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List of New Advertisements this Week. 





ROCHESTER, N. T., NOV KM 



The Rural for 1859 — Briefly. 



Takiko Time by the forelock, we wish to an- 

 nounce, very briefly but decidedly, that each 

 arrangements are being perfected aa will render 

 the Tenth Volume of the Rural Nbw-Yorheh 

 "Excelsior" in both Contents and Appearance, 

 and, wo trust, worthy of a far larger and wider cir- 

 culation than any preceding volume has attained. 

 Profoundly grateful for the extraordinary encour- 

 agement and support it is receiving at the hand 

 of the Farmers, Horticulturists, Mechanics, Mer- 

 chants and Professional Men, from Canada to the 

 Golf and Maine to Minnesota, we have resolved to 

 make sooh " Progress and Improvement" in Style, 

 Terms, Ac., as will, while folly maintaining Ha 

 value and Bnperlority, render it more attractive 

 and Interesting, and place it within the reach and 

 means of thousands to whom its club rates have 8 

 heretofore been objectionable. And if its frienda, 

 near and distant, Khali second our endeavors to in- 

 crease Its Value, by corresponding effjrts to aug- 

 ment its subscription list and consequent influ 

 en:e in their respective localities, the Rpeal's 

 pre-eminence as the Jlnt Journal of its Clast in 

 Mxrit, Usefulness and Popularity, will ho more 

 than maintained. All who desire to aid in the 

 good work are cordially invited to manifest 

 the same by preparing for aa early and earnest 

 opening of the Campaign. Sbow-BUla, Prospec- 

 tuses, Specimen Numbers, Ac., will be checrfally 

 furnished to all applicant?. See Special Notices, 



Athhn.htu Lkctfhes —The next Annual Course 

 of lectures before the Rochester AthenEeum aud 

 Mechanics' Association will commence on Thurs- 

 day evening next, (Nov. 11.) The Course will con- 

 sist of fifteen leotures, by tome of the most emi- 

 nent lecturer* fu this oounlry — comprising such 

 starl aa Rev, Dr. Storra, Rev. H. Ward Beecher, 

 rtlB, Rev. A. Willete, Lieut Maury, Rev, 

 RH.Ob.iplD, Bajiri Tiylor, Rev. A. L. Stone, E, 

 P. Whipple, Bar. I'. Starr King, Geo. D. Prentice, 

 Rev. Dr. Bellows, Ac. It is needleaa to add that 

 such an army of lelent is rarely embraced In a 

 single lecture course, even in the Atlantic cities— 

 or that the course must prove popular, as well as 

 profitable to both the Association and its patrons. 

 The introductory lecture will bs given by Itev. Dr. 

 Storra, of Brooklyn, on a semi scientific subject— 

 "The Effects of Climate on Civilization." Tickets 

 for the Course can be obtained at the Bookstores, 

 of either of the Directors of the Asaoclatio: 

 of the President at thla office. 



Elections.— To-day (Tuesday) 



3 be elected in six States, New 



Michigan, New Jersey, Till 



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Congressmen bj 



Vork, Mauaohi 



nols aud wu coo .tn. These Slates lend ii»r»* 



Representative,, who , ia &t m CongreM| 



politicaUy divided as foUows 



MM««lhBMtt», 



n** vork -".:::;: 



A great straggle is being msdo by the Opposi- 

 tion for a gain in New York, New Jersey, and RU< 

 nots In order to make the next Boose an Auti< 

 Administration one. 



Washington Matters. 



of Geo. Walker are regarded 

 with much Interest, especially In diplomatic cir- 

 cles, it being represented that he ia well supplied 

 h men and money for his professedly peace- 

 rprUe. There ia reason to believe that 

 thould be attempt to land with bis followers in 

 Nicaragua, he will be repulsed by the British naval 

 forces, aa the Admiral on the W. L station, it la In- 

 timated, has instructions to arrest filibustering 

 expeditions into Ceutral America from any ^nar- 

 Past, as well as present events, strengthen the 

 assertion. 



parties have recently been endeavoring to 

 the government's recognition of another 

 contemplated Transit Line over the Nicaragnan, 

 horn Gen. Jerez bad been in communi- 

 cation. No success has thus far attended their 

 effort?. While the administration will not inter- 

 re between citizens in matters relating to that 

 bjeot, those who have already contracted with 

 e Nicaragnan government will be fully protected 

 their rights and property. 



