The Roman Citizen of Rome, N. Y. speaking of money says, “It is dew (due) in the morning and mist (miss’d) at night” Very bright.

Somebody - Green we believe, - once said that he had never learned to sing but two tunes, one of which was Old Hundred and the other wasn’t.

Peaches are very abundant. They have been sold in Philadelphia as low as 25 cents a basket, and in Baltimore, for six cents a peck.

The various lines of travel leading to New York have been much crowded since the arrival of the Great Britain, and the city appears quite lively.

Seventeen steamboats with an aggregate tonnage of 3,125 tons, and cost of $243,000 have been built at Cincinnati within the present year.

The population of Washington D. C., has increased from 23,000 to 40,000 since 1840. Nearly 400 buildings have been erected within the past year.

One of the pipes of the new organ which is being built for the trinity Church, is large enough to contain thirty men. Mr. Henry Erben is the builder.

The Merrimack Company at Lowell have commenced building a new mill, which is to be the largest ever built at that place, or perhaps in the United States.

A new glass factory is about to go into operation in Buffalo, N. Y. Window and other varieties will be manufactured on a large scale.

During the prevalence of the recent excessive warm weather, the price of fans at Woolworths (late Bonfanti’s) in Broadway, was up to $75 each.

A new musket has been invented at Potsdam, Eng. which is said to carry point blank 1,200 paces and can be fired 17 times a minute.

The allowance for the French navy for the present year has been raised to the enormous sum of 120,000,000 of francs.

Messrs. Livingston and Wells are about to establish an express line run from New York to Cincinnati, Ohio.

The cost of transporting a barrel of flower from Cleveland, O., to Boston, is estimated at only 72 cents, via Ogdensburg and Northern Railroad.

A sugar beet has been raised near Savana, Geo. which measured 24 inches in circumference, 14 in length and weighed 11lbs. This beet is hard to beat.

The College Libraries of this country number about 600,000 volumes. We think this would be sufficient for any one man to read.

J. H. Overton traveled one hundred fifty miles in an open skiff, from Landry to Baton Rouge to represent his parish in the Democratic Convention of Louisiana.

The Essex steam-mill in Newburyport, Mass., has made a dividend of forty-two and a half cent from the earnings of the mill the last year.

The fire is still burning in Pittsburg, although near five months have elapsed since the great conflagration.

A duel was lately fought in New Orleans, in which both parties fell. they fought with pistols, at five paces, and obtained mutual satisfaction.

A writer from White Sulphur Springs, says that the keeper of the Hotel at that place, keeps 129 dogs. He must be fond of music.

A company has been formed at Zanesville, Ohio, with a capital of 50,000, for the purpose of establishing a cotton manufactory at that place.

A man was recently sentenced to imprisonment in Missouri for being drunk. On his way to prison the sheriff got drunk, and the man escaped.

About a dozen persons recently have been indicted at Albany for vending lottery tickets. We hope the traffic will be suppressed.

A company of traders from Santa Fe, arrived at St., Louis on the 13th ult., on a trading expedition. They have brought $50,000 in specie.

Mr. Andrew Marcey will it is said, cast $28,000 worth of bells - most of them large - within the present year, at his foundry at West Troy.

The increase in the value of real estate in England and Scotland, within the last thirty years is stated at £35,146,104.

The receipts on the Long Island rail-road during the first sixteen days of August were $24,140. This looks encouraging.

There is now an exhibition, in this city, the skeleton of an enormous serpent, which measures 114 feet in length. and ten or twelve feet in circumference. More particulars in our next

A fish has been taken at New London, in which was found a Prussian coin, about the size and value of a cent. Where the fish found the money, report does not say.

Great music is anticipated from an electromagnetic instrument, which is being constructed in Philadelphia. We may hear something more about it.

The news by the Cambria reached New Orleans in twenty-two days from Liverpool via Halifax and Boston. This dispatch is unprecedented.