MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
SEC. IS 
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Ityujs of the ttleeji. 
PRESIDENT GRANT’S MESSAGE. 
Congress organized on the 6th December, by 
the election of Michael C. Kerr of Indiana as 
Speaker. This Is the first election of a Demo- 
(•ratio Speaker since James L. Orr of South Car¬ 
olina was chosen in 1857. President Grant's 
message was read on Tuesday, Dec. 7th. It, 
congratulates the country on the close of the 
first century of our existence as an Independ¬ 
ent People, and suggests some reforms which 
President Grant regards as peculiarly appro¬ 
priate to the Centennial Kra. Among these 
are Constitutional amendments requiring the 
States to afford an opportunity for Common 
School Education to every child, forbidding 
the teaching of sectarian tenets in any State 
school, and making Education compulsory so 
far as to deprive of suffrage all persons becom¬ 
ing of age to vote after 1890 who cannot read 
and write. He also declares In favor of taxing 
church property, excepting grave yards, against 
vice, Immorality and polygamy, and in favor 
of enacting laws to resume specie payments. 
Some of these measures so evidently belong to 
the people of the several States that much 
curiosity Is felt as to the President's object In 
urging them upon the attention of Congress. 
More appropriate Is the review of the contest 
In Cuba, in which the President thinks the 
time has not yet come for our Government to 
Interfere, but that it soon may, in which case 
a special message is promised. 
With regard to Finance the President sug¬ 
gests nothing new, but proposes to approve 
whatever legislation Congress may enact look¬ 
ing toward specie resumption. The withdrawal 
of two million dollars per month in currency is 
urged, as also the reinstatement of the duty on 
tea and coffee. The President urgcH the re¬ 
newal of a subsidy of $150,000 per year to steam- 
tys carrying the mall between Now York and 
Rio Janeiro, and with regard to home postage 
concurs with the Postmaster-General in asking 
the repeal of the increased rates on printed 
matter, and that the law sbculd be made to 
exclude other third-class matter, seeds, plants, 
&c„ from the malls. The effect of this would 
be to give the express companies u monopoly 
of the carrying of small parcels and without 
any restriction in price. On this question Con¬ 
gress, or at least the people of the country, will 
disagree with the President. 
An appropriation is urged for the Centennial 
Exhibition, on the ground that our Govern- 
meit is directly interested as an exhibitor in 
making the Exhibition a creditable and suc¬ 
cessful one. 
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CONGRESS AND THE POSTAGE. 
The new Congress has made a bad send-off 
in the matter of Postage reform. Two or three 
members were promptly on hand with bills for 
a restoration of cheap rates; but it singularly 
happened that the Congressmen who were in 
such hot baste to repeal last winter’s mistake 
only proposed a return to cheap postage on 
printed matter, leaving the present extortionate 
rates of postage on plant*', seeds, and other 
third-class mailer, untouched. This is pre¬ 
cisely what the express monopolies want, and 
it looks very much as if the Congressmen ho 
anxious to take the load in cheap postage did 
so for the " express” purpose of stopping the 
reform before it could affect the monopolies. 
Subsequent events give greater significance to 
UiisguesB. Congressman Starkweather of Con¬ 
necticut (which is P.M.-Ood. Jewell’s State) 
begged the members to withdraw their bills as 
he had one prepared in the office of the P.M.- 
Gen'I. and representing the wishes of that De¬ 
partment of the Government, and by general 
consent this was done. Wehaven’tseen a copy 
of thlB bill; but 1*. M.-GetJ, Jewell’s views are 
well known, as in his official report he urges a 
restoration of cheap postage on piloted matter 
and the exclusion of all other third-class mat¬ 
ter from the malls. Such a measure as this 
would give the Express companies a monopoly 
In the cirrying ofallRmall articles, ai d rates 
would go up higher than ever before known. 
The subject has yet to be acted on try Congress, 
but we trust that this (stupendous Job will bo 
squelched. 
Tho Rural New-Yorker Is not apolitical 
Journal, but It wishes to suggest a question of 
parliamentary propriety. By what right does 
an executive officer of the United Stales and 
the head of h Department, asMiraa hi prepare 
** laws” for Congress to enact ? The member of 
Congress who acts as representative of an exec¬ 
utive officer in framing or presenting a law, or 
who even quotes the wishes of any other branch 
of the Government to regard to pending legis¬ 
lation, is guilty of a breach of privilege against 
the rights and dignity of Congress, and should 
bo brought before the Speaker to receive Its 
official censure. This Is t he plain and first duty 
ol Congress before going any further with Postal 
Legislation. 
