you. It always interests us whenever we meet the friends of the Red Man, especially with the people of him who first shook hands with the Red Man on this continent-Wm. Penn-the great and noble man-the Red Man's friend.

"We know that his descendants are yet living, scattered throughout this great country, who have yet the same mind, and the same heart, to do the Red Man good.

"I came here with this delegation of my poor people, partly to assist them in making a treaty with this great government, and partly, which concerns me most dearly, to forward my mission work amongst my own people, on the head waters of the great Mississippi. To-day we feel the pressure and the rapid strides of civilization towards us. The white man, with his rapid speed, is crowding us out of our own country, and pointing us towards (appropriate words) the setting sun!

"As I sit in my poor wigwam, with broken heart, I meditate over the past and the future. The past! Oh! I cannot recall the happy days! They are gone!-gone forever and ever. The future! all is dark before me! My path is obscure-my destiny inevitable! I refuse to be comforted, because I am unpitied and unloved.

ago I was, with great formality and ceremony, | short a talk with you in the Indian Department. received as a member of the Seneca Nation of There are many things that I wanted to say to Indians, at Cataraugus, in Western New York, and a 66 new name "conferred upon me-Hai -i-wau noh--which means "stand and watch," implying that, as my residence is near the seat of the General Government, I must be there vigilant in guarding the interests of the Indians. To this duty I have endeavored to be faithful. I am frequently in receipt of let ters from them, asking for something to be done at the Indian Department, or by Government authorities, to which I have always given prompt attention. By request, on behalf of the Indians of Minnesota, I visited the members of the Committees on the Indian Concern of both Houses of Congress, and several of the prominent members of the Senate and House, on more than one occasion last winter, in endeavoring to secure the passage of a bill for the protection of the Indians, which was regarded as the first bill that had ever looked to that benevolent end. Our Committee have a close correspondence with the Indian Department, and a constant assurance that whenever any opportunity occurs for the benevolent action and aid of Friends in behalf of the Indian's welfare, the Committee will be informed of it. The officers of the Indian Bureau are ardent in their efforts to secure justice and right to the Indians. But their efforts are frustrated by designing and unprincipled men, who get between them and the objects of their care. They have great confidence in Friends, and al ways receive, with respectful attention, any suggestion we make. They know we do not desire any office within their gift, and could not accept one with an emolument attached, it being a matter of principle with us, to bear our own expenses in our labors in this cause, so as to continue disinterested advocates of the interests of the Indians, and that perfect right and justice be accorded to them by the National Government. We have reason to believe, too, that in some instances, at least, these disinterested labors have been blessed; that is, the fact being known that we were working and travelling on their business at our own expense, without fee or reward, but solely for their good, and to please the Great Spirit, has contributed to advance the objects desired.

In my Indian correspondence, I sometimes find touches of real eloquence. On returning, last winter, from a visit to a delegation from Minnesota, then in Washington, I received a letter from En-me-gah-bowh, one of the delegation, a missionary among his Indian brethren, from which I will make some extracts, thinking they may interest thee:

"WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 24th, 1867.

"BR. HALLOWELL

"And now we turn our weeping hearts towards the Christian white man, to wipe away the tears from our eyes; to make strong our broken hearts; and to lighten our paths. Our only hope of salvation in the future is to become civilized-to embrace the Christian religion, in hand and in heart, and to pray to the God of the white man.

"Fifty years ago our numbers were many. Once we covered this great country. From east to west, and from north to south, was the Red Man's country and the Red Man's home. To-day we are few in number. We are fast dwindling away!-falling, like the leaves of the forest, to-rise-no-more!!

"Everything looks dark before us.

I may venture to stay a few days, as I return home, in the city of Baltimore; but I should feel more at home in the city of Philadelphia, for I know there lies the hearth stone of the great and noble man- -Wm. Penn-the friend of the Red Man."

But I have filled my sheet, and must close. I trust thou wilt not misunderstand the apparent egotism of my letter. Although thou art unknown to me, I have written with freedom, as to a brother, interested in a concern which I have long had very near at heart.

Thy sincere friend,

BENJAMIN HALLOWELL.

NOTHING renders one more happy than to "Dear Sir:-I was very sorry to have so do pleasantly what one must do from necessity.

Inebriate Asylum.

