MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AM AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 



OCT. 16. 



BOCHESTER, N. Y„ OCTOBER 16, 1868. 



Heview of the Week. 



A niw era In mail transportation to and from 

 California has dawned. The Overland Mail exper- 

 iment promises perfect ancceaa. On the night of the 

 9th inst the mall arrived at St. Louis, being twenty- 

 three daya on the route. A public demonstration 

 greeted the arrival, long processions, music, .tc, 

 hailing the procedure aa a happy omen. The fol- 

 lowing eynopsiB of news is tattoo from the Califor- 

 nia papers: 



A line of telegraph from Piaccrville to Salt Lake 

 City had been commenced. The news from Fraser 

 river is unimportant, and water was still too hjgb 

 for mining pnrposes. Affairs at Victoria were 

 mucb depressed. 



Dates from Oregon are to Sept 8th. Maj. Gar- 

 nett bad a skirmish with the Okanagans, la which 

 Lieut. Allen and six Indians were killed. A party 

 of miners under Major Robinson, had been attack- 

 ed by the Indians on the Wenatshe, in which one 

 white was killed. A rumor had obtained credit at 

 Fort Dallas that a party had been massacred near 

 Okaoagao. Good gold diggings had been fonnd 



The condition of affairs at Washington will be 

 found in another column, bat the telegraph puts 

 na in possession of rather an important item this 

 A. M., (18th inst.,) as follows:— A grave difficulty 

 on the Nicaragua question supervenes. Jerez now 

 denies having made any stipulations as conditions 

 to his reception by our Government, and refuses to 

 perform any protended stipulayons. He will prob- 

 ably be dismissed by Gen. Cass, and orders will be 

 very likely given to take possession of the Transit 

 Route by a naval force, nntil the demands of this 

 Government shall bo conceded by Nicaragua, 



Tub Atlantic Telegraph don't telegraph now-a- 

 days, and we are again compelled to await the 

 arrival of such "slow going coaches" as the 

 steamers. It Is really too bad that we can hear 

 from the " Old Country" only two or three times a 

 week, wptcUlly as we expected to be talking with 

 Brother John just when we felt inclined. How- 

 ever, we must submit; mistake* will happen. 



A raoJlCT U on foot iu New York to establish a 

 bank, which, like the celebrated Bank of Amster- 

 dam, shell keep all deposits in its vaults in gold 

 oolo, and charge depositors a per centago for keep- 

 ing It. The advantage of such a bank would be, 

 not so much that it would make money, or that Its 

 credit would be totter than that of others in ordi- 

 nary times, hot that onoo in twenty years, when a 

 financial crisis snd bank suspension occurred, it 

 would bo able to keep on making specie payments. 



i U.KSB Victory at Toronto.— A great yaoht 

 race came off at Toronto on Friday of last week, 

 at the Provincial Fair, for a prize of S240, in which 

 vessels from all parts of Canada and from the 

 American shore of Lake Ontario participated. 

 The prise was won by the Yankee sloop Coral, 

 owned .by Mr. Oudes, of French Creek. 



? W V!t** on Ll " Ontario.— During the heavy 

 g*!e wh.eh sprang np on the Tth inst, the schooner 

 Ospr.r, * Buffalo, with a cargo of wheat from 

 Racine, ««,«, Qri?on against the east pier at 

 Oswego, carrying .„, h „ ^ ^ 



ditlely. The captain-, „,„ „ j calId &nd the mate 

 were wished overboard and drowned. 



Domn^mril .«•*« communications, 

 ard a number of editorial articles and items, are 



We win g i, e ft, Uyoia of 



our friends as early and fast as possible, hut the 

 Rural will < tiCa ' we ek— 



nntil enlarged. 



