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Yolamo XIX XaSCSLLAIJEOUS SELECTIONS. life i 0M Mines. We have spoken of Dr. J. Tyrwhitt Brooks volume, recently reprinted from the English edition by the Appletons, entitled "Four Months among the Gold Finders in California,' and giving a peronal narrative of the diggings, and washings, and adventures amon r miners and robbers, by the author and the gold-dig-ffinr company of which he was a member. In this light, and as being the first authenlie history of a mining speculation in California, in the land ' of gold to which so many new speculators are now rushing, it is exceedingly interesting and instructive, so much so, that besides recommending the book, which is a short and cheap one, to attention, we think it not amiss to lay a summary of the author's "experience ntthe gold mines, during his 'four months effort, before our readers. 'Dr. Brooks had the good luck to be in "California when the discovery of the placers was first made, lie is a young En?lish physician, who, failing in somn "emOration scheme." to which he alludes, in 'Oregon, left that territory to try his fortune in California, where he hoped to cet some medical appointment among the IJ S. Volunteers. lie landed at San Francisco at the close of April, only to find the war over and no hope of employment among the troops; went to Monterey on -the 4th of May, where he heard the first rumors of the gold discovery from Col. Mason, who 'believed there was no trutii in the matter." and on the Cth. returned to San Francisco, where the first visitor from the mines made his appearance with twenty-three ounces of good substantial gold-dust, collected in where, during the next eigbt Uays, ami! sixteen days, the gold fever was fairly established and excited to the highest pilch of delirium by fresh arrivals from the Sacramento, with more gob! and rumors of gold. Our young doctor shared the excitement; and as early as the 21th of May. sot out for the mines, one of a party of seven, which ultimately swelled to ten persons. It consisted of Dr. II himself, with two Scotchmen, Malcolm and Mcl'hail, friends who came with him from Oregon; on American settler in California, named Bradley; Don Luis Palo, a Spanish gentlemen; Biggs, a "shipping agent" from San Francisco; Lacosse, a French Canadian; with Jose, an lndi:in, a servant of the Spaniard, and Horry, a "big lad," a runaway ship-boy. who was hired ns a laborer. Proceeding on horseback, with ordinary baggage, camp equipage, picks, spndps buckets, tools. Si.c the party reached the lower, or Mormon diiri!'"?" ' Io los Amrricnnos, on Saturday the 3d of June, where they found a kind of settlement tents, and huts of brunches, scattered up the bill-sides, and a bu-y multitude of men. some washing out golden the rivers, some digging, some sifting earth, some building "cradles' of rough boards, and others working such machines, in sets of four men, one digging, a second carrying the earth, a third rocking the cradle, and a fourth supplying it witli water. "I can hardly describe the effect this sight produced upon our p.-.rtv." says the author. "It seemed ns if the fabled treasure of the Arabian Nights bad been suddenly realized bo for us. We nil shook hands, and swore to preserve good faith with each other, and to work hard fori the common good. The gold tinders told us that some of them frequently got ns much as fifty dollars a day. As we rode from camp to camp, and saw the hoards of gold some of it in flakes, but the greater part in a coarse sort of dust which these people had amassed during the last few weeks, we felt in a perfect fluster of excitement at the sight of the wealth around us. One man showed us four hundred ounces of pure gold dust, which he had washed from the dirt in a tin pan. and which he valued nt 14 an nunce. As may be imagined, the whole scene was well calculated to take a strong hold upon the imagination." And such, in fact, was the excitement into which it threw the party, that, although it was nearly sundown when they arrived. within half an hour tho doctor and his comnanions were hard at work trying their luck in the bed of a half dried ; rivulet, in which, after a half hours work.i they found themselves "the possessors of a, few pinches of cold." Great was the; poiniinit nerrilinflv? and Jose, the Indian.savs Dr. B. "was devout in his ex-

rgressioni of thanksgiving to the Virgin) y- Koi!(, whv ,;,,.. Mary and the Great Spirit, whom he would Upon the whole, we think the young .Insist upon classifying together, in a most! physician's book a very good one" to be remarkable and not quite orthodox man-: pu't into the hands of men going to Caliper.-" j fornie. It proves that gold can be found The next day Sunday though it was there or could (for some of the first digv they all, except the Spaniard, worked j gings are already exhausted) his party iiard till midday; when they gave out sub-! having collected it. for three months, at dued. not by conscience, but bv the hard j an average somewhat less than 820 a day

