MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY N EWSPAP E R. 
dhuatiffiuiL 
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ROCHESTER. 
eleventh annual report of the Superin¬ 
tendent of the Public Schools in the city of 
Rochester (R. I). Jokes, Esq.,) has been pub¬ 
lished, pursuant to a resolution of the Board of 
Education, passed March 20tli, 1854. It con¬ 
tains full statistical tables in regard to the 
schools of the city, as also tables of the com¬ 
parative cost of public school education in 
other cities; a list of the members of the 
Board, Standing Committees, teachers, and a 
catalogue of text books, &c., &c. 
The report does not include the entire school 
year, inasmuch as that closes in August next, 
and the report is required to be made in March. 
It appears by this document, that the num- 
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PARHELIA, OR MOCK SIJHS. 
woods with an axe, my lungs as quiet as a 
child’s. * * * * * . *. 
« There are so few invalids who are invaria¬ 
bly and conscientiously untemptable by those 
I deadly domestic enemies, sweetmeats, pastry 
and gravies, that the usual civilities at a meal 
are very like being politely assisted to the 
grave. The care and nurture of the skin is a 
matter worth some studying; for it is capable 
not only of being negatively healthy, but pos¬ 
itively luxurious in its actions and sensations— 
as every well-groomed horse knows better than 
most men. The American liver has a hard 
struggle against the greasy cookery of our 
happy country. The impoverished blood of 
the invalid sometimes requires a “glass of 
wine for one’s stomach’s sake,” recommended 
Iraki) licking. 
[Written for tlio Rural Netv-Yorkcr.J 
SHE IS LAID IN THE GRAVE. 
She is laid in the grave ! but her bright spirit soars 
To the regions of bliss from these sorrowful shores; 
She moved in a circle of loved friends while here, 
Who saw she was formed for a happier sphere. 
by the Apostle. Just sleep enough, and just 
clotliin"- enough, are important adjustments, 
ber of volumes in the school libraries of the m crogging one ail0 ther, produce con- fine crj 
city, is 14,780; the number ot different scholar* . uoug masses of i ig h t by their united inten- crystals 
that have attended the public schools thus far giliegj and lke points of intersection appear direclh 
durino- the vear is 7.611. The whole number studded with the solar image. This is a me- variety 
of children of school age on the last day of teorological rarity in our latitude, but a very he.iasc 
of children ot scnooi age number frequent spectacle in the arctic climes. In a less 
December, 18o3, was 14,<80, ot winch numt r ^ . the severe winter 0 f 1Glo, it is and w 
8,320 attended the public schools, and 2,140 re]ated tbat tbu SU n, when seen, was always ac- Pans i 
attended private select schools, leaving a bal- covn pmried by two, four, five, and even nine ol “ A 
ance of over 4,000 non-attendants, a result these illusions. Captain Parry describes a re- I). 12.. 
Oh 1 sad are the sighs for her absence I heave, 
And sad are my tears—tho’ ’tis fruitless to grieve; 
Yet ofc, through the dark mists of sorrow, I see . 
lu fancy, my mother still smiling on mo 1 
Wherever I go, there’s no object 1 trace 
Can tear from my mind her loved form or her face ; 
Nor time can my soul in forgetfulness steep; 
Her dream-wafted image still smiles on my sleep. 
In nights calm and clear, ’mid the bright orbs I try 
To trace her blest home in the beautiful sky ; 
And I gaze on some star, ’til in fancy I see 
Her far-shining spirit still smiling on me 1 
South Livonia, N. Y., 185.4 O. 
