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youth ill whose halcyon bosoms there sleeps an 

 ocean as yel iiururned by the passions which 

 will goon heave it as with tempest strength. 

 Reineinlier that whatever siation in lile they may 

 fill, these mortals — these immortals are our care. 

 Then should we ilevote, expend, consecrate our- 

 selves to the holy work of their improvement. 

 Let us pour out light and truth as God pours out 

 rain and sunshine. Let us no' seek knowledge 

 as the luxury of a lew, hut dispense it as the 

 bread of life — let us learn how the ignorant man 

 may he instructed, the innocent preserved, the 

 vicious reclaimed. Let us call down the Astro- 

 nomist from the sky, the Geologist from his sub- 

 terranean explorations. Summon it" need he, the 

 mightiest intellects from the council chaml.er of 

 the nation. Enter cluislered halls where the 

 scholiast muses over his superfhiousannniations, 

 dissolve conclave and synod, where snhtle po- 

 lemics are vainly discussing their harren dogmas. 

 Collect whatever talent or erudiiion or eloquence, 

 or authority this broad laud can supply, and go 

 forth and teach the people. For in the name of 

 the living God it must he proclaimed, that licen- 

 tiousness must he the liberty, and violence and 

 chicanery the law, and superstition and craft the 

 religion, and the self-instructed indulgence of 

 every sensual and unhallowed passion the only 

 happiness, of that people who neglect the edu- 

 cation of their children. — Horace Mann. 



National Convention of the Friends of Com- 

 mou Schools. 



The undersigned, deeming that the great cause 

 of popular education in the United Stales may 

 be advanced, and the exertions of its friends 

 strengthened and systematized, by mutual con- 

 sultation and deliberation, respectfully request 

 the friends of Common Schools, and of univer- 

 sal education throughout the Union, to meet in 

 convention at the city id' Philadelphia, on Wed- 

 nesday, the 2'J<I day of August next, at 10 o'clock 

 A. IM., tor the promotion of this paramount in- 

 terest of our republican institutions. 

 Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D. D., Philadelphia. 

 George l\l. Wharton, Esq., President of the 



Hoard of Controllers of Public Schools, Co. 



of Philadelphia. 

 Hon. Joseph R. Chandler, President of Board of 



Directors of Guard College, Philadelphia. 

 John S. H. irt, A. M„ President of Central High 



School, Philadelphia. 

 Allied E Wright, editor of " Wright's Casket" 



and " Paper," Philadelphia. 

 Townsetid Haines, Slate Sup. of Public Schools 



of Pennsylvania. 

 Christopher Morgan, Stale Superintendent of 



Public Schools of New York. 

 Dr. T. F. King, Slate Superintendent of Public 



Schools of New Jersey. 

 Hon. Henry Barnard, Commissioner of Public 



Schools id' Rhode Island. 

 Seth P. Beers, Slate Superintendent of Public 



Schools of Connecticut. 

 William G. Crosby, Sec. of Board of Education, 



Maine. 

 Richard S. Rust, Com. of Public Schools, New 



Hampshire. 

 Hon. Ira Mayhew, Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, State of Michigan. 

 Samuel Galloway, State Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Schools, Oliio. 

 Robert J. Bracken bridge, D. D., Sup. of Public 



Schools, Kentucky. 

 Hon. Horace Mann, lor twelve years Secretary 



of the Board of Education, Massachusetts. 

 S. S. Randall, Esq., lor eleven years Dep. Sup. 



of Public Schools, Stale of New York. 

 Ex-Governor Horace Eaton, of Vermont. 

 Hon. Salem Town, New York. 

 Jnilge VVillard Hall, Delaware. 

 M. D. Leggetl, Esq., Ohio. 

 Asa D. Lord, Esq., Ohm, 

 D. L. Swain, A. M., President of the University 



of North Carolina. 



LOCAL COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENT. 



