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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. \ 
ROCHESTER, APRIL 7, 1855. 
Important Postal Announcement. 1 f C ^ ^ Ij C C 0 i* 0 « 
The Post-Master of New York having been ../. 
interrogated as to many of the provisions of Travels in Europe and the East. A Year in England, 
interro 0 a e y * Scotland, Ireland, Wales, France, Belgium, Holland, 
the new law of postage, wrote to the depart- Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Pales- 
, r !171 ,i received the fol- tine, and Egypt. By Samuel Irejueus Prime. In two 
ment for instructions, and leccived tne ioi volu ’ mes _^f t h FiftyEngravings. New York : Harper 
lowing letter in reply : & Brothers. 
Post Office Department, ? These volumes combine many attractive, 
Appointment Office, March 22, 1855._ ) popular and valuable qualities. Though we 
Sir:—Y our letter of the 20th inst. is re baye n(d ye t given them a complete and care- 
ceived In answer I fun directed by tnc 1 ost _ . , - ... . 
^ eivtu * A11 x J fnl rYPriiRnl wo liavpV»pp/n faRPinnt.pri with T.neir 
•{fetes -{fetes 6iij)f>ii)cjs. 
’"SltS, S,*wj“ tXcef Mglnm! Hofc; Tn® principal diamond attraction at the Paris T|IB PennsylTanil , state debt is over $40.- 
Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Pales- Inhibition will be the Star of the bouth, qqq qqq 
tine, and Egypt. By Samuel Irenaeus Prime. In two valued at ten million francs, and weighing 251 ’ 
volumes—with Fifty Engravings. New York : Harper carats. The famous “Koh-i-noor” weighs Counterfeit $20 gold pieces are said to he 
& Brothers. only 122 carats. The “ Star of the South” in circulation. 
These volumes combine many attractive, wa s found in the Brazil mines eight months Thursday, April 5th, was appointed as a day 
popular and valuable qualities. Though we ago, by a poor negress. 0 f fasting in New Hampshire, 
have not yet given them a complete and care- | The law abolishing capital punishment in A H03PITAL for sick colored people) has been 
< >PF'f 1 TAT VOTirFS TO ACFNTS k.c ceived. In answer, lam lie J ' ful perusal, we have been fascinated with their Michigan, took effect on the second day of 0T)ened in Charlestown Mass 
SPECIAL NOTIC ES. TO AGENTS, Ac. Master General to inform you- stvle and contents and can safely commend March, 1847, since which time, a period of °Pened m bliarlestown, Mass. 
a r . . . 1* act of 3d of March, 18oo, < v 4 ’ ^ nearly ei^lit years only fifteen persons have Newspapers are circulated 
Provision for unpaid letters to places within both as superior. The gracefulness, natural- been dieted of murder, and sentenced for all parts of England, Scotlanc 
nearly eight years, only fifteen persons have Newspapers are circulated free by mail to 
been convicted of murder, and sentenced for all parts of England, Scotland and Ireland. 
fnrihaPriD.i "Vvw-Youkvti _inf! all who rumitaecordmi? ,, { _. . . .. , . Deen COnVICteu oi muruer, aim cseuteiieeu ioi ij 1 . 5 n.uu, uwumm auu 4 iw»uu. 
to terms will be’entitled to premiums, etc. ' * he United States, on the same a Y f Ko ness and cordiality of the author, his graphic life to solitary confinement at hard labor in The cost of removing the ruins of the burned 
* 5 T THE Rural is published strictly on the cash s™ {“£ Jhe Postmaster thereof descriptions, and manifestations of ardent re- the State Prison. City Hall in New York, is reported at $6,907. 
— sent no longer than paid for - and all orders should be t conspicuously in his office a list of bgious feeling and sound sense, at once enlist The Duhuqe Express and Herald says, that There is to he a line of five Propellers, the 
m accordance With terms. the same, stating that they are held for post- the attention and sympathies of the reader, a bill to remove the Capital of Iowa, has pass- com i n g season, direct between Buffalo and 
jjgy lx writing us, please he particular to give your P. a ce If not attended to, such letters must be a nd render him a compaqnon du voyage. The ed both branches of the Legislature. It ap Milwaukee. 
~ _ -A._O. . .. . -rx J T 1 ° ... YirtiYifc patviY iiicciATwipQ £ vn ITT mimhor Who flTfi 
0. address correctly — the name of your Post Office (not returned monthly to the Dead Letter Office. 
