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TERMS.
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1 ' From tlie New York Independent.
THE HAMBURGH "ROUGH HOUSE.". :
BY OUK (tATl) PEOFSTMAtf cosrespondent.
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( At a time when (here is so much new interest
In Institutions for the vagrants, it may not be
without valué to describe a visit paid by the writer
two yeart ago, to a large vagrant school in Hub
burir.li. The Institution is managed on an entirely
new and original principle, and as far as we know
has no counterpart in Europe ) we speak of the
Hamburgh Wie Bm (Rough House), establish
eu by Mr. Wichern in 1833.
An omnibus ride of three miles carried me to
its neighborhood, and after, a walk through a
pleasant wooded lane, I found myself on the place.
The whole looked as little like the usual home of
vagrants as is possible. I saw no squads of boys
walking demurely about, but looking as though the
-was in them, ir iney coum owy lei
It out.. There. were no heavy looking overseers
discoursing piously of the number whom Piovi
dence had committed to their charge and think-ing-of
their pockets. And Ibero w i not even the
invariable home for forsaken children the liugo
stone building with one bare sunny coiirt-y.ird.
The ideas seemed lo have been here that those
who have nó home of their own, as much as pos
sible should be given of the home which God Inn
prepared for all.
' ll was' a 'large, open garden, full of tries and
walks of flowers, and beds for vegetables, while
on a-h side stretched away green corn fields.
Among the trees there were some dozen plain,
comfortable little wood-houses liké 'old fashioned
farm houses scattered about, and one quiet,
hided chapel. The boys visible outside, were
eleining the flower beds, or working in the har
vest field j some were repairing fences and build
ings. ;, , .;) , . .. ; : . , v
,! walked up to the lorK.t of, the houses, was
directed' pleasrnlly by a lad to Mr. Wichern's
room, and soon proceeded with him to examine
the grounds. Before giving my observations. I
cannot refrain from mentioning a little interlude
which look place here, very characteristic of our
times. . . ,,
Among the visitors who arrived just before me
was dear old Elihu Burritt, who was fresh from
the Peace Congress, andjwas now passing through
H'inburgh with two associates, on his way to
Denmark, to attempt to mediate between the
Duchies and the King.
ii .While wo were all waiting in Jlfr., Wichern's
room a conversation commenced between Wichern
and Burritt on the subject of theso Peace efforts,
which soon grew into a warm discussion. The
one did not understand much German nor the other
much English, yet there was such a natural elo
quence in the two men, that with the aid of a few
interpretations thrown In by myself, they argued
as well as if in the same language. , I never saw
a better contrast the fine, mild, winning, thought
ful face of the American, as he spoke of the all
subduing power of love, of the virtue that existeth
in patience and forboarance, and meekness, to hurl
back the greatest violsnce or pictured the time
when havoc and war nd hato should no more
rage among men and on the other side, tho strong,
marked, stern features of the German, denouncing
in deep tones the oppression which was cursing
Germany, and now soon to prostrate llolstein,
' and demanding how the injustice of the strorg is to
be met, but by the strong blow. I told Mr. Bur.
