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MOOIIE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
THE FLOWEBS’ PETITION. 
We flowers and shrubs In cities pent, 
From fields and country places rent 
(Without our own or friends’ consent,) 
In desperate condition, 
Yet on no wilful outrage bent, 
Do humbly here petition. 
Whereas : Against our silent wills, 
With loss of sun and purling rills, 
Cooped up in pots, on window sills, 
In rickety old boxes— 
The city’s breath our beauty kills, 
And makes us gray as foxes. 
Condemned in walls of brick and lime, 
In narrow beds of clay and slime, 
To ope our buds and shod our prime— 
We need some kind defender ; 
We pray, oh, let U3 live our time ! 
And we are very tender 1 
Oh, cheat us not of heaven’s dews ; 
Nor air (however stale) refuse : 
God knows ’tis little we can use, 
So choked are all our vitals : 
No slightest care will we abuse, 
Nor fail in fond requitals. 
We’ll breathe you delicate perfumes : 
We’ll glad your eyes with choicest blooms ; 
But do not shut us up in rooms, 
Or stifling crowded places— 
The sky, in clouds and light, assumes 
To us far lovelier faces. 
Our sooty and bedraggled fate, 
(Our ever-greens turned chocolate) 
Do we ascribe to spite or hate ? 
No, we are sure you love us ; 
Yet, half-ashamed, we beg to state 
We love the sun above us. 
Then treat us in your gentlest ways, 
And next unto the sun’s own rays, 
With boauty’s homage, incense-praise, 
We ever will caress you, 
And to the ending of our days 
In grateful silence bless you. 
LOVE AND PRIDE. 
We were sitting by the fireside—Leonard 
and I; he leaned back in his wide arm-chair, 
and I at his feet. 
“ How can I hope to win her now,” he mur¬ 
mured, looking down at his maimed arm with 
a bitter, defiant glance. “ She, with her glo¬ 
rious beauty, her regal pride; so far above 
me! Oh, my love has so compassed me about 
with its strong arms, has sheltered me under 
its shelving roof, that I feel like an outcast— 
homeless and lost forever.” 
I looked up to him as he spoke, and thought 
of the time when he had pledged his troth to 
Miriam by that same shining fire-light, when 
his manly beauty fell on him like a rapid sun¬ 
set ; when he grasped in his vigorous hands 
such noble pictures of the future. Now, 
without even that future to call his own, 
poor, maimed, and useless, he had come back 
to the old trysting place, broken in hoalth, in 
health, in hope, in fortune, and oh 1 more de¬ 
plorable than all—not even rich in love. 
“ Leonard,” I said, rising and leaning my 
hand on his chair, “ I am going now—going 
to see Miriam.” 
He started, and a flushed anguish came over 
his still beautiful brow, lie grasped my 
hand convulsively. 
“ One moment,” he whispered; 
ment, and I shall be myself agaiD 
meet her thus.” 
He bowed his face, and the light brown 
curls fell in a cloud about it, concealing the 
outward struggle. Then he raised his head 
and spoke calmly,— 
“ I am ready now ; I will release her from 
that vow which cannot be otherwise than irk¬ 
some to her proud spirit. She shall never 
know the agony it cost me to give her up. I 
will meet her bravely—like a man 
So I went out and left him sitting there, his 
love lying like a shattered vase at his feet. 
I found Miriam before her mirror, arrang¬ 
ing her hair. She turned her gleaming face 
towards me as I entered, and it was overflow¬ 
ing with love, hope and expectancy. 
“ Is it bright and cheerful below stairs ?” 
she asked quickly. 
“ Quite beaming,” I replied. 
“ I am so glad,” she continued in a joyous 
tone. “ What a long journey he will have 
this freezing day! Oh, I am so thankful that 
I am mistress of Ashburn ; that I can offer 
him a resting-place.” 
I stood beside her where I could see her 
beauty in the mirror, as I have seen the sun¬ 
shine lying afar on the hill, lied, scornful 
lips, dark, prideful eye3, glowing cheecks, and 
waves of raven hair, braided with gems. 
