two countries was not needed; that reparation was 
fairly due the United States. Mr. Gladstone did not 
agree with him. lie inferred, however, from Lord 
Stanley's remarks, that negotiations between the 
two Governments were not dosed, and that friendly 
feelings between them would be maintained. 
that there is a central branch of the Asylum at Day- 
ton, Ohio, an eastern branch near Augusta, Maine, 
and another western branch at Milwaukee, Wis. 
The institution during the last year supported or 
aided one thousand eight hundred and sixty-sis par¬ 
tially disabled volunteers. The orders and average 
expenses for the subsistence in the asylums did not 
exceed the sum of $30,000. The outdoor relief 
amounted to nearly $10,000. 
The Reconstruction Committee have agreed to 
report a bill to the House for the admission of Ala¬ 
bama under the new Constitution, providing for 
representation in Congress as soon as the recently 
elected j I .egislature shall have ratified the fourteenth 
amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States. 
It appears that the new Maryland Senator, Gen, 
Vickens, is regarded as not thoroughly loyal, and 
that objection will be made to bis admission until 
his ease has been investigated by the Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee. 
luBIis^r's 
RURAL NEW-YORKER OFFICE, ) 
Rochester, March 10, 1868. j 
The past week has been one of unusual dullness for trade 
in this locality, and a small amount of business bas been 
done at most points, botb east and west, The great storm 
of the season, which occurred .March 2, extending from the 
Rocky Mountains, on the west, to the State of Maine and be¬ 
yond, eastwnrclly, seriously delayed the mails, and for two 
or three days put an embargo upon travel generally. The 
day following the great fall of snow was the coldest of the 
season, the mercury being at- sc below zero at 8 A, AT., and 
continuing below tbe entire day. The extreme Cold was suc¬ 
ceeded, about the middle of the week, by a thaw, which made 
it exceedingly unpleasant getting about, either in city or 
country. At the close of the week apprehensions were felt 
that Rochester might be visited by a flood similar to tbe one 
so disastrous in March. 1806. At the, present writing (Mon¬ 
day, March hth,. there are no indications that the Genesee 
will rise above the ordinary high water mark. 
There is no change in local money matters. At the east the 
market is fairly supplied with funds at 5@6 per cent. Gold 
has been rather weak, and sold yesterday iu New York at 
ltOf;. American silver sells at below the price of 
gold. Mexican dollars are quoted at 102Q10334 hi gold. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has published a statement 
of the public debt March l.irdft. The statement, as compared 
with the one for February 1 st, shows that the debt bearing 
coin interest has increased the. debt,bearing cur¬ 
rency Interest has decreased *11,457.750; the matured debt 
not presented for payment shows a decrease of $1,858,015; 
the debt bearing no interest has decreased 83,859.791; the 
amount of coin in the Treaeurj lias increased $8,132,311; the 
amount of currency ha* decreased $3,924,08$, showing an in¬ 
crease ol' cash on hand of $1,208,111; making a decrease In 
total amount of debt, less cash in the Treasury, of $7,485,738, 
Money Continues very cheap in England. Commercial 
paper is taken at 7»6®t r q per cent. There Is a steady drain 
Of gold from the Bank of England, which has continued for 
three or four months ; the Rank of France, on the contrary, 
has increased its stock of bullion very largely iu the last few 
weeks. The amount now held by the Bank la £ 14 , 301 , 800 . 
The Erie Railroad has been the subject of a good deal of 
action in the Courts during the last two or three weeks. 
First an injunction was served on Mr. Daniel Drew, a lead¬ 
ing director and officer of the Company, and last week an¬ 
other director, probably at tbe instance, of Mr. Drew, was 
“restrained.’* These suits and counter-suits have a bad 
elteet upon the stock. For a week past rumors have been 
ir, circulation (Par some tio.UOu to s(i,uoo shares of new stock 
have been issued by the Company. This was so confidently 
reported that Legislative investigation has been called for, 
and a resolution to appoint, a Committee of Investigation 
passed tbe Assembly last week. 
A recent letter from Woodstock, New Brunswick, says: 
" The indications of gold in this county and the adjoining 
county of Victoria are beginning to excite no little atten¬ 
tion. Small experiments made in “panning" and "sluic¬ 
ing " in tlie beds of several streams which run Into the River 
St. John have shown the existence ot gold in large quanti¬ 
ties. I saw the other day four or live dollars’ worth of dust, 
the result of one day's work of shoveling and sluicing of one 
man, performed last antnmn." When the spring opens in¬ 
vestigations are to be conducted upon a more extended scale 
than heretofore. 
Wool,—T here was less activity in the wool market last 
week than the week previous. The New York Journal of 
Commerce of Saturday notices the market thus“ There 
Is a fair business doing in fleeces at steadily held prices. 
