MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL 
(flourishing because out of debt,) is the pro¬ 
duct of two Associations, both of which had 
existed a number of years, but failed to ac¬ 
complish the good at which they aimed, 
until they were united. 
Such, or a similar Association, may and 
should exist in every village of five hundred 
families. A public library of one thousand 
well selected volumes is an object of no small 
attraction to such as are eager in the pursuit 
of knowledge. 
A town, a village, and a city library are all 
good in their place—but a choice well 
selected private library is better. Such as 
find their highest earthly enjoyment in men¬ 
tal pursuits, know not how to deny them¬ 
selves the advantages accruing from such 
a boon. Many such individuals have worn 
and continue to wear thread-bare garments, 
in order that the mind should have that 
adorning without which, however costly, 
gaudy and attractive the garments worn 
upon the body, the person is of little worth 
in a world like this. 
BY L. WKTHBRELL. 
For the Rural New-Yorker. 
TO MARY. 
Could but a simple wish impart 
One gleam of gladness to thy heart. 
Or for a moment give thee joy. 
That time and change can ne’er destroy, 
Or, if a wish to thee could bring, 
Peace, that around thy heart would cling 
in after years,—the wish were mine. 
Such happiness might e’er be ihir.e. 
Life to the young is fraught with joy. 
And bliss “ unmirigled with alloy,” 
But youth’s bright years will pass away 
Like flowrets of a summer day— 
Yet memory fond, will often turn. 
To love that in the heart doth bum;— 
That memories bright may e’er be thine. 
Is a true and earnest wish of mine. 
Eagle Iiarlior, N. Y. Amanda. 
ticularly numerous,—flourishing in places 
where little else can exist—the year being 
divided into two seasons, one of drouth, and 
the other of continual rains. These plants 
seem to have been designed by nature to 
endure this recess of moisture. Their or¬ 
ganization being of a fat, fleshy texture, cov¬ 
ered with a thick, tough, leather-like coat 
or bark—respiring very little and hence, 
being full of sap—they are prepared for the 
exigences of the climate. 
Having light, we seek to impart it. 
(NaVERSITY. There are five general departments ii 
~ agement of our association— 
Rochester now enjoys what has long 1st. The department of Finance. 
been deemed an indispensable desideratum oj' th ® Library. 
TT . . . r 1 he Newspaper and Periodical d 
— a University where young men may be 4th. Membership. 
trained and instructed, and fitted to prac- L ^ c , t ? res ’, 
r tacn or these departments is under 
tice With success the various professions and of a committee, which in turn is reguh 
vocations of life. Here now may be given *£ “Jj^, in 
as good an intellectual culture as in any , 
° . ,, , . , } 1st— or THE F1NAKCK. 
College in the Btate or country. Multitudes The balance in the treasury on the 1st oi 
of boys and young men in the city and the . 18;>0 ’ was ■.•••••. 
J b .* ... . . Amount received from the sale of ticket 
surrounding towns, can, if they will, obtain of membership,. 
a good classical education without going rece ‘ ve ^ f° r °*4 newpapers am 
from home —just as good as can be furnished Amount received for catalogues' sold, 
by our Eastern Colleges. Amount returned by committee on news 
J ° papers,. 
The opening of this Institution has glad- Amount paid to the treasurer by thelec 
dened, as it will continue to do, the hearts ipp^„!? 1 < rr L ,ttee—bein /, part - of th ® p ™ 
, ™ javoa uo ceeds of the course ot last season—foi 
of many parents. Many a boy hungering the purchase of books and general 
for knowledge, will now have his fill, whose P ur Poses,... 
father, were it not for the Rochester Uni- Making the total of receipts,.j 
versity, would be obliged to teach his son amounts paid, viz: 
the lesson of self-denial which has so often, For u 0 b"S'',''s;u;;,'.';.'. # ISo,'oo 
been inculcated from the direst necessity. Lights and fuel,. 250,00 
The list of students now comprises two ! - Rnd per '° cli ' goo oo 
resident graduates, six Seniors, fourteen Books and binding,.... 175,00 
Juniors, eleven Sophomores, and twenty-two Postage,?. ??.?!’.’ 65 00 
Freshmen—twelve pursuing the Scientific Catalogues...,. 65,00 
Course,, and two the Partial Course. In 27, °° 
the Senior class of the Theological depart- collecting, &c.,. 41,78—$ 
ment there are eighteen-making an ag- Leaving in the treasury a baWd\...! 
gregate of eighty-seven students who are ******* 
now 
WOMAN WRITERS. 
