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MOORED RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
APRIL 5 . 
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THE MISSING SHIP. 
BY W. H. HOSMBR. 
No news from the missing ship, 
With her precious freight of lives, 
Though on the watch for tidings 
Are husbands, lovers, wives! 
The nation’s mind is troubled 
To learn the vessel’s fate ; 
Safe haven may she find, at last, 
With her thrice-precious freight! 
The sea is a mighty mistress 
In this dread world of ours ; 
Roaring in Polar Regions, 
Or building coral bowers. 
Within her grand, old Chambers, 
What treasures lie concealed!— 
The conquering fleets of Carthage, 
And hosts with spear and shield. 
No news from the missing ship ! 
Has she struck on frozen shores ? 
Or, by an iceberg shattered. 
Sought port in the far Azores ? 
Or anchorage, forever, 
In ocean has she found— 
Vast tomb, where Hope lies buried, 
And Royalty discrown’d ! 
The winds we have questioned, often, 
That landward wildly blow ; 
They only moan and whistle, 
But say not yes, nor no 1 
When will the missing Steamer. 
Approach our coast again ? 
Give answer, blast of midnight— 
Give answer, roaring main 1 
Prayers for her safety, nightly 
Rise from a million lips ; 
A glimmering of hope remains 
That should not know eclipse. 
May the signal-gun give token 
That she is under way, 
With her precious freight of human lives, 
And moving up the Bay ! 
[IV. Y. Eve. Post. 
NICHOLAS BRADFORD; 
THE MAN WHO EXPECTED TO GO TO THE LEGISLATURE. 
“What makes that corn look so yellow and 
spindling ?” said Mr. Lovell to his neighbor 
Jackson. 
" The owner expects to go to the Legislature 
next winter,” said Mr. Jackson. 
“ I don’t know what that has to do with the 
corn looking so yellow. Mr. James took the 
premium for the best field of corn the same 
year he went to the Assembly.” 
Mr. Jackson was a man who was averse to 
saying anything against his neighbors ; so he 
did not enlighten Mr. Lovell as to the connec¬ 
tion between poor corn, and an expected seat in 
the Legislature. 
“ Let us go across the fields; we shall save 
half a mile or so by that means.” 
The two neighbors were on their way to the 
house of a lone widow, whose little cornfield 
required some attention which she was not able 
to bestow. They began to act on the labor- 
saving suggestion above recorded. The first 
thing to be done was to get over the fence 
which separated the cornfield from the high¬ 
way. It was a high rail fence, and the top rail 
was supported by crossed stakes. Mr. Jackson 
was a little more active than his companion.— 
He placed himself astride the top rail before 
Lovell had begun to climb. The pressure of 
Mr. Jackson’s weight upon the rail caused the 
bottom of the stakes to fly up. There was 
then nothing to prevent the rail and its rider 
from obeying the law of gravity. This they 
speedily did—the rail in its descent communi¬ 
cating something of its rotary motion to Mr. 
Jackson. He gathered himself up and wiped 
his face, and was busy for a moment in remov¬ 
ing something which had taken that opportuni¬ 
ty to get into his eyes. As he looked up, he 
saw Mr. Bradford sitting in his sulky. He 
happened to be driving by, and drew up as he 
saw Mr. Jackson’s somerset. 
“I hope you haven’t hurt yourself,” said he. 
Mr. Jackson was somewhat vexed and made 
no reply. 
“ Stakes are apt to get thrown out by the 
frost,” said Mr. Lovell, feeling that the silence 
was rather awkward. 
“ Yes,” replied Mr. Bradford. “ It is well to 
go round in the spring and tighten them, but I 
had so much to do this spring that I neglected 
it. I must try to do it yet; good day to you,” 
and he drove on. 
By this time Mr. Jackson had replaced the 
rail, and laid some large stone^at the bottom of 
the stakes, that no one else might be caught 
“ in the same trap,” as he said, ann was prepar¬ 
ed to move on. He was just vexed enough to 
talk freely about Mr. Bradford’s corn and con¬ 
duct. 
