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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
DEC. 20. 
ROCHESTER, DECEMBER 20, 1856. 
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Southern Convention. 
A Southern Convention, to take into consid¬ 
eration the political and commercial condition 
of the country, and the relative positions of the 
North and the South, was called at Savannah, 
Ga., on the 8th inst. Six hundred delegates 
were present, representing ten Southern States. 
Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Kentucky and 
Delaware were not represented. Jas. Lyons, 
of Va., is President. On taking the chair, the 
President made a speech declaring that it was 
the wish of the South to maintain the Consti¬ 
tution of the Union, but that she was also pre¬ 
pared for all future contingencies. Committees 
were appointed to lay out business for ihe Con¬ 
vention. 
Resolutions were offered oh the following 
subjects :—That all bonds and notes issued by 
Southern Slates, cities and counties, be made 
payable in said States; That each member 
subscribe $100 towards a direct line of steamers 
to Europe; Deprecating the education of South¬ 
ern youth at the North, and advocating the en- 
co iragement of Southern books, newspapers 
and manufactures; Instructing Southern mem¬ 
bers of Congress to use efforts to secure the 
repel of the tariff, the laws interdicting the 
slave trade,and to procure a treaty for the ren¬ 
dition of slaves from Canada; In favor of a 
railroad from the Alississippi to the Pacific, 
along the 32d parallel, and a series endorsing 
Dudley Mann’s scheme for the establishment of 
a line of steamers from Chesapeake Bay to 
Milford Haven, favoring the introduction of 
Southern text books into Southern schools and 
colleges, and the appointment of a committee 
of distinguished Southern professors, to pre¬ 
pare such books, recommending to Southern 
Legislatures to order that such books be used 
in Southern schools, recommending the en¬ 
couragement of Southern books and periodicals 
in the place of Northern publications, and re¬ 
commending the encouragement of mining and 
manufacturiig ostablishments at the South.— 
These latter resolutions were all adopted. 
The resolution relative to the opening of the 
Slave Trade was lost by a heavy vote. 
Conflagrations and Casualties. 
The corn-starch factory of Marcofor & Muz- 
zey, at Springfield, Ohio, with a large amount 
of stock and machinery, was destroyed by fire 
on the 8th inst. The building was insured.— 
No insurance on the stock or machinery. Loss 
heavy. 
The St. Rolet Oil and Chemical works near 
Dormington, Beaver Co., Pa., were destroyed by 
fire on the 6th inst. They were owned by 
Cherry, McAthen & Co. Loss estimated a 
$15,000. 
A fire broke out in the Chair and Table 
Manufactory of Patridge <fc Son, 38 Fulton-st., 
Brooklyn, on the 12th inst. The building was 
completely gutted—but a comparatively small 
portion of the contents were saved. Loss 
$ 20 , 000 . 
A fire in Norfolk, Va., on the 7th, destroyed 
the Catholic Church and several adjoining 
buildings. 
A stream of water broke loose on the 12th 
inst. in the Midlothian coal pits, Richmond, Va., 
drowning six whites and seven negroes. 
A large tow boat belonging to Outwater & 
Co., at Tivoli, caught fire near Rondout on the 
12th inst., and floated down the river in flames. 
She was burned to the water’s edge. The loss 
will be heavy. She was heavily laden with 
grain, hay, <fcc. 
A train on the Cleveland and Pitsburg road 
ran into an Express train on the Ohio and Penn¬ 
sylvania road, going west, at Alliance, Ohio, on 
the 8th inst., killing ten persons and wounding 
several others. Five of the passenger cars were 
thrown into the rotunda of the depot, and an¬ 
other into the public sitting room of Sowerbeck’s 
hotel, in which sixty persons were sitting.— 
Both buildings were torn to pieces and the in¬ 
mates either killed or wounded. But few per¬ 
sons on the cars were injured. 
