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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE BY JAS. A WRIGHT AND HUGH WILSON. THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE TERMS.—Three Dollars a year in ad ranee. t w No Subscriptions Ukeu for % shorter time than mx moo the. LITERARY WOMEN. Because the good Father has bes towed upon a woman the gift of “ex pressing beautiful thoughts in graceful words,” is it proof He has kept from her the powerof being and doing all things else ? It would seem so, from the oit-repeated remarks we hear ot literary women, as wires, mothers, and housekeepers. Because out of the depths of her soul there guah words that lovers, hus bands, and gives quote as the fondest, deepest expression of thoir own affeo tion, she is voted incapable of loving very much. Because of the tender ness of her heart, she can fold in words of music that mothers all over the land sing to their little children for a lullaby, she is deemed nnfilted for maternity. Because her band can wield the pen, it is thought to be use lens with tbo needle. Infect, because she Las genius enough to write a song, an essay, or a book, it is sufficient proof with many, that 6be cannot know enough to keep a room in order, cook a dinner, or even give directions to a servant; and for this reason, “she ought not to marry.” If this were true, if God, when He places this one gift in the hands of women, makes her a dunce in every thing else, then she ought not to bring upon herself duties which she has no power to meet. But let us know first if it be true. One says, “My own ob servation has confirmed this judg ment. A literary woman once invited me to visit her. The invitation was accepted, and upon entering her house the most disagreeable confusion met my astonished gaze.” The question was then settled. But my dear friend J' ou t( > think if you never saw a fe.kingt in confusion, whose keeper wug >«ipie. 'Vy ? 1 doubt not that if tbi% -ver written a^{gggM < Fair I lay, »r )»:'«• ■■■ ‘just as Lathy/%»vyS***i<f,'”Yr is becStnte fib® is literary;'’ a'Ffi not as you should have said, “It is because she is an un t:dy woman,” just as people are al ways roady to remark, when a mother commits an outrage in the training of a child, “It is because sho is a step-mother,” and not as it should bo, “It is becauso she is an unkind woman.” Facts have shown that an own child will be treatod cruelly wbeD the mother is a bad woman, and geni us and untidiness are not necessarily found together, any more than step mothers and cruelty. If my pastor should appear in bis desk on Sunday mornings with hair uncombed and face unwashed, I should never think of attributing his singu lar appearance to his profession ; nei ther should I uStern that all ministers went to church in the same condi tion. Another instance is quoted : “I once called upon a friend, and found her sick, Buffering through need of care, while her daughter was busily engag ed in writing.” And so the cruel sol fishness and heartless negloct of this girl form the standard by which you judge all literary women. "Whatever she wrote, God knows that it had no blessing in it for any one, becauso she lacked the very goodness which is the key to all pure and noble thoughts. Be assured that the women who have written truest and best bave been those who bave lived truest lives, who bave been most loyal to every duty, and though the pen at times has had to wait, have found it to be the very discipline needed to mature and puri fy thought, and have fonnd, too, in the cares and duties love has laid up on them, the springs of holiest inspi ration. If it be true that the greater love for beauty and harmony a woman has in her soul, the more disorderly her house will be, and the more shabbily she will dress; and the greater power she has to write words that will rouse all the tender feelings of others, the more heartless she will be, it is high time that poetry were crushed oat of the hearts of women, that every ODe who has felt its divine presence should stifle the cry of her soul, “Woe is me if I preach not the word God is speak, ing to me,” lay down her pen and live a life of mockery. Many persons bave the idea that when a woman writes at all, her whole time is devoted to it, and that every thing else must be