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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ROCHESTER, MARCH 31, 1855. 
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Quarter-Day.—“Time Up,” Renewals, &c. 
This issue closes the first quarter of Volume 
Six, and also the subscriptions of a goodly 
number of our readers. According to our in¬ 
variable rule, the paper will be discontinued 
in every instance where the subscription 
expires,— but each subscriber interested will 
be notified by finding “Time Up” printed 
on the margin of this week’s Rural. As we 
are confident — from former experience, and 
our faith in the good judgment and wisdom 
of the parties interested — that almost every 
subscription will soon be renewed, and that 
hundreds of new subscribers will bear our 
tried friends company, we shall increase rather 
than dimininsh our regular edition with the 
commencement of the second quarter, next 
week. Moreover, our chief clerk iB so sure 
that no one who has taken the Rural for six 
months or a year, can enjoy life or retain 
peace and progress in the family without its 
regular visits, that he has arranged to only 
partially obliterate the names, with pencil, 
so that all can be made distinct again with 
the slight application of India-rubber — thus 
saving time, ink and stationery. By the way, 
that same chief, Agustus H. — whose sir-name 
is Sibley — is a decided genius in his line. 
He commenced the Rural books before the 
first number was issued, and of course wdien 
subscribers were “ few and far between,” and 
during the infancy of the enterprise had 
abundant time to obliterate and re-write 
names, &c.,—but the rapid progress of the 
paper soon constrained him to invent and 
introduce sundry improvements in the process 
of attending to the wants, and anticipating 
the wishes, of our thousands, and then tens 
of thousands of subscribers. Hence, he is 
fully posted, and promptly attends to every 
thing that can be deciphered, or that admits 
of a tolerable guess — though letters ordering 
transfers of papers, without giving former 
address, and others remitting payment but 
giving no name or signature, are in advance 
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send, with their own, the names of as many 
thousand new friends,—we presume he would 
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Terrific Coal Pit Explosion. 
On Monday, the 19th, a terrible explosion 
of fire damp occurred at the Midlothian pit, 
thirteen miles south of Richmond, Virginia, 
by which thirty persons were instantly killed, 
and twelve others burned and mutilated, two 
of whom have since died. The explosion, 
when it took place, caused the earth for miles 
around the pits to wave and rock as a twig in 
the wind. One gentleman, who was crossing 
the railroad about a mile from the pits at the 
time, 6aid he felt the rails reel under him ; 
and another, who was passing the road on 
horseback, declared that his beast staggered 
and trembled, as if suddenly shocked by a 
tremendous galvanic battery. 
The pit, just previous to the time of the 
explosion, was entirely free from dangerous 
gas, but in firing a blast the partition wall 
between the woikcd portion of the mine and 
an old abandoned shaft was broken away, from 
which the foul air rushed in and was instantly 
ignited. An old negro, named John Gray, 
who was at work in the mine at the time 
gives the following account of the affair : 
Gray and his partner were working on what 
was called the North Level of the mine, when 
two men came to them and borrowed their 
implements for blasting, saying that they 
were about to set off a blast. The implements 
were loaned, and shortly afterward the men 
cried to them to be on the look out, as they 
were about setting off the blast. The explo¬ 
sion of the blast followed, and was succeeded 
by a rushing sound. Gray, upon looking, 
saw a solid sheet of flame proceeding from the 
place where the blast had been made, and 
covering his face with his hands, threw him¬ 
self upon the ground—his partner following 
his example. For a moment or two they were 
insensible, but, upon recovering, made for the 
mouth of the pit—walking a path strewed 
with the dead corpses. Both of them escaped 
with their lives, and were the only men in 
that part of the pit who survived the explo- 
The Cold Winter. 
The past winter has been unprecedented for 
severity, both in this country and in Europe. 
