MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
The Weather—Snow Storm at the West, 
Conflagrations and Casualties, 
Vbry Destructive Firm and Loss of Life !_ 
About four o’clock on the morning of Saturday 
the 21st inst, fire was discovered in the “Eagle 
Bank” building corner of Buffalo and Exchange 
streets, this oity, and a few hours witnessed the to¬ 
tal destruction of that structure, together with tho 
Commercial Bank ou the East, and a three story 
brick edifice on the South. The fire took, it is be¬ 
lieved, in the part occupied by the Eagle Bank, on 
the second floor. The night was intensely cold, 
and a high wind from the Northwest prevailed, 
giving such tremendous Impetus to the flames, that 
it was found impossible to rescue anything from 
the consuming element. The following figures 
will exhibit tbelOBsesof oconpants and insurance 
as far as we have been able to ascertain: 
boas. Insured, 
140,000 §22,600 
2,000 - 
20,000 6,000 
4,000 - 
1,000 s.ono 
2,500 4,000 
4,000 - 
Items oi News, 
During the past week the weather was variable, 
alternating from warm and agreeable to cold and 
stormy, one day the “ soft South-west” carrying oom- 
fort on its wings, the next “rude Boreas” chillingly 
telling of overcoats and good household fires, 
Thursday night, the 19ib, was what might be termed 
the first cold night of the season, and permanence 
seemB to have been given this variety of weather. 
To-day (Tuesday 24th) the cold is severe, and 
everything wears a wintry aspect. 
Tub Curb knot or this Country is bo deranged at pres¬ 
ent that we must necessarily lose much during the ensuing 
Rural Campaign, and therefore trust our friends will send 
us the best foods conveniently obtainable in their respec¬ 
tive localities. If our Western and Southern friends can 
remit in Drafts on New York at former Tates of exchange, 
—or in bills on New York, Canada or New England solvent 
Banks,—they will save us both trouble and expense.— 
Though Western and Southern money is perfectly good at 
home, and not refused by ns, jot we cannot at present use 
it without a great sacriBce;—heuce this request. If our 
agents and other friends in all parts of the Union, the 
British Provinces, Ac., will comply with these suggestions 
so far as convenient, the favor will be appreciated. 
Forty girls left New York city on the 17th inst, 
for the West, under the charge of C. 0. Tracy, of 
the Children’s Aid Society. They were all girls 
who had been thrown out of employment by the 
recent panic. 
The largest piece of copper ever shipped was 
taken from the Minnesota mines, Lake Superior, 
and put on board the Mineral Rock for Superior 
City. It weighed 9.562 pounds. 
About 200 yards of the Cairo levee, ou the Mis¬ 
sissippi side of the town, have fallen into the riv¬ 
er, and the current of the Mississippi, setting 
directly in towards the town at that point, is se¬ 
riously undermining the bank. 
The hard times in Europe, with the news from 
the United States that bread is abundant, has ex- 
fifed great movement of the emigrants. All the 
emigrant houses ol Hamburg are overflowing, and 
all the packets sail full of passengers. One thou¬ 
sand emigrants arrived in New York a few days 
since in three vessels. All are bound for the west 
with pockets full of money. Give them hearty 
welcome. “Millions of hands want acres and 
millions of acres want hands.” 
The Board of Education in New York have ap¬ 
propriated $1,216,013, for the expenses of the city 
school department for 1858, 
— Pearls have been found In White river, Indiana. 
— The U. S. war debt amounts to about $5,000,000. 
— Charles Mackay, the poet, is lecturing in Boston. 
The banks or New Orleans have resumed specie pay¬ 
ment. 
Iron ore is abundant in Oregon, and of excellent 
quality. 
— Cardinal Francisco de Medici died in Rome on Octo¬ 
ber 12tb. 
The Troy Nail Factory Works will be going again in a 
few days. 
— Cincinnati contains a German population of upwards 
of 40,000. 
— Nicaragua has had eight different Presidents within 
eight j ears. 
— Counterfeit fives on the bank of South Reed ng, Muss., 
are in circulation. 
— The Insane Asylum at the Auburn Prism is now near¬ 
ly ready for its roof. 
