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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
AUGUST 16. 
PHANTOMS. 
BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 
All houses wherein men have lived and died, 
Are haunted houses. Through the open doors, 
The harmless phantoms on their errands glide ; 
With feet that make no noise upon the floors. 
We meet them at the doorway, on the stair, 
Along the passages they come and go, 
Impalpable impressions on the air, 
A sense of something moving to and fro. 
There are more guests at table than the hosts 
Invited the illuminated hall 
Is thronged with quiet inoffensive ghosts, 
As silent as the pictures on the wall. 
The stranger at my fireside cannot see 
The forms I see, nor hear the sounds I hear ; 
He but perceives what is ; while unto me 
All that has been is visible and clear. 
We have no title-deeds to house or lands ; 
Owners and occupants of earlier dates 
From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands 
And hold in mortmain still their old estates. 
The spirit world around this world of sense 
Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere 
Wafts thro’ these earthly mists and vapors dense 
A vital breath of more etherial air. 
Our little lives are kept in equipoise 
By opposite attractions and desires ; 
The struggle of the instinct that eDjoys, 
And the more noble instinct that aspires. 
The perturbations, the perpetual jar 
Of earthly wants and aspirations high, 
Come from the influence of that unseen star, 
That undiscovered planet in our sky. 
And as the moon from some dark gate of cloud 
Throws o’er the sea a floating bridge of light, 
Across whose trembling planks our fancies crowd 
Into the realm of mystery and night; 
So from the world of spirits there descends 
A bridge of light, connecting it with this, 
O’er whose unsteady floor, that sways and bends, 
Wander our thoughts above the dark abyss. 
itife’u limn*. 
THE TILLAGE PRIZE. 
A TALE OP WASHINGTON’S YOUTH. 
lx one of the loveliest villages of old Vir¬ 
ginia there lived in the year 175-, an old man, 
whose daughter was declared, by universal 
consent, to be the loveliest maiden in all the 
country round. The veteran, in his youth, had 
been athletic and muscular above all his fel¬ 
lows ; and his breast, where he always wore 
them, could show the adornment of three med¬ 
als, received for his victories in gymnastic feats 
when a young man. His daughter was now 
eighteen, and had been sought in marriage by 
many suitors. One brought wealth—another a 
fine person—another this, another that. But 
they were all refused by the old man, who be¬ 
came at last a byword for his obstinacy, among 
the young men of the village and neighborhood. 
At length the nineteenth birth-day of An¬ 
nette, his charming daughter, who was as amia¬ 
ble and modest as she was beautiful, arrived._ 
The morning of that day her father invited all 
the youth of the country to a hay-making frolic. 
Seventeen handsome and industrious young 
men assembled. They came not only to make 
hay, but also to make love to the fair Annette. 
In three hours they had filled the father’s barns 
with the newly-dried grass, and their own 
hearts with love. Annette, by her father’s com¬ 
mand, had brought the malt liquor of her own 
brewing, which she presented to each enamored 
swain with her own fair hands. 
“ Now, my boys,” said the old keeper of the 
jewel they all coveted, as leaning on their pitch- 
forks they all assembled round the door in the 
cool of the evening, “now, my lads, you have 
nearly all of you made proposals for my An¬ 
nette. Now, you see, I don’t care anything 
about money or talents, book-larning nor sol- 
dier-larning. I can do as well by my gal as 
any man in the country. But I want her to 
marry a man of my own grit. Now, you know, 
or ought to know, when I was a youngster, I 
could beat anything in all Virginny in the way 
o’ leaping. I got my old woman by beating 
the smartest man on the Eastern Shore, and I 
have took the oath and sworn it, that no man 
shall marry my daughter without jumping for 
it. You understand me, boys. There’s the 
green, and here’s Annette,” he added, taking 
his daughter, who stood timidly behind him, by 
the hand. “ Now, the one that jumps the farth¬ 
est on a ‘ dead level,’ shall marry Annette this 
very night.” 
This unique address was received by the 
young men with applause. And many a youth 
of trial, cast a glance of anticipated victory back 
upon the lovely object of village chivalry. The 
maidens left their looms and quilting-frames, 
the children their noisy sports, the slaves their 
labors, and the old men their arm-chairs and 
long pipes, to witness and triumph in the suc¬ 
cess of the victor. All prophesied and wished 
that it would be young Carroll. He was the 
handsomest and best humored youth in the 
country, and all knew that a strong mutual at¬ 
tachment existed between him and the fair An¬ 
nette. Carroll had won the reputation of being 
the “ best leaper,” and in a country where such 
athletic achievements were the sine qua non of 
a man's cleverness, this was no ordinary honor. 
