they will be in some other mischief, which may 
not prove of so much general profit. San Do¬ 
mingo is very rich in material resources, aud its 
geographical position renders its acquisition im¬ 
portant. The best informed regard the fact that 
this Commission has been authorized by Con¬ 
gress, as evidence that annexation is a foregone 
conclusion, notwithstanding the amendment at¬ 
tached to the original resolution, proriding no 
such construction should be placed upon the ac¬ 
tion of Congress. 
Kiephrnson Co., III., Ag. Soc.—At tire annual 
meeting officers lor the current year wore elect¬ 
ed as follows; Pres.— Frederick Bak.i;h Vice- 
Prcs'ts.— J, Krohn, J. M. Bechtol, < has. Butter¬ 
field. Sera.—F. B. Malburo, 8. J. Davis. Mar¬ 
shall.— Geu. It. V. Ankeoy. 
American Fish CuUurist's Ass'll. —At a meeting 
of gentlemen int-ei'eated in fish culture, recently 
held fu New York city, ail association was form¬ 
ed, as above named, and officers elected as fol¬ 
lows: Pres.—W. Clift. Sec.—L. Stone. Trcas — 
B. F. Bowles. 
East Yarmouth, Me,, Farmers’ Club.— This Club 
has made choice of the following officers for 
1871: Prci.—G>. W.SwEETZEH. Vicc-Prce.—G. W. 
Bracket. See.— G. Soule. Trcas.— J. Walker. 
Com.—L. J. Pratt, F. S. Walker, J. G. Davis. 
Ml. \ rrnoii (Iowa) Farmers’ I'luh, bus elected 
officers for the ensuing year ns follows: Pres.— 
H. M. Messim>i.u. See. and Prcm.—All red King. 
A constitution and by-laws Were adopted. The 
Club meets semi-monthly. 
Ohio State Hori. Hoc.—Officers elect for 1871: 
Prcx'l.— Dr. J. A. Warder, Cloves. Via-Pres't. 
—G, W. Campbell, Delaware. Sec.— M. B. Bate- 
Imm, Pamcsville. Trcas.— Dr. J. Dunham, Col- 
lam cr. 
Northern New York Poultry Assoc. This So¬ 
ciety holds its first animal Fair at Pluttsburg, 
Jan. 24th-2oth. The list of premiums is compre¬ 
hensive aud liberal, and should, with the inter¬ 
est lelt in the matter, insure a good show. 
The Contralto, 111. Hort. goc. meets at Cen¬ 
tral ia, Feb. 3d. 
— For other Industrial Societies sec page 71. 
PROM TENNESSEE. 
ITALIAN UNITY, 
PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
Knoxville, Teuu., Dec., 1871. 
1 came to this place in company with a friend 
from Rochester, N. Y., who is in search of a 
farm. Yesterday we went out aud visited your 
correspondent. Dr. Lee. Wo found him ten 
miles from Knoxville, near the French Broad 
River, in a rough county, but the Doctor is ac¬ 
tive aud entertained us well. His conversation 
was very instructive. His bouse was accidently 
burned lately, with nearly all of his goods. He 
was also burned out at Knoxville during the war. 
The Doctor is vigorous, and I trust his valuable 
contributions to our agricultural literature may 
be long continued. 
During our visit Dr. Lee took us up on to Bay 
Mount, half a mile from his residence, and I may 
safely Bay that such a landscape I never 6aw be¬ 
fore—so broad, so varied, and so magnificent.. 
North Carolina,Kentucky, Virginia and Tennes¬ 
see arc all in sight. North and northwest, sixty 
miles away, are the Cumberland Mountains. 
South and southwest are the Uuoka aud the 
Smoky Mountains. The vast expanse between 
Seemed turbulent nnd disorderly: sometimes 
high peaks and ridges, and the intervals billow 
like the ocean. Bay Mount Is named fora fine 
bay steed, that for so rend years inhabited it, and 
though often pursued and every effort made to 
ensnare him, he eluded pursuit, till at, last he 
was shot nnd Hilled; the design beiug to tem¬ 
porarily disable him. In this Mount the con¬ 
federates found “ saltpeter ” to shoot us with. 