Scarcely a sign of returning spring has appear¬ 
ed here as yet, and snow and ice cover all the 
fields. It is a truthful declaration that ‘‘ Win¬ 
ter lingers,” hut it certainly is not “in the 
lap of spring,” for she has not even presented 
herself to view. The stern old tyrant stands 
upon his own legs as yet, and shows no dispo¬ 
sition to melt in the presence of his mild suc¬ 
cessor. 
Accounts from Europe coincide with those 
on this side of the Atlantic. In Ireland the 
severity of the weather, at or about the time 
it was the coldest here, caused extreme suffer¬ 
ing, and many people perished. Seagulls were 
driven inland, and became so tame from cold 
and famine as to he easily caught by hand.— 
The thermometer in some parts of the island 
ranged from eight degrees below zero down 
to the point at which mercury congeals. The 
river Shannon was frozen over so that men 
crossed it upon the ice,—a phenomenon never 
witnessed before. Thirty-three years ago the 
river was frozen over, hut with a mere skim¬ 
ming of ice, not sufficient to bear any weight; 
and even that has, until the present time, 
been regarded as remarkable. The time for 
spring work to commence, arrived a month 
ago, but as yet nothing has been done. 
British Wisdom. —The inefficiency and un¬ 
fitness of the British army officers for their sta¬ 
tions, have been abundantly manifested during 
the Crimean campaign. The younger sons of 
the aristocracy, whose commissions are bought 
and paid for, and whose expenses are such, that 
a person dependant upon his pay only for sup¬ 
port, is unable to take rank with them, have 
brought the whole system into disgrace. Mr. 
Sidney Herbert, late Secretary at War, recent¬ 
ly said:—“ Last year eighty-eight non-commis¬ 
sioned officers were promoted to he commis¬ 
sioned officers. Many more commissions were 
offered than were accepted. When a man was 
promoted to be a commissioned officer, he was 
positively ruined by the expense. [Hear, 
hear.] He had to borrow money to buy his 
uniform, and if in the cavalry, he had to pur¬ 
chase a horse, and thus get into debt, and be¬ 
came discontented and uncomfortable.” 
Fatal Occurrence.— Last week Wednesday, 
a blacksmith shop at the stone quarry at Ber¬ 
gen Cut, N. J., was blown into fragments, and 
the blacksmith at work at the forge was killed. 
The shop was used for sharpening tools in use 
in the quarry, and a keg of powder, with the 
head out, had been placed in the shop during 
the night previous, which the blacksmith was 
not aware of and did not notice. While at 
work, a spark of fire fell into the keg and 
caused the explosion. 
Railroad Mulcted. —The New York Central 
i ailroad was recently made to pay down to the 
tune of $5,500, by a couple of judgments ren¬ 
dered against it at the recent Circuit in Bata¬ 
via. Thos. M. Donaldson, of this city, recov¬ 
ered a verdict of $3,000, and a man from Iowa 
$2,500. The actions were brought for dama¬ 
ges sustained in consequence of a collision of 
cars near Bergen, Genesee county, about a 
year ago. 
Read the Advertisements in this number. 
They are fresh, various and of interest to most 
readers, and especially to such as desire either 
Seeds, Implements, Fruit Trees, choice Stock, 
good Farms, valuable Books, superior Schools, 
or other indispensable items. 
Kansas Emigration. 
Tiie Lawrence (Kansas) Herald of Freedom 
gives various items which are of interest to 
Kansas pioneers. Among them it is stated 
that the cost of a passage from New England 
to the territoiy, under the auspices of the Em¬ 
igrant Aid Society, is, exclusive of hoard, 
twenty-five dollars, and the entire expenses 
about thirty-five dollars. Among the numer¬ 
ous answers to inquiries, the same paper says: 
“ The winters are generally so mild that cat¬ 
tle can be kept on hay during the cold weather, 
letting them run out in the sheltered groves 
and bottoms. Furniture, merchandise and all 
the necessary outfits for settlers, can he had in 
Parksville, Missouri, on as reasonable terms 
as at St. Louis or the East, allowing for cost 
of the transportation, &c. 