work, which was "very severe," and the pain ot their hands, excoriated by constant immersion in the water. Hy Monday evening, it was, found that each man had collected about or somewhat less than two ounces of cold dust. On Tuesday they fellto work to construct two cradles, which were finished tn as many days, nd yielded, for the first day's work, each about six ounces of gold dust. They af-, terwards yielded together nearly sixteen punces a day. The party remained at the Mormon diggings until the t of July: phen finding the washings less productive and the miners growing too numerous, they sold their two rude cradles, the product of two day' labor, (or S3? 5, and proceeded to the Upper-Diftgings. first at theSaw-Mills. where the gold was first discovered, and soon afterwards to Weber's Fork; whence on the 26th of July, they moved their camp sesin beyond the tracks of ordina ry gold-seckers. to the then wilderness of Bear River. Here iney remained until the beginning of September, suffering great privations and no little danger from

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' BE hostile Indians; which, with the fevers brought or. by their labor and exposure, and the unwholesome air of the mountain glens, brought their mining adventure, for the season, to an end. And then becan misfortunes of another kind, by which ! the number of the party and the golden j rewards of their toil were both reduced. : blood shed by assassins and gold taken j by robbers, and the miners sent back to me umji, u i'io njuici, oiMuciiat richer in Sacramento metal than when they set out, but not so much so as to be actual objects of envy or wonder. The whole quantity of cold collected by the party during its three months at j the mines appears to have been about one hundred and forty pounds troy, worth at the miner's valuation of 14 an ounce, some 923,5rJ0; a very good product, certainly, as th5 result of three months' work, being something like an average of -t 2000 for each individual. Twenty-seven pounds eight ounces was fortunately sent by the party from Weber's j

Fork to butter s tort, where it was out of j them upon an average, and they are in harm's way. On the fifth of September, person, as they are in In mind, a degree a still more magnificent store of no less , or so above the Senate leaving out. althan 10C pounds was despatched from ! ways, suoh exceptions as I have made. Bear River in charge of Don Luis, Brad-j Tho most remarkable man in the House, ley and Malcolm, the two former carrying is Horace Greeley, a New York Editor. ei"hteen pounds each, the last named, 70 He speaks fluently, but without the manpounds. Although well armed, well I ners and gesticulations, common to pubmounted and always on the alert, the first j lie speakers. He is an odd looking specday had not passed before they were sud- j imen of mortality. As he walks from you denly attacked by a band of robbers led; you are struck with his stooping shoullon by one Andreas Armijo. a noted brig- j ers iiis bald pate- his smdy whiskers and." Malcolm whipped otT his horse sud-j his hopping gate he looks to be 70 denly by a lasso and nearly killed by the j years of age. while he is really a young fall and the hoofs of the brigands horses, man. He has a deep set, but benevolent and his horse, with the seventy pounds of! eye a constant but simple smile plays gold, driven offin triumph, though not un- j upon his countenance. He has no cornTil one of the robbers was left dead, others mon sense, speaks too often, and upon

letting off, douTOess, wounded. They ' ,r.,i ,,ct 0(T .however: and although nursu-! ed bv Brooks and some of his friends to San'l'rancisco. to Monterev. and into the i interior where their tracks were finally lost, and the seventy pounds of gold vanished and were never more heard of. The quantity thirty-six pounds carried by Bradley and the Spaniard was saved; about six more pounds were scraped up nt tli mines: the twentv-seven nounJs en trusted to Captain Sutter were still in his hands; and so the party were yet inpos - session of about as much gold as they had lost; of which Dr. Brooks' share (including, bis medical fees from sick miners of whom he had as many as he wanted for patients) amounted to about fifteen hundred dollars a sum so small, however as compared with the expense of subsistence on the coast that the doctor, estimating that it would only support him for two months, was desirous to get to the Sandwich lsli't .rH winter ibere for economv sake. I'here was only one of the party who lost his life. the boy Horry, who was killed and scalped by the Indians in a night conflict, just before Bear River valley was abandoned; although one or two others were somewhat hurt, and all more or less endangered. They suffered, too, as we have mentioned, from sickness, sometimes from want of food, and from depredations upon the?r property by the poorer or baser miners. Robbery and even assassination were by no means confined to California bandits or prowling refugees from other countries. The most disagreeable portion of Dr. B.'s book is that winch treats of the sickness and mis ery, the drunkenness, the hard, inhuman selfishness, the fears, the suspicions, and the secret robberies and murders that prevailed among the miners towards the close of the season. When he first went among them, in the beginning of the summer, nil was good humor, apparently, with little selfishness and no