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TWO arrivals this morning from Paramaribo. It is said they bring accounts to a respectable firm in this city that several cases of cholera had occurred at Niskerie, and that in consequence all vessels arriving in Paramaribo from that place were placed in quarantine. It is further said that the disease had been carried there by a vessel from Barbadoes which went for timber. The Surinaamsche Courant of the 6th July gives an account of the anniversary meeting of Moravian Brothers on the 4th of same month. The secretary of the society (Mr. H. C. Focke) gave some interesting accounts of the earliest origin of the Surinam branch. In 1735 they began their labors among the Caraib Indians. In 1776, on the 21st of July, they baptized the first negro slave, and gained thereby the good-will of the governor at that period, (Governor Nepven ;) they succeeded in building a small church, which was enlarged gradually until 1828, when the present large edifice was erected. In 1776 they obtained permission for the first time to slaves. instruct in the Christian religion fifty-two plantation When the present branch society WAS formed in Paramaribo, twenty-five years ago, the members were 970 in number, and they visited about six plantations in the "Commeweini." In a quarter of a century the members have increased in the following wonderful ratio: 5,135 in town, and 14,284 in the neighboring districts-together, 19,419. There are 28 working brothers and 24 sisters together laboring in their good work on 136 plantations. The expenditure of the society has amounted to the important sum of 101,828,074 guilders, (nearly 40,000 Spanish dollars,) 80,630 of which the government has most considerately paid. The meeting was crowded to excess. His excellency the governor, all the civil and military authorities, members of all professions, &c., were in attendance. The Week Blad shows by the register of the military hospital in Paramaribo that from 1839 to 1853, out of 12,681 patients, 839 died. The result of their observations is, that death is far less frequent among Europeans than any other class in proportion to population. PENNSYLVANIA STATE FAIR.-The Philadelphia Horticultural Society has resolved to hold no separate fair this season, but, instead thereof, to solicit all contributors to send their horticultural products to the great Pennsy Ivania State fair, which will be held at Powelton, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, commencing on the 26th of September. The Poultry and Bird Fanciers' Association will also cooperate in rendering the State fair attractive. As regards the Franklin Institute, the North American thinks they, too, will wisely resolve to make their usual display in conjunetion with the State Agricultural Society. BEAUTIES OF KNOW-NOTHINGISM.-Thetoat number of killed during the St. Louis riot was ten, and some of the wounded, at last advices, were still in a dangerous condition. It is estimated that 2,000 pistols and 500 bowie knives were sold in the city while the riots were in progress. EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE OF A LOCOMOTIVE.-The locomotive Nashville, belonging to the C. C. and C. and E. R. R. Company, George Westfall engineer, ran from Columbus to Erie, and forty miles back, or in all 295 miles, with one tender of wood. This fact is unprecedented in the history of locomotives, and we challenge the world to produce: like instance.-Oteveland-Herald. THE CHOLERA AT FALL RIVER.-The New Bedford Standard learns that the number of fatal cases of cholera in Fall River, between Saturday noon and 7 o'clock Tuesday morning, was 33. There is, as yet, no abatement in the ravages of the disease. The authorities of the city are taking every precautionary measure to stay the ravages of the disease. A young Irish couple were married on Saturday evening, and on Sunday the bride died of cholera at Fall River and was buried! A sad conclusion to a hopeful and happy matrimonial alliance. Miss Dix embarks for Europe in the steatmer Baltic today, for the improvementof her health New Hampshire is the most free from colored population of any State in the Union: there are towns in the State in which a black face was never seen. THE BROKEN BANKS.-The following are the prices paid by the brokers for the notes of banks which have recently failed: 75 cents. Drovers' Bank, Ogdensburg 81 Bank of Carthage 50 Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Bank : 50 Canal Bank, Lockport " 25 Bank of Milford, Delaware " Bank of Washtenaw, Michigan 25 Farmers and Merchants Bank, Memphis " 50 Adrian Insurance Company, Michigan All Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana notes are from 2} to 5 per cent. discount Atlas. THE CHOLERA IN Boston.-The whole number of deaths by cholera in this city thus far the present season is about 225. In 1849, when the disease became an epidemic, the number of its victims to the last of August was about 400; and when it ended, about the first of October, the number had reached something over 600.-Boston Transcript APPLES AT THE WEST - Letters from residents in the western part of the State of Ohio mention that the crop of apples in that vicinity is very large, and the fruit is sold at low rates. Good apples are plenty at from 30 to 40 cents A bushel.-/b. SINKING OF A RAILROAD.-The track of the Milwaukie and Mississippi railroad has sunk about eight feet where the road runs on the marsh land, between Second and Third lakes, about eight miles from Madison, Wisconsin The track lies six feet under water for a space of about 140 rods. The growth of Iowa is surprising. The St. Louis News says that the vote of the last spring election shows a great the