(T> lie ribifiner. 
“A Woman’s Secret." By Mr*. C. F. Corbin. From 
••Central Publishing House,'' Chicago, Ill. 
This is no commmon book, but the fruit of long 
and earnest purpose to teach, in the culse of story, 
some lessons of the sanctity of maternity, the mutual 
reverence of husband and wife, and the base depravi¬ 
ty of fashionable sensualism. The heroine, P.ebtcca 
March, the daughter of a clergyman, is married, as 
ghe believes, to a man of elegant manners and ample 
wealth. She discovers the marriage was a sham, and 
that he intends to make her the victim of his selfish 
passion In the city. Summoning np alt her strength 
she escapes with her child, gets It adopted in a kind 
family in a country town, follows as a stranger and 
gets a place as nurse In the home of Mra. Darrell, the 
wife of a rich merchant. By her skill and sympathy 
in the slcknces of a child she wirra the friendship of 
Mrs. Darrell, they become like sisters. she reluctantly 
takes a place In Mr. Darrell's counting room, and 
goes into society somewhat, although avoiding dis¬ 
play and notoriety, «nd commanding great respect. 
An eminent lawyer becomes attached to her and they 
are to marry, as she supposes her betrayer dead or In 
a distant land. She flnds he Is a relative of Mr. Glad¬ 
stone, her affianced, and in an interview fall offen¬ 
der affection, eloquntit feeling and sublime strength 
of self-sacrifice, ehe tells him they mast part, but 
keeps her '■ woman s secret" close in her heart. At 
last Gladstone learns, not from her, the facts, drives 
the WTetch from the country, and marries her. 
The story is written with an ease and beauty of 
style rarely equalled, and is eloquent with the woman¬ 
ly aims of its author. Her ideal of womanhood is 
nobly beautiful. Her teachings of marriage and ma¬ 
ternity arc of moat religions purity. An intelligent 
woman calls it the “Uncle Tom's Cabin” on the 
questions it treats, and Us reading must be ol' signal 
benefit, as well as most absorbing interest. 
Mrs. Corbin has been known by a lew poems of a 
high order, and was nurse in the army and freedmen’s 
teacher in the war. For sale by Dewet. 
Ned Nevins, Tirr. News Bot. Rev. Henrt Mora an, 
No. 1) Gorton St , Boston, Author aud Publisher. 
Sold only by agents. 
A volume of 400 pages well illustrated and of inter¬ 
est not only to young folks, bat to older people as 
well, Its author is the head of a mission enterprise 
for the poor, and the Boston Journal says, “ has de¬ 
voted himself to the work of reclaiming and benefit¬ 
ing them with great earnestness and much practical 
wisdom.” He has woven real Incidents and charac¬ 
ters met in ULs eight years work into this eloquent 
and touching story; written not only with frank nat¬ 
uralness of description, so that the rude speech and 
quaint ways and earnest pathos of life amoug the 
young folks of the neglected and dangerous classes is 
clearly seen, but with earnest faith In the power of 
true Christian effort in their behalf. 
Homser’N; On. Fivk-ano-Twentt Year.- Ago. By 
Thomas Lackland. [Pp. 330.] New York: Hurd 
& Houghton. 
This unknown author's nom)de plume may mean 
that he lacks land, but cannot, that he lacks genius or 
soul. This is a book full of interest,—a series of 
sketches of the simple scenes and marked characters 
of life In the quiet country. The Preface says—“It 
has fallen to the lot of royal families to have their 
historian* and chronicler.-, but to farmers and plain 
country people never and the aim Is to help supply 
this deficiency. “ Thresholds, Barn-Life, Town Meet¬ 
ing, Country Htore, Farmer’s Wives and Daughters, 
A Day’s Work on the Farm,” are topics of some of 
its chapters. Its descriptions are fascinating in their 
fresh naturalness; many a quaint lesson in manners 
and morals can be found too. Sold by Dewet. 
Sorghum and it* Products. By F. L. Stewart. 
(12mo. —pp. 240.) Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 
& Co.—lbo7. 
This is a neaily printed volume on a subject which 
is at tracting a large Bhare of public attention iu the 
northern, middle and western soctions of the Union. 
