iljJJ jnnic^iHi ORi’l TOM . 1 ; 
SiPT; 
wmjjp 
Ai 
limign -,imfliiga!^Bifliiirtmr 
jl* 
MOORED RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTUR AL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
xWX 
Tnis building, constructed of Iron and Glass, is erected on Reservoir Square, New 
York City, by the Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations, 
incorporated under the Act of the Legislature of the State of New York, the 11th day 
of March, 1852 . The use of Reservoir Square is granted by the Municipal Authorities 
of the City. The Ground Plan of the Building forms an octagon, and is surmounted by 
a Greek Cross, with a Dome over the intersection. The extreme length and breadth of 
the building are each 365 feet. Height of Dome to top of Lantern, 148 feet. Entire 
space on Ground Floor, 111,000 square feet. Galleries, 62,000 square feet. Whole area, 
173,000 square feet, or four acres. For further description of this magnificent building, 
names of officers of the Association, &c., the reader is referred to article on preceding page. 
THE TEACHER 
Our traveller speedily regained his pres¬ 
ence of mind, and forced his horse up to 
the cart. A man’s head now rose above the 
sides of the cart, and called out in Spanish 
what tho Senor wanted. Tho lion’s com¬ 
panion was his guardian—a Mexican. Ho 
was going down to Corpus Christi to deliver 
him to his owner, and at noon had stopped 
his cart and laid down to take a nap. The 
lion’s haunch was an excellent pillow for 
the Mexican’s head, and the lion’s head a 
superior deposit for the Mexican’s hat. So 
both had gone lovingly to sleep together. 
The Mexican lion no wise resembles his 
African or Asiatic namesake, lie is more 
akin to the tiger. The one we have spo¬ 
ken of above, is the finest specimen of the 
race wo have ever soon. They are now 
quite rare in Texas.— JV. O. Picayune. 
It is a holy task to guide the immortal 
mind of the young, and the teacher has 
much to cheer him in the great work, much 
that should cause him to press on with hope 
renewed in the devotion of his whole energy 
to the spread of truth and knowledge. No 
one imbued with right principles can look 
on the amount of ignorance still existing, 
without beinir moved with pity and a strong 
desire to do what he may be able, to dispel 
the darkness. With the settled superstitions 
he may not expect to grapple very success¬ 
fully, yet he feels it is noble to instill right 
principles into the infantile mind, and lead 
it gently forth to the fields of living knowl¬ 
edge and wisdom, whoso pure light shall 
make tho grim spectres of darkness fice for¬ 
ever away. t. e. w. 
WHAT IS IT TO TEACH. 1 
For the Rural New Yorker. 
It hangs to what the naturalists call a 
Puma, the Mexicans a Lion, the Texans a 
Mexican Lion. A splendid fellow he is, too, 
with great, sleepy, green eyes, a skin as soft 
as velvet and beautifully mottled, teeth .a 
half inch long, and sharp as razors, claws 
over an inch in length, jaws four inches 
across, limbs as finely proportioned as a 
sculptor could desire, and as brawny as any 
plowman’s you ever saw. a chest broad as a 
young colt’s, a body as flexible as a snake’s. 
The fellow is playful, too; the only precau¬ 
tion to bo taken, is not to put your hand 
where he can get hold of it. To look at 
him, one would think him tho gentlest of 
kittens, as weak and delicato as a mouse; 
but a look at his old cage, with the tlpck 
timbers torn up as if struck by lightning, 
will changed this opinion at once. Once or 
twice already, ho has got loose in tho big 
warehouse where he is kept, and such a sud¬ 
den disappearance of the human inhabitants 
thereof, as then took place was never bofore 
witnessed. He did no harm, however, being 
mercifully inclined. 
This specimen of what Texas can produce 
in tho way of wild animals, was, when a cub, 
caught on the Rio Grande, by an officer in 
the army, and was presented by him to a 
friend of his residing at Corpus Christi.— 
lie grew up under charge of a Mexican, who 
led him about without a chain, and treated 
him as he would a favorite dog. The ani¬ 
mal never attempted to harm his guardian, 
and appeared to have a decided affection 
for him. 
