October 20, 1853 (4 pages)

Sait wat > est SS ee S who is really worthy ‘of it. At the time of which we were speaking curiosity put no bridie on her tongue, as she whispered to this one and to that in the assembly. A busy buzz ran over on room fer some time ; but, i when the speaker was announced, a dee a sy 0 0 pay nae hush fell suddenly on all. i E ‘TERMS: ; The appearance of the young man was cerVOL. 1 “THE TELEGRAPH: PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, BY LILLEY & OLIVER, GRASS VALLEY, For one year, in advance,.... $7,00 tainly very prepossessing. Tall and slender, ; bs ow seen ee eek Regt ae eee ed his form presented none of those prettinesses ‘or three months,.. i i i Minn Ort 196 ef and marks of effeminacy which so belittle a man; but there was a kind of independent nobility resting on his features and pervading his whole mein that won insensibly on all who looked upon him. His hair was of a deep jet color, parted carelessly upon a forehead of full breadth and intellectuality, beneath which glanced his dark eye, at one time 13 4a” Advertisements at reasonable rates. SONG OF EMIGRATION. MRS. HEMANS, TurrE was heard a song on the chiming sea, A mingled breathing of grief ani glee ; j Man’s voice, unbrohen by sighs was there, wild as a woman’s, and at another, when lit *. “iting with triumph the sunny air ; up by the earnestness and intensity of his ‘ Of fresh green lands, and of pastures new, thought, glowing With that peculiar lustre It sang, while the bark through the surges flew. with which lightning spirits love sometimes to dazzle. Everything seemed in his favor. } But ever and anon The evening was quict and fair, and the pure moonlight was wreathing itself around the . saow-banks in the clear frosty air. The audience was attentive and respectfal. And yet he failed. Never was a lecture so criti“* Away, away o’er the foaming main !?? cized—never was & poor lecturer so unsuéThis was the free and the joyous strain— cessful. ‘< There are clearer skies than ours, afar, . The reason of this was that he had chosen ‘We will shape our course by a brighter star ; . & theme,about which few men are really fitted There are plains whose verdure no foot hath pressed, . to lectire, and no one certainly until he has And whose wealth is all for the first brave guest.” seen many years, and known life in all its varied relations. Young Irving had been much excited by what are technically called “ Woman’s Rights Coaventions,” until his naturally ardent natute had taken fire at what he coaceived t6 be the midst rid’culous assump. tioa. This feeling of deep and utter coatempt for thdse who took the lead in such mad crusddes against customs long honored by time, he had vented with unusual severity . 0a the sex generally, making ail responsible for the follies of the few. He lashed most waspatingly every poor daughter of Eve, as if he mheant td aanhiliate them all by the power of his wit And sarcasm. Asa matter of course, the whole female portién of his audience wefe highly indignant. They were compltely ¢hilled and benumbed by such treatment. They had come up full of warm enthusiasm and interest in the speaker ; it was provoking to have their blood sent back congealed in their hearts by such wholesale condemnation, The inhabitants of W were no “new light” people. They were seldom cartied away by néw or extravagant ; notions. But they felt téé much and thought too much to allow without a murmur the A murmer of farewell Told, by its plaintive tone, That from woman’s lip it fell. ‘‘But alas! that we should go”’ —Sang the farewell voices then—‘From the homesteads, warm and low, By the brook and in the glen!” “We will rear new homes under trees that glow, As if jems were the fruitage of every bow ; “Oer our white walls we will train the vine, And sit in its shadow at day’s decline ; And watch our herds, as they range at will ‘Through the green savannas, all bright and still.» “ But wo for that sweet shade Of the flowering orchard-trees, Where first our chiliren played *Midst the birds and honey bees!"? ‘All, all our own shall the forests-be, As to the bound of the roebuck free! ‘None shall say, ‘Hither, ’no further pass!’ We will track each step through the wavy grass; ‘We will chase the elk in his speed ana might, 4n4 bring proud spoils to the hearth at night.’’ oh ‘o@ gray church-tower, i “1 5 sound of § bath-bell, sweeping assertions o* the lecturer. They ; alee: get “Ybor Ore met hin at.every ¢érae, and each individual eid ore a . ___4{ seemed to sland pees ied ASiNS, Pb him: ey satay Se A ops of ome race usual effeet on those who are wroag in opin4 . To uhh origlit ver st bse course we trace ; ion, 1éading him only to strengthen himself } We Swill Teave our mem 4ry with mounts and floods, the more obstinately, and to use the more ) : \ail the pats ef our daving in boundless woods ! harsh expressions of éensute. the more uru) Our works unte malty a lake’s green shore, geatly he was pressed. Where the Indian’s gravés lay, alone, before.”? Nor did the ladies of the village ick : champions among their own number. Doubt“But tho shall teach the flowers, less with many of the lecturer’s opinions all Which our children loved, to dwell would have heartily agreed. It was nly In a soil that is not ours! with his sweeping assertions, and his univer—Home, home and friends, farewell !’” . sally low opinions of the sex, that they found PoE UE GE fault. He chanced, not many days after his THEY TALK TO ME OF OTHERS. . address, to be present at one of the meetings They talk to me of others of the “Sewing Circle.” A young widow. As fair they say as thou ; by the name of Williamis, was the president With eyés as darkly glorious, of the association, and, on his entrance, She With such a Godlike braw ; rallied him playfully on his temerity at thus They speak of wealth and station venturing into the midst of those he had ad Tis all in vain to me ; so slandered. She charged him openly with having uttered only for novelty’s sake opiiiious not really hisown. This he stoutly dénied, and again expressed, in no measured terms, bitter sentiments towatd those who had run mad, and as he termed it, with extravagant notions, and intimated that hé supposed that there were few disagreeing with them, only that they had not the courage to speak out boldly—the sex, as usual in every thing else, sustained one another either publicly or privately in this. “ There is no doubt,” said he, with a kind of biting sarcasm in his manner, “that there are some women who would make most excellent men, and who imagine themselves created with a kind of mistake, which it is their life's business to rectify. They find they cannot take the place of man, for all the customs and prejudices of the age are against it: but they determine to make themselves as little