ANOTHER OCEAN 8TEAMER LOST. 
The Deutschland, of the German Lloyd Steam¬ 
ship Line, Captain JJrlckensteln, grounded on 
the Long Sands in the North sea, about one 
hundred miles from the mouth of the Thames, 
on Dec. 7th. She sailed from Bremen Dec. 4th 
foi New York, Intending to touch at South¬ 
ampton and It was between the German ami 
English port.*, amid the dangerous navigation 
of the North sea approaching the straights of 
Dover, that the catastrophe occurred. It la 
supposed that the steamer went aground In a 
fog. The latest estimate makes the total num¬ 
ber of lives lost, 78. Capt. Brickensteln las 
commanded one or another of the German 
Lloyd Line Steamers for seven years, running 
always between New York and Bremen via 
Southampton. Hels thoroughly familiar with 
the route, and is, besides, an old and experi¬ 
enced sailor. 
The Deutschland was one of the stanchest 
and most sea-worthy of the company’s fleet. 
The steamer Mosel of the same line takes the 
survivors to New York. 
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HOME NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Thomas Jefferson’s own copy of his “ Notes 
on the State of Virginia, London. 1787," which 
was annotated by his own hand, and contained 
other manuscript additions, was recently sold 
at Chicago for $100. 
The snoe manufacturers of Rochester, Mon¬ 
day night formally resolved to sustain the 30 
percent, reduction In wages, passed November 
8. Tho new rule goes Into full operation In all 
the shops December 15. The wages now offer¬ 
ed enable workmen to earn from $3 to $8 a day. 
There arc no fears of a strike. If workmen do 
not like the rates paid, now men are to bo 
employed. 
A dispatch received from San Diego, Cal., 
says that a petition Is being largely signed there 
asking Congress to extend its aid to the Texas 
Pacific Railroad, to enable it to build a com¬ 
peting line to the Pacific- 
Much excitement has been caused in Michigan 
University, Ann Arbor, by the announcement 
that Professor P. B. Rose, an assist-jut in the 
laooratorary, has retained, since 1868, $4,5U0 
of funds belonging to the university which 
have passed through his hands. He has made 
good the deficiency. 
The late Vice-President Wilson was engaged 
to be married to Mrs. John A. Jackson of 
Term. The marriage was to take place on the 
recovery of his health. Mr. Wilson’s visit 
South last spring was mainly to see Mrs. Jack- 
son, with whom he had been corresponding 
several months. 
The late William B. Aator had $1,000,000in¬ 
vested in Massachusetts bonds. 
Mary Hager, only 15 years old, living in Bel- 
ohertown, Mass., took poison last week be¬ 
cause she was hopelessly In love with a travel¬ 
ing photographer who had moved to another 
town. Her life was saved by a stomach pump, 
and the girl will probably live to laugh at her 
youthful folly with its nearly tragic ending. 
Her father Is a Boston lawyer. 
Gov. Irwin of California was inaugurated Deo. 
9, with the usual ceremonies. In his iuaugural 
address he urges the Legislature to bring the 
influence of the State to bear upon the Gener¬ 
al Government to procure a modification of the 
treaty with China, with a view of restricting 
Chinese Immigration; also that the State 
should demand a return to specie payment at 
the earliest possible moment. 
Three New York detectives arrived at Ottawa 
In pursuit of William M. Tweed, who, they had 
rqason to believj, had reached Ottawa. With 
the assistance of a city detective tney were 
making strict search lor the fugitive. 
There will be a reunion of the Stale Normal 
school graduates at Albany, December 19. 
Members may commuulcate with C. J. Majorey, 
Secretary, at Hamilton, N. Y. 
The Democrats in Congress claim that Speak¬ 
er Kerr stands first In succession to the Presi¬ 
dency in case of a vacancy. 
Dr. Hough nf Lowville, N. Y„ has been ap¬ 
pointed by the Bureau of Education to write a 
pamphlet on constitutional provisions on edu¬ 
cation. 
The Centennial exhibit of Egypt is expected 
to be here soon. 
