1 AB SUFEH-SEDEC 
PETROLEUM rorrLPRIZED by tlieuse of 
devil-leagued conspiracy. The sensitive nerve, 
of finance felt the thrill, and premiums began to 
give way; Smith waited for them to come up 
once more to two hundred and ninety — then to 
get his money back at the price he paid— then 
to close out without too great a sacrifice — and 
finally to save himself from absolute bankruptcy. 
Down went the scale lower and lower; he made 
fearful sacrifices to keep good the margin on his 
indebtedness to banks and brokers, and save his 
forfeitures, but it was all in vain. One stone after 
another slipped out from the foundation of his 
mushroom fortune, until at length, when gold 
touched Its lowest point after the collapse of the 
Confederacy, the whole fabric tumbled Into ut¬ 
ter and irretrievable ruin. He made some hasty 
and ill-digested efforts to conceal a portion of 
his property, including house and furniture in 
his wife’s name; hut keen-seen ted lawyers pick- 
flj'lt/, one hundred per cent, was successively 
attaiued. Big Bethel was good to Smith for 
five per cent.; Ball’s Bluff for ten, and Bull 
Run full twenty per cent., or forty thousand dol¬ 
lars ! Every Union defeat was a God-sendio 
Smith, and when his paper became due, the 
banks, not being compelled to redeem their cur¬ 
rency in coin, wire perfectly willing to inflate: 
and hence he found no difficulty not only in re- 
newinghis paper, but even succeeded in borrow¬ 
ing still larger sums ou the margin of his 
premium, 
rising rapidly in 
BY GEORGE ARNOLD. 
Sweet is the voice that calls 
From habliling waterfalls 
In meadows where the downy seeds are flying; 
And soft the breezes blow 
And eddying come and go 
In faded gardens where the rose is dying. 
Among the stnbblefi com 
The blithe qnall pipes at mom. 
The merry partridge drums in hidden places, 
And glittering insects gleam 
Above the reedy stream 
Where bnsy spiders spin their filmy laces. 
At eve, cool shadows fall 
Across the garden wall, 
And on the clustered grapes to purple turning, 
And pearly vapors lie 
Along the eastern sky 
Where the broad harvest moon is redly burning. 
Ah ! soon on field and hill 
The winds shall whistle chill, 
And patriarch swallows call their flocks together 
To fly from frost and snow. 
And seek for lands where blow 
The fairer blossoms of a balmier weather. 
The polleu-dnsted bees 
Search for the honey-lees 
That linger in the last flowers of September, 
While plaintive mourning doves 
Coo sadly to their loves 
Of the dead Summer they so well remember. 
The cricket chirps all day, 
“ O, fairest Summer, stay!" * 
The squirrel eyes askance the chestnuts browning: 
The wild-fowl fly afar 
Above the foamy bar 
Amd hasten Southward ere the skies are frowning. 
Now comes a fragrant breeze 
Through the dark cedar trees 
And round about my temples fondly fingers, 
In gentle playfulness 
Like to the soft caress 
Bestowed in happier days by lowing fingers. 
Yet. though a sense of grief 
Comes with the falling leaf, 
And memory makes the Summer doubly pleasant, 
In al! my Autumn dreame 
A future summer gleams 
Passing the fairest glories of the present! 
[Harper's Magazine for Septembei'. 
It can be filled, trimmed, llabu-d. regulated, or extin¬ 
guished, wniio.it removing tim shade or chimney! Ureat 
Hiving of class as w ell as oil I To place- Within a i mison- 
aide distance, wttere our lamps arc not hem ft, 
will send one nr more FREE OF T l!A NsPOt.IA I ION 
CHARGES, What we especially want. Is GOOD CAN¬ 
VASS IillS to thoroughly Introduce thisn<w Invention. 
We emne exclusive sale In the territory twelgncd, mid ot¬ 
ter ltimrul Inducement'- for good, reliable men- CILCU- 
LaPvS giving descriptions, lflusuutlous, prices, and testi¬ 
monials, sent on application. 
