MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTU RAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. 
ittis ccltam'ous. 
THE SWEET BRIAR. 
Tlie Sweet Briar flowering. 
With boughs embowering, 
Beside the willow-tufted stream, 
In its soft,-rcd bioom, 
And its wild perfume, 
Brings back the Past like a sunny dream! 
MetliiuRs, in childhood, 
Beside the wildwood 
Lie, and listen the blackbird's song. 
Mid tlte evening cal m, 
As the Sweet Briar’s lmlni 
Cn the gentle west wind breathing along— 
To speak of meadows,! 
And palm-treeahad-uvs, 
And bee-hive cones, and a thy my hill, 
AieL rreenwood mazes, 
Ann greenwood daisies, 
And a foamy stream, and a clacking mill. 
Still the heart rejoices, 
At the happy voices 
Of children singing amid their play: 
While swallows twittering, 
And waters glittering, 
Make K wth an Eden at close of day. 
In sequestered places, 
Departed faces. 
Return and smile as of yore they smiled; 
When with trifles blest, 
Each buoyant, breast. 
Held the trusting heart of a little child. 
The future never 
Again can ever 
The perished gifts of the past restore, 
Nor, to thee or me. 
Can the wild flower be 
What the Briar was then—oh never more! 
[ Blackwood’s E linburgh Migaziuc 
For the Rural New-Yorker. 
JENNY LIND. 
This remarkable woman lias recently 
given two concerts in Rochester—and in no 
place visited by her in this country, lias 
shebeen more cordially received ; and no 
where has she more completely won the 
admiration and the hearts of all. She has 
met and answered every expectation, how¬ 
ever high such expectation may have been 
raised—and very justly may she be consid¬ 
ered, the wonder of the age. 
She is truly a wonderful woman, in re¬ 
gard to the talent she possesses; for in this 
respect, there is not her peer, in the civil¬ 
ized world!—and no less a wonderful wo¬ 
man is she, in regard to the motives and 
principles that move her to action. The 
records of time do not afford an example of 
similar benevolence, and benificence! She 
does not live for herself. The great pur¬ 
pose of her life is, to do good. And, 
prompted by a Heavenly disposition, the ex¬ 
ercise ol her wonderful powers is urging this 
object to a glorious achievement. To the 
view ot the Christian philosopher, she has 
been raised and qualified, by that Provi¬ 
dence that controls the hearts and actions 
of men, to achieve one of the most illustri¬ 
ous charities, that can mold the character 
and influence the destiny of man. 
The establishment of Free Schools 
throughout her beloved native land, is the 
great object of her efforts; the pole-star of 
her life. For this she labors, and for this 
she toils—for this, she encounters the haz¬ 
ards of the ocean, the dangers of foreign 
climates, and the fatigues and exposures of 
foreign travel. And the matchless success 
that has attended her efforts, is fast bring¬ 
ing the realization of her cherished object, 
within the compass of her view. She can, 
even now, realize in anticipation, the great 
results of her glorious enterprise, in the 
prospects, character, and enjoyments, of the 
rising generations of her beloved country. 
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SIX DOLLARS 
Money, as well as Patriotism, is needed 
for the defence of any country. In the con¬ 
test which established American Indepen¬ 
dence, the last was not lacking, but the 
first, was in many instances, lamentably de¬ 
ficient. One means made use of in supply¬ 
ing this want, was the emission, by the 
Second Continental Congress, of paper 
money to the amount of three millions of 
dollars, for the pay of the army. The vote 
authorizing this, was passed in May, 1775. 
We give above, a fac-simile of specimens of 
this “ Continental Currency.” 
When first issued, this money was every 
where received at par, and proved of great 
utility to the army and country generally. 
It was net until 1779, when nearly two 
millions of dollars had been authorized, 
that it began to depreciate. Rumors gain¬ 
ed circulation that Congress would not re¬ 
deem these bills, which although promptly 
denied, caused great loss to holders.— 
Forty dollars of this money would bring 
but one of gold or silver, and the evil was 
RED JACKET’S STUDY OF ORATORY. j 
We copy from the proof sheets of Tur¬ 
ner’s forthcoming History of Phelps and 
Gorham’s Purchase, the following “ un¬ 
published reminiscences of Red Jacket” 
“ Many years ago,” says Thomas Max¬ 
well Esq., of Elmira, “in conversation with 
Red Jacket at Bath, after a little firewater 
had thawed his reserve, the chief remarked, 
that when a boy, he was present at a great 
council fire held on the Shenandoah. Many 
nations were represented by their wise men 
and orators, but the greatest was Logan, 
who had removed from the territory of his 
tr.ibe to Shemokin. He was the son of 
Shikelleimus, a celebrated chief of the Cayu¬ 
ga nation, who was a warm friend of the 
whites before the Revolution. On the oc¬ 
casion alluded to, Red Jacket remarked, 
thathe was so charmed with the manner and 
style of delivery, that he resolved to attain 
if possible, the same high standard of elo¬ 
quence; through he almost despaired of 
equalling his distinguished model. ( 
He said that after his return to his then 
home, at Kanadesaga, near Geneva, he ^ 
sometimes incurred the reproof and dis- I 
pleasure of his mother, by long absence * 
from her cabin without any ostensible cause. * 
When hard pressed for an answer, he in- ’ 
formed his mother that he had been play- * 
ing Logan. f 
WHAT A MOUTH OUGHT TO BE. 
