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BOOHBSTEB, 17, ?„ OCTOBER 2,1865 



FILL OAMPAIQN (BARTER! 



The Rural Three Months, on Trial, at Half Price ! 



The Last Quarter of Vol. IX of the Rural com- 

 mences today — with October. As prosperity Is 

 rapidly returning to t lie People end the Country, 



RaraliBts, are coming on apace, (when such a pa- 

 per as the Rural Is needed in almost every family,) 

 we confidently anticipate a large accession to onr 

 subscription list during the ensuing few weeks. — 

 To supply the demand, we this week add several 

 thousand to our former edition, and shall bo glad 

 to receive orders for single copies or cluba to any 

 extent, for cither the present quarter or a year. 



E3J" At the suggestion of many of its friends 

 and In order to introduce the paper mere generally 

 preparatory to the new volume, we have concluded 

 to offer the Rural for the present quarter — Octo- 

 ber to January, 13 numbers— at only Half Prics, 

 (25 ob>.) thns placing It within the means and reach 

 of all who wish to give it a fair trial We will 

 send 4 copleB for $1; 8 for $2; 12 for $3; 20 for 

 $5, Ac, and mall to as many different persons or 

 post-offices as desired. Of coarse, we shall not 

 realize a farthing's profit, yet wish to circnlate at 

 least Five Thousand trial copieB of this quarter— 

 for, though we temporarily lose money by the in- 

 vestment, we trust it will be returned to ub in fu- 

 ture; and if not, wo shall have the satisfaction of 

 believing that thousands of individuals have been 

 benefited by making the acquaintance of the 



—Wo therefore frankly ask eaoh and every agent 

 and friend of the Rural to aid in circulating the 

 Fall Campaign Quarter. There is scarcely one of 

 our readers who could not, if disposed, easily ob- 

 tain from 4 to 20 or 50 Trial Subscribers, and 

 thereby not only enhance the welfare oi his or her 

 friends and neighbors, but directly aid in aug- 

 menting the future usefulness of this journal- 

 Friends of the paper and its objects, near and dis- 

 tant— in the North and West, East and South- 

 will yeu not give " a long pull, a strong pull, and 

 a pull altogether," In behalf of the Fail Campa.gn 

 Quarter of the favorite Rural Weekly? 



Dreadful CaauaJty — Burning of the Austria. 



Fob some- days past the telegraph has brought 

 us reports concerning the destruction of a st< 

 by fire upon the waste of ocean's waters, Tl 

 telligence that had come to band was such 

 invest all with a hope that human life had not 

 sacrificed, but sews just received has scattered all 

 fond desire*), and the truth U arrayed before us in 



all It* horror — only rirtyteren hare been raved out of 



forty/ The bark Lotus arrived at Halifax with 

 twelve of the survivors, taken from the bark, 

 Maurice, who give the following account of the 

 catastrophe : 



At a little after 2 o'clock on the 13th, dense 

 volumes of smoke burst from the after entrance of 

 tbe steerage. The ship was Instantly pot at half 

 speed, at which ebe continued until the magazine 

 exploded. The engineers, it is inferred, were In- 

 stantly suffocated. Tbe fire was next seen break- 

 ing through the lights amidships and traveled aft 

 with fearful rapidly. Some persons let down a 

 boat from the port side of the quarter deck, and it 

 was thought to be crushed under the screw. An 

 attempt was made to launch a boat on the star- 

 board aide, but It was swamped from the numbers 

 who rushed into it, and all were lost 



All tbe first cabin passengers were on the poop, 

 except a few gentlemen, who must have been 

 smothered in the smoking room. Many second 

 class passengers were all on the poop, but a num- 

 ber of tb«m got shot Into their cabin by fire. — 

 Some of them were polled up through the ventila- 

 tor?, but the greater number could not be extri- 

 cated. Tbe last woman drawn up said there were 

 z already suffocated. The ladles and gentlemen 

 i the poop jamped into the sea by twos and threes 

 -some of the ladies in flames. Several hesitated, 

 it were driven to it at the last moment. In half 

 ■ hour not a soul was to be seen on the poop. 

 The French bark Maurice, Capt Renaud, came 

 along side the steamer at about 5 P. M., and res- 

 cued abont 40 passengers, chiefly taken off tbe 

 bowsprit. A few were picked np floating around. 

 out S o'clock one of the metallic boats came 

 up with about 20 persons in it inclnding the 1st 

 and 3d officers. Afterwards three or four men 

 picked up floating on a piece of broken 

 boat The 2d officer was taken up, having been 

 swimming six hours. He and the 3d officer were 

 verely bornt 



According to the Rev. Ciiarles Rbw, one of the 

 Bcaed, the Are was caused by the palpable negli- 

 ince of some of the crew. The captain and sur- 

 geon considered it expedient to fumigate the 

 steerage with burning tar. The operation was to 

 be performed by the boatswain, under the superin- 

 tendence of the 4th officer. The boatswain heated 

 the end of a chain to dip In tar and produce smoke. 

