PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
nexution to the United States,and “everywhere 
there was n general agreement in the declaration 
that, their only hopo of peace and prosperity Is 
in annexation to and becoming a part of the 
people of the United States.” But few were 
found opposed to annexation, and these chiefly 
traders who have control of monopolies which 
annexation would destroy, and others whose 
profits grow out or insurrectionary movements. 
0. The physical, mentulnnd moral condition of 
the people was found to be more advanced than 
was anticipated. The population is generally 
or mixed blood. Generally, the white blood 
predominates. The people, in their Intercourse 
with each other and with strangers, are cour¬ 
teous and polite. They seem to bo practically 
destitute of prejudice of class, race, or color. 
No pauper claasexists. The high crimes of mur- 
along the coast, and even to trees and crops on 
land. 
The balance of the report relates to matters 
of less practical interest to our readers, though 
furnishing Important facts to statesmen who 
may huve to decide the question of annexation. 
grimes c. per in.; cnecse, i.ygdtic.; corn, 
$1.Q5@1.10: onts, prime, 70c.; eggs very plenty, 
and selling at wholesale at 15c. per doz.; hay 
$18@20 per ton; maple sugar, 10@16c. per lb. ; 
maple sirup. $1 per gal.; Early Rose potatoes, 
80c.u?$l per bn.; common, 70@«0c.; beef, A No. 
1, 7@8c. per lb., live weight; cows, prime new 
milch, $dO®aO; common, $50@60; farrow, $30® 
40; spring pigs plenty, at. $2.50@4 each; wages 
for good men. $25 per month and board; good 
working oxen In good demand, at prices vary¬ 
ing from £175 to £270.—1>. G. u. 
Pittsfield, Merrlmoc Co,, ,Y U„ March 29.— 
Had I written this record a week ago, and dated 
it by the weather, I should have written April 
instead of March. In the meantime, we have 
bad n snow storm of five inches Jn depth. Pre¬ 
vious to this bill of snow, the weather has been 
remarkably mild and spring like. The spring 
birds came the ilrstot March. Plowing has been 
done in a few instances. A late spring is pre¬ 
dicted. Ground has been bare of snow all win¬ 
ter. We have bad only two weeks of good sled¬ 
ding. A very severe winter for bees and grass 
roots. Stock is coming out In fair condition. 
Money close. Farmers' produce is selling low, 
with the exception of potatoes, which bring 
$1 per bushel.— g. n. v, 
llnrtlnnd, Windsor Co.. Vi., April 6.—A change¬ 
able, open winter, with vcry.liglit fall of snow; 
not an entire week of good sleighing all winter. 
March without a parallel, says that "oldest in¬ 
habitant." In evenness and mildness of tempera¬ 
ture. And now April comes with moderately 
warm days and cool nights. Frost nearly all 
out of the ground. Meadows have suffered for 
want of their usual snow covering; “ new seed¬ 
ed” materially injured. Spring work not gene¬ 
rally begun, yet on the llghler sandy soil plow¬ 
ing has commenced. Labor, Bcarce and high, 
#25 per mouth ; £1.25 per day. Hay, $12; corn, 
Western, $1, northern. $1.05; oats, C2c.; pota¬ 
toes. 71k’.; herds grass $7.50; clover. 15c. per lb.; 
sugar. «£rd2c.; butter, 2o^«9c.; eggs, 30e. per doz.. 
Working oxen, ordinary, 5c., prime matched, 
per lb., live weight; milch cows, $50<®<j0 per 
head; heifers “coming In," $30@85 per head; 
veal calves, 0o. per lb., live weight.-E. M. a. 
Oskaloosa, Mnhnslin Co.. Iowa, April I.-Wo 
are having fine weather here, and (ho farmers 
lane been making good use or it. Wheat about 
ail sowed I hat will be this year. Tf we arc bless¬ 
ed with favorable weather for the next hundred 
days as we havo been for the last ten, we will 
surely have a good crop of wheat. Spring seems 
to lie earlier than usual; vegetation of nil kinds 
coining op finely. Laud is changing hands some, 
at from $25 to $75 per acre. Work horses in de¬ 
mand at $75 to $150; hogs, 5j£c„ and fat cattle 
about the Ntnie; wheal, $1 to $1.10: corn. 35 to 
THE GREAT ILLUSTRATED 
RUEAL NOTES AND QUERIES, 
D. D. T. MOORE, 
Conducting Editor and Proprietor 
CHA8. D. BRAGD0N, ANDREW S. FULLER, 
AHsouinto Editors. 
HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D„ Cortland Village, N. Y 
Kmron or Tin Uki’abtmkxt or Sinuo* Htsiutamv, 
X. A. WILLARD, A. M., Little Falls, N. Y., 
Eniron or tii* Dki-ahtmist or f>Aiuy lluHUAPinnr. 
Col. S. D. HARRIS, Cleveland, Ohio, 
Tju'v*u«a Connitii'OSDiriG Herron. 
T. HART HYATT, San Francisco, 
CoN»ncTon or Titr P»<;iric Sr, or* Dei autmfnt. 
CHAS. V. RILEY, St. Louis, Mo., 
Condpctor or the Entomolooical Department. 
MARY A. E. WAGER, 
Eottor or the Domeitic Economy Department. 
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS, 
P. BA tin Y, 
H. T. BROOKS, 
J. R. DODC.E, 
F. K. ELLIOTT, 
nOUACt: ORKlXEY. 
,7. STANTON COULD 
“NOW ANJ> THEN," 
T. C. PETERS, 
AND RE POEY, 
E. W. KTEIVART, 
James vick, 
,7. Wl MUNSON, 
MADAME BE VERT, 
JULIA COLMAN. 
Opium Import*.—The following figures show 
the rapid increase in the use of opium in this 
country. In 1808, the amount entered at the 
Custom House was 116,609 lbs., valued at $535,- 
527; in 1869, 197,183 lbs., valued at $1,086,672; in 
1270,254,009 lbs., valued nt $1,776,908. It i*a ques¬ 
tion of political economy whether. If our peo¬ 
ple are going to pay this enormous sum nnnu- 
r ly for this drug, it. should not go into the hands 
of American producers, and remain at homo to 
tDiich our people and compensate our labor. 
Moralists will say no; but. let those who are 
Without sin cast, the first stone at the American 
producer who helps to supply this demand. 
Terms.—Only $n.50 per Volume of 20 numbers, 
or $3 per yeuruf o2 numbers. To Clubs—per Fob 
wine: Hvo copies for ??; Seven, and one lro« to 
agent, for ?;*,60: Ten. and ono tree, tor $12. 0. Per 
Year: Five coplo.v for iH : Seven, and one free, for 
$18; Ten, nnd one free, Tor $25—only $2.50 per copy. 
The lowest Yearly rate to Canada Is $2.70, and <.7.69 
to Bit rope. Drafts, I*. O. Money Orders and Regis¬ 
tered Letter* at our r1*tc. 
Tin: It« nil New-Yor her li* sold by News Deal¬ 
ers generally. The Trade ts supplied by t.he NEW 
YORK News Co., No. 8 spruce St. Now York. 
Advertising. — Inside. 75 cent* per lino. Agate 
space ; Outside, $1 p«r line, each Insertion. For Ex¬ 
tra Display und Cuts, n price mid a lialf. Special and 
Business Notices, $1.50 and $2 a line. No advertise¬ 
ment Inserted for less than $3. 
ju. itviaenccor tne existence of Iron, copper, 
gold, with deposits of lignite, rock salt and pe- 
ta-oleum, were obtained—abundance of iron and 
sill, an extensive gold region, and copper ores 
of a fair degree of richness, whose beds havo 
beon opened to a slight extent. 
