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right to vote, it was urged,] that men could not maintain their refusal to confer this privilege, by the considerations of logic. Other and stranger considerations stand in the way. The exercise of the right to vote does not appear to be in accord with that peculiar, distinct, feminine nature, which, it is believed, is des tined to unfold in a very different direction, and to aim at a higher mark.

Not doubting that girls can study Latin and Greek quite as well as boys, the question recurs, what do they gain in return for the large amount of time and labor required to learn those languages? Are their minds thus furnished with materials for thought or with information of practical value? Are they filled with high moral and religious sentiments in being kept for years in close communication with those old Pagan writers? Very little that tends to elevate the female character can be gathered there.

Many wise and good men, perceiving the beneficial nature of female influenee on society hitherto, have been impressed with the belief, that the sex were yet designed to be the great But these studies are recommended as a reformers of the world. Now, if woman's in- means of mental discipline, a sort of intellectual fluence is to stand pre eminent in the happier gymnastics. In the case of bodily gymnastics, future, it must obviously be from the more the attempt is not made to strengthen one set of perfect performance of the work she has hith-muscles by putting into action quite a different erto done so well. What are the elements of set. In the study of the ancient languages, althat work? By what means accomplished? though several faculties are called incidentally To obtain a clear perception of the way it was into operation, it is the one faculy of language done, we only need to remind ourselves that we which is primarily and directly trained. An imcombine two natures: the one which allies us portant faculty certainly; yet not the most to the beasts that perish; the other, by which important to develop and cultivate. It is still we are brought near to the angels, and crowned more important to learn to think. with glory and honor. The history of civiliza tion-that is, of man's real progress-is simply the struggle of man's higher nature to subdue the lower. While the animal and selfish portion was strongly in the ascendant, while the physical world was being subdued, woman necessarily played a very secondary part. So soon as "the superior or moral sentiments" became a decided power, the being whose excellence consists in their activity began to rise to her place. Then gentleness was found to be a stronger power than violence; faith, than reason; reverence, than self-exalting; love, than strength and courage. Now, it is exactly in all those higher attributes that woman's genuine excellence consists. Disclaiming wholly the language of sentimental gallantry, it is stating only a simple fact, established by his tory, and founded in mental science, to declare that gentleness, faith, ideality, with all its refining influences, reverence and love, are es. sentially feminine qualities; and their contrasted attributes are masculine. It was by excelling in those virtues, that woman became a power in the world; it must be by continued cultivation of them she is to grow in useful influence.

[The lecturer then proceeded to examine the actual course pursued in the present system of female instruction; selecting, for example, Vassar College. After mentioning the deep interest he had felt in watching the organization of that institution, and eulogizing the arrangements for the health, comfort, and physical culture of the pupils, he expressed his disappointment at finding the old college curriculum adopted for the system of instruction, and the study of the classics regarded as the best means for securing mental discipline.]

And even for the thorough culture of the one faculty of language, there is good ground for denying that Greek and Latin, though brilliant examples of the degree in which the power of expression may be polished, have any exclusive or paramount claim to study. Our mother tongue is, in structure and spirit, more Saxon than Latin; as the best points of our national character, sturdy integrity, reverence for humanity, and especially respect for woman, come to us by our descent from the Northern, not the Southern nations of Europe.

Further, in regard to "mental discipline," it was suggested that the same blunder was sometimes made as that which had been productive of so much mischief in the case of moral discipline: namely, that occasions should be sought for making the young "bear the cross," for teaching them "to surrender their wills," as a preparation for life; just as if, in the real life before them, there were not sure to be abundant lessons of that nature; yokes enough to bear, without contriving artificial ones. So, for mental discipline, the problems of existence, the great art of living, (or science, as it well deserves to be called,) will furnish the best lessons.

As it is surely better to learn ten new ideas than ten words for the same old idea, the progressive sciences, botany, natural history, geology, chemistry, physiology, natural philosophy, are better exercises than the classics.