Tiie pastor Oberlin, having received warn- 
by Captain Parry, who remarks upon having requiring 1110 re thought and care than are usu- soul “ ljlv 0 ,_ 
always observed such phenomena at tended with ^ tQ them For a little philosophy in " 
S,"“oncf' ^ •<* i“ *T K ™— EV1L 
crystals determine the rays of light in different your lungs would be very much obliged to Tiie pastor Oberlin, having received warn- 
direclions, and originate the consequent visual you> An analysis of the air we live and sleep j ng that some uncivilized and brutal persons 
variety. We have various observations of par- . WQldd bc we p wor th looking into occasion- had formed a plan for waylaying and indicting 
heliaseen in different parts ot Europe, which in * nd ( i icrc are two things that turn sour upon him a “ severe castigation, took tor his 
a less enlightened age excited consternation, « U, J* . , text in church, on the bunday when he had 
and were Warded as portentous. Mathew in a man without constant and sufficient occ beeu to ld the outrage was to be perpetrated, 
Paris relates m his history: pation upon something besides the domestic tbose wor j s 0 f our baviour, “But i say unto 
“ A wonderful sight was seen in England, A. c i rc i e —the temper and the ambition.” you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever 
D. 1233, April 8, in the fifth year of the reign ^ expre sses the fear that he cannot shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him 
of Henry III., and lasted from sunrise till noon. / , to his correspondent his the other also;” and proceeded, from these 
At the same time on the 8th of April, about 1 sufficiently convey i n „ <tnn n words, to speak of the Christian patience with 
o’clock in the borders of Herefordshire and own sense of the importance of a horse to an whi(jh we sllouk [ su ff e r injuries, and submit to 
tnS^le^ble L°Lny"o wdl p^ded with mSLb^^ AtK convey to ^ ^orrespondent hfe ^^ s ^; f a ^ e 
the city for school purposes was consisted of one complete halo, 4 o dtgiees m u o ct* u.. , . , .., „ . in saddle, would ,i lfi malcontents met at the house of one of 
ceived from the State, $8,134. diamete 
At the commencement of the present school P^ing 
year, seventy-eight teachers were engaged, at ^ 
salaries as follows: the sky, 
Ten at.. a year. 
One at. 00 
One at. 600 
Seven at.. 
Eleven at. ^ 
Twelve at. 200 
Two at. 190 ;; 
Twenty-five at. 18< ) 
Nine at. 175 
Since the commencement of the year, four 
additional teachers, not including the evening 
school, have been employed, making the num¬ 
ber now in the schools, 82. 
We shall have occasion to refer to this re¬ 
port again hereafter, giving some inteiesting 
remarks of the Superintendent touching the 
matter of evening schools. 
tance fron 
horizontal 
inner halo cut each oilier, mere were P «u- .V' • d i a te- similar instructions, given oy a ceieuraieu -- 
““lT! ThotlhcKavens were circled. The appear- physician of the West, been implicitly obeyed. 1 
under the sun, which formed the most brilliant ly how the heavens were cir 
part of the spectacle, being exactly like the sun, ance was painted in tins m« 
slightly obscured by a thin cloud at his rising pie, for the wonderful nove 
or setting. A drawing of this parhelion is given T he above is a pretty co 
with respect; “I am acquainted with your de- 
physic to the dogs, 
brought me to the borders of the grave. 1 I’erinton, April, 1854. s. o. w. 
found a climate in which it is hard to be un- ‘ 
happy about anything — charming to live at DESTINY OF CHINA. 
all — easy to die. (At least those who were ,, , , , 
sure of dying, and did die, and m whose ^ u , a( : d(ilimM , in Lo „d„„, on the 
separable company I thought I was, were social ^ of big departure for the east, took occasioi 
and joyous to the last.) The atmosphere of to gay m ids opinion, the Empire of Chi 
TAKE THE PAPER. 
[Written for the Rural New-Yorker.j 
TREATMENT FOR CONSUMPTIVES. 
I AM no physician. I know too little of the 
human system, but I know less of medicine. 
Yet I am often reminded that fearful diseases 
DESTINY OF CHINA. 
that you should be guilty of the meanness of 
an ambuscade.” These simple words produced 
their intended effect. The peasants, ashamed 
of their scheme, sincerely begged his forgive¬ 
ness, and promised never again to entertain a 
doubt of the sincerity of the motives by which 
Dr. Bowring, the eminent Eastern traveler, doubt of the sincerity oi the motives by which 
a lecture lately delivered in Loudon, on the he was actuated, and of his affectionate desire 
e of his departure for the east, took occasion to promote their welfare.— Life of Oberlin. 
There is one important reason, if no more : 
BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT. 
Ike Marvel, in his “ Reveries of a Bachc- 
of your children. It is your duty to educate ^hes sometimes in the most gradual are its Arctic and Antarctic - unthought oi ^Xv^SSnSesT^ STVtito begun within; but a 
your children, to create in them, it possible, a mannerj yel wken its presence once becomes except by desperate explorers. Hither aic j- kud of j ava he j ound 25,000; in the islands froman without it, is even worse—a flame with- 
taste for reading; not novels, but a style of kaown an( j fts victim feels its grasp upon his sent invalids, with weakened resolution, to ot - tbe i nt |j an Archipelago there were not Jess out a heat, a rainbftw without a color, a flower 
composition that will teach them to think, to ’ , it as but little less than a make a pilgrimage with prescription and pro- tliau 70 ,600; whilst in Sun Francisco ti ers had without perfume. A man may in some sort 
act, ‘to turn over mattes in their own mind, ^ bis endeavom to escape donee. Yon may see by the boob I have j.nt , = teUed .^,000 mo^ and Plumbers 
to reason from cause to effect This you can- frQm lhe doom w hich, under such circumstan- published, (Health I rip to the 1 ropio,) wi i> olvU e fe i a or wherever there was a field of world; but a woman without that anchor call- 
not more easily do, than by throwing before ceg) bas comc to be generally regarded as what complete forgetfulness ol care or caution labor ' a t0 them. It appeared to be a law ed faith, is a drift and a wreck! A man may 
them reading of a proper character. Expeii- almog{ . inevitable I ma de one of an invalid company for months. of p r0 v ideuce that the superior races of man- clumsily continue a sort of moral responsibility 
^ 
ithought of 
Hither are 
not a 1001 ui 11 scarcely um wum mubmmur - . , ....... 