Town,) County and State. Write all names plainly. 2. Letters part paid should be despatched 
, . 1 1 • r _j. „ points commissioners, five in number, who are 
volumes comprise much valuable information P ltborized to locate ’ the Capital at ’ r within 
rown,; county ana owe. »rue y ^. z. Letters part paia snoum - relative to the most interesting portions and miles 0 f the town of Fort Dcs Moines 
&g- Those wishing thoir papers changed from one ad- charged with the additional postage due at tne . two miles 01 me town 01 f oit ucb mo es. 
dress to another, should give the names of both Post prepaid rate, according to distance, established pecu lar cus oms 0 e s ern emisp ler , j T j g sa id that the Crystal Palace at Syden- 
It is estimated that twenty-five millions of 
passages are made annually across the Brook¬ 
lyn ferries. 
the former address, as well as the one desired. b y said act, except where the omissions to pay imparted in a pleasant and entertaining man b am, near London, is likely to prove a failure large papei mill elected at Housatonic, 
Festerx Money is at pre-ent almost unsaleable in the correct amount is known to have been in- ner _ For sale by Darrow & Brother. in a financial point of view. Magnificent as aB j) - : a y Messrs. Potter, was destroyed by fire 
and we therefore request We-tem friends and tentional, when they should be treated the ^ - - are its attractions, the number of visitors is on Friday. 
J remit Eastern money—or draft, on Buflalo or same as letters wholly unpaid. TH Pv H p™ RY p 0 I '^J^ r FKV T ™A r ,t limited. Though not yet finished, it has cost The Governor of Maine appointed Thursday, 
rk, less the cost of exchange. 3. It is proper to forward a letter when re- Boston ■ Jas. French & Co! New York J. C. Derby. ‘ some seven millions of dollars. the 12th of April, to he observed as a day of 
JK«“ Western Money is at pre-ent almost unsaleable in the correct amount is known to have been in- 
this city, and we therefore request We-tern friends and tentional, when they should be treatci le 
agents to remit Eastern money—or draft, on Buflalo or same as letters wholly unpaid. 
New York, less the cost of exchange. 3. It is proper to forward a letter when re- 
« 5 r Specimen numbers oi the Rukai cheerfully for- quested in writing. When forwarded, no ad- 
warded to all disposed to aid in augmenting its circulation. ditional postage should he charged 1 _ ie 
The History ok the Hen Fever. A Humorous Record.— ii,Tiitpd 
By Geo. P. Burnham. In one volume—illustrated. 11 
Boston : Jas. French & Co. New York : J. C. Derby. some se 
This volume comprises the confessions and The 
experiences of the arch-deceiver and specula- ^ a P an . 
limited. Though not yet finished, it has cost 
some seven millions of dollars. 
new-born daughter of the Countess of ^ as tmg and prayer. 
warded to ail disposed to aid in augmenting its circulation uiuonai posutge suo um uo migsent exT)erienceg of the arch-deceiver and snecula- Trapani was christened on the 9th of January, A line of fourteen propellers will carry on 
We will send to your own, or the address 01 friends, all ter, contrary to its add ,_ , egg and P . , T at Naples, with the brief name of Maria The- the transportation business between Detroit 
the necessary documents-extra numbers, show bills, If it has been sent according to ateaddress and tor m Hen-ology-the Barnum of the chicken rega # erd ’ ina n d a Immaculate Conception Sa- and Ogdensburg. 
prospectuses, etc. it will afford us pleasure to respond then forwarded, it must be charged w trade Though it discloses the depravity of its hatia Luciana Philomenia. The Queen of the T , . .. 
to all requests in this line. tional postage at the prepaid rate, author in sdu both fow]s and fever -struck Two Sicilies was her sponsor. r( I™ Bntlsh Parliament to 
. „ „ „ ... ...,,... „ ,,...... ,, to distance, established by the act of Marcn e, ,y .., ,, . r repeal the stamp tax on newspapers. The tax 
* M *. - ‘ ‘ 1855, aforesaid. folk, it is well written and humorous—superior According to Capt. Malcom’s government is one penny on each paper. 
New City Government. 4. ’ship letters, as they cannot he prepaid, to Barnum’s Autobiography in both style and record, kept at Oswego, the water in Lake On- . .. „ . 
