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THE JEFFERSON ifil NEWS & FIRMER.
Vol. 1.
T HiE
Jefferson News & Farmer
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HARRISON & ROBERTS!
LOUISVILLE CARDS ~
B.W. Cargwell, W. F. Dtuny.
Carswell <fc Denny,
attorneys at law,
LOUISVILLE GEORGIA,
WILL practice in all the Counties in the
Middle Circuit. Also Burke in Au
gu»ta Circuit All business entrusted to their
ears will meet with prompt attention.
Nor, 3. 27 ly
H. W. J. HAM.
ATTORNEY AT I. AW,
SWAIN3BORO’, OA.
Will practice in tho Middle and Augusta
Circaiti. All business entrusted to his care
will meet with prompt attention.
Nov. 17th, 1871, 2 If.
fa. CAIN J. H. POLHILL.
CAIN a POLHILL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
LOUISVILLE 9 GA.
May 5,1871. 1 ly-
T. F. HARLOW
WatcH M:a,lsl©r
—AND—
in. El 3E» All R El R
f-;t. nnlsville, Oa-
Special ATTENTION GIVEN to reno
vating and repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS,
JEWELRY, SEWING MACHINES &c , &c.
Also Agent for tho Florence Sow ing Machine
that is made.
May 5,1871. 1 lyr:
DR, 1. R. POWEIL,
LOUISVILLE, GA.
Thankful for the patronage
enjoyed heretofore, takes this method of con
tinuing tho offer of his professional services to
patrons and friends.
May 5, 1871. 1 lyr.
MEDIOAIj.
DR. J. R. SMITH late of SandersvillcGa.,
offers his Professional services to the
citizens of Louisville, and Jefferson county.
An experience of nearly forty years in the
profession, should entitle him to Public Con
fidence. Special attention paid to Obstetrics
and the diseases of women and children, of
fice at Mrs, Doctor Millers.
Louisville June 20,1871. 8 ts.
MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
T
Look Out for the Sign of
THE GOLDEN BEE HIVE,
IF yon wish to buy your Dry Goods at the
lowest prices,
GEORGE WEBER.
No. 176 Broad Street,
Opposite, AUGUSTA HOTEL.
Novelties !
GEORGE WEBER
HAS just returned from the North with an
elegant assortment of FALL and WIN
TER
BUY (lOOBS.
To meet the wants of a constantly increasing
patronage, I have remodeled the interior of tho
spacious establishment
No 176 Broad Street,
Opposite Augustathe Hel,
making it one of the finest Stores in the city.
I have also engaged the services of a num
ber of polite and efficient salesmen, who will
be happy to serve their numerous friends in
this community.
The Ladies will find it to their interest to
examine my Stock. They will always find
bargains at
The Bee Hive Store.
Oct. 6,23 ly
Flour I Flour
WEEKLY from
SELECTED WHEAT,
from one of the best Mills in the United States,
which we unhesitatingly pronounce as good as
any ever made into a biscuit.
This Flour is put up to please the most fas
tidious Epicurian taste. Cannotbe sold for less
than sll per barrel.
Other Brands of good FAMILY FLOUR at
$3 per barrel. Flour of lower grades at loner
figures:
All within reach will find it to their interest
to buy their flour from us. Try it.
M. A. EVANS & CO-
Bartow,’September 8, 19tfn
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MM:
Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
MARBLE MONUMENTS, TOMB
STONES &C.; &C.
Marble Mantels and F arniture-Marble of all
kinds Furnished to Order. All work for the
Country carefully boxed for shipment.
M'eh 18 p ’7O ly. ' Rebl,7lly
Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Thursday, January 25, 1872.
New Advertisements.
Dissolution
—OF—
C&V&EWNEESHIP.
The Copartnership heretofore ex
isting between the undersigned, un
der the firm name of
SAMUEL M. LEDERER & CO.
is this day dissolved by muiual con
<tent.
Messrs ISAAC M. FRANK and
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN are alone
authorized to settle the affairs of the
late firm, collect all moneys due,
and sign in liquidation.
SAM’L M. LEDERER,
I. M. FRANK,
GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN
Savannah, July 18th, 1871.