 The end became too hot to hold, and be let it drop 

 upon the deck, to which it set fire. The tar npset, 

 and immediately all about was in flames! A feeble 

 attempt was made to extinguish it, but without ef- 

 fect. There was nothing at hand to meet such an 

 emergency. Mr. Rew states that there were six 

 hundred souls upon tbe ill fated vessel — a large 

 number being women and children. 



N. Y. State Temperance Contention. — The 



State Temperance Convention waa held pursuant 

 call, at Utke, on the 22d ult John Foster, of 

 Madison Co., in the Chair. On motion, the follow- 

 ing preamble and resolutions were unanimously 

 adopted: 



Whereas, owing to informality of call signed by 

 bnt Bix of the sixteen members of the State Tem- 

 ce Committee, the lateness of its publication, 

 and its being published in bat one Temperance 

 paper, it has been Impossible for the Assembly 

 Districts to be generally represented at this time; 

 d the short time previous to the election, now 

 preclude the possibility of an effectual organi- 

 zation, therefore, 

 Resolved, That in our opinion it is inexpedient 

 organize nt this time a State Temperance Con- 

 vention for the year 1858, and it is hereby declared 

 djourned sine die. 



Crops at the West. — Speaking of the 

 crop I Q the lake region of Ohio, the Cleveland 

 (Water says that It is, most of it, out of dangerfrom 

 fK»'. and, as a whole, is fully an average one.— 

 Much ot It has been cut up, and many of the farm- 

 ers are busy In putting their fields Into shocks. 

 u "t?. 1 " U? ,lcln,tT of the t%ai ri ag«. U>e crop 

 ll. The ears are large, well 

 No frost yet to shrivel green 



raw tdh Cornir Stone op tub State Ine- 

 b Asylum.— The corner stone of this Institu- 

 tion was laid with appropriate ceremonies at IJing- 

 hamton on tbe 21th ult, in tho presence of a large 

 assemblage. After prayer by Rev. Dr. Beech, of 

 Bfnghamton. Hon. B. F. Butler, President of tbe 

 Board of Trustees, delivered some eloquent open- 

 ing remarks. Elaborate and able addresses were 

 delivered by Dr. Francis and Rev. Dr. Bellows, of 

 N. Y., both of whom paid high and deserved tri- 

 bute to Dr. Turner, the founder and chief mover of 

 the Institution, who wa9 present. Remarks was 

 also made by D. S, Dickenson, of Bingbamton, and 

 Hon. Edward Everett A poem was delivered by 

 Alfred B. Street, of Albany. The exercises were 

 extremely interesting and went off with great suc- 

 cess. In the evening tho Preshyerian Church was 

 filled to hear Everett's oration on Washington. 



The British Treaty With China.— The latest 

 intelligence discloses that the indemnity accorded 

 by the Emperor of China to Great Britain, is much 

 larger than previous accounts gavo reason to ex- 

 pect Instead of a payment of S6.000.000 for the 

 joint benefit of England and France, that Bum 

 inures to France alone, while England is to receive 

 510,000,000— tbe money to be collected ont of the 

 customs" duties at Canton. 



is better Ihi 

 filled • 



The Lexington (Mo.) £ r/jr ,„ MXi laa . m 



■e received in regard to the 

 of ihe States— the corn crop 



cheering 



in particular. 



Kansas Oota-The Wyandotte (K. T.) Gazette 

 of the 18th ult, says that -yesterday Slo,ooo In 

 gold dust arrived here from Pike's Peak. One man 

 brought &.000, the result of a few weeks' work." 

 It this a ascend edition of Frster River? 



Ysjuiont— Ofpicial Rettjbns— The official 

 turns are now in from all bnt a few towns, wt 

 do not cast eight hundred voteB in all Tbey L™ 

 up as follows:— Hall, (R ep .) 28,131; Keyes, (Dent) 

 l'iSio; Scattering, 96. H^l's majority 16,100.— 

 The Legislature stands, .SVru^-Republican, 26; 

 Democrats. 1. «</™™f«.-<tv —Complete.- Repub- 

 lican*. 1 ■■'■: Democrats, 35; Abolitionists, 1- no 

 choice, 8. 



