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52 ZION'S STANDARD AND WEEKLY REVIEW. The Home Circle. (From the Ledger.) Bruna. (BY MARY C. VAUGHAN.) For weeks, there had been great hurrying and skurrying at home while I was prepared for school. This was occassioned, in great part, by the sad fact that my invalid mother was unable to superintend these preparations, and very few girls of fifteen are capable of the systematic effort which brings order out of confusion, and secures rapid accomplishment. But I was ready at last; and late on the day preceding that fixed for the formal opening of Bruna Institute, I, with my belongings, was duly deposited at the open door of the young ladies' boarding-house. I had before had a year in a small family boarding-school, whose proprietors I was to find transferred to the larger arena of Bruna. But a school organized on so large a plan as this was quite new to me. I confess I looked with some dread on the development of the experiment. A large collection of girls, perhaps for the first time in their lives set free from the restraints of home, are, as Mrs. C. used wearily to say, pretty "hard customers." I do not know that boarding-schools are greatly altered in some of their aspects in these days. I believe they have the same faults and disadvantages. In schools where both the sexes are taught, the disadvantages have disappeared in proportion as mystery and foolish restriction have vanished. Men and women were created to live in the same world, and to complement each other. All attempts at education are fragmentary when the sexes are taught separately. The mutual attraction of the sexes is as natural and right as any other attraction, and seldom, among the very young, leads to evil unless the extraordinary wisdom of the authorities, by hints and restraints, introduces an idea of the possibility of wrong. The girls who boarded outside the Institution associated, with comparative freedom, with their fellow-students of the male department. Those who lived in the Institution were always under the eye of teachers or, so likely to be, as to endeavor to avoid detection in that most horrid crime in the teacher's catalogue—conversation or flirting with the Adonites of fifteen or eighteen, who sometimes ventured more desperate measures than languishing glances or (too often) illspelt notes. Do our best there were always wild spirits among us, and the spies of danger in those furtive meetings gave a wonderful charm to them. Smothered shrieks of laughter were wont to subside in preternatural silence when the teacher's foot crossed the hall, and I have often witnessed. One girl, the daughter of an eminent physician and naturalist, determined in quite another manner to put an end to this nightly espionage. She furtively removed from one of her father's cabinets a large, stuffed, white owl, with great glaring eyes, which she placed in the dim moon-lit room so as abruptly to confront the teacher as she entered. As expected, this ghostly apparition frightened the poor young lady very much, as a succession of shrieks testified, while she retreated, followed by smothered laughter from the room. But the proper calculation of the influence of Miss V.'s terror had not been made. She declined entering the room again, but the Lady Principal came next night and carried away the luckless "Bird of Minerva." which by some magic next made its appearance, evidently quite at home, and with no further errant intentions agitating its quiet breast, in its former abode, the doctor's cabinet. A score of like stories, in which figured successive relays of pupils, are strung like beads more or less sparkling, upon the chaplet of Bruna. But all was not fun and frolic in Bruna. Pupils there were sternly studious, and deaf to all temptations. Bright and shining lights were these, cherished inmates of the Institution, favorites with teachers, scarcely amenable to the discipline they never needed, but rapidly acquiring knowledge, either from an intense love of it for itself, or for purposes connected with their future lives. Many of these had been early initiated into a knowledge of the value of money, and the necessity of it. With definite hopes and objects for the future, they had arranged to obtain the greatest amount of knowledge and instruction with the smallest outlay. To dress and live poorly, while laying up the mental treasures which were to form capital to answer the drafts the future would make. Most of these, it is true, were among the male pupils, but there were noble girls who dared to believe that by brain and hand they should yet ean the guerdons of life's exertions. Names there are to-day standing amidst the noted ones of our country-standing high on the lists of the fame she offers to all worthy endeavor-that once stood unknown upon the rolls of Bruna. Names of those who unshrinkingly faced the hidden future, and dared, then, with a seer's vision, to fortell the achievements and rewards they now enjoy. More than one name that rang round the world during the fearful civil war our country has suffered from, was borne them by a bright, surly-haired youth