another by a mother and daughter, the latter 'having some employment in the city. Mrs. B. told me that besides the rent being free, fuel was supplied; and I observed that in every room there was a porcelain stove, which stoves are in use all over Germany and Switzerland, and which make a handsome article of furniture. Mr. Schroeder also gives to the inmates from fifty to one hundred marks a year, and they furnish the remainder necessary for their support by engaging in some occupation, as, for instance, the lady who teaches music. There are no servants except those who bring the fuel, and each family does its own cooking. I was told that Mr. Schroeder did not confine his bounty to impoverished aristocrats, but gave much to other poor, and to all good objects. He is a Lutheran, and in one part of his building is a chapel containing a splendid picture of Christ, which is over the pulpit, also an organ. The qualifications necessary for entrance into this Institution, are that the applicant shall be a Hamburgher by birth, and that he or she shall bring a recommendation from a clergyman and one other person. The whole organization is certainly a lovely expression of Christian courtesy. before leaving the subject of Hamburgh that I am greatly struck with the fine phrenological formation of the children of all classes in Germany. They have noble foreheads quite universally. But I was obliged to tear myself away from Hamburgh and its interesting people, who gave me letters to some persons in Berlin; but alas! nearly all were still on their summer tours, and my friend and countrywoman, Mrs. Bancroft, was in Dresden. One of my letters was to Dr. Lette, superintendent of schools in Berlin, and member of the last Parliament, also President of a Society for giving professional education to women. He introduced me to the secretary of this Society, a superior woman, whose name is Hirsch, with whom I visited a Berlin kiudergarten for the people. At first the King of Prussia forbade kindergartens as promoting democracy too much, but the government is growing wiser, and taking off many social restraints that endanger rather than guard it. Miss Hirsch said that their Society met with many difficulties, more than in Hamburgh, where the people have always felt their social responsibilities in a greater degree, it being a free city. I believe I forgot to tell you that there is a professional school for women in emMr. Bauer was not at home at the time of my bryo there, the Paulsen Stift allowing two of its visit, but I saw his brother, who is also a pas rooms to be used for the purpose, by Miss E. tor; the latter expressed great admiration for Marvedel, in order to make a beginning, while the American public school system, and owned a building expressly for the purpose is being the works of Horace Mann. Í saw a book writ-erected through the liberality of some of the ten by Wilhelm Bauer, comprising a series of rich Hamburghers. At present a few of the biographies, illustrating the religious life of older graduates of the Paulsen Stift are engaged, Germany after the War of Freedom, and which under Miss M.'s direction, in various kinds of I was told was written with great beauty.-needle work and in cutting dresses according to Among the lives I saw one of Fichte and of the principles of form, (as is done in America Claudius. I should think it would be a beauti-also;) but when the new building is completed, ful and popular book to translate into English, there are to be classes in photography, lithofor we do not know enough of these modern graphy, wood-engraving, wood-carving, designGermans. I left Hamburgh with great regret,ing, &c. The course is to embrace four years, having for the first time come in contact with so that women may have a fair opportunity of Germans at home. I hope to be the means of competing with men in price, by the actual suintroducing into America Mrs. Goldschmidt's periority of their work. Miss Hirsch knows of plan for training girls for children's nurses and Elizabeth Blackwell and others who have comfor housemaids, as well as for teachers of kinder- menced medical professions in America, and gartens. There is a crying necessity, I am sure, was very much interested to know all I could for some means to be put into operation for tell her of what is done by women in America making domestic service more agreeable both to meet the demands of the age; they envy us to employers and employed, by giving the latter our free scope for improvement without their some education, and putting them into a more burden of a thousand years of prejudice. affectionate relation with their employers. Thus Miss Marvedel is translating, I believe, some will society be levelled up instead of being lev-of Mrs. Dall's books, and Laboulaye's "Legal elled down, as it too often is now. I hope, too, Position of Woman from the times of the Rothat kindergarten training may become the mans to the present day," a very important foundation in our public school system, taking work, so entirely out of print that the author the children of the poorest from three to six told me he did not know where a single copy years of age, and securing to their days of in-was to be found except the one in the Imperial nocence, happiness, by turning their activity into channels which will train their bodies, even to the ends of their fingers, and in its turn develop both body and mind. I must remark Library in Paris. He said, however, that he believed it was being translated and published in the Victoria Magazine in England. Miss M. spent two years in England to obtain all the For Friends' Intelligencer. "The