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Camp and Outpost Duty for Infantry, With Standing 
Orders, Extracts from the Rev ised Regulations for the 
Vrmv, Kul' - for Health, Maxims for Soldiers, and Du¬ 
ties of O ftu its. By Danikl Butterfield, Brigadier 
General of Volunteers, U. S. A. New York: Harper & 
Brother*-. 
The military literature of our country, at least that por 
Uon at all adapted to a soniewhat extended circulation, 
has been very sparse, because out pursuits have partaken 
of the nature calculated to develop peace and harmony 
rather than the noise of camps and the angry jar of con¬ 
tending hosts, This era has passed away, however, and 
the promise now is that Americans an* to become a mar¬ 
tial people. Under these circumstanced we need in-flnul- 
ort, and we are glad to ?qc such soldiers as Geu. Butter 
rtEl.li coming forward to aid in supplying the wants of 
the nation. The work before us eamiot fail to give very 
many useful and practical lessons to the soldier, and we 
wish each of the sturdy sons now in service were possess¬ 
ors of a copy. The benefit which would accrue from its 
teachings is not to be computed Sold by Steele & 
Avery. 
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Songs for thee the fountains frame; 
Whereso - e’er, thy brightness beams, 
1. All a - round and all a - hove thee 
2. In their ca - vern’d, cool re - cesses, 
3. Whereso - e’er thy pre - sence lin - gers, 
Garlands meet 
Live al - way. 
Ever bright. 
Garlands meet, 
lave al - way, 
Ever bright 
Waft to thee their tribute sweet; 
Whereso - e’er thy foot - steps stray 
Thy young beauty’s one de - light; 
Gentle ze . phyrs, perfume breathing 
Greener ver - dure, brighter blossoms, 
And the heart for - gets thee ne * ver 
And for thee the spring is weaving 
O’er the earth’s en - a - mor’d bosom, 
There it dwells, and dwells for - ever, 
Tin: Soldier’- Book; A Pocket Diary for Accounts and 
Memoranda, for Non Commissioned Otflecrs and Pri¬ 
vates of the 11. 8. Volunteer and Regular Army. By 
Captain RnnKVT N Scott, fourth U. $. Infantry. New 
York : i> Appleton A Co. 
The foregoing title is sufficiently explicit as to what 
may be expected by the purchaser of a “Soldier’s Book,” 
yet we cannot pass it by without, a word of commenda¬ 
tion. So compact is it Dial it can readily be carried in the 
pocket, and yet it contains Blank Tables for inscribing the 
military history of the possessor,—his physical descrip¬ 
tion,—the rations and pay to which ho Is entitled,—amount 
of pay received,—memoranda of allotments,—amount of 
clothing received,—important. “ Articles of War,”—direc¬ 
tions for cooking in camp,—writing paper, pencil, etc., all 
nicely and finely Inclosed in a flexible cover. Every sol¬ 
dier should be provided with one. Btkklb & Avery. 
the jaws of impending ruin. If the government 
is overthrown, if the central sun is blotted from 
the political firmament, the equilibrium of the 
attractive and divergent forces of the entire sys¬ 
tem is at once destroyed; States fly from their 
orbits, anarchy ensues, chaos reigns, business is 
annihilated, wealth vanishes; and all our schools, 
and all the beauty and glory of our institutions, 
and all the lustre of theliCroio past, and all the 
hopes of the opening future, all that we have 
anticipated us the heritage of our children, all 
that we have prophesied as the majestic destiny 
of our country—all, all, is whelmed in one com¬ 
mon and irretrievable ruin. 
“ Let us, then, do our part to swell the hosts of 
(he Union. ‘Our brethren are already in the 
field.’ Hundreds of teachers and pupils from 
the schools of Illinois are still side by side on the 
tented field. Side by side, too, iu the honored 
soldier's grave, some ‘sleep their last sleep.’ 
‘Never,’ said one of our pupil soldiers, ‘did I 
understand tire divine pathos of those classic 
words, 
‘ Dulco, dulco ct decorum est, pro patria raori,’ 
• till I saw my brave teacher die, pierced by the 
bullets of traitors.’ 
‘•To those who remain, teachers and school 
officers, 1 would say, work with renewed ardor; 
relax not your efforts; do your utmost to sustain 
: the schools; strengthen the things that remain; 
i teach with new zeal and faithfulness; visit the 
schools with fresh interest; labor with redoubled 
activity; collect statistics and prepare for the 
most perfect reports ever transmitted to this 
office. And, brethren, be of good courage; 1 do 
not think God wills to lot this nation die.” 
