The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-11-06

pun lhat hotoh INFO my heau, Iof you wall
scarcely believe that still bear the marks
OF that hour in the Mississippi forest. Enor-
nous musketoes, bugs, ticks and ants bounced
upon me with the voracity Of starvation.
fought valian;ly, but their weapons we're the
most effective, and they had the advantage,
| also, of numbers, for while was laboring on
one side, they attacked me on the other.
was obliged to retreat, at last, covered with
wounds, since whenI have been very careful
not to intrude upon the Businesses Of those
barbarian hordes.
We don't have any Indian summer here
So | must lose that delightful season this
year. ! am enduring the autumn, tolerabiy,
though ] don't know what should do if
was obliged to look forward to whole win
ter spent in these damp, chilly regions.
II is all ''fudge" about the Southern peo-
pie being so social, and oil that. From what
| have seen, they IRE not to be compared
with our own freer, heartier, truer relations
to each other up there 10 the blessed North
! Thither | hope soon to return, and shall
bid a hearty good bye to the Yazoo region.
I The LeisrRg OF FAaMERs.-When the whole
| year is taken in the account we find that far
/ mers and their hired men have more leisure
| time for reading than mechanics or clerks in
1 country stores. Farmers and their sons and
/ their hired men have long winter evenings
i when there Is no work to be done, and the
/ farmers boys have an advantage over others
which they ought TO appreciate. The long
winter evenings should be spent in reading
and study. There is no excuse to be made
/ for farmers boys. Idencss and vicious
company will corrupt the most promising
/ young men, and parents are bound to know
1 how and where their sons and boys und u
their charge spend these long evenings.
| 1t was a just remark Of the celebrated Adj
olson that STEW people know how to be idle
and innocent, and that their very first step
out Of business was either into vice or folly"
This sentence will hold true through all time
till human nature is greatly changed. Keep
ali people employed. Young and old. Let
them read and study when they are awak ana
have no othar business on hand.
| Yet we find that minors of all ages are too
frequently found in atores and shops where
they find associates VINO teach them what
they should never know and never practice
!
have them virtuous and happy.
But some OF your sons intend to leave the
farm and become merchants They want to
90 TO the capital ami become clerks in mer-
camille houses. Now, We charge all parents
and guardians to mind what they do-to
look we'll to the end. Minors should never
be sent to the capital or to any large townt to
shirk for themselves ard to find places to
suit them. When the parent is willing to
apprentice his son to some respectable mer-
chant in the city let him by all means provide
for the employment of leisure hours-of
evenings. Let the merchant engage and be
responsible that the clerk shall not spend his
evenings in bad company.
The young men and boys have leisure
enough to learn how to read and to write
even without a teacher, yet how few are the
young men nowadays who can write hand
which can be read When they do under
take to write to you they usually make an
apology for an unreliable letter, SAYING that
they had $40 time" to writo planer-no
time to write what eau be read with ease
taking 1t always for granted that tho receiver
OF the letter has quite time enough to trace
out the meaning OF his correspondent.
Writing is mere mechanical business.
and all who have the use Of their limbs can
learn to write good hand. No brains are
required for mere penmanship, and therefore
all may learn the art. Kesolutionis ali that
il required in this branch Of education.-
Mass. Plougamau.
ELocrrroN IN THE PrLpiT.--A British peri.
odical tells good story of an elderly Scotch
woman who, once upon time, gave her
grandson the newspaper to read, telling him
to read it aloud. The only reading aloud
the boy had been much in the habit of hear
ing was at the parish and kirk, and he begun
j to read in the exact tone in which he had
heard the minister read. Tho good lady was
shocked IT tho boys profanity, and, giving
him box on the ear, exclaimed, ssWhat!
dost thou read the newspaper with the Bible
twangf' That Bible franq! II is not con.
fined to Scottish pulpits, but in our own
country Is constantly thnning off the num-
her OF church gocrs. or putting into do7e
those WHO go. When will our preachers
learn TINT manner - rs important as matter
in the pulpit--that the secret o! all effective
oratory lies less in chat one SAYS than h ,r
h. says it? In reading Chalmer's discourse
es, one looks in vain for the causes of the
overwhelming effect they produced on those
who heard them. iiaziitt somewhere re-
marks that nothing 80 fingered on his ear as
line from Homes douglas" as spoken
by young Betty
" tud happy. IN my mind, he that died.
Il is said that Macrcady never produced
greater effect than by the very simple worts,
;. " no said Nat2" Garrick said he would
give hundred guineas il he could say 80 I,
rs Whitfield did. 1t il perhaps u bnrlesque
/ of an acknowledged fact, says a writer, to
record the fact that he could thrill an audi
cncp bv snvinv tsSiesonnfania -
+ laferior preachers, however, are apt eth
er to contine themselves to monotonous
hum drum style as drowsy as the drone of
bagpipc, or else to rush into the opposite ex-
trene Of roaring aud frantic gesticulation.
"Man. john sad Scotchman to his neigh
Dor, after listening to preacher Of the lat
ter sort who was SO powerful in the pulpit
that he banged in pieces half dozen quarto
Bibles IN as many months, ssMaan was ma
yon preaching !--son's something for body
TO come ,aw' wis-the Way thut he smash ed
down his text into so many heads and par
tlculars, just u to Finders. Nine heads, and
twenty particulars IN iika head-and sic
mouthfuss o. grand words UNI every one
o. them fu' o. meaning, If We but kent them
- We haze ii. improved our opportunities -
man, If we could just mind onyshing he said,
it would do us guc."
A YouSc AFRICAN Patscg KIDNAPPED
Among cargo of slaves from Africa lately
landed near HAVANA, was the eldest son Of
one Of the African princes. II seems that he
had been sent by his father to the fact ory to
deliver the slaves, aud while there was in !.
dueed to visit the schooner. The captain, it
seems, was no more scrupnlous than others
VI the same school, and considered that the
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