MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
ffistfllaimrits. 
[Written for the Rural New-Yorker.] 
THE BLACKSMITH. 
Portraits of Distinguisukd Individuals. — No. I. 
0! a mighty man is the blacksmith, 
With iiis sinewy arm and strong; 
And as the world have termed him wright, 
We will not-twite him wrong. 
He’d blow and strike, and hammer and pound, 
Though a man of peace is he; 
He’s often given to forging, 
But never to forgery. 
He’ll screw and twist, and wrench and turn, 
Though honest in his dealing; 
And while he often takes the sleet, 
He never takes to stealing. 
His stock is seldom less than par, 
And often takes a rise ; 
I No matter what his virtues are, 
> He’s much to do, with vise. 
[ His temper it is always good, 
I Though hard Hangs form his lot; 
> He’s often in a “melting mood,” 
* And strikes while the iron’s hot. 
t 
* He sometimes sways an iron rod, 
Although a foe to tyranny ; 
His figures are not those of speech, 
, Though oft he uses irony. 
And ere his great work is complete, 
And he shall close his books, 
Our swords he’ll into plowshares beat. 
Our spears to pruuing-hooks. B. Robkrts. 
THE TWO NEIGHBORS. 
John Smith and William Fitzroy are 
neighbors in proximity, but in no other re¬ 
spect. The former lives just around the street 
corner from the latter, but then it is a street 
inhabited by mechanics and workingmen. The 
houses are small, the street unpaved, and 
there are no gas lights after you pass around 
the corner. Fitzroy’s street is graded and 
paved, gas lanterns are placed at intervals, 
and the houses have a sort of aristocratic look. 
They are furnished with door plates and bell 
pulls, ornamented verandahs, and porticos, 
sometimes proportioned and sometimes dis- 
proportioned to the houses to which they be¬ 
long. The young Fitzroys go to a private 
and select academy, while the junior Smiths 
mingle with four or five hundred other chil¬ 
dren at the public school. The Fitzroys are 
fashionable people, the Smiths unfashionable; 
the former dress finely, do little, give parties 
and attend them, and turn up their noses at the 
Smiths, who are the opposite in all these 
things. 
But there are some other points of differ¬ 
ence worth mentioning. The Smiths own the 
house they live in, even though it is a small 
one; the Fitzroys rent theirs of a landlord 
who has more than once threatened to eject 
them for arrears. The Smiths owe no man 
anything, pay the butcher and the market man 
every week, would be trusted if it became 
necessary for any reasonable amount, and have 
several hundred dollars in the Savings Bank. 
The Fitzroys owe more than the butcher aud 
market-man’s accounts, only pay when they 
can get trusted no longer, and never had a 
Savings Bank book in their lives. 
The senior Smiths are sober, industrious, 
pains-taking, and thriving people, earning more 
than they spend, and laying aside a small sur¬ 
plus yearly, while the Smiths, jr., are studious 
►excellent scholars, and bid fair to become hon¬ 
orable and useful citizens. The senior Fitz¬ 
roys live in fashionable and expensive idle¬ 
ness, making great pretensions, but are really 
despised by all right thinking people. The 
Fitzroys, jr., are lazy, turbulent, and quarrel¬ 
some; miserable scholars and superscilious 
playmates; holding the Smiths in supreme 
contempt, while at the same time they are as 
much inferior to them in everything that makes 
a boy give promise of a reputable manhood, 
as the spark of the glow worm is inferior to the 
full glory of the morning star. 
WEARING THE BEARD. 
No one can mistake the silent but sure rev¬ 
olution that is going on in the community 
with reference to wearing the beard. A few 
years since the full sized beard and moustache 
were only seen upon the face of some fanatic 
or eccentric genius, who was willing to brave 
public opinion for the sake of his religious 
scruples, or for the purpose of showing his 
contempt for the ordinary customs of society. 
Subsequently the innovation was extended by 
traveling foreigners, aud by home bred fops, 
who are ever ready to ape the fashions and 
follies of the old world. 
