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She has closed her night school, as the even-' out to service unless their employés agree to ings have grown so much shorter; but she is so give them lessons daily. I know of one who much interested in her pupils she expects "to could not be induced to live with the lady who meet with them once a week to read to them, wanted her until writings were drawn to that and to help them along a little. It will not do effect." to leave my sheep without a shepherd, for the wolves are even now prowling about, in the shape of wily politicians."

FRANCES E. GAUSE, who has labored so indefatigably at Frying Pan, Fairfax Co., to build up a good school, has succeeded admirably. Her pupils progress rapidly, and MAJOR HINES, the Government Superintendent of that county, has more than once expressed himself as looking upon it as one of the best schools in his district. She speaks of one of her pupils about 16 years of age, who, she thinks, will soon be able to assist her.

CATHARINE E. HALL, at Andrews Chapel, says, "My school is doing, I think, quite as well as the Association could wish. I am much pleased with the rapid progress of my, pupils, in all their studies, as well as the interest they take in their school duties."

HANNAH SHORTLIDGE, at Big Falls, says, "My school continues pleasant, and, with one or two exceptions, the pupils are improving very rapidly. I think I shall have a very interesting school this summer. There will be some changes, as a portion of my largest pupils will have to leave; but I am in hope others will take their places."

ELIZA E. WAY, at Falls Church, who has a school of seventy four pupils, writes: "I think I may say my school is progressing finely, considering the number of scholars. I cannot devote as much time to any of the classes as I think they need, and should have, although I frequently have some of the scholars to assist me."

It may be well here to remark that the Association encourages this kind of assistance wherever practicable, and several are now under moderate pay for their services.

After speaking of the great difficulty in getting to and from school during the winter on account of the condition of the roads, she says: "One morning I started, and could only get about half way. There I stopped at a colored man's house and had school, as several of the children had gone that far, and were not will ing to go home again, without "saying a lesson." MARY MCBRIDE, at Fairfax Court House, writes: "I have no prodigies to tell of, unless I mention a little ebony hued girl of seven years, who can read any thing that is set before her. She reads a weekly newspaper to her mother every week; and as said paper contains some very long words, I think Mintie does remarkably well for a child of her years." To show the influence our schools have already exerted, she states: "The girls will not now go

Allusion is also made to their amusing endeavors to use "big words." None of her pupils are allowed to leave their seats without permission; but one of them who did, voluntarily made an acknowledgment in these words: " Cato left his seat without commission." A zealous old man, who always prays very fervently for her, made an appeal on one occasion as follows: "O Hebbenly Fader, bress our bootiful schoolmistress, a very bootiful lady,— nothin but a mass ob corruption !”

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SARAH E. LLOYD, at Woodlawn. school is unusually prosperous, and reflects great credit on the exertions of the teacher. She has now 90 pupils enrolled, 54 of whom can write; 63 are between 6 and 16 years of age, and yet not one in the alphabet!

MARTHA WRIGHT, at Lewansville.―This school has increased rapidly, and now numbers 62 pupils, 51 of whom write, while there are none in the alphabet!

DEBORAH K. SMITH, at Gum Springs.No report has been received for the present month, but from a letter received by a member of the committee, it is believed to be in a prosperous condition.

MARY K. BROSIUS, at Vienna, acknowledges the box of supplies sent her, and says, "I feel very grateful to know we are not forgotten by our friends at home. We have some friends here, too, that we can depend on. We have not yet removed into our new house. I have almost to stack my scholars; while some write, I let the others go out to make room. I do not like to turn any off, as some will be compelled to leave as soon as spring work commences." In referring to the little boy and girl sometimes spoken of, she says: My little favorite has not been coming very regularly for the last two months, because he had no shoes; but whenever he does come, he goes from the foot to the head of the class in the first lesson, and there he stays. The little girl is a good reader, is spelling in five syllables, and writes in a copy book.

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SARAH ANN STEER, at Waterford, reports her assistant (colored) very ill with typhoid fever, with doubts as to her recovery. In ref. erence to the capacity of the negro race for acquiring knowledge, she says, "I am often asked the great question, Can the negro learn any thing? and instead of answering it my self, sometimes feel like referring the guests to some of my pupils who came to me less than a year ago, ignorant even of the alphabet; and thus letting them judge for themselves how much they are capable of acquiring. I have

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FRIENDS' INTELLIGENCER.

