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BY JAS. A. WRIGHT AND HUGH WILSON. THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. TERMS. —Three Dollar* a veariu adrapee. pr No Snbaeriptiona taken for a Sorter time than aix mouths. Lying Abed in the Horning. I lore to rove in the shady grove. Where gentle zephyrs are floating; £ I lore to ait at the festal board, v Where buckwheat cakes are Hooking. r t tore to gaae at the gulden'll! are, Where Sol the West is ad ruing; But this I love far better than all— • Toils abed in the morning. That poets should sing of the joys of Spring, la not in the least surprising; But I can’t conoeive why a man should weave A sonnet to early rising. .Though F anklin pf old was a sage, I’m told I can’t go with lfim in scorning '-the blissful scenes in the land of dreams— When lying abed in the morning. J love to He when the sunbeams shy Come peeping through the curtain l ; When phantoms bright regale the eight With visions of coffee and muflios ; When the bird’s loud trill from the distant hill a The chorus of nature is joining— IT there’s ought below can bs- ish woe, ’Tie lying aticff >n the morning. Let those vhp choose to retire to snooze When the ducks and chickens arc going, And rub their eyes when forced to rise ,• At chanticleer’s dismal crowing; They toose the sight of the gorgeous night, Q Aud epend their days iu yawning ”1111 midnight damp I’ll burn the lamp, A»4 lie abed in. tile mol ning. Tbt Pwsfeiler&ta Constitution -Interest- V - Disclosures. As a.piece of historical informa tion* the letter of Mr. R. Barnwell Rhett regarding the constrnetiou of the Confederate Constitution is both etirioos and valuable. At the outset the dilemma pre sented to the Confederate leaders was this—whether, on the one hand, to cling as closely as possible to the old forms and the “old flag” of the United States, to the ap proved Constitution, aud to the familiar divisions and prescribed scope of executive, legislative and judicial authority, or to strike out in some new path, and, essay a “more perfect Union.” Tho form er method had the advantage of familiarity, tradition and long ex perience; the latter that of bold necs and independence. However, the former triumphed. The Con federate flag was substantially the old “Stars and Stripes,” with some stars blotted out and some stripes obliterated ; the national, State, tow’n aud county prorogations were substantially the same as in tho old Union ; even the phraseology of laws was little altered, and tie titles and duties of officers were pretty much the same. Seinmes tells us that it was the policy oi the Montgomery Government, at the outset,' to “confer the same rank” on militaty and naval offi cers who should embrace “the new service” that they held in the old— and his own transfer to a “Light house Board” forthwith was an illustration of this policy. How ever, despite the protest of South ern statesman that they were satis fied with “the Constitution as it was,” they did in some particulars alter that instrument; and Mr. Rhett, as Chairman of die Mont gomery Convention, appointed to frame a permanent Constitution for the Confederate States, is con ceded' to have been the author of the most important part of these alterations. Hence his present tes timony is valuable as a contribu tion to the history of those troub lous times. Mr. Rhett declares that it was the determination of the South to make the Confederate Constitution “simply the Constitution of the United States as the South had always interpreted its powers, with only such alterations as would re move ambiguity.” The first great question binged on the Govern ernment’s power to levy taxes and expend their proceeds. “One party, chiefly at the South,” according to Mr. Rhett, held that Congress had power to levy taxes merely for rev enue to carry on the Government, while “the other party, chiefly at the North,” held that “this power should be exercised for different and antagonistic purposes, to pre vent importations on which taxes may be collected, and thereby pro mote and encourage different bran ches of industry, by giving them the markets of the United States.” We do not think this to be an ab solutely correct statement of the geographical status of the free trade THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. and protection parties, respectively; however, it is correct enough for 1 Mr.; Rjbelt’s,panose,, wljieh is to show Why the* Clause referring to the subject iu the Constitution was altered by him. This clause, as we all know, runs as follows : “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, im posts ami', excises, to pay the debt and provide for the common ' de fence and general welfare of the United States.” And what Mr. Rhett did was to substitute for the purpose here sta tedrGttife el y j rCV feftfthfcf f he words “for revenue necessary to pay the debts and carry on the Government of the Confederacy” —which latter appears iu the Con federate Constitution. This however, strikes