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VOLUME XVII.
TERMS OF PUBLICATION:
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Votticat.
OUR NOBLE SCOTT.
Ant—" Our Native Song."
Our noble SCOTT, our gallant Score;
Oh, tell me where, in North or South,
Can that great name be o'er forgot,
From Maine to Mississippi's mouth 1
Though other men our praises claim,
As well beloved in hall and cot—
We find no fault, we will not blame,
But yet, ob . yet they're not our SCOTT.
The n arrior brave—the patriot just— ,
The bitter foe to tyrant's plot—
The noble soul wo all can trust,
'Tie him we love—Our Noble SCOTT.
lie knows no South—Ho knows no North—
But loves his country as a whole,
Then let the ringing words go forth,
From sea, to sea, from pole to pole,
Proclaiming loud, how well we know,
With hearts sincere, with visions keen,
The debt of gratitude we owo
To him who our Defender's been.
Then shout it forth—We lovo our land—
We love the man who for it fought;
Truo Whigs, united, hand to hand,
Wo all revere our gallant SCOTT.
Yes, while the lamp holds out to barn,
While menery lasts, while reason's left,
While, like our sires, we tyrants spurn.
And are of freedom not bereft—
Whcno'cr we bear his glorious name,
Who lived but for his country's rause,
Our souls will burn—our spirits yearn—
Time to the land wo love and claim.
The high, the low—in weal or wo—
By whom our Union's not forgot—
Will find their hearts with pleasure glow
At mention of our 1101,1 C SCOTT.
PENNSYLVANIA,
jyanitta etrdc.
Government of Children.
Anticipate and prevent fretfulness and
ill temper, by keeping the children in good
health, ease and comfort. Never quiet by
giving to eat or by bribing in any way, still
less by opiates.
For the first few months avoid loud and
harsh sounds in the hearing of children,or.
violent lights in their sight; address iem
in soft tones; do nothing to frighten them;
and never jerk or roughly handle them.
Avoid angry words and violence both to
a child in its presence; by which means a
naturally violent child may bo trained to
gentleness.
Moderato any propensity of a child; such
as anger, violence, greediness for food, cun
ning, which appears too active. Show him
no example of these.
Let the mother be, and let her select
servants, such as she wishes her child to
be. The youngest child is affected by the
conduct of those in whose arms he lives.
Let a mother feel as she ought, and she
will look as she feels. Much of a child's
earliest moral training is by looks and ges
tures.
When necessary exhibit firmness and au
thority, always with perfect temper, com
posure and self possession.
Never give a child that which it cries
for; and avoid being too ready in answering
children's demands, else they become impa
tient of refusal, and selfish.
When the child is most violent, the
mother should be calm and silent. Out
screaming a screaming child is as useless
as it is mischievous. Steady denial, of the
object screamed for, is the best cure for
screaming.
In such contests, witnesses should with
draw, and leave mother and child alone.—
A child is very apt to look around and at
tract the aid of foreign sympathy for its
little rebellions.
Never promise to give when the child
leaves off crying. Let the crying bo a
reason for not giving.
A Golden tientiment.
The following exquisite MORCEAU is from
Longfellow's now poem,. "The Golden Le-
gond :"
" There arc two angels that attend unseen
Each one of us, and in great books record
Our good stud evil deeds. He who writes down
The good ones, eller every action, closes
. . .
Ilis ;lame and ascends will it to Uud;
The other keeps his dreadful day-book open
Till sunset, that we may repent: which doing,
The record of the action fades away,
And leaves a line or white across the page."
rr - He. who loves his purse alone has
his affections on the best thing about hint.
eommunicationo.
For the Journal
Female Education.
Did our young ladies understand the
great moral position which they occupy in
society—did they fully realize the influence
which they exert over others—they would
be inspired with a laudable zeal to qualify
themselves for their high destination.—
True, they are not called upon to wrangle
in debate, nor contend upon the political
arena—to plead at the bar, or minister at
the altar; their influence is noiseless and
unseen, yet as potent and all-pervading as
the sun-light. They wield a moral power
that must tell on the nation's destinies and
the nation's hopes. From the quietudes
of home, they send forth a secret influence
that is felt in our halls of legislation, in
our courts of justice, and, indeed, in every
department of human pursuit.
