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MOOKE’S RUKAl NEW-YOEKER: AN AGRICULTUEAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
) ROCHESTER, DECEMBER 19, 1850. 
( Local Agents. 
( James Van Horn, Ovid; also general agent for 
) South Jury District of Seneca county. 
> S. E. Norton, Phelps, Ontario county. 
' E. Hopkins, Lyons, Wayne county. 
) B. Farr and H. Goodrich, Albion. 
) Samuel Heston, Batavia. 
> R. B. Warren, Alabama, Genesee county. 
: Theodore Dickinson, Newark, Wayne county. 
I Sil8by& Keeler, Seneca E'alls. 
I A. R. Frisbie, Clyde, Wayne county. 
Wm. Richey <fc O. A. Graves, Watertown, Jeff. co. 
I John Harris, Sheldrake, Seneca county. 
Archibald Stone, Hinmanville, Oswego county. 
E. W. Fairchild, East Bloomfield, Ontario county. 
G. N. Sherwood, Camillus, Onondaga county. 
C. B. Dickinson and P. Parks, Victor, Ontario Co. 
J. W. Reed, Lockport, Niagara county. 
J. M. Trowbridge, Pekin, “ “ 
John B. Lowell, Yates, Orleans county. 
H. S. Frisbie, Holley, “ , “ 
L. A. Morse, Knowlesville, “ “ 
M. Scott, Arcadia, Wayne county. 
T. Cunningham, Mohawk, Herkimer county. 
Andrew Sill, Livonia, Livingston county. 
E. C. Bliss, Westfield, Gjtautauque county. 
J. I. Eacker, Sheridan, “ “ 
J. C. Sherman, New Baltimore, Greene county. 
L. D. Branch, Trumansburg, Tompkins county. 
W. K. Wyckoff, Lodi, Seneca Co. 
O. B. Scott, Woodville, Jefferson Co. 
B. F. Adams, Bridgeport, Mad. Co. 
M. Parke, P. M. Clifton Springs. 
W. G. Lacy, Scottsville, Monroe county. 
C. Moore, Gerry, Chautauque county. 
Orlando White, Farmington. 
W. L. Palmer, Syracuse—Publishing Agent. 
O’ For Terms, &c., see last page. XD 
Price of the Rural New-Yorker. 
In a late number wo endeavored to show the 
fallacy of one objection to the New-Yorker— its 
form. We now propose to discuss another—its 
price —in order to have the matter understood by 
agents and subscribers, and to save the time and 
stationery that would otherwise be expended in 
correspondence on the subject. 
It appears that not a few of our readers are out 
of the proper reckoning in regard to the amount of 
currency the Rural can be afforded for, and allow 
a living profit to the publisher. They seem to be 
of the opinion that we can afford to furnish the 
paper to single subscribers at $1,50, ,$1,25, or even 
$1. We are not unfrequently offered the sum 
last named—which is no less than asking us to vi¬ 
olate our word, by deviating from published terms, 
to say nothing of the injustice of the demand.— 
And when we respectfully decline such offers of 
patronage (?) we are sometimes informed that we 
can afford it, because —mark the reason— '•'other 
papers can be had at that price.” This is not ex¬ 
ceedingly good logic, as we will endeavor to prove. 
Let us examine the subject briefly, and see how 
the cost of these so-called cheap, dollar papers com¬ 
pares with the expense attending the publication 
of the New-Yorker. In the first place, there is 
scarcely a dollar weekly of any value in the coun- 
trv, which pays its tcay, unless it is a re-print of a 
daily or other journal, or has attained an immense 
circulation. Either of these causes materially les¬ 
sen the cost of each copy of a paper—and where 
both are combined (as is the case with the N. Y. 
