1/IC'-.-U’l HUM". I tu.i 
12@13c; ChiC ken e, ltV'j 
lK@20c; Butter, 38® 12c. 
ru, $1 .U@147; Oats, 
>ss, f'£,25@27,50: *24, 
3; lev, 
S7(S20O; Milch cows, 
@ 110 ; wo-ycar-olds, 
'M/iwin; UAcu t ^in ; qiupjq* - 
|40@100; Heifers, *S.V50; Yearlings, $l( 
BOSTON, Oct. 23.— " ool. fleece. 48®C0C; picklock. 60@65c ; 
line, 55® 60c; roarse, 5C@Ct2ej pulled, K@.'i 50 ; iub-washed 
55@02>Jc ; combing fleece, 57@00c; Canada (Icq 72@7ac. 
will be taken lrom the vaults of the treasury depart¬ 
ment to pay the semi-annud lute rest on the five- 
twenty bonds which falls due on that date. There is 
about $100,000,000 in coin held by the government, 
§20 000,000 of which is in gold certificates. 
The defaulting post-. flice clerk, Olmsted, has been 
released on bail. 
The open sales of gold are discontinued. It is 
found that the government does not realize so high 
a price for that now sold in proportion to the market 
value as when sales were made secretly. 
A report in regard to his recent attempts to in¬ 
vanced $5,000. 
decided weakness on the part of holders, who have appar¬ 
ently come to the conclusion that the sooner they 1 sell out ’ 
the better it will be for all parties concerned, as there is 
no telling just where and when the bottom will be touched 
and • hard-pan ’ reached. The receipts continue on a liberal 
scale.” 
Wool,—T bc- tales in Boston last week were 900,000 lbs., at 
a range of 44@52o. for fleece, and 43®53c. for tbc various 
grades of pulled. Manufacturers are not purchasing large¬ 
ly, many of them having quite a large Stock on hand; they 
arc also beginning to change their machinery for the pro¬ 
duction of spring goods. The stock of winter cloths on 
hand la large, and sales now are not active. 
Pork.—T he Eastern and Western markets for pork are 
steady. Some packers in Cincinnati and Chicago have com- 
It is stated that Judge Edwards Pierrepont and A. 
T. Stewart of New York have each contributed 
§20,000 in aid of the election of Grant and Colfax, 
and, per contra, it is Btated that Dr. li. T. Helmbold, 
the famous patent medicine man, has given §40,000 
to advance the interests of the Democratic nominees 
for the Presidency. 
Several parties who were detected in double 
voting at the recent election in Augusta, Me., have 
been indicted by the Grand Jury and arrested. 
Six seat6 in the Forty-first Congress will certainly 
be contested; those of Moffatt, Reading and Foster 
SOPER <fc HEK1UAM, Sole Proprietors for the Atlantic 
States,Rochester, N. V., or D. R. BARTON & CO., Manu¬ 
facturers and Agents for Patentee. 
The body of an unknown man, supposed to be a 
passenger by one of the lake steamers, was found at 
Buffalo a few mornings since near the Niagara 
elevator. The man had been evidently murdered. 
There were three gashes made by a hatchet in his 
forehead and one on the back of the head. The arms 
were pinioned and the joints turned inside out. The 
deceased was apparently twenty-five years of age. 
He had black curly hair, mustache ani goatee trim¬ 
med close. 
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NEWS DEPARTMENT. 
K0CJHESTEE AND NEW YORK: 
SATURDAY, OCT. 31, 1S6S. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
New York State Items.. 
The Bessemer Steel Works, in Troy, owned by 
John A. Griswold and Erastus Corning, were par¬ 
tially destroyed by fire one night last week. The 
principal building, aud machinery in it, were dam¬ 
aged to the extent, oi about §50,000. 
Three police officers arrested one John Maeterson, 
on Atlantic street, Brooklyn, ou Sunday, for dis¬ 
orderly conduct, and while conveying him to the 
station house, were assaulted by a mob of some two 
hundred men and women, with bricks, stones and 
other missiles. Two of the. officers were severely in¬ 
jured; but held on to their prisoner, aud a discharge 
of one of their revolvers caused the cro wd to scatter, 
leaving one of the ringleaders, in the hand6 of the 
police. 
Rochester is erecting an elegant new building for 
the Theological {Seminary. Its dimensions are one 
hundred and six by forty-eight feet. 
