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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
NOV. 27 If 
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VICE-PRESIDENT WILSON DEAD! 
Wiiilu closing this paper for the press, the 
startling Intelligence reaches us by telegram 
of the death or Vice-President Wilson, which 
sad event occurred at the Capitol in Washing¬ 
ton on Monday morning. For several days pre¬ 
vious he had be n reported »a slowly convales¬ 
cing from his recent severe attack. Indeed the 
dispatch announcing hie death states that Mr. 
Wilson rested Wed during all the nlvbt of the 
21 st oud was comfortable until within a few 
minutes before he expired. Want of time and 
space compel us to defer until our next issue a 
sketch of the life and Jabors of the deceased 
statesman. 
— Orris S. Ferry, United States Senator, 
died at his residence in Norwdk, Conn., on the 
Slat Inst., aged Oil. lie was graduated from 
Yale College in 1814, At Yale Mr. Ferry took 
high rank as a writer and debater, giving 
promise of eminent distinction in the future, 
lie W 8 S admitted to the Bar In 1810. rose rapidly 
in bis profession, und filled successively and to 
his credit, various posts of honor and trust. 
In 1859 he was elected a member of Congress as 
the nominee of the Republicans of the 4 th Dis¬ 
trict. lie was tin ardent friend of the Union 
and was a Brigadier General in the war for it's 
preservation. In 180(5 Mr. Ferry was elected 
U. S. Senator to succeed Hon. Lafayette S. 
Foster. For sotne time previous to his elec¬ 
tion to the Senate his health had become in- 
fir m, and although his physical strength waa un¬ 
equal to his capabilities and ambition, bis Sena¬ 
torial career was honorable and distinguished. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
The expedition fitted out by the Navy De¬ 
partment for the purpose of surveying a route 
fora canal between the Atlantic and Pacific 
ocean* suitable for ships of the largest class, 
have made an lutore:*!leg report. They sailed 
from Now York on the 5th of January. On ar¬ 
riving at Aspluwall they went on board the 
United States steamer Canandaigua and in her 
proceeded to the mouth of the Atrato river, in 
the Gulf of Uraba; thence to the mouth of the 
Wapepi, where they began their survey on the 
0 th of February and continued it to the 28th of 
April, completing a line of survey from the 
Atrato to the Pacific. The estimated cost of 
the canal is $93,108,892. 
It is reported that. Senator Booth of California 
is striving to establish closer commercial rela¬ 
tions between the United States and Mexico, 
with a view to monopolise the commerce of the 
west coast of Calif _>rnia, which is now chiefly 
lathe hands of Europeans. During the fiscal 
year ending June80,1873, Mexico imported from 
ti e United States goods to the value of 
$7,420,419, w hile onr importations from Mexico 
amounted to $11,338,530. 
The explosion of a boiler in Bt?ggs’ Hotel, 
UMca, N. Y„ on the 18th Inst., killed the fire¬ 
man and slightly Injured ttie engineer. A por¬ 
tion of the building was damaged, bul uone of 
the guests were injured. 
The Erie Railroad has done a third more pas¬ 
senger business the past summer than any pre-» 
vlous season since the road was built. 
During a storm of wind on tho 18th inst. at 
Milford, Pa., one of the spires of the new brick 
Presbyterian Church was blown down and the 
ediflea otherwise shattered. 
More than four thousand specimens of ink 
have been tested by the U. S. Government to 
obtain one that cannot he obliterated from de¬ 
faced stamps. 
At a reoenc meeting of the directors or the 
Panama Railroad Company la New York, the 
report of the commitiee on a through route 
from New York to San Francisco was submitted 
which favored such a project. 
The centennial of the battle of Fort Moultrie 
fought on the 28th of June, 1776, is to be cele¬ 
brated by the Palmetto Guard of South Caroli¬ 
na by erecting a $ 12,000 monument. 