But this influence cannot be exerted for
good, by an ignorant, an unlettered fe
male. Her influence, if not pernicious,
must at least be limited—her light the dim
obscurity of fading twilight. And is there
not reason to fear that female education in
our country has been sadly neglected or
perverted 1 Young' ladies may be taught
to sing, and play, and paint and speak It
alian; but they are not taught to think.—
They are trained more to figure in the
drawing-room than to instruct and charm
by intelligent conversation. They are
treated more like THINGS to be looked at
and admired than like moral agents prepa
ring to take part in the high responsibili
.
ties oflife. -
Females have been and still are, too em
phatically regarded as the , ‘weaker ves
sel," and hence their nobler powers of
thought have not been called into active
and vigorous exercise. True, we have
seen a Hannah Moore or Mrs. LI emans rise
above the mist and prejudice of ages, and
shine forth as stars of the first magnitude
in the intellectual firmament. They have
taught us what woman can do, and shown
us, if we need evidence, that in all that
constitutes moral greatness,
she is not in
ferior to the sterner sex. Young ladies,
look to these, and others like them. Make
them an example. Set your standard high.
Aim at excellence, and excellence will be
attained. You may not, indeed, hope all
to rise to such enviable positions in socie
ty; you may not all expect to become au
thoresses, and embalm your names in the
grateful remembrance of posterity; but you
may all occupy positions of usefulness, and
your influence in your own circle, be like
the dew of heaven, silent and unseen, yet
vivifying and refreshing. A virtuous and
well educated woman is more to be prized
than rubies—she is a charm, "a blessing
_ _
and a vision of gladness to all around her.' -3
She gives a high and noble cast of charac
ter to those with whom she associates.—
She teaches without assumption and with
out authority. She has the power of im
parting knowledge without seeming to in
struct; and possesses an influence next to
the "wisdom that corneal from above," iu
moulding the habits and the life.
But powerful as is woman's influence
elsewhere, at home, in the domestic circle
her example is omnipotent. Tins Is lIER
APPROPRIATE SPHERE. There she site
like the nocturnal queen, shedding a mild
and mellow light around her. Is she a
wife, and has she intelligence mingled with
piety, then doth the heart of her husband
trust her; she will do him good, and not
evil, all the days of his life." Is slit) a
mother, then she is prepared to guide the
youthful mind, and impress upon it the
great principles of truth and duty. Her
children will grow up like olive plants,
around her, to be ornaments to society and
blessings to their race. We need such
mothers—the church needs them—and
when once they shall adorn every fire-side
and altar, we need cherish no fears of our
country's safety.
How important then is female education
—an education that will discipline the
mind to think and the heart to feel? How
infinitely does it surpass the petty outward
accomplishments so eagerly sought and so
highly prized? Beauty alone can never
secure the permanent respect of a discern
ing mind. A woman admired for her beau
ty, either personal or artificial, may charm
and amuse for a time—she way draw crowds
of admirers around her, who like the stu
pid butterfly, prefer gaudy-colored Illowers
without fragrance to plainer ones that yield
delicious odors. But beauty is frail and
fleeting—a reed which is demolished by
the slightest breeze; while an educated
mind is like the towering oak which defies
the tempests of years: Beauty, riches,
friends—all earthly good may forsake us,
but an educated mind will live when all
things else have perished.
Let we then urge our young females to
think less of pleasing by what is called
beauty of person or dross, and seek more
to adorn the mind—the inner temple with
attractions that will never decay. "Favor
is deceitful and beauty is vain; but a wo
man that feareth the Lord—she shall have
praise." B. A. M.
HUNTINGDON, Ilk, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1852.