Weekly Post, and a few other political, news and 
Zi/erari/journals,) a fair profit may be received at 
the price of subscription specified. But there is 
generally quite a difference between these cheap 
papers and such an one as the New-Yorker —not 
only in cost of publishing, but in the expense and 
real value of contents. The dollar paper is usually 
devoted to one subject, and the matter is too often 
inserted (after being used in another sheet,) for the 
purpose of filling .space, rather than for its utility 
to the reader. Little time is devoted to either 
writing or selecting appropriate articles ; and the 
consequence is that the subscriber gets a paper 
filled with matter prepared and first used for the 
benefit of another class of readers. But aside from 
the quality of its contents, which is the moA im- 
portant item, the dollar paper is generally cheap in 
other particulars—especially in style of print, de¬ 
pending upon fashion of material, quality of paper 
used, &c., &c.—to say nothing of the space occu¬ 
pied by advertisements, many of whioh are sheer 
humbugs, and alike discreditable to their authors 
and the paper in which they appear. 
The cheap literary papers are generally worse. 
Taking the character and tendency of their con¬ 
tents into the account, they are, instead of being 
the cheapest, the very dearest papers in the Union. 
Such works are especially injurious, and general¬ 
ly very costly in the end, to any family. They 
not only substitute fiction for fact — catering to 
the taste for light, useless reading, and thus pre¬ 
venting the young from seeking what is good and 
valuable—but actually demoralize the mind and 
corrupt the heart of ever}' youthful and susceptible 
reader. Parents had far better pay two or even 
five dollars for a pure and useful journal, than to 
place a trashy one in the hands of his children, 
even if the latter cost nothing. 
— But, to the subject direct. • There are many 
reasons why we cannot reduce the price of the 
Rural New-Yorker to one dollar. A few of 
these we will mention. The preparation of the 
original matter given weekly in the various depart¬ 
ments, require time, talent and investigation on the 
part of editors and contributors—and labor of this, 
as well as other kinds, must be rewarded. Men 
of ability and research — capable of imparting 
knowledge and instruction—cannot afford to devote 
their time and talents to the business without re¬ 
muneration. This has hitherto been no small item 
of expense, and will henceforth be greater. 
The manner and execution of the paper is anoth¬ 
er costly item. It is printed in the best style, and 
the quality of paper \»sed is superior and conse¬ 
quently more expensive than that upon which 
most papers are published. Indeed all our mate¬ 
rial is of the best quality, and of course costs more 
than ordinary or medium. Our illustrations 
alone—a feature scarcely in the bills of the dollar 
weeklies, and much less in the papers themselves— 
are attended with heavy expense. As evidence of 
this we refer the reader to the number and style of 
the engravings already given in our pages. 
Again—our printers receive the highest prices, 
in cash —not in orders or dicleer —and are paid 
promptly, every week. This is our way of bene¬ 
fiting the laborer—somewhat unlike the course of 
those political editors who prate much of the rights 
of working men, yet engage their laborers at the 
lowest figure, and then compel them to suffer loss 
in the dicker pay received. We make no virtue of 
this—it is simply right, and what all should do.— 
Yet, publishers of cheap papers can not always do 
as they otherwise would, and ought, with their 
employees, for the want of means. If people will 
pay an honest price for papers, this and other evils 
of which few are cognizant, would soon cease to 
exist. 
In conclusion—for we must close this article, 
and omit mention of several matters pertinent to the 
subject—we assure our readers. One and all, that 
we cannot consistently deviate from the published 
terms of the Rural New-Yorker. Those terms 
are as low as we can, with even twice its present 
circulation (which we hope to obtain in a few 
weeks,) afford the paper and meet our engage¬ 
ments honestly and promptly. - 
Weekly Meteorological Abstract. 
RY L. WETHERKI.L. 
Dec. 1850. 
THERMOMETER. 
MAX. 1 MIN. 1 MEAN. 
RAIN. 
10 
20 16 
19.00 
N W. 
II 
32 24 
24.00 
s w. w. 
12 
35 23 
28'.66 
w. 
13 
21 3 
12.00 
w. 
14 
27 12 
19.00 
W. s E. 
15 
36 31 
33.00 
s w. 
