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A NEWS PAPER-DEVOTED TO FOREIGN AND OOMBSHC NBWS, MORALS, TEMPERANCE, EDUCATION, AGR3CÜITURE, AND THE ßfiST 3WTERESTS OF SOCIETY. VOL. XXV NO. 21. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1857. WHOLE NUMBER 126.

y Pram the Laute tile Juuraal. SCDDXJ. BUUtAVUUHT IT 41 IUU 1LT I'm ataadlng by thy atda, heia M , latMUM UUwkaut , Whaaa pulae betide Ulna awa halb mated Tttl aah of mi teamed part. I aal thea haadeetaat Um wbUa, 1 aailU a.' waa U bm, Whaa waa U tet my atce, my tattle Paaaadad vara by thae! They're etrawed ayaa Ihy atalrwa braaal Tba raaaraary aad raa laaa there balk baaa my lateet raat, waa aaajalaba throbe U draw 1 Aa4 ataaad tba pail.d U4a abava Tba mllln ayaa' taft play, Tba a rar leaked aa bm bat loe, i all aar wedded day. Mere ya ae ward of welaaaaa- aaaa, Oh, la i n Uaa, aa- aamUaf Spaat, peak , the' Uoa aho'det chide, my awa, T weaid be a ay the while. Mare ye aa ward, r ail of yara, That ihxUl'd me wtlh mi bllee? Oh , whaa did kl tag aar before Oaak aaa war aat aetata t raa aaaa baaaoaraaly grewa laj bright Ala: bow aaa aha ahlaa! That atw aa (aid all, ara aty light, Barth daaraat bald af amy aUaa. That with aaa laakatha laat.aaoa Tha avaa 1 Ibaaght bm twaal, Tb tairaata'ar bar light ahaaa aa T A ad la It I 0, hlUMr brlag Iba rat fair oh I Id Whaaa Uay baad't aoft atraka, Tea atathar, tor tha am that tmitad Oeaa hat baaam, woke, A ad a laaa M whara IIa taaah may thrill That baaasV rraiaa apat ok, haart aadpalaaaf ailaa.haaUllHaw aaa I haar hin braalha Uta aatna, Tha aral hla mabar'a awa. Ska taaghl kla tateal Uaa la naaa, A Urra aaaU htaak aloaaT Aad thlak haw aaaah af la tha traa, Tha paaataaata, Ota faad, Kra yat tla tlrtag warth ha kaaw, awa hla raaafc bayaad! Ok, had I heea tat by thy atda, Whaa daatk Tt-TaiatriTi aa Taaaa taara that ahaaa a a Vprlda, Mad eel baaa wai tha aar; Bat I waa Oa m Uaa whara 1 aland AaaUar wate had Uy Ihr a, Aad ataaad Uy ayaa Ua atraagar'i ha ad, That nilaa aiaaa akaald clot' Oh, aury teat, that ta ha grraad fan aa Ua aaa w-aakaa fall J Haw aaa I haar a light arofa aaad Aad a at tatur awa raaall; Or, haw aaathar'a band a'ar praaa, Pafgatral af Utaa awa, lata whaaa avary twaal oaraat ' kw aaaak af haart waa Urawa T I 'll wrap aa with Uy atamary raaad, Ma aUar lava again haUaU tha baaana'a daptt aroCaaad Oa whisk Uy kaad baU lata ; Kar avaa waataa'a aatlla bataw My h Ubald light hall aua Ha, baaawaarU ahartahad ha Ua waa III baar bm far Uy aakat traaka It, aiaaa Uoa 't loft my atda. What Uta atlaa awa may bar All, all wltkia Uta haart haU dlad, Of haeaaad lava.wlU Uaa ! Ok, whara thay'll blda Uaa fram my tight. My mora Uaa Ufa thai atada, Wi U aU my waight af waa, Uta night, Waald Gad that I war UM! oiarnuTT Oaataat it U to hava oft hand i, Bai aat gaataal U warb aa laadat Oaataat it i to II a bad, Mat aat gaataal laaara yoarhraad; Owataal it lau attaga aad baw, Bat aat gaataal la aaw aad plaw; Ownuat it u la play lha.'baaa, Bat aat gaaiaal ta raap aad maw; Oaataal It la to kawp a gig, at aat gaataal a baa aad dir, Oaataal It la la trada to lall, Bat aot fnll ta awing Ua tall; Oaataal It lata play Ua foal, Bat aot gaaiaal to k aap a aahaal; dUataal It m toahaatUa tallar, Bat aat gaaiaal to ha a aaUar, Oaataal It la to kght a daal, Bat aat gaataal to aal y aar fual; Oaataat It la to aat rtoh caka, at aat gaaiaal to caak aad hak a ; Gaataal at la to baaa Ua blue.. Bat aai gaataal to waar thick tkaa; Oaataat It to to rail ta wealth, Bat aat gaataal to hava gawd health; Oaataal It to to aat a mead, Bat aat gaaiaal year e la that la maad; Oaataal It la to make a abew, Bat aat gaataal paar folkt to knew; Oaataal It to to raa, away , Bat aot gaataal athae to (toy; Maataal U ta la aealrt aadaalto. Bat aat gaataal to akaa all guile; aatoal U to to ba a kaava, Bat aat gaataal yaar eaab to ava; Oaataat It to to make a bat. Bat aat gaataal to pay a dak Oaalaal It to to play at dtoa, Bat aat gaataal ta take advtaa; Oaataal It to to carat aad waar, at aat gaataal plain c I at hat ta waar, Oaataal It la la intake aad drink, Bat aat gaataal to raad aad think; Oaataal U to to kaaw a tot, at aat gaataal to pay yaar baard; Oaataal It to to kl aad bap, Bat aat gaataal to keap a aap; Oaalaal Ittotowaato yaar Ufa, at aat gaaiaal to lava yaar win t I aaawat tall what I may do. Or what tad aaaaaa may yat paat Uraagb; 1 aay parabaaaa tarn deaf or blind, Theptir af all humankind; I aaay paraapa ha deemed to hag. Or awaa bap a pan oaa lag-, Or I uay aaaa aaaae to eteal, Bat aaay aaaw at mwtU Caata yay ar earraw, waal ar waa. Oh, say t never ha ta law I wmr AUwiana never hohia a way over human thoaght,exeept aa a Miurper; no child of ita own sucoeedinflr- Krrer IS a convertible term with decay. PaUehoo and death are synonymou. Kalteho ni oaa gam no parmanant foothold in '.he immoral tool, for there ean be no abiding or real faith, except in that which u rter nally and univaraajly true. The future of tha world will neror produce a raft o atheuta, and their caaual appearar.ee is bat the evideaoe ef some ill understood troth tome mistaken direction of the ha man mind some partial and imperfect view of creation. bjbbA clergyman once preached daring the whoio of Lent, in n parish where he waa novor invited to dine . and in hia tkreweli sermon he aaid to hia hearera: "I have preached against ovary vice, exoapt good living: which, I Mlieve. ia not to be found nmong you, and therefore needed not my reproach.'