Losses on the Lakes. —The Lake Association 
of Underwriters has made up its annual state¬ 
ment of losses. Enough is now known to lead 
to the belief that the losses upon the lakes for 
the season just closing, amount to over four mil¬ 
lion dollars. The losSes stand as follows : 
1848 .... 
1849 .... 
. 351,260 
1853.. . . 
3864. . . . 
. . . .$ 854,350 
.... 2,187 855 
1850 .... 
1855.. . . 
.... 2,797,839 
.... 4,000,000 
. .. .$12,842,064 
1851 .... 
. 730 515 
1856. . . . 
1852 . 991,015 
Total for nine years. . 
This great and steady increase of losses is 
the most striking evidence of the rapidly de¬ 
veloping commerce of the Lakes, and appeals 
in terms too strong to be withstood to Congress 
to give to the lakes ample appropriations to 
make their harbors secure. 
Michigan Iron Works. —The Detroit Adver¬ 
tiser says that the Wyandotte Iron Railroad 
Mills are now turning out bars at the rate of 200 
tuns per week, and they are used by the Mich¬ 
igan Central Road in all its repairs and recon¬ 
struction of track, and also in the neW additions 
being made to the road. The old worn rails are 
turned over to the Rolling Mill, and new ones 
sent back in their place. The saving that this 
effects is very large, and besides the road is thus 
directly building up a great industrial interest, 
the importance of which cannot be calculated. 
Michigan Coal Minks. —A vein of excellent 
coal has been discovered three miles west of 
Jackson, Michigan, which is yielding a good 
profit to its owners. The vein is twenty-five 
feet below the surface, and four and a half feet 
in thickness. Some 400 tuns have be taken 
out. The coal sells for $4 per tun at the mines. 
Negro Insurrection in Tennessee. 
The papers tor some days have contained ac¬ 
counts of a contemplated insurrection in por¬ 
tions of Tennessee by the slave population.— 
The Clarksville (Tenn.) Jeffersonian says: — 
“ Various rumors were current, but nothing of a 
positive nature occurred till about ten days 
since, when a negro escaped from the Cumber¬ 
land Iron Works. He was promptly captured, 
and it was learnt from him that he fled from 
the persecution of his brethren in servitude 
who had threatened to kill him if he refused to 
take part in the conspiracy. The numerous 
questions to which he was subjected caused the 
subsequent arrest of nearly eighty negroes, al¬ 
most all of whom avowed their complicity in a 
plot, and even gave the most precise details as 
to the execution of their project. Nothing less 
was contemplated than a general massacre. The 
negroes of each habitation intended, between 
the 23d and 26th of December, to slaughter the 
whites who surrounded them, and, this accom¬ 
plished, to march to the chief place of the 
county where the blacks would generally as¬ 
semble and commence to act.” 
A correspondent of the Louisville (Ky.) 
Journal, of the 8ih inst., says :—“ There is great 
excitement in Franklin, Tenn., owing to the 
projected insurrection among the negroes there. 
Twenty-four muskets and two kegs of powder 
have been found in the possession of a gang of 
negroes at Columbia, Tenn. In Perry, Tenn., 
fifteen negroes have been killed by their 
owners.” 
The Evansville Journal, of the 6th instant, 
learns that there was much excitement in the 
neighborhood of Dover, and on the Cumber¬ 
land river, among the negroes. Many of the 
ring-leaders had been arrested and eleven of 
them hung. One white man disguised as a ne¬ 
gro had been sentenced to nine hundred lashes, 
but he died before the penalty was fully in¬ 
flicted. The whites were armed and organized 
for defence. An opinion prevailed that a gen¬ 
eral uprising would take place amoDg the ne¬ 
groes during the holidays. Escapes of slaves 
were unusually numerous. 
In Alabama and in Louisiana arrests have 
been made and examinations held. In the 
former State two white men have been executed, 
proof of their tampering with the slaves having 
been elicited. The most extraordinary reports 
are in circulation—how much of truth they 
contain is yet to be ascertained. 
Congressional. 
