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MOORE’S RURAL .NEW - YORKER, 
IS PUBLISHED EVERT! S.4TCBDAY, 
BY D. B. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER H. I. 
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to the BritishProvinces, our lowest club rate is $1,62>£ 
to Canada subscribers. 
ROCHESTER, DECEMBER 1,1855. 
Our Seventh Volume. 
Agents, Subscribers, and the thousands of 
Rural readers who are neither (but who will, 
we trust, soon become entitled to one or both 
classifications,) are invited to read announce¬ 
ment on next page—the Prospectus of our 
Seventh Volume. It may not be a very fin¬ 
ished production, nor does it abound in wordy 
circumlocution, but possesses the meiit of sin¬ 
cerity and earnestness. What is said of the 
Past is patent to most of our readers, and 
what is intimated in regard to the Fuiure we 
intend shall, extraordinaiies excepted, be 
more than fulfilled. Our arrangements for 
the ensuing year and volume are so far per¬ 
fected, that we can confidently promise more 
decided and valuable improvements than 
have been made on the commencement of 
either of its predecessors. We say thus much 
now, that those who are disposed to aid in 
extending the circulation and usefulness of 
the Rural New-Yorker in their respective 
localities, may be advised of our determina¬ 
tion to furnish during the year 1856 a journal 
which shall have no equal in all the essentials 
of a complete Agricultural, Literary and 
Family Newspaper. 
This is no vain assertion, for we fully be¬ 
lieve whereof we affirm. With sufficient 
means and facilities, and an experience which 
will enable us to use them to the best advan¬ 
tage, we are resolved that no honorable 
endeavor shall be wanting to render the 
forthcoming volume of this journal superior 
in value and attractiveness, and eminently 
worthy the encouragement of ifs tens O: 
thousands of earnest friends and supporters 
throughout the country. And we bespeak 
for it, in advance, the kindly offices of each 
and all who believe the paper calculated to 
promote the interests of individuals and com¬ 
munities, and hence entitled, upon its merits 
alone, to general support. 
A few words in this connection relative to 
our lowest club rate, which has been changed 
from $1,25 to &1,50. This change was made 
in consequence of the great advance in the 
price of paper and other material, and the in¬ 
creased expenses in various departments of 
our business. The truth is that we cannot 
afford such a paper as the Rural particularly 
such an one as we intend to make it next year 
— for less than $1,50 per copy. Hence, we 
have fixed this rate as the lowest — knowing 
that, in proportion to expense of conducting 
and publishing, it is far cheaper than the 
majority of papers which are sold (and too 
frequently sell their subscribers,) at the attractive 
figure of one dollar , and which &re taken by 
many simplv because that is the price, with¬ 
out considering their value, merit or mora ity. 
The Rural cromprisss at least six depart¬ 
ments, each of which requires as much labor 
and expense in conducting as is b stowed upon 
the whole of almost any one ot the so-called 
cheap papers. Indeed, many of the low-priced 
weeklies receive no editorial labor and atten¬ 
tion, being mere re-prints, and composed of 
second-hand, or eye matter, prepared for 
another class ; whereas the Rural requires 
several editors, every line of its contents beiDg 
written, condensed or selected with the ex¬ 
press view of benefiting or entertaining its 
readers. We are confident taut most persons 
must readily appreciate this difference, and 
that none who believe the “ laborer is worthy 
of his hire,” will decline taking the paper on 
account of the change. But we have no fears 
for the resu't, as the propriety and necessity 
of the change must be obvious to every intel¬ 
ligent reader. Agents and subscribers who 
have written us on the subject almost univer¬ 
sally concur in the justice of the course adopt¬ 
ed, and speak encouragingly of the future.— 
For example, a letter just received from a sub¬ 
scriber residing in Greene Co., says :—“ The 
advance in the club price of the Rural will 
make little or no difference in your subscrip¬ 
tion list in this place. Some men would 
hardly do without it at treble its present 
cost. I cultivate about one acre of land, and 
would not be without the Rural if it cost five 
dollars per year.” 
— And a letter (received since we com¬ 
menced this article,) from Onondaga Co., con¬ 
taining $15 for ten subscribers, after stating 
that some declined subscribing “ because they 
thought the paper could be obtained at the 
former price,” says I think you will get 
as many subscribers here at $1,50 per copy, as 
you would for $1,25 - so stick to your price, 
but s rve all alike.” We assure our friend, 
and all others interested, that our published 
terms will be strictly adhered to, as we stated 
two weeks ago, “even if we lose every one of 
the fifteen to twenty thousand subscribers who 
now have the paper at a lower figure.” 
