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Yet stored with sense, with reason, and reflec-
tion,
And every passion held in due subjection-
just faults enough TO keep her from perfection:
When such find. III make her my selection.
on THE CHOICE OF A HUsBAND.
Or beauty jus. enough to bear inspection.
or candor. sense. and wit good collection.
Enough Of love for one who needs protection.
10 scorn the words 'Tl keep her in aubjection
Wisdom to keep him right in each direction,
! Nor claim weaker vessels mpe rfection;
Should e'er meet with such in my connection
Let him propose, III offer no objection.
FEMALE EDucAr1oS.-An essay on this
important subject has just fallen into our
hands which ranks amcng the best it has
ever been our privilege to read. 1t is from
the pen Of one Of the most accomplished
and successful educators in Amcrica-thc
Rev ID. G. Van Norman, LII. D., Principal
Of the Van Norman Institute for the cduca-
ton of young>. ladies, West Thirty eight
street, in this city. An extract or two will
convey moro adequate idea of its oharac-
! ter and Of the authors views on what NAV
be called the philosophy Of teaching, than
any description that could be given in the
same space. There is no intelligent parent
or guardian who will not readily assent to
every word in the following extract I'm
the education Of girls it is especially i'm
porant that the mode Of instruction, as
we'll as MI the arrangements and exercises
Of the school, have constant and studied
regard to the distinctive and essential char
acteristics of their sex. These may be
comprehensively exhibited in the terms,
Modesty, Tenderness, Grace. These should
be guarded as vestal fires; for they consti-
tute the vital essence Of womanhood, in
vesting it with all its beauty and loveliness.
Like the bloom and fragrance Of the fose
when once impaired, they can never be
restored. To efforts made to repair, arti-
ficially, injuries done to these vital elements
of the female character by the methods Of
instruction. and the machinery of schools,
may be referred the affection, boldness pru-
derry, sentime ntality, or mannerism, 80 Of
ten observable in young ladies'
BIRTH AND DEATH:-Brth and death
are alike blind and insensibc. The first
ktwo years leave almost nothing to memory.
Then come only few clusters for the men,
ory. We are five OR six years in the world
before we have brain enough and never
enough to receive durable impressions.
And, looking the other way, by far tho
greatest number Of people die without ap-
parent pain, without mental sensiblity-
apparently as little conscious of failing life
as flowers are of the loss Of their petals,
when ripeness plurks them one BY one.
BILL SEWARD ON N. YORK POLITICS.
In short speech mnde at Chicago by the
Hon. William II. Seward, on the evening Of
the I'd inst, he exclaimed: -
From the mountains Of Maine to the shores
of the Missouri. have not heard Repubi-
cen doubt our success. I heard that the mis-
chief was out in New York. This is like the
search for the f-ver and ague in the West
You can find it in no place you go to-but
about four miles off they have it terribly
CLnughter) Be Of good. cheer about New
York. know its hills and its valleys. its cities
and its hamlets; and tell yon that there are
but seven counties in New York that will give
anti Republican mnjorities. They may strike
hands with their Douglas and their Brookses;
but they can carry but seven counties in tho
State; and every fusion they makes but con-
fused" (Roars of laughter.)
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AMsRIcAN GuASo.-It will be remembered
that considerable sales of.guano from Islands
in the Pacific were made last Spring. to South
ern planters As tho crops nrs beginissng to
ripen, we now have opportunity to observe the
results The Macon (sa.y photograph says"we
are glad to henrgenepally' accounts Of
the influence Of the American Guano upon tho
crops partjcularly as doubts have been expires
sed in regard to it as a fertilizer" ~
/" The Savannah News puhlishs. letter from.
Chas A. Peabody. ofColumbus, in the >samo
Estate. which speshs Of the: "magical Effects o
this peculiar Substance lately imported in largo
Quantities from the Pacific ocean, and calls
the special attention Of The press to the fact.
that "cotton. sisaling Sea Islsnd for many pur.
poses' is grown in abundance on very poor
lands. with the aid of American euano."
Facts Of this kind 60 TO establish the value
Of the nuassrous'is islands containing guano de-
posits e whioh7 have been appropriated by
Amsricsn merchants and sea captains, under
aspscisf law Of Congress, passed at recent
session. rf.4''gsEs e.. s.s, 4ai, ,.
soUrH CAaoIrSA .SHoEs.--Severai excellent
1stylss f+Bsogans are made in the State, and
fthenakers viii; fnd it'pro6tablo 10 advertise
Etheir busiuess IT this time, tand to, exhibit
spscinsns AZ sli faiss and insthe leading ci.iea
and towns. fe@1i II, 9sSe412pss -, .,s8a E.sss
Chesterfield Dlstriet. has several Of these
t,fsstoriss, one of which has besu long and
HI d tns.yss nASp Kle cont trnl IL GYKcH