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isceliancmts-
From tit Springfield (Jfast') Republican.
“TIMOTHY TITCOMB’S” LETTERS
TO Y0UUG WOMEN.
When 1 was a joung man, (memory does
not have to go so far as it might to recall
that period,) I observed a couple of facts
from which' I now propose to draw a les
son for your benefit. I observed, first,
that young married women had a peculiar
charm for unmarried young men, and that
a young man’s first love was almost uni-
formily devoted to a woman older than
himself. I suppose I might name one
young inan who was effected in this way,
but what would be the use ? It is enough
for you to know the facts, and for me to
explain and improve them.
A marriageable young woman occupies,
or is made to occupy, a position of pecu
liar hardship. Our theory is that a young
woman should never-make an advance to
ward the man she loves and would marry.
Such a step is deemed inconsistent with
maiden modesty. I do not quarrel with
this, but the effect lias been to make young
women, who possess sensitive natures,
hypocrites. It ought not to do it, but it
does. Every modest young woman, poss
essing a good degree of gumption, plays a
part, almost always, when in the society of
young men. The fear is that by some
word or look, or act, she shall express such
a degree of interest in a young man as
shall lead him to believe she Is after him.
Young women study the effect of their
language, they put on an artificial and
constrained style of behavior, for fear that
some ass will misconstrue them, or spme
gentleman whom they wish to please will
deem them too forward, and so become
disgusted. The result is that a man rare
ly finds out either the best or worst points
of his wife’s character before he marries
her. Social intercourse is carried on un
der a kind of protest, which places every
young woman in a position absolutely
false before the eyes of young men. Ma
ny a woman owes a life of celibacy and
disappointment to the fact that slic never
felt at liberty to act out herself.
With these statements it is very easy
to understand the attractions which a
young married woman has for a bachelor,
and to explain the phenomenon of a young
man falling in love with a woman older
than himself. In the first instance, a mar
ried woman becomes agreeable because
she becomes perfectly natural and unre
strained, her circumstances allowing all
the more grateful forms of politeness—the
cordial greeting, the complimentary atten
tions, and the free conversation—without
the danger of being misconstrued. In the
latter instance, the woman throws off her
constraint in the same manner, because
she is in the society of one whom she re
gards as, in reality, a hoy.' She finds ve
ry much to her surprise, that she has won
the boy’s heart, but it was the most natu
ral thing in the world. He had never got
a sight at a woman’s nature before. The
girls with whom he had associated hadal-
ways worn a mask. The real heart be
hind it he had thus far foiled to appre-
There is a very general impression
among the young men whose affections |
have got common sense, and know what I
mean. Some people, I suppose, would
present you with a formula by which to
conduct all your intercourse with young
men. I know a large number of fathers
and mothers will think that upon this
subject I ought to guard my language,
and be more particular; but I know very
well that if you have not sense and pru
dence enough to take this general coun
sel, and use it judiciously, no qualifica
tions that I could make would be of any
service to you. I trust you. I believe
you are virtuous young women, with pure
hearts and true intentions; and I know
there is no danger to you until you cease
to be such. You have an instinct—God’s
word in your own souls, that tells you when
a man takes the first wrong step towards
you; and if you do not repel that step in
such a manner that it will never be re
peated, do you suppose that anything I
could say would do any good ? I say this:
that perfect frankness and cordiality in
the treatment of the young men are en
tirely consistent with the safety of any
true woman from insult or offensive famil
iarity. Is your father afraid to trust you
out of his sight? I am not. If I were, I
should he ashamed to confess it, particu
lar!}' if you were a daughter of mine. I
believe in you, and I believe, moreover,
that this infernal idea that men are your
natural enemies, and that you nhist cheat
them and look out for them, could be got
out of the way, and a free and unconstrain
ed social intercourse established between
you and them, they would be much bet
ter, and you altogether safer for it
There is another subject more or less
associated with this, which may as well
be treated here. It is very natural for
young women to get in the habit of treat
ing only those young men politely whom
they happen, for various reasons, to fancy.
They “ don’t care” what the majority of
the young men may think of them, provi
ded they retain the good will of their par
ticular pets. They are whimsical, and take
on special likes or dislikes for the young
men whom they meet One is “perfectly
hateful,” and another Ls “perfectly splen
did,” and so they proceed to make fools
of themselves over both parties. Now there
is nothing upon which a man is so sensi
tive as the matter of being treated with
polite consideration by the young women
of his acquaintance; and I know of noth
ing tliat will tend more certainly to
make a young man hateful than to treat
him as if he were so. There are a multi
tude of young men whose self-respect is
nurtured, whose ambition is quickened,
and whose hearts are warmed with a gen
ial fire, by those considerate recognitions
on the part of their female acquaintances
which assure them that they have a posi
tion in the esteem of those with whom
they associate the sweetest hopes and hap
piness of life. To be cut for no good cause
is to receive a wound which is not easily
healed.