JULIUS IVES <fc CO., 
No. IS Beckman Street, New York. 
These lie invested iu stocks then 
the market as a necessary result 
of paper inflation, and before the year was out 
he found himself promoted from a curb-stone 
broker, to a seat as an honored member of the 
Board. Smith was a rising man; a golden calf 
before whose shrine idolatrous men fell down 
and worshipped. His family also from simple 
habits and an economical household were 
speedily reckoned among the leaders of the ton. 
It was amazing how many who had never known 
Mrs. Smith before, now hastened to make her 
acquaintance, declaring her to he the most- ac¬ 
complished and fascinating of her sex. Upper 
tendom par excellence opened its sacred portals 
to welcome the new comer, exclaiming to her 
former associates as the door slammed to behind 
“Procut' Oproeul! cute profani /” 
No wonder the poor woman’s brain was turn¬ 
ed, or that she did many foolish tbiugs in her 
new position. Naturally modest and kind- 
hearted, but vain withal, and not overstocked 
with plain common sense, her husband’s pros¬ 
perity was more than sbe could hear. Silks 
and diamonds, costly equipage and a blazing 
mansion wore called into speedy requisition; 
and from looking alter her own household with 
the aid of a single domestic, she became the 
prey of a supernumerary establishment that 
clung around her like barnacles to the keel of 
an India ship. The young Smiths, from regular 
attendants on a public school where with other 
plebian youths they were put through the or¬ 
dinary paces of sprout and ferrule, became 
nominal members of Signior Scccozrssco’s 
(vulgarly pronounced suek-us-iu-sos,) fashion^ 
able training school, and became amazing pro¬ 
ficients in foppery und incipient moustache. 
The two Misses Smith flaunted out like butter¬ 
flies in June, with their young heads filled with 
frivolity and folly; the envy of their former 
friends, and the special objects of attention to 
fops and fortune hunters. 
Ssitth continued to prosper financially for all 
that; growing richer and richer on the misfor¬ 
tunes of his country. Human nature could not 
stand the pressure upon his patriotism, and 
hence a defeat to The National arms became to 
him a source of secret rejoicing. The failure of 
the Peninsular campaign, the second battle of 
Bull Run and the subsequent race bet ween the 
contending armies for the fords of the Upper 
Potomac, the repulse at Fredericksburg, and the 
defeat at Chancellorsville all put money in his 
purse. The theory on which Smith operated 
and for a long time successfully, was this; that 
as a general rub) an invading army was in the 
OOD BOO H. S 
FOE FARMERS AND OTHEES. 
ORANGE JUDD, 
jgpTiiE sweetest singer and the sweetest per¬ 
fume of the day are Adelina Patti and Phalon’6 
“Night-BloomiDgCereus.” Both are American! 
The fair singer enraptures everybody—the per¬ 
fume is in demand everywhere. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
- For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
FIGHTING THE TIGER 
I am composed of 37 letters. 
My 86.14, 39, 87 is a fool. 
My 22, 5, 9, 34 is wbat we all shun. 
My 31, 83, 8, 1, 82 are more or Icsb rotten. 
My 10, 4, 85, 21, 82,12 is what Jeff. Davis was when 
put on rations. 
My 2D, 19, 29, 0, 1, 19, 20 for a naval combat has no 
equal. 
My 2. 23, 8, 80,7, 27 le used on solemn occasions. 
My 11, 14, 4,19, 49 he went “courting.” 
My 15,16,34. Si is where the rebs are driven to. 
My 18, 28,13, 31 is what onr young men are. 
My 30, 25,17 '? not seen in the night. 
My whole is a maxim for the indolent. 
Jamestown, N. Y. m. t. 
Answer in two weeks. 
BY PROF. EDWARD WEBSTER. 
“ Wht thou silly gentleman! Let the doors 
Be closed upon him; that he may play 
The fool nowhere but in his own house.” 
