MOORE S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
erase the Bears made upon his soul?—what to 
restore life and elasticity to the crushed and de¬ 
graded souls dependent upon him? Poor little 
Emma, born in the lap of luxury, and possessed 
of a spirit which longs for the baubles she can 
remember once li I led her father’s house,— with 
her ragged shoes, her worn and tattered linen, 
her coarse calico,—with no legacy but a drunken 
father’s sallied name, envying her more favored 
neighbors, what will become of her? It was a 
blessing indeed that her lot was cast in the 
country, where there is more equality than In 
are oftencr 
penditnres, he fell in the rear, but now he 
should be recompensed; and with these cogita¬ 
tions in his mind, he took up his pen and made 
an C6t5mate of the value these liquors would he 
to him in the cud. 
“Five thousand dollars,” he ejaculated, as he 
drew the last figure on a space on the leaf— 
“ By Jove! that will help me amazingly.” 
Indeed, things went on “swimmingly,” for a 
while. David's credit was good, and people 
spoke of him as a man of substance, A superb 
piano was purchased to assist In the refinement 
of his budding family, and David Patton might 
have been called a happy man. But soon there 
appear long lists of costly merchandise, that he 
failed to pay for, until they had been a long time 
due, and we etna conceive how harassing it must 
have been to this gentleman to be reminded of 
his indebtedness, inauy times, before he could 
meet their demands. There were still linger 
columns of liquor bills unpaid by his own cus 
tomcr*. In the first years of his dealing in this 
trade some responsible men made large bills and 
promptly paid them, but even these patrons be¬ 
came laggard in payment, though none the less 
prompt in increasing their indebtedness. And 
here, in the midst of this dubious looking cata¬ 
logue of bills, is the summing up of dead ac¬ 
counts to the amount of three thousand dollars 
— accounts due, yet of no value. 
David must have been, by this time, near the 
meridian of life, for the date is 183G, His own 
hand-writing is unsteady and irregular, and at 
Limes meaningless. Here is an example: 
“Oeoroe Whitcomb, Dr. 
Tol drink of molasses, at fis. per gal.$00.00.'’ 
Reader, what does this signify ? David must 
have noticed an error here, sometime afterwards, 
probably when settling with his patron, for au 
eraaive line is partially drawn over it. 
THE SONG OF |THE SOWER, 
THE LARGEST-CTRCTTLATTSG 
AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 
18 PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY 
BY D. D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y, 
Office, Union Buildings, Opposite (he Court House, Butlalo St. 
The Rural Xew-Torkre Is designed to be unsur¬ 
passed In Value, Purity, and Variety of Contents. Its 
Conductor earnestly labors to render the Rural a Reli¬ 
able Guide on all the Important Practical. ScientiHe and 
otbex Subjects connected with the business of those 
whose Interests It zealously advocates. -Vs a Family 
Journal Uls eminently Instructive and Entertaining- 
being so conducted that It can be safely taken to the 
Horae* ot people of Intelligence, taste and discrimination. 
It embraces more- Agrlcnltaral. Horticultural, Scientific, 
Educational, Literary and News Matter. Interspersed 
with appropriate engravings, than any other journal, 
rendering it by Ur the most complete Agricultural, 
i.ttvraky and KAitlLT Newspaper In America. 
BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker 
ENIGMA OF POST-OFFICES. 
Brethren, the rower's task is done; 
The seed is in Its winter bed, 
Now let the dark brown mold be spread, 
To hide it from the sun, 
And leave it to the kindly care 
Of the still earth uud brooding air; 
As when the mother, from her breast. 
Lays the hushed babe apart to rest, 
And shades jU eyes and wait* to see 
How sweet its waking smile will be. 
The tempest now may smitr, the sleet . 
All night on the drowned furrow beat, 
And wlndB that, from the cloudy hold 
Of winter, breathe the bitter cold. 
Stiffen to stone the mellow mold, 
Yet safe shall lie the wheat; 
Till, oth of heaven’s unmeasured blue, 
Shall wake again the genial year, 
To wake with warmth and nurse with dew 
The germs wc lay to slumber here. 
1 am composed of 59 letters. 
My 9, 4, 52, 51, 6, 21 is a post-office in Massachusetts. 
My 12,18, 22, 23. 49,35,58,31 is a post-office in Illinois. 
My 42, 8, 38. 56,11, 5, 49, 42, 20, 46 is a post-office in 
Kentucky. 
My 42,17,10, 21. 6,4, 34 is a post-office in New Jersey. 
My 14, 20, 27, 28, 37, 89, 44, 19, 32. 13 is a post-office in 
Pennsylvania. 
