MOORE’S RURAL NEW-IO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
RU RAL NEW-Y ORKER. 
ROCHESTER, DECEMBER 9, 1852. 
FUBIilSHER’S NOTICES. 
Agents. —Any person so disposed can aet as local agent 
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 ever} neighborhood where we 
have no regular agent 
The Cash System. —Agents and subscribers are remind¬ 
ed tliat the Rural is conducted strictly upon the cash sys¬ 
tem. 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 S1,25 a year, however large the number of copies taken. 
See Terms, Premium List, etc., on last page. 
Clubbing. —If in making up clubs for the Rural, any 
desire the Wool Grower and Stock Register, it may be 
added at 30 cents, which is the lowest club price. 
Specimen number of the Rural New-Yorker, and of the 
Wool Grower and Stock Register, furnished on application, 
or forwarded to address of third persons. 
Meteorological Abstract, 
BY L. W’ETHERELL. 
Nov. 1852. 
thermometer. 
MAX. I MIN. 1 MEAN 
j RAIN. 
j WINDS 
1 
54 
43 
48.33 
N W. N. E. 
2 
49 
45 
46.66 
S. N VT. 
3 
47 
43 
44.33 
N W. 
4 
48 
33 
42.33 
S W. 
5 
43 
38 
40.33 
N E. N W. 
6 
40 
33 
40.33 
S K. S. 
7 
45 
42 
41.67 
S W. N W. 
8 
43 
36 
39.33 
N W. 
9 
44 
35 
38.33 
S. N W. 
10 
42 
30 
34.33 
N W. 
11 
44 
32 
39 33 
S. S K. 
12 
44 
36 
40.66 
8 W. IT W. 
13 
35 
31 
32.66 
N W. 
14 
33 
29 
30.00 
8 W. 
15 
33 
28 
31.00 
N W. 
16 
37 
31 
33.33 
N W. S E. 
17 
37 
21 
27.00 
8 W. 
18 
38 
22 
30.66 
W. 
19 
38 
31 
33.65 
W. 
20 
38 
30 
34.00 
N W. 
21 
37 
32 
33.66 
N W. 
22 
37 
29 
32.66 
S E. 
23 
34 
29 
31.66 
N E. 
21 
34 
21 
25.66 
N K E. 
25 
39 
25 
32.66 
W. S E. 
26 
48 
42 
44.66 
S E. 
27 
37 
31 
34.66 
N W. 
28 
39 
31 
34.33 
N W. 
29 
33 
33 
34.33 
N W. 
30 
40 
25 
33.66 
N W. 
Monthly mean, 35.21 degrees. 
To our Readers. Words in Season. Note.—T he weather for the week past has been 
. ... . , ,, , very fine. Dec. 1st and 2d, were extraordinarily 
Two numbers more will complete the present , , , _ . . . , 
, . ^ v , ., ... nuld and pleasant. Friday evening it rained a 
volume of the Rural IN ew-i orker, when it will , . , 
, . . . . . . little, Saturday was rainy—so was Sunday.— 
become necessary for a largo majority of its „ , , , J , ... J 
. ", . ,: . , , Monday, cloudy and mild. Building is progress- 
“ constant readers”— always excepting inveterate . ... ° 
, , . , . . , . , . . injr rapidly in the city, in consequence ol the 
borrowers— to obtain a new ticket in order to in- r,. . 
. i i mud weather, 
sure its regularcontmuance. I hose who desire its __ 
visits during the coming year — and we confi- Monroe Co. Ag. Society.—Annual Meeting. 
dently place most of our readers in that category - 
—will bear in mind that an early renewal of their published in our paper of last week a no¬ 
responsibility. 