The dedication of the monument to General Sedg¬ 
wick, at West Point, took place Wednesday week, 
according to the programme previously announced. 
The propeller Northampton and the steamer 
Continental collided on the Sound on Friday morn¬ 
ing, The former was cut nearly in twain, and sank 
in ten minutes. The passengers were all saved, but 
some injuries are reported. 
The barns of Cornelius Blauvelt, at Spring Valley, 
Rockland county, were burned on the 17th inst., 
together with the celebrated stallion “Patriot.” 
The work of removing buildings to make way for 
the new Capitol, is progressing rapidly at Albany. 
A large number of men and teams are employed. 
Eleven bishops and about 100 clergymen of the 
Episcopal Church enjoyed a reunion at Ferrero’s 
rooms in New Fork city, one day last week. 
Ground has been broken the entire length of the 
town of Moravia, Cayuga county, for the Southern 
Central railroad, and much of the grading completed. 
Great quantities of grapes, mostly Catawbaa, are 
reported rained by the late freeze, in the neighbor¬ 
hood of the Pleasant Valley Wine Company, in the 
valley above Hammond6port, 
A train was thrown off the track ou the Hudson 
River Railroad, very early Saturday morning, about 
three miles below Grecubush, the smoking car aud 
two passenger cars smashed to atoms, one lady 
killed outright and about forty other persons more 
or less iojured. 
The track upon the Albany and Susquehanna rail¬ 
road is laid in good order as far as Port Dickinson. 
Nearly §1,500,000 worth of dry goods were im¬ 
ported to New York city last week. The total 
foreign importations were about §5,000,000. 
The number of deaths in New York city last week 
was 509. 
A large grindstone in the Schenectady locomotive 
works burst on Friday. One of the pieces went 
through the roof of the building, breaking asunder 
the large h ams overhead, and landed about a hun¬ 
dred feet from where it started and in a room full of 
workmen. Luckily no one was hurt. 
From Washington, 
Tub President has issued a Proclamation recom¬ 
mending that Thursday, the 20th day of November 
next, be set apart and observed by all the people of 
the United States as a day for public praise, thanks¬ 
giving and prayer. 
The volunteer force of the United States Navy is 
being gradually disbanded, and the rolls of the 
department now show very few volunteer officers. 
Nearly all of them have been honorably discharged 
within the past three years. Quite a number have 
received appointments into the regular service. 
A special newspaper dispatch says that a very 
determined effort is being made to induce the Presi¬ 
dent to suspend Commissioner Rollins from office, 
on the streDgtliof the ex ideuce now in possession of 
Fullerton and Binekley, charging fraud upon the 
officers of the Internal K venue Department, and it 
is understood that the President has directed a brief, 
of the strongest evidence against Mr. Rollins, to be 
prepared aud submitted to him. 
The Secretary of War has been informed that there 
are at least from fifteen to twenty murders of loyal 
men each day in the western portion of South 
Carolina alone. 
Commodore C. H. Poor, U. S. N., has been pro¬ 
moted to be Rear-Ad rniral, vice Rear-Admiral H. K. 
Hoff retired. 
On the 1st of November ab mt §25,900,000 in coin 
vestigate alleged revenue frauds has been made by 
Mr. Binekley, in which he says his object, according 
to the assignment made by the President, was to 
investigate evidence against any officer of the Reve¬ 
nue service, without reference to Commissioner 
Rollins. He met with numerous difficulties from 
curious and inquisitive persons, and unwilling offi¬ 
cials, and possibly owes bis failure to the refusal of 
the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish him with 
full authority in the premises. He closes his report 
by announcing that his resignation is in the Secre¬ 
tary’s hands. 
The Queen of Madagascar has presented to the 
Government some beautifully wrought and vari¬ 
ously colored fabrics of heavy silk and other 
materia), probably intended for table or bed spread. 
She also 6ent a 6ilver plated coffee urn, but this is 
of inferior workmanship. 
From the West. 
Five companies uf the 10th cavalry, commanded 
by Lieut.-Col. H. Carpenter, had a sharp fight with 
500 Indians lately, about 115 miles northeast of Fort 
Wallace, Kansas. Nine Indians were killed and a 
large number wounded. Three white men were 
wounded. 
Lynch law prevails in Cooper eouDty, Mo. On 
the 14th inst.., an old man named Mapes, living near 
Otterville, was dragged from hie bed and murdered. 
