MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YOB KER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
Who Killed Cock - Robin?’ 
A Great Strike. 
On Tuesday, the 20th inst„ at 12 o’clock at 
noon, all the engine drivers on the ©astern and 
middle divisions of the New York & Erie Rail¬ 
road, some 200 in number, struck, and left their 
engines wherever they happened to be. The 
consequence was, that all the trains were stop¬ 
ped, and the transit of passengers, as well as 
the mails and freight, came to a dead halt, great¬ 
ly to the inconvenience of the public, as well as 
of the Company. 
The cause of the trouble was the adoption of 
certain rules by the Company which were offen¬ 
sive to the engineers ; the chief objection being 
to a rule that they would be held responsible 
for running off any switch at stations where the 
trains were required to stop. The Superintend¬ 
ent says the engineers are bound to see that the 
track is right ahead at the time of starting or 
stopping their trains ; and that the rule of run¬ 
ning the road must be, “ safety first and speed 
afterwards.” He gave three days to the engi¬ 
neers to return to their stations, after which new 
men would be employed in place of those who 
still held out. The striking engineers and their 
friends have made riotous demonstrations at 
several points, and at Susqueliannah, on Thurs¬ 
day, forcibly took an engineer from his train. 
A police force is on active duty at Jersey City, 
and the sheriff's of the counties of Rockland 
and Orange, in this State and Susquekannali, 
Pa., are out with posses to protect the property 
of the Company. 
Last week we briefly noticed a ridiculous 
charge by Dr. D. Lee, [editor of the Gen. Far¬ 
mer, —also senior editor of the Rochester Ameri¬ 
can, (a political paper) and the Southern ( Oa.) 
Cultivator,'] accusing us of “ resorting to false¬ 
hood to injure* the Farmer .” Since then we 
have been credibly informed that the Dr. sup¬ 
posed we had furnished copies of his southern 
paper to certain journals of this city, from 
which they had extracted his fast-becoming-cel¬ 
ebrated essay on “ Hireling and Slave Labor” 
—hence his complimentary notice. Our amia¬ 
ble friend was never more mistaken. The only 
person to w hom w'e have furnished the Southern 
Cultivator (with which we exchange) containing 
the article in question, is Dr. Daniel Lee, who 
applied for it during his controversy with the 
city dailies! Neither have we written a line on 
the subject for any other paper than the Rural 
—and not for that until the suspicious Dr. had 
attacked us on hypothesis, though his pretence 
was an article published by us a month or two 
previous to his charge. 
But a correspondent of the Daily Union in¬ 
forms the Dr., and the “rest of mankind” in¬ 
terested, how his labored production, intended 
exclusively for a Southern market, first appear¬ 
ed in a Northern paper. He says:—“ A gentle¬ 
man in South Carolina, when writing on busi¬ 
ness matters, called my attention to this article 
by Dr. Lee, and also sent me by mail a copy of 
the Southern Cultivator containing the article.— 
Happening to meet Mr. Douglass, [editor of the 
Rochester paper which first published Dr. L.’s 
article on ‘ Hireling and Slave Labor,’] I hand¬ 
ed him the paper, stating that he would find in 
it an article by Dr. Lee, requiring his attention. 
It will be seen, therefore, that this matter was 
brought to light, and this * attack ’ commenced, 
.by a South Carolina Slaveholder! I give below 
some extracts from the letter of this gentleman : 
“ * * * There is a strong prejudice here 
against Northern men and Northern journals. 
Slavery is the god too many worship — and 
Northern men are in a great measure responsi¬ 
ble for this feeling. Witness the attack of Dr. 
Lee on the New r York Times, and other North¬ 
ern Journals. By the by, I will send you a 
copy of the Southern Cultivator, published at 
Augusta, Georgia, and edited by Dr. Lee, of your 
city. See what a Northern man finds it to his 
interest to say in a Southern paper. While 
Northern men are found who will thus disgrace 
and sell themselves, is it strange that men born 
and educated at the South, should think Slavery 
a necessary evil, or even a great good?” 
