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Published by Theodore Schoch.
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AT THE OFFICE OF
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From the Knickerbocker Gallery.
"THE EMPEROR'S BIRD'S NEST.
BY II. W. LONGrELLOW.
Once the Emperor Charles, of Spain,
With his swarthy, grave commanders,
I'fbrget in what campaign,
J-ong- beseiged, in mud and rain,
Some old Frontier town of FJandcrs.
Up and down the dreary camp,
In great boots of Spanish leather,
Striding with a measured tramp,
Theec Hidalgos, dull and damp,
Cursed the Frenchmen cursed the weather.
Thus, as to and fro they went,
Over upland and through hollow,
Giving their impatience vent,
Perched upon the Emperor's tent,
In her nest, they spied a swallow.
Ye?, it was a swallow's nest,
Built of clay and hair of horses'
Mane or tail, or dragoon's crest,
Found on hedgerows, east or west.
After Elarmish of the forces.
Then an old Hidalgo said,
Ab he twirled his grey mustachio,
"Sure this swallow overhead
Thinks our Emperor's tent a shed,
And our Emperor but a macho."
Hearing his imperial name
Coupled with these words of malice,
Half in anger, half in shame,
Forth the great campaigner came,
Slowly from his canvas palace.
"Let no hand the bird molest,"
Snid he, solemnly, "nor hurt her!"
Adding then, by way of jest,
t,Goleudrinof is my guest
'Tia the wife of some deserter."
Swift a8 bow-string speeds a shaft,
Through ihe camp was spread the rumor;
And the soldiers, as they quaffed
FJemieh beer, at dinner, laughed
At the Emperor's pleasunt humor.
So, unharmed and unafiaid,
There the swallow sat and brooded,
Till the constant canonadc
Through the walls a breach had made,
And the siege was thus concluded.
Then the army, elwhere bent,
Struck its tents, as if disbanding;
Only not the Emperor's tent
For he ordered ere he went,
Very curtly " Leave it standing!'
And it btood there all alone.
Loosely flapping, torn and tatleicd,
Till the brood was fledged and flown,
Singing o'er those walls of stone
That the cannon-Bhot had shattered.
Macho, the Spanish for mule.
Golendrinot in Spanish means a cwollow
and s deserter.
Xite'Xcr1'11 l"uu' Strange Fashion of Building, etc.7 etc. I e? a "e P a P'W0" suelves
IE? Advertisements not exceedinj; one square (ten , oi rock, ana under these shelves were nu-
111 be 11sc,rted lhrec wcs or one dollar, and On the 17th of October last, a party of . merous houses or fortificitionq Thp one
twenty-five cents for ercrv subsequent insertion. The t i r j t j- i j j "il'luua ""uses or ioruucauons. xue one
caarge for one and three insertions the same, a iiter- twelve Mormons and one Indian, headed ' 0 examined was divided into twenty
SSlSSSSrUN. W' D' Huntington, left Manti, one of f0Ur rooms, each nearly square, and en-
?alJ- e most southern settlements in Utah closing an area of about one hundred and
. Territory, by request of Gov. Foung, to ' forty-four square feet. The front wall
oi v & n.m a m nnvi. explore the southern part of the Territory, ' was built ud to the overhanging cliff which
Hating a general assortment of large, elegant, plain .pri-i f j t J i P ovtrnanging Cllir.wuicn
audbrnamemat Type, we arc prepared ot which nothing is known, and if possi- formed the roof, and was curved and full
"d?SU : ?e ?P-en a trade With the Navaje9 who ' of port-holes. The stones were all squared
. .i tt'jyUtf (i&a dwell in that quarter, for sheep,xgoats and and faced, -were of an equal thickness, and
;uKs?e horsf t which ifc i3 known tbcJ have , laid up with joints broken in a workman-
The Snow.
The snow ! the snow ! how beautiful
It falls on hill and plain,
And weaves a shroud for summer bonre
That will not come again.
Each liny flake that parts the air
With measured sweep and slow,
Reveals, amid its beauty rare,
A gem no king can show.
The snow ! the snow! how beautful
The fields are heaped with white
Where cret the summer breezes swept,
"When trees with leaves were bright;
But now with naked branches tossed,
They rear thy giant forms,
And breast with stern and fearless hearts
The winter's blasts and storms.
The snow! the enow! how bright and fair
It gems tho valley wide,
Ac ewceping on before the wind,
Like ocean's restless tide.
