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BELLEVUE GAZETTE. HENRY M. BURT, News and Local EJitor. BELLEVUE, N. T. THURSDAY. JULY 29, 1S58. Italn, Thunder and Lightning;. These western regions have been vis i ted to abundantly of late, with these three elements, that we are naturally led to an examination of the laws by which they are governed. We often hear the expressions, "It rains, it thunders, it lightens." Dut if we inquire, what rains, what thunders, and what lightens! we shall find that we have been making the little pronoun ' it," the scape-goat of our own ignorance. In this enlightened age, we talk just as ignorantly about the ac tion of these elements, as the ancients did about the thunder-bolts of Jove. That water falls we all know, that the electric fluid darts hither and thither and a report is heard, every one of us under stand; but the causes of such existing phcric air, there is as much moisture as it will contain, it is clear, that by the ad dition of other clouds, there must be a discharge. The compressure of tho at mosphere by such addition, as well as by the violent agitation of the lightning must result in an increased full of rain. Just as a sponge, filled with water, beinp com pressed, must discharge a part of its con tents. When clouds, then, are small and scattered and move nearly in the same direction, there is no show of rain, but if the reverse, beware. To learn when rain may be expected, we have only to fix our eyes upon a certain cloud, and if it rarifies and scatters, there will be no raiu ; but if it attracts its neighbors, be comes more dense, and emits the electric fluid it is certain that it will discharge it self in the region where it is located. CHAUCER. The Chops i New York. A week's travel and observation throughout those J onions of our State, traversed by tho ie and Central Railroads (embracing about half the fifty-eight counties,) have not confirmed the glowing reports which reach us through others of the treneral phenomena, and the luws by which they condition of the crops in this Slate. Our r onvni-neJ. but verv few of us tinder- notes sum up as follows : ila)(j Rye (just ripening,) thin and light ' , , ., ... . , will not average ten bushels to the acre. Those who have pa.d any attention to Whe&t but laJly cut up by the matter, have noticed that a copious de- the midge. In Livingston and kindred descent of rain from the clouds, follows wheat-erowinjr districts, large fields are almost every report of heaven's artillery. Also that the rain is usually in the direc tion of iha liirhtninir. If the report be ava - - 9 overhead,; we are pretty sure to get a drenching ; but if the rumbling be in the distance the drops descend elsewhere, we fear them not. The experiments of Dr. Franklin, utterly destroyed. The yield throughout the State will not average ten bushels to tho acre. Hurley, largely sowed, and looks mis e.rably. Oats, backward and very uneven, but may yield a light average. Indian Corn, very spotted, and general ly small, presenting in daces a vellow. drowned look, but in the main of good News i rom the Teleoraph Fleet. I From the Natte Valley TlmeS. We are gratified to be enabled to lay How Can You Fence Your Prai rie Farms I This quesiion is frequently asked, and before our readers some definite intelli ence with regard to the Telegraph Fleet. It will b seen by our dispatches that the j, SUpposrJ by many to lo unanswerable. vessel vuice munroe, which arnveu "i ' Hut it is easily answered T.L t . Boston yesterday, was in company with the Fleet, on the 27ih of June. Two un successful attempts had been mnde to sub merge the cable. No disaster had occurred, and confident hopes are expressed of ulti mate success. The weather has been extremely unfavorable, and on this ac count operations had been retarded. it. Louis Jewi, 17A. The Cincinnati Gazette, of the 15th, thus states the condition of financial af fairs in that city : Of first class business paper there is very little offering, for the reason that mercantile operations are not extended beyond the limits of individual means, and in the majority of cases the latter even, are not absorbed by current transac tions. Rates of interest range from eight to twelve per cent, for strictly No. 1 to good paper, but names upon which mon ey would be loaned at the inside figure are used to a limited extent only. Capi talists are anxious to find use for their surplus funds, but it is found impossible to prevent an accumulation of currency with out lowering very materially tho (stand ard by which paper is classified. This there is no disposition to do, for notwith standing the abundance of