ted. Such was the over-population, in fact, A man without some sort, of religion is at 
that notwithstanding the most violent interdicts best a poor reprobate, the football ol destiny 
against emigration, its surplus streams were with no tie linking him.to infinity, and to the 
overfiowimMhe countries ot the east. In the wondrous eternity that is begun within; but a 
Mand of .Java he found 25,000; in the islands woman without it, is even worse—a ilame with- 
act, to turn over mattera in their own minds, 
to reason from cause to effect. This you can¬ 
not more easily do, than by throwing before 
them reading of a proper character. Experi¬ 
ence and observation have taught me, that this 
is one effectual means of teaching the child to 
almost inevitable. 
Consumption ! It is a household woid, but 
how full of terrors ! Consumption! It is a 
disease, the very idea of which is associated 
with pallid cheeks, with languid spirits, with 
wasted forms, and with faded flowers. At its 
•Hli sucii nign s ou t oi f nd £ lslatlds swept away, that the An- tion and not purpose is the controlling motive 
y going to be dull and abstinent witfi ^ , ation wa8 invading and re- can find no basis m any other system or right 
erry people, and a French breakfast or b ^ , htJ J would not say destroying) the red action but that of spiritual faith. A man may 
Indian 0 tribes of America. So the Chinese craze his thoughts and his bruin to truthful- 
race was setting aside the Malay in the same ness, in such poor harborage as fame and rep- 
in heaven? And that sweet trustfulness—that 
abiding love—that endearing hope, mellowing 
every page and scene of life—lighting them 
. . , . • _ with oleasant radiance, when the world’s 
It is easier to be a genius in some things fln ’ wilh smokintr ca .i- 
is one effectual means of teaching the ci to how full of lerrors j Consumption! It is a room with such nights out of doors ? as \sLn<Js that'the An- tion and not purpose is the controlling motive, 
read. disease the very idea of which is associated anybody going to be dull and abstinent v im u i ation was invading and re- can find no basis in any other system or right 
The child must read well, before it can learn pallid cheeks with languid spirits, with such merry people, and a French breaklast or al0V j 11<r / btJ wou ld not say destroying) the red action but that of spiritual faith. A man may- 
much else from books to advantage. I have d . and w jth faded flowers. At its tempting dinner on the table ? Indian tribes of America. So the Chinese craze liis thoughts anc n» lain 0 ^ trut u - 
uniformly found it tho case, that children of the ^ tb(! Ki „ g ot Terror, in his spectral . I reached home in July thoroughly pros- „ee Soli may etteeh bSoTe^im! hut a' «o„nf„ 
same age, having the same advantages at schoo , krmj ^gg be f 0 re us. It is synonymous with trated, and in the opinion of one or tw 0 p 1 } ^ ^ ^ * —where can she put her hope in storms—not 
possessed of equally large minds, and quick sicians, a hopeless case. Coughing almost the ' - in heaven? And that sweet trustfulness—that 
perceptive faculties, though deprived at home exercise of care, and by the. whole of every night, and raising blood as fast YllIINfi MEN abiding love that endearing hope, mellowing 
tf proper reading matter, differ materially in ^ J of skiU in ita earlier stages, it may . my system could make it 1 had no rest ^ " I'M 
point of good reading, good taste, and conse- gometimes be wholly arrested, or greatly retard- an d no strength. I lingered through the sum- It 1S easier to be a genius m some things storms 1 break like an arIny w ith smoking can- 
quent ability to learn rapidly. This is one ol ^ lhe consumma tion of its desolating work. mer , and as the autumn came on, and the win- than in others and,as a general ru.e i is 'niuc 1 non _ what can bestow it all but a holy soul, 
the many reasons, why each kitchen, dining- Q ; u thcre niay be instances in which ler was to be faced, I sat down and took a fair m0 [ e honored “Ardiitecturii Sivfl to what is stron S cr tb “ n , an ann >' 'V th 
-cm and parlor, should be amply supplied were apl Lnt,y in an advanced look at the probabilities With the details of ^ 
with books and papera stage of consumption, have been cured either this troubled council of war I will not detain tke ii re t rank of professions. The thrifty world wilb ener , ry and hallow it with a tear? 
