L'V.li 
DANCING AND WHIST PLAYING, 
CALLING THE CHILDREN, 
Look at, dancing—one of the most healthful, 
the most civil, the most delightful, and the most 
beautiful of amusements—singularly adapted to 
the vitality, activity, and high spirits of the 
young, and greatly conducive to ease of man¬ 
ner, grace of carriage, and suavity of address 
yet put under ban by whole communities, on the 
most frivolous pretexts. Some honestly think 
it wrong. Why? Not in its essence—nobody 
thinks it is wrong in itself but “ because it 
leads to dissipation.” But it does not lead to 
dissipation. It leads away from dissipation. 
There is whist—a game that can ilnd employ¬ 
ment for the closest attention, the minutest ob¬ 
servation, the strongest memory, and thesound- 
cst reasoning, yet of so wide a sweep that it can 
interest and delight a child of ten. Whole com¬ 
munities look upon this, too, as a snare of the 
devil to entrap souls. Why ? Not because it is 
wrong of itself, “ but it lends to gambling,” It 
leads away from gambling. 
Christians are verily guilty in this matter. 
Multitudes believe and avow that dancing is not 
wrong, but they will not countenance it because 
many do think it wrong, and the many who do, 
think it not wrong in itself, but dangerous in its 
associations and tendencies. It is an amuse¬ 
ment in which the World indulges, and there¬ 
fore the church must give it up. Absurd)! Let 
Christian families adopt it, not covertly, apolo¬ 
getically, as many do, but honestly and openly, 
audits associations will very soon come round 
right. An innocent thing will not loug be held 
disreputable after reputable, people have taken 
it up. No matter if the World does taik about 
a “ dancing Church” and a 11 Card-playing Chris¬ 
tian." The world monopolizes the best of every¬ 
thing. Let them understand that the Church 
is not to be fended from any occupation or 
amusement that she judges wholesome because 
the world chooses to hoist the red Hag of disease. 
Let the Church do a tiling because it is right, 
not because the world will pat it on the shoulder 
and say, a Good child, good child." Let, the 
child abstain from an act because it is wrong, 
not because if she does it, tbe World will 
say, “Behold thou art become as one of 
us.” It is disgraceful bondage — an insult 
to Christ. His cause does not want the pat¬ 
ronage of the World. If it cannot stand on 
its own int riu sic value, let it topple over. More¬ 
over, the Christianity that can be distinguished 
from worldliness only by its acceptance or re¬ 
jection of dancing is a very insignificant article. 
Let your light so shine before men, that they, 
seeing your good works, may glorify your 
Father which is in heaven. Be so humble, so 
devout, eo sincere, so honest, so hopeful, so 
faithful a Christian, that the World, the flesh 
and the Devil shall say, u Dancing cannot be 
wronjr, for he dances.” You can hardly read 
your title clear to mausious in the skies, you 
can hardly begin to live the Divine life, if men 
say, “lie cannot be much of a Christian, for he 
dances.”—Gail Hamilton. 
Calling them “ Freddy,” and “John,"’ and “Paul!” 
As only a mother her children can call; 
Musical cadences all through her speech. 
That a love so tender alone can teach, 
Something ro loving, and lingerlug too, 
In the “John,” and “Freddy," and 11 Paul,come, do.’ 
As to her bidding for dinner or rest. 
Each one is gathered in tarn to her breast. 
Then looking them over, as divers do pearls, 
Smoothing one's cheeks and another one’s curls, 
Taking the brown, soiled hands in her own, 
A whip out of this palm, from that one a stone, 
Drawing from pockets of corpulent girth. 
With outward remonstrance, with inward mirth. 
Potatoes for pop-guns-a bottle or flics— 
Twine, balls and whistles, und two dirt-pies. 
Redeemed from the soil of the street, and anew 
Clothed in fresh aprons, and trowsers, too I 
Tangles brushed out of the silken floss, 
That rings and rippies in golden gloss; 
Striving with eager and innocent heed 
For mother's approving “ Well done, indeed I” 
Morther, and Freddy, and Paul, and John, 
Make the sweetest picture to look upon. 
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MAP OP 
CHARLESTON HARBOR 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker, 
YOUNG. “GENTLEMEN.” 
AND rrs APPROACHES 
Showing the positions of tho Rebel Batteries, 1S63. 
Reduced from original map of XT. S. Coast Survey, 
A. D, Roche, Supl 
Isn’t it surprising how many “gentlemen” 
we see now-a-days. I saw a young man going 
to church last Sunday; he was neatly dressed, 
his hands were well gloved, but I knew at a 
glance that he was not a “ gentleman. ” Do 
you want to know why ? He had no cigar. A 
little while afterward I saw two young men 
walking along; they were dressed in nice black 
broadcloth, their hair frizzled in the latest and 
most approved style, and their hats put on one 
side of their head. I knew at once that they 
were “gentlemen.” What if they did take the 
inside of the walk, and thereby nearly crowd a 
lady off?—they each had a cigar, so they were 
surely “gentleman.’’ 
