MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
genberg on the Neckar, which is yet used for a 
residence. We passed hastily through it and then 
went on to Mosbach, seeing on the way the mined 
castle of Minnebnrg, on a steep height overlook¬ 
ing the river. There is a tradition that in the 
eleventh century, Minna, the daughter of a count 
who lived in a neighboring castle, fled to this spot, 
in order to escape a bated marriage, into which 
her father deaired to force her. She lived seven 
years in a elefe among the rocks, attended ouly by 
one faithful maid-servant, and finally died from 
sorrow and in the bitterest privation. Her Irae 
lover, a General under the Emperor, was in a dis¬ 
tant war at the time of her flight He returned 
near the time of her death, and learning her flight, 
Bonght for her unoil he found her grave, still 
guarded by the half-starved maid. He purchased 
the mountain and erected the castle to the memory 
of Minna. 
MARYLAND. 
Maryland, one of the Central United States 
lies between 38° and 39°44' north latitude, and 
75 C 10' and 79°2l' west longitude. The State is 
196 miles long—120 broad—and contains 11,000 
square miles. It is divided into 22 conuti s. The 
population in 1790 was 319,728; in 1850, 583,035, 
which were divided as follows:—Whites, 418,690; 
Free Colored, 74.077; Slaves' 90,268. 
East Maryland, or that part of the State east of 
the Chesapeake Bay, is mostly leveL Tbe country 
t»n the west shore to the head of the tides is simi¬ 
lar to the eastern shore; the soil of this portion is 
generally fertile, producing wheat, Indian corD > 
tobacco, Ac. Above the tides the surface rises 
into hills, and the western part attains an elevated 
region, being crossed by the Ailegbany moun¬ 
tains. The western part contains much flue land, 
adapted both to grain and grazing. Extensive 
beds of coal and iron ore exist. 
The Potomac river, which divides the State 
from Virginia iB 550 miles long, and navigable 
about 300 miles to Washington city. It is 7} 
miles wide at its month. The great falls are 59 
miles above Washington; the perpendicular de¬ 
scent ia 66 feet, and the rapids extend for several 
miles op the river, snd form a very picturesque 
view. The Sosqnehsnnah is a large river which 
enters into the head of Chesapeake bay in this 
State. It ia If miles wide at its mouth, but is 
navigable only five milep, being above that much 
obstructed by falls and rapids, The Patapsco ia a 
small river, navigable, however, fourteen miles to 
Baltimore for snips. Tbe Patuxent is 110 miles 
long, and i3 navigable for 50 miles for vessels of 
250 tons- The other rivers are Elk, Sassafras, 
Chester, Choptank, Nanticoke and Pocomoke.— 
The Chesapeake bay is 270 mileBlong, and from 70 
to 20 wide, and by its numerous Inlets furnishes 
many fine harbors, and in season abounds with 
the finest water fowl, flsb, Ac. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
THE LORD’S PRATEB. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY. 
Fai.sk Dogmas in Geography rectified by the Science it¬ 
self.— Bran JUlukr. 
As the monk Cosmas had taught a false geogra¬ 
phy consistent, as he thought, with the language 
of the Bible, It, became his duty to show in what 
manner the changes of day and night and of the 
seasons take place. Tbe following ia bis figure, 
viz.: “ The OeavoDS and Earth of Cosmas,” which 
is not very gimilar to that splendid firmament 
with which the great Creator has surrounded ns. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
[Eds. Rpbal:— Having met with tti« Allowing Ingenious 
poem on the Lords Prayer, and wishing to rescue it from 
oblivion, I send it for insertion in your valuable paper.— 
The initial letters spell “ My boost is in the glorious cross 
of Christ," and the words in italic, when read downwards 
on the left, and upwards on the right, compose the Lord’s 
Prayer.] 
SIakh known thy Gospel truth?, Our heavenly King, 
Yield us thy grace, dear Father, from above; 
Bless m with hearts which feelingly can sing, 
Our life thou art for ever, Goo of love. 
Assuage our griefs, in love/or Christ, we pray, 
Since the bright Prince of Acueenand glory died 
Took all our shame and hallowed the display, 
In first be-ing man, and then being crucified. 
