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



NOV. 13. 



Contents o.' the Hural lor November IS, 1858. 





ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER 13, IR6& 



RITUAL NEW-YORKER FOR 1859". 



of tht Rural New Yoiumr,— Greeting; 



In connection with Prospectus for the Tenth 

 Volume of the Rural New- Tohker— given on 

 opposite page— we desire to address yon relative 

 to the great redaction of Clnb Terms, aad to briefly 

 state our reasons therefor. Flease bear ub for our 

 and yow cause, and judge whether we are right in 

 adopting the plan and rates announced. 



Many of you have not only borne ub company, 

 but nobly seconded onr efforts, for nearly a decade; 

 and hence, knowing the interest yon have mani- 

 fested and still, we trust, f.el in the Roral and its 

 objects, we oonfiden'lv believe you will heartily 

 approve the course we have decided to pursue. 

 And thns believing, we trust yon will aid ob with 

 your advice and influence in new and renewed 

 efforts to augment the circulation and usefulness 

 of a journal which, we may be permitted to say, 



of the land — one * hich wields a somewhat large, 

 wide and, it U believed, most salutary influence 

 upon Individuals, Families and Communities. You 

 and 1, kind reader, know that the Rokal has ac- 

 complished some good in its day to both the risen 



TIL' g-| 



nplisbli 



-hurt- 



much i 



r that it- ]>>> ,v 



this lai 



i purity 



value. To aid in 



)jeot speedily, we 



iuee the Club Terms ol 



gents, Subscribers and 



■ending i_s circulation 



the Rfraj, and appeal to i 



other Friends to aid in ei 



and influence. In so doiuf 



profit the first year, and p 



future to remunerate ns fairly for the necessary 



ldbor, expense aod responsibility,- 



it may, the decision is made, and we thai] abide 



the result. 



The club rates for the new volume will vt 

 lessen our receipt* for the same number of oo 

 we now furnish — but if, ob we hope will be 

 result, (provided thisa hen in addressed app: 

 rid their influence,) many thou 





against the RrniL of late jearp, has beei 

 <■ p -id snob, large pisuilutns — many averrirji 

 e ought to discontinue the practice, and giv 

 lount to subscribers. Me now do this, an! 

 use— for the leduciioD in rates Is far greatei 

 aggregate, than the amount oOered in pre 

 i Mi'.' past year. 



' list I 



b Agents stand by 



spective localities? Shall the Run 

 subscribers next year where It has 

 this — twenty or tbirly whi 





thirty, fifty or a hundred where it baa from twenty 

 to thirty? It eertalnly can have sooh Increases in 

 many, ay* 1 , hundreds of places, If its Mends will 

 kindly volanteer their good offices in Ita behalf.— 

 been, and Is not now, our purpose to 

 of the Rural, — hut we desire, more 

 a increase ita circulation and usefol- 

 ihe potcer of benefit- 



r I. II., 



i a. 



,./.,, 



etaUlt, ton 



e or lujury — and hence it is that we 



have adopt* 



, as a means of attaining this object. 







FlUEKDa c 



F THE RfRAL NEW-YOSKER 1 Will 



yon aid us i 



i our earnest endeavor? Yon can if 



on istfi— i 



nd we ask that jou will with great 



oonfldei 



ever having appealed to yon in vaio. 



All that is n 



cessaryisa little tnw.ly effort among 



"■'I' 1 " 



Every i 



f the Rural can obtain from oDe to teo, thirty oi 



fry subscribers — and if ita friends will only muko 



a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together," 



it will, on or before Its Tenth Birth-Day— the first 



January ensuing— bare lull One Hundred 7%on 



id Subseribert I What say, tried friends, and new 



es — yon to whom we are already inoebted for 



manifold and most substantial favor*, and you also 



om we have but recentl, bteu Introduced — 



will you enter the arena in behalf of the model 



:ubal. Literary a*d Family Weekly of Amerl- 



a? The Rural has a ooon name through all the 



in d, we arc proud to know; — none pay "trash," 



humbug," or "mad dog" of a Bheet which has 



ver and always "defended the right," and ignored. 



ondemned and exposed the wrong — woich has 



on^tautly and zealously sought to pi omote the 



est interests of its readers and community. It is 



good paper to work for, as its influence is in the 



i^ht direction. We pause for your decision, which 



re confidently believe will be in its behalf— only 



adding that Now is the Tike for Action ! 