The author appears to have well informed himself 
upon all point* connected with the culture and manu¬ 
facture of sorghum and. If wc are not mistaken, bos 
produced a volume that will he eagerly consulted by 
all interested in the subject of which it treat*. It is 
prefaced with a perspective view of an evaporating 
range which seems to combine all the essentials of 
such an aid in the manufacture of sorghum products. 
For sale by Steele & Avert. 
Our New States and Territories. Notes of a 
recent tour through Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, 
Oregon, Montana'; Washington Territory and Cali¬ 
fornia. By A. D. Richardson. New York: Bea 
die & CO- 
Tue author la a good observer, and tells well of 
what he sees. He is well known as a Tribune cor¬ 
respondent, and a prisoner for eighteen month* in 
rebel durance tile. A great amount, of interest and 
value Is packed in the eighty doable-column pages of 
this fifty cent pamphlet. The plates of Brigham 
Young and of his residence, in the Rural of May 
4th, arc rumples of the many excellent illustrations 
which add to its interest. 
■ + -- 
Chamber's Encyclopedia. A Dictionary of Univer¬ 
sal Knowledge for the People. Illustrated by Wood 
Engravings and Maps. Part* 117 and 113. Philadel¬ 
phia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 
A reprint of a useful work by these famed Edin¬ 
burgh publishers, who have done so much and well 
to spread Information before the people tn Great Brit¬ 
ain, and oar own country also. It is a compedium of 
knowledge on all subjects, handsomely printed, as 
well as carefully prepared, and the monthly numbers, 
of over sixty double-column pages, are sold at 35 cfes. 
The full sett will be most valuable, and probably Borne 
dozen numbers more will complete it. Sold by J. 
Ratcliffe, No. 9 Smith’s Arcade. 
3£&ttcaliiottaI. 
UHIVERSITY EDUCATION OF WOMAN. 
Women of highest character are asking for a 
better and broader education, and the demand 
seems just. The old custom of separate edu¬ 
cation of the sexes iu colleges seems .yielding. 
Indeed, it would be au odd query for learned 
and grave gentlemen to answer, vrken the boy 
and girl, that studied together iu school, with 
manifest benefit to conduct and manners, and 
no perceptible injury to their studies, should be 
separated. Still more difficult, perhaps, to show 
that while men and women, young and old, meet 
and mingle in family, travel, business aud social 
life, such meeting in college classes would be a 
disaster. 
Cambridge University, England, old, favored 
aud rich, passed for admission, after due exam¬ 
ination, 1,888 young men and 202 young women, 
but a few weeks ago. A great change, indeed ! 
At Oxford, its great rival, the ablest men are 
discussing the matter, and giving eloquent rea¬ 
sons for woman’s higher education, to help Lot 
to self-sustaining and noble success In alter file. 
The great University of Londou has a new 
charter admitting women to degrees In law and 
medicine, and they are entering for both depart¬ 
ments already. 
The Regents of the Michigan State University, 
at Ann Arbor, where are over 1,300 young meu, 
iu classical, law, medical and engineering depart¬ 
ments, with twenty professors, fit ft late meet¬ 
ing unanimously passed ft resolution to examine 
the question during the coming season ; giving 
as a reason these changes in educational matters 
in Europe, the petitions of women in their owu 
State for admission, and the passage of this reso¬ 
lution by the Legislature last winter : 
Remb-ed. That it is the deliberate opinion of 
this Legislature that the high objects for which 
the University of Michigan was organized will 
never be fully attained until women are admitted 
to all its rights and privileges. 
The great " Cornell University,” now build¬ 
ing at Ithaca, on which *1,000,000 Is to be speut, 
is to be opened impartially to men and women. 
NEWSPAPERS AS SCHOOL EXERCISES. 
TWO VIEW 
OF TITK GREAT SEA-MONSTER. 
THE FIRST APPEARANCE. 
A writer in Beadle’s Monthly, in November 
last, describes his own. sight of this monster, and 
the illustration is engraved from his drawing 
taken on the spot. 
