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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-10-17

MINORITY PRESIDENTS. One of the fusion
papers this morning urges it as strong
ground Of objection to the Republicans tina:
"they propose 20 eiec, the two highest otll-
GERS of the government by minority of the
people" To which it may be replied that,if
they did, i. would be no new thing under the
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LEGISLATURE of VprmOnt.-FrOm Walton
Daily Journal.
THURSDAY. OCT. II. 1850.


SENATE.-The Senate was called to order
BY his Honor, Burnham Martin. and after
PRAYER by Rev. Mr.. Lord, the roll was called
and the oath Of office administered to the
Senators.
Resolutions.-By Senator Willard. that
the rules of the last session be adopted until
others are provided; adopted.
By Senator Green, that the Senate proceed
to the election of Secretary; adopted, and
the chair appointed as ;ellers. Senators
Green and Woodbridge Whole number Of
votes, 2S; necessary to choice ID. {. j.
Gleason received %: whereupon {. }. Giea-
+ son, esq, OF Montpelier was declared elected
Secretary and received the oath of office.
BY Senator Wilkins. that the Senate pro-
ceed to the election of Assistant Secretary
adopted. Senator Willard nominated IL. f.
Miner, esq, of Manchester, who was declared
elected and sworn.
By Senator Allen. that the Secretary cause
to be provided for the President. Secretary
and Assistant Secretary Of the Senate. and
for each Senator, two daily and one weekly
newspaper, printed in this state, as each shall
designate: adopted.
BY Senator Needhan, that a message be
sen, to the house notifying that body of the
Senates organization: adopted.
The following named Senators were then
appointed committee on the part of the
Senate to canvass TIE votes of the freemen
of the state for Governor. Lieut.. Governor
and Treasurer for the year ensuing:
/ Addison county, Senator Allen. Bennlng-
ton. Olin. Caledonia, Judevine, Chittenden,
Beecher, Essex. Beattie. Franklin. Green
Grand Isle. Wheeler, Lamoille, Wilkins
Orange. Brock, Orleans, Hinman, Rutland
Fish, Washington. Fullerton, Windham
Starr, Windsor Needham.
On motion of Senator Hinman, the Senate
adjourned.
HorsE-The House was called to crdel
at 10 o'clock by Hon Benz. VI. Dean, Secre-
tar OF State.
The Secretary then called the roll Of those
members who presented their credentials and
administered to them the oath Of office.
The iiouss then proceeded to the election
of Speaker. Mr.. Child of IIylepark nomi-
mated Hon. Augustus =. Hunton of Bethel
referring in complimentary terms to the ex-
periencc. gentleman. department, and i'm
par,iality of Mr.. Hunton, which were calcu
lated to retcc, honor on himself and the ho;i,
over which he presided. Mr. Dean Of Bar
nard nominated Stephen Thomas of Wes
Fairec.
The chair appointed Mr.. Child of Hyde
park, Mr. Dean OF Barnard and MIR. Smitl
of st. Adams tellers.
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Iected. The chair appointed Messrs. Sly
mour cf Nersennes ard Wright OF Castleion
committee to wal; on the Speaker elect and
conduct him to chair Mr.. Hun,on appeared
at the bar of the House and was sworn. On
taking the chair he addressed the House as
follows:
GEN1IIMEN: am grateful to YOU for the
honor YOU have conferred in electing ME
Speaker More SO when | consider that
there are many able men members of this
Housc-men of large experience in lesisla-
toll.
The duties of the office are at best ardu-
Gus ard perplexing. will endeavor faith
fully to perform demonstrating that You Will
so beliele-and will have for me. charity
and will overlook errors and pass by mis-
takes.
shall greatly need Your assistance-and
feel confident that | snail have it-and thai
YOU will treat n1e with that kindness which
the members Of the House of Representative,
of tie frecmen Of this state have been il
time past accustomed to extend their Speak
erS.
hope that the good feeling which nov
prevails here viii continue through the ses
sion. That We shall so address ourselves /,
the performance of the duties dcvolved upoi
us that we snail we'll consider and fairly de
eide and dispose of the business which shal
be brought before us-with such diSpaicl
that we may not be here long detained. B,
so doing We shall subserve our own interes
and that of our constituents. will use m,
4 a1o tta
pleasant, and trust that you will do TIL
same.
The House then proceeded to ballot for
Clerk pro tcm MIR. Seymour of Nergenne
nominated Charles Cummings of Brattleborc
MIR. Thomas of West Fairlee nominated +
V. Randall of Montpelier. The chair ap
pointed Messrs Seymour and Thomas tell
org Tho hallnt rcsulted thus
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MIR. Cummings was declared duly elected
and sworn.
On motion of Mr.. Myers of Jamaica the
rules OF the House during the last session
were adopted as the rules for this session
till altered.
Mr.. Pmgry of Wethersfed moved that
the House proceed to the election of Chap
lain. Mr.. Thomas of West Fairlee moved
to amend this motion so that the Speaker be
instructed. to invite the resident clergymen to
otiiciate in rotation as Chaplain; the amend
ment was carried-yeas l26, nays 54.
Mr.. Miller of Pomfret moved to lay the
amended resolution on the table, which elic-
tied some discussion. Mr.. Seymour of Yer
gennes adverted to the old practice of the
several clerglmen officiating in turn, which
had been inaugurated by them, and express
ed his approval of it, Messrs DicAerman of
Charleston and Smith opposed the amend
ment. believing that both convenience and
fair dealing favored the election of regular
chaplain. Mr. Cleed replied to the amend
ment. Mr. Miller Withdrew bis motion to
lay the resolution on the table. MIR. Howe
of Vernon moved reconsideration OF the
vote adopting the amendment of MIR. Thom.
as:-lost, yeas 59-nays ll9.
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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-03-15
CBc Bomr ClrtJc.
A Beautiful Form.

