lepartnimt. 
BY L. WETIIEIIELL. 
A WORD WITH OUR READERS. 
It Beems befitting at the close of the vol¬ 
ume, of the year, and of the first half of the 
present century, that we should look back 
over the past, and see whether any progress 
has been made—whether any good for the 
race has been accomplished; and finally to 
determine as well as we can whether we 
are as a Nation, as a State, as Comnaunities 
and as Individuals, advancing toward per¬ 
fection, or retrogading toward barbarism.— 
It is true of both individuals and nations 
that they are either going forward or back¬ 
ward—distributing light, peace and joy. in 
their pathway, or else their track is marked 
with the desolations of wretchedness and 
woe. 
In surveying the past it is much easier to 
recount the improvements that have been 
made in the Arts and Sciences, such as 
tend more immediately, to produce results 
favorable to man as a sojourner here, than 
to enumerate those that really benefit him 
as a moral and spiritual being. ‘No one at 
all acquainted with the history of the half 
century now about to close will or can 
doubt that great and valuable discoveries 
have been made within this period, brief 
indeed, when compared with the history of 
the world, and only long when compared 
with the age of man. 
We will, in order to quicken the memory 
of the older and to inform the mind of the 
younger, revert to some of the more impor¬ 
tant discoveries and inventions that have 
been made in England and our own coun¬ 
try, since the year 1800. 
Iron railways were first sanctioned by the 
Parliament of England in 1801—the first 
Locomotive Steam Engine was used on the 
Merthyn Tydvil road in Wales. Fulton’s 
first successful trial of propelling a boat by 
steam was made in 1807. This had been 
done however by John Fxtcii. He made 
his first successful trial near the close of the 
eighteenth century—so that the honor of 
discovery belongs to the latter, while that 
of bringing steam navigation into use, to the 
former. The first steamboat was built in 
Europe, in 1810. Gas was first used for 
lighting the streets of London in 1814.— 
The year following the safety lamp was in¬ 
vented. The first voyage across the Atlan¬ 
tic by steam, from New York to Liverpool, 
was made in 1819. The Erie Canal was 
opened in 1824. The first railway in the 
United States Avas the Quincy and Boston 
made to convey the granite for building the 
Bunker Hill Monument in 1827. Boston 
and Providence Railroad was opened in 
1835—so was the Boston and Lowell, and 
Boston and Worcester. The Utica and 
Schenectady, the year following. In 1837 
Morse took out a patent for his Electro- 
Magnetic Telegraph, (invented in 1832.)— 
These nr- a few of the important discove¬ 
ries and improvements which have been 
made during the first half of the nineteenth 
century. 
During this period the Foreign Slave- 
Trade has been abolished—so has slavery 
by England in all her colonies. Would to 
God that it had never been introduced into 
America by our fatherland—but as it is 
here, may its peaceful abolition be soon con¬ 
curred in by all the citizens of this liberty- 
loving Republic. 
The manufacturing interests of our coun¬ 
try have almost entirely grown up within 
the last fifty years;—and so we might go 
on enumerating discoveries and improve¬ 
ments—but we have already said enough, 
and more than enough to establish the 
point, that no other half century since our 
grand parents left the garden of Eden, has 
made such progress in developing and per¬ 
fecting the arts and sciences as they con¬ 
cern the material world, as that in which 
we live. 
These discoveries and improvements go 
to establish the fact that the present is a 
period of great mental activity—but this 
alone cannot save a nation nor an individu¬ 
al from desolation and ruin. The profound- 
est and most desirable science, is that which 
teaches liow to make good men and women 
of all the children of each and every gen¬ 
eration; and that art the most important 
and useful which accomplishes this noble 
result. All else is to be regarded, but as a 
means to an end. It is not so easy then for 
us to satisfy ourselves, that improvement 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER; AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
and advancement have been made in the 
art of forming high, generous, and manly 
character, as it is with reference to the pro¬ 
gress in things pertaining to the material 
world. The one is tangible to our senses 
—the other can only be known to Him who 
seeth the end from the beginning. Wheth¬ 
er the bettering of our worldly state gener¬ 
ally tends to make us more virtuous, may be 
(questioned—that it should, none will deny. 
