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MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AS AGRICULTURAL AM) PAMLLI NEWSPAPER. 



OCT. 23. 



Contents of lie Bural for October S3, 1*58. 



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Lilt of New Advertisements this Week. 





BOCHESTER, N. T., OCTOIiCi; . 



FALL I.UIPAIGN qrARTER I 



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



f^~ At the suggestion of many of its friends 

 and In order to Introduce the paper more generally 

 preparatory to the new volume, we have concluded 

 to offer the Bcblai. for the present quarter — Octo- 

 ber to January, 13 nomfcew— at only HalfPkicb, 

 (Jj cts.)thns placing itwitbin the means and reach 

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

 lend 4 copies for SI : 8 for $2; 12 for S3; 20 for 

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

 pOBt-officeB as desired. Of course, we shall not 

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

 least Fife Thousand trial copies of this quarter. 



— In response to the above offer, we have 

 already received over Tlirtt Thousand Trial Sub- 

 scribers, and they still come at the rate of 200 to 

 300 a day— thanks to the Men, Women and Young 

 People who have entered the arena in behalf of 

 the Fall Campaign Quarter ot tbell favorite BoBAL 

 Weiklt. We can still furnish two or time thous- 

 and more "trials'' from Oct 2 — having prepared 

 for a brisk campaign— and trn^t our friends will 

 continue their calls as loop as we can supply the 

 - We this week add largely to former 

 edition?, so that, in case of emergency, we can 

 ■apply the Its! ten cambers of this quarter, and 

 three of some previous one. in order to complete 

 the Baker's Dozer. *end on the Trials ! 



Weather 1 



■ the First Half of October. 



Tarsi i" but little of weather to call for remarks 

 fjr taiihiU' month. The nee weather hit been 

 often the subject of remark, aa it sbonld be for 

 gratitude. The heat has been about the average, 

 and the rain has fallen in sufficient quantity. The 

 latter harvest has been in good part gathered, and 

 the people have rejoiced. Only light frosts have 

 fallen, and not often, and have don? do damage. 

 The trees, however, have changed in the color of 

 their foliage from green to yellow, brown to red, 

 and the variety of autumnal foliage Is all about a?. 

 The leave* are falling on every side, emblem of 

 the eno of life, and the warning to be active and 

 ready for its close. 



The Comet has been the great attraction; and 

 well It might be, for it has been a splendid object. 

 I think It has had no equal in this century, for 

 B tails of some have been longer, but 

 none so bright. This train, too, has ben long and 

 bushy, and enveloping the head. The Comet was 

 nearest the earth on tbe Dtb, only 52,000,000 of 

 miles distant; its velocity greatly increased, and 

 its train had turned upwards much more than be- 

 fore; on the 10th the tail was nearly perpendicu- 

 lar, the stars shone brightly through It, and it was 

 near the perihelion, and, indeed, it passed this, point 

 on the 10th. When next seen, its train was turned 

 towards the east, and its direction from the sup, 

 as it had been refore the perihelion. When we 

 shall see tbe like again cannot be told, Another 

 Comet appears in tbe constellation Pegasus, bat 

 no one can tell its pointness or its splendor. 



Fairbanks' Scales, — Advertising. 



Tna publication of the Illustrated Advertisement 

 of Fairbanks & Co., on the preceding page, is a 

 departure from our usual rule, and may perhaps 

 render a word of explanation necessary, though 

 we presame few if any Roan, readers will serious- 

 ly object to the arrangement. The length of the 

 advertisement necessarily precluded it from the 

 appropriate department; and hence, thinking an 

 illustration and description of so useful an " insti- 

 tution " as Fairbanks' Scales would prove inter- 

 esting to most of our readers — and therefore not 

 be regarded as an infringement, even if given thus 

 prominently — we concluded to comply with the 

 request of the enterprising manufacturers by pub- 

 lishing in the place and style desired. The repu- 

 tation and wide popularity of the wares of Messrs, 

 Fairbanks & Co., long since placed them in the 

 front rank as manufacturers, and rendered their 

 establishment, with its branches and agencies, tbe 

 most extensive of its class in the Union — while the 

 continued enterprise Bnd new improvements of the 

 firm, as indicated in the present announcement, 

 demonstrate the possession of sufficient determi- 

 nation, energy and capital to maintain the enviable 

 position already attained. Regarding these Scales 

 as superior, we commend them to the public, and 

 trust that thousands of our readers will not only 

 be interested but benefited by the information im- 

 parted in the illustrated and descriptive advertise- 

 ment of the manufacturers. 



