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MOOES'S RURAL HEW-TOXKE&. 



APRIL 23. 



Contents of the R ural for April 33, 1859. 







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ROI Hi ■ 1 I R, •■ j , \ii.n 



Golden Humbugs. 



Tcb ni'li i tbirlv commenced 



Jin. I, |u<l -ii 

 H ■ : 



"Mill i. ii ■iniiiiii- purposes thai Ub* occurred since 



Ills. Our cx- 



il on amounts to 

 ■ i an exaggera- 

 tion, QotboSOlbol March B L persons arrived at 

 :■ a i 011 .. ndon tl a ■ 



.■■ parading its 



i the gold-soeker. The opening up of 



• -mil tbo cause- 



ipiclil ellh'ihent mil ilr'.i-l.i] 'lit of III.' mi j. hi-, 



interests of that Stale, guvo u new idM to the 



Woihl Ii ii which biilli nu 1 i 



ridunli hare kept In actii a opu ■ n " Uone] 



make, fl Bit go,™ ii mi sdageold and trite — 



gold will take ii man to the cods of the earth if 

 ■ ;i clutch ii few bandfu 



1 bl nl 'I Hi" iini: - '■"■.iii*o it gulled 



■ i, and would M-i'oi to htvs bid the 

 ink ' of .I powerful goTtTuuiBi, mi too* d u 



Hi-.' '■ Ii.i.-.t Uiver ti-.lil Hi- ' t.r, :,i i:.i- 



i-.i in look with anything but gratiff- 



"i it] i lea ul tlir \ oung Republics 



OH the Pacific, .1 lIiI.ii, 



lain romoveSan Pi mciico lo Hen Caledonia. To 



i:'.< .i i ■ . . L . ■ . and i-i-i. "i 

 ninl muaclfl li"H -l, .ill il bo moat i. . 

 i- tha prol Ii 

 lowing couplet got off by tberietimi 



til.- whoh 



'■ I'll II Ihlrtj thousand brawny men loFrazcr Elver run 



Ind n.i. i h a | ink i Doodle <to !• Yank re- Doodle 



NiM in' in ;ii large atorioa from Iowa concerning 

 the wealth .t its. Whea tbo 



State was nearly ruined in the mud baste of the 

 inhabitants to gel neb, the second sober thought 



■ oq "i iln' people and made all things 

 more There was wealth in the toil, 



hut it could only be got out profit tl 



"I tin- phuv mum; h!,. n n. .1-, giddcn corn, 



i srdeu and the 



mid supply a "escalating 



v 



W I litl la of Ute concerning the 



** exhibited in Iowa, at 



PI have found 

 and brain, 

 b unj the nu- 



■ ■■ii played upon poor 



" kl ■ ' r ■' 

 IhiiiiI-'.il: Ol Lhl Lo.d \, „,. k_, . , , 



.:r--.*.i.. ,.-_: . W(,tl "« nei cr tried the 



1 —have never 



-aeaen *a mar he den 

 The Chicago Prtm <t*J TrA* 



1 usual Nicwols, a meinbe'r 

 a* Ifca ti n t " impeiy that wetil col laseawcfcnf tbeae 



, — a man to be depended upon. y r . x 

 eight month* prospect) 



i haeua that ban 



life of the prmfes 



■ d (hi a lode" — *, c _ 



(oft™ the n -..--."'lu!' 



• 



and returning from the gold fields. He traversed 

 ■ 



., i( the South, to the Midi- 

 ■ I 



■ 

 I), between October and the lime he 

 ■ : tbink that those who found it aver- 

 aged a dollar per day, or even fifty cents. The beat 

 digging of which he had any knowledge was made 

 by a company of six men, who daily .. 

 dollars each for two wc'k 



had happened to find an extra rich placer. Uul the 

 ■ 

 ■ 



U- found this season,— 



o experience and observa- 



"-inpany proa- 



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...:::. ■ : 



I il Thole uo- 



". • I..' • lired 



able pursuit ■ 



keep away ; Buch cannot make more then 50 Lo 76 

 Tboae Who wish lo see the "cle- 

 . that the animal is at tbo 

 . ■ 



irall the expense* of ■ 'bome- 



wardbound' ■....■■' The editor of tbis journal 

 states, upon the authority of a friend, Hint letters 

 have been written to papers in Leavei 

 oilier place* along the Missouri river, giving the 

 dark side of the picture, pronouncing the mines a 

 "take in," aud advising the people to keep away. 

