MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOB KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
majority of the committee will consult, the Sen¬ 
ate committee, and bring in such a report as 
shall be at once adopted and the bill passed, for 
there will be other important business to be 
transacted after election. 
The State Engineer has made his report to 
the Legislature, and it is conceded to 
ablest document of the session. The Senate 
voted to print 17,000 copies of it. 
The contested seat from New York was con¬ 
sidered, but finally laid over till next Friday. 
A bill has passed the Senate appropriating 
$115,000 to bottom out the canal so as to allow 
the passage of the largest class of boats. The 
other legislation is unimportant. 
To-morrow the Women’s Eights Convention 
is to commence in this place. This will fill up 
the tedium caused by the absence of the Legis¬ 
lature. Indeed it might be a question whether 
two such distinguished bodies should be in session at 
the same place at the same time. 
The Rev. Dr. Onckf.n, Baptist Missionary to 
Germany, preached a sermon yesterday, in his 
native tongue, and administered the ordinance 
of baptism to nine converted Germans, who are 
to form the nucleus of a German Baptist Church 
in this city. The services were very impressive, 
though the language was entirely foreign. Some 
things can be understood in any tongue ; among 
them music and prayer. *Owk*. 
Our Albany Correspondence. 
Albany, Feb. 13,1854. 
To say that there have been busy times here 
for the week past, would be a tame expression. 
It has been a week of great interest and excite¬ 
ment. First came the Medical Society —the 
Doctors in formal convention—to deliberate up¬ 
on the thousand and one ills which flesh is heir 
to, together with the means of cure that each 
required. They represented the various sections 
of the State, and their proceedings were not 
only able and orderly, but really interesting and 
practical. Among the resolutions passed was 
one in favor of the bill now pending before the 
Legislature to promote Medical Science. This 
bill is designed to provide lawful means for phy¬ 
sicians to obtain subjects for dissection. Here¬ 
tofore, they have been forced to steal them, and 
no small degree of trouble and anxiety has been 
the result. It proposes to give up the bodies of 
those who die in the poor houses of our large 
cities, provided no relative or friend claims them, 
or the deceased made no request while living to 
be buried in the usual manner. That there 
should be some honest way by which physicians 
can learn their profession, is too evident to need 
any argument; and it is supposed that the pres¬ 
ent bill removes the objections that generally 
arise on this subject, and it is surrounded with 
such safeguards as to make it satisfactory-to the 
public mind. Various committees were desig¬ 
nated to investigate particular subjects and re¬ 
port at the next meeting. In this way, much 
new and valuable information may be. obtained, 
and all receive benefits which without associa¬ 
tions of this kind would be enjoyed exclusively 
by ..few, if indeed by any. 
the state poultry exhibition. 
Next in order of history, is what is familiarly 
called here, “ the Chicken Convention.” Nor is 
the term wholly inappropriate, for they (the 
chickens) are remarkably gifted in crowing.— 
Some of the conservative Albanians (for be it 
remembered that they inherited a large share of 
cautiousness from their fathers) had concluded 
that the exhibition would be a speculat ive swin¬ 
dle, and were tempted to withdraw their influ¬ 
ence entirely; but all now concur in the opinion 
that it “ couldn’t be beat.” I cannot particular¬ 
ly 0 CHESTER, FEBRUARY 18, 185! 
Agents and Friends will please remember that we are 
publishing a large extra edition, andean therefore furnish 
back numbeps of this volume to all new subscribers. Those 
disposed, Ariel we hope they number hundreds and thou¬ 
sands, can yet form new clubs or make additions (singly, 
or in fives, tens, twenties, or upwards,) to those already 
started. We are prepared, this year, for the “long pull, 
strong pull, and pull all together,” which the friends-of the 
Rural are giving, and shall honor all orders for the com¬ 
plete volume until our edition is exhausted. But as we 
are receiving hundreds of new subscribers daily, those who 
wish hack numbers should not delay. We send from the 
beginning of the volume, unless otherwise directed. 
adelphia on Thursday morning, the 9lh inst. 
-The cotton factory at Memphis, Term., 
was recently sold by the Sheriff for $55,000.— 
It originally cost over $100,000. 
-The contractor on the Mobile and Ohio 
Railroad, at Columbus, Ky., lias stopped work 
on account of the high price of labor. 