“ Miriam,” said I earnestly, “ I should like 
to tell you a little story, while we are all 
alone. Something that weighs upon my 
heart, about—about a friend of mine.” 
She turned and looked at me with a cu¬ 
rious glance; then she said cheerfully and 
quickly— 
“ Oh, I understand ; you are going to tell 
me something relative to Lucia—that old 
friend of whom you used to speak.” 
I bowed my head in silent acquiescence.— 
Then I commenced in a low voice—playing 
with the coral with which she was going to 
adorn her loveliness. 
“ The friend of mine is very beautiful and 
very proud. Three years ago she plighted 
her troth to a brave, manly lover. They 
both joined hands, and stepped together into 
life and the world. He, with a glorious fu¬ 
ture stretched out wide before him, a hopeful 
heart, and a soul full of noble aspirations.” 
“ How like to him,” murmured Miriam, 
pride flashing out again into her eyes. 
“ He went abroad,” I continued ; “ misfor¬ 
tune came upon him ; and that ripe luscious 
future turned to ashes in his grasp. Still he 
struggled on ; and when he had conquered 
destiny, and built for himself another and a 
fairer castle, lost his right arm, and became a 
crippled, miserable thing ” 
Tie hand that braided these shining tresses 
trembled violently. The face in the mirror 
assumed a softer expression,—the eyes grew 
darkly tender. 
“ Broken-hearted, toil-worn, and grown okl 
with care, he returned to his old home. He 
came to me, for he dared not meet that, cold, 
withering glance of pride—(hat scornful tri¬ 
umph of station and beauty’, in the face of her 
whom he liad so worshiped, so adored, with 
love exceeding all thirgs in width, and height 
and power.” 
“ Was her pride, then, so mighty ?—her 
woman’s nature so much less?” asked Miriam, 
in a voice made husky with indignation and 
fear. “ Could she— dared she fling him from 
her, who had once dwelt pre-eminent in her 
heart? He broken hearted and alone in the 
wide, pitiless world!” 
“ She is a woman,” I replied, “ her heart is 
true and loving, but her pride has ever been to 
her a second self. She fears the w’crld with 
its sneers and jibes. I have promised him to 
go_ to her—to prepare her for this sad event. 
Miriam, how shall I counsel her ? how deal 
with that, supernal, overwhelming pride?” 
Miriam shook back the waving hair from 
her brow, and turned her regal face upon me. 
It was lighted up with noble and womanly 
love, a deep, dewy tenderness. 
“ Tell her to go to him and pour out at his 
feet all that depth of devotion which lies so 
rich in the heart of woman. To hold out her 
hands to him, and raise him up to stand be¬ 
side her on that high pinnacle of wealth and 
estate. Tell her that of all the great heart of 
life, love is the dearest throb within it. It is 
a beautiful creation, and oh, not lightly to be 
dashed aside.” 
I burst into tears ; I pointed to the door, 
and cried— 
“ Miriam ! there is a despairing and heart¬ 
broken man sitting by your fireside. It is 
Leonard.” 
She started and fell backward against a 
chair. The gush of imperial beauty flowed 
away from her face and left it colorless.— 
Then, with a firm step and graceful majesty, 
she took my hand and led me out into the 
broad hall, down the great staircase, and 
across to the door of the room where he sat. 
Her brow was pale and calm, her hand did 
not tremble within mine. 
Still in the wide seat where I had left him, 
the fire light shining vividly around him, sat 
Leonard. He arose when he saw’ us, ami took 
a step forward into the middle of the room. 
I could have fallen down and worshiped him 
as he stood there, with noble, yet attenuated 
form, and his great adoring soul standing on 
the threshhold of his eyes. He looked ill and 
sorrowful, but a conscious dignity of man¬ 
hood hung about him like a cloak.’ 
