T H E -WI O8 O N 8 I N - P &R-W;E R.



  Hitherto the Regents of the University have
assumed to say that inhabitanta meant ask in-
habitants, and accordingly the doors have been
closed against any and a*l young ladies. Re-
cently the impolicy and injustice of this exclu-
sion has been more firly considered, and as
the result, an ordinance has been passed for
the establishment of a Normal Department, to
which gentlemen and ladies are received on
precisely equal terms. This, in effect, opens
the doors of the University to all who may
wish to avail themselves of Its facilities with-
out regard to sex; and we are informed that a
number of young ladies are already making
arrangements to take a complete University
course.
  The world mves a  let all the people rejoice!
  The Normal Department has already com-
menced its spring seesion, under the immediate
charge of Prof. Chas. A. Allen, late Agent of
the Normal School Board, and promises finely.


  BOYS AND GItLS.-Speaking of the plan of
separating the sexes in school, Mr. Stowe, -the
celebrated Glasgow teacher, says:
  -The separation has been found injurious.
It is impossible to raise the girls as high, intel-
lectually, without the boys as with them-and
it is impossible to raise boys, morally, as high
without the girls. The girls morally elevate
the boys, and the boys intellectually elevate
the girls.
  "But more than this-girls themselves are
morally elevated by the presence of boys, and
boys are intellectually elevated by the presence
of girls. Boys brought up with girls are made
more positively intellectual by the softening
influence of the female character."

  Tars; CULTuax.-Alas! how many examples
are now present to memory of young men the
most anxiously and expensively be-school-
mastered, be-tutored,be-lectured, anything but
educated; who have received arms and ammu-
nition, instead of skill, strength, and courage;
varnished, rather than polished; perilously
over-civilised, and most pitiably uncultivated!
and all from inattention to the method dictated
by Nature herself-to the simple truth that as
the forms in all organised existee, so must
all true and living knowledge prooeed frm
within; that it may be trained, supported, fed,
excited, but can never be infused or impressed.
-Coleridge.



THE UOME.



    To the Lady Ieadrer of the "Farmer."
  The saubjoined Preamble and Constitution
are these recently adopted by "The Ladies'
Union Leage of Madison," and which, in
pursuance of a generally expressed wish of
many of our ladies, and with the consentof
the Editor, I submit for your consideration.
My faith in your loyal devotion to the best in-
terests of our country leads me to believe that
it will be of more interest to you than any of
the several articles in which I had proposed to
greet you this month. The entirely non-parti-
zan character of this League asks for it the
endorsement and so-working of every patriotic
woman without reference to the "party" of
husband, brother or son. Let us, of Madison,
be encouraged by hearing of similar associa-
tions in all of the rural portions of our noble
State.                        Mas. HOYT.
  MADISON. March 23, 183O.
                PREAMSLS.
  In the history of every nation crises are lia-
ble to arise wherein the patriotic services and
sacrifices of the whole people, without regard
to condition or circumstance, are essential to
the perpetuity of the Government-wherein
ability should be recognized as the sole meas-
ure of duty.
  It is our conviction that the American Re-
public is to-day passing through such a crisis,
and that upon the success of the Government
in putting down the rebellion, which so disturbs
the peace and threatens the liberties of the
country, depends not only the future existence
of the Republic under which we live, but like-
wise the progress of liberal ideas and the
growth of free institutions in all the nations of
the world.
  In this condition of our national affairs the
women of America, not less than the heroic
men who are fighting our battles, are most im-
peratively called upon for all such services and
sacrifices as are consistent with their position
and relations as women, and as may in any
degree subserve the cause of our beloved coun-
try.
  In addition to, and in no wise interfering
with the "Aid Societies" already widely es-
tablished, and doing much toward alleviating
the physical hardships and sufferings incident
to a state of war, there appear three ways in
which earnest and judicious efforts may pro-
mote this desired end:



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