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THK (Jini.DREX’S FliJK>:!), Wcdliesd-.sy, a!, •SJ'S. Last week we left the Siiijeriii- tcndent and liis Orplian Concert Troup at Hillsboro. The follow- ing ill regard to their inoveniGiits have been received: Visited the fainons School of Homer & Graves, and found them well fi.xed for good work. The- location, the building.s, tlu; arrangements are admirable, and the Cadets present a tine appear ance. By, special kindness of Capt. Greene ,we ride on the freight to the ShO])S and give an entertainment in the Church. On Sunday night we reach Greens boro,, ....id find no small stir over the change of guago. The trains are stopped and Jnindreds of hands .are at work. No room for the chihiron, and Col. Talcott kindly endorses our pass for ReidsHlle. So here we are to give an entertainment in the llap- ti.st-Charch to-night. The people so far have given us a cordial welcome. We h.ave visited Durliam, Hills boro, Company Shops, Reidsvllle, Greensboro, High Point, Chai- lotte and Salisbury. At Compa ny Shoiis we had a good house and kind treatment. At Reids- ville, Hr. Harris, Mr. La Barbe, Elder Fontaine, Dr. Doll .and all the people gave ns a cordial wel come. At Greensboro we had a large .audience even on the nigiit of the Free Gift’ Concert. Dr. Smith .and Rev. Mr. Bobbitt offer ed excellent prayers for the or phans. At High Point, Rev. Mr. Dalton ])r.ay6ii for the .cliiidreii, and Messrs. Barbee,' Pleasant and others supplied their temporal wants. At Charlotte we unfor tunately hit. upon . Lodge-night, and the Masons could not attend. Mr. Kccles entertained us .at the Ceutr. 1 Hotel, free of chirge Nohall wasopen to us and we used the Baptist church. The' audi ence was large ; but no collection was taken. At Salisbury Rev. Mr. Rumple prayed for the chil dren and we used the Presbyter ian cburcli. The night was bad; but the collection good. Dr. Summerell was very kind to one of our orphans who was sick. Wo exjiect to be at Thonias- villo on Monday night, and Lex ington Tuesday night. Mebaiie- ville Wednesday night, Louis- burg Tliursday night, and Ox- fird Friday night. Tlie change of guago broke in upon our ar rangements and cut off oorros- jiondonceandajipointments. Then tlio rain and mud have kept m.any away from our entertainments ; but still the people in every place have been very kind and very at tentive to our exercises and to our wants.' The children sometimes sick, and sometimes troublesome, I'.avo done well and are still in good condition for work. One, too in to travel, was fortunate enougli to be left witli Mrs. J. I.. Pleasant at High Point. The pres ent writer will he glad to reacli the end of the journey, though grateful for kindness bv the way. J. n. M. f^'ON Sunday.—As one of a long list of new Senators in Washing ton who are named as being .ap proached b)' the New York Her ald's Correspondent for the jmr- ]ioso of interviewing, the Hon. Senator Me Milhm of Miuossota, is worth}'^ of notice for his ))orti- neut answer, which was ; “I do not know what the custom is in Wa.sliiug'ton, bnt, until I am more demoralixod than at ju-eseiit, I shall decline to he iniervi'.'wed on Similny by anybody.”—w- tkmyc. IDI^EMtUSS. No man has a rigid, in this ac tive busy world, to sit down in idleness and allow tlio talents ihat God has given to bum to rust for want of u.se. I'iicre is too much to be done, and the time for do ing it i.s too'short, for an}' intelli gent being to fold his hands in in dolence and cr\' for “a little more sleep, a little more slumber and a little more folding of the hands together.” Yv”e are led to believe, from tl.e general tenor of the Scriptures, us well as. from many of tlieir di rect declarations, -that a lazy man can iio't bo a Christian. Th.e ob ligations i'e,sting upon us, arising out of our yarious relations in life, all dem.and an energetic, uu- remittiiig industry in order to dis charge them proper!