MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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ROCHESTER, MAY 21, 1853. 
Resources of California. 
The recent Census of California gives mucli in¬ 
teresting information relative to tlie Productions 
and population of that remarkable State. The 
estimated value of capital employed in Agricul¬ 
ture, Real Estate, and Improvements is $108, 
522,568 ; of this amount $17,547,447 is employed 
in Mining. The Live Stock is valued at $18‘- 
903,714, and the Agricultural Products at $6,162,- 
040. Horses last compare with those of the other 
nized in the neighborhood by its standing a lone 
v 4, i b jJ U 1| v v v v « monarch of the field. Mr. Davis sawed oft' several 
-cuts from the butt, and split them into spoke 
Incidents of Travel Westward.—No. 2. timber. The heart of the butt cut — perfectly 
Arrival at Cleveland, Description of the City- sound, and six'inches in dirmeter-came out by 
high price of City lands, and value of Farming itself; and on it were the strokes of a thin, sharp 
lands near the City—Coal trade of the City ; An- ax, by which it was girdled all round, when a 
nnal amount used in the Lake regions—An East- sapling, but not sufficient to destroy its vitality. 
ern Tobacconist, Remarks on thc culture and use (Ifc could U()t have been done by a tomahawk.) 
PUBIilSHElt’S NOTICES. 903,714, and the Agricultural Products at $6,162,- 
OP” Agents.—A ny person so disposed can act ns a?ent q |q Horses last compare with those of the other 
for the Rural New-Yorker,— and all who remit accord- g ,, g f () p owg . 
ing to terms will be entitled to premiums, &e. ’ „ 
,, Iu horses California is in advance ol nllecn ot 
tw The Rural is published strictly upon the cash . . 
system -sent no longer than paid for -and all orders the States ; in mules of twenty-six States ; milcli- 
should be in accordance with terms. cows stock of twenty States barley only equaled 
J3P”Our lowest club price is SI,23 for anynumberof by New York ; potatoes next to New York and 
copies over 20 —and Si,50 under that number, unless a more than one-half of all produced in the Union; 
full club of twenty is ordered. wheat greater than ten of the States ; oats, three- 
advertisements must be brief, appropriate to the fourthg of tbe othe ,. Statcs . h excee ding nine 
objects of the paper, and accompanied with the cash. 
___ of the States ; fruits, exceeding all the States m 
Additions to Clubs—A re still in order. Hav- variety, and one-half of them in quantity produced, 
ing but few back numbers, agents and others can j u ^ wo years the population has increased thir- 
ern Tobacconist, Remarks on the culture and i use 
of ‘'the Weed” in the United States. 
Cleveland, Ohio, May, 1853. 
On the morning of the 28th, some twelve hours 
•jTetos JlhebiHes. 
-Martin Yan Buren has taken passage for 
Europe. 
-There is an unmarried young lady in Bos¬ 
ton who is taxed for $320,(100. 
-The wheat crop through the whole valley 
of Virginia, is said to be very promising. 
-There are $14,000,000 in the Sub-Treasury 
The girdling was made six feet from the ground, vaults of New York, Boston and Philadelphia. 
and the strokes of the ax sent upward. Over this 
The formal opening of the Ohio and Pcnn- 
from Buffalo, we°arrived in Cleveland. No city wound ’ the fcree had g rown dl round to ,he ,hick " s Y lvauia Road > took l )lace 0,1 Monda Y ,lieH;th ' 
west of Boston surpasses this in points of real 
beauty. It has, at the upper end of Main street, 
a Park of several acres, covered with small trees ; 
and contains a great number of charming resi¬ 
dences, surrounded with ornamental shubbery, 
lawns and flower gardens. It has five Banks, six 
Presses, eighteen Churches, five 1st class Hotels, 
two Medical Colleges,— one Homeopathic, the 
other Allopathic,— one Marine Hospital, besides 
a Court House and Jail. Iu 1840 it contaiued a 
ness of thirteen or fourteen inches — making the 
tree almost three feet in diameter. And on 
counting the circles or grains, (which every wood¬ 
man knows, or may know indicates the true age 
of the tree,) the}- amounted to two hundred and 
sixteen. Query —who did it ? 