-A ship is daily expected to arrive at 
Panama from China, with a cargo of Chinese 
laborers for the Panama Railroad. 
-A new Post Office called “ South Lima,” 
T. S. De Forest, Post Master, has been established 
in that town. 
-“Uncle Tom ” has been introduced into 
Athens under the gentlemanly title of “ Ompar- 
pas Thom ns.” 
-Cantenacci, who revealed the late plot at 
Rome, died recently, after an ineffectual attempt 
to destroy himself. 
-¥m. Pitt Fessenden, Whig, has been 
elected U. S. Senator for six years by the Legis¬ 
lature of Maine. 
-The Buffalo Republic says Lake Erie and 
Buffalo Creek have both got a pretty thorough 
freeze on at present 
-Pumpkin pie is announced at one of the 
Paris restaurants as a “speciality” for Ameri¬ 
cans. 
-A telescope which is to cost $1,800 has 
been ordered for Amherst College. It is to be 
the gift of Rufus Bullock, of Royalston. 
-The Niagara river is frozen at Tonawan- 
da to Grand Island shore, a circumstance which 
has not occurred for thirty years. 
-The city of Detroit expended $1,700 in 
celebrating the opening of the Great Western 
railway. 
-James Haley, an Irishman, 20 years of 
a^e, died in New York on Monday week, from 
the effects of wrestling, lie fractured his spine. 
-The Senate of Maine has elected Mr. 
Crosby, whig. Governor of the Slate. The vote 
stood Crosby 16; Morrill, Dem. 15. 
-There have already appeared in France 
417 almanacs for 1854, each one averaging 10,000 
copies. 
-The lectures at the Copenhagen Univer¬ 
sity will henceforth be delivered in the Danish, 
instead of, as hitherto, in the Latin tongue. 
-The Hindoo law says, “ Strike not, even 
with a blossom, thy wife, though she be guilty 
of a thousand faults.” 
-The capital engaged in the Australian 
trade has been estimated, by competent persons, 
at £20,000,000. 
-Fanny Kemble Butler, it is stated, is to 
return to this country in the spring, to resume 
her residence at Lenox, Mass. 
-Twenty-eight hundred and sixty dozen 
Quails have been sent from Milwaukie to the 
New York market this winter. 
-A bill lias passed the Legislature of Tenn. 
for the election by the people, of Judges and 
Attorney General. 
-It is estimated that the estate left by 
the late Thomas H. Perkins, of Boston, will 
amount to $1,600,000. 
-A French publication says Josephine’s 
mantua-maker’s bill for the first ten months of 
1806, was the snug little sum of $35,000. 
-The House of Representatives of Georgia 
have passed a bill for removing the seat of gov¬ 
ernment from Milledgeville to Mason. The 
Speaker gave the casting vote. 
-G. R. Lewis, Esq., of New London, has 
bequeathed to the Board of Missions ot the Prot¬ 
estant Episcopal Church, the sum of $6,000. 
-A deputation from the Society of Friends 
has just left Englandgfor St. Petersburg, to en¬ 
deavor to induce the Czar to come to terms with 
Turkey. 
-Six hundred and ninety individuals have 
been appointed Justices of the Peace in the city 
of Boston. “Returning justice lifts aloft her 
scale !” 
-It is stated that arrangements have lieen 
made and vessels chartered for carrying no less 
than 782 emigrants to Liberia, from different 
points of the country during the current year. 
-An Indiana paper says that of the one 
hundred and ten newspapers published in the 
State, all except ten advocate the prohibitory 
liquor law. > 
-The importation of grain and flour at 
Havre during the five months ending with Dec. 
31, was the amount of 160,000,000 pounds—com¬ 
ing for the most pint from the United States. 
-The North Adams Sentinel says there 
were born in that village, on the 24th nit,, two 
sons to Peter Miller, senior, being hi* 20th and 
21st children. 
-It is estimated, says the Buffalo Daily 
Courier, that there are now on the stocks and 
under way, in that city, vessels whose tonnage 
will exceed fifteen thousand tons. 
-Two hundred and sixty-four cars, con¬ 
taining 1,056 tons of produce, were despatched 
from Pittsburgh, on Monday, February 6, for 
Philadelphia. 
