rt.in. arc over and gone, the towers
upon the earth, the tithe of -
the of birds is come, and the.
voice the turtle is heard the
land." The trees are now in their
and brightest, verdure
the are ray with the . clu - stered
ihr.var: of the laurel ; the air is per
fuza.,,tl by the sweet-briar -and 'the
will . roe ;- the 'meadows are enameled
With blossoms; while the young
apple, I.ln4,peach, and the plum, begin
and, the cherry to glow,
nmonz the green leaves.
chosen season ofrevelry
of the He comes amid the
ani fra ,, rance of the season;
his run all sensibility and enjoy
nient, a -ong and sunshine. He - is
to be l'ound in the soft bosoms of the
fre. , ll:?,t and sweetest meadows; and
is in is sow* when the clover is in
Ile perches on•thei topmost
twig oia tree, or on some long, flaunt
ing Nve;2,l, and as he rises and sinks
with the breeze, pours forth a succes
sion kb, tinkling notes, crowding
ono upon another. like the outpouring
melody ‘.l the sl-: . vlark, and possessing
the ~, a u n: rapturous character. Some
ho pitches from the summit of a
tree, b.-4ins his song as soon as he gets
upon II:: winf , .. and flutters tremu
lously . .1./wa to the earth, as if over
tom:, with ecstasy at his own music.
tiometinie he is in pursuit of his par
amour; ullvays in full song, as if be
wouid her by his melody; and
always Nvith the same appearance - of
intoxicti...l and delight.
:di the birds of our groves and
mead the . Bublink was the envy.
of my 1,. J‘ hood. He crossed my path,
in ti , i; e tent weather, and the.
sweet,!st of the year, when all
nature c..l!etl to the fields, and the
rural c,i throbbed in every bosom;
but v. hen 1, luckless urchin! was
d(101:1L'il t ,, he IM;Wed up in that pur
gatory of boyhood, a schoolroom, it
seemed a, if the little varlet mocked
at Inc he dew by in full song, and
luta me with his. happier
lot. I. envied himl - ~No les
sons, no t;!..,k, no hateful school.; noth
ing I,:e, In,liday, green fiel&, and- fine
we In • llad I been then more
1!1 ry, I might have ad
:jai in the words of Logan to
the . ; • :
bower is ever green,
Th . : . • c!ear ;
•orrotv in thy nose,
w..; ,r .0 tb' rear..
"Oh! you' I tiv.l'd fly with thee ;
k , . int joyfiii wing.
round the g,obe,
<:f the spring."
r o'oservation and experiencel
have me a different idea of this
huh: ,:!.er, , t voluptuary, which I
will to impart fur the benefit
of m_.: tit :,'! -boy readers, who may
rega:.l I.i;: the same ungnalified
envy •,'lniration which I once
ind 1 . 11:1Ve shown him as I saw
in what I may call; the
pocticnl :rt of his career, when he in
t.,‘voted himself to elegant'
niluvments, and was a
hire] .ic, and song, and taste,.
and :;;:y and refinement. While
1111, I.:.__ he was sacred from injury ;.
the ..choolhoy would not fling , a
ston.2 and the merest rustic
would 1 uto listen to his strain.-
Bur. tne dillerence.. As the year
;Idyl . ; the clover blossoms dis
:;l the spring fades into sum
,- I:it/ally gives tip his elegant
11.1 hits; dulls his poetical
a ;stones a russet dusty
`art_, :mks to the gross enjoy
,minon, vulgar birds. His
l-I:.rer vibrate on the ear, he
.::] on the seeds of the
on which be lately swung
stn melodiously. He has
..;on vivant,' a 'gourmand;'
it!: there is nothing like
'the j.)::.; of the table.' In a little,
bile lie tired of plain, homely.
fare, and i> nfl on a gastronomical tour.
ill (10:•.,t of foreigoi luxuries. We
nt,Nt le•and . him, with myriads of his
kind. Line i tloting among the reeds of.
the I), , ht-,vore; and grown corpulent
with He has changed,
11s. ii tai io travelling, Boblincon. no.
