highly probable that there will be n revision both of 
the Articles of War and the Artny Regulations. 
Reconstruction measures have been the constant 
a themeof discussion, in Congress and outside circles. 
The supplementary bill received every Repub¬ 
lican vote in the House. In the Senate it evoked an 
able and most spirited debate. Senator Doolittle 
proposed amendments restricting the suffrage of the 
negroes, (not of whites also,) to those who could 
read and write, and who should be possessed of 
property to the amount of $250. He supported 
these amendments in a long speech, to which Sena¬ 
tors Trumbull, Morton and Nye replied. 
The House Military Committee has decided to 
report a bill authorizing the Secretary of War to 
establish a U. S. Arsenal at Port David Russel, Da¬ 
kota, near Cheyenne City, at a cost not exceeding 
fifty thousand dollars. 
The President has approved the bill providing for 
the distribution among the people of the South of 
the accumulated desiccated vegetables and provided 
meats which are not required for the use of the army. 
He has also approved the bill providing that con¬ 
tracts for stationery for the Executive Departments 
Bhall not be made for more than one year at a time. 
The Treasurer of the United States bolds in trust 
for the national banks at this date the following 
amount of securities, namely: For circulating notes 
$341,210,400 and for deposits of public money $39,- 
827,950. 
The internal revenue receipts for the fiscal year to 
February 1st, were $114,753,315. 
The House Committee on Contested seats has 
nearly got tiirough with the case of Delano vs. Mor¬ 
gan, and will next take up that of Butler vs. Powell, 
from the First District of Tenuesse. 
In a late address, before the Universal Peace 
Congress, in session in Washington, Gen. Harney 
denounced the wars with the Indians, contending 
that the theory was utterly groundless that the red 
man could never be civilized. In New Mexico, be 
stated, these Indians were brought to a condition of 
comparatively snperior civilization by the labors of 
Catholic missionaries. 
G. H. Heape, United States Consul to Tunis, 
writes Secretary Seward that 200 natives died of star¬ 
vation in the streets of Tunis on the 27th of De¬ 
cember. The average number of deaths from this 
cause alone are considerably over a hundred daily. 
In the interior the Arabs are driven to desperation 
and attacking and pillaging travelers and caravans, 
and many murders have been committed. 
A despatch to the N, Y. World says:—I am 
authorized to state most confidently and decisively 
that legitimate demands which have been too meek¬ 
ly urged by the Secretary of State upon the British 
Cabinet, are to be enforced at whatever hazard. 
is so rapid that the demand for labor is inappeas- 
able. Tlie dispatches announce that the Central 
Pacific Company are organizing a force of 10,000 
workmen, with which to prosecute the grand en¬ 
terprise during this year. 
Persons desiring a steady and safe investment 
have now an opportunity of securing the First 
Mortgage Bonds upon this great road at less than 
their par value. See the advertisement of the 
Financial Agents, on another page. 
BUFFALO, Feb. 1.-Flour. *n 
3.00;Corn, $l,04<8ii.0L Oats,T.'@74 
Peas, $1.18; Beans, *3.50: Pork, 
13K@13S»r: Butter, 77(5,10c; Chce 
halt, flue, *2.50* coarse, ?■ lib)., $2, 
„ C-HICA GO. Feb. 1 .-Flour. fO.OOc 
Corn, ®®S5c; Outs, 58VOB9; Rv 
au)0; Pork, mess, $19.50@2.M>; Li 
Cheese, 13rai7!kC; SeedB, timothy, 
35: flax, $2.20. 
raNCINNATt. FEB. t.- Flour, 
o»tA, m 
ley, $2.2o@2,83; Mess pork, 82l@22 
Under this heading we propose to give, now, if 
not occasionally hereafter, a few letters which speak 
of some other things and the Rural,— or vice versa. 
Of course, we have no desire to surfeit onr readers 
with “mutual admiration” matter, after the man¬ 
ner of some journals we wot of, but only to give sam¬ 
ples of scores of letters we are receiving now-a-days: 
Editor Rural : — “ I suppose a person does not 
fully commit himself to the literary profession by 
merely writing a letter to an editor. Taking this 
for granted I will address a few lines to yon. Some 
years ago T was a constaut reader of the Rural, but 
becoming one of the “ floating population ” of this 
great Republic (by enlisting in the army, and trav¬ 
eling to see the country,) 1 was deprived of the privi¬ 
lege only as I found the paper iD my rambiings. 