The mouth is the frankest part of the 
face. It can the least conceal the feelings. 
We can neither hide ill temper with it nor 
good. We may affect what we please, but 
affectation will not help us. In a wrong 
cause it will only make our observers resent 
the endeavor to impose upon them. A 
mouth should be of good natural dimen- 
sumd:, as well as plump in the lips. When 
the ancients, among their beauties, made 
mention of small mouths and lips, they 
meant small only as opposed to an excess 
the other way —a fault very common in the 
South. 
The sayings in favor of small mouths, 
which have been the ruin of so many pret¬ 
ty looks, are very absurd, [f there must 
be an excess either way, it had better be 
the liberal one. A pretty pursed up mouth 
is fit for nothing but to be left to complac¬ 
ency. Large mouths are oftener found in 
union with generous dispositions than very 
small ones. Beauty should have neither, 
but a reasonable look of openness and deli¬ 
cacy. It is an elegance in lips, when, in¬ 
stead of making sharp angles at the cor¬ 
ners of the mouth, they retain a certain 
breath to the very verge, and show the red. 
The corner then looks painted with a free 
and liberal pencil .—Leigh Hunt. 
Thus in his mighty soul, the fire of a 
generous emulation had been kindled not 
to go out, until his oratorical fame threw a 
refulgent glory on on the declining fortunes 
of the once formidable Iroquois. In the 
deep and silent forest he practiced the elo¬ 
cution, or tune of his great master! Un- 
conciously the forest orator was an imitator 
of the eloquent Geek, who tuned his voice 
on the wild sea beach, to th > thundt rsofthe 
surge and caught from nature’s altar his 
lofty inspiration. 
Not without previous preparations, and 
the severest discipline, did Red Jacket ac¬ 
quire his power of moving and melting his 
bearers. His graceful attitudes, significant 
gestures, perfect intonation, and impressive 
pauses, when the lifted finger and flashing- 
eye told more than utterance, were the re 
suits of sleepless toil; while, his high ac¬ 
quirement, was the product of stern, ha¬ 
bitual thought, study of man, and keen 
observation of eternal nature. 
He did not trust to the occasion alone 
for his finest periods, and noblest meta¬ 
phors. In the armory of his napaciocs in¬ 
tellect the weapons of forensic warfare had 
been previously polished and stored away. 
Ever ready for the unfaltering tongue, was 
the cutting rebuke, or apt illustration. Let 
not the superficial candidate for fame in 
Senate halls suppose for a moment, that 
Sa-go-ye-wat ha, ‘The Keeper Awake,’ 
was a speaker who sprung up full equipped 
for debate, without grave meditation, and 
cunning anticipation of whatever an adver¬ 
sary might advance or maintain. 
By labor, like till other great men, per¬ 
severing labor, too—he achieved his re¬ 
nown. A profound student, though un¬ 
lettered, he found ‘ books in the running 
Some hundred years ago, a number of 
the professors of the Edinburgh University 
attempted to publish a work which would 
be a perfect specimen of typographical ac¬ 
curacy. Every precaution was taken to 
secure the desired result. Six experienced 
proof-readers were employed, who devoted 
hours to the reading of each page, and af- 
toi it was thought to be perfect, it was 
pasted up in the hall of the University, 
with a notification that a reward of £o0 
would be paid to any person who could dis¬ 
cover an error. Each page was suffered to 
remain two weeks in the place where it 
had been pasted, before the work was com¬ 
pleted, and the professors thought that they 
had attained the object for which they had 
been striving. IV hen the work was issued 
it was discovered that several errors had 
been committed —one of which was in the 
first line of the first page. If a case of 
this kind should occur after all the precau¬ 
tions which had been used, after full and 
ample time had been given for a correct 
and thorough reading, and that by day¬ 
light ; harpers at errors in newspapers 
should have some excuse for those who are 
compelled to read proofs in a hurry, in or¬ 
der not to miss the mails. 