!.:ore—lie is the heed-bird. now, the
Inucit-,,0n!.; . 11t-Fur tit-bit of Pennsylva-
Lia epi.o:res; the rival in unlucky
/ante of the ortolan! Wherever he
40es, poi)! pop! pop! every rusty.
4ircluck in the country in ; blazing .
away. lie sees his companions fall:
iirr h thou , ands around him.
Does he take warning and. reform,?:
'Uas, pot be ! Incorrigible epicure:
Again he wings his flight. The rice
swamp:, ef the South invite him.. lie
gorg,s hina,elf among. them almost to
bnr,:turz; can hardly fly for corpu
lency. lie has once more changed
hi; ed;ce, and..is now the famous Rice
.l)i.,-;? of Liu: Carolinas.
La.:t stage of his career; behold
spine 4 with dozens of his corpu
lent companions. and served up, a
vaunted tli,h, on the table of some
' , Southern <zastrenorne.
Such is the story of the Bobolink;
'onee spiritual, musical, admired, the
,joy of the meadows, and the favorite
bird of the spring; finally, a gross little
sen.ilialir.t, who expiates his sensuality
in the larder. His story contains a
moral wertliv the attention of all little
birdi and little boys; warning them to
keep to Those relined and intellectual
pursuit_ i hich raised him to so high a
pitch of popularity during the early
vat tof career ; but to eschew all
MIME
r••ur:
IBM
0111
MEE
tendency to . that gros and dissipated
indulgence which brought this mis
tdken little bird to an untimely end.
THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL
JNO. S. MA NN, A. AVERY, Editors
COUDERSPORT, -PA.:
THURSDAY. MORNING, APRIL 5, 1855
L DANIEL OLMSTED, G. A. BAR
CLAY, and A. F. JON C. , %, have been ap
pointed Aids to Gov. POLLOCK, with
he rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
(:'See "Notes on Proper NEL' mes,"
on the first page, fora little fun of an
intellectual kind: This article is froth
Putnam for March, which is full of
good things, tha being a characteris
tic of this- truly American Magazine.
er Monday last was the most win
try April day that we remembei.
Mercury was doWn, to 10 deg. above
zero in the morning. Tuesday morn
ing it bad slightly improved, and was
at.l6. Tuesday noon, 33.
M"l'he first of July is named as
the earliest day at which it will be
possible for the Commissioner of Pen
.
sionst.o make a beginning in.t.he issue
of the new Land Warrants, under the
recent act of Congress.
t' The Post Ofl3ce laws were
amended,by the fate Congress, so as
to require the prepayment of all•letters
to be delivered within the 'United.
States. This factshotild he generally
known, as no letter dill hereafter be
mailed unless the postage is paid in
advance. We like this change, alid
We are glad to see a constant improve
ment in our Post Office affairs.
tar Captain Murrell had a fine turn
out to hear. his Temperance lecture
on Tuesday eVening, - an•d he said
many good things, sonic that were
very good, but we' fear most of his.
anecdotes had been told too many
times to retain their interest. The
meeting we thought rather long, but
our indefatigable choir wound up with
spirit, so that on the whole, we had
a good, old-fashiOned Temperance
meeting, .
E:S' The mail facilities of our peo
ple have been greatly increased with
in the last few weeks. First, through
the . liberality and perseverance of
Major Mills, we have a daily mail,
a favor which is duly appreciated.
Then, through the energy and tdct, of
somebody else, there is an express.!
mail to Wellsville, by which means
our daily papers are delivered here•
twenty-four hours after their publica
tion in New York, except when the
mail is forwarded from Wellsville to
this place On a load of goods, which is
done at least once a week.. • Our mail
arrangements have been so much im
proved, that we have not the heart to
complain, but we will just 'hint to the
Wellsville end of the line; that if an
opposition must be kept up, better
do it by daylight in a respectable way.
