MOORED RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
W03tA2f' S EIGHTS. 
BY MRS. N. p. LASSELLE. 
ir is her right to watch beside 
The bed of sickness and of pain. 
And when the heart almost despairs. 
To whisper words of health again. 
Her right to make the hearth-stone glad, 
With gentle words and cheerful smile ; 
And when man is with care oppressed. 
Hi* wearied spirit to beguile. 
It is her right to train her sons 
, So they may Senate chambers grace— 
Thus, is she with more honor crown’d 
Than if herself had filled the place. ’ 
It is her right to be admir’d 
3y ev’ry generous, manly heart, 
When with true dignity and grace. 
She acteth well a woman’s part. 
She hath a dearer right than this— 
To be in one true heart enshrined— 
Who, though all the world forsake, 
Will cherish still, and still be kind. 
And there is yet a higher right. 
Which, also, is to woman given ; 
>r ‘ is hers ’ t0 tea ch the infant mind 
Those truths divine which came from heaven 
What would she more, than to perform 
On earth, life’s holiest, sweetest tasks ” 
When you a perfect woman find, 
No other rights than these she asks. 
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manner of doing this depends almost entirely 
on your own will and capacity. Your pow¬ 
er to do well or ill, depends very much upon 
your mental cultivation. It does not follow 
as a matter of course, that a well developed 
mind, will secure to its possessor, a virtuous 
character, nor that the neglect thereof, will 
result in the formation of a vicious character. 
“ One man there was — and many such vou might 
COAT OF ARMS OF THE STATE OF KEW YORK. 
| Lxcelsiok !— “Still Higher!”—is the 
motto of our State, and one worthy of anv 
nation, community, or individual. Let us, 
then, each adopt it as our own. The motto 
of the Rural New-Yorker has been 
“ Progress and Improvement,” and we cry 
Excelsior!” as-we commence a new vol¬ 
ume. Our Patrons are cn-wnrlrers in I 
engraving right, in the other, and Liberty, with the 
•C of New anchor of Hope, given by the engraver in- 
rdered by stead of the appropriate symbols of inde- 
isists of a pendence, and the olive branch of peace, 
the rising In the background, across an expanse of wa- 
Ills in the ter with its ships and steamers, a city is seen 
K /. V : r r Ieelw g is a rustic vulgar- 
Iky the flirt does not tolerate; she counts 
its healthiest and most honest manifestation 
all sentiment Yet she will play you off a 
pretty string of sentiment, whicl/shehas 
gathered from the poets; she adjusts it 
prettily as a Ghobelin weaver adjusts the 
Y ur n hlS ! tapis - She 6had es it off de 
hghtfully; there are no bold contrasts, but 
a most artistic mellow of nuances. 
a wizard, and jingles it 
■e poor home- ; 
bower. She < 
apt and artful as the < 
t trout billing ; 
; -—hurried- 5 
prettiest doubleness of $ 
j copies, and she j 
—.* H a single ex- j 
1 prompts. > 
iff- She ) 
falsity to l 
lightfully; there 
She smiles like 
with a laugh, such as toileefthe 
-__ cuvciy bound Ulysses to the Circean 1 
valuable. Mr. Yarrell, in his very interest- has a cast of the head > 
wo . rk on British fishes, mention that in m ° st d oxterous cast of the best MUI 
—' price of them , ¥ er , words sparkle, and flow 
ff. and they were y ’ ai ? d Wlth the I ’ 
w * • rates than mcamn S- ^ Naturalness she r~; 
more than ten times higher scorns - She accuses herself of _ 
~ 1. In Henry Fesswnor regard, which nature; 
* ’ " She prides herself on her schooling 
measures her wit by the triumphs" of her 
^it. she chuckles over her own l a 
herseff _ And if by chance her soul—such 
g-eim as is left of it—betrays her into un- 
tou au confidence, she condemns herself, as 
it she had committed crime. 
donfl) 0 ab ' r / l y s 8 a y> because she has no 
depth of feeling to be stirred. The brook 
that runs shallow over a hard pebbly bottom 
always rustles. She is light-hearted be¬ 
cause her heart floats in sparkles-like my 
sea-coal fire. She counts on marriage, not 
as the great absorbent of a heart’s-love, and 
life, but as a happy, feasible, and orderly 
nately most popular in this age, is little else 
than the exercise of the memory, while the 
former is the accumulation of power, or 
rather the generating of it. 
e have not space to enumerate the va¬ 
rious topics to whose advancement tu; 0 
In old times this fish was cc 
Mr. Yarrell, in his 
CARRIER PIGEONS. 