Canal Navigation. 
Ice, an inch thick, formed on the Erie canal 
in the vicinity of Albany last week, and ice¬ 
breakers were employed to keep the channel 
open. At Utica snow fell to such an extent 
as to admit the running of sleighs, ihe canal 
closed up, a»d telegraph despatches were for¬ 
warded in this direction asking information 
as to the state of the canal here, and if it 
would he advisable to open, the channel, or un 
load the boats. No snow of any amount has 
fallen along the western sections, and the 
channel is thus far free from ice ; consequent¬ 
ly it is expected the ice obstructions east will 
bo removed and navigation resumed. 
It is sincerely to be hoped that boats will 
continue to run two or three weeks longer, as 
there is an immense amount of produce afloat 
yet to reach tide water. The weekly tolls are 
greatly in excess of those of last year, and the 
canal funds would be greatly increased by 
a few weeks uninterrupted navigation. The 
Canal Board have fixed upon the fifth of De¬ 
cember for drawing off the water. 
Excitement in Wistern Missouri. —Great 
excitement prevails in Platt county, Mo., on 
account of the return of Geo. S. Park to his 
late residence in Parkville. A meeting of the 
“ regulators” was held at Platte City to take 
measures to execute the threat contained in 
the resolutions passed when Park and Patter¬ 
son were expelled ; whereupon the citizens of 
Parkville resolved to stand by their towns¬ 
man. The former party threatened to burn 
the place if Park was not sent away, and the 
latter gave notice that they would defend 
him with tlje last drop of their blood, chal¬ 
lenging the regulators to set a place and a 
time to meet and fight it out in the face of 
day, and not, as they said, sneak in and fire 
their dwellings like incendiaries a nd thieves. 
Thus matters stood at the last accounts from 
the scene of disturbances. 
Amazonian.— When Her Majesty’s steam 
troopship Simoon left Spithead for Balaklava, 
with the 1st light infantry regiment of the 
British German legion, one of the privates 
was discovered to be a woman, and the wife 
of a soldier Of the regiment. On the discov¬ 
ery of her sex the fact was reported to the 
colonel, who ordered her to be landed, but 
she begged so hard, and her appeal was so 
heartily and generously supported by the 
comrades of her husband, that she has been 
allowed to accompany him in her capacity as 
a soldier. It is said the shoulders her rifle 
and performs her military evolutions admi¬ 
rably. 
Poisoned. —The Albion American states that 
a Mrs. Sweetman died at Medina on Wednes¬ 
day night of last week from the effects of 
poison taken by mist ike. The lady sent to 
Dr. Frost’s drug store to procure some mor¬ 
phine, and by mistake was served instead 
with strychnine, one of the most deadly pois¬ 
ons known. Of this she took a quantity equal 
to an ordinary dose of morphine, and from 
its effects died in a short time. 
A druggist who commits 6uch a gross and 
fatal mistake ought to be convicted of man¬ 
slaughter and made to serve out a term in 
State Prison. 
A Wheel within a Wheil.— The Hudson’s 
Biy Company seem to have the power to de¬ 
clare war and make peace upon its own ac 
count, nct.riths‘andii>g the opposite position 
of the Heme Government. The Montreal 
Gazette states that the Hudson’s Bay Compar y 
have guaranteed to the Russian authorities 
the unmolested possession of the Russian ter¬ 
ritory upon this continent while the war shall 
last, upon condition that the posts and trad¬ 
ing operations of the former in tbe neighbor¬ 
hood of that territory shall continue during 
the same period to be free from attack by the 
latter. 
A Tight Place. —A few days since an officer 
of one of the Boston banks stepped inside the 
vault, just before the time of closing, when 
another person, net knowing any one was 
within, pushed the door together, which, 
closing with a spring, made the officer a fast 
prisoner. He happening to have the key in 
his own possession, it was a difficult problem 
to solve how the door was. to be opened.— 
After some little time, however, a key was 
for unately found which proved an open sesa¬ 
me to the safe, and the suffering prisoner was 
delivered, to the great joy of himself and his 
anxious friends. 
Asleep and Awake. —The politicians of St. 
Lawrence county overlooked the fact that the 
office of Special County Judge in that countv 
was vacant, and consequently put no candi¬ 
date in nomination. A few wide-awake gen¬ 
tleman in Canton discovered the omission, 
and on election day, cait seven votes for Wm. H. 