MR. EDITOR :-
May I presume, through
the medium of your columns, to call the
attention of Directors, Teachers and oth
ers interested in the cause of education, to
the importance of a thorough acquaintance
with the elementary sounds of the English
language ? It is evident to any one who
has given the subject proper attention, that
the pupil should be taught to articulate
the elementary sounds of a language, be
fore he is able to utter the words composed
by them, with distinctness. But in the
usual mode of giving instruction, the sim
ple sounds of the language are seldom re
cognized, or heard in our primary schools
—except in the pronunciation of words.—
There are thirty-eight (Efferent sounds in
the English language, represented by only
twenty-six letters; which is a radical de
fect in our alphabet, and the cause of much
perplexity to the learner. It would be
more philosophical to teach the pupil, first,
the elementary sounds, then the enuncia
tion of syllables and words, and afterwards,
the reading of simple, complex and com
pound sentences, yet, strange as it may
appear—in this age of progress—but few
of our teachers or scholars are able to tell
what these sounds are, or who can speak
them singly. To remedy this defect, in
the common schools, let the Directors fur
nish each school with a Sound Chart of the
English language; and have the scholars
well drilled in this important branch of el
ementary education. The uttering of these
sounds explosively, not only proves a heal
thy and pleasing exercise to the scholars,
but, is of great advantagd in curing defec
tive articulation. It would be superfluous,
to attempt, in this brief article, to describe
either the sounds or the manner of teaching
them. The object is simply to call the at-
I tention to this much neglected branch of
education. Teachers and others to whom
this subject may appear new, can get all
necessary information in "Comstock's Sys
tem of Elocution," or "'The Complete
Phonographic Class Book." Phonogra
phy is a new art, based upon the science of
Phonetics, , and in point of beauty and ra
pidity, is vastly superior to any other sys
tem of short hand. It can be written much
more rapidly than the common long hand,
and requires less time and labor in its ac
quisition.* The advantages of Phono
graphy can hardly be over-rated, especial
ly as it relates to the pronunciation of our
language. It means the writing of sounds,
or writing according to sound, and has a
distinct character for each of the thirty
eight sounds; and when these are familiar,
It can be read with equal, if not greater
facility, than common writing. I commend
the art of Phonography to the attention of
young persons of both sexes, as one of the
most desirable accomplishments they can
acquire. B.
Huntingdon, August, 1852.
*Some of the best Phonographers cau
write from one hundred and sixty to two
hundred and twenty words per minute.
VAtorellant ono.
Public Speaking.
Rufus Choate, it is said, never made a
speech of any kind without having first
written it out and committed it to memory.
Ills legal arguments arc subjected to the
same preparation. The same thing is said
to be true of Edward Everett. All his
orations bear marks of the most careful fin
ish, especially in language and the forma
tion of the sentences. Both these gen
tlemen aro gifted with an extraordinary
power of memory. It is said that Mr. Ey
emu will read over a very long address'
twice and then repeat it nearly verbatim.—
Mr. Calhoun prepared all his speeches with
a wonderful degree of labor, and seldoin
said anything in the Senate Chamber which
ho had not first carefully considered uud
shaped in his study. Mr. Webster gener
ally speaks from full notes, in which the
skeleton of the speech is carefully develo
ped, and all statistical statements, quota
tions, &e., set down. He relies upon the
moment for language, but generally it is
written out at full length.
To THE DRUNKARD.--Take in your
hand the cup of delusion, and with your
oyes on the consequences however appall
ing —drink ! The white bubbles that float
on the top of the cup—they are only the
tears of your wife. Drink on ! you have
drained her happiness. Take the gloomy
cup anew ! The drops look red—they are
only the blood of your starving children.
Drink then—drink on. Take the horrible
sup again. Be not dismayed; you sec on
ly the grey hairs of your parents floating
on the Mrface--you have drained their ex
istence. Drink then, and drink on. But
you must take the cup; for, alas! it is no
longer the cup of choice, but the cup of
habit: no longer the cup of enjoyment, but
the cup of punishment; uo longer the cup
of delirium, but the cup of necessity. Its
pleasures aro gone while nothing remains
• but its bitterness.