TEACHINGS OF NATURE.

Look on this beautiful world and read the truth
In her fair page; see, every season brings
New change to her of everlasting youth;

Still the green soil with joyous living things
Swarms; the wide air is full of joyous wings;
And myriads still are happy in the sleep

not in my school any very remarkable instances |
of precocity, such as I notice in some accounts
from other teachers; neither have I one that is
incapable of learning. I have not had one in
All who com-
the alphabet for some months.
menced with their letters in the fall, are now (3d
mo. 3d) spelling and reading in the spelling
book. Some of them are men grown, and I am
surprised at the ease and rapidity with which
they get along, particularly with Arithmetic.
The Multiplication Table, which is a great bug-O'er
bear to most, has been perfectly learned in a
few weeks by some who did not know one fig-
ure from another. I have a boy eighteen years
of age who has advanced as far as Federal
Money.

She also speaks of the "Circular Letter"
having been so warmly welcomed by those to
whom it was addressed, and of the reply they
sent to the Association, which was all their own
work, without any assistance from her. The
boy who wrote it scarcely misses a word in his
spelling lessons, but made some errors in his
address, and when she questioned him how it
happened, his reply was, "Miss Sarah, when
I went to write I was so scared I forgot how
to spell !"

Recent letters from some of our faithful teachers in South Carolina have been received, but one not in the hands of the complier. Three of the schools have been regularly reported, and continue in a very prosperous condition. The remaining two (at St. Helena) have not been officially heard from, which is a matter of regret, as it prevents presenting our aggregate report for that section.

SUSAN H. CLARK, at Fortress Monroe gratefully acknowledges the reception of the last box of supplies, as well as the contribution of money from private sources forwarded her, all coming at a very opportune moment, and enabling her to alleviate much suffering.

Believing an advantage would arise to all parties from a visit of encouragement to our teachers, and personal intimacy with the Freedmen themselves in the respective vicinities of our schools, Edith W. Atlee and Henry W. Laing were selected for the purpose.

They are at the present moment of writing engaged in the fulfilment of their mission, and from them we look for an interesting report and much information that will be valuable to us in the future, as respects the continuance of our schools.

J. M. E. Philadelphia, 4th mo. 24, 1867. Do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again: carry the crystal of truth in the hand unsullied: walk with one hand clasped in Christ's, the other reaching down for the comfort and sustenance of "Whatsoever beneath us may creep or cling."— Winslow.

Of ocean's azure gulfs, and where he flings
The restless surge. Eternal love doth keep,
In his complacent arms, the earth, the air, the deep.
Will, then, the merciful One, who stamped our race
With his own image, and who gave them

earth, and the glad dwellers on her face,

Now that our swarming nations far away
Are spread, where'er the moist earth drinks the
day,
Forget the ancient care that taught and nursed
His latest offspring? Will he quench the ray
Infused by his own forming smile at first,
And leave a work so fair all blighted and accursed?
Oh no! a thousand cheerful omens give

Hope of yet happier days, whose dawn is nigh.
He who has tamed the elements shall not live
The slave of his own passions; he whose eye
Unwinds the eternal dances of the sky,
And in the abyss of brightness dares to span
The sun's broad circle, rising yet more high,
In God's magnificent works his will shall scan,
And love and peace shall make their paradise with
-Wm. C. Bryant.

man.

CONFIDENCE.

The child leans on its parent's breast,-
Leaves there its cares, and is at rest;
The bird sits singing by its nest,

And tells aloud

His trust in God, and so is blest
'Neath every cloud.

He has no store, he sows no seed,
Yet sings aloud and doth not heed;
By flowing stream or grassy mead
He sings, to shame
Men who forget, in time of need,
A Father's name.

The heart that trusts, forever sings,
And feels as light as it had wings;
A well of peace within it springs,
Come good or ill;

Whate'er to-day-to-morrow brings-
It is his will.

-British Herald.

The trivial round, the common task,
Afford us all we ought to ask:
Room to deny ourselves; a road
To lead us daily nearer God."

CHRISTIAN COURTESY.-The love and admiration which that truly brave and loving man, Sidney Smith, won from every one, rich or poor, with whom he came in contact, seems to me to have arisen from the one fact that, without perhaps having any such conscious intention, he treated rich and poor, his own servants and the noblemen his guests, alike, and alike courteously, considerately, cheerfully, affectionately; so leaving a blessing and reaping a blessing wheresoever he went.-Charles Kingsley.