Iu 1855 he spent some mouths in Nova Scotia, 
and at the little village of Green Harbor, on one 
of the bays of that rough coast, saw what we 
give his own description of. Stauding among 
the group of men and women on shore, watch¬ 
ing the fleet of fishing boats eagerly moving 
shoreward from some unseen danger, a woman 
beside him shrieked aud pointed to the farthest 
boat. He savs: 
disturb him, but he came so near that I believe 
I could have shot him from where I stood. In a 
moment he raised his head, from which the 
water poured in showers, aud opening horrid 
jaws screamed like the hissing sound of steam 
from a boiler’s escape-pipe. 
“ Although safe, it made me shudder. He 
turned his head aud displayed the jaws, armed 
with rows of glistening teeth, with ft long tuft of 
hair, like a goat’s beard, hanging from the lower 
jaw. The head and upper portion of the body 
was a dark, diugy blue, fading to a yellowish 
white on the belly. Under the mane I could sec 
■ I looked, and sure enough, there was a mon- ! glittering scales. The head appeared smooth 
ster within a stone’s throw of that two-masted 
boat, whose crew of a man and two boys were 
struggling to escape. I can never forget that hor¬ 
rible sight! Slowly and majestically moved that 
hideous length of undulating terror, but fast, 
enough to keep pace with the boat. Near what 
might be a head, rose a hump or crest, crowned 
with a waving mass of long, pendulous hair, like 
a mane, while behind, for 40 or 50 feet, slowly roll¬ 
ed the spirals of his immense snake-like body. 
“ The noise of yells and rattling oars did not 
aud horny, and perhaps five or six feet long. I 
could see u o (i u s or gilL*. Seeing from a mode rate 
distance, I describe thus minutely. The mon¬ 
ster turned aud moved slowly seaward, iu full 
view for ten minutes, giving ample time for me 
to take two rough sketches, and slowly sank 
while moving north." 
The next day, when on a boat, he saw him 
again, by looking over the boat side, some fifteen 
feet below the surface, and he rose to the top 
and moved away. 
Nicholas Nickleuv. Globe Edition. Illustrated 
t'rom Designs by Oaklet & Gilbert. New York: 
Hurd & Houghton. 
One of Dickens’ best stories in new aud attractive 
dress, larger type than the diamond edition from Bos¬ 
ton, yet portable and tasteful. Its illustrations are 
excellent, and the “Globe” style of this enterprising 
firm of publishers must be wanted by the public. 
The story is too well known to need comment. Sold 
by Adams & Ellis. 
David Copperfield. 
Ticknor & Fields. 
Diamond Edition. Boston 
One of Dickens' charming stories iu the fine, clear 
type and tasteful dress of this “diamond” style. The 
cost of the plain edition is $1.35; illustrated, $1.50 
per volume. 
B. F. 8, Griffin, a teacher in Charlestown, 
Mass., hits adopted, with excellent results, the 
practice which the Edinboro Journal also sug¬ 
gests, as follows: 
If the children iu our schools are kept at their 
lessons every day without any change, the school 
seems dull, monotonous and lifeless. Something 
out of the usual round of duties is needed to ex¬ 
cite ami stimulate the pupils. An exercise from 
the newspapers has been recommended for this 
purpose. On some afternoon let the books be 
quietly laid aside, and the scholars give atten¬ 
tion while the teacher takes up the paper and 
read* some of the items. Perhaps the tele¬ 
graphic column will be read first. It may be 
that the loss of the Evening Star will be uotlced. 
The scholars will immediately want to know 
how large the ship must be to carry three hund¬ 
red passengers. Where tha passengers were 
going. Why so many persons were going South 
at this time of year, and how long it takes to 
make a voyage to New Orleans, They will in¬ 
quire what a Life-boat is, and how it happened 
that a small boat could reach the land in safety 
when a large ship was disabled aud sunk by the 
storm. Perhaps the column will be headed. 
Burning of Quebec. Two thousand five hund¬ 
red houses burned. They will ask, Where is 
Quebec ? What is a convent ? How came there 
to be convents in Quebec and none in this vicin¬ 
ity? If there is not time to answer all these 
questions, some of the pupils will take these 
thoughts home with them and press them there. 
It will form a topic of interesting conversation, 
and probably interest the parents in the school. 
