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m s AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW - YORKER, 
13 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, 
BY D. B. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER R. Y. 
TERMS, IE ADVANCE : 
SuB 90 srmo» — $2 a year —$1 for six mootois. To 
Clubs and Agents as follows Three Copies one year, 
for $5 ; Six Copies (and one to Agent or getter up of 
Club.) for $10, Ten Copies (and one to Agent,) for $15, 
and any additional number at tbe same rate. As w® are 
obliged to pre-pay the American Postage on papers sent 
to the British Provinces, our lowest club rate is 
to Canada subscribers. 
The postage on the Bueai is but cents per quar 
ter, payable in advance, to any part of the State (except 
Monroe County, where it goes free,)— and 6% cents to 
any other section of the United States. 
communications, and business letters, shorn! 
be addressed to B. D. T. Moons, Rochester, K. Y. 
SPECIAL NOTICES, 
jfj®- Local Agents do not require any certificate, but 
can form clubs upon their own responsibility. Those 
who wish authority to act as Traveling Agents, must 
furnish the best of recommendations as to integrity ^re¬ 
sponsibility, &c., or good references in this city. Refer¬ 
ences to persons at a distance are useless. 
4®* Thu lowest club price oi the Rural New-Yokeer 
is $1,50 per yearly copy, and any one remitting at a e»s 
rate will be credited in proportion to the money re¬ 
ceived. Those who send less than the price, with re¬ 
quest to send the paper a specified time or return the 
money, cannot be accommodated. 
JK 5 - In remitting $15, or more, please send draft, on 
New York, Albany, Buffalo or Rochester, (less cost of 
exchange,) or check or certificate of deposit on any Bank 
in either of said cities, -payable to our order. 
Those who are forming large clubs, can send on 
he names and money of such persons as do not wish to 
wait, and complete their lists afterwards. 
jfST agents will please make their first remittance a« 
early as convenient. This will greatly facilitate the 
entry of names on our hooks. 
jsg-For $4 we will send one copy of the Rural, and 
either Putnam’s, Harper’s, the Knickerbocker, Lady’s 
Book or Graham’s Magazine for one year. 
A aunts.— Any person so disposed can act as local 
agent for the Rural, and all who remit according to 
terms will be entitled to premiums, etc. 
ROCHESTER, DECEMBER 22,1855. 
To All our Readers. 
As this is next to the last number of our 
present volume, we would remind all whose 
subscriptions expire with the year that a 
prompt renewal is necessary to secure the 
regular continuance of the Rural. Agents 
and Subscribers will note that our terms are 
strictly in advance—that we do net, in any 
instance, send the paper where it may not he 
wanted, or after the term paid for has ex¬ 
pired. ^ Those who have not already renewed 
.—(taking it for granted that all will invite 
the Rural to visit them another year, espe¬ 
cially as it is to he better dressed, and we trust 
more instructive and entertaining than ever 
before,)—will please hand their subscriptions 
to the nearest Post-Master or other agent, or 
oblige us as well as their friends, by forming 
clubs and forwarding to our address. Think 
of this, kind friends, remembering that now is 
the best time to act in the premises. 
Thanks to its Agents and Friends all over 
the country, the prospect is most promising for 
an increase of from ten to twenty thousand 
subscribers during the ensuirg thiee months. 
Hence, we shall commence the New Year 
and Volume under the most favorable aus¬ 
pices, and with a renewed determination to 
excel in efforts to furnish a superior journal 
and promote the objects which we have ever 
had at heart in its publication — real ‘ ‘ Pro¬ 
gress and Improvement. ’ ’ 
The Congressional Farce. 
The Congressional farce continues to be 
played, act 1st, scene 1st, to wit., balloting 
for Speaker without any result. Sixty-four 
ballotings were had up to Monday night, at 
which Banks (Republican K. N.) received 105, 
Richardson (Administration) 73, Fuller (K. 