like women as possible. And it must be con. fessed they are unusually successful. And . like the juryman of old, linked, as he said to éleven of the most obstinate men the worl ever saw, they are so indignant that they cannot make all believe just as they do.” “If I were not certain, Dr. Irving,” mildly replied Mrs, Willianis, “that your sex gen: . erally are no more responsible for your ex_travagant and harsh condemnation of ours, _ than are we for the coaduct of those recreants to woman’s hoaor than you rightly condenin, Ishould hardly be conderded to answer you. But while they talk of others, I think alone of thee. They tell me time is fleeting, And youth will soon be o’er ; They bid me seize the present, And nurse the past no more; They point me to the future — ‘* So lone as it must be’ — They know not that my spirit Is linked for aye to thee. They cannot, cannot méve me, My purpose is my own ; To outward eye it may-be I walk the world alone ; My inward worl is péopled With thought and feeling free, And life can né’ér be lonély While I may think of thee. REST LI ARAN A A, EY aS A I Practice agaiust Theory. A TALE OF WOMAN’S INFLUENCE. BY C.S. R. Doctor Henry Irvine had been invited to ‘deliver a lecture before the Young Men’s As4 sociation of W-————, 2 thriving town in oae "of our N. Eaglaad States. Expectation was excited, and auticipatioa ran high throughout all the vicinity, for the young physician had i lately settled in the village, and this was to . But tell me plainly, what would be the Karm / be his first public manifestation of himself. if woman sought to hold a place of political . . , Little of his early life was kaown by the peo. rule and influence ?” 5 _ ple with whom his lot was now to be cast. It, “She might as well grow envious of man’s was oaly understood that he had graduated music, and attempt to sing bass,’’ replied the ‘> With high hoaor at the University, pursued physician ; “she is unfitted by nature for it. is medical studies in Paris, and that now, Indeed, I'wish this world were such that asa aving returned to his native land, he had de. gentlewoman might fill its hard places of rale clined advantageous offers of a place of set-. and of power. I wish mankind were all wiltlement ina distant city, wisely preferring lows, waving pleasantly before every breeze \ the freedom and sociality of a country vil. of good influence breathed over them, and , lage to all the hollow and empty shows of fa-} not such stubborn oaks that now and then t vor in metropolitan life, they need some harsh tornado to thunder \\ On the evening of the address, a large con. among them, and scatter their leaves to the » «. , @ourse from all classes in the village-had ga. four winds of heaven before they would bow . thered at the church to weleome the young . their proud heads at all. But the truth is, it i stranger. Everything makes an excitement . is & poor, reprobate world, and often it wan./ ¢ am the country ; there is something of enthn. ders most sadly, and so far that a stronger \ siasm in the very atmosphere. A new-comer . hand than.any daughter of Eve ever had is .-is-at first scratinized very closely, and gos. needed to grasp the locks of its flowing mane . . sips often make themselves im rtinently ob. -and whirl it back into its eourse again. The ' a yp ‘esata me ait be = woe very first.element in a true face aa a . is more than amply ne Aearty sym. ter, madam,.is.that she should know: e : _petby and Selene Ulat ones after it eos and keep it.” ” ey CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, “ You may be surprised, sir, when I tell you,” continued the lady, “that most of our sex, and I venture to say the best part of them, perfectly agree with you: we are heartily sick of this mawkish, maudlin enthusiasm, roused by such meetings as you condemn, as if then and there were to be consummated . the. ultimate progression and final uplifting . of man. But tell us, what were We, poor . creatures in your estimation that we are, cre. ated for? Will you, sir,as many of your sex have done hitherto, stoop tocall us the ‘poetry of life,’ ‘the flowers of existence?’ Have we no loftier aim than that? im. indeed! If this be ours, O’Connell had usin mind when he said, ‘They aim at nothing, and bit it?” Has God placed woman here only as a token of some unknown covenant? Was not the All-Wise in earnest when he Sait the should be an help meet for Adam? Is she only a star set to beautify the heavens, like the unconscious jewels in Aladdin’s palace, and, unl:ke that star, to have no part in the solemn and beautiful march of worlds? No; I judge her better. She has a work to do, of the voice ‘ Well déne’ can never come to her. God has given to the fowls the a'r, to the beasts the fields and the forests) to the fishes the sea—-where, sir, I pray you tell us, is the sphere of life and of action for woman?” “Perhaps it were better forus to know your thoughts on this point, madam,” re. plied the young man, bending his dark eyes . upon the flashing Countenance of the excited . woman. “T grant that life must seem some. thing of a mystery to her. Released from . school and from guardianship. she looks into . the future with doubt. Trembling she stands ! on the threshold of life, and gazes into the . broad temple before hef, and sees its niches . of Honor and altars of duty barred from her forever by old customs, to. which our fathers did reverence, and to which, even now stalking through our midst. she must not evén say, ‘Go lp, thou bald head! No wonder that her heart dies within her, or beats like a caged starling against the bars of her resistless fate. And yet this is her lot; and it is only beéause we look at it with men’s eyes . and men’s feelings, {doubt not, that it ap. pears so unweledme and so tame.” “Ah, no,” replied the enthusiastic defender . of her sex; “the truth is, she stands at the . door of the wrong temple. There isa shrine brighter and holier than that, whose Offerings are brought, and whose garlands are twined by gentle hands, and purer spirits minister there. That altar is at home, and its Deity is God, for ‘ God is love.’ ” ; “There I agree with you,” interrupted Irving. “T have always thought her place was just there ; and if all would actas you teach, Vitis Pod ane phentd ecmdess fault. tated ia creation than the princ’ple that everything has its place and should stay in it. Even the com:ts have a fixed orbit, wild as they are ; and, néw that the universe is settled, it is not likely God wants any new ones. Men aspring to be angels, fell ; and women has fallen low many times when not aspiring half so high 4s. that. Her plate is at home, and life properly begins to her, I think, when she, as we term it, ‘settles down in marriage.” “ Settles down!” indignantly repeated the lady. “ Why, sir, marriage is but the vestibule of her temple of life, and through it she is to pass far on, and to be changed much— to minister long at its altars, and to be clad in white robes, before she ever stands in its Holy of Holies of peate and rest. But you misunderstand me, I fear. Itis not altogether certain that she is to be bound soul and body to a liege lord, as if it were the sum of all earthly duty to make him happy—as if it were her business to ‘give him each day his daily bread.’ The true woman means the good neighhor, the efficient member of society, the weak man’scounsellor, the poor mah’s friend. the Christan’s co-worker, as well as the hushand’s helpmeet.” ; “It would be wéll to be pract’cal in all these matters, Mrs. Williams.”’ said Irving. “Tt is very easy to bandy mere words.” “Tam very glad, my friend.” was the reply, “that you are willing to become practical. It is this theorizing which has made you what you are in belief. Asa philanthropist, as a mother, as a sister, as a teacher, woman has a high and glorious sphere to fill. Sisters of Char'ty have done more good than ever Brothers of Charity could have done. And I would call the ten thousand little hearts that have learned to throb with earnest love undet the kind ministrations of a teacher's affection, to witness that man cannot ; teach as woman can. and is perfectly unable to weave with his clumsy fingers the fine . fibres of a young child’s thought. Your practice, I predict, sir, will one day belie your theory on these points.” ‘Perhaps so, perhaps so,’? answered the young physician. langhing, to throw off the . . Serious a'r which the conversation had assum)ed; ‘but I seriously question the probabili. ty of my life’s ever being so far linked with. one of your sex as that my theory will be . brought to the test. I believe most honestly . with the old Vidal, one of Scott’s heroes in romance— ‘Woman’s faith and woman's trust ! Write the characters in dust, Print them on the running stream, Stamp them on the moon’s pale beam, And each evanescent letter Shall be fairer, firmer, better, And more durable, I ween, i Than the thing those letters mean. ?”” We shall see,” replied the lady. Ard thus . abruptly ae peat eonrerention Ladies are generalf, forgiving in their dis. position, oe Dr. Irving would hardly have . dared present himself before those of W-=——_ again. He seemed, however, to gain a moiety of wisdom, perhaps of modesty, from the . rebuff he had received in his assertions in the Sewing Circle, and -thereafter shunned con a ct ant theme. Being of a ae rally interesting disposition, and. possessed au unusual fund of genera} intelligence, he OCTOBER 20, ‘ BR sag 1 * 1853, began to gain ground somewhat in the good . graces of our village society, natil at last there were few more welcome than he #t all our gatherings. It was charitably believed . that he had been actuated ouly by the vanity eculiar to young men at Certain periods of their literary history, when, desiring to appear original. they succeeded Only in being singular, and advance opinions ‘untenable even to tuemselves. Such. however. was not the fact. Irving had stated what at that time were his real views. He had been trifled with in feelings naturally warm and earnest by a young lady ofa fi¢ile disposition and coquettish temperament, in the early changing fieriod of his life, and his error lay in his always generalizing from particular instances, And, in ike manner, the individual mysteries of revelation had led to discard the whole SYStem of religious truth as a mere delusion, and thrown him into blind scepticism. In the month of April following, there came an application to the Town Committee of W. » from astranger at a distance, for an engagement as teacher in the summer school. The applicant represented herself as a young lady of education and some experience. Her recommendations were satisfactory, and shortly afterwards she took her place among the pupils. Little was seen or Known of her at first. Whoever had wandered over the green late in the afternoon, when the bo'strous shouts of playful mirth : pre. claimed that school hours were endeé, wanld have seen the quiet young school-mistress . modestly wending her way homeward, with one of the little scholars on each side by the . hand. A demure little sunboanett shaded . her features, and so softly and so quietly did . she pass those who met her that one hardly . thought again of the ripple that had euricd . across the tide of his thought as his eye . glanced for a moment upon her. But in the country villages the old saying . of the philosopher is true: “Children rule! their mothers; mothers the fathers: fathers . the world.” The young boys and girts ef . W——— were made, by the strange spell, to; love their teacher as children never >» Yah once, and it was not long before peor! s<ge} seeking out their little piece of dems: 22sea8, . for such she seemed to all who met her, suave! the children she was with daily. Kate Stewart was an orphan girl, whose! mother had died when she was an infant, and whose father, a captain on the sea, had not! been heard of for some years. Her days liad mostly been spent amoig strangers and at) school. But increasing age brought with iba, proud spirit of independence, and she deter. mined to seek some situation where a *ivelihood might be obtained by patting to si fyiee. haa WeeNay ier trom cuparior touches, Wee brought her to our village and laced her over the school. Her natural abilities. were good, and to these were added the supe. rior advantages of high cultivation. ‘With a, mind kept singularly pure and “ unspotted . from the world,” a heart warm and truth?a) . generous and confiding, an imagination yiv. id, and sensibilities keen, she won the affec-. tions of her pupils almost without an effort. . She was modest and retiring, almost painfaily so, for she had_ known little of society in . those later, moulding years usually gi study ; but there was a gentle dignity ix her manner, and a quiet self-reliance on her own . . i powers when aroused, that showed she nossessed a spirit like a prairie reed, bentliug to a rude, fierce blast, byt which only the light wind can make tremble. . She made her home at the house of an vid} lady living some little distance from the school-house. In the building, under the care of this woman as her nurse, had been lying for several years a poor vagrant, supported . there by the town authorities in preference to . leaving her at the poor-house. She had perhaps seen better days; but coming mysteri-. ously into the neighborhood at. first, ana ut. terly refusing ever after to give any ¢lue to' her previous history, little was known of her, except that now she was a poor bedridden . thing, who sometimes, when not too ‘sbi, . wove baskets for the children’s berries. Ove . morning, as