MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKERs AN AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
THE MYSTERY. 
BY BAYARD TAYLOR. 
Thou art cot dead ; thou art not gone to dust ; 
No line of all thy loveliness shall fall 
To formless ruin, smote by Time, and thrust 
Into the solemn gulf that covers all 
Thou canst not wholly perish, though the sod 
SiDlt with its violets closer to thy breast; 
Though by the feet of generations trod, 
The headstone crumbles from thy place of rest. 
The marvel of thy beauty cannot die ; 
The sweetness of thy presence shall not fade ; 
Earth gave not all the glory of thine eyes— 
Death may not keep what death has never made. 
It was not thine, that forehead strange and cold, 
Nor those dumb lips, they hid beneath the snow ; 
Thy heart would throb beneath that passive fold, 
Thy hands for me that story clasp forego. 
But thou hast gone—gone from the dreary land, 
Gone from the storms let loose, on every hill, 
Lured by the sweet persuasion of a hand 
Which leads thee somewhere in the distance still. 
Where’er thou art, I know thou wearest yet 
The same bewitching beauty sanctified 
By calmer joy, and touched with soft regret 
For him who seeks, but cannot reach thy stde. 
I keep for thee the living love of old, 
And seek thy place in Nature, as a child, 
Whose hand is parted from his playmate’s hold, 
Wanders and cries along a lonesome wild. 
When, in the watches of my heart, I hear, 
The messages of purer life, and know 
The footsteps of thy spirit lingering near, 
The darkness hides the way that I should go. 
Canst thou not bid the empty realms restore 
That form the symbol of thy heavenly part ? 
Or on the fields of barren silence pour 
That voice, the perfect music of my heart? 
0, once bending to these widowed lips, 
Take back the tender warmth of life from me, 
Or let thy kisses cloud wilh swift ellipse 
The light of mine, and give me death with thee. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MILITARY ASPIRATIONS; 
OR HOW TO UNMAKE A HERO. 
BY EDWAED WEBSTER. 
Samuel Willard was the worthy son of a 
very wortny sire, who owned more land than 
he could cultivate properly; and, not being 
very prolific naturally, it grew no better un¬ 
der his management. He put in a good many 
acres of crops, it is true, but he did not raise 
any greater quantity, nor that of any better 
quality, than many of his neighbors with 
fewer fields and these of less dimensions. He 
held on to his domain, however, very tena¬ 
ciously, although the cost of hired help, taxes, 
and other expenditures, made way, at the end 
of the year, with all his income. The plea, 
put in for refusing to sell a portion of his es¬ 
tate in order with the avails to put the re¬ 
mainder in better condition, was, that Sam 
and the younger boys would need farms when 
they grew up and were ready to settle in life. 
The hopeful first-born of the house of Wil¬ 
lard, however, had no idea of becoming a 
farmer. He aspired (so he said) to some¬ 
thing higher. What that something might 
be was entirely in the fog, not only to the 
world at large, but to the person specially in¬ 
terested ; until, havmg gone one day to the 
city with a load of produce, he by chance 
witnessed the review of a regiment of recruits 
just then enlisted for the Mexican war. The 
gay trappings of the officers, and the hand¬ 
some parade equipments of the privates (their 
fatigue suits are laid aside on these occasions) 
quite captivated him. That spectacle settled 
the question in his own mind ; he would go 
home, lay the case before his father, obtain his 
consent, and enlist forthwith. He was young 
to enlist, it was true, beiEg only sixteen; but 
then he was large of his age, and besides could 
easily pass himself off for a year or two older 
than he really was. 
He broached the subject next morning to 
the old gentleman, accompanying the request 
for permission to enlist with such adjuncts of 
argument and illustration as his fancy sug¬ 
gested, and was taken quite aback at receiv¬ 
ing in reply not only a flat refusal, but also a 
threat of flagellation in case he ever mention¬ 
ed the subject again. So the regiment 
marched off to the war without him—a few 
to return afterward as heros, praised and 
feted then, and made Presidents, Governors, 
and Senators subsequently—a countless host, 
ruined in health, degraded in morals, bankrupt 
in fortune; while thousands of others left 
their bones bleaching upon a foreign soil, 
their individual calamities ignored and lost 
sight of, amid the peaps of a national tri¬ 
umph. 
But the wculd-fce recruit remained at home 
discontented and unhappy ; the military flame 
still glowed in his besom, and found a safety- 
valve in the weekly drills of a voluntary 
militia company, to which he immediately at¬ 
tached himself. “ The time will come,” he 
used to repeat to himself, “ when I shall be my 
own master, and then if another Mexican 
war arises, see if I don’t make a demonstra¬ 
tion. It is too bad that father forbade my 
going with the recruits, for like as not I 
would come back to be sent to Congress or 
made a Governor bye and-by.” 