The year 1850 will have passed away 
before we shall again have the opportunity 
of communing with the readers of - the' Ru¬ 
ral. Let us halt, as it were, in the march 
of life’s pilgrimage, and look into the volume 
where are registered the doings of another 
year. In order to come at once to the 
point let us suppose that this volume con¬ 
sists of 365 pages, divided into 12 books, 
each consisting of one month, divided into 
as many chapters as there are days in the 
month. In this way we may review the 
doings of each dajq and thus enable our¬ 
selves to estimate whether we have made 
any progress during the year. Is it not to 
be feared that if each will deal honestly 
with himself, that he will find that he is in 
a more desperate condition than one of old, 
who, when called to give an account of Ms 
stewardship, was able to say, “ there, thou 
hast that is thine ?” This review will show 
to each it is feared, many blank pages, and 
to multitudes what is worse,—the record of 
evil that has been done to fellow man.-— 
Would it not be well as you number this 
volume, before you place it by the side of the 
others of the past, to compare it with some 
of the preceding volumes of your personal 
history ? Let us not forget, but rather let 
us “ remember” that there is a time coming 
when all these doings of life will be of in¬ 
finite moment to each of us, “ for each shall 
give account for himself.” 
If the volume of the Rural New-York¬ 
er which this number closes, has made an 
impression on the minds of its patrons and 
friends, that it is deserving of a permanent 
place by the side of the numerous family 
papers and periodicals, already liberally pat¬ 
ronized and sustained, we hope that such 
will aid in its further circulation, so that the 
publisher, who is a laborer worthy of his 
hire, may be enabled to give jmu a second 
volume as much better than the first, as the 
first is conceded to be better than any- otUor 
similar family Journal. 
RELAXATION AND AMUSEMENT. 
Evervbouv needs some relaxation and 
amusement, and experience has found that 
the best relief for the mind is not idleness, 
but change of occupation. Let your relax¬ 
ation be intellectual engagements, and your 
amusements the entertaining developements 
of truth. Though perhaps wearisome at 
first, such a habit of study will find no re¬ 
freshment like communion with grateful or 
exalted minds, and instead of a toil to be 
feared, you welcome release from other toil 
that you may turn to the conversation of 
philosophy; a friend ever ready and faithful. 
He who has this habit is never alone, and 
never without pleasure. If ho walks abroad, 
the heavenly bodies as they wheel along 
their orbits, the winds, and the storm clouds, 
whose laws seemed inscrutable, the count¬ 
less tribes of living things, with their varied ■ 
anatomy and habits and usages, the plants 
of the fields, and the trees of the wood, the 
rock, the very soil on which he treads, all 
speak to him in a language he understands, 
and give him lessons of profit and delight. 
If he sits at home, the volume before him, 
with better than magic power, uplifts him 
from the dull earth in truthful dreams of 
the poet, bears him back to past ages, ac¬ 
quaints him with the experience of men, 
individual and social, reveals to him in an 
hour, te rets which others toiled years to 
discover, makes him a companion of the best 
minds, when acting best; the best minds of 
their actings; or if he tune his senses for 
quiet meditation, he has within, a world of 
pleasant and exalted thoughts. 
Nor let it be said that these pursuits unfit 
a man for his ordinary occupation. They 
do, indeed, refine and elevate, and so may 
disgust him with the mere lucre of gain and 
the petty objects of common ambition; but 
for this very reason they should be cherish¬ 
ed. You will need all their influence to 
keep you from becoming the slave of dol¬ 
lars and cents, of truckling expediency, of 
popular prejudice, or worse, of sense and ap¬ 
petite.— Cincinnati Commercial. 
The finest cosmetic we know of is early 
rising, exercise in the open air, temperance 
in eating and drinking, cleanliness, and last, 
though not least, perpetual good humor.— 
Keey your face with a smile on it, as smiles 
are easily implanted bjr cultivation on the 
human countenance. 
Wisdom and virtue are the greatest beau¬ 
ty; but it is an advantage to a diamond to 
be well set. 
Smiiiaq Hrahtag. 
TRUSTING. 
BY JOHN WATERS. 
Mv soul dwells on 'J'hce, and is satisfied ! 
I know, I feel that thou art near me now. 
This hallowed Joy comes to my breast from thine ; 
It hath the Virtue that thy love used bring 
To heal the latent sorrows of my heart 
With balmy restoration of sweet peace ! 
I know the haven of thy rest is made 
Beyond the reach of TeinjieHt and of Care 1 
Thou SEEST now The Everlasting Arm 
On which, in sweet conijianionship, we strove 
Tlirough faith to lean, failing from want of Faith. 
“ Oh w'e of little faith !” 1 hear Thee cry, 
“ How could we fail with such an arm above !” 
THOUGHTS OF THE SEASON’S SUGGESTION. 
