QUwcrtfeeiuente 
story? Stir the fire, for it is cold; the nights are 
growing colder.” 
The clock in the cornei; struck nine, the bedtime 
of those old days. The song of life was indeed 
sung, the story told, it was bed-time at last. Good 
night, to thee, grandmother. The old-fashioned 
grandmother was no more, and we miss her forever; 
but we will set a tablet in the midst of memory, 
in the midst of the heart, and write on it only this: 
SACRED TO THE MEMORY 
OE THE 
OLD-FA8HI0NED GRANDMOTHER. 
UOD BLESS HER FOREVER. 
BY BAYARD TAYLOR. 
O ST TOR WIIvT.OW crtT r r r rTN'C3-S— At reason¬ 
able 1 prices. D- L. HALSEY, Victory, Cavupa Co. f N. Y. 
F or S<a t i T a Ij IA n j i B B B — The 
tjueptif. fr Full colonies. A large number of common Bees, 
gluss boney-boxe* books on bep.cullure. &c. Circular with 
prices sent on anntiratidn. Address M. Ql'INBY. 
631 4t St. Johnsville. N. 1 
COLORING A COCHINEAL BED 
With rushing winds and gloomy skies, 
The <iark and stubborn Winter diics; 
Far-off. unseen, Spring faintly cries, 
Bidding her earliest child arise; 
March! 
By streams still held in icy snare. 
On southern hill sides, melting bare, 
O’er fields that motley colors wear, 
That summons fills the changeful air; 
March! 
What though conflicting seasons make 
Thy days their field, they woo or shake 
The sleeping lids of Life awake, 
And tiopc is stronger for thy sake, 
March! 
Then from thy mountains, ribbed with snow 
Once more thy rousing bugle blow, 
And East and West, and to and fro, 
Proclaim thy coming to the foe; 
March! 
Say to the picket, chilled and numb, 
Say to the camp's impatient bum, 
Say to the trumpet and the drum: 
Lift up your hearts, I come, I come! 
March! 
Cry to the waiting hosts that stray 
On sandy sea sides far away, 
By marshy isle and gleaming bay, 
Where Southern March is Northern May; 
March! 
Announce thyself with welcome noise, 
Where Glory’s victor-eagles poise 
Above the proud, heroic boys 
Of Jowa and Illinois; 
March! 
Then down the long Potomac's tine 
Shout tike a storm on bills of pine, 
Till ramrods ring and bayonets shine;' 
“ Advance! the Chieftain’s call is mine, 
March! ” 
AVe can see her to-day, those mild blue eyes, witn 
more of beauty in them than time could touch or 
death do more than hide —those eyes that held both 
smiles and tears within the faintest call of every one 
of us, and soft reproof, that seemed no passion but 
regret A white tress has escaped from beneath her 
snowy cap, she has just restored a wandering lamb 
to its mother; she lengthened the tether of a vine 
that was straying over a window, as she came in, 
and plucked a l'our-leafed clover for Ellen. She 
sits down by the little wheel —a tress is running 
through her fingers from the distaffs dishevelled 
head, when a small voice calls “Grandma” from 
the old red cradle, and “ Grandma!” Tommy shouts 
from the top of the stairs. Gently she lets go the 
thread, for her patience is almost as beautiful as her 
charity, and she touches the little red bark in a mo¬ 
ment, till the young voyager is in a dream again, 
and then directs Tommy’s unavailing attempts to 
harness the cat. The tick of the clock runs faint 
and low, and she opens the mysterious door, and 
proceeds to wind it up. Wc are all on tip-toe, and 
we beg in a breath to be lifted up one by one, and 
look for the hundredth time upon the tin cases of the 
weights, and the poor lonely pendulum, which goes 
to and fro by its little dim window, and never comes 
out in the world, and our petitions are all granted, 
and we are lilted up, and we all touch with a finger 
the wonderful weights, and the music of the little 
wheel is resumed. 
