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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL. LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
(Stontator. 
SCHOOLS AT THE WEST- 
New Englanders are accustomed to boast 
of the freedom of their institutions, the facilities 
offered by them for the acquisition of an edu¬ 
cation, and of the high position of their common 
schools. The State of New York is not back¬ 
ward in its own self-glorification, and is quite 
as apt as her republican sisters farther east, to 
consider the means adopted by herself to edu¬ 
cate the people, as a little in advance of all the 
rest of the world. They do not seem to con¬ 
sider for a moment, that in this, as in all other 
things, the star of empire takes its way toward 
the setting sun. They have been accustomed 
to regard the people of such States a3 Illinois, 
Wisconsin and Iowa, as a kind of outside bar¬ 
barians, living on the outskirts of civilization, 
and passing through that transition state, hall 
sunshine and half shadow which forms the con¬ 
necting link between barbarism and civiliza¬ 
tion. They can hardly be made to believe 
without an actual survey of the field, that 
thriving and populous communties are spring¬ 
ing up all over the vast field, in which ail that __ _ ^ 
adorns and dignifies humanity is sedulously cul¬ 
tivated and improved. 
Churches, school-houses, public libraries and Tub above engraving represents a noble The material principally used in the con- voice, nor ever utterred an articulate syllable, 
galleries of art, are to be found in localities, structure now in progress of erection under | struction of the exterior walls is the yellow could be taught to read and write, to converse 
which, within the memory of men yet young, the auspices of the State, as an institution for j Milwaukee brick. The basement, as well as with great facility by means of visible signs, 
scarcely had a civilized inhabitant. Teachers, the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. It is | the portico, window sills and lintel keys, are and be instructed in all the sciences ; yet such 
and men of scionce, the most eloquent and located on Washington Heights, nine miles j of granite, and courses of the same material is the every-day experience in the institutions, 
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NEW YORK DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION. 
learned that can be found, are drawn from the north of the City Hall, New York. The cor - running around the entire building indicate and the exhibition of the proficiency made by, 
east, and encouraged to take up their perma-* ncr stone was laid on the 22d of November, the different stories. The roof will be of slate, the pupils is one of the most interesting we 
nent abode in those attractive regions. Innu- 1853, and the building is expected to be ready bordered by a handsome cornice and balustrade, have ever witnessed. 
mcrablo instances might be cited to substan- for occupancy sometime during the coming fall. A great and beneficent chancre has taken It amrears. from an address delivered bvDr. 
lor occupancy sometime during me coming mi. A grcat and beneficent change has taken It appears, from an address delivered by Dr. 
tiate this position, but two or three must an- The principal building is one hundred and place throughout the civilized world in regard Peut, President of the above institution, on 
swer as illustrations. fifty f ee t front by fifty-five feet deep, four stories to the management and treatment of those | the occasion of laying the corner stone, that 
Bishop Lee, of Iowa, has been drawn away high, including the basement, and it is sur- unfortunate classes of our fellow men who are j less than three centuries have elapsed since the 
from our own prosperous and beautiful city to mounted by an observatory and dome com- afflicted with physical and mental infirmities; ! first effort was made, by two benevolent priests, 
a newer and wider pastoral field. Horace manding a magnificent and beautiful prospect, and no Commonwealth (with pride do we say ! to instruct the deaf and dumb; and that the 
Mann, the eloquent and distinguished advocate The w j n g S are eac h one hundred and twenty it) is more able or more willing than our own first institution for the purpose was established 
of popular education, and well known as the by forty-six feet. These wings are united to to give freely in aid of these beneficent and less than a century ago. The first institution 
former Secretary of the Massachusetts Board d)C main building by towers containing pri- merciful institutions. The Lunatic, the Mute, of a similar character in this country, was es- 
of Public I nstruction, has been installed Prcsi- va + e passages and staircases, through which the the Blind man, and the Idiot have each special tablished at Hartford in the year 1816, which 
dent of Antioch College, Ohio. John Dore, gteward and Matron may, at any time, visit provisions made for him by the State, and all was followed by the New York Institution the 
an acquaintance and friend of the -writer, last the apartments of the pupils under their charge, the means furnished to enable him to overcome succeeding yea/. There are now in this coun¬ 
summer resigned the mastership o ! one of the j n the rear of, and of the same size as the as far as possible the disadvantages under try sixteen of these institutions, one-half of 
largest public schools in Boston, where he was principal building, is the school house, which which he labors. No one would believe it which have been founded within the past ten 
reccving eighteen hundred dollars a year, and con t a ins class, lecture, library, and cabinet possible, unless lie saw it, that .a deaf mute, years, and the number of deaf mutes under 
has assumed the duties ol School Superinten- rooms, and a hall of design. one who never heard the sound of a human instruction is not far from twelve hundred, 
dent at Chicago. It is not only to the distin- ■ ■ ■ - .... . , . . . .. . . 
