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story il told Of Il parrot who had al
WAYS lived on board Il ship, but who
escaped at one Of the southern ports,
and took refuge in church. Soon
attUward the congregation assembled.
and the minister began preaching TO
them in regular rtd-hot fashion.
saving that there was no virtue in
them that every one Of them would
90 to he'll, unless they speedily repent
ed. just AZ he spoke the sentence.
up spoke the parrot from his hiding
place,
An hands below !.
10 say that 'aIl hands we're start
led, would be but Il mild way of put
ting it it. The peculiar voice from its
unknown source, had much more eff
feet upon them than the parsons voice
ever had. He waited Il moment, and
then shade on two paler, he repeated
the warning.
".All hands below !" again rung ont
from somewhere.
The preacher started from the pull
pit, and looked mXiously around, in
curing if anybody had spoken.
al! hands below y was the only
reply, at which the entire panic strick-
en- congregation got up, and mo-
ment after they all bclted for the
doors, the preacher trying his best to
be first. and during the time the mis-
clieyous bird kept up his Yelling:
AN hands below -
/ There was one old woman who was
lame. aud could not oct out so fast as
the rest. and in Il short time she was
left entirely alone. just rs she was
about to hobble out the parrot flew
down aud ahghting ON her shoulder
again yelled in her car;
An hands below :.
No. no. Mister Devil" shriekcd
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| i-is fit for treasons, stratagems anu
spoi1S." :. .. =. =.
Together ~ WITH polite Hjss1iataSs;; tie I'll
aforementioned are the subjects Of
study and practice to- which Woman
should chiefly devote her talents
Were she to. think some what less o!
the Aimsy decorations with which sac
so profasely adorns her exquisite
person. she would have much more
leisure for mental and moral culture ;
and, then it. could with much less
reason be remarked -
Crosse of the garden, how unlike thy
Destined medic, Tor others, not thyseif, to bloom,
Culled- re thy beanty lives through hatt
A moment me Cherished, andthen cast away;
Rose Of the gardenl such is Woman's
e lot
Worshppd, while. blooming-when she
fades, forgot"
Yes, Woman should rren and not
fade into maturity!
WoMa,, Is the Goddess Of Loue!
By nature she is 50 constituted as
to. be more capable of entertaining
an -efectaomate regard for those who
have claims upohour affection, than
is her rough, rude companion man.
Miehelst says that, the object Of
love, Woman, is a being. who stands
quite alone, and is much more unlike
man than would at fret appear even
more than differingfrom, opposed to
him, butapleasingly opposed, in a
playful and harmonic contest which
constitutes the great charm Of this
world"
We will not venture to inquire.
with scrutiny into the aasame of 1ooe
itself; for the freedom of expression
which it would be necessary to use,
in endeayoring to define it, would,
perhaps be highly Objectionable.
However, it must be said thatthere.
are different kinds Of love. By some
unworthy. writer's, this emotion. or
passion has been srievously slandereri.
Yet, there can be no doubt but that
there is such thing as true @ee pure
and undefled. Indeed it is the main
spring of life. # is even by some
highly eulogized, and exalted intg an
immortal and heavenly existence /
A deep thinker has written thus:
"a sweetconoert, sauetifyingear
had commenced between us. OF our
double heart the celestial harmonist
HAD just maze a musical instrument, j.,
be was playing rhe'preiude. II the
strinr has snahnad if death. Which.
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said tnaI nc t;;..-. 'f.
he replied, "but it is that you may un
derstand me"
ses.Two wessels found an egg. "Let
us not fight fer it." said the elder weasel
"but enter into partnership" Very
good" said weasel the younger. So, Ia
k;rg the egg between them each sucked
all end. "My children" said Redtape
the attorney, though you have but one
client between you, make the most of him y
W~ A near-sighted Indianapolis w.
man patched the seat of her husbands
pants with cold buckwhcat cake, thai
The children had left in her work basket
last week The color Of the patchwork
matched the original trowsers, and as the
cake was tough, the mistake might never
have been discovered: but the old man got
caught out in shower u day or two at-
terwartls the pa+ch began to swell; he
felt cold patches on his back, and thinking
that it was spinal meningitis that had
clutched him, sent for adoctor who sooth-
ell his fears; but he wants a divorce.
eg- The toughest story humanity has
vet been called upon to believe is this
"After thirteen years Of angry separation,
Terre Haute couple now sleep upon the
same pillow" Pillows must be large in
Terre Haute.
R A Beautiful young lady who had
allowed the -tendrils Of her heart to twfnc
fondly around strappipg great conductor
on horse car, had her a1fectionata nature
crushed by the discovery that he was 'k-
ing fare from her, and dead heatling an
other girl who lived on the same street.
