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no way of preserving potatoes fit to eat except by keeping them in darkness.-N. Y. Tribune.

If thy servant be faulty, strive rather to onvince him of his error, than to discover thy passion; and when he is sensible, forgive him.

Suppress tales in the general; but where a matter requires notice, encourage the complaint, and right the aggrieved.-Penn.

OH, WEEP NOT FOR THE DEAD! Jeremiah 22: 10.

BY MARY E. BROOKS.

Oh, weep not for the dead! Rather, oh, rather give the tear To those who darkly linger here, When all beside are fled. Weep for the spirit withering In its cold, cheerless sorrowing; Weep for the young and lovely one, Whom ruin darkly level on; But never let a tear be shed For them the pure enfranchised dead.

Oh, weep not for the dead!

No more for them the blighting chill, The thousand shades of earthly ill,

The thousand thorns we tread: Weep for the life-charm early flown, The spirit broken, bleeding, lone, Weep for the death-pangs of the heart Ere being from the bosom part; But never be a tear-drop given,

To those who rest in yon blue heaven.

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When our purest delights are nipped in the blossom,
When those we love best are laid low;
When grief plants in secret her thorns in the bosom,
Deserted, "to whom shall we go?"

When error bewilders, and our path becomes dreary,
And tears of despondency flow;
When the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is
⚫ weary,

Despairing," to whom shall we go?"

When the sad, thirsty spirit turns from the springs
Of enchantment this life can bestow,
And sighs for another, and flutters its wings,
Impatient," to whom shall. we go ?"

O, blest be that Light which has parted the clouds,
A path to the pilgrim to show,
That pierces the veil which the future enshrouds,
And shows us to whom we may go.

For Friends' Intelligencer.

EXTRACTS OF LETTERS FROM A YOUNG PENN-
SYLVANIAN NOW PRACTISING DENTISTRY
IN GERMANY.
No. 3.

Cassel, 9th mo. 10th, 1855. My dear Maternal Friend,-I was very much disappointed in not seeing you in Philadelphia before I left. When we separated in Baltimore, I hardly thought that I would cross the ocean before I saw you again, but so it was, and I am now in the centre almost of Germany.

Cassel is rather an old fashioned city, situated in a picturesque country, it contains a population of about forty thousand, and is the capital of Hesse Cassel, and residence of the Kur First (Elector.) Hesse Cassel is what is called an electorate, and the ruling officer is termed the Elector; the Germans call the State Kur, Hesse, and the officer Kur first. You will remember that it was Hesse Cassel that furnished the English government with Hessians to fight against the rebels in the United States during the war of independence. The arrangement was made between the English government and the grandfather of the present Elector. The Elector was to receive a certain price for each man that was killed, and the wounds were to be paid for according to a regular scale agreed upon. There are many curious stories about the old man-one is that he complained to the British government that they had been too careful of the lives of his men, and thereby deprived him of the revenue. I do not vouch for the truth of this, but I think that a man that would sell his subjects to fight the battles of another nation, would not be very scrupulous about making as much as possible by the speculation.

in Cassel, and judging from their hospitable treatI have made some valuable acquaintances here ment, I am led to think there is sincerity in their professions.

The leading physician in the town has been. exceedingly kind to me in introducing me to many influential families. His family is very agreeable. The Dr. is about completing a very large work upon the nervous system. He has been engaged upon it for the last twenty years. It includes the most minute microscopical observations of the brain that have ever been made. The work does not profess to treat upon the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system-the origin, course and distribution of the different sets of nerves-so much as it enters into the examination of the nature of the substances composing those nerves. It is really surprising to see the depths of his researches, and one can almost ima

gine in looking over the plates that he has completed that we can see the much talked of "animal spirits" in form upon the paper.

He thinks he will have the first edition out in about a year, and when it appears it will be certainly the greatest work of the kind that has ever been before the public.

