MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND TAMILI NEWSPAPER, 
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peacefully, to the tree exercise of that right, and 
must he protected in the enjoyment of it, with¬ 
out interference on the part of the citizens of 
any of the States. 
The last three columns and a half of the 
message, which the President brings in under 
the head of “ Constitutional theory of the Gov¬ 
ernment,” it seems to us good taste would have 
omitted altogether. The President descends 
from his lofty position as the Chief Magistrate 
of the whole people, to enter the arena of sec¬ 
tional politics, giving all the right and rectitude 
of intention to the one side, and all the wrong 
and bad intention to the other. Now, it is 
questionable if ever a quarrel occurred under 
heaven, where there were not some right and 
wrong on both sides. With the above excep¬ 
tion, the message is a creditable document, and 
would do no dishonor to the best days of the 
Republic. 
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cessary to secure the regular continuance of the paper. 
It appears from the Report of the Secretary 
of the United States Treasury, that the foreign 
imports of all the ports of the United States 
(including, of course, California and Oregon,) 
foi- the fiscal year ending June 30, 1855, were 
$261,382,960, against $305,780,253 for the pre¬ 
decline of $44,367,293. 
— The jail of Essex county, N. Y., is tenantless. 
— The population of Louisville is estimated at 74,000. 
— T. S. Arthur sat upon a tailor’s board until 21 years eld. 
— A fellow has been arrested in Montreal for robbing the 
“ poor box.” 
— The value of steamboats in the West, is estimated at 
$36,000,000. 
— Judge Darrey, formerly Chief Justice of Maryland, 
died on Tuesday. 
— The Missouri Legislature has adjourned without eleet- 
ing a U. S. Senator. 
— The Opinione, of Turin, announces the arrival there 
of Smith O’Brien. 
— No franking privilege exists in England. 
Queen has to pay her penny. 
— N. S. Benton, Esq., of Herkimer, has been appointed 
Auditor by the Canal Board. 
— The new dome of the capital at Washington is to rise 
300 feet above the basement. 
— The number of males in 'Wisconsin is greater than 
that of the females by over 42,000. 
— Mr. W. Russell, the Times correspondent in the Cri¬ 
mea, is about to return to England. 
— A wild man, seven feet high, is roaming through the 
great Mississippi bottom in Arkansas. 
— The Harlem river is about to be opened for navigation 
between the North and the East rivers. 
— The U. S. Treasury statement reports that there were 
$22,753,000 subject to draft on the 25th ult. 
— P. P. F. Degrand, one of the oldest and most respected 
brokers, of Boston, died Sunday night week. 
— Tapestry has passed out of fashion in France ; new 
and rich articles are supplanting the worsted work. 
— A woman advertising for a husband wants him to be 
not only “strictly religious,” but of “good character.” 
— Dr. Barth, the German traveler, who has just return¬ 
ed to Europe, traveled twelve thousand miles in Africa. 
— The exports from Toronto to U. S. ports this year have 
been 524,092 bushels of wheat and 115,382 barrels of flour. 
— There was not a single Protestant organization in 
Belgium twenty-five years ago. 
ceding year, showing a 
The total exports from the United States to for¬ 
eign ports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1855, were $275,156,846, against $278,241,064 
for the preceding year, showing a decline of on¬ 
ly $3,084,218. It will be Seen from this that, 
while for the year 1854 the imports exceeded 
the exports $27,539,189, for the last year the ex¬ 
ports exceeded the imports $13,773,886. 
The tables further show an increase, during 
the last year, of $10,102,864 in the imports of 
free goods, but a falling off of $51,253,807 in 
dutiable merchandise, and $3,246,250 in specie. 
Of the total exports of specie for the last year, 
$53,957,418 were of domestic production, and 
$2,289,925 of foreign. The shipments of do¬ 
mestic produce, exclusive of specie, were $22,- 
406,369 less than lor the preceding year, while 
there is an increase of $1,497,231 in the exports 
of foreign produce, and $12,565,510 in the ex¬ 
ports of specie. 
The Secretary favors the admission, duty free, 
of wool as a raw material, together with chemi¬ 
cals and dye-stuffs, but no interference with the 
article of iron. 
cases, by sending in the message to an unor¬ 
ganized Congress. It was received in the Sen¬ 
ate, but laid on the table unread in the House. 