The people in this neighborhood, I reckon, are 
full as shrewd as the Yankees. We rode in 
company with a stout young fellow of Union 
sentiments. “ Whore were you," said I, “ in the 
war?" “Oh, I staid round out oT sight." “I 
should tbinksomebody would have reported you 
to the Confederates." “I had good friends ou 
both sides: wo divided up a little." It appears 
that families divided up, and when the South side 
were in power tbo Confederate branch adminis¬ 
tered the estate, and vice versa. Sometimes 
private malice seized upon the occasion lor 
revenge, and men were shot in their own houses 
by their own neighbors. I do not believe any 
prudent mau need now have difficulty at the 
South. 
We were well entertained by Dr Lee, and by 
Capt. Campbell, an old subscriber to the Rural 
and a vetrau farmer, who owns a farm on the 
river and has some bottom lands very valuable 
and productive. 
Knoxville is a thriving town where there is a 
College,Iron Works, &t\, and a good deal of thrift 
and enterprizc, with considerable Southern trade 
in corn, pork, wheat, hay. mules, Ac. Here are 
evidences of the great struggle in the shape of 
earthworks. 1 saw a negro digging them down 
with a pick-ax, and said to him, sternly, “Sir, 
you are destroying your country's defenses." 
lie said nothing but showed me a set of teeth 
worth, I am sure, twice as much as some I paid 
J30 for, 
Here is a good point to raise produce for the 
Southern market, and the climate is all that can 
be desired. More next week. Yours, 
Hugh t. Brooks. 
A great meeting of Amerioans in full sym¬ 
pathy with Italian Unity, was held in New York 
city, January 12. This meeting was addressed 
by Rev. Dr. J. P. Thompson, Park Godwin, 
Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, 
Judge Emott, and William Cullen Bhyant. 
The chief significance of this meeting was the 
expression it. gave to public opiulon in this 
country against the Union of Church and State. 
On this subject, no utterance can be too strong. 
Give every man and woman the privilege, as it 
is their right, to think and act, religiously, as 
their judgment and conscience dictate -, but let 
no Church or Sect seek to exercise temporal 
power over the people. This is what the people 
of the United States should be careful and vigi¬ 
lant to guard against. There are zealous, ambi¬ 
tious meu iu all our churches. We do uotspeak 
more of one sect than another. Every man 
loves power. Few fail to seek it. And the 
strife in sectarian propagaudlsm is yet earnest. 
Agencies aro used to obtain and promote secta¬ 
rian influences ibat me dangerous to religious 
liberty. Hence, we bail the expression, in tlus 
city, in behalf of Italian Unity and against tbo 
unify of Church aud State as one of the beet 
indices of right sentiment ou the part of the 
American people we have witnessed in two 
decades. Let every man and woman believe 
and act as he or 6bc chooses on religious sub¬ 
jects, and let each give the other the same lib¬ 
erty of conscience and of life. 
THE GREAT ILLUSTRATED 
Conducting Editor and Proprietor, 
The Caiile Dinennc iu \pw Hampshire.— The 
Portsmouth Times says the excitement in the 
southern part of Rockingham county, over the 
terrible mouth aud hoof disease which is pre¬ 
vailing there, is intense. The milk trade be¬ 
tween Portsmouth and Newbury port is almost 
stopped, and in the latter place, and the southern 
part of Rockingham county, the use of milk has 
been generally discontinued. Two teams pur¬ 
chased at Brighton, were driven into Seabrook 
last, week, belonging to two teamsters named 
True and Collin, and Collin's whole stock, of 
over twenty-five head, have taken the disease, 
and it is spreading rapidly, in spite of all meas¬ 
ures to check it. 
CHAS. D. ERAGDON, ANDREW S. FULLER 
.Associate Editor*!. 
HENRY S. RANDALL. LL. D., Cortland Village, N. Y. 
Editor or ran Dkj-abjmiiny or Smrur Husha.mjuv. 
