MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ROCHESTER, DECEMBER 24, 1853. 
SPECIAL NOTICES-TO AGENTS, &c. 
JJ3” Agents.— Any person so disposed can act as agent 
for the Rural New-Yorker, — and all who remit accord¬ 
ing to terms will be entitled to premiums, &c. 
23” Thu Rural is published strictly upon the cash 
system — sent no longer than paid for— and all orders 
should be in accordance with terms. 
83” Our Unrest club price is $1,25 for any number of 
copies over 20 — and $1,50 under that number, unless a 
full club of twenty is obtained. 
83” In making up clubs for the Rural, the Wool 
Grower and Stock Register can be added at 35 cts. a copy, 
which is the lowest club price. 
J3” Agents, and those remitting for clubs, will please 
send Bank Bills or Drafts on New York, instead of 
Cheeks on local banks. 
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O address correctly—the name of your Post Office {not 
Town,) County, and State. 
p-gf” Those wishing their papers changed from one ad¬ 
dress to another, should give the names of both Post 
Offices. 
J3” Extra numbers of the Rural will he forwarded 
to all disposed to aid in augmenting its circulation. 
Close of Volume Four.— The Future. 
This number closes the Fourth Volume of the 
Rural, and our contract with a majority of its 
subscribers—all whose subscriptions expire with 
the year and volume. According to our publish¬ 
ed terms, a renewal of subscription is necessary 
to insure the continuance of the paper. Those 
who would secure the early and complete num¬ 
bers of the new volume—(we take it for granted 
that each has already decided to subscribe again, 
or some member of his family saved him the 
trouble)—should renew without delay, by calling 
upon tlie nearest agent, joiningor forming a club, 
or remitting separately. We trust every friend of 
the paper will do what he can consistently to¬ 
ward augmenting its circulation and usefulness in 
his own neighborhood and vicinity. 
— In regard to the future, we have little to 
say in this connection—having previously an¬ 
nounced our arrangements for the new year and 
volume. We may add, however, that the pros¬ 
pects of the paper are far more flattering at this 
moment, than ever before. Already its friends 
are sending in lists for the new year and volume 
—while not a day passes it) whicli we do not re¬ 
ceive a score of requests for specimen numbers, 
and promises to form clubs in places where the 
Rural is comparatively unknown. Former friends 
and agents write us that the paper gives almost 
universal satisfaction, and that the number of 
subscribers will, in many instances, be largely 
increased. Under such flattering auspices, we 
take a temporary leave of our numerous readers— 
wishing each and all a “ Merry Christmas ” and 
a “ Happy New Year,” and hoping that we shall 
have the pleasure of presenting every one of them, 
and thousands more, on the fifth of January, 1854, 
the best and handsomest paper, obtainable. 
A Holiday at Last ! — Almost ! 
For four long years we have labored almost 
constantly—sometimes wearily, but always hope¬ 
fully and earnestl}’—without a seasonable holiday 
during the whole period. “ Christmas” and “ New- 
Year” have usually been busy days with us—and 
we have even been necessitated to attend some¬ 
what to Rural interests on each “ Glorious 
Fourth.” But now the “good time coming” has 
arri ved. There are fifty-three Saturdays this year 
—and as no one expects over fifty-two numbers 
in a volume—especially of such a paper es the 
Rural —we are “ bound” to recreate and cele¬ 
brate—Editors, Printers, Clerks, and all hands! 
Therefore, we shall issue no Rural next week.— 
This may be sad news to those who think they 
cannot “ keep house” without a visit from our 
pet—but it will be all the better, and more ap¬ 
preciated, when it does appear—in a new dress, 
and with a fresh cargo ! But, alas ! we fear that 
same new dress, <fcc., will spoil our comfort—for 
is it not to be “ cased” and “ fitted” and all that 
sort of thing—occupying much of the time we 
ought to have for recreation ? And then, our 
friends are already pouring in lists of new sub¬ 
scribers, which must be registered and “ booked.” 
Alack-a-day ! At this rate when shall we] find 
time to visit Uncle John, and all the cousins— 
who are so sour at our “ distant” behavior, and 
solemnly declare we think more of the Rural 
than all our out-of-town friends and relatives ? 