Bee first column of nest page. 



The Nicaragua Expedition. — The following is 

 the closiBg paragraph of President Buchanan's 

 proclamation in reference to the movements now 

 in progress against Nicaragua. In the opening 

 portion of the document, the merits of the expedi- 

 tion are commented upon, together with an analysis 

 of the character, means and prospects of the lead- 



s in this dingracc'ul scheme, and the matter Is 



"For these and other good reasons, and for the 

 purpose of saving American citizens who may 

 been honestly deloded into the belief that 

 ire about to proceed to Nicaragua as peaceful 





Mi-...iij 



consequences to which they will be exposed, I, 

 James Buchanan, President of the United States, 

 have thought it best to Issue this, my proclamation, 

 — enjoining on all officersof the government, civil 

 and military, In their respective spheres, to be 

 vigilant, active and faithful in suppressing this 

 illegal enterprise, and In carrying out their in- 

 structions to that effect, and exhorting all good 

 citizens to have respect for the law, and their re- 

 gard for the peace and welfare of the country, to 

 aid the efforts of the public authorities in the dis- 

 charge of their duties." 



United States Army.— The present military 

 force of the United States consists of nineteen 

 regiments of the line, composed of the following 

 corps:— Five regiments of cavalry, fonr regiments 

 of artillery, ten regiments of infantry — making a 

 grand aggregate of thirteen thousand rank and 

 tile of all arms. This little army covers an area of 

 over two millions of fquare miles, being two- 

 thirds the area of all Europe. There are eleven 

 hundred commissioned officers, including one 

 hundred medicine officers, eight hundred and fifty 

 of whom graduated at the military academy, and 

 two hundred and fifty civil appointments. The 

 nativity of these officers is as follows:— Bora in 

 the Uaited States, 1,060; Ireland, U; France, 3; 

 England, 6; Germany, 3; Cuba, 1; Turkey, 1; at 

 sea, 3. The militia force of the United States 

 is computed at 3.000,000 effective men of which 

 the State of New York olatma to furnish 600,000. 



Dreadful Railroad Accident.— The New York 

 Express train for the West, which left Corning on 

 the morning of the 2Bth ult, for Buffalo, on the 

 Buffalo A Corning Railroad, was thrown off the 

 traok near Coneena. Mr. O, Hnrd, of Newark, 

 Wayne Co, B. M. Reed, of Greece, Chenango Co., 

 and an infant, were hilled. About fifteen persons 

 were injured, several dangerously so. The cause 

 of the accident was the spreading of the track. 





aggregate receipts will be such that we can afford 

 as good, if not n better, paper than heretofore. If 

 all who profttM sn interest In the success or the 

 paper and consequent promotion of its object*, 

 will mantfttl It by effort* in behalf of its circula- 

 tion, we shall be enabled to improv* the paper at 

 the new rates without loss, white the great majority 



of subscribers will receive the benefit of the 



eduction and improvement. 



a for the reduction was, and Is, the 



Our first r 







money among , he Hlir(i| ropuUUoDi We „. 

 ved to give (U0M ^ wnom we majn j v 1() , (k (or 



Z°l It""? *,""■*-«<» ll »» «ch. though 

 > In favor of ludlvldual 

 inds of dollars against 

 redaction will prei-lm!.- 



»6 1 ub large pruntnmi 

 But this, wo are 



lobsorlbere, figure 



na from offering, or a 



as we have heretoft 



confident, will not be objected 



majority of agent* and fcotir*, w „rking, influe°naai 



From Havana.— The steamship Empire City ar- 

 rived at New York, from Havana, on the 1st inst 

 An expedition of 400 mariners on board the 

 Bteam»hlp Borenguela had 



he had made tho foreign merchants pay. Tw 

 British screw steamers bad arrived with Cooley 

 alaves, and another was reported to have landed 

 1,600 uegtcs from Africa. 



