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fi’S RURAL NEW-YORKER! AN AGRICULTURAL LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
Writes** for Moore’o Rural New-Youter;. 
UNWRITTEN MUSIO. 
IIT IDA FAIRFIEUX 
This earth is filled with melody. 
Unknown, unwritten though it be, 
Too oft unheeded is the song, 
■Which unto nature’s choir belongs ; 
Nor hear we, as we hurry on. 
The silvery sweetness of its tone, 
E’en flowers breathe softly os they die,. 
A iow, delicious harmony. 
A glen, exultant peal rings out. 
Where merry playmates whoop and shout, 
Where childhood’s joyous laugh is heard, 
Or carol of the untamed bird ; 
Where lions roar through jungles wide, 
Or neighs the wild horse in his pride ; 
Where leaps the cascade bold and free, 
Or sings the swift wind in its glee. 
And mournful music fills the vale 
Where rustic leaves on autumn’s gale— 
Where ’mid the sighing of the pines, 
The sobbing streamlet slowly winds 
Through tangled fern and mosses grey, 
Where sleeps the hoot-owl all the day, 
The beetle whirrs his flight alone, 
And pheasants drum in drowsy tone. 
A solemn psalm ascends on high, 
When storm and tempest rend the sky, 
Howling through caverns dark and wide. 
Razing the strong, old forest’s pride ; 
When booms the thunder o’er the skies, 
And the lone sea-bird shrieking flies, 
While the vast ocean’s mighty roar 
Swells like an anthem to the shore. 
Where never human foot has trod, 
Or human soul looked up to God, 
On lonely mountains, sea-girt isles, 
Where endless summer blooms and smiles, 
There breathes thro’ nature’s vast domain 
Of ocean, hill and boundless plain, 
Wherever sun or star may shine, 
The soul of harmony divine. 
Independence, N. Y., 1855. 
For Moore’s Rural New Yorker. 
THE WESTERN PIONEERS, 
Or Success and Failure. 
BY KDWARD WEBSTER. 
“ I cannot see what pleasure you lind in 
eternally poring over these books,—while we 
are having such glorious times after our day’s 
work is over ; here you are shut up like a 
snail in his shell, never getting more than head 
and shoulders outside. Night before last we 
were out fishing until twelve o’clock ; last 
night we went on a boat excursion with the 
girls, and to-night we are to have a whist par¬ 
ty and a dance at Letty Janes’. She was 
one of our party, and invited us all up. I am 
sorry you were not along, as I urged you, so 
as to have an invitation also.” 
«It is just as well, as I could not accept if I 
had one. For a week past I have been trying 
at every leisure moment, to solve a difficult 
problem in Day's Algebra, and have at last 
hit upon the right solution. The equation is 
now formed, and I am sure of the result. 
“Nonsense to that, I say ! What benefit 
or what pleasure is there in filling one’s head 
with such stuff! and besides, if it takes a week 
to solve one problem, how long do you sup¬ 
pose it will take you to go through the entire 
book V 
“ I am not often a week on a single problem, 
but this has been a poser ; and as none of our 
fellow workmen are familiar with the science, 
I can get no help from them. The Principal 
of the Academy has kindly assisted me over 
two or three hard spots, but 1 would rather 
not call oa him unnecessarily. It takes lon¬ 
ger I know, but once over the matter alone I 
understand it all the better.” 
“ And you expect to go through that Alge¬ 
bra alone do you ?” 
“ Yes ; why not ? Since we have been 
here, now three years, I have mastered the 
Arithmetic which I only half understood at 
school. I have perused carefully a treatise on 
book keeping by double entry; thoroughly 
studied text books on Natural Philosophy, 
Chemistry and Botany, and, besides keeping 
posted up in the news of the day, I have read 
a history of the United States, a history of 
England, and a Universal history in ten vol¬ 
umes. All this has been done besides attend¬ 
ing to my work, and during the hours in which 
you and the others are having such glorious 
times, as you call them. My enjoyments may 
be less boisterous than yours, but I venture to 
say they are equally as great.” 
