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[From the N. O. Picayune, Autumn Days. A poet sings—the days have come, The saddest of the year, The melancholy days, when leaves Are brown and woods are sere— But ah, to me these Autumn days, The sweatest dreams do bring, And more I prize its russet leaf Than brightest flowers of Spring. I Know that young hearts throb with joy, When May, with footsteps light, Comes coyly o’er the clover field’s Soft carpet, pink and white— And that they hear within the rills, Freed from the Frost-king's hold, Whispers that tell of Summer’s reign— Her stores of shining gold! But never June, with roses crowned, And wooing zephyrs near, To fan away the fever heat And dry each starting tear, • Can bring to me the soothing strains The wind-harp utters low, When old October tunes his lyre And bids his buglers blow. They lift from off my heart the mold That’s garnered ’neath its eaves, And bare the little bulbs I’ve hid Beneath the fallen leaves, Where well I know each slender root Will wake to life again, When April, with her bounteous hand, Pours out her tender rain. And, like a miser, gloating o’er His treasures, my soul cleaves With all its wealth of love untold, Unto its fallen leaves; Unto its buried hopes, that lie Awhile beneath the sod, But, springing upward, jet will bask In the bright smile of God! And so I count these pale germs o’er, Well knowing each will stand As ferryage to the Heavenly Port— The fair and Better Land; That through Life’s hazy Autumn day3 Glimmers a mirage bright, By Faith upheld, and never seen In Spring’s too glarish light. New Orleans, Oct, IS, 18t>8, FEMALE CELEBRITIES, THE PERSONNEL COMPOSING THE NEW YORK SOROSIS. A New York correspondent, in a recent letter, thus refers to the famous Sorosis, and the more prominent members com posing it : The meetings of the Sorosis are held twice a month, at *2 o’clock, P. M., at Fifth Avenue Delmonico’s. ITS STVLE. As one can see who watches them pass in, the ladies are all well and fash ionably dressed, and, as far as the Sorosis is concerned, the ancient imputation does not apply, which attributes to literary women ink-bedabbled lingers and rum pled hair. Neither is there to be seen any strong minded oddity of costume. ITS OBJECTS arc understood to be the welfare of literary and brain-working women all over the world, and the cultivation of woman’s mine and heart—perhaps the attainment of certain of her “rights,” although poli tics are tabooed. MADAME OCTAVtA WALTON LE VERT. One of the principal members is a well served, middle-aged lady, who still retains man y claims to beauty. She is remark able for her elegant and insinuating man ner, and is the authoress of the “Souve nirs of Travel,” and other works. In person, she is petite, plump, and black eyeef a widow, and much attached to her husband’s memory. At one period of her hte, Mine. LeVerfc was the leader of mobile society, and she is said to have Jost much property by the war. She is now at the South, attending to certain estates there belonging to her, and So !,MS ’ ur lhe time, feels that it loses her society Besides her interest in Litera te, this lady is enthusiastic on the subject ; Art > :il)d slie is accredited with having 1 * " a great devotee to the interests of Al ’t and Artists. MRS. JENNIE JUNE CROLY. Irs. Oroly is a blue blonde, with a dvi ; i"i blue light luiir, 1e 1 * ias darkened somewhat, of lute complexion of the clearer but . I , n fi S; u ' e > shc w rather small, nil ?° od > jnetty—a beauty, indeed, who has Z L?n VeS ' S i ie is th mother of is . u L- . 11 and^ en - . She dresses well, and ambitious to shine. SI,o' 10 ' S ) ice Prosident of the Sorosis. StfXr «d much, and i. i >'i Committee business. Her lms a | X PCrateS Witi ‘ ller f “ »« things, has t; 1 ! a PP® re “tly satisfied where 5,e ionics often >Ut ’- ' Vlt l . ab 1 161, varied tal ' ; > one 'ujuuctiou is ever fore - n her tongue ; and with the ardor Mies W- aud P° sitiveness , of Paul, she , ‘ 1 a d in single blessedness : “Never aan/ell-' h' 101 doD,t got never iV b} -n U ° lnea I ns marry ttarrv” 1 v* du; you must not Jnucii . ? w ». tlJls wou](l not so have ’ I U ‘adoring that so many married that trouble ®« were it not u °ly compounded the Sorosis. ; In her prolific and whirling brain, the tiubof multiform fruit, as the name sug gests—mi Jk tree, bread, upas (ominous constituent), and other kindred plants must have had a significance and an aim. -he is ‘independent,” and,perhaps, with reason; for, with her pen, she has, for some time, earned her pin and pocket money. Just on the