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Mmfetmce Member, JOHN 11. SEALS, SEW SERIES, VOLUME lIL Cjre Ctnf trance Cntsakv. Published every Thursday La the year, except two. THHIWS : Two Dollar*) per year, lu advance. C£U.\aa'&> C i.ubs or Ten Names, by sending the Cash, will receive the paper at .... *1 50"f* copy. i Ouras or Five Names, at 180 “ Any person sending us Five new subscribers, Lnclo- ! stag the money, shall receive an extra copy one year free of cost. ADVERTISING DIRECTORY: Bates of Advertising: 1 square, (twelve lines or less,) first insertion, Si 00 “ Each continuance, 50 Professional or Business Cards, not exceeding six lines, per year, 5 OO Announcing Candidates for Office, 3 00 Standing Advertisements: MS’ Advertisements not marked with the number of insertions, will be continued until forbid, and charged ; accordingly. j@BT“Merchants, Druggists and others, may contract ; lor advertising by the year on reasonable terms. Legal Advertisements: :<afe of Land or Negroes, by Administrators, Ex ecutors and Guardians, per sqnare, f> 00 Sale of Personal Property, by Administrators. Ex ecutors and Guardians, per square, 3 25 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 3 25 Notice for Leave to Sell, 4 00 Citation for Letters of Administration, ■■ 75 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Adm’n, 500 Citation for Letters of Dismission from Guard’p, 323 Legal Bequirements: Sales of Land and Negroes by Administrators, Exec- Htorsor Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on the hirst Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house door of the county in which the property is situate. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub lic Gazette, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of Personal Property must be given at feast tm days previous to the day of sale. Notices to Debtors and Creditors of an estate, must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of tirdinary, for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be pub- j lished weekly for two months. CfUtions for Letters of Administration, nmst be pub- j fished thirty days —for Dismission from Administration monthly, six months —for Dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly, for four months —for compelling titles from Ex ecutors or Administrators, where a bond has been issued by the deceased, the full space of three months. MS’ Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or dered. JOHN A. REYNOLDS, Publisher. Important, if True! VOBT* A LL NOTES & ACCOUNTS 1/ -LjL due the firm of PHELPS & SEALS tor the year 1850, not paid bv the 15th MARCH, will be sued INDISCRIMINATELY. Feb 18, 1838 THE Georgia Educational Journal, THE TEACHER’S FRIEND and PUPIL’S ASSISTANT, PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN QUARTO FORM, in FORSYTH, GA. at $2 00 for one year, or $1 00 for C mo. Every in Georgia ought to have this paper. Addreea ‘Georgia Educational Journal,’ Forsyth, Ga. GEO. F. WILBURN, M. D. Editor. Feb 13, 19,58 ly hmm fitmii *T\RS. COE & LATIMER would inform their friends JL/ and patients that one of the firm will constantly remain in Greenesboro’, and that the other will be found in the following places at the times specified below: White Plains, from March Ist to March 14th. Mount Zion, “ “ 15th to “ 28th. Oxford, “ April 12th to April 25th. Penfield, “ “ 26th to May 9th. As this time table will be strictly adhered to, those who call earlv will be mo3t likely to receive attention. Feb 25th, 1858 THE subscriber, having no engagements, is ready to receive any oilers to sell goods or keep books for any mercantile house or houses in Georgia, or to receive any offers from capitalists in the line, who may (visit an energetic man to buy and sell and attend to the details. Anv letters worthy of attention will be replied to. Address W. S. BAGBY. March 4-4 t The firm of j. m. bowles & co. is this day dissolved by mutual consent, Wm. B. Seals retiring. The business will be continued by J. M. Bowles at the same stand, where be will keep, at all rimes, a full supply of Family Groceries, and will be ready and willing to serve his friends at very Short Pro- 1 Hti for tie CASH. J. M. BOWLES, j Feb go WM. B. SEALS. j Greene Sheriffs Sale, WILL bo sold before the Court-house door in the city of Greenesboro, on the Ist Tuesday, in April next, between the legal hours ofenle, the following property, to-wit t The store-house and lot near Union Point: Levied rtn by virtue of a Justice’s Court f. fa. issued from the 14fcSth District. G. M. in favor of John F. Zimmerman t.o. Robert Newsome. Levied on and returned to me by Hiram Rouzec, Constable. Also, a negro girl about five years old, of black com plexion, bv name of Julia : Levied on by virtue ot two ‘ Justice’s Court fi. fat. issued from the 140tii District, i (. M. in favor of William A. Colclough &. Cos. t. P. J. Tuggle. Levied on l>y C-. B. Mitchell, Constable. |Onc house and lot in the village of White Plains,con- ‘ mining one acre, more or less, adjoining lands otR. H. j Jacks and others: levied on as the property of John K. j Floyd, a free man of color, to satisfy a 11 fa from the In ferior Court of Greene county, in favor of Thos. High- j tower, survivor, tt>, Elisha P. Jarrell, guardian for John K. Floyd. Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney. ! Also, at the same timeand place, one negro girl named ; Missouri, about sixteen years old, of dark complexion : i Levied on as the property of Ulysses B. King, to satisfy sundry Jj.fas. One in tnvor of John Rhodes tar. Ulys ses B. King and Alexander King, security, and other fi.fag. in my hands v*. U. B. King. Property pointed out by defendant. I. MORRISON, Sh’ff. March 2,1858. J LOST OR STOLEN’ ’ j ALL persons are forewarned against trading for I the following notes : A note on Wm F Luekie for Seventeen Dollars and Forty Cents, dated in April or , Alay last, and due the twentv'fifth December thereat- ‘ ter’; one on Wm Moore for Twelve Dollars and Twen ty *five Cents, dated in May or June last, and due the I twenty-fifth December thereafter; one on David Phelps i oT Hancock county for Twenty Dollars, dated in March ! last and due from date ; and one on John Mitchell of Mount Zion for Seventeen Dollars Twelve and a-half cenWf dated in April last, and due the twenty.fifth of December thereafter. j The above notes were made payable to the subscriber as guardian of free boys Jerry and Ben ; and the ma- I kers of the same are requested to make payment to no i D, SANFORD. Greenesboro’, March 4,1858. j Hi HE j; - VALUABLE BOOKS ; PUBLISHED BY THE SOUTHERN BAP.PUB’N SOCI, | No. 229 King Street, Charleston, 8. €. Mdi” A liberal discount made to Booksellers, Col par i tears. Ministers and Sunday Schools, for cash remittan. \ ces, satisfactory note* or reference. : jar* SMITH <s• WMILDSN, Depository Agents,] will mail any Book ordered from this list, on receipt of the price annexed. A MANUAL OF THEOLOGY, j By Rev J L-D*o&, DD of Ga. Second edition. Bvo j 379 pp. Price $1 50. work of great value ; for all Christians, especially every Minister of the j J Gospel. From the Christian Review. j “ The want has long been felt of a manual of Theol- j J ogy adapted to the instruction of thapdarge and rapidly | increasing class, lay preachers, sabbath school teachers, : I colporteurs, young ministers who arc thrust into the ; work without time or means for more extensive study; in short, intelligent Christians, who hare neither the time nor taete for protracted investigation. This book seems to us. after a careful examination, better suited to supply this want than any other we are acquainted with.” BOWEN’S CENTRAL AFRICA. Adventures and Missionary Labors in several coun- i tries in the interior of Africa, from 1840 to 1856, by ’ Rev T J Bowf.n. 12mo 359 pp. With an engraved Map of Yoruba —Price one dollar. DR. HOWELL’S WORKS. The Way of Salvation—By RBC Howell, PD — j Fifth ediiion. 12mo pp 336—Price 73 cents. THE CROSS. By Rev RBC Howell, D 1) author of “ Way of Salvation,” “ Evils of Infant Baptism,” etc. ltimo j pp 218 —Price 30 cents. THE COVENANTS. [ i By Robert Boyt C Howell, DI) pastor of the J Main-st (Second Baptist) Church, Richmond. Va j author of “ Terms of Communion,” “The Deacon- ; ; ship,” “ The way of Salvation,” “ The Evils of ! Infant Baptism,” “The Cross,” Sec. 12mo pp j 1 11—price 45 cents. EVILS OF INFANT BAPTISM. By Rev RBC llowkll, D D—Fifth edition. 16rno \ pp 310 —price 30 cents. I A DISCUSSION ON METHODIST EPISCOPACY, ! Between Rev J E Hamill, of the Alabama Confer . ence, and Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, • Tuskegee, and Rev Samuel Henderson, pastor of j the Tuskegee Baptist Church, and editor of the < South-Western Bnptist. Published at thi mutual : request of Baptists and Methodists. 12mo pp 400 ; —price 81. THE GRACE OF GOD MAGNIFIED, By H E Taliaferro, junior editor of the South-Wes- . tern Baptist, Tuskegee, Ala—with an introductory ! essay, by Rev B Manly, D D. 16mo -pp %—price : 25 cents. , THE CASKET: A Collection of Church Music, comprising selections | from the celebrated masters, besides a large amount j of new music. By G O Robinson, of Charleston, S. C. assisted by J B Woodbury of New York, pp 352 —Second edition—price one dollar. “We gladly commend to our readers this new book of sacred music.” SERMONS BY REV. J. J. FINCH, Os North Carolina, 12mo pp 314—With a portrait of the author, and memoir of his life —price 75 cents. BAPTISM AND TERMS OF COMMUNION, By Rev Richard Fuller, 1) D—Fourth ediiion. 