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VOL. XTV. NO. 49.} ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOK THE WEEK IffiMG SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1863. {WHOLE NO.-725.

MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, raised at five cents per pound, which gives a easily. No damp, sour manger shall stand AH ORIGINAL WEEKLY profit of forty-five cents per pound net No under the nose of my hofse. farmer in the North ever dreamed of such a EUEAI, LITEfiAEY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 5. The harness.shell not hang up at the heels profit; and if the advantages of coming here of my horse. There shall be a place for it on were known they would flock down here by the floor with the carriages. It shall be kept in CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. MOORE, thousands. With a Corps of Able Assistants and Contributors. a clean place; and tie horse shall be taken from "This matter should be brought to the notice the stall to be hanessed. I will not run the CHAS. D. BBAGDON. Western Corresponding Editor. of the Government. You will naturally say the risk of his getting his heels entangled in it, nor THB KUKAI. NEW-YORKER is designed to be unsurpassed commissioners appointed are the ones to do it, if of its being thrown from'its place under his feet. in Value, Purity and Variety of Contents, and unique it has anything to recommend it; but I am sorry Nor will I harness ahorsp in a stall; and rarely and beautiful in Appearance. Its Conductor devotes his to say the interests of the commissioners are op- will I let him stanl there with a harness on. personal attention to the supervision pf its various posed to the plan, as they are interested in plan- For there are few horses that will not damage a departments, and earnestly labors to render the RURAL an eminently Reliable Guide on'all the important Practical, tations themselves, and next year wish to make harness more by rubbing, than it will cost of Scientific and other Subjects intimately connected with the leases of large tracts to one person or persons of time and labor to remove it business of those whose interests it zealously advocates. large capital, who may hire others to look after 6. The stalls shall be dry., I will provide that As a FAMILY JOURNAL it is eminently Instructive and their business. I want the men of moderate Entertaining—being so conducted that it can be safely water shall not stand ja them—that the liquid taken to the Homes of people of intelligence, taste and means, our western laborers, here. They will excrement shall not. only. run from the stalls, discrimination. It embraces more Agricultural, Horticul- be a militia to take care of the country, and our but that it shall be conveyed, in a gutter, from tural, Scientific, Educational, Literary and News Matter, troops can go elsewhere. The persons who cul- the barn, at once. For, while all stables should interspersed with appropriate Engravings, than any other tivate the next cotton crop are the ones who will journal,—rendering it the most complete AGRiouLTtrKAL, be kept as pure as possible, the horse stable LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER in America buy the land here. Shall this land be distributed should receiv^ especiai attention. Therein no among a few and in large tracts, or is it not to domestic animal whose ©rgaoism is so sensnive J^-For Terms and other particulars, see last page. the interest of our Government and our people to atmospherical influences, with modern treat- that it should be owned in small tracts ? Thement and diet, as the hjbrser-none that require first way is what the commissioners would have, greater care in providing for, health ajid comfort; for they will be extensive purchasers. On this nor which repay such care with better service. question they are perfectly rotten; and for the good of our country, and to rebuke selfishness, I Such are some of the essential features of my THE SOUTH-WEST FOE NORTHERN MEN. want to head them off. For the good of the slaves horse barn. freed by Mr. Lincoln's proclamation I wish it; A GOOD FIELD FOB FARMERS AND ARTISANS. for to a great extent the ground will be tilled by THE GOAD vs. f MULES. their labor, and I want a large population of THE recovery of the South-west, and especial- white people here, so their labor will be in de- IT is refreshing to come across a sensible ly tha great Mississippi Valley region, from rebel mand and be respected, and combinations of a driver of these really useful animals. There is control—with the consequent breaking up of the few capitalists cannot be made against them. a sensitive spot in their natures which is not system of slave labor—opens a new field to reached by goads and thongs and the lash. ^Vehave uprooted one aristocracy here; let us " A NEW SUBSCRIBER " in Canada West a day, and only once temporarily disabled by farmers, inventors and mechanics. The cotton, not establish by our own act one of another Kind. Precisely where it is located it is 'difficult to decide. But that it exists there is no doubt And wishes to know something about Morgan horses. lameness caused by an accident He is always sugar and rice fields must be cultivated, to a The question of ftitle to the land must not make large extent, if not entirely, by free labor, and of the cheerful, kindly-voiced driver^ reaches it We will answer briefly, from our own observa- ready, but usually too spirited—requiring a timid a man who is thinking to come here. The tion and experience. Though not, perhaps, as strong hand at the reins rather than exercise course labor-saving tools and machinery will cultivation for one; year is enough to induce him almost invariably. The writer has watched the soon be in great demand. As Northerners take work of mules pretty carefully, and the relations pbpular as they were a few years ago, still there in the use of a whip. Like most Morgans he is to come. A man that takes only eighty acres is more or less inquiry for Morgan horses, and a capital cavalry horse. possession of the goodly land, the genius of the can go back home at the end of the year with at of drivers to them. The noisy, blustering, thrash- " Universal Yankee Nation" will have full scope, ing, slashing driver, who has more muscle than in most sections the breed is probably as great The Morgan is noted for both style and speed least eight thousand dollars in his pocket. Would a favorite as ever. For light work, and especi- — while, for his weight and inches, there is no and find " ample room and verge enough " for he make one-tenth of that by staying at home ?" mind, and more strength than sense, is not the inventions and improvements. The long-sought most successful in getting strength or speed out ally for the saddle and buggy, we think the more powerful or enduring horse, in our opinion. Bteam plow will soon be wanted as a substitute of these patient, faithful animals. They wag Morgans generally have the preference in this Indeed, he combines the two great requisites in for the mule plow and scratchy hoe in breaking MY HORSE BARN. their tails and shake their heads as the blows country; they are certainly greatly admired ahorse —celerity-and power—in a remarkable up the cotton lands. These lands are well adapt- fall; but they do not pull an ounce more nor and command high prices. For endurance, or degree, and hence his great popularity. But we ed for its use, as they are mostly quite level and WHEN I get a horse barn as I want it, there step faster therefor. "bottom," many of the Morgans are remarkable promised tojbe brief, and will close by giving —indeed it is a characteristic of the breed. We the pedigree of "Morgan General," (portrayed the soil strong and compact. And as they have will be the following features about it which I But let a cheerful-voiced man get hold of the been cultivated (?) for years by the scratching or deem essential: have what is called a Morgan horse, (probably above,) a fine specimen of the Morgan family. lines; let him pull them firmly and steadily The portrait and pedigree are from LINSLEY'S surface system, steam or other powerfully driven 1. It shall be well lighted. It shall be made as not full blood,) weighing under 1,100 lbs., which without jerking or "yanking;" let him talk we have used over four years on a heavy, "Morgan Horses": plows—such as will go twelve to eighteen inches light and cheerful as a farmer's kitchen should quietly to them, and the better side of their double-seated family carriage, and he has never "MORGAN GENERAL was foaled in 1845, the deep, and bring up the long buried and dormant be. No horse of mine shall stand in the gloom nature develops itself. They step off briskly, "given out," though often drawing a load property of LOWELL SPENCER, of Concord, Vt elements of fertility—will soon be in great de- of a darkened stable, and with his face from the pull with a will, and act very much as human heavy enough for two horseB. We were at first Sired by Billy Boot, g sire, Sherman, g g sire, mand, and those who supply the required article light He shall stand facing the light—if possi- animals do under similar circumstances. They admonished that" Pompey " would be killed, or Justin Morgan. Dam, a very large mare, fast for cannot fail of being richly rewarded. ble facing the door where I enter to feed him. are easier coaxed than driven. Talking with a "usedup" the first season; and were so fearful hex size, sired by Black Prince, dam still living, Light in a horse or cow barn is as important as skillful driver on this subject the other morning, But we wish particularly to call the attention of the result that we endeavored to exchange 26 years old. General weighs 1,200 lbs., is sunshine to the plant; — and our stables will whose team was moving along at a brisk trot, I of our readers in the agricultural districts of the him for a heavy horse. But we could not 16£ hands high, and chestnut color. He is a approach completeness only when this fact is said you have a good pair, of mules here. They North, to the inducements for practical farmers find any horse of size or weight *hat approached very bold looking horse, fine style, and good recognized in their construction. travel well; and you use ho whip. He replied, to settle in the Mississippi region. These are our little chestnut in either style or speed—and action for a horie of his size; very compact, " No, I do not carry a whip when I drive mules. stated in a letter from Goodrich's Landing, 2. It shall be thoroughly ventilated. My horse we now think none we then examined would limbs excellent, but have some long hair on It is worse than useless. It destroys their use- Louisiana, to HENRY T. BLAIR, of St. Louis. shall not stand in a dark, close stall, with his equal him for service on the hard pavements them. Is a good horse. He is now owned by fulness to whip them.. There are fax better ways Though some of its statements seem to partake face against a rack or over a manger in which is of the city. For "Pompey" has never been sick WM. HILL, Oregon City, Illinois." of the rose color, the letter is no doubt worthy confined musty or dusty hay. I will reverse the of urging them. Any unusual noise is better the consideration of all interested, and especially order found in most horse barns. The head of than a goad. Kindness, and care for their com- farmers seeking new homes and fields of culture. the horse shall be where his heels usually are. fort, and consideration of their ability tod o work and its various interests have generally been the farmers generally do the business at society Mr. BLAIR'S correspondent says: And I will arrange that the confined air which are important They should not be urged to dp least of the attractions. There are, of course, elections. The elections are (held too publicly what it is not in their power to accomplish. And exceptions; for many societies have been well for " modest worth " to speak. The consequence ". There is an immense gold field down here, he would breathe repeatedly in most stables, when they have performed what is asked of them managed, and have been uniformly successful^ of all this is, there is no hope left in the bosom and .nobody appears to know it I want it shall escape and be supplied by a current of see that they are allowed to breathe. They are while many others have recuperated their ener- of the farmer. There is no correspondence of thrown open to the people, so the people can cool, fresh air from beneath the floox. Horses perishable creatures; and while they can endure gies the present year* and have met with decided every-day feeling and interest, nor no every-day work in it I refer to the many abandoned die for want of good air. They grow, poor with a great deal, they cannot endure all things." successes. There have been too many such intimacy between those who support and in fact plantations from Helena, Arkansas, to Natchez, an abundance of food, because of the poison Such was the substance of the driver's talk. And cases, we think, to admit the truth of the remark -produce the fairs and those who direct their pro- Louisiana. The owners, most of them, have fled they.are compelled to inhale in the cramped, he practiced what he preached with marked suc- quoted above. I?L Michigan the State Fair was gress and bear their honors. And next, why not with their negroes to Texas and elsewhere, leav- lse stalls of a barn in which no provision cess. Brains, in a driver's head, are far better all that could- have been expected, and univer- branch out and do something else besides create ing land that should be occupied. During this whatever has been made for ventilation. My than a whip in hfe hand to make a mule go. sally pronouced a success. Of the sixteen annual shows? Why not make them the means year some of the plantations have been worked horse shall have an abundant supply of pure air Qpunty Fairs held in .the State, and reported in of collecting and distributing knowledge, of car- by northern men, by hiring negro labor. But if I can get it for him, and I think I can. tie. Michigan Warmer, all but two were pro- rying on correspondence, and conducting experi- few leases were given, as it was late in the season 3. I will feed him before his face. I will not go nounced successes, and several of them exceed- ment? Are not these legitimate pursuits within when the idea of cultivation was thought of. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. into his stall at all to feed him. His head shall ing any former years—and notwithstanding, out the limits of the means of an Agricultural Three commissioners were appointed by General look out upon an alley, or larger space, from of the sixteen fairs fourteen came off during bad Society? It seems to me they are most suitable Thomas, who gave the leases. The plan was I RECEIVED my RURAL yesterday, and in which I will feed him. I will regard my own weather, it having rained either one or two days for such a business. • The Executive Commit- the best that could be adopted on the spur of the perusing the Western Editorial Notes, which are comfort, convenience and safety in this arrange- during each. tees, if properly chosen, could do a great work moment What leases were given expire in always full of matters of interest, and which we ment This alley being light, I can easily clean in this direction, and the; Agricultural Depart- February next, and then I want to see a large believe give as much value to the Western circu- But what we wish to say, mainly, is not in rela- the feed box, and feed him without the least dis- ment created at Washington last winter, is just laboring population from the North come down lation of the paper as anything else it contains-^- tion to fairs, but to Agricultural Societies. They comfort or danger. If my horse barn and the institution to aid in such a work. I do not here and fill up the country. I lived at Fort and which we further believe are more attentive might be conducted in a more profitable manner, wagon house are combined in one, the horses know what ails the, present Commissioner of Kearney during two gold excitements. One was to real agricultural interests of the Westf than that would be pf more help to agricultural inter- shall not stand with their heels towards the Agriculture. The Agricultural Press seem to California, the other Pike's Peak. I saw the anything else published—we read in relation to ests. In the first place, it is absolutely necessary door. I will make the front of their stalls the be pouting over him. I know he has sent>eari1" great'numbers of people that moved there to dig the above subject, " The mission of these Socie- to have the right men at the helm. What can we line of a compartment And they shall look out est invitations to all Agricultural, Ho»ticnl*ural for gold. The gold got there was nothing to ties is ended." Now we can't, by any means, expect of a County Society that has a lawyer upon the entering carriage; and filth and ma- and FlOricultural Societies to correspond with what can be made by coming to this country. allow so much hope as we have formed upon this for President, an editor for its Secretary, and a nure shall be kept from the carriage department him, and it seems tome to.be, the most fitting Let the prospect be advertised in the newspapers subject tob e cut off entirely with so few words, druggist for its Treasurer? We know of just way to. carry on correspondence with fliatDe - of the West, that every man" coming down here 4. IwiU not feed hay in a rack. If hay is fed and so little ceremony. That Agricultural So- such a case. Yet these men are in no way to partment If we expect the Agricultural De- can have eighty or two hundred acres of cotton in its normal condition, it shall be in a box, sup- cieties of late years have been "run in the blame for the positipns.they hold. They Ijgve partment to do us aay good, either now or land,* according to his means of working it, to plied through a tubular feeder. If cut feed, ground" we are willing to admit; but for all been placed there by farmers. There are many eventually, I see no other way it would be as work for one year. Two hundred acres of land there shall be a manger that shall be ample. that, the growth of their usefulness has just com- farmers who delight to 'pay homage to the likely to do so as by acting in concert with the means two hundred bales of cotton, the net price And the manger shall neither be toohig h nor menced. They must be turned into other chan- respectable and aristocratic appearance of " city Agricultural Associations throughout the coun- of which i New York will be forty thousand too low. It shall be on a level with the breast nels, that is all. Heretofore the only object to be folks;" they might as well, were they in a jungle, tt try. In short, why cannot Agricultural Societies dollars. If eighty acres it will be sixteen thou- of the horse — so that he and I may reach the obtained by the managers of these "concerns" pay their respects to the tigers, lions and other accomplish the very excellent ends that are ad- sand dollars. With hired labor, cotton can be bottom of it without great effort If I feed wet has been tokee p up an annual show. I cannot beautifully appareled and noble bearing inhabi- food, it shall be so arranged that I may drain it call it an agricultural show, because agriculture tants of that place. These feather-in-the-cap vocated in the article referred to? 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desired combination among farmers be accom- COUGHING HORSES-CAUSE AND CURE. to the wearer. Not too narrow, lest it cut in— few years, finding his account in a greater yield THE RURAL NEW-YORKER FOR 1864.—AS announced in plished quicker and more effectually in this way not too wide, lest it gall tie neck at its insertion than any other variety. Good soil and cultiva- our last number, we propose to rentier the ensuing than in any other? EDS. RURAL NEW-YORKER: — I understand in the shoulders. It should not be too short, lest tion are all that is requisite for a large crop. volume of this journal more valuable than either of its your paper to be a medium of communication it should induce them to taul apart, in order not predecessors. This will mainly be done by expending The establishment of anything similar to Corn Seed brought from Ohio to Massachusetts has between farmers for their mutual edification and to step on each other—no] too long, lest in win- this season arrived at a good degree of perfec- additional labor and means upon the Contents of the Exchanges, Boards of Trade, or Chambers of paper—one item being the introduction of a Department instruction, if not in righteousness, at least in ter it should induce them to crowd in order to tion.—J. H. D, Commerce, might do for the wealthy class of devoted to SHEEP HUSBANDRY, conducted by Hon. things pertaining to our worldly business.* The keep the track—nor too narrow in depth through farmers of Illinois, but they would be of no HENRY S. RANDALL, the eminent author on that subject. subject upon which I wish to say a few words at the ring and staple, lest it pull down on the Level Stalls for Horses and Cattle. more help to the interests of the mass of agri- The heavy expenses attending the publication of the this time is the cause and cure of coughing horses. top of the neck too much - nor too wide, lest it KURAL in accordance with our arrangements,—and at a culturists and rural citizens, than the present A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Cultivator It is well known that feeding horses on clover should have the reverse operation and, cause the time when prices of paper, wages, etc., are high and ad- organizations of these names. The only ends is opposed to inclined floors for horses and cattle. hay often makes them cough, but the why and lower part of the bows to press too hard and gall vancing,—will leave a very small margin for profit at sought for by the Corn Exchange system would Here is his plan for them: wherefore may not be so generally known. the neck or throat in that mrt." present subscription rates, and yet, as stated last week, be ,to benefit our condition politically and finan- The proper width of a horse stall is four feet. we propose to adhere to the terms already published. From observation I have become fully satisfied cially, or, in other words, to make us the "biggest Length from partition in front, 9 feet; deduct lj As our main expenditures must be upon the paper itself, that the manner of feeding hay to horses is the toad in the puddle." Putting up Potatoes. feet for crib, and we have 7| feet from crib to (its Contents, Style, &c.,) we can really afford little in cause. The usual custom is to let them draw it premiums, bills or advertising, and therefore appeal to There are other things to be sought after. A POTATOES should be token from the ground rear of stall. For the first four feet of the rear through a rack, thus stripping off the fine dust only in fair weather, and lot left exposed to the every friend of the RURAL and its objects to lend such system of association among farmers ought to end of the stall, cut two inch hard wood plank assistance in its behalf as may be consistent. We shall which adheres to the stalk, which being drawn sun and wind longer thanis necessary. into three and one-half inch strips, and lay them embrace other things besides politics and finances. into the lungs in respiration produces the cough. make a volume worth $2 to any subscriber or family, Will not Mr. BRAGDON (I would call him friend In handling, care should be taken not to bruise five-eighths of an inch apart; spike them down whether in Town or Country—and would much prefer, The cure consists in removing the cause—that is, at each end. The remainder of the floor in the so far as profits are concerned, 20,000 to 30,000 subscribers BBAGDON if I was acquainted with him) canvass the racks—and allowing the animals to take their the surface or break the siin. It is a common error that a potato wiy. stmd all manner of ill stall should be laid tight, of whole plank. The at $2 each than 75,000 to 100,000 at the lowest club rate- the subject again, and see if Agricultural Asso- food in the natural way. I have removed all of yet we shall abide by our club terms until otherwise ciations may not be turned to some account? It usage and be none the woise for it. Orchardists floor under the animal's fore feet being tight, mine, and now feed my horses on the barn floor, prevents the flow of any liquid manure forward. announced. See Publisher's Notices, &c, on last column is Mr. B.'s business to attend to such things, and know that if an apple is briised in the gathering of next page. having a breastwork sufficiently high for them to The interstices in the rear floor conduct it back of course he must submit cheerfully to being eat over. In this way they can be fed hay with- it is not fit for winter keeping; in like manner contradicted. I have written my ideas, which I farmers should know that for table use the pota- to where it flows into an iron gutter, through out Raising a dust, they get none under their HEAVY TRADE IN CANNED PROVISIONS.