“ It is a shame to see such corn on such land,” 
said he. 
“The land appears to be good,” said Mr. 
Lovell. 
“ The soil, if anything, is better than that,” 
pointing to the field which they were approach¬ 
ing, in which the corn was, (to use an agricul¬ 
tural hyperbole,) “as black as your hat.” 
“ I don’t see what the difference is owing to. 
This hasn’t been well ’tended to be sure.” 
“ In the first place the ground wasn’t plowed: 
see there, not more than half the surface was 
broken up at all. It is now getting to be as 
hard as a rock; nothing can grow in such a 
case. He hired Stillwell to plow it by the acre, 
while he was managing matters for the town 
meeting. Stillwell slighted it, but Bradford 
did not dare to say anything because he wanted 
his vote. Then he hired a couple of voters to 
plant it while he was gone to a county conven¬ 
tion ; and you see how they planted it, so 
crooked that it is impossible to put the plow 
through it more than one way.” 
“ It looks as if it had been hoed by voters,” 
said Lovell. 
“ It was hoed by a couple of young chaps, 
who will be old enough to be voters at the next 
election ; so he must be easy with them.” 
By this time they had reached the fence 
which separated Mr. Bradford’s field from Mr. 
Barnwell’s. The fence resembled the one above 
noticed. 
“Take care that you don’t get another fall,” 
said Lovell, as he saw Jackson spring on the 
fence. 
“Ho danger here, this is Barnwell’s fen’ce, 
and his stakes are always firm set.” 
It happened that Mr. Barnwell and his son 
Henry were in the cornfield with their hoes.— 
They were finishing the two last rows as Jack- 
son and Lovell came upon them. Henry was a 
member of college, but it was vacation, and he 
was now putting it in strong by the side of his 
father, who felt none the older in consequence. 
“You have a fine piece of corn here,” said 
Jackson. 
“Yes,” replied Barnwell, “it is coming on 
pretty well. It hardly needed the hoe, but 
Henry was a mind to scratch it over again.” 
“Your scratcliings are always pretty thorough 
ones; does Henry improve any in hoeing by 
going to college ?” 
“ Well, I don’t know. He is pretty much the 
same.” 
“ Well, I shall be glad if he don’t get spoiled 
going to college. May be he wont. I saw your 
classmate Fairfield, as I was coming out of the 
lane.” 
“ Where was he going ?” said Henry, quickly, 
and the blush that suffused his^ countenance 
would seem to indicate that the question was 
improper or unnecessary. Unnecessary it may 
have been, since the lane led only to Mr. Jack¬ 
son’s house. There was certainly a very high 
degree of probability that the person walking 
in said lane towards the house was going to it. 
Mr. Jackson noticed the embarrassment attend¬ 
ing the question and replied : 
“ I can’t say for certain where he was going. 
I think it likely he was going to my house.— 
He was pretty well starched, and hardly seem¬ 
ed to know ; so I didn’t think it worth while 
to tell him that the women were not at home.” 
Jackson perceived that his reply had restored 
Henry’s circulation to its usual state. He dis¬ 
turbed it again, however, by adding, “ Milly 
says she likes that book, and wants the other 
volume.” 
«I’ll bring it up to her,” said Henry. “Will 
they be at home this evening ?” 
“Yes,” replied Mr. Jackson, without noticing 
the unusual use of the pronoun they. Perhaps 
he thought it was in accordance with college 
rules to use it when reference is made to a 
young, rosy-cheeked, black-eyed, enthusiastic 
girl of seventeen. 
“We were going to give widow Jones a lift 
at hoeing; as you have your hand in, you may 
as well come along.” 
“ I will,” said Henry, “ that is, I will be there 
soon after you get there—ifi time to overtake 
you if the rows are long enough.” 
