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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
MAY U. 
Sfrfliti Jaittg. 
NAME IN THE SANE. 
BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE. 
Alone I walked on the ocean strand, 
A pearly shell was in my hand, 
I stooped and wrote upon the sand 
My name, the year, and day : 
As onward from the spot I passed, 
One lingering look behind I cast, 
A wave came rolling high and fast, 
And washed my lines away. 
And so methought, ’Twill quickly be 
■With every mark on earth from me ! 
A wave of dark oblivion’s sea, 
Will sweep across the place 
Where I have trod the sandy shore 
Of time, and been to me no more ; 
Of me, my day, the name I bore, 
To leave no track or trace. 
And yet with Him who counts the sands, 
And holds the water in his hands, 
I knowa lasting record stands, 
Inscribed against my name ; 
Of all this mortal part has wrought, 
Cf all this thinking soul has thought, 
And from these fleeting moments caught, 
For glory or for shame. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
THE GENESEE. 
BY GLEZEN F. WILCOX. 
NT ext to the Hudson, the Genesee is the most 
important river of the Empire State. Its mu¬ 
sical name was bestowed by the Indians, and 
signifies “Pleasant Valley.” Itising among 
the hills of Pennsylvania, it flows northward 
for nearly one hundred and fifty miles, through 
the richest and fairest portion of Western Hew 
York, and discharges its waters into Lake On¬ 
tario. The country, which it drains, will ave¬ 
rage about twenty-five miles in width. The 
first white men who trod its fertile banks, and 
listened to the ceaseless thunder of its sublime 
cataracts, were the Jesuit Missionaries, those 
pioneers of western civilization, who, zealous 
for the spread of their favorite doctrines, in the 
earlier part of the sixteenth century, followed 
the narrow Indian trails that led from Niagara, 
through the dense and primitive forest to the 
towns of the Senecas. 
Hew York was then an almost unbroken 
wilderness ; but the light of European refine¬ 
ment, which was destined to penetrate and il¬ 
lumine its remotest depths, began to flash along 
the eastern horizon, and the gloom of a land, 
darkened by unequalled forests, and inhabited 
by wild beasts and rude, unlettered savages, 
was rapidly dispelled by the dawning of a civ¬ 
ilization more perfect than any the world ever 
before beheld. The results, which the energy 
and perseverance of the Saxon race have ac¬ 
complished, were scarcely foreseen by those 
daring men, as they stood in Nature’s great and 
solemn temples, by the side of the murmuring 
waters of the “ Pleasant Valley,” and unfolded 
to the pagan savages the rites of a more en¬ 
lightened religion. The ancient forest, whose 
moaning was like a prophecy of its destruction, 
has sunk beneath the swift tread of West¬ 
ern Empire, and cultivated fields, waving on 
their broad and generous bosoms the rich au¬ 
tumnal harvests, cover the valleys and extend 
over the gentle elevations. 
Although the beauty and fertility of the val¬ 
ley of the Genesee were discovered at this early 
period, yet it was not until the close of the 
Revolution that any progress was made towards 
its settlement. It was the country of the Sen¬ 
ecas, whose populous villages stood upon its 
banks. They were the most powerful tribe of 
the Iroquois, a nation whose exploits have gain¬ 
ed for them the proud title of “ the Romans of 
America,” and whose conquests stretched from 
the Canadas to Georgia, and from Hew England 
to the Mississippi. They were inveterate ene¬ 
mies to the French, and constant and faithful 
allies to the English ; and to their influence 
may be ascribed the rapid extension of British 
power in America, and its final domination over 
its less fortunate rival. The French sent 
army to subdue them in 1687, under the com¬ 
mand of De Noxville. He landed at Ironde- 
quoit bay, and marched into their country as 
far as the present village of Victor, in Ontario 
county, where he was attacked by a force of 
the Senecas. They were defeated, however, in 
the engagement, with considerable loss, and 
compelled to fly. De Noxville then penetra¬ 
ted farther into their country, destroying their 
villages and cornfields, and killing great num¬ 
bers of swine. But he was unsuccessful in his 
attempts to engage them in another conflict, 
and indeed he scarcely saw a hostile Seneca 
during the remainder of his stay in their terri¬ 
tories. He was finally compelled to return 
without having curbed the pride, or diminished 
the power of the Iroquois* but only having ex¬ 
asperated them to more daring hostility against 
the French. 