The friends of the Hon. Cassius M. Clay are 
said to be trying to secure for him the Demo¬ 
cratic. nomination for Vice-President. 
Lewis B. Brasher of Cincinnati, brother of 
PeDh Brasher, an ex-Revenue officer of St. 
Louis, was arrested Dec. 9 by the United States 
Marshal upon an indictment issued by the 
Grand Jury in Indianapolis for conspiring to 
defraud the Revenue Department. 
Capt. Waddell has been taken off the Pacific 
Mall steamer, as the Hawaiian authorities call 
him a pirate. 
Mr. Thomas Ball has been selected to make a 
statue of Senator Sumner for the City of 
Boston. 
The ladies of Buffalo have organized an asso¬ 
ciation in aid of the centennial exposition, 
fund. Mrs. W. G.^Fargo is President. 
The letter carriers of AIbauy delivered 227,- 
283 letters, .’16,319 postal cards, and 86,907 news¬ 
papers last month, and collected 135 426 letters, 
18,527 postal cards and 17,204 newspapers. 
The people of Sandy Hill, N. Y., are groaning 
and matting faces under a fax of $25,000 for 
railroad, $25,000 for school house, $23,000 for 
court hnm-e,one per cent, for highways, ono 
and one-tenth per cent, fur school purposes, 
and the usual ordinary taxes. 
Professor Ward of Rochester Univerlty, has 
received a letter from the son of General R. E. 
Lee, saying that the bones of tbe famous horse 
*’ Traveler," which that chieftain rode through 
the closing campaigns of the war, were on 
their way to Rochester, Frof. Ward will pre¬ 
pare and a»range the skeleton for exhibition. 
Twelve persons who hold claims against St. 
Bonlfaclus* Church, Philadelphia, have taken 
preliminary steps to bring suits against Arch¬ 
bishop Wood to recover the sums loaned to 
the fund for the construction of tbe church 
edifice. These suits grow out of the late diffi¬ 
culty in the congregation, In which its former 
pastor, ex-Priest John W. Gcrdernann, figured 
conspicuously. 
A trail named Win. McCutcheon died In New 
York city, Dec. lltb, under very remarkable 
aud horrible circumstances. He was In a saloon 
when a man called at the door and begged for 
somelhingto eat, saying that he was starving. 
McCutcheon offered the man a piece of bread, 
but as the beggar clutched to take It, Mc¬ 
Cutcheon mocked him, snatched It from his 
reach and baatlly put It in his own mouth. In 
a moment McCutcboou began to choke, fell 
over upon the table and rolled upon the floor. 
His face grew purple, he made a terrible spas¬ 
modic movement and clutched two or three 
times nt his throat and after a few convulsive 
efforts was dead, and in a short Mina his entire 
body turned purple, presenting the appearance 
of a man who had been hung. It Is supposed 
that the bread which the unfortunate man 
swallowed became impacted in his throat, 
shutting out all Ingress of air. Efforts were 
made to resuscitato him but too late to be of 
any avail. What was meant as a cruel practical 
joke thus became a terrible tragedy. 
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FOREIGN NOTES. 
An explosion of Dynamite (or giaut powder) 
on the quay at Bretnerhaven, near Bremen, 
Germany, Saturday last—just before tbe sail¬ 
ing of the steamer Mosel, of the North German 
Lloyds Co.—killed 68 persons aud wounded 85. 
The steamer was much Injured, and four of her 
passengers killed. One report says the case of 
dynamite bolonged to the personal baggage of 
a passenger, and another that some diabolical 
wretch intended to smuggle it on board In or¬ 
der to destroy the steamer while on the ocean. 
Dr. Trelat, Dr. Moreau, and other well- 
known French physicians have recently made 
a report on lunacy in France. Madness falls 
heaviest in Paris on the artisans aud cooks 
Next to them is the trading class. Insanity 13 
not frequent, in men belonging to liberal pro¬ 
fessions, and the proportion is lowest among 
gardeners and spade laborers. The doctors 
signing Lbe report do not take into account the 
injurious agency of leaded tin, which was to a 
certain ^extent countenanced by the Govern¬ 
ment in 1862, when the Ministry of War allowed 
hardware contractors to use six per cent, of 
lead In tinning of military camp kettles and 
other culinary vessels. 