11. There are five classes of lands, to wit1st. 
The mountain slopes and valleys; those are uni¬ 
formly rich nnd productive, except in limited 
regions, where rain is deficient, us on the south¬ 
ern slope of the const range, northeast of Monte 
Christ!. 2d. The extensive prairie region of the 
llqnos lying east and north or tfunto Domingo 
City, south of the Ciboo range; this is all ad¬ 
mirable pasture land. A large portion of it is 
capable of profitable cultivation. It is inter- 
seoied by wooded valleys and groves, contain¬ 
ing much excellent limber. 3d. The roiling plain 
of the Vegq, which is generally wooded, and is 
the finest body of agricultural ground on the 
Island. 4th. The dry lands, like a portion of tbo 
plain of Azua nnd the Valley of the Yuqul, 
where rain is partially or wholly wanting from 
topographical causes. These lands can be made 
fertile by artificial irrigation. 5th. The red clay 
lands, mostly along the coast, underlaid by cor¬ 
alline limestone—these are usually covered with 
amber. They are not generally very rich or 
deep, hut. are susceptible of p roll table cultiva¬ 
tion, The vicinity of Santo Domingo City is a 
fair average specimen of this class of soils. 
12. There is but little swampy and sandy land; 
surface varied, unusually well watered, excels 
in natural drainage, is fertile generally—indeed, 
the Commission pronounces the Republic ” one 
of the most fertile regions on the face of the 
earth." 
13. Owing to the varied surface, exposure, &c„ 
the products arc varied, Including sugar caneon 
the lowlands; coffee and cocon in the mountain 
regions; agave plants producing fibers; honey | 
In abundance 
Indinn Onirngen lii Arizona.— Wo havo before 
us a Memorial and Affidavits taken by a Joint 
Committee of the Legislature of Arizona, show¬ 
ing niitragx-s perpetrated by Apache Indians In 
that Territory during the years 18(59 and 1870. 
The memorial states that l he “ Apaches have 
boon so constant in Ihoir depredations and de¬ 
structive of life that nearly all or the early pio¬ 
neers have fallen by their hands, and every In¬ 
dustry and enterprise has been paralyzed.” The 
testimony taken and accompanying the memo¬ 
rial seems to establish these facts, which ure given 
from considerations of justice and humanity, 
Yon Wert, o„ March 29. - Spring is here; 
some plowing done; roads very muddy; stock 
looks well; ivo are having cool but pleasant 
weather; wheat in the ground looks well; 
white wheat, $1.30; red, $ 1 . 25 ; corn, 40c.; ryo, 
56e.; oats, 35c.; barley, tide.; clover seed, $6; 
timothy seed. $1.60; (lax seed, $1.80: potatoes, 
$1®>L20; beans. $L20; apple*, green. #1.80; dried, 
$2; peaches, dried, *4; butter, 16c. per lb.; 
cheese, 20e. per lb.; eggs, per dozen, 10c.; horses, 
$135©>150; cows, $35; hogs, $ 15 .—j. r. q. 
So. Danbury, Grafton Co.. Y h„ April 2.— 
Have had but very little snotv the past winter, 
hence a lot of wood and lumber remains In the 
woods. Stock has wintered on less buy than 
usual. Maple sap commenced to run the first 
days of March. Frost nearly ull out of the 
ground, and some have plowed. New butter, 
28c.; eggs, 18c.; bay, #12(518: corn, $1; wood, 
$4.50; pigs four weeks old, $5(56; corn meal, per 
100 lbs., $2.10; rnapJe syrup, $1.25; clover seed, 
18o. per lb.; timothy source, at $8 per bushel. 
Bluebirds and others are here.— T. h. d. 
Oregon. Mo.. April 1.-During the past month 
the weather was very favorable for farm work; 
nearly all spring wheat nnd oats havo been sown, 
and some ground turned for corn. The breadth 
of grain sown is larger than an average; rye nnd 
lull wheat looks well. I have not seen one field 
that Is yvinter killed. Stock wintered well, and 
are in good condition Tor the spring pasture. 
In March there were five days of snow and rain, 
sixteen days cloudy and ten days clear. On 
On tbe8tb of March there was a lull of snow, 
during which there was considerable thunder, 
7vbiclt astonished the natives.—j. w. m, 
Washington, Iowa. .March 2S.—We are having 
very fine weather. Spring opened quite early. 
Farmers ure nearly all through sowing wheat. 
I should Judge them would be but little wheat 
sowed this spring. Whom is ivorth $1 per bush.; 
corn. 40(34450.; oats, 35c.; barley. 70c.; fat bogs. 
