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JfaiiuWisitor
PUBLISHED BY
BENJAMIN G. LIDDON.
T. A. BURKE, EDITOR.
MADISON, GA.:
SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1856.
Wanted,
At tliis office, a boy fourteen or fifteen
years of age, to learn the printing business.
Our Weekly Gossip,
With Readers asd Correspondents.
Will these editors and their correspond
ents never have done with the ladies and
their
Hoop Skirti ’
We agree with our fair friends, Piiebe
Lahwell and Scsje Snowdrop, that the
men had just as well, and a little better,
let such things alone, until they clear their
own skirls— (no pun intended, positively.)
Some hopeless old bachelor thus discourses
in one of our exchanges:
“ But the skirts! Oh, Venus do Modi
cis! how can we embrace them at all?
Positively there is no getting around them
in one effort! Skirts have swollen to that
extent of fashion that no door is wide
enough for them to pass throng!', without
considerable squeezing. Real belle* of the
fashion now seem like moving bell*, lite
rally so that mullets and men have to steer
well in the streets, elso they will run
against ropes, hoops, bag matting, crino
line, and tho denco knows what, which
completely take up the sidewalk and in
habit the dress. As for the girl, by Jove!
she seems, nowhere. The other day we
happened to see two of the dumpy kind of
the moving •‘bells' 1 of fashion going along
the street, ala pointer style—hands close
and skirts out. At forty paces distant
they seemed like miniature pyramids of
silk; at twenty paces wo smelt cologne
water and other essences; at ten paces a
littlo lump like a 1 onnet was discernablo
at the top of the skirt pyramid ; at three
paces distant we heard the imbedded voice
of a female in the dress; at two paces wo
discovered four ringlets of slim appear*
ance, resembling cat tails dipped in molas
ses; two eyes of weak and absurd expres
sion, liko boiled onions, lips like unto thin
sandwiches with a bit of discolored meat
sticking ont, thin and dry, mid checks I
rouged with meenfum (Chinese coloring.) I
Positively this was all that could crcato
in us the impression or imagination that
tho abovo tilings, dry goods, &c., formed a
woman. We moved aside and went on
our way rejoicing thnt such was not our
share, to say nothing of our future ‘better
half.’ ”
Let him be anathema maranatha, wo
say'—the impious vagabond. But thcevil
is not confined to this continent. Mr.
Punch, of “ Highland,” an old man, who
ought to know better, and do better, is
down upon the fashion on all convenient
occasions. Here is his last lick :
“Great Pedestrian Feat. — [From our
Sporting Correspondent.] —Paddy Hoots,
the celebrated pedestrian, hut better known
at Lords' and the various commons in the
neighborhood of London, ns tho ‘ ’Amtner
smith antelope,’ is still carrying on his
herculean feat of walking round a lady in
full dress 100 times in 100 consecutive
days. He is now in his second week, and
looks ns fresh ns when he first started.
There are bets to a considerable amount
that Paddy will never be able to complete
Ids arduous undertaking. What makes it
still more difficult is the fact that a fresh
lady is substituted every day. It lias been
observed that the dresses of these various
ladies, instead of decreasing, are actually
getting bigger and bigger .almost every
week. What the size,‘therefore, will bo
before the 90th, much less the 100th, day
is completed, the most elastic imagination
snaps, like an over-stretched piece of India
rubber, in its vain efforts to comprehend.
It is also feared that thero will be no open
space large enough in the vicinity of the
metropolis to admit of tho experiment, as
soon as it lias expanded to its fullest dimen
sions, being fairly tried. In tho mean
time, however, Paddy displays uncommon
pluck. Uis unfailing good humor and
cheerfulness under his trying labors, such
as would exhaust the oldest and worst
paid postman of St. Martln’s-le-Graml, win
smiles of approval even from bis fairest
rampants. We wish the brave fellow eve
ry success, and shall from week to week
make a point, or several points rather, of
recording the on ward march of iron-tipped
bluohers and undaunted perseverance.”