guished educator and divine that the West BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT. HARDSHIPS AND HORRORS OF WAR. i THE IRON MOUNTAIN 
offers ample inducements, the laborious and _ _ j 
practical teacher finds abundant employment The following beautiful paragraph we ex- The oldest soldiers have never witnessed or : Who has not heard of the “ Iron Mountain 
HARDSHIPS AND HORRORS OF WAR. 
THE IRON MOUNTAIN. 
practical teacher finds abundant employment The following beautiful paragraph we ex- The oldest soldiers have never witnessed or , Who has not heard of the “ Iron Mountain 
and good jmy. A young friend of ours from tract from the Baulaurette address, delivered heard of .a campaign in which general officers J 0 f Missouri?” In the county of St. Francois, 
Henrietta, iu this county, a first-rate teacher, before the graduating class of Kutger's Col- u ( f. c obliged to live out in tents on the open and j n the midst of a fertile and flourishing ag- 
however, as one of his brothers was before him, lege, by the lion. Theodore Frelinghuysen, J 1 ,® ^ nt ° LT+iJ 0 °° V ?£ • ’ ricu,tural re S ion > sonie ci S h, y mile3 from St - 
b» lately located at La Salle, Illinois, where and commend it to the perusal of the young : “iiSrwuj amiXhare witSlaaMd ^ f ™'» *¥ »'!«£ 
1 jo .rcuinsuiar wai, ana wn.onave witnessed a good sippi, rises this famous eminence of iron. It 
they p.ace him at the head O; a school number- “ Resolve to do something useful, honorable, deal ol fighting since that time in various is thus described by a correspondent of the St. 
ing six hundred scholars, and pay him twelve dutiful, and do it heartily. Ilepel the thought parts of the world, are unanimous in declaring jr ou / s Republican: 
hundred dollars a year. The school house now that you can, and therefore you may, live that they never knew or read ol a war in which “The mountain and the mound consist of 
in process of erection costs the community fif- above work and without it. . Among the most the officers were exposed to such hardships, masses of iron ore of the richest quality, ar- 
the value of his 
all these noble fa 
hundred dollars a year. The school house now that you can, and theretore you may, live rnai mey never Knew or read oi a war in wiiicn “The mountain and the mound consist of 
in process of erection costs the community fif- above work and without it. Among the most the officers were exposed to such hardships, masses of iron ore of the richest quality, ar- 
teen thousand dollars, and a member of the I )i . tia 1 b |f ob j® cta ^ society, is the man whose landed ^ ™ ost ^ ^ f anged by the hand of nature in “ ready made” 
. . -i . .. i , , mind has not been trained by the discipline of an^iiiiiig but A\iiut tlicy could cany, and they lumps, from the size of a. pigeon s egg upwards 
board of education was in this city las week educa ti on —who has learned how to think, and marched beside their men, slept by them, fought mixed with a small portion of reddish yellow 
to make arrangements with one of oui median- the value of his immortal powers, and with ^0 them, and died by them, undistinguished day, which itself contains quite a per centa°*e 
ics for tho furniture of the school rooms. all these noble faculties cultivated and prepar- lrom them in any respect, except by the deadly 0 f ‘j ron . Thus f ar the workings (there is no 
When it is considered that some of the very f *j or an honorable activity, ignobly sits down and S ^^ r< V.mf, 1 ,t’,-v" 1U ^ri,rvfv min t? g ne . CesSar j) , have bee " c ° nfined r t( \ a 