“ Ephraim is joined to his idols, let him 
alone,” responded the other in a tone of mock 
Solemnity, and withdrew. 
The above colloquy passed between two 
young journeymen mechanics, who were labor¬ 
ing in the same shop in a little inland town in 
one of the older States. There was in the 
place a pleasant society of young people of va¬ 
rious abilities and character ; but there was 
not population enough, nor wealth enough, to 
break them up into sets ; and the children of 
the lawyer aDd merchant met on terms of tol¬ 
erable equality with those of the journeyman 
mechanic and the young farmer. Differences 
in intellectual attainments and personal attrac¬ 
tions existed it is true. Nature forms the hu¬ 
man body more or less beautiful, and the hu¬ 
man mind more or less acute; and industry 
properly directed and opportunities improved 
causes one, no more brilliant in the outset, to 
rise above his fellows. We are too apt, how¬ 
ever, to mistake the causes, and to refer to 
natural abilities vhat is due to mental disci¬ 
pline. How often do we ascribe an acute 
mind, a retentive memory, a logical habit of 
thinking and speaking, to innate qualities in¬ 
stead of to the results of intense study. 
Silas Dean was one of those rare and in¬ 
dustrious youDg men occasionally to be met 
with in the humblest walks of life. Few as 
his opportunities were, he was making the 
most of them, and laying a sure foundation for 
an honorable position in the world's esteem.— 
Modest and unobtrusive, he was disposed to 
withdraw from, rather than to challenge admi¬ 
ration ; and hence, in the society of the giddy 
ai d thoughtless, he was frequently eclipsed by 
rattling, shallow and handsome coxcombs like 
his fellow workman, Lester Daniels. The 
latter was a kind hearted and companionable 
young man, however, and a feeling of cordial 
friendship existed between them. Both were 
brought up together, both nearly of the same 
age, and each felt a sincere desire for the oth¬ 
er’s welfare. The former, who saw clearly the 
advantages under all circumstances, of a mind 
well stored with useful knowledge, tried hard 
to win his comrade over to his own way of 
thinking and acting. Young Daniels pre¬ 
ferred the evanescent pleasures of the passing 
hour, to his own future usefulness and well 
being. 
Time sped on, and the young men became 
mature in years. Each married the girl of his 
heart, assimilated in both instances in tastes 
and habits to the men who chose them.— 
Dean’s wife was a sensible, quiet girl, not pe¬ 
culiarly beautiful, but good looking, and pos¬ 
sessed of a heart overflowing with every good 
quality that makes the true woman really the 
better portion of humanity. Daniel’s wife 
was brilliant but flashy and vain, empty of 
head and frivolous of heart. She could com¬ 
mand partners at a ball and elicit admiration 
at a party, but she could not content herself 
nor make a husband contented with a humble 
and quiet hearthstone. 
Neither of the young men possessed sufficient 
capital to embark in business on his own ac¬ 
count, and fortunate it was for them perhaps, 
that it was so ; for a pecuniary crisis speedily 
fell upon the country, which in too many in¬ 
stances, swept away in a season, the slow and 
painful accumulations for years. Some laid 
the sad reverses to over-tradiDg and specula¬ 
tion ; some to a reduction of the tariff; some 
to the vetoing of a United Stales Bank. Each 
class of politicians had its own peculiar theory, 
and was anxious for office in order to apply 
the proper correctives in State policy, and 
pocket the emoluments. Let the causes have 
been what they may, the consequences were 
unmistakable, and bankruptcy overtook many 
a business man, the dark shadows of which 
haunted him to his grave ; or if still alive, yet 
hang over him in the shape of uncompromised 
debts and unsatisfied judgments. The busi¬ 
ness which the young journeymen pursued was 
ruined irretrievably ; and after trying in vain 
to obtain employment at their trade, they de¬ 
termined to abandon it and seek in some 
other channel the means of subsistence. But 
what should it be? was the question. Other 
employments were equally suffering, and the 
door was consequently shut against them in all 
the departments of industry. Fortunately for 
our countrymen who have stroeg hands and 
brave hearts, there were then, as there are 
now, broad fields for labor open at the West; 
a land rich in every element of prosperity, and 
only awaiting the hand of honest industry, to 
transmute them into gold ; or if not into gold, 
something better than gold,—fields laden with 
a golden harvest, orchards groaning with their 
weight of fruit, broad landscapes musical with 
the lowing of herds and the bleating of flocks. 
