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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
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The War Prospects. 
The Baltic, like all her predecessors, brings 
news of important movements abend to take 
place in the Crimea, but no news of any hav¬ 
ing taken place. Ever since last fall the story 
has been revised from time to time, that the 
assault upon Sebastopol was to come off in a 
certain number of days ; but time passed, and 
no assault has yet been made. The siege is 
still carried on with indifferent success, and 
the place is infinitely stronger now than it 
was when the allies first landed in the Crimea. 
The French stormed a new redoubt on the 
night of Feb. 23d, and held it for a brief pe¬ 
riod, hut were finally compelled to retire. 
The Zouaves displayed a courage in the as¬ 
sault that places them among the best troops 
in the world. 
The British army is in much better condi¬ 
tion than heretofore, so far as supplies, &c., 
are concerned, and the health of the troops is 
partially restored. The railway to Balaklava 
is mostly completed, £o that necessaries can 
be easily forwarded to camp from the port; 
hut notwithstanding all this, unless peace in¬ 
tervenes, the allies may look for a Russian 
army in the spring that will he likely to over¬ 
whelm them. 
Jifcl’i(l’i) %ecoird. 
The Rag-Bag, a Collection of Ephemera. By N. Parker 
Willis. New York: Charles Scribner, 1855. 
Another volume made up from the news¬ 
papers, hut a very readable volume for all 
that, and containing many things worth thus 
preserving. The preface speaks of them as 
‘ ‘ photographs of the passing events, celebri¬ 
ties, and topics of the time,” and such pic¬ 
tures taken by the hand of a master artist, 
can never lose their value. Sold at Darrow’s. 
ROCHESTER, APRIL 14, 1855. 
To Correspondents. 
The Summer Land ; a Southern Story. By a Child of the 
Sun. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 
This volume purports to be a picture of Life 
and Scenery in the South, with sketches of 
character, customs, etc., among the planters. 
It is well written, and an extraordinary story 
connects the whole and heightens the interest 
of the reader. Sold at Dewey’s. 
In justice to the many interested, we hereby 
respectfully acknowledge the reception of 
scores, aye hundreds, of sketches, essays, ar¬ 
ticles, and effusions prosaical and poetical on 
all sorts of subjects, since the commencement 
of the present year and volume of the Rural 
We ought, perhaps, to have kept a list of the 
favors received, and specified from time to 
time those which were accepted, and why oth 
ers were rejected,—but this we could not con¬ 
sistently do for the want of leisure to give 
each and all of the numerous documents proper 
attention. Among those which we have been 
able to examine, however, are many excellent 
articles which will hereafter appear in their 
appropriate departments,— while others, pos¬ 
sessing more or less merit, are inadmissible, 
either on account of their length, or because 
they discuss questions not within the sphere 
and objects of this journal. Others there are, 
however, which we must respectfully decline, 
yet many of this class indicate that the writers 
only require practice and attention to make 
decided improvement. Anonymous corres¬ 
pondents are reminded that their articles, how¬ 
ever meritorious, receive little or no attention, 
as our rule is to reject all such communications. 
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cently addressed us on the subject, and all oth¬ 
ers interested, we would state that we do not 
wish to engage additional regular contributors 
to either department of the Rural. Our en¬ 
gagements for the present year are such, and 
so expensive, that we are constrained to de¬ 
cline propositions which would he acceptable 
under other circumstances. 
Death of Americans Abroad. —Mrs. Cass, 
daughter-in-law to Lewis Cass, Senator from 
Michigan, and wife of the American Consul 
at Rome, died in that city on the 3d of March. 
Her disease was congestion of the brain, caused 
by taking a hot hath too soon after eating.— 
She was seized in the hath, and lived but an 
hour, unconscious. Mrs. Cass was married to 
Mr. C. in the month of May last, at Paris. 
She was a young lady remarkable for her ac¬ 
complishments and personal attractions, and 
her death is very much regretted by a large 
circle of friends. 
Martin Van Buren, Jr., died at Paris on the 
20th ult. He had long been wasting away 
from consumption, hut his death was, never¬ 
theless, very sudden, having taken place in¬ 
stantaneously while he was seated at dinner. 