}'. O'arduty to God, to our families, to our iieig'hbors and to ourselves, re- (jnire that we should be constant ly up and doii.g, improving the time, laying up a good inherit ance for the time to come, so that we may be found w.auting noth ing when called upon to give ac- co int of our stewardship. What a disgusting spectacle, to see a mau endowed with ordinary iuteliigence and strong limbs, with no disease excejit such as arise from want of exorcise, loung ing about, doing no good to him self or any body else, boring his busy neighbor, and living off the labor of somebody pevha.jis less able than himself to work for a living ! Even great we.alfh does not ex cuse a mail from participation in the active duties of life. It may change the character of his d'.i- tles, but does not exempt him from their perfonn.ance. If he does not need the proceeds of his Labor for his own use, or that of his family, there ai-e other de mands that God.hasm.ade ©quail}' binding upon hinij the poor auJ the need}' have a claim upon him that ho can not tlirow off. “An idle mind is the Devil’s workshop,” and a man c.ah not long indnlgo a course of idleness without falling into mischievous habits and sinful indulgences. So that,. while indolence is a sin of itself, it almost invariabl}' leads to other sins, and at the same time has the lamentable feature connected with it, of incapac.itat- ing its subjects from making aii}’ effort at reformation. EotiUJurroM. Education means something more—a great deal more—than teaching a child to read, write and cypher. Indeed it means more than all that children can gather from books and maps aud other appliances of the school room. Wlien the n.ew born babe opens its eyes npoii the objects around it, the time for its education be gins. It knows nothing of all it sees and hears, and its mind, in tlie process of development, tnusf receive impressions of some sort, right or wrong. Then comes the office of the mother and the nurse, to teach it the right aud to avoid the wrong ; and the education— the training, the leading along— thus begun, must he assiduously .and miremittiiigly continued, un til the mind is sufficienlly ex- ])anded and the judgment suffi ciently matured to enable the child to discern for itself what is right and what is wrong. In the edue.ation of a child there is nothing the p.arent ought to consider too insiguitieant or too exal'ied a.s subjiicts ot instruc- iion, from the tying of a slioo string' or the felling of a scam; the carriage of the body, intona tion of the voice; in all bodily ami mental exercises, to the culti vation of the moral fiicul'i,ies, tiic parent should exercise the train ing hand of the educator. . How many parents in our country de- cli'.re, iihis ! too tnitiiful!}',. their incapacit}' for tiie proper educa tion of their owm olfsju'ing ! Wo see the lack of this proper educa tion-of chihtren all around us, not oi’.ly in thdr iimbility to read and '.vrite, (wlfch areratlierthenn a is of acquiring edneation tiiaii edu cation itsolfjd-'Ut in tlieir tvaiit o! skill in tii'oabrdihtu'y u.seful oocu pations of life, their disregard to the retin'fanep‘!:ii,and coiirtesies in the home circle, '.aii-d their almost total ignorance'of the moral obli gations and claims of religion up on themi Parents occupy a fe.arfully re- spoiisible position in reg'ard'tothe education of their children, for, vhry much upon the manner iti which they di.schargc their duties in thi.s respect, depends tiro wel fare of their cluldren in this' life and. their destiny in the life to come. TME TOJVEKSS'S’S.'