The telegraph, on the 30th alt, informs as that 

 the President has prepared, and will furthwith iasue, 

 proclamation in the usual form for the prevention 

 of fllli baste ring expeditions to Central America. 

 The document has appeared, and we may revert to 

 hereafter. 



The Attorney General has given an opinion in 

 reference to the proper construction of the Act of 

 last, which provides that the title to a land 

 int issued after the death of a person who has 

 applied for it according to the prescribed forms, 

 shall vest in the widow, if there be one, and if there 

 idow.the helra and legatees of the claimant. 

 e draws the following conclusions:— 1st That a 

 issaed after the death of a claimant who 

 a widow and children, iB for the widow's 

 benefit alone. 2d. If the deceased claimant leaves 

 wife with two seta of children, the warrant enures 

 ) the benefit of the heirs and legatees. And, 3d. 

 The heirs are those who are so declared by the law 

 ' claimant's domicil. 



Information has been received that Paraguay hoa 



300 newly-mounted guna on stone batteries at the 



month of the Parana. A large land force will be 



needed to tarn the fortifications from the land side. 



The War Department has a dispatch confirming 



; e accounts of the engagement of Muj. Dorn with 



the Camancbes. Fifty-two warriors and two women 



killed. Secretary Floyd will take immediate 



force In Texas. 



luree of preparation at the 



State Department a reply to the official dispatch 



informing our government of the purpose of Great 



Britain to suppress the fllli bus tering in Central 



The State Department having reason to sup- 

 pose that some irresponsible personB in Eng- 

 land and others there, writing under assumed 

 induced persone in this country to 

 forward remittances thither for the recovery of 

 tatea which they are led to believe they are entl- 

 :d to, cantions persons to whom such represents- 

 ins are made to be satisfied aa to the identity of 

 eir correspondents. 



Tho dispatch to the Times says that government 

 ia received dispatches from Gen. Lamar, announc- 

 ing intelligence that Costa Rica promptly retracts 

 offensive language, and says that had M. Belly 

 been as well known aa be is now, the language 

 would never have been need. The lake boats bad 

 proceeded up the river without interruption. 

 The War Department has received official ac- 

 lunta of two late battles in Washington Territory. 

 Gen. Clark presumes the Buccess narrated therein 

 is a surety of peace with the Indians,— the red men 

 having been soundly beaten and some frightened 

 into earnest overtures of peace. The centents of 

 Lieut. Tyler's letters are all thus confirmed. 



The Washington Union of the 30th alt, speaking 

 by authority, says the policy of the United States 

 is not to acquire Central America or any patt of it, 

 but to open the Isthmus routes and have them free 

 to all the world. Moaawbile that it ia bat fair to 

 claim that the covenants made with our people 

 shall be enforced. Not only has Costa Rica made 

 e apology to oar government but received 

 Lamar with great cordiality. lie will attend 

 the Convention of the Central American States 

 about to be held, with a view to e fleet the confede- 

 ration thereof. 



Late News from the Oregon War— The Hart- 

 ford (Conn.) Times of the 20th nit, says: — "We 

 have a let tie from Lt Clair, of the U. & Oregon 

 Army, dated at Coeur d' Alue MiBsioD, Washington 

 Territory, of Sept 15, with fifteen days later news 

 from there. The Shokan and Palonse Indians had 

 been defeated, after two days' lighting. The Sun- 

 ken Chief waa held by the U. 8. forces, and 900 

 horses had been taken from the Palo^e tribe. All 

 the plunder which the IndianB took from CoL Step- 

 toe'a command had been recovered. Col Steptoe's 

 pistol was found upon an Indian who was shot 

 down in his saddle. The army did not lose a man. 

