SINGLE COPIES, }. vaLUL- XI.--NUMBER 22 14, --- _ riki-,,-, POTTER JOUR:I4AL, . .FI:11:11.0 TX:111 Tin.:II3DAY aft0t0,:12. , 7e, la iTinPli. S. Chase, s h o a l MI • Letters and Communication . 0 ii'...e....1 ,1 i.,:: l alire:s.ad:..to secure attention. - er rus--in'atiphly le Ailvance : . .. num , St.•ls s)er Aza. O,IIVTIL/111 1111 l ”13.6$1111.11.1: :..1.:01, Ternis_of Ad S'erti4lllg. • i :-. , .we [lu liuesj l i inzertien, -- - . 50 ; ... 3 • - - - - Si 50. ~ ,; 11 ,-,-., r itu:t in.iertlon.c.,... as 1.., ie:etiirce mouth_;.,.. 50 . 4 00 . - r..ae ‘• :5 50 ,• t,:ikt ear.. I; 6O 1,..!! f.r. I lii:::Iry v• ore. per sq., 3 ins. 30J r ,-; : 1 010 , -FM:t insertion, , no , k . ):zna :;ix montes, 13 OJ i - . . ,10 00 ,=• . .. gt . ' lOe [ ~ , per y ear. 30 'OO . i ~ • a ~ . 10 00 1.. ble-coluum, displayed, per annum-. 05 06 r" six months, 3 00 . i. - u• three " 10 00 u a one mr.mth, 600 41 i, per square . 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Esq. 9:22 t, 'CAS 511111.1 SMITH & JONES, !R.S MEDICINES, PAINTS, Faacy Articley.,S . e.tiouvry, Dr G00d.,, eiceries, Sc., Main st:, Coudersport, Pa. 10:1 - D. E. OLMSTED, ALER IN DRY GOODS, • READY-MADE G "hing, Crocktry, Groceries, ..tc., Maiu st.. . 11 dtrspCitt. P:L. .. 10:1 • M. W.- -MANY, , - U.ER TN BOOKS &: STA.T/aNERt MAG 11:NRS and Music, N. W. corner of Main Third sta., Coudersport, Pa. 1n:1 • 131. 4 .13:K GILLON anTAILOR, late from the City of V'erpuol. Eugland. Shop opposite Court ' ls e, Coudersport,' Patter Co. Pa. ~.N• IL—Particular attention paid to CUT 'HENRY J:'OI,3IFITTY ' • ( i tC 6 ESSOI7. TO ! I •ER IN STOVES TIC dt SHEET IRON ;ARE, Skin st., nearly 'opposite the Court :Aon, Coudersport; P 4. Tin: and, Sheet 41Ware tuade to order; in good style, on 14 't notice, ' 10:1 ,-, coupEßspuirr lio nl4, , ar t. :. GLASSM IRE, Proprietor, Coruer cif 4 441 / aad aecond Streets, Coudersport, Pot -I:"l(o , 1, a. ' 9:44 §" .r:: AII4EGANY lIOUSE, • i! . " , 11 Ci;1 , m. MILLS, Proprietor, Colesburg I ;,_ bil / 4 1. C' ) .l l'a., seven miles porth of COP "v4rti 011 fru: Wellsville Road. i:44 -, ..., . . . - , . I t k -, „ • ‘., :1•'. -.) ,-! . .;,) ~,......, y--' :! ' _. r, ~ .ir ~‘ i V ;.. , . :....- .... , ,!.. 1 . , .• , , '; f ,-, :. , '', 4' ) • !•. ''. '-;!, 11 i ...: 7 =!. ~ , ~: •- • '-' ' -,''-• - 1 . '' ‘: t Z '''-"` 'l ' ''''''' ' . '1: -'l , : ' ''' :1 1 ,:'. r:', ',. 1 ~ '. ; ''- - I I , , : ,- • , '' . . I -, . . _ ~.... . ~. , . -.l ' . ,-. '; ...- ' . I * . , - ' 1 ~,- ' • , i - . Ilc . )- - ..' ,•1, .{ ' ..'' - / . -, : '''Y''.: , :'.:- '. , •: , `f• ''''' '. . : ...' . 1' ; ',i -, "..,:, V. ,-, .--'. ..'.'. '... ''. .. .. - ,:', • •'. ' : i - - eDritrt. Ohl the snow, the beautiful snow, -. •• thes'4 and thp'ehrtli below; r . • Over the hbuse•tops;:over'the street, !. t! 7. Over the heads of the people you,mee4.;- Dancing, ' :Fllrtincr, • • ' Shi,turping Beautiful 'snow I kenti do nothing wrong ; • Flying-to Ails Clinging iu,a ircniesonie freak, L I; , ,iiiiitlftd snow, frSin the 1:Will - CMS above, Pure as an'ungel AA, fickle ii love! 7 ./ . Oh 1 the snow, the licantiful snow! !low the:flakes other.and laugh they g6l ahout in itsmadilt . mio l .; funi It.p.ays in'it,:glee With every'on, , Chasing, .. ... . . . . . . .. . . - Harrying by" . , : It lights up tlie - face.and it. sparkles the eyel: And even tile dogs with a bark and a.. bound:, Snap at the crystals that eddy around. ' i The town is alii - ti and its heart in aglow ; . • ! To wlcome the coming of btatutifnl,snow... How the. wild crowd goes swaying along, . IfUill'of,;' each oth'er with humor and song.; How the v."ny-sleigeS like meteors Bright for a moment, then lust to the eye, • 1 Rlugin *. 