The first three sections of the message dis¬ 
cuss the subject of our relations with England ; 
in which, although the President does not see 
any cause of immediate rupture, he does see 
much to produce irritations that may lead ulti¬ 
mately to very serious consequences. First is 
the Central American question, which, by both 
nations, was considered settled £y the Clayton 
Bulwer treaty ; hot which, it now seems, from 
the different interpretations given it by the par¬ 
ties, opens the breach even wider than before. 
The United States understand it to mean that 
both nations abandon all claims and rights of 
jurisdiction to any part of Central America; 
while England interprets it to mean that neith¬ 
er nation shall relinquish what it has already 
got, but shall not acquire any more. As the 
United States heretofore claimed no part of the 
territory, and England claimed the Balize, the 
protectorate of the Mosquito Shore, the Bay of 
Islands, <fcc., efcc., it will be seen that this inter¬ 
pretation is decidedly a one-sided affair, and 
will not he submitted to by our Government.— 
Secondly, the British Government has through 
its agents violated our neutrality laws by re¬ 
cruiting soldiers for the Crimea within our lim¬ 
its, and has thus far declined to make repara¬ 
tion, although called upon to do so by the Pres¬ 
ident. ; and thirdly, there is a dispute as to the 
boundary between the territory of Washington 
and the British possessions in the .North West, 
and also as to the property of the Hudson’s Bay 
Company, and the Puget’s Sound Agricultural 
Company, reserved by treaty, in the territory of 
Even the 
Eatal Railroad Accident. —A fatal collision 
occurred on the 2d inst. on the Pennsylvania 
Central railroad, thirty-eight miles west of 
Pittsburgh, between an express passenger train 
going west and an irregular freight train going 
east. The former was running at the rate of 
forty miles an hour, and was entitled to the 
track. The engineers and firemen jumped off 
from both trains and escaped without fatal re¬ 
sults to themselves, but four passengers were 
killed and others injured. The passenger tram 
consisted of six cars, but, owing to a disconnec¬ 
tion with the Philadelphia up train, had but 
few passengers on board, otherwise the results 
would have been much more disastrous. After 
the collision the conductors compared watches, 
when it was found that of the freight conductor 
was fifty-three minutes too slow ! 
Additions to Clubs are now in order, and can be made 
at the proportional rate for a full club, according to the 
number of copies] ordered. Agents and other friends will 
please bear this in mind, and receive and forward the sub¬ 
scriptions of all whd desire to secure the Rural. Back 
numbers furnished in all cases unless otherwise ordered. 
To Non-Subscribers. —We send this number of the Ru¬ 
ral to many prominent friends of improvement, in the 
hope that it will meet their approval, and if so receive 
their support and encouragement. Those disposed to exer¬ 
cise a portion of influence in its behalf, are referred to Pre¬ 
mium List, Terms, Ac., on next and the last page. 
Difficulties in Kansas. 
Telegraphic de- 
spatches, and accounts published in the Missouri 
papers state that still further disturbances have 
occurred in Kansas, on the occasion of voting 
for the new State Constitution. The polls at 
Leavenworth were broken up and the ballot 
boxes taken possession of and carried away by 
the mob. At various other places, it is stated, 
similar scenes of violence occurred. 
A letter published in the St. Louis Democrat, 
dated Leavenworth, Dec. 28, says the office of 
the Territorial Register,' an administration pa¬ 
per, was mobbed, the type thrown into the river, 
and a lot of paper burned. The mob was com¬ 
posed principally of Missourians. . 
The Free State party, at their Convention on 
the 22d of December, nominated Chas. Robin¬ 
son for Governor, N. Roberts for Lt. Governor 
and M. W. Delahay for Congress. The election 
takes place on Tuesday next. 
Now there are about forty. 
— Rev. Myron Winslow, who for thirty years has been a 
missionary to . Ceylon, is about to return to his native land. 
— At Dnbuque, and other points in Iowa, the thermom¬ 
eter stood 15 to 20 degrees below zero, some days last week. 
— The general average run by the locomotives on the 
New York and Erie Railroad to a cord of wood is 27 29-100 
miles. 
