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BENJAMIN G. LIDPON
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
MADISON, GA.:
SATURDAY, SEPT. 13, 1856.
Our Weekly Gossip,
With Readers axd Correspondents.
Refining tho English Language.
A story is told of a certain traveling
correspondent of a New York paper, who
exhausted the English language in describ
ing Passaic Falls aud other places of small
notoriety, and when he at length reached
Niagara, like the swearer who lest his
ashes, he “couldn’t do justice to the sub
ject.” It was the remark of an English
traveler that “dealing in superlatives is a
too common fault of the American peo
ple.” Every pretty girl that crosses the
path of Young America is the “loveliest
creature in the world,” “a perfect angel,”
“a paragon of perfection;” or if she hap
pen to have a plain face, she is “a perfect
fright,” or “the ngl'est creature the sun
■ever shone on." The last shower was
■“the hardest rain that ever fell;” yester
day “ the hottest day ever seen;” a had
cold, in every instance, “ the very worst
that ever afflicted a mortal.”
Not content, however, with maltreating
the language in this way, there have of
late years been introduced certain im
provements, which are at least striking*:
“ Who, in these days, ever reads of
boarding-schools. They’ ire transformed
iuto academics /or boys aud seminaries or
colleges for girls; the higher classes are
“establishments.” A conch maker’s shop
is a repository for carriages; a milliner's
simp, a depot: a thread seller’s, an empo
rium. One buys drugs at a medical hall,
wines of a company, and shoes nt a mart.
Blacking is dispensed from an institution;
and meat from a purveyor. Ono would
imagine that the word shop lmd become
not only contemptible, hut lmd been dis
covered cot to belong to the English lan
guage. Now-a-dnys, nil the shops are
warehouses or “places of business,” and
you will hardly find a tradesman having
the honest hardihood to call himself a
shopkeeper. There is now, also, no such
word as that of tailor—that is to say,
among speakers polite. Clothier has been
discovered to he more elegant, although
the term tailor is every hit as respectable.
Instead of reading that, after a hall the
company did not go away till daylight, wo
aro told that the joyful groups Continued
■tripping on the light fantastic too till Sol
gave them warning to depart. If one of
the company happened to tumble into a
ditch, we should be informed that his foot
■slipped and ho was imirersed in the liquid
•element. A good breakfast is described
•as making “the tables groan with every
•delicacy of the season.” A crowd of
'briefless, lazy lawyers, unbeneficed clergy
men, nnd half-pay officers, are enumerated
•a “host of fashion,” at a watering place,
where we are informed that ladies, instead
■of taking a dip before breakfast, plunge
themselves iuto the bosom of Neptune.
A sheep killed by lightning is a thing un
heard—the animal may ho destroyed by
the electric fluid; hut even then we should
not he told that it was dead; wo should
he informed that the vital spark had Hod
forever.
“All little girls, he their faces ever so
plain, pitied or pitiable, if they appear at
n public office to complain of robbery or
ill treatment, aro invariably “intelligent
and interesting.” If they have proceeded
very far in crime, they are called mifot lu
nate females. Child-murder is elegantly
termed infanticide, n-d when it is pun
ished capitally, we hear not that tho
wicked mother was hanged, hut the unfor
tunate culprit underwent the last sentence
of the law, and was launched into eternity.
No person rends in a newspaper that a
house lias been burned down; he perhaps
will find that tho house fell a sacrifice to
the flames; in an account of a iminth, not
that the ship went ufl' the slips without an
.accident, but that she g ided securely and
majestically into her native element; the
said “ native element” being one in which
.the said ship never was before. To send
tfor a surgeon, if one’s leg is broken, is out
of the question ; a man indeed may he de
spatched tor medical aid. There are now
tie public singers at tavern dinners; and
actors are all professors of the histrionic
art. Widows are scarce, they are all “ in
teresting relicts;” and as for nurserymaids
they aro now a-days universally trans
formed into ‘‘young persons, who super
intend the junior branches of the family.’’
A Scotchman’s Idea of Southern Hospitality.