ONLY TEN CENTS A DAY. 
The individual who spends only ten cents 
a day for some useless luxury, like cigars 
or fruit, or ice cream, thinks he is very eco¬ 
nomical, and so he is, when compared with 
thousands of others. But multiply the ten 
cents by three hundred and sixty-live, (the 
number of days in a year) and that product 
by twenty, and you will, we imagine, be 
surprised at the large sum spent in twenty 
years for nothing—or worse than nothing. 
“Figures will not lie,” but figures tell 
strange stories to those who are not in the 
habit of computing them. Many a pauper 
in the poor-house would consider himself 
sadly abused if he were only allowed ten 
cents’ worth ot tobacco in a day, and so for 
years lie has gone on, puffing away what 
might have turned into fruitful farms at the 
west, or beautiful residences at the east; or 
fine horses and grand equipages—puffing 
these away we say into what?—blue smoke, 
which curled upward and disappeared. 
Boys contract the habit of smoking or 
chewing, because they consider it genteel 
and because they see men smoking around 
them; they do not stop to compute the 
sums which must be squandered in the 
course of a long life in a practice which 
will do them no good, but will perhaps 
weaken and enervate their physical powers 
and shorten their period of life. 
aggravated by inadequate remedies. “ The 
paper,” says Lossing, “atits nominal value, 
was made a legal tender for all debts; and 
by this measure, which Washington deep¬ 
ly deplored, many creditors, both public and 
private, were defrauded, but no permanent 
relief could be afforded, for confidence was 
destroyed. As the articles furnished the 
army, like all others, rose to an enormous 
nominal value, Congress, very injudiciously, 
fixed a maximum price, above which the 
articles to be purchased, should not be re¬ 
ceived. The consequence was, that at this 
stipulated rate, none could he got; and the 
army would assuredly have perished had 
not this absurd regulation been speedily 
rescinded.” 
Still farther depreciation took place and 
many of the officers and soldiers of the 
army were ruined, and they and their fam¬ 
ilies reduced to beggary. Perilous truly, 
were the times, to person and pocket, of 
the Revolutionary struggle of seventeen 
hundred seyenty-six. 
| brooks, sermons in stones.’ By exercising 
| his faculties in playing Logan when a boy, 
—one ot the highest standards of mortal 
eloquence, either in ancient or modern times 
—he has left a lesson to all ambitious as¬ 
pirants, that there is no royal road to great¬ 
ness; that the desired good is only to be 
gained by scaling rugged cliffs, and tread¬ 
ing painful paths.” 
A CURIOUS HISTORICAL FACT. 
ABUSE OF WITNESSES- v » > YVV 
There is probably no evil connected with ^ Clvlt 5 3 t l] 15 ll 111 L 
the administration ot law in our criminal —■ --- - 
Courts which Calls more loudly for redress For the Rural New-Yorker, 
than the severity and injustice visited upon BRING FLOWERS, 
the heads of innocent persons who are de- n , 
tainpd witnceocc P IT i IlR.Nf, flowers and twine the temples fair 
taint cl as witnesses Oui Grand Jury have or the young and lovely bride, 
several times called attention to suthe bject, A world of bliss, or a world of woe, 
but no measure of relief has yet been adop- Does that simple word betide, 
ted. Men who are innocent of anv fault Shehasplacedherhenrtanditsstoreoflove 
■ i • , J On the stern man by hei side_ 
hut that of having been involuntary specta- But Hope looks bright and she dreams of joy, 
toi s cl other men s crimes, are herded to- Bring flowers, to deck the bride. 
gether in our prisons with common felons, Brine flownr-tn „ , 
j- • 1 .. . ... isr.ng Rowers to wreathe the brow of aae 
.i\ mg on the same fare, occupying similar with language of love and truth, 
cells, and in many cases suffering for more For each leaf calls upa dream long past, 
than those who are tube brought to jus- or a lesson or early youth •, 
tice by their testimony. Instances are not Bring flowers and offer the due worn one, 
rare where strangers, visiting the city upon They win whisper low bias’s’d words of peace. 
business', have been seized upon by the And a soothing.baim impart. 
police, because they happened to be pas- Bring flowers to strew upon the grave 
sing at the moment where some scene of Of the lost and early dead, 
violence was enacted, and not being able to Fif oir ° rin K s to (he dearly loved, 
give bail for their appearance at Court as And the spotless spirit fled. 
