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[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
THE V AT.L OF PALMIRA.— A FRAGMENT. 
BY ADELINE LAWSON. 
’Tis night!—and in Palmyra’s halls 
Zbnohia holds high festival, 
With warriors brave, and ladies fair, 
In banquet hall assembled there. 
The haughtiest Lord has lain aside, 
With coat of mail his stately piide, 
And seems resolved to show his power 
And give to revelry the hour. 
And like Mahomet’S houses seem, 
The maids who circle ’round the Queen, 
With lustrous, dark and melting eye, 
But found beneath an Eastern sky; 
And masses of rich silken hair 
Which with the raven’s wing may vie, 
Sweep back from brow of purity, 
And float upon the balmy air. 
Golconda’s gems and gold bedeck 
The rounded arm and snowy neck, 
And round the slender form they hold 
The silken robe inwrought with gold. 
No fingers on the harp strings dwell, 
But ne’er was heard so sweet a lay 
As rose on air with plaintive swell, 
Then in low murmurs died away. 
The golden lamps emit a light 
That beams the marble halls along. 
While odors on the air of night 
Are scattered by a servile throng. 
On silken couch the guests recline, 
The daintiest viands grace the boaid, 
From massive gold they quail their wine, 
But first libations freely poured 
To Marsthat on the coming day 
When they should meet in war’s array, 
He’d give to tlieir victorious hand 
Auk-elian and his proud command. 
****** 
The night wears on —when suddenly 
Upon the breeze is borne a sound 
That banishes wild revelry 
And sends a startled glance around; 
Then maiden’s cheek is pale with fear: 
All still and motionless she sits, 
With stony eye and parted lips, 
As if the Demon of Despair 
Had crushed her young and guileless heart, 
And Life was ready to depart. 
Then can fond lover illy brook 
Such keen, such agonizing look, 
But in light tone and manner gay 
Thus strives to wile her fear away. 
“ Fear not:—'tis but the fitful breeze 
That sweeps the branches of lhe trees, 
Or gazelle bounding o’er the plain,— 
Or 'tis perchance the nightly strain 
Of Bulbul to the Rose.” 
But no, 
For though at first so faint and low 
Each moment hears it louder grow. 
“ I hear the Roman's battle cry 1” 
Zknobia said with flashing eye, 
“ Haste, Zabdas, haste thee for to meet, 
We will ourselves their pr<#ence greet!” 
* * * * ^ * • 
The day and battle !^>th arc 
The sun has set in golden sheen, 
Aurklian sits within his tent, 
Btfore him stands the Syrian Queen, 
And stern his looks, and harsh his word, 
“ How durst.thou arm against thy Lord ?” 
Then from Zexobias haughty eye 
Flashed lightnings, as she made reply: 
“ The fate of war has given my land, 
Myself, and subjects to thy band; 
Enchained my limbs, but my free soul 
Defies thee still, nor brooks control; 
The only boon from thee I crave 
Is death! I will not live thy slave.” 
She paused—then with a sneer resumed: 
“ The day is not far distant, when 
I won the victory o’er Rome, 
And sent her armies back again, 
In greater haste than when they came, 
Shorn by a woman’s hand of Fame.” 
“ My victories shall their shame efface; 
Thy beauties shall my triumph grace I” 
He waves his hand and biiefly tells 
Them to remove, but guard her well. 
****** 
And where is now Palmyra's Queen r 
And where is fled the gorgeous scene 
We strove to picture in our lay: 
And what can mean these columas gray, 
O’ergrown with moss ? These ruined walls 
Are left of all Palmyra’s halls 
Not swept by ruthless Time away. 
’Twas there of yore, the wine was quaffed, 
B.y maiden bright and galliard gay, 
And there was heard the joyous laugh. 
And where are they that revelled there r 
Ah I “ Echo only answers, where !” 
Rochester, N. Y., August, 1864. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YO RKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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ANGLING FOR A HUSBAND. 
[Translated from the French.] 