N ) 38, scattering 7 ; necessary to a choice, 
112. The highest number of votes yet cast 
for any candidate is 107 for Banks, (a typo¬ 
graphical error last week made it 187,) at 
which time 114 would have made a choice.— 
Each party as yet stand uncompromisingly on 
its own candidate, and will probably do so 
until they run out of funds, and stand in need 
of pay and mileage. That is almost as potent 
in a legislative body, as hunger is in a jury- 
room, for it has passed into a proverb that — 
“ Rogues must hang that Jurymen may dine.” 
The Senate, in the meantime, is organized 
and ready for business, the Message is pre¬ 
pared, the Secretaries’ reports all ready, and 
hungry, greedy lobby men and hangers on 
are lingering along with hope deferred. All 
we have to say, gentlemen, is take your time! 
the ‘ ‘ kedentry ’ ’ can wait. 
Official State Canvass. —The official State 
canvass gives a plurality to Joel T. Headley, 
for Secretary of State, of 11,859; Lorenzo 
Burrows, for Comptroller, 9,519 ; Stephen B. 
Cushing, for Attorney General, 12,358 ; Silas 
Seymour, for State Engineer, 6,892; Samuel 
S. Whallen, for Canal Commissioner, 11,543; 
Stephen Clark, for State Treasurer, 12,082 ; 
William A. Russell, for Inspector of State 
Prisons, 11,882 ; Samuel L. Selden, for Judge 
of Appeals, (long term,) 17,279 ; and George 
F. Comstock, for short term, 8,250. 
All the above were the candidates on the 
Know Nothing ticket except Judge Selden, 
who received the nomination of the Hards, 
Softs and Anti-Maine Law men. 
The Quin-tessenee of Frigidity. 
The return of Dr. Kane’s expedition has 
developed 'no little information relative to the 
frigidity of the Polar Regions, and the cool¬ 
ness of the Esquimaux,—yet editors and pub¬ 
lishers not unfrequently experience, at home, 
instances of congealed sang froid which would 
excel the wonders related by Arctic adventur¬ 
ers. An interesting case in point. 
Early in this year the Mine is Central Rail¬ 
road Co. requested us to insert in the Rural, 
for several months, an advertisement of Farm 
Lands. We responded, substantially, that we 
could not consistently give any advertisement 
(except very brief) more than four consecu¬ 
tive insertions—explaining that, as we devo¬ 
ted only limited space to advertisements, this 
rule was adopted in order to accommodate as 
many applicants as possible, and at the same 
time render the advertising department more 
interesting to readers. The gentlemanly 
Secretary of the Company, Mr. Du Put, then 
ordered the publication for a month-—this was 
complied with, and our draft for the amount, 
at published rates, duly honored. 
In August last, a New York advertising 
agent (whose cognomen might he Jacobus R. 
Quintillius,) requested us to publish a long an¬ 
nouncement of said Ill. C. R. R. Co. for the 
term of six monihs, with notice that we must 
allow him the modest sum of twenty-jive per 
cent, commission ! Inasmuch as we were not in 
the habit of doing that kind of business—and 
had declined similar benevolent offers from 
the same source—we had the audacity to treat 
Mr. Quin —or rather Qwad-ruple—with silence. 
We, however, informed the Company that we 
had received such an order, with which we 
should not comply—first, because we could 
not consistently give the notice for the length 
of time specified; and, second, for the reason 
that, having a surplus of advertising, at full 
prices, we had no occasion to allow any com¬ 
mission whatever. We added that we would 
advertise for the Co.,—that we should prefer 
to publish only one month,—hut that we 
would give the advertisement twelve publica- 
tionsjn the course of four to six months. It 
was distinctly stated, however, that no de¬ 
duction would he made from cur published 
rates. The Co. then ordered us to insert as 
we proposed, and, as in the former instance, 
promptly honored onr draft for the amount. 
This we considered a fair and honorable 
transaction, hut Mr. Quin —beg pardon, (Quad¬ 
ruple—thought otherwise ; hence the sequd 
hereunto subjoined. 