— Lest some of our subscribers should be dis¬ 
satisfied, we add that all will receive the full 
complement of papers to which they are entitled 
—as we count by lumbers and not by time, or 
weeks. No weekly paper, we believe, gives over 
fifty-two numbers for a year or volume—some 
“ resting” a week, and others commencing a new 
volume before the new year. As we wish each 
volume to begin with the year, we adopt the for¬ 
mer course—and take our rest (?) now, instead 
of the first week in July, as did some cf our Sat¬ 
urday contemporaries. 
The “Rural” as a Present. —Many of our 
subscribers, at home and abroad, send the Rural 
as a present to distant friends and relatives. For 
the information of all interested,and in answer to 
inquiries, we would state that where the paper 
is sent as a present we never charge over $1,50, 
and when it is sent by the getter up or member 
of a club, only the club price is asked, no matter 
where the p-iper is forwarded. Reader, perhaps 
you cannot make your distant father, son, broth¬ 
er, mother, sister or daughter, a more interesting 
or acceptable Christmas or New Year gift than a 
copy of the Rural. What is your opinion ? 
Congressional Summary. 
Congress as we said before will do nothing es¬ 
sential in legislation until afterjlhe holidays ; un¬ 
less indeed, the passing of a few resolutions and 
the tabling of a few others, may be deemed es¬ 
sential as indictive of the tone and temper of the 
two houses. Several resolutions have been in¬ 
troduced in different form, declarative of the pow¬ 
er of the general government to lend its aid to 
the construction of a Pacific railroad ; all of which 
have been tabled by very large majorities. The 
fact is, the numerous schemes now on footamoDg 
speculators to bleed the treasury at every vein, 
have thoroughly alarmed the whole country, and 
materially strengthened the hands of the oppo¬ 
nents of internal improvement by government.— 
Witness for instance, the Pacific railroad compa¬ 
ny organized under a law of this State; and 
known in common language as the railroad of 
Chatficld cfc Co. To the stock of this road Bun¬ 
combe subscriptions have been made of millions 
by men notoriously bankrupt, with the settled 
determination of besieging the treasury of the 
United States, for a loan of fifty or a hundred 
million in aid of their gambling and stock jobbing 
operations. 
Robert G. Walker, Mr. Polk’s late secretary 
of the treasury, is a stockholder in the scheme to 
the amount of $10,000,000 ; and it is asserted of 
him that if he would pay his debts to the banks 
in connection with which the State of Mississippi 
is involved, that State would not now be laboring 
under the reproach of repudiation. With such a 
scheme on foot, and a hundred others equally 
outrageous, there will be presented a strong com¬ 
bination of leeches prepared to bleed ; and Mr. 
Guthrie will need the aid of Cerberus himself, 
the three-headed dog that guarded Hades’ inex¬ 
orable gates. 
The Adamantines, with the opposition mem¬ 
bers of the Senate, have defeated the administra¬ 
tion candidate for public printer to that body, 
and elected Bervely Tucker of the Washington 
Sentinel, one of the hardest even of the Adaman¬ 
tine democracy. The Union is very sore over the 
result. Trouble is anticipated as to the confirma¬ 
tion of some of the Presidential nominations.— 
On Monday resolutions in honor of the late Sena¬ 
tor Atherton of N. H., were introduced into both 
houses, eulogies pronounced, and the houses ad¬ 
journed over for the day. 
Judicial Infamy. 
It is well known that some time since the 
United States Marshall with a posse, attempted 
the arrest of a fugitive slave at Wilkesbarre, 
I’a., and that the fugitive resisted the offisers, and 
succeeded, after being wounded two or three 
times by pistol shots, in making his escape.— 
The officer and his assistants were arrested on a 
charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, 
and were discharged from arrest on a writ of 
habeas corpus sued out before Judge Grier, of 
the U. S. Supreme Court. 
