MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
Rural” Letters from the People, 
Washington Items, 
Beloav we give brief extracts from a few of 
the numerous highly complimentary and en¬ 
couraging letters received of late : 
A subscriber ia TiiggCi., Ky , writes : —“ I have shown 
the Rural to many, and have not found the first man as 
yet but yvbat liked the pap* r. I believe it to be one of the 
best papers ever published in America, and would not do 
without it for $10 a year.” We send specimens, &c., to 
the persons named by our correspoudent. 
The following comprehensive sentence is from letter of 
(J. Arnold, Schuyler Co , N. Y.:—“If you will send me 
some specimens show-bills, &c., I will try and aid in ex¬ 
tending the circulation of the Rural New-Yorker, the 
best Family Paper published—the evidence of which I 
have received every Saturday lor three years past.” 
A gentleman in Passaic Co., IV. J., to whom we recently 
sent a package of specimens, per request, sends us his 
subscrintion, and adds: —“I sent part of the papers to 
friend- and acquaintances in the South and South- West, 
who wip introduce you in new places. I expect your pa¬ 
per is not so much known in the South as in the North, 
hut it should be known in every town. Your paper (the 
Rural) needs no bragging, as it speaks for itself.” 
A. G. Barker, of Fond du Lac Co,, Wis, commenced 
married life by securing one of the important requi-ites 
to fireside happiness — a good example. He writes: — 
11 Please send me tome extra copies, as I want to try to 
getupac'nb. I have taken the Rural for five years— 
have three vo'umes bound, and two more preserved in ex¬ 
cellent older tor binding. I began taking the Rural when 
I was married, and therefore can’t do without it.” May it 
ever prove to you and yours a welcome visitor, and safe 
guide and instructor ! 
Here is another comprehensive sentence from a subscri¬ 
ber iu Henry Co., Iowa “ Please send me one of your 
show toils for 1867, and I will make an effort to obtain 
subscribers to the Rural, fi e iog assured that if I do hut 
succeed in obtaining ahalf dozen it wi 1 be of incslcuhble 
benefit in this community, as we have here as beau'i'ul a 
country and as productive a soil as can be found any¬ 
where and yeti frequency see where individuals might 
be benefited in their farming operations a hundred fold by 
putting into practice some of the suggestions contained 
in your valuable paper.” 
M. L. Brown, of Madison Co , N. Y., writesPlease 
send me some specimen copies of the Rural, lhat I can 
circulate iu this neighborhood, for 1 want more of my 
neighbors to subscribe f* r the next volume. I tbiok the 
more or it, as it is the only paper list I know o f , that has 
fulfilled its profession of boi'.g neutral in polices, and 
especially during the past exeiiiug campaign.” 
In remitting his subscription for 1857, a subscriber in 
Halifax Co., Ya., says : As you see, I am somewhat in 
advance of the time ; but I cannot wall dispense with 
even one number of the Rural. Yes, Mr. Editor, you 
have some diligent readers way down in ihe ‘Old Domin¬ 
ion.’ As we gather aiour.d the good. < id-fashioned fite- 
place, and bright wo*>d fire, on ihese long evenings, we 
consider it the climax of our enjoyment to cu 1 the lich 
gems from the Rural. Its Lterary merits we think of a 
very high order, and its high moral tone places it in our 
estimati-nabove any family paper we know. As I am a 
novice io the wav of farnliug, I ako gather much useful 
knowledge of agriculture.” 
N. H. Martin wants to aid in circulating the Rural, 
requests specimens, &c . for friends in Pa. and Iud , and 
adds :—“ I have had ybur paper on’y a f ew months, b it so 
far I like it the best of any paper I ever took, (and ’liat 
is many of ah kinds ) When I first commenced, I thought 
I should have to take two copies to get one for myself-f.ir 
my wife wanted it, and-my son wanted it; then the girls, 
of course they must have it,” &c. 