Mr. Bell, the eminent English sculptor who 
designed the groups for the plinth for the 
great Albert Memorial iu Hyde Park, London, 
is reproducing in terra cotta, at the celebrated 
works in Lambeth, the one which symbolizes 
America. The figures in this group are colossal, 
covering a ground space of fifteen feet square. 
It will probably be placed in the great central 
gallery, opposite the principal entrance of the 
Centennial building in Philadelphia. 
Tbe uumber of breeding wolves in France is 
estimated at 1,000, and tbe number of m helps 
born in the months of May and June at about 
2,500- One thousand eight hundred wolves on 
an average arc killed annually. It is believed 
tuat at tbe Comnieuo^metit of April 2,0u0 
wolves are active in committing depredations 
The direct damage committed by each of them 
is estimated at about L000 franc’s worth of 
cattle, representing altogether 2,000,000 francs 
Much greater damage, however, Is inflicted by 
tho wolves indirectly, as owing to them the 
farmers are obliged to have folds for more than 
20,000,000 sheep, which causes an expenditure 
of hundreds of millions. The Journal de I. 
Agriculture believes that If proper measures 
were taken the wolves could be extirpated In 
four or five years. 
It is stated that the recent conference be¬ 
tween Prince Bismarck and PrinceGortschakoff 
resulted In an agreement, for a peaceful solution 
of the Turkish difficulty. They will not raise 
the Eastern question, nor are they in favor of 
an international conference on the Sutz Canal 
question. 
The London Times connects Tweed’s escape 
With the political reaction which has carried 
back into Tammany’s hands the politicians 
whom Tweed represented. 
THE SEASON, CROPS, PRICES, ETC. 
Lyndonvillc, Cnlctlnnln Co., Vt. f Dee. 4_ 
The past month was unusually cold and wlnter- 
Ilke. About six inches of snow fell the first 
dayand It continued very good slelghlngduring 
the month. The morning of the 29th was mod¬ 
erate but windy. The wind blew a perfect gale 
during the day, and a rapid fall or the mercury 
was the result. The thermometer the next 
morning (Tuesday) indicated 20° below zero I 
S lid to be the lowest degree of temperature in 
November for many years. Wednesday and 
Thursday 4 mornings were still colder; but the 
weather has since moderated and is now quite 
oornfortable. Hay and grain crops good. Beef 
and mutton In demand and bring fair prices. 
Dressed park, 10o, Scarcely pork enough raised 
In this section to supply the home demand; 
sholes weighing about 300 lbs. dreesed, generally 
preferred.—i. w.». 
Oregon, Ilult Co., Mo., Dec. 3.— Weather 
warm and spring-like. Farmers are well along 
with fall wotk ; most of tbe corn crop is gath¬ 
ered. We have a great amount of damaged 
corn; only one-half matures itself. The yield 
the past season was the largest for many years. 
There was Jittlc or no small grain raised this 
year; “grasshopper” was the cause. Potatoos, 
turnips, and many late vegetables are in abun- 
dauce-cannot give them away. Apples were 
quite plenty and brought remunerative prices 
throughout the season. Stock looks well at 
the present time. No hog cholera In this sec¬ 
tion nt this time. Hogs, $6 25 per cwt., gross; 
wheat. $1; corn, 85c.; oats, 30c.; potatoes, 25© 
35o.; tipples, $1.10 per bush.; butter, 25c.; eggs, 
15c. per doz.; wood. $2.25 per cord; native lum¬ 
ber, $15 per 1,000 ft.; well Improved farmland, 
$20(3,40 per acre ; timber and wild prairie, $8@18 
per acre. Times are not getting much better. 
Wo want more money In circulation. ,J. w. m. 
THE MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New Yoek, Saturday. Dec. 11, 1875. 
Receipts.— The receipts or Produce for the week 
were as follows : 
Floor, bbla. 94,fl88 t nopa. tales,........ 
Wldsky. Pork, bills. 
CorntDonl, hblo .. 1,700 Cut incuts. pkgB.... 
i'urn luenl. bugs... 3,850 uura pkgs„.... 
Wheat, bush . 58S.66Q Tallow, pkga. 
Porn, push.. 214,822 duller, pug.i.... 
bats, bush. 146,314 Cheese, bx*. 
live, bush. 0 , 8 «) Cotton, bales. 
Mult, bush. 15,080 Rosin. . 