We are a good natured people here
in Coudersport--•-we are—but we sub
.mit that keeping our mail skteen
hours on the road only twentS•-eight
miles long, is "piling it up" a little too
Er Mr. Bloomingdale takes excep
tions to - our correspondrAit's notice
of his exhibition. We very gladly
lay his reply before our. readers, and
will cheerfully abide elicir decision in
the matter. We have always had
great confidence in Mr. B. as a Teach
er, and have felt a lively interest in
the school under .his charge. The
public exhibition under his manage
ment, tbough greatly marred, as we
think, by those ridiculous masks and
the tnock " Woman's Rights Convea
tier'," was on the whole the most suc
cessful of.any ever hold in Couders
port, and furnished additional evidence
of the skill, energy, and superior
qualifications:of the Principal of Cou
dersport Academy. But it is a char;
acteristic of this paper, in which we
take great pride, that its editors and
correspondents express their own opin
ions, and do not bestow indiscrimi
nate laudation upon whatever our
friends say and do ; hence the faith
fulness of the notice of this exhibition.
Mr The true way "of being agree
able in company is to appear well
pleased with those you are engaged
with, and rather to seem well. enter
tained, than to entertain ethers,"
vs. •
4iiim:o4:l4o:4S-130400Mt0:M(44
The good cause is everywhere go' big
ahead. Drunkard-making., will soon
be an acknoWledged. crime, as-much
so as gambling, counterfeiting, or
horse stealing. A mighty effort, has
been made to resist this conclusion,
but still the tide sweeps on. .
Private letters' frequently let us be
hind the curtain better than those
written for the public eye, and. so we
make the following extract from one
lately received by a friend of ours,
which contains encouraging inform
ation as to the heart of the people
everywhere:.
":The Ohio people . are enforcing
their law,
.which is s some better than
ours, and not much either, but I bear
cheering accounts every where of its
good effects. Yesterday at the hotel
table near - a two men talking. Said
one to the other, who bad just come
to town, has stopped drink
ing.' For how long?' asked - the
other. 'Ever since they have been
enforcing the law he can't get it, as
he is known to be a drunkard; so he
has been sober ffir six weeks.' They.
would do well by the Maine Law, if
they had it here, since they do'so well
with the half way affair they have got.
They are trying for a Maine Law for
next year. * * The anti
slavery feeling is very strong here,
much stronger than ever before. I
shall rejoice henceforth in every per
petration of Congressional rascality ;
since it seems to mend the people
wonderfully. I move a vote of thanks
to S. A. Douglas, for his great tills,
sionary work, in dosing the people
with broken contracts until they are
cured of much of their old fogyism.
There are a perfect flood of anti-slave
ry emigrants from this region about
to start for Kansas on the first of
April. Preachers preach, and every
body talks about it.' Two furiously
anti-slavery ministers go with them
to evangelize' the heathen there.—
One of them said to me the other day,
"We are going to Settle along the
Missouri frontier, so as to be strong
enough to protect the polls. against
MisOuri inn'ovators." Ministerial that,
isn't it I That is a specimen of the
Church militant—glad of it, though."
FORGIVENESS
Here is a virtue most expressly and
carefully enjoined upon us, and lately
I have thought much of the, reason, it
is so particularized. Human beings
have so much to forgive in oath other,
more than the Divine „Being has to
forgive in them, that this virtue must
be exercised to its utmost extent.
"While the Omniscient Eye looks into
every soul, and knows the thoughts
and intentions thereof, whether they
be good or Whether thjy be evil; we,
with our narrow vision, see evil where
only good was intended; and call out
all our Christian principle to. forgive
acts noble in themselves, and often
performed by great self-sacrifice and
sense of duty. Not long agO, I heard
a young friend express, humbly and
sincerely, her thankfulness that she
had been able to forgive another, for
an act, painful in the performance,
but which she (the actor) - considered
an unavoidable duty, and which, 1
,doubt not, was a duty. To this friend,
who forgave her so heroically and yet
with such earnest effort to do right;
the act appeared to be evil. Thus
we have not only to forgive real tres
passes, but a great many imaginary
ones created only by our own per
verted vision; and to live happily
with even our best friends, we must
trust to their charity to forgive, not
alone what wrong we do, but *a
great deal that we never thought of,
doing. This is, it seems, the best we
can- do until we learn that better
"charity" that "thinketh no evil:: *.•
tar We hope the rummies
: won't
take offense, and attack Mr. Bloom
ingdale and the Academy, because-of
the Temperance declainations at the
Exhibition. If they do, however, they.