—Few persons know correspond with others, that our wishes to needs the same careful, handling, to insure which are drilled inch heles to carry it below. feet, and the labor of cleaning out mangers is Back of the gutter (which is three and one-half have any idea of the extent to which the business of press- may be known, and not with any intention of saved. Whatever is left is easily pushed out the best results. A potato that is bruised or ing fruits, vegetables, meats, &c, is now carried on in arrogance, or of wounding anybody's feelings* chafed, or is subject to a water bath after leaving inches wide) is an iron plate 4 inches wide and this country. There are many large firms engaged in the with a rake into the yard for the cattle. The half an inch thick, to take the wear of the horses' Ha, Mich., Nov., 1863. E. W. dust oa the hay will do the horse no harm if the ground, is materially injured for winter business, who employ a great many hands, and have hind feet; both pieces of iron to be headed into heavy amounts of capital embarked. The consumption taken into the stomach. keeping; a potato of the finer varieties, such as Neshannock, Peachblow, Kidney, Mercer, Lady's the plank so as to be level with the bottom of the of fruit, vegetables, and in many cases meats and game LETTEE FROM JOHN JOHNSTON. Since making the improvement above men- finger, etc., when grown upon suitable soil, upper floor of the stall. The whole floor should (where this branch of the business is carried on) is enor- tioned in my feeding apparatus, I am not mous. One firmi n New Jersey is thus spoken of in an properly harvested and cooked right, is a posi- not pitch over one inch. The better way is to Crops in Seneca County— The Practical Sheplierd—Meri-troubled with coughing horses. There is no exchange:—" The buildings in which the main operations tive delicacy upon the tabls; but take the same have the forward floor level, and the rear or strip nos for Mutton. patent on my invention; my brethren can use it are-earned on cover more than an acre of ground, and lot, let them be roughly iandled, chafed, im- floor pitch half an inch. apart from the branch of canning and preserving, which D. D. T. MOORE, ESQ. —DEAR SIR:—It is a freely if the editor thinks proper to publish it. mersed in water, and laid ly in that ruined and The floor in the rear of cows' stalls should be often exeeds 5,000 cans per day, they often turn out six long time since I have written you anything Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov., 1863. J. C. ROGERS. tuns of assorted jellies, in glass, per week. The product respecting farming in this section. Our wheat undone condition for a few weeks, and then dropped (or the one upon which they stand * Aye, Sir, and you, judging from your article, belong cooked, even tolerably well, and they are not a of 50,000 tomato plants, 30 acres of strawberries, and 35 crop last harvest was rather inferior in general. raised) 6 inches, in order to keep the animal acres of sweet corn, have been used during the present to the class who ought frequently to communicate for the very inviting dish. When the potato crop of clean. The floor upon which they stand should The white wheat sown early was a total failure edification and instruction of the farming community. season for canning. During the peach season about two with many, and a failure to a great extent with all "We invite all such to "teach one another" through the Ireland failed, that people vere confronted with be just long enough for them to stand upon hundred hands, chiefly women, are employed paring and I have heard of. The red wheat did much bet- pages of the RURAL.—ED. R. N. T. starvation, little did we Americans realize how without stepping down upon the floor behind. halving this delicious fruit. Choice fruits being in abun- ter. Barley was a fair crop, but not equal to the much suffering of the poor, and positive incon- From the cribs, five and one-half feet is long dance around the establishment, they are enabled to can venience to ' the rich, woijd be caused by a enough for small cows, and six and one-half to them fresh from the field and orchard, while they retain last two years; the drouth from the 20th of May GOOD CHANCES IN WISCONSIN. their primitive sweetness and natural flavor." •till the 17th of June injured it very much. The failure of the potato crop ia this country. The seven for large ones, is about right. These floors early sown oats were a light crop generally. THERE is an abundance of good timbered potato is both bread and meat in many house- to be level. Corn, although given up for lost at the middle of land in Brown, Oconto, Shawano, and other of holds, and deserves all the consideration of a GOOD SURGERY.—Last spring a two year old steer be- June, has proved the best crop, I believe, that the northern counties of Wisconsin, to be had at prime staple, as well a luxury, in human food. About the Flax Crop, longing to NATHANIEL BURNHAM, Esq., of Amboy, 111., has been raised in the county in the forty-two Government rates—i. e., $1.25 to $2.50 per acre, Potatoes for table use, should not be stored at FLAX IN ILLINOIS.—This year has witnessed was thrown from the railroad by the locomotive, and one of its legs broken below the knee. It hobbled about on years I have lived here —at least in this imme- or under the Homestead Law for nothing. all in a wet cellar. In such a place their starch everywhere in the North a largely increased crop of flax, raised, not as heretofore, for the seed the prairie in this situation for several days—the bone of diate neighborhood — and I take it that it must Within bounds of the several grants of lands to is hydrogenized, thereby spoiling their finest the broken teg protruding through the skin—the creature be so throughout our county (Seneca.) Would railroads the homestead settler gets but 80acres; quality for food; they become soggy, and will alone, but for the fiber, to supply the wearing standing upon the bone instead of its hoofs. After a day you believe that I re-planted acres of mine after outside of these, 160. never$ook dry or mealy. For the same reason, material deficiency created by the downfall of or two the bojs determined to try an experiment. They the 20th of June? — yel the crop was an excel- Northern Wisconsin is generally a good wheat whopl potatoes are stored in heaps out of doors the braggart King Cotton. From Illinois, a cor- caught the steer, sawed off the protruding bone a couple lent one. We had no frost until the middle of and grass country, as healthy as any place on and covered with earth, avoid placing them on respondent writes to the Ohio Farmer that flax of inches, straightened the leg, splintered it, and let the any*other than land which is naturally dry and was "very generally sown, and in some sections animal go. He run with the cattle on the prairie. His October, or later, to injure the tenderest plant, earth. These lands are much better than many leg got well, though too short, and he is doing as well as and that made our corn crop. of the counties of Northern Pennsylvania or where water will not stand. On sandy land largely, some putting in as much as one hundred acres. In Central Illinois the straw is short, any of the herd. So writes a Western friend in whose South-western New York in a state of nature. potatoes will keep very well in heaps, if properly word we hare confidence. Those "boys" would excel I have read The Practical Shepherd, by Mr. but the seed is superior. In my travels I noticed RANDALL, with a great deal of interest, and re- They are timbered with pine, maple, oak, hem- covered from the winter rains and secured from some of the army surgeons in successful practice. lock, &c. The timber is in belts — generally frost that the little old spinning wheel is out, buzzing read a part of it. The work is both interesting once more; that the baby again is trying to get clear pine, maple, or hemlock, beech and maple. Cellar storage is most common among farmers, and instructive. It is a great boon to beginners its fingers in the flyers, and that the ladies are SHIPMENTS OF BUTTER TO CALIFORNIA.— October 3d The peninsula between Lake Michigan and and most convenient for household purposes; in sheep breeding, and must prove very useful to knitting linen summer stockings. I actually saw the California steamer was freighted with 1,765 firkins of Green Bay offers many excellent opportunities but the cellar should be dry. If the potatoes are many who are old in the business. It made me a piece of checked, white and blue, flax pocket butter, and the steamer that left on the 13th had 1,212 to actual settlers. free from disease, they may be stored in close firkins, and the Panama Railroad brig of the same date almost think I would like to extend my acres and handkerchiefs. I also saw several men wearing bins with the tops covered with dry sand or had 873 firkins. The steamer of the 23d took 1,199 firkins. go to keeping 800 to 1,000 Merinos again. No man should leave a comfortable home in pantaloons made this spring from flax which has the East for any romantic experiment in the loam, which will insure perfect preservation. The steamer of 1st Nov. had aboard 1,303 firkins, and the There is but one thing in the book that I dis- lain for years in the loft of the barn." brig 2,053, and on the 13th by steamer 1,201 firkins, and Potatoes which are tainted with rot must have sent from, though almost every man talks the West. But the young men, without lands or by brig 1,253. The freight demand for butter has in- their sore spots dried up by exposure to the dry FLAX CULTURE.—The Mount Forest Examiner same way as the author. After treating of Me- capital, should turn their attention this way. creased so heavily as to induce the Panama Railroad Co. atmosphere and a dust of slaked lime. Such says:—Mr. Johnston brought us a sample of un- rinos, the author writes about mutton sheep, the Hundreds of chances are open along these to purchase the large steamer Atlantic, as a much larger potatoes are not fitfo r human food, and should bleached linen yarn, spun by Mrs Johnston, which quantity would have been shipped if freight could have Long-Wools, South Downs, and other Downs, lakes, where you can locate a homestead and only be used under protest in case of dire neces- has been pronounced by competent jndges to be been secured. It is estimated that some 5,000 firkins will just as if many kinds of Merinos can not be made sell thousands of dollars in wood and lumber. sity. a very superior article. Mr. Johnston informs be shipped by next two vessels. as good and as profitable mutton as any sheep, Snivelers or cowards need not come — men .of In the storage of large quantities of potatoes us that from 15 cents worth [2 lbs. | of seed, he and nearly as heavy too, if kept in as small grit, snap and energy are wanted. for stock use, say in the barn cellars, it is well to has about five dollars worth of yarn, besides 10 flocks and equally well fed. I have taken 15 of Fort Howard, Wis., Nov., 1863. W. H. GARDNER. AMERICAN BUTTER AT HOME AND ABROAD.—We read in use a dust of lime. We saw a good example of Ib3. of seed. Such a yield as this should induce the cullings of 300 Merino lambs, and very small the last number of the Scientific American that at the this practice in the barn cellars of the famous old farmers to turn their attention to flax culture, present moment butter is selling for at least one-third ones at that, and made them average 15 pounds agriculturist, James Gowan, of Germantown, and thereby secure at least enough to save them higher prices in New York, than those which prevailed in per quarter at 20 months old, and average 12 toe near Philadelphia, last fall. Mr. Gowan feeds from purchasing cotton yarn. With the present the early part of last summer. For fair qualities the retail pounds of tallow exclusive of the kidney tallow. Training Cows and Steers. largely of roots to his stock in winter; his ample and prospective price of cottons, our farmers have price is thirty-six cents per pound. The cause of this is On.e of the butchers is still alive that butchered stone-walled cellars were heaped with potatoes good reason to look out a substitute for " factory," said to be owing to the vast qantities which were shipped part of them, and will testify. They were the THE Maine, Farmer has an interesting article to Liverpool a few months since, to avoid purchasing bills and other roots, all in the nicest order. Before and we do not see a readier way than in the cul- true short-legged, short-bodied Merinos. Many on this subject, from which we make a few ex- of exchange; and we have been informed that the stores putting in the stock of roots for winter, Mr. G. tivation of flax. of my flock were pure bred from the importation tracts: in Liverpool are perfectly glutted with it, and that it is has the walls and paved floors nicely cleaned of the late Gen. HOPKINS, then of Mount Morris, "All domestic animals require some sort of selling at far lower prices there than it now fetches in the and sprinkled with lime dust, and as the potatoes Livingston Co. I found it so profitable fattening training or education—some more, some less, city from which it was sent. are wheeled in, other dustings are administered, my culls, that I ultimately fed my wether lambs, according to the usages to which they are put. by which all foul vapors are avoided and the ftttral 3f ote0 anir A TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLAR HORSE.—It seems that and the: ewe ones I could spare from my flock, Thus the cow is required to stand quietly while placp is free from noisome atmosphere usually BONNKR, the "fast" man of the New York Ledger, hav- selling them for the butcher in spring, or about you are milking, and to 'hoist' the right foot encountered where vegatablea are stored in any WINTER—THE SEASON.—The weather of this firstda y ing distanced all competitors on the avenues with his the 1st of June, after shearing. and place it back of the other, in order to give of December is appropriate for Winter — opening with a team, now proposes to beat the world in both time and quantity.—Michigan Farmer. you more room to use your hands in milking. snow storm and corresponding temperature. The Fall has Yours, Respectfully, JOHN JOHNSTON. price. The other day he purchased of Mr. LANG, of No. This is generally the extent of her schooling; been very favorable for out-door operations. November Vassalboro, Me., his horse "Cloudman," for $20,000 ! It Near Geneva, N. Y., Nov. 27,1863. « but if she be taught to allow herself to be led by Dent Corn for the North. was remarkably mild and pleasant—the temperature of is stated that this horse made his half mile on the Water- the month being unusually high for the season, and very the horn, gently and peaceably, it would add to IN the Country Gentleman for November' 5, ville course, a few days since, in 1.10—the best time on LET THE "CURBENCY" ALONE. conducive to the interests of farmers and horticulturists— record. It thus appears that BONNER'B fast horses, like her value and the ease of her management. For W. J. P., of Salisbury, Conn., inquires why steers, there are higher branches of practical as well as especially favorable for the poor in large towns the Ledger's stories, are " to be continued." "Dent" corn may not be as successfully culti- and cities, considering the exceedingly high prices of fuel MEN of the farm,flet the paper trash issued studies into which they should be initiated. Their Iby the banks alone. Insist that Government vated in New York as in Ohio. To this inquiry and provisions. In- this immediate region we have had duties and labors under the yoke on the farm and responses are being published, and we give the only two or three light "flurries"of snow (probably not "PATENT OFFICE HUMBUG."—Under this heading an greenbacks are just suited to your needs. Insist on the road are of the utmost importance to the article appeared in the Horticultural Department of last following. It will be observed that there is a an inch in all, and none which remained on the ground,) upon a currency that shall possess equal value farmer, and it is incumbent on him to teach them up to this date, and every one should now be prepared for week's RURAL. Though the editor of that department difference of opinion on the subject: in Maine and Minnesota. Gold or greenbacks in the most effective, thorough, and at the same the advent of Winter. Farmers and their families will of was undoubtedly honest in his convictions and remarks- •should be the equivalent demanded by every I will not undertake to say positively why it course take advantage of the season of leisure and long considering the antecedents of the Patent Office proper in time, kind and pleasant manner. There is a the seed business—it is but just to say that the conductor farmer for his produce. Do not take, or if you great difference in teachers of this kind of sci- cannot be done, but will give a brief statement evenings, occupying much of the time for social enjoy- of facts, from which " W. J. P." may infer that it ment and mental improvement of the RURAL would have felt constrained to omit the ar- take, do not keep the irresponsible trash which ence, as well as in the four-footed pupils to be ticle had it come under his notice in time. Illness pre- -bankers and brokers are interested in keeping in trained. Some teachers that we have seen would be unprofitable, to say the least cluded us from giving usual attention to the contents and circulation, and which will burn, some day, the 'breaking steers and cows,' as the phrase is, did In classifying corn into two classes, viz., MINOR BUBAL ITEMS.—Merino eheep from Vermont "making up" of the paper, and hence the article was men who hold it. not evince half as much good sense and discre- "flint" (or hard) and "soft," the "Dent" corn have just been shipped for Australia. They were sent fo? not observed until too late for either modification or ex- Insist upon a currency that you know some- tion as the cattle they undertook to train. On is to be regarded as a soft corn. It is a generally by sheep-farmers in "the bush" as the best that could be clusion. We regret such a publication, as, in our opinion, found anywhere—a compliment to the farmers of the unnecessarily reflecting upon the management of an im- Hiing about without referring to a detector or the other hand, there are some cattle so naturally conceded opinion, if not a well established fact, portant branch of the Department of Agriculture. It is •bank-note reporter. Uncle Sam's money you crabbed and perverse in disposition, that kind- that all flint corns have ripened better farther Green Mountains. A method of "concentrating" po- tatoes has been discovered, and 1,000 bushels are treated proper to add that the Horticultural Department has •know to be good. And the way to keep it good ness seems to be entirely thrown away upon north than soft corns have—hence the " Canada thus daily for the army, at a manufactory at Portland, Me. usually been conducted with such discretion that we is to keep it out of the hands of the men who them, and they require at least something as flint," " Yankee," or Connecticut flint, ripen well All the water is absorbed, leaving about 6 lbs. of nutri- have rarely had occasion to make even a suggestion as -get it in equal exchange for their own irrespon- stringent as the hampering and casting down of in Northern Ohio, in counties where the "Dent" ment to the 60 lbs. which a bushel .of potatoes averages, to the taste or propriety of any thing appearing therein. sible notes, and purchase their own promises to. Rarey's method, before they will be convinced will not ripen at all. The "Dent" corn has and this is ground like Indian meal. The Edinburgh - In connection with the above amende we publish the -pay with jt, again, at a discount To-day they that there is a power above them to which they been tried in all of the eighty-eight counties in Veterinary Review pronounces the RARE Y system of break- following note as an act of justice to both Mr. ELLWANGER •are buying up these trashy paper promises in had better submit This most generally dis- Ohio, but does not come to perfection and ripen ing horses not only a failure, but a great trick, which has and Mr. SAUNDERS: the effect to damage many horses, " about which, howev- "this city at half per cent, discount; and there is plays itself in those cattle which have been well in more than thirty-four or thirty-five coun- D. D. T. MOORS, Esq.—Dear Sir: In your paper of the kittle reason to doubt that this discount will in- suffered to go unmolested and have their own ties, and these are all south of the national road. er, more evidence will be given hereafter." The State 28th inst. I observed an article headed "Patent Office of Maine is reaping a rich return from two quite dissimi- -crease. Everybody, almost, is apprehending a way until they have nearly or quite obtained In Northern and North-western Ohio, the Dent Humbug," in which Mr. WILLIAM BACNDERS is referred •great collapse in consequence of the great infla- their growth. lar crops—ice and potatoes. The former is said by the to in the following manner: does not succeed any better than the ordinary Portland Advertiser to produce from the crop exported •iion of '' currency." And in certain circles this, " Mr. SAUNDBRS, we understand, is writing to the Nur- " The best mode and manner of teaching cattle, corn does at Marquette—that is, it grows finely $1,000,000 per annum, while the exports of the latter serymen and Seedsmen to obtain old European Catalogues undue inflation is charged upon the government; and forms fine ears, but does not ripen. The amount to about $500,000. Minnesota promises to be- in order that he may send to. Europe for a stock for free or any other animal—biped or quadruped—is to distribution." -when really the people are responsible. For if Dent requires to be planted early, and requires come a large wool growing State. Mr. O. K. KIDDER, of »-the government's money alone were used in train them when young. Take them in the bud, Clairmount, Dodge county, reports his wool crop this A few days ago I accidentally mentioned to the Editor when you can handle and control them easily, the longest season of any com grown in the of your Horticultural Department that I had recommend- ••business transactions, a bulk of currency would State. If then it ripens with difficulty in lati- year as follows:—From one hundred and fifty sheep he •foe taken out of circulation which would relieve and before they have grown up wild and strong, sheared seven hundred and three pounds of washed wool, ed a certain seed establishment at Erfurt, in Prussia, to tude forty degrees N., I do not think it would do Mr. WILLIAM SAUNDERS, as I had done to him and to oth- 4he market of any undue surplus. without any discipline or restraint. Train them being an average of six pounds and two ounces per head. when young, should be the motto in every stable to try it in forty-two or forty-three degrees, other The sheep are mostly Merinos. Immense flocks of sheep ers. I did not say that-, he asked for Catalogues, old or The fact is, the producing classes cannot afford things being equal.