Sawyer, and the Board of Couuty Canvassers 
declared him eltcted. Mr. Sawyer is stated 
to be an Adamantine, and the election of a 
member of his party in St. Lawrence, is con¬ 
sidered one of the wonders of the canvass. 
Successful Navigation. —The boats of the 
Michigan Central railroad have gone into win¬ 
ter quarters. The Western World, one of 
them, and as splendid a boat as was ever 
launched, has during the season run one hun¬ 
dred and twelve times between Buffalo and 
Detroit, never missing a trip, and always up 
to time. No accident has happened to the 
boat, or to any of her passengers or crew. 
JLifelqirjj IjecoH. 
National Geographical Series —No. 3. An improved 
system of Geography, by Francis Mc.Nai.it, designed 
for Schools Academies, and Seminaries. New York: 
A. S. Barnes & Co. 
This is the higher part of a series of Geographies, ed¬ 
ited by McNally and Monteith. It is an admirably ex¬ 
ecuted work, and contains several new and dist netive 
features which recommend it to the favorable notice of 
educators. Among these may be ment'oned the follow¬ 
ing :—1st, the definitions are brief and explicit. 2d, 
the exercises upon each map are systematically arrang¬ 
ed upon the opposite page including general questions 
for review. Jd, the descriptive matter follows the map 
exercises. 4th, the pronunciation of difficult naires is 
given on the page where they first occur. 5th, in the 
execution of the maps (which by the way are admira¬ 
ble) numbers are placed within the county lines, and 
corresponding numbers with the names arranged in a 
table. ThiB gives more room for namea of important 
places, &c., upon the map itself. 
This Geography, in our opinion, is one of the best re¬ 
cently issued from tbe press. 
Mathematical Pictionary and Cyclopedia ok Mathemati¬ 
cal Science. Comprising Definitions of all the terms 
employed in Mathematict—an analysis of each branch 
and of the whole as forming a siDgle science. By 
Charles Davies, I. L. P.. author of acomplete course 
of mathematics, and William G. Peck A. M . Assistant. 
Professor of Mathematics in ihe United States M-litary 
Academy. New York : A. S. Barnes & Co. 1855. 
This elaborate work cn Mathematics by one of the' 
most distinguished scholars of our time and country, is 
what it purports to be, a complete dictionary or tlio 
science. There is not a mathematical term used but 
what ; s defined and explained and copious diagrams and 
formula are irtroduced throughout the body of the 
work, expl-natory of the d< fin'tions. We have diction¬ 
aries and cyclspedias cn almost every other subject, 
but it has remained to Prcf: Davies to enter a new and 
difficult field, and to cultivate it thoroughly. Kvery 
lover of the science, evei y teacher, every engineer, and 
in fact every lover and fiiend of 1 beral learn rg ought 
to possess one of these books. It should lay upon eve¬ 
ry teacher’s table, and he upon the shelves of every 
district library. 
The Westminster Review for October is roceived from 
the publishers, Leonard, Scott & Co. Tbe articles em¬ 
braced are tbe lollowirg Theism, Marcus Tullius Cic¬ 
ero, the position of Woman in Barbarism and among 
the Ancients, Evargei'ctl Teaching, Drunkenness not 
Curable by Legislation, the London Daily Press, and 
Contempoi ary Literature. 
“ Summer vIcation Abroad/’ is the t tie of a vo'ume 
of travels by Rev. F. D. W. Ward, author of “India 
and the Hindoos,” etc., soon to be issued by E. Darrow 
& Bro , of this city. From a glance at several proof 
sheets, we think it will prove a book of high interest. 
The War Rumors. 
Matters have gently quieted down in Ecg- 
land in regard to the rumored difficulties with 
the United States. The decided opposition of 
the public sentiment to a hostile attituie bas 
undoubtedly produced an effect upon tbe Min¬ 
istry, and induced them, even if they enter¬ 
tained the idea of fomenting difficulties, to 
disclaim any hostile intentions, and to send 
to this country assurances of continued amity 
and friendship. 
On our side, however, it is not quite so fair 
weather, as it is positively asserted by letter- 
writers from Washington, that the Adminis¬ 
tration will insist upon the recall of Mr. 
