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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AN!) FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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THE OPENING OP 1 SPRING. 
I!Y E. C. HOWE, M. D. 
March hath burst the bars of winter, 
And unloosed the icy chain, 
That so long has linked together 
Brook and river, hill and plain. 
Hark ! a sound like distant thunder 
Rolls along the vale and wood ; 
See above the sky is darkling— 
Now the earth is all aflood. 
’Mid the mountain’s rugged thicket, 
Echoes deep the storm-wind’s roar ; 
And the swollen streamlets dashing, 
Through each narrow channel pour. 
On they ramble, now they tumble 
Over rock and foaming sand, 
With a headlong flight, ingulfing 
Level field and meadow land. 
Bright above the heavens arc glowing ; 
Beauty sparkles all around ; 
Shining river, mountain streamlet, 
Lisp a low and mellow sound. 
On the hill-side flocks are grazing, 
Lambkins frisking on the lea ; 
Merry peasant boy and maiden 
Gaily join in sportive glee. 
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THE CONTESTED WILL; 
OR MINING AND COUNTERMINING 
BY EDWARD WEBSTER, ESQ. 
Men sometimes act very inhumanly towards 
their own flesh and blood. The ties which 
bind the parent to the child, ought to be, and 
generally are, the teuderest and most sacred 
that can exist among mankind ; but they are 
not altogether indissoluble, and instances of the 
abandonment of infants by inhuman mothers, 
and the disinheriting of sons and daughters by 
passionate and hard-hearted fathers, are of far 
too frequent occurrence for the honor of hu¬ 
manity. Although the former crime is the 
most commonly resorted to by females whose 
hearts are desolated by despair, and therefore 
the criminal deserves our commiseration while 
we detest the crime, and the latter can usually 
be laid to the door of wilfulness and disobedi 
ence in children, yet there are instances of 
both where no adequate motive or necessity 
can be pleaded in extenuation. 
Our learned commentator on the law, Judge 
Kent, after glancing at other obligations of 
the parent, says :—“ The remaining branch of 
parental duty, consists in making competent 
provision, according to the condition and cir¬ 
cumstances of the father, for the future wel 
fare and settlement of the child; but this duty 
is not susceptible of municipal regulation, and 
it is usually left to the dictates of reason and 
natural affection. Our laws have not inter¬ 
fered on this point, but have left every man to 
dispose of his property as he pleases ; and to 
point out in his discretion, the path his children 
ought to pursue. A father may at his death 
devise all his estate to strangers, and leave his 
children upon the parish, and the public can 
have no remedy, by way of indemnity, against 
the executor.” The presumption of the law is 
that natural affection will induce parents to 
provide for their own offspring; and yet, in 
spite of all this, the stern realities of life too 
often run counter to these presumptions, bring¬ 
ing in their train misery, destitution, disap¬ 
pointment and despair. 
There resided in New York city, not many 
years ago, a successful merchant named Rich¬ 
ard Smith, who did business in that crowded 
thoroughfare of fashion and folly, Broadway. 
He kept a respectable assortment of fancy 
goods for retail, and made money by the opera¬ 
tion. Trade at that time was conducted on 
somewhat different principles from what it is 
now. A wider range was given to business, 
compared with the amount done, and a few 
gigantic houses like the Stewarts, did not 
as at present, monopolize the principal portion, 
to the obscuration and final extinguishment of 
all lesser lights. Smith resided in a moderate¬ 
ly fashionable street, and occupied a moderately 
fashionable house—just such an one, in fact, 
as comported with his circumstances. The 
lot was of wide dimensions compared with the 
modern twenty-five feet sites wholly taken up 
by a four-story freestone front, which appears 
to extend indefinitely upward towards the sky, 
in order to make amends for the narrowness 
of its base. There was a neat little yard next 
the street, filled with green grass and flowering 
shrubs, and in the rear was a small plot of 
ground occupied by a few dwarf fruit trees of 
choice varieties. The merchant was a happy 
man, so far as it is safe to call any man happy. 
