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DENTISTRY.

DENTISTRY.
G.W BIDDLE, late of Pittsburs Pa
has permanently located in Saint Paul
UIYY Fourteen years close application to hi
1O profession, together with a large and
beautiful assortment of plain and gum teeth enable hlm
oneo an entire Oteeth by atmosphere
PRESSURE with beautiful Of the natura
gum, restoring the mouth tOits naturalshape
Diseased teeth permanently saved by plugging useless
eeth extracted with little pain possible. Teeth
cleaned and diseased gums restored to health.
Once and residence on Main street, between Saint
No customer is wanted unless prepared to pay before
leaving the Office. Modesty positively forbds presenting
ouls; 0mcce osa hours Q N. to SPIN.
SASH, DOOR. AND BLIND FACTORY
TNHE undersigned respectfully informs the public tina
ne mas htted up an establishment on the corner o
Fourth and St. Peters streets in the rear Of he resby
''F'An chnrfs 81 'hs DOORS asS S Gt
He will At all times keep on hSn tie largest nd hast
assortmelt Of all work in hslp,e TO be found in Mo
sofa Orders promptly tled at the shortest notice, on
to An examination of his work and prices.
B'-An orders from the country promptly attended
Ole ,.o,.f.: N. GROSS
81. faui, Angus II, 1854. aug 19-dtf
MARKL LEY 4 KERN,
E feSelyed TeSe their fall and winter stock of Hard
Gnurns Can Shelves, Straw Cutters and all kinds of
House Furniture and Furnishing Goods
no empire Block below the American House.
stl fee1 sept. 2, 1854, sept25tf
EAPRESS NOTICE.
Ii persons ordering merchandise packaSes or n,onev
"A from the East, by expre Win please direct the sar
to pc marked to the ''Care Of Burbank Co. Galena'
.og s4yf Props s NCithsssts1N S hswssaSK K,S,ss, CO.
i Iasm BUILDING COLUMNS.
W!MSD0SW, ,,1 CAFs, and sll', Sash Weights etc At
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LIFE INSURANCE.!

AlE IL llVSO hANOE !
NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.,
% State Street, Boston, Mass.
ESTABLISHED IN 1S43.
CAPITAL $50 $S95 900
WILLARD PHILIPS, President.
DIRECTORS:
Willard Philips, Charles p. Curtis,
George Ii. Kuhn, Thomas A. Dexter,
Charles Browne William Perkins,
Sewell Tappan, N. F. Cunningham
Marshall T. Wilder, Charles Hubbard,
BENJAMIN F. STEVENS, Secretary.
VvHIs Company has now been established eleven
IL years Its directors men of high standing, and
its business is conducted high and honorable prnci
pies.
and its reports are to be had at the Office of Newell
Tompkins, on Third street, opposite Mayo Co.
VIM. ii. TOMPKINS, Agent.
C. s. spERRY, NJ. D., Medical Examiner.
Saint Paul, Nov. 22-dtf
REINSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK,
NETT ACCUMULATED FUND. FEBRUARY i, 1858
$2,OlS,775 64!!
fkNHlS Company has now established itself such
l. firm basis that offer to those desiring an
vestment on their lives greatest of all
in life insurance. viz full and perfect security Its his
tory is almost if not quite, without parallel. Com.
mencng lst February, 1S43, 90 years ago. without
dollar of capital except its receipts for premiums it has
now actual cash capital which is 'invesed in Bonds
and Mortgages on Real Estate principally in the cities
of New YORK and Brooklyn, worth double the amount
loaned thereon of over Its receipts for pre-
inc past I'VE years HdNt Dcen ncaTy
900, and for interest investment $780, O0O0
and has paid policies terminated by death during
same time, nearly $780, 600. Its dividends (aer
ing fund sufficient to reinsure all outstanding pOcies
were So per cent the first five years, and 33 Is per
the last five, the amount of premiums paid being
average of over AZ per cent per annum for years
These dividends added to the policy at their
sonary value, payable at death with the amount insur
ed or can be applied to the reduction of future prem
ums, at the option of the insured. The business of the
Company is conducted strictly on the cash plan-no
creditsand it is believed to hold out greater induce
ments than any other company, whatever.
Its rates of premium low those of any good
oifce and are believed to be lower than who pro-
Tess to insure from 25 to SO per cent less.
