MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER!: 
YN AGRICULTURAL ANT) FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
Congressional Proceedings, 
Items of News 
A Day in the “ Southern Tier,”—No. 1 
Senate. —The Senate debated without coining 
to any conclusion, the bill for the settlement of the 
claims of the officers of the Revolution. 
Mr. Butler presented a joint resolution of the 
South Carolina Legislature, relative to the fortifi- 
tion at Port Royal Harbor. 
A resolution was adopted, calling on the Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury to report whether some means 
cannot be devised for the preservation of lives of 
seamen and passengers who may be wrecked on 
the Jersey coast and Long Island, and also whether 
relief should not bo granted to the families of per¬ 
sons who lose their lives in endeavors to rescue 
others from shipwreck. 
House. — The House passed the Indian Pension 
and the West Point Academy bills. 
Mr. Letcher, from the Committee on Ways and 
Means, reported a substitute for the bill for the 
remission of the tariff. 
The Speaker laid before the House the report of 
the Superintendent of tbe Coast Survey, showing 
the progress that had been made in that work 
during the first year. 
Mi'. Campbell reported the Post Office, Ocean 
Mail Steamer and Deficiency Appropriation bills ; 
and Mr. Phelps reported with amendments the 
Senate bill relative to foreign coinage and also to 
the coinage of the new cent pieces. 
The Coinage bill was postponed for two weeks. 
Mr. Rice introduced a bill authorizing the peo¬ 
ple of Minnesota to form a Constitution and State 
Government. 
Several private bills were passed, and also the 
Senate bill, providing for the compulsory pre-pay¬ 
ment of postage on all transient printed matter. 
The Post Office Committee in the House arc pre¬ 
paring a bill in accordance with Hr. Hansen's pro¬ 
ject for carrying the mails in a direct line of 
steamers between New York and Gluekstandt, via 
Plymouth, England. 
The various standing committees of the House 
have a large number of bills matured, but no op¬ 
portunity for reporting them has yet occurred. 
The President has brought into market, 1,500,- 
000 acres of land, lying in the north part of Iowa, 
which has caused an active demand for land war¬ 
rants, at an advance of three cents per acre. 
George W. Tuttle, the inventor of the famous 
“Baby Jumper,” and who had realized a profit of 
$00,000 by the patent, died in New York on the 
6th ult., at the age of 30 years. 
Dn. Elisha K. Kane, the Arctic explorer, ar¬ 
rived at St. Thomas on the 2d ult., from England. 
He would proceed to Havana in a fortnight. His 
lungs are said to he affected. 
The citizens of Grand Rapids, Mich., have or¬ 
ganized a company to build a railroad from that 
place to Grand Traverse, and subscribed $70,000 
toward the object at the first meeting. 
A German with whom Bayard Taylor formed a 
friendship, has conveyed to him, as a free gift, an 
estate near the Tliaringian forest. It contains a 
beautiful residence built in 1700 by one of the 
ministers of Ernest II. 
The Supreme Court of North Carolina has con¬ 
firmed the decision of Judge Manly, that members 
of the Univcrsnlist Church are incompetent to 
testify in courts of justice, according to the laws 
of that State! 
A lady has lately died at Actopan, Mexico, at 
the wonderful age of one hundred and thirty-nine 
years. Mexico has had over seventy-five changes 
in the chief magistracy of the country in this 
woman's lifetime. 
The New Y'ork Herald says there arc on tho 
dockets of the criminal courts of that city, two 
thousand indictments, which have been accumula¬ 
ting for years, against various offenders, “all un- 
prosectiled mid unnoticed” 
Our government has received a proposition 
from England, to reduce the postage between the 
two countries, from twenty-four cents to twelve 
cents on single letters. Onr government Las indi¬ 
cated a willingness to accede to this, provided 
England reduces the transit charge on mails pass¬ 
ing through that country to twelve and a half cents 
per ounce—the price paid for the conveyance of 
the Canada mails. 
A medical writer in one of the religious jour¬ 
nals, earnestly opposes the practice of ministers 
and professional men traveling abroad to regain 
lost health, affirming that, in nine cases out of ten, 
health is injured rather than benefited by such 
journeys. He asserts that if a parish, instead of 
furnishing their minister with means of traveling 
abroad, would furnish him with land for tillage, 
and the implements for husbandry, it would do 
more to improve his health than any other expedi¬ 
ent or resource. 
— The scarlet fever is prevailing in Chicago. 
— There are about 100 slaves in Oregon Territory. 
