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LITEMEY Jfcmpmwicf GEORGIA. L. LINCOLN VEAZEY, Editor. = THURSDAIAIOKNING, JUNE 3,1858. WOMAN IN PROSE-may be a less attractive theme than the one ive last week discussed; but assuredly it will not appear so to any who consider truth not only more strange, but also more valuable, than fiction. Woman has played no unimportant part in the sternly real portions of the world’s history. She has done her share of labor, and done it well; she has endured no bly, more than her share of suffering, and it is right that she should receive that meed of praise which, though justly deserved, has been long withheld. Among men, she has been alternately the theme of abuse and panegyric. Wit has directed at her follies the keenest shafts of its quiver, while rhetoric has expended itself in eu logizing her virtues. Yet, few, either of those who lauded or condemned, understood her na ture or appreciated her character. The idea obtained at a very early day that woman was in every particular man’s inferior. Among the fathers of our race, her position was one of social inequality and degradation. For ages, and even until this day, among barbarous nations, she was a mere slave, whose highest duty was to supply the wants of her lordly rulers and maintain their indolent gentility. The wisest of their sages could not see that her degraded state was not her normal condition, and Mohamet, swayed by the prejudices of those whom he sought to make proselytes, denied her a soul. It was not until the religion of our Saviour sent its holy influences into the world, that she attained her true rank—that of man’s dependent in the rough life struggle, whom it is his duty to defend —his social equal, and his superior in tenderness, affection and love. Before the people of Europe had become fully reconciled to this new doctrine, they ran into the absurdities of the opposite extreme. To chiv alry, whatever might have been its errors —and they were neither small or few—woman must consider herself largely indebted. Though it had its origin in war, and carnage was the aliment of its support, it held respect and gentleness to females to be as essential to the true chevalier as personal bravery. The knight who breathed his vows to his lady-love, and then hurried off with lance and shield to meet the foe, made her the subject of his daily thoughts and nightly dreams. Gradually all those surroundings which proclaimed her mortal faded from his view. She became clad in the light of transcendent beauty and spot less purity; and in imagination, her presence guarded him during the battle’s fury, as in Gre cian song the Love Godess hovered with protec tive arm over the form of her dastard favorite. Those ideas, though visionary in themselves, were practical in their effects. Woman was lifted as far above, as she was formerly sunk below, lier proper level. She ceased to be the humble plant constantly trodden down, yet patiently struggling for existence, and became the tender hot-house plant which the breath of winter would destroy. Her true station is a medium between these. She should neither be bought and sold as a chat tel, and made the object upon which man may expend the little tyrannies of his nature, or wor shipped as a being of superior order. The Cre ator has endowed her with talents, and assigned her a sphere where they may be legitimately ex ercised. Whether or not the limits of her action have been too much narrowed by the customs of society, and the law of public opinion, is a ques tion we are not now disposed to argue. But with in the province that has been allowed her, she has been more universally faithful in the dis charge of her duty than the other sex. Her of fice has not been a sinecure, nor her foot-way one of unbroken smoothness. She has seldom been •called on to endure the rude shocks of the out ward world, and to undergo the hardships which the struggle for life imposes; but in the retire- ment of the domestic circle, she has encountered mountain difficulties, which nothing else than strong faith and untiring energy could overcome. None save God can know the heart-rending struggles upon which her unmurmuring patience has placed the seal of eternal silence; yet, we do know that she has aided and sustained man when his care-worn spirit would have sunk beneath the continued frowns of misfortune. She has given him her prayers, her cheering words of encour agement, her soft swisperings of hope, by which he went forth to labor with a stouter heart and a stronger arm. Nor has she shrank from perform ing whatever of toil her hands found to do; for no true woman, be her condition and circumstan ces what they might, ever eat the bread of idle ness. But all of the sex are not such as we have de scribed. There are many whose souls are the exti-eme opposites of their magnificently swelling robes, and whose aspirations never ascend higher than the gaudy trimmings that surmount their •crests. Their sole happiness lies in dress and display ; their only ambition is to be without a compeer in their devotion to fashion. To these unworthy considerations they will sacrifice their •own peace of mind, and that of all with whom they are connected. So far from relieving their husbands in financial pressures and distress of business, they make the difficulties still greater. Many of these poor, deluded victims of fashion >could not forego a late style of bonnet or anew -diess, if bankruptcy and a poor house stared them in the face. We have no doubt but that the fearful financial crisis which has oppressed this •country for the last twelve months, was owing in no small degree to the thoughtless extravagance <of wives and daughter’s. These are not women, but merely the dwarfed, contorted forms of what would have become such, had not a false system •of education weakened their