Several years ago there was published
in England, a work entitled the Travel*
•of a Scottish Craftsman, in the United
State* and Canadas. We find the follow
ing extract from it in one of our exchanges:
-“ I will uow describe a planter’s house
in the of Georgia, about eight miles
from Augusta, wlw owned a manufactur
ing establishment., to whom 1 went in
search of employment, It was a handsome
hut not a large frame Ixouse, with e.ery
fthing in good taste ahm.it it. I went up
*to tiie front door, and asked if Judge Schley
was at home: a lady answered, ‘No; that
(he tras oil his circuit (lie was a district
Judge,) and that it would bo some days
before .he returned,' She showed mo into
an elegantly-furnished room; 1 then told
the lady, who wts the judge’s wife, ray
name, and that I was a wool-carder and
spinner, naming employment. A lady, in
in i Him
her circumstances, in this country, would
very quickly have changed her manners on
such a piece of information; but such was
not the case here. I was treated with the
greatest consideration aud unobtrusive po
liteness, and desired to make myse’f at
home, and remain with them till the Judge
returned, which he did in a few days. His
reception, after a fortnight’s absence, is
worthy of notice. The old lady caugljt
hold of him first, and kissed him; the
daughters, handsome grown-up ladies,
put their anus around his.neck and bugged
him, the younger ones scrambling to get
at him; and, what struck me as the most
remarkable, two of the liouse-servants, ne
groes black as Erebus, nmdo a hold push
at the old gentleman, holding out their
hands, which he shook heartily, with kind
words of inquiry after their health. I
was pleased, too, with my reception, and
could not help drawing a comparison be
tween his manner to me, and the hauteur
and indifference I have experienced when
Asking for employment from gentlemen in
similar circumstances in this country. Tn
speaking, he treated me with perfect equal
ity', called me ‘Mr. Thomson,’ said ‘Yes,
sir,’ or ‘No, sir,’ just ns I would do, in
speaking to gentlemen I held in high esti
mation. I sat at tho same table. The
young ladies played on the piano, and
sung Scotch songs. Tho old gentleman,
too, sung ‘Scots wha hue’ with great spir
it, aud all this, not to please, nml make
comfortable, a gentleman who could repay
them in kind, hut to a stranger seeking
employment.”
Most persons will at once recognise
Judge Schley, of Richmond Factory, ns
the hero of this incident. The account of
his reception by the negroes will be looked
upon, by our Black Republican brethren
of the North, as a fiction, arid yet ail resi
dents of Southern States know how com
mon such tilings are. Wo trust our north
ern friends will yet learn, befo’o it is too
late, that we arc not such savages as they
take us to be.
Is Dissolution inevitable ?
Most readers of the Visitor will recol
lect, without much effort, when Mr. Gid
dings of Ohio was expelled from the U. S.
House of Representatives for offering a
resolution to dissolve the Federal Union.
At that day, the mere mention of dissolu
tion was looked upon as treason, and lie
who dared to utter it, as “a most toad
spotted traitor.” But, alas! tho times
are changed, and we aro changed with
them. Tho halls of Congress would he
empty if every man who talked, and
boldly, too, of disunion were expelled,
while the prisons would ho full if a hun
dredth part of those who “hatch treason
out of doors” were called to account.
Is there no reason for tho great change
of public sentiment? It is no part of our
intention to enquire into all tho causes
which have led to this change of feeling at
the South. It is a long and sickening re
cital, nml Southern renders are familiar
with it. We of tho South have had a love
of this Union as unbounded, and yet have
a veneration for tho Constitution ns great
as our Northern brethren ; hut there nre
limits to human endurance, as little as
they seein to think it, mid wo tell them
that, much as we still love the Union, and
revere tho Constitution, wo aro not das
tards—“lily-livered boys,” whose cheeks
“aro counsellors to fear,” that wo should
allow Northern editors to talk of “ whip
ping tho South into subjection;” or such
men as Senator Wade of Ohio to proclaim
in tho Senate,
“I desire moderately and temperately
to draw a lino around tho Southern States
and proclaim to tho people of tho South,
, ‘ thus far shall slavery go, and not an inch
beyond”
Or tho cowardly Burlingame, of Massa
chusetts, to taunt us with such language
ns this:
“In regard to tho threat that the election
of Fremont would be mul ought to bo the
dissolution ot tho Union, the speaker
asked, was it intended not to submit to
tho will of the majority. It is not for
those who make the threats to say when
this Union shall die. * * Tho moment
they attempt to put their threat into exe
cution, if there is hemp enough in Old
Kentucky, they will have to hang for it
Or such stuff an this from Duval of New
York:
“I sincerely hope civil war may soon
burst upon the country. I want to seo
American slavery abolished in my day—
it is a legacy 1 have no wish to leave to
my children; then my most fervent prayer
is, that England, France and Spain may
sjieedily tale this slarery-accursed nation
under their especial consideration ; and
when the time arrives for tho streets of
tiie cities of this ‘land of tho free and
homo of the brave’ to run with blood to
the horses' bridles, if tho writer ot this he
living, there will he ono heart to rejoice
at tiie retributive justice of Heaven. This,
of course, will ho treason in the eyes of the
doughfaces of the land. Well, they are fa
miliar with l)r. Henry’s celebrated pre
scription—‘make tho most of it;’ ”
Or such treasonable twaddle as this from
rhilosopher Greeley:
“Better that confusion should ensue
better that discord should reign in tiie na
tional councils— better that Congress should
break tip in teild disorder — nay, letter
that the Capitol itself should blaze ly the
torch of the incendiary , or fall and bury
all its inmates within its crumbling ruins
—than that this perfidy and wrong, [the
passage of the Kansas Territorial hill]
should he finally accomplished.”