16mo pp 252 —price 50 cents. SOCIAL VISITS; / Or, a few chesnuts for the children, and a Dinner for ihe Old Folks, by Uncle Charles, author of Sim ple Rhymes —18mo pp 229 —price 40 cents. DUTIES OF CHURCHES TO THEIR PASTORS, By Rev Franklin Wilson of Baltimore: third edi tion : 18mo pp 108 —price 25 cents. DUTIES OF PASTORS TO THEIR CHURCHES, By Rev TG Jones, Norfolk, Va: second edition: ISino pp 104—Price 25 cents. DUTIES OF MASTERS TO SERVANTS : Three Prize Essays, by Rev II N McTyeire, Rev C F Sturgis and Rev A T Holmes: 16mo pp ISI —price 35 cents. BAPTISM IN ITS MODE AND SUBJECTS, J By Professor P II Melt,, University of Georgia: j second edition : L6mo pp 300—price 50 cents. RESTRICTED COMMUNION; Or Baptism an Essential Pre-Requisite to the Lord’s ) Supper, by Rev J B Taylor: fifth edition, revised j and enlarged : 18mo cloth, pp 99 —price 25 cents. TALES FOR THE YOUNG i First series. The Pious Mother and her Dutiful Daughter ; or, the Dives of Emily Ross and Ellen Mervin, by the author of the Lost Found, and Clara C. &c—3i> cents, POETRY PROSE FOR TUB YOUNO. The First and Last Oath, with Other stories, by Car* oline Howard—‘JO cents. i BAPTIST PSALMODY. 40,000 copies sold. A selection of Hymns for the j i Worship of God, by Rev Basil Manly, DD and Rev Basil Manly, Jr—722 pp. Pew Fid it toti, I\2 mo j sheep, 75 cents ; Iloan.$l; Turkey, full gilt, $2,50; j < Turkey, full gilt, with clasp, 3,00; Velvet, with ‘ ! clasp, f> to 5,50. Pocket Edition, 32m0 Sheep, 50 1 cents; Roan, 75 cents; Tuck, gilt edges. $1,25; i Turkey, full gilt, 1,50; Turkey, full gilt, with i i clasp, 2 ; Velvet, several styles, from 3,50 to 4. i | NOTES AND QUESTIONS For the instruction of colored people, with appropriate Texts and Hymns, by Rev K T Winkler, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Charleston, with an in. troduction by Janies Tuppee, Esq. 18mo 134 pp— price 15c. | SIMPLE RHYMES IN FAMILIAR CONFERS A* TIONS FOR CHILDREN, ! By Rev C D Mallary, D D lGnio—price 25 cents. March 18, 1858. THE CO-PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing under the name and style of SMITH & HALL, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Either of the undersigned is authorised to settle the ! ! business oftbe late firm—one of whom may always be .found at the old stand. WM. C. SMITH, j Greenesboro, M'ch 1, 1858 JAS. F. HALL. In retiring from the business, wc beg to return our i ! many friends and customers our thanks for their hand- ‘ some and constant patronage, and would cordially so licit its continuance to our successor, Mr. W. Griffin. | March 18-2 t , S. &H. Dr. W. L. M. HARRIS, jC'liA'nirn. to the good eititens of Pen- 1 fyU field and vicinity, for the liberal confidence £B and encouragement given him, respectfully contin ues a tender of his professional services to them. Dr. R.-J. Massey, his former partner in the practice,, will, with pleasure, attend any call, at any time, that may be made while Dr. H- is professionally engaged ana cannot be obtained. March 11,1856 THE ADOPTED ORGAN OF ALE THE TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE STATE. PENFIELD, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 185 8. JUST RECEIVED 1 - A Large Stock of Family Groceries! CONSISTING OF All Grades Sugar and Coffee ; j Fine Syrups and Molasses ; Good Apple Vinegar; Rice ; ! Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Mackerel; A large lot of Hydraulic Candles, which can be I bought exceedingly low ; A variety of Pickles ; Marcaroni; Sago; Currants ; Raisins and Candies ; i Table Salt; ‘ Soda; Pepper and Spicee ; j Chewing and Smoking Tobacco ; Pipes; Any quality oFar Cigar ; Large lot of .Tar Snuff; All qualities of Soap; Drugs and Patent Medicines; Periumery—a choice lot. B way of remark, I would say to the citizens and vi i einity of Penfield, that I am giving this business my un | divided attention ; and if they will give me a liberal pa ; tronage, I will save them the TROUBLE and EX ; PENSK of going farther. Penfield, Ga. March 9, 1857. J. M. BOWLES. | riVWO MONTHS after date, application will be | -I- made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to selll all ! the land belonging to the estate of McKinney Howell, j deceased. ~ SAMUEL JOHNSON, Sr. Ex’r. j March 18,1858 REFLECTIONS IN AN EVENING WALK. “An undevout astronomer is mad.” j . , , . i •**•**’ ! “Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty ; just and true are all thy ways, Thou King of Saints.” Such is the warm and elevated language of inspiration—such are the sentiments of piety and love. The existence of a being infinitely good, wise and powerful, is strikingly displayed on all the works of creation. “ Every thing that proveth it, j giveth cause of adoration.” Let the bold infidel I attentively examine the beauty and grandeur of * the universe; and consider the constitution of his own nature, “fearfully and wonderfully made.” | —let him reflect on the revolutions of the sea sons, and the charming diversity they afford —let | him eontemplate the lively bloom of spring, the | rich splendor of summer, the ripe luxuriance of ■ autumn, and the hoary face of winter, “Or look abroad through nature to the range Os planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense” — • And will not the survey of scenes, so beautiful — so wonderful—so magnificent—so sublime, teach . him to confess the existence—admire the wisdom , —adore the greatness, and revere the majesty of [ the Most High ? Will it not dissipate the dread t ful gloom of his thoughts, and diffuse the glpri ; ou.s light of religion over his mind ? He who will ! not bo convinced by truths so manifest