County American, an excellent and ably edited Inently successful in the management of her paper published at Media, says: "No more school, which has been attended by pupils from suitable place for the college could have been all parts of the Union. chosen. It combines all the advantages of se cluded rural life with direct and frequent access to the city. The farm includes a romantic piece of woodland bordering on Crum creek, which, in one place is overhung by a rocky precipice not less than one hundred feet high, among the recesses of which grow a variety of mosses, wild flowers, and ferns. This property is skirted by Crum creek along its western boundary, and affords, by the rapid flow of its waters, both sights and sounds of beauty."

Nearly half a mile from Westdale station the cars pass over Crum creek bridge, which is 800 feet long, and 80 feet high from the water to the level of the iron track. It has recently been entirely rebuilt. Here a fine view is to be had of the windings of the creek.

A short distance beyond Crum creek, and just eleven miles from Chestnut street bridge, is Wallingford station, in the vicinity of which a large number of Philadelphians reside, who daily go in by the cars to attend to their respective vocations in the city; they find this a more economical plan of living, and a more healthy and pleasant one. The next stoppingplace is

Media,

thirteen miles from Philadelphia, and, with the single exception of what is known as the "Black Horse Hill," is located on the highest ground in Delaware county, of which it is the seat of justice. Media is chiefly known to the outside world on account of the "temperance clause" in its charter, by which the sale of spirituous liquor is prohibited within the borough limits. This place is somewhat noted for its religious advantages; it is well represented by commodious churches of the Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, and other denominations. A fine Court-house is in the centre of the town, while its waterworks afford occasionally a fair supply of aqueous element; but no gas is provided for lighting the streets, except what is supplied from the Court-house aforesaid. An Institute of Science is now being erected, in which is to be deposited a large and valuable collection of curiosities, relating to the natural history of Delaware county, that has been in process of accumulation for nearly a century.

On the southwestern verge of the borough, Dr. Joseph Parrish, formerly of the "Training School," has established an asylum or retreat for inebriates, which is under the general supervision of the Citizens' Association of Pennsylvania. The building is furnished with the utmost elegance-with everything that convenience or comfort can suggest-while even musical instruments and other modes of amusement have been provided to make this an attractive home to all who may feel the necessity of seeking it in order to have effectual "aid and comfort" rendered them in their efforts to reform. The system is entirely on the voluntary princi ple, and the means adopted are the most effective that have yet been devised to reclaim the inebriate from a life of misery and degradation.

A farm of 107 acres of land has been purchased near Darby for the erection of buildings adapted especially to this purpose, but if the inhabitants of Media and vicinity offer sufficient inducements, the grounds will be sold and the buildings permanently located at that place. This is an opportunity to add to its prosperity that should not be lost. The enterprise of Dr. Parrish is a noble one, and should receive liberal pecuniary support from the friends of humanity everywhere. He has, so far, met with the most flattering appreciation of the utility of his scheme of reformation.

In the brief time that it has been opened twelve have entered the institution, which will not afford accommodations for more than twenty, although it is a large edifice. When the new buildings are erected they are expected to accommodate over one hundred and fifty persons. There are but two other institutions of this kind in the United States, one of which is at Boston, Mass., and the other at Binghamton, N. Y. Both have met with unexpected encouragement in their efforts in reclaiming the fallen inebriate. Out of two thousand who sought and received permission to enter the former, there were fifty per cent. who went away, in the course of a few weeks, perfectly cured. No information of even a single case of relapse into intemperate habits has as yet been brought to the notice of the board of managers. This result must be highly gratifying. The course of treatment, in the Media as in the Boston retreat, is intended to destroy the inclination to drink intoxicating beverages.

