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THE WESTERN Pork TRADE.-The Louis
vile Journal says the crop Of hogs will be
larger in kentucky than was sometime since
supposed, and adds:
Packers, under present circumstances,
with tight money market and large stocks
and great depression in prices of last years
product, are 10th to enter the market at the
rates now demanded. Some are offering 81
net, but this is we think little too low.
We are confident, however, that no sales
could at present be effected at over 81 so net.
The Alton Telegraph says:
We hear it rumorcd that five thousand
hogs have been contracted for at Springfield,
ILL.,, at $3.50. The represented seller is
packer of that place.
The ST. Louis Intelligcnccr says:
Here packers talk of 81 and so far as VIC
have heard an expression Of opinion, none
calculate that less than this will be paid at
any time during the season. A drover was
in the city yesterday, offering to contract
1000 or l,500 head at S.. but found no
buyer.
At Cincinnati ST net is offered.
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News Glcaninos.

OCR DISTINGUISHED VIsITORs.-Thc town
has been cnllvcncd during the past week by
the presence of a number of the heroes con.
nccted with the late valorous demonstration
against Pctropoloski. However much we
may sympathizc with thcii cause, as being
the common one against Russia and dcspotism
we hardly think it in good taste to make so
much display, upon the strength Of what ap-
pears to have been signal defeat as that
INDUCED in by the officers engaged in the
scigc to which We allude since their arrival
at San Francisco. They appear in fine lea'h-
or, however, and might be taken, by persons
unacquaintcd with the circumstances, for the
victors instead of the vanquishcd. All the
movements connected with the present war
appear to us to have been exceedingly i'll
contrivcl and as badly carried out. From
first to last it has been nothing bat one stu
pcndous failure. The military and naval
genius of Great Britain and France must have
sadly dctcrioratel since the days of Nelson
and Bonapartc; Or perhaps the fault may lie
with the individuals composing the Cabinet
of the former government. We are very much
afraid that the persons composing the force
of the present iuadr are gotten up, like
the canvass fo'ts Of Jalan, more for show
than actual service. \ little gold lace and
padding and gross of brass buttons may be
made to perform wonders, sometimes.
Golden Era: San Francisco.
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At Cincinnati 81 net is offered.

To DESTROY THIsrLEs.-The Canada this
tie is easily subducd, if they can be plowed.
Pillow in the fall and sow to wheat, and stock
down heavy with the large red clover and
timothy. In the Spring. as soon as tho
ground is dry, or the clover is two inches
high, sow plaster as much as you please,
from one-half to four bushels per acre.-Get
your wheat off as soon as possible; let the
clover grow as late in the Fall as convenient;
then let nothing but calves and ycarlinss on
to it, nor let it he fed more than just to keep
the nice from nesting in it. The better you
can make the clover grow, the more fatal to
the thistle.-Ger. Telegraph.
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Flour To CHINA.-This is a cheering tca-
for instead of our gold leaving the country to
pay for tea, sugar and spices, silks. shawls,
and other ncccssarics and luxnrcs, We send
the products of our soil and the labor of our
hands. This is what builds up our State.
Four thousand quarter sacks Of California
-four from the Eureka Mills were sold yestcr-
day by the Messrs. Fredlander u Co., at
satisfactory prices, (about 50 per bbl.) to
ship to China. Other shipments Of like char
acter will shortly follow; and thus, at length,
California has become an exporter of bread
stuHs.-San Francisco Herald:
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TIE IIEALTHFrI.SEss OF SMOKE.-A wrl-
ter in the London Times discourscs upon the
properties of smoke. lie thinks London and
all large cities would be much less healthy
but for the artificial atmosphere created 10y
combustion of wood and coal. Describing
smoke as nothing more than minute flakes
of carbon or charcoal, which absorb the pois-
onous gases emanating from the sewers and
from works where animal substances are I'M
der manipulation, he says that this accounts
for the undcniablc fact that London, although
the most smoky, is yet the hcalthiest metrop'
oils in the world. In waging war, therefore,
against smoke as an artistic evil, it IS not
wholly wise to dispense with it, on account
its sanitary value"
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An IRISH WIDDER.-Last week two med-
cal officers were called upon to view the con-
dition of some ILish habtations, situated at
the bottom of Westgatc, Leeds. One Of tho
medical men asked the mistress of one of tho
houses:
"Why don't you keep it clcancr?'