Ox the afternoon of the 6th inst, the Ni 

 Crjstal Palace, with nearly the entire contents, was 

 destroyed by fire. The American Inslltuie was 

 holding its Annns) Fair in the building at the 

 time, and a large amount of property was destroy- 

 ed, consisting of mechanical and agricultural im- 

 plements, pianos, melodeons, steam engines, &c, 

 which were on exhibition. The fire broke out in 

 a lumber-room, which was filled with empty boxes 

 and a large quantity of lumber, and is supposed to 

 bare been the work of an incendiary. When first 

 discovered, the Palace engine was brocght out, but 

 the hose was so full of holes as to be useless. The 

 flames spread with astonishing rapidity, creating 

 intense excitement among the visitors, (estimated 

 at upwards of 2,000,) present One of the exhibi- 

 tors, Mr. L. D. Towlby, gives the following state- 

 ment, from which oar readers can gain an idea of 

 the fearful progress of the destroying element: — 

 " About o o'clock the alarm was giveD, and my lit- 

 tle boy being with me I took him to the door, and 

 returned for my cases, one of which I succeeded 

 in obtaining. I again attempted to return to my 

 property bat could not on account of the dense 

 smoke. At sixteen minutes past five the dome fell 

 When I first saw the fire It was about the size of a 

 man's hand, but in a moment immense volumes of 

 smoke poured into the building." 



It is thought that turpentine was used by the in- 

 cendiaries, as a strong smell indicating its presence 

 was detected when the fire broke out Previous 

 to the fire, a boy was seen dodging about between 

 the palace door in 42d street and a liquor shop op- 

 posite; and just before the alarm three boys were 

 eeen harrying away from 42d street entrance, and 

 running at rapid epeed down the street Nothing 

 was left standing but the iron towers at the angles 

 and a small portion of the iron sides. Everything 

 combustible was reduced to ashes. The iron parts 

 of machinery and other articles, together with the 

 frame work of the building, form one undistin- 

 gnlBbable mass. The glass fused into large masses. 



We cannot individualize the losses sustained, 

 though many exhibitors, of whom there were 4,000, 

 Buffer greatly. The Palace originally cost $000,000. 

 The loss of the American Institute amounts to 

 $15,000, chiefly In motive power and machinery. — 

 The articles on exhibition were valued from $500,- 

 000 to $700,000. There was an insurance on the 

 Palace — effected to protect foreign exhibitors— 

 for £50,000. 



It is five years since this magnificent edifice was 

 inaugurated with air the splendor and pomp that 

 cosmopolitan importance could devise. In its 

 architectural features it was the pride of all Ameri- 

 i, for we speak but the general Bentiment, when 

 lay that, in thfs respect, it eclipsed all similar 

 buildings erected in either the Old or New World. 

 The N. Y. Tribune speaks of it as being as " beau- 

 ifairydream; as light as fancy could make 

 Iglnal as the age of iron could devise; as 

 perishable, atas! as the grass of the prai: 



The loss is mBnifoId, general, national, 

 irreparable. We shall never have another Crystal 

 Palace. Its glorious dome, seeming as though 

 poising itself for a flight to the Empy: 

 more; its galleriex, iu treasures, its magnificent 

 expanses Indispensable to the mass-gatherings of 

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 Wis inspired in my boyhood d»ys, (though th"«j 

 »ly puisd.) motivti and principles which 



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Stbau on the Canals,— Judgiog from the para- 

 graphs in the press at the present time, the invent- 

 ors are fnlly determined to dissipate all the diffi- 

 culties heretofore attendaat upon the U60 of this 

 motor In Canal navigation. The N. Y. Tribune 

 learns that the Cathcart propeller, which has been 



ing to great advantage for a year, o: 



Cheaapeake and Ohio Canal, and is there regarded 



:omplete success, will bo tried on the Erie 



Canal in the course of the present week. Two 



boats, equipped with this propeller, will be started 



make n trip from New York to Buffalo, when all 



10 are interested will have an opportunity to 



2 for themselves what progress has been made to 



eet this acknowledged want of the Slate. Mr. 



Abner Burbank, a resident of Buffalo, has invented 



nt into operation, a new plan for propelling 



Canal and other steamers, by which the loss 



power caused by placing the paddleB close to the 



I, where they have to work in a sort of v 

 and partial vacuum created by the passage of the 

 boat through the water, is overcome. The almpli 

 idea of putting the propeller on the end of a shaft 

 whioh could be shoved out so a3 to work some 

 feet from the stern of the boat when In open water, 

 and drawn In when entering a lock or other cir- 

 ^ribed place, occurred to him, and he has pnt 

 i practice successfully. 