verge of the Hpe turning point, she holds the attractive ness of earlier youth. madame demurest is of medium build, a handsome, black e3’ed woman, whose business talent is immense. By virtue of the publication oi a Magazine, she has been enrolled as a member of the Club. She lias a Ims band, who, it is said, adores her, and she is an excellent wife and mother. She is sagacious, clear-headed, and has an apti tude for money-making. Asa worker, W the hteiary ladies), she is fully en titled to membership, even though her woik has not been with the pen. ALICE C’ARY. Miss Cary is a tall and somewhat por.ly middle-aged woman, with very deep-set, or sunken, dark eyfcs. Her hair is dark and threaded with silver. Those who knew her as a girl, when she sipped honey dew from the wild flowers of Col lege Hill, near Cincinnati, and caught poetic inspiration and knowledge from that still glorious natural region, will re member her well. Many years ago, she published short poems in the Cincinnati izmes; and, when her ambition grew, she left for New York City, where she has ever since almost uninterruptedly resided. Some penetrating sorrow or disappoint ment seems to have seized and maintained Its hold upon her. She is silent, to a fault, and indisposed to sociability. A certain common sense, matter-of-fact air is her principal characteristic; and she is the last person whom a stranger would imagine to be a sentimental Poetess. Os late she has been very ill of hemorrhage ot the lungs, and, in consequence, she felt compelled to resign her position as Presi dent of the Sorosis. The vacancy has not been filled, and the general feeling is that r anny Fern should he assigned to the position. fanny fern. Fanny Fern, every one knows. It will not do to describe her; for, if the descrip tion were not to her liking, woe be unto tne writer thereof. She owns to fifty, and appears thirty. She declares openly that she intends to “manage the machine” . icrself- the machine being* Sorosis MARY KYLE DALLAS. Mrs. Mary Kylo Dallas, widow of the Artist, Jacob Dallas, nephew of Hon. George M. Dallas, is, perhaps, the young est lady belonging to the Society. She has the reputation of being the most in dustrious among the female Authors of the city. . In person, she is dignified, and graceful in carriage, with an elegantly moulded figure, a charming neck and bust and a high, intellectual head. Her eyes are gray, large, full, and lustrous. In conversation, she is animated, entertain ing, and vivacious. Her style of writing is free and flowing, and her stories are widely read and admired. She possesses an unusual fund of humor. Latterly, she had been engaged to write exclusively for the Ledger ; though, within a week or so past, the “Fireside Companion” has posted her name all about the city as contributing for that periodical. ‘This was probably done with a view to creatine a sensation. The late Mr. Joseph Kyle, an Artist, of high character in his pro fession, and the best cabinet Portrait Painter in New Y r ork, was Mrs. Dallas’ father. Her late husband was one of the most piolific and skillful ot Designers. Indeed, the fertility of his pencil was without limit Mary Kyle Dallas lias, also, a large degree of ‘artistic genius’ and could, if she were so minded, make herself distinguished in that way as in Literature. Together with Mrs. Oroly, aird Alice and Phoebe Cary, Mrs. Dallas was an original signer of the proposition for establishing the Sorosis. MISS VIRGINIA VAUGHAN. Miss \ iiginia A aughun recently joined the Club. This lady is a daughter of Mr. John C. Vaughan, formerly editor of the Cincinnati Gazette , afterward of the Chi cago Tribune, now of the Leavenworth (Kansas) limes, ohe resembles her fathcl. Her hair is rich and luxuriant, hei head large and high. In figure, she has a i otundity ot mould, inclining to the \ oluptuous, her eye is dark, large, and penetrating, and the expression of her countenance betokens intellectual effort. She is Book Reviewer of the New York Weekly Leader. In height, she is aborc the medium, and, in carriage, she is hold and tree. In conversation, she is, per haps, somewhat deliberate and slow of maimer. Miss Vaughan, when quite a young girl, as befalls nearly all youn„ women of spirit and genius), Ls fJS ... ks th | attractions and marvels of the ■ g<~ ..lie was, probably, fired thereto, MSHIB ©F fflf with added ardor, by the example of Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt, who was an occa sional “guest of honor” at her father’s house on Third Street, in Cincinnati, when she flashed meteor-like over the