Copartnership Notice.
The undersigned have this day
associated themselves together as
Partners for the transaction of a
'General
DRY GOODS
business in the City of Savannah,
under the firm name of
FRANK & ECKSTEIN,
AT 131 BROUGHTON ST.,
where they will continue to carry an
extensive stock ot
S T A IP IL SB
AND
1
€1
DMT DOOMS
AND
I©li 0 H S .
Possessing facilities to purchase
Goods
in the
Northern
Markets
on the very best term?, will coniine
ue to offer such
INDUCEMENTS
as will make it the interest of
BUYERS
to deal with us.
Thanking you for the kind favors
bestowed on the late firm, we re
spectfully solicit your patronage in
future. Also an early examination
of our stock and prices.
Yours respectfully,
FRANK dc ECKSTEIN.
131 Broughton St.
Parlies desiring to send orders for
Goods or Samples of Dry Goods will
find them promptly attended to by
addressing
P. O. BOX 3S,
Savannah, Ga.
August 18, ly. a
J. Wauckk Proprietor. R. M. McDonald * Cos, Druggists and
Gon. Ag*to, San Francisco, Cal., and 32 and 3 4 Commcroe St, N’.Y.
BULLIONS Boar Testimony to their
Wdilflerfal Curative Effects.
Thej are not a vile Fancy Drink, made ot Poor
Ram, tThiikeri Proof Spirits and Refuse Ll
q u ora doctored, spioed and iwoetened to pleaso the taste,
called “Tonics,” “Appetizers,” “Restorers,” &0., that
lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruin, but are a true
Medioine,made from the Native Roots and Herbs of Cali
fornia, free from all Alcoholic Stiraulnnts.
They are the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER ami
A LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE, a perfect Reno
vator and Invigorator of the System, carrying off all
poisonous matter and restoring the blood to a healthy con
dition. No porson can tako these Bitters according to
directions and remain long nnwell,provided their bones
are: not destroyed by mineral poison or other means,
and the vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair.
They are a Gentle Purgative as well ns a
Tonic, possessing, also, the peculiar merit of acting as
a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflammation
of the Liver, and all the Viscoral Organs.
FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, In yonng or
old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood or at
the turn of life, these Tonio Bitters have no equal.
For Inflammatory and Chronic Rltenmn
tism and Goat, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Bil
lons, Remittent and Intermittent
Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys nad
Bladder, these Bitters have beon most suoecnaful.
Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood,
which is generally produced by derangement of the Di
gestive Organs.
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Headache,
Pain In tho Bhoulders.Uoughs, Tightness of the Chest.
DissincM, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste
in the Mouth. Bilious Attacks. Palpitation of tkc Heart,
Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in tho regions of the
Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the
oflsprings of Dyspepsia.
They Invigorate the Stomach and stimulate the torpid
Liver and Bowels, which render them of unequalled efll
eaey in cleansing the blood of all impuritios, and impart
ing new life and rigor to the whole system. <*
FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions. Tetter, Sal-
Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Car
buncles, Ring-Worms, Scald Head, Sore Byes, Erysipelas,
Itch,Scurfs, Discolorations of tho Skin, Humors and Die.
eases of the Skin, of whatever namo or nature, are literally
dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by
the use ot these Bitters. One bottle in such cases will
convince, the most incredulous of their curative effects.
Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its im
parities bursting through tho skin in Pimples, Erup
tions or Sores; cleanse It when you find It obstructed and
sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul, and
your feolings will tell you when. Keep tho Wood pure,
and the health of the system will follow.
Pin, Tape, and other Worms, lurking in the
system of so many thousands, are effectually destroyed
and removod. Bays a distinguished physiologist, there
Is searoely an individual upon the face of the earth
whose body is exempt from tkd presence of worms. It
is not upon the healthy elements of the body that
worms exist, but upon the diseased humors and slimy
deposits that breed these living monsters of disease. No
System of Medicine, no Tonuifugos, no anthelmintics,
will free the system from worms liko theso Bitters.