'SWinging, - Dashing they go.: Over the crest of the beautiful.snow„ Snow so pure when it frilly friain the sky, To be trampleLl in mud by the crowd rushing bY; To be trampled aud,truckedJay the thousatid,'!i of legit . Till it bli..nds' with the' filth in, the horri* street. (i Once I was pure as the snow—but I fell; Fell, like the snow-flakes, from • heiven—tb hell I,' Fell, to b 0 trampled as the filth of th'e street'; Fell, to he scoffed, to be spit on and beat, .. Pleading, . Cursing, . • 'Dreading to die Selling my soul to whoever would buy, Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread, Hating the living and fearing the dead. Mercirul Gcdl have I fallen so low? And vet I was once like this beautiful snotica Once 1 wz , s fair as the he.,,uth - ul snow, With An cye like its cryF•tali, a heart like :its glow; Once 1 was'lovd for my innocent grace— Flattered and sought for the ch,truts of my fO, Father, Mother, Sisters al!, God and myself, I have lost by my fall. . The veriest .wretch that goes shivering by :! Will take a wide sweep, lest I wander too Fur of all that is on or about me, I know. There is nothing that's pure but the beautiftil snow.' How strange it should he that this beautif4l snow . I Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go llow strange it would be, when the nigth cen:eS A WWI, If the snnw :tau the ice struck my desperitie brain! Fainting, - . i 4 Freezing. . • ~.. I.P - i:vg. alone! 1, Too wiclie.; for Tr.lyer. t.,0 weA for, my meal!. T t be heard in tue crab oi: the c r.i:;y town.( G me man in :heir jay at the snow'. com:uz down i To lie end' to die in rny terr:ble wo , , With a bed anda shroud of-the beantiful snoW! uratirmat. . , Entro - tf.Through the' eelumns of yonr paper I ,wish to state a few faciS for tile consideration of school director's. I licing'somcwhat interested in the pron - reSs and welfare of common schools, I `haie taken the liberty (,or,r.vailed myself of the: iiiikt) to e.:au.iue. :me of the reports o'l teachers—and in one of the most flourish ing and populous townships . in the coon ty, I !faxed a report that had the'iUkrty.i recontruent'.ations: I • From beginning to end, it had not a sipgle mark of punctuation, although sev eral abbreviated words and initials of per son.' navies were ,used, thus leaving the reader a fair ehance.to peruse it • throngh without iatcrroption. Neither was there i much bother from capitals, for about , One half the author's .natne's began With sMall letters; and" the possessive ease was en tirely unknown. As to spelling, when I said "gromar",".midien" &e., 1. conclud ed the policy was •to sltcrteti . words---but nest came - "erithmotiek" aud,:some re markably ingenions'.spelling - -of :Seholdrs' nameS, (specimens of whichlll.not send now,) words, to which my rule would net, apply, and consequently I am still "halt ing between two Opinions,", With : this phi losophical queStion unsolved.. Directors, is actually true, Und what 4 want to know is how such poorly qualified:teielfers" happen to be employed, hcrdlytliink it - is'the wish - of our cid ! zens who pai only thirteen mills,' sabot tax on the dollar, to have„their children instructed by persons so deficient.. Is the Ct.nnty Superintetideutin. fault for-grant-. ing them a certificate:?. In this case the " certificate" certified that the teachert i cas got competent toteach, and the same; I am conkdent is the case with all thoie I . whosequaliiisations - are so defieicht that aspire to the prolessiou of teaching: And MEE= .D.Oote3 ,io Vriq,..ipies of li.tp ilss,c,ioiO4:lloß t. of From Irarier's Tred(ay. BtILTTIFUL SNOW. ' MEM For do: Totter Journal.; To School Directors. COUDER.SPORT, POTTER . 