Education receives a considerable degree of attention in this borough, which is noted for its good public schools. Brook Hall Seminary for young ladies is a commodious and handsome building, beautifully embowered in shade, but we regret to say that it is conducted upon the About a mile west of Media, and in full view principle that it is inexpedient and dangerous from the railroad, is that immense and imposing to educate boys and girls together. It is, how-structure, the Pennsylvania Training School ever, but just to remark that Mrs. Eastman, the for Feeble-Minded Children. It will accommo educated and talented Principal, has been emi-date one hundred and sixty pupils, cost $140,000,

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One of the most extensive and varied views of the beautiful rolling country around Media is to be had from the summit of the steep hill upon which this Asylum for Idiots is placed. From the broad stone steps which ascend to the portico the eye may photograph long successions of hill and dale undulating into each other, and plaided with rich fields, which vary in color according to the kind and quality of the harvests. The asylum stands out from against a dusty background of forest, and the comparatively small number of trees in front intervene between the observer and the prospect he observes without intercepting the latter.

and was built, in a great measure, by appropria- | over-crowding cannot be very vigorously sustions made by the State. It is in charge of Dr. tained. It is on the school-rooms, however, and J. N. Kerlin, a gentleman of fine literary attain- on the large hall up stairs, to which we have not ments. The institution is in a flourishing con- yet come, that the visitor's chief praise will be dition. lavished. The school-rooms are three in number, separated from each other by glass windows, the panes of the lowest two rows of which are opaque. The studies in these several rooms are graduated to the range of intellect discovered in the various pupils. The latter vary between all ages, " from children of five," as the matron happily observed, to "children of forty." There are very few cases in which nothing can be done. In the lowest school-room, or what might be termed the primary school, the studies resemble amusements more than anything else. Colored building blocks give the beginner an idea of form and color; colored balls, on horizontal wires, further the same object, and add a little arithmetic. The cupboard in which the means of subsistence are kept in the primary school resembles the storehouse of a nursery. Playthings are the books of the idiot children who come here. Things fanciful and sportive are put before the purblind eyes of the mind to teach things useful and real. All the school rooms are hung with colored prints representing Scriptural, woodland, or household scenes. The corridors also are hung with painted mottoes, some of them Solomon's proverbs, and others with that mixture of worldly prudence in them which is not always inconsis tent with divinity. In the secondary school studies a little higher in grade, such as geography, are taken up. In the third school-room there is a blackboard and an imitation clock, on which patients are taught to tell the time of day-a feat not always readily accomplished by intelligent children. A number of copy-books were shown us, in some of which were the re

The road from Media, which is about a mile distant, is both a hilly and a sunny one, but is hedged in by plenty of greenery. The reward of the hot and toilsome passage is found in the perfection of the interior arrangements of the asylum, and the urbanity of the presiding physician and the matron.

When I called there this morning, however, in company with a friend, I was much disappointed to learn that the summer vacation had commenced on the previous Thursday, August 1, and would last six weeks. Consequently only a very few of the pupils were about. I did not see more than seven or eight. The institution is at present accommodating one hundred and sixty-two. This number appears to be the complement, as an application in favor of an epileptic imbecile had already been refused that morning. Upon entering by the main door the visitor steps into a broad hall and thence into a reception-room opening upon the right hand side. An idiotic girl was in attendance, who vouch-sults of years of effort on the part of pupils, safed no reply to repeated inquiries for the doctor, but remained seated and staring with a sort of lethargic curiosity, first at one of us and then at the other, and smiling secretly to her self. Presently the doctor entered, and ringing the bell requested the matron to be so good as to show us over the asylum. The doctor him self I should take to be a most humane and kind man, and his matron is a small and extremely neat lady, with a gentle voice, quiet manners, and, as far as opportunity permitted to judge, much tact.

The long corridor on the first floor opens upon several school rooms and a gymnasium, as well as upon a number of bed-rooms and sitting rooms. All of these rooms are light and cheerful, and some of the bed-rooms are hung with baskets and vases of natural flowers. In some of the bed rooms there are as many as six or eight beds, but the rooms themselves are so spacious and well-ventilated that the charge of

and, I might add, of teachers also. One of the best-written sentences we noticed was, "We go home August 1, 1867." Perhaps the heart of the writer helped his hand. The gymnasium into which we were shown was furnished with two bowling alleys, somewhat out of repair, owing to the rough usage they had naturally experienced. Two idiot boys, apparently about eightteen and fourteen years of age, were the only occupants, and were lolling on a sort of settee improvised out of an unplaned plank. The matron seemed to think they would do better in the fresh air. To this they objected, and she managed to extract a good-natured guffaw out of them by the suggestion that, if they were at all ill, the doctor should administer an immediate dose of medicine. Beside the bowling alleys, the gymnasium was furnished with the usual array of exercising bars and ropes. The room itself is light and very lofty. Attendants are always present during the exercises.

is profoundly reverenced, and man is tenderly loved-the soul is keenly alive to all the nobler and gentler calls of God and nature.

