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MOOEE’S EUEAl NEW-YOEKEE: AN AGEICULTUEAL AND FAMILY JOUENAL 
and this from principle. She knew that, in 
“ Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; 
Nothing’s so Lard, but search will find it out. 
SPIRITED” SPORTING. 
For the Rural New-Yorker. 
SPRING’S CHILLY RAINS 
For the Rural New-Yorker. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
to remain. The next day was lar aavanc- ] 
ed when the enamored soldier was on the : 
road to Williamsburg. His business there 
being despatched, he hastened to the pres¬ 
ence of the captivating widow*. 
The marriage, that followed the acquaint¬ 
ance thus romantically begun, took place in 
1759, and was attended by all the beauty 
and wealth of the neighborhood. After 
the ceremony. Colonel and kirs. Washing¬ 
ton repaired to Mount Vernon, where they 
took up their abode. By this union, an ad¬ 
dition of about one hundred thousand dol¬ 
lars was made to the fortune of Washing¬ 
ton, an accession which rendered him one 
of the most opulent gentlemen in the Old 
Dominion. Engrossed with each other, the 
young couple continued to reside on their 
estate, until the war of Independence break¬ 
ing out, Washington was summoned to the 
field to lead his country’s armies. Mrs. 
Washington, however, even now would not 
consent to part entirely from her husband. 
She accompanied him to Cambridge, and 
remained until the evacuation of Boston,', 
when, the army moving on New York for, 
she returned for awhile 
I am composed of 24 letters. 
My 12, 2,11, 5, 9 is a river in Europe. 
My 1, 4, 5, 3 is a cape on the coast of Africa. 
My 19, (i, 13,19,15 is a celebrated Island mentioned in the 
Holy Scriptures. 
My 2, 7, 8, is a sea in Asia. 
My 17,14, 24, 13, 3, is a city from whence issued a decree 
noted in American History. 
My 10, 2, 5, 18,15, 21 is a mountain spoken of in the Bible. 
My 7, 0,19,21 is a town in New York. 
My IP, 21,14,19 22 is a mountain in New Hampshire; 
My 11, 8, 23, 18, 17, 15, 3, 15 is a mountain in South 
.America. 
My whole is an Attorney at Lawrof Wyoming County. 
Perry, June, 1850. C. Miles. 
CTAnswer in two weeks. 
ting their lips with the “ critter,” to raise 
their courage. Tliey had arrived at about 
the middle of the wood, when they sudden¬ 
ly stopped in affright, and the following con¬ 
versation ensued: 
“ I say, Jim, did you see that ? What was 
it?” 
“ Oh, get out, you can’t scare me, Joe; 
what was it ?” said Jim, starting back with 
mortal terror depicted on every feature. 
“ Why,” returned Joe, “it’s the old Bear 
of Bluff Point; what shall we do ? my fami¬ 
ly aftairs ain’t settled—I don’t want to die 
yet.” * 
“ O, I have got my Revolver with me,” 
said Jim, dropping his gun, and pulling 
forth from his pocket a long black bottle 
which had been shot from that da}'-, but not 
with bullets—“you put some buck shot in 
your gun, and we’ll both fire together.” 
Joe, by mistake, drew forth from his 
pocket a handful of percussion caps, and 
proceeded to put them in his gun, with a 
wad on top; then drawing up his piece, he 
exclaimed, “Now, Jim, give him grape and 
I will'buck, and then we’ll run.” 
Joe fired, and such a report was never 
heard before. The caps being ignited, flash¬ 
ed and snapped in the twilight, like shoot¬ 
ing stars. Joe was kicked over by the gun. 
For tlie Rural New-Yorker, 
POETICAL ENIGMA. 
On the brow of Uie monarch in triumph I stand, 
I govern each measure, I rule each command; 
Without me, his kingdom to atoms would fall. 
But I share not his crown, I rule not liis hall. 
I dance iti the meadow, and play oh the stream, 
And I glimmer obscurely in Luna’s pale beam. 
1 dwell in thy bosom, I’m part of thy form. 
But 1 ride on the tempest, and guide the fierce storm; 
With the sea-nymph I rest on the moss-covered cliff, 
And I weep witli the mourners that life is so brief. 
O'er tlie grave of Uie mighty in sorrow I bow. 
And I rest in thy mind as thou’rt watcliing me now. 
IT Answer in two weeks. 
their country. Mrs. Robert Morris was ac¬ 
customed to sit at the right of the lady of 
the President, at the dravnng-rooms; and 
the widows of Green and Montgomery 
were always handed to and from their car¬ 
riages by the President himself; the secre¬ 
taries and gentlemen of his household per¬ 
forming those services for the other ladies. 