will find the efficient Principal able
and ready to defend himself and charge
against their assaults. We hope the
Principal will in future have- more
respect for the feelings of such a use
ful class of. community, and not lay
himself and the institution liable to
Come under the ban of their " virtuous
indignation," 'to the serious detriment
of the best interests of our county.
A -PROPHECY.
We sotne days ago referred to the _probable
result. of the.coming election in Virginia,. and
the conclusion we then :came to is strength
ened by recent developtuents. It. cannot. be
disguised that the people of Virginia are run—
ning.:_pell-mell into Know,Nothirigistn, .. and.
the only reason we can assign for such a
course is the hope of "killing Free-Soilism
stone dead:" Virginia willgo Know-Nothing
beyond all doubt, and this result will produce_
a new feature in party polities. The Presi
dential contest thee will be Free-Soilism 'and
Demricracy versus Prti Slavery Know-Noth
ingism and religions persecution. In such a
aontest. "we should not be surprised to see
Mr. SEWARD, the most prominent man in the •
Union, as a candidate fur the Presidency, and
thousands of the best men in the nation stand
bugon the same platform of principles with.
• Lim.—Harrisburg Union.
The above is a remarkable para
graph; • and is, perhaps, a li,ey to the
sudden conversion of Simon Cameron
to freesoilism. The English of the
above is, that the Union and its asso
ciates have heretofore been pro-slave
ry, not from principle, but for spoils,
and now if the South desert the party,
they arc equally willing to unite with.
the friends. of freedom and even to
support Wm. Seward. Such is
sham democracy, as proclaimed by
one of its leading papers in this State.
Willing to advocate any. principle
that gives promise of securing the
most votes. - A pretty paper this to.
talk about unholy coalitions. Why, it
is unblushingly ' , proclaiming its desire
to coalesce with men who. have not a
single idea in union With its own, and
who- will spurn its proffered embrace.
We have heretofore hoped that
Wise' would be defeated in Virginia,
but if• that event is to bring the Union
and its associates into the support of
Seward and freesoil, shall most
anxiously desire WisCs election.
THE' WEATHER
The past season has been a trying
one for the farmers. First there was
a drouth unparalleed in. the history of
the country. • Then a winter more
severe than has been known fire years.
As a consequence, there is suffering
and-loss of property, and a good' many
sensible people think of celliiig out to
improve their condition. But would
this do it? From the accounts, we
judge ,that the winter has been more
severe in Wisconsin, Illinois, and
lowa, than here in Potter county; and
that the spring will be equally late;
in proof of which we clip the follow
ing from the Tribune of the 31st whose
editor has just returned from the
West:
Winter still lingers in the North-West-
F,veu at Springfield, 111., last Monday (the
2.6 th) was a sour, chilly, ‘vindy, wintry day—
more like.the middle of December than the
end ofMarch. The frost was not yet out of
the ground . nor the snow wholly (or of it, and
it did not seem as if plowing could be com
menced before the middle of April -at the ear
liest. In Northern Illinois 'and Indiana, (as
also in :Michigan and doubtless Wisconsin
also) there was a smart snow squall next even
aud the snow lay fairly in the streets of
Chicago . the next (Wednesdav) morning.
So it.did throughout Wes:ern ilichinan, but
the bright weather of the last two days has
doubtless wasted lunch of it throughout.
Still, plowing and all spring work will neces
sarily ho belated by this "unseasonable•whnri
sessrand the area of Spring W Iceat.sown wil.
be far less than it otherwise would have beenl
The .flillowing from a Cleveland
paper shows that Ohio has suirered as
we have:
A HARD \\lNTEn.—The . Cleveland (0.)