POETR

AN INTERESTING STORY

From Ooday'a Ledyw Book. & MFERYÖÜS WISE? How She Cured. UV T. B. ARTHUR. My friend Wilkins married a swoet young girl, of a quiet, amiable dirpoaition, but in no way skilled in thoae domestic arte, without a knowledge of which, the wife s duties arc always felt to be hard in the beginning. IIo waa tho envy of more than one who hod aipired to the possession of her hand. I knew him tobe industrious, intelligent, and kind-hearted ; and I folt sore that he had taken a life companion who would bo fuithiui und loving. The promlso was bright enough to warrant a prophecy of more than ordinary happineaa. They romovod to another city. Ten years afterwards, in passing through that city, 1 called upon w iikins, wno met me with theolif, frank cordiality. Evea and faco were in n glow of plea sure, when, still grasping his hand, I inquired after his Jwile. His countenance changed instautlv. "Poor Mary !' ho said, in a sad, discouraged way. "Sho bus very poor health.' "I am sorry," was my natural response. "Sickness, and tho loss of two of our children, havo so worn down both body and mind, that she is now but a shadow of her formor self. Worst of 11, her nerves wore completely shattered. But you must M and seo her. To moot an old lriond will do her good. Yon will Uke tea with us, and spend the evening?' I aseentod, and then made further inquiry about his family and worldly condition. Hia story was not a vory bright one. The birth of their first child was followed by a prostrating sickness, which brought tho young mother to the vory utmost verge of lift. "She haa never had good health since," said Wilkins, in a depressed tono of voice. "My income wus small, and we could not afford the uuiountof household assistance, in the beginning, that she really required; and so everything was against her restoration to sound health. Children came rapidly, bringing with them more exhausting caree. And the death of two of our little ones, to whom 1 havo referred, seemed to complete tho work of ruin. She is now n hopeless invalid, a poor, weak, nervous, unhappy creature, a mere wreck of what you aaw ten years ago, moving liko a tearful ghost through her daily round of duties, and only kept alive by the conatantand careful uttention of her physician. 1 don't think tho doctor naa been out of my house two weeks at a time for six years, and I'm sure haa received more than fifteen hundred dollars of my money in that time. The fact is, what, with doctor's, nurses, medicines, and the hundred name leas expenses of a sick and nervous wife entails upon a man. my fortunes have been marred. They keep mo P2E:" . . - . Wilkins spoke in a trotiul voice. It was plain that he had grown impa tient under tho trials to which the had health of his poor wife had exposed him. I called at his store again, towards evening, and went home with Inm. Had 1 met Mrs. Vt iikins on thostroct, I would not havo recognized in her the happy bridevho, ten yours before, blushing in beauty, I had seen giving her hand in a life-partnership, with stich loving confidence in the future, to tho husband of hor choice. Her countenance was wan and witstod, all tho beautifully rounded outlines gone; her eyes, deeply sunken, were languid almost to indifference; her hair, once richly luxuriant, had fallen off, until scarcely ono half of it remained, and that looked dry and crisp, with here and there a premature lino of gray. She stooped slightly, and her motions re litoloaa. A faint smile parted her lips as I grasped hor hand with all the warmth of friendly interost. Hut it faded al as soon as it wan born. I tried to talk with hor in a cheerful strain, and did succood in awakening a brief interest in tho olden time. But tho present wus too painfully a real thing; it would not let her thoughts indulge in pleasant fancies. 1 could not help asking about herselfand her children; and this turned the current of her feelings into its wonted channel, and I listened to her sad honrtstoriori, and painful experiences in sickness, until my own feelings were deeply shadowod. I pitied her. What a sombre, suffering lite hail been hers! Into what a world of misery, in-t. ad of happiness, had marriage translated her! Aa alio talked, I observed her husband particularly. It was plain that that he had but little sympathy with his wife's state of feeling. He waa a sufferer with her, though in a lighter degree; mid. aa his aufferings originated in her, thoro was, plainly a lack of kindly patience toward- his com i; anion. Several times ho interrupted er, trying to draw the conversation into another channel ; and once or twice ho throw in depreciating sentences, M if BQO were exaggerating tho unhappy story of her life. I learned that Mrs. Wilkins scarcely, if ever, went out of her own house. Her duties wero arduous, and hor ability, from ill hoalth, small. Every day ehe worked to bodily exhaustion, and uaually in pain. There was no recreation of any kind, bodily or mental. It waa a living death. No wonder she waa a drooping, wretched, norvous woman. On tho next day 1 culled to see my friend at bis store, my mind matte up to have a plain talk with him. I re-