—JNO. H. KLIPPART. have been introduced into the State during the year. new. I did not expect that this remark, made in private and barnyard. conversation, would be made the basis of an attack on the to bolster up these bank issues—cannot afford to M&n training animals, whether young or old, DENT CORN GROWN IN MASSACHUSETTS.—The Patent Oflice or Mr. SAUNDERS. I mentioned the fact to liold so much questionable paper in their hands. there is another requisite to be attended to beside Ohio Dent corn can be successfully grown in THE TUKXIP TASTE IN MILK can be effectually removed the credit of Mr. SAUNDERS, who seemed to be desirous of And this fact will soon be demonstrated, or the discretion of management, and common sense, is Connecticut!, and I should infer that New York by the use of common saltpetre, says an exchange. An procuring the best articles to be had for the purpose of •signs of the times are at fault—c. D. B. the teacher. This is to have the right kind of would be a's favorable, when the season is of ounce of it should be put into a pint bottle, and the game carrying out his experiments in the Public Garden under filled with boiling water. A teaspoonful of the solution [ The above advice by our "Western Aid, is harness. * * * The saddle of the yoke sufficient length for it to mature. It is two his charge. I regard the course of your Horticultural is enough for an ordinary-sized milk pail. The better Editor in this matter as highly improper. probably more needed at the West than here, yet should be adapted to the length and breadth of weeks later than early Northern varieties. The way to cure the eril, however, is not to feed so many may be worthy of attention in various latitudes. the neck on which it rests, so as to render it easy Yours, Very Respectfully, 1 writer has raised that kind exclusively the past turnips to cows. Rochester, Nov. 30th, 1863. G. ELLWANOBR. 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these trellises, with some modifications, by adopting the spur pruning when necessary, as will be indicated below. In the fourth season from planting, and always afterwards, every MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER. GRAPES AT PITTSBURG. ilternate cane is cut back to two eyes, while the ither is shortened, according to its strength, and Single Copy, One Year, $2 I OUR readers are well informed of the exten- led vertically to the trellis for fruiting; the sive strawberry plantation of J. KNOX, Esq., of Three Copies, " $5 ipur produces a new cane, so that one spur sup- Six " and One free to Club Agent, $10 Pittsburg, who has been sometimes called the )orts fruit and the other produces wood. If it Ten " " " " $15 "strawberry king," bat of his success in grape lappen that the cane of last year is not strong And any additions at the latter rate—only $L5O culture we are not as well posted. JOHN A. enough for the fruiting, it is cut back, and that per copy! Club papers sent to different post- WARDER, Esq., of Cincinnati, well known to which bore the previous year has its fruit-bear- offices, if desired. the horticulturists of the country, and particu- ing laterals trimmed to spurs for fruiting in its larly to those of the West, recently made a visit stead. In this way, by judicious management, TO AGEJYTS AJVIt OTHERS. to the vineyards of Mr. KNOX, and furnished a the whole trellis is kept covered with fruit from very interesting report to the Cincinnati Horti- ear to year, and the amount produced is really IN consequence of the recent great advance in the prices cultural Society, which was ordered published, astonishing. As an instance, I may cite twelve of paper, wages, etc., we cannot really afford to furnish and from which we make liberal extracts. Hartford Prolific vines, which are four or five the RURAL for 18M at its present low rates and give any Grape Culture is attracting such general atten- ears old, that produced 620 pounds of fruit this Extra Premiums to Club Agents. And yet we have tion that all the information that can be obtained year, from which $125 was realized; apply this resolved to be more liberal than we can afford, in order on this subject is most acceptable: to an acre, which supports about 1,000 vines, as to make some return for the kind efforts the friends of the SOIL AND SITUATION.—The situation is upon planted six feet by eight, and we may calculate paper are makingto maintain and extend its circulation. the high rolling land south of the Monongahela the proportionate yield at fifty thousand pounds We therefore make the following offers to all forming river, above which it is elevated between four if fruit; this, at the low price of five cents a clubs for our next volume, except successful competitors aad five hundred feet. The slopes incline va- pound, would produce $2,500 per acre! an in- for Premiums offered to Boys and Young Men under 21 riously, but those looking to the south and west credible yield, and one justifying a large annual years: are chiefly selected for grape planting. The outlay in assiduous care and labor. To every one remitting $10 for Six Copies of the RURAL soil is a clayey loam, with a liberal intermixture NEW-YORKER, previous to the 1st of February, 1864, we The first varieties planted were of the Isa- will send an extra copy of the paper for one year; or, if of sandstone, but also has lime enough to im- APPLES —There is an immense stock now in store here, THE CASH SYSTEM is strictly adhered to in publishing the The vines are trimmed this spring so as to form the RURAL of the best kinl of Black Mulberry, and where and the|market is decidedly dull, although about the same RUBAL—copies are never mailed to individual subscribers altogether unpromising of all, but after that it they can be obtained t I wish to set a few trees for the rates are current for what sales are made. We quote: until paid for, and always discontinued when the subscrip- the two arms, each three feet long, from whic makes a strong, rapid growth, and after three or fruit, and any infonnatiot with respect to the necessary Mixed Western, iP bbl $2.«i%@2.7B tion term expires. Hence, we force the paper upon none, cultivation would oblige-W. H. B., Rapids, Nov., 1863. Common, ^ Bbl [email protected] the fruiting canes are to be produced. In a very four years in the orchard equals almost an; Selected fruit, [email protected] and keep no credit books, long experience having demon- strong vine, that had been allowed to product other variety in size and vigor. It is pefectl; The Black English Muberry is good, in fact excellent; QUINCKS—There is no change. We quote: strated that the CASH PLAN is the best for both Subscriber fruit large, an inch-and-i-half long, and about an inch Apple, U bbl $8J»@4.60 and Publisher. three canes the previous summer, the third shoo hardy here, but can not be recommended for th< Pear, [email protected] across. The tree makes i slow growth, and is not quite is trimmed to three or four feet for fruiting, am far North as to hardihood. For early and greai GRAPES—Market well supplied and dull. We quote: ADHERE TO TERMS.--We endeavor to adhere strictly to> hardy enough to bear car hardest winters. The Ever- Isabella, good to choice, $3 ft 7@ 9o subscription terms, and no person is authorized to offer the, tied upright to the trellis bar nearest to the vim bearing we have no other winter apple thai hearing Mulberry, of Mr DOWNING, is an excellent fruit, Catawba, good to choice, 8@12 stock, while the arms are secured to the lowei Common 4@ 6 RURAL at less than published rates. Agents and friends are' equals it. One tree only of several Wagenera something like the Blacl English. The tree grows vig- Concords, good to choice 10@13 at liberty to give away as many copies of the RURAL as they part of the trellis. As the buds on these las budded, of the same age, gave us this year twi orously and bears early, hit unfortunately is rather tender. CRANBERRIES—NO change. We quote: are disposed to pay for at club rates, but we do not wish- We don't believe it wouii bear Western winters, and is Eastern, ^ bbl $8.00(310.00 the paper offered, in any case, below price. break, they are thinned out by rubbing off bushels and a half of the finest specimens w< Western 6.00®8.00 portion, so that only the strongest are left, an ever saw of that variety — beautiful and excel generally killed to the gnund in Western New York. Mr. DRIED FRUIT—Dried Fruits have continued scarce and in DOWNING describes a variety called the Johnson, a seed- demand. Apples are unchanged. But most other kinds ADDITIONS TO CLUBS are always in order, whether in these are so arranged that one of them can be lent late fall and early winter fruit The othe. have advanced. We quote: trained to each of the upright trellis bars, eac ling of Ohio, " black, sib-acid, and of mild, agreeable Dried Apples, sliced, ^ ft ones, twos, fives, tens, twenties, or any other number. Wagener trees, though bearing, did not load flavor." We have not sen it, and cannot say whether it Dried Apples, good to choice - 8 Subscriptions can commence with the volume or any num- arm, eight to each vine. This we should think down as heavily. The Winesaps of the same agi Apples, inferior and old 7; ber; but the former is the best time, and we shall send from1 is hardy. Young trees, re suppose, can be obtained at Peaches, peeled, 22 tremendous amount of wood for the third sum and in the same orchard, have also borne fo most of the nurseries. Peaches, unpeeled, I it for. some weeks,.unless specially directed otherwise- mer, but with the soil and treatment to whic Plums, new, '". I Please "make a note of it." three years, but no such heavy crop as thi Pitted Cherries, new, they are subjected, many of the varieties Willow-Twig, while oar other Western favorite, Cherries, with pits, Raspberries, black, new, DIRECT TO ROCHESTER, N. Y.—All persons having occa- grapes require assiduous labor to confine them the Jannet, (budded also,) as yet most stub- Blackberries, new, 17i sion to address the RURAL NBW-YORKER, will please direct, to the number of shoots, which reach the top Currants, domestic, 3 to Rochester, N. Y-, and not, as many do, to New York^. bornly refuses to fruit On some 60 trees w VEGETABLES. the trellis, and most of the canes also bear have never got a dozen specimens, while root- LILIUH AURATUM.—A specimen of this fine lily was P0TATOES-*Irish Potatoes have been quiet, and prices Albany, Buffalo, &c. Money Letters intended for us are lately sent to the editor A. Turner, Esq., Bowbridge borne well for two years past Our EsopuB Buckeyes, 13 bbl $1 THB RURAL AS A PRESENT.—Any SUBSCRIBER wishing to of grapes the third season. Some other vari House, Leicester, showinf to what perfection the flowers PrinceAlbert 1.50 Spitzenburg, budded, came in this year in part, may be brought undej food cultivation. The one in Jackson Whites ., send the BUBAL to a friend or relative, as aprtsent, will b» Bough and Ready, *• 160 ties, such as the Taylor or Bullitt, and Herbe- passably well. Red Canada trees, of not half question measured rather more than a foot in diameter, charged only $1.50. It is also fum^ed to Clergymen, Mercers, 2.' Teachers and Soldiers at the lowest club rate-$lM a copy.. mont, grow as vigorously, reaching the top the size, bearing moderately for the second time. each petal having a beautful band of rich golden yellow Peachblows 1.-,^.^.. the trellis, and then stretching along horizon down the middle, the intrvening spaces being covered, Swaar, R. L Greening, no fruit yet A very few Sweet potatoes 39 bbl 5,00@5,50 ANY person so disposed can act as local agent for the- tally for some distance; but some kinds do noi specimens last year dropped off prematurely. in the most charming mnner possible, with rich brown- Sweet potatoes in bulk, ¥» bbl 4,60@I,50 RURAL NEW-YORKER, and those who volunteer in the good, cover the trellis the first year it is set up. Thes Yellow Bellflower, budded, does notily. Dom- ish crimson dots, which, eing backed up by a pure white CABBAGES—We quote, $ 100, $7@8. cause will receive gratuities, and their kindnesses be. canes produced from the arms are divested ine, White Winter Pearmain, Jonathan, Belmont, ground, were set off to ecellent advantage. Mr. Bullen SQUASHES—Are a little higher. We quote: appreciated. states that the plant from which the bl«om was cut was their laterals during the summer. Boston Marrow, ii bbl $3.00@3-26 No TRAVELING AGESTS are employed by us, as we wish. Rome Beauty, all good bearers. purchased of Messrs. Veich last autumn, and that since The renewal system of trimming is adopted in TURNIPS—Prices have improved. We quote:: to give the whole field to local agents and those who Bloomington, 111., 1863. F. K. PHOENIX. that time its growth ha been most satisfactory. The Buta Bagas, %) bbl [email protected] form clubs, ONIONS—Are higher. 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woman, merit undisputed applause. In fact, to at Error, and never received a shot yourselves, the moment when she proudly laid her head but in the back. A fine figure, truly, will you beneath the axe, she exhibited that dignity o: present, by the side of the Major-Generals and judgment and wisdom which permeated her standard-bearers in the army of Truth, who Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. entire character. HOW WE LEARN. led her battalions and kept her flag aloft through [Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker.] ELNORA. MARY has gone. Her tongue can no more tell legions of foes and rivers of blood —her martyrs LITTLE THINGS. the bravery of her heart; but we are left, and BT H. BOUAR. and heroes who sang songs on the scaffold and BT OLIO STANLEY. BY MANLY 8. HARD. should we not all feel it our imperative duty to GREAT truths are dearly bought. The common truth, rejoiced amid the flames. OH, bright peerless maiden, improve every opportunity to eradicate the dark Such as men give and take from day to day, Thank Heaven we are not all alike. Thank A PEBBLE, dropped in ocean, With beauty bloom-laden, stains which some have put upon a character Comes in the common walk of easy life, Heaven there are names, names that stand alone A word, let loose in air, ELNORA; most worthy in itself ? MARY PRICE. Blown by the careless wlndacross our way. and are not ashamed of it; at whose mention the May give a ripple motion, With wavy tress flowing, Adrian, Mich. ] 1863. Bought in the maTket, at the current price, heart of the human race may well beat with Which breaks~We know not where. And cheeks warmly glowing, Bred of the smile, the jest, perchance the bowl; noble pride; the echo of whose heroic words and ELNORA; HINTS TO MOTHERS. A look, may sink a spirit, It tells no tales of daring or of worth, deeds will be heard in ages yet to come. There A word, may save a,soul, Thou com'st with the glory Of morning Nor pierces even the surface of a soul. From the golden-bound gates of the east, POLITENESS IK CHILDREN. are men, even now, a few at least, who dare to An act, may ne'er permit That heart to reach its goal. Did'st spread in the wilderness, bounty, WHEN your child first begins to speak, teach Great truths are greatly won. Not found by chance, be singular—dare to be called fanatics — dare to And bade me sit down to the feast; him forms of courtesy. It is one of the surest Nor wafted on the breath of summer dream; sacrifice their lives, if need be, for the sake of an 'Tig trifles sap the heart joys ELNORA. But grasped in the great struggle of the soul, idea. Whence sweetest hopes shouU flow. ways of teaching him to be kind and gentle in Hard-buffeting with adverse wind and stream. Oh, sunny-browed maiden, his heart and behavior^ One on whose lips the Do they, standing there, the whole world pitted 'Tis constant trust in earth-toys, That causes half our woe. Sweet prophet of Aidenn, law of kindness dwells, will not be rude and Not in the general mart, 'mid corn and wine; against them?—do they look feebly round asking ELNORA; coarse in his feelings. Even baby lips can be Not in the merchandise of gold and gems; "What will people say?" Do they, delaying, Who scans each word they speak, Not in the world's gay hall of midnight mirth; With light footstep dancing, . taught the little words # please" and "thank hesitate to unsheath the sword, timidly inquiring As if t'were said to them; ' And eyes with joy glancing, Not 'mid the blaze of regal diadems; you," when a favor is received, and they will "Whether it be popular?" Do they blush for Let each act be thus meek, ELNORA; But in the day of conflict, fear and grief, shame whea one-eyed Prejudice sneers, or the Each hour would be a gem. With the shadow and silence of evening, learn it far easier than older children. The habits you form now will be life-long. It was a When the strong hand of God, put forth in might, finger of Scorn is pointed at them? Do they fear Our souls are tender—others too, Thou wilt hasten away to the west, Plows up the subsoil of tire stagnant heart, the angry voice of a mob, or the drawn swords In the gloaming wilt leave me'forEaken, principle with the old Jesuits, that if they might This let us keep in mind, And brings the imprisoned truth-seed to the light. We should find life's woes were few Like a birdling alone in its nest. have the first seven years of a child's life they of insolent traitors? Never! The word "fear' ELNORA. cared not who had the after training. Wrung from the troubled spirit, in hard hours is not in that vocabulary, unless it be the noble If always we were kind. Of weakness, solitule, perchance of pain, Philadelphia, Pa., 1863. fear of making peace with corruption, and com- Jamesville, N. Y., 1863. In teaching your children these little sweet Truth springs, like harvest, from the well-plowed field, courtesies of life, you must expect to be con- promising with deceit and treachery. Other •-*• And the soul feels it has not wept in vain. men's "names are writ in water," but the names Written for Moore's Rural New'-Yorker. stantly repeating over the same old lessons for Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. the first few years. It requires line upon line, of these valiant conquerors for Truth will glow, GOD OUE HELP IN SORROW, MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. and you must not be discouraged even after a in letters of light, as long as the stars endure. WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY1 And even s& long as there are crowns for mar- OPINION fully crowned her "queen of the seventy-times repetition. The reward will come " THERE are fountains enough in the desert, tyrs,,palm-branches for victors, and snow-white Though that by our palm-tree be dry." world." She touched the minds of her subjects, at length, and you will rejoice to see the little SURE enough, Mr. PUTTIMAN, what will they? robes for snow-white souls, so long shall there be and ofttimes in her error, turned the channels of child you have taught so laboriously acting vol- HUMAN LIFE is. a checkered scene; an alter- For the first and only time in your life, you have crowns, and palms, and robes for them. reason into those of folly. Poets hung upon her untarily on the principles you have instilled, nate succession of weal and woej and in the dared to do something on your own responsi- November, 1863. A. M. P. cup of the most prosperous are mingled "the- mandates, and in their light have sang the his- requiring no prompting or correction, for cour- bility, without advice or consultation. You tories of the great and gone. Like the wheel of tesy has become a habit. wormwood and the gall." Disappointments and knew it was right—you felt that it was—your Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. fortune, she orders one thrown to the very In no place is the distinction between the re- afflictions are sent to lessen our attachment to conscience would not let you do otherwise, but earthly things, and prepare us for the Great depths of injustice; and in the same breath, fined and the ill-bred more marked than at the SLEEP. now, if the truth must be told, you are half Enemy of human life. We cannot expect life another is carried to the very heights of fame. table. If your children are not early taught ashamed of it and wish it had been left undone. NIGHT closed in very calm and peacefully to be all sunshine, shadows will darken pur path- We witness these caprices, and follow lovely politeness there, you must prepare yourselves And why? Because, forsooth, other people may upon the sweet shores of Paradise. Peering way for a time, but "joy cometh in fliemorning. " characters in their alternate rounds of praise and them for a thousand mortifications in future not think as you do about the matter, and may through the dimness and the shadows came the and censure, until we sometimes forget that they life, and must look to see them regarded as an- Thougkthe fountains by our palm tree be dry say something. Say something? And suppose soft smiles of the starry sisterhood, and the carry with them ever the same firm Elements of noying and disagreeable by those whose good they do? Will words hurt you? Do you take let UB not be discouraged; but wait patiently un- queen of the nightly throng never looked down- til our " toils are ended, and our troubles are all worth and unvarying excellence. Such has will you may most desire to secure. " A child them for balls and bullets that will strike you ward with a purer, holier light, than it shed o'er;" when the bright bow of promise which ap- been the history of MARY, Queen of Scots. left to himself bringeth his mother to shame." dead if they hit you? there upon the beauties of the young creation. pears in the distance will shed a mild and genial Now given to us, warm with the breath of However humble your position in life, though Reclining on a mossy couch in the "beautiful I really believe there is no question so often radiance over the soul. Let us manifest a spirit praise, crowned with the laurel wreath of ap- your family gather about a table of pine instead garden," were ADAM and EVE. All day had on your lips, no greater bug-bear in the world, of resignation, which is the ornament of a meek proval, and now pierced with a whole volley of of mahogany, your children may and should be they wandered.through flowery fields, by gush- to your mind, than this silly one of " What will and gentle spirit, " a charity that seeketh not denouncing epithets, until the literary world is taught the same lesson of respectful behavior. the people say?" As though it were not enough ing fountains, and deep, wide rivers, drinking in her own," a heart overflowing with gratitude to so presuming as to question the validity of her It is a duty which God requires of you, and He to test an opinion, determination, or rule of ac- the fragrant odors wafted with the bird-songs, a kind and indulgent Providence. He has been character as exemplary. That MARY, Queen of holds you responsible for every unchecked mani- tion, by the simple touchstone of " Is it right?" and now they were weary, and longed for rest merciful to us, and permitted the crystal waters Scots, was a woman who found plenty of faults festation of disrespect or disobedience you allow you, and other craven-spirited individuals of and hallowed communion in spirit with their of the fountain of life to flow freely in the to overcome, as well as other women, we doubj in your presence. Let your children learn to sit your calibre, must needs run at once to Mrs. Maker. * * * * not for a moment,—humanum est errare,—but quietly until all older than themselves are "Desert of Life" where the weary traveler can GRUNDY to inquire what she thinks about it. Is In heaven that night an angel silenced the that in the aggregate of these faults, her charac- helped, and do not begin compromising with quench his thirst, and bathe his parched brow. it popular? Will it pay? How will it affect my song upon his golden harp. With head bowed ter was destitute of the good principles charac- some little insurgent by a lump from the sugar influence? These and. similar interrogations, low he approached the throne, arid a voice from What mean those effulgent rays that penetrate teristic of our pattern women, we cannot but bowl. If you do, it will by no means be " the propounded day after day by timid, time-serving thence, said "What would'st thou?" And he this dark cloud of affliction and sorrow ? It is doubt with the whole force of belief. beginning of the end." As they advance in people, and answered negatively by Mrs. G., do answered, "Behold in yonder world he whom the bright Star of Bethlehem, illumining the ears, encourage them to join pleasantly, but .Let us first look at the childhood days of this more towards frightening them from accomplish- thou hast formed in thine own image, fair and pathway of the just, and guiding them to those Scottish queen. Contrast them with our own always modestly, in the family conversation ing anything laudable or heroic than hosts of beautiful. Grant that I may bear to him the mansions of eternal rest where " GOD in CBRIST early, histories, and we will find a difference around the table. Let the meal time be one of real difficulties could possibly do. message of repose and rest, for weariness wraps s All in All." Oh, who on earth has not had greater than we have ever felt Surrounded in the most cheerful hours of the day, and in en- Instead of blushing for what you did, Mr. his mortal form." And it was answered, " Be it some hope of happiness blasted? Where we early infancy by all the disadvantages of orphan- deavoring to weed out evils which would make PUTTIMAN, especially considering that it was the unto thee even as thou wilt" expect to see roses we find thorns. The earth is hood, her boat was launched on one of the most it far otherwise, do not commit the error of ex- most manly act of your life, I wonder you do not And so it was, that while ADAH and EVE a scene of trouble, and we are pilgrims journey- boisterous periods which the French court was, pecting too much from the little people at once. blush for yourself at being weak and cowardly communed in spirit with the Eternal and Un- ing to that land " where the stars hold their fes- in that day, akin to. Freighted with an unusual Try and impress one lesson at a time. Too enough to care what people say in such a case. seen, that a form on viewless wings wrapped tival around the midnight throne." Why all oargo of impulses and passions, and threatened many rules confuse the mind; and be sure you Why, the majority of them know as little as. hem in the folds of slumber, for the angel's this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though with a constant whirlwind of danger and vice, do not fail to be yourself what you would have. yourself, and as for conscience, if they have any name was Sleep. All through the silent night- surrounded by wealth, or standing upon the she proudly pushed her royal bark along, and at our children be. Your example will be a idea of it at all, they would doubtless define it watches he guarded his trust with unfaltering pinnacle of fame, earth's highest station ends the age of accountability there was not a single >o^stant and most powerful teacher.