The lover of Nature finds volumes of 
thought in his every day walks. How full 
of instruction is the lovely autumn time, 
and its white robed successor—stern winter. 
The gorgeously colored frosts robed and 
tinted in greater magnificence than fairy 
dreams, — the fu)l orchards, — the golden 
fields of corn,—the “magic streamers of 
the North,” that play their W'eird revels 
among the arctic regions,—the bright star- 
gems that make the nights so beautiful.— 
All these, and ten thousand more give to 
the mind such a profound and yet so sweet 
a field for thought, that one seems lost in 
the depth of his emotions. 
Then as time moves onward, and the 
winds grow more gusty and chilly, the 
frosts more biting, and the forest leaves fall 
in showers to the earth, or eddy off in gid¬ 
dy dances along the driving gale—still that 
field of thought widens, for, though the bare 
branches breast the rude storms, there are 
wonderful displays of the All Wise Provi¬ 
dence of the Good Creator, that should 
make the heart expand with love and ado¬ 
ration. 
It has been said there were sermons in 
stones; but in autumn leaves, in autumn 
winds and autumn fruits—in the leafless 
boughs and naked fields, in the snowy blast 
and ice bound earth, there are sermons for 
the heart rightly attuned that are interest¬ 
ing, instructive, eloquent and potent There 
are no seasons of the year that are not 
pregnant witli truthful instruction, still, the 
reflections that should naturally arise from 
the contemplation of God’s displays in the 
autumn and winter months, tend more direct- 
\Y Icctd iliO latoill fVozia ilftO 
earth to the infinite goodness and glory of 
Him who is in all and above all, and whose 
chariot is in the whirlwind, and flames of 
fire, T. E. w. 
LoMbb’ Ifpartmrat. 
EE9UI8ITE8 EOR A POOD HESBABD. i3 
He must be amiable, artless, agreeable, three syllables. Courtesy may be 
, ,«... . . . shown m a thousand ways. It is one of 
apt, ambitious, affectionate, aspiring, afflu- 
ent and attentive not austere, artful, abash- acter that can be developed; it may show 
ed, afraid or avaricious. itself on any and all occasions. No person 
Benevolent,benign,beautiful,blithe,bold, is degraded by an act of courtesy; on the 
brave—not bashful, base or bacchanalian. ccintiary, it has a most elevating and human¬ 
izing effect 
Christian, calm, candid, capable, com- Ladies, in a particular manner, should be 
COURTESY. 
BY MRS. J. II. ROBINSON 
brave—not bashful, base or bacchanalian. cciiuiary, it nas a most elevating ana Human¬ 
izing effect 
Christian, calm, candid, capable, com- Ladies, in a particular manner, should be 
manding, composed, conscientious, courtc- courteous; for it renders them attractive 
ous—not clownish, careless, complaining and agreeable, and will cover all defects of 
cowardly or contrary. figure and feature. Your fnend will soon 
ous—not clownish, careless, complaining and agreeable, and will cover all defects of 
cowardly or contrary. figure and feature. Your fnend will soon 
Daring, decided, diligent, dignified, die- fotgf yoyre " plain looking,” if you 
, j. are truly courteous. Your “homely ” face 
creet, domestic-not deceitful, despotic, dis- ^qq gq^j^g .^q^q^ qq^^ jjgq^q angel’s.- 
contented or disagreeable. “ Thank you,” does not cost much, but there 
Engaging, eloquent, exemplary, energetic times when it is worth a great a deal. 
—not effeminate, egotistical, envious or ex¬ 
travagant. 
Frugal, faithful, fair-spoken, fervent, for- 
and ought not to be dispensed with. 
A lady, splendidly dressed, was prome¬ 
nading Washington street, while a costly 
and elegant shawl was sweeping the dirty 
giving, frank—not falsehearted, fawning, pavement. A benevolent woman, plainly 
faulty or formal. 
attired who saw the beautiful fabric fast as¬ 
Genteel, generous, gracious-not giddy, We^rance of a filthy rag, ran 
. ® ° o J atter the wearer, and said in the sweetest 
grumbling or gluttonous. kindest voice in the world, “ Madam, 
Hearty, healthy, hospitable, handsome— your shawl is dragging.” 
not homely, headstrong, or heedless. The lad^/ turned towards her informer 
Intelligent, independent, ingenious, intre- ^ sUitely air, as much as to say, “ what 
j , . ^ ■ . • 1 - A business is that to you,” and then drew up 
i-not .rresoluto, .gnorant, impertment, 
insipid. least possible amount of pure indwell- 
pid—not irresolute, ignorant, impertinent, 
or insipid. 
