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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY All) FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
IS 3PTJ75USHHB EVXKY SATURDAY, 
BY D, P. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, ». I, 
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The Portland Liquor Riot, 
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ROCHESTER, JUNE 23, 1855. 
The News from the Crimea. 
Neal Dow, the Mayor of Portland, has 
made a formal communication to the Board of 
Aldermen, -which has been endorsed by them, 
fully setting forth the events of the riot on 
the night of the second instant, and declaring 
that the course taken was the only one which 
saved the liquor from being seized and the 
City Hall from being burned by the mob.— 
The man who -was killed by the fire of the 
military was a notorious character, and an ac¬ 
tive leader of the riot. At the close of the 
communication the Mayor says : “If that in¬ 
furiated mob had accomplished their first 
object, they would have become mad on the 
liquors of the Agency, then setting fire to the 
remainder, would have destroyed the City 
Hall, for that purpose was avowed—then, 
none but God can know how far their passions 
would have driven them. I regarded it as 
the duty of the authorities to uphold the 
majesty of the law, and to suppress, at any 
hazard, the ferocious mob which sought to 
overthrow law and order, and to let loose up¬ 
on us all the horrors of anarchy and riot.” 
The war news from the Crimea by the late 
arrival, is of the most stirring character. The 
appointment of General Peussiku to the com¬ 
mand of the French army, or some other 
cause, has wakened the allies into activity, 
and several severe battles have been fought. 
During tho nights of the 22d and 23d of May, 
the French attacked and carried a Russian 
trench in front of the Itedan and the Malakoff 
towers. Both battles were desperate hand-to- 
hand encounters, with a loss of killed and 
wounded on both sides, it is said, of 8,000. 
The French commander estimates the loss of 
the enemy at 6,000 men, but a dispatch from 
Prince Gorstchakoff puts it at 2,500. Prob¬ 
ably a mean number would be nearer the 
truth than either. This trench is merely an 
outwork, erected by the Russians not long 
since, for the purpose of annoying their ene¬ 
mies, and its capture does not essentially ad¬ 
vance the scige. 
On the 25th, a division of the French army, 
36,000 strong, was thrown forward and occu¬ 
pied an advanced position on the river Teller’ 
nay. But little resistance was offered by the 
Russians, and the French held their position. 
This movement indicates active field service 
ere long ; and indeed a vague rumor was cir 
culated at Paris, as the steamer was on the 
eve of sailing, that General Pelissier had at¬ 
tacked and routed Liprandi’s army. Thi 
story, however, is discredited. 
But the most important movement has been 
at sea. Am expedition under Admiral Lyon 
and Sir George Brown, sailed up the sea of 
Azoff, destroyed the government stores at 
Kertsch, Yenikale and Arabat, burned the 
shipping, and utterly annihi'ated the Russian 
power in that sea. Four steamers, 100 mer¬ 
chant vessels, and immense depots of naval 
and military provisions, were destroyed. The 
Russians were not in force sufficient to offer 
any serious resistance, and the only surprise 
is that the allied navy has so long been an¬ 
chored in utter supineness before Sebastopol, 
while such a booty was within their grasp. 
It only proves the inefficiency with which af¬ 
fairs have heretofore been managed. 
We may look for stirring events of daily 
occurrence henceforth ; the time has at length 
arrived when inactivity will not do for either 
besiegers or besieged. Shut up in close quar¬ 
ters within camp and city, through the hot 
months of summer, the armies would present 
a vulnerable front to every sort of pestilential 
horror. The immense amount of decaying 
animal matter festering in the shallow graves, 
the loose covering of which is drifted about 
by every wind, will taint the atmosphere with 
malaria and death. Hence the movements 
must be made open and in the field ; and it 
need be no matter of surprise if a great pitch¬ 
ed battle should be fought ere long. It is 
certain that there is no retreat for the allies 
short of a victory or a conclusion of the war, 
as it is impossible for them to re-embark their 
forces in the face of a powerful Russian army. 
This is well understood by both parties. The 
tone of the English journals is much more 
confident of success than heretofore, and the 
force the allies now muster in the field, making 
all told not much short of 240,000 men, would 
seem to indicate ability to eeliieve some great 
success. We shall see. 