0 - OMXTTii,. PA.; .T.l,ltßfkiAlr, JANIIA:fd 13 -7 , ' this i•epilit is riot, in all reSiieeta" a "tate ease,": altbotilth 1 have seen - some of a very different stamp—and again- I leiive the matter unsolved, still wondering:. who is to hlame." 1. ... . ! Is It. Best s to PP i unish uiiiisl• This is a Mat:tic - al question; and I am aware that it is a twe-sided question, , In , spite - Oe the . glOwing d'es'eriptionS that the! ,•IFatherS?' rive ol' the: schools the - :;' - at-! tended, • w hern the masterjeiked ti-om , t wo to a do-a:novel. the desk daily,,_and tio , ged-, as many more= - for all they- use to ii.: so very shil atidi fearful; and careful not to totitiVa slate and Pencil before they }sere' - fourteen years!old. Alt ho' it wa's iliontlit necwsary tirread the - , -code" the see.ind morning after; letting the _urchins, have; their way one day, or perhaps . at noon if , tliey got;.too bad, ;affixing to each . article the dread penalty " come onto - 604W, draw your- jacket; , settle the 'neat:Mat." Notwithstanding: all these things, there aresoMeteachers who enter schoolnow-a, day 7 with - the resolution that they will not enhiree the gove.rument ',of' the sclieel, throtigh fear of physical suffering. They are-yilliug , that the Schblars Should know that There will not be a whip brought-in to the swivel i house. They intend ;that every one in school shah, nut only ander stand: what the regulations are, but shall know why they are 'nide, and'shall be iii, towed to - pass his unbiased- judgment-on: their utility. There are two systeuis-di: verse froitheach . other,,_each of which is 'sanctioned by teachers of true worth and merit, - and 'I may add - snceess. I, like many 'others, as it practitioner and impar -1 dal observer, find myself in a' dilemma: 1 The hand that pens these lines hasiWielded Esq.:Hickory, -whose recipient was the back of a rebel !April. The motto "Do 1 Right " enforced b? gentle means . an d - pe i - suasiveness has alSo been my rule of ac tion. From these considerations I see strong reasons for 'the belief, that, ;if, the prover of vorporeah punishment were, tak en from teachers, :our schools would be b:...,...at 21.1.,„ Here.is,nly data :, Ist, E ; cry child has a sense of justice. Every child who :4e itheottt suud acros i eheri:4leti will du all he enn to en force the principle: of justice, whetlin it condemns 'or -coin:fiends self. 3rd. The system of punishing can claim to do . 'nothing more than to crush the evil of our nature, leaving the good alone, whild the oth'er plan is, in its very nature calculated to Cherish a luxuriant' growth of gocidnesS,Justice and self-gevernment. amidst which the dread evils of iVicked mortals soon 'vanish-and are unknoWn. I may be wrcng, but I cm contend that every pupil has a sense of right ancLwroug and is a• lover .of justice, and that inas much as physical punishment rather crushes than cherishes these feelings, it sl:ould ba tii-continued, and the teacher should ai.peal to the highest And noblest timugbvs of his pupils, depending up,m these virtues andti:eir cultivation for the go'veroment of hi, school. Fellow teacher am I not right? W. Letierg on inionelics.