The Moline Workman from Moline, Illinois • 2

which, it is interesting to witness. Wel it slicing off' great plates of iron and steel with as much ease as a hungry boy would bite ginger-bread. It punches with great ease and rapidity, and yet without either hurry or noise, Near this machine we see a drill, and a machine for cutting screws, both of which are very rapid and efficient in their operations. A little further on we see three huge grindstones revolving by machinery, at which the plow-shares are ground smooth and sharp. Near by is a polishing wheel, at which they acquire that glistening beauty, SO observable in the plows of this establishment.

These grindstones we notice are clamped on the sides, instead. of being wedged tightly on the shaft in the old fashioned mode. This improved method ly lessens the danger of their bursting, when revolving with rapidity. Fatal accidents resulting from the bursting of grindstones fastened in the old mode, are free quently recorded in the newspapers. Passing down into the woodwork department, we see a machine for tenoning the plow-beams.

Some idea of the amount labor saved by this machine, may be formed by the fact that while it takes a good mechanic half or three quarters of an hour to tenon a single plow-beam, this machine penorms the same operation equally well, at the rate of three per minute--and doesn't get tired either. A machine for smoothing the plow-handles is to be added to this department, which will turn three a minute, whereas, by the ordinary mode, the same operation requires at least ten minutes. We also see machines here for planing, sawing, boring, by which these operations are greatly facilitated. In the forge room, a trip-hammer and other machinery is to be added, which will effect a still further saving of labor, and increase the number of plows manufactured. It is intended to occupy the second story by machinery, and the third will be used for storing, and painting the plows.

The plows are sold throughout the States of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and the Territory of Minnesota, and now in the hands of the freemen of the North, will be a most valuable auxiliary in the settlement and civilization of Nebraska and Kansas. With the well-known energy, industry and enterprise of the manufacturers, who can set bounds to the ultimate extent of this business, in a country being so rapidly developed as ours? Without being a prophet, we may safely predict that wherever the hardy pioneer shall bring the wilderness and prairies of the west under cultivation, there will the beautiful and substantial productions of the Moline Bunte Feet says ad noon and Far back in distant ages The plow with a wreaths was crown'd, The hands of kings and sages Entwined the chaplet: round, Till men of spoil, disdained the toil By which the world was nourished, And blood and pillage was the soil In which their laurels flourished." But now the world her and in the eye of enlightened reason, he who pursues the path of peaceful industry, and benefits his race by productions which minLister to the necessities or comforts of mankind, is deserving of a more lasting renown, than the titled minions of a tyrant's will, whose only laurels are imbued in the blood of their fellow men. Leaving the Plow Factory, a few minwalk brings us to the MOLINE IRON WORKS, of Williams, Heald Co. This is a new establishment, and is not yet in full operation. It occupies a two story frame building seventy -two by thirty.

About a dozen persons are employed, all of whom with perhaps one or two exceptions, are from New England. In the machine shop we see a steam engine of six horse power three turning lathes and a machine for planing iron, all of which are entirely new. The second story is used as a pattern room. The moulding and smelting room is in the back part of the building. As we enter, we perceive that preparations are being made for the first casting done in the establishment.

The large furnace now glowing with heat, is supplied with air by means of a fan similar to that used in the Plow Factory. Moulds of different sizes are scattered about the the room, many of which, we are told are for castings to be used in repairing the large grist mill of H. D. B. Pitts.

A large crane is being constructed for the purpose of lifting huge kettles of melted metal too heavy to be lifted by hand, at one side stands a smaller furnace to be used for melting brass and copper. But now the casting is to take place, and we see the melted metal issuing from the furnace as bright as the enthusiastic hopes of youth. Would that these, the glowing metal before us, would subside into solid and enduring usefulness. But our stroll has already occupied too much time, and therefore, after seeing the moulds filled we returned to our own affairs, mentally resolving to take another start and call upon a few more of our neighbors at the first opportunity. The price of the Rock Island Ad.

vertiser has raised from $1,50 to $2,00 per year, in advance. This has been done in consequence of the increased cost of publishing. For Agricultural news, see fourth page. Moline Wednesday, November 29, 1854. W.