The reply made by the woman was, that
she was poor widow, and couldn't afford
it,"
GLOW long have you been widow g.
quoth the doctor.
"Sure enough, yer homF, for three years.
"Of what complaint did your husband
die 2" said the man ofphysic.
"Och, he never died at all; he run away
with another woman"
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EXPERT SCRYMAN.-In one of the western

EXPERT SCKYMAN.-In one of the western
counties of ncighboring State, resides an
individual who is by common consent h all. Il
as "Judge, The manner in which this title
was acquired was thus:
lie was a menlb,r of jury who had been
cmpannelicd to fix the damages to be awarded
in consequence Of defendants swine making
an inroad upon plaintiffs potato patch. The
COUNSEL OH both sides had had gooll time in
examining and cross-cxamining the principal
witness in the case. At last our hero who
was never backward in coming forward, in
timated to the court thattherc was one point
upon which he, as one of the jurors, wished
little information. He was requested to
put the question, the reply to which would
relieve his doubts.
I'D like to ask that ar witness Jest one
thing: and that's Question right to the pint.
Was them ar Eaters rooted Up aforc they
were planted or afterwards %
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EMIGRANTs FROM THE UNITED STATES To
ArsrnALIA.-Thc New York evening Post
publishes the project of an important scheme
tor the promotion of emigration from the
United States to Australia. 1t is designed
especially to attract the free negroes of the
United States. The terms, which are fully
stated in the letter from the Sydney house OF
Bier u Lowe, contemplate the accom-. o Ia
ton Of poor persons who are healthy, but
have no money to pay their passage. They
are to enter into an agreement to work out
their passage money when they reach Sydney
the Council of the colony having passed !.
law designed to enforce such contract strict
ly. Perhaps it may be useful to know that
the people ofSydncy recently in public meet
ing denounced the plan of introducing Cool
les into the country, as one tending to de-
grade width labor by bringing black labor in
competition with it.
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THE BATTLE OF TUE ALMA COMPARED WITH
BATTLES IN MExco.-lt is stated that the
Russians at the Alma numbered over 10000
men, with a powerful train or artillery, and
that the force Of the allies was about the same:
after an engagement which is casscd as dcs-
pcratc, the Cars troops were driven at all
points by the bayonct the victors losing about
900 men. Now, if this statement be true.
the Russians made but feeble resistance
the loss of the allies proves this. The Mex
leans would have held out more stubbornly.
In proof. it may be stated that at Chnrubnsco
they inflicted loss one of thousand upon the
light thousand Americans engaged; and at
the Mclino del Rcy, where Worth had but
little over three Thousand troops in all, he lost
nearly nine hundred men in less than an hour.
At the same rates. the allies under st. Ar
maud and Raglan, in their battle upon the
Alma, should have lost something like fifteen
thousand men, provided they had fifty thou
sand cngagcd.-G. ". Kendall.
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COMING IT OVER THE OLD MAN. my
son, take the jug and fetch me some beer"
"Givc me some money, then father"
"My son, to get beer mfh rianey, anybody
can do that; but get it rihont money, that's
a trick.
So the boy took the jug, and out he goes
Shortly he returns, and places the jug before
his father.
Drink" said the son.
GLOW cain drink when there is no beer
in the jug 2" said the father.
"To drink beer out Of jug, said the son,
"whcn there is beer, anybody can do That's
but to drink beer out of a jug, when there is
no bccr-thats trick %
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them, then they make bad citizens and have
no right to complain of the purely defensive
rule Of the Know Nothings. 1t seems also to
have never been thought of in the controver-
sy between foreigners and natives thatHood
government, good laws, and honest rulers are
as beneficial to one as to the other; and that
our laws, whether good or bad, operate G lual-
~ on the na'ire and the foreigner in their So
cial condition. Az OH NATIVE.