It twines amid the withered leaves
That ma'rk the autumn sere,
And weaves a ead and faded wreath
To bind the dying year.
The enow! the bnow! how light it falls,
Ab erst in other hours,
Ere ehildhood'e hopes had passed away,
Or withered youth's gay flowers.
Each crystal flake seems some pa6t joy
That cheered the morning beam,
Then faded ere the light of noon
Fell on the, gliding stream.
-The snow! the snow! how beautiful
, 'Ifalls on hill and plain,
And weaves a shroud for summer hours
That will not como again.
Stern winter-binds tho sunny streams
That rippled eweet .and low,
And covers earth withfleecy robo
And. pure and spotless eno
RUINS OF ANCIENT CITIES IN AMERICA.
. Extraordinary Discovery in the Country
. oi me .wavaioes.- ATiornfir ffirra
auuuuaiiuc.
j uu,v-j uwiuw, vwusiuvmuiG on.ui,
in manufactures, and make all their .
. blankets, leather, bridle-bits, &c many 1
of which are executed with most curious ual sizo of all the doors, both in the out
j workmanship. They also work iron, gold er and partition walls, with the exception
auu 5ver iuio u uiutuiuae oi xorms, anu
articles for the warrior, husbandman and
tradesman. The party returned to the
Mo rmon settlements on the 21st of De-
cember last, having on their trip m'ade
i j; - mt
homu most reuiarKaum ucoveries. j.ney
surpassing it in extent, lrom ilr. Hunt- ,
inston's account, furnished the Desert
iews, we tuiie ine ionowing nigniy inter
esting particulars :
On the 17th, we left Manti with our
VT 11 1 t 1 . I
mil outut 01 men auu animais, ana witn .
uiu aSu-. .1 v m;ui i-it uiuiu giouuiy
and doubtful, or undertook what appear- '
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iiiiiiiii uirii'rijii.r-iiintiriiTir.iT'Trr.iiiirini . I i .1 .1 . . . 1 11 1 .i . 1 1 n
the rocks, very similar to the far-famed ! into the third, and so on. from left room ' effort, bv inheritance from Darents of pulses, mentals
. ... , vim vuuv m aecona. ana mere tnrnnorh nnnt hir in n wnmh cnniM annntnnonn.m v. witnonc anv.iowKuei, nuu
mra in the h-astern Dcsseret, and even to richt and from riirht to left, all through I broad and finished ndncation. What nriv-i teacher. He
ed to us a more hazardous work, during J and rummaging about, we found an out- ' The privation most to be lamented is1 the many evils which teachers commonly observe, even iu some of the most prcten
an experience of twenty years in this let to the cave. For three or four miles ' not only the want of formal instruction in'seek.to prevent, such as the following are t;ons eCu0ols of Ediubur", to rush out
church. A wild, mountainous and drea- to this canon buildings were everywhere ! early life, but also that of intelligent daily 'prominent. Absence and tardiness, idle- flQ manv ;a an.tnalC- Cham.
ry desert, hitherto almost entirely un- j
known, lay before us, and what was still
more formidable, Indian Walker and his
allies had decreed that we never should
pass, and with twenty Spaniards had post
ed themselves on our route, and their
rallying smoke was in full view. Still
we unanimously resolved to go ahead, and
our enemies fled before we reached their
position, the Spaniards their way and
Walker his, leaving our path perfectly o-
pen-
We followed Gunnison's trail to within
25 miles of Grand River, which, accord
ing to our calculation, ia 350 miles from
Great Salt Lake City. This road, so
far, was a tolerably good one, but the
country has little or no wood, grass or
water. I here is a beautiful valley on
i t,. ? 13 b"uVfal ValieJ 00 i and size; and in places where the soil was nofc imP3rt aDy of hls knowledge or vir
nd River twenty miles long, and from , sufficient th wre overgrown with 6a(ye tue. ' One cannot get cither by absorp--to
ten miles wide. It has good son i , n , fn nrforrr ... ... tion. There are many who revolve thro'
Gran
a
, . . f. , ,
and grazing range, is very well timbered
grazing range, is very
uuu Huiuicu, uuu is auuui uiiy uiiics iiuuj
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3 .t...,i 1 en :i r 1
watered, and l
the Elk Mountain. From here we trav-
eled 110 miles to St. John's River, over
t .
a very rougn and mountainous region
difficult to pass over even with pack ani
inals, being covered with dense forests of . buil(li to this we could nofc find an en. very petty and contemptible ambition to
cedar. It is forty miles from St. John s , trance &and unlike all the rest it had no know just enough of such men, as to ena
River to the nearest Navajo town. j , ' , Q 1 , ble one to boast of their acquaintance.