« * * * Is it true, that an able bodied 
man, willing to work, such as Dr. Lee describes, 
cannvt in the city of Rochester, earn a peck of 
corn meal and a pound or two of pork, [the al¬ 
lowance of a slave here,] by a week’s labor. If 
this is true, God help Rochester.” 
« * * * I think the people here, needless¬ 
ly and foolishly sensitive on the subject of sla¬ 
very, and the people of the North, or at least 
many of them, imprudent and rash in their op¬ 
position to it. I am a slaveholder, and my 
friends and neighbors am all slaveholders ; yet 
I believe Slavery to be a great wrong, and I 
cannot but despise every Northern man who 
professes to believe it good.” 
-There were nine deaths from Cholera in 
Brooklyn last week. 
-Fifteen hundred dogs have been slain in 
the Cincinnati war. 
-Opal, topaz and garnet stones have been 
found in Burke county, S. C. 
-The wheat harvest commenced in Vir¬ 
ginia during the present week. 
-The people of Jackson, Miss., had ripe 
pears and apples on the lstult. 
-Gen. Houston is to deliver an oration at 
Norwalk, Conn., on the Fourth of July. 
-Immense flocks of pigeons are nesting in 
Fulton, Hamilton and Herkimer counties. 
--A cargo of new wheat passed through 
Norfolk on Monday week for Baltimore. 
-- The Chinese emigration to California, this 
year, has been quite large, reaching above 4,000. 
-A State Anti-Nebraska Convention will 
be held at Madison, Wis., on the 13th of July. 
-Ten barges are in the regular hay trade 
from Albany, exporting $600,000 worth a year. 
-The Troy Times says Marshal Mott has 
arrested thirty-five counterfeiters since he took 
office. 
-There were ten fatal cases of Cholera in 
Boston last week, and on Sunday there was one 
more. 
-The Batavia Advocate recommends Hon. 
Geo. W. Patterson, as the Whig candidate for 
Governor. 
-Extensive coal fields are said to have 
been recently discovered in the county of An¬ 
son, N. C. 
-The fare on the Richmond and Peters- 
burgh (Va.) Railroad has been raised to six 
cents per mile. 
-A new palace has been uncovered in the 
ruins of Nineveh, whose beauty excels any yet 
found in Assyria. 
-One hundred and nine dogs were killed 
in Cleveland in four days, under the direction 
of the City Marshal. 
-The whole debt of Philadelphia city is 
$18,000,000, of which $9,000,000 are in railroad 
stocks drawing interest. 
-Sixteen hundred gallon* of liquor were 
seized at Providence on Wednesday week—the 
first under the new law. 
-A preliminary meeting has been held at 
Chillicolhe to make arrangements for a compa¬ 
ny to emigrate to Nebraska. 
-The boring for the Artesian well at 
Charleston, S. 0., has reached 1150 feet, and so 
far with very doubtful success. 
-Cincinnati contains 100,000 inhabitants, 
and yet there are raccoons and rabbits still with¬ 
in the limits of the corporation. 
-Preparations are progressing for the re¬ 
building of the Suspension Bridge, at Wheeling, 
recently destroyed by a hurricane. 
-The people of Kalamazoo, Mich., lately 
celebrated the completion of the first quarter of 
j|^“The Washington Star says, we under¬ 
stand that all the Indian tribes in Kansas and 
Nebraska have concluded treaties with the Com¬ 
missioners of Indian Affairs, for the relinquish¬ 
ment of the lands at present occupied by them, 
within the scope of country proposed fo be in¬ 
cluded under the two new governments. These 
treaties are one and all before the Senate, and 
will doubtless be promptly ratified, that body 
being quite anxious to expedite the formal or¬ 
ganization of the new territorial governments. 
jgg” The President of the U. States, accom¬ 
panied by Mrs. Pierce, and her relative, Mrs. 