The following named gentlemen have con- 

 sented to act as a Committee of Arrangement 

 for the National Coi on School Convention: 



Hon IOSEPI : "I W'DLKr". Clmir 



.. RED E. vVPUGH I. i n lary. 



James J. Barclay, William Martin, 



George Einlen, Jr., John Miller, 



Daniel M Fox, Mordccai L. Dawson, 



Joseph Cowperthwait, f". S. Randall, 

 Edward C. Biddle, J. Fugle Negus. 



Communications in reference to the proposed 

 Convention should be addressed to the Corres- 

 ponding Secretary. Those intended lor publi- 

 cation, should be addressed to the editor of 

 " Wright's Casket," Philadelphia, 



Suggestions on Health. 



Children should be taught to use the left hand 

 as well and as much as the right. 



Infants should be sponged with cold water 

 every day. Infants should he carried into the 

 air every day of the season. Inlauts should he 

 nursed at regular intervals, once iu about three 

 hours. From the time they are weaned, until 

 they have passed the first dentition, children 

 should he fed on bread and milk. 



Coarse bread is better for children than fine. 



Children should sleep in separate beds, and, 

 where it is practicable, in separate rooms, and 

 should not wear night-caps. 



Children under seven years of age should not 

 he confined over six or seven hours ill the house 

 — and that lime should be broken by frequent 

 recesses. 



From the time of the first, to that of the sec- 

 ond dentition, children should be denied animal 

 food. 



Children and young people must be made to 

 hold their heads up and shoulders back, while 

 standing, sitting or walking. The best beds lor 

 children are of hair, or iu Winter, of hair and 

 cotton. 



At proper limes, and in proper places, children 

 should he indulged ill the free use of their limbs 

 and lungs. A play-room is a useful appendage 

 to a house. 



Alter the second dentition is passed, young 

 people may eat all kinds of wholesome food. 

 Young children should drink only water. One 

 pint of liquid to a person a day, is sufficient lor 

 health ; ami that slronld neither be hot nor very 

 cold, and should be taken at some interval alier 

 eating. 



From one to one pound and a half of solid 

 food is sufficient for a person in the ordinary 

 vocations of business. Persons in sedentary 

 employments should drop one- third ol their 

 food and they will escape dyspepsia. 



Young persons should walk at least two hours 

 a day in the open air. 



Young ladies should be prevented from band- 

 aging the chest. The author has known three 

 cases of insanity, terminating in death, which 

 began in this practice. 



Every person, great and small, should wash 

 all over iu cold water evtry morning. 



Reading aloud is conduc.ieve to health. 



The more clothing we wear, other things be- 

 ing equal, the less food we need. 



Sleeping-rooms should be furnished with a 

 fire-place, or some other mode of ventilation be- 

 sides the windows. 



The proper temperature of sleeping-tooms is 

 from 55 to 00 degrees Fahrenheit. 



The temperature of a room warmed by an 

 open fire-place is sufficiently high lor health and 

 coin tort at 70 degrees Far., hut in a room warm- 

 ed by an air tight stove, it needs to be at 75 de- 

 grees. Air-light stoves are not good for health 

 unless the room is plentifully supplied with 

 cracks and crevices. 



Young people and others cannot read and 

 study much by lamp-light with impunity. 



The best remedy for eyes weakened by night 

 use, is a fine, stream of cold water frequently 

 applied to them. 



When eyes fail by age, the aid of spectacles 

 should he called in, instead of being deterred as 

 long as possible. — Dr. WarmCs Trad on Health. 



Another Child in Heaven. 