But time sped on, and no second Mexican, 
or other war, occurred, so that in very des¬ 
pair of an opportunity to display his milita¬ 
ry prowess, he abandoned the idea of becom¬ 
ing a soldier, aud so far embraced hi3 father’s 
offer of a hundred acre3 of land in case he 
married and settled down, that he made over¬ 
tures to a stout, rosy daughter of a neighbor, 
named Sarah Smith, a girl of sterling qual¬ 
ities, both of head aDd heart, but one who had 
been a school companion of his in early life, 
and with whom he had very ungallantlv quar¬ 
reled a thousand times in those days of juven¬ 
ility. It is an easy matter, however, to settle 
such difficulties, where both parties are open 
to conviction ; and consequently the overtures 
were accepted, and the affair progressed very 
happily towards a consummation. 
Unfortunately, however, for the coarse of 
true love in this case, the public mind became 
greatly excited upon the subject of the Cri¬ 
mean war. The Russians had captured and 
sunk the Turkish fleet, and the latter had in 
turn successfully beaten back the besieging 
Russian army from befoie Silistria. The Al¬ 
lies had won, after bloody struggles, the fields 
of the Alma and Inkerinann. All Europe 
and America rang with praises of that gallant 
cavalry corps, which made the brilliant but 
mis-directed and fatal charge at Balaklava, and 
left all except a remnant of their serried ranks, 
victims upon that blood-stained field. At 
this far distance, all of the glories, but few of 
the horrors, of the war, were brought to view ; 
and of course the military spark half extin¬ 
guished in the bosom of young Willard, was 
rekindled into the intense3t glow. What a 
pity, he thought, that America was not in¬ 
volved in the quarrel, in order that such as he 
might have an opportunity to display them¬ 
selves, and make a little capital for future po¬ 
litical uses, as others had done before. It 
was true even under existing circumstances, 
that a few Americans were in the camps of 
the belligerents, but they were employed pro¬ 
fessionally, and paid as in the civil service.— 
They were engaged in the hospitals, not in the 
field ; and wielded a probe and lancet rather 
than a bayonet and sword. Their baggage 
was a medical, not a military chest, and they 
stood not the smallest chance of being pro¬ 
moted to the rank of Colonels, Generals, or 
Commanders-in-Chief. Even that door, little 
as it promised, was shut to him, from the fact 
that he was not a medical man, and had no 
more knowledge of surgery than he had of as¬ 
trology. 
What was to be done in such a juncture ? 
His inventive genius, none of the most acute 
it must be^confessed, was taxed in vain, and 
he was about to give over in despair, when a 
ray of light and hope shot across the darken¬ 
ed sky. He was told very secretly and con¬ 
fidentially that the British Government was 
about to form a foreign legion, for the pur¬ 
pose of rein forcing the Crimean army; that 
recruiting stations were established in all the 
Provinces, and that one of them was located 
just across .the Niagara Suspension Bridge, 
not a hundred miles distant by rail; that a 
large sum of secret service money was placed 
by his Government at the disposal of Mr. 
Crampton, the British Minister at Washing¬ 
ton, for the express purpose of enlisting re¬ 
cruits in the United States; and the opening 
was an excellent one for young men like him 
desirous of /becoming distinguished. As an 
extra inducement [for Willard to enlist, it 
was suggested by the secret emissary, who 
was ma kirg these disclosures, that h? would 
Vie made a non-commissioned officer imme¬ 
diately, with a prospect of indefinite advance¬ 
ment. Helwould have to enlist as a private, 
but that was only a matter of form, and when 
once fairly on the Queen’s soil and in the 
Queen’s service, he would be forthwith pro¬ 
moted. It .was farther hinted that fighting 
would p rohably be over by the time the le 
gion reached the Crimea; Sebastopol would 
undoubtedly . be captured, which would of 
course end the war ; and he would thus have 
a chance to participate in the glory without 
encountering any of the perils. 
“Who knows,” suggested Sam., but that 1 
shall return [some day Governor General of 
Canada ?” and the emissary echoed, “ Who 
knows!” So, without farther consideration, 
the young man signed the roll of enlistment, 
and set about making preparation for depart¬ 
ure ; but how to broach the subject to his 
friends was a matter of great difficulty. He 
dreaded the indignation and ridicule of his 
father, and the tears and entreaties of his 
mother and intended wife; and besides, there 
was a very tender chord in his bosom that 
thrilled at the thought of an indefinite sepa¬ 
ration. Ambi tion and military ardor, how¬ 
ever, triumphed ; he had gone too far to 
retreat he thought, and he therefore braved all 
the terrors of a disclosure. Indignation and 
ridicule, tears and entreaties were alike una¬ 
vailing, and the morning set for his departure 
at length came around. One solitary member 
of his family sympathized with him in the un¬ 
dertaking, and that one was hi3 mother.— | 
“ Poor Sam,” she said, “ was not so much to ’ 
blame after all; he was brave, and ambitions 
of distinction, and, while she lamented the step 
he had taken, she honored the motive which 
induced it.” 