Mme. X)-who resided at Chaton, was a 
lady of the strictest character, and of a heart 
proof against all allurement. She prided her¬ 
self upon her great insensibility, and her pro¬ 
found indifference had repulsed all those gal¬ 
lants who had ventured to oiler their addresses. 
The country was for her a veritable retreat; 
she shunned re-unions, and was only happy in 
solitude. The charms of a chosen circle, the 
pleasures of the world, had for her no attrac¬ 
tion, and her favorite recreation was that of 
angling—an amusement worthy of an unfeeling 
woman. 
She w'as accustomed every pleasant day to 
station herself at the extremity of the lonely 
island of Chaton, and there, with a book in one 
hand and her line in the other, her time was 
passed in fishing, reading or dreaming. 
A lover who had always been intimidated 
by her coldness, and who had never ventured 
on a spoken or written declaration, surprised 
her at her favorite pursuit, one day when he 
had come to the island for the purpose of en¬ 
joying a Swimming bath. He observed her for 
a long time without discovery, and busied him¬ 
self with thinking how he might turn to his ad¬ 
vantage this lonely amusement of angling. His 
reveries were so deep and so fortunate, that he 
at last hit upon the desired plan, a novel ex¬ 
pedient, indeed—yet they are always most suc¬ 
cessful with such women as pretend to be in¬ 
vulnerable. 
The next day our amorous hero returned to 
ihe island, studied the ground, made his ar¬ 
rangements. and when Mme. It- had re¬ 
sinned her accustomed place, he slipped away 
to a remote and retired shelter, and after hav¬ 
ing divested himself of his clothing he entered 
lhe stream. An excellent swimmer and skill¬ 
ful diver, he trusted to his aquatic talents for 
the success of his enterprise, lie swam to the 
end of the island with the greatest precaution, 
favored by the chances of the bank and the 
bushes which hung their dense foliage above 
the waters. In his lips was a note folded and 
sealed, and on arriving near the spot where 
Mme. D. was sitting, he made a dive, and 
lightly seizing the hook, he attached to it his 
letter. 
Mme. D——, perceiving the movement of 
her line, supposed that a fish was biting. 
The young man had returned as he came; 
he had doubled the cape which extended out 
into the water, separating them from each oth¬ 
er, and had regained his post without the least 
noise in his passage under the willows. The 
deed was done. 
Mme. D-pulled in her line, and what 
was her surprise to observe dangling upon the 
barb of her hook, not the expected shiner, but 
an unexpected letter ! 
This was, however, trilling, and her surprise 
became stupefaction when, on detaching the 
transfixed billet, she read upon the envelope— 
her name ! 
So then, this letter which she had fished up 
was addressed to her ! 
This was somewhat miraculous. She was 
afraid. Her troubled glance scrutinized the 
surrounding space, but there was nothing to be 
seen, or heard; all was still and lonely both on 
land and water. 
She quitted her seat, but took away the let¬ 
ter. As soon as she was alone, and closeted 
with herself, and as soon as the paper was dry 
—a paper perfectly water-proof, and written 
upon with indelible ink—she unsealed the let¬ 
ter and commenced its perusal. 
A declaration of love ! cried she at the first 
words. What insolence ! 
Still, the insolence had come to her in such 
an extraordinary manner that her curiosity 
would uot suffer her to treat this letter as she 
had so many others—pitilessly burn it without 
a reading. 
N o, she read it quite through. The lover, 
who dated his note from the bottom of the 
river, had skillfully adopted the allegory, and 
introduced himself as a grotesque inhabitant 
of the waters. The fable was gracefully man¬ 
aged, and with the jesting tone which he had 
adopted, was mingled a true, serious, ardent 
sentiment, expressed with beauty and eloquence. 
The next day Mme. D.-returned to the 
island, not without emotion and some trace of 
fear. She threw her line with a trembling 
hand, and shuddered as, a moment after, she 
perceived the movement of the hook. 
Is it a fish? Is it a letter? 
