MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
List ol New Advertisements this week 
Effects of the Panic on Labor. 
Conflagrations and Casualties 
Items of News. 
Coarse of Lectures—Rochester Athenreiim. 
A Book for Every Man's Lihrsry— Geovue W. Elliott. 
Music Without h Mueter—( heap Publication Society. 
Houghton's Seedling Gooseberry Plants—0 B. Murray. 
The Oriental Hone Charmer—C. J. hldridge. 
In Cincinnati, the Gazette says, that of the 25,- 
000 persons connected with the clothing establish¬ 
ments, full one-half have btcn discharged, and 
many more are likely to be in the course of three 
or four weeks. Some large houses have stopped 
manufacturing altogether. The reasons given are 
diminution of orders and difficulty in getting cur¬ 
rent funds. Many employed in the cooper, lumber 
or boat building business, have also been dis¬ 
charged. 
The Oswego Cotton Factory saspended business 
on the 10th inet., by whioh large numbers of em¬ 
ployees were cut adrift. 
The Cohoes Cataract of the 10th inat. says that 
there are two thousand operatives out of employ 
in that village—that several of the mills are run¬ 
ning one-half and two-thirds time, and will fnlly 
close as soon as the present stork of raw material 
is consumed, which will be in from two to four 
weeks. 
All the ootton works on the Lowell (carpet) 
Corporation have been stopped till further notice. 
The carpet department will run hut five days io 
each week. The Middlesex Mills are being grad¬ 
ually stopped sb last as the work now in the looms 
is run out, and will soon be stopped altogether. 
In Pennsylvania oil the iron manufacturers and 
rolling mills have been closed, and thousands of 
workmen thrown ont of employ. 
The Salem (Maas.) Gazette learns that several of 
tho prominent shoe manufacturers of Marblehead 
discharged the larger part of their workmen on 
the 10th, on account of the pressure of the times. 
The fishery business is also considerably depressed, 
prices beiDg very low. 
The N. Y. Times says the Methodist Book Con¬ 
cern has, until recently, employed in its printing 
and book-binding departments 300 persons. Oat 
of 200 who worked in the book-bindery, 186 have- 
been discharged, leaving only fifteen now at work, 
and these are on a little more than half-time, earn- 
about $1 a day each. About 20 of the 100 em. 
ployed in the printing department have been dis¬ 
charged Bince tne beginning of the hard times, 
and the 80 handB remaining are kept at work on 
half-time. • 
In the town of Malden, Mass., 500 persons are 
thrown out of employment by the financial troubles. 
by The magnificent Bet of silver ware, six hundred 
on pieces in all, got np by one hundred of the 
it leading merchants and oapitalits of New York, 
o( iB now paid for, and is to be exhibited for one 
he month, after whioh it will be presented to Mr. 
of Marcy’a family. 
ati California papers state that depreciated ten 
dollar pieces are in circulation. These ooina 
re ‘ have been rimmed of gold to the amount of about 
-re one dollar and eighty cents and re-milled. They 
Br * are calculated to deceive. 
Thk hard times have reached Turkey. No less 
in- than fourteen merchants have been declared in- 
he solvent at Constantinople. Nearly all of them are 
he Greeks, who have been specnlating excessively in 
he corn. 
Since the 21th of August, the day the Ohio Life 
of and Trust Company failed, to the present day, the 
'In reported number of failures and suspensions in 
d. New York and Brooklyn, including all the banks 
os and railroad companies that have agencies there, 
ve amounts to just 315 concerns, out of more than 
37,000. 
b- A number of the moueter gnnB taken from the 
it- Russians at Sebastopol, have arrived at Montreal, 
ie for the purpose of being presented to the priucl- 
d, pal cities of Canada, In token of England’s appre- 
re ciation of the liberality with whioh they subscrib¬ 
ed ed to the “Patriotic Fund.” 
bs The decrease in canal tolls from last year np to 
in the present time ia $126,106. From 1347 it ia $1,. 
n, 24S,G97. The receipts of the first week in October 
te were only $52,18L 
A British ship arrived at Bermuda, on the 1st 
ie inat, had one hundred cases of yellow fever among 
ie her crew, and twenty-nine deaths; the chaplain of 
e the ship, Rev. Mr. Watson, being one of the latter 
number. The American brig H. W. Morxure, Capt 
t- Richards, from Georgetown, a C., for Martinique, 
n had arrived at St Georges, her crew all sick with 
n intermittent fever. 
!1 New Orleans papers of the 6tl» Inst, are on 
hand. The ootton crops have been seriously in- 
e jured in Texas by the hollow-worm, and an early 
e frost, and they have also suffered In Alabama and 
k Louisiana by either the hollow-worm or the 
a weather. 