in all candor, do our Northern brethren
expect us to submit tamely to such insults
ns these? Do they suppose that wo “lack
gall to make oppression hitter?” Aud
they are not of rare occurrence. Every
Black Republican paper at the North—
and tlieir name is legion—is full of just
such stuff. God forbid that this glorious
Union should ever he dissolved; hut mat
ters are fast approaching a crisis, from
which everything is to be feared.
And yet we hope to see the ohl ship of
State weather the storm. There are many
things to bind tiie two sections together,
if they did but know it. “Variety of in
terests,” says the Ilichmond Enquirer , “of
pursuits and of social organization, pro
duce adaptation and harmony, and pro
mote peace and good-will, as well lietwcen
nations as individuals. Similarity of occu
pations, of conditions nnd of productions
engenders rivalry, jealousy, conqietition,
and discord.
“ The Xorth and the South, engaged in
different pursuits, hating different wants,
and supplying different productions , afford
markets and customers instead of rivals
and competitors to each other. The one
cannot live comfortably without the other.
They used to live in peace nnd harmony,
and would do so again hut for the Aboli
tionists. But there are causes silently at
work, stronger than abolition, that may
yet restore good feeling between the sections.
Tiie merchants, the manufacturer, and the
ship-owners of the North see in the South
tlieir ficst customers. The laborers of the
North, now engaged chiefly in producing
manufactured articles that pay the labor
er two dollars per day, if cut off from tiie
Southern market, must work in the corn
field or cotton field nt $1 a day. The far
mers, too, of the South, will he glad to
preserve the Union, and retain the North
ern markets for their products, if they can
do so on fair and honorable terms.”
“The South,” adds tho Enquirer, “is
the best market for the horses, hogs, beef
and mules of the great North-west. Be
sides this, her only efficient water outlet
to the foreign world is by the Mississippi
which runs through many Southern States’
Let us hope that Northern and South
ern men will look at this matter calmly
and deliberately, and be careful how they
undo tho work of so many years. But we
tell our Northern friends, in all kindness,
that tho present crusade against the South
and her institutions, if persisted in, will
lead to consequences, too terrible to con
template, nnd the fault will not he ours.
Z£T Our merchants are now receiving
tlieir supplies of Fall and Winter Goods.
See advertisements of Swanson, Jett it Cos.
P. R. Thomason and A. Siiaw, in thjp is
sue.
A New .Southern Magazine.
We are pleased to learn, ns wo do from
the Charleston papers, that anew maga
zine is shortly to lie started in that city—
which will be the “representative organ
of opinion nt the South, in Polities, Lit
erature, Science, and Art.” Such an one
is needed, and will, we believe, he proper
ly supported.
It will be conducted “somewhat upon
plan of Blackwood—each number to
contain disquisitions upon leading ques
tions in Politics, without respect to party,
within such limits as the editors shall pre
scribe to themselves, together with Tales,
Poems, Essays, articles upon Science nnd
Art, and sketches of life, manners, social
characteristics, scenery and sports of the
South.”