 Iters have ever appeared in any of the 

 papers, and Ihe public run readily form an idea of 

 tbe manner in which persons are being doped.— 

 The dark side is eupprcssed, and lhl | 

 greally exaggerated. Persons are induced to sacri- 

 fice the comfiul" nl home, l-"-"1 business prospccls, 

 and eren tlioir property, to go to the mines, only 

 thai they may he fleeced. 

 Such te -liinony as the foregoing migbl bo intra 

 ' our columns were filled— for those who 

 huvc "-'i baM the "fever," the dosi 

 where the disease ha* Ititrlv "eel in," We are not 

 swore of anything (hot will ue( so elTectunlly as a 

 erformicg a journey of six 



hoii'lu ■! null - across the sterile plains stretching 

 out to the ha-e of the It 



1 i i.i i i H uk or New Yoiik. — The law-makers 



of the Kih| State ore entitled to reward for only 



one hundred days services, (a wise provision,) and 

 the hundred days expired with tbe 18th inst. The 

 "love of the thing" has been the ruling motive 

 since the period referred to, and it is marvellous, 

 compared with what was previously accomplished, 

 t.i ..I. cm i the amount of labor that has been cotn- 

 |.l..i. .1 within a few days. A large number of bills 

 have been passed, (one, tbe "Canal Hill," over the 

 flovernor's veto,) and all without the aid of such 



for violation of I'luliiinu-iiiiuv regulations. Our 



Uvea, however, will soon tire of such 



l.iiiliiKi. 1'iiipli.ynieiit, and an adjournment will, 



no doubt, !"■ ipeeditj effected. 



—Tbe Overland Mail, 

 Sun Frmirisco date of the Istb nit., arrived 

 nl SI. Louis on the lltb inst. The steamer Uncle 

 Sum had returned to Culit'orniu. id'ter landing 

 liirpe porlinn n!" flic i'.Hi lolaiitiv at iln- ninuili ul 

 tin.' (.'olorudo. Cot, llofrninn was to commence ae- 

 tive njirnitiiui- o^ain-l the Mulinve Indians about 

 the -nib of March. Business was generally brisk, 

 .uul tin- minora were doing well. Adylces Iron 

 Van Couver's Island nnd the Uritish Colonies were 

 cheering. The British (iorernment were making 

 improvements, and encouraging emigration. The 

 iuui'1'liun oi the ['resident's Menage ut Onuymas 



'ili 'ii «'. Ni ii- - II v ilu.- ■.luiimi-rTcniK'-see, winch 

 .in teed ut New Orleans on the 11th inst., we learn 

 Hint there was great rejoiciug — a national salute 

 and a military par.iih- there — in honor of Mr. Mc- 

 I.nnc's recognition of tbe Juarez government. The 



Lilienilssurriniiidini: Iheenpitul were !■', i-tr.in L ' 



They bad Cut off the supj.lies of water and provi- 

 sions Tbe garrison uninbers 0,000 men. Mira- 

 un.in had sent l.r.in'nieu to the capital from On/iba. 