In regard to stock, cows will cost from $12 
to $25 each ; oxen $50 to $75 per yoke ; horses 
from $75 to $100 ; sheep $1 to $1.50 per head, 
but they are mostly of the common, coarse 
wool kind. 
Laboring men can be hired at from $15 to 
$26 per month. Female help can not be had 
at $2 per week ; where wanted, that had bet¬ 
ter he brought along. No danger need he ap¬ 
prehended from Indians in the Kansas Valley 
below Fort Riley, and not much above.” 
Kansas Election. —The Kansas election for 
members of the Legislature was to come off on 
Friday, the 30th inst. Gov. Reeder issued a 
proclamation giving directions as to the man¬ 
ner of holding the election, preventing frauds, 
&c., &c., the most important provision of 
which is as follows : 
‘ 1 A voter must dwell here at the time of 
offering his vote. He must then have com¬ 
menced an actual inhabitancy, which he actu¬ 
ally intends to continue permanently ; and he 
must have made the Territory his dwelling, to 
the exclusion of any other home. In case any 
election is contested, the parties aggrieved 
must bring the matter before the Governor, 
who shall determine the case between the par¬ 
ties contesting.” 
The great struggle will be between pro¬ 
slavery and anti-slavery candidates with the 
chances greatly in favor of the former. Leg¬ 
islative owls hooted at the idea of Kansas ever 
becoming a slave State and their eyes dilate 
in astonishment, at seeing the facts contradict 
their false prophecies. 
Court of Appeals. —There were to he argued 
thirty causes in the Court of Appeals for the 
March term, leaving yet undetermined two 
hundred and forty-three. The business is ac¬ 
cumulating in this Court at such a rate that 
the wheels of justice will be clogged altogeth¬ 
er unless some expedient is adopted to relieve 
them. It was believed when the courts were 
remodeled, that nearly all causes would stop 
at the Supreme Court, leaving hut few where 
new points of law might arise subject to ap¬ 
peal ; hut the profession are never satisfied 
with being beaten until they are declared so 
by the highest tribunal. 
The Legislature. —The Legislature contin¬ 
ues its session without any prospect of imme¬ 
diate adjournment. Business, however, shows 
a more forward state, as many of the bills are 
out of the hands of the committees and in 
various stages of passage through the two 
houses. Last week the important bill origi¬ 
nating with Mr. Putnam, Senator from Erie, 
viz., the Ecclesiastical Tenure bill, passed the 
Senate, and is ready for action in the House. 
The Temperance hill has been discussed sec¬ 
tion by section, and the chances are now that 
that measure will also pass the Senate. 
Pardons. —The Secretary of the Common¬ 
wealth of Pennsylvania announces that Gov. 
Pollock has adopted certain rules in relation 
to the applications for pardon, to protect him 
from imposition. Satisfactory evidence will 
be required that at least five days’ previous 
notice of intended applications for pardons 
was given to the District Attorney of the city 
or county in which the conviction took place, 
and that at least ten days’ previous notice of 
the same was given in a newspaper published 
where the conviction took place. 
The New Postage Law.— Our readers will 
bear in mind that after to-day the postage on 
all letters must be paid in advance. Most people 
have been in the habit, as they should do, 
of paying in advance heretofore ; for no man 
who has any just ideas of economy would com¬ 
pel another to pay sixty-six and two-thirds per 
cent, extra, in consequence of his own neglect 
to pre-pay, hut if there were any who failed 
heretofore, the new law throws out their let¬ 
ters from the mail, unless they mend their 
ways hereafter. 
Another Village Conflagration. —The vil¬ 
lage of Waverly, on the Erie Road, seventeen 
miles from Elmira, was visited by a fire on 
Sunday, the 18th inst., which consumed a 
large portion of the business part of the place. 
Twenty persons are pecuniary sufferers by the 
fire, and the aggregate loss is estimated at 
$28,000. 