Illegal Searches.— The Massachusetts Leg¬ 
islature recently appointed a committee to ex¬ 
amine into the state of the nunneries, &c., in 
that State ; and last week the Committee, with 
their friends, amounting to two large omni¬ 
bus loads, made a sudden descent upon a quiet 
school for young ladies, kept in Roxhury by 
half a dozen sisters of the order of “ Notre 
Dame.” Some of the Boston papers comment 
with great severity upon the ungentlemanly 
conduct of the visitors, who unceremoniously 
searched the premises from garret to cellar, 
frightening the teachers and pupils half out 
of their wits, asking impertinent questions, 
and treating the inmates with great rudeness. 
So much feeling has arisen upon the subject, 
that the Legislature has appointed another 
committee to investigate the conduct of the 
investigators. 
The Life of Sam Houston.— (The only authentic memoir 
of him ever published.) Illustrated. New York: J. C. 
Derby, 1855. 
Those who wish to learn of the strange and 
eventful career of the Hero of San Jacinto, 
will find it here presented in very readable 
sty le. They will also learn that he is a can 
didate for the Presidency of the Republic, and 
all the reasons for giving him their votes, &c., 
&c. Sold at Wm. Alling’s, Exchange street. 
The Hundred Days. — The constitutional 
limit at which our Legislators cease to draw 
pay, was reached on Wednesday. The session 
can be protracted to any length within the 
year, provided the members do it at their own 
expense, but there is no probability that a 
quorum can he kept together more than two 
or three days after the watch dog sits down be¬ 
fore the door of the treasury. It was a wise 
foresight in the framers of the constitution to 
insert such a clause as the one which limits pay 
to one hundred days, hut did not actually 
prohibit the session beyond that time. If 
m easures of great public concern are yet to he 
acted upon when the limit is reached, the 
Legislature can remain to finish them. It is 
wonderful to see how the wheels of legislation 
run as the period of the stop policy approaches. 
Steamer Huntsville Burned. —The Louis¬ 
ville Journal of March 30, says in reference to 
the recent burning of this steamer :—‘ 1 The 
fire occurred on hoard of the Huntsville on 
Saturday night, while she was lying at Ham¬ 
burg, on the Tennessee river. She was bound 
for New Orleans, and had about four thousand 
hales of cotton on hoard. The fire spread with 
such rapidity, that in less than ten minutes 
the whole boat and cargo were wrapped in 
flames. The passengers, officers and crew had 
barely time to escape in their clothes, losing 
their baggage and everything else.” 
Spring Weather. 
The opening of spring seems now unmistak¬ 
able, and during the past week we have had 
several fine days. The snow drifts still remain, 
however, in shady nooks and corners and 
along the fences, but they are fast disappear¬ 
ing under the influences of an April sun. The 
birds have come even within city precincts, 
and make the morning merry with their car¬ 
ol. There are so many shade trees along our 
streets and in the public squares that forest 
birds will be quite at home among us, and all 
good citizens feel like protecting them from 
harm. 
A good soaking rain would be of infinite 
advantage just at the present time in settling 
the ground, removing the lingering remnants 
of snow, and starting vegetation. One of m 
was in the country last week, and was much 
surprised at the dryness of the roads and the 
apparent need of rain. Wheat, although in 
most instances well covering the ground, 
looked brown and dead, and showed unmis¬ 
takable evidence of suffering from drouth. 
It is too early in the season, of course, to pre¬ 
dict with any certainty the amount of the 
coming harvest. 
A Great Load. —The steamer George Law, 
which sailed for Aspinwall last week, took out 
seven hundred California passengers. Many 
women and children were among the number, 
and go out to remain in California. Some of 
the adventurers who go in search of the golden 
fleece will themselves come home shorn. 
How it Affects Them. —The New York 
liquor dealers are in commotion at the passage 
of the Maine law, and the prospect that the 
spills to their casks are to he summarily cut 
off. The N. Y. Evening Post says:—Next 
week, (the present,) as we are informed, a 
meeting is to be called in this city of all the 
importers of wines and spirits, and of the 
dealers in these commodities. Their object is 
not to petition the Legislature in relation to 
the temperance law, hut to consult together 
in relation to the manner in which it will af¬ 
fect their constitutional rights, and agree up¬ 
on the proper mode of redress. 