oue as be ing “the difference betwixt tweedle dum aud tweedledee because whatever “misinterpretation” could be made of the origiual clausA could certainly he made of tlie substitute. The latter is quite as general, quite as ambiguous, and quite as pregnant with constructive powers as the former. Mr. Rhett himself was compelled to add, therefore, specifically, a provision that “no bounties shall be granted from the Treasury,, nor shall auy ilulk*. or taxes one imporiitUAi'i from foreign nations be laid to pro mote or foster any branch of indus try. This, of course, was effectual —the coup de grace to protection. Asa matter of fact, however, tho heed of South for the moment was rather to offer a premium on for eign importations than to levy a tax on them ; and the provision iu the Constitution, therefore, became important, the amount Os foreign commerce being small. The only duties were laid by the blockading squadron, and those were often so heavy as to kill foreign trade, if they did not foster domestic indus try. Mr. Rhett tells us also the histo ry of the internal improvement provision. To the fapiiliar clause in th£ powers, of Congress, “to reg ulate commerce wirirforeign nations and umong the several States and with the Indian tribes,” under which a constructive power to ex pend money for internal improve ments has been employed, was added a proviso that tho Confeder ate Congress “should not appropri ate money for any internal improve ment intended to facilitate-com merce.” And it was provided that even in furnishing lights, beacons and buoys, and improving rivers and harbors, the cost should be laid “on the navigation facilitated thereby.” It was Mr. Rhett, also, who pro posed making the Presidential term six years instead of four—a really sensible suggestion, though, to be sure, it made little difference as the case turned out. And it was he, too, that proposed the well known provisions for removals from office by tho President and for making Cjifistitutifnal amend ments. Altogether, therefore, this is, as we have saidj an Interesting piece of history, and the fact that the instrument, prepared with so much care was shortlived, does not decrease the interest. It shows, also, that though we hear much .complaint against “constitutional tinkering, neither the South nor the North was quite satisfied to live under the Constitution as it was. —New York Times. T\v6 Plttsbiiflg*girls, who put on men s clothes, and went out pjipj evening for a lark, were arrested' by a policeman as suspected bur glars, and when he told them they would have to go to the,- house "drill' ftAbmit to aW fexfmffnft tion, they felt bad, as they knewJll would get out. They finally jump ed over the fence, and got out of “them clo’e.” An old lady said her husband was very fond of peaches, and that was his only fault. “Fault, mad am ?” said omv, “Jkpw x»n you call that a fault?” “Why, because there are different ways of eating peaches; my husband takes them in the form of brandy.” Minnie Warren, now in Califor nia, where she weut to exhibit with. Tom Thumb’s troupe, cannot live long. WftlfES COUNTY, til., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1869. SMOKING SPIRITUALIZED., fJ The following uniquo and beautful “Meditation on Smoking Tobacco,” I was written, two hundred years ago, by Rev. Ralph Erskine, of Scotland. It is like good wine that improves with age: '' ‘ ’ Tbia Indian weed now withered quite, Tho’ green at noon, cat down at night, Shows thy decay ; is '^ y ’. ' r 7 Thus think, and fcmwke tobacco. The pipe, so lily like and weaV, Does thus thy mortal state bespeak. Thou art ereu Mich, Gone with a touch, Thus think, and smoke tobacco. And when the smoke ascends on high, Then thou behdld’st the vanity Os wor’dly stuff, Gone with a puff, Thus think, and smoke tobacco. And when the pipe grows foul within, thy soul defiled with sin, » -For their ifce fire t doe^Vequtr^, Thus think, and smoke tobacco. And seest the ashes castaway, llie%to UiyaeM thou mayst say, That so the dust Return thou roust, Thds think, aad snroke tobacco. < ' MATERIALISM. The Views of Charles Dickens. Mr. Charbee In tho course of bis inaugural address at tho recent opening of tho Rriuiitigbatn and Mid land Institute, observed: | It is much toe-commonly assumed that this , ago is a material ago, am) that a material ago is an irreligious, age. I have.beou pained lately toso 0 llrfshsstil’iption repeated in certain in- 1 flucntial quarters. Pconfess that 1 do not understood that much-used and much-abused phrase;“a, material ngc.” I, cannot eoHtprohentba.if anybody cun, which I .very much doubt—itb logical eiguificatieu. For instance, has oloci’lqity ■Mo'une the more mate riahra the mind'of any* Hand, or mode* ratcly sane—[laughter]—mtfft,:. wo man, or child, because! in tho diefoove ry that in tho good providence of God jt was made available for the servico and uso of mftn to an itnmeasunibly greater extent than for his destruc tion? Do I make a material journey to tho bedside of my dyiug parcnt or child when I travel thither at tno rate of sixty miles an hour than when I travel thither ut tho rate of six? Rather, in the swift case, does not my agonizing heart become ovorfraught with gratitude, to that supreme benef icence.