N. SWYMMER is our authorized Agent in and for the City of St. Louis, and is empowered to receive Advertisements and Subscriptions, and collect money due therefor. A STROLL ABOUT TOWN. Taking advantage of a leisure hour the other day, we took the opportunity to drop in and examine several of the busy hives of industry, that both adorn and sustain our thriving town.

First in our way came the MOLINE PAPER MILL. This establishment, from whieh we procure our weekly supply of paper, is carried on by Mr. S. W. WHEELOCK, and gives employment to tweive persons.

The quality of the article manufactured is very good, as the sample with which we weekly present our readers, sufficiently attests. A large number of printing establishments in Illinois, lowa, and Minnesota, are dependent upon this Mill for their supplies, and any accident which would prevent its running, would cause more consternation among printers, than the breaking out of the cholera or The rapid growth of the west, and the consequent increase of printing establishments, has caused a demand for paper beyond the ans of supply, and the only limit to its sale is the scarcity of material. The demand is yet increasing with extraordinary rapidity, and unless some more plentiful material can be discovered, people must wear out their garments a great deal faster, or the wants of the press must go unsatisfied. It is interesting to witness the various operations through which the huge pile of rags which we see here must pass before it emerges from the machine, as the white and spotless sheet. By the way, what various scenes these same rags do look upon.

If they were endowed with speech, what tales ol joy and woe, of happiness and misery. they could relate. First brought into being by the fructifying influences of a southern sun, and the unrequited toil of that unfortunate portion of the human family who are doomed to writhe beneath the lash of slavery, the material of which they are composed is transferred to the busy manufactories of New England, where, submitted to the action of the whirring, buzzing, clattering, yet harmoniously moving productions of Yankee genius, enterprise and skill, and attended by the fair daughters of the Puritans. it takes upon itself forms of usefulness and beauty. Soon displayed in the busy marts of commerce, it attfacts the gaze of purchasers, chance, to adorn the lovely form of youth and beanty, and move amid scenes of wealth and grandeur--per perchance, to clothe the tottering form of age, or become all inhabitant of the tomb, and wrap the cold remains of some immortal spirit that has fled to that "bourne whence no traveller returns." Time rolls along, and old and dilapidated, the once cherished robe is cast aside, and now, having fully fulfilled its mission, is ready to enter upon: another sphere of usefulness.

ferred to the Paper Mill. we see it reduced to pulp by the action of machinery, and after passing through a series of rolling, pressing, and drying, it emerges from the machine into the hands of the pleasant looking young lady we see yonder. Next, covered with half a million letters, it is sent abroad, to vice confusion but to virtue strength, and aids to lead on the world in an ever progressive and advancing civilization. In the last scenes of its usefulness it is (excuse our blushes reader) it is known by the name of the Moline Workman. Leaving the Paper Mill and the thoughts it has conjured up, we emerge again into the street, on the opposite side of which, we notice two huge piles of straw, to be manufactured into wrapping paper.

It has been said that paper makers in the East have succeeded in manufacturing -printing paper from straw, but the experiment does not seem to have given satisfaction. Just below the Paper Mill, stands the celebrated MOLINE PLOW FACTORY, owned by DEIRE CHAPMAN. This es- tablishment. one of the most important in Moline, and the most extensive of its kind in the West, if not in the Union, occupies "tan edifice one hundred and sixty-two feet long, forty feet wide, and three stories high. One hundred and fifty plows are manufactured weekly, and between thirty and forty hands are employed.