In the war of Independence, the Senecas 
took up arms for England, affording her armies 
aid against the Americans, and harrassing the 
back settlements of Hew York and Pennsylva¬ 
nia. To check their inroads General Sullivan 
marched against them with an army in 1779. 
They dared not meet him in a general engage¬ 
ment, but succeeded in cutting off a detachment 
under the command of Lieut. Boyd. Sullivan 
marched to their villages on the Genesee, which 
he found deserted. Receiving it useless to pur¬ 
sue an enemy in the wilderness, whose object 
was to evade a contest or draw him into a dan¬ 
gerous ambuscade, he turned the energies of his 
troops to the destruction of their property.— 
Their houses were consumed, their orchards 
leveled, and their cornfields, v hich were wav¬ 
ing with a generous harvest, were desolated 
with torch and sword. This severe treatment 
taught them the power of the Americans, and 
the destruction of their corn brought them the 
ensuing winter to the door of famine. When the 
war was terminated wiih England, and the 
authority of the American government estab¬ 
lished, the country of the Genesee was obtained 
from the Indians by purchase, and its favorable 
location and extraordinary fertility attracting 
attention, the blows of the pioneers began to 
resound along the wooded hill-tops and valleys. 
There was among the Senecas a renegado 
white man called “Indian Allen” — one of 
those wild and restless spirits that are ever 
found on the confines of civilization ; sometimes 
with a stock of goods established as a trader, 
sometimes engaged in hunting and trapping, 
and frequently painted and dressed like a sav¬ 
age, following the war path with a stealthy 
tread and quick perception that rivals even the 
crafty Indian. 
Allen had been engaged in all these occupa¬ 
tions among the Indians with various success, 
and when the country began to be settled by 
the whites, he went a step further, and became 
the pioneer miller of the Genesee. In 1789 he 
erected a saw and grist mill at the Falls, and 
first turned to the use of man that immense 
water power, which, in connection with the un¬ 
equalled wheat growing country around it, has 
since raised Rochester to the rank of the first 
city in the world for the manufacture of flour. 
In three or four years Allen disposed of his 
mills, and it seems they fell into decay, or at 
least their advantages attracted no settlers in 
their vicinity ; for, twenty years later, when 
De Witt Clinton passed through "the country 
on his tour of exploration for the route of the 
Erie canal, he recorded in his journal that 
there was not a house on the spot where Roch¬ 
ester stands at the present time. In 1810, how¬ 
ever, the mill property fell into the hands of 
Messrs. Rochester, Carroll, and Fitzhugh, and 
in 1812 they laid out a tract of one hundred 
acres in village lots, and bestowed on it the 
name of the senior proprietor. The same year 
a Post Office was established there, and the fol¬ 
lowing year the first merchant store was erect¬ 
ed. In 1817 it was incorporated as a village, 
and in 1834 chartered as a city. It had a pop¬ 
ulation in 1820 of 1,502; in 1830 of 9,269; in 
1840 of 20,191 ; in 1850 of 36,403, and its 
present population is not far from 50,000. 
The scenery of the river at and below Roch¬ 
ester is striking. In the warm and balmy days 
of early spring, when the buds are opening, 
and the trees are putting on their green man¬ 
tles, and the sweet songsters returned from the 
sunny South enliven the fields and woods with 
their melody, it is a delightful recreation to go 
out of the noisy, dusty city, and wander along 
the green and pleasant banks of the Genesee. 
We would linger awhile on Falls Field, and 
gaze upon the dark river, which, swollen by the 
spring floods, plunges madly over the precipice 
and falls in feathery loam ninety-six feet into 
the whirlpool below. The clouds of mist, 
gleaming with a kind of dusky splendor in the 
sunshine, rise and float away in the air, and the 
arched rainbow, springing dimly from the foam, 
like a troubled spirit, wavers over the seething 
waters. But nature is hemmed in and nearly 
subdued by the works of man. There is noth¬ 
ing left unchanged save the cataract, and even 
that is diminished by the mill races, so that 
only once or twice a year it asserts its majesty, 
and gives us some idea of its former grandeur. 
A few rods above, the railroad bridge crosses 
the river ; and for a considerable distance below 
the west bank is walled with huge stone mills, 
and the shriek and snort of the locomotive, and 
the deep hum ol machinery, is not drowned by 
the noise of the cataract. It was from this 
precipice that Sam Patch took his fatal leap in 
the fall of 1829. His first attempt was success¬ 
ful, and he came up uninjured. Elated by his 
success, the daring diver caused a stage to be 
erected that raised him twenty-five feet higher. 