 The Indians were begging for peace, and comply- 

 ing with all the demands of the U. S. officers. Lt 

 Clair considers the war in that quarter ended.— 

 Bis letter was expressed to Fort Taylor on Snake 

 river, near WaUawallo, by the Indian ranners. It 

 was directed to his father, who resides In this city, 

 and was probably the only letter that came through 

 by the California ateamer, with news of the Oregon 



iska Territory. 



MoarnTAKr. Bahrwitz— Termination - of the 

 Match— The Paris correspondent of the Boston 

 Traveler writes that Journal as follows;— "The 

 match has just been settled, and Mr. Morphy de- 

 clared the winner, all bets being pBld. They were 

 to have played until one or the other had won 

 seven games; but when they stood Morphy five and 

 Harrwitz two, the latter gave it op, laying the 

 blame of hlB defeat to bis Ul-health; but the fact 

 is, Morphy is by far the best player. When the 

 termination of the match was announced at the 

 Cafe de la Regenee, the rendezvous of the chess 

 players here, the Americans assembled there were 

 quite uproarious in their exultation, while the 

 Germans snd the Prussians, who had bet upon 

 Harrwitz, immediately suffered a terrible elongi 

 tion of countenance. Still they continue to have 

 hope, for another person hat been sent for 

 his hand at playing with the formidable young 

 American, and the person is a countryman 

 iheirs." 



7V Rmrtl— trr$t 4g Fair tfOUt Cnntt,- AgritmUmtai 



Nebraska City, Oct. Kb, 1358. 



Eds. Rural:— Among the many eastern news- 

 papers which I tike, there is none so welcome In 

 my family as your valuable New-Yobkbb. We 

 look for ita coming every week, with no ordinary 

 feeling of pleasure, and I can assure yon that its 

 pageB are well scanned over. It has occurred to 

 me that a few jottings from this out of the way 

 place would not oome amies to some of your read- 

 ers, and I have thought proper to take up my pen 

 and give you, in my random style, some few re- 

 marks about matters and things appertaining to 

 our Territory. 



We have thla week bad a taste of agricultural 

 matters. The A grlcultural Society of Otoe County 

 have, the lost two days, been holding their First 

 Fair in this city, and. taking all things into con- 

 sideration, the exhibition of horses, cattle, hogs, 

 sheep, and the products of the soil, has been such 

 as will compare favorably with a good many Buoh 

 Shows in the States. For the raising of corn, pota- 

 toes, and pumpkins, the soil of Nebraska cannot be 

 excelled. We have raised pumpkins here weigh- 

 ing one hundred and seventy five pounds, and corn 

 that takes only eleven ears to make a half bushel. 

 Our first Fair was very well attended. The ladies 

 turned out with all sorts of fancy articles for exhi- 

 bition, and a spirit of laudable emulation has been 

 created that will tell at the next Show of the 

 Society, and will materially advance the Interests of 

 farmers and the county generally. Agriculture in 

 this portion of the Territory, is now securing a 

 good deal more attention tban it hitherto baa done. 

 Speculation in paper towns and town lots has in a 

 great measure subsided, and a good deal more 

 attention is directed towards cultivating the soil 

 We have hore farmers from almost every State in 

 the Union, and the extensive primes, that some 

 fonr years ago were nsed only as the hunting 

 grounds of the Pawnees and Otoep, are now dotted 

 over with cornfields, and the huta of the settlers 

 aro getting thiokly scattered over the country, 

 showing a degree of prosperity In this Territory 

 of a permanent character. 



A new impetus has been given to improvement, 

 and our Fair has brought oar farmers together. 

 There has been an entire change of sentiment, and 

 the excellent address, delivered by the Hon. 

 Samuel W. Black, has sent the farmers home 

 wiser and better men, and with a still stronger de- 



The South Platte Country is settling up very 

 fast with an industrious, thriving population. The 

 postponement of the land sales in the Territory, 

 was a god-send to the settler, and will secure to 

 the actual tillers of the soil many thousands of 

 acres of rich land, which would otherwise have 

 fallen into the capacious maw of the land specu 



The streets of Nebraska City have lately been 

 crowded with wagons and cattle, owned by parties 

 on their way to the newly discovered gold region 

 at Pike's Peak, and a goad many of our cit 



caught the gold fever, and are now on their 

 So the auriferous region. This city, for th 

 upper Missouri, ia about tbe beBtstarting point, th 

 gold mines being aome 650 miles distant. Th 



wb received from tbe gold region continues ti 

 of a very favorable character, aud emigration 

 from Iowa, Missouri, and thia Territory, will thi 

 fall be very large. 



