The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-09-29

The truth is that In human bein,. sven
from the physical point Of view, II il rather !
dangerous thing TO ignore the intellect and
the emotions Nature fesenss beirg ignored
u You do not cultivate her, khe will sssurrd-
ly avenge herself If you do not ret shea,
out OF your piece of ground, she will abund,
sntly give you tares. ! Ara there can he mn
other rule expressly invented for the benefit
OF fashionable Young women. Theiy fbornl
nature, If nobody ever laugh, them to keen
an eager eye upon il, IL soon ovsrerewn.
either win Haunting poison plants. or at least
VITA aaii gray moss he parent dreams
that the daughter mind is all sweet and gar.
nlshed: Lo, there are seven or any otLer
number oil deriis that have entered uto and
taken possession, more or less permane mt.
The human creature who has never been
taught to take an interest in what is rieht and
wholesome will, in ninety nine cases ont OF
hundred, take an interest in what is wrong.
GU can not keep minds h state of racuuln.
girl, ike anybody else, will obey the be mt
OF the character which has been given either
BY The education OF design or the more usual
education Of mere accidental experience.
Everything depends, in the ordinary course
oil things, upon the general view of the al ms
and objects OF life which you succeed, deiib
erately or by hazard. in creating. A girl is
not taught That marriage has grave moral aud
rational purposes, itself being no more than
means. On the contrary, II is always fie>
ured in her eyes az an end, and as an end
scarcely at all connected with moral and IA.
tional companonship. Il is, she faac.es, the
gate to some sort OF paradise. whose mysteri.
Gus joys are not TO be analysed She foraets
that there are no such swift coming sponta.
neous paradises in this world, where the fu.
ture can never be anything more than the
child Of tas present. indelibly stamped With
every feature and line Of its parent This
castle building, however, is harmless, II
does not strengthen, still it does not absolute.
ly imposerish or corrupt characters OF some
castle building one cannot Ssay so much.
Character is assuredly corrupted by avari>
eious dreams OF marriage az a road to mate.
rial opplenee and Injury. There is, indeed.
no end TO the deprayed broodings which may
come to an empty and undirected mind.
IT the emotions and intellect are not tended
and trained, they will run 10 an evil and an
evil>propagatiug seed. Rooted and inc,lra.
BILE frivolny is tia best that can cume Of it;
eofraptioni, Tho worst. y
The career of the parsonage who now
styles himself Acting Attorney General
or, as heis known IN the newpapers, Binck-
ley, tout court, is one rarely to Be met with
IN Inc W eSteIu world. LIS rise resembles
the rise Of a Grand Vizier at an Oriental
Court, rather than that Of Christian law
yer, and it FORMS perhaps, the most singular
incident of Mr. Iohnsons singular admins
istration. Buckley is jack of.all.
trades who has been everything by turns,
and nothing long. According to an &c
count given of him by the Washington cor.
Respondent o q the Bosom Atieertfser. after
having first made his appearance in Wash
iugton az portrait painter, and then tried
lend agency, writing for newspapers.
clerkship in q Government office, aud other
shifts, he turned his mind 10 the law ahout
three years ago, has had one case id court,
which he judiciously withdrew, and then sud,
denly emerged as t'Acling Attorney Gene.
raj Of the United States, having been SCI
lected by Mr. johnson rs legal adviser of the
Executive OF the United States during a most
critical period. !. We doubt if .paralleifor
this case can bef found IN the history of any
civilized State. Blnck ey," too, has aclu.
ally been permitted to advise the Presi-
dent in the Slckles case; that is, to furnish
Mr.. Johnson with legal reasons for arrayinr
himself in hostility t. Congress and the ma
jorl,y of Ass psopse, and the opinion was what
might have been expected from jurist of
Buckley standing - Tae Nation.