dishonesty. Three months of gold-digging hardened every heart, and seared in many a bosom 1 all conscience and sense of honor, j "At first, when we arrived at the Mor- ; mon diggings." says Dr. Brooks, '"every j thing was tranquil. Every mar. worked ! for himself witout disturbing his neighbor, j Now the scene is widely changed indeed. I When I was last there, things were bad j enough; but now according to the reports I we hear, no man. known to be in posses- ! sion of much gold, dare say. as he lays j down his bead at night, that he will ever rise from his pillow." Gold is. in fact, in California, what it is every where else, the transformer of men. the buyer of souls '(.old! yellow, glittering eol.i! Thus much of this will make black, white; foul, fair; j VVronp. richt; W. noble; old, youn coward. each man; but it shows also how heavy a price is to be paid for it the price of severe toil, of hunger, sickness, and continual danger from savages, highway robbers and murderers, from secret thieves and assassins. the price of fear, hatred, disgust and demoralization. North AmerParson Brownlow at WaOMfigtan. The editor of the Jonsboro' Whig ha been treaMnr; himself to a visit toi Washington Irom wlucn place ne nas been sending letters home describing , ,vf rnniiol- The following r-.K. -;u JL. riders a taste of! his quality. i "-' - - r 1 haye a seat in the House, as a reporter. with a free pass, signed bv Speaker Winthron. And since it is understood that I am not one of the fifty and large odd thousand's of creeping sycophantic, and unfortunate office-seekers, with which the citv abounds. I am regarded as rath? er a clever sort of man than otherwise. I have been present during the discussion in the two Houses, and I am sorry

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Jl'HT ASTt FEAR SOT LET ALL to say that th3 tendency of men and manners, is downward! Especially is this the case in the Senate, more so in the Senate than in the House. Great confusion prevails in both, while that order and dignified deportment which characterized these bodies in the better days of the Republic, are numbered with the years beyond the flood. The Senate is j the most contemptible body of the two. .v.- ...... ....... . .... ing men in the Senate. lienton, lia.lger.i Bell. Man?um. Underwood. Webster. ! Calhoun. Piielps. Upham. Metcalf, Johnson and a few others, look like Senators. and will command respect. Most of the remaining benators are young looking men, in a great degree inexperienced, and ot disgusting mein and little carriage. Many of them are under s;z3, and in ; their m inners foolish. Douglass of Uli- ; nois weighs 100 lbs., and wears dirt! I clothes. ! The members of the House are a more imposing body in their appearance lake ! trival subjects ana Has no influence in the House. Writing letters, reading newspapers. and smoking cigars, behind the bar, is tho order of the day. But this habit of paying no attention to a member, while speaking lias been contracted, in a good degroo from the fact of its being impossible to hear a man distinctly, owing to the pe culiar construction ot the Had. President Polk is 20 years older in no-! i pearance than when he last canvassed for , ,the ofTie of Governor in Tennessee. j Cave Johnson looks grey, old, dry and j feeoie, ana a stranger would suppose no had seen better days! Amos Kendall looks, lean and lank, stoop shouldered, and like the latter end of an ill-spent life. Old Marcey looms up as usual, and whether drunk or sober, may fitly be denominated the upper crust of all political abomination! George M. Dallas is the finest looking man in the Locofoco ranks, and is the best specimen of an English .Noweinaii 10 u sec ;.. .u:-.. . Peace to the ashes of them all! Millard Fillmore is the finest looking man in tiie Whig ranks, and Speaker Wmthrop is next best in appearance. Mr. Calhoun is sinking fast, under the weight of years, and of mental labor. Any man who ever saw Gen. Jackson in his last years, would be struck with their similarity of appearance. .Mr. W'enster is rapidly (ieclinin'r. and never will be tiie nhvsical or mental man he has been, irreat and small! So we go, both A very large party of gentlemen and ladies dined with Mr. Polk on yesterday, upon a special invitation among whom were old Zack. Gen. Cass, Col. Bell anil Mr. Marcy. Fiilmore and others. A very liberal spirit presided over the entertain ment, anil the whole amounted to a real jollification. Gen. Taylor was as famil- ' iar and plavfulwith Marcy. as if he had never given him jcsiy in the Gaines letter, and as polite to ('ass, as if neither of them had ever created any 4,noise and confusion" in the country! Mr. Polk met Col. Bell very cordially ind

!eed. and expressed his gratification at ' war waged against the highest life of man, ' unecessary for her to be versed in natural J renewed their attempts: but the Vermont.ing him present. It was I am told, ' and at "once an usurpation and abuse of history, theology, political economy, or the j ePf without saying a syllable to any one, cene of e-reat interest. 1 was not pres- ! the prerogative of God. Wherever a fa- arts but who should comprehend the j continued to pitch the pebbles far out into