Post-Masters Merchants, Clerks, and others like 
and support. 
farmers—men whose hearts are alive to improve- 
who approve the Rural and desire its prosperity 
—whether subscribers, casual readers, strangers, or 
This little work discusses the false principles 
borrowers,-to now and again give publicity to wbicb lcad t0 U J e iu of tbe Gos P e1 ’ 
their sentiments, and take such action in the throwing the light of truth and reason into the 
premises as may be consistent with other en¬ 
gagements. 
Dark Alleys of error and siD. It has an important 
subject, and can but do good. Sold by D arrow- 
. A Sequel to the Female Jesuit. By Mrs. S. Luke. 
Dr. Goaiiby’s Lectures.— Ibis gentleman is Same Publisher as above. 
now delivering before the Young Men’s Associa- This is a republication of an English work 
tion in Buffalo, a course of Scientific “lectures purporting to disclose the true character of a 
and demonstrations in Histology and Microscopy, << family spy,” who imposed very successfully on 
comprising the Histology of plants and animals, both Catholics and Protestants. At Darrow’s. 
abundantly illustrated by preparations the most - 
exquisitely minute and perfect in America, ex- TnK WoOL Groweb axd Stook Register, for 
hibited by several compouud achromatic micro- December, is a valuable and interesting number, 
scopes,” which are spoken of as very interesting, d be ^ ord Department is unusually rich, erabrac- 
by the Commercial Advertiser. It says : “ The bl o ab ^ e nicies b l i be editor (1. C. 1 eters,) and 
description of the house-fly last Saturday evening, several experienced sheep breeders. Me annex 
was worth going five miles to hear. You get tbe ^ abb: contents, 
from these lectures what you cannot obtain by wool axd sheep husbandry. 
reading. You not only have the description, but Future Prospects of Wool, und How to Grow it,.86 
you see the creatures themselves, most beautifully Sj^l^F^neh Merino Vh^p,!'.'. !!'. ’.".'.'.'. 88 
dissected. In England, thousands of people of all Spanish and French Merino Sheep ; Wool Sorting, &u., 89 
classes and professions used to throng the Doctor’s 4bout “that Challenge”. .. .91 
lecture room, and why should not the same be Review of Wocff Market for November; Sheep Rack 
done here ? We are confident this would be the 1 oe( h«g iiou r h,. 
THE STOCK REGISTER. 
result, if our people did but know the value of Improved Breeds of Cattle, No. 3,—The Ilerefords,. . . 92 
the learned Professor’s instructions. Our advice Wintering Stock,....... 94 
Wool and Stock Growing ; Raising Stock,.9a 
is, go once and see for yourselves.” Loss on Stock Driven to Market; stock Wanted.96 
Whv cannot the course he retreated here 9 Sale of Imported Cattle—Great Prices, . 96 
” cannot Ule cc,ulse ue repeated nere . . r m mum Fowls ; Poultry and Eggs ; Roup in Chickens ; 
-- Pumpkin Seeds Poison to Fowls,.97 
Large Price.—'W e learn that S. P. Chapman, Practice ofShoeingHorses; Ventilation of Stables,. . . 98 
’ Fattening Cattle in Stalls and Sheds; Galls on Horses,. 99 
Esq., has recently sold a short-horn bull calf, Review of Cattle Markets,. loo 
“Firby,” to Mr. Cooper Sayre, of Oaks Corners, editor’s brief mention. 
r\ i. • t e co « v- i >> . v Now is the Time; The Farmer’s Companion; Choctaw 
Ontario county, for $150. F irby was got by Cltttle . j mpor tktion of Stock ; Rural New-Yorker ; 
Mr. Vail’s prize Bates bull “Meteor,” out of Mr. Suffolk Swine; [and other brevities.].99 
“Firby,” to Mr. Cooper Sayre, of Oaks Corners, editor’s brief mentio 
rs , • , r i ,, ., Now is the Time; The Farmer’s Compan 
Ontario county, for $150. F irby was got by Cattle . Iinpor tktion of Stock; Rural 
Mr. Vail’s prize Bates bull “Meteor,” out of Mr. Suffolk Swine; [and other brevities.].. 
