MOORE’S RURAL NEW-IO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
RURAL NEW-YOR KER. 
ROCHESTER, NOVEMBER 25,1852. 
PUBLISHER’S NOTICES. 
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for the Rural New-Yorker. Those who form Clubs on 
their own responsibility, will be entitled to the same pre¬ 
miums, &c., as regular agents. We hope some one or 
more will act voluntarily in every neighborhood. 
The Cash System.— A gents and subscribers are remind¬ 
ed that the Rural is conducted strictly upon the cash yst- 
sem. ’ That it is always discontinued at the expiration of 
the time paid for—and that all orders should be accompa¬ 
nied with the money to insure attention. 
Club Prices, &c.— The lowest club price of the Rural 
is SI,25 a year, howevor large the number of copies taken. 
See Terms, Premium List, etc., on next page. 
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Thanksgiving Fancies. 
Alas ! that tre may not really enjoy this 
Thanksgiving Day, where only we cau enjoy its 
fullness—at the paternal home “ out in the coun¬ 
try,” with all the household gathered once more 
unbroken beneath its humble roof-tree. But it 
may not well be so, yet our thoughts will busy 
themselves among Thanksgiving fancies. AY e 
think of the busy preparations which occupy the 
days which precede this hallowed festrial of 
the poultry which high-feeding had given a more 
self-satisfied air than ever, which have strutted 
and cackled their last; of the golden pumpkins 
which have become delicious pies; of the pud¬ 
dings iu which plums are not wanting ; aud the 
dessert of grapes, apples and hickory-uuts which 
close the feast. We think of these, nor do we 
forget the reunion of old friends; the scattered 
households which are again gathered togethei, 
from venerable parents down to great grand-chil¬ 
dren—the one with four months experience of life, 
the other with the wisdom which four-score years 
has taught. AY ell, too, we remember the Thanks¬ 
giving sermon and the thoughts which the retio- 
spect of another year calls up —the thankful 
thoughts of the unnumbered blessings bestowed 
by our Heavenly Father. And the sorrows of the 
past— its afflictions and trials—now show their 
brightest side, and lo ! they were blessings cloth¬ 
ed in sable garb — God was good to us, even in 
these. 
Thanksgiving Day r ! Almost our only National 
festival, let us observe it,—not only by “ a feast 
of first fruits ” of the bounties which the year has 
brought us, but with reverent thoughtful memory 
of the lives we have lived heretofore. Let this be 
one of those pleasant resting places where beneath 
shadowing trees aud beside clear fountains we tar¬ 
ry awhile to refresh ourselves from the weariness 
of the journey—where we review the scenes and 
occurrences of the past, and arrange our plans for 
the future. It is good to think of the future in 
such a light. These quiet, thankful memories so¬ 
ber and chasten our imaginations, and the schemes 
which we now make, promise more than others to 
become the realities of our after-life. 
Thanksgiving Day! Ye who are gathered at 
well-spread tables with blessings on your lips, 
prove that they rise from your hearts by remem¬ 
bering the poor, and gladdening from your abun¬ 
dance their poverty, by words of comfort to the 
affleted, by deeds of kindness and charity to all 
the children of our common Father. So should 
you prove your thankfulness—so should you pie- 
pare your hearts for the mingled allotments of the 
future. 
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Poetical Communications. 
In common with all newspaper editors it is our 
lot to receive a great many poetical communica¬ 
tions, and we suppose, also, that we do not more 
than others, escape giving offence in the judgment 
we pass upon them. This we cannot well avoid; 
we do the best we can according to our taste in 
the article. AVithin the past month we have 
looked over the stock on hand aud the following 
are marked accepted : The Guiding Star; I Re¬ 
member ; To the Moon; The Maiden’s Dream; 
Life-lines ; Paddle your own Canoe ; That Gentle 
Strain. A few others will receive farther exam¬ 
ination. 
AA r e find in a contemporary journal the follow¬ 
ing sensible remarks on this subject, which those 
who submit their productions to an editor’s judg¬ 
ment, should read and remember: 
“We receive many poetical communications 
which are not published, because, by inserting 
them we should offend the good taste of our read¬ 
ers, and do an injury to the writers. AV'e may be 
thought, too fastidious, but cannot get over our 
conviction that rhymes are not necessarily poetry. 