Hamlet. 
Walking along the street with a friend, not 
long ago, we were accosted by an individual. 
Now the circumstance of being accosted in 
the street by an individnal is nothing re¬ 
markable in Itself; nor is it very remarkable in 
this instance, taken apart from the history of 
the interlocutor. He requested us to 6tep one 
side a little out of the crowd, and then, unroll¬ 
ing a map splendidly drawn aDd brilliantly col¬ 
ored, proceeded to expatiate with great volubility 
and evident knowledge of his subject, upon the 
surpassing merits as an investment of the “ In- 
flatissimus Lunarian Gas and Coal Oil Company, 
Wild Cat Run, Venango County Pennsylvania,” 
The canvasser, after announcing such a son¬ 
orous title took breath, and then went on to 
prove clear as noonday, that any man investing 
a thousand dollars in the InflatisEimus would 
certainly become a millionaire. The company 
had a working interest of one half the product, 
on a lease for twenty years of forty acres of laud 
on Wild Cat Run, besides a reversion in fee to a 
hundred acre6 more, when sixteen families with 
their lineal and collateral descendants should 
have become extinct. The whole thing had been 
purchased early, and before the speculations be¬ 
gan, by the ten original stockholders at five 
hundred dollars; to which they had added in 
cash, as a working capital, five hundred dollars 
more,[making the whole of the original invest¬ 
ment exactly a thousand dollars. This they had 
Btocked at five millions, putting in the land at 
four million nine hundred and ninety-nine thou¬ 
sand five hundred dollars, and the balance in 
working capital; issuing to each of the original 
stockholders fifty thousand shares at ten dollars 
each, which, the exhibitor declared, they had 
got dogged cheap, and could afford to let in a 
few friends (like us) at fifty per cent, below par. 
From thislocation as an initial point straight liu es 
could he run—provided one was taken at a time 
— right through the Empire, the Coquette, the 
forward. No man in a fiduciary capacity, and 
holding the funds of other men in trust, has any 
right to be a stock gambler; and although up 
to this time I would have trusted Smith with 
every dollar I had in the world, I would now 
just as soon put our business into the hands of 
a lunatic!” 
The other partner laughed at the idea, but the 
result, justified the prophesy. The book-keeper 
fell behind in his accounts; the posting was 
never done in season, the cash book frequently 
went over unbalanced, and occasionally grave 
mistakes occurred that it was found imposfible 
to rectify or explain. It is not believed the firm 
were actually defrauded, although what might 
have happened if the clerk had been continued 
in his place, it is impossible to say; he had im¬ 
bibed a thorough distaste for his employment, 
and what he once took the greatest delight 
in doing became an irksome and intolerable 
drudgery. The excitement of the stock ex¬ 
change became a necessity of his existence; so 
abanding his employment in this provincial 
town, be betook himself to the city of New 
York. Naturally keen and shrewd, and thor¬ 
oughly versed in business matters, his good 
judgment in making ventures amounted almost 
to a premonition. 
When the rebellion became a fact, and the 
Secretary of the Treasury called upon the banks 
for > loan of eighty millions in gold, although 
the moneyed institutions were plethoric with 
coin, and the whole country imagined that thirty 
days would end the strife, Smith foresaw in the 
shadowy perspective a long and bloody contest; 
a suspension of specie payments, a cloud on 
governmental credit, a depreciation of paper 
currency, and a consequent premium on gold. 
So he managed to raise on credit, in connection 
with his own ready cash, the sum ol twelve 
thousand dollars; and Immediately purchased of 
the brokers, at a premium of two and one half 
percent., ten thousand dollars in gold; with 
which as a security on special deposits in one of 
the banks, he borrowed ten thousand dollars in 
currency, Repeating the same operation again 
and again, using Ms extra two thousand for 
premiums and interest until that fund was ex¬ 
hausted, and then deducting the necessary 
amounts for that purpose from the successive 
loans, lie found himself at the end of two days 
the owner of hypothecated gold to the amount 
of two hundred thousand dollars, with a corres¬ 
ponding bank Indebtedness secured upon the 
same. 