Aud be Bsstired I read eagerly whenever I did happen 
to fall in with my obi friend, Moore’s Rural Nbw- 
Yorkek. Last spring I bought the homes lead farm 
of my father, and in company with my wife and a 
little hoy have embarked in the Farmer's Pleasure 
Boat for life. 1 sent for the Rural at the beginning 
of the year and rather impatiently waited its arrival. 
At last No. 1 of Vol. XIX came, bringing with it joy 
and satisfaction to us all. Bo full was it of informa¬ 
tion mid rich instruction, that we all bad to admit 
that it had made large advancement in real merit as 
well as appearance. 
Now, Mr. Editor, 1 would not have you think that 
my wife and I ever quarrel, hut, to tell the truth, 
we rvme as war quarreling over who shall look at 
the Rural first as we do over anything. She says 
the Rural is her paper, uud she must look at it 
first — that I have the Tribune, Independent and 
county piaper all to myself, and the Rural belongs to 
her — and I generally have to submit to her orders, 
08 you know most men do who have wives with 
snapping black eyes. We all think the Rural the 
gem of the household, and when we. cease to order 
it yon may be assured we have passed to a world 
where no U. S. mail can reach us. 
Respectfully yours, O. B. Preston. 
Caroline Center, N. Y„ Jan.. 1868. 
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about these days, and some premiums may not be forwarded 
on the day ordered—especially if the articles mentioned are 
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modern hotel luxury. 
5 f -*Hlve6—Kcceipts 854 head; quotations 
LambA-RecoiptP 19,97? head; quotations 
5>$(s)7>i Swine—Receipts 15,460head; quotations7<@7C;c. 
*•—Beeves, $S,00@n,75, Milch Cows, *-10® 
Lambs-State Michigan 5®6c?I 
Lanada 6@*c. Hog8,7@7^c. 
BRIGHTON, Jan. 29.—Beeves rnnge 
iWQM 5 TP pair; Steers and 
~*™ ^ ISP® L .0 ; Milch Cow«.f55@l00; Heifers and far- 
JOW, BIilt.d and Lamb*, Northern, Vc; extra, 
*3®5.W>LllI4es, 9@>10c. ft Tallow, 8@9c! 
(.all skins, 16®lsc. f< a.; Pelts,66c®$l,50; Swine,uosa)es. 
PHILADELPHIA, Jak. 27. Cattle lower; sales at5@WJ4c. 
Sheep. 5®6Rc.. Hogs, IftaiORr. n 
CHICAGO, Jan. 31—Beef Ca«le,5M@"Xc. Yeal Calves, 412 
@6JfC. Sheep, $2,00@5. Hogs, f5,50@7,0<b 
5^80'™^ Jan ‘ 31_BeerCaUle > «S,50@7,75; Sheep, 2*® 
LffiTATc »-»— 
30—Bcf Cattle, »■«, Sho.p, . K ® 
SPECIAL NOTICES 
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WHEATON’S OINTMENT will cure Salt Rheum. 
WHEATON’S OINTMENT cures Old Sores. 
WHEATON'S OINTMENT cures all Diseases of the Skin. 
Price 50 centsby mail 60 cents. All Druggists sell it. 
Weeks & Potter, Boston, Proprietors. 922 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER OFFICE, ) 
• Rochester, February 4, 1868. j 
Monkv mutters continue easy In Western New York, par¬ 
ticularly In this immediate locality. The banks have more 
money, just now. than their customers require. Produce 
dealers In tills section realized much sooner on the property 
they had detained on the canal than was anticipated, so that 
the hanks have very little of the paper drawn against canal 
shipments. Money continues abundant in Boston, Now York 
and Philadelphia. The New York Times of Saturday says: 
“ The rates for Money to-day are 5(5,6 pcx cent, to the Stock 
Brokers, on call, and 6@7 per cent, to the Discount Brokers 
on prime Merchant paper of short date. Some large cash bal¬ 
ances continue to be left with the Brokers in the Public Funds 
at 4 per cent.” 
Financial affairs are not reported easy at the West, though 
there is a better sopply of money at Cincinnati than hereto¬ 
fore. The last Chicago Republican notices thus:—“There 
was an Increased demand lor money to-day, owing, in a 
measure, to the activity In provisions. The banks very gen¬ 
erally report a close and stringent loan market, and their 
Inability to meet the demand, even from ftTSt-olass quarters. 