and im i pressive, “Is lost to virtue-lost to manly thought; Lost to the noble sallies of the soul.” j He has perverted the gifts of nature, and degra ded the dignity of humanity—-he is unworthy to participate the blessing of social intercourse, or to I ei\joy the esteem of his fellow creatures. He • should be considered as an alien to society—an ! enemy to man—and an object of contempt. Although a perfectly convincing proof of the ! existence of a Supreme Being may be deduced j from an examination of the wonderful structure i of the body and the noble faculties of the mind ; —from a contemplation of the inferior orders of creation, and from beholding the delightful va : rieties of the earth—yet when we elevate our-view I and survey “The spacious firmament on high,” | Where “Orbs wheel in orbs—round centres, centres roll I Our beliof is still move great, and our amazement I and admiration are still more increased. We j cannot but exclaim with the Psalmist; “The Heavens declare the glory of God, And the firmament showetn his handy work,” I That being who can look upon these bright and i glorious objects of Almighty Power with indiffer ! ence, must either possess the coldness of infidel ity, or, in the forcible language of the motto, ; “ must be mad.” j In the contemplation of the Heavens, there is i a pleasure derived, which to a reflecting mind, is | far more pure and sublime, than any other employ i meat can afford. It is a pleasure, derived from J the sweetest and most holy affections of love* • gratitude and devotion. At the still and solemn hourof night, when ev er)’ breath is peace, and not a cloud obscures the serenity and beauty of the heavens, who can be hold the “ Blue ethereal sky,” : spangled with innumerable stars, j “Forever si.iging as they shine, The hand that made us is Divine,” j without glowing with admiration for wonders so I magnificent—without feeling adoration for their great Creator ? j “There is a noble pathos in the skies, Which warms our passions, proselytes our hearts.” The mind is exalted by their majesty, and en lightened by tlioir splendor. Imagination is i awakened —and while our eyes are elevated above j the earth, we seem to approach nearer to the ! presence of that-Almighty Being “who hath meas ; ured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a spftn, and comprehended | the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed 1 the mountains in scales, and the hills in a bal | ance.” - THH HOME MOTHER. Some one writing for the Masonic Mirror, has drawn a picture of a home-loving, child-loving mother: Wo must draw a broad lino between her and the frivolous butterfly of fashion, who flirts from ball to opera and party, decked in rich robes, and followed by a train as heartless as herself-she, ! who forgetful of the holy task assigned her, neg s lects those who have been given to her charge, ! and leaves them to the care of hirelings, while ’ she pursues her giddy round of amusement. Not j so with our homo mother, blessing bo upon her I head. The heart warms to see her in her daily j routine of pleasant duties. i How pleasantly she sits day after day, shaping and sewing some little article for use and adorn ! ment for her little flock! And how proud and E leased is each little recipient of her kindness.— [ow the little faces dimple with pleasure, and the bright eye grows still brighter, as mamma decks them with her own hands, in the new dress she, has made! *How much warmer and more comfortable they feel ifmamma wraps them up before they go to school! No one but ahe can * warm the mitts and overshoes, or tie the com *> sorters around their necks. There is a peculiar charm about all sho does, . the precious mother. They could not sleop—nay, for that matter, she cfmld not—if she failed to visit their chamber, and with her own’ soft hands arrange them comfortably before they slept. Her heart thrills with gratitude to her Creator as she looks on those sweet blooming faces, and when their prayers are done, imprints a good night. | kiss on each rosy mouth. It may bo too, a tear i will start for the little nestling bird in its chill, | narrow oed, for whom her maternal care is no j longer needed. It sleeps though the sleet and j snow descend and the wild Winter howls around its head. It needs no longer her tender care ! A ; mightier arm enfolds it! It is at rest. She feels ana knows that it is right, and bends meekly to the hand that sped the shaft, and turns with a warmer love, if it be possible, t<> those little ones 1 who jftfe left to love. How tenderly sho guards them from danger, and with what a strong, un | tiring love she watches their bedside when they arc ill. Blessings on the gentle, home-loving mother. Angels will Took with love upon her-acts. Her children will rise up and call her blessed, and the memory of kindly deeds will enfold her as a garment. EDITRESS’ f v 3 J By Mrs. M. £. Bryan. ORANGE BLOSSOMS. IT has been laid upon our table by some friendly hand—this graceful spray of orange buds and flowers, delicate as frost work, pure as pearls, fra