A collocation of words with jingling terminations, 
may be destitute of all the elements of poetry, 
and outrage all the laws of versification ; but, even 
where the rules are preserved, common-place re¬ 
marks, not illustrated by poetical allusion ; sub¬ 
limity of thought, or felicity of expression, is but 
prose after all, and often ‘ prose run mad.’ 
To write verses, we imagine, is a common 
temptation ; but the true spirit of poesy is not a 
common endowment. On the contrary, it is a 
very rare gift. AYe hope, therefore, that our poet¬ 
ical correspondents will take no offence if we de¬ 
cline their favors. It implies no imputation on 
their understanding, or any want of respect for 
them personally. AV’e only signify that the verses 
do not suit our taste, which taste may be very 
faulty, but still must be our guide as editor. Our 
opinion that the writer is not endowed with, or 
has not, in the particular instance given evidence 
of the rare qualifications of a good poet, ought to 
be no moreoffensive than to say he has not a musi¬ 
cal voice. The strongest intellect and best culti¬ 
vated mind are compatible with both the one and 
the other.” 
The Ohio Farmer. —This spirited weekly con¬ 
tinues to visit us regularly. Though it has changed 
editors since first starting, the enterprising pub¬ 
lisher seems determined to sustain the original 
character of the paper, and we trust he will suc¬ 
ceed,—and also in obtaining for it a wide circula¬ 
tion. There is room enough for all, and we wish 
brother Brown a successful campaign. For pros¬ 
pectus of Farmer, see advertising columns. 
Taking the Papers. 
Now is the time to take the papers. 
ft ’Tis sweet, on winfcev’s niglit, at liome, to sit by fire 
mid tapers; but, all! it is a wiser thing, by far, to take 
the papers. Won’t you take the papers ? Can't you take 
the papers ? The joys of heart are little worth, unless 
you take the papers ? Maidens wanting lovers true, you 
must take the papers 1 Swains who would not idly woo, 
you must take the papers! Can t you take the papers . 
Love’s joys below you'll never know, unless you take the 
papers.” 
So sings somebody who has tried it, and knows 
more than a thing or two. The newspapers are 
among the greatest miracles of the age. Just 
think of it. Every week a new volume, wet 
from the press, with the labor of twenty men 
upon it, with lightning and steam impressed into 
its service to bring tbe latest possible intelligence 
from all parts of the world, and print it at the 
[ greatest possible speed ! Every number contain¬ 
ing as much as many books that sell for balf a 
'■ dollar or more, and a variety from which every 
t\ste or occupation cau obtain something of inter¬ 
est or value, and the whole furnished for from 
three Nj four cents! No one can be called ignorant 
who rcaMs, regularly, even one good paper. It is 
a perpetual schoolmaster to the young, an unfail¬ 
ing solace to the old, and whoever obtains another 
subscriber for it, is engaged in a useful home mis¬ 
sionary enterprise. IVho will accept a mission 
from us, and in our behalf ? AA r ili not our friends 
let us hear of their good works ? 
Thus saitk the Columbian and Great A\ r est, and 
the Rural adopts the context. Yes, take the 
papers,—everybody, and all your neighbors. But 
mind, friends—parents—don’t “buy a pig in a 
poke for, sooth to say, all papers are not what 
they should be;—on the contrary, many are, for 
the young especially, most unfit companions. In 
deciding as to taking a paper, look to the quality 
rather than size; aud above all never subscribe 
for any periodical on account of its low price, with¬ 
out regard to its character. Judge by the proper 
criterion, merit and intrinsic value. A poor, 
trashy paper is dear at any price,—and an in¬ 
vestment for such au one, on the score of cheap¬ 
ness, is decidedly false economy. A family jour¬ 
nal, especially, should be useful and pure—in 
other words, instructive and safe. There are such 
papers, here and there, all over the country,—and 
they are cheap at two, three or even five dollars a 
year. But many of them are both good and low 
priced. Reader, give such your support and en¬ 
couragement—introduce them to your friends, 
and, wherever you can, substitute papers calcu¬ 
lated to improve aud instruct, for those of an em- 
phemeral, immoral character, whose tendency is 
always more or less injurious. 
Western Horticultural Review. — The two 
first numbers of the third volume (commencing 
Oct., 1852,) of this excellent work are rich in con¬ 
tents, and exhibit improvement in appearance 
over formermer issues. The Review is ably con¬ 
ducted, each number evidencing versatility of tal¬ 
ent and extensive knowledge aud observation on 
the part of the editor. We again commend it to 
all interested in Horticultural and kindred pur¬ 
suits, as a work of decided merit aud usefulness. 