Crampton, the British Minister-resident, on 
account of the part he has acted in the viola¬ 
tion of our neutrality laws ; and that, if Lis 
recall is refused by his own Government, he 
w ll he peremptorily dismissed by us. This, 
however, does not necessarily involve ill feel¬ 
ing between the Governments, as it is a right 
recognized by all nations to dismiss a Minister 
if he is not pleasing to them. It has been 
6 tated that the British Government was about 
to promote Mr. Crampton to a higher embas¬ 
sy, jn which case all difficulties would be re¬ 
moved. It is probable th'8 step will be taken 
so as to avoid both a Tec ill and a dismission ; 
the wonder seeing and the panic-stricken will 
th«n be at liberty to look up seme other fear¬ 
ful and impending peril. 
Payment. —The American Express Co. have 
paid to the New York Sub-Treasurer $50 000, 
which amount was recently stolen before or 
during transmission from Dubuque to New 
York. Two boxes, it will her collected, were 
abstracted, and similar ones substituted filled 
with lead. The payment was made under 
protest, the Express Co. insisting that the 
robbery was eff cted previous to the boxes 
coming into their possession. 
Vestiges of the Past. —The remains of a 
very large mastodon in a partial state of pie- 
servation, have been lately discovered on the 
eastern branch of Cooper River, in South Car¬ 
olina Tire deposit from which tlia hones 
were taken, consists of a concretion of loose 
sand and grave], consolidated by ferruginous 
infiltrations. With these mastodon bones were 
found fragments of the shells of fresh water 
terrapin. 
Kansas Constitutional Convention. —This 
body, previous to its adjournment, adopted a 
a resolution fixing tbe fourth of July next as 
tbe time within which it should be lawful to 
remove all slaves out of the Territory. Le- 
compton, the place designated by the late Leg¬ 
islature as tbe Capital of the Territory, was 
not recognized as such by the C nvention ; 
but they left its location an open question, to 
be settled by law hereafter. 
Specimen Numbers of the Rural will be 
cheerfully forwarded, post-pa d, to all disposed 
to use them in augmenting its circulation. 
Subscribers who wish numbers sent to distant 
friends, have only to give us the names, &c., 
and wo will see that all such have an oppor¬ 
tunity to give the paper an examination. 
A rill has been introduced into the Legis¬ 
lature of Missouri, for the relief of the Rail¬ 
roads in that State, by loaning the credit of 
the State not exceeding $15,000,000. 
News Items. 
Donald McKay, the celebrated ship builder 
of Boston, received orders by the last arrival 
for four vessels of 1,000 tons burden, on Brit¬ 
ish account. 
The number of vessels which passed through 
the canal during the past month of Novem¬ 
ber, was 512—344 being American and 168 
Canadian—a larger number of the former and 
less of the latter, than in any other month of 
the season. 
The shippers of gold from California have 
paid between three and four millions of dollars to 
the New York insurance companies in the last 
five years, while the aggregate losses of the 
insurers have not exceeded two hundred 
thousand dollars. 
A little Norwegian boy, Torgel Torgelson, 
was arrested and held to bail at Madison, 
Wisconsin, on the 21 inst., for engaging in 
the childish amusement of putting stones 
upon the railroad track to see the cars “ hop” 
when they went over them. 
TnE Green River Synod, Ky., at its recent 
session, resolved upon an additional endow¬ 
ment of $55,000 to Cumberland College.— 
This munificent donation, added to the funds 
of the institution, will place it in a prosper¬ 
ous condition, and greatly increase its useful¬ 
ness. n 
During the late canvas3 in this State, one 
of the partizan newspapers commended its 
candidates as “ tried men,” to which an op¬ 
ponent responded that one of them was a 
“ tried” man certainly, for he had been 
“tried” three times for swindling and once 
for bigamy- 
It is said that Mrs. John Tyler—who was a 
Gardiner—is heir to a just discovered fortune 
in England, by which she will get $500,010 
Think of John Tyler being accidentally Presi¬ 
dent of tho United States, accidentally marry¬ 
ing one of the handsomest women in America, 
and accidentally having a fortune of half a 
million dollars. 
An Asylum for inebriates has just been open¬ 
ed in New York. * 
The sugar crop of Louisiana is said to be far 
from satisfactory. 
It is estimated that the fences in the Unit¬ 
ed States cost $400,000,000. 
The contractors on the Dubuque Pacific 
Railroad advertise for 800 laborers. 
Improvements to the extent of $120,000 are 
beiDg made in the Philadelphia Mint. 
Tna surveying of the public lands in Wash¬ 
ington Territory is proceeding rapidly. 
The growing wheat crop is represented as 
being very luxuriant throughout the west. 
A man by the name of Golden was killed 
recently in a wrestling match at Sandusky. 