It was mid-day when, softly ami unobserved, I 

 entered the chamber of death. A silence, broken 

 only by occasional ouigushings of grief, reigned 

 there. On the couch before me lay the almost 

 lifeless form of one who was just on the verge 

 of heaven. An aged Duller whose emaciated 

 form and tremulous voice lnhl of the many years 

 he had spent in winning souls to Christ, a ten- 

 der mother, brothers, sisters, and dear friends 



hail gathered around the bedside of this dying 

 girl, a lovely young lady of nineteen summers, 

 who had iu the morning of life learned to love 

 Jesus. Not a tear fell from the eye of that father; 

 but with a countenance lighted up wiili a heaven- 

 ly radiance he sat watching the last short breath- 

 ings of his child; and as she sank in death, he 

 exclaimed, "Another child in Heaven." 



Scarcely had these accents fallen from his lips, 

 when the bereaved almost involunturialy kneeled 

 and commended themselves to that God who 

 has promised that "he will never forsake those 

 who put their trust iu Him." 



What was it that so cheered and sustained this 

 father, as he saw his darling child in the em- 

 brace of death ? It was this: he had trained 

 her for heaven. He felt that she had gone to 

 that blessed home, whither he and his dear fam- 

 ily were fast gathering. 



Reader, are you a parent ? What is the influ- 

 ence you are exerting over your children ? Are 

 you preparing them for a blessed immortality? 

 Are you so training them that you can have the 

 assurance, when death enters your family circle 

 and removes one therefrom, that you have "a 

 child in Heaven:" — Independent. 



A hard-working Teacher. 



Tearher. — John, what is Geography? What? 

 How ? Ii is a description of the Earth, is it ? 



John. — Yes, sir. 



T. — How is the earth divided? How? Into 

 land and water, is it not ? 



./. — Yes, sir. 



T. — How much of the earth's surface is laud ? 

 How much ? About one-third, is it? 



J. — Yes, sir. 



T. — Very well. You may take the next page 

 to-morrow. You hear, do you? 



J. — Yes, sir. 



The Lower Classes. — Who are they ? The toil- 

 in u millions, the laboring man and woman, the 

 farmer, the mechanic, the nrtizan, the inventor, 

 the producer? Far from it. These are nature's 

 nobility — God's favorites — the salt of the earth. 

 No matter whether they are high or low in sta- 

 tion, rich or poor in pelf, conspicuous or humble 

 in position, they ate surely the " upper circle'* 

 in the order of nature, whatever the fictitious 

 distinctions of society, fashionable or unfashion- 

 able, decree. It is not low — it the highest duty, 

 privilege and pleasure, for the great man and 

 the whole-souled woman to earn what they pos- 

 sess, to work their own way through lile, to he 

 the architects of their own fortunes. Some may 

 rank the classes we have alluded to as only rela- 

 tively low, and, iu (act, the middling classes. 

 We insist, they are absolutely the very highest. 

 If there is a class of human beings on earth, 

 who may be properly denominated low, it is 

 those who spend without earning, who consume 

 without producing, who dissipate on the earn- 

 ings of their fathers or relatives, without being 

 any thing in and of themselves. 



A good one. — A few months ago a large num- 

 ber of distinguished persons assembled at Mid- 

 dletown, Conn., to participate in the commence- 

 ment ceremonies of the Wesleyan University. 

 Among the rest Governor Bissel was expelled, 

 and elegant looms were provided for him at the 

 largest anil best hotel in the place. At length 

 his Excellency the Governor arrived. He is a 

 plain, diminutive-looking man, though of a strong 

 masculine mind and great powers of oratory. 

 He went to the hotel where quarters had been 

 assigned him and entered his name; hut nobody 

 was in who happened to know him, and he was 

 not suspected of being anything more than an 

 every-day man from the country. At length he 

 asked for a room i nil bed. He was told that 

 every room in the house was occupied, and that 

 the best thing they could do for him was to make 

 him a temporary bed on the floor. To this he 

 did not object, and bivouacked for the night on 

 a blanket spread over the carpet. The mortifi- 

 cation of the landlord maybe imagined when 

 he found out, on the next day, that the stalely 

 rooms prepared for his Excellency were unoc- 

 cupied and wailing, while the Governor himself 

 had been obliged to take quarters on the floor. 