hav a scene ot creat interest. 1 was not pres- ; ent, my name having been overlooked ' (no doubt unintentionally!) in the hurry i of issuing the tickets of invitation. Havinir eufosised the President's irrand-father i 'Old Zeke" in former days, it is certain that the President intended me to be present! Of the Inauguration ceremonies he says: While Taney was administering the oath. Old Zack looked him right in the eye. and when he kissed the Bible, he did it in that hearty manner, that a Tennesscan kisses a lady. He looked just like j he was swearing the truth like he would , "preserve, protect and defend our sacred Constitution and Laws. Polk, i Ritchie, and Cave Johnson, standing by, looked like they believed him: but from Cass' countenance, I take it that he had no faith in anything the Old General said or swore! Cass stood on the platform, witnessing the scene, and looked worse than any man in the crowd. He is excusable for this, because the 'noise and confusion" were so very great, that he could not but look bad! Wahsisg to Smokers. A singular cae of asphyxia is related in one of the French jonrnals. A youth of the name of Lemoine, paid a visit to an uncle. wh is a farm laborer in the neighborhood of Havre. This man occupied a small and Sf rV"' COO II niirr. lie Ulicic anu a w w uutntiaiiu'iiB run-i-ed the room, and all fell to amoking. The youth was asleep. At midnight tho visitors withdrew. and the uncle went to bed. Laying his hand. e went io Deu. i.nyuig nis nana phew, he found him unnaturally cold ared to awaken him, but without efupon h is ne edeavo j feet. Help was called; some faint indications iof life appeared, and a physician directed opera,ions foT thf MeoT'r3r V ?laat i nrtiTMi vain ina nt v i mv ns fid rtHi. -rv von j mortem examination wa. made, and the physician pronounced that ne nad oea oi congesuon ,Dr'n- y respiration oi r-(t-U is said Gen. Taylor has expressed his intention, in language that can leave no doubt of his sincerity or of his future conduct, to strike from the army or navylist any officer who shall be engaged in a duel. We hope the declaration may . prove to be true

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Frora the Ladies' Garland. Grandfather Tyro's Lecture. BT atm. LVDU JSS PEfRSOS. 'Here's art excellent thing in, the newspaper, wife!' said Uncle John Tyro, looking up with a mischievous expression on " ' his broad face. Aunt Patience did not lift her eyes from the garment winch she had spread upon ner lar. and to a rent in wtiien she was : , . ... , "lcel I'"S replied 'That is a good paper, husband, and contains many excellent articles. Read the one in question, if you please.' 'Oh,' he cried, ! have got past it now; but it was about three things that never est rusty the two first immaterial, the third a woman's tongue. The Mush on Aunt Patience's meek face deepened perceptibly, as she answer- ( ed in a low tone j The editor who admits such articles into his columns is afflicted with a bad heart or a weak head; and ought never to hear the tones of affection from the tongue, of moth?r. sister, wife or daughter.' j Oh! ho! I thought this was a 'good pa-1 per,' cried I'ncle John. 'But you makei it good, anyhow. Your tongue will never, grow rusty.' j Aunt Patience crumpled her work into; her basket, lighted an extra c.indle and left the room. But as she turned to shut t.'ie door, a big tar on her cheek flashea in the candle-light like a diamond. Old Grandfather Tyro sat in his easy chair, amid the soft cushions which Aunt Patience hail stitched and stuffed for him. and comfortable in the easy clothes and soft woollens, which her dexterous hand had fabricated for his use. He laid down his white pipe as she went out, and thu3 addressed Uncle John: 'My son, listen to me now a little while. I shall not be with you long, to counsel or reprove. I do not often lecture vou, but now I must speak. You are not naturally wicked or cruel, and vet you have wantonlv inflicted a cruel "injury on the heart of an excellent and unoffending person. : She said right any man who. by publishmg sucii an article, adds a thong to tne scourge of tyranny, ought never to iiear the voice of human love. Man has robbed woman of every independent right 1 1 I 1" " . L 1- i' . anu privilege arm siauuiu" wun nis iooi i upon her neck, rails and reviles because j he cannot take from her the freedom of ; speech also. Don't interrupt me. John. I am speaking for your good, and you must listen. But tell me, did Patience ever reprove you when you did not deserve reproof diil she ever advise but for your good did she ever complain without just - - ' c-.,fn;ont rn"- ' r. ? T0'U- ,tlJ ans. wer. 'It is well she never did. And I am confident that few women ever did. Mark tne I sav women not children or idiots. Why is it, then, that the spirit of man rises c,-. milirrnnnilv against 'he voice of woman? In the beginning God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. 