hi J fat 14 Id a "jot IV .WBf: .'! ifai.' tw' 7j nl 1ST- f I am I tk I I tk I ifr I I ' lb. -.TuMtti h HBhd at Two Ji w I Twenty-Ilv CtsM for hi All . i . mnxma ucu?. Jtl Mm nearer our own times. of tbe late war with England, TL-Ti kktoiT of which more abund. .Js"- .Jr. MM,wof iIibCod. It. CLU under fjornmooore JL. nHar Coniniodora-Isaac Hull, lPJr jUrf British ships, in July , 1812, r . - n.rrn. r ..TiLK minted, that we cannot iHtansttet the satisfaction of laying it i r. rparlcr. I? . I Athe by opened, three sails were '-acotwed oa the "larboard quarterof the and three more astern. This .,. .k Mtudion of Commodore Broke, "of. juchkts' keen gradually closing In with irican frurata during the night, and .4 Lj,. kut of gunshot, r At the ship 'ilotlf ruied their positions, . when the 'fltti ra entirely cleared away, the Con 'dttitioa had two frigate on her leo quar-. w od a ehip of the line, two frigates, a 1 m lod t cboooor astern. : All the Strang. PWih colors flviOIT. - v: -.. ;' :- 'j 1 it bo feU quite calm, andther Constjfl Likivi mit hr boats, and sent them ?1 'itkeid It tow, and with a view to keep the 'ilsto out of the reach of the enemy 'a ahot. Attbe tame time, aha; swept up one of the 'gain deck gutu to tbe apar deck, and run ! sot ftt at a ttern chaser, getting a long 'sighteea off the forecastle, also for a simi Iw purpose. Two more of the tweuty. tm below were run out of the cabin win Jon; with the same object, though, it was found necessary to cut away tome of the 'nod work of the stern franpe, in order to lair 1' iid ) m By tix o'clock tbe wind, which contin- nea very Pgm sou oaming, came oui irum !ae Dorthwsrd of the west, when tbe ship's J . . J i .L .....I J I y JWU was gm iduiiu w uiv nniuiwaru, uw I M flit light canrast that would draw, was to "wt. ' Soon after tbe nearest frigate , the T" puuno, opened with ncr bow guns, and contiiwed for abaut ten minutes, but per Vming ihe could not reach the Cunstitu. I.:. :tiog,ibeeessed. At halt-past six Uaptain HuUioundedio twenty-six taihoms, when , Ending that the enemy was likely to close, ;u k wu unable to put the boats of two tUptGootM, and was also farorad with a jliUtt more air than the Constitution, all the ( spire rope that could be fouud, and which J m St (or the purpose, was payed down jagm! gireir, ibe crew clapped oOr and alkedaway with the ship, overrunning with the end of the line. - While this was doing', fresh tines and another kedgo were carried shead, and in this manner, though oat of tight of bnd , the frigate hod glided my from her pursuers, before they dis covered tbe manner In which it was done. It wu not long, however, before the ene- iy resorted to the same expedient At WPpaaTsI wr, when she set her ensign, and Jred a not at fte Shannon, the nearest ahip. At ht it fell calm again, and further recourse vw had to the boats and kedges, the ene. "7 vessels bavinir a litrht air. a drawing had, towing, sweeping and kedging. By Ji ths nearest frigate, the Shannon, on to tho English had put most of their ti, was ilosine faat. and there was cv. J protpect, notwithstanding the-steadi-m ind acuvity of the Conatitulion'h pea. plej that the frisrate would ret iwar enmiirh tOCrinnle her. when kovVi f the sqntdron would be inevitable. At ail Irving- moment Ki Ko ..;i. . O 'I wvww was 7irvMS ia themhip. Every thing was stopper, w, and Capuin Hull was not without hnm wen should helwr frktVovl inlA im!am Jt Rowing the Shannon astern by his fire, ana of maintaining ti. a;.. 1 e .u ter vessels, ft was known th.t tv, . 57T!i,,0tt0w near, u it wootJ bavq been verv iA v: vM. wru we tern guns of the ConstituUori, and not man in the latter vessel showed a dispo h to despondency. Officers and men euered eanh riu i . no while th rrt-.. 1..1J "own oa the deck tn ratK ot, k. lple slept at their guns. I w, lma one of the moat critical i ""overnents of tiw rhnu Tv. rk a . vww a simuijvu wnile tbe Guerriera vi An e laifant nn... - i . 3 . . 