MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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THE LADY’S SLEEP.—A BALLAD. 
BY KATE CAMERON. 
Within a lofty chamber, 
Upon a snowy bed, 
O’er which the damask cnrtains 
Their drapery had spread, 
With a cheek as pure and white 
As the pillow which it pressed, 
A noble lady slumber'd 
In peaceful, tranquil rest 
Her raven hair was parted 
Above b brow so fair 
The gazer could read no trace 
Of sorrow written there ; 
The drooping lashes guarded 
Closely the orbs below. 
Showing not what look they wore 
Of gladness or of woe. 
Her lip breath'd not the secret. 
Hot still within her heart 
There dwelt a bitter anguish 
That would not thence depart. 
She loved—as woman loveth— 
The same thro 1 good and ill. 
Her lord had proved a rover. 
But, oh 1 she loved him ntill 1 
And from her side he wander’d. 
And follow'd Glory’s star. 
He sought and he gained victory 
In battles near and (ar. 
And long she wept and waited. 
And watch'd with anxious eye, 
For him who fondly cherish’d 
Her heart ia days gone by. 
But weary now, Ehe slumber'd 
Without a sigh or moan, 
And in that stately chamber 
The lady was alone 1 
But Io ! a tall form enters, 
A warrior in h is pride, 
Upon hiB brow a helmet, 
His good sword at his side ; 
His eye ie blight and flashing, 
And pride has Hushed his cheek, 
Why is it that he falters 
And dares not even speak ? 
At length in trembling accents 
He calls a once loved name. 
One that was half-forgotten 
In his iong strife for Fame ; 
But ah ! there comes no answer— 
Be kneels beside the bed, 
A burning kiss he presses 
On lips whence life has fled ! 
One moment more he gazes 
Upon the face so fair, 
One silken tress he severs 
From the long raven hair; 
Then hastens to his charger, 
And mounts and rides away, 
He seeks the thickest confliot, 
Yet falls not in the fray. 
But many long years after, 
Within the Holy Land, 
An aged knight lay dying 
Upon the desert sand ; 
The crimson blood was flowing. 
For deadly wounds were there, 
One hand his sword was grasping, 
And one —a lock a hair ! 
if/# Iteatris. 
A KNOTTY LOVE QUESTION; 
AND HOW IT WAS SETTLED. 
Mr. Roderick Rollins was a bachelor who had 
seen some forty-nine summers, and although he 
was a handle of eccentricities, there were few men 
more popular with old married ladies, or with such 
Eingle ones as had ceased to be flighty, and had 
begun to take a sober view of the pomps and 
Tanitiea of this wicked world. It is just possible, 
indeed, that the gentleman’s popularity might be 
attributed in part to a very handsome estate which 
he bad inherited from bis father; for I hare gene¬ 
rally observed that a large landed property is a 
great enhancer of the wit, beauty, and profundity 
of its possessor. As Mr. Rollins gradually lum¬ 
bered along in life, he naturally became less and 
less disposed to rapid locomotion, and at the time 
lie ia introduced to the reader, he had dropped 
one and another of his regular visiting acquain¬ 
tances among the ladies, until the remainder had 
dwindled down to exactly three families. 
In one of these families, that of Mr. Pettigrew, 
there were two elderly young ladies, named Rachel 
and Amelia. These ladies were of the respective 
ages of thirty-seven and forty-nine, and having 
outlived their taste for balls and jams, now solaced 
themselves with the society of a few old beaox 
who would occasionally drop in of an evening, and 
have a quiet game of backgammon with them by 
the side of an old-fashioned coal fire. Among 
these visitors none were more welcome than Mr. 