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REMARKABLE.-At the burial Of Marshal
de st. Armand, the flags Of France and Eng
land, for the first time in history, covered the
same coffin, and Musselman cannon resound-
cd in sign of grief at the funeral of a chris
tan general"
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DECIDEDLY RlcH.-Speaking Of the recent
appearance Of the sea-serpent near Dunkirk,
N. Y, the Journal of that place says: 1--WE
arc also told that several of our fishermen
have long been impressed with the idea, from
actual obsercnion, of the existence of some
imaginary monster in the waters Of the lake.
Very few persons are favored with actual OBJ
scrvation of imaginary monsters.
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Run TIE CAUSE OF THE LoCKpORT FIRE
A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat,
writing from Lockport, says that camphinc
was not the actual but the sub-agcnt of the
disaster in that city. The fire took place in
one Of the lowest groceries in the town
Several Of the inmates were drunk and Ca
rousing. One of them thought he was smart
enough to kick over the table, and made the
trial. In the effort he kicked over the lamp,
spilled the fluid, and hence the fire. 1t was
cmphatically the work of whiskcy.
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Notice to Creditors.

rTNlIIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE That the subscr-
L Der Of Cecil county. has Obtained from the Or
phans Court of said county. letters Tcsamcn'ary
on The personal estate of
Ann Moore
late of said county, decd All persons having claims
against the said deceased. arc hereby warned to ex-
hibit the with the vouchers thereof duly a,i-
thcncaied, or before the
18th day of October 1855.
they may otherwise by law, be excluded from all
benefit of said estate All prison. indebted to said
estate. are requested 10 make immediate payment
to the subscriber. Given under my hand this 18th
day Of October, 1854 WILLIAM CoALE
Executor Of Ann Moore, decd
Test JAS. II. JAaAn, Rcg'r. toct -, 'j4--6w
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UrThcre are said to be about three thor
sand colorcd men entitled to vote in New
York city and Brooklyn under the provisions
of the State Constitution which requires COL
ored man to have been three years citizen,
and possessed Of freehold estate of the value
of $3.50 over and above all debts and incum-
brances charged thereon, and upon which Il
tax shall have been paid.
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MAST FED IIoGs.-A good many inquiries
have been addressed to our packers in regard
to the value of mast fed hogs compared with
those corn fed, and We have been requested
to state that hogs from beech mast are scarce
ly saleable at all. From beech and white oak
the reduction from the price of purely corn
fed will perhaps be one cent per pound, and
form corn and white oak mixed about a half
cent per pound.-.- Louisville Journal.
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STORMY WINTER.-It is predicted by the
wcather-wise. that the ensuing winter will be
unusually stormy, marked by heavy falls Of
rain or snow, or both. The prediction is ba'
scd upon the fact that about the same amount
of water falls to the earth each year, and as
much less than the usual proportion has fall
len during the last six months, the balance
is to be made up this winter.
Portland Argus.
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SHORT WAY OF GETTING A DIVORCE.
Albany IN. W Argus says that the follow
ing notice appears i'll newspaper OF that
city:
"As my husband. Joseph Rentz, has left
me without any provocation. and l have seen
or heard nothing of him this last year past. l
hereby declare that unless he returns in three
days from this date, shall take it as d.
vorcc, and shall marry again Immediately.
JOHANNA RENTz."
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Broken BoNEs.-'.Mr. Witness, you have
said that while walking with an umbrella
over your head, you fell into this reservoir
and were badly injured. Did you break any
bones, sir, at that time :" II did, sir
"What boncs?" "Whale-bones, sir!
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Notice to creditors.

YTNiIIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE. That the subs:r
i Der of Cecil county has obtained from the ur-
phans Court Of said county. letters of Adminstra.
ton ON the personal estate of
Elizabeth Ford,
late of said county. deed All persons having claims
against the said deceased. arc hereby warned to cx
hibit the same with the vouchers thereof duly au
thcnticatcd on or before the
18th day OF October. 1855.
they may otherwise by law. be excluded from nj
benefit OF said estate All persons indebted to said
estate. are requested to mike INN ,liatc payment
to the subscriber. Given under my hand this 18Th
day Of October. lSji. DANIEL. BRATTON
Admir- G. T. A. of Elizabeth Ford, deed.