Miriam leaned heavily upon me, and now’ 
she trembled like an aspen. He took another 
step forward and spoke to her : 
“ Miriam, I have come to release you from 
the ties that bind you to this wretched and 
maimed being—the shadow’ of myself. I am 
here to give you up forever.” 
Ilis voice died away in an agony of au- 
guish. He essayed to legain his courageous 
and manly bearing; his love omnipotent, su¬ 
preme, loosened all the fountains of his heart, 
and he wept most bitterly. 
With one bound she reached his side—with 
one wide embrace of her arms she made a cir¬ 
cle of love about him—with one burst of 
tears she rained a heaven of light and hope 
and devotion into his crushed soul. Tnrough 
the veil of her jewelled hair 1 saw her face lift- 
one mo-1 ed up in divine gratitude, the lips moved as if 
I cannot | i n prayer—the broad, bright brow were a har 
lo about it like a golden band. 
I departed silently, and throughout that 
happy day I repeated truly and earnestly,— 
“ Of all the great heart of Life, Love is the 
dearest throb within it.” 
PRESENCE OF MIND. 
The San Francisco Herald narrates the fol¬ 
lowing incident at the explosion of the steam¬ 
boat Jenny Lind: 
We have said not a man stood ; but there 
was one alone escaped unhurt. This was Mr. 
James Tobin, late of the firm of Tobin & Bun- 
can. He was standing near the hatchway 
leading to the cabin, and talking to Mr. Shel¬ 
ton, when he felt the tremor. Familiar with 
such accidents on the Mississippi Itiver, and 
knowing what jt portended, even before he 
heard the explosion, and simultaneously with 
the gushing of the steam, with extraordinary 
presence ol mind, he jerked apart the fasten¬ 
ing around his neck of a heavy cloak ho had 
on, threw it entirely over his head, wrapped 
it and his hands in the folds, and prostrated 
himself to the deck. The furious volume of 
steam rushed over and around him, but he 
lay with his hands clasped over his mouth 
and held his breath. Even through the thick 
folds of his cloak, low down on the deck, half 
a minute after the exposion, the air was pain¬ 
fully hot. In a little more than a minute, he 
raised his cloak to see if he could breathe — 
found it still too hot, and covered himself up 
again. In two minutes, he uncovered, com¬ 
pletely unhurt; he had not even been singed, 
his cloak was burnt, and almost dropped to 
pieces. Beside him lay poor Shelton, to 
whom he had just been talking, fearfully scald¬ 
ed, externally and internally ; and now, poor 
fellow, dying. Hevas the only man of the 
whole crowd who rose up. His escape under 
Providence i 3 due to bis presence of mind 
alone. 
The Cherokee marriage ceremony is very 
expressive—man end woman joinii g hands 
over a running water, indicating that their 
lives may flow on in one stream. 
A father was asked how he meant to edu* 
cate his daughters, and unswered, “ 1 mean to 
bind them apprentices to their mother.” The 
reply is beautiful. 
CHIEF JUSTICE HALE. 
A gentleman who posseted an estate in 
the eastern part of England, worth five hun¬ 
dred pounds a 3 ear, bad two sous. The old¬ 
est being of a rambling disposition, went 
abroad. After several 3 ears, the father died. 
The younger son destroyed the will and seized 
on the estate, lie gave cut that his elder 
brother was dead, and bribed witnesses to at¬ 
test it In the course of time, the elder broth 
er returned, in miserable circumstances. The 
younger repulsed him with scorn, eayirg that 
he was an impostor and a cheat—that his r< al 
brother was dead long ago, and he could bring 
witnesses to prove it. 