- worn which alone can have proceeded tho wonderful menus of Shortening my suspense? What is; tho materiality of tho cable and the wire compared to tho immateriality of tho spark ? What is tho materiality of certain chemical substances that I can weigh or measure, imprison or re leaSd^compared witli the immateriali ty of their appointed affinities and re pulsions prescribed to them from the instant of their Creation to the day of judgment? When did this so-called material age begin ? With tlio use,of clot hiug? Willi tb© discovery of the corrtpals? With the invention of the art of printing? Surely, it has been a long time about Which, is the most material object—tho farthing tallow candle that \vill not give me light, or the flaming gas that will? [Cheers.] Now don’t let us bo discouraged or deceived by vain, vapid, empty words. Tho truq material ago is tho stupid Chinese * age, in which no now and grand revelations of nature are grant ed, because they are ignorantly and insolently repelled, instead of being diligently and humbly sought.— [Cheers.] The difference between the antique fiction of tho made braggart defying the lightning and tho modem historical picture of Franklin drawing it towards its kite, in order that he might’ more profoundly study what "was Bet before him to study, (or it would not have been there,) happily expresses to irfy mind tlie difference between our much maligned material sages and the certaihly, in one sense, very immaterial sages of the Celestial! Empire school, Consider where it is ' likely or unlikely; natural or unnatu ral, reasonable or unreasonable, that *l, being capable of thought and find ing myself surrounded by such dis covered wonders on every hand, should ask myself the question some-1 times.ir.and myself the solemn j contfdSration, “Can these things be j among those which might have been j disclosed by I]ivine lips nigh upon j two thousand years ago, but that the people of that‘time could not bear them ? ” But, whether that be so or ncfff’lcbefng So surrounded on every hand, is not my moral responsibility tremendously increased thereby, and with it my intelligent submission of myself,'as a child of Adam and dust, before that shining squrce equally of all that ia granted and all that {e with held, who holds in His mighty hand I tljjo unapproachable mysteries- of lifd [wgUlpath? Let mo give the students of the industrial, classes generally a short motto in two words, “ Courage, persevere.” Ido not give them tltit motto because the eyes of Europe ju’o upon them, for I do not in the least believe it—-[laughter]—nor because the eyes of upon them, for Ido not in the least believe that either; nor befcauso their doings will be proclaimed with blast of trumpet at the.street corners, for no such musical will take place—[lau/mCjlrJ—nor because self improvmede'fl at alFcertaiu to load to wordly success hut simply because it is good and-right Os itself, and, there fore, will assuredly bring with it its own resources and its own re- I would fbrther commend to them a very wise und witty piece of an the conduct of tho understand ing, which was given moroYhan half a century ago by the Rev. Sydney Smith —wisest |t>d wifliest of the fYiends I« have lost. Speaking to a circle of voluntary students he says: “ There is a piece of fbpbery which is to be guavdod against, tl\o foppery of universality, of kuowiug sciences, of excelling in all arts—chemistry, mathematics, algebra, dancing, histo ry, reason, riding,,fencing, lbw Dutch, high Dutch, and natural philosophy. In short, tho modern precept of edu cation very oftotHs—take tho Admi ral Chriehton fbryour model, and bo ignorant of nothing. My advice, on the contrary, is to have the courage <to bo 'ignorant of a great number of things, in order ijiat you may avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. [Cillers and daughter.j To this 1 would superadd a little truth, which lioldt/cqually good of my own life, and the lib c/ evf rv eminent innn I have evei l know*!. The «,no serviccal 10, safe, certain, retnunora tivo, attainable quality iu every study and iu every pursuit, is tho quality of attention. JUy inumtion or imagtna-' tiou, such as it is, I. n tn<>s t t rut lift'd - ly assure you wouldpc’fot’ haVc served mo as it has but for the habit of com monplace, hUmbV patient, daily toil ing, drudging attention. • [Appl a use.] Genius, vivacity, quickness-.^!'percep tion, and brilliauw in the’ association of Ideas—such mental qualities, like i-'V- >f D-.