A gentle, loving wife, and two bright little girls, 
graced his dwelling, and made home pleasant. 
When the duties of the day were done, lie would 
hasten thither to taste the sweets of domestic 
life, and, what to him was a pleasure as well 
as a duty, advise and direct the education of 
his children. 
But men are apt to grow more selfish as they 
grow older. The cares and perplexities of 
business eat into the human heart, like canker 
into a rosebud, leaving it too often seared and 
blighted. The earnest effort to secure a com¬ 
petence, not unfrequently glides downward into 
a longing after wealth, and ends at last in a 
passion for hoarding and heaping up useless 
treasure, until that passion becomes overmas¬ 
tering. As the merchant’s business increased 
and prospered, he found his bank balances 
augmenting year by year, until finally, as the 
safest way of keeping the surplus, he from time 
to time invested it in real estate. As alway 
happens in a vigorous and growing community: 
these investments increased in value enormous 
ly ; and ere the sun of life with him had begun 
to decline, he found himself a wealthy man. 
But alas! for the prospects of human happi 
ness—a heavy blow fell upon the merchant 
more afflictive and more terrible than the loss 
of all his property ; and that was the removal 
of his wife by death, leaving the two young 
girls—(hose tender blossoms of an early spring 
—to the care of the father. It is true he loved 
his offspring as well as men generally do ; but 
who of us is competent to fill the place left va¬ 
cant by a mother’s death ? He did what most 
others would have done under the circumstan¬ 
ces,—hired a housekeeper to take charge o 
the family, and perform, so far as a paid agent 
could be expected to do, the duties of a mo 
ther. The girls, by the advice of the house¬ 
keeper, were sent to school,—at first living at 
home, and attending one near at hand,— but 
as time passed, and they grew up, it was urged 
with very specious arguments to the father 
that he should send them away to some higher 
and more distinguished institution, where they 
could acquire all the accomplishments of 
polished education. They were accordingly 
consigned to the preceptress of a boarding' 
school in a distant inland town, where they 
were kept year after year, seldom visiting 
home, and then for very brief periods. It 
true, the school was all that could be desired 
and the young ladies profited by its advantages 
but it is equally true (and what other result 
could be expected) that the long separation of 
the parent and children gradually weakened 
those tender ties that bound them to each other 
Rumor said that the housekeeper was exert¬ 
ing a very powerful and pernicious influence 
over the mind of the merchant. She was 
tall, intellectual-looking woman, with a com' 
manding mien and figure, and an eye that 
seemed, when you gazed into its depths, to burn 
with the brilliancy of fire. There was a cur 
to her lip, and a firmness to her tread, that be 
tokened a masculine spirit; but she possessed 
a grace withal, and a voice trained to a key so 
musical, that one was left in doubt whether 
most to admire or dread. She was a mystery 
to all who knew her, and it was a question 
whether her power over the merchant was the 
effect of love or fear, of fascination or volition 
His intellect, it was intimated, was becoming 
impaired by a too intense and too exclusive 
attention to his business; and bis bodily health 
was manifestly declining very fast. Under 
these circumstances he was induced to close up 
his affairs, sell out his mercantile establish¬ 
ment, which he had an opportunity of doing 
at a round price, and withdraw from all par¬ 
ticipation in active pursuits. 
Now it is a fact, well established both by 
medical testimony and by common experience, 
that nothing tends more surely, and more rap¬ 
idly, to prostrate a business man, than to with¬ 
draw entirely from his accustomed routine of 
duty. The active mind suddenly relieved from 
care, sinks into inanition ; and the tense muscle 
suddenly relaxed, loses its elasticity. Ennui 
and unhappiness always succeed, and not un 
frequently despair and suicide ; the only escape 
for the victim being in his rushing back, ere it 
| be too late, to his original pursuits. Richard 
Smith did not return to his business, but on 
the other hand, shut himself up in his own 
house, was seldom seen by the neighbors, and 
held little communication with his fellow men. 
The housekeeper seemed to be his exclusive 
adviser and confidant, although it was believed 
by many that she had an eye solely toiler own 
advancement. 