'Let us make an hep mel for him.' Certainly, then, the Allwise created woman, amret orsuitable companion far man. But man has made her a slave the most oppressed and burdened of all slaves. I read a few week-a since in a newsnaner published at Utica. and entitled Christian ......... ... - . Contributor, an article head Charles Manly and his slave Primus The writer, in sketching the affectionate intercourse between Mr. Manlv and his slave, has depicted the most perfect and tender conjugal love. Tnere is not a wife livins who iniirht not envy the situation of that slave; or say, 'oh. that my master was as indulgent and afTiCtion&to as his.' And vet the writer of that article laments over the fate of poor Primus. and savs. 'all inflicted bondage is a the prero culty is given, God never gave US freedom IS impueu. : a nower without the char-1 . , . i- i ter for its largest vri oonsistpnt with the functions of the whole beinr. and whoever in any way mutilates another's life, is in open' rebellion against the sove-j 'reign will ot neaven. I wonuereu, s i 1 read that sentence, whether the writer had is a a; 1 I , his foot upon a woman's neck while he was writing it. If he is a husband, most probably be lias a human being in worse bondage than that of tha slave Primus. I whose life is. as he savs. mutilated, and from whom he would dadly wresl even the freedom of opinion 'I was a younr and tnou'jntiess man . . - , ., once. John. - ' ' an.i 'rir mrtthpr was one or the best of wives and mothers. i ef, John. I made her a real slave, and flouted her tongue as vou do that ot poor rauence. sne brougut me a good property, 1 was in a few years we were prosperous, and i wealthy. You remember when we lived in t!ie 'rreat house and kept our carriage iand horses. Well, 1 was persuaded to ijoin in that foolish speculation which i proved my ruin. My faithful wife be'souaht me to have nothing to do with it, assuring me that it would be our undoing, 'Mind vour own business, woman 1 ex claimed, 'what do you know of such matters ' ! knnw.' she replied, 'that those nUve'rs. and as for mindi-- 7 - - - - i ing mv own business. I think it is my husJ ;n s " l .i i uave a home and bread for , , if . ... t j myself and children. Il tongue, I cried, in a pet. .ITnld vnnr frr!ih 'I will not be have alwavs I dictated to by a woman. I orovided for vou. and shall do so still. ( See what a falsehood had only farm- ? . a ,r ef her nuney but I knew sne would never auuae to tnat. e iuc ' -v der such nice subjection, mat iney oeem enrn fillticir.ne u-noiiv uui ui tiidiat.tr r. i WLV.. j.w J . Well, 1 went on, and was utterly undone. 1 Your poor mother found herself without aj shelter or bread for herself and children.' She did not reproach me then she even endeavored to console and encourage me; but I knew that I had wronged her, and I felt that she must feel towatd me as I would 1

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have felt toward her in the like circum- ignorance and servitude, or be permitted to f L:ke a duck, sail green j.icktft and j stances: and so I added anger and abus- take that sutlw ia the intellectual world j without further pat. ey. the Wrmonter ! to her other wrcn-s. If she was sad. 1 for which she is fated and intended by our j seized tho knovv ing otker atoutly by tho bade her speak the curses she was bar- Creator. She cannot much longer be made ! nape of the neck and Me s?at or his pants, borin-r against me: when she endeavored to believe that the end of her oeing ia to jerked.him from hu footnuld. and with an to be cheerful. I reproached her for want of court admiration end secure a husband; almost superhuman effort, Uas.ieJ the ibulsvmpathv with rny troubles. For awhile but having nobler ends in viw. will only ly heel over head, from the end of the ,'1'tried tj procure" employment, but could marry te ,en she loves, and will love only j dock sumo ten yards out into tha Hud- : not s :it myself. i was too proud or too a worthy object. Domestic felicity will . son River. indolent to labor; and then I gave up to then beperfect. Men will not flatter spoil-j A terrific shout rang through tho crowd, hypochondria, and became a plague spot ed and pelted children into matrimony, as he floundered into the water, and aunon society. Then vour poor mother and then hold themselves aggrieved be- midst the jeers and screams of his cointook in work, and so earned a living, not caue the marriage rite has not changed , panions. the ducked bully rut back to the j only for herself and little ones, but forme I them to sensible and experienced women, shore and scrambled up the bank, halt who had condemned her advice, thrown 'Some person says -what a hideous (Vozmi by this .sudden ur.d involuntary away her property, and added to these anomaly a female physician and surgeon : c old bath. ! every kind of abuse. Vet I saw no merit ' must be.' But I find that some women j '1 '11 take thai ten-spot, it you please, 'in afl this because she was a toman. It j have undertaken to study medicine in th ,s!iJ lhe shivering loafer, advancing rapwould have been strance if she had acted j regular manner, and I rejoice and applaud Hy to the stakeholder. na took cs for otherwise. If amid her toils and cruel ! ihem as pioneers in a holy causa. The . green-horns, oh I c II snow you now privations, she had replied to my bitter j fastidious delicacy which is aghast at the . ' do things down here in ork an4 tauntings, by speaking the trutii that I : idea of a woman studying medicine, feels the follow claimed the twenty dollars.