. ' We learn from the Raleigh pa pers th.at the Legislature, last week, passed what isknowii as the University bill. I'his liiil gives to the University the annual in terest, amounting to about seven thousand, fix'e hundred dollar.s, arising from the land scrip fund d'Onated .by (jongress to the State for ediicational purposes. With the in3.ans tliis bill places at.their dispo-jal, the Trustees of tlie University will be enabled to Ijejin .the reorganizalipn of that institution,..hqt it strikes tie as en tirely inad^'qpate to j'llace it upon the 'footing th'ei'neces-iities of the times demand,'.arid its friends would like to see ft occupy. Perhaps this was ■ ail Yhat the Legislature could b-3 expected to do for the University'aVtliis time, owing to the (ier.anged and depressed con dition of our State'finances, and we have the'confidence to believe that the Board will do all that can bo done,' with the limited ine.an.s thus''piaced at their dis posal, to start the Univer.iity once more upon its'mission of nseful- iiess, 'and to'make it, as in former year's, the pride and ornament of the State. In their labors they ■will have many obstacles to over come and 'will need, as 'ive hope the,}' will have, the sympathy and eoiiperatiori'of’ev'er}' alumnus and ever}' friend'of the University in •the State. ' BE aiAVSO.!*,Ott'E'S 35A§'l'EaS. “Letthein ob-cy that know not how to rulef!’'—Sliaksjie.are. “Do boyi^i^ver think'1 Youths may, yoiiggi-jnen do—sometimes ; ■old men must ,-i but boys, I fancy, never, df'■ they did, how anxious they wou'l'd bo to coiitrlbuts to the comfort rof their masters— how desiroifs of siparing them an noyance—^lidw solicitous to facil itate their labors ! Y'es, if they ever reliected upon the weariness es, anxieties, and responsibilitie.s of a teacher’s life,—upon the monotonous character of his du ties,—upon the heaviness of the burden. which constantly rest.s upon him,—upon all he Inas to fear, and endure, and guard against,-—they would assuredly }'ieid him their sympathies, aud seek to lighten ids toil. They wouhl abstain from liaiTassiug him with, petly vexations, with spoken or unspoken impertinences, witii ill-])repared tasks and neglected dmics. They would say, “This master of mine is worn aud fa tigued with his exertions to enlti- vato ni}' min.'l, and fit me to min- g'lo with educated men on equal terms. He toils d;iy and night to teach me tlie use of the w.3apon,s with which the battle of life is fought—to furnish mo with a key to the treasure-house of tlie wis (lorn of pa.st ages, lie has to eon- tend with my slow-yichllug ig norance, with niy half-developed faculties, ivith all the haste and undiscijdined ardor of my boy hood ; and h.)w d.i I requite him ! By inattention to his direetion.--, by neghect of my studies, by a thousand small annoyances, by ridiculing him to my school-fel lows ! Ls this generous, honest, gentlemanly?” -Illany lads appear to imagine that when they a.re-onco 'seated under the school-house roof they ra.ay dispense 'ivith the courtesies a.nd piolite iiabits which are thought necessai’v in society or at home. But let them remember that their tutors are men of education ; that tliey are their seniors, and they will see how great a claim they must have upon the respect and esteem of their jiupiis. A viola tion of discipline, an order diso beyed, an injunction neglected, i.s ai serious fault; for discipline is iho bon'd tliat holds together dis cordant nature.s, and -wlien once overthrown, only disorder, confu sion and anarchy can follow t E the results. Discipline is preserv ed for tlie comfort of all—not for the sake of mei'ely upholding the tbaciier’s autlicrity; and an act of disobedience tends to render your fellow-pupiLs more or loss uncomfortable; iviiilo it is a flag rant breach of manners tow'ai'ds the heads of the school. Negleit of discipline means a neglect i f duty, and neglect of diity will speedily grow Upon' you as a hahit, whicii in later years you may find it difficult to' eradicate and wliich is not only an offence against human aud divine laws, but will infallibly destroy v'our liappiiK'Si, and ruin your world!}' prospects.”