Reception by the Navajoes Cannibalism.
The Navaioes met us with very hostile 1
a.
feelings, as they arc at war with
arrived !
bite man
-r, ., '
whites, and three days before we
had killed, boiled and eaten a white
bo great was their exasperation. By the
pcrsuation of two friendly Indians with
-j. j ii i:
"Td to fnZZZZhuZtsZ-
tenca to an explanation oi our Dusmess.
W wpro finillv pn.ililpd to form a trpafcv
We were nnally enabled to torm a treaty
aud did some trading with them, while
thev were doin. ome tall stealing from
tbe were doing .ome tall stealing irom
us. They were highly excited, but the
chiefs were more cool, appeared quite
friendly, and wished us to come a'gain
and trade
Trade is the best letter o introduction
iraueisine oesi icuer o. lniroaucuon
a white man can take among Indians.
Their creat Gantain wished us not to rro
3 . f ... . O
Eouasb. pincnuts. with sheen and coat
meat of tho finest quality, to fit us out for
our journey home.
First Discovery of Hulas.
On the north side of the St. John's Riv
er. and about five hundred miles south
ea-st from Great Salt Lake City, we trav
eled over a section of country mostly a
mong the mountains, and about forty
niileB in length, up and down the river, by
twenty-five miles in width, covered
with the ruins of former towns and villa
ges. The walls of many buildings aro
btill standing entire, some of them three
or four stories high, with the ends of the
red cedar joists yet in the wall, some pro
jecting eight or ten inches, but worn to a
point at their extremities.
Every building was a fortification built
in the strongest manner imaginable, and
in a style that tho present age knew noth
ing of; many of them mill plainly show
the whole manner of ftructure, and even
the marks of the workmen's tools. The
first ruins we discovered were three stone
buildings, crumbled to mere heaps. One
annaared to havo been a pottery, for in
! and around it were loads of fragments of
crockery, of fine quality, ornamented with
a. great variety of figures, painted with
various colors as bright a3 if put on but
.yesterday.
fhV?T',e4iyt
on tho mapsas ban Juan river. It takes its me in the
.mountains on the west sid& of the Rio dande, nearly
jhuuiiuuiu. on me wesi sia oi ine Uio Uiiinae, ncariy
oppositoTaos, and running almost due west. empUes
jtito Grand nveriust above the ooint where Grand and
Green rivers imjteto form the Colorado The San
Juan passes through a country winch has been rarely
trodden by the vhjtc man, and of which noUiiug is
known, its junction with Grand mor it in about tho
IMinxdo of MonterSy.
among their towns and villages, as tbcro msiae wnu a mna oi ccraeni, wun wnicn
were some that could not be controlled, , the stones are laid and the rooms plaster
and he did not want to fight us. He said ! ed an( is.as hard as stone.
we had come a very great way, and he' The inside arrangement of all the houses
wished us well, and sent to his town and ! was mucu alike a11 baving port-holes in
brought out an abundance of corn, meal, , the partition walls, and very small and
flour, bread, beans, dried Dumnkin. dried obscure passage-ways from one room to
A Fortified City.
From hero we traveled ten miles, with
7 occassional ruins by the way. and enter-
.1 j , ,
i jjq manner.
xneomy entrance we could nnd was
a hole about two feet square and eighteen
inches from the around, whinh is the ns.
0t some subterranean entrances, which
were yet smaller, and difficult to find.
Through the perfection of the rocky roof
there was very little rubbish in the rooms,
From the first room we passed through a
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small hole in the right hand corner to the
the twentv-four rooms: find vrv ronll
-
Ffty yards above this was a lanre cave
with a narrow winding entrance, guard-
ed by a high wall; near the mouth of this
entrance is an opening in the rock, lead-
ang 0tt into the mountain, which we did
not explore, and after a little looking and
ti
in view, of various forms and dimensions,
and in almost every stage of decay.
From hero to St. John's river, a dis-:
tance of ten miles, there wcro scattering
rums; ana irom there, in twelve miles
northeast, we came to head of a canon,
whose sides or banks, even to the very
head, were perpendicular and shelvincr.
and near the banks there was no soil on
the rocks. Right on the brink of this
precipice, and under shelves of rock be-
neath, were the best building sites for
those beings who built and dwelt here
ages ago.
