ore gratified lo learn, from the Waynesburg Eaple, that the corn crop in the Western part of Greene county, is a tolera hly fair;one, not having been much injured by the drouth. CC^T Brail on county, in thin State. 1ms derided egainst licensing I he tale of ardent spirits, by u email majority of votes. KF* Wo received several now sub scribers to tho Mirror last weok. Tlifl Books are still open. Ki of Holding Circuit Courts. Mowing is the time prescribed ' holding tlio fall terms of the circuit uourt in tho var ious counties in this vicinity: in Pleasants county, on tho 20tli of (September; in Wirt coun ty, on tho 29tli of September; in Jock eon county, on the 6th of October; in Doddridge county, on the 20th of Octo ber, and in Wood county, on the 2Slli of October.?Parkeriburg Gazette. Ain't he. an Old Un /?There is a farm er in Bucks county i07 years old;, he has lived so long that he haw,forgotten where he came from, or who he belongs to. H is memory goes back tolerably far?80 years arid then caves in; he has had five wives and thirty-two children, two of whom, aged 81 and 79, are boys living with the old man, and he says they are grtiiog so saucy and Jeiy, the young rascals that he Intends getting a young step mother to ?(tr fhrm up. From the Messenger and Recorder. THE EDITOR'S EXCURSION. By a few lines, dated nt Weston, Lewis county, and published in this paper two weeks since, our reader* were informed of our excursion to that place. We add a few items us they occurred to us after onr arrival at home:? At Weston, through the courtesy of the Sheriff, and the active exertions of Mr. Geo Strickler, (a friend of ours in by-gone days) we had the privilege of preaching to a large audience in*the M. E. Church, on Monday night. The Circuit Court was in session hero and considerable excitement was occasioned by a trial for murder. A person of highly re spectnble connection*, but who has long been addicted to habits of intemperance, was on trial under the fearlul charge of oc casioning the death of his wife! A number of witnesses wero examined,?the case was ably argued on both sides,?nnd the jury brought in a verdict of uinvoluntary man slaughter;'1 up?n which the offender was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. We bring this case to the notice of our read ers to make as public as possible the fact, that the neglect of a wife, by a drunkard, so that her death is occasioned thereby, is a crime punishable by law. How many infatuated and degraded husbands are guilty of this crime, and of course are candidates for the penitentiary! We found comfortable quarters at the well-kept hotel of Maj. M. Baily. who deems it a privilege to entertnin working Ministers of the Gospel, free of charge. Weston is a place of considerable business, having a steam-mill, which, in this dry sea son, ke?ps up an incessant pufling and clat tering day and night. The place is well supplied with mercantile and manufacturing establishments, H. Dauciiertv, Esq., of Morgan town, is erecting an Iron Foundry i here, and will prove a valuable accession to the place. We shall b* sorry, however, to miss him from Old Monongalia. i From Weston we proceeded through Glen ville, the county seat of Gilmer. This is comparatively a new County, ami its me tropolis has not attained to a very consider able size. There is a pood Court-house, two Meeting-houses, several Stores, Hotels, &c. Thn Baptists, who are few in number here, have secured u lot ami intend shortly to erect a house of public worship. !1 On our return through Glenville, the Star- j1 iff, Preston Pew, Esq., served an injunction ?1 upon us not to depart from his bailiwick. without first delivering a Temperance Ad? (Ires*. We submitted to the edict, had the Court-hou?e beil rung, and in half an hour?, had a large auditory, among whom was a ' newly-organized Division of the Sons of Temperance, with regalia, stave*, &c. We were too much why-worn and weary to en ter with spirit into tho occasion, but the ef resume our journey. In this County the anti-license vote was carried in May last; but we learn that a few groggeries were licensed, notwithstanding, by a few rum-sucking magistrates, who dis grace the bench of the County Court. From