hd hrourrlit her to all that bv mv wilful i mismanagement of her property she would have been an abusive creature, an unduiiful wife, a virago, and every other hateful thing, which tyranny has invented as bugbears to frighten woman from rebellion. 'At length vour poor mother fell sick. Then I roused myself, obtained employment at jood wages, and we were soon comfortable and thriving. But my poor wife's heart was broken, and as she faded away, patiently enduring still, and putting forth every energy to educate and train her children. I learned to think, to reflect, to reason and to analyze: and I thank God, 1 became a wiser and a better man. But this wisdom was dearly brought, even by long years of widowed loneliness, and bitter unavailing remorse. I would save you from these sufferings, my son. I would have you become wise, without passing under the rod of experience, the laches of which leave wounds that never can be healed. 'Now, mark me, John, all the errors and sufferings of mv life sprung from mv hav'ng imbibed the false and wicked notion of woman s menial inferiority, a notion wmc.i son,e men, and writers of the present day. ae exerting themselves (Heaven oniy knows why.) to establish and maintain Iut such men arc, in my opinion, either actuated by a mean jealousy of female rivalry in the walks of literature, or having matched themselves with under-witted women, deem all the sex of the same class. " 110 but a tooiisli or bad-nearted man could thus condemn one full half or God's creatures, naving never given mem opportunity to prove themselves above the im- . t ...... putation? Jook around you, John. Begin with vour own children, and widen the search as far as your knowledge extends. Arc the boys, as a general rule. superior in intellect to the girls ? You admit iiuo. . , . . c f ,,ri girls; but philosophers say girls are not capable of as great attainments as men. This remains to be proved. If gnls, instead of being made wives and mothers at the ares of from fifteen to eighteen. when boys are barely deemed capable oi being apprenticed to trades or sent to academies, wore allowed to continue in the halls ot science, man's boasted superiority would soon be at an end perchance but bound as she is to domestic drudgery, and the care and attendance ofourchil lren. the eminence, to which woman does sometimes attain, is wonderful, and a prooi of wonderful abilities. 'The world is making a great noise about female education erecting seminaries, and publishing books expressly for that purpose; thus giving a small smattering of science, and a tew showy accom plishments, mixed up with a mass of false doctrines and fastidious nonsense. I would have women study as men study, Books which are not fit for her eye, are only fit for the fire. It is assumed to be i r . :r . ...!., a r- - l.o laws OI Iiaiure n nui inc , the mothers of all future life? W ho should have knowledge of God. if not they who are to plant the seeds ot immortal pieiv in all future intellect? Who should be versed in the economy of civil govern- . . 1 L ..-t-iz-v .-- Trtt'TinnM I H I IT'I mem, n uui im-y oj the minds of all the sages, patriots, heroes. poets, orators, and statesmen oi luiuni s Who should be read it the arts, if not they who are to give the first impulse to the agriculturist, the mechanic, and artisan to the end of time? I'd tell you what; man i fa-. "j.. I may boast as he pleases, but woman susI tcius i ne weiiriii ui wie wwn. ......... . . - i . . A cm.r-wi 1 1 1 i i: tMri to enjoy i.ie uenems j a-juu-i . . : I.,, i ti 1 1 eaucation. anu uaruanam, superstition will never more pouuie u.e earth with their foot-print3 of blood, fire, and ashes. 'I once heard an old man remark 'the less a woman knows, the better wife she is: anu 1 neneve an sidc uuiuciai j....w.. the same doctrine, anu ine presti.i ur(11. able condition of the human race is wholly owing to the incapacity of the mothers of the past and present world to educate their children aright. An incapacity chargeable not on them, but on tneurannj wn.cu has kept them cnaineu to its iooim.u. Of lat phrenology has attempted to mark a difference between the male una establish woman" P.nt this attempt is har-llv 1 1 j 1 1. i i v i T - ------- i w.orthy of notice, as any person, having ,...,,- and common sense, can look at . ' i , r or hor nn fiir.i'.v. or neighbors, or any assembly of the two co " and satisfy themselves at once that ind nr nature has made no such distinc .y..t women, taken as a class, have J x.w.-- i j headg as large in proportion to tneir Domes, as men have, aim tnai wmu- a gi.y" b of eacn, there are as many -mjeaeci Kadc' amnnrsi lue wwiiicii w iUdi tV ' o m?n ,j arn aWare that this is unfashionable doctrine, but it must be preached and will be proVed; for woman has now attained 1jiat advantage in point of knowledge, wn,ch mast progress to perfection. Yes, sbe must eitherbe crushed back to the old