This is my third visit (professional) to Cassel, I have been here a week this time, and shall probably remain a month longer. I do nothing but operate upon the teeth, and confine my operations to about six or seven hours each day. I have rented rooms in Frankfort, and taken in with me a young man lately from the United States, though a native of Frankfort, which ena*bled us to get permission to practice there, which I believe would have been impossible under any other circumstances. The laws in regard to foreigners following any business in Frankfort are very strict, and it is necessary to move with cau

tion.

Here in Cassel I have an individual permission from the Medical College, and I believe I could operate incessantly for six months, if I were to remain.

Frankfort is not a place of so much interest as some other cities in Germany that I have been in, but its central position, its being the seat of the German Diet, and the residence of some of the most wealthy men in the world, (the Rothschilds,) and the population generally being wealthy, render it a desirable place.

In a few hours, in almost any direction, we can arrive at some of the most charming places in Germany. A ride of an hour takes us to the Rhine, at Mayence, and in a few minutes more we arrive at Wies Baden, which is a charming spot, situated on the verge of the Taurus mountains, and is where the boiling springs are found, which have been resorted to for the last two thousand years, and have a great reputation for their beneficial effects in many chronic diseases. In another direction a ride of two or three hours takes us through a delightful country containing mountain scenery, rendered more interesting by Castle ruins upon their summit, to the old city of Heidelberg, famous for its university close to that is Manheim, the only regularly laid out city in Germany, and a couple of hours further is Baden Baden, which is considered the paradise of Germany. Six or eight hours ride takes us into the mountain scenery of Switzerland, five hours bring us through a most lovely country to Cassel.

In an hour in almost any direction we can find charming rural resorts-old castles in ruins upon the mountains that were built from the ninth to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Near Wies Baden we find a part of the ruins of the great wall, built by the Romans, in the time of Augustus Cesar, to defend them from the encroachments of the Germans. These with the

numberless watering places within a very short distance from Frankfort, are all interesting to visit, and I have occupied most of my leisure time in that manner.

A part of the house occupied by Charlemagne is still standing in Frankfort, also the balcony from which Luther preached to the people. The house in which Goethe the great German poet was born, and many other relics that the people prize and make money out of.

16th. This is a beautiful Sunday morning, the sun is shining into my rooms as pleasantly as it shines upon a May morning on the fields and woodlands of my native home. I sit and look out over the old fashioned tile covered houses, with their peaked gables standing high above the rest of the structure, and each appearing to vie with the others in grotesque appearance, and I can hardly realize the fact that this is a European city.

I look over the landscape and see the park, the Fulda, the long row of populars that for centuries have stood sentinels upon the roads leading from village to village, the distant hills with the shadows of the clouds dancing and playing about them, and I forget that I am in Germany, and find myself fashioning these hills and vallies to suit the view from some familiar spot at home. I sit and muse on days gone by, and I almost feel that those hills are my native hills and that I am at home again. But I am aroused from my reverie by the deep thundering tolling of St. Martin's bell, and as I turn to see the church that has stood the storms of the last six hundred years, and listen to the tolling that for the last six centuries has echoed among the surrounding hills, I verily conclude that I am in Europe.

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SOUNDS PRODUCED IN ALL LIVING TISSUES.

Our knowledge of physiology is progressing very rapidly. It is but a little more than a hundred years since Harvey discovered the circulation of blood, and overthrew the abominably crude notions previously entertained. The arteries are always found emptied of blood in dissections, except in case of death by lightning, as the powerful action of the heart and of the vessels themselves tends to this result; but the ancients had always taught that these passages were made to convey air only, or a certain imaginable fluid corresponding to the spirit. Discoveries have followed each other rapidly since the foundation was laid, and now, by the aid of chemistry, man has attained to a very tolerable degree of knowledge of himself.