FREDERICK 8. WINSTON, Pres't.
ISAAC ABBOTT, Sec'y.
Charles Gill, Actuary.
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GROCERIES and PROVISION

GROCERIES and PROVISIONS
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
w. ID. McGRORTY,
Corner Of Fourth and Roberts door Ro-
ger Hotel, aas just returned from below with i'm
menss stock Of
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS,
WINES AND LIQUORS, Foreign and Domestic;
PORK, HAM AND SHOULDERS,
DRIED BEEF,
BUTTER 4 CHEESE
DRIED AND PRESERVED FRUITS,
TEAS of various grades, all Of best quality,
BRANDIES varying in prices from 41 to II per gallon
WINES, from q to 4l5 per gallon,
WHIsKY-Irish, Scotch, Bourbon and American va
rying in price from As cts to o., so per gallon.
AND DEvERYTHiNG ELSE
that can be desired always hand and for sale at
cheaper rates than elsewhere be found In MINES
Ota. Call and see McGRORTY, and you may RELY up-
on being honestly and reasonably dealt with msy2tf
WORLDS FAIR GROCERY STORE.-
LOUIS BARTLETT,
1IAVING purchased the Grocery, Wine and LIQUOR Dc.
ll partmsnt of the Worlds Fair, ON Roberts street.
below Third informs his friends and the puolic that he
has hand always extensive and superior assortment
of all goods In his line. In short time he will return
from trip to the East and will bring with him ample
supplies for every want Of which due notice will be given
st. Paul, April9.
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st. 3pauI @o0t9.

Grocer, FoRwHRpIasa AND CON-
MISSION MERCHANT,
Lower LsUss, St. Paul, Minnesota,
TTAS in store to close before opening Of naviga-
ton, the following stock of goods, which he offers
the trade at the lowest rates, to make room 'or ms
ew spring stock.
200 sacks extra and superflne -four,
300 do corn meal
1000 bushels corn, white and yellow,
100 do msraiat peas,
SO bbl N and clarified sugar,
edo crushed and powdered sugar,
10 10 81: SI', sugar aS house syrup, "
SO kegs (l0 galD do
so sacks Rio coffee,
IS sJ half sa,ss chests '.;; o. Of all descriptions de-
sb.ss whole pepper,
10 boxes ground do
bags aspice,
5boxes ground allspce,
s boss. @ ground @ e.s.i.,
aIss M ground ground cloves,
/ Dbl Nutmeg.
/ keg mace,
10 packages Assiny yboinss gslatine,
bbl tapioca,
bbls pearl Bsyberry,
10 boxes vermicelli,
10 do macaroni,
do broma,
20 do chocolate,
10 bbls almonds,
do aiberts,
l do Brazil nuts,
do Pecan do
boxes Smyrna ourrants,
10 bbls rice,
baskets olive oil,
100 boxes ssrdines,
"a do io6.ters,
4bbls picked herring,
10 11bbls do
20 do white fish,
80 cans IL and Glib mustard,
SO dozen y and Hlb do
80 do vinegar preserves,
96 do ketchups,
IS do pepper sauce,
10 do preserved fruits,
do pie fruits,
10 boxes yeast powder,
Dbl cream tartar,
kegs soda salaratus,
keg carb. soda,
so boxes summer pressed candles,
50 do palm soap, (Riggs)
25 do family soap,
do variegated soap,
do CASTLE soap,
6opaekagss chewing plug tobacco all qualt
SO bxs smoking tobacco, Goodwin r Murray
SO reams wrapping paper-four sizes.
100 Mills percussion caps, g D
SO sacks assorted shot,
10 boxes canister rifle powder,
S kegs blasting powder,
$50 kegs Boston nails, every size,
20 do wrought do.
TO LUMBERMEN AND FERRYMEN'
80 coils MANILA rope, every size,
do tarred do do do
IS bales oakum,
Is bbls pitch and rosin.
do tar.
WINES AND LIQUORS
100 bbls whiskey,
20 bbs MonOngahsa,
30 do old rye,
10 do Bourbon,
rs do New York brandy,
do Holland Gin,
do Port Wine,
do claret do
do white do
do old Madeira,
do old Sherry Wine,
Is boxes claret wine,
10 do southern wine,
10 do brandy cherries,
100 empty kegs, and 10 gallons,
SO demijohns, various sizes.