An exhaustive examination of this subject may be found in Herbert Spencer's work on education. It is his conclusion, that "for every purpose of exercising and disciplining the judgment and the moral and religious feelings, science ranks far before the classics." "These

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may be studied, he says, "by way of ornament; | century has witnessed the full development of
but as their benefit can apply only to the leisure her character and influence. Her relative
part of life, so should their study occupy only position is not likely always to continue the
the leisure part of education."
same as now. No revolutionary war will be re-
When all is done at our schools, for the train-quired to secure all the independence her hap-
ing of the physical powers, the culture of the piness demands. [Some lines were here read
intellectual faculties, and for mental discipline, from Tennyson's "Princess," filled with the
by a curriculum adapted to the inherent na- spirit of true prophecy.]
ture of those faculties, and the design of the
Creator in bestowing them, has the problem of
female education found its solution? Far, very
far from it. The domain of the emotional
part of the feelings is only just touched.
Wide and deep as is their influence in the
world for happiness or misery, susceptible as
they are of development and culture, they surely
claim a degree of consideration beyond what
they have yet received, most especially in the
education of girls.

If the introduction of music into our schools is deemed inexpedient, it is well to be reminded that a substitute, to some extent, may be found in the kindred influences of poetry, whose study should form part of every woman's culture.

* In glancing over the wide field selected for the evening's meditation, nothing has been said about certain matters which usually occupy a large space in essays on the proper bringing up of girls. Reference was had to the well-meant but rather ineffective measures recommended for repressing those foibles to which the sex is supposed to be particularly prone such as novel-reading, devotion to dress and fashion, and frivolity in general. It was suggested that the tendency had been to turn moral education into "a circumlocution office," and show "how not to do it." Long enough has the world, especially the world of youth, groaned under testimonies against error. Would it not be better to stop scolding, and rely upon impressing the loveliness of positive good? Face the light! and turn the children's eyes in that direction.

In regard to novel-reading, the suggestion was made, that girls who were fond of that sort of literature should agree to a proposition like this for every work of fiction they read, there should be at least three books of solid character perused.

It was contended too that dress was a very refining institution-a civilizing agent. And the hope was expressed that when this truth was properly appreciated, the dear women would, perhaps, come to indulge their fondness for it in a less expensive and more sensible and esthetic fashion.

[The lecturer concluded with some remarks upon the future of women.]

From reason and experience of past history, we come to the conclusion, that it is unphilosophical to suppose that this particular 19th |

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A much wider and more diversified field of employment will be opened, adapted to her measure of bodily strength and her quick perceptive intellect. But these will lead to no jostling with men in the pursuit of business. Her inborn love of home will ever be a controlling principle in all the arrangements of life.

She will be eminent as a teacher. She will be (it was thought) a physician-perhaps the physician of the future. She will be in word and life a preacher; her quicker intuitions and more spiritual nature will have the wider field, and bear the richer fruit. She will be nearest God, for she is fullest of purity and love; "and they that dwell in love, dwell in God, and God in them." Man will journey forward also, appreciating his companion more and more as they tread together the onward and upward road; and feeling that, next to reverence to God, respect for woman is the best sentiment of his heart.

At the conclusion of the lecture some comments were made by those present, in which the idea was maintained that the education of the sexes should be in all respects equal, and that no partial culture would meet the requirements of woman's high calling. The great bane of female education is the idea that it should be directed to make women attractive, the preference being given to music and kindred ornamental pursuits, at the expense of those substantial, linguistic, mathematical and scientific studies which have been selected for young men as the result of long experience, to develop the intellect, improve the memory, and evoke the power of classifying and expressing thought.

THE BROOKLET.

The following little Poem was written by Sir Robert Grant, who died of consumption at the age of nineteen.

Sweet brooklet, ever gliding,
Now high the mountain riding,
The lone vale now dividing,
Whither away?

"With pilgrim course I flow,
Or in summer's scorching glow,
Or o'er moonless wastes of snow,
Nor stop nor stay.

'For O, by high behest,
To a bright abode of rest
In my parent Ocean's breast,
I haste away!"