§tros paragraphs. 



The drouth is so great in tbe province of Arra- 

 gon, Spain, that the fields have to be watered, and 

 the peasantry fight with each other to obtain water 

 from the Ebro. 



A strong shock of so earthquake was felt In San 

 Francisco August 19th. The citizens rushed from 

 the buildings La terror, and many took refuge in 



for services as Mayor for two years past The other 

 Mayor has already been paid. 



It Is stated that actual statistics show that dur- 

 ing the last fifty years, " the number of members of 

 the evangelical churches in the United States, has 

 increased from four hundred thousand to three 

 millions and a half, being an Increase of eight-fold,- 

 white our population has increased fourfold." 



Thb Green Bay (Wig) Advocat* aayB that the 

 only son of the late Rev. E. Williams, and of course 

 the next heir to the throne ef France, is now en- 

 gaged as a pilot on one of the Lake Winnebago 

 steamers. He is a fine looking young man, bears 

 a striking resemblance to his father, but is too 

 modest we think, to arge his claims. 



The Paris Presse speaks of the necessity which 

 exists for France to lay down a telegraph to the 

 United States if she wishes to maintain, undimin- 

 ished, her present commercial relations with the 

 American continent It declares France is too 

 dependent on England for her commnnlcations 

 with America. 



The Post-Master General has decided that if 

 post-masters do not give publishers of newspapers 

 or periodicals notice that their papers remain in 

 the post-office, without being taken out by those to 

 addressed, for five weeks, they are 

 liable for the pay. 



Walker was among the passengers for 

 Nicaragua, by the Star of tbe West, of Thursday 

 week. He goes ont to try to get up another Revo- 

 lution. 



THEFraserrlverexcItementhascomotoasudden 

 termination, and many of the runaways In the re- 

 cent stampede have returned to their accustomed 

 diggings. The latest reports from the mining re- 

 gion announce great distress among the emigrants, 

 The scarcity of food almost amouited to a famine. 

 Little gold was found, on account of the height of 



ie water, and the Indians were a constant annoy- 



tce to the miners. 



The Boston Traveler says: — "On an average, 



tout 12 out of the 105,000 of Boston die every day 

 the 365 making up the year, During the pres- 



it year, however, two days have passed without 



ie recurrence of a single death, one day in Feb- 

 ruary and the other In April. It is not often that 

 the grim messenger ceases his visits in a city like 



ira even for a single day; in fact it has not ocenr- 



d, wc believe, for a dozen years or more." 



Terrible Balloon Adventures, 



On the 16th ult, Messrs. Bannister and Tdurs- 

 )H made a successful balloon ascension at Adrian, 

 Mich., on the occasion of a Sunday School celebra- 

 . Messrs. B. and T. took seats in tbe car, and 

 nded aafely and Bteadily. After remaining 

 about forty minutes in the air, they alighted in the 

 woods in town of Rigs, Lenawee county, distant 

 abont eighteen miles west of Toledo. Several men 

 <f tbe adventurers, and they 

 proceeded to prepare the balloon for packing, to 

 taken back to Adrian. In doing this the bal- 

 u was turned over, and partially upside down, 

 lieentangle the netting and to reach the valve. 

 To do this, Mr. Thurston took off his ceat, and got 

 block. He then suggested 

 that the car be detached from the balloon, while 

 he should hold it down with his weight This 

 proved a fearful calculation, for no sooner was the 

 still inflated balloon relieved of the weight of the 

 car, than it shot into the air with the suddenness 

 of a rocket taking Mr. Thurston along with it. 

 Bested upon the valve of the balloon, and holding 

 to the collapsed silk of the airship in that portion 

 of its bulk! In this perfectly helpless condition, 

 the ill-fated man sped straight into tbe sky, in tbe 

 full eight of his companions, even more helpless 

 than himself. The balloon was found on the 20th 

 ult, near Baptiste Creek, C. W., but the fate of the 

 aeronaut is wrapped in conjecture — that it was 

 horrible, almost beyond precedent, there la little 

 room fordonbt 



At the Illinois State Fair, on Friday P. M., Mr. 