ritt when it was over, that 'it was all as good as a
Peace Congress,'
' The nume 'Rough House' for this place began,
us Mr. W. informs me, seventeen years ago, when
lie took a little broken-down farm-house here to
try if he could not start on a new plan, school
for vagrant children. It were better called now
ns some English traveler has already named it
the 'Home among ths flowers.' The great pecu-
(iaiity of the plan, is the dividing of the children
received, into families. In each of the little houses
t visited, is a family group of some twelve chil
dren, managed by a young man (an overaeor) with 1
two assistauts., The overseers are theological
students, who have in some way imbided the idea
that two or three years' practical labor among the
helpless and forsaken Is quite as good I popula
tion for their duties ai preaching to admiring audi
encia or laying up complete system of antiquated
dogmas. The 'assistants' are young men far
mers or mechanics, of a religious turn, who intend
to spend their lives in this kind of work. They
are employed at first on the most common out door
labor) then tre placed in the different workshops
lo learn, and afterwards to direct next are ad
mitted to a' care' of the boys within the houses,
and are taught by the overseers the various needed
branches' of education, and finally take a share
with the Principal, in the general supervision of
the Institution. After t fur or six yers course
Jiere, they are sent abroad to preside or1 assist ip
similar institutions through Germany .They are
mostly supported by voluntary contributions, or by
their own labor.' ' There are twenty-lhrce here
1 V jtow;" Mr. W. saya that there is. a great demand
for them j and that they have been sent for even
yrom Russia, for orphan asylums, houses of cor
rection, ragged schools, and the like ) and that
me are now preaching among the emigrants in
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"The matter of principal interest, of course, was
the situation of the children. The first house we
entered was a little wooden building among 'the
flowers and apple-trees. It was only one story,
with the exception of an attic chamber for the
assistants. The first room was a long, clean one,
where ten or twelve boys were sitting round a
table, Working at their slates under the inspection
of their students. It appears that their time is
divided off into so many hours for out-door work,
so many for play and for study, and that this
was tlie sehool-time.' The lads were all lean,
comfortable,;and cheerfully busy. When a wretch
ed little vagrant from the gutter is sent in here,
he is not at once thrown into a mass of boys, to
work himself out to ruin or to goodness as he best
can ; to be kicked and cuffed to grab what he can
get, and to either teach others or to learn from
others, all the vile things which boys are certain
to know. The little stranger is put with t few
other new-comers, Into a separate house (the
novitiate house) where two or three young men
h.ive constant charge of him. He tats at their
own table with his few comrades, and has enouglh
me overseers si uily Ins disposition, and set hi in
either at a trode or at garden or farm-work, as he
seems best Sited. He lias his play.ond playmates,
and free, fresh air, and friei.ds to care for hitn,
who hold it a labor of love, to do fur the futhcr
less one, in a feeble manner, as Christ did for
them. 1
He must work hard, but there Is variety, tmd it
is healthy work. After a time he is introduced
into one of the regular ( milirg, and there in simp!
quaricis, miner tinii care, spends llie live or six
years. No wonder that it comes to be such
home to them all and the apprentices, .whom the
Rauhe Hans has sent out so plentifully through
Geimany, are so glad to come back and work in
the shops on the place. .
Besides, in this house, the room I have men
tioned, tlieie were a sleeping'ronm. a room f r the
sick, a little kitchen, and two bed-rooms for the
students all plain, but extremely neat and com
fortable. ' e, ,
After this, we went round to the various work
shopsfor slioe-iuaking, tailoring, joinery, pattern
making, spinning, baking, itc in all these the
boys working very handily. In addition, tlieie
were other buildings, where the boys, in company
with workmen, who were busy at book-binding,
printing, stereotyping, and wood and stont engra
ving. A. fw wero employed out of doors, at the
regular farm-work. There seemed to be one good
sized building, where washing, ironing, and wash,
ing of dishes, and sewing work were done by the
girls, for Ihere must be some thirty or forty girls
here. There is the same general arrangement for
them as for the boys. ' They are usually taught all
the branches of house-keeping, and are expected
tu enter service. The boys aregonerally appren
ticed to masters. And it is said, friu the number
of uffiliatcd schools staitcd by the students of this,
through Germany, and from its many friends, that
no aoprentices on their journeys, find a heller re-
ception than these from the Rauhe Hans. I wos
pleased to see. when we visited the chapel, that it
had just been decorated by the boys, for some fes'
tival which they wished to celebrate, i
Perhaps the most remarkable feature about the
whole institution, to me, was the practie.i power
displayed in it. It is so rare for a man, with the
moral enthusiasm which would raise up the help.
less aim outcast from their degradation t have, at
the same time, the business talent for such
scheme as this. Herr Wichern has shuwn that he
unites both. His first' Step, after establishing a
few of the 'family groups' and common work
shops, was to set up printing presses, where the
boys could strike off, under the direction of the
master workman, the trocís and little book:
needed in the school, and the reports of the Rauhe
Hans. They succeeded so well at this, that the
works were enlarged, and no do a considerable
ousiiiess wiinoiii, aun go iar towards supporting
the other parts of the establishment- Many of
the boys are apprenticed here, instead of being
placea witn masters.