Buyers are. not as plenty or as eager as they were last week, 
as the manufacturers and speculators are well slocked np, 
and tho receivers are yet busily engaged iu preparing lots 
already sold for shipment, The stocks of all descriptions of 
domestic are light. The demand for foreign is quite limited, 
but holders are demanding full figures. The sales are ,200,000 
lbs. lleeces at 43®5Sa., including Western and low State at 43 
@*5c.; medium Stale, Michigan and Ohio, at 47@50c.: X and 
above Ohio, at . 583550 ,; XX do. at 56358c.; noils at 42Rc., 
and scoured at 50@57c. ■, 700 bales pulled at39X@47c. for super, 
and 40©4«C. for extra ; 10,000 lbs. tubbed at 52*gc.; 60,000 lbs. 
Texas at, 233280.; 70,000Ihs. California at17c, for burry pulled, 
12 ,n. im2sc. l’or common to good, and 33c. for fine ; 150 bags XX 
Mestixa pulled at 65c.; 100 bales Cape at 29c. gold.” 
The sales of domestic in Boston last week foot np 1,150,000 
lbs., at. a range of in* otc. for fleece, and 41* 19c. for the vari¬ 
ous grades of pulled. The Bulletin says the advance of three 
to five cents on different grades, lately realized, is fully sus¬ 
tained, and that there arc no lots offering at rates current 
SPECIAL NOTICES 
have been a -‘constant reader” of the Rural, if I 
have not got it directly from "headquarters.” I 
went to work as usual tt year ago last fall, or in Dec., 
to get a “elnh” to throw at the Rural, but found 
it up-hill business, as most of yonr old subscribers, 
after the news depot was started in the city, got 
their Rubaj.s there, saving postage; so, after spend¬ 
ing about a day and not getting but 8 or 1 to sub¬ 
scribe in the old way, I too went with them to the 
news depot for the most of my papers and magazines. 
To show yon that I am “up and dusted 1 ' for all 
that’s in the Rural, I hereby send yon the answer 
to “ Prize Rebus ” in No, 4, current VoL 1 know I 
am not in the limits or territory prescribed, yet if I 
could not have had the Rural without, I should 
have gono south of Mason <fc Dixon’s celebrated line, 
or out to Mo. or Minn., and sent back to you what 
1 would be willing to buck up by a deposition in this 
style, to wit:—‘‘Greatly enlarged, improved, and 
beautified in appearance, Moork’s Rural excels all 
contemporaries,” There, if that is not the true defi¬ 
nition of the Rebus, it oughtlobe, and it suits my taste 
for an answer to "valuable a Prize, and I think it 
is; Is it? [Yes.] 
Now, I advise all hereabouts to send to you, or 
get the Rural in Jackson at the news depot; and 1 
am sure that the most of them get it at the depot, 
for I sometimes see a large pile of R urals after the 
express and mall arrives. I suppose you would as 
lief we would buy of our news dealer as to “Club” 
and send to you, and we save postage. [Yes, all the 
same to us.] Wishing you abundant success, allow 
me, my dear Rural, to subscribe myself, 
Very respectfully and truly.yours, 
r Isaac Sxvder, 
Ocala, Florida, Feb. 10th, 1S6S, 
Dear Sir: — I see that you have stopped my 
paper, and suppose you think that I, like thousands 
of other Southern planters, from a failure in last 
year’s operations, not able to renew my subscrip¬ 
tion. [No,—but it is our invariable rale, as ex 
plained iu Rural of Feb. 1 .—Ed.] It is true we 
have made a failure, and a very signal one — and as 
long as we have the same condition of things to 
contend with that we have now, I sun afraid it will 
continue so. To be successful hereafter we must 
have a change in our system of labor, but how we 
are to make that change we arc at a loss to know. 
1-wish you would give us some hints on the man¬ 
agement of laborers, and what is the best system 
adopted in the North and Northwestern States— 
contracts, wages, Arc. I would have sent on my 
subscription before Ibis, but being so much pleased 
with your paper, concluded I wonld wait and try 
and get up a few more to send along with mine— 
and by some little exertion have succeeded in get 
ting fourteen new subscribers, for which find in¬ 
closed a draft on New York city. I may be able to 
increase tbe number. Send me show cards, <$rc.., 
and 1 will act as agent and try to increase your 
“Brigade.” Yours very respectfully, 
3. W. Moody. 
De Ruyter, N, Y., Jan. 27,1808.' 