he came to make his usual visit upon her, Dr. Irving found her very happy and cheerful, instead of restless and excited as before. Surprised at the change, he questioned her as to its cause. * Oh, sir,’’ replied the woman, “could you n to . fSot set vesdlotely down as’ the spirit! con. te i 1 USohd, as i ' 8 sick woman’s Words He went 6n his way, to make farther visits, moddy and wondering. A new set of feelings had been aroused, or else some fairy hand had Struck a fresh ch'me upon the old bells within. Curiosity led him to seck out this young teacher, and, being one of the committee, he was reminded by a fecling of neglected duty towards theschool, for he should have visited it in his. official capacity before, to report on its progress. Acking 6n this, one morning, as he saw the boys going in, he went over to the schoolhouse. They were in their seats by the time he had feached the door, and he paused in. the passage for a moment to listen. A chorhs of happy singers were lifting up the burden of. simple hymn-prayer, and high over all stole the voice of their leader, tlear, eweet. and musical as a harp. .Chat ended, ch'ldren’s voices were heard murmuring ‘the verses of » scripture truth for a few moments; and he then, amid a hnsh deep as if God were there, held his breath to catch the low tones of prayer fur the little ones whom: the Father loved to bless, and the solemn acknowledgment of dependence upon him for guidance in all her ways. Subdued and sad. he ‘knew not why, the young physician stood rebuked upon the threshold, and he paused to gain equanimity ere he entered the room. A blush ran lightly, as the shadow of. , cloud over Mae whirl sf snew-0)) ). cross the countenance i, Mate Stewart, as she saw her precincts invaded by a stranger. Byt it gave place instantaneously tc a quiet dignity svith which she welcomed her visitor. A itew words » be Ave a ee es £ a 2% made known the object of his coring, and 4 human nature world have iteway asthe Hp ge quivered with tremor at thewdirdeal befene it. And not one manina hundred would hage ” . % noticed, 18 De. Irving did, the teeth closed firmly on it to step its tremnlotsness, or. the quered its ness, Tose snperior £0 it, at stood calm and “by for “*e crial. . Class . ter class waslalied, wad took Ite f.age TF Bs dey quietly “auc picasaa vind Tee ue : intelligence passed betw rand : lars, andthe generous and cip re: lating . more than once found het e:.« half? Wilh tears a8 she noticed her-litile one fly watebing her eye, as they tried f', . her interest their own. and sprang Ww rity and noble independence in ant id of her biduing. Nota murmur # not. a jar disturbed.the stead s that ge eg AR os school. Deer” oe up with confi\\ os oes as they modé\ ioe 2 We 3 Set t 1 little. happy marching t¢ ipz yriecs in America but those who are foolish\)) to indulge in them, and they are gel: ficiently punished. it dia not hap; ne to be born in @ log cabin, raised e snow drifts of New Hampsbire, a> i if riod so early, that when the smoke Brat!” from its rude chimney, and curied over frozen hill, there was no similar eviiene 7 a white man’s habitation between if ang \ settlements on the riverCanada. Its rentai. 2 still exist, I make itn anauad visit. Door). . oy my @hildren to it te teach them the aarishipe endited by the generations which heve goue before them. LTidve to dwell on ye tender recollections, tlie Kindred ties, tiv: early ‘af fectidn, and narrations and ine/ients whieh mingle ‘vith all I knog of this P-imitive family abode. _I weep to think that pone of those who inhabited it are now ainong the Nving; and if ever Tfail in affectionate veneration for him whé raised it, aaci defended it agains avage violence and destruetion, cherished all gomestteits 190%, and thisugh fire and olooa of seveil years’ revolution shrank from no toil, no sacrifice, to serve his country and raise-his children to a condition better than his own,may my name, and the name of my posterity, be blotted from the memory of mankind.—Daniel Webster. ei . the soul with heavenly light, and fills it with but know what new thoughts andfeelingsare} ReFrREsHInG To BacuELors.—It is a slight in my mind this morning, you would not) source of consolation to single gentlemen, in wonder I am happy.”’. . town to know, that according to an accurate She went on tv tell him of a thousand . statistical record upwards of one fourth of and words of kitidness she had during the pas// all the maidens that have emigrated ‘hither few weeks received ftom the new teacher . within the last four years are either now reShe had been to her an angel in disguisy. . joicing in double blessedness, or under honds Soothing and calming in every a to take life partners “for better or worse, she had spoken words of hope that were evén . This willingness on the part of our femenine now full of joy to the sick woman. Even population to Fender so many of us happy the physician, accustomed as he was to scehes. we trust is not only duly appreciated, but of tf s character. felt his heart touched by . will be taken advantage of inthe future: by the téars of grateful feeling coursing down . those whose hearth-stones are still desolate.— the wrinkled face of the poor cme wrens Union: him. For years that poor woman had lain ia : fe . sorrow on ok bed of suffering. No voice of ga There isa deep and beautiful meanaffection was near her; No ear listéned t0/. ing in the saying of the wife of Jagellon, her story ; for as yet slie had never received . Duke of Lishuania. Some peasants coming that sympathy which unlocks the secret cham. to her in tears, complained that the servants bers of the soul. No voice spoke words~of}. of the King, her husband, had carried off their comfort to her, as she wore out the long days. cattle. She went toher husband, and obtainalone. But now for some time, as often as. ed instant redress. * Their cattle have been her duties would permit, Kate had watched restoted to. them.”’ said the Queen, ts RbT. by ber bed side, had encouraged her with) tio sual. GIVE TAWM DACk THEIR TAAAs sympathy. had told her of a new source tf) Placer Herald. Noes joy, unspeakable and full of glory. The} — weary soul had listen . ' rs cd, for this was as pufe. water to the unquenched thirst-of years. She ; had listened as for her life, and this morning DE “pt had to her. known two dawnings: the one; : ; that which had galled: 4 young. bigs f ¢ vised? sae see bedside to the other duties of the day, the! ofan ag Oy alifornia Legislata’” r the rising of that inner sun that floods / for the golle fhe eo [tas bse ted life. love, and’song. the in ‘oF Although professedly a disbeliever in these . Chimese: things, Dr. Irving could not throw off at ).Chii once the impression made upon him by the, “fi j Cumsanse Lungcaseers . ra ane vie i yet so itis. ‘Therinth. ae