She did not cut pickles and pine away
but wrote him an affecting epistle, which
read =" Yon want to noK down .enuf
stamps to get me paisler shawl and
doley vmdin before sundy or will put
an awning oyer that girls eye the mex
time meet her in society. Your heel
me-"
~ Do you know Brown Yes.
"What kind of a man is he?" "0h, tol
erable" There are worse men than HI
is, amt there ?" Yes; but think they
are all in the pententiary !"
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-~Fhen, if love be such an ennobling
and sublime emotion, what model
Of excellence must the itrue Woman
be? For Woman sslovek 1t is one
Of the integral parts Of her compost
ton. In her it attains a degree Of
purity almost. heavenly Upon lone
Woman feeds lsIt purifes her, it re-
fjuvenates her, and renders her the
charm Of this world! Michelet re-
CARDS 1oue as being able to beautify
even the features of Woman. Why, +"
says he, "is the aordoslog generally pret-
tier than the younggirl? Some one
has said because" "1oye!has passed over
her. Butshe should also have said
because love still tabides with her,
we see in her its identifying traces.
In cultivating such q flower time has
not been wasted. Promising but lit
tie in the bud, .loveshas created from
.it-a. rose, in eacht4leaf a seductive
charm. She is all grace, ali soul
*'* * In the brilliant freshness.
of her. middle age, $50 much richer,
you will have little1 cause to regret
the meagre, frail beauty, Of her first
youth. Maidenhood, itselfe blooms
again in pure Woman whoma tram.
quil life has consoled.and beauti6ed."
Woman is an angel of peace ard
civilization !" To some narrow-mind-
ed worthless it may appear strange, bat
il tis,nevertheless fact, that the more
truly refined, chaste and cultivated
the Women Of a country are, the
more beneficial, lasting and extensive
is that Legitimate influence which
they exercise, or whicl human nature
exercises, for theme over their rade
companion-uaam. :.
1t is very true. that, when so in
.clihed, the female can, as above Con-
tessed, accomplish much harm. Many
have been the instances in whichishe
has added TO the rain and destr,etf
tion Of States, Kingdoms and En-
.pires. sMsuy have been the princes.
whose happiness sand prosperity,
whose thrones and even lives, have
been lost by or in consequence OF
TIL, fatal hold the nnholy influences
offascinating andwicked women have
gained upon them
Yes, lVoneaa has 1t IN her poaUer to
make Of carlAa Heaven or He'll
And, owing to1the very fact that she
c,u,be, and often is, SO surprisingly
nrrc ena almnet snotlcca So can
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food. Her wealth WAS at once ami
hilated by the blockade, which pre-,
vented her from selling her cotton
rand tobacco and sngar; her supplies
were cat off, and ehehad a bars suf-
fciency oil food, and a total want oi
every other necessary Of life and war.
she obtained powder aud srn1s from
the enemy; boots and clothes and
blankets she had towant. Her fhsan:
ces broke dowp asonce, for her ex-
ports were her. wealth.. and exports
hadieeasea, But, above all, she was
crushed by numbers; the North could
recruit at home four men for one.. and
could .hire.the of-scourings Of Europe,
And it-was this alone that decided
.he issue. The. Edinburgh Reviews Fl
adds the want OF discipline; but we
believe that in the essentials of mill
tart discipline the southerHers were
always superior to theirfoes, and that
Eif the troops of Gralt and Nc le1fan
had been tried as Lees were tried,
they would have melted like SHOW or
died like rotten sheep. Lee Won als
most every battle he fought, and
against odds Of from two toone to
four to one. What destroyed him
was Gsant's cold, cruel policy-which
only =. .Yankee, Napoleon. or a
Prussian, could hass deliberately.
adopted-of sacrificing men withont'
siint, whom Ire oottd' replace, o wear
out'an enemy wko could not recruit.
Under different circumstances sncaSa
process lpighor last longer. But a
general who can afford to sacrifice
three men to kill one must always
,esd BY leavfng his enemy without
soldiers; and therefore greatly supe-
rior numbers, thus Used, must prevail
in the long run. It is no longer pos
aslle in wars betgep civilized ma:
tfo:s for pro8ess to prevail against
numerical odds of great weight. And
this terrible lesson "a State lilse Eng
land would do vel, to lay to heart.
This, and this alone, was the cause. Of,
the fall of tho ConEederacy; this is
the dark and painful moral Of the
Virginia campaigns. Against every
thing bat sheer"a "attritien" Lee was
Victorious. -, -e @
Gseat-as-he was Ia war-and sure
ly no csptain-of any ageever accom-
,plished greater things against an enc
my Of tic Same sace. better armed,
better 4proEideas AID ontnu1mbering,
him by two. eE. three to one on on every.
battle -feld.1C General ! eshone great;
er still ia disaster. defeat and ruin.