Hon. D. D. T. Moore, — Dear Sir: 1 fully endorse 
the sentiment of your Illustrated Prize Rebus in 
Rural of Jan. 25, viz., “ Greatly enlarged , improved 
and beautified in appearance , Mowc's Mural excels all 
contemporaries." 1 have been a constant reader of 
the Rural for ten years, and I often think that each 
paper makes an adequate return for the subscription 
price for the year in useful information pertaining 
solely to agricultural pursuits. In addition to this 
we have all the other departments of Miscellany, 
richly furnished with incident and interest; and not 
the least among the several departments is the col¬ 
umn of gems under the heading of “ Sabbath Read 
ing.” Moore’s Rural New-Yorker is a welcome 
visitor at our fireside, and 1 wish it might grace the 
home of every family in the country, it comes to 
us weekly, neatly attired, chaste in language, and 
always in time,—never so much as having played 
the truant for the whole ten years. 1 trust you may 
long enjoy the rewards of your labor in making the 
Rural just such a paper 1 as to meet the wants of all 
its readers. Yours truly, 
CnAEi.Es II. Maxson. 
Two firms at Mechanic Falls, Me,, employ between 
S00 and 1,000 persons in making ready-made clothing 
for the Boston market. 
The indications are that the Mohawk valley will 
this spring be visited by an inundation more dis¬ 
astrous than any heretofore experienced. 
In the late “onpleasantness” which our Govern¬ 
ment has bad -with the Western savages, it has been 
ascertained that the cost of killing each Indian, was 
just $1,000,000. 
Many of the hotels built in Pit Hole, Penn., dur¬ 
ing 1/cr palmy days, bare been pulled down and re¬ 
moved. One of them, built at an expense of $80,000, 
was recently sold for $500. 
Two sisters, sixteen and eighteen years, named! 
Collins, living in South Groveland, Mass., were 
drowned on Wednesday night by breaking in the 
ice, while attempting to cross a hank. 
A horse was seared io death in Omaha, by a pass¬ 
ing locomotive on the Union Pacific Railroad. It 
was a fine, apparently healthy animal. The intense 
fear which it experienced was so great that it fell 
dead without a struggle, 
In Fond da Lac, Wis., a live-year old boy named 
Steams, dii'ping water through the ice on a brook, 
slipped, and the water spilling under him, before be 
could get np he was frozen to the ice, where he lay 
until his mother, alarmed at his long absence, came 
to his rescue. 
Charles Dickens entertained about thirty literary 
geutlemen of Boston and suburban cities at supper, 
at tbe Parker House, on Saturday evening. The af¬ 
fair was peculiarly an elegant one, the room and 
table being decorated in the most expensive and 
lavish manner with flowers. 
Great Britain kad6 the world in mercantile ship¬ 
ments with 7,1X10,000 tons. The United States comes 
second, with 5,000,000. In I860 she had overtaken 
Great Britain, but the late Avar has caused a falling 
off. Germany is third on the list, far exceeding 
France, which follows as the fourth, 
Ttie entire number of tenement houses in New 
York city is between 18,000 aud 20,000. Since the 
1st of January, over 1,000 notices have been served 
by the Superintendent of Buildings, calling for the 
erection ©f fire escapes. Of these, IKK) have been 
raised or are in process of erection. 
The cotton spinners and weavers employed in all 
the cotton mills of Fall River, Mass., struck on the 
2d inst. for an increase of wages. All the mills 
have ceased work, producing a stoppage of nearly 
half a million of spindles. Over five thousand hands 
are out of employment, roaming through the snowy 
streets. 
Jack Frost has made more trouble on the rail¬ 
roads the past winter by the breaking of rails than 
he has during any like period for the past twenty 
years. The Poughkeepsie Eagle say6 that on the 
Hudson River Railroad from New York to Troy, 
thus far this season, over five hundred broken rails 
have been discovered. 
The remains of about seven hundred aud fifty 
Federal soldiers passed through Atlanta on the 1st 
inst., from Montgomery, to be interred in the Na¬ 
tional Cemetery at Marietta. Many coffins were 
accompanied by a neat head-board marked with the 
name, State, regiment and company of the deceased; 
many of them bortthesolemnlegend, “ Unknown,” 
The New York Central Park is to be made more 
beautiful this spr.bg than it ever was before. The 
revenues of the Pferk have been turned to the host 
advantage in blending art with nature. New statues 
are to be added. The heavy stone is being beauti¬ 
fully carved in basiTelief, TLere is to be music two 
details horrible atrocities perpetrated by Indians in 
Elano county, in Ibat State. Some fifteen or twenty 
Indians attacked the bouse of John S. Friend, in 
which were Mr?. Friend, two Mrs, Johnsons, Miss 
Townsend, aged sixteen, and four children, and the 
children of the Mrs. Johnson*, one eighteen months 
old and the other three year?. A hand-to-haud tight 
ensued between the women and the Indians of the 
most bloody description, which resulted in the mur¬ 
der aud mutilation of eight women and children, 
and the plunder of the house. 
The. first colored jury ever empanelled in Mem¬ 
phis is now sitting in the criminal court on a mur¬ 
der case, where the parties are colored persons. 