Strange and disgraceful rumors at length 
began to float about, and simultaneously with 
these were others calculated to remove the 
odium, like a bane and antidote ministered by 
the same hand. It was stated that a new 
comer had made his appearance at the Smith 
mansion; but at the same time it was alleged 
on the authority of the interested parties, that 
the housekeeper had been made Mrs. Richard 
Smith more than a year before. Certificates 
of marriage signed by an unknown clergyman 
and witnesses, were produced in proof of the 
allegation, and no one seemed disposed to con¬ 
tradict the testimony, however much they 
doubted it at heart. 
But a new act soon after took place in the 
domestic tragedy. The merchant was taken 
more seriously ill, and the medical attendants 
after a consultation with some, of his profes¬ 
sional brethren, announced to him that his 
time on earth was well nigh ended ; that a very 
few days at the longest were allotted to him in 
time, and that, if he had any temporal matter, 
yet unadjusted, it were better to attend to them 
at once. The sick man, however, was so ut¬ 
terly prostrated, both physically and mentally, 
as to have no realizing sense of his situation ; 
but a short time before his decease he rallied 
somewhat, and expressed an earnest desire to 
see his children. The young boy was brought 
into his presence, but the invalid motioned 1 
him away with a gesture of impatience, saying, 
“ My daughters! my daughters, let me see 
them!” 
His wife attempted to soothe his irritation 
by assurances that they had been sent for, and 
would soon be here; but his mind commenced 
wandering from that moment, and he died witli- 
8 I out the gratification of his last wish. The 
daughters arrived on the second day after their 
father’s decease, not having heard of his illness 
until within a few days of his death,—-too late, 
in fact, to reach home before he died. The 
funeral took place with the usual ceremonies; 
the clergyman making it an occasion for en¬ 
forcing a solemn lesson upon the brevity of 
human life, and the certainty of death and 
eternity ; said what he could conscientiously 
in praise of the many virtues of the deceased, 
commended the mourners to the kind care of a 
merciful God, and thereupon all that was mor¬ 
tal of Richard Smith was committed to its 
kindred earth. 
The question then arose in regard to the 
settlement of the estate. The widow was by 
the statute entitled to Letters of- Administra¬ 
tion, and it was kindly suggested that some 
man of integrity and good business qualifica 
tions should be joined with her, not only for 
the protection of her dower interest, but also 
to look after the interests of the children. She, 
however, at once informed these good-natured 
and well-meaning advisers, that she was com¬ 
petent to manage her own affairs ; and coupled 
it with the astounding declaration, that her 
late lamented husband had made a will, where¬ 
by she was constituted not only sole executrix, 
but sole legatee also, with full power and au 
thority to make such provision for the children 
as to her seemed most fit. Of course people 
cried out in just indignation against such an 
outrage, declaring the whole thing a scheme 
concocted by a base and designing woman, to 
rob the children of a former marriage of their 
birthright, and send them forth beggars into 
the world. They asserted and believed that 
undue influences had been brought to bear 
upon the imbecile mind of the testator, indu¬ 
cing him to do an act of disinheritance to his off¬ 
spring, from which his better judgment would 
have revolted with horror. In common with 
right-minded people, all the fast young men 
were peculiarly indignant. They had been 
cruelly disappointed in the expectation that 
two lovely young girls would soon come into 
possession of ample fortunes in their own 
right, as heirs-at-law to Richard Smith, and 
would then stand in need of protectors in the 
shape of husbands. They considered it a per¬ 
sonal wrong done them on the part of the de¬ 
ceased, defrauding them of excellent oppor¬ 
tunities of bettering their own conditions, by 
a matrimonial speculation ; while, at the same 
time, they ignored the fact that all such as 
they are much more likely to break a woman's 
heart than to preserve her fortune. 
[Concluded next week.] 
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FARM FOR SALE. 
