MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ROCHESTER. 
We are indebted to the Superintendent 
of Schools of this city, R. I). Jones, Esq., 
for his recent Annual Report, made to the 
Board of Education and by them published. 
Rochester has abundant reasons for being 
proud of her noble Schools, which, under 
the management of the present efficient 
Board, aided by the untiring efforts of the 
excellent Superintendent, promise to equal 
any schools in the country. 
The usefulness of the Schools havo been 
somewhat curtailed from the want of au¬ 
thority on the part of the Common Council 
to raise a larger amount of money for their 
support, and the Board have for this reason 
been unable to meet the wants of the schol¬ 
ars, who were seeking instruction. The 
Legislature having authorized the raising of 
a larger sum, it is in contemplation to in¬ 
crease the number of districts, erect more 
houses, and by every means in their power, 
to furnish increased facilities for the educa¬ 
tion of tho children of Rochester. The at¬ 
tention of the public has been painfully 
awakened to tho largo amount of juvenile 
crime and wickedness in our midst, and it is 
to bo hoped, some efficient and salutary 
measure will be adopted to not only prevent 
its increase, but act as a reformatory power 
for that which already exists. 
The number of children of school age is 
reported at 12,824, being an increase of 312 
during the year. Of this number, some 6,- 
500 have attended the public schools some 
part of the year, and 2,461 are reported as 
being taught in private schools,—leaving a 
balance of over 4,000 who do not attend 
any school at all. Some of theso are em¬ 
ployed in the various shops, and callings, 
but far too many are allowed to run at large 
without restraint of any kind, at home or 
abroad, and are thus growing up, probable 
candidates for situations in tho House of 
Refuge or the prison. Many of this num¬ 
ber, we regret to say, are girls, some of whom 
are to bo met with at every crossing, con¬ 
tracting habits and tastes which cannot re¬ 
sult in any thing save their utter ruin. 
It is indeed time the public were awaken¬ 
ed to the condition of the rising generation 
among us, and led to take measures which 
will prevent tho next generation from being- 
exposed to so many evils and temptations. 
An education will do much by preparing 
the young for usefulness, and we do not 
speak at random when we assert that no 
city in the Union has public schools of a 
higher grade, so far as the moral and relig- 
ous influence is concerned, than our own. 
We do not mean to say they are theological 
or sectarian, but in the good work of incul¬ 
cating duty, obedience, virtue and good 
morals, for their beneficial influence upon 
the possessor, they are deserving of all en¬ 
couragement and support. We commend 
the Report, and particularly the closing por 
tions, to all interested. i 
COUNSELS TO CHILDREN. 
BY HORACE MANN. 
You were made to be clean and neat in 
your person and in your dress, and gentle¬ 
manly and ladylike in your manners. If you 
have not been bitten by a mad dog, don’t 
bo afraid of fresh water. There is enough 
water in the world to keep everybody clean; 
but thero is a great deal of it never finds its 
right place. In regard to this article there 
is no danger of being selfish. Take as much 
as you need. The people of the West boast 
of their great rivers—I would rather they 
would boast of using a largo tubful of their 
water every day. 
Contract no such filthy and offensive hab¬ 
it as chewing or smoking tobacco. So long 
as a man chews or smokes, though a very 
Chesterfield in every thing else that pertains 
to his appearance, he can never be quite a 
gentleman. And, lot me repeat it, you were 
made to bo neat. While cotton cloth can 
be had for six conts a yard, thero is no ex¬ 
cuse for not having a pocket-handkerchief. 
You were made to be kind, and generous, 
and magnanimous. If there is a boy in the 
school who has a club foot, don’t let him 
know that you ever saw it. If there is a 
poor boy with ragged clothes, don’t talk 
about rags when he is in hearing. If there 
is a lame boy, assign him some part of the 
game which does not requiro running. If 
there is a hungry one, give him a part of 
your dinner. If there is a dull one, help 
him get his lessons. If there is a bright one, 
be not envious of him; for if one boy is 
proud of his talents, and another is envious 
of them, there are two great wrongs, and no 
mox’o talents than before. If a larger or 
stronger boy has injured you, and is sorry 
for it, forgive him, and request tho teacher 
not to punish him. All the school will show 
by their countenances how much better it 
is to have a groat soul than a great fist. 