neglected. What bas been only incidental is often ta ken as the measure of a woman’s life work. . Said Fanny Forrester, “People talk about my writing as though that were tbe only thing I ever did. Why don’t they say something about my teach ing, and all the other work I do.” Mar*’ who res\4 with delight the early stores of Mrs. Stowe, know but little of their history. “Having mar ried a man with more brains than money, poverty sometimes knocked bard at her door. When necessity demanded, she would get a colored woman, who lived near her, to take care of tbe children for a day, and shutting herself up in a room, would write a story. With the money re ceived for one Os these sho bought her first feather-bed.” The band that now writes out tbe products of her wonderful genius toiled faithfully for years in household work, and even then gained credit for only what she wrote. And Mrs. Homans, through years of toil and poverty, forgetting none of her duties, neglecting nothing for the comfort of her little boys, herself their teacher, was singing tbe sweet songs that have lifted the burden from many a sick heart oppressed like her own. The composition of the beautiful song, that bas brought to so many sveoet thoughts of the dear ones gone, “Over tbe River," was no interruption to a day’s labor. It is to have been written hastily, during an intermis sion of work, at the Lowell Factory. Many a young girl, prompted by duty and unselfish love for father, mother, brother, sister, or friend, toil ing in onerous work from day to day, and in an occasional spare hour coin ing in words the pure thoughts, aspi rations, sad yearnings of her heart, has had come back to her, with prai ses of her genius, tbo assuranoe that a literary woman can know nothing of the duties which she has so well performed, that although she might in time bo ablo, by a half day’* or an Mining's writing, to earn money wages, she could not pesaibiy have the inclination or the brains to tell that kitchen girl what to do, that should she so iar forget herself as to marry, her husband would die of starvation, and her children cease to know that they had a mother. In short, that she is destined to*stand apart from the most Bacred offices to which a woman can be called. It is doubtless true, that there are literary women who neglect duties which they have voluntarily taken upon thomselvos, who make bad wives, bad mothers, and bad house keepers ; who had better nevei have married; but it is equally true, that is just as great a proportion of those who are not literary, who come under tbe same .head, aud I do protest against every fault in a literary wo man’s life being laid to tbe faot that she is a writer, leaving tbe inference clear that all other women are embod iments of perfection, because they are not writers. A woman to be an efficient house keeper is not obliged to wash, scrub, bake, and do a'l the drudgery with her own bands, and if she has the power to furnish the money for which others will do it, instead of drawing it from the slender purse of a husband, and at the same time bless humsnity with good and noble thoughts, 1 can not seo why it is not a fortunate thing. And because she has this power, I de ny that she cannot have the ability to superintend the affairs of a household and will not fiod that the time to ex ercise it—that because she can write well, she cannot love well, and loving well, she will do the best thing she can for those whom she loves. I cannot that Mrs. Brown ing’s “Fair Young Florentine” ever felt lees tenderness iB the cares of bis poet-mother's hand, less sweetness in her kiss, or ever received from her less care and instruction than would have been bis, had she not been gifted to “move two nations with one song.” Be careful, then, my friend, and not judge a whole class by two bad speci mens, or you may retard the progress of woman more than one speech and one vote for female suffrage can make good. —American Phrenological Journal. The Secret op Health. —First, keep'warm. Secoad, eat regularly and slowly. Third, main regular bod ily habits. Fourth, take early and very tight suppers, or better still, dodo | at Fifth, keep a clean skin.