A neat farm of 50 acres, in a square form, 2}< miles 
south of the village of Clyde, Wayne county, on the mid¬ 
dle road to Waterloo. In good state of cultivation, well 
watered and fenced. Fair buildings, and superb fruit in 
great abundance. A finer 50 acres can not be found_ 
Terms easy ; price. $55 per aero, if sold before 12th of 
April next. Apply to I.. S. KETCHUM, Clyde, N. Y. 
March 20, 1855. 273-2t 
WESTERN NEW YORK FARM FOR SALE, 
Situated about one mile south of the Chili station, on N. 
Y. Central Railroad, and nine miles west of Rochester. It 
contains 120 acres (including 16 acres of timber,) well 
improved—embracing good buildings, fences, a fine applo 
orchard, &c. There is 37 acres of wheat n®w on the 
ground. Price, $80 per acre ; one half of purchase mo¬ 
ney may remain for a term of yoars. For further partic¬ 
ulars inquire of .1. B. Dewey, Rochester, or of the sub¬ 
scriber on the premises. U. HILL, .JR. 
North Chili, Monroe Co., N. Y., 1855. 373-2t 
CtASFORT ACADEMY. 
WM. CROCKER, Principal ; H. De LAPLACE, Professor of 
Modern Languages ; Miss MARY HILL, Preceptress. 
This Institution is locatod at Gasport, in Niagara Coun¬ 
ty, on the N. Y. Central Railroad, in a healthy rural dis¬ 
trict, and h.os a direct communication with New York 
and Canada. 
The village of Gasport, Ithough on the Railroad, is re¬ 
tired and free from all improper places of resort where 
the morals of the young may be corrupted or bad habits 
formed. The Trustees and Teachers will exert them¬ 
selves to render the situation of the student profitable 
and pleasant. 
Tho Academic year is divided into two torms of twenty 
two weeks each, or four quarters of eleven weeks. The 
next quarter will commence on the 17th of April, 1855, 
and continue to the first of July, when there will be a va¬ 
cation of 8 weeks. Thirty-two dollars, in advance, will 
meet expenses for board and tuition por quarter. 
Gasport, March 26, ’55. [273-t4] J. W. STREETER. 
FAIRFIELD INSTITUTE. 
Rev. J. B. VAN l’ETTEN, A. M., Principal Erect. 
This Institution is located in the healthful and pleasant 
village of Fairfield, Herkimer county. N. Y. The scenery 
around is romantic and delightful, and the State affords 
not a more attractive summer residence. It is seven 
miles from Little Falls, and olevon from Herkimer village, 
on tho N. Y. Contral Railroad, from which students are 
conveyed free of charge on the first day of each term.— 
It has five largo and commodious buildings. Tho Ladies 
building is a line new edifice 120 feet long and 3 stories 
high. Its rooms are ample for two, and tho Institute has 
a pleasant Gymnasium. The Faculty is large and expe¬ 
rienced. Careful attention is given to the comfort, 
health, and morals of tho students. Tho Languages and 
Mathematics are thoroughly attended to, but peculiar 
facilities are ofiered by an extensive apparatus and able 
Lecturer in the experimental sciences. Lectures aro reg¬ 
ularly given simi-monthly, upon the various branches of 
literature. A graduating course is proscribed and when 
completed, Diplomas are conferred. 
Expenses por term, of thirteen weeks, hoard, washing 
and furnished room $22,50. Tuition, from $4 to $6.— 
Ornamental branches at reasonable ratos. Rills payable 
in advance. 
The summer term begins April 25th, 1855. For Cata¬ 
logues or rooms, address the Principal elect. 
J. Mather, Sec. [273-3t] J. SMITH, Prest. 
New Book by Mrs. Stowe. 
THE MAY-FLOWER, 
AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS, 
By Harriet Beecher Stowe, 
Author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” “Sunny Memories of 
Foroign Lands,” &c. 
In me Volume, 12 mo, nearly 500 pp. Price, $1,25. 
With a steel vignetto title, and a splendid portrait, from 
the picture by Richmond, the ceiehratod English artist. 