Balloon Race. — Considerable newspaper con- 

 troversy has been had in reference to the relative 

 of Prof. Steiksb, the celebrated American 

 it.aud Mens. Guddakii, a Frai 

 and a trial of skill Is to take place in Cincinnati, 

 lSth Inst. The Cincinnati Gaxettt 

 sayo that the inflation of the balloons, each con- 

 taining 38,000 cubic feet of gas, will commence at 

 'clock in the morning, aud ihe ascension (vljl 

 take place at 4 o'clock precisely. A committee of 

 five well known citizens have been chosen, who 

 judges, etc. They will decide whether 

 the weather in the morning Ehall justify the infla- 

 tion of the baUoona. When the inflation has corn- 

 Each may take 

 up a passenger, at his own discretion. The suc- 

 ofeitherwillbe in relation to distance, not 

 height. Arrangements will be made for each 

 ronaut to send down, at every town passed in 

 parachute, a <■ log," or notCi con , a i nirj g ^ nftmc 

 of the balloon which passes, and any incident oc- 

 -.rrlng on tho trip, which will be sent by telegraph 

 that the citizens here and elsewhere may be 

 nt tonally posted of the whereabouts of the a ro- 

 uts, and the success attending their 



Debts fob Liqcok not Collectable. — Michael 

 Bcanlan sued Michael Markha n at Boston, to re- 

 cover $75 for liquor, and the Supreme Court has 

 given a verdict to the defendant, because the liquor 

 was not Bold In the original packages, and the sale 

 was not legal. Seantan therefore kscs the liqnor 

 and the coaU of prosecution. 



Washington Matters. 



Ma. Rbsd, the Minister to China, 

 official dispatches, that after he signed the treaty 

 he made a provisional arrangement with the Com- 

 missioner for adjusting claims of American citi- 

 zens. He intended to visit in the summer such 

 ports of Japan an might be accessible, imd 

 in November. 



Commodore Tatnall, in his official dbpatches, 

 dated July 5th, after saying that the entire East 

 India Squadron will soon be Ehonrn to the Japa- 

 nese, remarks that no better opportunity could 

 selected for the temporary absence from tho ooaat 

 of China, as the recent tieaiiea and termination 

 of hostilities, together with the swarms of English 

 and French ships-of-war iu thi 

 all tho foreign interests of a lawful kind In perfect 

 safety for the present. He Bhould return with t 

 squadron to tho coast of China about the last 

 October. 



The correspondent of the N. Y. Courier and I 

 quirer tnyB Ceo. Jerez has been received as Envoy 

 Estraordin&ry from Nicaragua, having previously 

 engaged to exchange lntidcations of tho treaty of 

 1857, unconditionally, and to pay an indemnity 

 the lives and property destroyed by the alliedarmy 

 during the fillibuBter war. He also rep 

 Belly contract. 



The Secretary of the Treasury has. 

 decided that shaved shingles being mi 

 by any other processes than hewing or 

 not embraced in timber and lumber, ad 

 under tho reciprocity treaty with Grt 

 subject to a duty of twenty-four per 

 also decided that walnuts and lim 

 water are each chargable fifteen per 



It is not true, as has been stated, tl 

 Admiral U recognized by the Navy Department, 

 but by the regulations fijg officera who have been 

 in commission twenty years and over are author- 

 ized to hoist their flag at the fore, instead of the 

 mizzen mast, and those nnder that period, at the 

 miEzen as usuaL 



n Army Board is to assemble at the Washing- 

 Arsenal, for the purpose of examining the re 

 I improvements in small arms. 



jmit.Unl free 



t Britain, bat 



i in salt and 

 t tho rank of 



NDLAM3 RoBButu tub MiiLS, — The Indian Bureau 

 Washington, received a letter from Dr. Forney 

 the -lib. inst, confirmatory of the report of the 

 Jians robbing the mail 350 miles from Salt Lake 

 city. He saya that no attempt was made to kill 

 ■nductor, drivers, or gnards; that the Indians 

 s Humboldt have been committing depreda- 

 tions for ten years past; and that this was the first 

 outbreak of the present season. Gen. Johnston, at 

 request of Gov. Camming, had sent a military 

 force of ISO men for the protection of tho mails 

 and travelers. 