--fin. -1 Oar l'resptt Orthography a Practical Failure Did the - bad effects of our orthography', end' in being a scientific failure tLey I might be borne tiith. Dut this is far :Tom hz.ting- the:case. A system of - writ: ring: which proceeds a ceot ding to no:rule, ceases to be a system of alpi•abetic writ jog i l l tobether, (using tireterm is its prop- ! er sense), is, in fact a system by which' each separate word has a sou arate inde 7 l pendent symbol, which•tunst be individ-1 ually committed to memory, so that the sound ,e,hould recall the sign and the sign I the sound, and the only advantage ofl having *these symbols composed of por-1 tions of a series hf'2.6 known and named forms, is the greater readiness with which 1 the 'eye, discrimpmcs them, and the parts of each symbol may be described in ivords.l In Point, of fact'all the ordinary systems; of teaching to read and spell, proceed,UP-1 on tilliS ftipulamental fact. Oue system,' knoWU :as the ; ‘‘looliand r say" method, does se, without 'disguise; the teacher points to a word, utters - the sound,. and proceeds in this waywith ecri,new.wordl until the child reau ,, ml4es it WThen:liOwn' again., ' , • , In oilier. systems, the fact is more or less disguised by teaching'first the nagles of the several constituent.parts ' ,Mit in all kystems; the mode in Which' Spelling 1 is taught' displays the' principle in all'itg' native ugliness. Column:after column of dull symbols, have !to „be eommittect_ to memory by naming the. letters of- which the .words are ',ceinpoSe.4,, the most teal . - - onsonost irhsome, . most irrational exer cise of p child's meinory which. it is. well pusSible to conceive. - . • ..- I If ire then conceive _spelling as a ccm- ItriV:ance for .rendering the communica- • (ion of ~ideas • and their preservation.eaSy lanAraftid, We must condemn the present orthography as a prac , icai failure. Ourorthography a.iroral fivhire. t thAre ito4. higher feliSe still in Ar.the Potter I:jun.:at. Fur Ele Potter Jou:-.1.! ..: • d t '' orilioil . 'otir sr!) ellingtis- . a' iliil4re.' ''T:i i g l ' l iitl-‘• fi. , .{"il . e:l iYie iigl , lt . , *i : exagerate .t. !---,oilie-, inaninnu the bettetit W' ast •agei; which , 'N'hat'.. PUCaII ,We ask is a _careful and 1 inaiuly diitiuguisbes . hint from the brut i e,tiniiiartial.exantinatioti of the stibjeet:,andi it ii nreossary that , one,of thefirst thitTi see" will' leave the:conelusion toliiiu vflio 1 a child is tttuglit, when, he i4 . ieducatOd„ 'exainines. In: our next we will:attepipt , should hi! the art of reidin,..r. , ~ to 'be'cirs'e- to Ouiw tho "J'elntqg for this. donlorable ly folloWed liy that of writing:' ll 6 ,l+s state of things. ,. , Plltt'No.. to learn bow to receiN'e and to CM inner- •_:...---.4._—,--- , --- 4 ----- - '- cat Nearly. the: first. -thing, Itheni. on • which - his iniud is .e• - erei.ed under-- the r.rescut eireunn,tattee3, is to cook:104 i o nielaory tbeestrange and i . ,)nitised : . yste n of spelling . Which iii:igra4e'.i ciur lan'...rua.4. Ho, is. therafore practitialis , rauf , lit - to -re; ard the .sobjects on -which he, is oxer eised to.: suimrdinate. to .11p rule,-,.. ,T he in's:Ailing of.4;t't:, or the:69llst an t rolations uf 'phenomena a's respecis''Sitiiiitirity'-and • s aceCssi on. , is , not; only 4i thliOld frinii hi - in, but is rendered - :alun*taimartiJ i'• '' .1' Who, would teach the idea (A.-physical; law -frum the . changes .nf.the weathor'l- T . Those of Our spelling are Only less owner- . lons becaiise the_nUntber of our tifords - re I :imited , 'The child learliS;lliereftire, prae- . tically, in its first- lessOusi to 'yiel&to au.- j thority, blindiy, to sauci tien, all. reasoti, -itl 1 'common sense, , all-knowledge, at the shrine of , custotu an d, ireutine ) ,-1.