Stupendous God, thy grace and power make known. 
In Jesus’ name let all the world rejoice; 
New labors in thy heavenly kingdom own. 
That blessed kingdom for thy saints the choice. 
How rile to come to thee it all our cry, 
Enemies to f Ay-self, and all that’s thine, 
Graceless our will our lives for vanity; 
Loathing thy truths, fte-iug cool iu design. 
O, God! thy will tie done—from earth to heaven, 
Reclining on Thy Gospel, let us live, 
In earth from sins deliver'd and forgiven; 
Ohf at thyself, but teach us to forgive, 
TJnlesB it’s power temptation doth destroy, 
Sure is our fail into the depths of woe. 
Carnal in mind, we've not a glimpse of joy; 
Rai-pd against heaven, in us no hope can flow- 
O! give us grace, and lead us on thy way, 
Shine on us, with thy love, and give vs peace; 
Self and this sin which rise against us slay, 
Oh! grant each day our tresspass-es may cease. 
Forgive our evil deeds that oft we do. 
Convince us daily of them, to our shame, 
Help us with heavenly bread—forgive us, too. 
Recurrent lusts and— tre adore tby name. 
In thy forgive-DOit we ai saints can die, 
Since for its and our trespasses so hi; h, 
Thy Son, our Savior, bled on Calvary. 
Bradford, N. Y., 1857. 
nr Gt-EZEN f. widcox 
ARGENT OP MOUNT WASHINGTON 
Tns chief exploit of the visitor to the White 
Mountains, is to ascend Mount Washington; ana a 
toilsome, and even dangerous feat it is to this day, 
despite the improved facilities of traveL The 
journey from the Crawford House is nine miles, 
made ou the backs of Canadian ponies, over the 
old Crawford bridle-paths, though a grand carri¬ 
age-way is now projected from the Glen House on 
the opposite side of the mountain. The excursion 
occupies a long day, with the utmost, industry.— 
We made it, on one occasion, n midsummer, with 
a party of thirty ladies and gentlemen, besides onr 
guides, and it was a gay scene—the getting m 
route, and a singular cavalcade; miles onward as 
wo wound, in Indian file, cautiously along the rug¬ 
ged, narrow path, trusting to our trusty ponies to 
walk with us upon their backs, over logs, and 
rocks, and chasms, which we would n thave dared 
to leap ourselves; and Burprising was the picture, 
as wo, at length, bivouacked and ate onr grateful 
lunch upon the all seeing crest of the grand old 
mountain, 
it is night. L. The Mediterranean Sea. 6. Red Sea.— 
7. Persian Gulf. 8. Garden of Kden. 9. Great sur¬ 
rounding ocean. 10. The Creator looking down upon 
his work, and seeing that all was good. 
Cosmas did not consider the figure as one of 
imagination, but derived from such Bible lan¬ 
guage 8s this: “That strebebeth out the heavens 
as a curtain and spreadeth them ont as a tent to 
dwell in: in them (beaveDS) hath he set a taberna¬ 
cle for the sun.” Not considering thiB language 
as a beautiful figure, expressive of the appearance 
of the canopy over ue, it was inferred that a tent 
or tabernacle must involve a level plain or flat 
earth. The matter was thus settled. Thence origi¬ 
nated the contrivance for day and night, viz.: “ A 
vast mountain beyond the TJreat Sea,' rises imme¬ 
diately under it (the canopy;) when the sun passed 
behind this mountain it was night, and, when it 
emerged from it, it w vs day." The seasons would 
follow from the varying inclination of the sun's 
motion around the mountain, now rising higher 
for the summer heat, and now sinking lower for 
the existence of winter. 
another American, L-, from Philadelphia, de¬ 
cided to join me in walking to Stuttgart- I found 
them in Heidelberg, and we crossed the bridge to 
the right bank of tbe river, and took tbe road to¬ 
wards the village of Ziegelhansen. The ca9lie and 
town were soon hidden from our view, and we en¬ 
tered among scenery that to me wa3 entirely un¬ 
known. The weather was propitious; not too 
wai m for comfort, bat a bright sunshine was pour¬ 
ed over the landscape, dotted with shadows of 
large clouds. We were in high spirits, and joked, 
laughed and told stories, which together with the 
beautiful scenery, made us forget the unaccustom¬ 
ed weight of the knapsacks and the fatigue of 
walking. Many rafts were descending the river, 
and ia ono place we eaw a curious kind of a ferry. 
