THE GOENELL HHTYEESITT. 
We have examined, with care and much in¬ 
terest, the able “ Report of the Committee on 
Organization,” to the Trustees of this Institu¬ 
tion, which gives the scope and ideal of their 
plan for its fature management. 
It will be remembered that Ezra Cornell of 
Ithaca, offered a gift of 8500,000 to found this 
great school, if the State would make over to 
the Trustees the 1,000,000 acres of land granted 
by the General Government for Agricultural 
Colleges. His offer was accepted and he has 
more than redeemed his pledge, having given 
over 86(10,000, and spent most of his time also. 
Abnildlugone hundred and sixty-seven by sixty 
feet, and ot fine proportions is erected, and a 
second Is to be finished for the opening of the 
University, Oct 1st, ISOS. The full plan em¬ 
braces five buildings on the large farm, near 
Ithaca, also given by Mr. Cornell. 
This is not to be m/rely an Agricultural Col¬ 
lege, but the principle to serve as test and guide 
is “the absolute and essential importance of 
human development in its richest diversity.” 
To reach toward this, it is proposed to have 
ftpedal courses of study la Agriculture, Mechan¬ 
ics, Engineering, Commerce, Mining, Medicine, 
Law, Political Economy, History, &c., and a 
general course in Literature, Classics, Ac., and 
give the students choice as to wliat course, or 
courses, they pursue. Thus the classics will 
not be ignored, but thoroughly taught to such 
as choose them: aud besides a wide ranee of 
choice will be given among studies much needed 
for practical life, and of signal value as a means 
of finest mental discipline aud best development. 
The report well says that “the attempt to 
give mental discipline by studies which the mind 
does not desire is as unwise as the attempt to 
give physical nourishment by food which the 
body does not desire." German and French are 
taught, as well as the classic languages, and the 
wide and rich realm of Natural Law 3 , as touch¬ 
ing the farm, the machine shop, the connection 
between labor and political economy, and other 
problems and pursuits of the age we live and 
work in, will be open to all who choose to enter 
in,—a realm too much neglected in what we call 
“education,” and yet to add new glory aud 
power to our schools and our lives as its riches 
are developed. 
The University is to be intimately linked with 
our Common School system, as the State School 
Superintendent is, ex-officio, a Trustee, and the 
County School officials are to decide as to what 
scholars from the public schools shall have the 
free scholarships which are to be grauted to some 
hundred and fifty or more of the graduates from 
these institution'. The terms of tuition are not 
fixed permanently, but are to be only 835 for 
the first year,— while students are allowed to 
make their own arrangements for board, aud can 
perform such amount of labor to aid in defraying 
expenses as they prefer. 
For the full carrying out of this great Bcheme 
forty-five Professors will be needed, and appa¬ 
ratus, libraries, land, die., on ample scale. On 
the start there will be some fifteen Professors, 
and the increase will be made as fast as build¬ 
ings and apparatus can be ready. Under the 
law by which it is governed it cannot be used 
any more than a Common School for denomina¬ 
tional purposes, but will airn at that catholic 
impartiality in that respect which is the Ideal of 
our public schools, and yet the effort will be to 
foster a development of life which “can only be 
normal and healthful iu an atmosphere of love 
of truth, beauty and goodness, and adoration of 
the Center of truth, beauty and goodness.” 
After much discussion, iu the State Senate 
and elsewhere, this uuity of effort was decided 
on, as preferable to dividing this great land-grant 
among so many Colleges as to weaken Its bene¬ 
fits, and make impossible great results. The 
choice of A. D. White of Syracuse, for Presi¬ 
dent, is singularly fortunate, as he is a man of 
broad culture, earnest sympathy witli popular 
education, and eminently fit, by experience and 
personal qualities, for a teacher. Ilis leaving 
the Professorship of History in the Michigan 
State University, was much regretted by both 
teachers and students there, and the honorary 
degree of LL. D., has just been conferred on 
him by that Institution. 