Here, as well as in the Paper Mill, the water power is employed to run the machinery. As we enter the door of the manufactory, we see before us eight forges, ranged either side of the room, and at the anvils, beneath the ringing blows of the stalwart mechanics, we see the iron and steel beaten into the requisite shape to form the beautiful and accurately proportioned plows, so popular in the West. The forges here possess a great advan. tage over those of ordinary shops in having the fires blown by means of a fan situated in one corner of the room, which supplies ample draft for the whole of them, and saves the great amount of labor required by the old fashioned blacksmith's tellows. In the centre of the room stands a machine for cutting and pune ing iron and steel, the efficiency and power of 142 We are informed that Mr.

Alonzo Nourse has disposed of a portion of his manufacturing interest, to Mr. Jones, formerly foreman of his establishment, who will hereafter carry on the manufacture of wagon and buggy hubs, mining and rail. road pick handles, Mr. Jones well known an a finished mechanic, and under his superintendance, the work done will be of a superior quality. Those in want of any articles manufactured by him, will do well to bear these facts in mind.

We are indebted to Mr. J. S. Richards for a copy of the "Eastern Herald," printed in Portland. Maine.

in 1795. It is not only interesting; as showing the progress of newspapers since that time, but also contains evera. de ca nene from the pens of men celebrated in the history of the nation. Among these is a message from George Washington, the president, to Congress, and a speech of Samuel Adams, Gov. of Mass.

io the legislative body. Among the advertisements, the people of Porrland are informed that Caleb Graffan has opened a tavern, opposite the jail, Caleb certainly deserves credit for locating his tavern in such a position as it must have saved his customers immense trouble in their very natural transfer from the one to the other. The paper is small in size. dark in col- or, and exceedingly coarse in texture. Calkins Brother have on haud large assortment of goods, suited to all wants and tastes, with which they are ready to accomodate the public on reasonable terms.

Give them a call and see for yourself. ceived another addition of Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, to his already extensive stock. Rey- Our neighbor Cores, has just re- Gatling's Premium Grain Drill. Mr. J.

F. Brown the general agent, for this State, Iowa, Missouri and a portion of Indiana, is now in Towa, with a view ol of selling the right, to make, vend and use, this Drill to any amount of Territory in the above States. We have carefully examined the evidences Mr. Brown has with him, of the utility, and certainty of this Drill's working to the satisfaction of farmers. -they are three.

First, the Premiums, which have been awarded to it as the best drill, by the American Institute in the city of New York, in 1851, also at Cincinnati, in 1851 by the Board of agriculture," as the "Best Wheat Drill." This evidence goes far to settle the principle upon which this Drill works, as decidedly superior to Second. The certificates, from farmers, who have used this Drill, in Ohio and Indiana, show that it has and does work, to their entire satisfaction. This evidence we regard as testing the practical utility and gives it a position among farmers thus knowing it, which dispels every doubt us to its sure and certain usefulness, in saving seed-grain, time, labor, money and raising from five to tenbu shels more to the acre. Third. The Drill itself.

It is really a curiosity, to see how little machinery there is about this Drill, and how simple that machinery is. The sowing arrangement, which is tha main thing; consists only of a screw aud two small cog wheels. This screw, is made to turn and conduct the grain, to the fluke holis, in just such uniform quantities, as you desire, and scatters the grain, with perfect regularity and evenness. This drill is composed of so little maierial and so simple in its make, that it can be and is afforded, to farmers, for from 850 to $60. We would suggest to some of our enteprising citizens.

not to let the opportunity pass without securing a district, so to that this Drill, can be made at Moline. All useful, agricultural machinery should be mauufactured at this place as there is every reasonable inducement to warrant ample reward. A model of the machine may be seen at the Moline House, where Mr. Brown will he found ready to exhibit it to those terested. ND- Mr.

Win. J. North, a poet and journalist, committed suicide, last week, in New York city, by taking prussie acid. He left upon his table a twelve and a half cent piece. with a note stating that i it was the remains of his fortune, after ten years of literary labor.

