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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL ANT) FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
(IBburutimiul Ihpiirtmtnt. 
BY L. WETHEKELL. 
THE TEACHER’S VOCATION. 
Of all tho various vocations in which men 
and women are engaged, there are lew. if 
any, whose responsibilities are greater than 
that of teaching and guiding aright the 
children and youth of the rising generation. 
If it is a fact, and who will presume to 
doubt it, that children make just such men 
and women, as their instruction, education 
and training, received from parents, teach 
ers and companions, are calculated to pro¬ 
duce, then the vocation of teaching cannot 
be one of minor importance. We do not 
presume to say that teachers are directly 
and solely responsible for the future char¬ 
acters, respectability and usefulness of all 
the children placed, either directly or indi¬ 
rectly. under their charge, and it may be 
but for a very short time, but we would 
urge upon all who are employed in the la¬ 
bor of teaching the young, that very much 
of the future happiness or misery of the 
future men and women will depend upon 
the manner in which they perform the work 
entrusted them. 
None but experienced teachers know, or 
can have any just views of the importance 
of the vocation which has for its end the 
training and forming of the future citizens 
of this young Republic. There was never 
a truer couplet than the following: 
“'Tis Education forms the tender mind, 
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.” 
This forming, this bending is the work of 
the parent and teacher. If the former does 
his work well, the latter will have, compar¬ 
atively an easy task—but if not, then the 
teacher has a laborious work to perform, 
and it is exceedingly doubtful whether he 
will be sustained, in using requisite means 
to bend tlio stubborn twigs placed in his 
charge, to be fitted ere long, to bo trans¬ 
planted into social and active life. 
If parents only knew how hard the teach¬ 
er's work is. when required to do it without 
their faithful aid and assistance, they would 
either lend this assistance, or else would not 
expect much benefit from sonding their 
children to school. 
The vocation of teaching may be selected 
or chosen by the young, chiefly because the 
compensation is better than that derived 
from pursuing many of the other common 
employments—also because fewer hours of 
active service are required. If the love of 
ease and gain has chiefly prompted to the 
choice of this vocation, there is one remark 
that will be generally found true with re¬ 
gard to all such, to wit, they never will be 
successful teachers—and will give up the 
vocation of teaching just so soon as some¬ 
thing better offers—or at least so soon as 
they think they can better their condition. 
If after trying the experiment, it should fail, 
they will seem to be in love with teaching 
again—not tor its sake, but for ease and lucre. 
If you would be happy and useful in the call¬ 
ing of teaching, you must love it and delight 
in it more than in any other work—not think 
so much of the dollars and ease as of the re¬ 
sults which hang upon your labors among 
the youth of the land where you are called 
to instruct. This is the great and all im¬ 
portant consideration. Remember also, 
that you are not only forming the character 
for time, but for eternity. 
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Every parent who is engaged in educa¬ 
ting and training up a family of children, 
should remember that his children require 
a physical as well as an intellectual and 
moral culture. Sound mental cultivation 
and pure and right moral instruction aro 
hardly more important than correct physi¬ 
cal education. To aid in accomplishing 
this essential part of a complete discipline, 
we know of no better works than Dr. Cut¬ 
ter’s series, including his large Anatomical 
Outline Platos. The Doctor’s works were 
recently adopted by the Board of Education, 
to be used as a text-book in the public 
schools of this city. It has been recently 
re-adopted in the State Normal School at 
Albany, by the Executive Commitee,as cer¬ 
tified by their Secretary. 
The Journal of Education, for Upper 
Canada, (edited by Egerton Ryerson, I). 
D., Chief Superintendent of Schools; as¬ 
sisted by J. George Hodgkins, Esq.,) for 
October has been received, and is filled 
with useful and interesting mattor to teach¬ 
ers, parents, and friends of education gen¬ 
erally. The Journal was first published in 
1848, and has been continued until now.— 
The present is the fifth volume. Printed 
at Toronto. Terms $1, per annum. 
la 
tion of the Territories recently acquired 
from Mexico and the proposed interdiction 
of Slavery therein, Mr. Webster made his 
memorable speech, t iking ground in favor 
of a Compromise respecting the Territories, 
and against any act or proviso by Congress 
aiming to exclude Slavery therefrom. On 
the sudden death of Gen. Taylor. (July 11. 
1850 ) he was called by Mr. Fillmore to till 
once more the fiist place in the Cabinet, 
which he retained to the last. 
JlfUiVtng fur tljp Ruling. 