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ters to the practice of male physicians ; a tiling at once barbarous and revolting to every iika of common decency. I heard vour good wife say. that the dread of being attended bv a doctor was more teniidea of common decencv ble to i.or than nil tin; sickness. sufferings of her 'The idea of female lawyers or counsellors is scouted at as a ridiculous absurdity, and vet women are forced to attend courts as witnesses, ice, and sometimes suffl-r more than martyrdom in making depositions and giving evidence before men. who enjoy their distress, and increase it bv every possible means. l ou may preach that woman has no! just cause to complain of her position. 1 tell you she is every way oppressed. Her husband is lord cf her person and property. If he abuse the one, and squander the other, to whom shall she appeal? The laws were framed by men, and are administered by men, who. having never experienced, cannot justly appreciate the evils of which .she complains, anil who are almost always biased against her, 'it is so unwomanly for a wife to complain ngainst hr husband.' Thev are aware of this. an 1 so suffer silently on, even unto death. Witness my poor departed wife.' Grandfather Tyro drew a deep sigh, lighted his pipe, and sunk back in his easy chair. I'ncle John arose and went out, evidently affected and I being acquainted with some two or three individuals who need the benefit of grandfather's lecture full as much as Uncle John did. brought out my old pen, and with the good old gentleman's aid. wrote it out in full. And here it is for their benefit solely. Let liiem read and profit by it. 1 shall charge them nolhing. Writlen for the FIg of our Union.) TAKING the STARCH OUT of 'EM! A knot of idlers stood upon the cnu oi a pier which ran out into the Hudson River, in one of the small towns near Albany, a few days ago. amusing themselves with hurling stonesinto the broad stream, each vieing with his neighbor in the endeavor to pitch a missile at the fartlierest distance from the shore, when a tall rugged-built Vermotiier, direct from the Green Hills, suddenly made bis appearance in their midst, and for awhile remained a quiet observer of their movements. He was a brawny, strong looking Yankee, and was very decently clad. The efforts of the little party hajl been exhibited over and again, when the stranger quietly picked up half a brick which lay near him, and giving if a jerk, it fell in the water a long way beynd the line which had as yet been reached by the foremost of the crowd. At the conclusion of this feat, a loud 'bravo!' went up from half a dozen voices around him. It was a cold, clear day in October, and the men. determined not to be outdone. .i . ...u : 1 . ! ine stream, whii-h beemeu iu annoy one "i them in a rrreen jacket, the apparent lead- ! pr 0f the fan", who declared he wouldn't i be lieaten bv aMellernght out o the woods, no how: and sideling up to the stranger, he determined to make his acquaintance. 4 Where do you come from, neighbor?' inquired the other. 'Me? Wal, I haili from Varmount, jes naow, friend.' t 1 1 o I fit KAnn in IriAcanq a 1 T mnrr si j j u i i j t i in un..7t. pai lu jfc I -V n, 11 ' al no. rsot edzackly, yere but up and daown. sorter.' lis so 1 sposed." Yaas.' continued the green 'un. carelessly, and seizing a big billet of wood, be twirled it over his head, and it landed several rods from the shore, in the water. 'You've a liitlc strength in your arms, neighbor.' 'Some "pum'kins" is them flippers, stranger. Up in aour taown, rnore'n a munth ago, I driv them are knuckles rite strut thru a board, rnore'n a ninch'naiT thick !' Haw haw!' shouted his hearers, the man in the green jacket laughing loudest. Maybe you don t o lieve it. Xot much.' answered the crowd. ! 4 We aint very creen. down here in York tre aint said the leiiow in trie green - jacket; -we ve ueen anoui ou s?e. Wal, i"S veu look yere', friend. eoitin uM the Vermonter. in the most plausible . . - manner: ur in aour caounty. we ve a purtv biir river, considerin' Inyun Itiver. it's called, and may be vou'vh hearn on it Wal. I hove a man clean across that river t'other day. and he came daown fair and square on t'other side! Ha, ha, kaf yelled his auditors. Wal, naow, yeu may lafT, but I kin deu it agin. Do what?' said the green-jacket, quick'I kin take and heave yeau across that river vender, jest like open and shet!' Bet vou ten dollars of it. . Done!' said the Yankee; and drawing forth an X f on a broken down east bank!) he covered the bragger's shinplaster. Kin veu swim, feller?

