AND RECHABITE RECORDER. Organ of the Independent Order of Rechabites, and devoted to the Cause of Temperance in general. BURNETT & AIKMAN, Publishers, No. 192 Fulton Street, New York. Pilgrim! who hast meekly borne, Poet! dreaming o'er thy lyre, Bid Earth's minor cares farewell, Maiden! with thy brow so fair, Trav'ler! thou whom gain, or taste, Soldier! who, on battle-plain, Sailor! on the dark blue sea, Till the last pure breath has fled; 'Mourner! (thus it seems to say) No. XX. THE TUTOR AND HIS PATRON, AN AMUSING STORY. 1 BY THE AUTHOR OF THE "GREAT METROPOLIS." We passed pretty near a house which was a short time ago the scene of an incident which, in the hands of a skilful novelist, might be so spun out as to make the orthodox three volumes. In that house there lived-I am not certain that he does not still reside there-an eccentric old rich landed proprietor. His own dress and manners were plain, and his modes of life homely; but, intending a handsome fortune for each of his family -two sons and a daughter-it was his great ambition to give them a first rate education. The daughter, being the eldest, had returned from one of the first boarding schools, quite an accomplished lady. He doated on her, and fully made up his mind that she should be married to a man of rank and importance in the world, or not married at all. For the two sons, as he said, that they might be educated under his own eye, and that he might see that full justice was done to them, he employed a talented young man, whom the old gentleman constantly lauded to the skies, for his exceeding modesty of manner. Things went on for a season as smoothly as either party could wish, the tutor growing hourly in the good graces of his patron. He became, in fine, a confirmed favorite, and was in every respect "treated as one of the family " One day after dinner the modest tutor, (there being no one present but themselves,) said to the old gentleman in hesitating accents, scarcely venturing to raise his head as he spoke, that he wished to consult him confidentially for a few minutes on a very important and delicate matter, and to get his advice as to how he ought to act in the peculiar circumstances in which he was placed. "Quite ready to hear you, sir, and to give you the best advice in my power," observed the other, who had always been remarkable for his rough, blunt manner of speaking. "I really do not know how to begin, I'm almost afraid to mention the thing to you," remarked the tutor, tying and untying a piece of twine in his finger, on which he kept his eyes thoughtfully fixed. "O, don't be afraid, sir, out with it. thing horrible, I hope." "Oh dear, no." "Well, then, let us hear it once." "It's about an affair of the heart." Its no "Ah! an affair of the heart. You young men know something about these matters. It's long since I have had an affair of the heart, though I have plenty of other affairs, pretty serious ones. But young men must be young men, yes, they must. Come tell us all about this love story, this affair of the heart; you have fallen in love with some pretty girl, and wish to marry her, I suppose?" The tutor owned the soft impeachment. "Well, and why not marry her?" "That's just the point about which I wished to consult you." "Is she an amiable girl?" "The very perfection of every thing that is morally good and mentally excellent." "So, so. And belongs to a respectable family?" "A very respectable family. Indeed, she moves in a better sphere of life than myself, and her family are so respectable, that any gentlemen might and would be proud to be connected with it. Then why, you spalpeen, don't you marry her at once?" said the o'd man, raising his right leg and placing it on an adjacent chair. "But I have not yet obtained the consent of her father," replied the tutor, speaking in a seemingly subdued and timid tone, and not having courage enough to look his patron in the face. "Then, why, sir, don't you obtain it?" "Why afraid to ask? don't be a coward." "Is it a fair question to ask the old idiot's name?" I would rather not mention it under existing circumstances." “Oh, very good, very good, I would not press you, not by any means-I say!" The love struck tutor was all attention. "Listen to me, sir. Lend me your cars." "I will with the greatest pleasure." "What I am going to say is worth hearing." "I'm anxious to hear it." "I'll tell you what you'll do." "I shall be most grateful for your advice in so trying a situation as that in which I am placed." "Is the young lady very much attached to you ?" "I have no reason to doubt the ardor of her afection." "Would she elope-run away with you?" "She is willing to do anything." Carry her Then, sir, your course is clear. off, and get married at once." "I'm afraid of offending the old gentleman, her father." "Oh!