It is a melancholy fact, and against all 
political economy, that the group of female 
authors is becoming every year more mul¬ 
titudinous and more successful. Women 
write the best novels, the best travels, the 
best reviews, the best leaders, and the best 
cookery-books. r l hey write on every sub¬ 
ject and in every style, from terribly learned 
books on Egypt and Etruria, down to Loose 
-Thoughts, by a Lady. They are turning 
us men into “drugs” (in the market, of 
course ! metaphorically and not apotheca- 
rily) — they are ruining our profession.— 
VV herever we carry our skillful pens, we 
find the place pre-occupied by a woman. 
The time was when my contributions were 
sought as favors ; my graceful phrase was 
to be seen threading, like a meandering 
stream, through the rugged mountains of 
Always remember 
that books, however desirable they are as a 
means, never make men. Use them then 
as aids in making yourself familiar with the 
volumes of Nature and of Providence. 
^ NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
The Li ke and Correspondence of John Foster; 
Edited by J. E. Ryland. With notices of Mr. 
r osier as a Preacher and a Companion. Bv 
John Sheppard, Author of Thoughts on Devo¬ 
tion, etc., etc In two volumes.—Boston: Gould 
& Lincoln. 
The biography of the author of the “Es¬ 
says on the Decision of Character” can be 
no ordinary book, when compiled chiefly 
from his own letters, as is this, the Memoir 
of the celebrated John Foster. It cannot 
but possess peculiar ntt.rstcti. inne ir, oil 
, ..Ait' 
Century Peant. —(Agave Americana.) 
It is best known as the “ Century Plant,’* 
having been supposed to flower but once in 
a hundred years, but in favorable circum- 
I stances the blossoms appear much earlier 
than this. The stem sometimes rises to the 
height of 30 or 40 feet, and presents, when 
in flower, a sight of high interest, the panicle 
or bunch of fresh flowers, being 12 or 15 
feet high, and in this respect without a 
parallel. The flowers are of a greenish 
white color, growing or branches as repre- j 
sen ted in the 
Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Crowe and fifty others, 
with their shrewd and delicate observa¬ 
tion of life? How many of us can place 
our prose beside the glowing rhetoric and 
daring utterance of social wrong in the 
learned romances and powerful articles of 
Eliza Lynn, or the cutting sarcasm and the 
vigorous protests of Miss Eigdy? What 
chance have we against Miss Martineau, so 
potent in so many directions? In fact the 
women have made an invasion of our legit¬ 
imate domain. They write novels and they 
write histories, they write travels and they 
ransack chronicles, they write articles and 
they write dramas, they write leaders and 
they write treatises. — This is the “march 
of mind,” but where, oh, where are the 
dumplings! Does it never strike these de¬ 
lightful creatures, that their little fingers 
were made to be kissed, not to be inked ? 
Does it never oocur to them that they are 
doing us a serious injury, and that we need 
“ protection ?” 
Woman’s rigthful and proper sphere 
of activity is elsewhere. Are there no hus¬ 
bands, lovers, brothers, friends, to coddle 
and console ? Are there no stockings to 
darn, no purses to make, no braces to em¬ 
broider? My idea of a perfect woman is 
one that can write but won’t: who knows 
all that authors know and a great deal more; 
who can appreciate my genius, and not 
spoil my market; who can pet me, and flat¬ 
ter me, and flirt with me, work for me, and 
sing to me and love me; I have named 
Julia. Yes, she is a perfect woman; she 
never wrote a book. Political economists 
members of the University. 
We append the names of the Trustees, 
Executive Board, and Faculty: 
BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
Hon. WM. L. MARCY, J 
Hon. F. HUMPHREY, j 
Hon. IRA HARRIS, S Albany. 
J. N. WILDER. [ 
SMITH SHELDON, j 
W. R. WILLIAMS, D. D., > „ ^ 
ROBERT KELLY, l Wew Yo 
Rev. R R. RAYMOND, Svracuse. 
Hon. HENRY TOWER, Waterville. 
Hon. S. B. BURCIIARD, Hamilton. 
JOHN MUNRO, Elbridge. 
Rev. A. WIIEELOCK, Vienna. 
JAMES EDMUNDS, Jeddo. 
R. S. BURROWS, Albion. 
RAWSON HARMON, Jr., Wheatland. 
Rev. V. R. HOTCHKISS, Bufihlo, 
Hon. F. WHI* 
engraving. 
REASON IN BIRDS. 
Mr. Alfred Smee, in a work recently 
published in London, upon “Reason and 
Instinct, deduced from Electro-Biology,” 
relates the following striking instances of 
the faculty of reason in birds: 
“ Mr. Smee had lent a book to a friend 
who kept a parrot, and one day, on entering 
the room where the bird was kept, he 
'LESEY, 
WILLIAM PITKIN, 
EVERARD PECK, 
DAVID R. BARTON, 
E. F. SMITH, 
E. HUNTINGTON, 
E. PANCOST, 
W. N. SAGE. 
JOHN N. WILDER, President of the Board 
Hon. F. WHITTLESEY,Vice “ «■ 
WILLIAM N. SAGE, Sec’y & Treas’r do. 
