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part of their parent. A woman can no more 
become beautiful, in the true sense of the term, 
or remain so, without healthful exercise in the 
open air, than a plant can thrive without light. 
If we put the latter into a cellar, it either dies 
out-right, or refuses to bloom. Shall we wilt 
our sisters, wives, or daughters by a similar 
deprivation of what is as necessary to their 
harmonious development ? 
In another aspect, the care of health is a 
more important thing than is usualy sup¬ 
posed. There is no doubt that, as between 
city and country, the population of the for¬ 
mer suffers most from want of exercise and 
fresh air, and that consequently the stamina, 
so to speak, of a city population is inferior 
to that of a rural one. It is even said that 
in some cities, Paris for instance, few strictly 
town-bred families last over a century, and 
that, if the population was not continually 
recruited from the country, it would die out. 
It is an equally striking fact, and one that lies 
within the observation of all of us, that the 
most energetic merchants generally, in New- 
York, Boston and Philadelphia, have been ori¬ 
ginally lads from the rural towns or counties, 
whose well-balanced health has not only pro¬ 
duced well-balanced, vigorous, enterprising 
minds, but enabled them to endure an amount 
of fatigue which the average of their city-bred 
competitors could not rival. 
The public weal, therefore, as well as the 
happiness of the individual, is concerned in 
this question of health. Yet we Americans al¬ 
most ignore it, and practically neglect it entirely. 
The old Greeks had their gymnasiums for phy¬ 
sical exercise, which were as much state insti¬ 
tutions as common schools are now. Were not 
the Greeks wiser, after all, than we are, at least 
in this particular ?— S. C. Adv. 
SHARP PRACTICE. 
L. B. G.’s case of Sharp Practice reminds us 
of an incident once related to us by our old 
friend Senator Seward, when we were “fetching 
a walk” along the Owasco canal, one pleasant 
summer evening, in the southern precincts of 
“ sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain 
(Goldsmith!) “ My first case,” said the Gov¬ 
ernor, “ in Cayuga county, outside of the vil¬ 
lage, was in the town of S-, and I walked 
the whole distance to attend to it. It was a 
plain case, an action for debt before a country 
jury. I arrived in court in due season, and was 
ready at once to proceed ; but the defendant 
did not want to go on without his counsel, who 
had not yet made his appearance. After wait¬ 
ing for some time, and no counsel presenting 
himself, I thought professional courtesy did not 
require any longer delay. So I arose, and laid 
before the court and jury a plain, unvarnished 
statement of the case in hand, and was about 
claiming judgment for my client, when there 
was a sudden bustle in the court-room, and the 
defendant exclaimed, “Hold on!—switch off!— 
dry up a minute! Here comes my lawyer!” 
I looked round, and saw my antagonist walking 
up toward the bar. I had never seen such a 
specimen of a “lawyer.” He wore an old 
round-crowned drab hat, with a tow-string tied 
around it for a band, with a short, black pipe 
twisted in it, and “two-and-sixpence” marked in 
figures with red chalk on the side. He had a 
short and very crooked stick over his shoulder, 
on which were suspended his coat and “jacket,” 
and his tow trowsers were rolled nearly up to 
his knees, and he was without shoes or stock¬ 
ings. As he came up to the table, he tossed 
his garments off from his stick, wiped his 
steaming face with a dirty red-and-yellow cotton 
handkerchief, and than “ opened” upon the 
court. “ Sharp practice this,” said he, to let a 
young Auburn lawyer come down here to mys¬ 
tify and confuse the minds of plain people like 
us, and have the talk all his own way! What’s 
been a-goin’ on ? How far has he got ?” I rose 
and remarked that I had waited more than a 
reasonable time, and had then made a plain 
statement of my case to the court and jury, 
but that I would now recapitulate my argument, 
which I at once proceeded to do. When I had 
finished, he took a huge quid of pig-tail in his 
mouth, and scarcely deigning a look at me, said 
to the jury: “Well, there—that’s all he’s got 
to say! Now/ sha’n’t say nothing, /know, 
and so do you, that common law is common 
sense. The young man didn’t think we had 
’ither on’em. Ha! ha!—guess he’ll find he’s 
mistaken! I leave the whole thing to you, 
gentlemen. You won’t have to wait long, I ex¬ 
pect, to come to a decision.” “And the case 
was instantly decided against me,” said the 
Governor, “although as clearly in favor of my 
client as the sun at noon-day.” Now it strikes 
us that this was “ Sharp Practice.” It was too 
“ plain a case” to the pettifogger, to at all befog 
the jury.— Knickerboclcer for July. 