« I shouldn’t wonder,” said Jackson, as soon 
as they had passed out of hearing, “ if that 
young man should get into the Legislature, and 
into Congress too. He is taking the right course 
for it. He was always fond of his books, and 
when he is in college I’m told he studies with 
the best of them, and when he comes home, he 
puts right in and helps the old man, whatever 
he is doing. If he were to set up for the As¬ 
sembly next fall, he would run better than 
Bradford, who spends half his time in fishing 
for votes.” 
How far this opinion of Jackson in regard to 
Henry was worthy of universal adoption, we 
will not stop to consider ; but content ourselves 
with remarking that it is quite probable that 
this opinion was modified by the partiality of 
Henry for that black-eyed girl of seventeen, to 
whom allusion has been made. 
The two neighbors had reached the widow’s 
cornfield where they were soon joined by Hen¬ 
ry, and their joint labors were continued till 
sunset. A close observer might have noticed 
that young Barnwell looked at the sun pretty 
often as it neared the horizon, still he showed 
no signs of giving over till the patch was hoed 
out.” 
“ Come,” said Jackson to him, “ go home with 
me.” 
“ I think I shall come and bring that book 
this evening.” 
“Never mind the book, you can bring that 
some other time. I told Milly that it was like¬ 
ly as not that you would come home to supper 
with me.” 
This Mr. Jackson supposed would be conclu¬ 
sive, but he was in error. Henry’s wardrobe 
had materially improved since his connection 
with college, and if there was any occasion in 
which it was put in especial requisition, it was 
when about to visit Miss Amelia Jackson. 
“ You will be round in time for supper then ?” 
“ I guess so.” 
Henry hastened home, and after a copious use 
of cold water, began to make such a disposition 
of his dress as he deemed advisable. Several 
collars proved quite refractory, and his success 
in folding a new neckerchief was by no means 
gratifying. He was ready at last, and with the 
book in his hand, was on his rapid way to the 
end of the lane. It was quite dark before he 
reached it. A white figure that he saw in the 
door-way assumed very distinct and perfect 
proportions, notwithstanding the darkness.— 
The table was spread, and they were soon seat¬ 
ed at it, and Milly undertook to “pour out,”— 
with the difficulties of which act she was evi¬ 
dently unacquainted, since with the best possi¬ 
ble intentions, she twice failed to mix the in¬ 
gredients in Henry’s cup according to his di¬ 
rections. After the“things” were “taken away,” 
a feat that was performed by Milly without any 
blushing, in a remarkably dexterous and grace¬ 
ful manner, (at least so thought Henry,) con¬ 
versation became animated, though perhaps 
Mr. Jackson was disposed to appropriate more 
than Henry would have meted out to him. He, 
(Henry,) however, gave no sign that such was 
his opinion. He wisely listened and talked to 
the father, concluding that in accordance with 
a praiseworthy custom, he would betake him¬ 
self to bed at an early hour, and leave to his 
daughter the task of entertaining the visitor.— 
At what hour Henry returned to his father’s 
that night was uncertain. Certain it is that he 
was never out of his room at college at so late 
an hour. 
CHAPTER II. 
Mr. Bradford was for many years one of the 
most industrious farmers in the place. Few 
men raised better crops, few better cattle, or 
kept their fences and buildings in better repair, 
Few men minded their own business better, and 
were more generally respected. Things .were 
thus going on well with him, till in an evil hour 
he was nominated for supervisor by one party, 
and no opposition was made to the nomination 
by the other. 
That to him very unexpected event, happen¬ 
ed on this wise. The patriotic leaders of the 
dominant party could not agree among them¬ 
selves as to who should serve the people in the 
offices of the current year. They therefore 
were obliged to select a man who had no claims. 
The opposite party thought it useless to make 
any opposition. So he was elected by almost 
a unanimous vote. Many honest men who were 
not in the habit of going to elections, turned out 
to vote for a man who had never sought office, 
and whose good care of his farm gave a pledge 
of good care of the town. He made a good su¬ 
pervisor, but he got, as his neighbor Jackson 
said, a “ taste of office,” which grew upon him 
to the damage of his farm, comfort and charac¬ 
ter. We have already seen something of its 
influence on his farming. Let us now take a 
glance at some other of his “ fair business trans¬ 
actions.” 
