..M.IM'W'UMil 
AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
TO MY MOTHER. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
THE PEOPLE’S COLLEGE. 
BY THE ItKV. OLIVER CRANE. 
One of the great wants of the age is made plain 
by our educational system. The defects of that 
system have been growing more and more mani¬ 
fest as we have progressed in population and 
At this time the weight upon 
Mother, I dreamed when sterner age 
Were on apace advancing, 
And all things else enhancing, 
Thy name could then no more engage, 
As when in boyhood’s longing, 
I gazed on others thronging. 
And would with them tread manhood’s stage. 
How oft, when borne iu youthful glee 
Whence thou Ladst fain withholden. 
When others would embolden 
To plunge in scenes I would but flee, 
How oft hath thy protection 
Then held me from defection 
In whispering “ thou still lovest me.” 
Time since hath flown, and deep that name 
Hath graven an endearance 
No more of vain appearance, 
But like the well-fed living flame, 
It burns yet brighter, clearer, 
And brings thine image nearer 
To tell me thou art still the same. 
When at tliat loved ancestral dome 
I bade adieu in sorrow, 
Fondly I saw a morrow 
When I again, as then, might come 
And own thy smile, my mother. 
Which beams not in another 
As in my childhood's hallowed home. 
And now while from that honored spot, 
Beset by thousand dangers, 
I wander forth ’mid strangers 
To seek with them life's pending lot. 
It is thine own assurance, 
That bids wo, in endurance 
Be up anil on, disheartened not. 
X go—the conflict is begun— 
In manhood‘9 sacred calling 
With foemen round appalling 
Life's noble conquest moat, be won ; 
I go, for though none other, 
I know that thou my mother 
E'er praycit for thine absent son. 
material prosperity 
the mental energies of the country is so heavy that 
the great public mind does not in any degree ex¬ 
pand or keep pace with the material improvements 
around it. 
A ays! cm, designed for those countries where 
the few control the many, where caste separates 
the weait hy and titled from the poor and laboring, 
and doo s the great producing mass to mental as 
well as physical servitude, was early engrafted up¬ 
on the institutions of this country. And though 
it has bet n iu some degree modified, yet it by no 
means me ets the existing necessity. 
How many young men, who have graduated at 
any of ourbest colleges, are prepared to enterupon 
the activ duties of life until they have forgotten 
nearly all they spent so many years in learning? 
How maty are prepared by their previous learn¬ 
ing to enter successfully into the workshop of any 
mechanic? The time spent in disciplining the 
mind is well, hut how much bctLer if the body 
had also been educated, if hands as well as head 
had been instructed at the same time. Both body 
and mind would have been stronger. 
In this country, the law of primogeniture being 
abolished, and pnblio policy being entirely op¬ 
posed to the perpetuation of estates, it should be 
the first duly of every parent to educate the child 
so that it may be fitted for any contingency. The 
sons and daughters of the millionaire of to-day 
may be reduced to poverty to-morrow, while the 
children of the poor man may yet come to occupy 
the stately mansion of the millionaire. This is 
exemplified in the history of a generation in cities. 
Few of the active business men who have accu¬ 
mulated fortunes ever find their business carried 
on successfully by their children, while the boy 
who occupied the humble post of porter becomes 
ultimately the inheritor of the business, and the 
grandchild of the original possessor may find him¬ 
self a servant in the business which has been in¬ 
herited by a stranger, starting as poor and humble | 
as himself. 
If the poor man could give his child a thorough 
practical education, if the rich man had done so, 
how well both would be provided with the means 
of successfully overcoming any adverse circum¬ 
stances of contingencies tliat might obstruct their 
way. But in all this great country, holding now a 
population ol twenty-five millions, there is notone 
single institution adequate to send forth the stu¬ 
dent educated for the times or for the proper dis¬ 
charge of the duties of an American citizen. For 
as all must depend more or less upon their own 
personal exertions for their success in life, they 
should be educated so that they can fill the lowest 
station as well as the highest with credit to them¬ 
selves and profit to the community. 
