Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-03-17

pronounced bad if not found TO contain large guam
tity of potash. IA:
The Professor concluded by urging upon the cltl-
zens the necessity of organization. Farming was
subject which called into exercise great zeal OF
nq more than either law divinity, and associations
were therefore necessary tor It's more epeeuY du
cessfu diffusion. A vast number of experiments
were 10 be made upon the adaptation OF manures 10
the SOIL and of the soil to crops. These coulo NOT
he made by single individual. There must Dc
division of labor. Experiments OF different KRIS
must be made by different individuals, and the resui's
made known each other by means OF organized as
sociations. While our internal improvements are
going admirably and tending towards perfect
system of home Improvement, OF husOanory, VI SoIo
and of the soil, should 60 hand in hand tnete"''"'
Inasmuch way to market Is opened encourdS T.,
ment is furnished to raise surplus, by whlcn o'iy
the farmers pocket is filled. This to be sure IL q"
ad hon,incn or rather argument to the
pocket. but il should be full Ct persuasion. AS 10
desirable to have foreign market, so IL Is "o'e
sirabe to have at home, and for this reason tue
clash of the steam-mill and the buzz OF Hacnse'J'
should be heard in village.
AT the close of the lecture, our friend, Dr. Andrews,
asked Professor Emmons why 1t was, that Clover
would spring up where gypsum was sown' aTnoGs'
clover had ever been near the place. Inc fioIes-
replied, that the seed mast exist previously In the
SOIL and that they could perhaps be discovered upon
d microscopic examination.
Seed always require three things to enable them TO
shoot. viz light, air and water, and wanting these
they will lie for long time dormant tirass oteh
springs from the dirt brought up from beneath the
surface of the earth, for instance from the bottom
of a well. Seed must have been in the dirt. Some
suppose that seeds of every variety sown broad
cast the earh and On y wait tor faVoraoie OPP
portunity TO develope themselves. The Professor
alluded also the fact, that varieties OF wheat
had reared from seed found in the Catacomos OF
Egypt, and which had probably been lying there
dormant for centuries. GoIds5o, ough Telegraph.
NATURE OF HILDREN. "There more children
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of feet" If understand the remark, he meant
that more children fell sacrifice to the want of ply
steal educaton than to the exposures that sometimes
are inevitable from it. He intended evidently to con-
vey the idea that in great cities, children did not get
sufficient exercise, and were stlnted OF fresh aI and
that consequently the daint Ydressed little girl, with
her spotess clean fock and CATERS with paent-leah
er tips, had smaller chance for life and health, than
the sun-browned farmers child, who was washed but
once day, and who spent her hours, perhaps, ma
king sand in the road. Regarded in this light
there was much truth in what he said. No one can
doubt that fresh air and free exercise better for
growing child than all the medicines in the world.
No hesitate to admit, if once the subject Is
seriously considered that the tight dresses, the con-
ventional behavior the heated rooms, and the long
school hours which is the fashionable custom to In
fct children, especially on little girls, is fertile
of the great proportion Of deaths, and more
fertile cause that so many grow up weak' nervous
blighted, and destined to premature decay.
Civilization. though on the whole. it ameliorates
to the accurately, that which is called
advancement, is not always such. The education of
children is case in point. We doubt very much
whether society, in this respect, has no. retrograded
instead of progressed. We think his is especially
true with regard to the education of girls. We do
not now alude to their intellectual education-though
in this matter departures have been made from
the true standard, causing solid give
way to superficial mpshment-hut TO their ply
scal culture. Girls almost Systematically denied
proper exercise, and made, even from infancy, the
slaves of absurd conventional forms. If little girl
ventures TO romp, she is rdculed 'tomboy - if
she with her brothers, il is called unlady
like; and if she joins him in turning chairs into
horses and in racketng about the rooms, she threat
ened TO be put into trousers fl penalty for her
unsexy behaviour. We do not exagerate when
say this. We have such things often, and have
heard of them frequently STILL If to stint the Ysi
cal growth, if to liant the seeds Of debility, il to de-
stroy even life sometimes, is proper education for
girls, then they generally obtain it but it the reverse
what Is desirable, nlnetenths of them, born in ci:-
les, and in what is called respectable society, are
tery debarred from IT,
The ma gnitude OF this evil is unknown to many
parents, even among these whom education should
have taught better. Ill health in woman, the re-
suit of bad education, entails defective constitu
ton on her children; and thus the wrong done to
daughter In this generation Is Perpetuated on her
daughter In the next. Already can be around
US, in but many families the working of this great
law, the vengeance, as 1t were, demanded and
forced by Nature Tor her violated rules. How else
can we account tor the difference, In health, between
mothers and grown up daughters, who have them
selves become wives and mothers. a difference not
exceptional, but almost universal Who cannot
point out women at fifty stronger and healthier than
their daughters at twenty-five or thirty4 Who, to
carry the investigation, recall children who
have died immaturey, of defective constitutions be-
cause their mothers had been brought up bad health
and have thus entaed death their offspring! We
ask parents to ponder these facts, and observe
for themselves if experience does bear Us out.
That young women in the respectable classes, are
less robust than the same class fve-and- twenty
years ago, is conceded fact. Why is it? And if
the is that given By US, what will their daugh-
ers be, when fve-and-twenty tits not too late to
retrace false steps and hope that good sense and
affection for offspring will prevail fashion.
philadelphia Bulletin.
BRITISH INTERVENTION IN AFRICA. The reason
why onr English friends destroyed Lagos was be.
cause the chief of that place refused to sign treaty
for the suppression Of the slave trade in his domn-
ions! 1t took phianthropic British friends two