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fert ed to hia wife, expressing in regard to her my earnest sympathy. "Poor Mary I" he exclaimed ; her

ta nopeleaa j and mint-, too, i "While there's lifo, there's hope," said I, using the physician's half-despairing axiom. He regarded me not a little curious"How often do yon take her oat riding?' I inquired. Ho shook nis head. "Can't afford carriage hire; much aa I can do to pay the doctor. No, no, neither of us has time or monoy to spend for riding out." "Change and fresh air you will find are much better and cheaper medicines than doctor's stuff. Do you take her to the Ben shoro once a year ? or to the springs? or to tho mountains?" "You are jesting," he replied, with tho air of one who felt that an undue liborty had been taken. "Far from it. mv friend.'' I answer ed, seriously. "I feel too warm an intereat in you to jest on a subject like this." "Tho sea-shore, tho springs, tho mountains aro summer luxuios beyond the reach of oar ability,' he spoko sad"Do not name thorn as luxuries in your caae. 11 tho enervated votary of pleasure and fashion needs them for recreation, and to impart now xest to the year's succeeding round of gay existence, how much moro essential aro they for the sick, tho nervous, tho exhausted toiler in life's field of earnes' labor ' I fear, my friend, that you'lavo not thought wisely of your wiles true position; that, in some sense, you aro to blame for hor present II hoalth and states of mental depresBUMI. "How?" Wilkins looked surprisod. "The human soul,' I auswored "is not a pioco of senseless machinery; not mado up of a series of iron whocls that ean do their work as well in tho dark, underground chambor as in the broad daylight. Even the flower must havo a change air, sunlight, morning, evening, andthe advancing seasons, tor its healthy growth and maturity. But the human soul is of higher organization, and of multitudinous wants compared with the flower. Shut up tho flower from tho warm sun and the refreshing air, and will it not grow si. klv7 nay, will it not fade, wither, and die? Vou are troating your wife with lens consideration than you would treat a house-plant. No wonder that she is dying duily.' Wilkins really lookea amaaed; and as I was for a little while in doubt whether ho wero offended at my freedom, or astonished at his own "blindness touching tho nature of the human soul he had adjoined in life companionship with his own. "Nature's two best physicians," I said, 'are pure air and exercise. And what is better, thoy charge nothing for attendance." "For a large part of mankind,' answored Wilkins, "time is money. It is so in our caae.' "Don't mako that too positive a conclusion. Increase the strength aud you diminish the hours of labor ; nay, moro: you removo from them the 'au.se of severe exhaustion. My word for it, if you had spent a hundred dollars a year in giving your wife a change of scene, sea-bathing, and mental as well as bodily rocroation, your doctor's bill would havo been diminished by moro than that amount. How often do you take her to concerts, or other places of public amusement?' "We haven't been to a concert for five years,' said he. "And yet, I remember, sho was passionately fond of music' "We can't afford it,' romnrked Wilkins, gloomily. "Better go without a dinner occasionally, Health of the soul is quite as essential aa health of tho body. If yon starve tho former, what is thero in more eating and drinking worth living for ?' "Mary wouldn't go if I wore to purchaso tickots. She has housed herself up so long that she has no dosiro to step across the threshold of her prisonhouse.' "For which, speaking frankly, and to an old friend, you ore, in a great measure, to blame. And, unless you at once, and with a purpose not to be sot aside by first difficulties, open wido tho doors of this prison house, and actually compel tho drooping prisoner to go torth, a tew years will close the history of her wretched life.' W a g a. up "Ahl' said he, "I can feel tho force of what you say. But how and whore to begin ? That is tho question.' " I notice,' was my reply, "that Herx, tho celebrated composer and pianist is in your eity, and will give, thra evening, one of his concerts. Take her to hear him.' The eyes of Wilkins dropped to the floor. I Haw what was in Ins mind. The tickets were one dollar each, and the expense, therefore, larger than he felt that he had a right to incur for a simple amusement, lie had too many demands for dollars in other and more important directions. "I am going to iuvite her,' said I and I do not believe sho will refuse mo.' "I'm sure sho will not go.' Wilkins wus positive. "We'll see. Yon will take a note of invitation for mo at dinner-time? I will oncloae tickets for you both, and say 1 will call at tea lime, and make one of the company at the concert.' Wilkins was Incredulous, 'and half opposed to me; but my interest in his unhappy wife was too strong, and I resolved to have my own way. The tickets and invitations wore accordingly sent. I callod at my friend's store, late fn theufU rnooit, to accompany him to his homo.

