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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKERS AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
New York Legislature, 
Senate. —The Senate was called to order on the 
Gth iusL by Lieut. Gov. Selden, and briefly address¬ 
ed by him. 
Hon. John T. Darling, Senator elect from the 
32d District, in place of Hon. Roderick White, de¬ 
ceased, received the oath of office from the Presi¬ 
dent, 
The Governor’s Private Secretary, Hon. Henry I, 
Seariii.n, delivered to the Senate tire Governor's 
Message, which was read. 
Mr. Kelly offered a resolution of thanks to Hon. 
H, J. Raymond, for the able, courteous and impar¬ 
tial manner in which he has discharged the duties 
of bis office, while President of the Senate.— 
Adopted. 
Mr. Wadsworth introduced a resolution of regret 
for the death of Seuator White, during the recess. 
Resolved that the Senate wear the usual badge of 
mourning for 30 days. Adopted. 
Petitions were presented for an Inebriate Asy¬ 
lum; for a prohibitory law; for a law to enable the 
Common Council of New York to pay the award 
in the matter of the Central Park, and the bor¬ 
rowed money to build a reservoir. 
The Comptroller sent in a report stating the 
amount of money paid soldiers of 1812, at $160,- 
420 98. 
Mr. Brooks introduced a bill to amend the laws 
relating to the insurance of property in the State 
by foreign companies; to compel such companies 
to pay two per cent, to the fire department fund by 
February first each year, and to compel annua) 
returns on oath. Mr. Brooks introduced a regis¬ 
try bill. 
Hocsk.—T he members elect assembled on the 
6th inst. 
The Secretary of State proceeded to administer 
the oath of office, after which, on motion, the 
House proceeded to chooBe a Sp' her, Clerk, Ac., 
with the following result:— Speaks —D. C. Little¬ 
john; Clerk — Wm. Richardson, of Albany; Ser- 
geant-al-Arms —Norman P. Hitchcock, of Chenan¬ 
go ; Door-Keeper — Nathan Newhafer, Monroe; 
First Assistant Door-Keeper — Patrick FarralL of 
Madison: Second Assistant Door-Keeper — John 
Lewis, of Cattaraugus. 
Committees were then appointed to wait upon 
the Senate and Governor, and inform them that 
the House had organised and were ready to pro¬ 
ceed to bnsiness. On the return of the committees 
the annual Message of the Governor was presented. 
A large number of bills have been noticed and 
introduced, but the Legislators have not as yet got 
fairly at work. 
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please bear (.Ins in mind, and receive and forward the (subscrip¬ 
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mand, we commenced this volume by adding 20,000 copies to our 
former edition. The prospect now is that this extra edition will 
be exhausted soon ; honeo those who wish the volume complete, 
should not delay iu sending in tlujir subscriptions. Rack num¬ 
bers will be furnished to new subscribers (unless otherwise 
ordered) until our edition is exhausted. 
OtJit 1’HrMtun List, on next page, is worthy the special 
attention, and BObrtS, of Agent* Subscribers and oilier friends 
of the Rural. 
For terms, Special Notices. <tc- see last page. 
Senate. — Mr. Mason, of Vn,, was elected Presi¬ 
dent pro tern., by 30 votes to Foote’s 11. 
The President has transmitted to the Senate, in 
reply to a resolution of that body, a letter from the 
Atlantic Ocean Telegraph Company, in which the 
President is informed that contracts have been 
made for the manufacture of sub-marine cables to 
connect the two countries, and that it is expected 
to be open for business by the 1st of July next, as 
the work has been prosecuted thus far by Ameri¬ 
can capital, An., under this Administration. 
It is the earnest desire of the directors t,o secure 
to the Government of the LTuited States equal 
privileges with those stipulated for by the British 
Government. Iu this desire the Lord’s Commis¬ 
sioners of the British Treasury, have acted itt 
the most liberal spirit. 
The American Directors cannot doubt that the 
reservation made by the United States will he 
deemed of great moment, and therefore ask the 
President to take such action in the premises as 
be may deem the interests of this government may 
require. 