C.’a prize cow “ Charlotte.” He is said to be a illustrations. 
, . , , , ,, , ,, ,, . Sheep Rack and Feeding-Trough,. 
superb animal a hall brother to Halton, and Portrait of prize Hereford Bull “ Troinp,' 
promises to nearly equal that fine animal. Portrait of a Hereford Cow,.93 
J 1 Group of Premium Fowls,.97 
The President’s Me.ssage. —This important Journal of Agriculture. —The price of this 
document will be given in our next number. It valuable and spirited monthly has been reduced 
was received too late for this week’s paper—par- to 50 cents a year. It merits a wide circulation, 
ticularly as wo desire to present it in a correct and and its price places it within the reach and means 
readable form. 
of the million. W. S. King, Boston, Mass. 
32ii Crngtm~2i) lesion. (feral fntrlllgrnrr. 
Monroe Co. Ag. Society.—Annual Meeting. 
We published in our paper of last week a no¬ 
subscriptions is indispensable, to secure the first tice, calling the Annual Meeting of this Society 
numbers of the volume. The best, surest way is on t be Dlth inst., at 11 o’clock, A. M., at the Sa¬ 
to renew before the first of January,— and you pervisor’s Room, in the Court House. In addi- 
can do this now as cheaply as one or three months tion to the choice of officers for the ensuing year, 
lienee. You can renew your subscription singly, the reports of the Committees on farm crops will 
hand it to an agent, or form a club on your own be presented, as well as an exhibition of W inter 
We trust tbe farmers of Monroe will be present 
favorably situated, can do much in behalf of this a t this meeting. It is an organization that should 
journal, and to such we confidently look for a be made effective in promoting their best, and 
generous exercise of influence. Those who are so ra °st cherished interests. 1 he whole matter 
disposed will find it advantageous to post up our sbould be pre-eminently in their hands. If they 
Show Bill Prospectus in their offices, stores, shops, bave - 01 ' suppose they have, reason to be dissatis- 
<fec, and to keep one or more numbers of the pa- bed with the manner in which its affairs are con- 
per conveniently at hand, for exhibition or exam- ducted, they may be comforted with the assur- 
ination. The prospectus will naturally attract ance that none are more to blame than themselves, 
the attention of customers and casual visitors; If thc J sta Y at home and allow their city friends 
and you can readily introduce the subject, exhibit to conduct the whole business of the Society, 
a number of the paper, and invite them to sub- tbe y bave little else to expect, than that 1 here will 
scribe. This isjhe course pureued by many of be a sort of cit J character given to the whole 
our most successful friends. They do not neglect tllin S- Tbis ma Y be a11 wro,, g> but il | s easil y 
their own business, hut embrace every favorable corrected. Come out to the Annual Meeting, and 
opportunity to bring the paper directly to notice let us bave for officers, active, punctual, working 
But there are many others who feel an interest men L and who will infuse their own spirit into 
in the paper, and can easily manifest their good ab ^s proceedings. Few counties in the State 
will, though not located in public offices, stores can boast of better natuial advantages than “ Old 
or shops. Every farmer, and farmer’s son —yes, Monroe,” and there is no reason why its Agricul- 
and daughter, too—can promote the usefulness of ^ural Society should not rank equal to, if uot 
the Rural by extending its circulation. The best above » tba f an y neighboring county, 
way is to show the paper to your friends and invite J he sc remarks will perhaps apply with equal 
them to subscribe. We rely principally upon the force to man y otbcr counties in the State, and are 
contents and appearance of the paper itself for addressed to all interested in sustaining Agricul- 
support,— but, good friends, (strange as it may tural Societies. t 
appear, considering its popularity and extensive Literary Notices. 
circulation,) there are thousands of farmers and - 
others, in Western New York alone, who never Transactions of the N. Y. State Agricultural 
saw the Rural. Many of them, we believe, would Society, with an Abstract ol the Proceedings 
readily subscribe for it if afforded an opportunity. tbe Douuty Agricultuial Societies, and B. P. 