An Oneida Co., N. Y , subsciber, after requesting speci¬ 
mens, says:-“I think the Rural the best paper of the 
kind I have ever seen, aod will cheerfully lend my influ. 
ence to promote its circu'ation. Ihere is not a family that 
pretends to read a paper but what should be blest with the 
Rural.” ^ 
A b’.tter just received from a clergyman, thus qlnses :- 
“ Your prospectus for the ensuing year of the Rural, in¬ 
terests me much. No paper as ahly conducted as yours 
has been and promises still to be, will want patronage. I 
am not at all surprised to find your list of subscribers 
steadily increasing. Nor can I well Bee how it can be 
otherwise. Thinking farmers, as welt as thinking men io 
other walks of life, will have that which pleases thi m o- 
none at all. An taking the Rural in '1 it- features, it 
seems to meet tk.eir tva - ts as no other does. It is » family 
paper, and as such evety father can but hail it with confi¬ 
dence, since its -moral tone is unexceptionable, its articles 
all full of life a .1 v terest. You have my hearty ‘God 
speed’ in your pia-seworthy enterprise.” 
During the past week the President's Mes¬ 
sage Las been the absorbing topic—it would 
appear from the comments, meritorious aud 
otherwise, hat have been given thereon, that 
the “assembled wisdom” were sent to act as 
critics upon official documents, aud not to labor 
for the weal of the country. The only matter 
of anv special importance which has transpir- 
is a bill, presented by Senator Willson, of 
Mass., relative to Kansas, as follows : 
Be it enacted. That 150 of the first, chapters 
of the alleged laws of the Territory of Kansas 
entitled an act to punish offences against slave 
property, with all such other provisions of that 
code as recognizes and protects slavery in that 
Territory, and all provisions which establish 
official oaths, other than those specified in the 
organic act, or which require any test in regard 
to slavery, or the fugitive law, to be applied to 
attorneys, juries, or voters, or which suspend 
the writ of habeas corpus, or which allows any 
other than actual residents of said territory to 
vote, or which allows jurors to be selected iu 
any other manner than by lot, or which punish 
citizens of said territory by chaining them to¬ 
gether, aud exposing them to labor on the pub¬ 
lic works, with iron chains aud balls attached 
to them, be, and the same are, hereby declared 
null and void. 
The President transmitted to the Senate the 
treaty between the United Stares and Great 
Britain, relating to Centraf America, which was 
ordered to he printed for the information of 
Senators only. 
House. —A hill was passed for paying Gen. 
Scott, under the Lt. General resolution, the 
amount of which Attorney General Cushing 
said he was entitled to. It gives him ,$22,000 
in addition to $10,000 already received, and 
places him on the same footing with Washing¬ 
ton, provided by the law of 1798. 
Under a suspension of the rules the House 
adopted the resolution of Mr. Washburn, of 
Maine, calling on the President to communi¬ 
cate a statement of the amounts of money paid 
and liabilities incurred for the payment and 
support of persons called into the service of 
the United States, under the designation of 
militia in Kansas, or as a posse comitatus by the 
civil officers in that Territory since the date of 
its establishment, and for witnesses and arrests, 
detention aud trial of persons charged with 
treason against the United States, or with vio¬ 
lation of the so-called laws of the Territory. 
— Pork is selling at Freeport, 111., at $4 a hundred. 
— The population of Cuba is estimated at 1,446,603. 
— The Peninsular Bank at Detroit, lost $40,000 by a 
recent failure in New York. 
— The Toledo Blade reports half a million bushels of 
corn in store at that place. 
— The total loss of life during the present steamboat 
feason is estimated at 433. 
— A woman in Salem, Mass., recently died in fourlnours 
from the effects of a spider bite. 
—: Mrst Ruth PenniDgton died from the effects of a se¬ 
vere fit of sneezing, in Baltimore. 
— A late census of Minnesota Territory shows the total 
number of inhabitants to be 170,000. 
— Kossuth is now delivering public lectures.as a means 
of support for himself and family. 
— It is said that Gen. Houston will be a candidate for 
Governor ol Texas at the next canvass. 
— The Mississippi river a.t Rock Island is so blocked up 
with ice as to he impassable by ferry. 
— The Welland Canal, in Canada, is closed by ice, and 
upwards of seventy vessels are fastened in. 
— To crown an Emperor in Russia costs as much money 
as we will j ay our Presidents in 440 years. 
— The iron trade is very dull in England, owing to the 
failing iff in the demand from tjiis country. 