You were made to learn. Be sure you 
learn something every day. When you go 
to bed at night, if you cannot think of some¬ 
thing new which you have learned during 
the day, spring up and find a book, and get 
an idea before you sloop. If you were to 
stop eating, would not your bodies pine and 
famish. If you stop learning, your minds 
will pine and famish too. You all desire 
that your bodies should thrive and grow, 
until you become as tall and lai’ge as your 
fathers or mothers, or other people. You 
would not like to stop growing where you 
are now—at three feet high, or four feet, or 
even at five. But if you do not feed your 
minds as well as your bodies, they will stop 
growing; and one of the poorest, meanest, 
most despicable things I have ever seen in 
the world, is a little mind in a great body. 
Suppose there were a museum in your 
neighborhood, full of all rare and splonded 
curiosities—should you not like to go and 
see it ? Would you not think it unkind if 
you were forbiddon to visit it ? Tho crea¬ 
tion is a museum, all full and crowded with 
wonders, and beauties, and glories. One 
door, and one only is open, by which you 
can enter this magnificent temple. It is 
tho door of knowledge. The learned labor¬ 
er, tho learned peasant, or slave, is ever 
made welcome at this door, while the igno¬ 
rant, though kings, are shut out. 
THE FLOGGING OF A PRINCE. 
The London correspondent of a Nortli 
German paper, relates a story with regard 
to the way in which Prince Albert punishes 
his children, which The 'Tribune translates 
as follows: 
Tho young princo stood one day in his 
room in tho royal palace at Windsor, at the 
window, whose panes reached to the floor. 
He had a lesson to learn by heart, but in¬ 
stead was amusing himself by looking out 
into the garden, and playing with his fingers 
on the window, llis governess, Miss Hill- 
yard, an earnest and pious person, observed 
this, and kindly asked him to think of get¬ 
ting his lesson. The young prince said :— 
4 1 don’t want to.’ 4 Then, said Miss Hill- 
yard, ‘ I must put you in the corner.’ 4 1 
won't learn,’ answered the little fellow reso¬ 
lutely, ‘and won’t stand in tho corner, for 1 
am tho Prince of Wales.’ And as he said 
this, he knocked out one of the window 
panes with his foot. At this, Miss Hillyard 
rose from her seat and said,— 4 Sir, you must 
learn, or I must put you in tho corner.’ 4 I 
won't,’ said he, knocking out a second pane. 
The governess then rang and told the ser¬ 
vant who entered, to say to Prince Albert 
that she requested the presence of his Royal 
Highness immediately, on a pressing matter 
connected with his son. 
Tho devoted father came at once, and 
heard the statement of tho whole matter, 
after which ho turned to his little son and 
said, pointing to an ottoman, ‘sit down there, 
and wait till I return.’ Then Prince Albert 
went to his room and brought a Bible.— 
4 Listen, now,’ ho said to the Prince of Wales, 
4 to what tho holy Apostle Paul says to you 
and other children in your position.’ Here¬ 
upon he read Galat. iv. 1 and 2 :—‘Now I 
say that the heir, so long as he is a child, 
ditfereth nothing from a servant, though he 
bo loved ot all; but is under tutors and 
governors until the timo appointed of the 
father.’ 4 It is true,’ continued Prince Al¬ 
bert, that you are tho Prince of Wales, and 
if you conduct yourself properly, you may 
become a man of high station, and even, af¬ 
ter the death of your mother, may become 
King of England. But now you are a little 
boy, who must obey his tutors and govern¬ 
ors. Besides, I must impress upon you 
another saying of the w^se Solomon,“ in 
Proverbs xiii, 24 4 He that spareth his rod, 
hateth his son ; but he that loveth him chas- 
teneth him betimes.’ Hereupon tho father 
took out a rod, and gave tho heir to the 
throne of the weightiest empire in Christen¬ 
dom a very palpable switching, and then 
stood him up in tho corner, saying, 4 You 
will stand here and study your lesson till 
Miss Hillyard gives you leave to come out. 
And never forget again that you are now 
under tutors and governors, and that hero- 
after you will bo under a law given by God.’ 
This, adds the correspondent, is an excel¬ 
lent Christian mode of education, which ev¬ 
ery citizen and every peasant who has a 
child may well take to his heart as a model.” 