-. fjwffirto'n r.f ttee armed head vn Macbeth, will not be commanded; but attention, after due term of submissive service, always will. Like certain plants which the poorest peassnt may grow on tho poorest soil, it can bo cultivated by any one, and it is certain in its good season to bring,forth flowers and fruit. [Applause.] I cannot but reflect how often you have probably heard within these walls ono of tho foremost men and certainly one of the best (if not the very best) speakers in England. [Cheers.] I could not say to myself, when I began just now in Shake speare’s line, “I will ho bright aud shining gold’’—[laughter]—bnt I could and did say to myself, “ I will boas easy and as natural as I possi bly can, because my heart has long been in my- subject, and I bear an old love towards Birmingham and to wards Birmingham men and women. The ring I now wear was a Birming ham gift, and if by rubbing it I could raise the spirit that was obedient to Aladdin’s ring, I assure you that my first instruction to tho goni on the spot would bo to place himself at Bir mingham’s disposal in tho best of causes. [Cheers ] A Summaut or Mb. Pbabobt’s Bbne faOtioks.—Tile following summary of bis In-lie factions is the beat and most eloquent eulogy that we cau pronounce upou his lile : To the Institute at Baltimore...sl,4oo,ooo To the Institute»t Danvers 200,000 To the poor of London 1,750,006 To the Southern Educational Fund.... 2,500,000 To the Harvard University 150,000 To Yale College 160,000 To Washington College 60,000 To other object* 8n6,000 Mak'ng a total of.' $6,596,000 To ibis amount should be added the principal fortune of $1,400,000, which was distributed among his relatives during his second visit to. the United States, making a grand total of $7,996,00 distributed by him during his lifelime in amounts of noticea ble size. While so free and open-handed in his public benefactions, however, in pri vate charities he was far Outdone by others. He appeared to regard hirneelf as the trus tee of an immense fund for the benefit of of common humanity, but chose to bestow hit charity in a way that would bring forth great and noticeable results; and conscious that be did his fall duty in this respect, left to others of n different temperament the alleviation of iudiudoal cases of suffering and distress. ’• : AGRICULTURAL ITEMS. It is said that cattle around Dalton, Georgia are dying off by scores with the raarrain. Ti&ur, mingled with whitewash applied to tSft-interior of a hen-house, at the rate of one 'gill to a pailfoll, it ia said will dis perse tb| lipe. < * Cattle cflsepse has appeared at Shrews bury, Ma<9.- -'The bronchial tubes of the Slaughtered animals were found filled with thread-like worms. It pays to mate a cow comfortable in as many respecta asjjassiy** v 'Every hour she suffers from any cause, ttfe.-qjjlA t,d~ count suffers correspondingly. Forty thousand beef'cattle, bound north have crossed the Brazos river, at Waco Texa9, the present season ; four thousand crossed in two successive days. farmers hi MitiPesola are paying twen ty-four per tent, interest for money to hold their wheat, not wishing to take eighty or eighty-fire cents a bushel fur’.it. The farmer who stints his fields, is as un wise and improvident as he who starves his working cattle—in both cases he is dimin ishing the ability of a faithful servant to be useful lo him. The Ohio Farmer estimates the corn crop in Northern Ohio will not be more thun one third an average, with half a crop of fodder, and that the whole State will not yield more thau half a crop. It is an cxe,ellcnt plan to keep a lump of common chalk iu the feeding trough con stantly, nfter the calves are a month old ; this will correct the acidity of the stomach and have a tendency to keep them in a healthy state. A farmer residing in DeWilt, Clinton -county, raised 212 bushels of wheat'on six and one-half acres of ground in 1868, and on the same field in 1869 lie raised 200 bushels, or an average ot 31} bushels to the awe for each year. A’ company Ims been fo;tned*Yn New York lo bring yfcsli ment to that market fvom Texas, Tli(S entire hold of the ves- B&liis luicdjgilb hou-conducting felt; and liy cHetniCil menns acold below the freez ing will be lo’j’l tip. Milton Merrifield, of Providence, caught fifty-two rats in one night, by excbapgntg j a barrel of oats that bad been often yisitod, by rats for one of wa*?r, covering the sur face with chalf. The “varmiuts” unsus pectingly pitched in, and met a watery grave. This is au old but excellent trap where these animals are plenty. A correspondent of the Dixie Farmer gives a report of the sex of the calves raised on his dairy farm this year. The bull used was a two year old Alderney. The cows were of different grade.