Two brothers, Smith, proprietors of a splendid 
peach orchard, near Sacramento, Cal., have, it is 
a said, realized between $60,000 and $70,000 this 
year from the sale of peaches. 
A company was formed twoyears ago, in France, 
b for rearing bees on a large scale. Its apiaries 
• have this year produced 111 per cent profit on the 
- original outlay! In one case the original cost 
a was 3,830 francs, and it produced 4,277 francs. 
Mb. Stetson, of the Astor House, haa been en- 
r tertaining his gnesta lately with grapes from the 
other side of the continent They were plucked 
' some forty days sinoe at Lob Angelofl, California, ' 
and were nearly aa fresh and fragrant as if the day 
1 previous they had been brought from Croton Point. 1 
The Custom House in Richmond, Ya., was en¬ 
tered on the 13th., the safe blown open with pow- 1 
der, and $16,000 in $20 gold pieces, and $5,700 in 
$5 gold pieces stolen. The robbers left $46,000 t 
be bind them. 
It ia probable that the present government of t 
Nicaragua will be recognized by the reception of 
its minister, Yrisbaru, with the view to the forma- t 
iion of a treaty to permanently guarantee to the 8 
United States the transit route. 
The Commissioner of Patents Is sending ont I 
circulars, with the view of ascertaining tho amount h 
and cost of cotton consumed in the United States 
during the fiscal year ending the 30th of Jane last, F 
and the qualities and values ol the different classes y 
of goods into which it ia manufactured. 
The New York Courier, in considering the a 
present monetary crisis, asks, “ is the country as 
badly off aa in 1837?” and answers “No. Then the T 
whole country was Impoverished, and during the oi 
year we imported from abroad upwards of Eight 
Millions of Breadstuff's! Now we have a surplus of tl 
more than thirty millions for export.” 01 
Thk nameB of fifty-five thousand and ninety pen¬ 
sioners, for revolutionary services, have been c 
placed on the rolls Bince March, 1818, but on tbe tl 
30th of June last, only three hundred and forty-six 
of the number were reported living. 
Gold leads have beeu struck at Ban Rafael, with- 
iu twenty miles of San Francisco, by water. Tbe at 
hillscontaln gold bearing rocks, (not quartz) which oi 
have yielded $130 per ton; and as the minere pro¬ 
gress, the richness of tho vein increases. A point bt 
has been reached whioh is expected to give to the te 
miners $600 to the ton of rock. 
n 
The new law of Mississippi against passing bank he 
bills of a less denomination than $5, will go into 
operation on the 1st of November next. After that ch 
date it will be an indictable offence to pass smaller tTI 
notes than $5 within the State ol Mississippi 
The extent of grape culture along the banks of ch 
the Hudson river is not generally appreciated. A ot 
good authority has said that in six years, at the 
present rate of its increase, enough wine will be se 
produced along the sunny and fertile slopes to sup- bc 
ply the whole wine consumption of New York. 
ba 
Thk Toronto Colonist says there is a movement ut 
among the colored residents of Canada to organize 
colored regiments for India. Whether the British be 
Government will accept their services remains to er 
be seen, but the Colonist thinks that such regi¬ 
ments would be eminently fli for the service. tic 
Thk Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico says dik 
that It requires $20,000,000 annually to meet the 
current expenses of tho government; and that the h “ 
annual deficit is not less than nine millions. 
The prospect for hard times for the coming m, 
Winter hag largely increased the number of pas- «pi 
sengera going to England. Every ship for Liver¬ 
pool now has all the passengers she can carry, and $Ti 
multitudes applying for opportunities to work their «uu 
pussage, who have not money to pay it 
Napoleon is widening the streets in Paris. 
The number of papers published in Australia is 81. 
Our tobacco crop this jear will produce $20,000,000. 
Gen. Havilock, now commanding in India, is 62 years 
The Legislature of Vermont has convened and organ¬ 
ised. 
— An American Chess Congress is now ia session in N. 
T. city. 
— The best way to expand the chest i« to have a big heart 
inside of it. 
— A heavy frost has visited most parts of Virginia and 
North Carolina. 
— More than 42,000 pupils attend the public schools in 
N. Y. city, daily. 
— A Virginian nets $16,000 a year on 100 acres In tobac- 
oo, owning no slaves. 
— A railway porter has laid claims te the great Shrews¬ 
bury (England) estate. 
— The launch of the Great Eastern, is fixed to take place 
on the 2d of November. 
— The ITerald of Freedom states that the 
flourishes well in Kansas. 