Tho cropsof corn, potatoes, pumpkins, Ac, in this 

 Territory, have this year been very large and good, 

 and the corn is now out of the way of any danger 

 from frost I have been a resident of the Territory 

 some three years, and have noticed that oar first 

 trusts come generally about the loih of October — 

 from that to the 20th. The planting of fruit treea 

 has the past season been carried on extensively, 

 and the trees have done remarkably welL 



To the poor man, wishing to pre-empt a quarter 

 section of as good land as the sun ever shone on, 

 the Territory of Nebraska offers immense advan- 

 tages, ThoosandB of acres of fine rolling prairie 

 yet invite the settler, and the boII yields an ample 

 compensation to the farmer for his labor. 



But I am afraid I shall trespass too mach upon 

 conclnde. 



J. Garbidb. 



Obituary.— Hon. Alvaii Hunt, formerly State 

 Senator from the Chenango District, N. Y., and 

 more recently State Treasurer, died in Brooklyn, 

 on the 2&ih ult His disease was paralysis, brought 

 on by mental anxiety on account of ibe se 

 illness of his wife. He was a man of fine 

 ties and rare soclil qualities. His age was sixty 



Hon. Rodset Rantgul, of Beverly, Mass, died 

 at Beverly, Sunday week, at the age of TO years. 

 Mr. Rantocl has been an honored and distinguish- 

 ed citizen of Massachusetts, and has taken an ac- 

 tive part in the legislation of the State in days 

 gone by. He fust served in the Legislature in 1800. 



Death of Rtv. Mr. Sawyer, at toe Aob oi' 

 103.— The Banger papers bring intelligence of the 

 death of Rev. Fa'.her Sawyer, of that city, at the 

 age of one hundred and three yeara aud four days. 

 He waa probably the oldest clergyman in the Unit- 

 ed States. 



Submarine Cable across the Niagara Rivbb. 

 —The Baffalo Commercial of the 30th alt, says:— 

 " As we go to preBs, a submarine telegraph cable 

 is being laid across the Niagara, by the Montreal 

 Telegraph Company. Tbe cable, we are informed, 

 is a portion of that employed in the Gulf of New 

 Foondland, but abandoned on account of being 

 too heavy. It is wound upon a large reel, which 

 was placed on a scow, and towed bynsteai 

 across the river. The cable is about one ice' 

 a half in diameter, and contains three conducting 

 wires, each one being thoroughly insulated. Its 

 weight and strength peculiarly fit It for the 

 current of the Niagara. Its length ia something 

 over three-fourths of a mile. The machinery 

 ployed in the submersion is the same that hast 

 used by the same Company in laying cables in 





St Lawn 



The Queen Dowager of Spain has two millions 

 of dollars invested in this country. Other crowned 

 heads of Europe also have large investments here. 

 Louis Napoleon has from three to five millions. 

 The petty German Princes, it U stated, are ii 

 ed in American seouriliea about £50,000,000, 



|omgn gntrllirtrttrr. 



Arrival of the Persia and Vigo. 



jap was won by Rocket by 

 Tbe fact that P 



dead heat for the second 



i greatly improved t 



Tbe officers and crew of the ill-fated Austria had 

 published a letter claiming tbat they did all that 

 wan possible to do under the circumstances, and 



t should order the Charles 



le Tagus, and return to France', t 

 ear tbat the surrender 

 tenace of the guns. 



The decree permitting the importation of foreign 



i be renewed with 

 f the Bank of France 



i Paris say no doubt w 



panic was prevailing on 'change at 



by fears of the speculators at the 



ipproacbiug resumption of cash payments by the 



The Cologne Gfizette says Austria will demand 

 explanations from the Pope, respecting the aug- 



lately Bent to Lisbon would 

 proceed to Tetuan to avenge the massacre. 