The official returns of the Alabama State election 
have been made up. Of 171,000 registered votes, a 
little over 70,000 were cast, aud not all of them for 
the Constitution. The white vote was insignificant 
—not 1 in 20. 
Gen. Hancock has again asked to be relieved from 
his command. 
Jeff. Davis is in New- Orleans. He was repeat¬ 
edly cheered by a firemen’s procession, recently, and 
the bands played “ Bonnie Blue Flag.” The loyal 
citizens were exceedingly indignant, and trouble 
was feared. 
The North Carolina Reconstruction Convention 
has voted down a resolution prohibiting the assem¬ 
blage of white and l ilacKcnnuren in the same school. 
The Republican State Committee of Louisiana at 
a recent meeting passed a resolution recommending 
to Congress tbe immediate removal of Gen. Han¬ 
cock. The Democratic State Convention, meeting 
on the ensuing day, was addressed by Gen. Steed- 
man, who sustained Mr. Johnson. 
E00HESTEE AND NEW YOKE: 
SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1868, 
New York State. 
The Assembly has voted the impeachment of 
Canal Commissioner Dora, by tbe strong vote of 95 
to 1. The subsequent proceedings—adoption of ar 
tides, appointment of managers, exhibit to tbe Sen¬ 
ate and preparations for trial by that body, and the 
trial itself,—arc quite similar to those taken in the 
President’s case. The Dorn trial will necessarily 
take place at a special session of the Senate. Mr. 
Dorn has retained the non. Henry Smith of Albany 
as his counsel. 
Barnum’s Museum, New York city, was burned ou 
the morning of the 3d inst. The fire originated in 
the Mercer street side, where were kept the animals 
belonging to Barnum and Von Amburgh’s Mena¬ 
gerie, and spread rapidly, soon involving the entire 
establishment in fiarncs. The beautiful Circassian 
girl was sated by a fireman. The Fat Woman and 
Fat Boy, the Giantess, and other monstrosities, to¬ 
gether With the janitor’s family, were roused from 
their slumbers, and safely conducted from the burn¬ 
ing building. So rapidly did the flames spread that 
it was found impossible to save any of tbe larger 
animals of the fine collection composing the Mena¬ 
gerie. The yells of the animals, as the llames reached 
them, were appalling. The Museum property was 
nearly all destroyed. Loss about $500,000. 
A fire in Binghamton on the 2d inst. destroyed 
property to the amount of $ IS,000. 
There was at) unfortuuate riot on Ward’s Island 
on the 5th inst^ in which 700 Irish and COO German 
immigrants were engaged. The police force were 
obliged to use their revolvers to suppress it, and 
four of the rioters were killed and twenty-six severe¬ 
ly wounded, the number arrested was eighty-six. 
A severe acciCent occurred near Hopewell, on the 
Canandaigua anil Elmira Railroad, during the recent 
heavy snow- storm. One car was overturned in the 
snow, and several passengers badly burned by the 
upsetting of the stove, and some limbs broken. 
Hon. lien;} Welles, Justice of the Supreme 
Court for the 7th district, died at his residence in 
Penn Yan last week. He was first elected to the 
bench in June. 1847, after the adoption of the third 
Constitution and the elective system, lie then 
drew for a term of six years, and has been twice re¬ 
elected. His las. term would expire next year. He 
was about 80 years of age. 
Charter Elections were held last week in Roch¬ 
ester, Utica, Troy, Elmira, 06wego and Auburn. 
The Democrats elected their candidates for Mayor, 
in all but the last two places, by increased majori¬ 
ties over last year. 
From tlie West. 
The St, Louis and Illinois, and the Illinois and 
St. Louis Bridge Companies have finally effected a 
permanent and harmonious consolidation, and the 
work of bridging tbe Mississippi at St. Louis will 
be pushed to a speedy completion. Capt. Ead’s 
plan has been adopted. 
Late Alaska advices state that onr officers and 
troops there arc well and the Indians peaceable. 
The timber for the erection of barracks at Sitka had 
been landed, and the work of building was to be 
commenced when the weather moderated. 
An accident occurred on tne Missouri and Pacific 
Railroad, near Jefferson City, on the 6th inst. An 
engine upset into the Missouri, killing the engineer 
rnij'fi reman. \ 
A snow slide of five or six miles iu extent oc¬ 
curred near the town of Cesco, a mountain station 
on the Central Pacific Road, on the Sth inst. Six 
Chinamen are known to have been killed. Several 
locomotive engines were buried by the avalanche. 
Report* from Fort Laramie say several thousand 
Indians wt;e gathered in that neighborhood for a 
council of var with the Peace Commissioners. 
They insist upon tlie abandonment of the Powder 
River country uy the Government, but appear to be 
more friendly than they were last fata. 