It was a letter. 
Mme. I)-was no believer in magic, still 
there was something strange and supernatural 
in all this. 
She had an idea of throwing back the letter 
into the stream, but relinquished it. The most 
stubborn and haughty woman is always dis¬ 
armed in face of that strange mystery which 
captivates her imagination. 
This second letter was more tender, more 
passionate, more charming than the first, 
Mme. 1)-re-read it several times, and could 
not help thinking about the delightful merman 
who wrote such bewitching letters. 
On the subsequent day she attached her line 
to the bank, and left it swimming in the stream, 
while she withdrew to a hiding-place upon the 
extremity of the island. She watched for a 
long time, but saw nothing. She returned to 
the place, withdrew the line—and there was 
the letter! 
This time an answer was requested. It was, 
perhaps, premature, yet the audacious request 
obtained full success. The reply was written 
after some hesitation, and the hook dropped 
into the stream charged with a letter which 
was intended to say nothing, and affected a 
sort of badinage, which was nevertheless a 
bulletin of a victory gained over the harsh se 
verity of a woman until then inapproachable, 
Mme. D-had too much shrewdness not 
to guess that her mysterious correspondent em 
ployed, instead of magic, the art of a skillful 
diver. Scruples easily understood, restrained 
her from that portion of the bank where she 
was sure that the diver would emerge from the 
water. 
But this game of letters amused her. First 
it pleased her intellect, and then her heart was 
interested; finally her feelings, and her curiosi 
ty became so lively that she wrote: 
“Let us give up this jesting, which has 
pleased me for the moment, but which should 
continue no longer, and come with your apolo 
gies to Chaton.” 
The lover answered: 
“Yes, if you will add Hope.” 
The inexorable lady replied— 
“If only a word is necessary to decide you, 
be it so !” 
And the word was written. 
The young man appeared, and was not a 
loser. The gift of pleasing belonged to bis 
person as much as to his style, and he had 
made such rapid progress under water that it 
was easy to complete his conquest on land. 
Thus Mme. D-caught a husband with 
out wishing it, and in spite of the vow which 
she had taken, never to marry. Holding the 
line, she had been caught by the fish. 
Domestic Happiness. —Nothing hinders the 
constant agreement of people who live togeih 
er, but mere vanity; a secret insisting upon 
what they think their dignity or merit, and in 
ward expectation of such an over-measure of 
deference and regard, as answers to their own 
extravagant false scale, and which nobody can 
pay, because none but themselves can tell 
readily to what pitch it amounts.— Pope. 
A TALE FOR OLD FOGIES: 
OK, DOING AS A FATHER DSD. 
I love to hear of any man being convinced 
of an error, but especially an obstinate man.— 
A train and again lias it been said, that of all 
the people in the world, farmers are the most 
opinionated; that they do things for no better 
reason than that of their fathers’ having clone 
them generations before; that they have a will 
of their own, and that the whole world cannot 
turn them. Some such farmers have 1 known, 
certainly, but still with truth can I say, that I 
number among my country friends not a few of 
a contrary kind. The other day I was in con- 
ersation with my old friend, John Ashfield, of 
Highfield farm, a man from whom I learned 
much; though when I tell him so, he usually 
replies, “ the boot is on the other leg.” We 
were talking over old times together—but you 
shall have the account he gavje of himself, as 
well I can remember in his own words, 
«I have been as obstinate, pig-headed a man 
in my time, I suppose, as ever strode across a 
furrow; but the day is gone by now, and high 
time too thatjjit had. The tilth of my plow land, 
and the sward of my grass land, are different 
now from what they used to’be. 
Fifty years ago, James Holt was my neigh¬ 
bor. A wiser man than I was, or ever shall be, 
was James, though at that time I did not think 
so. When wheel plows were getting common | 
he says tome: ‘ Neighbor Ashfield, you are 
falling behind Lhe times; you must set up u 
wheel plow or two.’ 