1 1 nour promisea to -t, - .iruggie xo an issue, when, sud 7amulemii pine, light irom the south struck the ship, bring, x4u?.W . waixL The beautiful man- Z; which this advantage was improved, i i """unwion, even in xne enemy. JU ere trimmed, and, as soon aa she Onder Contmniul K m Kmiifrht rlnM J tothe wind, on the larboard tack ; the were AmmmA in .unm.;t . tk JTnvv I WATTS '--v that belonged to me aaviu were run up, while the others were just lifted clear of the water, by purchases on tbe spare spars, stowed outboard, where they were in read. iness to be used again at a moment s notice. At the ship came by the wind, she brought the Guerriere nearly on her lee beam. when that fHgate opened ,a Are from ber hroaosHie. vvtino toe ahot or thia vessel were just fallen short of them, the people of the Constitution were hoisting up their boats, with as much steadiness aa if the du ty was performed in a friendly port In about an hour, however, it fell nearly calm again, when Uaptain Hull ordered a quan tity or the water started to lighten the ship, More tnaa two thousand eaJioos were pumped out, and the boats were sent ahead again to tow. The enemy now put nearly all their boats on the Shannon, the nearest shin astern t and a few hours of produnous exertion followed, the people or tbe Con stitution being compelled to tup ply the place of numbers by their activity and zeal. The ships were close by the wind, and every thing thai would draw was set, and the Shannon was slowly but ateadily forging ahead. About noon, of this day, there was a little relaxation from labor, owing to the occasional .ocenrrenoe or cat s paws, by watching which, closely, the ahip waa urged through the water. ' But at a quarter paet twelve, tbe boats were ahead, and the toilsome work of towing" and kedging was renewed. r ' s .'.'-.'-.. " At one o'clock a strange sail was dis covered, nearly to leeward.- At thia mo ment, the four frigates of the enemy were about one point on the lee quarter of the Constitution, at long gun-shot t the Africa and the two prizes, being on the lee beam. As the wind was constantly baffling, any moment might have brought a change, and placed the enemy to windward. At seven minutes before two, the Belvedere henh4 - nearest ship, began to fire with her bow guns, and the Cohslututton Opened with her stern chasers, la board the -Utter ship, however, it was found dangerous to use the main deck gum, the transoms having so much rake, the windows being so high , and the guns short, that every explosion lifted the upper deck and threatened to blow out the stern frame. Perceiving, moreover, that thia shot did little or no execution, Captain Hull ordered tbe firing to cease at half-past two. '' " 1 '. . - " Por several hours the enemy's frigates were now within gunshot, sometimes tow. ing and kedging, and at others endeavor ing to close with the pulls or air that occa sionatly passed. At seven in the evening, the boats of the Constitution were again ahead, the ship steering south-west, naif west, with an air so light as to be almost imperceptible. At liall-past seven she sounded in 24 fathoms. For four hours the same toilsome duties were going on, until a little before eleven, when a light air from the Southward struck the ship, and the sailors for the first time in many weary hours were asleep. The boats instantly dropped alongside, hooked on, and were all run up, with the exception of tbe first cut. ter. 'The ton gallant studding sails and uJsjEerestas soon as possible-, and, for about an hour, the people ciuclit a lit. tie rest ' - But at midnight it- fell nearly . calm again, though neither the pursuers nor the Eursued had recourse to the boats, proba. ly front an unwillingness to distu-b their crews, i At two A. M. it was ooservea, on board the Constitution, that the Gurriere had forged ahead, and was again off her Ice beam.; At this time the topgallant stud. dinir-sails were taken in. - . 1 - 4l-la this manner passed the night, and 6ff mornmgtif the next(layitwas fow that three of the ehemy'e frigates were within long gunshot on the lee quarter, and the other about the same distance on the lee beam. The Africa and the prizes were much further to the leeward. . ' A little after day light, the Guerriere, having drawn ahead sufficiently to be for ward of the Constitution's beam, tacked, when the latter ship did the same, in order to preserve her position to the -windward. An hour later the jEolus -passed on the contrary tack so near, that it was thought by some, wlKjbeervedtheinoveTneirt she ought to have opened ber fire ; hut as that vessel was merely, a twelve pounder frigate, and she waa still at a considerable distance, it is quite probable her comman der acted judiciously. By thia time there was sufficient wind to induce Captain Hull to hoist in the first cutter. y - " The scene. 