Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-03-01

FaShtOmS-A oi
SenseIess Practice.
The New York Sunday Atlas discourses as
follows upon that arbitrary law Of fashion which
requires people to "go into mourning 9th.
er words, to attire their bodies in black clothes
on the occasion Of the death of relation:
Let every man or woman who mourns the
death of a near friend or relative make bold
stroke towards demolishing the foolish, expen-
sive and uncoIth system of going into mourn.
ing. Let the bereaved refuse to array them
selves in sables, and say with Hamlet:
Genuine grief is not made up in grapes or
broadcloths although fashionable sorrow could
not be delineated without the aid Of those fab
RIGS 1t is unrighteous to allow Fashion to
play the tyrant in the graveyard. For the sake
of trade, let that monarch rule and revel in the
saloon, the opera house, the drawing-room, and
aristocracy street; but when the tomb is in
question, let Fashion be set aside. The Gus
tom of going into mourning. distresses many a
poor family beyond calculation. If they do
not wear black, they are heartless, the world
says do not respect the father, the brother, or
sister, or mother, who has certainly departed to
life eternal. AS if a broken heart is not as of.
ten found under light-colored vestments as un-
der Grape. Eye-serving grief is no grief at
all. We despisc, we almost scof at it. We
have no objection to it however. where people
can as we'll afford it as not. But we most de.
cidedly oppose it if the poor are compelled, by
the fiat Of public opinion, to be enslaved and
fruther impoverished by it. In matters affect
ing life and its gaieties we have nothing to say
against Fashion; but when it interferes with
death, peers INTO the coffin, prescribes sumptu-
ary rules for the funeral cortege, and the style
Of mourners costume; it unsurps position
and duties for which it has neither claim nor
fitness.
HERoEs.-When see man holding fast
er to his uprightness in proportion as it is as
sailed; fortifying his religious trust in proper
ton as Providence is obscure hoping in the ul-
tilnate trumphs Of virtue more surely in pro-
portion to its present Affections -cherishing phi
lanthropy amidst the dscouraging experience
of mans unklndness and unthankiulness; ex-
tending to others a sympathy which his own
sufferings need but cannot obtain growing
milder and gentler amidst what tends to exas-
perate and harden and, through inward prin-
cipie, converting the very indictments to ev |
into the occasions of victorious virtue. Isee
an explanation, and noble explanation, of the
cendant in its nature as to Justify all the evil
and suffering under which it grows up.
should think the formation of few such minds
worth all the apparatus of the present world.
should say that this earth, with its continents
and oceans, its seasons and harvests and its sue.
cesslve generations, was work worthy of God,
even were it to accomplish no other end than
the training and manifestation of the illustrious
characters which are scattered through history.
And when | consider how small a portion of
human virtue is recorded by history, how supe-
ror in dignity, as well as in number, are the
unnoticed, unhonored saints and heroes of do
testic and humble life. see light thrown
over the present state which more than recon-
Giles me to all its events. Claiming.
BATTLE OF IIORsEs.- Two of the Spanish reci-
ments which had been quartcred in Funen were
cavalry. mounted o fine black long tailed Anda-
'usan horses. 1t was impracticabe to bring off
these horses, | 100 in number--and Romano was
not MN who could order them to be DESTROYED:
he was fond of horses himself, and knew that ev-
cry man was attached to the beast which had
carried him so far and faithfully. Therefore
their brides we're taken OF and they were turned
loose upon the beach. A scene ensued, such as
probably never before was witnessed. They
were sensible that they were no longer under
n
fict ensncd, in which, retaining the discipline
they had learned, they charged each other in
squadrons Of ten or twelve together then enga-
ged with their fore feet, and tea ing each other
with most ferOcious rage, and tramping over
those who were beaten down, till the shore, in the
course OF an hour. was strewn with the dead and
disabled.
Part of them had been set free on a rising
ground at distance; they no sooner heard the
roar of battle, than they came theudering down
over the intermediate hedges, and catching the
contagious madness, plunged into the fight with
equal fury. Sublime as the scene was, it was
too horrible to be long contemplated, and Ro-
mano, in mercy, gave orders to destroy them;
but 1t was found to be too dangerous to attempt
this, and after the last boat had quilted the
beach, the few horses that remained were seen
still engaged in the dreadful work Of mutual dis.
tructon.--Southey's History Of The Peninsular
War.
LITTLE AT TINE.-lt is ''but little at a time"
that the min! can digest but s.little at time"
that the mind can abs RIB; but 'slittle at time'
that the mind can assirn;late. The violation of
this law is the reason why, from all this schooling,
scholars learn so little-know so lttle 1t is the
flax seed story over again. They attempt to take
in so much at once, that all slips through their
fingers, and 10! their hands are empty! This
is simple fact. Look about you, all around you,
You will find month or two months after term
is closed, that the scholars can tell you scarcely
anything of the things they went over in term
time, and recited to the teacher. Why2 they
undertook much that it went through them un-
digeSted they h.d not the po,cer to ass,milate the
digcs.ed mass, and oil ,cds lost. Occasionally
here and there, an item might have been dges-
ted that was assimilated aud was theirs. Now,
such might have been the history of every day.
-CrandaI.
NEW York CENTRAL LRAILROAD.-Comparativ
statement of receipts frcm passengers and freight
including mail and miscellaneous, for three
months, commencing October 1st, 1855.
Passengers. Freight. Nail. Misc'ous. Total.
Oct '56 80 372,5s2 6sO7 245 81 736 sIi 81