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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
For Moore’B Rural New-Yorker 
HOPING UNTO THE END. 
For Moore'e Rural New-Yorker 
FIRST EFFORTS IN' SCHOOL TEACHING. 
BY EDWARD KNOWLES 
NUMBER THREE. 
Whkoeyer I am led to think 
Of God’s rich promisee to me, 
It lengthen a with a golden link. 
The safety chain I cannot see. 
And girded tor the pilgrimage, 
I tread the Intervening way, 
To where the promised heritage 
Looks over to the endless day. 
And with the fragment of a hymn, 
I grasp my staff, and journey on. 
Even though taint in heart and limb. 
And resting ever and anon. 
And as the startled music floats 
Along to And the answering wires, 
I catch the spirit of the notes 
In a sweet union of desires. 
Then in a sweet forgetfulness 
Of all but harps with golden strings, 
I stop and listen, none the less 
That it is but myself that sings. 
And hoping that in GOD’S good time, 
My voice shall with the angels blend, 
I brave this uncongenial clime 
Longing, and hoping, to the end. 
From the hour I first contemplated becoming a 
school teacher, the responsibility of such a posi¬ 
tion did not sit very lightly npon me. I took this 
view of the matter, and the theory is a right one, 
I apprehend. My mind is to he brought in contact 
with those of young and tender years. It lies in 
my power to shape the deBtiny of many of those 
whom I shall instruct. To my character, for the 
most part already formed, I ihay mold theirs. Of 
necessity, the elements of my character, whether 
good or bad, must, to a certain extent, enter into 
the composition of theirs; and the tendency thus 
given will not stop with time. Some, in the years 
to come, may trace back to me the beginning of a 
life of infamy and shame; and some, perhaps, who 
have reached the highest pinnacle, where “Fame’s 
prond temple shines afar,” will look back through 
the dim years with hearts full of kind remem¬ 
brances and blessings for him who tried to lead 
them in the path of wisdom and virtue, though 
long he had been sleeping in his grave. 
My views, concerning the teacher’s calling; its 
responsibilities and its rewards; its difficulties and 
its hopeB, have not changed since then, only that 
the convictions of their truthfulness have been be¬ 
coming stronger with the growing years—while 
the trials of the teacher are many and hard to he 
borne, his reward is more than a compensation.— 
Often, amid cheerless hours, in the hot and un¬ 
healthy air of the school-room, there steps in some 
bright hope to cheer, strengthen and encourage.— 
Few are the callings upon which the world bestows 
leas of her lavish praise, and to which she speaks 
fewer kindly words of encouragement; yet the in¬ 
ward consciousness of duty performed will atone 
for all this, and he who feels the dignity of his 
mission will wait patiently for the future to appre¬ 
ciate his labors and do justice to his memory. 
Take courage then, whoever thou art, thatseek- 
est to instruct and enlighten the mind of the 
young! Thy ministry is a noble one, such as an 
angel might desire, though not enjoy. Thou art 
educating souls for eternity. Committed to tby 
beeping they are in thy hands, as the soft clay in 
the hands of the potter. Tbou canst mold them 
as thou wilt—vessels to houor or to dishonor—fit¬ 
ted for usefulness in this life and for life amid the 
bright years of God, or for idleness and shame 
here and banishment from God's presence hereaf¬ 
ter. O may He who giveth wisdom to him that 
Iftcketh, bestow Buch wisdom upon thee, that many 
in the future years will “rise up and call thee 
blessed.” Pull up the growing weeds in the gar¬ 
den of each young heart and plant there, side by 
side, the seeds of knowledge and religion. Faith¬ 
fully tend the early plants, and by-and-by, it shall 
he thy joy to see, in the rich, autumnal years,trees 
loaded with golden fruit, and the fruit gathered 
into “upper garners.” 
But I have been wandering. The thoughts have 
come out only because they would come, and I do 
hold myself njoponsihle for tho initrrupUon, 
for the sentiment I will endeavor to stick closer 
to my text hereafter. s. A. e. 
Rochester, Jane, 1857. 
FULL DRESS, 
For Moore'B Rural New-Yorker. 