Extract from a Lecture delivered by PROF. AGASSIZ in Cooper Institute, New York, 2d mo. 26th, 1867, on the Monkeys and Native Inhabitants of South America.

(Concluded from page 127.)

Here let me call attention to another fact. Is it because nature has undergone successive changes that animals and plants have made their appearance? or is it the physical change which has called into existence these living beings? or have the physical changes as they have taken place been directed in such a manner as to prepare the home upon which living beings could be distributed in a manner suited to the conditions prevailing on the earth? The question is simply this: Has the physical world in all its changes been productive of the organic world, or has there been an intellectual power superintending the whole in such a manner that the physical condition should be brought about by which the living being should find an appropriate home for their growth? In other words, has man sprung upon earth because our earth had become what it was, or has the earth been prepared for man, that be might develop in that way his capacities in the most appropriate manner upon its surface? If we look at the order of the succession of vertebrates, we find an answer to that question. We find, first, that fishes have existed as long as the surface of this earth was in the condition during which all these aquatic animals could alone exist. Then reptiles have been called into existence, just at the time when the land above the sea had become extensive enough to put forth a proper abode for the large masses of reptiles at the earliest periods. We find afterward the introduction of birds at the time when our atmosphere had been deprived of its accumulation of carbon, before which birds could not breathe. The accumulation of coal in beds, in the carboniferous period, freed the atmosphere of this element which has existed in such a proportion at our earlier period that the existence of warm blooded animals would have been impossible. Here is a physical fact that precedes the introduction of these living beings which required a purer atmosphere. Now the question is, has this freeing of the atmosphere of the carbon been the cause of the coming in of the birds and mammalia, or have the processes of nature been so conducted by a surprising intellect that at a certain time the atmosphere should be free of its impure matter, that higher forms of being might be called into existence? When we see that there is such a gradation, and when we find that there are no intermediate forms, it seems hardly possible that causes and influences which are ever acting in the same way should have produced this result. I wish I had time to enter into an elaborate

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argument upon this point. I will only sum up my evidence in a few sentences. The physical causes are the same now as they were before. Chemical agencies, physical agencies, act now as they have acted from the beginning. have the evidence of this in the identical character of the rocks of the older and more recent formations; we have evidence of it in the chemical identity of the materials of which celestial bodies are formed, of which the more recent investigations of physicists have given us satisfactory demonstrations. The physical world remains the same. The laws which govern it remain the same, and from the beginning until now they have acted in the same way. Are, then, the different animals which have existed at different times, and which differ in the most varied manner, the result of causes which do not vary, which act ever in the same manner? This is co-trary to all argument, contrary to any evidence we have. We cannot ascribe diversified results to uniform causes. We cannot ascribe the cause of certain facts to agencies the action of which is known to us. Physicists and chemists know perfectly well what electricity, what light, what magnetism can produce. They know perfectly well what are the possible combinations between chemical elements; and they know perfectly well that these various combinations and these various causes are different from the causes whose effects we witness in the animal kingdom. Therefore I say that it is not logical to ascribe the diversity which exists among living beings to causes which exhibit uniformity of nature and uniformity of action. I can conceive only one possible cause, and that is the intervention of mind in such a way that it shall produce what we have seen. We know perfectly well how the human mind acts-how free it is; and how in its manifestation we recognize the stamp of him who manifests himself. In the works of the highest intellect, we recognize the peculiar mode and manner in which his mind manifests itself. In the poet, in the painter, in the architect, in the sculptor, at all times we see this manifestation. Now why should we not have something of the same kind in Natrue? Mind is not a manifestation of matter. It is something independent of it. To the extent to which we know its freedom, to the extent to which we can maintain independence of certain influences, to that extent, and in a similar manner, do I conceive the intervention of mind in the production of living beings for all time, upon a plan laid out and carried out from the beginning, with reference to an end, and that there is that reference to an end, and that the end is man, is seen in the relation which man bears to the lowest vertebrata, the fishes

That there is a reference to man is seen from the gradation which we observe through

