alter bouquets. No, we were not willing that 
Nature should do all the work for us. We must 
have a hand in too. * 
So onr hostess was called in for consultation, 
and it was Anally decided that we should have a 
space upon the wood-pile side of the house, three 
feetin width and some fourteen or fifteen in length. 
It was close to the house, and Iva's window 
directly overlooked it. If, was a sorry-looking 
strip of grouud, most certainly, and we eyed it 
with dismay. It was on the wood-pile side, and 
when our three feet of bed should be made, there 
would be hut a narrow space between the two. 
Some adventurous sticks had already made the 
journey, and lay half concealed among the rank, 
dried Ftalks of weeds, the sticks and the stones, 
the broken crockery, the old boards, and all the 
accumulated debris of half a dozen years of 
neglect and decay. Could beautiful flowers ever 
rise in the place of that chaotic mass? Faith 
was not very strong, but resolution was. There 
was evidently work before us, but then we could 
work. Had it been necessary to remove the 
wood-pile first, I believe we should have done it. 
The vision of a flower bed, ail our own, having 
once broken upon us, no obstacle would be too 
great for us to surmount, in order to its realiza¬ 
tion. 
Protected by thick gloves, we went to the task. 
The lighter rubbish was picked up and thrown 
as far as we could send—where, we little cared. 
The long-imbedded boards and stones were more 
difficult, often requiring the united strength of 
two, and sometimes three, pairs of hands to 
move them, and, when moved, revealing under¬ 
neath whole communities of wriggling, crawling, 
creeping worms and bugs and insects, who. in¬ 
dignant at being disturbed in their snug winter 
quarters, scampered this way and that way, and 
every way, as fast as their diverse means of loco¬ 
motion would allow, until finally the earth must 
have opened to receive them as it did Korau 
and his troupe—for upon a sudden they would 
bo no where visible. But the removing of the 
rubbish, bad as it was, was only a slight skir¬ 
mish compared to the pitched battle we were yet 
to wage with the weeds. Deep-rooted they were, 
and loth to quit their habitation. Indeed, they 
evinced the most dogged determination to stay 
where they were, and seemed to ask what right 
we had to Invade their soil, sacred to them so 
long. But might made right, in this as in some 
other coses. We charged upon a regiment of 
thistles, but the old gray veterans well knew 
how to receive us, and we were obliged to beat 
a hasty retreat, covered with wounds. Armed 
with jack-knives and carving-knives, we again 
made an assault, and this time were success¬ 
ful. Their works were carried, their batteries 
silenced, and themselves lying prostrate at our 
feet. This brilliaul success rekindled our ardor, 
and we returned to the work with renewed 
what more of earthly bliss could fall to the lot 
of a dweller upon this mundane sphere? I en¬ 
viously wished that I had been born a spader 
instead of a school-ma'am. 
So. in the apportionment of work at this time, 
I had eagerly said, “ Let me do the spading—I 
know just how." My companions, wiser than I, 
were only too glad to assent. So I took hold of 
the rough handle with my gloved hand3, and 
with my gaiter boot fixed firmly upon the haft, I 
essayed to press down the blade into the rich 
black loam, but the heavy rains and fierce suns 
of half a dozen years had so well compacted the 
mas? that it but mocked my etforts. Again and 
again I tried. Three inches, by exact measure¬ 
ment, was the farthest it would go. A few puny 
shovels full upon the edge of the blade, and an 
unsightly rent in my gaiter boot, were the only 
results. Faster and faster I plied the shovel. 
Deeper and deeper I tried to strike it down. I 
strained every nerve and exerted all the strength 
1 had, and with but little more success. Per¬ 
haps I did not strike at the right angle, so I made 
it more oblique, but it only grazed the surface. 