fashionable world, and attracted it to the theatre, by the brightness and intensity of hei acting. Miss A aughan, accord ingly> look to the Dramatic profession, and, after several month’s experience she abandoned the stage, and addressed her self to literary pursuits. PHCEBE CARY. Missel hoebe is a stout, dark brunette, black-eyed, and independent in her man ner. Whatever she may have been be fore, or elsewhere, in the Club she says little, and she does not seem to be so cially inclined. MRS. O’DOXOVAN ROSSA. Mrs. Rossa is a young Irish beautv wife of the Fenian, O’Donovan Rossa’ ™ ho at present, the captive of the English Government, under sentence of imprisonment fgr life. The devoted wile has come to this country for the )urpose of obtaining means and influence '0 procure her husband’s release, or, at east, a mitigation of his sentence. She writes and gives readings. One of the atest occasions on which Gen. Halpine, (Miles O’Reilly) appeared in public, was at one of Mrs. Rossa’s readings. He did lis best to aid her in her object, iu ac cordance with the ever generous prompt ings of his nature. — From the Nashville Home Monthly. IGNORANCE OF THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE.” N There is nothing so surprising to in telligent persons, and so discouraging to Southern authors and publishers,as thefact that a large majority of Southern people patronize, by preference, the most worth less periodicals of the North. Let us say at. the outset,that there are a few men, and women of the highest culture, who* prefer Southern periodicals, and place tnem in the hands of their children Our censures do not apply to this small class They are the salt of Southern so ciety, and save it from dissolution. With out the elevating influence of these select few, Southern character would sink to a low degradation. “ People will take such magazines as they like,” is said in ex planation of the course of our people. That is true; but the surprising thin'*' is that persons of any education, prefer an inferior article, or that persons of any spirit aie willing to sustain periodicals which abuse, and villify them. Yet such is the fact. Gen. Hill has been gathering some statistics; lie finds that in I Towns where Southern periodicals are most taken, there are in circulation, five Northern, to one Southern publication. In other places, the proportion is five hundred to one In uiost Southern towns, the combined circulation of all the South ern periodicals, is less than that of Go deg's Ladies' Book , or the New York Ltd get. besides, there is a large sale of publications which we ip> not choose to name here. Under these circumstances, it becomes the duty of every educated Christian man and woman to aid in sup poi ting, and circulating good periodicals. The liteiurv peiiodicals of the South arc worthy of support. They are pure, ele vated, -and instructive. The Southern It Gut tW t of Baltimore, is equal to any in the English language. Tim New Eclec- tic, published in the same city, is the best eclectic in America. Our readers can judge how well The Home Monthly fill* its place. Then, there are The Land We Love, Scott’s Monthly, and The La dies Tearl, all excellent. Among our exchanges, we have several literary weeklies of superior merit: The Mobile Sundag limes , Ihe Literary Pastime of Richmond, The Southern Home Journal , and The Leader, both of Balti more. For the children, there is Burke's Weekly, a charming periodical. From such a variety, every person of cultivated mind, and good taste, can selecc some- thing to please But we wished simply to introduce the following article from the St. Louis Christian Advocate , com mending it to the thoughtful attention of our readers; merely adding, in justice to the city of Nashville, that the two month lies published m this city arc largely circulated through the post office: “Time and again have the papers, and people of the North sneered at what they ailedged to be the ignorance of the Southern people. For a long while we had been disposed to deny the truth of the allegation, or, admitting its truth, we have been sorely at a loss to divine’the reason, or understand satisfactorily the cause of such ignorance, Os late, our difficulties are beginning to be removed. Admitting the truth of what has been charged, we cannot account for that igno rance, otherwise than by attributing it to the fact, tout there has ever been in the South such a bountiful supply of North ern school teachers, and Northern papers. Almost from time immemorial the South has been a sort of Paradise for Northern scnool teachers, and