He jumped from this, and his body was not 
found until the next spring. 
Two miles below are the Lower Falls, which 
are eighty-four feet high. A new suspension 
bridge is now being erected on the site of the 
old Carthage bridge, which was one of the most 
remarkable structures of modern times. It was 
completed in February 1819, and stood one year 
and one day, thus saving from loss the contrac¬ 
tors, who had warranted to stand one year. It 
consisted of an entire wooden arch, the distance 
between the abutments being three hundred and 
fifty-two feet. Its whole length Was seven 
hundred and eighteen, its width thirty, and its 
height, from the water to the crown of the arch, 
one hundred and ninety-six feet. It contained 
seventy thousand feet of timber, running meas¬ 
ure, and sixty-four thousand six hundred and 
twenty feet board measure. The great weight 
of timber pressed unequally on the sides of the 
arch, threw up the centre, and the whole tum¬ 
bled into the abyss. But if the scenery be 
grand below Rochester, it will bear no com¬ 
parison to that which may be seac by the 
tourist who, in the golden and dreamy days of 
autumn, will trace the devious Genesee to where 
it ripples in the shadows of its bushy banks 
before it leaps the first falls of Portage. 
On a sunny morning of one of the brightest 
September days, my friend Hal, and myself, 
rode on the iron rail into the pleasant city of 
Rochester. The gray mist floated up from the 
Falls as we crossed the bridge, and the bushes 
which clung to the rocky banks were dripping 
with moisture. A beautiful rainbow arch rose 
into the air, one end touching the cliff, while 
the other was lost in the shadowy depths of the 
whirling spray. We had previously viewed the 
scenery below the city, and now intended as¬ 
cending the river to Portage. 
It was evening, and the tapering spires flung 
their shadows,far eastward across the city, as 
we stepped upon the canal packet which was 
to convey us to Mt. Morris. The lines which 
bound us to the wharf were loosened, the driver 
cracked his whip, and, with a silent and almost 
imperceptible motion, we wound through the 
city, under bridges and between warehouses, 
until we saw the green fields and leafy forests 
gleaming in the silver moonlight. There is 
something quiet and charming about this old 
fashioned manner of traveling—the stillness and 
smoothness that attend the motion of the boat, 
and the ample time it affords for the examina¬ 
tion of the surrounding scenery, are advantages 
sufficiently great to remunerate one for the ad¬ 
ditional time. The boat was not over-crowded 
with passengers, and the conversation in the 
evening was social and entertaining. We 
slumbered in the narrow berths through the 
night, and when we arose at daybreak found 
the boat crossing the Genesee within a mile of 
Mt. Morris. 
As we had previously intended to follow the 
river from this point to our destination, Hal 
and myself took our baggage and leaped ashore 
at the first lock. We walked a short distance, 
and then, ascending a high rock, sat down to 
view' the scenery. It w r as very beautiful.— 
looking up the stream, w 7 e saw the gateway of 
the chasm which the river has follow’ed since it 
leaped the falls of Portage. A mile above it 
bends to the south, and a high bluff bounds the 
prospect in that direction. On the right bank, 
the water washes the foot of a perpendicular 
wall of rock, and on the opposite side a green 
flat, fringed witli willows, lies along the base of 
a wood-crowned hill. The river looks as calm 
and beautiful as a sleeping angel, and reflected 
in its depths appears the bright, blue sky and 
vapory cloud. It is a quiet, charming little 
valley, and except the spreading of a softer 
shade over its wildness, cultivation has not 
mat.erially changed its aspect. But turn and 
view the prospect below. The sun .rises above 
the horizon, gilding the tops of the numerous 
farm houses, and ldoks down upon the river, 
winding gracefully through the broad and fa¬ 
mous flats of the Genesee. Herds and flocks 
are grazing in the pastures, and the many hay 
stacks and extensive cornfields attest the fertil¬ 
ity of the soil and the industry of the husband¬ 
man. The prairie smoothness of the surface is 
favorable for easy tillage, and the deep, alluvial 
soil promises an inexhaustible fertility. 
The sagacious Red man long ago had selected 
these flats for the site of his rude bark villages. 