— The Cincinnati Columbian says 209,381 hogs have 
been slaughtered in that city the present season, by packers 
alone. 
— The spot where the remains of Mozart lie aj Vienna, 
has been discovered, and a monument is about to be erected 
on it. 
— Peru wants to sell in a lump, all the guano of the 
Chincha islands, eleven or twelve millions of tons, for $30 
per ton. 
— The printers of New York are to have a grand celebra¬ 
tion on the 17th of January—the Anniversary of Franklin’s 
Birthday. ^ 
— The wife of the late Louis Phillippe is not dead, as 
stated, but is slowly recovering from a protracted and se¬ 
vere illness. 
— During 1854, eighty-two persons committed suicide in 
Massachusetts, of whom fifty-nine were males and twenty- 
three females. 
— There are in New Orleans 2,800 grog shops to a popu¬ 
lation of 80,000 ; that is one grog- shop to every twenty- 
nine persons. 
— The City Council of St. Louis is doing a large busi- 
I ness. The amount of fines imposed by it the last six 
months is $26,583. 
— Nicholas Devereux, a prominent citizen of Utica, N. 
Y., and a manager of the State Lunatic Asylum, died on 
Saturday, aged 67. 
— Last week the Theatre des Varietes, at Bordeaux was 
completely destroyed by fire, only the four walls having 
been left standing. 
— “ Tom Tit” is the name of a negro boy who is giving 
concerts in Savannah, Pa. His performance on the piano 
is said to be wonderful. 
— Rev. Henry M. Haskell, pastor of the British and 
American Congregational Church in St. Petersburg!), died 
recently of typhoid fever. 
— The State Treasurer of Indiana has forwarded to this 
State the January interest of the public debt of that State 
without borrowing a dollar. 
— There is a passenger car on the Milwaukie and Mis¬ 
sissippi road that has run 125,000 miles, and has never been 
repaired to the worth of a dollar. 
— During the present year there have died in the United 
States, 71 soldiers of the revolutionary war and 43 persons 
who we re over 100 years of age. 
— An operator in Berlin has been 
O HOOKING JXESULTS OF INSANITY.'— A lllSane 
man twenty-six years of age, named Charles 
Sandford, killed two aged men on New Year’s 
day, at Woodbridge, Connecticut. One of the 
victims, named Enoch Sperry, he met on the 
road and severed his head from his body, after 
which he went to the house of Ichabod Umber- 
field and killed him in the same way. Each 
of the men were over seventy years of age, and 
were highly respected citizens. Sandford, since 
his arrest, declares it was his intention to have j 
committed several other murders. 
ROCHESTER, JANUARY 12, 1856. 
Decided Progress, 
TEN THOUSAND SUBSCRIBERS IN ONE WEEK/ 
For the information of thousands of Agents 
and Subscribers who feel a deep interest in the 
prosperity of the Rural New-Yorker, and are 
generously exercising influence to augment its 
circulation and usefulness, we have the pleasure 
of reporting a large increase of subscribers du¬ 
ring the past two weens over the corresponding 
period of any previous year since its commence¬ 
ment. ' We regret that we cannot give the ex¬ 
act figures for want of time, but from hasty es¬ 
timates we knoiv the receipts to be from one- 
fourth to one-third greater during the past ten 
days than ever before—and our chief clerk as¬ 
serts that we are perfectly safe in announcing 
the receipt of Ten Thousand Subscriptions (re¬ 
newals and 
He is a blood 
relation of the Wakemanites, who, we stated 
last week, had murdered Justus Mathews, un¬ 
der a fanatical religious excitement. 
into the Baltic Sea. These passages the United 
States claim to be highways ot nations, and as 
such open to free navigation. Notice lias there- 
State Legislatures. —The Legislatures of the 
States of Maine, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, 
Maryland and Georgia met and organized last 
week. They did not meet with the difficulties 
which in Congress and in the Legislature of our 
own State have, up to this time, presented in¬ 
superable obstacles to organization. 
not permit our commerce to pay the tribute de- 
mandqff and contends, it seems very properly, 
that it wbuld be just as reasonable for nations 
owrning territory contiguous to the straits of 
Gibraltar 
and collect a revenue from the 
ing those straits, as for Denmark to demand it 
here. Our relations with all other nations ap- 
to he satisfactory. 