grant as the breath of the tropic summer, with the chilly dew-drops trembling on the fairy pe tals, and a freshness in the half unfolded buds that Übtokens how recently they have been se vered from the parent stem. How vividly these “ fragrant heralds of the juicy orange” suggest visions of the glorious, fruit-abounding summer, and yet lovelier, tenderer images of fair young brides, with their white robes floating like an Al pine mist around them, anti their brows bound with this emblematic wreath placed there by the loving hand of a mother, whose tears perchance dropped unseen, unheeded upon the pure blos soms. Unheeded, for the cheek of tb# bride is flushed with hope and love, and joyful anticipa tion ; and in her selfish happiness she has scarce a thought for the aching heart that has pillowed her head for years; for the strong, changeless, deathless love of a mother, is high above the fit ful blaze of passion, as the holy stars of yonder Heaven, are above the transient gleam of the nisfatuux. But lam digressing; and while I have been writing, my sister (the only one who has the right of enfree into my sanctum, where she flits about with a privileged air, suiting herself to my moods,) has taken my orange blossoms and twined'them in her hair, and now calls upon me to admire her bride-like aspect. They contrast so beautifully in their pearly whiteness with her j jet black hair, that lam fain to 1 let her have j them ; but lam selfish enough to wish that it ; may be long before my pet lamb shall be decked ‘ for the sacrifice with these bridal flowers, or lake : it into her pretty head ” To lay aside her maiden gladness. For a name and fora ring.’’ CONCERT AT FLETCHER INSTITUTE. VITk had the pleasure, a few daj*s ago, of altend ii ing a ooncert given by Miss Hansel! at her I academy in Thomasville, and assert that we en joyed to the utmost both the music and the beauty of the fair performers. It was indeed a - contrast—the cold, frosty night without, I and within warmth, light and fragrance, vino- 1 wreathed rooms, garlanded chandeliers and that I group of sweet young girls, llower-crowned and ; white-robed, their fair faces all aglow with health j and pleasure. It has been said that youth and health are always beautiful, and we are sure that there was not one really plain face in that band of young singer's. The conceit opened with the majestic “Gloria” of Mozart by Professor Steinert, and after it came a thanksgiving anthem, sung by half the school. It was a scene worthy an artist’s pencil, “Childhood’s cheek and brow Mantling beneath the earnest veil of thought,” and in the back-ground, the tall, queenly form of the Preceptress, looking as though “ Nature had made her in some dream of old-world wo men,” and by her side, in direct contrast with her majestic beauty, the sweet, spiritual face of her young assistant. Miss Hansell is no ordinary teacher. She pur sues the profession she has chosen, because it is to her a labor of love, because her strong, active mind finds a vent for its abundant energies in the delicate and difficult task of instructing and dis ciplining the minds of her young charges. How admirably she lias succeeded, and how fully she has won the love and respect of her pupils, is well known to all her numerous patrons. MARRIAGE. An unknown correspondent, who affixes to her dainty note the pseudonym of “Lilly Bell,” wishes us to tell her what we think of marriage, as she is “young and inexperienced.” • Dear Lilly Bell, wliat would be th'e use of tell ing you? Doubtless you are like the rest of the “young and inexperienced” girls who, though affecting great deference to the opinions of others, are apt, in the end, to follow’ their own sweet wills. I once heard my father relate a rather pertinent anecdote of an eccentric friend of his—the well known Gov. Duval, of Florida. I shall give it as my father did, in the Governor’s own language, leaving Lilly Bell to make the application: “ One morning,” said the Governor, “as I was sitting in the piazza with my paper, deep in poli tics, my wife swept by in full sail for a shopping expedition.” “My dear,” 6aid she, as she passed me, “T wish you would keep an eye upon Tommy, (our youngest hope,) and see/that he does not fall out of the piazza—l have set his nurse to work in the dining-room.” I nodded carelessly, and went on reading. Af ter avrhile, patter, patter, I heard Tommy coming on all-fours. I looked up; he was making for the head of the steps, where he was in the habit of going, frightening his mother, and occasioning many shrieks and incipient hysterics. I let him alone, knowing that experience is the best tea cher in the world. He peered furtively over the top step, contemplated its height and drew back undecided; looked again, and again instinct got the better of curiosity; but finally, he leaned too far, lost his balance, and over he went with a scream. 