Rochester. 
EXECUTIVE BOARD. 
volume, which we arc anxious to see. 
They also announce as recently pub¬ 
lished, or in preparation, these interesting 
and valuable works:— The Foot-Prints of 
the Creator—The Red Sandstone; both 
by Hugh Miller. The former should be 
studied by all who have read the “Vestiges 
of Creation.” 
The Poetry of Science, by Robt. Hunt. 
The Earth and Man:—Physical and 
Historical Geography, by Arnold Guy- 
ot. The former of these works by Prof. 
Guyot, is published. 
Principles of Zoology, Part I. and II. 
Lake Superior, its physical character, veg¬ 
etation and Animals; by Louis Agassiz. 
Psirt second on Zoology is not published.— 
The other two works are before the public. 
All the works referred to above, that are pub¬ 
lished, are, and the others in preparation will 
be, for sale at Sage & Brother’s, Rochester. 
JOHN N. WILDER, 
R.S. BURROWS, 
E. F. SMITH. 
EDWIN PANCOST. 
E. HUNTINGTON, 
D. R. BARTON. 
EVERARD PECK, 
F. WHITTLESEY, 
W. N. SAGE. 
years. 
Three 
emoroiaenng braces as taking work from 
I tIie industrious classes. But I should like 
to know what they call writing books and 
articles but taking work from industrious 
authors ? To knit a purse or grace an ot¬ 
toman is a graceful and useful devotion to 
female energy. Ellen has worked me an 
ottoman; and certain fair fingers are at this 
moment employed upon embroidering me 
an arm chair! That is what I call some¬ 
thing like a woman’s mission! An arm 
chair! Consider how useful, how luxuri¬ 
ous, how suggestive of kind thoughts, as 
wearied from the labors of the day you sink 
into her arms and say, “ Well, dear Pene¬ 
lope worked me this: God bless her!”_ 
Women of England listen to my words:— 
Your path is the path of perdition; your 
literary impulses are the impulses of Satan. 
Burn your pens and purchase wool. Arm¬ 
chairs are to be made; waist-coats can bo 
faculty. 
HON. IRA HARRIS, 
Chancellor. 
A. C. KENDRICK, D. D., 
Professor of Greek Language & Literature. 
JOHN F. RICHARDSON, A. M., 
( ^ rofessor oi Latin Language <fc Literature. 
JOHN II. RAYMOND, A. M., 
Professor of History, and Belles Lettres. 
CHESTER DEWEY, D. D., 
Professor of the Natural Sciences. 
j SAMUEL S. GREENE, A. M., 
j Professor elect of Mathematics and Na- 
( tural Philosophy. 
E. PESIUNE SMITH, A.M., 
j Acting Professor of Mathematics and Na- 
| tural Philosophy, 
| T. J. CONANT, D. D„ 
Instructor in German and Hebrew. 
JOHN S. MAGINNIS, D. D., 
j Instructor in Mental and Moral Science. 
JAMES NOBLE, 
? Janitor. 
Exaggerations.— Never to speak by su¬ 
perlatives is a sign of a wise man; for that 
way of speaking wounds either truth or 
prudence. Exaggerations are so many 
prostitutions of reputation, because they dis¬ 
cover the weakness of understanding, and 
the bad discerning of him that speaks. Ex¬ 
cessive praises excite both curiosity and 
envy; so that if merit answers not the value 
that is set upon it, as it generally happens, 
public opinion revolts against the imposture, 
and' makes the flatterer and the flattered 
both ridiculous. 
Harriet Martineau and Dr. Maginn. 
—When that fair utilitarian and political 
economist, Harriet Martineau, published her 
book against marriage, it was sent to Dr. 
Maginn to review. His critique ran thus: 
“ A book against wedlock! oil! oh! 
And written by Miss Martineau! 
But this I well know, 
Slie would not say No 
To a young handsome beau. 
Just six feet or so — 
Fie, fie, Harriet Martineau.” 
The Sole.— This well known and deli¬ 
cious fish is remarkable for one extraordi¬ 
nary circumstance; they have been known 
to feed on shell-fish, although they are fur¬ 
nished with no apparatus whatever in their 
mouth for reducing them to a state calcu¬ 
lated for digestion. The stomach, however, 
has a dissolvent power, which makes up for 
the want of masticating apparatus. But 
the most usual food for soles is the spawn 
Early Frugality.—I n early c 
you lay the foundation of poverty 
in the habits you give your children, 
them to save everything,—not for t 
use, for that would make them i 
but for some use. Teach them 
Our convictions should be based on con¬ 
ceptions got from insight of principles, and 
not upon opinions spawned of authority and 
expediency. Every man shall influence me; 
no man shall decide for me. 
Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which 
our vanity gives currency. 