5&@0c., per lb.; fat cattle, 6c.; cows, $35@00; 
stock cattle, yearlings, $17(522; two-year-olds, 
$250*28; horses, $100@160; potatoes. 30c., per 
bush.; wild bay. $4 per ton ; tame hay, $6(58 per 
ton ; timothy seed. $5.50 per bush.; clover seed. 
$8 per bush.; land, $300,75 per acre; farmhands, 
$18@25 per month.— n. p. n. 
Catoosa Co,,Go., March 28.—Spring basset in. 
Apple trees are in bloom. Farmers are done 
sewing oats, and some have commenced plant¬ 
ing corn. Wheat is half boot-leg high, nnd looks 
well—though injured by the severe freezes. Fall 
sown oats arc nearly all winter-killed; some 
have been plowed up. Weare sowing clover and 
grass seed extensively, and improving our land. 
Have had a very severe winter, but lit tie .snow. 
Land is worth from $2 to $’.’0 per acre. Good 
farm hands, $12©I4 per month; wheat, $1.65; 
corn, 73c.; oats, 60c.; beef, gross, 4c.; mutton, 8c.; 
butter, 25c.; eggs, 12#e.; bacon, 13@14c.; sweet 
potatoes, $1.25 per bushel,—j. t. s. 
Madison, Greenwood Co., K«n., March 25.— 
Fanners finished sowing reheat about the 15th. 
Oats nearly all sowed. Some have commenced 
plowing for corn. On the 23d, in the morning, 
mercury 6* below freezing; wind north. Prairies 
look quite green; have commenced gardening. 
Corn, 50c.; oats, 40c.; wheat, 75(?530e.; cattle not 
much sale—range from $18 to $.50. according to 
age and quality; butter, 3XL,10c.; eggs, 15c.; 
cheese, 20g25e. outof groceries. The rain is now 
pouring down, with thundernnd lightning. The 
past week has been very dry and cold. 
March 27.—Mercury 12° below freezing; heavy 
frost, ground frozen hard.— a. p. 
Putney, Vi., March 31.-Weather the past 
month fine; more like April than March. There 
«m* i nroit uniric* 01 Erie ro„ A. Y„ are 
talked of in another page l>y Hon. Lewis F. 
Allen. What he 5«ys will interest very many 
of our readers—especially those of Western New 
York. This article has been on hand a long time 
waiting for space, which the inquiries of corre¬ 
spondents and the reports of dairy conventions 
have denied it. Even now we have on our table 
answers to inquiries which ought to appear, bul 
which justice to our friend, Mr. Allen, who has 
furnished us so Interesting an article, compels 
|is to defer. 
SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1871 
REMOVAL 
OF THE RURAL NEW-YORKER OFFICE 
On the first of May, proximo, tho Rural New- 
Yorker Office will be removed to Nos. 3 and 5 Beek- 
man St., in the building formerly occupied by the 
Park Bank, between Park Row and Nassau St. Our 
Publication Office, and Agricultural Book Business, 
will be on the second floor, and will include tho en¬ 
tire front of the building. The Editorial, Composing 
and Engraving rooms will be on the third and fourth 
floors. The new quarters will be on a larger scale 
than those we now occupy — affording more space 
and greater facilities for transacting the several 
branches of our Newspaper and Book Publishing 
and Selling Business. The recent rapid increase of 
the last named department of our business has neces¬ 
sitated the change of location now announced —a 
change which we trust will redound to the con¬ 
venience and benefit of all who have occasion to 
transact business with this establishment. 
As our new headquarters are only half a block from 
the present—just around the corner—Agents, Adver¬ 
tisers, and other friends having occasion to call, will 
have no difficulty in finding the Rural’s latch string. 
INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES, 
Bilk Worm Egg* In » •llfombi.—From the Pa¬ 
cific Rural Press oi Mar-digit we Jenin (but the 
stuck of silk worm eggs in California is greater 
than can be fed in tiro State, the effort having 
been to produce egg* instead or silk. The war 
in Europe bus completely destroyed the market 
for eggs, and it is hoped it will result in .stimu¬ 
lating silk production. There is also a surplus 
©f eggs in Japan for the same roasou. It is a 
good time for those who desire to experiment 
in sericulture in the South to get eggs cheap. 