It should be extensively circulated, not ouly at 
the AA r est, but throughout the whole Union. Ed¬ 
ited and published by John A. AYarder, M. D., 
Cincinnati. For terms, <fcc., see next page. 
/ The Weather. — The temperature of the at- 
■ mosphere continues mild, though cloudy for far 
the greater part of the time. Wednesday aud Sat¬ 
urday were fair—very muddy on the latter day.— 
Monday afternoon it began to snow and continued 
to do so through the evening. On Tuesday, the 
snow was about four inches in depth—cloudy and 
a little rainy—snow melting. Some farmers who 
have not gathered all their turnips would be glad 
to see a few more Indian summer days before win¬ 
ter really sets in upon them.—w. 
Information AYanted. — George Mitchell, 
who has recently arrived in this country from 
Leverton, Lincolnshire, near Boston, England, 
is desirous to hear from his brother, AYilliam 
Mitchell, who came to this country about three 
years ago, and is supposed to reside in Western 
New York. Or of his friends Barnet Downer or 
Clark Reson, also from England. Any informa¬ 
tion concerning the residence of either of the 
above named persons may be addressed to Thos. 
McMahon, 117 State St., Rochester, N. Y. 
Gold in Canada West. —The Comet, a paper 
published at Ovveu Sound, town of Sydenham, 
County of Grey, C. W., states that a report had 
reached that place that gold had been discover¬ 
ed at about fifteen miles distance, and 150 men 
were employed at the mines. Specimens had 
been brought in, but it was suspected that the 
supposed gold was no better than mica. The 
Hamilton Spectator laughs at the excited gold 
seekers. 
The White Mercer Potato. —Those who wish 
to obtain this popular seedling Potato, are refered 
to the advertisement of Mr. Langworthy, in this 
paper. Mr. L. is a most successful farmer and 
horticulturist, and his statements are altogether 
reliable. 
The Auburn Advertiser notices the death 
of Mrs. J. M. Sherwood, of that city,—a lady who 
has been foremost in every good work, exemplify¬ 
ing the faith of a Christian by a life of virtuous 
and consistent action. 
The Delaware and Hudson Bank at Tom’s 
River, Ocean county, N. J., is about winding up 
its affairs. Notice has been given for all the notes 
in circulation to be presented to the State Treas¬ 
urer within two years. 
Nathaniel Dearborn, the well-known en¬ 
graver and author, died at his residence in South 
Reading, Mass,, a day or two since. Mr. Dear¬ 
born was one of the first to introduce wood en¬ 
gravings in Boston. 
A Handsome Speculation. —The Arctic, which 
sailed on Saturday from New York to Liverpool, 
took out as freight 2,500 barrels of apples. The 
Pacific, on a late trip, had a large number, winch 
brought in Liverpool twenty-eight shidings per 
bushel, or seventeen dollars per barrel / They 
were the best Newtown pippins, costing in New 
York about $5 per barrel. The freight charged 
is $1 20 per barrel—leaving a handsome profit to 
the owner, The expedition with which perisha¬ 
ble merchandise of this description can be deliver¬ 
ed, ensuring its good order, has given rise this sea¬ 
son to quite an extensive traffic.— Jour. Com. 
Sale of Woolen Factories. —The sale of two 
fine and large establishments came off in Little 
Falls, according to notice, on the 16th inst. The 
competition was meagre and bidders scarce. The 
large stone mill, known as the AVool Growers’ 
Mill, with all its machinery, was struck off for 
$27,600, to Mr. Loomis, for a house in Philadel¬ 
phia. The Saxony Mill and machinery was sold 
at $15,060, to the purchasers. Both mills and 
their machinery are in good condition, aud it is 
expected that one or both of them will he set in 
operation this winter.— Utica Gazette. 
Stamped Envelopes. —The contract with Geo 
F. Nesbitt, of New Y'ork, or the supply of these 
envelopes, lasts till June, 1857. The customer is 
to pay the price of the stamp with the cost of the 
envelope added. The difference is not yet deter¬ 
mined, but will be very trifling. The object of 
the law was not to supercede the present stamps, 
but to afford to parties wishing it, an opportunity 
of sending their letters out of the mails, without 
any infringement upon the revenues of the De¬ 
partment. 