Senate. —In the Senate Air. Mason presented 
the petition of Air. Wheeler, asking to be re¬ 
imbursed for money advanced to American cit¬ 
izens in distress at Nicaragua, and who on the 
route from California to New York were fired 
upon by the natives of Virgin Bay, some being 
killed and others robbed. Should this petition 
be granted, similar claims to an enormous 
amount are ready for presentation. 
The President sent in the nomination of J. O. 
Harrison, to the Judgeship of Kansas vice Le- 
compte, removed. 
Air. Broome, from the Post Office Committee 
reported a bill authorizing the Postmaster Gen¬ 
eral to make a contract with Com. Vanderbilt 
for carrying a mail between New York and 
Southampton, at a compensation of $16,608 for 
the round trip; a provision being that in the 
event of the line not making as quick time as 
the Cunard steamers, $1,000 shall be deducted 
for every twelve hours’ deficiency. 
House. —The vote to allow Air. Whitfield of 
Kansas to be sworn in was reconsidered, and 
on admission that he had a majority of four in 
his favor, he was permitted to take the oath 
of office. 
A petition signed by every officer in the 
army has been presented to the military com¬ 
mittee, asking an increase of their pay. 
Air. Orr presented a petition from the citi¬ 
zens of the Gadsden purchase, asking for the 
erection of a territorial government of Arizona. 
Air. Ethridge submitted the following resolu¬ 
tion, which was read for information : 
Resolved, That this House regard all sugges¬ 
tions or propositions of every kind, by whom¬ 
soever offered, for a revival of the slave trade, 
as shocking to the moral sentiments of the en¬ 
lightened portion of mankind. 
Any act on the part of Congress, legislating 
or legalizing that horrid and inhuman traffic, 
would justly subject the United ."tates to the 
reproach and execration of all civilized and 
Christian people throughout the world. 
After considerable discussion, on motion of 
Mr. E., the rules were suspended to admit the 
foregoing resolutions by a vote of 140 to 53, and 
it was finally adopted by 85 majority. 
Canal Tolls. — The following are the total 
Canal Toll receipts for New York during the 
years named below : 
1847, .$3 635,380 
1848, .. 3.252,215 
1849, . 3,268,206 
1850, . 3.273 899 
1851, . 3,329,727 
1852, . 3.118,244 
1853, . 3 204 718 
1854 . 2,773,566 
1855 .v,8n5 077 
1856,. 2,738,316 
Showing a falling off, as compared with 1847, 
of $897,064, and a decrease, as compared with 
the light receipts of last year, of $66,761. 
Underground Telegraph. — The American 
Telegraph Company have petitioned the au¬ 
thorities of New York, for the privilege of lay¬ 
ing their wires underground in that city. The 
Company propose to insulate their wires — 
place them in an iron tube 4)^ inchesin diame¬ 
ter, and bury that from 12 to 18 inches under 
the surface of .the streets. The. petition has 
been passed upon favorably by the Board of 
Councilmen, and is now before the Aldermen. 
fjttrarjr ISLetorfr. 
The Life of Charles Sumner : with Choice Specimens 
of his Eloquence, a Delineation of his Oratorical Charac¬ 
ter, and his Great Speech on Kansas. By D. A. Harsh*. 
New York : Dayton Sz Burdick. 1856. 
This is a work of 329 pages and is about equally divided 
between the life of Senator Sumner and his celebrated 
Speech on Kansas Affairs. His history as a private gen¬ 
tleman of quiet tasteB and studious habits is no doubt cor¬ 
rect. His voyage to Europe, the attention he there receiv¬ 
ed from distinguished personages, his marked talent and 
scholarly attainments, all receive the notice of the author. 
Extracts from Addresses and Speeches are freely given, 
while his master effort on Kansas, is published entire.— 
The book will gratify a curiosity, widely felt, respecting 
his life and career, and will serve to give a better acquain¬ 
tance with the subject of the work to those desiring it. 
Needham & Co., Agents. 