The Company will enter into a contract with 
the Government of the United States on the same 
terms as with the British Government Her Ma¬ 
jesty’s Government engage to furnish two ships to 
lay the cable, and it is suggested that our recently 
linished war steamers are the very best to assist in 
this business. 
To avoid failure in laying the cable, the Compa¬ 
ny requests the President to make such represen¬ 
tation to Congress as will secure this end. The 
President makes no recommendation. 
Mr. Weller reported a bill to iucrease the pay of 
Army officers, and gave notice that he should call 
it up another day. 
Judge Douglas presented a petition, numerously 
signed, praying for a State Government in Minne¬ 
sota. Mr. D. will in a few days report a bill au¬ 
thorizing a State Government, and fixing the 
boundary as provided for in Mr. Rice’s bill. 
On motion of Mr. Bell of N. H., a resolution was 
adopted requesting the President, if in his opinion 
it is not inconsistent with the public interests, to 
communicate to the Senate such information as 
may be on file in the department of State, relative 
to the interference at the Island of Aves in the 
Carribean Sea, of the Venezuelean Government 
with American citizens who are rightfully in oc¬ 
cupancy of the said Island as they believe, and 
were engaged in collecting guano therefrom. The 
said government having forcibly ejected the said 
American citizens from their lawful employment, 
and also to communicate what measures had been 
taken, if any, by the government of the I'uited 
States to obtain redress from the government of 
Venezuela. 
House. —It is the intention of the friends of 
river and harbor hills now before the House, to 
incorporate them in one bill, and pass them all at 
once by a two-third vote. 
Mr. Boyd gave notice of an amendment to the 
tariff’, proposing that tea and coffee be added to 
the list, paying tariff of 20 per cent, 
Mr. Kelsey, of N. V., introduced a subject which 
caused much excite inept. He presented it as a 
question of privilege, ll*st causing to be read at 
the Clerk’s table au ed" trial from the “New York 
Times” of the 0th inst-,' r- Inch charged Members 
of Congress and lobby agents with gross corrup¬ 
tion, mentioning the Minnesota land bill in the 
connection, aud saying that, evidence can be pro¬ 
duced to carry conviction to every honest heart, 
aud that the criminals should be driven from the 
high places which they had dishonored. He con¬ 
cluded by offering the following: 
Whereas, Certain statements have been publish¬ 
ed, charging the. members of this House with en¬ 
tering into a corrupt combination for the purpose 
ol passing, and of preventiug the passing of cer¬ 
tain measures now before Congress; therefore, 
Resolved, That a committee of five members he 
appointed by the Speaker, with power to send for 
persons and papers to Investigate said charges, 
and that the committee report the evidence to be 
taken, and what action, in their judgment, is ne¬ 
cessary on the part of the House, without unne¬ 
cessary delay. 
A committee was appointed to investigate the 
ulleged corruptions. The committee consists of 
Messrs. Kelsey, Orr, Davis, Ritchie and Warner. 
A remonstrance from Kansas, against Whitfield 
taking his seat, was presented by Mr. Grow, and 
referred to a Committee on Elections. 
, — Deaths in Boston last year, 4,260. 
> — The Canadian Parliament will meet in Toronto on the 
5 26th of February. 
1 —Maj. Dutton, commander at Ft. Mifflin, died in Phlla- 
f dolpbia on the 6th hist 
— The interments in Greenwood Cemetery, since it open- 
. ed in 1840, number 47,223. 
— Dr. Kirk left. Boston on the 8th to take charge of the 
^ American Chapel in Paris. 
j —The whole number of lighthouses belonging to the 
|. United States is Sibout 800. 
— An ice bridge was formed over the St. Lawrence op¬ 
posite Quebec, on Tuesday night 
— In Scotland it is proposed to fit out steamers instead 
of ships to engogotn the whale trade. 
, — A company of Kansas emigrants from this State are 
to rendezvous at Buffalo early in April. 
, —A project has bom started to establish a line of pro- 
’ pellers between Montreal and Chicago. 
— Over thirty slaves have been hung in Louisiana, in con¬ 
sequence of the lusuirection excitement. 