- - ■ ’ ’- J • -■ • - - - x rio is three feet seven i n eh es lower than it . A rich lump oi golU weighing six ounces, 
and are not supposed to he embraced in the arrangement. It contains some good and de- tario is three feet seven inches lower than it , been taken from a newfv discovered ^Told 
new act, will continue to be despatches agree gerved bd s at certain editors who prostituted ? <as . on * Be / irs ^ °, ' une a 7 ^’ an ,d as <nv y/ }, . mine in Worcester countv. Md.' 
The following are the principal members of new act, will continue to be aespauenet g served hits at certain editors who prostituted ^ a ’ s . . 1K , irht J une ia ? l > a , as low 
, r . . . ° , ablv to the provisions of the fifteenth section ,, * , . ., in nme inches as has ever been known, or 
the Municipal Government ot Rochester, who a ” i J L0 iae P\i V1 i q ico- their pens and presses to the spread of the + b • d r 
assumed the reins of office, honor and spoils 
on Monday last: 
Charles J. Hayden, Mayor, for one year. 
Pliny M. Bromley, City Treasurer, for two 
years. 
Daniel Wood, Justice of the Peace, for three 
years. 
Linus P. Berthrong, Sealer of Weights, &c., 
for one year. 
aldermen. 
of the act of March 3, 1825. 
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant, 
Horatio King, 
First Assistant Postmaster General. 
Isaac Y. Fowler, Postmaster, New York. 
served hits at certain editors who prostituted . . . . , , ,, , mine in Worcester county. Md 
,. . , , .. 1 . . in nme inches as has ever been known, or that m mu. 
their pens and presses to the spread of the ^ bere j g record G f. In Maine the legal voters of one of the towns 
hen-fever and participated in the profits of Boston exported 156 450 tons of ice last year, requested an unpopular lawyer to leave the 
the speculation. YVe commend it, as a healing The mogt of thig waS sent to Southern cities, P lace at hls earl iest convenience. 
balm, to those who were sold by the author, particularly New Orleans and Mobile. The It is a singular fact, that during last season, 
and who have, in turn, imitated him, by amount consumed in Boston was about 60,000 the cholera visited Switzerland and the shores 
plucking community. 
tons—making the amount cut in that vicinity of Lake Superior for the first time. 
War’s Doings. —The reverse side to the 
picture of “the pomp and circumstance of The Slave of the Lamp, a Posthumous Novel. By Wm 
A r 1 , North author of u Anti-Coninirshv. ” Now York 
glorious war,” is fearfully illustrated by the 
following passage from a letter of the corres- 
- 216,o40 tons. . Gov. Dutton, of Conn., has appointed Fri- 
e Slave of the Lamp, a Posthumous Novel. By Wm. A fine Swan was found recently in the Plain day, the 6 th of April, to be observed as a day 
s'orth. author of “Anti-Coningshy,” etc. New York: 0 f g k ]) en i S) alive hut much exhausted. It of fasting, humiliation and prayer. 
" one r °' had round its neck a silver collar, with an in- A , r t. . , u i or nnn i ii 
Gas and German metaphysics, with the usual scription engraved on it, stating that the bird T . pr asbeea h ne d So, 000 by the 
ap-trap of o» recent flash liLrature. seems belonged to the domain ’of Prince Hohenlohe, “ 
North, author of 
H. Long & Bro. 
3d do Wm. Breck, T. C. Montgomery. corti . 5 ri L„ T> fl ioLi ava to-dav on . J , ‘ ‘ T . , , , P _ A telegraphic despatch from New Orleans 
4th do Geo. Shelton, John M. Winslow, men, weie sent into « J’ , At any rate we find much of this, and also It is now reported from Europe that an ga yS) that Col. McClung, the duelist, commit- 
5th do Michael Douglas, E. lv. YVarren. ^ rench mule litters, and a few some things to set one to thinking —an operation agreement has been made between > pain a < tod suicide in that city on Saturday last 
*>. h0rse8 ' ■ The J f ? rme . d gh “‘‘! “'ways worth while. Sold at DnwaVs. && Sef while tirfSer A vookc man in St Alban* Yt . was mar- 
6 th do 
7 th do 
8 th do 
9th do 
Stephen Charles, E. W. Sabin. processions that ever poet imagined. Many 
A young man in St. Albans, Yt., was mar- 
AV. H. Moore, Joel B. Bennett, of these men were all but dead. AVith closed Household Words; a journal conducted by Charles ^ n n 
Jacob Hilton, Louis Bauer. 0 ,1 Qtfommtod Dickens. New York : Dix & Edwards, 10 Park Place. Vouua. 
