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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER; AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
18 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, 
BY I). D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N, Y, 
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ROCHESTER, JUNE .* 0 1855. 
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Saratoga Springs, June, 1866. 
Eds. Rural : — Six years have passed, and I 
again quaff these healthful, sparkling waters. 
Alas for the mutations of time, she who was 
with me then, my companion and solace in 
life’s thorny way, and who had a reasonable 
prospect of length of days, has long since 
passed to her reward ; and the pleasant sights 
and familiar places hereabouts recall with sur¬ 
prising distinctness the irretrievable past. 
During this interval of absence, Saratoga 
has sensibly increased, as well as in hotel ac¬ 
commodations and suburban residences, as in 
those minor matters of improved walks and 
groves and ornamental arrangements, and the 
thousand and one contrivances and appliances 
for pleasure and pastime. As a whole the 
place must have nearly doubled, having now 
boarding accommodations for twelve thousand 
visitors. An immense addition has been made 
to the north of Congress Hall, to he followed 
this fall by the erection of a similar wing on 
the soutli, when it will be more than a rival 
of the far-famed United States Hotel. Those 
interested speak encouragingly of the prospect 
for the coming watering season, to them very 
naturally a matter of absorbing interest, for, 
with a full complement of guests on their 
hands at the moderate estimate of $2,50 a day 
for board and all incidentals, (the latter a 
heavy item with “ fast” young men who come 
up in the dog days,) it makes the snug little 
sum in their pockets of 30,000 per diem. Is 
it any wonder that so much is spent to make 
the place what indeed it is, an unequalled 
summer resort, where every dollar of outlay 
yields such grateful returns ? 
1 note many evidences of a change in pub¬ 
lic sentiment as to these waters—not that 
Congress Spring is regarded with less favor 
than formerly, but it is simply claimed that 
that famod fount is not the only one, but on 
the contrary that the Empire possesses all the 
virtues of its great rival, with the additional 
one of being beneficial in cases of pulmonary 
disease. Of course, the writer pretends not 
to know'. 
It is pleasing to observe through the inte¬ 
rior of the State, and in this section, the evi¬ 
dences of coming plenty for the husbandman’s 
effoits, thanks to Him who sendeth us the 
early and the later rain. Only corn is back¬ 
ward, but this cold weather cannot always 
last, and with a change of air may come a 
brighter prospect for this important cereal. 
Yours, &c., w. b. p. 
Rambles and Records Westward—No. 3. 
Novel Emigration.— The Mayor of Boston 
lias caused a number of squirrels, red and 
grey, to be imported to that city from Ver¬ 
mont, and set at liberty among the magnifi¬ 
cent trees of the Common. The sprightly 
chatterers will be jealously watched and pro¬ 
tected by the authorities and citizens. 
Boston Common is the most magnificent 
and beautiful public grounds in America, em¬ 
bracing an area of 47 acres of undulating 
ground, surrounded by an iron fence and 
overlooking the back bay. Green grass, ven¬ 
erable trees, clean swept walks, a fine foun¬ 
tain, numerous seats interspersed amid the 
shade, witli other attractions, render Boston 
Common justly the pride and glory of the 
citizens. 
A Coroner’s Verdict.— Tho Mohammedans 
are the most implicit believers in the doc¬ 
trines of predestination. What comes to pass 
could not in their opinion he avoided ; and 
hence the stoical manner in which they meet 
all changes and calamities. Blackwood’s Mag¬ 
azine says, a governor in Ceylon, thoroughly 
impregnated witli the spirit of the British 
Constitution, impanneled a jury of Mussul- 
men on a man found drowned, and they re¬ 
turned the solemn and significant verdict:— 
“ His time was come.” 
Lectures on Kansas.— The Rev. Frederic 
Starr, Jr., of this city, lectured Thursday and 
Friday evenings of last week at the Taberna¬ 
cle, New York. He was particularly severe 
upon the Kanses Immigration Aid Societies, 
as having made a great deal of noise and real¬ 
ly accomplishing very little. Mr. Starr, it 
will be recollected, was obliged to withdraw 
from Western Missouri, where he was residing, 
in consequence of his free soil sentiments. 
Casualty at Niagara. —A telegraph dis¬ 
patch, dated Saturday, the 23d, says a man 
was carried over the American Falls that 
morning, lie was in the act of landing from 
a skiff just above the rapids, but ventured too 
near, and his boat was drawn away by the 
current and capsized. His name is unknown, 
hut he is supposed to have been returning 
home from the Canada shore, where he had 
been for the purpose of obtaining vegetables. 