The two great express cornpauies of the 
United States, the Adams and the American, 
employ .bout 8,000 men, 1,900 horses, 1,200 
wagons and Use 3,00(1 fron safes. Their agents 
travel more than 100,COO miles daily, or more 
than 32,000.000 miles annually, 
There was a cold snow storm recently along 
the Union Pacific Railroad. Snow has fallen 
i) over the entire 1 itie from Omaha to Ogden to a 
1 depth of from two to twelve inobes. The tele¬ 
graph lines were down at last accounts. 
ft is *,dd, that ten year* ago John Mackey of 
California was a mining laborer in Virginia 
j City at $4 a day, and that, his whole income now 
l from all sources is estimated at $831,000 a 
• month, or nearly f 10 , 000.000 a year. 
. The license law’ la said to work well In Boston. 
The number of arrests for drunkenness in that 
i city during the last six months was less by 
727 than during the same months in 1874. 
There is hope of solving the tramp question 
in New York. Reports from the different 
Counties show that for the past two months ; 
the applications from tramp* for shelter and 
food at tho various almshouses, have fallen off 
nearly 100 per cent, when compared with the 
fame months Iasi year. Thin is due to the ac¬ 
tion of the State Board of Charities, who re¬ 
quire every tramp applying for aid to give his 
name, age, and where he last came from, and 
also require the Superintendent to tako a full 
description of the applicant's features, hair, 
eyes, clothing, &c., and forward them to the 
State Board, at Albany. Tho tramps shrink 
from this. 
The two mixing mills of the Oriental Powder 
Mills, at South Wyndham, Maine, were blown 
up recently, no one was injured. 
At latest ucoounta them will be twenty-rour 
contested seats in the ner.t Congress. Nine of 
them arc occupied by Democrats, and fiftocn 
by Republicans. 
During the last fiscal year there was an 
Increase of 8,876 miles in the length of postal 
routes in the United States and a decrease of 
$48,686 in tho cost thereof. 
Seth Green, tho New York fish culturist. has 
transferred from Capo Vincent to tho state 
hatching houBes at Caledonia, N. Y„ three 
millions of eggs of the salmon trout and one 
milion of eggs of tho brook trout. The spawn 
will be hatched soon, and the fry distributed in 
the spring through the different trout streams 
of the State. 
Of the 292 members of the Lower House of 
Congress, 108 were members of the Forty-third 
or last Congress, leaving 184 who have never 
served in Congress. Of those re-elected tiie 1 
Republicans have 08 and the Democrats 40. 
A son of Symmes, the author of the "Sym- 
mea hole” theory, namely, that there la a hole 
near the North Pole in which people live, is 1 
living near Louisville, Ky. He is a firm be¬ 
liever in his father’s theory, and is going to lec- J 
ture on the subject. 
A grand-daughter of William I. Barry, once ! 
Postmaster-General, has presented to the Ken¬ 
tucky State Library a fac simile copy of the 
uuilifli -at ion proclamation of President Jack- ! 
son. It is printed on satin and richly framed. J 
The losses by fire in New England during the ( 
month of October were $601,275. ' 
Gilmore’s Garden, N. Y., has been leased 
from Jan. 3 to April 3, for the revival services 
of Moody and Sankey. The rent per week Is 
$1,300. 
Tho canning of tomatoes has grown during j 
the last few days In New Jersey to be an lropor- , 
tant branch of industry. One factory in Bur¬ 
lington county alone employs 225 hands. ^ 
During September of 1874, 10.380 Immigrants j 
arrived at Castle Garden, New York, while only ( 
9,349 arrived during September, 1875, The de- q 
crease of immigration from each country was 
proportional, except in the case of Wales, Swe- - 
den and Switzerland. t 
Secretary New, of the Treasury Department, 
paid Into the Treasury out of his own private 
resources, the $3,000 recently abstracted. Ef- j 
forts are being made to discover the thieves. 
It is reported that out of the thirty-four rail- 
way companies doing business in Michigan y 
fourteen have the last year failed to pay the j 
whole or part of their interest. 