-the old gentleman, her father. Never mind him if you can get the girl herself." "And would you really advise me to run away with her. I would not like to take so important a step without your approval." "Would I advise you? I do advise you, and let it be done directly, sir. Why, sir, you have no pluck or spirit about you, or you would have done it before now. Thunder and lightning! old as I am, sir, I would do it myself. You do it at once." "I was anxious to consult you on so delicate a matter " "Well, sir, you now know my opinion and have got my advice. Don't be faint-hearted, sir; get up early and elope with the lady to-morrow morn ing; and take my horse and gig for the purpose. They are quite at your service-very much at your service." hinted to Noah, notwithstanding his former ridicule of "the patriarch's folly," that some place of safe-` ty would be altogether agreeable. The patriarch, "I am really under infinite obligations to you however, having specific instructions on that subfor the deep interest you have taken in the matter.ject, gave no attention to the frightened man's apI'll adopt your advice, and avail myself of your kind offer of your horse and gig to enable me to carry her off." "Do, sir, do; and mind you do it effectually. Let there be no mistake, no failure in the matter. Success to you in your enterprise. Let me know when you have made the young lady your wife." "I will with the greatest possible pleasure." On the following morning, the old gentleman summoned his daughter, as was his custom, down to breakfast, he stationing himself on the occasion at the foot of the stairs. No response was made to his first summons. "What do you mean, you lazy, indolent hussy, that you don't come when you're called?" bawled the old and eccentric personage, in the way of continuing his first call. Still there was no answer. "You are sound asleep, I suppose. Why don't you get up and come down directly? Do you hear?" "I say, you indolent, good-for-nothing piece of goods, why don't you "Please, sir," interposed an out-door manservant who had just entered the hall; "please, sir, I saw Miss and the tutor driving away this morning at five o'clock, in your gig. And more than that, please yer honor, they (horse, gig, and all) seemed as if they were in a dreadful hurry. They were indeed, sir." The old man audibly groaned, and sank down on the stairs. The truth flashed into his mind It was his own daughter who had eloped with the tutor, in obedience to his own advice tendered to the latter so emphatically on the previous day. Great power of mind and great. elegance of manners are nearly incompatible. Powerful minds have an originality and intractability about them, which render it extremely difficult for them to fall into that ease and conventional politeness which are considered to constitute the perfect gentleman. The politeness of a man of genius is more of nature than of art. A QUEER 'UN.-A neighboring liquor seller conversing the other day with one of our Po'keepsie Washingtonians, gave it as his opinion, that the Temperance reform was nothing but an excitement, which would soon pass away and leave men once more to the sober enjoyment of their reason and their bottle. This reminds us of a fable we have, somewhere heard or read, about a man who, becoming alarmed by the pouring waters and swelling streams, prehensions of coming destruction. At length, OUT AND IN.-A Frenchman, who was travelling in a canal boat, was about passing under a bridge. The Captain shouted, "Look out!" to the passengers at the top of his voice. The Frenchman understood him literally, and poked his head on the forehead which knocked him sprawling upout of the cabin. He received a severe bump upon the floor, he jumped up in a great rage, scratched his head, and addressed the captain in the most indignant style, "Sare! what you say 'Look out' for! Why you not say, 'Look in !'" A HINT TO THE LADIES.-The critic of the Broadway Journal, in the course of a notice of Mrs. Hugo Reid's "Plea for Woman," says very pertinently, or as the ladies, perhaps will say— impertinently-" It appears to us that the surest way for women to gain their rights-always supposing that they do not enjoy them-is to train up their children properly, and they will see that their mothers suffer no wrong. When women dissipate their days and nights in idle amusements, and squander their incomes in dress-while their sons are entrusted to the keeping of hired servants, or sent away from home to distant schools-they must It is true men not blame them, tha. they have no clear conception of what is due to women. make laws by which women are governed, but the women make the men who govern them." SENTIMENT." Behold, my Flora, how glorious Nature looks in her bloom! The trees are filled with blossoms, th wood is dressed in its green livery, and the plain is carpeted with grass and flowers." "Yes, Charles, I was thinking of the same These flowers are dandelions, and when thing. they are gathered and put into a pot, with a piece of good fat pork, they make the very best greens." FAMILY GOVERNMENT. my THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA'S FAMILY.