My 1, 33,58, 20, 48, 47, 15 is a poPt-office in Texas. 
My 8, 58, 40, 48, SO, 60 is a post-office in Iowa. 
Hy 25, 57,38,53 is a post-office in Pennsylvania. 
My 7, 55, 56, 24, 9 is a poet-offloc In Michigan. 
My 2, 11, 23. 28,16 is a post-office in Massachusetts. 
My 45,12, 0, 41, 94 is a post-office In Ohio, 
My 59, 8, 41, 51, 27, 49 is a post-office in Tennessee. 
My whole is found in the Book of Job. 
Constants, Ohio. M. H. & O. W. Thompson. 
Answer In two weeks. 
the city, and where the erring 
reclaimed. 
The last of David Patton’5 earthly accounts 
are registered. They had become less and lees 
frequent and the chlrograpby less distinct to ward 
the close. What a sorrowful comparison between 
the beginning and the end, in the substance and 
the style. There 1* but little resemblance be¬ 
tween the elegant, round, and boldly-formed 
letters of the first and those crooked and blur¬ 
red marks at the last And but little resem¬ 
blance between the manly form, the erect 
carriage, the open countenance of the youthful 
Adonis, and the crippled limbs, the cringing 
attitude, the swollen and blotched face, dis¬ 
figured by one sightless eye, (infirmities con¬ 
tracted, not by hard and honest toll, but by 
debauchery,) of David Patton at the last.— 
How palpably plain are the causes! How easy 
to mark the steps toward ruin. 
Such was David Patton at the age of 55 
years. Few men would have endured so long in 
pursuing such a course, but he was endowed 
with an extraordinary physical constitution, 
which nobly withstood the attacks of disease 
and debauchery. 
The end came at last—and in midwinter* when 
the earth was deeply covered in her snowy robe, 
— on a night when the keen frostiness of the at¬ 
mosphere pierced even the lungs of the strongest 
man,—the air rang loud and clear with the 
piercing shrieks Of a dying man. It was a lone 
country place in the nigged town of Liucklaen, 
nevertheless the shrill cries aroused a distant 
family from their slumbers, and two men hurried 
to the rescue 
For Moore’s Kara! New-Yorker. 
AN ANAGRAM. 
Nad yorpdul er’o hte coenas' deit 
Uro txayer gfla aws ense; 
Agily ti aofdetl ot het eberze. 
Our aiqlude ot eancoe eqenn. 
Ostut aUrtea ewre rethe ot ebar ti up, 
Dalm cth cabtlts efsrit, 
Yhet dncali ti ot teb htsaeadm itagh, 
Adn eaeeld ti hwti rihte ifle. 
Stone Church, N. Y. Ei 
Answer in two weeks. 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
AN ACCOUNT BOOK, 
AND A VERITABLE HISTORY FROM ITS PAGES, 
BY M. L. HAMMOND 
I recently picked up a rusty, ponderous old 
tome of this class. From it I drew a history’, 
true to the life. Its title page read thus s—“ The 
property of David Patton, Jr., Clarkville.” 
Its firs^ entry was dated “Fob. 5th, 1820.” 
Then followed an inventory of goods — first- 
class mercantile goods for a country village store 
— to the value of three thousand dollars. Ap¬ 
pended to this was the receipt from the party of 
whom he had purchased, for a wood-lot to the 
value of two thousand dollars, and one thousand 
dollars in hank notes, paid by David Patton, 
Senior. 
So this was David Patton, Jr.’s dowry, with 
which to commence in the world, and which 
was, in’thoec days, aTortune in a country village. 
That David Patton was an accomplished 
young gentlemen, is evident. There was wo 
lack of polish in that elegant hand-writing, and 
no want of ^scholarship and taste in the arrange¬ 
ment of Die well-filled pages. Turning over a 
few leaves of the ledger and we find credited, a 
long list of articles from his father’s farm, such 
as clover aud timothy seed, wheat, com, «fcc., 
Ac., for in those days one store became the 
farmer’s exchange for all the town. The infer¬ 
ence immediately drawn is, that David was 
reared a farmer, and the healthiul farm training, 
combined with gentle culture, hud made him a 
perfect Adonis; and looking back through the 
long vista of years, wc can see David Patton’s 
splendid,'roanlyiform behind the counter, his 
fine blue,;eyes always smiling a welcome to his 
numerous customers,— the envy of all the vil¬ 
lage beaux, and the pride of any lady on whom 
be chose to bestow bis favors. 