Another Stronghold.
All nrnnnrf the lori nftM. oonn
rWn nn mfhor ca no oc rr-a Lu
see, were houses of every conoeivable form
WJ UUU1U
and cedars, in every respect like that on
. 1 . Jy v lt e
In the centre of
1 rnn m nnnrnino ntrt?irrf
u,uuuuuu'' aiuuuu.
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this nnnon nnn TlA.ir rhp honrl whq n hm H
( ) " " """"
mg
sixteen or twenty feet square,
four
ctnrino li 1 rr Ji finrl Ktillf- nrirtn n flnf rtl- f
' hnah Four fppf hinrhor t.Mfin t.ha loirol nf tVin
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canon, and but little broader than the
One large building, which we entered,
ind on th Ptv of thfi nrncMnicw wifh
Bod on the edge of the precipice, with
it front, wall oirmilHr nnd flush with th
bank, which formed the back part, making
the ground plan of the building like a
rrhnrn :v e?
, half-moon. There were no windows in
the lower story of any building, and eve-
rr ontrnncp. wns mafia nq fHflRnnlt. txriA
' b 5dd.n pos Sh. Th7d . rb5,
, v , i
mio tue one last menuoneu was guarueu
different angles-
y two or tnree wal,s 01 oinerent angles,
thus making a crooked, narrow passage
b , i b
cth
sage was in iun viow irom tne port-noies
of the building, the front wall being full
! of them, like pigeon-holes, pointing in ev-
cry possible direction; they were not more
A!JttiV, nn fi, nnt
than two inches in diameter on the out-
side, and were r. astered smooth on tho
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another, and from one or two houses, into
, the mountain.
Some on the cliffs abovo
were connected with those below.
Wo noticed there was no water about
there, and inquired of the Indians how
the former inhabitants could have man-
ncffifl? Thev told us that thev had heard
w. . 1nnr tlmo A thnrn wn wntor run.
Ml V""(J - O - " "
nin there. We asked them who built
those houses? They smilingly shook their
heads and said that they had never heard,
but that surely somebody must have built
them a very long time back.
A Good Example.
It is very well for men to be rich when
they possess large hearts. Gen. Robert
Halsey, of Ithaca, New York, has recent
ly been doing a very handsome thing.
He requests the tax-gatherer. of the town
in which he resides, to pass over all cases
where taxes have been levied upon indi
viduals who cannot pay them without de
priving themselves, or their dependent
families, of the necessaries of life, or
means of comfortablo subsistence, and
present the same to him for payment.
Sunday in New Orleans. Tho follow
ing is from a late number of the New Or
leans (La.) Crescent : " Mr. Samuel
Reed's black slut, Gipsy, 'chawed up'
the most rats m the least time yesterday
Varieties Exchange, on Gravier
i " " . ....
j street. She Killed her hrst ten in tllirty
: sireeii. outs liiueu uei uiot icu iu iun
1 , i i . . fnrt nannnd
Seconds: uer last ten 1Q lorty seCOOO
s
and went homo hungry. We learn tuat
Bhe is having her hair curlod, and may
be eeon at Half Way-House, to-day."
Acquintance with the Eminent.
Some men are acquainted with a good
many books; others with a good many
wealthy people. But intercourse with
ii i i . ... . .
me latter aocs not make tuem ricli, and
familiarity with the former does not make
.1 , - .1
them scholars. Extensive and promiscu -
ous intercourse with mankind has few ad
vantages for the man of thought. Ac
cess is not thus to be obtained to what is
most valuable in others. Better for the
stuaious, tnmKing man. to be much alone,
.! m
cultivating acquaintance witu tne msiaes
of good books and himself, than with the
outsides of other people, however emi
nent. No men, although called great, are so:
full of pearls of thought, as to run over
in the presence of ordinary company.
To be admitted into familiar intercourse
with those who are largely accomplished
in knoweldge of the world and books and
things, is indeed an inestimable privilege
Iransraitted property is nothing in com
parison with intellect and information,
ilege equals that of possessing a private
key in early youth to the memory of one
eminent for talent, scholarship or profes
i sional learning? Equally, if not more to
i be prized, is the privilege to be admitted
to tho chamber of the good man ere ho
meets ins late, as well as where lie meets
it.
and hourly conversation with friends of!ness, whispering, all disorderly move-
solid and deep information on some sub-
jects. There is a vast deal which can
never be obtained from books, and yet it
is necessary to progress. When this
attained with felicity, by the way as it
were, advancement is rapid and easy.