16 1 
34 28 
31.33 
S W. NE. 
REMARKS. 
Dec. 10th. Cold—snows a little. 
11 th. Continues cold—a little more snow. 
12 th. Warm — Thanksgiving—snows—sleigh- 
iHg- 
13th. Coldest morning of the season—gdod 
sleighing—a flock of snow birds seen, for the first 
time this season. 
14th. Colder than yesterday morning—fine day 
—weather moderated. 
15th. Warmer—thaws—a crow seen flying tow¬ 
ard the North, a sign of a thaw—snows a little. 
16th. Continues mild—thaws—began to snow 
in the afternoon and continued in the evening_ 
wind northeast. The lowest the mercury has fall¬ 
en yet is 3 above zero. 
New Publications. 
Western Horticultural Review, Vol. 1, No. 2. 
November, 4850. Johw A. M. D., 
Editor. Cincinnati.—Terms, $3 per annum in 
advance. 
This new Magazine is of similar form and ap¬ 
pearance with Downing’s Horticulturist. The 
number before us is filled with articles of a spirited 
and valuable character, and it can hardly fail to be 
appreciated by Western cultivators of fruits and 
flowers. YVe notice an interesting report of the 
doings of the Cincinnati flort. Society, and a chap¬ 
ter on “ Wine Making” with several illustrations. 
We wish this new enterprise abundant success. 
.Sartain’s Magazine, Jan. 1850.—Edited by Prof. 
J.j^^Lart and Mrs. C. M. Kirkland.— J. Sar- 
ta^UUo., Publishers, Philadelphia. 
m^plagazlne, from the solid and practical 
character of a portion of its contents, as well as the 
beauty and number of its illustrations, cannot fail 
to be appreciated. The present—the first number 
of the eighth volume, contains three steel engrav¬ 
ings, an illuminated frontispiece printed in colors, 
most beautiful and unique in design and execution 
—and twenty-two wood engravings illustrating 
the’eontents. Among the contributors are many 
of the best writers of our own country, as well as 
several noted European authors. Terms, .$3 per 
year, 2 copies .fS.—Single Nos. 25 cts. 
The A-MErican Flora, in monthly parts, each il¬ 
lustrated with colored likenesses of plants, with 
full descriptions.—By A. B. Strong, M. D.— 
Green &. Spencer, New Y'ork. ,$.3 per annum. 
The Illustrated Natural History, in monthly 
parts, with plates and descriptions of animals.— 
By A. B. Strong &. J. D. Post. —Same Publish¬ 
ers. ,$1 per annum. 
D. M. Dewey, Arcade Hall, has these valuable 
works for sale. The first volume of each is now I 
complete. The “ Flora” contains 70 beautiful 1 
oolored engravings, and the “Natural Histoiy” ' 
has given 50 lithograph plates of Qdadrupeds, 
Birds, Fishes, Insects, &c. 
Crash. —A portion of the tlorse-Shce Fall, on 
the Canada side of Niagara river, fell with a crash 
on Tuesday last, about 7 o’clock in the evening. 
About ten rods in length and four in width, fell 
away from the brink of the precipice, and the ca¬ 
nal boat which has been lodged there for severa' 
months was carried over with the mass of rock. 
The Iris says it seems “ providential that it fell at 
such an hour, and at this season of the year. Had 
it been in the summer, when so many thousands 
of strangers are here, there undoubtedly would 
have been persons crushed to death ; for it is pre¬ 
cisely the spot where so many continually passed, 
and where so many have stood to conte.mplate the 
grandeur of nature, and behold the waters of the 
mighty Cataract above them rushing terrifically 
over their heads, that is now filled with the huge 
masses of rock which have fallen from above.— 
The loss of this portion of the rock has not in the 
least diminished in appearance the view of the 
Falls; but rather has, in our opinion, added to 
the scene, and looks grander and more sublime, 
if possible, than ever.” 