Virginia Lands. —On Wednesday Wm. B. 
Sorey, auctioneer, made a sale of real estate 
about twelve miles from Norfolk, in Norfolk 
Co., belonging to Dr. J. II. Williamson, con¬ 
taining two thousand acres, at $25,000—Sni¬ 
per acre. The property was purchased by Mr. 
Moses Sweetser, of Newburyport, Mass., who 
has obtained the best bargain that has been 
made for some time in this section of the 
country, so say the knowing ones. Mr. Sweet¬ 
ser intends settling in Virginia, with several 
other gentlemen, for the purpose of conduct¬ 
ing the ship-building business, kc.—Norfolk 
Beacon, March 16. 
^ecoi'd. Siipfrinigg. 
English, Past and Present. By Richard Ciienevix Trench, 
B. D. New York : Redfleld. 1855. 
Those who have read the author’s Lectures 
on “The Study of Words,” “The Lessons in 
Proverbs,” &c., will at once understand the 
English Language to be the subject of the 
present volume. “ This language, the stages 
which it has gone through, the quarters from 
which its riches have been derived, the gains 
which it is now making, the perils which have 
threatened or are threatening it, the losses 
which it has sustained, the latent capacities 
which may yet be in it, waiting to he evoked, 
the points in which it is superior to, in which 
it comes short of, other tongues all this is 
well treated of in the present interesting little 
volume. Sold at Dewey’s. 
Tire Life of William H. Seward. With selections from 
his Works. Edited by George C. Baker. Redfleld, 
publi sher, Nassau-st., N. Y. 
The above is the title of a brief biography 
(the briefer the better, while a man is living) 
of Wm. H. Seward, and a large number of se¬ 
lections from his published speeches and ora¬ 
tions. These selections are made with good 
taste and discrimination, and are very valua¬ 
ble, especially for our youth to commit to 
memory as exercises of school declamation.— 
The hook brings down the biography and se¬ 
lections to the close of the first session of the 
33d Congress, which repealed the Missouri 
Compromise and passed the Nebraska hill. 
First Lessons in Geography for Ciuidren. By Mrs. Har¬ 
riet Beecher Stowe, author of “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” 
This is a juvenile work on Geography de¬ 
signed for primary schools, and intended to 
teach the lessons in an inductive and pleasing 
way. With every State or country some fact 
or name is stated in connection so as to asso¬ 
ciate the two in the mind of the learner on 
the principles of mnemonics. There are some 
faults, however, especially in the illustrations. 
In the Western States, for instance, men are 
engaged with sickles reaping a field of wheat. 
Such a method of harvesting the cereal would 
he laughed at by a prairie boy. Published by 
Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston, and J. C. 
Derby, N. Y., and for sale here by Dewey, in 
the Arcade. 
Marco Paul’s Voyages and Travels. Springfield Armory. 
By Jacob Abbott. New York : Harper & Brothers. 
This is the sixth and last volume of ‘ ‘ Marco 
Paul’s Adventures in Search of Knowledge,” 
which is one of the most interesting of Mr. Ab¬ 
bott’s juvenile serials. The youthful traveler 
does not go far, hut his excursions are made 
under the guardiance of an intelligent and 
well-informed companion, qualified to assist 
him in the acquisition of knowledge and the 
formation of character. Sold by E. Darrow & 
Brother. 
The Peasant Boy Philosopher is the title 
of an interesting and excellent work from the 
pen of Henry Mayhew. It is founded on facts 
in the early life of Ferguson, the distinguish¬ 
ed astronomer, and conveys lessons on natural 
science and the mechanic arts in an attractive 
form. The work is illustrated and intended 
for the young. Sold by Darrow & Brother. 
Agricultural Books. —Attention is directed 
to the advertisement of C. M. Saxton & Co. 
We will furnish any of the works named to 
persons wh o are, or may become, entitled to 
premiums in hooks for obtaining subscribers 
to the Rural. See also the announcements of 
Robert Sears, and other extensive publishers. 
