MOORE’S RURAL NEW-IO RKER! AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ascended to its summit to give directions con¬ 
cerning the insertion of the plate that was des¬ 
tined to perpetuate his name forever—a loud 
noise was heard, a noise like a clap of thunder; 
the tower was enveloped for a moment in a 
misty cloud, although the heavens all around 
elsewhere were beautifully clear. The cloud 
passed away, but the architect had disappear¬ 
ed: he had fallen from the tower to the pave¬ 
ment below, where he was found lifeless with 
his body horribly crushed and mangled by the 
“You possess an astonishing memory, and 
have a profound knowledge of our art; take 
this stick, then, graybeard that thou art, and 
aid me!” 
The old man kept silence, only suffering a 
derisive smile to play upon his withered coun¬ 
tenance. This enraged the artist the more, 
but dissembling his ire, he again addressed 
him: 
“Try; see what you can do; draw me the 
outlines of an ediffice that differs from and far 
surpasses any yet erected, if it is possible to do 
so;” and he again offered him the cane. 
“1 can aid you if I choose,” he replied, “ but 
in that event you would have all the honor, 
and I obtain no recompense.” 
“You shall be well rewarded,”he answered, 
“take this purse of gold as an earnest of what 
I will give you hereafter.” 
“Gold! offer gold to me!” and producing 
from beneath the cloak in which he was envel¬ 
oped a plethoric looking purse, he threw it in 
the air, and as he caught it in its descent, the 
sound that it gave out evinced its contents to 
be gold. 
The architect then drew from his doublet a 
long and glittering dagger, and with uplifted 
arm advanced toward the old man, who, with 
a suppleness that ill accorded with his years, 
raised himself from the rock upon which he 
been seated; grasping the hand 
ANH ADDRESS TO THE ZA'it. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS, NO. 44 
A NAME IN THE SAND. 
questionin' of iiim. 
ITai.h to tliee, Zat of Rushee! II >v oo you feel, 
Now that the Alleys liave both got ou top of you 
A-pummulin’ your bread-basket morc'n you like, 
I’xpectr Ain’t you goin' to cry “nuff,” 
As McBoth did to McOuiT before they lit ? 
Arc you’u’ Ustrio in collision together 
About the Moll Davy and the Walluck Provinces 
Is n't it all gamun on both of your parts ? 
Say, you old naughtycrat of all the Rushers, 
Do you 'xpect to hold out long agin’ the Alleys, 
Victoria and Lewy Napoleon l Ain’t you afeard 
That Wretched, l’ashaw alone ’ill give you fits ? 
Spose ole Schammel from the Kawkasus 
Comes down, what then ? Ha ! lia! He d make you cry 
Copoeva in less than a miunit, by my watch 1 
[Knickerbocker Magazine. 
BY MISS H. F. GOUI.D. 
Alone I walked the ocean strand ; 
A pearly shell was in my hand ; 
I stooped and wrote upon the saud 
My name, the year and day. 
As onward from the spot I passed, 
One lingering look behind 1 cast: 
A wave came rolling high and fast, 
And washed my' lines away. 
And so methought’twill shortly be 
With every mark on earth from met 
A wave of dark oblivion’s sea 
Will sweep across the place 
Where I have trod the sandy shore 
Of time, and be to been no more; 
Of me, my name, the name I bore, 
To leave no track or trace. 
And yet with him -who counts the sands, 
And holds the waters iu bis hands, 
I know a lasting record stands, 
Inscribed against my name. 
Of all this mortal part has wrought, 
Of all this thinking soul has thought. 
And from these fleeting moments caught 
For glory or for shame. 
Dissensions soon arose between Conrad and 
the people; the labor upon the cathedral was 
interrupted, and the bronze plate was never 
placed within the tower. Thus was the proph¬ 
ecy of the fiend fulfilled; the cathedral is still 
unfinished, and the name of the architect “ for¬ 
gotten and unknown.” 