XXXIst Congiess. — Second Session. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
In the Senate, on the 10th, several Bills and 
Resolutions were introduced and referred, and a 
number of private Bills were passed. Five hun¬ 
dred copies of Parti, of the Patent Commissioner’s 
Report were ordered to be printed for the use of 
the Patent Office, and the Senate went into Execu¬ 
tive Session, and soon after adjourned. 
In the House, the credentials of the Delegate 
from'New-Mexico were presented and referred to 
the Committee on Territories. Thos. L. Harris 
introduced a bill to establish Reciprocity Trade be¬ 
tween the United States and Canada, and the free 
navigation of the St. Lawrence—referred to the 
• Committee on Commerce. Several other bills 
were introduced and referred. Unsuccessful efforts 
were made to make the River and Harbor Bill and 
the Cheap Postage Bill the order for Wednesday, 
and the bill giving to every head of a family a farm, 
the order for Monday next. The House went into 
Committee of the Whole, and a motion to take up 
the River and Harbor Bill was negatived by the 
casting vote of Mr. Strong, the Chairman. A mo¬ 
tion to take up the Postage Bill, out of its order, 
was lost, and tlie Committee rose without doing 
anything, and the House adjourned. 
In the Senate, on the 11th, Mr. Hale presented 
petitions for the revision of the Military Laws. Mr. 
Benton introduced a bill for a Western Armory.— 
The announcement of the death of Hon. Amos E. 
Wood, Representative from the Sixth District of 
Ohio, occupied the remainder of the Senate’s and 
all of the House’s Session. 
The Senate, on the 12lh, took up Mr. Brad¬ 
bury’s Resolutions calling on the President for the 
reasons for the removal of Public Officers, &c.. 
and talked considerably on the subject, but without 
doing anything, adjourned to Monday next. 
In the House, the Post Office Committee report¬ 
ed a resolution to appoint a Special Agent to pro¬ 
ceed to California and receive bids for Postal ser¬ 
vice in California and Oregon, which was ordered 
to a third reading, after an unsuccessful motion to 
lay it on the table. Two unimportant bills were 
• passed and the House adjourned. 
The Senate, on the I3th, was not in Session, 
having adjourned over from Thursday to Monday. 
The House went into Committee of the Whole 
on the Private Calender and afterward adjourned 
over to Monday.—A7. Y. Tribune. 
Complimentary and Enecuraging. 
We may be allowed to say, as our volume draws 
to a close, that many complimentary notices are 
given us by the press, and very flattering and en¬ 
couraging letters received from both near and dis¬ 
tant readers, as well as the substantial incitements 
of large lists of new and renewed subscribers. In 
return for what is being said and performed in be¬ 
half of the Rural, we'shall endeavor to introduce 
some improvements not mentioned in the prospec¬ 
tus of next volume. 
Below we give two or three extracts from papers 
and letters recently received: 
Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. —Th;s journal 
has only been in existence one year, but it has at¬ 
tained a fine year’s growth. Not many papers have- 
reached the same maturity of excellence and cast 
of shadow in five years that this has in one. Its 
success is well deserved. It realizes our concep¬ 
tion of a good family paper far more’perfectly than 
certain self-styled model papers, wliich are inferior 
to this in every p.arlicular, except that they display 
a little more amplitude of fold. The departments of 
Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, Edu¬ 
cation, News, and Miscellany, are all ad.mirably 
sustained. The editor’s page is well-stored, and 
he is sustained by a class of correspondents who 
have profited largely by science and experience.— 
The Rural New-Yorker is a weekly journal; and 
though it gives due prominence to agricultural mat¬ 
ters, it also furnishes n larger and choicer variety of 
reading than does the great maiority of journals 
claiming to be ««a^-papers. 
We can recommend nothing better, in its way, 
to farmers; or to farmers’ good wives; or to all 
young ladies w'ho everexpeetto become g«od wives; 
or to any and all, of whatever sex or age, engaged 
in rural, economical, and industrial pursuits, than 
the Rural Neto- Yorker, published at Rochester, N. Y., 
at .$2 a year. — Mich. Clir. Herald. 
