MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
(fchudioitaL 
COLLEGES IN NEW YORK. 
Tho Annual Report of the Regents of the 
University has been received, and from it we 
obtain the following facts : 
In Columbia College tho numbor of un¬ 
dergraduates, during the year was 112. of 
whom 26 wore seniors, 22 juniors, 34 soph¬ 
omores, and 30 freshmen. Sixteen of the 
students were receiving their education free 
from all charge of tuition. Wm. A. Jones 
had been appointed librarian in place of Dr. 
Ravenhill, deceased. 
The number of graduates at the last an¬ 
nual commencement of Union College was 
65. Tho whole numbor of undergraduates 
during the year was 206, of whom 82 were 
soniors, 77 juniors, 38 sophomores, and 9 
freshmen. During the past year a new- 
building has been erected at a cost of $10,- 
000 . 
Hamilton College numbered 117 under¬ 
graduates, of whom 41 wore seniors, 23 
juniors, 26 sophomores and 27 freshmen.— 
Tho graduating class numbered 32. By a 
special resolution of the Board of Trustees, 
tuition fees are remitted to indigentstudonts 
and during the past year nearly one-fourth 
of tho students had availed themselves of 
thi3 remission. 
Hobart Free College, of Geneva had, in 
February. 62 undergraduates. The time 
of Commencement has been changed from 
August to July. 
The University of the City of New York 
has had, during the past year, 75 students 
and 21 graduates. The number who enjoy¬ 
ed the benefits of free scholarships was 43. 
At the close of tho last collegiate year, Prof. 
Henry resigned his professorship, the duties 
of which are now discharged by Rev. B. N. 
Martin, formerly of Albany. Since tho 
opening of tho current year, Dr. Ferris has 
been elected Chancellor, and Professor of 
Moral Philosophy and the evidences of Re¬ 
vealed Religion. 
Madison University reports the present 
numbor of undergraduates to be 93. The 
number of graduates 6. Tho philosophical 
apparatus has received additions and repairs, 
and a cabinet of minerals has been purchas¬ 
ed by the Board. 
Tho whole number of students admitted 
during the year in St. John’s College, (Catho¬ 
lic.) was 201, and there was seven graduates 
at the last Commencement. 
In Genesee College, there were during the 
past year, 84 undergraduates, and 250 re¬ 
ceiving instruction in the college classes, but 
not pursuing a regular course. 
The wholo number of undergraduates in 
Rochester University was 110, of whom IS 
were seniors, 15 juniors, 44 sophomores, and 
5 freshmen. The number of graduates at 
the last Commencement was 18. 
A YOUTHFUL CUVIER. 
We call attention to the fact that Cincin¬ 
nati is to furnish to the scientific world one 
of the most accomplished naturalists of the 
day. 
We have for some time past been much 
interested in a young man, a native of this 
city, named W. H. B. Thomas. There is 
nothing prepossessing in his appearnce; on 
the contrary — excepting a good eye — he 
carries an external that might tempt one de 
jure to indict Dame Nature for libel. Meet¬ 
ing him, perhaps among the brilliant throng 
on Fourth street—with outre gait, a verdant 
physiogomy in a partial eclipse from an in¬ 
cipient beard, a slouched hat dx-awn close 
over tho forehead, the pockets of his seedy 
coat distended by a score of botanical pre¬ 
servations, fossil ferns, and geological speci¬ 
mens, the sombre hue of his linen adver¬ 
tising tho death of his washerwoman—ho 
would most likely be taken for a counti-y 
lad from the hooppole region, who had 
ventured a trip on the canal in search of 
tho terra incognita “ town.” 
Wo fii'st know Thomas as a newspaper 
carrier in ’48; his unusual knowledge of 
botany, geology, and zoology was then the 
remark of all. Soon after this he obtained 
employment as an assistant teacher in one 
of our schools, at a salary that barely sufficed 
to buy meal and coal for his aged mother. 
We met him again in tho spring of ’51, at 
tho Cincinnati meeting of tho American As¬ 
sociation for the Advancement of Science. 
In the proceedings of this body he took an 
interest that surprised all whose observa¬ 
tion was drawn by his eager listening and 
large collections of minerals, plants and 
fossils. Here he atti-acted the attention of 
Prof. Beard and Prof. Henry, of the Smith¬ 
sonian Institute. We afterwards met him 
on Mound street, in this city, in the shop of 
a Mr. McKinley, another humble but en¬ 
thusiastic devotee of scionce, of whom the 
world will yet take note, who had just 
finished with his own hands and rude tools 
a powerful telescope that Thomas was 
criticising. 