Such is the legend that passes current among 
the ignorant and superstitious in Cologne; as 
to its probability, the reader must decide; but 
there is a mysterious power, however, that ex¬ 
erts a Titanic influence against its completion 
that neither relics nor priestly prayers can over¬ 
come—that power is Gold, unlimited Gold, for 
millions upon millions are necessary to com¬ 
plete the edifice upon the original design. 
Rahway, Oct., 1854. J. M. H. 
[Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
Good Stories. —lion. W. Chandler, told us 
the following capital stories, illustrative of re¬ 
cent polilical movements. One was of an old 
man in Bangor, who would steal, but at the 
same time was a man of his word. He was 
one day engaged to help unload a cargo of 
fish, on condition that he should have nine of 
them, if he would not steal any, But night 
coming on, and opportunities for stealing be¬ 
coming good, he took the nine fish and return¬ 
ed them to to the employer, saying that he be¬ 
lieved he could do better. The South have 
kept the nine fish, and then go on to steal the 
rest of the cargo. The fraudulent name of 
popular sovereignty given to the Nebraska 
system, he illustrated by the story of a man 
who cried, “ Hot Mince Pies.” Some person, 
bought one, and found it frozen hard as an 
icicle. “ You infernal scoundrel,” said he, “why 
did you call this hot mince pie?” “ Because, 
that is the name of it!" was the reply. 
I am composed of 34 letters. 
My 22, 14,18,5, 28,2.27 is moral rectitude. 
My 35, 3,1, 21, 38, 9, 33, 11,15, 27 is brother¬ 
hood. 
My 19, 37, 14, 18, 14, 29, 27 is frugality. 
My G, 23, 36, 31, 10, 22, 35,4,31 is salubrious. 
My 16, 25, 20, 4, 21, 32, ,5, 4, 31 is more than 
handsome. 
My 34, 17, 13, 7. 26, 14, 4, 28 is honorable. 
My 8, 29, 30, 1, 16, 31, 17 is pleasing. 
My 1, 29, 16, 11,21, 4,12 is the circuit border. 
My 37, 31, 5, 24, 19, 9, 31,27 is fitly. 
My whole is a faithful saying. 
Root, N. Y., 1854. c. a. 
Answer next week. 
Autumn, in all its due successions, to my sight 
Presents but varied beauties, transient all, 
Ail in their season. These fading leaves, 
That with their rich variety of hues 
Hake yonder forest in the slanting sun 
So beautiful, in you awake the thought 
Of winter, cold drear winter, when these trees 
Each like a fleshless skeleton shall stretch 
Its bare brown boughs; when not a flower shall spread 
Its colors to the day, and not a bird 
Carol its joyance,—but all nature wear 
One sullen aspect, bleak and desolate, 
To eye, ear, feeling, comfortless alike. 
REFINING OF GOLD AND SILVER. 
had all alonj 
of the architect he disarmed him of his wea¬ 
pon and threw him heavily to the ground. 
The discomfitted architect found himself 
powerless and perfectly unable to move. The 
old man took from his hand the cane that, he 
still held aud drew rapid lines with it through 
the air; streaks of fire crossing and interlacing 
each other appeared at every motion, until at 
last a beautiful edifice became visible, hanging 
in the air. 
“ There,” said the old man, “ there is the de_ 
sign of a cathedral that equals all you cam de¬ 
sire; be here tomorrow night at twelve, aud 
you shall have it fully elaborated upon paper, 
provided you will sign a bond giving your soul 
for all eternity;" he ceased speaking and van¬ 
ished in a cloud of flame, leaving behind him 
au unmistakeable sulphurous odor. The ar¬ 
chitect swooned, and when he recovered his 
senses found that it was fur into the night.— 
Raising himself up he turned his steps home¬ 
ward, and on reaching ids house retired to bed 
but not to sleep: visions of the flaming cathe¬ 
dral he had seen were constantly present to his 
sight. 