S. PlEKSON. 
American Bible Society. 
Tiik thirty-seventh annual meeting of this So- 
. i a. rtKi f * , ci quuii ajl uuotr ami ejau. jui ioiu it cuuuuucu a -- ~—*j — -- ^v 
order additions to Clubs at $1 per copy from 1st t y per cent., and it is thought that id ten years it lation of 6)000 , and Ohio City, across the ciety was held on the 12th inst, at Metropolitan 
A v... 1 ir. oml I to vpar and volume —; 11 i_i_ t _i.1...1 nni___... v I ’ ’ .. ..._ __ . 1 
of March or April to end of the year and volume. w ill have, at least, quadrupled. There are, as at 
New Clubs, or single subscribers, can begin 1st present estimated, 308,000 inhabitants, the annu- 
March, April, or May, as preferred. al increase being thirty-nine per cent, greater than 
■ . -----— - : that of the other States. At this rate she will 
The Season and the Crops. soon become the most populous and wealthy 
. T " , TT member of the Confederacy. 
The season is quite backward. U ntil the pres¬ 
ent week the weather has been unusually cool and Tlie hlstoi 7 of California is without a parallel, 
wet though generally favorable for the wheat The power of self-government and the energy of 
crop fruit Ac. In this region, particularly, over- the indlvidual man > are bere di8 P ]a ? ed be Y 0,ld al ‘ 
river, 2,000. Now the former has 25,000, and the Hall, in New Y ork city. The attendance was very last week. 
-The late Amos Lawrence gave to Williams 
College, at different times, the sum of $40,000. 
-A Church for Father Gavazzi, the Italian 
patriot, is about to be erected in the city of New 
York. 
-“Those intolerable nuisances” called run¬ 
ners, have been discontinued by the Cleveland 
Hotels. 
-Oberlin College has 835 students, of whom 
378 are females. It is in a highly flourishing con¬ 
dition. 
-Dr. Cook, well known as a surgeon in the 
last war, died at Portsmouth, Va., on Monday of 
latter 8,000. Cuyahoga, an Indian term, meaning b,, 'S e > aud attentive, lhe past year has been one 
crooked, is the name of the stream separating ol ,nucb prosperity—one in which more has been 
these two cities. accomplished than in any previous year. Still 
-Major Thomas Stevens, a soldier in the 
Revolution, died in Brookeville, Me., 011 the 7th 
accomplished than in any previous year. Still ' nst -, a g ed 90 yeais. 
better things are honed of He nveaenf. voav ns He „ — Ifc Was t boU S bt that a11 of tbe of 
-We said Cleveland was decidedly the most better tbin S 8 are ho P ed of the P re8ent >' ear ’ as the Napoleon the First would prosecute them claims 
beautiful city west of Boston ; and we will here completion of the new publishing house gives in- before the tribunals. 
add, that in our opinion, (and we think it will not Cl ' eased facilities for this part of the work. But-Twenty-seven thousand emigrants em- 
be disputed,) it surpasses in points of artistic the Biblical wants of the world still go far beyond barked at Liverpool for America aud Australia 
beautv. all other cities of the Union ! It is ele- the pecuniary resources of the Society. The re- du ™g lbe ™nth of April. __ 
beauty, all other cities of the Union ! It is ele- 
coats continued in demand until the middle of Precedent. Never were such varied elements, so yated gome seventy feet abovo tbe level of the pom present the following statement: 
May, up to which period we had scarcely a warm 
day, and no settled, sunshiny weather. Since Sat¬ 
urday last, however, there has been a decided im- 
provemeut; the sun has been visible some ten or 
twelve hours a day, aud reflected a most genial 
heat—which, together with occasional showers, 
hath hasteued vegetation of all kinds, and mate¬ 
rially aided the husbandman. Ibis is the first 
harmonized together before,—never before so 
completely, were tbe false distinctions of wealth 
and caste set aside. The man of work—hard 
work—in no matter what business or profession 
—here stands up the peer and equal of the proud¬ 
est—self-confident and self-sustaining. And, 
what an energy—a self-re-emperating power—has 
been displayed in the rebuilding over and over 
Lake. The buildings are costly, aud erected in 
the most modern style of architecture. The large 
number of forest trees that in all parts of the city- 
tower up their beautiful branches, arrayed in tbe 
richest foliage, render it a paradise, and has given 
it the name of the Forest City. The streets are 
broad, and cross at right angles. On a former oc- 
-A new Bank, with a capital of $1,000,000, 
is about being established in New Orleans, under 
Sixty-five life directors, and 1,318 life members tbe new p,ee Banking law. 