— Col. Tho?. L. Tate, a soldier of 1812, died in Franklin 
Co., on the 14th inst 
The expenses of the War Department last year 
The canal has 
closed, for the season we should judge—ice having 
formed to such an extent that it would require 
more mild weather than can reasonably be ex¬ 
pected at this time of the year to thaw out and set 
things moving again. A large amount of produce 
was shipped last week at Buffalo for the East, but 
it is froze in at various points, and must be re-ship¬ 
ped by railroad to reach destination. Of flour 
there was 12,326 barrels; wheat 456,660 bu.; corn 
43,419 bu,; oats 55,886 bu. This, together with 
what was sent from other places ou the canal 
would make quite a respectable amount of produce 
and would greatly tend to alleviate distress in our 
Commercial Emporium. Rochester has shipped 
flour heavily, all our mills being engaged for East¬ 
ern demands—and this sudden check to 
Clubbing with thb Magazines, Ac.—Wr will send the 
Rural New-Yorkbu for 1858, and a yearly copy of either 
Harptr's, Godty'a , Graham's , or asy other $S magazine, 
for $4. The Rural and eith- r Arthur's Magazine, the 
National Magazine, or any other $2 magazine for $3. 
Jus Chappell, on the building, 
Eagle Bank, .. ... 
A. Strong A Co,, (Democrat,) . 
Comroeri'ial Bank,. 
O. A. Hyde A Co., .. 
John Unbrow,. 
J. B Benuett,. 
H. Mansfield, Joss by removal, 
F. Warner.. 
T H. Rochester,. 
J. H, bey,. 
Total, . . 75,680 37,450 
There arc other parties, not occupants, losing con¬ 
siderably by this conflagration, and we have heard 
the sum total estimsted at $100,000. 
The saddest part of tie affair is the Ioeb of life— 
caused by the falling of the walls, 
jy The Rural Show-Bill for 1858, just issued, will 
be sent, post-paid, to all applicants who can use one or more 
copies advantageously. We shall also cheerfully furnish 
Specimen Numbers of the Rural f r use in obtaining new 
subscribers, or send them to any address desired. 
ty 1 Thosk who are forming largo clubs can seed on the 
names and money of a part, before completing their lis's. 
In ordeiing the Rural, be sure and specify name 
of Post-Ojjice, County, and Territory of Province, 
operations 
will not tend to brighten whathas been an exceed¬ 
ingly gloomy year for our flour producers. 
The telegraph brings ua from various parts of 
the country the following information: 
In New York on the 21st Inst., the weather was 
quite cold with a westerly wind blowing. lee 
formed in that, vicinity on the 20ib. 
At 9 P. M., at Albany, same Gate, the weather was 
very cold and stormy. There was a remarkable 
change during twelve hours—the morning being 
clear and pleasant. The Canal Departmenttbought 
“the canal would close in about two weeks.”— 
Jack Frost being unaware ofthe important action 
of the “ Department,” served a pretty effectual 
injunction on navigation in this section—ice hav¬ 
ing formed in the basins on the night of the 20th 
inst. He will please get a “permit” from Albany 
before taking snch decided notion hereafter. 
The weather at Utica on the 20th and 21st waB 
clear and cold with a strong Bonth-west wind. The 
meroury marked 26 above zero. Navigation was 
unobstructed. 
At Washington, D. 0., the night of the 21st was 
intensely cold, aud Ice an inch and a half thick 
was formed in that city. 
On the 20tb, Augusta, Geo., was visited by a kil¬ 
ling frost, which was believed to have generally 
extended to other parts of the State. Ice had 
formed from half an inch to an Inch in thickness. 
On the evening of the 20th, at Cincinnati, there 
was fifteen feet of water in the channel of the 
river, and falling. The weather during the day 
was cloudy, aud they had a light snow storm. The 
mercury was 17° above zero. 
4. dispatch received at Chicago on the evening 
ot the 20tb,stateBthat the Mississippi is full cf ice, 
and navigation north of Dubuque closed for the 
season. 
From St. Catherines, C. W., we learn that 
The firBt queer look- 
irg item In these most nnmusieal hard times is— 
Pianos for Grammar Schools, $9,000. 