"Well, said I, cheorAtlly, "what word from your good wife? Will she be ready for the conceit7 . a a a a

"l m afraid not. iikins shook ln head, and lookod gloomy. "What did she say ?' "That it was impossible for her to go out; that she couldn't leave the children; and, finally, after 1 hud met every objection with a reason thut could . i j j. . i i .i -i not oo gainsaiu, . .ie ueeiarca inai sue didn't Tool liko going, and eouldit t think of it.' "The ieeis very solid ami hard to break through.' I smiled us I spoke. "It is that want of inclination whic h must bo overcome. She'll go if we insist.' But Wilkins was of a different opin ion. "I kuow her a great deal hotter than you do,' was the answer. At toa-timo, 1 went homo with him. There was a change in Mrs Wilkins, a glance revealed this. I !e languor and exhaustion, so painfully apparent on the previous evening, were scarce - ly visible. Her eyes were brighter, ay w T a her countenance moro elevated, her lips hud a firmer outline I saw that some attention had been given to her aa dress; and though not in concert trim. it waa plain that it would not take-hcr a very long time to be in presentable condition. Wilkins was in error. His wife did go to tho concert with us, and surprised both him and herself by the amount of pleasure she received. Indeed, she exprosaod her satisfaction in lively terms, and with u glowing face, in tho intervals of many of the peiCOS. "How is Mrs W iikins? I askod of

, w a j Li ..'iim-M. i ""iinni in my monier. t;n tny friend, as I entered ls place oi Kridv morning, the 24th, at 7 o'clock, , 2 "th .nejrt dy- . , I went to wake her and get her up ; "Hottorthan lor many months, I am kI. waH ,mithiK very It aril, like one ploasodtosay, was his answer. 'She U)ru, and insensible , 1 could not aoeaaod, thu i morning, almost another wak0 hor . j thought she waa in a woman, rhtttmusic wits like an elix- ,,.,.,.,,, 1 went away for Dr. Falir to her soul ' ly, who cauie about 10 o'clock ; ho "I had faith in it. Depend upon it, Mui(l uuAu.v Uui congestion of the Wilkins, you have been consenting to ,,,, n mother continued inaensiyonr wiles death by murder and s,m Mt. uut'r vhek that afternoon, Oide murder on your part, and sui- wlu.u Kh(, ,fi(,, mv ththeriised somoctde on hers, My next roeommendu. tjUHS t ttmw IUV' mother, and beat lion is Cape May (iiveupyour bus- wit), liH nHt .' wa- nn intom. ness for a week, and borrow the mon- 1 M.riiU. Inu. mother sometimes drank evtopay expenses if you havo not jUOr; mv brother told me that some thoready cash on hand; but take your ,lav ast uvol. ,Htör knocked mother wife to Cape May immediately. It rj0WM by striking her on the back of will not cost aa much as her funeral, her head with his fist; on Thursday Sea-air, sea-bathing, and a sight of rnv mother went about the house, alold ocean, will put now life into her though she told me she was badly ve,n- hurt; I have often seen father abuse "She can't leave home We have oo he mtfl choko her with his hands and many young children.' heather, tw o weeks ago she burned

