MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTU RAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
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For the Rural New-Yorker. 
VfE HAVE A LITTLE RURAL GOT. 
We have a little rural cot, 
With vine-clad porch before; 
And nodding flowers of every huts 
Dot the slope around the door. 
And high above -our humble walls. 
The oaks and locusts toss; 
While at their feet, the violets sweet, 
1 ’eep out from beds of moss. 
Close by our green and sunny hill,. 
The bluest Lakelet flows; 
And gently o’er the bending corn, 
The evening zephyr blows. 
While tail and stately bordering round, 
—Our children’s favorite haunt— 
The chestnuts to the sportive wind 
Their fragrant tassels flaunt. 
And just away where sinks the sun, 
The fringing maple woods, 
Are echoing from morn till night. 
With crazy pipe of birds. 
Content are we in our retreat. 
Of simple wants and cares; 
If of the world we little know. 
We know less of its snares. 
CENTO VERSES. 
Some of the readers of the Rural New- 
Yorker may be familiar with the intellec¬ 
tual amusement of cento verses ; it is cer¬ 
tainly superior incomparably, as an evening 
entertainment for a literary company of 
young persons, to such useless employment 
as games of chance. 
The mode of performance is simply this: 
One half of a cap sheet is cut lengthwise 
through the middle, forming strips of pa¬ 
per about four inches wide. One of ti e 
company then writes a selected line of po¬ 
etry at the top of one of these strips, then 
folds it down backwards, so as to hide the 
line, and only giving to the company the 
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whole melancholy route by solemn and I a oUc T'r I Yl FI tYIT 
impressive manifestations of public grief. 3 l U l JU 
Mr. Adams was in every way an extra- —. - ■■■ - 
ordinary man. As a diplomatist, he has EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES, 
bad, perhaps, no equal in this country’, with . TT \. ,, r . 
the single exception of his father ; as a Taking into consideration the very lm»- 
statesman and political economist, he will ted number of mdustna occupations to 
ever hold a conspicuous place; while his which females, unfortunately cast upon then 
literary accomplishments were of an unsu- own resources, are at present restricted 
al extent and profundity, and he did not would it not be well .1 philanthropists would 
even disdain to shine in the lighter walks seek to open other avenues of usefulness, lo 
of satirical and didactic poetry. b His virtues tins, otherwise helpless, but most deserving 
ui ocilu iVvCfct aim uiuavuv uvmij. AT . - • cy 
as a man, in all the relations of life, were P°™ on of th . e c ? mmu . n l l.' , , • 
eminent; and his character was in every , Wo exercse m social hie an almost cli.v- 
, , alric oal antrv towards women. We vacate 
way ab ove reproach. ._ w J$ s in t Lir behalf at the theatre, in 
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL, omnibusses and in cars. W e give them the 
- best part of the pavement in cities; we pro- 
Venus, the embodiment of female beau- tect them over the dangerous crossings of 
ty, was anciently represented as having crowded streets; and yet, strange to say, 
arisen from the sea. This is only another we shoulder them out of employment in 
way of saying that cleanliness is necessary those trades and callings, better suited to 
to beauty. Without cleanliness, there can their genius than to our manliness, 
be no health, no beauty. A hand left un- Would it not be well to reflect, that in 
washed for a few days becomes ugly and closing to them the avenues to industry, we 
repulsive. If one can conceive of a face force them into the paths of vice? An 
left unwashed even for a week, we must educated woman, thrown suddenly penni- 
imagine something very far from beautiful, less upon the world, has far less pride than 
A face freshly washed, looks more hand- an educated man reduced to the same con- 
some than at any other time. But it is in dition; and where he, rather than stoop to 
vain to wash the few square inches of the an industrial occupation, would either steal, 
skin we have in sight, if the vastly larger shark or gamble; she will bend to her cir- 
area we cover with our dress is left from I cumslances, and work. What if we were 
company then writes a selected line of po- portraits and sketches op the pres.oests.~no, 0 . 