Dniry Movement in < hntiinuqun County.—A 
Branch of llir. State Organization mul Board of 
I ran?.—W li(Toa& v the Diiiryiuen of New York 
recently met at Little Falls ami organized a 
• New fork suite Dairymen’s Association and 
Board ot trade; and Whereas. Chautauqua 
county‘now ranks among the first dairy counties 
oi the state, therefore leading duhymen of said 
county, after duo consultation, have proposed 
to co-operate with the said organization, by 
forming a Western branch of the Stale Associa¬ 
tion. and to effect this movement, the following 
cull is made: 
Dairy men, butter and cheese manufacturers, 
dealers in dairy produce in Chautauqua county, 
and all others interested in the promotion of 
dairy farming, cheese and buffer manufacture, 
.... " '-oducts, are invited 
Y.pon Saturday, 
for the purpose or 
F rymeu’s 
on the basis of 
; wild ginger and Indigo; tree 
cotton, Peruvian bark, potatoes, cabbages, cau¬ 
liflowers, lettuce, radishes, peaches, pineap¬ 
ples. The Commission, during their expeditions 
through the interior of the Island, often met 
with teet 6ugnr raised and refined In France, 
butter and cheese imported from Denmark, and 
milk condensed In the United States, but seldom 
with similar articles manufactured on the island. 
14. Three cropsa.rear can be raised. The sum¬ 
mer crop is said to be the best in quality; only 
the winter crop was 6een 
Why the Production of Cereals bus Fallen Off 
in Canada.—The Farmers’ Advocate, (London, 
Ontario,) commenting upon the Report of the 
Commissioner of Agrioullure.says:-” The main 
facts show a grunt falling off lit the cereal prod¬ 
ucts, which Is not to he wonderod at, as the 
farmers are so heavily taxed that thousands 
cannot afford to procure a change of seed, and 
from dire necessity arc compelled to sow the old 
varieties." 
and the marketing of dairy nr 
to meet, in Binclalrvillc. N. 
April 15. at one o’clock P. M., 
organizing a “Chautauqua County Bair 
Association and Board or Trade." *... 
fhO Slate organization, and to co-operate with 
it. A general attendance Is earnestly solicited. 
It is expected Unit X A. Willard will be pres¬ 
ent nnd deliver an address. 
„ ,. , u „ AfSAtfEL BDnNHAM, 
y ice Pi esjderU JV. F. State J). As*'n and Hoard 
0 / 1 mat,' and many others. 
flinriiploin Valley lion. §oc.—At a meeting 
held in Burlington, Vt., recently, the Champlain 
Valley Horticultural Society was formed, em¬ 
bracing those parts of Vermont, New York and 
Canada Which bonier this beautiful lake, and 
officers wero elected ns follows; Pres .-L M. 
Hag Alt, Burlington. Vi. Fice-Pree’fs.-Wni. H. 
Bailey, PlnUsburg, N. Y.; Mr. Watson. Phillips- 
hurgh, P. Q., and Jtr. A.T. Woodward, Brandon, 
Vt, liec. See.— li. J. White, Slielburn, Vt. Cor. 
Sec.— C. G. Pringle, Charlotte, Vt. A Board of 
Trustees wn* also elected, and a vote passed to 
bold the First exhibition at Burlington some 
time early in the fail of this year. 
Henry, .Madison mid Delaware Cm., Tnd., Ag. 
hoc, -Tho farmers of Hie three counties named 
have formed a Society, and elected officers ns 
follows: Pres. N. R. Elliott. Ytcc-Pres— J. 
Wisdmrt. S«.-W. J. HillttgoBS. 2Yeoa.-D. g. 
Yarenc. Ex. Com.- Henderson Cummins, J. D. 
KfnijMrd, Mmlison Co.; S. 1$. Skinner. J, Sharpe, 
Ijelnwnre Co,; Thus. Wilholt, Simeon Hayes, 
Andy Showalter, J. N. Chenoweth und W. W. 
Shelley. Henry Co. Sup’b-D. M. St t ickler. The 
Society lias purchased a tract of land adjoin¬ 
ing Middletown, containing twenty-seven acres, 
with a grove of nine acres. 