Next in order come brief allusions to the sev¬ 
eral Departments of the Government, with the 
exception of the State Department; first the 
Treasury (of which a brief abstract is given 
elsewhere) and afterwards those of the Army, 
Navy, Post Office, and Interior; and Congress 
is referred for particulars to the special reports 
of the several Secretaries.. 
The Army, during the past year, the Presi¬ 
dent says, has been actively engaged in defend¬ 
ing the Indian frontier, the state of the service 
permitting but few and small garrisons in our 
permanent fortifications. The additional regi- 
cent railroad bridge across the Mississippi at 
this point, is rapidly progressing. All the piers 
are complete except the centre one, upon which 
the great swing-draw revolves. The first reach 
of the bridge from the Iowa side is nearly com¬ 
plete. It is 280 feet long between 'the piers, 
but just now it is in jeopardy. The tressle 
work to support the timbers, until the structure 
was finished, stood in the river. The ice had 
gathered about the uprights, and yesterday the 
pressure was so strong as to carry most of them 
away. The massive structure has sagged some 
feet, and unless the ice soon forms so that it can 
be propped, the whole is likely to fall into the 
river. 
any other open passage, to demand 
pass- 
new subscribers) during the week 
ending on' Saturday last! This is certainly a 
glorious beginning, and we doubt whether any 
paper in this country—not excepting the N. Y. 
Weekly Tribune —can report a more progressive 
commencement of the new year. Yet we make 
this statement in no boasting manner, but with 
a heart overflowing with gratitude, and the most 
profound acknowledgment of the large, unex¬ 
ampled, and unanticipated measure of apprecia¬ 
tion and support which this journal is receiving 
from all sections of the country. To merit such 
Sutearg IjLenirlr 
edged ability of the author as a popular writer. 
Dewey’s. 
Tiie Heathen Religion, in its Popular and Symbolical 
Developement, By Rev. Jos. B. Gross, Boston; J.P. 
Jewett & Co., 1856. 
The religious ideas and worship of the ancient heathen 
nations, is a subject with which every one who would un¬ 
derstand the progress of the race, should become acquainted. 
He will find here a valuable aid to that end. From Dew- 
Difficulties with England.— The New York 
Herald's Washington correspondent, under date 
of Jan. 7th, telegraphs as follows:—“I learn 
from an authentic source that our government 
will not under any contingency permit Mr. 
Crampton to remain, and further, that they have 
notified the English government, if they do not 
recall him they will be compelled to dismiss 
him at once. 
Vale and River. By Max. Greene. With original Maps 
of the Territory. New York: Fowler & Wells, 1852. 
This volume contains (the title page goes on to say) “de¬ 
scriptions of scenery, climate, wild productions, capabilities 
and resources ; Incidents of Travel, with added directions 
as to Routes, outfit and localities for Settlement.” From 
the Publishers. 
It is also rumored in certain di¬ 
plomatic circles that should our government dis¬ 
miss Mr. Crampton, England would refuse all 
intercourse with the United States, and give 
Mr. Buchanan his passports. The reports to the 
effect that Mr. Crampton has been empowered 
by England to abandon her pretensions in Cen¬ 
tral America, under certain circumstances, is 
emphatically contradicted. 
sentenced to three 
years’ imprisonment, for revealing the secrets of the tele¬ 
graph for stock-jobbing purposes. 
— Edward Fitzpatrick, of Poughkeepsie, died of lockjaw- 
on Wednesday week, occasioned by the extraction of a 
tooth. His age was about 45 years. 
— Ezra Wilmartb, one of the Pioneers of Ontario Co., 
N. Y., died in Victor in that county, on Friday last. He 
had lived upon one farm over 65 years. 
— A claim of Lieutenant General Scott for seven thou¬ 
sand dollars, which has been pending several years, has 
been recently allowed by Government. 
— There are a quarter of a million of people in England 
at work in the different mines, to whom the fresh air and 
the light of the sun are scarcely known. 
—- The Deseret News says that beautifully white, fine and 
silky cotton has been raised at Santa Clara, in Utah, which 
a Virginian says is as good as any he ever saw. 