IRON FORMED BY ANIMALCULES 
Tuk Journal tic f Tnslrudion Pulliqnc con¬ 
tains a curious article by M. Oscar do Walteer- 
villo, in which ho announces the fact, not gen¬ 
erally known, that in the lakes of Sweden there 
are vast layers or banks of iron, exclusively 
built up by animalcules, not unlike those that 
have laid the foundations of large islands in the 
ocean, by silently and for ages cementing matter 
with matter, so as to create those beautiful forms 
known as uittdre-pono, mille-ponv, corals, Ac. 
The iron thus formed is called in Sweden “lake 
ore,” distinguished, according to its form, into 
gunpowder, pearl, money, or cake ore. These 
iron banks are from 10 to 200 metres in length, 
from 5 to 15 broad, and from a fourth to throe- 
fourths of a metre and mure in thickness. In 
winter the Swedish peasant, who has but little to 
do in that season, makes holes in the ice of a 
lake, and with a long pole probes the bottom, 
until he has found an iron bank. An iron sieve 
is then let down, and with a sort of ladle, conve¬ 
niently fashioned for the purpose, the loose ore 
is shoveled into the sieve, which is then hoisted 
up again. The ope thus extracted is of course 
mixed with a quantity of sand and other extra¬ 
neous matter, which is got rid of try washing it 
in a cradle like that used by gold diggers. A 
man may get out a tun of iron ore per day by 
this process. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
BOOK AGENTS, TEXT-BOOKS, &c. 
THK Rsbkli toy Record: A Diary of American Events, 
Is»»-al. Edited by Frank Moore, author of “ Diary 
,f {tie American Revolution.” In Three Divisions, vi*.: 
—1 Diary of Verified Occurrence*. II. Poetry. Anec¬ 
dote*, ami Incidents. III. Documents, etc. New York: 
G- P- Putnam. 
Tins standard work upon the rebellion ha? reached 
“ Part XXV,” the initial number of Volume VI, and we 
find it a? valuable a? ever The editor doc* noting in the 
task of collecting and compiling the event* and occurrence* 
which mark the dally history of t)ri■* unholy war, and wo 
can conceive of no publication likely to furnish the gen¬ 
eral reader or the student with a clearer anil more concise 
detail of all the transactions connected therewith, To 
either class it is indispensable Part XXV Is embellished 
with steel portraits of Brig. Geo. Jambs 8. War?worth 
and Gen Braxton Bracio, For sale by Dewey. 
Blaokwooi/s EiiixRirKSii Maoazink. American Edition. 
Re published by Leonard Scott Hi Co., Fulton St. ret, 
New York. 
Not wrr iista xi*i no the excessive Tory proclivities of 
this magazine, anil the many hard hits it has dealt us as a 
jx-Aple, wc cannot forbear the expression that we like it 
after all. Its spleen we can very well afford to overlook, 
for Brother Jonathan is not no poor ns to ask alms at its 
door, nor so weak as to moire its assistance In the Jobe 
now upon hand. Aside from these exhibitions of ill-na¬ 
ture it furnishes a feast of good things for the lovers of 
sterling literature. With Its next issue will begin a new 
volume, and the present is a good time for those who 
would like its visits to extend an invitation. D. M. Dkwky 
of this citv is the Agent. 
LUCKY DAYS 
Tub Anglo Saxons deemed it* highly important 
that a child should be bom on u lucky day, on 
which the whole tenor of hin life was supposed to 
depend; for, in their opinion, each day had its 
peculiar influence* upon the destiny of the newly 
born. Thus, the first day of the moon was pre¬ 
ferred above all Others for the arrival of the little 
stranger; for, they said, “a child born on that 
day is sure to live and prosper.” Tin* second 
day was not so fortunate ;i« the first, as the child 
bom on that day “would grow fast and. not live 
long.” If ho was born on the fourth day of the 
moon, he was destined to become a great poli¬ 
tician; if on the tenth, a great traveler; and if on 
the twenty-first, a bold marauder. But of all the 
days of the week on which to be born, Sunday 
was by far the most lucky, and if it fell on the 
new moon the child’s prosperity was destined to 
be unbounded 
Tub Teachers’ Position.- The school-master 
is a monarch in government, limited only by a 
vague constitution and ill-defined laws. He is, 
for the time being, a father, answerable to other 
parents, and liable to bear the burden of their 
neglect, ignorance, or caprice. Does any one say 
that such a position is a trifling one. and its in¬ 
cumbent may be taken at haphazard .' The bar 
may be disgraced by the pettifogger, the healing 
art by the quack, and the pulpit by the hypocrite; 
but heaven forbid that our profession should be 
disgraced by the conceited igporamus. There 
are few, if any, civil officers required by our,social 
and political system that demand greater variety 
and perfection of talent than that of teacher. — 
Maine, Teacher. 