Squaky Hill, three miles below Mt, Morris, was 
once dotted with the clustered huts of the proud, 
forest-born Senecas. Cultivated fields now 
stretch along its gentle slopes, and elegant farm 
houses have superceded the humble wigmams. 
Ho traces of the Indians remain, save a single 
dilapidated log cabin, and a few ancient apple 
trees which escaped the devastation of the army 
of Sullivan. Eastward, and on the southern 
side of Fall Brook, stood Little Beard’s town, 
the most populous of the Senecas. Opposite 
the village, on the open flats, the unfortunate 
Boyd suffered death by the most cruel tortures. 
His bones were collected and buried when the 
army arrived. In 1841 they were removed and 
sepulchred w'ith military honors in Mt. Hope, 
and a mound raised above the spot where his 
remains were disinterred. 
We shouldered our knapsacks, and walked 
leisurely across the meadow. The light breeze 
gently rustled the little grove of willows which 
fringed the water’s edge, and the dew-drops on 
the springing grass still blushed in the rays of 
the morning sun. An abrupt bluff barred the 
extent of the meadow further westward, and 
compelled us to turn and ascend through the 
woods to the top of the bank. The path which 
we found brought us in in a couple of miles to 
the High Banks. 
As Hal, pencil and portfolio in hand, stood 
upon a projecting cliff, in the shade of an ad¬ 
venturous pine which struck its gnarled roots 
into the crevices of the rocks, and gazed down 
the three hundred and fifty feet of space that 
intervened between his eye and the river be¬ 
low, an enthusiastic flush suffused his intelli¬ 
gent countenance, and his coal-black eyes 
burned with the fires of inspiration. Perhaps 
it was the murmuring of the waters over their 
rocky bed, as they curled gracefully around the 
little fiat which lay smiling in the jaws of this 
yawning chasm, that struck a sympathetic 
chord in his soul. His voice dropped down the 
abyss, and I heard an echo—“ I feel wondrous- 
ly poetical.” “ Well, fill your Bristol-board 
with rhyme, then, instead of pictures of rocks 
and trees.” “ Pshaw man, write it! I must 
speak it; yes, speak it, as it bubbles up in my 
heart, to the sunny skies, the babbling river, the 
smiling fields, the moaning fonest, and the gray, 
old rocks crumbled by the fingers of the years. 
Old river 1 who cleft your rocky bed so deep ? 
Was it a thunderbolt ? or the whirling rock of 
an ancient giant, which missed a star, and fall¬ 
ing, plowed a furrow in this lower sphere ?— 
Kind Nature drew a mossy veil over the rough¬ 
ness, and dropped the graceful foliage of the 
bending trees on the scarred crags, and the wind, 
like a lover, sighs in the breezy pine-tops, be¬ 
cause it may not kiss the murmuring stream be¬ 
low.” 
He paused. The echo went back to its cav- 
erned home, and, even as we gazed, the mist 
and darkness silently veiled the river’s counte¬ 
nance. 
We turned away, and walked rapidly along 
the edge of the narrow forest that skirted the 
top of the precipice. The twilight, for the sun 
had left us, still lingered over the same scenes 
we had beheld at its meridian. The twilight 
deepened, and narrowly we searched until we 
discovered the path by which we had ascended. 
It was a grassy wagon road, arched overhead 
by the spreading tops of the oaks and pines, 
whose interlocked branches shut out the dim 
starlight. A low, wood-colored barn stood at 
its termination, and from thence a foot-path, cut 
in the bank, and sometimes protected by a 
rough railing, led in a zig-zag direction down 
to the farm house in the valley. The bark of 
the watch dog announced our approach, and 
when we knocked at the door of the Swiss- 
looking cottage, it was opened by a venerable 
man whose head, like the rocks around, had 
grown gray in the storms of many years. We 
received and enjoyed a true farmer’s hospitali¬ 
ty, and soon the rushing river, which sounded 
strangely loud, lulled us into sweet and dream¬ 
less repose. 
[Concluded next week.] 
1utttjfs toim. 
ILLUSTRATED rebus. 
Answer will be given in two weeks. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
I am. composed of 15 letters. 
My 4, 12, 13, 7, 8,15 is an empire in Europe. 
My 5, 15, 11 is a river in the United States. 
My 1, 15, 7, 15, 8, 6 is a lake in Hew York. 
My 3, 6, 8, 2, 7, 15 is a county in Wisconsin. 
My 9, 7, 11,2, 13 is a country in Asia. 