For some months past we had seldom met 
with our eccentric friend, but we encount¬ 
ered him late last evening at the Little 
Miami Railroad depot. A huge blank-book, 
labelled “ Notes on Fossil Infusoria ,” under 
one arm, a shirt and pair of socks under the 
other. He had just arrived from Washing¬ 
ton, and had in his pocket, his commission 
as JYaturalist to the Kane Arctic Exploring 
Expedition, whieh sails from New York next 
week. Ho had applied to Professor Henry 
for some opportunity to work in the United 
States Coast Survey, and that gentleman 
had procured his appointment to the honor¬ 
able post in the popular expedition, where 
he will have the rarest opportunity to pur¬ 
sue his favorite studies, and to place his 
name among those of scientific discoverers. 
Mr. T. leaves this evening for New York, 
wfeere he joins his ship. We heartily wish 
him what he eminently deserves—the high¬ 
est-success. — Cincinnati Com., May 20.. 
DULL CHILDREN. 
No fact can be plainer than this, that it is 
impossible to judge correctly of the genius . 
or intellectual ability of the future man, by 
the indications of childhood. Some ot the 
most eminent men of all ages were remarka¬ 
ble only for dullness in their youth. Sir 
Isaac Newton, in his boyhood, was inatten¬ 
tive to study, and ranked very low in school 1 
until the age of twelve. When Samuel 
Wythe, the Dublin schoolmaster, attempted 
to educate Richard Brinsley Sheridan, ho 
pronounced the boy an “ incorrigible dunce.” 
The mother of Sheridan fully concurred in 
this verdict, and declared him the most stu¬ 
pid of her sons. Goldsmith was dull in his 
youth, and Shakspeare, Gibbon, Davy, and 
Dryden, do not appear to have exhibited in 
their childhood, even the common element 
of future success. 
When Berzelius, the eminent Swedish 
chemist, left school for the University, tho 
words “ Indifferent in behavioui', and of 
doubtful hope,” were scored against his 
name; and after he entered tho University, 
he narrowly escaped being tui'ned back.— 
On one of his first visits to tho laboratory, 
when nineteen years old, ho was taunted 
with the inquiry whether he “understood 
tho difference between a laboratory and a 
kitchen.” Walter Scott had the credit of 
having “ the thickest skull in tho school,” 
though Dr. Blair told the teacher that many 
bright x'ays of future genius shone through 
that same “thick skull.” Milton and Swift 
were justly celebrated for stupidity in child¬ 
hood. The groat Isaac Barrow’s father used 
to say that, if it pleased God to tako from 
him any of his children, ho hoped it might 
be Isaac, as tho least promising. Clavius, 
tho first mathematician of his age, was so 
stupid in his boyhood, that his teacher could 
make nothing of him till they tried him in 
geometry. Carracci, the celebrated paint¬ 
er, was so inapt in his youth, that his mas¬ 
ters advised him to restrict his ambition to 
the grinding of colors. 
“ One of the most popular authoresses of 
the pi'osent day,” says tin English writer, 
“could not read when she was seven. Her 
mother was rather uncomfortable about it, 
but said that as every body did learn with 
opportunity, she supposed her child would 
do so at last. By eighteen, the apparently 
slow genius paid the heavy, but inevitable 
debts of her father from the profits of her 
first work, and before thirty, had published 
thirty volumes.” Dr. Scott, the commenta¬ 
tor. could not compose a theme when twelve 
years old; and even at a later ago Dr. Adam 
Clark, after incredible effort, failed to com¬ 
mit to memory a poem of a few stanzas 
only. At nine years of age. one who after¬ 
wards became a chief justice in this country, 
was, during a whole winter, unable to com¬ 
mit to memory tho little poem found in one 
of our school books. 
Labor and patience are the wonder work¬ 
ers of man—the wand by whose magic touch 
he changes dross into gold, deformity into 
beauty, the desert into a garden, and the 
ignorant child into tho venerable sage. Let 
no youth be given up as an incorrigible dolt, 
a victim fit only to bo laid on the altar of 
stupidity, until labor and patience have 
struggled with him long enough to ascer¬ 
tain" whether ho is a “natural fool,” or 
whether his mind is merely enclosed in a 
harder shell than common, requiring only 
a little outward aid to escape from its vigor¬ 
ous and symmetrical life. 