Soon after the last-named bill was paid, wo 
were honored with a letter from Mr. Quin- 
tillian, (whom we had not noticed in the 
transaction,) claiming the modest commission 
herein-Lefore-ir entioned— averring that he 
had never been treated so badly by any pub¬ 
lisher—that lawyers (Heaven restore the con¬ 
sciences of all such !) informed him the com¬ 
mission could be collected, &c., hut that he 
(magnanimous and confiding mortal,) would 
leave the matter to our sense of honor ! This 
epistle received from us the same attention a3 
its predecessor—silent contempt. As 'to the 
object and honesty of its author, “ comment 
is unnecessary,” yet we cannot suppress the 
opinion that he is the (Qwin-tessence of all 
frigidity, and capable of congealing an ice¬ 
berg. Ice-cream manufacturers will please 
govern themselves accordingly—while Dr. 
Kane and party may cease relating what are, 
in comparison to those of said Q., decidedly 
balmy adventures! 
Postscript !— Run Ahead! —The above ar¬ 
ticle was intended for last week’s Rural. — 
Since then, we have been more highly honor¬ 
ed than ever before—had served upon us by 
Mr. Deputy-Sheriff Pardee, a hit of foolscap 
headed in this awful manner, to wit,— “ Su¬ 
preme Court-City and County of New York. 
James R. Quin against D. D. T. Moore. Sum¬ 
mons for money demand on contract!” This 
portentous document (the sight and perusal 
whereof did not entirely overpower this de¬ 
ponent—beg pardon, defendant ,) proceeds, in 
proper legal phraseology, to aver that unless 
the complaint therein set forth and elongated 
is not answered within twenty days, the 
plaintiff will take judgment for the enormous 
sum of one hundred dollars ! And the said 
awful summons is rendered the more meat axy 
by the signature of the plaintiff s attorney, 
which we at first read F. C. Caststeel —rather 
more savage than the cognomen of either 
member of the celebrated law firm of Quirk, 
Gammon & Snail 
— Now, it is highly probable that said Quin 
will get more than he has bargained for 
—and that, before we “drop the subject,” 
community will be somewhat enlightened in 
regard to the swindling operations of certain 
would-be advertising agents. Meantime, like 
Mr. Micawber, we patiently “ wait for some¬ 
thing to turn up,” and shall advise our read¬ 
ers of anything which may transpire affecting 
the World’s progress and welfare. 
Sad ^Accident. —When the locomotive, which 
drew the Niagara Falls night train to this 
city reached the engine house, a man’s cap, 
blood and parts of a human body were found 
lodged upon the pilot. It was subsequently 
ascertained that an Irishman had been run 
over and cut to pieces two miles east of Al¬ 
bion. 
New York has 40,000 square miles, with a 
population of 67 to the square mile ; Massa¬ 
chusetts 137, Prussia 147, Austria, including 
Lombardy and Vienna, 140, Switzerland 152i 
inhabitants to the square mile. 
Duly Appreciated. 
Our grateful acknowledgments are due and 
tendered for the highly complimentary noth 
ees of the New-Yorker which have recently 
appeared in many of our exchanges—in elud¬ 
ing Agricultural, Religious, Literary and Po¬ 
litical journals of prominence and influence. 
We assure out friends that their good wishes 
are appreciate^!, and that it will he our aim 
in the future, as in the past, to so conduct the 
Rural New-Yorker that it shall merit the 
good will of all honorable contemporaries, 
and the cordial support of the moral, right- 
thinking and progressive members of c«mmu- 
nity. 