The ‘‘Glorious Fourth” —or, more proper¬ 
ly, the Anniversary of American Independence 
—is to be appropriately celebrated in Roches¬ 
ter, as well as numerous other places. In¬ 
deed, we are to have two celebrations in this 
city — one under the auspices of the Temper¬ 
ance Societies of the County, and the other 
under the direction of the Common Council 
and Citizens of Rochester. We trust the Na¬ 
tal Day of the Republic will he appropriately 
commemorated by Americans, and all lovers of 
Free Institutions, throughout the land. 
Fast Racing.—A match between two fast 
pacing nags, named Pocahontas and Hero, 
came off at the Union Course on Long Island 
near New York, on Thursday of last week.— 
The former distanced the latter at the first 
heat, performing the mile in 2 minutes 17i 
seconds, the shortest time for such traveling 
on record. 
The North British Review for May com 
mences a New Volume. There are seven arti¬ 
cles in this number, the last on our Military 
Disasters and their Causes, will he read with 
much interest. New York : L. Scott & Co. 
Dewey, Agent, Rochester. 
Blackwood’s Magazine for June, closing the 
volume, lias been received ub above. 
[From our own Correspondent.] 
Joliet, Ill., Juno, 1866. 
Eds. Rural: —My last was from Southern 
Michigan, just arrived at Coldwater. I 
went from that place a few miles west to Burr 
Oak, a little village on tho railroad in the 
town of the same name—so called from the 
burr oak plains which cover the larger part 
of its territory. A more beautiful farming 
country is seldom seen—rich, mellow soil, 
fine groves, good building spots, and a healthy 
air. Emigrants from New York seemed to 
constitute the larger part of its population. 
Returning to Coldwater for the Sabbath, 1 
could not seo that the numbers or aspect of 
the church-going people differed much from 
those in an Eastern town of its size. The 
sentiment on one of the great questions of 
the day may be learned somewhat from the 
fact that in the evening the Court House was 
well filled with an attentive audience to listen 
to an anti-slavery lecture, given by a traveler 
passing through the place. 
Monday afternoon took the ears fifty miles 
west to Elkhart, Indiana, just over the State 
line. Whirling along by field and forest, we 
caught a kind of hurryyraph view of Sturgis 
and White Pigeon Prairies—expanses of culti¬ 
vated farms with here and there orchards and 
homes, and a belt of timber in the distance 
beyond—rich in rural beauty. 
Elkhart is a village of a thousand people, 
its houses scattered over a sandy plain, a very 
large paper mill standing on the opposite bank 
of the St. Joseph—which passes by the town 
—oak openings stretching away in the dis¬ 
tance, and a school house, erected at a cost of 
lour thousand dollars, stands just in the verge 
of a fine grove. The air-line railroad from 
Toledo through Logansport, joins that over 
which I passed at Elkhart. It is now finished 
ten miles to Goshen, a country town, and 
progressing beyond. 
One noticeable feature of the West is the 
larger size and business of the hotels in the 
towns,as compared with those at the East. The 
constant influx of new settlers, and the loco¬ 
motive habits of the people, account for this; 
it cannot be the sales of liquor, for many of 
them do not sell liquor at all. At Elkhart is 
a large hotel with sixty rooms, well sustained, 
sometimes crowded. 
I left the 6ame night at a late hour for 
Mishawaka, twelve miles west, in a train of 
thirteen passenger cars, drawn by two engines, 
and carrying some six hundred passengers.— 
Standing near the Mishawaka depot in the 
darkness as they passed on, the strong, fierce 
glare of the locomotives’ fire, the swift rattle 
of many iron wheels, tho brilliant light flash¬ 
ing out from the windows of the long train, 
the hundreds of people seen for a moment 
seated within, the red flash of the lanterns on 
the rear car, and the silence and darkness so 
soon succeeding, made all seem like a magic 
scene called up by some mighty spell to as¬ 
tonish for a moment and then vanish. But 
the faint sound of the train rushing away in 
the distance could be heard, there stood the 
depot, a signal lantern gleamed in the dis¬ 
tance, the familiar earth was beneath my feet, 
the solid oaks around me. I was in the every 
day world, and it was only the magic of hu¬ 
man power and skill, making material things 
and natural laws its subjects, that had created 
this brilliant wonder, such as Aladdin’s lamp 
never revealed to mortal gaze. I turned away 
and walked a half mile through silent streets, 
past a great iron foundry, looming up, black 
and huge in the darkness, over a stream whose 
waters 1 could hear rushing past beneath, to 
my resting place, and was soon asleep—not to 
wake until the morning sun streamed through 
the window. 