My 14, 6, 3, 10 is a scene of Turkish defeat by 
the Russians. 
My 9, 7, 11, 2, 6,- 7, 13 is one of the Western 
States. 
My whole is the name of a celebrated Navi¬ 
gator. j. c. H. 
Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, 1856. 
rSf” Answer next week. 
GEOMETRICAL PROBLEM. 
The major and the minor axes of an eliptical 
acre are to each other as 3 to 2. What are the 
lengths of those axes in perches ? j. 
Jgp” Answer next week. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma in Ho. 332; 
Speak gently to the erring. 
Answer to Mathematical Puzzle in No. 332 : 
1 half dollar, 2 quarter dollars, 2 sellings, 3 
’'dimes, 2 half dimes, 3 three cent pieces, 7 cents. 
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ly giveu in the circulars. Its intrinsic worth is also attested by 
the award (mostly in only 3 years) of 
OVER TO FIRST PREMIUMS I 
Price. — Reaper and Mower, $200,—$75 on its receipt, $75 
first September, and $50 first December. Price of Self-Raking 
Reaper only $175. Considerable saving in freight to those at 
a distance who order prior to 1st March ; also liberal discount 
for advance payment. 
To secure a Machine, order immediately. Though so little 
known the past season, and none ready for "delivery till 1st May, 
yet not two-thirds the customers could be supplied. The repu¬ 
tation of the Machine is now widely established, so that three 
thousand will not as nearly supply the demand as twelve hun¬ 
dred did last year, and we shall also be selling 4 months earlier. 
856’“ Order early, if you would not be disappointed. 
Pamphlets giving impartially the OPINIONS OF FAR¬ 
MERS, together with orders, notes, Ac., mailed to applicants, 
and prepaid. 
Write to us at Chicago, (III.,) Dayton, (Ohio,) or Bal¬ 
timore, (Md.,) which ever is nearest to you. 
32I-4m J. S. WRIGHT & CO. 
“ Prairie Farmer" Works, Chicago, Dec. 1st; 1855. 
83?" J- D. STAFFORD, of Brockport, N. Y., is the General 
Agent for the above Machine in New York, to whom all letters 
relative to sales, Ac., in this State should be addressed. Trav¬ 
eling and Local Agents wanted. Address Mr. Stafford. 
E. D. HALLOCK, Agent, No. 2 Agricultural Buildings, 
103 Buffalo st., Rochester, N. Y., where Machines can be seen 
and purchased, and extras obtained at ail times. 
INSURANCE FOR FARMERS. 
Office Monroe go. Mutual Insurance Co. > 
Rochester, April, 1856. \ 
TnE Charter of this Company, which expired on the 21st ult., 
has been renewed and extended for the period of twenty years. 
Members of the Company and others will doubtless he inter¬ 
ested in knowing the result of tho business during the first 
term of the Charter—a period of twenty years. 
Summarily, it is as follows : 
1st. For most of the time the premium for Insurance on a 
Frame Farm House, for each-one thousand dollars Insured, for 
the term of five years, has been as follows : A note was given 
for sixty dollars. There was paid on this note five per cent.— 
S3. During the twenty years tho following assessments have 
been made : 
Two of 3 per cent,;—one of 5 per cent.;—one of 2}£ per cent. 
For the latter part of the time, notes have been made at 1% 
per cent., and the premium paid on them has been 20 per cent 
This but slightly varies the result. 
At each re-insurance, there is a charge of one dollar for a 
Survey, and fifty cents for a Policy. This, added to the above, 
shows the total cost of Insuring in this Company. 
2d. All losses have been paid as they became due. No one 
has ever been required to wait a day beyond the time of the 
maturity of his claim. 
3d. The Company never had a claim contested in Court. In one 
instance, when the officers doubted the fairness of the loss, a 
suit was commenced ; but it was settled before trial. 
4th. No Officeror Director of the Company receives any pay 
for his services, except the Secretary; and the entire incidental 
expenses of the Company, including salary of Secretary, office 
rent, stationery, etc., has not averaged as much as $350 per 
year. 
5th. No change has been made in the acting Officer of the 
Company; but it has been under the same management during 
the entire period of twenty years. 
The business of the Company will be conducted as heretofore. 
No property.’except such as is used for Farming Purfoses, 
can, under our Charter, be Insured ; making it strictly a 
“Farmers' Mutual Insurance Company .” 
330wl3 L. A. WARD, Secretary . 
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