Hints to IIorse-Kf.f.pkp.s. —A Complete Manual for 
Horsemen : Embracing How to Breed a Horse, How 
to Buy a Horse, How to Break a Horse, How to Use a 
Horse, How to Feed a Horse, How to l’ny ie a Horse, 
(Allopathy and Homoeopathy.) How to Groom a Horse, 
Howto Drive a Horse, How to Hide a Horse; and 
chapters on Mules and 1’onies. By the late Hf.nry 
W.m. Hf.rbert, (Frank Forester.) With Additions, 
including “ Rarey’s Method of Ilorse-Taming,” and 
“Bauchcr’s System of Horsemanship;” also, giving 
Directions for the Selection and Cure of Carriages and 
Harness of every description, and a Memoir of the 
Author. Beautifully illustrated. [12 mo.—pp. 425.] 
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The inviting appearance of this volume, in addition 
to the important subjects discussed in its pages, induced 
us to give it an examination on its first receipt, to the 
neglect of other works awaiting notice. And we were 
so well repaid for our time that we resolved to embrace 
the earliest opportunity to commend the work to the 
large number of our readers who are horse-beepers if 
not horsemen. 
The Horse—a good, sound, well-trained, gentle yet 
free and “ ready ” specimen .of the equine race—is an 
“ institution ” in this country which must continue popu¬ 
lar and in demand, for pleasure driving and business, 
though the land may be intersected with railroads, and 
hence such a work as the one before us will prove of 
great value to those who wish to understand his charac¬ 
teristics, training, and the treatment of his diseases. The 
first thirteen chapters were written by Mr. Herbert only 
a short time before his death, and the outlines of the re¬ 
maining ones were being filled out by him when Iris 
earthly career was terminated. His portion of the work 
is worthy the reputation of the author of “ The Horse of 
America,” comprising much valuable information on 
the various topics discussed, even to those who consider 
themselves well posted thereupon; while the volumo 
seems to have been completed by persons qualified for 
the work. Combining, as we are assured it does, the 
experience of a number of competent contributors, the 
work necessarily embraces a completeness and variety 
not to bo expected in the production of any one mind. 
The book certainly contains a great amount and variety 
of information, the Hints including almost every subject 
of interest to owners of horses, in a brief and condensed 
style—adapted to the wants of those who do not wish to 
examine several volumes to ascertain certain facts, or 
obtain a little information. Indeed, we look upon the 
work as a sort of Cyclopaedia of Ilorseology, as it com¬ 
prises, in one, a compend and the main facts of several 
elaborate volumes on different branches of the subjects 
it comprehends, with the addition of late discoveries and 
improvements. Unless wo misjudge these “ Hints to 
Horse-Keepers” will prove a most valuable acquisition. 
In externals, typography and illustrations, the volume 
is worthy of its contents, and very creditable to the 
publishers. 
DECEPTIVE APPEARANCES. 
THE PEOPLE’S COLLEGE. 
1. ’Tis a les - son you should heed 
2. Once or twice though you should fail, 
3. If you find your task is hard 
That the world in which we live is fraught with 
deceptive appearances is an unmistakable fact, and 
that mankind are very apt to judge by outward 
appearances, is very true. That we allow our¬ 
selves to be governed by the eye, to form our likes 
and dislikes, to banish or embrace as it may seem 
to please in appearances, is also true. The black, 
the rough, the uncomely, we are ready to discard, 
while the dazzling, the high polished, the white, 
the beautiful to gaze upon, we are ready to grasp. 
Within the black and sooty bed of coal we pro¬ 
cure our choicest diamonds. Within the repulsive 
shell of the oyster are found valuable pearls ; not 
always, as many can testify not a thousand miles 
from us, who, toiling night and day to dissect the 
poor creatures, obtaining only those which proved 
a slight resemblance, and valueless. Nay! it is 
not all gold, that! Neither are all diamonds 
that sparkle. Many worthless pieces of glass are 
palmed off upon the unwary as diamonds, or 
precious stones. How prone are we when we see 
the gaily attired, the man of wealth, surrounded 
by all that is magnificent and beautiful; the man 
of fame, of honor of a high-sounding name, to 
believe they possess clean hands and pure hearts, 
free from guile and wrong. But alas! how often 
are we deceived. Often do we form attachments to 
friends, believing they are what they appear to be. 
Our very thought is confided to them. But oh, 
how often do they prove false. Let misfortune 
come and you find yourself deserted. 
The friends that in our sunshine live, 
When summer’s gone and flown ; 
And those that have but tears to give, 
Must weep those tears alone. 