When not thus acquired, these things so
necessary to be known, become serious
obstacles in tho path of the solitary stu-
dent3, which a few seasonable hints from
a learned friend would have immediately
removed, if he could have come by such.
1 An acquaintance like that with the great
; and learned, is of inappreciable value, of
which one has a right to be proud. Rut
the sight of & philosopher or sage, or e
w a & u'
ven a sequent position oy ms siae, will
on out3ide of intellectual society,
but never have access to its esoteric priv
ileges. They know no more of men of
note, than travelers who visit foreign coun
tries and never see parlors, do of its pri-
vata mansions and domestic lite, it is a
quaintance.
Generally speaking, the best knowledge
of a distinguished orator, for example,
may &t from studying his speeches; of
a Pet by reading his poems; of an auth-
or b? ,mil.ian Wlth hls woks and so,
on. This is the greatest advantage of
greatest advantagi
which they can be to us, unless their
friendship and intimacy may be granted;
f" F benefitto all. This
rrreat nreroirat ve s reserved, however, to
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a few and commonly to those who are a-
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b e to VJ it by a fair exchange of
iftg Tq consorfc wltb pnnces one must
a prince; to have intercourse with a
r
. fXe in vo ,r Socket T to Z
j hav? chanSe m ? ,r Pckets to balance
! aSaD8t yur fiods5 .""J t0 hc. admitted
to the conversation of talent and learning,
i MOfK
1 um- "JUi"' UUfcU aviU ,wr"'1'
degree.
Romance in Real Life.
Some years ago a very beautiful young
lady was the ward of a person in Louis
iana, who defrauded her out of quite a
large fortune. The lady came to this city,
where she married, but not living on good
terms with her husband, finally obtained
a divorce from him and retired to a con
vent. Whilst she was there, she received
a letter from the son of her former guar
dian, informing her of his father's death,
and that himself had heired all his vast
property, but that he could not consent
. - '
to retain that which had been treacher
ously taken from another, and offered to
make restitution. The lady immediately
proceeded to Louisiana, had an interview' py and healthful state of discipline, or to 'outside the gate, and the best disposition
with the heir, and received back, both! keep them there, without the most vigi-'ej children in the world get anry and
principle and interest, all that she had lant attention to those innumerable little and the Slnartes scholar Jj,, niisa
been wronged out of. Tho strangest part acts and ways which bi-tray the disposi-i . , . . ,
of the story remains behind. No sooner tion and tendencies. If a boy walks ora less. ad tho wittiest say something
had she got possession of her fortune sits in your room in a swaggering or care-! stupid, and the wisest essayist write some
than she returned to this city, sought out j less manner, he is sure to be equally care-1 non?cnse, and stars will fall, will fall,
her former husband, and in a few days1 loss in his conduct in more material re-1 an(j ,u00n suffer eclipse and mea
was re-married to him. Verily, the lovejspeets. And if by any amount of patient! , ...u iipnvpn
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The parties aro now living in St. Louis,
and it is to be hoped will agree better
than formerly. St. Louis Intelligencer.
There are 2,526 newspapers in the
United States, and they circulate annual-
ly about 500,000,000, of copies. bu5 ot
tuem are reported as Whigs; 742 Dem-
ocratic; literary and miscellaneous, 508;
Roligous, 191; Scientific, 53. ID 1810,
wo had 359 newspapers; in Ib28, b02; iu
1840. 1.631. The proportion to every
100,000 persons in 1810 was 6.1; in 1850,
s 6.1 ; in 1850,
aie annually
ier press; and
;ar be estiraa-
12.9. About S15,000,000
expended upon the newspaper
11 IUO HUU1U 1S5UU 1U1 UUU yuui comua-
ted, it
would cover a surface of 100
square miles
or torm a belt, thirtv feet
wido; around the earth.
EbumtimtaI.
JJOT The following article suits us ex
actly. The 'Connecticut School Journal1
i . .
, i3 not on our list of exchanges, but if this
is a fair specimen of its articles we would
I
'like to have it.
From the Conn. Common SchoolJournal.
School Discipline.