Ocean Bottom," which was published recently in the Intelligencer, recalled to mind "The Song of the Sea Shells," by the late Thomas Fisher, of Philadelphia. We think it cannot fail to please a portion of your readers. information she could bearing upon this great chine-would be acceptable. We commend her object; and I hear from a gentleman in Dres-views to like-minded donors and recipients. dea, whose friends live in Hamburgh, that the Institution she is founding commands the interest and money of the best citizens of Hamburgh, and will succeed. I told you in my last nothing of Berlin, except my meeting with Mr. Fay, and becoming so much interested in his new Geography. I thought it might be well to tell you of that for the benefit of the many institutions for education among your friends, and because I know that in your new College you will wish to have the best preparation in Geography as well as in other studies. Mr. Fay came to Europe as consul to Switzerland, or secretary to one of the legations, and having married a European wife, will probably always remain here. Berlin is built in the midst of a sandy plain, and is four times the size of Hamburgh; but it cannot compare with Hamburgh in beauty and cheerfulizing effect. One feels that every. thing is governmental. The government buildings and all the public buildings, which also seem to belong to the government, are very large, and are ornamented (to a degree that makes sculpture too cheap) with statuary, either allegorical or in honor of military heroes. There are statues in every part of the city inscribed with the names of the kings who had them erected. E. P. P. The following extract from the Boston Transcript shows that the formal presentation of Wedding Gifts, in reference to which we have received several communications, is objected to by some who do not profess to place as high an estimate on our cherished testimony to simplicity as we do: WEDDING PRESENTS. The sensible article on this subject from the Friends' Intelligencer we published some days since, has been going the rounds, as it evidently hit what many have felt in their hearts and pockets to be a grievance. "Matilda Jane's Sister" writes to the Springfield Republican to suggest a compromise. She and her "Clarence" are to be made one on New Year's Day. She wants to be remembered by her friends, but not as Matilda was; an inventory of whose gifts she recites thus they consisted of two silver tea sets-how much better if one had been china -nine napkin rings, five pie knives-four iron spoons would bave been more useful;-four dozen salt sets; three castors, and other things too numerous to mention, and all in the double, treble, or quadruple style." Now "Matilda's sister" avers that "they" can't afford "such a spread" and don't want all these things. She hints that books-but especially a sewing ma THE SONG OF THE SEA SHELLS. Where the water plants bloom in the fathomless ocean, O'er regions more wide than the verdure of earth, Deep down 'neath the broad waves' far-heaving commotion, Kind nature allotted the scenes of our birth. To the glad Isles of Atlas, perennially smiling grave 'Neath the poles' icy cliffs, or the palm-shaded isles; Where the pearls of the Orient in loveliness sleep, And earth's richest treasures and men's bleaching bones Are scattered abroad on the plains of the deep, Neglected, uprized as the beach-weather'd stones, Where the brass-sculptured galleys the Argonauts bore, Still curve their bold prows half-interr'd in the The fleets which have sunk 'neath Charybdis' roar, Where the canvass of commerce has courted the Have swept o'er the mountain-wave-waste of the Where'er the wide azure its barriers laves, Where the surf of the summer breeze playfully roars, ing you at the door, then summon to your aid all the virtues you possess, patience, forbearance, kindness, charity, and your love of humanity, to enable you to fulfil your duty to that poor child; your mission to that boy is of the holiest character. Then say to him that you will love him, Or the far-heaving surge of the storm-fettered waves white foam, And the cool breeze of evering blows fresh on the strand, The blithe sea-boy, sadd'ning in the thought of his home, Is gathering gay shells from the billowy sand, While he grieves o'er the hard fate which dooms him to roam, And visits, in visions, his love-lighted landHe shall bear them away from the scenes of our birth, And bright eyes shall value his far gathered shells, They shall haply be group'd o'er some bright-glowing hearth, Where affection has woven her home nurtur'd spells, Where kindness still welcomes the wand'rer of earth, And his heart's fondest day-dream of happiness dwells. TEACHERS' INSTITUTE. (Continued from page 623.) At the last meeting of the Institute, Professor Mark Bailey interested the audience, which con sisted of about one thousand persons, by reading the parable of the Prodigal Son, the burial of Moses, and a number of other articles. He is highly esteemed as an elocutionist. A sketch of the Chester County "Teachers' Institute" was given. The first was held in 1853 or '54; and although the movement met with opposition, that feeling had gradually been dispelled by the advantages resulting from these meetings. To-day [said the speaker] as the result of that beginning, we have the inspiring presence of three hundred and twenty five public school teachers and fifty private instuctors at our annual convention. And our improved schools already proved that which the speaker had always maintained, that they should be capable of imparting a thorough and practical education to our