— In this connection it may not be improper to 

 remark that the Ri-ral New -Yorker is becoming 





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Washington Matters. 



A dispatch to the New York 7 



M that Oca. Jerez had a long inter- 



«l c*&£. Notwltiutani : 



previously asserted that he had full power to ratify 

 tho CasB-Yrimrrl treaty, and to finally arrange all 

 waiters, perteiuiug thereto, irlthont the necessity 

 of referring Itbaokto: ,. u , .a, It appeare from 

 the official document jnst submitted by him to tbe 

 State Department, and of which n translation was 

 Immediately made, that he Is empowered only to 

 a-', "in order that the amendments made by the 

 Assembly of Nicaragua to the treaty, may be sub- 

 stantially carried into effect." Tble is the language 

 employed, but it is not considered sufficient to 

 meet tie demands of our Government. The Sec 

 retary of State will have a consultation with the 

 President on the subject tomorrow, and General 

 Jinxx will soon thereafter be informed of the- re- 

 suit. Bis minion la generally considered at an 

 end, and unless he has documents of a more satis- 

 factory character to present, he will very shortly 



he dismissed. Liter intelligence state that Jbriz, 



fearing his dlimlfsa), has asked indulgence till he 



can oommnnlcate with Nicaragua respecting the 



pending treaty, but Gen. CASH wrote him a letter 



declaring his mission closed. 



Tub Administration haa received an official 



document from those in power In tlie Society 



Islandf. proposing to surrender them 



State*. It is „id in ,..., 



proposition u transmute to onr Government thro' 



Count Saitiois, the r teacb MlnWeft TbcBalje , t 



will receive duo oonsldenUM, eq i 



geographical aspect. 

 Tot balance in tbe Tr«.« n ry. on ^ 1S(b lngL 

 ■ 26. The receipt! for the weekamouni 

 ,000. being $20G,0C0 muie than foi 



the preceding week. The amount of drift* psid 

 1% and the amount of draft, issued 



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others who wish to introduce their wares and bust- 

 ness, at once, to a Urge portion of the most wealthy, 

 enterprising and progressive Farmer?, Horticul- 

 turists, Ac, ft3 well as to thousands of Business and 

 Professional Men.'tbronghout tbe conutry. This 

 is not strange, as its immense and rapidly increas- 

 ing circulation, especially among tho best portions 

 of the Rural Population, renders the New-Yorker 

 incomparably the best medium for many adver- 

 , And hence it is that our advertising de- 

 partment has been bo crowded of late, often con- 

 ining us to decline or defer the favors of ad- 

 iser?, rather than infringe upon reading pages. 



Mexican AiTAnts.— Details of Mexican new3 

 have been received. Tbe statement of the defeat at 

 San Luis Potoai of Yidaurri, by Minromon, is con- 

 firmed. Other battles on a smaller scale had taken 

 place, bat the result is doubtful. It would seem, 

 bowever, that the fortunes of the Constitutionalists 

 wane. The report that Garza bad imposed a forced 

 loan at Tampioo, is also fully confirmed. The 

 French Consul at that port had applied for some 

 national vessels to protect the French merchants ot 

 that port. Licot. Jones, or the Navy, has arrived 

 at Washington, bringing dispatches from Minister 

 D will leave Vera Cruz on the 18th 

 Inst., for the U. S., in the sloop of war Ply moth. 

 The levying of contributions at Tamplco by Gov. 