The real brother, having neither money nor 
friends, was in a dismal situation. At last he 
found a lawyer wdio agreed, (as he had noth¬ 
ing to pay him,) that if he would give him 
one thousand guineas, if he undertook and 
gained the cause, he would act for him ; to 
which he assented. The case was to be tried 
at the next General Assizes, at Chelmsford, 
Essex. The lawyer being now engaged, set 
his wits to work to obtain success. At last 
he thought he would consult the first judge of 
that age, Lord Chief Justice Hale; accord¬ 
ingly he hastened to London, and laid open 
the cause aud all its circumstances. The 
judge, who was a great lover of justice, listen¬ 
ed attentively, and promised all the assistance 
in his power. The lawyer having taken 
leave, the judge contrived so as to finish all 
his business at the King’s Bench before the 
Chelmeferd Assizes began. He started for 
Chelmsford, and when within a short distance 
ef that place, he dismissed his horse ard sought 
for a private house ; he found one occupied 
by a miller. After some conversation, mak¬ 
ing himself very agreeable, he proposed to the 
miller to change clothes with him, and as the 
judge had a good suit on, the miller did not 
object; accordingly the judgo put on a com¬ 
plete suit of the miller’s best. Adorned with 
a miller’s hat, shoes and stick, away he march 
ed to Chelmsford, where he procured lodging 
against the Assizes next day. When the 
trial came on, he walked like an ignorant fel¬ 
low, backwards and forwards along the coun¬ 
try hall, and when ihe court began to fill, he 
found out the poor fellow who was the plain¬ 
tiff. As soon as he came into the hall the 
miller drew up to him. 
“ Honest friend, how is your case like to do 
to day ?” 
“ Why,” replied the plaintiff, “ my cause is 
in a very precarious situation, and if I lose it, 
1 am ruined for life.” 
“ Well, honest friend,” replied the miller, 
“ will you take my advice ? I will let you 
into a secret which, perhaps, you do not know. 
Every Englishman has a right and privilege 
to except to any one juryman through the 
whole twelve ; now do you insist upon your 
privilege without giving a reason why, and, if 
possible, get me chosen in bis room, and I 
will do you all the service in my power.” 
Accordingly, when the clerk called over the 
names of the jurymen, the plaintiff excepted 
one of them. The judge on the bench was 
highly offended at this. 
“ What do you mean,” said he, “ by except¬ 
ing to that gentleman ?’’ 
“ I mean, my lord, to assert my privilege as 
an Englishman, without giving a reason why.” 
The judge, who had been highly bribed, in 
order to conceal it by a show of candor, and 
having confidence in the superiority of his 
party, said: 
“ Well, sir, as you claim your privilege in 
one instance, I will grant it. Whom would 
you like to have in place of that man except 
ed?” 
After a short time taken in consideration, 
he said, “ My lord, I wish to have an honest 
man chosen in,” aud looking around, “ there 
is that miller in the court; we will have him, 
if you please.” Accordingly the miller was 
chosen. 
As soon as the clerk of the court had given 
them all their oaths, a dexterous fellow came 
into the apartment, and slipped ten caroluees 
into the hands of the eleven jurymen, aud gave 
the miller but five. He observed they were 
all bribed as well as himself, and said to his 
next neighbor in a soft whisper, “ How much 
have you got ?” “ Ten pieces,” said he. The 
miller did not say what lie had. 
The cause was opened by the plaintiff's 
counsel, and all the scraps of evidence they 
could pick up were adduced in his favor.— 
The defendant had a great number of witnesses 
and pleaders, all bribed as well as the judge. 
The evidence deposed that they were in the 
self-same county when the brother died, and 
saw him buried ; and everything went with a 
full tide for the younger brother. The judge 
summed up with great gravity and delibera¬ 
tion :—“ And now, gentlemen of the jury, 
bring in your verdict as you shall deem most 
just.” In a few minutes the judge said, “Are 
you agreed ? Who shall sjieak for you ?” 
“ We are all agreed ; our foreman shall 
speak for us.” 
“ Hold, my lord,” replied the miller, “ we 
are not all agreed.” 
“ ^ hy,” said the judge, in a surly manner, 
“ what is the matter with you — what reason 
have you for disagreeing.” 
“ 1 have several reasons, my Lord,” replied 
the miller. “ First, thev have civon all the 
ness. I will come up this moment and try 
the whole over again.” 