It must be conceded that the original constitution has much to do with the formation of such a character. We have known persons seemingly so happily tempered, in whom all the physical and mental functions appeared from childhood to operate with such admirable precision, that they could hardly help being goodnatured; and undoubtedly good nature is the very best stock on which to graft moral goodness. Others, again, inherit by transmission a sort of virus in their blood and nerves which is an ever-disturbing force, rendering them morbid and restive-subjects of very difficult conquest, on whom the fruits of holiness are apt to grow, however large in size, yet a little acrid to the taste. Still, it is the province of grace and culture not only to work upon and through naturally healthful traits as favoring conditions of moral excellence, but also to rec

In one of the sitting rooms into which we were shown, four idiot girls were sitting. It was then a little after eleven in the morning. They were all young; the oldest about twenty, the youngest about fifteen. The one to whom we were especially introduced was reading a magazine, and, at the request of the matron, read aloud, and with some intelligence, a little poem entitled "Snow." In spite of some malformation or disfigurement of countenance, which gave a mashed appearance to the face, her expression was somewhat pleasing. She informed us that she was always good; that she never did anything bad. She made several rambling remarks about her brother, who she first said lived in England, and then that he lived in New York. She favored the gentleman who had allowed me to be his companion with a prolonged stare, of sufficient power, one would think, to photograph his features upon her mind for at least a century. She is in the habit of visiting one of the school-rooms, and of giving the most amazing answers to geo-tify perversions by infusions of corrective powgraphical questions. At the request of the matron she defined a desert, which she stated to be " a large tract of land on the Egyptian side of the Andes. Yes," she replied to further interrogatories, with a decisive shake of the head, "it's on the Sahara side of the desert." The three other idiot occupants meanwhile gazed on with grins expressive of charitable. condolement of such deplorable ignorance! A book-case in the room was filled with pretty samples of needlework.

We bade farewell to the matron and the doctor, well pleased with a visit which cannot but be of interest to the visitor of intelligence and feeling. On leaving we stopped and spoke to a pensive looking boy, of about thirteen, with fine blue eyes, and dark fringe of lashes, who blushed a little when spoken to, and was hardly got out of his pensiveness and solitude. He it was who had been five years learning to write.

(To be continued.)

THE VALUE OF GOOD MEN.

er, which shall thoroughly renovate the character and secure the utmost consistency of spiritual growth. Under their joint influence, every one may maintain in exact proportions all the relative parts in the process of development, and attain that which may be fitly regarded the perfection of beauty-moral goodness.

Setting aside, however, what is possible to this or that particular person, it is the great worth of the good man to which we wish to bear witness. He is the very salt of society. And fortunately for almost all communities, at least one such man is to be found everywhere. He may or may not be the most prominent, the most wealthy, the best educated citizen of his neighborhood; but be his surroundings what they may, he is the centre of a distinct class of influences indispensable to the weal of society. He stands firm when others are yielding; the farthest removed from dishonest tricks, or heated strifes, he is a composer of differences. Always happy in the consciousness of his own integrity, he is calm when othAlthough it is the design of the Gospel to ers around him are violent and alarmed; invaproduce moral excellence, yet its influence is so riably careful in forming and expressing his modified by the peculiar disposition and circum- opinions, his judgment is deferred to when the stances of the person through whom it acts, heats of passion have subsided, and men wish that we are often bound to concede that people to ascertain the path of safety. One such perare religious whom we do not regard pre-emi-son in a community, one such Christian in a nent for goodness. We look for an assemblage church, is of more value than thousands of silof graces where goodness is the distinguishing quality, which may not always be found, even where piety is admitted to exist. When we refer to a person as emphatically good, we imply that there is an unusual tenacity of moral purpose, great depth of moral feeling, largeness of benevolence, sweetness of disposition, as well as a most delicate perception of justice and propriety in all the relations of life. God

ver and gold. Great multitudes of people cannot have, in the strict sense, minds of their own. They either lack original capacity or training; and they must have some such man insensibly to think for them, to be their moral or spiritual guide. Ile becomes a reservoir which is constantly tapped for spiritual knowl edge. Lesser and feebler souls take hold of his strength, and are held up by it. By the