READING AND SPELLING- 
We ejeculate a hearty and explosive amen 
to the following very sensible remarks from 
the Cleveland Herald, on the importance of 
thoroughly teaching the rudiments—spell¬ 
ing and reading—in our public schools. As 
there may bo other places where these re¬ 
marks are applicable, we copy them for the 
benefit of all concerned : 
The point, however, to which we wish to 
dii’ect the attention of the Board of Educa¬ 
tion, and all others interested in tho proper 
teaching of our youth, is the rudiment— 
the ground work of all mental discipline— 
reading and spelling. 
There is no such thing as a well educated 
person who is a poor reader, or a bad spel¬ 
ler ; and what is termed a common school 
education, is comparatively worthies with¬ 
out a knowledge of those branches. 
A very general complaint exists against 
our present free schools, that so little atten¬ 
tion is paid to reading and spelling; in 
the desire to advance children in what are 
misnamed the higher branches, great 
neglect is shown tho spelling book. How 
ungracefully sit the accomplishments of 
music and drawing upon tho young Miss, 
who begins every line of her letters with a 
capital! How ridiculous appeal’s the boy. 
who in his letter home says “i.” These 
are not small matters; they concern the 
reputation, aye, the happiness of overy child 
in the land; and unless parents wish to send 
their children out into the world with a 
canker constantly eating into their hearts, 
to embitter their days by a feeling of infe¬ 
riority, they must make them perfect in their 
spelling and reading, and teach them, at 
least, so much of the art of composition as 
shall enable them to pen a correct and gram¬ 
matical letter. 
Life is worth Living. —Life is richly 
worth living, with its continual revelations 
of mighty woes yet infinite hope, and I take 
it to my breast. Amid these scones of beau¬ 
ty, all that is little, foreign, unworthy, van¬ 
ishes like a dream. So shall it be somo 
time amid the Everlasting Beauty, when 
true joy shall begin and never cease. 
Strive, strive my soul, to be innocent: 
yet beneficent. Does any man wound thee, 
not only forgive but work into thy thought 
intelligence of the kind of pain, that thou 
mayest never inflict it on another spirit.— 
Then its work is done; it will never search 
thy whole nature again. O, love much, and 
be forgiven- 
fur t|e U’mmg. Jtatol ifetoni. jlmikg Jlcaimuj. 
BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT. 
CROWS CAN COUNT THREE- 
A writer in the Times, having been at A few months since we were riding in a 
Marshfield, tells of two young elm trees stage-coach with several gentleman, when 
standing side by side, on the farm, which tho conversation turned upon the subject of 
were planted thei’e by a father’s hand in crows, and many interesting anecdotes were 
memory of the loved children who preced- related. One gentleman said he knew that 
ed him to the spirit-world. One morning, crows could count—at least as far as three 
a few months ago, Mr. Webster had been —for ho had often proved it. Being troub- 
raissing from his study for an hour or moro led with crows in his field, he had often at- 
when he made his appearance with two tempted to shoot them. But they knew 
small elm trees and a spado in his hands.— what a gun was as well as he did, and there- 
Summoning the attendance of his son, he foi’e kept out of his reach. He then con- 
went out upon the lawn, planted tho young eluded to put up a small booth in the field, 
ti’ees, and then turning to Fletcher said in and place some carrion—-a dead horse— 
a subdued voice, as he turned away, “My within gun-shot. From this place he sup- 
son, pi'otect these trees after I am gone; posed he could fire at them when they 
let them ever remind you of Julia and Ed- alighted to eat. Whenever ho entered tho 
ward.” Their sear and falling leaves now booth, the crows would all sit on the distant 
seem to typify participation in the mourn- trees, and not ono would como near till he 
ing which marks this scene of sorrow. The was gone. Then all would alight, except 
flower gai’den—enclosed with a neat and the sentinel who remained to give warning 
onmmental wire fence, on which are tx'ain- if danger appi’oached. 
ed choice rose vines—occupies nearly an The gentleman finding this plan to fail, 
acre of land east of the mansion, and con- thought he would deceivo them. So he 
tains tho l’ichest and most beautiful varie- took his son with him to the booth, conclud- 
ties of plants and shrubs of every desci’ip- ing that when thoy had seen ono go away, 
tion, including numei’ous exotics. the crows would think the coast was clear, 
From tho same correspondent wo got an- and descend to the bait. But when the son 
other incident which we have heal’d before, left the booth, a ci’ow sung out caw, caw , 
but it will bear repetition in this connex- caic, (there goes one,) but not a crow would 
ion : leave his place. 