_One million two hundred and thirty 
thousand letters passed through the N. A'. Post 
Office on Saturday, Jan. 21. It. is said to be the 
largest number known to have been received in 
one day. 
-The female authors of England are all 
apparently very busy just now. for new books 
are announced in preparation from the pens of 
Miss Mitford, Mrs. Core, Mrs. Trollope and Miss 
Pardoe. 
_The Atlantic Insurance Company, of 
New York have given Captain McKay a check 
for eighty thousand dollars, on account of the 
Great Renublic. It was the largest sum ever 
JFff” For a variety of particulars relative to terms, he., 
see Publisher’s Notices on next, page — which answer most 
of the questions propounded l>v agents and other friends. 
William J.McAlpixe, late State Engineer,has 
submitted to the Legislature a most able and 
conclusive report on the subject of the public 
works, which scatters to the winds the false mid 
unfounded allegations, that the business is de¬ 
creasing on our state canals. It shows on the 
other hand the most astounding increase of bus¬ 
iness from year to year, and demonstrates the 
absolute necessity of an immediate enlargement 
of the Erie, and completion of the lateral canals. 
The tonnage of the Erie canal from the West¬ 
ern States alone arriving at tide water has been 
as follows : 
In 1840.... 158,148 tons. 
1845 . 304,551 “ Increase. 146,403 
1850. 841,501 « “ ..536,950 
1852 .1,151,978 ’« “ ..310,477 
1853 ....1,213,690 “ « .. 61,712 
The increasing ratio of the • business from the 
Western 8fates, will fully occupy the augmented 
capaoitv which can be annually given to the 
Erie canal by its enlargement and improvement 
until it is completed. 
The report shows by facts and figures, that 
the Western business of the New York canals is 
three times as much as that of all the Canadian 
canals, all the New York railroads, all the Penn¬ 
sylvania canals and railroads, and the Baltimore 
and Ohio railroad put together ! 
It shows that railroads cannot compete with 
water lines in the carriage of freights; that the 
Central road brings more business to the canal 
than it takes from it; and that the freights of 
the former are principally articles that cannot 
be carried on the canals at any price, such, 
as milk, live stock, fresh provisions, and other 
kinds of perishable property, and articles re¬ 
quiring a rapid transit. 
The daily freights of the present Erie canal, 
arriving in the business season at tide water, 
would require a train ot railroad cars fifteen miles 
long! 
The culture of tobacco in Connecticut is 
said to be becoming extensive and profitable.— 
In many of the river towns, tobacco is the prin¬ 
cipal crop grown. In order to promote its cul¬ 
ture, a company has been formed in Hartford, 
with a capital of $25,000, for the purpose of 
opening a tobacco inspection warehouse in that 
city. 
jrgf A New Park is about, to be opened in 
London. It is to be called the Albert Park.— 
The estimated cost is £250,000, of which sum 
the Government is to grant £50,000, the balance 
to be supplied by the borough, in the shape of 
an improvement rate, extending over a long 
period. The park will contain about 409 acres. 
j£gT The Selma Sentinel says that the number 
of persons who have emigrated from the State 
of Alabama since the first of October, lias ave¬ 
raged at least 500 a day, and will continue to 
average that number until spring, making 75,000 
inhabitants who have already left or will leave 
before March. 
jpgp The Indiana Sentinel says that at least 
$2,000,000 of the capital of Indiana merchants 
which would otherwise have gone to Philadel¬ 
phia. will be diverted to New York or Boston, 
in consequence of the Erie riots, and the counte¬ 
nance they have received from the city of Broth¬ 
erly Love. 
gy The Knickerbocker N. Y. Ice Co. have 
now employed at Rockland Lake over 1000 men, 
and about 50,000 tons of ice of excellent quality 
have been harvested. Their houses will hold 
120,000 tons. Besides this, they have two other 
houses at Highland Lake and Rhinebeck, capa¬ 
ble of holding 35,000, tons. 
The present population of California, is 
composed of 250,000 Americans, 25,000 Ger¬ 
mans, 25,000 French, 17,000 Chinamen, 20,000 
of Spanish blood, 5,000 miscellaneous foreigners, 
20,000 Indians, and 2,500 Negroes. Of these, 
i-bout 65,000 arc women, and perhaps, 30,000 
children. 
