MOORE^S RUEAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL ANI) FAMILY JOURNAL 
I (fcoiicational li|jartranrt. j 
H Y L. w E T11E R E I. L '' adoption by tlic People at the last 
> = 1 : ::::^— aimual clcction, of tile uct to cstablisli Free 
■; FREE SCHOOLS. Schools throughout the State, Avill effect a 
) . , -- _ most important change in the system of 
1 Tiil: Legislature during its session last Common School Education. Uiider this 
) winter framed an act which, if approved Common Schools are to be free to 
I by the people, should make the schools persons over five and under twenty-one 
; throughout tho suite, free to all persons On the lirst davof .lull last, 
i n 1 i a ^ /• fl'ere were 11,191 organized school districts 
, ve and under twenty-one years of in the State; being an increase of 570 over 
age. 1 he voters at the last annual election the number reported last year, and the num- 
adopted this act by a very large majority— ber of children taught in the Common 
nearly four-fifths of all who felt interest Schools during the year, was 7/8,309, be- 
enough to vote at all on the subject, voted increase of 2,586 over the preceding 
in favor of it. The Common Schools uu- Ililf I and 
j._ ii,-, 1 , , .11 pi I''^■te schools ill the state, comprising 62 - 
rtis IcfW are to be supported by a-tax 785 pupils. The aggregate amount of pub- 
on property, so that all the children, wheth- lie money received by the several Common 
er the sons and daughters of the rich or School Districts, from all sources, during the 
the poor, may alike enjoy the advantao-cs was $846,710 45. Of this sum, $625- 
furiiLshcd by these Schools. Wopi-bded for the 
riii „ ^ f r? Cl 1 1 • payment of teachers’ wages. In addition 
Ihe svstem of Free Schools is no new ^ which, $489,696 63 i^ere raised in the 
theory — no untried experiment. It has several districts on rate bills for the same 
been in actual operation in our own coun- object, making an aggregate of $1,143,401- 
try more than two hundred years, and ^ ^ <^^P0Jided for teachers’wages during the 
w'herever tried has been approved. This ending 1st January, 1849. 
being the fact, we hope ere long to be able n-of volumes in the 
to proclaim to the Old World that evorv ,?mlr T' " 
q.„. f .,. , ■ ■, ,7 umes having been purchased during the 
State of this young and growing Republic year, and $93,105 82 having been expend- 
has established within its borders a liberal ed for District Libraries and school appa- 
system of Free Schools. Upon a wise and 
liberal National Educational Policy de- ^ Schools before mentioned, 35 are 
pend very much the perpetuity of our ^^P^ards of 
fr.r.r^ rsf .a. r. 1 xi ^ cluldron havo been taught, at an ao-- 
m of goveinment, and tho peace, the gregate expense of $5,016,57; of whidi 
happiness and the prosperity of our country. $2,149,50 were contributed on rate bills by 
We do not claim for the existing law that sending the children to school. Con¬ 
it is perfect in all its provisions — on the ®i<iering the usually very limited means of 
contrary we admit that it is quite imper- colored population, this large proper- : 
feet and hope *to see it amended durino- the ?“ ^ contribution voluntarily paid by them 
I otv 0 afut.uueu auiing tne gjiows a most commendable desire on their 
present session of the Legislature. The part to secure to their children the benefits i 
property holders, the tax payers, have vol- of education. ’ ^ 
untarily, by their vote.s, signified their wil- The report of the Superintendent of j 
lingness to aid in supporting Schools for their ^ommon Schools will probably suggest some ^ 
loss fortunate neighbors and friends wdiose ‘‘®^®’^^caents to the existing law'. I trust { 
children will now grow up ornnmonts to vV'* I 
. . . . ° 1 ucjius lo selves to vour favorable f'.nnsi8fu.nfinn 
i the youhg hah. 
j The introductory' lecture of the season 
I before the Rixihester Athenseum, w'as de- 
j livered by the Hon. Horace Mann. It is pro- 
I nounced by persons who had the good for- 
I tune to be present, a most impressive ad- 
j dress, abounding in the poetical beauties, 
ami bold, original, startling metaphors pe- 
_^_ j puliar to the lecturer. From a report of it 
the young to be out j of the dailies, w'c take the following 
oes not restrain them extract: 
ining them to it. We “ The young man walks in the midst of 
lant harvest of this temptation to appetite, the improper indul- 
crimes, giving fear- gence of which is in danger of proving his 
s result of youth be- I'ain. Health, lono’eHtv. and virf.np. 