Rollins. His stories were generally long, and he 
had much to say ol the sad degeneracy of the 
present fast age; bat then, beside being rich in 
the funds, he was rich in his reminiscences of the 
olden time. He would every now and then so affec¬ 
tionately allude to the brilliant evenings of by¬ 
gone years, when he used to danoe with the Misses 
Rachel and Amelia at the public assemblies, that 
the young ladies would, in imagination, revel 
again through those gay and festive scenes, and 
as Mr. Rollins named one and another of those 
belles and their adorers who used to figure in the 
Spanish dances and ladies chains of that simple 
era of Terpsichore, the tears would course one after 
another down their innocent noses. Mr. Rollins 
was also a connoisseur, and a highly gifted critic 
in green and black teas, and was well posted in 
cough and rheumatic medicines generally. Since 
he had got along in years he had likewise come to 
take a great Interest in church matters; he kept 
the run of proceedings of all the annual conven¬ 
tions, and was supposed to he familiar with the 
private opinions of several of the Bishops. Now 
none of these subjects were indifferent, to his fair 
companions, and as such human weakness as love 
and marriage seemed out. of the question, the latter 
intercourse between them was as calm and. cool as 
moonshine in winter. The condition of ancient 
beaux and ancient belles who have retired from 
the. drawing-room of mirth and fashion, and ha ve 
taken to chess and needle-work, and to sober re¬ 
miniscences of the heart conflicts they have un¬ 
dergone, is not of the cheerless character which 
some consider if. It may be likened to that of 
pensioned soldiers carefully honBed in some snug 
harbor provided by the State, where they may rest 
and smoke and talk of the mighty deeds they have 
done, for the rest, of their lives. The wars are 
over, the battles have been fonght; and what, 
though one may have lost an arm, another a leg, 
and a third has been topped of all his limbs, yet 
the pains arising from the wounds have been long 
forgotten, aud they now remember but the inci¬ 
dents and the glory of the conflicts. 
One of the oilier tamilies which Mr. Rollins used 
to visit, was that of the well known Dr. Anodyne. 
The doctor himself was a gentleman of the old 
school, and bis lady could give you the history of 
every family of note in the metropolis, but the 
attraction to Mr. Rollins was the society of their 
daughter Harriet. Miss Harriet had been in her 
day a celebrated beauty, but having now attained 
her fortieth year, it was generally supposed that 
the grand meridian of her charms had been 
passed. In early Life there had been some talk of 
a match between her and Mr. Rollins, but this had 
long blown over, and their conversation was now, 
to all human appearance, as rational and unim¬ 
passioned as though they were a couple of prosy 
philosophers. The remaining family honoredwith 
the pleasant acquaintanceship of Mr. Rollins W 3 s 
that of Mrs. Atterby, a widow lady of considera¬ 
ble wealth and position. She was the sister of 
Mrs. Anodyne, and consequently her daughter, the 
amiable Miss Ann Maria, was own cousin to Miss 
Harriet, aud very nearly of the same age. Both 
of these young ladies were on terms of tho most 
agreeable intimacy with the Misses Rachel and 
Amelia Fettigrcw. They had been companions in 
girlhood, had promenaded, had taken moonlight 
walks in company with each other and their lovers 
When these fair spinsters wonld get together, and 
grow inspired and loquacious as they sipped their 
hyson, Mr. Rollins was their toast and oracle. But 
delightful as was the relation subsisting between 
them and their antiquated beau, it was temporari¬ 
ly destined to a very singular kind of an interrup- 
sion. All at once, as one of the wonders of the 
world, a new light sprang np in Mr. Rollins’ mind, 
and this light was none other than a reflection 
from the torch of Cupid. How it came to pass 
that the heart of adamant which, daring the fever 
and passion of youth had resisted the well-directed 
volleys from female eyes of every color, and had 
at last succumbed, must forever remain a mystery. 
But Mr. Rollins’ love wag as droll as it was un¬ 
timely. Worse than the poor ass of the school¬ 
man, hesitating between two bundles of hay, Mr. 
Rollins had fallen in love with all four of his fe¬ 
male companions at the same time. At first this 
bachelor-love developed itself in periodical fits of 
partiality lor one or the other of the ladies, just 
as it happened; vacillating as it were, from day to 
day. Thus, for a while, Miss Amelia Pettigrew 
would be the queen ot his affections. He would 
call to mind some roguish dimple of her girlhood, 
and what a Eplendid set of teeth one or her regu- 
first intimated the tender sentiments she had in¬ 
spired, and on the first mention of it the young 
lady blushed overpoweringly. Bnt as Mr. Rollins 
further declared that the strength of his affections 
was equally great for their three mutual friends, 
her countenance underwent an expression of the 
most comical curiosity; and as at last the pro¬ 
posed scheme was divulged whereby a selection 
was to be made, Miss Harriet laughed until she 
she was well nigh choked. 