Not long since an acquaintance of ours, a 
young man unacquainted with tho ways of 
tho world, and particularly tho world of 
Texas, was out on horseback in tho prairies, 
back of Corpus Christi, “ looking for what 
he could see.” Presently, in moving along 
a road, he came across one of those low, 
odd, awkward looking things called a Mexi¬ 
can cart. It occupied tho middle of the 
highway ; the oxen harnessed to it were ly¬ 
ing down, chewing the cud of animal re¬ 
flection. The vehicle was apparently un¬ 
occupied. 
Our adventurer rode nearer, and just as 
he was within a few feet of the cart, up rose 
suddenly a tall, black, oil-skin covered, 
steeple shaped, Mexican hat, and under 
it one of the strangest faces that ever 
astonished a stranger. It was no less 
an individual than our “lion,” who had 
sprung up, and sat there on his haunches, 
showing his teeth in a grim smile, and star¬ 
ing out of his big, green, glistening eyes in 
no pleasant manner for a person unac¬ 
customed to such adventures. Our travel¬ 
ler felt “all overish” down to his boots; his 
horse, frightened out of his wits, snorted 
and reared, and pranced around, getting as 
far out of the way of tho cart as he could. 
Tho lion sat still, wagging his long tail, and 
evidently enjoying the scone. His appear¬ 
ance with the tall, queer hat, was ridiculous 
enough; still there was something about 
him that made it more natural to desire to 
get out of his neighborhood than to stay 
near and laugh at him. 
Ouu land is filled, literally filled, with 
those who profess to teach. Every subject, 
and every ism finds ready laborers to in¬ 
struct the uninitiated in its hidden lore.— 
What is the vocation of a teacher ? Shall 
he, like the warehouseman, bring forward a 
stock of what is possessed by himself, and 
fill the inquiring mind to its utmost capaci¬ 
ty with what he belioves to bo correct ?— 
Shall he require of his pupil to commit to 
memory, and recite tho ideas of others upon 
any given subject ? We have not so learn¬ 
ed the high, the holy vocation of a teacher. 
Books are indeed indispensable to the pupil 
as to tho teacher, but they should never bo 
allowed to engross too much of tho time 
and labor of either. To our apprehension 
the teacher should so discipline the mind of 
his pupil, as to enable him to search for the 
“ hidden things in knowledge ” for himself. 
It is not enough that he learns by rote what 
others have learned before him ; his mental 
faculties should be drawn out to the labor 
of new fields, to tread in paths yet untried. 
Until those who aim to teach can thus dis¬ 
cipline the minds of their pupils, and make 
them originals instead of copyists, they do 
not fully appreciate what it is to bo a teach¬ 
er. They have not yet themselves learned 
the duties and the privileges of the voca¬ 
tion thoy have chosen. 
It behooves the teacher to consider well 
the ground upon which he stands. The 
new year is a most appropriate time for this 
labor. With its commencement lot every 
one thus employed ask himself,—“Am I do¬ 
ing all that can consistently be done to pre¬ 
pare the scholar for the important duties 
soon to be assumed ? Has my training of 
the immortal mind been in keeping with its 
magnitude, and its destiny ? Have I right¬ 
ly considered its capabilities and labored to 
increase and mature them ? If not, what 
better time than tho present, than now, to 
commence anew, and to commence aright 
those important labors ?” Upon the teach¬ 
er rests a responsibility no one should light-! 
ly assume, until he .understands and appre- j 
'dates what it is to teach. 
professors, or to tho world generally, em¬ 
bracing good and bad men. The most rea¬ 
sonable and satisfactory answer to this in¬ 
quiry would seem to favor the opinion, that 
it refers to the world in its broadest sense. 
The explanation to tho disciples by tho 
Savior himself, strongly favors this opinion, 
if it does not conclusively decide tho point. 
The field ho declares to bo tho world. In 
Mark xvi, 15th, ho explains what is “tho 
world.” It embraces not only tho church, 
but every creature. To the world in this 
happy and sense, ho orders his gospel to be preached. 