Little to'Tdo.— The Cleveland Plaindealer 
says an athletic specimen of a man from the 
Emerald Isle, called into the counting-room of 
one of our River street merchants. He took off 
his hat to make his best bow. 
“ The top of the mornin’ to ye, Mister P-, 
I’ve been told ye’re in want of help.” 
“ I’ve but little to do,” replied P-, with 
mercantile gravity. 
“ I’m the very boy for yees. It’s but but lit¬ 
tle I care about doin’—sure it’s the money I’m 
afther.” 
The naive reply procured him a situation. 
A gentleman in one of the towns of Massa¬ 
chusetts had a pet dog, which, as the law re¬ 
quired, he wished to have licensed. He in¬ 
quired of the Clerk if the dog had made personal 
application? “ No,” was the reply, “you, as 
next of kin, can take out the papers.” 
In Ruins.— A country paper lately got up an 
account of a fire, headed,—“ Destructive fire— 
eleven buildings, ten horses, and one cow in 
ruins.” 
SALE OF IMPORTED SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 
Tiie stock recently imported by the Livings¬ 
ton County Stcck Association, was sold at Avon, 
on Tuesday last. There were twelve animals 
sold, averaging near $600 a head. From a list 
which we give below, it will be seen that it was 
all sold to residents of the County, and by the 
articles of Association and the terms of the sale, 
is to remain in the County for three years from 
the time of the sale, and the members of the 
Association have precedence in its use. If there 
had been no loss of animals, the Association 
would more than make itself whole in the enter- 
terprise, and while now the stockholders lose 
something, the community generally will be 
largely benefitted, and these few blooded ani¬ 
mals will in a short time make a decided im¬ 
provement in the stock of the County. Below 
we give a list of the animals, the purchasers’ 
names, and the amount paid: 
BULLS. 
Blestoe, 5 years old, J. W. Taylor, Homer 
Sackett and others.$1,000 
Usurper, 15 mos. old, C. H. Carroll, Grove- 
land.1,075 
IIEIFERS. 
Music, 18 months old, J. S. Wadsworth, 
Genessee. r 690 
Lady Ellington, 16 months old, J. S. Wads¬ 
worth . 400 
Australia, 16 months old, J. S. Wads worth, 615 
Hopeless, 18 months old, J. S. Wadsworth, 400 
Medora, 10 months old, C. H. Carroll, Grove- 
land. 360 
Miss Dowley, 10 months old, Homer 
Sackett, Caledonia, m. 625 
Fallacy, 18 months old, Richard Peck, Lima, 535 
Damsel, 18 months old, N. Chappell, Avon, 350 
Treasure, 2 years old, D. H. Albertston, 
Avon. 505 
Phenix 2d, 3 years old, and Calf Sultana, 
D. H. McHardy, Avon. 380 
Livingston Republican. 
Uarluts. 
Remarks. —Flour is 50 to 75 cts. lower than 
at our last for common brands. Corn has fal¬ 
len fully 10 cts. per bushel. Pork is $1 to $1 50 
less per bbl., while Beef remains firm. Lard a 
decline. Hay a small advance. Wool is pretty 
active at prices from 10 to 12 cts. per lb. lower 
than last year at this time. 
Cotton an advance of 4 to 4 ct. per lb. No¬ 
thing of interest in other Southern products. 
Money is in great demand, and difficult to be 
had, except upon the most unquestionable se¬ 
curity. Railroad and some other kinds of stocks 
are exceedingly depressed, owing to the as¬ 
tounding frauds recently brought to light of 
over issues, &c. At present a general panic 
reigns in this community in regard to stocks, 
which it will take some time to get over. 
The Weather has been very hot and dry the 
past week. Grass is drying up somewhat, and 
hay will not prove quite so abundant as was an¬ 
ticipated. Most of the Wheat now in the Mid¬ 
dle States is harvested, and proves a full average 
crop—that of the South was more than an aver¬ 
age on the whole. If the Northern States yield 
an average, it will be by far the largest crop 
ever produced in America. There has been a 
great want of hands for the harvest, and wages 
have ranged from $1 50 to $3 per day—aver¬ 
aging full $2. To obviate this, every farmer 
another year should secure both a Mowing and 
Reaping machine. Rye and Barley are coming 
in well, and Oa's look promising. Corn is 
growing finely on the average. At the South 
generally, it proves a great crop, as an uncom¬ 
monly large breadth of land was planted, and 
the season on the whole has been favorable 
in that quarter. It is now fast ripening in that 
section, and the crop may be considered out of 
danger. 
As we go to press, (Monday P. M.,) there is 
a slight fall of rain. Should this amount to any 
thing, it will greatly benefit the growing crops. 
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