Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-03-05

DNESS.-l am inclined to concur with the
spirit of a remark made by a distinguished
country woman, | cannot at this moment call
her name to mind who thus expressed her
self" never will forgive a woman for be-
ing i'll dressed, or for bestowing a thought on
her toilet after it is once completed"
A satternly, dowdily dressed woman is no
pleasing object Of contemplation neither is
ono who is cverlastingly conscious of her cost
ly robes and sparkling gems, who values her
self, and expects to be valued, for those out
ward adornments that perish in the using.
IL is well to be neatly, tastefully, appropri-
ately attired, but it is not well that womans
proioundost studies should be confined to
books and plates Of fashion; that her loftiest
aspirations should center in her wardrobe and
her jewel case Assuredly my fair country
women, We are capable Of nobler aims than
these.
With an immortal destiny awaiting us.
shall we fritter away the energies that were
granted unto us for the accomplishment of far
more exalted purposes, in pampering and adj
orning the trail body that so soon must see
corruption, to the neglect Of those higher and
more enduring portions of our being over
which death has no power; shall this "mor-
tai coil, that we must so soon shake off, en-
the poor hungry soul that should be develop
ing for glorious immortality, is left to starye
on the husks and vanities Of life
Rather, let us make "goodly apparel" the
subject of minor importance that it ever is,
and ought to be, to well regulated mind
and daily study so to live that, when we are
called upon to lay down, what to each and
every ono of MS should have been the price
lna Of
cry out, in unavailing anguish, ''Our days
have been altogether vanity and .vexation of
spirit; and now when death, like a thief in
the night, hath stolen upon us unawares, our
eyes strive vainly to pierce the thick darkness
that hides from our falling vision the golden
gate opening upon a blissiul Immortality"
BOUND TO GO DowN.-A correspondent of
the Boston Traveller relates the following in
cident which occurred under his notice during
the last presidential campaigns
Imagine group in the porch of a country
tavern, in the eastern part Of Tennessee. They
are discussing the merits and chances Of the
several candidates for the Presidency, and
passing from that topic by sort Of fatal gra-
yitatiou, to the question of slavery and its
conflict with freedom in the coming periods
of our history. The conversation is interlar-
ded with explanations of no dubious charac-
ter which / omit in Difference TO the clerical
traveller who stands "takin' notes"
A Fillmore voter direct his harangue to
couple Of democrats, who are as wide awake
as he to the vexed question which Is agitatng
the land-and SO runs his discourse:
81 believe we arc bound TO go down soon
er or later, in this fight on niggers."
"Whats thati How SO Z"
&" just as ! say-vo are bound to go DORM
Those fellows at the North are the strongest
We've got no chance. They can out-yotc u.s.
and if it comes to the worst they can outright
us They are fifteen millions to our seven
and no fools nor towards either. We can
give them good tusele, in a fair fght-but
we, we've got no chance with fifteen millions
of men in front, and three millions Of niggors
behind. / tell you there's no reckoning for
us--wo are bound 10 go dowR.'
"Well got help from over the wator.'
"Whorc, England is against us-Franco
is against us--tho civilized world is against
us, except the Spanards They arc kith and
kin with us, and precious help they would
be. There isn't decent nation ON the globe
to give us lit Tho public opinion Of the
world is against us, More than all that, God
Almighty is against us, and the Lord Jesus
Christ is against us. There's nobody to fight
with us, or for us, except those internal Spa
niards and he derH
"Why don't you give up, then, and 20 for
abolition 2"
mo, l won't. The niggers are ours. No
body has any right to meddle with them, but
we will hold on to them as long as we can,
and fight it out but, tell you, 'ee arc bound
to 90 do0a'''
This incident speaks for itself, and is
good story, at any rate Perhaps It gives
glimpse of tho working Of more minds than
one, in and out Of Tennessee