Then I stmek a direct perpendicular, but it was 
worse than before. There was evidently a 
science about the matter, and of its first princi¬ 
ples 1 was just as evidently ignorant, Still 1 
worked away until the perspiration started from 
every pore. I felt my face grow hot with the 
unwonted exertion.—[Concluded next week.] 
puffing locomotive breaks the solitude in one 
direction, and stage-coaches rumbling over plank 
roads in every other. A spacious avenue, 
graded and side-walked, stretches for two miles 
away- Numerous tasteful residences have 
sprung up here and there; churches point their 
spires far heavenward; two colleges, one for 
young men and the other for maidens, stand at a 
proper distance, that is to say, the length of the 
city, apart; and over all the low hum of business 
may be distinctly heard. Yet the most evident 
sign of '‘improvement,*’ and that which most 
truly typifies the stage of civilization at which 
we have arrived, lies in the fact that the cum¬ 
brous old forest trees have all been cut down, 
and in Borne instances, the unsightly stumps 
removed, and in their places have been planted 
straight rows of straight twigsof elm, and maple, 
and hickory and oak. These twigs itis expected 
will live, will throw out branches, will some 
time grow into trees,—that, if they do well, and 
nothing happens, and the war ends, it is likely 
that, as early as nineteen hundred and sixty- 
three, they will be sufficiently large for the chil¬ 
dren to play beneath their branches. What wis¬ 
dom, what forethought, in our city fathers, thus 
to provide shade for the children of a century 
hence! I know of nothing to equal it, unless it 
may be New York and her Central Park. 11 
the benefit to the present generation be not so 
evident, we have at least the consolation that it 
will mature iu us the cardinal virtues of faith, 
and hope, and patience. At any rate, it will be 
onr own fault if such is not the effect 
But amid all the changes and improvements, 
some relics of the past still remain, and this old 
house is one. Built originally for a store, then 
heightened and lengthened and widened and 
converted into a dwelling, then by more addi¬ 
tions here, and partitions there, it was made a 
school house of, and when it had served its day 
and the rising generation in that capacity, onr 
hostess, for lack of a better, appropriated it, and 
took us boarders as its inmates until her own 
should be finished. It was an odd-looking, wea¬ 
ther-beaten, dilapidated old mansion as one 
might wish to see. “ The Castle" we called if. 
It was not, like Hawthorne’s, a “house with 
seven gables, 1 ’ but it bad about as many differ¬ 
ent pitches to the roof, each separate addition 
being of a different height, and having a sepa¬ 
rate roof. It looked, indeed, as If half a dozen 
small houses bad been thrown at each other, all 
striking together just where they chanced to hit. 
It was just such a house as w T ould have delighted 
the eyes of Henry Ward Beecher, could be 
only have seen it, for it exactly embodied his 
theory of houses, namely, that each separate 
room should grow out of, and he built for, some 
special need. It stood directly upon the street, 
a single step leading from the sidewalk to the 
threshold, and from each front corner a board 
fence stretched away for a few feet upon each 
side, and continued back for a little distance 
also. Here then we were domiciled for the sum¬ 
mer—the “we” including, among others. Mia 
nonnk and her little four years' old Flouian, 
If a, Noisette, the daughter of the house, and 
myFelf. being nobody only Date, the school- 
ma'am. 
A right, merry time of it we had that summer 
in the old mined Castle. Its tumble-down walls 
^.bnertisemente 
Turk—“ Yanlcee Doodle.” 
Great Discovery 
USEPUL an<l VALUABLE 
DISCOVERY I 
IK ILTON’S 
INSOLUBLE CEMENT! 
Is of more g>n» r*i practical utility 
than any invention non before th« 
pubhc It basinet, thoroughly test, 
eddunng the last two .vearatty practi- 
I cal men, anil pronounced bv all to 
SLPF.KIOR TO AN V 
Adhesive Preparation known. 
lfll<on> timoliiblc Cement is a new 
thing', and the result of jvars of 
study; Ite combination Is on 
SCIENTIFIC I'RI NO IT LE 8 
and under no circumstances orebanire 
ot temperature, will it become cor¬ 
rupt or emit any offensive smell. 