The retreat from Richmond was A.
masterpiece OF, moral power and solS
-dierly skill the surrenderSWas ele-
vated by its circumstances apd its
spirit into one of the grandest and
most pathetic.scenes in history. Lee
wassurrounded by teafold numbers ;
ALI was lost ;vbut'his men warestaunch
to the last, and, the temptation "to
ride alonc th..ll::--.ee-ari oi75 ..l.e word
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,...0 1.e - .gii.e-..i.uent. !,
cupies. qvhen most like heyseFi


cupies, qohen most like herseyI
Modcsyis IFoman's Mietest Charm !!
Those evil spirits who term. them
selves the defenders OF the female,
and endeavor to win title to such u
claim by using all their endeavOrs to
sednce the thoughtless ones of the
fair sex into the ungodly belief that
they are not really free unless they
ride horses like men do, curse and
savcar and vote at tile ballot Jox like
snea do, are base, vile demons, whose
baneful influence may we'll be likened
to that of the 1ocusts that swarmed
the land of Egypt in olden tines,
poisoning the pure atmosphere of
that once favored region with all the
loathsome corruption of their foul
nature Yes, those .unscrupulous
men who practice such impositions
upon the unguarded aemales, instead
of being their defenders are in reality,
their defamers.
Whilst, in some respects, the field
|, to which Woman is confined may be
somewhat too limited, IN regard to
useful occupations yet, it would in
deed be cruel to cast she burdens of
man s life upon her .frail and delicate
| shoulders. For it is but too true
that an intimate acquaintance with
the trials and turmoils of the world
is apt to harden the heart and cor
rupt the soul. Then,
"Let angelic forms angelic truths MAIN
Nature dissioins the 6eauttons and ln'o-
For what's true beauty but fair virtues
Virtue made uisibLe in outward grace.
She. then, that's haunted with MI impi-
The more she a,nassthe more she shocks
mankind"
Yes, as the shield in ancient times,
served to pfotectths warrior from the
Jaod1v. arrow, 30 will modesty, if
worn, serve to protect the female
from the poisoning influence Of the
base and corrupt fanaticism with
which designing and licentious men
are seeking to deluge the world.
7Vomo is the Companion, not the
Szavc, Of. Nan I Some say and be-
leve that Woman is, emphatically
speaking, a mere tool, placed in the
hands of man for his enjoyment, and
to be used as.he deems proper, with
out having any regard to her wishes
or desires. Those who think thus
are re leladed beings, aid can hardly
!, fully enjoy thai, t,.i almost uheqaalle'd
btessiug--the comfort or consolation
derived from the unfettered, free and
complete friendly intercourse with that
ono who should be The sharer of the
joys, and who is 80 eminently capable
of becoming an earnest syuoathRel
in all the cares Of man. Such a mis-.
erably deluded creature should Just
I reflect a little, and allow mis- thoughts
to travel back to the time ne when be
!. was a mere 4babe-a mere mass Of
bone, flesh and blood, as it were, with
a will of his own. perhaps but too
-. 4l.. ,.tsfliJ ahi i'-s -.
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BrevitieS and LeYities.

GG A serious charge has been brought
against school teacher in Illinois, the
specifications of which are: "l. Immoi
lnlty! 2. Pqrshalityr 8. Keeping dis
ordly schoah 4: Carrying unlafe wep-
ings!p The committee man who wrote
the charge thinks of running the school
himself nextsqnarter. q
HG"A little more than q week ago
some den,ented newspaper correspondent
in Danville, N. H., divulged thegfact that
no,insulance agent had ever visited Jthat
peaceful town, and now no citizen can
take a walk without heading procession
Of them. H..
ps- An exchange says: A story sgo-
ing the rounds about girl dying of tight
lacipg. These ugly corscts should be+abol
eished instanter; aad if the girls .cailnet
live without being squeezed, we suppose
men could be found whosSwouid Ill sacrifice
themselves. We would rather devote
three hours day without cent.of pay,
as brevet corset, than to see our girls
dying off in that kind Of style Office
hours almost any time.
ga Kentucky man purchased cof-
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feeble to express it. When he was
this frail, almost Saantmaate creature
upon whose soft bosom did he repose
Whose soft hand brushed away the
trickliug. tear, or gently smoothed the
wrinkled brow? Whose heart was
it that glowed with such an ardent
love and affection for him? who
took him at her side and taught him
the dangers of sin and terrors of hell,
the beauties of Religion and happj-
ness of Heaven? All skeptical child
of ignorance, it was she who bore thee,
who gave thee life, and made thse
what thou art-a Maa
And who or what was that one
who did so much,. who bestowed so
many blessings? The astounding an
s,oer is Woman!