etry at the top of one of these strips, then JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, 
folds it down backwards, so as to hide the - 
line, and only giving to the company the John Quincy Adams was born in Brain- offered his services as Mediator belw’een 
last’word Another then selects a line to tree (now Quincy,) Mass., July 11, 1767. the two countries. The offer was formally 
rlivme with it, writes it underneath, and From both father and mother he imbibed accepted by the Amerrcan government m 
rinme ’ •, , , , . in infancy an ardent love of liberty, and the following March; but the British minis- 
folds that down. Another line is sc ecte g rew lip a patriot from the cradle. When try declined the mediation, and proposed 
as before, and a line to match it in rhyming - n ^j g e l even th year, he accompanied instead a direct negotiation with the United 
follows, till the paper is filled. It is then \ x \ s father on his mission to France, where States, which terminated in peace. Mr. 
opened and read, and affords much amuse- he remained for a year and a half, enjoying 
‘ ... ... • .y £• _micvcoiircn r.f 
opened and read, and affords much amuse- he remained for a year and a half, enjoying Adams was appointed, with James A. Bay- 
vrent bv the wide shots and singular coin- the friendship and parental intercourse of ard, Henry Clay, Jonathan Russell, and 
Tt L Dr. Franklin, who conceived a strong liking Albert Gallatin, a commission to negotiate 
cdences.whicli often occur. It n, ot course for ^ In 1780 the young Adams again » peace; and the treaty was finally signed 
desirable that the selections be made 10 m v - g j te( j Europe, j n company with his father, at Ghent, in 1814. 
well known authors. traveling through France, Holland, apart Soon after, Mr. Adams was employed, in 
The following are a few examples, taken of Spain, etc. conjunction with Messrs. Clay and Gallatin, 
from an hour’s occupation with this amuse- The next year Mr. Francis Dana, who in negotiating a convention of commerce 
mens in the family of the writer, consisting had been appointed Minister to Russia, sc with Great Britain, which still remains as 
A ,. , . r tl , , r i lected John Quincy Adams as his private the basis of our commercial relations with 
of himself, his better if not larger half, and W remaining for fourteen that nation. In ISIS Mr. Adams was ap- 
their little girl ten years old, who constitu- mont j ls j n Petersburgh, he returned pointed minister to Great Britain, in which 
ted the whole company. through Sweden, Denmark, Hamburgh, capacity he served until the accession of 
I knew by the smoke that SO gracefully curled- and Bremen, to Holland, reaching the Mr. Monroe to the Presidency, in 1817.— 
Height o’er height stupendous hurled. Hague in April, 1783. He remained in Recalled from his mission abroad, he was 
When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of Europe until 1785, when he solicited per- tendered by the President, the office of 
wnr _ mission of his father to return to the United Secretary of State, which he accepted and 
And poverty’s unconquerable bar. States and finish his education. He accor- continued to fill during both terms of Mr. 
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still— dingly entered Harvard College, where he Monroe’s administration, discharging its ar- 
Jack and Jill went up the hill. graduated in July, 1787. He then went duous and responsible duties in such a 
The loud wind soared, the rain fell fast— to Newburyport, where he completed his manner as to win the confidence and res- 
Too bright, too beautiful to last. law studies with Chief-Justice Theophilus pect of the President and his Cabinet.— 
day to day, and from week to week, un- to endeavor to enlarge their sphere of use- s 
cleaned from its constantly accumulating fulness, by giving up to them, wholly , the ( 
impurities. The health, and consequently occupation ot selling dry goods end lancy > 
the clearness and freshness of the skin, re- articles, and the duties of book-keepers in > 
quire that every square inch, nay every those and similar establishments? The , 
pore, should be in the best position, and young men at present employed in those < 
that cannot be if a single pore is left clog- enervating occupations, might very easily < 
ge'd with the impure matter which is con- find a nobler, and more manly field, lor the < 
tinually passing from the system. But the exercise of their talents. 