It was to meet this great want, to remedy this 
great evil, that the People's College was designed. 
The object of its originators was to found an in¬ 
stitution which should not only embrace, so far as 
the higher branches of literature were concerned, 
all the advantages of the highest University, hut 
also to place within the reach of the poorestchild 
an education which would amply fit it for taking 
a favorable position for future success in any walk 
or business in life. All the leading branches of 
mechanical industry, ms well as the arts and sciences, 
generally being practically taught, and the student 
enabled to graduate in any particular branch, 
well educated both iu tnind and body. This grand 
idea is on the point of realization, by the estab¬ 
lishment of the College. The preliminary »tops 
have been taken by the trustees, in appointing 
commissioners to select a location. It is under¬ 
stood they have agreed upon the spot, and their 
report only requires the approval of the stock¬ 
holders, to render the locatiou complete. The 
point chosen is a farm in or near the village of 
Havana, in Schuyler county. If such be the ease, 
low. On his head, neck and limbs, and the central 
line of his back, the spots run into one another so 
completely, as to form full patches of smaller size 
than the open roses, and without central yellow. 
The under parts of his body, as is usual in most 
quadrupeds, become gradually of a lighter hue, 
the throat, cbest, and abdomen being of a pure 
and delicate white. His tail is equal in length to 
the entire body, excluding the head; and is marked 
by a continuation of the open roses of the sides ( 
which become, towards its extremity, separated in 
such a manner as to surround the upper surface 
with partial rings of black alternating with white. 
The whiskers are long and white, and implanted in 
a series-of black lines which traverse his lips. 
In captivity, the leopard has been sometimes | 
brought to a considerable degree of tameness. It 
is not, however, very safe to trust them; for their 
original nature is now and then unexpectedly dis- i 
played. 
attack, though by stealth, the human race. In¬ 
stances of this nature, however, are not frequent. 
Nothing can be more beautiful than the elegant 
and active manner in which the leopards sport 
among the branches of the trees: at one time they 
will hound from branch to branch with such ra¬ 
pidity that the eye can scarcely follow them; then, 
as if tired, they will suddenly stretch themselves 
along a branch, so a3 to be hardly distinguishable 
from the bark, but start up again on the slightest 
provocation, and again resume their graceful antics. 
Even among the cats, he is remarkable for ex¬ 
treme sleekness aud excessive agility. He is well 
distinguished from all the other species, by the 
vividness of liis coloring, and the beauty of his 
inarkiug. These consist of numerous rows of large 
rose-like spots, passing along his sides, each form¬ 
ed of the confluence of several smaller black spots 
into an irregular circle inclosing a fawn colored 
centre, upon a general ground color of light yel- 
Thb formidable and sanguinary animal above 
represented—classed by naturalists among the cat 
kind — is found nearly throughout the whole of 
Africa, and in eastern and southern Asia. He 
usually measures about three feet in length, exclu¬ 
sive of the tail, but sometimes reaches four feet. 
His appearance indicates his natural disposition. 
He has a restless eye aud a sinister countenance, 
and all hi3 motions are hasty and abrupt In ra¬ 
pidity, agility, and precision of motion, he is un¬ 
rivalled by any other animal; an^advantage which 
he owes to the strength of his muscles, the supple¬ 
ness of his joints, the extreme pliability of his 
spine, the greater lateral compression of his body, 
and the slender proportions of his limbs. His 
prey, on which he darts from his hiding-place,and 
even pursues up the trees, consists of antelopes, 
monkeys, and the smaller quadrupeds. Usually, he 
shuns man, but when closely pressed, he turns 
upon the hunter, and hunger will drive him to 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
IMMORTALITY. 
“Ip it were not for this curse of immortality, who would 
not sometimes rush from life!" 