energies, deadened their moral sensibilities, corrupted the purity of their desires and perverted their aspirations. Yet, with many, these frivolities, this devotion to fashion and love of admiration, are only arti ficial externals, and constitute no part of their real natures. The leaves which adorn and beau tify -the trees of the forest, though full of grace :and elegance, may be blown off by the first rude ‘blast of wind. But when these are swept away, ‘they leave bare a trunk of firmness mid strength which will withstand the rudest shocks of the storm. So is it with woman. Wire# basking under the smileß of fortune, in the lap of luxury, she seems as pliant as the osier that sways to • every breeze ; but let misfortune come indeed, nd, having thrown these trivial things aside, she will summons that strong “ divinity of soul” which danger cannot frighten or disaster crush. Timid as the fawn in hours of safety, she stands un moved when the proud are humbled and the brave quake with fear. In religion, as in everything in which the af fections of the heart are concerned, woman has ever been man’s superior. Even when indoctri nated with the tenets of a false faith, she exhib ited a zeal, a fervor, a depth of devotion, a purity of thought and an uprightness of deportment which rendered her a model for those who claimed intellectual superiority. It was this which placed her in heathen temples, and rendered her the recognised medium through whom the Gods held converse with men. While our Saviour was on earth, Jlis female followers adhered to Him with an unflinching faithfulness, and when the sub lime drama had closed, were “ last at the cross and earliest at the grave.” Since then, the brightest ornaments of the Christian faith, in every land, have been women. Man can fight for his religion: can march to the cannon’s mouth; can lay his head upon the block, endure the agonies of the rack and brave the terrors of the stake. But woman can do more than all this: she can live for it—live a life of meek humility and unobtrusive toil with a hope of no reward, save that which a just Taskmaster may give. Woman has been appointed, by the will of.her maker, to the most responsible relation which the world knows. It has often been remarked, and always with much of truth, that the mother occupies the position to her offspring of their second Creator. Ife has breathed into them the breath of life, but her delicate hand must shape the outlines bf their moral character. Such an office invests her with more true dignity than the empty splendors which surround enthroned potentates can ever confer. If the sculptor can look with a glow of pride upon the life-like form which his chisel has cut from marble, with how much more pride may she contemplate the char acter of one whom her untiring care, wise counsel and gently instilled instructions have contributed to mold into symmetrical consistency. Talk of great men; of their achievements and the fame they have won; but while you do this, be not silent in regard to the mothers to whom they are indebted for their greatness. LAUGHTER is, as much as thought or language, a mark of distinction between the reasoning and brute creation. Whatever signs of being pleased animals may exhibit, they never laugh. It is even more exclusively confined to human •beings than the use of words; for all irrational creatures, especially those of the higher orders, have some means of communication intelligible to eaeh other. They have, too, some method of conveying to us an impression of every emotion by which they may be agitated, but none which resemble laughter. As this is an important mark of distinction be tween brutes and men, it also serves to distin guish men from each other. There is nothing in which people differ more widely or significantly, than in their manner of laughing. Some never laugh at all. A meagre smile partially parting their lips, is their nearest approach to a pleased expression of countenance. Others laugh as silently as if they were committing some offence for which they were fearful of being apprehended and brought to punishment. Some always laugh as constrainedly as if they did it at some point less tale that lias been related for tlieir amuse ment, while others throw their souls into each effort of cachinnation, as if they never expected the enjoyment again. There is the empty, mean ingless laugh of those who laugh at everything, and “tho loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind.” There is a moral in laughter, and it is one wor thy of our consideration, as trifling as it may seem. Much of the soul is spoken forth in this wordless expression of inward pleasure. It is just as impossible for a mean man to be delivered of a good, hearty laugh, as it is for him to manifest honest, noble principles, and more so; for, the one he may hypocritically counterfeit, but the other he never can. Men sometimes laugh while performing acts of wickedness, but it is not that cheerful laugh which it charms the ear to listen to, and the eyes delight to see. It is more often the demoniac chuckle, which Satan might echo from the depths of Pandemonium. We love laughter ; it has a healthy, invigorating, life-preserving influence; it drives care and des pondency from the brow, and lifts loads of sor row from the heart. There is little of earthly happiness in which it is not in some way con cerned : for, though there be a negative pleasure which is calm and silent, laughter must ensue from all positive enjoyment. It deserves to be cultivated and promoted by allproper means for the sake of the benefits which it confers, both on the mental and physical systems. “ Laugh and grow fat,” is a prescription which, if followed, will prove more safe and efficacious than many of those issued from our doctor shops. “ Who’er expects a perfect piece to see,” Expects what he