LIFE IS HEAL. 
upon long established customs, and averse to any - 
military discipline, there arose great dissatisfaction Life is real, aye fearfully real! As we hasten 
among them ; and, as usual, they commissioned onward, our life ever resembles an April day, 
the Kool-Keahiassi, their representative, to remon- sometimes sunshine, sometime clouds, or maybe 
strate with his Majesty, upon whose refusal to lis- the chilling wind of adversity sweeps over us, 
ten to their murmurs they determined on. rebellion, carrying away, by its rude breath, all that renders 
Having no suspicions of their chief, Hussein-Pa- life beautiful or hope dear to us. The cold Au- 
sha, according to bis counsel and public procla- tnmnal days seem to sympathize with our griefs, 
mation, the janissaries all assembled in their own for the bleak winds whistle mournfully through 
barracks, at the great square of Et-Meydan, nearly the trees, and scatters at each gust a wealth of 
in the centre of the city, to be in readinsss to re- golden leaves, while few rays of sunshine cheer 
sist any attempt on the part of the Sultan to en- the massy bed of brown and gold which lies under 
The Sultan being informed of the old oak or the stately elm. Sometimes we are 
buoyant and glad, for life iB sweet and friends are 
clustering around os, and prosperity shines upon 
our pathway. In all this we may recognize a 
Father’s hand. ’Tis “ our Father ” who gives us 
the sweet portion and it is our Father’s hand that 
places the bitter draught to our lips and bids us 
drink, and “he rarely gives the bitter, without 
afterwards giving the sweet cup of consolation, to 
take the nauseous taste away.” As says the poet 
Cowpeb: 
“ Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, 
But trust him for his grace. 
Behind a frowning providence, 
He hides a smiling face.’’ 
Besides we know “ The Lord loveth whom he 
5 of their discipline. ^ orce Bis edict 
ourage. But Owing this circumstance, he, on his part, issued a procla- 1 
bey at last began to nation that all good Mussulmans should repair to . 
ble, and by degrees the holy standard of the Prophet in the court of , 
i of ministers at their the seraglio. This standard is never brought out 
ill their excesses by except in cases of great emergency, and no Mas. 
ieir vengeance, many sulman would refuse to repair to it when summon- 
jersonal safety, even ed. Accordingly all the Mussulman citizens, the 
a of their corps. For artillery and the life-guards, who hated the janis. 
a secure asylum in saries, assembled at the seraglio and proceeded in 
o power or authority a body to the great rallying point of the rebels, 
ras sacred in their es- where they met with a warm reception from the 
t to venture abroad barrack windows of the janissaries, who, confident 
md, on this account, in their own sheltered position, were sure of a glo¬ 
ss were alwayB accom- rious victory. 
f their number, which But they were soon undeceived; for, by the or- 
ugh Kavasses, orTur- cer of Kara-Jehennem, two field pieces had been 
n substituted for the slily transported to the very doors of the barracks, 
Even the royal harem whose first discharge shattered the g3tes and pros 
md neither life nor Hated hundreds of the rebels. The janissaries 
ieir depredations. now desperate, rushed to seize the cannon, which 
ions, their pay was at were just reloading; and had it not been for the 
> twenty, according to heroic action of Kara-Jehennem at this critical 
per was, at that time, emergency, all would have been lost. The brave 
ral money. But they general, perceiving the nature of the affair, and 
mg their personal rev- although w ounded as he was in the thigh, prompt- 
mliar style of taxing jumped from his horse, and seizing the torch, 
irelessly tossing their ^stantly applied it to the cannon, and thus baffling 
:h an intimation that the attempts of the assailants, soon turned the 
Lshing, and none dared sca ^ e triune. 
ithout a tribute tied in AH resistance was now rendered futile by the 
rho were stationed in barracks being set on fire, when amid shrieks of 
guards, generally con* agony the miserable wretches were, on the 15th of 
mud before the guard- June, 1S25, destroyed. Many among them were 
ik aU the rayah 3 who allowed to effect their escape, with the design of 
p away or contribute sparing the innocent. The most dangerous of 
their number were afterwards arrested and sent to 
was most memorable, the European castles on the Bosphorus, where their 
atman coolly put the doom wa5 3ealed b ? the *ow-string, and thus per¬ 
tinent upon the street this formidable scourge of the Ottoman Em- 
intimationiobiscom- P ire * Many censures and much opprobrium have 
ready appropriated by been caat a P oa the memory of Mahmoud for this 
saassinatiou was a mat- act consummate destruction He has been stig- 
> in those days The mat5zed as cruel and blood-thirsty, whereas his 
aarrowly escaped with wbole countr - v waa a °f 
be passing by a shop, tremendous power, in the shape of an unlicensed 
lining a yataghan with soldier Y- , 
Day by day, the monster grew in strength, and 
ry to him, “comehere; threatened the utter annihilation of both sover- 
J „ eign and people. What greater act of humanity, 
\ then, than to crush the Hydra with one fell blow? 