John Quin, John E. Morey. e y es ’ open mouth , s ’ and , glia8tl . y atte ™ ated Monthly, $3. One Iris 
10th do John Quin, John E. Morey. ’ 1 ’ ° i , , 
mi i) i f ai i -ii uru* faces, they were home along, two and two, 
The Board of Aldermen comprises 11 Whigs J . , . . 
and Soft Democrats, and 9 Know Nothings and Hie thin stream of breath, visible m the ios y 
“ guarantees to her the undisturbed possession ried on Saturday, the 10th ult., and became a 
usehold Words ; a journal conducted by Charms a n uba maniac on the evening of the same day. 
Jickkxs. New Fork : Dix & Edwards, 10 Park Place. ° J 
Monthly, $3. One Irish woman in New York city who had The Cleveland Herald says that the Crescent 
A new volume of this valuable periodical been regularly supplied with a large pailful of City and Queen of the West are to run during 
Silver Greys. 
air, alone showing they were still alive. Une 
figure was a horror—a corpse, stone dead, 
J commences with the April issue. D. M. Dewey, 
still alive. One , l 
... Agent. 
soup for her children at home, was followed, 
last week, and seen to give the whole of it to 
her pig. Her next call for soup was in vain. 
the season between Cleveland and Buffalo. 
It is reported by telegraph that Baker, the 
murderer of Bill Poole, was landed at Cape 
Enoch Boughton, Schuyler Moses, Joseph strapped upright in his seat, the legs hanging The Xai-urauzation Ijws of the United States, and also a • In all the manufacturing towns of England Island at the mouth of the Delaware river. 
Alleyn Preston Smith, John Groh, Francis stiffly dowu , the eyes staring wide open, the affai , rs ar f ^V^JiXcfnn TnE St ‘ Paul Times sa J' s that two men who 
Dana, two yeais each. tLc mnt.rndinir tonerue. the head &c. Bv a Member of the Bar. Rochester : D. M. employed. 1 he former say tliey cannot go had sold liouor to the Indians, were mnrderpd 
commissioners of common schools. 
1st AVard—E. T. Huntington, Geo. E. King. 
2d do Jas. McMahon, Edw. L. Miller. 
3d do Fred. Van Doom, Denison Card. 
4th do J. C. Chumasero, T. T. Morse. 
5tli do M. McDonald, L. D. AVeyburn. 
6 th do Geo. G. Cooper, F. C. Lauer. 
7th do Porter Taylor, J. Y. Dennis. 
8 th do Wm. H. Niven, Henry L. Fish. 
9th do John K. Anderson, H. Mcrdoff. 
10th do AVm. M. Lewis, G. H. Janes, one 
year each. 
teeth set on the protruding tongue, the head 
and body nodding with frightful mockery of 
life, at each stride of the mule upon the bro¬ 
ken road. No doubt the man had died on his 
way down to the harbor.” 
&c. By a Member of the Bar. 
Dewey. Price 25 cts. 
employed. The former say they cannot go on had gold ]} . to the IndianB were murdere d 
without a reduction of wages, and the latter b the chippewas in the pineries last month, 
that they can scarcely live at present prices. 
II. III; LA Madiii.ei-.-b a young writer N ^“\S°»° T OhilMto^ffi IOy The“ wk 
on the new steam frigate is progressing rapidly. 
e correspondence of the unfortunate and Twenty-one persons were sentenced to the 
fted Comte de Kaousset Boulbon. penitentiary from Chicago, at the late term of 
Agricultural Loss.— A Scythe Factory at M. Henri de la Madeleine, a young writer 
Winsted, Conn., was burnedrecently, in which ?/ S reat Womise, and one of the editors of the 
- - - _ ’ . „ „ . . , ’ , Revue de Paris, is collecting, for publication, 
2,000 dozen of scythes, all finished, were de- ^ be correspondence of the unfortunate and 
Strike of Operatives. -The female opera- stroyed, and are not fit for “ scrap-iron. ” The gifted Comte de Kaousset Boulbon. 
tives in the cotton mills of Manchester, N. H., company was organized m 1835, and their There were in Cincinnati, during the mor 
to the number of several thousand, are on a P reBent ca P ltal 18 $25 - 000 - 0f late >’ ears the y of January, but seven fires, with a loss of $ 
, ... ti ovkuTO Wn have manufactured about 4,500 dozen scythes 650—insurance, $3,050. Five of these fi 
strike, and the mills are idle. 1 hey have been . ’ AA , /. wuvd the work of inepudiaries one from ca 
, ,,,.ui, annually, consuming about 100 tons of iron were tne wont oi incenaiaiits, one irom ca 
holding meetings, parading the streets vith lessness, and one from accident. 