— As a sample #f many notices which hare 
lately met our eye, wo copy the following 
from the pen of Rov. G. W. Harris, of the 
Michigan Christian Herald—era. able and always 
well conducted journal. The allusion to the 
advertising department of the Rural will 
perhaps be appreciated by subscribers when 
we add that we are almost daily importuned, 
by. advertising agents and others, to insert 
quack aud deceptive advertisements,— and 
that they have in some instances offered any 
price we might mine for their publication: 
Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. —We visited this “ insti¬ 
tution” a few days ago, and found it flourishing beyond 
ail precedent. No paper out of New York city lias half 
tbe circulation. Some of the metropolitan journals 
have wondered what business a “country paper” has 
with so many subscribers ; and others have wondered 
if such marvelous.success wouldn’t tempt friend Moouk 
to become “ haughty, and putonairs.” The simple ex¬ 
planation of this success is, it has been achieved be¬ 
cause it has been deserved. The Rural is tbe best re¬ 
alization of the Agricultural, Literary and Family news¬ 
paper combined, that we have. Its editorial and other 
original matter Is well written, aud relates to questions 
of immediate interest to the readers. The selections are 
made with great care, and in excellent taste; and noth¬ 
ing has ever found its way. even into its advertising 
columns, which a stern fidelity to the highest interests 
of the publio would have excluded. And when we add, 
that it is printed in a style which mak03 the reading a 
luxury to the eye, we think wo have fairly accounted 
for the prosperity cf the concern, from natural and nec¬ 
essary causes. Beyond this we are not bound to go. 
Surrendering a Trust. —The president and 
fellows of Harvard College having petitioned 
the Supreme Court as a Court of Chancery, 
for power to transfer all funds in their hands 
for the support of the divinity school at Cam¬ 
bridge into the hands of a new and distinct 
hoard, independent of the College, the Court, 
after a full hearing of the caBe, denied the 
petition, on the ground of a want of power, 
and also on the ground that it would be an 
infringement of the condition on which such 
funds were donated or bequeathed. 
Harvard College is borne down with a load 
of trusts and charities, many of which are 
laborious and burdensome, and their objects 
remotely connected with the cause of educa¬ 
tion. It is, to say the least of it, an over¬ 
laden and complicated machine, and ought to 
be simplified. 
Railroad Freights.— The freight tariff on 
the railroads east from Chicago, both through 
Canada and by the South shore to Buffalo aud 
the Suspension Bridge, has been fixed as fol¬ 
lows Flour $1 per barrel; grain in bags, 
pork, beef, lard, tallow, whiskey and alcohol 
in barrels or casks, cotton in bales, at 50 cts. 
per 100 lbs ; bides, salt, iron bar, pig, boiler 
plates, spikes, rivets, nuts, railroad iron, 
chains, wheels and axes, (hot fitted,) tobacco 
in hhds, at 61 cts. per 100 lbs. ; grass seed at 
80 cts. per 100 lbs.; hides, dry, at 90 cts. per 
100 lbs. ; pork and beef, fresh, at $1 per 100 
pounds. 
Granted a New Trial. —The Supreme Court, 
at the General Term held last week in this 
city, grantod a new trial to Martin Eastwood, 
who, it will b8 recollected, was last summer, 
convicted of the murder of Edward Bribrton. 
The opinion of the Judges has not been pub¬ 
lished, but one of the principal grounds for 
the new trial ie believed to he the fact that a 
portion of the Jury, during the trial, went of 
their own notion to the ground where the tra¬ 
gedy was enacted, in order to test for them¬ 
selves the accuracy of the testimony. 
Arrested on Suspicion. —The Boston police 
arrested in Lawrence, Mass., on Saturday last, 
Oliver King and W. C. Ayres, charged with 
robbing the American Express Company at 
the West-, of $50,000 in gold, the particulars 
of which were published some weeks since.— 
W. C. White, the Express Messenger who had 
the charge of the money between Chicago and 
Detroit, where it was stolen, is also under ar¬ 
rest, and a fourth person is also in custody. 
What the nature of the evidence against 
them is, has not yet transpired. 
More Steamers Burned. —Three more steam¬ 
ers, the Parthenia, Prairie City and Twin 
City, were destroyed by fire on Friday week 
at the wharf in St. Louis. The fire oc¬ 
curred in the hold of the first named boat, and 
spread thence to the others. The fact that 
powder wa3 on board prevented the near ap¬ 
proach of the firemen and others who might 
have prevented the extent of the conflagra¬ 
tion. 
