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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
Items ot News, 
Convention of Newspaper Folks, 
PUBLISHER’S NOTICES 
Ex-Secretary Marc? is at Albany, arranging 
his private affairs, previous to his departure for 
London aB resident financial agent for the Michi¬ 
gan Southern aud Northern Indiana Railroad Co. 
of Birkenhead, have 
The annual Convention of newspaper publish¬ 
ers and editors in Western New York was held at 
Canandaigua on the'25th nit. This “institution,” 
we believe, was started by onr brethren of the 
" country press”—for Western New York has its 
city and country pres r vs well as the State in its 
entirety! The attendance was not large; but its 
“respectability” might well atone for its paucity 
of numbers! We observed Messrs. Matteson and 
Peck, of the Ontario Messenger; Messrs. Whitney 
and Willson, ot the Ontario Repository; Mr. Milli- 
ken, of the Ontario Republican Times, and Mr. 
Miller, late of a paper of the same name substan¬ 
tially; Mr.Norton, of the Livingston Republican; 
Mr. Parker, of the Geneva Gazette; Mr. Thomp 
son, Le Roy Gazette; Mr. Pratt, Coming Journal; 
Mr. Stewart, Binghamton Republican; Mr. Fair- 
child, Ovid Bee; Mr. Baldwin, Waverly Advocate; 
Mr. Cleveland, Penn Yan Chronicle; and Mr. 
Johnson, Geneva Courier. The only representa¬ 
tives of the Rochester Press were Mr. Moore, of 
the New-Yorker, and Mr. Butts, of the Union and 
Advertiser. 
Mr. Matteson, of Ontario, was Chairman of the 
Convention, and Mr. Norton, of Livingston, Sec¬ 
retary. On the re-assembling of the Convention 
in the afternoon, the Business Committee reported 
a long programme, embracing the minimum rates 
to be charged for advertising; the price of sub¬ 
scription to weekly papers; cash payments for 
same in all cases; the rateB for job work; the ar¬ 
rangement of a New York agency for all the mem¬ 
bers of the Association, <fcc., &e. The propositions 
were considered separately, and after some amend¬ 
ment were severally adopted. 
The gentlemen from various localities, who have 
been identified with this “institution” from its 
foundation, stated that notwithstanding the fact 
that but a small portion of the press was repre¬ 
sented from year to year, yet these meetings had 
been productive of much good, both material and 
social; that thoBC who have stood aloof from the 
Convention have been influenced and benefited by 
its recommendations; aod that an esprit du corps 
had been infused into tbe fraternity, which had 
done much to soften the asperities naturally en¬ 
gendered hy partisan warfare. Such is the case 
beyond question; for never have we seen a body 
of men Ibtuated by a more fraternal feeling than 
prevail in the Convention— though it embraced 
every party and all shadeB of political opinion. 
The Convention closed its labors by the election 
of officers for the ensuing year and selecting a 
place lor the next meeting of the Convention.— 
The offioera are as follows:—I). D. T. Moore, Roch¬ 
ester, President; S. H. Parker, Geneva, and C. B. 
Thompson, Le Roy, Vice Presidents; Mr. Norton, 
Genesco, Recording Secretary; Mr. Clevki.anh, 
Penn Yan, Corresponding Secretary; and J. J. 
Mattison, Canandaigua, Treasurer. The next 
meeting of the Convention is to he held at Roch¬ 
ester on the second Thursday of June next* 
The Convention passed resolutions acknowledg¬ 
ing the courtesies proffered to its members by the 
proprietor of the steamboat on Canandaigua Lake, 
by Hon. John Greig, and others; and by a special 
vote of thanks to Mr. Cleveland, proprietor of the 
Canandaigua Hotel, who gave the printers the nse 
of his large hall and entertained the “ press gang” 
in Lis best style, but obstinately refused everything 
in the shape of a quid pro quo. He keeps a first 
class house, and seems to receive, as he unques¬ 
tionably deserves, a remunerating patronage. 
_Aa the next meeting is to be held in this city 
we trust our city cotemporaries will exert them¬ 
selves to secure a general attendance from all partB 
of Western New York; indeed we should be glad 
to see the invitation extended so as to embrace the 
whole press of the State outside of New York city. 
The benefits to accrue from tbe organization will 
be increased in proportion as it is extended and 
its recommendations respected. Let ns all put 
forth our efforts to secure the desired end .—Roclu 
Daily Union. 