Count Suocozinsko (vulgarly pronounced 
Suck-us-in-so) sports a moustache at Saratoga; 
aud forthwith young Fizzle, whose father 
keeps a fashionable shop on Broadway, com¬ 
mences the raising of a downy covering to his 
upper lip, by a plentiful application of bear’s 
grease and Macassar. General Swackhamer 
appears in public on this side of the Atlantic 
like a “whiskered Paudour,” and whiskers 
thereupon become the rage among the toadies 
of the warlike foreigner. Sober men, persons 
of sense and standing in society, for the very 
purpose of appearing the antipodes of these, 
shave,'of course. 
Common sense teaches us, however, that the 
beard was intended to be worn; that properly 
cultivated and trained, it is both useful and 
ornamental, and that long familiarity with a 
close shaven face is necessary to render such 
an unnatural object at all pleasing. Would 
any man of sense, desirous of impressing people 
favorably as to his personal appearance, adopt 
the shaven crown of the Friar, the scalp-lock 
ot the Indian, or the pig-tail of the Chinese? 
lepdrarat 
CONDUCTED BY A-E. 
[Written for .Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
THE SPIRIT’S WHISPER. 
BY KATE WOODLAND. 
B rightly falls the golden sunbeam on this glad October 
morn. 
And yet, either is just as naturally pleasing as Lightly strays the whispering zephyr out amid the stand 
a close shaven face. 
Ihere is now and' then to be seen a youn 
ing corn, 
Sweetly smiles the Autumn blossom from behind its dew- 
bright tear, 
ENGLISH HIGHWAYMEN. 
lady, or a female calling herself such, who, be- And from out the grove and orchard parting strains of 
ing ambitious to appear intellectual, or to ex- j°y 1 hear > 
hibit a greater amount of forehead than was fA across the fertiIe “P amid the ether dim, 
designed her by the Creator, and laboring on- * he h ' r 
der the mistaken idea that because a moderate- •n,.g..™„,h>p py m orat„g,,„d my . pW „ ootethforth , 
ly sized and well proportioned front is hand- Prom the windows of its chamber, o’er the glad rejoicing 
some, a bigger one must of necessity be hand- earth. 
somer, thereupon applies the tweezers to her 6Meth g ^ in the fields a11 sllaven of their weaIth of s olden 
ambrosial locks; and in place of the natural On the treasures yet remaining that shall pass with Au- 
covering of the forehead there straightway ap- tumn ’ s rei s n > 
pears a livid looking streak, which, in spite of °“ °’ erladen branches of the orchard bending 
all efforts to conceal it, displays in disgusting On the gold and crimson tresses of the forest’s dying brow, 
lines the folly and contemptible shallowness Of And it sendeth forth a whisper floating on the morning air; 
the individual. Why is shaving of a man’s I Wbo batb framed this mighty temple, traced this pano- 
face regarded with anymore favor than denu- + . 
(tinir of a f _u JO o- , , Who hath oped the tiny violet to the sunny beam of spring, 
° 0 run O forehead . bimply because Given to the bird its music, to the vale its blossoming,— 
it has been practiced more generally and for a Falleth from whose hand the bounty we from Autumn’s 
longer time, rather than from any intrinsic T . ,ap . receiv ?’ 
difference in the acts In whom do "? have our beins > ’ neath whose heaven do 
A great reform IS going on in the matter of God of Winter, Spring and Summer, and of Autumn’s dy- 
wearing beards; and they now appear in un- ing bloom, 
trimmed luxuriance upon the facesof men who 0hm yM>frit’s whisper asketh to adore thee, time and room: 
Stand at the remotest nosrible distance from f keth fora clearer to behold thee where I rove, 
lOS.mc distance trom For an ear to catch the music of thy every tone of love, 
tne character of fops. In all ranks of life, and Asketh for a comprehension of all glorious things I see, 
in every grade of employment, the razor is in For a loftier conce P« on . a °d a boher love of thee. 
a measure eschewed, and men are returning to ' ^ ' + 
reason. Moustaches, even, are now as common CrtfltS- ^UldlttiC (Elliot 1$ t 
as a few years ago they were rare. The chills ^ 1 
of the coming winter will be as potent in start- TO COUSIN KATEY. 
ing beards as they will be powerful in blastino- _ - 
vegetation. Razors, colds, and bronchitis wifi mucated thr °’ Moore ' s Rural ^-Yorker, 
be laid aside together, and a flowing beard su- EPISTLE THIRTEENTH, 
percede the use of -an indefinite list of patent Dc P artur e from Rome—Delays—Roman Campagna, cause 
medicines. ‘ Ls desolation — No Steamer at Fumacino—Voyage 
_ , , m , t _ to Naples — Sea-sickness — Arrival at Naples —Police 
regulations. 