The seventh annual convention of the Ameri- ( 
can Woman Suffrage Association begun in New 
York on the 17th inst,, several addresses were , 
made by prominent members, and reports from g 
various State Societies were received. The con¬ 
viction of the members seemed to be that the t 
cause ol “equal rights for women,'" is gaining f 
ground. The meeting adjourned on the 18th, f 
A Federal Grand Jury in Texas reports that j 
from Brownsville to the Peoas river, a distance c 
of 690 miles in length, and 100 in width to the 
Nueces river, Mexican raiders are committing | 
great depredations—numbers of our Federal j 
officials have been assassinated, post offices { 
burned, houses robbed, and mail carriers and i 
inspectors of customs killed while in the dis¬ 
charge of their duties, and the perpetrators of t 
these crimes have gone unpunished. The jury j 
found eighty indictments, and urge decisive $ 
action on the part of the State and General c 
Governments to punish the criminals and pro- g 
teoi the Inhabitants. 
Professor S. D. Pratt, of Rochester (N. Y.) a 
University, has presented to that institution a t 
valuable collection of specimens of minerals j 
representing the rocks of Central New Fork. i 
Chief Justice White has decided that Brig- ' 
ham Young is illegally imprisoned, and must g 
be discharged. , 
The Indian Commissioners have made their i 
full report with relereuee to the Black Hills, t 
The report states the reasons for the failure of | 
the negotiations, and makes many important ’ 
recommendations. It recommends that every i 
Indian be encouraged in the acquisition and 
protected in the possession of private property. ] 
Also that all the present agencies be abolished, i 
and that Indians be notified that such force as 
may be necessary will be used to enforce com¬ 
pliance with the policy of the Government, to 
the end that the Indians may become civilized 
and self-supporting. The Government to take 
upon itself the duty of paying to the Indians a 
fair equivalent for the Hills, taking Into con¬ 
sideration all the circumstances, and such sum 
to be paid, to become part of the fund required 
in the general plan to educate and civilize the 
Sioux. 
The ceremonies attending the unveiling and 
dedication of the monument in memory of 
Edgar Allen Poe, in Baltimore, took place on 
the 17th inst. Letters were read from several 
prominent poets. Prof. Sheppard delivered an 
address on Poe’s literary character, John H. J 
B. Latrope gave some reminiscences, and W. F. 
Gill of Boston, recited Poe’s poems, “The 
Raven ” and “ Annabel Lee.’’ 
The bark Panama, worth $15 000, schooner 
Abigail, valued at $6,000, and the schooner 
Herald, valued at $5,000, tre all aground on the 
east shore of Lake Michigan, havingbeen driven 
in by the storm of Friday morning, the 19th 
Inst. 
FOREIGN NOTES 
DR. Thomas W. Evans, American dentist in 
Paris, recommends that Americans erect in 
that city a monument to the Frenchmen who 
insisted to gain our national independence, 
and offers the sum of $ 10,000 to begin a sub¬ 
scription. 
A committee ha* been appointed in London 
to solicit subscription for the purchase of a 
chime of bells for St, Paul's Cathedral, it is 
estimated that a mutable one can be procured 
fur from $15,000 to $20,000. 
Father Martin Egger, a T yrotese Jesuit priest, 
has taken out a patent, for an electro-motor 
which makes the electro-magnetic current as 
available for driving purposes as steam. The 
Vienne Academy of Science has admitted the 
practicability of the invention, and haB agreed 
to assist the inventor till his machine is com¬ 
pleted. It will be sent to Philadelphia. 
The loss of life by the recent explosion in the 
Mariahaye Colliery, Belgium, Is appalling. 
Forty-two dead bodies have already been taken 
out, and it Is thought that several are still in 
the pit. 
A convention of ministers lias been called nv 
meet in Dublin to sustain the religious move¬ 
ment begun by Messrs Moody and Sankey. # 
The Spanish Ministerial Counsel has agreed 
upon a reply to the official note received from 
tho United States Government concerning the 
rights of Cuba. The Spanish reply la friendly 
in terms, and amicably denies the right of the 
United States to interfere in any questions 
relating to tho Spanish Government on the 
Island of Cuba. The Government Is willing to 
observe the treaty of 1795. No intimation is con¬ 
veyed of any Intended change in the present 
Spanish policy on the Island. 