1 /- or-wi n+ nne time, assembled in and steel, and 200 tons of coal. 
The inaugural of the new Mayor,—or, rath- | bands of music, and at one time assembled in 
er, the document read by him,—embraced some I front of the gates of one corporation with such 
r „ . . ...... ,. the Recorder’s courts. It is a hard city for 
There were in Cincinnati, during the month Cldme 
of January, but seven fires, with a loss of $3,- 
650—insurance, $3,050. Five of these fires A party of twenty-five families have char- 
lessness, and one from accident. 
A man started on the ice of St. Clare River, 
a day or two since, with a sleigh load of prop- 
fires A party of twenty-five families have char- 
care- tered a steamboat to take them from Pitts¬ 
burgh to St. Paul, Minnesota, on the 1st of 
April. 
,xyer 
,vmn- According to the lecture of Hon. Zadoc Pratt, 
er, me uucuuiuui, vvuu uy mm,—YuiuiaLcu oumc uuun u* B —-- a uv,. __ a Gay or iwo since, witn a oieign ioau oi prop , . r—-- ——-y - 
commendable remarks relative to municipal riotous demonstrations, that the Mayor was T ' ", ' y ,J caTt> a erty for Detroit. The next morning his sleigh lately delivered in New Pork, the total esti- 
affairs, especially touching the liquor traffic, compelled to read the riot act, and order them prominent and highly esteemed citizen of waB found on a cake of drifting ice,. but no ° f horSe8 m thlS 18 ^ 80 V 
R t.hp nrfiRcrvat.ioT, of nuhlic order. k.c’. to disperse. The cause of the trouble, is an Rochester died at his residence on North man or horses could he discovered. 000,000.. 
taxation, the preservation of public order, &c. to disperse. The cause ot the trouDie, ib < ’ . . , , 
But the greater portion of it was devoted to attempt on the part of the corporations to ex- .trect on Thursday morning week, of conges. 
the discussion of a political question-a speech tend the hours of labor, alleging that they are tion of t he lungs, a a cd ol years. _ 
in support of Know Nothingism—a matter losing money. The former time was eleven . 
which, hoi< ever important m itself, was quite hours. p i , ’ x __ 3 cago Tribune says that an immense grain 
Two hundred men and boys in AVaitsfield, 1S said several of the persons injured 
near Montpelier, turned out on the 2d, and the recent accident at Meredith, N. H., 
gave chase to a wolf which was discovered in have commenced actions against the town for 
that vicinity, and after considerable sharp damages. 
practice the stranger was shot. 
Steamers are arriving at St. Louis from the 
- —a- > a - - , , i mi cago iriuune says unaii an immense grain r*"-= -- a J aa, i »..a U a, u ..»aap 
} foreign to the occasion, .and exhibited, in our commenced, refuse to work: over ren, ana warehouse, 198 feet in length, has just been The British Government has contracted with Upper Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers 
£ humble opinion, a rare lack of good taste, not resume even on former time. completed in that city. The lower story is to that of Turkey to render available for the sup- laden with produce, which has accumulated in 
humble opinion, a rare lack of good taste, 
sense and judgment. However, ‘ ‘ this is a free 
country,” and we suppose it is perfectly right 
be leased for the storage of rolling freight, for p ly 0 f the English steamers the coal fields of vast quantities 
Th u Fstate —It is stated as a remarkable which there is room for fifty thousand barrels. Erelili or Heraclea, which are to he worked Mr. Hunt, the Mormon member of the Cal- 
• a ‘r xxj volll( , rpn1 ; n thp pitv The upper story is to be used for drying damp by the English. ifornia Legislature, has introduced a hill for 
instance of the value of rea s . y grain if necessary, and for the storage of hags T Boston Chronicle savs that out of the the erection of the Southern part of California 
of London, that a building site was recently of grain . Between these two are the bins and 4 S^nersons who dfed inXt dtv St into a new State, 
sold at the rate of two million dollars an acre, space for machinery. Five hundred thousand persons who died m that c y las yea , . 