—It may be proper to add that the young- 
stor who is represented to have received this 
parental admonition is but eleven years old. 
DISCIPLINE IN CHILDHOOD. 
Young people who have been habitually 
gratified in all their desires will not only 
more indulge in capricious desires, hut will 
infallibly take it more amiss, when the feel¬ 
ing or happiness of others roquirethat they 
should be thwarted, than those who have 
been practically trained to the habit of sub¬ 
duing and training them, and consequent¬ 
ly will, in general, sacrifice the happiness of 
others to their own selfish indulgence. To 
what else is the selfishness of princes and 
other great people to be attributed ? It is 
in vain to think of cultivating principles of 
generosity and beneficence by mere exhor¬ 
tation and reasoning. Nothing but the 
practical habit of overcoming our own sel¬ 
fishness, and of familiarly encountering pri¬ 
vations and discomfort on account of oth¬ 
ers, evor enables us to do it when required. 
And therefore, I am firmly porsuaded that 
indulgence infallibly produces selfishness 
and hardnoss of heart, and that nothing but 
a pretty severe discipline and control, can 
lay the foundation of a magnanimous char¬ 
acter.— Lord Jeffrey. 
Early to Church.— Mrs Chapone was 
asked why she always went so early to 
church ? 44 Because,” said she, 44 it is part 
of my religion never to disturb the religion 
of others. 
Solon made idleness a crime ; and insist¬ 
ed that each citizen should give an account 
of the manner of getting his livelihood. 
Men always express contradictory opin¬ 
ions when they attempt to oxplain things 
which are incomprehensible. 
'' A _ A • 
THE CONDOR. 
The Condor forms the type of a genus, a 
second species of which is the king of tho 
vultures, of British writers.. They are both 
peculiar to the New World, but approach, in 
their most essential characters, very closely 
to tho vultures of the Old Continent, differ¬ 
ing from the latter principally in the large 
fleshy, or rather cartilaginous caruncle, 
which surmounts their boaks ; in the large 
sizo of their oval and longitudinal nostrils, 
placed almost at the very extremity of tho 
cere; and in tho comparative length of 
their quill feathers, the third being the long¬ 
est of the series. The most important of 
these differences, the size and position of 
their nostrils, appears to be well calculated 
to add to.the already highly powerful sense 
of smell possessed by the typical vultures, 
and for which theso birds have been almost 
proverbially celebrated from the earliest 
ages. Thero is also a third species, the Cal¬ 
ifornian vulture, rivalling the condor in 
bulk, and agreeing, in every respect, with 
the generic characters of the group, except 
in the existence of tho caruncle, of which 
they are entirely destitute. 
In size the condor is little, if at all, supe¬ 
rior to tho bearded griffin, tho lammergeyer 
of the Alps, with which Buff'on was disposed 
conjecturally to confound it, but to which it 
bears at most but a distant relation. The 
greatest authentic measurement scarcely 
carries the extent of its wings beyond four¬ 
teen feet, and it appears rarely to attain so 
gigantic a size. M. Humboldt met with 
none that exceeded nine feet, and ■was as¬ 
sured by many crediblo inhabitants of the 
provinco of Quito, that they had never shot 
any that measured more than eleven. The 
length of a male specimen, somewhat less 
than nine feet in expanse, was three inches 
from tho tip of the beak to the extremity of 
tho tail; and its hoight, when perching, with 
the neck partly withdrawn, two feet eight 
inches. Its beak was two inches and three- 
quarters in longth, and an inch and a quar¬ 
ter in depth, when closed. 
