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THE COUNTRYMAN. “Titania.” "What must be done with brother "Wilkes of the Educational Journal, and his corres pondent ‘ Titania,’ for failing to give credit ? In the number for 2Mh September, * Ti tania'gives the “Song of Morgan’s Men” as it first appeared in The Countryman, with her name signed to it. and with “Se lected for the Educational Journal” at its head, but gives The Countryman no cred it fcr it whatever. % But again : If the reader will turn to the bottom of the 2d column of the 1st page of The Countryman, vol. 1, no. 4, he will find the following : “Excellence,” says Sir Joshua Rey nolds, “is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues indeed, no small strength of mind, to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages, which, like the hands of a clock, while they make hourly approaches to their point, yet pro ceed so slowly as to escape observation.” If lie will turn to the number of the Educational Journal, mentioned above, be will find the same extract, without any hint of its being a quotation (Sir Joshua’s name being left out) but ‘ Titania V at the bot tom of it, and “ For the Journal” at the top of it, as though it we v e original with •Titania.’ What say you, brother Wilkes and ‘Titania,’ why sentence of death should not be passed upon you both 1 Change-Tergiversation. “ The wisest man may be wiser today than he was yesterday, and tomorrow than he is today. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error: but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone. The world, however, is very censorious, and will hardly give a man credit for sim plicity and singleness of heart, who is not only in the habit of changing his opinions, but also of bettering his fortunes by every change. Butler, in his best manner, has ridiculed this tergiversation, by asking : ‘What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a-year : And What was proved quite plain before, Proved false again ?—Two hundred more.’ When, indeed, we dismiss our old opin ions, and embrace new ones, at the expense of worldly profit and advantage, tlieie may be some wlio will doubt of our discernment, but there will be none wlio will impeach our sincerity. He that adopts new opin ions at the expense of every worldly com fort, gives proof of an integrity, differing only in degiee from that of him who clings to old ones at the hazard of every danger. This latter effort of integrity has been de scribed by Butler in a manner which proves that sublimity and wit are not invariably disconnected : ‘For loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game: True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon.’ Therefore when men of admitted talent and of high consideration come over to truth, it is always better, both for their own and future times, that they should come over unto her,for herself alone, that they should embrace her as a naked and unportioned virgin—an indotata virgo (a dowerless maiden)—most adorned when deprived of all extrinsic adornment, and most beautiful v hen she has nothing but herself to bestow. But in the civil, no less *han in the ecclesiastical horizon, there will ever be some wandering stars whose phases we may predict, and whose aspects we may calculate, because we know the two forces that regulate their motions : they are the love of profit, and the love of praise. But as these two powers happen to be equal and contrary, the, career of all bodies, under their joint influence, must be that of a diagonal between the two. A certain non-conformist having accepted of a rich benefice, wished to justify himself to his friend. Ho invited him to dinner on a certain day, and added, that he would show him 8 satisfactory reasons for Bis ter giversation. llis friend came, and on his refusing to sit down until lie had produced his 8 reasons, our host pointed to the din ner table, which was garnished by a wife and 7 children. Another, on a similar oc casion, attempted to exculpate himself by saying, ‘We must live.’ Dr. Johnson would have replied, ‘I see no absolute ne cessity for that.’ But. if we admit this ne cessity, it might be answered by another— that we'must also die.” Hannah Adams. “Hannah Adams was a native of New England, whose literary labors have made her name known in Europe, as well as in her native land. Among her works are the View of Religions, History of the Jews, Evidences of the Christian Religion, and a History of New England. She was a woman of high excellence and purity of character. She died in 1831, at the age of 76.” - * Best Things to Give.—“The hebt thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness ; to your opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to a child, a good example; to a father, deference ; to your mother, con duct that will make her proud of you ; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.” * 29 Horticultural Anecdote. “ Under this caption an English maga zine of old date, reports that Sir Francis Carew treated Queen FJizabetb to a drink of cherries, one month after‘all cherries had taken their farewell of England.’— ‘ This secret lie performed by straining a tent or cover of canvass over the tree, and wetting it now and then, as the heat of the weather required. And so by withholding the sunbeams from the cherries, they grew great, and wore very long before they had gotten their cherry color.’—‘ When he was assured of her majgsty’s coming, he remov ed the tent, and a few Sundays brought them to maturity.’—No limit has yet been assigned to the effects which art, and skill, and labor can produce in changing the quality or time of maturity in fruits.” Gen. liobert E. Lee. “ A correspondent of the Charleston Cou rier, writing from the army, says of Gen. Lee: Yon cannot imagine a plainer or moreun- ostentions looking man than the command er-in-chief of the Confederate armies—Gen. Lee. Take a human form, say 5 feet 8 inches in height, its constituents well knit together, full in its proportions, and yet without superfluity ; add to it a well- shaped, squarely-built bead, with a front whose every line is marked with energy and genius ; a pair of keen, dark eyes, brown in the parlor, but black in tlie field, that seem to embrace everything at a glance; a handsomely shaped nose, such as Napoleon liked to see oa his generals ; a mouth indi cating an iron will, and a countenance whose natural expression is one of gentleness and benevolence ; cover the head, mouth, and lower part of the face with a heavy growth of short gray hair ; invest the whole figure with grace, and an unassuming conscious ness of strength, purpose and position; let it speak to you in a voice whose tones of politeness never vary, whether uttered to the highest or the lowest in rank ; and you have as full and complete a description as I can give of the distinguished man who, at this moment, ho^ds in the hollow of his hand the destiny of his country.” Motives—Pretexts.— “ The true mo tives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed. But the gilded and the follow pretext is pompous ly placed iu the front of the show.” “Ho who imagines he can do without the world, deceives himself much : but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.”