Yankee schoolmarms while those Southern children who were not educated at home, were usually sent to institutions at the North. Very re cently the editor of the Weekly Gazette, published at Trenton, Tenn., visited | Nashville, and, among other things, gives a brief account of the number, and char acter of papers sold in that city. After |gi\ingan account of Lis visit to the various news-stands, book-stores, etc., at which he made dilligent inquiry, as to the number and character of the periodi cals sold, he says: “VVe find thatamong the political publications of the South, that the Banner of the South had a sale of thirty-three, (this is Father Ryan’s paper—the best poet of the South,) and that no other political weekly, save mme publications, had any sale at all. VVe will place in contrast with this, the Metropolitan Record , which lias a sale of oi y-five; La Crosse Democrat, two hun- Ged; Agricultural journals—Southern, 111 y, Northern, sixty; Literary— • 01 ? f: rn ’ (>ne l lulJ dred and twenty-seven, including De Dow, thirteen; New Eclec - WG ' e j Land We Love, sixty-seven; other Southern periodicals, all told, thirty in leaggi egate, two hundred and twenty one; Northern— Harper's Monthly, two hundred and sixteen; A T em York Ledger, hve hundred and twenty.five: Harper's Weekly seventy-five; Putnam, forty six; Atlantic Monthly, cighty-seven- Ldeeltc Magazine, thirty-six. Fashion journals—Southern, none; Northern nine hundred and thirty-six; Foreign, ten! e can excuse the ladies for their exten ds sFfH° naffe of the Fashion Journals, eniid t‘T enter l srlse llaa never been equal to the getting „ p of a first-class Magazine of that character.” How could it be expected that people cou and be intelligent when their principal eadmg consisted of Harped Monthly, tin. New lorb Ledger, etc., ? The thing nffl T ls tllc T would read, and study such periodicals as Bledsoe & Browns Southern Eerie to, there would nt°“ R h ? pc , ° f ,llolr l,ecomin g intelli f,- ‘ u . the people ot the South are ot a very forgiving, as well as forbearing er iFtl 1 e * hapS tllere were no Publish er., m the country that, during the war sneered at, ridiculed, villified, misrepre sented and abused the Southern people more than did the Harpers. They heaped upon them injury upon injury, and added insult upon insult, and that, too, of the grossest character, and now 4 every South ern man or woman patronizing their pub heat ions acts well the part of Brother Jack, in Swift’s Tale of a Tub, saying: Worthy sirs, do me the honor of another good slay in the chops!” “Honest friends, pray favor me with another hand some kick!” “Noble sirs, do lend me anot her thwack, over these poor shoulders with that cane of yours.” Go on, ladies and gentlemen of the South, enrich the Harpers, the Bonners, < T id genus omne, and then be sneered at, aughed at, and ridiculed for your pains. jo on, and read their namby-pamby wishy-washy productions, and then be taunted for your ignorance—for ignorant you will be, if you read nothin Ad se and when you are kicked, and culled continue your patronage, and thus, ask ::or additional kicks; but be sure, all the while, to continue your boast of chivalry. CHARGE OF MURAT AT EYLAU, BY J T. DEADLY. .D bs Lylau, that Murat appears in his most terrible aspect... This battle, tought m mid-winter, in 1807, was the most important and bloody one that had then occured. France and Russia had never before opposed such strength to each other, and a complete victory on either side would have settled the fate of Lurope. Bonaparte remained in posses sion of the field, and that was all: no victory was ever so like a defeat. Hie field of Lylau was covered with snow, and the little ponds that lay scat tered over it, were frozen sufficiently hard to bear the Aitillery. Seventy-one thou sand men on one side, and eighty-five thousand on the other, arose from the fiozen field, on which they had slept the night of February, without tent, or cov ering, to battle for a Continent. Auger eau, ou the left, was utterly routed in the morning. Advancing through a storm so thick he could not see the enemy, the Russian cannon mowed down his ranks with their destructive fire, while the Cossack Cavalry, which were ordered to charge, caine, thundering on, almost hit ting the French Infantry with their long lances, before they were visible through the storm. Hemmed in and overthrown, the whole Division, composed of i(j,000 men, with the exception of 1,500, were captured or slain. Just then, the snow-storm cleared up, revealed to Napoleon the peril to which be was brought, and lie immediately or dered a grand charge by rhe Imperial Guard, and the whole Cavalry. Nothiug ' Vas further from Bonaparte’s wishes, or expectations, than tiie bringing of his stawoftt ° i', he ? D £ a g ement at this early resource left htin ’ ‘ here ° ther s V staine d his high reputation on h nd/fDL and ’ M himself, the hundredth time, worthy of the sreat confidence Nanolenn . 