AT HOME IH THE EVENING. 
One of the grossest neglects of yoi 
producing incalculable mi.schief and ruii 
the improper spending of the evening.s. 
Darkness w'as created for quiet; home is 
place of quiet Darkness is temptation 
DRIED PEAC H INDI AN PUDDING^ ^ 
MiftS Leslie’s Indian Meal Book says: j 
Pick and wash a pint of dried peaches. ) 
1 ut them over night into a tin pan, and ( 
pour on as much boiling water as will cover ) 
them. Let them stand until morning .soak- j 
ing in the w'ater, which must then be thor- 
oughly poun;d off, and the peaches left to 
get as dry as they can before they are ) 
wanted for the pudding, which is made very ^ 
simply, by sifting over them and amono* < 
them a quart or more of Indian meal, mix* 
ing it in thoroughly. Hav'e ready over the i 
fire a pot of boiling water. Into this dip <! 
your pudding cloth — shake it out — spread '< 
it into a deep pan — dredge it — pour in / 
the mi.xture of peaches and meal, and tie it 
lightly, leaving ample room for the puddiim- < 
to swell m boiling. Phister a bit of doim-h ^ 
on the tying place, to keep tlie water from J 
pttmg in. Hanng laid an old plate at the i 
bottom of the pot to keep the pudding from ^ 
burning, put it in, and boil it steadily for ( 
three or four hours, turning it sevend times ) 
comes subject to disease, than for the pick¬ 
ing of his pockets. For a young man to 
injure his health, is to waste his patrimony 
and destroy his capacity for virtuou deeds 
Should a man love God, he will have ten 
times the strength for the exercises of it, 
with a sound body. Not only the amount, 
but the quality of a man’s labor depends on 
.his health. Not only lying lips, but a dys¬ 
peptic .stomach, is an abomination to the 
Lord. The man who neglects to control 
his appetites, is to himself w'hat a state of 
barbarism is to society — the brutish part 
predominates. He is to himself what Nich¬ 
olas is to Hungary. 
Men buy pins, and the pun'eyor and 
marketman bring home disease. Our pious 
ancestors used to bury the suicide w'here 
four roads met; yet every gentleman and 
Evil Company. —The follow'ing beautiful 
allegory was translated from the German: 
Soprognius, a wise teacher, would not suf¬ 
fer even his 
jrow'ii-up sons and daughters to 
associate with those w'hose conduct was not 
pure and upright. 
“Dear fiither,” said the gentle Eulalia 
to him one day, when he forbade her in com¬ 
pany w'ith her brother, to visit the volatile 
Lucinda, “ dear father, you must think us 
very childish, if you imagine that we should 
be exposed to danger by it.” 
Ihe father took in silence a dead coal fnim 
the hearth, and reached it to his daughter. 
‘Ht will not burn you, my chUd, take it.” 
Eulalia did so, and behold! her delicate 
w'hjte lumd w'as soiled and blackened, and 
as it chanced, her white dress also. 
“We cannot be too careful in handlino- 
coals,” said Eulali/i, in vexation. ^ 
“Yes, truly,” said her father; “yousee, 
my child, that coals, even if they do not 
burn, blacken. So it is w'ith the company j 
of the xIcioiLs.” 