*Ab, Miss Harriet! you may laugh, hut devise 
a better plan for mo, if yon can. You know very 
well that if I were to select any one of the other 
three and leave you, you would consider yourself 
slighted and neglected. You see, then, that it is 
quite necessary for the happiness of all concerned 
that I should carry my point, and as I profess to 
he above hoard in oil my transactions, I shall state 
tho case to yanr worthy father, and ask him to su¬ 
perintend the drawing.” 
“ Of course, Mr. Rollins,” replied Miss Harriet, 
“yon can ask pa's co-operation in anything you 
choose to, but the whole procedure would be so 
strange and unusual, that so far as I am concern¬ 
ed, I must beg—” 
“Now, M iss Harriet! if you please, beg nothing,” 
interrupted Rollins, “for rely upon it, I shall ex¬ 
cuse neither of you, and when you have seriously 
considered the subject, you will not wish to be ex¬ 
cused yourself. What sense would there he, I ask 
you, in roy going out of our precious little circle 
for a wife?” 
On the day of this interview, Mr. Rollins made 
known his delicate intentions to the other three 
ladies, and at first they were disposed to regard 
tho matter in a jocnlar light, but on being assured 
by Mr, RolHns that be loved them all with the 
poetic aider of a never-dying affection, it is diffi¬ 
cult to say whether amazement or mirth was the 
prominent emotion of their breasts. When Miss 
Harriet Anodyne related to her father the singular 
communication which had been made to her, the 
doctor was thrown into such convulsions of laugh¬ 
ter that he protests to this day he gained seven 
pounds of flesh on the strength of it 
In the. evening the four loved ones got together 
and compared notes, and what a glow and flutter 
of chatting excitement they were all in, to be sure. 
Miss Alterbury, Miss Anodyne and Miss Rachel 
Pettigrew made a faint of treating the whole sub¬ 
ject with derision; but Amelia Pettigrew very 
candidly confessed that ehe was attracted by the 
novelty of the thing, and if the rest of the other 
girlB would agree, she would cheerfully fall in with 
Mr. Hollins’ humor. “ And, girls, why should we 
not?” she inquired, “ one of us will he sure to get 
a good husband, and we may be equally sure that 
unless we consent to he wooed in this quarterly 
manner, some other than our dear selves would be 
the winner. Pa 6ftys that any person acquainted 
with Rollins might have known that if be ever 
got married at all, it would be done up in the true 
Rollins style, and for his part, he can’t see any im¬ 
propriety in our owning the soft Impeachment, and 
making onrselves a grand Hymenial lottery at Mr. 
Rollins’earliest convenience. Besides, girls, it ia 
rather a pleasant reflection that Mr. Rollins slights 
none of ns, and after the lucky one is married and 
settled, the Ibroe remaining in single bleasednesB 
lar ringing laaghs would disclose in those days of will have that blessedness augmented in this late 
remote antiquity. Vi lien Mias Amelia was thus trophy to our waning charms.” 
boosted on the topmost round of Mr. Rollins’ lad¬ 
der of weathercock admiration, she would sud¬ 
denly be precipitated to the ground by a dim, shady 
recollection on the part of that gentleman of the 
bewitching manner in which Ann Maria Atterbury 
The ladies went off in fresh cachinnationB at 
Miss Amelia’s playful oration, but it waB plain to 
see that they were beginning to waver; to think 
more seriously of the matter, and before they 
parted it was, “Well, after all, no one is to know 
used to dance nearly a quarter ot a century ago. anything about it but ourselves, and if pa consents 
nrhn». tho tnr.Tni* m n m n .1 no a f __jf .1 •, . . « ... ... 1 
Then the tender memories of his early partiality 
for Miss Harriet Anodyne would so stir up poor 
Rollins’ vagrant sensibilities that he almost made 
np his mind to pop the question to her. He proba¬ 
bly would have done so on a certain afternoon, had 
he not stopped in at the Pettigrews’ on his way to 
Dr. Anodyne’s. It happened on this occasion that 
Miss Rachel was at home, and her tender solici¬ 
tude in the matter of a cold which Mr. Rollins hud 
taken, affected him with such an all-overish sort 
of sensation that for a period of some forty-eight 
hours the lady in question was the mistress of his 
heart Most certainly, bis exclusive predilections 
in favor of Miss Rachel lasted no longer than the 
time I specified, and he came at last to entertain 
a compound kind of love, for his four charmers 
collectively. HiB condition of mind was truly 
pitiable, for besides the nervousness attendant, upon 
so anomalous and whimsical a state ol' the affec¬ 
tions, Mr. Rollins’ knowledge of the female heart 
led him to the well grounded conviction that even 
should he make proposals to one of the four he 
and if rna consents”—and, in short, such is the 
tendency among the fair sex for lotteries and 
matrimony, that Mr. Rollins carried his point 
It was on a cold hut pleasant evening in the begin* 
ning of December that the four heroines and their 
lover were assembled in the cozy back parlor at 
Dr. Anondyne’s. The ladies looked somewhat ex¬ 
cited, hut the worthy Rollins was as comfortable 
and self-possessed as a duck in a mill-pond. He 
seemed to regard the approaching transactions as 
in no degree outre, but as regular and business¬ 
like, and as just the only mothod left whereby a 
gentleman with a capacious heart could he extri¬ 
cated from a dilemma. “Be satisfied, ladies! I 
love you all, but my supreme affection will be cen¬ 
tered on the prize I draw; she will, of coarse, soon 
become my wedded spouse! And I would now say 
for myself, and in the name of my dear wife, who¬ 
ever she may be, that our friendship must he per¬ 
manent and unbroken.” 