And large assortment of wooden ware, willow ware
and nniy Of articles belonging to his line too larg
to euumerate.
Also, Pork, Lard and Butter. Feb. 29-dtf
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SCARRITT a. MASON'S
MAMMOTH FURNITURE HALLS,

No. 60 Washington Avenue Louis Mo.
nUR EXTENSIVE ESTABLISHMENT is well
known that 1t is scarcely necessary to do more In
advertisement than to assure our friends and the
up splennid assortment of FURNITURE for the
Fall Trade the most superior in style and quality, ana
particularly suited large and varied demand, both
at wholesale and retail.
An examination of stock will show II TO be com
posed, both of home and foreign manufacture, having
neat and substantial medium, well as the rich ant
expensive.
Chairs from so cents $50 Bedsteds from SO SO to
800; Tables from 81 SO to S50 Bureaus from $40 t.
500, and in almost endless variety.
Besides have Spring. HAIR Cotton, Moss and Shuck
Mattresses, and all kinds of bedding.
We can furnish a kitchen, bedroom, parlOr, hotel or
steamboat in part throughout odd or to match, in
oak, cherry, walnut mahogany rosewood In short,
call and see.
sepI5-d&wtf sCARRITT & MASON.
ROBERT S. CAVENDER,
WHOLESALE DEALER IN WOODEN, WILLOW. AM
CEDAR WARE.
No. IS North Second ST., opposite Monroe House. 81. Lo
Missouri.
IJAS on hand and is constantly receiving
ll Tubs, Cedar Measures
2&3 Hoop Pails do Tubs,
Covered Buckets do Churns,
Well DO do Faucets,
b. b. Cedar do Brooms of all kinds,
l. Ii. do do Brushes do
Mop Handles, Willow Cradles & Wogons.
Bale Boxes do Baskets,
Half bushel Measures Rattan do 4 Il 5 bu.
Clothes Pins, Corn do
Rolling Pins Nest Boxes,
Wood Barrels, Manila Mats,
do Trays Int do
Axe Handles, Nests, Measures, &c, &C.
All of which is offered at the lowest Cash Prices
St Louis Mo. aug 17-d2m&wly
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PROSPECTUS
NORTH WESTERN JOURNAL.
T1NHE undersigned will issue on or about the 18th of
L May, 1855, the first number of Weekly Paper, to
be called
THE NORTH WESTERN JOURNAL,
Ut agriculture, Science and Art,
To be devoted its name indicates to the increasing
interests Of the Farmer, Mechanic and Trader 1t will
of q large quartO form and contain
THlRTY-TWO COLUMNS OF ARTICLES,
Original and selected bearing Immediately upon each
branch OF popular Interest," belonging to such journal
1t will be neutral in Politics and Religion, reserving
the right to question knduery in the One and fdnacs
in the other, while 1t will commend honesty in both.
Able correspondents will be secured at every point
where the successful improvements in pursuit.
be readily adopted here Occasional illustrations will
be given Of Inventions of practical benefit well il
lustrstions of rural Architecture Gardening &C., with
Portraits and BOgra phes of some of eminent
men, supply which, arrangements have been entered
into with Artists Of ability at the East We shall
deavor to to readers the latest information
Agricultural Pursuits, Scientific Research,
Mechanical Arts, Education,
Literature, General News,
Fireside Economy, Ladies' Portfolio,
Wit and HumOr, Youths improvement,
Sabbath Reading, General Miscellany.
All of which will doubtless form paper of value all
IN the North West.
Terms, % per year in advance. Single copies five
certs A liberal discount made to Clubs, follows:
Five cOpies to one address. ..........S
Hen 10 .............. ~
Twenty do Observation-Disclosures. 80
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
Ofce at the junction of Third, Bench aud Wabashaw
streets, second story, the Post Office, St. Paul.
March, 1855. mar2sdtf
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Attorney and Counsellor at Law and Solicitor N
Chanery.
SHAKOPEE, SCOTT COUNTY, MINNESOTA
MINNESOTA REFERENCES.
Gov. w. A. German,
). Travis Rosser, Esq Sec. Min. Ter,
Capt J. H. Simpson, u. 8. Top. Ens'rs St. Paul.