As there is ample room for this, among our 
other Colleges, aud as its scope is different some¬ 
what from theirs, let us hope it may prosper 
fraternally, fulfill its rich promise, and justify 
the hopes of Ezra Cornell, its sagacious aad 
munificent frieud. 
Beactifcl^and True. —In an article in Fra¬ 
zier’s Magazine this brief but beautiful extract 
occurs:—“Education does not commence with 
the alphabet. It begins with a mother’s look— 
with a father’s smile of approbation, or sign of 
reproof—with a sister’s gentle pressure of the 
hand, or a brother’s noble act of forbearance — 
with a handful of flowers in green and daisy 
meadows—with bird’s nests admired bat not 
touched—with creeping ants, and almost impos¬ 
sible emmets —with hamming bees and glass 
bee-hives—with pleasant walks and shady lanes, 
and with thoughts directed in sweet and kindly 
tones and words to mature to acts of bcuevo- 
frnce, to deeds of virtue, and to the source of 
ad good,—to God himself.” 
--- 
, Git ' t prom Napoleon.—T he Emperor Nano- 
;. 011 . presented to the University at South 
oenu, infijana, a superb and powerful telescope, 
' 'due<l at 2 . 1,000 francs. 11 has inscribed upon it 
; —“ Presented by his Imperial Majes- 
Napoleon III to the Catholic University of 
Notre Dame du Lac, Indiana, United States ” 
NoftMAI ‘ Schools.—W ork is to 
m!l , ou ; a Norr “ al building at Oshkosh 
to'twx- ter ’ * no V K ‘ r building is to be added 
i me Normal bchool now open at Platteville. 
EDUCATION IN FRANCE. 
Napoleon has set in operation a new system 
of popular education, which, if it goes on as it 
begins, will have results great and far-reaching 
for human freedom. Forty thousaud teachers 
have opened 82,8S3 free night schools, to which 
come 823,000 adults, eager to learn, and mostly 
making rapid progress. Iu the year 10,000 new 
teachers have been added. At a competition 
examination last February of written composi¬ 
tions, 5,153 entered the lists, mostly mechanics 
or laborers, and there were 1,419 compositions 
in which the writing and spelling were faultless 
and the moral sense admirable. Of anxiety to 
learn and good results, a correspondent says: 
“Alittle girl, for instance, ten years of age, 
brought her mother to the night school, aud 
there taught herself to read. A sick work¬ 
man wrote the exercises for the night school 
while confined to his bed, while another paid a 
friend to replace him at his factory during the 
school hour. In the South, where the passions 
are violent and consequently where quarrels are 
more frequent than in cooler Northern districts, 
the moral benefit derived from these night 
schools has been so great, that in one instance, 
where, illness prevented the teacher from giving 
his lessons, a young curate volunteered to re¬ 
place him—a service which necessi tated a latigue- 
ing journey on foot across a mountain and 
through a wood of considerable extent. He 
never could reach home before half-past eleven 
at uight. Dining four months the young priest 
was punctual to his self-imposed task, for which 
he received no reward save the gratification of 
having continued the good work begun by one 
as poor as himself. At Crcuzot druukenness 
and quarreling are unknown In the foundries, 
where ten thousaud workmen are employed,'— a 
result attributed by the President of the Corps 
Legislutif to the night schools.” 
Watiotts Sojiics. 
CHILE-MURDER 
“THE GANGES AT OUR CHRISTIAN DOORS 1 .” 
A Paris correspondent of one of the New 
York journals writes of the fearful mortality 
among infants sent into the couutry to nurse. 
It seems that of 20,000 of these helpless beiugs 
thus pushed away, 15,000 die yearly, and many 
others return tainted for life with scrofula aud 
other diseases. It is even said that nurses who 
are known to “bring ill-luck to children” are 
sought for, aud that those far away are preferred. 
The French medical faculty say that if the 
population of their country has not increased 
since 1789, it is owing to this custom, which is 
only a kind of child-murder. This seems terri¬ 
ble heartlessuesa, yet possibly its like may exist 
nearer home. 