Our heroes emigrated to the West, and 
pitched their tents in Northern Indiana, then 
a wilderness overgrown with one of the densest 
forests ever seen. They squatted on govern¬ 
ment land, a*d claimed the right of pre-emption 
whenever it should be surveyed and offered for 
sale. But how was the dollar and a quarter 
per acre to be obtained? Very little money 
was in circulation in that region then, and 
what was brought in by immigrants found its 
way into the government treasury iu payment 
for land, and was returned again to the East. 
No market was afforded for produce,—the 
lines of public improvement since constructed 
were then scarcely thought of, much less be¬ 
gun. A bushel of wheat had to be exchanged 
for five pounds of sugar, or four ounces of tea ; 
neat cattle were driven on foot a thousand 
miles to market, the cost of which was nearly 
equal to their value. The dense, dark forest 
closed around our emigrants, and seemed to 
shut them out forever from the society of their 
fellow men. 
Two years’ struggling with difficulties in 
their new home decided the destiny of both.— 
Daniels and his wife became discouraged, 
yielded in the contest, packed up the most val¬ 
uable of their household goods in a rickety 
wagon, and betook themselves with their chil¬ 
dren, sick and despondent, back again to the 
oJd State, poorer than when they left, and 
thoroughly disgusted with a life at ihe West. 
“It would never,” he said, “ be anything but 
a wilderness inhabited by wolves and musqui- 
toes ; and the only consolation any one living 
there could have, would be the comfortable 
warmtb of a fever after the freezing of an ague 
fit. For his own part, he chose to go back 
where, at least, he could have the satisfaction 
of seeing a man’s face once in three months.” 
He lives at this time near his early home, a 
day laborer at his former trade, and pays two 
dollars and fifty cents a bushel tor the wheat 
that supplies him with his daily bread. His 
children, it is true, are not a burden to him 
now ; two of them are dead, and the third ran 
away to sea. Whether he will ever rise above 
the condition of a common sailor, at sixteen 
dollars a month, can be answered in light of 
the facts that he is a stalwart, able-bodied sea¬ 
man, great at belaying a rope and reefing a 
mainsail, and- nothingmore ! In bis youth, 
like his father, he could see no use of mental 
culture, and consequently in his manhood, he 
can no more take an observation with a sex¬ 
tant, calculate a ship’s longilude, or keep a 
log, than he can translate into English the doc¬ 
trines of Confucius. 
But in the meantime how prospered it with 
Dean ? Both he ai-.d his wife were of the right 
stamp to meet the exigencies of the case ; in 
telligent, energetic and persevering, they cast 
about them earnestly for the means of clearing 
the land, and gaining a comfortable livelihood 
After looking well over the ground, and con¬ 
sidering the subject in all its forbidding as¬ 
pects, Dean’s knowledge ot chemistry came in 
opportunely to his aid. He erected a rude log 
manufactory, hired a rough specimen of a pio¬ 
neer to assist him, and then set to work felling 
the forest and burning the huge logs into ashes 
These he leached, boiled the liquid down into 
potash, and manufactured the product iuto sal- 
eratus. It proved a fortunate and profitable 
undertaking ; his land was cleared, and the 
manufactured article at that time scarce and 
valuable through all the West, brought a price 
even in cash that would now astonish the man¬ 
ufacturer of “ Babbett's best.” His wife, after 
a little instruction, was enabled to direct the 
labors of the half-savage Indianian, while her 
husband, first traveling on foot and afterwards 
on horseback, sold the manufactured article 
through the wide scattered settlements. As 
the forest slowly receded from the immediate 
neighborhood of his humble home, and the 
blackened stumps remained the only monu¬ 
ments of its fallen greatness, the bearded wheat 
and the rustling corn succeeded in its stead. 