Enlt-l / Al Knn.r Inf --I,,r
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REMARKABLE FACr.-An exchange states
that the Rev. S. Black, Southern Methodist
minister, lately preached a sermon on Will
liams' river. in Nicholas county, Va, which
was the first one ever delivered in that region
of the country, although it has been settled
for fifty years.
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C~Never permit sheep to run i'll the pas
t,lrc with your cows or other neat stock.
Fence off a range for them, and confine them
and confne them by themselves. Half doz-
eli sheep will destroy and foul more feed in a
season, so that no other animal will eat it.
than twenty-five will consume.
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lDGricfs which cannot be remedied by
disclosure, had better be concealed; it is only
cruelty to make others partakers of our woes.
when by doing so We cannot tighten our own
burdens.
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MISSING STEAMER "lIER MAJESTY. This
steamer, built by Mr.. Denny. Dumbarton. on
the Clyde, for Captain Thomas Dick, has
now been out between eighty and ninety days
on her voyage to Quebec, and it is feared
there is no hope Of her safety. She was built
for the Niagara and Toronto route, nearly
200 feet long, and between 800 and 400 tons
burthcn. -...
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A PULPIT VETERAN.--A venerable clergy
man, aged ninety nine, lately preached by ap-
pointmcnt, in town in New Hampshire
where he began his ministry some seventy.
five years ago! lie was accompanied by a
deacon of his church, aged sevcnty-live, who
has lived OH the Penobscot river for half a
century, and has never before gone down to
its mouth since he went mp to settle i'll will
dcrncss as it was in 1904.
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DT"First class in sacred music, stand up.
How many kinds of metre are there g
Three sir-long metre, short metre, and
meet her BY moonlight alone w
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Statistical.

MORTALITY AT THE NORTH AND AT THE
SourH.-The experience of the Life Insurance
Companies Of this country has brought to
light certain facts which arc not expressed
or indicated by the census returns. In refer
cncc to the North, or that portion of the
Union embraced northcrly Of the southern
line of Virginia and Kentucky. it is shown
that the mortality is considerably less than
that indicated by the celebrated Carlisle ia
bles From ten years practical results, it
appears that the mortality among that class
of persons who insure their lives within the
region named is less than per cent, viz /:
about 81 in every 10000. In that section
comprised between 80 deg. north latitude IA
few miles south Of Savannah) and the southern
line of Virginia and Kentucky, the mortality
among the class ofpeople is LII. per cent,
or III. persons out Of every 10000. Look
ing to the extreme southern States, or south
of latitude SO deg, the mortality is nearly
double that Of the northern section-thc ac-
tual number of deaths Of 10 900 las insurcd)
being 1856. These calculations are entirely
exclusive of the present year, which has per-
haps been more fatal in the South than any
period since S3O.--LouisriNs Journal.
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G-JBrigham Young divides society scher-
all into the Lords poor" the devils poor
and poor DEVILS" which two latter classes
exist, to certain extent, in all communities.
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DEcEAsED-We learn from the Reporter
that Samuel KINNEY, who was for many
years engaged in the printing business at DO.
yer, died Mt his rctidcncc near Camden, OH
the 3lst uit, lie was about hfty.thrce years
Of age.
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TIE CORN CROP OF THE UNITED STATES.
The corn crop is one of the most impor-
tant crops of the country, hence the anxiety
produced by the long drought
According to the census of 1850, the total
amount of corn produced in the United States
was 500 OIL ,l04 bushels. The principal
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printed in the autobiography of the late Rev.
W. Jay, just published, he tells story of q
bull entering church where the reverend
gentleman was preaching. THE congrcga-
ton was large: and just as was concluding
the sermon there was a general CONSERVATION
and cutlery. All was confusion. the people
trcadng on one another, &c. 1t was rather
dark, and the pulpit candles only were light
ed. saw something moving up the aisle to-
ward the vcstry. 1t was bull we presume
driven in by pickpockcts, or persons who
wished to disturb us. We were talking upon
the affairs of the nation, and John Bull very
scasonably came in. But imagine what fol-
lowed the bull could not be made to go
backwards. nor could he be turned around:
five or six persons therefore, held him by the
horns, while the clerk, as if bewitchcd, gave
out in order to aprease the noisc,-
Praise God. from whom all blessings flow.
