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SADIES 'DEPARTMENT

EDITED BY A LADY.

Mount Tabor, March '49. Messrs Editors. Although in your Locomotive no special apartment has been allotted to tho ladies, yet inasmuch as we are a privileged sex, I trust I

may not be deemed an intruder while indulging myself in communicating a few ideas, which may be as fuel for the engine, or the stove in your office, as you see fit to appropriate them. To relieve the ennui attending a residence in the country, at this season of the year, we have resorted to various expedients . for " killing -lime,"

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Our small stock "of general information has thus been applied, and facts acquired by hard study in our school-days, long, stowed away in some dark corner of the mind, been vividly recalled ; while our intellectual powers have been strengthened by the close application required to solve others, and enriched by many a new idea. In return for the entertainment derived from your spicy sheet, I am induced to submit a few of my enigmas to you for publication, hoping some of your readers will find pleasure in solving them. I also add one hy an elderly friend which though at first- glance may seem to favor infidelity, yet will bear investigation, (I refer to Number 1.) . C Submitting them with due deference, and my hest wishes for your success'in attempting to ren- " der the Locomotive a vehicle for valuable ideas. I remain with respect, ENIGMA No. 1 My whole should be possessed by all persons is a word composed of 9 letters. My 1, 2, 9. 3, 6, 9, 2, is what a king seldom sees, and the Almighty never has seen. My 6, 2, 7, 8, 1, 9, is to exercise laboriously. My 4, 2, 5, 3, 8, signifies unity. Answer next week. ENIGMA No. 2 My whole is an intellectual process, well calculated to brighten the idea, and is a word composed of 11 letters. W 11, 12, 4, 6, 4, is an article worn by ladies and prelates. added 13' 4' 1!' 12' 7' 3' 2' isa state t0 wllich no more can be ideas7 3' 10' 13, 2' a faculty hy wllich we outain difTerent My 3, 7, 8, , 7, is an unchanging friend.

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Helen."

For the Locomotive. To MissH.B. . I listen'd to a voice when music flow'd In song of liquid numbers, sweet and pure, And felt that God had set the spirit harp Attun'd within the heart of her who sang. Its tones that in the undulating strain Melted and mingl'd, breath'd its origin. Yet would I rather those sweet tones had come In the wild transport of a passing dream; When the still chambers of the mind to earth Were clos'd, and open'd on a fairy realm Where groves, and streams, and flow'rs,lay 'neath a : 'light, ; . .. ,V ,

Such as when sun and moonbeams blended glows.

Where winds and harp strings meet, and struggling kiss . , '

In the sweet melody of sinless love.

But no ! they came amid the sounds of earth, But to be stifl'd by life's harsher tones But to die away, and bid the charm'd soul Turn from the cup of bliss to sorrow's brim. For they were real, yet so much of Heav'n, Earth dark, grew darker when they ceas'd to flow. , '' ( 'Juan. Indianapolis, March 7, 1849.

Elegant Extract. The love of woman is eter-

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passing dream. ' t Her love is the soul itself; it enjoys an invisible existence; it cures itself by its own balm; it fortifiesit self by its own energies; it does not re-commence, for it never ceases. At one period it is ardent and passionate at another, languishing and docile ; now heated and feverislv then calm and reflective; now jealous and unjust then blind and forgiving to a fault; now like the bursting volcano then smooth as the placid lake ; at one moment selfish and cruel at another, generous and kind. The principles of true love belong not to time, but to eternity ; they possess a faculty of regeneration, and an impossibility of total decay a youthfulness of passion blooming simultaneously with all the most beautiful flowers, like the rose-trees of Paestum which bloom twice in one year ! From Eobt. Macaire in England.

Oh, This Love ! " Love !" observed Venerable Joe, sarcastically" love's a himposition. There's been more people imposed upon by that air word than by all the professional' swindlers in natur. It's a gros, a uniwersal himposition ; and it's on'y werry vonderful to me that it ain't long ago ben hexpunged. A gal says she loves yer. Werry.well; but are you consequentially obligated to make a fool o' yourself? No; you've on'y got her hipsydixsy, and vot's the good o' that t Marry her, and you'll werry soon see "ow sweet's the love as meets return.' But about that, look 'ear on'y just for instance; a gal loves a soger vich they all do ; it's reg'lar : he's a private ; still she loves 'im oh ! hout an' hout ! Werry well; don't yer think she'd give 'im up for a hoflicer? In course shevood! And why? Why, cos it 'ud be a better chance. Has for love, it's the wickedest, the swindlinest himposition as is. The chances is vot gals look out for. The on'y question with them is, Is it a good chance V If it is, they'll have it; if it ain't, they won't, un

less they can't get nothing better. It's the deadest take in is that Jove ever hinwented. You take my adwice, and don't be foozled. Venever yer hear the word, love, always view it as a gross himposition. Hif yer don't, you'll be done, and on'y find out the difference ven it's too late. Look at me jist for instance. ' I was sixty-two in Jennewerry last; look at that? Sixty-two, and I ain't done yet.. I'm inwited to all the parties. I'm never forgot. There's the old uns as is single ahoblin' on me reg'lar ; and the old uns as is married, a-settin' their darters upon me; it 'ud be sich a chance! and all, in course, cos I'm single. - Why,d'yer think they'd care about my company perwided J vas married? Does it stand at all to reason they'd inwitc me as they do, hif they didn't believe I was yet to be done ? Not a bit of it ! not if I vas vorth a matter o' fifty times more than I ham. But, as' it is as I've alius escaped the himposition there am I, never missed, alius thought on, looked up to and respected ; vich, let me tell you, is a werry great advantage.

Mr. Locomotive. I was going to write a piece according to promise, but I have not heard one word from Madam Rumor, 'or her Brother-in-law, since I wrote last week. Well, what shall I say ; flies, fleas and musketoes are all absent, and nothing of that kind to compiain of, but consarn it, there is some young men about town that are so ugly. . I wish they did look better. Pshaw, I hate to look at them. andJwondexjinyypunglacty can love them. But they are like vice ; at the first look a girl would feel a kind of shudder; second look they can barely endure ; at last that awful ugly Tobacco '

mouth, and goaty chin, and ill dressed figure, be-: gins to win upon her by familiarity, till at last they embrace, and sometimes ugly faces come together. Now, Mr. Editor, I am not complaining of what nature has done for them, but upon my word I think they might pull their pants up, just barely hanging by the waste ; put on a vest and hat, cut off that nasty wool about their chin and face, and dad says he hates to see them come into church with one of those little flat crbwn caps, with the pointed leather over their foreheads ; mouth full of Tobacco ; spit their filth over the floor ; come in and go out of church more like a goat stomping off flies, than decent young men., But I tell dady he must excuse them, as that is the only way they have to show their raising. Now who ever seen a well raised young man run into the Temple of God in a rough, careless manner, set about ten minutes, and then out in the same way, much to the annoyance of all quiet and orderly persons ; but he says they hang about the church door, smoke segars, and talk, and block up the way when church is concluded, so as to prevent personsgoing out. Did you ever see a well raised young man do that ? Well but the fact is, dady is a little too hard, for a great' many of these young men are not to blame, for their Parents let the little fellows, while small, just do as they pleased; they did not feel like burthening the little fellows minds with instruction, or fastening upon them industrious habits; so being a little idle, they want to pass a few idle moments by running in and out of some church. I tell the old man I am not in that crowd, for if I go at all I hang on till all is over ; and as to my ugly face I can't help it. I don't let that goat put that are thing on me, and as

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