Line of Packet Ships to China. —A regular 
and speedy communication between San Francisco 
and China, Las been established. Messrs Ogden 
tfc Haynes are the pioneers in the enterprise, hav¬ 
ing established a line of six packet ships forming 
a monthly communication between San Francisco 
and Hong Kong. The clippers are fitted up for 
passengers, the cabins being furnished in elegant 
style. Steam packets will soon follow, should the 
“ Oriental Line ” prove successful. 
Sardines. —The editor of the Manchester Mir¬ 
ror says from personal knowledge, that the bay of 
Monterey, California, is literally filled with this 
delicious fish. They are said to be found there 
in greater abundance than in any other part of 
the world. They ;ye to be found not only at Mon¬ 
terey, but in all the still waters on the coast from 
Panama to Oregon. 
War. —Some curious persons have been at the 
trouble of analyzing history, or, in other words, 
human nature. The following is the gratifying 
chemical resultFive hundred years of history 
contain 75 years of religious war, 273 of foreign 
do., 77 of civil do., 175 of peace or exhaustion.— 
In these 375 years of war there were 184 pitched 
battles. 
Signs of Thanksgiving —The last arrival of 
note in this city, was a drove of a thousand tur¬ 
keys, who carrie in yesterday during the storm, 
draggled and d'enched, and looking the personifi¬ 
cation of misery.— N. Y. dimes. 
Profitable Farming —A farmer in Euclid, O., 
has this season raised 3,000 bushels of potatoes on 
ten acres of ground, aud marketed them in Cleve¬ 
land at fifty cent-s per bushel. 
New Post Offices. —William's Place, Living¬ 
ston county, Wm. L. Stork, P. 51. Churubusco, 
Clinton Co., A. S. Anderson, P. M. East Canis- 
teo, Steuben county, is changed to “Adrian.” 
News Clippings- 
The Lobos Guano difficulty appears to 
have been amicably settled so far as tbe Govern¬ 
ments of Peru and this country are concerned.— 
Com. M’Auley received his counter instnictions 
in season to prevent any collision. The fleet of 
vessels sent out were to he provided with com¬ 
missions to take guano, on the same terms as other 
parties were permitted to load at Lobos. What¬ 
ever is to pay hereafter, will probably come out 
of the United States Treasury, in the shape of 
claims for indemnity on the part of those who 
chartered the vessels on the faith of assurances 
made to them by the Government. 
r^”“Prof.” “Mr.” or “Dr.” Kinkol, the (so- 
called) European Reformer, who came over here 
to raise a German Revolutionary Fund, just when 
Intervention was the most fashionable ism of the 
day, with some folk, announces through his 
“Treasurer” in London, that “the scheme has 
utterly failed.” It seems that some $7, /17 iu all 
were raised, of which sum $2,704 39 has gone to 
the place whence no money returns. People who 
contributed are called upon to make a demand for 
the balance. 
We learn from Washington that the Post- 
Master General has decided that there is nothing 
either in the laws or regulations of the Post Office 
Department, which prevents the sending of peri¬ 
odicals or papers to “ actual and bona-fide sub¬ 
scribers,” bv agents or dealers, the same as if they 
Avere mailed directly from the office of publication 
_all former decisions to the contrary notwith¬ 
standing. The first section of the neAv law em¬ 
braces the c;;se. 
jAfp The Managers of the Art Union announce 
that the paintings of the Association will tie sold 
at auction, on the 15th, 16th and 17th of Decem¬ 
ber next. They do not stale whether an effort 
will be made to continue the institution on an¬ 
other basis or not. 
j^S-pThe most extensive coal field in the world 
commences near Carrolton, Kentucky, and runs 
North though Indiana, Illinois and Iown, con¬ 
taining about 80,000 square miles, of which a 
tenth part, oi 8,000 miles, are in Indiana. 
Miss Sarah Hardwicke, the daughter of a 
citizen of London, died in the 73d year of her 
age, on the 25th of July last, bequeathing t<> the 
Charitable Institutions of the city of London, a 
sum of money exceeding £20,000. 
An American gentleman now traveling in 
S\veden, writes home that the works of Irving, 
Cooper, Emdrson, Bancroft, Prescott, Longfellow, 
Webster, and other American authors, are well 
knoAvn and much admired in that country. 
