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2 is due to the liberality of an old lady who bequeathed a large amount to be used in this expenditure. The pigeons were not disturbed except by a woolly dog that ran through the flock and, for a moment, made a flut ter. Somebody ought to provide for him and his manners. This was quite enough for one morning. Lunch over, and an hour’s rest, we sallied out again, this time without a guide. It was not long before wo found that wo were not as smart in the topography of Venice as we had expected. In tho midst of the bewilderment, a cap with a broad band of gold lace, suddenly started off from a young man’s head, leaving a most beaming smile a foot below. We had seen the young man the af ternoon before at the Depot, and his politeness and pretty fair English bad done us good service. In a few moments, he had us at our destina tion, the famous Rialto, the principal bridge of the city. If the bridge was npt as fine as we expected, the view ofjthe great canal and the buildings toWering from its aides, was exceed ingly striking. This ‘ Grand Canal,' which is the main thoroughfare of Venice varies from 100 to 180 feet, and is intersected by 14G smaller ca nals, all of which present a scene more or lesß busy and characteristic of this city alone. By means of the gondolas, you mpve frqra tp, Jpoint'For business or pleasure. But do not conclude that these 72 Islands •on which the “ Queen of the Adriat ic” is erfthroned, have no streets.— Very small streets, however, many ■of them are—a few feet wide—most of them narrow alleys. I saw no carriages—no horses—not even a donkey. At night, we saw the piazza by iamp light. The great Bquare was very brilliant and gayer than by day. Every body seemed to foe out enjoy ing the scene j some few were in masks ; but all were orderly and po Hite. So far as I could observe, street behavior here as in the other Euro pean eities I have visited, is very ad irfiirable. At no time, have I witness ed any thing offensive or annoying. Tho pest of the beggars in Italy is your only worry in public. Thus passed the day and a part of the evening. How novel the rienee wur, how totally unlike our modes of life, you can easily imagine. One who has been accustomed to American cities, and who as be walks the streets by night, is every where reminded of homes that m their quis ■etude shelter the affections of the bu man heart, while they protect the religious sentiments, has other feel ings here when he sees the eager de light in out-of-door life and its unsat isfying exeitoments. This Italy of the 19th century is doubtless under-, going a change- Palpable enough THE QEORGIA COLLEGIAN. / are the signs of awakening life, nor can any careful observer fail to be struck by the evidences of energy, skill and intellect which in harmony with the spirit of the age, are evinc ing their presence over this beautiful land. Yet, if this people had our homes, and felt their power as we feel it, what anew soul it would breathe into their civilization ! Such were the thoughts that arose in my mind when I sat down to night to write you. I have written in weariness and pain, but with a plea sure in communing with you that is a full compensation. Very truly yours, And’w A. Lipscomb. Philosophy of Marriage; the True Theory, Dear Collegian : After ruminating on the subject for some months past, I have come to the conclusion that any man is a he ro that can marry. 1 have only con sidered the subject abstractly, but it has troubled me vastly. So ireflec ted that if I should write to you, I would get it off my mind. I have only one request to make, viz: con sidering the long standing of our friendship, and the great importance I attach to your counsels, I beg that if you detect any errors in these ob servations, you will just mark them, sp t-foat 1 may stxi them when th#fva per comqs out. The whole subject, I apprehend, is compacted into the fol lowing proposition : In the primary cause of the original unity of man and woman, is contained the secon darv cause of their symbolical unity on earth, with the germ of their in evitable happiness or misery. It has long since been demonstrated that men and women are complements of each other; in other words, glorious segments of circling souls. We have all had an existence antedating this life. This is proved from the fact that Solomon says, “ there is nothing new under the sun ;” therefore all souls existed from eternity. I con clude then that men and women lived somewhere before this life; and be cause I have already said they are the complements of each other, they existed in the very closest unity. As this existence was only one of spirit, we can easily conceive of perfect unity. Another incontrovertible proof of this spiritual dualism, is the fact that the Brahmins made some of their idols double faced. Marriage, being a simplo thing, cannot be defined. I can only cir cumnavigate around it. Marriage then, in this life, is a prophetic thing, looking both backward and forward. In Geology it belongs to the Lepido dendra. Marriage is anion, some times strong, sometimes weak. To