I Win, bk a Soldier. A Book for Boys. Bv Mrs. L. 
C. Tutu ill, [pp. 192.] Boston: Crosby & Nichols. 
All the boys who have an opportunity to read it will 
be delighted with this volume. Its instructive, moral 
and patriotic sentiments are calculated to make every 
youth the better for its perusal. The story ha? two 
heroes—boys who, becoming young men, graduate with 
high.honors from the Military Academy at We-t Point, 
and now held high rank iu the Union Army. The book 
is worthy the attention of parents aiul Others wishing to 
furnish their sons or boy friends an entertaining and 
timelv work. Sold by Adams A Daknky. 
Links Left Out ; Or, Some of the ill stories Left Out in 
“Line Upon Line." This First Part relates Events iu 
the Times of the Patriarchs and the Judges. By the 
Author of “Line Upon Line, 1 " Reading Without 
Tears,” “More A bout Jesus, ” “ Streaks of Light,” etc. 
[16mo.—pp. 334.] New York: Harper St Brothers. 
This is an excellent volume — beautifully illustrated, 
and admirably written. It is weU designed to instruct 
the young iu regard to Scripture History, being both 
attractive and entertaining, and rendering the study a 
pleasure. Sold by Steele Hi Avery, 
an unlucky birth- 
tie clay of the cruci- 
Savior, but because, 
according to Anglo-Saxon calculations, Adam 
ato the forbidden fruit on Friday, and was also 
expelled from Paradise, and died and descended 
into hell on that day.— Thru p p's Anglo-Saxon 
THE FIRST PRINTED BOOK. 
It is a remarkable and most interesting fact, 
says a secular paper, that the very first use to 
which tlie discovery of printing was applied was 
the production of the Bible. This was accom¬ 
plished at Mentz, between the years 1450 and 
1455. Gutienburg was Lite inventor of the. ait, 
and Faust, a goldsmith, furnished the necessary 
funds. Had it been a single page, or even an 
entire sheet, which was then produced, there 
might have been less occasion to have noticed 
it; but there was something in the whole charac¬ 
ter of the affair which, if not unprecedented, 
rendered It singular in the usual current of hu¬ 
man events. This Bible was in two folio vol¬ 
umes, which have been justly praised for the 
strength and beauty of the paper, the exactness 
of the register, and the luster of the ink. The 
work contained twelve hundred and eighty-two 
Evenin': Journal Almanac.—T he Publishers, Weed, 
Parsons & Co., of Albany, have favored us with a copy 
of this valuable Almanac. It contains.an unusual amount 
of statistical matter in addition to the Almanac proper. 
CANADIAN PETROLEUM—ITS ORIGIN. 
The Canadian Journal of Art asserts the Cana¬ 
dian petroleum is not derived from coal, nor is it 
of recent origin. It says: 
“Petroleum was formed long before the coal, 
and is the result of the decomposition, under pres¬ 
sure, of an infinite number of oil-yielding animals 
which swarmed in the seas of the Devonian peri¬ 
od, long anterior to the coal. The decomposition 
of marine plants may have given some oil to the 
rooks of Canada and the Uhik'd .States, which are 
saturated with this curious substance. The shale 
beds of Collingwood furnish an answer to those 
who object to the infinite number of animals it 
would require to produce the oil locked up in the 
earth. Those shale beds are composed altogether 
of tli®remains of Trllobites- they extend from 
Books Received. 
[Most of the works named below will be noticed in 
future numbers of the Rur al —as soon aa we eau give 
them proper examination.—'Eu.] 
The Institutes ok Medicine. By Mahty.y Pain*, A. 
M., M D., LL. D. Professor of the Institutes of Med 
iciue and Materia Mcdiea in the University of the City 
of New York; Corresponding member of the Royal 
Vercin fur HrUkunde in Preu.--.-n, Currespoding Mem 
her of the GeeelBcliaft fur Niitnr und Hellkunde zu 
Dresden; Member of the Medical Society uf Leipxio; of 
the Medical Society of Sweden, of the Montreal Natural 
History Society ■ and of many other Learned Societies, 
Sixth Edition. [8vo.—up 1130.] New York : Harper 
& Brothers. London: Sampson, Low A Co. Sold iu 
Rochester by Steele & Avery 
History or Frederick the Second, called Frederick the 
Great. By Thomas Carlyle. In Four Volumes,— 
Vol. HI. riSmo.—pp. 596.] New York: Harper & 
Brother?. Rochester— Stsxlk Hi Avert. 