— JY". T. aB something hard, like a mill-stone, or stretchy devotion, but when morning, with her rosy fin- in "here he lies;" and "dust to dust" coneludes her noblest song. woman in her land—and even in the great g»\_ Chronicle. like India rubber. My friend, are you forever to ers, put aside the curtains of the East, he axy of crowned princesses—to vie witb ner in remain a know-nothing and a do-nothing be- escaped through her golden portals, and he who It is a melancholy, thoagh instructive thought, beauty, rank or talent Bom for a queen his- MOTHER'S LOVE. ause you can't summon courage to say and do would fain have clothed him with numberless that all things must decay. Though the waters tories of every age acknowledge ier keen ^ r things a little differently from other people?' I blessings, sought but in vain. in our fountain in the desert become dry, and OH! who has known the depth, the breadth of of mind and inherited pawe^ of ^^J^ think if your Creator had intended you to act Go on, then, blessed angel, in thy earth mis- though our palm tree ceases to look green, still mother's love, until the knowledge (too late) like your neighbor, Mr. B., or take your politics sion of love, and purity, and mercy. Go with ihere is a " Tree planted by the River of Waters," brings gratitude, which sinks into bitter remorse from him, and your religious creed, and all your sin- thy noiseless tread ever to the couch of care and and beneath its spreading branches one may find and self-upbraiding over the tomb? Who re- public and private opinions, he would have suffering, and over the weary spirit distil thy shelter. Be not discouraged with life because of members all the self-sacrifice, life-long, and as made you like him, would he not? No doubt, if balmy dews. Spread gently thy wings over the ts vexations, but remember liar to herself, unfaltering as unpretending, which breathes out he had thought it best, he could have made us brow of the babe in its innocence, and upon the from the mother's heart, to make a world of fra- i" If one vein of silver be exhausted, TIIQ lov© * ' • all alike; everybody speaking, and thinking, and temples 'neath the white locks of the aged. It is easy another to try. grant beauty for her child? Alas! we forget the of the beautiful was hers also, to doing just like everybody else. Such a state of Think ye not the soldier on duty in the tented There are fountains enough in the desert, love until it has passed from us and left the .cent that upon ascending the Scottish things would have exactly suited you, I fancy. field longs for thy presence, that, through the Though that by your palm tree be dry." earth gloomy—deserted by its brightness. We she vowed in all the earnestness of But humdrum enough it would have been, and a land of dreams he may snatch a glimpse once SenecaFalls, N. Y., 1863. "ZETA." jful zeal to acknowledge nature in all her forget the self-sacrifice until it has consummated little too monotonous for my taste. Bless me, more of the forms, and catch the tones of dear ,gn. Her works of every kind realize to us by death, and offers its last oblation to heaven. how wholly tired we should have grown of see- beloved ones mingling in the sweet melodies of No "GOOD DEED LOST.—Philosophers tell US the ardency of her purpose. Literature and the Then we weep bitterly but fruitlessly, seeking in ing qurselves doubled and quadrupled, redupli- that home he loves so well. The captive, bound that since the creation of the world not one fine arts were her especial province. She knew vain to recall any return for the kindnesses with cated and Tetriplicated and reflected, over and with chains in his dungeon, and he that walks single particle of matter has been lost It may one in authority could do much, and HUME tells which our lives have been overwhelmed. We Over, wherever we went; losing our own identity mid the splendors of his palace home, alike woo have passed into new shapes—it may have been us, she so felt her responsibility as the offspring weep bitterly, I said; for there is no grief so cut- in that of somebody else at every street corner. thee as the " sweet restorer" of weary nature, combined with other elements—it may have of her nation's destiny, that she exclaimed, ting as that of self-contempt, self-reproach; and It would have saved us heaps of money in buy- where each for a season may bury their sorrow fruitlessly, unless the weeping urges into growth floated away in smoke or vapor—but it is not "Where is one with the health of my people ing looking-glasses, but then, I fear me much, the and strife. Go on then, even until Death, thine a future harvest of good deeds. And this is not lost. It will come back again in the dew drop of successfully at heart, that I may resign this fear- whole human race would have died of sheer self- own twin-brother, shall claim thy subjects, and so, often. We resolve and re-resolve, but our the rain—it will spring up in the fiber of the ful command." Does not this discover a mind contempt before a year wa» over. secure them in that last, long sleep that "knows words are all that we in truth offer as an atone- plant, or paint itself on the rose-leaf. Through well calculated for the government of king- no waking upon these mortal shores.!' ment for tlft past wrong—the by-gone sin. We This is a digression however, so I'll return to all its transformation Providence watches over doms? quiet our consciences with the thought that, the point, my friend, and tiat, you know, is you. Huntsburgh, Ohio, 1863. F. P. STRONG. and directs it still. . Even so it is with every But the greatest and perhapB the moBt promi- had she^ lived, we would have done differently; One of your failings is tencerness about injuring holy thought, or heavenly desire, or humble nent characteristic of this woman was her su- as she is dead, oiir grief is all we can offer on her somebody's feelings j a morbid dread of getting HARMONY IN AGE. preme devotion to her religious faith. Beared aspiration, or generous and self-denying effort tomb. Does it not seem, then, that we believe, into a quarrel with some oie. I know that you in the Catholic dispensation of her fathers, her It may escape our observation—we may be una- in reality, that the lost are in truth the dead?— will answer that byquotinj the scripture about ALL men whose cultivation keeps pace with text-book of all actions, thoughts and purposes, ble to follow it—but it is an element of the moral that, as the., sleeping body may not know either "Blessed are the peace-makers," and then, their years, grow "better-looking" as they grow were in strict conformity to her belief. We may ; world, and is not lost our wordy grief or our acted repentence, there because it's an argument from the Bible, you older. They need not regret the roses of Spring, in our own faith condemn her religion, but we is nothing beyond that can discern "what man- will think you have silencecl me. But if you will for they are exchanged for the richer fruits of can never do anything but admire her adherence 1 THE MAINTENANCE OF PIETY.—The individ- ner of spirit we are of ?" Is there, then, no spirit read the commentaries on that passage^ Mr. P., Autumn, which represents all the worthy labor to it She fully believed in it, and she placed ual who would be saved, must not only enter upon land? Does the soul that has existed but love to you will find that the peacemaking referred to that has been expended in the years of manhood before us an extraordinary example of faithfuj the Christian pilgrimage—the king's highway— act love—the mother's pure, tender, unselfish there means a shaking of binds between Mercy while they grew and ripened. As a man lives devotion to our faith. Would the people of our but must continue therein to the end of hie soul—does it lie down forever with the uncon- and Truth, and permitting Righteousness and on, all parts harmonize more perfectly to pro- own land and day but accept her as a model in journey. It will not answer to enter the strait scious clay in the dark grave? Can it no more Peace to kiss each other. 1 has nothing to do duce unity and wholeness. Not a gray hair can this respect, our destiny in the hands of GOD gate, go a short distance in the path to heaven, rejoice in our joy, grieve in our sorrow, be trou- with shaking hands with Fdsehood and holding be missed without disturbing the concord, not a would be more of a glad surety. and then stop. He must continue on the way bled with our pains? I do not think thus.—Gar- out the olive branch to Wiikedness — that, too, wrinkle obliterated without destroying some A lovely character in power is too often an he first set out through light, and shade, joy, and for the pitiful excuse of notgetting into trouble, part of the beauty of age. I have seen some especial mark of jealous criticism. Our ideal ine Steinburgh. despondency, never turning aside, or halting, and being unpopular. If ony Truth and Justice old people " got up " in a manner to make them may be perfect, yet we realize here only perfec- ___ > •« until he reaches the Celestial City, and passes lived in the world, and it wis on their rights you look actually frightful, while, I doubt not, they tion broken in Borne respect Perfidy and cruelty THE IDEAL.—AS to every leaf and every through its portals. "He that endurethunto the were afraid of trampling, n< one could complain. supposed themselves in a condition to challenge of the fiercest Bet of nobles who existed in her flower there is an ideal to which the growth of But there are other beings in existence totally end, the same shall be saved." admiration. It is quite amusing to see old fel- age may have excited MARY'S wrath to a just the plant is constantly urging, so is there an unlike these good spirits, rad these, others are lows of fifty or thereabouts, rejuvenated, as they degree, yet the frank proportionateness of her ideal to every human being,—a perfect form in Error, and Oppression, and Fraud—as true sons believe, with wigs on their heads and hair-dye NEXT to the Bible and history, our old men are general character is a much more worthy sub which it might appear were every defect re- of Belial as ever were ban. And talk'about on their whiskers, and playing the agreeable at connecting links with the past, sent down from ject for judgment, and when we consider that i moved and every characteristic excellence stim- peace measures as long a you please, there balls and parties, and in the horse-cars, to girls one generation to serve as a conservative element was between the ages of 16 to 25 that so much ulated to the highest point. Once in an age, has been, and still is, a fighj.betwee n these good', whose mothers had resisted the charms of their in the next succeeding, without which they might was required of her,—just that time when the God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us and wicked forces. * impulses of youth are the most ardent, and the not a false imagining, an unreal character; but youth. They think it is all right, but the girls nkdly destroy themselves. judgment so apt to yield to wrong convictions,— looking through all the rubbish of our imperfec- There is no peace and can be none until laugh at them, and call them old fools. we cannot withhold placing a crown of well- tions, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, Error and her legions gi worsted, and the FOUR things come not back; the broken word, earned laurels upon her youthful brow, and —loves, not the man that we are, but the angel millenial day comes and givis Truth the victory. PERVERSION. — Nothing conveyB a more inac- the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected wishing, in all fervor of soul, that iher mantle that we may be.—E. JB. Slowe. But she will owe you no thinks, Mr. PUTTIMAN, surate idea x>f a whole truth than a part of a truth opportunity. might indeed fall upon us. Some may find it or any of your sort — you tho were but simple so prominently brought forth as to throw the No support, when we are right, can be derived difficult to reconcile their fancy to her aB a wife, BE not niggardly pf what costs thee nothing— privates in her ranks, and Llf unwilling ones at other parts into shadow. — Blackwood's Moga- from those who are very ready to yield to us but her qualities as a sovereign and a true, jus as courtesy, counsel and countenance. that—you who never ventured to draw a bow zine. when we are wrong.

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LANGUAGE OF INSECTS. and elicited the following quaint remark from A MOST singular discovery, the credit of which the President:—'It used to amuse me some (sic) appertains, we believe, to Mr. Jesse, is that of to find that the slaveholders wanted more terri- tory, because they had not room enough for their VEGETATION ON TfiE ALPS. the antennal language of insects. Bees and THE SISTERS OF CHARITY. other insects are provided, as everybody knows, slaves, and yet they complained of not havin HARRY'S PROMISE, UNDER ordinary conditions, vegetation fades with feelers or antennas. These are, in fact, the slave trade, because they wanted mor THE following beautiful and eloquent extract is slaves for their room.'" " O,'GEORGE, that was wicked to say that!" in these mountains at the height of six thousand most delicate organs of touch, warning of dan- from a letter of Guy H. Salisbury, published i "Well, didn't Will Brown spoil my ball and feet, but, in consequence of prevailing winds, gers, and serving the animals to hold a sort of the Buffalo Courier: and the sheltering Influence of the mountain- WEALTH, POWER AND CRIME OF LONDON then throw it at me? It was enough to make conversation with each other, and to communi- The kind Sisters of Charity, whose holy missio walls, there is no uniformity in the limit of per- anybody swear. Father only bought it for me cate their desires and wants. A strong hive of is ever with the suffering, glide noiselessly abou petual snow and ice. Where currents of warm yesterday." bees^will contain thirty-six thousand workers. the hospitals, with nourishment for the feebl< THE city of London now covers an area o air are very constant, glaciers do not occur at all, " For all, George, it was wrong to speak so." Each of these, in order to' be assured of the convalescent, with soothing palliatives for those one hundred and twenty square miles, and con- even where ot&er circumstances are favorable to " What makes it so wrong, Harry? I am sure presence of their queen, touches her every day writhing in the grasp of fell diseases, and mutelj tains a population of about three million souls, their formation. There are valleys in the Alps I think our Joe ought to know a great deal with its antennae. Should the queen die, or be kneeling by the bedside of the dying. On th< It is stated in a late report of the Registrar- far "above «ix thousand feet which have no gla- better than you do, for he, is almost a man, and removed, the whole colony disperse themselves, battle-fields, amidst hurling shots and hissin, General that its population has increased, sine ciers, and where perpetual snow is seen only on when he gets cross at me he talks a great and are seen in the hive no more, perishing shells, they have calmly walked to seek and save 1860, at the rate of one thousand per week. I their northern sides. These contrasts in temper- while longer that way than I did. I don't re- every one, and quitting all the store of now use- the wounded. Stalwart men, who lay gasping in far surpasses any 6ther city on the face of th ature lead to the most wonderful contrasts in the member alf he says." less honey which they had labored so indus- agony unutterable, have shed tears like children, earth in wealth, and alas—it must also be addec soil; summer and winter lie side by side, and "I said something like that once, George. I triously to collect for the use of themselves and as they eagerly drank the restoring draugh —inhuman misery also. The Registrar-Genera' bright flowers look out from the edge of snows was spinning my top and the twine broke. the larvae. On the contrary, should the queen brought by these devoted creatures. Woul records the lamentable fact that one in six o that never melt. Where the warm winds pre- Mother heard what I said, and she called me be put into a small wire cage placed at the bot- that our own Bayard Wilkeson, who for hour those who leave the world die in the publi vail, there may be sheltered spots at a height of up into her room and told me how very wicked tom of the hive, so that her subjects,can touch ebbed out his rich young blood on the gory institutions—workhouses, hospitals, asylums o ten or eleven thousand feet, isolated nooks open- it was to talk so; she was sick then. It wasn't and feed her, they are contented, and the busi- plains of Gettysburg, had Fallen in the hands of prisons. Nearly one in eleven of the deaths is ing southward where the most exquisite flowers a great while ^ afterward, when Uncle Harry ness of the hive proceeds as usual. Mr. Jesse these minstering angels! I Then had not been in the workhouse. Every sixth person dies a bloom in the midst of perpetual snow and ice; came into my little room one night and waken- has also shown that this antennal power of com- written, by his stricken fiither, that eloquen pauper or a criminal! And how great a numbe and occasionally I have seen a bright little ed me. He told me mother was very sick and municatipn is not confined to bees. Wasps and psalm of death whose deep wail was grand as who barely manage to escape this fate. Th flower with a cap of snow over it that seemed to wanted to see me. He carried me to her bed. ants, and probably other insects, exercise it. If the dirge of Saul. Then had the sacred shade of severe competition for subsistence and wealth be its shelter. The flowers give, indeed, a She reached out her thin, white hands when a caterpillars placed near an ant's nest, a cu- Forest Lawn not held that untimely grave. which characterizes London life is a terrible or- peculiar charm to these high Alpine regions. rious scene will often arise A solitar ant will deal for any human being to pass through. she saw me, and smiled. I crept close to her rious scene will often arise. A solitary ant will Blessed, pure, Angelic voman! . If she lost Occurring often in beds of the same kind, form- Cities are centers of great tempte$ons, in and laid my face against hers. She kissed me ing green, blue or yellow patches, they seem perhaps discover it, and eagerly attempt to draw us Eden, she wins for us the more glorious Para- a great many times, and then she asked me'if I it.away, Not being able to accomplish this, it dise of God! which many persons sink every year from wealth nestled close together in sheltered spotty or even to poverty, by a love of display beyond their in- remembered yet, what she had told me about will go up to another ant, and, by means of the "Is that mother?" murmured a New England in fissures and chasms of the rock, where they comes. Others again are tempted still deepen using wicked words. I told her 'yes,'I hadn't antennal language, bring *t to the caterpillar. youth, whose lacerated bosom was heaving with gather in dense quantities. and forsake the paths of virtue for those of vice, used one since.' I think I can see her now, as Still, these two, perhaps, are unable to perform the last struggle, in the Aceldama of an army It is related that of the 8,000 convicts in institu- she looked at me, when she said, ' Harty, I want Even in the sternest Bcenery of the Alps some the task of moving it. They will separate and hospital, as his glazing eye saw dimly the outline tions near London 1,000 were born in affluence, you to promise me, that if you ever think of sign of vegetation lingers; and I remember to bring up re-enforcements of the community by of a female form, and felt a soft hand on his fore- and had received a classical education. Allured using such words, or if yoit hear other boys use have found a tuft of lichen growing on the only the same means, till a sufficient number are col- head, where the drops of death were gathering. by gambling in attending sportive scenes, they them, you will remember what your mother told rock which pierced through the ice on the sum- lected to enable them to drag the caterpillar to His thoughts had wandered far from the palle squandered their patrimony; and being tempted, you.' I promised her I would. Oh, how tight mit of the Jungfrau. The absolute solitude, the their nest— Once a Week. where he lay, back to that village home, in the committed crime, thus sinking to the degraded, she held me then! I can't tell you all she said intense stillness of the upper Alps is most im- quiet Valley of the Connecticut, where father and condition of felons. London has always been then, George, but it was something about God's pressive; no cattle, no pasturage, no bird, nor mother, and sisters and brothers were thinking MACHINERY AND HAND LABOR. an alluring city to provincial youth. Goldsmith taking care of me and my promise. After a any sound of life, — and, indeed, even if there as the days wore on how very soon they should declared that in his day thousands died there while I felt her cheek grow like snow, and she were, the rarity of the air in these high regions welcome home the darling boy who left them so NOT such a great while ago our thread was yearly from broken hearts, stricken by poverty didn't hold me so tight Then Uncle Harry took is such that sound is hardly transmissible. The bravely, so proudly, to battle for the starry flag. spun between the thumb and finger, and all our and to-day similar scenes are witnessed and like me back to my bed, and I saw he had been cry- deep repose, the purity of aspect of every object, And when recalled to partial consciousness by cloth woven in the clumsiest of hand-looms. sorrows experienced to an extent unimagined by ing too." Here Harry stopped and drew his the snow broken only by ridges of angular the gentle offices of the attending nurse, h_ Now, by means of a spinning jenny and weav- the sensitive poet. hand across his eyes. rocks, produce an effect no less beautiful than fondly thought that "mother" had flown to his ing machinery one person will make as much as *-»•* solemn. Sometimes, in the midst of the wide relief on wings of mercy. Heroic lad! he indeed George asked "how long it had been since two hundred yards of cloth in a day. Before then." expanse, one comes upon a patch of the so-called "went home," but not as he left upon the lovely AN INGENIOUS LETTER. red snow of the Alps. At a distance, one would the invention of the cotton gin, one person could " Three years now, for I was >ight last week, not prepare one pound of cotton so easily as he June morning, with a rose vreath onhis bayonet, say that such a spot marked some terrible scene to the roll of stirring drams and waviiig o MR. EDWA»RD J. WOOD makes public, through and I was only five when mother died." of blood, but as you come nearer, the hues are can now prepare one hundred pounds. Our the London Notes and Queries, the following "And have you remembered all this time, grandmothers could barely knit one pair of socks triumphant banners. The drums beat with so tender and delicate, as they fade from deep muffled notes, and craped banners drooped letter, which he found among some old family Harry?" red to rose, and so die into the pure colorless in a day—now, by means of a machine, one little papers. It was addressed to the actor LISTON, ' Yes. Sometimes I think of using bad words, girl can turn out a hundred dollars' worth of mournfully as they bore the young soldier to his snow around, that the first impression is com- rest! and is made up in the names of plays which when the boys make me cross, but, right away, I pletely dispelled. This red is an organic growth knitted material in a day. A few jears ago we were popular in the last century: seem to see mother looking at me, just as she did — a plant springing up in such abundance that were told that it took seventeen men to make a We of the North know but little, practically, Friend LISTON, Better Late than Never. You that night" it colors extensive surfaces, just as the micro- complete pin; now the machihe is fed with the of the dire miseries of the war. We fail to are All in the Wrong to make yourself such a Busy- " Well, Harry, I am going to try your promise scopic plants dye our pools with green in the i&w material which is not touched again until realize them. Money is poured out freely on body into acting; but Every Man in his Humor. too. Shall I?" spring. It is an Algra well known in the Arc- rolled up in papers of pins. In Providence, R. I, the altar of the nation, for the costly sacrifices o I'll tell you what, he wpuld if he could be a "Why, yes, if you will, George, but—" he tics, where it forms wide fields in the summer.