1 j Noth in» ? 1 traced in him. the battle-field at thL^mornem^^Bona 1 ? fssriaasa;S d.w„ his Cavalry to saVthem Sey en l Squadrons, making, in all, 11 000 well-mounted men, began to moreover the slope, with the Old Guard marchin.r sternly behind. 8 onaparte, it is said, was more agitated at this crisis, than when, a few moments , e or b ” e was so near being captured bv the Kussuias. But, as he saw those be\enty Squadrons come down on a plunging trot, pressing hard after the white plume of Murat, that streamed through the snow-storm, far in front, a fciniJe passed over his countenance. Ihe earth groaned, and trembled as they passed, and the sabres, above the dai-K, angry mass below, looked like the toam of a sea-wave, as it crests on the deep. Die rattling of their armor, and the muffled thunder of their tread, drowned all the roar of battle, as with f arra )> ar, d swift, steady motion, they bore down with terrible' front on the foe. The shock of that host was like a falling mountain, and the front line of the Rus sian Army went down like frost, before it. llien commenced a protracted fight of hand to hand, and sword to sword, as in the Cavalry action at Eckmuhl. The clashing of steel was like the ringing of countless hammers; and horses and riders were blended in wild confusion together. Ihe Russian Reserve were ordered up and on these, Murat fell with his fierce horsemen, crushing and trampling them down by thousands. But the obstinate Russians disdained to fly, and rallied again and again, so that it was no longer Cavalry charging on Infantry, but Squad rons of horse, galloping through broken hosts that, gathering into knots, still dis puted, with unparalleled bravery, the red and rent field. It was during this strange fight, that Murat was seen to perform one of those desperate deeds, for which he was so renowned. Excited to the highest pitch ot passion by the obstacles that opposed him, he seemed endowed with ten-fold Si length, and looked more like a super human being treading down helpless mortals, than an ordinary man. Amid the roar of Artillery, and rattling of musketry, and falling of sabre-strokes, IlvC lightning about him, that lofty white plume never once went down, while, ever and anon, it was seen glaring through the smoke of battle, the star of hope to Na poleon, and showing that “his right arm” was still uplifted, and striking for victory. He raged like an unloosed lion amid the foe; and his eyes, always terrible in battle, burned with increased lustre, while his clear and steady voice, heard above the turmoil of strife, was worth more than a thousand trumpets, to cheer on his followers. At length, seeing a knot of Russian soldiers that, for a long time, kept up a devouring fire on his men, he wheeled his horse, and drove in full gallop upon their levelled muskets. A few of his guards, who never allowed that white plume to leave their sight, charged after him.. Without waiting to conntJiis foes, he seized his bridle in his teeth, and with his pistol in one hand, and his drawn sword in the other, burst in headlong fury upon them, and scattered them as if a hurricane had swept by. Murat was a thunderbolt on that day, and the deeds that were wrought by him will furnish themes for the poet and the painter. Numerous Conversions. —A London correspondent, evidently a churchman, writes thus: “There are more secessions to Rome. Two Curates of St. Mary’s Church, Brown St., Soho, Messrs. Ford and Mapleson, seceded very lately, and to-day it is announced that the Rev. Pourries Floyar, a Staffordshire clergy man, has also gone over. The addendum , Mr. Floyer held no preferment, is very significant. A living, though it be only £2OO a year, is a wonderful ballast. In these days it is no louger Archdeacons and leaders of church parties who for sake their communion ; but young inex perienced Curates or unbeneficed clergy. In the Soho case, one of the seceders had only just been ordained Priest; the other had not received a university education. At Path, I am told, the headquarters of the Simeonite party in the Church, the Catholic clergy are making such numer ous conversions, especially among the upper classes, as to astonish themselves. 5