An apple and a peach orchard, reared from the 
seed wisely brought along with them at their 
first coming, speedily came into bearing, and 
plenty began to smile within and around the 
dwelling. A careful attention to the draining 
of wet places in the vicinity, the extermination 
of a rank growth of poisonous plants, and oth¬ 
er sanitary measures suggested by the general 
knowledge of our pioneer, soon put to flight 
the ague and other similar scourges of all new 
countries. Among the minor details, but one 
of the most effective in this respect, was a sim¬ 
ple filter of charcoal dust, through which the 
water used by the family was made to perco¬ 
late and trickle into a rude basin placed be¬ 
low, as limpid as the purest dew that ever 
kissed the lips of Aurora. Ilis knowledge of 
botany disclosed to him the medicinal proper¬ 
ties of plants, and supplied the place of many 
a deadly mineral and drug. 
Brighter pecuniary prospects also, opened 
upon the settlers day by day. The Wabash 
canal was first talked of, then entered upon, 
then completed. It provided them with 
market only forty miles distant. A plank 
road speedily furnished the connection, and 
very soon thereafter the first line of the Mich¬ 
igan Southern railroad was constructed. At 
the present time of writing, the Northern In¬ 
diana Railroad Company are straightening 
their line, so that the main trunk of that gigan¬ 
tic thoroughfare, with an important railroad 
station, is located within half a mile of Dean’s 
new dwelling. Wood and timber, which a 
dozen years ago were incumbrances upon his 
hands, are now immensely valuable as articles 
of traffic. The produce of his farm brings un¬ 
precedented prices in cash at his very door, 
the country around is filled with a thriving 
population, and one unacquainted with the 
history of that region would declare, as he 
looked upon the waving harvests and the 
fruitful orchards, the fine dwellings of the 
farmers and the giant works of internal im¬ 
provement, that the country had been settled 
two centuries at least. Dean is wealthy, but 
what is far better, he commands the respect 
and confidence of his fellow citizens, is blessed 
in his household relations, and is rearing up 
a family that will be a joy to their parents and 
an honor to their country. 
A Vermont Judge. —In Vermont, they 
elect ornamental judges, who are ui-ed as a 
sort of ballast for the bench. An old fellow, 
a few years ago, was elected side-judge iu one 
of the county couris of that State, and as he 
■was not well versed in legal lore, he called on 
a friend of his, who had served in that capacity 
for a number of years, to make some inquiries 
concerning the duties of the office. To his 
interrogatories the reply was :—“ Sir, I have 
filled this important and honorable office seve¬ 
ral years, but have never been consulted with 
regard to but one question. On the last day 
of the spring term, 184-, the judge, after lis¬ 
tening to three or four windy pleas of an 
hour’s length each, turned to me, and whisper¬ 
ed—‘ C., 7sn’t this bench 7nade of hard wood V 
and 1 told him I rather thought it was/” 
If you wish to know yourself, look, when 
you travel, at the tombs which border the 
road. There rest the bones and light ashes of 
kings, tyrants and wise men—of all those who 
w’ere proud of their birth, their wealth, their 
glory and their beauty. None of these ad¬ 
vantages saved them from death ; all share the 
same sepulchre.— Menander. 
Shinning it to all Eternity. — One of our 
big speculators in real estate met a friend and 
relative in the street-, a few days since, when 
the following dialogue took place : 
“ How do you do, O ?” 
“ Not very -well, Ez.” 
“ Why, wliat’s the matter ? you should be 
in good spirits ; money is getting easier ; lots 
are gradually rising.” 
1 Well, tisn’t that altogether. 1 was down 
in S.’s office a whole hour to-day. We were 
talking about the other world. You know he 
is Swedenborgian. lie says we will be doing 
the same kind of work in the next world, that 
we have been engaged in here. 1 tell you, 
Ez, that’s what makes me feel bad. I have 
been shinning it and shinning it here for the 
last twenty years, and I’ll be hanged if I like 
the idea of shinning it to all eternity /” 
ftdbeHisehjeRfs. 
