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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
THE POETRY OF NATURE. 
'Tin in the wild-bird’s song, 
llymued in mystic rhyme. 
Keeping time 
Zepliyr-fann’d leaves among, 
Eden’s earliest song! 
Every day a richer lay 
Than mortal ever sings, 
Through the forest rings. 
There’s poetry in flowers— 
The harmony of God; 
Bright cups of perfume given 
From the native air of heaven; 
An upper-sphere Elysian 
Come down to our abode. 
These loveliest, purest things, 
Earth from her bosom brings 
Unfallen! 
Come they from their Maker's hand, 
A blushing paradisial band; 
Wooing an infant’s love ; 
To its young feeling 
The old heart stealing. 
The silvery ocean-wave, 
As it dances 
To the merry music of the gale, 
The solemn tempest-wail, 
Or giving starry glances 
From a heaven-borrow’d sheen— 
Here is poetry I ween. 
At the twilight’s stilly hour 
The rill’s low plaintive song 
Hath a magic power, 
As leisurely along, 
Happy ever, ever, 
Tiring never, never, 
It lulleth its bosom-treasure 
With strange, poetic measure. 
Aye, ’tis Nature’s lyre, 
Where burnoth poetic fire ; 
Unswept. by mortal hand, 
Its heaven-strung chords 
Have their own vibration— 
I’ocsy without words— 
A diviner inspiration, 
Meet for an angel band ! 
Rcod’s Corners, July, 1854. C. Annette TT.vrris. 
licit! §m!i. 
[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
THE SOl'ilOMORE’S CONFESSION. 
BY EDWARD WEBSTER, ESQ. 
The Society of Lone Men met as usual at 
their rooms, in the manner and for the purpose 
heretofore described. One of the latest initi¬ 
ated members was called upon by the J’resi 
dent for the history of his misfortunes, and, in 
the language of Mark Antony, those of the 
society “ who had tears to shod prepared to 
shed them nowl” 
It is more than a year, he commenced, since 
as a student 1 entered these classic halls, 
have risen from the low estate of a Freshman, 
to the lofty dignity of a Sophomore; and in 
reaching that position, have passed through the 
usual ordeals so necessary to make those hon¬ 
ors sit gracefully upon me. I have been wet 
down divers times when passing in and out of 
the recitation hall, by buckets of water thrown 
from a third story window; have been salted in 
my seat at the chapel; have had my door 
blockaded with a stack of fresh-cut hay; my 
shins kicked upon the football ground; my toes 
trodden upon in a rush from the crowded 
porch; and I have suffered with freshman and 
becoming meekness, the thousand and one an¬ 
noyances which yearlings in college know so 
well how to inflict upon uew-comers. My ex¬ 
perience is consonant with yours; and while in 
the condition of a recipient of Sophomore in¬ 
dignities, need I say to you, gentlemen, that my 
soul revolted at them? but now that it comes 
to be my turn to inflict the torments upon my 
successors, a great change has come over me 
upon these points. I can contemplate with in¬ 
finitely more grace, the prospect of seeing my 
animal hook another’s ox, than to observe him 
Ahe meek and unresisting recipient of the horn! 
I am thoroughly convinced, in the language of 
that renowned military tacticianin Weak Jfouse, 
“ that discipline must be maintained.” I pledge 
to you, gentlemen, my sacred honor, that the 
salt shall be duly scattered, the Freshmen prop¬ 
erly baptized, and the full measure of annoyan¬ 
ces and discomforts meted out to them. They 
shall be guarded, jostled, kicked, and cuffed all 
in due order and degree. But my enthusiasm 
upon the subject leads me astray from the 
thread of my narrative. It is never agreeable 
to dwell upon a personal adventure where you 
yourself have cut a ridiculous figure, but there 
ought to be some expiation given in all such 
cases, and due confession made, in order to oh 
tain absolution. 
J was raised upon a farm in a somewhat re¬ 
tired neighborhood, and knew very little of the 
world and its ways. Somewhat unsophisticat¬ 
ed and verdant, which—which— 
“ Which you hav’n’t got over yet,” suggested 
a J unior, by way of a prompter. 