On the following day Mrs. Mapes, her brother named 
Mclutoeb. Charles Good and a boy named Bennett, 
were at rested on suspicion of being implicated in 
the murder, and placed in charge of a constable and 
a guard of ten men, to be conveyed to Booneville. 
While en route to the place the guard was overpow¬ 
ered by a party of men, and McIntosh and Good were 
hung, Mrs. Mapes and the boy were taken to jail. 
H. D. Christian, a Government detective, was 
mutdered in St, Louis on Friday night, and robbed. 
Heavy shocks of earthquake were felt in San 
Francisco on the morning of the 21st inst. The 
motion was east and west Five persons were 
killed and twenty-five others Injured. The walls of 
the City Hall were badly wrecked and the arches 
ruiued, one hundred buildings in the city’ more or 
less damaged, including the leading hotels, the Bank 
of California, the Court House, the Custom House 
and the Merchants’ Exchange. 
Captain Mitchell, commander of the U. 8. steamer 
Saginaw, was murdered on Wednesday night of last 
week at San Francisco, in the very heart of the city. 
The body was robbed. 
A man has been arrested in St. Paul on a charge 
of having and offering for sale a large quantity of 
counterfeit land scrip, representing that given by 
Massachusetts and Tennessee. 
A large number of parties have been held to bail 
in St. Louis on charges of defrauding Government 
in the matter of revenue. 
A. R. Scott, a Judge of Elections at Harlem, Clay 
Co., Mo., who had given considerable information 
to the Registrars, waB shot to death recently by 
some unknown person. 
From tlie South. 
The office of the Rapides Tribune, at Alexandria, 
La., was destroyed last week by a mob. 
A large meeting of ex-soldiers in Louisiana have 
passed resolutions calliBg upon the United States 
and General Rousseau to protect ex-soldiers and 
loyal citizens. 
A meeting was held at Charleston, 8. C., on the 
19th mst., to express indignation at the rec ent mur¬ 
ders in that State. Mayor Clark presided, and 
speeches were made by Senator Sawyer, Collector 
Mackey aud others. Governor Scott has issued 
proclamations offering rewards for the apprehen¬ 
sions of the murderers, and expressing a determina¬ 
tion to maintain the public order at all hazard. 
Gov. Bullock has issued a proclamation suspend¬ 
ing tho collection of all poll taxes in Georgia until 
the next regular 6C6sion of the General Assembly of 
the State. This action is taken to prevent the ex¬ 
clusion of many citizens from franchise by an at¬ 
tempt to collect certain onerous taxes provided in 
the Constitution of 1805, and an application of stat¬ 
utory provisions which would ensue on the failure 
of the citizens to pay such taxes, 
A U. S. military officer on duty in Texas writes 
that rebelB are organizing in five counties in regi¬ 
ments, pretending that it is by authority of General 
Reynolds and other officers. The organization is 
ostensibly to protect themselves against Indians, 
but really to drive out all United States troops aud 
Union men in the State. Among the men named as 
leaders in this movement i6 ex-Gov. Throckmorton. 
A riot took place lately at Gretna, La., in which 
three negroes were killed and several wounded. 
The rest fled to Algiers and the swamps. General 
Rousseau eeut a company of infantry to assist the 
100 policemen there in preserving the peace. 
Another riot occurred in New Orleans on the 
night of the 24th inst,, in which several liveE were 
lost. It was the result of a meeting between a 
club of black and a club of white men. 
Political News. 
West Vikginia held its election for State offi¬ 
cers and Congressmen last week. The result was in 
favor of the Republicans, who elected their ticket 
by some four hundred majority. 
Gov. Seymour has taken the field in person. His 
opening speech of the campaign was made at Buffa¬ 
lo on the night of the 22d inst. to an immense 
crowd. A brilliant torchlight procession numbering 
several thousands gave eclat to the occasion. 
The Republicans of Central New York made a 
grand and enthusiastic demonstration at Syracuse 
on the 22d inst. Major General Kilpatrick aud oth¬ 
er distinguished speakers addressed the gathered 
thousands. 
A Republican jubilee was held in Albany on the 
38d inst. Gov. Fenton presided at the meeting in 
T weddle Hall, where speeches were made by Hon. 