have been constituted during tlie year. Sixty- .... , ■ , . 
seven new auxiliary societies have been formed, .- ™ ,llnn abimfc ? ear ’ e ^ bt steamers, valued 
most of them in the new States aud Territories. f ne " ] 7 a m \ ,lloa and a T ,arter of dollars, have 
The entire receipts of the past year have been beu} lo8t on the Pacific coast 
$346,542 62. an increase of $37,797 61 over those - 111S sald that the United States revenue 
of the previous year. The number of Bibles and from all sources, the present year, will amount to 
w a,e Testaments issued lias been 799,370, being an in- at least sixty millions of dollars. 
Moad, and cioss at 1 iglit angles. On a former oc- crease of 133,355 copies over the issues of the pie- -It is stated as a fact, that sixteen acres of 
casion, we passed through many of the principal vious year, and making an aggregate of 9,088,352 land in the Bowery, N. Y., were once sold for one 
streets, on a warm morning iu June, and owing since the formation of the Society. Of these is- fat chicken a year during the seller’s life, 
to the vast amount of foilage that overhung our sues tbu ^7*’ bd ’77^ bave been donations,and-A new Masonic Hall isabout to be erected 
warm and comfortable week of the season, whereat a g ain - almost before tbe ashes wcre c<)ld of her 
mankind rejoiceth, and Nature is radiant with life burnfc towns and clties - How fuU of new enter ' 
Rochester F. M.—New Candidate. 
and beauty. 1 i'“" ,u ‘ u 8 ,0 «■ 
So far as we are informed the wheat crop of P an - flockm S to Australia, and opening America 
Western New York has passed the winter and fco tbe Chinese, and China to the world through 
spring without material injury, and generally has tbe bfluence of her ^turning emigrants, 
a promising appearance. Our advices, per papers Whoshall return to predict the future of Cali- 
aud letters, are also favorable in regard to the crop bmda • 
in other sections and States, with the exception of T3U4. 
localities not well adapted to its growth, or where _. 
a failure is not unfrequent. Yet, the crop is sub- Inasmuch as President Pierce is unable to de¬ 
ject to so many contingencies between this and c jd e among the many Richmonds in the field for 
harvest time, that no great reliance can be placed He Postmastership of our goodly city, we beg 
upon statements made so early in the season. to suggest a new candidate—one whom the peo- 
The most that can be safely said, is, that the crop p] e will approve, and to whom politicians and the 
looks well at present, promising, extraordinaries party democratic, can offer no reasonable objection, 
excepted, a good yield. The same remark will As n man every way fit for, and worthy of the 
apply to most kinds of fruit grown in this legiom office and the honor, we respectfully present our 
so far as we have observed or are advised. brother of the quill and scissors,—Maj. Hiram 
‘ ’ Bumphrky of the Daily Advertiser newspaper.— 
Merit Unapp reciated. With all due respect for the able gentlemen 
An article in a late number of the N. Y Tribune, whose claims bave been P rGsented ™ d urged in 
entitled “ Aoriculture Advancing” calls forth a Rie P ro P er quarter, we submit that neither of 
prise are her people, planning expeditions to Ja- pathway) we we re compelled to rank Cleveland bv'TheauxihririS 80111 ’ ^ ^ ^ ^ iu Pldladel P bia > at aa ex Pense of $100,000. The 
far above any other city of the West. 
Cleveland is the terminus of no less than fix 
by the auxiliaries. 
Thirty-two agents have been in service, two of 
whom, iiev. Dr. Bond, of Missouri, and Rev. Mr. 