“Will the president please keep order while 
a member is speaking?” exclaimed a sympathi 
zerwith the narrator; whereupon the presiding 
officer very properly rapped the head of the 
disorderly Junior, instead of the desk. 
Somewhat verdant and unsophisticated, 
which rendered me very susceptible to female 
charms, and very incompetent to make myself 
agreeable in female society, I was perpetual- 
ly falling in love with the rustic beauties which 
blossomed in quiet cottages of our neighbor¬ 
hood, &nd continually getting myself laughed at 
for my folly. I was a large, raw-boned, and un¬ 
couth youth, slow of movement as well as of 
peech, and, in short, anything but an Adonis in 
person; but I had a heart—oh! how soft; and 
a head— 
“ Oh! how soft, too,” suggested the J unior. 
No, sir; anything but that! 1 fell out of a 
second story window when 1 was but lour years 
old, and hit my head upon a stone, with my 
heels projecting in the air like a forked stake. 
1 carry the marks of that fall upon my head to 
this day. The concussion drove one of the 
bumps completely in, so as to produce upon 
the cranium a minus phrenological develop¬ 
ment A. lecturer once examining my head in 
public in our village, called it a lusus natura. 
“No sir!” said J (that was before I could read 
Latin), “’taint no such thing; it’s only a stone 
bruise!” l>o you call such a head as that soft 
gentlemen? and now that 1 have vindicated 
myself from what the national administration 
calls orthodoxy in New York politics, but het¬ 
erodoxy somewhere else, let us proceed with 
the chief incident of our narrative. 
There resided in the village, some two miles 
from where 1 lived, a handsome black-eyed 
girl, my junior by a year or two, who had won 
not only my boyish fancy, but that also of ma¬ 
ny of the village beaux. SShe was what the 
country people call a smart girl, somewhat 
vain of her charms, it must be confessed, and 
proud of the admiration which she elicited 
from the young men; but she was really kind- 
hearted, and, I think, not disposed to inflict up¬ 
on others unnecessary pain. But her vanity 
and coquetry occasionally carried her too tar, 
and made her enemies where she would other¬ 
wise have possessed fast friends. I was one of 
her blinded and willing slaves, and subjected 
myself unwittingly to many an exaction, just 
because my own honesty of purpose failed to 
perceive they were experiments upon my facile 
temper. I was jealous of her favor to others, 
and would have given half a dozen of the vil¬ 
lage boys sound thrashings, if I had not been 
restrained by fear of her displeasure. My 
heart aches now, even at this late day, to think 
of what I suffered; but the wound has become 
cicatrized, and will trouble me no more. 
I had one especial rival for the lady’s favor, 
in a young college student, who came into our 
neighborhood to teach a winter school. He 
had the advantage over me in many respects, 
mid was disposed to make tho most of it. lip 
sides the prestige of a college name, he was 
good-looking, easy in manners, audacious, im¬ 
pudent; never at a loas for words in conversa¬ 
tion, and self-conceited beyond measure. He 
would thrust himself forward at the breaking 
up of a singing school or an evening party 
and carry oil' the prize before my face, while I, 
like a whipped cur, would sneak home across 
the fields, chagrined and disappointed. 