N. Y. ELECTION. -Myron H. Clark is elected Governor, and H.

J. Raymond, Lt. Governor. The Senate will stand Whigs 22, Deinocrats 9, Know Nothing 2. The House, Whigs 75, Democrats 35, Know Nothing 15, Temperance, elected as such, 3.

Four persons were killed and seriously wounded by the falling of a church in Butler Co. Ohio, a few days since. The accident was caused by the giving way of the scaffolding about the steeple, the heavy timbers of which were being lifted to their place. THE RUSH TO -The Burlington Telegraph states that not less than thirty thousand emigrants have crossed the ferry at that city since the 1st of September. This is some "people" and yet it is only one point of the great influx.

the Workman. Mr. you ever own 11 wood pile? If not, you are not aware what a luxury may be in reserve for you. Only imagine yeurself with a nice respectable looking wood pile--cold weather comes son, you rub your hands in a gratulatory manner, and look with complacency at a nice large wood pile and think to yourself let the cold winds whistle, I am prepared for the wintry blasts. Gradually your wood pile melts away like the early snow before the rays of the sun, and you have the consoling reflection coming home to you, that the wood pile you deemed sufficiently large enough to last you a year, will not last through the winter.

You are supplying warmth to a half dozen of your neigubors. This, Mr. Editor, is my fix. Persons have gradually stolen away my wood pile, Tre cream of the joke is, that whilst they have been awful sly about it, I have known it all the time, and knew where the wood went. Now I propose that they pay mne for the wood according to Scripture, restoring two fold, or I will publish them.

Yours CHAPMAN, Moline, Nov. 27th, 1951. The Editor of the Rock Islander who lately paid a short visit to our town speaks of it in the following complimentory terms. We thank him for his friendly allusion to ourself. Moline.

A brief visit to Moline, one bright mornng last week, gave us a most vivid impression of the rapid progress that stirring village. Moline, as some of our friends abroad may not know, is a village upon the east bank of the Mississippi, three miles above us. The Isle of Rock Island begins here, and extends three miles down the River, to a point opposite our City. While the main channel ol' the Mis issip pi runs on the Iowa side, there is a strong current running between the Island and the Illinois shore, affording a wa er power, unexcelled in the West. The population of Moline is now two thousand a and is increasing at a very rapid rate.

It is composed chiefly of intelligent New Eng. land mechanics, although we believe nearly all the Northern States have their epresentatives. The location of the town 15 an admirable one, while its many neat cottages add greatly to its appearance; which, to the eye of the traveler, as hie passes through it, is a most pleasant and attractive one. Moline is rapidly becoming a commercial as well as a manufacturing locality. Since our first visit to the town, in May list, the business of the town appears almost doubled.

The number of the stores is surprising. We may add that Moline can now boast of a large, and handsome weekly newspaper, in the Workman, edited by Amos Smith, Esq. If the citizens know their true interests, they will sustain it well. virtually one City, by the Railroad and the Omnibus Line of Messrs. Leak tel NEGUS.

They have really a community interests, and are, as it were, members of the same body. Rock Island is the head, Moline is the hands," was the remark made to us a few daysago, by a Moline workman. The industrial character of the town is indeed visible at the first glance. There are no drones. All are as busy as bees in a well-ordered hive.

The drive from this City to Moline 1S a delightful one. The bluffs, beautiful alike in their summer gala-dress, and in their autumn robes are made still more beautiful by the many handsome private residences at their base. The road also commands a fine view of the River, of the Island, and of the Iowa shore, with its bold elevation. We know of no more pleasant locations for private residences than those afford along it. We trust that the time will soon come when Rock Island and Moline shall be united by a long avenue of dwellings, and the two places shall be united in name and in fact as they are now In interests, in one beautiful city, which shall be the pride of Western Illinois.