In the year 1787, Matthias Denny pur¬ 
chased the 640 acres of land, embracing nearly all 
the present she of Cincinnati, for forty-nine dol¬ 
lars ! Now scarcely a solitary front foot of any 
lot on that ground can be purchased for that sum. 
jAgr There are but two paintings in the White 
House at Washington; one a full length of Wash¬ 
ington, and another of Bolivar. President Fill¬ 
more has lately added Welch’s superb engraving 
from Stuart’s Washington. 
jug?” A petition has been presented to the Ver¬ 
mont Legislature, from various persons iu Brattle- 
boro, asking for women the right to vote in 
school-meetings. Mrs. Nichols, the editress of 
the Windham County Democrat, was allowed to 
present the claims of the petitioners in the Rep¬ 
resentatives’ Hall. She claimed that Woman had 
been alienated from her true sphere, which Avas 
now too tame, and deuied that naturally her sex 
Avas more dependent than the other, fehe claimed 
for woman the right to represent her property, 
and the natural interests of her child, iu oversee¬ 
ing its educational interests. 
jygr The Western House of Refuge now con¬ 
tains 156 boys. Since Oct. 1, Avheu the act re¬ 
lieved the Counties from contributing to the sup¬ 
port of the boys sent by them respectively, the 
arrivals have nearly doubled iu frequency. The 
law directs that none shall be sent Avhose age ex¬ 
ceeds sixteen years, yet many over that age are 
sentenced and" brought to the Refuge through 
false statements of the boys and their friends, and 
the reluctance of Courts and Juries to send 
youthful culprits to the State Prisons. 
jgf” In Australia, gold discoveries are reported 
to extend in surface and increase in richness of 
deposit. Fortunes are being made with great fa¬ 
cility, and hundreds of English emigrants are ar¬ 
riving daily from all parts of the world. On the 
26th and 27th of June, 25,044 ounces of dust and 
ingots were shipped to England. On the 29th of 
June, a severe freshet occurred, and the village of 
Gundaigar Avas destroyed, and 60 to 80 lives lost. 
The toAvn was completely ruined. 
A correspondent of the Keene Sentinel 
gives an account of a valuable plumbago mine, in 
Nelson, N. H., discovered iu 1848, and now yield¬ 
ing a large supply of this valuable mineral. Last 
year there were eighty-five tons taken from the 
mine ; this season from April 1st to October 1st, 
one hundred tons. Over sixty tons of the lead 
taken from the mine this season has already been 
sent to New York, and sold, on an average, for 
one hundred dollars per ton. 
Jgf” The Charleston Courier says, of the litera¬ 
ry Avorks of Calhoun,—“ but little interest or de¬ 
mand is manifested for the work, and the edition 
for the most pari lies quietly reposing on the 
bookseller’s shelves.” What else, remarks the 
Evening Post, could be expected of a book pub¬ 
lished iu Charleston, and of wliich, we suppose, 
not a single copy has been sent for notice in any 
northern journal, or a single advertisement of it 
made ? 
The Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, are 
the owners of a large number of slaves in North 
Carolina, and are said to be very severe task-mas¬ 
ters. They are married, and Avhat is singular, 
Chang is said to he a Pierce and King democrat, 
and Eng something of a Hale abolitionist. Both 
are married, the former having six children, and 
the latter five. Eng’s Avife Aveighs 220 pounds; 
the aggregate Aveight of the tAvinsis blit 219. 
The stock of furs now in the New York 
market is supposed to be Avorth not far from $2,- 
000,000; some of the largest traders having stocks 
ranging from $50,000 to $100,000. The fall busi¬ 
ness is beginning briskly. Some of the best de¬ 
scription bring extravagant prices—$150 and $200 
freqently given for a set. The most valuable im¬ 
ported furs go east, the Boston ladies paying higli 
prices more readily than the New Yorkers. 
The Cumberland (Md.) Journal states that 
the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company are now 
building fifteen schooners, of 400 tons each, to 
transport their coal to the New York market by 
sea ; also forty scows, of 200 tons each, to navi¬ 
gate the Chesapeake aud Delaware and Raritan 
Canals, by means of steam tugs, for the same pur¬ 
pose- They contemplate a business next season 
of not less than 600,000 tons. 
A meeting will be held in Albany on the 
12th of January next, for the purpose of consider¬ 
ing a plan for a College, to be located in this State, 
Avhose aim shall be the dissemination of Practical 
Science, including Chemistry, Geology, Mineralo¬ 
gy, and those sciences most immediately and 
vitally essential to agriculture and the useful arts, 
and in whose management the feature of manual 
labor shall be prominent. 