Glenville, our track progressed over the hills and through the ravines of Gilmer fend Kanawha counties,?a good graded road extending to near the residence of Perry Hayes, Esq., and soon to be completed to California or Rovenswood, on the Ohio river, via Ripley, the County Seat of Jackson. On Thursday evening we reached the mouth of Sandy Creek, where it empties in to the Elk River, and found quarters at the house of Squire Jurrett, in the immediate vicinity where tho Broad Run Association | was to meet on the morrow. The messen gers, with a praiseworthy alacrity, were mostly on the ground on Thursday evening. The Association met promptly on Friday morning, and was organized by electing Eld. John Bennett, Moderator, and Eld. John* Wooftek, Clerk. The introductory sermon was preached, by request, by the Editor of this paper, from Phil. 1, 3il. 4th and 5th. Four new churches were added to the As sociation this year, viz. Pine Grove, Cedar Creek, Little Creek, and Gra*s Lick. The number added to the body during the last year, by baptism, was 111. The Elk River country in comparatively new. The traveller will find very few old settlements in all this region. The soil is generally a sandy loam, and in many places rather tight. The best Vtops of corn that we have seen this season are to be found heie, and an abundant crop of peaches, which we did.Hot enjoy as fully as we should have done thi days later. Having no steam' mills and no running water, the inhabitants are driven to the hand-mill, a relict of by pope days, to prepare their wheat and corn for bread, h is an excellent preventive to Dyspepsia. v We found a great deal of real Virginia! hospitality in nil our wanderings; and it wan not out of place, for the length of. the journey, added to the intense he^t of the at mosphere, and the choking dust of the high way*, especioll>? when travelling in company with several other?, required all the sustain ing influence of kind ministrations and con genial company. We reached homo on Jhurwlay evening at a late hour, after an absence of 15 days, having travelled about 350 mile*, enjojed, uninterrupted health, and labored consider ably,, by the way. ?v | ?. Some people will be " telling their expe rience." Here is an item: To tell whether a man loves his wife or not, look at his iinnds. II they are serrttoh wiih pin#, he has been stuck while hugging her?some. A Good Reason.?Mother, this boolf tells about the "anpry waves of the ocean. Now what makes the ocean get angry 1 Bocauw it ha? been crossed so often, my son. (fkncnitas. Transmitted fur tlultlmoro American. ARRIVAL OF E OTTOWA. THREE DAYS LA* FROM EUROPE. Queiiec, Sept. it. M.?Thescrew steamer Ottoway jved this evening from Liverpool bring dates to to the 5th inst. She explncod heavy galea. Progress (the War. Russia unequivflly declines to ac cept the last ptopls of the Allied Powers, and annotes her determina tion to act on the ijnbive. Tho cholera hosatad in both the Russian and Alliejlmios. There is riothitipr special interest relative to the war The Russians o concentrating in [different parts of Mlavin. They have also blown up tlui'fcs at Hatigo. The London Tin of Monday says that Austria will jhably not declare war against RussiSut that the Austri an army will be iroased in the Prin cipalities to 100,00!nen. SPlW. Spain is tranquille country having | once more settled kvn under the new administration. 1VIARETS. London, Sept. I?The weather is fine and the harves^e'arly over. Wheat is Gs. to 8s. per qr.jwer on the week ; j 54s. is the top prja Consols closed [195. Tho harvest in Seat Britain and on the continent is iM abundant. Liverpool, St*. 5.?Wheat is 4s. to to 6s. lower for id week. [Wo have'no dotations, and it is im possible to get out of the gree Uej,.] ytbing more to-night horns at Quebec.? The Ghole at Pittsburgh. Pittsmjag, J5)t IS.?The Cholera continues to rage with unabated vigor and a fatality tha is truly frightful. The number of death yesterday was forty and the list fur to lay is not yet made up, but will be eq ally as heavy. [secom dispatch.] Pittsburg, Sep. 18.?The cholera is ncreasing to anhlaiming extent,-arid j i >ur citizens are fl ing. by thousands in j J very direction. There has been 63 , Jeaths from chojeia to-day, and now 1 :nses and deaths are being momentarily reported. The/alarm is very great, and ar is being bu/ned in the streets, en veloping ihe city in smoke, in the hope )f checking ine disease. The number if deaths for the past five days has been 253. The interments in the cemetry jp to Saturday evening, for the week, was 253, of which 171 were of cholera Juring the last three days. >?