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Subscriptions for Six Months received at half the above 
rates, and free copies allowed in proportion. Club papers 
sent to os many dijjcrent post-offices as desired. 
tgp* A New Half Volume commences July 4, and hence the 
present is a good time te form club* for either Six Months or a 
Tear. Agents and others will bear in mind that all subscrip¬ 
tion* forwarding during the present month will count on Pre¬ 
miums. Bee Premium Lists cn next page. 
tJT'AKT person so disposed can act as local agent for the 
Rural, and all who do so will not only receive premiums, but 
their aid will be gratefully appreciated. 
— Lowell is soon to have a chime of bells. 
— In Paris the ladies use gold dust for hair powder. 
— The SeDcsa County Bank of Tiffin, Ohio, has failed. 
— The Governor General of Canada, has gone to Eng¬ 
land. 
— The Cattle Murrain in the northern part of Europe is 
subsiding. 
— A large iron jail is beiDg built at Cincinnati for Car- 
rolton, Miss. 
— Douglas Jerrold, the most noted of English journal¬ 
ists, is dead. 
— R. C. Muiphy, C. S. Consul at Shanghae, has resign¬ 
ed his office. 
— Oil is now manulactured in the Southern States from 
Ihe cotton seed. 
— The surplus in the National Treasury was reduced last 
week $720,000. 
— Mayor Wood, of New York is under bonds to the 
amount of $56,000. 
— Gen. Wood has passed the crisis of his disease, and is 
now likely to recover. 
— The Sentinel of Monroe, Wls., says that copper has 
been found in that vicinity. 
— Hon, Zeno Scuddor, foimerly member of Congress, 
died at Boston on the 26th nit. 
— Edwin Forrest, E*q, is to deliver the Fourth of July 
Oration at Perth Amboy, N. J. 
_The Republican State Convention of Maine have nomi¬ 
nated Lot. Morrill for Governor. 
— The wheat harvest has already commenced in Virginia. 
The yield, it is said, will be large. 
—The New Hampshire Legislature adjourned on the 
27 th nit., after a session of 25 dayB. 
_The number of men sacrificed by Walker in his Cen¬ 
tral Campaign, is estimated at 6,586. 
— There hav* been seventy murders committed in New 
Orleans duriDg the last fifteen months. 
— Anna and Mary Howltt, and Mrs. Browning, have be¬ 
come deeply interested in spiritualism. 
— The Philadelphia Bulletin chronicles the thirtieth 
rainy Monday, In consecutive order. 
— The Bank of South Royalton, Vt., has failed, and its 
notes axe not worth fifty cents < n a dollar. 
— It Is said that the hauls of herring at the fisheries 
near Hudson, Satnrday week, yielded 30,000i 
— Governor Wright, of Indians, has accepted the ap¬ 
pointment of Minister to the Court of Beilin. 
— Anti-rent troubles are breaking out again, 
was shot at, in Berne, Alb. Co., Saturday week, 
— Thirty of the cadets of the Georgia Military Institute 
have been expelled for going to a circus. 
— The Galt and Guelph O. W., Railway is announced to 
be opened for traffio on the 1st of August. 
— The hotels of Saratoga begin to fill up. The arrivals 
there on Thursday were over one hundred. 
— Hon. W. H. McWillie has been nominated hy the 
democrats of Mississippi for Governor of that State. 
— The snow is reported to be very deep in tbe valliea of 
the White Mountains for the last week in June. 
— The Hutchinsons (vocalists) hare a village in Minneso¬ 
ta, which promises to become an important town. 
— Col. Wm. Chapin, of Buffalo, died in that city on the 
26th ult. He had tesided In Buffalo lor 63 years. 
— There were admitted in one year, in London 143,000 
vagrants into the casual wards of the workhouses. 
— The New York Times states that there have bee 268 
deaths in that city from small pox since the first of Jan. 
— The Dumber of emigrants arrived at New York since 
January 1st, Is 65,112, against 37,822 same time last year. 
— The MQMWt of roccltmd tki ft Troraing 
cession ot the St. Louts police court, recently, was $309. 
— The interest on the Ohio State debt has been paid, in 
spite of the large defalcations of the two State Treasurers. 
— The French Government has fixed the army at 600,- 
000 men—an increase upon the ordinary peace establish¬ 
ment. 
— On the 4th of July, the corner stone of the Clay 
monument was laid, with imposing ceremonies, at Lexing¬ 
ton, Ky. 
— Tho Saratoga Republican is now published daily.— 
“The season" at Saratoga appears to have been fairly 
opened. 
— The Dusseldorf Gallery.of Paintings, New York city, 
has been purchased by the Cosmopolitan Art Association 
Tor 80,000. 