those villains too well this act Mahmoud not only established his own 
aa a ° 1 r ,°, rn sovereign authority, hut bursting, for the first I 
1 " ’ ' nvron e ^j me bonds of barbarism, made a bold stride 
try Mcb Mi juttem of civilization, and tho fra- 
)ody, at the same time „ orllL But for Mahmoud, Inrhe, 
> better tor his excellen- , / ' ... . , \ 
i gift, with the view of woald ’ P erhft P 9 ’ bave ’ ere th ' 3 ’ been only a record 
su jec , an rowing -j^e arin y was immediately re-organized, and the 
nt, t e o a en euian s0 ^j erg were t ra j ne d j u European tactics by dis¬ 
tinguished foreign officers. They attained great 
fanaticism, and with aU ,ji at jnctioa as infantry and artillerymen, and still 
imes, and habituated to greater progress would have been made in milita- 
obey, these janissaries ry so i ence> had it not been for the intrigues of 
;ual barrier to all pro- Ras jj aj w ho, just at that period, availing herself of 
udeed, their outrageous forlorn condition of the country, found a fa- 
cipal cause ol war with vorf( hle opportunity for declaring war. 
fto. -ot O-™** 
^ . . . the Muscovite cunning, were quiet spectators of 
d could anticipate the ^ at j rayi an q became, as it were, silent partners 
itry, wou i e impe e ahamefpl treaty of Adrianople, for which 
to the illustrious Mah- bave aince P aid 30 Aearly - 
mplished this task. A But the janissaries were not the sole barriers to 
and discernment, more the civilization of the country. The Ulema, or the 
civilization and modern expounders of the faith, have exercised even 
deeessors- with a deter- greater influence over the minds of the snpersti- 
, e unparalleled in the tious people, through their unlimited spiritual 
imoud e tieo ted this coup authority. 
The Ashland 
Ohio State Reform School. 
7imes says that the bill for the establishment of a 
State Reform School has become a law. The pro¬ 
ject was recommended by a legislative commis¬ 
sion. A Bynopsis of the law is as follows:—It ap¬ 
propriates $10,000 annually, to the support of the 
Hamilton county house of refuge, and $5,000 for a 
temporary house of refuge in that county for fe¬ 
males, who are to be immediately withdrawn from 
the male institution. 
It also appropriates $5,000 
for the establishment of a female house of refuge 
in any other county; also, $15,000 to purchase a 
farm in some eligible point of at least one thou¬ 
sand acres, and $10,000 for improvements on the 
same. This is as the biU was perfected and passed 
into a law. The Hamilton Co. institution is to be 
for the more flagrant delinquents, and the farm for 
those who give fair promise of amendment. 
Education in India. — A great movement in 
favor of female education has commenced in 
Northern India, which bids fair to become nation¬ 
al. Pundit Gopal Singh, one of the Zillah visitors 
of native schools, a man of high character and 
social standing, being convinced that the failure 
of former attempts to establish girls’ schools was 
owing to the suspicion and want of co-operation 
of the educated natives, has succeeded in establish¬ 
ing in the AgTa district nearly 200 schools, with 
an aggregate daily attendance of 3,800 girls. The 
pupils are nearly all Hindoes, belonging to the 
most respectable classes; about one-tenth are more 
than twenty years of age, the remainder varying 
from six to twenty. 
That teaching has not everywhere attained its 
true rank among the professions, is partly the fault 
of those engaged in it, and partly the fault of our 
common-school system, more especially that part 
relating to the examining of teachers. These ex¬ 
aminations are very often only a mere farce, and 
fail of producing and beneficial effects. 
Half an hour is often deemed sufficient for de¬ 
termining whether an entire stranger is fitted to 
he a companion of the children for months, and as 
such, the moulder of their characters and disposi¬ 
tions, and an implanter of principles and motives 
that shall be lasting as eternity. They are too of¬ 
ten conducted in a manner calculated to draw out 
only the knowledge a person may have of certain 
books. A few puzzling examples in arithmetic, 
a long list of geographical questions, often asked 
from an open map, the most difficult words to be 
found in Webster’s spelling-book, and parsing 
some hack-handed piece of poetry, forms anything 
but a true criterion of ability to interest or instruct 
children, 
HISTORY OF THE JANISSARIES. 
