[0®&E'3 ETO&& MEW-Y0&K3SS. 



TO RURAL AGENTS, SUBSCRIBERS, &c 



Tns Rokal Nbw-Yobmb tntere vpon a Jlfci 

 Quarter this week, and we embrace the occasion t 

 notify it* Agents, Sulxcribers and other friends that 

 single and club subscriptions— either /or a yt> 

 three months, on trial— art note in order and respect- 

 /ully solicited. To those who know and opjtrtciate 

 the paper, ue rued only tay that the quart, r vpon 

 which we now enter, arid llu ensuing volume, will 

 he worthy the enviable reputation the RdbaI has 

 attained— and all others are favitti to ght it a oar*- 

 /ul examination. It hat thousands of ardent and 

 influential friends, each of whom will, we trust, 

 matt some effort {during the ensuing few weeks and 

 months,) to augment He circulation m 

 in tlirir respective localities, -and Now it the Ikst 

 Time to Commence tht Cantos*. An liberal Pre- 

 miums and Gratuities will be gken/or Clubs, <£-<■., 



in the waj 



In the meintiwe 

 the charge, and e 

 doivn with sledge 

 their efforts. Alar 

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DOMESTIC NEWS. 



Matters at Washing 



The correspondent o 



that .Secretary Cass baa 



Mexican Consul at Bro 



ngoged io the rcc 



are all t 

 Tbey r 



d Texas, and 



i body of Cm 



-no Mexicans 



nly four of tbi 

 nsul visited tl 



r Cbief 



• Ml I r. I ..., r . 



u. Tw.-.gs 

 o Jtrowns- 

 rere scouting through 



yet been officially ad- 



ic quarters lea' 

 fidenlly expec 

 reach here before 



The Government baa n. 

 vised that Minister Ward 

 information received in diplomat 

 no doubt of the fact. It is con 

 that the ratification treaty will ; 

 the meeting of Congress. 



The names of various gentlemen have been 

 named in connection with the mission to France, 

 but no action has been taken, and it is doubtful 

 whether it has yet been even considered by tl 

 President. 



Mr. Irving, Secretary of the British Legation, : 

 among the recent arrivals. 



The President has commenced the preparatio 



District Attorney Ould and Col. Lee have rt 

 turned from Harper's Ferry. The former has had 

 a conference with the President, and the latter an 

 interview with the Secretary of War. U. S. Mar- 

 shal Johnson, of Ohio, now here, says one of the 

 parties engaged with Brown was prominent in the 

 Oberlin rescue. 



Parties have been 

 uttering counterfeit 

 markably well executed, b 

 genuine. It is supposed thi 

 dollars worth have been thrown 

 They were brought from Pennsylvania. 



Receipts of the Treasury for the week endi 

 Amount subject 

 )e over previous wi 



mrlly broken 

 r. Tne Marines then forced their wsy through 

 breach, and in a few minutes all resistance was 

 io end. The following list comprise* those 

 [id and wounded amoDg the insurgents, with 

 r proper titles under the "Provisional Govern- 

 it":— Capt. Oliver Brown, dead ; Capl. Watson 

 wn, dead; Capt. Aaron C. Stevens, of Conn., 

 nded badly,— he has three balls in him,— can- 

 possibly recover ; Lieut. Coppie, of Conn, un- 

 t ; Lieut. Albert Hasclett, of Fa., dead ; Lieut. 

 Leeman, of Maine, dead; Capt. John E. Cook, of 



r-Stewart Taylor, of Canada, dead 

 P. Bidd, of Maine, dead ; Wm. Thompson, or New 

 York, dead ; Adolph Thompson, of New York, 

 dead; John Koge, of Ohio, dead; Jeremiah Ander- 

 son, of lad., dead ; three whites previously sent off, 

 makingseventecn whites. Negroes— Dangerfield, 

 lately of Ohio, raised in Virginia, dead ; Emperor, 

 ofN. Y., raised in South Carolina, not wounded 

 but a prisoner— the latter was elected a member of 



Lewis Leary, of Ohio, raised in Virginia, dead 

 Copeland, of Ohio, raised in Virginia, wounded 





Civile- 





mnds, 1 



The Gen. Brown a 



feats in Kansas ha' 

 justifies his action. 



night. William 

 Harper's!Ferry b 

 ward the Mary la: 



b fatal. 



Cook among the men, 



the matter as a joke, 



nducted him to the 



•rested at Washington for 



lighter than the 



Monday, 



draft, $4,(177,000—0) 



of $108,000. 



Ferry Insurrection. 

 isue of the Rural we gave such 



.rmory, which be found al- 

 >n. Be was detained till 

 after daylight, and then discharged. 



le watchman who was to relieve Williamson 



idnight, found the bridge lights ull out. Sup- 



posing it an attempt at robbery, he broke awoy, 



benefit ef hi» health. Pure, bi 

 honorable, he v u widely cattemw 

 wise distinguished in hia pro'es 

 judgment and accuracy o( legal investigation 

 died in the birth-pUce of bis graudf.iUi<.r, whi 

 a Swiss. 