The project is in able hands. Its editors
aro to be Messrs. W. I!. Carlisle and
Pali. 11. llavni:, Mr. Carlisle was for
several years one of tho leading editors of
the Charleston Courier, and has all the el
ements necessary to constitute a good edi
tor, in as eminent a degree as any man we
know. Mr. Haynk was editor of the
•Southern Literary Gc.zcttc, and is now
connected with the Spectator at Washing
ton. lie is one of the most promising of
all our young poets, and is besides a ready
ami finished writer. Their part of the
work will ho well done. Messrs. S. G.
Coi rtenay & Go. are tho publishers, nnd
wo are glad to notice their names in con
nection with this work. They are young
men of ability, industry and integrity, and
under tlieir superintendence it must suc
ceed. We shall notice tho enterprise more
at length when a full prospectus is issued.
Savaimnli Medical College.
We ask attention to the Annual An
nouncement of this institution, to bo found
in our advertising columns. It is to the
interest of Southern people to build up
their own schools—of all kinds—as tho
various educational institutions of the
north are strongly tinctured with Aboli
tionism, even where they have not gone
over to it, “ horse, foot, nml dragoons”—as
has been the case with many of them.
Georgians and Southerners can safely pa
tronise tho Savannali College, nml thereby
shew tlieir patriotism, without any sacri
fice. The faculty is an able one—its posi
tion good ami its resources ample.
Washington Items. — Washington,
Sept. 5. —The purport of the instruc
tion sent by the President to California
is a mere matter of conjecture, their
contents being carefully concealed at
the department of State. They, how
ever, relate more particularly to the
Army.
New instructions will soon bo issued
to the Governor aud commanding Gen
eral in Kansas.
Official advices have just been leceiv
ed from Mr. Dallas, which give repeated
assurances that a treaty relative to Cen
tral America is progressing xv ith everv
prospect of a satisfactory adjustment.
A New Medium.
We announced two weeks ago tliat Wm.
T. Porter, the original editor of the Spirit
of the Times , would soon issue anew paper
of his own. The first number is at hand,
and we cannot better serve him and the
readers of the Visitor, than by quo
ting, at some length, an editorial which
will give an idea of wliat the subscribers
of Porter's Spirit may expect. Such a
play upon words could only have been
gotten up by “York’s tall son.” It is
rather long, but we make no apology for
giving it almost entire, for it speaks in its
own favor:
“In this new medium for the sporting
and literary intelligence of the day, Porter
will be on hand,*or he will send a reporter,
with all the stirring news of the day.
Horses will be treated of, both in pedigree
and jierfortnance, and tiie regular files of
the “ Turf Register” kept open for inspec
tion. Matches will be made and settled,
hut not matrimonial or Lucifer, which are
sometimes synonymous. Cattle will have
tlieir place allotted, ajul ail information
for improving tiie breed, and procuring
valuable stock, will be furnished from
time to time. Sheep shall not be lost
sight of because they have the wool
pulled over tlieir eyes, but all varieties
shall ho noted, unless some gentlemen
down South object to the South Down-
Notices of pigs shall he promptly leaded,
ami sketched with the fidelity of a Hog
arth. Also, all their pens will he treated
of except Mr. Penn’s treaty—that is, with
due respect to Philadelphia, which the au
thor of ‘Parnassus in Pillory’ slanders in
this wise:
‘ The pen in penury in Penn’s great city.’
* * * * *
‘ There verse to inverse ratio brings reverses.’
“The races will be regularly recorded
except the Anglo-Saxon, the most inter
esting passage in which is expected when
Mr. Hull makes an entry. A regular me
tronome will he kept in the office to heat
any time. The dog, also, shall have his
day, although an African Dey preferred a
eat in Dick Whittington’s time —that is, a
Maitcso cat, such as were used by the
Knights of Malta, who were probably the
original lager beer drinkers.
“Porter will occasionally ho ‘speaking
of a gun,’ touching upon trap shooting,
and without introducing the entire play of
‘Macbeth,’ will state whether Duncan
heats the King, or the King heats Duncan.