John A. Griswold, Gen. Garfield and others. The 
headquarters flagstaff used by Gen. Grant at City 
Point was raised at the Capitol by the Boy6 in Blue 
with appropriate ceremonies. Gen. Kilpatrick and 
others made speeches, and Col. Duganne read a 
stirring poem. An evening demonstration was very 
extensive. 
Gen H. W. Slocum has been nominated by the 
Democracy of the Third District of New York for 
Congress. His opponent is ex-Mayor Booth of 
Rrnnk -1 tn. 
THE PEOPLE’S CANDIDATES. 
ULYSSES S. GRANT. 
Though by no means political partisans, we are 
not nnmindful of the fact that a great national con¬ 
test is very shortly to be decided, by the People, at 
the polls. And knowing that the Rural goes into 
many a retired hamlet, and is conned over by many 
a family wherein political journals awaken compara¬ 
tively little interest, we give herewith portraits of 
the candidates for President and Vice-President. 
7 r Ay I ^ • *' 
SCHUYLER COLFAX. 
in Pennsylvania, Strader and Hoag in Ohio, and 
Voorhees in Indiana, all Democrats. 
Legal proceedings have been commenced in the 
Court, of Common Pleas to contest the late election 
in Philadelphia. 
Latent Foreign Intelligence. 
Minister Reverdy Johnson is being dined and 
wined very liberally in England. The latest public 
dinner tendered him was at Liverpool, and a peculiar 
and perhaps significant feature of the occasion, un¬ 
der the existing complications relative to the Alaba¬ 
ma claims, was the presence of Mr Laird, one of the 
builders of the Alabama, to whom Mr. Johnson was 
personally introduced. It is 6aid that several dis¬ 
tinguished friends of the United States absented 
themselves from the dinner because it was known 
that Mr. Laird would be present. In the speeches 
that were made the subject of the Alabama differ¬ 
ences was treated as of no special importance, and 
one to be readily disposed of. 
The re-organization of Spain as a nation is pro¬ 
ceeding rapidly. Governors, civil and military, have 
been appointed in all the provinces. The Democrats 
have assembled in different parts of the country and 
have declared that all males who bave reached the 
age of twenty years should be allowed to vote. The 
moderate and clerical parties are forming a coalition, 
and will vote for the same candidates in tbeelectiOD 
for Constitutional Cortes. , 
Dispatches received at Lofidoi^t-ate that the 
authorities of Sydney have positlw proof that the 
shooting of Prince Alfred was the result of a deeply 
laid plot. 
A Parj6 journal says that Ferdinand has declined 
the offer of the crown of Spain. It is considered 
certain that the duke of Montpeneier would accept it. 
--- 
The Paraguayan War. —Rio Janeiro dates to 
Sept. 23d are received. The Brazilian army entered 
the Tebieu&ry on the 1st inst., the Paraguayans hav¬ 
ing abandoned the works, leaving one cannon and 
considerable ammunition and food. The battery on 
Paraguayan River had been dismounted, the cannon 
having been thrown into the river. Lopez is said to 
have gene to Cerro Leone, a strongly fortified place 
below Assunclon, destroying the railroad. The Al¬ 
lies were m route from Tebicuary for Viletta, gun¬ 
boats accompanying them on the river. Lopez is 
said to have about 20,009 men, and being in tbe in¬ 
terior, tbe Allies’ operations will be at a disad¬ 
vantage, they having lost some 900 oxen in trans 
porting supplies to the Tebternary, The Brazilian 
squadron had gone to Assuncion, aud two monitors 
had gone to Motto Grasso, the latter place bemg 
abandoned by the Paraguayans. 
-- 
Mexican News. — Latest advices state that Gen. 
Uraga had been expatriated. The reason is sup¬ 
posed to be for complicity in the late fiasco of Santa 
Anna. Minister Romero, in his report on the state 
of Mexican finances, expresses tbc hope that the 
Treasury will be able to pay the interest ou the 
national debt punctually when peace has been re¬ 
stored and the army disbanded. Gov. Hernandez of 
the State of Vera Cruz, proposes to resign hi6 posi¬ 
tion, because Col. Dominguez, the bead of the late 
rebellion in his State, has been pardoned by the 
Federal Government. 