— The grain harvest in Europe, according to intelligent 
information, will bo magnificent, the silk crop worse than 
last year. 
— The President or the United States has recognized 
Edward Wallhouse Mark, as consul of H. B. Majesty for 
Maryland. 
— According to the State Register, an invaluable work 
reoently issued Irom the press, California contains 507,067 
Inhabitants. 
— President John C. Young, of Centro College, Kentuc¬ 
ky, Is dead. He was a brother-in-law of Vice President 
Breckinridge. 
— Mr. Barclay, the late codeuI of Great Britain in New 
York, is to be succeeded at that port by Mr. Lusoda, late 
consul at Riga. 
— Tho Buffalo Gag Company are putting np an immenFe 
gasometer estimated to contain “ three hundred thousand’’ 
cubic feet of gas. 
_The main line of Improvements in Pennsylvania, just 
Bold for $7,000,000, cost the State $23,000,000, and the sale 
is considered good. 
— Five hundred thousand dollars of the principal of 
the State debt of Illinois was paid off July 1st, at the Am. 
Ex. Bank, New York. 
— Tho quantity of public lands sold and located in the 
State of Wisconsin, tip the 30th of June, 1857, exceeds 
nine milliuns of acres. 
— It is stated that Mr. Dallas has been invited to Oxford, 
England, to receive the degree of LL. D., from the cele- 
biuted University there. 
— Two huudred additional pages of Gen. Walker's 
have juet arrived in the shape of 200 dilapidated 
Messrs. Newell & Co. 
completed their half of the Atlantic cable. Ex¬ 
periments through if. have demonstrated In the 
most satisfactory manner that the connection 
along the whole length of the wire was perfect* 
The Pennsylvania main line of public works was 
sold by auction on the 25th nit, at the Philadelphia 
Exchange. It was purohaeed hy J. Edgar Thom¬ 
son, President, in behalf of the Pennsylvania Rail¬ 
road, for $7,500,000—one bid only being made. 
The Oswego Times states that snow fell on 
Monday night, the 22d ult., in sufficient quantity to 
be observed on the side-walks by early risers on 
Tnesday morning. This, for Jane, is the crowning 
act of the long series of weather atrocities to 
which we have submitted. 
The Vilberforce College, Xenia, Ohio, has al¬ 
ready nearly fifty colored students; some twelve 
of them were emancipated and sent from the 
South for the purpose, ibeir expenses being paid 
by their Southern friends. 
It is Baid that a gentleman of Salem has an um¬ 
brella, still in good order, which he has used on 
all proper occasions for forty-seven years. He im¬ 
ported it from Liverpool in the year 1810, and it 
has been serviceable during all the intervening 
period. 
Last winter, it will he remembered, a young man 
named Mead, of Braltleboro’, Vt., attracted much 
notice by making a statue of snow by the roadside 
near that town, which was admirably executed.— 
Mr. Mead is now at work on a marble Btatue of the 
same design, which was ordered by a wealthy gen¬ 
tleman in Cincinnati. 
A farmer in Germantown, Pa., claims that he 
makes $7,000 a year clear profit from twelve acres 
of land. He raises principally early vegetables for 
the markets, and uses about $2,000 worth of fertili¬ 
zers on his land. From a patch 40 feet by 180 feet, 
he has sold $50 worth of pie plant this season, and 
can sell more from the Bame patob. 
A somewhat hazardous experiment is about to 
be tried by Mr. Charles K. Webb, owner and mas¬ 
ter of a little 6loop-rigged yacht called the Charter 
Oak, now lying in the East River, at the foot of 
Pine street, New York. It is nothing less than to 
navigate this little yacht, of but twenty-three tuns, 
across the Atlantic Ocean. The New York Ex¬ 
press says the yacht, is now taking in stores pre¬ 
paratory to a voyage to Liverpool —which place 
Mr. W. calculates to reach in three weeks. 
In Andover, Mass., last year, $5 premiums were 
offered to the boy who would destroy the largest 
number of caterpillar’s nests. The consequence 
was, 30,000 were destroyed. This year $15 are offer¬ 
ed in similar premiums. This Is a good plan. If 
towns would generally adopt it they would be 
cheaply rid of the pest of caterpillars. 
List of New Advertisements this Week 
Great Bargains in Virginia Land*—Absalom P. Kowe. 
Lake Shore and Mich. Southern R. R. Mm. R- Harr. 
Special Notice—J. Q. A. Warren. 
Mercantile College—Bassett A Co. 
Farm for Rale—Chawacey C Walker. 