Apropos of dress, we have just stumbled
upon
Something about Hals,
which may interest our male readers:
“At wlmt time felted wool was first
employed for making lints it would bo dif
ficult now to say; hut there is a legend
current among some of the continental
hatters which gives the honor to St. Cle
ment, fourth bishop of Rome. Most fra
t amities love to have a patron saint when
they can find one; and those hatters who
regard St. Clement in tliis light, inform us
that this holy man, being forced to tlee
from his persecutors, found his feet to ho
so blistered by long-continued travel, that
he was induced to put a little wool be
tween his sandals and the soles of his feet.
On continuing his journey, the warmth,
moisture, motion, and pressure of the feiet
worked the wool into a uniformly com
pact substance. Finally the wanderer,
observing the useful nature of this sub
stance, caused it to be introduced in tho
manufacture of various articles of apparel.
tig faun
“ Hats for men were invented at Paris
by a Swiss in 1404. They were first man
ufactured at London by Spaniards in 1510.
Before that time, both men and women in
England commonly wore close-knit woolen
caps. P. Daniel relates that when Charles
11. made his public entry into Rouen, in
1449, he had on a hat lined with red vel
vet, and surmounted with a plume or tuft
of feathers. He adds that it is from this
entry, or at least under his reign, that the
use of hats and caps is to be dated, which
henceforward began to take the place of
the chaperons and hoods that had been
worn before in France.” <*
We should like to know when the pres
ent style o( gentlemen’s dress hats first
came into use—and whether they were
ever deemed either comfor.able or orna
mental. No one, in this enlightened day,
who lias the least regard for his reputation,
will claim that they are either. We won
der that ladies do not turn tho tables on
the lords of creation, by shewing the ab
surdity of going through the streets with
a “ bee gum,” as Peggie aptly termed
them, on tho head, in tho belief that it
constitutes “full dress.” Surely no one
of the ladies’ fashions—the small bonnets
and hoop skirts included —is more ridicu
lous or has less to recommend it. But
enough on this subject.
A writer in tho Knickerbocker Maga
zine makes the following attempt to
Write down a Kiss.
“ When two pair of affectionate lips are
placed together to the intent of occulation,
the noise educed is like tho following:
‘Epo st’ weep ts-e’e!’
and then the sound tapers off'so softly and
so musically, that no letters can do it jus
tice.”
Wo reckon that’s about ns near it as the
types can get, but it fails far short of the
genuine kiss music. By tho bye, isn’t tho
common custom among the ladies of kiss
ing one another a waste of the raw mate
rial ? We think so, and yet we dare not
say it, lest we meet tho fute of the hapless
youth who wrote:
Mon scorn to kiss umong themselves.
And scarce would kiss u brother;
Hut women want to kiss so bad,
They kiss and kiss each other."
He sent it to a fair damsel, who “ im
megently” returned him the following an
swer:
“ Men do not kiss among themselves,
And it’s well that they refrain;
The bitter dose would vex them so,
They would never kiss again.
As sometimes on poor woman’s lip
Is applied this nauseous lotion,
Wo ham to kiss among ourselves
Asa counteracting potion."
That’s what wo call a “ hyst” of the
first degree. The last seen of that inter
esting young man, he was enquiring the
nearest way to the Great Salt Luke.
News of the Week.
Two steamers have arrived from Europe
sinco our last issue—the Africa and tho
Anglo Saxon. There has been an advance
of one-sixteenth of a penny in tho cotton
market. Sales for three days previous to
the sailing of tho steamer, 30,000 bales—
of which number 14,000 were taken by
speculators and exporters. The quotations
range from 7 1-4 to 6 6-16d. Flour and
Indian corn have each declined Cd. Wheat
has declined 2d. Tho London sugar mar
ket is firm. Money market unchanged.
Consols quoted at 94.
Tho miscellaneous news is interesting.
Quito an excitement has been created in
France, by the arrest of a number of per
sons, belonging to a secret society, whose
object is said to have been to assassinate
the Emperor.
The difficulty in regard to the Island
of Serpents is not settled, and tho alliod
tleet has been ordered to remain. It is
rumored that tho Queen of Spain and Gen
eral O'Donnell have had a difference.
The Free Trade Congress at Brussels
was well attended. Affairs in Naples are
said to ho approaching a crisis. France
and England intend to withdraw their re
presentatives from tho Court, and send
four ships of war, to protect their sub
jects.
