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We learn that one of the Railroad Companies at Rochester, N. Y. , paid no attention to the notification of the Post Masler General, that he would fine $50 for every time t cairied Pomeroy's Express. The other company succurabed, and passed, a resolution excluding carriers from their road. But its troubles were not at an end. The morning after, as the train was about starting, Wells, the letter carrier, appeared with an injunction. forbiding it to leave the city under the penalty of $10,000, unless he was taken on board. It wasenough. The Companybaeked out, Wells was admitted, and the Post Master General is left with his finger in his mouth. He had better come to terms. One against twenty millions! - it will never do, though he may be backed up by Mr. Tyter.-Cintinnatti Herald. An Immense Stonc- The Quincy Gramte Railway Company quarried yesterday, one of the largest tones ever moved at Quincy, or probably at any other quarry. Average dimensión 50 reet iong, 28 feet wide, 25 deep, making about 25,000 cubit feet. Weight of the stone 3,181 tons, allowing 11 feet to the ton. This tnass was moved on its bed by gunpowder. The blast hole was 20 feet deep, and 4} inches in diameter. The hole was to have been 25 feet deep, but a piece of the drill broke, and prevented going to the proposed depth . Four casks of powder were used in the operatton. For the first blast one cask was used, which did not crack the stone. The second. one and a half casks, which cracked the rock the whole length, opening a seam an eighth of an inch wide. The third blast one and a half casks were put in, which opened the seam a full half inch, sufficient to cut the stone into dimensions. This operation was conducted under the superiütendence of Mr. S. It. Johnson, and is unqueslionable the best and most valuabie stone ever quarried, or moved by gunpowder. A portion of this stone will be used in the columns lo the Hall of the Horticultura) Society, to be erected the pressent sctttioi), in school street. - (Boston Trans. ■ JYeur York City. - The following schedule shows tbe progresa of population in the commercial emporium from 1C97 to 1840: Year, Population. 1697 4,302 1721 8,628 1726 10,381 1771 21,863 1736 23,614 1790 S3,13l 1800 60,489 1810 9,378 1820 123,706 1830 203,007 1835 270,089 1840 312,710 We doubt if another instance is to bo foum on record of 6o constant and rapïd an incrense for so long a period. In 1790, New York was nut so large &a Brooklyn is nuw.- Jour. oj Com. Economy. - M. Say, the celebrated French writer on political economy, has the following story: "Being in the country, I had an exam ple of one of those small losses which a family is exposed to through negligence. From a want of a latch of small value the wicket of a barn yard (looking to the fieids,) was left open: every one who went through drew the door to, but having no means to fasten it, it re-opened. One day a fine pig got out and ran into the wood, and immediately all the world was after it; the gardner, the cook, dairy maid, all ran to recover the swine. The gardener got sight of him first, and jump ing over a ditch to stop him, he sprainec his ancle and was confined a fortnight to the house. The cook on her return found all the linen she had left by the fire burned; and the dairy maid having ran off before she tied the cows, one o them broke the leg of a coltin the stable. The gardener's lost time was worth twenty crowns, valuing his pain as nothing, the linen burned, and the colt spoiled were warth as much more Here is a loss of forty crowns and müch pain and trouble, vexation and ïncenveftience, for the want oí1 & latch which would only cost three pence; and this loss, through careless neglect, falls on a famiíy íittle able to support ii." Jin Ugly Customer.-4Jne nighl lost week 8ome fishermen of Milford, while fishing for sturgeon on what is called Sturgeon Bar,'on drawing it to shore fonnd a nionstrous large fish iq their net, and bandled it very familiarly, supposing it to be a n extraordinary large 6turgeon bcit on fürther acquainttince it was found to be a monstrons sharké Being in u poeition, however, so as not to do much damage, he was soon dispatched and drawn opon the 6hore. On measuring him, he was found to be ten feet ten inches in length, and five feet Beven incbes in circumference, with a supply of proviaious in hia.' larder sufficient for several days. - JV. Y. Herald. State Eltction.--The next State Election are as follovrs; Vermom, Sept. Sd, Maine, Sept. 9th. Seven Stalea vote in October, namely: Maryland, Oct. 2j Georgia and Ar kansas, Oct. 7th; New Jersey, Fennsylvania and Obio, Oct. 8tb} and South Carolina, Oct. 14. There bas probably never been mare building in any one season in the city of Detroit. han the present. Large blocirs of stores and dwelling bouses, says the Free Press, have been and are being erected all over the city. Fruit promiseto to be aborrdant every where this season. The New York Ëxprass aays 'we have never seen the apple trees so full; the branches are bent down witb the weight. The yield will bc ery great.Pins. - The Boston Transcript, in noticing Brown & Elton's pin manufactory at VVaterbury, Connecticut, says: "They turn out two barrels of pins per day. The machine is wonderfully curious - perfect and simple in its operation. The wire is run into the machine from a reel, cut to the requisito length, pointed and headed, & made a finished pin. From this machine they fall into the hopper of the Sticking