The clipper ship Chariot or Fame, sailed 
from Liverpool for Boston, on the 11th of Jan. 
with a cargo of three thousand tons weight, 
valued at £100,000. It, is said to be the largest 
and most valuable cargo that, has ever been ta¬ 
ken from Liverpool to the United States. 
5 £gf“Mrs. E. C. Judson, late Baptist missionary, 
is seriously ill. Her brother, Mr. Chubbuck, who 
is now visiting her, states that she has been rap¬ 
idly failing for the past few weeks, and that her 
physicians have but little hope of her recovery. 
Her disease, it is feared, Ls a seated consumption. 
wgf” A letter from Madrid, of January 12, 
says :—“ It is stated that M. de Turgot, who was 
wounded in the duel with Mr. Soule, will be 
able to get up to-morrow. The ball has not 
been extracted, and is supposed to be buried in 
some tendon.” 
{£gT Hook and Ladder Companies Nos. 1, 3 
and 4 of the Brooklyn Fire Department have 
agreed upon a race with their trucks on the 
Union Race Course at as early a day as the 
The War Question. 
No important movement of the belligerents 
has taken place since our last previous advices, 
unless,dndeed, a late but indefinite rumor is true, 
that ten or fifteen thousand Russians have cross¬ 
ed the Danube. 
The peril of a general war is still more threat¬ 
ening than has appeared from anything hereto¬ 
fore received; and even the London Times, a 
paper slow to commit itself upon a point of such 
importance, says, that if a late declaration of 
the Czar, transmitted to that paper from Vienna, 
is authentic, the last hope of peace seems to be 
excluded. The declaration referred to is to the 
effect that his (the Czar’s) quarrel is, and has 
been from the beginning, a quarrel with the 
Porte alone, and he thinks fit to ignore the fact 
that the continuance of this war, or the conclu¬ 
sion of peace, has become a matter of primary 
importance between himself and every other 
great Power. In the same spirit he names as 
Plenipotentiary, not an envoy, to be sent to a 
conference in some neutral town, as he had pre¬ 
viously offered to the Austrian Government to 
do, but Prince Gortschakoff, the commander of 
his forces on the theatre of war. This Plenipo¬ 
tentiary is only to be approached by the suppli¬ 
ant Ottoman Government on two conditions,— 
the one that no demand laid down by Prince 
Menscliikoff is to be departed from ; the other, 
that the present difference is to be settled be¬ 
tween Russia and Turkey alone. 
If this statement be true, there can be no 
course left for the Western Powers to pursue, 
except either to recede from their position, or to 
fight. 
Steamboat Casualties.— The Steamer Amer¬ 
ica was burned on the Alabama river, on the 
29th of January, and fifty lives were lost It is 
understood that a gentleman moving west was 
on board with a large number of negroes. The 
steamer Columbus, from Columbus to Apalachi¬ 
cola, with 1,300 bales of cotton, was burned 
February 3d. 
On the next day, (Feb. 4,) a great fire occur¬ 
red among the shipping at New Orleans, which 
resulted in the destruction of six steamboats 
and other property, amounting in the aggregate 
to a million dollars. Several lives arc supposed 
to have been lost. 
Lower California. 
The fillibustering movements in Lower Cali¬ 
fornia, seem to.be successful, Col. Walker hav¬ 
ing been proclaimed President, and a Republic 
organized. The inhabitants are reported to have 
submitted cheerfully to the new order of things, 
and to have given in their adhesion to the new 
Government. A decree has been issued by the 
President, condemning to death all persons 
guilty of plundering the property of the friendly 
inhabitants. 
Fires.—A fire occurred in New Orleans, Feb. 
5tb, which destroyed two valuable stores and 
other property to the amount of $100,000. 
In Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 6th, a boarding house 
was destroyed by fire, and four persons burned 
to death. On the same night, four buildings, 
occupied by fifteen families, in Brooklyn, N.Y\, 
were consumed ; and Feb. 7th, a building occu¬ 
pied by several printing establishments in Bos- 
The Edinburg Review, for January, has-been 
received and is for sale by Dewey, in the Ar¬ 
cade,—who has also Blackwood for the same 
month, and other reprints of valuable foreign 
periodicals. 
“ The CniLD in Heaven,” is the title of a neat 
little Sabbathrschool volume of one hundred 
and fifty pages, from the pen of the Rev. L. D. 
Davis. Darrow has it for sale. 