- v' ? i ? '? The Cholera at Baffalo. Buffalo, Sept. 18.?The number of Jeaths during the week ending tn-dny of cholera was 25, of which ail were fureigneis but three. The Yellow Fever, 4c. Columbia, S. C., Sept. 18.?There was 23 deaths at Savannah yesterday of yellow lever. Passengers from Augusta report that the yellow fever has broke out there very violently, aud the inhabitants wore flying in all directions. The weather is cold?the thermomoter hero is at 57. [second dispatch.] Columbia, S. C., Sept. IS.?There is a great panic at Augusta. There were three deaths of yellow fever there on Saturday. The physicianB at Savannah think that the worst is past. There is a greut want of provisions and nurses there.. Maine Election. Tho Augusta Age (democrat) con cedes the election of Morrill, the fusion catididale for Governor, by a majority of 6000 votes. Tho coalition party have carried every congressional dis trict. The present delegation iu Con gress stands 3 democrats to 3 whigs.? In regard to the State officers elected, the Age says: "The Senate consists of 31 members. At the last session it was composed of 11 democrats and 20 coslitiou. From the returns at hand we believe that no democrats have been elected ; that there is no election in York, Oxford, Somer set, and but one in Waldo (Minot Ore bore, whig;) but tho coaliiiou candidates will bo elected by tho legislature to fill tho vacancies in these districts, so that tho Senate will bo unanimously coali tion, unless, possibly, Aroostook may furnish a democrat to watch proceed ings. , At the late session the democrats had in tho lower house, about 64 members aud tho whigs, freesoilers aud Morrill men 87. Tho districts heard from give the democrats elect 19, the coalition 75, and there aro 57 to hear from. At this rate our friends will have just enough to call the yeas aud nays, tho constitu tion securing to ono-lifih that right. In overy county except, perhaps, Aroostook, tho coalition have carried their county officers." High Price for Standing Corn.?The Scioto Guzet[o says, that a Mr. Sey mour, of liaitibridgo, Unss county,Ohio, sold a few days ago a quantity of corn iu the liold uithirty-fu'C dollars jier acre. This is doubtless the highest prico ever paid for standing corn in Southern Ohio. Staidly of Water.?The Wheeling Times stall's that a few days ugo a gentle man in going from Washington. Va., to Morgantown, Va,, was compelled to pay 25 cents a buckct fur water for his Iwrse. From the New York Tribune. The Great Drought?Showers? Fires?Crops. New Yore, Aug. 31.?Still hot and dry. Every friend that we meet from the country hereabouis upeaks of iho refreshing influence of the late showers J but, "Lord blessy.oii, that little mill did no good to late crops ? Taters are ruined anyhow,*' Fiom one just from Upper Rock River, we learn that corn is uninjured, and ib too far advanced for the drouth now suiting in to affect it in iIih least injuriously. From Lu Forte, hid., wo learn the same tiling by an old acquaintance. One farmer there ha* 0.000 bushels of old corn. From the upper Wabash wo. also have good new*. R is thought that the corn crop there will be as good as ever. Ruins on the Moumee and Upper Wabash have been sufficient. In Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa the drouth lias done but little damage, and all the crops are large. II all who have good crops or slorrsof old corn will u*e it economically, the country will yet escape a greut calamity ?the want of bread stuff, or corn to fat oiu usual supply of meat. These are iht bright 6potn, and general exception to our almoef univeif-ul drouth. From many other sections, we continue t( give such mlormution as we are able to con dense into short space from long reports.? correspondent writes from Union, Broome Co., N. Y., Aug 20.?No! rain hew for