PflOPELLEB Blown Up on the Hudson River - 

 The steam propeller W. H. Foot, In steaming up 

 the North River, on the 6th inst, was blown tc 

 pieces ly the bursting of her holler. Five per 

 sons were on the boat, four of whom were killed 

 and the fifth badly wounded. One man wsb blowi 

 one hundred feet in the air, his body falling or 

 another steamer and crnsbing through the hnrri 

 cane deck. 



Yellow Fever in New C-RLEAxa— The deaths 

 from tbis disease so far tbia year have been 4,487. 

 The largest weekly reports were for the weeks end- 

 ing September 6th, 13th and 191b, when the total 

 deaths were 046, 669 and 642, of which 449, 472 and 

 aud itl were from yellow fever. 



The Hecent Elections, 



v York. — The Republicans have been suc- 

 cessful in this Suite (taking the reported majorities 

 Governor as the average) by 14,000 to 15,000 

 majority. The successful candidates are the fob 



iwlng: — Uorrrnor — Edw IN 1>. MORGAN. Linil. 



■ooernor— Robert Campbell. C*nol Cononusioner 

 -Hiram Gardner, Inspector of Stale Prison — 

 jslah T. Everest The vote upon Congressmen 

 lows an Antl Leoompton majority of between 

 50,000 and 60,000. The Republicans elect twenty- 

 nine and the Democrats four. The Assembly 

 lands one hundred Opposition to twenty-eight 

 Democratic 



w Jersey. — The resnit In New Jersey is 



gly In favor of Republicanism, every member 

 of Congress chosen belonging to that party. The 



Senate stands II Opposition, of whom 3 are 



Anti-Leoompton Democrats, to 10 Administration 



members. The Assembly stands 3ft Opposition to 



Administration. Majority on joint-ballot 17. — 



The aggregate Republican majority is 8,113. 



Ohio.— The official Republican majority In this 

 State is 20,926. 



Michigan.— The Republicans have elected their 

 State tioket by from 6,000 to 10,000 majority. The 

 latest returns Indiaate that the Legislature will 

 stand— Senate, 23 Republican and 10 Democrats. 

 Qoiife, 4ti Republican Bnd 33 Democrats. 



ihois.— State ticket Republican. TheDonglaa 



orats have a majority of u in the House and 



ae Assembly. Later returns seem to indicate 

 the State ticket as Democratic 



ICON3IN— The election, as far as heard frr-m, 

 results in a Republican choice of 3 Congressmen. 

 lbSachusBTts. — Returns of the Governor's 



have been reoeived from all the towns in the 

 State but Brighton, giving Banks, Republican, a 



ity over all of 17,239. The Senate will stand 

 thirty-seven Americans and Republicans to three 

 Democrats. The House Btanda one hundred and 

 ninety seven Republicans, twenty nine Democrats, 



might Americana, with four to bear from. 



inbsota Leoiblatues Democratic.— The St. 

 Panl Pioneer of the 23d ult, states that definite re- 



from every part of the State, exoept in one 

 district, indicate that the Legislature will stand:— 



Hon- 



-Deri' 



Democrats 31, Republicans 15. As the Democrats 

 a large majority on joint ballot the election 

 of a Democrat to the U. S. Senate, vice General 

 Shelds, whose term has expired, is placed beyond 



I Minnie Rifle and res Indianp.— From offi- 

 cial reports tt would seem that tbis effective weapon 

 a been Introduced Into that portion of our aer- 

 ■e now employed against the Indians in Oregon. 