A letter from Paris dated OoL Clh, soys that 

 Senator Seward would leave England io two or 

 three days for homo. 



It now appears that Dr. Willing has 

 ed Delegate to Congress from Jeflersoo Territory, 

 instead of Mr. Williams, as announced. 



Intelugehci: has reached Leavenworth, Kb: 

 direct from Nebraska City, that Daily, Republ 

 is elected Delegate to Congress by a majority of 

 48 over Eastabrook, Democrat. 



Republican majority. The seven 

 a Republican mojoniy in ItCVT. 

 i of the 15th, says the Republii 

 the State Senate is 7, and in the He 



Tub House of Bishops has refused to 

 Bishop Onderdonk conditionally or otherw 



Hon. Rodt. P. Dunlap, Ex-Governor of Maine, 

 Past Grand High Chief of the Royal Arch Masons 

 for the United States, died on the evening of the 

 20tb inst., at his residence in BruDswfck. 



Iowa Election. — As far as heard from, the 

 Republican majority is 2,0CC. The Senate {count- 

 ing 14 Senators holding over, half of whom are 

 Republicans and half Democrats,) stand thus far 

 25 Republicans to 14 Democrats. The House 

 stands 45 Republicans and '21 Democrats, with 11 

 districts yet to hear from. The entire number of 

 Senators elected is 43, and Representatives 8G. 



News Paragraphs. 



A citizen of Brooklyn bought an old) clock 

 auction a few days ogo for ten dollars. On taki 

 it home he discovered that a looking ( 



nofh 





■,,•.1,1, 



Th- ., 



i pursue 

 ■-\t op pel 





party headed by Cook proceeded 

 Col. Washington told him be 

 \ TheyalBOBeiHdallthealaves 



arjre woe 



n with two h 



orses 





Gen. Br 



wn has mad 



a full statement 





he says h 



rented a fa 



rm from Dr. Ke 





months si 



ce and the r 



Dt is paid till ne 



t March 



; never bad over twenty-two men at the farm at 

 e time that belonged to the organisation, but he 

 peeled reinforcements from Mary land, Kentucky, 

 >rth and South Carolina and Canada. He bad 

 ms sufficient for 1,500 men. He bad 200 revol- 

 rs, S00 Sharp's rides, and 1,000 pistols. He left 

 cm at the farm; be had abundance of powder 

 d other ammunition ; he brought all the arms 

 im time to time from Connecticut and other 

 item poinls to Chambersburgb, Pa. They were 

 ■eclcd to J. Smith A Sons, Kennedy Farm, his 

 turned name ; they were packed in double boxes 

 as to deceive the parties who bundled them to 

 j farm ; he says be made one mistake, in either 

 t detaining the train on Sunday night, or per- 

 'lested. This mistake, 



ned t 



received, (leaving the 

 the National Armory t 

 furnish our readers v 

 down to the defeat of t 



> in possession ol 

 led,) and we now 

 nportant details 

 and the 6uppres- 



infer, < 

 1 prevented his re 

 \. detachment of n 



i and e 



volunteers 



made a visit to Brown's house. They found a 

 large quantity of blankels, boots, shoes, clothes, 

 and^firteen hundred pikes with large blades 

 orpet bag 



3f the Bankof Enfiland behind it 

 about £3,000. 



servant girls in New York oity hav 

 for higher wages — tbey want $10 a mon 



,ts for the new Fourth Avenue Ci 

 ins have launched 

 i on the southern portion 

 of Siberia, and^xpect to make a profitable com- 

 terprise out of it. The Russian officials 

 show the greatest favor to them. 



A movement has been started in New York, 

 among the Hebrews, for the formation of a Board 

 of Representatives of the Jews in the United 

 States. The plan proposes the formation of a Con- 

 sistory of Delegates from each congregation in the 

 United Slates. This body, like the British Board 

 of Representatives, will look to and forward Jew- 

 ish interests. 



Tut; 



.t Maui, Sandwich Islands, was 

 Without difficulty. 



long point has been formed, 



sea at Kiholo, with a depth of 



edge of sixty-three fathoms, and the liquid rock is 



still dropping out seaward. 



Mr. La Mountain's balloon, the Atlantic, which 

 was abandoned by him in the Canada woods, has 

 been secured and returned to Watertow 

 what torn, but serviceable. 



A coufakativb statement of the wheat inspec- 

 tions in the State of Virginia, during the post 

 quarter, endiDg Sept. 30, and same period of three 

 proceeding years, shows that the crop of 1859 is 

 the largest ever grown iu the State. 



An exchange paper says:— "The best safety- 

 valve to a boiler is a sober engineer. Congress 

 slate till doomsday, but as long as tbe of- 

 ficers carry too much steam, the boats will follow 





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They i 







' of t 



tbe 



ng of the 



After expostulate 

 refused, and the 



determined upon. The first attack 



of the Charleston Guart 



Harper 1 



: Maryland 

 9 killed. 