I won’t,’ said I. 1 My father never had a 
wheel plow on the farm, and why should I?’— 
You know, Mr. Humphrey, that the farmers 
were always blunt in their speech, and no one 
more so than farmer Ashfield. 
When draining came into use, more than it 
had been before, my neighbor says to me: 
You are standing in your 
draining your land more than you do; but bet¬ 
ter late than never. Better begin now.’ 
‘I won’t,’ said I, ‘let those cut up their 
meadows, and lay out their money in slough 
tiles that like; my meadows shall always re¬ 
main as they have been.’ 
‘Well,’ says he, ‘at any rate trim up your 
hedges and headlands, or ’adland, as you call 
them a little closer. There’s a deal of waste 
land on your farm. Trim up your hedges and 
headlands.’ 
‘ I won’t,’ said I. ‘ My father was as good a 
farmer as any in the Parish; he knew what he 
was about as well as you do; and he never 
trimmed up his headlands more than I do.’ 
Soou after this he was at me again. ‘ Your 
land is stiff, neighbor,’ says he; ‘1 would advise 
you to try one of the new-fashioned clod-crush¬ 
ers, for you will find it an advantage.’ 
‘I won’t,’ said I. ‘ Such jimcracks may suit 
some people, but they won’t suit me; my har¬ 
rows break the ground quite as well as a clod- 
crusher; if some folks as I could mention, were 
half as fond of work as they are now of whims, 
it would be to their credit’ 
‘Neighbor Ashfield,’ says he, a year or two 
after threshing machines had once come into 
fashion, ‘you and I must do as other people do 
—we jnust set up a threshing machine.’ 
‘I won’t,’saysH. ‘ Why should 1 do that which 
my father never did? And why should I take 
the bread out of the mouth of the laboring man.’ 
But never did I see my neighbor more in 
earnest than when he came to ask me to give 
something towards the Sunday Schools. ‘ Lend 
them a helping hand,’ said he, ‘ for they are 
doing more good in the Parish than you think.’ 
‘1 won’t,’ says I. ‘We never used to have 
Sunday Schools, and plow-lads and dairy-maids 
do none too much as it is. What will they do 
if you make scholars of them, I chn’t tell.’ 
All this time I thought myself wondrous 
wise in not being led astray by the new tangled 
notions of my neighbors; but at last my eyes 
were opened, for there was not a farmer in the 
parish who hadn’t better crops than I had. 
I saw that my neighbor with a wheel plow 
could do more without a driver, and hold the 
plow tail with half the trouble that it cost me, 
so I set up three or four wheel plows: and 
what I could do without them now, it would 
be hard to say. 
‘ Keep your land wet at the top and dry at 
the bottom,’ said my neighbor, when I began 
to listen to him. I took his advice, had my 
meadows well drained, and have never had any 
cause to grudge either the expense or the 
trouble. He who doesn’t drain his farm, if it 
is a wet one, is draining his own purse by bad 
management. 
I looked about me and saw that I lost an 
acre or two of ground by my slovenly hedges 
and headlands; so I set to work and had them 
trimmed up close. It was a foolish thing that 
this was not done before. 
I was backward enough in venturing on a 
heavy iron press-wheel clod-crusher; but, when 
I did, 1 found more work done by it, than half 
a dozen pair of harrows would do. No one 
can persuade me to set it aside now. 
Nobody stood stiffer than I did against the 
threshing machines; but for all that, when I 
saw how easily my neighbor could turn a hun¬ 
dred bushels a day out of the straw, while my men, 
thumping away with their flails did so little, I 
gave way at once, and set up a machine myself. 
As my neighbor had got the better of my 
obstinacy in so many things, it was not at all 
likely he would give up trying me again about 
the Sunday Schools. At last he beat me there 
too. For many years have I supported them 
and never shall they need a pound while I have 
one to give. 
At the present time, though I am not fond 
of running neck or nothing after every new 
thing, 1 keep my eyes open to see, and my ears 
open to hear; quite disposed to believe that 
my neighbors are quite as wise as I am, and to 
. profit by their judgment as well as my own. 