Vessel ix Distebss.— New Orleans papers of 

 ith inst, state that the steamer Oriaaba, from 

 Key West, fonnd the British brig Esperanzs drift- 

 tog about in the Gulf, the caplain dead and all the 

 crew sick with fever, and towed her into Apala- 

 ebioola. 



Tns New Bedford Mercury understands that the 

 has destroyed the greater portion < 

 cranberry crop on Nantucket. The yield i 

 have been unusually large, as the people have 

 turned their attention to the business considerably 

 of late. 



Tut Assay Office Is at present doing considera- 

 ble In the way of receipts of silver for recoinlng, 

 Four hundred thousand Mexican dollars are now 

 waiting to be turned Into American money, and 



Tns Methodist Advocate regrets to have 

 in answer to many anxious inquiries, that Bishop 

 Simpson's health has not improved, and that pre- 

 sent indications do not promise an early recovery. 

 He is greatly reduced in flesh and strength during 

 the past month. 



Tue Harrison (Mo.) Democrat states that a Mr. 

 Johnson, of that place, a reliable young man, who 

 hud just returned from Pike's Peak, prononncei 

 the stories about extensive gold deposits in that 

 region, wilful fabrloationa. The most industrious, 

 well provided with tools, do not average oi 

 per day. 



Toe Milwaukee Sentinel of the 23th ulL, says 

 the freight train ou the Milwaukee and Mississippi 

 Railroad on Wednesday morning consisted of 101 

 oars, all loaded to their utmost capacity, and c 

 of them carrying wheat. 



The oldest and at the same time the smallest 

 in New England, la that of Yergeones, Vt, which 

 was incorporated in 1783. It ia the only city in 

 Vermont, and in 1850 contained 1,37b inhabitants. 



Toerb is a strong Bentiment among the people 

 of the Society Islands In favor of annexing tbos 

 islands to the United Stales. At a council of Pr( 

 vincial Governors it was resolved to ask this Goi 

 effec 



nerican Minis- 

 o Wasbtogtoa 



, however, are 



was drawn np and banded to the J 

 ter, who forwarded the document 

 The French and English resident 

 oppoeed to this move 

 red up an inaurrectio: 



T&b Wool Grower estimates an increase in round 

 numbers of 600,000 lbs. in the wool crop of Ohio, 

 over last year— only one county, Knox, showing 

 any considerable decrease. 



Forty-nine of tho camela belonging to the Uni- 

 ted States are now at Campe Verde, Blxty miles 

 from San Antonio. Only one of thoBe imported 

 has died, while ten have been added by birtb,- 

 These young American born camela thrive well, 

 and promise to grow up equal in all respecte 

 thoBe imported. 



London astronomers do not regard the present 

 brilliant comet aa identical with that of IA66, 

 which is now expected. The present visitor will 

 not re-appear for two or three hundred years. 



Tue new Custom House ot Fensacole, Floiida,hae 

 just been finished. The cost was $60,000. The 

 amoout of revenue collected at that port for the 

 year ending June 30, 1857, was in round nun 

 SJ78. To collect this sum it cost tho govern 



oln:i 



) he i. 



in the United State?, are now In process of 

 stmotion at Cincinnati. They are each fifty feet 

 in height, four feet two inches in diameter, weigh 

 between 200 and 300 tuna, and will cost about 

 $30,000. They are designed for the State House, 

 Madlaon, Wit. 



In the town of Zahlagon, Wurtembnrg, there has 

 been lately opened a new printing establishment, 

 by M. Theodore Helgerad. All the compositors 

 aud pressmen are deaf and dumb, to the number 

 of 1L0; eleven of the former 



Tub State of Ohio has recently lost a valuable 

 set of documents, — a complete seriea of Legisla- 

 tive papers,from the organizatlonof the-Territory 

 to the present time — the only one ex 

 documents were mined by Are, wbk 

 the contents of n Btore-room in the 8t 

 Columbus, a few doya since. 