Several Institutions, who do a pnrcly mercantile business, and 
have no grain or provision accounts, are tolerably well sup¬ 
plied with currency, and manage to take care of the interests 
of their best customers.” t 
There Is a better feeling among business men In the coun¬ 
try generally in regard to the future of bnslimsg than has ex¬ 
isted for some time past.. In many descriptions of merchan¬ 
dise It Is believed the bottom has been reached, and therefore 
there is less danger of loss to the distributing merchant who 
purchases goods now, than at any time during the past year. 
A leading New York paper notices the condition of trade as 
follows: 
The feeling among the holders of both foreign and domes¬ 
tic dry goods Is much better than at the close of tin- old year, 
and tuera Is also an advance, tn demand and prices for the 
leading atopies of foreign general merchandise. The cotton 
trade Is 4 cent* per pound better tbau the lowest price three 
or lour weeks ago, and this Is expected to assist very materi¬ 
ally the spring demand for goods from the South. 
At the present writing It Is not known whether the act Of 
Congress to stop the. contraction of Greenbacks will become 
a law or not. It has been understood for some days that the 
President would not sign the act, but allow It to become a 
law by not returning It. From present indications there will 
be no expansion of Greenbacks or National Bank Notes au¬ 
thorized by Congress this winter. The House Committee on 
Banking and Currency have for some time been discussing a 
hill to substitute Greenbacks for National Currency, and the 
Committee, It is understood, stand live to four In favor of the 
measure, which Is known as Randall’s bill. 
[After the foregoing was in type, the following was re¬ 
ceived by telegraph " The anti-con traction hill is now a 
law, the ten days during which the President must either 
sign or veto the bill having expired yesterday; it was sent 
to him January 21, which, deducting one Sunday, makes yes¬ 
terday the last of tile ten days.”J 
Large delegations of merchants and business men arc now 
on their way from St. Loni6, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Chicago 
and other points West, to attend The National Commercial 
Convention, which meets in Boston Wednesday of this week. 
WOol.—T here in nothing new In the wool market. Manu¬ 
facturers do not seem to operate to any extent, and appear 
to be cautious about putting upon the market a large supply 
of spring goods. Sales of domestic wool In Boston last week 
foot up only about 500,000 lbs., at a range of 38@00c. for fleece, 
and 22K@47c. for the various grades of pulled. Tim Boston 
Bulletin Says:—“ I he market for woolen goods shows but 
faint signs of animation, and the trade in spring fabrics still 
remains In abeyance. The accumulation of fall goods is 
THE PORK MARKETS. 
CHICAGO, Jan. 31—Dressed hogs are In fair demand; light 
advanced 5c; heavy are unchanged; sales at $7,75@8,G0, divid¬ 
ing on 200 tbs. Live hogs are active and firm; sales at *5,05® 
8,25 for common to choice. 
CINCINNATI, Jan. 81—Dressed hogs are in good demand; 
sales at *7(58,00. 
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 31.—DrcBsed hogB are weak; sales at 
754(ft8Xc.; live hogs 5Y@tiXc. 
DETROIT, Jan. 31.—The market Is not overstocked; sales 
heavy, $8, so, light, $7,75@8. 
TOLEDO, Jan. 31.—Dressed hogs quiet at "J 4 @ 8 J 4 c. 
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 28—Dressed hogs; nothing doing, and 
prices are nominal, G!4@63kc. 
BUFFALO, Feb. 1. Dressed hogs; sale 100 light at $8,60. 
NEW YORK, .Jan. 31 .— Dressed hogs aredull at 8 X® 8 ^cfor 
Western, and 9X@0&c for city. 
ALBANY, Jan. SI.—Dressed Hogs are selling at 10X@10Mc. 
for State, and 9J4<§i9jfc. for Western. 
TORONTO, Jan. 29.—The following are the rates paid; 
Light and medium, 5®5>4c.; choice to extra, 5Y@0>fc. 
Hon. D. D. T, Moore : — For three years last 
past we have taken your in valuable paper, and have 
just subscribed for 1868. Its value jn our family 
cannot be told in words. Suffice for ns to say, ns 
soon as received from the office, its pages are 
taken by storm. As a weekly, it contains more 
valuable information for the masses than any other 
journal with which we are acquainted. Especially 
is it useful to the farmer. In your “Hints for the 
Month ” we receive more than an equivalent for the 
subscription price. But enough of this. 