— Justice Wayne, of the United States Supreme Court, 
has lately had a severe attack of paralysis. 
— Mr. Joseph Jackson, formerly of Cincinnati, is the 
Postmaster General of the Sandwich Islands. 
— There are 16,745 tobacco estates of 300 pounds each 
aud over, in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. 
— Sugar cultivation succeeds so well in Liberia, that 
they talk about exporting it to the United States. 
— According to the decision of a New York jury, ne¬ 
groes may be excluded from public conveyances. 
— There are 551 rice plantations in Georgia, North and 
South Carolina, each raisiog 20,000 pounds and over. 
— A small boat well stored with provisions belonging 
to ihe ill-fated steamer Lyoniais, has been discovered. 
— Papers in the South are repudiating the South Caro¬ 
lina Governor’s proposition to re-open the slave trade. 
— George J. H. Beauchamp, Esq, of Virginia, died re¬ 
cently from a sore toe, brought on by the rubbing of a boot 
— It is estimated by the Ohio Firmer, that the profits 
of the wool crop iu that State the past season were $6,- 
000,000. 
— The estimated value of slave property iu the United 
Stales, is fifteen hundred to two thousand millions of 
dollars. 
— There were 4C4 students in the State University of 
Michigan last year, of which 153 were in the medical de¬ 
partment. 
— Advices from Washington Territory state that the 
volunteers of both staff and line had been disbanded by 
the governor. 
— A boy named Fairbanks, at Townsend, Vt., fell upon 
au open knife, last week, the instrument piercing his 
heart, causing death. 
— The thermometer at Skaneatles stood at 19 degrees 
below zero on Wednesday morning, 17th inst. The lake 
was skimmed over with ice. 
— The prices of provisions in Poland are so high, that 
the Emperor has diree'ed the si l ines of public functiona¬ 
ries to be increased one-third. 
— A child in Oswego, left alone in the cradle by its 
mother, with a box of matches for a plaything, was found 
on the mother’s return, burned to death. 
ROCHESTER, DEOEMBEIi 27. 1856. 
“Finis.”—Timely Paragraphs, 
Reader Kind, our Seventh Volume is tow 
completed. Each of its fifty-two numbers has 
been edited and issued with great care and a 
sincere desire that its contents might prove 
beneficial to individuals and communities.— 
The volume may be far from perfect, yet we 
trust it contains few errors and no heresies on 
any subject—little that is contrary to improved 
husbandry, good sense, sound morals, and cor¬ 
rect taste. Io is therefore “ respectfully sub¬ 
mitted” for the examination of senior men and 
women, young men and maidens, and the 
myriad of “ little folk” who belong to our large 
and widely-extended Rural Paiish. If you 
approve, send an invitation which will secure 
the continued visits of the Rural, in better 
dress and more richly laden than heretofore.— 
Possibly we are over-confident, yet, anticipating 
such an invitation, we are making arrangements 
to continue our visits, with little or no inter¬ 
ruption, to the great majority of our readers, 
(and to make the acquaintance of tens of 
thousands of new friends.) Hence no final 
Farewell is necessary on this occasion. Do we 
“reckon without our host?”—or, rathpr, with¬ 
out the good wishes and encouragement of the 
Rural’s “ hosts of friends ?” 
Instead, therefore, of becoming melancholy, 
we are disposed to be joyous, aud wish each aud 
all a right “Merry Christmas” and “Happy New 
Year”—furthermore congratulating all our 
readeis “and the rest of mankiud” upon the 
large, rounded measure of Peace, Prosperity, 
Progress, and consequent Happiness, vouch¬ 
safed the People and Nations of this Western 
Continent, aud especially to Individuals and 
Communities throughout our own “Universal 
YhiiC'u Nation.” To augment this Prosperity 
and AG vancement, our own humble efforts will 
continue to be directed—as should be, to a 
greater or less extent, those of every right- 
thinking. progressive mortal, of whatever con¬ 
do I'- or occupation. And, reader, whoever is 
President, or whatever party may tempoiarily 
wield our political destinies, “ you and I, and 
ai! of us,” can exert an influence for good which 
shall redound to the lasting welfare of millions. 