A friend of mine who had not taken a paper . the efficacy 0 f medicine or by a change of you . but, after an unflinching self-examination, „ eeds t h e help of such talents, and it is glad to _ t 0 , _ _ 
for a long time until within a year, says, “By c u nia te, and the consequent inhalation ot a l ca rne to the conclusion that 1 was, mva.ll, Inide UiKiirv^aml 0 '^!atificulion ' Men THK ACTIVE CHRISTIAN 
taking one paper the past year, I have saved diflbrent atm0 sphere from that in which the tl ie careless and indolent neutralizer of he mod- ™ ACT1 !i?. URIM1AN ‘ 
in shoes and clothes for my children, sufficient d i sease was induced. But the main object of icines which had failed to cure me , ui on bu j| d j n g S- Fine houses were never so popular. One can hardly resist the impression tha 
to pay for five papers.” It is a paying business. t j dg ar ti c i e> is to draw attention to a letter wrong morsel of food, or one days partially j^idges, viaducts, churches, arein the ascend- multitudes have entered Zion’s enclosure win 
c. 1 .. b. written bv.N P Willis, and published not long neglected exercise, might put back a weeks anb Tunnels and railway wonders fill all eyes. j ia ve no heart in its mission, and no care fo 
Fill,more, May loth, 1854 . giuce in ^ Home Journal, containing some baling-and that, by slight omissions of at- The literature of solid masonry istto upper- it3 prosperity. Of course they occupy no plo 
^ . _ __ bincc i , . ° i i rpcrimpn and most charm, and magnificent poems are span- ces 0 f importance. J hey stand at no post o 
most excellent advice respecting the treatment tention, occasional hieak D ° ’ nmo-rivers. Mechanic art rules the day and fill ness. They cruard no station of prayer 
,gtli. J nngereu uiruugu ^ lT 1S easier to ue a genius m gtorm3 ' break like an anny w ith smoking can- 
the autumn came on, and the wm- than in others, mid,as a general rule, it is much non _ what can bestow it all but a holy soul, 
THE ACTIVE CHRISTIAN. 
to pay for five papers.” It is a paying business. 
One can hardly resist the impression that 
multitudes have entered Zion’s enclosure who 
Fillimore, May 10th, 1854. 
Connecticut State Teachers’Association. consum ptives. It was written in reply to m uch too effeminate habits, I was untrue o ado ° ns tbe night. And so, young men, if you qw hold up no hand by sympathy. They 
—A very full, animated and enthusiastic eauca- . { . R re sbyterian Clergyman of the trust which Gray, my friend and physician, want to take your place among sun, moon, and de ri vc no grace, and all the difference noticea- 
a- .... i rx? i Via nAnnpp.t.ip.ii t. State ieacn- aiu ^ i . „ , i. + «... n. __ „.;n 
—.v -v.j 1 / t ,• t r iVMf*h anOtner iroin n - ^ buu uubi wmvu a * waui -o-- . ucnvc uu um. «u vi.v ——- 
tional meeting of the Coonecticat bme habit, who had Wed traveling at bad ma de the ground of his prescriptions.- stare, go to work at once, and bravely too and b l e on earth when they are gone will be a nu- 
ers' Association took p aec on Uurfjr" “ > . recciv i„, r any material . a minulelv persevering change in the convert granite end marble into the pract.cta meriral dimhiution oi the ranks of thechurch, 
Wednesday, (May 9tli and 10th,) day and even- 
in<r, in the Medical College, Ncw-I laven. Ad 
c ■ x U rpr*(.ivliiff anv material a -i nflnnielv nersever ng cliange in me coDveri gruuue imiunaiuic i .™ uu, r .avv,v», mencai ainnnuuoii ui uic u. u.t, vuu uu, 
the South, without leceiving any rnatenm ^ to a mindly peraev b - tor . Eng l is h language of the year ’54; and thus do aml the song of heaven wiU not be sfcrengtlien- 
benefit; who keeps his room only moderately comparative tnfles, I owe, , ) your own printing and publishing, for the J>en- ed by a perceptible note. But when a spirit- 
warm, taking care that it is properly ventilated. at j 0 n to health. There was not a day ol tne ^ of gociety and your empty pockets .—New ua n y n ,iniled Christian, who has set his afibc- 
iip remains without doors much of his time; succeeding winter, however cold or wet, in y 0 rk Times. lion on things above, engages in duty for the 
church and its great Head, the real work is 