children; and also, that their advance ment and improvement would not interfere with, but increase the patronage of our more advanced private schools, academies, aud colleges. As you go down to your homes, remember that in teaching you have the immortal inter ests of your pupils placed in your charge. In educating and training youth, ever bear in mind that the point of entrance to the intellect is through the hearts of your pupils. If, when you go to your schools again, you should find some poor, ragged, dirty boy, who has had neither moral nor intellectual training, but has had no lack of blows and unkind words, await that you will teach him, and thus make him feel that he is of some account in the world. Such treatment will lead him to strive to deserve your good will, and the very effort will elevate him, and feed the little fire you have lighted in his heart until it shall burn and blaze up into power and light that will forever make him forget the darkness and bitterness of the past, and lead him on until, under your loving instruction, he shall grow into a good and useful member of society. Teachers, is such a result not worth the devotion of your best powers to its accomplishment? It surely is. Professor Northrop, by request, stepped forward and said: Having attended over one hundred institutes in New England, I can truthfully compliment you upon having the best one I ever saw. He congratulated the teachers and citizens upon having the right man in the right place as county superintendent. He had also visited the surrounding country, and was delighted with it: be doubted not that the fine appearance of the farms was the result of the fine schools of the county. Farmers' boys, when educated as they may be here, are the promise of the future-the men of to-morrow. They might be like the gnarled oaks of the forest, while the boys of the city resembled the more graceful he had seen the latter snap before the wild winds pine tree, as they had been thus compared; but of New England, while the oaks only bowed to the blast. I had pointed out to me, in my walk this evening, fine houses belonging to Philadelphians and Baltimoreans; ani I believe it is your finelyconducted schools, and their fruits in the community, that thus bring strangers to reside in your beautiful town. You have but to go on improving your schools to make this the banner county of the old Keystone State. Do not look for the full fruition of this gathering of the past week immediately, but be none the less sure that in the future, when those pupils these teachers are now instructing are the men and women of your county, that a glorious harvest will be garnered unto you. Mrs. Smith being loudly called for, spoke as follows: I am told I have but five minutes in which to say my say, and what can a woman say in that time? Woman's work is pre-eminently that of teaching, and she need desire none more noble or more powerful. We hear much at the present } time of the equality of woman with man, and gentle actions in after-life, to put them out with tempting crumbs on the palm toward the little doubting flutterers overhead, eyeing the movement with such keen speculation, as if questioning whether it meant bread or a stoue! Let any boy or girl who thinks it can be done, or would know how it can be accomplished, just see how simply the bird friend of Tregedna did it. "It was all an incident to his benevolent disposition, not a premeditated design. It commenced at the time when he was laying out the grounds of his little dell park. While at work upon the walks and flower beds, and turning up The sister the wife, the mother, the teacher the fresh earth with his spade or rake, several who brings pure impulses, noble resolves, and of the little birds would come down from the exalted culture into her appropriate domestic trees and hop aloi g after him at a little distance, and social duties, must command from every picking up the worms and insects. By walkright-minded person the same sort of homageing gently, and looking and speaking kindly which waits upon the man who brings these quali- when they were near, they came first to regard ties into the service of the State through the opportunities of public life. his approach without fear, then with confidence. They soon learned the sound of his voice, and The speaker then dwelt upon woman's special seemed to understand the meaning of his simfitness for the office of teacher, and the social ple, set words of caressing. Little by little they power that office gives her. She touchingly re- ventured nearer and nearer, close to his rake ferred to the many uoble women among the ranks and hoe, and fluttered and wrestled and twitterof teachers, who were struggling against almost ed in the contest for a worm or fly, sometimes every obstacle, under the most adverse circum-hopping upon the head of his rake in the excitestances, yet never yielding, but steadily pressing ment. Day by day they became more trustful and on to the bright goal before them-the attainment tame. They watched him in the morning from of knowledge and the development of their high-the trees near his door, and followed him to his est powers. To such all praise was due: their work. New birds joined the company daily, trials would prove their blessing: the speaker could sympathize with them, for it had been her lot to be left an orphan in her early years, and she had struggled on alone in the world, and made circumstances bend themselves to her own will. A SWEET COMPANIONSHIP. and they all acted as if he had no other intent in raking the ground than to find them a breakfast. As the number increased, he