— The Toronto Globe says that on the 6th inst the 
thermometer stood at 7 degrees below zero. 
1 — There are ,i n mi ally manufactured in the United States 
■ 2,160,CK)0 shovels, or about 600 dozen per day. 
— Seventy-two persons, whoso agos exceeded sevonty 
years, diet! in Providence duriug the hist year. 
— More property is destroyed by lire every year in the 
United States than iu all the rest of the world. 
— A wealthy citizen of Brooklyn, on Christmas day dis¬ 
tributed 126,000 among his nephews and nieces. 
— A trader in Hartford distributed to the poor children 
of the city f ,000 pairs of rubbers on Christmas. 
—The motrality of Philadelphia for the past year has 
been ten thousand two hundred and twenty-two. 
— The steamship Kuropa sailed on tlio 7th inst., for 
Liverpool with 42 passengers and $250,700 in specie. 
— The mortality of Die City of Baltimore for the year 
I860 was five thousand six hundred and sixty-eight. 
— A steams hip of 3,000 tuns, and 326 feet long, is being 
built in New York, for the trade on the Pacific coast. 
— It is estimated that 50,000 persons attended the funeral 
of Father Mathew, in Cork, on the 12th of December. 
— Hog killing is over at Louisville. About 246,000 head 
have been killed there and iu the vicinity this season. 
— Hon. J. W. II. Underwood, of Georgia, hag been ap¬ 
pointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Nebraska Ter. 
— It is estimated that in India and Ceylon thero are oue 
hundred and twenty thousand converts to Christianity. 
— The Chicago Journal claims a population of 111,000 
for that city, which in 1840 liail less Ilian live thousand. 
— The new Steam Frigate Niagara, is ready for sea, and 
thero i stalk of taking her to Washington on a trial trip. 
— Mr Spurgeon, tlie modern Whitfield, preached in the 
Surrey Music Hall, London, on the 14th Dec., to 8,000 souls. 
— There are now one hundred and fifteen counties iu the 
flourishing State ot Texas, and territory for as many more. 
— Colonel Thomas F. Hunt, Assistant Quartermaster 
General United States Army, died at New Orleans on the 
23d ult. 
— A little girl in Watcrville, CL, more than a year ago 
swallowed a needle, and on New Year's day it came out of 
her knee. 
— The contributions of Essex county, Mass., to the re¬ 
lief of Kansas, during the last three months, have exceed¬ 
ed $7,000. 
—The house of a Mr. Kelly, 280 Avenue B New York, 
was on fire three times, between three and six o’clock on 
Thursday. 
—A Mrs. Pope, iu Worcester co., Mass., reached her 102d 
birthday on the 16th inst. She still retains the full use of 
hor fo.cultb-8. 
— Englvdi engineers have commenced the necessary sur¬ 
veys for a railway from the Mediterranean Sea to the River 
Euphrates. 
— It is now well ascertained that some thirty slavers have 
been fitted out in the port of New York within the last 
three years. 
— The population of New York is dying at about the 
rate ot one in every seventeen minutes, day and night, all 
the year round. 
— Several of tho merchants of Schenectady have gone 
to burning catnphene, alleging it to be cheaper than gas, 
and just ns good. 
— Tho monthly statement of the U. 8. Treasury shows 
the amount in tho depository at Buffalo, subject to draft, 
to be $55,404 04. 
— 30,000 passengers woro carried last year by the steam¬ 
ship between Europe aud the U. M, including eastern and 
western passages. 
— A mad dog was shot in Fislikill last week, hut not till 
after having bitten severely D. B. Titbits, foreman in the 
Standard office. 
— Foreign papers state that all the English mechanics 
are to he dismissed from the Russian service, and Americans 
to bo employed. 
— About sixty thousand families in Great Britain own 
all the land, which is occupied by raorethau twenty-seven 
millions of people. 
— “ It is a fact,” says the Bombay Gazette, “ that the 
entire population of Hindustan does not average sixpence 
a year for clothing.” 