BOOT SHOE 
Utwuf.ictnrm, omit* Machines, will 
find it the b*--t article known for Ce¬ 
menting the Channel*, a- it works 
without delay, is not affected by any 
change of temperature, 
JEWELERS 
Will find it sufficiently adhesive for 
tbetr use. as has been proved 
IT IS ESPECIALLY ADAPTED 
TO LEATHER, 
And we claim as an especial merit, 
that it sticks Patches and Linings to 
Boots and Shoes sufficiently strong 
without stitebine 
IT IS THK ONLY 
LIQUID CEMENT EXTANT 
That is a sure thine for mending 
Furniture, Crockery, Toy*, 
It one, / tort/, 
And articles of Household use. 
.Remember Hilton's Insoluble 
(jfcMHLNT is in a liquid farm and as 
- isilv applied as paste Hilton's In¬ 
soluble IVinent i« insoluble In water 
Or oil Illltons Insoluble. Cement 
adheres oily substances, 
kupplied in family or Manufacturers' 
PaclraveR front 2 minces to IMo lbs. 
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Proprietors. j’ruvMcnce, R. I 
BY T. B. OO.VOHO 
“Yankee Doodle.” Long ago 
They played it to deride us; 
But now we inarch to victory') 
And that’s the tune to guide us I 
Yankee Doodle ’ ha ' ha ( ha ! 
Yankee Poodle Dandy! 
How we made the Krd Coats run 
At Yankee Doodle Dandy I 
To fight is not a pleasant game; 
But. If we must, we ll do it I 
When “Yankee Doodle fl once begins, 
The Yankee hoys go through it! 
Yankee Doodle! hat ha ! ha ! 
Yankee Doodle Dandy! 
“ Go ahead !'* the captains cry, 
At Yankee Doodle Dandy ! 
And let her come upon the sea, 
The insolent invader— 
There the Yankee boys will he 
Prepared to serenade her I 
Yankee Doodle ! hu ! ha ! ha ! 
Yankee Doodle Dandy I 
Yankee guns will 6ing the bass 
Yankee Doodle Dandy! 
“ Yankee Doodle How it brings 
The good old day* before us I 
Two or three began the song— 
Millions join the chorus ! 
Yankee Doodle I ha I ha I ha I 
Yankee Doodle Dandy 1 
Rolling round the continent 
Is Yankee Doodle Dandy ! 
“ Yankee Doodle 1" Not alone 
The continent will hear it— 
But all the world shall catch the tone, 
And every tyrant. fear it! 
Y’ankee Doodle ! ha ! ha I ha! 
Yankee Doodle Dandy ! 
Freedom’s voice is in the song 
Of Yankee Doodle Dandy I 
Applicable to the 
useful Arts. 
A new thing. 
Its Combination 
Boot and Shoe 
Manufacturers. 
Jewelers. 
Families, 
It is a Liquid. 
The two Gardeners.— There were two gar¬ 
deners whose crop of peas had been killed by the 
frost- One of them fretted and grumbled, and 
said nobody was so unfortunate as he was. Vis¬ 
iting his neighbor some time after, he cried out 
in astonishment, “ What are these ? A fine crop 
of peas! Where did they come from !” “ These 
are what I sowed while you wore fretting,” said 
the neighbor. “Why, don’t you ever fret?” 
“ Yes, but I generally put, it off’ till 1 have re¬ 
paired the mischief.” “ But then you have no 
need to fret at all," said the fro tier. “ Precisely 
bo,” replied his friend, “ and that is the very rea¬ 
son why I put it off - .” 
Remember. 
TTY THE BEST* 
It is the Cheapest in the End. 
Written fur Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA, 
MY DATE LANSING, 
It was a rickety old shell of a house that we 
lived in, a summer or two agone, while waiting 
for the new one to be built. Us origin dated' as 
far back as the first early days of our city, now 
fourteen or fifteen years ago. It was built at a 
time when wood was plenty, but carpenters 
scarce; when all sorts of houses were improvised 
to meet the demands of the grave and wise legis¬ 
lators who were sent into these woods to make 
the laws for our beautiful Peninsular State, and 
of the attendant crowds which alw 
I am composed of 29 letters. 
My IS, 19, 29, 24, 14 is the name of an animal. 
My 26, 23, 11, 10, 11, 25, 8 Is the name of a science. 