It has often surprised me to think that, after 
setting my face against wheel plows, draining, 
clod-crushers, threshing machines, and Sunday 
Schools, I should adopt them all, but I believe 
Mr. Humphrey, the real truth to be this, that 
I never saw the ill condition of my own farm, 
till it pleased God to show me the evil of my 
own heart This it was that opened my eyes, 
humbled me, and took away my obstinacy.” 
ncr. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS, NO. 38. 
Answer in two weeks. 
[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
MISCELLANEOUS EMGMA. 
I am composed of 13 letters. 
My G, 3 is a great calamity. 
My 4, 2, 1 is a carpenter’s tool. 
My 12, 5, 13 is the name of one of the months. 
My 11, 10, G, 2, 3, 10 is a man’s name. 
My 12, 9, 3, 13 is a woman’s name. 
My 13, 11, 1 is the name of a tree. 
My 1, 7,4 is the imperfect of an English verb. 
My 2,* 13,11 is a sign of affirmation. 
My 10, 7,13 is used as a measurement of time. 
My 10, 11, 11, 3 is a wild animal. 
My 6, 9, 3, 4, 2, 1 is a flourishing village in 
Wyoming county, N. Y. 
My whole is the name of an Institution of 
learning in Western New York. n. 
Orangeville, N. Y. 
Answer next week. 
„„ _ A Riddle.—I am certainly very handsome, 
own light in not | and ought to be married, for the birds on St. 
Valentine’s day are not more given to pair than 
I am. And many a lady offers me her hand— 
besides, I have received several love-letters; but, 
alas! one too many, and that has destroyed all 
my affection. Since then 1 have been off and 
on" with many—have even gone to the altar— 
and have there been cast off at a- moment’s 
warning; the very priest has refused to unite me. 
Yet, still, all seek a match for me, hold out then- 
arms to receive me,and yet I am single— Black¬ 
wood's Magazine. 
#58“ Aaswer next week. 
TO YOUNG MEN! 
And others desiring Employment. 
CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY! 
Miller. Orton & Mulligan; Auburn and Buffalo, N. Y., 
will give immediate, constant, and very lucrative employ¬ 
ment to 1,000 agents, to labor ctiieliy in the Counties where 
they reside, in soiling the most 
Po;nilar, Interesting tend Useful^ Books, 
published in this country. The List of Books is very large, 
and embraces a great, variety They are selected and made 
with especial reference to the wants of the I’kopi.r. They 
vary ih Price from 25 cents to $2 per volume, are neatly 
and strongly bound, generally illustrated with beautiful 
sieel and other engravings, and embrace History, Popular 
Biography. Narratives and Travels, Agriculture,Theology, 
Temperance, Books for the Young, Bibles, Standard Poetry, 
I,aw and School Looks, &c. 
N. B.—Terms, Descriptive Catalogues, Circulars, and full 
particulars furnished gratis, on application (post-paid) to 
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, 
Auburn or Buffalo. 
Auburn, Aug. 26,1854. 243-4t 
A VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. 
Situated in the town of Conquest, 4 miles northwest of 
Weedsport, a good market on the Canal, and 31* from 
Rochester & Syracuse direct Railroad. Said Furm contains 
163 acres; 140 improved and in a good state o( cultivation ; 
well adapted for all kinds of produce, and well situated for 
two farms if desirable, as there are two houses and two 
bains, two orchards containing a good variety of fruit, also 
a wood lot on each end of the farm. Thirty-five acres can 
be put in to wheat this fall. Said farm can be had cheap; 
terms easy, and possession given when desired. Stock and 
farming implements can be bad if desirable. For further 
particular* inquire of lhe subscriber ou the premises. 
243-4t JACOB EAKER. 
Weedsport, Cayuga Co., N. Y., Sept., 1S54. 