Though speaking through neither Press nor 
Pulpit, your influence for weal or woe may be 
bot'i powerful and permanent. Think of it, 
rci.der, and you will not only find “food for 
thought,” but for action also, during the year '57. 
to the welfare of the Rural Population,— their Interests and 
Pursuits,—it is unequalled as a Practical and High-Toned 
RURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER! 
And its high reputation will be fully maintained in future—for 
we are resolved that “ Progress and Improvement ” shall charac¬ 
terize the various Practical, Literary and Miscellaneous 
Departments. The new volume will discuss a greater number 
of Useful, Important and Timely Topics than any other journal. 
Its ample pages will embrace numerous 
APPROPRIATE AND COSTLY ENGRAVINGS I 
Including illustrations in Agriculture, Horticulture, Rural 
Architecture, Mechanic Arts, Natural History, Ac.,—while 
choice Music will be given. The Rural is also superior as a 
a Newspaper, each No. containing a Summary of the Most 
Important News, with reliable Reports of the Grain, Provision 
and Cattle Markets. It has long been pronounced 
THE BEST WEEKLY IN AMERICA! 
Yet we hope to make the Eighth Volume superior to all others 
in both Contents and Appearance,— rendering it more worthy 
its extensive National Circulat ion, and a most valuable and 
acceptable aid in promoting the Home Happiness of its tens of 
thousands of readers, ot various occupations, in both Town and 
Country. {(£/“ It will be printed on New Type and good paper. 
NEW CONTRIBUTORS, 
Among the able and celebrated writers engaged as contrib¬ 
utors to the next volume of the Rural, are 
Lt. M. F. MAURY, 
justly termed “ the Humboldt of America.” 
T. 8 ARTHUR, 
the popular Author and Tale-writer. 
Mrs. HOLMES, 
author of 11 Tempest and Sunshine,” etc. 
FORM, 8TY1.E AND TERMS! 
The Rural New-Yorkf.r is published in Quarto Form, each 
No. comprising Eight Double Quarto Pages, [forty columns,] 
printed in best style. An Index, Title Page, Ac., given at 
the close of each volume. 
Terms, in Advance:— $2 a year; Three Copies, $5; Six 
for $10; Ten for $15, and any additional number at the same 
rate, ($1,50 per copy.) As we pre-pay American postage, 
$1,62)4 is lowest club rate to Canadians. Single or club sub¬ 
scriptions can commence with the volume or any number 
hence, Now Is the Time to Subscribe ! 
VjT" Great inducements to agents and clubs—including over 
$1,500 in Cash Premiums for subscribers to the 8 th volume._ 
Specimens, Premium Lists, Ac., sent free. 
Address D. D. T. MOORE, Rochester, N. Y. 
December, 1856. 
The Fruit Growers’ Society of Western 
New York will hold its Annual Meeting on 
Wednesday, the 9th ol-January, 1857, at 10 
o’clock, A. M., at the Court House in the city of 
Rochester. Interesting and important topics in 
relation to the cultivation of Fruits will be dis¬ 
cussed, and select lists recommended. Officers 
for the ensuing year will be elected. •* 
A Farmer’s Club was orgauized at a recent 
meeting of Monroe Co. Ag. Society, and will 
hold its first regular discussion at Court House, 
in this city, on tbe 30th inst. Subject—“ Sub¬ 
stitutes for the wheat crop.” 
The IJ. S. Agr Society -will hold ite next 
annual meeting in the city of Washington, 
commencing January 14th. 
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offer to all (including competitors for the La ast. 
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the following liberal 
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the Is d 'lay, 1857. 
FA f ■ ‘IiX.ABtS, in Cash, (or either a ec 1 
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one remitting for thirty-eight or more subaorit 
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To every one remitting for twenty subscribers we will 
give two extra copies of the Rural and the 9th and !0ih 
(or any other two) volumes of the Woo] Grower and 
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If or a copy or either the Horticulturist, Arthur’s 
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In addition to all other P: turns, we will give a pound 
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of the one hundred persons sending the first tots of 
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Now is the Time to continence the Canvass iud as 
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necessary to obtain a handsome list (and thus secures 
valuable Premium,) at almost any post-ofiice. 