Mr. John Galloway publishes a letter in 
the Manchester Guardian, (Eng.) wherein .:<=>- J »uu 
—commenting on the reported arrival of J. JOt allowed to be sold at lighter 
the two carrier pigeons of Sir John Ross, “ eshs ^mon,notr;:: : ‘ 
he relates something very interesting rel- ia l. , , best turbot or cod - ncm y 
ative to those birds. He says “an ex- , ® Eighth’s time a large one sold for double 
press flyer of pigeons would just as soon ,P rIce a house-lamb in February, and 
think of tying a letter to a bird’s tail, as un- * pickereI ’ or small pike, for more than a 
der its wing. The practice is to roll some if C ?J on '. The P lke is th e same fish that 
fine tissue paper neatly round the leo- se- e old writes call a luce. It sometims grows 
cured with thread oj silk; and thus’the ^ a mos J enormous size, and the skeleton 
bird can travel, without the paper causing e ,f ken at Heilbrun, toward the close 
resistance or impediment to its flight.— f . llfteentk century, and which was 19 
Then, more marvellous still, the creature m lengtRwas long preserved at Mann- 
must have flown 2,000 miles! a considera- , e . p . lke is as 8 reat a tyrant as the 
ble distance of which must have been over f iark ’ and 1S > mdeed, to river and lake, what 
snowy or frozen regions. In modern times , , , moaster is to the ocean; and the pick- 
the reign of Edward I. the 
was regulated by that kin; 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Christian Remembrancer, for Oct., 1350. 
Published in London.— Contents, 1. The Ora- 
ti°n of Hyperides against Demosthenes, respect¬ 
ing the Treasure of Harpalus. 2. The Brevi- 
3 * J*? Prelude, or growth of a Poet’s 
Mind; Wordsworth’s Autobiographical Poem 
4. 1 he Opinions of the lit. Hon. Sir Robt. Peel 
expressed in Parliament and in Public. 5. Nin¬ 
eveh and Persepolis. G. Sermons, Doctrinal 
and Practical. 7 * 
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Clergy of the Diocese of Newfoundland, 
Bishop. 8. Notices of Books. 
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a - -- ^v,LHAiai 110 sllc h distance as 2,000 miles have been 
7 - A Charge^ delivered to the accomplished by any trained carrier pio-eon. 
' by the The merchants and manufacturers of°Bel- 
' I For sale hv n a i * » ~ AT £ ium have done more to test the capabili- 
►t | or &Ale b T D - Appleton & Co., New ties of pigeons than anv other iwTl, 
e lork . 
6 g 1 ! 1 HKisTriK Review for October_Messrs 
l , 0 ‘,- v Co -' publishers. New York .—Contents 
1. Confession of Augustine. 2. The object ir 
f Forging the Apostolical Constitutions. 3. So- 
cialism in the United States. 4. Spirit and Re¬ 
form. o. The Territories of the Pacific. G 
Lxamination of Joshua X., 12-15. 7 Philo¬ 
sophic Theology. 8. Sketch of President Tav- 
in' ^ u " ust Wilhelm Noander. 
; 1U. Notices of New Publications. 
^ U d 'Englander. — John B. Carrington 
Publisher, New Haven.— Contents, 1. The 
conditions of Missionary Success. 2. Reform 
and Reformers. 3. Gobat’s Abyssinia. 4. Per¬ 
fect Love Attained. 5. The Original Unity oi 
. 6 ** ur P ai J ( & ac e; Pickering, Bachman, Agas- 
sis. 6. California. 7. Tennyson: In Memo- 
riam. 8. 1 he J ugitive Slave Law. 9. Literarv 
Notices. 
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Harper s New Monthly Magazine for 
December, fully sustains its past reputation. 
I It contains among other choice selections, 
Goldsmith’s Deserted Village, with portrait 
and eleven illustrations. This, alone, is 
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) showing that great learning and eminent 
J moral worth have been, as they always 
) should be, united. 
> There is too much of the feeling abroad 
) that the mind is little else than an instru- 
| ment and that, and that alone, is educa¬ 
tion, which serves to sharpen this instrument, 
and fit it foi use in some one of the numer¬ 
ous departments of labor; seeming to forget 
that to educate properly requires a higher 
and nobler purpose. 
Do what you can-do what you ought to 
do, to promote virtue and to scatter light 
and truth, whereever you go—then if you I 
are permitted to see the end of 1851, you 
will be able in reviewing the year to say, 
that this has been the happiest year of your 
life. In wishing you a Happy New Year, 
we intend to do what we can to aid in ac¬ 
complishing so desirable a result, by the 
weekly visits of the Rural. 