J. WALKER, Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD dr CO„
D* "grists and Gen. Agents, San Francisco, California,
B9*BOLD BY ALL DRUUUI3TB AND DEALERS.
p Maj 13, 1871, l y .
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catarrh, sore mouth, sore throat, diptheria;
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W«. H. Tijox. Wm. W. Gordan
TISON & GORDON,
(kstablishkd, 1854.)
COTTON FACTORS
AND
Commission Merchants^
US BAT STBEET
SAVANNAH, GA.
T)AGGING AND IRON TIES ADVAN
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Liberal Cash Advances made on Consign
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oct. 9r an 4m.
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—AND
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LIBERAL advances made on cotton aud
t other produce when required. Orders
forfilagging, Ties and family supplies prompt
ly filled. All business entrusted to us will have
onr prompt personal attention.
Commission for selling Cotton, li percent
Stp. 23 89 6m
PULASKI HOUSE
Savannah, Ga
W. 11. WILTBEItGEIf, Proprietor
Miscellaneous.
From tho University Monthly.
HIGHER FEMALE EDUCATION.
The lime was when the highest
aim of woman was to be a goo:l
house-keeper. Now this branch of
knowledge is not to be despised, and
there is a counter danger of its be
ing neglected, against which we
would warn our female readers.—
Household limit is a necessary and
valuable attribute of woman. Do
mestic health and comlort, the phys
ieal well-being of children—with
which their higher well-being is
closely connected—the happiness ot
husband, father and brother, and the
pleasures of home, all in a great
measure depend on it. But it is not
the chiefend ol our wives and daugh
ters to cook bread and darn stock
ings.
Next came the idea that what are
called accomplishments are the highest
goml of of womankind. Females
were excluded from severer studies
under the notion that they were not
lit for these studies, or that these
sludies were not fit for them. Tfiat
we are still to some extent under
the influence of this opinion is appa
rent from the fact that the grade of
education in their institutions is in
ferior so that of our male colleges.
We advocate Literature as against
mere house-keeping and against
mere ornament. A liberal educa
tion is claimed as the. rightful boon
of woman. It is uot accessary to
slop to define accurately what is
meant by a liberal education. The
general sense of lhe term is well un
derstood. It is such an education,
as is afforded by the belter class of
colleges in ibis country, and more
completely by the Universities of
Great Britain and Germany.
Amongst us, however, and to some
extent in Europe, an evil tendency
is developing itself in accordance
with the materialistic proclivities of
the age. The wonderful discoveries
in the physical sciences, and the
countless applications ol them to
material purposes, have given a
mighty impulse to this class of slud
ies. However beneficial this may
be in many respects, the effect on
education is highly deleterious.—
These things exalt our animal na
tures, and augment our physical
comfort; but ihey do not, to a cor
responding degree, improve the
mind and adorn the heart. Our in
stitutions of learning have not whol
ly refused to spmpathize with the
age in its descent towards a gross
and degrading materialism, alike
detrimental to the intellect and sub
versive of the best social affections.
Let us resist this downward ten
dency ! Sad will be the day when
philosophical and classical studies
shall be neglected.
That the female mind is capable
of pursuing these studies, is evident
from the eminence to which many of
the sex have attained. The names
of Madame de Stael, Mrs. Somer
ville, Harriet Martineau, Hannah
Moore, and olhpr illustrious women,
will occur to the reader. Woman’s
capacity is further shown by the pro
ficiency of many of the pupils in our
higher institutions. If she have the
capacity, why should it be repress
ed ? If nature has endowed her with
the ability to tread the walks of lit
erature, and to enjoy the noblest
thoughts of men, and the manifold
works of God, why should she be
kept forever drumming on the piano,
or making awkward black marks on
pasteboard ? Should she whose soul
swells with the majestic rhythm of
of Milton, or flows along the chaste
and even levels of Addison, be con
demned all her days to circumscribe
her thoughts within the limits of a
button-hole ?
These exalted capacities beget
aspirations. Many women whose
energies are wasted in the trifles of
fashionable life, are conscious of
power to rise into the loftier regions
of thought. A miserable distortion,
and a painful sense of want, must
and do follow from this repression of
their better natures. We do not ut
terly condemn accomplishments.—
Within proper btunds, they are
useful and elegant. Where there
exists a special talent for any of
them, it should be highly cultivated.