Mishawaka is an Indian name, meaning 
scattered timber”—and it is certainly ap¬ 
propriate, for in and around the place are the 
scattered groves of the openings. It has a 
population of about a thousand, spread over 
a large extent of territory, with vacant lots, 
open spaces, groves and orchards here and 
there,—some pleasant, tasteful residences, and 
more built with little regard to taste or order. 
Its aspect is that of careless ease rather than 
neatness and energetic thrift. Its situation 
is beautiful, the St. Joseph plowing through 
and dividing the village, a covered bridge 
connecting the two sides, the banks high and 
fine building spots on the rolling swells on 
the north or the level plain on the south. A 
largo foundry does an extensive business, and 
there are mills and shops along the river. 
The St. Joseph is something larger than the 
Genesee at Rochester—perhaps three hundred 
feet wide—with a deep, strong current and 
clear water, its hanks usually high and skirt¬ 
ed by trees, and the country in its vicinity 
beautiful, witli rolling surfaceand richmellow 
soil. Before the day of railroads, steamers 
and keel-boats used to go up some distance 
beyond Mishawaka, carrying down produce 
fifty miles to Lake Michigan, there to he re- 
shipped into vessels, and reach Buffalo by the 
long circuit of a thousand miles through the 
upper lakes. But the river is so rapid, and 
its bends so frequent, that navigation was al¬ 
ways difficult, and has now almost ceased, the 
railroads carrying the produce to Toledo and 
Detroit by a shorter route. 
I spent three days at Mishawaka, at the 
Water Cure of Dr. Gully, a quiet retreat in 
the suburbs of the town on a swelling emi¬ 
nence overlooking the neighboring dwellings, 
the house embowered in roses and shrubbery 
| and shaded by trees, and a fine grove in its 
rear. Here i had the luxury of rust, the en¬ 
joyment of agreeable society, and a plunge 
bath every morning. My conclusion was, that 
every one who has a home should have a bath room. 
The name of St. Joseph carr ies one back to 
the early day when the French Jesuits came 
into this then remote wilderness to teach a 
new faith to the children of the forest. Ri¬ 
ding out a few miles one day from the Cure, 
anil looking north from a hill-top, my eye 
caught sight of the glittering dome of Notre 
Dame—a, large Catholic College a few miles 
north of South Bend, where are gathered 
many scholars from far and near. It is a re¬ 
tired sjiot, few residing in its vicinity except 
those connected with the Institution. North 
a few miles, just over the Michigan line, is a 
large Nunnery, which is soon to be moved to 
the same place with the College. At Misha¬ 
waka I saw, on a vacant lot, the scattered 
remnants of a large building which had just 
been taken down and removed to Notre Dame, 
thus uniting three establishments in one. 
Friday afternoon I left for South Bend and 
stopped until the next morning. It is a town 
of over 8,000 inhabitants, on a level plain.— 
Its people have built their dwellings on spa 
cious lots, and thus gain air, health, and ru¬ 
ral enjoyment. In 1820 the place was a fur 
station belonging to John Jacob Abtoii, the 
country around a wilderness. Saturday morn¬ 
ing at an early hour I was called to breakfast, 
and at 5 o’clock went to the depot to take the 
cars westward. While waiting I noticed a 
pile of Express packages in a corner of the 
room, and among them a curious little box of 
foreign wood, directed to Noire Dame du Lac , 
and marked as having passed through the 
Messagerie Jmpcrialc dc Baris. How simple a 
thing will sometimes call up many thoughts! 
Here in this little package, with these French 
words beautifully written on the smooth wood, 
was something that told of a far land, an Im¬ 
perial rule, of monks repeating paler nosters in 
old cathedrals, in whose vaults lay buried 
those who had repeated the same ritual cen¬ 
turies ago—of chanting nuns separate from 
the world, as others had been who sang in the 
same chapels in days long gone by. But the 
whistle of the engine sounded, we were in the 
cars, and heard men talk of trade, and ‘‘cor¬ 
ner lots,” and “ quarter sections”—the Old 
was gone, the New was around us. 
