A TRUE AND PA GOOD STORY 
About n week after the battle of Chancel¬ 
lors ville, while the wards _ of Arm y hospital s 
were full of soldiers7many of them new arrivals 
from that llcld, there came In one day u figure 
clad in bloomer costume. Moving very quietly 
around among the white cots, she seemed to be 
looking for absent friends. Now the a dvent of 
a bloomer is always an event which causes more 
averted looks and shrugging shoulders than any 
one who is not either very strong in the con¬ 
sciousness of right, or very bold in her indiffer¬ 
ence to wrong, can possibly stand. For our¬ 
selves, whenever wo see a bloomer wo are di¬ 
vided between pity and dislike—pity if she is 
bearing so hard a cross from & sense of duty- 
dislike if she ia wearing the costume when it is 
no cross, and does no violence to her’sense of 
propriety. In the ease wc speak of, our eye fol¬ 
lowed this quiet figure and was observing the 
half aversion and neglect with which she was 
left to pursue her search, when an officer near me, 
(one of the finest men in the ward,) suddenly 
spoke to Ins attendant with “go ask that lady 
to come this way; say to her Capt. R-d 
wishes to see her." She came at once, and with 
an appearance of much respect and cordiality, 
the Capt, shook hands and turned and intro¬ 
duced her, with the remark, “Mrs. F-m 
has been one of the most useful persons In the 
army.” We too shook hands, upon that, and in¬ 
quired “how has she been able to bo useful with 
the army?” 
“Oh, she has been with her regiment all the 
time, kept up with all their marches, taking 
care of wounded soldiers when the bullets were 
flying thick around her, and doing everything 
useful generally.” “Sometimes," said Mrs. F., 
smiling, “I washed the captain’s clothes!” 
“many a time rejoined the captain,” “I have 
seen her take a poor fellow’s musket and carry 
it l'or him when he was too weak to carry it him¬ 
self.” After a little more chat, this figure 
passed away, like thousands of others, from the 
scenes of the hospital life, but not entirely from 
memory, and a few weeks since, when a counte¬ 
nance which we partly remembered—added to 
on the ice-boats, and there, covered comfortably 
up with thick buffalo skins, the ladies and gen¬ 
tlemen find happy amusement. It is a beautiful 
sight to see twenty of these boats, crossing and 
re-crossing each other's tracks on the wide bay, 
each of them attended by a knot of skaters re¬ 
minding oue of the troops of small birds which 
are seen hovering in the wake of a falcon. 
part, and large sails attached. An oar is stuck 
out behind for a rudder, by means of which the 
ice-boat may be turned with the utmost cer¬ 
tainty and rapidity. The volocity with which 
these boats are sometimes driven by the wind, 
exceeds belief. It would he a match tor an 
express locomotive, running at its highest speed, 
to overtake them, at times. Seats are arranged 
purpose of riding down again. The ice-boat can 
be propelled on any tack and as nearly into the 
teeth of the wind as a sloop, and its motions are 
demonstrable on the some principle of the reso¬ 
lution of forces, as the sailing of a ship. It 
consists siinpty of planks nailed together, upon 
the bottom of which skates or pieces ol thin iron 
are fastened. A mast is then erected in the fore 
Our illustration is seasonable and interesting, 
and though given in a previous volume, will be 
new to thousands of Rural readers 
It repre¬ 
sents a Winter Scene on the Bay of Toronto, 
Canada West, where the sports of the skater are 
united with excursions of the ice-boat. These 
are infinitely preferable to coasting, inasmuch as 
is no Cissinhus-like toiling up bill for the 
costume—met us at the gates of Armory Hos¬ 
pital, we felt sure that Mrs. F-m was again 
before ub. The prejudice against the dress hav¬ 
ing disappeared at the time of the Captain’s trib¬ 
ute to her merit, we greeted her cordially, and 
inquired for her work in tlie Army.” “I have 
been obliged to come to Washington under 
the late order which excluded all women,” 6ald 
she. “Great efforts were made by my friends 
to procure an exception in my favor, but in vuiu, 
aud now 1 shall try and get something to do 
here until after a battle, and then T am promised 
that I may go down and take care of the woun¬ 
ded.” A few evenings later we met again. She 
was then dressed as other ladies dress, there 
being no need In the city of a costume suitable 
for marching. From her own lips we heard a 
story which we are sure is worth giviug to the 
press, for it is oue which all woman should feel 
proud of. 