At this the ladies, in a flatter of amiable confu¬ 
sion, simpered a little; hut just then the heavy 
would incur the risk of losing the friendship of tread of Dr. Anodyne was heard, and their hearts 
the remaining three. Now this was a contingency went pit-a-pat a little. The doctor entered into 
too painful to think of, and the poor enamored 
gentleman spent a whole year in devising wayB 
and means whereby it might be avoided. As yet, 
neither of the ladies in question had the remotest 
suspicion Of the whirlwind of eccentric passion 
which was tearing away the very foundations of 
Mr. Rollins’ moral being; for if at any time he 
happened to make some extraordinary demonstra¬ 
tions, it was credited to the account of a seldom 
and unexpected twinge of rheumatism with which 
he was occasionally afflicted. 
One evening in the month of November, while 
Rollins was sitting in his lonely room meditating 
on the past, and wondering whither the tempest 
would eventually lead him, he suddenly bounded 
from his chair, snapped his iiogers, looked out of 
the window, put more coal on the fire, plumped 
himself again in hia chair, and then soliloquized: 
“ It’s of no use,” 6t»id he, to endure this confounded 
perplexity any longer. One thing is certain: I 
love them all; and why should I not at once de¬ 
clare? Suppose they do laugh at my quadrupled 
affection, what then? I am sure they must see my 
sincerity; and conclude that I am a man of an 
immensely large heart, thus to be able to love all 
four of them with tlm inextinguishable ardor.— 
Yet, as I can mun-y bnt one, the selection muBt he 
made by their casting lots for me. and passing 
strange it is, too, that this happy thought should 
never have occurred to rue until this present hour. 
And then, in this deliciotiB lottery, I shall be sure 
on my pad, to draw a prize, for the good reason 
that there is no blanks. But will the ladies enter 
into ibis arrangement? By ruy soul they must— 
My proposed plan will at least show that I am not 
partial, and there will be no occasion among them 
for jealousy.” 
It was to Miss Harriet Anodyne that Mr. Rollins 
thespiritof the occasion, and with the most ludi- 
orousbut becoming gravity, put twenty tickets in a 
box. Each lady had her name on five of these, 
and the doctor said he should take eleven out 
singly, shaking the box after each time a ticket 
was drawn, and the lady having the largest num¬ 
ber of the residue, must, uccording to the stipula¬ 
tions, step np to the Bishop’s office with Mr. Rol¬ 
lins and settle. 
At the first drawing of the eleven tickets, Miss 
Rachel Pettigrew and Miss Atterbury had a ma¬ 
jority of tickets, but also an equal number of 
them, and so there was a necessity for another at¬ 
tempt, In the second scries of drawings what a 
fluttering of hearts there was when the eleven 
tickets were all taken from the box. 