The Torch-Light : or Through the Wood. By Hakriit 
A. Alcott. author of “ Isora’s Child.” New York : Der¬ 
by & Jackson. 
This is a handsome and pleasant volume of some 450 
pages, evidently written with a good purpose. If it proves 
as popular as “psora’s Child,” the “Torch-Light” will 
shed a bright and wide light. Sold by Wm. Allino. 
New-York : 
Autobiography of a Female Slave. 
Red field. 
This volume purports to emanate from the pen of a 
nearly white slave girl, (now the teacher of an African 
school in New Eogland,) who, after experiencing many of 
the severities of slavery in Kentucky, was made free by 
the will of a kind and Christian mistress. It is well writ¬ 
ten and interesting, though some of its scenes seem too 
highly colored. A religious contemporary affirms that 
the author of this book was “born and reared in slavery, 
and is still, in fact, a nominal owner of slaves.” Dewey. 
Douglass Farm: A Juvenile Story of Life in Virginia. 
By Mary E. Bradley. Edited by “ Cousin Alice.”— 
New York : Appleton & Co. 
An excellent Household Story, and just in time for 
Christmas and New Year's Day. We commend it to 
parents and others as a choice volume for the entertain¬ 
ment and moral instruction of the young. Dewey. 
Sf.dgemoor ; or Home Lessons. By Mrs. Manners, 
author of “Aspiration,” Pleasure and Profit,” “ How to 
Behave,” &c. New York : Appleton & Co. 
Another charming volume for young people, admirably 
designed to delight and instruct those who surround the 
ingleside during the long winter evenings. Sold by Dewey. 
Thf. Play-Day Book ; Little Stories for Little Folks. By 
Fanny Fern. Illustrated by Fred M. Coffin. New 
York: Mason & Brother. 
A neat volume of nearly 300 pages. Though in Fanny’s 
peculiar style—which is not always unexceptionable—this 
work contains many excellent sketches, that will edify and 
entertain the little folks. Sold by Alling. 
[Noticts of several Beoks, &c., necessarily deferred.] 
Provincial Items. 
We see it stated in the Canada papers that a 
movement is on foot in Canada to secure the 
passage of an Act of Parliament, by which fu¬ 
gitives may be sent back to the United States. 
It is stated that a subscription list has just 
been completed in London towards the con¬ 
struction of a railroad alongside of the Welland 
canal,connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario. The 
object is to follow out the example set by the 
New York Central railroad in its freighting re¬ 
lations to the Erie canal, and thereby insure to 
the St. Lawrence route a fair proportion of that 
commerce which the rail diverts from the canal. 
A boiler explosion occurred on the 11th inst. 
in the grist mill of Messrs. E. <fc J. F. Moore, on 
upper Hughson street, Hamilton, by which the 
entire front of the building was blown down, 
and three persons injured. 
A fire broke out on the 10th inst. in Christ’s 
Church Cathedral, Montreal, and owing to the 
want of water the building was speedily en¬ 
veloped in flames. The steeple fell with a tre¬ 
mendous crash, setting fire to the upper part of 
Mussen’s dry goods store. The flames also 
communicated to the buildings on the opposite 
side of Notre Dame-st., but in both cases they 
were promptly got under. The Library and 
documents belonging to the church were saved. 
The loss is estimated at $120,000, of which 
about $68,000 is covered by insurance. 
Two fires occurred in Toronto on the 5th inst. 
Six two-story frame houses and a saloon were 
destroyed. The*loss is principally covered by 
insurance. 
The Provincial Parliament has been further 
prorogued till the 13th January, not then to 
meet for the despatch of business. 
The catch of fish upon the Newfoundland 
and Labrador coasts is reported greater than for 
twenty years past. , 
It is said that Mr. Bidder, Traffic Superin¬ 
tendent of the Grand Trunk, has left for Eng¬ 
land, to organize a system of through tickets 
from all parts of Europe to the Western States. 