— WASHINGTON, WILKES COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1868. Sixth, got plenty of sleep at night ) Seventh, keep chereful and respectable company. Eighth, keep out of debt. I Ninth, don’t set your mind on thing* | you don’t need. Tenth, mind you*] own business. Eleventh, don’t set up; to be afcharp of jny kind. subdue curiosity- Thirteenth, avoir drugs. INDIAN RESEARCH AND PffiLOSOe; PHY. 4 The history and philosophy of In dia, though imperfect, oannot be traced without recalling vividly our own Christian associations. Penetra ting into the fragmentary mysteries, of the anoient Vedas, one feels at i though conversing with the perplexed sages of three thousand years ago.' That the philosophical systems of In- . dia are aucient there can be no ques- ! tion, though the claims of their learn- j ed men to an antiquity reaching fer i beyond the utmost stretch of histori cal chronology are, of oourse, prepos terous. There seems to be little, doubt, however, that they themselves are ignorant of the age of many ot thoir philosophical documents. For many of the arts in wbioh they excel they know no origin later than ifw*> structions professedly received from tbe gods. One of their sstronomioal works they claim to have been pro*' duced 2,164,930 years ago. The time of the establishment of their socia l system of castos is yet unknown.— Themselves being in such ignorance, and believing suoh claims, we cannot wonder that their heads have become perplexed, and that all present activi ty is forgotton, and progress negleo ted, in reverence for the hoary re mains of antiquity. Their philosophy is within itself l: wonder as indicating the hidden germs of truth, and a civilisation* mental power and acuteness that Greece herself has never excelled. Spiritual, moral, mental, and pbysica l science were all investigated fearles#* ly and intermingled in the philoso phical creeds of those times. They * * -fmi ' i j I*|»*>ln ; eternal, the emanatory cause. From Him all things prooeed; into Him all are to return. Theirs is also a Trini tarian.Tbeology, presenting from the same source a Creator, a Conservator and a Destroyer. Their physical doc trines present tbe theory of atoms, aggregated according to certain nu merical proportions, to constitute tbe world. Their logic had reached sftch development as to leave little for the Hindoo pupil to learn from Zeno or Aristotle. Perfect happiness for the human soul is to be attained by a re turn to tbe One Eternal Substance, and this return attained by an entire mental abstraction, and a perfeot ap athy and indifference towards all earthly and existing things. These theories indicate that there may once have been the possession of troth, but it had become useless fer any purpose of satisfying the human mind. The quantity, character and acuteness of their philosophical writings are the indices of continued thought and great mental research, the cravings of the soul after the knowledge of the. Divine strangely sot forth in the mon uments of the labor of ages, which held abstraction as the moans of at taining, to a supreme felicity consist ing in a state of perfect repose and virtual nonentity. Before the Christian philosophy these doctrines, enshrined In tbe hoary drapery of antiquity, are beginning to fade away. Sublimities unmingled with deception or extravagance claim tbe attention of men. Divine com munion is still promised, not with a loss of activity and entity, but a con tinned individualization of increasing force aud nobility, and an inspiration from tbe contemplation of the ineffa ble attributes of Deity that inspirits the duties and ebarities of daily life until the soul returns to the God that gavo It, not to be God, but bring itself to be like God. — Melhodiet Home Jour nal. Bones and Ashes.— Bones and ashes pass through tbe housekeepers hands every day... Wood is still the chief fuel in tbe farm house, and tbe value of the ashed is pretty well un derstood. They are prized for the lye they yield, and if there is a sur plus from the soap making they help the kitchen garden at tbe back door. Tbe bones are generally thrown to the dog and tost. Now if the careful housewife would save the bonei a* regularly as tbe ashes, she would practice a wiser economy and help her kiteken garden twice as fas'. Bones arc worth twice as much a« ashes for manure, if dissolved, and the ashes will reduce them. Pul both I into a barrel in ibe cellar, if you