— there is a machine which takes a strip of metal the strife, but plenty still smiles around us, and Critic, a very Peeping Tom; such things are the stopped and looked down, Agassiz in the Atlantic Monthly. from a coil, and makes two hundred and thirty our homes are quiet and happy as in the halcyon rage. All's Well that Ends Well. I scorn to "But what, Harry?" inches of delicate chain out of it, in a day. The days. But those who have gone from among us play the Hypocrite, and wish we were Next-door "I was going to tell you what I thought helped 1 -1 metala are no longer worked by hand—a slow, to take part in the conflict, who have seen the WORTH REMEMBERING. Neighbors, then we could have the School for me to keep my promise. You fmusn't tell the wearing process; they are shaved, sawed, bored actralities of the terrible strife, alone know how Scandal, a Quarter of an Hour before Dinner, or other boys this, they might laugh at it; you know ana hammered with the greatest ease and accu- real and sad a thing it is. Yet it has developed THE following article from Dr. Hall's Journal Half an Hour after Supper; talk of Ways and we never like them to laugh at us, and that would racy, as much so as if they were the softest pine. many noble traits of character—has called out of Health, contains practical hints on various Means, the Wheel of Fortune, the Follies of a be laughing at mother." energies and sympathies that redeem our com- ; subjects that are worthy of attention : An instrument has been contrived .and per- Day, Humors of an Election, and make quite a ' I'll not tell, Harry, if you don't want me to." mon nature. There have [teen deeds of high Family Party, be all in Good Humor, and never :( 1. It is unwise to change to cooler clothing, fected of exceedingly delicate powers, which Well, I think it was the prayer mother made measures the operation of mind itself—tells the emprise, rivaling the mighty daring of the have the Blue Devils; but may ydu and your except when you first get up in the morning. afterward that helps me keep my promise; and exact time it takes for a sensation from the finger • mailed Crusaders, who followed to Palestine the lady always prove the Constant Couple. Pray besides that, every night and morning ever since, 2. Never ride with your arm or elbow outside to reach the brain—two-tenths of a second I Go Banner of the Cross. There have been charges how is Miss in her Teens? By-and-by she will when I kneel at my bed, I ask God to help me any vehicle. into a certain India rubber store in New York as desperate as that of the famous Six Hundred at be sighing Heigho for a Husband. I hope he will keep my promise to my mother." 3. The man who attempts to alight from a and you will find a hundred different articles Balaklava. There have been hand to hand con not prove a Deaf Lover, but may they possess Mothers, be encouraged! The little seeds of steam-6ar while in motion is a fool. made of that one staple—only a few years ago flicts as deadly as that of Roderick Dhu. And Love for Love. 'You are a Married Man, and counsel which you are daily scattering are never good for nothing but to rub out marks, and fur- who can tell the unnumbered and unknown know how to Riiie a Wife, and Mrs. L. I have no lost. Like a rich harvest, they will return in L In stepping from any wheeled vehicle while heroes, whose courage, constancy, fortitude and in motion, let it be from the rear, and. not in front nish active-jawed young persons something to doubt understands The Way to keep Him; may blessing on your children's hearts. chew. As wood gives oat coal pits are found endurance, have been worthy the Martyr's crown ? she prove a Grandmother, and be happy in her Perhaps they seem unmindful of your kind in- of the wheels; for then, if you fall, the wheels can Who shall give sufficient meed to the faithful not run over you. everywhere. We begin to fear for lights with Son-in-Law. Now as to this letter, What d'ye structions and gentle words; but remember, that which to illuminate our homes, and make all surgeons devotedly working for hours [at their call it? Believe me, in this Romance of an Hour He never forgets, who said, "If ye shall ask any- 5. Never attempt to cross a road or street in a things cheerful; when lo! oil is distilled from fearful task, on the margin of the battle field, I do not mean Cross Purposes, but rather hope thing in my name, I will do it"—8. 8. Times. hurry, in front of a passing vehicle; for if you regardless of dangerous missiles, of the sweep of coal, and we even have streams of it spouting it will be the Agreeable Surprise. You may •-•-• — should stumble or slip, you will be run over. cavalry, and the thunder of batteries? Dread, wonder, but the authorlis a Child of Nature out of the ground to fill our lamps with! Coal THE GERMAN BOY. Make up the half-minute lost by waiting until the tar, once regarded as useless, is now manufac- grim-visaged war, beneath thy breast of steel whose whole life has beenTa Chapter of Acci- vehicle has passed, by increased diligence in tured into many different merchantable articles, there beats a human heart! dents and Much Ado about Nothing, who endea- some other direction. AMONG the children in one of the Sabbath some of them of great value.—Scientific Amerir vors to keep up his vivacity Abroad and a,t schools in New York was a little German boy, 6. It is miserable economy to save time by LINCOLNIANA. Home, has Two Strings to his Bow, and is no whose parents were very poor. From the time robbing yourself of necesary sleep. Liar when he says he is yours truly. August 8, he entered the school he was remarkable for MR. EDWAT* D DICET, known as the English 7. If you find yourself inclined to wake up at a 1802. Sunday, Sevenoaks, Kent. his eagerness to learn, and his docility. His THE TITANS OP AMERICA.—A correspondent author of a life of Count Cavour, is traveling in regular hour in the night and remain awake, you teacher's hopes were, however, frustrated, by a of the American Phrenological Journal says: this country, and furnishes one of the London can break up the habit in three days, by getting CHILDREN AND THEIR MEMORIES. " While you have spoken of the Kentuckians, sudden illness, which cut him down in a few up as soon as you wake, and not going to sleep magazines with some lively pictures of men and Tennesseans, West Virginians and Marylanders, days. During his sickness the superintendent again until your usual hour for retiring; or retire things. In his last contribuiion he speaks of IT seems "to me that nothing could have pre- as being so large and finelydeveloped , permit of his school went to see him, and found him two hours later, and rise two hours earlier for meeting the President at a small party in Wash- served our nursery rhymes and legends, even in me to say that the true Titans of America have perfectly happy—» waiting." That afternoon he three days in succession; not sleeping a moment ington, and relates the following: their present comparative purity, but. an intui- escaped.your notice—men among whom, though suddenly,rose on his elbow, and exclaimed, in the day time. " The conversation, like that of all American tive sense of literary justice in children and a nobody.myself I have walked, feeling myself "Mother, do you hear that music? IIJ'B so official men I have met with, was unrestrained peculiar tenacity of accuracy lost at a later age. beautiful; don't you hear it?" His mother 8. If infants and young children are inclined among gods, physically speaking, of course- in the presence of strangers, to a degree per- to be wakeful in the night, or very early in the A lady who teaches a number of very little boys thinking his mind affected, tried to hueh him, men beside whom the Highlanders are in a fectly astonishing. Any remarks that I heard and girls in a Sunday school has told me that one morning, put them to bed later; and, besides, measure pigmies—men among whom SUB feet but he repeated thejwords^ looking up at the made as to the present state «f affairs I do not Sunday, to the unbounded delight of her chil- sametime with eager eyes. Then he began to arrange that their day nap shall be in the fore- three inches and a chest of forty-five, forty-eight, feel at liberty to repeat, thmgh really every noon. : dren, she explained to them a colored print of sing in hjs singularly sweet voice,-"I he,arthe and even fifty inches are not uncommon I public man here appears noi only to live in a the sale of Joseph by his brethren. Of course 9. " Order is heaven's first law," regularity is angels coming, coming." When he had snug mean the backwoodsmen of Maine, to whom glass house, but in a reverbenting gallery, and the brethren had to be named; but on that day nature's great rule; hence regularity in eating, the hymn through once, he began again, "I three generations, spent for the* most part in to be absolutely indifferent ts to who sees or week, when the picture wassailed for again, she sleeping, and exercise, has a very large share in hear the angels coming—rooming}— coming." the open air, battling with the piney monarohs hears him. There are a few ' lincolniana,' how- was so unfortunate as to transfer one of the securing a long and healthful life. As he repeated the word "coming" the third that girt the Umbagog, the Moosehead, and other ever, which I may fairly quote, and which will iames of the previous Sunday—the Issachar of time his eyes closed, and he was gone to meet 10. If you are caught in a drenching rain, or lakes and streams of that wild, bracing North- show the style of his conversion. Some of the last week was now Zebulon. To her the breth- it is believed, the angels whose coming he de- fall in the water, by all means keep in motion ern climate, have given the most gigantic devel- party began Bmoking, and oir host remarked, ren resembled each other as much as one ninepin sired, and to dwelliWlth Jesus. • opment of physical power which I ever saw or laughingly, 'The President hts got no vices; he sufficiently vigorous to prevent the slightest ioes another; but for them the personality of had any authentic account of." neither smokes nor drinks.' ' That is a doubtful chilly sensation until you reach the house; then iach was slrongly marked. Her error was compliment,'answered the Pesident; 'I recol- THE BRIGHT PENNY. change your clothing with great rapidity before quickly perceived; she was corrected, and wisely a blazing fire, and drink instantly a pint of some lect once being outside a stag* in Illinois, and a How TO CURE A SMOKT CHIMNEY.—"I have admitted the mistake. The sense of truth, how- man sitting by me offered me a cigar. I told LIZZIE'S grandpa gave her a penny. It was hot liquid. just succeeded," says Mr. C. Butler-Clough, in ever, of her class was wounded, and it was some him I had no vices. He sail nothing, smoked bright and new, and Lizzie thought it was very 11. To allow the clothing to dry upon you the Mining Journal, "in curing an obstinate time before she regained the full confidence for some time, and then gruited out, ' It's my beautiful. She kept it wrapped in a piece o • unless by keeping up vigorous exercise until smoky chimney by the aid of a zinc covering which she possessed before, I.have seen a very experience that folks who hsve no vices have soft paper, that it might stay bright. Very of- thoroughly dried, is suicidal. outside a common earthenware chimney pot, serious difference respecting the personality of plaguey few virtues.' Again, a gentleman pres- ten she would undo the paper to look at the having two openings in the zinc, one east and Noah's sons in a small ark; and when the case 12. If you are conscious of being in a pagsion, ent was telling how a frienc of his had been penny, and asked if it was not a beautiful one. the other west There are also two partitions or ivas referred to me I did not hastily decide, but Ispep your mouth shut, for words increase it driven away from New Orleans as a Unionist, After some time Lizzie earned another penny. deliberately examined Shem and Japhei^ and Many a person has dropped dead in a rage. stoppers, north and south, to prevent the draught and how, on hifl expulsion, wten he asked to see So she had two. One day she wished to spend then without lightness or hesitation, pronounced 13. If a person "faints," place him on his back from escaping by the opposite opening. By the the writ by which he was explled, the deputa- one of them for a slate pencil. So she took the a final judgment, and both parties were pleased and let him alone; heVants arterial blood to aid of this contrivance an upward current of air tion which called on him told lim that the gov- pennies from her pocket, saying, "Hamma, I md thanked me. That was a cruel and thought- the head; and it is easier for the heart to throw is carried outside the flue to its top, on the wind- ernment had made up their minds to do nothing don't want to buy a pencil with the bright new less answer of a showman, when he was asked u it there in a horizontal line, than perpendicu- ward side of the chimney. I have now had the illegal, and so they had issuec no illegal writs, penny, but with the other. I wan* *° P * the which was Wellington and which was Napoleon: larly.. plan in use for some time, and in the face of and simply meant to make Km go of his own mghtest into the missionary box." So the pen- 'Whichever you like?" as if one were not several most violent storms not a particle of free will. 'Well,' said Mr. Lincoln, 'that re- jil was bought, and by-and-by the bright new H. If you want to get instantly rid of a beastly •eally and immutably the English, and one the smoke or soot has come down the flue. In other minds me of a hotel keeper dr too beautiful to gfre him. Best of all, chil- means, then you will not be hustled off to a find a friend; in adversity it is of all things the At another time the conversation turned upon cheerless hospital in your last sickness. the discussions as to the Miss)uri compromise, •ong, such an utter carelessness of truth.— iren, you can giro him your bright young most difficult Temple Bar. hearts.—American Messenger. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection

back and took position as the left wing. War- by a section of this force, having four pieces of had seized the end of Missionary Ridge next to NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ren's (2d) corps, on the right, drove the rebel artillery. They fired several Bhots, one of which the river and was entrenching himself. General went through the wheel-house. She was struck Howard with a brigade opened communication Deafness,, Catarrh, aand diseases of the Eye, Ear, and skirmishers beyond Robertson's Tavern, and hroat—DrshoatDrsDrs.. Lighthill. formed the center on the right Gen. Prince's by a shell in the boiler deck. There being a with him from Chattanooga on the south side of Beadle & CompanyCom , DimDme BBoook Publishersub . Godey s Lady8 Book—L A GodeyGod . division, consisting of the 2d and 3d corps, met heavy fog, she escaped further injury. No lives the river. Corn Crushers-ClarCrusheCl k SorsrhSho Machine Co. Chattanooga—J w TinnanaAax a heavy body of Ewell's corps and fought them were lost General Hooker scaled the slope of Lookout Farm for Sale-H^ton 'DX. There is a report, which is authentic, of a Mountain, and from the valley of Lookout Creek Nursery Foreman Wanted-rc MaxwelMa l & Bros. several hours, until the remainder of the corps Workmen Wanted-F K Phoenix. came up, and later the 6th corps. The 3d corps strong rebel force gathering at Clinton La., and drove the rebels around the point He captured Agents Wanted—C RncvW * (ia Quince Stocks for Sal^MtokDWi lost heavily. The loss is estimated at 500 killed another at Woodville, Miss. some 2,000 prisoners and established himself high up the mountain side, in full view of Chatta- Special Notice*. and wounded and many prisoners, but we se- The rebels are very active all along the river, Atlantic Monthly—Ticknor & Fields verely punished the enemy in killed and from Baton Rouge to the Mississippi State line, nooga. This raised the blockade, and now the Free Homesteads at the West. wounded, and took, as Gen. French reports, 900 and all their movements look to preparations for steamers were ordered from Bridgeport to Chat- prisoners: Our forces on the center had no concentrating and planting batteries to obstruct tanooga. They had run only to Kelly's Ferry, severe fighting, and consequently our loss is the commerce of tie Mississippi. whence ten miles of hauling over mountain light From Western Louisiana there is news of a roads and twice across the Tennessee River on two pontoon bridges brought us our supplies. On Saturday morning it was discovered that very well managed reconnoissance and surprise — This year's crops in Canada are a success. the enemy's center had fallen back. of the enemy on" ttie 20th. Cavalry were sent All night the point of Missionary Ridge, on the OUR flago n the land, our flag on the ocean, — Emancipation in the Dutch East Indies works well all Their skirmishing lines are in the woods, some out on the Abbey vllle road and the Vermillion- extreme left, and at the side of Lookout Moun- around. An angel of peace wherever it goes; tain, and on the extreme right, burned the camp Nobly sustained by Columbia's devotion, mile and a half nearer Orange Court House. ville, in the rear of Camp Pratt, supported by — Peru employs 250,000 persons in the India-rubber The angel of Death it shall be to our foes. The heavy rains, it was thought, would hinder infantry and artillery. They took the enemy fires of loyal troops. Theday had been one of mist usiness. and rain, and much of Hooker's battle was True to its native sky, any heavy oflFenBive field operations on Satur- completely by surprise, capturing the whole of — Fifty tuns of grapes passed through Detroit one day Still shall our Eagle fly, day. the 6th Texas, with the exception of 25 men, fought above the clouds, which concealed him last -week. Casting his sentinel glances afar:— from our view, but from which his guns were It was reported that Gen. Kilpatrick's cavalry commanded by Col. Bagley. The Lieut-Col- — The Washington hotels are going to charge $3 per Tho' bearing the olive branch division and Gen. Custer attempted to cross onel and Major were absent and escaped. They heard. During the night the sky cleared, and in day this winter. Still in his talons staunch, also dispersed the 2d Louisiana cavalry, (rebel,) the full moon the traitor's doom shone upon the Grasping the bolts of the thunders of war. under the rebel batteries at Racoon Ford on — Six inches of snow lately fell in Machias, and a foot Friday, and were driven back. Heavy guns and returned with a slight loss. beautiful scene till 1 P. M., when the twinkling in Eastport, Me. sparks upon the mountain Bide showed that were heard there all the P. M., tending to con- The news from G«n. Banks, in Texas, con- — A woman was recently smothered to death in a mud- ROCHESTER, N., T., DECEMBER 5,1863. picket skirmishing was going on; then it ceased. firm the truth of the report that the enemy used tinues good. He has captured Corpus Christi, lole in St. Louis. A brigade sent from ChattanoogqLcrossed the no artillery on our front on Friday, and we have and several smaller places. — The official count in N. Y. State gives a Republican Chattanooga Creek and opened communication The Army in Virginia. very little, owing to the densely wooded and The Texans are exhibiting evidences of Union- majority of 29,505. with Hooker. ON the A. M. of Thanksgiving Day, thehilly character of the ground. ism wherever the anny marches, so much so — Vm. E. Dodge, of New York, has given $10,000 to Army of the Potomac broke camp and marched that arms and equipments for them, particularly Gen. Grant's headquarters during the P. M. of bund a college in Syria. toward the Rapidan in "three columns. The Department of the South, for the cavalry Bervice, are being sent from New the 23d and the day gf the 24th, were in Wood's — Lord Brougham in a recent speech referred to a work right, consisting of the 3d corps, supported by Orleans. redoubt, except in the course of the day he rode e published 60 years ago I THE correspondent of the Boston Traveller, the 6th, was ordered to cross at Jacob's Ford. The N. O. Era has dispatches from Mobile along the advanced lines, visiting the headquar- writing from Folly Island under date of the — The receipts of the North-western Sanitary Fair at The 2d corps to cross at Germania Ford, and the papers of the 18th, which say that Charleston ters of the several commanders in Chattanooga Chicago were over $65,000. 