. , „ • xt i i 7 to do nothing; with no influence over the pub- many lives to tilt country, the suivivois sni all portion ol the westerly slope of the 
test colleges in New Lug.an pay ir pio ]| c mind—with no interests in the concerns of have often been unable to get their things from mound, the mountain being held in reserve, 1 
fessors, who are men oi the highest* scientific thjg country or even his neighborhood,—to be °^boaul ship. . . # presume, for the grander operations of future 
attainments, and have had years of experience, regarded as a drone, without object or charac* -f * ie y “ ave ^ ain down at night in the clothes generations. A tew hands, with little labor 
but a thousand dollars a year, and that very ter, with no hand to lift, and no effort to put " b ' ( ' b they wore during the day ; many deli- or coa t, pick out enough ore to supplv the fur- 
few cities anywhere can boast of school- f° rtb to kelp the right hand or defeat the cately-nurtuml youths never changed shirts or naces> The entire mound, so far as it has been 
houses costing even ten thousand dollars, we ««*• Who can think with any calmness of “"V®*? 1 ’ is » f , tl,cs ? 
are partially prepared to appreciate the h rer- wbb you j Q ac ^ ve enterprise, never permit very hunted extent. “ Hank and fashion,” un- ]y separated from the clay which fills the in- 
are partially prepared to appreciate the Lbu- w p b y OU j n active enterprise, never permit very limited extent. “ Bank and fashion,” un- 
ality and energy of those young communities y 0ur influence to go into hostility to the cause der sucb circumstances, have fallen a prey to 
of the West which so over-bid us for the servi- of truth and virtue. So live, that with the P ai- asitical invasion — an evil to which the 
ces of our best men. Think of a young city Christian poet you may truthfully say that otbor in r c ; ldent f o1 roughing it are of little mo- 
. ., e , i ,, . „ . . . . . ,ment. I he officers are m rags. Guardsmen, 
a thousand miles from the sea board and from “ I your■ countr y sta^not by your skill _ who are « the best 8tyle of m |u” in the parks, 
the old haunts of science and learning, erecting At least your fo.lies have not w. ought hor fall. -*-* ^- ---i 
Common School houses worth fifteen thousand 
uci suen cucumsiances, nave iaucn a prey to terstices. In manv places, scarcely anything 
parasitical invasion -an evil to which the bu ( ; ] um ps of pure ore, with hardly any ad- 
other incidents ol roughing it are of little mo- mixture, appear. In some parts of the work- 
A Model School _Have you never seen a ab scams and patches, torn in all directions, f orm a large store for future use. 
dollars, and paying their principals twelve hun- schoo] where a desire fop improvement was an ^ mended wlUl more , vigor than neatness, When the mound, or that portion of it above 
dred dollars a year! New England must look sufficient to secure diligence in study; one in am L? c Ur v cava ‘7 and bn f. ( 31 J e . n are the level of the furnaces, is all changed from 
iich the accustomed order brought as free a 1 !! :£,« its crude state to iron >J hc coni P a,i y iaa y pro- 
sling as the autumn twilight in the grove?— 1 , , °i d b ’ bo ° ts ’ ceed to excavate belo\#the level, or continue 
to her laurels, for other and newer (ate* are which the accustomed order brought as free a teT Z n 0 S 'Z.X o Zu i SZ 
also building school houses and raising men. feeling as the autumn twilight m the grove - or shoes when they see their officers no bettci’ 
---Never one where harmony,peace and joy ruled off than themS elves. 