The New York Board Of Health has knowl¬ 
edge of more than thirty houses in that city 
wherein abortions are produced, as their sole 
business. Five deaths of infanta iu a day from 
one such house, filled with young and middle- 
aged women from all parts of the country, were 
reported. Being unable to obtain permits for 
the burial of these slaughtered innocents, it is 
said they often bum their remains in furnaces. 
It may be thought these poor mothers arc out¬ 
casts from social life or victims of man’s per¬ 
fidy, seeking in anguish of heart thus to hide 
their shame. This is true of a part, no doubt, 
yet we should he startled to know how many 
married persons, in couutry and city, resort to 
such unnatural means of relief from the care of 
children. 
Rev. Dr. Eddv, editor of the North-Western 
Christian Advocate at Chicago, has written on 
this subject with a plainness of speech, an earn¬ 
estness of feeling and a purity of spirit, which 
show rare manhood and Christian courage. Af¬ 
ter speaking of the prevalence of “/cb/vc Me,” 
“abortion” and “ infanticide' 1 among “ respect¬ 
able” people, in married life, he says:— 11 These 
two mighty lever* of moral reform, the pulpit 
and the religious press must at once come to the 
rescue. Excessive modesty is incompetence, 
false delicacy a sin, and chaste, thorough discus¬ 
sion a boundeu duty. The plain, vital truth of 
a delicate but inevitable subject, Is far more pure 
than the uninstructed devices of the human 
heart. * The truth shall make you free,' ” 
The extended American practice of criminal 
abortion, is a branch of Infanticide, which horror 
many suppose confined to heathen nations. It 
may appear that a Ganges flows by our Christian 
doors. Dr. Reamt in the Ohio Medical Conven¬ 
tion In 1860, said of abortions “we are becom¬ 
ing a nation of murderers,” Dr. Stewart 
lamented “its frightful prevalence in wedlock.” 
Dr. SroitEu said “ nine-tenths of the abortions 
were iu married life.” Dr. Kyle said:—“Of 
thirty-seven cases of criminal abortion, I found 
thirty-four married and three unmarried. They 
occur most among those known as the better 
class, church members and those who pretend to 
be most polite, and virtuous, aud religious.” 
Dr. Stewart said, “people of high repute 
practice it.” 
A pamphlet from Boston, entitled “Serpents 
in the Dove’s Nest,” written by ltev. John 
Todd, D. D., is before us, on this subject, and 
thus the East and the West unite. The author, 
an eminent man, says, “ an imperative sense of 
duty” impels him, aud “letters from different 
sections of the country ’ urge him to write. 
The larger part of this little tract was first pub¬ 
lished in the Congreyalionalist, under the title of 
“Fashionable Murder” and he speaks of “a 
large pile of letters from men unknown, and 
from some in high places —East, West, North 
and South,”—almost all urging him to write 
more. Startling statements arc made, which 
fully corroborate those quoted by Dr. Eddt, as 
for instance that of the wife of an eminent phy- 
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LORD M0NCK, GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 
We give a portrait of Charles Stanley j 
Monck, Governor-General of “The Dominion 
of Canada,” who entered on his duties by hiking 
the oath of office at Ottawa on the 1st of July, j 
He is of Irish descent, the fourth Viscount ot 
his title, and is descended from George Monck 
who dissolved Richard Cromwell’s Purlin J 
ment, and invited Charles II to return to 
England. 
sician who says “ not a week, and hardly a day 
passes but eases eomc to my knowledge.” 
A work by Dr. n. R. Stoker,— “ Why not? 
A Book for every Woman,” to which the Ameri¬ 
can Medical Association awarded a gold medal 
In 1865, is highly commended for general read¬ 
ing. Of Its effects on inothi rV, ho Miys, 1 Shat¬ 
tered constitutions, pale faetji, feeble liver, in¬ 
ternal diseases, remorse, shame, and sometimes 
madness, tell the fearful results. ‘God rc- 
qulreth that which is past,’ and never more 
surely than in this case.” Should further facts 
he challenged, which there is no wish to give, it 
la suggested ' 1 that Paris with all her license, is 
not so guilty in this respect as is staid New 
England, at the present hour.” 