Turkey.— The Turks In Candia had again made 

 such a display that It was feared tbe massacre of 



prevailed. Two additional bntallious of troops 

 «ere to he Bent to tbe Island. Reports are received 

 that the Porte had refused to cede the Island of 

 Perim to England. 

 India. — The Bombay mail of Sept 24tb, 



the consequence. The fugitl 1 

 rebels from Lowrco were defeated with great 

 slaughter Sept. 10. Tho Gwalior fugitives, after 



ewed alarm has arisen at Calcutta, and that the 

 roops were kept under arms. Seven thousand in- 

 urgents were said to be In the Province of Cal- 



— Thanksgiving in New Jersey on the 18th of 



— There are 305 places of worship in the city of 

 Philadelphia. 



Philadelphia Is the healthiest of the Urge 



filth let 



— There were 2.136 deaths ia Moolroal for 

 ar esdiug Joly Ilk, 184 & 



— Nearly all the mill* of Lowell, Ma« . arc i 



York for a steam fire eogtiii 



The Costa Uicao Government has apologized 

 for the doings of Mons. Belly. 

 — More than one hundred miles of railroad will 

 in Te: '- 

 of tel 

 Lake City has 



Silver Is arrivlnR at San Francisco from Arl- 



at the rate of $1,000 per week. 



It is said a child was recently born in Can- 



; himself la Manchester, Fng. 



- The Great Western Railway Co. aro about to 

 lace all their wooden bridges by Iron ones. 



- Snow fell in Ashtabula Co, Ohio, on Thursday 

 ht of last week, to the depth of nine inches. 

 -The great horse exhibition on Long Island 



closed on Friday week. It was very successful. 

 It has been decided, lately, in court that the 

 "children" in a will includes gtaml children. 

 Brlgham Voong bait l*en sued for $25,000 

 igea, by a Mr. McNeill, foi false imprisonment. 

 four years old, < 



nulnu the c.\portsw 

 ) pounds short of last year. 

 auSTRALiA. — The Australian mail of Aug, 

 d reached England. The newa anticipated, 

 gget of gold weighing 2,100 ounces was bei 

 oibited at Melbourne. Tbe electric tetegn 

 s in operation between Melbourne and A 



News Paragraphs. 



Thb vein of plumbago, in Puzzle Mountain, in 

 Newry, Me., has been worked through, snd the sup- 

 ply, which was supposed to be almost inexhaustible, 

 has proved to be very limited. Not a great quan- 

 tity was procured. 



California law ssya neither negro, mulatto nor 

 Indian shall be accepted as evidence against a 

 white man, either in civil or criminal suits. Bat 

 lately a local Judge has overruled the harsh 

 statute so far as to admit the proscribed classes 

 all cases where they are the injured parties; and 

 since then colored evidence is freely accepted in 

 the criminal courts, showing a revolution in pab- 



TiiE old managers of the National Monument at 

 Washington have been restored to power, and 

 promise to complete the shaft, if nothing more, as 

 soon as they can get the money. The column Is 

 now 175 feet high. The plan is to have it COO. 



The New Orleans Picayune states that a ship 

 and abark, the former having eighty and the latter 

 forty camels on board, had arrived off the South- 

 west Pass, and have been ordered to Galveston. — 

 These camels ore imported by private enterprise. 



A correspondent of the St Louis Democrat 

 who has undertaken a careful exploration of the 

 Pike's Peak gold mines In Kansas, writes tbat the 

 stories of tho discoveries of large lumps of gold 

 and of great yields, are wholly unfounded, and that 

 the gold found in that region Is " wash-gold," from 

 which carefal men mBy possibly realize 52,50 w ^ 



Somebody has said tbat the marriage between 

 Jonathan and Miss Great Britain, which was so 

 brilliantly celebrated a Bhort time ago, Is evidently 

 a very anbappy one. At all events, no wordt lutve 

 posud bttma the,* since the bridal day. 