Tub gold mines of Gulna, South . 

 lieved to be the veritable El Dorado t 

 sought for by Sir Walter Raleigh, hi 



mtly visited by a correspondent of tb 



Tribune, who says that companies well organized, 



ith the requisite machinery to work the gold 



quartz, and drain the pools at the various cascades 



undoubtedly, realize vast fortunes. 



ib catalogue of books: published by the Amor- 



Stindoy School Union numbers over 1,000, the 



largest list by far in the country, if not in the 



world. Although most of these volumes are small, 



yet many of them sell largely, and the aggregate 



of the entiro sales is large, not much less the 



present year, it Is said, that a quarter of a million 



of dollars. 



i destroyed 



o fruitlessly 

 b New York 



Thb State Sunday School Tkachbes' Cox- 

 jntion. — The annual meeting of Sunday School 

 Teachers, at Brooklyn, which opened on Tuesday 

 week, was very largely attended from all parts of 

 Ate. Hon. E. A. Lambert waa chosen Presi- 

 dent. The Secretaries of the County Associations 

 made their reports, of which the following is a 

 partial summary: — New York county contains 300 

 schools, 7,000 teachers, and 72,000 scholars; Alle- 

 gany county 89 schools. 303 teachers, and 1.122 

 scholars; Erie county 110 schools, 1,584 teacher?, 

 ,360 scholars; Monroe county 1S9 schools, 

 1,63] teacheVp, and IV'-- scholars; Ontario conn 

 ty 26 schools, -101 teachers, aad 2,S'j8 scholars 

 Richmond county 35 schools, 217 teachers, and 

 191 scholars; Schenectady county, 30 schools and 

 000 scholars. No statement was received from 

 ilher Yates, Washington, Chenango, and Othai 

 counties, bnt the delegates gave some very inter 

 eating accounts of the progress of the school iu 

 in their different towns. 



P .7o™l' Vnk sM d °" '" - 14 w *• -i* wi 



— Railroad fares are on again on i>.. 

 nidi in Iht. SUM. P g ™ col »P«i°S 



— The lumocraucmiid D.Uwtre oa To M d„ 

 week by a majority of 750. *.woay 



OT™ "of 'hitd «« S„el" °° UK " * b "*' M '' 



u>r^a»;e°cu",»,te ,n,p,0,s :so «" 1 * to 



— More than one hundred miles of railroad wlU 

 be compleud in Texas in 1858. 



iiitM T ^ e l!* t i 8b, J Couri " "-" Kew 0r,eaDB 's the 

 nitnieal city in the United Slates. 



, n 7;r»n, 8 n b ^J v. ,lDB u Uwor ' n *3.<t0O,O0O, besides 

 controlling the church property. 



i„ Tlt^fT' * man ^ Uwen tl "" t'mes drunk- 

 Is deprived of a vote at elections, 



— A Tennsjlvania dentist advertises that h- -'" 

 poll out teeth for »— ' 



— There are 2< 

 who pay a tax of $5,000 and ujwardi 



— Gen. MonagSB, ex-Prcrident of Yecernels, has 

 died of ill-treatment received in prison 



The Howard Associetlonof New Orleans warn 



iW d 



i.iimnt. ,1 iciiiutt ^iiim; to that ci:\\ 

 i Utah army trail- 1 q 



' Indian army a 



tractors will clear half n 



— The men and offict 



doing a briek buMtiess in bnjing up squawa. 



Hon. W. a Preston, of Louisville, Ky., bii 



pilgrimage to Jerusalem, bus been contradicted. 



— The Boston Board of Aldermen have voted 

 eight to four that the pollcu shall wear uniforma. 



— G. P. It James has sailed for Venice, where 

 he is to hold the position of British Ambassador. 



— A new company has been formed Tor purchas- 

 ing thb Great Eastern, and running her to Amork'O. 