Then, they are. blind, and know
not what they speak, who console
themselves forsheir outrageous, SLAM
.ders by declaring that,
"Woman is changcable,
si Tickle as lair;
"A beautiful feather,
eTossed by the air."
out Ct her sphere, Woman is. a
pestsIence; whilst, inher 1roperepAere1
she is a blessing, an angel O. .love, and
tile choicest and zoueliest of al1Heav-
ems rich and JeauteOus syts; and 2
Wherever .woman's S. smile }is,known,
Victoria's still her name
For though she almost blush to reign,
Though Loves own 'tlowrets wreuthe the
cifain; .. =
Disguise our, bondage as we will,
'Tis woman, woman, rules us still"
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against ,ne vilest usurpation ever at
tempted to be fastened upon freemen
will find their full scope and vent. l
advise that these manly and patriotic
sentiments take form and shape throgh
all moral and legal agencies possible
to be devised. In the meantime
trust that peace and order may reign
supreme throughout the State, and
that all orr industrial pursuits will
not be embarrassed by the political
difficulties into which, unhappily, we
have been so unnecessarily and ruth
les>ly plunged, and especially do 1
urge upon the people ofthe two races.
who are, numerically, nearly equal
IN this State, to cultivate the one to-
wards the other nothing but feelings
of amity, good feeling, and mutual
understanding. The fears and pre-
illdices that have been instilled into
the minds and hearts Of the col red
man against his white neighbcr,
should give place toreason and Judg-
ment, if the people of the white race
are frank and open in their :avowal
to concede to the colored men al, the
rights guaranteed to him under the
law. On the other hand, the. colored
man should accept with sincerity the
piigl.ted faith of his white neighbor,
and thus, by an interchange Of can
did opinions, preiudices entertained
by both races may be oblierated, a
new and brighter career opened up
for both peoples, and the antagonism
now existing will give phee to mu.
tual forbearance, and thaEaestiny of
the two races, so indissoEbly united
with the fate of Louislanas will be
placed in a higher scale Of ADVANCE:
ment than at present appears to be
the outlook for poor, oppressed un-
happy Louisiana. g
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tIueutmy .".-- - %o"as.:-.-.J 49,.
those of literature, and even su: ply
their place. What Rabelais and
Shakespeare could not express o.
some idea, some nice feature, some
aspect Of their age, is told by Ds
Vince, by Coreggio, by Michael An
gelo, or Gougon. :"
Botany i, perhaps to greater de-
gree than any other, the study most
devoted to nature. This is especially
Woman's proper field of action. Flow.
ers tn smeelves ape beautiful, and in
studying their construction or forma'
ton, the true mother or wife is but
doing a duty-a duty pleasant and
productive of much good. For IT is
without doubt an obligation resting
on the mistress of a household to dc
all in her power to render home the
dearest spot on Earth" to those 70,
whom she lives. Yes, mothers ana
wiues, study tie beautiful, the ehaste
and refined F; SO that, you may be
enabled to have your homes become
beautiful gardens of peace and quiet
ness. and that they may be places. Of
comfort and cheerfulness, to which
the wearied, and tempest-tossed poll
tieian, or man Of business. may fly
and be safe from the bustfing life ol
the outside world,-secure in your
love and afectionate regard.
Music is the crow,,, the perfect
flower of arts; and yet it is But
modern art, comparatively. Yes
Emusic is the true glory, the very
spirit of.the modern world It IL
{. the art of fr1sing hearts, the art o.
mutual penetration and an intimacy
SO close, that by it, into the heart o.
your beloved, your wife, the mother
Of your children, you shall penetrate
still deepe''. What Dumernil and
Alexandre have said of grand sym.
phonies, of the music Of friendship.
of chamber music, admire too much
to repeat. Indeed. music has many
peculiar charms. It is itself a charm
1t is the Queen of the fine arts. In
its power It is omnipotelf. 1t is the
most fascinating of all the varied &C
camrlishments which Woman can &C
quire. 1t Seems to beher peculiar pro
yincs..too,' and almost criminal would
she be, who, having been endowed
with musical talent, were to ALLOW
=
THIS sich gift Of Heaven to pass b,
unheeded, unappreciated, and uncul
tiEated. ThsHop mertalwhose hear
is not touched by1 the melodious har
mony Of music is deprived Of mucl
of.the sweetest Joy that this world o
beauties affords, The great Shake
spsare, who was the most accurat
and skihfd portrayer Of human natur
that the world has ever produced
se6medto have been ,fuhy&aware q
the true;valueOf thishnequalled art
and his idea is couched in the follow
ing graphic language :: He whohat'
not music in his soul, and is no
moved By the swees concord of sound