In addition, t commercial agency (ogentur) has
been formed to tell the various articles made by
the boys. This is separate from the school, and
its losses will not ft.ll upon that. The profits are
to be devoted to meeting the general expenses of
tho children. Connected with it are the lithograph
and stereotype shops, .he wood engraving and the
book-binding. All these last have proved very
successful, and the business done by the agency
is already quite extensive. It is expected that
with the priming and the agen' y, the Institution,
expensive as u is, win in a lew years support itself.
Of course, all this complicated mass of detail needa
a clear head lo manage it, and fortius Mr. Wi
chern appears to be the man, This, however, is
rily a small part of his labors, He is a powciful
speaker, and das a great faculty of influencing any
one with whom he is thrown in contract. He lias
plead the cause of his Vagrant Home well through
Germany, and has gained liberal aid, even from the
princes Of his labors for wider object, I have
already previously spoken in this journal. That I
did not exaggerate when I said this Institution has
not.its counterpart in other countries, must he ap
parent. , " ' '
A 'Home amongthe Flowers,r'here,the vagrant
the child nourished amid tilth and squalor In
llie dark cellars of great city, and should at
length see something of God'i beautifu world j
where, among friends, In the midst of orchards
and corn-fields, he could grow tip, invigorated by
healthful labor, to manhood, all this would seem
more )ike, the dream of. a philanthropic French
novelist, than the reality. ' But still farther, Hut
this Institution1 should have i System, almost 'Fon-rter-like,'
bf groiirA' an'l famllios, end yet be Im
bued with tlie simplest, truest spirit of Evangelical
religión ') that it sbould send out not only; skilled
apprentices saved from the prison and the alms
house, but educated young men to teach others,
and to spread abroad the self-denying, Christian
principles of the place, and most of all, that it
should have existed seventeen years, and by its
well-conducted industry, have tlmost supported
itself, may fairly constitute it one of the wonders
of benevolent effort. The friend of man, searching
anxiously for what man has done for his suffering
fellows, may look far in both continents before lie
finds an Institution so benevolent, so practical,and
so truly Christian is the "Hamburgh Rough
House." .; ! , ; .
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New Postage law. ' '
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, A correct copy of this law is insett
ed on our third page. It makes no
change on Idler jiostnge, but abolishes
the complex, absurd system of postage
on printed matter, and substitutes ihcre
for simple and reduced rates. The
principal points of interest to newspa
per publishers and readers are the fol
lowing : : i ' - i-;
1. A newspaper, periodical, unseal
ed circular, or other article of ptinted
matter, not exceeding three ounces,
in weight, lent to any part of tho Uni
ted States, is chargeablo with one
cent postage, or but half a cent, if the
postage be paid in adratict quarterly
or yearly, it the office where it Is de
livered or mailed. , .
For evjerr ounce exceeding three
cents, one cent additional is charged.
Under the old system, the rates range
from twenty cents a year to ine. dollar.
A very few of the subscribers to the
Era pay twenty cents; some, a little
furtherolT, forty cents; a greater ma
jority, sixty cents; while subscribers
iving in California, New Mexico, Ore
gon and Utah, are charged one dollar.
Under the new rates, tho postage is e-
qualized for all distances ; so that our
subscribers, if they pay in advance at
the offices where they receive their pa
pers, will be charged only twenty-six
cents postage a year. Let them bear
lliis in mind.
2. A newspaper or . periodical not
weighing over 1 ounce, pays only bnlf
the above-mentioned rates, when cir
culated within the Slate where it is
published.
3. Small newspapers and periodicals
printed monthly or oftner, and pamph
lets not containing more than 16 pages
octav, each, when sent in single pack
ages weighing at least 8 ounces, to one
address, and pre-paid by appending
postage stamps thereto, are charged
only half a cent for each ounce, or trac
tion of an ounce, notwithstanding the
postage, if calculated on each separate
article of such package, would exceed
tho amount. Sixteen pamphlets, for
example, each weighing half at) ounce,
which if charged separately, would
cost sixteen cents postage, will cost
but four cents, if en jloscd in one pack
age, and svnt, prepaid, to one address'
This provision looks to the cheap and
easv dissemination of information amone
M
the People. In circulating the Docu
ments,. don t forget it. .."