Unclkrical.— The congregation of Christ’s 
Church, Boston, have had serious difficulties 
among themselves ; and a few Sabbaths since 
the wardens and vestrymen locked the doors 
against the rector, the Rev. Wm. T. Smithett, 
and his supporters. But the pugilistic divine 
was not to be thus baulked, and took posses¬ 
sion of the sanctuary vi d arm is. Tho Boston 
Transcrtpt of the 14th gives the latest intelli¬ 
gence from the seat of war, as follows: “ In 
the Justices’ Court on Tuesday, the wardens 
and vestry of Christ Church obtained a ver¬ 
dict of $10 damages against Rev. Wm. T. 
Smithett, the rector, fur * kicking out and 
destroying three panels of a door’ of said 
church on the 26th of May ; $5 against Jos. 
Parks, for illegally retaining tho keys ; and 
$5 against J. H. J. Jewell, lor trespass in 
forcibly entering the church and ringing the 
bells.” 
Rambles and Records Westward— No. 2. 
[From our own Correspondent ] 
Coidwateh Mich., June, 1855. 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker : — In my last I 
promised to say something of the soil and 
price of land in this State. Journeys through 
it in different directions ought to give me 
some idea of tho first—as to the last I can 
only say wliat it now is—a near future will 
change it. 
“ Oak openings,” with a sparse growth of 
oak trees, soil more or less sandy, yet good, 
often rich, easily cultivated and kept in good 
order by good farming,— a rolling surface 
though but few hills of much magnitude, 
occupy a large space. The roads in the open¬ 
ings are never deep with mud, soon dry after 
rain, and where sand predominates it is more 
troublesome than mud. The soil of the more 
sandy openings is better than a stranger 
would suppose. “ Timber openings,” with a 
somewhat denser growth of trees, and the 
soil verging toward a heavier loam, are fre¬ 
quent. “ Timber land,” in Western phrase, 
heavy forests with soil deep and rich usually, 
but sometimes stiff clay, or stones, or lighter 
and thinner soil, and burr oak plains, and 
prairies, are alBo found. These varieties are 
inteispersed with each other—the prairies 
principally in the southern part of the State. 
Marshes and small lakes are occasionally seen. 
Wheat yields well usually, as do other kinds 
of grain ; grass heavily on the cleared timber 
lands, fairly on openings. The yield per acre 
does not differ much from the good lands in 
Central or Western New York, but the same 
amount of produce can be raised with less 
labor. 
Tuk Philadelphia Convention. —The Na¬ 
tional Know Nothing Convention, which has 
been holding its session in Philadelphia dur¬ 
ing the past week, has been the scene of great 
excitement and discord on the subject of 
slavery. The Convention adopted a series of 
resolutions, embodying the declarations of 
their creed, all of which were received with¬ 
out much opposition, except those touching 
slavery, and on these the Convention split, 
and the delegates from most of the Northern 
States seceded. One important resolution is 
that all the principles of the order shall be 
henceforward everywhere openly avowed, and 
that each member shall be at liberty to make 
known the existence of the order, and the 
fact that he himself is a member, and it re¬ 
commends that there he no concealment of 
the places of meeting of subordinate councils. 
Melancholy Bereavement. — A little boy 
two years old, the only son of Mr. Look, edi¬ 
tor of the Havana (Schuyler Co.) Journal, was 
drowned in a creek near his father’s house on 
Thursday of last week. When found he was 
clinging tightly to a floating bush some dis¬ 
tance down the stream, but life was extinct. 
Mr. Look was absent from home, which makes 
the blow doubly afflictive to the bereaved 
mother. 
Opinions on the Liquor Law. — There has 
been published a formidable array of extra¬ 
judicial opinions on the subject of the New 
York prohibition law. They amount to noth¬ 
ing more than the arguments of acute logi¬ 
cians, and some of these arguments have been 
purchased at a high price. If numbers carry 
the day, the anti-law men are victorious, as 
will be seen by the following: 
For the Lav/. —Ex-Chief Justice Savage, 
Ex-Judge Conkling, Chief Justice Taney, E. 