BOY’S EVENINGS. 
Many a boy ruins his character and wrecks 
all his hopes by misemploying the evening 
hours. School or business has confined 
hun all the day, and the rebound with 
which his clast.c nature throws these duties 
off. carries him often almost unawares be¬ 
yond the limits both of propriety and pru¬ 
dence. 
Besides the impetuous gush of spirits 
whose buoyancy lias been thus confined 
there are influences peculiar to tho time 
w.i c i render the evening a period of special 
temptation. Satan knows that its hours are 
leisure ones for the multitude, and then, it' 
ever is he zealous to secure their services; 
wanly planning that unexpected fascina¬ 
tions may give an attractive grace to sin, 
and mi para lei led lacilities smooth the path 
to ruin. Its shadows aro a cloak which he 
persuades the young will fold with certain 
lubbotl) Pvtobings. 
A HYMN OF PRAISE. 
BY MRS. U. S. NICHOLS. 
I Mess Thro, for the sunshine on the hilts,—• 
For Heaven's own dew-drops in the vales below,— 
For rain, the parent clond alike disfils 
On the fond bridegroom's joy—the mourner’s woe! 
And for the viewless wind, that gently blows 
Where’er if listed), over field and flood, 
Whence coming, whither going, no man knows, 
Yet moved in secret, at Thy will. Oh, God I 
E'en now it lifts a ring of shining lia ; r 
From oft the brow close fo my bosom pressed— 
The loving angels scarce have brows more fair 
Than this, that looks so peaceful in its rest:— 
We Mess Thee ! Father, f< r our darling child. 
Oh ! like Thine angels make her innocent and mild! 
I rue, and bless Thee, for the morning hours : 
Refreshed anil gladdened hy a timely rest. 
When thoughts, like bees, rove out among the flowers, 
Still gathering honey where they find the best: 
And forthe gentle influence of the night 
(Oh! Heavenly Father ! do we bend the knee,) 
That shuts (he cunains of our mortal sight. 
Yet leaves die mind, wi li range and vision free, 
For dreams! the solemn, weird and strange, that come 
And bear the sou! to (he Elysian clime,— 
Unveiling splendors of that better home 
V\ here angel s minister f o sons of time 1 
For all thy blessings that with sleep descend, 
Our hearts shall praise Thee, God, our Father and our 
friend 1 
WitBd'IER. — 'IHe BdoK OF JOB. 
It was our fortune to pass several clays at 
Aft ilz/?-/V/A s c. 
c mcealment around every error, in sc d ie- his home in Marshfield, some six or eight 
ti e whispers telling them, “It is the black years ago, and well wo remember one beuu- 
aud dark night, come.” How many thus tiful night, when the heavens seemed to he 
solicited to come, "as a bird hastening to studded with countless mvriads of stais, 
the snare, knowing not that it is lor tin ir that about nine oclock in the evening wo 
lives,’ let the constantly recurringinstances walked out. and lie stood beneath the beau- 
DANIKL WEBSTER. 
Above wo present our readers with a por- in Nov. 1812 and re-elected in 1814. New every amusement ? ” Boys themselves con- hi deep thought, and at length, as it the 
f ..lift n v,ci Wpustpr — •! nvm whose Hampshire then elected by General Ticket, less it, but plead, in reply to the reumn- scene, so soft and beautiful, had suggested 
tiait o . i ' i- >■ 1 and we believe that Mr. Webster uniformly strances of friends, " that evening is their the lines, he quoted certain verses of the 
name henceforth will fill large space m the tlio Federal Ticket. His talents were only time, and that they must have some eighth Psalm, beginning with the words:— 
history of our country. We condense the w idelv known to he extraordinary, though sport.” It .s certainly very proper that ‘'When I consider thy heavens, the work of 
following brief sketch of tho prominent I he had filled no public station, when he was the young should have amusements. None thy fingers; the moon and the stars, which 
of juvenile depravity testify. 
Parents acknowledge the evil here point¬ 
ed out, and anxiously inquire. "What is to 
be done ? can we debar our children from 
tiiul weeping elm which raises its majestic 
form within a few paces of his dwelling, and 
looking up through the leafy branches, lie 
appeared for several minutes to he wrapped 
points of his public life from the N. Y. 
Tribune. 
first elected at. thirty years of age. 