150 BUSHTLS BUCKWHEAT for Seod. at the 
Rochester Seed Store. J. P. FOGG. 
Juno 4, 1855. 283-lt 
DEVON BULL FOB SALE. 
Five Ykars Ou), bred liy Wm. Garbutt, of Wheatland. 
Address E. J. & S. REED, 
83-2t Scottsville, Monroe Co., N. Y. 
PURE BRED SUFFOLK PIGS. 
Onb pair, 5 months old, for $22; ono pair (boar five 
months and sow 7 weeks old.) $18; and one pair 7 weeks 
old. $16. Boxed (with feod,) and delivered on Railroad 
free of charge. E. H. GILBERT, 
283-2t Nunda, Livingston Co., N. Y. 
Trusting Innocence. —A backwoodsman, 
who had never seen a pair of sugar-tongs, be¬ 
ing invited to tea-party, requested a person 
who unhappily was seated Dear him, to give 
some information respecting its use. “ It is a 
very ingenious instrument,” said the cruel 
wag, “ Avhich has lately been invented for the 
purpose of blowing the nose. It is now in 
use in genteel society ; and it is expected 
that the disgusting custom of using the fingers 
will altogether be abolished.” The sugar-dish 
was handed around ; the unfortunate “ Lion ” 
seized the tongs, and the polite part of the as¬ 
sembly were scandalized at the outre applica¬ 
tion of the instrument, and the tremendous ex¬ 
plosion Avhich folloAved. 
Questions and Answers. —If a bottle is 
emptied of -water, Avliat fills the vacuum ?— 
Sometimes porter, sometimes port. Why 
does water ascend in pumps ? Don't know 
that it does; dare say it would go just as high 
in boots. What causes a fog? Sometimes 
smokiDg six iu a room ; or a man’s mind may 
be in a state of fog from the result of a party 
last night; or he may forget all about a debt. 
If he is very ugly and old, he becomes at once 
a “ foggy.” * Why does fire burn more ardent¬ 
ly in excessively cold weather ? Because you 
put more coals on ? 
A Wide-awake Emperor. —The Emperor 
of Japan seems to have a sharp eye to his rights 
and privileges. He evidently is not a belieA-er 
in “ popular sovereignty.” He directed that 
all the American gold pieces which Mr. Bur- 
roAvs, Avho lately visited Jeddo Bay, gave to 
his subjects, should be returned. The interpre¬ 
ter discovered “ Liberty” on them, which alarm¬ 
ed the Emperor. 
The last census reveals the appalling fact 
that there are nearly three thousand dentists 
in the United States. It probably costs the 
people two million dollars, and ten million 
wrenches of agony per annum to keep their 
teeth in order. Talk of inquisitions and thumb 
screws after this ! 
One of the western villages lately passed an 
ordinance forbidding taverns to sell liquor on 
the Sabbath, to any person except travelers. 
The next Sunday every man in town was seen 
walking around town with a carpet bag in one 
hand and a valise in the other. 
The Natchez Courier says that the Missis¬ 
sippi river, opposite the town of Natchez, 
was so low that even the catfish were rigging 
up stern wheels ; side-wheel catfish finding 
some difficulty in navigating with facility the 
crowded channels. 
“ So you would not take me to be twenty ?’ 
said a young lady to her partner, Avhile danc¬ 
ing a polka, a few evenings since. “ What 
Avould you take me for ?” “ For better or 
worse,” he replied—and she was nothing loth. 
A Printer out West, whose office is half 
a mile from any other building, and who hangs 
his sign on the limb of a tree advertises for an 
apprentice. He says : “ A boy from the coun¬ 
try would be preferred.” 
Prop. Mapes thinks that dogs can reason. 
Doubtful. If they could, they would not 
make such asses of themselves as to go a mile 
in 2.30 just because a tin kettle is fastened to 
their tail. 
Different sounds travel with different ve- 
locity. A call to dinner will run over a ten acre 
lot in a minute and a half, while a summons 
to work will take from five to ten minutes. 