MoOre’.? Rural New-Yorker. —Published’oy 
D. D. T. Moore, city of Rochester, on the other side 
of the lines, is one of the prettiest and best Week¬ 
lies that comes to this office. It is emphatically 
the Farmer’s Paper. While it gives, as its name 
imports, due attention to agricultural interests, it 
neglects not the grace of literature, the skill of sci¬ 
ence, the spice of miscellany, or the fresh budget 
of news. We like it—we read it—which is saying 
more than vre can say in behalf of all pi pers that 
pay us a visit. Read the following frorn its pros¬ 
pectus and, if so inclined, send your names and 
shillings this way, and the paper shall be yours 
while the funds last.— Oshawa ( C. W.) Reformer, 
Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. —We welcome 
this agricultural journal to our exchange list. There 
is no work of the kind that excels it in the country. 
D. D. T. Moore, Rochester, N. Y. is the publisher, 
which is assurance enough for the work that it can- 
no-t be surpassed.— Portage Co. {O.) Whig. 
The Form of the New-Yorker. 
Our remarks in No. 48, relative to the form of 
the New-Yorker, are concurred in by all w'ith whom 
xvc have conversed upon the subject, as well as by 
many correspondents and brethren of the press.— 
Indeed we are confident that any change in the 
form of the paper would lessen, instead of increase, 
its prosperity and usefuliie.es. We observe, by the 
way, that several periodicals now published in oc¬ 
tavo, are to be issued in quarto form on the first of 
January—and for the very reasons specified in our 
former article. 
_The editor of the Ovid Bee thus alludes to 
the manner and matter of the Rural : 
“Text,” and “Context.” —In Moore’s last 
Rural New-Yorker a correspondent writes urging 
that that paper be published in a more condensed 
form suitable for binding, etc. This is put under 
the head “text,” while under the head of “con¬ 
text,” friend Moore very conclusively shows the 
superiority of its present form, and we think him 
right, and further, were he to consult the opinions 
and preferences of his numerous readers, in our 
judgment, he would be sustained in this paiticular 
ten to one. We think the form of the Rural could 
not be changed for the better; and we doubt very 
much whether its general appearance, the choice 
selections it contains, or the able manner in which 
it is conducted, could be much improved. We 
think it indeed a “model” Agricultural and Family 
Newspaper, and the only wonder is how it can be 
printed weekly and afforded to subscribers at .$2 
per annum. 
Items of Foreign News. 
New York. Dec. 12—10 A. M. 
The America arrived at Halifax Yesterday, at 8 
A. M. 
Sales 1,000 bales of cotton at a decline of J.— 
Western flour 18a21s. 6d. Corn, 30s. for mixed. 
31s. for yellow, and 32s. for white, which is an ad¬ 
vance. Corn meal 15s. Provisions dull. 
The Catholic excitement has increased in Eng¬ 
land and Scotland, and serious riots occurred in 
Birmingham in consequence. The Magistrates 
and Police were driven back by the mob. The 
Cross finally restored quiet. 
The excitement had no effect in Rome. 
News from the Continent is of a war-like char¬ 
acter. 
A despatch from Paris announces that the Prus¬ 
sian Government have negotiated a loan of £10,- 
000,000 sterling with Rothschild, in London. 
American stocks dull and unchanged. 
England, 
It is said that the high church party will strive 
at the approaching session of parliament to abol¬ 
ish all titles of honor from Romish ecclesiastics 
in Great Britain, Ireland and the colonies; also 
to repeal the Maynooth grant, and all other pay¬ 
ments to Romish ecclesiastics; to abolish the na¬ 
tional system of education in Ireland; restore the 
Irish bishoprics, and add largely to the number 
of English bishoprics; to banish Jesuits and al¬ 
low no Romish ecclesiastics to reside in England 
who have not taken the oath of allegiance to her 
majesty. Also, that all dissenters in parliament 
shall be excluded fron. voting on church questions, 
and forbidding the ministers of the crown to give 
her majesty any advice on ecclesiastical matters; 
making it the exclusive duty of the archbishops 
to advise upon all matters affecting the church, 
whose power it is proposed to mako judicial ts 
well as moiiasterial. 