"She'll have to leave home, and her young children, too, forever, if you don't do something to save her. I spoke with some feeling, for 1 was a little provoked at my friend's inclina

iion to m row uiincuuics in inc way. K beat her. "Just make up your mind that tie! John F. Atkinson, a resident of the thing haa to be done, and I'll answer IMnl hon, deposed: I am a physifor your wife. The fact is, it s my 0jan graduate of tho College of Phyopinion that she'll say yes' on tho first sjrj.ms anj Surgeons, Dublin; I was proposition.' , died in to see deceased on Frida)' at And so sho did. A litile manage- io a. m.; she was lying on her back ment waa practiced. I accepted an- witl, gurgling in her throat, or sort other invitation to tea, and, during ,,t- disagreeable breathing without tho evening, gave as graphic n des- Lnv appearance at all of animation, cription as was in my power af the whatever; 1 studied a considerable novelty, excitement, and wonder jf intoxicating liquor of some fully beneficial effects of u week at j kind; 1 believed sho got congestion of the see-shoro. My own experience i tu. ,raj tr,im intoxicating liquor and waa quite to the point, having gained Want of proper nourishment; I gave health and strength almost by magic, :l Certitieiite that sho died of epilepsy; after a long period of extreme nervous then was influmation of the brain in exhaustion. this case "You m ist take vourwifo to the sea I DrB. Fin well and Weltio made a shore. It is just what she wants, said p,,s, mortem examination, but discovI, alter the way hal been fully prepiu - md no congestion of the brain. The ud. I appearance of the heart and lungs Wilkins followed up with such alhjd them to believe that she came to hearty acquiescence that tho point her death from habitual intemierwbb carried under scarcely an appear- ance ance of objection. Difficulties were, Verdict, "Death from intempcrof course, presented; but these wero anoo." Är. V. Tribune.

pronounced of such slender import anco, that they were overcome almost as soon its presented. Two days afterwards, I had the satisfaction of seeing them off in the steamboat. As I shook hands with them, at parting, I could see, in the countenance of Mrs. Wilkins. some revivingtracos of her old girlish beauty; and a rekindling in her eyes of the light of other days. A year afterwards, in passing thro it . .1. t j i a i : a : ' t . j -r f i It my Old friend. Ho received me i lie ciiv. i mime it nil iiusmess hi is with a warmth oi manner aim cneerfulneas of spirit which satisfied mo that his state of mind was considcrably improved. "How m Mm. iikins.' I Inquired immediately. A broad smllo went over his luco, oa ho roplied: "A thousand per cent, better than when you saw her a year ago. "I am delighted to hear you say so How did the Capo May prescription answer?' "Admirably. It worked like a charm. Mary eamoback another wo man. It was to her almost liko discovering the fountain of eternal youth I never saw such n change In nny ono.' "Didn't she full hack into her old habits of mind and body after her re turn to the city?' "No.' "How did you prevent Itf I inquired. "By acting on tho hint you gave. I hired a wagon for an afornon, once a week, while the pleasant won titer lasted, and showed her all the fine aoenory within ten miles of the city. It cost me two dollars each time; but it was cheaper than paying tho doctor, and the medicine cured more radically. You can't imagine What a change in her feelings took place. Nothing outside the narrow circle of home interested her, thought aeemed asleep, or palsied; but she takes an interest in evcryting. ller soul has awakened out from its dead torpor. "Waa it not starved into more than infantile weakness?' I inquired "Perhaps ao,' ho said, thoughtfully

The son! must have its proper food, as well as the body.' Nothing is truer than that,' I reI Ii a mm ah a aaa .a waa. a

plied 'Anil like the body, it must have the alternations of shade and sunshine, fresh air, aud exerciso. It must have change and recreation, as well as seasons of labor. Without these, mental health is impossible; and without mental health, there ean be 1 I : I I it. t i no n ue uotiny neuiwi. Husbands. I fear, aro not thought ful enough about their wivos in this particular. I am vory cortain, if every toiling housekeeper, whose pale face is hardly ever seen beyond the portals of her own door, were fbrced abroad occasionally into tho social world, if the' would not go willingly; and taken yearly to the springs, tho sea -shore, or the mountains, for a few weeks, that hundreds and thousand. of wives und mothers who are now sickly, nervous and unhappy, would be in the enjoy mont of good health I 1 A.I ! f . , f- II 1 . . and cheerful spirits, giving light to 1 their homes, and happiness to tho 1 hearts of their husbands. I ry the prescription, ye men with sickly, toiling, exhausted wives, whose pnlo taces haunt your homes like the ghosts of former blessings. 1'ity them wisely, und hold them back, while you may, from the low restingplaces under the green turf towurus which they aro hastening with rapid feet. MISCELLANY. DEATH 07 A DIU M RAID'S WUB, Catharine M e( t overn, an intelligent little girl, daughter of decoaaed, tea : ....! 1 1 i . i. one of her arms badly by clinching around the stovepipe to hold herself up when father struck her; I never saw my mother attack or striko fathor; ho w,is generally inebriated when HOT BEDS Nut one farmer out of twenty knows what it is to have his table well supplied with early vegetables, although the cost of U hot bod is so trifling, and it can be made in a few hours at a time when tho work on tho farm is not very pressing. Choose a warm, dry border, facing to tho south or south-west, and out of tho range of buildings and shad trees so that it will havo the full force of tho sun's rays. iiij u int. iroin cme 10 iwu luei (, ' OVl.,. whk.h to tho j, Dig u pit from ono to two foot Maj.0 thl, lhune l)( ()10 anJ ft qUttrter , im., laIlU Tlu, siyt, , be from (() flVl, , wi(,tl) aml ()fanv dceirnblo length. When tho framo is mli,Htod over the pit) m t about half fj, of lw.Nb horse BUbe mttnuro which has been well kept and not exposed to the action of the weather. iut on the ashes and allow thorn to remain for four or five days, after which the soil can be put in from six ' to eight inches in depth This must be the best mould that can bo procured from the isardcn. The seed should I - . not be planted for several days after the bedims been made, as thero is langer of destroying the germ if seed is put over the hot manure so soon ir should be given to the bed betöre it i- planted The framo should bo bunked up with warm manure and soil on all sides, to protect it from cold, and when the weather is unusually in lenient, it would be woll lo 001 Of it with straw. The bed should be spripklcd with water daily until the plants appear, and when the weather is sufficiently mild, the ashes ean be removed, to j allow the entrance of fresh air, and I make the plants grow strong aud hardy. aaaaMT'SaUy,' aaid a fellow to a girl vv,0 had red hair.'kvep awar from mo or you will set mo afire.' 'Ho danger of thai,' was the answer, 'you are too green to burn.' . bwt A person was boasting that he had sprung from a high family in Ireland. 'Yes,' said a hystauder, '1 have been some oi the family so high that thoir feet .could uot touch the ground,'