When Satan wishes to accomplish any amount 
of evil he attires himself in the livery of Heaven 
that he may the better accomplish his nefarious 
designs. The villain who contemplates evil will 
meet you with a bland and smiling countenance.— 
It is not the people of our day who alone are de¬ 
ceived by false appearances. Our Mother Eve was 
surrounded by everything that was luxurious and 
beautiful,— all that was necessary to health and 
happiness was hers,— yet there was one little tree 
laden with forbidden fruit which attracted her eye 
that was so beautiful; surely thought she, death 
cannot be therein — I will eat. Eat she did, and 
we are reaping the bitter consequences; and we 
have received from her this frailty of being de¬ 
ceived by appearances. Phebe D. Bullock. 
Elliaburgh, Jeff. Co., N. Y., May, 1S59. 
Tns Quarterly Meeting of the Trustees of this 
Institution was held in the village of Havana, on 
tbc 11th instant. The principal busincsstransacted 
consisted in the adoption of the following resolu¬ 
tions : 
Resolved, That, until otherwise ordered, the 
Trustees of this College will endeavor to endow or 
otherwise provide for the maintenance of the fol¬ 
lowing named Professorships in this Institution, 
viz: 
1st, A Professorship of Natural and Revealed 
Theology. 
2d, Of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. 
3d, Of jurisprudence and Political Economy. 
4th, Of Logic, and the Science and Art of Instruc¬ 
tion. 
5th, Of Ancient, and Modern History. 
6th, Of English Literature,Rhetoricand Oratory. 
7th, Of Taste, as applied to the Arts, and of the 
History of the Arts. 
8tb, Of Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene and Vet¬ 
erinary. 
9th. Of Natural History, comprising Zoology, 
Icthyologv and Entomology. 
10th, Of Chemistry, Botany and Mineralogy. 
11th, Of Agricultural Chemistry, and Chemistry 
as applied to the Arts and Geology. 
12th, Of Practical Agriculture. 
13th, Of Horticulture. 
14th, Of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. 
15th, Of the Application of the Sciences to the 
Arts, comprising Architecture, Engineering, &c. 
16ch, Of Geography, Meteorology and Astron¬ 
omy. 
17th, Of the Latin and Greek Languages. 
18th, Of the Modern Languages. 
19th, Principal of the Preparatory Department. 
Resolved, That there shall be established three 
Courses of Study in this College, which shall be 
severally denominated Classical, Scientific, and Pro¬ 
visional or Select; and for admission to the Classi¬ 
cal Department, students shall be required to sus¬ 
tain an examination in such studies as are now 
required to be pursued in order to admission to the 
other Colleges of the StateStudents designing to 
pursue the Scientific Course of Study, shall be 
required to sustain an examination in English 
Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic and Algebra, 
through simple Equations. For admission to the 
Provisional or Select Course of Study, no more 
shall be required, than that the student shall have 
capacity and culture sufficient to enable him to 
pursue with profit to himself and without hin¬ 
drance to others, the branch or branches of study 
of his choice. 
The length of the College Course to be pursued 
in the Classical and Scientific Departments, to 
entitle students in the one case to the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts, and in the other to thatof Bache¬ 
lor of Science, shall be four years. Students, how¬ 
ever, who may enter the College with the intention 
of pursuing a Select Course of Study, shall, at the 
close of their course, be entitled to an examination 
in the branches pursued by them, and, if meritori¬ 
ous, to a certificate, or diploma, carefully written 
and signed by the President of the College and such 
other persons as may be hereafter designated, 
which shall expressly specify the branches pursued 
by them. 
Rev. F. G. Hibbard, editor of the Northern 
Christian Advocate, was appointed to the Profes¬ 
sorship of Natural and Revealed Theology, in the 
follegc. 
The President was directed to procure some 
gentleman of distinction to pronounce an address 
in the Chapel of the College, at the next meeting of 
the Board, in August. 
Then your courage should appear, For if you will persevere, 
If we strive, ’tis no disgrace, Though we may not win the race, 
All that other folks can do, Why, with patience, may not you? 
You will conquer, never fear, 
What should you do in that case? 
On - ly keep this rule in view, 
TnK Spy : A Tale of the Neutral Ground. By J. Ff.ni- 
more Cooper. Illustrated from Drawings by F. O. O. 
Dabley. [12mo.—pp. 408.] New York : W. A. Town¬ 
send & Co. 