—Twen ty eight cows produced 15 males and 13 fe male calves; 12 heifers brought nine mules aud three female calves. At the meeting of the Social Science Association, in Albany, New York, the fol lowing statement was made ; in New York alone, %82,000,000 worth of mdat annual ly is consumed, besides 83,000,000 pounds of butter, valued at $33,000,000 ; 72,000, 000 pouuds of cheese, valued at $14,000, 000—a total of $79,000,000. An Arab proverb conceroing the horse was; ‘'The first seven years for my young brother, the next seven for myself, and the last for my enemy.” So (ar as this recom mends light usage during the youth of a horse it is worthy of acceptance; but the period of full strength and activity is made too short, if the horse is well cared for. The United States produced twenty-five millions worth of cheese, and a hundred millions of butter last year. A correspondent of the Farmers’ Club Warns people agamst feeding the rhubarb plant to hogs; he lost several by doing it. All plants grow stronger and ripen bet ter when the air circulates freely around them, and the sun is not prevented fromau immediate influence. It is easy lo equal any fancy bred cow with a native as a milker, but if the dnugli ter of the native is as good a cow, it is an accident, not so in thoroughbred stock. A wiiteriu the Country Gentleman re commends fastening cows’tails to the joints overhead in the barn where milking is done, by means of a cord and book made of wire. Many English farmers feed no hay to their woik horses, but keep them in high working order with straw, roots, and shorts. The equivalent of 12 tons of hay can be produced on one acre in roots, A writer in the American Stock Journal says that costiveness and its accompanying evil ere ‘he main cause of tows destroying their young, and that green and other pro* per food is the preventative and cure. Good implements are indeed indispensa bie to success, and he who lias ptovided thorn will not only have great pleasure in his labors, but the profits which attend the judicions application of both time and labor. It is estimated tbat there are over 12, 000,000 head of cattle in Texas alone, but prior to the war that State only contained 8,000,000 head. The demand ceased and the cattle throve during the conflict, until hey have increased enormously. THE KING OF DIAMONDS. 1 it seems as though., after a three centuries, Sir Walter Raleigh’s dreams of an El Dorado were about to bd realized. The other day we published an ac count of marvellous discoveries of diamonds in South Africa. They had been found for miles along the banka of the Orange and the Vaal rivers. They were not only abun dant, bui they were, many of them, of great size. Some were found of thefff'dandaloque shape and of the first water, weighing upwards of eighty carrots; others of the octahe dron,* - er four-pointed, that weighed upwards of thirty carats; and of the smaller varieties immense numbers had beqn picked up on the surface of tho ground. Naturally South Africa was in a ferment. Elephant tusks were forgotten, and every one was hunting forr .precious stones. The infection had oyen extended to this country, and j)r. Hall was orga nizing a colony to-go diamond hun ting. But now con/fe reports from Australia of discoveries there which far eclipse those in South Africa. Telegrams have come flying from the Australian mines to England big enough to make the diamond mer chants hold their breath with aston ishment. The glittering stones have been picked up in such quantities that, says the London Times, in a lead ing artiole on the subject, “the colo nist are all dreaming of precious stones. At every table and iu every railway carriage the talk is of dia monds and rubies, odals and emeralds pearls and topazes-, and people of all ranks are rushing to the mines. Gen uine diamonds arq on sale by women and children at every cottage, and there can hardly be a mistake, we should think about the nature of the stones. This is marvellous enough in all conscience, but this is not half the story; the rest of it smacks of the Arabian, Nights’ Entertainments, and Sinbad the jailor’s adventures In the ' great diamond valley,to which ho' flew on the back of a mighty bird. And this latter and wonderful half we must preface with the statement, familiar doubtless to many of our readers, that the increase in value of the diamond is vastly greater in pro portion than its increase in weight. A stone weighing one carat, for in stance, might be worth fifty dollars; but one weighing five carats would be worth two thousand. Imagine, then, the value of one as big as a lemon and weighing three-quarters oi a pound. Such a one is said to be found in Australia. Its discovery has been telegraphed to England. It was placed in the hands of a trust worthy man. He was surrounded by a strong cordon of military, and was marched in this way from the mines to Sydney, where the magnfi cent gem was deposited in the mint. The stone has not yet been thorough ly tested. Geologists are at work upon it now; but if it really proves to be supposed, its value will be al most fabulous. Its weight is 900 carats. The greatest English dia mond, that pride of the British Em pire, the Koh-i-i oor, weighs but 186 1 carats, aud its computed by the tables 1 in use, would be a hundred millions in gold. But of course, this value ■ would in any event be imaginary, 1 since no purchaser could be found 1 with a hundred millions to spare for a diamond, even if it was as big as a lemon. Since the organization of the order of Odd