 Brooks, of St Louis, made an aseensloD, The 

 aeronaut descended about twenty milea from Cen- 

 trally tied his balloon to a fence, and went to a 

 house near by for refreshments. He then permit- 

 up the length of the anchor rope. Finally he pot 

 in two children, one aged eeven and the other four, 

 and by some unexplained means the balloon got 

 awsy from him, and darted off like a rocket It 

 was just dark, and the moon shone bright but the 

 balloon was out of sight In an Instant The chil- 

 dren were given up as lost, no one supposing that 

 they would ever come down alive. Bnt on Satur- 

 day morning, the balloon was discovered In a tree 

 top, about ten miles from the starting point The 

 machine had run all night, and from the fact that 

 it was seen at least twenty miles from where it 

 started, at nine in the evening, it must have Balled 

 around in different directions during the night, 

 with its precious freight, with the intention of 

 landing them as near home as possible. The 

 children were found safe. Tbe oldest a girl, said 

 that her brother complained of being cold, and 

 she laid him down in the bottom of the car, and 

 covered him with her apron, and he went to sleep, 

 and that she did not Bleep at all. 



Mr. Chapman's Salb of Shorthorns, already 

 noticed in the Rural, is to be held on Tuesday 

 next, at Cansstols, directly on the N. Y. Central 

 Railroad and less than one boor's ride from Syra- 

 cuse. Breeders and others attending the State 

 Fair can, therefore, easily be present at the sale. 



Thb Land Office at Stillwater has been removed 

 to Cambridge, at that and Fsirbanlt to St Peter?. 

 ■Una bb4 . 



Buttbrflibs Goino West.— The Detroit A 

 tiser declares that butterflies are moving West! — 

 On Sunday afternoon last immense clouds of these 

 little insects were seen winging their way 

 that city. Near the river they were very thick, 

 while towards the back of that city they were more 

 acattered. The St Paul papers state that the grass- 

 hopper tribe in the region of Selkirk, Red River 

 of the North, have made a similar movement— 

 They were so numerous early In the season that it 

 was feared the entire crops in that region would 

 be destroyed. 



•Sural" Letters from the People. 



1 friend* (I toot il for gruted i 



.) to Aid m 

 * lUwrtjof 



adort^rtj 







ally, or old bachelor 



tires yosrs experience 



'ollj through uftj-two t 



very shrewd people, 



lelligent thought most respeot t 



Ths Atlantic Telborath.— On the 24th ult, 

 several of the American Board of Directors of this 

 Company, addressed the following inquiries to the 

 operator at Trinity Bay, requesting explicit an- 

 swers to the fiame: — "1st Are you now, or have 

 you been within three days, receiving distinct sig- 

 nals from Valentia? 2d. Can you send s message, 

 long or short, to the Directors at London? 3d. If 

 you answer no to tho above, please tell us if the 

 electrical manifestations have varied essentially 

 since the 1st of September," 



Mr. Db Santy replied:— "We have received 

 nothing intelligible from Yalentia since September 

 lBt, excepting feeling a few signals yesterday. 1 

 can't send anything to Yalentia. There has been 

 very little variation In the electrical manifesta- 

 tions. 1 ' 



The American end of tbe line does not obtain 

 much start of the steamers,— to them we a 

 dented for the fullest account of the non working 

 of the telegraph jet received. 



A Houbbtbad Law.— The Legislature of Min- 

 nesota has passed a law exempting a homestead ol 

 eighty acres from a levy for debts incurred; also, 

 3500 worth of household furniture; $300 worth of 

 stock and utensils; J 100 worth of tools, tbe library 

 of a professional man, and provisions enouj 

 support the family one year. 



Emigration.— The number of emigrants which 

 arrived at tbe port of New York for the week end 

 ing Sept 22d, was %JB6B, making a total since the 

 commencement of the year, of 00,166. Toe arrivals- 

 for a corresponding period in 18ST, numbered 139,- 



Rbnunuiation.— Advices from Camp Scott state 

 that several Mormon trains bound for the Atlantic 

 States, bad passed there. About 300 Mormons 

 composed the party, who have renounced Mor- 

 monism, and fled Ita haunts. They were wretched- 

 ly poor, but happy to escape under any circnm- 



Elu gctrs Coudcttsrr. 



lid that 3M Mormon women 1 



— It i 



Senator Benjamin, of Lonlsiant, declines t! 



— The number of horses entered for the Borim* 

 field show were 3GL ««optrag. 

 . r~. A °«nnon. captured at Canton, Is in Paris, re- 

 joicing the Parisians, 



— Thereare fourteen persons in prison at Bostos 

 charged with murder. 



— Large quantities of coal have been dlacovered 

 nesr bionx city, Iowa. 



— Counterfeit $l bills < 

 treal are In circulation. 



- The banquet to Prof. Morse at Pari, in 



«f an ncnlenili.1 an.,, *• ** 



ken of as a sp'lendid affair. 