The Boston Jottrnta, on this sta^ent, ^ T^£S. { 
that the owner of a lot m that aty, on the „.„ cllonBe Thcrc ' connected , vith the A Nbm0 Killbl by WoLVES.-Report says least one thousand persons arrived at St. Louis 
cornel of State and Lxchan., ' > warehouse eleven elevators, capable of raising that a few days since a negro man belonging on tlie 19t 1 ult ’ 
recently refused an oiler of eighty dollars the 20,000 bushels of grain per hour. to Mrs. Batson, a widow lady residing inRog- Prof. Jewett, of Amherst College, has ac- 
square foot for the lot, which is at the rate of-■— •>-■» - er’s Prairie, Madison county, Texas, went out cepted an invitation to settle over the First 
three million four hundred and eighty-four thousand The Baltic Fleet.— As far as at present into t] ie woods to chop timber, and did not Congregational Society in Nashua, N. H., with 
eialit hundred dollars an acre ! Commend us to known, the following is the constitution of re t UI ' n - Search being made for him, a piece a salary of $1,500. 
& 11 tv a - j. ..i -j- j. ~ v. -. r*f opo nf lprra wa.a fAnr»rl nhnr flip ennf t-. i .t.i. i n . 
Z x , T ; V 7 -7a The upper story is to he used for drying damp by the English 
for officers to disregard the proprieties of dig- instance of the value of real estate in the city . h 1 . np „„ sc . arv and for tbp , torae . p nf ba „ g * 6 
lor omcers xo uisregara une propneues oi uig- instance oi tne vaiue oi rcai gra i n , if necessary, and for the storage of hags ' . , ., . , , ., 
nified positions, and for learned savans to con- 0 f London, that a building site was recently 0 f gra i n . Between these two are the bins and . A ” L Boston ( . lll0 . ni , • S +? S + t °i -i - Ul< 
demn the poor and ignorant in official proc- sold at the rate of two million dollars an acre, space for machinery. Five hundred thousand Id wnrl 1 hiir^lhv odd 
lamations. The Boston Journal, on this statement, rejoins bushels of grain can be with ease stored away ovei one tll0U6and were buried bj one man. 
. .. /-a, -r. _ « i 11 „ 1 / 7 a. ir . Ari„ + -a A b in the various compartments of this immense 
After the organization of the new Board of that the owner of a lot m that city, on the , T] are connec t e d with the A Negro Killed hy WnT.™._Wt. c,v- 
lamations. The Boston Journal , on this statement, rejoins bushels of grain can be with ease stored away u ‘ * 
, . .. ^ a, -rx , , ,, , ,, „ 1 / 7 a. ay a. -a ai in the various compartments of this immense 
After the organization of the new Board of that the owner of a lot in that city on the warehouge There are connec ted with the A Negro Killed by WoLVES.-Report says 
Aldermen, on Monday morning, \V. Gibbons corner ot State ana F.xcnan 0 e a e , warehouse eleven elevators, capable of raising that a few days since a negro man belonging 
(Hard Dem.) was elected City Clerk, J. C. recently refused an oiler of eighty dollars the 20,000 bushels of grain per hour. to Mrs. Batson, a widow lady residing inRog- 
Chumasero (Soft Dem.) City Attorney, and square foot for the lot, which is at the rate of-- er’s Prairie, Madison county, Texas, went out 
Enos Blossom (Whig K. N.) Superintendent. three million four hundred and eighty-four thousand The Baltic Fleet. — As far as at present i nto Uie woods to chop timber, and did not 
The Board of Education was organized on 9 farm-if we only had a the British fleet about to be sent to the Baltic : of one of his legs was found near the spot Fourteen valuable sheep, the property of 
Monday evening, by the election of George 8Uca lu J Commander-in-chief, Rear Admiral of the where he had been chopping, and five dead Mr Charles A. Burgess, of Nantucket, were 
G. Cooper, (Soft Dem.,) of the Daily Union, arm ’ _ __ Blue, the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas, C. wolves, it is said that he had been .attacked smo thered by the snow, during a late severe 
President, and R. D. Jones (Whig K. N.) .. ,. , B.; second in command, Rear Admiral of the by a png ot these animals, and that he had s t 0 rm on the Island. 
Q Statb Prison Bobbed.— The penitentiary at B l U e, Michael Seymour ; third in command, kll led five of them with his axe before they .. . 
Superintendent. Nashville, Tennessee, was burned on the morn- Rear Admiral of the Blue, Robert Lambert had destroyed him. Bishop Hughes is said by a writer m the N. 