Many a dark morass,
Many a craggy mass
Thy feeble force must pass;

Ye', yet delay!
"Though the marsh be dire and deep,
Though the crag be stern and steep,
On, on, my course must sweep,
I may not stay!

"For O, be it east or west,
To a home of glorious rest
In the bright sea's houndless breast,
I haste away!"

The warbling bowers beside thee,
The laughing flowers that hide thee,
With soft accord they chide thee;

Sweet brooklet, stay ¡

"I taste of the fragrant flowers.
I respond to the warbling bowers,
And sweetly they charm the hours

Of my winding way;

"But ceaseless still in quest
Of that everlasting re-t
In my parent's boundless breast,

I haste away!"

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Letter from one of the Teachers sent by Friends Association for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen.

LEESBURG, VA., 2d month 10th, 1867. To L. J. R. Dear Friend. It is a month since I returned to my post of duty, somewhat refreshed, both in mind and body, by my trip home. I had just begun to feel a little at home, in Leesburg, when I received intelligence to the effect that I could not be accommodated with board at 's any longer, as they were going to break up housekeeping, in a week or so. What was to become of me? I knew of but two families who would be likely to take me: to those I immediately made application, but with no success, they had no place. Thus matters rested, until Sixth-day afternoon, when S. L. Steer came and took me home with him to Waterford, where I remained till Second day morning, enjoying myself with his pleasant and kind family; then he brought me to Leesburg in time for school, where he spent some time in trying to secure a home for me, but was not successful. Somehow I did not fail heart; never once did I feel like packing up and going bome. This I knew, there was yet one earthly means left untried; the one that has never yet failed when called upon-the colored people.

I felt assured they would do all in their power to help me; but were they able to furnish me with all I should need? That was the question. I could but try; so that evening was the time for their regular Monthly Meeting for school purposes. Capt. Smith and I met them. Captain made known my needs, and directly one man arose and said, "Miss, you are welcome to the best I have if you would think it is good enough." Then another and another, all offering their best. It was really touching to hear some say, "Oh, Miss, how glad I would be to have you with me: it would please me mighty well." So, after thanking them beartily for the proffers of their hospitality, and making a selection of the one which I thought would best accommodate me, and transacting some other little matters of business, we left. The next day, after school was out, I started on an exploring expe. dition. I went to the place which was to be my future home; found I could have a room to myself, with bed and bed-clothes, a stove, chairs, table, and stand, wood and light furnished, and my meals also furnished, for four dolla a week. They would not fix any price, but left it all to me. I thought that would be about right; they are very kind and attentive to me. One thing I must not forget to mention, my beautiful sunlit window, nor my pretty pure white primrose and scarlet geranium, which I bought at the gardener's yesterday, and here I am.

The people with whom I board are nice and respectable. Many little things they have which denote refined taste: most of them are old to be sure. I noticed the sheets on my bed were darned and mended beautifully; not only carefully, but beautifully,-just like mother mends things; also the carpet, which consists of four different patterns, so worn that you can scarcely tell what the original was. There is a large sized picture of Abraham Lincoln, framed, and hung up, with the Emancipation proclamation printed underneath, with Grant, Meade, Sherman, and Sheridan,-one in each corner. This hangs right over my little table where I eat my meals; so thee sees I dine with illustrious company. So now, dear friend, I believe I have told thee all about my new home, and have filled a sheet without saying a word about my school. I have lost some of my old scholars, and have a good many new ones. I will write to thee soon again, and make my school the subject of remark. I expect to go to Quarterly Meeting next week, at Waterford. I will tell thee about it when I next write. Love to all.

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"A finished life-a life which has made the most of all the materials granted to it, and through which, be its web dark or bright, its

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1867. 1.70 inch. 2.89

First month

Second month.........

The above exhibit discloses the fact of a very high temperature for the month just closed; so nearly unprecedented that we find only two years equal to it in our records, running back to 1790! viz.:-1851, 41 degrees, and 1857, 41.03 degrees.