There are many things in that splendid dii- 
rography which indicates the generous, bold and 
adventurous spirit, the genial, sympathetic na¬ 
ture—golden virtues in many circumstances in 
life —and yet under a train of temptations be¬ 
come weaknesses in the possessor. 
Two years from the time he launched his 
barque on the ocean of busy life, David Pat¬ 
ton took him a fair youpg wife from among the 
wealthiest of his patrons, and a dowry of one 
thousand dollars is added to his own patrimony, 
as the portion of his bride. This is also record¬ 
ed. With this he made considerable additions 
to his hitherto lucrative business. A clerk was 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker 
CHARADE. 
otherwise. Flense •* make a note of it. 
la RnrhcMter. N. Y.-Persons having occa- 
UrBAL Nkw-YoRXER will please 
y> Y., and not .0 many (O, to New 
HnDivio. &e. Money letters Intended foe 
- - •* , above places. 
Whenever draft* can be obtained 
(. requested to remit them in preference to 
, . O Money Orders. A* we pay cost of ex- 
(rad allow thorn to be Rent at our risk, it is the 
-- A.. *-■*(. 
i«*r, cannot consistently act as agent 
Iv kal, pb-Hoe solicit the influence of some 
ad Who will he sure and give the matter atten- 
if there is not a wlde-awako agent in 
My first will please you all no doubt; 
My Rccotid none can live witliont; 
My whole will captivate tbe mind, 
And frequently the conscience blind. 
Hemlock Lake, N. Y. Charlie. 
ESP Answer in two weeks. 
direct, to K>ctinder. N. Y.. and n 
York, Albauy, iiuumO.iivi. 
tw are almost dally mailed to the 
Remit by Draft -— 1 
Club Agents are renr.-• — - - 
Currency or I*. O Money Orders. 
Change, and allow them to tw Rent i 
safest aud cheapest to remit by draft, 
IT Vow, Render. < 
for the " 
active D , „ 
non—especially if J 
your neighborhood. 
No Truvellnfir Aaent" are employed by hr. and we 
give no certificates of agency. Any person ro disposed 
can act ns Local Club Agent.on hla or Wown authority, 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM. 
; but the cries, borne on the still 
midnight air, grew fainter till they ceased en¬ 
tirely ere the rescuers arrived. The rays of the 
full moon glistened iu the frosty air, and revealed 
the form of David Patton stretched upon the 
hard path, one hand clutched withiu his bosom, 
the other among the tangled locks of grizzly 
hair, stiff and frozen. Near him lay an empty 
whisky bottle, which told its own story. 
A and B together own a melon. A owns three- 
eighth* and B five-eighths. C comes along and gives 
a shilling to share equally; to what part of the shil¬ 
ling Is A and B each entitled V 
Decatur, Mich. J. g. w. 
ear- Answer in two weeks. 
IIKCAI’SE A PERSON HAS A BAD 
ijdngh It should not be inferred that Consumption has 
set in. although a case of Consumption Is rarely mctwilh 
unaccompanied by a distressing cough. Where, how¬ 
ever. a predisposition to Pulmonary disease exists, a 
Cough, If left to itself, strains and racks the lungs, and 
wastc-B the general strength, and soon establishes an in¬ 
curable complaint. In all cases, then, it Is the safer plan 
to get rid of n Cough. Cold, or Hoarsened*, without de¬ 
lay ; and for this purpose no remedy act* more promptly 
or sorely, or with more benefit to the orgsns of the thest 
than Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant, an article scientifically 
compounded from carefully selected drugs, and which, 
on trial, will always be found worthy of Us world wide 
reputation* 
The Expectorant and all Dr. D. Jayjte & Son’s Family 
Medicines are sold in Rochester by Messrs. LANE & 
PAINE, and POST & BRUFF, and by Druggcstt gene¬ 
rally. 
ANSWER TO ENIGMAS, &c., IN No. 840, 
Answer to Geographical Enigma:—Malaysia or 
East Indian Archipelago. 
Answer to Anagram: 
This motto J give to the young and the old, 
More precioTis by far than a treasure of gold; 
’Twill proye to Its owner a talisman rare, 
More potent than magic,—’tis “ N«ver Despair.” 
WIT AND WISDOM 
In what color should a secret be kept? In j 
violet. 
An eloquent speaker is like a river—greatest 
at the mouth. 
It is not half the trouble to learn in youth 
that it is to be ignorant in old age. 
Jake, Bpell brai'.dy with three letters. “O d V ” 
(eau de vie.) No; in English. “ B r and y." 
Why is a fly one of the tallest of insects ? Be¬ 
cause he stands over six feet without shoes or 
stockings. 