My 2S, 11, 22, 24, 29, 11 Is the name of an island. 
My 1, 15, 7, 28, 7, lo, 26, 29, 22 is a product of several 
European countries. 
My 2,17, 22, 14. 5 in a verb. 
My 27, 11, 24, 23, 20, 3 is a hat we should all be. 
My 21, 22, 11, 1, 9 is the name of a place where the Apos¬ 
tle Paul once left his cloak. 
My 4, 29, 22, 11, 6 is the name of a king contemporary 
with Christ. 
My 12, IS, 7, 15,16 is an auxiliary. 
My 19 is sometimes used as a vowel. 
My whole is recorded In the book of Deuteronomy. 
Mainesburg, IV, 1868. E. A. 
tir Answer in two weeks, 
THE RAILWAY HORSE POWER WHICH TOOK 
THU first /* n w// .u 
As it aRo has oi every State and County Fair a/which the 
Pnrprn'tm't have exhibited U in competition with others! 
This theT believe cannot be -aid of any other Machine 
exhibited at an equal number of Fairs. 
Combined Threshers and Cleaners, 
Threshers, Separators, Wood Saws, &c. 
All Of the b^*t i u rrturket ?mne of the advantages of there 
Powers are. low elevation, slow travel ot team, not! conse¬ 
quent ease of team 
The Thresher and Cleaner 
runs easy, separate* the grain perfectly clean from the 
straw, cleans quite, equal to tin- hot or Fuming Mills, leav¬ 
ing the gram lit for mill or market. 
$3'“ ror Price and description send for Circulars, and 
satis!y yourself before purchasing. 
Address R A- M. HARDER. 
6!KI eow-6t Cobluskill, Schoharie Co.. N. Y. 
ener¬ 
gy. A raid upon some mullein stalks, and they 
bit the dust A dash upon some gigantic fire¬ 
woods, and we brought them o(T prisoners. We 
laid siege to some blackberry bushes, and though 
they opened upon us with their masked batteries 
of thorns and briers, they were finally compelled 
to surrender, and we were masters of the field. 
We gave no quarter, showed no mercy, for it was 
a war of extermination we were waging—a war 
to the biller death. The enemy's slain were 
lying, heaps upon heaps, and not a man on out¬ 
side missing. We forebore to pursue our suc¬ 
cesses that night, but slept upon our victory, as 
other great generals since then have done. 
Our next evening's task consisted of the spad¬ 
ing. raking, hoeing. Ac., and the implements of 
husbandry were brought (o aid in the work. Iva 
went ahead with the pick-ax to break up the fal¬ 
low ground; I followed with the spade; behind 
me went Mignonne to break up the clods in 
pieces, and Noisette brought up the rear, 
armed with a rake, to give the finishing touches. 
The pick-ax moved ahead briskly enough. The 
strokes were not very deep, but they roughened 
the surface, and that was something. 
But the spading! 0, Hercules, what a task! 
Now. my knowledge of the art was confined to 
observation entirely. I had often sat at the desk 
in my close recitation room and looked out upon 
the laborers at work upon the grade beneath my 
window, and when some more than usually dull 
or frolicsome pupU had tried the full extent of 
my patience and forbearance, I bad watched 
these spaders with a feeling akin to envy. Now, 
though I knew to a letter all the philosophical 
formulas respecting the weight, velocity, momen¬ 
tum, Ac., of matter, yet I had not the slightest 
idea of the actual heft of a shovel full of earth, 
nor of the amount of muscle required to lift it; 
and it seemed to me tbo easiesl thing in the 
world to press down the spade into the yielding 
clay, with such an even measured stroke that it 
seemed set to music; to lift it. heaped upfuHand 
running over, and then, by a skillful motion, to 
turn it upside down into its new resting place. 
O, it was so much easier than teaching school! 