 The forces of Juurei were pursuing Mirdlbon,— 

 Sen or Mata hu- despatebe^eorjlirming the news by 

 the TenneaatM. lie returns to Washington in a 



leu QAM, 



Seji.uuNr, or Accounts with Pabaoi it, The 

 i '■!.' Wku of 'February 13th, 

 says that although nothing is certainly known of 

 the terms of the settlement of our Paraguay diffi- 

 culties they are currently believed to be as follows; 



I. The Water Witch affair ia t" be apologized for 

 by asahitetotbeAmericanllagofvl guns. 2. Ten 

 thousand doHnrs is lo be paid to the representa- 

 hies ol'Siunuel Choncey. killed in the affair al Fori 

 [inpini. ;.,!. The treat] ol 1868 ia te 

 «. The navigation of the Paraguay and Parana is 

 to be acknowledged free. 5. The claims of the 

 Navigation Oomnaaj-tM tobeaettledbj a mixed 

 Waahington. 



New DiscoveuiKS or Gold is Kaxs as— Great 

 T.\. itiuivT.— A telegram from L<-avenwortli on 



the Lath but., BSja lute private adviees afford 

 ample evidence of Ihe discover) of rich placers in 

 the mountains. Statements from differ nl wurci I 

 corroborate the statement that paying 

 shot gold exist iu bowlders, tbjrougfa i 



much excite- 

 ment at Denver Oily and along Cherry Valley, and 

 all Ihe reports are more sanguine than ever and 

 entirely consistent. There have been several let- 

 ters received from parlies who went from,)., , 

 . Iiance is placed in their 



The Dajlt Democrat, .i 

 .i m ■ and beautiful drc«, natlj improviqg it» 

 spprarance and readability. The drew was fur- 



t \ LfaU«,ol Buffalo 

 able to his taste. Wcare gladto n> t 

 of enurprise and prosperity on ihe part of our 



Personal and Political 



Ma. Ass.- i»a» announc- 



ed himself as a candidate forCoDgreaa, on theplat- 

 formof Emancipation in '■ 



Ua. A. Tao«Br.ir.'t d 

 days since, aged -•. lie has lived in 

 If. Y., 83 VBtn, ■■.-■*« a surgeon 



in the army during the last war. Ik- was au able 

 practitioner and a most estimable man. 



The death of Hallam. the Historian, led avacan- 

 cy in the Tm i 

 has been filled with ou 

 Ur. Grotc. 



I 



ing return* of the In e ■ ■ 



ii so doing, ' The Quak 

 [I 

 their own woy, electing Martin hv fi 



!.", " Di ■■ idedlj i-nntured, 



The Republicans of Wl - 



rial la the Rcpublii an National 



■ \\"lir. ] i tj — 



(he place lor bidding the Vil nl Convention tli 



is to nominate the next I' 



The people of Kansas, at the recent eleetio 

 . proceedings 

 for the formation of a State Qovernmi 

 majority. Tbe vote was small, hut about four-firths 

 . i it were pVtB for a Constitution I 

 liti delegates to n Conveur m to inline a t'oiishtn 

 tion, will be held in June nest. 



The Hon. E. V. Wlnton, Chief Justice of the 



1 1 1 "i Wisconsin, died at bis residence 



in Jancsville, on the lltb 



Tim- II, 'ii NieliuLi- IJroivn, fornn i 

 Consul at Rome, andLieuteuuul-Governor of Rhode 

 Island, his native State, died at Tmy, recently, r 

 congestion of tbe lungs. Ho was 63 years of age, 



Qio w n, Esq. editor of the Canandaigu 



Repository, died in that village on tbe 27th alt, 

 Bged U v.-iirs. Slost Of Ins life hud been devoted 

 to educational pursuit.*, us author and teacher, 

 in all that he undertook be exhibited the scholar 

 nnd the Christian. 