Smith, of New Hampshire, Gen. Cass, the Sec¬ 
retary of the Navy, and his pr.v.ite Secretary, 
Mr. Sidney Webster, embarked on the United 
States steamer Engineer, at the Washington Na¬ 
vy Yard, a few days since, for Old Point Com¬ 
fort, where the party propose to remain until 
Tuesday or Wednesday next. 
^rgp The Worcester Spy says, among the 
presents sent out by the Government to the 
Emperor of Japan, were some bottles of Ameri¬ 
can whisky. It was doubtless thought by the 
administration, that if His Royal Highness could 
only get a taste of the real “ Old Monongahela,” 
that he would forever after have a desire to 
trade with a people who could manufacture 
such a beverage. 
jfgf* The British Chancellor of the Exchequer 
has proposed to put an additional tax of 3s. a 
barrel on beer, and the retailers propose to in¬ 
crease the price twenty-five per cent. This ad-* 
dition to the expenses of his beer-drinking 
troubles John Bull a good deal, and will doubt¬ 
less tend to render the Eastern war unpopular 
among many of the citizens of Great Britain. 
Mr. Frederick Kemble, from the neigh- 
ROCHESTER, JULY 1, 1854. 
To Agents and Others 
half volume of the Rural commences next week 
■'-orable time to subscribe or form clubs for either 
■>ths or a year. Agents and other kind friends 
^fciout the country are requested to give the matter 
^Bention as may be consistent with their eugage- 
The Rural will be furnished for six months,from 
^■January, at half the yearly rates, or as follows:— 
^Popies for $2,50; Six copies (and one free to agent) 
Ten copies (and one to agent) for $7,50; Twenty 
■{and one to agent) for $12,50. 
fcxtli A r olume of The Wool Grower and Stock 
■kr, —improved and enlarged to 32 pages monthly 
■Commences the 1st of July. We will furnish the 
one year, at the following low rates :—'Three 
. WK. G. .V S. R. and one of Rural for $.3; Five 
^■g. and two of Rural for $5 ; Nine copies W. G. 
^■e of Rural for $8; Twelve copies of W. G. and 
^^luuAi. for .$12. SG?”8pecimfcn numbers, kc , of 
.journals sent free to all applicants. 
July to January. 
borhood of Rurnney, Harrison county, Ohio, 
arrived in Steubenville last Wednesday, by rail¬ 
way, with his wife and nineteen children, twen¬ 
ty-one in all. It is said that he owns enough 
land in that State to give each one of his family 
one hundred and sixty acres and retain a “slice” 
for himself. 
The Newark Advertiser says that a few 
miles from Trenton lives a woman of masculine 
frame and disposition, who is a very skillful me¬ 
chanic. She lias constructed a handsome car¬ 
riage, makes and plays violins, and has manu¬ 
factured a gun, besides many other aiticles. 
She is entirely self-taught, and is only 25 years 
old. 
Antoine le Due, a Frenchman, ran ten 
miles in 58 minutes, at Eagle Harbor, Michigan, 
beating two Indians and an Irishman, for a 
wager of $100. The Irishman gave out on the 
fourth mile, one Indian on the eighth, and the 
other Indian was just a mile behind the victor, 
who left the ground shouting “ Vive la France!” 
HHF* According to the Boston Post the Sand¬ 
wich Islands had better reciprocate favors re¬ 
ceived, and send missionaries to the United 
States. On the Island of Molakai, with a native 
population of 3,565, only two persons, one na¬ 
tive and one foreigner, are reported as having 
been intoxicated during the year 1853. 
U. S. Commissioner Carpenter publishes 
a long communication in the Philadelphia Ga¬ 
zette, denying the constitutionality of that, por¬ 
tion of the Fugitive Slave Law making it the 
duty of Commissioners to issue warrants and | 
hear cases. He says he has refused, and willj 
continue to refuse, to issue warrants. 