They arc conducted by persons not 
competent for the business. To require a doctor 
to be examined by a lawyer, would be simply 
ridiculous; and yet, meaning no disrespect at all, 
nine-tenths of the lawyers are as well qualified to 
examine a doctor, as nine-tenths of the doctors, 
lawyers or clergymen are to examine teachers. 
Y’oung teachers dread nothing so much as being 
examined, and well they may dread it, for they 
find themselves not only placed in disadvantageous 
positions, but in order to gain their certificates, 
are forced to yield their own more enlightened 
views and knowledge of facts, to the whims, or 
ignorance of their examiners, who often exempli¬ 
fy the old adage, “ A little learning, Ac.” 
It is unjust to require a teacher to be examined 
in every town In which he may teach. In short, 
before the profession of touching is what it ought 
to be, and what it will yet be, a radical change 
must be effected in the manner of hiring and ex¬ 
amining teachers. Teachers must be examined by 
those who have made teaching their study and 
business, and when once thus examined and ad¬ 
mitted, must be allowed to teach anywhere in the 
State.— Conn, School Journal, 
If heaven doth not enter into us by way of holi¬ 
ness, we shall never enter into heaven by way of 
happiness. 
If you would lay up a treasure of glory in heaven, 
lay up a treasure of grace in your hearts. 
"if your souls are rich in grace, they wiU be rich 
in glory. 
The more you do for God in this world, the more 
God will do for you in the world to come. 
As heaven is kept for the saints by Christ, so are 
they kept for heaven by the spirit. 
In heaven all God's servants will he abundantly 
satisfied with his dealings and dispensations with 
them; and shall see how all conducted like so 
many winds, to bring them to their haven; and 
how, even the roughest blasts helped to bring them 
homeward. 
In heaven GodwiU never hide his face more, nor 
the devil show his rnore. 
How can we expect to live with God in heaven, 
if we love not to live with him on earth. 
If thou lovest to worship God here below, God 
I wiU take thee up to worship him above. Thou 
I ahalt change thy place, but not thine employment. 
day without a cloud to darken it. 
Rocn ester University Commencement Exer¬ 
cises. —The exercises of the University of Roch¬ 
ester begin on Sabbath evening, July 5th, at which 
time Rev. Robert Turnduil, D. IX, of Hartford, 
Conn., will deliver the Berraon before the Jmlson 
Society of Inquiry. July 6th, evening — Prize 
Declamations by members of the Sophomore class. 
July 7th, evening—Anniversary ot the Delphic and 
l'ithonian Societies. Orator, Prof. A. J. Upson, 
of Hamilton College. Poet, John N. Wilder, 
Esq., of Albany. July 8th, morning—Commence¬ 
ment exercises at 0 A. M. 
Heaven is a 
and without a night to end it. 
Wc- would be seated in the heavenly Canaan, but 
are loth to be scratched with the briars and thorn* 
of the wilderness. 
In heaven there is the presence of the good and 
the absence ot all evil. 
Grace and glory differ bat 33 the ^ud and the 
blossom. What is grace but glory begun? What 
is glory hut grace perfected. 
We may hope for a place in heaven, if our hearts 
are made suitable to the state of heaven. 
If there will be any grief in heaven, sure it wilt 
be for tin's, that we have done no more for God on 
earth.—AVr. J. Mason, 
The Smallest Monarchy in the World. —This 
is reputed to be the territory of the Prince of 
Monaco, on the Mediterranean, iu the Western 
Riviera of Genoa. It extends about five miles 
along the coast, and inland about three miles.— 
The present Prince of Monaco is supposed also to 
be a descendant of Louis XIV. He is a peer of 
France, and generally resides in Paris: bis princi¬ 
pality being garrisoned by the King of Sardinia. 
The Prince draws from his little State a revenue of 
about £12,000 per annum, half of which supplies 
the charges of administration, the other being 
spent by the prince iu Paris. The number of sub¬ 
jects is about 6,000.— Curiosities of History. 
The Illinois Normal University is to be lo¬ 
cated at Bloomington. The people of that place 
subscribed $103,000, and gave 160 acres of land. 