X. A. WILLARD. A. M.. Little Falls, N. Y., 
Editor • tiik Dki*a rtmknt or Dairy Husbandry. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
TjiAVtLlNO CORRKSI'ONDINO EDITOR. 
T. HART HYATT, San Francisco, 
Conductor or thy Pah no Sloth Ptr artmknt. 
CHAS. V. RILEY. St. Louis. Mo., 
Conductor or ray. Entomological Dm'artmsnt. 
MARY A. E. WAGER, 
Editor or this Domestic Economy Department. 
Show this to your Grocers.—A Brooklyn paper 
calls attention to the fact that on the first, day 
of January the tax on the following named 
articles was reduced per pound as stated hi the 
following tabic. Watch prices and see if you 
discover any difference: 
Reduction. 
Articles. 
Allspice. 
A llsplee. 
Pepper, a 
Ginger... 
Nutmegs 
Cloves... 
Prunes... 
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS. 
P. BARRY, T. C. PETERS, 
H. T. BROOKS, ANDRE POKY, 
J. R. DODGE. E. W. STEWART, 
F. K. ELLIOTT, JAMES VICK, 
HORACE OREELKY, J. WILKINSON, 
J. STANTON OODLI), MADAME LK VERT, 
“NOW AND THEN," JULIA COLMAN. 
s iloticcs 
Articles. 
Teas, all kinds. 
Cntrees. 
Cocoa, ground 
Sugar. 
Cinnamon. 
Mace. 
Currants. 
Terms.— Only 8 1.50 per Volume of tiff numbers, 
or @3 per year of !i‘t numbers. To Clubs—per Vol¬ 
ume: Five copies for $7 i Seven, and one Tree to 
agent, for $9.50; Ten, aud one free, Tor $12.50. Per 
Year: Five copies for $.11; Seven, and one free, for 
$19; Ten, and one treo, tor $25—only $2,50 per copy. 
The lowest Yearly rate to Canada is $2.70, and $3.50 
to Europe. Drafts, I*, o. Money Orders aud Ilegis. 
tered Letters at our risk. 
Advertising. —Inside, 75 cents per line, Agate 
space ; Outside, $1 per line, each insertion. For Ex¬ 
tra Display and Cuts, n price and ti half. Spicial and 
•Business Notices, $1.50 and $2 a line. No advertise¬ 
ment inserted for less than $3. 
THE LOWEST CLUB PRICE OF THE RURAL NEW- 
YORKER is $2.50 per yearly copy to subscribers in 
the United Stales, and $2.70 to those in Canada— 
the extra 20 cents charged Canadians being for 
the American postage, which we are obliged to 
pre-pay. Any person offering the RURAL for less 
than the above rates does so without our authority. 
round 
kinds 
Canadian Monthly Papers, wo learn from a 
card from the Post-Master General of Canada, 
are subject to a postage charge of one cent per 
copy; weekly papers arc charged one-half cent 
per copy. Some of the Canadian papers arc 
complaining that these charges discriminate In 
tavor of Amerioan agricultural Journals, and 
affect seriously the interests of those published 
in Canada. We hope the Canadian authorities 
will foster the interests of their home papers. 
THE CATTLE DISEASE, 
Tlie Price of rlie R ui n I New-Yorker seems 
to he a mystery yet, even to some of ita long-time 
subscribers, as wluiess the following: 
Dear Rural New-Yorker : -Please inform me, 
through your columns, wliat the expense ol the 
Rural from January, 1870, to .July <>t the same year, 
would be, aud oblige a fifteen year subscriber in— 
MICUIGAN, 
— If “Michigan” will turn to first column of this 
page, he will find that the first sentence after the 
word terms roads thus" Only $1.50 per Volume of 
26 numbers, or $3 per year of 52 numbers.” We Con¬ 
sider that pretty plain English. Though it does not 
say that it takes six months to publish 26 numbers of 
a Weekly paper, most persons might cipher that 
out —especially one who has read the lit hal for 
fifteen years I For the information of all interested, 
we will add that the price of the Rural, unbound, 
from January to end of June, 16T0, is #1.50.und bound, 
$2-50; and the sumo for the volume from July 1 to end 
of December of same year. Moreover, that as the 
Rural iselecirotyped, weenn furnish every number 
or volume published since January 1,1869. 
