MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
TRUE LOVELINESS. 
BY CHARLES SWAIN. 
She who thinks a nohle heart 
Better than a noble mien— 
Honors virtue more than art. 
Though ’tis less in fashion seen— 
Whatsoe’er her fortune be, 
She's the bride—the wife—for me! 
She who deems that inward grace 
Far surpasses outward show. 
She who values less the face 
Than that charm the soul can throw'— 
Whatsoe’er her fortune be, 
She’s the bride—the wife—for me! 
She who knows the heart requires 
Something more than lips of dew— 
That when love’s brief rose expires 
Love itself dies with it too— 
Whatsoe’er her fortune lie, 
She’s the bride—the wife—for me ! 
To be ashamed of their origin is, just now, 
in American Society, the weakness of the 
little minds that compose it. The man who 
rides in his carriage, shrinks from the ac¬ 
knowledgement that the money which en¬ 
abled him to buy that carriage was earned 
by his father, dollar by dollar, with toil and 
patience, in a tan yard, behind the counter 
of a shoemaker’s or tailor’s shop, or by hon¬ 
est industry in some other useful occupa¬ 
tion, below (so called) the grade of the mer¬ 
chant or professional man; as if the man did 
not honor the work, and not the work the 
She’s tiw bride—the wife—for me! To such let Daniel Webster speak. Hear 
a. W,» know, the heart renuiro. h™It did not happen to me to be born 
Something more than lips of dew— in a log cabin, but my elder brothers and 
That when love’s brief rose expires sisters were born in a log cabin, raised 
Love itself dies with it too— amornr the snow drifts of New Hampshire, 
Whatsoe’er her fortune lie, period so early that when the smoke 
She’s the bride—the wife—for me! * r „ J . . . , , , 
__ n _ _ first rose from its rude chimney, and curled 
NEWSPAPERS-THEIR INELUENCE, &c. over the frozen hill, there was no similar ev- 
- . idence of a white man’s habitation between it 
Newspapers are our companions—our aud the settlements on the rivers of Canada, 
intimate friends, and cherished associates. Its remains still exist—I make it an annual 
How important, then, considering the pow- visit I carry my children to it to teach 
erful influence they are destined to exert, them the hardships endured by the genera- 
, , , , , , , Je |. tions that have gone before them. I love to 
that they be properly selected. I a po i- dweP Qn t ender reccollections, the kin- 
tician wishes to convert a friend to his par- dred t [es, the early affections, and the nar- 
ty, to what means does he resort ? Is not rations and incidents, which mingle with all 
the newspaper almost the sole agent he em- I know of this primitive family abode. I 
D loys? And how often successful; yet, weep to think that none of those who in- 
t ,., , .. , . t i •. habited it are now among the living, and if 
whilst all are rea y o ac ' n w g 2 ever j f a q j n affectionate veneration for him 
litical influence of newspapers, how few seem wbo ra } ged it, and defended it against sav- 
to realize their moral tendency. age violence and destruction, cherished all 
The rising generation are becoming truly domestic virtues beneath its roof, and thro' 
a readout generation. It is within the re- the fire and blood of seven year's revolu- 
membranco of those not far advanced in ‘ ion ”y war ' f lru I' k f 0 ™ to ! 1 ' "°. *?»• 
mernuru fice, serve bls country, and raise his chil- 
years, when newspapers were a luxury, to d ren to a condition better than his own, 
be enjoyed only by the more wealthy; and raa y m y na me, and the name of my poster- 
WMm 
"'m f w it 
LATE GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
committee, he advocated a reduction of the 
postage, and a bill of his passed the House 
of Representatives, reducing the postage on 
letters to five and ten cents, and abolishing 
the franking privilege. The bill was after¬ 
wards lost in the Senate. No one has done 
more for cheap postage than Gov. Briggs. 
He was emphatically a useful and highly 
respected member. 