action of water upon the skin especially At present, too, females are restricted by > 
cold water, seems to be more important the merchant Tailors to the making of j an- : 
even than its first office of cleansing it from taloons and vests. Is it from want ofcapa- \ 
impurities. The rain bathes the lovely city that the more profitable work of ma- j 
rose-bush, washes it from dust, but it also king coats is denied to them? We think j 
refreshes and enlivens every leaf and petal, those who judge so lightly of a woman’s ^ 
So the cold bath not only cleanses the skin ability with her needle, must surely be in < 
from its impurities, but gives it tone, strength error; and it is strange to us, that in these \ 
and glossy smoothness, and a fresh appear- days of progress, an employment so pecu- 
ance, like that of the rose just washed in liarly feminine as that of tailoring, should > 
nature’s bath, a genial shower. be entrusted to men at all. T lie very sed- j 
Bathing, in all countries where beauty en tary nature of the business renders it j 
has been esteemed, and health is the foun- better suited to women than men, and it is < 
tain of beauty, has been considered the afield which, harmonizing with their talents, < 
first necessity of life. I have known many we should think they would gladly occupy. < 
first necessity of life. I have known many 
ladies, jaded, diseased, miserable, and look- 
Certain branches of watch making, and 
mg' as badly as they felt, become fresh, rosy, manufacture and repair of jeweliy, 
bright, and healthy after a few months of seera to us also well suited to umiale labor, 
systematic bathing—a thorough purification locoed, * n nearly all those trades where the 
and renovation of the skin, with a conse- articles fabricated are required to be of neat 
quent increase of vivacity, strength, grace an( ^ delicate workmanship, women might 
of action and expression. This is such a be engaged, usefully to themselves, and cer- 
remarkable effect of the water cure, which ^inly with benefit to their employers, 
consists mainly in a certain regular and pre- condition that forlorn females are 
scribed series of bathings, that ladies would now Priced, crowding the only a\ enues open 
resort to it for the improvement of their to them, beaten down below remunerative 
looks if the recovery of their health were prices by reason of their numbers and their 
not a necessary concomitant eagerness for work; any introduction of 
, . , i i a- i even a portion of them, mto other trades, 
1 he relation of general ami entire clean- 0 0 fion S , would tend not only to the 
lines, to beauty is. simply tins : no person of those who should b(J s0 f {, rtunate 
Pity the sorrows of a poor old man— 
A mighty m iz.e, but not without u plan. 
’The cock’s shrill clarion and the echoing horn— 
And richest hues the peacock’s crest adorn. 
But when the blast of war blows in your ears— 
The gathered winters of a thousand years. 
Yon cottager who sits by her own door— 
And hears the wolf’s long howl from Onalaska’s 
shore. 
T. 
DR. VAUGHAN’S FIRST GUINEA. 
graduated in July, 1787. He then went duous and responsible duties in such a C au be beautiful without health—no person J, '‘ nt v i,t hv re 
to Newburyport, where he completed his manner as to win the confidence and res- can be healthy unless the skin maintains its ?. s . 
law studies with Chief-Justice Theophilus pect of the President and his Cabinet.— proper action—and the skin cannot act with i e ex rem pr . u c p 
Parsons, and removed to Boston for the Among the important measures of foreign vigor without the cleansing and tonic effect din^ S d^ee S the^reatmsS of sufferers' 
r>f Q rlailir Lath Hiunnln nnrvu t.Virmirrli O O ’ o 
purpose of practicing his profession. policy carried out by Mr. Adams, was the 
Mr. Adams had been a close observer P olic y of recognizing the independence of 
of political events, and in 1793, upon the republics of South America, the credit 
breaking out of hostilities between Great of having originated the measure being 
of a daily bath. People vorry through 
fife without it—but those who bathe every 
x ay enjoy life. And whenever you meet 
a clean, fresh, rosy beauty, with brightness 
ANOTHER GRACE DARLING 
There has recently been a communica- 
Britain and France, he published a series to Mr. Clay. Mr. Adams was also in every look,’and an elastic grace in every tion in a New York paper, “the Sunday 
DR VAUGHAN’S FIRST GUINEA. by all his Cabinet, was published, containing In 1824 Mr. Adams became a candidate 
- precisely the same views as those put forth for the Presidency, his competitors being 
At a meeting of the Oldham Lyceum by Mr. Adams, views which, from that General Jackson, and Messrs. Crawford and 
the Rev. Dr. Vaughan gave the following in- time, have continued to be the basis of our Clay. Upon opening the votes of the elec- 
terestinc incident of his own history. foreign policy. During the two or there toral colleges, it was ascertained that Gen. 