-The love these processes, by which we control, direct and There is, in some households, no family gov-regulate them at our will; and that when we do ernment, no order, no subordination. The child- not exert this power, the mind is left to the influren are kept under no restraint, but are allowedence of external impressions. or casual trains of to do what they like; their faults are unnoticed association, often unprofitable,,and often frivolous. and unpunished, and their tempers are allowed to We thus discover that the mind is the subject of grow wild and headstrong, till, in fact, the whole culture and discipline, which, when duly exercisfamily become utterly lawless, rebellious against ed, must produce the most important results to our parental authority, and unami.ble to all around condition as rational and moral beings; and that them. How many have had to curse the over in- the exercise of them involves a responsibility of dulgence of fond and foolish parents. How many, the most solemn kind, which no man can possibly as they have ruminated amidst the desolations of put away from him. poverty, or the walls of a prison, have exclaimed, O, my cruelly fond parents, had you exercised that authority with which God entrusted you, ly family of the Emperor Nicholas, consisting of over your children, and had you checked four sons and three daughters, were brought up childish corruptions, and punished my boyish dis- by English nurses and governesses, under the suobedience had you subjected me to the whole-perintendence of an old Scotch woman, who was some restraint of salutary laws, I had not brought under-nurse to the present Emperor in his infancy. you with a broken heart to the grave, nor myself This indivi ual held the rank of a general officer, with a broken character to the jail." (for everything in Russia is measured by a military scale,) and had been decorated with the order of St. Andrew, ennobled and enriched. This woman, nevertheless, came as a servant girl to Russia, some five and fifty years ago, with a Scotch trader's family, who turned her adrift in St. Petersburgh. A lucky chance procured her the situation of under-nursery-maid in the Emperor Paul's family, when she was placed about the person of the present Emperor, to learn him to speak English! His attachment to her was so great, that when he married, he placed her at the head of his nursery establishment, where she has honorably gone through all the military gradations of rank to her present one o. general. Over-indulgence is awfully common, and continually making shocking ravages in human character. It is a system of great cruelty to the children, to the parents themselves, and to society. This practice proceeds from various causes; in some instances from a perverted and systematic sentimentalism; in others, from absolute indolence, and a regard to present ease, which leads the silly mother to adopt any means or coaxing, and yield ing, and bribing, to keep the young rebels quiet for the time; in others from a mistake as to the time when restraint should begin, or a spirit of procrastination, which leads parents to say, "I shall take them in hand by and by-there is no time lost; when their reason is a little more matured, I shall lay upon them more restraint;" and NEW-ENGLAND SCHOOLS.-A writer in a Southin some it is "mere animal affection," without ern paper thus describes the free schools of New the guidance of a particle of judgment, a mere in-England-"The poorest boy in the free schools stinct, like that which in the irrational tribes leads feels as high and as proud as the son of the richto a blind and busy care. It is not uncommon for est." "You do not mean,' ," said Governor Barparents to treat the first acts of puerile rebellion, bour, of Virginia, after visiting the superb free rather as freaks to be smiled at, than as faults to schools of Boston, which he admired very much, be reformed. "O," says the mother, "it is only "that those schools are free?" "Indeed I do," play, he will know better soon. He does not said the committee-man. "You remember the mean any harm, I cannot chide him." No: and boy that got the medal in the class we just examif the father, wiser than herself does, she cries, ined, and the boy that lost it? The first is the son and perhaps in the hearing of the child, reproves of that woodsawyer there, (pointing to a man who her husband for cruelty. From whatever cause it was sawing wood in the street,) and the second is proceeds, it is in the highest degree injurious to the son of John Quincy Adams, the President of the character of the children. Let those who are the United States." The Virginian started in asguilty of it, read the fearful comment on this sin, tonishment at a spectacle like this, and no longer which is furnished for their warning, in the histo- wondered at the prosperity of New-England. ry of Eli and his family.