— Valuable mines of lead, copper, and silver have been 
discovered and to some extent developed, in the “Cherokee 
country,” iu Georgia. 
— Two marble statues of great beauty, from the studio 
of Miss Honour in Italy, have just arrived and are on ex¬ 
hibition in Boston. 
— Mayor Hull, of Brooklyn, Is to bo presented with a 
house and lot by his fellow-citizens on tho occasion of his 
retirement from office. 
— During tho last eight years, the annual mortality from 
scarlet fever in New York city has increased from 93 (in 
1848) to 1,233 (in 1866. 
— Mrs. 8. Reed died suddenly in Philadelphia, last week, 
from the effects iff chloroform, which she had applied to 
her lace for neumlgia. 
—A point on tho Missouri River opposite Sioux City, in 
Iowa, is proposed as the site of the capital of the new 
Territory of Dacofah. 
— The Toledo, Ohio Times Bays they a re sinking a woll 
in that city which will be 2,500 feet deep. It will be the 
deepest well in the world. 
— There is a law in Kentucky allowing any widow who 
has a child between six and eighteen years of age, to voto 
In school district meetings. 
— At an auction sale at the fair of SL Paul's Church, 
Buffalo, a barrel of flour was sold for $73 60, and presented 
to the rector, Dr. Shelton. 
— Music “upon tho waters’’ Is quite common, but the 
Boston Ians lia u uiumo on the ice, to which both ladies and 
gentlemen skate by moonlight 
— The number of persons attached to the working of 
railways in France, is 32,000. When the whole network is 
in operation there will I hi 80,000. 
— The tadies ol SL Paul's Church, New Haven, made 
their Rector, Rev. A. N. Littlejohn, a Christmas present of 
a Life Insurance policy for $6,000. 
— Tho London News states that the large amount of 
£10,360,479 was paid In that country, in the year 1805, as 
duty o u lorelgu aud British spirits. 
— A company ol Kansas Settlers is organizing iu Michi¬ 
gan, who expect to roach the Territory early in March, 
under the guidance of Rev. A. SL Clair. 
Thus commanding a high price and active do- 
mand, lie is abundantly repaid Cor his extra labor. 
There are very many farmers scattered about the 
State whose brand upon a butter tub ensures its 
sale without further examination, and that, too, at 
prices from ten to twenty per cent, above, their 
neighbors, who have perhaps as good cows,pastu¬ 
rage and daily conveniences. 
Tho making of butter is a simple process—agi¬ 
tating the milk or cream until tho globules which 
hold tho fatty matter are broken, and their con¬ 
tents aggregate and separate from the surround¬ 
ing fluid, is the scientific formula for obtaining ft. 
It matters little whether the milk be pntinto great 
skin bottles and placed upon the back of the bard 
trotting dromedary, or churned in the neatest of 
modern churns, by the latest patent dog, sheep, or 
horse power, for if churned long enough the but¬ 
ter will come. 
To make good butter, however, is a very nice 
operation, and requires both skill and judgment, 
as well as much patience and care. Good cows, 
good pasturage, good water, and a plenty of good 
food at all times, are among the primary requi- 
: ites. Many profess to believe that cows which 
are the most profitable for a butter dairy are not 
so much so for a cheese dairy, and the reverse_ 
To such an extent is this cariied by some farmers, 
that they make it the business of their whole 
lives to select those cows which will yield the 
most butter, finding them usually those that do 
not, for i ho hulk of food consumed, yield the moat 
milk. It is notunt'reqnent for them to own two or 
three hundred cows before they get a dairy to 
their mind. Others believe that much depends 
upon the food of tho cow, aud that, by artificial 
means, as in the kind and quality of food furnish¬ 
ed, the flow of milk may be profitably increased. 
Those dairymen have been the most successful 
who have provided au abuudant supply of food 
for that portion of the year wheu, by reason of 
our hot, dry summers, the grass fails to yield a 
full bite. Indian coru, planted for the purpose of 
soiling, has been found of great value, while oth¬ 
ers have given through the whole Beason a slight 
quantity of oil meal mixed with bran or Indian 
meal. Experience has shown that food has an 
important bearing npon both the quantity and 
quality of the butter. 