6n the morning of this daywas very beautiful, and of great inter est to the lovers of nautical exhibitions. The weather was mild. and Wely, nhd.:lbe sea was smooth as 8 pond, there was quite wind enough to remove the necessity of sny1 of ; the .extraordinary means of getting ahead, that had been so freely used during the 'previous eightnd-forty hours. All the English vessels had got on the same tack with tbe Constitution again, and the five frigates wore clouds of canvass, from their trucks to the water. Including the American ship, eleven soils were in sight ; and shortly alters twelfth appeared to wind ward, that was soon ascertained to be an American mffirhantmnmlut were too intent on the Constitu gard any thing else and thoug the enemy Constitution to re gard any thing else and though it would have been easy to capture the ship to lee ward, no attention' appears to have been paid to her. With-i view, however, to de ceive tbe ship to windward, they hoisted American colors, when .the Constitution set an English ensign, by way of warning the stranger to keep aloof. ",'At meridian the wind began to blow pleasant breeze, and the sound of the wa. ter, rippling under the, bows of the vessels, was again heard. From this moment the noble) ship drew aliead of all her pursuers, tbe sails being watched and tended in the best manner that consummate seamanship could dictate, until four P. M., when the ship Belvidero 'was more than four miles astern, and the other vessels were thrown behind in the same proportion, though the wind had again got to be very light " In this.manDcr both parties kept pres sing ahead and to windward, as fast as cir cumstances would allow, profiting by ev. ery change, and resorting to all the means of forcing vessels through, the water thai are known to seamen. A little before ser. err, however, there was every appearance of a heavy squall, accompanied by rain; when the Constitution prepared to meet it with the coolness and discretionv she had displayed throughout the whole affair. The people were stationed, and every thing was kept fast to the last moment, when, just before the squall struck the ship, tbe order waa given to clew up and clew down. All tbe light canvass waa furled, a second reef was taken in the mizen topsail, and the ship waa brought under short sail, in an incredibly little time. ;. The English vessels observing this, began to let go and haul down without waiting tor the wind and when they were shut in by the rain, they were steering in different directions to avoid the : force of the expected squalL . The Constitution, on the other hand, no sooner got its weight, than anil sheeted horde and hoisted her fore and main top-gallant sails ; and while tbe enemy most probably believ. ed her borne down by the pressure of the wind, steering freeshe was flying away from them, on an easy .bowline, at the rate of eleven knots. , r. t' -Thus terminated a chase that habe. come historical in the American navy, for its length ;r closeness, and actiwly,, (Jathe parjr o. the English, there were manifested much perse verence and seamanship, a ready imitation, and a strong desire to get along side .of their enemy. But the glory of the affair was carried oft by the olucera and people of the Constitution. Through. out all tho trying circumstances of this arduous struggle, this noble frigate, which had so lately Jbeen tho sneers of the Eng lish critics, maintained tho high character of a man-of-war.-, bven when pressed up on the hardest, nothing was hurried, con. fused, or slovenly, but the utmost stcadi ness, order, and discipline, reigned in the ship." , : ... v from (he Advocate sad Journal. I , FEMALE EDUCATION. AIbssbs. EntToas : What can be of more importance to our country than the proper education of our women! This sentiment is indeed working its way very generally ..into the:, public mind; but the umeshave not-vet nroduced anv sauslac. lory outline of the system of education best adapted to the females. We havo had some scattering suggestions, and an peca sional exhortation bearing this way ; but it is believed there are-radical errors which have as yet escaped de pretended that we have not had long essays, and even large volumes jibut who idoes not know that a great book may contain 'very little that is new T 7' : The writer of this has very carefully ex- amined several late works on the education of females, and finds nothing material ad. ded to the maxims of former times. Books of this kind will be useful as embodying principles already received , but the improve, menta they recommend are of a descrip. Great improvements never ' tokVIBelrHrtin in a bare emendation of particulars. If the principles are wrong, vexatious and in vain will be the adjustment of details. "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of this. tlesT' Plant but acorns, prune and culti vate as you will, and you will gather only acorns at last Yet the intolerable charac ter of a particular or consequence may lead, and sometimes does, not to the emendation of such particular or consequence, but the rejection of the principle from which it springs. -f3o far, I take it r we have advanc. 