W. Capron, Ex-Judge Edmonds, J. B. Haskins. 
Against the Law. —N. Hill, Jr., Daniel D. 
Barnard, Daniel Lord, James W. Whiting, 
Rufus Choate, Elias Merwin, Sidney Bartlett, 
Charles G. Loring, S. B. Dillon, S. Beardsley. 
Shipment to Kansas.’ —A correspondent of 
the Milwaukee Sentinel, writing from Lawrence, 
Kansas territory, states that on the day pre¬ 
ceding the election there arrived five cases 
marked u l>ooks,” which, on beiug opened, 
contained instead of books one hundred of 
Sharp's breech loading rifles. Some excite¬ 
ment was created by this arrival, as they were 
understood to be a donation from the East to 
the military company organized at Lawrence. 
New Hampshire Senators. —A coalition cau¬ 
cus, composed of tbe Whigs and Free Soilers 
of the New Hampshire Legislature, nominated 
James Bell, Whig, and John P. Hale, Free 
Soiler, for United States Senators—the former 
taking the full and the latter the unexpired 
term. Their election is certain, as a great 
majority of both houses voted in their favor 
at the caucus. 
A Giant Publishing House.— The bill for 
the erection of the publishing house of the 
Harpers was paid a short time since, and 
amounted to $200,000. There are also thirty- 
three Adams’ presses at a cost of $2,000 each, 
besides a large amount of other machinery 
and fixtures. About six hundred hands are 
employed in the establishment. 
Catholic Bishops.— A writer in the New 
York Express says that of the Catholic Bish¬ 
ops at present exercising Episcopal jurisdic¬ 
tion in the United States 12 are Americans by 
birth, and of the remainder 11 are from 
France, 7 from Ireland, 3 from Belgium, 3 
from Germany, and 3 from Spain. There are 
also three bishoprics at present unfilled. 
Strongly Officered.— The General Assem¬ 
bly of Rhode Island have elected one hundred 
and nineteen public notaries and ninety-three 
justices of the peace for Providence county.— 
A man without a commission is a very rare bird 
in Providence. 
Landing at Detroit, one finds a rich, level 
country, once heavily timbered, stretching 
away in the distance. Westward on the Cen¬ 
tral railroad, an hour’s ride to Ypsilanti, it is 
more rolling-quite hilly along the Huron 
river toward Ann Arbor. North of Ypsilanti 
are fine rich plains, with a mellow soil easily 
cultivated. Still beyond, openings and tim¬ 
ber. South, openings and heavy timber, with 
deep soil, a heavy clay predominant some dis¬ 
tance south. There are also rich plains south 
of Ann Arbor, with gravelly soil. West, in 
Jackson county, some stony, broken land and 
marshes, but much good soil. On by Mar¬ 
shall, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, and Niles, 
openings and timber, rolling surface and 
plains—a good country, well settled ; toward 
Lake Michigan, marshes more frequent._ 
Around Kalamazoo are beautiful burr oak 
plains. Fifteen miles south of that place is 
Prairie Ronde, a circular prairie four miles or 
more in diameter ; frequent farm houses and 
fine orchards in sight over its broad surface ; 
in the centre an island of timber of some two 
hundred acres, with a village on its eastern 
side sheltered from the west winds by the pro¬ 
tecting forest. Away in the distance rises up 
the belt of forest surrounding on every side 
this beautiful prairie, broad rich fields reach¬ 
ing from that green island in the centre to the 
wall of verdure which encloses all. So lovely 
a spot the eye seldom rests on, and tho fertil¬ 
ity of its soil equals any to be found. 
Between the Central railroad and Grand 
river, some sixty miles north, the general 
character of the soil is like that already de¬ 
scribed. Large tracts occasionally are held by 
speculators, hut are being sold, as the owners 
tire of pa} ing taxes. There is a feeling 
through tbe West which justifies getting all 
possible from non-residents in that way,—not 
to be wondered at, since they add nothing to 
the improvement of the country, often retard 
it, and grow rich, if at all, by the labor of 
others. A plank road from Kalamazoo to 
Grand Rapids leads through a great deal of 
level, heavy timber land, the crops on the 
clearings showing a rich soil—from Battle 
Creek to the same place more openings, roll¬ 
ing land, sometimes rather sandy. Occasional 
marshes on both roads. The Central railroad 
passing through low land or streams, and 
skirting an undue proportion of marshes, 
travelers on it gain no just idea of the beauty 
or fertility of the country. 
