The Age Of Impressions

Observe, how verj quick the cliiid's oye is, in the passive ago of infariny, to catch impn ssions, and receive the muaniog of looks, voices, and motions It peruses all faces, colors, acd sounds. - Every sentiment that looks hito the eyes, looks back out of its eyea, and plays in miniatura on iis counteuance. " The tear that steais down the cheek of a mother's suppressed "grief gathers the littlo intmitile t'ace into a responsive sob. With a kiud of wondering süeuce, it studies the molher in her pniyer; and looks up piously with her in thatesploring watch thütsignilies imspoken pniyer. If the child is handlod fretfully, scolded, jerked, or simply laid aside, uot affectionately, in no warnith of motherly gentlenese, it feels the sting of jut that which is feit towards it; and so it is nngered by anger, irritated by irritation, fretted by fretfulneBB; having thus impressed upon it just thut kind of impatience or U-nature whioh is feit towards it, aüd growing faithfiilly into the bad mould, a by a fixed luw. There in great irnportance in manner, even in hand'jug infanoy. If it is uncb'"ÍBtiun, it will beiet unchristian states or impiegHions If i' is geutle, even, patiënt, nnd loving, it prepares a mood and temper like its own. There is HCiircely room to doubt that all most orabbed, hateful, resentlul, parsionate, ill-natiired oharactera - alinoni all even, lovely, firin, and true ones, are prepared in a great degree by the handlingcf tbe nuisery, " To these, ud all guch modes of Ireatment and feeliug as niake up the element of the infant's life, it is passive ng wax to seal. How important, then, tha first ohapter in a child's 1 fe - the ago (if impi'OBsions." - Mr. Sewett. Three thousand ooufederate prisoners were in Jibby Prison on the fourteenth, but were being releused as f st as tht) ucoeBsary papers coukl be made out. Tho Rich mond papers had mnch to say of the lion that was lying in wait for Sherman. It was tho Richmond press, however, and not the lion, that wa lying, I