First-class Family Journals—Fowler A Wells. . 
Portable Screw Iiop-Pr*88es for Sale—Lincoln L. cntamings. 
The Oriental Hordes Charmer—O. J. Elandge. 
Short horns for Sale—S. P. Chapman. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY 4, 1857, 
The Fourth.—July to January, 
The Glorious Fourth, the ever-memorable 
Anniversary of American Independence, recurs 
to-day when the whole Nation can simultaneously 
celebrate the event—rejoicing that, notwithstand¬ 
ing the corruptions of party and the prophesies of 
politicians, the Union is still one and indissoluble, 
and the People and Country vouchsafed an extra¬ 
ordinary measure of Peace, Happiness and Pros¬ 
perity. As is eminently proper, we trust the Day 
will he appropriately celebrated throughout the 
whole country,—and commemorated by Americans 
and all lovers of Free Institutions, everywhere.— 
In the language of John Adams— “It ought to be 
commemorated as the Pay of Deliverance, by 
solemn acts of devotion to Almighty God.— 
It ought to be solemnized with pomp, Bhowa, 
games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illumina¬ 
tions, from one end of the Continent to the other, 
from this time forward forever.” While we sub¬ 
scribe to this patriotic sentiment, we would (as we 
have on similar occasions,) caution all againBt 
carelessness, or extravagant indulgence. “ Young 
America” should be especially careful in the use 
of guns and fire-works—for, even in the hands of 
seniors, prudence is necessary to secure safety.— 
As American hoys were not bom to work on the 
Fourth of July—and especially Young Buralists 
whose labors are so ardaouB at this season—we 
trust they will have a glorious Holiday, unalloyed 
by harm or accident 
— The second half of this volume of the Rural 
commences to-day—on the Fourth. We shall en¬ 
deavor to make the numbers from July to January 
as interesting and valuable as those of any pre¬ 
ceding half volume, at least, and think our facili¬ 
ties will enable us to make some improvement.— 
The thousands of active friends and well-wishers 
of the paper, to whom we have never appealed in 
vain, know how much its success and usefulness 
depend upon their generous assistance in aug¬ 
menting its circulation,—and we need not again 
assure them that any efforts in that direction, at 
the present time, will be gratefully appreciated. 
Show the Paper!— According to the testimony 
of its numerous and active Agents and Friends— 
and we believe no paper bas so many generous, 
ardent and influential advocates—the best way to 
obtain subscribers for the Rural, is to show a nhm- 
ber. Its lriends say this is the true course—that 
few object to subscribing after seeing the paper 
itself. With a single specimen many persons have 
obtained from ten to fifty subscribers. Much less 
effort is required than is generally supposed—for, 
in this case, as well as many others, seeing and 
examining is believing and convincing. There is 
scarcely a town wherein from 10 to 30 subscribers 
could not be obtained, with little exertion. The 
present iH a good time for those disposed to try 
the plan. _ 
Wanderings in Europe is the title of a new 
series of interesting letters hy our Special Foreign 
Correspondent, commenced in this number. We 
think these letters will prove worthy a careful pe¬ 
rusal, and enhance the reputation of their young 
and talented author. 
Our Exchanges are at liberty to copy anything 
published in the Rural, provided credit is given. 
Our only object in copywriting certain valuable 
articles and sketches is to prevent their appro¬ 
priation without acknowledgment 
A sheriff 
Captives Butchered by the Indians 
Some weeks since we gave an account of the 
rising of several bands of Indiana at Spirit Lake, 
Min. Ter., at which time a large number of the 
whites were killed and several carried into captiv¬ 
ity. Some of the latter were rescued, while nthora 
have met tho fate usually given by the savages to 
those so unfortunate as to lall into their hands.— 
The St Paul Times of the 22d ult has the following: 
“We chronicle with intense pain, this morning, 
the following intelligence, brought to the 8t Peter 
Courier, by E. E. Paulding, Esq., from Redwood, 
np the Minnesota river. He says that the first re¬ 
port as to the murder of both the women In cap¬ 
tivity is only partially tine. One of them, Miss 
Gardner, has been found hy some Yankton Indians 
and brought into Yellow Medicine. She had been 
placed on a hill as a target hy the red devils of the 
Spirit Lake Massacre, and shot at, the whole band 
alternating in the sport. Both her legs were bro¬ 
ken and she was left to die. She says the tormen¬ 
tors had tunrdered Mrs. Noble a few days previous 
before her eyes, and left her on theprairies. This 
story iB doubtless reliable; and Mr. Paulding waB 
informed that the friendly Yankton Indians were 
about to bring tbe poor girl to St,. Paul. She has 
barely escapod with her life—nothing more—and 
we know she will meet the warmest and heartiest 
reception in the hospitality of our citizens,” 
Mias Gardner formerly lived in Steuben Co., in 
this State. Her father's name was Holland Gard¬ 
ner. She was released from captivity, and at last 
accounts remained at Fort Dodge, anxious to as¬ 
certain some account of her relatives, whose place 
of residence she did not know. John Bidman 
Stewart, a small boy, was also among tho captives, 
and rescued by the party who went to tho Indian 
cam. His father, mother and two sisters were 
murdered, and he knows not where his surviving 
relatives reside. His grandfather’s name isflem- 
ing. 