The Condor has been observed through¬ 
out the whole range of that immense chain 
of mountains which traverses tho continent 
of South America, from tho Straits of Ma¬ 
gellan to the seventh degree of north lati¬ 
tude. It appears, however, to be much 
more common in Peru and Chili, than in 
any other part of the chain, and is most 
frequently met with at an elevation of from 
ten to fifteen thousand feet above the level 
of the ocean. Here, in the regions of per¬ 
petual snow, they may be seen grouped to¬ 
gether to the number of three or four, but 
never in the largo troops in which the true 
vultures sometimes assemble, on the bold 
points of tho jutting rocks, many of the 
most remarkable of which are designated 
by tho natives with names derived from the 
bird that haunts their pinnacles It is only 
whon driven by hunger, that it descends 
into tho plains, which it quits as soon as 
its appetite is satiated, unable, as it would 
seem, to support for any great length of 
time tho increased weight of the atmosphere 
and the warmer temporature of the lower 
world. On such occasions, it rarely perches 
on the branches of the trees, but generally 
takes up a position on the ground, for rest¬ 
ing on which its comparatively straight tal¬ 
ons are peculiarly fitted. It is said that the 
female bird builds nc nest, but deposits its 
eggs upon tho bare rock without protection 
of any kind. These eggs are stated to be 
perfectly white, and three or four inches in 
length. The female is also said to remain 
with her young for a whole year. 
The habits of tho condor partake of the 
bold ferocity of the eagle, and of the dis¬ 
gusting filthiness of tho vulture. Although, 
like tho latter, it appears to prefer the dead 
carcass, it frequently makes war upon a liv¬ 
ing prey; but the gripo of its talons is not 
sufficiently firm to enable it to carry off its 
victim through the air.— Library of Natu¬ 
ral History. 
ROMANCE OF INSECT LIFE. 
We make the following extract from an 
Historical Lecture by Judge Charlton, of 
Georgia: 
44 The earth teems with mysteries; the sky 
shines with them; they float in tho air ; they 
swim in the deep ; they flash from the dark 
robed clouds ; they whisper in the gentle 
tones of the summer wind ; they speak in 
trumpet tongues, in the voice of the tempest 
and the thunder. Cease thy longings for 
tho ancient days, oh dreamers ! Close thy 
book and look about thee upon the volume 
of Nature. See there before thee is a tiny 
insect that thou canst scarce distinguish 
from the grains of sand that surround it.— 
Watch it ; it moves on with an energy and 
an instinct that enables it to overcome or 
avoid all obstacles. See; it has seized 
some object larger than itself, and still it 
goes bravely on ; nothing daunts it; tread 
it under foot (if thou canst have the heart 
to attempt such a murder) and it will rise 
up again beneath the ocean of sand and turn 
once more to its labor. Dost thou know it ? 
It is the ant, the lion hearted ant, toiling in 
tho heat of summer ; and though the sea¬ 
son’s brightness and its warmth are bring¬ 
ing up and producing ten thousand enjoy¬ 
ments for the little traveller, ho is busy 
gathering together tho provender tor tho 
long winter time, whon frost and snow, and 
cold shall have locked up the granaries ot 
nature. 
Thou wilt tell me that I am mocking theo; 
that thou canst see this daily and hourly ; 
and is this a mystery, therefore ? If thou 
hadst read in those ancient legends beforo 
thee, of an insect so courageous, that it 
would attack an animal of ten thousand 
times its magnitude; of industry so indefat¬ 
igable that it would climb houso tops and 
mountains to pursue its course; of perse¬ 
verance so unflagging, that though repulsed 
a thousand times, it still would return and 
overcome the obstacle that impeded it; the 
eye would have sparkled with interest and 
amazement ; it is because it is constantly 
beforo thee ; because it bolongs to the pres¬ 
ent time ; that thou lookest so disdainfully 
upon it. When did their bosoms beat so 
high with valor and determination as this 
poor insect ? “But it has no loves, no burn¬ 
ing jealousies, no blood-stained victories !” 
How knowest thou that ? I warrant theo, 
even that tiny breast has grown gentler to 
some fond one that lived within its little 
world !—that its blood has moved quicker 
when some Adonis ant has flitted around 
the little coquette—that its path has been 
stained by the trophies of its mimic bat¬ 
tles. 
But thou wilt say, why dost thou luro mo 
from my glowing page, to point me to this 
moving atom ? Why not show mo tho ma¬ 
jestic mysteries of nature ? Why waste my 
time with a topic so insignificant ? I an¬ 
swer, because it is insignieffiant. I point theo 
there one of the smallest of Earth’s crea¬ 
tures to ask thee if the atoms contain such 
wonders, how much more noble and lofty are 
the works of nature ? Follow mo if thou wilt. 