“ When ho (the boy Webster) first arriv- The next day the gentleman took two 
ed at the academy of Mr. Abbott, his per- persons, with him to the booth, and then 
personal appearance, in his ill-fitting, home- let them depart ono at a time. The crows 
spun garments, together with his shy, awk- on tho ti’eos saw tho first and cried out 
ward manners, ci’eated much meri’iment “ there goes one,” in their own peculiar dia- 
among the boys, and many jokes were lect. Then when the other went they cried 
ci’acked at his expense. Young Daniel’s “ there goes two,” but they would not light 
sensitive nature could ill brook this ; and, for they counted three when thoy entered, 
after suffering from it two or three days, The day following, tho gentleman took 
he went to the teacher and told him he three others with him. When they went 
must go home. The teacher inquirod the out ono by ono, the ci’ows ci'ied “ there goes 
cause, and Daniel made a clear bi'east of it. 
• “there goes two” — “there goes 
The former bade him not mind it, but keep three.” And when those men were out of 
quietly at his studios, and his turn would sight they 7 all alighted, and tho gun of the 
come by-and-by. He obeyed, and at the fourth man did its work, 
end of the week, he was placed at the head The gentleman statod that this thing 
of tho class that had ridiculed him. After had been tried l’epeatedly, and it was evi- 
two months had passed in hard study, the dent that crows could count as far as three, 
teacher at the close of the school ono day, but there their arithmetic ended. When 
called him up in presence of all the schol- thoy will ascend to the higher branch of 
ill’s, and told him he could not stay thei’e mathematics is yet to bo ascertained. In 
any longer—to go and get his books and tho meantime others can bring on their in¬ 
hat and leave. Poor Daniel’s heart sank cidonts in croic nology .—Olive Branch. 
down to his shoes. Ho had studied hard,___._ 
bearing patiently tho ridicule of his mates, 
and now to be turned off in disgrace was 
more than he could stagger under. The 
teacher waited a moment to watch the as¬ 
tonishment of the school, and then added, 
CANARIES AND THE BREEDING SEASON. 
As this is the precise time for commenc¬ 
ing active operations (seeing that the weath¬ 
er is likely to bo warm and settled,) let us 
this is no phice for you ; go to the higher 0 jf er a f ev v useful hints:—Before turning 
department. That was probably the proud- vour birds into a breeding-cage, see that 
6St hour in Mr. \» CDStCI S llfo. IIo had tri- t.hAv hA wnll “nmrpH ” WIiati vnn Vm,vA ra- 
umphed over his companions, and that by 
outstripping them in his studies. 
“TEAT BOY I CAN TRUST.” 
I once visited a large public school. At 
recess a little fellow came up and spoke to 
they be well “paired.” When you have se¬ 
lected such colors as you approve, put the 
male into one cage, and the hen into anoth¬ 
er. Hang them up dos a dos ; just so as tho 
eye of each can come into contact, through 
the hole made to admit the nail. This, 
while it effectually works out tho intended 
purpose, will keep you in a constant state 
the master ; as he turned to go down the | ner ’’ mont . He ant i c s of the birds 
platform, the mater said I hat boy I can whilsfc « pairing ” and the vain schemes they 
trust. He never faded me. conCOCt to break out of prison, are exceed 
I followed him with my eye, and looked ■ { diverting . You will often perceiv, 
at him when he took his seat after recess. i_. *__ * .... v .fT __ 
* u n * i u- i ’ r ingly diverting. You will often perceive 
at him when he took his seat after recess. th ^. heads or one-half of their heads, pro- 
Ile had a fine, open manly face. f I thought truded through the ho i e . their one unceas- 
w. nrr.A/1 nonl ahnnr. tho toaahovc rnmurb . ° . 7 . 
a good deal about the teacher’s remark. 
What a character had that little boy earned. 
He had already got what would be worth 
more to him than a fortune. It would be a 
ing aim, being that of “ casting sheep’s-eyes” 
at each other ! Then listen to their voices! 
What persuasive eloquence falls from tho 
LU . “ TiT u T V . Y. “ oily tongue of tho male ! What affection- 
passport into the best store m the city and ate J tonc f erneS8 lies in the languishing res- 
what is better, into the confidence and re- i : „ f ^ .. „. , “m. _ 
spoct of the community at large. 
ate tonderness lies in the languishing res¬ 
ponsive 1-i-s-t-h-p of tho bride elect! Thus 
are reciprocated vows of eternal fidelity, 
I wonder if the boys know how soon they which it ‘ iT0S us , oasuro t „ rec0 ,,j for tho 
aro rated by older persons; every boy m mos( * osc J. vcd inviolato . I week - 8 
the neighborhood is known, and opinions , „ . „ • • . 