Take abundant exercise in the open
air-freo, attractive, joyous exercise
such as young girls, when not restrain.
ed by false and artificial proprieties-
are wont to take. If you are in the
country, or can get there, ramble over
hills and through the woodlands; botan-
ize, geologic, seek rare flowers and
plants; hunt birds nests and chase but.
terAies. BE a romp, even though you
may be no longer a little girl. If you
are a wife and mother, so much the
better. Romp with your children
Attend, also, to your bodily positions
in standing, sitting, lying, and walk
ing, aud employ such general or special
gymnastics as your case may require
Live while indoors, in well-ventilated
rooms, take sufficient wholesome and
nourishing food at regular hours; keep
the mind active aud cheerful-in short,
obey all the laws of health. Take a
lesson from the English girl, as describ-
ed in the following extract:
"The English girl spends more than
one-half Of her waking hours in phys
ical amusements which tend to devel-
ope and invigorate, and ripen the bodi-
ly powers. She rides, walks, drives
rows upon the water, runs, dances, plays
swings, jumps the rope, throws the ball.
hurls the quot, draws the bow, keeps
up the shuttle-cock, and all this with
out having it forever impressed upon
her mind that she is thereby wasting
her time. She does this every day un-
til it becomes a habit, which she will
follow up through life. Her frame, as
a necessary consequence, is larger, her
muscular system better developed, her
nervous system in subordination to the
physical, her strength more enduring,
and the whole tone Of her mind heal
thier She may not know as much at
the age of seventeen as the American
girl; as a general thing, she does not,
but the growth of her intellect has
been stimulated by no hot-house culture,
and though maturity comes later, it will
last proportionably longer. III Hints
toward Physical Perfection.
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91ljstCllancous.
Lord ETaoanlnv.