Popular Sovereignty in a New Phase. It is said that Mr. of Missouri, President of the United States Senate, will not return to Washington at the beginning of the approaching session of Congress. Mr. A's term of office expires on the 4th of March next, and it has been thought that this determination had more or less connection with a desire to be present at Jefferson City while the Legislature of Missouri is engaged in selecting his successor.

But if we may credit what follows, the motives that keep lain from the post of his official duties is of an elltirely different character. We copy from the St. Louis Intelligeneer: Rumors have lately been leaking out. both in Missouri and in the East, connecting Senator Atchison with a secret scheme to make a foray into Kansas territory, carrying the banner of "Slavery or Banishment," and forcibly dispossessing and expelling evry man in that territory who will not bow the knee to the Lehests of the intolerant invaders. We have teen disposed to discredit this story, so improbable did it seem on its face, and sofirregular and lawless in its character.

But our faith begins to stagger. The old foundations of law and order are broken up, and passion and force rule the day. We have been led to these reflections by the following remarkable disclosure which has just been made to use by one of the best men in the State, a slaveholder, a Southern man, and for twenty years a -Every word written down by him may be implicity relied on: Nov. 12th. "I met the other day a friend of mine who is Entering into familjar conversation with me, he informed me that and others whom he did name, had been diligently at work for twenty days in the service of secret organization, spreading pretty much over the State, the object of which is to make Kansas a Slave State.

Knowing me to be a Southern man, and strongly did imbued with Southern principles, he not hesitate to ask my in the movement. He said that he was sworn not to impart any of the purposes of this society, unless the individual proached would enter into the movement willingly, Declining to join this nem institution without time for reflection, he re: ferred ine for furtber information, to cerrain suspicious gentlemen, with whom, however, I am not likely to have any co.sultation. Now. I do not know that this affair is worth the paper 1 use in detailing it. But I have thought it not amiss to put you on the look-out for developments.

It is sur rounding with plausibility sufficient to make me think there is something in it. The leading feature of the plan would probably be to transport to force from Missouri when the time comes, sufficient to accomplish the end desired. take it that this is a move Alchinson and Stringfellow, with a few others of like mind; and it may be that your neighbors of the Republican know something about it My strong conviction is that Kansas can never be a Slave State, although it might comport with the interests of Missouri for it to be made such. But Lam convinced that Kansas, if made a Slave State by the violent irruption of citizens from another State, will never be admitted into the Union, and when that state of things is upon the country, we will have a tornado that will perhaps destroy the Union, and bring on us blasting civil war, laden with accumulated horrors and the desolation of generations." So writes our friend. Being a hearty lover of the Union as it is," he does not care to peril it for Kansas.

And being a sincere supporter of the principle of the Nebraska bill, he writes the real settlers in Kansas to regulate and establish their own institutions, and does not wish to have violent interference from any quarter. That Missourians should actually emigrate to Kansas, and carry their principles and slaves with them, he regards as legitimate and praiseworthy, and has not failed to commend. But that schemes and purposes are on foot, locked under the terrors of an oath, Le regardes as unwise and dangerous, for it 15 the prosperity and peace a ol our State, and the growth and trade of our city that must perish, if we get anarchy and civil war on the West. The Slave Market. At Memphis we got fairly into the cotton region.

Here slaves and mules. so universally associated in the South, were found in abundance and variety. On the bank above the landing we saw a large, strong, gloomy looking three story brick house, on which we read 10 imposing characters that it was dedicated to the business of Bolton Slave Dealers." improved an hour's delay here to visit this mart of humanity, Mr. Bolton, the very gentlemanly proprietor, received me kindly and gave lue many items of information relative to his business. I told him I did not wish to purchase but would look at his slaves if he pleased.