--- of the 29th ult The fire originated in the Baynes, C. B.; Captain of the fleet, Hon. F. T. -— ---- , Y - Herald to have property in Ins hands be- 
Gratxfying Appreciation. —“I hope you ° , , . sbort time the entire Pelham. The force will consist of 55 war American Muskets for Foreign Use.— The longingtothe LomanC.itholic Chuich amount- 
in Dv.xa.t n.oi oc n cabinet shop, and in a short time tlie entire e , rarrv ; nfr o ofiS miTlR ! flnn.f.lIT cr W- WTlnAcrw /Vf. \ .Tmirnnl CCJT 7 C fViof. fVio ^ ^2o,000,0 
President, and R. D. Jones (Whig K. N.) 
Superintendent. 
will keep the Rural just as it is, for you can¬ 
not better it,” writes a Nantucket, Mass., sub- 
JL UUJUAllA. AAU. HU VjVj uni wiaoiou w »» u-l ITXUOIVCiXO XVJIX X' UXVJCilun AJO-Ci.—-- X 11U . COT 000 OOO 
steamers, carrying 2,068 guns ; 5 floating hat- Windsor (Vt.) Journal says that the Robbins t0 ® u ’ 
_ portion of the building, set aside for the differ- teries, carrying 80 guns ; 8 mortar ships ; 28 & Lawrence Company, of Windsor, have just The Lower Canada papers intimate that 
scriher, in a letter renewing his subscription. 
This is gratifying, and perhaps good advice, 
ent branches of trade, became a burning mass, steam gun-boats, carrying 66 guns ; 
The east wing of the main building then caught ships. Total, 100 ships ; 2,278 guns, 
fire, and was much damaged, and is rendered -- 
steam gun-boats, carrying 66 guns ; 4 store- contracted for the manufacture of muskets to spurious English shillings and American ten 
yet we cannot help trying to attain a higher None of the pris oners escaped, but 
standard, even though others are satisfied. Qne Qf them wag gmother ed by the smoke— 
In its main features, however, the Rural will — t . 1AA AAA 
continue unchanged, though we shall endeavor__ 
to improve it, continuously, in accordance Suicide of a Bank Teller.—Thomas W. 
the amount of some four or five hundred cent pieces have been recently put into circu- 
thousand dollars. The contract is made for a lation in that province. 
A Smash among the Cattle. —The Buffalo company in London, and the arm to be manu- the original MS. of Sir Walter Scott’s 
Republic of March 23d says : The passenger factured is the Mime rifle with some modifica- < ( Kenilworth,” has been sold for £41, to the 
train on the Michigan Southern road, going tions. The fulfillment ot the contract will British Museum. ’The sum its last possessor 
west, about 3 o’clock on Saturday morning, require ail additional force of two or three „. ave 4or ^ wag ord y £jg 
when a short distance from White Pigeon, hundred men. This is decidedly complimen- & . 
west, about 3 o’clock on Saturday morning, 
when a short distance from White Pigeon, 
to improve it, continuously, in accordance Suicide of a Bank Teller.—Thomas W. encountered a drove of cattle on the track tary to American skill. 
with the spirit of its motto and the progress Hooper, paying teller of the Merchants’Bank, and killed fourteen of them. This occurred -- 
of the age and country. Tlie many highly Boston, committed suicide last week Tuesday, on an embankment, which is from 20 to 25 Remarkable Fossils. —The famous fossil 
complimentary letters received since the com- by hanging himself in the cellar under the feet high. Fortunately the train was not skeleton of the zeuglodon, found in Alabama 
mencement of the present volume, evince that building. The deed was done to avoid meeting thrown from the track. some fourteen years ago by a German named 
ry to American skill. The ship Flying Cloud, on her recent passage 
_ m t , ,_ from New York to Melbourne, is said to have 
^ rn , - , run 6,420 miles in sixteen continuous days, 
Remarkable Fossils. - The famous fossil averagin g 400 miles daily. 
mencement of the present volume, evince that b uilding The deed was done to avoid meeting thrown from the track. som e fourteen years ago by a German named The city liquor agent of New Bedford sells 
DDL pffortR are rero^mVed and annreriafoJ Duuaing. ^neuceu b b - -- --Koch, exhibited in New York, and afterwards about $ 2,000 worth per month. There must 
oui efforts a * ^zed . app eciated. the responsibilities of a defalcation to the Lumber Trade —The Detroit Inquirer sold to a Dr. McDowell at St. Louis, was lately be a vast amount of sickness, or the mechanic 
-- amount of $50,000, which he used on his own Qur country exchanges bring us flatter- taken for debt, and in process of removal fell arts are flourishing tremendously. 