— The Court of Appeals, of New York, adjourned on 
Friday week, to Dec. 26th. 
— There were 197 vessels in sight of Portland one day 
last week, catching mackerel. 
— Report sajB that both France and Germany are suf¬ 
fering from financial difficulties. 
— It is raid that there are now Laid np, in tho vidnity of 
Buffalo, about 1,000 CAnal boats. 
— The eight saving banks in New York city have on de¬ 
posit an aggregate of $29,000,000. 
— Our cotton crop of last year was $130,000,000. This 
year it will be worth $160,000,000. 
— In Georgia, $160/00 had been raised for Walker to 
make a new descent on Nicaragua. 
— Eighteen thousand bushel* of grain were destroyed by 
fire, at Toledo, on Wednesday week. 
— Iowa City Republican says that the farmers of Iowa 
are offering their wheat at 40 cents. 
— Bayard Taylor says that the fishermen or Norway are 
supplied with wood by the gulf stream. 
— One mass of copper brought to Detroit from Lake Su¬ 
perior, within a few weeks, weighed 8,749. 
— The Austrian government has decided to introduce 
the decimal system in its currency forthwith. 
— Senator Gwlo, who it was thought was lost in the Cen¬ 
tral America, arrived in the Star of the West. 
—The monument to Ethan Allen, ordered by the Legis¬ 
lature of Vermont, will be completed this foil. 
— Tlie Spanish ship or the line, Segunda, lying at Ha¬ 
vana, Cubs, haa lost 400 of her crew by womito. 
— In Orange Co., Va., typhoid fever prevails among the 
colored population. One planter has lost 19 slaves. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. ( OCTOBER 24,1867. 
me ttUKAL, ior tneir substantial response to our 
offer to send the cumbers of t he present quarter to 
non-subscribers, on trial, at halt price. Their fa. 
vora have been ao numerous and well filled that 
onr large extra edition of tbe first three cumbers 
of this Quarter (Oct 3d, 10th and 17th,) is already 
exhausted. Hence, as we cannot re-print them, 
we are obliged to substitute other and earlier oues 
instead of the las', three numbers, and add largely 
to our edition in order to furnish tbe remaining 
ten issues to all applicants. Those who receive 
earlier numbers, instead of the last three issues, 
will understand tbe reason from the above expla¬ 
nation. 
Ab we cannot supply the complete Qaarter, we 
have concluded to add, this week, several thousand 
copies to our former edition, and makethis liberal 
proposition to Agents and other Friends: 
C5* We will furnish ike last Ten numbers of the 
present t flume of the. RmL [from Oct. 2iik to close of 
Dec-,\ ON TRIAL, for 20 cents, (about half price) if five 
* r " ore copies are ordered. That is, m will send 6 copies 
jn Weeks for $1,-10 for $2,-16 for $3,-20 for $ 4 ,- 
25 for $5, if-c., to any non-tuberihers whs with to try the. 
Rural .( And to - 
cane 
every person for warding pay f ur 
Twx.vtv-Fjvj: copies for Ten Weeks, as above, we w,ll 
send, by return mail, post paid, a Gross of the WASH¬ 
INGTON ^MEDALLION PEN! This, at we stated 
last week , it a fret rate, warranted Steel Pen, tuch as we 
use. The cash price it $1 60 per grott, and we pay 18 
centt pottage. 
Now, active and always generous Friends of the 
Rvral and its Objects, please note this offer, and 
if you can consistently do so, favor your neigh¬ 
bor and the writer by giving the matter a little 
personal attention. Since our last number was 
put to press we have received over 1,600 subscri¬ 
bers for the 
Political Intelligence 
The election in Pennsylvania has resulted in 
favor of the Democratic ticket It is estimated 
that Packer, Dem., for Governor, has 40,000 ruaj. 
Ohio is in doubt, though we think that Chase i 
Republican, is chosen Governor. Latest dispatch¬ 
es give him a majority of about 500. Tbe Demo¬ 
crats claim a majority in Senate and Assembly. 
In Iowa Judge Lowe, Republican, is elected 
Governor by 4.000 or 6,000 majority. The Repub¬ 
licans have also secured a majority of the Legis¬ 
lature. 
Seventeen connties in Minnesota have been beard 
from. Tbe returns ehow a majority of 000 for 
Sibley, Democrat, for Governor. 
In the 10th District, Indiana, Case, Rep., ia elect¬ 
ed to fill the Congressional vacancy from that 
section. 
In Georgia there are aix Democrats and two 
Americans elected to CoDgrecs. 