It was early in October, and the train, which 
was to bear the new recruit across the berder 
and place him under martial law in the Queen’s 
dominions, was to leave the railroad station at 
seven o’clock in the morning precisely. Our 
hero was astir before the first crowing of the 
cock, and his mother was busily engaged by 
candle light preparing breakfast. Time was 
passing rapidly, and the fire did not blaze with 
quite sufficient intensity to finish the abun¬ 
dant materials frying and baking around the 
stove; so the soldier wa3 sent iuto the wood- 
house to split some kindlirgs. Day was just 
beginning to dawn, and did not furnish suffi¬ 
cient light to see distinctly the knotty stick 
which he was engaged in splitting. As luck 
would have it, the axe slipped from his grasp, 
and falling, inflicted a ghastly wound upon 
his boot and stocking, besides considerably 
damaging his foot. The gash was not a deep 
one, but it was in a bad place amid the veins 
and tendons upon the upper surface. It bled 
frightfully, aud the pain was excruciating.— 
The w ounded hero pulled off his boot and then 
rushed into the house, leaving a trail of blood 
aioDg the floor ; and throwing himself upon a 
lounge with a groan, fairly fainted away. 
Then arose a scene of confusion and terror 
in the household ; a surgeon was sent for in 
all haste, whole bottles of camphor, hartshorn 
and ether restoratives, were discharged upon 
the prostrate form, which finally revived just 
as the surgeon made his appearance, who pro¬ 
ceeded forthwith to wash away the blood, 
stitch up the wound and bandage the foot. 
“It will be a painful wound for one so 
slight,” observed the man of lint and plasters ; 
“ the tendons of two of the toes are injured, 
and the least motion will be excruciating.— 
Bat the patient, if he he careful, will be around 
again in a week.” 
The wounded soldier groaned away the 
week in an arm chair, and cogitated as he 
groaned : “ If such a slight affair, as the Doc¬ 
tor calls this, is attended with so much pain, 
what would it be if a leg were carried away 
by a cannon shot, or half a dozen ribs broken 
by a splinter from an exploded shell ?”— 
Among other books and papers furnished 
during this interval, for his amusement, by 
his very considerate nurse, Sarah Smith, was 
a late number of the Boston Medical and Sur¬ 
gical Journal, containing a long descriptive 
catalogue of remarkable wounds and their 
treatment; written by an Ameiiean surgeon 
in the Crimean army. The article was one 
of the very highest interest to the profession, 
but a sickening detail of horrors to every one 
besides. 
Sam. Wulard read it and was cured of his 
military mahia. He stated as much to his 
father, and intimated that he might as well 
make out tie deed for that hundred acres, as 
he and Sarah had concluded to be married 
three weeks from that day. “ What!” inter¬ 
rupted the old gentleman with a malicious 
sneer; “ and abandon all chance of being 
made Governor General of Canada!” The 
lady, who was present, here interposed in her 
lover’s behalf, and observed that Samuel, after 
much reflection, had concluded to transfer his 
allegiance to her instead of to Queen Victoria, 
and that she would see to it that he should 
have due reverence for law. All difficulties 
were therefore happily adjusted except one, 
which was at this moment suggested by the 
victim himself, viz: he was a recruit in the 
British army, and they would try him by a 
Court Martial as a deserter, the penalty for 
which in time of war was death. This sug¬ 
gestion struck terror to the hearts of the 
whole Willard family, and a legal adviser 
was at once sent for and retained. The coun¬ 
sellor, after coolly pocketing the fee, told them 
to rest easy on the score of desertion, as the 
United States Marshal, with It 1 writ for his 
arrest, had already chased the recruiting offi¬ 
cer over the border for violating the neutrality 
laws ; and that if he ever dared to show his 
face again this side of the frontier, he would 
bs sure to briDg up in a jail. “ All I have to 
add,” he said, “ is this : don’t let the youDg 
man run his head into the lion’s mouth by 
crossing over into Canada.” 
The caution was duly observed, the milita¬ 
ry farce was ended, and Samuel Willard 
was transformed from a very poor soldier into 
a very good husbandman. 
My Father’s Will. —A pious old man 
was one day walking to the sanctuary with a 
New Testament in his hand, when a friend 
met him, and said, “ Good morning, Mr. 