Northwestern Ponttry AssocTi.—At a recent 
meeting the following officers were elected for 
tne ensuing year: Pres.—L. L. Grelnleaf, 
Evimstun. Vke-Pres'ts.- E. M. TeaII. Chicago; 
Hon. Jas. Grant, Davenport, Iowa; H. B. Bate¬ 
man, ttipon. Wig.; B. H. Parks. Waukegan; J. 
K. Fetch, Chicago. Cr»-.Scc.—(h d. Henry How¬ 
land, Chicago. Rec. Sec.- W. T. Shepherd,Evans¬ 
ton. 1)1. T)eae.-L. L, Whitney. Chicago. Ex. 
Com.- N. T. Wright, E. O. Newberry L L. Whlt- 
Tbe most, valuable 
natural grain is a species of rice which grows 
upon tho uplands. It is darker and smaller than 
the rice of ootiimorco, but of excellent quality, 
and it enters largely into (he food of the inhab¬ 
itants. Tropical fruits are numerous nnd excel¬ 
lent; more than forty distinct species have been 
found growing wild. Oranges, bananas, lemons, 
citrons, pineapples, mangoes, tamarinds, guavas, 
melons, bread fruit, &e., abound. 
14. The forests are of wonderful luxuriance 
and afford a great variety of woods—such as va¬ 
rious species of palm, mahogany, oak, pitch- 
pine, lignum-vltee, logwood, fustic, aloes, etc. 
15. It is generally a healthy country. Immi¬ 
grants easily become accustomed to the climate; 
hut on the coast, where hot Weather prevails, 
care must bo taken. Individuals from the 
Northern States, now residing on the const and 
engaged in cultivating plantations there, say 
they can labor there with their own hands, and 
ilutr white men may work there, under certain 
regulations, as safely as in the United States. 
The Interior of the island consists chiefly of ele¬ 
vated laud. The mountain slopes and valleys 
overlooked or surrounded by lofty ridges are 
comparatively cool, and arc favorable to North¬ 
ern constitutions. The average general health 
and longevity are quite equal to and probably 
greater than tlmt of the United Stales, as a 
whole. Immigrants are not liable to any more 
disturbance of general health in the process of 
noclinnUization, than are the persons who pass 
from the old to the new States of tho United 
States; and, saving upon the sea coast, the pro¬ 
cess Is so simple as to escape notice. Taking the 
your through, as much agricultural work can he 
done without affecting health as can be done in 
our Middle and Western States, and with greater 
results. Persons in all circumstances can here, 
by selecting thou* locality, enjoy a delicious eli- 
mareand abundance of fruit with far less lia¬ 
bility to disease 
THE REPORT ON SAN DOMINGO, 
Hogs Pocked in the Went.—The whole number 
of hogs packed in the Western Slates, Including 
Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, 
Nebraska, Minnesota, and a portion of Michi¬ 
gan, is as follows; 
„ Xu.'of hogs packed. AV. weight. 
Season of 1870-71.3.261,988 291 25 
Season of 1469-70 .2.384.850 a07.«S 
Season of JSii8-6‘.t.2.297,1 U4 205 50 
Otrti space does not permit us to give other 
than the briefest abstract of this Report. This 
subject of the annexation of San Domingo com¬ 
mands tho attention of the country, not only 
because of Its importance as illustrating the 
American policy In relation to the West India 
Islands, but. because of tho debates which have 
resulted in Congress, in which the most dis¬ 
tinguished members of the Senate have par¬ 
ticipated, involving the avowed hostility to and 
denunciation of President Grant on the part of 
Senator Sumner. We propose to condense from 
the Report tho essential points, nnd present 
them in this shape for the benefit of our read¬ 
ers. They at e: 
1. Tho present Government of San Domingo 
is In theory u Constitutional ltepublio, with 
three branches of Government — Executive, 
Legislative and Judicial, 
2. The present (Baez) Government Is in full 
and pencable possession of all parts of the Re¬ 
public, except on tho Haytian border, which is 
disturbed by insurrectionary leaders, incited by- 
fear of annexation to tho United States. 