~. Morgan, Esq, Pioneer Office,
ID. A. Robertson, Esq,
Hon. H. H. sibley, Mendoza.
MARYLAND REFERRNCRs
Gov. e. Louis Lowe,
T. H. O'Neal, Esq, secretary of State
Judges Legrand Tuck and Ecleston of Annapelks
Supreme Court Of Maryland,
Hon. Alexander Randall,
John v. L. Mcmahon Esq, Baltimore, Md.
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CURTAINS! CURTAINS !
UPHOLSTERY GOODS!
THE PLACE TO BY
Window Curtains.
..t SHADES, SC.
J. L. CHANDLER.

(DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE COuR HoUSR.)
AS for sale the largest and best stock of Curtain Ma
IL terals and Trimmings, Window Shades, and other
Upholstery Goods in the West The assortment comprises
Goods of every quality and style ron the richest to the
lowest in price As this the only store in St Louis
cusvey devoted to the Upholstery business the selec
tion Will be found the best and the prices lower than in
other establishment the city. Special attention is
called to the large and complete assortment Of Lace and
Muslin Curtains and elegant Satin Damasks, WOrSted and
Cotton Damasks Gilt Cornces Bands Gmps, Cords,
Tassels, &c.
WINDOW SHADES :!
great variety of and beautiful patterns just
ceved.
All kinds of Mattresses for sale at lowest prices
61- Strangers visiting ST. Louis wishing TO purchase
Curtain Goods or Window Shades, rely finding
here the best selection in the city and the prices sasac
tory. .-... .tf.--.t
st. Louis, April 10. d3m
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s. j. r. MCMILLAN,

Sc Je
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
MILL attend promptly and faithfully to all busnsss
entrusted to him in the line of his profession. at
Siwater, st. Paul, St. Anthony, and throughout the
territory Of Minnesota and the adjoining counties
inc state oi Wisconsin. Office, STILLwATER, Min.
. REFERENCES.
MS LEX. Aiex Ramsey, Geo. w. Campbelldk & Co.,
st. Paul. Galsna
NJ NJ. u SoIup, " Mr.. R. Lansing, Z"
& nr. .: simpson, Mr.. s. o. Butler, st. Louis
hon' a. w !. Looms, Pittsbg J. H. Larkn & Co.
y; Snaoi, samlJ .Wetherell& Co."
:. - n; H. 3m9ofnead, Esq. /" JOS c. Butler 4 Co. Ch
q. =. w Jackson, Esq. " Mr.. Jos. P. Besgs,
MAJ. J. b. Butler, and +" H. Burke
isaxehs generally, IS q, J. Butler, /"
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MINNESOTA RIVER OUTFIT
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.

NAINNESOTA RIVER OUTFIT
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Third Street, betueen Roberts and Mnnes0ta.
D PRESLEY, has just returned from below with an
l)s extensive assortment of Groceries and Provisions
and also large stock of Fancy Articles to be exhibited in
the Fancy store next door, and ready for sale.
His Groceries and Provisions consist in part Of the fol
lowing viz:
BACON NoIAssEs
hhds country Hams 10 brls Belch's H in hfs and
sugar cured do. quarters,
. shoulders, 5" Golden syrup,
60 clear sides, !20 kegs do.
3 casks do B0ef PIsH.
rEAs casks Goldfish
S chests Y Hyson, 20 brls Mackerei in hfs and
l." Imperial, qrs, Nos. !, 2, snds 3;
L" Gunpowder, brs Herring;
Also, variety of X lb II 5" fresh cove Oysters;
lb, 8, and lb boxes. 20 doz. small box sardines
COFFEE. PRESERVES IN GLASS
20 sacks Rio, Peaches, Ounces, Pears;
10 Z" Government Java, strawberry, Raspberry and
/" Laguayra Currant Jelly;
sUGARs. Pickles of all kinds.
IL hhds New Orleans, CANDLES AND SOAP
hhds prime, do Fifty boxes star Candles;
so bis of A and clarified, g pressed do;
10 g crystalized, 2 boxes solar sperm.