Moreau Morris, State Cuttlo Commissioner 
and City Sanitary Inspector, has been investi¬ 
gating the FoOt-und-Mouth Disease among the 
cuttle of Dutchess county, N. Y., aud has made 
his report to the Board of Health of New York 
city. He calls the disease, technically, Epizootic 
Aptha. Notwithstanding the assertions of the 
Canada papers, to the contrary, Mr. Morius 
assorts that the disease was recently imported 
into t his country from Europe by way of Cana¬ 
da. But it is so contagious in its character that 
it may have reached this country direct in a 
hundred ways, without, any Canadian agency 
whatever; for raJIwuy cars and yards where dis¬ 
eased cattle have been enclosed, oommunloate 
it toother cattle coining in contact therewith. 
It is even transmitted from one neighborhood 
to another, it Is assorted* on the clothing of per¬ 
sons coming iu contact with diseased stock. 
This disease is not fatal in its character, hut 
rapidly depreciates t he value of the stock afflict¬ 
ed, both for market and dairy purposes. The 
animal loses flesh rapidly, and the How of milk 
ceases. But what of the effect of eating the 
meat and drinking the milk of diseased animals? 
In answer, we quote from Mr. Morris’ report: 
In tjie last Annual Report for 1869 of tbo Medical 
Officer of the Privy Council in England, containing 
report dated Nov. 30, 1809. by Dr. Thome, on the 
" Effects produced In the human subject by consump¬ 
tion ef itulk frolii cows having foot and mouth dis¬ 
ease.'' there appear the following cunoloBians :— 
“Thaia disease appears to have been produced in 
tho human subject when the milk of oow.» suffering 
from foot and mouth dumasc hit* been freely used 
without being boiled. Tberc is no evidence to show 
whether this afibotlon In ot a specific nature or not. 
but ii seems to consist of a derangement of t.no ali¬ 
mentary canal, accompanied by febrile disturbance, 
the presence of vesicles on the mucus membrane of 
the mouth and tongue, whioh. having ruptured,leave 
superficial ulueratiour, aud at times uU berpeliu erup¬ 
tion about the exterior of the lips.’’ 
In pursuing hta inquiries as to wlmt. unhealthy 
effects are produced In the human subject by eating 
the flesh of animals which have been suffering from 
this disease, lie says -"The disease is so early fatal 
that til country district* farmers ami dairymen are 
uot Iu the habit of killing the animals when they are 
attacked; but. if a few days after a butcher has 
bought one or morn he finds thorn ailing, ho invaria¬ 
bly kills them lit once und exposes the flesh for sale, 
the Immediate slaughter of tho animal being the In¬ 
variable rule, on account of theTspid emaciation 
with which the epizootic Is accompanied.” He was 
also informed by lTor. Simmons, that in tho London 
cattle market, which is held twice a week, there have 
been diseased animats ofi and on tor the last six 
months, and during the last two mont hs t he number 
affected bus reached an average of JO to taper cent. 
Tliesenrc all killed and eaten. Foreign cattle also 
which are Imported, aud which are found to he suf¬ 
fering from the disease, must be slaughtered Within 
leu days Of their landing; but the butchers, ns a rule, 
have them killed immediately at the wharves, in 
order to avoid suffering any loss from the cmacial ion 
which would otherwise ensue, lienee,# considerable 
number of animals are killed at tho bight of the dis- 
i use, and their flesh is often sold ns lirsl-class meat. 
Ill no instance have 1 heard that any disease in Hie 
human subject has been attributed to the use of 
such flesh. 