— The population of Utah is said to be about 77,000. 
— Tho U. S. Consul at L&guOyra died on tho 1st of Oct. 
— There are nearly six roiJlion acres of unsold lands in 
Michigan, 
— Upwards of 3,200 miles of railroads are now in opera¬ 
tion in Spain. 
— There are ISO newspapers published in Virginia, and 
about 300 in Ohio. 
— The New Yorkers are paying $400,000 a year for keep¬ 
ing the streets dirty. 
— The Common Council of Boston have fixed the salary 
of the Mayor at $4,000. 
— In 1852 Russia exported to China 1,560,000 squirrel 
skins in exchange for tea, 
— It is a singular fact that duels and suicides are un¬ 
known among the Turks. 
— The cost of buildings erected in Dubuque, Iowa, sinco 
January, 1S56, is $1,644,750. 
— Tho New Orleans Delta pronounces the duello the last 
remnant of true civilization. 
—Tho population w ithin the corporate limits of Cincin¬ 
nati is stated to be 170,000. 
— The population of Indianapolis, Indiana, is 20,000.— 
Niue ycurs ago it was only 4,000. 
— From $10,000 to $16,000 worth of furs arc annually 
produced in Cliautauque Co., N. Y. 
— An abundant flow of saltwater is obtained front Saline 
Springs, uear Grand Rapids, Michigan. 
— The thermometer was reported 30 degrees below zero 
at Woodstock, N. B., on the 26th ult. 
— Collector Peaselee, of Boston, lias received $6 from an 
unknown debtor to the U. S. Revenue. 
—Tho papers record another death from tho careless 
handling of Guano, in Montgomery Co., Pa. 
— Tho Missouri, Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers are 
gorged with ice, and navigation is suspended. 
— The steamer Africa sailed for Liverpool on tho 24th 
ult, with $260,000 in specie and 08 passengers. 
—Gov. Conway, of Arkansas, is not yet inaugurated, 
having been sick since bis election in August. 
— The 20th ult., at the instance of Gov. Geary, was ob¬ 
served as Thanksgiving day in Kansas Territory. 
— Tho owners of the Bremen line of steamers will not 
dispatch cither of them during the present month, 
— Russia is about forty-one times the size of France, and 
one hundred aud thirty-eight times that of England. 
— At a recent book sale in New York city a volume of 
Benjamin Franklin's '• Poot Richard” sold for $62 60. 
— Horses with heavy loaded sleighs are crossing the 
Mississippi on the ice from Rock Island to Davenport. 
— The President of the United States has recognized 
Saul A Street, as Vice Consul of Brazil for Charleston. 
— The laws of Virginia require every man who marries, 
to give security for the support of his wife ami children. 
— Seth Hathaway, of Marblehead, sold $370 worth of 
cabbages this fall, tho produce of one-half acre of land I 
—The catch of fish upon the Newfoundland and Labra¬ 
dor coasts is reported greater than for twenty years past. 
— The 40th annual meeting of tho American Coloniza¬ 
tion Society will be held in Washington on the 20th Jan. 
— The Arkansas Legislature have rejected Hills providing 
for calling a Convention to remodel the State Constitution. 
— A joint stock company has been formed in Havana for 
the purpose of extracting an oil from a species of soap stone. 
— A New York journal looks upon Nicaragua as useful 
to be tho Botany Bay of American loafers and vagabonds. 
— A late investigation in Louisville show’s that last year 
one-third of the families in that city were destitute of the 
Bible t 
Mrs T.'in«Ti«on« dioA i.i vpw York city last week 
aged 112 years. She was a native of County Monaghan, 
Ireland. 
— The government of New Granada has suspended the 
effect of the law regarding the tax on mails crossing tho 
Isthmus. 
— Tho citizens of Northampton are taking measures for 
the erection of a monument to the memory of Dr. Sylves¬ 
ter Graham. 
— It is stated in the Texas papers that salt works have 
been established in that State about fifty or sixty’ miles 
above Austin. 
— Four or five wild-cat banks, utterly without basis, 
have been started in Nebraska, by speculators in the neigh¬ 
boring States. 
— It is singular that of the 600 delegates to the Southern 
Convention, only 84 voted on the proposition to re-open 
the slave trade. 
— Tho State Bank of Indiana will go into operation on 
the first of January. Most of the branches have already 
been organized. 
—The Church Journal, N. Y., (low church) has sued 
tho Churchman (high church) for libel, and places the 
damage at, $5,000. 