will never find anywhere, and least of all, in the columns of newspa pers. , There are many reasons why writers for a daily or weekly press should be more inaccurate than any other class. In the first place, he has always to write with a hurried pen, frequently throwing liis manuscript to the compositor before the ink is dry, with all its errors uncorrected. Then he must compose with a mind harassed by a multitude of other cares, not seldom having it to do as a task when no muse imparts her inspira tion. His time is public property to be broken in upon by any who may choose to favor (?) him with their company, and must arise sometimes while all aglow with a heated paragraph, to wel come with a bland smile someone whom, just at that time, he would prefer to know was in Siberia or at Botany Bay. If you, then, who tlirow aside a paper in disgust, because each sentence is not formed with perfect accuracy and adorned with all the gaudy images of rhetoric, you knew all the circumstances under which they were composed and written, would be moved more in sorrow than in anger. The following touchingly simple lines were ex tracted by the Home Journal from the lately pub lished book of Miss Mulock. The authorship ol them is unknown: ‘“Do ye think of the days that are gone, Jcanie, As ye sit by the fire at night ? Do ye wish that the morn would bring back the time, When your heart and your step were so light ?’ * I think of the days that are gone, Robin, And of all that 1 joyed in then ; But the brightest that ever arose on me, 1 have never wished back again.’ 1 Do yc think of the hopes that arc gone, Jeanie, As yc sit by your fire at night? Do ye gather them up as they faded fast, Like buds with an early blight V ‘ I think of the hopes that are gone, Robin, And I mourn not their stay was fleet; For they fell as the leaves of the red rose fall, And were even in sassing, sweet.’ ‘Do ye think of the friends that arc gone, Jcanic, As ye sit by your lire at night? Do ye wish they were round you again once more, By the hearth that they made so bright?’ ‘ I think of the friends that are gone, Robin; They are dear to my heart as then; But the best and dearest among them all, t 1 have never wished back again.’ ” “ Deem it not an idle thing A pleasant word to speak; The face you wear, the thoughts you bring, A heart may heal or break.” How little do we know, when a word issues from our lips, where it will end, and what effects it will produce. A word spoken in the lightness of jest may tell fatally or happily on our own or another’s destiny. The slanderous whisper, breathed with an injunction of secrecy, may ruin the proudest hopes of a life. There are no tri fles in this world of realities, save in appearance only; but every word and every act is connected with some other which renders it a link in the chain of destiny. The Second Annual Fair of the Gass County Agricultural Society will be held at Cass Depot, on the 30th of September and Ist of October next. Newton s, Hawkins, convicted of murder at the last Superior Court of Gordon county, was hung at Calhoun on the 21st inst. •*••<> The Supreme Court commenced its session at Athens on Monday and closed on Tuesday. There were about five cases on the docket, four of which were heard and one continued. Henry W. Geiger, a son of Col. 11. H. Geiger,’ of Jasper county, a student of Emory College, was drowned in Yellow River, near Oxford, on the afternoon of Monday, 24th inst., while bathing. A little daughter of David Ennis, of G irarcl, Ala., while in Columbus, a few days -since, overturned a vessel of starch just taken from the fire, and and was so badly burned that she died the same night. O.v Friday evening last, (28th ult.) we were visited by a very heavy storm of wind from the south-west, attended by the fall of a large quan tity of rain. The two following days were cool and cloudy, highly unfavorable, wo should think, to wheat crops not in a very advanced state of ripening. “ Salvation of Infants, or Children, in the King dom of Heaven,” is the title of a little pamphlet of twenty-four pages, which lias been laid on our table by the Southern Baptist Publication Society, S. C. It is from the graceful and able pen of Rev. J. P. Tustin, Editor of the ,sbut hern Baptist. The American Cotton Planter <(’• Soil of the South is an able agricultural monthly, published at Mont gomery, Ala. and edited by Dr. N. B. Cloud and C. A. Peabody, Esq. We have received the June number, which is filled with matter of interest and importance to those for whom it is specially designed. Price, SI.OO a-year. The ThomasviHe-Enterprise says : The wheat and oat props throughout this section have been en tirely destroyed by rust, and we learn that in some places it is beginning its in-roads upon corn. There will not be sufficient wheat and oats made to furnish seed for the next season, and it is greatly feared that the corn crop, notwithstanding the favorable season,,will be very short. Blackwood’s Magazine for May contains Part 3d of an able essay on “Food and Drink,” Part 12 of Bulwer’s, “What will he do with it?” “Antiqui ties of Kei;tcll,” “Colleges and Celibacy—A Dia logue,” “ Zanzibar, or Two Months in East Afri ca,” “The roorbeah Mutiny,” “Italy—of the Arts, the Cradle and tho Grave,” and “ Oude.” Re-published by L. Scott & Cos. New York, at 83.00 a-year. The London Quarter?>j Review for April opens with a long and interesting paper on “The Early Life of Dr. Johnson.” Besides this, it contains “Fictions of Bohemia,” “Italian Tours and Tourists,” ‘"'l'he progress of English Agricul ture,” “Michael Angelo,” “Public Speaking”—a splendid article, “ Siege of Lucknow” and “ France and the Late Ministry.” Ite-published from the British advance sheets, by L. Scott & Cos. New York, at $2.00 a-year; one of the Reviews and Blackwood, $5.00. An Insurance Company was organized in Atlan ta to take risks against disastei by fire or flood, and insure the lives of slaves, Ac. The following is a list of the officers for the ensuing’year: Bolling Baker, President ; J. D. Lockhart, Secretary; Dr. Jos. P. Logan, Medical Exami ner. Directoi s.