Our winter till yesterday has been mild and pleas¬ 
ant, with from three to six inches of snow — a good 
time for farmers to draw wood aud logs. Yesterday 
and to-day we have had an old fashioned snow storm. 
Have from 15 to 18 inches of snow, and are still get¬ 
ting more. nave had but little rain since last Jnne, 
consequently a large majority of wells and cisterns 
are, and have been, dry for the paat three months. 
Creeks and springs are dry, or what little water they 
have is frozen into ice. Cattle have to be driven 
long distance# to get water. How long this druuth 
will continue God only knows. 
One word in regard to fruit. Old apple orchards 
are fast dying out, aud unless new ones are set soon, 
we shall be without apples. Cherries and currants 
all gone. More anon. Henry Bailey. 
Lorraine, Jeff. Co., N. Y., 1868. 
E 00 HESTER AND NEW Y 0 EK 
SATURDAY, F'KID’Y 8, IS 
New York State. 
The Constitutional Convention has been ranch 
engaged in considering the report on Cities, making 
various modifications and changes. As adopted, the 
whole article has been finally referred to a Commit¬ 
tee on Revision. The Convention is now engaged 
upon the report on State Prisons. 
The Workingmen’s Assembly was in session in 
Albany nearly all of last week. Questions of labor, 
hours thereof, comiiensation, Ac., were discussed at 
length. It was resolved to present a bill to the Leg¬ 
islature prohibiting children under twelve years of 
age being employed in factories and against the em¬ 
ployment of minors more than four hours a day. 
The following officers were chosen for the ensuing 
year: President—Wm. J. Jessup, of New York. 
First Vice President—Henry B. Mulhall, of New 
York. Second Vice President—Samuel Whitney of 
Lansingburgh. Secretary—Alexander Troop, of New 
York. Treasurer —John Norton, of Albany. The 
Assembly adjourned sine die on the 31st ult. 
The trial of Gen. Cole for the murder of Hon. L. 
H, Hiscoek was begun in Albauy last week. A writ 
of certiorari having been granted in the case by Jus¬ 
tice Welles, on the ground that the defense was not 
fully prepared to proceed with the trial, a lengthy 
argument was had before Judge Peekham, who de¬ 
cided to quash the writ. District Attorney Henry 
Smith is prosecuting the case for the people, assisted 
by James T. Brady and other eminent legal talent, 
while the defense is conducted by Win J. Hadley, 
with able counsel. Gen. Cole pleads temporary 
insanity in defense of the murder. Deep interest is 
felt in the case. 
In the Senate Mr. Stanford, from the Committee 
on Canals, hag reported favorably a bill declaring 
the belief that all repairs, by contract, of the canals, 
and the work, repairs and dredging of the Albany 
basin, awarded at the letting in Dee., I860, are fraud¬ 
ulent and void, and to declare the 6ame void, and to 
recover all mouey paid on such contracts beyond a 
reasonable compensation for work done. 
Mr. Palmer has introduced a bill providing that 
the annual school tax iu New York shall not exceed 
the product obtained by multiplying the sum of ten 
dollars by the average number of pupils who have 
actually been taught for the whole preceding year. 
Messrs. Nichols, Thayer aud Norton have been 
appointed a Select Committee to report what legis¬ 
lation is necessary to secure greater safety in rail¬ 
road travel. 
A new comb factory, at Wappinger’s Falls, Dutch¬ 
ess Co., was destroyed by lire on the 27th ult., in¬ 
volving a loss of from $15,000 to $20,000. Thirty- 
five or forty persons are thrown out of employment 
by its destruction. 
The Albany Academy of Music was destroyed by 
fire, early Wednesday morning, the 29th ult. Noth¬ 
ing was saved. The loss is estimated at about $40,- 
000. The property was only partially insured. The 
dry goods store of Luke, Brothers, adjoining, was 
also burned down, but the stock was saved. 
Am os Dean, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence 
in the Medical College at Albany, and Principal of 
the Albany Law School, died in that city, on the 
26th ult., after a brief illness. 
The first of a series of Fenian meetings to be held 
throughout the country, took place at Buffalo on the 
night of the 1st insL Gen. O’Neil, President of the 
Brotherhood, initiated the movement A great 
crowd was in attendance. 
It is said that a Metropolitan Insurance Company’s 
Caihser, who died recently, was a defaulter in the sum 
of $600,000, and that his death was by his own hand. 