^11 ruti iUAltXxNO IxINKN, «fcC., WITHOUT 
Preparation. — One ounce of nitrate of 
silver, one and a half ounces carbonate of 
soda, crystalipd, two drachms, two scruples 
of tartaric acid, t^vo ounces or q. .s. of strono- 
liquor ammonify half ounce of archil, six 
draclims of white sugar, ten drachms pow¬ 
dered gum arabic, distilled water q. s. ~ 
Dissolve tne nitrate of .silver and carbonate 
of soda separately in distilled water; mix 
tho solutions, collect and wash the precipi¬ 
tate on a filter, introduce the washed pre¬ 
cipitate, still moist, in a wedgewood mortar 
and add to it the tartaric acid, rubbino- 
them together until effervescence hab ceiused* 
add liquor ammonia in sufficient quantity 
to dissolve the tapate of silver; then mix 
111 the archil, w'hite sugar, and powdered 
gum aiabic, and add as much distilled wa- 
tei’ if required, as will make six ounce^s of 
made to you to authorize tho instruction at 
this school of a limited number of Indians, 
in the hope by this means of introducing a 
higher order of instruction and of civiliza¬ 
tion among the small remnmits of the Ab¬ 
original race which are left within our bor¬ 
ders. I solicit for this proposition your at¬ 
tentive and -favorable consideration, as a 
measure- prompted not only by the dictates 
of l^uinanity and benevolence, but deman¬ 
ded alike by considerations of high policy, 
and upon principles of justice towards a 
class of our population, who, from once 
having been lords of our soil, and the found¬ 
ers of a beautifully simple and essentially 
republican government, have gradually 
wiisted before the advances of the white 
race, and have dwindled in energy and num¬ 
bers, and have sunk into a state of tutelage 
which demands the fostering care of the 
government.” 
Young Men.— It should be the-aim of 
yoimg men to go into good society—we 
mean not the rich, nor the proud, nor tho 
fashionable, but the society of the wise, the 
intelligent, and tho good. When you find 
men who know more than you do, and from 
whoso conversation you can gather informa¬ 
tion, it is always safe to associate with them. 
It has broken down many a man to associate 
with tho low and vulgar, where the ribald 
song was sung, and tho indecent story told 
to excite laughter or influence the bad 
passion.s. 
Lord Clarendon attributed success and 
happine.ss in life to associating with persons 
more learned and virtuous than ouiselves. 
If you wish to be wise and respected, if you 
desire happine.ss and not misery, wo advise 
you to associate with the intelligent and 
good. Striv^e for excellence and strict in¬ 
tegrity, and you will never be found in the 
sinks of pollution, or in the ranks of profli¬ 
gates and gamblers. Once habituate your- 
solt to a v'irtuous course, once secure a love 
for good society, and no punishment would 
be greater thaii, by accident, to be oblio-ed 
To take out Marking Ink. — Wet some 
chloride of lime -rtlth warm water, and rub 
It to the mark with your finger, repeatino- 
It till the ink disappears. Wash out the 
place immediately; as, if left in, the chlo¬ 
ride of lime will injure the linen. Oxalic 
acid or sorrel, rubbed on after the mark 
has been wet with -water, will also take 
it out 
To MAKE Hard Water Soft.— While 
the water is heating, take two quarts of 
wheat bran and place it into a bag, and put 
them into, the water. When hot enouo-h to 
iLSe, it will be soft This is enough for com¬ 
mon washing. Another method is to use 
soda, a few ounces of which will soften a 
hogshead of water. It will give a delicious 
whiteness to the linen, without the slio-htest 
mjurj', and will not affect the hanefi. It 
costs but little and is a great relief to those 
who Ccumot procui-e rain or other .deft wntov 
An Indian’s Theology.— A white man 
and an Indian were both brought under 
covinction of sin about the same time._ 
The Indian, whose conviction was puno-ent, 
soon found joy and peacP in believing, vvhile 
the white man continued in darkness and 
distress for a long time. Seeing the Indian 
one day enjoying tho sweet consolations of 
religion, “Why,” says the white man, 
“ should there be such a difference ? Why 
has God forgiven your sins while I go 
mourning? I have done all j|Rat I can do, 
but find no comfort.” “ Suppose,” says the 
Indian, “that you come along to a great 
prince. He holds out to you a siiit of 
clothes, and says, ‘ Here take these, and 
welcome.’ You look around, feel a.shamed, 
and say, ‘ No, my clothes are jirettv good 
yet, they will do a little longer, thank you, 
sir.’ Then tho prince, rather angry, savs, 
‘ Here, Sam, take the suit.’ I look, my old 
11 rag-s, cold and dirty; ‘ Thank 
1 you, kind sir.’ Poor Indian now 
and ha])py.” | 
01 the noblest in which she ever engaged 
—aye the noblest — and may she go on 
and complete it — and then see to it, like 
a faithful parent, that every child born, or 
adopted into the family, shall be well in¬ 
structed and trained in all that makes a 
good citizen. This being done, all will 
come up to the work heart and hand, to 
the support of the means which can ac¬ 
complish such a happy result It is always 
honorable to labor for the improvement of 
Uio young; and there is nothing more 
praiseworthy than being a Benefiictor of 
Mind. 