From Nicaragua we have news to the
221 ult. A portion of Walker’s army, un
der Lieut,. McDonald, attacked tho enemy
at San Jacinto, but was repulsed with a
small loss. A second attack was likewise
unsuccessful, although 100 of tho enemy
were reported to he killed. Walker was
preparing for a third attack.
In Kansas, things seem to he quiet.
The Free State prisoners have been exam
ined and committed for trial. Gov. Geary
has stationed troops at points where dis
turbances are apprehended. The election
was to take place last Monday.
Lecture oil Oratory.
Henry M. Law, Esq., of Savannah, will
deliver a lecture on The Art of Oratory—
its Dignity and l r scs, at the Town Hall,
this evening, at 7 1-2 o’clock. Mr. Law
is a native Georgian, and a graduate of our
State University. He is a young man of
brilliant talents and due literary attain
ments, His lectures throughout the State
lmve he'll a series of triumphs—as we
learn from our exchanges—and we sincere
ly trust that he may ho greeted by a good
ami appreciative house iu Madison.
Agricultural Papers.
We havo received tho October numbers
of the Southern Cultivator aud the Soil of
the South. They are both good numbers
of most excellent publications. Every
man in Georgia who lias a fa-rir or a gar
den ought to have them both. The former
is published in Augusta, by Wm. S. Jones;
tho latter in Columbus, by Lomax A Ellis.
Tenns of each ont dollar a year.
Autumn.
The summer, with its long and sultry
days, is over, and autumn, “ magnificent
and pompous autumn,” —as poor Ollapod
was wont to call it—with trailing clouds
of innumerable tints, with leaves that fill
the air with solemn whispers and paint
the viewless gusts in hues of beauty,
cometh “ with dyed garments of glory.”
The evening shadows of the year are begin
ning to fall upon us, with a pleasant and
soothing sensation of relief, after the glare
and heat of summer; while the delicious
mornings and evenings make ns regret that
tho
“ Soft twilight ol sLe slow declining year”
cannot last forever.
It is a singular fact that nearly all the
old English poets speak of this season in
the saddest and most melancholy strains.
Shakspeare terms it “the chilling au
tumn,” while Collins speaks of it as “the
tallow autumn.” Wordsworth addresses
it ns “autumn, melr.nchohj wight,” and
Shcnstone writes,
“ Oh pensive autumn, how I grieve
Thy sorrowing face to see,
When lunguid suns arc tukiug leave
Os every drooping tree.”
Further quotations of the same character
might be made from Chaucer, Spenser,
Ilryden, Milton, Thomson, and indeed the
entiro list of early English poets. Those
of later years, with an occasional excep
tion, have treated the season a little more
respectfully, and seein to have appreciated
its beauties. Instead of “ autumn, melan
choly wight,” we find such expressions as
“gay autumnal tints,” and
“Autumn, tliricc happy time,
Best portion of the various year.”
Indeed, one would he justified in believ
ing that there had been a great change in
the nature of things, since tho days of
“Will. Shakspeare, the bailiff’s son.” And
yet, we imagine, the only change has been
in public sentiment. Cowpor, the Chris
tian poet, was tho first to discover that
autumn was not a melancholy season, and
now there is no lack of English poets who
are aide to see and appreciate beauties in
its landscape, to which their forefathers
were entirely blind.
In tho eyes of American poets, this sea
son of the year seems always to have worn
a cheerful uspeot. True, Bryant, in one of
his poems, speaks of
“ Tho melancholy days *
The saddest of the year;
Os wailing winds and naked woods,
Aik’ meadows brown and sere."
But lie seems afterwards to have repent
ed himself, and writes:
“ Oil autumn!
’Twero a lot too blest,
Forever in thy colored shades to stray."
A sweet poetess of the South, now dead,
Mary E. I.oe, thus spoke of autumn :
“ They call thee brown! Imt not because
Thv robe is colored with a russet line,
For thou hast beautiful attire, and takest
E’en at thy wilt a drapery ever new;
Mot one ’inongst thy companions can unfold
Such stores of emerald, topaz, ruby, gold."
Scarce one of all our poets hut Ims some
graceful tribute to this season—so full of
pensive beauty.