“ Good evening, Mr. Roy,” said Mr. Bradford j 
to a man with a damaged countenance, and di¬ 
lapidated wardrobe, as he entered the house 
just before sunset one evening, “ how do you 
do?” Mr. Bradford rose with evident reluc¬ 
tance and gave the unit of sovereignty his hand. 
“I’m pretty well, how do you do ?” 
Mr. Roy’s children were a little eccentric in 
their habits. They were not particularly given 
to staying at home. They were sometimes 
found in other people’s barns, hen-roosts, &c., 
at night. Several of them had taken lodgings 
for a time in a public building at the county 
seat. It was natural that the father of the 
town, and the expectant legislator, should feel 
solicitous about such children, and make them 
the subject of definite inquiries. That inquiry 
elicited no definite information. 
“We are beginning to get ready for election 
in our part of the town,” said Mr. Roy, seating 
himself with great deliberation, and with some¬ 
what of dignity as he supposed. “ We mean to 
put through right there. We feel as though we 
must have more farmers in the Legislature.— 
These lawyers are a ruining the country, and 
that is the whole of it.” 
Mr. Bradford was not disposed to dispute so 
reasonable and agreeable a proposition, and was 
quite thankful to be permitted to hope that that 
was the whole of it. But he was mistaken.— 
The most important part of it was to come.— 
Listen. 
« Mr. Bradford, I am in rather a strait just 
now for a couple of bushels of corn. Mr. Wiles 
(the expected opposing candidate for the Leg¬ 
islature,) lias corn to sell, but he is not the one 
for a poor man to deal with, so I come to you as 
the poor man’s friend. I will certainly pay you 
before election, if I don’t in a week or two.” 
“Well, I suppose you must have it,” said the 
man of the people. He rose and went to the 
corn house, and went through the very unneces¬ 
sary formality of measuring the grain. It was 
carried away by the sovereign, and in due time 
consumed. Mr. Bradford knew that the only 
pay he could possibly expect was the vote of 
the said sovereign, which might be had, provided 
the opposing candidate did not furnish too co¬ 
pious a supply of strong drink. This was one 
specimen of the business transactions of the 
people’s candidate for Legislature honors. 
Now take an example somewhat different. 
“ How do you do Mr. Bradford,” said a rather 
smart semi-gentlemanly looking man. There 
was considerable importance in his bearing, and 
quite an odor of politics about him. He had 
once been deputy sheriff, and hence claimed a 
right to be on terms of equality with all office 
seekers and office holders. After some intro¬ 
ductory remarks, which had no relation to the 
subject, he remarked : “ They say Mr. Wiles 
means to run for the Legislature next fall.”— 
Mr. Bradford wished that a seat might be gain¬ 
ed by running, since in that case his chance in 
the contest with Mr. Wiles would be good, Mr. 
Wiles being a very corpulent, wheezy, rubicund 
man, besides usually carrying too much weight 
of brandy and water to run with advantage.— 
Mr. Bradford did not give expression to that 
wish, but contented himself with remarking, 
“ I havn’t beam much about it.” 
“ I don’t think he can fetch it. He is not 
popular enough. He don’t take pains to please 
people. He is not willing to help a neighbor in 
time of trouble. Finch had a cow taken, and 
was about to be sold by the execution. He 
tried to get Wiles to go security for him, but he 
wouldn’t. Finch managed to get the money, 
(I helped him to part of it,) but I don’t think 
he will vote for Wiles.” 
In brief, the object of the ex-deputy sheriff 
was to get Mr. Bradford’s endorsement to his 
note of hand for one hundred dollars—the said 
deputy having a desire to illustrate the excel¬ 
lency of the credit system as facilitated by 
banks. He was successful, and at the end of 
four months, Mr. Bradford was called upon to 
make payment, and did so by effecting the sale 
of a favorite horse. 