Railways, and one Canal. The site of the “Forest Po * k,ck ’ °{ Alabama, have died much lamented. 
n -. ,, TT f r f 4- f . 4- m • tbe books sent forth, more or less have gone 
City ” Hotel, covering 60 feet front on Main street, t0 every St ate and Territory, to the West Indies, 
about 200 feet on Public Square, was sold six to Brazil, to all the Republics of Spanish Ameri- 
years since on ten years credit, for $10,000. Now ca, to Turkey, India, Chin; 
exclusive of buildiugs, its estimated value is uo °* tbe Pacific, 
less than $40,000. Lands for farming purposes, in g m.dciroE^the & 
within five or six miles of the city, sell readily for Russia, and at twelve forei 
$100 per acre ; from six to twelve miles distant to the amount of $24,000. 
they range from $30 to $60 the acre. — The new building of 
It is now about ten years since the coal trade T? TT lh '. ee ' c l" artu '', 
f . stories high, aud occupies tl 
oi Cleveland began to form an important branch Third aud Fourth Avenues, 
of its business. The use of coal in houses as fuel, street. It has a front of s< 
front is to be of brown stone, and to cost $20,000- 
-Large discoveries of copper are said to have 
been made on the estates of Ex-Governor Thomas 
and Peter Heins, in Allegany county, .' aryland. 
-Nine head of cattle from Cuyahoga Co., 
Ohio, were sold at Buffalo recently, for $5,000.— 
:a, to Turkey, India, China and to several Islands ^, be Y aie be seu f 1° (Ae New York World s 
of the Pacific. Fair. 
Grants of money have been make towards print- -The London Times circulates 20,000 copies 
ing and circulating the Scriptures in-France and daily, according to the information obtained from 
Russia, and at twelve foreign missionary stations the pressman. The number has been stated at 
to the amount of $21,000. ^ 40,000. 
lhe new building of tbe American Bible So--Canal business has been very active this 
ciety covers three-quarters of an acre. It is six month. O11 the 13th more boats were weighed 
stories high, aud occupies the whole block between at the Lock iu this city, than ever on one day 
The new building of the American Bible So¬ 
le coal trade c ' e ty coveis three-quarters of an acre. It is six month. O11 the 13th more boats w 
stories high, and occupies the whole block between at the Lock iu this city, than ever 
'taut branch Third aud Fourth Avenues, Aster Place and Ninth before. 
of its business. 'The use of coal in houses as fuel, street.. It has a front of seven hundred feet, and 
is rapidly extending, because it is safer am depth of fifty, with a court yard in the centre — 
Merit Unappreciated. 
An article in a late number of the N. Y. Tribune, 
entitled “Agriculture Advancing” calls forth a 
cheaper, and wood every year is becoming scarcer. 
But coal is called for chiefly to put machinery in 
The paper is so delivered at a door in Ninth st., 
on the lower floor, and to be carried up by de- 
grees, passing through the different stages of the 
motion, and is fast supplanting every other agent, work until it arrives in books at tlie depository in 
and all other fuel for that purpose. It is the the sixth story. Of all the gigantic manufactories 
great motive power of the world for mechauical | batl bavu been erected in New York during the 
vengeful reply from the associate editor of the them is more deserving of the place, power and 
Daily American of this city—Dr. Lee,— who is 
also the principal editor of the Southern (Ga.) Cul- 
perquisites to be conferred. And if the Presi¬ 
dent desires to settle, satisfactorily, what has be- 
tivator, and proprietor and chief editor of the conie a vexed question, the object can be ac 
Genesee Farmer. The Tribune’s article makes uo 
pretensions to science or profundity, but cites cer¬ 
tain facts, and commends several agricultural jour¬ 
nals —omitting mention of the two above named .— 
To this omission may, possibly, be attributed our 
complished by the appointment of Maj. B.— for 
we are confident that nine-tenths of our citizens 
would rejoice thereat, while a division of “ tbe 
party ” would be avoided. The President will 
please consider himself memorialized—aye, in- 
Religious and Charitable. —The financial im- 
neighbor’s tirade — wherein the Tribune audits 
editor are stigmatized with such elegant phrases 
as “ humbug,” “ ridiculous parade,” “ ambitions 
organ of abolitionism,” “ leadership of the aboli¬ 
tionists,” and similar profoundly logical appela- 
tives. The Dr. ought to be more grateful, iu re¬ 
membrance of the fact that the Tribune not long 
the Tribune and its I strncted-on this subject; and if, after proper in¬ 
quiry, he does not appoint the Major, we shall 
be constrained to place him among those of whom 
it is said, that 
“ They know the right, and they approve it too, 
Condemn the wrong, and still the wrong pursue!’’ 