Wo question if the English autumns are
as full of loveliness as ours. Even here in
Middle Georgia wo miss much of the mag
nificence of the “many-colored woods” of
tho Northern States, or more northern
portions of our own—hut with us there is
much to be seen and admired, alter the
season is sufficiently advanced. A walk,
a few weeks hence, in the
“ Variegated woods when first the frost
Turns into beauty nil October’s charms,”
will reveal to the eye “ a bright how of
many colors hung upon tho forest tops.’’
Each tree seems to have a peculiar fancy
of its own. The great family of oaks arc
clothed, some in brilliant red, others in
glowing scarlet, and still others in splendid
yellow. The sweet gum takes a bright
vermilion hue; ar.il tho chestnut clothes
herself, “from top to toe,” in golden-co
lored vestments. The dogwood is dyod a
lako color, while other trees take unto
themselves garments of sober brown. In
every direction, on bill-top and in the val
ley, nature wears every variety of tint,
mingled in the wildest and yet sweetest
confusion.
Many persons complain that the change
in tho foliage at this season of the year
causes feelings of melancholy, “arousing
sad and sorrowful ideas, liko the flush on
tho hectic cheek.” But we can see no
such import in its meaning. “ Hero is no
sudden blight of youth and beauty, no
sweet hopes of life are blasted, no generous
aim at usefulness and advancing virtue is
cut short: the year is drawing to its natu
ral term, the seasons have run their nsual
course, all their blessings havo been en
joyed, all our precious things are cared
for; there is nothing of untimeliness, no
thing of disappointment, in the shorter
days and lessening heats of autumn. As
well may we mourn over the gorgeous co
loring of the clouds, which colleot to pay
homage to the setting sun, because they
proclaim the close of day; as well may we
lament tho brilliancy of the evening star,
and the silvery brightness of the crescent
moon, just ascending into tho heavens, be
cause they declare tho approach of night
with her shadowy train! In very truth,
the glory of these last waning days of the
season proclaims a grandeur of beneficence
which should rather make our poor hearts
swell with gratitude at each return of the
beautiful autumn accorded to ns.
Revivals.
Meetings have been progressing for sev
eral weeks past in the Methodist and Bap
tist churches, in tliis town. Wo do not
know the exact number of conversions;
but there have been quite a number of
accessions to the two churches, aud the
good work is still progressing.
Presidency of Franklin College.
The names of a good many gentlemen
have been mentioned, in various quarters,
as suitable and probable successors of Pres
ident Church. A friend has suggested to
us that of the Hon. Wm. H. >Stiles, who
has not yet been named in connection with
it. We know of no man whose accession
to the Presidency of Franklin College
would or ought to be more generally ac
ceptable. A native Georgian, a man of
massive intellect and rare literary attain
ments, his connection with the State Uni
versity would give it a high character at
home and abroad. We sincerely trust that
he may be induced to allow his name to go
before the Board of Trustees at the meet
ing which takes place, we believe, some
time during the present month.
England and the Southern States.
The London Morning Star warns the
Southern States of the American Union,
in case of dissolntion, “ not to dream of
annexation to England!" The editor says:
“ We observe that the Southern news
papers [of the United States] are fond of
throwing out a threat that the slave States!
if their preter sions are resisted, will form
a union of some sort with England. In
all probability these threats are the mere
ravings of passion. But if we could con
ceive it possible that they are in earnest,
no language can adequately describe the
utter fatuity of such a notion. That it
should have found lodgment for a single
hour in any man’s breast, betokens an ig
norance of tho state of public feeling in
this country that is perfectly astounding.
“Any British statesman that should
give ear for one instant to such a sugges
tion would ho swept out of power in a
day, in a whirlwind of national indigna
tion. The men of the South had better
very distinctly understand that they must
not look in tliis direction for sympathy in
their efforts to perpetuate human servi
tude. Before they can he admitted to a
union with Great Britain, they must not
merely relinquish their favorite policy for
tho extension of slavery, which is all their
fellow-citizens in the free States wish them
to do, but they must first emancipate
every slave they possess, for if they were
subjects of the Queen of England they
would lie, every limn of them, felons in
the eye of the law, and liable to tho pun
ishment of transportation for owning
slaves.
“ We believe that if it were proposed to
import among us a colony of lepers, it
would hardly exoito more of horror and
dismay than an otter to incorporate slave-’
holding communities ns an integral part of
the British dominions. Indeed, we doubt
whether there is a nation in Europe which
would not shrink with instinctive and
shuddering repugnance from such an over
ture.”
