, 1862-08-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.


H. n. MACY, WIN. GREER,
S. c. FRANKLIN, j. d. CUsENBURY,
ANDREW JENKINS, MMTON ALDRICH
Health-Danoing-- Marriage
You should, when time comes, explain to your
children what about their own health and the
ways of the world they ought to know, and fol
the want of tim ely knowledge of which many a
life and character has been lost. Show them,
moreover, the value you put upon health, by car
ing for your own.
Dancing is just the music Of the feet, and the
gladness of the young legs, and is well called the
poetry of motion. 1t is like all other natural
pleasures, given to be used and not abused, either
by yourself by those who don't like it, and don't
enjoy your doing it-shabby dogs these, beware
of them And if this be done, it is good and a
grace, as well as a pleasure, and satisfies some
good end of our being, and in its own way, glori-
fes our Maker Did you ever see anything IL
this world more beautiful than the lambs run
ming races and dancing round the big stone of
the field
We have no right to keep ourselves or others
from natural pleasures and we are all too apt to
interfere with and Judge harshy the pleasure of
others hence we who are stiff and given to other
pleasures, and who now that we are old, know
the wickedness of the world are too apt to put
the vices of the jaded, empty, old heart, like a
dark and ghastly fire burnt out into the feet and
the eyes, and the heart, and the head of the young
remember a story of a good old Antiburgher
! I,,i, II 81, 4bo 1ox vrbo
held to be great sin, and to be dealt with by
the session. Jessie, comely, good, and blithe
young woman, great favorite of the minister's,
had been guilty of dancing at a friends wedding.
She was summoned before the session TO be dealt
with the grim old fellows sternly concentrated
their eyes upon her, as she stood trembling in her
striped short-gown, and her pretty bare feet. The
doctor, who was one of the divinity, and deep
thinker, greatly pitying her and himself, said,
Jessie, my woman, were ye dancin'?"
Yes" sobbed Jessie.
"Ye maun cen promise never to dance again,
Jessie"
81 wull, sir; wull promise" with curtesy.
"Now, what we're ye thinking O., Jessie, when
ye were dancin'9 tell us truly" said an old elder,
who had been poacher in youth.
"Nae i'll, sir sobbed out the dear little woman.
Then. Jessie, my woman aye Dance" cried
the delighted doctor.
And so say l. to the extent that so long as our
young girls think nae i'll, they may dance their
own and their feet's fill and with all the
round of the sunshine and flowers God has thrown
on and along the path Of his children.
DO your best to get your sons well married,
and soon By well married, l mean that they
should pair off old-fashonedly, and marry what
deserves to be loved as well as what is lovely.
confess think falling in love is the best way to
begin but then the moment you fall, you should
get up and look about you, and see how the land
lies, and whether it is as goodly as it looks 1
don't ike walking into love, being carried into
love, or and above ALL being sold or selling your
self into it, which, after all, is not it. And by
"soon," l mean as soon as they are keeping them
selves; for wife, such wife as alone l mean, is
cheaper to young man than no wife, and is his
best companion.-Lady's Book
SIR COLIN CAMPBELL ON GEN. MCCLELLAN
The New York Journal Of Commerce has the fol-
lowing
The great commander, now Lord Clyde, is per-
haps the greatest military authority in Europe
His opinion of the conduct and ability of our
Commanding General is entitled to weight, and
we are glad to have it for the encouragement OF
the country in these times A personal friend,
and gentleman well known in this city, writes
in private letter from Paris, June 4th as follows
Mowatt dined with us, few days since. He is
here with Lord Clyde, the greatest English gen
eral living In a conversation which had with
Lord Clyde, he stated that General Mcclellan
had evinced more true generaship than any man
in our army. He said he considered him splen-
did strategist and able leader
Commenting on this, the New York Express
says:-
But Lord Clyde must not hold Gen. Mcclellan
responsible for any of tie recent ninety days gen
eralship in the army of the Potomac. Gen. Nc
Clellan for now near ninety days has been obey
ing, not commanding. The plans he has been
executing are but very partially his plans. The
generalshp" has nearly all been in Washing
ton, not in camp, neither in the valley of the She
nandoah, nor on the RappahannOck or York
rivers
GOOD PEoPLE-There are many persons
who sustain quite reputation for sel-govern-
ment, who are really passive and inert that they
never have had anything to govern. Destitute OF
desires or incnations, one way or another, having
no opinions about anything caring only for mere
ANIMAL vegetating comfort, how is it possible they
should come in collision with the rough angles OF
anybody's character, aud how do they deserve
credit for not doing SO 3? "Good people we hear
such called so is a snail good so is tortoise,
Who drawing his head within his SHE'LL let's who
will pass so that he is not disturbed
FANNY FERN.
WHILE we are reasoning concerning life, life is
gone and death, though perhaps they receive
him ndiferently, yet treats alike the fool and the
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