-- 
Affairs on the Istdmus.— At last advices Cen¬ 
tral American affairs were not very satisfactory. The 
Assembly of Panama bad convened and organized, 
delegating executive power to acting Piesident Car- 
reusa. Chlriqui had declined offers of peace, and 
Carreusa had proclaimed war against that State in a 
fulsome proclamation. Chiriqui had declared Itself 
independent of Panama and organiaffi a new Gov¬ 
ernment, with Senor Agnew as President. The 
Government troops ha ' been badly defeated under 
late Secretary of State Urna, who was killed. 
- < M»n »- 
Rev. D. Gillette read the Report of the Freed- 
mrsn’6 Commission before the Episcopal Board of 
Missions, Oct. 9th. Daring three years this Com¬ 
mission has expended §90,000, besides large amounts 
of books and clothing. During the past year it has 
employed 55 teachers for 5,000 pupils. There are 
yet too many clashing interests and vexed political 
questions to allow the Commission its fall scope for 
work. To meet obligations the treasurer has ad- 
menced operations. Tlie hops thus far received are light 
and poorly fatted. The Chicago KopuMican of the 24th 
says:—"HogB were dull and 15@20c. per 100 lbs. lower— 
closing with a strong downward tendency. Tbc receipts 
were 7.501 head, and the -ale? S.'ffS head, at from *G.60@8.25 
for fair to extra—chiefly at *fi.75@7.50. 
ROCHESTER, OCT. 26 — Flour, wheat. *1L50®I4.25; Buck¬ 
wheat. V cwl., $4,MV<5,:"tO; Corn, pe r bushel. *1 •Woi'l,®; M)31 
feed, FiifftSS; Wheat, red. tlJ8D@3iOO; Bo. white, ?2,it(S«A0 ; 
Rye. *1,45 k 1,«5; Oat-, 6f-w «5c . Barley. ?t.«9£«I,0Q; Beaus, $8,- 
0< ot3,00: I’ork, tttp«. «>: Betsf- cwt. |8,i.io@l0,00 ; 
HORATIO SEYMOUR. 
They are the only features of the campaign, — dis¬ 
tinctive and of a purely party character, — that we 
can present; and even these may not be new to a 
large number of readers. For biographical notices 
of the four gentlemen we cannot make room; if 
such are desired, we would respectfully refer to any 
one of the many 11 Lives” which have been kindly 
furnished by admiring biographers. 
Cheese. 14®17KCte; Lard, iftu! c; Tallow, 1(W Wto ; teev Z* 
®30c: Wool, wiiiic; Honey, box. V ft., 20@22c, uay, tr ton, 
?16@22, Maplo Sueur, liyagflc : Hides, crcun HV.tefVjO; Call- 
skins. I5@t0e ; Potatoes, $0,70(70,75 : Onions, $l, 5 ()@l,?r>; Hops 
nominal at 10@20c; Clover seed. yvgilO; 7 Imothy, *s@S, 2 o; 
Combing wool. S0@55c : Apples, ?< bbb. *2,00(33,00; Dried Ap¬ 
ples. V lb. ?@ 8 c t do- PI urns, 26®25c; do. Cherries, 30@33c; 
do. Peaches. 20® 25c; Quinces, '*> bo., ?2,5t'@o.0U : Cranberries, 
ft bn„ $S,()0(ai3,73; Sheep pelts, 50c® $1. 
THE PROVISION MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Ashes, pots, *S,50@S,75, pearls, *10,- 
?4@75c; Pork, old mess, f27,50@27,62 • mess, $23 
00®25.<M prune: prime mess, *27@27,i3 ; Beef, plain mess, ?n 
@19,00; extra, $15<y.23A5t Beef hauls. *28®SS.OO; Hams. 13® 
18c; Shoulders, 12®129fcts: Lard, lfidtlpRc; Butter, 80@48C; 
Cheese, i9®l79fo. 
ALBANY, Oct. St.— Flour, *«450@18; Rye flour, *8®8,50; 
Corn meal, $2,Wi2.50; Wheat, .00.(2,25; Corn, $1,17®1,I3; 
Barley. $2,20(.t2 1 g0; Rye, *0,00: Oats. 7lets ; Pork, mess, *31; 
clear, ?3i; Hams, ZOviVlc; Shoulders, lie; Beef, tilled, iSc; 
tness, $11®lt>; Lard, 20,^®2lc. 
BUFFALO. Oct. 24.—Floor. $7.50^12,00; Ryu floor. *7,25: 
Wheat. $1 !!voj 2,L5 ; Corn, $l,02jf<i>.l,hi; Oats, i>IW®r,2c : Rye. 