The subject ot rifles will he rifled by a man
of calibre, ami no great boro admitted in
that department. An investigation will
ho made whether tho Minnie rifle came
from Minnesota, or whether the Stato is
so called because it is the meanest sort o’
country. Modern reports from Ancient
Pistol nre expected, to he edited in ninny
volumes, by John Travis. Loaded sticks
and prnirio shooting clubs will not he con
sidered legitimate topics. Fish will he
treated of on a large scale. The map of
Hell Gate and Sea-hcss-to-polc, from de
signs by Gcnio C. Scott, will ho published
as a specimen of fishing grounds, although
the grounds are some considerable depth
under water; hut it is expressly understood
that no fish story will he admitted in the
columns of this paper, unless vouchers can
bo found from tho man that saw it, or
some man tliat laid seen a man who said
ho saw a mau tliat actually did seo it—
‘not that man, hut another man,’ and the
whole affair sworn to with a cross t his
mark and two j seal | j seal jon the af
fidavit. Entomology will not be neglect
ed, as the cricket will he regularly noticed,
whether on the hearth or the heath. The
hats in such case will not ho classed under
tho ornithological head—and the marlins
pike will he neither noted as fish or fowl
—hut all the rest shall be admitted, bird
and beast, from a buffalo hull, or a grizzly,
down to a reed bird or a bobolink. Elk
and deer tales (narratives) will ho pub
lished. Tho horns of tho musk ox, moose
aud dilemma (Ethiopian for tho lama) will
ho taken as subscription. Item—also casli
and country produce. All stories of foxes
will be classed with fishes, as tho former
have been spiritually ‘run into the ground’
—ami as bar fights usually have a spiritual
origin, they shall have the same classifica
tion, unless it be a quarrel between two
steamboats’ crews aground on a sandbar in
the Ohio or Mississippi: then it shall be
classed with the turtles, under tho title of
loggerheads. Great paius will he taken in
the dramatic department, hut any pains
taken iu the attic room will he considered
rheumatic pains—all phases of the art will
receive attention. Tragedy, comedy, pas
toral, which Polonius mentions, except the
‘poem unlimited,’ this particular Spirit
not having unlimited space. Farce, pan
tomime, dancing, necromancers and wiz
ards shall he treated ‘ according to their
desert.’ Music shall receive its review
whether she comes in the solemn cloak of
tho oratorio, the stately robes of the ope
ra, or tho Nora Creina mantle of simple
song.
“The music will not lie printed, unless
very beautiful and popular, such as ‘ Pop
goes tho Weasel.’ If, however, friend
Brannau will play another tune upon his
harp of a thousand strings, it shall be in
troduced with variations. Literature shall
not be neglected; there shall he ‘a brief
abstract and chronicle of the time.’ The
works of the fancy, however, will come
under the head of prize articles. Rare nnd
racy stories from all parts of the land will
appear, trom the moose woods of Maine,
the turkey-filled hazel thickets of Ken
tucky, the grouse-haunted prairies of Illi
nois, the evergreen canebrakes of Louisia
na, oft' to the golden-sanded home of the
giant grizzly bear in California. All the
old troops of correspondents will be re
newed, and many new ones added, from
the Hebrides, the Andes, and the Antipo
des. Finally, the most careful attention
will he devoted to the farmer—and agri
culture, the basis of our national prosper
ity, shall receive the utmost care that can
be bestowed upon it, in the publication of
all that is new and valuable in that impor
tant department.
“ In short, all these tilings will be treat
ed at great length, and tiie Spirit will not
only furnish the same varied interest
which it formerly possessed, hut add new
varieties to the spices of its life, and prove
par excellence the veritable Spirit of the
Times.
“The first number, which is now just
out, contains, among other things, the
greatest hunting story ever written by
‘Cor de Chassc,’ and the first chapter of a
new Indian novel, by llexhy William
Herbert, Esq., entitled OMEMEE; OR,
THE WHITE PIGEON OF TIIE OBJlE
WAS—undoubtedly the greatest Indian
novel since the days of Cooper. Come
forth! come forth! come forth and buy!
Price six cents a number, or $3 a year.
Office corner of Broadway and Leonard
streets, Appleton’s Building.”
Pen-and-Scissorlngs.
We regret to learn that the dwelling of
the editor of the Georgia Citizen, at Ma
con, was destroyed by fire, last Wedncrday
morning.... A revival is going on in the
Baptist Church in Cassville, Ga., quite a
number having joined... .The Savannah
News lias been ‘pitched into’ by a spirit
rapper. We hope there is no damage
done.... Hon. Charles J. Jenkins lias writ
ten a letter, assigning his reasons for sup
porting Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency.
The rice crop, about Savannali, was
very slightly injured by the storm....