Was Mary to be married, or Jane to be wrapped 
in a sbrowd? So meekly did she fold the white 
hands of the one upon her still bosom, that there 
seemed to be a prayer in them there; and so sweetly 
did she wreathe the white rose in the hair ot the 
other, that one would not have wondered had more 
roses budded for company. 
IIow she stood between us and an apprehended 
harm; how the rudest of us softened beneath the 
gentle pressure of her faded and tremulous hand ! 
From her capacious pocket that hand was everwith- 
drawn closed, only to be opened in our own. with 
tho nuts she bad gathered, the cherries she had 
plucked, the little egg she had found, the “turn 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker:— Seeing a request in 
your paper for a recipe for coloring cochineal red, I 
send one which I consider good. 
Into a clean brass kettle, put one gallon soft 
water, then put in one ounce best cream of tartar, 
next add one ounce pulverized cochineal, then add 
two ounces muria'e of tin. This will color one 
pound of yarn or flannel. Let the liquor come to a 
boil, put in your goods, stir briskly a few minutes, 
then stir moderately twenty minutes, take out into 
cold water, rinse, and dry in the open air before 
scouring.— Mrs. 11. L. Vaughn, .Jacksonville, Chick¬ 
asaw Co., Iowa, 1862. 
Dear Rural:—S eeing an inquiry in the Rural 
for coloring cochineal, 1 send mine, which I think is 
good. 
For one pound of cloth take one ounce cream of 
tartar, and simmer in water a few minutes, then add 
one ounce of powdered cochineal. When well stirred, 
add two ounces muriate of tin. When it begins to 
boil, put in the cloth, or yarn, and let it boil twenty 
minutes. Color in brass and rinse’ in cold water. 
The cloth must be perfectly clear from suds.— 
M. H. R., West Milton, Wis., 1862. 
Noticing in the Rural an inquiry how to color 
cochineal, I send mother’s recipe: 
To dye one pound of woolen yarn scarlet: — one 
ounce cream oi tartar; one ounce pulverized cochi¬ 
neal; two ounces muriate of tin. Infuse the cream 
of tartar in warm water, set it over the fire, and as 
it boils, stir it briskly. Then add the cochineal. 
When well mixed pour in the solution of tin. Dip 
the yarn in warm water, then dip it into the dye at 
once, stir it around a little, let it boil eight or ten 
minutes. Take it out and wring it; let it. dry, then 
rinse it in suds. The dye is best made in new tin. 
V DPI.K STOCKS.— l.fflK',000 one year, amJ 2.0X1,000 
two years old Apple Stocks, at. from $l.ZO to $2.60 $1 1,000. 
Our Stock* are unsurpassed, and we offer them for Cash at the 
bove war price? ENSIGN & r I IRf), 
614-tf Ohio Nurseries, Toledo, Ohio. 
ARAFTS! GRAFTS! GRAFTS !— ROO.OOO 
\ T Gtafts. bv wholesale, by tho undersigned. AH bitle of ten 
thousand and upward?. #5' pier thousand: bv the single thou¬ 
sand $5—packing included in both cases. Send orders early to 
631-7t FAHNESTOCK BROS, Toledo. Ohio, Box889. 
,\ WONDEllPrL LITTLE MICROSCOPE.— 
/V Mapuifyina small objects 500 time?, wilt be sent to any ap¬ 
plicant on receipt of twn/ly-fve r mtr. in silver, and one pink 
stamp. Five of different power 0 for one dollar Address Mrs 
M. 8 . WOODWARD. Boa LMS. Philadelphia. Pa. «28-8t 
UAIsIjKY SEMINARY, FTII/TON, jNT. 
J Y„ offers Board, Washimr, Fuel and Room furnished, ex¬ 
cept sheets and pillow cases, lor $26,011 a term of 14 weeks, which 
opens March mh, 1862. For Circulars address 
634-3t JOHN P. GRIFFIN, Principal. 