Perhaps next will come a report of a mass 
meeting at the Cooper Institute, New York, 
aud the names of the speakers. The teacher 
can question the pupils upon the location, size 
and characteristics of New York, explain the 
design of the Institute, and the plan of the 
Cooper Union in connection with it. He can 
give a brief sketch of the life of some of the 
speakers, and the difficulties they have over¬ 
come. The nature of a mass meeting, aud the 
design of the particular one in question, may 
form a profitable topic for discussion. 
Perhaps he will read some of the advertise¬ 
ments, and the pupils will want to know how 
the goods are manufactured, and how one nun 
finds it profitable to advertise in all the papers 
while others do not advertise, or how one man 
cau sell goods cheaper than another, or the sig¬ 
nification of the letters at the foot of some of 
the advertisements, as for example:—D&wfiw, 
deod, -jtoa&4tls, tnyOif, deod&ctf, octO*. 
Perhaps the teacher will read the shipping 
list, and the scholars will want to know from 
what countries aud by what route the vessels 
have eotue, with what they are loaded and how 
long they were on the passage. These questions 
once started will lead to a profitable and most 
interesting discussion. The pupils will arouse 
themselves from their stupor, they will take 
hold of their studies with more earnestness, and 
carry homo a spirit of inquiry which will make 
the family circle more pleasant. There may be 
an almost entiles* number of Interesting ques¬ 
tions thus stated, and the pupils will feel that 
they are learning something of value. Such an 
exercise may be given every morning at or just 
before the opening of school, and it will have a 
, tendency to make all the scholars prompt at 
i school. 
GOING OUT TO SEA. 
Lady's Almanac, for 1367. Boston: G. C’oolsdge and 
Lee & Shepard. 
A bijou of 100 page*—Croquet, Poems, Stories, An¬ 
ecdotes, Pictures, and no trash, A poem on “ Peace” 
is excellent. Sold by Darrow & Kempshall. 
I hold that seeking the good of others gives 
a man tact, and makes him amiable, and fills 
him with the most exquisite sense of propriety. 
He knows how to do good in the right way. 
There is ever so much Scripture against doing 
good with noise and racket. 
anions ®ojpics. 
SOUTHERN EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 
Mt old friends will expect sometimes to hear 
from me, although if they could know how lit¬ 
tle time I get they would not wonder that I 
write so rarely. If I have my health, and make 
myself well acquainted with the South, aud feel 
that I can make myself interesting for an even¬ 
ing, it’s quite possible they cau have me among 
them next winter. If I fail to interest it will 
not be for the lack of material, for my mission 
has been one of very great interest, and a great 
mass of valuable facts have been gathered. It 
is astonishing how little of the true condition of 
the people and of this country is understood by 
the Northern people. With a genial climate and 
most fruitful soil, they ought to be prosperous 
and happy. They are just now starring and 
suffering. It must bo hard when people go for 
days and weeks without meat, and only a scanty 
supply of meal, and no prospect for any under 
at least six weeks. They are anxiously looking 
forward to the ripening of blackberries to get 
something to alleviate their hunger, if but, in a 
small degree. From a careful examination of 
the country from Richmond, via Charleston and 
Augusta, to this place, and from facts which are 
reliable that have come to my knowledge, I am 
satisfied that there are not twenty families in a 
hundred who are able to eat three full meals a 
day. Nor do I believe there are ten which are 
not compelled to scrimp iu their food arrange¬ 
ments. In about six weeks the wheat harvest 
will bring relief for those who can pay for flour, 
but there are thousands who must suffer till the 
com crop begins to mature. It is true some re¬ 
lief will come from the early fruits, and a small 
amount of goodwill be done by the distribution 
of seeds—turnip and cabbage in particular,—but 
there will be a vast number who will starve, or 
only keep alive by the most common food in 
the fields. The sufferer* can be counted by 
millions of both races. Starvation just now 
lias no respect for color. Much ha* been and 
l* being done, but*it falls far short of the actual 
need. 
My mission meets with great favor among the 
people, while military authorities render me the 
utmost aid iu their power. Both the people and 
the Department will be under great obligations 
to the several Department Commanders for their 
most judicious aid and counsel. So far as I have 
been able to judge, the country 1* most fortunate 
In the selection of its Department Commanders, 
as well as their subordinates. 