As the doctor deliberately opened them, even 
Rollins betrayed somo emotion, and as it was an¬ 
nounced that a choice had been effected, and on 
the doctor’s requesting all the parties to draw nigh 
to the table, the scene was worthy the pencil of a 
Cruikshanks. The result was: one lady, four 
tickete; and this lady was Miss Harriet, the doc¬ 
tor's lovely daughter. Mr. Rollins instantly sprang 
to her side, and her fair companions, regarding 
her as the heaven-elected bride, bestowed those 
sweet caresses which none but female lips and fe¬ 
male hands can give. The marriage came off in a 
few weeks with great eclat; the three young ladieB 
standing as bridesmaids, and three old cronies of 
Rollins, each with a wig on his pate, serving as 
groomsmen. The match was pre-eminently a hap- 
py one, for Mr. Rollins got a moBt devoted wife, 
and Miss Harriet an exemplary husband. 
The poetical feature of this veracious history 
is, that while any of the four ladies would gladly 
have married Mr. ltolllnu, it was only Miss Ano¬ 
dyne who had ever truly loved him. From girl¬ 
hood up she had cherished a secret affection for 
him who, twenty-three years ago, had won her 
youthful heart, and now having fairly won him in 
a lottery, he was to all intents and purposes her 
lawful property. It is true, she was sometimes in¬ 
clined to a little jealousy at her husband’s regard 
for her three friends, bnt as Mr. Rollins protested 
that the decision of the lottery had concentrated 
his affections on her alone, she became content.— 
The three single ladies, gratified that they had not 
been shoved aside and neglected in this grand 
matrimonial scheme, ever after retained for Mr. 
and Mrs. Rollins the strongest attachment, and all 
the parties were as regular and constant, in their 
interchange ot friendly visits as they were prior to 
the marriage. 
Imtfs 
JUNE 20. 
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For Moore'a Rural New-Yorker. 
BIBLICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 42 letters 
My 1,12, 7, 33,13,14 is a mountain upon which the 
Ark rested. 
My 8, 30, 37, 7, 15 is where the bitter waters were 
made Bweet. 
My 6, A, 20, 3 is a mountain on which Moses died. 
My 2,10,20,16, 35, 40 was the birth place and resi¬ 
dence of Sank 
My 32, 7, 28, 20 was the birth place of Goliah. 
My 18,13, 20, 4, 17 i3 a mountain noted for the 
transfiguration of Christ. 
My 25, 10, 6, 24, 8 was a city of the plain destroyed 
by fire. 
My 35, 27, 36, 38, 4, 30, 23 is where the Disciples 
were fust called Christians. 
My 2, 12, 21, 26, 22, 34 is where Paul abode three 
months. 
My 42, 41, 14,15 was one of the Patriarchs. 
My 40, 4,11, 9, 7 ia a book of the Old Testament. 
My whole is one of the proverbs of Solomon. 
Adams, N. Y., June, 1867. G. W. F. 
Answer next week. 
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CHARADE, 
My first is never found in time, 
And yet it always comes in season; 
My second is a part of rhyme, 
’Tis also found in reason. 
My third, it is the reader, 
And sometimes ’tis a tree; 
My fourth is part of cedar, 
Yet in wood it cannot be. 
My fifth, and last, is found in days 
When trees their fruit do yield; 
My whole, it reads the same both ways, 
And means a kind of field. 
Sutherland Falls, Vt., 1857. A. J. O. 
jS eT’ Answer next week. 
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ENIGMA —A BOQ.UET OF FLOWERS. 
1, an hour of the day. 
2, a figure and part of the face. 
3, part or the day and to close. 
4,1 desire to be remembered. 
5, a fop and a ferocious animal. 
6, a shell fish, & preposition and you and me. 
7, frozen water and a round body. 
8, one of the plagues of the Egyptians. 
9, one of the seasons and a drove of sheep. 
10, an animal and a covering for the hand. 
11, a falsehood and to want 
Campbell, N. Y., 1857. y. y. K. 
JZST Answer next week. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
HISTORICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 23 letters. 
My 11,22,4, 20,11,12,8,6 was on early Roman poet. 
My 17, 2, 23, 14, 18 was a celebrated Italian poet. 
My 6,18, 4, 9, 7, 17, 20, 4 was one of the principal 
sects of Philosophy in ancient Greece. 
My 4, 10, 3, 10, 23 was one of the celestial deities. 
My 1,12,11, 17,18,21 was the greatest epic poet of 
modern times. 
My 13,9,15,16, 5,14 was an early Grecian prince. 
My 19, 12, 4, 10 was a city in aucient Palestine. 