. • i , , 1 . , dalliance brings matters to a crisis. An 
formed ot him; he has a character, oither , .. • , , . • nn. 
,. \ ,, . . . , explanation is asked, and given. Iheques- 
favorable or unfavorable. A boy of whom .• 1 - . .._; b . A JL 
. , ,. T , / ., , , tion is popped; tho lover accepted; roman- 
the master can say, “I can trust that boy, X 1 1 . • f ., ’ 
i r. J tic sentimentality gives wav to the sterner 
he never faded me, will never want em- „ ; f -.j- life; and tho sublime 
ployment The hdol.ty, promptness and Binks at once in J„ th e “ ridiculous.”-AWs 
industry which ho shows at school aro in r , . 
, i , , , Journal of .Yature. 
demand every where, and are every where J 
prized. He who is faithful in little, will also 
be faithful in much. Bo sure, boys, that CHIMNEY SWALLOW, 
you earn a good reputation at school. Re- T ,, , ~ . . , 
member, you are just where God has placed . In * he Clinton Courant wo find some m- 
you, and your duties aro not so much given foresting articles descriptive of the varieties 
you by your teacher, or your parents, as by and hab'ts ot our winged visitors, evi- 
\UU UY UUI LUctUUtJI, UI NUUI Jell Ull ct£> U V , , * . „ ~ . 
God himself. You must render an account dentl y * rom th u e P en ° f w* wh ° cultlv u at « 8 , a 
to them, and you also will be called to ren- * ast . e tor ornithology. We extract the fol¬ 
der an account to Him. Bo trusty-be true. !< H in 2 P ara g ra P h > containing a pleasing ra- 
___ cident relating to the Chimney fewallow : 
t.tt.t.A ’S LILIES. “ ^ da ys ago, about 8 o’clotk in the 
- evening, I was walking in a village at somo 
Lilla, a healthy country child, ran with considerable distance from here, when my 
bare feet into the water, to gathor pond-lil- attention was attracted by the noise of the 
ies for a fair lady who was strolling by. 
“ Ah,” said tlio lady languidly, “ would I 
were as brisk and happy as jjyou ! And I 
was when like you a careless child.” 
“ Don’t you wish,” asked the simple Lilia, 
“ that you had always remained a child !” 
“ I will answer you thus,” said the lady, 
Chimney Swallows. On tho opposite side 
of tho street a multitude of these birds were 
circling in the air around tho top of a large 
chimney. Thoy formed a regular vortex, 
the centre of which was the top of the 
chimney, and an irregular stream of tho 
birds was pouring down, while those with¬ 
drawing a full-blown lily and a bud from ou f s f^l kept up their whirling flight. I 
tho bunch she held. “ The flower is mine stood and watched them till they all disap- 
the bud yours; and you see that the last is poared, to tho numbor, I should think, of 
shut up in its thick calyx, and has no fra- some hundreds, when it was all still. I 
grance.” started forward, but after going a few stops, 
“ But dear lady,” rejoined Lilia, “ do you I saw one solitary loiterer arrive: ho whirl- 
see those many small black insects that are ed _ U P an( i down, dovo at the top of the 
eating up the petals of your flower ? I chimney, but just as he reached it, darted 
think I prefer to keep my close little bud, U P an( f awa y f° the distance, and then back 
since I know that all is sound and pure in- a g a hb and this he did several times, as if in 
side .”—Home Gazette. P la y. or unwilling to give up the pleasure of 
think I prefer to keep my close little bud, up and away to the distance, and then back 
since I know that all is sound and pure in- again, and this he did several times, as if in 
side .”—Home Gazette. P la y. or unwilling to give up tho pleasure of 
- - - daylight and the open air, but at last 
“ Every man,” says Gibbon, “ who rises Ponged in and joined his roosting compan- 
above the common level, has received two lon s. 
educations—tho first from his teachers—the „ ^ , 
second, more personal and important, from ^ lE l w Doctrines, however true, and how- 
himself ” ever beautiful, never ploase men of the old¬ 
en school. They like to fancy that the 
Listen, if you would learn; be silent if wor ! d h “ been Ioai "? wisdom - insto,d of 
you would bo safe. gaining it ever since tbey wore young . 