The duty, therefore, which I would in
culcate is that of systematic politeness. If
you know a young man, bow to him when
you meet him. He will not bow to you
first, for he watts for your recognition.—
He does not know whether you esteem
him of sufficient value to be recognised.
If you pass him without a recognition,
jirp not cn^Rircd tliat ttic best women arc ■ - . «. « «
are noi engage m ^ j you say to him, in a language which he
feels with a keenness which you cannot
j married, and that those who are left
! not amount to much. They will think
j differently some time or other.
Now my idea is that this universal
DR. J. T. GROVES,
^JHAS removed to the office next door to
XW A. C. Day’s shop, where he may be found
Q both day and night, unleasprofessionally J mask-wearing business should be broken
engaged. Prompt attention given to all calls,
by day or night.
Cassville, Jan. 21, 1853.
M. McMURRY,
Dealer in Family Groceries,
CONFECTIONARIES, Ac.,
Cassville, Ga.
Feb. 1st, 1858—ly.
measure, that you consider him beneath
your notice. You plant in his heart im
mediately a prejudice against yourself.—
You disturb him. You hurt him, and this
too, let me admit, very frequently without 1
design. You are sensitive yourself and
are afraid he has forgotten you. You
think, perhaps, that he would not like to
notice you, and would not like to have you
up. It does injustice to all parties. If
there is, in society, any poor fool of a
voung man whose vanity is so open to
flattery that a young woman cannot treat
him with natural cordial politeness, with
out his thinking she would like to marry ,
kind of thing, doubtless, but it is all wrong.
There is no' matt who will not return your
bow, and feel the better for your smile;—
j out ms murning sue »~ ' , notice him . There is a good deal of this
! him, and is trying to ensnare him, let him ^ ^ hut it is alt wrong.
I think so, and trust to time and cireum
: stances for justice. Such men are of too
little account to pay for carrying
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NEW GOODS'. NEW STORE! NEW L0- ceitful face, and despoiling the intercourse ^ is * ,nd has his position in the
CATION ANDNEW ARRANGEMENT! | ofth e young of its sweetest charms. If ^ ^ of ^ ^ h ^L not as
Wm. Kay, Agent, the many attractions, personal or circumsten-
HAS fur sale a large assort- no pains to conceal it, u tial as others, you have made his heart
Of Books, SLttionefy, Musi- ifran k cordiality. No true gentleman a- ^ and toward yourself a
misconstime you. fth» ^ ^ .kin, ^
.-.fretail..t thelowest possible not necessary for you to_ tell them tot to
you expect to live a maiden life. J j ^ yQUng woman w ho is afraid of com-
ry, wholesale
cash rates. A share of the public patronrge is
Particular attention paid to country orders, know you lie. It will not do to indicate , ^... u„ recognizing
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’‘arSf.sK&r 1 ST'S. <***>«> ^
’ f° r he knows . tenure she holds her own respectability.
ought to like them, «d that if * herself to be a
indulgence of offensive familiarity. Such only cypher in the family ? When you
women have a sacredncss in his eyes that j have finished school do not for s.monttnt
no other woman possesses, and he would believe you are educated. Don’t dress up
offend them in no way, for the world. in your flounces, ect. arid gH town fltrthe
The advice I have given yon in these !«*» ™ tin S that young derk at
matters is partly for the benefit of yo«r j “ Ket«hum and Cheatiuns to caff
sex, and partly for mine. I believe that round. No; let hun show off hut lac£
there should be a for more rational mode embroideries, eta, and wear them too, for
of intercourse between young men and
young women than at present exists. I
believe that every legitimate attraction
that your society has for young men
should be free and unconstrained. I be
lieve that there is no good reason why a
young married woman should lie more at
tractive to a bachelor than yourselves, and
that in the degree in which they are more
attractive, do you wrong yousclves and
the young men of your acquaintance. I be
lieve that it is well for you, and well for
young men, tliat they should he attracted to
you by a frank behavior on your part, which
will place them at their ease, and exercise
upon them all that good influence which
a pure, strong, outspoken female nature is
so well calculated to exert. Young men
and young women, to use a catch phrase
of the day, “ are in the same boat.” But
a few vears will pass away before they
are the bosom companions of each other,
and the fathers and mothers of the land.