This volume contains many of the early productions of 
Mrs. Stowe, now out of print, as well as some of her later 
efforts. Many of these aro stories of New England life, 
and will he found to contain in full measure, the aptness 
of epithet, and the mingled humor and pathos for which 
the author is so much admired. 
The sons and daughters of New England, wherever 
they aro scattered, will recognize with delight the home¬ 
ly yet touching fidelity of these sketches. 
Will be Published April 7th. 
XJ 35 ; - Orders from the Trade respectfully solicited. 
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO., Publishers, 
273-2t 13 Winter Street, Boston. 
GENESEE VALLEY NURSERIES. 
A. FROST $ CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y, 
Solicit the attention of amateurs, orchardists, nursery¬ 
men, and others about to plant, to their extensive stock 
of well grown Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, 
Roses, kc., kc. 
The Nurseries are very extensive and embrace one of 
the largest and finest collections in the country, and the 
stock of Trees, Shrubs and Plants is far superior in qual¬ 
ity to that which they have heretofore offered. 
Tho Standard Fruit Trees, Apple, Pear, Cherry, Plum, 
Peach, Nectarine, Apricot, Quince, kc., kc., comprise 
every sort of merit, all of the leading well known vari¬ 
eties, as well as those of recent introduction. 
The Dwarf and Pyramidal Fruit Irees having received 
special attention, aro very fine and a large stock, com¬ 
prising the Pear, worked uDon the best European Quince 
stocks, tho Apple upon Paradise and Doucain stocks, and 
the Cherry upon Cerasus Malialob. 
The Smaller Fruits, Currants, Gooseberries, Foreign 
Grapes, 1 and 2 years old for vineries, and Native sorts; 
Raspberries, Strawberries, kc., kc., in great variety. 
Esculent Roots, as Asparagus, 1, 2 and 3 years old, and 
Rhubarb of best kinds. 
Roses, in the Ornamental part, are a distinct depart¬ 
ment. No care or expense has been spared to make this 
a most prominent feature. Probably no establishment 
in tho United States can claim a larger stock with as 
great a number of choice varieties suitable for cultiva¬ 
tion, to which we add, every season, all kinds that 
havo recently been introduced in Europe, which promise 
to he an acquisition. 
Evergreen and Deciduous Trees for Lawns, Parks 
Streets, &c. 
Evergreen and Deciduous Shrubs in great variety. 
Climbing Shrubs, Vines and Trailing Plants. 
Plants fa- Hedges and Screens. —The Osage Orango, Buck 
thorn and Privet of different ages. Tho Evergreens, Ar¬ 
bor Vitas (White Cedar,) and Norway Spruce of various 
sizes, from 3 inches to 3 feet high, for screens. 
Herbaceous Plants, a very extensive and select assort 
ment. 
Green-House Plants, a large collection, and containing 
many novelties. 
Bed/ling Plants of every description, embracing Dali 
lias, Verbenas, Petunias, Fuchsias, Heliotropes, Salvias, 
Scarlet Geraniums, kc., kc. 
All articles are put up in the most superior manner, so 
that plants, kc., maybe sent thousands of miles, and 
reach their destination in perfect safety. 
Parties giving their orders may roly that they will re¬ 
ceive the most prompt attention, and may depend that 
all articles are selected with tho greatest care, so that 
perfect satisfaction may ho given the purchaser. 
The following doscriptivoCatalogues, containing pr'ces, 
are published for gratuitous distribution, and will be 
mailed upon every application; but correspondents must 
enclose a one cent postage stamp for each Catalogue 
wanted, as it is necessary that the postage should be 
pro-paid : 
No. 1. Descriptivo Catalogue of Fruits for 1855. 
No. 2. Descriptive Catalogue of Ornamental Trees, 
Shrubs, Roses, kc., kc., for 1855. 
No. 3. A Catalogue of Bedding Plants, Dahlias, Verbe¬ 
nas, Petunias, New Roses, &c., issued every spring. 