It is difficult to determine which is most
remarkable—this fellow’s ignorance or his
audacity. That an English editor, in the
heart of tho metropolis, should he such an
utter imbecile as to suppose that Southern
men, would, in any event, consent to an
nexation with England, is almost past be
lieving; but that tho trifling vagabond
should warn us not to do that which we
could never ho induced to do—that he
should coolly take it upon himself to ad
vise us not to make fools of ourselves, is a
little too much for flesh and blood to hear.
It there is any part of the Union, in which
John Bull is thoroughly and heartily de
tested, it is in these Bon them States, and
wo venture the assertion that the South
ern man who dared to propose what this
Cockney editor seems to apprehend, would
find himself in a worse “ whirlwind of in
dignation” than the “British Statesman”
he speaks of.
If tho Southern States of this Union are
driven to dissolution we shall nut need,
nor shall we ask, tho assistance of Eng
land. But after all of this fellow’s holy
horror of Southerners and their slaves, we
have yet to learn that England has ever
rofused to form any kind of alliance which
would put money in her purse. In case
of dissolution, let tho Southern States offer
her the monopoly of the cotton and sugar
trade, and she will scarcely stop to ask if
it bo tho result of slave labor. Little does
she care how the dollars are made, if they
but fall into her pocket. Oh! ye English
hypocrites—“ye buy the blood-stained
cotton in quantities so immense, that ye
have rim up tho price of slaves to more
than a thousand dollars, the average of
old and young! O, ye hypocrites!—ye
denounce slavery, then ye bid it live, and
not die, in that ye buy sugar, rice, tobac
co, and above all, cotton! Ye hypocrites
—yo abuse the devil, and then fall down
and worship him! Oh! your holy twad
dle stinks in the nostrils of God, and
lie commands us to lash you with our
scorn and His scorn, so long as you gabble
about the sin of slavery and then bow
down to us and buy and spin cotton—and
thus work for us as onr slaves. Oh, ye
fools and blind—fill up the measure of
your folly, and blindness and shame.”
Grand Lodge of Georgia. —Tho
Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons will commence their annual ses
sion in Macon, on Tuesday the 28th
inst.
The election in Florida, for Governor,
took place on Monday last. We have
not yet received any returns. The can
didates were D S. Walker, Esq., Amer
ican, and Col. Madison S. Perry, anti-
American.
There were six deaths front yellow
fever in Charleston, Monday last.
Pen-and-Scissorings.
The Rome (Ga.) Courier of the 30th nit.
says com finds a ready sale in that market
at 50 cents, and wheat at a d011ar.... We
have it on the infallible authority of Jen
kins, that it is not correct to say “ the
height of the fashion.” When ladies wish
to convey the idea that any one of their
acquaintance is at all bien irate, they affirm
that “she was dressed in the full breadth
of the fashion.” A son of James M.
Cooper, Esq., of Marietta, fell from a tree
last Saturday, 40 feet, breaking botli arms
and inflicting other severe bruises. It
should he a warning to boys not to ven
ture too far after chestnuts An inge
nious yankee, says an exchange, has built
a saw-mill which is driven by “ the force
of circumstances.”... .Divide the property,
real and personal, in the United States,
equally among the inhabitants, and each
individual would possess about $376....
True benevolence does not stand still. It
goes about doing g00d... .Sweet or olive
oil is a certain enre for the bite of a rattle
snake. Apply it internally and externally.
.... A person in delicate health was asked
if lie should dare to venture on an orange?
He replied, “No—l am afraid I should fail
0ff.”... .The imports of cotton into Boston
from Jan. Ist to Sept. 20th have been 242,-
572 hales; same time in 1855, 208,848
hales A printer out west, whose first
son happened to be a short, fat little fel
low, named him Brevier. Full-faced
Jones. . . .The population of Texas lias in
creased, according to the lowest calcula
tions, four hundred per cent in ten years.
... .The report that a schoolmaster chas
tised a boy with a railroad switch is doubt
ed George A. Gordon has been appoint
ed United States Attorney for Georgia,
vice G. S. Owens, resigned Nothing is
more to be avoided in early life than idle
ness... .The Galveston News says there
never has been a season when the Te>xas
cotton has been as good as it is this year.