*1,35; Barley, ?2,2"02,30; Peas. $1,35; Beans. $3w,3,50: Pota¬ 
toes, ROc ; Apple?, ^ bbt, fa®.I: Hotter, SO®45c; Cheese, 15® 
17c; Eggs,32c; Pork,meat, $30@31,50; Lard,20>ic. 
CHICAGO, Oct. 24. Floor, *725(0,7,50; Wheat, *1.32® 1,32; 
Corn, SlwSOcts; Oats, 45®4«C; live, 1 .lfi@l,16.; Barley, 1,71®1,- 
73; Pork, megfi, $S9@2».5iF; Lard, 17(3130. 
TORONTO, Oet. 22.—Flour, *3®6,5!); Wheat, $1,12@1,85; 
Oats, 50@5®c; Barley, $1, 40641,43; Peat, 0i7@02c; Pork, *24(625- 
50; Bacon, llfel ic , Hams, 14® 150; Uniter, 18&28C; Cheese, 10 
@llXc : Epee. 13@16c; Potatoes, 50@60c ; Lard, lhglfic. 
FRANCIS P. BLAIR. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Mr. George W. Childs, publisher of the “ Public 
Ledger,” of Philadelphia, has presented tbe Typo¬ 
graphical Society of that city a large lot in Wood¬ 
land Cemetery, for the interment of deceased print¬ 
ers. It was dedicated recently with impressive 
ceremonies. 
A young man, about t wenty-two years old, by the 
name of W. Kidd, committed suicide one day last 
week by taking strychnine, while on the eastward- 
bound train, a short distance west of Boone, Iowa. 
He was under arrest for the murder of Mies Kate 
Jordan, of Glen Haven, Wis,, in June last. 
J, W. Jones of Westbrook, Me., has packed not 
less than 1,600,000 cans or green corn this year. He 
has employed not less than 700 hands, not to men¬ 
tion buskers, and has had 1,500 acres of sweet corn 
under cultivation. This business, now so large, 
was quite unknown a few years ago. 
A terrible avalanche of rooks recently occurred 
near the Notch House on Mt. Mansfield, Vermont. 
One of them, weighing more than one hundred 
tons, fell, bouudiDg and crushing its way over the 
forest, a thousand feet or more, cutting the trees 
oil like pipe stems, till it finally lodged within ten 
rods of the house. 
A number of female compositors, who were 
excluded from employment in the printing offices of 
San Francisco, by the Typographical Union of that 
city, have raised the necessary capital to fit out a 
printing office, have rented a place, procured pressef, 
type, <fcc., and are about to commence a woman’s 
co-operative job printing establishment. 
A sad affair occurred in Owasso, Mich., a few days 
since. Two Saginaw ladies went thither to meet 
their aged parents, whom they had not seen for j ears 
As the cars from the East containing the old people 
approached the depot, the mother caught 6ight of 
her daughters, and in her eagerness to embrace them 
stumbled and fell. The cars ran over her, severing 
her head completely from her body. 
The canal boat Somerset, when about six mites 
from Buffalo, was boarded on the night of the 20th 
inst., when passing under a bridge, by five men 
armed with revolvers, who put tbe steersman uuder 
guatd, went into the cabin, robbed the captain of 
about §90, and one of tbe hands of §20, besides tak 
ing three overcoats, a pair of pants aud ft vest. They 
then departed. 
mmnmml, Markets, l 
RURAL NEW-YORKER OFFICE, < 
Bochebteb, Octomkb 27, 1808. f 
The call for money continues active in our local market. 
There is more paper offering at tho bunks than, they can take. 
There is no prospect that the demand will be much dimin¬ 
ished before the close of navigation. 
Tlie New York market has been (jalte stringent the past 
week, Tbc tightness from natural causes wus much increas¬ 
ed bj another combination of capitalists to lock up green¬ 
backs. Most of the banks, however, have been able to ac¬ 
commodate their re gular customers. 
Gold sold yesterday at lsiy. The Government gold sold 
last week averaged about 135** Tbe market seems to have 
lost some elements of its strength, and there is a general ten. 
dency to lower rates. The payment of the November inter¬ 
est will throw about $30,000,000 of gold upon tbe market. 
From present prospects it will not be profitable to ship it 
abroad. 