1 ed with female education. " The imperfect and vicious principles that have predominated in their education have been discovered only through the multipli city of bitter consequence thaffbllbwed. -Community is now writhing under the ma. levolent effects of its own cherished system of Instruction: iraffordrTWIeasure- dwell upon evils that are past remedy ; and were the present generation vruin,)ocern. ed, it would be wisdom, perhaps, to .remit the consideration of mestibjectaltogether There is one consoUftfon attendant on inves tigations of this kind, namely, facility' of Erooq Cause and effect are betore us ; ana owever great may be the difficulty of pro viding for a better' state of things, the ut ter mischiefs of tbe pre8ent"course are un deniable. I shall now refer more particu. larly to some of the facta which warrant the above suggestions: 1. Ignorance of natural science, tine custom which prevails among females de monstrates their ignorance of physiology. Allusion Is hM&f-?wt " ift.lacing. The small waists of America, and the small feet of China, have one common origin in tbe profound depths of ignorance. Tbe dif ference is merely a matter of taste. My re marks are rather excursory than criminative hence no attempt will be made to declaim againsi the absurdities of this practice. The reference is one of illustration solely ; for I am convinced that mention of this vice for any other purpose tends to make matters worse, instead of better. Phyticians and philanthropists may expatiate on the mad. ness of this suicidal custom ; may demon, strata that its inseparable attendants are pain and death I but all to no purpose. Ig. rjorance forbids that they should know these thingv - And until tbe laws of tho Jniman mina are changed, it must be so ; 'for tbe bare ipse dixit, even of love and knowledge cannot be received. The wisdom of ined). eal and other advisers may not be doubted J their kind intentions certainly not but the subjects of this advice fail to trace tbe con. catenation of facta on which such conclu sions rest Hence they have only the force of abstractions supported merely by author ity, and are deservedly rejected from among tho number of governing principles. Under the bead of iomutiq , management ft list of grievances might be enumerated Tbe lady who has been brought up to com. press her waist, and who thinks it right to do so, cannot be supposed to have a know!., edge of what is requisite for the clothes of the rest of the family. The young and flexible child must shape to its clothes. Stubborn indeedr are tbe laws of nature. But. anTexpanded chest is quite top vulguar : its ossifying frame-work must therefore be taught to grow, not as God would have it, but as capricious ignorance will permit Here, too, we usuaUy Maine the woman, when she does buTas she was learned. She mav be entitled to our nitv. but scarce. ly to our censure. What does she know of the structure of tbe being she is modeling, or of the operation of tbe vital functions of its body T Has she ever been schooled in facts of this kind' If not, the councils of prudence will have the appearance of dog matism and folly and cruelty will character ize the attempt to induce practical attention to what, under other circumstances, would have been cheerfuTIybeyed Tor its own sake.... Vi'iu ' 2. Fotuity of mindTln youth the natu ral buoyancy of spirits is a wise provision for a good beginning: but if no stock of knowledge is ucquired during this period, the mind is doomed to a monotony that dis- qualifies It for lofty aspirings, and prolongs the continuance through life of a desire for the puerile gratifications of dress and amuse, ment "'The soul without education, like a pile without inhabitant, to ruin runs." Incapable of intellectual happiness, resort is had to the more worthless and often vi- cious pleasures of sense. Or. rather, the intellect divorced from the senses in stupi fted, and the unhappy being is borneby the latter, like Phieton the Chariot of Ju piter. But away with objections. It i time to stop finding fault, and say the little we have by way of reform. Without affecting to supply the desideratum ia question, or ma king improvements beyond all that are. past, the author wishes, to contribute what he can to a " consummation so devoutly- to be wished. 