But enough. Here are terrible facts, earnest 
appeals, rebukes and warnings from men of high 
character, and animated by a truly Christian 
spirit. Surely there should be thought and 
tight, bringing a blessed reform, in regard to a 
practice so debasing to all spiritual life, 60 re¬ 
volting to all purity, aud so terrible in its physi¬ 
cal results,—for it, should be knowu that abor¬ 
tion brings derangement of the system, makes 
wreck of health, and often incapacitates woman 
from ever enjoying the sweet pleasures of ma¬ 
ternity. Thus do brutal passion, and false 
shame, and blind selfishness seal up the pure 
fountains of motherly love! 
In this woman is “ more sinned against than 
sloping,” for she is too often, in marriage as well 
as out, the victim of man’s selfish passion. Let 
there be light cm the sanctity of marriage and 
parentage; less of passion and more of rever¬ 
ence for the sacred office of maternity, that 
children may only come as welcome blessings, 
never to be pushed out of “ this living, breath¬ 
ing world,” by bloody hands and foul hearts, 
leaving the parent’s souls Btnirehed by unnatural 
crime, even if cloaked iu garments of respect¬ 
ability. 
THE DOMINION OF CANADA. 
Our neighbors across the lake and river have, 
for some time, been trying to unite the different 
Canadian Provinces under one general head; and 
at last the Union has been effected iD such way 
as bids fair to strengthen fraternity of feeling as 
well as facilitate the governmental affaire of the 
Canadas aud adjacent regions. On the first of 
July “The Dominion of Canada” was inaugu¬ 
rated, embracing Upper Canada, (now called 
“Ontario,”) Lower Canada, (now “Quebec,”) 
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The door is 
open for all British North America to come into 
the “Dominion,” when they wish, Newfound¬ 
land and Cape Breton arc looking iu that direc¬ 
tion, aud British Columbia, it is said, asks for 
admission. 
The Dominion has a population of about. 4,- 
000,000, and an area of some 400,000 square miles, 
or ten times as wide as that of New York. In 
this broad realm there is fertile soil enough for 
a much larger population, and as they are nearly 
free of debt, aud have the powerful aid of Great 
Britain, a growing railroad system, rich cities, 
and men of energy and capital, the future is 
rich in promise. 
The day Of inaugurating the new government 
was celebrated in cities aud iu the country with 
fit ceremonials and much enthusiasm. Lord 
Monck was sworn in at Ottawa, the scat of Gov- 
1 ernment, as Governor-General. 
Lord Monck was chosen Governor of Canada 
iu 1861, and is no stronger, of course, in the 
country. Hi* course has been marked by energy 
and decision, and he has been an curly and earn¬ 
est worker for the Confederation of which he 
stands at the head, by appointment of Qneen 
Victoria. Elsewhere on this page will be found 
an account of the “ Dominion of Canada,” with 
the names of the members of the Government. 
It is understood that Sir N. F. Belleax will 
be Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, (lens. Wil¬ 
liams and Doyle will hold the same positions, 1 
provisionally, in Nova Scotia and New Bruns¬ 
wick, and Gen. Stisted i - spoken of for Ontario, 
temporarily. Each Province will have its local 
legislature and the Farliameat at Ottawa will 
have mi Upper House of seventy-two members, 
chosen by the crown, and a House of Commons 
of one hundred and eighty-one elected by the 
people. We give the names of the members of 
the Upper House, or Senate, os given in the 
Queen’s Proclamation In May. 
For the Province of Ontario— John Hamilton, Rod¬ 
erick Matheson, John Rons, Samuel Mills. Benjamin 
Seymour, Walter Hamilton Dickson, James Shaw, 
Adam Johnson, Ferguson Blair, Alexander Campbell, 
David Christie, James Cox Atkins, David Reesor, 
Elijah Leonard, W. MacMastor, Asa Allworth Burn¬ 
ham, John Rimson, James Skead, David Lewis Mac- 
pherson, George Crawford, Donald MacDonald, Oliver 
Rake, Billa Flint, Waiter MeOrea and George William 
Allen. 