Judicious, joyful, just—not jealous, jang- ing courtesy, would have prompted her to 
ling, or jejune. 
Learned, light-hearted, loveable, loving 
—not lazy, lounging, or loaferish. 
say “ thank you,” or “ I am much obliged.” 
We have seen a female take a nice seat 
in a rail-road car, which a gentleman had 
just relinquished for her especial benefit, 
Manly, mirthful not morose, malignant, ^iqiiout a single word of gratitude or obli 
or a mischief-making meddler. 
gation to the kind individual who, for her 
Noble, natural, neighborly, neat—not a sake, had consented to stand up three mor- 
noisy numbscull hours, holding on to a seat upon each 
Open-hearted! opulent, obedient-not Ob- “‘‘t keep himself steady. But the fe- 
. ^ rr 1 . male appeared entirely incapable of appre- 
durate, offending, or odious. elating the gallantry and kindness of the 
Pleasing, poetical, patient-not passion^ act, and sat there as little disturbed by the 
ate, presumptuous, or perverse. 
Quick-sighted—not quarrelsome. 
Reasonable, reverential, rich—not re¬ 
vengeful, regardless, or reckless. 
inconvenience she had occasioned as could 
be imagined. How well a smile of grate¬ 
ful acknowledgement would have become 
her, even if she had not opened her lips. 
We once heard a gentleman—a lawyer 
Sage, self-denying, studious not stupid, qq^g qjj.gq respectability and talent—get a 
selfish, or a spendthrift. flippant “ What do you mean. Sir ?” from 
Thorough, talented, truthful—not trifling, two female travelers who seemed to be with¬ 
er timid ^ protector, simply because he enquired 
Unshaken, undaunted-not unkind, or gentlenoanly and nnobjectiona- 
. . ble manner if he could serve them. The 
• gentleman looked astonished, bowed, bit his 
Virtuous, valiant—not vain, vague, or jipg^ and walked away in some confusiori 
vulgar. while the females tossed their heads affect- 
Worthy woman’s warmest 'W'clcomo not nppoarod wliolly nneonsr-ious that 
wasteful, wilful, or waggish. been guilty of rudeness. 
Yo thful ^ ought to be able to distinguish 
between politeness and impertinence. 
Zealous. Ellenor. ^ female, on taking a seat in the cars, 
Alabama, N. F., 1850. discovered that she had left her parasol at 
THE A 
_ stranger,%immediately started to recover the 
Miss Weber (the young Belgian lady although the cars were al- 
mentioned in our last Journal as standing ready in motion ; the consequence was that 
pre-eminent among the advocates of wo- was obliged to wait the 
man’s rights, and as the wearer of male at- tram which made him too ate at an 
tire, and the cultivator of a farm) is said to appointment a few stations beyond, 
be handsome, and only twenty-four years of , Whe’i the female^ reached her place of 
age. She dresses in the Parisian fashion of destination she left the following note with 
FAMILY PRAYER. 
In binding a family together in peace and 
love, there is no human influence like that 
of family prayer. Uniting them in a com¬ 
mon object, it unites their sympathy and 
desires. Raising their hearts to heaven, it 
brings them all together in the presence of 
God, The family altar is an asylum to 
which they repair from the cares and toils 
of life—reminded them in efforts of faith 
and obedience for its attainment. Faith has 
no holier spot than a house thus sanctified 
by prayer—where the voice of supplication 
and thanksgiving concentrate every day; 
where the word of God is devotedly read, 
and young and old unite to show forth all 
his praise. It may be humble, but it is 
holy. Poverty may enter there, and sorrow 
—but its inmates are rich in faith, and joy¬ 
ous in the Holy Ghost. Sickness may en¬ 
ter it, but it comes like an angel of peace 
and mercy. 
Aspect of Death in Childhood. —Few 
things appear so very beautiful as a very 
young child in its shroud. The little inno¬ 
cent face looks so sublimely simple and 
confiding among the cold terrors of death— 
crimeless, and fearless, that little mortal has 
passed alone under the shadow, and ex¬ 
plored the mystery of dissolution. There is 
death in its sublimest and purest image— 
no hatred, no hypocrisy, no suspicion, no 
care for the morrow ever darkened that 
little face; death has come lovingly upon it; 
there is nothing cruel in its victory. The 
yearnings of love, indeed, cannot be stifled, 
for the prattle, and smiles, and the little 
world of thoughts that are so delightful, 
are gone forever. Awe, too, will overcast 
us in its presence, for we are looking on 
death; but we do not fear for the lonely 
voyager—for the child has gone, simple and 
trusting, into the presence of its all-wise 
Father, and of such, we know is the King¬ 
dom of Heaven. 