witnesses, have been hurried off to the lock- or S anTit^lIreSy, 0 ' ear<h ’ 
up, there to languish in solitude or foul Blooding to-dny with glorious light, 
society until the real culprits could be To-morrow passed away. r.m. a. 
brought to trial. ---- 
This evil is not confined to our own city; THE MISSION OF LITTLE CHILDREN, 
it extends throughout the country both XT . I 
North and South ; and there are at this mo- , one . s tke dealk ot a child as a 
ment a large number of our fellow citizens r " otlier ( efcl * lL T ! ie fatlier cannot feel it 
incarcerated in common jails, who are not 11US ' ru< > tkerea vacancy in his home 
even accused of anv crime, but are detained a . nd . a heaviness in his heart. There is a 
THE MISSION OF LITTLE CHILDREN. 
No one feels the death of a child as a 
even accused of any crime, but are detained 
for the furtherance of justice! (?) Where cka ' n of association that at set times comes 
are all those nhilanthronists. t.linsp st.L-L-Loa luun< a broken link—there 
are all those philanthropists, those stickleis rounQ wun a Drol,:en link—there are mem- 
for human liberty, who are ready to turn ° nes °* enaearrTi nnt, a keen sense of loss, 
the world upside down because summary a wet ‘P ln S oVer crushed hopes, and a pain 
justice is dealt upon runaways? Here ate °, woun ^ Action. But the mother feels 
men who are not only denied “trial by jury,” 1 , 1,11 one * )as ^ een taken away who was still 
but are punished without any trial at all. j; oser to her heart.. Hers has been theof- 
Those of our readers who visited Havana Ice . constant ministration. Flvery grad- 
a few years ago, may remember how sud- u | hUo ’ 1 °‘ feature developed before her eyes; 
denly the throughfares would be deserted detected ever y new gleam of infant in- 
the shops closed, and the houses shut and telll » ence; she . heard lhe firs t utterance of 
barricaded, if the cry of “murder” and ever y stammering word; she was the refuge 
even “stop thief” was heard in the street. of lls fearS) the su PP'y of its wa nts; and 
No one had a fancy to be locked up in a eve ^ task of affecUon wov e a new link, and 
calaboose as a witness, and thus it was al- madti dear to h° r ’ ts object. 
even “stop thief” was heard in the street. lts , rs ’ the su PP'y of its wa nts; and 
No one had a fancy to be locked up in a eve ^ task of affecUon wov « a new link, and 
calaboose as a witness, and thus it was al- made " ear t0 h° r ’ ts object, 
most impossible to obtain evidence of even And ker child dies, •a portion of 
the most public crimes. This is the natur- ier own de as d were d *cs, with it. How 
like deaf Stapleton in Marryat’s “Jacob rp , -. 
Faithful,” shrewd persons will come to • lc llmid hands that have so often taken 
make no use of their senses, if the indul- ? n tr . ust an< ^ k)ve ’ kow can b ^ e fold them on 
gence of hearing or seeing is likely to prove *5 sin ^ ss r ^ reast , and surrender them to 
so expensive. Death? I he feet whose wanderings she 
It would be well, now that public atten- wa ^? ked s0 narr °wly, how can she see them 
tion has, by the action of the Grand Jury , strai g htened to go down into the dark val- 
1 1 J 9 Iaxt 9 r ri-,r» Kond I_l . . 1 . 
al tendency of such a course of injustice; P. an ske S‘ ve ker darkn S U P> w 'th all these 
like deaf Stapleton in Marryat’s “Jacob '9 n S. memories, these fond associations ? 
T7I i- , .. . , J ... ho tin-lirl hon^.. 1._ f. .1 
! the punishment of a criminal, or perhaps, 0k ’ ^ ow can ske consi g n it to the dark 
more frequently to give testimony in a civil ckamder ti ie gr av e ? 
suit. It would be natural to suppose that , was a S* eam uf- sunshine and a voice 
one who had thus been compelled, at con- ^Perpetual gladness in her home; she had 
siderable personal inconvenienience, to at- . rn . ed i |0m its blessed lessons of slimplic- 
tend to a duty so onerous, would be treated *9’ b i nc C r *ty, purity, faith; it had unsealed 
with at least ordinary civility and respect. ker a gushing, never-ebbing tide of 
But this is not generally the case. After ad, ' cl ' u11 ; when suddenly it was taken away, 
being sworn to tell the truth, he is beset an( ‘ lkat komo ' s daidt a nd silent; and 
by several sharp practitioners who have va * n and kear t-rending aspiration, 
made this business a study, and who use “ Shall that dear child never return again ?” 