unproductive We can easily fence our prairie farms with osage orange hedge. Hut, it is ob jected that the osage orange will not endure the cold winters ot this latitude. In answer to this objection I can with pleasure inform you that the osage orange has endured the coldest winters ever known in this latitude, and also that it is successfully cultivated much farther north. In Mills County, Iowa, about tern miles east of riatismouth, there is a good osage orange hedge, which has withstood the severity of the last four winters, and is now a good fence. The osage orange is successfully cultivated in this county, and we have good reason to believe that it is admirably calculated for fencing prairie farms. An experienced cultivator of the osage orange, in a communication pub lished in the Patent Reports, said, that if any one would enumerate all of the good qualities that were desirable in hedge plants, it would be found that the osage orange possessed the whole of them. It is easily cultivated, is of rapid growth, endures the winters admirably in this lat itude, is the most thorny plant ever known, and no anjmal will eat or touch it the sec ond time. It is highly ornamental ; does not spread by sprouting from the roots, or in any other way. It is naturally a phrub, and is not injured by being pruned into i . . ti money, mere is a manuesi unwi. ungues , u L - cneasiIy- be mada t0 Ia ihuatl in onnnntiaa that rnnnnl nnp Iho . ' test of a strict scrutiny. clearly demonstrated that electricity and color and growing fast. Unless damaged lizhtnine were the same thing; and the by premature frost, the crop will probably connection of rain with electricity, shows be a lnrg verag" Uiai U1U luUCl I1U9 DUIIIClMUIg W Ml ill There is at least an planted. Grass nrettv fair, and bevond anv con- the production of the former. The earth tingenry but that of bad weather in hay and every thing around it, possesses more Ing, which is already begun. Consider or less of this electric airent. The clouds, able was caught out and badly damaged Salt Lake News. By a private dis patch we learn that the Mormons had re turned to their homes in the city. Gen. Johnston entered the city and passed on through, and is encamped some thirty miles on the other aide of it. v bat can be the object of such a move on the part of the U. S. forces leaving the city again after having entered it, we are at a loss to conjecture. Probably by the next ar rival we will be able to lay before our readers a more detailed account. The mail from Salt Lake will arrive here to do y.Sl. Joe Gazette, 23i. . composed of water, niter, aulphure and salt, which the heat of the sun causes to rise above the Burface of the globe, are charged with this subtle agent. The amount of electricity depends somewhat upon the density of the cloud. For in stance, the lightest and most rarified cloud, two miles in bight, possesses but ... i . i . j very tmio electricity ; ma mur ucu., Mrs Thurlow Weed died in Albany ranging within one mile, proportionally ttt noon juY 3. ner aefia had been by the showers of Saturdy, Potatoes, largely planted, and though late, looking well. No symptoms of rot yet. Gardens are very thrifty, except where suffering for the intervention of the hoe. Generally, the Corn and Potatoes have been well cared for since they were planted we think better than usual. JV. Y. Tribune, 10th. . . .1 U.l more ; ana tne most aense, wimm un u mile of the ground, is surcharged with this powerful element. ' Not only are the clouds thus charged with electricity, but they are charged ei ther positively or negatively, and as such they have the power of transmitting this current from one to another, or to other terresiial objects that are likewise conduc- tors. lontr, and for a lonr time its consumma lion not unexpected. The sympathies of men of all parties will be with Mr. Weed in this heavy affliction, which is all the more painful from the recent loss of his only son. Lucie Murat. Most or our citi zens who have visited Bordentown, N. J will recollect having had pointed out to them an old-fashioned house, which was When two clouds approach each 1 a few years ago used as a residence by other, either by their own cohesive attrac- Lucien Murat, and, at the same time, as ..1 1 1 .1. . 