3. The causes of disturbance is the jealousy 
which exists between tbo people North and 
those South of the great central chain of moun¬ 
tains; in the existence of a number of petty 
military chiefs, and the consequent clanship, in 
the central and mountain districts; the plotting 
of insurrectionists and destrqciionists on ad¬ 
jacent islands, stimulated by capital invested 
therein for the sake of plunder and os ti matter 
of business. 
•1. The reasons for the overthrow of the Span¬ 
ish rule on the island are given at length, the 
most important of which are:—That the offices, 
contrary to agreement, were filled with Span¬ 
iards; that the subordinate functionaries were 
from Cuba and Porto Rico, and hostile to colored 
men ; I hat lhe Spanish officers and soldiers were 
brutal beyond endurance; that the Spaniards 
sought to rule the details of ordinary life; that 
the ecclesiastical administration was at variance 
with the ideas of the people; there were fears 
that slavery would be re-established by the 
Spaniards. 
5. Tlie people were found, in all parts of the 
Island, to be familiar with the question of an- 
Sal( from Kansu a.—A correspondent at Salt. 
Marsh, Kansas, writes us he sends us a sample 
of salt taken from the surface of t he ground on 
the “GreatSalt Marsh," Republic Co., Kan. A 
pan of the box in which the salt was inclosed 
reached us, but no salt. 
BUSINESS DEFORMATION. 
Strain Engines.—We are in receipt of a beau¬ 
tiful pamphlet, entitled “CircularA.—PriceLi&t 
Of Portable, Stationary and Agricultural Steam 
Engines, manufactured by WOOD, Taber A 
Morse, Eaton, Madison Co., N. Y." It contains 
engravings and descriptions of the various En¬ 
gines made by tho firm, together with prices, 
testimonials, references, directions for using, 
etc. The machines of this enterprising firm are 
eminently reliable,and we are glad to learn that 
they are becoming widely appreciated. In a re¬ 
cent letter Messrs. W., T. & M. advised us of a 
sale, some time ago, to a farmer in Montana 
Territory, who had "hauled lhe engine, on its 
own truck wheels, twenty-five, days journey from 
Corinne, Utah, his nearest railroad station." 
This man (whose first knoivlodge of the engine 
was derived from an advertisement in the Rural 
New-Yorker.) testifies in the pamphlet before 
us tlmt during fifty days he “ moved lhe engine 
front one end of the valley to the other, a dis¬ 
tance of seventy miles, and threshed -10,000 bush¬ 
els of grain." He adds that be has “ threshed 
1,200 bushels of wheat in one day, and 2,000 
bushels ©f oats in one day.” 
of the lungs, to scarlet fever 
and other fearful epidemics, and without any 
liability to yellow fever. 
16. In 1812 there was a severe earthquake, 
which did considerable damage in some portions 
of the island. Several similar shocks had pre¬ 
viously occurred in the course of three and one- 
half centuries. Since that time none has been 
experienced, whleh, according to the accounts 
of Hie people, did any serious damage to life 
and property. Almost every year very slight 
shocks occur, so inconsiderable that scarce one 
in a dozen of the inhabitants is aware of them. 
About the time of the autumnal equinox hurri¬ 
canes are not unfreqnent, and are sometimes 
attended with damages, especially to shipping 
BUSINESS NOTICES 
A NEW QUARTER OF THE RURAL 
Commenced April 1st — a good starting point for 
new subscribers. Single and club subscriptions, 
renewals and additions to clubs, are each and all 
in order. Agents will please note and act-while 
all Subscribers will please tell their neighbors that 
now is the time (o subscribe for the People's Rural 
and Family Weekly. 
About Pumps, Asc.—Those who have recently 
inquired of us concerning deep well pumps, hy¬ 
draulic rams, etc., arc referred to the card of 
Rcmsey & Co., in this paper. 
M«m Wanted.—L, E. Oscood, Westfield, N. Y 
writes us he wants a good carriage painter. 
PRESERVE YOUR HARNESS, 
By oiling up with Vacottm Oil Blacking. It is 
also excellent for Softening Hard Boots, and keep¬ 
ing out the water. Sold by Dealers. 
The “Editor of (he Advertisements" requests 
us to direct special attention to his department. 