... .A young lady being recommended to
exercise for her health, said she would
jump at an offer, and run her own risk.
... .The loss by the recent extensive con
flagration in Macon is estimated at $200,-
000 The Oxygenated Bitters have re
ceived the strongest testimonials of any
medicine in the world for the cure of dys
pepsia, asthma, and general debility, and
are worthy the confidence of all who seek a
remedy for these complaints... .Advertis
ing is the oil which the wise tradesmen
put in their lamps, and the foolish neglect
to use... .The frost on the 23d nit., the
Dalilonega Signal says, has proved very
disastrous. Peas, potatoes tobacc , and
the late fodder, it is supposed, are entirely
ruined... .The Richmond Enquirer stole
from the New York Herald an article and
published it as editorial. The Herald co
pied tho same article last Saturday, giving
the credit to the Enquirer, and pitches into
the article in a most savage manne-
London Punch announces tho death of
Gilbert Abbott a Beckett, whose genius for
more than fifteen years has been present in
its pages.... Hear one side and you will
be in the dark; hear both sides, and all
will be clear. ...Hon. A. G. Magrath lias
withdrawn ills name as a candidate for
Congress from the Charleston district. He
has since been re-nominated by a large and
enthusiastic meeting ... Sally Jones says
when she was in love sho felt as if “lie was
in a tunnel, with a train of cars coming
both ways....Wo learn from the Nash
ville papers that the tobacco crop of Mid
dle Tennessee and Kentucky lias been al
most entirely destroyed by frost....A
country editor thinks that Richelieu, who
declared that “the pen was mightier than
the sword,” ought to have spoken a good
word for scissors. .. .The potato rot pre
vails extensively in some parts of Essex
county, Massachusetts. In Roxford it is
doing much damage, and about Newhurg
it is still more destructive.... Money is
said to he the root of all evil, and that be
cause men make an ill use of it; it would,
on the contrary, he the root of all good, if
they would use it we 11.... The largest
flouring estiblishment iu the world, it is
said, will he iu Richmond, Va. It will he
eleven stories high when completed
An excellent likeness of Perry Davis, the
inventor of that most execllen t medicine,
the Vegetable Pain Killer, can bo had for
12 1-2 cents, together with a bottle of that
celebrated universal remedy.... There is
just as much intemperance in drinking
physio as in drnking anything else....
There were but nineteen interments in
Augusta during the month of September.
....A headache is one of the pains and
penalties of over- indulgence.... Os all the
men and women now living in London,
more than half are of external birth; up
ward of a million have come from the Pro
vinces, or Scotland and Ireland, or from
abroad The young man that takes liis
tea at and lodges against the
handle, has gone south to shove his coat
up the spout... .The Chicago Times states
that 3,750 buildings have been erected in
that city since the first of the year.... If
you want an appetite, go a fishing. In
less than an hour you will be as empty as
Westminster Abbey, and just about as full
of fret work .... They raise six hundred
bushels of sweet potatoes to the acre on
the Guadaloupe river in Texas.... Some
men are like maggots, and can only live in
corruption. We have known people that
a decent act would kill as quickly as arse
nic It is a pity there is no Maine liquor
law for medicine Bellevue, the first
point settled in Nebraska, sent 300 bush
els of wheat to St. Louis, a few days since.
... .“Genius will work its way through,”
us the poet remarked, when he saw a hole
in the elbow of his coat The New
York Academy of Mnsic has resolved to
erect a magnificent College in that city, at
the cost of between SBO,OOO ahd $90,000,
... .The first time a quack feels your pulse
may be an accident, but the second should
be a re-pulse... .The number of sheep in
the British Islands is estimated at 5,000,-
000, worth $250,000,000, producing 157,-
000,000 pounds of wool, worth $50,000,-
000 annually At the late target shoot
ing of the Batestown Artillery, one of the j
guns exploded and so frightened the com- i
pany that all hands ran away but the cap
tain, and he was so drunk that he conldn’t.
....It is said the Hon. James L. Orr, of
Sontli Carolina, will decline a re-election
to Congress.... No man ruins his health
without bringing the eonsequsnees down
upon himself. Like Sampson, he destroys
the temple and buries himself in its ruins.