Extra Edition. —We publish a large extra 
edition of this number, with an illustrated 
advertisement of one of our most extensive 
Nursery establishments, occupying the last 
page. Non-subscribers who receive a copy of 
the “ extra,” will please understand that the 
last page of the regular edition is not in quite 
as large type, or so profusely illustrated — as 
will more fully appear if they will become 
subscribers ! For the benefit of such, we would 
state that a new quarter commenced April 7, 
from which date we can furnish numbers. 
Canal Navigation. — The Commissioners 
have fixed upon the first of May as the time 
for the resumption of canal navigation. It 
would seems to be impossible to put the canals 
in order at the time specified, as little or noth 
ing has yet been done towards repairing and 
cleaning, and in many places the ice is not 
yet melted. A few warm days, however, will 
put a better face upon affairs, and we trust the 
revenues for the coming season will show a 
better footing than they have done for the 
past year. 
Benefit of Smoking. —Col. Phillips, member 
of Congress from Alabama, stepped out of the 
cars at a station near Charleston, one day last 
week, to smoke a cigar. While thus engaged, 
another train ran into the one in which he 
was a passenger, and the seat which he occu 
pied was demolished, and his cloak, which 
was lying in it, perforated by a bar of iron 
and car ried out tho ugh the top of the car. 
Send them Home Again. —Our Consul at Zu 
rich notified the government awhile since 
that the Swiss authorities were about to ship 
to this country a cargo of paupers. He remon 
strated with them to no purpose, and they 
wero sent off through France to Havre, and 
tlience to sea. It has been since ascertained 
that these paupers, 350 in number, are bound 
for New Orleans. 
The Flower Garden ; or Brock’s Book of Flowers 
which are described all the various Hardy Herbaceous 
I’errennials, Annuals, Shrubbery Plants, and Evergreen 
Trees, desirable for ornamental purposes, with direc¬ 
tions for their cultivation. By Josehii Breck, Seeds 
man and Florist, etc. Boston : John P. Jewett & Co 
The Gardener’s Text-Book, containing practical direc 
tion 3 upon tho formation and management of the 
Kitchen Garden ; and for the culture and domestic use 
of its Vegetables, Fruits and Medicinal Herbs. By 
Peter AdamSciiknck, Gardener. Boston : JohnP. Jew 
ett & Co. 
The American Fruit-Book, containing directions for rais¬ 
ing, propogating and managing Fruit Trees, Shrubs and 
Plants with a description of the best varieties of Fruit, 
including new and valuable kinds. Embellished and 
Illustrated with numerous Engravings of fruits, trees, 
insects, grafting budding, training, &c., &c. By S. W. 
Cole, late Editor of the New England Farmer, &c., &c. 
Boston : John P. Jewett & Co. 
New editions of these valuable works have 
recently been issued. They are of well known 
merit, and are so fully described by their titles 
above, that we need add nothing further. 
For sale by the Publishers, and Booksellers 
generally. 
The Temperance Bill 
A Gigantic Enterprise— The Sandusky Reg¬ 
ister states that the Illinois Central Railroad 
has advertised for twenty first class steamers 
to ply between New Orleans and the terminus 
of their road at Cairo. This will have a ten 
dency to divert travel from St. Louis, Cincin 
nati, &c., and carry it to Chicago over the 
above named road. We may expect to see 
great opposition to this newline, and Western 
travelers will be likely to find low fares. 
The temperance bill passed the Senate on 
the afternoon of Tuesday, April 3d, by the 
decisive vote of twenty-one to eleven. It 
subsequently went back to the House, where 
the amendments made by the Senate were 
concurred in by a vote of eighty to forty-five. 
The law goes, into effect on the fourth of 
July next, at wyoli time rum and patriotism 
dissolve partnership. It must he confessed 
that the day fixed is not the most favorable 
one for the success of the law in suppressing 
intemperance, hut it will be a good and glori¬ 
ous era, and we trust drunkenness with its | 
train of followers, among the most conspicuous 
of which are pauperism and crime, will be 
banished from the land. 