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Gambling in Produce. 
Several failures among produce dealers in 
Chicago having oocured within a few days, the 
Tribune takes the gamblers in hand and reproves 
them for thiB vicious and recklcsB mode of trans¬ 
acting a produce business. Men who pride them¬ 
selves upon their respectability and position in 
society, are to be found, throughout tho length and 
breadth of our laud, thus dabbling in stocks, flour, 
grain and provisions, when tbe whole system is no 
better nor safer than staking money on a horse¬ 
race, an election, or a game of cards. The Tr'o 
bune gives the modus operandi as followst 
"Iu corn dealing phrase, it is called ‘selling on 
future delivery,’ ‘selling short, 1 The latter expres¬ 
sion means just this: A. has not a peck of corn in 
his possession, but he sells B, 60,000 bushels at 63 
cents pur bushel, to be delivered 30 days hence.— 
When the contract time arrives, corn may have 
advanced to 78 cents, and Mr. A, is called upon 
for tbe corn, or the ■ difference,’ whioh amounts to 
$12,600. If he Is ‘short’ of the requisite funds, 
he goes under, and perhaps dragB down with him 
the party to whom he sold the com, who, on the 
strength ot the purchase, may have sold in tarn 
60,000 bushels to a third party, at 68 cents, deliver¬ 
able on a future day, who, instead of making $3,- 
900 by the transaction, as he was fondly anticipat¬ 
ing, finds himself out of pocket to the serious 
amouut of $8,600.” 
Important Movement. —TheN. Y. Tribune says 
that an European officer is now actively engaged 
in different States of the Union, in enlisting officers 
for some unknown military purpose. Only officers 
of artillery and engineers, able to direct the con¬ 
struction of fortifications are wanted. These en¬ 
listments are made with the ostensible design of 
formin'g a standing army in Central America and 
putting that country in an efficient state of defence 
against any future attack of fillibusters. Accord¬ 
ing to statements, the five Republics of Central 
America are to be transformed into one monarchy. 
The plan is to be oarried out with the aid of a po¬ 
litical party in Mexico, and tbe landing of a mili¬ 
tary force is to be effected in one of the ports on 
the Mexican coast south of Coatzacoalcos. 
“ record, 1 
specimens ot liuumalty. 
— Tho public health In all the Southern cities gives no 
cause of alarm. No signs of yellow fever, or epidemic 
disease of any description. 
— Tbe MormonB in the vicinity of New York are mak¬ 
ing preparatiota for having a “ great time" on the Fourth 
of July, at Norwalk, Conn. 
— Dr. Freeman, of New York, says that almost one 
quarter of the children under ten years of age in that city, 
die ot hereditary inebriety. 
— The duty ou a barrel of flour at Havana and all the 
porta in Cuba, amounts to $9 85. The duty on corn is a 
fraction over 40 cents per bushel. 
_A great Sabbath School Convention has been In ges- 
aion at Detroit for two or Ihree days. Among the speak¬ 
er* was Gen. Cass and Gerrlt Smith. 
_The steamer Fulton sailed from New York on the 
27th alt., for Southampton and Havre. She took out 140 
passengers and $032,000 In specie. 
— Ex-PresldeutFranklin Pierce and Senator Mason, of 
Virginia, are traveling together through the lake and 
mountain district* of New Hampshire. 
— Seventeen Sisters of Mercy recently sailed from 
Southampton in the Brazilian steamer Avon to attend the 
Snow. —It snowed at Fountain City, Wisconsin, 
on the Mississippi, Tuesday night, the 23d ult*— 
When the watchman on the War Eagle left his 
station at that hour, the top of the boat was white 
—nicely, though thinly carpeted with snow. 
The Cooperstown Freeman’s Journal reports the 
hop vines in that district to be in a very promis¬ 
ing condition, the weather now being favorable to 
a large yield. 