Fatal Accident.— In Buffalo, on Friday after- 
great motive power ot the world tor mechanical , v , u „ 
, . , .. ,. last year, this is the only one that will have no 
purposes, aud is every day finding new apphea- Hvals and make no money. Y r et its products will 
ri°hs. be exported all over the v 
The coal business cannot be said to have been of all the rest, 
regular at Cleveland before the year 1833. The Y 
average receipts at this port for ten years, from portance of some 0 f the 
’33 to ’43 were 6,2/0 tons, and from ’43 to ’53 been holding anniversarie 
59,840 tons, annually. At this rate of increase worth noticing. Thus tin 
the receipts for 1862 would be more than ten times ple 
that of 1852, or more than 1,379,260 tons. From Number of Sunday schools,-. . 
. . ... . Officers and teachers,. 
this exhibit, the citizens ol Cleveland can easily Scholars,. 
-The late disaster at Buffalo, is quite up to 
the mark of the times. We hear of “appalling 
catastrophes” every day. Human life is at a dis¬ 
count. 
-The English census iu 1851, gives 20,400 
places of worship not belonging to the Esiablished 
Church. Those belonging to the Establishment 
about 14,000. 
-A blind book dealer from Cincinnati, at- 
be exported all over the world, aud outlast those tended the recent trade sale at New York, and 
of all the rest. proved himself a better judge of books than any 
-- dealer present. 
•Judge Thomas, an old and well known 
portance of some of the Associations that,have citizen of the West, in a fit of insanity, commit- 
been holding anniversaries in New York city, is ted suicide at hLs residence at Mt. Vernon, O., a 
worth noticing. Thus the receipts the year past few days since. 
make an estimate of the future consequences ol 
the coal trade, aud its influence upon their local Scholars in infant classes,. 45,632 
nrosDeritv Expenses of schools,. §69,091 
piuspc uy. Amount raised for Sunday School Union . $7,258 
In Ohio, a mine that does not average three feet, Sunday School Advocates talcen,. 100,584 
or one yard, iu thickness, is not considered worthy Conveibio,lhi . 13,213 
of being wrought; but in most of the mines, the ^ Below we givc the 6Ummary of Sunday 
broken and tlnn ground, that cannot be wrought, School statistics in the Methodist E. Church : 
is greater than that wheie the coal exceeds three Am. Tract Society amounted to,. $385,286 68 
a llle -The State of Maryland has recently paid 
dumber of Sunday schools,-. 9,074 to the captors of Chaplin, charged with the abduc- 
ifficers and teachers, . 98,031 tion of slaves, $ L,150, distribuiting the sum amoug 
/Glumes in libraries, . 1,402 010 d oozui pci sons. 
Able classes . 7,213 -The Irish in the United States, and their 
since gratuitously published a “ first rate notice” noon of last week, a four story granite building, broj£en and Uim " roum1, that cannot be wrought, School statistics in the Methodist E. Church : found in its stomach. 
of one of his journals—a “ puff ” of the Southern which was being repaired aud remodeled in con- ,s £ rea * er lban tb?R where the coal exceeds three Am. Tract Society amounted to,.$385,286 68 -The Dr. Dwight who was killed a 
Cultivator, written by its editor (the Dr.) for the sequence of the removal of an inside wall, fell in feek An acre y ields about 3 > 200 tons > so lhat ab ^men^fieMd s’ociei'v. m walk ’ had been a r 7 idcnt of Mosc T ° T w > Livi 
_ „ „ ^ _ ’ (l.„ 1... -Li- n 1_l_1 . ocauiou s riicuu oooieiy,... ZO./S.l Oil vr V fin Airtv vi.ar«. Ho who a 
bleclasses.... 7,213 -The Irish in the United States, and their 
holers in infant classes,. 45,632 poorer friends in the United Kingdom, produce, it 
nou.it raised for Sunday School Union,. §7!25s ,s said - °ue-half the correspondence carried on by 
mday School Advocates taken, . 100,584 the two nations. 