The Board of the Governors of the New York 
Alma House have unanimously resolved to ask the 
city for an extra appropriation of $50,000 to alle¬ 
viate the distresses Of the out-door poor during 
the coming winter. 
Thb Corning Journal states that the recent flood 
in that village caused the loss of a large quantity 
of coal which floated from the coal-yards into the 
river or over the flats. The amount of the loss 
from this source is estimated at $15,000. A large 
amount of corn was also carried off by the flood, 
and fields that before were divided by fences, are 
found to be undistinguished by such separating 
Iiist ot New- Adverli-laments this week, 
Tbfi Home—Deadly A Adaiis. 
Fairfield Semlnan-—J. Matber. 
Middlebnry A cede my—M. Weed. 
Produce Comm ^-ion Store—F, A. A C. Willard. 
Administrator's Sale—K. l'ercey. 
Apple Seeds—James A. Hoot. 
The firemen 
were earnestly and gullautly at woik in the effort 
to confine the work of destruction to the building 
in which it origiually took. Two of them,— 
Patrick Heavy and William Clatkk, members 
of “ Torrent” No. 2, were standing upon the roof 
of the warehouse on the Merchant’s basin, in rear 
of the Democrat establishment, directing a stream 
of water from their hose into the high building.— 
The walls began to totter, and they were warned 
to provide for their own safety at once, 
Before 
they acted upon the warning, a chimney fell, crush¬ 
ing one of them upon the roof and throwing the 
other to the grouud. These two faithfal men lose 
their lives in a disaster whioh will be felt in its 
direct and indirect effects throughout the city. 
There area vast number of rumors as to the cause 
of this disastrous conflagration, but nothing can 
be ascertained with any degree of accuracy. We 
learn that an investigation is to be had, when 
probably something definite may be elicited. 
The cotton factory, with its contents, in the 
Mississippi penitentiary, at Jackson, was destroyed 
ROCHESTER N. Y., NOVEMBEB 28,1857. 
lines. 
The new Atlantic steamship Adriatic made a 
trial trip up the Long Island coast last week. Her 
greatest speed was 18 nautical and 11 statute 
miles, against tide, in an hour and four minutes, 
with two-thirds of her available Btearn and half 
laden. This rate of speed would take her from 
New York to Albany in seven hours. The exper* 
She sailed for 
Weeklies Preferable to Monthlies.* 
In noticing the discontinuance of our Monthly— 
the Woon Grow er and Stock Rkgistbr— which 
was merged in the Rural some months ago, the 
N. Y. Tribune pertinently remarks: 
“ This cbe&p, good, useful agricultural monthly journal 
has been discontinued. It is a question that we cannot 
solve, how farmers are to learn what great improvements 
are made aud making [n their business if they wiUnot read 
anything but the veriest par, i sau nepspapers and political 
slang-whang. It is also a question whether any monthly 
paper meet A the wants of this fast age, or whether any 
journal devoted to agricultural subjects, published only 
once a month , can get patronage enough to keep its editor 
from starving his own stomach and hts reader’s heads, ex¬ 
cept by ao enormous expenditure of money for advertising 
or by some extraneous influence.” 
All which is, in the main, eminently sensible 
and suggestive. The truth is, as the Tribune in- 
fers, that monthly journals, “devoted solely to ag¬ 
ricultural subjects,” are not adapted to the wants 
of the people of this age of progress. Our expe¬ 
rience in pnblishtng monthly, Bern! monthly and 
weekly rural journals is conclusive on this point, 
and hence the concentration of our efforts upon 
the Rusal. Indeed, we found that the Rural was 
almost universally preferred to any agricultural 
monthly, and hence it was very difficult to retain 
subscribers to the W. G. & S. R, in places where 
the former was fairly introduced. For example, 
there are many post-offices in this region at each 
of which from 30 to 75 or 100 copies of monthly 
agricultural journals were taken seven years ago, 
irnent was every way satisfactory. 
Europe on Saturday. 
Thb Swiss residing in New York have formed 
an association for the purohase of lands for a set¬ 
tlement, and issued stock, to be paid in monthly 
instalments of $5. When all collected, the fund 
will be used to buy a tract—probably in Western 
Virginia. 