We passed over a level country—groves, 
flat prairies, and interminable marshes that 
must have been sloughs of despond to stages 
and wagons. We stopped a few minutes at 
Laporte, a fine city of some 4,600 people, with 
a most rich and lovely prairie on the south—a 
series of prairies and groves, indeed, reaching 
a longdistance—a fertile soil, celebrated espe¬ 
cially for excellent fruit. I had seen the place 
and vicinity before, with more time to spend 
than a fast car-ride gives. It began to rain 
very hard, and as we approached Chicago, the 
muddy roads over the prairie looked like black 
lines on a green carpet. The noise and con¬ 
fusion at the depot, growing out of two hun¬ 
dred people seeking their various routes from 
St. Paul to St. Louis, was enough to make one 
wish, as the witty Dr. Holmes did when he 
heard the music grinders,— 
“ Let silence Wee a poultice come, 
To heal tho wounded oar.” 
I walked through a street or two on some ne¬ 
cessary errands, hut the rain poured down, 
the city was a great hydropathic establish¬ 
ment with thousands of patients taking a 
shower hath, and the lake just at hand seem¬ 
ed only like a reservoir for them to take a 
plunge in and finish by a dry rubbing. So I 
must wait until I can see the place in drier 
humor to say anything about it. Just before 
I left, the sun came out and grass and grain 
wore a richer green as we passed by them— 
wheat, by the way, looks well here. For a 
few miles our road was over a fiat prairie, 
then over one slightly higher and more roll¬ 
ing, then through scattered timber and more 
broken surface, until we stopped at tli e depot 
here, near Fox river. 
Joliet is a thriving city of some 5,000 peo¬ 
ple, growing and busy, the river and canal 
passing through its centre and giving excel¬ 
lent water power. On the east side is a plain 
over which the buildings are extending rapid¬ 
ly. On the west a brief, level space and a 
bluff beyond, along which are pleasant homes. 
Standing on that bluff, the river and town are 
beneath, every house in plain sight, and be¬ 
yond an expanse of grove and prairie—an 
ocean of verdure with no mountain-shore to 
hem in the view. Two large and costly school 
houses tell well for educational enterprise,— 
a great Court House shows that Justice is 
cither dispensed from here, or dispensed with 
—just as the honorable Court and Dame Par¬ 
tington can agree. Beneath the soil, and 
sometimes on the surface, in and around the 
town, is a yellow limestone, valuable for 
building, &c., which is used here and export¬ 
ed in large quan ities. 
But I must close. My “ prospect”—as a 
Quaker would say—is to go through the cen¬ 
tre of the State from north to south. 
Yours, G. B. 8. 
Fire at Port IIoi*e.—A destructive fire oc¬ 
curred at Port Hope, C. W., last week Thurs¬ 
day, by which three large store houses were 
consumed. Tho Harbor Master’s hooks and 
papers were all lost; 3,000 barrels of Hour, 
150,000 to 200,000 feet of sawed lumber, be¬ 
sides other property, were destroyed. The 
total loss is estimated at £9,000. 
Tiie State Loan. —Tho proposals for the 
State Loan of $1,600,000, for (lie Canal En¬ 
largement, were opened on tho 20th. Tho 
aggregate bids reached $10,912,000, and it was 
taken at a premium of over 117 per cent. 
Gavazzi is about to return to tho United 
States. 
Tub people of Salt Lake are complaining of 
hard times. 
There is a great rush of travelers to Europe 
this season. 
A census of the State of California is to ho 
taken this year. 
Deer are said to be unusually plenty in Tex¬ 
as this season. 
The Boston Post predicts the re-election of 
Gen. Pierce in 1866. 
Lola Montes is about to leave California for 
Australia, Calcutta, &c. 
The postage on newspapers in Canada is to 
be abolished after the 1st July. 
A cent —English half-penny—daily newspa¬ 
per has commenced in Liverpool. 
Hon. John P. Hale is to deliver the oration 
on the 4th of July at Lawrence, Mass. 
No less than thirteen steamships were lying 
in the harbor of San Francisco on the 2d ult. 
1 he salary of the Governor of Rhode Island 
has been increased from $400 to $1000 a year. 
Uresii water is so scarce in Liverpool that 
the streets are now sprinkled with suit wator. 
Tiif. total value of horses in the State of Con¬ 
necticut is $2,328,263 ; of neat cattle $5,150,- 
A man named Clancy left Council Bluffs on 
tho 12th, with 12 tame elk. He is bound for 
eastern cities. 