He showed mne his stock on hand -exhibited their valuable points One young man about nineteen years old, of fine form, for whom the T'se de boy you ought to buy wants de work done." asked him where he had been raised. He replied "In old Firginiy Sir. Ise de stock you ought to buy, Sir, if you want to get your money back." Poor fellow--he had learned his lessen well. After showing me several women ranging in price from $850 to $950, the dealer told some of the slaves to go and call Martha. Immediatly a young, graceful and really beautiful mulatto woman, nearly white, appeared in tidy and becoming apparel.

He stated in the style of a man of business, her many excellent qualities, age, and remarked, "1 ask $1.150 for she stood, for sale--in form almost as faultless as the Greek Slave of Powers, animated by a soul within, whose worth angels cannot compute. Mr. Bolton said tha: most of his stock was hired out, and that his assortment was incomplete--having only bout twenty then 011 hand--but that he expected a gang every day from Virginia, where his partner was engaged in making purchases "expressly for this market." I am told by slaveholders that these traders are heid in low estimation in the South--no person of any claims to respectability giving them the least social Dayton Gaz. "Squashed Out" The Reservoir of the New Water Works located on Adams street, and nearly completed at a cost of $60,000, on Wednes. day evening was filled for the first time with 28,000 gallons of water.

From a defect in the structure, the weight of water caused the walls of the building to crack and give way, rendering it. without extensive and permanent repairs, wholly useless for the purposes for which it was intended. The structure was erected under the superintendence of the Water Commissioners. Win. J.

McAlpine, of New York is the Chief Engineer of the works. The building was visited yesterday by large numbers of our citizens, who expressed surprise that a structure which have been two years in preparing for use, and apparently built of strong materials, should so vastly give way. The walls are badly cracked in many places, aud the stone arches over the windows have settled near1 an inch. Appearances indicated last evening that the entire fabric might fall at a moments warning. A strong gale would reduce the whole thing to a wreck in a short time.

As soon as the damage was discovered the water was immediately let out, and efforts made to secure the building from total destruction. -Workman were employed the the top of the Reservoir, but it is doubtful as yet whether the whole concern will have to be taken down or not. -Chicago Tribune. The Morris Yeoman says that a son of Judge Pennett of that place, was killed on the Chicago Rock Island Railroad on Wedneday last, by jumping from a freight train while in motion. Missing his footing he was thrown upon the track, and terribly mangled by the wheels of the cars passing over his body.

A Fair held a few days the benefit of the Protestant Orphan Asylum, Chicago, yielded $1,861. MECHANIC'S AND FARMER'S BANK AT telegraph has previously announced the closing of this bank. Thr Springfield Journal remarks in relation to it. In consequence of the run produced upon the Bank by reports in the country, and the throwing out of the paper of some fourteen Illionis Banks by Brokers of St. Louis, on Friday last, the above mentioned Bank has been compelled to close business.

Yesterday the run was severe and was kept up until 9 o'clock at night, during which time about forty thousand dollars were paid out. This morning at 8 o'- clock there wasa meeting of the board of Directors who directed the officers to pay out as long as any currercy or specie remained in the Bank. This was done until 11 o'clock, when the Bank was closed. We regard the matter as unfortunate to the people quite as much as to the stockholders. The Bank has been a great convenience to many of our citizens.

We do not believe that any one need lose by the Bank, and we have no doubt the paper will be generally received. The depositors too will be paid in full. The asselts of the Bank are ample. The only loss that can possibly be sustained will be the elosing of the affairs of the Bank to the stockholders at is believed that under any ordinary circumstances, the Bank would have sustained any run that could have been made upon it. NEBRASKA -The enumeration of inhubitants is nearly completed.

At Omaha the Statehouse and Hotelare nearly completed, and scores of dwellings and shops are in progress of construction. A number of families from Council Bluff's have moved over--among which is that of Hon. H. D. Johnson and A.

J. Hanscom. The Printing office is nearly completed, and a new store is to go over in a few days, to supply the citizens with everything they want. The steam mill is turning out lumber ra pilly. At Winter ters a saw mill is in progress of erection, and preparations are leing made for a large Hotel.