A new and singular material for paper has been 
recently received from London and passed through 
the New York custom house. It is the residuum 
of beet root after pressing for ayrnp, and the pres¬ 
ent iB the first parcel that has been imported into 
the United States. 
During the war with the Florida Indians, years 
ago, Judge Hawkins, while cheering his men to a 
charge opon the Indians, was shot down. One of 
his officers ran and asked him if be was much 
hurt. "Not very badly,” said Hawkins, “just 
about enough to send me to Congress.” The pre¬ 
diction has now been verified, as he is the member 
elect from Florida. 
Last week, Joel Schoonhoven, 100 years of age, 
was discharged from Bing Sing State Prison, hav¬ 
ing been pardoned by the Governor. He was com¬ 
mitted for Life for arson. He iB a native of Orange 
by fire on the 1st inst. Loss $80,000. 
Thb stores of G. H. Cutter, liquor dealer, and D. 
Bushner, feed merchant, together with two or three 
other small stores on Second-Bt, in Louisville, Ky,, 
were destroyed by fire on the 21st. The amount 
of the losses Is $20,000. 
We learn from Mobile that a fire occurred there 
on Friday night., 20th inst, whioh destroyed the 
stores of L. Merchant & Co., Charles Brewer, and 
Savage & Co,, on Commercial St, and that three 
dwellings on Canal street were also simultaneously 
burnt Loss $160,000. 
The Texas steamship Opeloopas, from Berwicb 
Bay, bound for Galveston with 56 passengers, came 
in collision with the steamer Galveston, of the 
same line, at midnight, on the 15th inst The 
Opeloopas sank almost immediately, and from 20 
to 25 lives were lost—among them Gen. Hamilton, 
of South Carolina. All the officers and crew of 
the Opeloopas were saved. The Galveston was 
snow 
had been falling all day on the 20th, and at 6 P. M.. 
was eighteen inches deep. The passenger trains 
of the Great Western Railway are all through, but 
were much delayed by the drifts. The freight 
trains are all stuck. 
Passengers by the Suspension Bridge, through 
on the Great Western Railway on the 20th, state 
that the snow was three feet deep on the level on 
the Canada side. The snow gradually decreases 
— ine imtisn residtnts of Ike U. S. are raising snbsorip- 
llons through their Consuls, for the relief of the sufferers in 
India. 
— A mob of won en assembled in Logan, Ohio, on the 
17th inst., and demolished alt the coffee-houses in the 
village. 
— Twenty-two widows, whose husbands were lost by the 
of the Central America, sailed in the last steamer from 
California. 
— It is now stated that the Atlantic Telegraph Company 
will make a second attempt to lay the sub-marine cble in 
J one next. 
-The u echanica employed at the Nations] Capitol de¬ 
vote one day’s wages every month to the relief of the suf¬ 
fering poor. 
— There were 600 Indians at Grand Rapids, Michigan 
attendant upon the annual payment by Andrew Fitcb In¬ 
dian Agent. ’ 
— They commenced bnilding a capital for Tennessee 12 
years ago. They are bnilding it slowly, and It bas cost thus 
far, $1,204,071. 
— An elegant, Faria made carriage, aa good as new, 
which cost $1,600, sold on the 16th inst, in New York bv 
aqctlOD, at $394. ’ J 
-Prof. Henry D. Rogers, of Philadelphia, has been 
chosen Professor of Natural Sciences in the Duiverrity of 
Glasgow, Scotland. 
— Tho Trenton, N. J., banks have agreed to loan that 
oity $0,000 on the credit of the city, to be applied to the 
relief of the poor. 
— IJout. Reuben Hams, of the U. S. Navy, who assisted 
In laying the Atlantic telegraph cable, died on the 17th 
Inst, In Now York. 
— Russel, K. N., in Franklin county, and Frazee, Rep , 
in Onondaga, were each elected to the Assembly by a ma- 
Highly Important from Utah. 