ENGLISH HIGH WAYMEN. Dear Cousin Katey When our allotted 
Only three summers since, a French gentle- time in Rome had passed ’ we reluctaatl y bad e 
man traveling in Scotland, was gazing with adieu to tbe g rand old city, and turned our 
some surprise at the tranquil and orderly faces Naples-ward. Instead of retracing our 
aceDes around him, and saying that his friends steps to Civita Vecchia, and there taking a 
l“ .n^ S wiTh ‘pisLTa* ,d UP s“!t f r r ch S T er ' We " ere mf0rta “‘ teb tod ““ d 
since, as they bid him bear in mind, “ you are t0 anotber rou te by Fumacino, a little port 
going to the couutry of Rob Roy!” We can 011 one of tbe mouths of the Tiber. There we 
scarce blame these Parisians for so faithfully were to find a Neapolitan boat ready to corn- 
remembering that little more than a hundred mence its return trip to Naples, and thus the 
years ago Rob Roy was able to levy his “black r . * , .. F , 1 , ’ luus> ine 
mail” on all who came beneath the shadow of , ° 6 ? ’ Wiid be di ™uished 
his mountains. But they might with equal about one-half. W e rose at an unconscionably 
reason have applied the same advice to Eng- ear ty bour > dressed by candle-light, swallowed 
land; for much less than a hundred years ago a cup of coffee, and hurried over to the dili- 
the great thoroughfares near London, and, p-enre ofiW y nn mnet inAm 
above all, the open heaths, as Bagshot .and STn 1 oa ast kll ™> Cousin Katey, 
Hounslow, were infested by robbers on horse- diligences, or stage-coaches, in these Eu- 
back, who bore the name of highwaymen._ ropean countries, do not put themselves out of 
Booty these men were determined by some tbe wa y by going around to collect passengers, 
means or other to obtain. In the reign of No! indeed, you must come to them, and, ten 
& th o e f x ktrs r ci 7, ces * g - vour -r** ■»* 
forbidding any of them on pain of death, to and bein » mos ^ uncomfortably hurried in your 
travel from town without a watch, or with less preparations, you are obliged to sit or stand 
thau ten guineas of money. Private carriages ba lf an hour in a dingy, miserable room, wait- 
of attack 0 C0UVeyances were allke tbe ob i ects ing for the coach to be got out,and the horses 
Thus, for instance, 17G5, Mr. Nuttal these- ’’T®* 1 ,. At ,'f’ ''° We ™'’ "1 T™ f “ irl3 ' 
licitor and friend of Lord Chatham, return^ U “ der Tf 10 ”' but s00n f e reacl,ed “» “‘7 
from Bath in his carriage with his wife and an< iere our cavalcade of three or four 
child, was stopped and tired at near Hounslow, carriages made a halt. The passports were 
and died of the fright. In the same year, the called for, delivered, and there for two mortal 
guard of the Norwich stage (a man of different hours we sat, waiting for the examination of 
metal from the lawyer) was killed in Eppino- .. „ • . , , ° 01 
Forest, after he had himself shot dead three theS6 ira P ortant documents to be concluded, 
highwaymen out of the seven that assailed and ever y thing to be pronounced “ en regie.” 