In the mean time the election had taken 
place, and Mr. Bradford obtained leave to stay 
?jt home during the wintor—a striking example 
of the ingratitude of republics towards those 
who desire to serve them. He now had leisure 
to examine into the state of his farm, reckon up 
his bad debts, and to devise ways and means to 
meet his pecuniary engagements. He found 
that his political career had been so expensive 
that it was necessary to sell at least a part of 
his farm. He finally concluded to sell the 
whole and remove to the West, firmly resolving 
however, to accept of no office save that of path- 
master. His political experience was of vast 
service to him, and we have recorded it for the 
benefit of others. 
The farm was purchased by Mr. Barnwell 
senior, and as soon as Henry had graduated, it 
was made over to him in company with the 
black-eyed girl above mentioned. Some won¬ 
dered that old Mr. Barnwell should have sent 
his son to college to make a farmer of him at 
last; and others thought that Milly was too 
lady-like to be a good farmer’s wife, but I never 
heard as that opinion gained general currency. 
All acknowledged that college had not spoiled 
Henry for work, and that somehow he got larger 
crops than any of his neighbors. 
It was not long before he was solicited to be 
a candidate for office, but he strenuously pro¬ 
tested that he could not attend to his farm and 
the State at the same time. “ When my farm,” 
Said he, “ is clear from all incumbrance, and 
has received the necessary improvements, and 
my affairs are in such a state that I can leave 
them for a time, then, if the people really need 
my services, they shall be given.” Was he an 
unwise man ?—Journal of Agriculture. 
it aift fluraflt'. 
[For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
There is a little fellow and his name it is Punch, 
And a funny little fellow is he, 
He can shrug up his hunch into quite a little hunch, 
As cosy as ever can be. 
He has a little neighbor, and her name it is France, 
And a spite at him had she, 
But with very little labor, they soon broke the lancp, 
And shook hands across the sea. 
So the little maid played with the jolly little man, 
And very good-natured they got, 
And their choler to fade it very soon began, 
And their quarrels were all forgot. 
She’d carry him here, and she’d carry him there, 
Because his little legs were weak, 
And the chubby little bear thought himself a great affair, 
And thus to the world did speak, 
“ You musn’t do this, you musn’t do that, 
Because it is not my pleasure, 
If my credit’s rather flat, my treasury is fat, 
Enough for any honest measure.” 
“When I’m out of this jam, there’s that little spunky Sam, 
Who really thinks he’s clever, 
He’s getting up a sham, all to seDd home my man, 
A thing he is up to forever.” 
He swelled and he Mowed, like any little toad, 
Till she thought she would let him drop, 
“ Oh don’t leave me now, in this precious row, 
Till I’m out of this ugly spot.” 
“ Why Punchy, my man, don’t you think that you can 
Do all that you have said ? 
Who took the Redan, and who led the van, 
When I from, the Malakofffled?” 
Now this little maid, was a very naughty jade, 
To pester the little creature, 
But she wasn’t afraid, of what she had said, 
Or anything he could teach her. 
While she holds him tight, he will crow with all his might 
And threaten what he’ll do, 
He had better peel for fight, for there is a time in sight. 
When the maid xcill remember Waterloo. 
“Vex you’re a married naan, Sammy, you’ll 
understand a great many things as you don’t 
understand now, but vether it’s vortli vile going 
through so much to learn so little, as the chari¬ 
ty boy said ven he got to the end of the alpha¬ 
bet, is a matter of taste. I think it isn’t.”— 
The elder Weller. 
Hartley Coleridge once being asked which 
of Wordsworth’s productions he considered the 
prettiest, very promptly replied : “ His daugh¬ 
ter Dora.” 
Why is a bow-legged man like a holiday down 
south ? Because you see the knee grows but! 
(negroes out.) 
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and a half miles west of Moscow, Liv. Co., N. Y., is offered for 
sale at $55 per acre — well watered and timbered, with a house 
and barns npon it. Also another farm adjoining of Two Hun¬ 
dred and Fifty Acres, offered very cheap. A liberal credit will 
be given, if desired, for a part of the purchase money. 
Address WM. DWIGHT. Moscow, N. Y. 
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