16th, says: 5th, supported by the 1st, to cross at Culpepper has been burning 63 hours, and Gilmore's shell valley. — They are going to have a wine "congress" in Paris, Ford, between Germania and Ellis' Ford. The The loss of the rebels is said to be from five to are constantly making ft worse. Nearly all the At daylight of the 25th the Stars and Stripes o decide which is the best. center column arrived at Germania about noon. twelve daily. Our casualties a few weeks ago men in Sumter were killed by the fall of the were discovered on the peak. The rebels had — Rations given to Vicksbnrg people during thirty Only a small picket of Georgia cavalry were were fully equal to the rebels, but now that the remaining wall, under which they had taken evacuated the mountain. Gen. Hooker moved days cost Uncle Sam $52,000. effective guns of the enemy have been silenced, seen on the other side. refuge. to descend the mountain, and striking Mission- — The cotton that came to New Orleans in September our casualties are rare. Fort Sumter suffers in The Era says St. Luke's Church, on Hercules ary Ridge at the Passville Gap, to sweep on both ind October was 23,400 bales. Early's corps (formerly Gen. Ewell's) was for- meek silence, not displaying even her flag more tified from a point near Mountain Run, south of street, had been burned by incendiaries, because sides and on its summit Rebel troops were — Thirty editors and printers were among the killed than half the time. Fort Moultrie and Johnson it was used as a negro school. seen as soon as it was light enough, streaming and wounded at Chickamauga. the Rapidan, following the crest of hills west- shoot with no great vigor, and our men easily The Navy Department has been informed that regiments and brigades along the narrow sum- — New Ipswich, N. H., entered her full quota of men, wardly to the railroad, where it connected with dodge under cover and avoid danger. Mean- recently acting Lieutenant-Commanding Smith, mit of Missionary Ridge either concentrating on under the last call, over a week ago. Hill's corps, which covered the Rapidan, thence time new forts are being thrown up on this and of the steamer Bermuda, re-captured the Bchooner the right to overwhelm Sherman or marching to — English landlords are bewailing the increased emi- westwardly. The enemy's right flank near the adjacent islands, which will shortly command Campbell, off Pensaoola Bar, from a gang of the railroad and raising the siege. They had gration from Ireland to America. mountain was protected by a line of works di- all navigable channels, and give relief to our verging from the river defences, running south rebels commanded by the notorious Jas. Duke. evacuated the valley of Chattanooga. Would — The subscriptions to the Rhode Island hospital reach blockading squadron. Thus slowly but surely they abandon that of Chickamauga? $275,000, and are still coming in. and then south-west, resembling our own posi- the work goes on—the right of our cause and Two other schooners were in company with the The 20-pounder 4j inch rifles on Wood's re- — The rebels now hold as prisoners no less than seven tion at Gettysburg. Our crossing points, there- the strong arm of the nation prevails, and the Campbell,—one was burned and the other went' doubt opened on Missionary Ridge. Orchard jorrespondents of the N. Y. Herald. fore, were all between the Rappahannock and good time so long coming still advances. safely up to Pensacola, Bay. Six men were cap- Knob sent its compliments to the Ridge, the the rebel position. A portion of our troopB The N. Y. Herald's Morris Island letter says: tured, but Duke escaped. — Edwin Hammond, of Middlebury, Vt, lately sold rifled parrots answered, and the cannonade thus ;wo Spanish Merino ewes for $1,600. reached the other side of the Rapidan during the During Sunday night the monitor Lehigh, Very latest by telegraph to the South-west commenced, continued all day. Shot and shell day, and the remainder on the 27th, together while on picket duty near Fort Sumter, got Pass: — The loss at the late firei n Nevada City was $550,000, streamed from Missionary Ridge to Orchard f which only $50,000 were insured. with the headquarters, which moved before 9 aground. Daylight discovered her position to NEW ORLEANS, NOV. 21.—On the 17th inst Knob, and from Wood's redoubts over the heads o'clock A. M. The enemy were discovered in the enemy, who at once began a furious fire upon our forces attacked Aransas City, Texas, and it — Java yelds the Dutch government a million dollars of Generals Grant and Thomas and their staffs, annually by the traffic in bird's nests. force, but contracted their lines and fell back her, both from James and Sullivan's Islands. surrendered. We captured 100 prisoners and who were with us in this favorable position, from from the river. No opposition was made to our Three other monitors, the Montauk, Passaic and three guns. — The Maryland farmers are importing German agri- whence the whole battle could be seen. The crossing, excepting at one of the upper fords. Nahant, moved to aid her. The Admiral culturists—no negro labor procurable. Shortly after this, 9 AVM., a heavy cannonading headquarters were under fire all day. — Prize property to the amount of $1,360,183 89, has boarded the Nahant, and called for volunteers to Movements in the West and South-West commenced, and continued up to 5 P. M., with- carry a hawser to the Lehigh. Out of the num- Cannonading and musketry were heard from been sold in New York since the 15th ult. TENNESSEE.— Major-General Grant has out intermission. ber who offered themselves, the surgeon and two Gen. Sherman, and Gen. Howard marched the — The Cincinnati Enquirer says the Government has been giving us glad tidings from his Department. recently purchased some twenty steamers. The Army of the Potomac advanced at 6 sailors were accepted, and proceeded on their 11th corps to join him. Gen. Thomas sent out Our space will only permit the publication of the skirmishers who drove in the rebel pickets and — The voters in Venwigo Co., Pa., the great oil co«fity, O'clock on the morning of the 27th. from near desperate mission under a tremendous fire. following official papers: chased them into their entrenchments, and at the increased in two years from 1,713 to 6,265. Germantown, Culpepper and Jacob's Fords, and After three attempts, they succeeded in getting CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 25—7,16 P. M. foot of Missionary Ridge Gen. Sherman made an — Black Squirrels are swarming the Canadian woods to formed in line of battle, the center resting on a line fast to the Lehigh, and at the turn of the To Major-General Halleck: — Although the a greater extent than for many years past. tide the Nahant towed her off. Admiral Dahl- battle lasted from early dawn till dark, I believe assault against Bragg's right, entrenched on a the Fredericksburg turnpike, near Robertson's — Consul Giddings is to be tried for kidnapping Red- gren promoted the two seamen on the spot to I am not premature In announcing A COMPLETE high knob next to that on which Sherman lay tavern. The left advanced along the plank VICTORY OVER BRASG. Lookout Mountain top, path, before the Superior Court of Canada. road, forming a curve toward Gordonsville, and the rank of petty officers. Commander Bryson, fortified. The assault was gallantly made. Sher- all the rifle pits in Chattanooga Valley and Mis- man reached the edge of the crest and held his — The cranberry crop of Cape Cod amounts to 3,69* the rest terminating near the Rapidan, south- of the Lehigh, and the executive officer, Lieut. sionary Ridge entire, have been carried, and are barrels, at the aggregate value of $38,660 25. west of Jacob's Ford. As the center advanced, Hopkins, were both wounded. held by us. U. S. GRANT, Maj.-Gen. ground for, it seemed to me, an hour, but was bloodily repulsed by'reserves. — Bishop Polk is not likely, Southern people say, to- it came upon the enemy's pickets and skirmish CHATTANOOGA, NOV. 25—Midnight. re-enter the pulpit when this cruel war is over. Fifteen shells were thrown into Charleston on To Maj.-Qeneral Halleck, General-in-Chief:— A general advance was ordered and a strong line. Subsequently the enemy's line was the 19th. There is very little firing this morn- The operations of to-day have been more suc- line of skirmishers followed by a deployed line — Corn 16 feet 4 inches high, from West India seed, strengthened by the arrival of re-enforcements ing. The enemy has been busily engaged in cessful than yesterday, having carried Missionary of battle some two miles in length. At the sig- has been raised this season at South Norwalk, Ct. nal of eleven shots from headquarters on Orchard from Ewell's corps, on the Rapidan front erecting a formidable battery in the rear of the Ridge from aear Rossville to the railroad tunnel, — The Waynesburg (Pa.) Republican puts Abraham About 10 o'clock a slow and irregular cannona- with a comparatively small loss on our side, cap- Knob the line moved rapidly and orderly for- Moultrie House, on Sullivan's Island. For some turing about 40 pieces of artillery, a large quan- ward. The rebel pickets discharged their mus- Lincoln for President at the head of its columns. ding commenced on the road leading to Orange weeks past the hospital flag has been shown at tity of small arms, camp and garrison equipage, kets and ran into their rifle pits. Our skirmishers — The last survivor of the massacre of Wyoming^ Court House, and there was considerable firing the Moultrie House, in order to protect it from besides the arms in the hands of the prisoners. followed on their heels. The line of battle was Jeremiah Spencer, died on the 22d ult. at New-Hartford, between the skirmishers. The enemy does not our fire, but it seems the house, instead of being We captured 2,000 prisoners, of whom 200 were not far behind, and we saw the grey rebels swarm Conn. reply with artillery. officers of all grades from Colonel down. We out of the line of rifle pits, which surprised us, used as an hospital, has furnished the rebels a will pursue the rebels in the morning. The con- and over the base a few turned and fired their — It is said there will soon be enough colored troops on At 4 o'clock it was announced that Hill's corps, screen, behind which they built the battery in duct of the officers and troops was everything pieces, and a greater number collected into the the Mississippi to guard the whole river and garrison the which had previously rested on the Rapidan question. that could be expected. Missionary Ridge was many roads which crossed obliquely up its steep towns. carried simultaneously at six different points. face. Some regiments pressed on and swarmed — There are 38,183 houses of worship in the U. S,, of near the railroad, was approaching on the center, The steamer Fulton, from Port Royal the 20th, G H. THOMAS, Maj.-Gen. up the steep side of the Ridge, and here and and half an hour later heavy musketry was arrived in New York on the 23d. She had the there a color was advanced Deyond the line. which 12,814, or about thirty-three per cent, are in reb- eldom. heard on the right, showing that the 3d corps, rebel blockade runner Banshee in tow, having CHATTANOOGA, NOV. 27—1 A. M. The attempt appeared more dangerous; but the To Maj.-Gen. H. W. HaUeck:—! am just in forming that wing, was engaged with the enemy captured the latter on the 17th, after a long chase advance was supported, and the whole line — The inmates of the Massachusetts State Prison are from the front. The rout of the enemy is most ordered to storm the heights, upon which not less making articles to be sold at a Sanitary Fair to be held in up to 6 o'clock P. M. of Friday. Our casualties and firing many shots at her. According to in- complete. Abandoned wagons, caisson?, and than forty pieces of artillery, and no one knows Boston. were few in the center. The only officer of rank formation in possession of the Navy Depart- occasional pieces of artillery are everywhere to how many muskets, stood ready to slaughter the — A bill to allow any one to change big name as often at that time known to be killed is Lieut-Col. ment, the Banshee was built at the yard of be found. I think Bragg's loss will fully reach assailants. With cheers the men swarmed up- Bixty pieces of artillery. A large number of ward. They gathered to the parts least difficul as he chooses has been introduced into the Vermont Leg- Hesser, of the 72d Pa. regiment Jones, Quiggan & Co., in Liverpool, and launched prisoners have fallen into our hands. The pur- of ascent, and the line was broken. Color after islature. in the latter part of November, 1862. She is a The battle ground is in the wilderness, with suit will continue to Red Clay in the morning, color was planted on the summit, while cannon — It is expected that coal can be obtained at FabiuSj, but little open country, consequently an accu- paddle-wheel steamer, and called a steel boat, for which place I shall start in a few hours. and muskets vomited their thunder upon them. Onondaga county, N. Y., and a shaft is being sunk for the the plates used in her construction being of steel, U. S. GRANT, Maj.-Gen. A shell from Orchard Knob exploded a rebel rate description of our position cannot be given, caisson, when the driver of the gun whipped up purpose. but it will be perceived we have the enemy's three-quarters of an inch in thickness, which are The following statement is from Quartermas- the horses and attempted to get it off. A party — One hundred million more feet of lumber than usual fortified position, the heights skirting the Rapi- said to be equal to iron plates an inch thick. ter-General Meige, U. S. A., who was at Chatta- of our soldiers, intercepted them, and the gun was are in the Western markets, and yet the prices are higher dan on their right, and can compel them to give She is 220 feet long, 20 broad and 12 deep. Her nooga during the three days' battle: captured with cheers. than ever. bottom is flat, and her hull is divided into four battle if they intend to fight upon ground less HBADQTARTERS, CHATTANOOGA, NOV. 26. — There are 8,650,000 bushels of coal in the Yougiog- water-tight compartments. Her engines are A fierce musketry fight broke out on the left, favorable to us. To E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:—On the where between Thomas and Sherman a mile o: heny and the pools at Monongahela, Pa., waiting for a Jeff. Davis, owing to the unfavorable weather oscillating, of 120 horse-power, and so con-23d instant, at 11.50 A. M., Gen. Grant ordered two was occupied by the rebels. Bragg left th( rise toge t out of Wednesday, did not review the army, as he structed as to be under the decks. When fully a demonstration igainst Missionary Ridge, to house where he had held his headquarters and — Oswego prepared corn is a favorite article in England, intended, and he is said by prisoners to have re- loaded, she draws only eight feet of water. develop the force holding it The troops rode to the rear as our troops appeared on either for puddings, custards, &c., and is largely advertised in side of him. Gen. Grant proceeded to the sum the London papers. turned to Richmend on Thursday. Major-General Butler was at Newbern on the marched out, formed in order, and advanced in mit, and not till then did we know its height — Not less than 30,000 persons have emigrated from Gen. Greig's cavalry and artillery had a severe 19th ult, on a tour of inspection to the different line of battle as if on parade. The rebels Some of the captured artillery was put in posi- military posts in this Department watched the formation and movement from their tion. Artillerists were sent for to work the guns, California to Nevada Territory, attracted by the gold mine* flgh| with the enemy's right wing of cavalry on and caissons searched for ammunition. The in the latter region. picket lines and rile pits, and from the summits Thursday P. M. We drove them back on their rebel log breastworks were torn to pieces, carried — The government taxes levied thus far upon the prop- infantry lines, when we were compelled to fall Department of the Gulf. of Missionary RUge, 400 feet above us, and to the other side of the ridge, and used in forming erty in the 3d Congressional District of Massachusetts barricades. A strong line of infantry was formed back. His loss is said to be about 150 killed. THK steamer George Washington, from New thought it was a review and drill, so openly, de- amount to $700,470. liberately and regilarly was it all done. The in the rear of Baird's line, hotly engaged with The 5th corps coming up, the enemy was in turn Orleans the 21st, arrived at New York on the the rebels to the left, and a secure lodgment — The city fathers of Schenectady have authorized the compelled to retreat 28th ult. line advanced, pneeded by skirmishers, and at effected. Another assault to the right of oui purchase of 100 cords of wood for the use of the poor of A train of the 5th corps, advancing on the The steamer Bermuda arrived at New OrleanB 2 P. M. reached tte picket lines, and opened a center gained the summit and the rebels fled that city this winter. rattling volley upen the rebel pickets, who ran Hooker coming into position swept the right o . plank road, were attacked on the flank by the on the 18th, with six pirates on board, taken from the ridge, capturing many prisoners, and th< — During the quarter ending on the 30th of September rebel oavalry, who destroyed fifteen or twenty a schooner which they had captured a few into their advancec line of rifle pits. After them battle of Chattanooga was won. last 1,314,375 letters were delivered by carriers from the wagons, killed two men and several mules. hours previous. Another schooner, captured by went our skirmiBiers, and after them 25,000 The strength of the rebellion in the center if Philadelphia post office. troops, which Gen Thomas had so quickly dis- broken. Burnside relieved. Kentucky and Ten Lee has evacuated Fredericksburg Heights, a portion of the same gang, was run ashore and — More than half a million of bricks have been used played. Prisoners assert that they thought the nessee rescued, Georgia threatened from th( in the construction, of the dome alone of the new Catholic which are now occupied by our cavalry. burned. rear, and a victory added to the chapter of " TTn whole movement a general drill, and that it was cathedral in Philadelphia. On Friday morning it was found that the The prize schooner Matamoras, with cotton, conditional Surrender Grant" — A submarine volcano has lately broken forth about rebels had fallen back from our center to two has arrived at New Orleans. too late to send fir re-enforcements, and were To-night the estimate of our captures is sev overwhelmed by E force of numbers. It was a eral thousand prisoners and thirty pieces c twemty-five miles from Sicily, and formed a small island miles nearer Orange Court House. The British brig Volant, with a general cargo, artillery. eighty or ninety yards long. arrived at New Orleans on the 19th, a prize to surprise in open djylight. Bragg is firing the railroad as he retreat The above intelligence is up to the evening of — The English fleet of gunboats built during the Cri- Friday, and was brought to Washington by a the gunboat Virginia. At 3 P. M., an inportant advance position of toward Bealton. Sherman is in hot pursuit To-day I reviewed the battle field, which ex mean war are fast decaying, and many have been declared special messenger, who came near being cap- The British brig Dashing Wave arrived at Orchard Knob, ani the lines right and left were tends for six miles along Mission Ridge and foi useless, and are broken up. tured by guerrillas. Additional information, New Orleans ou the 20th, a prize to the gunboat in our possession, and arrangements were or- several miles along Lookout Mountain. — The total indebtedness of the State of Georgia is which has come to hand through another source, New London. She was captured going into the dered for holding Ihem through the night. But one assault was repulsed; but theft assaul $14,149,410. This is $47 of indebtedness for every white states that the line was formed on Frijiay about Rio Grande. She had on board a cargo of The next day a daylight, Gen. Thomas had calling to that point the rebel reserves preventec them from repulsing any other. male inhabitant of the State. noon, on the road leading to Orange Court clothing and medicine, and $70,000 in gold. 5,000 men across tie Tennessee and established A few days since, Bragg sent to Gen. Grant — Coal that is shipped to Cincinnati on speculation is House. Reports from the Mississippi river are that a on the south bank,constructing a pontoon bridge flag of truce, advising him that it would be pru confiscated by a municipal committee, and distributed Gen. Greig's cavalry, on the left, had a severe rebel force of 5,000 to 10,000 men are trying to about six miles atove Chattanooga. The rebel dent to remove any non-combatants who mjgh where it will do the most good. steamer Dunbar vas repaired at the rightmo - still be in Chattanooga. No reply has been re- fight with the rebel cavalry, and drove them concentrate at some point on the river not far turned, but the combatants have removed from — Great complaint is made at Richmond that business hack on their infantry, and then fell back on the above Port Hudson, to impede navigation. ment and rendered effective aid in this crossing, this vicinity. It is probable that non-combatants men, instead of investing their money in Confederate 5 th corps, who in turn drove the rebel infantry On the 8th the steamer Emerald was attacked carrying over 6,0(K men. At night Gen. Thomas can remain without injury. M. C MEIGS. scrip, are purchasing real estate. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection

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Pork, new mess..17,1 Lamb Pelts 50*J\J.\J\J\J choicest Fura to be found in Western New Chickens 8 Coal, Soranton 8,50@9,00 the Bok!6rgy m "mnense numbers are subscribers for of ceaseless pleasure, and secures what is ordinarily 1 NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-The market is quite buoyant found in more costly and pretentious works. York, comprising Hudson Bay Sable and Mink, Sable Turkeys Coal, Pittston 8,60^9,00 Mink, Royal Ermine, French Mink and Sable, Fitch Geese both for domestic and foreign descriptions, under the rapid THE JttUSIC Coal,Shamokin... 8,50@8,75 advance in gold and exchange, but the demand is less ani- JUST ISSUED? Coney, Siberian Squirrel, Chinchilla, &c, &c.,in sets for Dairy, «fcc Coal, Char 12@l5c is all original, and would cost 25 cents (the price of the Ladies and Children. Ottar, Beaver, Neuter, and South Butter, roll mated, owing to the light assortment offering and the ex- Book) in the music stores; but most of it is copyrighted and Number Sixty-Two of the DIME NOVELS series, viz: Salt,bbl 2,25@2,37 treme prices asked. The sales are 200,000 lbs. native fleeces Sea Seal Gloves, Caps and Mufflers, for gentleman's wear. Butter, firkin Straw, tun 7,00@8,00 cannot hi obtained except in " Godey." THE UNKNOWN. Cheese, new at 70@87c, as to quality, the latter rate for choice Saxony: Cheese, 150 bales super pulled at 75@80c, the inside rate for lambs; OUR STEEL A Tale of 1777. Buffalo and Fancy Sleigh Eobes, 1,000 do. Cape, at 38@45c, chiefly at 43@45c; 100 do Mestiza Lard, tried ^1OK Whitensh,>ibbl.. 5,50^6,00 All efforts to rival us in this have ceased. By N. C. IROJT, Esq. in an endless variety, Hudson Bay Wolf, Grey Wolf, Prai- Tallow, rough o@8 c at 2(!c; 60 do. East India at 40@45c; 200 do. French, 250 do. rie Wolf, Grey Fox, Genett, and an immense quantity of Codfish, quintal.. 7,50@8,00 African, and 5,000 lbs Mexican, on private terms. Tallow, tried 10>£@llc Trout, half bbl.... 6. Godey's Immense Double Sheet Fashion-Plates, This delightful romance introduces us to the events of Hudson Bay Company's Buffalo Robes, Indian tanned, to Saxony Fleece, ¥> ft <** Howe's campaign against Philadelphia in 1777. It is a very which I would invite the special attention of those in American full blood Merino 7< CONTAINING graphic picture of the times and of men, impressive as a want of the very best Robe in market. Do half and three quarter do 7, From five to seven full length Colored Fathions on each story and of permanent interest. It is by one of our moat HATS and CAPS for men and boys, of the latest style and The Provision Markets. Do Native and quarter do " favorite authors in the field of Revolutionary-historical fashion, at prices that defy competition. Be sure and re- plate. Other magazines give only two. romance. member the name and number. NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—ASHES — Quiet and steady. Extrapulled , FAR AHEAD OF ANY FASHIONS IN EUROPE OR Superfine do 7 LIST OP BEADLB'S DIME NOVELS. K3T- Highest cash price piid for Shipping Furs. Sales at $8,62^08,75 for pots, and $9,75 for pearls. AMERICA. GEORGE CLARK, Premium Hatter and Furrier, FLOUR—Market may be quoted fi@l0e better, with only No. 1 do I.." - California fine, unwashed '. 1. MALAESKA; The Indian "Wife of the White Hunter. „ „ Sign of the "Big Black Bear," a moderate business doing. Sales at $8,8S@6,00 for super- THE PUBLICATION OF THESE PLATES COST 720-8t No. 17 State St., Rochester N. T. fine State; $6,1O®6,25 for extra State; $5,90@6,00 for super- Do common do \ $10,000 MORE f By Mrs. ANN S. STEPHENS. fine Western; $b 90@7,35 for common to medium extra 2. THE PRIVATEER'S CRUISE: And the Bride of Pom- Peruvian washed than Fashion Plates of the old style. Western; $7,38@7,40 for shipping brands extra round hoop- Chilian Merino unwashed ... . fret Hall. By HARRY CAVENDISH. ed Ohio; and $7745®9,60 for trade brands, the market clos- 3. MYRA; The Child of Adoption. [A story o£ the cele- HAMLIN'S Do Mestiza do '.'.'.'". _ OUR WOOJU JEJV6HtAirjJ\'Gfy brated Mrs. Gen. Gaineg] By Mrs. ANN S >BTEPHI ing firm. Sales choice extra State were made at $6,30® Valparaiso do 22 of which we give twice or three times as many as any 6,35. Canadian Flour may be quoted 5c. better, with very 4. ALICE WILD; A Romance of the Michigan Pine W01 South American Merino unwashed " " other magazine, are often mistaken fo r steel. TheJv are so By Mrs. M. V. VICTOR. moderate demand. Salesat $6,20@6,25 for common; $6,30 Do do Mestiza do far superior to any others. . @9,00 for good to choice extra.. Rye flour is unchanged at 5. THE GOLDEN BELT; Or, The Carib's Pledge. A West Patented October 31, 1863. l>o do common washed JORAWIJYt* LJSSSOJVS. India Romance. By COLIN BARKER. $5,75®6,70 for inferior to choice. Corn meal scarce and Do do EntreRios washed. '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'„ 6. CHIP, THE CAVE CHILD. By Mrs. M. A. DENISON. firm. Sales at $6,60 for Brandywine,!$6,35 for caloric and No other magazine gives them, and we have given THE CABINET ORGANS are pronounced by artists " the Do do do do unwashed 1 7- REEFER OF 76; Or, The Cruise of the Firefly. By best of their kind in the world;"—and "very admirable Atlantic Mills, and $6,00 for Jersey. Do do Cordova washed ~ enough to fill several large volumei. HARRY CAVENDISH. Cape Good Hope unwashed for both private and public use." [See written testimony GRAIN—Wheat market more active, and may be quoted 1 OUR RECEIPTS 8. SETH JONES; Or, The eaptives of the Frontier. By from more than ONE HUNDRED of the most eminent organ- @3c better at the close. Sales at $l,37@l,4l for Chicago East India washed „. . African unwashed '.'.'.'.'.'.'. are such as can be found nowhere Jlse. Cooking in all its EDWARD S. ELLIS. ists of the leading citiesj MASON & HAMLIN'S instruments Do washed variety-Confectionary-the Nursery-the Toilet-the 9. THBEy SLAVWM, JAREE SCULPTORD HALL. ; ATaleef Montezuma'sTime. have received the only GOLD MEDAL ever awarded in this Mexican unwashed country,—also ELEVEN SILVER MEDALS, ank fourteen Di- Laundry— the Kitchen. Receipts upon all subj ects are to 1. THE BACKWOODS' BRIDE; P m twenty Bix First Texas | be found in the pages of the Ladj's Book. BUUJBl'lB A Romance of Squatter etttor' " Premiums,-«ver aU com- ter red State, and $1,46 for small parcels winter amber Smyrna unwashed """ Life. By Mrs. M. V. VICTOR. Green Bay. Rye continues dull and quiet. Sales at 1,32® Do washed...... •...... „...." 42®46 LADIES^ WORM TABLE. 11. THE PRISONER OF LA VINTRESSE; Or, Fortunes 1,35 for Western and State. Barley remains very quiet; Syrian unwashed 1".".""^ 22@25 This department comprises engravings and descriptions of a Cuban Heiress. By Mrs. DENISON. HAMLIN,] $70 to $500. Melodeons $60 to $170. sales at $l,40@l,57. Barley malt unchanged at $1,55. Peas 12. BILL BIDDON, TRAPPER; Or, Life in the Northwest. N. B. Instructors for the Cabinet Organ,—also arranrs- continue dull at $1,07 for Canada. Corn steady and may BOSTON, Nov. 25.—There has been a fair demand for of every article that a lady wears. domestic wool, and the market is firm with a tendency to By EDWARD S. ELLIS. ments of music for the same, are published by It. & H. be quoted lc better. Sales. at$l,19@l,20for shipping mixed JUOItEL COTTAGES. 13. CEDAK SWAMP; Or, Wild Nat's Brigade. A Tale of V Illustrated Catalogues sent by mail. Western in store, closing very firm at outside price. Oats higher prices. the Palmetto State. By WM. R. EYSTER. Saxony and Merino, fine 84 No other magazine has this department. Address "MASON & HAMLIN, Boston," or " MASON BBO- more active and 2@3c better. Sales at 87@89c for Canada; 14. THE EMERALD NECKLACE; Or, Mrs. Butterby's BERS. New York." [7ll-l7t] 88@90o for Western and State, and 87c for Prince Edward Do do full blood ".".". 8u™ Boarder. A love story of the old time and new Island. Do do half and three-fourths 8l@82 15. THE FRONTIER ANGEL; A Romanee of Kentucky Common 771 RIDGEWATEB PAINT.-ESTABLISHED 1850. -Fire PROVISIONS — Pork market steady and more active.— Terms, Cash in Advance. Ranger's Life. By EDWARD S. ELLIS. and Water Proof, for roofs, outside work, decks of ves- Sales at $16,50@18,00 for mess; $16,00@17,50 for new prime Pulledextra "" 8T 16. UNCLE EZEKIEL; And His Exploits on Two Conti- B mess, and $12,OO@12,2S for prime. Also new mess for last Do superfine 71 TO ANY POST-OFFICE IN THE UNITED STATES. nents. By Mrs. M. V. VICTOR. Dep( half Dec at $18,25, and new packed do. for Jan. and Feb. at Do No.l 0! One copy one year, $3; two copies one year, $5; three 17. MADGE WYLDE, The Young Man's Ward. [709-26t] Do No. .2 •..•."•.""""" 00@00 "ipies one year, $6. Four copies ->ne year, $7. ROBERT 'REYNOLDS. Agent. $19,37>£. Beef is steady. Sales at $3,50@5,00 for country 0 18. NAT TODD; Or, The Fate of the Sioux's Captive. By prime: $5,00@7,00 for country mess, $10,00@14,00 for re- Western mixed 70^33 copies one year, and an extra c»py to the person send- EDWARD S- ELLIS. acked mess, and $13,00@16,00 for extra mess. Prime mess Smyrna washed % 38®50 •;.the club, $10. 19. MASSASOITS DAUGHTER; Or, The French Captive. A MONTH! We want Agents at $60 a month, ex- -H-— — penses paid, to sell our MverlatUng Pencils. Ori- Sieef quiet and without material change. Beef hams are I>o unwashed 28@35 _f copies one year, and an extra copy to the person By A. J. DUGANNE. quoted quiet and not much changed. Sales were State !42 20. FLORIDA: Or, The Iron WUl. By Mrs. DENISON ental Burners, and 13 other useful and curious airticleg.U jnding the club, $15. circulara/ree. Address, SHAW & CLARK, Biddeford, Me! and Western at $18,O0@18,0O. Cut meats quiet and firm. Eleven copies one year, and an eitra copy to the person 21. SYBIL CHASE; Or, The Valley Ranche. A Story of Sales at 5@6%c for shoulders, and 10@10%c for hams- sending the club, $20. California Life. By Mrs. ANN S. STEPHENS. Bacon sides dull. Sales were at 9c for Western Cumber- Buenos Ayres '.'." FOB SALE -One of the best in Western New Peruvian washed ... 22. THE (MAID OF ESOPUS; Or, The Trials and Triumphs land cut middles, and 9J£c for Western short ribbedmid - of the Revolution By N. C. IRON. dles- Dressed hogs dull, with sales at 7%@8e for city. Canada 70 Terms to Subscribers in the British Provinces. California '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.I'" 23. WINIFRED WINTHROP; Or, The Lady of Atherton Lard rules dull ana unchanged. Sales at ll>£@12/£c for No. One copy one year. $3; two copes one year, $5; three Hall. By CLARA AUGUSTA. 1 to choice. Butter is selling at 20@24c for Ohio, and 26® copies one year, $7. BUFFAXO, Nov. 25.-The market quiet with but little 24. THE TRAIL HUNTERS. By EDWARD S. ELLIS TO FABMEBS, 31c for State. Cheese quiet at 13@16c for common and Five copies one year, and an extra copy to the person send- 25. THE PEON PBINCE; Or, A^Yankee Knight-Errant in prime. doing. Prices range from 60@70c as to quality. —Journal. ing the club, making six copies, $11,50. Mexico. By A J H DUGANNE. HOPS—Market rules firm, with moderate request, at 20® TORONTO, Nov. 25.-Wool, little offering at 36@4U£o Address L. A. GOI>EY, TO 323 Chestnut Stnet, Philadelphia, Pa. 26. ISABEL DE CORDOVA; Or, The Brethren of the Coast 28c for new. *(£» ft. —"GlODB- TO COUNTRY MER0HAm& ALBANY, Nov. 25.-The transactions since our last By JOHN S WARNER. BUFFA1X>, Nov. SO.—The produce market, owing to have be6n limited, but holders generally are firm The 27. THE DAUGHTER OF LIBERTY. A Tale of 76. By Alii. WHO HAVE FOR SALE the decline in gold consequent on the recent Federal suc- stock here is small. Sales 5,000 fts.mixe d fleece at 70c, and EASTMAN'S N C IRON. * cesses and the near approach of the close of navigation, 1,100 fts. do. at 74c. In Pulled nothing was doing.—Journal Sorghum Sugar and Siimp*. has ruled quiet for most kinds of produce. FLOUR—The 25/COIDEEi market for the week has ruled steady and firm, but less EDWARD'S ELLIS". ~" ""* " """' By Fiirs and Skins, active than previous week. Sales double extra Indiana red SO. PUTNAM POMFREFS WARD; Or, A Vermonter's Ad- Fruits, dry and green, at $7; white wheat double extra choice Canada at $7.75; ventures in Mexico. By A J H DITOANNE fair white wheat double extra Canada at $7; Illinois at $6,25 COMIEECIAL COLLEGE, 31. TH^DOUBLE HERO. A Tale of SeatidLandin 1813. Butter, Cheese, for spring extra, and $7,50 for white wheat double extra. Maxtiti I-«ar«l, Hams, Arcade Buildings, Eocaester, U, I, a GRAIN—Wheat—The market less active and, under the 32. IRONA; Or, Life on the South-West Border. By ED- Fork, Beef, influence of the decline in gold, tending downward. Sales AT the parsonage, in Junius. Nov. 26th, by Rev. W H- "WARD £S r^LLIS- Young Gentlemen and Ladies an at this S3. MAUM GUINEA. A Romance of Louisiana. 225 pp,; Eggs, Poultry, for the week and Saturday, red winter at $1,30; No. 1 Mil- MEGIK, Mr. HENRY RICHARDS, of Junius, and Miss 20c. By Mrs.MV Victor. waukee Club at $1,22; white Canada at $1,58; white Canada FRANCES AMELIA WILDER, of Galen. * Game, Vegetables, and Michigan at $1,6I@1,62, closing quiet, millers holding MODEIi INSTITUTION 34. RUTH MARGERIE. A Romance of the Revolt ef 1689. oft for lower prices; holders firm. Corn—The market for ON the 19th nit., at the residence of the bride's mother By Mrs M A DENISON. JB^our, Ghrain, the week has ruled only moderately active. Sales open- by the Rev. Dr. HALL, of this city, HIRAM SHERMAN thoroughly instructed in the sciense and art of account- Esq., and Miss LOUISA G. CHAUNCEY, birth of Gates ' 35. EAST AND WEST; Or, The Beauty of Willard's Mill. Seeds, Hops, ing at $1,15, and closing dull at$l,I2@l,13. Oats—The mar- antship, and by an original and nost perfect system of ket opened moderately active, and closed dull and inactive By Mrs F F BAKRITT. Cotton, "Wool» Sales Canada at 72@72^@73c; Western at 75c. Barley— business exercises and actual practice in 35. THE RIFLEMEN OF THE MIAMI. By EDWARD S The market opened dull and closed on Saturday inactive. ELLIS. Tobacco, ITlax:, Sales Canada at $1,25, and Western at $1,30. The stock here 'ommercial, 37. GODBOLD, THE SPY; Or, The Faithful and Unfaith- Tallow, I*etroleutn, is now in few bands. Rye—The market firm with light ith Manufacturing, ful of 1780. By N C IRON stock and limited [demand. Sales Western at $1,12, and 58. THE WRONG MAN; A Tale of the Early Settlements. Starch, &c, /fee, Canada at $1,06. Forwarding, By HENRY J THOMAS. Can have them well sold at the highest prices in New Yoifc, PEAS—Firm and scarce with moderate demand at 90@95c IN this city, Nov. 29th, AGNES REQUA, aged 26 years. 39. THE LAND CLAIM. A Tale of the Upper Misgouri.- with full cash returns promptly after their reaching the Banking, By Mrs FRANCIS FULLER BARRETT. for Canadian. In this city, Nov. 26th, of consumption, JOHN MILLER city, by forwarding them to the Commission House for BEANS—Firm at $2,26®2,60 per bushel. And Exchange Operations, 40. THE UNIONIST'S DAUGHTER; A Tale of Eastern PROVISIONS—The maftet firm for Pork, with but little aged 41 years. Tennessee. 224 pp., 20 cents. By Mrs VICTOR Country Produce, of ON the 19th of Nov., at the Division Hospital. Army of fitted to enter the arena of active Dimness competition on 4L THE HUNTER'S CABIN. By EDWARD S ELLIS. doi a par with experienced Clerks and Bcok-Keepers. 42. THE KING'S MAN; A Tale o? South Carolina in Revo- JOBIAH CARPENTER, Smi This course of Education is of inolculable value to all lutionary Times. By A J H DUGANNB. *• J«y Street, New Tork. firm at $5,50 for half bbls. 43. THE ALLENS; A Tale of the Kanawha Valley. By SEEDS—In moderate demand; sales for the week 600 bush- young persons who anticipate any mccess in life as con- HENRY J THOMAS. H. R— The advertiser has had abundant experience in els timothy at $2,62^, and 250 bushels clover at $6,50. , of Oberhn, Ohio. nected with their own exertions. 44. AGNES FALKLAND; A Story of Continental Times. this business, and trusts that he will continue to merit pat- CHEESE.—The market less active and scarcely so firm, BVNCIRON. ronage by the most careful attention toth e interests of his quoted at 13@14@14%@15c, the latter for very choice dai- Young Farmers, Store-Keeprs, Clerks, and 45. ESTHER; A Story of the Oregon Trail. By Mrs ANN S ne,?- .fine apple cheese steady.at 22c. There will be less STEPHENS. patrons. The articles are taken charge of on their arrival, activity in the market till after the holidays. Assistants in Railway, Saamboats, or 46. WRECK OF THE ALBION; A Romance of the Sea. •nd carefully disposed of, promptly, to good cash customers, Manufacturing Empoyment, By JOHN S WARNER. and cash returns made immediately to the owner. (The ALBAJfY, Nov. 30.—FLOUR AND MKAL.—Our market *l W&rWJKS1^ CHARGE. By Mrs M A DENISON. for Flour opened very tame, and throughout the morning can in on other possible way,, and at n> other Institution, so 48. OONOMOO, The Huron. By EDWARD S ELLIS. highest oharge made for receiving and selling is 5 per cent) only a moderate business was done at about the closing iy ADVERTISING T£RMS, In Advance-THIRTT- profitably spend from eight to twelve weeks, as in the pur 49. THE GOLD HUNTER'S; A 'Story of Pike's Peak. By A New York Weekly Price Current is issued by J. Car- Pnces of Saturday. The demand is confined to the medium Frra eBNTS A LIVE, each insertion. A price and a half for Mrs M V VICTOR. and better grades of both State and Western. Buckwheat suit of business knowledge and in ganing a business train- 50. THE BLACK SHIP. Bv JOHN S WARNER. penter, which is sent free to all his patrons. A specimen flour is freely selling in the street at $3,12@3,19 $3 100 fts.extra display, or 52% cents per line of space. SPECIAL ing under the instruction of 61. THE TWO GUARDS. By NC IRON copy sent free to any desiring it. A trial will prove the Corn meal is unchanged. NOTICES (following reading matter, leaded,) 60 oente a line. 62. SINGLE EYE; A Story of Kin* Philip's War. By WAR- above facts. For abundant references as to responaftllitt GRAIN—For Wheat the market is easier and holders are PROFESSOR A. R. 3ASTMAN, REN ST. JOHN " integrity, to,see the "Price Current.' more anxious to realize. The supply is fair but not large. who is one of the most thorough-goiig business men of the 53. HATES AND LOVES. By the author of "Madge Sales White Michigan at $1,80 Rye is in active request, ANGERS QUINCE STOCKS for Sale. vvylde. I3T Cash advanced on consignments of Produc*. and is selling in the street quickly at $1,40. Corn firmer Sample at 246 Plymouth Avenue, Roches- country, and, for that reason, mos; competent to teach 54. MYRTLE, The Prairie Child. An Out-West Love Story. ter, N.Y. [725-2t] MARK D. WILLSON. SEND ITOR, but inactive. Sales Western Mixed at $1,22 delivered at what he himself so well knows from 1 practical By the anthor of " Emerald Necklace." East Albany. Barley is without important change in 55. OFFAND ON; Or, The Ranger's First Cruise. By JNO A. FREE OOI»Y price, but in better request. Sales two-rowed Cayuga yr A MONTH.—Agents wanted to sell Sewing Ma- Counting-House Experience county at $1,40; four-rowed Genesee county at $1,40- do- ]O chines.—We will give a commission on all Ma- S WARNER. o» do. Orleans county at $1,43; and two-rowed Madison county tes sold, or employ agents who will work for the above of many years. 56. AHMO'S PLOT; Or, The Governor's Indian Child. A to arrive at $1,45. Oats firmer and moderately active. Story of Frontenae's tune. By ANN S STEPHENS. wages and all expenses paid. For particulars V Send for our College Paper, wiich contains full in- Sales State at 85@86^, afloat and delivered. Address C RUGGLES & CO., Detroit, Mich. 51. THE SCOUT. Bv the author of "Single Eye." AND ALL OTHER FEBD—A steady market with a moderate inauiry. Sales 'ormation of the plan of instruction terms, &c.; and an 68. THE MAD HUNTER. By-Sta M A DBNISON. 20 tons medium at $1,70. upose of the " PoMjrWe«P«te Naticml and State Business 59. KENT, THE RANGER. By EDWARD S ELLIS. TO ANTED—MARCH 1ST. NEXT, BY TJIE YEAR 60. JO. DAVIESS' CLIENT; Or, -Courting" in Kentucky W and boarded. Good workers for the Nursery; must College." The paper will be mailed free to any person JOSIAH CARPENTER* TORONTO, Nov. 25—FLOUR—Superfine, $4,00@4,00 for >e sober, active, intelligent, worthy. Some experienced Three Generations ago. By Mrs VICTOR. sending his name and address to II. LAUGHING EYES. A Tale of the Natchez Fort. By JVo. 32 Jay Strttt, JV— K +iniptt»ent M barrel; 4,0O@4,10 for home consumption; ex- help preferred. Write or call. Agents wanted. Address >35; fan 7 4 i 4 20 HENRY J THOMAS. 708-tf flour '|Sw ° ' * »" @ » ; Superfine, $4,50@4,7fi; bag 725-3t F. K. PHOENIX, Bloomingtqh Nursery, 111. A.. K. EASTMAN, 52. THE UNKNOWN. A Tale of 77. By N C IRON. ITProduce Bt ^-Fall wheat at 85@$l,02 per bushel; car loads dull . The books of BEADLE & COMPANY all bear the imprint l c Principal oTE«»tman">s Mercantile College, °. $ bushel. Spring wheat at 72@82c f) bushel, URSERY FOREMAN WANTED-An active, ca- of the coin, "One Dime," their secured and protected gEST FAMILY SEWIM* MACHINE. in good demand at 75®80c »bushel. Oats at 42® N pable, experienced man, who has become acquainted '21-4teow ROCHESTER, N. Y. trade-mark. ' ~ve,lo»ft. Peas 48@fi2o ¥> bushel. with the different branches of the business, and can fur- The public will be careful not to confound the Dime Pub- nish satisfactory testimonials of character and ability, may lications with the several ''ten cent" enterprises lately put WHEEMR *= WLLSOtf §9,50@lp,00 ¥1100 fts. Bacon, $6.50 find a permanent situation by addressing, in own hand- upon the market. MANUFACTURING CO. were awarded the PirrtPreminm 110,00 ¥> 100 fts.wholesale ; writing, T. C. MAXWELL & BROS.. The Dime Publications are always kept for sale by all at the Great International Exhibition, London, 1882. X wholesale, •ny nive, will secure it irom the mo;h. For Territory in news-dealers, or can be had, post-paid, through the mails, Old Castle Nurseries. Geneva, N. Y. Jew York, send stamp and addres •>n remission of the price, 10 cents eash, to the publishers, Principal O*«c«» 6O5 Broadway, N. Y. November 24, 1863. ^ 725-2t 719-tf JOSEPH WOODROFFE, St. ClairsvUle, Ohio. a Address explicitly as per address at head of this column Send for a catalogue. Liberal reduction to agents. MA fc W. DlBBtB, Agent, Rochester, N. SINCLAIR TOUSEY, New York, General Agent. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Newspapers Collection

Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. campaign was closed with the usual election. ious insult, a fine?looking, well-dressed boy of A NEGLECTED COTJGH, COLD, AS My husband went to the polls. His favorite welve stood at Ms elbow, his frank face turned IRRITATED OR SORB THROAT, if al- TWO PICTTTBES. BEOHCHIAL lowed to progress results in serious Presidential candidate was successful. He drank up to the Major's. "And he, too?" thought the , OATAEEH, Pulmonary, Bronchial and Asth- BY ELIZA O. CROSBY. freely in honor of the occasion, and treated officer. AND DISEASES OF THE TROCHES matic Diseases oftentimes incurable. others. The particulars I learned some time With a furtive glance at a rebel guard who FOR BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHBsreaoh WHERB the silver moonlight glistens afterward. stood with his lack to them, the lad, pulling EYE, EAR, AND THROAT. COUGHS directly the affected parts, and give Through the vines, across the floor,— AND ahnost immediate relief. For BRON- « Toward, evening I was sitting near the win- the Major's skirt, and catching his breath, boy- CHITIS, ASTHMA, CATARRH, and CON- Where so oft light steps have fallen 3DRS. lilGKHCTHIT .T., GOLDS. Of young feet that come no more- dow, holding my beautiful HETTT. She had fashion, said, "are you from New England?" "I SUMPTIVE COUGHS the Troches are Kneels a gray-haired, bending woman, been unusually playful, and —perhaps it was was born in Massachusetts," was the reply. "So Authors of "A Popular Treatise on Deafness," " Letters on useful. PUBLIC SPEAKERS!, and SINGERS should have the CataiTh," &c, &c, can be consulted on DEAFNESS, CA- Troches to clear and strengthen the Voice. MILITARY With eyes dim with tears unshed, only fancy — but I thought she had been trying was my mother,' returned the boy, brightening TARRH, DISCHARGES FROM THE EAR, NOISES IN OFPIOBRS and SOLDIERS who overtax the voice, and are l WhittMhe moonlight, shim'ring o'er her, to say pa-pa.' I was delighted, and pressed up; "she was a Dew England girl, and she was THE HEAD, and all the various acute or chronic diseases exposed to sudden changes should use them. OBTAIN only Throws a halo round her head. her to my bosom with all a mother's fondness for what you called & 'school-ma'am,' up North; she of the EYE, EAR, and THROAT, requiring medical or sur- the geyiuine. '' Brown's Bronchial Troches " having proved listen to the prayer she murmurs: married my father and I'm their boy, but how gical aid, at their office, No. 34 St. Marks-place, New York. their efficacy by a test of many years, are highly recom- her first born. To save useless correspondence, persons residing at a dis- mended and prescribed by Physicians and Stirgeons }n the " O, our Father! bless my boy " I saw my husband open the gate. He leaned she does love New England, and the Yankees, tance are hereby informed that a personal examination is Army, and have received testimonials from many eminent Who hath gone to fight for country, against the post as if tired. Soon he came up the and the old United States, and so do I!" necessary in every case before appropriate treatment can men. Taking all the light and joy The Major was touched, as well he might be, be prescribed. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers in Medioine in the From this widowed heart of mine; walk. His step was not firm as it usually was, and my heart began to beat violently. As he and his heart wanned to the boy as to a young Operations for Cataract, Artificial Pupil, Cross-Eyes, &c, United States and most Foreign countries at 28 cents per 'Mid temptations of his life &c, successfully performed. box. • 722-4t Strengthen him, and still protect him came near the dbor his body swayed to and fro brother,«nd he took out his knife, severed a but- In the day of battle strife. and he fell, striking his head upon the door- ton from his coat and handet him for a remem- t3?~ In consideration of numerous and constant applica- ri-AJNTOEIUS CURBD.