1 ran out, picked him up, gave him a j lump of sugar and went on reading, sure that Tommy would never attempt the descent of the steps again. Just so, my dear Lilly Bell, will it be with you, and your fair sisterhood, who are yet “ Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet. Womanhood and childhood fleet.” You will not he deterredfrom “trying the steps,” by any advice or remonstrance. You toss your pretty curls now, and declare saucily that you “had rather not barter your freedom away;” but you will be very sure to marry the first fine opportunity, if for no other reason than because it is the fashion; and even if you fail to find the “ spirit-mate,” the “dear ideal” about whom you talked *o prettily. Dr. Johnson, speaking of the two states of mar riage and single bless odness, affirmed that they were equally happy, and that man, discontented mortal that he was, would be equally dissatisfied in either—or something of the kind; I never can quote the exact words of anybody. • Now, I dare say Dr. Johnson was right. Bach state has its peculiar pleasures and trials. Young Harry Brown, who- accepts the invitation of his’ j old college chum, Charley—now two years a Ben edict—to take tea with him, is tilled with envy at seeing the rapturous kiss which pretty Mrs. Charley bestows upon her husband at meeting, (blushing naively at being caught in the act by a stranger); by the charming manner in which she presides at table, and the pride and pleasure that the young couple take in Master Charley, junior, who is brought out for exhibition in his best hu mor, and embroidered slip. He mentally con trasts this pleasant fireside with hia own cheer less bachelor-den, buttonless shirts and cross landlady. But would he envy the “happy Char ley,” when, three hours later, that unfortunate Benedict waked from Ills comfortable snooze by a vocal serenade, promenades the room in a very airy costume, considering the state of the thermom eter, with baby in a high degree of excitement, and baby’s mother in spasms of nervousness and tooth ache ? Or at the close of the year, when bills pour in like magic, would he envy him, think you, as he sits marvjWing how wonderfully robes ala Imperatrice, loves of bonnets, ribbons and whalebone add to the sum total of family ex penses ? And you, my dear Lilly Bell, who now envy your friend Carrie her matrimonial happiness, and the proud yet tender air with which she says “ my husband,” leans upon his strong arm and looks up lovingly into his face, could you take a peep behind the curtains and see the clouds that fre quently diversify the connubial sky, the wonder ful quantity of shirts required by “my husband,” and the thousand and one petty trials, vexations and cares, all unknown to your girlhood, that at tend the wife and mother, to say nothing of house-keeping troubles, with their frequent de mands upon temper and patience—did you, I say, see all this in a peep behind the scenes, you i would not be so apt to think the marriage state the i Utopia you now imagine it. Yet, nevertheless, Lilly Bell, you would marry, and it is right and true to nature that you should. I I'or this end has God endowed you with mater t nal instincts, with such wealth of tenderness, 1 such forbearing love, such gentleness and such ; holy faith. Then marry when you please, but enter upon \ i the new duties trustfully, seriously; lay rever | ently aside the roses that have decked your girl | ish brow for the crown of matronhood, and dear . Lilly Bell, never marry without love. You will . need it in the life-long companionship that must | ensue ; and after all, love is the great refiner and beaptifier of life, gilding like sunshine its every | day actualities, brightening the tears of sorrow’, i | and bidding even the thorns of poverty blossom ‘■ i into roses. ! pale you are, my dear Mrs. l>!” said I XI to a young wife, whom I found (on calling one evening) sitting by the window, stiching away for dear life with the hair pushed back from her temples—a sure indication of lassitude or fatigue. “1 shall take you away from that stupid sewing; it is such a delightful evening to walk, and I am sure you need exercise.” “ Hardly, I should think,” was the reply, with a faint smile. “If you knew how busy I have been all day, * cleaning up/ making soap, doing over mattresses and nursing baby, you would not think I needed exercise.” “ Yes,” said her husband, looking up from his paper, while lolled back in his easy chair, with his feet on the fender—he was comfortably read ing—■“ that’s the right kind of exorcise for you: a hundred per cent, better than your dancing, riding and such fol-de-rol.” I looked at the pale, care-worn woman, whom two years before I had seen a blooming bride* and thought silently that his theory of exercise needed no other comment on its fallacy. Silently, I said; for I ventured no remonstrance; it would have availed nothing. A politely incredulous smile would have been my only answer. You might as well have attempted to convince a board ing-school Miss of fifteen that a pink-silk bonnet was not becoming in a school-girl, as to make that smiling, self-satisfied man believe he was ever in the wrong. Yet, readers mine—dear male readers who have wives or expect to