But we protest against requiring the
whole generation of females to run
one giddy and undeviating round of
of light and fantastic education.
Most of them have no taste for these
things. The majority of the people,
both men and women, that we meet
with in this every-day world, are
made for more solid and homely pur
poses. Few can hope to Snine in
these aerial spheres. Think of the
immense ou:lay of time, labor, and
money expended in learning music,
and with what result ? You meet a
boarding-school Miss, with the ink
not dry on her diploma, and ask her
to give you some music: she is very
diffident—cannot play without her
notes; the notes are pro tuced; with
straining mind and crumped lingers,
she beats a humdrum on tho tenur
ed instrument. Yet ten years, thou
sands of dollars, and infinite toil
have been expended in learning this
single art. What stores ot knowl
edge would the same time and Inbm
have acquired ! What a noble libra
ry would this money have bought !
We do not preceive the peculiar
felicity of having a costly piano
which the young lady cannot piny
on, and no books except a dozen yel
low-backed novels and trashy maga
zines. Half the money and hull the
labor would have furnished her with
plenty of hooks to read and plenty
of sense to understand them. It is
insult to the charming genius of
music, that so many of her votaries
perpetually bring lame, blind, and
hall offerings to her altars.
As already remarked, where one
exhibits capacity for music, it should
be cultivated to ihe highest pitch of
excellence. It is a rate and illus
trious gill, and demands our hom
age. The human voice being a nat
ural instrument, being in some meas
ure adapted to music in all, and he
ing required to pour forth its melo
dies in public worship, does not lie
within the scope of the previous re
marks.
Another reason why “accomplish
ments” should no longer enjoy pre
cedence is, that that they are in most
instances a temporary acquisition.
They do not last. In a very few
years after leaving school they are
neglected. We may complain of
this, aud rale the ladies roundly for
it; but still the fact remains, they
almost all quit their practice, if
from the promptings of vanity in
themselves or their parents, they
have been led for many years to
walk in a vain show, and to pretend
to love and understand that which
they bate and of which they know
nothing, the miserable mask can no
longer be worn. If the chiefend of
banging on a piano be to win a hus
band—as the Orientals hang costly
pearls around their daughters in or
der to attract suitors—that end is at
tained, or they despair of attaining
it; in either case the curtain lulls
and the doughface drops. It ts im
possible that it should be otherwise.
What mother, with children anil ser
vants around her, with the cares of
dinner, and the sweet thoughts of
her husband’s comfort, feels dis
posed to forsake this earthly para
dise for the purpose of creating a
wretched discord among stringed
instruments!
The Occidental nations all require
the presence of woman in society ;
amongst us,she constitutes its bright
est ornament; her influence pre
serves it from rudeness and excess.
It is of great consequence, therefore,
that her education should fil her to
shine in society. Now the charm of
social life is conversation—conver
sation, as distinguished ou the one
hand from a prosy monologue, and
on the other trom a flippant gossip—
a genial discourse, in which two or
more personshaving many points of
sympathy, freely interchange their
thoughts for mutual profit and pleas
ure.
Far inferior to this are all the gau
dy but deceitful trapping of the card
table and the dance. If she would
diffuse the greatest pleasure most
widely, let her talk well; but in or
der to talk well, she must talk intel
ligently, and she cannot talk intelli
gently unless she he intelligent.
In order that the superiority of an
educated person in conversation
may appear, it is not necessary that
that the particular topics should be
introduced on which he is specially
informed ; but it will be seen, what
ever may be the subject.
“Education gives fecundity of
thought, copiousness of illustration,
quickness, vigor, fancy, words, im
ages ; it decorates every thing, and
gives the power of trifling, without
being undignified or absurd.”