It matters everything to them that they
understand each other; and to this end,
in my judgement, an intercourse should
he established upon a very different basis
from that which is now maintained by so
ciety. It should lie more simple, more
ample, more natural more trustful, and
more heartily considerate. There is no
thing in the history of the race to prove
that anything has ever been preserved or
won to virtue by a system of essential
folsehood, or a policy of arbitrary con
straint. Many a girl feels this, and will
feel it to her dying day. To tie a young
woman up to the meanly cautious conven
tionalism, of the day, Ls to prepare her as
a helpless sacrifice to the first designing
villian who insinuates himself into her
confidence. Many a woman groans to-day
in bondage to a drunkard, a libertine, or
a dolt, who only needed to have been al
lowed to know men better to have secured
a proper companion.
I say, then, to yon, young women, re
form this thing altogether. It is in your
hands. I give you the idea: l leave you
to carry it into practice. You do not need
that I should tell you how to do it. If
you are not vicious, there is nothing for
vou in your mind and heart, to conceaL—
Be simple yourselves, taking all possible
care to make yourselves what you should
be. Learn to think kindly of all young
men, save those whom you have reason to
believe possess black hearts and foul in
tentions—those who arc enemies of your
sex and social purity. Treat every young
man well both for his sake and your
own. You shall thus be the light of many
eyes, and your kind heart, thorough good
manners, and transparent nature, cannot
foil to attract to you those whose true no
bility is the most strongly touched by that
which is best in womanhood. One of those
will become your companion, I am inclined
to think, if human nature, meanwhile,
does not suffer some remarkable change.
Tuiotiit Trrcosti!.
Farmers’ Daughters.
Miss L. Virginia Smith, tliat
all you care about it Remember, that
“let others do as they wifi, as for you,”
you have something else to do than to sit
down, fold your white hands, and wait to
be married. You have an interest in so
ciety to wield—duty as a daughter, and
perhaps as a sister to perform—and then
you must not forget yourself, for you have
a mind to cultivate, health to be guarded,
a heart to be "educated, and an imrnwrtal
soul to be saved! Is not this a great deal
of work ? Yes, trust me, if you only go
about it with a will, you will find every
moment employed, and every day too
short for its accomplishment of all your
duties. You know how much you can as
sist Mamma in all her varied departments
of domestic economy—the dairy, the poul
try yard, the store-room, the sewing bas
ket, the garden, the shrubbery, and twen
ty other things over which her watchful
eye presides; but while you are doing all
you ran for her, please don’t neglect Pa
pa. Now I see you simple incredulously,
saying to your nice little self, “ Why, what
in the world could I do for Papa ?” Oh!
a great deal if you will assume the respon
sibility. Besides preparing some refresh
ing delicacy when he comes in, as he ex
presses it, “ hungry as a hawk,” or sing
ing him a sweet song when his mind is o-
ver-tasked; you can talk with him, and
learn of him about his fields, his stock, or
his buildings—you can read to him his
agricultural books and papers and so qn,
(for there is a good detd of “ head work”
in farming) and thus improve your own
mind, while adding also to his-knowledge.
Suppose then, that some day he is called
off on important business, though it is in
the hurry of harvesting; he quietly takes
his seat in the cars, and “ goes on his way
rejoicing.” “ Ah! Squire, glad to see
you, but how in the world did you get up
to town, this is your busiest season, is it
not?’ The old man smiles, a deep light
flashes in his blue-grey eye—is it pride
or love V as he quietly replies. “ Yes sir,
it is—hut my Mary will attend to that.’*
Oh! would you not “ glory” in tliat ? I
would
I can see no necessity in the world for
your troubling yourself about marrying,
but if Harry Thornton, that intelligent,
handsome, and successful young man, will
keep on coming to consult your Papa a-
bout this or that—always contriving by
the way, to terminate his consultation with
a walk, a ride tete a tete with Papa’s Ma
ry—why then you needn’t be surprised
on some fine evening, to hear yonrself
“respectfully solicited” to become Mrs.-
Harry Thornton. Then I wish you to re
member marriage is only a question of
will with you—not a necessity—your pa
rents are not all anxious to get rid of such
a sweet, sensible, brave and beautiful
child; and you, if you have a “ call” to
become a wife, you have been too well ed
ucated to fear the name of “old maid”—
But if you love Harry, and your will is
won, (which for his sake, poor fellow, I
hope is the case.) then like an honest,
was—! dear little girl as you are—having too
Mrs. French that is,—the editress of the ! much respect for yourself to “flirt”—say
Southern Homestead, gives the following | —“ Yes,” immediately—and Heaven bless
excellent advice to formers’ daughters.— ’ you both.