Prof. Matteucci-we think that is the name,

but the paragraph is not at hand at this moment -has recently announced the discovery that animal muscles actually burn and disappear while working a fact long suspected and theoretically acknowledged. The animal organization is analogous to a steam engine, the food being the fuel, and the lungs the furnace in which the oxygen of the air is united with carbon, producing carbonic acid to be expelled, like the same material from a chimney. This is known to be the source of animal heat, and of all the dynamic power or working energy of the animal organization; but it had not been previously proved that each individual part, each limb, for example, lost a portion of its substance with each muscular movement it performed, and that in proportion as each part, or the whole muscular system, is worked, the particles become worn out, or burned, and are removed to be replaced, of course, by others, and in greater abundance and vigor, in case the exercise has been just sufficient for health, and the stomach and accompanying organs are in good condition, and supplied with material. We have not learned that Prof. M. who is represented to be a foreign savan of some note, has yet proved that the nervous matter of the brain is consumed in the same manner by head-work, but infer that this is presumed.

THE TABLE.

every man, woman and child diving into the soup bowl, meat plate and bread tray at once, with no head to preside, and no hand to direct, it is clear that that family is not so far advanced from barbaric rudeness as is desirable.-Manford's Magazine.

BUSINESS HABITS.

The man who would be successful in the pursuit of business, and honored thereafter, must entertain a sacred regard for the principles of justice. It is known well that they form the basis of every transaction in the commercial world, and regulate the conduct of every upright man engaged in business. He is punctual in keeping all his engagements, no matter how trivial or unimportant they may seem to him.He does nothing hurriedly; he employs no person to do that which he can easily do himself, and always has a place for everything, and everything is kept in its place. He is careful to leave nothing undone which ought to be done, keeps affairs and business matters to himself and from the view of those who are always trying to become acquainted with his neighbors' affairs. He is cautious in purchasing, to never buy more goods than there are prospects of selling; never buys on long credits when he is able to pay, and he prefers to pay cash instead of using time at all. He is punctual prompt and decisive with customers, is clear and explicit in all bargains; The table is one of the most important parts generally sells for small profits and takes less of every household. It is not only essential to risks of losing; never trusts business matters to physical good, but pregnant with moral and so- memory, but reduces them to writing; is carecial lessons. But the tables of all households ful to take a copy of all letters sent away. He are not alike. Some are like the barbarian extends the same courtesies towards his custoboard, spread with the roughest fare, only to sat- mers that he would to a guest in his house, or a isfy the physical appetite. Some bear the marks stranger introduced in company. It is not the of ignorance and rudeness, being spread in dis-pompous civilities of formal etiquette that win order, and supplied with gross and hurtful food, around which gather in chaotic confusion the half swinish horde of the family. Some are heavily ladened with good, bad, and indifferent food, spread with a half cultured taste, and are approached in a half orderly and half disorderly manner by a family bearing marks of a transition state from barbarism to refinement. Some are spread with a refined and artistic taste, supplied with nutritious and wholesome food, prepared with a view to the laws of health and the pleasures of appetites, which is received by the family with quiet and refined social satisfaction. Nothing more surely indicates the state of culture and refinement in a family than its table. If it is set without order, giving the appearance of a shower of food rained on it in confusion, and piled up and overloaded at that, and then is partaken of as though it was the first meal ever eaten and the last expected, and as though it must all be eaten in one minute, launched in heedless and unmasticated confusion into craving stomachs,

the good will and respect, but the easy and natural habits which speak a more kindly feeling and reciprocated respect. Therefore, let every business man lay in a stock of civility, they will find it a good investment, one that will please and retain customers.-Keokuk Times.

The earnest man wins way for himself, and earnestness and truth go together. Never affect to be other than you are either richer or wiser. Never be ashamed to say, "I do not know." Men will then believe you when you say, "I do know." Never be ashamed to say, whether applied to time or money, "I cannot afford to waste an hour in the idleness to which you invite me."

"I cannot afford the guinea you ask me to throw away." Once establish yourself and your mode of life as what they really are, and your foot is on solid ground, whether for the gradual step onward, or for the sudden spring over a precipice..

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PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.