The World is one universal disguise, each 
individual endeavoring to fathom his neigh¬ 
bor’s intentions, and at tlnJ^'siime time wish¬ 
ing to hide his own, and striving to secure 
a reputable character rather by words than 
deeds. __ 
Death once seen at our hearth leaveth a 
shadow which abideth there forever. 
vulgar. 
Worthy woman’s warmest -wclcomo i 
wasteful, wilful, or waggish. 
Youthful. 
Zealous. Ellenor. 
Alabama, N. F., 1850. 
THE MAN-MAIDEN. 
age. She dresses in the Parisian fashion of destination, she left the following note with 
black dress coat and pants, with buff vest, conductor for the unfortunate good na- 
Her defence of the pActice is ingenious, if "-ko had broken an appointment 
^ ° to perform an act of kindness. 
not satisfactory. 
man, is the natural token of his sex. 
fensive. The female, in her own lamenta- 
Miss Weber may imt only take our hat, q^qg selfishness, overlooks expressing her 
but our pants, vest, dickey, and coat, also, gjaqtude, to the party who had suffered 
—Drawing Room Journal. trouble and vexation on her ac- 
- count. He will, doubtless be careful not to 
Outward Be autv. I cannot undci stand j^Q(q(qq(. ^jqq^ ladies’parasols in future.— 
3 importance which certain people set up- ^Taverly Magazine. 
the importance which certain people set up¬ 
on outward beauty or plainness. I am of 
opinion that all true education, such at least 
as has a religious foundation, must infuse a 
noble calm, a wholesome coldness and indif¬ 
ference, or whatever people may call it. 
WOMAN’S AGE. 
When the female reached her place of 
, , .. Cl “Mr.-, send rny parasol to-if you are 
‘ ihe nether garment (she says) was first not coming so far : but if you arc, fetch it your- 
worn in the bifurcated form by the women self. Put a paper round it so it wont get soiled; 
of ancient Judea. The exclusive claim which and write the name very plain if you have to send 
man so pertinaciously maintains to the use o rpt • .i Haf.ah H. L —. 
, “ . T P. .S. The ivor\'on the end is quite loose; don’t 
of this garment is abitrary, without a soli- i^ae it ofF. 
tary argument to support it-nor even that q q like; but when 
of this garment is abitrary, without a soli- i^ae it (iff. ^ 
tary argument to support it-nor even that business like; but when 
of prior usage. Nature never inten^ded that qq qg considered that the disobliged party 
the sexes should be distinguished by ap- .^^^g entire stranger to the obliged, there 
parel. The beard, which she assigned to jg something about the note that is very of- 
The ages of woman may be noted into 
three periods; the first extending from birth 
towards such-like outward gifts, or the want to the age of twenty; the second from that 
of them. And who has not experienced age to about forty; and the third age of wo¬ 
of how little consequence they are, in fact, man extends from forty to sixty. In the 
for the weal or woe of life ? Who has not beginning of her career in life, woman is 
experienced how, on nearer acquaintance, scarcely woman; the character of her sex 
plainness becomes beautified, and beauty being not yet decided, her person differs 
loses its charm, exactly according to the from that when her growth be terminated, 
quality of the heart and mind ? And from and presents another model. At the be- 
this cause I am also of opinion that the want ginning of the seconii age of woman, she has 
of outward beauty never disquiets a noble acquired all her attributes and most sedu- 
nature, or will be regarded as a misfortune, cing graces. A moderate plumpness grows 
It never can prevent people from being upon her, bestowing a graceful suppleness of 
amiable and beloved in the highest degree; her organs, without diminishing her strength, 
and w6 have daily proof of this.—Fredrika At the third age of woman, the form does 
Bremer. suddenly deteriorate, that is to say, in 
_ ^ _ j such females whose lives have neither been 
None are more bold and aspiring in their spent in labor, dissipation, or been over¬ 
thought than timid people; they thus make shadowed by misfortunes, the exercise of an 
themselves amends for all they dare not do. unfavorable profession, or a wrong employ- 
_-ment of life, have not hastened decay, wo- 
CuRiosiTY is a kernel of the forbidden man, during the third age, preserves^iany 
fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a of the charins of the preceding one, Ninon 
natural man, sometimes to the danger of h;« j de I’Enclos is said to have been a fascina- 
cboakinfL ting woman in appearance at a very old age. 
