Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-02-04

Murireesboro' Monday, TO look through tho steam
FIGURING Mill of Messrs. HUGGTNs & Ransom known
by the above name. This mill was put in operation
IN July last, but is not yet entirely finished. When
completed it will have capacity to turn out two
hundred and fifty barrels of -four daily. The -four
ground at this establishment is, we learn, very
choice article, and takes high rank in the market
The greater portion Of it finds a market abroad.
Establishments Of this character are blessings to
any community, furnishing as they do, home-mar
ket for the grain Of the farmer, and the consumer
with the very best article OF -four at the lowest pr
ces. They ensure prosperity founded upon sub
stantial basis. We hope to see them spring up in
all sections Of our State where they can be profit
ably employed. And we trust the gentlemen who
have embarked their fortunes in the 10 Mills may
realize their brightest antcipations.
SPRING CIRCULAR The spring circular Of R. @.
MNairy & Co., will be found in another place. In
very few days all the articles enumerated therein
and hundreds more win be open for examination
and sale. Among the extensive retail houses OF
which this city can boast this is second to none
10 the variety and extent ofits stocks the arrange
politeness end accommodating attention to custom.
ers of proprietors and employees. The house it,
self large aud fne one, built expressly for the
dry goods business combining those improvements
which have been adopted in modern plans for conn.,
fort and convenience. The proprietors are men Of
long experience and excellent judgment and having
been engaged ia the business for many years in
49, l., sIf
market. The styles of goods they advertise are
varied and extensive. The lady OF fashion can fnd
any description of costly fabrics with which to grat-
iiy her fancy, those of palmer habits Of dress need
not look amiss in this assortment for something TO
suit their tastes. Il embraces the whole catalogue
of articles in the retail dry goods trade, and hav-
ing been purchased in such large quantities they
can be sold on very reasonable terms. 1t would
be useless for to attempt to enlarge upon the va
rious kinds Of articles in this assortment, aud we
can only call attention to the circular now, with the
promise Of referring to it aga in at future time.
Az ADUsH.-Ths "fasi age" in which We live is
hardly more remarkable for its great features IN
the way of improvements than for its various eI-
cesses and abuses. Among the most prominent Of
the latter is the sppeara2ce in society Of juvenile
specimens OF humanity, scarcely out of their swad-
ding clothes the nursery, with notions Of their
superiority and importance and with airs of grown
up men aud women. Boys and girls have dissp-
psArsd. By sort of hot-bed process Of expansion
and inhaton-a forced transitiOn-children nova
days suddenly emerge from infancy into the sphere
OF persona who, from age and experience, arc suit
ed to enter society," where they are subject TO eli
the exciting influences Of fashionable lie. We
were much amused by the airs Of loving pair
of children, opposite in sex and scarcely in their
teens, at an entertainment given in this city not
long since. They seemed to be revealing in the
ecstacy of newborn passion, and while the one
was exercising all his powers to "do the agreeA-
ble," the other was receiving his smorous Altens
tons with attempt the studied grace Of
Saratoga belle. This was but single instance Of
what is transpriag constantly. 1t is scarcely nee.
essary to remark that although children are pretty
playthings, il is well to keep them out OF general
society, for the comfort OF ell concerned. And by
children we mean school girls aud boys especially.
We admire children as such and like TO see them
children as long possible. 0nce brought in:o
the the whirl Of society, they become queer CON-
pounds of disagreeables. The bread-and-butter
favor of the school girl is mingled with the sGee,
tations of flrt haturalneRs of character Is des.
troyed their attention ia distracted from matters Of
for greater importance at this time OF their lives,
aud, As another has justly remarked, they grow up
ignorant Of nearly everything save the ssnseless
twaddle Of senseless boys, and become the veriest
nuisances.
As to boys, they are almost unknown. "Young
America" has botted such useless word as "boyr
out of its vocabulary. The specimen Of the genus
homo formerly recognized by the term Of ''boy,p
II addressed by il nov. would grow indignsnt and
survey the supplemented person who would have
the hardhood to use il, with contempt and disgust.
Yet, Notwithstanding the imperial msjesty which
the modern "young gentleman" assumes, every
body knows that all the vices, fopperies and pap
pyisms of all ages are concentrated at that point Of
adolescence when the "ingenuous youth" stands
on the middle ground between childhood and man.
hood. lie is gwen, too ofteeR, 10 macy OF the un-
healthy, lcentious aud rsnous practices Of the
sgs-tO cigars, brandy, rOWdyism; to coDeealiDg
his swkwardness either by rudeness Of nsnasr OF
by an atectatiOn Of knowledge which is anything
but sgresshle.
Il is saying nothing original in asserting that the
pleasures OF childhood should be simple; that ils
period should be prolonged, rather than eurtAiied,
for the beet interests Of the individual; and that
education $50 FIR a. school is concernedl should be
completed before the atiention Is drawn Away 70
the designations of fashionable life.
This abuse had It's origin in Eaglsnd. PsHeh
coon ridiculed and pnnehed il out Of sxistencs.-
The sams fate should meet il everywhere.
american meaicaI Assseinsien.
At aeeiins Of che Committee o. srsaaFemeuss appoint
ed at the last session q ~ Amercsn M.dsA Assoesuon
heli this day Jan sis ist7 Nashsi ls vs commit
teeers appoated 70 urge The necessity Of the immediate