The arena allotted for this hymenial contest 
was a level space in front of the village inn, and 
near the centre of a grass plat, reserved in the 
midst of the village, denominated the “green.” 
The verdure was quite off at this place by pre¬ 
vious exercises of a similar kind, and a hard 
surface of sand, more befitting for the purpose 
for which it was to be used, supplied its place. 
The father of the lovely, blushing, and withal 
happy prize, (for she well knew who would 
win,) with three other patriarchal villages were 
the judges appointed to decide upon the Claims 
of the several competitors. The last time Car- 
roll tried his skill in this exercise, he “ cleared,” 
to use the leaper’s phraseology, twenty-one feet 
and one inch. 
The signal was given, and by lot the young 
men stepped into the arena. 
“Edward Grayson,seventeen feet,”cried one 
of the judges. The youth had done his utmost. 
He was a pale, intellectual student. But what 
had intellect to do in such an arena ? Without 
a look at the maiden, he left the ground. 
“Dick Bouldeu, nineteen feet 1” Dick, with 
a laugh, turned away, and replaced his coat, 
“Harry Preston, nineteen feet and three 
inches.” “ Well done, Harry Preston !” shout¬ 
ed the spectators, “you have tried hard for the 
acres and homestead.” 
Harry also laughed, and declared he only 
jumped for the fun of the thing. Harry was a 
rattle-brain fellow, but never thought of matri¬ 
mony. He loved to walk, and talk, and laugh, 
and romp with Annette, but sober marriage 
never came into his head. He only jumped for 
the fun of the thing. He would not have said 
so, if he were sure of winning. 
“ Charley Simms, fifteen feet and a half.”— 
“Hurra for Charley ! Charley’ll win 1” cried the 
crowd, good humoredly. Charley Simms was the 
cleverest fellow in the world. His mother ad¬ 
vised him to stay at home, and told him if he 
ever won a wife, she would fall in love with his 
good temper rather than his legs. Chailey, 
however, made the trial of the latter’s capabili¬ 
ties and lost. Many refused to enter the list 
altogether. Others made the trial, and only 
one of the leapers had yet cleared twenty feet. 
“Now,” cried the villagers, “let’s see Harry 
Carroll. He ought to beat this,” and every one 
appeared, as they called to mind the mutual 
love of the last competitor and the sweet An¬ 
nette, as if they heartily wished his success. 
Hc-nry stepped to his post with a firm tread. 
His eye glanced with confidence around upon 
the villagers, and rested, before he bounded 
forward, upon the face of Annette, as if to catch 
therefrom that spirit and assurance which the 
occasion called for. Returning the encourag¬ 
ing glance with which she met his own, with a 
proud smile upon his lip, he bounded forward. 
“Twenty-one feet and a half!” shouted the 
multitude, repeating the announcement of one 
of the judges — “ twenty-one feet and a half,_ 
Harry Carroll forever ! Annette and Harry !” 
Hands, caps and handkerchiefs waved over the 
heads of the spectators, and the eyes of the de¬ 
lighted Annette sparkled with joy. 
When Harry Carroll moved to his station to 
strive for the prize, a tall, gentlemanly young 
man, in a military undress frock-coat, who had 
rode up to the inn, dismounted and joined the 
spectators, unperceived, while the contest was 
going on, stepped suddenly forward, and with a 
knowing eye measured deliberately the space 
accomplished by the last leaper. He was a 
stranger in the village. His handsome face and 
easy address attracted the eyes of the village 
maidens, and his manly and sinewy frame, to 
which symmetry and strength were happily 
united, called forth the admiration of the young 
men. 
“ Mayhap, sir stranger, you think you can 
beat that ? ’ said one of the by-standers, remark¬ 
ing the manner in which the eye of the stranger 
scanned the arena. “If you can lenp beyond 
Henry Carroll, you’ll beat the best man in the 
Colonies.” The truth of this observation was 
assented to by a general murmur. 
“ Is it for mere amusement you are pursuing 
this pastime ?" inquired the youthful stranger, 
“ or is there a prize for the winner ?" 
“Annette, the loveliest and wealthiest of our 
village maidens is to be the reward of the vic¬ 
tor,” cried one of the judges. 