Before the week was out gold leaped up fifteen 
per cent., and he could have Bold out, repaid his 
bank indebtedness, and, alter deducting the 
amount expended for premiums and interest, 
retired on a clear profit of twenty thousand dol¬ 
lars. Bui he chose to hold on; the country had 
not'yet reached the climax of its distress, and 
as the load of debt, financial embarrassments 
and disasters in the field accumulated, so the 
premium on gold Increased. Twenty, thirty, 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
BIBLICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of IS letters. 
My 4,18, 5,18 was a priest and scribe. 
My 8,12,17, IS was a King of Judah. 
My 6,10, 5,14, 7 le the only lady’s age that is given in 
the Bible. 
My 3, 2,1 was a son of Noah. 
My 4,11, 4,18, IS, 10, 5 was a priest. 
My 16, 4, 9,13 is the same as Zoar. 
My 16, 4, It, 14,12, 8,18, IS, 17, 5 was a King. 
My whole watt the son of a prophet. 
DeRuyter, N. Y. Ella A. Ellis. 
Answer In two weeks. 
to our own doors. The people are frightened 
and gold is at its highest point. I’ll sell out 
every double eagle I have in the world, and in¬ 
vest in the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti¬ 
more Railroad. It is a solid stock, the share¬ 
holders,are in a panic for fear it will meet the 
fate of the Baltimore and Ohio, and the stock 
has gone down by the ran. The rebels can't 
reach it, of course not; it is too far East to be 
struck by anything more than raiding parties at 
the worst, and the loss of a bridge or two will 
not affect its Intrinsic value a single straw.” 
And he was right; Antietam told the story for 
the rebel Invasion, and Bmith had sold his gold 
and bought the 6tock just In the nick of time. 
The former went down thirty per cent., and the 
stock rose five dollars on the share the moment 
the rebel horde retired sullen and diecomfitted 
across the river. The same operation was re¬ 
peated of selling out after the repulse at Chan¬ 
cellorsville, and of buying in again after our 
own victory on the bloody field of Gettysburg. 
But the summer of ISO! and the spring of 1805 
were alike fatal to him and to his natural allies 
the enemies of his country. The advance of 
Sherman on Atlanta, and the march of Grant 
towards Richmond, offered a double opportunity 
to test hi6 favorite theory; and be proceeded at 
once to stake not only all his own fortune, hut 
all the credit he could command upon the single 
cast. Gold! Goldl Gold! at any price and at 
any premium, filled his waking and his sleeping 
thoughts. Gold for currency — gold on time — 
gold at seller.-’ option—gold any how and in any 
way, so that Smith on the turn of a golden die 
was a made or a lost man! Once indeed while 
a partial cloud obscured our coming triumphs, 
when Sherman was lost sight of. in the midst of 
the enemy’s country during bis march to the 
sea, and Grant’s forces had met a repulse be¬ 
fore the defences of Petersburg, gold touched 
two hundred and ninety; and the gold gambler, 
if he had been contented with a good thing, 
might have come out triumphantly; but he was 
awaiting and anxiously expecting a crushing de¬ 
feat to one or the other of our invading columns, 
and in that — to him—happy event, he had even 
set his figures at live hundred per cent.; but the 
astounding despatch from Sherman before 
Savannah, uuuouncing not only his safe, but 
almost unresisted march through the very heart 
of the Confederacy, foretold as surely as the 
linger of God, the doom of the slaveholder and 
Ar.il dealer in all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE, Bat¬ 
ter, Cheese, Leri, Pork, Calves, Game. Poultry, Ezra, 
Potatoes. Beua*. Onlone, Dried Fonts. Apples, Pr-~. 