1. The course of instruction for females should be based upon human nature,, and not upon the caprice of incompetent parents nor the silly and contradictory customs of aluailoio human being is so for another. There is. a gradual approximation to this view in the various editorial movements of the day. But this movement, is still too vague. The public is moving, but the goal where it should stop is unascertained. Wome are properly excluded from politics and public life; but why are they cashiered from truth? They live and act in this life as really aa do men, and with the same accountability, and it is absurd to (Twonder that physical edu cation is deemed either useless or unbecons and painting, dec., all very good as far as they go f but the vices now most to be de plored are not to be subverted by superfi cial accomplishments. A solid education in the elements of universal science can alone render belles lettres of any use to their possessor. A lady who understands chynustry and physiology must be much better prepared to nurse- the- -sick -and to manage the affairs of her own family so as to'secure health and happiness, than one who cfen only make music and pictures. 2. Females ought to oe so educated as to be judges of their own morality, and com petent counsellors of their own sex. There are now a few such, and there always has been, perhaps ; but ' what are they among so many!" why have we not more lemaie seminaries of a high order! Perhaps they cannot be afforded, oritjnay be teachers cannot be found. These things, however-, only show that female education is consid ered rather as a refinement, tharfas a neces- saxyjif-life- They have of right no con. nection with the destiny OT women mom than they nave with-that of men.:. But in the one case we are passive, while in the other no inducement could make us so. Women have, therefore, been educated as an appendage to society, and not as a con stkuent part--merely as an ornament than might or might not be retained without pre judice to the social constitution. Such are the leading principles that ought to govern in female education. ' ' In my last, I observed that there was miichconfujion in the applicauon of our limited system. But in this, as in other cases, the stronger oppress jthe weaker.--By chance and by force the interests of this class have been shuffled aside till they man ifest little disposition to call their spoilers to account Society can be so arranged in all it domestic affairs as to admit of the re quisite mental elevation. The plodding, unbroken industry of some housekeepers i ia rather tbe effect of habit than of necessi ty. .We must, look to those who have put down, to raise up those whom they have depressed. , Let the means and excitements to study be no longer withheld from the adult and let children of both classes be put upon the broad and equal ground of bu. man nature then the dominancy of fash. ion will give place to the control of reason. Hammondjport, Aug. 25, 1840. . V ILLINOIS. It is a singular circumstance in the car. ly history of this country, that, a time when thfr settlements on the Atlantic were yet few and isolated, struggling for exist- tence against penury, sickness, a no? the hostility of the natives, and all along their western border lay a repulsive and un explored wilderness, the enterprise of the r ranch should have penetrated, by way of the northern Lakes, to the country border ing on the Mississippi, and, mora than a hundred and fifty years ago,"' established colonies, which have existed uninterrupted to the present day. In the villages of Kas kaskia. Prairie, du Rocher, Cahokia, and their vicinity, are yet to be seen the1 de scendants of the men, who followed La Salle, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, in bis adventurous exploration of the course of tho Mississippi. Here, in these regions of beauty and fertility, exis ted for many years, secluded from, and al most unknown to, the rest of the world, a company of as light-hearted and as mirth. loving individuals, as ever emigrated irom the father land of mercurial spirits. At peace almost always wun uie Indians, . i