Speculators in Die Inst six or eight days have been opera¬ 
ting to bring down tlie price of Governments, but with little 
eflect. In the face of the bear movement on this side our 
securities have advanced abroad. Letters from Europe say 
that the holders of our bonds now feel Satisfied of tbe entire 
ability aud determination of our people to pay the dcbtlu 
coin. The desire to invest is increasing, both at home and 
abroad. 
The stock market in New York has for some days been 
somewhat excited, particularly for railroad securities, Erie 
lias been particularly depressed, in consequence of a rumor 
that new stock has recently been issued to the amount of 
from eigiit to t wenty millions. 
In the general trade of the country there is little change to 
notice. The volume of trade Is moderate. 
Breadstuff.?.— The grain and breads tuffs market is un¬ 
settled, wheat and flour rattier declining. The movement of 
the crops from the West is slow. There are large accumu¬ 
lations of grain at Western ports, but it is held too high for 
the shipping demand. If there is uo more active demand 
than at pruSeut, or greater inducements for shipping, the 
amount that will be kept over in the lake ports will be very 
large. To carry the accumulations over until spring will 
require a large amount of money. 
Tho Chicago Republican of Saturday notices the Chicago 
wheat market as followsWheat was again lower, with a 
THE CATTLE MARKETS. 
NEW YORK. Oct.21.-—Beef Cattle range at from!*@16>£c; 
Milch Cows. * 800 . 110 ; Veal Calves, 10®13c; Sheep, 3®6Kc; 
Lambs, ItaSe ; flogs, ll@)2Xc. 
ALBANY, Oet. 22—Beeves range at from *3(5.9,25; Milch 
Cows, *45® 100; Yea) Calves, Otqhjjc.; Sheep, 3 ff® 5 e ; Lambs,- 
5>8te7c; Hogs, 8®10Xc. 
BRIGHTON AND CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 28 -Beef Cattle, 6 ® 
. nucvv-niruiu, (iw.'M, 11 *« i j.M n CP*. OVt • • TJjtn , 
by tbe bend, Slides, ft.. 12c; Fat hogs, lOK&lOjKC- 
CHICAGO, Oct. 24,-Beef Cattle, $3,70@3,70: Hogs, *7@7.50. 
CINCINNATI. Oct.21.—Beeves,sell at *3,50@6; Sheep, *2 
@3,50; Lambs, *1,25 ; Dogs. *0,75®!),50. 
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22-Beef Cattle, $7@9&C; Sheep, 
4X@5c.; Hogg. 13M@15Xc. 
BALTIMORE, Oct. 23. Beef Cattle. 4>t@8c; Milch Cows, 
*50@100; Veal Calves, 5>i@7V;c; Sheep, 3®4K; Hogs, 12@I5c. 
TORONTO, Oct. 23.—Beef Cattle, *3,50@6,50; Sheep, *2®4 : 
Lambs, ?1,50@2,25; Hogs, *5,75. 
THE WOOL MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 j. —Wool market is quiet and firm; 
sales are .VtO.OOO its., at 45®52kcfor dome-tic fleece, 31@38cfor 
Tcxur. 54(,.tor tubbed, 95&33C tor California, I2!j@ l3c for 
Cape,H3(ai30c for unwashed, and 58c for combing. 
CHICAGO. Out. 23.- The following are the-quotations:-- 
Common tub-washed, 40a 43c: fine wool, 33@43c; medium 
and coarse, 8d^)41c; unwashed, 24(fli28c. 
CINCINNATI, Oct. 21.—Wool, pniled. S7@50c; tnb-wasbed, 
48@02c; uowatdied.SSfg 30c; fleece. XkHSc. 
BALTIMORE. Oet. 43-Wool, unwashed, 80®3Re.; burrv, 22 
@250; tub-washed, 43@4Gc ; fleece, -12@45c; ptilltd, S0@3Sc. 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Advertising Rates.—Tlie following are the Rates of 
Advertising in tbe Rdral New-Yorker, for each Insertion : 
Advertisements, Inside, 75 cents per line. Agate space. 
“ Outside, *' 
For Extra Display and Cuts, a price and a half. 
Special Notices, Nonpareil leaded, SI .30 per line. 
B3?“ No advertisement inserted for less than *3. 
A GOOD DELAWARE FARM OF 150 Acres 
for sale cheap. For full particulars address > 
J. 7V, SNYDEII, Lewes, Delaware. 
P EACH SEED—iO BUSHELS PRIME SEED 
of the Growth of 1868.for sale by 
JOHN W. BLAIR, Jin, 
Crawfordtvllle, Indiana. 