Lot us dive into the caverns of the Earth, 
and mark the sculptured halls; tho rocky 
avenues stretching miles below the busy 
haunts of men. Let us plunge into the 
deep, and see the huge leviathan sporting 
amid tho waters ; or the rainbow-hued dol¬ 
phin, as she flings back bright rays of the 
glorious sun. Lot us climb into tho air, and 
behold the eagle with his untiring wing, and 
his unflinching eyes, tho noble image of in¬ 
domitable perseverance and of brilliant gon- 
ius soaring proudly and gazing fixedly to¬ 
ward Heaven’s brightest luminary ! Oh, 
dreamer ! if tho moments of thy life were 
multiplied by the sands of the desert, they 
would bo all too short to unravel these mys¬ 
teries that are around thee and above thee.” 
WHY ARE WE RIGHT-HANDED* 
Sir Charles Bell on this subject ob¬ 
serves, that 44 for the conveniences of life, 
and to make us prompt and dexterous, it is 
evident that there ought to be no hesitation 
which hand is to be used, or which foot is to 
be put forward; and that there is indeed 
no such decision, is it taught us, or is it* 
from nature ? There is a distinction in tho 
right side of tho body ; the loft side is weak¬ 
er, both as to muscular power and its con¬ 
stitutional properties. The development of 
the organs of motion and action is greater 
on the right side, as may bo proved by mea¬ 
surement, or the opinion of the tailor or 
shoemaker. This superiority may be said 
to result from tho more frequent use of the 
right hand and foot. But whence the ori¬ 
gin of this use or practice ? It has been 
said children are taught by parents and 
nurses to use tho right-hand — but not al¬ 
ways. Bosides, this peculiarity is constitu¬ 
tional : disease attacks the left side and 
members more frequently than tho right. 
In walking behind a person, we seldom see 
an equalized motion of the body; and we 
may observe the step with tho right foot, 
that the toe is not so much turned out as 
the left, and that a groat push is made with 
it. From the form of females, and the 
elasticity of their step resulting more from 
the ankles than the hip, the defect of tho 
loft foot is still more apparent. We do not 
often see children hop on their left foot.— 
May it not be considered then, that every¬ 
thing in the convenience of life being adapt¬ 
ed to tho right-hand, is not arbitrary, but is 
owing to a natural endowment of the body, 
that the right-hand is stronger and better 
fitted for action ?” We conclude,therefore, 
that the preference for using the right-hand 
rather than the left, is not tho effect of habit 
merely, nor adventitious, but is a provision 
of nature. The theory is not, indeed, uni¬ 
versally received. The skilful anatomist 
alone can decide. If there are peculiar 
properties or mechanism to justify the opin¬ 
ion, it affords a new proof of wise and be¬ 
nevolent design in the 44 form of our bodies,” 
and of our being 44 wonderfully made.” 
THE VOICES AT THE THRONE. 
BY T. WESTWOOD. 
A little child, 
A little meek-faced, quiet, village child 
Sat singing, by the cottage door at eve, 
A low, sweet, Sabbath song. No human ear 
Caught the faint melody—no human eye 
Beheld the upturned aspect, or the smile 
That wreathed her innocent lips the while they breathed 
The oft-repeated burden of the hymn, 
“ Praise God! praise God I” 
A Seraph by the Throne 
In the full glory stood. With eager hand 
He smote the golden harp-strings, till a flood 
Of harmony on the celestial air 
Welled forth, unceasing. Then with a great voice, 
He sang the “ Holy, Holy, ever-more, 
Lord God Almighty 1” and the eternal courts 
Thrilled with the rapture, and the biearchies, 
Angel, and rapt archangel, throbbed and burned 
With vehement adoration. Higher yet 
Rose the majestic anthem, without pause, 
Higher, with rich magnificence of sound. 
To its full strength; and still the infinite heavens 
Rang with the “ Holy, holy, evermore 1” 
Till trembling from excess of awe and love, 
Each sceptred spirit sung before the Throne, 
With a mute hallelujah. But, eveu then, 
While the ecstatic song was at its height, 
Stole in an alien voice—a voice that seemed 
To float, float upward from some world afar— 
A meek and child-like voice, faint, but how sweet 1 
That blended with the seraph's rushing strain, 
Even as a fountain’s music with the roll 
Of the reverbrate thunder. Loving smiles 
Lit up the beauty of each angel’s face 
At that new utterance. Smiles of joy that grew 
More joyous yet, as ever and anon 
Was heard the simple burden of the hymn 
“Praise God! praise God!” And when the seraph’s song 
Had reached its close, and o’er the golden lyre 
Silence hung brooding—when the eternal courts 
Rung but with echoes of his chant sublime, 
Still through the abysmal space, that wandering voice 
Came floating upward from its world afar, 
Stiil murmuring sweet on the celestial air, 
“ Praise God 1 praise God 1” 
ONLY JUST INSIDE THE FENCE. 