-to. , take his master's word and ask' po,,cluestions. is ciumnp The mind edconfined,sent balk_ 1 . j into its pol3'pli "ce: ,, ‘, instead ofevoked.- 1 Aigreat' thOral and logical - injury 'is dope t,o the child's mind. , which , it . rO,filies many scars of alter education, years of instruction in physicalknoWledge to cr.id• irate, if indeed it ever he 'eraaicated..-L-lleace,vieWed lleace,vieWed in connection- Witli .44a ' tion - imii . I.)e - lling is a groat inuita...failure. -. 1,. - • - ' - -PHotio..l :010 .5. Our present Orthography an Interzia donut failure: But its faults do not. end 'With-Vie-na tion that uses it.: " . .It spread:oo oiler na tion. great comutercial. people Hike the Anglo-Saxon raceostlich holds licit ain and'-the United States, must be con santly brought into connection Witho'lli er nations. It becomes, of the :utmost so ial aind international importance that they shoald understand .eaen.otkle-teslau guage. This can :generally be effectknl 1„ onlv through :writing: A systeinni spell ing, then, which is s 0 difficult to herv9re as the English, a system which affords no information whatever -to the , foreigneras to the sound he has to give, the words lin order to be intelligible to English spealc ers cannot but.' be regarded as a - great .in ternational failure. :; •, Our, orthography is an active -enemy to eriticution It ~could be easy to show that our Or thugraphy is an esthetic and philological failure ; that it prey etas us from acquir-,i ing some uniform standard of . Pron'uncia-1 tion or frorn learning the real 'ehati4..., l eSi that have taken place in the course . lot ago, during the formatiomof our language, that it tnrows• great hindrances in 'the ; way of Our study of comparative philolo- I try and the acquisition ut f,ifcign lan- ~ . .:..i.i, ,e t:' fir the s.:l,e of practical, intereun oinnicatitin ; but on the,ci nutterslvetil?r -bear to dwell. They must occur to every thinking mind. They are borne out by cotisia.it ; experience ; they arc the things: that admit of no doubt. i ..-. I.litt it is necessary to recur to the edu cational effects of our present orthop.ra pliv- for - they are at once the rinist im portant and ili , ..most gnerally felt. The one .gie;,t 1.1.,i0t is, that with, our prercpt q- , 1/...i(g,i1 1s a row iolig (tycl. 4 lilii ! :44lt pro,,;t ,- ; ,ioqrs to read, caul a dill. 1:;;;; ; y. - e l . amt•lir'i , ite. chyrodt prore:ss: to tei.irit Ito lc rlt.. The consequenee is that Childitn are toreetl to waste .years over. acquiring the puwer: to use the ; mere tools where:- wqhal.to dig out knowledgeL Now,•!- JhUngli it by no means follows that those who can read and - write, ity'e, read"aid ' %%vit.! With the greatest, ease 'and corrcit -1 ness, are in any respect. cducated,,yet jt is quite certain that those who can •trot I read and write with some degree : of facii- I ity are almost entirely uninstructed. Tlie i system, of instruction at our seine's 'tides not admit of education being; cunduetbd witliont reading and writing. , . . 