Commenting upon the riot at Birkenhead tbe 
i.iondon Times says, after charging the fict to 
Rev. Mr. Brown, catholic priest, that this is a 
foretaste of the good lime coming, in which we 
are promised that we net only are to have a bish¬ 
op of the Roman church in every diocese, but a 
priest in every parish, to promulgate periodically, 
in the name of heaven, discord, division, and ha¬ 
tred throughout our land, but a host of subordi¬ 
nate agitators ready, whenever they see their op¬ 
portunity, to lash into fury the brutal passions of 
the most ignorninous and unreflecting of man¬ 
kind, and to avail themselves of the unbounded 
influence which the position of a Roman catho¬ 
lic priest confers on them wherever the construc¬ 
tion of public works may call together a large 
number of Irish laborers, and thus give them a 
numerical superiority.” 
The second anti-popery meeting was advertised 
to take place in Biikenhead on the 4th inst , 
which it was apprehended would be attended with 
another and more fearful riot. Meantime war¬ 
rants have been issued for the arrest of Father 
Brown and other Catholic gentlemen who'took 
part in the first disturbance. It is said that par¬ 
liament will be called together earlier than usual, 
in consequence of the prevailing anti-popery ex¬ 
citement 
Ninety-six out of 216 passengers in the emi¬ 
grant ship Edmond, from London, perish in the 
wreck of that vessel off Limerick. 
There is a report from Liverpool that the steam¬ 
er Baltic sustained injury in her machinery on 
her passage from New York, and that she was de¬ 
tained, in consequence, some thirty hours. No¬ 
thing ie said of this in any of the papers. 
The Great Exhibition of 185L 
The crystal palace is to be enlarged to the ex¬ 
tent of 45.000 superficial feet, to make room for 
extra exhibitions. 
On Tuesday morning the gltziers and many of 
the laborers employed on the building struck for 
an advance on wages. On a disposition being 
evinced to create a disturbance, the police were 
called in. The glaciers complain that they can 
only earn 223. per week by piecewoik, and the la¬ 
borers stale that they have only half an hour for 
dinner. 
Mr. Funnell, a workman in the employ of Mr. 
Schenk, watchmaker, Brighton, is constructing 
a watch smaller in circumference than a three 
penny piece for the exhibition of 1851; but it is 
uncertain whether he will be able to complete it in 
lime. 
Mr. A. Applegarth, the eminent machinist, has 
received a commission to erect a great printing- 
machine, on his latest principles, for the Exhibi¬ 
tion of ’51. It is intended to be used to throw off 
copies of the Illustrated London News, in three 
languages, before the visitors. 
From Vienna accounts have reached us of a 
magnificent and costly contribution, which a fur¬ 
niture manufacturer of that town is sending, li 
will consist of four rooms of a palace, each ep- 
proprlately furnished and decorated, "rhe mate¬ 
rial is a peculiar Indian wood, rather lighter in 
color than rosewood, and it is sculptured in the 
most artistic manner after the chastest designs of 
eminent artists. The bedstead alone, which is 
already completed, cost 12,000 gulden, about 
£1200; and the cost of the other articles is in pro¬ 
portion. 
The subject of the charges for admission into 
the exhibition is one which is occupying lh#at- 
tentiou of the Executive Committee. No defi¬ 
nite arrangement has yet been come to upon the 
subject. 
The Havre Journal states that the Descartes 
•steam frigate, now at Cherbourg, has been order¬ 
ed to proceed to Havre, to take on board the arti¬ 
cles of French manufacture intended for the grand 
Exhibiticn in London. 
It has been arranged that c number of French 
and other foreign detectives shall attend the Ex¬ 
hibition to watch the movements of foreign pick¬ 
pockets. 