In 1816 the Federal party of Now Hamp¬ 
shire were defeated in the Congressional 
better than ourselves are pleased to hear thou hast ordained; what is man that thou 
Mr. Webster’s has been a lofty though i J-qioction. but we are not sure that Mr. Wub- 
not entirely successful career. Descended g te r, had consented to run a third time. In 
from an ancestry originally Scotch but for August () f that. year, he removed to Bos:on 
a time resident in England, which migrated aIK j q,.voted himself entirely to tho prae- 
to this country very soon after the Banding t ; cp (J p Haw. II > declined a nomination to 
at Plymouth, he was born in Salisbury, (now c, m g ress in 1818 and an election to tho 
Boscawen.) New Hampshire, on the 18th of Senate, which influential men offered to 
January, 1782. His life has therefore been canvass f,, r in his behalf, at a little later pe¬ 
tite lips of childhood eloquent with the ex 
clainatioii. ‘ Oh ! we have had lots of fun.” 
It seems 1 ko our own voice coming back in 
echo to us from out a long lapsed past. 
These amusements should, however, bo 
innocent; and innocent amusements are 
most easily secured and enjoyed at home. 
Here parental sympathy may sweeten the 
pleasures, and parental care check the evils 
of play, frequency intermingling its inci- 
art mindful of him ? and the son of man 
that thou visitist him ? For thou hast made 
him a little lower than tho angels, and hast 
crowned him with glory and honor,” &c. 
The decj). low tone in which he repeated 
these inspired words, and the deep rapt 
attention with which he gazed up through 
tho branches of tho elm, struck us with a 
feeling of greater awe and solemnity than 
we ever felt, when in a year or two later, we 
of New Hampshire, as early as 1636. The 
Websters were generally farmers and (on 
occasion) soldiers, were fair-haired, of light 
complexion, and slonder frame. The Scates- 
was again pressed to represent Boston in they would often imes escape the giief oc- gail( j years. lie was thinking then of tha 
Congress (House,) and so urgently he did casiofied by filial misdeeds, and secure a rich fal . jj stant world, wherein it is promise! 
not feel at liberty to decline. Ho was cho- reward in having theii children s matuilty that the good of this life shall live foreve 
man inherited his sturdy frame. dark tea- t ] !(3 Couireiils of tho Nation after an absence 
tures, black hair, &c., from his fathers | 0 f s j x years. 
that the good of this life shall live forever 
and ever. 
We remained out beneath tho tree for 
over an hour, and all tho time he conversed 
complexion, and slonder frame. The States- sen j,y ovol - q 000 majority, and returned to adorned by many virtues. ai)( q ever 
man inherited his sturdy jrame. dai k tea- th e Councils ot tho Nation after an absence A word to boys concludes all that we \\’e remained out beneath tho tree for 
tures. black hair, &c., from his father's 0 f six years. would now say. Spend your evening hours, 0VC r an hour, and all the time he conversed 
mother, daughter ol Rev. Stephen Batch- ()q lVis subsequent career, we may speak boys, at home. \ou may make them aiming a hout the sci iptures, which no man has 
elder, and a woman of remarkable force of more hurriedly, since its leading features the most agreeable and profitable of your 8tu( jjed with greater attention, and of which 
character. His own mother was also a wo- , nust be fresh in the minds of most citizens lire>. and whin vicious companions would nQ num w | Iom wo ever saw k liew so much, 
man of rare intellectual powers. Hisfather He distinguished himself (1823) by a prop- tempt you away, remember that God has or appeared to understand and appreciate 
after fighting well fo*’ Ins king and country „sition looking to an early recognition of said, -‘Cast not in thy lot with them; walk gf) wc jp qj t) tulkod of tho book ot the Old 
in tho French and Indian wars, obtained Greek Independence, and a magnificent thou n >t in their vvav; refiainthj footfiom esneciallv and dwelt with unaf- 
character. His own mother was also a wo- nuis t fresh in the minds of most citizens 
man of rare intellectual powers. Hisfather. qj 0 distinguished himself (1823) by a prop- 
after fighting well fo*' his king and country oS ition looking to an early recognition of 
in tho French and Indian wars, obtained (} r( . c k Independence, and a magnificent 
after tho Peace ot 1763, a grant ot land in speech in its support. He favored also a 
Salisbury, at the hoad of tho Merrimac Riv- pp 0 acknowledgement of South American 
er. and there built his log cabin and com- Independence. In 1824 he made bis great 
menced his clearing in 1764—-the farthest Free Trade speech. He and John Randolph 
north of any British subject in New Eng- we ,- e the Tellers when the House elected 
land. The log house long since vanished. Mr. Adams President — by the vote of 13 
as did the frame one built bosidoitin which States to 11—and ho became one of the 
Daniel Webster was born ; but the farm re- ablest and most influential supporters of 
mains in the family, and tho trees which the Administration of Adams and Clay — 
shaded his boyhood and the well whence he Re-elected in 1824 and 1826 with scarcely 
quenched his thirst, still wooed him with any show of opposition, Mr. Webster was in 
their well-remembered attractions, on each t he latter year chosen a Senator of the 
recurring visit, to the last United States. Toward the close of 1827 
Young Webster received his education in his first wife died while he was on his way to 
no man whom wo ever saw knew so much, 
or appeared to understand and appreciate 
so well. He talked of tho hock ot the Old 
Greek Independence, and a magnificent thou n >t m tfieir way; lefiam n oo rem T(j 8 i arae nt especially, and dwelt with unaf- 
speech in its support. He favored also a their path. 1 hey lay in wait tqi tien own f ec t e d pleasure upon Isaiah, the Psalms, and 
liko acknowledgement of South American blood; they lurk privily tor their own lives. espec j a n y t | ie Book of Job. The Book of 
But walk thou in the way of good men. and 
keep the paths of the righteous.”— I'he 
Schoolmate. 