- tions for treatment from parties residing at a distance, who \J Cancers cured without pain or the use of the knife. stone. I sprang to my feet and screamed, for I brance. " Oh, I've got half a dozen just like it Tumorous White swelling, Goitre, Ulcers and all Chronie Comfort mourners for the fallen; are unable to come to New York, diseases successfully treated. Circulars describing treat- And return to me my son thought he was killed. But he did not seem See here!" and he took from his pocket a little ment sent free of charge. Address, badly injured, for he arose and staggered into string of them, gifts of other boys in blue. DR. C. B. IilGHTIDIili DRS. BABCOCK & TOBIN. rlf Thou seestfit, O , Father 1 722-tf 27 Bond Street, New York. 1 Not my will, but Thine be done.' the house. Then, my child, the dreadful convic- Visits, professionally, the following cities, at regular "My mother would like tose e you," he added, monthly intervals, remaining a week in each place. He When the Angel Death shall call us, tion came home to my heart that I was the wife "and I'll go and tell her." will be in And the war of life shall cease, of a drunkard! I seemed in a moment to drink "What are you doing here?" growled the Then unite us in thy kingdom Albany, at the Delaran House, commencing Monday, Dee. 7th. PEEMIUM! in one drop the concentration of a life of misery. guard, suddenly wheeling round upon him, and Bee. 14th. Where there is eternal peace." Thinking of it now, I can only remember it as a OVER ALL thetpoy slipped away into the crowd and was Dee. 21st COMPETITORS I fearful nightmare, from which I only awoke at gone. Not more than half an hour elapsed be- The moonlight falM upon the river the sight of my precious child dashed upon the fore a lovely lady, accompanied by the little Drs. LiaHTHiLL's work, "A Popular Tr^tae on Deafness, And over the white-tented plain, hearth. My husband^ my loving, my noble hus- patriot, passed slowly down the sidewalk next its Causes and Prevention," with the iUJHpitions, may be On the battle-field, near lying, band, was transformed into a fiend. I snatched to the curbstone. She did not pause, she did not obtained of CARLTON, Publisher, No. 4lWiroadway, New Still bearing the red blood stain, my infant from the floor unconscious, and pale, York, or through any respectable Bookseller. Price $1. On a grove-crowned hill, where brown earth speak; if she smiled at all.it was faintly, but she and fled from the house. My HETTY never handed to one and another of the prisoners bank And a rough board mark a grave, smiled on me again. She never tried to say TESTIMONIALS. Where the war-worn soldier lads notes as she went As they neared the Major, Have buried a comrade brave. pa-pa* again. She was an idiot, and through the boy gave him a significant look, as much as From F. L. Cagwin, Esq., three long years I cared for my poor, defar baby PRESIDENT CITY BANK, JOLIET, ILL. The last word he spoke was " Mother;" to say, " that's my New England mother." The that never ceased to be an infant, whose beauty eyes of the elegant lady and the poor, weary DR. LIGHTHILL—Dear Sir.- It affords me the greatest sat-' His last glance was at the sky; and intellectual brightness were gone forever." isfaction to be able to inform you that I am still improving, While eyes around grew dim with tears/ officer met for an instant, and she passed away and have the highest hopes that my ear will be entirely And quivered many a sigh. Mrs. MASON paused; for the remembrance and like a vision, out of sight. Who will not join well by the time you at first mentioned it would take to They have sent her the tidings sad; relation of the dreadful realities of those years of with me in fervently breathing two beatitudes:— effect a cure. I can say that I am truly thankful to the kind Providence which directed me to you. Since the first To-morrow at set of the sun trial overcame her. MARY, too, was weeding. God bless the yotng Georgian, and blessed for- She will know. GOD help her to feel few days' use of your prescription, my ear has improved, w When she could, she proceeded with her story. ever be the Northern School ma'am! and almost at once I was relieved from a very depressed • Not my will but Thine be done." "From that time EDWARD was a different state of feeling and an almost intolerable case, to an elas- SELP-ADJUSTING^AND ADJUSTABLE! Home, N. Y., 1863. man from what he had been. The flood-gates of To WHOM IT MAT CONCERN.—Many persons tic and hopeful state; of mind. What Dr., John Nott re- plied to me as his experience has been mine so far. My THE only Wringer with the Patent a long-repressed passion seemed to have been write poetry (?) aid tales, and send them to an catarrhal trouble seems very much better also, and, in- re-opened, and on its mad waters he was swept editor to be corrected—as if an editor's office deed, altogether, my health never was so good. I am Cog Wheel Regulator, toward ruin. I think remorse for the deed he were a "house of correction." weighing some five pounds more than is usual forme, (and which positively prevents the rolls from had wrought caused him to drink more freely more than I ever weighed before.) I can but hope tjfcat it may be the good fortune of many, BREAKING OR TWISTING ON THE SHAFT. than he would have done. with like troubles, to fall in the way of the benefit of your It was pronounced superior to all others at the World's Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. Fair, at London, 1862 It took the FIRST PREMIUM at the "We had another child—a dark-haired boy, skill, and knowing how great the fear of imposition is with great Fair of the AMERICAN INSTITUTE, New York City, THE MOTHER'S STORY but his birth - wailing was very feeble, and in a those who in time past, may, like myself, have suffered by 1863, where tbe judp-es were practical mechanics, and ap- it, and feeling a wish, sincerely at this time, to aid and preciated COG-WHEELS. few hours I blessed GOD that he would never It took the FIRST PREMIUM at the BY MRS. M. P. A. C. Tor Moore's Rural New-Yorker. commend you in establishing a high and deserved position become a drunkard, and when we laid baby among us in1 your profession, I beg, therefore, that you New-York State Fair 1862 and 1863. MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. Vermont State Fair-- 1863. MOTHER, you are cruel I" HETTT by his side in the still graveyard, I will not hesitate to refer to me, as it may be of use. I also longed to lie with them and be at rest. But inclose herewith, Professor Notf s reply to my letter of in- Pennsylvania State Fair 1863. "I have some things to tell you, daughter, this IAM composed of 26 letters. quiries, which I deem highly creditable to you, and of great Michigan State Fair 1863. afternoon; when! I have told you them you will when we turned away, and EDWARD spoke to My 3,18,12; 24 is necessary to growth. importance toothers, as it has been to me. Iwillvisityou Iowa State Fair 1863. not think me unkind. At three o'clock come me tenderly for the first time in years, it lifted My 14, 23, 2t, 13, 6 is a fastening. again Boon. la the meantime, believe me, Illinois State Fair 1863. up my heart so that I felt strength to live again. My 26,10, 7 is a drunkard. Yours, very sincerely, F. L. CAGWIN. And at County Fairs without number. into the library with your sewing; I shall be ORANGE JUDD, of the American Agriculturist, says of the there and disengaged." I hoped that it would last —that he would My 1,18, 2, 4,17 is a kind of cloth. Joliet, EL, July 17,1863. give up his cups. I had learned to pray at the My 15, 22, 6,16, 3 is a pronoun. Universal Clothes "Wringer. MARY met her mother as requested, anH Mrs. couch of my sick child, and I spent hours on my My 13,11,18, 6, 6 is our final dwelling-place. From the Rev. John Nott, D. D., " We think the machine much more than PATS FOR IT- MASON began:— " I was young once, as you are, My 25, 8,19, 6 is a precious metal. SELF EVERT TEAR in the saving of garments ! There are knees in the dead of night for my poor EDWARD. PROFESSOR IN UNION COLLEGE, SCHENECTADY my child, and Jike you, imagined my own judg- My 18,20, 6 is a liquor. several kinds nearly alike in general construction, but we I loved him—in all his degradation and sinful- NEW YORK. consider it important that the Wringer be fitted with Coga, ment superior to that of my parents; so at the My |1,10, 8, 7, 14 is an instrument to eat with. otherwise a mass of garments may clog the rollers, and the ness I had never ceased to love him. I think he FONDA, N. Y., April 29,1863. rollers upon the crank-shaft slip and tear the clothes, or age of sixteen, and much against their wishes, My whole is what all should do. F. L. CAGWIN, Esq.— Dear Sir: I received your letter of the rubber break loose from the shaft. Our own is one of tried earnestly to reform. I have seen Mm weep the first made, and it is as GOOD AS NEW after nearly FOUR I married EUIVAMI ELTOSI " Reed's Corners, M. y., 1863. NBTTIB GRAHAM. April 23, to-day. I have had from infancy one very deaf YEAR'S CONSTANT USE." like a child over his weakness and his shame, but I3F* Answer in two weeks. ear, and always discharging more or less offensive matter. We have seven sizes, from $5,50 to $30. The ordinary "Yes, MART, I have been twice married. I the next day, perhaps, he would yield to drink This year both ears became diseased, running very much, family sizes are No. 1, $10, and No. 2, $7. These have never told you of this, because the subject was again. We were in rags, for our property was very offensive, producing the greatest debility of body and O O O- -W H E E X. S, very painful to me. Since my marriage with For Moore's Rural New-Yorker depression of spirits, and my hearing impaired in the high- gone; and although I did the best I could by est degree. In such a condition I placed myself under the and are WARRANTED in every particular. your father I have been happy—our family circle AI ANAGBAM. On receipt of the price, from places where no one is sell- taking in sewing and going out to wash, I could care of Dr. Lighthill. He has fully restored me. I hear ing, we will send the U. C. W. fr»r. of expense. What we has been quiet and loving, but, my daughter, hardly make enough to provide our food, and well; the dizziness and the discharge have been removed, especially want is a good may GOD preserve you from experiences like Rou Ninou, e:h figt fo ruo shafter! and have not returned. The stopping of the running has my husband only earned a few shillings now and Hi thraw oisar eht petsmet voabe! given me the highest elasticity and vigor of body and a flow O -A. ZNT. V ASSER those I oirce passed through! I had not been in every town. We offer liberal inducements and guar- then to purchase that which brought us woe con- Eth krader dan rearen rou nagerd, of spirits, while my fears weie, that stopping the discharge antee the exclusive sale. long acquainted with the man I chose to wed. tinually. 0, how bitter my heart was toward the Teh mearwi nad rescol ruo vloe. would prove detrimental or dangerous. JULIUS IVEB &, CO., 722 He was a stranger in the place. Gentlemanly Hoguth stirnetk, ti veern, halls reship; I esteem, or rather have learned to esteem, Dr. Lighthill 347 Broadway, New York. rumseller who sold him the poison. (for he was a stranger to me until I was his patient.) as a and polished, he impressed me, as he did almost Ti snebd, tub ton askerb, ot eth bsalt; VNE MHXION APPLE 8EEDUNO8 FOR SALE at "At length came the last tragedy. I had been gentleman and a man of science, in whom the highest con- f the Elba Nurseries, at $1,50 and $3,00 per 1,000. Also, every one, very favorably. My parents alone, Soef hurs no d rufy ot dern ti, fidence may be placed. Ca large stock and good assortment of healthy and well among all my acquaintances, discouraged my very ill, and was just recovering, when he was Tub ew ilwi eb erut ot eht slat. grown Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Grape Vines, Shrubs, seized with delirium tremehs. The nervous ex- Yours, very truly, JOHN NOTT. &c., at exceedingly low prices. Orders respectfully solicit- acceptance Of his suit; iny father even forbade it. Gainesville, N.Y., 1863. J. M. BBAINERD. ed. Address, E. J. PETHBONE & SON, citement which his terrible sickness wrought in 716-13t Elba, Genesee Co., N. Y. ' There was something about the man,' he said, I^T Answer in tw» weeks. From the Rev. P. R, Russell, Lynn, Mass. ' which he did not like — he feared he was not a me, threw me into a relapse, and I came up from (kWK-TO #15© PER .MONTH.-Agents wanted in the very borders of the grave only to learn that I have been much troubled with catarrh of the worst <(JJ i*J every County to introduce our new "LITTLH good man.' For Moore's Rural New- Yorker. type for some 20 y^ars. It gradually grew worse, produc- GIAHT SEWING MACHINE," price only $Ifi. For particulars, EDWARD had passed within its portals." GEOGRAPHICAL DECAPITATION^ ^ ; ing cough and hoarseness, destroying the sense of smell, terms, &c, address with stamp. "Too yielding, however, to the entreaties of Mrs. MASON'S story was complete; but she and breaking down my general health to such a degree as T. S. PAGE, Gen'l Agt, Toledo, Ohio. his pet child, my kind father at last consented, said:—"My child, last night, as your father and BEHEAD a city in Georgia and leave a rifle. to compel me to resign my pastorate and suspend public 0BAIG MI0E0S00PE! and mother in silence and tears submitted to his I were returning from our visit, we saw JAMES Behead an Island and leave part of the body. speaking. decision. We were married at home, and our I made diligent use of the usual remedies, such as snu: STANLEY enter a saloon. We heard his ribald Behead a river in Mississippi and leave a title of nobil- of different kinds, nitrate of silver, tar water, olive tar, and THIS is the best ana cneapest Microscope ; in the world for general use. It requires no wedding was gay and festive. A few days after jest, and his loud call for that which brought to ity: • • • •• ., inhalations, but without any very salutary effects. Last focal adjustment, magnifies about one, hun- we went to a distant city to live. There was, for Behead a river in Arkansas and leave a boy's nick' dred diameters, or ten thousand times, and your mother's young life such misery as I have Summer I heard of Dr. Lighthill's successful mode of treat- is so simple that a child can use it. It will be a moment^ a strange, ominous feeling at my name. ing catarrh, visited him, and put myself under his treat- sent by mail, postage paid, on the receipt of told you of. Is mother cruel, darling, that she ment. I began immediately to improve, and this improve- Two Dollars and Twenty-five cents, or with heart, when my mother held my hand so tightly would protect her daughter from the fate of the Behead a river in Wisconsin and leave a vessel. six beautiful mounted objects for Three Dol- Behead a river in Visconsin and leave an animal. ment has gone on to the present time. My catarrh has lars, or with twenty-four objects.for Five Dol- at our parting, and said, ' GOD bless you, dar- drunkard's wife?" gradually melted away, my cough has disappeared, my liars. Address HENBY CRAIG, ling,' so tenderly; but it passed away as I took Behead a town and leave a girl's name. -_ii - 180 Centre Street, New York. " I will never marry JAMES STANLEY—never," voice has become natural, and I am once more able to my husband's hand and entered the carriage. Behead a county h Missouri and leave a tavern. preach the blessed Gospel.' Let me advise all troubled iy A liberal discount to the trade. 080 exclaimed MART, energetically; then affection- Behead a county ii Missouri and, leave an animal. with catarrhal difficulties to apply to Dr. Lighthill. to s £et "We had been keeping house but a few ately embracing her mother, she whispered — Behead a county ii Missouri and' leave a plant. Lynn, Mass., Feb. 1, 1862. P. R. RUSSELL. ndC\ AJPFUE TREES, Behead a county h Wisconsin and leave a bird. UU.UUU high, at $8 per hundred? months, MART, when EDWARD was brought "Poor mama, how you have suffered! For 10,009CLOO00 DwarStandarf Pead Pear TreeBr Trees, 3 ,t o6 St ofee 7 feet hight high, at, $1at8 $2»8 home to me helpless. The men who brought Whitewater, "Wis., 1863. G. W. CARGILL. 10,0080,000 DwarWhitfe PeaGrapr TreeBe an, d3 tCherro S feeyt highCurranta, at $1; 85,00 » 0 your sake I will hate the poison cup forever, and From James Croikshank, LL. D., Grap8000e 0Vines Whi.t AG largee stoc dk Cheof Peacy hCt trees;, Cherr5 y trees, him were very kind and would not tell the give my life to the noble cause of Temperance. 17* Answer in two weeks. Plum trees, Gooseberries, Raspberries, Blackberries.Stra'ir- EDITOR NEW YORK TEACHER, ALBANY, N. Y. berries, most of the new varieties of Native Grapes, &c, 4c. young wife of her husband's shame—they said he And the mother said GOD bless you, MART!" This may certify that having been afflicted during the It3r Ml of the lest WaternvqrietCet grown extensively.— was ill—very ill. I would have Bent for a phy- For the "Rural New-Yorker. Local amd Traveling Agents Wanted. iyear 1856, with severe and almost total deafness, and hav- Wholesale aad Descriptive Catalogues sent to all appli- sician, but they told me one had already been A NORTHERN "SCHOOL MA'AM" IN GEORGIA. MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM. ing tried the ordinary medical arid surgical aid, under the cants who inclose stamps to pre-paypostwre. consulted, and that they felt sure he would be care of those esteemed as eminent practitioners, I was in- Address BTMOODY&SON, 681 Niagara Nurseries, Loekport, N. Y better in theV, njprning. I never suspected the B. F. TAYLOR, of the Chicago Journal, writes RE QUIRKD the number of cubic feet of water, a cubical duced at last to put myself under the care of Dr. E. B Lighthill. His treatment was brief and successful. I was nature of his illness; why should I? In my the following: box will hold, that .8 made from a plank. 42)£ feet in length, 24 inches wile, and 3 inches thick, M. J. O. completely restored, and the cure is apparently perma- MOOSE'S BUBAL NEW-YORKBB, former quiet country life, I had never seen a When a love for the dear old flag does exist in nent. • I have all confidence hf Dr. L.'s skill and integrity person much intoxicated, and that he, my noble, Dixie, it is clear, warm and earnest. It gushes Carthage, N. Y., 1163. in the diseases he makes specialties. TEH LARGEST OIROtTLATBD inybeautifurhusband, ceuld hayebecome so, did out sometimes in the most unexpected places, ty Answer in tvo weeks. Albany, Oct. 1,1862. JAMES CRUIKSHANK. Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper, not cross my mind. I had, indeed, seen him like a spring in the desert, and many a time have IS PUBLISHED BVBRT SATURDAY BT take wine, but this, was customary then, and Federal prisoners been startled into tears at For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. DBLAVAN HOUSE, ALBANY, N. Y., March 7,1863. IK B. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. T. occasioned no alarm. All night I watched by POETICAL ENIGMA. To Dr. C. B. Lighthill: finding a loyal heart beating close beside theni, DEAK SIR:—I take pleasure in certifying that you have Office, Union Buildings, Opposite the Court House, Buffalo St, my husband's bedside, and feared that he would when they had only looked for taunt and trea- MY first doti affliction denote, effected a great deal of improvement in the hearing of my die, but he only slept a deep, heavy sleep, and son. Chapters might be written—and perhaps son, Marcus O. Roessle, who had, previous to your taking TEltJUS, MY in the morning awoke with headache. He was Which m; second was. born to endure; the case in hand, been quite deaf from the effects of Scar- have- been —of illustrative incidents. An officer My whole i* a sure antidote, Tvo DOLLARS A YEAR—TO Clubs and Agents as followi: fretful all day, but I thought him nervous and of an Ohio regiment has just told me one thatj if latina. As I know of aany other cases which you have Three Copies one year, for $ff; Six, and one free to eln That affliction to soften and cure. cured and benefited, I have no hesitancy to recommend agent, for $10; Ten, and one free, for $15; and any greater endured his complainings patiently. I did not it impresses your readers as it impressed your you to the public. Naples, N. Y., 1861. ALICE E. REMER. number at samo rate — only $1.60 per copy. Club papen understand the wise look of my neighbors when correspondent, will be worth recording. A body I remain yours, very truly, swer in tvo weeks. directed to individuals and sent to as many different Post- I told them that my husband had been so of Federal jrisoners had reached Rome en route THEOPHELUS ROESSLE, Offices as desired. As we pre-pay American postage on strangely m. i do not think he was ag for Richmond. Weary, famished, thirsting, they Proprietor Delavan House, Albany, N. T. copies sent abroad, $1.70 is the lowest Club rate for Canada, intoxicated for more than a year. He was were herded like cattle in the street under the ANSWEBS TO ENIGMAS, &C,, IN No. 723. and $2.60 to Europe,—but during the present rate of ex- ; change, Canada Agents or Subscribers remitting for ih0 ashamed that he had betrayed his weakness, and NEW YORK, Sept. 2,1863. : burning sun, a public show. It was a gala day RURAL in bills of their own specie-paying banks wiH not b« when he found that I did not understand it, but Answer to Geographical Enigma: —Hans Gensfleisch This is to certify that I have been afflicted with Catarrh in that modern Rome. The women, magnifi- for some years, which produced the usual disagreeable charged postage. supposed that he had had a fito f apoplexy, he Gutenburg Von Sorgenloch. cently arrayed, came out and pelted them with Answer to Insurance Question:—$106,000. effects. I consulted Dr. Lighthill about nine or ten months THE POSTAOK on the RURAL NEW-YORKER is only s ett resolyed 4hat I should never know the truth. since, and at once placed myself under his care, /amwow balls of cotton, and with such sneers and taunts Answer to Anagnms of"Bays:— Delaware, San Diego, per quarter to any part of this State, (except Moaroe cona- He struggled nobly with, temptation, and all for eviirely free from Catarrh, my throat is perfectly healthy, ty, where it goes free,) and the game to any other ioyal as, " so you have come to Rome, have you, you Matagorda, Donega1, All Saints, Monterey, Saginaw, love of me. I was proud and happy in his and my health is very much improved. State, if paid quarterly in advance where received. Yankees? How do you like your welcome?"— Mobile, Georgian, Nitre Dame, Placentia, Bonavlsta. affection, and wrote home triumphantly that P. E. NOLAN, ADHBRK TO TERMS.—We endeaver to adhere strictly to and then more cotton and more words. The Answer to Anagran: Office Erie Railroad, foot of Duane St EDWARD was all I could desire. subscription terms, and no person is authorized to offer the crowds and the hours came and went, but the Heart that are irue hearts, RURAL at less than published rates. Agents and friends « Our first child was born. She was a beauti- mockery did not intermit, and our poor fellows Newr grow cold; No. 7^0 WATER ST., NEW YORK, Junes, 1862. are at liberty to give away as many copies of the RURAL as were half out of heart. My informant, Major Heart) that are fond hearts, BT. Lighthill has succeeded in completely restoring my they are disposed to pay for at club rate, but we do not wish ful babe, with her father's broad forehead and the p'aper offered, in.any case, below price. dark eyes, and my pretty brown ringlets. How P., faint and ill, had stepped back a pace or two _ Ne«r grow old: hearing, which was seriously impaired, although previous Hearb that are worthy to applying to him I was treated by several physicians with- DIRECT TO ROCHESTER, N. Y.—All persons having occa- I loved that babe! EDWARD idolized her, and and leaned against a post, when he was lightly out the least benefit Any further information I should be Of bearing the name, sion to address the RURAL NEW-YORKER, will please direct would call her HETTT after me. When HETTT touched upon the arm. As he looked around pleased to render on application to me at my residence, to Rochester, N. j., and not, as many do, to New York, was about eight months old, an exciting political mentally nerving himself for some more ingen- In sorow and sunshine No. 1732d-st, Brooklyn, E. D., or at my place of business Albany, Buffelo, &c. Money Letters intended for us are Beat ever the same. No. 740 Water-st WM. H. WATERBURY. jrequently directed and mailed to the above places.