Notwithstanding the steady continued cold of First month, we find the mean temperature for the winter to have exceeded the average by two degrees, while the quantity of rain thus far the present year is less than half for the same period last year. It may be remembered, however, that more rain had fallen during the second month of last year than for any corresponding month on record at the Pennsylvania Hospital, commencing with the year 1825. It may also be noticed that the deaths have been

about one hundred less. Philadelphia, Third mo. 5th,

1867.

J. M. E.

AN EXTINCT RACE.

One of the most remarkable races that ever inhabited the earth is now extinct. They were known as the Guanches, and were the aborigines of the Canary Islands. In the sixteenth century, pestilence, slavery, and the cruelty of the Spaniards, succeeded in totally exterminating them. They are described as having been gigantic in stature, but of a singularly mild and gentle nature. Their food consisted of barley, wheat, and goat's milk, and their agriculture was of the rudest kind. They had a religion which taught them of a future state of rewards and punishment after death, and of good and evil spirits. They regarded the volcano of Teneriffe as a punishment for the bad. The bodies of their dead were carefully embalmed and deposited in catacombs, which still continue to be an object of curiosity to those who visit the islands. Their marriage rites were very solemn, and before engaging in them, the brides were fattened on milk. At the present day these strange people are totally extinct.

Report of Forwarding Committee for Second
Month, 1867.

No. 103, 1 package, School at Suffolk, Va., contain-
ing books.

104, 1 barrel, R. M. Biglow, Washington, D. C.,
containing 75 garments, &c.

105, 1 barrel, E. Ella Way, Falls Church, con-
taining 82 garments, shoes, &c.
106, 1 box, Mary K. Brosius, Vienna, Va., con-
taining 80 garments, books and shoes.
107, 1 box, T. Shepherd Wright, Woodlawn, Va.,
containing clothing, books and seeds.
108, 1 barrel, Capt. Hines, Vienna, Va., contain-
ing books and seeds for seven schools.
109, 1 box, Susan H. Clark, Fortress Monroe,
containing 223 new and old garments,
seeds, &c.

110, 1 barrel, Deborah K. Smith, Gum Spring,
containing books, seeds, shoes and clothing.
111, 1 barrel, E iza Heacock, Washington, D.C.,
containing 125 garments.
112, 1 barrel, S. A. Cadwallader, Bladensburg,
containing trimmings, clothing and seeds.
113, 1 package, H. P. Martin, Bethel, N. C., con-
taining clothing, books and seeds.

115, 1 box, Hettie Painter, Painter, Va., con-
taining clothing, books and seeds.
Also packages of seeds to Leesburg, Accotink,
Waterford, Va.; St. Helena and Mt. Pleasant, S.
HENRY M. LAING, President.

Phila, 3d mo. 1, 1867.

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agreed to. A resolution appropriating fifteen thousand dollars for the relief of the freedmen in the District of Columbia was passed. The bill reannex. ing Alexandria to the District of Columbia was referred to the Judicary Committee.

Advices from the Cape of Good Hope bring the sad intelligence that Dr. Livingstone, the celebrated African explorer, has been killed by the Caffres. GEORGE PEABODY.-The latest gift of this benevolent gentleman has been the donation to a Board of HOUSE. A communication was presented from the Trustees of $140,000, to be by them and their suc- Secretary of State, acknowledging the receipt of the cessors held in trust for the promotion among the act for the government of the rebel States, and aninhabitants of his native county of Essex, Massa-nouncing his intention to promulgate it. A resoluchusetts, of the study and knowledge of the natural tion reciting the fact that the Thirty ninth Congress and physical sciences, and of their application to had had the subject of the impeachment of the Prethe useful arts. He directs that $40,000 be applied sident under consideration, and providing for a conto the purchase of land in the city of Salem, and the tinuation of the investigation by the Judiciary Comerection of such buildings as shall be necessary for mittee of the present Congress, was finally passed. the purposes of this trust. One hundred thousand A resolution extending the sympathy of the House to dollars are to be kept invested as a permanent fund, the people of Ireland was offered but objected to; and the income used for the purposes designated. subsequently it was taken up and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. The motion to suspend the rules so as to allow the introduction of a resolution authorizing the application of surplus funds in the Treasury to the redemption of the compound interest notes came up and was lost. The resolution in reference to the Paris Exposition was passed. A bill repealing the act retroceding the county of Alexandria, District of Columbia, to Virginia, was passed.