An avalanche at Keystone Sierra, on the 4tli, bur¬ 
ied seveuteen men in the snow, five of whom were 
killed. Several buildings were distroyed. 
W. C. Dailey of Falls Village, Conn., writes: 
“ In speaking of the Rural New-Yorker, allow me 
to say I think it is the best Agricultural journal 
published in the United States. Before I became a 
subscriber for it I tried five different Agricultural 
papers, but was not satisfied till 1 saw the Rural, 
when I subscribed at once, and intend to take it as 
long as I can raise the subscription price. Wbftt I 
regret most is, that it is not in a more convenient 
size for binding, as I should most assuredly get it 
bound. 1 shall preserve them as they are, but they 
are not quite as convenient.” [And yet the double 
quarto form is regarded as altogether the best for a 
weekly illustrated journal, devoted to so many dif¬ 
ferent topics as is the Rural. We think the tcreat 
majority of readers prefer it to either the 4 or 
ld-page style.—E d,] 
avenue, at New lof it, tne most gorgeous ana costly 
in tlie country, belongs to the reformed Jews. They 
believe iu organs instead of ram’s horns; the con¬ 
gregations will sit together in families, and not the 
men aud women ajiflri, as in other synagogues. The 
leading families eat bam and oysters, arguing that 
the prohibition in the low was sanitary aud uotmoral. 
Propositions are before the Legislature for the 
creation of two new cities,—Rome, in the county of 
Oneida, and Ogdensburgh, in St. Lawrence. The 
municipalities in this State having corporate pow¬ 
ers as cities are New York, Brooklyn, Newburgh, 
Poughkeepsie, Hudson, Albany, Troy, Schenectady, 
Utica, Syracuse, Oswego, Auburn, Rochester, Lock- 
port, Buffalo, Elmira aud Binghamton, 
The past winter has been one of the severest ever 
known, both in this and other countries. In Algiers 
the suffering lias been very great. In Russia the 
cold has been intense. Coachmen were frozen upon 
their seats, the gas refused to burn, aud the doge 
howled most piteously. Men on horseback went 
through the streets of St. Petersburg and Moscow, 
carrying aid to the unfortunate, and the nobility 
distributed hot tea in front of their palaces. 
The extinction of the elephant is feared. Its de¬ 
struction for sporting and commercial purposes is 
very great. In a single province of Ceylon over 1 
three thousand five hundred elephants were killed 
in three years by the natives, for tbe sake of a few 
shillings bounty per head. Many thousands are an¬ 
nually destroyed iu India and Africa for the sake of 
the ivory, the demand for which Is so great that to 
supply the manufacturers of Sheffield alone requires 
the slaughter of over twenty thousand elephants 
every year. 
The entire mercantile navy of Europe, according 
to late statistical returns, consists of 100,000 vessels, 
representing a total tonnage of 12,000,000, and cm 
ploying 600,000 men. This amount of shipping is 
thus distributed: —Bremen, 204 vessels; Ham 
burg, 580; Lubee, 45; Hanover, 006; Mecklenbnrg 
Schwerin, 434 ; Oldenburg, 610; Prussia, 1,443; 
Austria, 0,401; Belgium, 107; Spain, 4,350; France, 
15,259; Greece, 4,453; Holland, 3,227; Italy, 13,223; 
Portugal, 501; Great Britain, 27,863; Russia, 1,416; 
Denmark, 2,740; the Elbe Duchies, 2,552; Norway, 
5,678; Sweden, 2,236; Turkey, 2,800. 
Latest Foreign Intelligence. 
The latest Abyssinian news is to date of the 15th 
ult. The advance of the British army was then 
within fifteen days march of Magda]a, the royal 
stronghold. King Theodoras was advancing from 
hi6 camp, at the head of 80,000 soldiers, but marched 
only three miles a day. Mcnclek, supplied by other 
chiefs, had invested Magdala with 40,000 men. Gen. 
Napierhad accepted an offer of peace from the Tigree 
chief Kassai. Letters had been received from the 
British captives, who were still confined in the Fort 
of Theodoras, at Magdala, carefully guarded. 
News from Lisbon shows that tlie popular dissatis¬ 
faction has not subsided. A dispatch reports that 
an effigy of the Queen of Portugal was burned by 
a mob. 
Late dispatches from China and Japan have been 
received via India. The civil war in Japan raged 
with great violence. Several combats had taken 
place between the partisans of the Shagoon and 
Daimios, which were attended with heavy losses of 
life, and; great excesses were committed on both 
sides. Iu consequence of the insecure condition of 
the country the ministers of the foreign powers had 
all left Osaka. 
The British Ministry has undergone a change. 
Lord Derby having resigned the Premiership, Mr. 