Buffalonianb Ahead. — The Postmaster 
General has awarded the contrats for furnish¬ 
ing wrapping paper and twine for the New 
York and Cincinnati districts, twenty States, 
to TnoMAS & Lathrops, of Buffalo, they being 
the lowest bidders. The above named gen¬ 
tleman are the enterprising proprietors of the 
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. 
Government Selling Off. —The ropewalk, 
tarring house, blacksmith shop, officers’ quar¬ 
ters, and a large space of open ground, form¬ 
ing a part of the famous navy yard at Mem¬ 
phis, Tenn., have recently been sold at auc¬ 
tion for one hundred thousand dollars. 
News Items. 
James Turin has been arrested at Washing¬ 
ton for robbing the Secretary of the Russian 
Legation of ducats valued at one thousand 
dollars. He was the Secretary’s servant, and 
exposed himself by offering the coin for sale. 
There are in the present Congress three 
Smiths, the same number of Wrights, of 
Campbells, of Bells, of Jones, of Washburns, 
and of Millers, and fourteen other names of 
which there are two members bearing each 
the same. 
In Washington city the other morning a 
lady accidentally dropped a gold dollar into a 
basket in which were live chickens for sale.— 
One of the chickens instantly caught up the 
glittering bait and swallowed it. The lady 
did the next best thing by buying the fowl, 
and probably before dinner she had her dollar 
again. 
A man was placed, a short time since, in a 
lunatic asylum at Berlin, to be treated for 
mental alienation, brought on by the use of 
hair dye. On examining the dye which he 
had employed, it was ascertained to be com¬ 
posed of lead, mercury and lunar caustic. It 
produced violent pains in the head, and at 
length led to madness. 
Forty thousand woodcocks, thirty-six thou¬ 
sand partridges, ten thousand rabbits, twenty 
thousand canvass back ducks, five thousand 
brant, two thousand mallards, thirty thousand 
black ducks, five thousand wild geese, ten 
thousand dozen plover and snipes, and twenty- 
five thousand dozen pigeons are sold in the 
New York markets. 
Tm Grand Rapids Herald says that the uni¬ 
form of Gen. Athan Allen is now in the pos¬ 
session of Mrs. Allen, widow of the son of 
Gen. Ethan Allen, who resides on Grand Riv¬ 
er, Ottowa county. The old lady has long 
been an inhabitant of Michigan, and must he 
nearly or quite 70 years of age. Her hus¬ 
band, Ethan Allen, Jr., died when only 28 
years of age. 
Pay of a British Veteran. —Great Britain 
is specially liberal in pay of high rank offi¬ 
cials, both in church and state, and corres- 
pondiHgly mean and penurious in her dealings 
with those of low degree, as is £hown by the 
following item from the Montreal Gazette: 
“ We have lying before us a Crimean medal 
with three clasps, on which are borne the 
words ‘Alma, Balaclava, Inkermann,' and 
on the rim is ‘ Private John Doloreux, 20th 
Regt.’ With it is his certificate of discharge 
from the service with a character marked 
‘ very good,’ and he is certified to be in pos¬ 
session of a good conduct badge. He entered 
the army at 14 years and 10 months of age, 
and served 10 years and 95 days. After serv¬ 
ing so far through the Crimean campaign, he 
was discharged blind. The sight of one eye 
was destroyed by an accident, and the other 
became temporarily blind through the col se¬ 
quent inflammation. He has, however, 6ince 
recovered the sight of the eye not directly in¬ 
jured. While the regiment was in Canada he 
married here, and has now returned to his 
family, a Chelsea out-pensioner. What think 
you, good reader, is the magnificent reward 
this poor fellow gets for his services? A 
medal such as we have described, on which he 
had te pay Is. 8d. postage when it was trans¬ 
mitted to him, and a pension of seven pence a 
day for two years and a half.” 