Leader says: "The limners of Carroll county
have I(.st a very large number of sheep. One
man's flock in that county ha, suffered a dimi
nution of 5(10 head. Almost every sheep
_grower has sustained loss. The clip of the
great wool region of Ohio will be considera
bly reduced from last year."
The Mercer Freeman., published in
the South-West part of this State,
says that the farmers in .that section
are ldsing stock for want •of suffiCient
fodder for them, and even in Western
Virginia we hear the same complaints
about the severity of the winter and
the starving of cattid. We think, on,
the whole, that -our people, though
great • sufferers from the severity of
the drouth and the hard.winter, should
be thankful that is no worse' with-them.-
ry" The - viciods - Mao and atheigt
have, therefore, no pretense to cheer
-fulness; and would act very unreason
ably should they endeavor after it.
It is impossible for any one to live in
good humor, • and enjoy his present
existence, who is apprehensive either
of torment or of annihilation; of being
miserable; or of not being at all."
10'"" A friendship which makes the
least noise, is very often most useful;
for which reason I should prefer a
prudent friend to a zealous one."
ACKNOWLEDGEAIENT. My friends
who so generously volunteered to bear
with .me the expenses of `the late
Exhibition of our Academy, will please
accept my most cordial and grateful
acknowledgements.
SrAvirti IIN to • Ail
census realms of Kansas. there are -slave‘:4n
nine ofthe fourteen districts , of thaiterritoty.
The-lowest number in illy distrid'la three
and the highest thirty'..fiVe.i We'.4nentiOn
this Etat for the consitleratietit of thilse who
were sci- - vehement last year; in assuring- is
that slaTery- - could-not exist irtKirmiiii;- or that
if it could, it would uot.—Pittslurg Gazette.
We should act() hear what N. W.
Goodrich; - " - Esq., has 'to say to - the
above ugly looking facts. The oppo
nents of the Douglas fraud asserted
that the:repeal of the Missouri 'gent
promise 'would open the door for
slavery to enter Kansas.
.The North
ern defenders of that measure replied
that the Douglas bill did not legalize
the - admission of slavery in that: Ter
ritory, and with this quibble deceived
a few, who cared.more for party than
principle. The trouble is here,—
Slavery does not wait to be legalized
before• entering a territory.. ,If there
is not a positive statute against its of
- admission, it is sure to take posSession
all the Territory of the United. States.
Slavery is already in Kansas, although
it is not legal, and it will stay there,
unless it is excluded,by statute law.
CITHOLICIM AND COMMON S6llool.s.—The
following extract from the report of Wm. 8.,
Giws, Esq., the Superintendent of Common
:Schools in Elk county, developep a beautiful
state of affairs:—
'"Of the two schools reported by that district
(that is Benizer township') one is taught by
nuns or sisters, as they are called, and is under
the direct supervision of the Priest— It num
bers about seventy-five female pupils. and the
teachers are all paid out of the public monies'.
The entire commun:ty are German Catholics,
and the school is nothing less than a nunnery!
The directors will not allow me to inspect those
teachers, or set foot inside the building, or any
consideration. Still they expecrzid, as here
tofore, from the State appropriation. Are
they entitled to it t Does air sysietu recog
nize :welt Schools ?"
'"_l malt who uses his best en
.deavors to live according to the dic
tates-of virtue and right reason, liaa
two perpetual sources of cheerfulness;
in the consideration of his own nature,
and of that Being on whom he has a
dependance,!'
_ CIRCULAR. . -
To the School Directors of Potter County
GENTLEarx: Allow me to call your
attention to the 41st Section of the
School Law, in regard to the exam
ination of persons proposing to teach.
I shall hold myself in readiness to
attend to such examinations in each
district, upon being requested. It
would seem most proper that all the
teachers proposing to take schools in
a district, who do not hold-certificates,
should be examined at one time., Al
fo'w me to say, however, that a gene
ral. public examination will probably
take -place at the close of the Institute,
which will be held in Coudersport
during the last two weekS in . this
month. At this examination, of which
more particular notice will be given,
it Would give me pleasure. to see- di
rectors. present—who could thus have
an opportunity of judging, of the ca
pacity -of Teachers, and making a
selection. School-books will also be
examined at the Institute.