— The South Carolina Conference has resolved to sell the 
stock it held in a railroad, being unwilling to share in 
profits partly made by violating the Sabbath. 
— The first trophies of Sebastopol have just arrived at 
the Louvre. They consist principally of two Sphinxes of 
white marble, which have the heads of women. 
— M. L. Sweet, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, has a hog 
whose live weight is 1,200 pounds. He measures nine feet 
from the end of the snout to the root of his tail. 
— The Marquis de Turgot, French Minister at Madrid, has 
appealed to the law tribunals relative to an article inserted 
in that journal, insulting to the Empress Eugenie. 
— It is considered improbable that Chief Justice Taney 
will be able to take his seat upon the bench during the 
present term of the Supreme Court of the United States. 
— It is said that Mr. Guthrie has effected the transporta¬ 
tion of all the specie necessary for the operations of Gov¬ 
ernment during the past year, at an actual profit of $10,()00. 
connected with a medical college in 
Phoenixiana ; Sketches and Burlesques. By John Phoe¬ 
nix. New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1856. 
“ In the name of the Prophet—Figs,” is the expressive 
motto of this inexpressibly funny book. It may be called a 
“nugget” of humor, since it is richly characteristic of that 
fast State—California—where, in newspapers and maga¬ 
zines, it first appeared. Sold at Dewey’s. 
Ex-Senator Berrien. 
citizen of Georgia, receni 
'•— This distinguished 
it-ly deceased, 
was a na¬ 
tive of Pennsylvania, whence he removed to the 
Congress from his 
Practical American Cookery and Domestic Economy.—- 
■ By Miss E. M. Hall. New York and Auburn : Miller, 
Orton & Mulligan. 
In addition to 973 Recipes in Cookery, this book con¬ 
tains much valuable information on all departments of 
Domestic Economy ; the Garden, Wardrobe, Laundry, etc., 
etc. FromDir.VEY’s, 
New York Legislature.— The Assembly of 
this State seems to have become infected with 
the disease, which, at Washington, has been so 
fatal to an organization of the House. They 
(the Assembly) have been balloting a week for 
Speaker, but without results. The last vote, 
taken on Friday, was as follows: —Pendergrast, 
(Rep.) 34; Lailey, (Soft Dem.) 25; Hoyle, 
(Hard) 10; Odell,. (K. N.)40; scattering 12. 
Both Houses adjourned from Friday over to 
Monday, and the Governor’s message in the 
mean time hangs in the same excrutiating pre¬ 
dicament as did that of the President a few 
weeks since. It is sincerely to be hoped the 
document won’t spoil.’ 
. —--«■•>- 
Congressional. —The House of Representa¬ 
tives is still in chaos, and under the special rule 
of Col. Forney, the last Congressional Clerk, 
Banks, Richardson, and Fuller are still upon 
the course in excellent wind, and there is no 
telling how many heats they are good for yet. 
One man at all events will make something out 
of the delay, and that is Col. Forney— as he 
holds oyer under pay until a successor is chosen. 
South, and was 
adopted State of Georgia, and occupied a high 
position in the esteem of the country as a states¬ 
man of elevated purposes, of thorough culture, 
and sterlim 
integrity. He took office under 
Gen. Jaokson as Attorney-General of the United 
States, and subsequently repeatedly represented 
Georgia in the Senate of the United States.— 
He was a good man, both in public and private 
life, and an exemplary Christian in his walk and 
conversation, and he enjoyed a large degree of 
the confidence of his own State and the nation 
at large. 
Kate Weston ; or, to Will and to Do. By Jennie De 
Witt. New York : De Witt & Davenport : 1856. 
This well-written volume is from the pen of a daughter 
of the Rev. Dr. Dowling, of Philadelphia. It is a story of 
Life’s varied discipline, and teaches a high moral lesson.— 
From E. Daerow & Bro., Main St. Bookstore. 
Tiie Homestead on the Hillside, and other Tales. —By 
Mrs. Mary J. Holmes. New York and Auburn: Mil¬ 
ler, Orton & Mulligan. 