1 .. Intros country where every child c I A-I' i 1 joys the opportunity of iultruction in the 1 I conithon schools,.the'fitne which is Still' wasted'elver' the neeesSary preliniinkry le learning to read, detracts:llinch frem t to 1 education given, because 'it deprives t lel teacher i tif the opportunity,,,toJzive that other instruction and that other training which'. Constitutes 'real' education, ',while the .v'ery'eirciiinstaiice ofiiiiving'tbleaela a stilij net - of the.natine °f our orthography, giyps:ttio,ehild a. false training, a bend iin the *nog direction, a something. to .u„n leain' in liis. very: . .i . st, learning. , The pro cess of - instruction in reading is therefore not merely no assistance to other teachitig, I but .absolutely ,adetriment. Our orthiig raphyis therefore :an• incubus which 411 . educators, must be desirous of discarding; not merely u passive obstacle . to be Over comeilut an active 'enemy which is per petually leading the pupil into calseliattr. The.reader May possibly think tht vre • have held up the subject in a rather win, k: , r'i‘t'eriktLici' the'. ft) 0 fi•ion • . • te .T,'itclia's Let turs..to.the Sult-tin.froto.Now York ; . which somolsatirist-is 'supplying to the. 'N. 1 . Ei:•ez!iiig Post . i] . • • , ••••• MRS. GRUDY . , 'And irf t4doinain ,of pOlitics Mrs. G is- - watchfullyhen . that int •praetierible and •terrible''abstrac't young,' BrutusSMith; began ;to ,utter his utlt'i~c Phi lii pies tigainitthp basEinSS, VAU '6nd injuSifee Which - seemed to hint! to be dominant iiiili'efederatgoveriiiiie.R . of thejinitedes,.,tlie olti lady, ,who I.vas''at't hat' tinte,lti."Vagiu'eisS" in Smith, street, .aSsaile_d.B.rutus,through,the press zind froni the rostrum. "S h e thought he was attacking the Capitol, and, like her prethlyims,_she began.to cackle an anserinel a r m al : 0, - Irtit, - ti,,\;ou wretched yonng. l dreamer, you icoiMelast, you enthusiaSt, lieW dare you ,'shake the pillars in the 'TeMplei Of Liberty l?" Yen arc a smart young, Chap, and I like to have you make . , sport, for me; but don't plaY Sampson and, pail `down 0146: aboutitny cars. : llsw date' you,stir, Sectional' strife, and threaten the ruin . of these 'states, when yoA kite,* perfectly well that the Union is'ili,b'ealatiful halal:Me 'between duty aiid .• expediency, expregSly constructed to Weigh out the profits of my trade,, and that if ' you carry out your absurd schemes for the . advanceMent of right, as you call my notes will go to protest in thirty days. And wlien 'th% albtract Brutus denies that he has; any desire to dissolve the IThiden, and cooly asserts that the Ihtion was instituted for the fostering of good, in§tead . of th'e,'perpetuatiou of evil ; that the constitUtion was framed, as its Writers ! decCarc, for the 'promotion of justice; aml, ;not - as a cunningly devised bargain With evil; that wrOng, though it date its dvnasiy froin the duals of- - Abei, can never have the authority of precedent; thtit it is far !better that the nation, being an aggregate of individuals, should be frugal, and hon est, and religious, rather than rich, dis- i I hunest and cruel, With much else of the isan4.iort, Mrs. G. ceases' to cackle and coniMences to hiss. 0 Bratusl 0 Smith yell ai4 a traitor, an it , fidel, an atheist, al poet; you nfust not teach toy 'sons, dance; at my Balls, marry my 'daughters, lecture: in MylyeetiMs, sit in mv, legislative *halls —'out, with you, you bold, bad man :" And ; a. lai-ge number of other old ladies be- iieved these charges, and approved of this' !sentence ; and su the enthusinstic Brutitsl Sthitli had to coinfort hiMsele as best he! 11!):1 . ;;„ - Do . v6ll thick, Illy iuvcly 13eu Hus san, that it, Was diffl u t. fur him to .ejm. fort hituelf under .the direunpzianees ? l3ut Mrs. Grundy is particularly inter-, ested in ,the matri,noniAl aff-tirs of youm:' . pcorife.'''' In this sphere; she generally as' t suines the t'ethir,iiie se I:, ant plays her! Fart withfeminine skill' 'and persistenCe.'