FLOUR AND MEAL.-The Flour market continues depressed There is but little inquiry, either for export or home consumption, and only a few hundred barrels were disposed of at $63 for fresh ground from new. wheat, and $6 for old. Sales to retailers and bakers for fresh ground and fancy brands, from $7 up to $8 75. Rye Flour is now selling at $4 50 per bbl., and Corn Meal is held at $4 per barrel. GRAIN. The receipts of Wheat have materially increased, and prices favor buyers. Good red is held at $1 55 a $1 56 and $1 68 a 1 60 for good white, in store. Rye is dull at 95 cts. Corn continues in fair request, and good yellow sells at 88 c., afloat and 86 a 87c in store. Oats continue dull; new Southern is selling at from 33 a 39 cents per bushel.

LDRIDGE HILL BOARDING SCHOOL.-The

Winter session (for the education of young men and boys) of this Institution, will open on the 9th of 11th mo., and continue 20 weeks.

The branches of a liberal English education are thoroughly taught by the most approved methods of teaching founded on experience.

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SPRING,Aated in LARDING, SC, The by an Association of Friends belonging to Fairfax Quarterly Meeting, in order to afford to Friends' children, of both sexes, a guarded education in accordance with our religious principles and testimonies. ap-month and close the 11th of Sixth month following. The next session will open the 7th day of the Ninth

Also the elements of the Latin and French languages. Terms, $70 per session.

Those wishing to enter will please make early plication.

For full particulars address the Principal for a circular.

ALLEN FLITCRAFT,

Eldridge Hill, Salem County N. J.

8 mo. 29, 1857-8 w.

G MEN AND BARDING SCHOOL FOR YOUNG
this School will commence on 2d day the 9th of 11th
month, 1857, and continue Twenty weeks. Terms
$70 per session. Those desirous of entering will
please make early application. For circulars giving
further information, address either of the undersigned.
DANIEL FOULKE, Principal.
HUGH FOULKE, Jr., Teacher.
Spring House P. O. Montgomery County, Pa.
8 mo. 22, 1857-8 w.

RIENDS' SCHOOLS, (on Meeting House premises,
Fourth and Green S; (on

mar School for Girls will re-open on Second day, 31st inst. There will be but one session per day. It is designed to introduce higher branches of study than have hitherto been taught, thus making it a finishing school for those who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity.

During the winter familiar lectures will be given on Philosophy, Chemistry, Physiology, &c., illustrated by appropriate apparatus; and in every particular an effort will be made to meet the wants of those entrusted to my care.

S. HAYHURST, Teacher. Green Street Grammar School for Boys will re-open on Second day 31st inst., under the care of the undersigned. The higher branches of Mathematics, also more elementary studies will be embraced in the course of instruction in this school; and an effort will be made to render it worthy of patronage.

ANNA MORRIS, Teacher.

The Primary School for Boys and Girls will also re-open under the care of Ann Bailey. Vacancies as they occur, will be filled by "Friends" children, in the order of application.

References, David Ellis, No. 617, Franklin St. above Green. Jane Johnson, No. 533 N. Fourth St. Phila. 8th mo. 13th, 1857.

Thorough instruction is given in the branches usually embraced in a good English education, and lectures are delivered on History, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry. A philosophical apparatus, a cabinet of minerals, and a variety of instructive books, have been provided for the use of the school.

Experience confirms us in the belief, that in class

ing together boys and girls in the recitation room, we have adopted the right method, as it stimulates them to greater diligence, and improves their deportment. They have separate school rooms and play grounds, teachers. None are received as pupils except the chiland do not associate, except in the presence of their dren of Friends, or those living in Friends' families

and intended to be educated as Friends.

Terms. For board, washing and tuition, per term of 40 weeks, $115, payable quarterly in advance. Pens, ink, lights, &c., fifty cents per çuarter. Drawing, and the French language each $3 per quarter. Books and stationery at the usual prices.

The stage from Washington to Winchester stops at Purcelville within two miles of the school. There is a daily stage from the Point of Rocks, on the Balt. and Ohio R. Road, to Leesburg, where a conveyance may be had to the school, a distance of 9 miles.Letters should be directed to Purcelville, Loudoun S. M. JANNEY, Principal. Co., Va. HENRY SUTTON

F

HANNAH W. SUTTON Superintendents.