Blank forms for the Annual Report
of each district have been received,
and will be forwarded in such manner
as may be directed. The directors
are requested to furnish me with the
names of the members of their re
spective Boards, and of their President
and Secretary; and to designate the
time at which the schools in their
respective districts will commence.
The Branch of the Know Nothings- to which
the epithet "llindoo" has been applied, and of
which Messrs. Ullmann and Barker are the re
cognized leaders, is undergoing a very marked
decline. Another branch, claiming.= older
organization and rejecting the practices of the
Ilindoos in making separate nominations and
insisting upon their adherents toting for them,
is said to be saperceding the Barker organiza
tion in all parts of the State. By some', the
"other" branch is denominated tiie "Allen"
branch, and by others the "original." It is
quite certain that
,it has no connection .with
what are called the "Seward Know Nothings,"
though it is not considered a sin among. the
'•originals" fur a »tan to be attached politically
to Gov. Seward. The "origittals" are making
great inroads upon the Barker branch, in this
city; two Barker councils have surrendered
'their characters, and applied for fellowship
among - the -originals. In , one word, where
there were thirteen !winked of the' Barker
branch last fall, less than thirty have been tak
en the newly promulgated third degree. In
another, where, a few months ago, there were
many hundreds, a recent meeting was adjourn
ed for want of a quorum.
J. BLOOMINGDALE
• J. B. PRADT,
Supt. of Schools in Potter Co
Coudenipore, April 2, 1855.
From the New York Courier and Enquirer
THE KNOW-NOTHINGS
!A town in Western 11.1as,sac u
setts has elected a woman as a mem
ber of a School Committee.
GIP The Mayor of Rochester closed
the bars of all the Hotels in that city
on Sanday last.
THE EXHIIIITION.
CnI.IDERSPOHT ACADE Y, April 2, SS-,.
Journal—Gz TS:: 'Tis very rarely It::
I attempt to inflict any of my scraddia gs
114Mblic, in any matter of personal ceni:,!.
oration merely; and were my own reputs%,
the only thing involved, I should pass th e i 4.•
jury by in silence, as I have at all times
- enter done; - -thruets of, a private or ptr io ,,H,
nature. But I happen, by the accidents( t „,
.position, to stand before the peopl e in a
somewhat _differont from - that of a
individual: As' tbe 'Principal of a Liter s: 4
Institution, it is perfectly right, and I ezp w
that all my doings' in relation to the- prer,
affairs of that Institution, to Er as the welfo t
Mid• interests of the public are in any 74
affected, will be judged bythem, aud
dict 'of approval or condemnation render
according ta the evidence.
In the judgment of such a.tribunal,it
comes mecheerfully to acquiesce. It is urz..?
however, and with much force and truth:N l '
public opinion. if not created, is nercrthe!ftt
materially modified by the public press;
it is expected that a resrectalile newspr,v,
will lead in some measure the minds of fte
people in whatever direction it casts its
This, then, leads me directly to the obj ec it„
writing this epistle. The public exercises
our Academy came Mr on the eveni%suf
2.2 d and 23d of March, in the preseut•e
probably live hundred persons. marls ail df
whom were capable of judging of the inen' t
of the affair- There probably newr WCI2I s.
much intelligence and rufinenicut toitetlitr for
two consecutive evenings in this place. Of
the success of the undertaking, I Laa e n.;:l a ; ;;;;
to say. The exercises seemed- to Lc ui c;i•
fichint public importance to elicit a
from buth.of the presses of the place, acd:Lt
reviews have been read user the
length and lireatith of a large aectlon of u rz ,.
try. The hundred , of readers of theh.
have been informed that at the county 0.a1,!