As soon as the first faint light of the dawn¬ 
ing morn entered his chamber, he arose from 
his couch and seizing his paper and his cray¬ 
ons, attempted to recall the magnificent pro¬ 
portions of the fiery structure that haunted his 
imagination. His endeavors were abortive, 
for his memory proved treacherous, and when 
a vague idea of any of its parts flitted across 
his mind, he found that it had fled from his re¬ 
membrance before he could jot it down. He 
finally gave up in despair, and hastened to the 
residence of his employer, Conrad De IIoch- 
stedten, to whom lie recounted his adventures 
of the preceding night. 
The Archbishop told him that the plan must 
be obtained, but that he could not allow him 
to barter his soul to the evil one iu order to pro¬ 
cure it. Conrad reflected for a while, and 
going to his cabinet took therefrom a small and 
beautifully carved casket. 
“ Take this,” he said, “ it is made of pieces of 
the true cross; go to the rendezvous at the ap¬ 
pointed time, get possession of the plan and 
place this sacred relic on it: the demon will 
become powerless under its magic influence.” 
The architect repaired early to the spot; 
punctual to the hour his Satanic majesty—no 
longer disguised—appeared. 
“ Here is the plan, and here the bond; sign 
it,” lie said. 
“ Hold!” cried the architect “it is but right 
that I should see the plan before I sign that 
fearful parchment, and satisfy myself that every¬ 
thing is correct.” 
“ Certainly,” replied the demon, “ no request 
could be more just.” 
The architect took the plan, examined it, 
and then hastily placed it beneath his mantle, 
covering it with the precious casket at the 
same time exclaiming; “ by this sacred relic 1 
command thee, Satan, to retire. Avaunt! I 
say, Avaunt!” 
The demon uttered a shrill cry of rage, aud 
then spoke as follows: 
“ I am vanquished; ’tis a priest has counsell¬ 
ed you to this; ’tis a ruse of the churchy but 1 
will have revenge. This cathedral, the plan 
of which you have so surreptitiously obtained, 
shall never be finished, aud as for thee, vile fool, 
of a viler counsellor, thy name shall perish 
from the memory of man; you shall be forgot¬ 
ten and unknown.” Having thus spoken he 
disappeared. 
Soon the erection of the cathedral com¬ 
menced, and the architect, seeing its rapid 
progress, thought that the prediction would 
not be verified, and as for his name, he would 
have it deeply engraved upon a bronze tablet 
and inserted in a conspicuous place within the 
tower. One day, however, when the tower had 
reached a considerable altitude, the architect 
As our readers may be curious to know 
what is done with the gold and silver before it 
is sent on to Philadelphia, we annex a brief 
description of the process it undergoes in the 
Assay Ollice. 
The gold, when it is brought to be assayed, 
is in au impure state. It is sometimes an alloy 
—that is to say, in combination with another 
metal; when mixed with mercury, it is, called 
an amalgam. The first process it undergoes 
is of melting down into bars, when it is exam¬ 
ined by the a&sayer and its value determined. 
It is then remelted with a mass uf silver suf¬ 
ficiently large to combine with it intimately, 
and while heated is poured into water, when it 
forms into minute shining particles, and is call¬ 
ed granulated, from the shape it assumes. The 
next step is to submit it to the action of nitric 
acid, being mixed with heated steam to render 
it more active. This acid will not alfect gold 
in the least, but on silver it acts very readily, 
eating it away, as the workmen say, and form¬ 
ing the nitrate of silver. The term eating, by 
the way, when applied to action of acids on 
metals is wholly mis-placed. Acids have no 
such Epicrean appetites as the phrase would 
imply. The metal is not destroyed by the cor¬ 
roding action—every atom of it is there, al¬ 
though in a different form, and exhibiting dif¬ 
ferent properties. Thus, in the present case, 
the silver forms a combination with the nitric 
acid and becomes a solution of the nitrate of 
silver, while the gold is precipitated, freed from 
its union with the silver. 