1 f t.on. or by atmospheric action ; one being which wm Mum , charged positively and the other negative- formerly Miss Frazer, an American by ly, the subtle fluid with which they are birth, long labored hard to procure a sub charged, rushes to embrace each other sistence for herself and her worthless and with such velocity as to cleave asunder dependent husband. , ' . , . We recollect once having made a visit the atmosphere through which it passses, ,0 lhe 8choo) and there hemg introduced The filling up of this momentary vacuum to the son of the illustrious Murat, and by the air, produces a concussion, the re- the beautiful Pauline Bonaparte. Tho t ...Wk ;. rll- thim.Ur. Th many years have passed since then, and . . , 1 Lucien Murat is the cousin of Louis Na- p,mve cloud possesses more electricity js ow prjnce cf (he Empire than naturally belongs to it, the negative of Frincet ,nd his hard working wife one leas ; the passage of the superabund- occupies the Elysee Bourbon at Paris, ance of the one to the other, produces an our remembrance of him, seated on the -..:i:v.: J . front porch of that small house in Borden- JL .v : .t. ...t. u .. own. tnredm a very ragged dressing. yon me icpui. . u.o H.- ,own nd dir,y capi 8inoUir)g a common libnum. ihunuer ana ngnining Dear icay p,pe, 8nd looking altogether I1V11 the same relation to each other as the very vulgar Dutchman, cannot be oblit. flash and the report of a cannon "le1 bJ L"T lh? rand rePort I nnw rpar-h us. of " those mnnv virtues ana The falling of water, called rain, in niosl affable nd courteous bearing, which connection with thunder and lightning, is render him so popular in France." doubtless attributable to more than one Though his lot now is cast in pleasant cause. Some have supposed that the air is PIace, lh.V .r h,,.w,f " ?01,80 ,8moolh . ,. . T , . as considering her past troubles it rendered adhesive and tenatious cf mois- Bho(ld be w 8ee by a ,at, pnper ,hat ture in proportion as it is charged with her brother, formerly a resident of New electricity, and that when this electric flu- York, and a gentleman of wealth, fash- id leaves the murky cloud, its capacity for ". nd leisure, was arrested last week, , ,,. ... 1 . near Baltimore, and re-commtted to the holding moisture is lessened, in proportion . t Morestown, N. j., from whence as it becomes rarified. Hence an in- he had escaped, when under confinement creased fall of rain after each discharge for counterfeiting. Woman Advocate. of electricity. Or. to use a common ex pression, It rains easy. l estimated that the total damage to t . . j .u ii- - property at Cairo, caused by the small But to our mind the falling of water. P J M down lheiist60. from the clouds, is much more attributable QOO. Of this damage $7000 worth has Early yesterday morning the Calliope Twiiight came down from her long trip in the regions of the far North-West, discoursing sweet music as merry as a bell. The Twilight left this city, loaded with government freight, 011 a wild trip of adventure towards the head waters of the " far distant river," on the 28th of May, and has consequently, been out forty days and forty nights, bhe went one hundred and fifty miles beyond iho Yellow Stone. r ound some of the Indians rather inclined to be hostile but they took care not to man ifest their hostility as she had about forty soldiers aboard for their especial benefit. The Twilight removed Fort Randall to some point above the Yellow Stone. En countered very cold weather. The snow was just beginning to melt on the Moun tains when she left; river rising all the way down. The Twilight received 811, 50 per hundred for all her freight up, she had to defray the expenses of having it shipped in keel boats five hundred and fif ty miles farther than she went, bhe re ceived $2, per hundred for freight down. Had on board over three thousand bales of robes, besides other furs. Chai les Pre more an old Mountaineer, his squaw and two or three children came passengers on the Twilight. Premore has left his mountain home forever, and intends to settle down permanently in St. Louis county. The 1 wilight will clear this trip, the enormous sum of 3oU,U00. Captain Holland of the Steamer Alonzo Child, swears tha: this is more than all the low er boats will make this season all put to gether. Shoudn't wonder. After tarrying a short time, the Twi light left, blowing Yankee Doodle sky high on her calliope. St. Joseph Journal. thicken at the bottom, so as to fence against pi(is, chickens and rabbits, and four feet high, is the best kind of a fence against horses, cattle, hogs, dogs, sheep, geese, ducks, shanghais and boys. It will neither rot down, blow down, wash down, or burn down, and what good qualities can be asked for in a hedge that the osage orange does not possess ? Large quantities of osage orange are now grow ing in various parts of this county, which will bo sold cheap, and anyone who wish es to inclose a field with a hedge should prepare the ground in season. If the ground where the hedge is to stand is not