! You must knoiv, My dear Abol, that int he I western continent a' man takes but oho) wife, (of his own) at ti. tin:: and that the! seledtion of this I.ifre is, evidently, a mat- Lit., of more mothent than in our beloved! Turkey. A. youMT, man, therefore, is not coLideretleatiable of inakirif , for hi:uself! 6 , ) important a choice ; - for if• he should! blunder, the consequences to Sbeiety weuld - i be • teri-iffic. rience, when the ainhiblel and ingenuous Lorenzo arrives at - . year's! of discretion, society calls a Tea-Table Con-1 yeiffion;and appoints Mrs. - GrUndy a cons..; 1 initted of,one,' with full poiver; to arraiiie his affairs. ' She 'accepts the-trust witlil alacrity. - She takes her place in the best! pew in the ohure-h; and froinsher command : l ing FsSSition she observes -that-the eyes-of! Lorenzo occasionally. wander towards the ! I slipoceapietl',liy . :the loVely and adcom-. 1 !pushed Jessica. ,She notes the fact that- LLorenzo joins JesSiea at the church - door,' and talks in 'his usual devoted style tib6iit 1 the sermon and the weather: .N.l rs. f. 4 run; `l,ly smiles. complacently, and makes her Ifirst report to the Tea-table Oonvention o l' briefly thus : . . , . . "'YoUr . committee •teSpeetfUlly be..a leave to report as follows: tyl ~ "Lorenzci,isvery attentive,tbJessica--7. .Which . report is adopted, 71CJIL. ,con. NTS. G. then goes.to.theV i hilharmonie, and observes the fact that .Lorcnzo, quite oblivina:S'of Bcdtdioven op:, G3O, converses with ''JeiSies. .in a delicious' undertone, She thereupon makes her second report to the T.'l. Convention : • I • • " Your committee would• respectfully reports as follows : • ' -" Lorenzo. is -over head and ears in !eve with Jessica.", .Adopted'unanimously. The venerable lady next meets Lorenzo near Union Square, and Walks with hint as far as Twenty-third street. She in foram him, to his great surprise, that he is efigaggd to the ,t'air Jessica. She eon Fotiit TEROIS; 7 -$1.25 TER ANDAIEJ,: gratulates He iiiildlt'tliSetitta the * honor, and - relates' the trite 4 stou`lu!!, liii-atecide,:Who - inade' a large fcirtuft*" . lk oditding" . ltis ownßiit raOr •ratliet llattet's 'him, 'Siiyaft; ftp.• self, -" l a •n-en'r,o, my boy inttay'beilOit 4 yon have faseina fed the fairJessieal,'"-She *sCellarinin-;.t young' lady, dear fellow, are a sadly:aftraetiYe tilts. Grundy ineets..iTeasieti:tittlid• grand ball . Of the Ipecica; and tells' lieu t she (iTessica). tettains feelingiftift ' the Must tender elutfaetertotiards zoo Jessica is considerably annoyed:lo this, and menially aceuseslldreno ofti great. impertinence in „spreading s4ch rumor.: Her woman's! pritlejtideli'iltir ' prophet Wisely calls' theWetil)!is-koPsed.' . Next time she meets-Mtn-she is•ceeshidits , ' ind embarrassed, and the foolish Lerenick' attributes her 'behaviour: to pass* , fOrl hith that -slit is vainly en dea voritig: ceal. lie begins to ltellieve the tales"; of r Jlrs Grtody. :He builds a huge - :Tialseev . the clouds, , iii which he is to I and :Jessica sole .Sultana: Like tiugreiit,l vain, Fetid fellow that''lle-is i ha;:drealing and dreams until-hiS , viSionsyseemiOitP'-' . ; hie realitio.S. - -Them ho goeS ; I and fluttering heart, to 'the' tudiaidoh.' l uf Jessica's s;re, tied -offers himself td thei'•• idaughter'of•the whia-refuseidtiptm • in the kimieA and tiest-deliglitftil thiti•oi nor possible,- retiteSand-scilaecs Moil.' 7, self with billiards, fa'st , horses the!'t ' opera and arrives at the' eiMelnsioni- that • Mrs. •Grundy a silly lOW liar. lal@ais-fu i time that - interesting featiale niakelf hef , third report: to the T.. T.` Coefetitiop.: .