several weeks until Saturday ; ilien scarcely enough to lay the dust. Most df the cisterns and wells have been dry for some time. Wheat yield* one third the usual crop, Buckwheat poor, come will not mure than get their seed. Oats (all much short of the usual yield. There is a general scarcity in all farmers' produce throughout the county. Farmers will have to purchase , wheat and buckwheat for their own use. Sterling, Conn., Aug. 27.?no rains since July 25. streams unusually low, manufacto ries lack water, vegetation sufiers. Last evening a Hue shower. in all eastern Con necticut and Western Rhode Island hay was very good?better than last year, and good weather to secure it. Rye good ; oats mid dling. Corn must fail short fully one third; many fields will be revived by the rain, but many are past cure- Potatoes must be light. Stockrridge, Mass., Ami. 28 ? Every thing is drying up. The larmers are cutting up their corn far fodder, there being no hope of getting even a medium crop. Lowndes Co, Geo., Aug. 25.?i never saw abetter ciop ot corn h?re than we have now. Cotton ?ood, middling and poor. Norwich, N. Y., Aug 30.?a shower has revived us a Utile, but wells, springs, streams aud crops are dried up. Syracuse. N. Y. Aug. 31.?Fires raged apt week in this county, burning over tun jer land, destroying fences, cord-wood and wildings. In places the soil burnt eighteen . s i.clksdeep. jJ Nashville, Aug. 26.-The weather con-; J iuut's hot and dry. Yesterday it was al-! r imsl as disagreeable as it has been thN sum- I Tier \ the rains above have raised a little j water in the Cumberland. s Canandaigua, N. Y.,-'Ang. 30.?In Yates _ county, and in Naples and South Bristol in . this county, we learn that large fires are ra-! ( ging in the woods, which could not be ar rested by any. human effort. The whortle- j berry swamp north of this village^ has been 1 burning lor several days past.( Since Sun-1 eruicr^^if^th^^aWfti^h^iTf^tffr>^al^s been completely destroyed?houses, barns, j fields, trees and soil. Littlf. Falls, N. Y.. Aue. 31.?The par ched earth was wet on Saturday. Mr. Sum mer's house in Otsego couuty. was struck by ; lightning. Yates Co., N. Y., Aug. 28.?Many have not cut a particle of hay this season. They were obliged to pasture meadows to keep cattle, ami those who did cut bay have al ready commenced feeding itout. . : Wateutown, N. Y.. Aug. 30.?A fine rain on Saturday put out the fires prevailing to an alarming extent in many sections of the county, and rendered the atmosphere much i more pleasant. Athol. N. Y.f Aug; 25.?The woods are i on fire in every direction ; the smoke is so dense as to render it impossible to discover objects at the distance of twenty rods: the, nir is full of burning < cinder atid ashes, and : the suii'is darkened. Kingston, (Canada-East,) Aug. 99.?Adc- ? ntruetive fire is raging in the woods. A1 saw mill and barns and out-houses have been I burned. Westpield, Mass., Aug. 30 ?Fonr weeks dry and then a light shower. Corn, on dry soils, is past recovery, and in some instances it has been harvested for fodder. Bytown, (Canada-West,) Aug. 23.?No rain in this part of the country of any ac count for several weeks. The smoke of Idrge fires iu the woods can be seen in all directions. Springfield, Mass!, Republican, Aug. 30. The rains of Saturday and Sunday lust, in New England, and in some parts of New York. Maryland, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio, extinguished some of .these fires, and others partially, but have diino compar atively little toward relieving the country from the drouth which prevails. ?ln addi tion to the fires before noticed in this State, that in Wilmington, on the Lowell Railroad burut over from 80O to 1000 acres of peat ground. The flames passed within b few inches of the barn of a Mr. Jones, which was stowed lull of hay, but did not sst it on fire. One man who was engaged in quell ing the fire was suddenly surrounded, and hail .a narrow escape, having hi* hair and clothes scorched iu the ellort to save him self. Most of the fires in other parts of the State have been subdued, alter having de stroyed force amounts of property. The fires in Sunderland, Montague, Chester, Ber nardston, Williamstown and other