Of the policy or justice of the law, of the con¬ 
duct of the officers in the attempted arrest, of the 
manly and fearless vindication of his liberty by 
the slave, of the propriety of the discharge by the 
judge, we, at this time, express no opinion. It is 
in regard to an extra-judicial declaration of Judge 
Grier, uttered two years ago, and made public 
in connection with this affair of which we speak, 
and which if true, ought to subject its utterer to 
impeachment and eternal infamy. 
“Before Gilbert Burrows, a Justice of the 
Peace in and for the county of Luzerne, and State 
of Pennsylvania, personally came John L. But¬ 
ler, of Wilkesbarre, in said county, and being/luly 
sworn, deposeth and saith as follows, viz : 
About two years ago, I met Judge Grier in the 
city of Washington, D. C. The Judge asked me 
if I knew one Gilderslcve, of Wilkesbarre. I re¬ 
plied that I did ; that he was a respectable mer¬ 
chant, and conscientious good man. Judge Grier 
said to me, I hear that he harbors negroes, and 
gives them arms. I replied, he may harbor ne¬ 
groes, but I think he would not arm them.— 
Judge Grier then requested me to tell Mr. Gil- 
dersleve from him, that if he, Gilderslcve , should 
ever be brought before him he would hang him ; 
which message I delivered to Mr. Gildersleve on 
my return home. J. L. Butler. 
Sworn and subscribed, Oct. 28, 1853, before 
me. G. Burrows, Jr.” 
Tbe declaration is no more or less than this; 
that Judge Grier will use the tremendous power 
of the highest judicial tribunal in this country, to 
hang a man, innocent or guilty if ever an oppor¬ 
tunity occur 1 The supreme judges of the Unit¬ 
ed States are the only judicial officers in the 
country who wear robes while discharging the 
sacred functions of their office, and that of Judge 
Grier ought to be ornamented, like those of the 
convicts of the Auto Da Fe, with devils, and ser¬ 
pents, and flames of fire 1 
Heavy Damages for Libel. —Some five years 
ago Mr. Fry, of New York, an opera manager, 
sued Bennett of the Herald for libel. It appears 
from the evidence that Bennett entered upon a 
systematic course of persecution with the avowed 
intention ofruining Fry, because the latter declin¬ 
ed to advertise in the Herald ; and that he, (Ben¬ 
nett) has pursued this course for years in the 
most unrelenting and vindictive manner. The 
cause has been continued in court by tbe “ law’s 
delays” for five years ; but is closed at last with 
a verdict against Bennett of $10,000, damages, 
and the costs, which the Tribune says, amount to 
$7,000, more. Rather a costly affair this, for the 
editor of tbe Herald ; and his contemporaries say 
the punishment is richly deserved. This is the 
heaviest verdict for libel ever obtained iu this 
country. 
Reader, if there is no agent, or club forming 
in your vicinity, don’t neglect to forward your 
own subscription to the Rural —provided you 
desire to be posted properly, and preserve peace 
(and have a good school) in the family. Or, bet¬ 
ter still, form a club of six, ten or twenty, and 
secure an extra copy free, and also a premium. 
The Cash vs. Credit System. 
As we have before said, the cash system is the 
best for both subscriber and publisher. It is the 
only true system for all interested—and has work¬ 
ed most admirably in our case, giving almost uni¬ 
versal satisfaction. Indeed, it presents so many 
advantages to all parties, over the old (we had al¬ 
most added “fogy”) plan, that we are surprised 
at its not being more generally adopted—as it 
would be, if paying subscribers to credit papers 
understood how they were taxed to cover losses by 
delinquents ! Gentlemen all, send us the money 
with your names, and the Rural shall be forth¬ 
coming according to terms—and you shall be per¬ 
fectly welcome to all the numbers forwarded af¬ 
ter your subscaiptions have expired. The Rural 
must stapd or fall upon its own merits, and will 
never intrude where not wanted—though it occa¬ 
sionally pays a specimen visit without special in¬ 
vitation. 