 letter from Col. Wright to the Secretary of War 

 fs: — "I have for some time past sought to im- 

 ess npon the men, by insti action and precept, tho 

 nviction that with our long range of arms we 

 uld kill tho Indians iu a fair fight, and not be 

 killed ourselves. Our lessons have been well 

 irned. The men fired at the gallant red rascals 

 they would have fired at targets, Bnd the move- 

 'nts darincc the ae*Vrj w-*re as orderly as on a 

 field day. The enemy has lost courage, bot be 

 may change bis tactica" A letter to the New 

 York Herald, says of Col. Wrioot's battle near the 

 Spohan river:— "The Indians numbered five hun- 

 dred, and fought welL The troops onder CoL 

 ht were four hundred and fifty, of which two 

 hundred and ninety participated In tbe action. A 

 ard of reserve of three officers and one hundred 

 and fifty rank and tile were left in camp, while tbe 

 a went out to fight. The Indians were com- 

 plete!) routed, with the loss of seventeen killed and 

 thirty-five wounded. There were no oasnaltlea on 

 the side of the soldiers. The battle and its results 

 have demonstrated tbe immense value of the Min- 

 nie rifle, and explain the cause of Col. Bteftor'8 

 iverae when his men were armed with miserable 

 nsketoona" 



Arrival of tor Quaker Ctty— The Qtmker 

 City, from Mlnatltlan on the 2d iost, arrived at 

 New Orleans on the 5tb, bringing tbe Intelligence 

 of the opening of the Tehauntepeo rente. 



The following dispatches are received:— The In- 

 dians with 400 troops from Oxaoa, entered Tehann- 

 on the 20th, having dispersed the forces of 

 Zuloaga, who had now no hold on tho Isthmus. 

 The country is unusually healthy, and the people 

 in fine Bpirits, on account of tbe opening of the 

 roste, the socoees of which was absorbing all at- 

 tention. A road will be opened to coaobes be- 

 tween Almoya and Ventosea in a short time, 

 when the transit will be made entirely by vehicles. 



Robbery op the Delaware Ba»e. — On Sunday 

 night week, the Delaware Bank, at Delhi, New 

 York, was entered and $37,000 stolen. The robbery 

 was not discovered till morning, giving the per- 

 petrator opportunity to escape. The money taken 

 by him consisted of the following parcels:— $13,000 

 In pocket bills, ?1 5,000 in mutilnted Delaware Bank 

 notes, $8,000 in gold, and $1,000 In other funds.— 

 The police have been notified, and a reward of 

 three thousand dollars Is offered for tbe apprebe; 

 mIol of the robber. 



THANKSGiYiNa — Thanksgiving Day will be ol 

 served in the following States, by appointment of 

 their several Executives, as follows: 



Alabama, 



Another Sect Dead— Tbe Parkeritee (a sort of 

 BaptlBta) bnilt a cbnrcb, twenty years ago, in Coles 

 county, III , and so deeded It that if there was ever 

 allowed within ita walls a temperance lecture, a 

 Bible Society meeting, a missionary meeting, or a 

 Sunday school, the title was forfeited and fell back 

 to the original owner. Ten yes m since, Its pulpit 

 became vacant for want of 

 sheep and swine sleep there. 



During one week recently, there were shipped 

 from Hi. Albans, Vt, 202,000 pounds < f cheese, 

 worth 116,166, and lf.5,197 pounds of bolter, worth 

 $29,771, bringing Into tbe farmers of that locality 

 the pleasant sam of $41,921. 



Qtuis fatanrapUs. 



The New Orleans Delta of the 23d ult, says:— 

 A malignant cholera broke out among the slaves 

 of a Jifferson parinb planter, and in one day, 

 eighty out of about 100 on tbe place, died of the 

 pestilence. 



A lbttbb from Geauga Co., Ohio, states that an 

 pidemlo dysentery has raged among young ehll- 

 iren in that section, ravaging every home and 

 proving geuerally lataL In tbe town of Chester, 

 tt Is stated, but few infants have been spared by the 

 pestilence. 



Wb, BLRakey the oldest of the horse-training bro- 

 therhood eays that hlB system Is equally tmoaeieua 



subduing women and children as horses Being 



widower with ten olive branches he haa had 



aple opportunity to test the truth of his theory. 



Isaac Holland, late door-keeper of the U. 6, 

 Senate, who died at Washington on the 1st tnsb 

 thefatherof Stuart Holland, the gallant youth 

 who perished on the Ill-fated steamer Arctic. 