In 1843 he was elected Governor of Mas¬ 
sachusetts, and has been re-elected every 
year since. How he has performed the du¬ 
ties of Governor the people of the State 
need not be informed. In person ho is 
about six feet in height, has a pleasant, 
laughing blue eye, and light hair now tinged 
with gray. As a man Gov. Briggs is unas¬ 
suming, kind-hearted and courteous. He 
is emphatically a social being. No one can 
tell stories better, or tell more of them, or 
will laugh heartier at one told by another, 
than Gov. Briggs. In every relation in life, 
as a man or a magistrate, a husband, a 
father or a friend, we know of not one stain 
that blots the spotless purity of his life and 
character. 
2ESCHINES THE GREEK ORATOR. 
Some authorities state that HSschines was 
born 397 years before Christ, and was six¬ 
teen years older than his great opponent, 
Demosthenes. Other accounts assert that 
he was born 389 B. C., and was only four 
years the senior of Demosthenes. His ear¬ 
ly experience was of poverty, hardship and 
neglect He assisted his father in the me¬ 
nial offices of a school. He served a while 
in a gymnasium to exercise the visitors.— 
He was employed for some time as a scribe, 
or clerk, by a city magistrate. Afterwards 
he enlisted for two years in the militia, as 
was the custom with nearly all the Atheni- 
years, when newspapers were a luxury, to dren to a condition better than his own, „ an youth Next he took to the stage, and 
be enjoyed only by the more wealthy; and may my name, and the name of my poster- Among the many men of our country who have In 1830 he was elected to Congress, and appeare as an ac or in urc la o p<.i s, un 
not ^infrequently two or three families were ity, be blotted forever from the memory of become distinguished in spite of adverse circum- took his seat in the House of Representa- ^ c 8 "P ^ k ® ^ cis 
C J - nnnor mankind’” stances—who have risen by their own industry and tives, in December, 1831. He was but 34 boon attci tins a war DroKeout, lnwnicn 
confined m tbeir reading to one paper - ^ ^ ^^ ^ hc ^ una i d#d by wealth or influential years of age when ho entered Congress - Aschines so d,st.ngu,slied himsen by Ins 
We now have newspapers in nearly etery 0 f t j ie r father and mother, whose hon- friends—Gov. Briggs of Massachusetts is a prom- He continued to represent his native dis- skill and valor, that he was praised on the 
family—rarely less than two, and in a ma- egfc j abor SU pp 0rte d him in childhood, and inent example. He is emphatically a self-made trict until the people called him to the gu- split by the Generals, and, on returning to 
jority of instances, they will count a much whose daily toil was taxed to give him the man, whose course is worthy of imitation by every bernatorial chair. He was re-elected to Athens, was publicly crowned, 
larger number. How mighty this influ- education by which he has been enabled to youth in our land. His private character is as Congress six consecutive times, and served n ’S 1 ° . ! e ™ ^ 
^ i a 4 - • l f 11 rise to a condition above the one they oecu- pure and exalted as his official acts are just and as a member of the United States House of quired, he began bis caiecr as a speaker 
ence. cer am c ass o v . pied, is unworthy to be the associate of wise honorable. The following sketch of his life we Representatives twelve years. The County upon political affairs from the Bema. When 
your house weekly. Ihey have fiee access , in( j froo q men All such will despise him; condense from a Biography recently published in 0 f Berkshire which composed his district is the war with 1 Inlip drew on, /Lsclnnes soon 
to every member of your family. They an( ] matter how loftily he may carry his the Boston Museum: what politicians call a close County; that is, became a strenuous advocate of compromise 
are, in truth, their companions. What is bead bo ; s nothing in the estimation of George Nixon Briggs was born in the in it parties were nearly equally divided.— and peace; Demosthenes being as resolute- 
their character? Reader, have you ever America’s true noblemen.— Home. Gazette, town of Adams, Berkshire County, Mass., During the last twenty-live years, it has y to a\or 0 ( u . n inc mg wai. u.i ic 
, ,, f 0 tt pnn«;idprpf1 _,_- u -.^ - L - LJ -,- L - L - _ on the 12th of April, 1796. His father been, in about equal proportion, whig and fatal battle of Cheronaea, Demosthenes was 
thought of this Have you cor suiercu, CONSTANTINOPLE. was a blacksmith, who reared his family by democratic; sometimes electing whig Sena- entrusted with the repairing of the fortifica- 
that whilst you have introduced them to - the hard labor of his hands. When George tors and sometimes democratic; but the per- tions of the city. I he cost of the work was 
the society of your sons and daughters, that The established religion of Russia is that was seven years old, his father removed sonal popularity of Geo. N. Briggs, when thirteen talents, of which Demosthenes gen- 
their character was, perhaps, doubtful?— 0 f the Greek Church, which formerly held from Adams to Manchester, in the State of up for Congress, never failed to give him a erously paid three from his own purse. 