A few small skiffs, anchored in the middle of the 
stream, supported a chain that was attached to the 
center of a ferry boat. Two short chains were 
fastened to the ends of the boat, and joined to¬ 
gether at the large cbaTt a couple of rods above. 
Whenever they wished to cross the- river one of 
the small chains was shortened and the other 
lengthened, so as to bring the head of the boat a 
little up stream. The chains held it in this posi¬ 
tion and the current of the river flowing by it, 
forced it across. 
After a three hoari walk we came to Ncckar- 
steinach. On entering the village we met a school 
of children to tho number of forty, the largest of 
which did not seem more than two fe?t and a half 
high. They were all bolding on to a long rope, 
and taking a walk under the guidance of two 
school-mistresses. At this place the river sweeps 
grandly round a high hill which is crowned with 
: village. Oa the sides of the mountains across 
the river; are four ancient castles, one of which is 
yet occupied as a dwelling. The Scbaalbennesl is 
the highest, and bangB on the steep mountain side. 
We looked down almost perpendicular from its 
ruined battlements into the river. In former times 
the castle was considered impregnable, and the 
common people have a tradition, that a chain was 
stretched across the river from its towers, in order 
to enable the robber knights who held it, to collect 
tribute more easily from the ships. Lower dowu 
on tho mountain Bide stands the lliuterburg which 
was larger. A massive, square tower about sixty 
feet high, on which we could perceive but one 
opeuing, which was a small, arched door about half 
way up one of the sides, rises out of tbe midst of 
i:s ruined walla, and overgrown court-yards. There 
was a clump of trees and bushes on the top of tbe 
tower, in which the birds could build their nests 
unmolested, and minglo their nottB with the 
mournful sighing of the wind. 
We resumed the road up the valley, and pres¬ 
ently passed several extensive quarries of red 
sandstone. 
At another time, we ascended, in the 
middle of October, when we could muster no larger 
group than our friend, ourself, and nr guide. For 
two niiiea from the summit, the way was blocked 
with snow; so we left our ponies to take care of 
thcmbelves, and completed the tramp on toot. The 
day, though so bitterly cold aa to remind us of 
Webster’s salutation upon alike occasion—“Moant 
Washington, I have come a very long distance, 
have toiled hard to arrive at yonr summit, and 
now you give me but a cold reception”—was hap- 
the atmosphere wa, exceed- 
For Moore'* Enrol New-Yorker. 
THOUGHTS AT BUNYAN’S TOMB. 
“ Sleep on, thon nilgMj dreamer.* 
In a quiet and sec ur ed cemetery of the great 
metropolis of England, lies tbe precions ashes of 
one of the best and the noblest of men, who as au 
author has immortalized himself by au imperisha¬ 
ble allegory,—charming and fascinating; both to 
youth and age—filled with striking illustrations of 
Christian character and experience, and showing 
the influence of reason snd religion on the human 
mind. It, seems somewhat natural to man to visit 
the sepulchres of those who have distinguished 
themselves in the page of human history—by some 
thriliiag act of patriotic heroism—some noble di 
covery in science or arts—or who has chan - 
by tha sweetness of his song or by the 1 :.gic i 
bi 3 pea,—or by pare acts of self-denying and nun 
sual philanthropy, has endeared himself ia the 
memories of his race. Under the influence of this 
feeling—such a feeling as influenced the women at 
the sepulchre of the Reedeeser where they went 
■•to seethe place where the Lord lay,” and were 
shown the spot by the angel of ;hr Lord.—did _we 
visit, the city of the dead, and especially the tomb 
of amo3t distinguished,*excellent and useful ser¬ 
vant of ourDiviue Matter—:ventbe grave of John 
Bcnyan I He is surrounded by tbe sa red du3t of 
thousands of tbe noblest and b ?>t of men. In the 
plain, neglected and disused burial ground of Bun- 
hill Fields, City Road, Loudon, are deposited his 
mortal remains. Close by arc also those of the sweet 
sinters of Israel, Dr. Isaac Watts, and Dr. Ry- 
The Bible was made re¬ 
sponsible, by Cosmar and the Theologians of that 
day and afterwards, for the false science of geog¬ 
raphy, which is now utterly disproved, and con¬ 
demned. The grounds of condemnation are folly 
seen, and the certainty absolutely known. In the 
language of Hugh Miller, “Attaching literal 
meanisgs to what we now recognize as merely 
poetic or oratorical figr- reB, they believed that not 
only was it revealed to them that God had created 
the heavens and the earth, but that he had created 
the earth in the form of an. extended plain, and 
placed a semi-globular hca><.a c .cr it.” Bat the 
truth came to tho people simply by that science of 
“ the geographer which demoumratesthattne earth 
is not flat, but spherical-" No other method could 
be devised for banishing. &■*>. falsehood, or for 
exposing its erroneousness. 