please, and after mixing them half and half, keep them constantly moist with soap suds, the hotter tho belter. The suds should be poured on in such quantities as to leach tbo ashes, ’ll! a tow months tbo bones will be disintegrated, and the whole mass ishoutd be mixed, and will make an excellent fertilizer lor tbe flower bor der or the kitchen garden. —American i Agricultural. A WORD TO MOTHERS. i “Dear Mother,” said a delicate lit tie girl, “I have broken your china “Well you are a naughty, jcareless, troublesome little thing, al ways in some mischief; go up stairs, land stay in the closet until I send tor jyou.” And this was a Christian molh jer’s answer to tho tearful little culprit j'who had struggled with and conquer ed the temptation to toll a falsehood to screen her fault. With a disap pointed, disheartened look, tbo sweet phjld Obeyed; and at that moment ; was crushed in her little heart the •sweet flower of truth, perhaps uever again in after years to revive to life. O, what were tho loss of a thousand r-< . vases in comparison ! *Tis ti ue, an . angel might shrink from the re«pon abilities of a mother. It needs un angel’s powers. The watch must not ■ for an instant bo reiaxi and; the scales tof justice must always bo‘nearly bal uticed ; tho busty word that the over tasked Spirit sends to the lip, inns' dio ihoro, ere it is uttered. Tue timid and sensitive child must have a word lof encouragement in season ; the for • ward and presuming, checked with ( gentle firmness; there must bo uo no trickery, for the keen leye of tbe child to detect. And nil 4 when the exhuu.-ted frame sinks with vigils, perhaps, und the thou sand potty interruptions and unlocked for annoyances of every hour, almost r l it defiance any attempt at ay stem, j Still, must that mother wear an un— (ruffled brow, lost tbo.,smiling cherub j “ k®* 9 catch .he ur,gry -frown.. T® if**ust iBoTu 1 eTfor oWn'^Vpi HT, TUFT the buy, so apparently engrossed with his toys, repeat the next moment the impatient word his ear has caught. For all these duties faithfully and con scientiously performed, a mother’s re ward is in socrot and silence. Even he, on whoso oarthly breast she loans, is too often unmindful of the noiseless struggle until too late, alas 1 be learns to value tho delicate hand that has kept in unceasing flow the thousand springs of bis domestic happiness. But what if, in the task that devolve upon tbo mother, sho utterly fail ? Wbat if she consider hor duty per formed when it is fed, and warmed, and clothed ? What if the priceless soul be left to the chanoe training of hirelings? What if sho never teach those little lips, “Our Father?” Wbat if she launch her child upon life’s stormy sea without ruddor, or com pass, or chart ? God forbid that there should be many such mothers. HAYDN AND THE SEA CAPTAIN. Haydn used to relate whimsical an ecdotes of his stay in London. A captain of the navy came to him one morning, and asked him to compose a song for some tr oops he had on board, offering him thirty guineas for his trouble, but requiring it to be done immediately, as the vessel was to sail the next day. As soon as tbe captain was gooe, Haydn sat down to tbe pi ano-forte, and tbe march was ready in a short lime. Feeling some scruples at gaining his money so very easily, Haydn wrote two other marches, in tending first to give the captain his choice, and then make him a present of all the three as a return for his lib erality. Next morning the captain returned and asked for his march. “Here it is,” said the composer. The captain asked to hear it ou the piano-forte; and, having done so, laid down the thirty guineas, p icketed the march, and walked away. Haydn tried to atop him, but in vain—the march was good. “But 1 have written two others,” cried Haydn, “which are better; bear them, and take you* cboioo.” “I like the first very well, and that is enongh,” replied tbe captain, pur suing his way down-stairs. Haydn followed, crying out: “Bit I make you a present of them.” “I won’t have them,” roared the seaman, with nautical asseveration, and boiled out at tho street-door. Ha;dn, determined not to be out done, hastered to tbe Exolmnge, and, discovering tho name of the ship and her commander, sent tho marches on board with a polite note, whioh the captain, surmising its contents, sent