“ Are the lists open to all ?” 
“All young, sir !” replied the father of An¬ 
nette, with interest, his youthful ardor rising as 
he surveyed the proportions of the straight- 
limbed young stranger. “She is the bride of 
him who out-leaps Henry Carroll. If you will 
try you are free to do so. But let me tell you, 
Henry Carroll has no equal in Virginia. Here 
is my daughter, sir, look at her, and make your 
trial.” 
The officer glanced upon the trembling maid¬ 
en about to be offered on the altar of her father’s 
monomania with an admiring eye. The poor 
girl looked at Harry, who stood near with a 
troubled brow and an angry eye, and then cast 
upon the new competitor an imploring glance 
Placing his coat in the hands of one of the 
judges, he drew a sash he wore beneath it 
tighter round his waist, and taking the ap¬ 
pointed stand, made, apparently without effort, 
the bound that was to decide the happiness or 
misery of Henry and Annette. 
“ Twenty-two feet and an inch 1” shouted the 
judge. The shout was repeated with surprise 
by the spectators, who crowded around the vic¬ 
tor filling the air with congratulations, not un¬ 
mingled, however, with loud murmurs from 
those who were more nearly interested in the 
happiness of the lovers. 
The old man approached, and grasping his 
hand exultingly, called him his son, and said 
he felt prouder of him than if he were a prince. 
Physical activity and strength were the old 
leaper’s true patents of nobility. 
Resuming his coat, the victor sought, with 
his eye, the fair prize he had, although name¬ 
less and unknown, so fairly won. She leaned 
upon her father’s arm, pale and distressed. 
Her lover stood aloof, gloomy and mortified, 
admiring the superiority of the stranger in an 
exercise in which he prided himself as unri¬ 
valled, while he hated him for his success. 
“Annette, my pretty prize,” said the victor, 
taking her passive hand, “ I have won you fair- 
1 y-” 
Annette’s cheek became paler than marble ; 
she trembled like an aspen leaf; and clung 
closer to her father, while the drooping eye 
sought the form of her lover. His brow grew 
dark at the stranger’s language. 
“ 1 have won you, my pretty flower, to make 
you a bride—tremble not so violently,—I mean 
not myself, however proud I ought to be,” ad¬ 
ded he, with gallantry, “to wear so fair a,gem 
next to my heart. Perhaps,” and he cast his 
eyes inquiringly, while the current of life leaped 
joyfully to her brow, and a murmur of surprise 
ran through the crowd, “ perhaps there is some 
favored youth among the crowd who has a 
higher claim to this jewel. Young Sir,” he 
continued, turning to the surprised Henry, “ me- 
thinks you were the victor in the list before me ; 
I strove not for the maiden, though one could 
not well strive for a fairer—but from love for the 
manly sport in which I saw you engaged. You 
are the victor, and as such, with the permission 
of this worthy assembly, you receive from my 
hand the prize you have so well and honorably 
won.” 
The youth sprang forward and grasped his 
hand with gratitude, and the nextmoment An- 
nette was weeping for pure joy upon his shoul¬ 
der. The welkin rung with the acclamations 
of the delighted villagers, and amid the tem¬ 
porary excitement produced by this act, the 
stranger withdrew from the crowd, mounted his 
horse and spurred him at a brisk trot through 
the village. 
That night Henry and Annette were mar¬ 
ried, and the health of the mysterious and 
noble-hearted stranger was drank in overflow¬ 
ing bumpers of rustic beverage. 
In process of time, there were born unto the 
married pair sons and daughters, and Henry 
Carroll had become Col. Henry Carroll of the 
Revolutionary army. 
One evening, having just returned home after 
a hard campaign, he was sitting with his fami¬ 
ly on the gallery of his handsome country 
house, when an advance courier rode up and an¬ 
nounced the approach of Gen. Washington and 
suit, informing him that he should crave his hos¬ 
pitality for the night. The necessary directions 
were given in reference to the household prep¬ 
arations, and Col. Carroll, ordering his horse, 
rode forward to meet and escort to his house the 
distinguished guest, whom he had never yet 
seen, although serving in the same widely- 
extended army. 