No. 4. Wholesale Catalogue or Trado List, just publish¬ 
ed for tho fall of 1854 and spring of 1855, comprising 
Fruits, Evergreons, Deciduous Trees, &c., &c., which are 
offered in large quantities. 273-t2 
FORBUSH’S 
IMPROVED MOWING & REAPING MACHINE. 
Manufactured by “ The American Mowing and Reaping 
Machine Company ,” at Buffalo, N. Y. 
This Macnine is warranted to cut from 10 to 15 acres of 
grass or grain per day, with one span of horses, and to 
do the work as well as can be done by any other singio 
or combined machine. It has been in use during the 
three past seasons, has boon thoroughly and satisfactori- 
ally tested ; .and with the prosont improvements, is tho 
most perfect combined machine in tho world. 
Price of tho Mower,.$110 
Do. Mower and Reaper,.130 
Do. Mower and Reaper with Reel,.140 
Terms, Cash in Buffalo. Address all orders, or com¬ 
munications to CHAS. W. SMITH, Sec’y, 
272-3m Buffalo, N. Y. 
TROUBLE, TROUBLE, TOIL AND BUBBLE. 
Baby's got the measles, second boy is droop¬ 
ing ; third one down on trundle bed, with 
dreaded cough is “ whooping.” Mercury 
down to zero, wood pile some below it; man 
tries to be a hero, but feels he cannot “go it.” 
Wife is busy washing a host of dirty “ duds;” 
whilst ever and anon a tear falls silent in the 
suds. Husband rocks the cradle, “ second ” 
on his lap, soothes the “ third ” one with a 
kiss, and hits the fourth a slap. So from mel¬ 
ancholy moans, and starting, troubled dream¬ 
ing, the tune is changed to groans, stifled sobs 
and screaming. Patience all exhausted, he 
roughly speeds the rocking, and jolts the little 
sufferer, with a rudeness that is shocking.— 
Confusion worse confounded ! A neighbor 
ope’s the door, and with voice and face as¬ 
tounded, says, “ Have you heard the price of 
flour?” “ No !” husband loudly halloos; 
“what’s the latest news?” Flour’s thirteen 
dollars ! twelve has been refused.” A scream! 
tis “ Sissy’s ” voice; something’s come 
athwart her. In she comes, all covered o’er 
with blood and dirty water. “ Old Brindle’s 
gored the heifer, broke the yearling’s thigh, 
knocked Sissy down and cut her, and scared a 
passer-by.” Wife sits her down despairing, 
weary of her life; husband nothing caring, 
for the quadrupedal strife,—wonders whether 
Job, the man of many sores, when his wife 
bade him give up, led such a life indoors. 
Meantime the wealthy mother sits in her 
easy-chair, on its rich embroidered cover, mid 
comfort everywhere, and wonders what they 
mean—these people that are poor—prating of 
their troubles, which they think they endure. 
If they only had her trials—knew what she 
underwent, they’d think that all the vials of 
wrath were on them spent;” which sets us 
thinking, reader, that, if rightly estimated, one- 
half of all our sorrows, are sadly overrated.— 
And the moral of our rhyme, though prosily 
it runs, is never borrow trouble, but take it as 
it comes. 
Arrival of Cri-sis and Cri-bub.— We 
clip the following from a country paper—hope 
its patrons will take note: 
“ Five hundred more subscribers wanted, to 
pay heavy additional expenses. An expected 
i-sis has arriv, and it’s no cri sis at all—it’s 
cry -bub.” 
The term “grass widows” arises from the 
fact that their husbands are roving “ blades.” 
CO-PARTNERSHIP. 
C. M. SAXTON, No. 152 Fui.ton Street, lias this day 
associated with himself, as co-partner in tho Publishing 
Business, AUGUSTUS 0. MOORE. 
The business will hereafter he conducted under the 
firm of C. M. SAXTON & CO. 
New York, Fobruary 21st, 1855. 
NEW BOOKS. 
C. M. SAXTON CO., 
Agricultural Book Publishers, Ho. 152 Fulton Street, New 
York, have in press : 
I. 