the enlightened county of Puitcr. a in.hc
exhibition has-taken place, of the a cry
Wilma which the Journal has been ia
i and generously lauding during thu last taa
year.;; and that at this exhibition, many
gelid things were done, and also scant rir )
mean ones. Would it nut have been fair f ;
`: G..' to Lave suited . NN bat it was thut"ou
as funny its it "Xl3 rneali, and ineaa it tt it
funny." that the judgment °file peep:,
not have Dom forestalled i .• ' serivui:i
regrets a state of things that the at I've!
that siguctetre will go fac.ther ti) pr:dnu :L
any thing else, nutnely, disresp,,,t fur tl.•
l'fincipal and the Fcituol; fur pdrents zad
guardians of you I should. and pr,7!),lldy
he very careful about ',lacing th,dr
•
in charge of an instructor that Will CIA te :Iv
mice and micomage indeceney, hum: raii:7,
and nu•aw:ese in any cunt), and pat-della: : :a
the form of school ex . cretseg.
Now, what it was that, according to ••
was so imrticularly "tunny and mean," net
nothing inure nor 1e5..5 than a plarfid
upon the tt lt.r, ridiculemi notions t.f a 5I
numberof bah-brained tanatic4.whc.,l,.m . ::.:
fancies, framed into a system mucoa
woulud lead to the utter sizliver,:oa „fa
motile domestic' policy, mai.
short of domestic anarchy coil 11,e VAL
of the holiest affections of 6cr r cc.
be true diet thu picture, hr tlii an•aa
funny" pluy„.was pretty hif;ldy
"to this corrfpleliou uffut it collie in Ilst'
indeed,it cannot, oven- now, be df.cF,ft-fi
that ionic of !heat . wgtnety 11.1
t he country and elaufoting fcud and lac G
" Woman's Rights," 3.:vuuld be more apprpri
ately employed, in assisting their hiedLtu IS in
the discharge of those duties for %%Ilia neither
of them, singly and alne, is very properly"
fitted to dischargo. In regard - to the latignu:e
of this •• mean and fatty' thing. 1 am 11-.. t dis
posed to admit that it contains a ,imic menu
Or immodest word or expression—nothing for •
which I wgultl-hesitate to furnish a copy for
publication to the world, widuntt note or coci•
ment. What " G.' 'means by tic. declaration
that " It was got up secretly, which acconna
fix- its being got up at all," I um at a lots to
understand. This much I ido know: thutl
Was requested by many of the u 50.4
gent aud relined citizens of the place to re
peat it on the secotid evening; and I cotl
dently believe that if I had given notice n 5
Friday evening that this piece would have
Imes repented on Saturday, we should lave
had a full house to hear-it.
"G." asks, " Is spilling a part of-stage per
tormance 1" I answer, No. -And will slid,
that in the whole number of sixty itudeuts
that took part in the exercises, but two were
guilty of . this breach - of profifiety. one
whom was seriously indisposed all that day
and evening, and only appeured on the stage
at all to prevent au interruption ; and the
other, partly on account of a severe cold. std
partly a fetid atmosphere, was obliged to clew
his throat.
To the question, " Are not such thin g'
lading to muslin) too theatrical for SCIISOI ci
111bl:1011S I" I answer If . nnu‘hs are not scl
missible to represent a particular e xpresiinn
of countenance, or old age in their 'teem,
then the robe of the Priestess, the - decorations
of Flora and the other divinities. the Indio
cesttime, and Kv en the decorations of the stop
itself, must all he excluded on die some
ground. Divest. then, the whole affair of al
its '• theatrical" appearance, as G." is pleased
to term it, and the crudest taste would IN
oflinnled. No, no, "G.," all that plasede2 ll
that enlivened the entertainment, :dl that yea
so much admired, both in 'action nod costume ,
was of this sante '• theatrical" character.
praying pardon fur this intlictiou upon yar
patience, I subscribe myself,
_ Respectfully yours, &C..
J. 13LoomoGvatt.-
-As Indian hung himself -4.1 Ontona
gon, the past winter. He was at
tacked by the small-pox, when be
drove the other Indians from his crieP ,
took his faithful dog and hung him to
the limb of a tree, and then suspended
himself to. another. •
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