During the past week our exchanges have had 
a large supply of news from Utah, the Mormon 
“land of promise,” prominent in which is the 
proclamation of Brigham Young, “Governor and 
' Superintendent of Indian Affairs,” Brigham, by 
the authority thus claimed, forbade the entrance 
of the U. 8. forces, but bis power not being recog¬ 
nized by the commanding officer, he baa now di¬ 
rected that they return by the same route they 
entered. In his letter to the commandant of the 
U. B. soldiers he gays:—“ Sbonld yon deem this 
impracticable, and prefer to remain until spring iu 
the vicinity of your present encampment—Black 
Ferk on Green River-yon can do so in peace and un¬ 
molested, on condition that you deposit your arms 
and ammunition with Lewis Robinson, Qaarter-Mas- 
ter General of the Territory, and leave in the spring 
aa soon as the condition of the roads will permit 
Newburg during the war. 
Holland has settled all the details for the gen¬ 
eral emancipation of slaves in the Islands of Cur 
acoa, Bonaire, Aruba, and Bt. Eustatius. All the 
emancipated slaves who can, will be called upon 
to work for the State, which will pay them fair 
wages. 
Aflhirs at Washington 
The official despatches confirming the destruc¬ 
tion of the supply trains were received on the 17th 
inst. Brigham Young's Proclamation declares 
Ma:t.ial Law in Utah. lie claims the right to do 
so by virtue of hia authority as Governor of the 
Territory and Superintendent of Indian Affairs— 
not having been suspended from exercising his 
fonctions—and by virtue of his power under the 
Territorial Organic Act. He expressly forbids the 
United States troops entering the Territory without 
his authority for so doing, and complains that the 
Mormons have not been treated aa American citi 
zeos, and that the Government of tho United 
States bas acted on misrepresentations, the object 
being to drive tbe Mormons from the Territory.— 
The language of the Proclamation is emphatic in 
its hostility to tbe United States, and 1 b regarded 
aa a declaration of war. 
The Administration has received the schedule 
and an outline of the Constitution of Kansas, and 
will sustain the action of the Convention with re¬ 
gard to the mode proposed for its adoption- 
conceiving that the people will thus have an 
opportunity of deciding the question in their own 
way. 
It is believed that Costa Rica will retire from 
[ the possession of tho San Juan river as soon as 
she shall be informed ot the negotiation of the 
recent treaty between the United States and 
Nicaragua. 
Sir Win. Gore Ousley arrived on the 18th inst 
It. Is decided to Bond no Minister to Nicaragua till 
after the meeting of CougieBs. 
Government will be iu operation. 
A correspondent of the N. Y. Times says, Lord 
Napier, on behalf of hiB Government, and Count 
Sarligee, under special Instructions from the Gov¬ 
ernment of France, are prepared to enter into 
arrangements with Yrissarl, lor the guarantee of 
tho neutrality of the Transit, similar to those 
entered into by tho United States. They have al¬ 
ready conferred with YrisHari, and will Immediate¬ 
ly follow up the action of our Government as Boon 
as consummated. 
The correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune writing 
under date of the 18th inst,, says:—The Cabinet 
will consider to-morrow the propriety of a tho¬ 
rough investigation into the conduct of the offi 
cials at New Orleans in permitting the escape of 
Gen. Walker’s expedition after its publicity. A 
purpose Is expressed in some quarters of remov¬ 
ing those found guilty. 
and even within five years it bas claimed forty 
thousand subscribers—but to day it has not over 
one-third that number, aud probably not one-fourth 
—(and that, too, notwithstanding the self-puffing 
and vain-boaating of its egotistical publisher, and 
his 'foolish falsehoods and malicious efforts to in¬ 
jure the Rural.) We know whereof we affirm when 
we say that in Western New York (the legitimate 
and beat field of both journals) the Rural has full 
five tunes its circulation. These “stubborn facts” 
prove a revolution in public taste aud sentiment 
whioh it is impossible to gainsay, (for such revo¬ 
lutions are always progressive, never going back¬ 
ward,) and which we at least have no inclination 
to Btem by attempting longer to publish an exclu¬ 
sively agricultural monthly in a region so remark¬ 
able for “Progress and Improvement” as Western 
New York. 
— Let us not be understood as saying aught 
against onr monthly contemporaries, for we only 
state facts, and partly in explanation of our dis¬ 
continuance of the W. G. & S. R —a course which 
has been very generally and widely regretted by 
its subscribers. The monthly journals have ac¬ 
complished a vast amount of good, and are still 
useful auxiliaries in the cause of Rural Tmni-ntre. 