A late number of the Brookville American 
announced the destruction of the editor’s hat, 
Avliereupon the Connersville Times impudently 
wonders if there were any lives lost! 
An honest Dutchman, on being asked how ; 
often he shaved, replied : “ Dree dimes a veek 
every tay but Soontay; den I sliafe effery 
tay.” 
SMALL FAEM FOR SALE. 
lx Clarkson. miles east, of Holley, % mile north of 
the Stone Bridge; contains 68j£ acres 40 in spring crops, 
to be sold with the farm. The Buildings, Soil, Orchards, 
&c.., are first class, in character, productiveness and va¬ 
riety. For further particulars apply on the farm, or by 
letter to A. H. FRANKLIN, 
283-2t Holley, Orleans Co., N. Y. 
THE EXCELSIOR HORSE POWER 
Has been very thoroughly tested, in the presence of a 
number of mechanics and farmers, and pronounced a 
very superior machine. The fastenings or couplings for 
the hand wheol, &c., cannot possibly got loose, as 
is often, the case with many other Bowors, and it is 
warranted to do all work any reasonable person can re 
quire of a Horse Bower, or the machine can be returned at 
the manufacturer's expense. 
This machine is manufactured exclusively by RICH¬ 
ARD II. PEASE, at the Excolsior Agricultural Works, 
AVarehouse and Seed Store, old stand, 369 & 371 Broad¬ 
way, Albany, N. Y. 283-8t 
JOHN L. FISH, 
STORAGE, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION, 
33 d. 35 Boody Block, Exchange St., Rochester, 
DKALKR IX 
AVATER LIME, BLASTER, GRAIN, FLOUR, PORK, 
LARD, SALT, &c., &C. 
Goons forwarded by Railroad, Steamboat, or Cana! 
Routes to all parts of United States and Canada. 
Storage in fire proof buildings. Insurance Agency. 
Mark goods care of JOHN L. FISH. 
Rkfekknoes.—A shley, Jones & Co., Lloyd st.; Jas. M. 
Fish, Ohio st., Buffalo. [283-4t] 
LYONS (N. Y.) MUSICAL ACADEMY. 
Tnis Institution is claimed to possess advantages su¬ 
perior to any similar one in America, for a thorough 
course of instruction on the Piano, Organ, Guitar, dc., 
in thorough Bass, Composit on, dc., anil iu Vocal Music. 
Particular attention given to expression and fingering.— 
Arrangements have been recently made "by which pupils 
desirous of so doing, can procure board at very moder¬ 
ate rates, making this ono of the cheapest, as well as 
oue of the best educational instructions in the United 
States. 
For circulars containing full particulars, together with 
the opinions of Lowstt, Masox and others, address, 
283-2t L. HINSDALE SHERWOOD, 
Principal and Proprietor. 
EXCELSIOR AGRICULTURAL WORKS, 
WAREHOUSE AND SEED STORE, — OLD STAND, 
369 & 371 Broadway, Albany, N. Y. 
EXCELSIOR HORSE POWERS, 
“ THRESHERS AND SEPARATORS, 
“ CIDER MILL, “ KRAUSER’S PATENT,’ 
“ CROSS-CUT SAW MILLS, 
“ CIRCULAR SAW MILLS. 
FISK RUSSELL’S MOWING MACHINE. 
“ KING OF THE MOWERS.” 
ALSO, 
Wright’s, Burrai.l’s, Manny’s and Ketcuum’s Mowers 
and Reapers,— and a full and complete assortment of 
AGRICULTURAL MACHINES AND IMPLEMENTS, 
Wholesale and Retail, at the lowest prices.— all war- 
ranted. [283-4] RICH. H. PEASE 
TENTS! 
For Agricultural and Religious Societies, Military Com¬ 
panies, Exhibitions, dc. 
Thk Subscriber keeps on hand a largo assortment of 
Tents of every description, suitable for Agricultural 
Fairs, Military Encampments, Camp Meetiugs, Confer¬ 
ence, Political Gatherings, Exhibitions, &c., &c., which 
he will rent on liberal terms. 