YVe subjoin the ayes and noes upon the 
question as taken on its final passage in the 
Senate : 
Ayes —Messrs. Bishop, Bradford, Butts, W. 
Clark, Z. Clark, Danforth, Dickinson, Dor- 
rance, Field, Goodwin, Halsey, Hitchcock, 
Hopkins, Munroe, Putnam, Richards, Robert¬ 
son, Sherrill, Walker, Whitney, Williams—21. 
Nays —Messrs. Barnard, Barr, Brooks, Cros¬ 
by, Hutchins, Lansing, Pratt, Spencer, Storing, 
Watkins, Yost—11. 
The following is also the vote of concur¬ 
rence in the Assembly on the Senate amend¬ 
ments to the bill: 
Ayes —Messrs. Baldwin, J. Bennett, J. P. 
Bennett, Beyea, Blakeslee, Boynton, Brush, 
Buckley, Bushnell, Chester, Cocks, S. B. Cole, 
Covey, Eames, Everest, Fairchild, Ferdon, 
Fitcli, Gates, Gleason, Goddard, Headley, 
Hult, Hunt, Jimmerson, C. P. Johnson, L. B. 
Johnson, Kendig, Knapp, Kirkland, Lamport, 
Leigh, Littlefield, Lourie, Maclian, McKinney, 
Mallory, Main, Masters, May, E. Miller, L. 
Miller, Munro, Odell, Paine, D. Palmer, F. W. 
Palmer, Peck, Pennoyer, Platt, Ramsay, Ray¬ 
mond, Rickerson, Rider, Rhodes, Schuyler, B. 
Smith, J. A. Smith, S. Smith, Speaker, Stan¬ 
ton, Stebbins, Stevens, Storrs, Terhune, G. 
Tompkins, I. Tompkins, Van Etten, Van Os- 
dol, Warner, Walker, Ward, Wells, E. S. 
Whalen, S. S. Whallon, A. G. Williams, G. D. 
Williams, Wilsey, Wisner, Wooden, Wygant 
—80. 
Noes —Messrs. Aitken, Allen, Baldwin, Ba¬ 
ker, Beecher, Blakeslee, Batchford, Blessing, 
Bridenbecker, Campbell, Case, Chapin, Church¬ 
ill, Clark, E. Cole, Coleman, Comstock, Con¬ 
ger, Davidson, Davy, Devening, Dixon, Don 
man, Dumont, Edwards, Emans, Green, 
Evans, Maguire, McLaughlin, Munday, O’¬ 
Keefe, Parsons, Petty, Phelps, Seymour, Smal¬ 
ley, W. B. Smith, Terhune, Wager, Waterbury, 
Wood—45. 
Absent—Messrs. Dodge, J. C. Palmer, Shar¬ 
ing and E. L. Smith. 
The bill was then sent to the Governor, who 
speedily perfected it by affixing his signature 
thereto. 
Squatter Sovereignty. — The following 
copied from the St. Louis Republican, shows 
how the squatter sovereignty doctrine works 
in the new territories. Of course the emi 
grants referred to were squatters in Kansas 
just at election, and then immediately de 
camped: 
Independence, March 31—9 P. M. 
Several hundred returning emigrants from 
Kansas have just entered our city. They were 
preceded by the Westport and Independence 
Brass Bands. They came in at the west side 
of the public square, and proceeded entirely 
around it, the Bands cheering us with fine 
music, and the emigrants with good news.— 
Immediately following the Band, were about 
two hundred horsemen, in regular order, fol 
lowed by one hundred and fifty wagons, car 
riages, &c. They gave repeated cheers for 
Kansas and Missouri. They report that not 
an anti-slavery man will be in the Legislature 
of Kansas. We have made a clean sweep. 
Slipping?. 
Watch Stuffing. — This is a speculation 
which has prevailed to a considerable extent 
within a year or two, and has bitten hundreds 
who claim an ordinary amount of shrewdness 
The most talented in this department weave 
a story of sickness or even death in their fami¬ 
lies, obliging them to part with a precious 
relic of their departed mother or father. A 
tear will steal down their cheeks, and a terrible 
sigh, like the forerunner of ayoung earthquake, 
come up—as a clincher to the operation. A 
two-dollar 1 ‘ ticker’ ’ is spouted to the generous 
stranger for the ruinous price of twenty, and 
both parties separate, mutually pleased with 
each other.— Buffalo Commercial. 