have—will you be lieve me when I assure you that, if you want a cheerful, healthy, happy wife, instead of a poor, lifeless creature who, as she is in duty bound, calls up a ghost cf a smile at your approach, you must not imagine that household drudgery (or “domestic avocations,” as you are pleased to term it) is all the recreation they need ? Many men are habitual tyrants without being aware of it —nay, even while flattering themselves that tlxey are the kindest and most indulgent of husbands. A dignified frown from the Jove of the household (throned in state in his arm-chair, in slippers and dressing gown) effectually checks all attempt at playfulness or gayety on the part of the young wife, who, ambitious of matronly dignity, represses her natural buoyancy of dispo sition and becomes at length the spiritless shadow of her former self—a pray to dyspepsia and ner vousness. It is these poor, pale scare-crows on the field of matrimony that deter bo many from entering the ranks. “Oh l she’s in dreadful health and never goes out at all,” is frequently the careless or half-cem. plaining reply of the husband, when, at the close of a pleasant chat, the gay girl with whom he has been conversing thinks to iuquire after his wife, Certainly she’s “in dreadful health.” Who could help having headache and heartache and va pors, when it Is one monotonous, “ Work, work, work! -> Always doing —never done — From the yellow rising - To the set of sun,’ ’ with scarcely ever a word of praise or encourage ment, and but few loving smiles or endearing epithets from him who won her young heart, and who is now all the world to her? Consequently, she grows prematurely old in mind and body, her face acquires a pinched, care-worn look, more be. coming to her grand-mother; she becomes dis heartened, neglects her person, loses her elasti city of spirits and that sympathy with youth which serves to keep the heart ever fresh and dewy; and all this while her recreant lord loun ges in his luxurious office cliair, smokes fine llavannas, drinks wine, gossijfc down town, takes after-dinner-naps and grows portly and hand some. It has been frequently remarked how very rap idly American ladies lose their youth and beauty after marriage, while in France and England they are in their prime at thirty, and fresh and fair even when the mothers of young debutantes in so ciety. ■ “ I freely award the palm of beauty to your American girts,” said an English gentleman to his New York friend, whop at one of our fash ionable watering-places, Wwky of pretty maidens EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. YOL. XXIV. NUMBER 10 came down like nn “ avalanche of roses,” fresh from their surf-bathing and morning toilette. “ Aye!” rejoined the candid American,” but to your English women I award the palm with a date” thus paying a delicate compliment to their power of retaining, as well as possessing beauty. It is true, that we have among nation of old young women—married ladies between twenty and thirty-five, who resemble matrons of fifty, who have acquired a habit of constantly talking and thinking about tliefr “ wretched health,” and who, in losing the wish to please, have as a matter of course lost the power. I cannot help believ ing that much <?f the blame of this rests upon those husbands who think it the duty of their young brides to ascend without any gradual steps, at onpe from the girl to the sedate matron, and imagine that so soon as the honey moon is over, the wife must settle down into a mere arugde, who has no business allowing even her thoughts to dwell upon any pleasures outside the sphere of domestic duties. Dear, pompous, self-conceited Benediot, who insists on believing that of course your wife is blessed and happy because forsooth she has the honor of being your wife, pray do not fancy that the stereotyped smile with which that poor, patient creature meets you, is an indication of a satisfied spirit. Would you like to see a real, genuine heart-smile break like sunshine over those care worn featiA’es? The receipt is very simple. It will not oost you half the amount yearly expan ded in blue pills, cod-livor oil and patent sarsa parillas for that same sick wife. When you re turn home some pleasant evening, leave your surliness and dignity behind, bend down and kirn tenderly the pale forehead she raises at your ap proach, gently draw that everlasting sewing from her hands, assure her that you are in no very proving need of such a quantity of shirt bosoms and tell her to throw a veil over her head and take a pleasant walk with you this charming evening. If she insists on taking baby, cany him youself, or if the evening dbes not chance to be ■ a pleasant one, ask hoi* to play and sing some of S the sweet old songs that recall the happy hours ! of love and courtship. \ Insist on her accompanying you to an occa sional concert, party or lecture, and appropriate a half holiday to taking her a long drive or horse back ride into the beautiful country where she may see violets and daises, green plains and blue skies, and hear singing