You would be slow to introduce to their its seat at Constantinople. Ever since the Vermont, where resided he two years; from decided majority, and to elect him the rep- Ctesiphon, struck by such patnotism, pro¬ 
society persons whose characters were not Turk took possession of his European Em- thence he removed to White Creek, in resentative.of the free and intelligent yeo- f?" 6 j ^^en crown s ou «i voe o 
. ^ i 11 i T xv. i pire, and substituted Mohammedanism for Washington County, N. Y., where he rest- manry of the blue hills and green \ alleys of lum in the theatre, at tne great iestnai or 
what they should be. Is there less reason f he Greek religion, he has been regarded by ded several years. old Berkshire. . Bacchus. JSsch.nes took advantage of 
that you should not be as choice in the se- a q adherents of the latter as an usurper. At thirteen years of age, George went to Governor Briggs carried to Washington some technical illegality to bring a suit, 
lection of your newspapers? an q Biey long to see Constantinople res- learn the trade of a hatter, and worked at the political principles and high moral and nominally against Ctesiphon, but really de- 
The majority of our newspapers, are re- tored again to its rightful religion. Con- it three years, though in a very irregular religious precepts which he had been taught designed to crush Demosthenes, h tom \a- 
allv not what they should be. They are sequently Nicholas, the head of the Rus- manner. He, being the youngest person in in his native New England. No man was rious causes the trial was delayed eight 
• J „ In tboir tpnflpnf>v anH Pvprt in nth sian branch of the Greek faith, looks with a the shop or family, it fell upon him to do ever more beloved and respected by his as- years. At last it came on; and under most 
immoial in tneir tenaenc) ana exert, in otn- relicTiou8 as we]1 aa political interest to the the errands, go to mill, and do a thousand sociates, of all parties, than he was, while exciting circumstances, before the most 
er respects, a bad inilucnce upon the rising j e ]j verance 0 f those conquered provinces other daily duties, which younger appren- serving as a member of Congress. He was polished and enthusiastic auditory in the 
generation. They create a taste for light f rom a false fciitli. In leading his soldiers tices were always, in olden time called upon reputed be one of the best presiding officers world, with everything to animate them, 
reading, which, if not really injurious, is at against the Sultan, they would be influenced to perform. He was the drudge. After in the house, and was frequently called to ^Eschines and Demosthenes—the two great- 
least not beneficial. No person should by the religion of their country, and would staying three years with the hatter, he re- the chair while the house sat in committee est orators ol all time, met and measured 
your house weekly.-They have free access P le f,« unworthy to be the associate oi wise 
. 3 . * , ., and good men. All such will despise him; 
to every member of your family. They an( ^ nQ ma tter how loftily he may carry his 
are, in truth, their companions. What is i iea( ] f j 10 i s nothing in the estimation of 
their character? Reader, have you ever America’s true noblemen .—Home Gazette. 
thouoht of this? Have you considered, ---- 
that whilst you have introduced them to RUSSIA AND CONST ANTINOPLE. 
the society of your sons and daughters, that The established religion of Russia is that 
otherwise be enigmatic. 