On the 10th inst. a row of brick buildings 
situated on the north side of King-st., Cobourg, 
was discovered to be on fire. The engines were 
disabled by frost for immediate action, allowing 
the flames to spread so rapidly as scarcely to 
admit of anything being removed. With great 
exertions the opposite row was kept from shar¬ 
ing the same fate ; it was badly scorched. Loss 
supposed to be about $60,000, partly covered 
by insurance. 
Suicide Resuscitated by Flogging. —In New 
York on Sunday, Patrick Mclntire undertook 
to destroy his life by taking laudanum, and was 
conveyed by the police to a station house, where 
a physician attended, but gave up the case as 
hopeless. The police, however, were not satis¬ 
fied, and sent for another physician. The latter 
stripped the patient, and with a leather belt 
flogged him until the blood came. With the 
blood also came the patient’s senses; and strange 
to say, by this novel treatment, lie was com 
pletely restored. 
The Oldest Man in America. —Peter Nas 
sau, a colored man, now a resident Jf Wood 
stock, Vt., l as reached the extraordinary age of 
126 years ; and is doubtless the oldest living 
man in this country. 
flftos Clippings- 
- Com is selling at forty cents per bushel in Nashville. 
- Emigration is B&id to be pouring into Nebraska Ter¬ 
ritory. 
— The once wealthy city of Amsterdam has declared it¬ 
self bankrupt. 
— Hon. Sidney Willard, died at Cambridge, Mass., on 
Saturday, aged 76. 
— Dr. Kane has left England for the West Indies for the 
benefit of his health. 
— Hon. Bernard C. Whittemore, late State Treasurer of 
Michigan, died on the 7th. 
— The British Consul at Baltimore was suffocated by a 
coal fire, on the 6th inBt. 
— Two little girls were accidentally shot In Albany by a 
boy, who was handling a pistol. 
— A slight shock of an earthquake was felt at St. Peters¬ 
burg, Virginia, on the 6th inst. 
— Hull, Hunt & Co., Louisville, Ky., killed 4,330 hogs 
at their establishment in one day. 
— At Lexington, Mo., sleighs have run freely, and the 
boyB have fine skating on the pond. 
— The wages of the firemen of Cincinnati, for the month 
of November, amounted to $5,855 50. 
— The attempt of the Chicago Gas Works to make good 
gas from Illinois coal has proved a failure. 
— The court house in Eldora, Hardin Co., Iowa, was 
recently burnt, with all the public records. 
— Application will be made to the next Legislature for 
leave to bridge the Niagara river at Buffalo. 
— Thirty millions of bricks have been manufactured in 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the last year. 
— Captain Theophilus D'Oremieux, U. S. A., late Pro¬ 
fessor of French at West point, has resigned. 
— Ingenious and scientific men are occupied in trying 
to discover the means of warming houses by gas. 
— The income of the Wesleyan Missionary Society in 
Canada for the year ending June, 1856, is $44,000. 
— James O. Harrison, appointed Judge'in Kansas, vice 
Lecompte, is a distinguished lawyer of Lexington, Ky. 
— An adventurer, writing from California, Bays:—“A 
man’s life here is worth about fifty cents on the dollar.” 
— The expenses of the city government of Cincinnati, 
for the week ending the 3d inst., amounted to $19,223 80. 
— It is estimated that the losses by shipwreck upon the 
lakes this season amount to over four millions of dollars. 
— An English company at Constantinople, have propos¬ 
ed to construct a line of telegraph from that city to India. 
— Extensive preparations are on foot for building a new 
city at the mouth of the Ohio river, to be called Emporium. 
— The steamer Arago sailed on the 13th inst., for South¬ 
ampton and Havre with 35 passengers and $351,oqo Bpecie. 
— Lucy Stone Blackwell has, we understand, become> 
within the last few days, one of the mothers of America. 
— The wood sawyers of Albany intend to get up an An¬ 
nual Ball. It will come off durlDg the first week in Jan. 
— During the five weeks ending December 8, the city 
inspector of New York reported 138 deaths from scarlet 
fever. 
