The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-07-16

The Rochester IN. W Americaw Of the 18th
inst says;-Nothng has occurred To mar the
highly promising appearance of the wheat IN this
vicinity The weather continues 10 be OF the most
valuable character. There has been sufliciency
OF rain, Of warm sunshine, and of cool days and
nights Consequently, while the growth OF tho
straw is very fine, the heads are well filled and
the kernels uncommunly plump We hear OF no
Iust and the period in which that calamity can be
apprehended is well nigh past The yield can now
hardly fail 10 prove uncommonly, II not unprece-
| dentedly, abundant. We learn that wheat cutting,
| on dry sandy soil, near Palmyra, Wayne county,
| commenced on Thursday last Harvesting will
| begin TO considerable extent, IN this neighoor
| hood, by the middle of next week, and become
| general as early as Monday, the I'D inst. Other
| crops-corn, grass, potatoes, NC, are also ex-
! celent.
| In many paris of the State the wheat harvest is
| commenced and through the State generally the
promise for an abundant harvest was never better.
In the south part of the State much of the crop is
already safe. IL Is too late now TO have the crop
affected by blight The heads well filled and
the kernel plump We congratulate the farmers OF
the State, and through them every other class of
business, on the improved prospect.
GREAT MORTALITY AMONG CALIFORNIA Emf
GRANTs.-We have before us letter written by
| Geo. r. Bradley, and dated Liberty, June 2lst,
which gives sad account of the fate of one of the
California cmigraliDg companies. The swrlter
| says that his wagon, 10 which were attached his
brother and himself, from Union county, Ill, II.
| ]. Osteuer, from Chester, Ill and two of the
MacDills. from Union county, Ill.,, left lndepen-
| dence in company of twenty seven persons, on
| the llth June; that when one day out, one of the
| company was attacked with the chol.ra; that on
the third day-having travelled sixty milesEthey
were stopped by the cholera and small pox break
| ing out amongst them; that they remained en-
camped two days, during which they lost ten men.
Next day the men were so alarmed, that they pro-
posed to turn back and the resolution was adopted
almost unanimously. On the return route, there
were seven more deaths before they reached indie
pendence, where the company separated-only ten
of the twenty. surviving. They left every
thing behind them except their mules.-N. LOUIS
(ldo Republican. Jpiv6.
FIRE AND RIOT IN PHuADELPHlA--Ab Iacksmith's
shop and sheds, and brick building, occupied by
Edward McFarlan, at the corner of Rose and
Broad streets in the district of Moyamensing, were
destroyed by fire yesterday morning. About the
same time the carpenters shop of James BUST, in
Fitzwater street, between 18th and 18th Streets
was burned, with all its contents. A large brick
house, belonging to Mrs Harley, destroyed,
and TWO n George W. " Gbspentsr
ne hose of the companies who attempted to extin-
guish them were cut, and there were some riotous
demonstrations on the part of the disreputable
hangers on of the fire department, of whom there
are so many in Philadep hia.-[ Philadelphia N.
american, July Is.
SOUTHERN FACTORIES see an article going
the rounds Of the papers, protesting to give correct
statistics in regard TO the manufactures of Georgia.
Tennessee, and other Southern States. 1t Processes
to be taken from returns made to the Treasury de-
parment. Among other things, it states that the
amount of capital invested in Georgia is $l2l 900
The actual amount really invested in the Georgia
manufactures is not far from 81, COZ, 600 and the
people have but begun to turn their attention to the
importance Of this new branch of ndustry.-[ ST.
ramnah Georgian, July H.
The SIAMEsE TWINS DEAp-The Paris Journal
DIES Debdts announces the death, in England, of the
famous Siamese Twins. The De6ats states that
according TO the London Medical Times, the two
brothers died Of marasmus. A post mortem exami-
nation proved what has been constantly supposed
by the faculty, viz: that the two cavities Of
the abdomen communicated by means Of the hol-
low lgament which united them, and that the
livers of the twins were connected by membrane
bride about half an inch thck.-Brook!yn Eagle,
| July Is.