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Jfamilfltmfor rUBI.ISHEP BY 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,