He well remembered when a boy, he said, years following, Mr. Adams wrote and pub- Jackson had 99 votes; Mr. Adams 84; Mr. 
becoming very affluent when possessed of fished many essays on the politics oi his Ciawford 41, and Mr. Clay 37. Neither 
hi 8 first guinea. He turned out into the country, which attracted great attention, candidate having a majority of all the 
his first guinea. He turned out into the country, wmen auracieu great, aiwuuuu, eauuiua^ Having a mujuxny ui au me 
streets of Bristol, looking into all the shops, and established their author as a statesman votes, the election went to the house of 
and turnin 0 " over and over his guinea, put- and political economist. Geneial V ashing- representatives, and resulted ou the first 
fimvit intnoi.e norket and then in the oth- ton in 1796 appointed him minister resident ballot thus; Adams, thirteen states; Jack- 
er g then a<niin : Kimr at it At ll he at the Netherlands, where he remained son,seven states; Crawford, four; Mr. Clay’s 
turned in toll book-auction, where the “ His- about two years, regularly corresponding friends having voted for Mr. Adams. This 
to j- y <jf iho World ” m two volumes, was with his government on the state and affairs result uas iecei\ed with great indignation 
standing at 7s. Eioht was bid. ’“Going, of Europe. Toward the close of General by the friends of Gen. Jackson; and a coali- 
o-oino- ”” He bid 9s. with his chin scarce Washington’s administration, he appointed tion was immediately formed between them 
hi-rher than the table. Nobody bid against Mr. Adams Minister to Portugal; but and the friends of Mr. Crawford, to throw 
the boy, and he got the. whole world for while on his way there, he received a every possible obstacle in the way of Mr. 
9 s. which he earned exultimdy home on new commission, changing his destination Adams’ administration. In the third year 
the boy, and he got the. whole world for while on ...... - 
9 s which he carried exultirndy home on new commission, changing his destination Adams’administration. In the third year stant by his owner, the creditor l My son, tween the harbors of Black Rock and Bridge- 
hisshoulders. He sat reading till midnight, to Berlin. of his administration, his party were in a if poor, see wine in the running spring; let port, Ct. The Island contains five acres 
and these books were reacf through and He achieved the object for which he had minority in both houses of Congress; and thy mouth water at the last week’s roll; 0 f land, and is about half a mile from the 
through manv a time; and they had formed been sent to Berlin—the negotiation of a and in the next election Gen. Jackson was think a threadbare coat the “only wear;” shore. Many disasters, it is known, have 
the taste and^ created that passion for read- treaty of commerce—and returned home was elected by a large majority. and acknowledge a white-washed garret the occurred to vessels driven round Montauk 
ing which he would not lose for the wealth in 1801. The next year he was elected to After remaining a short t : me in Wash- finest housing place for a gentleman; do p 0 Lnt in a storm, and sometimes in the 
of 3 the Indies; and now, when perplexed in the senate of Massachusetts from the district ington, subsequent to the inauguration of anc ^ ^ ee So shall thy heart be Sound to homeward bound, and this lady’s 
mind or oppressed with trouble, he would of Boston, and in 1803 was chosen by the jq s successor, Mr. Adams retired to his res- at P eace > an r ^ s ^ ier ^ confounded. ear s0 accurate, it is said she can' dis- 
down with his book or history, and away legislature United States senator. Here idence in Quincy, in the sixty-fifth year of Douglass Jerrold tinguish the shrieks of the drowning mari- 
fled the trouble and the sorrow, which was he pursued a moderate course, sustaining his age, with the intention of passing the --—- - - ner, and direct her bark in the darkest night 
water.— Water Cure Journal. with the assistance of an aged and infirm 
__ __ father, saved twenty-one lives within the 
POVERTY AND DEBT, last fifteen years; and yet has never been 
- known to the public, or iu any way re- 
Poverty is a bitter draught, but may, and membered or celebrated as apublicbene- 
sometimes with advantage, be gulped down, factor; which the writer attributed to her 
Though the drinker makes wry faces, there being an American, asserting — “ had she 
may, after all, be wholesome goodness in been English, all Europe would have rung 
the cup. But debt, however courteously it with her achievements, and our public pa- 
be offered, is the cup of a siren, and the pers been filled with her praises.” 