The exports of Bpeoie from the port of New York 
for the week ending February 1st, were $130,000— 
the smallest in several years. 
A child about two years of age was burned to 
death in Fairport, Monroe Co., on the 31st ult. Its 
clothes ignited from the fire. 
THE WOOL MARKETS. 
NEW YORK. Fkb. 1.—Market I* qnlrt. Sales 170,000168. 
at 40@56c. for Domestic Fleece, RR®4. r >c.. for Pulled, 20@28c. 
for Texas, 20@3Ic. for California, and Capo and Mestiza p. t. 
BOSTON, Jan. 36—The following are the quotations taken 
from the Boston Journal :-8axonv and Merino line, 55@67c.; 
Fuff Blood. 50@!iflc.; >»: and V Blood, 42®48c.; Common, 38® 
42c.; Pulled, extra. 45«vS8c.: Superfluu.ilVit'IAc.; No. l,25®40c.-. 
From the West, 
The most destructive fire ever known it Chicago, 
occurred there on the night of the 28th ult The 
loss is estimated at nearly two million and a half of 
dollars. 
A lire in Leavenworth, Kansas, on the 31st ult., 
destroyed property to the amount of $150,000. The 
Mercantile Library was totally consumed. 
While two or three hundred people—men, women 
and children, mainly passengers by the Ohio A 
Mississippi Railroad train—were crossing the Missis¬ 
sippi river at St. Louis, recently, on foot, the ice sud¬ 
denly broke loose from each shore and floated down 
the 6tream. The people ran hither and thither in 
terrible fright. They could not get off at either 
shore, as the icehad left the river banks and it seem¬ 
ed as though there would be a terrible loss of life. 
Thousands of citizens gathered on the levee aud 
watched the scene with intense excitement. Luckily 
the i mm ense field of ice did not break, and after 
fioating the distance of a couple of blocks, it passed 
against a steamer on tlic Missouri shore, from which 
planks were pushed out, and all the terrified people 
were rescued. 
The boiler in a saw mill near Detroit, Mich., ex¬ 
ploded. Two brothers named Arnold were killed 
aud two other meu were injured. 
The official statement of the branch mint at San 
Francisco for 1867, shows the total deposits of bullion 
at $10,500,000, and coinage at $19,380,000. 
A despatcli from Jefferson City states that Gov¬ 
ernor Fletcher is about to seize the Missouri and 
Pacific Railroad in the name of the State. 
Late advices from Arizona state that the Indians 
had’made a descent on Bale Springs station and 
Camp Williams, aud shot or carried off all the stock. 
A mail carrier aud a millitary escort of four men 
belonging to the railroad survey party were lost in 
the wildernesss even |days aud came near starving. 
Gov. McCormick and other civic officers of the Ter¬ 
ritory arrived at Tucson on the 17th of December. 
Under date of “Morristown, Tenn., Jan. 18, 
1868,” a lady writes us as follows: —“Ilaviug spent 
many a pleasant hour poring over some old files of 
the Rural, which chanced to fail into my hands 
during the dark days of war, I have for some time 
been possessed of an irresistible desire, not only to 
subscribe, for your inimitable paper myself but to 
induce, if possible, many others to do likewise,— 
feeling that I would thereby be instrumental in 
conferring a general good. For the success of the 
proposed undertaking, it becomes necessary that I 
-hould have a few specimen numbers, etc. ' I shall 
be mnch pleased to send you five or six new sub¬ 
scribers, but should 1 fail in procuring them you 
may, at least, place my name on your list for 1808, 
certain. Hoping to hear from you, personally, or 
through the columns of the Rural, upon this sub¬ 
ject, 1 am,” &e. 
At the residence of the bride’s father, in Wells. Pa. 
Rev. D. R. Ford of Elmira, X. Y., Mr. ALONZO KLLIi 
of Monganp Valley, Sullivan Co., N. Y.,and Miss LAt 
S. NICHOLS of the former place. 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 
Advertising Untes.— After the first of January, 1868, 
the Rales of Advertising in the Rural Nbw-Yobkbb will be 
as follows, for each Insertion: 
Advertisements, Inside, 75 cents per line, Agate space. 
" Outside, SI " “ “ 
For Extra Display and Cuts, a price and a half. 
Special Notices, Nonpareil leaded, SI.50 per line. 