The postage on all transient matter
must be prepaid, or it will be charged
double rates. ,'
, 4. All printed matter chargeable by
weight, shall be weighed when dry.
6. Publishers of papers may enejóse
to their subset ibers bills and receipts
free of postage, and publishers of Ireelly
newspapers may send to eacli actual
subscriber wiiluii the county, -where
their papers preprinted and puhlislied,
one copy free of postage. , ,
6. Books, 'bound or unbound not
weighing over four pounds, are deemed
mailable matter, and chargeable with
postage at one cent an ounce for all dis
tances, under three thouiand miles, and
two cents lor all distances over three
thousand miles, to which fifty per cent
must be added in all cases where the
ppstage'iij riot prepaid. , M)'. ,
! 7. ' Tliis act Is to tako effect from and
aher the tliirticih of Scptcnibcr, 851'.
We congratulate ouj readers on the
pi.ssage of the act. It is a great step
in the right direction. It reduces the
tax on knowledge, and must promole
the education of the masses. The year
ly tax paid by our subscribers in the
form of postage for the Era, has been
$12,000. The reduction under the
new rates is about $7,000. But tho
Department will lose nothing in the
long run, for the measure will tend to
multiply ncwspapei subscribers, and,
consequently, postage-payers.
. - National Era,
n-V From fhé Western Evangelist.
MY, COTTAGE HOME. : v,t:iUi
v a. aaowx. '
I dreamed a dream (lie other night, '
When Everything wis still " !, ;
I thought I siw my cottage white
t'pon yon flow'ry hill !
The grass-plot green before the door,
Tlie porch with vines oVrgrown,
Were lovely as they were before, ! ''
When that home was my own. . '
Oh I ruinseller,.
That home, that home of thine, "
That pleasant home, that hippy home
That cottage home was mine. '
Fearful Puooriss. The Freder
ichlurgh ( Va.) Herald seems alarm
ed at the signs of progress in the slave
population; It says that tlie slaves in
the kitchen '-teach their children to
call their owner mister instead o( mas
ter, and that instead of addressing them
in the terms heretofore -known as father
and mother among the blacks, require
their children to call themrt and ma.""
We clip the above from the Xational
Era, The Herald man is awfully be
hind tho times himself if lie lias not dis
covered before this, that father and mo
ther are antiquated vulgarisms which
belong to another age, when boys didn't
get to be men till they were eighteen,
and yonng ladiet of a dozen summers,
were not dreadfully alarmed lest they
should die old maids. A t present such
obsolete terms are not admissible in
polite circles! But only hear how a
benigted "individual" away down in
the Palmetto State, takes on about this
little circumstance. The Spartan, of
Spartansburgh S. C , in allusion to this
"sign of the times," thus blows off: '
"A Union of those who love and live
by slavery, with those who hate and
spurn it yes, a Union of those who
would fight for it, with those who would,
and are now, fighting against it ! To
us it seems, that the Union, so far from
being desirable, has now become unsafe,
unprofitable, and dishonorable; and in
the end, will prove fatal to the institu
tion of slavery. We value slavery more
than we do the Union; and in choosing
a foe for our steel in the settlement of
this question, we would prefer a Nor
thern man to a necio. Vicwine slave'
ry, then, as we do, the very essence
of our moral, physical, and civil life
aim looKing upon mo union as the
hateful instrument of its final overthrow,
if not dissolved, we believe it would be
the best interests of the South to dis
solve their existing connexion with the
north."-
How logical! How apparent the con
nexion between the premiss and con
clusion! Negro mothers teach their
babies to "call their owners mister in
stead of master," Therefore : the Un
ion is a "hateful instrument !" They
teach them to say "pa and ma" instead
of father and molher! Errjo; "it would
be the best interests of the South," &o.
Wont Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers
anil Natives, rush together in this new
emergency! Will not Congress pass
a law making it the "duty of all good cit
izens" to chastise all neni o babies who
may bo heard saying "pa" or "ma"
and will not the political conventions,
of all parties,' unite in deóluring that
they "discountenance" the use of these
obnoxious terms, "whenever', wherever,
and by" whatsoever negro baby they
may be used ? Really we live in per
ilous times Ed. Guz. ' , .