Beauregard is suffering at Murfrecsborough 
from a sore throat He isn’t the only rebel that is 
beginning to feel bad about the neck. 
Gen. Pillow, on assuming command at Fort 
Donelson, prescribed as his battle-cry, “ Liberty or 
Death." He showed a decided disinclination to 
death, however, and as for liberty, ho was so enam¬ 
ored of it that he ran away between two days for its 
dear sake. 
It is shown in the case of Henry A. Wise, as it has 
been in thousands of other cases, that generally the 
noisiest blusterer is the readiest runner. 
Gen. Grant’s initials —U. S. Grant —represent 
Unconditional Surrender Grant, and not United 
States or Union Saver, as has been reported. 
The Provisional Government lias left Kentucky, 
taking its provisions, if it had any, with it. 
We understand that a search warrant has been 
issued to the sheriffs and constables in the Southern 
part of Kentucky to find the provisional Govern¬ 
ment. They are diligently hunting for it with 
lamps and lanterns. 
Gen. Buckner expected, in his correspondence 
with Gen. Grant, to exact and obtain high conditions, 
but he found himselt, like a vulgar fraction, reduced 
to ihe lowest terms. 
An ugly old maid has written us a bitter letter, 
abusing us for what we have said of Buckner. We 
don't know how we can inolify the ill temper of the 
old girl, unless we can persuade some member of 
the humane society to marry her. 
We are told that the Nashvillc-Bowling-Green- 
MurfreeBboro’-Louisville Courier has been mounted 
on wheels, so that it can lie wheeled from town to 
town as fast as the Federal forces advance. Its 
wheels had better be kept well greased. 
At the first national horse show, held in Spring- 
field, Mass., in October, 18f>3, Floyd was one of the 
speakers at the banquet which occurred at the close 
The assertion made in the fol- 
T O PRINTERS AJNHD PUBIririHKRR. 
A situation wan tod, by a practical Printer, who baa had 
nvor 0 year? experience, and capable of taking charge of a 
Daily or Vt cekly Newspaper—or a Job Offer— in alt its various 
departmeots. Address “UNION," Box 249, Suspension Bridge, 
N,Y. _ 
rpo THE ITNlOMri.OYKn.-I can give steady 
1 employment to voung men to solicit orders for the Little 
(iin.nl Semin g Machine. Pr ice $15. Hernmer. Gauge. Screw- 
driver and extra Needles- Will pay salary and expenses, nr a 
commission allowed County rightsgivcn to Agents. For pars 
ticulars, descriptive Catalogue, fcc., ,V»\. addne*?. with stamp, 
T. S PAGE, Toledo, (lino, 
633-41 General Agent for the United States. 
rpHE C RANBERUV AND ITS 
I CULTURE.— Tli* Subscriber lm* igAited a CirmibiT from the 
proa* treating on the Cranberry and it* Outturn. Said Circular 
will give nemuiH the proper information a* to trie commence¬ 
ment of their Culture, I will take pleasure in forwarding them 
to all parte of the United State*, to those sending post stamp to 
pay postage* Persons wishing plants may receive them in 
* Addre^ QUaDUtUS ^ 
633-?,t Bellingham. Norfolk Co., Mas a. 
W ir; OFFER FOK SALE 
SO,000 Tear 'codlings, free from blight 
.Vi.iioO Plum Seedling*, very fine. 
25.600 Chcrrv Seedling* 
20.000 AngoTS Quince Stocks _ 
Dwarf and Standard Pear Trees; Plum, Peach, Apple and 
Clio-rrv Tree?; Currant?, Houghton's Seedling Gooseberries, 
Brim-kin's Raspberries. Lawton Blackberries, Am. Arbor Y it®. 