The local papers confirm the news that the Re¬ 
publican party have triumphed in KansaB. The 
Leavenworth Times claims a majority of 5,000 for 
Parrot, Rep., for CoDgrees, and nine Councilman, 
and 23 Representatives, making a Republican ma¬ 
jority in both branches of the Legislature. 
Mississippi has elected the Democratic ticket, 
entire. Wm. A. Lake, her only American repre¬ 
sentative in the last Congress, has been 'brown 
out. Gen. John A. Quitman has been re-elected 
without opposition. Reuben Davis is Mr. Lake’s 
successor. 
present quarter,—and in several in¬ 
stances lists of forty and upwards, which we are 
assured were obtained in a short time and with 
little exertion. How many friendly readers will 
"go and do likewise’’—and report the names of 
passengers for the Ten Weeks' Trial Trip? 
Washington Matters 
me interior naa directed in¬ 
structions to te iFFned to the Superintendent of 
Indian Affairs, at St. Louis, and to the Agents, to 
remove all intruders upon the Delaware Indians 
and their .reserves in Kansas. ™ - 
ment haa been requested to issue the 
Lake Superior News. 
Quite good winter and 
spring wheat has been harvested in the Ontonagon 
district, Upper Michigan. From five and a half 
acres, 125 bushels of htavy winter wheat were pro¬ 
duced. A portion of this crop was purchased for 
seed at $2 per bnehel. 
At the Ogiraaw copper mine, five men in two 
mouths took out 21,767 pounds of ore, estimated 
at 75 per cent of ptire ore. The oopper mines are 
all said to be doing welL The survey of the Mar¬ 
quette and Ontonagon Railroad is completed.— 
The grade to I.’Auhc is not over f>0 feet per mile, 
and tbe heaviest will not bo over 70 feet it ia said. 
Iron ore, heavy timber and good agricultural land 
exist along the route. 
The War Depart- 
-! necessary in¬ 
structions to commanding officers of the truopsin 
that Territory. It ia expected they will be pre¬ 
pared to co-operate with Agents of the Indian Af¬ 
fairs by the time their services will become neces¬ 
sary. Secretary Thompson Eays the integrity of 
the Indian territory must at all hazards be pre- 
served, 
Samuel Archibald, Chief Engineer of the Wash¬ 
ington Navy Yard, was to-day appointed Engineer 
in Chief of the Navy. 
The amount of Government stocks redeemed at 
the Treasury on the iGth and 17th inst., was $37,- 
200. The amount ot money subject to draft in tbe 
Iron Marine Hospital for tub U. S.— The 
owners of the Trenton Locomotive Works have 
received tbe contract for building a marine hos¬ 
pital for the United States Government at New Or¬ 
leans, the material to be of iron. Tbe length ia 
to be 348 feet, with wings each of 204 feet The 
main building will be three stories; both the main 
building and the wings will bc surmounted with 
domes. A verandah, two stories high, will extend 
around the entire structure. The exterior walls, 
roof and verandahs, arc to be entirely of iron_ 
That the walls may be rendered non-conductors of 
heat, unburnt prepared eluy will beused for filling. 
The work is to be done in Trenton, N, J. 
Large Receipts of Grain.— Tbe Buffalo Courier 
of the 19th inat says:—“ A fair wind on Saturday 
last brought Into port a large fleet of grain ves 
nela, mostly from Chicago. Oor marine listshows 
the receipts of wheat to have been 368,164 bushels, 
corn 95,801 bushels, and oats 68.000 bushels, mak¬ 
ing a total of 631,955 bushels, which is the largest 
receipts of any one day this season. From the 
published clearances, there are Mill over 300,000 
bushels of, wheat u float from that port for Buffalo, 
most of which is tow due, and may be lu within a 
day or two should tho wind prove favorable. The 
receipts at Chicago from the interior continue 
large, and we nifty yet look for liberal receipts of 
wheat at lids port front now to the close of navi¬ 
gation. Our market on Friday and Saturday ex¬ 
hibited a marked improvement, and larger sales 
were effected end at better prices than for sever .1 
days previous.” 
Decease of Hon. Wm. Pitt Pkkble.—T his gen¬ 
tleman died at Portland, Maine, on Saturday, the 
10th inst, at the age of 74. He whs a son of Com¬ 
modore Preble, who commanded tbe fleet against 
Tripoli during Jefferson’s administration—a grad¬ 
uate of Harvard College, and for a Jong period 
after the organization of the government of Maine, 
a justice ot the Superior Court of that State, sub¬ 
sequently U. S. Minister to Netherlands, and after¬ 
wards one of the Commissioners of the State of 
Maine in the negotiation of the celebrated “ Bonn 
dary Treaty” with Great Britain. 