{gg 5 " The N. Y. Post states that a number of the 
patriotic citizens of Boston and vicinity, are get¬ 
ting up a complimentary testimonial of their per¬ 
sonal esteem for the President elect, iu the shape 
of a “ model” carriage, together with horses and 
equipage complete, all of NeAV England produc¬ 
tion, for the occasion of his inauguration iu March 
next. 
The project of a Railroad from Minnesota 
to New Orleans is among the schemes that is uoav 
engaging the attention of the people of the South 
and West. It is ascertained that it would shorten 
the distance betAveen those tAvo points nearly one- 
half, by avoiding the bends in the mighty Missis¬ 
sippi. 
There is a man in the toAvn of Lee, in this 
State, 82 years of age, avLo has never suffered an 
hour’s illness, has never lost a tooth, and has not 
a gray hair, his head being thickly covered with 
dark and vigorous locks. He Avould hew down a 
regiment of the|bald-headed, toothless, and ailing 
young people of 1852. 
2 ^" John Ringo, aged 90 years, died in Flem¬ 
ing county, Kentucky, on the 7th inst. He was a 
soldier of'the Revolution, aud had the pleasure to 
witness the surrender of Cornwallis to Washing¬ 
ton, Avhich terminated the active field operations 
of the American Revolution. 
Iff" A generous hearted slave-holder offers to 
liberate all his slaves—Avhose market value is$40,- 
0(j0—if the Colozination Society Avill furnish the 
means for their transportation to Liberia. The 
surrender of these slaves Avill leave their master 
Avith a bare subsistence. 
The Turkish Government and the private 
steam companies of that country, purchase their 
steamers in England, in preference to the United 
States, as the many accidents and losses on our 
rivers and lakes have given them a poor opinion 
of our machinery. 
ipff" During the recent storm on Lake Erie, 
the Avater in the Detroit river fell tAvo feet, and 
at Malden, near the mouth of the river, it fell four 
feet. Vessels lying at the latter place, grounded 
at the piers, where they had to lay for tAvo days 
for the water to return. 
The official estimates of the expenses of 
Government during the year, submitted to the 
Canadian Parliament, include £10,000 for Houses 
of Refuge for Juvenile Delinquents, in both parts 
of the Province, and the like sum for Deaf and 
Dumb Asylums. 
George Wilkins Kendall, of the New Or¬ 
leans Picayune, is about to marry aud retire to his 
vast sheep raising farms in Texas. Kendall has 
surely seen the world, and a little more ; is about 
forty-eight, and possesses a fortune of $100,000. 
draw of Hrais, &r. 
-In Belgium there are exactly 90,754 pro¬ 
fessional beggars. 
-In Lent, a fine salmon sells for more than 
a fine sheep, in the markets of London. 
-Slaughtered hogs are now sent to New 
York, undressed, with bristles and all. 
_The ice trade of the United States ex¬ 
ceeds, in amount, the wine trade of Bordeaux. 
-Shanghai sheep, all the way from China, 
are among the late importations at New \ ork. 
-Three-fourths of the British army in India 
are Irishmen. Of these, nine-tenths are Catholics 
-More than 100,000 sheep have been im¬ 
ported into Ireland this year from Scotland. 
-Labrador yields annually about five mil¬ 
lion dollars’ worth of fish, oil, and furs. 
-Martinique contains 9,000 whites, 87,000 
colored people, and 75,000 blacks, recently eman¬ 
cipated. 
-There is now uninterrupted railway com¬ 
munication between NeAv York (via Buffalo,) and 
Cincinnati. 
.-The report that Gen. Pierce was about to 
take up his residence at Portsmouth, N. H., is con¬ 
tradicted. 
-According to the New York Express there 
are 25,000 tons of guano consumed annually iu 
the United States. 
_The following is the official vote of Pcnn- 
sylvania :—Pierce, 198,583; Scott, 179,183 ; Hale, 
8,580 ; BroAvn, 1,610. 
-Pig iron has been sold within a few days 
at Pittsburg at $40 per ton. It is but a short time 
since it would bring but $22. 
-The city of Buffalo is now the terminus of 
five important lines of railroad, and three more are 
noAA r iu progress of completion. 
-The Maysville Eagle says Kentucky sends 
annually to market thirty thousand mules, Avorth 
from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000. 