Had Cosmas and his followers been srccessful 
in sustaining this geographical falsehood as the 
truth of revelation, at this day all belief in the re¬ 
ligion, as well as in such geography, of the Bible, 
would have together been banished from civilized 
men. Unintentionally erring ss sn:h believers 
were, they were actually guilty of adding to the 
word of God, against which so grievous a woe is 
denounced by the Reyelator. Many religionists 
in their zeal are now doin& that in respect to 
geology which Cosmas did in respect to geogra¬ 
phy. The wisdom must be to wait until science has 
shown how the truth actually exists in natural 
things. That truth, derived from the works of 
God, will accord with that revealed in the word of 
God. Look at some of the absurdities in the pre¬ 
ceding figure of the geography of Cosmas. 
Yesterday was the day of the Equinox, at noon 
the sun stood directly over the equator, and thou¬ 
sands of men at noon had their shadow under 
their feet. Where now must be that '* great monn- 
pily a brilliant one 
ingly clear: and we had the delight of seeing all 
the delicious panorama, which has been thns 
catalogued: 
'• In the. west, through the blue haze, are seen,in 
the distance, the ranges of the Green Mountains; 
the remarkable outlines of the summits of Camel’s 
Hump aud Mansfield Mountain being easily distin¬ 
guished when tha atmosphere is clear. To the 
north-west, under your feet, are the clearings and 
settlement of Jefferson, aud the waters of Cherry 
l’oud; and, further distant, the village of Lancas¬ 
ter, with the waters of Israel’s river. The Con¬ 
necticut is barely visible; and often its appearance 
formile3 is counterfeited by the log rising from 
its surface. To Die north and north east, only a 
few miles distant, rise up boldly the great north¬ 
eastern pcakB of the White Mountain range—Jef¬ 
ferson, Adams, and Madison—with their ragged 
tops of loose dark rockp. A little farther to the 
east are seen the numerous and distant summits of 
the mountains of Maine. On the south-east, close 
at hand, are the dark and crowded ridges of the 
mountains of Jackson; and beyond, the conical 
summit of Kcarsarge, standing by itself, on the 
outskirts of the mountains; and, further over the 
low country of M fine, Sabago Pond, near Portland. 
Still further, it la said, the ocean itself has some¬ 
times been distinctly visible. 
The White Mountains are often seen from the 
sea, even at 30 miles distanoe from the shore; aad 
nothing can prevent the sea from being seen from 
the mountains, bat the difficulty of distinguishing j 
its appearance from that of the sky near t ;e hori¬ 
zon. Further to the south are the intervales of the 
Saco, and the settlements of Bartlett and Conway, 
the sister ponds of Lovoll, ia Frybarg; and, still 
fnrthc-r,the remarkable foor-tootned summit of the 
Chocorua, the peak to the right being much the 
largest, and sharply pyramidal. Almost exactly 
south are the shining waters of the beautiful Win- 
nipiseogee,8een with the greatest distinctness in a 
favorable day. To the south-west, near at hand, 
are the peaks of the south-western range of the 
White Mountains; Monroe, with its two little al¬ 
pine ponds sleeping under its rocky and pointed 
summit; the flit surface of Franklin, and the 
rounded top of Pleasant, with their ridges and 
spars. Beyond these, the Willey Mountain, with 
its high, rlgded summit; and, beyond that,several 
parallel ranges of high-wooded mountains. Fur¬ 
ther west, and over all, is seen the high, bare sum¬ 
mit of Mount Lafayette, in Franconia.”— Hand- 
Book of American Travel. 