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The gravelled walk, so white ind strait, '
With flower banks on each side,
Thai led dowu to the wicket gate,
Where Willie used to ride,
The locusts o'er the path that grew,
The willow boughs lhat swayed,
AH told me with a tongue e'er true,
That there my Mary played. '
Oh I rumseller, '
ftc. fee. fcc.
The silver lake so calm ind clear,
Along whose binks I've strayed '
So often with my Lucy dear,
To Witch the sun-light fade
The brook tint purling sweetly ran
The garden foot along, ' ' '
And miirm'ring fount as bright is then,
Still sung the sime lived long. "' '
Oh I rumseller,
, fcc. Jtc.Ac.
The window towards the garden gate, -
That looked out on the west,
Where that loved being used to wiit,
Who made my home so blest,
Was closed the Sombre curtains hung,
And no loved face was there j
Nor voice, the evening song that lung, ,
Or breathed the morning prayer.
Oh) rumseller,
-, - lie. fcc. fcc,
Silence hung round that happy home,
Where once so light and free,
My laughing children used to come '
And dance upon my knee i
Where slie,.who was that home's dear light,
In constant beiuly shone,' " -'i ' '
Around that cheerful hearth-stone bright,
All now is still ml lone. '
' ; -' Oh! rumseller, " '"
fcc. fcc. fcc,
Yes, that tov'd wife has gone to rest, '
In death her heart is bound j '
' Her babes sresleeping on her breast,
Beneath yon grassy mound " '
And I am wand'ring lone ind strang'd, '"
Nor master of my will, j
My home my cottage home is chang'd
To i hut behind the still. ' . "
Oh I rumseller, , ' ,
' Tint home, that home of thine, ,'' ' ,!"
That pleasant home, that happy home, "
That cottage home was mine. . ' ' '"
O3 We never saw a baby yet, how
ever smart at home, that did credit to
itself in a public assembly.
CF Mrs. Partington says her minis
ter preached about tho "parody of the
probable son'" ' " ' '
- OCTDialooue. ZfYe. Alt 1 dear
est; for y on, love, I'm dying! And at
your feet I lie I Anna, I see you're
lyinyl 1 ' i":'i"' w ."''i - :
ID3 Who was the first man that swin
dled the Greek Slave? ' " i 1 ' v
Hiram Fowers.' Cause why h't chis
eled licr out of a block of marble' ' :
From the Christian Press.
PERPETUAL LIGHT. f
Mr. Payne may give up his scheme for making
gas out of Water, if the following rto.y fro our
list Engliih papers, is true I - " ;
"A most curious and interesting discovery hi
just been made at Laitgres, Frinc, which we have1
no doubt, wilt cause a searching scientific enquiry
as to the material tnd properties of the perpetually1
burning lamps, said lo have been in hse by thai
indents. Workmen were recently excavating for
a foundation for a new building in a debris, evl '
dently the remains of Gallo-Romin erection, when
they ami to the roof of in under ground sort Of
a cave, which time had rendered almost of metalio
hardness, An opening' was, however, effected,
when one of the workmen instantly exclaimed that
there was light at the bottom of the cavern. The'
parties present entered, when they found abromed
sepulchral limp of (remarkable workmanship, sus
pended from the roof by chains of the same metal
It was entirely filled with a combustible substance,'
which did not ippear to have diminished, although:
the probability is that the combustion has been!
going on for ages. ' This discovery will we trust
throw some light on I question which hu causeo;
so many disputei among learned intlqnariei, ilthd
it ii stated that one was discovered it Viterbo, in
1850, from Which, however, no fresh information
was obtained on the subject." '. ' '
1 ' . v, , Í)
rCTPimcli lays, "the man who goea
to church to chew tobacco and spit up
on the floor, ought to be taken by the
head and heels and scrubbed upon the
soiled spot until it it made clean.",
I spot
OCT A young gentleman of Detroit
who hat of late been much afflicted by
palpitation of the mvart, says lie hit
found considerable relief by pressing
another palpitating heart to his botoim
ID3 A moo whom Drv Joliuson onee
reproved for following a useless and
demoralizing business, said,, in excuse,
"you know, Doctor, that I wast live.1'
This brave old hater of everything mean
and hateful, coolly replied, that "he did
not nee the leait necessity of that." "