Wliat grows less tired the more it works?
A wagon wheel The Newiian Tanner
says tliat. counterfeit “fifties” of the Bank
of the State of Georgia are circulating in
Coweta and Heard counties, Georgia, and
Randolpli county, Alabama. They are
said to he well executed, nnd those who
handle large piles would do well to be on
tlieir guard.... A man named Thomas was
murdered in Chattahoochee county, on the
28th nit., by three men, named John Cole
man, Arnos Bentley, and Benjamin Bent
ley. The parties have all been arrested.
A gentleman by the mine of Bobo, a
negro trader from South Carolina, was
killed within the confines of Atlanta on
Sunday morning, by being run over by the
cars ....It is very strange tliat some peo
ple will endure rheumatic pains for days
and nights, while a few applications of
Perry Davis’ Pain Killer, which can be
procured at any store, will entirely relieve
them... .The Savannali papers state that
Habersham’s rice mills were destroyed by
fire early on Saturday morning. Over
twenty thousand bushels of rice were
either burnt up or damaged. In Ver
mont tho Slack Republicans have elected
tlieir entire ticket liy twenty thousand
majority—a gain over last year of seven
thousand votes The French papers say
that Rachel is fast recovering her health,
and expects to appear in public the ensu-
I ing winter President Pierce, it is said,
! is about to pay a short visit, to New Ilamp
! shire for the benefit of his health In
i the interior of Peru has been discovered a
| beautiful tunnel under a river, the work of
! the ohl Inca Indians, and a lasting proof
of tlieir civilization A French writer
says—“ The seasons in London are equally
divided; there are four months of winter,
four of fog, and tour of rain.”.... A salute
was fired in New Haven, Conn., on Satur
day night, in honor of the passage of the
army hill, without the proviso... .Lord
John Russell is at Vevay, Switzerland,
with his family. He will not return to
England until the spring New Orleans
continues free from any epidemic... .Col.
Hamilton Bonner, late of San Francisco,
and a native of Hancock comity, in this
State, died of apoplexy, at Callao, Peru,
on the 10th June last... .The Mount Ver
non Hotel, Cape May, is burnt. The pro
prietor’s family, xvith the exception of one
son, perished in the flames. 1.053 $150,-
000. There were no visitors at the Hotel
at tho time The Oxygenated Bitters
are worthy the attention of all who are
afflicted with Sick Headache and Debility,
or any other symptoms arising from a
weakened and deranged state of the diges
tive system... .Correspondents from all
of the watering places in the Union, com
plain of the scarcity of the beaux. The
girls, they say, are two to ono It is es
timated that fourteen thousand Africans
have been landed in Cuba within tiie last
eight months.... Josiah Johnson, Esq.,
senior editor of the Fayetteville North
Carolinian, died in Fayetteville, on the
28th nit., of bilious fever... .Martin Far
quhar Tupper has written a poem called
“the opium Trade,*’ so true to its purpose
that Punch, while reading three verses,
fell fast asleep... .The Holston Anuual
Conference of the M. E. Church, South,
will be held in Knoxville, on the 22d of
October, Bishop Andrew presiding....
The Charleston Board of Health report
one death from yellow fever on Wednes
day.... In Maine the Black Republicans
have swept everything, by large majorities.
J£3T We happen to know that Da,
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral aud Cathartic
Pills are good medicines and shall pro
claim it because we do know it. We
confidently believe there is a vastamount
of relief from suffering for our afflicted
fellow men wrapped up in these skilful
preparations, and we shall freely use our
little influence to make them known to
those who need them. —Philadelphia
Sunday Times.
For the Visitor.
«Do Women Reason ?”
Me. Editor —I was gratified, when look
ing over the last number of the Visitor, to
w itness the. genteel hasting bestowed on
Johxie Jonquil by Susie Snowdrop —a
lashing so richly merited, that it did not
awake one throb of sympathy for the
graceless fellow. Now', Mr. Editor, al
though I am a constant reader of your
pretty little paper, it so happened that I
did not get a sight of Jonxre’s unprovoked
attack upon the sex —the number contain
ing it having been mislaid; hut I under
stand from Susie’s opening sentence that
he advanced the idea that “Women cannot
reason.” The ungallant heathen Ihe will
bo attempting next to propagate the mon
strous doctrine that Women hate no souls-
Keep a sharp look-out for him, Mr. Edi
tor, or you will find him forswearing his
country, turning mussulman, or something
equally absurd and wicked. Now Mr.