Accordingly J>>rd Matthew went up in his 
miller's dress and hat, began tho trial from the 
commencement, and searched every cirenm- 
sianee of truih and falsehood ; he evinced the 
elder brother’s title to the estate, and gained a 
complete victory in favor of truth and justice, 
A gentleman was once riding in Scotland 
by a bleaching-groucd. where a poor woman 
w as at work watering her webs of linen cloth. 
He asked her where she went to church, and 
what she had heard on the preceding day, and 
how much she remembered. She could not 
even tell the text of the sermon. “And what 
good can the preaching do 3011 ,” said he, “if 
you forget it all ?” “ Ah, sir,” replied the 
poor w’oman, “ if you look at 1 his web on the 
grass, you will see that as fast as ever I put 
water on it, the sun dries it all up ; and yet, 
sir, I see it gets whiter and whiter.” 
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(Mlii attiEr ItttMr, 
A WILD GOOSE STORY 
“ The way they catch geese,” says the Buf¬ 
falo R publican, “ on the Western waters, is 
sufficiently wonderful, without at all taxing 
the incredulity of any one. They are very 
foud of a small and very active eel, and with 
sharp head and teeth, whose habits insist up¬ 
on its swimming very near the surface of the 
water. It is very seldom the geese can get 
hold of this choice morsel, and when they do, 
they have a grand jollification over it. This 
eel the hunters use as bait for their geese ships. 
A short time since, two hunters went out to 
catch wild geese. One banter laydown in his 
canoe with a tront-line attached to his wrist, 
and on the other end, in the water, was tied 
the nimble, sharp-headed eel before spoken of. 
The canoe floated slowly through the 
marshes, and came gradually among a large 
flock of geese, and the eel swimming along 
closely to the surface. One venerable bon vi- 
vant of a goose gobb'ed up the eel, like a 
flash ; also, the eel had made its way through 
the body of the epicure, aud lo! the gocse 
was “ on strong.” Another goose afflicted 
with luxurious palate, swallowed the eel, but 
without any particular satisfaction, as the eel, 
hardly noticing an obstruction, traveled 
through the “ goose greese” with scarcely an 
effort. And so this identical eel traveled and 
traveled until seventeen geese were on the 
string, and our scientific friend, thinking he 
had been fortunate enough, commenced haul¬ 
ing them into the boat. 
But, wonder of wonders, the seventeen 
geese rose upon their wings as one gcose.and 
before our friend of the canoe could make a 
will or say a prayer, he was lifted bodily from 
the canoe, through the combined efforts of the 
seventeen geese attached to his wrist, and ere 
be was aware of it. was thirty feet above the 
wafer. A friend of his on shore, who saw 
the difficulty, and his riHe fortunately being 
loaded, shot off the string and rescued his 
friend. So, instead of wild goose, our hunter 
got cold duck; and, although he fishes no 
more for wild geese with eels, he is prepared 
to affirm, asseverate or swear to the truth of 
the foregoing.” 
Hdbelrfiseh)ei)fs 
BATES BULL CALVES. 
I hath two very superior Bates Bull Calves for ealo 
—the get of my first premium Bull Halton (11652.)— 
Their dams arc the first premium cow HilpalV. and the 
imported cow Agate. Their color is mostly red. Price 
$400 each. A credit will bo given for approved paper. 
Clock villo, Madison Co., N. V. 
289-tf a P. CHAPMAN. 
irst, they have given all the 
gentlemen of the jury ten broad pieces of gold, 
and me only five, which is not fair. Besides, 
I have many objections to make to the false 
reasoning ol the pleaders, and the contradicto¬ 
ry evidence of the witnesses.” 
Upon this, the miller began a discourse that 
discovered such a vast penetration of judg¬ 
ment and extensive knowledge of law, that it 
astonished the judge and the whole court. As 
he was going on, the judge, in surprise, stop¬ 
ped him. 