Wo farther learn from the report that the 
New York State Cattle Commission have-given 
instructions to Assistant Commissioners that, 
whenever tlic disease appears, they place in 
quarantine at oneeaffeoted animals, prevent the 
sending of milk to marker from dairies so affeet- 
od and use disinfectants liberally in cars and 
yards. In Dutchess Co., alone, over 1,000 head of 
cattle, most of them dairy cows, have been 
quarantined. In the New York cattle yards the 
disease lias been discovered among beef cat tle 
aud cows, and the Commissioner says:—“The 
rule has been to allow animals to be killed, un¬ 
less they were badly diseased, as there is as yet 
no evidence wliieJi proves that their tlesh is un¬ 
healthy as human food; but cows or other cattle 
are not allowed to leave quarantine to com¬ 
municate the disease to other herds until they 
have entirely recovered.’’ 
We gave on page 32, Rural New-Yorker, 
Jim. If, the symptoms of this disease, and the 
proper remedies to be applied, as furnished by 
Prof. Low. Wm. J. Higgins of this city, who 
claims to have had an extended experience wit h 
this disease, says: 
Remedies of every kind, external and internal, were 
tried ; but the most efficacious treatment, both as a 
preventive and a cunt, was imtnd to be the plentiful 
application to the hoof, daily, of ga* tar. The anti¬ 
septic and remedial properties of Bits article are well 
kuowit. nnd I feel assured that its application at the 
present turn', to the cattle suffering from tills terrible 
disease hi .\lue*/i.chu>ott*, will be attended with the 
beat results. In curing tt nnd proventing its further 
spread through t he country. 
Whether there isevidenoe that the meat of 
ent ile so affected is unhealthy or not, we do not 
think it necessary to urge our readers to cat it 
in order to save it. We should not do it. Nor 
would we drink the milk after boiling, even. In 
saying this, we have no strong prejudices against 
It, but we have caution. And our readers better 
substitute other food, and let dairymen and 
herdsmen take pains to cure their cattle, instead 
of sending them to the butcher to get rid of them. 
[\V« waul luforuiuUou, briefl), concerning Ibe season, progress of 
Hie work, Umpewtuni, crop*, prices of fnrio produce, slock, labor 
aud lauds, and careMI estimates o! tire amount of grain and number 
of animals ou band for ssJe, as compared with previoua seasons, for 
publication under tills bead.—Koo, Itviunj 
Mexico, Mo., Dec. 30.—1 have just been ex¬ 
amining my peach trees aud fiud the buds all 
killed. On some twenty trees, however, which I 
laid down and covered with straw, they are all 
right yet.—L. s. a. 
Uohosco, Saunders Co. Neb., Jun, 2. —We have 
had no ruin for three months; one inch of snow 
at Christmas, and a cold week with ii. Aside 
from that we have had a beautiful tall. Wheat 
is 75<3>80c.; corn, 30c.; oats, 30o.; potatoes, 50e.; 
pork, 5>i'<&6c. Times hard.—X, n. w. 
Tliomoston, Conn., Jnn. 9.—We have had an 
open winter here thus far, only throe or four 
inches of snow having fallen. Average temper¬ 
ature, at 7 o’oloek, A. M„ for eight days of the 
month 13' above zero- Corn, Western, $1 per 
bush., delivered; 90e„ nt the depot; Northern 
round, $1.35; oats, 75c.; buckwheat, $1; meal 
$2 per owt.; Wheat, middling, $2.10; butter 42© 
480 ., per lb i eggs, 45c„ do/.,— a. a. s. 
New Moscow, Coshocton Co., O., Jon, 3.— 
The fall hereabouts was dry and pleasant—favor¬ 
able lor out-door Qeoupation. It was very cold 
here for several days subsequent to tho 20th ult. 
—the coldest being on the morning of the 34th, 
tho mercury being 7* below zero; it is now 
warmer, and thawing some. The yield of the 
cereals here was about ati average crop. The 
prices of produce, 6zc., areas follows;—Wheat, 
per bush., $1,05; corn, 40o.; outs, 35e.; clover 
seed, $6,50; butter, 25e. per llu; eggs, 25c. per 
dozen; hogs, 5©tic. per pound; grass cattle, 
ditto.— J. h. 