Tub Way to Bmo » a State-Got. ta^o eTolic’ Z 7 native “pkn! Sow,! Wo are out tare •' soldiering with thegildiog 
Grimes, of Iowa, (senior editor of tho Iowa upon the fertile soil, and flourishing with wild f™U™Lnd'of1iis°te™ ?f''ii!™Hnie U !lo 1 iid 
v • i • • i ] i *11 ■] i • o i r* i ••if* i loicvci c in 0(1 or liis Jove oi arms ii lie could 
tanner,) in his inaugural address, thus de- luxuriance? Where selfish, sordid spirits found but see one day’s fighting, and have one day’s 
scribes tho wants of the thriving State over no sympathy, but all were earnest, generous, parade of tlie f ncn °ho do it. Fortunate it is 
which he presides : J as , t? f hcrc trath fel1 rro “ lh f ton - ue 1 ’ « asl ‘- for us that we have a youth on whom to rely, 
si oes, wnen uiey see uieir orncers no ueucr eastward a fevv hundred feet, and attack the 
than themselves. mountain itself, which, as far as is known, is 
jy e are 0l1 ' 1C1C so dierui 8' i w k tbe 8' ddlll g but a vastly enlarged edition of the salne vol- 
off, and many a young gentleman would be ume . But at what period will the mound, 
•ever cured of his love ol arms ii lie could even> be exhausted ? I have seen no calcula- 
“ tSlie wants educated farmers and meehaii- face was index of a soul ? Oh, there are those 
ics, engineers, architects, metallurgists and w ] 10 bid us curb the lip, confine the blood, 
geologists. She needs men engaged in the quench the eye’s flash, and force the hollow 
practical duties ol life, who have conquered S m;ie when it is mockery. They'd have us veil 
their professions, and who are able to impart the soul, and seem the stoic that we'd scorn to 
their knowledge to others.. She wants farmers be. But they do greatly err. Art is their 
who shall be acquainted with the principles of g U j de ■ be Nature ours, 
chemistry as applied to Agriculture; archi- Have you never seen a school where con- 
delight in war,” and who will be ever ready to 
incur privation, danger, and death at her sum¬ 
mons. As to young ladies suffering from 
“scarlet fever,”—the pupils of the “ L. E. L.” 
tecls and mechanics who will adorn her with 
edifices worthy of so fair a land; and engi- iud^e—God? If such you have not seen*in L | lc y CUUIU ljm lur . u ' Ui maiant iiavu siuou ue- therefore, a much larger quantity be yearly 
neers and geologists to develop her resources, fact, yet you doubtless' have in fancy. The Slde and gazed into one ol those pits where d i spose d of, the present generation of workers 
and thus augment the wealth and happiness of earnest teacher laboring for the welfare of his so ™ ! tbllt y Ihevalk^ al c ‘ ( ’ V(3red will not witness the disappearance of the 
her citizens. This want can only be supplied pupi i S) oftcn contemplates such an ideal.— Cor. , • i scarlet 1 aad blue C10 . th .’ Wltb lace a ld mound, even to the level of the furnaces. Bc- 
by the establishment ol a school of applied Common School Journal. broidery, and blood, were lying side by side, spec tj n g tb c quantity in the mountain, it is 
sciences. I have no hesitation in recommend- _ and staimg up to hearen \.nh their sightless eil0U gb say, that it is practically inexhaust- 
ing that a university fund be appropriated to r ■ YmmoWnym" VffhHc orbs as fkey wereabout;to be consigned toithe il)le> The ] inc 0 f the St. Louis and Iron 
establish a scientific or polytechnic school.” j u Z ' FTU * w0rn , 1 ’. the ^ 7 0uld 1 tke horrors ot their hero Mountain ]la ilroad passes immediately west of 
no wmi, U.1U tao suum mat w ubwru wi scboo] who are forev e r thinking of heroes and 
Iso But they do greatly err. Art is their warrio singing of champions?of “Crowning 
guide ; be Nature ours. conquerors’ brows with fljwers,” and wishing 
Have you never seen a school where con- , 1, A , Rtapf1 _ ftIu1 hrio-U” — ,1' 
ble bounds these results are obtained : 
Twenty acres, an average depth of fifty 
feet, yielding say four tons of ore to the cubic 
yard, would produce about six and a half mil¬ 
lions of tons of ore; and allowing seventy per 
cent, as the net yield of metal, four and a half 
science was the accuser, right the law, and the 
warriors, singing of champions, ol ‘crowning millions of tons of iron. If this were taken 
conqueiors brows with flowers, and wishing ou ^ at |), e ra teof one thousand tons per annum, 
for ‘ Arab ^steeds and falchions bright —-ii j t wou ] d occupy forty-five years. Unless, 
they could but for one instant have stood be- 
Common School Journal. 