-Fam. Monitor. MENTAL CONTROL.-When we turn our serious attention to the economy of mind, we perceive that it is capable of a variety of processes of the most remarkable and most important nature. We find that we can exert a voluntary power over Every animal has its enemies. The land tortoise has two enem es-man and the boa-constrictor. Man takes him home and toasts him, and the boa-constrictor swallows him whole, shell and all, and consumes him slowly in the interior, as a court of chancery does a great estate. CHEAP POSTAGE.-The amazing advantages of poor but honest parents!" Poor, but honest! that the New Postage Law we did not fully appreciate is to infer that the parents ought to have been disuntil after reading the following result of the in- honest because they were poor, but that in this parvestigation made by Thompson, of the Bank Note ticular case they were honest, in spite of their povDetector. Won't Uncle Sam blush, if after this erty. This common phrase is an insult to the conhe should take a peep into some of the packages dition of ninety-nine men out of a hundred, and submitted to his charge? an indignity to human nature. There might be, considering the manner in which many fortunes are acquired, some little shade of meaning in saying of the heir of fortune, "he was born of rich but honest parents; but the " poor but honest " Those who wish to ascertain what their post-phrase is atrocious. Let it be reformed altoage will be, can with silver change weigh the pa- gether. pers before folding their letter. We have madea variety of experiments, and give the results below: "One dollar and fifteen cents of American coinage, in silver, weighs one ounce. A fifty cent piece and a five cent piece, (say 55 cents,) are almost equal to half an ounce. INDECORUM.-Peeping into letters, looking over another when he is writing, and officiously reading what he has written, are vulgar breaches of deco rum, of which very many are guiliy. These habits will soil the fairest reputation, and evince a prying, meddling curiosity, derogatory to the character of a gentleman, and subject him to the imputation of being possessed of more impudence than honor and good breeding. A written paper carries with it a privacy and sanctity which 29 one of correct principles will violate, even though chance should throw the document open before him. RICHES. We hear many definitions, now-adays, of what constitutes wealth. We will ventore ours: That man who has health-employment at fair wages, with regular pay-and is free from debt-is about the richest man that we can conceive of, albeit he may not boast of a single dollar. And if such an one does not enjoy the pleasures of life, and isn't a useful citizen, it is his own fault-not God's.-Norwich Reporter. NOVEL RAT-TRAP.-We saw it stated in a newspaper several years ago, that a rat had been caught by an oyster. We hardly gave credit to the story then, but have lately seen proof that similar things are sometimes done. A man brought us a rat caught by a clam. We were shown the rat, trap and all, so that there is no doubt about it. We were told that it was the second rat which had CENSORSHIP OF THE PRESS.-Many as are the evils attending our own free government, we experience nothing like the arbitrary and oppressive enactments to which the press in Bavaria is subjected. The censorship is thus described in a foreign paper just received. "Every morning an officer attends at the post office at Munich, to receive all the newspapers which arrive there, to carry them to the office of the censors, where they been so caught in the course of a few days. The are opened and read. If they contain nothing ob- operation of the trap is this-the clams lay in a jectionable, they are forwarded to their addresses, cellar-occasionally one would die, and when the but if they treat of one out of the thousand sub- shell opened, offorded the rats, we suppose, a dejects which are forbidden to be discussed in Bava-licious morsel. The live clams would also someria, the subscriber loses his journal. How many times open their shells, and into these, as they papers would be published in this country under were searching over the heap. The unwary rats such restrictions, and if published what would dropped a foot, which was at once grasped and they be worth, as vehicles of intelligence? Let held firmly in this animal vice. us be thankful for a free, press, liable as it is to abuse in the hands of wicked men. "POOR, BUT HONEST."-The newspapers, and other equally great authorities, make use of this phrase in biographical notices. "He was born of HYDROPHOBIA'—A copious draught of vinegar, at morning, noon and night, is said to be a cure for hydraphobia. Shun even the appearance of evil. |