— An instance in point. A few days ago we 
received a letter and enclosure from a gentleman 
in Tompkins county, requesting us to call upon 
a certain publisher, pay for two copies of his pa¬ 
per to date, and stop them if possible. He stated 
that he had previously “paid up,” and requested 
a discontinuance, but his efforts were vain—the 
publisher seeming determined that himself and 
friend should take the paper for life ! Instances 
are net rare in which people are saddled, and rid¬ 
den too, in a similar manner. Not long ago, a 
city friend, on subscribing for tbe Rural, to be 
sent for a year to a oistant relative, (which many 
do, by the way,) remarked, substantially—“Now, 
stop it at the end of the year, unless I subscribe 
again. Once I sent a Philadelphia paper to a 
friend, paying for it a year, and ordering it stop¬ 
ped then ; but they continued it for years—my 
friend supposing it paid for—when, finally, along 
came a bill of eight dollars, figured at the highest 
rates I That was cool,” he added, “but I’ll be 
blamed if it was right or honest.” And so thought 
his listeners. Still—but “ comment is unneces¬ 
sary.” 
Catholicism vs. Savings Banks. 
Father 0’Cali.aghan, the Catholic priest of 
Burlington, Vt„ in a pamphlet published some¬ 
time since, denounces those valuable and philan¬ 
thropic institutions, the savings banks, in most 
unmeasured terms. Among other tilings, he says: 
“The devil has entered some people in these latter 
days, that they think, or pretend, that faith only, 
in Christ Jesus, justifies them, apart from their 
own works and deservings, and that they may 
give full scope to their love of money. The ser¬ 
pent having thus corrupted their hearts, throws 
out a fresh bait to them by the invention of savings 
banks about the year 18 L2, in England. Having 
for two hundred years in ]bis net the rich, by 
means of banks, funds and stocks, he seeks to 
haul tn by the new invention the souls of the 
poor.” 
The Congregationalist suggests that the cause 
of the Rev. gentleman’s invective is the fact that 
“ tho dollars which drop from the Irishman’s 
purse upon the counter of the savings bank, and 
which go toward the comfort of his future infirm 
hours, do not drop into the hand of hither O’Cal- 
laglian.” “ Any man, be he priest or layman, 
Catholic or Protestant, who denounces well con¬ 
ducted saving’s banks, and discourages the la¬ 
borer from reserving a portion of his earnings to 
deposit therein, is either a fool or a scoundrel, 
and deserves to be branded through the commu¬ 
nity as a foe to his race ! 
The Weather.— Winter is upon us in good 
earnest at last, unmistakably. Blue noses are not 
now confined exclusively to the British provinces, 
but have invaded in a kind of filibustering expe¬ 
dition the United States. Will Queen Victoria 
please to issue a proclamation reclaiming them 
from their lawless expedition ? Snow has fallen 
here to the depth of 8 or 10 inches, “ and all goes 
merry as a marriage bell.” The very elements 
are becoming Adamantine, and the Softs are like¬ 
ly to have a severe time of it—apples and pota¬ 
toes included. 
The canal itself has become rebellious, for the 
Commissioners had fixed upon the 20th to shut 
it up against further navigation ; whereupon the 
refractory ditch took the matter out of the hands 
of lawful authority, and shut itself up on Satur¬ 
day night. The Commissioners, very justly in¬ 
dignant at such a spirit of insubordination, drew 
tbe water off on Tuesday. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUEB FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
[For the week ending December 13.J 
James Cochrane, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
proved hydrant-valve. 
John Comstock, of New London, Conn., for im¬ 
provement in bit stocks of braces. 
Normon Cook, of New York, N. Y., for mode 
of fixing the colors of cotton umbrellas. 
Carmi Hart, of Bridgeport, Conn., for improve¬ 
ment in car wheels 
Jos. Nock, of Philadelphia, Pa., for hinge for 
inkstand covers. 
F. S. Hotchkiss and C. W. Blakeslee, of North- 
field, Conn., for improvement in spring-clamps for 
clothes-lines. 
Melvin Jinks, of Wayland, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in turnkeys. 
Wesley E. Merrill and Freeman Tupper, of 
Nashua, N. H., for improvement in bedstead fas¬ 
tenings. 
Jos. E. Nessen, of Buffalo, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in harvesters and binders. Patented iu 
England August 27, 1853. 