Sait wat > est SS ee S who is really worthy ‘of it. At the time of which we were speaking curiosity put no bridie on her tongue, as she whispered to this one and to that in the assembly. A busy buzz ran over on room fer some time ; but, i when the speaker was announced, a dee a sy 0 0 pay nae hush fell suddenly on all. i E ‘TERMS: ; The appearance of the young man was cerVOL. 1 “THE TELEGRAPH: PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, BY LILLEY & OLIVER, GRASS VALLEY, For one year, in advance,....... $7,00 tainly very prepossessing. Tall and slender, ; bs ow seen ee eek Regt ae eee ed his form presented none of those prettinesses ‘or three months,... i i i Minn Ort 196 ef and marks of effeminacy which so belittle a man; but there was a kind of independent nobility resting on his features and pervading his whole mein that won insensibly on all who looked upon him. His hair was of a deep jet color, parted carelessly upon a forehead of full breadth and intellectuality, beneath which glanced his dark eye, at one time 13 4a” Advertisements at reasonable rates. SONG OF EMIGRATION. MRS. HEMANS, TurrE was heard a song on the chiming sea, A mingled breathing of grief ani glee ; j Man’s voice, unbrohen by sighs was there, wild as a woman’s, and at another, when lit *. “iting with triumph the sunny air ; up by the earnestness and intensity of his ‘ Of fresh green lands, and of pastures new, thought, glowing With that peculiar lustre It sang, while the bark through the surges flew. with which lightning spirits love sometimes to dazzle. Everything seemed in his favor. } But ever and anon The evening was quict and fair, and the pure moonlight was wreathing itself around the . saow-banks in the clear frosty air. The audience was attentive and respectfal. And yet he failed. Never was a lecture so criti“* Away, away o’er the foaming main !?? cized—never was & poor lecturer so unsuéThis was the free and the joyous strain— cessful. ‘< There are clearer skies than ours, afar, . The reason of this was that he had chosen ‘We will shape our course by a brighter star ; . & theme,about which few men are really fitted There are plains whose verdure no foot hath pressed, . to lectire, and no one certainly until he has And whose wealth is all for the first brave guest.” seen many years, and known life in all its varied relations. Young Irving had been much excited by what are technically called “ Woman’s Rights Coaventions,” until his naturally ardent natute had taken fire at what he coaceived t6 be the midst rid’culous assump. tioa. This feeling of deep and utter coatempt for thdse who took the lead in such mad crusddes against customs long honored by time, he had vented with unusual severity . 0a the sex generally, making ail responsible for the follies of the few. He lashed most waspatingly every poor daughter of Eve, as if he mheant td aanhiliate them all by the power of his wit And sarcasm. Asa matter of course, the whole female portién of his audience wefe highly indignant. They were compltely ¢hilled and benumbed by such treatment. They had come up full of warm enthusiasm and interest in the speaker ; it was provoking to have their blood sent back congealed in their hearts by such wholesale condemnation, The inhabitants of W were no “new light” people. They were seldom cartied away by néw or extravagant ; notions. But they felt téé much and thought too much to allow without a murmur the A murmer of farewell Told, by its plaintive tone, That from woman’s lip it fell. ‘‘But alas! that we should go”’ —Sang the farewell voices then—‘From the homesteads, warm and low, By the brook and in the glen!” “We will rear new homes under trees that glow, As if jems were the fruitage of every bow ; “Oer our white walls we will train the vine, And sit in its shadow at day’s decline ; And watch our herds, as they range at will ‘Through the green savannas, all bright and still.» “ But wo for that sweet shade Of the flowering orchard-trees, Where first our chiliren played *Midst the birds and honey bees!"? ‘All, all our own shall the forests-be, As to the bound of the roebuck free! ‘None shall say, ‘Hither, ’no further pass!’ We will track each step through the wavy grass; ‘We will chase the elk in his speed ana might, 4n4 bring proud spoils to the hearth at night.’’ oh ‘o@ gray church-tower, i “1 5 sound of § bath-bell, sweeping assertions o* the lecturer. They ; alee: get “Ybor Ore met hin at.every ¢érae, and each individual eid ore a . ___4{ seemed to sland pees ied ASiNS, Pb him: ey satay Se A ops of ome race usual effeet on those who are wroag in opin4 . To uhh origlit ver st bse course we trace ; ion, 1éading him only to strengthen himself } We Swill Teave our mem 4ry with mounts and floods, the more obstinately, and to use the more ) : \ail the pats ef our daving in boundless woods ! harsh expressions of éensute. the more uru) Our works unte malty a lake’s green shore, geatly he was pressed. Where the Indian’s gravés lay, alone, before.”? Nor did the ladies of the village ick : champions among their own number. Doubt“But tho shall teach the flowers, less with many of the lecturer’s opinions all Which our children loved, to dwell would have heartily agreed. It was nly In a soil that is not ours! with his sweeping assertions, and his univer—Home, home and friends, farewell !’” . sally low opinions of the sex, that they found PoE UE GE fault. He chanced, not many days after his THEY TALK TO ME OF OTHERS. . address, to be present at one of the meetings They talk to me of others of the “Sewing Circle.” A young widow. As fair they say as thou ; by the name of Williamis, was the president With eyés as darkly glorious, of the association, and, on his entrance, She With such a Godlike braw ; rallied him playfully on his temerity at thus They speak of wealth and station venturing into the midst of those he had ad Tis all in vain to me ; so slandered. She charged him openly with having uttered only for novelty’s sake opiiiious not really hisown. This he stoutly dénied, and again expressed, in no measured terms, bitter sentiments towatd those who had run mad, and as he termed it, with extravagant notions, and intimated that hé supposed that there were few disagreeing with them, only that they had not the courage to speak out boldly—the sex, as usual in every thing else, sustained one another either publicly or privately in this. “ There is no doubt,” said he, with a kind of biting sarcasm in his manner, “that there are some women who would make most excellent men, and who imagine themselves created with a kind of mistake, which it is their life's business to rectify. They find they cannot take the place of man, for all the customs and prejudices of the age are against it: but they determine to make themselves as little like women