Hemlock Spmc-c. and Balsam of Fir, &c. 1 lie above will be 
sold in quantifier- to auitiiureliaiwrs, for cash or approved notes 
partible at! bank. WILLIAMS, RAMSDFN & GO 
Feb., 1862. [632-4t] Dansvtlle, I.iv. Co., N. Y. 
TJOiiK WTCTCI JH.-SCHROEDER & CO.’S Cat- 
I aloi'ue of Fruit and Ornamental Tree and Shrub Seeds and 
Plante, is now ready for distribution. Cents. 
Norway Spruce, per lb, JO 30 per packet.fi 
Austrian Pine do l BO ... 
Scotch Pine do 100 do ..10 
Swisa stone Pine do 100 do ..10 
Italian stone Pine do 2 00 do .10 
Sea do do 100 do .10 
White do do 3 00 do .20 
Dwarf do do 2 00 do .10 
Silver Fir......100 do 10 
English Juniper.OfiO do •; 
Red Cedar . 1150 do 10 
Dri reci ipt of Si 00 we will send, post-paid, t.n any part of the 
United States, 15 hardy varieties Of Ornamental Tree and Shrub 
Seeds. SCHROEDER k CO., 79 State St, Rochester, N. T 
OUR GRANDMOTHER 
A Brilliant Stucco Whitewash. —I send the 
Rural the recipe inquired for by K. B. Keeler, of 
Ridgefield, Conn., in your paper for the week ending 
Feb. 15tb. It strikes me it is worth re-publishing. 
Whether i cut it from the Rural or not I canDotsay, 
but find it in my scrap book. 1 have copied it verba¬ 
tim, title and all. 
Take clean lumps of well burnt lime, slake them 
in hot water, in a small tub, and cover it. to keep in 
the steam. It should then be passed through a fine 
sieve in a fluid form to obtain the flour of lime. 
Add one quarter of a pound of whiting or burnt 
alum, two pounds of sugar, three pints of rice flour 
made into a thin and very well boiled paste, and one 
pound of glue dissolved over a slow lire. It is said 
to be more brilliant than plaster oi Paris, and 
will Last fifty years. It should lie put on warm with 
a paint .brush— M. M. Mathews, Rochester, N. Y. 
FAIRFIELD SEMINARY, 
ml | nNE nf the oldest Sc 
0 75 I ly anfi most flourishing 
k. RoaBdlng Schools in the Lii 
n land Complete in all its anil 
k 00. arrangements for Ladies H 
idles and CJkntlkmen. Sons ami 
iv daughters of officers and Ce 
s. soldiers in the army I'eoeiv- Co 
ach- oil free of charge for tuition 
1 in all but extra branches. 
; h Summer Term begins Mar. Kni 
26th. Add i f ss 
n. Rev. A. G COCHRAN, 
3 Principal. Fairfield, N. 1 . 
of the exhibition, 
lowing paragraph, which we copy fi’om the pub¬ 
lished report of his speech, was made good recently 
at Fort Douelson. In speaking of horses, he said: 
“But people do not always run well. (Laugh¬ 
ter.) You have trailers here; and after all that is 
said and done, I believe that is the best gait for 
success. (Cheers,) We will emulate your example, 
and in a few short years — I hope in a shorter lime 
than that —if you will cotue to Virginia, we will 
exhibit fine horses and trotters, too.” 
It is needless, perhaps, to add that the exhibition 
made of bis trotters last, week is perfectly satisfac¬ 
tory. He can trot; in fact, trotting seems to be his 
forte just now. 
of childhood’s little feet! It was no mother behind 
whom Ascanius walked “ with equal steps” in Vir¬ 
gil’s line, but a strong, stern man, who could have 
borne him and fiot been burdened; folded liim in 
his arms from all danger and not, been wearied; 
everything indeed, he could have done for him, but 
just what he needed most —could not sympathize 
with him —he could not be a child again. Ah. a 
rare art is that — lor indeed, it is an art, to set hack 
the great old clock of time and be a boy once morel 
Man’s imagination can easily see the child a man, 
but how hard it is for it to see the man a child; and 
he who had learned to glide back into that rosy 
time when he did not know that thorns were under 
roses, or that clouds would ever return after the 
rain; when he thought a tear could stain a cheek no 
more than a drop of rain a flower; when he fancied 
that life had no disguise, and hope no blight at all 
— has come as near as anybody can to discovering 
the northwest passage to Paradise. 