D’lsraeli succeeds to it, and states that in domestic 
affairs the policy of the late Ministry will be pur¬ 
sued. In a recent speech in the House of Commons 
he said be regretted the necessity of continuing the 
suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in Ireland,— 
but, as Lord Derby had said on a public occasion, 
such action was the only safeguard against an un¬ 
scrupulous foreign confederation. Such a suspen¬ 
sion of tbe privileges of the writ was not incompati¬ 
ble with the gentle exercise of law, and he was of 
opinion that the grievances of Ireland should be 
treated with a tender regard for that country. 
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Marquis of 
Abercorn, has released from confinement Mr. W. 
Johnson, Grand Secretary of Orangemen, who was 
sentenced to fine and imprisonment in the County 
Down, for leading an illegal procession. 
A remarkable debate took place in the British 
House of Commons on the evening of the 6th inst., 
concerning the Alabama claims. Mr. Lefevre made 
a long and eloquent speech, in which he urged a 
settlement of the vexed question on the plan pro¬ 
posed by the American Government. Lord Stanley 
replied in a temperate tone. He thought England 
was justified in recognizing the South as a belliger¬ 
ent, but believed a friendly arrangement of tbe diffi¬ 
culty still practicable. Mr. Foster complained of 
the abrupt disposition of the matter which had 
been made, and said tlie universal wish in the 
United Kingdom was for a speedy settlement. Mr. 
John Stuart Mill thought an arbitrator between the 
The counties of Burlington aud Ocean, N. J., produced 
last year 100,000 bushel? of cranberries, which sold for 
about $4 per bushel. 
During last year 178,992 bales of hay were received in 
St. Louis, Shipped thence 128,531. The juice ranged 
hom $18 to $22 per ton. 
It is proposed iu the California Legislature to remit a 
portion of the taxes of Those who stud the roadways 
through their farm? with trees. 
Land in Southern Alabama is said to have appreciated 
in value considerably during the past year. It is approx¬ 
imating the ante-war standard. 
The .Savannah New? says the doting up of the rice 
transactions for the year shows the business to have been 
quite proiitable t.0 the planters. 
The Toledo Blade say? the profits of a grape grower on 
the Maumee, near that city, from fruit and cuttings on a 
single acre, last year, were $5,200. 
All plants h vethe power of select ing from the soil 
the materials necessary to their growth ; if they do not 
Cud them their growth i ? feeble and fruitless. 
The Rev. C. Peabody recently delivered an address be¬ 
fore the Missouri Horticultural Society in favor of wine 
making as a means ol promoting temperance. 
C. W. KnaJpp. Danvers, Mass., planted a barrel of pota¬ 
toes, (two-thirds Eearly Goodrich uud one-third Harri¬ 
sons,) aud got 112 bushels, while a barrel of Dykemaus 
only produced 8 bushels — planted and cultivated alike. 
THE PROVISION MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, March 7.—Ashes, pots. fS.2Sa8.50; pearl*, 
nominal. Cotton, 25®25c. Flour, *S:75®15,00. Wheat,#1,85® 
3,00. Rye, SUSe-bN). Earley, $1,85. corn, fl 24@i,32. Oats, 
S2J$(a$3c. Hops, 5(K3fl0c. Fork,mess, $22,S7@23.30: new mess, 
824,70(5)24, 97; prime, $19.50(720,75 ; prime mess. $2*2,25023,00. 
Beef, new plain mess, f I9.00ouici.00 : new extra mess, 819,(10(3 
23,00. Deer Hams, *3Sra3B,50. Shoulders. lOKcSURc. Homs, 
15®15\'C. Haem, Cniuhiiland-ciit, I2@l2c. ; long-ribbed, Pie 
short-clear, VJgc. Lard, MjfGsilO cts. for now. Butter, 35®60c, 
Cheese, 11 <6,16. 
A Lit ANY, March 7.— Flour, |9.OO@15.50; Rye flour, *9,00 
Buckwheat flour, *4.25®4.50 '* 
From Washington. 
The High Court of Impeachment has been fully 
organized, Messrs. Stevens, Butler, Bingham, Bout- 
well, Wilson, Williams and Logon were elected by 
the Houeo of Representatives as Managers of the 
Trial, on the part of that body, and they designated 
Mr. Bingham as their Chairman. On Wednesday, 
the 4th imt., the House made its formal exhibit to 
Ihe Senate of the Articles of Impeachment against 
the President. The members of the House attended 
in a body, and tlie Speaker occupied a seat by the 
side of the President of the Senate. Mr. Bingham 
made the presentment, after which the members of 
the House retired from the Senate Chamber. 
The Senate received a communication from Chief 
Justice Chase on the same day, in which he dissented 
from the view* take’j by the Senate that Managers can 
be received or any similar act done by tbe Senate ex¬ 
cept as a Court of Impeachment, liut professed his 
wUliugneas, if necessary, to abide by their decision. 