“ The Slave of the Lamp” is the title of a 
new work—the last production of the late Wm. 
North— announced as soon to be published by 
H. Long & Brother, of New York. 
The Maine Law. 
The rise and progress of laws in various 
States, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating 
drinks, is briefly exhibited by the following 
abstract: 
1851— Passed by the Legislature of Maine. 
1852— Passed by Legislatures of Minnesota, 
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Vermont. 
1852— Ratified by the people of Minnesota. 
1853— Passed by Legislature of Michigan. 
1853—Ratified by the people ©f Vermont and 
Michigan. 
1853 — Its submission to the people pro¬ 
nounced unconstitutional by the Supreme Court 
in Minnesota. 
1853—Pronounced unconstitutional by U. S. 
Circuit Court in Rhode Island, 
1853- —State Supreme Court equally divided 
in Michigan. 
1854— Pronounced unconstitutional in Mas¬ 
sachusetts. 
1854—Passed by the Legislature of New 
York, and vetoed by the Governor. 
1854—Passed by one branch of Legislature 
of New Hampshire and Maryland. 
1854—Passed by Legislature, but two branch¬ 
es fail to agree, in Pennsylvania. 
1854—Passed by Legislature of Ohio. 
1854—Voted for by people of Wisconsin. 
1854—Passed, in modified form, by Legisla¬ 
ture of Rhode Island. 
1854—Passed by Legislature of Connecticut. 
It will be observed that it has passed the 
Legislature of seven States and a Territory. 
It has fallen, through Legislative disagree¬ 
ment, in four. It has been submitted to the 
people, and retained by them, in four. It has 
nowhere been repealed by the Legislature, 
though it has been four times set aside by the 
Judiciary, and in one re-enacted in a modified 
form. 
It has been the subject of discussion in near¬ 
ly all the Legislatures of the Northern States 
this winter, and in those of Maryland, Vir¬ 
ginia, Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia, Ken¬ 
tucky, Tennessee and Texas.— Alb. Eve. Jour. 
The Atlantic in.— The steamship Atlantic 
arrived on the 27th, having had a very rough 
passage. Her news is important, and confirms 
the death of the Emperor of Russia. 
The number of Banks in the State of New 
York is 280—capital $84,076,022. 
The average passage of vessels from New 
York to Australia is about 120 days. 
Ole Bull declares that Strakosch has fleeced 
him out of $8,000 and run off to Europe. 
The first shad was taken in New York Bay 
on the 18th inst., and weighed five pounds. 
It is stated that James Russell Lowell’s lec¬ 
tures are soon to he published in book form. 
Ex-President Van Buren, who passed the 
last two winters in Italy, has arrived at Paris. 
This year the Hudson is in advance of Lake 
Erie. Generally they have opened nearly to¬ 
gether. 
The steamer Oregon left New York on Mon¬ 
day week, and reached Albany on Tuesday 
morning. 
The citizens of Oswego fired one hundred 
guns in honor of the full adoption of the reci¬ 
procity treaty. 
Perry Denniston, a clerk in the Chicago 
Post Office, has been arrested for purloining 
money letters. 
The cholera has broken out on some planta¬ 
tions near Baton Rouge, and twenty slaves 
have died of it. 
Norfolk, Va., was visited by a most terrific 
snow storm on the 22d inst. The snow fell 
over six inches deep. 
It is said that the Kinney Expedition has 
entirely collapsed, and it is certainly a matter 
of public congratulation. 
The factory operators at Manchester, N. H., 
are on a strike, in consequence of an increase 
of the number of hours of labor. 
Within the hounds of the American Fur 
Company’s operations it is estimated that 400,- 
000 Buffaloes are killed annually. 
There arc 38,687 Chinese now in California. 
Total Chinese emigration to that State, 48,949. 
Deaths, 1,333. Departures, 8,829. 