Mrs. F-u was one of nine sisters living far 
up in Vermont. They had one only aud dear 
eeived their diplomas there, will enter upon 
responsible duties in business houses this week, 
and thus put in practice at once the valuable in¬ 
formation they have acquired during their course 
there. Having watched their progress, we are 
enabled to indorse the institution understand¬ 
ably, and commend its superior advantages to 
parents who have sons to educate. The terms 
are reasonable, and the student can enter upon a 
course of study any day iu the year. 
The reader will have a fair idea of this insti¬ 
tution if he can picture to himself Wall Street 
with its banks aud insurance offices, its exchanges 
and commercial houses, and the Board of Brokers, 
the Commercial Exchange, the markets, the 
I telegraphs, transferred to the beautiful banks of 
Hn.Unn and alive with vountr men, instead 
From the New Tork Independent. [Editorial.] 
WHERE AND HOW TO EDUCATE OUR SONS 
“This, I think. I heard at the time, but cer¬ 
tainly till now never heard the thing accounted 
for. It seems that the Duke of Wellington, 
after writing his despatch home, said to Fozzo 
di Bergo, ‘Will you write t« Louis XVIII at 
Ghent? tell him that Napoleon is utterly de¬ 
feated:—that in less than a fortnight I shall be 
in possession of Paris, and hope very soon after 
to see him reinstated. Say that excessive fatigue 
prevents me from writing.’ A messenger was 
Practical Popular Education for Young Men and Eoys. 
A CHINESE GENTLEMAN'S HOUSE, 
A NORWEGIAN DANCE 
He first took us to his country house, now 
uninhabited. It was the private residence of a 
Chinese Gentleman. There was a very large gar¬ 
den with bamboo hedges and large fish tanks, 
edged with walls of blue bricks, perforated tiles. 
His pigs were in admirable condition, and as 
beautiful as the Prince Consort's at Windsor. 
About the grounds were nutmegs, mangosteens, 
plantains, eocoannts, dariens and small creepers, 
trained into baskets and pagodas. Inside the 
house the drawing-room had doors sliding across 
circular openings. We then went on to this 
o-eutleman'a private residence, entering by a 
Chinese triumphal gate. He tells me he has ten 
miles carriage road round his estate. It is on a 
fine, undulating tract of land reclaimed from the 
jungle, and laid out with tare taste. In the out¬ 
skirts a tiger killed a man the other day In his 
garden I found Jacko, living in a cane cage, next 
door to a porcupine ; there were also some rare 
birds. Further on some very small Benuin bulls, 
Round the musician the young men and maid¬ 
ens formed a ring an 1 began to dance. There 
was little talkiug, and that little was in au un¬ 
dertone. They went to work with the utmost 
gravity and decorum. Scarcely a laugh was 
heard—nothing approaching to a shout during 
the whole night — nevertheless they enjoyed 
themselves thoroughly! I have no doubt what¬ 
ever of that. The nature of their dauces w as 
somewhat incomprehensible. It seemed as 
if the chief object bf the young uieu was to 
exhibit their agility by every species of im¬ 
promptu bound and fling ot which the human 
frame is capable, ihludiug the rather despe¬ 
rate feat of dashing themselves flat upon the 
THE ROTHSCHILDS AND WATERLOO 
uess training, comomwig tncvry <tna practice, i uis 
novel aud pre-eminent mode ot instruction is 
entirely original with him, and Is claimed by him 
and the many friends of the C ollege to possess 
merits over every other system ever devised tor 
developing the business capacity of young men, 
aud preparing them for active litc. 