1ST No advertisement inserted for less than $3. 
Reason —Our measure will be considerably wider and cir¬ 
culation much greater (at least twenty thousand) than when 
the former rates were established. [Dec. 28. 
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JL1 ft \ /■ M r and )5,000 Gratio Vines, Tor sale cheap, hv 
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A gents, 
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free to all. 
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you $20 to #40 per week, and expenses, 
seful Inventions. Full particulars sent 
ATTENTION TOBACCO USERS !—The Appr- 
tite for Tobacco destroyed by using Orton's Preparation 
Send stamp for Circular. Address 
C, B. COTTON, Box 1748, Portland, Maine. 
KINKEKIKIFF’S CORN-SHEERER, SEPE- 
KATOR AHU OLKANK.lt foreale at manufacture's price, by 
IC. REID, Westfield, Chautauqua Co.. N. Y. 
. B.—Shcilcrs shipped to any address ou receipt of price. 
From the South. 
The Georgia Radical State Convention, which 
was fixed for the 19th inst, is indefinitely postponed. 
The. sehoncr Lone Star was recently driven out to 
sea from Savannah, seven passengers and three deck 
bauds were lost. Only three persons were saved in 
sneh an exhausted condition that they could not tell 
what had become of the others. 
The Commissioner of the Freed mens’ Bureau pub¬ 
lishes two important orders, prescribing the regula¬ 
tion under which supplies will be furnished to 
planters during the coming year, and providing for 
the transportation of freedmen to parishes where 
employment can be obtained for them. Supplies will 
be furnished monthly until the necessity no longer 
exists, first taking a lien upon the crops for payment. 
Subsistence for the helpless aud indigent will be 
issued gratuitously. 
The Georgia Reconstruction Convention has adopt¬ 
ed a resolution petitioning for a loan from the gen¬ 
eral Government, in aid of the agricultural interests. 
In the Virginia Convention, a clause has been 
adopted taxing male citizens for schools and general 
purposes. 
The employes of the Memphis, Clarksville and 
Louisville Railroad have struck, from non-payment 
of wages. 
The Maryland Legislature was recently much ex¬ 
cited over the resolution instructing Gov. Swann to 
issue a commission to Senator-elect Hamilton. It 
was stated by one of Gov. Swann’s friends that lie 
declined to issue the commission upon the ground 
that Hamilton was elected in violation of the eastern 
shore law concerning Senators. 
/ 1ASHMBRE GOATS — 150 C ASHMERE ASI- 
atic i'lccoG Goats, a select importation upon the tqiecial 
mission of Israel S. Burnt,, Esq., to Asia. The largest and 
finest importation ever niadf. For sale. Address CllAS. 3. 
BROWN. SO Broadway, New York, 942-2t 
rpo FRUIT GROWERS- NINE ACRES UN- 
JL improved land, well located for Fruit Growing ; can be 
secured by an active man, who may pay for It in plants any 
time within 5 years, without paying interest or rent. Partic¬ 
ulars by addressing Box 83, Burlington, N. J. 
movement. Prime Minister Mcnabrea, when inter¬ 
rogated on the subject, declined to give any expla¬ 
nation. 
The announcement was made in both Houses of the 
Italian Parliament, on the 1st inst., that his Royal 
Highness, the Crown Prince Humbert, has been form¬ 
ally betrothed to the Princess Marguarita of Genoa. 
In accordance with a request from Lord Stanley, 
the Pasha of Egypt has recalled the auxiliary corps 
of native Egyptians which he sent to join the British 
expedition in Abyssinia. 
His Majesty, King Christian,.has signed the treaty 
with the United States for the sale of the Westlndia 
Islands. 
Late dispatches have been received from Athens 
giving au account of another battle between the 
Turks and Cretans, in which the latter were success¬ 
ful. The Spakiotean Mountaineers were the attack¬ 
ing party. The Turks 6tood their ground, and the 
battle lasted all day. They acknowledge a loss of 
250 killed. The Cretan loss is not stated. 
The Courier Francais says that the presence of 
Admiral Farragut at Naples is designed 
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Pronipt answers to inquiries. Address “RURAL EMPIRE 
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7 ei Tkstbd.— “Hie discussions at the nine ting of the 
Am. PomolOgietil Soo'v showed that tills variety maintained 
He reputation for productiveness aud hardiness all over the 
country. Superior in flavor to all others,"— Am. Agriculturist. 