The Chicago Board of Trade, have responded to 

 the Boards of Canada, in favor of such a change in 

 the Reciprocity Treaty as will allow flour manu- 

 factured in Canada, from wheat grown in the 

 United States, to be admitted In our porta free of 

 doty. The Secretary of the Treasury has decided 

 against the free admiasion,mnchagajnBt the Inter- 



itltc ilnrs Condenser. 



r without much reBlet- 



— A young lady, 15 years of age, sent to the 

 State Fair in Connecticut a quilt containing 10,000 



indicted lor frsndl and 

 swindling. 



— The first new corn of this season was sold In 

 Chicago III, a few days ago, at 40 cents per bushel 



have made 20,000 complaints for violations of tbe 



tbe State of (Kentucky ia in session at Richmond, 

 in that State. 



— There were three hundred and sixty deaths iu 

 New York last week, a decrease of seventy on the 

 previous week. 



— On the night of the 12th nit, 12 births were 

 reported in th* family of Deber C, Kimball, at Suit 



merit will lay a second Cable between Ireland and 

 Newfoundland. 



— Jonathan Robbias, who died In Middlesex 

 Co., Mass,, laet week, weighed four hundred and 



between St Louis and San Francisco will ulti 

 ly be made in 20 days. 



— Judge Ca'com, la?t week, directed a Grand 

 Jury in New York to find indictments against 

 adulterators of liquor. 



— Tbe Hebrews of Norfolk, Ta., have formed a 

 military company of thirty-live men, and elected 

 J. Umatadter captain. 



— The State of Virginia taxes the nilroada of 

 the State one mill per mile for every passenger 



the late Crystal Palace, under direction of the 

 corporation, is in progress. 



— A gentleman in New Haven picked ripe straw- 

 berries from hia garden on the 27th ult 



e Boston Post says he did. 



— Three men. named McGrade, Butler i 



»ie lately suffocated to death by foul 



g a well near Chicago. 



— A convention to secure more uniformity In. 

 Telegraphing was held in New York daring the 

 last three days of last week. 



— A large emigration from North Carolina to 

 the West is going on. A caravan of 60 persons 



just been passing laws on 

 evening costume for gentlemen. 



— Mr. Peabodvhasadded $200,000 to his former 

 donation to the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, mak- 



vislble, baa been appointed assistant i 

 of the Imperial Museum of Florence, 



— The members of tbe Cabinet at Washington 

 are reported to be busily engaged in preparing 

 their tespective reports for Congress. 



— Tbe costume of the Spanish ladies baa u"t 

 changed for 200 years. They wear tbe same style 

 of dreaa their great grandmothers did. 



— The official list of passengers on board the 

 burnt steamer Austria, arrived by the Europa. It 

 shows that 160 lives were lost, 88 saved. 



— During the year IKO there were 230,000 per- 

 sons employed in the collieries of Great Britain, 

 and 60,000,000 tuns of coal were raised. 



— Bishop Soule, of the M. E. Church South, is 

 in very feeble beulib. and Incapacitated from re- 

 plying to hfa numerous correspondent*. 



— TheSt^ouis si earn en, the "Flting Cloud " 

 and "Rudolph," "ere sunk on the 17tb ult, wi'h 

 large cargoes, one of them very valuable. 



— An extra session of the Legislature of Indiana 

 iposed of newly elected members aud BuutOffl 



__ Mlonof 



ship of war in a seaworthy state, built of British 

 oak, is only thirteen years of active service. 



— A private meetieg of prominent New Yorl 

 firemen was held on Saturday week, to consider 

 tbe subject of procuring a steam fire engine. 



— The salt pond proprietor* or Turks Island re- 

 ntly held a meeting to devise messures for im- 

 porting a supply of laborers into the colony- 



— The Apache Indiana, at the last accounts were 

 preparing for a hostile expedition Into Sonora.and 

 the Mexicans raisiog an army to oppose them. 



— The "Derby Dilly," the last of the mall 

 ouches running out of Manchester, Eng, me. 

 nmbed to railway competition on the 9th ult 



— The <; ivernor bai ri'f'i*ed to interfere In the 

 xecation of the sentence naB*ed upon the boy 

 iogere, the murderer of Mr. Ssanson, in N. Y. city. 