FEMALX IDTJCATTOW Without desiring to enter the arena of discussion concerning thu "rights of woman," or the remotest w iah to describe or circumscribe the peculiar sphere for which she is designed, we propose to broach a few thoughts on a aubjoct intimately connected with her welfare. Judging from the various modes in which the female mind in tutored, a sytrm for the calling forth of its intellectual capacities ha yet to be formed. Kvery variety of oflbrt every aohomc having the appearance of tangibility, is in vogue, and a mass void of form and shape wo had almost added light is tho result. Tho question naturalty arises What, then, is tho true mode of educating this class? We answer, in true Yan

kee style, by propounding I jucry ourselves " What should be the prime objects of Female Education?" To the elucidation of this point we offer the following remarks: Tho system of education adupted for females, must bo two-fold in its character and tendencies it should call forth tho energies of the soul. and direct t hem in such manner as will i best comport with the physical, mental and moral constitution of woman. To ihvfUtu the faculties and to direct them is the Alpha and Dinegu of mental progression. The leading feature in female education should be solidity rather than ornament. So much attention is given in somo institutions to the adornment of the form, to the coro of the body instead of the mind one, at all skeptical would fain believe that, in the whole course of tuition, tho en tire school had been strangers to good, hard, energetic thought. Others recognise the necessity for a baiii to mentul acquirement, but thoir mode of erecting the structure is faulty the finishing process is completed precisely where the work should have commenced The towers and turrets the eoi nie.es and mouldings- beauty of style, fanci fulness of finish, aud symmetry of externals are all clearly brought to view, but tho whole rests upon airy nothingness, there is neither breadth nor depth to the mental edifice. An illustration will probably give our ideas more exactness. A modern ladv informs her husband that their daughter has just returned from school ; and in recounting her progress and position says "Julia converses in French with fluency and case; perforin upon the piano with a degree of precision raivl excelled , has a pei leet knowledge of music in all its biiinclie.s, whether simple niolody or the ubtrusoiicr-s and complexity of tho opera; embroiders beautifully, etc., and now 1 think it would; bo advisable to procure for her an English spelling book!" Many may conceive the opinion that the picture is overdrawn, out wo will venture the assertion that one-half id' thoae females who havo received a strictly "first class" (so called) oducation cannot spell their mother to nguo correct-1 ly. Wo have known those who would pass us shining lights in brilliant society that had but to put their pen to paper to sign their death warrants. Whcu females are thoroughly versed in the branches of writing, reading, spelling, arithmetic. composition, &a, it is timo enough to add ptdhyology, botany, chemistry, and as many of the "accomplishments" us the mind can master. Hero, as in other departments, thoroughness isdesirnble su-' porncially in any portion of the course ot menial exercise, daily proves the triteness of the adage, "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." The prtuiictil is the want of tho ago we need less of fashion and folly and a larger supply of common sense, less of frivolity aud more real study, fewer fine Indien and more tromen. If thero is a sight on earth around which we would draw tho curtain of obscurity, it is that of one gifted with all graces which nature lavishes upon her daughters, prostituting them ut the altar of fashion famishing the immortal mind with the stale fluttery of a hollow hearted world; living a round of gaiety and dissipat ion . laying up as ler only treasure a miserable old age, f rough t with remorse for thu and not a star with cheering ray to gloiim athwart the blackness of the future. Many may think that an educational course of this character for females would Im useless that tho sphere occupied by thorn is too contracted for the full exerciso of tho acquirements attainable by such mental discipliuo. Friends, the circle is circumscribed because of the distance at which you view it. Once approach tho eentro, and the circumference rueedos, it is hst upon the shores of 1 i mo and lingers amid the confines of eternity. The education of woman comes then to it question of being. What over the mother is, will, in a greater or less degree, exhibit Itself in tho child. We may be allowed to lay great stress upon the position of woman as mother, for on this pivot re volves Ihe destiny of her household, und the proper fulfillment of thin station culls for a complete revolution of the mmlu i rtnth in female education There is too much of silk und satin greatness in its comosition. The idea thut the fingers were made for wearing golden circlets, or the hand merely for the purp -e o testing the elasticity of kid. must he eradicated, l-'rom the lips ofOMMlPoTMMca the edict has gone forth "In the sweat of thy face shult thou eat bread until thou return to the ground," aud Na ture in her endless labyrinths give back the response. The physical formal ion calls for exercise lest it pine and die the mental organism must be disciplined or it w ill rusl and fail. The hiijHCftticaniijilithmentofn human being male Off female is B well developed ami w tdl balanced mental and moral constitution.