He has a large number of Camp Meeting and Military 
Tents of the following sizes :—24 feel by 30 ; 16 by 24 ; 
12 by 17 ; 9 by 12. 
Also for Conference, Agricultural Societies, &c.:—80 
feet diameter ; 70 feet do.; 60 feet do.; 50 feot do.; and 
80 feet by 110 ; 60 by 90 ; 50 by 80. 
Those tonts are of his own manufacture, of the very 
host material, and aro every way desirah'e. When par¬ 
ties renting Tents desiro it, a competent person will be 
sent to erect and take charge of them. 
He has furnished Tonts to the Agricultural Socioties of 
New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Mich¬ 
igan, Illinois, Canada, and to many other promiont Ag¬ 
ricultural and other Associations, and can therefore with 
confidence refer those who are about purchasing or rent¬ 
ing Tents, to any of tho officers of these Associations as 
to the character of his work and fairness of his deal¬ 
ings. 
TENTS AND FLAGS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, MADE 
TO ORDER. 
He has on hand the largest assortment of Tents on tho 
Continent, sufficient to accommodate seventy thousand 
persons, and can fill orders for any number of Tents, on 
short notice. All orders by Mail will meet prompt at¬ 
tention. [283-4t] E. C. WILLIAMS, Rochester, N. Y. 
THE BEST LAND PLASTER! 
“I have analyzed a specimen of ‘ Vienna Piaster or 
Gypsum,’ and also specimens of ‘ Cayuga’ and ‘Ononda¬ 
ga Plaster,’ and find them to yield respectively as fol¬ 
lows : 
VIENNA PLASTER. 
SumiATK ok Ijmk.70.92 
Carbonate of Lime,. 4.45 
Carbonate of Magnesia,. 1.60 
Alumina. 2.46 
Silica,. 1-84 
Protoxide of Iron,.. 21 
Water,.18.38 
Loss,. 29 
100.00 
JAMES R. (HILTON, M. D., Chemist. 
Kerr York, March 19, 1854. 
ONONDAGA PLASTER. 
Sulphath ok Lure,. 63.20 
Sulphuret of Lime,. 1.01 
Carbonate of Lime,. 6.30 
Carbonate of Magnesia. 1.60 
Alumina,. 2.80 
Silica,. 2.46 
Water,.22.10 
Loss. 24 
100.00 
CAYUGA PLASTER. 
SrLMA'Ni ok Limb,.§ 0.40 
Sulphuret of Lime,. 2.00 
Carbonate of Lime,.18.00 
Carbonate of Magnesia,. 3.80 
Alumina,. 4.00 
Silica. 4.40 
Protoxide of Iron,. 32 
Water,. 16.60 
Less,. 48 
100.00 
JAMES R. CHILTON, M. I>., Chemist. 
Now York, April 2, 1852.” 
It appoars from the above analysis that the “ Yiknna 
Pi.astkr” is superior for land to that of the Cayuga or 
Onondaga, inasmuch as it contains the largost per cont- 
ago of the “ Sui phatb os Limb,” which is the most bene¬ 
ficial property in I.and Plaster. 
This Plaster is kept constantly on hand at riermo, Pitts- 
for d, Fishers, Victor, Canandaigua and Geneva. 283-4t. 
IMPORTED MONARCH. 
By Priam, out of Pelphino by Whisker, will stand tho 
present season at L. G. Morris,’ Herdsdale Farm 1)£ 
miles from Scarsdale Depot, and 24 miies from New 
York by Harlem Railroad. Terms $20 the season for 
mares not thorough-bred, and $50 for thorough bred.— 
Pasturage $3 per month. Accidents and escapes at the 
risk of tho owner. All business connected with the horse 
to he addressed to “ Monarch’s Groom Scarsdale, P. O., 
Westchester Co., N. Y.” A portrait taken from life, with 
performance on tho turf, full pedigree, Ac., Ac., will bo 
forwarded by mail by addressing L. G. Morris, Ford ham, 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 278 -tf 
April 24, 1855. 