 Gaiza on foreigners, is condemned by the leaders 

 of the Liberal paity. Gen. Kobles, Mexican Minis- 

 ter to Washington, was still on board a Spanish 

 vessel, the commander of which, it is said, was de- 

 tected io giving secret aid to the Church party.— 

 The arrival of the Spanish Beet ia daily expected. 



Message of tqe Governor of Nehbaska.— Tbe 

 Nebraska City News of Oct. 2, bangs the Message 

 of Gov. Bicbardson to the Legislative Assembly of 

 the Territory. He impresses upon the members 

 the necessity of promptly enacting the laws neces- 

 sary for the protection of persons and property, 

 and the rights of citizens generally, the justices of 

 lic Territory having refused to Inves- 

 tigate charges of crime until they are authorized 

 itute. He condemns the preeent 

 of the Territory, and has instructed 

 irneys to prosecute all banks that 

 edeem their noteB when presented, 

 with a view to the forfeiture of their charters.— 

 He speaks highly of the general prosperity of tbe 

 Territory, especially of its abundant supply of coal, 

 and recommends that Congress be memorialized 

 for an appropriation for a geological survey; and, 

 after allusion to some purely local matters, ex- 

 presses the hope that patriotism will rule over their 

 COUnB6tt 



booking lysjl 

 tbe district 



FftOn KANSAS.— Dispatches from St. Louis, 



State that the Central Committee of 

 Kansas has called a Free Soil Delegate Convention 

 to be held at Lawrence, November loth, for the 

 purpose of discussing various questions connected 

 with the various political organizations ii 

 Territory, of discussing the true polioy of the 

 party, and considering the question of speedy ad- 

 ■ tisag into the Union as a Free Sla'e 



pfcnnjj Notices. 



of UntliematicAl Stii-ncs discos. 

 reidy to awiid tL»t dfgree of 



i lbs Savior, id whom tbe subject ■< 



:epts alone applicable to thi 



Hurricane in Allegany Co., N. IT. 



Mb. Moore:— I send yon a description of a ter- 

 rible hurricane that visited thi9 part of the coun- 

 try on the 30th day of September last. At about 4 

 o'clock, In the afternoon, a very black cloud made 

 its appearance, a little to the north of west, and 

 spread very rapidly until the whole heavens were 

 overcast. In an instant, a terrible wind aroEe, 

 spreading desolation and destruction, sweeping 

 everything before it. The first of Ita ravages were 

 observable in the town of Caneadea, Allegany Co., 

 N. Y., sweeping down a large grove of pine and 

 oak timber, thence taking an easterly course.tcat- 

 tering fences, trees, Ac, until it passed into the 

 town of Allen. Coming in contract with a grain 

 barn of R. King it scattered the roof into a thou- 

 sand pieces for the distance of -0 rods. Passing 

 by his house it struck a tan Bhop and demolished 

 it. Thence passing or, a little south of east, it 

 swept every thing within its reach. It came in 

 contact with a barn of H. Crowel, rending the 

 roof, and passed on to a barn of G. L. Walker the 

 roof of which it lifted and carried it for many 

 rods. In its coarse it came so near the barn of T. 

 Bacon as to upset and demolish a wagon and rack 

 that Btood beside it. A couple of men were in the 

 barn at the time and thinking it would be demol- 

 ished started for the house, a distance of 20 rods. 

 They were lifted from the ground and borne for 

 aome distance, but happily escaped without much 

 injury. Another piece of woods it soon reached and 

 swept many acres down, thence unroofing and de- 

 molishing two barns for Wu. Wilson. What other 

 damage it has done I have not learned. The ave- 

 rage width of the current was 30 rode, in some 

 places more, in some less. It visited alike tho val- 

 leys and the hills, sweeping with a besom of de- 

 struction over the surface of the earth. The 

 cloud appeared like one great foaming caldron 

 howling and groaning in it wrath. 



riveo.— The British steam frigate Yalorous, Capt. 