as ripe and valuable intellectual efforts. 1 rot. get well> aud h e wishes to know of Mr. mos t of the remaining hours of the day, out o how can the ^ earnest purpose deed of life, anil causes the radiance ol heaven 
Philbrick, Principal ot the State formal Wnus what c0urse he has pursued, that he is floors, laboring at the roads and clearings ot time or , nake8 time . It seizes on spare to illumine it. Tis like the sun, bursting forth 
School, likewise‘ 5^? ““A prJ n0 longer classed among consumptives. m y present home. The cottage of Idlewild momnUs ; aml turus fragments to golden ac- from a dark cloud, and throwing a flood of 
Superintendent ot the Schoo. ’ , ... ... „ lben un built and the neighboring farm- counb A man who follows his calling within- glory upon every object in nature, till each 
lessors Olmstead and Thateher of Yale Col- After premising, among other things that was then nnbuM, ana b ^se in- S y and spirit, and uses his earnings eco- ftone and leaf and spire of moss is resplendent 
lege, Mr. Francis Gilette, 1 ^ “the patient who troubles lnmself the least house, where wc ’ no state nomieallv, will always have some portion of the with reflected beauty.— Congregational^. 
D. W. Camp of the Normal Schoo b diseasc , (or who leaves it entirely to differently warmed; but by suffering no state C ommaii(l. And it is astonishing how---- 
Baker, the Lev. • un^u 0 < ’ : ^ his doctor,) but who perse veringly outvotes it of the thermometer to interrupt it mmmn» f f j 0 f improvement a short season becomes, «Oi.n Hundred.”—T he history of this old 
:S^len! eLS^d b ! the high conditio/of the ottaJ parts of his cold bath, and the previous friction with flesh- when ^d and faithfully used It Psalm tune which almost everybody has been 
are describe as y I y • recover”—that two brushes, which makes the water as agreeable has often been observed that those who have accU stomed to hear, ever since they can re- 
bnllianL Tribune. system, is the 1 kehe*t to recover l a two b usties . y comDarativelv , he most time at their disposal profit by it the member , j 3 the subject of a work recently 
--* 1 * T ^ ! 7 ... persons are seldom the subjects for precisely as in sun > , • , „iv least. A single hour in the day given to the wr j tten by an English clergyman. Martin 
What is Aristocracy ?— In reply to this t ] ie Rame medical treatment, or diseased in independent of the tempei at - ’ ■> 8 t u J y of some interesting subject, brings unex- R u ther has generally been reckoned the author 
question, Cen. Foy, a distinguished orator in . , th(J game locality — that our friends, horse and axe made me independent ol it wnen t(jd accumu lations of knowledge. of( )]fl Hundred” but it lias been discovered 
the French Chambers, gave the fo' lowing an- _ hvgician8 are bet | e r geographers than we, out of doors. With proper clothing to resist -— . — - that it, was composed in the sixteenth century, 
8 wer: “Aristocracy iu it lie ^ Lb cei ^‘ ^ 3 th £ * ’ } , tvanted - though cold or wet, 1 found, to my surprise, that there R are the p00r man ’s music, and flowers by William Franc, a Gorman. In the course 
t“ .1 it S f„r granted tkat tke „-a 3 no »eh thing « disagreoaido woai., 0 . to tbe „ oor n,an. „oetr, __ ^ 
a nituituiv, a Wh,lis what course ne lias pursucu, uta 
l^indTrofttkllS oS. S no longer classed among consnmpiivea 
Hy used - Psalm tune, which almost everybody has been 
honors without deserving mem, occupyiu 0 an recovery—Mr. Wili-is continues : wagon or carriage would liave mioieruuiy im- " .. , 
‘tajftS- ««—“ »‘ th0Ut bemg “ ble !T»en, [o tto Tropics, a, a last hope, to care tate °d m, cough, I could be all daj iu tto I «nng > >U place, 
to fill tnem. 
_- that it, was composed in the sixteenth century, 
Birds are the poor man’s music, and flowers by William Franc, a German. In the course 
B poor man’s poetry. of time it bus been considerably changed from 
1 __ t . # . t --— the original, and it is said, that, as it first ap- 
a re, top f„p pvorv thincr have, and every peared, it was ol a more lively character than 
A place for every thing have, and every peared, it was ol a more In 
imr in its olace. at present. Concord Rtp. 