the most despotic efforts to befog his in tel- tkere breaks in^response, through the cold 
there breaks in response, through the cold 
lect, to confound his ideas, to perplex his g ra y silence, “Nevermore—oh nevermore!” 
memory, and if possible, to betrav him into ^ ke heart is like a forsaken mansion, and 
unintentional error. If in such hands lie ^hat word goes echoing through its desolate 
becomes so worried as to utter seemino- ckatn bers. And yet lond Mother! (“Time 
contradictions, he is lashed without mercy brings such wondrous easing,”) thou wilt in 
as a perjurer. Or, if after spending all their a ^ er y eHrs k>ok back, with a not unpleasing 
impudence upon him,—after brow-beatino- sadness > even upon this scene of grief: 
and torturing him to their heart’s content, Thou’lt any: “ My first born blessing, 
the lawyers are unable to puzzle him, and it nlmosi broke my heart 
nc adheres to Ins simple story, mark the And yet for ti»ee I know 
seeming malignity with which he is assailed ’Twas better to depart, 
in the advocate’s argument How his mo- God took thee in His mercy, 
tives are impeached, his character criticised A Jamb untucked, untried; 
or blackened, his most sacred feelings ridi- I1 e fought . tlie flght for thee, 
culed, until he seems a monster too \i!e to And thou art sanctified, 
be believed. T . , 
We have known some estimable men of The ovi! ways of men; 
sensitive minds, who have not recovered for And oh, beloved child. 
weeks from an attack of this sort, made by T 1 ' n h , m 7' e ll ‘ an r<, c»nciied 
, - 1tf , , . , . J „ U J lo thy departure then, 
a skillful speaker, without a shadow of ex¬ 
cuse. If any one thinks this picture over- I he little hands that clasped me, 
. , wi- • -. e , * , ^ The innocent lips that pressed, 
drawn, let him visit for a day, almost any Would they have been as pure 
one of our Trial Courts. There are one 1 now 113 when of yore 
or two where the Judges occasionally in- 1 lulled lhee on my l,renst? ” 
terpose in favor of a respectable witness, And, in this spirit, and with this faith the 
but in most of them the lawyers have free affections of that bereaved mother will 
license to utter the most scandalous abuse reach out after her little one; follow it in- 
without check or hindrance. All this seems t0 the unseen and spiritual world which will 
to us to be wrong in principle, and product- become a great and vivid reality to her. Its 
ive, of serious evil in practice. It height- atmosphere will be around her; cords of 
ens the difficulty of procuring the attend- affection will draw her towards : t, the face 
ance of respectable witnesses, sis few are °f her departed one will look out from it; 
willing to submit to such wholesale abuse. and s hc will ever more think of her child 
It lessens the dignity of the judiciary, and as not lost, but gone before. 
tends to impair the force ot any rebuke -- 
administered to wrong doing, bv bringing Dress.— Be either delicately pale or 
the innocent and guilty alike into condem- richly dark; beware of blue, red, and vel- 
nation.— Journal of Commerce. low —the favorites of savages, unless your 
—;---;——— _ red be deepened with black, or contrasted 
Sincerity.— Sincerity signifies a sim- with green; your blue animated with or- 
plicity of mind and manners in our conver- ange; and your yellow illuminated with 
sation and carriage one toward another; j purple. Let the brilliant colors be small 
singleness of heart discovering itself in aj like the lights in a picture; and the main 
constant plainness and honest openness of body of the dress of a mixed color, orpuro 
behavior, free trom all little tricks, and fetch- white, which is all color. Beware of eclips¬ 
es of craft and cunning from false appear- ing yourself, by making your dress so beau- 
ances, and deceitful disguises of ourselves tiful that you will not be seen. 
in word or action; or yet more plainly it is ---——- 
to speak as we think, and do what we pre- There is a certain softness of manner 
tend and profess, to perform and make good which, in either man or woman adds a 
what we promise, and, in a word really to charm that almost entirely compensates for 
be what we would seem and appear to be. lack of beauty. 
Thou’lt any; My first horn blessing, 
It utmost broke my heart 
When thou wert forced to go; 
And yet for thee 1 know 
’Twas better to dep’art. 
God took thee in His mercy, 
A lamb untasked, untried; 
He fought the fight for thee, 
He won the victory, 
And thou art sanctified. 
I look around and see 
The evil ways of men; 
And oh, beloved child. 
I’m more than reconciled 
To thy departure then. 
The little hands that clasped me, 
The innocent lips that pressed, 
Would they have been as pure 
Till now as when of yore 
I lulled thee on my breast?” 
And, in this spirit, and with this faith the 