 Oldham, arrived at New York on the 14th but, 

 from Fayal, bringing forty-two of the passengers 

 of the Bteamehip Austria, saved by the French 

 bark Maurice. The Valorous left England on the 

 lt;th of September, for New York, whither she was 

 bound to take Sir W. Gore OnaeIy,ineeial Uiniitei 

 to Greytown. But meeting with head winds, she 

 was obliged to put into Fayal on the 25th for coaL 

 The bark Maurice had already reached Fayal with 

 the rescued passengers of the Austria, and Mr. 

 Dart, the British Vice-consul, solicited a passage 

 for them on the Valorous to New York. Captain 

 Oldham cheerfully agreed to take them, and Mr, 

 Lane, the Hamburgh Consul, put on board fourteen 

 day's provisions for their maintenance. The Val- 

 orous Bailed again on the evening of the 28th, with 

 forty-two passengers; the officers of the steamer 

 and the sick remaining behind. After a stormy 

 passage, the Valorous arrived as before stated. 



Tqe Pckchasb or Mt. Vernon - .— We learn from 

 the October number of the Mount Vernon Record, 

 tbat the first instalment of $57,000, due January I, 

 1859, is now on hand and ready to be paid. Of this 

 amount, £33)000 Is so advantageously invested as 

 to earn from seven to eight and ten per cent, 

 making it injudicious to forestall the payment, as 

 the interest to be paid to Mr. Washington is but six 

 por cent From the present time to the "..'2d of 

 February, is nearly four months, and Its hoped to 

 raise the entire amount during this time, not only 

 that possession may be taken of the estate at on 

 early day, but also to save tbe interest, which is to 

 be remitted, according to tbe agreement, if the 

 amount is piid within the current year. 



ilcirss i'iWiuinipus. 



Jltf ileus GoHurusff. 



A case in the Biitiah Court of Chin 

 tng the title of aome Vermont heira to a isjge 

 English estate, haa been decided, after ten tears of 

 litigation, in favor of the Americans, who will 

 thus get some | ■_ 



TnEBBian lady living in Blooming Grove, Or- 

 ange Co., N. J„ by the name of Diana Brooks, who 

 is 114 years old, and yet is intelligent and active, 

 and walks hair a mile to church every Sabbath. — 

 She was 32 years old when the Declaration of In- 

 dependence was made. 



Capt. Pora's expedition for boring Artesian 

 wells on the great American desert haa packed up 

 and is coming home. It ia settled tbat the pro- 

 ject is impossible. 



Recent barometrical measurements show that 

 Smoker mountain and several other peaks in 

 North Carolina are higher than Mount Washington 

 in New Hampshire, hitherto supposed to be the 

 highest peak east of the Mississippi. 



Tqe New York Sun says that a few daya since 

 the Sheriff sold oat the effects of a merchant who 

 ha3 been ruined by the purchase of lottery tickets. 

 He bought for years, bat never gained a prize un- 

 til a few weeks ago, and the lottery men refused to 

 pay the only hit he made. 



Five hundred bushels of potatoes were sent from 

 Rocky Hill, Ct , to New York, one day last week.— 

 The crop was said to have been so plenty In East 

 Hartford as to sell for the low price of seventeen 

 cents a buBheL 



New Haven is in danger of being shorn of her 

 glory. The long rows of venerable trees, which 

 have given her the name of the "City of Elms,'' 

 are dying from the poisonous vapors that escape 

 from the leaky gas pipes. No less than twenty fine 

 trees, many of them a quarter of a century old, 

 have recently been killed from this cause on Woob- 

 ter Place alone. 



Gen. Paez has been recalled by the popular voice 

 to the control of affairs in Venzeuela, was banished 

 from that country eight years ago, since which 

 time be has been residing in New York city where 

 he has made many warm friends. 



A keiv and very dangerous counterfeit $20 bill, 

 purporting to be on the Bank of the State of New 

 York, has just been put in circulation. The vig- 

 nette represents an Indian girl seated, leaning her 

 arm on a rock and looking at rail care, steamboat, 

 and city in the distance. On the right end is an 

 oval picture of locomotive, and the figures 20. It 

 is unlike the genuine, which has two females for 

 vignette. 