We have had our leaders in every other de¬ 
partment of education, aud it is gratifying to 
know that we have one in commercial science. 
It is clear to every reflecting mind that our 
general svstems of education have been wanting 
iu that practical character which tits a man for 
the active duties of every day business lite, and it 
has beeu unfortunate that this matter has re¬ 
mained so long neglected. To effect this much 
needed reform no man has worked so effectually 
as Prof. Eastman through the great Business 
College he represents. 
He has Instructed hundreds of young men 
with great success, repudiating, as far 
on the “Diariov of a Lady ot Quality. me 
Lady of Quality was a Miss Williams Wynn, 
herself of a titled family and enjoying the inti¬ 
macy of the many remarkable persons of the 
period of the last half of the last century, and 
the first period of the present century. 
“1 did not know,” says the Lady of Quality, 
“till I hoard it from Alavu, the exact circumstan¬ 
ces of the first arrival of the news of the battle 
of Waterloo in Loudon. It seems that one 
morniug a partner of the house of Rothschild 
came to Lord Liverpool, informed him that he 
had a few T hours before received the glorious 
news, or at least tht hare outline, that haviug 
made all the advantage which this exclusive 
knowledge would give him on the Stock Ex¬ 
change, he uow came to impart It to Govern¬ 
ment. He would not answer any Inquiries as to 
the means bv which he had acquired the intelli- 
garoos. There were all sorts ot unknown beau¬ 
tiful flowers placed about iu enormous Chinese 
Aases. . 
Here I first saw the tea plant growing. It is 
of the camelia tribe, three or four feet high, per¬ 
haps, and bears a small white flower, like an 
ordinary rose. Also I was shown the “ moon 
flower ” a kind of rounded convolvulus that 
only opens at night. There was a bower of 
u monkey cups,” the pitcher flower which col¬ 
lects water, and from which Jacko refreshes 
himself in the jungles. The fan palm produced 
water by being pierced with a penknife, of a 
clear, cold quality. Several minute creepers 
were trained over wire forms to imitate dragoons, 
with egg shells for their eyes; and there were 
many of the celebrated dwarf trees — the first I 
had seen—little oaks and elms about eighteen 
inches high, like small, withered old men. 
The house here was superbly furnished In the 
English style, hut with lanterns all about it. At 
six the guests arrived —mostly English —all 
dressed in short white jackets and Dowsers. 
The dinner was admirably served, in good Lon¬ 
don stvle, and all the appointments as regarded 
olato 'lass, wines aud dishes, pirtecl. Ike 
onict’ attentive waiting of the little Chinese boys 
deserved alt praise. After dinner we lounged 
through 11 k rooms decorated with Kxiglmn prints 
. * v a. e»*o+nivi-rA>>i niirinciT friMH 
every year 
as wisdom dictated, old systems, and constantly 
improving upon the new methods until he has 
brought out a system of practical instruction 
which will work a revolution in this department 
of education. 
As might be expected, imitators of his system 
of Actual Business Training are springing up iu 
some of the cities, but the various forms and 
blank.- used in giviug iustruetiou are so well se¬ 
cured to him by law, through copyrights, that 
they can never meet with but indifferent success 
_arul iu uo place could it be introduced aud car¬ 
ried out so perfectly as here, under the super¬ 
foundations, to raiic hopes or fears. To one | 
of his colleagues Vanstltturt, I thiuk,) who 
happened to come h, he told the uews, and they 
agreed to conceal it till more was known. 
There was a cabinet dinner at Lord Harrowbv’s; 
not a word was said about the news, and Lord 
Liverpool was returning home full of anxiety. 
In the street his carriage was stopped by an uu- 
kuown person, wlo, with some apology, said 
that he was jest come from Downing street; 
that a carriage with six horses dressed with 
laurels, French eagles, aud colors hangihg out 
of the windows, had arrived; that the glorious 
news was instantly spread; and that the messen¬ 
ger was gone to Lord Harrowby’s in pursuit of 
him throua-h another street from that iu which 