The solution (the nitrate of silver) is then 
drawn off, and the residue, though it looks like 
iron rust, proves to be gold in a pure state.— 
To bring the silver back to its original form, 
muriatic, or, as chemists now term it, hydro¬ 
chloric acid, is added to the nitrate of silver, 
when an interchange of acids takes place, and 
the muriate of silver is precipitated, the nitrate 
of soda being held in solution. 
To this muriate of silver is added granula¬ 
ted zinc, which, by reason of the great, affinity 
which muriatic acid has for it, forms the chlo¬ 
ride of zinc in solution, the silver, being precip¬ 
itated in nearly a pure state. 
The next step in the process is to dry the 
gold and silver, so it can be melted into bars. 
This is done by what is termed sand-baths— 
that is, sand with the temperature raised so as 
to drive off the moisture. After being taken 
from the bath, the silver and gold are subject¬ 
ed to the action of a hydraulic press, and come 
out in the shape of large cheeses, and, indeed, 
are called by that name.— JY. Y. Eve. Post. 
Mathematical Question. —Each of two num¬ 
bers, and also their sum, is composed of the nine 
digits and the cypher. What are they ? 
Rochester, N. Y. u. s. g. 
r Answer next week, 
A Model Clerk. —Young man.—I called 
to see about the clerkship you advertised as 
vacant. 
Old Gent.—Hem! Have you a gold watch 
and chain, a fast horse, a diamond ring, six 
suits of clothes, a bull dog, a thousand cigars, 
a cask of brandy and an assortment of canes? 
Young man.—Yes, sir, got ’em all. 
Old Gent.—Then you’ll suit. My other 
clerk furnished himself with all these out of 
the till, and as you're supplied 111 save the ex¬ 
pense. 
jWritten for the Rural New-Yorker.] 
THE CATHEDRAL OF COLOGNE. 
A MONKISH LEGEND. 
Answer to Illustrated Rebus No.42 .—£>i 
foxes catch no poultry. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma in No. 
Know thyself 
Answer to Charade in No. 42 : 
What ismuch older than the Sun 
Would puzzle man to say— 
He makes the present moment new 
Because he rules the Day. 
’Tis he makes day—by his degrees 
To be both short and long : 
And tho’ he moves not, seems to run 
His course as giant strong. 
’Tis thus we say, the sun shall rise, 
And never sit. but set; 
The day flies very fast indeed, 
Is every day's regret. 
The sun was ne'er described with feet, 
7 et once was seen to Bland ; 
And then the glorious day was won, 
By Joshua's chosen band. 
The first and second —Sun and Day— 
Together joined, present 
Sunday , your comfort or your sin, 
According as 'tis spent. 
LEAVES FROM A TRAVELER’S NOTE-BOOK.—NO. III. 
M. de Balzac was lying awake in bed when 
he saw a man enter his room cautiously, and 
attempt to pick the lock of his writing-desk.— 
The rogue was not a little disconcerted at hear¬ 
ing a loud laugh from the occupant ol the 
the apartment, whom he supposed asleep.— 
“ Why do you laugh?”asked the thief. “ 1 am 
laughing, my good fellow,’ said M. de Balzac, 
“to think what pains you are taking, and what 
a risk you run, in tho hope of finding money 
by night in a desk where the lawful owner can 
never find any by day.” The thief “evacuated 
Flanders ” at once. 
An Trish bricklayer was one day brought to 
the Edinburgh Infirmary, severely injured by a 
full from a house-top. The medical man in at¬ 
tendance asked the sufferer at what time the 
accident occurred. “ Two o’clock, yer honor,” 
was the reply. On being asked how he came 
to fix the hour so accurately, he answered— 
“ Because I saw the people at dinner, through 
a window, as 1 was coming down!” 