Forgery at Washington.—Lewis L. Taylor, 
who sports the title of Col., and for several 
years past a clerk in the office of First Comp¬ 
troller of the Treasury at Washington, has 
been detected forging paper to the amount of 
$15,000 or $20,000. He found it convenient 
to resign his situation, and depart hastily and 
secretly from the capital. Gambling is stated 
to he the cause, and one to which many of our 
Washington officials might plead guilty. The 
‘‘Colonel” hails from Mississippi. 
Sunday at the Sandwich Islands.— Hono¬ 
lulu is said to enjoy the quietest Sabbath on 
the face of the whole earth. The penal code 
of the Sandwich Islands declares that the 
Lord’s day is taboo ; all worldly business, 
amusements and recreations are forbidden on 
that day ; and whoever shall keep open his 
shop, store, warehouse, or workshop, or shall 
do any manner of labor, business or work, ex¬ 
cept only works of necessity or charity, or he 
present at any dancing, public amusement, or 
taking part in any game, sport, or play on the 
Lord’s day, shall be punished by a fine not ex¬ 
ceeding $10. 
Flour in New York. —The Herald saysfiour 
has risen to $13 per barrel for choice brands, 
and $12 to $12,50 for good ordinary flour, such 
as bakers use. This is higher than flour has 
rated in New York for many years. In 1837, 
Avhen the flour warehouse of Eli Hart & Co., 
was broken open by the crowd, and a number 
of barrels spilt into the street, on the foolish 
pretext that Hart and other merchants had 
been concerned in forestalling the markets, 
and thus raising the price of flour, it sold at 
from $11,87 to $12 a barrel. In 1844, during 
the temporary paralysis of trade which occur¬ 
red that year, flour sold at from $4,93 to $5 a 
barrel. 
Fires.— The Journal of Commerce gives a list 
of the principal fires in the United States for 
the first three months of the present year.— 
They number forty-one, with a total loss as 
follows: 
January.$1,325,000 
February. 949,000 
March. 1,608,000 
Total.$3,882,000 
Technicalities of La ay.— In the Supreme 
Court sitting at Philadelphia, Monday week, 
Chief Justice LeAvis gave a decision granting 
a writ of error in the Beale case, on the ground 
that the Jury that tried the case, instead of 
being SAvorn to render a verdict according to 
the evidence, were sworn to try the guilt or 
innocence of the defendant; also, that the de¬ 
fendant, instead of being sentenced to solitary 
confinement at labor, was sentenced to impris¬ 
onment at hard labor. 
Naval. —Over 1,000 Avorkmen are now busily 
employed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The 
Department paid $17,000 for the hark Eringo, 
just purchased for the search of Dr. Kane. The 
Eringo is 303 tons. She Avas towed to the Navy 
Yard, and will he immediately placed in the 
dry-dock. 
Lake Superior covers a space of 32,000 
square miles. 
Free Masonry, in England, appears to he 
ery prosperous. 
The Washington Daily Sentinel has sus¬ 
pended publication. 
The soldiers in the Crimea are paying $1,40 
per pound for tobacco. 
One hundred and fifty Prussian surgeons 
ave lately entired the Russian army. 
The severe winter in Essex county has left 
all the people and the cattle “ Spring poor.” 
The Parisians are amusing themselves with 
a hippopotamus, recently caught in the Nile. 
A third orifice has been found in Mount 
Vesuvius, which is said to he threatening an 
eruption. 
The deficiency of Gov. Price of New Jersey, 
as ex-purser in the navy, is reported at over 
$ 200 , 000 . 
There were 3,700 applications for bounty 
land received at the pension office recently in 
one day. 
The Secretary of the Treasury acknowledges 
the receipt of $376 in an envelope marked 
“ over-paid.” 
A private Cemetery in the city of Cincin¬ 
nati has been seized for taxes, and is to be 
sold at auction. 
The Falls of Saut St. Marie vary from 18£ 
to 21 feet, according to the height of water in 
Lake Superior. 
The Oswego Journal mentions that the 
Welland Canal is to he opened for navigation 
on the 10th of April. 