For the Journal,
No one can look over his neighbor
hood, town or villiage, without being as
tonished at the large number of young
men and boys who are suffered to grow up
without a trade; and if the inquiry is made
of their parents, whether they do.not be
lieve it is best for all boys to learn a trade,
the answer is in the affirmative. Men who
live at random—who suffer tkemselves to
exist 'without having any fixed aim or ob
ject in view—generally make.a miserable
'botch' for life. Hence the importance of
setting out in early life with a determina
tion of being something. Every ono at
the age of 16 or 17 should select some vo
cation with a determination of pursuing it,
and yet we sometune9 ebserve families of
half a dozen, growing up to the ago of ma
turity, trusting altogether to chance, for
employment. While some are so fortu- ,
nate, many others, from . idleness, want of
fixedness and determination, become poor
wrecks; . and are kicked about through the
world apniere tools, of little value to any
body. The proportion of successful men
in the world, are as 10 to one in favor of
lose who set out in early life to learn a
ride, profession or calling with a deter-
urination to follow it as a source of living
—or at least until mature judgement and
are may safely dictate a change, over
those who spend their minority in chang
ing about from one business to another.—
Even the boy who desires to be a farmer
should make up his mind early in life to
that effect, and at once set about acquiring
habits of industry, economy, perseverance
and a knowledge of agricultural ' science,
that he may pursue it with pleasure and
profit. Few persons, who thus start out
in early life, snake a failure of their exis
tence, but will thrive, become intelligent
and attain comfortable circumstances, be
fore the frost of age begins to settle upon
their heads. Are these remarks,
in the
general sense, found to be true! Let the
reader, who has attained the age of 25 to
30 years, answer. That answer will be an
emphatic rEs! Then why are so many
bends of families failing to fix in the minds
of their children the fixedness of purpose
so necessary to suceess7 It is this grand
fatal error of neglect to train boys for some
particular occupation which has a mighty
influence in peopling this world with vaga
bonds and 'botches' in mind, in character,
and in mechanical skill, It is truly la ,
mutable that such a vast number of per
sons are growing up like a herd of cattle,
to be driven through the world pretty
much in the same manner. Why have we
such a multitude of poor mechanics!—
I Manifestly, in a great measure, because
they have never served their time, and
paid that attention to their business which
they might and ought to have done. They
neglected to enlighten their minds and
purify their morals in a manner calculated
to facility and improve the labor of their
hands. Why have we such a host of in
efficient school teachers! Because they
have never qualified themselves for the vol
cation!
Why are so many thousands snaking a
bare hard living by pedling along and tra
ding off their commodities by various small
operations? Why so many wandering
about without knowing to what to turn
their hands? Why so many who must re
sort to keeping oyster shops, groceries,
etc., in order to wake a living? Because
they have never qualified themselves for
snore useful employments! Some thoughts
like these might claim the attention of a
mass of parents with profit.- —P oislowit
Ledger.
fl 'An Irishman called on a lady and
gentleman, in whose employ he was,for the
purpose oigetting some tea and tobacco.
"I had a drama last night, yor honor,"
said be to the gentleman.
"What was it, Pat i"
"Why, I drained that per honor made
me a present of a plug of tobaccy, and her
ladyship there—heaven bless her !—gave
me some tay for the good wife."
"Ab, Pat, dreams go by contraries, you
know."
"Faith, and they may be that," said
Pat, without the least hesitation, "so her
ladyship is to give tho tobaocy, and his
honor tho tay !"
frPThe Now York Dutchman says:-
To better the condition of the world there
should be moro charity and less alms-giv
ing—more kindness and loss broken vie
' uals. A good natured word is worth more
to some mon than all the riches of Califor
nia. People who send folks away with a
shilling and a slammed door, will please
notice."
(0 — A um out west, who had become
tirrd of single blessedness, thus wrote to
her intended :
Dear Jim :—Cum rite off if you'r own
lug at all, as Silo Holmes is insistin that 1
shall have him, and he hugs and kisses me
so continually that I kan't hold out much
longer. I must have a feller before nexi
winter, and I kan't stand it any longer
Your flame. Jtl.lA ANN.
Learn a Trade.
OltArn4l7 4
Qualifications of Voters.
The laws of most and I believe all the
States require that a person shall own a
certain amount of property or pay some cer
tain tax to give him the elective franchise.