machine, as it is called, in which by some diablerie they are arranged and stuck upon the papers, and come out perfect, only requiring to be packed to be ready for sale. This latter machine, tended only by one girl will do the work of thirty persons by the old hand process. A barrel contains 4,000,000 pins, consequently 8,000,000 of pins are manufactured in this little machine each day, sufficiently to furnish one pin a day for every female in the United States! There are four other machines in operation in the country, but they probably do not turn out an equal number per day as the Waterbury machine. This we are told is no exaggeration,but the sober truth. - N. Y. Sun. Clay's Card Playing AdmiUed. - The editor of the Frankfort Commonwealth, the State órgan of whiggery in Kentucky, driven to the wall by such men as Gen. McCalla in relation to Mr. Clay's gambling, admits that he does play cards, and plays for money too, but it is only to "enliven the interest of the game." Just listen to him: "It would be uncandid to conceal that I have understood he has sometimes engaged in the practice as a social diversion. That he has, on such occasions, BET MONEY, to enliven the interest of the game, but not for the purpose of gain, is readily admitted as probable." Such is the admission of Mr. Clay's Kentucky organ. This thing of betting money 'to enliven the interest of the game," is what we don't exactly comprehend as differing from gambling. - Ohio Journal, A Desperate Wóman. - A woman named Harriet Hardin was brought before Aid. Redman, in Philadelphia, on Monday, charged with beating her husband. W hile in the office she became exasperated at some remark of her husband, and pounced upon him with the ferocity of a panther, but only gave him a few blows when the officer interfered. - She turned upon the latter and struck him a blow on the side of the head, in a scientific and skilful manner, which laid him flat on the floor. The Alderman then interfering to preserve the peace, she flew at him with open hands, tore off spectacles, and used him rather roughly. She was subdued finally with some exertion, and committed in default of bail to prison. Shocking. - George W. Thompson, who murdered Catharine Hamlin, some two years ago, was hung at Lower Sandusky, on the 12th inst. -After he had been hanging 20 minutes, his pulse could be counted. According to the Milan Tribune, the most disgraceful acts were committed at the time. A law passed last winter abolishes public executions. - To evade this, the Sheriff erectedso slight an enclosure, as hardly to screen the gallovvs, and he permitted even this, without a single effort at resistance on his part, to be torn down by the crowd, eager to witness the agoniesand shame of a íellow man, in his passage to eternity. Persons too were admitted to the top of the Court House, for fifty cents.- Cin Heraldo Anathtr Sect - A nelv sect bas laiely been estoblised n the South West, called the 'Live for Evers,' that is a pcople who ore to cxercise such faith, aiïd 6ubsist so philosophieally tha't they may set aside the 'threü score and ten' and enjoy perennial yomh. Leonard Jfone, the Apostle oí the sect; advertisea that h"e receiverf a direct rereïation white in Kentucky last year. Hedifters in one particular froirt ïather Míller The world ia comitrg ioan end only so for as it concerns the kirfgdom erf Satan- a conêftfmatioTi devoutly fo be wïshed. This sect ha been establiehed once before. But one of fhe preachffrs who advocated the doctrine that ö man rnight livo as long as he just as he hadf succeeded in proving it to the satisfaction of his followers. unfortunately died hirnself and tbat distended them ' Polked Í enctügh.--Mf. Lyrrtatf, oïié of the delegates from Ohio, to the Democratie National Convention, has refused to support James K. Polk, and has given in his adhesión' tö Birney and Morris. - There are rnany in the party which he has left, who are almost persuaded to "go and do likewise. "-Spirit of Liherty. The Olpest Tree. - The Monarch of Trees, the emblem of age in the foreaf, is the cypress which stands near Santa Maria del Tule, in the province of Oaxaca, Reptfblic of Meiico. This tree was measured by liaron Humboídt,and found to bo one hundred and eighteen feet in circtunferencel This makes forty feet in diameter. - This treo hasno signs of decay, and though its foliago is less lively than that of smaller trees, culculated by all the data spplied to the age of trees, this patriarch of the foresi bas lived four thoueand years perhape from the creationl Who can tellT In fhe rieighbotJïood of Herefotcf, England, recently,o ewarm of bees settled under th6 bonnet of a little girl, down the side of her face, and round her throat. Fortunately the cbild stood still, and the bees were hived without receivinga single sting. nAnotlur Giant. - The Medical Journal gives an account of Nathan Lampman, who was born at Coxsackie, N. Y., and ie now sixteen years of age, and stand eeven feet one half inch in heightl Dr. Smith ays, "he is a great, tall, awkward, good natured, sixteen years oíd boy, whoae chin haa never been smoothed by a razor, and who bids fair, being still actually growing, to reach another foot. In the last year he positively declares t'.iat he grew nine inchesl At present lus weight ia 198 pounds. The body is tilted up by a pair of the longest legs, perhaps, on the Western Continent, whose base is a pair of feet fourteea inchesfrom heel to toel Nathan is a sight worth seeing. Should his life be pared, we may fully expect that he wiü ultimately eclipse all the giants of modern times, for everything is in hts favor, viz: youth, henlth, good habils, and a desire to outgrow all the descendant of Adam. Rev. Jot H. Fairchilu, late of Boston, now of Exeter, N. H. has been triedby an Ecclesiasticalcouncil, and pronouced gutlty ol Seduction andAdultery. The victim was a MissRhoda David8on,a simple, confiding, ill-formed girl, who lived in his family; and it is reported that there are otliers. The ovidence oí Misa Davidson, her sister, her lather, and a letter written to her by Mr. Faiichild, and admitted by him, was conclusive. The council voted, 19 10 6, to depoeé Slim from the Ministry; the 6 simply desired more testimony befcre condemnation. Mr. Fairchild will be proceeded against criminally at Boston Tribune. Neto Mormon Monarch.