Senator Douglas lias been presented by 
the officers at Fort Leavenworth, (the seat of 
Government of Kansas,) with a walking-cane. 
It is hickory, studded with large nots, and was 
cut in that Territory. The ferule is steel, and a 
head of deer’s horn, with a gold plate, inscribed 
“Kansas and Nebraska.” 
The Richmond Enquirer, in expostulat¬ 
ing with Southerners against sending their 
youths to Northern institutions, says:—“If 
Southern gentlemen would not be instrumental 
in the political prostitution of their sons, they 
should not send them to Harvard for law, nor to 
Y'ale for science.” 
A little child named Hinds died in Bos¬ 
ton on the 14t,h inst,. from the effects of a sun¬ 
stroke. Parents who send their children out in 
care of domestics, cannot be too careful in ad¬ 
monishing them to keep in the shade. When 
the walks are not shaded, an umbrella should 
be carried. 
5 ^“ The Attorney General of the United 
States has given an opinion, in which .he holds 
that the United States must pay the expenses 
incurred by the U. S. Marshal at Chicago in 
raising a posse in his district to aid him in the 
execution of the warrant for the arrest of a fu¬ 
gitive slave. 
The Commissioner of Patents has re¬ 
newed the Morse Telegraph Patent of June, 
1840, for the term of seven years— Prof. Morse 
having disclaimed so much of his eight specifi¬ 
cations as brings it within the decision of the 
Supreme Court in the recent case of Morse vs. 
O’Reilly. 
The Cincinnati Enquirer says:—“The 
Georgetown (Ky.) Herald comes to us dressed 
in mourning, and upon looking for the cause of 
the funeral appearance, we find that the editor 
has been committed to jail by some municipal 
tribunal for refusing to testify where he had got his 
liquor. 
jr^"On the 14th ult„ Mr. Geo.'W. Bowman, 
on his farm in Bullit county, Ky., killed a rattle¬ 
snake six feet four inches long, and eighteen 
inches round the body, with twenty-one rattles. 
It is believed that this was the largest and old¬ 
est rattlesnake ever seen in the Western country. 
j£jgr Capt. Barclay, the first man who is re¬ 
corded to have walked 1,000 miles in 1,000 
hours, died lately in Scotland, at the age of 76. 
He was an enthusiastic farmer, and traveled 
through the United States a few years ago, 
making agricultural observations. 
A private soldier was lately shot at Fort 
Henry, Kingston, C. W„ for desertion. In our 
army, flogging is the extreme penalty of the 
crime of desertion, except during actual war, 
and even then it is often superseded by confine¬ 
ment. 
A U. S. Commissioner named Wilcox, of 
Columbus, Ohio, was called upon a few days 
since by a slave-hunter from Kentucky, for a 
process for the arrest of a fugitive slave. He 
declined to grant it, and resigned his office. 
The Overseers of the poor at Tarry town, 
posted notices at the hotels, stating that certain 
persons are known to be habitual drunkards, 
and forbidding liquor venders from selling them 
any intoxicating drinks whatever. 
A New York news-boy, named Thomas 
McQuade, has just recovered $3001) from the 
New York A Erie Railroad Company,for dam¬ 
ages received by him from the car in which he 
was seated running off the track. 
The Veterans of 1812. 
The surviving officers and soldiers of the war 
of 1812, met in Convention at Syracuse on 
Tuesday of last week. and held an interesting 
, ; lwo-days session. Speeches were made, and ad- 
idress.es and resolutions passed. Delegates of 
Indians representing the Six Nations, were also 
present, and took part in the proceedings. They 
were invited to select one of their number to 
address the Convention, when Mr. Henry Jor¬ 
dan, an Indian of the Oneida tribe, made some 
remarks upon the neglect with which the whites 
and the government have treated their services. 