OCELSIO^ 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1871 
BACK NUMBERS OF THE RURAL NEW- 
YORKER are promptly supplied to New Sub¬ 
scribers, so that all may have the Volume 
complete for binding, etc. Unless otherwise 
requested, we shall mail the numbers from 
Jan. 1st in response to all orders for some 
week3 to come, 
As the RURAL is electrotyped, we can 
promptly furnish any number or volume issu¬ 
ed since Jan. 1, 1869. See Notice of Bound 
Volumes, sizes, prices, etc,, elsewhere. 
Itniuul Volumes ul I lie Kuml New-Yorker. 
—Handsomely bound Volumes of the Rural for 1869, 
fVol. XX.) containing 83S pages and over NX) Illustra¬ 
tions, turultdied at either of our Publication Offices 
Dir $4 per copy. Vol XXI, (January to June, 1870,) 
containing 416 pages and over 400 Illustrations, at 
$2.50, also now ready. Vol. XXII, (July to Dec.. 1870,) 
same Bize. price, etc., as Vol. XXI, will be bound and 
ready lor delivery in two weeks. Sent by Express to 
any part of the Doited States or Cauuda. purchaser 
paying charges, t*" We can also furnish bound 
copies of many former volumes. Price ol Vol. XIX., 
$4-ol' any previous one which we have, $3. 
EURAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
Great Inducements to Work nnd Wtn!— The 
attention of every Subscriber, Header and 
Friend is invited to the Programme of Pre¬ 
miums offered for obtaining subscribers to the 
Rural New-Yorker, published on our last 
page. After reading the list wc think any intel¬ 
ligent person will admit that we really offer 
“ Good Pay far Doina Good.'’ Wo have endeav¬ 
ored to make the best, possible selection of arti¬ 
cles. The variety is elieh that those entitled 
have a wide range of choice articles—useful, 
durable and ornamental—adapted to various 
ages and classes. While regarding the interests 
of grown people, we have by no means forgot¬ 
ten the young folks. We would like to give a 
description of each article, but not having 
space, can only assure all interested that there is 
no gammon about the matter —as the Manufac¬ 
turers and Dealers guarantee the wares in our 
list to be the best of their kind for the prices 
named. In most cases the names of tho Manu¬ 
facturers alone give sufficient ussunuiee of 
value and reliability. Please read tho list care¬ 
fully, and then be governed by the fact that 
Now is the Time to Ipork for and Win the Pre¬ 
miums—and thousands who peruse this article 
are so situated that they can, if they will, readi¬ 
ly do just that laudable thing. 
MEN AND CAPITAL. 
From every quarter comes tho cry “More 
meu; more capital." Never, in this country, 
was there a greater demand for honest, intelli¬ 
gent, skilled labor. And the practical enter¬ 
prises which invite capital and labor to develop 
the material resources of the country, and there¬ 
by supply the economical and luxurious wants 
of the people, wore never more uum ;rous. The 
field for men willing to work was never so ex¬ 
tended nor so surely remunerative. Just in 
proportion as tbo wealth of the country increas¬ 
es, do the fields of remunerative manual effort 
extend. The man who has skill and a practical 
education, every day rises higher in the scale of 
public appreciation Rud importance; for every 
day makes such men scarcer iu proportion to 
our population, 
The young meu of the whole country aro in a 
state of comparative demoralization. We speak 
in general terms. The idea pervading the minds 
of too many of them is the Importance of ao- 
quiring the most wealth iu theshortest timeand 
with the least labor. The brains ot the country 
arc attempting to solve this problem. Steady, 
unassuming, ploddiug iudustry is dishonorable 
iu the esteem ol four-fil ths of the modem youug 
meu. The old theory that “Virtue is its own 
reward," and that “a penny saved is better 
than a penny earned," is obsolete. But just in 
proportion to the soarcity of an article is its 
value enhanced. And to-day the scarcest article 
in the market is an industrious, thrifty, intelli¬ 
gent, honest, and successful worker. 