I know that some one has said that no true 
gentleman will smoke; but that is an old fash¬ 
ioned idea, for every one of sound judgement, 
in this enlightened day of the world, knows that 
no true “gentleman” will be without a cigar, or 
what is still better, a pipe. 
Some one else has said that the reason young 
ladies don't cook, is because they are afraid of 
soiling thesr hands. Of course, we all know that. 
It is just as important for young ladies to have 
white bands, (especially if they own a piano,) as 
it is for young gentlemen to have cigars. 
Go down town almost any day and'vou may 
see plenty of “gentlemen.” Perhaps their col¬ 
lars may be soiled and their faces flushed, and 
may be, if you pass quite near them, their breath 
may smell rather suspiciously; yet do not for a 
moment doubt that they are gentlemen if they 
have cigars. And then you often see them 
seated on a comfortable seat at a concert, with 
a lady standing near them. And when the cur¬ 
tain drops they begin to whistle. What if there 
are ladies near, that don’t make any difference; 
if they don’t like the noise they can go some 
where else. 
In fact, girls, how thankful we ought to be, 
that we live in these days of true politeness and 
of true “gentlemen.” Maude May. 
Marsh Ba‘ 
■w Rational Batteries on Tody Island 
RelS Batteries in possession Rational Forces 
iw Batteries eX'lhdJby fV Rebels 
Trenches it Batlcris rf .Vattonal besieging Army. 
*&on of attackingJleei, during action. 
_ Statute 3li!i». _ 
X.R. Jtnrett & Co. Eoguvcrs, B uffal o. N, Y, 
HOW TO FALL ASLEEP 
Charleston has fallen ! The same grand old 
flag which Anderson refused to surrender to 
rebels floats over Fort Sumter! — the same flag 
upon which tho first gun of Secession was fired. 
The authority of the United States is re-estab¬ 
lished over the birth-place of Secession and 
Rebellion. And, behold I tho vaunting hotspurs 
of South Carolina did not make it their Last 
Ditch! ilurrrahfor Sherman and liis glorious 
army of Brave Boys in Blue !. 
Almost directly north of Savannah, Georgia, 
and north - west of Charleston sixty or seventy 
miles, on the South Carolina Railroad connect¬ 
ing Charleston with Augusta, Ga., and >tj the 
junction of another road connecting these two 
cities with the Capital of South Carolina, Colum¬ 
bia, is Branehville. Here it was supposed Gen. 
Beauregard would dispute the progress of 
Gen. Sherman. But Brauclivillc fell without a 
tight, thus destroying one of Charleston’s con¬ 
nections with the outer world. Still further 
north, and a little west, is Columbia, and a little 
east of it is Kingsville Junction on the Santa 
River. Sherman seems to have taken both 
these places without opposition. North-cast of 
Kingsville, and nearly north of Charleston, is 
Florence, another railway center, lor which it is 
apparent Sherman is marching, and which, 
when reached, cuts off Charleston from railroad 
communication north with Wilmington. It 13 
apparent that the certainty that Sherman was 
marching toward Florence, induced the evacua¬ 
tion of Charleston, and insures to us South 
Carolina without a fight—gives to the haughty 
Southrons proof of their cwn impoteney. 
It is probable our readers, during the four 
years gone, have studied well Charleston and its 
approaches; but it will be gratifying to look at 
what Sherman’s army have given us to rejoice 
over this 133d Anniversary of tho Birth of 
Washington, on which day this paragraph is 
written. 
TnE great point to be gained iu order to se¬ 
cure sleep is escape from thought, especially 
from that clinging, tenacious, imperious thought 
which in most cases of wakefulness has posses¬ 
sion of the mind. I always effect this by the 
following simple process:—“ I turn my eyeballs 
as far to the right or left, or downwards, as I 
can without pain, and then commence rolling 
them slowly, with that divergence from a direct 
line of vision around iu their sockets, and con¬ 
tinue doing thus until 1 fall asleep, which occurs 
generally within three minutes—always within 
five at the most. The immediately effect of this 
procedure differs from tha* of any other I have 
ever heard to procure sleep. It not merely di¬ 
verts thought into a new channel, but actually 
suspends It. Siuce I became aware of this I 
have endeavored, Innumerable times, while thus 
rolling tuy eyes, to think upon a particular sub¬ 
ject, aiul even upon that which before kept me 
awake, but I could not. As long as they were 
moving around my mind was blank. If anyone 
doubts tins, let him try the experiment for him¬ 
self. I wish he would ; let him pause just here 
and make it. I venture to assure him that, if 
he makes it In good faith In the manner de¬ 
scribed, the promise of “a penuy for his thoughts," 
or for each of them, while the operation is in 
progress, will add very little to his wealth. 