The Official State Canvass. 
We shall publish (he Official State Canvaise in 
a day or two. We glean from it the following 
aggregates of the votes in the several Congres¬ 
sional Distiicts :— 
1st District.7,803 19th District.10,033 
2d “ .14,799 - 2(itb “ .15,629 
. 7,863 
19th District. . 
.. .10,633 
.14,799 
2(itb 
. . .15,629 
. 7,013 
2l8t 
“ 
. . .15,303 
. 8,136 
22(1 
, . .17,354 
. 8.594 
23d 
“ 
. . .16,348 
.15,414 
2Ith 
• • 
. . .11,982 
. ».225 
Soth 
• 4 — 
. . .14,210 
.12,168 
26ih 
• « 
. . .15,213 
.11,379 
27ilj 
. . .12,221 
.15,004 
28lh 
41 
. . .11,695 
.l',823 
29ih 
. . . 13,:i53 
.11,486 
30th 
«• 
. . .15 925 
. 13,805 
3l8t 
44 . 
. . . 13,781 
. 10,827 
32d 
t 4 — 
. . .12,073 
. 10,843 
33d 
44 - 
. . . 9,459 
.15,916 
31Ui 
«4 . 
. . .11,( 92 
.12,83-2 
. 12,044 
Total . 
. .426.96 
« 
[Alb. Jour. 
Bank qv Corning. —The notes of the Bank of 
Corning are now redsemed at their agency in 
this city, the Mechanics’ and Farmers’ BanJk.— 
Alb. Jour. 
City Items. 
-Thanksgiving Day was generally observed 
in this city. The morning was pleasant and good 
congregations attended the churches at which ser¬ 
vices were held ; and the afternoon, though some¬ 
what stormy, answered very well for sleigh-riding 
and capitally for Turkey eating. And farther, we 
may adopt the language of thtf Tribune, to say that 
“ Of the home-doings, of the consociation of 
near and dear friends, of the greetings of families 
heart-knit but seldom congregated in the body, of 
the feats of Sir Silver Spoon and the Herculean 
labors of Marshal Carving Knife, of the fearful de¬ 
vastation of Turkey and the lavish wasting of 
Grease, of the fair and fowl proceedings illustrated 
with cuts and plates, of the heavy drafts upon Cork, 
of the raisin’ of figurative and other fruitful themes 
of conversation and enjoyment, we need not 
speak; they are fresh in the memory of the reader.'” 
- Chester P. Dewey, Esq., has become an 
associate in editorial department of the Daily 
American of this city. Mr. D. is a young gentle¬ 
man of fine talents, excellent education, and varied 
literary acquirements, and is fully equal to the ro- 
sponsibilites of the position. 
-The snow falling to-day, (Monday, P. M.) 
seems such as will last longer, than that hereto¬ 
fore, turned out from the same manufactory.— 
The sleighing although thin during the week, has 
been such as to bring in much produce from the 
country. 
-Dr. Nott, President of Union College, will 
lecture, we understand, this (Thursday,) evening, 
in Corinthian Hall, before the Athenseum and 
Mechanics’ Association. 
Items of News, &c. 
5[:^Tho population of Chemung County is 
26,2-46. ^ 
51^'" Rev. Mathew Hale Smith has been admit¬ 
ted to practice as a lawyer in Boston. 
51^” The late king Louis Phillippe, possessed 
property in England to the amount of £100,000. 
51^” The catalogue of Hamilton College for tbe 
year 1850-51, shows a total of 139 students. 
The New Hampshire Convention have 
voted that the Governor shall bo elected for two 
years. 
The Tribune publishes a table which shows 
that the YVhig majority, on the Assembly tickets, 
was 9,765. 
Gen. James Wilson, late M. C. from New 
Hampshire, arrived at California on the 31st of 
October. 
The Secretary of the Treasur}- reports the 
coinage at all the mints up to Nov. let to be S18,- 
657,600. ^ 
There is a 12mo bible published at Concord, 
N. H., in which the sluggard is directed to go to 
his " axint,” as a pattern of industry. 