In the Grand River Valley is good land, 
now rising rapidly in value as the Detroit and 
Milwaukee Railroad progresses toward its ter¬ 
minus at Grand Haven on Lake Michigan, at 
the mouth of Grand River. Openings and 
timber intermingle, more rolling and hilly 
somewhat than further south, and pine forests 
are seen. A surveyor at Grand Rapids, who 
had traveled a hundred miles northward, told 
me the country was good all the way, much 
like that near his home, and no difficulties of 
climate stand in the way of its settlement; 
but forty miles in that direction now touches 
the verge of civilization, and far up toward 
Mackinac is a region where the winters are 
long and severe, and only bears, deer, an oc¬ 
casional Indian, or a mail-carrier in the win¬ 
ter working his adventurous way through the 
wilderness to the Fort and village on Macki¬ 
nac island, can be found. 
North of Detroit is a rich country, well 
settled for some distance. In the lumbering 
region on Saginaw' river and its tributaries, 
the soil is good, and when the trade in lumber 
ceases, farming will take its place. I once 
went sixty miles north-west from Detroit by 
railroad and stage, through a region more 
thinly settled but fast filling up. Stumps, 
ruts, mud, sand, stones and wearisome hills, 
I well remember ; and beautiful openings 
through which a carriage could often pass, 
natural parks such as a nobleman would ho 
proud up, and farms with a promise of good 
crops, are not forgotten. 
Along the Southern Railroad—parallel to 
the Central from twenty to forty miles distant 
—the country is more level, the eye ranges 
further over plains and prairies. Around 
Adrian—a large, thriving place—is a good 
country and population. Northward, around 
Tecumseh and Clinton, it is especially beauti¬ 
ful. Westward, by Hillsdale, Jonesville, 
Coldwater and Sturgis, broad rich prairies 
and plains, with openings and timber inter¬ 
spersed meet the eye of the traveler, as he 
whirls along on his way, perhaps, to the more 
western West. Fruit produces excellently wher¬ 
ever cultivated; apples and peaches are fine 
in bearing seasons. 
Thus much as to variety and quality of soil 
—only a bird’s-eye view of course. As to 
price of land, it has doubled within three 
years, and is still rising. Every railroad, 
every great steamer, brings the West nearer 
the East, and equalizes prices in the two sec¬ 
tions. Within a half dozen miles of towns on 
the railroads, thirty dollars per acre is a fair 
average ; from twenty to sixty the range as 
improvements vary. A dozen or twenty miles 
back, from ten to thirty dollars for farms, 
and from four to fifteen dollars for wild lands. 
A rapid emigration is going into the Grand 
River region, many persons of moderate means 
buying wild lands near the railroad in pro¬ 
gress there; others seeking cultivated farms. 
It should bo remembered that Michigan is 
passing by the pioneor stage, and becoming a 
middle-aged country as compared with that 
further west. Its population is rapidly in¬ 
creasing, hut many come with means to buy 
improved farms, and thus shun the perils and 
toils of pioneer life. New-Yorkers form a 
majority of the population, and in many pla¬ 
ces a Western New York farmer would sup¬ 
pose he had only moved into another neigh¬ 
borhood, not into the West. New England is 
well represented, too, and now and then a 
settler from further south is found. The for¬ 
eign population is not large, and principally 
centered in a few localities. 000 c 
Coldwater is the county town of Branch 
county,—a place of 3,000 inhabitants, with its 
range of city-like stores, large Court House, 
and a pleasant country around, level and cul 
tivated. 
Wheat along the road has suffered sadly 
from the insects ; the Mediterranean variety, 
however, is not at all touched. The smaller 
fruits are injured by a frost two weeks ago. 
But I must close. It’s a good thing for 
readers of newspaper epistles to feel a little as 
Oliver Twist did in Dickens’s story, after 
eating his bowl of poor-house soup—ready to 
ask for more. G. b. s 
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J.ifei’nl'1) Reed'd. 