THE OPTICAL ART 
Has really reached the highest degree of perfection, as 
it is daily proved By the instruments of the celebrated Optic- 
Oculist Institution at Leipsic. its superior Spectacles are 
of such pure and select crystal glass, and so scientifically 
ground, as not only to assist the sight, but principally to 
“improve and restore the failing vision.” 
Common glasses are magnifying the objects, and soon 
they begin to irritate and weaken the noble organ, whilst 
these Lenses, ground on the sanctioned priciples of the 
above named Institution, ease, strengthen and preserve it 
to the most advanced period of life, no matter if used by 
day or candle light, or by young or old poisons. 
The exclusive right of sale of these Lei pipe Spectacles has 
been vested to Dr. SHLCETZER, where the richest selection 
for any degree of impaired sight will be found, and the 
proper Lease for the present and future be selected by the 
doctor. 
Their elegant frames have been already partially imitated, 
therefore, it should lie remembered that none of them are 
commissioned, nor sold for peddling, but that ttie genuine 
oov.-evvative Leibrir fJhsse'S cannot be had except at the 
jopu'ar medical office of Dr. SHLCETZER, No. 10 Atwater 
sheet, East of the Railroad Bridge, and near St. I’aul street. 
243-2teow' > 
~ GAFFNEY, BURKE & CO., 
IMPORTERS, WHOLKSALK AND RKTA1L DKALEllS IN 
Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, 
No. 53 Main Street, and. Nos. 1 and 3 North St. Paul Street, 
GAFFNEY’S BLOCK, ROCHESTER, 
Have now in store one of the largest stocks of Dry Goods 
ever brought to this city, in which may be found every de¬ 
sirable article of Ladies’ and Gents’ Dress Goods, adapted to 
the season. Their improved facilities for importing, and 
the great advantage of having a resident partner in New 
York, daily attending the Auction Sales, enable them to 
offer to Merchants and Dealers, by piece, ease 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. 
Answer to Illustrated Rebus No. 37.— Bail- 
road crossing. Look out for the cars u-hen the bell 
rings. < 
Answer to Illustrated Charade in No. 3G.— 
Pea-cock. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma in No.36.— 
Independence now and 1 rulepcndcnce forever. 
Answer to Mathematical Problem in No. 36. 
—34 fed, 29,748 lbs.; r o\fcd, 99,488}^. 
Doctor Hawks, it is said, was at one time 
elected Bishop of Rhode Island, but he declin¬ 
ed to accept the appointment—the ground of 
refusal being the small salary attached to the 
office. IBs Rhode Island friends reminded him 
of the promise made in the scriptures, “ that 
God would feed the young ravens.” The doc¬ 
tor replied that this was true, but that he lmd 
nowhere seen a promise “ to feed the young 
Hawks.” 
It is said that when the Turkish officer, 
Amin Bey, attended some fashionable parties 
at Washington, where the ladies were dressed 
very low in the neck, he remarked that in going 
into our society, “he expected to see as many 
of American ladies, but not as much.'” 
The Boston Post wants to know “ What 
proof is there that Robinson Crusoe found his 
Island inhabited?” And for fear somebody 
would rush to a solution, the propounder thus 
expounds:—“ Because he saw a great swell 
pitch into a little cove.” 
Summer Dress Goods.—We have just 
opened a very large stock of Summer Dress Goods, con¬ 
sisting of a fine assortment of Brilliants, plain and figured 
Bareges and Tissues, plaid and siriped Pongee Silks, Mus¬ 
lins, plaid and striped Lawns, Printed Jaconets, &e., &c. 
The styles are entirely new and beautiful. 
GAFFNEY, BURKE & CO., 53 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 we are selling al 
very great bargains, as they were purchased much less than 
cost to import, at an Auction Sale. 
GAFFNEY, I1URKE & CO., 
Gaffney’s Block, 53 Main St., Rochester. 