-Dr. Chas. Jewett is a prominent candidate 
for representative in Milbury, and John B. Gough 
in Boylston, Mass. 
-More than 2,000 passengers left NeAv York 
on Saturday, by steam ships, more than half of 
Avhom were for California. 
-The opening of the last link of the Buffalo 
and NeAv York City Railroad, from Attica to Buf¬ 
falo, took ] dace on Thursday last. 
-France as an Empire, according to Louis 
Napoleon, must be bounded by the Rhine and 
the Alps—lofty idea, that, 
-The culture of rice is being generally and 
successfully introduced into the department of the 
Landos, in*the south of France. 
-Telegraph submarine communication is 
now complete betAveen Florence, Leghorn, Pisa, 
Lucca and SienDn, aud England. 
-Ten thousand pounds of Buffalo tallow 
reached St. Louis the other day from the Far 
West, done up in the hides of the animals. 
-A woman of Iziex, has discovered the art 
of crossing the breeds of silk-worms with suc¬ 
cess, and producing at will silk of several colors. 
-The Protestant population of France is 
only one million and a half, while the Catholic 
population is thirty-five or thirty-six millions. 
-Patrick liohan, of Belchertown, Mass., this 
fall, dug, picked up and emptied into a cart in one 
day, one hundred and one bushels of potatoes. 
-The aggregate vote for John P. Hale at the 
recent Presidential election it is believed was 
about 130,000. In 1849, Van Buren received 292,- 
828. 
-The well which the Galena Railroad Com 
puny undertook to bore at Chicago some time ago, 
has reached a depth of 220 feet, and no sign of 
living Avater yet. 
-Tbe “ Free Sch ols” of New York city 
cost, annually, the sum of $569,000, which is an 
average of about $3 a year to each pupil in atten¬ 
dance. 
-Lord Nelson was the eighteenth in de¬ 
scent from King Edward 1st, and the Duke of 
Wellington was descended from the same mon¬ 
arch. 
-We regret to learn that the wife of Prof. 
Hoyt, of Genesee College, Lima, died on the 10th 
inst. She was an estimable lady, and her loss is 
deeply lamented. 
-The debtors’ prisons of England contain 
many thousands of persons who have been in¬ 
carcerated for years, and never expect to be lib¬ 
erated. 
-The number of hogs raised in the five 
States of Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and 
Tennessee during the year 1850, is estimated at 
over tAvelve millions. 
-The total sum collected during the late 
election for the Washington Monument, amounts 
to $6,630 70, The collection was only made in 
tweuty-tAvo places. 
-A correspondent of the Herald states that 
Deacon David Hollis, of Braintree, has been fined 
$10 and costs, for selling cider to a neighbor. He 
has appealed. 
-Nelson’s funeral, in 1809, cost about sev¬ 
enty-five thousand dollars; William Pitt’s, thirty 
thousand. Wellington’s will probably cost as 
much as both together. 
-The New York Express reminds us that 
during the short period of the last war Avith Great 
Britain, Nerv York lost 25,000 of her population, 
and property fell 40 per cent. 
-The Sunday News states that Brackett’s 
group in sculpture of “ The Ship-wrecked Mother 
and Child,” has been purchased by the Boston 
Athemeum for three thousand dollars. 
-In 1748, Charleston, S. C., exported seven 
bags of cotton, and they were seized in England, 
on the ground that so much cotton could not pos¬ 
sibly be the product of the United States. 
-California contains/bw hundred thousand 
square miles. Ibis would give eight States as 
large as New York State, fifty as large as NeAv 
Jersey, and fifty-seven as large as Massachusetts. 
-It is stated that the number of copies of 
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published and sold in Eng¬ 
land, already amounts to 400,000. Jewel t & Co., 
of Boston, have published 150,000 in this coun¬ 
try. 
-It is computed that a Presidential election, 
including all expenditures, legitimate and illegiti¬ 
mate, from the nomination to the inauguration, 
costs not less than half a million dollars per 
State. 
_The Hudson and Berkshire Railroad has 
failed, the busiuess of the road not being sufficient 
to pay the interest of the bonds which it lias is¬ 
sued, and it Avill probably be sold under foreclos¬ 
ure. 
-Solomon Ratlibun, of Verona, Oneida Co., 
Las sold 600 tons of bay, this fall, for nine dollars 
per ton. His crop has been accumulating for 
three years The sum realized from his sales, is 
of course, $5,400. 