A series of sketches by the author of “ Tempest and 
Sunshine,” and “T..e English Orphans inculcating good 
moral lessons and agreeably written. From Dewey’s. 
ea matter conveyed ny tne mans, either frank¬ 
ed, or liable to no postage by law, or to very low 
rates of postage compared with that charged on 
letters , and to the great cost of mail service on 
railroads and by ocean steamers. 
Steamer Burned.— The steamers used on the 
Southern rivers for the transportation of cotton 
seem to be peculiarly liable to destruction by 
fire, and nearly every week we have to record 
one or more of such disasters. A telegraph 
dispatch, dated Cairo, January 3, says :—“ The 
steamer Seminole, Capt. Shaw, took fire Avhile 
lying at her wharf at Jacksonville, Florida, on 
Thurday, and burned to the water’s edge. Her 
cargo, consisting of 200 bales of cotton, was to¬ 
tally destroyed. The Seminole was two years 
old and cost $50,000. 
Blackwood’s Magazine for December closes the 78th 
volume of that well known periodical. We again repeat 
that this able British Monthly, with the four well known 
Quarterly Reviews, London, Edinburgh, North British said 
Westminster, are promptly re-issued by L. Scott & Co., 73 
Fulton St., N. Y., each $3 a year, any two for $5, the four 
Reviews and Blackwood for $10. D. M. Dewey, agent. 
Putnam’s Monthly for January, is a capital issue. There 
is always something attractive in it, to the literary and gen¬ 
eral reader. W % guess that “ Owlcopse,” a story just com¬ 
menced, is by the author of “ Twice Married,” one of the 
features of the last volume. New York : Dix & Edwards. 
$3 per year. 
The National Magazine commences its 8th volume with 
the January No. It is devoted to Literature, Religion and 
Art, and worthy the patronage of every Christian family.— 
Carlton & Phillips, Publishers, 200 Mulberry St., New 
York. $2 per year ; 10 copies $15. 
In “Jack the Giant-Killer, Illuminated with ten Pic¬ 
tures,” we have one of the household stories for little folks, 
presented in the best style of the aits pictorial and typo¬ 
graphical. Itisfrom the Appleton’s of New York, and is 
sold by D. M. Dewey. 
alludes to Kansas as follows: In the territory 
of Kansas, there have been acts prejudicial to 
order, but as yet none have occurred under cir¬ 
cumstances to justify the interposition of the 
federal executive. That could only be in case 
of obstruction to federal law, or of organized re- 
! sistance to territorial law, assuming the charac¬ 
ter of insurrection, which, if it should occur, it 
would be my duty promptly to overcome and 
suppress. I cherish the hope, however, that the 
occurrence of any such untoward event will be 
prevented by the sound sense of the- people of 
the territory, who, by its organic law, possessing 
the right to determine their own domestic insti¬ 
tutions, are entitled, while deporting themselves 
— Three young men 
! Cleveland, have been arrested on the charge of disinterring 
and stealing corpses from Woodland Cemetery in that city. 
— The Spanish Government has got wind of a plot to 
carry off the young Princess of Asturias, and in conse¬ 
quence she never goes abroad without an escort of 40 or 50 
dragoons. 
— The flour of chestnuts and acorns have just been used 
with great success in the manufacture of paper in place of 
potato flour, by the director of the large paper mills at 
Liege, Belgium. 
— The Galena and Chicago Railroad-has a surplus of 
three hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred and thir¬ 
ty-five dollars, in addition to the 22 per cent, dividend for 
the past fiscal year. 
Thi<? Wool Grower and Stock Register.— 
Attention is directed -to tiie Prospectus of the 
9th and 10th volumes of this valuable journal. 
It will be observed that the work is to be im¬ 
proved, and rendered still more worthy the sup¬ 
port and encouragement of all interested in its 
subjects and objects. Rural subscribers ate 
particularly invited to read the Prospectus, and 
note the terms to those who take both journals. 
Express Robbers. —The two men, Ayer and 
King, who were recently arrested in Massachu¬ 
setts charged with robbing the American Ex¬ 
press Co. of $50,000, were brought to Buffalo 
last week on a requisition of Gov. Clark, and 
arraigned before the Superior Court. They 
plead “Not Guilty,” and,being unable to find 
bail, were remanded to jail to await*their trial. 
