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OF our friends, and brought them out in, hot
haste to aid US. We,were saved and as
bore .bore ber fainting form into the hospi,a-
bic ball, and e'ssped her tenderly to my bo.
som, youmay gness, how sincere was the
gratitude Isbrsatbed 10 silence to Heaven:
1t was. hsprelndeto to wedding, which
occurred soon afterward; and You may be
sure I neverforgot my battle with the wolves
how pluckily my noble Lota backed me, or
the somewhat original but apropos mode
in which 4 Told'my Love-
NOTES ON NURsING.--HINTsT TO PLANTERS.
p. C.J. W., of Hagley (wboss initials
will explain themselves to many of our rea-
ders,) has contributed to the Pee Times
review of Florence Nightingale's Notes on
Nursing and bloses with the following hints
to planters Courier:S m Y
We have thus gonet through Miss Nightin
gales little book, avoiding everything which,
did not seem Of immediate importance, to
our community, and emitting, perhaps, the
best'and most profoundly studied part of
herswork. Wedo trust, however, that the
Notes on Nursing will have the sale it de-
serves. and will be made the vade. mecuns
and manual Of every planter an l. overseer
in the South. Ifso, it will not only be the
British soldery who will have reason to
bless the name Of Nightingale. - -
A few words to our brother planters be-
fore we conclude, which shall be drawn from
our. own experience:
Build good hospital, in which light,
fresh air, freedom from draughts, privacy
and cleanliness can be ensured.
It will be answered that hospitals cost
money; SO does everything in this world.
The price Of one negro will build one suit.
able to large plantation, and we know of
a aplacegiihwhich there was daily addition
of two acres' hoeing caused be the erection
of the hospital.
iut the best woman you can:possibly get
as your plantation nurse; you will soon be
repaid. - 81
Either sspperinted the hospital yourself or
geta suitable personto doso. Why should
not the wives of overseers learn nursing as a
profession This would on we'll regulated
places, add considerably to ther pecuniary
means. and be o.. extraordinary advantage
to the proprietor.
We may hope, too, that the mistress and
young ladies of tlieSpiace will not disdain to
give their personal attention to those by
whose labors they are supporteds
Charming as beauty is at the ball sor Sat
the play; graceful as it is 10 the calm de:
lights of the family circle,swe think it no.
where so fascinating asswben Watching by
the lonely couch oftbe poor and the wretch.
ed, soothing the anguish of the tortured
body, and cheering the bed of death With
the hope Of Immortality :; ~ e.
LORD BRoUGHAM. - The Scotchmap
says: 4 very significant compliment to
MI. Gladstones oratory, and very striking
incident in ITSELF appears not to have beon
marked BY our London contemporaries. We
mean the presence Of Lc, Brougham
within the walls Of the H. Commons
for the frst time. during very nearly thirty
ysars-tbat is, since he left it n 1880 to
Become Lord gCbancellorsit is pretty Eal!
skRaYnsthatL ord Brougbam teft tbs Hdtiis
Commons, IS preside over tbea 7House q
Lords, Nth the utmostpain aud reluctance
-shsthis own most earnsstd dis1s was not
to accept any Office whichsneeasitated the
abdiatioa ar his position ss 4 member. fss
Yorkshire, and Stbat s ne took a position
nominally and titula,ly higher only at the
most urgent entreaty and virtual kcommanii
of his party. Since his removal shss ihss aSi'
never once been TO enter as egditef wiihid
those walls which had ;s6 often echoed: :s;iI
his eloquence. On night forsst6e
nst lime ne oyercalne Tbs: regparkabtee re-,
lpctance, and then too,,for the first time. d
understood hs \. snan wlisYo~. .oos
oupiss tbe posifsa he himself 80 lodgs hold
auriy=lled4 saa n1disputsd Tho sesas,est
orator in the Bfitiss oasesf eBm6ns
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:" AMERICA, AsssHs Bf 4 AkDrcALgsxAs.
"A vigorous and Gcertainly!) very plain
spoken m. +D' !.hus sdisceur.ss |. 'tosns ;5Es !,
We are 4 nation ot glutseas, our presctsIsi
are ordained ;ela.suns tislsiog tlaiEaspsh;
ishioners to l6dk af.sr their spiritual silsss,
apss-to Akssa. ~Soh, hfistikns. ars bSpss
tssa glal Is Or 4s.aaelS sse sailoss,
~ ipsls.5 III and fdssasaSsbos 81 81 .hs
bsBsna The Wisdom, ,ef. t6e IS sSci, 'smIeRrr1lf
hoised bssfapd 6d dlst . ajl11 M Ma.
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