The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-07-29

Of educating boys and girls in the same classes.
This system, it is stated. has been tried for ten
or twelve years, with the happiest results, in
Oberlin College, in that State. Mr.. Mann, as
is known to most of our readers, is native Of
where his services in the cause
of education have been pre- eminently useful in
all the departments of instruction and learning
In recent address, Mr.. Mann says =" Besides
and beyond all this, believe that the daily
and thrice-daily meeting of the sexes, with &C.
casional interviews in social circles, will be
advantageous to them. 1t will work
both moral restraint and intellectual excite
ment. That innate regard which each sex has
for the other sex, over and above what it has
for the same good qualities in its own-the diff
ference between friendship and love-is too
precious and too powerful an agency to be
thrown away in the education of either. / be-
lieve 1t to be an agency which God meant we
should make use of to promote the refinement,
the progress and the elevation of them both. 1
believe it may be made to supersede many of
our present coarse and crude instruments of
SOAuS uluuSCOho vi PuuiSh
ment which are employed to rouse young men
from the stupefaction of idleness, or beat them
back from the gateways of sin. And what
state of society does it invincibly argue among
parents and the community at large, if young
men and young women cannot be brought to-
gcther to pursue those enrolling studies, and
to receive those apt instructions which pre-em-
inently fit them for the highest duties of their
common life, without mutual peril! And where
in reason, or in the Divine commands, is there
either warrant or pretext for the doctrine that
those whom God minglcs together in the family
by birth. and whom, through the sacred ordi-
nance of marriage, He designs for still closer
relation in after life ;where ask, is there any
authority, human or divine, for Selling and vo-
lently separating these same parties for four or
six or ten of the middle years of their exist
encc ?-those very years when they can best
prepare themselves, by the elevation of whate-
yer is in them of good, and the suppression of
whatever is in them of evil. for future compa-
Such separation is obviously unnatural and if
it be necessary for the preservation of sexual
purity, it is time that the whole community
should take the alarm, and hasten to devise a
less monstrous remedy
T.1- The Montreal Board of Trade have re-
Gently made report, in which it is stated that
route by which the waters of the Georgian Bay
Lake Huron, are to be connected by canal with
those of Ottawa, which last is to be improved
for ship navig ation. Should such movement
be carried into effect, Montreal will have an
unbroken water communication with Lakes HUI
ron and Superior, 400 miles nearer than by the
Welland canal and st. Lawrence river. In the
same connection, the Board states that recent
surveys prove beyond doubt that the most
practicable and nearest route for railroad to
the Pacific lies from the west end of Lake SUI
perior direct to the Columbia river, and that
the shortest route from the Atlantic to Lake Su-
perior is by this proposed canal.
TIE WESTERN TRADE AND BOsTON.-The Bos-
ton Atlas in series of able and interesting
articles, recently, upon the several departments
of trade in Massachusetts, claims that the Bos-
ton merchants possess greater facilities, and
are prepared to offer the merchants of the West
greater advantages for trade than any other of
the Atlantic cities. 1t is confident that the
western merchants will find it for their interest
to purchase all their hard ware, dry goods,
boots and shoes, and other articles of domes-
tic and foreign manufacture in that city. The
principal obstacles which have stood in the way
heretofore have been the difficulty of direct
with the West and the expense
and uncertainty of transportation; but these
says:
1.-THE Board of Trade are effectively engaged
in clearing away distractions. and have quite
recently accomplished an arrangement with
the Western Railroad and the various connect
ing lines of transportation between Boston and
Chicago and intermediate points. by which any
amount of goods will be conveyed from Boston
to those different points at reasonably low
price, and within reasonably short time. un-
der penalty Of a specified forfeiture per ton
for every days detention beyond the time guar
rnteed. similar arrangement has also been
made with the Ogdensburg route, cheaper,
Though SO1DeWDaI slower route. lDeSC ar
will give us facilities in the way of
price and time such as must be satisfactory to
every shipper of goods from the East to the
West An official notice ofthese arrangements
will soon be male public by the active and en-
,rgetic transportation committee Of the Board
ofTrade. The general result thus far may be
stated to be, that Boston Cal: now send. per
agreement, over these routes from :wO to three
thousand tons of merchandise week, AID 9th
er routes will soon be made to afford large adj
ltional facilities. We claim. therefore, to
possess at the present time. facilities for COM
with the West as ample and ready
rs those of any other Atlantic city.
Es- The little French Empress is represent
ed to have declared, in conversation recently
with an American gentleman. in Paris. that
France would never allow the United States to
wrest the Island of Cuba from Spain. 1t is not
however, that Brother Jonathan will
lose any great amount of sleep ON her account
though "gosspping wife" does sometimes