The foreign journals contain the fol-
lowing items concerning the departed
historian
The will Of Lord Olacaulay has been
sworn to by the executors, and the per
sonal property is valued at G9O,000.
The Perseveronza Of Milan contains
a tribute to the memory of the deceos-
ed The prose works Of Macaulay are
very popular in Italy, and of his history
there are two trauslations.
The London Post understands that
Lord Macaulay has left behind him the
materials for another volume, the pub
lication Of which may, for private and
family reasons, be some time delayed.
Our contemporary expresses a hope that
at no distant period our country may
be instructed and enriched by q faithful
account Of the part which the historian
played, Of the friendships which he
formed, of the judgments which he
passed on the men aud measures Of the
times in which he lived himself. If we
might judge from those specimens Of
his correspondence which it has been
our fortune to poruso, a collection Of
Lord Macaulay's letters extending over
the last thirty years would be a history
of England in the time of Canning and
Grey, of Peel and Palmerston, quite as
fascinating, quite as brilliant, but inf
nitely more instructive, than Horace
Walpole's chronicle of the age of Chath-
am and Lord North.
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Uneducnted Woman.


There is no sight so truly pitiablc as
that afforded by rising family of chill
dron under the guardianship of an ig-
norant mother. We would be under
stood, in the use Of the term igaorant
as wishing to convey the picture Of a
mother whose maiden days were devo-
ted to the requirement of fashionable
accomplishments, to the exclusion Of
solid mental culture and requirements.
The woman who roigns the queen Of
the ballroom is very seldom found ca
.pable Of being the g0verness of her own
children; and the time spent at soircc
and rout will be bitterly regretted when
age brings experience and consequent
.remorse for the evil she has inflicted
aud her incapacity TO discharge prop
erly the interesting and important du-
ties Of her station, when it was her nat
ural duty to be at once an instructor
and example The maiden who casts
aside her books for the cotillion will
never win the love and esteem Of q
sensible man; and should she select O
partner for life among her partners in
the dance, she will find, when it is too
late, that her choice has been as unfor.
tunate as the place where she first at
tracted his notice was injudicious. We
look with pain upon that young wife
who enters upon her second era with
fashionable ideas Of society. Her first
era has been devoted to the attainment
of certain rules and systems which arc
scarcely pardonable in the girl, certain.
iy censurablo in the wife, and criminal
in the mother.
The following remarks by Hannah
Moore so forcibly express our views on
the subject, that VIC give them in lieu
Of anything farther from ourself.
"When a man of sense comes to mar
Iry, it is a companion whom he wants
not an artist It is not merely a croa.
ture who can paint, and play, sing and
danco-it is q being who can comfort
and counsel him-one who can reason
and reflect, and feel and judge, and
discourse and Discrimination whC
can assist him in his affairs, Tighten his
sorrows, purify his joys, strengthen his
principles, and educate his children
Such is the woman who is fit for ;
mother, and the mistress Of a family
A woman of the former description
may occasionally figure in the draw
ing-room, and attract the admiration of
the company, but she is entirely unh
for a helpmate to a man, or to train W
a child in the way it should go"
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MIKE Homo Pleasant.

We always suspect errors in domes.
tic training, when we find children pre-
ferring all other places to home, Par
ents should throw around the home cir
Gle q magnetism to be found nowhere
else A pleasant and loved home is
one Of the most powerful restraints from
vice, and keeps alive within the heart
pure thoughts and generous aspirations.
A child may as easily be led to as
sociato pleasure with home IDEAS as to
think of it in connection with the home
Of his playmates. Certainly, if he is
allowed to do so. he can as readily
connect happiness with parents, broth
ers and sisters, as with those of other
kini And the child will do so, un-
less happiness and pleasure, when he
calls for them under the paternal roof
respond. "Not at home" All home
pictures should be bright ones. The
domestic hearth should be clean and
joyous
If home life is we'll ordered, the
children having, according to age
work.time, play time books, games
and household sympathies, they will
love home and find pleasure there.
Give the little ones states and pen
ellis, and encourage their attempts to
make pictures. Drawing will amuse
them when noisy plays have lost their
zest or are unreasonable; and the art
will be useful 20 them in all the bust
ness Of after life. Have them read to
each other stories and paragraphs of
your selection, and save the funny
things and the pleasant ones you see
in papers and books, to read to them
at your leisure You cannot imagine
how much it will please them, and
how it will bind them to you. But
choose well for them; for impressions
made on their minds now will last
when the hills crumble. Have them
/ sing together, and sing with them
teaching them songs aud hymns LCt
them work together-knitting anc
sewing both boys and girls. They
enjoy it equally, unless the boys arc
taught that it is unmanly TO understand
girls work. They should know how
to do it, and practically, too, as there
by they avoid much discomfort in fu
turo life. Let them work together il
the garden-boys and girIs-both neeC
out-of-doJr work Together let then
enjoy their games, riddles, etc.,-al
their plays, books, and work-whilt
the parents eyes direct and sympa
thize, and their voices blend in loving
accord. Have the children do some
little things, daily, for your personal
comfort; let them see that it gives you
pleasure, and that you depend on them
for the service.
This will attach them to you more
strongly; and if they feel responsible
ty, even in matters Of themselves triv-
ial, and are sure of your sympathy,
their affections and Joys will cluster
around the home-hearth.
Children like to be useful, 1t makes
them happy. So give them work-time,
as well as play-time. But in any
case, and in all cases, give them sym
pathy. Express love for them.
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Edward Everett on Macaulay.