It is our purpose to present to parents, 
teachers, and friends of sound education, 
such reflections and suggestions as si mil aLl I 
them in advanc 
We are of the 
lool.— A lady was sitting with her three 
hildren in a coach, awaiting the return of 
led liver, who had left his horses unat- 
nded while he stepped for a moment into 
™. ghb0rmg , k? te \ P urin 8 bis absence 
- ...e coach about, 
r street at a moder- 
The lady who, naturally enough, 
a f o j -j. .. incident, 
>ed man 
the best bred carriers at once to Binning- tk e horses started, wheeled the 
ham, and I venture to assert that not one and dotted off down the 
will return to Manchester without previous ate s P eed - V’ ' ' 
training—viz: taking them short distances was somewhat alarmed * at the 
at- a time and then increasing by degrees. calIed out to a gentlemanly drei_ 
It has been asserted that pigeons are guided wIl o was approaching the carriage from an 
on their return home from long distances °PP osite direction, that “ the horses were 
by instinct Instinct is said to be unerring; S°. ln 8' without a driver.” “ I see they arc!” 
not so the pigeon’s flight. If instinct be 8idd tb e fellow with entire sang froid and 
the guide, why not fly through foggy weath- P assed on. The lady said she was so much 
er with equal speed md felicity as in clear amused with the impudent nonchalance of 
S ™ s ™ e . . the rascal that it quite restored her equa- 
Ahl8 lfc ,s notorious they cannot accom- nim dy till a true gentleman, in the livery of 
plish. When the ground is covered with a oharcoal-man, came to the rescue.— Bos- 
snow, pigeons seem to miss their points of ton ^ >ost - 
guidance, and are lost This would seem n ~T- - -- * 
to favor the opinion that they travel bv {x00 '° Bulbs.—'“ The best dressed men 
sight, and are less indebted to instinct than '! ear tbe B ast jowelry. Of all things avoid 
is generally imagined Carrier pigeons do S i0 , w - V ckains ’ lar g G rin gs, a nd gewgaw pins 
not fly at night; they settle down if they f nd broaches. All these things should be 
cannot reach their home by the dusk of ! cf K to Ne S wes > Indians, and South Sea Is- 
* # -WIV. UUG ic circle. 
Especially is the station of the eldest dauo-h- 
ter one of eminence. She drank the first 
. draught ol a mother’s love. She usually 
enjoys much of her counsel and companion¬ 
ship. In her absence, she is the natural 
viceroy. Let the mother take double pains 
to inform her on a correct model: to make 
ler amiable, diligent, domestic, pious — 
trusting that the image of those virtues may 
ea\ c impressions on the soft, waxen hearts 
ol the younger ones, to whom she may, in 
the providence of God, be called to fill the 
place of maternal guide. 
i wo of the Sort. —Idleness and good 
clothes destroy more young men than any 
other cause. But there is a lackadaisical 
class of girls, called “young ladies,” who 
aie in a worse way than these yourv' fel- 
ows. While their lionest, laboring fathers 
work early and late to make a living, and 
their mothers enslave themselves to keep 
them tidy, and cook their meals, these in¬ 
teresting creatures are lolling about, terri¬ 
fied at nothing so much as earning the salt 
that seasons their food. You cannot so 
much as induce them to do a little sewinn-, 
lest they should be known to be “ working 
gills! Interesting but lazy creatures! 
doomed to helpless dependence through 
life, oi to be dead weights on duped hus- 
among Business 
Men. — 1. An ambition to be rich. 2. 
Aversion to labor. 3. An impatient desire 
to enjoy the luxuries of life before the right 
to them has been acquired in any way. " 4. 
The want of some better principle for the 
distinguishing between right and wrong, 
than reference merely to what is establish¬ 
ed as honorable in the society in which he 
happens to live. 
^ — . kr . ^he union of parts and acquirements, 
try to impress upon I s P ln k a nd modesty, which produces the 
rs. the difWn™ Up. definable charm of 
evening, and renew their flight at daylight 
next morning. The velocity of a pigeon’s 
nirvnf onn rv\ o Vv ~ ® 
flight seems to be greatly over-rated; and, 
no doubt, your readers will be surprised to 
learn that a locomotive railway engine can 
beat a carrier pigeon in a distance of 200 
miles.” 
I There is an animal in New Holland 
called the Duck-billed Platypus, which 
unites in a most remarkable manner the 
water fowl and the water quadruped. The 
head resembles that of a duck and the body 
that of an otter. 
conversation. 
If thou wilt be cured of 
confess it. 
thy ignorance 