A VULGARISM. 
read to De Den » v c j em They would regard themselves as the education he ever received from a school of parliamentary precedent his opinions car- unrivalled master-pieces oi eloquence, lhe 
learn, in order that tney may become use- afren j s 0 f heaven, being taught daily to re- master, or in a school house. ried great weight. accusers speech, all agree, was a most beau- 
ful members of society, and help to advance p * at t h e following, from the prayer book of In September, 1813, he returned to his He was known in Congress as a strong tiful and magnificent effort. But Demos- 
the noble car of improvement. the Greek Church: native village in Berkshire, with nothing but advocate of temperance, and his life practi- thenes was overwhelming and irresistible; 
The politician requires a paper devoted “Almighty God, destroy the heathen and a 8ma b trunk, containing a few pieces ot cally illustrated his deep convictions on that the ethical majesty of his ideas, the sweep 
,, • . , f . ■ na . „„ j qacriletrious nower of the Turks • o-ive back clothing. At Adams, the future Governor subject. He was instrumental in doing mg of lus declamation, lighted with the 
to the interests of Ins paity, and would be, g f ’ d b them to no-hteous entered the office of Mr. Washburn, a law- much good by his addresses, example and dusky splendor of his passion, bore all oppo- 
really, no politician without it The arraer, Emperor of t h e tm/faith; exalt the Greek y er of respectability in the County and advice. His name is held in high and de- position down. , , 
also, requires a paper devoted to lus inter- Q burcb j n triumph over all the earth and commenced reading law, determined to served esteem by the friends of temperance HSslnnes went into banishment at Rhodes, 
ests. Who are most successful among our rn V e unto it thy blessing and to us thy faith, make the profession his occupation for life, in the District of Columbia; for many of where he set up a school of rhetoric. It is 
farmers ? Who raises the largest crops, has Amen.” ' He remained in Adams one year, when he them has his warning voice saved from pre- said he once read the oration of Demosthe- 
the best cattle, horses, sheep and swine, An exchange paper says, acargo of books removed to Lanesboro, in the same county, mature death and a drunkard’s grave. !}?!; d mDation i^ l'n/s'ud'^W lr would 
„nd comnetes the most successfullv at our was seized lately at Constantinople by the and studied laboriously at lus profession for Many of our readers will recollect the in- their admiration of it, he said What would 
and competes tie t c uyctoir They had arrived from Russia! and four years, at the end of which time he was terest which was felt m this part of the you have thought had you heard him ck- 
agricultuial fairs. Is it not the reading ^ examination were found to be prayer- considered qualified to commence practice country, when Mr. Marshall, of Kentucky, liver it. HSschmes never leturned from 
farmer, the real book farmer? We often books, in which the above prayer was used I as a lawyer in the courts; and accordingly, through advice of Mr. Briggs, put his name his exile, but died at Samos at the age of 
hear parents complain that their children in the choral form. The existence and use in October, 1818, he was admitted to the to the pledge. Marshall is one of the most about 315 years before Christ. Three 
dislike farming—that they have no taste for of this prayer in the Russian churches, bar ol the Common Pleas. extraordinary men our country has ever oraUons o is aie now extant. . eu mtr 
agriculture Have thev endeavored to furnishes a key to the purposes of Nicholas He was now a young man, twenty-two produced. Descended from one of the first its, especially m arrangement of style, are 
‘ . T rpsneetino' Constantinoule which would years of age, a lawyer, and practitioner.— families in Kentucky, related to the late of a high order, i he letters ol ten attribu- 
make it interesting to their children, or 0 j. berw j gt f bc enigmatic * Six months before he completed his law Chief Justice Marshall, possessed of a mind ted to him are without doubt spurious, lhe 
have they taught them to consider it a ^ _ studies, he was married; ever since which of remarkable strength and brilliancy, a mu- most recent German writers who have stud- 
mere drudge? “Agriculture is the most A VULGARISM. time he has been the advocate of early mar- sical voice and a commanding person, he ied the whole subject of the life and char- 
healthy, the most useful, the most noble - " ria g e8 » in addilion to tlie other S ood causes c « m « t0 Congress, for the first time in 1841, acter of yEschmes, conclude that he was 
omnlnvmpnf nf man ” Thpan wprn tLo One of the most popular vulgarisms of which he has supported. Alter having from the Lexington District, in Kentucky, not bribed by 1 hilip, nor a traitor in any 
P.y ‘ . the day is embodied in the word “ patron- been admitted to the bar, he removed from His reputation as an orator and statesman, proper sense of the term. He honestly 
sentiments of our illustrious Washington. a ,, We have always been at a loss to Lanesboro to his native town of Adams, however, had preceded him, though he was differed in opinion with Demosthenes in re- 
Would you have them also your chil- understand this term as incorporated with where he put out his sign and opened an yet comparatively a young man. He had gard to what was really the wisest policy to 
dren’s? If so, get them interested. Teach the language of the times. If a man buys office. He remained in Adams five years, served with distinction in the Legislature secure the best interests of Athens.— Host. 