uroiuery, ana oiooa, were lying siue ay s ue, spc . ct i„g the quantity in the mountain, it is 
and staling up to heaven with their sightless eil0Ug |j to say, that it is practically inexhaust- 
orbs as they wereabout to be consigned to the ;u„ Ti. n n„„ nf iLr» Lu Tm,;! o,„i j„, in 
The line of the St. Louis and Iron 
Pupils have sense and judgment. Passion Success has attended the efforts thns tar. The war shall be no more, and when the shedding thpWnfthPmn 
will at times overpower both, and call for a citizens of Worcester have already subscribed of blood shall cease. ' LIlt uasC u u t J11U 
controlling force ; but in very many cases the between four and five thousand dollars towards B 00 d_bread, the staff of life, and meat_ " 
public opinion of the scholars is the best its endowment. A college charter was grant- W e have in sufficient quantity, and if the de- Right in one tli 
tandard. I/it them, to a great extent, make ed by the last Legislature, and several efficient partment over which Mr. Filder presides can wards r ‘S bt bl CVC1 
heir own rules for the play-ground. Not that men are now at work raising a hundred thous- only supply us as it has done during our win- d > sta '<t lrom the le 
heir decision should be supreme. The teacher and dollars as an endowment. ter in the Crimea, (lie army will be* much in- sb ould do harm to 
the base of the mountain.” 
Right in one thing becomes preliminary to¬ 
wards right in everything; the transition is not 
distant from the feeling winch tells us that we 
should do harm to no man', to that which tells 
hould preside in their legislative assembly, re- 
erving to himself the veto power. In most 
-—-debted to it. In the efforts the commissariat us ^ ba, “ >ve sboidd do & ood ab inen 
There are now 35 Night Schools in Phila- officers are making for the maintenance of the . “*■*’ ; 
ia:ses tho decision oi tlie school will need no rc- delphia. The average attendance of pupils is army they receive material aid from our mer- 
ersing. 5,385, chant ships .—English Cor. from the Crimea. 
The Chinese call a pricking conscience a 
“ hedge-hog with all the points turned rewards.’' 
Written for Moore "r Rural New-Yorker. 
THE HIGHER GOAL. 
BY Wit. E. C. K.V0WIE3. 
When' the high immortal thought 
Springs from chaos into birth, . 
From the darkness light is wrought, 
Giving life to senseless earth. 
And upon its tireless wings 
Soars the now-born up through air j 
*TUi tho e ovation brings 
Its own joy and glory there. 
Time and sense, and earthly lore, 
Loie their charms when viewed afar | 
• But the path that lies before, 
Winds up still, from star to star, 
8wift!y pressing for the goal, 
Hindered not by adverse gale, 
Mind and spirit, heart and soul, 
Long to rise within the vail. 
All the base and low do dros 
Of an earthiy pilgrimage, 
Leave the heart, as it aspires 
For a nobler heritage. 