A Peace Congress, it is announced, will be held in Washington on the 1st of Fourth month, under the auspices of the United States Government. It is the intention of the Government at this conference, if possible, to mediate between Spain and the South American republics, so that the unfortunate war on the Pacific coast of South America may be ended. Plenipotentiaries from Spain, Peru, Chili, Ecuador and Bolivia will attend the Congress, and it will be presided over by some person designated by the United States Government. In case of disagreement, a foreign State, not one of the belligerents, is to be designated as a mediator, and an armistice to the war is to take place as soon as all the belligerent States communicate to the United States their intention to send plenipotentiaries to the Congress, and it shall continue until the end of the Congress.

It is stated that in England, France and Germany women have been admitted to practice medicine, and in the two former countries women's medical schools have been opened. There is also in England an increase of female preachers noted. A late London paper states that in addition to Mrs. Thistlethwaite and Mrs. Booth, who occasionally address congregations in London, Miss Macfarlane has been holding services at the Polytechnic Institution; Octavia Jary has been addressing large congregations at Atherstone; Geraldine Hooper, besides "her usual ministrations at Bath," has been holding services at various other places; and J. L. Armstrong has been preaching at Arbroath and Dundee.

THE colored messenger of the Secretary of the Treasury was recently elevated to a clerkship of the first class.

THE FREEDMEN.-The Legislature of Tennessee has provided by law for a common-school system for the State without distinction of celor. It is not perhaps an obvious, but it is an entirely truthful remark, that the blacks would never have been embraced in this provision except for the previous experiment and example of freedmen's schools, sustained by the benevolence of the North, in every part of Tennessee. In them the capacity of the negro and his ambition to get knowledge have been forever established; and they have also proved themselves here, as noted by Superintendent Tomlinson in South Carolina, the handmaids of civilization, and restored public order. The patient and obscure toiling of three years has wrought this great revolution in Tennessee. The Philadelphia Society alone, aided for the last eighteen months by that at Pittsburg, has effected and sustained seventeen distinct educational organizations, five of which are normal classes for the preparation of colored teachers, besides an orphan asylum at Nashville; and has distributed more than $10,000 worth of supplies, clothing, and fuel. At Murfreesboro', says a very high authority, "there is scarcely a department of culture, whether social, literary, or religious, which has not received an impetus from our teachers ;" and the same might be said of the other stations, as indeed at Stevenson: "The teacher is an advisor of the colored people in everything." "Gradually, we are reaching the parents through the children."

CONGRESS.-A communication was laid before the Senate, from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of General Howard, Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, in response to a resolution of the Senate calling for information in regard to extreme want in the Southern States, etc. The report states that from official sources, and confirmed by gentlemen from different sections of the South, he estimates that 32,662 whites and 24,238 colored people will need food from some source before the next crop can relieve them. The number of rations re quired for one month will be 170,700; for five months, the probable time required, 8,535,000. At 25 cents per ration, the estimated cost will be $2,133,750. Of this $625,000 has already been appropriated, leaving $1,508,750 to be provided. A bill was introduced supplementary to the act for the government of the rebel States, which provides for a reg-trict by Congress, of furnishing to blacks and whites istration of loyal citizens, to be made before Ninth month next, after which an election for a convention is to be held; the convention is to form a State Constitution, which is to be submitted to the people for ratification and to Congress for its approval. The joint resolution appropriating fifty thousand dollars to further the purposes of the Paris Exposition was

We understand that the N. Y. Branch of the American Freedman's Union Commission, having, together with the Pennsylvania Branch, borne the burden of the schools in the District of Columbia, will presently withdraw its teachers and its care from all but a single school. This action is the result, in part, of the charge imposed upon the Dis

equally the benefits of education; in part, of the suffrage which the blacks have obtained, admitting them to the control of their own destiny; and especially of the mental and moral improvement in the colored people which has been brought about in its own province by the New York Association.The Nation.

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