— The President has appointed Dr. Jamea Mc- 

 Dowell, of MiBBonri. Consul General to Constant!- 



— The jail at Froehold. N, J., waa forced on the 

 night of the 0th (net,, by the prisoners, oil of whom 



—The expenses of the British Patent Office for 

 this year have been (138,090 over and above its 



— Carl Mozart, a son of the great composer, and 

 a of considerable ability, ia living In poverty, 



the i 

 $1,128,000. 



— Gen. Scott has returned to New York, i 

 recovered from the eflects of his recent I 

 West Point. 



— In Mexico, everybody Ib supposed to 

 ex-President who weaia a clean shirt and keeps his 

 hands washed. 



— Twenty-Qve of tho Maine editors have started 

 on a tour to the Aroostook country, to examine 

 Its capabilities. 



— James Thoi 

 N. J„ h 



» be qnlet. There had been heavy enow storm 

 n the plains. 



in California yields from 



800 to 1,050 gallons of 

 only about -too. 



The bursting of a 



In Ohio and Eorop 



tb .j 



destruction of $10,000 worth of properly a 

 wankec, last week. 



— An official report shows that the Federal 

 Government owns WB acres within the limits of 

 Washington City. 



— The steamer Cleveland, about whose safety eo 

 much anxiety waa felt at Milwaukee, has arrived 

 at port all right. 



— The Cincinnati Gazette learns tl' 



yellow fever hare occurred at Louisville within 

 the last few days. 



— Charles Sumner was at Alx la fhnpelle, 

 France, when last heard from, Jnd very much im- 

 proved iu health. 



The typhoid fever, which hod t 



epidemic ion 



mtlary, at Colu; 



£9bb Valley R*ilho*o Extension. — A 

 correspondent of the Reche3ter DimoertU, writing 

 from Mt Morris, nnder date of the the 6th inst., 

 tat the iron for tho road Las been purchased, 

 i on it way to its place of destination. A 

 portion has been received, and the work of laying 

 .mmence at Avon en the 10th. The Direc- 

 o determined t# have the road completed 

 by the 1st of December, or as soon thereafter as 

 possible. 



Ohio, I 



— Gov. Cu taming retains the confidence of tho 

 Mormon community, ond his acts and policy gtvo 

 general satisfaction. 



— The total mortality in New Orleans by yellow 

 fever, up to September 24th, was two thousand four 

 hundred and twenty. 



Mrs. Cunningham, now sojourning in Uptbia 

 Co., Vs., is 100 years old. She baa 'i'.> ■ 

 " "ie fourth generation. 



Lord Elgin has gone on n mission to Japan, 

 duce tho Japanese to enter into a treaty of 

 Commerce with England, 



— The Postmaster-General, notwithstanding the 



is not yet delected u Bite 

 for the New York Pout-Office. 



— The French have successfully tried the ex- 

 periment of slicing and drying potatoes for future 



" is done by machinery. 

 Keene Richard?, of Georgetown, Ky., la 

 about to purchase the celebrated English race 

 horse "Fisherman," for $30,000. 



— Dermott Dempeey, of Macon. G*,, who died 

 Sunday week, wiUfl $6,000 to his relatives ond 



■..,■, 



— President Benson writes from Liberia that the 

 prospects of that colony, as a cotton producing 



- ">n, are improving rapidly. 



From the returns of tho census of Texas, now 

 nearly completed, It Is ascertained that its popola. 

 "1 not fall short of 460,000. 

 ! Paraguay Expedition will be composed 

 ssels, carrying 205 guns, and a land and 

 naval force of 2,800 men and officers. 



— A man killed the favorite cat of a neighbor, 



ket I 



the latter point having proved a faile; 



— Two Chicago ladles went to a ball the older 

 evening, in a furniture wagon— no ordinary car- 

 riage could contain the dresses they wore. 



— The wife of Bute Prison Inspector, Rhodes, 

 while out hunting, one day last week. In Clinton 

 Co., had the good Juek to shool three deer. 



— A son of A. G. Talbot, M. C, from Kentucky, 

 has made his dr'mt In the ring m " clown. His 

 family is one of the wealthiest to Kentucky. 



— All Switzerland is In a state of Insurrection 

 against the railroad lords, woose political power 



15th Aug. Tbe commercial part of t 

 nine. Low, a million and a ijuartcr. 