It is not right to regard any sort of
discipline as a convenient, or even a ne-
. - I. A 3 a . 1 i
jcessary uejp to eaucauon. itisuseirtne
great educational process. A well dis-
ciplined mind is a well educated mind,
1. It t. 1. 1. 1 .1 i;..i .
nudum ii- uaa uuuuu uuoviiuugu or iittte;
and tho mind that is not disciplined is not
educated, though it ia familiar with the
wuole route trom A to Astronomy
. he tr.u,e. busiiness, then, of the teacher
is that of discipline. The wild colt of the
prairies is unfit for gentle uses, but he
! may be brought to drag the plough or to
De driven by a child. lie needs to bo
tamed, but receives no new powers. The
child that is to be the futuro citizen, or.
nd moral, comes to the
comes to be disciplined.
The popular idea of school discipline !
has reference to the wholo apparatus of
requisitions and probibitions, restraints
1 . 1. 1-1 J-" Jx
I and stimulants, which are designed to reg-
ulate the pupil's habits of study and de-'
portmeut. .Let us consider lor tne pres-
,euc wis appj
ication of the subject, guided
by the proceeding observations. Among
ments in the school-room, injury to any,
j school property by making, cutting, de-
j filing, &c., rudeness of speech or act in '
istuuoi j me course, or in pasiug wanu
from school, profanity, every form of m-
i . .. j , - ,
AmoDg the objects to be secured, some ; ,
iot which are implied by their opposite.
named, are regularity of attendance,
promptness in every auty, unquestioning
fobeuience, trutuiuiness anu conscientious-
nesj earnestness, diligence, thorough prep-
aration of lessons, neatness in dress and
acnooi-room nabits, tne "golden rule" as,.
tuc rule or intercourse witn companions
and teachers, &c. These lists of school
f . 1 . 1 1 1
. Buiaiguu,
watchfully cared for by evpry teacher in
i - . J e j- i- i i. -
his system of discipline. And tnis, be it
remembered, not so much to promote tho j
business of the school-room, as because of
the certain shaping those daily school- j
room habits, whether good or bad are to
nave or maiviauai cnaracter ana aestiny
for this world and the next.
A system of discipline ought to accom
plisfi completely the object it aims at. It
should have no rules that havo not been ed to. I never err this way myselfbut
well considered beforehand. It febould jmy conviction always laments it; and for
then admit of no exceptions! but for the! ycar3 aftr j Devef offended in thia
most indispensable reasons. Letdowns J , , ,
the bars to-day,and scholars will leap the I wa? 1 never needed three-quarters of
fences to-morrow, and snap their fingers, an hour at most. I saw one excellency
at all barriers the day after. The system i was within my reach; it was brevity, and
i..l. .lrt-li .!
wnne it lasts must be innexiDie, earnest,
strong, thorough. It is much easier to
govern pertectiy man partially, to say
uothincr of the clear pain in temrjer and
f . i ,i .
comfort. Whatever is worth doing at:taat will not De so iorever; no man to-be
all, is worth doing thoroughly. If an evil happy, but he that needs no other happi
ought to be prevented, let the teacher de-'ness than what is within himself; no man
liberate and then prevent it. tic can do
it if he will. He must be patient, but
determined. If any positive advance
ment is to be made, the matter should
be well considered, then let the teacher
will and act like a Napoleon. A zcod scficol
discipline is characterized by energy
cfficicncy,
Government should bo equable and u
niform, not fitful and capricous. Schol
ars should know upon what they may
rely. They will acquiesce more cheer
fully in a rule if it is constant, than it is
ouly executed occasionally. Habits of j blast, and tho prettiest face some ugly
obedience makes obedience easier to icn- feature The faIrcst faec ;s luost subject
der and secure. It is moreover unjust! t e , . , i? , 7 .
. r i r . ' to freckles? aud the handsomest girl is
to pupils to enforce a regulation with, l'ai t
strictness atone time, which laxity atan-'apt to be proud; the most sentimental
other has led them to believe may safely i lady loves cold pork, and the gayest moth
be disregarded. Any scheme of discip-j cr lets her children go ragged. The
lino, to be successful, must be sure to kndest vifc sometimes overlook an:
embrace details,, the "little things1 of; . . ,
i irr t i : ai!;uia n . absent shirt button, and the husband for-
ppIiooI lift It is ntterlv lmnossible tOi '
bring a community of children into a hap-
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l. , i 1 I J7 1
and habit of doing every little thing inthe
very best way you may be unconcerned
about his great lines of conduct. The
boy is safe. If a young miss is pert or
rude in speech or manners, there is a
counterpart within; and if you regard with
indifference these slight but true glimpses
of the soul within, there may be much to,
regret at a future day. Tones of voice,
carelessness in pronunciation and phrase j
ology, coarseness ana uncomuucab oi
language, uutidineas of dress, gait, atti-
tude, &c, havo thesouud of "little things.
tude, &c, havo the souud oi "little tilings.