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all times, from the beginning to the end. That His, by virtue of which alone we can under-
this cannot be the result of merely physical stand nature. Were we not made in the image
conditions is further shown by the fact, which of the Creator, did we not possess a spark of
is constantly recurring, of the transformations that divine spirit which is a godlike inheritance,
reproduced every day through the whole ani- why should we understand nature? Why is it
mal kingdom, in the production of new indi- that nature is not to us a sealed book? It is
viduals. And here I come to the closing evi- because we are akin to the world, not only the
dence I would submit. All living beings are physical and the animal world, but to the Crea-
born of eggs, and developed from eggs. All, tor himself, that we can read the world and
end their growth in changes which have begun understand that it comes from God.
with the egg. Every successive generation
begins anew with this egg. Since there have
been men or quadrupeds on earth, since animals
have existed, they have reproduced in every
generation all the changes in their growth and

There are many more blossoms upon a tree in spring, than there will be apples in autumn. Yet we are glad to see blossoms, because we know that if there are no blossoms, there can

be no fruit.

OILING THE SEA.

An experienced sea captain writes that he has been at sea for twenty-eight years, the master of a vessel for the last ten years, and during that time he saved the vessel under his command twice by "oiling the sea." He writes, that, "when the master of a ship cannot get out of a

transformation which are characteristic of their
race. Now, see what this amounts to. There
are several hundred thousand different kinds of
animals of the different types living on this
globe. Every one of them has its line of
development. Every sparrow begins with the
egg, and goes through all the changes which
are characteristic of sparrow fife, until it is
capable of producing new eggs, which will go
through the same change. Every butterfly
comes from the egg, which produces the cater-storm-that is, when a ship is disabled and he
pillar, which becomes a chrysalis, and then a
a butterfly, laying eggs to go through the same
changes. So with all animals, whether of
higher or lower type. In fact, the animal
kingdom, as it is now, is undergoing greater
changes every year than the whole animal
kingdom has passed through from the begin-
ning until now; and yet we never see one of
these animals swerve from the plan pointed
out, or produce anything else than that which
is like itself.

This is the great fact. Every being reproduces itself, under conditions which are as varied as they have been from the beginning of the world until now; and yet they do not change. Why is this? Because by nature they are not changeable. That is what we must infer. And if those which live now are not changeable, and do not pass from one to another, though they represent all the changes which animals can pass through, is it logical to assume that those of early ages have become what we see now in consequence of changes in successive genera tions? Have the laws of nature changed in such a manner that what does not take place now has taken place in early times? I say, no. I say, just as the cycle which every animal passes through in its development from the egg to its perfect condition, returns to the plan impressed upon that animal by the Creator, just so have the various forms, the remains of which we find preserved in the rocks, been from the beginning the steps through which it has pleased the Creator to carry the animal kingdom up to man, that being made in His own image, who is endowed with a spirit akin to

has to take the heft of the gale-if he has oil on board, start two or three gallons over the side of the ship. This will give the ship smooth water to the windward, and then the oil allowed to run drop by drop is all that is required, for as soon as the sea comes in contact with the oil it breaks, and the ship is in smooth water as long as the oil is allowed to run. In 1861, in the heaviest gale of wind I ever saw, I lost all my sails, then the rudder; and I know the vessel could not have ridden the sea for an hour oil lasted me fifty six hours, and this saved the if I had not had oil on board. Five gallons of vessel, cargo, and lives on board. Let ships of heavy tonnage have two iron tanks of forty gallons each, one on each side, with faucet so arranged that the oil can be started at any time; small vessels, ten-gallon tanks, and all ship's boats tanks of five gallons each, well filled, so that in case the ship founder or burn, the boats will have oil to smooth the sea in case of a gale. With these tanks of oil on board of ships and a good man for master-one who knows the laws of storms and handles his ship so as to get it out of the centre of the storm-you will have no more foundering of good ships at sea, with the loss of many lives and millions of money."— Scientific American.

Have the courage to prefer comfort and propriety to fashion, in all things.

Have the courage to acknowledge your ignorance, rather than to seek credit for knowledge under false pretences.

Have the courage to provide entertainment for your friends within your means-not beyond.

(From the Dublin Correspondence of the London Times.)