The Cleveland PInindealer takes a pbilosophi 



It am 



DasTaCOTJVB I-'tRE in Boffalo.— On Tliui'sduy 



'ping, tbe Mlh inst., a fire brokeout at Cidwell 



A Mason's ship-yard which resulted inconsidera- 

 ble loss. The buildings consumed were a large 

 planing and saw-mill, sixty feet in length by fifty 

 in width. A barn two hundred feet in length, 

 for horses, aud also in connection with the Marine 

 Railway. In this building were three valuable 

 horses, which were consumed before U ial 

 could reach than A blacksmith shop, forty 

 in width hv fifty in length. A mnobineshop, 



.I.-,,,, |,,,o-r mill boiler house, thirty by folly 

 Two joiner shops, each thirty by forty feet, T 

 dwelling houses occupied by poor families. From 

 them the families saved most of their property, the 



average lo-.s to each being hundred dollars 



Tbe saw-mill belonged lo the Marine Railw 

 Company, and contained about fi/mo worth 

 finished lumbei Total loss |2A,800; insurant 



"i ...■ ... igiii of the fire is clearly ascribed 

 to iui-eudunism. When the lire was discovered, 

 the barn and the joiner shops were all on fire, at- 



I. ,, ■■!, '■ , I,. ,||.: . ■,. . ,,■ .... . i i„, 1 m i ri 1 1 1 ' ■! : . : 



disiiint from each other. 



A aiLL has be*n introduwd iolo the House of 



! 



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iia.hu dceidad 

 that an orpba This was a 



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one parent, He i .rphan meant 



both parents. 



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i iiher's store to 



Him is a bitter 



infidel, gave ■ i .,u condition 



id wheel .i to bun. il 



gave hi r a pin -e as a reivjul I,.,r her Spirit, and she 



immediately bl . mi ,[,.-r ,.\ .,, 



- a - is, tb.it the 



war papers still proooonce for bostitltios, ootwith- 

 ttanding lbs coming C«i 



i" argue that the convoca- 

 1 Hike prepara- 



tions must he pu*hed with fresh vigor. 



An instance of almost unprecedented disinterest- 

 edness is related by Mr. Wan en, M P., the aulh,u 

 of 7".7^ Thousand a Tear. A short time ago, a 

 gentleman iu England of large fortune— worth i'|i>,- 

 i'oh— was indignant with his daughter, au only 

 child, for marrying against his wishes. He quar- 

 reled wilb her, disinherited her, and left Ihe whole 

 property to bis iillorney audi it her -.■■i'- 

 attorney went to bis eo-legatces, got them to sign 

 their claims over to him, nnd then paid the whole 

 1 ■ daughter. 



A Russian uicii-ihantof Iterdiansk announces the 

 sale in his warehouse at Odessa, Nicolaufl, and 

 Si-buih.ipi.il, Lit "!.,1 r "i".' pounds, or 7,351 tuns o 

 and cast iron, coming from projectiles picked up 

 in the Crimea after the war. Thiswillgivonnide 

 ollbe prodigious L-ousiimptiou of shut and shell i 

 the siege of Sebaatopol. 



Tiik Baltimore Patriot sates (hat never has Bnlti 

 more enjoyed the quid nnd freedom from disorder 

 that she now does. This change it nttribu 

 gr#At pari to the re-organi ration ot tl,. EtroDi 

 partment, the observance of the law prohibiting 

 ibe sale of liquor on Sundays, the vigilance of 

 Police Department, Ihe mnvielion ul ullcnders. Ihe 

 wholesome dread iuspired by just verdicts, the 

 awful sentence of tbe law. and the active exei 

 of Christian Associations among the depraved 

 classes. 



A nr.r.ir runny people are going to Europe the 

 ensuing summer. About sixty passports bavi 

 issued daily by the State Department for a month 

 pust, nnd probably thai ratio will continue I ill 

 None are necessary for Englund, and thousan 

 obtained from our Minister at Londou for 



OOKUUaiOKBBS to EquALXXl Taxation.— Gov. 