back unopened. Haydn tore the marches (a a thousa. and pieces, and never forgot this liberal Kngli-h hu morist ns long us he lived. CAN A CHILD COME TO CHRIST? Hattie R. was uu only child. Her father was a devoted minister, and ihe care of little Hattie devolved up on her mother, an eatne-a Christian woman, who early sought to sow good becd in the mind of her little one. When flattie was fivo years old there was much religious interest in I the congregation, and many were led Ito the. Saviour. As Hutiio's mothei 'and a Christian friend were talking |of the great things God was doing I they perceived the bitter weeping of little" Hattie. “What is it, my child?” the moth er askid ‘O, mamma, I bin e and y jso mau> naughty thing-, and i or, afraid I shall die.” The lady then took her leave and the mother was alone with her child aud the Saviour, the hearer of pruj cr Taking the lililo one in her arms the mother said, “Hattie, do yon fed that yon are a sinner ?” “Oy os, mamma” “Well, what should we do when we leal tb t we have offended God?” “Ask iiiir. to forgive us.” “God lolls us that ho «,’!! forgive us when we disk him Me tejls g- ho invos to have ii»tic children o’ me to I should he L'rievcrt I my Into- d«u_h ter did hot trust no, 1 j, j 9 , -o with Jesus. Uo wants you to give your heart to him. Shall we ask God to help you to come to him now?” The two knelt down, and the mother ! offered a fervent prayer that God I would make this little one his own. ttiyn t’our»>t . “•** Am*-, in the totloEj g jViui. • : •tj : wont you forgive me t .rail i he uaegli things I have done, and make rue your liitle girl, and help me to 'he good all the time, ad lake me to heaven when I din?” When they arose from their knees Hattie was Btill woeping. After lur ther conversation they knelt again, and the mother besought the Savior to heal the heart he had broken. Still Hattie continued to weep, and her mother, taking her in her arms, said: “So my litl.lo girl cannot be lieve that Jesus will forgive her when he sayu be will. Tho Saviour means just what he says.” A third time they knelt in prayer. When they rose up from their knees, Hattie looked up through her leurs and said, “Mamma, there is a paper in papa’s study that tells us all about it; let me get it.” She was gone but a moment; and returned with a Childs Paper, and pointed to the arliole. which was a simple invitation to lit tle children to come to Christ, assur ing them in Scripture language that he would certainly receive them. From that time Haul 's mind seem- ed to be at rest. Sho loved prayer, and seemed to take a delight in talk log of Jesus. When alone with her mother she would frequently say, “Ma, let’s have a prayer meeting.” Future months and years gave sweet evidence that the work in tl e heart of this little one was the gen uine work of the Holy Spirit. She lived near to her Saviour. B ing called the severe suffering, sho b r. all with a sweet submission. “It is ray Father,” she would say; “let him do whatseemotb bun good.” Do not parents and touchers limit God when they feel that tbe little ones committed to their care cannot be led to Christ? To th’u question, “How soon should we begin to love God?” a little girl gave this answer; ••As soon as we know who God is.” Conversation While Traveling —Those who have travoled much know how very much pleasanter a journey is when the tedium of the way is relieved by pleasant conversa tion. I have beard somewhere or « n Irishman who us-d to, maintain must positively that if twee. men. traveled together .twenty miles, 'they tr. . elcd only ten rnliut—eafth ; tu.ii aWurd tte the looks at first sight, it reully ex presses a great truth. How often, in a railway carriage or in a stage coach,' bars we been so much interested in VOL. Ill —NO. 0. fonversation with a companion that we have reached a journey’s end long before we expected to do so, and bave found the fatigue of traveling twenty mites in agreeable societv much less than that ot traveling half the dis tance alone. Every one has it in his power to contribute, by the exercise of this gift conversation, to the pleas ure of his companions; and, in truth, by conversing with many men, an im mense fund of knowledge may be treasured up. MAN'S” SPHERE. Tit' Omujpoient Gud bid light around His foot stool