—Bolling Baker, Thomas M. Jones, of Fayetteville, J. R. Wallace, A. W. Stone, and J. JD. Lockhart. We are indebted to some unknown friend for a copy of the Catalogue of the Officers, Students and Alumni of Emory College, for the scholastic year 1857-’B. This Institution, located at Oxford, Ga. is, as is well known, under the direction and pat ronage of the Methodist Episcopal denomination of this State, and they support it in a manner worthy of all commendation. The Catalogue now before us shows it to be in a highly prospei*- ous condition, there being in attendance, during the present term, 175 students, of which 122 be long to the college classes, viz: 2G Seniors, 3G Juniors, 41 Sophomores, 23 Freshmen and 0 Ir. regulars. THE names of the great Orators who have flourished in the British realm during the last hundred years, are’ almost as familiar to American ears as those of our own. But of their histories, their respective manners, the character and rank of their genius, and what they severally accomplished, comparatively little is known. We are too much disposed to estimate lowly the merits of the Orators and Statesmen of the old world from the impression which many have re ceived, that the elevated positions which they occupied, and all the honors which accrued therefrom, descended to them by hereditary right. It is a fact, however, worthy of note, that most of those who have been most conspicuous in British history for the last century, arose from the common ranks, and some never received any patents of nobility. The last number of the Lon don Quarterly contains a sketch of eacli of these, beginning with the “Great Commoner,” and com ing down to Lord Derby in chronological order, from which we take the following extracts: Earl of Chatham. The first Mr. Pitt, the earliest, since the time of Queen Anne, of the great orators of whom we have specimens sufficient to enable us to judge of his style, had been at small pains to qualify him self for his part in other particulars, but a peren nial flow of parliamentary eloquence can no more exist without prompt language than without a tongue, and he had taken especial care to furnish his memory with a copious vocabulary. Lord Chesterfield asserts that he had very, little politi cal knowledge, that his matter was generally flim sy, and his arguments often weak. This is con firmed by Dr. King, whostates that lie was dermoid of learning, unless it was a slight acquaintance with the Latin classics, and his sister, Mrs. Anne Pitt, used to declare sarcastically—for being of the same haughty temperament they agreed, as Horace Walpole says, like two drops of fire—that the only book lie had read was Spenser’s Fairy Queen,’ which drew from Burke the remark that whoever was master of Spenser ‘had a stronghold of the English language.’ But lie had hot trusted to the bright and roman tic iancy of Spenser alone to supply him with the materials for contests so unlike the source from whence he fetched his aid. Ho studied tliefamous divines of ourchurch, and especially Barrow, with the same view. Not only did he attain to a readiness which never failed him, and in the consciousness of power de lighted to avail himself of any opportunity to re ply, but according to Lord Chesterfield every word he employed was the most expressive that could be used. What remains of his eloquence would not bear out this last eulogium, but the re ports are meagre, and cannot be trusted for more than an occasional fragment of which the vigor proves the accuracy. Nevertheless it is certain from cotemporary accounts that, like all men who speak much, and trust to the inspiration of tlie hour, he sometimes made bad speeches, and would often interpose between his brighter sallies long passages of commonplace rhetoric. A bold, brief, and pointed mode of expressing daring truths, sometimes by metaphor and sometimes by antithesis, is the characteristic of his most stir ring appeals. He put had to.say into,the strongest words the English tongue would afford, and, possessing a spirit as dauntless as his lan guage, the attempt to check him invariably drew from him an indignant arid defiant repetition of the offence. Herice he was a terrible antagonist, who awed his opponents by the fierceness and courage of his invectives, and on popular ques- I tions roused enthusiasm by the short and vehe ment sentences in which he embodied the fever -isll passions of* his hearers. It required tlie ut most energy of style to sustain the commanding tone he,assumed, and he would Have been ridic ulous if ho had not boon subiiino.’ Ofhis manner we can with difficulty form an idea from the des criptions which have come down to us, but all are agreed that every art of elocution and action aided his imposing figure and bis eagle eye. So consum mate was his gesture and delivery that Horace Walpole often calls him ‘Old Garrick.’ This as much as his command of language must have been the result of study, and well deserved it for the effect which it produced. Edmund Burke. ; In 17G6 Johnson announced to Longton that! Burke, who had recently obtained a seat in Par j Lament, ‘ had made two speeches in the House for repealing the Stamp Act, which were publicly eommendeci by Mr. Pitt, and had filled the town with wonder.’ This was the appropriate start of a man who, whether as a statesman, a thinker, or an orator, was without an equal. Pitt and Fox were great, but Burke belongs to another order of beings, and ranks with the Shakespeares, the Bacons, and Newtons. He was what he called Charles Townsend— ‘ a prodigy’—and the conclu sion of Moore, after reading the debates ot the time, that his speeches, wnen compared with those ofhis ablest cotemporavies, ivere ‘almost super human,’ must be shared by every one who adopts the same means of forming a judgment. John son said ‘he did not grudge his being the first man in the House of Commons, for he was the first man everywherebut the House of Com mons was not composed of Johnsons, and when the novelty had worn off they grew tired of his magnificent harangues. His manner was against him. Grattan, who heard him shortly after he had entered Parliament, and while he was yet lis tened to ‘ with profound attention,’ and received the homage due to ‘acknowledged superiority,’ states that there was a total want of energy in his delivery, and of gracein his action. Later liewas noted for frequent outbreaks of impetuosity bor dering upon passion, but they rather conveyed the idea of irritability of temper than earnestness of feeling, and were thought no improveiueut upon the frigid tone of his early displays. His voice, which he never attempted to discipline, was harsh when he was calm, and when he was excited he often became so hoarse as to be hardly intelli gible. The very circumstance which diminished the interest ofhis oratory when it was delivered adds to it now. The less it was confined to temporary topics, and tlie more it dealt in permanent prin ciples, the greater its value to posterity. Those whose own horizon was bounded by party preju dices could not even perceive how vast was the reach of his vision in comparison with their own. the profligate Wilkes, who, in his popular time, j was at best an ape mimicking the fierceness of the j tiger, said, in the days when, the pretended pa- j triot had subsided into the sleek and docile placeman, that Burke bad drawn his own charac ter in that of Rousseau —‘much splendid brilliant eloquence, little solid wisdom.’ In our age the wisdom and the eloquence would be pronounced to be upon a par. They are both transcendanf, and tho world has n'ever alforded a second exam ple of their union in anything like tlie same de gree. Ilis language was nervous, his sentences polished, his abundant metaphors grand and orig inal. Though his style is never stilted, it lias a rare majesty both in thought and expression. Oc casionally lie descends to phrases and images which arc too homely for the general train of his discourse; but these blots are not frequent. Ilis commonest fault is rather a monotony of dignity, which wants the relief of passages dressed in a more familiar garb. ll© has tho further defect of moving too slowly over his ground. There is no repetition in his language, nor much tautology in his sentences. But he dwells long upon one idea, and reiterates it as a whole or in its parts under manifold forms. Charles Fox. Conversation Sharpe relates of Mr. Fox that he sometimes put the arguments of his adversaries in such an advantageous light that his friends were alarmed lest he should fail to answer them. To state one by one the arguments of the opposi tion, and one by one to reply to them, was the characteristic of his speaking, and without the aid of this text upon which to hang his comments lie could make little progress. His opening speeches were almost always bad, Until he got warmed with his subject he hesitated and stam mered, and he often continued for long together in a tame and commonplace strain. Even in his highest flights he indulged in incessant repeti tions, was negligent in his language, and was nei ther polished nor exact in his style. Notwith standing these defects he exercised a prodigious influence over his hearers. ‘He forgot himself,’ says Sir James Mackintosh, ‘and everything around him. Ho darted fire into his audience. Torrents of impetuous and irresistible eloquence swept along their feelings and convictions.’ There is nothing in his finest passages which would seem to answer to this description, for to the calm eye of the reader they are married by the want of condensation and finish, and their faults are per haps more conspicuous than their beauties. But if his speeches are considered with reference to the influence they might exert when delivered with vehemence to partizans who were excited upon the topics of which they treat, and who would only slightly remark during the rapidity of utterance the negligence which reigns through out his best declamation, it is easy to understand the impression they made. There is a rough vig or and animation in his phraseology, a force or plausibility in his reasoning, and a fertility in his counter arguments which would be highly ellec tive whilst the contest raged. William Titt, Lord Chatarn brought up his son to be an ora tor, and the reason he came forth a consummate speaker in his youth was that lie had been learn ing the lesson from boyhood. None of the negli gence of Fox was apparent in him. His senten ces, which fell from him as easily as if he had been talking, were as finished as if they had been penned. They were stately, flowing, and harmo nious, kept up throughout to the same level, and set off* by a fine voice and a dignified* bearing. But it must be confessed that there is a large measure of truth in the criticism that he spoke 7 a state-paper style. Though the language is sono rous, pure, and perspicuous, and though it per fectly defines the ideas he intended to convey, it is wanting in fire, and those peculiar felicities which arrest attention, and call forth admiration. In our opinion he was greater as a minister than as an orator if his speeches are to be judged as literary compositions, and not solely for their adaptation to a temporary purpose, which they most effectually served. His father was less equal and his manner indeed entirely different from that ofhis son, but in the energy and picturesque ness of his brightest flashes, Lord Chatham was as superior to Mr. Tittas Pitt was superior to Lord Chatham in argument and the knowledge of politics and finance. It. 13. Sheridan. Sheridan as an orator was very inferior to the persons with whom his name is usually associated. 