AN EXTRAORDINARY MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT

-A CURIOUS STATEMENT.

reins are managed with an expertness and an ease that are surprising; but, perhaps, the greatest of his achievements is driving a fourin-band.' This he does to perfection, and as his team scampers away at a dashing pace, the sharp crack of his whip may be heard far off.

or control the development of those faculties to which, as if by way of compensation, Providence has vouchsafed to impart extraordinary "As the gentleman who has just been elected power, energy and acuteness. His literary taste one of the Parliamentary Representatives of he has gratified in the fullest exteut; and the Wexford County, is the most remarkable man Cruise of the Eva, published a short time since, who has ever occupied a seat in the House of testifies that he is a writer graceful, vivacious, Commons, it may be interesting to your readers and observant. The book, which is most certo know something of Arthur MacMurrough tain evidence of an ability far above medioc Kavanagh. I use no exaggerated phrase when rity, was illustrated by sketches taken by I describe him as not merely the most remark- himself during his cruise. His mode of writing able,' but, I might truthfully say, the most ex is simple, but must have been attended with traordinary gentleman who has, during the great trouble before he attained the proficiency present century at least, entered Parliament. which he unquestionably has. He holds the With his political proclivities and his religious pen or pencil in his mouth and guides its predispositions I do not intend to occupy your course by the arm-stumps, which are sufficiently space, or your reader's attention. That he is long to meet across the chest; and thus he proa Tory of the most constitutional hue, you and duces a handwriting, each letter of which is they are aware; and, notwithstanding that his distioctly formed, and all without any peculiar. Protestantism is of the severest class, Mr. ity, or what is called 'character.' When huntKavanagh is extremely popular, and by his nu-ing, he sits in a kind of saddle-basket, and his merous and prosperous tenantry is beloved and sincerely respected; for he admits, in the ad ministration of his large estates in Wexford, Kilkenny, and Carlow, that property has its duties as well as its rights. The honorable gentleman, I understand, claims descent from the great MacMurrough, who, in the person of Eva MacMurrough, the wife of Strongbow, first coalesced with the proud invader,' and sought to establish that union and amalgamation of the two races which still engrosses the studious attention of British statesmen. Mr. Kavanagh has neither legs nor arms. He e was born in this unfinished fashion, and in place of legs, he has about six inches of muscular thigh-stumps, one being about an inch shorter than its fellow honorable member' must be admitted within -while his arms are dwarfed to perhaps four the bar' whenever Mr. Kavanagh takes his inches of the upper portion of these members, seat; for, I opine, the gallant Conservative and those are unfurnished with any terminations whipper-in (Col. Taylor) would not wish, howapproaching in the remotest degree to the form ever anxious he might be for a House,' thus of hands. Yet your readers will be surprised to testify his anxiety to assist his party and to hear that he is a beautiful caligraphist, a carry it safely through. Then, how is the hondashing huntsman, and artistic draftsman, an orable member from Wexford to record his unerring shot, and the most expert of yachts-vote? In his drawing-room be contrives, men-a combination of accomplishments, under hedgehog like, to roll from place to place. This, the circumstances of his corporal imperfections, I fancy, would not be practicable in the House; that is certainly astonishing. and, as 'strangers' cannot be admitted on such "In face and bust Mr. Kavanagh is of a sacred occasions, I fear Col. Taylor will have to manly, handsome mould; fine, well marked fea-add the duty of locomotive, to those onerous tures, and eyes beaming with intelligence, leav- ones which, even with more gifted members, he ing no doubt that, though the body has been oftentimes finds it difficult to discharge. Again, unfortunately shorn of its fair and legitimate cate and important oculistic operation of proportions, the mind is full, capacious, and when Mr. Kavanagh succeeds in that very deliwell-developed. He is now about forty years catching the Speaker's eye,' will he be priviof age, and a large family of as handsome chilleged to address Her Majesty's faithful Comdren as could be found in this teeming and pro- mons sitting? for should he stand, he will be lific country, has blessed his union with a lady invisible; or perhaps, he will be allowed to as remarkable for her beauty as she is beloved stand upon his seat and thus obtain an eminence for her amiability and consideration. Endowed and a commanding position. with a healthy mind, Mr. Kavanagh has not permitted his physical afflictions to mar, curb

"Thus, I think, I have stated enough to establish the right of the model county' of Ireland to claim the distinction of having sent to Parliament the most extraordinary man that obtained a seat in the Commons of the United Kingdom, during at least the present century. In his case the House will have to grant some indulgences. As his locomotion is effected by his attendant carrying him, some other than an

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