... .The total export of treasure from San
Francisco, for the last seven months, was
thirty millions... .If a miss is as good as a
mile, what is a handsome young widow
worth ? A league, of course.... Mrs. Julia
Dean Hayne’s profits by her California
tour are estimated at $25,000.... Worth
makes the man, and the want of it the fel
’ow The middle station in life, between
poverty and riches, is the most eligible and
happy.... The reported appointment of
lion. C. P. Yilliers, as British Minister to
Washington, is untrue. No appointment
was made up to the sailing of the Africa.
.... A man may as well expect to be at
ease without wealth, as happy without
virtue.... Mr. John Douglas, an estimable
citizen of Charleston, died Saturday night
last... .Society, liko shaded silk, must ho
viewed in all situations, or its colors will
deceive u 5.... Dr. John E. Bacon is an
nounced as a candidate for mayor of Cos
lumbus at the election in December next.
For the Visitor.
“ Do Women Reason ?”
I would Dot trespass further upon your
columns or the patience of your readers,
on this subject; but some other ideas have
been suggested, to which I shall allude in
this article. Piiebf. Lam well let me off
much lighter than I had reason to expect;
for in her first communication she threat
ened to come down on Joiinie Jonquili.
in a manner like unto Susie Snowdrop—
to LamAnm-well. But she displays a com
mendable courtesy. She says that, belong
ing to the class who will have the last
word, she is induced to write again ; not
that sho looks upon hers as a failing cause;
not that the cogency of Johnie’s and Oco
nee’s reasoning has convinced her; “ but
that she is reminded, by a friend, of the
scripture warning, ‘ not to cast pearls,’Ac.”
The deduction from this is, that she writes,
not to sustain her cause, but because her
friend reminds her of the scripture warn
ing “not to cast pearls, &c.” I hope she
does not wish to class us with “swine.”
She may mean that it is useless to throw
away argument to those who do not appre
ciate it, or who are unwilling to acknow
ledge its force. If she does, she docs not
so express it. But that is not important.
In relation to my admitting indirectly
that she reasoned, when I granted her as
sertion that if women were learned, and
displayed it, they would do so in such a
manner as to bring upon them the epithet
of Blue Stocking, 1 have only to say that
thcro is no admission of her reasoning at
all. It does uot require argument to show
that tliis charge would be brought upon
them, beca use experience proves it. Bishop
Fierce may believe that “ woman is natu
rally endowed with the same degree aud
kind of intellect with man.” He is “high
authoritybut history, which is worth
I wore than any man’s opinion, “ gainsays ”
it.
The world lias given birth to some great
momeu; Madame De Stael was a power
ful writer, but her best work was written
to prove tlmt the world was arriving at a
state of Perfectibility—a mere dream.
Miss Edgeworth wrote some good tracts
and some admirable novels. Madame Ro
land controlled, with her husband , for a
while, the French nation; but nil of her
notions of government were Utopian, and
taken up from reading, in her younger
days, about ancient Roman and Grecian
heroes. Queen Elizabeth exhibited traits
of character which belong to men, and gov
erned her people like a man ; but she also
exhibited many Hint were weak and wo
manly. But where among all the great
women do you find one with the mind of
Bacon or Newton ?—where such a poet as
Shakspeare, Milton, Pope, or Byron? The
answer to this is, that woman lias not had
the opportunity to develop her powers.
She has for a long period had opportuni
ties for learning— as past history proves.
Learning does much, but genius is not the
production of learning. Shakspeare “knew
little Latin, and loss Greekbut with all
his want of learning, he is considered the
chief of poets.
I wish to add that it is to be feared that
the present generation, in their eager stam
pede to educate and elevate woman, are
overlooking the- education of the men.
At the annual commencements of our fe
male colleges, nearly everybody is found
boys, youths, young men and old men,
young and oid ladies. At a recent exam
ination of a large male school held in our
town, there did not average more than a
dozen visitors! Let the boys get along as
they can; take no interest in the training
of those who are to give force to the na
tion ; who are to fill our senates, to fight
our battles, and to preserve tho glory of
our country! Yes, let them get along
without that approbation which ought to
stimulate their courage in the arduous
struggle for knowledge; but the girls!
they have been neglected too much here
tofore ! Encourage the good work; spend
thousands in learning them to daub up
canvas in high colored landscapes, to work
crochet, to bang pianos; for “if you wish
to have great men, educate the mothers”!