j5uLjl£y££il!*0 
This valuable building material Is 
easily quarried along tbe Neckar, loaded into 
boats, und then floated to cities far down oa the 
Rhine. We passed a large cross which stood by a 
spring in a little valley. The sentence, “ save tby 
soul,” was written ou it, and three little girls were 
kneeling before if, performing their devotions — 
When they saw us watching them attentively, they 
broke into loud laughter, which they continued 
until we weie nearly out of sight, ami then again 
resumed their seriousness. The sun went down 
while we wero yet far from Eberback, shedding his 
last beams on the mountain tops, and the moon 
came out of tho East among light and silvery 
cloudp, and apread her soft light on the green for¬ 
ests. grey, rough rooks, aud rushiug, glancing river. 
Not far from Eberback stands the Katzeubuckel, 
the highest mountain in the Odenwald, which we 
resolved to cross. The landlord procured u couple 
of boys for our guides, ai d we started up a narrow 
valley, with beech aud oak forests growing on its 
sides, where a large qua tity of wood had been cut 
in the winter. There were two or three ruined 
mills in the valley, and tho brock poured vainly 
over their broken .-heels. Wc walked, on for a 
couple of hours through wooded and gradually 
ascending valleys, and finally came out upon cul¬ 
tivated table lands above which rose the wooded 
peak of the mountain. The top is formed of a 
huge pile of moss-covered rooks with fir trees 
growing from their clefts; and if the heap was not 
so largo one might think it had been plied by hu¬ 
man hands. It is said the ancient Germans used 
to worship their gods on this peak. There is a 
tower erected there and the view from its summit 
embraces a large part of tbe Odenwald and of 
Wirtembcrg. 
We wont down, on the other side, to a small vil¬ 
lage which was tho first one with tbatohed roofs 
I had seen iu Gsrmany. Our guides, one of which 
was the sou of tho prison keeper, und the other of 
the school-master in Eborbach, went with us to a 
beer house, where we discharged them. They or¬ 
dered a pint of wine and something to eat, which 
they disposed of rather quickly, and went off with¬ 
out bidding ug alieu. We discovered the reason 
of their haste when the landlady charged ns for 
what they had consumed. 
Au hour’s walk brought us to the castle of Zwin- 
PUNCTUATION POINTS. 
The press is the ruling power of 
Tub Press. 
the times. The age of statesmen is over, the age 
of bullets is over, and the age of the printing 
press has come. What tho invention of gun-pow¬ 
der was to the art of war, making any man who 
could puli a trigger equal to the most powerful 
warrior, the press is in a reading age. We have 
invented the pamphlet. We have called into ex¬ 
istence the fourth estate of the realm, it is brains. 
Men sometimes think that the great brows at 
Washington control the nation. So the boy who 
first sees a steamboat thinks that the walking- 
beam ia the propelling power, but below there is 
a “ fanatic” feeding the fires. 
Thb points now used in punctuation were intro¬ 
duced into writing gradually, some lime after the 
invention of printing. The Greeks had none, and 
I Veil dell Phillips, 
rere first used by M. Gille- Arb we to break down the hedge-flowers which 
Mid were intended by him perfume our paths? Things are ofteiwst, nothing 
>f Italic letters; and the \n themselves: the thoughts we attach to them 
1 them by that name. But alone give them value. To rectify inaocoat^mis- 
led by English printers to takes, in order to recover some useless reality, is 
In a London book—“The to be like those learned men who will see noth ug 
printed in 1897, it appears in a plant but the chemical elements ot which it 
if denoting quoted matter is composed. 
eing set in Italic■ „„„„„„ 
vhom the apostrophe and *“ST ■» seea enjoyments lead yon to the unseen 
,l, r ud I Fountain whence they flow. 