.roiamca, iienn,. umuus, jl'i ibo j- * cacues, 
Strawbr rrle*. Pears, Plumbs. Grapes, r am. Skins, Bee.-- 
■wax, Tallow, Maple Sugar, Wool. 
*.Vi „C US Fulton llotv, W Wn»hln|fton Market, 
NEW YORK. 
mt prompt attention *ad immediate returns made on 
all consignments. ___ 815 -eowtt 
milK AMERIC AN "111UP SHOOTER.-A 
I treatise on gunnery, illustrating the practical use of 
trie telescope as a sight, as ttPpltcsDlo to the rifle, ride- 
battery, artillery. Ac., drum,-Dating how fight a gun; 
how to ut certain the fall of the ball (or aft distance? ; 
howto art elevation without change of •Ichtt how to 
measure distance bv the telescope, &e. brut free oj 
pontage on receipt ol price, <wi y.HJty Address 
DA NIE L tW>OP, Pnbltimer. Koeboetct, N■ V 
E DWARD WEBSTERi Attorney and Conn- 
«rllor ui flaw. Conveyancing aud yarcbes oi 
title to real estate specially attended to, and a 
amount of land surveying (lone In connection therewith, 
oiflco No. a. Lyons’ Block, Rochester. N. Y. Pw* u 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
AN ANAGRAM. 
I ma raewy own, nad puno ym rowb 
A Bowyhda sradkens ealfl, 
Nda het taph emees irghtb ot teh dlna fo thlgl, 
Adn I twla litl eth alegn laecl. 
Henw htc onom enbso llgbrh ni eht ysk ahtt gthni, 
Bee adh cgno ot eth ripstl anld, 
Dan byte idal ebr ot epels hewer cht loelwlw epew 
Yb htc eylvira rualetrsts’e dantsr. 
Weetvllle, Conn. M. E. C. DeVkrxon, 
pr Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker, 
CHARADE. 
MOORE’S RUEAL NEW-YORKER, 
TUX LABGKST-CI RCULATINO 
Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper 
is published eyxby satukday 
BY D. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Office, Union iiuildinrs, Opposite the Court House, Buffalo St. 
From a word that is spoken when silence is needed 
Just take three-fourtbs, you’ll see If you read It. 
My second you'll find ns the sounds do come near, 
And all of you wish that the answer was here. 
As sure as the poet-boy the mall-bog has carried, 
My all ’a what ladies get the moment they’re married, 
Fort Wayne, Ind. “Paddy." 
\3B~ Answer in two weeks. 
United States, and all the other wells famous^n 
past or present oleaginous history, and if the 
territory did not develop beyond oil precedent 
then witch-hazel had lost Its virtues and gase¬ 
ous exhalations were of no avaiL The individ¬ 
ual, whose name was Smith, was extremely 
solicitous and interested In our behalf; express¬ 
ing a willingness as a special favor to issue, us 
the stock at the discount stated, but we must 
on no account mention it to any living soul. 
He exhibited to us a sample of the stock certifi¬ 
cates beautifully lithographed, bearing upon its 
face a multitude of tanks and barrels, smoking 
engines and spouting tubes, over which loomed 
the [lank skeletons of derriks, looking for the 
world like Granther Greybeard* arrested in 
their course by mischievous school boys, and re¬ 
quired lo point out the locality of imaginary 
herds of kinc on penalty of death. 
Unfortunately for us, accordiiag to the logic of 
the agent, we bad no money, uud thereby lost 
most probably forever the golden opportunity; 
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MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM, 
Suppose that three circular pieces of land aro so 
situated that lines extending from the center of one of 
them to each of the others, shall form an equilateral 
triangle, each side of whleh is 40 rods. Required the 
number of square rods between the three circles ? 
gay Answer In two weeks. 
ANSWER TO ENIGMAS, & 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigr 
pation Proclamation. 
Answer to Anagram: 
Oh why should the spirit of m 
Like a swift fleeting meteor, a 
A flash of the lightning, a bret 
He pasecth from life to his reB 