The Death of O. Turner, Esq., of Lockport, account, and lost in stock speculations — a iu ^ accounts 0 f the operations of our lumber to pieces, and many of the bones were broken, An expedition, consisting of two companies 
editor ©f the Niagara Democrat, is announced, species of gambling which wrecks more reputa- men for their winter campaign. In the Sagi- when the wonderful monster was found to be of dragoons and three of rangers, has set out 
His life was terminated by a severe attack of hie men than all other causes (excepting in- naw country, rising of 2,600 men are employ- of genuine plaster _ol Paris formation and of f rom Fort Chadbourne, to operate against the 
inflammation of the lunge. Mr. T. was a vet. temperance) combined. & Southern Camanehes of Texas. 
eran editor, and widely known as the historian -- —7 - SP??orThe season arc estimated at ,nm -i—--- las?veT 2 S,nnted^to^SooS^uStoftSrt 
of Western New York—being the author of a British Recruiting on American Soil— million feet n n „ „ wwlo . , last year amountea to *4u,uuu, tne nrst cost 
& . -vtj,™ Vou. hunarea million ieet. Clerical Dignity. —While lather Moriarty being about $50,000. 1 he new large structure 
history of the Holland Purchase, and also Agents .have been employed m 1 ew lo v, --- wag pr onoimcing his sermon on the death of just completed, cost about $500,000. 
of the “Phelps and Gorham Purchase, and the Philadelphia and perhaps other places, hiring Longevity— The family of Nehemiah Huh- St. Patrick, at the New York Cathedral, he , , . , fft thousand (I 
Morris Reserve.” men to go to Halifax for the purpose of enlist- bard) Q f Middletown, Conn., appear to be a made a long and apparently angry “point;” j® i l ! AT1R A f ; rOT i W ere imnorted into tlm 
--ingin the British army. They hoped to evade long-lived race Last week liis daughter, Mrs then pointinghis^finger to a young lady, he united States from Scotland last year. Cana- 
Agents and others interested will bear in the law? by not making the enlistmenss on Mary Lyman, died at the age of 86, and she had passionately said lake down that eye glass, da i mpor t ed from the same place 31,200 tons. 
..... ... , .. , ,, . ? .... ._, twelve brothers and sisters, the average age of ma’m, take down that eye-glass; you can see 1 1 ’ 
mmd that we this week commence a new quar- our soil,.hut the law is explicit, and meets ten of whom would exceed 75 years. The old- me well enough without it; I’m sufficiently One of the crew of the whale ship James 
ter—-a favorable opportunity for forming new the very case of shipment out of the country eg t bl - 0 thcr was 99, and one of her sisters was big enough to be seen without an eye-glass.— Allen, which arrived at New Bedford on Sun- 
clubs, or adding to present ones. See notice, with intent to enlist. Several of the recruits 95 . Five of her brothers were in the war of And don’t be making signs at that other girl, day, had been absent from this country—a 
premium offers, &c., in last week’s Rural. as well as the agents have been arrested. the Revolution. and making her laugh.” stranger in strange lands lor thirty-four years. 
our efforts are recognized and appreciated. the responsibilities of a defalcation to the 
-- amount of $50,000, which he used on his own 
The Death of O. Turner, Esq., of Lockport, account, and lost in stock speculations — a 
editor ©f the Niagara Democrat, is announced, species of gambling which wrecks morereputa- 
His life was terminated by a severe attack of hie men than all other causes (excepting in¬ 
inflammation of the lungs. Mr. T. was a vet- temperance) combined. 
eran editor, and widely known as the historian -- 
of Western New York—being the author of a British Recruiting on American Soil— 
The Death of O. Turner, Esq., of Lockport, 
. ... . . . • — v . hundred million leet. Clerical Dignity. —While Father Moriarty being about $50,000. The new large structure 
Agents [have been employed in New York, -—--was pronouncing his sermon on tlie death of just Completed, costabout $500,000. 
Philadelphia and perhaps other places, hiring Longevity—T he family of Nehemiah Hub- St. Patrick, at the New York Cathedral, he _ n .. 
men to go to Halifax for the purpose of enlist- bard) of Middletown, Conn., appear to be a made a long and apparently angry “ point;” 7 ? , , f imnorted into the 
ing in the British army. They hoped to evade long-lived race. Last week his daughter, Mrs. then pointing his linger to a young lady, he 7 s+o+ph frnni Scotland w vLv 
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