places in Western Massachusetts, have been nearly, if not quite extinguished. In Sunderland, Vt., up to Saturday last, there had only been one rain, and that a slight shower, for three months. A large mountain iu the vicinity had been on fire for five weeks, anil iu that town and Arlington, and their vicinity, the flames had swept over six miles of territory iu a direct line, and destroyed an immense amount of properly in cord-wood timber and peeled bark. Norwalk, O., Aug. 29.?Wells are lower than ever known before. No rain here. The whole country is fillet! with fire, tegu tatiou is so dry that it crackles like uunpow der Htrthe slightest approach of anything like fire. - The great swamp lying between Hudson \ind Boston, Ohio, is still burning, and great care h?s to be taken to keep it from spreading. Thp citizens have watched the fire for the past two weeks. In somo places it is said to have been burned to the depth of four feet. The fire will undoubt edly bum until we have copious showers of rain. This swamp is about five miles in length, and from one to three in breadth, I and filled with whortleberry bushes, pine and tantarack timber. A good deal o! val uable timber will probably be butfnt. Gloucester, Mam., Aug. 30.?We had a shower Saturday evening, the first for week?. Saratoga Sentinel, Aug. 30.?Four or five miles North o! this village. Walton'" woods are mi fire. Report ?a)f the whole neighborhood is fighting fire. Aid has b< '?? solicited lrom here. 'Hie woods below Dr Huddleptoirs, near the railruail are on fiie, inakini! it ruther dangerous fori rains to puss. Pktersboko. N. II. Aim. 30 ?Pnialoesure 60 dried up that rain can haidlt benefit therii7 and there will not be hall'a crop. Flon^ 812.00 a barrel, corn $1.25 a bushel, wdl make hard times for the poor. As for hut ter, very little of it can be obtained at any price. St. Pauls, Minnesota, Ausf. 25.?Th? crops in the Territory are luxuriant and ex cel the expectations of all our visitors. Jerieyville. III., Aug. 24 ?In this vi cinity, the mast promised largely, and stork hogs will Imye a good time generally.? There will be found fewer hogs to be fatten ed this fall than usual. As there is abund ance of small grain and hay, farm Riork will not stiller for provender. Com will be 1"0 j high to make pork. Detroit. Aug. 29.?Corn in same parts i of this State is dried up?prematurely ripen ' ed. It is not filled, but farmers aie cutting Sullivan Co . N. Y.. Aug. 30.?Trotter's tannery anil mills, with 500 cords of h?rfc, anil 3,000 saw lops, took fire from tl?p burn ing woods and were consumed at a loss of 810.000, insurance 85.000. The sjiorks were blown a quarter of a mile and kindled the j fire at the tannery. During the last ten or fifteen days a large number of our citizens have done Itotle else than " fight fir"." The woods have been on fire in all directions, and dwelling-house*, bams, tanneries &c.. have been in creat jeopardy, and we hear of many instances of " hair brp&dth escapes.'* The destruction of bark aud timber has been immense. Agriculture in California. A letter from California speaks of the great agricultural capacity of the State. Thirty bushels of wheat from an aero is : not considered too great an average yield. The straw is largo and stands thick on the ground, the heard long and well filled, and the berry large and plump. One instance is mentioned that seems almost incredible?four acres yielding eighty-one bushels to the acre. Several cargoes of barley anil wheat tue on their way from San Francisco i< New York and Europe. California, the :a <,?nn|i|w nf nroducinc lore wheat than all New York, Peiin ylvania and Ohio, while potatoes are aid to be rotting for want of consumers. [?Jin grape is cultivated with great sue- j ess, and experienced persona from jongBWorth's establishment are super-1 mending the enterprise. Thus it is j eon that there is something besides gold -something quite us good, and some hing that gold cannot always buy, in he soil of the PHcific Common wealth, [f a portion of those who aie toiling in iho cities of California, or unsuccessful ly delving in tho mines, would but the rich JighJa of the interior of the State, and ttirnTaFm ere, it would be vastly bfetter for