Now, can the whole round of the
ornamental branches give these?—
Can a smattering of Grammar, and
a snatch of History, and a total igno
ranee of the Belles-Lettres afford
them ; There must be thorough cul
ture ; young ladies must study hard
and long; their days and nights
must be given to the whole field of
polite literature. They cannot talk
of that which they have learned by
role ; it is not enough that they re
tain half an idea here, and the tourlh
of one there ; there knowledge will
break down too soon; they will
never be quite sure about any thing,
and hence will he afraid to venture
a remark. That they may be at ease
in society, they must beon the gen
eral level of the Intelligence of those
around them.
Nothing can be more delightful
than the convetsalion of an educated
and refined woman. Her bird-like
voice charms the sense; her flowing
thoughts charm the soul; her beam
ing eyes and kindling cheek thrill
and transfix the heart. Words take
on t'resh forms as they fall, front her
lips; uiul common i ie;is me trans
muted into poetic fancies and pious
aspirations as tiny passthrough the
alembic of her mind. No wonder
that men gather around her, and
with chivalrous devotion lay down
it her feet their free-will offerings
ofhotriage, respect, and love. She
reigns a queen in the hearts of the
oilier sex; she is the glory ol her
own. T. A. Hoyt.
“Thou art coming to a King,
Large petitions with thee brin^.”
Alexander the Great had about
his Courts a philosopher of whom
he was proud : being once in a
strait, this philosopher applied to his
master for aid. He was iustiuctcd
to draw from the treasury whatever
lie wanted, lie drew upon the
Treasurer for ten thousand pounds.
The Treasurer refused and appeal
ed to the Emperor. “The philoso
pher asks too much,” he said. Al
exander heard him patiently and or
dered him to pay the last farthing of
it. “This man honors me by his
large requests—give him whatever
he asks.”
This same great man once dis
patched a courier alter a bag of
treasure very huniedly. The cou
rier found the bag and turned bis
course to the Emperor's camp, but
ere he had reached it, his faithful
steed fell exhausted and died. The
equally faithful courier shouldered
the money and at last came stagger
ing into the lent of the Emperor,
who gazed intently upon him a ino
ant! then ordered him to take the
whole of it for himself. The soldier
muttered, “It is too much for me to
receive.” It is not too much Jhr me
to give," replied the great man, and
turned away to his duties.
A greater than Alexander hath
said “Open thy mouth wide ayd 1
will fill it.” There is no blessing
too rich for him to give.
Never too Old to Learn.
In Wales people never get too
old to learn, rior too wise to study.
It is no uncommon thing to see men
of foursome years still scholars in
the Sunday-school. They began
when little children —they kept it up
when they became men, and now
that their heads are white, and they
almost ready for the school above,
they are all the more ardent and
anxious to learn. It has never crossed
their minds that they have learned
enough—much less that they have
learned it all. They think eternity
is not too long to study and serve
their God.
It was in this little province that
one of the judges of the Queen’s
Criminal Courts put on his while
gloves and announced that there
was was not one case on docket to he
tried. This unparalleled prosperity
the Judge attributed to their Sun
day-school training. But it required
no statesman or philosopher to see
that. It would require an American
statesman not to sec it. F.
Jkffhhson’s Ten Rules—Jeffer
son’s ten rules arc good yet, especi
ally so for those who have the train
ing of the pupils in our public schools.
They are so short and concise, and
embody so much of value, that it
would be well if they were clipped
and put where we could sec them
often. They read as follows:
1. Never put off till to-morrow
what you can do to-day.
2. Never trouble another for what
you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before
you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not
want because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger,
thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having
eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we
do willingly.
S. How much pain the evils have
cost us that have never happened.
9. Take things always by the
smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before
you speak; if very angry, count a
hundred.
Make Home Attractive. —There is
one thing I would be glad to see
more parents understand, namely,
that when they spend money judi
ciously to improve and adorn the
house, and the ground around it,
they are in effect paying their chil
dren a premium to stay at home, as
much as possible, to enjoy it; but
that when they spend money unne
cessarily in fine clothing and jewel
ry for their children, they are pay
ing them a premium to spend their
time away from home, that is, in
those places where they can attract
the most attention, and make the
most display.
“Mi Showman, can the leopard
change his spots?” “Yes, sir; when
he gets tired of one spot he can go
to the other.”
No. 38
A WIFE'S POWER.