— There are over three hundred men employed in the 
workshops of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Railroad Com¬ 
pany. 
— Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, is recommended 
by the Cincinnati Times as a candidate for the Presidency 
in 1860. 
— Sir E. B. Lytton has been elected Lord Rector of 
Glasgow University, by a majority of 108 votes over Lord 
Stanley. 
— It is a singular fact, that when the Indian swears, he 
swears in English. There are no oaths in the Indian 
vernacular. 
— Asa Whitney, the originator of the Pacific Railroad 
enterprise, has_becoma a sugar planter and dairyman, near 
Washington. 
— The Galveston Civilian says the sugar crop of Texas, 
the present season, will be almost nothing ; not to exceed 
3,000 hogsheads. 
— The South Carolina Legislature On the 10th inst., 
elected R. F. Walston Governor of the State, and G. Can- 
nan, Lieut. Gov. 
— It is stated that no less than 20,000 singing birds are 
disposed of every year in New York. They are raised 
cL£My in Germany. 
— A family in Springfield were all made seriously sick 
last week from eating of a chicken pie cooked in a yellow 
glazed crockery dish. 
— In Marblehead, ten persons were dying on Thanks¬ 
giving day—a singular circumstance, as no epidemic pre¬ 
vailed in the town. 
— The New York Evening Post says there are at least 
two thousand gambling houses in that city, and probably 
a hundred Faro banks. 
— The amount of lumber surveyed in Bangor, the past- 
year was 180,262,230 feet; in 1855 itjwas 211,669,193 feet; 
in 1854, 158,159,327 feet. 
— The Indianapolis Journal says there were 6,000 ap¬ 
plicants for the post of messenger to carry the electoral 
vote to Washington. 
— A fleet of three hundred vessels, laden with grain, had 
passed through the Bosphorus, their destination being 
Marseilles and England. 
— Major Louis Gaily, at one time a soldier under Napo¬ 
leon, but for many years a prominent citizen of New Or¬ 
leans, died on the 2d inst. 
— It has been ascertained that 18 persons in all were 
scalded by the explosion of the steamer Kentucky on the 
Ohio—six of them fatally. 
— It is stated that Mr. Hamlin will resign his seat in 
the U. S. Senate on the 1st of January, to assume the 
duties of Governor of Maine. 
— Frances, widow of the late Tobias Lear, private Secre¬ 
tary to General Washington, died at her residence in Wash¬ 
ington Oity Tuesday morning. 
— An exchange' says that Daniel C. Anger, of Wool- 
bridge, Vt., raised last season, four bushels of California 
potatoes from a single potato. 
— A Committee of the N. Y. City Sabbath Shools have 
called a State Convention of Teachers, to meet In Albany 
on the 20th day of January. 
— Ship Columbia, which left Liverpool November 16th, 
for New York, has onboard two hundred Moimoas, on 
their way to Salt Lake City. 
— The number of American seamen registered in the 
United States during the last 17 years, from Oct. 1, 1856, 
has averaged about nine thousand. 
— November has been a matrimonial month in Wash- 
ton, D. C. beyond the recollection of the oldest inhabitant. 
There have been eighty marriages. 
— It is stated that Minnesota will take the initiatory 
steps for admission into the Union at this session of Con¬ 
gress, through the Delegate, Mr. Rice. 
— The Free-Will Baptist denomination in the United 
States number 1,150 churches, 920 ordained ministers, 147 
licentiates, and nearly 51,000 members. 
— Meneely’s Sons, bell founders, have in West Troy, a 
mortar used for throwing bombs, which was taken from 
the Russians at Alma, during the recent war. 
— Col. A. T. Maguire, Clerk of the Senate of this State 
r or several years, has received the appointment of Pro- 
thonatory of the Supreme Court of Kansas. 
— The water in New York harbor was so low on Thurs¬ 
day, owing to the heavy westerly gales, that vessels of 
heavy draft were detained at the bar on leaving port. 