shin*. Where reigningslsrbness rat enthroned; \nd then, in swift oßedhme* to the will of God, Light came—nod night dethroned. Though pleased, the Lord not wholly satisfied bMsIHi, Aid in bored •til] His miigbt to prove ; At length for man a paradise complete He made And gave—as token of Hie Jove. This holy love ungrateful man has deeply wronged, Tho image of his God cUfiled, \nd pardon from th’ unsullied Judge ie only found Through Chriet th« Lord—-whom men re viled. Thu* purdoned, man is made a champion of the truth, And knight Jiy our King thn Lord? A diamond badge the molio of lua heart dii* pi»y«: 4 * Live for thy country aud ihy Godl” I With ki;»gh4y vow* und prayera etUl lingering i on **p», H" i h < forth dtv<»*dv armed; Go*iV w«*ri hie shield, hie helmet faith in Cbriut the Lord, lie strikes—and strike* Again unharmed. Earth is the field where man must bravely fight with sin. Yea, more than tide, *ith ignorance, too; With ihnnght endowed he within earth’s labyrinth, And hidden beauties brings to view. ■ D*Beanding deep within the earth he searches J b’i»R I For wonders never brought to light, I A, ‘« ?«®V* into the heav'na lit with glittering ! at nr* * ! Like diuvnonda in the crown * f night. Enlightened by his midnight wanderings in I the fikjei, ° II- tell* to eaith newtaleaof heaven; Ilia heavenly, earthly duties faithfully per formed, A place of rest to him is given. . „ “HERMIT.” —A R. Prenbytcnan. JJJJjJ FARMERS’"CLUBS. A “•Viter cited in the Southern Plan ter and Farmer .•••-•wttek* Unit F,« c y, .-a. j ■ '■■'Hr •oi.-Uiifty ' wah j.hys ,c- l inb tr. 1"" mooli muscular cx i-roiso w*ari. s the c.oiiesand indispo ses i hi' mind to exertion The Far mer lias inn lung regarded his calling as a physical mission, requiring little qr no effort of the mind, but a ooig stant tension of the muscle. Any thing which should induce the* to congregate together socially would be a great hles-ing, but still more so, when this meeting is for the purpose of comparing notes upon their ooou pation. • “it would surprise a body of Far mers who fins never tried it, to find how much knowledge oould be gain ed upon almost any subject bonneo ted with Hgriculture, from twenty-five a-erage Farmers, who should each contribute the faots he knew relating to it. Fer haps, no one of tbe twen ty five would be able more than a few facts concerning the topio yet when each had contributed what be knew, the suhjsot might be thor ouughly elucidated and easily under stood. When they come together no "lie fully understands the subjeot, but when the discussion is over every one might a full kuowledge of it. And this leads us to speak of the proper method ol conducting tbe Far mers’ Clubs. First, there should be as hule formality an 1 as few ruleg as possible, consistent with g ...d order. Select a man of prompt d-cision and a few words of chairman, and tb* most ready writer as secretary. Avoid set speeches and prepared dis sertations. You come togeiher to communicate facts and not to display rhetoric, it should be a meeting for a free and informal interchange of ideas in tlieconversalioiial wav. This will be found much better and more profitable th in debme. You cannot well de ate a question without the disputesM hr.Coiiiing interesting for triuuipu in argniijcut-rdior- the success of a uio—and tnir is not the object m di - 'iris'.Tue object slHiukl be anil' ku - wedge, to wuuia date facts on whjoU to .base a ng.t decision »' and apt t<» .di-tpi.uy a nitty in argu me t, to the triumph in disputano*. Suppose me question wore the “best note to out wbuut?h it is- obvious that wel experiments bear* 'ng upon, this subjeot would be neces sary to determine it. Every one who could give any fact showing the effect of cutting wheat at. a peculiar stage of growth would assist in elucidating it. One could perhaps give the effect upon rust, cutting wheat while green snowing tbe quuliry of the grain to be little ' ju .tl t.v i ; a- odiet cut it w hpi rip,.,, t >ie t«« rust uga reined thy.gr .in . fstete* tout no Before np«. when Bo apponttSd.ia* ihui'Mi .t.hv, i>'jriry „ph,ni J*. aq*d got «*»■ >«tg«tr. p.-, .ft B p-rtetette 1» el than when ne fiau cue ou lull ri pening. And thus one after another gives bis experience upon all sides of this question, notil th* fact* r*a i der its solution clear,”