-91 1 " Your .committeo , wonld-repTirt lows, and would ask to lie dischaited'tn•-i•T • e Lorenzo lias'becn rejected by'JeiSica.,4 He is in a desperate state of mink and-lq regt:et to say is'fallingiidto habits •or'the most . inulanelthlydissipation: inittee is pained to obserie that his:clithits:o ; (or - patients or custoMers) are deiertintv'. him. your. committee *ould 'suggest:4,e propriety: of discouraging his visitthe . daughters of the convention." ' , Ill: Report -adopted,' and ,committce-'dis-J ll , charged:with a vote of thanks. • .:!,. ... -Oh, amiable and in-other-reSpeets4uffi-i biently-wise Lorenzo; why did . .yott , statdy:•: the _gossip of Mrs.-Grundy, rather • th'Stir. your Own heart and the laws of ,JeSSica,s womanly - nature? And ,0 Jessicai t lttry , ll ox-eyed 'Henri, why. did you allow your-'-'! self to be -piqued by the' interfereucd of , ! Grundy, and so nip the - budding regard you :had. for Lorenzo,, which might' have grown - into soinething large, leafy' and- - fruitful ? '• , . You my deduce: from wlnit I have; written, my dear:Ben ITassan,L that6lrs,L Grundy. is a mean, contemptible, unatUn— , ' ly, nVi 0 manly scan dal-miinger, setiuntl rat ;lc swindler-and fool; that emasculates;- the polities of the: Americans, -cranipijik-i . their religion, saps their, social .lifeyesi:- , trangeFi frianik, :IteceireS lovers:, itivadean4 wounqs 'tbat,:har ton to is 'i poisonous as the serpentS of tholNild;:andt it that shiyis only worth of Lanisbincnt that'unmentinnable locality where, , asllic significantly' sitys; "there are • - oo- • fins." But you 'must -not. jUilr , e thusAiistilyz! 1f the vencrabiu Siie.ds,a.p6wer--4 in:qtitutiou,---in this land of -thfvfree: , ‘• When tile - Monkei- 'reigns," 'says-,the I Man,'! ihuice bcforg ford if 0n• ever visit New. Yorki:lnwilie : i clues Digiltingale, you IMIStAMWL , i)CtiIr43/-: )Irs.Grundy—oultivate her fatni-r+bisicti. iu b?r smiles. S:ie is aCiiess'•.a.vatarz---ati::.'. incarnation' .of • the gi edt I.)eith• • lunge iirship I\lrs:•Girandy..l!•;Ever 1: 011itI,Eq.11D. • . i r" -Vaa. 3. - correspondent of- the- Boston: , bow. ier - • tells hoar Dank Welkitef effort - di Mime:J . lo the, woman cif his Choice': Mr. Webster married the Wonian, he loved; arid the twenty years *which' belts ed 'with her breught biro to 'tbc ; incvidian,,, of hid Ari aneodiite iseurignt : , on this subject, winch iS not the boos s.- Mr..Wch'ster t: inthil4te l with' MISS Gra'ce the skei a of silk getting' iq,a Inoy;,, 54. ,J as,,istea unraveling the _snarl`, —then lOoking up to Miss G see, he jai hai'e . untied a- , kbOt; dea'tyou t tbknlc ii .:, we could tie one?'` Grace mas .a, lanbar,raSSed,' not . a coarse of a few minutesi j ittd k OliPt.... ; • a piece - of, tape- and handp - 4 7 1t , I:W. This piece of tape,. the'threadOf,his... i dol - nOWe joys, was found .. aftei.the . I of Mr.; V ebste s r...preso 0 - ag'ciiieiif.hifs'; most c. A'Lady'S, pocket iwas picked in' Cit-" 'cinnati in.,•a],ver:i.adreiit and scientific ..intus- -, nen: The lady laid, in. ; baying -something... , taken out u pocket-Look; e.„oy/-.... islt young man saw herd:id the pocket-12ocdf, and.' When the iady stopped next, to,:examittb:. - soate'edibles, he - drepped:l dials in front' of' her.• : She though it mine :from her '• purse, - stooped over to pick it up; and in Su doing', the pneket in her dress opened wide, enough,. for Cm f•Ilowto insert his hand'aud abtract.. - I the pocket-hook. - Before the spectators' Of i taisnicceoi audacity recovered from their stir-: the thief Ivaa gone.
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