Elements or Cm-ncirM. By Henry Hour, of Kamos one 
of the I-ord fommUslonors of Ju-ticiary in Scotland. 
Revised edition. Edited by Rev. Jamks R. Boyd, au¬ 
thor of Elements of Rhe'orio, &*. New York: Bub 
lishel by A. 8. Bari:os & C'o. 
This well known and admirable work has 
long been in use as a text hook in the Belle 
Letter department of our Academies and Col¬ 
leges. It was first published in the year 1761, 
and the present edition has been improved by 
omissions where the illustrations in the text 
were obsolete or otherwise objectionable, and 
by the addition of copious notes and com¬ 
ments. These additions are placed in brack¬ 
ets, so as to be distinguishable from the orig 
inal text. Darrow & Brother has the work 
for sale. 
Cornell’s Primary axi> Ixteumkdutr GrocRAnnss, forming 
Baits I and II cf a systematic series of School Goog 
raphies. By S. S. Cornell. Published by I). Appletoi 
& Co., New York. 
These hooks are properly described by their 
titles, and seem to he well adapted to the ca¬ 
pacities of young students in Geography. The 
maps are little more than outline, and are not 
therefore encumbered with the confused intri¬ 
cacies of more elaborate works. The Board of 
Education of this city have adopted these 
Geographies as text books in our public 
schools. Wanzer & Beardsley', and also 
Dkyvky', have them for sale. 
Map or thk City ok Rochester. By S. Cornell. Publish¬ 
ed by D. M. Dewey, 1855. 
This is a finely drawn and colored map of 
our city, put up with a book cover, and sold 
at a low rate at Dewey’s Bookstore. 
Railroad Quarrf,l.— The directors of the 
New York Central and Erie railroads are in a 
quarrel, each charging the other with had 
faith in regard to agreements respecting fares 
and freight. As a consequence, there is a 
prospect of opposition running through the 
summer. The fare from Buffalo to Neiv York 
on certain trains is already reduced to $6,50, 
and may go lower. All this is \’ery pleasant 
for travelers, but wo doubt whether the pros¬ 
pect of reduced dividends, or none at all, will 
be equally pleasing to stockholders. 
Governor Reeder.— It is stated by the New 
York Journal of Commerce that Gov. Reeder, 
of Kansas, passed through that city on the 
15th, accompanied by his private secretary.— 
He was returning to Kansas, and expected to 
be in the territory in about ten days. The 
nerv Legislature of the territory meets at 
Pawnee on the second of July. 
Celebration. —We are requested to state 
that the completion of the new Seminary 
building, at Caryville, Gen. Co., will be cele¬ 
brated on the 27th inst. Ex-Gov. Hunt will 
address the meeting, and other distinguished 
speakers are expected to take part in the cer¬ 
emonies. The friends of Education are cor¬ 
dially invited to attend. 
Thk police force of New Orleans consists of 
250 men. 
A good average crop of wheat has been har¬ 
vested in Georgia. 
The members of the California Legislature 
get twelve dollars per day. 
The widow of Sir Humphrey Davy died in 
Paris on the 8th of May. 
Maj. Gen. Raumgardt, an aged British Offi¬ 
cer, died in Paris recently. 
The edition of Bryant’s Poems has been 
published at Dessau, in Prussia. 
The London Punch circulates about 40,000 
and the Illustrated News 140,000 a week.’ 
An Agricultural Department has been at¬ 
tached to the Tennessee State Government. 
Both Panama and Aspinwall are rapidly im¬ 
proving under the auspices of the railroad 
company. 
Rev. A. A. Miner, a Universalist clergy¬ 
man, is to deliver the Fourth of July Oration 
in Boston. 
Isaac AY niTEiiKAn, a Revolutionary soldier 
97 years old, died at Great Barrington, Maes, 
on the 5th inst. 
liiF, agent ol the Agricultural Society in 
Maine lately paid 86/5 for a fine chestnut 
horse in Vermont. 
A Washington dispatch states that Gover¬ 
nor Boeder will probably resign the Governor¬ 
ship of Kansas. 
The total mortality at New Orleans for the 
week ending on the 4th inst., was 600, inclu¬ 
ding 375 from cholera. 