, ,, , r - j .! - ,, Johnson’s Report on the Industrial Exhibition, 
Please do them and us a favor m this matter.— London 1851. Vol. XL 1851. 
lake a number of the Ruarl this one, if you We have received a copy of the Transactions of 
please when calling upou neighbors, Jones, our State Society for 1851, through the polite- 
Brown, Johnson, Smith, and that clever new nes3 0 f the Secretary, B. P. Johnson, Esq. It 
comer from the east, who lives on the cross road, contains t ] ie usual variety of Matter and Illustra- 
and ask them to subscribe. And when they, or t ; onS; an( j from a cursory examination of its con 
others, call upon you, the paper may be appro- tentSj we thiuk it equa t; at least, to any former 
priately introduced for examination. 'volume. We shall extract from portions of it, 
There are other modes of obtaining subscribers berea fr er 
which are familiar to the reader, or will occur to - 
him as occasion presents. And we frankly ask all Light in a Dark Alley. By IIenry A. Row- 
,_ . .. ' .. land. New York : M. \\. Dodd. 1852. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Monday, Dec. 6.— Senate. — Met at 12 M., unu¬ 
sually full. Wm. R. King in the chair. Prayer 
by Rev. Mr. Butler. 
Mr. Catiicart, chosen Senator to succeed tbe 
late Hon. Jas. Whitcomb, of Ind., was qualified 
and took his seat. 
Archibald Dixon elected by the Legislature of 
Kentucky to succeed the late Hon. Henry Clay, 
was introduced, but was objected to on account 
of the appointment by the Governor, of Mr. Mer- 
ri wet her for that succession. Debated, and a 
resolution offered to refer the decision to a select 
committee. Pending further debate 
The President’s Message was received and read. 
The Senate adjourned. 
House. —Met at 12 M., Speaker Boyd in the 
chair. There were 183 members present. The 
usual Committees were appointed to wait upon 
the President, when the members proceeded to 
draw their seats. 
Sherrod Clemens, of Virginia, elected in place 
of Gf.o. W. Thompson, and Wm. Preston, of Ken¬ 
tucky, in place of Humphrey Marshall, appeared, 
were qualified and took their seats. 
Sundry petitions and resolutions from several 
States were received. 
The Message was then sent in and read, after 
which it was ordered to be printed, and the House 
adjourned. 
New England. —A blessing on railroads, say 
wo. By the aid of their magic power, we have 
been enabled during the past week, to visit the 
“ Down East State,” bathe our brow in the cool 
waters of old Kennebec, snuff the democratic air 
fresh from the everlasting hills of the “ Granite 
State,” view the beautiful valleys and listen to 
the clatter of the thousands of spindles in old 
Massachusetts, and withal visit many interesting 
localities, choice friends, and novel places,—all 
the while enjoying comforts and privileges of loco¬ 
motion unknown to our immediate and worthy 
predecessors. No territory is more fruitful in all 
that can interest, please and instruct, than New 
England, and though our glances were made while 
on the wing, many things were observed which 
we trust will prove of interest to our readers, 
when time and space will permit us the privilege 
of such communications. If we could drink in 
the spirit of Yankee euterprise and industry, 
coupled with Yankee intelligence, then indeed, 
might we hope to instruct and amuse. t 
Good Advice. —The following paragraph from 
the Coldwater (Mich.) Sentinel is similar to many 
which have recently appeared in our exchanges.— 
It is apparently so candid and truthful, and withal 
closes with such excellent advice, that we submit 
it for the benefit of all interested : 
Moore’s Rubai, New-Yorker —Is already making its ar¬ 
rangements for the new year. Reader, if after taking a 
home paper, you are in want of an eastern journal, one 
whicll will he invaluablo to yourself and family, send for 
the one the name of which heads this paragraph. We 
venture to say it is not excelled as a family paper by any 
other, we care not the name or pretensions. Its various 
departments are calculated especially for each member of 
your family. Father, mother, son, daughter, may all find 
articles appropriate to their several pursuits and stations. 