!EF” Specimen Numbers, Show Bills, Prospectuses &c 
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of the Rural. Though we shall add from ten 
to twenty thousand copies to our present edi¬ 
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orders. And, after providing for your own 
household, please do not “forget to remember" 
to invite your neighbors and other friends and 
acquaintances to take the Rural. All that is 
necessary, in most cases, is an invitation—and 
will you not do them and us the favor to extend 
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the same (thus securing a free copy or larger 
premium,) or add it to club of Post-Master or 
other local agent ? Would not such an exer¬ 
cise of influence redound to the prosperity and 
welfare of community ? 
A New Year’s Gift. 
•Those of our readers wl . 
to make near or distant friends a N'ew Y< : 
which will be new and present- able fifty-two ti:... - 
the twelvemonth- < n reminding the recipi 
friendship and kindues- o the giver of a gift so finely and 
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sent to any ; art or th* > ., $1,62)4 to Canada, and $ 2, r >9 
to Europe • Many sub-ci i!. rs thus send the paper to 
frien ds an I - .his country aud Europe 
—regarding on . 1 he most valuable and acceptable 
Munificent Endowment. — The College of 
California has in prospect a legacy worth $80,- 
000, from the will of Mr. Henry Gunter, lately 
deceased. The property is part of that in volv- 
ed in “ the celebrated Beriessa suit,” still pend¬ 
ing, and is therefore as yet in an uncertain 
position. From all the magnificent fortnnes 
which have been realized in California, this, 
according to The Pacific, is the first bequest of 
the character lhat has been made to the greatest 
interests of that State’s future welfare. 
atnaqes 
In this ciy, December 23d, by Rev. J. B. Shaw, D. D., Mr 
P W ' UUNN’fMiN, ot' Milwaukee, Wis., and Mios ELLEN 
VAN SCHUYVER, of this city. 
In Shnneat'es on the 4th inst., by Rev. E. N. Cnvkendall, 
Mr. FRANCIS S.M ITH, of Lysander, and Miss MARION A. 
CONOVER, of the former place. 
In Farmington. Dec 10th. by Rev. Horace Eaton, of Pal¬ 
mira. Mr JOSEPH H REY OLDS, of Galen, and Miss 
PHEBE I? . rtangl ter of George Allen, Esq., of Farmington. 
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who have failed of receiving, lost, or worn out 
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bers, will be cheerfully and promptly supplied 
with duplicates. Please specify the numbers 
wanted when you order next volume, and they 
shall be forthcoming. 
Copies of this volume will be handsomely 
and substantially bound in a few days, and 
ready for delivery as premiums, and on order. 
Price, $3. The numbers of the volume, un¬ 
bound, $2—it-, if included in club orders for 
the new volume, at-the club price ($1,50 ) — 
Would here state, in answer to inquiries, that 
we cannot furnish complete sets of back vol¬ 
umes, the demand having loug since exhausted 
the supply. We can only furnish the present 
(7th) and tire volume for 1854 (5th.) As we 
Measures of Reform. —Mr. Kelsey, a tnetn- 
her of the House Mileage Committee, is prepar¬ 
ing a bill to equalize mileage, which now ranges 
from seventeen to five thousand nine hundred 
and sixty dollars a session. He proposes that 
the present rates be continued up to 450 or 500 
miles, ami above this to be reduced to ten in¬ 
stead of forty cents a nule. Also a deduction 
of twenty-five or thirty dollars per diem for 
voluntary absence from Congress. 
Coming !— Thanks, Good Friends ! — As we 
close this number, subscriptions for the new 
volume are pouring in upon us from all sec¬ 
tions, far and near—the most distant States and 
Territories, and the adjacent British Provinces, 
being well represented. This and the Western 
States, aud Canada West—throughout which 
we verily believe the Rural has more ardent, 
active and influential friends and agents than 
any other journal in Christendom—are send¬ 
ing in hosts of new subscribers, encouraging 
our hearts and hands, aud strengthening our 
determination to make the Eighth Volume ol 
the Rural New-Yorker every way worthy the 
large and wide favor and support it is receiving. 
In Games, N.Y., Dec. 13th, of Dropsy on tbe Brain. MARIA 
TENNY, infant daughter of'C. F. aud L. M. Hsydeu, aged one 
year and tour month.-. 