1 1 is taste was radically vicious. II is favorite sen timents were claptrap, his favorite phraseology tinsel. The florid rhetoric, the apostrophes, and the invocations which imposed upon his listeners appear now to be only lit to be addressed to* the gallaries by some hero of a melo-clrama. Burke said of his speech on the Begums in Westminis ter Hall, at the impeachment of Warren Hastings, ‘ That it is the true style; something neither prose nor poetry, but better than either.’ Moore had the short hand writers’ report, and though his own taste at that time was sufficiently- oriental, he pronounced it to ‘be trashy bombast.’ I here is occasionally in Sheridan a line image ora splen did sentence, but his most highly wrought passa ges belong in general to the class ol the false su >- lime. llis wit, which was the chief excellence, was equally known to have been studied in the closet oven before Moore printed from las papers the several forms through which many oi Ins sar castic pleasantries have passed from their first germ to the last edition which he produced m public. Pitt in replying to him spoko of his hoarded re partees and matured jests.’ Every person who has been upon the stage remains more or less an actor when he is off. Sheridan, the son. of a player, and himself a dramatist and the manager of a theatre, had contracted this habit, and car ried to charlatanry bis vain attempts to conceal liis labored preparation. Lord Canning. Cnnnin” is an evidence that wit and eloquence may find a full exorcise in the exposition of facts and in reasoning upon details.ns well as m vague and superficial generalities. Ills style was lighter than that of Pitt and his language more elegant, disclosing in its greater felicity his more intimate acquaintance with the masterpieces of literaturo. His graceful composition would hay e enlivened any topic 6VCn it Ills satirical pleasantry had been less bright and abundant. The point in which he fell below the highest orators was in his de el amatory passages, which aresomewhat deficient in that robustness and power, that grandeur and magnificence which thrill through the mind. The effect of his speaking was even diminished by the excess to which lie carried his painstaking, by the evident elaboration of everjr word he uttered, by the over-fastidiousness which prevented his for getting in his subject his care for the garb in which he clothed it, He needed a little more of that last art- by which art is concealed ; but what intense application did not enable him to reftveh would certainly have not been gained through in dolence, except by the sacrifice of all the merits which have rendered him famous. Lord Brougham. Lord Brougham, who comes next in this line or illustrious orators, whom we have named in a chronological series, has, like Cicero, discoursed nS!m Up ° n h ! S!irt; autl n °t Cicero himself has insisted more strenuously upon the absolute ne eess.ty of incessant study of the best models, and diligent use of the pen. His speeches, a selec tion from winch, in two volumes, has been re cently published, are an evidence that he has done both in his own person. His familiaritv with Demosthenes is attested by his imitation of some of bis noblest passages; and he is generally understood to have writ ten several of his celebra ted perorations again and again. No man has spoken more frequently offhand, or has had a more inexhaustible supply of language, knowl edge, and sarcasm at command. He, if any one, might have been supposed capable of dispens ing with tho prepe at ion he has practised and en forced ; and we could desire nostronger illustration of the eternal truth, that excellence and labor are never disjoined. In the speeches of Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, and Canning, we seek in vain for specimens of oratory which, when separated from the context, would give an adequate idea of their powers, and do justice to their renown. Their most perfect pages would disappoint those whose opinion of their genius is chiefly derived from traditionary fame. In the ease of Lord Brough am, the best panegyric of his highest eloquence is to transcribe it. My Love. BY FRANCIS DE HAES JANVIER. “ 1 my love in spring time.”—Charles Mack.iv. I. I loved my love iiTspring time, When like a budding flower, The promise of her loveliness Tlnfolded every hour— I loved her for her heartlessness, Half trustful, half afraid— T loved my love in Spring time, A pure, retiring maid ! 11. I loved my love in Summer For promises fulfilled, For influence on my wayward heart, Like heavenly dewdistiled— I loved her lbisweet sympathy, Which drew Iter to my side— I loved my love in Summer— A beauteous, blushing Biide ! 111. I love my love in Autumn For lovelines mature, For golden stores of happiness, , All gathered and secure— I love her for approving smiles, Which brighten all my life I love ray love in Autumn ; A lovely, loving Wife! IV. I’ll love my love in Winter, Though on herbrowmay fall, Like snow flakes in the eventide, Time’s silver coronal— Though deoponing furrows multiply, And beauty disappear— I’ll love my love in Winter, As I’ve loved her ALL THE year ! Foolish Virgins. In olden times there were “five foolish virgins .” We are afraid that there are fully as many as that number at this present clay. Some of them were born foolish; some of them were made fool ish by the examples of their weak-minded mo thers ; and some of them havo made themselves foolish. . See that dashing belle, flounced from her heels to her arm pits, and bedizened with jewelry, pearls, gems and precious stones. Her mother thinks Ler an angel; and she thinks herself