Harley, bush. 5,001,Slits, turp.. bids.... 
Hernia, tuisli. 10-038 lined Fruits, pass.. 
Grass seed, bags.. fill 1 Kvcs, bbla...,,. 
Ashes, pkgs. MS VVool. bales. 
Beef, pkgs. 2.949 
1.048 
7.131 
18.H28 
7.131 
1.U49 
81,621 
62,682 
23.784 
1,207 
414 
220 
6,988 
1,457 
Beans and Peas— Exports of beans past week, 
OOabbls.i suice Jau. 1,1875,34JVU do.; same time last 
year. .’10,900 do. Bxporla of pea* past week. 62,271 
nu*U.; smoe Jan. I, 4.0,913 do.; «ame lime last year, 
428,440 do. The bean market has continued to sub 
i.nri we again report shaded prices lor mediums ana 
marrows. Healers ha ve now a little more oonUdeuce, 
as tbe cold weather must soon bring out mure de¬ 
mand. Most of tho-ales of tuartows have been In 
wholesale parcels. Pei* beans quiet aud in buyers’ 
favor. Kinneys of all kinds are dull. Canadiau peas 
steady fit. former rates. Green peas have a fair Job¬ 
bing demand, l.ltna beans are coming t roui Cnlifur- 
nlu. 
We onou* Beans, pea. new. prune. $1*80® 1.9G; other, 
1.60(511.70; medium, Dew, tl.4(K&L&5: other. $1.25'al[ 35 : 
marrow, now. prune. »1 other. $ 1 . 6 o<!iiL 7 o ; 
while kidney, prime. $ 2 .»M 2 25 ; fair to good.$ 1 . 8 'i 
red kldnev, hew,prime, *l.80ftpl.!Kij fair to good, $1.45 
@l.t’>5c.; Lima, ebolce.fa.wFwts.bO. Peas. Canadian. bbls., 
new. duty paid. 41.28; bulk, m bond. $1.07; green, 
new. 7* bush., $180; Southern B. E..F2 bush. bag. 
$3653.10. 
Beeswax.— Exporters are operating moderately, 
but the Lome trade is small. Sales are at SlX@32c. 
for Western and ISi&H'io, tor Southern. 
Broom Corn.—T rade is very light, with prices un¬ 
settled. 
We quote Brush, short green. 10@Ue.; hurl, green. 
10 ' 5 , 12 > 4 o.; green, medium, TfctSKc.; rod and red tip¬ 
ped, G»7e. 
BUTTER—There is still a steady demand for fine 
State butter, but the. market has ruled quite <1ull for 
the season and prices begin to show toe weakness 
that a u ends limited business. Tie marked feature 
ot ibt* week Is a decline in dairies Si-uight good 
lines are down 10 0 a. and we hear of other dairies 
that can be also classed ijuod at 2Sdji30c. This is 
lower than the prime-grades of stock have been 
quoted this season and of course the under grades 
are not in any way strengthened by in > new figures 
for standard marks. There are a few fancy ship¬ 
ments that are still held for recent prices, but with 
the easier mtcB ,vbleu ar« now quoted for selected 
grocery parcel* U does not look a* though the firm¬ 
ness would ne long-lived. Tile cheaper style of 
market trade in State, is using Welsh tubs pretty 
freeley at thu prices. Of Western fresh, the supply 
is moderate and the reasonable priees ate .Heady. 
Common grades of Western Imvo iho usual cold 
weather uetnund. uml there Is no tve uhlesome sur¬ 
plus of Western ot uny Kina. Rolls tn good demand. 
Ktate dairies entire, extra. SOai—e.: entire, good to 
prime. 2i7 ‘28e.: fuiriogood. 246< 26 c : Dthins, selected 
fresh, 2M3UC.: good to prime, 25w,'8c.: fair to good, 
241325 c.; hair-tirkio mbs, .'elected, liScjiSlc.: good to 
prime,3d:<i32e.; iulrto Rood, 2<®8uc.; poor to fair. 25® 
270 .; State, Welsh, tubs, tall made. 30^3Ic.; dairies, 
27iai29e.: good to prime, ?5sj»27c.: fair to good, 24Gs 
25c.; poor to llitr, 22"«23c.; State. Creamery tubs, 
selected, 33®S5c.; lair to good, 20i$32c.j Fails, State 