The Brazilian Government propose to con¬ 
nect the north and south railway system of the 
empire with the capital, by a tunnel under the 
narrow entrance to the bay of lilo de Janeiro 
between the capital and the submarine city of 
NithoJoy, a distanoe of about two miles. 
The British ship Astrida, C'apt. McGregor, 
which sailed from London recently for the 
Uulted States, was lost off AudrecelleB, near 
Boulogne. Nine of the crew were drowned. 
The vessel has gone to pieces. 
Mortiz Jokal, the editor of the Hungarian 
journal, lion, lias produced between 1840 and 18- 
75100 volumes of novels, 29 volumes of humor¬ 
ous miscellanies, 8 volumes of historical, polit¬ 
ical and biographical essays,! volumes of poems, 
four volumes of dramas, S volumes of annuals 
and 48 novelettes. This year he has already pro¬ 
duced 15 volumes; during all of this time lie has 
been doing remarkably active work as a jour¬ 
nalist. 
It is estimated that the thirty-three millions 
of the population of England will require near¬ 
ly fourteen milion quarters of wheat to supple¬ 
ment the produce of last harvest between that 
and the corresponding season next year. 
At Cape Breton, Novla Scotia, there Is a lump 
of coal measuring eight feet in length, three 
feet square, and weighing two tons, intended 
for the Philadelphia Centennial. It was taken 
from the Ontario (or Diamond) lead at the Cale¬ 
donia mines. 
It is rumored in Paris that the skull of Mozart 
lias been discovered in possession of Prof. 
Hyrti at Vienna. It was originally stolen by 
the sexton aad has passed only through three 
hands, 
A French expedition is fitting out to make a 
tour of the world in ten months under the aus- 
p oes of the Geographical Society. Tne excur 
sionists will visit India. Japan, the interior sea 
of Japan, Chinese ports, Australia, the United 
8 fates, Ac. 
»s now for the peaceful settlement of any difficult 
>- question. Three powerful emperors are striv- 
® assisted by the other powers, to arrive at a 
d pacific solution of the Herzegovinian troubles. 
® Tho peace pr Europe Is firmly established In' 
a the mutual confidence and good understanding 
- of the Powers, and no danger of its disturbance 
0 exists.” 
^ Leipzig University, Germany, according to 
fi a late catalogue, has about 150 professors and 
3,000 students. Amongthelatterare 45 students 
1 from the United States. 
f Several of the ports of Tonquin have been re- 
' cently opened to foreign commerce. 
More than one thousand persona were pres- 
1 ent. at the opening of the 43th session of the 
• Royal Geographical Society, which took place 
• In London, recently. Sir Henry Bawiinson 
• Presided. He pronounced an eulogium upon 
Stanley, and complimented the New York Her¬ 
ald and the London Daily Telegraph for their 
’’extraordinary munificence, fitting out Stan¬ 
ley’s exploring expedition at their own ex- 
penee.” A report on Stanley’s discoveries, pre¬ 
pared by Mm j. J.mica A. Grant, the African 
explorer, will be delivered on the 29th Inst. 
A melancholy disaster recently occurred on 
the railway running between Stockholm and 
Malmo. Sixteen cars were completely smashed 
ami sixty persons killed or severely Injured. 
Since the first of May lust, six thousand tons 
of salt produced by the new salt pans at Suez, 
have been exported to Calcutta. 
Ole Bull, the famous violinist, baa commenced 
hia last concert tour through Sweden and Nor¬ 
way, Germany, France, Russia, Roumanla, 
Turkey and Egypt. The Khedive of Egypt has 
Invited him to give a concert at tho Pyramids. 
Prince Christian Frederick William. Crown 
Prince of Denmark is seriously 111 from the 
effects of a fall from hi* horse. 
It ia rumored abroad that the visit of the 
Prince of Wales to India is about to terminate, 
that a Cabinet Council has been held, and a 
telegram sent advising the Prince to return. 
Cholera prevails in Mysore and Madras, but 
whether that or the alleged unfriendliness of 
the native princes has changed bis purpose is 
not known. 
