The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-11-04

Duties ard Pleasures of Uomen
Great, in deed is the task assigned to
women. Who can elevate its dignity 7
Who can exaggerate its Importance
Not to make laws, not to govern empires,
but to form those by whomlaws are made,
armies led and empires are governed ;
10 gnard from the slightest faint of pos
sible infrmity, the frail and yet spotless
creature, whose moral, no less than ply
steal being, must be derived from her;
to inspire those principles, to inculeate
these doctrines, to animate those senti-
ments, which generations yet unborn, and
nation yet uncivilized, shall learn to
bless; to soften firmness into mercy TO
chasten honor into refinement, to exhalt
generosity iuto virtue; by her
cares to allay the angui
by her tenderness t5euisarm passion; by
her purity to triumph over sense to
cheer the scholar laboring under his toll
to console the statesman for the ingra-
,itude of mistaken people; to compen-
safe for hopes that are blighted, for the
friends that are perfdious, for happiness
that has passed away. Such is her voca.
tion--the couch of the tortured sufferer
the prison of the deserted friend, the
cross of the neglected Sayior-these are
the scenes of women's excellence; these
are the theaters on which her greatest
triumphs. have been achieved. Snch is
her destiny--to visit the forsaken, amid
the forgetfulness Of myriads; to remem
Der amid the excavations of multitudeS
to bless; when monarchs abandon, wher
brethren and disciplesiiy, to remain un
shaken and unchaged and to exhibit in
this lower world a type of that love
pure, constant, and ineffable-which il
another world, as we are taught to be
lieve, is the best reward of virtue.
Modest 1Fitness.-We find, says tho
Mobile Mercury, in Pennsylvania pa
per fancy report of Grim con. case, in
which one Jerry Slade, rough country
man, was the principal witness, We
give the "nub" of it, as it contains a
great moral lesson. The parties to the
dialogue are the counsel for plaintiff and
Jerry. "Spondulix" is Jerry's phrase
for money; referring in this instance to a
couple of saw-horses," that is, ten dol.
lar bills.
"And do you know the reason Capt
Bumper gave Mrs. Nicely these two saw
horses as you call them r. II don't sir
/ hern him say that them spondulix would
buy silk frock like Mrs Wetherells
and she said yes, it would but | amt
a'goin' to swear to anything more'n this
did Mrs. Nicely's dress appear much
disordered p Il guess not. il ua,
Id badiy tora, | recollect. Mebby
you mean that p Il do, and am much
obliged to you for your straightforward
testimony. How did you come to see
the parties in the grover We'll,
was there myself lying off under an ole
tree, an l seed Mrs. Nicely kissen OLD
Capt. Bumper, and If yoa rant to knox
anything further, jest turn them Uimnaen
mt Of court, that's all p
Columbus, KY, must he hard place
An old farmer who had been somewhat
unfortunate N - liz dealings in
that interesting embryo Village, express
ed his opinion of it as follows: If the
angel Gabriel happens to light at Column
bns, there'll be no resurrection, for they'll
swndle him out of his horn before he can
make a single foot y
or Men Of twenty marry for love;
men of thirty marry for money. The
first are young and foolish; the others
wise and scheming.
mr. Prominent Administration Demo-
Gratis are said to be favoring the due APP
,l;calion by Congress for the purchase of |