“ Where did you come from, and who are 
yon ?” he asked. 
“I came from Westminster Hall,” replied 
the miller. “ My name is Matthew Hale, Lord 
Chief Justice of tho King’s bench. 1 have 
observed the iniquity of your proceedings this 
day ; therefore come down from the seat you 
are in no way worthy to hold. You are one 
of tho corrupt parties in this iniquitous busi- 
“ Ah!” said a mischievous wag to a lady 
acquaintance of a proud aristocratic caste, 
“ I perceive you have been learning a trade.” 
“ Lfarning a trade!” replied the haughty 
dame, looking needles and pins, “ indeed you 
are very much mistaken.” 
“ Oh !” said the wicked wag, “ I thought 
by the looks of your cheeks that you had 
turned painter!” 
The wag slid instanter —the lady saved her¬ 
self from fainting by drinking a handy glass 
of water. 
Poetical.— An English paper says :—“ At 
Nahaut a recent traveler in New America 
saw a number of American ladies bathing in 
brilliant attire, somewhat Eastern in its de¬ 
tails, and he expatiates on the elegance of the 
scene when they emerged, with ‘countless 
pairs of little white feet, twinkling on the 
sand.’ An American, however, surpassed 
him in enthusiasm about these damsels, who, 
he said, ‘ came down to breakfast after their 
bath, freshened up, looking as sweet and dewy 
as an a valanche of roses.' " 
IMPORTED MONARCH. 
Bn Priam, out of Delpbine by Whisker, will stand the 
present season at L. C. Mowis,’ Herdsdale Farm 1)£ 
miles from Scarsdale Depot, and 24 miios from Now 
York by Ilarlom Railroad. Terms $20 the season for 
mares not thorough-brod, aud $50 for thorough-bred. 
Pasturage $3 per month. Accidents and oscapes at the 
risk of tho owner. Al! business connected with the horse 
to be addressed to “ Monarch’s Groom , Scarsdale, P. 0., 
Westchester Co., N. Y.” A portrait taken from life, with 
performance on the turf, full pedigree, &c., &c. will be 
forwarded by mail by addressing I,. C. Morris. Fordham 
Westchester Co., N. Y. 278-tf ’ 
April 24. 1865. 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS AT PRIVATE 3ALE. 
L. C. Moruis’ Illustrated Catalogue with prices attach 
ed of Short-horned and Devon Bulls, and Bull Calves, a 
few Horses, South-Down Rams, Berkshire, Suffolk, and 
Essex Swino, will bo forwarded by mail (If desired) by 
addressing L. G. Morris, Fordham, Wostchestor Co., N. 
Y., or N. J. Becar, 187 Broadway, N. Y. It also con¬ 
tains portrait, Pedigree, and performance on tho turf, of 
the celobratod horse 1 ‘ Monarch ,” standing this season at 
the Herdsdalo Farm. 278 tf. 
1855. CUTLER & PALMER 1855. 
GHNKRAL FORWARDING AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 
Corner Lloyd and Canal streets, and Commercial Slip, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Ncrhhrvmxn, Seodsmon, persons removing to tho West, 
and others sending their property to our care, may roly 
upon its being handled carefully, and forwarded to its 
destination with dispatch, by tho most reliable and direot 
routes, and tho lowest rates of transportation. 
WM. K. CUTLER. [279 tf j J. H. PALMER. 
HENRY C. VAIL, 
CONSULTING AGRICULTURIST, NEWARK, N. J., 
Will visit farms, and give suitable advice for their im¬ 
provement, founded ou an analysis op thk soil and a 
statement of its mkchanical condition. Communications 
addressed as above, will moot with prompt attention. 
References —I’rof. Jas. J. Mapes ; R. L. Pell, Esq., Ulster 
Co., N. Y.; J. J. Scoffield, Esq., Morristown, N. J.; Hon. 
John Newton Gould, Hudson, N. Y. 272-fft 
A Wise Answer. — “You must not play 
with that little girl, dear,” said a jndiciou:s 
parent. 