i . a ! whom they were content to defraud of their furs, without seeking to drive them from their country ; basking under a genial cli mate, and deriving-an -easy subsistence from a soil fertile beyondTlTprior expert enee, tiie, French of Illinois, for more than three quarters oi a century, vegetating in colonies, which nothing but their indolence and love of ease prevented from rivalling those, in which the energy of the settlers on the Atlantic was lading the foundations of this republic An observer of the latter part of the seventeenth century, possessed of the most correct information with regard tar this country may well have doubted where eveniuall v. the strenirth of nonulalion would -. J u IS preponderate. On the one hand, the ad venturers on the seaboard, though obliged io derive H support from a soil compara tively barren and unkind, and -to contend with the undying hostility of tho natives, with the most disheartening sickness and mortality, possessed the advantage of more easy access to the mother country, ana greater facilities for commerce. On the other, the French colonists were in pos session ofthe two natural outlets of the West, the "Mississippi and the St Law rence. They had ingratiated themselves, by their facility of adaptation and careless ease of manner, with the Indians. Tbey found a climate which, Whatever it may hnvA nrnvpd tn nther P.iironpnns. wa to them sinsrularlv congenial, and the kindli. t lertile soil that was ever tax. TnoTtioii-16 ed for the support of man. all these advantages, the mother country at different times, lavished large sums of money for their assistance, and her gov. ernment was, to the last degree, kind and parental. , ' . With these lights, would not suchfan ob. server have been justified ioVpredicting,that tbe coram of t rench settlement along tne Mississippi and on the borders of the Lakes would increase and tighten ,till it had forced the inhabitaotam thaolhttflide of the rAU trghaieito.4he sp acampejledjhenn il to submission i Ana may wo noi now speculate upon the probability that, had the circumstances of the rival nations, who were contending for this part of the conti nent ,ben reversed, the result would have been very different I Had the Anglo-Sax. on emigrants orginally penetrated to the lakes and ascended the Mississippi, may we not presume that their dense and thriv. ing communities in the West would soon have ousted . tbe Frenchmen, 'who might have been hunting crabs, and eating oys- ters, oh the shores of the ocean t - As it turned out. while the descendants of the English were tolling. Jbr .a subsist enceon the sand of Virginia, or on the bleak bills of New-England, they were ac- Suiring, at the same time, tho habits of in. ustry, the energy of character, and the love of industry, which carried them tri-1 omphantly through the var of the Kevo lution ; the' Tl hman , on the banks of ihe Mississippi i was dreaming away his UifT-happyr ajJoDg &S the viljnge musician woula " pipe Tor him to dance, ana-eiy caring to vary iu monotony by a trading voyage, up, some oi uie Dranciies oi uk erreat river, among the Indians, to whom he felt no repugnance to assimilate himself in manners ana inuuu.-ni.c. n. u.. TH 1B3EST PHILOSOPHER AT HOME. The following anecdote is related by Less, ins. the German author, who, in his old age, was'subject to extraordinary fits, pf ab straction. On his return home one eve. servant looked out ot the window to see who was there. Not recognizing his mas ter, and mistaking him for a stranger, he called out1, "The Professor is not at home." " O very well," replied Leasing, I will call another time ;" and so saying he walked composedly away. .,.-.. VANITY. . The Editorial craff, (like most Other crafts) is sometimes in need of ft little scraping. The overflow of vanity and pre sumptioo which the following article ex hibits, for instance, seems to' requlnr - passing touch. ; Edilort looking ire. Wef sea from time , to time a paragraph with the above beading, containing the information that the conduc tor of some paper has been elected consta ble, councilman, assemblyman, governor, member of Congress, etc, a if It were matter of astonishment that ft man caps. m t i.