Three cheers were then given for the Indians, 
and, by request, they were gathered together, 
and the War Whoop three times given and re¬ 
sponded to. Three cheers were then given in 
return. The Indians performed the ceremony 
ot adopting Gen. Benson, and named him On- 
wen-ja-kwe-gon —“ Whole World.” 
The Glorious Fourth. 
Intolerance Repudiated. 
a century since the town was settled. 
-A white man and two negroes yore 
hung at Versailles, Ky., on Saturday, for mur¬ 
der, in the presence of 10 , 0 UU people. 
-It is thought that the'yield of peaclies in 
New Jersey will be far less than last year; con¬ 
sequently, the prices will be much higher. 
• Gy *v Y'i,*D 0 emigrants nave amvetl" 1 TC 
Quebec within the last five months, of which a 
greater number were from England than Ire¬ 
land! 
-The Emperor Napoleon has established 
a system in Paris, by which the poor receive 
medical attendance at their own houses, free of 
expense. 
--The Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker 
Hill) was celebrated in Charlestown, Mass., by 
the firing of cannon, ringing of bells, and a mili¬ 
tary parade. 
-There were forty-five cases of cholera in 
New York last week—a decrease of twelve 
from the week previous. In Philadelphia six 
are reported. 
-The grape culture at the West, particu¬ 
larly in Illinois and Ohio, is rapidly extending, 
and the first producers will probably realize 
large fortunes. 
-The Great Tubular Iron Bridge over the 
St. Lawrence at Montreal, has been commenced. 
Fifteen hundred workmen are to be employed 
on it this summer. 
-Prof. Stowe, the husband of Mrs. Uncle 
Tom’s Cabin Stowe, has publicly announced 
that he will not shave bis face until the fugitive 
slave law is repealed. 
-The Brockport Collegiate Institute, re¬ 
cently destroyed by fire, is to be re-built, upon 
a large scale. A portion of the necessary funds 
have already been subscribed. 
-John Van Buren expects to sail for Eu¬ 
rope on the 1 st of July, to be absent from three 
to four months. He intends to visit Scotland, 
St. Petersburg and Constantinople. f 
-It is stated that an important change has 
been made in the Constitution ot Buenos Ayres, 
under which all persons born in the country are 
citizens, whatever may be their parentage. 
-About 50,000 cigars, and some other ar¬ 
ticles, were seized at Portland by the Custom 
House officer on Saturday night. They were 
brought in a vessel just arrived from Cuba. 
-Some $10,000, in ten dollar red back 
notes of the bank of Tennessee, were recently 
stolen from a box, in charge of the express, on 
a steamer between Cincinnati and Nashville. 
-Metallic cornices are more generally in 
vogue this spring than heretofore. They possess 
all the qualities of stone, without the expense, 
and avoid the dangers from fire incurred by 
wooden ones. 
-The Supreme Court of Rhode Island has 
given a unanimous opinion that the act <»f the 
last Legislature, expunging the record of its 
conviction of Thomas W. Dorr for treason, is 
unconstitutional. 
-Queen Victoria has established a school 
for her out-of-door servants at Windsor, and for 
some time nearly every day Occupies herself in 
teaching from the Bible, /seating herself on a 
form for this purpose. 
-We have learned, says the Trenton (N. J.) 
Gazette, the curious and rather alarming fact, 
that within two or tlree years past, the sale of 
opium in this city las increased something like 
one thousand per eput. 
-The Artesian well at Frederick, Md., 
has been completed. The shaft has been car¬ 
ried down 585 feet, and now, the Examiner 
says, the water runs out at the rate of one hun¬ 
dred and fifty gallons a minute. 