“ But, Ma, I like her, she is a good little 
girl, and I’m sure she dresses as prettily as 
ever I do ; and she has lots of toys.” 
“ I cannot help that, my dear,” responded 
the silly, foolish mother ; “ her father is a 
shoemaker.” 
“ Bnt I don’t play with her father ; I play 
with her—she ain’t a shoemaker.” 
Mu. Jones, after having spent an evening 
over his bowl, went home a little “how 
come yon so.” He was fortunate enough to 
find his better half asleep. He went to bed, 
and after a moment’s consideration, bethought 
it would be policy to turn over, lest his breath 
should betray him; when Mrs. Jones opened 
her eyes, and in the mildest manner in the 
world, said : “Jones, you need'nt turn over, 
you’re drunk clear through.” 
Our friend Jemima lioceytops is a queer 
creature. She’s forty, fair and fat. Says 
she’ll never get married—never. Says, like 
some others of her dear sex, she marked her¬ 
self at too h’gh figures in her youthful days. 
The consequence was the goods didn’t sell.— 
They’ve since soured. Let the fute of Jemi¬ 
ma lie a warnirg to all young ladies. Don’t 
be foolish maidens, but become sensible "wives. 
Calculation. —“ Your friendship is very 
dear to me,” as the merchant said, when he 
had to pay for indorsing for his neighbor. 
HUSSEY'S PATENT COMBINED 
REAPER AND MOWER, 
Manctacturkd by T. R. Hbbsky & Co., Auburn, N. Y. 
and by them warranted to do good work, both in Roapl 
ing and Mowing, aud built of tho host materials and of 
sufficient strength to do their work without breaking 
when used on ground sultablo for working them, aud 
with proper caro. The superiority wo claim for our ma¬ 
chine over all others is: 
1st. The extra amount of strongth and durability. 
2d. The construction to work with a loose polo for 
mowing, to allow the cutter bar to run close to the 
ground in hollows as well as over knolls, and prevents 
the heavy weight on the horses’ necks that a machlno 
working with a stiff pole causes. 
3d. The obviation of side draft by placing the goaring 
on one side of tho road wheel and tho cutter bar on tho 
other. 
4th. The open t drought iron guard, which Is tho only 
sure preventive against clogging. 
6th. Tho raising or lowering tho road wheel to cut 
three lengths of stubblo—1st, two inches, for grass; 2d, 
fivo Inches, for barley aud oats ; 3d, eight Inches’, for 
wheat or rye. 
(ith. Tho construction of tho apron for reaping, (hat 
the grain can bo cast off in gavels immediately behind 
or at tho side; also tho simple mode of changing from a 
Reaper to a Mower, or vice versa, which can he done in 
twenty minutes. 
Our machines cut a swath flvo foet wide, and with a 
good team are capable of cutting 12 acres of grass iu a 
day, or reaping from 15 to 20 acres of grain. 
Our price for a combined Rea;>er and Mower at our 
manufactory is $125, for cash orapproved notos payable 
at some hank within throe months after trial of machino. 
Farmers wishing a machino for tho coming soasou, 
would do well to Bond in their orders soon, as our num¬ 
bers are limited. T. R. HUSSEY & CO., 
-81 Auburn, N. Y. 
J. llAl’AI JE U Co. Agents for Rochester and vicinity, 
KKUZIE'S RAIN WATER FILTER 
Manufactured by j. e. CHENEY fc Co., 
Rochester, N. Y. Patented January, '64. 
These Filters havo received tho high¬ 
est commendation from scientific and 
medical men and are in constant use,hav¬ 
ing given entire satisfaction to hundreds 
of families! n this city and other parts of 
the country within the last fifteen years. 
[They have been perfected iu the fixtures 
within two yoars, and can now be trans¬ 
ported iu safety.] We now make flvo 
sizes, which retail for five, six, oight, ton, and twelve 
dollars each. 