Clancy is building 11 tine house at sulphur spings to be opened early in the spring. At Nebraska City, Major Downs is raising a large two story hotel, which would be no insignificant addition to older cities. The building is nearly completed and will soon be ready to receive guests. --Santa Anna is said to be again so short of funds that he is making a strenuous effort to negotiate or anticipate the payment of the remaining 000,000, of the American indemnity, before the adjustment of the boundary upon which is contingent. The conscription for the purpose of filling the ranks of the army is being actively carried on in the department of Vera Cruz.

The people are very loth to fig it for Santa Anna and many of the conscripts have to be tied together until properly placed in barracks, The coast of Vera Cruz, near the city of that name, was, at the last dates, strewed with dead fish in thousands, the effect of either some epidemic influence, or of a submarine volcano. -The whole atmospucie was ill consequence anu the city it produced a singular irritation of the throat accompanied by a cough. PROTESTANTISM IN Turin, Sardinia. five converted Italians have formed an Evangelical and Charitable Society, in order to promulgate the Gospel all brough Italy, joining themselves with all Christian Evangelical Churches, and belping the brethren of the faith who are afflicted with want and infirmities. At Genoa the Woldences are erecting a very commodious hospital, to shelter and assis: poor Protestants, or any person who should ask adinittance.

This is done to save many dying Christians the terrible torture of abuses and persecutions from the Sisters of Charity or of Mercy. The Christians at Florence, Tuscany, all pupils of the Medaii, have contributed towards this object $45. WHAT IMPUDENT -We understand that when Gen. Whitefield, Indian Agent visited the Chyanes and a few other wild tribes of Indians, to pay their annuities this fall, they informed him that the next year they inust bring them one thousand white Squaws and the balance they would take in money! They prefer a white Squaw to a blanket. What sensible rascals they are! So says the Independence Messenger.

At a recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the Maine Law Alliance for the State of Illinois, Mr. J. B. Merwin was appointed Correspondent Secretary for the Alliance. Correspondents making inquiries cencerning the business of the Alliance will consequently please direct their letters to him at Chicago ill.

Will the Press throughout the State please give this notice circulation. N. S. Davis, Cha'm of State Ex. Com.

ILLINOIS PENITENTIARY. -For the month which ended Nov. 21st, the nunber of convicts received at the State. Prison was 31: discharged by expiration of sentence, 21; died, 1. The total number now in confinement is 300, of which 8 are females.

When the British army in the East left Varna a tow weeks ago, for the Russian Province of the Crimea, no hor- ses excepting those of the field officers were taken on board the transports, All the other horses, to the number of 5,000 were cast loose, to seek their fortunes as best they could. Horses which three months before cost £50 and £60 and which in England would be worth $1,000 could not find purchasers at £4. New EXPRESS ARRANGEMENT. We learn that, owing to the rapid extension of their other business, Messrs. PORTER BRo.

are about relinquishing their Express Agency. The Superintendent of the Ex press Co. will be here in a few days, when a large Express office will be established, We are glad to learn that there will be an Express wagon and a system of general Express Delivery, such as there is in larger cities, -Rock Islander. Mr. John Rvecraft has been tried and found guilty of aiding the escape of Glover a fugitive slave from Milwaukie in April last.

The sentence is $1,000 fine, six months imprisonment in jail, and a civil suit for the value of the slave. BosTON, Nov. 25. The steamers Ocean and Canada came in collision last night, and the latter had a hole knocked in her side. The concussion caused great consternation on beard the Ocean, which was increased by the flames bursting out from the upsetting of the stove.

Many of the passengers jumped overboard. Boats put off' to the rescue, and all but three were saved. In addition to these a Miss Holmes is reported missing, and five persons received injuries which render their recovery doubtful. TOLEDO, Nov. 27.