Just as this paper is going to press, we are 
reminded that the Anniversary of American In¬ 
dependence will occur before the publication of 
another number. We had intended to give in 
kljie Rural preceding the Fourth, reading and 
■lustrations appropriate to the occasion, but it 
■ now too late for more than a brief paragraph, 
■u trust the Day will be appropriately cele- 
3®.ed by Americans, and all lo\ers of .Freedom 
HH Free Institutions. In tb» language of John 
Adams —“ It ought to be commemorated as the 
Day of Deliverance, by solemn acts of devo¬ 
tion to Almighty God. It ought to be solem¬ 
nized with pomp, shows, games, sports, guns, 
bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end 
of the Continent to the other, from this time for¬ 
ward forever.” 
— While we subscribe to this sentiment, we 
would caution all against carelessness, or ex¬ 
travagant indulgence. The juniors should be 
especially careful in the use of fire-works—for, 
even in the hands of men, prudence is necessary 
to secure safety. We wish all the young people 
—and particularly the Bov-Farmers, whose la¬ 
bors are so arduous at this season—to hare a 
glorious holiday, for American boys were not 
born to work on the Fourth of July. 
The Shepherd of the Valley, the organ of the 
Roman Catholics in St Louis, has been discon¬ 
tinued for want of support. This intolerant or¬ 
gan was the one which gloried in stating that if 
Popery ever gained the ascendancy in the 
United States, as it undoubtedly would at some 
future day, religious toleration would be at an 
e nd ; and also solemnly declared in substance, 
that popular education and the general diffusion 
of knowledge was a curse rather than a blessing. 
The Buffalo Sentinel, a Roman Catholic paper 
of kindred sentiments, has also been discontin¬ 
ued. The publisher says the expenses of the 
paper for the past year have been $60 per week, 
and the receipts $13. The aid and comfort o'f 
the Archbishop of St. Louis, who headed the 
columns of the Shepherd with his own name and 
sanction, could not save it from perdition. 
Cheap Traveling. —A strife for the through 
business, from Cincinnati to the lakes, has 
sprung up between tlie two railroad routes, oDe 
running by the way of Cleveland, and the other 
by way of Sandusky. Passengers are now car¬ 
ried from Buffalo, boarded on the lake steamers 
to Cleveland or Sandusky, and then taken 
through to Cincinnati by rail, all for four dol¬ 
lars. At such rates of fare, it is cheaper to trav¬ 
el than to stay at home, to say nothing of a 
chance for the cholera, yellow fever, or some 
other summer epidemic thrown in ; but the con¬ 
test is ruinous to the interests of the companies, 
and ultimately of the traveling public; for wlfen 
competition reduces prices below a living profit, 
ruin must follow if persisted in. A healthy and 
active rivalry is beneficial to all j arties, but be¬ 
yond that point, it is no permanent advantage 
to any one. 
The Weather and the Crops. 
The recent rains and the present warm 
weather push vegetation along very rapidly. 
The summer grains are hastening toward ma¬ 
turity, and the fall crops are “ spreading them¬ 
selves like a green bay-tree.” The hoe is ac¬ 
tive in the corn and potato fields, and the scythe 
will not be far behind in activity, if indeed it is 
not now sweeping through the tall grass of the 
meadows with destructive effect. 
The scent of new-mown hay is grateful even 
to the nostrils of a citizen, and is much pleas¬ 
anter than the snuff he usually inhales, com¬ 
pounded of McAdamized stone, street offals, 
hoof-parings, coal dust, and ferruginous parti¬ 
cles from iron-shod feet and locomotive wheels. 
“ God made the country, and man made the town !” 
The Foreign News. —The news from Europe 
by the late steamers is of great interest in many 
respects. So far as regards the markets for 
breadstuffs, our predictions have been fully re¬ 
alized ; and the farmer who harnessed up his 
horses and took to market the last bushel of 
wheat he had left on hand to sell, did a wise 
thing, ior the downward tendency has been 
even more rapid within a few days past than for 
some time previous. 