inversions, . 13,243 -A sturgeon weighing 101 pounds was shot 
j ~ at Milwaukee. It had come up in pursuit of 
Below we give the summary of Sunday minnows, nearly two quarts of which fish were 
bool statistics in the Methodist E Church : found in its stomach. 
n. Tract Society amounted to,.$385,286 68 -The Dr. Dwight who was killed at Nor- 
Patent Office Report, but excluded by the Com- J upon 
missioner ! From the talk about ‘ abolition”—the ruins, 
condemnation of flax culture, and proclivity to ruins 
cotton—in our neighbor’s article, we conclude it jured. 
was written for his Southern paper, and publish- —— 
ed in the American by mistake ! We notice, 
however, that Mr. Greeley’s paper has not yet 
been discontinued, and it will probably survive 
tbis powerful demonstration. ,. , 
upon the workmen, burying them beneath the 
ruins. Six persons, have been taken from the j 
ruins, dead, and several others'more or less in- 
Notices. 
the coal hitherto brought to Cleveland, has ex¬ 
hausted only about one hundred and eighty acres 
ini. Kemile Guardian Society,. 12,772 37 
Home Missionary Society,. 171,734 24 
Am. and Foreign Christian Union,. 67,507 00 
of actually wrought coal, Gr about eighteen and State Colonization Society,. 
two-fifth acres annually. The only other resource Am ' Sun day School Union,. lo,uou 00 
for bitumnious coal now used to supply the Lake Great Lumber Business. —Chicago is decidedly 
region, is that found in the State of Illinois, the the lumber city of the Lakes. An immense coun 
county, N. Y., for Jkirty years. He was an esti¬ 
mable citizen, 52 years of age. 
-A boy sixteen years of age, died in New 
York city a few days since of hydrophobia — or 
what was supposed to be hydrophobia — caused 
by the bite of a dog four years ago. 
-There is a venerable Pear tree in N. York 
The Westmister Review for April contains an 
article on “Educational Institutions of the Uni- 
Unfortunately for their future prosperity, all the , , , ,, ,, D .. , T „ .. , . 
. . ,, . , , ‘ * ted States,” another on “British Philanthrophy 
journals favorably noticed by the l nbune are , T , ,, , ' ,7 
J ,, \ . "U ^ , aiid Jamaica Distress,” another on “ French Poll- 
condemned by a stroke ot the Doctor’s pen. But ,, ,, . ,. .. ,, 
. , * , . , „ I cy,” another on “Early Christianity,”—reviews 
if our neighbor’s ourcals are the only Simon c.rri . , -, ir . ,, . 
l - , J of “Thackeray’s n r orks,” and of “ Ruth and Yilet- 
Here we met with an Eastern Tobacconist, on week, of seventeen vessels lorded with lumber Bank of O nondr ga, representing Stock to the 
s way to Wisconsin, to secure by contract the l!0, 7 <dran nni^,nn r ’^ W °i- , PdvGrs ’ ^7' amount of $50,317, were recently sold at auction, 
.banco crop raised in that State this season. Al- and brought but $13,505. Poor security, that! 
•pares, how happens it that several of those men- 
. , ta,” and the “ Cotemporary Literature of Europe 
Honed by the I nbune are rapidly surpassing the , , • „ rp , ... . . 1 
f . , . , . _ « T - , and America.” The young poetical genius, Alex 
former in circulation and influence? Is it be- 0 ... ,, .. r . 0 _ 
tobacco crcpraisedin that State this season. Al- gj es> two large masts, and a deck load of timber. ’ Y v ’ f ’p"""i 1 a • 'iir' ’ • " 
though tobacco is oue of the most exhausting --- 1 lie sale of Canal lands in Illinois com- 
, . . , , , ,, , , . 0 t a n, ii 1 ,. , . mence.t on the luth. 1’rairie land brought trom 
crops, (restoring nothing back to the land,) yet 5®” Judge Stoddard, a venerable and promt- $i ^ $5 acr6| and timbered $8 t0 f 6> being 
becanse it pays from $100 to $150 per acre, o ltlze “ <d Cleveland, died on the hth inst., average of 70 per cent, above the appraisement. 
many farmers 111 the west are engaged somewhat was persona n y known to Gen. Washington, and - No fewer tban ] - 5n ° sbad wero brought 
extensively in its culture. In 1850, New York was a raemoerbf (lie original Connecticut Land from Hanford to Springfield, Mass., on the 5th 
raised 83,189 lbs. of the weed. Ohio raised the Company, of‘which Samuel Mather, Esq., of inst., many being engaged at that place, and otli- 
same season, 18,480,967 lbs. No less than 199,- Cumi - is now the sole survivor. ei ' s bound for points to tlie north-east and west. 