It seemed sometimes to my wvary. aching brain, 
that if I might only throw my books out of the 
window, and send the children after them, run 
out and seize a spade and go to work, I should 
he perfectly happy. What knew those brawny 
laborers of the cares, the anxieties, the labors, 
and the distresses attendant upon the procuring 
of a well-learned lesson from each of a hundred 
rampant children? What knew they of the mo- 
ays wait upon 
their footsteps, 
For^ood and sufficient reasons, no doubt, our 
wise men in council convened, bad decided that 
our chief city was no place for the Seal of Gov¬ 
ernment, so they carried it away and set it down in 
these North Woods, where bears and wolves and 
timid deer, and their red-skinned pursuers, were 
the only inhabitants: where “groves” were the 
only “temples,” and a single log cabin was the 
sole pioneer of civilization. Perhaps it was 
thought that laws emanating from such a spot 
must partake of its surroundings —pure, free, 
and uncontaminated by sordid touch. Perhaps 
it was thought that our law-makers might catch 
and embody some inspiration from Nature in the 
solitudes where she reigned supreme; that in 
their hours of contemplation they might discover 
or invent some new theory of government, which 
should raise our State above her sister States, 
and be a beacon to the world. Maybe they 
thought that by building a city here, they might 
open up this vast nurthern wilderness, with its 
boundless resources of animal and mineral 
wealth, to the light of day and the markets of 
the world. But whatever the motive, the fact 
remains the same. By what modus operand* 
the ponderous institution, with all itscomplicated 
machinery, was moved along.—whether it was 
convoyed upon the earth, through the air, or on 
the water,—history recordelh not The means 
must have been peculiar, however, for roads 
there were none, nor scarce an Indian trail lead¬ 
ing in that direction. It came, however, and 
abides to this day. 
In these days men paid dearly for the honor of 
being “Hon.” They had to take the risk of 
broken bones and bruised heads in going, and of 
starvation upon arriving at the scene of their 
labors; and many are the ludicrous adventures 
and hair-breadth 'scapes yet recounted of those 
perilous days. Upon those miles of cordurov, 
. .. • ' 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
MYTHOLOGICAL ENIGMA. 
TTENTION, BEE - KEEPERS ! ! 
I am composed of 17 letters. 
My 8, 3, 1, 2, 9 is that fabled stream in the infernal re¬ 
gions, whose waters are f.aid to bring to man, that 
which the mysteries of alchemy has ever failed o[ 
doing—rest—oblivion. 
My 13, 5, 17, 15, 8, 8, 12 was the daughter of Mctabus 
and Queen of the Volaei. She was remarkable for 
swiftness, and led the Volcians to battle agains t 
•(Eneas, but was finally slain by An.os 
My 13,12, 16, 3, 0, 6 according to n poetic legend was 
the nurse of .Eneas, and when she died, was buried 
on that part of the Italian coast know n as the port and 
city of G;eta 
My 13, 6, 7,10 was a celebrated Roman, who, after hav. 
ing successfully opposed the ambitions designs of 
Cataline, finally fell at L’tica by his own band, and 
was, according to mythology, assigned a place in the 
Elysium, and made lawgiver to the souls of the pious. 
My 11, 5, 4, 9, 15 was a proud and illustrious Roman fam¬ 
ily, one of whose members saved his country l.y his 
wisdom, during the war with Hannibal. 
My 14, 16, 8, 8, 5 was a warlike female, and companion of 
Camilla. 
My whole is what— 
“ Ambracia's gulf beheld: where once was lost 
A world for woman, lovely, harmless thing; 
In yonder rippling bay, their naval host 
Did many a Roman chief and Asian king 
To doubtful conflict, certain slaughter bring.” 
East Smithlield, Pa , 1863. L’ Aspirant. 
V3T Answer In two weeks. 