Armory 



was made by a detach 

 which crossed tho T 

 Ferry, and reaching the buildin" whei 

 gents were posted, by the canal, on th 

 side. Smart firing occurred, and the i 

 driveD from the building. One man i 

 A man went out and tried to escape by 

 the river. A dozen shots were fired after b 

 his face blown off, and the body taken possei 

 of. Hiscoat skirts werecut off, and in the pockets 

 were found a captain's commission to Capt. E. H. 

 Leemao, from the "Provisional Government." The 

 commission was dated Oct. 15tb, 1859, signed by 

 A. W. Brown, Commander- in Chief of tho army of 

 tbe Provisional Government of the United States. 

 A party of five of the insurgents, armed with min- 

 nio rides, and posted in the rifle armory, were next 

 :pellcd by the Charleston Guards. Tbey all ran 

 1 one who was unable lo swim 

 The other four swam out to the 

 die of the Shenandoah, and fired 

 i and troops onboth banks. This 

 e muskets of between 200 and 300 

 » than four hundred shots were 

 m Harper's Ferrv, about 200 yards 

 as finally shot dead ; the second, 



*. ^ATP 0T " lhc dam - bul fel1 

 ards; the third was 





fired at them fro 

 distant. One * 

 a negro, attempt 



badly wounded, and the r 



urgent, wounded a 



harmed. Tbe white 

 tured, died in 



For nearly one hour a runo 

 firing was kept np by the troop: 

 era. Several 



i aud children ran shrieking in every di 



!.,,,;■ 



ling ■ 



thr< 



i light on the 

 printed constitutions and by-laws of an or- 

 tion, showing or indicating ramifications in 

 i States of tbe Union. Also letters from 

 i individuals at the North— one from Fred, 

 aing $10 from a lady for tho cause. 



Iso a letter from Gerrit Smith about 

 rs, and a check or draft by him Tor $100, endorsed 

 f the Cashier of a New York Bank. 

 Tbe Independent Grays, of Baltimore, found 

 ro wagon loads of armB at Brown's bouse. The 

 •ms consisted of boxes filled with Sharp's rides, 

 stols, Ac, all bearing the stamp of the Mossa- 

 luaetts Manufacturing Company, Cbicopee, 

 ass. There were also found a quantity of 

 n.ted States' ammunition, a large number of 

 •ears, sharp iron bowie knives fixed upon poles, 

 terrible looking weapon, intended for the use of 

 e negroes, with spades, pick-axes, shovels, and 

 en thing else that might be needed— thus prov- 

 g that the expedition was well provided for 

 at a large party of men was expected to be 



»ud that abundant means had been pro 



pay all expenses. 





The Russian government has just commenced a 

 ilroad to connect Kiev to Odessa. It will take 

 fifteen years to build it, and will invol 1 

 ficulties and a heavier outlay than would 

 from St. Louis to San Francisco. 



A couple of woman, quarreling for pla 

 power in the fancy needle- work department of the 

 Canada Provincial Fair at Kiogsti 

 came near breaking up the show— the husband of 

 one of them removing his articles from exhibition, 

 thus taking away the moat of that department. 



In a case at Worcester, the Supreme Court ol 

 Massachusetts have decided that where confiden- 

 tial communication between client and ■ 

 overheard by a third person, such person may 

 testify thereto. Communications to counsel are 

 only so far privileged lhat the counsel cannot be 

 permitted to testify to them. 

 The people of the Southern counties of Califor- 

 a have given a large majority in favor of separa- 

 on from the rest of the State, and of the erection 

 of themselves into a new Territory to be called 

 Colorado. 



Soke 



Personal and Political. 

 Tbb Rev. John Angell James died in Birming- 

 his 75th year. — 



, England, i 



s well 1. 



l philai 



hropist and a 







i, sayB the Birmingb 



ly read than any other work, except the Bible 

 and " The Pilgrim's Progress." 



The people of Canada have purchased William 

 Lfon Mackenzie a fine Homestead in Toronto.— 

 ibstantial compliment bos been richly earn- 

 ed by an earnest (though sometimes mistaken) 

 aeiil for the people, during the past CO years. 



Ai-hkiit Gallatin, grandson of the former Vice 

 President, died 18th September, in tho 35th year 



from Philadelphia 





ired gir 



a pair — he, she, and a hired girl. — 

 n a modern, there would have been 

 Paradise lolook after little Abel 





A fearful malady has broken out among tbe 

 Omaha Indians in Nebraska, and lifty of them 

 died. The Indians think it is the effect of e 

 the meat of the buffalo affected with bloody 

 rain. The Indians had thrown away all the 

 of the one thousand buffaloes which they had put 

 up for winter use, and were preparing for another 

 buffalo hunt. 



Twenty tears ago the number of colored men 

 in Canada West was 3,400; DOW th 

 than 40,000. In four mouths after the passage of 

 the Fugitive Slave Law, 10,000 poured into the 



Wbstward Emigration.— According lo advices 

 received in St. Louis, 3,44!> emigrant wagons 

 have passed over the Western plaint 

 for California and Salt Lake City— eight-ninths of 

 going to California. Loose cattle esti- 

 om 120,000 to 140,000; sheep, 0,000. 