But I sat down to write of Atlanta, a marvel 
of a town,—unlike any other I ever saw. Imag¬ 
ine a tract of hilly land about four miles square, 
with a town built up with about the regularity 
of a last year’s potato patch when the field bad 
been plowed, aud the potatoes harrowed out. 
A house here, and a block there; streets run¬ 
ning everywhere, and nowhere in particular- 
up hill aud down hill,—about a* definite as the 
old nursery rhyme of “ Up stairs, down stairs, 
iu my lady’s chamber." No main street, no 
business street, no fashionable street, everybody 
on his owu hook, and the town to match. A 
busy, thriving population, no water power, no 
great manufacturing, “ no nothing ” to make a 
town—and yet one of the most active and thriv¬ 
ing towns, North or South, that can be found. 
I can only understand its prosperity from the 
fact that it stand* on the dividing line between 
the cotton and grain regions, with a magnificent 
system of railroads ramifying Over each. Its 
population is a cross between the active, ener¬ 
getic, wide-awake, young South, and the Ingen¬ 
ious, equally active, universal, youug North, 
both bent on making a fortune out of some¬ 
body, or one another. It has one of the finest 
climates in spring, summer and autumn, and 
the most detestuble in winter; and yet if I wore 
a young man with some capital, I do uot know 
a town in the United States, or its Territories, 
that I would sooner settle in. Commend me to 
Atlanta as the “ Uvcst ” town yet seen. 
Atlanta, April S9, 1867. T. c. p. 
What it Costs to Tell toe Truth in Paris. 
—On the day after the street sale of La Liberte 
had been prohibited in Paris, M. Glrardlu pub¬ 
lished an article headed “ What it Costs to Tell 
the Truth," referring to the cost* of his own 
trial. In the course of his remark* M de Oirar- 
din said that, “ If you telL a Sovereign how to 
be great, ho will treat you as Louis XIV treated 
Vauban, or Louis XVI Turgot; he will say you 
are perverse and a charlatan. But tell him he ha* 
never committed a single fault, aud he will over¬ 
whelm you with favors and repose in you his 
entire confidence." For these words the Gov¬ 
ernment, has commenced fresh actions against 
La Liberte. 
Peat for Smelting Iron. —The Fiahkill Iron 
Company have used peat in their furnace for 
eleven weeks, at a saving of about twenty-five 
per cent, over charcoal or anthracite, and less 
use of limestone for flux. The Ontario furnace 
is about to use peat, aud in Wisconsin it has 
been tried with good results. In that State peat 
is plenty. This success, if permane nt, will b 
o? great value. 
We learu, from lately published returns of the 
new census iu the State of New York, the rath¬ 
er startling facts that there are now living in 
that State 263 mothers, who have each had IS 
children and upwards. The number of those 
who have had 20 children is 30; 10 have had 23 
children, while a peerless 6 have contributed 25. 
Uca&iitg lac ffie Sntutg. 
BOYS. -1 
IV hat Ms oL' boys read the Rural — acres of 
them, if they all stood together! Ever so many 
boys, living on farms all over the country — 
sturdy, bright, wide-awake little fellows—going 
to be men one of these days, too. Begin right, 
boys, aud you’ll come out right, if you only 
keep ou. You would all like to be first rate 
men. I don’t mean famous and widely-known, 
for men are sometimes famous aud yet not good, 
but honorable, healthy, capable, brave, gentle 
and true. That's the kind you want to be, and 
then it’s no great matter whether you’re famous 
or not. Don’t make a great bluster and be rough 
aud hard, thinking to be manly. Kick up your 
heels and have lots of fun out-of-doom, when 
your work is over, aud It’s the right time for 
sport; but be a little quiet in the house, gentle 
with your little sisters, aud uot tiring mother 
with a great noise. Do your work mil and in 
lime, and learn how to do things just right — 
little things as well as great one*—and that will 
make your work easier ami better ail your life. 