Would it not be wise to make some alter
ation in this 1 The strength of this Gov
ernment is confessedly in the intelligence
and good understanding of the people. In
their knowledge of their rights and privil
eges, of their duty as citizens and of the
true principles of self government. Woulil
it not be well to pay more attention to our
publio schools and make the elective fran
chise dependent on - the ability of the voter
to read and writei•and the taking of some
good weekly paper for about six months in
the year ? Thus you would raise the
standard of intelligence; you would increase
the interest of society, you would benefit
the rising generation; and if any thing on
earth can do it, I believe you would con
tribute to render more permanent and even
as enduring as the hills, the Institutions of
our land. Visit the Printing Offices and
Post Offices of our country, and
.1 believe
yrai will find, notwithstanding the cheap
ness of papers and the freedom of their
transmission, not one half of the voters in
our country take a paper; nor do I believe
more than one half read a paper from one
six months' end to another. llow can such
men know much of the transactions of the
day. How can they possibly know all that
is going on; and not knowing all, how can
they possibly understand what is best and
what is not, what would be for the interest
or what the injury of the country. No
subject can be properly decided and judged
of, that is not well understood, and can
such understand the contested and disputed
subjects of the day I Many do not under
, stand them thoroughly, who devote much
of their time to reading and study, and as
well might the man who takes no 'paper,
who of course reads no paper, tell me that
he has analyzed the sun, that he can tell
me all its component parts with the princi
ples and properties of light, as that he un
derstands the controverted subjects of our
legislatures, and if he does not understand
thoroughly the principles of the man he
votes for" as well as the subjects which
would be for the interest of country,
ho is liable to become the tool of any de
signing political demagogue,• and far mote
likely to give his vote for the injury than
the benefit of his country. Then I say
make it obligatory, as well us it is already
the duty and interest of every man to ren
der himself intelligent and well informed;
and depend upon it the country would soon
experience the salutary influence it would
exert.
IVonTit TELLING AGAIN.—Whon Nich
olas Biddle. familiarly called Nick Biddle
—was connected with the U. S. Bank,
there was an old negro named Harry, who
used to be loafing around the premises.
One day in social mood, Biddle said to the
darkey—
"Well, what is your name my old friend?"
"Harry, sir—ole Harry, sir," said the
other, touching his sleepy hat.
"Old Harry!" said Biddle, why that is
the name that they give to the devil, is it
not I"
“Yes, sir,” said the colored gentleman,
"some time ole Harry and sometime ole
Nick."
Cr," ,, r-e-1-1 or D-i-m-i-k-r-t-s ! We
are on the eve of a lugubriously consoquen.
tial and obsequiously important and spirit
ual champaign, when all free dimmikrats
are expected to meet the brunt of the bat
tle, bare their virtuous buzums to the
scathing fight, and go it for Thompson
Pierce !' (Tremendous shouts of applause.)
7 A dandy f;;;;yer remarked, one
summer day, that the weather was so ex
cessively hot that when ho put his head in
a basin of water, "it fairly boiled:"
"Then, sir," was the reply, " you had calf
head soup at vary little expense.
TIIE FAT OF TILE LAND.—The Albany
Dutchman defines this term, as being girls
whom you have to hug twice to make a
complete circle of their waists. Let those
girls get hold of the c a lumniator and they'll
make him one of the 'lean kind.'
"No wan ealiTlo anything againist
his will," said a metaphysician. "Be ja
bers, I had a brother," said Pat, "that
went to Botney Bay, au' faith I know it
was greatly against his own will."
MODERN HUMANITT.—Jane put theba
by to sleep with Laudnum, and then bring
me my parasol and revolver. lam going
to attend a meeting for the amelioration of
the condition of the human race.
EG A CHEERFUL Paco is as good for an
invalid as healthy weather. To make a
sick man think he is dying, all that is ne
cessary is to look half dead yourself:
(''" It were well if old age were truly se
cond childhood: it is seldom more like it
than the berry is like the rose-bud.
NUMBER 33.
Notable eatumn.