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Number IS. : " at, i recK n ou wunt taso nq ten spots es it. cap n. 1 'Why? You've lost tho bet. ; 'Not edsaetiy. I didn't calkilate on ; deuin, it the fust time but I tell yen, I kin i!cu it,' and again, in spite of tho loukr s utmost efiorts to escape him, ho seized him by the scruff and the seat of bis over-alls, and pitched him three yard farther into the river than upon tho fust trial! -Again tne bully returned, amid the j shouts of his males, who enjoyed the spor j immensely. ! 'Third time never fails, said ths Yanjkee, stripping off his coat; I km deu it, I tell ye. Bold on! said the almost petrified viotim And I tcill deu it ej I try till to-mor rer mortvn . 'I give it up shouted the nafTerer, be tween his teeth, which now chattered liko a mad badger's 'take tho money. The Vermonter very coojy pocketed the ten-spot, and as he turned away, remarked : We aint much acquainted with you smart folks daourn ber'n York, but we sometimes "take the starch aout of em4 up our way and p'raps yeu wunt try it on tu strangers agin. I rrck'n you wunt, lie continued, and putting on n broad grin of good humor, he lef, the company to their reflections ! To MitliC Lnots the 8hpe of the Pool. First, take a couple at pcira of stockings that will fit lhe fet rullier snugly. Put on pair e,' them on. Then moisten the other cir with' oil, and tuttheni on over the first. Then vr"B niixiure i.f calcined plaster of Pari and water in the rn. inner that is dono for taking plaster casts. Having coaled over a board with m layer of this of suilulito thickness, sl inJ upon it with the foot, mid let mine one apply nuccessive layers of the d'tttfr over your whole foot, say , quarter of an inch thick. When this has hurd-t enrd, carefully cleave it off, and then by cemen-WnT.-"f-'AA-tljr :iin by clue- or th) you will obtain a mould of your foot. Oil In insi,!,. of tli;, iind pour in a sufficient quantity of jir'f;r.:J piaster to fill it. A fU'r this has hardened it nmv be taken out, mid you have a casting of vour foot, a perfect fae tim'Je, only ns, much birger as the thickness of Ilia outer pair of storking thnl you hnd on. II y putting this into a last turning machine you may hav a wooden last turned enctly like it, and boo mad upon it will fit the font perfectly. Scientific Atheriean, Railroad opened in 18 to. Tho following is a very interesting statement from tho American Railroad Journal: Portland nnd Montreal, Ms. - 8 mile, Sullivan, IN. II. - - - 26 Cheshire, N. II. T - - 10 Vermont Central, - . . - 7 Vermont and Massachusetts, Mans. 81 Connecticut River. Mass. - 16 " Camden Branch, S. C. - 2 " 119 miles, C4?I " Road opened Jan. 1. 1649. Total, ... of railway in operation in the the first day of March, 1849. G421 miles United State on, Railroad from -Veto Fori to Burlington, Vl. The distance from New York city t Albany e J . I IT.. I , . . T, . 1 1 2 mile. i rirreiibiiHli to Troy, Troy to Saratoga. - C 31 " 40 24 65 f 309 i ""toga to Whitehall, Whitehall to RiilUnd, Vt., Ratland to Lurhnjjtoii, - Total, This entire line is completed and in rapid pro-: ! gress ef completion, except the short distance of 24 miles between Rutland and Whitehall. The best route now to Montreal is by way of Bostou and Moutpelier. about 400 mile. I?y filling up this gp between Rutland mad White, hall, therefore, the entire Canadian travel rosy be secured between New York and Montreal; Connecticut River Railromi. Tlii rail way extends from Springfield, Mass., north 53 miles, where it connects with the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, which etaads ; to Brattleborough. from Eratileborough t ! Bellows Falls is 22 i mile to complete a continr ! uous railway from New York City te Well Rivi i er, Vermont, a distat.ee of 305 miles. Thus it will be seen, that while lhe weallix and enterprise of Bostou bare taken the lead ia j extending lifr iron roads to the west and the) j north, thereby diverting a large amount of trad j to her own city, whw.h bad prevtoaaly sad MiaI rally gone to New York; that the time ia faat pproaching, when New York will not only re? gain her former supremacy as to accessibility, : bat will also become a rival for the Coanectlcnt - 1 vy trade above Springfield, sad Jo the f f' Canada. i T.. Tl T . But all these improvement and vast constrno; lions cheapen the price of travel, increase production by opening for it daily accessible mar? ket, develope new resources in a word, add ta the cesesal rmosreai-rr. They not only remaaerat the few whose capital builds the road, but greatly benefit the siiiij who enjoy tho increased, facilities of trade and travel famished by tbee. Ccbiovs Iceladic PtANTS. Many pf the plants of Iceland grow to a unntv? turalsize, close to the bot spring. , Thyme grows in the cracks of tne basin of tho Great Geyser, where every other plant if petrified; and a species of charm &wrifbot and bears seed in spring &f9ffr 13 boil an egg!