One of the pleasantest events of last month, in the "rural districts," was the annual sale of stock at Mount Ford ham, on the 24th of June last.

Mount Fordham, (as all our agricultural readers know,) is the farm and country seat of Lewis G. Morris, Esq., about eleven miles from New-York. You reach Upper Mor-risiania by the Harlem railroad, in half an hour from the City-Hall, and three-quarters of a mile from the station lies Mr. Morris' residence.

There, is a combination of rural elegance and substantial comfort about the mansion at Mount Fordham, that made the most favorable impression upon us. A country house, solidly built of the stone of the native hills about it, always seems to us to have the genuine look of a homestead, far more than one built of any foreign material, however beautiful in itself, and therefore the genial gray tint of this building pleased us far more than if it had been marble or brown stone. There seems, too, a character of duration and permanence about a stone house in the midst of landed property, that connects itself agreeably with other things in nature that last "as long as grass grows and water runs," - a feeling that we can never get from wooden buildings, however well proportioned, agreeable in design, or economical in construction. The house at Mount Fordham is a good specimen of a free adaptation of the Tuscan or Italian style to this country, and we saw it first with an undefined feeling of a previous acquaintance. Mr. Morris informed us that he was indebted for the conception of the plan, to our Cottage Residences - published some years ago.

The house is, however, larger than our design, and had the benefit while in progress of erection, of Davis' talent as an architect, together with Mr. Morris' excellent practical notions of comfort and convenience for the life of a hospitable landholder in the northern states. As compared with many of the residences of gentlemen-farmers, it struck us as being spacious, genuine in character, and agreeable in arrangement, the details bold and appropriate, without any of the frippery ornaments which disfigure many otherwise acceptable modern houses.

We found a large company of gentlemen from all parts of the Union, assembled at this annual sale - which has become a kind of agricultural fete-day, as well as business day, for those who take an interest in improved agriculture. A goodly number of ladies added to the animation and pleasure of the scene, and gave us abundant proof, that with improved agriculture comes a larger and healthier interest in rural pursuits, from intelligent women all over the country.

Around the house at Mount Fordham, extends on all sides a kind of meadow-lawn, enclosed and divided by pretty wire fences of various patterns. This lawn is kept short by the grazing of improved dairy stock, and we were glad to see successfully practiced what we have been commending so strongly of late to our readers, as the most available point of English country places, that we saw on the other side of the Atlantic - that is the maintenance of a neat and handsome lawn about a country house, not only without the expense of mowing, but with united profit and beauty - the profit of grazing the grass and the beauty - the real pastoral beauty - of fine cattle, soft turf, and pleasant groups of trees, as the home landscape of our country places generally. By adopting this course, the hay-field aspect of many so-called gentlemen's country-seats, would disappear, and a more complete and satisfactory lawn or park be acquired, with no loss of money, and the attainment of a higher species of keeping to one's country home.

Mr. Morris has done this satisfactorily and well, and we advise those who wish to take a hint from actual practice, to pay a visit of an hour to Mount Fordham.

On the morning of the sale, this meadow-lawn presented an animated spectacle - for it was embroidered with groups of the finest stock - Devons, Ayrshires, the fine Shorthorns, which Mr. Morris' repeated visits to England have secured to the country, the improved dairy stock which he has bred here upon the spot, fine South Down sheep, blood horses, etc. In the yards about the spacious barns also, Suffolk and other pigs, that engaged the attention of many who were curious in this department.

An admirable luncheon was most hospitably served to all the visitors at noon, and directly afterwards the sale commenced. In the large circle of buyers who surrounded the auctioneer, we noticed not only most of the leading agriculturists who are stock-breeders - the editors of our leading farming journals, and the new-beginners from various parts of the country, who take their initiatory step in Short-horn learning on such occasions, by buying the worst calves sold at the highest comparative prices - but a good many of those whom the public are accustomed to think of as more closely devoted to the production of ideas than the breeding of stock, but most of whom we were glad to learn, had become interested members of the rural districts. Bryant, the poet, looked thoughtfully in the mild faces of young heifers, and Clarke, the Editor of the Knickerbocker, seemed speculating whether improved rounds of beef for the "Editor's Table," could be had out of the material before him, while an artist-farmer evidently bid with the feeling of Paul Potter in his heart, rather than any knowledge of the thorough-bred. Some cockneys, in pumps and white stockings, had stolen out by the train, evidently wondering why the streets had not been watered for the day, and offered a fine contrast to a couple of our quiet imperturbable friends, the Shaking-Quakers, who, in their long brown frocks and broad-brimmed hats, mingled in the crowd, evidently vastly more interested by the stock itself, than by the wit of the auctioneer, or the varied expressions portrayed in the faces of his auditory.

The bidding was spirited, and the second annual sale passed of in a manner highly satisfactory to Mr. Morris. Dairy Stock brought prices which denoted a confidence in the public in his labors as a breeder, and a growing interest in the general improvement of our farm animals. This class, consisting of cows, heifers, and heifer calves - twenty in number - averaged $78.87 per head. The pure bred stock, of which comparatively few were on the catalougue, brought still higher prices. It will be understood that Mr. Morris reserved, as a breeding stock, a number of his choicest animals - Short-horns, Devons, and Ayrshires - and the future sales of stock may be expected to exceed his former ones in interest and vlaue.

The strictly agricultural journals will give the details of the sale at greater length. What we have desired chiefly to draw attention to, is the steady and persevering effort of Mr. Morris, not only to improve the stock of the country, but to set an example of the best management of such sales, and the general condition and treatment of what may be considered the largest class of genuinely comfortable country places in the northern states.