Three young men were killed in one of the 
mines atPottsY'ille last week, by inhaling sul¬ 
phuretted h> drogen gas. 
By the fall of a three story building in 
Iowa City recently, a pliuter was killed, "and 
several others injured. 
Samuel Rockwell, a Revolutionary soldier 
104 years old, died at Holland Patent, Oneida 
county, on the 27th ult. 
Tub aggregate number of Ilomccopathic 
Physicians in the Union is estimated to he be¬ 
tween 1,600 to 2,000. 
The Milwaukee Wisconsin of June 9th says 
there arc stored in the warehouses of that city 
175,000 bushels of wheat. 
Tiie cost of the war to England in one year 
has been $200,000,000; to the four powers 
concerned, $600,000,000. 
A Lawyer from Philadelphia recently leap¬ 
ed from a fifth story Yvindow in Paris, and 
killed himself. He was insane. 
Tiie printing of the Protestant Bible, Yvbich 
had been commenced at Madrid, lias just been 
prohibited by the authorities. 
A PATCH of unimproved lands in Chicago, 
which was purchased three years ago for $7(K)’ 
was sold last week for $9,600. 
The subscriptions opened in Holland for the 
relief of the sufferers by the late terrible in¬ 
undations, amount to $190,000. 
The capital invested in the manufactories 
of Lowell, Mass., amounts to $14,000,000._ 
The population of the city is 55,000. 
Governor Foote once said that for every 
two days of his term as Governor of Mfisis- 
sippi, there was a murder perpetrated. 
Beverley L. Clarke is the Democratic can¬ 
didate for Govemor in Kentucky. The Know- 
Nothings nominate Chas. S. Morehead. 
A man deliberately filled his pockets with 
stones, then jumped into the river in New 
Yoik, a few days since, and was drowned. 
The Empire State Mutual Insurance Com¬ 
pany at Saratoga lias failed. Its assets are not 
expected to more than half cover its liabilities. 
The mackerel fisheries of Nerv England are 
proving very successful this season. The 
“catch” will be far greater than for many 
years. 
A loan of $250,000, by the city of Detroit, 
has just been taken by Duncan, Sherman & 
Co., at a premium of 28 cts. on the hundred 
dollars. 
A return just published shows the revenue 
of India during the year 1854 to have been 
£20,000,000, and the expenditures £21,855,319 
sterling. 
Kansas will probably prove to be a vine 
growing and wine producing country, like the 
south of France—at least so the present set¬ 
tlers report. 
Commodore Paulding has been appointed to 
the command of the Home Squadron, in place 
of Com. McAuley, appointed member of the 
Naval Retiring Board. 
Tiie price of flour has been higher within 
the past four months than during forty years 
previous. It has only been as high twice 
since the Revolution. 
American speculators are said to be travel¬ 
ing Upper Canada, bargaining for crops in the 
ground, and cattle on the farms. Reciprocity 
benefits the Canadians. 
The Mayor of Brooklyn says that over three 
hundred ill-used wives have called upon him 
since the first of January last, to complain of 
their drunken husbands. 
Herr Driesuacii, the lion tamer, lias left 
the embrace of the animals, and settled down 
quietly on a farm in Wisconsin, with a bloom¬ 
ing Buckeye girl for a wife. 
In Rutland co., Vt., at this time, 700 men 
are employed in quarrying marble. And there 
will be raised, during the present year, not 
less than 1,100,000 feet of marble. 
The Montpelier Patriot says, a lady residing 
in that place recently Yvalked seven miles to 
a fishing brook, and brought home with her 
seventeen fine trout, all of her own catching. 
Horace Vkrnet is employed on a picture 
for the Tuilleries, representing Napoleon I. 
in the midst of all tho generals who perished 
on the field of battle during his campaigns. 
Holt’s United States Hotel, on the corner 
of Pearl and Fulton streets, New York, the 
pioneer of the large hotels in the city, was 
sold recently by Cole & Chilton for $177,166. 
Tiie Cherokee Indians are said to lie in great 
distress from a scarcity of breadstuffs and oth¬ 
er necessaries of life. A recent account men¬ 
tions the death of throe of them by starvation. 