532,494 lbs. was raised in the United States in IS?" Tbe Htest news from China is highly im- -' rbe Boa, ' d of Trustees of the village of 
iQ-n n • Tt 9 tui konooi 1 • 1 portant. The insurgent army had taken the city Owego have resolved that no licenses for the sale 
I8o0. Cui Louo . That its use is alarmingly on f Nankin and were in full nossession of it s',', of intoxicating drinks shall be granted. So all 
, , , ,, . Smith, is also favorably noticed. New York: L- 
cause the reading classes are so lamentably igno- 0 f , K ., 
, 0 . . Scott & Co., $3, per annum, 
rant that they cannot appreciate merit ?—or is it _ 
possible that the Dr., instead of “ the rest of man- Phelps’ Bee-Keepez’s Chart ; being a Practical 
kind,” is at fault and a trifle superannuated ?— Treatise on the Instinct, Habits and Manage- 
Of course our neighbor’s nerves and opinions are ment of the Honey-bee, m aPlt ^ i E loa8b ^ ncb - 
not affected by the fact that several of the papers Saxton, 1853 * ' 
named by the 'tribune, are rapidly gaining favor , r ,, , . , . 
, , J . ,. .. u/t, n little pamphlet is put forth as “ the re- 
aud patronage in all sections of the Union, while ,, . 1 1 . J , 
c ,. .. , . . , suits 01 many years practical experience, to ren- 
the circulation of his pet journal—the principal 
Ho der bee-keeping less difficult, and at the same 
crops, (restoring nothing back to the land,) yet Judge Stoddard, a venerable and promi- 
becanse it pays from $100 to $150 per acre, uei| t citizen ol Cleveland, died on the Hth inst., 
. . ,, , . aged 86. He was born in Northampton, Mass.— 
many farmers in the west are engaged somewhat u ? as per80Iia i ly known to Gen . Washington, and 
extensively in its culture. In 1850, Lew York was a memocrlof (he original Connecticut Land 
same season, 18,480,967 lbs. No less than 199,- Cumi - is now tbe sole survivor. ’ ei 's bound lor points to the north-east and west. 
532,494 lbs. was raised in the United States in The kitest ncws flom Cbina is highly im- -T |ie Boa, ' d of Trustees of the village of 
iQ-n n • 9 TUfiR,,™' 1 • 1 portant. The insurgent army had taken the city Owego have resolved that no licenses for the sale 
I80O. CuiBouo. That its use is alarmingly on () f Nankin and were in full possession of it. So of intoxicating drinks shall be granted. So all 
the increase is quite evident, for it is stated on serieus had tlie aspect o-’ affairs become that tlie public houses within the corporation have closed 
good authority, that the people of the United throne of his Celestial Majesty was considered to their bars. 
States annually smoke up the value of all their be tottering, and that it could only be sustained -Henry S. Fitch, of San Francisco, offers a 
■ Henry S. Fitch, of San Francisco, offers a 
“ medium” of the profound theories which are to . 0 ’ 
„ at 1 J 7 or non tirae more 8ure » profitable and pleasant, tban it 
“save the Nation”—has decreased some 25,000 , ^ , . ,, , 1 . ’ 
, , has formerly been.” The author is the inventor 
lecen > • . , and patentee of the Ohio Combination Bee-Hive. 