My whole was one of the greatest, and most vir¬ 
tuous of Roman Emperors. w. x. b. 
Hartford, Wis., 1857. 
jSx?" Answer next week. 
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ARITHMETICAL FBOBLEM. 
Ik 9 horses or 13 cows out 17 acres of grass in 
31 days—how Iong will 29 acres last 13 calves, 11 
colts and 12 sheep? supposing 6 colts equal 4 
horses; 7 calves=3 cows; 18 sheep=ll calves.— 
The grass growing uniformly. c. l. c. 
Angelico, N. Y., June, 1857. 
fisT Answer next week. 
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Answer to Poetical Enigma in No. 388:—Rain¬ 
bow. 
Answer to Geographical Enigma in No. 388:— 
They that forsake the law, praise the wicked. 
Answer to Historical Enigma in No. 388:—Had 
I never been a mother, Rome had still been free. 
Answer to Arithmetical Problem in No. 388:— 
Length 80 rods; width 8 rods. 
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The Mother's Influence. — The solid rock, 
which turns the edge of the chisel, bears forever 
the impress of the leaf and the acorn received 
long, long since, ere it had beemno hardened by 
time and the elements. If we trace back to its 
fountain, the mighty torrent which fertilizes the 
land with its copious steams, or sweeps over it 
with a devastating flood, we shall find it dripped 
in crystal drops from some mossy crovico among 
the distant hills; so too, tho gentle feelings and 
affections that enrich and adorn the heart, and tho 
mighty passions that Bweop away all the barriers 
of the soul and desolate society, may have sprung 
up in the infant bosom in the sheltered retirement 
of home. " I should have been an atheist,” said 
John Randolph, “ if it had not been for one recol¬ 
lection; and that was the memory of tho time, 
when my departed mother used to take my little 
bundB in hers, and cause me on my kneeB to say, 
* Our Father which ai t in heaven.’ R. I. School¬ 
master. 
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yet not two-tnlrds the customers could be supplied. The repu¬ 
tation of the Machine U now widely established, so that 6,000 
w ill no t as nearly supply tho demand a* 2.800 did but, year, 
rr Order early. If yon would not be itisaptoolntod 
i’AJrrnutT*giving rarARTtAi.LT the OPINIONS OF FARM¬ 
ERS, together with orders, notes, Ac , mulled to tppllcauts, aud 
prepaid 
Vjr IT B HAPOOOH, of Rochester, N. Y, lx tho General 
Agent for the above Machine in Now Vork, to whom all letters 
relative to nates, Ac.. In this State should be addressed. Travel¬ 
ing and Local Agents wanted. .'I82wl6 
,r. SAGrB «£j SONS, 
MUSIC PUBLISHERS, 
NO. 209 MAIN STREET, BUFFALO. 
Pianos and AlELomso.vfl from tho best Factories in tha Union, 
for sale at makers pitces. 
COMBINED BEAPER AND MOWER 
AND SINOUK MOWER. 
Manny’s I’nicnr with WoetPs Improvement, 
I N OFFERING MV MACHINES TO THE FARMERS FOR 
the Harvest of 1857, it seems hardly necessary to advertise 
them ; bur as this medium for on Ini induction to the public is 
so generally adopted. 1 take thin method to Inform tlm farmers 
that a olo».> pi.r-.oT.ui nu«-mtor> M tlm practical operation ot the 
machine tho past harvest naa induced mo to maka several Im¬ 
provements—these, added to Us former reputation, give me the 
utmost confidence In stating that It now stands unrivalled as a 
Mower, or a Combined Reaper and -Mower, anti tor harvesting 
Clover Seed, ha* no competitor. T Tiave a large amount of 
certificates from farmers who havo toted my machine besides 
Beveral Premiums, Diplomas and Module, awarded by State, 
Comity and Town Agricultural Societies, pointing out plainly 
the points In which It excels all others Many of these nro 
patented and cannot be embodied 111 any other machine, and all 
will admit how essential aud ludlspousablo they are to a suc¬ 
cessful Combined Reaper and Mower. 
Wuh each machine will bo furnished two seythoa, two extra 
guard*, two extra section*, one extra pinion and wrench. 
Warranted capable of culling from lb to 10 acres of graBS or 
grain per day in a workmanlike manner. 