Cbas. Page, of North Danvers, Mass., for im¬ 
provement in sectional bedsteads. 
Joseph Sawyer and Lyman Clark, of South 
Royalston, Mass., for improvement in peg rasps. 
Jno. Wilmington, of South Bend, Ind., for im¬ 
provements in machines for cutting sheet metal. 
Joel It. Bassett, of Cincinnati, O., assignor to 
James B. Williams, of same place for improved 
pump valves. 
Jno. Butter, of Buffalo, N. Y., assignor to James 
Sully and Jno. Butter, of same place for improve ¬ 
ment in machines for moulding brick. 
The Premium Mules of Kentucky. — Three 
pair of mules, which have been exhibited and 
taken premiums and received very high praise 
and flattering notices of the press at Louisville, 
Lexington, Paris and Danville, Ky., will arrive in 
New York in a day or two, and will probably be 
publicly exhibited, as two pair are for sale, the 
other pair having been engaged by Mr. Jackson, 
iron founder, at $1,000, if they answer the de¬ 
scription given by the papers and private par¬ 
ties. These mules are three years old, and not 
fully grown, but are now over 17 hands high, and 
we suppose from what we have read of them, are 
the best three pairs cf mules ever hitched up to¬ 
gether. They are owned by G. J. Salter, one of 
tbe largest mule drivers in the South-Western 
States. We undeistnnd that he is bringing them 
here more as a matter of pride and show than 
with a hope of profit. His object is to let the 
New Yorkers see what Kentucky can produce 
in this kind of stock, and perhaps by introducing 
such animals into our streets, open a market for 
them here which may be profitable hereafter.— 
V. Y. Tribune. 
THE MARKETS. 
ROCHESTER, Dec. 21.—Prices have not essentially 
varied since last week. Flour is selling at $7@7,25._ 
Wheat $1,57 and supply light. 
Dressed meats are active, and private families are ob 
taining more liberal supplies in consequence of the cold 
weather, which allows it to be kept longer fresh. Pork 
brings $5@5,50. Beef $4,25@5,25. Poultry at last quota¬ 
tions, and so of other things. 
1!) -— Flour > straight State $7; Can¬ 
adian $6,87@7; Western $7@7,06. 
, Gkain-W heat scarce-red Southern $1,62; best white 
1°3 7U ; wh te Cann,iian ®l-74. Oats dull and heavy at 
4!)@a Sc. Barley, two-rowed, 82c. Corn plenty and low¬ 
er at 7be to 82c. 
PROV’smxs-Dressed hogs $6. T.nrd <>>£@10%. Butter 
State dairies lb@19c. Cheese 7>£®9Lc. 
ALBANY, Dee. 19.—Nothing doing in Flour. Wheat, 
white Genesee sold at $1,80. RyeSl. Com 75©76c for 
new, and 82@83c lor old. Oats 45@46c. Dressed lie's 
sold at $ 6 (© 6 , 2 d for ordinary, and $0,51 for extra. 
BUFFALO, Dec. 19.—Market quiet. The only whole¬ 
sale transactions are 300 bbls. of Wisconsin flour at 86 124 
and 200 bbls. Michigan at $6,25. No sales in grain. ’ 
THE CATTLE MARKETS. 
NFW YORK, Dec. 11.—Beeves—Prices range 7 to 10c 
per It). Cows and Calves sold at from $3fl@45. Veal 
Cahes 4@7c. Sheep and Lambs took a wide range, sav 
trom v'3@13. Hogs sold at 5c, live weight. 
BRIGHI ON, Dec. 15.—Beef cattle declined in price_ 
ranging from $6,25 to $7,25 Working oxen, $68 to $115 
Cows and calves, $20 to $42. Stores—Two year old. $12 
@18, three year old, $21@33. Sheep—Store sheep $2; 
those to slaughter $2,50 to $7. Swine—dull; sales 5 @ 6 %- 
at retail from 5% to 7>£c. 
CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 14.—Cambridge markets do not 
vary essentially from the Brighton. 