yet broke, it thouid be done as roon as possible, so that the turf may become rot ten by fcpring. Then plow the ground again, and plant as early as April. lhere are various modes ot preparing the ground, and planting. Perhaps the most expeditious method is to Jraw a fur row, leaning them against the side, and protecting them by slightly coveiing them with dirt, when the whole row is set, turn back the furrow with the plow, covering the'plants entirely. They will live better by beins covered. One row is sufficient to form a good hedge, and the plants should not be more than eight inches apart in the row. Before the plants are dug from the nursery, they should be cut close to the ground, and while grow ing in the hedge, they should be cut two or three times each season, so as to cause them to branch freely at the bottom. The great obstacle which is anticipated is win ter kill'ng, but it is not so much to be feared as fall killing. A severe frost in the fall, when the hedge is in full growth, is more likely to injure it, than any win ter freezing. In order to prevent fall killing, plant your hedge on high ground, and cut back at least three times a year, in March, June and September. This will soon form a good fence, and the Sep tember pruning will check the fall growth, so as to render 11 less liable to be injured by the frosts of October and November. The older the hedge becomes, the less liable it is to be killed, and when it be comes a fence, only one cutting a year is necessary, and that should be done in February or, March, when farmers have plenty of lime to do it. W. S. WEST. Local & Territorial. An address will be delivered be fore the Bellevue Library Association, by the Rev. Wm. Hamilton, on neit Thurs day evening, (Aug. 5ih) at the School House. The public are invited to attend. Fifteen inches of rain, has fallen since the first of this month. Nebraska has 528,000 square miles, while the superficial area of all the north ern states, is only OJ4,iu, excluding Minnesota. That has 141,000. The quarterly meeting of the M. E. Church, will be held in this city, on next Saturday and Sabbath. Preaching by the Presiding Eider, Rev. Mr. Good. Ser vices to commence on Saturday, at o'clock, P. M. The Annual Territorial Election, will take place on next Monday. The officers to be voted for and elected, in this County, are, Territorial Auditor, Councilman, Joint Councilman, Four Representative?, County Commissioner, Justice of the Peace, and two Constables. The contest has been an exciting one. There are ten candidates for Representa tives, two for Councilman, and two for Joint Councilman, in the field, all run ning on personal merits. Who are to be the fortunate candidates, is hard to tell At present it is somewhat " mixed.' " We'll see what we shall see," about next Monday evening. ANNOUNCEMENTS, We are authorized to announce that WM. II. COOK is a candidate for Rep. resenlative to the Legislature, from Sarpy County. We are authorized to announce that STEPHEN H. WATTLES, is a can didate for Representative to the Legisla ture, from Sarpy County. SILAS A. STRICKLAND, is a can didate for Rep resentitive to the Legisla. ture from Sarpy County. We are authorized to announce that THOAMS J. BOYKIN, is. a candidate for the Council, from Sarpy County. W e are authorized to announce that B. P. RANKIN, is a candidate for Rep. resentative to the Legislature, from Sarpy County. We are authorized to announce that CHARLES C. NORWOOD, is a can- date for Representative to the Legisla- ' ture from Sarpy County. L.-L. BO WEN, is a candidate for re-election to the Council, from Sarpy County. We are authorized to announce that IENRY A. LONGSDORF, is a can- idate for Representative to the Legisla ture from Sarpy County. Boats. The Watossa arrived on July 24, and the T. I. Mc Gill, on the 27th. It will be seen in another place, that William Clancy has announced him self as a candidate for Councilman, from the Counties of Washington, Saipy, and Burt. Mr. Clancy has been a member of the Legislature since the organization of the Territory, and as a manager and work er, it is acknowledged that he has had no superiors. While he has been true to his own County, he has always been a warm and faithful supporter of the interests of Sarpy County, as is well known by our citizens, and we presume they will not fail to reward him on Monday next, by giving him their support. Sarpy Co mty having had the loint Councilman the last term, it is generally concceded that we are not entitled to it this year. Washington standing next in population to Sarpy, is without doubt entitled to it. We are authorized to announce that ALFRED