The war movements indicate a crisis between 
the belligerents on the shores of the Black Sea, 
and ere this, a great and decisive battle may 
have been fought. Silistria was, at the last ac¬ 
counts, in a state of siege by 80,000 Russians, by 
Annexation of the Sandwich Islands.—A 
despatch has been received at Washington from 
the American Commissioner at tlie SadHwicli 
Islands (Mr. Gregg,) statir^ that the author¬ 
ities of those islands propose to throw them¬ 
selves into the hands of the American Govern¬ 
ment for protection against the British, French, 
and other foreign settlers. The Commissioner, 
the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer states, has been 
empowered to accept the Islands lor tlie United 
States, and assure the native government of 
American protection. 
It will be recollected that overtures of a sim¬ 
ilar nature were made to Mr. Fillmore’s admin¬ 
istration by the authorities of those islands, and 
rejected, much to the grief and scandal of filli- 
busters and annexationists. 
Death of N. Davidson Redpath, Esq.: —It 
becomes our painlul duty to chronicle the de¬ 
cease of this able and esteemed contributor to 
the pages of the Rural. Though personally 
unacquainted with Mr. R., we have long regard¬ 
ed him as a gentleman of talent and worth.— 
Many readers will, with us, .sincerely lament 
his sudden demise. The following notice was 
received by mail : 
Dikd, suddenly, at Fogo P. 0., Allegan Co., Michigan, on 
the 30th ult., N. DAVIDSON REDPATH, aged 48 years. 
The readers of the Rural will recognize in the death of 
Mr. Redpath, one of its able contributors. A man of an 
erudite, comprehensive and investigating mind, he took 
a warm interest in whatever pertained to the advancement 
of Agricultural science. His urbanity of maimers, unas¬ 
suming deportment, benevolent disposition, and christain 
character, secured to him many sincere friends, and his 
family will sustain, by his death, the loss of a kind husband 
and an affectionate father. Alex. Gillks, M. D. 
A Great Lake. —Nearly due north of Quebec, 
one hundred and eight, miles as the bird flies, 
and probably one hundred and thirty by a con¬ 
structed road, lies a magnificent lake, covering 
an area of 600 square miles, and abounding 
with a variety of fish. It is fed by numerous 
rivers, some of them navigable for a considera¬ 
ble distance for a schooner or batteaux ;.it is the 
lake St. John, and from it flows the “ Great Dis¬ 
charge,” or main stream of the Saguenay river, 
as far down as Chicontini, a few miles beyond 
which the river is navigable for ships ot the 
heaviest tonnage. On either bank of this river 
may be seen a flourishing settlement; the soil 
is of a rich and loamy nature, producing wheat, 
corn, fruit, Ac., equal in quality and quantity to 
any raised in Upper Canada; and although 1 } 
degrees further north than Quebec, yet from 
the peculiarity of its geographical position, its 
climate is milder in winter than that of Mon¬ 
treal. For many miles on both banks of the 
river, as well as along both shores ol tlie lake, 
are thousands of acres of the finest land, cov¬ 
ered with a noble forest —Quebec Chronicle. 
Canadian Parliament.— The ministry have 
been defeated in the Canadian Legislative As¬ 
sembly, whereupon the Governor General, Lord 
Elgin, dissolved the Parliament, and has Issued 
writs for a new election. The legislature was 
dissatisfied that the Governor General did not, 
in his speech at the opening, announce his inten¬ 
tion to Submit a bill for the immediate settle¬ 
ment of the Senorial question, and the seculari¬ 
zation of the Clergy Reserves. The popular 
ILranch of provincial parliament shows a sturdy 
HBit of independence, and will not be over-rid - 
by the crown-appointed officials. Canada 
^Byet become independent. 
The Tempest Insurance Company lias ac¬ 
quired an enviable reputation as a safe and well- 
managed association. Its principal officers and 
stock-holders are men of character, possessing 
the means, and, we doubt not, the disposition, 
to make good the assurances and engagements 
of the Company. Unless we are misinformed, 
the Tempest Company is worthy the attention 
of farmers and others who wish, as all should* 
to secure insurance upon their homes. See ad¬ 
vertisement in this paper. 