The curse of immortality! say it not in the 
green earth so dotted with gfaves; not in a world 
where sweetest uames are carved on silent mar¬ 
bles. How wildly wasted would be these yearning 
affections, following the beloved tnrough the val¬ 
ley of shadow into the silent land, it all of life and 
love were here- How dark with shadows, how 
heavy with gloom would the night gather over the 
soul,’if on the darkness arose nut this hope of im¬ 
mortality, a starry herald of that radiant morrow, 
when " death shall he swallowed up ia victory.” 
What heart could hear the waves of the surgeless 
river sweeping along the shores of time, saw it 
not on the further shore, the tops of the mountains 
brighten iu the shadowless sunlight of eternity! 
The curse of immortality! say it not to the human 
heart; so mocked by visions of beauty, so filled 
with high hopes and upward longings, never satis¬ 
fied here. Tell it not that, thrust- from its aim, 
baffled in its endeavor, watching ever the rainbow 
arching the morrow hut never gilding to-day, that 
at last it shall sink basely into the dull earth, aud 
be quenched forever in the dust of mortality. 
The curse of immortality! Oh listen, Soul! how 
the dumb earth finds for thee a relinking voice. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
indigent students, and some occasional assistance 
from other sources, he was enabled to go through 
the College course, and at the same timo support 
his family. He graduated on his birthday, aged 32. 
He stood high in his class, and received a part at 
commencement, but declined. At the farewell 
meeting of the class, in consideration of his per¬ 
severance, talents and Christian character, they 
presented him with an elegant set of silver spoons, 
tea and table, each handsomely engraved with an 
appropriate inscription. 
Mr. Coudit will now cuter the theological semi¬ 
nary at New York, and will, no doubt, make a faith¬ 
ful and popular minister. 
What young man in this country will ever after 
such an example as this, despair of obtaining an 
education?— Springfield. Republican. 
tient animal he is enabled to endure exposure to 
the burning sun, days in succession, where no 
other animal would long survive. The inner sur¬ 
face of the hood ns itis sometimes called, or second 
stomach, is arranged in deep sqnare pits; each of 
these pockets has a constrictor muscle round its 
margin, acting independently of all the rest. When 
the camel, therefore, takes in a sufficient stock of 
water for a long journey, it is packed away for 
future use in the following manner: 
As each draught swallowed, enters through the 
door-way from the first stomach, it runs into one 
of the cells till it becomes sufficiently distended.— 
The circular marginal muscle then closes up the 
top, much as the mouth of a sack is drawn together 
by a cord. A second is now filled in the same 
way; then a third, fourth, and so on, till the whole 
are completely supplied and well secured. 
When thus packed, no resistance is offered to the 
food, which can pass along through a central line, 
as it did before any water was taken in. YV hen the 
necessities of the system require, one of these bot¬ 
tles opens itself and pours its contents into the 
common receptacle, where it dilutes the food, and 
unto them. From the prond heart upsprings the 
violet, over the haughty head creeps the grass; 
ashes with ashes miugle, and one sod covereth all. 
Yet in mine arms I fold them all in hope. There 
will come a day when I, their birthplace and sep¬ 
ulchre, shall pass utterly away; when all the myriad 
worlds shall siuk again into the great wave of life 
that bore them; yet these, my children, what a 
destiny is theirs! Many were lowly in life, yet as 
kin 59 they shall reign forever. Oh! immortality— 
regally dowering the human soul, that else were 
all uncrowned. Oh! tremble, soul, that ever in 
weariness or wo, thou didst mockingly call it a 
curse. 
A voice from the caverns of silence—the voice 
of the ancient Night! night the solemn enchant¬ 
ress, the dream-giver, the mnsic-hannted. Crown¬ 
ed with stars, mantled in purple darkness, a queen 
with the scepter of peace. •’ In that far beginning, 
when the voice of the Infinite first broke the si- 
Educate the Wuolb Man. —Every boy should 
have his head, his heart, and his hand educated; 
let this truth never be forgotten. 