 UoBOAM has appointed T. C. Peters of Genesee, 

 A. S. TmiiTON of Chemung, and Thohas Clowes 



of Rensselaer county, Commissioners lo E([uali7.e 

 Taxation in the several counties of this State, un- 

 der ihe law passed at the present session of the 

 Legislature. The great inequality i„ the valuatioi 

 of real estate, in the counties, has long called for 

 some remedy. Ii is untu :i patl d that these 

 missioners will endeavor to nseertuin the proper 

 and equitable stiiinbud, 5 u that the burthen of sup- 

 |.,-i ■ 0, ■ ■!., 1 .. ■.■ no ',■... 1 



true equilibrium '-inhli-bed throughout tbe State 

 — The Ri ual congratulates its Contributor, Mr 

 Petehs, upon his appointment — believing it emi- 

 nently proper, and one in which his hosts of Iriunds 

 and the people of Western New York generally 

 will cordially concur. 



Missionaries ron India— On the evening of tht 

 fith inst. five Missionaries, bound for India, wert 

 Ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 

 Lynn, Mass. These men are Messrs Judd, Downey, 

 Parker. Waugh and Tboburn. The ordination was 

 by Bishop Ames, assisted by ibe Rev. Messrs. 

 Diirbin, Merrill, Tavlor, and others. The services 

 were of an interesting character; Dr. Durbin gave 

 a brief account of the rise, progress and prospects 

 of the British Empire in India; connecting it with 

 the rise, present condition, nnd prospects of the 

 mission under the care of the Methodist Church 

 The Missionaries were expected to sail for India 

 on tbe Monday following. 



Tue Anti-Rbkt Oases Decided— Mil Patison's 

 liu.i Si-T.uN£o.-The Ettnin^ Journal of Friday 

 week announces that " the sf veral cases involving 

 Van Rensselaer claims to rents from lands con- 

 veyed in fee, in this county, have been decided by 

 the Court of Appeals, The decision is adverse to 

 the tenants. All the .fudges concur in tbe opinion 

 that the rents and arrears must be paid. Tin- ac- 

 tion of the Court of last resorl is necessarily final. 

 It bus been looked for with deep interest by the 

 parties concerned and tbe public, and terminates a 

 lung and excited contra 



Fast Dat Observances.— Friday week was ob- 

 served as an annual Fast, in Massachusetts. In 

 Boston ther. . -in the morn- 



ing al the churches, and the places of amusement 

 in the afternoon and evening, were thronged. On 

 there were numerous ball and cricket 

 ng in their invigorating sports which 

 were viewed by large numbers of spectators. 



1 bodie 





■ and loorib, 



attention of Ihe Coroner in New York on Sal unlay. 

 Out- was the body of an old man agi 6 

 bad been stoned by u lot of rowdy boys, und 

 ccived a blow winch caused his death. 



Gold having been found in the crop of a defunct 

 turkey at Wesley. Ark., the neighbors of the man 

 who found it, arc killing their turkeys, and pros- 

 pecting for gold iu their gi/zurds. 



Tin: N. Y Tribune of Monday says, yellow fever 

 arrived lit Quarantine vestrnhiy from Km W 

 learn that in Cuba the peslileriee ha* 

 unusually eat ly, and with extreme violi 



Fiiom a return made to the lii-hop of Loudon by 

 his clergy, it appears that the annual eo.-t of Hit 

 ministrations of the Episcopal Church in London, 

 is over twelve dollars to each man, woman and 

 child belonging to tbe Episcopal congregations. 



At tbe excavation of the pound on which St. 

 Peter's Church recently stood, .n vllmny, a double 

 coffin was discovered, eupposed i , b- ihat m which 

 Lord Howe, who was killed ut tbe battle of Lake 

 George, July 1',, lT.'.s, was buried. 



Weather of First Half of April. 



Toe average heat of this port of April, for itfl 

 years, is 40. 'J*, and this is also the 

 half of the month. It has not been 

 this part of April last year, but warmer tlum for 

 the same in \$;>7, and the same t 

 sidering the warmth of the three preceding 

 months, this has been middling. Vegetation hie. 

 moved on; the roads have been soon settled ; 

 wheat-fields in a distance of a few miles of the city 

 look finely and promise well. Abundance of 

 bos fallen. A high wind and much rain can 



1, with s 



orb r 



again on the 11th, and again on the Hth and 18th. 