For the Province of Quebec —.lames Leslie, Asa Bel¬ 
knap Foster, Joseph Noel Bosse, Louis A. Olivier, 
Jacque Olivier Bureau, Charles Malholt, Louis Re¬ 
nault, Luc Leatellierde St. Just, L'lric Joseph Tessler, 
John Hamilton, Charles Cormier, Antoine Jucherear 
Ducliesnay, David Edward Price, Elzear H. J. Ducli- 
osnay, Leandro Dumouchel, Louis Laeosto, Joseph E. 
Armand, Charles Wilson, William Henry Chaffers, 
Jean Baptiste Ouevromont, James Ferrier. Sir Nar- 
cisse Fortunal Bclleau, Knight. Thomas Ryan and 
John Sewefi Sanborn. 
For the Province of Nova Scotia —Edward Konney, 
Jonathan McCnlly, Thomas D. Archibald, Robert B. 
Dickey. John H. Anderson, John Holmes. John W. 
Ritchie, Benjamin Weir, John Locke, Caleb R. Bill, 
John Bourinot and William Miller. 
For the Province of New Brunswick—Axnoe Edwtn 
Botsford, Edward Barron Chandler, John Robertson, 
Robert Leonard Iluzen, William Hunter Odell, David 
Wark, William Henry Steeves, William Todd, John 
Ferguson. Robert Duncan Wilniot, Abner Reid Me- 
Ch.-lan and Peter Mitchell 
The Ministry has Mr. McDonald as Premier, 
Messrs. Cartier, Tilly, Galt, MoDouoall, 
Archibald, Blair, Campbell, Howland, Belt., 
Mitchell, Henry and Langervin, are the 
other members. 
Success to the Dominion of Canada. 
FACTS ABOUT NEWSPAPERS. 
IIow many professional and political reputa¬ 
tions and fortunes have men made and sustained 
by the friendly, though unrequited, pen of the 
editor? How many embryo towns and cities 
have lieou brought into notice and puffed Luto 
prosperity by the press? How many railroads, 
now in successful operation, would have found¬ 
ered but for the “lever” that moves tlxe world? 
In short, wliat branch of industry aud activity 
has not been promoted, stimulated and defend¬ 
ed by the press ? And who has tendered it 
more than a miserable pittance for its service ? 
The bazaars of fashion and the haunts of dissi¬ 
pation are thronged with an eager crowd, bear¬ 
ing papers in their palms, and the commodities 
thus vended are sold at enormous profits, though 
intrinsically worthless, and paid for with scru¬ 
pulous punctuality, while the counting-room of 
the newspaper is the seat of Jewing, cheapening 
trade, orders and pennies. It Is made a point of 
honor to liquidate a grog bill, but not of dishon¬ 
or to repudiate a printer’s bill. 
Uta&iag {op {lie Soaag. 
HOW THEY QUARRELED. 
BY ALICE CART. 
To begin in things quite simple 
Quarrels scarcely ever fail— 
And they fell out, Dan aud Dimple, 
All about a horse’s tail 1 
So that, by and by the quarrel 
Quite broke up and spoiled their play— 
Danny said the tail was sorrel. 
Dimple said that it wns gray I 
“ ( fray .'" said Danny—“You arc simple! 
Just as gray a* mother's shawl," 
“ And that’s red I” said saucy Dimple, 
“You’re a fool, and that is all I" 
Then the sister and the brother— 
As indeed they scarce conld fail, 
In such anger, struck each other— 
All about the horse’s tail 1 
“ Ued!" cried Dimple, speaking loudly, * 
“ How you play at fast and loose I" 
“ Yes?' said Danny, still more proudly, 
“ When I’m playing with a goose I” 
In between them came the mother— 
“ What la all this fuss about ?” 
Then the sister and the brother 
Told the story, out and out. 
And she answered, “ I must label 
Each of you a little dunce, 
Since to look Into the stable. 