Arrival of Geo. W. Dawson.— It will be re¬ 
membered by our readers that three persons were 
rescued from the wreck of the Central America 
after nine days exposure on the ooe»n without 
food or water. One of these, Mr. Dawson, arrived 
in thin city last week. He ia ao far restored to 
health that lie was able to walk half a mile. He 
was followed by an anxionB crowd, eager to see a 
man who had been through so much suffering. He 
has an excellent appetite, and is rapidly regaining 
strength, but still looks haggard and worn, as if 
he bad endured much suffering. Mr. Dawson is a 
native ol Rochester, and left for California three 
years ago. 
Rochester Athenaeum.— The first lecture of 
the regular W inter Course under the auspices of 
this institution, will be delivered by Rev. Hknhy 
Ward Beecher, on Friday evening, Oct 23, in 
Corinthian Hall. Tne next lecture will bo deliv¬ 
ered on the evening of Nov. 12, after which at 
least one lecture a week will be given anil the 
completion of the course. Several of the most 
popular and celebrated lecturers in the country are 
engaged, as will be seen by reference to announce¬ 
ment in our advertising department. 
Comes too Late.—"A retired merchant ” writes 
a communication to the New York Express, dis¬ 
cussing with coolness the causes of the Unaucial 
troubles. He closes his lott- r by saying—“Twelve 
years ago, I retired on a snug farm in the country, 
and every year my fielda look greener, and 1 feel 
younger as I grow older. This I would recom¬ 
mend to all before tbe loss of property and a shat¬ 
tered constitution make it too late.” This is a 
pleasant picture, and excellent advice, but, just at 
this time, comes a “little too late ” for many peo¬ 
ple. 
Better Things in the Grain Market.—T he 
Buffalo Courier of the 17th inst., says: “A gentle, 
mart waa here, yesterday, from the centre of the 
Btate, wishing to purchase u cargo of grain. He 
had Lie currency with him, drawn,from his own 
bank on bis note for thirty days, in (be old fash¬ 
ioned legitimate style. The money was, of course, 
from a sufpe.nded institution, but ‘ns good as the 
wheat.’ Farewell to New York Exchange and its 
nuisances. Nothing like tbe actual currency, al¬ 
though onr produce men have been in tbe habit of 
buying and selling by thousands daily, without 
seeing a dollar of currency for weeks altogether.” 
I* inancjal Affairs. —Since onr last issue near¬ 
ly all tbe Banks of this State have suspended specie 
payment, and this course has been vencrallv fol. 
Statistics of Oregon,— In a late number of the 
Oregon Statesman we find some very valuable sta¬ 
tics relative to the products of that Territory.— 
Her population la 65,000. During the past year 
she btuj shipped to California 65,000 barrels of 
flour, or one for every man, woman and child in 
the Territory, OI bacon and pork, 3,000 000 lbs, 
have been shipped. There wore shipped 25,000 fi>s! 
batter; 26,000 bushels of upp’ea; $10,000 worth of 
chickens and eggs; $20,000 worth of lumber; 
$75 000 worth of fruit trees; 50,000 bead of cattle, 
and $20,000 worth of potatoes and onions—all of 
the value of about $3,200,000. 
A Shaker Patriarch —The Concord (N. H.) 
Democrat announces the death of Peter Ay er, at 
the Shaker village, Canterbury, on the 14tb of 
September. He was 97 years and two dayB old.— 
He was one of tbe founders of the Society of 
SbakerB, having been a member of that fraternity 
upwards of seventy years. He was a moat power¬ 
ful, athletic man, and one of the fewsurvivorB who 
took part in tbe American Revolution. 
Emigration. —Information haa been received at 
the Btate Department from a correspondent at 
Bremen, that from the 1st of January to the 16th 
of August lust, there emigrated from Bremen to 
tho United States 28,809 persons in 122 vessels; 
und, in addition, there were at that dato between 
five and aix thousand others, for whoso embarka¬ 
tion arrangements wore in progress, und who were 
expecting to bo shortly on hoard. 
The Pennsylvania Relief Bill.— The bill rela¬ 
tive to Banks of Pennsylvania legalizes and virtu¬ 
ally extenda tho suepenslou of tbe banks of Penn¬ 
sylvania until the Lit, of July, 1858, instead of the 
1st of April, us originally proposed. 
Exodus of Eastern Mormons. —The Mormons 
held their last Conference in the city of New York 
on Sunday, with much noise and revelry. They 
departed this week for Utah, leaving all sinners 
here to get to heaven as they may. 