The power ol a wile for good or
| evil is irresistible. Home must be
| the seat of happiness, or it must be
j fotever unknown. A good wife is
|to a man wisdom, courage and
i strength ; a bad one is confusion,
weakness and despair. No condi
tion is hopeless to a man where his
wife possesses limitless, decision,
and economy. There is no outward
prosperity which can counteract in
dolence, extravagance and folly at
home. No spirit can long endure
bad domestic influence. Man is
strong, but his heart is not adamant.
He delights in enterprise and action,
but to sustain him he needs a tran>
rpiil mind ; and especially if he is
lan intellectual man, with a whole
heart, he needs his moral forces in
the conflicts of life. To recover his
composure, home must be a place
ot cheerfulness and of comfort.
There his soul renews its strength
and goes forth with fresh vigor to
encounter the labor and trouble of
lile. But it at home he finds no rest,
and is there met with bad temper,
sulleuness, jealousy or gloom, or is
assailed by complaints and censure,
hope vanishes and he sinks into des
pair. Such is the case with too
many who, it might seem, have no
conflicts or trials of life ; for such is
woman’s power.
Study and Longevity.—Be
cause brain work promotes the con
sumption of nutrition quite as much
as bodily labor, a hard student will
get ravenously hungry. The thing
which keeps a man in health is the
constant renewal of the particles of
his body; labor uses up the new
particles ol nutriment, and works
off the old ones; eating supplies
new ones in their stead, and in this
way the body is always kept new
and young, and vigorous and thrifty.
If a man does not work at all, sits
still for a great part of his time, the
old, worn out particles ofthe system
remain in it and clog it up, and be
fore long the body becomes torpid,
and the mind dull, in time approach
ing to idiocy. The brain, like the
body, appropriates the nutriment of
food to its uses, and works off the
old, effete, matter. Kant, one of
the most profound thinkers of his
generation, living beyond three
score and ten, gave it as the result
of his observation that “Intellectual
pursuits tend to prolong life;” and
President Humphrey, of Amherst
College, said at the age of eighty
two, “I have yet to see the man
who died from the effects of hard
study.” Newton, the greatest think
er of his time, lived to the age of
seventy-three; and Herschel, the
greatest astromer of 1113 age, lived
beyond ninety, and so did Hum
boldt, the immortal author of “Cos
mos.” If ever a hard student dies
young, it is because he has not lived
rightly.— Dr. W. W. Hall.
Leaving Home. —The generation
that is now rising to industrial pur
suits in the rural districts of the
United States, ought to be impress
ed with the idea that they cannot
better their condition by hastening
away from their homes and trying
their fortunes in a great town. In
nine cases out of ten, as proved by
actual statistics, they are better off
as they are now. Indepenbence,
knowledge, culture, character, the
good opinion of others, are all as ca
sily acquired in the country as in a
great majority of instances, is wealth,
that attainment which is prized a
bove all others. How many who
have made the change have regret
ted it all their lives, and their chil
dren after them. There is nothing
in our social condition more to be
deplored than the haste to "be rich
that has taken such a hold of the
American people, and now prompts
this fondness for cities. It has been
wonderfully stimulated by our in
flated currency, and it can now be
controlled only by moral agencies of
the most effectual kind. There are
many things more desirable and
more respectable than wealth.
Avery ungallant journalist, who
has recently visited all the courts of
Europe, says, in a letter to the Etoile
Beige, that] he did not see a single
good-looking princess. As for the
Grand-duchess hereditary of Russia,
about whose beauty so much has
been written, he says that she is a
thin and sour-looking creature, who
appears to be over thirty years of
age. Queen Olga of Greece he calls
a pert-looking little woman, who ev
idently lacks brains. The Empress
Augusta ofGermany he charges with
dressing in too youthful a style.—
“Her majesty,” he says, “is a home
ly.woman; and so is her daughter
in-law, the fat and ungraceful crown
princess. The Princess Frederick
Charles, in whom I expected to find
an angelic beauty, from what I had
read about her, is a coarse-featured
lady, with very imperious and awk
ward manners. -She appeared to me
more like a housekeeper or a farmer’;}
wife than a princess.”