There ate two general methods of procuring the 
butter from the milk—oue by obtaining the cream 
and churning it, the other by churning all the 
milk. Both have their advantages, and either will 
produce good butter. The general practice, both 
in this country, England and Holland, among the 
most successful dairymen, would seem to declare in 
favor of churniug all the milk, and that, too, im¬ 
mediately after it has curdled. More butter has 
been obtained by this process from a given quan¬ 
tity of milk than by any other. The practice of 
the best dairymen here is to set the milk iu com¬ 
mon-sized tin pails in cool cellars until it is cur¬ 
dled, aud then churn the milk and cream together. 
Care must be taken not to let the milk stand too 
long before churning, os by that delay both in 
milk or cream, much butter is spoiled, for any 
taint to either by long standing or impure vessels 
cannot be got out by any subsequent process. 
As the day has been a pretty long one, we shall 
not go into any further detail, though much thut 
we saw and heard, and many thoughts aud sugges¬ 
tions, will remain only in our own mind. It may 
so happen, hereafter, that we can spend more than 
a single day iu this interesting region, and be en¬ 
abled to visit the farmers in their homes, and then, 
this day being forgotten, we will try our pen again 
at a description of what wc saw and heard.—p. 
ROCHESTER, JANUARY 17, 1867. 
Our Christmas Premiums will be announced 
next week. The rush of subscriptions has been 
so great thus far that our clerks have found it al- 
mostan impossibility to respond to the daily or¬ 
ders with promptness, and could not therefore find 
time to make a detailed and accurate statementin 
regard to the competition. 
Agents ami others forwarding subscriptions, are 
requested to be very particular in giving namesof 
persons, post-offices, Ac.—and not to omit their own 
autographs. We have recently received several 
letters, with very substantial inclostires, without 
tho names of the writers attached. Another thing 
—please send drafts on New York, Albany. Boston, 
Buffalo or Rochester, instead of checks or certifi¬ 
cates of deposit on local banks. In obtaining 
drafts, deduct cost of exchange Irom remittances. 
Corruption in Congress. — The Public Lands 
Governors’ Messages.—Agricultural Interests. 
The Message of Gov. Kino, of New York, was 
presented to both branches of the State Legisla¬ 
ture last week. The document is characterized by 
the press as able, precise und lucid. Its Length 
precludes our publishing it entire. The following 
extract, relative to the Ag. College, will be of in¬ 
terest to the rural population of the State: 
“I should do injustice to my estimate of the 
value of agricultural education, and of the College 
for Umt purpose endowed under the laws of tins 
State, as well as to my own connection with that 
institution, if 1 failed at the earliest moment to 
invite your Attention to its pro* ot condition,— 
The first successful movement in this behalf was 
by tho late John Dcluficld, of Seneca county, 
through whose enlightened zeal and perseverance, 
an act of incorporation was obtained from the 
Legislature in April, 1863. Encouraged by this 
success, Air. Debilicld was earnest in scouring 
friends and subscriptions to the enterprise, uutii 
suddenly arrested by the hand of death; not, how¬ 
ever, before the trustees of the College bud mani¬ 
fested their estimate of Jiis services, character and 
ability by choosing him Iheaident of the College. 
The loan to tbiB College of $40,000, authorized by 
Conflagrations and Casualties, 
A fire broke out iu the store 168 River street, 
Troy, on the Gth inst, which extended to six ad¬ 
joining stores south to Congress sL, also burning 
four stores on Congress street,—making 10. Loss 
heavy, not ascertained. 
The building known as Poplar Hall, Brooklyn, 
owned by Elisha B. Morrell, was burned on the Gth 
inst Loss $20,000—insured $16,000. 
Filetek’r Foundry, at Port Levi, opposite Que¬ 
bec, was totally destroyed by fire on the Gth inst. 
Loss $20,000. Insured $15,000. 
The large factory of Messrs. Herbert, Heath 
A Co., in Danbury, was burnt on the 7th inst.— 
Loss $10,000—insured for $4,000. 