If you wish to make the members of your household a 
present which will increase in worth as the year grows 
old, subscribe for the New-Yorker. 
Batavia and Attica. —The Superintendent of 
the Rochester and Buffalo Railroad gives notice 
that there will be three trains daily each way, 
over the branch of their road between tbe above 
mentioned places. Leaving Batavia at 9 A. M., 
3, and 8 P. M., and Attica at 8, and 11 A. M., and 
5.40 P. M. Connecting with trains on the Roch¬ 
ester and Buffalo, and the Buffalo, Hornellsville 
and New York City Railroads. t 
Importation of Stock. —We understand that 
Col. L. G. Morris, of Westchester county, has 
recently imported several head, each, of Short¬ 
horns and Devons—selected from the best herds 
in England. Also, Suffolk and Essex boars, and 
several Southdown bucks and ewes. 
A Good Notion. —The Cincinnati Gazette sug¬ 
gests that the various Railroad Companies be¬ 
tween Cincinnati and New York reduce the rates 
one-half to all persons traveling over their roads 
between the 20th of December and 5th January, 
so as to enable dissevered fimiiies at the East and 
West to commingle gladly together again during 
the coming Christmas Holidays. 
What say you, Gentlemen, Shall there not be 
an eye to the promotion of the “ humanities ” on 
the part of the Railroad Companies, while ample 
dividends are coming in from the legitimate busi¬ 
ness of your mads. The coming holidays bid fair 
to the right joyous ones. The year has been fruit¬ 
ful and enterprise well rewarded generally. Peo¬ 
ple will feel like letting out the kinks of business 
about Christmas time.— Daily Democrat. 
Spirit Rappings. —The editor of the Cinciunati 
Advertiser who recently visited the Ohio State 
Lunatic Asylum at Columbus, says there are in 
that Institution, twenty persons whose insanity is 
dearly traceable to spirit rappings ; and it is stat¬ 
ed that there are in the Utica (N. Y.) Lunatic 
Asylum nine victims of the same delusion. The 
Cleveland Herald says: — “In many minds it 
seems to finish the work commenced by Second 
Adventism—the fruits being neglect of business, 
neglect of families, running after visionaries and 
pretended seers, scouting of Christianity and its 
institutions, spiritual wifeism, insanity and iu 
some cases suicide.” 
The Central Line. —There are now six daily 
trains from this city. Seven years ago there was 
but a single day train, starting from Buffalo at 
seven in the morning, and reaching Syracuse at 
bed time, and there lying over for the night. It 
was all the following day reaching Albany, and 
there the traveler had to remain another night.— 
Starting the following morning, he reached Spring- 
field at noon—went thence to New Haven by rail 
—and on to New York by boat, arriving in that 
city the following morning. Who can deny that 
this is a progressive age ?— Auburn Advertiser. 
J>:§gr Mrs. Stowe is about to commence the pub¬ 
lication in the National Eaa, of a new story called 
“ Mark Sutherland, or Power and Principle.”— 
She gives the following as an outline of it: “ This 
story illustrates, among other things, the genius of 
American institutions in developing and recom¬ 
pensing native I alent in all ranks of society, shown 
in the history of a planter’s sod, who giving up 
his patrimony for conscience sake, set upon a life 
of toil and self denial, and through many early 
trials adventures and sufferings, carves his way to 
merited honors.” 
The Central Line of Railroads have es¬ 
tablished the following schedule of freights be¬ 
tween Albany and Buffalo. 