7 mo. 11th, 1857.-8w.

ALLSINGTON BOARDING

SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. BEULAH S. LOWER and ESTHER LOWER, Principals. The first session of this school will commence on the 14th of 9th mo. next.

In this Institution will be taught all the branches of a thorough English education, and no efforts will be spared on the part of the Principals in promoting the comfort and happiness of those under their care.

Terms. For tuition, board, washing, the use of books and stationery, $75 per session of 20 weeks. French and Drawing each $5 per session extra.

For further particulars and references address B. S. and E. LOWER, Fallsington, Bucks Co. Pa. 7th mo. 11th, 1857.-8 w.

Merrihew & Thompson, Prs., Lodge St., North side Penna. Bank

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"I feel sensibly confirmed in the belief, that passing through Holland was the right way, for in coming through the towns to this place, there has been so much love prevalent, that it has felt to me as though we were not among strangers, though with people of a strange speech; and that there were many who could not be spoken to from something auswering in their minds to what is felt by us, even without outward interpretation. A minister of the Calvinist church drank tea with us, this evening, and undertook to give notice of a meeting which is appointed

for to-morrow.

No. 25.

wife came to tea with us, and expressed satisfac tion in our company, which we also felt in theirs, and parted from them in that love which throws down all distinctions of names in religion.

"Second day, 31st. After a solemn season with the only person we knew of here who makes any profession with us, we set off in a treckschuyt, for Asterdam, where we arrived the next evening, and met a kind reception from John Van

derwerf.

"Fourth day, attended the Monthly Meeting of the few Friends here, and light seeming to shine upon visiting these, in their own houses, we entered upon the service, which was so owned by the prevalence of gospel liberty and love that hard things were made comparatively easy. S. G. and I had never before spoken through an interpreter, which office J. V. jun. filled agreeably, and our minds were bowed in thankfulness to the Lord who manifests himself a present helper.

The situation of those few sheep, as it were in a wilderness country, calls for near sympathy, and it is a favor when not only this feeling is extended, but a willingness accompanies to let it run as it flows. It is about four years since "Seventh day, 29th. The meeting was held they were visited by G. D., S. Emlen, and J. at ten o'clock, G. D. and S. G. were strengthened Kendall; that life which is the crown of all proto recommend inward waiting for the revelation fession is certainly low; the seed seems in a of divine power, but there seemed little open- wintry state, scarcely shooting above ground, ness among the few assembled; several ministers yet we have thought it is under the care of Him of the Calvinistic church attended, and we took who can nourish and bring it forth, if it be only tea with one of them--many others were present, allowed to lie under His cultivating hand, and and a good deal of religious conversation took not exposed too much to the chilling breath that place, wherein an explanation was entered into surrounds; there are also some hidden, seeking of our principles and testimonies; G. D. open-minds in these parts-perhaps mixed with the ing these clearly, and apparently to their satis- various names to religion, and others who we faction. I thought this was a season spent find do not join with any denomination, but profitably, though as to my own feelings I am keep quietly among themselves, exemplary in like one in prison; may I be helped to resign their conduct, doing good, and communicating myself into His hands who has, I trust, sent me out on this journey; for while my conflicts seem rather to increase than lessen, and the exercise of my spirit almost weighs down the poor body, I do at times feel renewed confidence that I shall be preserved, and that those I have left will be taken care of.

of their outward blessings; plain in their appearance and manner; one of these, after sitting in an opportunity where evident solemnity covered us, observed that though we could not understand each other, there was a feeling and unity within.'

"First day, 6th of 4 mo. We had two public "First day, 30th. A public meeting at four meetings, one at half-past nine, the other at four in the afternoon, it was very large, more coming-G. D. and S. G. were favored to minister with than the house could hold; some liberty was felt by all of us in expressing what arose, but it was an exercising low time, a physician and his

gospel love and authority. I had fresh cause for confusion, and the acknowledgement that to me belongeth shame; pain still attends the remem

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