Liddox is a married man; and to him, as
a close observer of human nature, and of
woman’s nature especially, I appeal in all
candor—Does he not do her rank injus
tice ? Can she not reason, and that elo
quently, logically, and convincingly ? And,
even admitting, for argument’s sake, that
she cannot—who cares to trudge along the
dull, plodding path of reason, when by a
single graceful hound one may by a kind
of intuition arrive at the same conclusion
that it takes a man weeks to reason him
self up to? Fie! fie! Johnie! why take
the trouble to proclaim so loudly your dis
appointment. Do ice not all know that
nothing save the receipt of a mitten from
the fair hand of one of those same creatures
who do not reason could ever have brought
you to so false a conclusion? Because,
forsooth, she could not he brought to rea
son herself into love and admiration of
your interesting(!!) self, you must needs
set her down as destitute of the faculty.
Ila! I guess you did not hear Bishop
Pierce’s noble and eloquent defence of
women during our last Commencement;
or if you did, you served to prove the
truth of the time-honored aphorism that
“ none are so deaf as those who can hear
and won't." After endowing her with
equal intellect with man, and superior
moral qualities, hear what he says:
“The human mind is expanded or con
tracted—corrupted or refined—waxes into
vigor, or wanes into feebleness—according
to the subjects of thought with which it
is most familiar. If woman is not capable
of deep analysis, of prolonged research, it
is rather from mental desuetude than ori
ginal incapacity, by the necessities of her
allotment, to think much of little things)
meeting all expectations of society with
out effort—perhaps disqualified by a de
fective education for high and sustained
mental action, it is not marvelous that so
few women are distinguished for acumen
and vigor of intellect.”
Who can wonder if, under the former
crushing, contracting system of education,
her edueatiou had been stunted, her rea
soning faculties almost destroyed. In her
intercourse with the other sex, too, what
opportunities h..s she for the exercise of
such faculties? Does he ever address her
but in a strain ot fulsome flattery or vapid
nonsense, alike insulting to her good sense
and good taste? Faugh! it fairly sickens
an intelligent, refined woman, to be com
pelled to listen to the conceited idle prat
tle and senseless twaddle of these same
“Reasoning Lords;" and should she at
tempt to change the conversation to some
more interesting topic, she is at once si
lenced by a curl of the lip, a shrug of the
shoulder, or the opprobrious epithet of
‘■'■Blue Stocking." Is it any wonder then
that she does not seek to reason with
these sumo lords ?
I suppose too that Johnie holds with
the belief that woman is intellectually
man's inferiorf Now just let me give
you another idea from the Bishop’s ad
dress. After placing man in the Garden
of Eden—ministering to his pleasures in
every conceivable way, he goes on to say:
“It would seem he still is found to sigh
in his solitude. What was wanting amid
the munificence of his Creator’s gifts ? An
helpmeet. Yes, the man was alone; and
it was not good for him—he sighed for
sympathy—communion—a heart attuned
with his, to love and praise—a mind to
think , and soar, and wonder at Creation’s
marvels, and with him to how in adora
tion to the one who made them all. lie
wanted his other self—his better half; so
God made another —not like him, hut of
him —a process—an emanation—an im
provement ol a completion of the
circle of being—Adam and Eve—man and
woman, identical in their natures, their
minds and hearts, their interests and de
sires. Another mode of relief would have
been alien to him; the help would not
have been meet —suitable.”
I would my space allowed me to give
you the full idea; hut is not what has al
ready been written enough to convince
you that your position is untenable? If
not, let me advise as a friend that you get
the address and read it—and my word for
it, you will arise from its perusal with
your ideas of woman elevated and en
larged. You will no longer regard her
(as Susie seems to think you do at pres
ent) as a mere pretty and perfect piece of
workmanship—who wears “ small bonnets
and large skirts, tight shoes and tight
waists”—and a creature very lovely, but
who can no more reason than the lower
order of animals—hut will indeed look
upon her as “ God’s last, best gift to man”
—his companion, his helper, his equal.
But, I warn you, don’t let us hear such
another tirade as your last; or, though I
am very peaceable when let alone, I will
preach a second crusade, compared with
which the first was mere child’s plqy—so
take care. Phebe Lamwell.