10 " crushed, PORK AND FLOUR
10 GO powdered, Fifty brls Ness Pork;
u" loaf {" Jasper Mili Flour,
MISCELLANEOUS FAMILY GROCERIES
Homny, Corn meal Rice, Beans, bag SALT box do sale
ratus soda and acid Yeast powders Chocolate Cocoa and
Brooms, brushes and Mops with handles Clothes Lines,
Bed Cords stove Backing and Lamp Wicing Cider Vine
gar Dried apples and Peaches Buckwhsat Flour and Rye
uo TePPer sauce, walnut CAsup, tomato uO ana Lemon
syrup. WOOD AND WILLOW WARE
Painted Tubs Cedar do; Ladies' Rolling Pins and
Zinc Washboards Dippers; Knife Trays;
Dippers, Keeers; Potato Nashing Boxes
ChOpping Trays and Bowls; Buckets, Axe helves;
Spoons, Butter-knives; Market Baskets;
Clothes Baskets.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO.
We always have the largest and best stock which
bles US to sell lower than any else in the city.
In wordny stock includes everything in the Gro
Gerry Line which will be sold cheaper than the cheapest
and respectfully inform all my friends and the public
generally that whatever they may wish In my line Of bust
be obtained either at Wholesale or retail.
B. PRESLEY
st. Paul, May 20, 1854. d-tf
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WIN. b. MoGROARTY is now receiving an immense
w stock groceries and provisions at his store corner
of 4h and Roberts Streets where he anxious to receive
calls from his old friends and many new ones as NAV
be pleased to His goods having purchasey
for CASH he enabled to sell at low rates ss and
other firm In the Territory. His goods of excel
quality, and pronounced by all who have tried them
Give him a call and get the worth of your money
st. Paul, Nov. 2, 1S54-ly
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FORBES & KITTS0N.
JOBBERS IN INDIAN GOODS AND DONESTICS.
TIAVE ON hand large assortment of Indian Goods
Ill which they offer to the trade reasonable terms
also Family Groceries, among which assortment of
Fruits fresh and preserved Presh peaches in cans,
Star Candles, Fresh Ounces,
Tallow do Preserve Peaches,
Soap, Currant Jelly
do Fancy, Currant Jam,
Hams, Pie Fruit,
Teas Of all kinds, Dates, Ctrons Figs,
Sugars Raisins Spices
do Crushed, in Xbarrsls, Assorted Extracts
Coffee, Spanish Olives,
Lard, Lard Oil, Prunes
Butter, Catsup, Lobsters,
Sardines, oysters,
And everything required for family use, all OF which will
be sold Low.
STONE STORE CORNER THIRD ROBERTS STREET
st. Paul. Sept. 21. sept2l-dtf
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= iasm BUILDING COLUMNS.
WINDOW CAPS and Sills, Sash Weights, etc, NJ
vVtnes6 Raul Foundry. Aprille-dSm m
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ATLANTA MONEY.
A LEXANDER REY will take any quantity of ATT ANITA
"a BANK BILLS in payment for old debts and will re,
ceve to any amount sales at his
Lower Levee Nov. "a, 1854
nov24n ALEXANDER REY
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CONCLUSION.
9Vu\IS useless to 60 on enumeratng. We keep the
IL "City Drug Store )" the cheapest, best and most
extensive in the Territory We attend strictly to the
Prescription Department of our house, and will be
found always on hand to crafty all the wants of
numerous wholesale and retail city and country
toners. We guarantee to suit you all, both price
and quality. Yours respectfully,
BOv20 BOND & KELLOGG.
SPRING AND SUMMER TRADE.
JOSEPH SPIEL.
A NNOUNCES to his city and country customers
"A that he is now in receipt OF large and well selec
ted assortment of
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CATHOLIC BOOKS.
VuNIE following Catholic Books for sale at W. Bh
Il MCGRORTY's store, 4th and Roberts streets
Saint Paul, NJ. 7.
DOuay Bibles in every style of binding
large variety of Prayer Books of all sizes styles
School Books and school stationery.
Controversial works and Catholic tales.
Histories and fancy works.
All the above books will be sold at the publishers
prices. --'
Liberal patronage will enable the subscriber to enlarge
his stock to meet the demands OF this vastly increasing
Catholic population. ...f 3d..
The subscriber also agent for the American Cet and
Western Tablet, which always for sale at my store
Feb. 5, 1S55-du w. B. McGRORTY.