And it is, perhaps, for this reason that it. is so ' 
much easier tor a mother to enter the kingdom of 
Heaven than it is for the rest of the world. She 
fancies she is leading the children, when, after all, 
the children are leading her, and they keep her 
indeed where the river is narrowest, and the air 
is clearest, and the beckoning of the radiant hand is 
so plainly seen from the other side that it is no won¬ 
der she so often lets go her clasp upon the little 
finger she is holding and goes over to the neighbors, 
and the children follow like lambs to the fold, for 
we think it ought somewhere to be written: “ Where 
the mother is, there will the children be also.” 
But it was not of the mother we began to think, 
but of the dear, old-fashioned grandmother, whose 
thread of love “ by band” on life’s little wheel was 
longer and stronger than they make it now, was 
wound around and about the children she saw play- 
in the children's arms, in a true love knot that 
nothing but the Fhears of Atropos could sever: for 
do we not recognize the lambs sometimes, when 
summer days are over and autumn winds are blow¬ 
ing, as they come bleating from the yellow fields, by 
the crimson thread we wound about their necks in 
April or May, and so undo the gate and let the wan¬ 
derers in? 
Blessed be the children who have an old-fashioned 
grandmother. As they hope for length of days, let 
them love and honor her, for we can toll them they 
will never find another. 
There is a large old kitchen somewhere in the 
past, and an old-fashioned fire-place therein, witli its 
smooth old jambs of stones — smooth with many 
knives that had been sharpened there—smooth 
rees at Low Prices, 
FOK SPRING OF 1862. 
Respectfully invite the attention ot me i)nmicT.o inMr prev¬ 
ent immense stock, jeovenne upward of FlV E HUNDRED 
ACRES OF LAND, and embracing everything desirable in 
both 
Fruit and Ornamental Departments, 
Grown in tho very best manner, and offered either at wholesale 
or retail, at. greatly reduced prices. 
Parties who contemplate planting should avail themselves of 
this opportunity, the like of which may not occur soon again. 
Descriptive and Whole-ale Catalogues forwarded gratis on 
receipt of a uliunp for ajkIjlII inf« itch fttiou us lo prices* &c., 
promptly given <™“£ OPE ^mub, 
6S3-3teo UUCUKSl ER, N. Y. 
Take two quarts of 
Steamed Brown Bread 
sweet skim milk, one tablespoonful of saleratus, one 
of salt, half a cup of molasses; put in equal quanti¬ 
ties of rye and Indian meal until the dough is as 
stiff as can be conveniently stirred with a spoon, 
then put it in two two-quart tins. Place sticks 
across the bottom of the kettle to keep the water 
from the bread; place one of the tins on these, and 
the other in a tin steamer placed on the top of the 
same kettle, and let it steam three hours. Caro 
should be taken to keep the water boiling while the 
bread is cooking. When done, put it in a warm 
oven long enough to dry the top of it, not bake it. 
Yeast can be used instead of saleratus, if any pre¬ 
fer it; but the bread must rise well before putting it 
in the kettle. 
-- 
Buckwheat Cakes.— Stir buckwheat flour into 
lukewarm water; it will take nearly a quart of flour 
to a pint of water; add a small cupful of yeast; set 
it to rise over night, if wished for breakfast; leave 
plenty of room in (he vessel containing it, or it will 
overrun; if it should’be sour in the morning, add 
soda until it is sweet; these cakes should not stand 
At Prcstonburg, and Drainsville, too. 
The rebs some wondrous flip-flaps threw. 