In this elevated station, Mrs. Washington, 
unspoiled by distinction, still leaned on the 
kindness of her friends, and cultivated 
cheerfulness as a duty. She -was beloved 
as few are in a superior condition. Mrs. 
YVarren says, in reply to one of her letters, 
“ your observation may be true, that many 
younger and gayer ladies consider your sit¬ 
uation as enviable; yet I know not one who 
by general consent would be more likely 
to obtain the sufi’rages of her sex, even 
were they to canvass at elections for the 
elevated station, than the lady who now 
holds the first rank in the United States.” 
She did not long survive her august hus¬ 
band. Less than two years after his death, 
she was attacked by a fatal illness, and feel¬ 
ing her end approaching, she called her 
grand-children around her, discoursed to 
them of religion, and, amid the tears of her 
family, quietly resigned her life into the 
hands of her Creator. Her death took 
place on the twenty-second of May, 1802; 
an active campaign, 
to Virginia. 
After this it was her custom to spend 
her summers at Mount Vernon, rejoining 
the General as febon as the army went into 
winter quarters. At the close of each cam¬ 
paign accordingly, an aid-de-camp was de¬ 
spatched to escort her to her husband.— 
Her arrival at camp was always a season of 
rejoicing. The plain chariot, with the neat 
postillions in their scarlet and white liveries, 
was welcomed as the harbinger of rest and 
cheerfulness. Her example was followed 
by the wives of the higher officers. Thus 
every winter, something like society was 
established at head-quarters, when the 
smiles and affection of woman relieved, for 
a season at least, the gloom of disaster and 
despair. 
Lady Washington was accustomed to say 
that it had ever been her fortune to hear 
the first cannon at the opening, and the last 
at the closing of all the campaigns of the 
war of Independence. During the terrible 
winter of 1787-8, she was at Valley Forge. 
The privations to which she had to submit, 
may be judged from a letter she wrote to 
Mrs. Warren, in which she says;—“ The 
General’s apartment is very small; he has 
had a log-cabin built to dine in, which has 
made our Quarters much more tolerable 
Mr. Moore: —I send you a Puzzle which I think has 
not appeared in any of the papers. It is tliis; 
We are little airy creatures. 
Each have diflerent forms and features; 
, One of us in glass is set. 
Another you will find in jet; 
A tliird, IcsBB bright, is set in tin— 
The fourth a shining box within;. 
And the fifth, if you pursue, 
It will never fly from you. 
Minerva. 
IT Answer in two weeks. 
BY CATHERINE ALLAN. 
The wife of Washington must ever be a 
subject of interest to the women of Ameri¬ 
ca. Her own virtues, apart from the ex¬ 
alted position of her husband, have made 
her worthy of remembrance and esteem.— 
She was, in every respect, a model for her 
sex. 
The maiden name of Lady Washington 
was Martha Dandridge, and she was born 
of an honorable family, in the county of 
New Kent, Va., in May, 1732. She grew 
up beautiful and amiable; and, at sixteen, 
was already the belle of her district. Ac¬ 
complished, at least for that day; in man¬ 
ners peculiarly fascinating; and possessed 
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, &c., IN NO. 25. 
Answer to Gecgraphical Enigma.— Mad Anthony 
Wayne. Answered by C. M. and Mrs. L. B., of Perry. 
Anwser to Poetical Enigma.— Violin. Answered by 
C. M. and Mrs. L. B. of Perry, and J. II. Edgell, Roch¬ 
ester. 
-He must have of 
,®ino. 
,$160. 
.$ 102 . 
Answer to Arithmetical Ciuestion. 
Horses, 2. 
Oxen, 8. 
Swine, 51. 
Sheep, 36.. 
Turkeys, 4.. 
Geese, 400. 
.501.$500. 
Answered by C. Miles of Perry, N. Y. 
Answer tolCharade.— Pennylebs. 
Savings Bank. 
rilHE MONROE COUNTY SAVINGS INSTITU- 
X TION will be open daily from 10 o’clock, A. M. to 3 
o’clock, P. M., at the Rochester Bank Building, No. 22 
Exchange street. 
TRUSTEES: 
Everard Peck, Daniel E. Lewis, 
David R. Barton, Thomas Hanvey, 
Chas. W. Dundas, Moses Chapin, 
Levi A. Ward, Ebenezer Ely, 
Lewis Selye, Amon Bronson, 
Wm. N. Sage, Geo. W. Parsons, 
Win. W. Ely, Geo. Elwanger, 
Alvah Strong, .loci P. Milliner, 
Martin Briggs, Ephraim Moore, 
Theodore B. Hamilton, Nehemiah Osborn, 
Freeman Clark. 
