New-York daily tribune., 1854-09-01

lPhlaielphis sun. Aug 81
FEArFuI EFFECTS or THE FIRE ~ THE WooDs
Ii is certainly true that few can conceive the horrors
OF the danger OF those VINO exposed 10 the action
Of III. "woods on fire." All bet Is valued or loved
passes rapidly away before the snaky-ciested hame
We cannot DO better than give the contents of aleter
which We have just receive from engine on the
Saratoga ard saekeits Harbor Railroad
ATHoL, Friday, Aug. 2J, 1854.
The woods on fire in every direction. the smoke
is so dense us to render " impossible to discover OBJ
ec.s at the disence OF twenty rods the air full OF
burning cinder and ashes, the il darkened and
the scene is avfally sublime the nights are a terror
10 the people for thev are in fear of oeing overtaken
feiore the sueceed.ug G dawn by the devouriug fires
Wild beasts leaving the forests or being burned
up. Bears are seen wandering about the fields in the
day time-pantLers ard wolves are heard screeching
in agony daring tie night; sheep and ca lie are
burned up. Buildings, fences, crops, and in fact
nothing escapes the deyouring element You may
judge OF the danger for when the fire gets the grass
il goes faster than run; men often get lost
in he smoke and only find their way out by calling
back and for'h. The engineers on the 5. & s. II.
r. X. have been driven from their work and com
PEELED 10 for their lives several times within the
last ten days. on see we are spending days OF anx
ie.y and nights of pless watchngfor the horrors
which surround US can never half oe told
tsaratosa Republican.
LATE FROM KASsis.-Mr. Newell Philbrick OF this
city who joined The irst pioneer party to Kansas
/
Just about the report should expect from steady
! cool-beaded man. lie saws thqt the company Jour
neyed up the Kansas River. abogt forty miles from
we should suspect very truly the hardest part of
the route They stopped at the location selected by
the Emieront Aid Company stsked out their claims,
and commenced building their log cabins. L young
! men, from those who went put inten ling 10 remain,
| became homcsck, sold out and left All the rest
| were in good spirits snd condition. The agent Of
the company feccred a glaim half mile square for
ihe fuirse erection Of ajstore, reeeivingho sc
| Back cf and around THIS the pioneers stakei out
their claims half m;e deep and a quarter of a
mile front The coli is rich, the climate rather
warm. Limestone is near by and Mr. p. thinks,
in consequsnoe of the scarcity OF timber, will be
| much tse0 for bu.npg. Some dozen families from
| the Western Ststes have already got up their
cabins and settlei within short distance Of this
location Mr. hos staked ou, hls claim, and come
back 10 II his f.mily will return with him about
the let OF October He says it is not easy place
live in at present but nothing but industry and two
three years time wanting to secure beautiful
farm to every settler ard We here wish to cay !hs,
from the flrs we ssve anticipated disappointment
the part OF those who have gone out with high ideas
! ofsudoen ard efsy wealth IL is a new, Wild coun-
try. The early settlers for time must expect 10 be
destitute Of maty OF shat would here be counted al
most among thf necessaries OF life We al .ise
who ere not pfepGr'd for this TO leave heir eastern
homer; but f'qf those who car dare and dowho
know how to labor and 10 waiI-So know Vi no better
opportunity y promote a great cause, and al the
sune tine tleir own personal advantage, than by
joining thoselwho, during the com NJ fail, will make
kansas their home Worcester Spy, Aug. 81.
TERmory yPosIrioy.-- crib belonging to NJ. Law
renee Ma.beys Raft, now running tn North Shore
Slide, was barred to the Falls about clock this
day, lTueayl. Had il struck twenty feet either way
nothing ciud save the men, II happened to lodge on
ashsllowjledge about the middle Of the river, and
right sbyye tie main abyss Mr.. Charles Wright,
whose spirited oxertions has saved human life before
with NJ. W. Msctey, and others, succeeded in waid
ing OUT to a broad dry ledge, separated by gulch
about fnty feet wide from the men. A rope was
stretched across The gulph, by which, after some
hours I1ertion, the men were drawn acr0ss-some Of
them tainted with terror and has since lost his
son. IAN immense concOurse witnessed their perl0us
yosittn lBytown C. e. Tribune.
WI,LIHY PERsoxs ~ WoRcEsrER.-The person
Who pays the heaviest tax in Worcester il Stephen
Ssl bury who is taxed 80 leg OF s729 600. There
IN Others who pay upward of thousand dollars
tax, tiz. A. ". Morrison, 81, sss 90 Ichabod Wash
burni 81 ,234 VIM. A. Wheeler, o., ,297; Ethan Allen
slOiG l,aec Davis, 81 s+l; Charles Pa ne, 81 0jj;
Ceol lBewen, 81 02l; Henry Goulding, 81 ,072; Levi
incSip, i,53J Wm. T. Merrifeld, g. 2Oi. Thirty
four persons pay tax OF $500 and upward. Total Of
all VITO pay more than a poll tax, 1850. Total yau
liiop. si7, ,Coo.cOO
The ed .! tie Ohio river the bars opposite Cincn
na'i " iusi profitable business for large nun
her 81 and boys. who have quite feet Of wood
bualt aud skits employed TIE Gazette says the
tBt ~ 81 ale low yielding 80 Wen nave Tor years Detu
eovesed with SID urt.i. rs season re hoods OF
last winter barred the treasure Men are said 20 be
nasLg slo per day taking out boulders-qute as
uhel a. is made on The California plaeera. They
bavd;o work in water from two 10 three feet deep
and bck from distance like focks of waterfowl
QiEER BLUE NosEs.-There lives al Grand Lake,
NewlBrunswiek, a man ninety-si years of age, who
road} the newspapers printed the Gnest type. and
Is wted upon by sgre eatrani-daugh.e eight
zen fsars ~ age who is bat three feet sad three
fosrits Of an irch tail he has granddaughter who
i. fout feet eight inches high, but who weighs two
bundled snG egbty-sn lbs. She cannot stand upon
bef fdet more than 80 minutes at one time.
Nil tLERIsN AND The BuRsIyG FoREsTs-P.iyase
sccodnts from Maine state that in the vicinity of
some the burning forests quite number of persons
chiefly femal0A have become insane, in consequence
Of nt, The result Of belief that the general
copfs,rstions IN the woods there is q sign of the
speedy ending OF the world in accordance with the
Ireoi@ion Of the Mlerites. Some of them have been
ishenIto the State Asylum. Boston Traveller.
TBi WEALrH OF NEwPoRr-Ths city tAz list for
the present year for n wport X. l., shows that the
real eate r. valued IS sli oo0 and the personal
at s3b7s, ,Ioo-making total Of %. gao 500. The
tax 10 lhirty-eight cents on the sleo assessed.
GR1iT WILL Casa suit is now being trisd 10
Piketob, Ohio, on petit to set aside the will of
Jsmesj Davis, on the ground ofincompeeency ofmind
in the Ieststor. The value Of the eststs IN eontro-
very y e75o,oo0 Among the copuse. are Henry
G&ecskkrvv and ThHmaa E0fnO