Buffalo. Roch’r. Syracuse. Utica 
Flour per bbl... ..65 50 33 25 
Fresh beef, pork, mutton, 
and venison.70 54 33 24 
Cattle and liogs per car, 
large.$70 $54 $32 $23 
Do small.60 46 27 20 
Sheep per car, large.60 46 27 20 
Do- “ small.50 38 23 18 
HSf” The Dundee Record states that arrange¬ 
ments have been effected between the Canandai¬ 
gua and Elmira and New York and Erie Railroad 
Companies, by which the road from Jefferson to 
Elmira is surrendered to the former Company, 
and is to be run iu connection with the Canan¬ 
daigua and Elmira and Niagara Falls Roads for 
ten years. The cars will run through to New 
York from the F’alls, on this line, in July next. 
jvgp - The imports at New York during Novem¬ 
ber amounted to $8,736,067, being nearly three 
millions of dollars over the receipts of the cor¬ 
responding months last year. Over one million 
of the increase was in dry goods, the receipts of 
which have increased nearly sixty per cent. The 
imports for the year, however, the Journal of 
Commerce estimates to be over half a million less 
than during the same period last year. 
Raising potatoes, this year in New Jersey, 
has been a profitable business. The number 
which has been sent to Philadelphia and New 
York is almost incredible. One man in Salem, a 
dealer, has sent 32,000 bushels, which have yielded 
the farmer $16,000. Mr. Morgan, in Camden 
county, has raised 100,000 bushels, which,^it pres¬ 
ent prices, would yield $62,500. This is farming 
to some purpose. 
|gT It is stated that Labrador, with a popula¬ 
tion of 20,000 inhabitants, has neither Governor, 
Magistrate, Constable nor Lawyer; yet violence 
and disorder were uncommon among them—a fact 
highly creditable to their morals. Their chief 
occupation is hunting and fishing, the produce of 
which is sold chiefly to the traders from the Uui- 
ted States, from whom they receive the most of 
their supplies. 
About eighteen months since Bayard 
Taylor started for the upper Nile. He has been 
there among the Arabs and Nubians for many 
mouths, and sometime in October reached London 
again. Thence he went to Spain, where he is at 
present. Thence he goes to Alexandria, in Egypt, 
en route for Bombay and other places among the 
heathen. He is the great traveler of modern 
times. 
Hon. Walter Forward died on tbe 24th of 
last November, at Pittsburg, of bilious colic, in 
the 65th year of his age, after an illness of only 
three days. He has filled many important sta¬ 
tions—represented his county in Congress for 
many years—was Secretary of the Treasury under 
President Tyler—was Minister to Denmark, and 
up to his death a Judge of the District Court. 
£ 3 §T- Wc learn from the American Farmer that 
the present Secretary of the Navy, the Hon. John 
P. Kennedy, soon after coming into office, renewed 
the order to our naval officers, commanding our 
foreign stations, to be vigilant in the collection of 
such seeds, roots and plants as were calculated to 
be introduced advantageously into the agriculture 
of the country. 
jjgp” Mr. Perezcl, who was deputised by a large 
number of Hungarians, in Jersey, England, and 
Paris, France, to act for them, made a purchase 
last month of two townships, situated near Da¬ 
venport, in Iowa, for a Hungarian colony, and in 
the spring the great body of the purchasers de¬ 
sign emigating to this country, and settling upon 
their purchases. 
The surplus revenue in the U. S. Treasury 
will be about $17,000,000. There will be some 
part of the National debt to be paid off, at par, 
at 1853 and 18£4. For this and other reasons, 
the Secretary of the Treasury has determined not 
to buy stocks at high premiums, and will state 
his views on the subject in his Report. 
51^” There is a vei^ great quantity of hay now 
lying at our depot, ready for shipment East. It 
has been purchased in this county, and in one 
town, Riga, a single man has sold $1,300 worth. 
This shipping of hay to New York is going on 
extensively, and accounts for the high price of that 
commodity in the home market. 