Outstripping by their tours de force 
The Union Victors—foot and horse. 
But of all acrobatic feats 
Performed by Chivalry's athletes, 
There s nothing that lias equalled yet 
The late Kentucky Somerset. — Vanity Fair. 
rpHE ONLY DAY-SCHOOL PAPER PUBLISHED i 
-1 THE BEST SCHOOL MUSIC, 
Original School Dialogues. Stories. Reading Lessons. ZcUert 
to Children, Poetry. Speeches, Enigmas, Beautiful 
Engravings, d-c.. dc., in 
CLARK’S SCHOOL VISITOR, VOL. VI. 
REV. ALEX. CLARK, EDITOR, 
A large and elegantly printed Quarto Monthly for Teachers 
and School Children everywhere ... , 
The School Visitor ha- more reading matter finer illustra¬ 
tions, and better music, than any juvenile periodical publishes! 
for the price. 
One copy, one year. 60 cents. 
Three copies, ” $1.00 ... , , , 
Eight •• " $2.00 (only 25 cents each.) 
Twelve •* " $3.00 (and a copy of Day-School Bell.) 
The* Music alone in the TWtor is worth more than twice the 
1 FpecimenVfurnished free. N'iw is the time to form clubs. 
Address DAUGHaDaV fz _HAMMONO, 
C33-3teo RW8 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. 
N, B. Subscriptions must commence quarterly, in January. 
April, July, or October. 
Some one says Floyd left Fort Donelson singing, 
I love to steal awhile away.” 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 18 letters. 
My 1, 5, 11,15, 18 means beneath. 
My 2, 3, 6,17 is a number. 
My 3, 16 is a character representing a number. 
My 4, 16, 15. 14. 11, 18. 3, 16, 15 is to go beyond strength. 
My 6, 9, 11. 3,14 is the point opposite the zenith. 
My 6, 13 is a word of denial. 
My 7 : 9, 12 is an idiot. 
My 8, 9, 14, 11 is part of a lock. 
My 9, 6, 11, 3, 18, 7, 16 is a kitchen utensil. 
My 10,15. 16, 9 is the name Of a river in Europe. 
My 11,17, 8 is moisture deposited at night. 
My 12, 9, 38, 7 is a game at cards. 
My 13, 6, 3, 7. 6 is a garden vegetable. 
My 14, 9,16.15, £ is a species of bird. 
My 15, 16, 15,14 is,an adverb, and 4 is an interjection. 
My 16 3, 3 is n character representing a number. 
My 17, 6, 16, 3, 34, 7, 2 means to surround. 
My 18 4, 6, 11, 3 5, 9, 1 is a kind of composition. 
My whole is a patriotic motto. 
Mesopotamia, O., 1862. Chauncy N. Bates. 
[3F* Answer in two weeks. 
To Harden Tallow — Mrs. Gage, in the held 
Notes, gives the following hints on hardening pot 
skimmings, so as to make them into candles: Boil 
in clean, solt water for two or three hours, then 
cool, and when fully cold, take all the under sedi¬ 
ments from the cake, nnd boil it again till it is white, 
clear, and hard. Should it still need hardening, add 
alum and saltpeter to the water, in the proportion of 
one pound of each to twelve pounds of tallow. 
Dissolve these in the water first, add the tallow, and 
boil the water nearly out, stirriug the tallow well 
while boiling, to mix them. 
