Newbern weekly progress., 1860-01-31


as namby- y-pamby, schoolgirl production"
We cannot all be Dickens or 4 Charlotte Proute.
however much we may try. SHIRLEY.
TELL YOUR WFE.-If You are in any trouble
or quandary, tell your wfe-that is if you have
one-all about it at once. Ten to one her inyerl-
ton will your difficulty sooner than I'll your
logic. The wit OF woman has been praised 5ut
their instincts quicker aud keener than her
reason. Council with your wife, your mother
or sister, and be assured light will fash unou your
darkness. Woman are too commonly adiud~ed
verdant in all but purely wonauiSh affairs
No philosophical student of the sex thus Judges
them. Their lntuitious. or insightS, the moSc
subtle and if they cannot see a cat fn the meal,
there is no cat there. In counseng man L" tell
his trouble to his wife, we would go farther, and
advise him to keep none of his affairs secret from
her. Many home have been happily saved, and
many fortune retrieved, by mans fail conf
dence in his q better half Woman is far more
a and prophet than man, if she be given
fair chance AS a general rule, wives coutlc the
minuest of their plans and thoughts to their hus-
bands, having no inVolvemeutS to screen from
them. Why not reciprocate, If but for the plea
sure of meeting confidence with contidenccl We
are certain that man succeeds well in the
world as he who, taking partner for ite. makes
her the partner of all his purposes and hopes
What is wrong of his impulses or Judgment, she
will check and set right, with her almost univer-
sally right instincts. 'Helpmeet" was no insig-
nlticant title applied to mans companion.
She is meet help to him ill every darkness. dit
hcuty, and sorrow Of life. And what She most
and most deserves Is fGcnCe-WithoUt
which love is never free from shadow,
THE Sons OF TEMPERANCE AID THE PRCsI-
DENT.-The Washington Constitution thus des-
cribes an interview of the Grand Division of the
Sons of Temperance with the President of tile
United States:
Yesterday the Sons of Temperance. representing
very large and most worthy portion Of the peo
pie of the United States, paid their respects to
President Buchana. Upwards of one hundred
and fifty gentlemen, with a freshness and health
fulness of aspect and general appearance OF Wig
and elasticity which temperate habits only
produce, introduced to hin III the East
room.
b. F. CAN'T, the Grand Worthy Patriarch OF
the Order, addressed the President in coIdirl
and glowing speech. He refererd to the Pres
dent himself, Significantly, example of tenn
perance. His apparent health, his vgor. his &c.
tivits, his capacity, and habits Of labor, all in
dicated temperance in all things. The remarks
of the Patriarch were to the point, and well de-
livered.
President Buchanan replied with his accuStom-
ed readiness and felicity. He had always been a
temperate man. Before societies had been Thought
of, he had ever exercised moderation in eating ~
we'll as in drnking-and to this conto over both
the appettes he attributed (under ProvidenccJ
the health which he enjoyed.
Although not q total abstinence man, he be
lieved that these temperance societies We're cal
i'll the nation to practice their principles
the whole country would be greatly the better
for it
The gentlemen constituting the order were
then, individually, introduced to the President.
A CHINESE NEwspAPER--The Boston Traveller
says:
1--WE have received a copy of the Pel1in Ga
zette, the organ of the government issued daily
and the only paper i'll the Chinese language now
published in that country of four hundred ana
fourteen millions of people. 1t is printed nee
paper of diney drab color with yellow paper
cover Each page contains twenty-six lines, Of
seven characters each In all there arc seven
uages of four inches each i'll width, and ten in
breadth. Its entire contents would not iii = halt
column of the Traveller. 1t is 4 remarkable fact
that this paper was received via Japan and Cali
forna.'
DANCES IN WASHTNGTON.-An Olio cI:tnr
gives his views of several dances which he lately
witnessed at ball in Washington. He says -
The want of variety in this metropolitan danciug
was, however, fully made up by tlte fancy things
such as the waltz andpolka. These we.e abso-
lutely barbarons. The old fashioned watz the
morality of which even Byron called in question,
is here.ignorent as altogether too cold and distant.