him. Let us not suppose that such examples Meanwhile some of the gentlemen who had not 
were few and far between: they might from breakfasted, alighted and made up the defi- 
the records of that time, be numbered bv the c iencv at a cafe’ Lard w ,, 
score; although in most cases the loss was rath- T , ? U T S S6Uled 
er of property than life. These outrages ap- se ' es *° s _ P’ wbde ^ sat i 1U no very resigned 
pear to have increased in frequency towards state ndnd » I mu st confess, meditating on 
the close of the American war. Horace Wal- the difference between the active, energetic 
pole, writing from Strawberry Hill, at that Anglo-Saxon, and the indolent Italian? and 
time, complains that, bavins: lived there in + • ► • • , . ,, , ’ 
quiet for thirty years, he cannot stir a mile tr H n S miagme what would be the result if a 
from his own house, after sunset, without one P art y °f enterprising business men in America 
one or two servants armed with blunder- should be delayed in this way for two hours, in 
busses. Some men of rank at that period— the very commencement of a journey 
Earl Berkly above all—were famed for their t, + 
skill and courage in dealing with such assail- a buman things must have an end, and 
ants. One day—so runs the story — Lord so > a ^ l en gth> did the examination of our pass- 
Berkley, traveling after dark on the Hounslow ports. They were returned without a word of 
Heath, was awakened from a slumber by apology for the delay, or explanation of its 
a strange face at his carriage window, and a „ 1 C1 , ,, , 
loaded pistol at his breast. “ I have you now ’ and We Wed throu S' h the g ate > and went 
my lord,” said the intruder, “ after all your on our wa ^’ re j°ici n g that we had no further 
boasts, as I hear, that you would never let business to transact with the Roman police._ 
yourself be robbed!” “Nor would I now,” Our route lay by the Tiber, through the open 
said Lord Berkley, putting his hand into his country, Campagna, it is called, which sur- 
pocket, as though to draw forth his purse, “but i r> A. 
for that fellow peeping over your shoulder.”_ rounCi> v0me - ^ othing can exceed the desert- 
The highwayman hastily turned round to look ed ’ * oue U ^pect which this country wears.— 
at this unexpected-intruder, when the Earl, Scarcely a human being is to be seen for miles 
pulling out instead of a purse a pistol, shot around, except a solitary herdsman mounted 
8teed. whose Ugh. pointed hat,™! 
___ t . ^ _ _shaggy goat-skin garments are more suggestive 
o ... . .. TT „ of some roving bandit, than of any peaceably 
Six things are requisite, says Hamilton, to , ’ . y peaceaoiy 
create a happy home. Integrity must be the nimded individual. I he main cause of this 
architect, and tidiness the" upholsterer. It depopulation is the extreme unhealthiness of 
must be warmed by affection, and industry the locality, it being all more or less infested 
must be the ventilator, renewing the atmos- with the malaria, which has rendered some of 
wSX* auf’hf a^protecthlg^w^ipy < ™1 “ b ° Ut *““> “habitable, 
glory, nothing will suffice except the blessings k ' onie att empts are made at agriculture, how- 
of God. ever. Large herds of cattle are pastured here 
■» 1 -— in the spring, and, as the season advances and 
Happinsss is promised not to the learned the heat becomes oppressive, they are driven 
ut to the good. 0 g. ^ a ^j acen ^ mountains. Grain is also 
cultivated to some extent, and during the har- passengers leaving there, &c., &c_to all of 
vest season, the hardy peasants from these which I listened very incredulously, and noth- 
mountains come down in crowds to assist in ing but a lack of energy prevented my making 
cutting the crops, but scores of them perish on a statement of personal grievances, and request 
the spot before their labors are ended, or bear ing him to give his definition of the term 
home with them the seeds of death. « Ladies Cabin.” But our trials were not yet 
Thus you see, Cousin Katey, that every ended. Immediately on our arrival police 
thing conspires to make of Rome a place sadly officers had been stationed at the gangway, 
and solemnly impressive. Desolation within and no person was allowed to set foot on shore 
and without—temples and palaces in ruins, and until his passport had been sent to the police 
oi.ee fertile and populous fields become a pes- office, examined, and pronounced to be in 
tilential spot, which no man can inhabit. The proper form. Another steamboat had entered 
Protestant cannot but recall the predictions the port just before us, and we were obliged 
recorded against the mystic Babylon, when he to wait our turn. After several hours delay, 
beholds this fallen city. Yet all this ruin is so an official arrived with a list of those whose 