The Grave of Madison —A correspondent 
of the Fredericksburgh News, in Culpepper 
county, Va., gives a melancholy picture of 
the last resting place of the illustrious Madi¬ 
son. He lies with his family in a graveyard 
a short distance from his house, upon his es¬ 
tate of Montpelier ; the family cemetery is 
Burrounded by a brick wall, and the gate iB 
entirely down. The correspondent says that 
not a stone marks the great man’s resting 
place ; dark, running green box wraps it with 
verdure, and the tracery of branches from an 
old chestnut tree, relieving itself against the 
warm azure sky, nod and wave over the dark 
mountain. ’Tis a solemn, calm and peaceful 
spot. 
The correspondent addsthat Mrs.Madison's 
remains are in the vault of the Congressional 
burial ground in Washington ; her direction 
was to be interred by tbe side of her husband, 
but her son has never fulfilled her request. 
Deseret Items. —The Deseret News estimates 
the emigration to Utah for the season, to 
September 12, at about 3,000. Governor 
Young gave a complimentary dinner to dele¬ 
gate Bernhisel before his departure for Con¬ 
gress, on which oocasion the delegate gave 
the assembly a very instructive aud amusing 
sketch of life in Washington. Delegations of 
the Utah and Snake Indians met at Salt Lake 
City, and made a league of peace, which they 
ratified by embracing and kissing each other, 
and smoking the pipe of peace. The plague 
of grasshoppers was destroying the late crops 
in many places. The Deseret News thus 
graphically announces their appearance :— 
‘‘On Thursday last a few thousand million 
grasshoppers descended in the settlements in 
the north of Utah county, destroying every¬ 
thing in their way ; the last prospect for 
bread in that region is therefore suddenly 
snapped asunder. 
Onondaga Salt.— The Syracuse Journal says 
—Operations in the Onondaga Salt Springs 
Reservation are closed for the season, the 
water having been shut off, in pursuance of 
the State law, on the 1st inst. The amount 
of Salt manufactured during the year will 
reach 6,076,614 bushels, being an increase of 
269,167 bushels over the amount manufactur¬ 
ed last year. This is very nearly the amount 
by which each annual product, since 1860, has 
surpassed the precidicg one. Thisis the first 
year that the amount has ever reached 6,000,- 
©00 bushels. This increase would have been 
even greater had the season opened more fa¬ 
vorably, and had the supply of brine been 
more ample at the outset. 
A Brave Old Lady.— A Mr. Loyd, living at 
the San Jose Mission, recently sent a sura of 
money to his mother, in the Eastern States, 
an old lady eighty years of age, with the re¬ 
mark that she might use it for her own pri¬ 
vate puree or for her passage to California.— 
Nothing daunted by the formidable journey, 
the brave old heart took passage for Califor¬ 
nia, on the steamer, entirely unattended, and 
arrived safely at her destination. 
ifetog Clippings. 
Tiiere is a “ ball and chain gang ” in Du¬ 
buque. 
The National debt of Russia amounts to 
$625,000,000. 
There have been 1,343 British ships built 
during the present year. 
The police department of New York city 
costs $833,550 per annum. 
An electric telegraph is to be constructed 
from Cairo to Suez, in Egypt. 
There is a man in the Ohio penitentiary 
who has been there thirty years. 
In California pea nuts and basket willow 
are cultivated in the swamp lands. 
Gold to the value of $336,000,000 has been 
found in California, since the year 1849. 
The Austrian Vice Consul has contracted at 
Ne w York for two new engines for Austria. 
Longfellow’s Hiawatha has been printed 
four weeks, and 10,000 copies have beenscld. 
The meeting of the Canadian Parliament 
has been further postponed to the 27th »f 
January. 
A new counterfeit hank note is described as 
having for its vignette a ‘‘female with a rake 
in her lap.” 
There is said to be live times as much wheat 
sown in Missouri this year as there has ever 
before been. 
No election of Senator will take place in 
Missouri this session. Benton and Atchison 
men cannot fuse. 
Mr. Giddings, of Ohio, is the oldest member 
of the House of Representatives. He entered 
Congress in 1836. 
Every American who gets a good contract 
from Russia, has a very exalted opinion of the 
virtues of the Czar. 