'ram the Cincinnati t omaterrlel FOISOMlXe TKX PRXSIDXMT The telegraph tells us that Mr J. (i Montgomery. Democratic member of Congress elect from Pennsylvania, is dead, being another victim to the strange opidemic which prevailed at our Washington National Hotel. -Ovor this peculiar pestilence which haa proven so deadly, rests a mystery that makes the curiosity doubly keen Tho attompt by a committee of the Physicians of Washington, to charge the phenomena of poison at the filial hotel, to miasma arising from ill conducted sewerage, is generally discredited, and considered a paltry attempt to mislead the public. The rat soup story is exploded. The reported 7u big rats killed with arsenic and soaked in the water "Vat, only had exist ence in the prolific mind of some Washington letter writer, ami in the minds of those who believe him. Bat there was no mistake that the symptoms of those afflicted were that they had been dosed with arsenic! With in a few weeks nearly a dozen persons are known to have perished, in the South in New England, in tin W nl in the Middle States of the National

Hotel illness which again und again gave way, it seemed, before medical skill aud judicious personal care, only to return with increased malignity, slowly but shurely drugging dow n its victim to the grave. There are re ports that more than a doen mem hem of Congress are still prostrated by this singular piaguc. Among them are I). B Matteson and John I' Hale. Mr. Buchanan, it is well known has -uttered terribly from the prevailing epidemic, and is by m nanus nt this time in good health A gentle man of our acquaintance, passing through Washington n fbw days since happened to hear confirmation of this fact from Mr. Buchanan himself, he was in tho vicinity of the Treasury Department building, about nine o'clock in the evening- when We take tho liberty of quoting from a private letter: "1 saw, passing n gus light a couple of gentlemen one of w hom, although I had not scon him for over sixteen yearn I almost knew to be the I'rws ident. I stepped alongside, and a glance informed me that I was not mistaken. The old man totter-. His legs aro weak. A half stumble drew somo remark from his companion which I did not hear Efts reply Was: "I AM NOT UIOHT. Mv IIKAfTH II MOT RRVOVKRRP," UiMillg ill il of begging tone, "Bi t 1 am okttixo HETTia." His voice is we.iU. and his legs are weaker. He hi uoing. lcpeud upon it. A few more weeks and he will be no more. A vain young orator from Kentucky will be the acting, and his friend Stephen A Douglas the actual President of these United States!" That the National Hotel illness resulted from an attempt to poison Mr Buchanun. there is but little room to doubt. The death of s many persons of distinction, the sufferings of hundreds of others, the narrow escape of Mr. Buchunan from immediate death, his perilous condition, and the probability that he will yet suecomb to the insidious destroy ing disease, or poison, gnawing ut his vitals, will make a strango und tragic chapter iu tho annuls of our country, which the historian will pen and generations read, shuddering, us we do now, ut the story of the Borgia jsisonem. It is an awful question Who could be the poisoner, anl irhii trin tin death of the President desircdt There is in Washington, swarming all the hotels, aud in every street and alley, an iguoruut. credulous, passionate, impressed people, who iiave absorbed from the strangers who throng the city, tin idea pregnant with desperation and dispair, of the wrongs they endure, und of the almost irreincdiul nature of thoir wrongs. Of course wo mean tho black people. During the hist summer, they heard in every bar-room aud dining hall, on every sidewalk, and in every gambling den. from tho office-holders and tho Southerners, apd those with Southern sentiments, who predominate largely in the vicinity ox the Capitol, that there was a chance for thoiu to become sudden ly free. They were taught by the pro-slavory political brawlers, that if Fremont was elcetod the niggers were to bo free, and not only that, but rulers of the country; while, if Mr. Buchanan should bo President, the question would be settled against them forover. The poor negroes, interested by tho slang, und but dimly conscious of the character and necessary incidents of the struggle ndu ally going on, and by nature inclined to personify principles, became impressed that Fremont was their friend, and Buchanan their eney; and it is not improbable that they knew no moro of tho nature of the election than so suppose that if Biichantiii was out of tho way. Fremont must bo , President, and themselves free. What more to bo expected, in this view of the case, than tor some ouu of tho deluded wretches o conclude that with a paper of nrsenie he might free every slave in the United States of America? Is there not a dreadful probability, that thoro is more in this theory than in the rut soup story or the miasmatic report Critics and Commutators. A young minister iu a highly elaborate sermon, which he prcuched while aupa'ing an absent minister's pulpit, d aeveral times, when giving anew exposition on a passage The critics ami commentators do uot agree with me here." Next morning, as ho wua running on with his performances, a poor woman came to see him witii something in her apron. She said her husband had heard his sermon, and thought it wus a very fine ono ; ami as he said "the common Utters did not agree w ith him here," he had sent him somo of the boat Jersey bluoa!