A Brave-Hearted Boy. —A friend has furnish¬ 
ed us with the particulars of a.thrilling incident 
that happened in this county. On Sunday, the 
6th of this month, two of the sons of John Ham¬ 
mond, who lives about nine miles southwest of 
Greensborough, were playing about a shaft sunk 
for mining purposes, when "the youngest, about 
six years old, lost his balance and pitched head 
foremost into the shaft forty feet deep. His 
brother, twelve years old, immediately let down 
the bucket, descended by the rope and timbers, 
gathered up his brother, who had his leg broke 
by the fi ll, put him in the bucket, ascended the 
rope, drew up his brother and carried him on his 
back home something near a quater of a mile, be¬ 
fore he even called for help. The little sufferer is 
doing well.— Greensborough Patriot. 
Postage in England.— Letter postage is cheap 
in England, and the number of letters transmitted 
by mail has amazingly increased since the cheap 
system was adopted. It is stated that there now 
pass dail through the post office, 156,000 letters, 
and 40,000 papers more than in 1846 ; the num¬ 
ber of letters per week 7,700,000—more than 
400,000, 00 in a year. But even now John Bull 
grumbles at the rate of postage, and gravely puts 
the following puzzling query :—Why is it that a 
passenger and his baggage, weighing together 
from 200 to 300 pounds, can be carried from Lon¬ 
don to Paris for £3, and that a similar weight 
THE EURAL FOR 1854. 
Rare Inducements to Agents and Others. 
As heretofore announced, the Fifth Volume of 
the Rural New-Yorker, for .1854, will be mate¬ 
rially improved, the Proprietor having determined 
that it shall in all respects excel either of its 
predecessors, and all contemporary journals. He 
also offers greater inducements than ever before 
to each and all disposed to act as agents or form 
clubs. The attention of all interested is respect¬ 
fully invited to the following list, of very liberal 
PREMIUMS FOR SUBSRCIBERS ! 
1. SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS, ix Cash, to the per¬ 
son sending us the greatest number of yearly subscribers 
(six month subscriptions to be counted proportionally) 
to the Rural New-Yorukr- remitting payment accord¬ 
ing to our club terms—previous to the loth of April, 1854. 
2. hit r\ DOLLARS, in Cash, to the person sending 
us the second largest number, as above. 
3. THIRTY DOLLARS, in Cash, to the person send¬ 
ing us the next (third) greatest number. 
4. TWENTY DOLLARS, in Cash, to the person send¬ 
ing us the next (fourth) greatest number. 
5. FIFTEEN DOLLARS, in Plate or Books, to the 
person sending the next (fifth) greatest number. 
6. TWELVE DOLLARS, in Plate or Books, to the 
person sending the next (sixth) greatest number. 
7. TEN DOLLARS, in Platk or Bools to the person 
send the next (seventh) greatest number 
JANUARY PEEMIUMS! 
1 . TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS, in Cash, to the per¬ 
son sending us the largest number of subscribers, accord¬ 
ing to our terms, previous to the 1st day of January, 1834. 
2 . Fit TEEN DOLL A RS, in Cash, to the person send¬ 
ing the second largest number, as above. 
3. TEN DOLLARS, in Cash, to the person sending the 
third largest number as above. 
23“ Persons competing for these Premiums must mail 
their remittances on or before the 31st of December. 
They are not excluded from the April prizes, so that one 
person may secure One Hundred Dollars, in Cash. 
[In order lo give Subscriber^, Local Agents and Post- 
Masters a fair and equal chance, traveling agents, post- 
riders and citizens of Rochester are excluded from com¬ 
petition for any of the above Premiums.]] 
SPECIFIC PREMIUMS. 
In order to reach and reward every one who mav lend 
a portion of influence in support- of the Rural New- 
Yorker, we offer to those who do not compete for either 
of the preceding prizes, the following liberal gratuities : 
1. FIVE DOLLARS, in Cash, or a copy of Webster’s 
Unabridged Dictionary, (or $6 in Ag.’l Books,) to each 
person sending payment for fifty or more yearly copies 
(six month subscriptions proportionally,) according to 
our terms, previous to the 15th of April, 1854. 