Price.” “Ah, good morniDg,” replied he; 
“ I am reading my Father’s will a3 I walk 
along.” “Well, what has he left yon?” said 
his friend. “ Why, he has bequeathed to me 
a hundred fold more in this life, and in the 
world to come life everlasting.” This beauti¬ 
ful reply wa3 the means of comforting his 
•Christian friend, who was at the time in sor¬ 
rowful circumstances. 
True joy is a serene and sober emotion ; 
aud they are miserably out that take laugh¬ 
ing for rejoicing : the seat of it is within, and 
there is no cheerfulness like the resolution of 
a brave mind. 
El » 
A Quiet Rebuke. —It had been the prac¬ 
tice among the attendants of Divine worship 
in one of the down-east churches of America, 
for some of the youth to flatten out pewter 
buttons, and pass them into the contribution 
box. The old dominie at length felt it his du¬ 
ty, in justice to his po cket, to check the 
growing evil. “ My dear friends,” said he, 
“ some of you are in the habit of flattening 
the eye of metal buttons, and contributing 
thereof to the treasury of the Lord. I would 
simply observe, that while the process makes 
the re emblance to a ten cent piece no more 
complete, it renders them utterly useless as 
buttons.” 
Young man, a private word. When you 
go courting find out as soon as possible 
whether your affections are being planted more 
in a bundle of dry goods and things generally, 
than a pulsating heart, hemmed in by warm 
ribs all that. Many a fellow has laid himself 
out for a full made woman, and only found a 
very extensive assortment of cotton, whale¬ 
bone and similar delusive institutions. Just 
look over the goods before going to the par- 
A TALI, slab-sided Yankee who wa3 making 
his appearance at Cape May last summer, 
strolled down to the beach during bathing 
time. On seeing the bevy of beauties disport¬ 
ing in the waves, he burst into a fit of enthu- 
siam. “ Je ru-sa-lem! if that don’t jest re¬ 
mind me of something good we have to hum.” 
“What is that?” remarked a friend who 
heard him. “What is it?” said Jonathan, 
smacking his lips ; “ why, it’s lasses and water/” 
Jack Bannister, praising the hospitality 
of the Irish, after one of his trips to the sister 
kingdom, was asked if he had been in Cork. 
“ No,” replied the wit, “ but I saw a great 
many drawings of it.” 
Bonnets and Births. —The present style 
of bonnet is certainly not of a Malthusian 
character, for since they came into use there 
have been more hairs-apparent than ever. 
Somebody says a wife should be like roast¬ 
ed lamb — tender and nicely dressed. Some¬ 
body else wickedly adds, “ and without sauce!” 
A Spindle-shanked Dandy is palpably a 
vagrant, inasmuch as “ he has no visible 
means of support.” 
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shall yearly bo brought under cultivation. Longer 
credits at six p8r cent, per annum may be negotiated 
by special application. Twenty per cent, from tho cred¬ 
it price will ho doducted for cash, in which case the 
Company’s Construction Bonds will bo recoived as cash. 
It is believed that tho prico, long credit, and low rates 
of interest chargod for thoso lands, will enable a man 
with a few hundrod dollars in each, and ordinary indus¬ 
try, to mako himself indepcndentbeforoall tho purchaso 
money becomes duo. In tho moan timo tho rapid set¬ 
tlement of tho country will probably have increased 
their value four or five fold. When required an experi¬ 
enced person wili accompany applicants, to give infor¬ 
mation and aid in selecting lands. 
Largo Flats, showing tho precise location of tho Lands 
throughout the State, may bo seen at tho office. Small 
pocket Flats, as a guide to any of tho Company’s lainds 
and Famphlets, containing interesting informat on, ac¬ 
companied by numerous letters from respectable far¬ 
mers throughout the State, may be had on application 
at the otlice of tho Company. No. 52 Michigan Avenuo 
Chicago. CHARLES if. DU FU Y, Jr., 
, land Agent Illinois Central Railroad Co. 
SILSBY LANGWORTHY & DANIELS, 
HARDWARE AND AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE, 
Seneca Falls, Seneca Co , N. Y. 
*■£9 Stoves, Iron, Steel, Tin, and Sheet Iron Work, 
Paints, Oils, Wooden Ware, &c. 293-tf 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS AT PRIVATE BALE. 
I.. G. Morels’ Illustrated Catalogue with prices attach¬ 
ed of Short-liornod and Devon Bulls, and Bull Calves, a 
few Horses, South-Down Rams. Berkshire, Suffolk, and 
Essex Swine, will he forwarded by mail (if desired) by 
addressing L. G. Morris, Fordham, Wostchester Co., N. 
Y., or N. J. Becar, 187 Broadway, N. Y. It also con¬ 
tains portrait, Pedigree, aud performance on the turf, of 
tho celebrated liorso “ Monarch.” standiugthis season at 
the Herdsdale Farm. 278-tf. 