It. is announced in London that on account 
of the recent floods the sanitary atithorltles 
have declared the district of Bristol, with a 
population of 6,000 souls, unfit for habitation 
until mid-summer. Thousands of aorta in the 
valley of the Trent will probably remain under 
water throughout the winter. 
An unknown English donor has made an 
offer of £ 10,000 sterling for the establishment of 
a missionary society to conduct missionary 
work in King Me'.esa’s country In Africa. 
The United States Government lia* received 
from the Spanish Government a satisfactory 
reply to the diplomatic note of Minister Cush¬ 
ing, which haa recently stirred up bo much ex¬ 
citement in Europe. That note had reference 
solely to the violation by Spain of the following 
provision in the Treaty of 1795 “ The citizens 
aid subjects of both parties shall be allowed to 
employ such advocates, solicitors, notaries, 
agents and factors, ns they may judge proper in 
all their affairs, and in all their trials at law in 
which they may be concerned before the tribu¬ 
nals of the oilier party, and such agents shall 
have free access to be present «t the proceed¬ 
ings in such cases, and at the taking of all ex¬ 
aminations and evidence which may be exhibi¬ 
ted in thesaid triala.” Tha reply of the Spanish 
Government agrees to strictly observe in the 
future all the provisions of the Treaty. 
Don Carlos, the Cnrlist Leader, assumlngthat 
war was imminent between the United States 
and Spain, sent a letter to King Alfonso, pro¬ 
posing a truce and agreeing to unite hia forces 
with those of the King to defend Spanish ter¬ 
ritory. The King issued a royal order to the 
effect, that no communication from Don Carlos 
would be received except an announcement of 
the unconditional submission of himself and 
his partisans. 
According to a return just issued, it appears 
that 24,000 British soldiers are found sufficient 
to gurrisou the whole of the British posses¬ 
sions, with the exception of India. 
Gen. DlCesncda has made another valuable 
discovery at Cyprus. In opening an old grave 
he found several articles of highly-wrought 
metal, among which were a golden scepter, a 
golden necklace of great beauty, and a pair of 
golden bracelets, with inscriptions In what ap¬ 
peared to be ancient Cyprian characters. These 
are to be added to the American collection. 
THE MAESETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New Tore. Saturday, Nov. 20. 1375. 
Receipt^.— The receipts of Produce for the week 
were as follows: 
npur, bbls.,. 139,400 Pork.bbls. i jm 
In a recent attempt by the Turks to furnish hi, ,1, ° 
supplies to Goran sko, the Herzegovinians gave wK.!\7.7.7.7 Cat meaw pi'ga” * ‘ 6*600 
them battle near Gatscho, and gained an 1m- Com njeal.bbls.... 3.(60 Lett, pfcgs.' 5^9 
portant victory, capturing their baggage, am- bukbf^l'.'.i.silifoo TuSowafe'";', / ^ 
munition and several cannon. One thousand Corn, bosu.., „— imm .. .82 875 
Turks were reported killed. Of the insurgents By£bu<Jb ‘.V.V.V.V.V *wjfiO Colton.’ . M 
57 were killed and 90 wounded. The latest Mali, bush. 21 .* n ru-sin. . 7^8 
news is, that the Turks are already eoneentrat- K%’ n b ^ sh ”;::*$80 
big all their disposable forces fur another effort Ruans. omm... . 11,ti-v, ,'...7...' n j '75 
to Bend supplies to Goransko, and that they aS.p^.^ 8 '.; 2ui Hops’ t*l£ . 
have a force of 15,000 men ready for action. Boer, pug?.... l,sui| ' ’“ JU 
The insurgents have also received large rein- Beans and Pkas—E xports of beans past week 
forcements. Ja .?’ a< h'--- do.; same lime last 
A recent issue of the Official Gazette at 8 t. push'.fiuace jun. b^i&JgOQ d^: P *ttmeTlme lus“t year* 
Petersburg contained the following: "Europe Olio demand for mediums Is improving 
. , . , .....* with the ftuvanced sous n. Receipts however nr« 
was never in a more favorable position than heavy and largely scattered, and consequently S™ 