EVERARD PECK, President. 
Freeman Clark, Treasurer. 
Rochester, June 1,1S50. [23-tf.] 
the United States after the alliance with 
France, thus describes the camp life of 
MARSHALL’S BOOK BINDERY, 
^fWfWha BURNS’ BLOCK, corner of State 
Buffalo streets, over Sage & Bro. 
Bookstore, Rochester, N. Y. ^ 
Baffling Curiosity. —Dr. Marsh was 
once travelling in a stage coach, and was 
much annoyed by a garrulous old maid.-- 
After ascertaining his name, she inquired if 
he belonged to such and such family of 
Marshes. 
“ No, madam, I do not, nor to any other 
family that you know,” was the reply in 
short and abrupt tones. 
“ Ob,” says the antiquated virgin, “there’s 
so much acid about you, I suppose you 
sprang from the cranberry Marshes.^’ 
“ If I did, madam,” was the prompt re¬ 
tort, “I’m fit sauce for a goose.” 
The lady Avas silent the rest of the jour¬ 
ney. _ ■ _ 
Aunt Dilsey.—” Forty dollars for the 
higher branches,” read aunt Dilsey the oth¬ 
er day, in a school advertisement. “ Well,” 
soliloquized she, “ if that ain’t a new kink, 
I’m a heathen. In my day, w'hen the chil¬ 
dren Avent to school, they Avere taught to 
read and Avrite, but now they must have 
’em playin’ in the branches. My mother 
used to keep me out of the branches Avhen 
I Avas a little gal, particularly when they 
Avas high. But noAV people pay forty dol¬ 
lars to have their children put in the ‘high¬ 
er branches.’ Well, Avell, that dreadful 
critter, the crisis, them Congressmen is 
talkin’ about so much, is certainly arriv!” 
General and Lady Washington. “The 
head-quarters at Newburg consist of a sin¬ 
gle house, in the Dutch fashion, and neither 
large nor commodious. The largest room 
in it, which General Washington has con¬ 
verted into his dining-room, is tolerably spa¬ 
cious, but it has seven doors and only one 
window. The chimney is against the wall; 
so that there is, in fact, but one vent for 
the smoke, and the fire is in the room itself. 
I found the company assembled in a small 
room Avhich served as a parlor. At nine, 
supper was served, and when bed-time 
came, I found that the chamber to which 
the General conducted me Avas the very par¬ 
lor spoken of, wherein he had made them 
place a camp-bed. We assembled at break¬ 
fast the next morning at ten, during which 
interval my bed was folded up; and my 
chamber became the sitting-room for the 
whole afternoon; for American manners do 
not admit of a bed in the room in which 
company is received, especially Avbere there 
are Avomen. The smallness of the house, 
and the inconvenience to which I saw that 
General and Mrs. Washington had put 
themselves to receive me, made me appre¬ 
hensive lest M. Rochambeau might arrive 
on the same day. The day I remained 
at head-quai’ters was passed either at table 
Music, Pamphlets; Periodicals, &c. bound in plain > 
and fancy bindings; old books rebound; Blank Books J) 
ruled to any pattern, and bound to orderi Public ) 
and Private Libraries repaired at short notice.— / 
Packages containing directions for Binding, punatu- ( 
ally attended to. _ ; 
N.B.—All work warranted, and done at low prices. ) 
May, 1850. [21] F. H. MARSHALL. ’ 
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“That’s very likely.” —A man was 
brouo-ht lip by a farmer and accused of 
stealmo- some ducks. The farmer said he 
should know them anywhere, and went on 
to describe their peculiarity. 
“ Why,” said the counsel for the prisoner, 
“ they can’t be such a very rare breed—I 
have some very like them in my yard.” 
“ That’s very likely, sir,” said the farmer, 
“ these are not the only ducks of the sort I 
have had stolen lately.” 
Why is an infant like a diamond point?— 
Because it is a “ dear little thing.” 
any increase oi magniiuae in me stars. 
A family is society in miniature; home 
is its location; Avomen its presiding spirit; 
whatever destroys its joys primely features, 
must disturb the tranquility of its joys, in¬ 
troduce evil into its atmosphere of good; in¬ 
flict miseries, not only on her, but on all its 
members; and affect the whole community 
of Avhich it forms a portion. 
There is something beautifully pious 
and tender about that Avord of sad import 
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you—to God I commit you.” 
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