The beautiful appcaranco of this volume constrains 
us to again commend Messrs. Townsend & Co.’s splen¬ 
did edition of Cooper’s Works. In the language of a 
cotemporary, “the unrivalled illustrations of this edi¬ 
tion by Mr. Darley give each successive volume a new 
interest, as it issues from tho press. The artist has 
caught the very spirit of the author in his characteristic 
designs, which are reproduced with excel'ent effect by 
the skill of the engraver. In every respect, this beau¬ 
tiful library edition deserves to bo in the hands of the 
admirers of Fbnimorb Cooper.” Sold by Dewey. 
By the treaties of 1814 and 1815 the northern 
States of Italy, Venice and Lombardy, were ceded 
to Austria by the leading nations of Europe. It is 
now on the faith of these treaties that Austria 
rests her case, and appeals to the rest of Germany, 
and to England, to assist her in maintaining them 
inviolate. As they were the treaties which wit¬ 
nessed the humiliation of his uncle, Louis Napo¬ 
leon has no great respect for them.” 
YIELDING TO TEMPTATION. 
Tub progress of the youth, from the time he 
begins to mingle in society, is full of trials and 
temptations. The youthful mind is naturally in¬ 
clined to seek for pleasure and recreation, and this 
should be sought at home, and if sought, as a gene¬ 
ral rule, it will be found there. 
Youth are easily led from the paths of virtue, and 
on this point they should be on their guard. The 
young man, just commencing business, has many 
trials to undergo, and temptations to overcome. If 
he yields to discouragement and neglects his busi¬ 
ness, serious consequences are apt to follow. The 
young man, endowed with fine talents, promising 
to become a respectable and honorable citizen, is 
frequently tempted, and sometimes yields to some 
of the temptations which are thrown around him. 
Ruin and disgrace is the consequence; he neglects 
his business, and is unconcerned and sluggish in 
the duties of life. He is frequently seen lounging 
around groceries and saloons, satisfying his grow¬ 
ing appetite for strong drink. 
Time passes, and ere be is aware, it has made its 
wrinkles on his brow; his cheeks are furrowed, 
and his eyes are sunken. Intemperance, brought 
on by the non-performance of his domestic duties, 
has made its impression. His home becomes a 
scene of misery,— happiness is not there. Wretch¬ 
ed relatives are left to suffer the disgrace of his 
misspent time. What was once a happy home be¬ 
comes a scene of wretchedness and misery. But 
this cannot always last. Death seals his fate. The 
companions of his youth who resisted the trials 
and temptations which beset their path, are bright 
and intellectual men, and an honor to the world; 
but he is gone; gone to fill a drunkard’s grave. 
Guilford, Medina Co., Ohio, May, 1S59. J. C. C. 
FRANCE AND AUSTRIA, 
Broken Cisterns; Or, The Story of Jesse Worthing¬ 
ton. [16mo.—pp. 3S4.] Published by the American 
Sunday-School Union. 
Tiif, First Twenty Years of Mv Life. By Allen 
Richmond, [pp. 268.] Same publishers. 
Tiif. Working Boy’s Sunday Improved, [pp. 216.] 
Same publishers. 
These volumes are published in the best style of the 
Society under whose auspices they are issued. Each 
teaches an important lesson, and may be read with in¬ 
terest and profit by both parents and children. 
The Union announces that, in addition to the large 
number of books already on its Catalogue (being over 
twelve hundred distinct volumes,) it will issue a new 
work every Saturday during the year. Adams & Dab¬ 
ney are its Agents in Rochester. 
Rules for Travelers. — The following rules, all 
of which, we believe, are founded on legal decisions, 
are of sufficient importance to travelers to be com¬ 
mitted to memory: 
It has been largely decided that applicants for 
tickets on railroads can be ejected from the cars if 
they do not offer the exact amount of their fare. 
Conductors are not bound to make change. 
All railroad tickets are good until used, and con¬ 
ditions “good for this day only,” or otherwise 
limiting the time of genuineness, are of no account. 
Passengers who lose their tickets can be ejected 
from the cars unless they purchase a second one. 
Passengers are bound to observe decorum in the 
cars, and are obliged to comply with all reasonable 
demands to show tickets. Standing upon the plat¬ 
form, or otherwise violating a rule of the company, 
renders a person liable to be put from the train. 
No person has any right to monopolize more 
seats than he has paid for, and any article left in 
the seat while the owner is temporarily absent, 
entitles him to the place on his return. 
Just at the present time the following article, 
which we clip from the Cincinnati Enquirer, will 
prove of interest as exhibiting the feelings which 
have ruled “Camp and Court’ in both Austria and 
France for the greater portion of the past century, 
and as proving that the relations of these two 
Powers have not always been such as would char¬ 
acterize the best intentions and the kindliest feel¬ 
ings. The Enquirer says; 
“ Within the last seventy years there have been 
five wars between France and Austria on the con¬ 
tinent of Europe. Austria was one of the first na¬ 
tions that took up arms against the French Revo¬ 
lution. In connection with Prussia, in 1792, her 
armies invaded France. After a desperate strug- 
HOW TO TEACH THE ALPHABET. 