MATTHIAS, is a candidate for Representative to the Legislature, from Sarpy County. We are authorized to announce that WM. R. WATSON, is a candidate for Justice of the Peace for the Bellevue recinct. ' We are authorized to announce that REUBEN LOVE.IOY is a candidate for County Commissioner, in Sarpy Co. GEOROGE W. DOANE is a randi- date for Councilman from the Counties of Washington, Sarpy, and Burt. BowEic Rally. Gen. L. L. Bowen, candidate for re-election to the Council, and other public speakers, will address the citizens of Sarpy County, at Bellevue (in the Pubic Square) on Saturday, July 31st, at 4 o'clock P. M. All canoi dates will have an opportunity of being heard. Victory awaits the right on Mon day. Per Order. A prisoner escaped from the Wiscon sin Penitentiary last week, in a very in genious manner. He pretended to be sick, and was therefore allowed the priv ilege of walking In the yard. He then made a sort of an image, cut the hair from his own head, decorated the top of image with it, and deposited it carefully in his bunk, and took bis customary walk in the yard At night the watch looked nto his cell and noticed him as he sup posed, reposing quietly in his accustomed place. The next morning when his celt was vistied be was still unmolested, and on account ot his sickness was further indulged. At noon, however, it was thought about time he made some sign, and the watch proceeded to stir him up. But he wasn't there. to condensation than to rarefaction. The union and condensation of the floating clouds, by their cohesive attraction, as ' well as by the action of the wind, brings . together too much moisture to be sustain ed by the atmosphere, especially when it ' is compressed by the lightning. A warm ' atmospheric current surcharged with va por, comes in cootact with another cur- rent of a lower temperature ; and these counterfluent currents uniting, condense and form one body. The specfic gravity of this condensed moisture is bine bun dred limes heavier than that of the air, ' coosequntly k descends to the earthU tains. If in a jiven volame of stms been sustained by the Illinois Central Railread. The hight of the flood was forty-seven feet above low water mark, being two feet higher than any flood since 177H. The Growth or Wester Jour alum On the 12th inst. the St Louis Republican completed its fiftieth year, it beinr established in July. 1S03. When started it required but two hands to con duct the paper, now it has one hundred and seventy-five. Its expenses are $4,- 000 a week, or more then $200,000 per annumn. When started it was but little larger in size than a letter sheet, but now it is a mammoth folio, being, with one or two exceptions, the largest daily in the Umed btates. A Disastrous Fire at Ft. Leave worth. A destructive conflagration broke out last night, July 14, at 12 o'clock, and despite of all the exertions of the citizens, spread with furious rapidity, and was not checked until one of the most densely populated and best business portions of the city was laid in ashes. The fire originated in the Market Hall, now called the Union Theater, on the corner of Delaware and Third Streets, and extended with fearful rapidity east, on each side of Delaware street; north, on the east of Third, and east on each side of Shawnee. After almost superhuman exertions it wai subdued. About thirty-five buildings, business houses and dwellings, were con sumed. At this early moment it impossible to estimate the true loss. Msny of those burnt out lost their whole stock, while that of others was partially saved. The loss cannot be less than $250,000. Ltavtnvorth Herald. Womderi-ul Performance or the Wiiio. Soon after the great tornado had passed over this section uf the coun try, in giving accounts of its devastations and other effects, we mention that a farm house near Chenona, in McLean county, was lifted by the wind and carried three hundred feet over the prairie without dis tributing the dishes on the table which had just been prepared for supper. Al though the story was well authenticated it was of such a marvelous character that we found it, in common with others, diffi cult to believe. While stopping at Che nona waiting for the cars a few days since, we had an opportunity of seeing the house and making inquiries about the matter, we found the story which had been publisher., fully substantiated. The house, quite a large story and a half wooden structure, tood upon a swell of the prairie, covered with a crowth of small shade trees, andflas surrounded with out houses. The family, consisting of four fLsnns, were about sitting down to their sapper when the tornado came sweeping along. The