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The VVires are Ur. - We notioed day before yesterday tha arrival of 50 bundies more of Telegraph wires, and yesterday they were being strung along on the tops of tlie posts leading up Fort Street. A few wreks more nnd this cily wil] be struck with liglitning every day. - Detroit Adc. "54.40." - In passing the store of our neighbor R. C. Wetmore &co , vve saw themsending oiTpackages of their Crockery, marked "Oregon," wilh as little concern os they would send them to Detroit. On nquiry, we learned that merchants from that "City" make their legular trips to the Atlantic seaboard for their supplies. They cross the country on mules, and send their purchase home via Cape Horn. Oregon city now contains some 10,000 inhabitants. We learn that goods are so]d in large quantities and at good profits by our "Occidental" brelheren. - They have already opened a trade with the Sandwich Islands, China and Polvnesia, besides a growing tarffic with whaling ships. - Journal of Commerce. Pimpkins. - Large quantities of this vegetable are annually produced on most farms, and, w'iile sound and good, are relished by most kinds of domestic stock, especially by cows and svvine. They, howevar, last but a short time, and when desired for culinary purposes, are generally dried in the samo manner as apples. This is unnecessary, as by adopting the following tnethod, pumpkins may be preserved during winter, and even late in the following spring, perfectly sweet and sound. Depositan some convenient place, from a foot to eighteen inches of clean welldried wheat, oat, or rye straw, and place thereon a layer of pumpkins - the best and fairest of your erop then another stratum of straw, nnd so on, till you have "stowed" your entire erop, or so large a porlion of it as you may consider necessary for winter use. - Hallowell Gazette. It is found impossible to raise a regiment of volunteers in Alabama. The State was called upon last spring for one regiment, and ug to this time it has not been filled. Ilenry A. Wise, Esq, late Minister to Brazil, arrived yesterday in this city. We are happy to state that he is in fine health and spirits. He waited upon ihe President to-day, with whom he had a long and most agreeable interview. Subsequently he had an interview oi nearly two hours with the Secretary of State. Mr. Wise's family had gone on to Philadelphi.t. - Washington Union. The last previoüs interview Mr. Wise had with Mr. Polk, was when he attempted to pull his nose ; the last previous public address to him, was when he called him tyront as Speaker of the House and the last previous public act was when he Voted him to be partialj undignified and unjust as the presiding officer of the body over which he presided. Truly 'politics makes strange bed-fellows !" - Pitts. Gazette The razor strop man holding forlh nt the Agricullural State Fair, was thus addressed by a young man, who thought himself remarkiroly smart : - "You'ro a fooi.' "One more Isft of the samesort," said llic razor strop man, pointing at the presjmptuous individual. Gambling in EuiiorE. - At Wiesbaden, one of the most famous watering places of Germany, gambling is the favorite amusement, and while the gamblers are chiefly Fiench or English, (ofbathsexes) the Germans get all the credit of sustaining the viüsting praclice. Most splendid and spacious saloons, with sofas and mirrors of princely ricliness, are thrown open, and all is under the licenae, sanction and control of the government. A public oilicer is at every corner and door ; no one is allowed to wear liis hat a moment , no loud talking is permitted, and every thing is as elegant and orderly as a ladies drawing room. A furmer's wife inNew Connecticul, Ohio, is preparing an immense cheese fora present to Quecn Victoria. With some few of her neighbors, she has procnred ihe milk of 500 cows for one dav. The productiun is, a cheese weighing 600 pounds. - Exchange Paper. We know a man, a Vekmonter in this state, who is making one of n half ton's weigln from his own cows. - Vcrmont Fr reman. The extraordinary relief system has al length ceised in Ireland, and ihe half million oi'able bodied men, who have fo,r m:ay months ieen receiving daily fjod for theinselves and families, from the agents of the gvenment, are novv, wilh ihcir vvives and children, busily omployed in gfitheriag and storing the finest crops of grain and green food the soil of Irel:iiid has yielded for many years. ThO, transit ion from relief rü Ihe rnte of nearly tliree iniilions of rationa per day, lo ivo relief ut all, or only so much as Ls r- q ui red to. nveet a few seaüered cases oj pecuKar need, is being made without a niunnur. Tlje peasantry havo work nnd food ; nnd ibese are all they want. The Relief (JommisMoners nre winding uy llieir accounts, disinissing iheir agents, and will sion present iheir final rep rt, and vanish from th,e scène altogether. - Globe. Speaking of .rii.-e, Swift tells us t is like ambergris ; "A little wliifl", nnd by snatches is very agroeable ; but whcn i man holds a lump of it to your nose it knocks you down." Upwards of 15;000 persons are said to have attended the famous horse race betweenFashion and Passenger on Wednesday, Oct. 6, ond among them, says the New York Ilerold, we re a nuinber of fabhionable and respectable ladies ! Abdüctiox of Slaves. - A man named James L. Andrews was triedin Berryville fVa.) on Monday lasf, fur enticing slaves away from their owners. The evidence was pretty positive, and he was remanded io ihe Clarke County Jail to await trial before the Superiar Court. For monlhs past the people in Clarke have been alive wiih excitement on account of the large number of slaves that we re constantly running away, and great vigilance has been exercised in order to discover ihe source of their trouble ánd vexation. - Suspicion was fixed upon Andrews, and his tnovements closely watched. - Virginia Free Press. The first section of the ron tower to carry wires across the Iludson Riverfor the Telegraph lo be worked by House's system, has been co.r.pleled at Camden. - Newark Adcocate. Sacrifice of Life by the War. - The officers of he army and those who have the means of ascertaining the loss sustained by our army since the commencement of the Mexican war, put it down, says the Telegraph, at20,000 men, whose bodies mingle with the soil of Mexico. The mortality or sacrifice of life at the present time is estimnted at fifly soldiers a day! Think of this! - Look at it ! What trophies have we gained by this sacrifice of life ? Whal shrieks of lementation cloud the glorious achievemenls of our arms ! Vakiety. - Five sets of candidates - the Liberty, llie Whig, the Hunker-Dernoci'at, the Anti-Rent, and National Reformer tickets - are now before the people of ihe Empire State. The Nat've Americans have probably a sixth ; and had the Barr.biirning section of the Locos raised the steam a little eailier, we might have seen seven tickets in the field. - Herkimer Frecman, AcTtviTY. - "I havo lived," said Dr. Clark, "to know that the great secret of human happiness isthis: - Never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of 'too many irons in the fire,' conveys an abominable lie. You cannot have too many - poker, tongs, and all - keep them going."