Price of Combined Mucblno delivered here on the Cars $125 TO 
“ “ Single Mower, Wood Bar “ " ** 111)00 
« “ “ 11 Steel " ‘ " “ 116 00 
WALTER A. WOOD, 
Manufacturer and Proprietor. 
Hooslck Falls, Apill 15, 1857. 381wlti 
KTID ZllltS 
LAKE, RAIN ANI> RIVER WATER FILTERS. 
H ave been in use for rjxtef.n years, and in 
all purls of tlm United Slates and tho Canada.*, haveglvcm 
the highest satisfaction. They nro scientific tn their construe- 
tton, Portable, Dnroblo and Cheap. For Circular* with particu¬ 
lar*. address J, K. CHEN RY A GO., 
SSleowtf Rochester, N. V. 
i) r/kA MOKE MEN WANTED AS AGENTS TO CIR- 
/WjtFVrVj cuinte rapid-selling, valuable Family Works, 
which attract by their low prices, Interesting content*, and su¬ 
perbly colored plate*. For circular*, with particulars, apply, 
It you live East, to HKNKV HOWE, No 108 Nassau St.. N. Y.; 
If West, to the same, No. Ill Muiu St-, Cincinnati. 377wl3 
KETCH L.M'S MOWER. 
A ND MOWER AND REAPER FOR 1857, WITH PLAT- 
Ibrrn for either wide or back dollvery of the grain Various 
improvements have been made, aud machines warranted snpe- 
rior to any heretofore built Any Information wanted tn regard 
to them, or persons wishing to interest themselves In their sale, 
will please address R L HOWARD, 
372wtf Knccessor to Howard A Co., Buffalo. N. Y. 
Til 1C ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAIL ROAR CO 
O FFER FOR SALE OVER l.fitMMHftf ACRES 6KLECTIO 
Farming and Wood Lands in Tracis of Forty acres and up¬ 
wards, to suit purchaser*, on 
Long Credit* and at Low Rato* of Interest. 
Pamphlets, containing Man*, description of Lands, and other 
Information valuable to the Western Emigrant, will bo sent free 
of postage by addressing 
36“U' JOHN CORNING. Gen. Ag't., Buffalo, N. Y. or 
JOHN WILBON.LandCoru'r I,G. li. K .Cblo ,111. 
TO PKU6UN8 OCT OF EMPLOYMENT. 
W ANTED—In every county tn the Untied State*,active, In¬ 
dustrious and eliterjirlsing men, so Airetits for the sale 
by subscription, of valuable and Interesting Book* : ail of them 
being expressly adapted to the wants of every family and con¬ 
taining nothing of a pernicious or Injudlclou* tendency Our 
publications are among the lies! In thernaulry, and good agents 
can realise a profit Trem $2 to $1 per day by engaging in the 
business. A small capital of only $20 to $50 Is inquired For 
furthor purtlculara, address ROBERT HEARS, Publisher, 
SS2w8 No. 181 William street. New York. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
Tn* MMDJKG WKEKLT 
Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper, 
is runListnco xvrur Saturday 
BY D. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Oflloc, Union Building*. Opposite the Court House. 
TERMS, IN ADVANCE: 
Two Dollars a YxAB — $1 for six month*. To dobs and 
Agents as follows :—Throo Copies ono year, foi $5 ; Six Copies 
(and ono to Agent or getter up of Club,) for $10; Ten Copies (aud 
one to Agent,) for $15, and any additional number »t the earno 
rate, ($1,60 per copy) As we are obliged to pre-pay the Ameri¬ 
can postage on paper* sent io tho Brliloh Provinces, our Cana¬ 
dian agent* and friend* mnst add Rffa cent* pot copy Io 66° 
Club rates of tho Rural. 
V Tin postage on tho Rubal 1* only cents por quarter to 
any part of thl* Ftatn, (except Monroo county, where tt goes 
free,) and 6>i cents to any section of the United States—payable 
quarterly In advance at tho offleo whore received. 
| y Subscriber* wishing their papers changed from ono Post 
Offleo to another, should be particular in specifying the offices 
at which they are now received. 
Anvxuiisifl a—Briof and appropriate advortlaemont* will be 
Inserted at 20 cents a line, each Insertion, payable In advance. 
Our rnle Is to give no advertisement, miles* very brief, more 
than tour consecutive Insertions. Patent Medicines, Ao., are 
not advertised in tho Rural on any conditions 
