EARLY SPRING IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
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to her army. This Russian war is popular. 
What is the influence of men of principle ? or 
how numerous are they ? How many moral 
teachers has society ? Of course so many as 
she has will resist her. How many resist her ? 
How many have I heard speak with warning 
voice ? The preacher’s standard of morality 
is no higher than that of his audience. He 
studies to conciliate his hearers, and never to 
offend them. Does the threatened war between 
France and England evince any more enlight¬ 
enment than a war between two savage tribes, 
the Iroquois and Hurons? Is it founded in 
better reason ? 
February 26, 1855. Directly off Clam-shell 
Hill, within four rods of it, where the water is 
three or four feet deep, I see where the mus¬ 
quash dived and brought up clams before the 
last freezing. Their open shells are strewn 
along close to the edge of the ice, and close to¬ 
gether for about three rods in one place, and 
the bottom under the edge of the older ice, as 
seen through the new black ice, is perfectly 
white with those which sank. They may have 
been blown in or the ice may have melted. The 
nacre of these freshly-opened shells is very fair, 
azure, or else a delicate salmon pink (?), or ro¬ 
saceous, or violet. I find one not opened, but 
frozen, and several have one valve quite broken 