Two Dollars a Yeak.-To Clubs and Agents as follows:— 
Three Copies one year, for $5; Six, and one free to club egeut, 
for $10; Ten, and one free, lor $15, Fifteen, and one free, lor $21, 
Twenty, and one free, for $26; and any greater number at same 
rate — ouly $1.25 per copy. Club papers directed to individuals 
and sent to as many different Post-Offices a- desired. As we pre¬ 
pay American postage on papers sent to the British Provinces, 
our Canadian agents and friends must add 1-. J 4 cents per copy to 
the club rates or the Rural The lowest price of copies sent to 
Europe, &c., is $2.50-including postage. 
fryr Tun above Terms and Rates are invariable. Therefore, 
hdv person who is not an agent, sending the club rate ($1.50 or 
$1.25) for a single copy (the price of which is $2,) will only 
receive the paper the length of time the money pays for at full 
single copy price. People who send ua less than published 
rates, and request the paper for a year, or a return of the 
money, cannot l>e accomvuidoied —for it would be unj'uat to 
others to comply, and a great inconvenience to return remit¬ 
tances. The only way to get the Rural for less than $2 a year, 
is to form or join a clifo. 
Back Volumes.— Bound copies of our last volumes will b# 
ready in a few days— price, $3; unbound, $2. 17 e would again 
state that neither of the first five volumes of the Rural can be 
furnished by us at any price. The subsequent volumes will be 
supplied, bound, at $3 each —or if several aie taken, at $2 50 
each. The only complete volumes we can furnish, unbound, are 
those of 1359, '60 and '01—price, $2 each. 
Tim Cash System is strictly adhered to iu publishing the 
Rural— copies are never mailed to individual subscribers until 
paid for, and always disccmtinued when the subscription term 
expires. ’ Hence, we force the paper upon none, and keep no 
credit books, long experience having demonstrated that the 
Cash Plan is the best for both Subscriber and Publisher 
Additions to Clubs are always in order, whether in ones, 
twos, fives, tens, twenties, or any other number Subscriptions 
can commence with the volume or any number; but the former 
is the best time, and we shall send from it for some weeks, unless 
specially directed otherwise. Please " make a note of it." 
Ant person 60 disposed can act as local agent for the Rural 
Nbw- Yorker, and those who volunteer in the good cause w ul 
receive gratuities, and their kindness be appreciated. 
No Tkavkling Agents are employed by us. as we wish to 
local agents and those who form clubs. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
CHARADE. 
Information Wanted. —We are in alittle trouble, 
and belonging to those who think the Rural is de¬ 
cidedly the paper, we flee to Us columns for help. 
Our hams, which have been smoked and we have 
commenced using, wc find are not salt enough to 
keep through the summer. Can there be a new 
pickle made for them? or what can be done with 
them? They arc smoked very little, as our family 
are not particularly fond of smoke.—C. S. Morley, 
Ripon, IFts., 1862. 
I am composed of S letters. 
My 1st is a vegetable; iny 2d is an exclamation; my 3d is a 
verb; my 4th is a kind of plant; my 6th is not me; my 6th is 
a consonant; my 7th means forever; my 8th is a measure. 
My whole is the name Ot a country. 
Richmond, Macomb Co , Mich. Martin Brainerd. 
jy Answer in two weeks. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM. 
Potato Pies.—W ill some of the Rural’s readers 
inform me how to make good potato pies? 1. 1*. 
Moses, Marathon, ATich., 1862. 
ward has brought,” says some one, “for your 
blessing.'’ 
“ lias she blue eyes, my son? Put her hand in 
mine, for she is my latest born, the child of my old 
age. Shall I sing you a song, children?” Her hand 
is in her pocket as of old; she is idly fumbling lor a 
toy, a welcome gift to the children that have come 
again. 
One of us, meu as we thought we were, is weep¬ 
ing; she hears that half-suppressed sob; she says, as 
she extends her feeble hand, “ Here, my poor child, 
rest upon grandmother’s shoulder; she will protect 
you from all harm. Come, children, sit around the 
fire again. Shall I sing you a song or tell you a 
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Answer to’Geographical Enigma:—The Flag of our Union— 
the red, white, and blue. 
Answer to Geographical Decapitations:—Barrow, Thames, 
Pearl, Amite, Ship, Fox, Osage, Fair. Baun, Sark, Po. 
Answer to Algebraical Problem:—A, 75; B, 25. 
the whole field to 