11 111 NT Why m a Im1 lik neadlal1 He ha an eye, but he has no head, am) ynn oan see hi point. BWaed are the young fallow who

have no girl to claim tbeir ttratioe for they can gel to bad early Sunday night. für Don't yon rt member old Towser dear Kai; old Toarser w ahaggv aud lied, how he ned to plajr day ad mgbt, by the gale, and etetc intrrloper bebind. aprt ur tempUrr sre like an opera glas, kieh make he object small or great, aoeording to the end you look through. Women are celled 'öfter sea,' beaaaee they are o easily humbwgod. Owt of on handred giria, aiaoiy tv would perfar oatentaiion to happiness, end a dandy buaband to a mechanic. 19 "When a fallow la too loay to vork ' Kaya Ham Hliek he paint In Mat over the door, andealU it a tavern or grocery and mukea the whole neighborhood a lay a himself. eaa aajafrrQ , mm toBr ' Tia strange, uttered u young num. n In- staggered homo from :i supper jnirty. how evil eonmMiiett thm corrupt good manners; J . e Im i surrounded by ttimhh i all evening and now I am a tumbler myself Pious dnrkey Sam, why don t you talk to your miisaer, und tell him to lay up Iii treasure In heaven? Practical Sam What's de use of him laying np his treasure dare.wherc he nobber ae am agin? o aa - - A school b.. at it r went arhisd examination m an huxlish Academy, w as asked "who discovered A uteri j ca?" I wish I may die,' says a eorrcspondeut, "if he didn't say Yankee D.M,d!e" Western Australia, thouirh remh enough to accept mal coiiviels. posit ively refuses I haw-uu thing to do with the females, thus supply iu a curious illustration of Pope's line, w hich has been so much criticised "A bataata waeaa lata erat f maa.M Mir ''Why didn't you catch thai coon when you got so near him in the tree. Cliffy f "Kase. massa, one of us fell kur thump on the ground, and when I looked around, 1 found it wasdls nig gerhcsolf' At a public supper in Rockford, a -hort time since, some mean dirgruee i'ul scamp offered the following tosst " The ladies of 1857 . they toll aot neither do they spin; yet Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of them." a i ' - x An Inkkrencr. An editor apeak -ing of a steamboat says : She had twelve berth in hor ladies cabin. "Oh, life of mo T" exclaimed Mm. Partington, trpon reading this. " whnt a squalling there must have been!" Snuff. A gentleman once asked the celebrated Dr AbeiBcthy if Inthought the moderate use oV snuff would injure the brain? " No, sir," was Aberncthy a prompt reply ; " for a man with an ounce of brains would ever think of taking snuff.'' An aged (Quakeress was seen intently gueing upon a richly embroidered satin, displayed in a dry good store in C rand street. An Irishman, passing, smiled as he saw the fas in ation upon the dame. "Ah, ' said he. "that s Satin tempt ing Kve." i ii u a m in a lory imc said, can be cured in m . ti, atism. It II hort time by the following simple method, which we extract from a medical publication : Half an ounce of pulverised saltpetre pul in hall a pint ol sweet od Bathe the parts affected aud a sound cure will speedily follow. " I say Sambo, doc yon know what make do corn grow so fast, whet, you put the manure on itf" "No. 1 don't know 'cept it makes ground stronger fbr de com." Now I jist toll you, when do eorti begins to smell de manure, it don't like do fumery, o it hurries oat of de ground and gets up as high a possible, no it can't breatnc bod air.' An Accommopatino PnririAW.- -1 thero anything the matter with yoa ? said a physician to a person who had sent tor him. Oh dear, yea, I am ill all over,bji I don't know what it is, and I have no particular pain nowhere," was the reply. Very W ell, said the doctor, " I II givo you something to tako away all that. fray- Matthew Lansberry teed to say: "If you want to have a aboe maale of d ii ruble material, you should make the upper leather of the mouth of a hard drinker for that never lets in itier. He did worse than that ho aaid the sob s should be made of Is. lies tongues, lor the d never wear oat Wasn I he a wretch? An itoNRaT Jonathan front the interior, ou his visit to the metropolis, waa awakened oue night by hearing tho cry of " Oyst, buy any oysters! in thc niellifluoiis tones of a vendor of jthe luscious shell -Hah, who waa paas ing under the window of the hotel A noise so new to him startled him and he asked hi room-mate what it mount. lis only oyatvie," replied his lbUow-lodger. pettishly. "Oysters!" exclaimed Jonathan, in astonishment ; " and do oyster i holler aa loud aa that ?"