Madison , Ga.
Four Day Later from Europe.
Quebec, Sept. 9—The steamship
Canadian, with Liverpool dates to Auer.
27th, has arrived.
The cotton market exhibits no new
features—the quotations are steady and!
the demand fair. The sales of the past
two days are 15,000 bales. The quo--
tations are for—
Fair Orleans, 7d.; Middling Orleans,
0 5-16d.; Fair Uplands, 6fd.; Middling
Uplands, 6 3-1 Od.
The receipts are getting very light.
Flour. —There is an active demand
for flour, and prices have advanced Is,
Wheat. —The market is lively, and
exhibits an improvement of 2d. to 3d.
per quarter.
Indian Corn.— The Corn market is
buoyant, in consequence of the potato'
disease, now fully manifesting itself, and
we quote an improvement in prices of
Corn from 6d. to Is.
The Money market is unchanged.
Consols are quoted at 95£ to for
money.
Business in the manufacturing dis
tricts is quiet.
The steamship Arabia arrived safe.
Stirring News from Kansas.
St. Louis, Sept. 4.—Gen. D. R. At
chison has taken the field with 1,500
men, prepared to repulse Gen. James-
Laue’s bands of mercenary F’ree State
men. Lawrence will be attacked first.
New York, Sept. 6. —We have re
ports from Kansas, which state that the
Abolitionists have been driven from
Leavenworth at the point of the bay
onet—their property destroyed and con
fiscated—the lowa road to Kansas has
been closed by armed bauds of Mis
sourians. Forty of the Abolitionists
had arrived at St. Louis, in a suffering
and destitute condition.
The President has ordered the Gov
ernor of Kansas to enroll and organize
all the militia in the Territory into reg
iments ; and also ordered regiments
from Illinois and Kentucky.
Two hundred of each party were en-j
gaged in the battle of Ossawattomie*
The Abolitionists fired on the southerners,
who promptly returned it, killing thirty
Abolitionists—the latter then attempted
a retreat and in their hurry in crossing
the river several of the Abolitionists
were drowned.
Kansas News.
The Charleston Courier of the Bth
instant publishes the following letters.
The first is dated Atchison, K. T. Aug.
20, and is addressed to lion. Jas Simons,
Chairman Executive Committee of Kan
sas Association in Charleston, and is as
follows :
A scouting party of four, which we
scut out on Monday evening, lias just
returned. They penetrated to Lecomp
ton, meeting no interruption on the way,
and remained there until last evening.
They report that the town had not been
attacked up to the time of their leaving
the abolitionists having abandoned their
position and retired towards Lawrence.
Titus had been exchanged. Ilis wounds
consist of the loss of one thumb, a flesh
wound in the elbow, and one in the
shoulder, which he received while stoop
ing to shoot through a window. He
denies that he was badly treated while
a prisoner, though he admits at first
there was soni3 talk of hanging him.
lie mentions that he recognized Lane
among the men at Lawrence, though he
has assumed the name of Cook. Secre
tary Woodson is acting Governor, and
has sent to Fort Riley for four hundred
men. He desires all our men to come
on to Lecompton at once, as he fears
very much for the ferry there, the only
one we have on the Kaw river. He has
not declared the Territory in a state of
insurrection up to this time, lest the!
abolitionists should seize it; but as soon
as lie lias sufficient force to defend it,
will issue a proclamation to that effect.
The other letter is from Capt. E. B-
Bell and is dated Westport, Mo., Aug. 21.
Such a sight as I witnessed when!
arrived here ! It never has been mj
lot to see any thing like it—armed men |
going and coming in every direction-- 1
horses saddled, wagons loaded, band 1
music playing, artillery moving out- 1
nothing but excitement. Our render I
vous is ten miles from here, and it s |
stated here to night that 600 men' a l4 m
camped there and 400 more are ex-j
pected to-morrow. Doctors, jadg*
lawyers, physicians and ministers, a i
are neglecting their business and g°' n ;l
The news published is all true;
thing lias come to a crisis, and the ti®*
has come for action. There is a spit l,
of determination in the countenances ® 1
the Missourians, and this time they
lot be fooled. I leave in a few rointt' 1 ’
for the camp at New Santa Fe.
will organize to-morrow, and I will senq
you all the news. I write this simplj
to assure you that things are as 1
they are represented,