The Vermont State Capitol, Montpelier, was 
burnt on the Gth inst.—nothing remains but the 
walls. Tho most serious loss is to the department 
of Naturalists, the loss being irreparable. The 
building cost $120,000. 
Cart. Mannjnu, a retired naval officer, residing 
in Charleston, Va., fell into the fire and was burnt 
to death, on the 10th inst. 
The Harlem train from New York for Albany, 
ran off the track near Chatham Four Corners, on 
the 9th inst The accident was occasioned, it is 
supposed, by displacing a rail by a heavy freight 
train just passed. The two roar cars were thrown 
I off and detached from the train. There was quite 
j a wreck made of the cars, stove upset, cars took 
fire, Ac. Several persons were seriously injured, 
but none killed. 
The cold at the West has been intense. In Towa 
we hear that seven persons were frozen to death. 
Mrs. Walton and her son, at Pleasant Valley. Five 
persons, a man, three women aud a child near 
Monticello. 
Dr. T. C. Gibnet, of Scott Co., Ky., lost his life 
from the effects of the intense cold. 
Mercantile Success. —It is Heldom that a case 
of such continued prosperity can be chronicled in 
the history of any mercantile firm ns in that of 
the Messrs. Howland A Aspinwall. About thirty 
yeurs ago the commercial firm of G. E. A S. S. 
flowhind was formed in the city of New York.— 
They were engaged principally in the West India 
trade. Ten years afterwards the partners retired 
from business wealthy, leaving bebiud, tus special 
partners, $200,000 for their successors, Messrs. 
Howland A Aspinwall. A few years further on, 
aud the members ol this firm also retired, leaving 
the same amount, as special partners, to a junior 
Messrs. Howland A Aspinwall; and recently, these 
latter have, too, retired, leaving $200,000 for still 
younger members—same name and style of firm. 
Peorlk’s College Ixicatkd. —The location of 
this important institution baa been finally con¬ 
summated. The commissioners appointed for the 
purpose selected the village of Havana; aDd the 
stockholders, at a meeting held there on the 8th 
inst., ratified the choice of the commissioners, and 
completed the preliminaries. A committee was 
appointed to procure the necessary plans, Ac., for 
the buildings, and it is the intention of the Trus¬ 
tees to Dike immediate steps for erecting the build¬ 
ings to accommodate at leuat 100 students.— 
Henceforth the People’s College is a fixed fact, 
and is the beginning of a new era in the education 
of the people.— v. 
dictateti at tnc nanot-nox, we suould hear less of Health op Dr. Kane. —The Philadelphia Penn- 
Congressional or Legislative corruption and po- syvanian says:—“We deeply regret to learn that 
litical defaulters. Dr. Kane, the indefatigaule explorer, whose fame 
fills the civilized world, is now living quite ill at 
Gouey’s Lady’s Book enters upon its new year Havana. His many friends aud admirers will 
and volume with an attractive and interesting deeply regret to learn that his lioulth is in a criti- 
number. May it, and its worthy conductor, be cal condition, and sincerely hope that he may yet 
awarded continuous and increasing prosperity.— recover and live to enjoy the rich harvest of fame 
By the way, Godey says the Rural has elected him, and honor he lias so fairly won.” 
by a “mistake of the printer”—for that whereas -- 
his advertisement in a late number was erroneous Remedy for Suicide. —As a remedy for suicide 
in stating that he furnished both Godey's and the Christian Advocate proposes the enactment of 
Harper's magazines for $3,60, instead of $4,50.— a law consigning to the schools of anatomy the 
Our readers will please note the correction, and body of every individual, of whatever rank in life, 
govern themselves accordingly. Address L. A. whom a coroner’s jury should declare to have 
Godky, Phila., Pa. committed suicide. 
Senator from Rhode Island. —The General 
Assembly of Rhode Island made choice of Hon. 
James F. Simmons as U. S. Senator, from the 4th 
of March next, in place of lion. Charles T. James, 
whose term will then expire. Mr. Simmons has 
served one term in tho Senate, from 1841 to 1867. 
He is a Republican. 