began to carry crusts of bread in the great outside pocket of his coat, and to sprinkle a few, crumbs for them on the ground. When his walks were all finished, and he used the spade and rake less frequently, the birds looked for their daily rations of crumbs; and would gather in the treetops in the morning and let him know, with their begging voices, that they were waiting for him. A recent work, published in England, by Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, contains an interesting account of one whom he desig nates as the "Half-Hermit of Tregedna," and of whom he says that he has made himself the "He called them to breakfast with a whistle, Rarey of the bird-world, and "has proved, by and they would come out of the thick, green the happiest illustration, that any one with the leaves of the grove, and patter, twitter, and flutlaw of kindness in his heart, on his tongue, inter around and over his feet. Sometimes he his eye, and in his hand, may have the most would put a piece of bread between his lips, intimate fellowship of these sweet singers, and when a bright eyed little thing would pick it their best songs from morning till night, without, like a humming bird taking honey from a out the help of snares or cages. deep flower bell, without alighting. They be"What prettier out-door exercise," he asks, came bis constant companions. As soon as he "for the kindly dispositions of gentle-spirited stepped from his door, they were on the lookout children could there be, as a change from les-to give him a merry welcome with their happy sons of love to their own kind, than this playing voices. They have come to know the sound of of the Rarey among the birds? What a his step, his walks, and recreations. Often, pleasant accentuation it would give to their when leaning upon his hoe or rake, one of them voices, as a permanent habit, to talk to these will alight upon the head of it and turn up a birds; to coax them down from their tree-tops, bright eye at his face. Even before he gave or out of their hidings in the hedges, with little up the practice of shooting birds of another calls and cooings such as children can make! feather, one would sometimes hop upon the gilt How prettily it would train their hands for guard of the lock, and peer around upon the འ the 24 hours, ELEVENTH MONTH. Rain during some portion of Rain all or nearly all day,... TEMPERATURE, RAIN, DEATHS, &C. 9 days. 6 days. 0 66 1 2 แ 3 6 64 4 Mean temperature of 11th being for 4 current weeks 78.00 แ 1122 In giving place to the notice sent by our friend, we may add that while on her tour north, to which be has alluded, it was our privilege to listen to her earnest and forcible appeals for the orphan children of New Orleans, and we record with sorrow the early departure of this gifted and willing laborer. MADAME LOUISE DE MORTIE died of yellow fever in New Orleans on the 10th inst., at the early age of thirty-four years. She was born in Norfolk, Virginia, but received her education in Boston. In the autumn of 1862 she began her career as a public reader in Bostou. Her rare ability, eloquent rendering of the poets, pleasing manner, and good sense, gained for her some of the leading men and women of the country among her friends. After the proclamation of emancipation, when the freedmen were helpless and friendless, Madame De Mortie went to New Orleans and began her noble mission among the freedmen. She first gave lectures, and employed the proceeds in establishing an asylum for the freed children. Of this asylum she became Matron, and henceforth devoted all her energy and talent to its support. Although urged by her relatives and friends at the North to leaye New Orleans until the yellow fever had ceased its ravages, she refused to desert her post. She was buried on the evening of the 11th inst. in the St. Louis Cemetery. Her remains were followed to the grave by the orphan children of the asylum, and many friends. PEACE WITH THE INDIANS.-A treaty of peace with several of the more important Indian tribes has been announced by General Sherman. Indians will therefore cease to be a lawful prey for whoever chooses to make a mark of one for rifle practice until further orders from the general commanding. The tribes which signed the treaty are the Kiowas, Camanches, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Arrapahoes. One of the papers says this includes every troublesome tribe except the Kon-trak-tah's, the In-gen-a-gent's, and the Fron-teer-set-tlah's." If the two former of these have not been consulted, it is probable that the 22.47 inch. 30.20 inch. treaty will prove hardly more than simply an armistice.-N. Y. Tribune. 58.61 DR. LIVINGSTONE'S SAFETY, reported some time ago by the Atlantic Cable, was anounced on the authority of a letter written to the Loudon Times, by Dr. Roderick I. Murchison, President of the Royal Geographical Society. Dr. Murchison says: "I have this day received a letter from Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar, dated the 28th of September, stating that he has seen a native trader who has just returned from the western side of Lake Tanganyika, and who gave him a detailed account of having seen a white man travelling in that very remote region." The "white Totals for eleven months 41.78 66 57.47 (6 It will be seen by the above that the temperature of the month just closed has exceeded the average for seventy-eight years past by about 4 degrees, almost reaching last year, (1866,) which was the highest on record during that long period of time; also that the entire Autumn temperature has ex-man" is supposed to be Dr. Livingstone. |