Although intended for rural districts, it is j
applicable to young ladies whose fathers
are not formers.:
The girl who happens to he the daugh
ter of a real genuine farmer, should con
sider herself particularly fortunate. Her
position is one which goes to make up a
lofty character; it Ls calculated to bring
out all the energies, to develop all the nat
ural gifts, and in time, with proper guides,
to make her one of the greatest women in
A Kaee with s Widow,
Merciful Jehosophat and big onions—
what a time I’ve had with tliat widder.—
We chartered an omnibus for two, on
Christinas, and started. “ Widder,” said
I, where shall we go to V” She blushed
and said she didn’t like to say. I told her
she must say.
“ Well Jehuvi if you insist upon it, and
I am to have my choice, I’d rather go to
_ j church.”
“ What for widder *" said I.
“Oh, Jehuel how can you ask me?”
“ Cause I want to know,” said I.
REMOVAL.
that you ougttt to uxe “ Intact, she demonstrates herself
you do not there is something “S ^ r ^ ]mr f ^ ose _ j could name to you wo- powers in a
THANKFUL for the pa- j any kind. A man who is Bans *naopeu- J^tion fa the best sod
tronage of the past year, vou deserves to be met with * commanding P 08 *
ooatinues to offer hia sem- i ^ , , , . : n ety, who are as uniformly and systemaL
ces to the public, and will a frank and open heart by Y ou “ “ » lite to ^ der k who sells them
attend promptly to every n : nctv _ n i ne cases out of one hundred, men cail - v P®*™ 5 ,
•all, day or night. Office ninety-nine w silks , as to the pets of their aide; who
next door south of J. A. j will be honorable and manly with y<m. x —^ fcr all with whom
Terrell’*, where he can be _ -, ide suspicion, and trust them, have a bow and a smile wr auwm.
found during the day. at V ou ^ ^ they have been thrown into personal reU
Ifamanprovcs himselfunwort^ ofyour ^ ^ who, by this very prtiteness
confidence, you have your remedy. ^ G ther selfexpression, vin-
bim dead, or tell him what you ; ^ ^ Le among those whom so-
Inland bring hun Up0tl h * j derails J&s. There is a kind wont
ateht at the residence lately occupied by Mr.
Botaanon. Cassville, Aug. 12,185$.
Caution.
rr»HE public are cautioned against trading
iwa .Jewdm* wiKf IfdahA. Wo have
ncTagentaoud wilL*"* VEAL4UO.
June 17
the world. If there be one situation
hove all others, where the daughter may j
grow up healthful beautiful graceful, in- j
telligent, and pure, that situation I believe
to hfas one of the household band, in the “ " ^ (blushing redder than a beet) it
home of the honest and independent for-j * ^h «> W weather now and the nights
mer or planter. I would say to young a "f'il cold, and-ob, Jehuel I can A
girls whose lives have fallen in such stand it! .
“pleasant places,” donot undervalue your i “ I*baw, widder spit it out j what
peculiar advantages. You are the “ high-j do you mean ? ’
lVfovored among women ” The cireum- i The widder nled; she biled right over
stances in which you are placed, are such hkea quart of milk on the fare, and burst
as are best calculated to develop your, out with— f
threefold form; physically, j ” If yo« em't understand me, you re a
Dr. J. W. Kinabrew,
Hold your horses!” said 1 “What’s
all this about? Fm not a brute; nor never
and if a man called me that Fdboot
value your advantages, improve every one j
<ff them to the utmost and place a proper
estimate upon yourselves. You have ev- was; ,
^SjS^U^^wo^ni j And then I hfied right over, a^unbut,
do this, then, and each in her own person toned my rent collar to keep me from bus-
- assert the dignity of labor.” tW off my buttons.
Consult your, parents, and form for was going to explode, or else collapse my
vourselfo purpose in life. They place be- windpipe, and she flung b»
for* your brother some aim, some stan my neck, put her lips to rnsne, and cooled
daid, some goal which bis exertions are right down.
Rome, Ga.
>»»do■>«nusconstfi—"j”“ h ft, liv.ro, Wbf Mi ko lko tin'-W. mi ta » i ” '
I write upon the supposition that you 1
gan, “Jehuel honey, I wanted to go to
church to get mar—no I cant say it all ;
you finish the word Jehuel sweet?”