wine, spiced and delicious though it be, an \y e h aV e been at some pains to make 
eating poison. The man out of debt, tho’ inquiries respecting this lady, and within 
with a flaw in his jerkin, a crack in his shoe a f ew Jjjyg have conversed with a person 
leather, and a hole in bis hat, is still the son w h 0 i s intimately acquainted with her and 
of liberty, Pee as the singing lark above him; her worthy family. 
but the debtor, though clothed in the ut- Kate Moore is the daughter of Capt 
most bravery, what is he but a serf upon a Moore, who keeps the Light House on 
holiday—a slave, to be reclaimed at an in- Fairweather Island, situated midway be- 
stant by his owner, the creditor ? My son, tween t he harbors of Black Rock and Bridge- 
if poor, see wine in the running spring; let port> Ct. The Island contains five acres 
wt/MitVi iTTotnv of fV>£i loaf ■tTro£ilr , a vz-nI 1 • i ■» .1 • _ j. 1_1 C . _II _ £• _ ~ 
thy mouth water at the last week’s roll; 0 f lan^ and is about half a mile from the 
think a threadbare coat the “only wear;” shore. Many disasters, it is known, have 
and acknowledge a white-washed garret the occurred to vessels driven round Montauk 
fittest housing place for a gentleman; do Po^t in a storm, and sometimes in the 
) fled the trouble and the sorrow, which was he pursued a moderate course, sustaining his age, with the intention of passing the 
\ soon forgot.— Morn. Advertiser. the administration of Mr. Jefferson whenever remainder of his days in repose, having 
i --—___ his judgment permitted him to do so. been already over forty years in the public 
i The charming landscape which I saw In 1809 Mr. Adams was appointed service. But his fellow citizens still had 
\ this morning is indubitably made up of Minister plenipotentiary to Russia, being need of him; and in 1830 he was elected 
j some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns the first full ambassador sent from the to the House of Representatives, to which 
\ this field, Locke that, and Manning the United States to that country. He was post he was regularly re-elected until 1848, 
\ woodland beyond. But none of them own well received in St. Petersburgh, formed a when he died, as it were on the very floor 
\ the landscape. There is a property in the close personal intimacy with the czar and of the House, and while discharging his 
| horizon which no man has but he whose and his principal officers of state. In Sep- duty to his country. He was widely and 
j eye can integrate all the parts, that is the tember, 1812, news of the declaration of sineerely mourned by his fellow citizens; 
; poet. This is the best part of these men’s war by the United States against Great and his remains conveyed in state from 
i farms, yet to this their deeds give them no Britain reached the Russian court; and the Washington to his family residence in Quin- 
\ title. ' Emperor Alexander, through Mr. Adams, cy, Mass., were attended throughout the 
Sincerity. — Sincerity signifies a simpli¬ 
city of mind and manners in our conversa- 
ner, and direct her bark in the darkest night 
She can trim a boat and manage it as well 
as any man, and seems to make up in tact 
tion and carriage one toward another; sin- what she lacks in strength, and never re- ; 
gleness of heart discovering itself in a fuses to turn out in the darkest night to - 
constant plainness and honest openness of the relief of the sufferers. Our informant 
behavior, free from all little tricks and adds that she is a highly accomplished ’ 
fetches of craft and cunning, from false ap- and literary lady, and perfectly feminine in ; 
pearances, and deceitful disguises of our- her manners, and that although she oc- . 
selves in word or action; or yet more plainly, casionally visits New York and other places 
it is to speak as we think, and do what we in the vicinity, and has a large and most < 
pretend and profess, to perforin and make respectable acquaintance, many of whom j. 
good what we promise, and in a word, really know of these facts, they have never come < 
to be what we would seem and appear to be. to the knowledge of the public before. 