That evening, at the table, Annette, now be¬ 
come the dignified, matronly and still hand¬ 
some Mrs. Carroll, could not keep her eyes 
from the face of her illustrious visitor. Every 
moment or two she would steal a glance at his 
commanding features, and half doubtingly, half 
assuredly, shake her head and look again, to be 
still more puzzled. Her absence of mind and 
embarrassment at length became evident to 
her husband, who inquired, affectionately, if 
she were ill. » 
“I suspect, Colonel,” said the General, who 
had been some time, with a quiet, meaning 
smile, observing the lady’s curious and puzzled 
survey of his features — “ that Mrs. Carroll 
thinks she recoguizes in me an old acquaint¬ 
ance.” And he smiled with a mysterious air, 
as he gazed upon both alternately. 
The Colonel started, and a faint memory of 
the past seemed to be revived as he gazed 
while the lady rose impulsively from her chair 
and bending eagerly forward over the tea-ur 
with clasped hands, and an eye of intense, ea 
ger inquiry, fixed full upon him, stood for 
moment with her lips parted, as if she would 
speak. 
“ Pardon me, my dear madam, pardon me.— 
Colonel, I must put an end to this scene, 
have become, by dint of camp-fare and hard 
usage, too unwieldy to leap again twenty-two 
feet and one inch, even for so fair a bride as one 
I wot off.” 
The recognition, with the surprise, delight 
and happiness that followed, are left to the im 
agination of the reader. 
Genei’al^ Washington was indeed the hand 
some youftg “leaper,” whose mysterious ap 
pearauce and disappearance in the nativ 
village of the lovers, is still traditionary—whose 
claim to a substantial body of bona fide flesh 
and blood was stoutly contested by the village 
story-tellers, until the happy denouement which 
took place at the hospitable mansion of Colonel 
Carroll. 
tnitirt'. 
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How can a man who has no wings be said to 
be “ winged” in an affair of honor ? Because 
in fighting a duel he makes a goose of himself. 
The man who “ shot at random” and did not 
t it, has since lent b 
aimed at immortality. 
'uutl/s fern. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. - 
I am composed of 27 letters. 
My 9, 25, 12, 16, 15 we could not do without. 
My 24, 6, 17 is a small animal. 
m Y 3, 11, 24, 3, 20 is an unwelcome visitor. 
My 23,14, 10, 7 is a kind of bird. 
My 18,1, 22 is a kind of fodder. 
My 7,13, 15 is a female of a religious sect. 
My 19, 21, 11, 3, 7 is a name. 
My 4,19, 2, 5 is a Christian duty. 
My 27, 3, 10 is a farmer’s tool. 
My whole is a saying of the wise man. 
L. F. M. 
Answer next week. 
I’m the greatest in England, as all must allow, 
Aud without me, Victoria had never been queen. 
Yet in face I am small, and in stature am low. 
And in trouble and poverty constantly seen. 
In the Houses of Parliament day after day, 
With patience unwearied I sit with the peers ; 
The Commons caD get on without me, they say. 
^ et I always assist iu their speeches aud cheers, 
I am ever in debt, and yet no man believes. 
He can manage without me a fortune to save ; 
I’m the constant companion of gamblers aud thieves, 
Aud share with the felon his death and his grave. 
In all the scenes of bloodshed and strife I am found ; 
In the tent with the soldier I fearlessly dwell 
Yet in temperance, leisure, arid peace I abound. 
Now my character write, and my name you will tell 
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mail, estimates for putting up our apparatus, to all who will 
send us drawings showing ground plan of their Green Houses 
. niJ „ CHAPIN, TREADWELL A CO. 
Springfield, Mass 24, 1856 
We take pleasure in recommending, unqualifiedly to the 
public, the V arming Apparatus referred to above by Messrs. 
Chapin, Treadwell A CO. Wo cousider it perfect for the 
purpose designed, and have warmed our Green Houses in this 
manner during trie past severe winter, having no trouble in 
keeping the houses as warm as we desired, while the ther¬ 
mometer ranged from 15 to 24 degrees below zero outside and 
the fuel consumed, has been less than that required anv nrevi 
ous season B. K. BUSS & HAVEN 
bpnugfield, Mass., May 24, 1856. 335w26 
Voltaire’s Riddle,— What is the longest, and 
yet the shortest thing in the world ; the swift¬ 
est and the most slow ; the most divisible and 
the most extended ; the least valued and the 
most regretted ; without which nothing can be 
done ; which devours everything, however 
small, and yet gives life and spirit to every ob¬ 
ject, however great ? 
Answer next week. 
Answer to Geographical Enigma in No. 344 : 
Good breeding is the blossom of good sense. 
Answer to Algebraical Problem in No. 344 • 
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