Genuine Plants for sale wholesale and retail ny 
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AYEB’S CHEBBY PECTO¬ 
RAL surpasses all other remedies In the 
rapid and radical cure of Coughs, ColdB 
and Consumption. 
as a coun¬ 
terpoise to the French forces in Rome, aud to sus¬ 
tain the Liberals of Italy, with whom Farragut has 
intimate relations. 
II ek and C'ULTiVATort—Combines all the most impor¬ 
tant and desirable qualities,with advantages not found in 
any other hand machine, for sowing Onions, Carrots, Itoets. 
turnips,Parsnips. Peas, Keans, Ac., *c. The Hand Cultiva¬ 
tor Saves a vasl amount of labor by dispensing with Wlu-el- 
Hoes or HnadfHoos. Price of both combined f 15,00; Seed 
Bower alone $12,00 ; Cultivator. fS.OO. 
Our Patent Plows, with changeable mould-hoards for sod 
and stab l e, won lour Gold Medals at the Great National 
»» .at Ctlca, N.V, Sent., twr. Various sizes and 
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From Washington. 
There is no authentic foundation for the reports 
that the President will veto the bill suspending fur¬ 
ther contraction of the currency. 
The Committee on Ax»propriations reduced the 
amount asked for by See. Seward for Consular and 
Diplomatic services $1300,000. They also abolished 
three offices from the State Department, namely; 
Second Assistant Secretary of State, Examiner of 
Claims, and Superintendent of Statistics. 
Generals Sherman and Sheridan, and also many 
other officers, think the time has come for a thor¬ 
ough revision of the Articles of War. They have, 
accordingly, drawn up new articles which one of 
them read before the House Military Committee, at 
a recent meeting. The members of the Committee 
were favorably impressed with their work, and it is 
Overland Communication and Traffic 
The express time between San Francisco and New 
York was reduced to fifteen days at the close of 1867, 
aud by the close of this year it is expected the time 
will be further reduced to eleven days, by the fur¬ 
ther extension of the Pacific Railroad from both 
directions. By the middle of 1870, if not sooner, 
we may look for the all-rail connection, and a 
schedule of about six days from ocean to ocean; 
and therefore we may look for a prodigious stream 
of travel and traffic over the Main Stem Line. 
By reason of the unprecedented low rates of fare 
on the competing steamship lines, no less than 10,- 
(XXi passengers have left New York for California, 
via the Isthmus, within three months. The internal 
and agricultural development of the Pacific coast 
Farming at tue West.— The West, it is said, can¬ 
not complain of hard times. A Milwaukee paper 
states that the farmers of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and 
Northern Iowa have already received $15,000,000 
more for their products of last season than they did 
for the crops of 1866. This surplus is sufficient to 
make the farming interest of those States tolerably 
strong. The newspaper referred to adds: ‘ ‘ There is 
still room for millions of people in this land of plen¬ 
ty. Of a hundred million acres directly west of Lake 
Michigan, not one-tenth is under cultivation, and 
that tenth is not of the average productiveness of 
the remainder.” 
THE PROVISION MARKETS 
NRW YORK, Fkb. 1. — Ashes, pots, *8.25(38,50; 
nominal; Cotton,middlings, 19®19 Rc; Flour,*5,60© 
-•'’■••'G3: Wheat. »2.50fa,2.h«’ : Rv.., *1.78 r 
f2.00«i'.! jr>: Corn, *.U%k.L27; Onto. 83(iSl‘qc; Pork 
f23.Wa.23.do; prime, fl7.25®18,S7: prime m.-sw, *oi.CK 
Beat, new plain mess, fi3.W&21.60; Ur. r hams, $29.51 
Sbontrier: 1 ,8®9KC; Hams, 12ffll3k>fi; p.aeon, 104lSVc 
Butler, &®30c; Cheese, ll®15et Eggs, . 
Hopa,3f)®00c. 66 
ALBANY. F«n. 1. —Flour, $11.25@15.00; Rye flour 
Buckwheat Hour. $4.1204235; Corn meal, $2.7503.85 
Wheat, $£75®8.!fc; Rye, $1.65; Corn, $1.30(31.30; 
$1 -BO 1 ; Oatt, 82®85c; Pork, new mess, $24.00; clear, 
bouelesB, $27,00; Hams, 18c; Shoulders, 12c.; Smoke 
22c, Lard, ffM®15>4c. 