: sight. It And in its broadest sense of the wholo 
gentleman world, he says, consequent upon this preach- 
tho stable j n g^ “ilo that believeth shall bo saved, and 
or so would ^at believeth not shall be damned.” 
with much j The good seed aro tho children of the 
lich plainly J kingdom, and tho bad seed tho children of 
IV you. — , the wicked one, wherever found in this 
stable, hoi,, , , 
id neigh he 
lis nose; in Tho sowing of tho tares is designed to 
i tho dog’s suggest and illustrate the evil, corrupt, and 
, when tho sinful influences, and their effects, which 
gio}hound the great adversary spreads among men; 
l the latter ° v A 0 
round • on es P ec *ally among those who aro careless, 
ars, and in heedless, unconcerned. Their indifferenco, 
om, rushed unconcern and exposure, is illustrated by 
rrying the representing them as asleep. 
ek with his As was necessar y to gather and secure 
uit his hold ,, , , , . L . 
of the skin ^ 10 "’beat when it was ripe, so it was neces- 
>ncr got on sary to notice and separate the tares at tho 
ent to beat harvest, to prevent tho good seed from be- 
midable an j n g vitiated by tho bad. The offer to sepa¬ 
rate tho tares at an earlier period was de- 
| through °b ne d, because, in eradicating them, tho 
i-ery object w beat would necessarily bo torn up by tho 
io height of roots. This would not be true except in a 
een. “ On limited senso, if it referred only to true and 
volcanoes, f a i se professors in tho church. This refu- 
habffatilms sa ^ therefore, to eradicate tho tares, goes 
ml remains *' ar towards deciding tho question, while it 
was inhab- illustrates the meaning of tho parable, viz., 
i ourselves, tho impossibility of separating the wicked 
river; all f rom the righteous in this life; as from tho 
Ahoinhab" mannor ’ n which they are associated, the 
Am nnnnln destruction of the one would 
THE GREYHOUND AND HORSE. 
PARENTAL SYMPATHY. 
Domestic rule is founded upon truth and 
love. If it have not both of these, it is 
nothing better than despotism. It requires 
the constant exercise of love in its most ex¬ 
tended form. You must learn the disposi¬ 
tions of those under you, and teach them to 
understand yours. In order to do this, you 
must sympathize with them, and convince 
them of your doing so; for upon your sym¬ 
pathy will often depend their truthfulness. 
Thus you must persuade a child to place 
confidence in you, if you wish to form an 
open, upright character; You cannot ter¬ 
rify it into tho habits of truth. On the 
contrary, are not its earliest falsehoods 
caused by fear much oftener than from any 
wish to obtain any of its little ends by de¬ 
ceit ? How often the complaint is heard 
from those in domestic authority,—they 
are not confided in. But they forget how 
hard it is for an inferior to confide in a su¬ 
perior, and that he will scarcely venture to 
do so without the hope of some sympathy 
on the part of the latter. 
Poetry. —Every belief, or non-belief, has 
found its poetry, excepting always modern 
materialism, as represented by the utilita¬ 
rian philosophy. There is no speculation 
in its eye—no man of genius can make it 
beautiful, because it has not one beautiful 
element in it. and because no man of genius 
can believe it; its sole music is tho chink of 
monoy ; its main theological principle—the 
gradual dovelopement of mud into man, 
and dirt into deity—is as incapable of poetic 
treatment as it is of scientific proof; and 
what unless to place it as a prime article in 
tho museum of human folly, can be done to 
a caput inortuum so hateful and so helpless ? 
—Bards of the Bible. 
The Trustees of Antioch College, Yellow 
Spring, Ohio, have appointed Miss Pennell, 
who, for the last seven years jhas been at the 
head of the Massachusetts State Normal 
School, at West Newton, “ Professor” [Pro- 
fesseress] of the Natural Sciences. Presi¬ 
dent Horace Mann is Professor of Mental, 
Moral and Political Science. 
Friendship and Enmity. —He who is a 
friend to himself has seldom any lack of 
enemies; but he who is his own enomy. is 
generally considered a clever follow, andffias 
a plenty of friends and well wishers. 
“ And hitherto doth love on fortune tend, 
And who not needs, shall never luck a friend; 
But who in want, a hollow friend doth try, 
Directly seasons him his cuemy.” 
necossardy ) 
involve tho destruction of the other. To ) 
limit the design of this illustration there- \ 
fore, to the church, as composed of good and S 
bad men, would hardly seem in accordance cj 
with the explanation given of the parablo 
bv the Savior himself. e. d. <1 
Praise and Blame. —The more experi¬ 
enced wo becoino, tho more scrupulous and 
skeptical are wo in bostowing praise; but 
we never lose faith in the efficacy of censure. 
Always respect age and your elders. 