an archangel; but she is a “foolish virgin”—that is all she is. He who made her endowed her with au immortal soul, and pointing her to an eternal hereafter, said to her, “ Let not your adorning be outward, the adorning of plaiting the hair, of wearing gold, or of putting on apparel, but let it be the bidden man of the heart, even the orna ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.” But all the adorn ing that this foolish virgin has is outward. She has no solid education, no mental culture, and no noble and generous heart. She is not qualified for any usefulness in this world, usefulness except as a frame on which to exhibit dry goods and the dressmaker’s skill. Ancl when she shall appear be fore her Maker, stripped of her “outward adorn ing,” and without that precious “ ornament of the heart,” what a miserable figure that foolish virgin will cut. ft is awful to think of the future of these mere butterflies of fashion. What is she good for ? She knows not how to earn an honest livelihood. She could not make a loaf of bread, nor roast a turkey, nor bake a pudding. She could not knit a tidy, though she oftens knits her brow. She could not darn a stocking, though she could darn everything else. The most sim ple article of dress that adorns her useless body she could not make. “ She toils not, neither does she spin, yet Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like her.” She has very little mind. Tier head is well nigh as hollow as a yellow pumpkin. She can only talk of theatres, balls, fashion and beaux. Her moral nature is wholly uncultivated. She spends more in examining fashion plates than in examining her poor little heart; more time in reading love stories than in reading the blessed Bible. What on earth is she good for? She is a bill of useless expense to her father, and a barren fig tree in the great moral vineyard.* The world would be better off if this foolish virgin no longer encumbered (lie ground. And one of these days the scythe of Time will cut her down, and the miserable flirt will go to her account. Girls, young women, consider your wavs. Have a high and worthy purpose. Make yourselves a blessing to this world. Abhoi to ie Flora M’Flimsev, as you would abhor to be any other fool. Be‘useful, be modest, be good, be “wise virgins,” and when the great bridegroom shall come, you shall go with him to the mar riage. , Wit and Sarcasm Were united when Lord Chatham rebuked a dishonest Chancellor of the Exchequer by finish ing a quotation the latter iiad commenced. The debate turned upon some grant of money for the encouragement of ai t, which was opposed Dy the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who finished his speech against Lord Chatham’s motion by saying, “‘Why was not this ointment sold and the money given to tlie poor?’” Chatham rose, and said, “ Why did not the noble Lord complete the quo tation', the application being so striking? As he lias shrunk from it, I will finish the verse for him * This Judas said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and carried the bag. ,!) It was coarse wit when Lord Byron, who was groaning with agony from a severe attack of colie, and exclaiming, “ Lord help mo? I am dying,” was told by Trclawnev, “Not to make such an in fernal fuss about dying.” Luttrell tells a story of Sir F. Gould, who had a habit of adding the phrase “on the contrary” to every thing he said; a gentleman saying to him, “So I hear Gould, you eat three eggs every morning for breakfast?” “No,” roplied Sir Francis, “you are mistaken; on the contrary —” “ What tho devil,”said Luttrell, “does the contrary of eating three eggs mean ?” “ Laying them of course!” said Sheridan. This was ready wit. • i i•• . The Tender Passion.— -Thackeray says, that “ when man is in love with one woman in a fami ly, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it. He ingratiates him self with tho maids; he is bland with the butler; he interests himself with tho footman ; he runs on errands for the daughters; he gives advice and lends money to the young son at College; he pats little dogs, which he would kick otherwise ; he smiles at old stories, which would make him break out in yanns were they uttered by any one but papa; he drinks Sweet Port wine, for which he would curse the steward and the whole com mittee of a Club ; he bears even with the can tankerous old maiden aunt; he beats time when darling Fanny performs her piece on the P ian ° ; and smiles when wicked, lively little Bobby up sets the coffee over his shirts.” It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim-milk. - - , ■ The national debt of Spain amounts to £l4<V 000,000 sterling. The Legislature of Oregon, at its last session divorced 00 couples. 7 The population of Cleveland, Ohio,lias increased from 17,000, in 1851>,-to G(),000. ~f f There are theatres in Paris, twen ty-three in London, and ten in New York. They are pot reformers who simply abhor evil. Such men become in the end abhorrent them selves. Carry holy principles with “you into tlie .world, and the world will become hallowed by their pre sence. The name of Yuma is proposed for anew Ter ritory, to be formed from the western division of Utah. Anew post office lias been established in Carroll county, (la., called “Central Point. J as. F. Reevds, postmaster. The Bainbridge Georgian says that tlie prospects tor fine crops of corn and cotton iii that country are very flattering. Fb e Hon. Edward Erakhie, Secretary of tho British Legation at .Turin, is appointed to the same post at Washington. .Governor A\ illard of Indy, is lying very low with a severe attack oi pneumonia or congestion of the lungs. Ilis recovery is doutful. There is a purple half to the grape, a mellow and crimson half to the peach,, a sunny half to the globe, and a better half to man. Kirwan says that a pious Scotchman used to pray, “O