A man recently died at Stamford, Ct., leav¬ 
ing 5 children, all of whom were born after he 
was 70 years of age. 
1 he Common Council of Boston have appro¬ 
priated :t>95,(!00 for tho erection of a building 
for a public library. 
I iik wheat harvest was ovor in Georgia on 
the 8th, and the crop was a good one. The 
corn had just began to tassel. 
Gen. Scott has written a letter to the Cleve¬ 
land Grays, declining to attend the encamp¬ 
ment in that city in July next. 
The Beaver (Pa.) Star says : ‘‘John Shay is 
now undergoing ‘ solitary confinement’ in our 
jail, being the only prisoner.” 
Thfue were ripe figs for sale in tho Charles¬ 
ton market last week, and the Mercury says 
the crop promises to be abundant. 
In 1852, there were but 1,200 miles of tele¬ 
graph in France ; at the end of this year, 8,000 
miles will be in good working order. 
Cardinal Wiseman is on the point of leaving 
England for good. He goes to Rome to be¬ 
come a member of the Sacred College. 
Iiik Palace of Industry at Paris is occasion¬ 
ally open to the public gratuitously. On such 
days the number of visitors exceed 80,000. 
A canal boat, having on board two men and 
a hoy, went over the Lehigh dam (Pa ) recent¬ 
ly, and the boat sinking, all were drowned. 
At the Paris Exhibition there are no Icps 
(ban 388 exhibitors of musical instruments. 
Of these, four only are from the United States. 
I he American residents in many places in 
Canada West intend to celebrate the ensuring 
4th of July in a spirited and becoming man¬ 
ner. 
Tub First Methodist Episcopal Church in 
Germany, which is said to be a really beauti¬ 
ful building, has been completed, dedicated, 
and occupied. 
'Flie official returns of the census of Kansas 
shows males 6,088 ; females 3,273 ; voters 2,- 
877 ; natives 7,953; foreigners 408; slaves, 
192; total 8,553. 
The brightest of the planets, is now an 
evening star in one of its brightest phases, 
and may he distinctly seen in the day time 
with the naked eye. 
The wife of a rich German in Chicago ran off 
with another man, during the absence of her 
husband a few days ago, taking $4,000 of her 
husband’s money. 
The Czar has caused the pamphlet entitled 
“The Last Hours and Dying Words of the Em¬ 
peror Nicholas, to he translated into several 
Oriental languages. 
A Montreal paper says that five hundred 
German recruits, for the Crimea, had arrived 
from the United States, and were put under 
drill at La Prairie. 
Four hoys of tender years but of hardened 
hearts, have been arrested in Fairfield, Ct., for 
placing obstructions on tho New York and 
New Haven Railroad. 
A CONVICT by the name of Lewis or Luce es¬ 
caped from Sing Sing Prison on the night of 
the I4th, taking with him three gold watches 
belonging to officers. 
Three hundred persons are kept engaged in 
decorating the famous Greenwood Cemetery, 
New York, where already repose the remains 
of fifty thousand dead. 
The number of beet root sugar manufactories 
at work in France, at tho end of April last, 
was 208, being 95 less than at the correspond¬ 
ing period of last year. 
There were 95,336 persons married in Eng¬ 
land in the last quarter of 1854. This is above 
the usual average, although less than tho cor¬ 
responding quarter of 1853. 
All the camp furniture of Louis Napoleon, 
which had been sent to Constantinople when 
his visit to tho Crimea had been determined 
on, has been sent back to France. 
Tiif. snow on the “Great Ridge” of the 
White Mountains was said to have been, on tho 
1st inst., thirty feet deep in some places, and 
in Tuckerman’s ravine filty feet deep. 
The U. S. Grand Jury in New York are in- 
[uii ing in relation to the fitting out of vessels 
for the slavo trade, a business which has long 
been successfully carried on at that port. 
The London Times of the 31st ult., contains 
the report of a meeting, held at Exeter Hall, 
by the members of the United Kingdom Al¬ 
liance, in favor of a prohibitory liquor law. 
A contract has been entered into between 
the Ottoman Government and M. Lionel Os- 
horn, for the establishment of a submarine I 5 
telegraph to unite the Dardanelles to Egypt. # 
'Fnn pay of the troops ordered out by tho 
Governor, to quell tho “ insurrection” in Port¬ 
land, amounts to $1,911,25. Tin dr rations 
and other expenses swell tho amount to 3,000. 