veiled and softened by the luxuriant vegetation passports had been thus far approved. He 
which a southern sun fosters, and the rich, took his position upon deck and called forth 
mellow tints which a southern sky sheds over the names, so distorting them by his pronun- 
the face of nature, that it is beautiful as a poet’s ciation that in many instances their owners 
dream, and it was with a feeling of sadness that themselves could scarcely recognize them. The 
we looked our last upon tbe domes, columns fortunate individuals included in this list made 
and obelisks of the imperial city, fading away their escape as soon as they could prove iden- 
in the distance. St. Peter’s was the last to dis- tity, but our turn was not yet come. It was 
appear, but gradually we lost sight even of nearly noon before we were permitted to land 
that, and henceforth Rome must be to us a upon the soil of the “‘kingdom of Naples and the 
thing of the past, to be seen only in dreams, or two Sicilies,” and then our first place of desti- 
m fancy’s magic glass. nation was the police office. Here we claimed 
On reaching Fumacino, after a ride of about our passports, which were delivered on pay- 
two hours, we found, to our great surprise and meQ t of the never-failing fee. One of the offi- 
chagrin, no steamer in waiting to receive us.— cials seemed particularly interested in my 
We were twenty or more in number, and the baptismal name, requesting to know it, and 
only inn which the village afforded could furn- further to what language it belonged. I satis- 
ish but poor accommodations for such a party, fled his curiosity to the best of my ability, and we 
However, we settled ourselves as comfortable were finally allowed to depart. Our next stop- 
as possible, and spent the remainder of the day plug place was the custom house, but here we 
in rambling upon the shores of the Mediterra- were not detained long, and a few paces further 
nean, gazing out upon its blue waves which on the hotel New York opened its hospitable 
danced and sparkled in the sunshine, or watch- doors to receive us. We were soon comforta- 
ing the fishermen who were here and there bly installed in a pleasant apartment, with a 
buised with their nets. The gentlemen, in the balcony commanding a fine view of the bay 
meantime, amused themselves by getting up an and Mt. Vesuvius. A few hours rest and a 
indignation meeting and preparing a remon- good dinner, were quite efficacious in restoring 
strance, to be presented to the proper authori- our wearied bodies, and smoothing- our ruffled 
ties, on our arrival in Naples. As usual, on tempers, and we were then prepared to look 
such occasions, there was no lack of eloquent about Naples a little. 
and energetic speeches, and pen and ink were The impressions which we received from this 
freely called into requisition to draft the resolu- g a Y and bustling city, and the delightful ex- 
tions, but after we reached Naples I heard cursions which we made into its environs, par- 
nothing more of the matter. During the night ticularly the ascent of Vesuvius, must form the 
the expected steamer arrived, but the delays subject of future letters. I have already filled 
attending our departure from Fumacino almost m y sheet too full to enter upon them to-day. 
equalled those connected with leaving Rome, 
and it was not till 11 o’clock that we were 
actually under way. The boat was small, dirty 
and uncomfortable, and the waves tossed it 
about like a nut-shell. It was obliged to 
Your affectionate. Cousin, Minnie. 
PICKED PARAGRAPHS. 
No one can take less pains than to hold his 
tongue._ Hear much, and speak little; for the 
anchor at some distance from the shore and T g ' ■ f? ear a f d speak little; for the 
, , ’ ana tongue is the instrument of the greatest <reod 
the passengers were taken out to it in row and greatest evil, that is done in the world- 
boats. I was quitp spa-sick before I reached W alter Raleigh. 
the steamer, and hastened down directly to find It is an excellent rule to be observed in all 
my berth in the ladies’ cabin. As I entered disputes, that men should give soft words, and 
a tall, stalwart man brushed past me, ticket in bard arguments; that they should not strive so 
hand, and, after comparing numbers a moment, to vex 25 to conv ’ inc e each other.— Wil- 
proceeded to appropriate the berth next to the 
one which my ticket assigned to me. IwaaLT RUE glory consists in doing what deserves 
„„„ , , . ’ ’ to be written; in writing what deserves to hp 
to say the least, somewhat surnrised but rm j i • »• • ® io oe 
, . , , . , Buipnsea, out on read, and in so living as to make the world hap- 
glancing around, and taking, as the sailors ex- pier and better for our living in it. 