The native Californians have held several 
meetings in San Francisco, for the purpose of 
taking steps to emigrate to Sonora. 
Anthony Burns, the freed 6lave, is lying very 
ill with inflammation of the lungs, at the res¬ 
idence of Louis Tappan, in Brooklyn. 
The Mayor of Erie has issued an order for 
the killing of all the dogs found in the streets 
of that city, muzzled or unmuzzled. 
Charles B. Knowles, nephew of Sheridan 
Knowles, has been gazetted to an ensigney, 
without purchase, in the 77th foot. 
Tiie schooner Maria, from Toronto, and the 
Caroline, from Cobourg, both laden with flour, 
arrived at Oswego on the 23d of March. 
There were 6,894 persons in the public in¬ 
stitutions under the control of the Alms-house 
Department of New York city on the 17th. 
Six thousand barrels of pork were shipped 
recently from New York for Toulon, where¬ 
with to feed the allied army in the Crimea. 
Tiie line of propellers between Dunkirk and 
Detroit the coming season, will consist of the 
Gen. Taylor, Republic, and the Portsmouth. 
Elizabethtown, N. J., will hereafter be 
known as the City of Elizabeth, the Governor 
having signed the hill to incorporate it as a city. 
A fight lately occurred in the Legislature of 
New Mexico, when the Speaker knocked down 
one, and attempted to shoot another member. 
Orasmus Turner, editor of the Niagara Dem¬ 
ocrat, and author of the History of the Hol¬ 
land Purchase, died at Lockport, March 21st. 
The Secretary of State has devoted a great 
deal of time to perfecting the blanks for the 
Marshals soon to engage in taking the State 
census. 
The hill relating to the tenure of religious 
or ecclesiastical property in this State, passed 
the Senate on Thursday week, by ayes 26— 
noes, 4. 
The U. S. frigate Columbia, flag ship of the 
home squadron, which arrived at Norfolk on 
the 20th of March, had fifty cases of Yellow 
fever on board. 
The Washington Union says it has reliable 
information that the Spanish Government has 
resolved to award indemnity in the Black 
Warrior case. 
A freight train, consisting of 23 heavily 
laden cars, 700 feet in length, and weighing 
370 tons, passed over the Suspension Bridge on 
Monday last. 
A fire-works manufactory at Greenville, 
four miles from Jersey City, was blown up on 
the 22d, killing two persons and wounding 
seven others. 
The German paper, Staats Zeitiug, states 
that the British Government has opened an 
office in New York city for enlisting recruits 
iu the British army. 
A complete enumeration of the voting pop¬ 
ulation in Kansas has been obtained. It con¬ 
tains 3,036 electors, which are divided into 
seventeen election districts. 
The annual lettings of the wharves belong¬ 
ing to the city of New York, show an average 
falling off of about seven per cent., as com¬ 
pared with the bids of last year. 
It is said one per cent, of silver is mixed 
with the copper ores of Lake Superior, but the 
cost of separating it would he more than the 
value of it after the separation. 
Lt. Harlsteine, of the Navy, lately com¬ 
manding the California mail steamer Illinois, 
has been appointed to command the Arctic ex¬ 
pedition in search of Dr. Kane. 
The foundry of C. M. Russell & Co., in Mas¬ 
sillon, Ohio, was blown down on the afternoon 
of the 13th, and a man named John Young 
was killed by the falling of the wall. 
While most of the other Republics of South 
America are convulsed with revolutions and 
anarchy, Chili maintains a most enviable state 
of tranquillity and commercial prosperity. 
The American gold coins passed in Japan by 
Mr. Burrows, in his recent expedition, were 
ordered by the Emperor to he returned, in con¬ 
sequence of the word “Liberty ” upon them. 
Ciias. Fred. Gauss, one of the first astrono¬ 
mers of the time, and by many persons be¬ 
lieved to he the greatest mathematician of any 
age, died at Gottingen, on the 22d of February. 
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