The Commercial Bank of Toledo, a branch of the State bank of Ohio closed Jay. Rev. Lewis Raymond, pastor of one of the Baptist Churches in Chicago, has accepted the pastoral charge of a church in Sandusky, Ohio. PAD The census of the State of Michigan, which just been taken, shows a 1850, of over 108,000. population does increase since Baltimore, Nov.

23. Wm, H. Martin who has been the principal distributing clerk city for 20 years past, has been detected in robbing the letters passing through his hands. He was detected through the agency of decoy letters, and his house being searched the letter and money was found. His salary was $1,000 per anuum and his house was furnished in an extravagant manner, and Lis style of living had before exeited suspicion.

His depredations have probably been going on for several years past. NEw ORLEANS Nov. 21. By the steamer Black Warrior we are receipt of Havana dates to the 16th. Information has been received from an authentic source, to the effect that the inhabitants of Cuba were generally in state of the wildest enthusiasm and contemplate a general rising in the course of a few days.

-One of the dai papers publishes a bold and energetic proclamation from the Cuba Club. The other papers are without any information and generalty discredit the report. Deaths from yellow fever for one week vas 160. Cleveland, Nov. 22.

An investigation by the agent of the Treasury Depart nent finIs Russel ex-collector of this sort a delauller in $100,000 not accounted for. Russel was indicted for embezzlement last spring, and recentty deposited wite the U.S. District Attorney, secusities to the amount of $80,000. A YOUNG learn from the Detroit Free Tress that a lad, or rather a fiend in human shape, named Samuel McDonald about 17 years, of age was brought before the Police Court on Wednesday for inhuman treatment of his own mother, He had bitten a piece of flesh out of her arm, and she testified that SIC was rear ne would take her life. When the officer arrested him, he drew a bayonet, and swore he would run him through.

He swore horrid oaths at his mother, and told her that when he got out of jail he would take her life. He was sentenced to ninety days in jail. An American rifleman, named Doss who had done great service to Chamorro, President of Central. America, by his skill as a marksman, was early in August mortally wounded, and afteawards died a Protestant. At his death he was refused burial in the Catholic Cemetery, but Chamorro had Him buried with great military honors, and forced the Priests, under penalty of death, to say twenty-five masses for his soul.

The Rev Chas. Bartlett aged about 40 years, a member of the New York East Conference of tha Methodist Episcopal Church stationed at Darien, Conn. comwritted suicide by hanging, with a strap in the wood house, on Tuesday morning in a state of temporary insanity. His health has been impaired for months past, He was beloved and respected in the cominunity. PO There are said to be about three thousand negroes entitled to vote in New York, under the provision of the State constitution, which requires a colored man to have been three years a citizen, and own freehold estate to the value of $250 over and above all debts and incumbranccs charged thereon and upon which a tax shall have been paid.

The Cincinnati Commercial says a new batch of counterfeis X's, on the State Bank of Olio, is getting into circulation Look out for them they are exceedingly well done. (Ay The Canadian legislature voted one hundred thousand dollars to the wid. ows and orphans of the soldiers wl.o have already fallen in the ranks of the allied armies, or who may fall during the continuance of the present war. Presbury Co. report a dangerous counterfeit just issued on the Pittsfield Bank.

Pittsfield N. H. 20's vignette, a female supporting a large figure 2 with her right hand and an 0 with the left. The amount of music which has been' copy-righted at Washington, in the last third of a century, fills about three. hundred volumes, averaging two hundred and fifty pages to eaah volume.

MY B. F. Sanford President of the late Trust Company Bank, in Covington Kentucky, has published a card In which he says the notes will be worth seventy-five cents on the dollar. At the burial of Marshal de St. Arnaud the flag of France and England, the first time in history, covered the same coffin, and Mussleman cannon resounded in sign of grief at the funeral of a Christian General.

INDIANA FREE -The State Treasurer of Indiana has issued a circular directing County Treasurer to receive the notes of the specie paying Indiana Free Banks for taxes..