THJE WOOL GROWER AND STOCK REGISTER, 
Vol. VI.— Enlarged and Improved 1 
Your father would not have punished you, 
my child, if you had not used profane lan¬ 
guage and swore. Well, father swears. 1 
know he has been in the habit of it, but he 
leaves off now. Its a pity he hadn’t done it 
before he 1 aught Bill aud me to sware, and 
tLen we should have been saved many a 
licking! 
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A lawyer in Worcester recently undertook 
to get a man clear of theft by showing the ju¬ 
ry a crack on his skull, which he asserted was 
made by being crossed in love when young!— 
The jury were not quite ready to “walk the 
crack,” and the defence did no good, except to 
show a pretty strong suspicion of a crack in 
the head of the lawyer. 
A good anecdote is told of a countryman 
from New York who was visiting Washington 
at the time Mr. Van Buren was Vice Presi¬ 
dent. Our friend was a red hot Democrat, 
and of course held Mr. Van Buren in the 
highest reverence. He sat in the circular gal¬ 
lery of the Senate, gazing at the Vice Presi¬ 
dent with a mingled feeling of awe and state 
pride, when suddenly a tall and majestic form 
appeared at the side of the hall and beckoned 
to Mr. Van Buren. There was little business 
doing, and the Vice Presdeut, calling a Sena¬ 
tor to the chair, joined the person mentioned, 
when both seated themselves on a sofa, both 
snuffed from the same box—the hand of the 
Vice President was laid playfully upon the 
knee of his companion, and every now and 
then a hearty laugh would escape them, show¬ 
ing that whatever might be the topic they 
were discussing, it was one which was agreea¬ 
ble to both of them. 
“Isthat Mr. Calhoun with the Vice Presi¬ 
dent?” asked our country friend, turning to a 
person near him. 
“No, sir.” 
“Is it Mr. Benton?” 
“No, sir.” 
“Is is Gen. Wall?" 
“ May I ask who it is?” 
“Why, that is Mr. Clay.” 
“ Mr. Clay!” almost shrieked the man; and 
does Mr. Van Buren speak to him? Rot me 
if ever I vote for him agaiu!” and the fellow 
stalked from the hall, firmly believing the 
country was lost 
“ On!” exclaimed a poor sufferer to a dentist, 
“ that is the second wrong tooth you have pull¬ 
ed out?" 
“ Very sorry, sir,” said the blundering opera¬ 
tor, “ but as there were only three when I be¬ 
gan, I’m sure to be right next time.” 
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to net as Agent for the Rural New-Yorker, and for tho 
Wool Grower and Stock Register, in the counties of 
Clmutauque and Cattaraugus, N. Y., and Wairen, Fa. 
An editor out west offers his entire estab¬ 
lishment, subscribers, accounts, &c., for a clean 
shirt and a good meal of victuals. He has 
been trying the experiment of endeavoring to 
please everybody. 
MOORE'S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
18 FUHL1SHKD EVERY SATURDAY, 
BY D. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, H. Y. 
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the costume of the British soldier, helmets are 
to have a spike on the top of them. Punch 
thinks this is “putting too fine a point on it.” 
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The New York Dutchman says that it is so 
dry up in Iowa that the steamboat people 
have to sprinkle the rivers to keep the dust 
from choking the water-wheels. 
Definition, a la Talleyrand .—Ingrat¬ 
itude is only a painful feeling of consciousness 
that there are no more favors to be received 
from the same person. 
A gentleman met a young girl, whose pa¬ 
rents lived near his house. “ What are you 
doing, Jenny?” said he. “Looking for a son- 
in-law for my mother, sir,” was the smart reply. 
A man of sense will never swear. The least 
pardonable of all vices to which the folly or 
cupidity of man is addicted is profanity. 
It Is said, but with what truth we do not 
pretend to say, that all the ladies who sweep 
the streets with long dresses have big feet and 
thick ancles. 
Indolence and indecision of mind, though 
not in the nisei v vs vices, frequently prepare the 
way to much exquisite misery. 