Thomas Francis Meagher received $1,652 
as the nett proceeds of his lecture at the Metrop¬ 
olitan on the evening of the 25th ult. after deduct¬ 
ing from the gross receipts the heavy cost of the 
Hall, advertising, the. We believe this is the 
largest sum ever paid any man for one lecture iu 
this country. 
The Sultan, it seems, has decided to be 
represented in the New York Crystal Palace, 60 
that we shall he visited with a Turkish steam¬ 
ship, with government officers on board, who are 
desirous of visiting our institutions and estab¬ 
lishments, and the cotton districts of the United 
States. 
The De Kalb (Miss.) Gazette announces 
the death, in Kemper county, of a Choctaw chief, 
Hopiah Sketena, (little leader,) over one hundred 
years old. This veteran, says the Gazette, with his 
followers, was at the battle of New Orleans, 
under Gen. Jackson. 
A late French paper says : “ F’rom Berlin 
we learn that Jenny Lind is about to perform in 
that city, a series of concerts, to he given in be¬ 
half of the Society of Gustavus Adolphus, which 
was formed for relieving poor Protestant commu¬ 
nities in Sweden and in the north of Germany.” 
There are one hundred and fourteen bridges 
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, between 
Cumberland and Wheeling. One of them is six 
hundred feet long, and is elevated forty feet above 
the Monongahela River, which it spans. 
Mr. David White, of Indiana, it is stated, 
has made a handsome profit by the extraordinary 
rise in hogs. He cleared $60,000 by one sale.— 
Mr. W. is the proprietor of the largest slaughter¬ 
ing establishment in the West. 
Iu§f“The Ithaca Chronicle learns that Gerritt 
Smith is about to make another distribution of 
land to his colored friends, and has written for the 
names of ten from Tompkins county who are 
worthy to have it bestowed upou them. 
Ittms of ZHtM, 
-There are no signs or door-plates in the 
Egyptian cities. 
-A new rich vein of coal Iras been discover¬ 
ed in California. 
-The expense of governing tbe city of New 
York, is $8,500 per day, or $354 per hour. 
--The nett receipts of Mr. Meagher for one 
Lecture in New York, was $1,652. 
-The loss in the burning of Chickering’s 
Piano Manufactory in Boston, is $200,0()0. 
-Look out for altered bills on the Fort Stan- 
wix Bank, of Rome. 
-John P. Hale will settle down in Concord, 
in the practice of the Law. 
-The Suffolk Bank, Boston, yearly redeems 
about $5,000,000 per week. 
-Butter is selling at 35 cents a pound in 
Cincinnati. 
-The pig population of the Mississippi Val¬ 
ley is estimated to be 40,000,000. 
-The Yenerable President Nott, of Union 
College, preached iu Albany last Sunday. 
-The Southern papers complain of heavy 
rains and disastrous freshets. 
-At the latest dates speculators in Cincin¬ 
nati carried up the price of pork to $6,35 per cwt. 
-The taxes of New York city next year, it 
is supposed, will be 125 cents on the hundred dol¬ 
lars. 
-Shuhal Chapman, of Palmer, Mass-, has a 
Airkey which laid 111 eggs in as many consecu¬ 
tive days. 
-The work of adding eleven acres to the 
New York Battery, by “filling up,” has com¬ 
menced. 
-The wireB of the submarine telegraph are 
made of pure copper, and they are covered with 
gutta percha. 
-The South Carolina Legislature have 
elected Judge Josiah J. Evans United States Sen¬ 
ator for the long term. 
-The New York City Government has sign¬ 
ed a contract for the enlargement of the Battery, 
to about double its present size. 
-$150,000 of the bonds of the Buffalo, 
Corning and New York Railroad are to be sold iu 
New York on the 15th. 
-“ High Market ” and “ Lewis ” are the 
names of two new towns in Lewis county, taken 
from parts of West Turin and Leyden. 