Hoboken has decided by a two-third vote to 
become a city. It contains a population of 
about 7,000 persons. 
The Association for the relief of the poor 
in New York have expended, since the first of 
January, about $59,000. 
It is 20 miles from Saut St. Marie to the 
entrance of Lake Huron, and two to the en¬ 
trance of Lake Superior. 
The body of Napoleon’s son is to be con¬ 
veyed to France and buried at the Hotel des 
Invalides, close to his father. 
Nearly all the wine on the Moselle has 
been purchased by the French Government to 
be sent to the army in the Crimea. 
The number of steamboat arrivals and de¬ 
partures at Burlington, Iowa, for March, com- 
me ncing on the 20th, were forty-five. 
It is stated that Bishop Wliitehouse is about 
to resign the Episcopate of Illinois, hut in¬ 
tends previously to publish a book. 
TnK St. Louis Intelligencer learns that Mr. 
Benton will leave that city for Washington in 
a few days to resume his literary labors. 
During the winter the poor of Charlestown, 
Mass., received 500 loads of chips from the 
navy yard, a gift from the elder Sam. 
Neal Dow was elected Mayor of Portland 
April 3d. The vote stood Dow 1,904, McCobh 
1,830. The lv. N. vote was throAvn for Dow. 
Work on the Washington Monument at the 
seat of government has ceased. If completed 
it will have to be done as a national enterprise. 
Telegraph Avires have been extended entire¬ 
ly across the peninsula of Hindostan, from 
Calcutta to Bombay, a distance of 1,200 miles. 
A train on the Hudson River Railroad late¬ 
ly ran from Poughkeepsie to Greenhush,, 80 
miles, in one hundred minutes, and made five 
stops. 
An attempt is making in the Legislature of 
Louisiana to restore the seat of Government 
to NeAV Orleans from Baton Rouge, the present 
capital. 
Richard Hildreth, Esq., has in press a new 
work, entitled ‘‘Japan as it Avas and is.” So 
says the Boston correspondent of the Evening 
Journal. 
Galveston, Texas, dates of the 15th ultimo 
notice immense conflagrations of the forests 
near Austin and the destruction of much 
property. 
The pressure in the money market does not 
seem to affect the ladies of New York. Their 
costume this spring is more rich and costly 
than ever. 
Wm. Holiday, a revolutionary soldier, and 
one of the guards when Major Andre was exe¬ 
cuted, died in Delaware co., on the 23d ult., 
aged 104 years. 
Council Bluffs, a few years ago, was the un¬ 
disturbed abode of hears and Avolves ; now it 
contains a population of between two and 
three thousand. 
The liquor dealers of Nerv York have de¬ 
termined to test the constitutionality of the 
ordinance prohibiting the traffic in ardent 
spirits on Sunday. 
An old and esteemed printer died in Boston 
recently—Mr. Joseph Warren, Avho had been 
a compositor in the Evening Gazette office for 
thirty-six years. 
The hotel hill of Lieut. Governor Head and 1 - 
suite, Avhile attending the industrial exhibi¬ 
tion at Montreal, cost the province the snug 
little sum of $2,350. 
The Seminole hunting-grounds among the 
Florida everglades are about being explored 
by United States troops, under command of 
Lieut. Colonel Monroe. 
The Presbyterian Church of Mihvaukee have 
extended a call to Rev. Henry Kendall, of 
East Bloomfield, N. Y., to succeed Rev. W. 
H. Spencer as their pastor. 
A suicide forfeits his life insurance. Hoop¬ 
er, the teller of the Merchants’ Bank, Boston, 
had a policy for $10,000 on his life, which was 
forfeited by liis suicide. 
Father Reni Mf.bnard, the first white man 
to explore the Lake Superior country, Avas lost 
Avhile crossing the Portage from Torch Lake, 
on the 20th of August, 1661. 
TnE Minister of Finance of the new King 
of the Sandwich Islands, is the Hon. Elisha 
H. Allen, formerly member of Congress from 
the Penobscot district, in Maine. 
Furniture is exported from this country to 
Australia, and pays a handsome profit.. A 
cabinet maker in Boston has recently received 
a large order for sofas from Melbourne. 