Becoming at length fixed in the belief that 
my rival’s success arose from the fact of his be¬ 
ing a college student, with all the honors and 
degrees of a literary institution in prospttctu, a 
circumstance which he was in the habit of lug¬ 
ging in on all possible occasions, in order to in¬ 
crease the amount of consideration shown him 
in our rural community, I resolved to fight 
him with his own weapons; in short, to become 
a college student myself. Accordingly 1 grave¬ 
ly announced to the old folks one evening after 
supper, the startling intelligence that I was go 
ing to college. The old lady dropped a^an of 
new milk on the floor in the extremity of her 
amazement, while father rubbed a glass out ol 
his spectacles, in his haste to call them into 
requisition. Both believed me seized with 
sudden lunacy; but the sober earnestness of my 
manner at length removed all doubts about my 
sanity; and being an only son, I finally pre¬ 
vailed upon them to aid me in my new-formed 
enterprise. I laid before them the dignities, 
the honors, and the glories, which would be 
showered on our heretofore plebeian house, in 
case the feat could once be accomplished; 
albeit, the principal motive was kept carefully 
out of sight 
After a couple of years’ fitting at a prepara¬ 
tory school not many miles distant, I was de¬ 
clared competent to become a candidate for the 
Freshman class, and accordingly made prepa¬ 
rations to depart for this our venerable alma 
mater. The old folks strained a point to fit 
me out respectably with a new suit of home- 
spun, a goodly bundle of socks and linen, and 
a moderate amount of cash. In the mean 
time, I had been over clandestinely to the res¬ 
idence of my lady-love, in order to make a last 
appeal to her kindly regards before entering 
upon the field of my literary labors. Her 
mother, however, when she found I was about 
leaving the place for a four years’ absence at 
least, had been working very diligently to 
countermine all my strategic operations; wise¬ 
ly concluding it was neither well for the young 
lady nor myself to become involved in entan¬ 
gling alliances which the vicissitudos of time 
and change might subsequently render disa¬ 
greeable and embarrassing to both. I urged 
my suit very eloqucnlly, gentlemen, I assure 
you, but all in vain. I entreated the girl at 
least to correspond with me during my absence, 
but she declined on the pretence of the village 
gossip it would produce; and all the vantage 
ground I gained was permission to call on her 
the evening of my final departure. 
That evening, having bidden farewell to the 
old folks, tearful on the part of my poor, dis¬ 
consolate and doting mother, I hastened with a 
palpitating heart over the fields toward the 
residence of the mistress of my affections.— 
The mother, however, as I afterwards learned, 
had, with much persuasion, induced the daugh¬ 
ter to retire, leaving the farewell ceremonies to 
bo performed by proxy. Knocking at the 
door, after two or three turns up and down the 
street, in order to quiet my nerves and muster 
up my courage, I was shown into the snug lit¬ 
tle sitting room, where a very kindly greeting 
awaited me from the father and mother. The 
daughter did not come. We talked upon 
common-place subjects for some time, J won¬ 
dering all the while why the special object of 
my visit did not make her appearance, but not 
having sufficient courage to inquire for her.— 
At length the mother volunteered to hint qui¬ 
etly, “that the poor girl was quite unwell that 
evening, and had bidden her (the mother) give 
me her kind regards and best wishes for my 
success in college.” The old lady then arose, 
shook me by the hand, bade me good evening 
on her own behalf, and withdrew, leaving the 
old gentleman and myself alone. 
You may call me a dunce, or what you like, 
but I assure you solemnly, the idea that 1 was 
expected to withdraw never crossed my mind. 
The previous positive promise of the girl to 
see me, had taken such complete possession of 
all my faculties, that I verily believe nothing 
short of a direct declaration that 1 was ex¬ 
pected to leave, would have awakened me to 
the proprieties of the time and the occasion. 
The clock struck ten—eleven—and was fast 
verging on to twelve. The old gentleman 
grew sleepy, nodded in his chair, and at lash 
unable to stand it longer, said: 
“Well, Mr. Jones, it is getting late, and I 
must be up in the morning betimes; if you 
wish to say anything to me before you go, you 
can do so now, and then I mast bid you good 
bye.” 
The old gentleman spoke innocently, for he 
was not in the plot, and supposed I wished, 
from some cause, to consult with him. 
The idea that I had been victimized, or 
rather that I had victimized myself, flashed 
suddenly across my mind, and grasping tlie old 
gentleman’s extended hand, I exclaimed: 
“1 have nothing to say, except Jjo humbly 
ask your pardon, which I do most sincerely!' 
“ My pardon! for what?” 
“ For thus boring you, and making a fool of 
myself!” and then seizing my hat, I rushed 
headlong out of the house. The moon was 
shining gloriously, and lit up the quiet scene 
around in all the beauty of a summer night 
but heedless of all this, I was hurrying along a 
passage lined with shrubbery towards the gate, 
when I stumbled accidentally upon a man who 
was stealing up the walk in an opposite direc 
tion. We were both somewhat taken abaci 
THE WOOL GROWER AND STOCK REGISTER. 