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ELEGANT, DELICIOUS AND SUPERB -
WIEhave pipe Of very old, soft and oily Pale Otard
w Dupuy. The best that money procure in the
United States and of the best imported into
Minnesota. So say all the Doctors and BOns Vicans of
the city All persons desiring perfectly pure French
article for medicinal purposes, had best call at
BOND KELLOGGS,
nru Ctnra ITppo TOWN
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~
MO excuse for bald heads now We have been ap-
IN pointed the wholesale and retail agents, of the
Territory for Professor o. J. Woods great and
vailed Hair Restorative. We offer it in all confidence
1t has and will produce good and perfect crop of the
finest hair. Call and see the proof at
BOND S KELLOGG'S
City Drug Store, st. Anthony ST., upper st. Paul
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-16

The Times correspoI den, writes on July
18th, Last night the Russians kept up a
tremendous fire. The battery which the
French constructed betwet( the Maluelon and
the Malakhof has been kL ocked to pieces by
the powerful fire of the lai ter fort & colo
nel and 30 officers aud men were put hors de
combat, and the siege works have received a
check.
Prince Gortschakoff annou ices July 10th,
" having made two sorties July l4fh and 18th,
before the Bastion KorniIoif, ", Iich were sat
istactory."
General Peissier telegraphs j July SD 3
"The enemy last night opened a very brisk
fire on the right and left Of our Ii mes. Our
batteries replied successfully"
The newspaper Crimean CORES pondeuts
speak despondiugy in view of the immense
efforts made by the Russians to str engthen
their defences
AS the Allies advance to the actual d ,fenees
OF the place, says one, they must ex, 'ect 10
meet more elaborate works and obs, acles,
heaped on one another with all the care which
many months of preparation admit. Eveo
now the enemy are strengthening the n ala.
koff every day. 1t is not now what it wal
on the 18th of June, and fortnight will moi
pass by when it will be again changed.
The Battery at the White Works still 90 es
on, and its effect will be proved in few day $
I General Simpson reports July 25th, TIA
cholera had decreased. and that the health o
the army continued satisfactory.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-16

Extra HARrEsT.-A letter from Centreyile,
inu'; dated July, 2lst, says R
:, we nave more than double crop of all
Ainus oi produce in this county this year. lhioI,
mneat WIFI range from so to rs cents per hushel
,i 's i'"' here never was, since the frsl set
"e'"eh' OF ms cnnBtry, such ii pruspec. should
no' NC surprised 10 see poialues selling al 10
GEMS per 'bashei. Yesterday conversed with
q iar'ner who expects to cvt four and half tons
OF grass 10 The acre.
PROBABLE FAMINE AMONGST THE MopMoNs -
he several accounts which we have published
Q! ,he ravages of grasshoppers and crickets in
oi't Lake valley point TO the strong probability
o. famine among The saints The coming winter.
ihis is not the first instance in which The Nor.
mons have had their crops destroyed by these all.
devour0g insects. The first year of their settle.
ment there, the crops were eaten up by c,ickels.
which lett a track behind them as if wasted by
fire.
The observations of Col. Fremont in the Salt
Lake Valley in 1874 indicate that these crickets
and grasshoppers are likely to prove chronic
plague TO The Mormons. He states that from
time lmmemorial the native Indians have been ac-
customed 10 regard them as part of their sub
slstence. They make cakes of grasshoppers and
crickets. They drive them into trenches with a
hot fire at the bottom, where their wings and
legs are burned off, and they are roasted after
HE fashion OF the locusts of Africa.
In view of the above facts, it is not impossible
ts9t these insects may prove providential agen.
ey for the dispersion of the Mormons Press,
lhi0ago III.
a aetler from DR.. Robinson, dated Lawrence
CITY, Kansas, says that the Lower House of the
mi1b legislature has enacted the whole code OF
satssonn laws, and as the Council would no doubt
agree. ibe institution of slavery, with all the
M ssonrl lays for its protection, would be thereby
established in Kansas
concurrence of 1900 to 1000 persons atten
ded the Free Sod celebration on the 4th of Jul,
a Lawrence, among the throng being severa
ar med military companies. sent out to the terrific
ry by some unknown peason.
A very heavy rain-storm visited Baltimore re
Gently Many of the streets were flooded. ant
the easements of the houses filed with water
ca nsing considerable damage 10 the foundations
of buildings.
In the attack on Nystadt. by the English frig
ate A rier. on the Oath of June, forty sevel
Russian merchant ships were destroyed