—The Somerset (Md.) Union records the death of Geo. 
J. H. Beuuchatnp, Esq., from a sore toe, brought on by tho 
rubbing of a boot. 
—The Sioux burned a Chippewa Indian to death near 
Glencoe, Min,, on the 23d ult., in revenge for tho murder of 
a Dakota woman. 
— One of the light-houses near New York is to be lighted 
with tho Breckinridge coat-oil, by way of testing its merits, 
at $1,00 per gallon. 
—A vast quantity of snow’ fell in France on the 15th td 
November, and orouml Paris the railroad trains were com¬ 
pletely blocked up, 
— The schooner Flight, of Swampscott, with thirteen 
hands, caught, a few weeks since, 62,700 pounds of codfish. 
A good week’s work. 
— It is stated that Hon. Calob Cushing intends remain¬ 
ing in Washington after the close of tho present adminis¬ 
tration to practice law. 
— A new bank is proposed to bo chartered at Philadel¬ 
phia, with a capital of $5,000,000, and power to increase 
its stock to $10,000,000. 
— It is reported from Washington that the State Depart¬ 
ment has information of an intended filibustering expedi¬ 
tion against Venezuela. 
—Tho London papers mention that a monument is to bo 
erected to the memory of John Wesley’, in his native town, 
Epworlh, Lincolnshire. 
— There are thirty-six applications for bank charters be¬ 
fore the Pennsylvania Legislature. The aggregate capital 
proposed is $21,000,000. 
— Gas is being introduced into tho College buildings at 
Cambridge, and “ the midnight oil ” will soon be a mere 
poetical figure of speech. 
— To prevent the indictment of illegal sellers of liquor 
in Philadelphia, the records of tho Board of Licensors in 
that city have boon stolen. 
—The free suffrage bill has passed both branches of the 
North Carolina Legislature, but it has yet to be ratified by 
the people in August next. 
— Measures are being perfected for the organization of a 
city government for Lawrence, K, T., by tho people, inde¬ 
pendent of tho present laws. 
— in Chicago fuel is scarce, maple, sawed and split, sell¬ 
ing at nine dollars the short cord, and tho better qualities 
of coal at ten dollars per ton. 
— (treat are the mysteries of Ocean Postage. It costs 
more now to send an ounce of paper to Europe than it 
does to send a barrel of flour. 
ROCHESTER, JANUARY 3, 1857. 
The Rural Progressing, 
Here’s the paper, good friends aud numerous— 
and with it our grateful acknowledgment of tbe 
generous kindness and active efforts, on your part, 
which have enabled us to clothe it in attire so 
recherche and becoming. How do you like its New 
Year suit? Is it not iu good taste?—aye, beautiful 
exceedingly? And does not the Rural talk well, 
in addition to being “good looking?” Our printers 
are in ecstacies with its appearance— aud we con¬ 
fess to a slight participation in their enthusiasm— 
yet we consider another item of far more impor¬ 
tance— its Contents. In both essentials, how¬ 
ever, we have resolved to manifest the onward 
spirit of our Motto, “Excelsior," and primary 
Objects, “Progress and Improvement.” By com¬ 
paring this with any preceding number of the 
Rural, the reader can determine whether the reso¬ 
lution has been “adopted.” 
Our principal type is Minion, and much smaller, 
or more compoct, than that heretofore used. It 
enables us to give from one-fifth to one-fourth more 
reading than heretofore—thus greatly enlarging 
the paper without increasing its size. And yet 
the type is so clear and bold, that we think it will 
prove as legible and acceptable as that used in our 
previous volume. Though the sheet is of the same 
size, this number contains nearly or quite double 
the amount oi reading contained in any number of 
our first volume—while there is a still greater 
difference in the expense of the “matter” published. 
These and other facts, prove that our talk about 
progress is no myth, hut oae~of those very stub¬ 
born truths which cannot be crushed. 
The Rural, not only enters upon the New Year 
in good trim, but with far more encouraging pros¬ 
pects than ev er before. For the information of its 
ardent friends aud supporters, we will simply state 
that its receipts during tire week ending Saturday 
last were over one-third more than those of the cor¬ 
responding week of the year preceding—which 
is all that need be said on that subject. We this 
week add just twenty thousand to our former large 
edition. Whether we shall continne this extra 
edition is a question which will soon be decided, 
and affirmatively, too, if the Rural’s friends ali 
over the land continue their present noble efforts 
in its behalf. Meantime, we respectfully invite 
each and all—Agents, Subscribers, casual readers, 
and even borrowers—to lend the Rural such 
measure of encouragement as may he consistent 
with their views and engagements, A little atten¬ 
tion on the part of its present subscribers will 
largely augment its circulation and usefulness.— 
How many of onr friendly readers will do ns, and 
their neighbors and acquaintances, a favor by act¬ 
ing in accordance with this suggestion? 