—W, II. 1). A , An Ha- ylislinian. M!S. C®I,EYSJ5S’1§ BIO'EtlEIE. The following is the descrip tion given by Rev. Robert Coi- Ivor of the manner in which his mother “put him through,” when he was a boy. IV’ouder bow many of the boys of our day would like such “bi'inging up?” “She never heard a lecture or read a book ,'iboiit liealtli in her life, that I know of, but she liad a code of tradition and instincts to whicii slie held always. She whitewasiied her cottage from top to bottom with quicklime twice a year; painted all the wood-work. Twice a week she scrubbed and scoured the floors so that they were as clean as hands could.inake them;'and' how many times she swept tliem besides, and covered them with white sand, I should be afraid to say. She also rubbed the better sort of furniture with beeswax and tur- j.ientine until it shone like a dus ky mirror. We slept on chaff beds, but she alwat's cleared them out in the sprihg, got new chaff, always had her little stock of linen white and pure to sleep in, and once a week while we were .small, put us through untold torments with yel low soap and the most intolerable towels. “Who hath red eyes ? "Who hath contention? V.’lio hath strife 1 The boys that have to go into a tub, with a woman like iny mother to work it. Then slie gave us plenty to eat; oatmeal porridge aud blue milk in the morning, oi.tmea; porrid: 0 anel blue milk at night, a very lit lie piece of meat at noon, with plenty of soup and potatoes, and on I'iii e days dumplings, oat-cake —t.) fill up all the crevices—and wheateu bread tnice a week. Butter wo were supposed to have on Sunday, but we were all a-gre-eil that siie scrajicd off more than she put on. YYe knew what tea and coiice was, but it never liurt our nerves or kept u.s awake at nights; and every spring she made a won'.lerful spi, cifie of brim- stuiie, molasses and cream of tar tar, a kind of infernal sweetmeat, which, with sa ts and soim:.— when we'were supposed to- reed o-iie—.and-a pleasant drink in A])i'il, -inade'out ‘'of-trew -'ifottles.m.'. no doubt in her faith preservetl o.ir practical lives. ,, Good shoes, and stockings of lier own knitting; two suits of clothes, warm aud stout, with a prophecy in them of the growih wo were to attain before they were worn out—one suit for Suci- da}', the other for iveek-day."., with no distinction between sum mer and winter; and Hobson’s choice of the wholesome fare. That was the way' our wise, strong mother gathered her brood under her wings, and bred them into “sturdy clieils and buirdly hizzies.” A Shout SEiiitoN.—Mvfi'iend n-as walking up State street, late one windy afternoon, when he encountered a short .senm-n on temp;mice. The air was keen, and cold, with “ symptoms” of snow, lie had puiled his. c.ap down over his ears as far as .pos sible, and buttoned his over-coat •close to keep out the stinging lake wind, and was hurrying along at a pace that might rival,. Weston’s, when he iioariv ran ■-iver a little child no more than four year.s old, wiio had fallen, on the sidc-yvnlk near him. “lieiglio, sis !” he exclaimed, liftiii'g iicr safely to her feet again. 'File little ragannuTn put up a very grie.-ed lip, and was going to cry ; but stopped when he si'oko pleasantly to her. “ Wlieiv ! bare-foot, .and such ad,iy as this!”—with a low whistle —“ivliy don’t }'ou run homo, sis, and put on your shoes and stock ings, before you I'reeze vour toes. ” “Don’t dot any shoes and stot- ins.” “Don’t got an}', eh I How does that happen? Don’t your fa ther buy you any shoes and stock ings?” “O, no !” slie answered, with a tone tliat meant “of course not,” and a manner indicating that she considered the reason amply suffi cient, “no, my pa dots drunk.”— Morning Star. President Porter, of Yale Col- ledge, recently'gave'the follow-' ing laconic advice to the students in the course of an extended ad- dre.ss: “Don’t, drink. D.oii’t chew. Don’t smoke. Don’t sivear. Don’t deceive. Don’t read nov els. Don’t marry until you can support a wife. Be earnest. Be self-reliant. Be generous. Be civil. Read the papers. Adver tise your business. Make money, and do good with it. Love God and vour fellow-men.” Cure for R,ingwoe.m.—A sim ple and harmless application, said unfailingly to cure this trou- blesom eruption, is found by washing with a solution made from the root of the common uar- row-leafed dock, wliich belongs to th.e botanical genus liumej:. Us.Q vinegar as the solvent.
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