birds and brooks, and sweet forest sounds, that bring back one’s youth again. Twine a wild rose or jasmine in her hair j with a delicately expressed compliment about | her being as sweet and fair as ever to you, and my word for it, her smile and blush, and -the bright, glad look in her grateful eyes will amply repay you for the trouble. In a little while, yon may fill the sarsaparilla bottles with blackberry wine and give tho pill boxes to Johnny to play with; for walks and rides, especially on horse back, are the best panacea, besides being the most delightful exorcise in the world. Don’t you think so, Helen ? I beg your pardon, read ers mine; I was not talking to you; I was speak ing to my sister, who has just looked over my shoulder, my double, as I call her, and a glorious creature she is, too, whom I mean to “ storify aid glorify,” one of these days. She is fully com petent to give her opinion on the subject of out door exercise ; for oh ! the long, rambling walks and horse-back rides we have had together, over breezy hills and shadow-flecked meadows, breast ing the strong winds with a joyful sense of free dom, and singing snatches of wild ballads as we swept along, with the strings of our hats unloosed to the breeze, far out into the open country, away from the town with its Paul Frys and Ma dame Grundys, and its vinegar-faced spinsters, who wßuld lift up their hands in righteous indig nation at our rudeness, or affirm tartly that w “only rode to show ourselves.” What of that? We never came back from such excursions without renewed energy of mind and body, sunnier, pleasanter views of life, and an increased appetite for hot rolls and raspberry * jam. , YOUNG WOMEN’S PART IN LIFE. TiifißE is something in a pleasant-faced damsel which takes a young man’s eye —whether he will or no. It may bo magnetism. It may bo the sympathy of that which is beautiful in men’s natures for that which is lovely in women’s. The women have great power over tho sex called sterner. Particularly so, if they be young, pretty and marriageable. Young woman 1 do you know that it is you who are to mould someman’B life ? Have you ever thought of the responsibility that attaches to you long before you are married? A word you may say to a young man whom you may never marry nor even see a second time, will pos sibly exert an influence over his life that you don’t dream of! A smile does wonders in lighting up the dark corners of a man’s soui—a word in the right place may electrify his whole being. ▲ wrong influence will do more damago in a single instant than a lifetime may correct. I know of a case in point. A young gentleman making new year’s complimentary calls found himself unable to resist the pleading of a young lady to toko a glass of mild wine with her. lie had abjured li quors, and their taste had not been on his lips for months—but that glass eho gave him raised the appetite, and it was too much for bis powers of resistance. He became a drunkard, and died wretchedly not long ago. That is one instance. But it is not the only one that could be adduoed. It is not ohly the offering of liquors to young men at the hands of young women that produces fre quent evils, but it is the fashionable extravagance of •> large majority of the young women, in town and country, that frightens young men away from all intention of matrimony, leads tbem to look upon the whole sex with distrust, and drives them ‘to scenes where they are not bound hand and foot by the unreasonable demands of feminines who would spend faster than they could make. And the fact that this tendency shows signs of increase makes the case worse. The fever of fashionable dress, the ignorance of housewifely accomplish ments, the lack of the peculiar home-virtues that are calculated to make a home lovely—infect the villages now-a-days as they do the city. It is not necessary, young woman, thatyou should flaunt in gorgeous apparel, oven if your father can af ford to foot the dry-goods bill. Nor is it neces sary that you should permit your mother to drub all day in tho kitchen while you fold your hand* and keep them prettily whito in the parlor. Whou an earnest, energetic, hard-working, sensible young fellow, who is in search of a wife, sees such performances, he fears and hesifhtes, refuses to marry at all perhaps, and so does only half the good he could in the world—simply because he as no notion of fulfilling the homely but very truthful adage which tells of placing a man’s noeo continually upon the grindstone. We commend the subject to the regards of our young women readers. Let them cultivate the domestic virtuea —make themselves true women—know a wo man’s duties—cherish their hands less and their intellect more—and their lot will be happier a.id better. More than this, they will find that there are mate* in the world for them, and those worth having. Will not mothers bring the true mode of life b< afore their daughters in the light in which of common senate. That is the* rarest of virtues; more valuable because therfc is tom* j paratively little of it to be found.