2d. FIV E DOLLARS, in Books, or four extra copies of 
„ , , , , , s ZQ - ri v c. nuu. t\ no, in Books, or four extra conies of 
ot letters cannot be conveyed over the same tile Rural, to every person remitting payment for fortv 
frrnnnt] fV\r loco tlvin -Pi QQft I Qn A A 9 nr mnrA KiihvAfihorQ nc nhmm 
ground for less than £1,386 13s. 4d ? 
Mrs. Bloomf.u, in the last number of her jour¬ 
nal, The Lily, says :—“ Our husband having pur¬ 
chased an interest in The Western Home Visitor, 
published at Vernon, Ohio, and determined upon 
removing to that place forthwith, we, as a true 
and faithful wife, are bound to say in the lan¬ 
guage of Ruth—‘ where thou goest I will go;’ and 
so before another number of the The Lily reaches 
its subscribers we shall, if all is well, have settled 
in our western home.” 
Back Volumes, Numbers, &c. —In answer to 
inquiries on the subject, we would state that we 
cannot furnish back volumes of the Rural, the 
demand having each year far exceeded our calcu¬ 
lations. Last year our clerks saved a few extra 
copies, by placing them aside with regular 
files; and this year have managed to keep in 
like manner, some fifty copies of each number 
for binding. Hence we shall be able to furnish 
a few bound copies of this volume. We have tho 
regular numbers of this year from 1st of July last 
—and copies of many of the numbers of the pres¬ 
ent and preceding volume, from which missing 
numbers will be supplied to subscribers, gratis. 
We can furnish all the back volumes of the 
Wool Grower and Stock Register — price 
bound, 50 cents each. The first four volumes, 
bound in paper, and the fifth (now publishing) in 
numbers, for $2. 
India Rubber for Railroads. — Tbe Albany 
Atlas says:—The New York Central Railroad 
Company have assumed the expense of laying 
one or two miles of Rubber under their tracks, 
intended to obviate the present destruction of 
rails and machinery, and to do away with the 
noise attendant upon the motion of” trains. If 
the use of rubber at a reasonable expense, will 
effect both tbe objects sought, it is difficult to 
say who would be most pleased—the companies 
by the saving of machinery and cars, or tbe pas¬ 
sengers by the absence of noise and jarring. 
The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided 
that portion of the liquor law submitting the 
question of “ license or no license” to a vote of 
the people, to be unconstitutional. The effect of 
this decision will lie to permit all who may give 
the required bond to deal out liquor in quanti¬ 
ties to suit purchasers. 
5IST The ladies who went up on the Lake 
Shore Road on Thursday week, evinced a proper 
spirit of iudignation at the destroying spirit which 
has been rampart there for a few days past.— 
When they arrived at Erie they would not even 
eat a cracker there, and refusing to ride round Ihe 
break in Erie wagons, they walked the whole 
distance. 
t$f”The property on Broadway and the south 
corner of Courtland st., fifty feet front by one 
hundred, has been leased at $8,000 per annum 
for fifteen years, the lessee to put up a building 
costing $50,000, to revert to the owner of the 
ground on the expiration of the lease. A bonus 
of $100,000, has been offered for the lease, and 
refused. 
Dr. Cutler, of Knoxville, and one of his 
daughters, and D. S. Jolly, were arrested on 
Wednesday last, at Corning, charged with coun¬ 
terfeiting. Two or three other persons, were ar¬ 
rested on the same charge. 
On the evening of the 30th ult., Chas. C 
Williams, 3d Assistant Engineer of the Arctic, 
while on duty in the engine room, came in con¬ 
tact with the starboard-side lever, and was in¬ 
stantly killed. 
On Saturday evening, on the Old Colony 
Railroad, the draw at Nepunset bridge was left 
open, when a powerful locomtive, with tender 
and two baggage cars, went through. No lives 
lost. 
2^" The convict labor in the Clinton County 
State prison, has been let to the Messrs. Kings- 
lands, citizens of Kee-ville. The prisoners will be 
principally employed in the manufacture of iron 
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