VI.- 
Vol. 
Ext 
:ki> and Improved I 
Answer in two weeks. 
[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
Tiik Worn, Grower and Stock Register in the only 
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branches of Wool and Stock Husbandry. It contains a 
vast amount of useful and reliable, information on the 
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Poultry—whether located East or West, North or South, 
for the most of tho matter given in its pages is equally 
adapted to all sections of tho Union, the Canadas, he. The 
Sixth Volume, commencing July, 1854, will bo 
Enlarged to 32 Octavo Pages Monthly ! 
And improved in both Contents and Appearance. Among 
other matters of interest to Wool Growers, Breeders, Gra¬ 
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| Names and Residences of the principal Breeders and Own- 
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IC.vouavi.v 08 —including Portraits of Domestic Animals, 
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I am composed of 20 letters. 
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Scotland. 
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My whole is tlio name of a very beautiful 
song. 
Maple Vale, 1854. Nellie. 
Answer next week. 
ARITHMETICAL QUESTION. 
[Dedicated to tho boys who road tho Rural.] 
Three men, A, B and C, were sitting near a 
table. B and C were counting money. Said A 
to B and C, “ I owe a certain amount, but if you 
ill give me one half of your money, I shall 
be able to pay my debt and have $100 left,— 
Said B to C, “ If you will give me one-tliird of 
your money, I shall be able to pay A’s debt and 
have $100 left. Said 0 to B, “ I owe twice as 
much as A, lacking $0.42 4-13, but if you will 
give me one-fourth of your money I shall be 
able to pay A’s debt as well as my own, and 
have $100 left. How much did A and C each 
;m. and how much money had B and C re¬ 
spectively? Kanuok. 
Dunville, C. W., July, 1854. 
Answer next week. 
by the collision, and paused a moment to gaze 
upon each other. The rays of the full moon 
fell upon his face, and revealed at once to me 
the features of my rival. He had a guitar in 
his hand, and was about to commence a sere 
nade under the window of the girl of my 
heart The fellow had just graduated, and re 
turned a day or two before to the town, with 
half yard square of parchment tied with a blue 
ribbon, which he had displayed with great 
eclat to the astonished rustics of the pluce. 
Without a word spoken, I seized the guitar, 
wrested it from his hand, and Broke it over his 
head. We then grappled in anything but 
fraternal hug, and, rolling upon the ground., 
were making sad havoc with the plants s 
flowers, when the old gentleman hearing 
noise, and thinking that thieves were in his 
fruit garden, let out his dog. The fierce ani¬ 
mal made towards us with a Bavage growl, 
which had the effect instantly to make us re¬ 
lease our hold of each other, and take to our 
heels; my antagonist leaving a portion of his 
coat skirt in the dog’s mouth, as he leaped the 
fence, and J spraining my ankle sadly by a fall, 
as 1 rushed headlong through the gate. 
That, gentlemen, is the beginning and end 
of my love aifairs. 1 left next morning on the 
early train, and by noon on the following day, 1 
was at college, beyond the limits of my native 
State. My rival took out a warrant against 
me for Assault and Battery, but the constable 
after diligent search, made a return of non e.st 
inventus to the writ The girl, us l afterwards 
learned, gave the graduate also a summary dis 
missal, and married a young farmer, if possible 
more bashful, more unsophisticated, raoreinno 
cent, and less in favor with the ladies generally, 
than even I was myself. 
Answer to Illustrated Rebus No. 32 .—Tattling 
and lying walk hand in hand. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma in No. 31.— 
f still live. 
(ffllil sift Humor. 
Glossing it Over. —Amongst other things 
which undergo adulteration, it would appear 
that silk forms no exception. A meeting has 
been held to decry the treachery of the trade, 
the material being neither up to the mark nor 
down to the weight This verifies the state¬ 
ment of Dr. Watts, that, 
“ Satin over finds somo work 
For Idle hands to do.’* (Diogone*. 