Books Received. 
First American, from the third Loudon edition. With 
the Notes Translated. [16mo.—pp. 861.] Boston: 
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Three Years’ Wanderings of a Connecticut Yankee, 
in South America, Africa, Australia and California,— 
with Descriptions of the several Countries, Manners, 
Customs aud Conditions of the People, including 
Miners, Natives, &c. Also, a detailed account of a 
Voyage Around the World, attended with unusual 
suffering, hardship, privation, disappointment, and 
dangers arising from fearful storms; threatened 
wrecks on rocky coasts, and amid reefs; by fire, de¬ 
ception, mutiny, &c. Also various incidents of life 
on Shipboard. By C. M. Wells. Illustrated with 
beautiful Steel Plate Eugravings. New York: Amer¬ 
ican Subscription Publishing House, [pp. 858.] 
From L. Stebbins & Co., Hartford, Ct. 
Tiif, Art of Extempore Speaking. Hints for the 
Pulpit, the Senate, and the Bar. By M. Bautain, 
Vicar-General and Professor at the Sorbonne, etc. 
With Additions by a Member of the New York Bar. 
[16mo.—pp. 861] New York: Charles Scribner. 
Sold by Allings i% Corey. 
Mosaics. By the Author of “Salad for the Solitary,” 
etc. [12mo.—pp. 420.] New York. Chas. Scribner. 
For sale by Allings A Cory. 
The Romance of a Poor Young Man. Translated 
from the French of Octave Fbuillet, by Henry J. 
Macdonald, late of Corpus Christ! College, Oxford. 
[l6mo.—pp. 318.] New York: Rudd A Carleton. 
Sold by Dewey. 
Tiif. Vagabond. Rv Adam Badeau. [16mo.—pp.368.] 
New York : Rudd & Carleton. Sold by Dewey. 
High Life in New York. By Jonathan Slick, Esq., 
of Weathersfleld, Conn. A Series of Letters to Mr. 
Zepiianiaii Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon 
of the Church over to Weathersfleld in tho State of 
Connecticut. Embellished with Illustrative Engrav¬ 
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Sold by Dewey. 
The Jealous Husband. A Story of the Heart. By- 
Mrs. Annette Marie Maii.lard, author of “Tho 
Compulsory Marriage,” “Zingra, the Gipsy,” etc. 
[16mo.—pp. 375] Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & 
Bros. Sold by Dewey. 
Ben Sylvester’s Word. By tho Author of “ Tho Heir 
of Redclyffe.” New York: Appleton A Co. Tpp. 
111.] Sold by Dewey. 
The Singer’s Manual: Consisting of 1st, A Complete 
Elementary Treatise on Music, with full Practical 
Illustrations and Exercises; 2d, Glees and Part 
Songs; 8d, Church Music; 4th, Music for Concerts 
and Singing Schools. Arranged for the use of Sing- 
-This place, the rendezvous of 
“ Alessandria, 
the Sardinian army, whither the King has gone to 
take command, is probably destined to play an im¬ 
portant part in the coining war. It is a fortified 
city, near the eastern frontier of Piedmont, whose 
guns bristle towards the Austrian territory. It 
stands in the midst of a sterile plain. It is the 
great stronghold of Piedmont, and is to the Sar¬ 
dinians what Gibraltar is to the English, or Sebas¬ 
topol was to the Russians. During the reign of 
the French in Italy, its formidable fortifications 
made it one of the strongest places in Europe, but 
these were subsequently demolished, leaving only 
the citadel. Within the past few years workmen 
have been busy in reconstructing them, in antici¬ 
pation of the events now at hand. In the sur¬ 
rounding plain, two miles distant, is Napoleon’s 
celebrated battlefield of Marengo. Alessandria 
is garrisoned with several thousand troops, and, 
being connected with Turin and Genoa by railway, 
any number can be readily concentrated there. To 
capture it would be a crowning glory to the 
Austrian Generals, and to lose it a deep humilia¬ 
tion to Sardinia. 