as possible. And it must be con. fessed they are unusually successful. And . like the juryman of old, linked, as he said to éleven of the most obstinate men the worl ever saw, they are so indignant that they cannot make all believe just as they do.” “If I were not certain, Dr. Irving,” mildly replied Mrs, Willianis, “that your sex gen: . erally are no more responsible for your ex_travagant and harsh condemnation of ours, _ than are we for the coaduct of those recreants to woman’s hoaor than you rightly condenin, Ishould hardly be conderded to answer you. But while they talk of others, I think alone of thee. They tell me time is fleeting, And youth will soon be o’er ; They bid me seize the present, And nurse the past no more; They point me to the future — ‘* So lone as it must be’ — They know not that my spirit Is linked for aye to thee. They cannot, cannot méve me, My purpose is my own ; To outward eye it may-be I walk the world alone ; My inward worl is péopled With thought and feeling free, And life can né’ér be lonély While I may think of thee. REST LI ARAN A A, EY aS A I Practice agaiust Theory. A TALE OF WOMAN’S INFLUENCE. BY C.S. R. Doctor Henry Irvine had been invited to ‘deliver a lecture before the Young Men’s As4 sociation of W-————, 2 thriving town in oae "of our N. Eaglaad States. Expectation was excited, and auticipatioa ran high throughout all the vicinity, for the young physician had i lately settled in the village, and this was to . But tell me plainly, what would be the Karm / be his first public manifestation of himself. if woman sought to hold a place of political . . , Little of his early life was kaown by the peo. rule and influence ?” 5 _ ple with whom his lot was now to be cast. It, “She might as well grow envious of man’s was oaly understood that he had graduated music, and attempt to sing bass,’’ replied the ‘> With high hoaor at the University, pursued physician ; “she is unfitted by nature for it. is medical studies in Paris, and that now, Indeed, I'wish this world were such that asa aving returned to his native land, he had de. gentlewoman might fill its hard places of rale clined advantageous offers of a place of set-. and of power. I wish mankind were all wiltlement ina distant city, wisely preferring lows, waving pleasantly before every breeze \ the freedom and sociality of a country vil. of good influence breathed over them, and , lage to all the hollow and empty shows of fa-} not such stubborn oaks that now and then t vor in metropolitan life, they need some harsh tornado to thunder \\ On the evening of the address, a large con. among them, and scatter their leaves to the » «. , @ourse from all classes in the village-had ga. four winds of heaven before they would bow . thered at the church to weleome the young . their proud heads at all. But the truth is, it i stranger. Everything makes an excitement . is & poor, reprobate world, and often it wan./ ¢ am the country ; there is something of enthn. ders most sadly, and so far that a stronger \ siasm in the very atmosphere. A new-comer . hand than.any daughter of Eve ever had is .-is-at first scratinized very closely, and gos. needed to grasp the locks of its flowing mane . . sips often make themselves im rtinently ob. -and whirl it back into its eourse again. The ' a yp ‘esata me ait be = woe very first.element in a true face aa a . is more than amply ne Aearty sym. ter, madam,.is.that she should know: e : _petby and Selene Ulat ones after it eos and keep it.” ” ey CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, “ You may be surprised, sir, when I tell you,” continued the lady, “that most of our sex, and I venture to say the best part of them, perfectly agree with you: we are heartily sick of this mawkish, maudlin enthusiasm, roused by such meetings as you condemn, as if then and there were to be consummated . the. ultimate progression and final uplifting . of man. But tell us, what were We, poor . creatures in your estimation that we are, cre. ated for? Will you, sir,as many of your sex have done hitherto, stoop tocall us the ‘poetry of life,’ ‘the flowers of existence?’ Have we no loftier aim than that? im. indeed! If this be ours, O’Connell had usin mind when he said, ‘They aim at nothing, and bit it?” Has God placed woman here only as a token of some unknown covenant? Was not the All-Wise in earnest when he Sait the should be an help meet for Adam? Is she only a star set to beautify the heavens, like the unconscious jewels in Aladdin’s palace, and, unl:ke that star, to have no part in the solemn and beautiful march of worlds? No; I judge her better. She has a work to do, of the voice ‘ Well déne’ can never come to her. God has given to the fowls the a'r, to the beasts the fields and the forests) to the fishes the sea—-where, sir, I pray you tell us, is the sphere of life and of action for woman?” “Perhaps it were better forus to know your thoughts on this point, madam,” re. plied the young man, bending his dark eyes . upon the flashing Countenance of the excited . woman. “T grant that life must seem some. thing of a mystery to her. Released from . school and from guardianship. she looks into . the future with doubt. Trembling she stands ! on the threshold of life, and gazes into the . broad temple before hef, and sees its niches . of Honor and altars of duty barred from her forever by old customs, to. which our fathers did reverence, and to which, even now stalking through our midst. she must not evén say, ‘Go lp, thou bald head! No wonder that her heart dies within her, or beats like a caged starling against the bars of her resistless fate. And yet this is her lot; and it is only beéause we look at it with men’s eyes . and men’s feelings, {doubt not, that it ap. pears so unweledme and so tame.” “Ah, no,” replied the enthusiastic defender . of her sex; “the truth is, she stands at the . door of the wrong temple. There isa shrine brighter and holier than that, whose Offerings are brought, and whose garlands are twined by gentle hands, and purer spirits minister there. That altar is at home, and its Deity is God, for ‘ God is love.’ ” ; “There I agree with you,” interrupted Irving. “T have always thought her place was just there ; and if all would actas you teach, Vitis Pod ane phentd ecmdess fault. tated ia creation than the princ’ple that everything has its place and should stay in it. Even the com:ts have a fixed orbit, wild as they are ; and, néw that the universe is settled, it is not likely God wants any new ones. Men aspring to be angels, fell ; and women has fallen low many times when not aspiring half so high 4s. that. Her plate is at home, and life properly begins to her, I think, when she, as we term it, ‘settles down in marriage.” “ Settles down!” indignantly repeated the lady. “ Why, sir, marriage is but the vestibule of her temple of life, and through it she is to pass far on, and to be changed much— to minister long at its altars, and to be clad in white robes, before she ever stands in its Holy of Holies of peate and rest. But you misunderstand me, I fear. Itis not altogether certain that she is to be bound soul and body to a liege lord, as if it were the sum of all earthly duty to make him happy—as if it were her business to ‘give him each day his daily bread.’ The true woman means the good neighhor, the efficient member of society, the weak man’scounsellor, the poor mah’s friend. the Christan’s co-worker, as well as the hushand’s helpmeet.” ; “It would be wéll to be pract’cal in all these matters, Mrs. Williams.”’ said Irving. “Tt is very easy to bandy mere words.” “Tam very glad, my friend.” was the reply, “that you are willing to become practical. It is this theorizing which has made you what you are in belief. Asa philanthropist, as a mother, as a sister, as a teacher, woman has a high and glorious sphere to fill. Sisters of Char'ty have done more good than ever Brothers of Charity could have done. And I would call the ten thousand little hearts that have learned to throb with earnest love undet the kind ministrations of a teacher's affection, to witness that man cannot ; teach as woman can. and is perfectly unable to weave with his clumsy fingers the fine . fibres of a young child’s thought. Your

practice, I predict, sir, will one day belie your theory on these points.” ‘Perhaps so, perhaps so,’? answered the young physician. langhing, to throw off the . . Serious a'r which the conversation had assum)ed; ‘but I seriously question the probabili. ty of my life’s ever being so far linked with. one of your sex as that my theory will be . brought to the test. I believe most honestly . with the old Vidal, one of Scott’s heroes in romance— ‘Woman’s faith and woman's trust ! Write the characters in dust, Print them on the running stream, Stamp them on the moon’s pale beam, And each evanescent letter Shall be fairer, firmer, better, And more durable, I ween, i Than the thing those letters mean. ?”” We shall see,” replied the lady. Ard thus . abruptly ae peat eonrerention Ladies are generalf, forgiving in their dis. position, oe Dr. Irving would hardly have . dared present himself before those of W-=——_ again. He seemed, however, to gain a moiety of wisdom, perhaps of modesty, from the . rebuff he had received in his assertions in the Sewing Circle, and -thereafter shunned con a ct ant theme. Being of a ae rally interesting disposition, and. possessed au unusual fund of genera} intelligence, he OCTOBER 20, ‘ BR sag 1 * 1853, began to gain ground somewhat in the good . graces of our village society, natil at last there were few more welcome than he #t all our gatherings. It was charitably believed . that he had been actuated ouly by the vanity eculiar to young men at Certain periods of their literary history, when, desiring to appear original. they succeeded Only in being singular, and advance opinions ‘untenable even to tuemselves. Such. however. was not the fact. Irving had stated what at that time were his real views. He had been trifled with in feelings naturally warm and earnest by a young lady ofa fi¢ile disposition and coquettish temperament, in the early changing fieriod of his life, and his error lay in his always generalizing from particular instances, And, in ike manner, the individual mysteries of revelation had led to discard the whole SYStem of religious truth as a mere delusion, and thrown him into blind scepticism. In the month of April following, there came an application to the Town Committee of W. » from astranger at a distance, for an engagement as teacher in the summer school. The applicant represented herself as a young lady of education and some experience. Her recommendations were satisfactory, and shortly afterwards she took her place among the pupils. Little was seen or Known of her at first. Whoever had wandered over the green late in the afternoon, when the bo'strous shouts of playful mirth : pre. claimed that school hours were endeé, wanld have seen the quiet young school-mistress . modestly wending her way homeward, with one of the little scholars on each side by the . hand. A demure little sunboanett shaded . her features, and so softly and so quietly did . she pass those who met her that one hardly . thought again of the ripple that had euricd . across the tide of his thought as his eye . glanced for a moment upon her. But in the country villages the old saying . of the philosopher is true: “Children rule! their mothers; mothers the fathers: fathers . the world.” The young boys and girts ef . W——— were made, by the strange spell, to; love their teacher as children never >» Yah once, and it was not long before peor! s<ge} seeking out their little piece of dems: 22sea8, . for such she seemed to all who met her, suave! the children she was with daily. Kate Stewart was an orphan girl, whose! mother had died when she was an infant, and whose father, a captain on the sea, had not! been heard of for some years. Her days liad mostly been spent amoig strangers and at) school. But increasing age brought with iba, proud spirit of independence, and she deter. mined to seek some situation where a *ivelihood might be obtained by patting to si fyiee. haa WeeNay ier trom cuparior touches, Wee brought her to our village and laced her over the school. Her natural abilities. were good, and to these were added the supe. rior advantages of high cultivation. ‘With a, mind kept singularly pure and “ unspotted . from the world,” a heart warm and truth?a) . generous and confiding, an imagination yiv. id, and sensibilities keen, she won the affec-. tions of her pupils almost without an effort. . She was modest and retiring, almost painfaily so, for she had_ known little of society in . those later, moulding years usually gi study ; but there was a gentle dignity ix her manner, and a quiet self-reliance on her own . . i powers when aroused, that showed she nossessed a spirit like a prairie reed, bentliug to a rude, fierce blast, byt which only the light wind can make tremble. . She made her home at the house of an vid} lady living some little distance from the school-house. In the building, under the care of this woman as her nurse, had been lying for several years a poor vagrant, supported . there by the town authorities in preference to . leaving her at the poor-house. She had perhaps seen better days; but coming mysteri-. ously into the neighborhood at. first, ana ut. terly refusing ever after to give any ¢lue to' her previous history, little was known of her, except that now she was a poor bedridden . thing, who sometimes, when not too ‘sbi, . wove baskets for the children’s berries. Ove . morning, as he came