Another large locomotive establishment has 
been commenced at l’aterson, N. J., by Messrs. 
Simolton & Hewson. 
The Government have contracted with the 
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, to convey 
800 troops to Oregon. 
Mr. Beardsley is erecting a paper mill at 
Little Falls, N. Y., for the purpose of manu¬ 
facturing basswood paper. 
It is said that the commerce between the 
United States and Africa increases at the rat® 
of about 60 per cent, annually. 
‘ ‘ Border Ruffian ’ ’ is the name of a paper 
about to be published in the flourishing town 
of Richfield, Clay Co., Missouri. 
The St. Louis Insurance Company has de¬ 
clared dividends to the amount of twenty-five 
per cent. ^ during the past year. 
Cart. Ericsson lost a portion of two of his 
fingers on Thursday week, during a trial of a 
caloric engine on a new principle. 
N. M. Woodruff, Esq., of Watertown, pro¬ 
prietor of the Woodruff House, has been taken 
to the Lunatic Asylum at Utica. 
The total number of hogs slaughtered in 
and around Louisville, up to the 1st of Dec., 
is 40,066, against 140,000 last year. 
The new steam frigate Merrimac, commo¬ 
dore Gregory, will leave Boston in a few days 
on a trial trip, to be absent six months. 
It is'estimated that 300,000 bottles of the 
Catawba wine will be put up this year—200,- 
000 of which will be made in Cincinnati. 
The Kentucky American says that the crop 
of “whiskey” will he greater in that State 
this season than it has been for several years. 
The connection between Lake Michigan and 
the Mississippi river by the Fox aud Wiscon¬ 
sin rivt rs improvement, has been completed. 
Tiie P. M. General has appointed Mrs. E. 
Stickley the successor in the Post Office of her 
late husband, at Stickleysville, Lee Co., Va. 
It is estimated that France will require by 
loan, during the first three months of next 
year, 1,500,000,000 f., and England £20,000,- 
000. 
TnE total population of Massachusetts, by 
the census of this year, is 1,133,259, which is 
a gain of 138,745 from 1850, or about 14 per 
cent. 
The trial of Judge Kane for false imprison¬ 
ment, will probably take place in February 
next. Passmore Williamson claims $50,000 
damages. 
Tnn Supreme Court of Massachusetts has 
decided that to be drunk three times in six 
months, does not constitute an “ habitual 
drunkard.” 
Hoe &Co., the great press manufacturers of 
New York, have an evening school attached 
to their establishment, for the boys in their 
employment. 
TnE London Times says that among the 
non-commissioned officers and privates of the 
British army, sobriety is the exoeption, and 
not the rule. 
A log eighteen inches long and ten inches 
through, was recently foundat the west in the 
open prairie, the log heffig petrified into solid 
and pure flint. 
John Dyon, of Seneca Co., went to the edge 
of Pennsylvania last week on a hunting ex¬ 
cursion. He brought home a black bear 
weighing 350 pounds. 
The P. M. General ha3 awarded the contract 
for carrying the mail by steamers between 
Cairo and New Orleans, to Gaines, Eastman 
& Woodburn, at $329,000. 
Erastus Bostwick, of Hinesburgh, has voted 
at every election for sixty-three years, back, 
without missing a single time. He is now 
nearly ninety-three years old. 
Tub receipts of the American Bible Society 
for tbe month of October last, amounted to 
$30,863, of which the sum of $420 was col¬ 
lected in the Sandwich Islands. 
Tiik coal transported on the Philadelphia 
and Reading Railroad the present year, up to 
Dec. 1, was 2,205,281 tuns, against 1,987,854 
tuns for the same period last year. 
Deacon E. T. Hayden, of Syracuse, N. Y., 
has been driven away from Gadsden Co., Fla , 
because in conversation he avowed himself 
opposed to slavery and the fugitive Blave law. 
Tiie hill in the Missouri Legislature, mak¬ 
ing appropriations for the completion of the 
Railroads in that State, vetoed by the Gover¬ 
nor, has been passed by a two-third majority. 