Don’t chew tobacco or smoke, because some¬ 
body you like doe*. If any one else, who may be 
good in many respects, gets a bad habit, that’s 
no reason why you should. Of course, you 
won’t drink liquor or swear. Pitiful business 
for men, and worse for boys. Just have a 
good time, by being good aud pure, and you’ll 
find it the best way. 
T know all about being a boy, just how it feels, 
for I’ve not got over being one yet, although I 
can find gray hairs. But this must stop, for the 
column is full and the great press will soon be 
rattling off the Rural, and the folding machine 
catching the open sheets in its iron dngers aud 
doubling them all nice'for wrapping, and the 
boys (we have several capital boy* working 
here) will be putting them in wrappers, and the 
clerks marking them, aud the men putting them 
up in great canvas bags, to go, iu wagou loads, 
to the post-office, aud the cars and steamboats 
aud stages will carry them in the mail bags, to 
your post-offices, and you’ll be catchiug the 
horses —black, white, roan, aud so ou—iu the 
pastures, to have a bare-back ride, or a buggy- 
ride, after your father’s mail, and then such a 
time , when you bring home the letters and 
other matter, and the Rural. 
A BEAUTIFUL PLEASURE CRAFT. 
In the yard attached to the Rensselaer Iron 
Works, is to be seen a beautiful model of a pro¬ 
peller, of the mosquito class, which has beeu 
constructed and is now being fitted up under 
the personal supervision of Mr. John A. Gris¬ 
wold, Jr. Tbo craft is about twenty feet in 
length, aud six feet beam. An engine, of three- 
horse power, from Starbucks establishment, is 
uow being adjusted In her. The craft is to be 
called the ‘‘Monitor"—an appropriate name, 
certainly — and it is to be used by its owner as a 
pleasure boat — Troy Whig. 
The young gentleman to whom the above allu¬ 
sion is made, furnishes a model example to 
youth. Blessed with the advantages of wealth 
and leisure, and those opportunities which no 
many pervert to their ruin, he employs his time 
aud talents with an assiduity that is very re¬ 
markable, for self-cultivation and development. 
Though still in his teens, there are probably few 
persons In this section better versed in the laws 
1 of mechanics. He understands thoroughly every 
branch of the immense iron works under the 
management of his father, and has originated, 
; we understand, several marked improvements 
1 in machinery. The pleasure craft alluded to 
- was built upon plans all of which were made by 
’ himself, and much of it is the work of his owu 
hands. 
AN INTELLIGENT HEN. 
This Washington (Ga.) Gazette has the follow¬ 
ing: Danbubg, March 28, 1867. 
Mr. Editor:— I warrant that I have the 
most intelligent and peculiar fowl. She is quite 
a large sized hen, between the common fowl and 
the Shanghai. My little daughter can take the 
hen upon her knees aud pat her on the back, and 
say, "Sing, Betsy," aud she will sing as re¬ 
quested. She will then say, “ Sing loud, Betsy," 
and she will sing at the top of her voice, which 
is very loud. She will say, “Sing soft, Betsy,” 
and she will change from the loud tone to a very 
soft one. And to cap the climax in the way of 
obeying and pleasing the children, my little 
niece put Betsy in a chair the other day, and 
began to pat her on the back, saying at the same 
time, “Lay me an egg, Betsy," Betsy sung a 
very short, soft song, and then stood up in the 
chair, and to the great delight of the children 
there lay iu the chair an egg. She will follow 
my wife all over the house aud yard aud garden, 
just like a pet dog, and will sing or not, a* she 
is directed to do. Jas. W. Barksdale. 
The Bright Side.— At the close of a dull, 
rainy day a little girl pointed to the west and 
cried, “Look! O look, papa! the sun’s bright¬ 
ening all it can." “ So it ia,” replied her father, 
“and you can be like the. sun if you please, 
looking happy, smiling, and never letting the 
tearfal rain com© into those blue eye*." The next 
day the music, of the child’s voice rang through 
the house from sunrise till dark, and she seemed 
as happy as she could be. “ What makes you 
so happy ? ” asked her father. “ Why, don’t you 
see I’m the sun, papa! I’m brightening all I 
can!" 
If you crack jokes at other people’s expeuse, 
you may get your head cracked at your own. 
A young man, with a pair of fast horses, soon 
gallops through a fortune. 