)ROiA has over 1,200 miles of railroad bnilt 

 and paid for, and yielding to the stockholder more 

 in average of 7 per cent, yearly dividend?.— 

 Within the next jear 2u0 miles of additional road, 



mpletcd and equipped, will be in operation. 



Tna Hawaiian Advertiser says that oo tbe 10th 

 of August a schooner plying between the islands 

 with eight natives and three foreigners on board' 

 upset Tbe natives picked up the foreigners, put 

 them on tbe bottom of the vessel, and then started 



They Bwam during the remainder of that night, 

 through tbe following day and night, and on 

 Thursday six out of the eight landed on Niihau, 

 an old man and a stripling having proved unequal 



A beuareadls eale of old United States cents 

 took place in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening.— 

 The collection was made by Mr. Edward Cagao. 

 Seventy seven cent", of all dates, from that of 1791 

 down to 1639, were eold for the aggregate sum of 

 $128. Tbe prices ranged from $1,26 to $26,60.- 

 The latter price was given for a raie die of the 

 Washington cent of 179 2. 



On the 4th of October, the city of Munich, Bava- 

 ria, celebrated tbe Tooth anniversary of Its founda- 



Trio . 



of 



i fete i 



cortege In which 3,000 men and 600 horses 



I, and which represented the respective 



from tbe 12th to the 19tb, with emblems, 



and the great personages of the national 



history at each epoch. 



At New Britain, Conn., Frederick WeBtover, aoi 

 of Amoa Westover, was playing with an old gun 

 barrel, and after touching It off the third time with 

 a elow match, ran about twenty feet, when the bar- 

 rel burst, and a small tbfn piece, about the weight 

 of a cent, etruck him on the side, 

 going through his clothes and just breaking tbe 

 skin. The heart ceased ita pulsations and the boy 

 died in leas than ten minnteB. 



The increase in the receipts of grain of all kinds 

 at Chicago, dorlng tbe present ee 







bushels. The exports have exceeded those i 

 previous year almost four million?. 



The Government horses and mules Bold at Fort 

 Leavenworth a few days ago brought prf cea r 

 ing from $5 to $80 each. All these animals 

 the Government as much bb $80, and many of 

 them twice that sum. A great many of them sold 

 for $16 and $20 each, only a few bronght as ranch 

 as $80. 



An English officer, direct from Paraguay, re- 

 ports that Lopez Is preparing effective modes of 

 resistance and defence by building fortification: 

 and obstructing the navigation of tbe river. H< 

 has placed chains and booms across, and proposei 

 einfclng light veesehi In the channel, in which 

 event our expedition cculd not ascend. Several 

 Belgian and Hungarian officers are engaged 

 reeling operations. 



A Bwedisb woman passed through Detroit, last 

 week, en route for Sheboygan, Wis,, having been 

 on the way 14 months, and sblp-wrecked twice. — 

 Her husband lives at Bheboygan. 



A uubder case, which haa occupied the Courts 

 of Alabama at intervals for fourteen years, was 

 decided week before last. In February, 184-1, an 

 overseer employed by Dr. Chapman, of HeDryCo., 

 in that State, whipped a slave to death, and was 

 found guilty of murder, but through soma legal 

 technicality escaped execution. Ho has now been 

 convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. 



California travel 1b again seeking the Cape 

 Horn route. Since the departure of the steamer 

 Hermann, with a full load, the bark Vlckery has 

 sailed from New York with over 100 on board, 

 and the clipper ship Gray Feather is nearly ready 

 to follow. 



Tits OruBB Sidr.— Aa an offset to the highly 

 complimentary ■■Rural" Letters from the Peopli 

 which we have given of late, we publish ihe follow 



irit; '' 



The- w 





titter 



notions of the "rurel" ore aki 

 those of our sedative monthly neighbor, and if 

 two worthies could have their way, we reckon the 

 Rural would soon be " done shut." We have the 

 original copy of this letter, aa received by mail: 