The mills of San Francisco and neighbor¬ 
hood, manufacture 1,600 bbls. of flour daily. 
The Vanderbilt Line of steamers from New 
York to Havre, is withdrawn for the winter. 
The Spanish language is spoken by seven¬ 
teen millions in America, and five million in 
Asia. 
The rate of interest charged by the Burk of 
France has not been so high since 18C6 as it 
is now. 
Major Hammond, late Collector at San Fran¬ 
cisco, is reported to be a defaulter to a largo 
amount. 
The Lutherans of North Carolina have fixed 
upon Newbuiy a3 the location for their new 
College. 
The 8th inst was the 170th anniversary of 
the landing of Wm. Penn upon the shores of 
Delaware. 
The Grand Jury of Pittsburg has “ present¬ 
ed ” female equestrianism at agricultural fairs 
as a nuisance. 
A biil has been introduced int^ the Legis¬ 
lature of Georgia, proposing to confiscate for 
the benefit of the owners of fugitive slaves, 
the debts due by the citizens of Georgia to 
the citizens cf the State to which a slave may 
have escaped, if the authorities of that State 
nfuse to deliver up a slave upon the claim of 
their rightful owner. 
“ The land of steady habits,” seems not to 
be so steady after all. John H. Green, the 
reformed gambler, writes to the N. Y. Times 
that in Connecticut “ every little village has 
its gambling club, while Hartford and New 
Haven have long been cursed with public and 
private gambling bouses.” 
A Montgomery paper learns that an applica¬ 
tion will be made to the Legislature of Ala¬ 
bama for an appropriation of $100,000, to be 
used under sufficient auspices and securities, 
for tbe promotion of an emigration of the 
proper sort of men to aid the Southern pio¬ 
neers of Kansas and Western Missouri. 
The Fredericksburg (Virginia) Herald says : 
“ The yield of tobacco in the Northern and 
Western parts of our country is unprecedented 
in point of quantity. We hear of growers who 
have been compelled to enlarge the capacity 
of their drying and curing houses on accouut 
of the large returns of their tobacco fields.” 
The Belgian Government, Tather than inter¬ 
dict the use of corn and potato starch in man¬ 
ufactures, which would be to stop labor for 
the purpose of economizing food, has offered 
a prize of 10,060 francs for the discove y of a 
non-alimentary substance to replace the use 
of starch in those industrial occupations in 
which it is now employed. 
The Chicago Citizen says there is more ras¬ 
cality perpetrated there every day than^ in 
any city of the country, not excepting New 
York. It adds :—The city is overru with an 
army of rascals who have invaded our houses, 
stolen our property, and set our laws at suc¬ 
cessful defiance. Like the murrain of beasts, 
they disease the soil, and their vile characters 
totally obscure the disc of morality in our 
midst. No species of property is safe from 
their ravenous, thieving clutches. 
Railroad Management in Germany, 
A correspondent of tbe N. Y. Sun gives an 
int resting account of the manner railroads 
are managed in Germany : 
“ Every railroad campanv is bound by law 
to have a double track on their lines, and no 
person is allowed to walk on a railroad track 
at anv time, by day or night, under the pen¬ 
alty of the law. A barrier, consisting of two 
sri-org planks, is nlaced along tbe side of the 
tracks, to keep off animals. Every fifteen or 
twenty miles along the track, there is a sta 
ti m for a guard or watchman, who liv s in a 
little hut beside the road, and whose business 
it is to be at bis post, with a red flag in his 
hand, at the apnroach of every train ; and 
befire the train is due to patrol his beat to 
see that all is safe, and to remove all obsta 
cles which are sometimes placed upon the 
track by miscreants. 
In the case of danger, tbe guard hoists on a 
telegraph, so called, which stands near each 
guard Louse, a red painted ‘ cased ’ wbi h can 
be seen by the engineer a great distance ; but 
if everything is right, the two wooden arms 
of the telegraph are stretched ia the air.— 
During the night, there is instead of the 
‘ cascel,’ a lantern with a deep red light plac d 
in the air as a warning of danger ; and a com¬ 
mon one if all is in a safe condition. At ev¬ 
ery c-ossing there is a gate, which is locked 
up as soon as a train is due, and any one, 
either on horseback or in a carriage who de- 
bir-s to cross, must wait until the train his 
passed.” 