A letter from Now Orleans Bays: — " If the fools 

 would only keep away, we who have battled 

 all summer, might begin to see daylight; but they 

 will not. The steamer Uncle brought down, a day 

 or two since, over 400 passengers, and nearly loi) 

 are now dead and many ill" 



The Bath (N. Y.) Advocate says:— "On Friday 

 morning last we beheld the first snow of tho 

 son, which covered the earth to the depth of about 

 one inch. Snow fell briskly also daring the c 

 Overcoats and mufflers were comfortable." 



Tbe Hon. William Jat, a well known and e 

 mable man, for many years First Jadge of Wi 

 Chester county, died on the 13th inet., in the Tilth 

 year of his age, at the " Old HomeBtead" In Bed- 

 ford, the former residence of his honored father, 

 Governor John Jay. Jadge Jay baa been an active 

 member of several of oar prominent institutions, 

 among which wn3 the American Bible Society, of 

 which he was the Vice-President. 



At Crocket, Texas, batter is ten cents n p 

 beef three cents, bacon twenty cents, floor si: 

 lars for one hundred pounds. Oats two dollars 

 per bushel. 



A statement just famished by the Secretary of 

 the Interior, in compliance with o resolution of 

 Congress, shows that about $20,000,000 have been 

 expended by the United States government in tbe 

 District of Columbia, Bince its formation, excla- 

 Bive of salaries of clerks of the Departments and 

 the appropriations for the Smithsonian Institute. 



Sous idea of the cost of the Utah expedition 

 may be gained from this fact. Corn at Fort Lara- 

 mie to feed the cavalry horeea cost.- 

 bushel 



Col. Kinney informs the San Antonio (Texas) 

 Herald that ho has concluded Lis negotiation with 

 the Mormone for the sale of hia interest in Central 

 America, and has received an earnest of £200,000 

 as a part of the purchase money, ne is to receive 

 S2.000.000. He was In San Antonio on the 20th 

 alt., on hia way to Austin. 



A Hanover paper tells the world that the "silly 

 prejudice against horse flesh" has altogether van- 

 ished in Denmark and Northern Germany, and that 

 in the city of Hanover alone, in the cour 

 Whit sun week, about 2,000 pounds of horse flesh 

 were consumed. The number of horses slaugh- 

 tered for eating in that city is between 200 and 

 300 a year. 



Obituary.— Scuttles Pttnam, aged 09 years, 

 grandson of Gen. Putnam, (Old Put) of Revolu- 

 tionary memory, died in Elyrlo, O., last week, 



Parker Cleveland, Professor of Chemistry and 

 Mineralogy in Bowdoin College, Me., died on the 



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The Spanibb Expedition aqainst Mexico. — The 

 following is translated from a letter dated Madrid, 

 Sept 21st. It confirmB tbe report that the Spanish 

 Cabinet are determined to act energetically against 

 Mexico:—" In the eariy part of October, four ship3- 

 of-war belonging to the squadron of Galtida will 

 depart for the waters of Cuba, two of them being 

 the PetroniUa and the Isabella-Catolica. They, 

 and the transports accompanying them, will carry 

 3,000 soldiers of all arms, with considerable war 

 material, destined for the Antilles. It is designed 

 to have at Havana a considerable squadron, and a 

 disposal force of 12,000 men, destined to compel 

 satisrjetionfrom the Mexican Republic. The trip 

 of the MinUter of Marine to Cadiz, was principally 

 with a view to prepare maritime reinforcements 

 destined for the Gulf of Mexico." 



Si'- The paper of late and now used in printing 

 the T.ural is far inferior to what we contracted for, 

 but we are compelled to submit for the present and 

 until a better article can be manufactured. 



- The yellow fever baa almost depopulate! 



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eived in New Orleans 



— A lad, 16 yeara old, waa shot at Chicago, a 

 few nights since, while committing a theft. 



- Sis years ia the ti mo now set by • 



for the completion of the lloosbo Tunnel. 



- The Masonic Lodge of Newburgb. New York, 

 has just subscribed $150 to the Mount Vernon [und! 