PROFANITY. 
Recklessness of speech is one of the cry¬ 
ing evils of the day. One class of expres- 
especially the Book of Job. The Book of 
Job. he said, taken as a mere work of liti- 
rarv genius, was one of the most wonderful 
productions of any ago or in any language. 
As an epic poem, he deemed it tar superior 
to either the Iliad or the Odyssey. The 
two last, he said, received much of their at¬ 
traction from tho more narration of warlike 
deeds, and from the perilous escapes of tho 
think it rather suitable in our position mere- 
which his father resolved unsolicited to send During the session ot 1829-30 occurred | 18 Iluu O ! and depended upon tho power of the dia- 
him—a great undertaking for a poor farm- the memorable debate on Foots resolution , were 110NtI 111 ’ oc . ‘ •“ , * loguo. and not upon the interest of the sto- 
er, in wlmt was still aim,,It a -or settle- respecting tho Public Lands, wherein Mr. «»<* a prolano exda •“ , „ S i rv? to produce its effects. This was consid- 
’ , ,T- L..a v....u:..i J.W. . nr . * n n»l TThvMA a+' Sa who enjoyed a considerable reputation— • j ' _,. . n. 
mont. His brother Ezekiel was also sent a Webster in replying to Col. Hayno. of So. ", no 
little later to Dartmouth, imposing on them Carolina, vindicated his right to rank first tho 1 lusiu 
both, as well as on their parents, the neces- among living debaters. . tl(m wa ® * 
sitv of observing a most rigorous economy. Mr. Webster remained in the Senate, ad- uiorm nt ’ 
But they were both carried creditably thro’ vocating the re-charter of the second United sneaked fi 
and more than justified the fond hopes of States Bank, condemning the Veto hy which ot justice 
their parents. Ezekiel became a lawyer of that re-charter was defeated—opposing the . a £ 01 
eminence, but fell dead (of disease of the re-election of Gen. Jtickson, and supporting In g al | L J 11 
heart) while arguing a cause in Concord, Mr. Clay in opposition to him—vigorously most tilth 
N. II., in 1829. opposing Nullification when attempted to make so l 
Daniel entered college in 1797, and grad- be put jn practice in 1833—opposing tho 
who enioyed a considerable reputation— -. .- , . . , . , ,, 
.i -a • . +• u:„ oring it merely an intellectual work, ilo 
the illusion resulting Horn his social posi- p. , . J . . . , 
.■ „ . . i,,,i i ..,,,1 tho read it through often, and always with re¬ 
turn was completely destroyed, anu at tne , , T , . . . , 
mom* nt we only saw a ruffian who had newed delight. In b,s judgment, i was the 
iked himself into the ermine and robes f ea ^ st e P lc f e ! er w ™ t0D - We woH remem- 
ust l ce her his quotation ot soino of the versos in 
t U a gentleman should rise in the morn- the thirty-eighth chapter Then the Lord 
i • • . ..• , | • _ • , t i,„ answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, 
and insist on arraying Ins person in tne . . i , . . 
• l.i „ , , ” v,_ Who is this that darkeneth counse by words 
it filthy rags and tatters, he would not . , . , . , . ... , V . . 