44 Oh !” cried the little children. 44 Oh, 
such beautiful flowers! and only just inside 
the fence!” 
And then stealthy glances were cast up 
at tho windows, the gate pressed softly, the 
beautiful flowers were snatched with a trem¬ 
bling hand, and the little children fled away 
with trembling hearts. Were they now hap- 
pior, because their guilty feet had wandered 
into forbidden paths ? Only a little way had 
they gone, and too, they had fallen into sin ! 
The freshness, the fragrance, tho beauty 
of the flowers, wero not sufficient to still tho 
remorseful whisper of conscience. It was 
only just inside the fence they had been, yet 
what an ugly mark had sin set upon their 
fair brows! 
Poor littlo children are we all. Forbid¬ 
den pleasuro smiles and beckons to us, only 
just inside the fence. Our longing glances 
linger thero; our feet stray thitherward—it 
is a little way, no one sees us, and we put 
forth our hands, and pluck the flowers 
whose fatal beauty is a snare to the soul. 
Only just inside the fence ! But that 
fence is set botweon us and sin. One side 
of it wo may walk safely in the 44 King’s 
Highway,” the other side leads us to tempt¬ 
ation, to folly, to crime. Once when we 
have set our feet in the forbidden paths, we 
go again more boldly, till tho timo comes 
when that fence, sot for our safety, is bro¬ 
ken down and destroyed by our reckless in¬ 
dulgence in evil desires. There is no lon¬ 
ger a barrier between us and sin. We do not 
pause, or look round stealthily, or tremblo 
as we grasp the coveted pleasure; our looks 
are grown insolent and defiant, the guilty 
blood mantles not on our cheeks at the de¬ 
tected fraud, the selfish indulgence, tho do- 
; basing irreverence. The fence is broken 
down, and we wander unrestrainod, farther 
and farther on those inviting paths, whose 
fatal termination is the snare, the pitfall, 
the abyss of darkness and eternal despair. 
44 Such beautiful jioivers!” Turn from 
them, touch them not, they are forbiddon. 
44 Only just inside the fence!’’ Within that 
fence is sin, without it, is safety. — Cambridge 
Chronicle. 
HEBREW GENEALOGIES IN THE BIBLE. 
Genesis, ch. 5.— Tho Rev. Dr. Cumming 
says, curiously, that “ it is a remarkable fact 
that the names which are given in this chap¬ 
ter of memories and epitaphs, when literal¬ 
ly translated from the Hebrew, contain a 
prophecy of the gospel of Christ, each ono 
containing a groat and blessed truth. 
44 Adam is the first name, which means, 
man in the image of God ; Seth, substituted 
by; Enos, frail man ; Cainan, lamenting; 
Mahalaleol, tho blessed God; Jared, shall 
come down ; Enoch, teaching ; Mothusolah, 
his death shall sond ; Lamech, to the hum¬ 
ble; Noah, rest, or consolation. 
“It is thus that if you tako tho whole of 
tho names, and simply in the order in which 
they are recorded, you havo this truth sta¬ 
ted by them: 
44 To man, once made in the imago of God, 
now substituted by man frail and full of sor¬ 
row, the blessed God himself shall come 
down to the earth teaching, and his death 
shall send to tho humble consolation.” 
This is just an epitome of Christianity. 
Said one to an aged friend, 44 1 had a let¬ 
ter from a distant correspondent the other 
day who inquired if you were in tho land of 
the living.” 44 No,” replied tho saint-like, 
venerablo man, 44 but I am going there.— 
This world is alone tho world of shadows; 
and the eternal is the only one of living re¬ 
alities.” 
TnE suppression of a truth is a real lie, 
when it is done with the intention to deceive 
him who asks a question. 