In a speech at a Franklin dinner in
Boston the Hon. Edward Everett made
a reference to Macaulay as follows:
Nor will you blame me if, in conucc-
ton with the calamity at oar door, I
allude to the melancholy tidings, which
have Just reached us from abroad, of
the death of the most brilliant writer
of our own or of any age; whose works
for thirty years have been the wonder
and delight of all who read the English
language, beneath the circuit Of the
sun; an author who, as it seems to me,
more than any other, ancient or mod
ern, was clothed with the magic power
of ro-acting the dead past, and giving
to the men and things of other times
the form and color Of an actual reviv-
ing presence; a writer eminent not
among ordinary associates, but unsur-
passed, if not unequalled, in company
of istorians--several of them our hon
orod countrymen-tw Of them with
himself mournfully signalling the year
that has just closed; any one of whom
would have conferred sufficient honor
on the age in which he lived.
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Advantages Of Temperanoe.

Solomon tells us that the glutton shall
come to poverty; warns us to be not
among the riotous eaters of flesh, and
even bids us put q knife to our throats,
if we be men given to appetite. Is
there no less desperate rOmedy2 Lord
Byron once told a companion that if
some demi god would dictate to us Just
how much we ought to eat it would put
an end to half the miscries of the race.
Jonathan Edwards we see noting in his
diary: II find that I cannot be con-
vinced, in the time Of eating, that to
eat more would be to exceed the bounds
of temperance, though l have had two
years experience of the like, and yet
three minutes after I have done, I am
convinced of it, But yet again over
eat, thinking / shall be somewhat faint
if leave off then; but when 1 have
finished, I am convinced again of ex-
cess; aud so it is from time to time. /
have observed that more really seems to
be truth, when it is according to my in
olinatiOn, than when otherwise" JEFF
fersOn says that "nO man ever repents
eating too little" Sir Isaac Newton
often dined on a pennys worth of bread.
Abernethy cured his indigestion and
regainod his flesh by ''going into the
country, where he could got good milk
and eggs, aud living upon three ounces
of baked custard taken three times a
day, with no drink but ginger-water.-
On this quantity of food, lie regained
his flesh and uniformly got better. -
Marion and his men waxed strong and
valiant, with no food but sweet pota-
toes no drink but water, and no shelter
but the sky 'Bosides brown bread,
the Greek boatmen subsist almost solely
on their native fruits, figs, grapes and
raisins. They are the most nimble, ao-
tive, graceful, cheerful, and even merry
people in the world" Grant Thorburn
attributes his cheerful old age to the
fact that he "never eats enough" " and
thousands of his oountrymen arc wear
ing out their bodies not so much by the
excess Of business or the multiplicity
Of cares, as by the overwork they crowd
upon them in digesting surplus and un-
necessary food Home journal.
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Doctrg
WHEN I AM OLD.