— See Prospectus and Premium List on next, 
and Special Notices on last page of this number. 
appreciated. In the rapid accumulation of capi¬ 
tal aud population, it will equal, if not far outrun, 
the Central part. 
We recently had occasion to go into the valley 
of the Susquehanna, as far as Binghamton. Our 
route was along the valleys of the Canisteo and 
Chemung rivers, and the Susquehanna. The first 
point of interest on the railroad going from Buffa¬ 
lo in that direction, is the bridge over the Genesee 
river at Portage. This bridge is a curiosity worthy 
of examination, and the falls of the river in the 
immediate vicinity, as well as the bold, and varied 
scenery, will well repay one for the time spent in 
viewing them. This point is a favorite resort in 
summer for railroad pic-nic parties from Buffalo 
and the villages along the line of the road. The 
hotel, which added much to the com tints ol a visit, 
has been burned down, and there seems to he no 
prospect of a new one being built at present 
Crossing the dividing ridge, which separates the 
waters of the Genesee from those of the tributa¬ 
ries of the Susquehanna, wc came upou the Canis¬ 
teo, near its sources, and you are only aware of its 
coming to the dignity of a river, liy seeing the 
lumber and logs piled up along its banks ready to 
be rafted when the spring floods come on. The 
lumber, mostly pine, has been nearly exhausted in 
the vicinity of the streams, and the dense pineries 
which at the time of the Revolution were one un¬ 
broken forest along all the valleys aud streams, 
have gradually faded away, and given place to cul¬ 
tivated farms. Portions of tbe “flats” are good 
for wheat, but the most profitable farming over all 
this region from the lake to the Hudson river is 
the dairy. Tbe real “ butler zone" is found upon 
the head waters of those streams whose drainage 
flows into the bays at the South, or into the lakes 
and the St. Lawrence. It is rather an interesting 
fact that the region where good butter can be 
profitably made is small as compared with the 
population, or the area of land occupied thereby. 
Investigations into the climatology of the Conti¬ 
nent, have established the important truth that as 
you recede from the seaboard to the West the av¬ 
erage fall of water in rain and snow annually is 
much less, and hence in the States of Ohio, In¬ 
diana and Illinois, and those further north or be¬ 
yond, except in extraordinary seasons, there will 
not be sufficient moisture to insure that constant 
and abundant yield of vegetable food to give the 
cow an adequate flow of milk. This nndoubtedly 
Af’.cnnnt.a for tlio fart flint. uotwitb«t.andinff the 
great increase of population, and the large amount 
of land brought into cultivation, the price of but¬ 
ter in the butter regions of this State has constant¬ 
ly increased, aud will do so for many years to come. 
At Corning we first strike the intersecting lines 
of the Pennsylvania improvements, iu the Bloss- 
burgh railroad, which brings to this point the val¬ 
uable coal bearing that name. It is from this place 
that Rochester is supplied with coal, by means of 
the railroad ruuuing from here through the Con- 
hocton aud Genesee valleys to that city. This coal is 
N. Y. State Temperance Society. 
Pursuant to the call of the delegates of the N. 
Y. Suite Temperance Society, a meeting was held 
on the 25th ult. at Albany. The Secretary present¬ 
ed the report of the Executive Committee. The 
report says that the concurrent testimony is that 
intemperance has been greatly augmented by lay¬ 
ing prostrate tbe Prohibitory law, and that the 
excitement attendant upon the election has led 
many back into intemperance, and induced others 
to take the first step iu that vice. The Society’s 
agent, since May last, has delivered 108 lectures, 
and procured 4,000 subscribers to The Prohibition¬ 
ist. During the year the Society’s press has issued 
nearly 9,000,000 of pages in tracts, and since Jan. 
18,1854, over 58,000,000 pages. The report further 
states that the records of the police courts and 
jails show that tbe Prohibitory law in the preven¬ 
tion of pauperism and crime, effected much good 
despite the decision of the Court of Appeals.— 
The commitments in nine counties under the Pro¬ 
hibitory law, show a decrease of two-fifths from 
those under the license law. Statistics bIiow that 
for every church in tbe State there are fourteen 
shops in which liquor is sold. 