But they are each signs and symptoms,
and with certain index point out the path
into tho future. More than this. If a
iuiu iuu
pupil commits a- inning Drcaeti 01 ucco -
rum, ho thereby strengthens the impulse
(that prompted it, and crates a probability
of greater misdoing. Let the teacher
strictly take care of all the "little things"
in his establishment, and the greater ones
will take care of themselves. This i.9 bo
cause the former begat the latter. It has
always been so. The oak comes from tho
1 acorn, the ocean from the little streams
.l.i. 11 e i it . 1 n . t
that trickle from out the rocks of tho
' mniinf nin fViIn Iiaovv Tinll nf snrrnw nnil
death that overspreads our world from
I that "little act" in the garden. "Little
things" are important things. There is
a divinitv in them. We have at times
' . ...
been bo strongly "exercised" concerning
tho
importance ot ctvins
more earnest
heed to this subject, that we much fear
1 i ii i .11- i -
we suan nave to deliver ourselves or an
article upon it. So enough for the prea-
ent.
c.
Schooh In America. I can positively
affirm from personai observation, that in'
nn:nf, nf 1 nlirtA the Amnrionn.
Schools greatly excel any I have ever seen'
in Great Britan. In Canada and in tho
gtates every eaital.le provision is made
ftiPv, WCA o ncnnl.
spi10o1h of Scotland. T was much nleased
witi. t nrPf,ntTfinirtfa filfi Amnrinan
Sp;,onlc nrPnt diaordnr or imnronor
interference one with another amonc the
pupiis. All are at small desks not more
.
tijan
teac
two to gether in rows; so that the
teacher can conveniently reach every seat
jn tjj0 school. It is customary likewise.'
to eause aij t,e nuni;8 to enter slowlv and
decorously, instead of being sufferd, as I
;jers
.
rfF Ai0untair.s are considerable up'
anddoWS in Vermont It is related that
.. i .3 :..: i,j ze
. t f , ' . , ,iCi
i he answered, "chain lighting couldn't go
down it without breechin' on!"
Long Preaching;.
There is nothing against which a youri'ir!
preacher should be more guarded than
.Noth;nfT aaVii Lament, "carr
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u uc , eww.
one, it need not be long; and if it be a bad
one, it must not oe Jong. miner, m ia&
pniimp.rntjnTi nf ninn nnnlitma or a (road
, . . 4, urr, . ,
preacher, gives as 3 sixth, "lhat he
' 6 1
should kE0W when to stoP-" Boyle ha9
an essay on patience under long preach-
jag. This was never more wanted sinca
the Commonwealth than now in our own
day, especially among our divines and a
cademicians, who seem to think their per
formances can never be too much attend-
r determined to attain it.
4"Wisdom allows nothing to be goody
to be great or powerful, that is not mas
ter of himself. Seneca.
Professor Mapes thinks dogs" can
reason. We doubt it. If they could.
tf;thcy woujd not make sucl
asses of them-
selves as to go a mile in 2,40 just because
a tin cullender is fastened to their tail.
JJj3 The loveliest valley has a muddy
swamp, the noblest mountain a piercing.
, , t. . .. ,
6 to kiss ms wne every time ne steps-
WUU t W UUUWliJ, uuj .
Relief Notes in Circulation,
-From the Auditor General's Report.
we clcan the following facts relative to
tnc 'relief notes,' which still lingers in
circulation, to the pollution of our now
otherwise "clean" currency:
Original amount issued
QfQ jssuea redeemed
re.is3UC3 jn cir.
$2,243,016
2,195,079
culation. 488,uoy
j At tue ciose ot iuo n-w j.
in the sinking fund -8U,bou,
to the further cancellation of n
and during tho month of Uece
At tile close of the fiscal year, there was
fund S280,856, appliable
reliel notes,
mber, that
. - 11 T J J ' 1 L.
iuuiuuui. -vMv -w-..---,
(leaving at, im umv iu u,, uiu.aUV,
3217,203.
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