to make his usual visit upon her, Dr. Irving found her very happy and cheerful, instead of restless and excited as before. Surprised at the change, he questioned her as to its cause. * Oh, sir,’’ replied the woman, “could you n to . fSot set vesdlotely down as’ the spirit! con. te i 1 USohd, as i ' 8 sick woman’s Words He went 6n his way, to make farther visits, moddy and wondering. A new set of feelings had been aroused, or else some fairy hand had Struck a fresh ch'me upon the old bells within. Curiosity led him to seck out this young teacher, and, being one of the committee, he was reminded by a fecling of neglected duty towards theschool, for he should have visited it in his. official capacity before, to report on its progress. Acking 6n this, one morning, as he saw the boys going in, he went over to the schoolhouse. They were in their seats by the time he had feached the door, and he paused in. the passage for a moment to listen. A chorhs of happy singers were lifting up the burden of. simple hymn-prayer, and high over all stole the voice of their leader, tlear, eweet. and musical as a harp. .Chat ended, ch'ldren’s voices were heard murmuring ‘the verses of » scripture truth for a few moments; and he then, amid a hnsh deep as if God were there, held his breath to catch the low tones of prayer fur the little ones whom: the Father loved to bless, and the solemn acknowledgment of dependence upon him for guidance in all her ways. Subdued and sad. he ‘knew not why, the young physician stood rebuked upon the threshold, and he paused to gain equanimity ere he entered the room. A blush ran lightly, as the shadow of. , cloud over Mae whirl sf snew-0)) ). cross the countenance i, Mate Stewart, as she saw her precincts invaded by a stranger. Byt it gave place instantaneously tc a quiet dignity svith which she welcomed her visitor. A itew words » be Ave a ee es £ a 2% made known the object of his coring, and 4 human nature world have iteway asthe Hp ge quivered with tremor at thewdirdeal befene it. And not one manina hundred would hage ” . % noticed, 18 De. Irving did, the teeth closed firmly on it to step its tremnlotsness, or. the quered its ness, Tose snperior £0 it, at stood calm and “by for “*e crial. . Class . ter class waslalied, wad took Ite f.age TF Bs dey quietly “auc picasaa vind Tee ue : intelligence passed betw rand : lars, andthe generous and cip re: lating . more than once found het e:.« half? Wilh tears a8 she noticed her-litile one fly watebing her eye, as they tried f', . her interest their own. and sprang Ww rity and noble independence in ant id of her biduing. Nota murmur # not. a jar disturbed.the stead s that ge eg AR os school. Deer” oe up with confi\\ os oes as they modé\ ioe 2 We 3 Set t 1 little. happy marching t¢ ipz yriecs in America but those who are foolish\)) to indulge in them, and they are gel: ficiently punished. it dia not hap; ne to be born in @ log cabin, raised e snow drifts of New Hampsbire, a> i if riod so early, that when the smoke Brat!” from its rude chimney, and curied over frozen hill, there was no similar eviiene 7 a white man’s habitation between if ang \ settlements on the riverCanada. Its rentai. 2 still exist, I make itn anauad visit. Door). . oy my @hildren to it te teach them the aarishipe endited by the generations which heve goue before them. LTidve to dwell on ye tender recollections, tlie Kindred ties, tiv: early ‘af fectidn, and narrations and ine/ients whieh mingle ‘vith all I knog of this P-imitive family abode. _I weep to think that pone of those who inhabited it are now ainong the Nving; and if ever Tfail in affectionate veneration for him whé raised it, aaci defended it agains avage violence and destruetion, cherished all gomestteits 190%, and thisugh fire and olooa of seveil years’ revolution shrank from no toil, no sacrifice, to serve his country and raise-his children to a condition better than his own,may my name, and the name of my posterity, be blotted from the memory of mankind.—Daniel Webster. ei . the soul with heavenly light, and fills it with but know what new thoughts andfeelingsare} ReFrREsHInG To BacuELors.—It is a slight in my mind this morning, you would not) source of consolation to single gentlemen, in wonder I am happy.”’. . town to know, that according to an accurate She went on tv tell him of a thousand . statistical record upwards of one fourth of and words of kitidness she had during the pas// all the maidens that have emigrated ‘hither few weeks received ftom the new teacher . within the last four years are either now reShe had been to her an angel in disguisy. . joicing in double blessedness, or under honds Soothing and calming in every a to take life partners “for better or worse, she had spoken words of hope that were evén . This willingness on the part of our femenine now full of joy to the sick woman. Even population to Fender so many of us happy the physician, accustomed as he was to scehes. we trust is not only duly appreciated, but of tf s character. felt his heart touched by . will be taken advantage of inthe future: by the téars of grateful feeling coursing down . those whose hearth-stones are still desolate.— the wrinkled face of the poor cme wrens Union: him. For years that poor woman had lain ia : fe . sorrow on ok bed of suffering. No voice of ga There isa deep and beautiful meanaffection was near her; No ear listéned t0/. ing in the saying of the wife of Jagellon, her story ; for as yet slie had never received . Duke of Lishuania. Some peasants coming that sympathy which unlocks the secret cham. to her in tears, complained that the servants bers of the soul. No voice spoke words~of}. of the King, her husband, had carried off their comfort to her, as she wore out the long days. cattle. She went toher husband, and obtainalone. But now for some time, as often as. ed instant redress. * Their cattle have been her duties would permit, Kate had watched restoted to. them.”’ said the Queen, ts RbT. by ber bed side, had encouraged her with) tio sual. GIVE TAWM DACk THEIR TAAAs sympathy. had told her of a new source tf) Placer Herald. Noes joy, unspeakable and full of glory. The} — weary soul had listen . ' rs cd, for this was as pufe. water to the unquenched thirst-of years. She ; had listened as for her life, and this morning DE “pt had to her. known two dawnings: the one; : ; that which had galled: 4 young. bigs f ¢ vised? sae see bedside to the other duties of the day, the! ofan ag Oy alifornia Legislata’” r the rising of that inner sun that floods / for the golle fhe eo [tas bse ted life. love, and’song. the in ‘oF Although professedly a disbeliever in these . Chimese: things, Dr. Irving could not throw off at ).Chii once the impression made upon him by the, “fi j Cumsanse Lungcaseers . ra ane vie i yet so itis. ‘Therinth. ae