The Little Girl's Good Morning,
DY 31AltY IRVINIL
'Oh ! I Fun so happy!" the little girl said,
As she sprang like tilark from the low trundle bed;
"'Tis morning, bright morning! Good morning,
papa!
Oh, giro mo one kiss fur good morning, mamma!
Only do look at my pretty canary,
Chirping his sweet good morning to Mary
The sunshine is peeping straight into ray , y ...-
Good morning to you, Mr. San, for you riso
Early to wake up my birdie and me,
And make us as happy as happy can be."
"Happy you may he, my dery little girl t 7
And the mother stroked softly it clustering curl— .
"Happy so happy—but think of the Ono
Who wakened, this morning, both you and the
The little one turned her bright eyes with a nod—.
„Mamma, may I say my good morning to God:"
"Yes, little darling one, surely you may—
Kneel as you kneel every morning to pray."
inry sohnnly down, with her eyes
,00king up earnestly in the skies;
And two little hands that were folded together,
Softly she laid on the lap of her mother;
"Good morning, dear Father in Heaven," sho
said;
thank thee for watching my snug little bed;
For taking good care °One all the dark night,
And waking me up with he beautiful light;
Oh keep me from naughtiness ull the long day,
Blest Jesus, who taught little children to pray."
An angel looked' down in the sunshine, and
smiled;
lilt she saw not the anget—thnt benutiful
Great-men Children,
Some parents aro particularly fond of,
naming their children after great men, and
ransack history to christen embryo heroes
in swadling clothes. Marc Antony and
Octavius User, often quarrel over a'
shingle boat in a gutter, in modern times,
wise as hearty good will as did their dis
tinguished originals about the ownership.'
of the Roman Empire at Actium.- A do
ting mother in a western city has three
boys whom she has named Henry Clay,•
Daniel Webster, and Thomas Corwin, and
always takes especial care to give them
the full benefit of the illustrious titles.—
Being nearly of the same age, and con
stant companions, it is entertaining to hear
her address them. They were all three
playing upon the pavement, under the win
dow not long since, when she "sang out"
to them in this wise—" Now, Daniel Web
ster, if you take that bread and molasses
from Henry Clay, I'll let Thomas Corwin
stick that fork in your eye. Why, Henry
Clay, you are an ungrateful little wretch,
to fill Thomas Corwin's ears with sand;
and that new pair of
. pantaloons I bought
• for Daniel Webster, he has torn to pieces,
riding a•hobby without driving in the
nail."
The last we heard of the distinguished
trio, Thomas Corwin was endeavoring to
persuade Henry Clay to sat a grasshop
per, and both of their doing their utmost
to force an india-rubber ball down Daniel
Webster's throat.—
The'lleity of Infancy
As the infant begins to discriminate be
tween the objects around, it soon discovers
ono countenance that, ever smiles upon it
with peculiar benignity. When it wakes
from its sleep, there is one watchful form'
ever bent over its cradle. If startled by
some unhappy dream, a guardian angel
seems ever ready to Booth its fears. If
cold, that ministering spirit brings it
warmth; if hungry, she feeds it; if in pain,
she relieves it, if happy, she caresseq
In joy or sorrow, in weal or woo, she is
the first object of its thoughts. Her pres
ence is its heaven, • The mother is the dei
ty of infancy,
Pasgiug away Time.
"There's a cheat in all trades but
nouns," said the clock dial.
"You are a very HAND-801110 punster,"
rejoined the bell.
"Strike away—it deserves witmania,"
sung out two WEIGHTY little follows bo
j low.
"You bo HANGED!" interposed the pen
dulum, "while I have a WINO in this af
fair," and thus they tickled no anoiher
for a full hour, when the' key took hold
and wound thorn togethor.
NINE LITTLE GItAYES.—In the grave
yard at Palmer Centre, there are nine lit
tle graves, bide by side, where sleep all
the children of one family. The age of
the oldest at the time of its death,
was but fivb years. Nine little graves'
What a touching sight!
Beautiful Saying,
It was a saying of the Jewish Rabbi,
"that if tho sea were ink, the trees pens,
and the earth paper, they would not bo
sufficient to write down all the praises dn,
to find for lihert:r."