house was lifted from its foundation in an instant, and went sailing through the air with the family, furniture, chimneys, supper, &c, all on board Twice during the perilous passage it struck the ground, but so lightly as to jar only one plate from the supper table, which, was not broken in its fall. When the storm had passed it was found that the house had been carried a distance of about three hundred feel from its founda tions. Nothing in it had been disturbed not even the dishes upon the table and when the family had recovered from the fright, they sat down and quietly ate their supper as usual. Peona Transcript, The Cuming City Star, says : Farm ers are now fairly in the midst of the har vest season. On every hand, from any prominent eminence, the eye can survey extended armies of golden shocks, repre senting the power of industry and thrift What a happy sight ; and viewing which, how contemptible appears the field brist ling with burnished swords and flashing bayonets. Who has more to feel proud of than the farmer among his golden gifts ! He looks about him upon his honestly earn ed wealth, and can say " Nature's re wards for industry, and no man's rights infringed upon in the granting of them.' When he is called upon to relinquish his hold upon the things of earth, he is con scious of having gained a livelihood in the most noble manner known to man of hav ing produced more than he consumed and he bids farewell to this existence with more true honors clustering around his brow than ever gilded the name of Napoleon or Alexander. Who wouldn't be a farmer T John A. Nye, is erecting a building nearly opposite the School House. Booth and Bassett are erecting a buil ding near Dr. Longsdorf s. The professional card of Hon. Fenner Ferguson, will be found in our columns to-day. He is too well known as a man of ability, and integrity, to need a recora mendation from us. Speeches will be made in this City, by the various candidates, on Saturday after noon, at 4 o'clock. The New England Bards gave a Con cert in this City, last Saturday evening to The fare for passengers on board the a delichteJ aidience. They are without steamer Leviathan, which is to commence 1 doubl( onu of thfl most taiented Compan Pnrtl.nV Main. ni .nrim-. ha. b.n Uv S"a Concerts in the West fixed as fallows: First class. $105 ; sec We hope they will not fail to favor us ond class, $60; third class, $30. again with their sweet music. We are authorized to announce that O. A. VELIE is a candidate for Con stable, for Bellevue Precinct. We are authorized to announce that CHARLES JOHNSON is a candidate for County Commissioner, in Sarpy Co. , CARD. Fellow Citizevs of ry County : I take this method of introduc ing myself as candidate for joint Council man from the Counties of Washington, Sarpy, and Burt, and would most respect fully state in brief, my reasons for taking such a position. 1st. 125 of my own townsmen, among them are Judge Wakeley, Geo. E. Scott, Esq., and other men of note, in point of position, among us, requested me by peti tion, to announce myself as the candidate on the float. 2d. We deem it but an act of common justice to Washington Co., on the part of Sarpy Co., to give us the man, because we heretofore supported the Sapy Co. candi date, in 1856, with rather an implied understanding that Washington should come next in turn. 3d. We stand next in ratio of popula tion to Sarpy County, and our people think it but right that the float should be assign ed us this year, at Brt County next north of us, can of course have no claims to it, having hardly one half the population of Washington County. 4th. As I believe it to be generally con ceded by your citizens that have Sarpy County and Bellevue, most at heart, that you cannot elect a man on the Float ibis year, from your county, and in case yon fa vor me with your votes, you may rely up on my being as ever, in your interest ' WILLIAM CLANCY. The Cuming City Star states: Many of our citizens are enjoying the luxury of green corn the product of their gardens. In the fields it is silking out most beautiful ly, and stands upright and firm, uninjured by the recent wind storms which have swept over it. That we will have n abundant corn crop is almost certain. The Galveston News, of the 15th inst says: " We learn from all parts of the Stste that the crops of corn and cotton never nave been known to be as good be fore. The corn crop is made, and the yield is ssid to be almost incredible. Oo hundred bushels per acre is a common es timate on bottom lands.- One of the larg est sugar planters says, for twenty years past the cane has never promised so well as it does now." "