In r,hi eity, on the 17th inst., of inflammation of the bowels 
GEORGE A., third sou of ihe late Levi W. Sibley, aged 2d 
years aud 6 mouths. 
Troops from Florida.— The Syracuse Courier 
says that Company E, 2d artillery, passed 
through that city on Friday on their way to 
Fort Ontario, Oswego. They left New York 
about a year ago, and have since been engaged 
in fighting Indians iu Florida. The company 
numbered eighty men when it left New York, 
and they have since had fourteen killed, and 
brought home seventeen wounded, who re¬ 
mained in New York. 
Rural New-Yorker Office, ) 
Rochester, Dec. 26, 1856. ) 
TnEKE are no changes to note in the flour and grain markets, 
and transac ions are light. The increased tariff ot reight prices 
on fl ur for eastern markets, will prevent millers, in this sec¬ 
tion, from purchasing for anything more than to supply home 
consumption 
Pork has advanced 25c per cwt. during tho week —now 
selling at $7,50@< 75 Poultry coming in pien.tully, and is 
readily d’spo ed ot at S@9c < hicrens, 10c Turkeys — prime 
samples soui rimes o a little Better. 
Nf.w York, Dec 2 —Flom— Holders are iat'*er more anx¬ 
ious to realiz , but pi lets are without change Sales at $6,30 
@6 50 lor common to choice and surer State ; $6,65(3! 8 o lor 
extra do.: $ 6 , >0 a 6 611 tor com non to choice and super In. iana, 
Illinois, low.., Wisconsin slid Ohio; $6,70(<i7,20 for extra do.; 
$7oi 9 lor St i ottis. C-nadi n flour, sales at $6,40@7,75 ior 
common to set er and cho-ce extra. 
Grain— Homers of who it are firm, and prices above views 
of .oners, bales white Soul,-.era at $1,77@1,80; red winter at 
$l,56(a)l,60; white $iy5(o)1.8U; white Canadian $l,77@,l,82 ; 
Chic .go spring $1,45 ; Milwaukee club $1,5 @1.52. Rye'quiet 
at S5(o'9e. Barley $1.28. Corn dull a. d drooping; sales of 
mixed Western at 69@72e. uats firm at 46@50c for State and 
Western. 
Provisions —Po'k market unsettled ; sales at $19,12@19,25 
for i,lii mess ; $19.62 for new mess; $16.90@17,50 for p rme.— 
l aid heave : sale- at 12)^@ 1214c. Butter dull at 16@20c for 
Ohio, and 20(q,25 for Slate. Cheese firm at 9 @ 10 ) 4 c. 
Busfat.o, Dec. 22—Flour unchanged; $5,75 for good Wis¬ 
consin ; $6 for choice do ; $6.25(56,50 for extra Ohio and Iowa. 
Sales o- w heat at $1.40 for white Canadian. Com65c. Dressed 
hogs 7@7)(c. Lard 11)4(a 12c. 
THE CATTLE MARKETS. 
New York, Dec. 17.- Beef Cattle, 1st quality, $10@10,50; 
extra. $11. Cows and Calves. $3I>, $70@75. Sheep and Lambs, 
common, $5@5,60 ; extra, $7@10. Swine, 6 ) 4 , 6 )j[, 7)4@8>£c. 
Cambridge, Dec. 17 —Market Beef, extra, $8,12(38,50; 1st 
quality, $7.61X37,15 ; 2d do , $6,25(37 ; 3d do.,$5@6 ; ordinary, 
$t,5d Working Oxen. $100, 150(n 175. Cows aud Calves, $30, 
4U. 50 v .i 65. Yearlings, $16(320 ; two years old, $23(328 ; three 
ytars o'd, $21(3.40. Sheep and Lambs, by lot, $2, 2,50, 4@5 ; 
extra. $ 6 . 8 (u 9. Swine, 6)4fe7c ; dressed, 8@9c. 
Brighton, Dec. 18.—Market Beef, extra, $S,25 ; 1st quality, 
$7,75 2d do., $6(56.75; 3d do., $5 75(56 ; ordinary, $4,75(35. 