Oconee.
P. S. Are the favorite aphorisms in
the latter part of Pbebe’s article addressed
to Oconee and Johnie, to the public gen
erally, or to the editor? O.
Madison, Ga.
Mr. Speaker Banks’s Prospects
to Dragoon the South into
Submission.
V illiam Carey Jones, son-in-law of
Col. Benton,, in a letter to the Demo
cratic Central Committee of Pennsyl
vania, quotes and continents on the fol
lowing significant language of that oily
'and astute leader of the Black “ Repub
licans,” Mr. Speaker Banks. He says :
“ '•> bile preparing this letter, I have
rnet with a remarkable extract of an
address of Mr. Speaker Banks, lately
made in Massachusetts. Says that
gentleman : “at no moment of my life, in
no paroxysm of iudignation, under no
feeling of excitement, have I ever utter
ed a word or cherished a thought, except
that of the highest veneration and deep,
est love for the Union of these States.—
Long may it continue as it is, unchang
ed! Long may it continue !so long as
the stars of the firmament of God above
us all shall he the bright prototype of
the stars of our glorious Union. But I
have to say what I know to be true, that
in no event of human history will the
Union of these States be dissolved.
“ I can conceive of a time when this
Constitution shall not be in existence ,
wlieu we shall have an absolute military
dictatorial government, transmitted from
age to age, with men at its head who are
made rulers by military commission, or
who claim a hereditary’ right to govern
those over whom they are placed. But
the dissolution of these States will never
come. No party that has possession
of the Union will allow the minority to
break the bonds."
“ Ah, Mr. Banks, Mr. Banks, are not
the thoughts developed in those lines
that I have emphasised, fathered by the
wish ? You area man of too keen a
perception and too deductive a mind,
not to have followed to their consequences
tho measures distinctive of your party nt
the late session of Congress, of which, by
vour superior talents, active and decisive
character among your associates, you
were the stay and support. At all
events, you now shadow forth the con
sequences. If you have not foreseen
and do not desire them, be warned by
them, and by the boastful menace utter
ed by the principal character in your late
Convention at Philadelphia, with tho
approbation of that assembly. You may
he right, sir, that by geographical neces
sities, l>y force of circumstances, or force
of arms, the Union may he preserved,
though the Constitution be lost. But
your brilliant comparison will not then
serve.”
There can be no mistaking this lan
guage of Mr. Speaker Banks. It means
to rule the South, under all and any cir
cumstances, tocorner the Southern Slates
o i the question of slavery, and to subju
gate them. The programme is concisely
embodied in this short extract. And
will the South submit ? lias not Mr.
Banks a better knowledge of Southern
character than to suppose the South can
be dragooned into submission? lie
ought to know—he must know better.
But this is the fatal language that heami
other leaders of his party arc using, to
blind the people to the real danger.—
May we not hope their traitorous designs
will fail, or will the eyes of the people
only be opened when the four impressive
monosyllables will ring in their ears—“it
is too late!”— New York News.
We see by the Court Records that
the two Counterfeiters, White of Buffalo
and Lawrence of Epping, N. 11., have
been placed under ten thousand dollar
bonds, each, for making and selling, im
itations of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. This
is right. If the Law should protect
men from imposition at all it certainly
should protect them from being imposed
upon by a worthless counterfeit of such a
medicine as Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. We
can only complain that the punishment is
not half enough. The villian, who
would for paltry gain, deliberately trifle
with the health of liis fellow man, by
taking from their lips the cup of hope,
when they are sinking and substituting a
falsehood—an utter delusion, should be
punished at least as severely as he who
counterfeits the coin of his country.
—Green Cos. Banner , Carrolton, 111.
Burlingame.— The famous Black
Republican orator has delivered the same
speech throughout the entire campaign.
It has repeatedly been reported, and in
every instance the same jokes or witti
cisims are reported. One of his “ tellihg
points” is the assertion that the intellect
of the Southern people is weakened by
their social system. This charge, it
will be recollected, comes from a man
who repeats for fifty times the same
speech in a single campaign, upou a sec
tion of the country that has nourished
and produced a Washington and Jeffer
son, a .Jackson, a Clay and a Calhoun.