Having experimented with bees and hives for the past few 
years, for the purpose of revolutionizing the present loose 
system of bee-mtumgemenL and bringing within the reach 
of sdl ft hive that i* well adapted to the wants of the Apicul- 
turist. whereby bees can be controlled at’all times, and at 
the same time fully overcome four of the greatest troubles 
io bee-ronnugetuunt, viz: the loss of bees in swarming time 
by their flying to the forest, the ravages of the moth mil¬ 
ler, the robbery of bees, end algo the great loss of beeg du¬ 
ring winter; all of these difficulties I have successfully 
overcome. And as a token of the good merits of the hive, 
I have taken the first Premium at every Agricultural Fair 
where 1 have exhibited; nod two years in succession at the 
New York State Fair, anil at their lest Fair I wan award¬ 
ed the drat Premium and also a Silver Medal. The guccesfi- 
ful maDner in which I tame and handle these insects at all 
times, and even take tLera in my hands without any pro¬ 
tection whatever, and shake them amongst the spectators 
with impunity, thousand* will testify, who have witnessed 
my exhibitions- All parties sending me their name and 
Post-office addres) will rcceire u book of 24 pages free. 
giving a geaeral description or my hives, system of man¬ 
agement, &c. K. P. KIDDER, 
697-tf Practical ApiouUnrist. Burlington, Vt. 
violets and bepaticas. The south Mind blew 
upon us, and breathed into us a longing for out¬ 
door employment We stood in the sunshine 
and drank in long draughts of the delicious 
spring. We felt in harmony with Nature, and 
longed to help her in her blessed work of beauti¬ 
fying earth. Grace hoops and skipping ropes 
ceased to satisfy. The chess-men were impris¬ 
oned in their little red box. Needles were only 
used to mend unsightly rents, and in ourfavorite 
books there was no longer any charm. A rest¬ 
lessness, and a longing came over us, which we 
felt could only be satisfied by making a flower 
bed. Mignonne had brought with her from her 
distant borne a little package ot flower seeds. 
So tar we were provided for: but where to plant 
them? was the next question. Behind the house 
was the kitchen garden; on one side was an 
impenetrable jungle of alders, and brier bushes, 
and last year's weeds; on the other was the 
wood-pile, with only a few feet of weedy space 
between it and the house. The case seemed 
hopeless, but in proportion as difficulties arose, 
so also arose the determination to conquer them. 
A flower bed we must, have—a flower bed we 
would have. To be sure, the woods had already 
mammoth beds of Spring Beauties and Ane¬ 
mones and Adder-tongues; and we knew where, 
by-and-by. ftiero would be large spaces blue and 
purple and white with Lupines and Lichnedias 
and Trilliums; we knew just where the Creep¬ 
ing Vetch would trail its delicate blossoms, and 
where the wild Columbine would droop its gold 
and crimson nectaries; we had learned to track 
Cinderilla’s light footsteps by the dainty Ladies' 
Slippers which she had fluDg all along the way, 
and we knew, too, one deep, shady spot, where 
long ago the council fire had blazed, and the red 
man and the white had smoked the calumet of 
peace together: and wherever the ashes had 
dropped, there sprang up the transparent, wax¬ 
like Indian Pipe to mark the place. But then 
we could not always be going to the woods 
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AN ANAGRAM. 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
THE LARGE8T Ci ROC LATE l> 
Agricultural, Literary and Family Newspaper, 
IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY 
J». D. T. MOORE, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
Ni a ueruft fiel fo byeuat, 
Hwree hte edlbses gelnsa ilev, 
L’yo rea gtahut hsit si ruyo tydu. 
Rifts gfrote nda htne evirfog. 
Columbia, Pa., 1863. 
CT Answer in two weeks. 
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MATHEMATICAL QUESTION 
A body was dropped into a well, and was heard to strike 
the bottom in four seconds. What is the depth of the 
well, the velocity of sound being 1130 feet per second 1 
Verona, N. Y., 1863. S. G. Cagwin. 
|3^" Answer in two weeks. 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS. &c.. IN No. 701. 
Answer to Geographical Enigma:—Whoso findeth a 
wife, findeth a good thing; and obtaineth favor of the 
Lord. 
Answer to Anagram: 
Go, strangle the throat of Niagara's wrath, 
Till he utters no sound on his torrent-cut path; 
Go, bind his green sinews of rock-wearing waves, 
Till ho begs at your feet like your own fettered slaves; 
GO, cover his pulses with sods of the ground, 
Till he hides from your sight like a hare from the hound ; 
Then swarm to our borders and silence the notes 
That thunder of freedom from millions of throats. 
Answer to Geometrical Problem:—19.4829—acres. 