More New Silks. —We have just received 
another large assortment of Summer Silks, fioni an Auc¬ 
tion Sale, which were purchased cheap kok cash, and will 
be sold at less than cost to import. The styles are very 
handsome and entirely new. We have also just received 
40 pieces of those celebrated Black Silks, which we are 
selling as cheap as usual. GAFFNEY. BURKE, &CO., 
53 Main St.. Gaffney’s Block, Rochester. 
H1CK0K S PATENT CIDER MILL, 
As improved for 1854 received over Fifty Premiums and 
Diplomas in 1853. This Mill is warranted superior to a'l 
others. Sold by the following Agents, who will supply 
pamphlets containing descriptions, &c.: 
H. C. WHITE, & CO., Buffalo, N. Y. 
ih 1). HALLOCK, Rochester. 
E. J. FOSTER, Syracuse. 
HIGGINS & CALKINS, Castile, Wyoming Co. 
C. M. WIDIUG. Elmira. 
PKOUTY k CHEW, Genova. 
GREGORY & SMITH, Binghamton. 
DANA BROTHERS, Utica. N. Y. 
LONGETT & GRIPPING, 25 CliffSt., sole agents for New 
York City. 
CHAS. ASHLEY, Ogdenshurg. 
OLIVER & KILMER, Montpelier, Yt. 
W. H. HI Li, ft CO., 32 Corn hill, Boston. 
GEO. W. EMERY, Albany. 
L’AMEREUX, HALL & RUSSELL, Towandu, Pa. 
Made solely by W. O. HICKOK, 
240-8w* Harrisburg, Pa. 
ENGLISH CATTLE. 
To Agricultural Societies, and others requiring the best 
bred Cattle from England, embracing pure blood Horses, 
Short Horned Cattle, Devons, Herefords, Ayrshire and Al¬ 
derney Cows,pure bred South Down, CoLswold and Leices¬ 
ter Sheep, Suffolk, Essex and Berkshire Swine. Impoited 
on commission by Messrs. Thos. Betts Bro'hers, Hertz, 
England. For information apply to .1. M. Miller, 81 Maiden 
Lane, N. Y. City, who is fully authorized to act as our agent. 
Orders received for Guano, by applying to 
234-13t 'THOM AS BE TTS , 35 Wall St, 
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS. 
J. BRYAN, Practical Chemist, 112 State St., Rochester, 
N. Y., is prepared to make fall and accurate analysis of 
Minerals, Soils, Metals, Mineral Waters and Chemical 
Compounds, and articles suspected of adulteration and 
Poisons, either organic or inorganic, and in quantity or 
quality. It is necessary to send one or two ounces of a 
solid, and a pint or more of a fluid for examination. 241-131 
A person having the misfortune to admit as 
a lodger into his house an individual of bad 
reputation named Bell, turned him out the 
other day with the remark that he would never 
keep a bell in his house that wanted hanging. 
A Scotch blacksmith gave the following 
definition of metaphysics:—“ Two foulk dispu- 
ten thegither; he that’s listening disna ken what 
he that’s speaking means, and he that’s speak¬ 
ing disna ken what he meaus himself—that’s 
metaphysics.” 
Buss.—Buss — to kiss. Rebuss—to kiss 
again. Blunderbuss — two girls kissing each 
other. Omnibu®—to kiss all the girls in the 
room. 
It is stated that a professor at Cambridge 
has been displaced because he regulated the 
astronomical clock so as to make it keep mean 
time! 
The London Diogenes says:—“Since ‘the 
race is not to the swift,’ &c., why wonder at 
the tardiness of th a fleet!' 
The railroad emyloyee who attempted to 
break up a train of circumstances ran it into 
the ground. 
Mr. C. Moore, of Gerry, Chau. Co., is authorized 
to net as Agent for the Rural Nkw-Yorkkr, ami for the 
Wool Gkowkr and Stock Kkgistkr, in the counties of 
Chautauquo and Cattaraugus, N. Y., and Warren, l’a. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
IS PUBL1SHKD KVKRY SATURDAY, 
BY D. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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