“ An!” said Seraphina Angelica, speaking on 
some subject in which her feelings were enlist¬ 
ed, “how gladly would 1 embrace an opportu¬ 
nity!” “ Would I were an opportunity!” inter¬ 
rupted her bashful lover. 
A western editor has discovered that, fe¬ 
males of an uncertain age, us e plumpers, which 
lie defines to be indiu rubber or gutta percha 
made to wear inside of the mouth to make tho 
cheeks look plump. 
The age is getting more refined. “ Boot 
hog, or die,” is now rendered as follows:— 
“ Penetrate the subsoil, my porcine friend, or 
early expect an obituary notice on your un¬ 
timely demise." 
“ Labor is honorable,” says the Boston Dost. 
It may be “honorable,” but it is mighty “in¬ 
convenient,” when the thermometer is about 
90 in the shado. 
A youno man who has recently taken a 
wife, Hays he did not find it half so hard to get 
married as he did to got. the furniture. 
HOME PROTECTION. 
Tempest Insurance Company, Capital $250,000, Organized 
December 24, 1852; Chartered March 1, 1853. Homos 
only Insured by this Company. No one risk taken lor 
more than $3,000. 
Many distinguished pontons have insured their homes, 
to the amount of $3,000 each, in this Company, among 
whom are Ex-President Van Boren, Kinderhook; Ex- 
Governor Seward, Auburn. 
Auburn, May 10th, 1853. 
To whom it may concern :—We are personally acquainted 
with many of the Officers and Directors of the Tempest In¬ 
surance Company, located at Meridian, Cayuga Co., N. V. 
In our opinion they are among the most wealthy and sub¬ 
stantial oluas of Farmers in this county. 
J. N. STARIN. 
ELMORE P. ROSS. 
THOMAS V. HOWE, Jr. 
The above gentlemen will be recognized as the Cashier 
of Cayuga County Bank, Auburn; Postmaster, Auburn, and 
Kx-Meiliber of Congress, Auburn, Cayuga County. 
N. B.—The public are cautioned to bear in mind the 
name, (Tempest,) and not submit to an imposition daily 
practiced by two-by-four Mutual Co's. 
234-41 T. R. TIMBY, Secretary. 
GAFFNEY, BURKE & CO., 
importers, wholesale and retail dealers in 
Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, 
A’o. 53 Main Street, and J\os. i <1/1(43 north St. Paul Street, 
GAFFNEY’S BLOCK, ROCHESTER, 
Have now in storo one of the largest stocks of Dry Goods 
ever brought to this city, in which may bo found every de¬ 
sirable article of Ladles' and Gents’ Dress Goods, adapted to 
tho season. Their improved facilities for IMPORTING, and 
the great advantage of having u resident partner in New 
York, daily attending tho Auction Sales, enable them to 
offer to Merchants and Dealers, by piece, case or bale, as 
cheap as can be purchased in the New York and Boston 
Markets. 
Wholesale Rooms Nos. 1 & 3 North St. Paul St., 
GAFFNEY’S BLOCK, ROCHESTER. 
Summer Dress Goods.—We have just 
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Bareges and Tissues, plaid and striped Pongee Silks, Mus¬ 
lins, plaid and striped Lawns, Printed Jaconets, he., he. 
Tho styles are entirely now anil beautiful. 
GAFFNEY, BURKE A CO., 63 Main St., Rochester. 
Broche and Crape Shawls. —We have 
now on hand a very large stock of Broche and Crape 
Shawls, all colors and qualities, which wo are selling at 
very great bargains, as they were purchased much less than 
cost to import, ul an Auction Sale. 
GAFFNEY, BURKE ft CO., 
Gaffney's Block, 63 Main St., Rochester. 
More New Silks.—We liave just received 
another large assortment of Summer Silks, from an Auc¬ 
tion Sale, which wore purchased oiikap kok cash, and will 
be sold at less than cost to import. The stj lea are very 
handsome and entirely new. Wo have ul-io just received 
4(1 pieces of those celebrated Black Silks, which we are 
selling as cheap iih usual. GAFFNEY, BURKE, h CO., 
63 Main St., Gafknky’b Block, Rochester. 
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