The Senate held that its course had been strictly 
in accordance with law, and adopted a speech by 
Mr. Con tiling in relation to the matter, and con¬ 
cerning (he duties of the Chief Justice, as its reply 
to the communication. The Senate holds that the 
Chief Justice cannot have any voice in deciding any 
question which may be raised on the trial. 
At 1 i\ M. of Thursday, the 5th inst., the Senate 
resolv. d itself into a High Court of impeachment, 
■with t he Chief Justice In tlie Chair, Tbe required 
oath was administered to him by Associate Justice 
Nelson The Senators were then 6 W 0 rn in, after 
■which the Chair raised the question that the rules 
adopted by the Senate, for the Trial, were not oper¬ 
ative in the Court, unless also adopted by that body. 
They were thereupon so adopted. The Managers 
on the part of the House then appeared at the bar 
of the Court. A motion by Mr. Howard that a sum¬ 
mons be issued to Andrew Johnson to appear at the 
bar of the Senate on Friday, March 13th, at one 
o’clock, to answer to charges iu tlie articles of im¬ 
peachment, was carried almost unanimously, after 
which the Court adjourned until the day named. 
The summons was served upon the President on 
the 7th inst., by tlie Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate. 
The report of the President of the Board of Man¬ 
agers of tbe National Asylum for Disabled Volun¬ 
teers for the year ending with December last, states 
l>uuh«ih'si uyui, &t.«iwnsd’/i Corn meal, *2.co®2.70 i? io&lbs; 
Wheat, *2,00018.00; Rye. *1.70® 1.72; Cora. *1.2.101.23: Barley, 
*2.00; Oalft, S5®8Guj Fork, new met#, *25.00; clear, *27.00: 
honeleHH, *2K,0Q; Hama, 17c; Shoulder?, lie: Smoked beef, 
22c; Lard, I6dd<ij*'c. Clover ?eed,t8j<®14ti; Timothy, *d®3,25. 
BUFFALO, SI * lieu 7 Flour, *10.2,*.® 15.50: Wheat, *2.15® 
3.10; Corn, f 1,<M®1.05; Oat.*,72®V4e i R.ve, *J,ft> ; Harley,*2,06® 
2.13: Peas,*1.10® 1,15: Bcnns, *,4.50(0.4,75; Pork-, men.', *2-1,50 
f<ii25,0(J; Lard, 16*4©i7C; Shoulder?. 12><&13C; Hams, i?c; 
Clover seed, nii'diuiii, *7,7544.8.00: Pea-vine do. *10,M(.111,00; 
Timothy, *2,75; Flax, *2.50; Salt, *2,53lino, coarse 82,60 >< bid; 
CHICAGO. March 7. - Hour, *l(J.r.0®ll.50; Wheat, *2.25® 
8,50: Corn, KR.*«t‘<c; Oats, 57\®W; Bye, *1.00®1.03; Bailey, 
*i.80®3.35: Fork,mess,*23.25®23.50; Luril, 15';®15qc; Shoal- 
der?. lOo; Hat'on, nt<©i:ic; Butler, 15®H8c; Cheese, 12®ISc; 
Seed#, timothy, *l.90®a.S3; clover, *7,20(83,50. 
CINCINNATI, Ma KOlt i—Flour, *n,00®tl,25; Wheat, *2,45 
*<>3,30: Corn, Sl&ivlc ear; Oata, 08®(i8C: Kye, *1,70®1,?S; Bar- 
ley. *a,80@2.35 ! Mess pork. *7l<i.44jo0 : Lard, liSatSKc: Bacon, 
lld'iff* VC; Clover seed, Uku 13C. •«< It; Timothy, *2,3508,40. 
TORONTO. MAlien i.—Flour. *7®7.10: Wheat, tall, *1.75® 
1.7H; Spring, *l.fiO<al.63; Out.#, 59fit08ot Barley, *l®1.26; Peas, 
1,7**141,73; Pork,men?., *17J5Q®1S); Bacon, 0X@7Hic: Unmr.,7'4 
®8ct»; Beef hanm,I8c! Lard, 9;V®Hc; Egee. 20&30C; Butter, 
15®20c; Rope. 20®43c: Cheese, S®9C; Dried apple.*, il®Hlc: 
Day, * 12 ®is: Straw, *U 4 r.L!. 
SPECIAL NOTICES 
“ Superior in flavor to all others ."—American Agri 
i Ulvrist, Jan., ’68. 
J» i t fatinity : Genuine plants, wholesale and retail, 
for Sale by E. WILLIAMS Montclair, N. J. 
