youth the character receives its first impress and is chiefly formed. If parents think they can safely turn off the government and discipline of their children on school teachers, they are greatly mistaken. If they do this, they are false to the trust committed to them by the Creator, and recreant to the welfare of the State and the country. "A child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame," is a truth inscribed on the page of inspiration, and illustrated in the experience of mankind. It is not difficult to determine by the conduct of children at School, whether they are properly managed at home. It is rare for a teacher to have difficulty with those who have been trained to subordination, to respectful behavior, and obedience under the paternal roof. And we think we may say in truth, that there is no one thing, that more seriously threatens danger to our republic, than the rearing up of a generation which from early life have been permitted to have their own way,to set aside law and authority at their pleasure, and to make their own depraved wills the rule of their actions. He has not begun to form a correct view of education, who does not know, that the most important part relates to this matter.

Closing thus the labors assigned to us for the year by the appointment of our fellow citizens, we commend the educational interests of the youth of the town to your fostering care, and to the supervision of our successors in office.

JOEL MANN, Chairman.

GEOLOGICAL CABINET:

AN INTRODUCTION AND AID TO BOOKS.

By Josiah Holbrook.

EXTRACTS.

The principal families of rocks, or geological formations, are the granite family, composed of three members, and forming all the highest mountains in the world; the horn-blend, or trap family, consisting also of three or four members, widely scattered over the earth; lime formations, very abundant, various, and useful; magnesian or serpentine formations, containing highly valuable ores; conglomerate rocks, or those formed from the fragments of broken down rocks; carbon, or coal formations; fossils, or organic remains, or rocks containing the remains of more than nine thousand animals, with those of numerous plants; coral ranges, very extensive, and still increasing, by the labors of insects of the sea; and volcanic rocks, composing very numerous islands, and some mountains, from ten to fifteen thousand feet high. All these vast ranges of rocky mountain masses, constituting the elements, the grandeur, and riches of our earth, beautifully and emphatically declare the sublime truth, that He who formed them has indeed and in truth "weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance."

Nos. 1 and 2.-QUARTZ is the only mineral found everywhere. It forms a considerable part of all the highest mountains in the world, is the principal element of soils, composes nearly all the pebbles upon shores and in banks of gravel and sand, is the only material essential in the manufacture of glass; and, in some of its varieties, formed most or all the gems mentioned as set in the breastplate of Aaron, the high priest; also, those mentioned as composing the streets of the New Jerusalem. Quartz also forms most of the precious stones used in all ages of the world, as personal ornaments, worn on fingers, breasts, &c., and hence furnishing, to a considerable extent, articles of commerce among nations.

It scratches most other minerals, and is hence one of the hardest. Its colors are white, red, brown, smoky, blue, green, yellow, and clouded, with various shades of different colors. The most common quartz crystal is a hexagonal or six-sided prism, ending in a pyramid, with the same number of sides. The names, determined by the colors, forms, &c., are milk quartz, smoky, gray, yellow, rose, limpid, jaspery, blue, red, and clouded quartz; with numerous other varieties. The gems are amethyst, or purple quartz; jasper, or red quartz; cornelian, yellowish red; agate, clouded, &c., &c.