them-1 solves, the Siato and the country* It is exceedingly gratifying at the present time, when the Atlantic and and Middle States are suffering finni u long and protracted drought, wYich will render tho crop this full ut least from one third to one half snort of the ex pectations of farmers, to know that in place of supplying the California mar ket with corn, potatoes, and grain, she now comes forward and is prepared to supply the eastern market. It is very evident fiom what has already beetr shown of the capacity of California as a farming country, that tho export of gold dust from thence will form no long or its one staple product, hut it must ere long become one of the finest grain producing countries on this continent, if not in the world. At fir.it she was a large consumer of our produce, even up I to last year, but in future she will lopuy us with interest. This is as it should be. j After all, though the crop3 in the eas tern and middle States are so uniformly short and very meagre, still this fact that California will send us so largely, must act upon the market prices of grain, and have a direct tendency to keep down the otherwise exorbitant pri ces that would rule. There is, there I fore, no actual occasion for the forelm | dings and sad anticipations in which we J find nearly all classes indulging at this I time. Throughout Now England the ; crop of hay (and that is a groat item) j has been far above an average 'one; and throughout tho country, more wheat ; has been harvested than any year before J since the country has been settled-?so ; that the short crops ate muinly in corn . and potatoes. ? Look on tho bright side always in these matters. A kind und provident i power is sure to cariy us safely through, i A little judicious economy should bo .exercised, of course, and it need bo no ' hardship to comply with the nocessity. Let each consumer use a little loss oi such staples as are actually scarce, than ho would do in tirno of plenty, and thu aggregate thus saved will be enormous, fully making up tho general deficiency ?Glcason's Pictorial, "Important l?formatinn."-Vnder this imposing head, a fi'llow named 15. F. Rob erts advertises in theli.iltmore papers that lie will for the sum of SI enclosed to him forward directions for preparing 25 of the most choice liquors, in quantities of five gallons for h 'ttla and private use. These directions lie siys, will ensure a saving of from forty to two hundred per cent., and the most critical examination will fail lo delect the genuine (rom the imitation. Here can be seen the origin ol the poi lonoua liquors now in the country, the drinking of which is producing 6uch fatal consequences to all u.||0 partake of them. The penitentiary should be the penally for all who vend drugged liqtiors. Scenes of Horror?Incidents of the Cholera at Barbadocs. Tho New Hnven Journal publishes the following extract from a letter writ ten by n gentleman in Barbadnes, try his friend in that city, respecting tho ravages of cholera nn thnt island: " G??d forbid that you should ever wime-s what we hove experienced wince your departuro. The deaths were ha numerous at one time, that vehicles, of all kinds were used to convey corpses. Thi? horse carts, as they are called, that stand for hire in the sqUnte, were very generally used. Six, eight?I have seen nine?coffins in one cart, and they were so badly constructed, that in pass ing over tho gutters or water courses, they would literally fall to pieces, and the driver, who was provided for the oc casion, would stop and nail up the cof fins in the street, to prevent the bodies falling out. Many, very many, wero carried tojthe grave in hand-carts j ma ny on the people's heads ; and I am told that the demand was so very great, for coffins, that many persons, particularly childten, were carried hv their parents merely wrapped in tarred sheets. V You have heard of the 4 Dead Cart.' I have seou ii?the first time was ono evening in the buy. A gentleman find myself was walking up to thu garrison. Just n9 we came up to it, it had sf??ppt.ei opposite ono of those alleys leading to the beach, tiie driver, a hideous looking negro, looked down the alloy and shout* ed out?"Got any down there 1" .The negroes