ECONOMY IS WEALTH, 
THE CATTLE MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, March 4-Beeves —Receipts 1.S39head; quo¬ 
tations 10@20c. Veal calves: receipts 631 beau ; quotations 10 
<aH7,qc. Sheep and Lambs — Receipts 17.455 head; qnvaations 
Sheep 55 *@ 8 e; Lambs 5@S>lo. Swine—Receipts ll,(jo’J head ; 
quotation#. S-JitB&c. 
ALBANY, \l a lint Horf Cattle sell at 3k(@12-.;c; MltCu 
Cows, *30® 100j Sheep and Lambs, 6 >s@W 4 C'. Hogs, IXQSjcc. 
CAMBRIDGE AND BRIGHTON. Maech 4-Beeves range 
front 11(4,11\c; WorJcIne Oxen, *160®300 f» pair; Steers mid 
Slim Oxen, ¥l00®150; Milch cows *55®ii>0; Heifers and far¬ 
row, #35(iSG5; Sheep and Lambs, Northern, 4®7cta; extra, 7@ 
Be; by the head, * 2 ®t;,uO; Hides, O&ICc. lb a.; Tallow, 7®0c; 
Calfskins, 16®18c. 7* It.; Pelts, 00c®|l,50; Swine, no sales. 
CHICAGO, March 7—Beef Cattle, 7@Sc. Veal Calves, 5® 
five. Sheep, *3®5,50. Hogs, *S,l«>i®9. 
CINCINNATI, March 7-ileel Cattle, *1,2503,00; Sheep, 3X 
®5>ic; nog?, 7>s®10L'C. 
BALTIMORE, MARCH i — Beef Cattle, 4>£®0}£c; Sheep, 5® 
7c; IIogB, llji®13c. 
Do not pay the high prices asked by retailers for Dry 
Goods, when by sending to us yon may save 50 per cent, 
or more, and have goods sent cash on the delivery. De¬ 
scriptive Circulars sent by mail, free. 
940-8t Syxonds & Co., 129 Chambers St., N. Y. 
WHEATON’S OINTMENT will cure the Itch. 
WHEATON’S OINTMENT will cure Salt Rhenm. 
WHEATON’S OINTMENT cures Old Sores. 
WHEATON’S OINTMENT cures all Diseases of the Skin, 
Price 50 cents;—by mail 60 cents. All Druggists sell it, 
Weeks & Potter, Boston, Proprietors. 029 
Clubbing the Rural with other Periodicals.—We 
have made such arrangements for clnbbtng the Rural New- 
Yorkeb with other lirst-class periodicals that we can furnish 
them at greatly reduced rates. For instance, we will furnish 
the Rural and other periodicals named below, (if remitted 
for together,) one year, as follows: 
Full price. 
Rural and N. Y. Weekly Sun for 83.‘35 84.00 
Rural and Maryland Farmer “ 3.50 4.50 
Rural and No. Western Farmer “ 3.50 4.50 
Rural and Southern Cultivator “ 4.00 5.00 
Rural and Hall’s Jour, of Health** 3.50 4.50 
Rural and Our Young: Folks “ 4.00 5.00 
Rural uud Riverside Magazine “ 4.00 5.00 
Rural and either the Atlantic, 
Harper’s, Putnam’s or Lippin- 
cott’s Magazine, (or Harper’s 
Bazar or Harper’s Weekly,) “ 5.50 7.00 
South American News.— The latest steamer from 
South America brought details of news from the 
scene of war on the Rio Parana which are important. 
The good fortune of the Paraguayans continued, and 
improved. The Brazilians made several attempts to 
cut off the communications of Gen. Lopez through 
the forest of Gran Chaco, but their efforts failed, 
and in the engagements which took place Lopez 
gained fresh advantages over the allied forces. Gen. 
Alexander Asboth, minister resident of tbe United 
States at Buenos Ayres, had died after a long illness. 
NEW YORK, March 7.—Market is steady with a lair busi- 
lmss doing. SaleB arc 320,000 lbs. at 43@58c. for Domestic 
Fleece. S9>i@4Bo. for pulled, 52Kc for tubbed,22®28c. for Tex¬ 
as, 76® J3c. for California. 
BOSTON, March ;i-T he following are the quotations taken 
from the Boston JournalWestern Mixed, 45 <a 55 e; 52®04c 
No, 1 and extra Pulled ; Fleece 12@50c; Extra, 87@46c; Cali¬ 
fornia, 31®31c; Texas,27X&30C; Oregon, 30C. 
CHICAGO, M Alien 1 - The following are the quotations :— 
Fleece, 3S®44e.; Medium. 87® l2c.i Coarse, 33®37c.; Heavy 
Unwashed, 23©8iC.i Tuh-w.uhed, 4S®.15c. 
CINCINNATI, M.uicn 1— The following are the Gazette’s 
quotations: — Pulled, 38®30c.; Tub Washed, 38®39c.; Dn- 
waslied, 23@25c,: Fleece, 35®42c. 