The Committee believe that the decision of the 
Court of Appeals in regard to the Prohibitory law 
was erroneous, and think a stringent Prohibitory 
law can be formed which the present Court of 
Appeals will uphold. The report takes strong 
ground in favor of Prohibition, and expresses a 
fear that an effort will be made with political Tem¬ 
perance men to influence the Legislature to pass a 
license law. » 
Conflagrations and Casualties. 
There were three destructive fires in PhiladeP 
phia on the 22d ult, keeping the firemen engaged 
till morning. John Funston’s brush-block factory 
in the 16th ward, was totally consumed, throwing 
three hundred hands ont of employment The 
omnibus stables of Mills, Flynn & Co., were also 
totally consumed, and 130 horses and 30 omnibuses 
burned. Loss $40,000. Williams’ flouring mill, 
near the Navy Yard, was also burned; loss $100,000. 
The livery stable of T. Stevens, at Savannah, Ga., 
was burnt on Tuesday, 23d ult, and 40 horses per¬ 
ished. 
Two trains on the Virginia Central Railroad 
came in collision near Gordonsville on the 26th ult. 
Both trains smashed. Four or five men killed and 
several injured. 
Tue schooner Lenox, which left Kingston, C. W., 
three weeks since for Toronto, has not been heard 
of, and all hopes of her safety are abandoned.— 
With her own crew of seven men, she had five 
sailors belonging to the schooner Lochiel, who 
were working their passage to Toronto. All are 
supposed to be lost 
w- 
Tue Albany express train which left that city at 
4) P. M. Saturday, 27th ult, met with a serious 
accfflent about 80 miles from the city. A broken 
Just a Word. —We now and then hear of a man 
who “don’t like the idea” of our “paying such 
premiums to agents,” and who thinks we should 
give the amount to subscribers, or expend it on 
the paper. To which we simply answer, that we 
give subscribers value received for their money, 
and if they can do better, they will of course invest 
elsewhere. We remunerate our agents and active 
friends as a matter of right, in return for their servi¬ 
ces—and by so doing are enabled to furnish a 
better paper than we possibly could otherwise.— 
Subscribers might with equal propriety complain 
because we pay our printers, paper-makers, &c., 
better wages and higher prices than other pub¬ 
lishers— all items by which readers are benefited, 
rather than injured ! Will these occasional wise¬ 
acres please give us a few lessons in the man¬ 
agement of a business which it seems we don’t 
undersaud ? 
Iowa and Wisconsin. 
TnE census of Iowa, completed just before the 
late election, shows the population to have been, in 
round numbers, half a million. The population at 
different periods has been as follows:—In 1840, 
42,924; in 1850, 192,214; in 1856, 503,304. The 
vote of Iowa at the late election was 89,370. Tilt- 
same proportion of votes to population gives Wis¬ 
consin a population of 700,000 at the present time, 
which would be an increase of about 150,000 in 
the space of 16 months, and the same rate of in¬ 
crease, which there is every reason t'o anticipate, 
will give Wisconsin a population of over 1,000,000 
by the next U. 8. census in i860. The four States 
of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa, with 
Minnesota, will doubtless by that census number 
four and a half millions of people. Tn 1830 the 
vast regions now comprising these States had a 
population of 192,339 all told. What an illustra¬ 
tion of the marvellous growth of the Free West! 
The following figures exhibit tho agricultural 
wealth of Iowa — the period Is for 1855: — Wheat 
bushels, 5,500,000; corn, bushels, 6,000,000; pota¬ 
toes, bushels, 2,000,000; hogs, 400,000. 
No Comi’etition. —We beg to assure one and all 
interested that the Rural does not profess to com¬ 
pete with the “ dollar papers ” and other cheap (?) 
periodicals. The latter are often “made up” 
of second or third hand reading, (that which has 
been used in daiyl, semi-weekly, Ac.,) whereas 
every line in the Rural is written or prepared ex¬ 
pressly for its readers, and many articles and 
sketches coat from ten to thirty dollars each. Those, 
therefore, who want low-priced reading, with out. 
regard to quality, value or appropriateness, will 
find the reprints of daily aud other papers “just 
the thing ”—while such as desire a journal emi¬ 
nently designed to interest, instruct and benefit 
will please send their invitations in this direction. 