Fatal Effect of Vaccination —About twen¬ 
ty years since ihe resident, ph siciarr of t e 
place now called Old Hay brook, vaccinated 
three children belonging to different families, 
two boys and a girl. The vaccine virus used 
proved to be a virulent poison ; its effects 
destroyed the health of all the children. The 
health of one of the boys was partially restor¬ 
ed by the immediate use of efficient remedies; 
the other was made a cripple for life, and can¬ 
not now walk without the aid of crutches. 
The effect of tho virus on the girl was uot so 
immediately perceptible, hut increased with 
her growth, aud after years of great suffering 
she died on the 26th day of October, 1855, 
aged 22. The parents of the children were 
remarkably healthy, and are now living, ex¬ 
cept the mother of one of them .—New Haven 
Courier. 
The President has determined not forward 
copies of his message for the press in advance 
of its delivery. 
The section of the Grand Trunk Railroad 
from Montreal to Brockville, was formally 
opened on the 17th. 
The Governor of Texas recommends the 
Legislature to accept tho money offered by the 
act of Congress. 
The Constitutional Convention of Kansas 
has issued a “ scrip,” payable when that Ter¬ 
ritory becomes a State. 
Blue noses : two vessels arrived at Boston 
from Novia Scotia on Monday week, with 8,- 
000 bushels of potatoes. 
Apples are so plenty on the Western Re¬ 
serve, Oaio, that they are sold on the trees 
for ten cents per bushel. 
Tiik British government is about to promote 
Mr. Crompton, its Minister at Washington, to 
a more important station. 
The Sophomore Class, at Williams College, 
have formally buried the razor, and resolved 
to let their beards grow. 
If a government officer makes a contract 
without authority, he cannot bind the gov¬ 
ernment, but is himself liable. 
Eighty two vessels which left Provincetown, 
Mass., for the Banks, have returned, bringing 
in round numbers, 2,164,000 fish. 
Of the 1,910 British wounded in the assault 
on the Redan, 806 were shot or stabbed .thro’ 
the chest or upper part of the body. 
Ix is said that the manufactories of Paris 
would at present be nearly out of work, but 
for the orders from the United States. 
A California cotemporary, speaking of a 
new paper, just started, says :—“ It only lacks 
ability and character, to be influential.” 
The bark Superior, with a cargo of salt 
fr m Cad.z, Spain, arrived at Chicago on tho 
10th, via the St. Lawrence and the lake3. 
Lewis W. Tapp an has presented to the 
Mercantile Library Association cf Boston, a 
finely executed portrait of Americus Vespucius. 
Among the freight of the steamer Alabama, 
just arrived at New York from Savannah, is a 
lot of green peas. This is rather crowding the 
season. 
In Baltimore the other day a Mr. Little un¬ 
dertook to chastise a Mr. Gunnison for im¬ 
proper attentions to his wife, but gotcowhiaed 
himself. 
On the 14th of September Alexander Von 
Humboldt celebrated his 86th birth day. His 
activity is unprecedented, and his literary 
vigor unimpaired. 
The Fredericksburg,Va., Herald says $300,- 
000 woith of guano is consumed in the dis¬ 
tricts wliich furuish wheat and corn to that 
market. Doubted. 
The value of goods sent from Switzerland 
to the* United States, from July 1st to Sept. 
30th, '55 was 3,576,424f., the greatest amount 
being of silk goods. 
Tub Burlington llaxkeye says that Chicago 
packers are traveling through the country 
west of that city, offering $6,50 for hogs de¬ 
livered this month. 
Samuel Goodwin, of Lyman, Me., 93 years 
of age, and his wife, 89, will have lived to¬ 
gether as man aud wife seventy years on tho 
1st of December next. 
A Ladies’ League has been formed in Bos¬ 
ton, the metiibersof which pledge themsclvts 
to use and wuar home fabrics in preference to 
those of Europeau manufacture. 
As two Irish girls in the Staik mills, Man¬ 
chester, N. II., were at play, Siturday week, 
one gave tho other a push which caused her 
to fall with such force that she died. 
Of twelve million passengers carried over 
the New York railroads iua year, only twelve 
persons were killed, and eleven of these were 
standing on the platform at the time. 
A person conversant with matters in Troy, 
N. Y., states through the Whig of that city, 
that there are no less than twelve hundred 
believers in spiritualism resident there. 
Thackeray received $1,000for the delivery 
of his four lectures on the Georges in New 
York, and the Mercantile Library Association, 
which engaged him, doubled their money. 
The Boston Humane Society has awarded 
sixty dollars to Philip H. Folger, of Nantuck¬ 
et, for Iris efforts in rescuing the crew of a 
vessel that was wrecked on Nantucket in '52. 