The Practical Land Drainer; 
Being a Treatise on Draining Land, in which tho most ap¬ 
proved systems of Drainage aro explained, and their 
differences and comparative merits discussed; with full 
Directions for tho Cutting and Making of Drainage, with 
Remarks upon tho various Materials of which they may 
be composed. With many illustrations. By B. Munn, 
Landscape Gardener. Price 50 cents. 
II. 
The Practical Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen Gard¬ 
ener’s Calender. 
By Patrick Neill. Edited by G. Emerson, M. D., Editor 
of “ Johnson’s Farmer’s Encyclopedia.” With Notes 
and Additions, by R. G. Pardee, Author of “ Manual 
of the Strawberry Culture.” With illustrations.— 
Price, $1,25. 
III. 
Downing’s Landscape Gardening. 
C. M. SAXTON k Co., No. 15s Fulton street, have in 
press a new and elegant odition of a treatise on the The 
ory and Practice of 
LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Adapted to North America, with a view to the Improve 
inent of Country Residences, comprising Historical No 
tices and Genoral Principles of tho Art. Directions for 
Laying OutGrounds, and Arranging Plantations, tho De¬ 
scription and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, Doeoration 
Accompaniments to tho House and Ground, the Forma¬ 
tion of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, etc., 
with Remarks on Rural Architecture, by A. J. Down¬ 
ing. Price, $3.50. 
JUST PUBLISHED. 
Youatt and Martin on the Hog. 
A Treatise on the Breeds, Management, and Medical Treat¬ 
ment of Swiuo, with directions for salting Pork,and Cur¬ 
ing Bacon and Hams. By Wm. Youatt, R. S. Illus¬ 
trated with engravings drawn from life. Edited by 
Ambrose Stevens. Price, 75 cents. 
Pardee on Strawberry Culture. 
A Complete Manual for the Cultivation of the Strawberry; 
with a description of the best varieties. 
Also, Notices of tho Raspborry, Blackberry, Currant, 
Gooseberry, and Grapo ; with directions for tlioir cul¬ 
tivation, and the selection of tho best varieties. “Every 
process here recommended has been proved, tho plans 
of others tried, ami the result is here given.” With a 
valuable Appendix, containing tho observations and 
experience of some of the most successful cultivators of 
these fruits in our country. Price, 50 cents. 
Elliot’s American Fruit-Grower’s Guide in 
Orchard and Garden; 
Being a Compend of the History, Modes of Propagation, 
Culture, kc., of Fruit, Trees, and Shrubs, with descrip¬ 
tions of nearly all tho varieties of Fruits cultivated in 
this country ; and Notos of their adaptation to locali¬ 
ties, soils, and a complete list of Fruits worth of culti¬ 
vation. By F. R. Elliott, Pomologist. Price, $1,26. 
ftYV^The above Books will bo sent, postage paid, to any 
part of the Union. 273-2t 
A RARE OFFER. 
Two Farms, pleasantly situated on the Sodus Plank 
Road, within a mile of tho village of Geneva ; one of 136 
acres, (25 in wood,) witli new liouso and barn, prico $65 
por acre—$8,740 ; ono 180 acres, (33 in wood,) with good 
farm house, 2 largo barns, stables and stalls for 30 cows, 
at $70 per acre—$12,600. Both have springs in tho yard 
—land excellent (and in good cultivation) for grass and 
grain—abundantly watered from living springs—fences 
mostly of boards, with red cedar posts—all in good order. 
Will bo sold together or separate, and possession given 
immediately. Terms liberal. THOMAS D. BURR ALL. 
Geneva, N. Y., March 5, 1855. 271-4t 
CLAIMS, CLAIMS, CLAIMS. 
The undersigned respectfully informs the public that 
he has made arrangements with competent counsel at 
Washington city, for the prosecuting of claims against tho 
Government. 
By an Act of Congress, a Court of Claims has been es¬ 
tablished at Washington city for tho purpose of adjusting 
private claims against the United States. Tho under¬ 
signed having made all necessary arrangements for pros¬ 
ecuting all claims before this Court, oilers induocmeuts 
to the public that is seldom presented. 
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