Ex-Governor Wm. Plumer, of N. H., 
died at Effing in that State, last week, at the ad¬ 
vanced age of 94. 
Of the 97 paper mills in the State of Mas¬ 
sachusetts, 32 are in Berkshire Co.; and of these 
32, 19 are in the town of Lee alone. 
Sing Sing Prison has 771 State Prisoners 
—696 males, 75 females.—A bad population in a 
small space. 
Every boat from New Orleans has more 
or less cholera on board, confined principally to 
emigrants. 
Alfred Tennyson has been appointed to 
the office Poet Laureate, made vacant by the death 
of Wordsworth. 
The liberal sum of $40,000 has been re¬ 
ceived for the sale of pews in the new Presbyteri¬ 
an Cburch in Syracuse. 
51 ;^'" Porpoise skin leather, said to be of most 
excellent quality, as soft and pliant as kid, while 
it is strong and tough, w'as exhibited at a recent 
Industrial Exhibitionin Montreal, Canada. 
1^” Kent, the person wounded in the affray 
with the Irish, at Baker’s Bridge, Allegany coun¬ 
ty, N. Y'., a few days since, died of his wounds on 
Monday week. 
Adonijah Maxam, supposed to be the last 
survivor of the band who accompanied Ethan Al¬ 
len in the bold experiment against Montreal, in 
Nov. 1775, died in Sharon, on the 23d uh. aged 97. 
E3^ Geo. YVilliams and Thomas Brown, who 
robbed and murdered Mr. Harvey J. Hewett, at 
Peoria, Illinois, have been tried and found guilty of 
murder. 
E^^ The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the 
American Colonization Society is to be held in 
Washington, on Tuesday, the loth of January 
next. 
E^:^ The Plamilton Woolen Mills ’Ll South- 
bridge, Mass., were destroyed by fire on the 8th 
inst. Over 700 persons have been thrown out of 
employment. The cause of tho fire is at present 
unknown. 
The huge bones raised from the bottom of • 
fine Wakulla Spring, by Mr. George S. King, tho 
Newport (Florida) Times says have been shipped 
to New York. They will doubtless attract tho at¬ 
tention of the learned in such matters. 
There are in Lowell Mass., twelve manu¬ 
facturing corporations, with a capital stock of $13,- 
210,000. The number of mills is fifty ; spindles 
319,459 ; looms, 9,985 ; females employed, 8,260 ; 
males employed, 3,744; cotton consumed per 
week, 653,000 lbs ; wool per week, 69,000 lbs. 
E^” The Commissioner of Pensions publishes 
that under the Bounty Land Law, where service 
was performed by subsliinte, the latter is entitled 
to the land. That marines serving in any war re¬ 
ferred to in the Act ath entitled !o land. And that 
no seaman or perso\»elonging to the Navy prop¬ 
er, is entitled. ^ 
The Ice Trade. —Exports of Ice from Boston 
during Nov. last, 4853 tons—total for the present 
year, 68,869 tons — increase over last year, 6961 
tons. Calcutta takes 1627 tons annually. The 
remainder is exported to tho West India Islands 
and Southern cities. 
An influential professional gentleman who resides 
in an adjoining county, thus writes us relative to 
the Rural: — “ With the commencement of the 
new year 1 hope to make up quite a list for you.— 
I certainly never saw a newspaper combine more 
excellencies than the Rural New-Yorker. The 
farmer, hi^ wife, his grown up sons and daughters, 
and his little children, may all read it with pleas¬ 
ure and profit. Were I a farmer I could never be 
satisfied with a monthly agriadturalpaper, however 
EXCELLENT IT MIGHT BE. Success to you, my old 
friend, and if ever I realize the fond hope of one day 
owning and occupying a small, well tilled farm, the 
Rural shall make its weekly visits to ray domicil, 
and the editor shall be very welcome also.” 