Such being its effects, we cannot wonder that it 
should bring sleep to a nervous and wakeful 
man at night. The philosophy of the matter is 
very simple. A suspension of thought la to the 
mind what a suspension of travel or labor is to 
a weary body. It enjoys the luxry of rest; the 
strain upon Its faculties is removed ; it falls 
asleep as naturally as the farmer in his chair after 
toiling all day in his fields. - Selected. 
THE OWL THAT WROTE A BOOK 
The owl wrote a book to prove that the sun 
was not full of light; that the moon was in 
reality much more luminous; that people had 
been in a mistake about it, and the world was 
quite in the dark on the subject. 
“ What a wonderful book! ” cried all the night- 
birds, and it must be right; our lady the owl 
having such very large eyes; of course she can 
see through all the mists of ignorance. 
“ Very true,” cried the bats; “ she is right, no 
doubt. As for us we cannot see a blink, the 
moon and the sun are alike to ns, and for anything 
we know there is no light in either; so we go 
over in a body to her opinion.” 
And the matter was buzzed about till the eagle 
heard of it. He called the birds around him, 
and looking do wn on them from his rocky throne, 
spoke thus: 
“Children of the light and of the day, beware 
of night-birds! Their eyes may be large but 
they are so formed they cannot receive the light, 
and what they cannot see they deny the existence 
of. Let them praise moon-light in their haunts; 
they have never known anything better: bat 
let tis who love the light, because our eyes 
can bear it, give glory to the great fountain 
of it, and make our boast of the sua while 
we pity the ignorance of the poor moon wor¬ 
shippers, and the sad lot of those who live iu 
darkness.” 
would of necessity have to cat one another; and 
so in this vast nation, still in some respects a 
semi-barbarous oue, a certain measure ot edu¬ 
cation is universal; and its cheap literature, 
notwithstanding its block-printing aud its diffi¬ 
cult-character, Is the most immense in the world. 
And, On a similar principle, the growing popula¬ 
tion of Britain will force upon tho country the 
question of an adequate education for tho peo¬ 
ple. It is diflicull to ovcr-pooplo any nation 
with a taught and industrious race of men. 
China is not over-peopled with iU three hun¬ 
dred millions. Ireland, that has not half the 
number of Inhabitants to tho square mile, and 
the Highlands of Scotland, that have not tho 
one-fourth part the number to the square mile, 
arc on the contrary, greatly over-peopled; and 
the difference consists mainly in this, that 
whereas the Chinese have, with all their many 
faults, been taught how to “get their rice,” the 
poor Highlanders and the Irish have not .—Hugh 
Miller. 
If investors are in doubt as to what form of 
investment will ultimately bring the largest re¬ 
turn, a sufficient reason for taking the 7-30 Notes 
will be found in the fact that Messrs. Fisk A 
Hutch, and the other Agents of the Government, 
as well as the various Banks and Bankers 
throughout the country, are selling these notes 
for the Government, and that tho money so in¬ 
vested is not only securely and urojitably invested, 
but goes immediately into the National Treasury 
to assist the Government in promptly paying 
our bravo boys in the field, and putting the 
finishing blows into the hatefil rebellion. 
All patriotic Banks and Backers In this vicin¬ 
ity have the notes on hand fot sale, or will order 
them from Messrs. Fisk & Hatch, for such of our 
readers as may desire to avcid the trouble of 
direct correspondence. 
Transaction* or thb Californlc State Agricul¬ 
tural Society during the year ls&J. 
This is the first report of the Society since it was 
pat under the control of the State Board of Agricul¬ 
ture. This report iu addition to interesting details of 
tho transactions of tho Society, contains valuable pa¬ 
pers, among which we notice one 0:1 Sheep Husbandry 
in California by James E. Perkins, Secretary of Cali¬ 
fornia Wool Growers' Association; Tho Fence Ques¬ 
tion! by Wilson Flint, in which the policy of 
requiring stock to be fenced, instead of fenced against, 
is urged; an Essay on tho Culture of tho Vine, by 
Wm. Daniels, which is apparently one of the most 
practical papers in the report; another on the same 
subject by Dr. J. Strextzki., nearly or quite as good; 
on the Culture and Curing of Tobacco in California, by 
Thomas Edwards; Essay on Mildew, by Judge W si. 
Daniels ; Mining Review for lSGo, Ac., Ac. We value 
thU report highly. It contains much that will interest 
all who desire to know more of the Golden State. 