at Bruna; and more than one woman, whom study and life-discipline had prepared for the task, has waded through, the gore of dreadful battle fields, or this making courts Bruna is all that remains to us of the brightest season of our life-its most unsullied passage. (From Once a Week) Vogel Von Falckenstein It may be remebered that VOGEL VON FALCHENSTEIN was at the head of that division of the Prussian army which acted on the Main against the Bavarians and Confederate troops during the late war, and was thus called the Maine Armee. The following story, given from his own words will help to show what might also be proved from many other instances, viz.: that the successes of the Prussians were owning less to any special preparations on their part, than to a through devotion to their calling in the officers, and an untiring industry in fitting themselves for its practical work. He says: I passed the whole of my early life in the belief that I was destined for a priest. The idea took my fancy excessively, and it never occurred to me for a moment that the same future day I should cause my poor mother a great deal of grief and anxiety by breaking free from this plan of my own accord. Our family is a very old one, but at the beginning of the present century was sadly reduced in circumstances. My father had been Major in the Prussian army, and as such, assisted at the siege of Cosel, soon after which he died, leaving my mother almost penniless. She therefore looked upon it as a marvelous piece of food fortune when my uncle, the Archbishop of Breslau, offered to provide for me on condition that I should enter the Church. In Germany, Roman Catholic noblemen so seldom take holy orders that with my own old name, and my uncle's protection, I had every prospect of a brilliant career, and my mother cannot be blamed for having allowed this thought soc completely to possess her mind, that she afterward used every endeavor to persuade, and even compel, me to persevere in it. But surely seldom had a son weightier grounds for disobedience to his mother. A feverish thrill was running through the land. Men said that Germany was to be German once more; that our King had flung the gauntlet to the foreign conqueror; in one day all my former plans vanished; my relations entreated, besought, threatened; all was in vain. The Prussian and the Falckenstein awoke within me, and in opposition to my weep [[obscured]] (Reconstruction) On the registration on list in Richmond and Petersburg, the blacks recently ran far ahead of the whites. Two white men in Richmond were arrested for registering although they were disfranchised. The Ohio Radical State Convention assembled recently at Columbus. R.B. Hayes was nominated for Governor, and Samuel Galloway for Lieutenant Governor. A platform was adopted indorsing Congress and the military administration of Gen. Sheridan, and favoring negro suffrage. Agencies. Local Agents. BOSTON, MASS. Rev. Geo. H. Washington MANTUCKET MASS. David Smith. NEW BEDFORD, MASS. Rev. Lucas Saylor, David Smith. WORCESTRE, MASS. Charles M. King. CRANSTON, R.I. reve. Wm. B. 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Preaching on Sundays, 3 1-2 and 7 1-2 p. m. --- ABYSSINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH, 166 Waverly Place, near 9th avenue. Rev. WILLIAM SPELMAN, PASTOR. Residence--70 Grove st. Hours of Worship: 10 1/2 a.m. 3 and 7 1/2 p.m. Lecture every Tuesday evening. Prayer-meeting every Friday evening. --- ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH (Protestant Epis.) Wesley Place, between Bleecker and Houston sts. Pastor, Rev, SMAL. D. DENISON, 19 Bible House, Hours of Worship: 10 1/2 a.m. 3 1/2 p.m. Sunday School, 9 a.m. 2 p.m. Sexton--JOSEPH C. MATMEW, No. 2 Dover at. Applications for interment and purchase of burial plots; St. P.O. Burial ground, Cypress Hills, to be made at 55 West Broadway. --- AFRICAN UNION CHURCH No. 126 West 30th st., bet. 6th and 7th aves. Rev. P. HOPKINS, PASTOR. Residence, 106 West 33d st. Hours of Worship: 11 a.m. 2 1/2 and 7 1/2 p.m. Monday evenings, Class at 7 1/2 o'clock. Wednesday evenings--Preaching at 7 1/2 p.m. Friday evenings--Prayer-meeting 7 1/2. --- THE AMERICAN UNION CHURCH, 16th street, between 6th and 7th avenues. Rev. WM HUTCHINS, Pastor. Residence, 155 West 16th St. Hours of Worship: 11 a.m 5 and 7 1/2 p.m. Preaching on Wednesday evenings. --- TROY, N.Y. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH, Seventh street, between Broadway and State st. Rev. JACOB THOMAS, PASTOR. Services 10 1/2 a.m., 2 1/2 and 7 1/2 p.m. Sabbath School, 4 p.m. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday evenings. Pastors Residence, Seventh st, bet. Broadway and State st. --- A. M. E. ZION CHURCH, Washington street, Newburgh, N.Y., Rev. JOSEPH P. THOMPSON, PASTOR Prayer Meetings, Sunday mornings at 10 1-2 Preaching in the afternoons, 2 1-2 evenings, 7-12 Prayer meetings, every Tuesday night. Preaching, every Thursday night. Pastor's residence, 138 Washington st. --- TARRYTOWN A. M. E. ZION CHURCH, Washington st. bet. Lexington ave. and Wildy at Rev. 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