 A good deal of wind strong and gusty, has fallen 

 to our share. Thunder at l distance on tbe 11th 

 at eve, and a heavy thunder shower in New York 

 at 10 P. M. of that day. 



The highest beat was the 11th, giving us the 

 temperature of 66* at noon, aud 51 " for the mean ; 

 yet the 11th was only up to 68-' at noon, but hotter 

 ,11 doy, being S3.8*. Well may 





..: Limliii.-s which has been s 



The warmth of the first three months of this 

 year bos often been noticed. Some of those three 



each of them has not been so warm in 9S years, 

 except in 1842, That winter was very Hkc the 

 present, though there was more mud. lo this 

 winter there has been more uniformity of heat, and 

 the earth kept frozen at Ihe surface most of tbe 

 lime. The first three months of lSi^ bad each of 

 them a little higher mean temperature. Here both 



;.- be 1 



. I.l. : 



As ihe mean of the first half of April is the 

 erage of it for £2 years, we may well call this 

 nuisually warm and pleasant. I con- 

 gratulate the lovers of uncommon weather and 

 lar seasons on the fact just stated. Tbev will 

 enjoy the result. j. D . 



She Nclus Cnnbciusci. 



-A-.eJe.A. sr , 



- I...- .r-l Tavlor 1 



a In Cbeaspeate 1 





• ajratn broken out al Buffalo nnd 



■ 



en Afctu te %httt»ca3 of Hon- 



''--VV'-m'.'-.. 



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a 



■ reeeoUjr been 



cuiiri al Trxivlilcnce, 



.iu treat 



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, 



Philadelphia, m ighi "* ■■ , ■ ......1 



— A war dance by Ihe Wlnncbagor*. ..: v. 



1. ' ' ■ 1,0,. I 



■ .11 !iaa nine •tenia flro engines, «o»llnj; 



— Aeuonlni- I.. .Ii-p:.|.i 



OUl 111 Kama*. 



In New York by a banquet at Lbi I 



— The Loudon Horning P-i-l intlninlrsllialllie ijrran 

 King al Naple« lias become veritably Insane. 



— lie' JaeksoD Uonnmenl on lba Hen Orleans bstiii 

 ground Is now 79 feel high, at a coitof 8311,000. 



— The Cainnnrtics have killed ■evenil families |r 



itlier company of boys have been lent from Nc« 



'. Aid Society. 



ortalirnril In the 

 New York Oyer and Terminer on Monday week. 



— A laity, named M1h Mary Way, !• m ' 

 ascensions in New Orleans, genemll* On BanMa] 



Troy, mo«lly shirt making, at,. I ;>00 it. New Haven. 



— The Eastern niMnii Tjh tnrl rip i, mippinl.-i are advanc- 

 ing Ihe ivuvi't of uj.enitlves— a favornhh- tyiiiplom. 



"IK,,,, 





more appropriately designated by leaving off the 



;'.|i,i'oii ,if which urn loihli.ilii'il in the t Hit. .1 -la 



eighty thousand dollars' worth of school library h 



■ail. eii_-tit..|.o 



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I l.j II 



,, M.,,l 



in 1 ake ii -l,i! ,..„ Hi. If 11, 1, lug 



— The School of l)e-lj;n altaelied lo II1.1 Maryland 



, publicly flrjggfil by t 



- During the reign of ifapoli an 1 



, 1 Lo :'i"-iit 8840,000,000, 





ly Lind's forliinn ha* 

 laundered, and she Is to attempt lo make ar 

 ihe U advertised lo ling In England. 



— A hundred cntde. from Tciai, died reoantlj 

 tarrallon, 011 Lick Creek, fsangamon Co, III , 

 hey had been drit-cn for wintering. 



— The National Academy of Design op.-.e-.i 

 ublle on Tutaday week. The aiUblUon U Hid 



I, -'-•-■ <.f prcviotu years. 



ounds of gold dust, valued al $CO,000. 



— Theodore Parker wriif. I 

 tial the tropical air, te 