Lamenting the way in which the balance of _ 
organic nature is destroyed” the Dr. adds that A(r Elementary Treatise on Book-Keeping by 
export of wheat iu Spani-h cigars. The city of b >' lhe anned iulerventioa of lhe Euro P eai > P owere - P rize of $ 1 1 °’ 000 fo '' tb f. most f comjirehensivc trea- 
m v o non j ,-i r • The whole number of deaths ascertained t,se u P on lhe construction ot a Railroad from the 
“no adequate remedy is prescribed or even con¬ 
templated, by the leading quack or the agricul¬ 
tural journals which the Tribune patronizes.” In 
other words, none of these journals teach the 
Doctor’s cotton, potato starch, and other theories; 
and the probability is that one of them, at least, 
Single and Double Entry, designed for Com¬ 
mon Schools. By S. W. Crittenden, Account¬ 
ant Philadelphia : E. C. &. J. Biddle, 1853. 
This is a very valuable little work for the pur¬ 
pose which it is designed to answer, that of iui- 
New York alone spends $18,000 daily for cigars, fo , )ave reau i tec | f 10 m the catastrophe at Norwalk Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, together with colla- 
while $8,500 buys her bread, and $5,000 suffices ; 8 forty-five. Of this number, nine resided in N. teral subjects. 
to pay for 100,000 the milk which is daily pur- Fork city, five in other parts of the State, and 24 -The New York Sunday School Union held 
chased and consumed in the great metropolis. in New England. There are included two clergy- (heir annual meeting on Tuesday, the 10th inst., 
“ O would some power the giftie gi’e us men, 8 physicians, 16 women and 2 children. on which occasion nearly 20,000 children were 
To see ourselves as ithers see us.” LfM" lhe total arrivals of passengers at San assembled at different places, and addiessed by 
S. B. Rockwell. Francisco, from the 1st of January to the 1st of abR speakers. 
April, were 10,203, and the total departures du- 
A great tornado passed over tlie lower part 
An Ancient Oak. 
ring the same period 9,256. So the State has of Princess Anne county, Virginia, May 10th. 
Le Koy, N. Y , May, 1853. 
Editor of the Rural: —Dear Sir,— I have 
gained but about 1 000 inhabitants by emigration 
during three months. 
number of houses were swept off, and everything 
was prostrated. Four lives were lost, aud many 
persons wounded. 
-A bill has been reported by a Committee 
and the probability is that one of them, at least, P °f " . “ S < S ! g ‘ 1 answer, mat ot mi- Rural--D ear Sir-I have There are nearly five hundred prisoners in peraons wounded. 
never vrill-tfcM hi, mUm hav, ben prcff„-«l *** » rt »”<' «J*«7 <* 1° J e „ ' bown ” rarion , rclic Mli „„ itv »' IWI^ta. In the —A bill has been reported by a Committee 
, 1 ‘ u keeping Accounts—a most necessary accomplish- lecently been snown a cuuous renc ji antiquity. Western Institution the labor of the convicts has of the Canadian Parliament to close the Canals, 
for that purpose . ment to every one. Mr. Porter P. Dayis, of Stone Church, cut down covered the cost of their substance during the Post Offices, Ac., on the Sabbath. There are a 
— We have usually avoided any allusion to the -_ a large white oak tree on the farm of Mr. Martin year, and has paid four-fifths of the salaries of the great many petitions for the measure, aud no re- 
Farmer, except when we could speak of it in A correspondent of Fred. Douglas’ Paper, Kelsey —half a mile south of Stone Church, and odlce18, ^ monstrances against it. 
favorable terms,—but when its editor condemns 'Says that Rev. Josiah Henson, a colored preacher a mile and half north of Fort Hill, Genesee Co. I® 7^ db ,' n * wen ty niiles of Buenos Ayres, a 1 he Directors of the New Y ork and New 
„ _ ^ . , ,, . » ., farmer bought, last year,eight thousand fat sheep Haven Railroad have published a statement re¬ 
tire Rural, w.thout argument or reason, because and fugitive slave, who resides at Dawn, Canada Tins tree, probably on account of its majestic at eigUeen 6 penCfi per dozen Indeed, mutton is so spooling the Norwalk disaster, iu which they im- 
it is commended by the leading newspaper in West, is the real Uncle Tom represented in Mrs. beauty, has been spared by tbe woodman near plentiful iu that country, that hogs are fattened pute the whole blame to the engineer. But the 
America,we must recognize the compliment. Stowe’s book. half a century, and been long known and recog- upon it. public will scarcely agree with them. 