Mr editor 

 I have sumtbln to say about your paper, no doul 

 but It 1b A good won bnt papers e 

 eny body epeDds much time in 



too dolers A year, aud i 



) no euoff to bo corn and pick 

 In the rurel and other agrrcul- 



A every body was of my mind 



a wood be no suoh A thing aa A paper In the 



united s 



of California — The total number 

 of TOtea oast at the California State Election of thin 

 year, is probably less than S6 000, while last year it 

 was about 100,000. aud In I860 about 110,000. The 

 population of the State had been Bteadlly but slowly 

 gaining from lesc °i> to Ma 7 '»«'. when the Frszcr 

 exodus began; since then there haa been a loss of 



W&s $cui5 Couurujicr. 



is said to be very plenty In Massaohusetta 

 i M. Botta is named as a candidate for 

 rt enow storm at BaUaton oo 



and IQ inches high. 



In the Diocese of Louisiana there are 36 con- 

 gregations of slaves. 



Tbe Bank of Tennessee resumed specie pay- 



e tanneries In 

 1 during last 



of dollars Invested in tl 



— The Missouri Democrat notices 

 very of iron mines In that State. 



— Louis Napoleon has from three I 



of Mississippi lust Friday 

 It is eald t 

 iog to exel 

 Green pes 



of t e Sepoy war ; 

 n England, 

 eg in Norfolk, Va,, i 



— Over fourteen thousand bales of c 



a the Dnke of Wellington, is dead. 



of the Department of tbe West, of tbe Army. 



— The royal families of England, France and 1 

 Portugal are all expecting an Increase this year. 



— The number of dea'bs from yellow fever in 



— The new PostOEce boildiog in Philadelphia 

 will be constructed entirely of Pennsylvania iron, 

 fire was devastating the Catskill 



Bill, Indiana, from which very good salt la made. 



— The total distance between St. Louis and San 

 Francisco by the new overland route is 2,705 mikp. 



— Judge Bigelow decreed thirteen divorces In 

 the Supreme Court at Boston, Mass., on Friday 



i letter to the President that he will r 

 — The petty German Princesses, it 



mproving, 



per day, 



— It Is reported that Mr. Preston declines the 

 mission to Spain, after having intimated his ac- 

 ceptance. 



— Ex-Secretary Stanton 







of Kansas, and is spoken of for V. S. 



i New Orleans— fee i 



$4,000,000. 



— Mary Murphy, a native of Ireland, died ii 

 River, Mass., a few days since, aged 103 year 



i by recommending duties on t^a 



plimentary addresB to Sir William William-, 

 the bero of Kara. 



— Senator Douglas has given an unconditional 

 traogft-r and full title of his donation to tho Chi- 

 cago University. 



— The remains of a Rav. Mr. Brooks, who per- 

 ished in tbe snow, have been found on Salmon 

 Mountain, California. 



— One Protectant and two Catholic clergymen 

 have fallen at their pusta in New Orleans since the 



>pldei 

 — another dei 



against the introdn' 



Confessional in the Church of Engla 

 is taken place at London. 

 — The body of a large animal (species t 

 is been found iu the Lake Superlorcopi 

 dxty feet below 1 



:onstraoted 



— Private theatres are so much 

 Paris that an enterprising man ba* 

 " portable theatres" lor saloons. 



— A servant girl In New Hswd ran off on Sat- 

 urday week. witO nineteiu dresaei belonging to 



— a dispatch Tom Wdnritngton says Gen. Ward, 

 of Ceorglii. I" appointed Minlnter to Sardinia, and 



n, ,t( thiuii rt - ,in-vi'o-sly reported. 



_ The overland mall party which arrived at St. 

 ,ouis a few days since, was detained 14 hoars by 

 Bund storm In the California desert. 

 — A Frenoh electrician In San Francisco an- 



;i England to Sweden, i 

 iiuH I.iplnnd helure be returns 

 iring the mouth of Septum Kt " 



ill a servant nlrl of somnambulic 

 i.ter promenading the roof of a High build- 

 , | c 11 into the street, fatally Injuring herself. 

 - White lish have made their re-appearanoe In 

 ■ida Lake an.l are. caught by thousands, Nona 

 e been caught there lor It) or 12 years back. 

 -The Howard iasoolatioil of New Orleaus an- 



■, >md thev I 