Fellows iu this coun try, in 1830, up to and including 1869, the amount of revenue re ceived by the order has been s3l, 324,014.43. The receipts from 1860 to 1869 amounted to $13,111, 133 —an increase over the prece ding ten years of but $159,000. Tho amount of relief afforded, as appears by the records of the order, from 1830 to 1869, was $13,775, 030.42; and the number of mem bers initiated 880,259. The ten years between and including 1850 and 1859 were the most prosperous tho order has ever known in this country. Samuel Bowles says ;—The Colorado wheat makes a rich hearty flour, bearing a creamy golden tinge; and I have eaten po where else better bread than is made from it. The wheat will rauk with the very best that America produces, and is more like the California grains than that of “the States.” VOL IV-N 0 27 « > Grecian Wives. . The wives of the Greeks lived in almost absolute seclusion. They were usually married when- very youjlg. Their occupations were to weave, to spin, to embroider, to su perintend the household, to care for their sick slaves. They lived in a special and retired part of the house. The more wealthy seldom weak abroad, and never except when ac companied by a female slave; never attended the public spectacles; re ceived no male-visitors except in tho j presence of their husbands, and had not even a seat at their own tables-■ when male guests were there. Their pre-eminent virtue was fidelity,, and it is probable that this was very strictly and very generally observed. Their remarkable freedom from temp tations, the public feelings which strongly discouraged any attempt to seduce them, and the ample sphere ior illicit pleasures that was aaeorded to the other sex, all contributed to protect it. On the other hand, liv ing as they did, almost - exclusive among their female slaves, deprived of all the educatitig influence of male society, and having no place at those public spectacles which,, ware the cheif means of Athenian culttiro, their minds must necessarily h.ave been exceedingly ,co,gir% ted, Thu cydides doubtless expressed the pre vailing sentiment of his countrymen When he said that the highest merit of woman is not to be spoken of either for good or for evil, and Phi dias illustrated the same theory when he rep resented ( the hcavenjy Aprodite standing on a tortoise, typifying thereby the secluded life of a virtu ous woman. In their own restricted sphere their lives were probably not unhap py. Education and custom rendered the purely domestic life. that was as--., . siglifd tp them a second nature,- it must, in most.. instances, have's|jMP onciled them to the extra matrimoni al connections in ,w Inch their hus bands too frepueatly prowwUng manners were^jj|^<ggb^ u ' spoken of; the husband lived chit in the publio place 1 ; causes of je. ousy and of disseiition could seidoq occur, and a feeling of warm affecijoß though not a feeling of equality, must doubtless have in most eases spontaneously arisen. In the writ ings of Xenophpn we have a charm ing picture of a husband who had received into his arms his young wife of fifteen, absolutely ignorant of the world and its ways. ,He speaks to her with extreme kifidness, hut in the language that would be used to 4 little child. Her task, he tells her is to be like a queen bee, dwelling con tinually at home and superintending the work of her slaves. S)ie must distribute to each their tasks, must economize the family incomeand must take especial care that the house is strictly orderly—the, shoes the pots and the clothes, always in their places. It is also, he tells her, a part of her duty to tend her sick staves; bnt here his wife interrupted him, ex claiming, “Nay but that will iudqed be the most agreeable of my ofiteeft. if such as I treat for my kindness are likely to be grateful, and to love me more thau before.” \Yith a very tender aud delicate care to avoid everything resembling a reproach, l the husband persuades his Wife so give up the habit of wearing high heeled boots, in order to appear tall, * and of coloring her face with Ver million and white lead. He promises her that, if she faithfully performs her duties, he will himself be the first and most devoted of her slaves, lie assured Socrates that, when, any . domestic dispute arose, he could extri cate himself admirably/ if he was in the right; but that whenever Ke was in the wrong, he found it impossible to convince his wife that it was other* - wise.— Appleton’s Journal, Which will you do—smile aad make your household happy, or be crabbed, and ma&e all those young ones gloomy, and the elder ones miserable ? The amount of hap piness you can produce is inoalcu* lable if you show a smiling face, a kind . heart and speak pleasant words. Wear a pleasant counte nance; let joy beam in your eyes, and love glow on your forehead. There is no joy like that which springs from a kind act or a pleas ant deed ; and you will feel it at night when you rest, at morning when you rise, and through the day when about your business.