when I om old-and o, how soon
VIII lifo'H young morning yield Co nooni
And noon broad loyent earnest light
be shaded in the solemn night
Till, like a story wcll nigh told,
viii seem my lifc-whCn / am old.
when Tam old, This broozv earth
viii so for mp itg voice Of mirihi
Tho r0amg win have an undor-tuuc
OF sadness, not by right their owni
And Springs sweet power I'm vain unfold
Lu rosy lharm5-Whcn ] am old.
Whom lam old, my friends win bc
old and indrm and bowed like mo,
OR else their bodies meath the sod
Their spirits dwelling 7ufe with Godi
Tho old clurch-bcll will long have tollcd
Above the rcst-whon I am old.
When 7 am old, I'd rather bond
Thus sadly o'cr each buried friend,
Than sec ihom lose the earnest truth
That marks tho friendship of 0ur youth
Twill DO 30 sad TO have them cold,
Or strange TO mO-whon I am oldl
Ere am old-that time is now,
F0r youth sits lightly ON my browi
NV limbs are hrm and strong, and free,
Life has q thousand charms Tor mos
Charms that will long their influence hold
Within my hoart-crC am Old:--
Ere am old--Ohl lct mo give
NV life TO learning how TO liyCl
Thcn shall meet with willing heart
An carly summons TO depart.
OR find my heightened days consolcd
by Gods sweet peace, whom ] am old.
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BCYHOOD.

"OH once again, 'rl0 tr0uH not be a D0W'
Tho dreams of early youth,
How beautiful they are, how full OF joy
When fancy looks like truth,
And life shows not q taiut Of sims ALLOYS
when ovcry heart appears
The temple of high thought and noble deed
When our most bitter tears
Fall o'cr some melancholy page we read.
The summer m0rn's frcsh hours,
IIer thousand woodland songs, her glorious hucs
OH lifo's so full OF flowers
Tho diniculty HTl Is where TO choose!
The wonderful blue sky
It's cloudy palaccs-its gorgeous incs-
Tho rainbow tiuts, which lie
Like Distant golden seas, near purple plains
These mover shine again,
As once they sh0ne upon our rupturcd gazci
The clouds which may remain,
Paint other rsj9gs than iu those sweet days.
I'm hours thus purc--UhlimC-
Dreams wo wuull make rCalitiu--liir seems
So changed iu after time,
That we would Uish realities were drcamsl
London Literary Gazette
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statisties Of Mathodism.

Statistics have been recently compiled
upon which an estimate is made Of the
actual numerical condition of Metho-
dism throughout the world From these
figures it appears that there are ,8G8,-
811 lay members, and II ,45S travelling
preachers in the United States In Eu-
rope, the total number Of communi-
cants is estimated at GG2,G22. In sum
ming up the figures DR.. Stevens says:
Besides these divisions there are mi
nor ones whose statistics cannot exactly
be ascertainod; an authority gives them
an aggregate Of 10000 members and
2OO preachers. Summarily, then, Metho.
dism throughout the world comprises
2,54S,lOO lay members, and l5,SS3
travelling preachors--an aggregate Of
2,5G3, 991 communications. If we add
three n-cOmmunicant members of it's
congregations for each communicant--
a safe estimate for Methodist congrega-
tions generally--we have a population
Of more than ten and n quarter millions
attending its mlnlstratiOns. It extends
densely over North America and En-
gland; it has "coniorcncos' in France,
Germany Africa, and Australia; its
missions arc in Sweden Norway. Swift
zcrland, Spain, Turkey, South America;
they dot the coasts Of Africa, India,
China, and the Isles Of the Southern
Ocean.
It's great missionary organizations in
clude more than 5000 laborers; its edu-
cationql Institutions comprise more than
l3O colleges, theological schools, and
boarding academies, aud-in England
nearly 500 day schools; it has more than
100000 Sunday scholars, and 10000
teachers. It's $4,000 local preachers
make, with its "itinerants," a ministe-
rial force of nearly $4,000 men.