We are led to these remarks by the effort 
making in almost every State iu the Union, aud 
especially in the Southern aud Western States, to 
attract capital aud labor. The need is impera¬ 
tive. Taxes arc being paid on lands that arc 
utterly useless to their owners. Nolataorisavail- 
able because there is no capital to command 
labor. And if there was, there is too little practi¬ 
cal knowledge to direct it. So Immigration So¬ 
cieties are forming. The Old World is looked to 
for aid in this needed development. The neces- 
sit iesof a dense population there have developed 
industrious habits and skill. Immigrants are 
expected to supply these to our own broad fields. 
They will, too. But the wide-awake Young 
American who is not impregnated with the 
virus of Indolence, Gentility, Fashion and Spec¬ 
ulation, lias the broadest and noblest fortune 
before him. 
We say, Young Man, keep out of the cities. 
Learn everything which is of possible practical 
utility. Waste no time studying abstractions 
and enter these inviting fields for your Industry 
and Enterprise, and you shall “ stand before 
kings.” It is just as sure to be your destiny as 
sunshine is to make the rose blossom, if you 
avoid all appearance of evil and strive only for 
that which is good. 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
IHDUSTBIAL SOCIETIES, 
New York State Poultry Society.—The annual 
meeting of this Society was held in Now York 
city on the 10th iust. The attendance was very 
meager—uot what the interests of iheSociety or 
its business demanded. Discussions were had 
upon the Report of the officers, as also upon 
Poultry aud Fish Breeding. Action was taken 
for the calling iof a Convention at the rooms of 
the Society. 27 Cbqilium street, Fell. 15th. next, 
to discuss and revise the present scale of points, 
aud adopt an American Standard of Excellence. 
The officers elected were as follows: Pres,—' Tiios. 
B. Kj.ngsui.no, N. Y. City. Vice-Pies'ts-J. Stan¬ 
ton Gould, Hudson; G. II. Warner, New York 
Mills; D. D.T. Moore,N.Y. city; Wtn. M.Tweed, 
N. Y. city: Wm, M. Ely, Binghamton; John 
Brioe, N. Y. city; Lucius A. Chase, N. Y. city; 
Henry C. Genet, N. Y. city. E.c. Com. J. Y, 
Blekueli, Westmoreland; Simeon LeUind, N. Y. 
city; J. Wors.er Hale, N.Y.city; Jas. Bathgate, 
M. D., Morrisauta ; Goo. Tweddle, Albany ; G. H. 
Leavitt, Flushing; Win. Stevenson, Brooklyn ; 
J. Clarence Sidel). Englewood, N. J. Cor. Sec.— 
Mason C’. Weld, No. 245 Broadway, N. Y. city, 
Rec. Sec—A. M. llukded, Rye. Trcas — William 
Simpsou, Jr , West barms, Westchester county. 
Hon. Sees. —Great Britain, W. B. Tcgetmeier, F. 
Z. S., London; France, M. Paul Ruffel. Paris: 
Unmiuiou of Canada, CoL F. C. Hassard, R. E., 
Toronto- Pennsylvania, D. W. Herstine, Phila¬ 
delphia: Massachusetts, Philander Williams, 
Taunton; Vermont, C. II. Ripley, Rutland Cen¬ 
ter; Connecticut, F. Sterling, Bridgeport; New 
Jersey. Isaac Van Wmkle, Greenville; North 
Carolina, Alston B. Estes. Townesville; Ohio, 
Geo. W. Fetter. Batavia: Illinois, Henry How¬ 
land, Chicago: Georgia, J. W. Compton, Augus¬ 
ta; Arizona, K.C. McCormick, Tuspati; Colorado, 
J. A. Sbreve, Denver; Texas, W. R. Evans, Gal¬ 
veston, 
Monroe Co., Ag. Soc. — The annual meeting 
of this Society was held at the Court House at 
Rochester on the 11th inst. The attendance was 
quite large. President Buekland presented a 
report of transactions since he assumed office, a 
part of the year. The Treasurer reported cash 
on hand, January, 1610, $347.16. The amount of 
premiums offered this year was $3,254. 