were afraid to touch a dead body, even of their own relations, and. too frequently the drivers hud to attach a rope to the coffin, and drag it into the cart the best way they could. From an early age, I was taught self-reliance, and have always endeavored to look things straight in the face, but 1 must confess, that I never lief ire experienced so much difficulty in doing it. Up to this time, 1 beliove, we have lost from cholera some 18,000, or one eighth of the entire population ; and even now, I believe the deaths throughout the Island average fully 100 per day. I never heard of cholera proving fatal so quick* ly as it has here. Just imagine a man apparently in perfect health?at any Irate walking about?and not complain? ling at I p. m., and yet he shall be in ; his grave at 6 p. m., in five short hours; and believe there have been many euch ases. Eli Thit'jrr, the Coloniser of Kansas md Nebraska.?The caieer (if Mr. Fhayer, ilie origitiMor of the Maisi ihuaetta Emigrant. Aid Company, is a remurkublo instance of perseverance ? Until nineteeu yeurs of age he was a laborer upon a little farm in the inieti or of Massachusetts. He ilien conceiv bJ the idea of educating himself, arid lying his few clothes in a cotton hand kuichief, he placed the bundle on a ce nal boat and walked to the leiminus of the canal, where he reclaimed the- bun die and cuntinued his walk some miles luTtfieFto a iielBliliiiiing village, where was situated a school of preparation for the university. Supporting himolf there by manual labor, and sleeping Kt first in a gairet, he so filled himself-Os lo bo utile lo pass examination in nil tint maihrinaiics, and wus udmitted to Blown university on condition of bring inc himself up in that branch before thei end of thu fiist term. There boing two; spare days before the beginning of the' leim, bo stripped off bis coat and hiied himself to dig posl holes, by which he earned eunui>h lo buy a bed and a table and a chair for bis room, and the few books he would immediately want. In this way, also, lie went through the University, and,'though entirely unaid ed, graduated at the close with high honors, and with some .?50 in his pock et. With this hu began life as a school leaclier some eight or ten years sincr, and is now the possessor of u hand some competency, and at the head uf the most rcmarkuble American move ment of the age.?London Times. KJ~\Vo see by an exchange, that ,th? Court of appeals, have affirmed the decis ion of Judge Summers in the application niude for a uiano'amns, to compel the Jus tics ol Mason county, to grant licenses. The Court of Appeals decide, it is a mat ter entirely within the discretion of IIIj County Court, whether they will grant,, or wiihold licences for Ordinaries; and that no other court has the powerto revise their decision. This settles the Vexed question at last, and those pertinacious applicant! and their indefatigable counsel, have thu: an additional authority, to .Noah Webster that "may," does not mean "shall," and tlul the selling of ardent spirits,, is not in "point ol law," "a benefit to the commu. nity," or a right' that may be claimed !>v every man who wishes to poison his neigh, bnr and reduce his family to beggary ? Western Messenger. The Earth Burning up.?In Ohio, th# pine swamps weal ot Hudson have been burning for several weeks. The meadows lo the extent of several hundred acres have been burned out to the depth ol four !?et and will, when the swamp fills with wn tor become a lake. The fire would com mence eating under whole acres, were un dermined,when finding vent it would burst out furiously, Coiisumins everything with in reach. President Pierce, of Hudson College, went to the swamp to view the scene, when he miw several large trees ap parently on solid ground, commence tum bling ai though by an earthquake. The fire broke out all around and he narrowly escaped with life. The inhabitants in the vicinity are in a state ol the utmost con sternation. The Washington cnrrcspondentsslate that the Greytown Bombardment ques tion, as between us and Great Britain, will be settled snnu, together with thi> whole Central American question; ntul the Administration iB likely to reap sub stantial lawrals by the settlement