W orking Oxen, $110(3 150, Milch Cows. $30(3,60. Veal Calves, 
$3(a 5 Yearlings, 14@18 ; two years oid, $20(522 ; three years 
old. $2441 38. Sheep and Lambs, extra and selections. $5@8 ; 
by lot, $1,75@3. Swine, wholesale, 9 ) 4 @ 6 c; retail, 7@9c. 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
Foreign Correspondence. — We shall next 
week commence a New Series of letters from 
our Special Foreign Contributor, Mr. G. F. 
Wiloox, whose contributions from abroad have 
been much admired by.our readers, and copied 
and commended by some ot the best of our 
exchanges. It is our intention to give other 
valuable and interesting foreign correspondence 
daring the year ensuing — arrangements for 
which are not yet fully completed. 
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coatinuar.ee of the paper. 
Reduction of Postage to Panama.— On the 
19th iost.. Postmaster General Campbell issued 
instructions to postmasters at New York, Phil¬ 
adelphia and Boston, directing that postage to 
Panama ere,after shall be at 10 in dead of 20 
cents per single letter. This decision is pred¬ 
icated up *. the fact that direct co outunicatiou 
from Nei’ York via Aspinwall, b: mgs Panama 
within 'be 2,500 miles named io law, aud was 
so decided on an application being made by 
the offices nd crew of the stoop-of-war St. 
Mary, shtioned there. 
Railroad Depots Burned — The Albany 
Jo irnal contains a carefully prepared estimate 
of ihe losses occasioned by the binning of the 
Hu Ison river railroad uepot, on the 14th inst. 
The value of the freight destroyed is $50,257 31. 
The loss on the building, over insurance, is 
$9,400. Total loss $59,557 31. 
The depot at Utica was destroyed by fire 
during the past week. Loss not fully ascer¬ 
tained. 
The Ladies and Young People, as well as 
seniors, are kindly exercising their influence 
in behalf of the Rural. Within the past two 
days we have received several handsome lists 
from single and married ladies. With the ap- 
provol and aid of the fairer and better portion 
of the habitans of this mundane sphere, the 
Rural cannot fail of achieving still more emi¬ 
nent success and prosperity. 
The Title, Index, <fcc., occupies so much 
space in this number that we are obliged to 
abridge several departments, and omit others 
altogether. The Index is, however, indispen¬ 
sable to the hundreds and thousands who, we 
- aregla^l to know, preserve the Rural. Look it 
^^over, and you will find that the volume treats 
e| 'I’pon most subjects of interest to our readers. 
Our Next is umber is already being “typed,” 
and our prime s —genuine disciples of Faust 
and Frayklin have just been congratulating 
us upon the beauty of the new dress, aud the 
riclinest aud value of the matter it is to make 
readabl.*. But, as our reader’s can judge for 
themselves, next week and thereafter, we will 
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(less cost of exchange,) or check or certificate of deposit, 
on any Bank in either of said cities,—payable to our t r . 
Of Any person so disposed can act as local 
the Rural without certificate, and each and a: 
unteer in the good cause will not only :“teiv 
but their aid will be gratefully apprec ; ■ trd. 
O^Club papers are sent to as many .iffiv i M ,, 4 
or post-offices as requested; and we write th : . ■> 
subscribers on papers if desired—thus saving Agi . 
Post-Masters from any labor or attention in the ; * * 
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names and money of such persons as do not wish to wait 
and complete their lists afterwards. 
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Railboad Accident. —An accident occurred 
on -the Pitsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago 
Railroad on the 21st inst., near Lima, Ohio.— 
One passenger car was precipitated down an 
embankment by the breaking of an axle. A 
lady from Iowa was instantly killed. 
“ Insurrection” Losses. —A Tennessee paper 
says Senator Bell , will lose about $10,090 by 
the “ insurrection” panic. Four of his negroes, 
in his absence, were hung by one of the local 
courts, and five more afterwards by the mob 
without Judge or Jury. 
Send.kg “Gentlemen” to Prison.— Messrs. 
Willis k Co., extensive Loan Brokers in New 
York, who were recently convicted of receiv¬ 
ing stolen goods, have beeu sentenced to four 
years and nine months in the State prison. 