Premiums awarded. $1,7+1.00 
Premiums paid . 1,591.61 
Premiums yet unpaid. 149,50 
Bills paid. 1,571.56 
Bills nut paid. . , 
Bills and premiums not paid—. 1,1U;>.40 
Cash ■ in hand.... -.. 96.94 
Debts of Society over cash ou hand. I.OH.jO 
During the'past year the sum of $1,511 1ms 
been expended in permanent improvements. 
An amendment to the Constitution, proposed a 
year ago, providing that the officers of the .So¬ 
ciety shall be elected by a majority of the mem¬ 
bers voting, instead of by a plurality, as hereto¬ 
fore, was unanimously adopted. J lie officers 
elected for the current year were as follows: 
Pres— Leonard Bdckland. T icc-Prrst. s-A. G. 
Whitcomb, M. R. Balentine, and Thomas A. 
Slocum. Trcas- H. Otis. See.-A. C. Hobble. 
IHrectore— Ilelnan Glass and C. C. Holton. 
The Testimony of an Old Agent-Friend.— In 
remitting $30, (for his sccoud club this year,) Mr. 
Wm. Richly of Jefferson Co., N. Y., refers to 
the fact that ho bus acted as Agent for the Ru¬ 
ral New-Yorker twenty-one years, aud re¬ 
marks how much easier it is to get subscribers 
now Gum it was when the good ship Rural was 
first launched, adding:—“Since that time (1850) 
I have introduced the Rural iu different States 
of the Union, and in Canada, (wherever I have 
been,) and I aro glad to know that, after sticking 
by the old ship Rural, and inducing so mauy to 
step aboard, by your efforts in its management 
and the blessing of God upon those efforts, the 
Rural has become such an institution that none 
cau reproach me by saying that 1 advised or per¬ 
suaded them wrongly,—aud to-day I can recom¬ 
mend it more heartily to my friends thau 1 ever 
could before. * a a i will close by wishing 
you and the good old Rural a Prosperous and 
Happy New Year —promising to still use my best 
efforts to promote its interests.” 
— It would not require a, very large host of 
such active and successful agents ns Mr. Richey 
has proved himself to be, to give the Rural a 
circulation of hail’ a million in a very short 
period. _ 
San Domingo.—Finally, after the usual amount 
of acrimonious debate on the part of politicians, 
who have their little schemes to promote, a reso¬ 
lution has passed both houses of Congress, au¬ 
thorizing the President to appoiut three Com¬ 
missioners to \ isit San Domingo, and ascertain 
and report whether that island is worth pur¬ 
chasing, and what there is there to purchase, or 
annex to the United States. Ex-Senator Wade. 
nnd President White of Cornell University, are 
reported as having accepted places on this Com¬ 
mission. Who the third Commissioner Is to be, 
we are not aware at this writing. With our 
present information, we are in favor of annex¬ 
ing San Domingo. We have no douht it is in 
some measure a speculative job. on the part of 
politicians and their friends. We find few poli¬ 
ticians now-a-days, who favor such annexations 
from purely patriotic impulses. But if they aro 
not entertaining themselves with Sau Domingo, 
DRUNKARD, STOP ! 
The most confirmed cases ol Intemperance cared 
tv DR. BEERS, by 9 very simple remedy : it never 
f'lils. Send for Circular, and convince yourself. 
Address C. C. BEERS, M. D., Box 5110, New York. 
REWARDS. 
WE will give the following rewards for reports 
of the 
BEST RESULT IN WORK OR EARNINGS 
with 
WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINE. 
Best report for a series of years : 
Reward-A No. 1 -Wheeler & Wilson Machine. 
Rest report for a single year: 
Reward-A No. 2-Wheeler & WilBon Machine. 
The reportB to be made to us before feb. 1..1871. 
... .. ri/X 
Inquiries for Adverlisers. — JOHN FRANCIS 
Mahon wants to kuow where he can procure a 
first-class machine—to run by horse or steam 
power—for the manufacture of drain tile or 
sewerage pipe. —W. C. Cornell asks where he 
can get lop-eared rabbits, and at what price. 
ure A Cough, Cold or Sore Throat, use 
BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES. 