UEED POTATOES FOR SALE OIIKAP.- 
frt Early Goodrich, Gleason, aud Goodrich Calico, per bar¬ 
rel, $3; Ildiiiou. <i per barrel. 
J. LANSING CADY, Watertown, Jeff. Co., N. Y. 
A gents wanted-for our illus- 
trated Bible History, over 400 Engravings. Photographic 
Bibles as low as *!rt 0. bends stamps for terms, Ac. 
980--It GREENE & CO., 413 Chestnut street, PUiia., Pa. 
FOR SALE 100 HAHREI.S 11ARIS0N POTA- 
.L TOKB raised on sandy land, from 0 nushels of Seed, *5 
per barrel, delivered at Rte Station, Geneva, 1 lb., Early 
Rose Potato packed In each barrel. 
JAMES p .SLMPSON, Geneva, N. Y. 
E mployment for the winter Agent* 
wanted, to sell new inventions, to whom wo will pay *30 
per week and expenses. Send 20 cts. for sample, or red 
stamp for circulars to the UNION MAN IJFACf (.KING CO., 
Marshall, Michigan. 
H UNTERS Secrets.— Byan Old Trapper of the West. 
teaches how to trap all Fur Rearing Animals with suc¬ 
cess, and a recipe lor Gold and Bfivar Plating, with small 
cost. .Sent any address for 5(1 c. Address, for 3 hiuulhs, 
KOBT. FITOHKT. Box 76, Chardon, Ohio. 
F or sale-mi entire flock of lots- 
wolii Huksf, consisting of 70 Ewes and 12 Bums, bred 
from the flocks of ,Jno. D. Wing add H. T. Deuel. " Fred¬ 
erick William,'' who heads the flock fins few equals, if any in 
America. HENRY T COFFIN, Hillside Lodge. Washing¬ 
ton, Dutchess Co., N. Y’. 9s0-lt. 
H unting and t k a i» p i ng.-the 
Hunters’ Guide and Trappers’ Companion. A book lor 
farmers, Hunters, Trappers and BoyB. Tells how to hunt 
aud trap all ktnQuQt garae.from the mink to the bear and 
deer. How to cure skins, make boats, traps, Ac., &■<■. Fifth 
Edition just out, the only cheap ami reliable work ever 
printed. Price only 25 cents; 6 for *1. Sent post, free liv 
HUNTER fr CO,, Publishers,Hinsdale,N.'H. 
23?"' Fold by all booksellers. 9-0-2t 
H OLLOWAY’S PILLS,—Tlie Horrors of 
Dysi-upsia.—” Try all things” is a bad motto for the 
sick, it is better to try that which the world’s experience 
has proved to be super-excellent. For fifty years IIoi.lo- 
way's Pills have even caring Dyspepsia. Not a failure la 
on record while the Successes have been countless. Is not 
this a sufllcient guarantv? Is it not madness for any one 
writhing under tile terrible pangs of dyspepsia to decline or 
neglect to take-a medicine lortlfied wild such credentials? 
Sold by all Druggists. 
^EEll POTATOES FOB SALE. 
EARLY JlOSJC, XEJIJCC -LA J) QOOMtICll 
s iced r, i is: 
BY POUND, BUSHEL, AND BARREL. 
Address RICHARD YOUNG, Morton, P. O., 
Springfield, Delaware Co., Pa. 
2®” Circular sent free ! 980-18t 
J^EVEKSIBLE HOOT CUTTERS! 
BAY, STB AW ASH STALK CUTTERS! 
EAGLE CORN SUELLERS! 
VEGETABLE BOILERS AND STEAMERS! 
ICE TOOLS! 
Farmers desiring any of the above will receive special cir¬ 
culars or small catalogues upon application to 
R. U ALLEN & CO., P. O. Box 376, 
980-031-117-21, do-19 
)., P. O. Box 376, 
New York City. 
lJOPEB’S Self.Feeding Hay Knife — 
Premium taken at tbe Cui. Slate Fair in ISO?, 
N. Y. State Fair, ’ 68 . and Niagara Co., N. Y., ’ 68 . 
You don’t have to bold It to one side. Every 
Fanner will approve of It on trial. Ask your 
dealer for it, ^ 
Vrf' Send lor circulars. Address yy 