New and higher purposes 
Fill the vacant citadel, 
Till invading enemies 
Learn that truth defends It well i 
And upon its tireless wings 
Soars the new-born up through air, 
Till the elevation brings 
Its own joy and glory there. 
Swiftly pressing for the goal, 
Hindered not by adverse gale, 
Mind and spirit, heart and soul, 
Long to rise within the vail. 
Youngstown, N. Y., 1S55. 
SELFISHNESS YS. BENEFICENCE. 
A life of selfishness and sin is not worth 
living. It has no dignity in it, and no happi¬ 
ness. "VV e only realize the great end of our 
being, when we become like God, sending forth 
lrom our hearts streams ol love and beneficence. 
The poor creature who lives to himself, what¬ 
ever he may possess of the world’s treasures 
or honors, is to be pitied, not envied. He is 
deceived and ruined. 'There is before him the 
semblance ol refreshing waters, but the torment 
of his thirst never ceases. Tlie golden fruits 
of opulence and ambition turn to ashes on his 
lips. The world does not, cannot satisfy. 
The fever of restless desire consumes him.— 
His veins swell and his temples throb with a 
fire kindled in hell. He is selfish, and there¬ 
fore wretched ; he is selfish, and therefore base, 
disgraceful and devilish. We first begin to 
live a rational existence, when we begin to live 
for others. See that boy, who has just done 
an unselfish and noble action! How his eye 
flashes, and his breast heaves, with the con¬ 
sciousness of a generous emotion! He thinks 
himself almost a man. The soul of a man 
does begin to glow within him. Beneficence 
is the true life, the true manhood, and the true 
religion. 
Do something for others : this is the basis of 
self-respect, and of a just and laudable self-ap¬ 
preciation, and the secret of all the real hap¬ 
piness which we enjoy on earth. No man can 
respect himself, who is without those elements 
of character which render a soul truly humane 
and philanthropic. Nor can any man be truly 
blest, who is selfish and wicked. 
It you, dear reader, are anxious, restless 
and miserable, it is because love does not rule 
in your soul, nor beneficence govern your life. 
But forget yourself for a while ; think of oth¬ 
ers and of their wants ; seek out that neglect¬ 
ed one who will be grateful for a smile,—that 
disconsolate one who will bless you for a tear, 
—that tried and tempted one in need of kind¬ 
ness and counsel; relieve the wants of the poor 
and wretched ; remember the outcasts and the 
down-trodden of the earth; consecrate your¬ 
self, in a word, to God and humanity, and the 
sunshine of heaven will begin to glow in your 
soul, your peace will be secure and solid as the 
firm earth you tread, and gorgeous visions of 
the glory to be revealed, when the lovers of 
God and man shall obtain their reward, will 
sometimes come to you, like the momentary 
opening of the gates of the Celestial City. 
Rochester, Jan. 12, 1855. A. C. G. 
Preaching.— To preach, to show the extent 
of our reading, or the subtleties of our wit,— 
to parade it in the eyes of the vulgar with the 
beggarly accounts of a little learning, tinselled 
over with a few words, which glitter, but con¬ 
vey little light and less warmth,—is a dishon¬ 
est use of the poor single half hour in a week 
which is put into our hands : ’tis not preach¬ 
ing the gospel—but ourselves. For my own 
part, I had rather direct five words point-blank 
to the heart.— Sterne. 
Clergymen. — Some people talk a great 
deal about ministers and the cost of keeping 
them, paying their house-rent, table expenses, 
and other items of salary. Did such croakers 
ever think that it costs thirty-five millions of 
dollars to pay the salaries of American law¬ 
yers?—that twelve millions of dollars are paid 
out annually to keep our criminals, and ten 
millions of dollars to keep the dogs in the 
midst of us alive, while only six millions of 
dollars are spent annually to keep six thousand 
preachers in the United States?— N. Y. Rec. 
Merely professing religion does not make 
a man the better; although it is a testimony 
in favor of the excellence of Christianity if a 
man s life coincides therewith. 
■UMiMtMUMiMi 