By the proper education of his head, he will be 
aught what is good, and what is evil—what is wise 
and what is foolish—what is right and what is 
wrong. By the proper education of his heart, he 
will he taught to love what is good, wise, and 
right, and to hate what is evil, foolish and wrong; 
and by the proper education of his hand, he will 
be enabled to supply his wants, to add to his com¬ 
forts, and to assist those who are around him. 
The highest objects of a good education are to 
reverence and obey God. aud to love aud serve 
mankind; everything that helps us in attaining 
these objects is of great value, aud everything that 
hinders us is comparatively worthless. When 
wisdom reigns in the head, the hand is ever ready 
to do good; order and peace smile around, and sin 
and sorrow are almost unknown. 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
Massachusetts, whose State Seal we present 
this week, was one of the original " Thirteen” that 
participated in the trying scenes prior to and du¬ 
ring the Revolution. She formed her State Gov¬ 
ernment in accordance with the plan agreed upon 
by Congress in 1777—and instructed her delegates 
to sign and ratify the act entitled “ Articles of 
conlederatioa acd perpetual union between the 
States.” 
We need but to glance at the early history of 
this port ten of the Confederation. In 1(519 the first 
landing in the New England States was made at 
Cape Cod. H we was drawn up the iirst.Ameriean 
Constitution—:ti its substauce a pure Democracy— 
and received the signature of 41 persons. The 
entire company, including women and children, 
numbered 101. 1 he Massachusetts colony was set¬ 
tled in 1628. Of the Revolutionary history of this 
State it is needless for us to say anything, the 
leading incidents connected therewith are familiar 
to every school-boy. We add. however, as appro¬ 
priate in this connection, the following remarks of 
Daniel Webster in his celebrated reply to Mr. 
Hayne, in the U. S. Senate Chamber, Jan. 26, 1630. 
“Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium 
upon Massachusetts—she needs none. There she 
is—behold her and judge for yourselves. There is 
her history—the world knows it by-heart. The 
past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Con¬ 
cord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; aud there 
they will remain forever. The bones of her sons, 
fallen in the great struggle lor independence, now 
lie mingled with the soil of every State from New 
England to Georgia; ami there they will lie forever. 
And, sir, where American liberty raised its first 
voice, and where its growth was nurtured and sus¬ 
tained, there it still lives, in the strength of its 
It discord 
shapeless creation. When over the. lace o. tue 
waters moved the Spirit of God, and light dawned 
at the word of his power, half my kingdom was 
taken from me. Yet mightier tar than Day, I have 
reigned through long ages. Weary hearts have 
prayed me tor pity, and then grown still among the 
daisies. Toiling hands have been lifted imploring¬ 
ly for rest, and then crumbled quietly to clay.— 
Men call me the eternal night, yet, when out of the 
irravo-iliist countless irenerations shall arise to im- 
FERFECTION OF THE MIND 
Mental perfection should be the great aim of 
life. To this end should all our labors, struggles, 
and prayers tend. In youth, in manhood, in age, 
we should seek to vender more perfect our powers 
of mind. We are never too old, and but a few 
weeks too young for mental improvement. To 
perfect our minds we must contemplate perfect 
objects, both in the material and spiritual universe. 
We must appropriate their perfections to our own 
mental use—cherish, admire, love them. We must 
look for beautiful things that images of beauty 
may throng our minds. We must cultivate amia¬ 
ble feelings, that harmony of soul may enrich the 
music of its numbers.— 
The fire-fly and the glow-worm are lamp-lighters. 
The bee is a professor of geometry; for he con¬ 
structs his cell so scientifically, that the least pos¬ 
sible. amount of material is formed into the largest 
spaces with the least waste of room. Not all the 
mathematicians of Cambridge could improve the 
construction of his cells. Nor can the best her- 
metical sealers among us preserve provision so 
well. 
