Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-09-22

| GOOD READER land yet how seldom is one
found, even among men Of genius, talent and
learning. Why is it so! Is it in the fault
Of instruction in schools and colleges, or is it
that there is no importance in the quality
The United States Gazette-good authority
takes the proper view of this EVIL; it says
| In the notice of the numerous collegiate
public exercises which we have read This
year, there has been generally discrimina-
ting praise of the matter of the young gentle
mems composition, but censure, doubtless
well deserved, Of their style Of delivery. In
no part Of education are young men more de-
fcent than in their reading, or delivery
| They shuttle their words together, and throw
| them out as if they had committed them 10
| memory with dull tune; and when occasion
ally youthful spirits triumph over habitual
| dizziness in delivery, nine times out OF ten the
spirit exhibits itself in the wrong place, and
the emphasis is given to the portion that re-
quired moderation.
This is grievious evil, shocking defect
in education; one which we hope will arrest
the attention of the directors Of colleges and
schools, so that the real talents of the youth,
their ability to understand, TO feel, and to de-
scribe, need not be hidden by their inability to
present their own ideas in tones 10 make them
| comprehend. The education of young man
cannot be complete without attainment in the
| art of reading, especially if he should be in
tended for the Bar, the Pulpit, or incidentally
through them, or the thousand other avenues,
for the Senate.''
A case Of polygamy," has occurred in
Boston, which excies much attention, and
sympathy with the defendant, Mrs. Mehi,a-
Bile Marsh. This lady was married to MIR.
Marsh, and after some time the husband left
her. She wrote to him at varions places, but
| received no answer, and was unable to OBJ
tain any information which would lead her or
her friends 10 believe that her husband was a.
live. She married again at the end Of three
years and 9 months after her husbands de-
parture.
Some one who wished 70 make t,onble for
her ascertalned, after some time, that the FIRST
| husband was alive. Mrs. NJ. then separated
| from her new connection. Her enemies in
formed against her as having violated the
| statute which prescribes seven years absence
| as the time to constitute widowhood. The
| purity of the woman's intentions was admit
ted, but the law was plain, and she was pro-
| nounced guilty. The penalties are severe
but il is thought that the Governor of Massa-
chusetts will relieve her from these penalties
| on account of ignorance of her REAL husbands
existence. Philadelphia United States Ga
| zette.
The CHARTER OF Commemorative old
Charter Of Connecticut is carefully preserved
at Hartford. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens speaks
fit in the folluwing manner, in letter to the
Brother Jonathan -" 1t is deliberately writ.
ten by an English letter, and in one place the
parchment is stained through by the sap or
| other moisture gathered ia the tree which con-
tanned It. 1t was granted by Charles ii, in
1862, and when Edmond Andross assumed
the government, and threatened to remove the
charter. it was concealed eighteen months in
the old oak to which it's name is given. Tho
one hundred and eighty-one years old, every
word in the broad parchment is distinct, and
the whole fabric remains as firm as If manu-.
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