— The Democrats have a majority of TO on joint 

 ballot In the Missouri Legislature. 



— There is a rumor that Fernando Wood is to 

 tie appointed Governor of Nebraska. 



— Only nine of the 230 towoB in Vermont gave 

 Democratic majorities for Governor. 



— There are 103 letters In the London, C. W 

 Poitoffice addressed to C. Smith, Esq. 



rslist, Hum- 



11 be i 



Bath, N. H., Nov. 3d, to the highest bidder. 



— Mr. Charles Smith of New I^ondoo, Conn., on 

 Friday, caught a bass weighing 40 pounds. 



— The AfricBn squadron is the healthiest of all 

 our fleets, with the exception of tbe BrazIL 



— The locomotive "Buffalo," on the Central 

 Railroad recently ran 11 miles In 10 minutes. 



— There are 4ti persona in England who have in- 

 comes of £150,000 a year, equal to $2,660,000. 



Contracts have already been made In Cuba for 



to be the originators of the Atlantic 



— Chubb A, Co., for many years a prominent 

 Banking House in Washington, have suspended. 



— It Is said the Administration have engaged 



from St. Paul, Mil 



out of emplovment in the iron districts of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



— The highest flag-ataff in tho United States la 

 said to be the one at Worcester, Mass. It is 102 

 feet high. 



— William Cullen Bryant, of the New York 

 Evening Post has arrived home from his Euro- 



— in the city of Mitwankee, Wla , tho people are 

 taxed at the rate of $2,37 for every man, woman 



a field of erinutm cotton. It Is not a disease, but a 

 new variety. 



— There were 618 deaths in New York city last 

 week; 185 in Brooklyn, three ot which were of 

 yellow fever. 



— Com. Vanderbllt has a span of mntcbed horses 

 which cost him $7,000, and for which he has been 

 offered £0,000. 



— A new translation of the Bible by the Rev. L. 

 A. Sawyer, is about to be published by J. P. Jewett 

 <fc Co., Boston. 



— It is said that more than 3,000 first class 

 houses are now being erected in tbe upper part of 

 New York olty. 



— The mansion of Robt. Morris, In Philadelphia, 

 is a lager bier house, and Wm. Perm's house is oc- 

 cupied by shops. 



— MIbb AnDa Law, of Tennessee, has accepted a 

 Professorship in the Masonic Female College, at 

 Lumpkin, Georgia. 



— Twenty-five houses in St. Jobno, N. F, were 

 destroyed by Are on Friday week. One man per- 

 ished in the flames. 



— Chloroform Is proposed by Dr. Nolsey, of 

 Edinburgh, as exceedingly serviceable la cases of 



— Mrs. Randall, wife of Gov. R, of Wisconsin, 

 died on tbe 15th. She had been a protracted suf- 

 ferer from consumption. 



The San Francisco papers are jnbllsnto 



— The rendezvous of the Paraguay expedition 

 will be at Buenos AyreB. a short distance from the 

 month of the Parana river. 



— Tho citizens of Savannah, Go., have resolved 

 to discard politics altogether in the election of 

 their Mayor and Aldermen. 



— The Beminary at Earlville, Til., wa* blown up, 

 on the 5th ult, but some miscreant. No ono was 

 in the building, fortunately. 



_ It fa said the sum of £400,000 Is to be taken 

 op In the D. B. towards a Joint stock plan to for- 

 ward tbe Suez canal project 



— Hiram M. Moore, at Waverly. N. Y, one day 

 last week, threw his shoulder out of Joint by sneez- 

 ing. Rather a painful anewe. 



— The " 12th of Sept," the anniversary of the 

 defence of Baltimore from the BritiBh, was appro- 

 priately celebrated in that city. 



— Accounts from tbe city of Mexico, the 6th 

 ult state that the whole country continues to re- 



I Monday week. The bay lynx i 



the potato disease Is making unprecedented 



ravages In that portion of the country. 



— The yellow fever has broken out at Mobile.— 

 At New Orleans its march appears to be still on- 

 ward. Savannah is reported free from It 



— In a large city the clock never strikes twice 

 in the hearing of the same population for within the 

 hour a child la born and some soul taken. 



— The Montreal Herald says that the Canadian 

 flour and wheat which reaches England la in a 

 miserable condition and bears a low price. 



— Tbe receipts of tbe St Louis Olb 



000. Tbe daily receipts at the gate «' • * J ' ,w ana 

 the proceeds exceed the expenses *i<-,wuu. 



Th« Paris Academv of Science baa again ad- 



The Nlagart *ill !u>'« «" • «» to cutj «»»,. 