The Student’s France. A History of France from the 
Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Second Em¬ 
pire. Illustrated by Engravings on Wood, ( 12mo.—pp. 
730.] New York: Harper & Brothers. Rochester— 
Steele & Avery 
Rkpubs to “ Essays and Rkvibw8.'” (By Seven Cler¬ 
gymen.) With ,*. Preface by the Lord Bishop of Ox¬ 
ford ; and Letters from the Radcliffc Observer and the 
Reader iu Geology iu the University of Oxford. [12ino., 
pp. 43S.J New York: D. Appleton & Co. Rochester— 
Steele & A very. 
St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans: Now Translated 
and Explained from a Missionary Point of View. By 
the Rev. J. W. Caleu&o, D.D., Bishop of NataL [pp. 
261.] New York : 1). Appleton & Co. Rochester— 
Steele & Avert. 
Memoirs Ok Mrs. Joanna Bktvukk. By her son, Rev. 
Gbokok W. Bethink, I> O With an Appendix.'con¬ 
taining Extracts from the Writings of Mrs. Bethuae. 
[pp. 250.] New York: Harper & Brothers, Rochester— 
Steele & Avery 
Church Dtfttn slink—I n Two Parts, Formative and Cor¬ 
rective; in which is developed the True Philosophy of 
Religious Education. By Rev. Et kazku Savaoe, Roch¬ 
ester, X. Y. [pp. 249.] New Vork : Sheldon & Co. 
From the Author. 
Lady Avdlky’s Secret. A Novel. Bv M. E. Buaddox, 
Author of “Aurora Floyd,” “Lady Lisle,” etc [8vo, 
—pp. 224.] New York: Dick & Fitzgerald 
The New Sunday School Teacher; or, Children's Con¬ 
cert. [pp.41.1 Boston: Henry Hoyt. From the Pub¬ 
lisher. 
TEACHER PATRIOTS 
Ilox. Nkwto.v Batsman, Superintendent of 
Public Instruction in Illinois, closes a recently 
issued circular upon School Matters with the fol¬ 
lowing eloquent words, worthy of the man and 
of his position: 
“ It is a solemn horn’ in our dear country’s his¬ 
tory. The stillness of tho waning summer is 
everywhere broken by martial music and the 
hurrying tread of armed men. Our duty aa edu¬ 
cational men, as officers, teachers, and friends, of 
common schools, in this eventful crisis, is plain. 
If a sense of duty impels us to volunteer, or if 
the government summons us by name to defend 
her insulted flag und share the perils of the bat¬ 
tle-field, wo must not shrink. The call of true 
patriotism is the voice of God. Let us hear and 
respond to its impressive appeal- It is noble to 
rally unbidden to tho standard of the Republic. 
It Ls no dishonor to abide the issue of a draft 
Thousands of conscientious loyal men, who are 
perplexed as to the question of personal duty, 
will be relieved and satisfied when the govern¬ 
ment itself, through the forms of a draft, shall 
have decided the question for them. 
“The maintenance of our system of free 
schools is a duty on no account to be neglected; 
the education of our youth is a prime necessity 
of our political system, but the stern demands of 
this hour of peril subordinate all other interests, 
till the storm is past, to the one great absorbing 
duty of rescuing the government itselfj the be- 
bor; and yet, for a long time after it hud been 
finished and offered for sale, not a single being, 
save the artists themselves, knew how it hud been 
accomplished. 
Of the first printed Bible, eighteen copies are 
now known to be in existence; four of which 
are printed on vellum. Two of these are in Eng¬ 
land; one of them being in the Grenville collec¬ 
tion. One is in the Royal Library at Berlin, and 
one in the Koval Library of Fan’s. Of the re¬ 
maining fourteen copies, ten are in England ; 
there being a copy in Oxford, Edinburgh, and 
London, and seven in the collections of different 
noblemen. The vellum copy has been sold as 
high as eight hundred dollars. 
Tin: Power of Animals and Plants. — In 
animals there is more variety of motion, but in 
plants there Is more real power. A horse is cer¬ 
tainly far stronger than a man, yet a small vine 
cannot only support, but can raise a column of 
fluid five times higher than u horse can. Indeed, 
the power which a plant exercises of holding a 
leaf erect during an entire day without pause arid 
without fatigue, is an effort of astonishing vigor, 
and is one of many proofs that a principle of 
compensation Ls at work, so that the same en¬ 
ergy which, in the animal world, is weakened by 
being directed to many objects, is, in the vegeta¬ 
ble world strengthened by being concentrated 
on a few. — buckle. 
Copper cents, nickel cents and three-ceut 
pieces arc all of much less intrinsic value lhan 
tho sums they represent, and people will make 
nothing by hoarding them. 
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