The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-09-09
VOL. VI.

and painting looking out of holes in dro'Nlng
The fact is. that sterl soil and
climate, though not good for growing ar,l aafsh
else, are first rate for raising men and ,ahg
and meE and Women, in the full empbo6o " "
OF the word, are the staple produce of NtsHNe
The long cherries winters here are no,."lr
educators, both physically and moraIlyrW o"IiiU
cally in the amount of oxygen and yitaitu piys,'
they force into the system ntellectpolIy i ~
leisure which they force on one for intclon ene
pursuits. Aprop0s OF the winters will ralo.ai
anecdote which heard in my VILLAGE uaa an
the mountains, which might give some os o',r
Southern friends new idea of what a , ~ ouf
here is like winter
| Said one of our friends, whose housa T..
directly under the mountains" Last vim
the snow was banked up quite to the r;d,.
| pole of the house, ''use'
Is it possible - | exclaimed !Why, what
"Tunnelled through it - said nv friend
| composedly; "we had tunnel some ar,
feet long to the road" '''een
And, pray, how long did it last?r said
| ven, about SIX months said he.
1t made the house very warm. indaadp
added his wife, almost oppressive
| That was one view of a snow-bank tbo,
had never suggested itself to me- But mpct
add to what | said about the Maine women
and girls one drawback-one is imnreSsoI
with 1t even in the most mountainous districts
the want OF an appearance of robust health
The young girls are fair, sparkling, intellec.
ual-looklng, but they are wanting in the pbv.
| sique. They look like forest howers-yeyv
fair, but as if breath might wither them
The mind seems altogether to have got the
start OF the body. The long winters msy h1rs
| something to do with this. For more than half
| the year the female sex in this climate ara
| very much confined indoors, in stove-heate6
rooms, generally very partially ventilated, as
rooms in cold weather always are. Here they
read, and study, and sew-and go out, at most
| only in pleasant weather-often only in sleigbs
| with fathers or brothers to drive them. and the
sleigh is vehicle that gives no sort of exer
else. Can we not see in this fact the reason
| for that predispositOn to diseases of the lungs
which is constantly the terror of every parent
| in New England, and which seals every year
| hundreds of her fairest for the gravel Think
of the contrast between the stove heated room
where one is kept almost at the point of Der
splratlon, and the lungs constantly inhafng
warm air, and the sharp, keen, cutting air that
| is breathed without. There is no remedy for
this, but harder habit of life A young girl
in New England is never secure against con-
sumption, but by keeping her physical yigor
| up to the highest point She should 90 out
| regularly every day, in all weathers, and IA
mliarize her lungs with the outdoor atmo
sphere. She should fortify her skin with daily
cold bathing, wear short walking.dresse pre-
fer walking to the sleigh practice skating and
outdoor amusements after the example of Eu-
ropean ladies in a similar clmate-and then
the long winter will be to her, as it is to the
other sex, discipliner and invigorator to the
system, and not a constant enemy
My letter is running to a great length
Adieu for the present. II. B. s
The DEMOCRATS OF New YORK, in State
Convention assembled at Syracuse, nominated
Horatio Seymour, of Oneida county, for Gov
ernor, and s. f. Church for Lieutenant Gov
ernor. An electoral ticket was chosen. The
Hunkers were dominant John Van Buren,
and the rest of the Barnburner contestants for
seats were ruled out and resolutions were
unanimously adopted, re-afirming the absurd
and contradictory resolutions adopted at Balti
more as follows:
RESOLVED, That we cordially adopt as the
sentiment OF this Convention, and we affirm the
platform of principles contained in the annexed
resolutions of the last Democratic National
Convention held in Baltimore
The Baltimore resolutions are copied in full
And unanimously says the record, were
these resolutions adopted. How many of the
Radical Democrats of New York will refuse to
sanction these abominable resolutions at the
polls!
"A RESPECTABLE TITLE ABUsED-We pray
the Union to quit calling Mr. Truman Smith
an Abolltionist," the grand Abolition leader
OF the North, &c. 1t is an abuse of terms
1t is throwing discredit upon a very respectable
title Mr.. Smith is no more entitled to the
high reputation of an Abolitionist," than the
gentleman from the North who has the honor
to be co-editor of the Union. Mr. Smith has
never committed any offence against Slavery
to be compared with that committed by the
Pierce Democracy of New Hampshire when
It passed Legislative resolutions in favor of the
Wilmot Proviso, and Of the abolition of Sla-
very in the District of Columbia.
Our PosITIoN-If our friends want to know
where to find us let them read the Era
What we think and say what we are doing
and intend to do, may be learned from its edi-
torial columns, far more satisfactorily than
through private reports. Whenever we intend
to change our course, We shall announce it in
time, openly and explicitly, so that nobody
may be cheated.
The TIMES, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has lately
enlarged its size, and improved its appearance
in all respects 1t is one of the best edited
and most firmly established papers in that city.
The editor is Independent, moderate, and phi
losophical, and has lately done himself great
credit by his warfare against the unjust and
offensive pretensiOns of Catholicism
Mr.. CLEMENS of Alabama, in speech de-
livered in New Hampshire abiding to Mr..
Hale, said that no man ia the United States
Senate stood higher IA has regards as a man and
a gentiemanp Mr. Clemens is not alone in his
favorable opinion. Our candidate is probably
the most popular man in the Senate.
The WIGS OF New JERSEY on the I'd, at
Trenton, held a State Convention, which Is SAID
to have been numerously attended for the pur-
pose of appointing Presidential electors
Mr. JENKINS, of Baltimore, has twice been
nominated by the Wings Of that city as their
candidate for Mayor and has twice declined
lie is either very modest or very hopeless