Imports for the Fiscal Year,— The report of 
the Secretary of tbe Treasury, to be presented to 
Congress next month, will, it is stated, Bhow tho 
imports (or the fiscal year, 1857, of tho principal 
foreign manufactures — namely, woolen, cotton 
silk, linen, and iron—to be as follows: 
1866. 1667. 
.$31,964,000 $31,280,000 
. 25,918,000 28,685,000 
. £2,861,050 27.800,000 
. 11,189,000 11,443,000 
24,602,000 23,310,000 
126,534,000 121,624,000 
Decrease in 1857.$5,201,000 
The importations of woolen, silk, and iron man¬ 
ufactures have decreased, while the importations 
of cotton aud linen manufactures have increased. 
Tbe decrease in silk importations amounts to live 
millions of dollars, and tho increase of cotton 
importations to over two and a half millions,— 
The Imports of linen, woolen and iron manufac¬ 
tures liavo not materially altered.— Washington 
Intelligencer. 
Woolen manufactures, 
Cotton do .... 
Silk do ... 
Linen do .... 
Iron do. 
ine proclamation oi drjuham Young recounts 
the “numberless indignities” that have been heap- 
ed upon Mormon officials by the U. 8. Government 
at Washington, and the unheard of atrocities and 
sufferings that the Mormon people have endured 
for twenty-five years without beiug able to obtain 
any redress therefor, and that the Issue now “forced 
upon them compels a resort to the great first law 
of self-preservati on,” Therefore, Brigham Young, 
“Superintendent of Indian Adairs for the Territo¬ 
ry of Utah, in the name of the people of the United 
States, In the Territory of Utah, forbids: 
First—All armed forces of every doacription 
from coming into this territory, under any pre¬ 
tence whatever. 
Second—That all the forces in said territory 
bold themselves in readiness to march at a mo¬ 
ment’s notice to repel any and all such Invasions. 
Third—Martial law is hereby declared to exist, 
in this territory Irom and after tbe publication of 
this proclamatton, and no person shall be allowed 
to pass or repa9S into or through or from this ter¬ 
ritory without a permit from tbe proper officer. 
Given under my hand and seal, ut Great Salt 
Lake City, Territory of Utah, this fifteenth day of 
September, A. D. eighteen hundred andfifty-6even, 
aud of the independence of the United States of 
Amerioa the eighty-seoond. Brigham Young.” 
The Financial Depression.— The Washington 
correspondent of the New York Commercial Ad¬ 
vertiser says "the Secretary of the Treasury has 
been led, by all tho information he has been able 
to collect, and his own judicious observations, to 
come to the conclusion that the United States as 
a country is not broke, and that the treasury is not 
bankrupt. He ip, on the contrary, of tho oplulon 
that the financial crista is nearly over,—that iu 
sixty or ninety days we shall be in smooth water 
aud that the revenue for the present fiscal year 
will be ample for the expenditures. More than 
this, a liberal and confident policy possesses the 
government, and it will be imparted by them to 
the country.” 
railroad oars—a great improvement in traveling; 
so in like manner the monthly agricultural jour¬ 
nals are givjog way before the improved and pro¬ 
gressive weeklies, which latter arc destined to oc¬ 
cupy the areua for a period. A few years hence 
however, the Ag, Weeklies will be too slow for the 
age, and must, in turn, give way to semi and tri¬ 
weeklies, and dailies. What say yoo, reader, to a 
Dah.y Rural Nkw-Yorrbr? Its publication may 
not be so far in the future as you imagine. Mean- 
time we purpose to “make hay while the sun 
shines,” and cordially invite your co-operation in 
securing One Hundred Thousand Subscribers for 
the model Ritual and Family Weekly, 
II th 5 snb * tA,)C0 oi >bls articlo bas already been nub. 
■■ -—“ >•“* 
Government Receipts and Expenditures. — 
The reoeipts into the United States Treasury from 
customs, sales of public lands, and other sources, 
during the quarter ending Sept. 30th, amounted 
to $20,929 817 81. During tho same period, tho 
expenditures of the Government amounted to 
$23,714,623 37. The expenses of the Wur and Navy 
Departments were over $11,000,000. 