Would have settled it, at once 1" 
Forth ran Dan with Dimple after, 
And fell soon came hurrying back 
Shouting, all aglue with laughter, 
That t he horse’s toil was black I 
So they both agreed to profit 
By the lesson they had learned, 
And to tell each other of if 
Often os the fit returned. 
THE KIND-HEARTED TANNER. 
The following Incident is so beautiful aud 
touching that it should be read in every house¬ 
hold in the country. It develops the true, ac¬ 
tive principle of kindness. How many an er¬ 
ring mortal, making his first step in crime, might 
be redeemed by the exercise of tills sublime trait 
in the character of the kind-heurted Quaker. 
William Savery, an eminent minister among 
the Quakers, was a tanner by trade. One uight 
a quantity of hides were stolen from his tan¬ 
nery, and he had reason to believe that the 
thief was a quarrelsome, drunken neighbor by 
the name of .Tohu Smith. Next week the-fol¬ 
lowing advertisement appeared in the country 
nc we paper: 
“ Whoever stole a quantity of hides on the 
fifth ot' this month Is hereby informed that the 
owner has a sincere wish to be his friend. If 
poverty tempted him to this false step the owner 
will keep the whole transaction secret, and will 
gladly put him in the way of obtaining money 
by means more likely to bring him peace of 
mind!” 
This singular advertisement attracted consid¬ 
erable attention, but the culprit alone knew 
who had made the kind offer. When he read 
it his heart melted within him, and he was tilled 
with sorrow for what he had done. A few 
nights afterward, a* the tanner’s family were 
about retiring to rest, they heard a timid knock, 
and when the door was opened there stood John 
Smith with a load of hides on hi* shoulders. 
Without looking up he said: 
“1 have brought these back, Mr. Savery; 
where shall I put them?” 
“ Walt till I can get a lantern, aud I will go 
to the burn with thee," he replied ; “ then thou 
wilt come in and tell me how this happened. 
We will see what can be done for thee.” 
As soon as they were gone out his wife pre¬ 
pared some hot coffee, and placed pies and meat, 
on the table. When they returned from the 
barn she said, “ Neighbor Smith, I thought 
some hot supper would bo good for thee.” 
lie turned Ilia back toward her, and did not 
speak. After leaning against the fireplace iu 
silence a lew moments, he said iu a choked 
voice, “ It is the first time I ever stole any¬ 
thing, aud I have felt very badly about it. I 
am sure I didn’t once think that I should ever 
come to what I am; but 1 took to drlukiug, 
and then to quarreling. Since I began to go 
down hill everybody gives me a kick. You 
are the first man that lias ever offered roe a 
helping hand. My wife is sickly and my chil¬ 
dren starving. You have sent them many a 
meal. God bless you! but yet I stole the hides. 
But I tell you the truth when I say it is the first 
time I was ever a thief.” 
“Let it be the last, my friend," replied Wil¬ 
liam Savery. “ The secret lies between our- 
sevea. Thou art still young, and it Is in thy 
power to make up for lost time. Promise 
me that thou wilt not drink any intoxicating 
liquor for a year, aud I will employ thee to¬ 
morrow on good wages. Thy little boy cau 
pick up stones. But eat a hit now and drink 
some hot coffee ; perhaps it will keep thee from 
craving anything stronger to-night. Doubtless 
thou wilt find it hard to abstain at first; but 
keep up a brave heaffr for the sake of thy wife 
and children, and it will soon become easy. 
When thou hast need of coffee tell Mary, aud 
she will give it thee.” 
The poor fellow tried to eat and drink, but 
the food seemed to choke him. After vainly 
trying to compose his feelings, he bowed his 
head on the table and wept like a child. After 
a while he ate and drank, and his host parted 
with him for the uight with the friendly words, 
“Try to do well, John, and thou wilt always 
find a friend iu me." John entered his emplov 
the uext day, and remained with him many 
years, a sober, honest, and steady man. The 
secret of the theft was kept between them ; but 
after John’s death William Savery sometimes 
told the story to prove that evil might be over¬ 
come with goud. 