r OK Dessert. Take the Spitzenberg or 
any tender, tart apple; peal and core it, 
leaving it whole—then cook by steam. Add 
sweet cream and loaf sugar; and if you 
don’t thank me for the advice, send me the 
'■apples- J. H. w. 
Cream of Tartar Sponge Cake :_One 
tea cup each of sugar and flour; 3 ego-s; 2 
teaspoons of cream tartar; 1 teaspoon* ess. 
lemon; h- teaspoon saleratus, dLssolv'od in 2 
tablespoons hot vvater. Paper the pan and 
buKC quick. This is new and delicious. 
Shrinking of Ilannel. — Enclose new 
flannel m a bag; put it into a boiler with 
cold water, heat and boil it. It will never 
shrink mij more after this operation, and 
should then be made up into garments. 
warm 
liiE Best Recommendation. — Nicholas 
Biddle, Esq., late president of the Bank of 
the United States, once dismissed a clerk, 
because the latter refused to write for him 
on the Sabbath. Tho young man, with a 
mother dependent on'his exertions, was 
thus thrown out of employment by what 
some would call an over-nice scruph; of 
conscience. But a lew days after, Mr. Bid¬ 
dle being requested to nominate a cashier 
for another bank, recommended this very 
individual, and mentioned this incident as 
proof of his trustworthiiuisss. “ You can 
trust hhn,” said he, “for he wouldn’t ivork 
To Trustees. — The annual Reports of 
Ti'ustees are to be made tills year as usual; 
that is, between tho first and fifteenth days 
of January. I’rustces who have not already 
attended to it will see they havo no time to 
lose. It Is also the duty of the Trustees to 
see that tho Librarian makes'a Schedule of 
the Library, to be signed by the Librarian 
and a majority of tho Trustees, and to be 
delivered to the Town Superintendent with 
the annual Itejxirt of the Trustees.- Wy¬ 
oming Mirro-r. 
soil, but it remains unmoved. Be you like 
that rock, young man. Vico may entice, 
and the song and cup may invite. Be¬ 
ware, stand firmly at your post Lot your 
principles shine 'forth unobscured. There 
is glory in the thought that you have re¬ 
sisted temptation, and conquered. Your 
bright e.xample will be to the world what 
the lighthouse is to the mariner ujxin a 
sea-shore: it will guide othere to the point 
of virtue and safety. 
Eat not to fulness; drink not to elevation. 
The Bidle. —It is said that in 1804, ac¬ 
cording to the liest estimate that can be ob¬ 
tained, there vv'ere in existence only about 
4,000,000 copies of the Bible. No'w there 
are more, than 30,000,000- In 1804, the 
Bible had been jniblished in 48 or 49 lan¬ 
guages; in 1848 it existed in 136. In 
1804 it was accessible in languages spoken 
by about 200,000,000 of men;*in 1847 it 
existed in tongues spoken by 600,000,000. 