LIBERALITY IS THE ECONOMY OF STATES, 
Thh following eloquent and truthful passage 
from Gov. Andrews’ message commends itself 
to the attention of legislators 
“ Liberality toward all iusti.utiona of science 
and art which develop the mini aud foster civili¬ 
zation is our highest interest aud must be our 
welcome duty. A Commonwealth which spends 
freely, if wisely, in unfolding its material re¬ 
sources by artificial improvei tents, by cultiva¬ 
ting the Intellectual capacities of its people, by 
encouraging the ingenious to experiment, the 
aspiring to try their wings, and the studious to 
divine the mysteries of knowledge, must, of 
necessity, be prosperous and great. Iu suck 
things to be mean is to be poor, to be generous 
is to be rich. That which is only economy 
when applied to an individual, whoso enterprise 
must be bounded by the opport unities of a single 
111°time, and a limited fortune; becomes narrow 
and short-sighted when applied to States having 
“Praise is not worth much,” says a German 
writer, “and I always take care when I am its 
object to receive it as a pleasant sensation, as, 
metal which has not been assayed, and, if I do 
not use caution, as very probably a source of 
injury. Praise should always be {considered 
a free-will offering, rather than as)a deserved re¬ 
ward.” 
THE POPULAR SEVEN-THIRTY LOAN 
Mysteries of Bxs-KxHrixa Explained: Being a 
complete Analysis of the whole subject, ccuatsting 
of the Natural History of Bees. 'Directions for 
obtaining tbe greatest amount of surplus honey 
with the least possible expense, remedies for losses 
given, aiul the science of “ Luck ” tally illustrated— 
the result of mors ihan thirty years’ "experience iu 
extensive apiaries. Ninth edition, containing direc¬ 
tions for using the movable combs of L. L'. Laxg- 
stkoth. By M. Quin by. True deal Bee-Keeper. 
New York: William Wood A Co. 
Ws hare great respect for the opinions of Mr. Qctn- 
BYOr. any subject connected with bee-keeping; aud 
this work before us contaius a large amount of infor¬ 
mation which must be of great practical value to the 
bee-keeper—especially the Inexperienced. Mr. Q.’s 
thirty year’s experience and observation is most valu¬ 
able as recorded here. Would that every practical man. 
in the different departments of industry, would record 
the results of his observation and experience in his 
business as concisely and completely lor the benefit of 
those who follow him iu it. Ills life would not have 
been spent in vain then, and his successors would lose 
less time in acquiring what he could have given them. 
All men, engaged In specialities, ought to remember 
this. The world would better if they acted upon it. 
LEARNING AS A BREAD-WINNER 
Messrs. Fisk A Hatch, the well-known 
Bunkers and Government Loan Agents, at SS 
Wall Street, New York, advertise to receive or¬ 
ders for the popular 7-30 loan. This is emphat¬ 
ically the “People’s Loan," and should attract 
the attention of Banks, Bankers and Capitalists, 
and of every man or woman who has Fifty Dol¬ 
lars or more to Invest throughout the country. 
The convenient form In which these notes are 
Issued; the ease with which tho Interest may be 
calculated—being one ceut a day on each }AQ; 
the Jaclllty with which it may be collected — the 
notes having setnl-nunual coupons attached, 
which may be cut off when due and sold at little 
or no discount to any bank or banker; the con¬ 
vertibility of tho notes, at the option of the 
holder, after August 15th, 1807, in Gold-bearing 
Fiix-Turnty Bands, all combine to render the 
7 30 Notes a most desirable Investment. 
Men have wondered how, in a country such 
as China, where the tone of morality is low 
and the government is corrupt, education should 
have such honors and privileges attached to it, 
that it forms the sole moans of rising Into place 
and affluence. The true secret of the matter is 
to be read in the fact that China, with Us three 
hundred millions of inhabitants, is the most 
populous country on the face of the earth. Ig¬ 
norance, therefore, cannot be tolerated in China; 
aud knowledge, including, as a matter of course 
a thorough acquaintance with tho. arts by which 
men live, is at a premium there. However un¬ 
acquainted vith what most ennobles man, the 
Chinese cannot be left ignoraut of how—to use 
their own homely phrase—” men arc to get 
their rice.” Were the case otherwise, they 
Ignorance.— Never be ashamed of confessing 
your ignorance, for the wisest man upon oarth is 
ignorant of many things, insomuch that what 
he knows is mere nothing in comparison with 
what he does not know. There cannot be a 
greater folly in the world than to suppose that 
we know everything. 
If a teacher makes an assertion to you on any 
topic suggested by your studies, ask him why it 
is so—how he knows it to be so. If he cannot 
give a reason that satisfies your mind of his cor¬ 
rectness, do not believe him because he asserts 
it and is yotir teacher. Think for yourselves. 