press it, “an observation,” 1 discovered that all tt,, « a , c • 
f luaL au He is happy that finds a true friend in ex- 
the berths, with one exception, were claimed tremity; but he is much more so, who findeth 
by individuals of the sterner sex,—and this was not extremity whereby to try his friend._ 
the “ Ladies' Cabin!” I was too much over- 
powered by the motion of the boat to make Real fidelity is very rare, but it exists in the 
any remonstrance, so, taking possession of a beart - They only deny its worth and power 
sofa, I resigned myself to my fate, and there I YU 61- ^ oved a{r ^ eild , or labored to make a 
remained, scarcely raising my head, for twenty 
hours, the time our voyage lasted. You have J ustice be not tbe rudder of all our 
, , . „ 3 °. , e other virtues, the faster we sail the further we 
had no experience of sea-sickness as yet, Katey, find ourselves from that haven where we would 
but if it ever falls to your lot to journey on be. 
the sea, you will find, with the first qualm that Better say nothing, than not to the purpose; 
assails your stomach, all courage and energy, and to speak pertinently, consider both what 
__j;_ • , Jo Gf onA _l- r> 
both bodily and mental, disappearing, and a 
state of sublime indifference succeeding, which 
is fit and when it is fit to speak.— Pen. 
He that withholdeth corn, the people shall 
----UUMU Wiiuuwiu^tu IAS1U, LUC pcupic snail 
would have done honor to an ancient stoic. In curs ? Kim; but blessings shall be on the head 
my case there is not only an absence of emo- <diat se ii etb lo¬ 
tions, but also of ideas, so that my sea-sick Those who call others to repentance, should 
days and hours count almost as blanks in my j, be ™ se i ves i ead a Hfe ot seriousness and puri- 
existence, being occupied only by a va<me 
consciousness of discomfort, such as an ovster do use i°° ma nv circumstances ere one 
• 1.1 j. . , comes to the matter is wrearisome; to use none 
might be supposed to experience, if disturbed is blunt—Bacon. 
in the enjoyment of his accustomed ease and 
quiet. 
Duties in general, like that class of things 
called debts, give more trouble the longer they 
Our cockle-shell of a boat tossed and rolled remain undischarged, 
all night upon the restless waves, but with the W „ at men want, is not talent, it is purpose; 
morning light came the welcome intelligence in other words, not the power to achieve, but 
that we were approaching Naples. 1 mustered the will to labor. 
resolution to crawl on deck, but even the pan- Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the 
orama of the far-famed bay spread out before on U true balance to weigh a friend. 
me, the islands of Ischia and Capri guarding Have the courage to obey your Maker at 
its entrance like watchful sentinels, white sails ^ be rbdi boiug ridiculed by man. 
dotting its surface in every direction, and Ye- Judge not the rich by their wealth or the 
suvius rising in the distance, with a light wreath P ° 01 ^ tdie ' r P overt T’ 
nf omsts rpst.ina life* Rio Nothing so_ well becomes true feminine 
of smoke resting like a diadem upon his sum¬ 
mit, failed to awaken my enthusiasm. My 
beauty as simplicity. 
We may live without a brother, but not 
„ , , .... „ >> E may uve wiuiuui a urouier, out not 
raptures were all postponed till a few hours without a friend. 
upon terra firma should have restored the The thought of eternity consoles for the 
equilibrium which my short sea-voyage had so shortness of life. 
effectually disturbed, and meanwhile I sat in The man who is truly just will flourish in 
patient endurance till we had glided up the spite of envy. 
bay, and reached our landing place. Here the Fortune when once let go of is seldom 
proprietor of the boat came on board with caught 
profuse apologies for the delay to which we s ^ ow &* ve ad ''ice—ready to do any 
had been subjected at Fumacino, and also for senice - 
the character of the vessel, saying that an ac- men take Ws advice who talks a S ood 
cident had happened to the steamer which was Q ‘ , . .. , 
, , . . , , strike love from the soul, and life is in¬ 
to have made the trip — that he made every gjpy. 
exertion to convey intelligence of this event by Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly 
telegraph to Rome, in time to prevent the beggar. 