Tho mo>t Impure rain water is rendered pure, without 
taste, color or smell. They are portable, durable, and 
are not excelled by any filter known. 274 -eowtf 
FAIRBANKS SCALES. 
WAREHOUSE No. 189 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
Thusr celebrated scales are still manufactured by the 
original Inventors. By an enlargement of the works, 
and tho introduction of improved machinery, tho scalos 
are now furnished at groatly reduced prices. We havo 
rocently added to oar stock a full assortment of fine Gold 
and Druggist’s Scales, Spring Balances , Patent Reams, 
Weights, &c., and now oiler at wholesale and retail the 
most complete assortment of weighing apparatus to bo 
found In tho United States. We have a new and con¬ 
venient article, which wo denominate the FAMILY 
SCALE—it being particularly adapted to the wants of 
farmers and all housekeepers. Hay and coal scales set 
In any part of tho oountry by experienced workmen.— 
Orders and letters of Inquiry by mail will receive 
prompt attention. FAIRBANKS h CO , 
289-3mos 189 Broadway, New York. 
FAIRFIELD SEMINARY. 
REV. J. B. VAN PKTTEN, A. M., PRINCIPAL. 
This Institution is located in the pleasant and healthful 
village of Fairfield, Herk. Co., N. Y., is 11 miles from 
Herkimer and 7 from Little Falls villages on tho N. Y. 
Central R. R.,from which students are conveyed free tho 
first day of each term. Its accommodations aro large 
and ploasant. Ihe Ladles’ Building is a fine new edifice, 
120 foet long, and woli proportioned. In this is a Gym¬ 
nasium appropriately furnished. The building will 
bo thoroughly repaired preparatory to tho Fall and Win¬ 
ter Term-*. Board and washing $1,50 per week. Tuition 
from $4 to $6 por term of 14 weeks. Extras at low rates. 
The School Is now in succesi-ful operation. Tho Faculty 
is in high repute with tho Trustees and community.— 
I-ecturos are glvou semi-monthly upon appropriate sub¬ 
jects. There is a complote graduating course for Ladies, 
and when completed, Diplomas are conferred, and if 
possible, positions secured. During the Fall Term there 
will bo a Teachors’ Class, and desired facilities afforded. 
Fall Term begins August 29th ; Winter Torm Dec. 19th. 
For catalogues or rooms address the Principal, 
June, 1855. 289-2t I. MATHER, Secretary. 
COMMERCIAL AGENTS WANTED-To canvass 
permanently. Men of high business capabilities and mor¬ 
al standing and natives 01 Now England or Now York 
only need apply. The business is highly resputablo and 
profitable. Full and detailed information givon on appli¬ 
cation by lottor or in person. A. W. HARRISON 
10 South 7th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
FARM FOR SALE, 
Containing 207 acres of choice farming land, 150 acres 
improved, tho balance timbered ; locatod in town of 
Fayette, Seneca Co.,—3 miles southwest of Waterloo, 6 
oast of Geneva,—with two good frame houses and barns 
and sheds sufficient for the farm. Also a good variety 
of fruit trees. One third of the farm is sufficiently un- 
derdrainod. It is a learn soil, adapted to all kinds of 
cropR. Any person wishing to purchase, it is worth 
their time to call and view it, or address 
288-7t G. VAN RH’ER, Waterloo, Seneca Co., N.Y 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANTS, AND THE 
PUBLIC LANDS! 
Gkorgk .M. Smith, of Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y., 
general agent for locating Land Warrants and purchaa- 
ing I ublic Lands, will devote his timo and personal at¬ 
tention to this business, aided by competent and trusty 
agents in tho several localities. Ho has mado himsolf 
familiar with this business by investigation, travel, and 
at much exixmso. He will also attend to any collecting 
that may be intrusted to him. Address 
GEO. M. SMITH,Norwich, N. Y.; Lansing, Mich.; 
Dubnque, Iowa, or St. Paul, Minnesota. 280-txx 