— Two BtudenU have been expelled from the 

 University of North Carolina for lighting a duel. 



— It is proposed to lay iron pavements throuRh 



n infant in Nashville, Tenn., has fourteen 

 toes, and seven fingers on one baud, and six on the 



q Mexico have been estimated at SlOO,- 

 000,000. 



— The city of St. Joseph. Mo„ with TO,O0O in- 

 habitants, has not one public school, nor any place 



ginning to he brought rapidly into the market of 

 New Orleans. 



— The American Institute oilers a reward of 

 $3,000 for the detection of the Incendiary of the 

 Crystal Palace. 



— The prize money awarded to the officers and 

 "or the capture of the sluver 



agar crop in Louisiana this 



Z. Thompson, in hia yard at Bethel Hill, Maine, on 

 Tuesday, 10th lust. 



— The Medical Times sayB there are 134,000 

 bachelors in Australia, who wonld be glad to take 



resolutions thanking Par.Ham.eflt for the admission 



e Bold their lead n 



— Arrangements are being made in Glasgow for 

 a grand demonstration on the approsching cente- 

 nary of Burns' birthday. 



— Tho furniture of the City Hall, New York, is 



advertised at auction by the Sheriff, to satisfy un 

 execution against tbe city. 



— Bedpatb, Burgees and Toster, the financial 

 > dispatched to the Australian 



treutiea, is said to bo i 



t about double the 



miles of Norfolk, Va,, on Tuesday week. Ilo 

 showed considerable fight. 



— A Norfolk paper Btates that a new military 

 company wifl shortly be raised iu that city, to bo 

 composed entirely of Jews. 



— A council of Baptist Cher cbes, atGloversvillc 

 have decided that a man cannot bo be both a 

 Christian and a Free, Mason. 



—The powerful tag Gov. King, owned by Mr. f\ 

 Bell, will he dispalohed for New*' ' 

 withf * 



Lopez, of Cuban notoriety, haa been arrested : 

 New York for stealing jewelry. 



— Washington's fimily Bible Is Bftid to be In 

 possession of Col. Clalrbome, a gentlemen of La- 

 fayette, Macon county, Tennessee. 



— It ia expected that stovep, ranges, and iron 

 materials of lb.; ■ "e recovered 

 from tho rniu3 of the Crystal Palace, 



— A young lady in Paris made her fortieth as- 

 cension in a balloon, and landed in the country. 

 The rustics maltreated her as a witch. 



— A railroad Is now approaching completion 

 through Mo., which will enable passengers to k" 



Two hundred thousand pounds weight of 

 women's hair is annually sold in Prance, ana tha 

 price paid for it is sis cents 



— A submarine telegraph of •bontSOO miles in 

 in coarse of manufacture In Scotland, to connect 

 the Colony of Victoria with Tasmania. 



— Private advices from Savannah indicate tbat 

 the yellow fever ia that city assumes a more 

 serious type than Is admitted by the Press. 



— It is said that A. Keene Itichards, of 8oott 

 county, has purchased the renowned English racrr 

 Fisherman, at thy enormous price of $30,000. 



_ There is great talk in Paris of the creation of 

 50O barons, who are to form the nucleus of a net/ 

 nobles** to surround and support tha throne. 



— The cork tree is being extensively cultivate! 

 in the neighborhood of Cincinnati. Ten thousun I 

 cans of acorns have been ordered for planting- 



— At the recent term of the Circuit Court of 

 Jefferson county, Indiana, sixteen married people 



fortune out of prepared turtle soup, put up iu b 

 metlcally seated cans, and sent to distant parties. 



— Some of the Kansas papers are indignant that 

 Eastern papers should e "' 



population a 

 only 25,000! They say that they hsve full 80,000. 

 — Ex-President Franklin Pierce, an Eastern 

 editor learns, is engaged in preparing for pub- 

 lication another "History of the Mexican War. 1 ' 

 ricans In London are talking of es- 

 tablishing a di ' 'iallgnaniin 

 Paris, or the Albion In N. i ., both English journals. 



