The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-08-27
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DAYTON, o., August 90, 1852.

The prospects of the farmers in this vicinity
are unusually flattcring. The crops of corn
now ripening promise to be better than they
lmvo been for many years Every other kind
Of produce yet upon the ground is equally pro-
mising.-Jacks6a0iHe (W.) Journal.
Injury TO tie Oat CrOp.-A new enemy to
the farmer has this year made its appearance
in the neighborhood Of Reading, Pa, in the
shape of a caterpillar, somewhat similar to
the worm which attacks the corn. The Leba-
non Democrat states that these catterpillars
have appeared in large swans upon number
of farms in Lebanon county, and Marion,
Berks county, and destroyed oats, corn and
grass
GONE on T5w.-Mr. Nathaniel G. Greene,
son of the editor of the Boston Post, and one
OF the livelicst contributors to that paper, has
started on a pleasure tour to California the
Japan Islands, China, and back through Asia
to Europe. lie is expected to be absent about
three years.
-Four Sons of temperance, who went from
Providence to aid in enforcing the liquor law
were pelted with rotten eggs at Newport on
! Tuesday, and with difficulty escaped theil
assailants, only one Of whom was arrested.
very bad EGGs-ample OF resistance to the law
LfJe Insurance The quarterly statemen
of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, O
| New York, shows an accumulated cash funt
exceeding 81 100000, all losses and expenses
paid.
n Day's S6o0ting.-Th Chicago Journa
Journal says that few days ago couple Of
sportsmen returned from hunting excursion
having bagged one hundred and fifty prairie
chickens in day shooting.
Mr. Seneca Thomas, aged 7S years, who
fought in the battle of Lundy's Lane, was
married at Worcester, Mass, on the lth inst,
to Miss G. A. Darling aged 80.
Hon. John J. Criaenden, Attorney General
of the United States, is at the Bellevue House,
Newport
Mnrdr 6y Yankton Iadians. Latte news
from Minnesota announces the aurder Of Fl.
Terry, teacher of the NJ. E. Church, at St.
Joseph, in Selkirk settlement, by Ye1kton In
dans. The people of st. Joseph, expecting a
general attack, had fortified the trading hSu-
ses. The Yanktons and Cutheads are deadly
hostile to the whites, and have threatened q
wholesale massacre.
From Costa iCa.-Advices to the 18th ult.,
state that Mr.. Walsh, American diplomatic
agent, and Mr.. Wyke, British Consul General
in Central America, had left San Jose for Ma
caragua having completed their mission to
Costa Rica, which was to procure the assent OF
Costa Rica to the treaty recently made at
Washington between Messrs. Webster and
Champion.
Weld0n and CASTOR RailrOaG.-The work
on this road is said to be rapidly progressing,
and it is confidently expected the entire line
Will be completed by the first of January
The CASTOR road is the connecting link be-
tween the Seaboard and Raleigh roads, and, ,
when completed, will add greatly to the re-
sources Of both roads.
| AR0ther Indian Heaty.-Colonel D. D.
/ Mitchell, superintendent Of Indian affairs in
| st. Louis, has received instructions from the
Department in Washington to hold treaty
with the CamanChes, Kiowas, and other In
dian tribes of the plains. The treaty will be
held this fall, at Fort Atkinson, or IN that VI
cinity.
| Eaiqration from the British ProUiRceS. -
The Quebec Chronicle says, a largepOrtion Oi
the recent emigrants from Europe, pursue q
| further course to the Western States, and at
tributes this result to the efforts of persons in.
terested in various American steamboat and
railroad companies.
HoQs.-We find the following significant
item in the Madison Courier: We learn that
one of the heavy dealers in hogs, yesterday
paid over some fifteen hundred dollars on a
contract entered into this time last year for the
delivery of one thousand hogs next month at
$4 per 100 lbs, nett.
Tile Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has re-
fused to grant an injunction to stop work on
the twenty -four miles of railroad from the
Ohio State Line to Erie. The work will now
most likely be allowed to be continued as
every measure to throw obstacles in the pro-
gress of the road has been exhausted
Mo5ocyacy in TeraS.-It is stated that Mr..
Hedgcoxe, the agent of the Texas Emigra-
tion and Land Company, was recently COM
PEELED BY a mob to leave Dallas county, Texas,
on "a hours notice, upon peril Of his life
The mob seized all his books and papers.
Sad Acciaent fr0m Campheas.--On Sun
day evening a camphene lamp in the dwelling
of the Rev. Joseph Marsh, at Sandwich, Mass,
exploded, instantly enveloping his three grown
daughters in flames, and horribly burning
them, two of them, it is supposed, fatally.
Uncle Toms Cabin Dramatized The Bos-
ton correspondent Of the Newburport Herald,
states that "an experienced writer in Boston |
is now engaged in dramatislng Uncle Toms
Cabin, with view to its representation upon |
the stage"
ParsoH Bropnl00, Of the Knoxville (Tenn.) |
Wing, devotes the second page Of his paper to |
Gen. Pierce, and the third page |
Eo performing the same business for General |
coo4t He 10 aveepdinplV hittar against hoth |