Praise him ALI CREATURES here below &c.
that the bull could have roared here in
compliance with the exhortation! l looked
down from the pulpit, and seeing the gentle
men who held him singing with their faces
lifted up, as if returning thanks for this UNI
expected blessing, was obliged to put my
hand before my face while dismissed the
congregation"
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G,,,,,oro,,s.

UA drunkard's nose is said to be light
house, warning us of the little water that
passes underneath.
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miscellaneous.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
THE LATE Mrs. ALEXANDER HAMILTON
We announced last week that Mrs Elizabeth
Hamilton, rclct Of Gen. Alexander Hamilton
and daughter Of Gen. Philip S. Schuyler, of
revolutionary fame, died in Washington city.
on Thursday.-The National Intelligcncer
says:
"Shc was married to Alexander Hamilton,
then one of the Aids Of General Washington,
with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, on the
9th of December 1870, there being not quite
years difference in their ages They lived
together in the enjoyment Of every blessing
that could render welded life happy, for near.
ly tw,n.y-four years: and she survived her
lamentcd and distinguished husband more
than halfa century"
Mrs. Hamilton was a lady more than ordi.
narily endowed. She was, indeed, rare
example of the wisdom taught by observant
experience, and bright example of all wo-
manly graccs. The Intelligenccr further re-
marks:
Her bcnevolcncc was most exemplary, and
one Of the finest manifestations 1T was her
habit, TO within few months of her death,
of making occasional visits to all the schools
of the city, and she never did so without i'm
parting some moral lesson which showed
how deep an interest she took in the welfare
of the country which her husband had con-
tributcd SO largely to make free and ndcpen.
dent.
Mrs. Hamilton lived to the advanced age
Of ninety seven years and three months, and
died without struggle, in full communion
with the Episcopal Church and surrounded
by her surviving children
The subjoincd letter, relating to ono of the
most touching incidents in our Rcvolutiona-
ry history, was addressed more than II years
ago by General Hamilton to Miss Schuyler
subsequently Mrs. Hamilton) previous to
their marriage:
Japan. Oct. 2, 1850, !
Headquarters Of the Army,
Poor Andre suffers to-day. Ev-
cry thing that is amiable in virtue, in forth
tudc, in delicate sentiment and accomplished
manners, plead for him; but hard-hcartcd
policy calls for sacrifice. He must die. l
send you my account Of Arnold's affair, and,
to justify myself to your sentiments, must
inform you that urged compliance with
Andres request to lie shot, and do not think
it wonld have had an il-ctlcct. But some
people arc only sensible to motives Of policy,
and sometimes, from a narrow disposition
mistake it.
When Andres tale comes to be told and
present resentment is over the refusing him
the privilege Of choosing the manner of his
lcalh will DO branded with too much obsti-
macy.
1t was proposed to me to suggest to him
the idea of an exchange for Arnold; but
knew should have forfeited his esteem by
doing it, and therefore declined it. AS man
of honor he could not but reject it; and
would not for the world have proposed to
him thing which must have placed me in the
unamablc light Of surprising him capable of
mcanncss, or of not feeling myself the impro-
pricty Of the measure. confess to you
had the weakness to value the esteem of n
dying man, because rcvercnccd his merit.
A. HAMILTON.
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Notice to CREDITORS.

i Der of Cecil county. has obtained from the Or
phans' Coart Of said county, letters Testamcntary
on the personal estate of
Ann Sterling.
late of said county, decd. All persons having claims
against the lid desc ased are hereby warned to OK
hibit tho same with the vouchers thereof duly
authenticated on or before tho
18th day of October. 1865.
they may otherwise by law. be excluded from ali
benefit OF said estate. All persons indebted to said
estate. are requested to make immediate payment
to the subscriber. Given under my hand this 18th
day OF October, lSjI.
WM. FLINTIIAM.
Executor Of Ann Sterling. decd.
Test, JAS. ii, LAMAR, Rcsr. IOct. %, J4-6w.