The following is a most remarkable aud praise¬ 
worthy instance of what perseverance and indus¬ 
try, rightly directed, are able to effect. Among 
the graduating class at the last commencement at 
Williams' College, was one by the name of Coudit, 
from Jersey. The gentleman is a shoemaker, mar¬ 
ried, ami has a family of lour children. Six years 
ago, becoming sensible ol' the blessings of an edu¬ 
cation, he commenced learning the simple branch¬ 
es, such as are taught in our primary schools. One 
by one as lie sat on his shoemaker's bench, lie 
mastered grammar, arithmetic, geography, &c„ 
with some occasional assistance from his fellow- 
workmen. At this timo he determined to obtain a 
collegiate education. Without means and with a 
large family depending on him for support, he 
commenced and learned Latin aud Greek, in the 
evenings, after his day's labor was over, under the 
direction of a friend; and after the lapse of n year 
and a Half, prepared himself, mid entered the SJoph- 
omnre class at Williams’ College. 
lie brought his bench and his tools and his books 
with him. The students supplied him with work; 
the faculty assisted him; aud with the fund for 
inward temple with th 
We must strive for perfection of action, that in our 
daily walk the halo of angel-llfe may surround ns. 
Deformity will not make us more perfect. Vice 
will not help us iu our work. The artist never 
studies deformity to augment his treasure of beau¬ 
ty. The musician never makes discords and 
hearkens to them, thereby to cultivate the sense of 
harmony and beauty in his soul. So in life, we 
should seek the company of sweet thoughts, lovely 
objects, amiable feelings, pleasant words,and good 
offices. These help to perfect our minds. Our 
thoughts are the chisels which carve the statuary 
of our souls. They do it well or ill as they are 
right or wrong. Bad thoughts nre enemies worse 
than all outward ones.— Selected. 
Death.— 0, death! dark hour to hopeless unbe¬ 
lief ! hour to which, in that creed of despair, no 
hour shall succeed! being's last hour! to whose 
appalling darkness even the shadows ot au aveng¬ 
ing retribution were brightness and relict—death! 
— what art thou to the Christian's assurance? 
Great hoar! answer to life’s prayer, great hour 
that shall break asunder the bond of life's mys¬ 
tery; hour of release from life’s burden; hour of 
ro-union with the loved and lost,— what mighty 
hopes hasten to their fulfilment in thee! What 
longings, what aspirations, breathed iu the still 
night, beneath the silent stars; what diead emo¬ 
tions of curiosity; what deep meditations of joy; 
what hallowed impossibilities shadowing forth re¬ 
alities to the soul, all verge to their consummation 
in thee! 0, death! the Christian's death! What 
inti', oi life, a aortal ot heaven, 
manhood, and full of its original spirit- 
and disunion shall wound it.; if folly and madness, 
if uneasiness under salutary and necessary restraint, 
shall succeed to separate it from that Union by 
which alone its existence is made sure,—it will 
Stand, iu the end, by the side of that cradle in 
which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth 
its arm, with whatever vigor it may retain, over 
the friends who gather around it; and it will fall 
at last, if fall it must, amids’t the proudest monu¬ 
ments of its glory, and on the very spot of its 
origin.” 
The general design of the Seal is observable from 
our engraving—the motto is, “ By his sword he 
seeks the calm repose of liberty.” 
Singing birds are amateur musicians, and excel 
all others in harmony. Hardly can we decide 
which of them most excels—the lark, the robin, 
the throstle, or the nightingale. 
“ On feathery vi ing they rove, 
Aud wake with harmony the grove.” 
Tue caterpillar is a silk-spinner, far excelling 
any other in his line of business; indeed, we could 
not learn an art that would supply any silk worth 
the name without him. With what wonderful 
properties and powers has it pleased our heavenly 
Father to eudowthe lower creatures' 
Tue mole tunnels like a skillful engineer. The 
nautilus is a navigator, hoisting or taking in sail 
as he goes, or casting anchor, at pleasure. 
Education.— By education men become easy to 
lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, hut im¬ 
possible to enslave. 
Men take less care of their consciences than 
their reputation. 
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