- The Mormon mantle has fallen upon Saín Smith, eider brother to Joe, the late Prophet, who ha been, or is to be, mductod into office with all due iolemjiity, and take upon himself the entiro government of the 'Latter Day Saint as prophet and patriarch chief. Paper is now, it aeems, to te made of wheat straw;and it ia affirmed that boih the finest and coarsest qualiiies can be produced by the new method. The experiment, we hear, is aboutto be tried on a large cale, mili having been lately erected ni Chalford, near Stroud, for that parpose. Post OJue Department. - From a report of a committee on Post Offices and Post Roada, w derive the following interesting faets. It appears that but eight States have an exeess of revenue over expenses: viz. Maesachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Yom, Penn■ylvania, Michigan, Delaware, and Louisiana. The expense of thc other eighteen State exceed theif revenue $762,%6. The State of Alabarna has a Post Office revenue of $89,148; and an expense of $218,055; exceso of expendilurf, $128;9D7. ín Virginia th deficieney o revenue to meet expenses is $ 50,778: North Car olina, $103.944; Kentucky, $52,830; Mississ ippi, $45,846; Illinois, 65,926. New York, Pennsyivania, Massachuietts and Ohio furnish over one half of the post office revenue of the Union; the three first named State have un excess of revenue ovtir tbair expenditurea ot $635,479. New York furnishes about ona-fourth of th post office revenue of the Union; exces of rorenue, 372,858. Excess of revenue over expenditure in Pnnylvania, $148,409, in Massachusetts, $155,812 in Louisiana, $66,285. A numbor of young men from 18 to 20 year of age are shipping on board of whaler at Prov idence, and other eastern porta, in consequene of their participaron in the Philadelphia rióte, and to escape the consoquence of their conduct whiel ihreaten tlicm. We see it stated in orne of our oxchange tba iiine governorsin Pa. have within seventy-two year, granted 4,862 pardon to Penitemiary con vicio. ]f tlus be true, either the lavri or the govarnors need vat reformatior. Stiam Ploughs. - A mauufacturer in Cincinnati has forwarded to St. Loui a Plough tha is to bedriven by atcam, for turning up the prairibs of Illinois. Ladies Beware. - An advertisement in one of our city papera for a lady to give inatructions in French and music, in a private family who resides in Louisiana in winter, and in Massachusetts in sum rner, adds, "The situation will not be agreeable to one poseessing abolición no tions. Lead Ote has been found in Illinois near the Ohio river, It is oqual ío any yet found and contains a larger quantity of silver tban any lena or yet mined in this country Tbere i a carporsliom ïat ín Mostré al which forbids tbe erection of any wooden heuse in the eity limits. An in geníous gentleman evade the law by pur chasing wooden buildings without the cor poration ümit and then rolling them withins wherer they stand in deñanco o law, The íulta Palmer has been released by order ofihe President and will now coratnence her trips again. We hope all wbo areopposed to monopolies wilr patrontüe her. The Lake Corobinstion have t'nüed in their atterop to break down the oppoattion and tbe travelling public should nuw come to tbs aid o the Julia.- Free Presté Gone back to Mormonx$n%.' is said tha Foster, the former editor of the Nauvoo Expositor (tbe paper that originated the late excitement againet tbe prophet,) since the dealh of Joe Smitb, declares that be believes Joe to have been a prophet, anti tbat the Mormon religión as taugbt by hirn, is tha on)y true religión. Foster baa property ia Nauvoo, which he iaprevented from using while out ofthefokJ. Th Eí,evaTok, püblishedat Piiladclphia, h come out boldly for ihe Liberty party. The colored people understand their own intereets, and will vindícate tbeir own righto. Tha J?ernue.-=-The recoipta at the ctrstom hotises still continue large. The amoun t of revenue at the New York Crtstom honee, for the month ol July, was $1,914,339. The amouftt received in one week, ending 31st Jufly, wts $600,000- thelargest amount ever received before in the satse time. So it is stated.The new collector ot the cuaiomsa; Now Orenns has rescinded the order that hu would du msinesa with no persou that appeared beforo him with a Lat on. Lawyora and doctors abound intheW,et evey town having more than tho market demanda. A St. Louis paper saya, 'hera ia only buainese nough for aomo twenty or thirty lawyera and fifeen or twenty physiciana. Consequently, cbout ne hundred lawyers and nearly as raany physiions areatarvingin idlenoaa." No lesa tban twenty-two camp meotinga of tlia Jilleriiea are noiiced tu tako plac in various parta of the country.