J n without knowledge ? Gird up now thv loins 
ce so flagrant a mistake as when ho in- ... ,. 7 ... . 1 , ,. - , 
i • .1 , i m m' hLisubAiiiv • f. r uko a man; tor 1 will demand ot thee, and 
If a gentleman should rise in the morn¬ 
ing and insist on arraying his person in tho 
most filthy rags and tatters, ho would not 
make so flagrant a mistake as when ho in¬ 
dulged in the language ot blasphemy ; for, ,, „ rl . . . T 
• • ri ..i i ,i | answer thou me. Where wast thou, when 1 
in tins dialect, the base revel, tlio duel anu ... ... . r . , 
. _• ...i„ laid the foundations ot the earth ? Declare 
ijaiuoi umvMjvi Lonvcv ^ • i-y-.- _ * . « , 
uated in 1801, spending tho next year as I anfi C ompromise of that year—tho remo 
Principal of an Academy at Fryeburg, 
Maine, for $350 per annum, which he saved 
entire, earning his livelihood by copying le¬ 
gal records. After spending a few months 
in the law office of a Mr. Thompson in Sal¬ 
isbury, he went to Boston, and entered as a 
student the office of Christopher Gore, an 
eminent lawyer and statesman, where he 
val of the Deposits. &c. He was a candi¬ 
date for President in 1836. but received the 
twelve votes of Massachusetts only. Ho 
continued to serve in Senate, warmly advo¬ 
cating tho election of Gen. Harrison in 1840. 
until he was called thence to take the first 
place in Gen. Harrison’s Cabinet, which he 
.i .i . laid tne iounaations oi tne eartn 
tho jutlaw recognize eacli other paitly by . . . 
i *u 6 i .cr. if thou hast understanding. &c. Mr. v\ ch¬ 
its use, and the base grow yet more Go- . . t ’ 1 , . . .. c 
, j ’ a j g (. or was a j 1U0 reader, and his recitation ot 
1 Reckless, aye, and dishonest acts, the P articular P assa g es ^ whi |- h 1,0 felt " arm : 
fearful tendency of our times, grow out of ^oro never surpassed, and were capab e of 
imprudence and excess in conversation.- g>''.ng tho most exquisite delight to those 
The Press, especially the political newspa- who could appreciate them .-Boston Atlas. 
made rapid proficiency, and was admitted °t that lamented patriot, 
to the bar in 1805. Returning to Now He remained in the Cabinet until 1843. 
Hampshire, he declined a proffered Clerk- having in the moantime negotiotod the Ash- 
shin in the* Court of which his father was burton Treaty, whereby our long disputed 
UlctUU HI litu i loua o vuuiuvi*, * . . , . . 
continued to fill after the untimely death pers. are now teeming with articles conceiv¬ 
ed in the same spirit which prompts in con- Honor to Woman.— Without hor smiles 
versation language unbefitting a gentleman, the world would lose its brightness—society’s 
Moderation in deportment, in dress, in charm would exist no longer. Christianity 
gesture and language, is the test of thepos- would languish without hei aid. 
session of that self-command or self-re- “ In whose principles,” said the dying 
straint which, if not the invariable concom- daughter ot Ethan Allen to her sceptical 
itant of a high moral character, is usually father—“ in whoso principles shall 1 die— 
so. If men care anything for reputation yours or my Christian mother s r” 
and temporal success, they will abstain from ’ The stern old hero of Tieonderoga brush- 
this wicked, useless, and contemptible vice, ed away a tear from ht3 eye as he turned 
i gITfJX ? been :led into the use Of profane away ami with the same rough voice which 
—iirace, 4 Ietener, Julia, anu ivuwaiu—m oppose uio giuuuug ui - vour mother’s 
whom Fletcher alone survives. Edward prosecution of the war. Mr. Webster was _ __ 7 Sacred to the heart is the memory of a 
diod in Mexico, in 1847, while serving as a a candidate for tho W big Presidential nom- . , mothers love 
Major of Massachusetts Volunteers. Julia ination at Philadelphia in 1848, but very So necessary is fun to tho mind that a moino1 1U>W ' _ 
became Mrs. Appleton, and died in Boston meagrely supported. late philosopher says if you should build * ~. . , 
some years a<zo F On the 7th day of March 1850, while the school-houses without play-grounds, nobody Habits are soon assumed, but when wo 
Mr. Webster lived nino years in Ports- country and Congress were both agitated would got beyond short division in a life strive to to strip them oft, tis being flayed 
mouth, and was thence elected to Congress 1 by questions connected with tho organiza- time. alive. Lowper. 