“ What word, marm f’
“ Oh, you stupid; Jehuel dear, t mein
the word married my lore,”
“ Married, widder!” said I; “did you
mean that?”
“ Indeed I did" Jehuel love P'
“ Look here marm, my name isn’t Je
huel Love, nor Jehuel Dear, nor Jehuel
Sweet, I’d have you,to know; and I won't
get married' to nobody bnt one, and you
are not the one,”
Oh, pewter pennies, but didn’t she rate!
She made one dash at me, I dodged and
she went butt up agrinst the upper end of
the omnibus. Crack went her comb, and
smash went the bran new bonnet that I
didn’t buy for her, and down she Went
with her face in the straw. But in a mo
ment she rot!* again, and made one more
dash at me. I dropped—she went over
me and butted the door of the omnibus.
The strap broke and out sht went—her
gaiter boots higher than her head as she
struck the pavement.
“ Drive on!” I yelled to the drivef.
“ Woman overboard ?’ cried ft passing
sailor.
“ Stop that White Coat-breach of prom
ise—reward—Herald—publish,” shrieked
the widder, in tones of mortal itgOffV; while
tears of blood streamed from her beautiful
pug nt®C:
“ Drive on!’ drive on ?” t shouted,
“ Where to f ’ asked the driver,
“To the devil—to Hariein—to Macomb's
Dum—anywhere so we escape matrimony
and the widder.”
He started, so did the widder, and then
we had it np the avenue, buss having tho
start of about a hundred yards. Foot by
foot the widder gained. Thinks I Jehuel
you are a goner. I thought it best to
lighten ship. So first I hove overboard
the straw.
Still she gained on me, Then overboard
the cushions. But still She gained,
“ More steam, driver, for mercy’s sake!”
t yfelled.
“We ftfe going faster than the law al
lows now,” he answered, “Thirteen miles
ftrt hour.”
Jehosophat, how the widder ran; she
hove off her bonnet and Coma up hand
overhand, A thought struck roe, so I off
with my White coat and flung it right
down in her path. She sprang on it like
a she panther, and tore it to pieces. Oh,
how they flew. I wept to see it go, but
life is sweeter' than a coat, Mid my tailor
is making me a new one. Here we gain
ed full two hundred yards, but on she
came again. Once more I could see the
green in in her eyes—merciful Moses, how
I felt
“ Driver,” said I, “ kill them horses or
get another mile out of them.”
“ Will yOu pay for ’em ?’ \e said.
“ Yes, yes,” said l “ only save me from
the widder.”
By cracky, we did slide; the widder no
longer gained but she held her own beau
tifully. Thus we had it—out past the Red
House-^through Harlem—where Captain
Graham with three mounted policemen in
vain attempted to cat*l» as, he probably
supposing that we were running away
with some bank fund.
My only hope was in reaching Degroot’s
ahead Of her, for I knew they would hide
me. We were on the Bridge, and oh, Mo
ses, the draw was up, and a sloop going
through, “Driver,” said I, “jump that
bridge and Til make your fortune for life,
sure as you’re born.”
“ Til do H or die!” he cried. And he
did it. The widder jumped after us, fell
into the Harlem river, and hasn’t been
heard of since.
Population ef Ike Word.
Herr Dietrich,- a distinguished professor
of the University of Berlin quoted by the
Philadelphia Bulletin, has lately addressed
a paper to the Academy of Sciences of this
city, in regard to the world's population,
and it is generally agreed that it is the
most carefully prepared and most reliable
work that has yet appeared on this inter
esting subject After some detailed esti
mates in regard to the five great divisions
of the world, he arrives at the conclusion
that its present population is about twelve
hundred and eighty-three millions.
This will no doubt account for the hard
times and the great difficulty now-ardays
of making-a living! It has generally been
jipeeed that 800,000,000, or 1,000,000,-
000 at the outside, was the Jiij^sit figure
of the world’s inhabitants. But here comes
the Prussian statistician, with his twdve
hundred and cighiy-three millions, show
ing an amount of competition for the fruits
of the earth, to say, nothing of the locusts,
caterpillars, grasshoppers,chtnchbug, we-
vO, Ac-, Ac,, which may throw faint heart
ed people into despair. Nor is tins the
worst of it, for Herr Dietrich calculates
that by the end of this century the pees-
ent lumber of human beings will havein-
creased to two thousand millions. Let us
be thankful wo.dheH not see the cod of
this century. ■