- .. ...r w uucuuujj, uu unuwn responsioiuty, much of the public mind, should be deem ed worthy of sharing with two or threo hundred in the making of a few laws, or of being the instrument to distribute a feV-. omces on parry grounds, a case has oc curred in New-Hampsture, which appears w us to give occasion lor a proper kind of , puragrapn. Uovernon locking vp. His Excellency Isaac Hill, for six years member of the Sen. ato of the United States, and subsequently for many years Governor of the Common, wealtfr, of New-IIampshire, baa become editor of.a weekly paper," called "ilia Farmer's Friend." We congratulate him on his promotion, and point to the case aa ' illustrative or the maxim, that industry and application lead to success,!, We are not obliged to say from which of our cotemporaries we have cut this pre cious scrap, nor from which again it pro teoses to nave copied it lite little thing speaks for itself, and as we only wish to correct ajevHrBoo-ge-t!e-ofFender7 (and least of all to get into a controversy witn an aaiior, lor some or them might -have more " vomts? than we have time to count;) we shall barely say ft word or two concerning the vanity it discovers. Who" hasTiot heard or-read-of -ftit-Jhf-which, sitting on the coach wheel, remark ed with great scIFcbmpTaccncy 161he"wheet7"" " what a dust e raise l" And when "Will men learn that they are by no means as much as they think themselves to be T - It is true that a rifle in the "hands of an experienced and veteran huntsman .ia,, weapon of danger and of death; but sure ly it is a matter of mirth to hear the pomp ous exclamations of a lad who has just changed his petticoats for, pantaloons, and who, with his little gun bos been exploding a blank cartridge. And yet with what volubility he discourses of we, and ui, and our t. And is it a whit less ridiculous to hear an editor of some little country jour nal talking of what toe have done, and what we will do in the regulation of na lion's business : supposing himself " caps ble of directing, on his own responsibility, much of the public miod."(!l !) y ,.. How easy it is to fancy our consequence, and to think because a few people read our paper that we are a very important person age. "In a certain circle we may be so, but the man who has not discrimination enough to know bow to value tbe applause of such, has, we think, very little capability of "di. recting much of the public mind." f Some folks don't seem to have the art of diimminating tirtwwfeL ana who i atrcaca. il sinses us uierv are very few of the Editorial fraternity who " direct much of the public mind, but there are a good many who know what direction to take after they know "muck of the public mind." It is a pity some people could not be taught that having one's nama-in the cor. per of a printed sheet as Editor,' can no more give them the influence and greatness - they imagine, than does a chimney -sweep'a ascent to the summit or the .highest chinw ncjua aJQwnnyje8imwith mumcipal authority. Southern AdwxMie. """"" A MOTHER'S DYING LOVE. The plague broke out in a little Italian village. In one bouse the children were taken first, Tbe pirents watched over them, but only, watched the disease tbey could not cure. The whole family died. On the opposite side of the way, lived the family of a day-laborer, who was absent the whole week, only coming home on Sat urday night, to bring bis scanty earnings. His wile leit nerseii attacked oy tne lever in the night In the morning she waa much worse, and before night the plague, spot showed itself. She knew she must die, but as she looked upon her dear boys, resolved not to communicate death to them. She therefore locked the children in a room. and-snatched Jber Jr? they should keep the contagion behind her, and left tbe house. 2he even denied herself tbe sad pleasure of a last embrace. O, think of the heroism which enabled her to con quer her feelings, and leave her home and all she loved to die. tier oldest, chija saw her from , the window, " Good bye, mother," said he, in his tenderest tone, for he wondered why his mother left them so strangely. " Good bye, mother," repeat ed the youngest child, stretching his little hand out of the window. The mother paused. Her heart was drawn towards her children, and she was on the point of rush ing back. She struggled hard, while tbe tears rolled down her cheeks at the sight of helpless babea, At length she turned from them. The children continued loffryT- Good bye, mother." The sound sent a thrill of anguish to her heart, but she pressed on to the house of those, that were to bury her. In two days she died, re-, commending her husband and children to their care with her dying breath. ,

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