-The bill to incorporate the town of Bur¬ 
lington, Vt, as a city, has passed both houses of 
the Vermont Legislature. 
-The phonetic system of instruction has 
been introduced into )46 public and 8 private 
schools in Massachusetts. 
-There are now in Waterbury, Mass., thirty- 
one manufacturing establishments, with a capital 
of $2,500,000. 
-In the express train over the New Haven 
Railroad, which left New York the day before 
Thanksgiving, there were 2629 passengers. 
-The Legislature of Virginia has rejected a 
bill authorizing the banks of the State to issue 
notes of a less denomination than five dollars. 
-An immense amount of every description 
of produce is on its way to the East, from Dun¬ 
kirk—more than was ever before known. 
-The British mails for China and India are 
hereafter to be dispatched from Southampton on 
the 4th and 20th of each month. 
-Hook K Simpson, of Maidstone, England, 
have succeeded in. manufacturing, entirely from 
straw, a cheap paper for printing or writing. 
-The public ought to know that Wm. B. 
Astor has given $5,000 to the “Association for 
the Relief of Aged and Indigent Females.” 
-The money disbursed by Louis Napoleon 
in bis month’s tour, exceeds Ihirty-one millions of 
francs, or a million and a quarter sterling. 
-They have been in the enjoyment of three 
fee£ of snow and good sound winter weather, for 
two or three weeks, in the Lake Superior country. 
-It was stated at a temperance meeting 
held at Liverpool, that there are now, through¬ 
out the world, about sixteen millions of teetota¬ 
lers. 
-There is a female telegraph operator at 
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who is said to be one 
of the most rapid writers on the telegraph in the 
States. 
-It is stated that the Albany State Regis¬ 
ter is to be hereafter under the editorial manage¬ 
ment. of Samuel Hammond, Esq., an Albany law¬ 
yer of considerable eminence. 
-A collision took place between two en¬ 
gines, on the Erie Railroad, between 'Tioga and 
Corning, by which the engineer and fireman were 
instantly killed. 
-At Sandusky city, a German, who was en¬ 
gaged in cleaning a barrel, put into it unslacked 
.ime, poured in hot water and closed the bung.— 
The barrel bursted and killed him. 
-During the last month, the publishers of 
Webster’s Dictionary have filled an order fora 
case of the “ Unabridged,” from Hong Kong, iu 
China, and another from Northern India. 
-In the New Hampshire Legislature, on 
Wednesday, petitions were presented by two or 
three persons, severally, for liberty to erect a ho- 
tel on the summit of Mount Washington. 
-A company of Chinese theatrical per¬ 
formers, who hove lately been edifying the Cali¬ 
fornians with their curious exhibitions, arrived at 
New York on Sunday in the Georgia. 
-The General Missionary Committee of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church have made a total 
appropriation, this j'ear, of $210,000, of which 
$15,750 is devoted to new Foreign Missions. 
—■—Mr. Garnet, formerly of Troy, N. y., has 
been designated as a missionary to Jamaica, from 
the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. He 
is a colored man, and the first ever sent out by 
that organization. 
-A great part of the higher clergy in France 
desire to banish the classics from the schools, and 
in their stead to introduce the Greek Testament 
and the Vulgate, as well as the Fathers of the 
Church. 
-The Boston Post says:—The Cochitnate 
water has been introduced into the Massachusetts 
State Prison, at Charlestown, thus giving another 
luxury to the inmates of that educational institu¬ 
tion. 
-The Postmaster General’s Report, it is 
said, will exhibit a great increase in the number 
of letters sent during tire past year, but a falling 
off of nearly a million of dollars iu the receipts 
under the new law. 
-The quantity of lumber surveyed at Ban¬ 
gor, averages annually about 200,009,000 feet, 
whose value cannot fall far short of $3,000,000.— 
The quantity this year is not so great as last, but 
the price has been a dollar a thousand higher. 