The Crow. —In the article on Winter Birds we 
have this defence in the Atlantic Monthly :—He 
consumes, iu the course of the year, vast quanti¬ 
ties of grubs, worms, and noxious vermin; he is a 
valuable scavenger, and clears the land of offensive 
masses of decaying animal substances; he hunts 
the grass-fields, and pulls out and devours the un¬ 
derground caterpillers, wherever he perceives the 
signs of their operations, as evinced by the wilted 
stalks; he destroys mice, young rats, lizards, and 
the smaller serpents; lastly, he is a volunteer sen¬ 
tinel about the farm, and drives the hawk from its 
inclosures, thus preventing greater mischief than 
that of which ho himself is guilty. It is chiefly 
during seed-time and harvest that the depredations 
of the crow are committed ; during the remainder 
of the year we witness only his services; and so 
| highly are these services appreciated by those who 
that I cannot name an orni- 
and Lombardy, and first made her an Italian 
power. 
In 1799, Austria and Russia took up arms against 
France, and for a time were very successful. They 
drove the French out of Italy. Iu the latter part 
of that year, however, Napoleon returned front 
Egypt. He induced the Russian Emperor Paul to 
withdraw from the Austrian alliance. Having ac¬ 
complished this he led his army into Italy. On 
the plains of Marengo he fought a decisive battle, 
the result of which expelled Austria from Italy.— 
It was soon followed up by the victory of Ilohcn- 
linden, in Germany, gained by the French under 
General Moreau. The French columns were again 
near Vienna, and again France compelled Austria 
to sue for peace. Iu 1804, the Emperor of France 
became the King of Italy. Immediately after 
Austria and Russia attacked France. Such, how¬ 
ever, was the power of the latter, that in six 
months one Austrian army was destroyed at Ulm, 
and another, together with the Russians, destroyed 
at Austerlitz. The French entered Vienna and 
again dictated a peace. 
Iu 1809, Austria and France again met in colli¬ 
sion on the tented field. The French, however, 
under Napoleon, marched down the valley of the 
Danube with the velocity, almost, of the wind, and 
in one campaign took up their quarters in Vienna. 
A severe aud ignominious peace for Austria was 
the result. In 1813, Austria United with all the 
great powers of Europe, overthrew the French Em¬ 
pire, and broke dowu the very power which had 
so often entered the gates of Vienna in triumph.— 
A Gem. — The following beautiful gem, taken 
from a speech of Webster, has been printed in 
large and bold types, on thick card paper, and 
distributed among the schools of all grades in New 
London, by a gentleman of enlarged and enlight¬ 
ened views on the subject of education. In their 
■n the walls 
“The Ticino.” —Caesar’s decisive step was the 
“ Crossing of the Rubicon,” and the step conceded 
on all hands to be decisive of peace or war, is the 
Austrian Army’s crossing the Ticino. This stream 
is a small river rising at the foot of Mount St. 
Gothard, in Switzerland, flowing southwardly 
through Lake Maggiore, and finally emptying into 
the Fo near Pavia. During the latter part of its 
course it forms the boundary line between Lom¬ 
bardy and Piedmont, and hence its importance in 
a military point of view. It is easily crossed and 
not strongly defended, is remote from the centres 
of Sardinian population and strength, and hence is 
naturally chosen as the most feasible entrance for 
the Austrian troops into Sardinian territory. 
neat gilded frames, they not only ador 
of the school-room, but shed forth a light upon the 
teacher’s pathway, encouraging him to press on in 
the imperishable work in which he is engaged.— 
“ If we work on marble, it will perish; if we work 
on brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, 
they will crumble into dust. But if we work upon 
immortal minds, if we imbue them with high priu- 
, ciples, with just fear of God and their fellow-men, 
1 we engrave on those tablets something which no 
l time can efface, but which will brighten to all 
( eternity.” 
) Mistake in Education. — One great mistake in 
b our present school system consists in the number 
J nnd variety of studies required of the children. A 
few things thoroughly learned and fixed for life, 
{ !lt 'o much more useful than a mass of facts hastily 
& committed to memory, never properly digested, 
£ and soon so far forgotten as to leave only inclistinct 
p impressions. 
have written of birds, 
thologist who docs not plead in his behalf. 
Intemperance. — It is like an Alpine avalanche 
that lays waste all that is before it. Youth of 
America!— if you hope for peace or happiness,— if 
you ever expect to enjoy the blessings of life, to be 
respected by the good and virtuous, you must 
abstain from the use of ardent spirits. Not only is 
it demoralizing and destructive to health, hut it is 
also ruinous to every bright prospect, to everything 
that makes life happy.—A School Bor, Pultney- 
villc, ]f. Y, May, 1859. 
It is a uuiversal rule, which, as far as I know, 
has no exception, that great men ulways resemble 
their mothers, who impress their mental and physi¬ 
cal mark upon their sons.— Michelet. 
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow 
customs.— Montaigne. 
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