explain ; if men and women marry as Providence intended—that is, as they were united before this life, then the union will he very strong and everlasting; otherwise it will belike the constitution of the Germanic Confederation, easily broken when ever either party desire it, which, it is needless to observe, will transpire very often. What shall I say of their inevita ble happiness or misery? If they find their counterparts or comple ments, they will inevitably be happy ; otherwise miserable. By comple ments, we must not understand that one should be ordinary, the other ex traordinary. The mind of tho one. as a whole, must be equal to that of the other; though there must be dif ference in degree of the different ele ments. For a brilliant woman to marry a dull blockhead, will never do in any case; because it would be a violation of the first rule of com pound addition. A great imaginary difficulty presents itself at this point, viz: how are men always to find their counterparts ? It may be that I am here and my ex partner in Eu rope, or probably in China. But Providence never created an end to be reached, without creating the means of reaching it. The great trouble is, that they may come to false conclusion. As Des Cartes says, the judgment may overstep tho un derstanding, whence comes all error. in IHmot of eurtj ri.wi -j riages. The advantages are both theoretical and practical. Theoreti cal : after tho mental economy is suf ficiently organized to perceive with clearness, conclude with precision, and act with promptness, the sooner you marry the better, because tbo past is more vivid, the future is clear er, and the mind acts from a prear ranged inspiration, or if you like the expression better, from unerring in tuition. It has been said by one of humanity’s greatest heroes, a hen pecked husband, that nine-tenths of the happiness of married life comes from those cases where marriage is the result of first impressions. His was a family affair; and these con ventional arrangements are always unfortunate. There are also practi cal advantages. Men ought to mar ry at eighteen. How many an aim less life, how many a reckless life, how many a sinful life, how many a life of crime and misery, would give place to lives of purpose, thoughtful ness, parity, virtue and happiness, if men would only marry at eighteen ! If a man waits till ho is twenty-five or thirty, the probabilities are that he will wait forever, and in nine cases out of ton. he will be as utterly worthless as the fossils of a soap bub ble. If it were not entirely too per sonal, 1 would advise all young men both in England and America, by all means to marry at eighteen. To go on or to stop, that’s the question. But it’s growing la'te. I speak to eternity, of which I grow a portion. It is time to stop; but whether it is better to go on, or to stop, let the gods decide. Very truly yours, In Crescent Friendship. Jlachdnacu. ftSflJjiS. Trifles are not what they Seem. Is this vast world of matter anil thought, of cause and effect, of blind force and moral relations, one indivi sible and complete whole? or is it composed of elements of small things uniting to produce great ones, hold ing to each other inherent primor dial relations ? If it be a complete whole, existing and operating merely as a machine, kept in motion by an occult wheel work, then man is the subject of an evorlasting fate—deprived of the power of choice. But if tho latter hypothesis bo true, that it is compos ed of parts, which hold to each other certain relations, then we have arriv ed at the principle of causation, and we find that nothing was created but with a specific design ; and that there is no spring, however hidden, that does not subserve some important purpose towards tho harmonious working of tho whole machinery. To soar So high as to take in the entire field of being at a single view, and to perceive the fitness, and enjoy the full ness of the harmony between cause and effect in nature is given neither to man nor angels. The feebleness an i limitation of our faculties repress longings for such knowledge as pre sumptious, and forbid such flights as impracticable. Could man, however, perceive the true relation between cause and effect, he would see that there are many things operating upon his character and destiny, which, by the generality of men, art; hardly deemed worthy of a passing thought, still less of having ascribed to them, the mighty consequences which they involve. We are accustomed, both from ture and from habit, to look with the eye of delight and respect, upon those objects and events which daz zle with their glare and splendor. — Nothing presents to the world’s eye anything of attractiveness, only as it is viewed, through a bright medi um. Hence tho less glaring, but in trinsically more beautiful objects are unnoticed, save by tho few who are sufficiently refined to perceive and appreciate the soft halo which such objects throw around them. This indifference is owing not so much to the character of the object nr event, as to the structure and cul ture ol tho mind of the observer.— Thus hew widely different are the