All the virtues are in peril when filial Intemperance is tho grossest abuse of the 
piety gives way. gifts of Providence. 
NIGHT SONG*. 
FROM THK GERMAN. 
Heart, be still! 
Ill the darkness of thy woe, 
Bow thee, silently and low; 
Comes to thee whate’er God will * r 
Be thou still 1 
Be thou still! 
Vainly all thy words are spoken; 
Till the word of God hath broken 
Life’s dark mysteries—good or ill— 
Be thou still! 
Sleep thou still! 
’Tis thy Father’s work of grace, 
Wait thou yet before his face, 
He thy sure deliverance will— 
Keep thou still 1 
Lord, ray God; 
By t'ny grace, O may I bo 
All-submissive, silently, 
To the chastenings of thy rod 
Lord, my God. 
Shepherd, King! 
From thy fullness, grant to me 
Still, yet fearless faith in thee, 
Till, from night the day shall spring;— 
Shepherd, King! 
THE “OLD BREWERY” MISSION IN N. Y. 
Quietly and unpresumingly a great re¬ 
formatory work has boon going on in New 
York city, and very recently a now Mission 
House was dedicated on the sito of the no¬ 
torious “ Old Brewery,”—the centre of tho 
worst district of tho Five Points. So far 
the good work has progressed. A few years 
ago this was a nest of the foulest crimes 
and most degrading passions which deform 
human nature. It was the homo of tho 
assassin, thief, and prostitute — a den of 
mystery and iniquity. It is now torn away, 
and where it stood a Church has been 
erected, with a house for the preacher — 
with school-rooms, bath-rooms, and clean, 
wholesome tenements for tho homeless. 
This change has been effected by a few ear¬ 
nest, pious ladies, who teach Christianity 
not by words alone, but by deeds,—who not 
only give counsel to the erring, but aid and 
comfort them,— taking them by tho hand 
and leading them into tho pleasant paths of 
peace. 
The sun which now shines into this dark 
corner, enlightens, comparatively, a regen¬ 
erated world. Many families have been 
rescued, many precious children saved, 
many seeming outcasts from all good have 
been taught to hope for mercy, and are 
loading new lives. This has boon accom¬ 
plished through the instrumentality of the 
Ladies’ Home Missionary Society, and they 
aro still, moro earnestly than evor, engaged 
in tho work. “ Honor to them, if they 
desire it—but thoy do not. They solicit 
help, not honor. And who will honor him¬ 
self by helping them ?” asks a writer in the 
Daily Times. 
Tho same paper says:—“The entire ex¬ 
pense of the erection of tho new Miss'on 
House is, as far as yot completed, $36,000. 
Of this sum, in tho short space of eightoen 
months, $23,000 have been collected. To 
this somo thousands were added on tho day 
of the dedication. Tho building, which has 
been erected since December, is 75 feet 
front, five stories high, and 45 feet deep. 
The wash-room, sowing-room, and tho play¬ 
rooms for the children, are not yet erected. 
The principal building is the Chapel, which 
will comfortably seat 500 persons. It is 
neatly fitted up, and in evory way suited 
for tho purpose for which it is intended — 
the worship of God by the outcasts redeem¬ 
ed from the streets. Adjoining the Chapel 
is tho parsonage, whero tho Missionary, tho 
Rev. Benj. F. Adams, resides. Over the 
Chapel are twenty tenements of two rooms 
each, in which poor and deserving families 
are comfortably located. Beneath the same 
is a large school-room, fitted up with almost 
liandsomo-looking desks, ono for each pupil. 
Here eighty children will receive, not reli¬ 
gious instruction alone, but tuition in tho 
ordinary secular branches of knowledge, un¬ 
der competent teachers. Attached to tho 
school are bathing-rooms and wardrobes. 
Somo notion may be formed of tho unflag¬ 
ging activity of these friends of the desti¬ 
tute, from the fact that within tho past 
month over 1,000 garments have been given 
to tho children to induce them to attend 
school.” 
Every friend of humanity is interested in 
this reformatory movement, and will rejoice 
in its encouraging success. We hope like 
efforts will be made in every city where 
there is occasion for the same, and that tho 
hand of love and charity will seek to raiso 
from the depths of misery, those who havo 
sunk beyond the reach of all other help. 
Abovo all, we hope that the children of this 
worse than orphanage, may be cared for, 
and brought into the paths of virtue and 
respectability. 
Knowledge unemployed may preserve us 
from vice; but knowledge beneficently em¬ 
ployed is virtue. 