Mineral Wealth oe tue Superior Region.— 
The Watertown (Wis.) Journal has a letter from 
Lake Superior, in which the writer gives a very 
promising account of the mineral wealth abound¬ 
ing there. He believes that the iron ore beds ex¬ 
tend into Wisconsin. Along the proposed route 
to the North-Eastern Railroad, near the Michigan 
side, a field of iron ore has been discovered, about 
a mile and a half in length, 100 feet wide, and 100 
feet high. The Superior ores, he says, arc of bet¬ 
ter quality than those of Dodge county. They 
exist in rock form, must he quarried, aud furnish 
the toughest liar iron iu tho world. Of a single 
ridge on the Peshukame river, composed of nearly 
pure specular oxide of iron, which shoots up 113 
feet high, he says, that, it “contains iron sufficient 
to supply the world for ages, yet we saw neither its 
length nor its width, but only an outline of the 
mass.” 
The Highly Complimentary notices of the 
Rural which have recently appeared in many of 
our exchanges, are gratefully appreciated, and 
stimulate us to still greater efforts. The very 
complimentary and encouraging letters we are 
receiving, are also gratifying. Though not natu¬ 
rally vain, wc are a trifle proud of these kiud notices 
and epistles, and shall endeavor to merit all the 
good things said of us hy both Press and People. 
The Detection op Murder—Another Trial.— 
It will be recollected that some time since an arti¬ 
cle was published by a celebrated physician in 
England, which alleged that the last scene viewed 
by a dying man would remain impressed upon tbe 
retina, as does the impression upon a daguerreo¬ 
type plate. Experiments were made in the case of 
Mr. Beadle, murdered at Auburn last summer, 
which were pronounced satisfactory by the physi¬ 
cians. A series of experiments have recently been 
made by Mr. Pallock, an oculist of Chicago. In 
each experiment that Dr. P. has made, he has 
found that an examination of the retina of an eye 
with a microscope reveals a wonderful as well as a 
beautiful sight, and that almost in every instance 
there was a clear, distinct and marked impression. 
“Honor to wnoM Honor,” Ac.—T he Rural's 
new dress was furnished by N\ Lyman, of Buffalo, 
than whom we know not a more prompt or honor¬ 
able type founder aud printer’s furnisher. His 
establishment is very complete, and well worthy 
the attention of our friends of the Black Art in 
this region, the West ami Canada—and we can as¬ 
sure all that they will obtain good material and 
fair treatment. 
Shipwrecks. — During the past week, wrecks 
have been numerous in the vicinity of New York, 
but, we are happy to add, with very little loss of 
life. The ship New Y'ork, having on board about 
280 emigrants, is among the number,— passengers 
were ail saved by the aid of life cars. After the 
vessel struck, the crew broke into the storeroom 
and supplied themselves with liquor until they be¬ 
came infuriated, and while in this condition, at, 
tacked the captain, stabbing him fatally. One of 
the mutineers, after getting on shore, was frozen to 
death. The British bark Tasso was also lost. Foilr 
sailors and two snrfmen — the latter had gone to 
the safety of those on board the wrecked vessel— 
were drowned. 
The Electoral Vote of Wisconsin Snowed In. 
—The first Wednesday of December being the day 
for the assembling of the Electors of the several 
States of their respective State Capitals, the Elec¬ 
tors of Wisconsin started in time, from their 
homes, to reach Madison, under ordinary condi¬ 
tions of weather and roads on the day. But a 
snow storm on the Tuesday previous, shut in the 
Capital, and prevented all ingress. The legal day 
passing over without any action of the College, of 
course the functions of the Electors no longer 
continued, and all they had to do was to return 
home, private citizens. Consequently Wisconsin 
had no voice in the election. 
“The Happy New Year,” written expressly for 
the Rural byT. 8. Arthur, will tend to make you 
a better man or woman—and, unless you are 
“made oi' sterner stuff”’ than this deponent, you 
will experience a choking sensation, and your 
eyes be blinded somewhat, during its perusal.— 
Though we copyright Mr. Arthur’s sketches, our 
contemporaries are at perfect liberty to copy, 
provided credit is given. 
Salt in Mjchioan. —The Grand Rapids Enquirer 
contains a report to the Lyceum of Natural His¬ 
tory, in relation to the salt springs of that vicinity, 
iu which wc are told that the supply of water is 
very abundant, and that it is equal iu quality to 
that furnished by the Kanawha Springs in Virginia. 
Dr. De Camp is the author of the report. 
Notices of Books, Magazines, Ac., are necessa- 
ly deferred. Most of the magazines for January 
pen rich — are attraetible and readable. 