them that agriculture employs not only a pair of boots, getting the full value of his at the end of which time his business was of his native State, and as a popular orator Journal. 
manual labor, but that it calls into requisi- money, he calls himself the “ patron ” of such that he found it would be to lus ad- he was second to no man in the State. His Mountains-As upon 
. f . . d. the manufacturer. The purchaser of six vantage to reside m the shire-town ot the appetite for strong drink was already formed minds seen o. ou. . . P 
tion tie igier acu les lat it affords ceuts wortb 0 f tobacco, or a penny’s worth county, and accordingly he removed again and it grew upon him. At Washington a mountain you get a new an ex n 
ample range for the most exalted intellect. 0 f tape, is a “ patron,” and looks upon those to Lanesboro, where he lived until the spring amid the excitement and dissipation of the view ot the surrounding scenery, so you 
Withdraw from their society the frivilous, on whom he lavished this “patronage” with of 1842, when he removed to Pittsfield, capital, his habit increased until delirium there obtain iresh insight o the eart an 
immoral trash of our literary (?) press, and a condescending eye, as if he had fed, cloth- where he has ever since lived. . tremens ensued. At this moment (rover- ee mgs o }°^ ir companions e sou 
substitute in its stead, good, sou,Id, practi- sbeherSl them. One's patron, re- . Mr. Briggs soon found himself employed nor Briggs stepped forth to save him. He 
. , , i- Tf i i garding the term in its true light, is a per- w an extensive law practice. If circum- signed the pledge, and while he remained prospect na e. 0 , 
cal, agricultural readmg If you have not ^ ^ 0M „ lms p| tr ^ P in stanccs hlld deprived him of the many ad- m°Washmg 1 to n , and for two years after, he the mght-closed petals.of a, flower open to 
already done so, subscribe immediately for gbor ^ j s charitable protection. It is no vantages which a liberal education gives, remained faithful to it We could goon the influence ot _ • 
“ Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.” Intro - patronage to give money for its full value, nature had, on the other hand, been boun- and relate many anecdotes and reminiscen- There is in every human countenance 
duce it to your friends and neighbors. It The term, as now most generally employed, tiful in her gifts. She had endowed him ces of Mr. Briggs, which would not be-with- g^her a history or a prophecy, which must 
is just the paper needed, as it will enlist the is of a most servile, sycophantic charac- with an acute and logical mind, a natural out interest, but the space allotted for this sa{lden Qr afc { east S of teri ev ery reflecting 
nttpntinn nf thp vnnthfnl rroiin in tliom and it should be expunged from the eloquence, and a heart warm with every sketch will not admit of it. nWrver Coleridae 
attention of the youthtul create in them a m J dern vocabulary . F ° manly sympathy. He was one of the best While in Congress, he served on the observer.— Coleridge. 
taste lor good reading, and the more advan-__ criminal lawyers in that part of the State, Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, True charity consists in the performance 
ced will gather from its pages much in- There is no beauty in fear. It is a mean, and was engaged in most of the important and during the 27th Congress, ho was chair- of every duty of life, from the love of justice 
struction. s. p. c. ugly contemptible creature. cases. man of that Committee. While on that with judgment. 
make it interesting to their children, or 
have they taught them to consider it a 
mere drudge? “Agriculture is the most 
healthy, the most useful, the most noble 
employment of man.” These were the 
sentiments of our illustrious Washington. 
tion the higher faculties—that i 
ample range for the most exalted 
attention of the youthful, create in them a 
taste for good reading, and the more advan¬ 
ced will gather from its pages much in¬ 
struction. s. p. c. 