Lord keep me right ; for thouknowest if 1 go wrong, it is very hard to turn me.” Nearly two thousand British subjects are cal culated to be in Rome at the present time, and as many more Russians, French and Americans. The F reach government is seriously thinking of intjwrting one hundred thoijsand negroes into Al geria, to give an impetus to production there. The specie reserve of the Philadelphia Banks amounts to over seven millions of dollars. Tho circulation is slightly under two million and a half. Tho Class of ’AT in Hamilton College, N. Y,, instituted a fund of £SO, which was to be appro priated to the purchase of a Silver Cup, as a prize to the first boy born to any member of the Class. Tho accounts from the agricultural districts of France are cheering, Tlie wheat crops promised an early and an abundant harvest. The vine yards, generally, likewise presented a fine appear ance. Ft is currently rumored that Janies M. Buch anan, Esq., of Baltimore, has received the appoint ment of Minister to Denmark in place of the Hon. Henry M. Hettinger, whose commission has expired. -m * ■>*>■ • *■ Among Jho patents issued from the United States Patent Office, for the week ending May IS, 1858, each bearing that date, is tlie following: .1 ohn M. Hall, of WaiTcnton, < )a. For improve ment in plows, Tho number of newspapers in the State of New York is 559, and other periodicals 112; aggregate circulation of dailies 3 12,7.83, semi-weeklies 40,- 387, weeklies 1,284,340, semi-monthlies, 204,000, monthlies, 1,287,050. The extent of the teritory and variety of cli mate of the United States, may be realized in the fact that in certain parts of Texas the- wheat crop is now ready for the scythe, while at the North it is just beginning to grow. Ministers are not the costliest articles in the country after all. In the United States, the clergy cost 812,000,000 per year; criminals, 840,000,000; lawyers, 870,000,000; ardent spirits, $200,000,000; and eveu dogs oversßo,ooo,ooo. The clergymen stand at the lowest figure on this list it appears. - Death of an Episcopal Bishop.— Letters re ceived from Arkansas announce tlie death of tlie Rt. Rev. Geo. \V. Freeman, Bishop of tho Dio cese of Texas and Arkansas. The event took placejat Little llock, Arkansas, the 28tli ult. Bishop Freeman was 68 years of age. In early life lie resided in North Carolina and Delaware. Francis, Duke of Luxembourg, was a celebrated French general, and much deformed. His uni form success, when contending with V idiam 111., of England, rendered him an object of jealousy to that prince, who once, in the bitterness ot his heart, called him “hump-back.” “What does he know of my back?’’ said tlie marshal, “he never saw it.” The national debt of England, caused by the accumulated expenses oi former wars and foimei deficiencies between receipts and payments is, in round numbers, £800,000,000; tlie interests ol which and expenses of management, &c., annu ally amounts to about £28,000,000. equal to more than $100,000,000, and lias to be provided for out of the receipts ol tlie year. The widow of Joe Smith, the Mormon, still re sides at Nauvoo, but she cares nothing for the saints, and lias married a tavern keeper, who thinks all prophets humbugs. Young Joe, who should by light have been the head ol the Mor mons, is a stout gawky of twenty-two, who hates Brigham Young, and curses tlie Salt Lakers. Nauvco was once a place of twenty thousand in habitants, but is now a place of ruins. I IRichmond boasts the largest flouring mill in the world. Itis ninety-six feet front, one hundred and sixty-five feet deep, one hundred and twen tv-onc feet high in front, divided in twelve sta rves. Each floor contains about 14,560 superficial feet; including the two floors in the roof, tho total will be about 155,000 square feet, or rather more than three and a half acres. Altogether, the avaliblc space within the walls is about 200,- 000 square feet. Mr. Everett’s Southern Tour. — Mr. Everett lias returned from tlie Southern tour. Since the month of November lie lias repeated his discourse on “ The Character of Washington,” for the bene fit of the Mount Vernon Fund, twenty-three times, with in aggregate net receipt of 814,-645 ; and his address on “ Charity,” fourteen times, for the benefit of various charitable institutions, with an aggregate net receipt of $12,433. The net pro ceeds of his oratorical labors for the last six months, for the benefit of the Mount Vernon fund and various charitable institutions, is 827,- 078—. Y. F; PosU The shyloek who with head erect, with honest people mingles, should cease to shave his felloip men, and go to shaving shingles. The lawyer would bo better otfo bis conscience far less pliant, who owned a little farm in foe and made that farm his client. Wc have some doctors in our midst, with taleni> thoy should use, by practicing the healing art, m heeling boots and shoes. The minister whose sage advice a useful teaches, should mind and “watch as well as pray, and practice what he preaches. The world should havo its docket called, and sluggards all defaulted ; and those should be tlie “ upper ten,” whom labor lias exalted. Handwriting of SovE^mNS.— How tic is the signature of Ciueen LlizabetlC stateW, tall and queen-like, commanding and but defaced with ignoble power and vanity , hei varTed remarkably at different periods, as liana viu r en rv the Seventh wrote a cold Stand- uifo .he M strong and self-willed ; Richard the Third wrote a vigorous, reckless and dashing Y Anne Boleyn wrote a steady composed hand, not without ele gance ; Catherine Parr’s writing is pedantic, with much cold, persevering energ* ; Mary, Queen oi Scots a plain and elegant hand, with much clear ness and firmness; Edward the Sixth wrote a hand of laborious pedantry ; Queen Anne wrot a motherly hand; James the First, a vulgar, and [ obtrude hand.