We cannot censure a man in business who 
does not advertise if he has nothing worth 
advertising. 
“ I never was ruined but twice,” said a wit; 
“once when 1 lost a lawsuit, and once when I 
gained one.” 
Ik* you would be known and not know, veg¬ 
etate in a village; if you would know and not be 
known, live in a city. 
Con VEKSATioN is a very serious matter. There 
with w hom an hour’s talk would weaken 
The nightingale has no peer among sing¬ 
ing birds, tbe antelope is king of all graceful 
quadrupeds, and amoDg a thousand perfumes 
Phalon’s “ Night-Blooming Ccrens” stands 
alone—matchless in purity, unapproached in 
voluptuous richness, and more durable than any 
other floral extract known. Sold everywhere. 
are men 
one more than a day’s fasting. 
It is a great comfort to a man with hut a dollar 
In his pocket to know that it he cannot Invest in 
five-twenties he can iu twenty-fives. 
Why must an analytical chemist be a female ? 
Because if he’s not an analyzer.(Ann Eliza) he 
must be a charlatan (Charlotte Ann.) 
Reputation is a good deal like a bonfire, 
you’ve got to keep piling on the shavings. If 
you don’t, the flame will 60 on subdue. 
What is tbe difference between a weulthy toper 
and a skillful miner? One turns his gold into 
quarts and the other turns his quartz into gold. 
BEST FARMING LANDS in the WORLD 
ICO It SALE BY THE 
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CO., 
Tn Tracts to suit Purchasers! AT LOW PRICES. 
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY HAVE FOR SALE, 
900,000 ACRES of the best Farming Lands in the Country. 
The road extends from Dunleitb, In the north-western part of tbo State, toGiiro, in the extreme southern i 
part, with a branch from Ceutralia, one bundrod and thirteen miles north of Cairo, to Chicago, on the shore of 
I-ake Michigan— altogether a length of 704 miles—and the land which is offered for sale is situated upon either t 
side of the track, in no instance at a greater distance than fifteen miles. 
State of Illinois. 
& The rapid development of llllnnl*, its steady Increase in population and wealth, and .is capacity to produce i 
cheap rood, are matters for wonder and admiration. The United States Commissioner of Agriculture estimates 
the amounts of the principal crops of 1804, for the whole country, as follows- Indian corn, 530,081,403 bushels; 
wheat, 160,095,823 bushels; oats, 176,690,064 bushels; or which the farms of Illinois yielded 185.350.135 bushels j 
of Indian corn; 33,371,178 bushels of wheat; and 24,273,751 bushels or oals—in reality more than one-fburth or 
the corn, more than one-fifth of the wheat, and almost one-seventh or the oats produced in uK the United Elates. 
Grain—Stock Raising. 
the list of grain-exporting States, Illinois is also the great cattle State of the j 
SHAKSPEARE ILLUSTRATED 
Pre-eminently the first in 
Union. Its fertile prairies are well adapted by nature to the raising of cattle, sheep, horses and mules; and in 
the important interest of pork packing, it is far in advance of every other State. The seeding of these prairie 
lands to tame grasses for pasturage or hay,offers to farmers with capital the most profitable results. The 
hay crop of Illinois in 1864 is estimated at 2,160,725 tons, which Is more than half a million tons larger than tbe 
crop of any other State, excepting only New York. 
Inducements to Settlers. 
Tbo attention of per 60 DB, whoBo limited means forbid tbo purchase of a homestead in the older States, is 
particularly invited to these lands. With is ten years the Illinois Central Railroad Company has sold 1,400,000 
acres, to more than 20,000 actual settlers: and during the last year 264,422 acres—a larger aggregate of sales 
than in any one year since the opening of the road. The farms are sold In tracts or forty or eighty acres, 
suited to the settler with limited capital, or In larger tracts, as may be required by the capitalist and stock 
raiser . The soil is of unsurpassed fertility ; tbe climate is healthy ; taxes are low ; churches and schools 
are becoming abundant throughout the length and breadth of the State ; and communication with all the great 
markets Is made easy through railroads, canals and rivers. 
PRICES AJVD TEEMS OP PAYMENT. 
The price of lands varies from *9 to M5 and upwards per acre, and they arc sold on short credit, or for 
cash. A deduction of ten per cent, from the short credit price is made to those who buy for cash. 
Principal. 
100 00 
100 00 
Hamid. — Th on corns’ t in such a questionable 
8hnpe that I’ll speak to thee. 
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, and all Pulmon¬ 
ary Complaints are cured effectually by Jayne’s 
Expectorant. Sold everywhere. 
