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In : h 23. 1871. 44-ly
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BAINBRIDGE, GA.
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/ RGA l AD I Eli TIS KM ENTS.
r and i— Decatur County. —l) B McKinsey
II ■ \‘. friend of Ida Smith, McKinsey hasap-
I x>iiijition and setting apart and valua
| i !i»'.lead and Realty, ami I will pass upon
I ' mi the 25th, lust ,at 10 o’cloak at my-
Juki, Johnson.
|v Hnth. 1871. Ordinary D.
I \ —Decatur County.
■■ ..v:\V.Hp\Uer. ns next friend fee Mrs Allie
■ K Spill, r, has applied of exemption and set-
I rod vdilution of homestead and I will
I, „ |||-. sumo on the 18th instant at 1-
I k .it v v "slice in Bainb’ idgo.
[ rii 1 ; |s;i Joel Johnson, Old y
■ :11'/1 DecATur County.
I first Monday in April next I will apply
I .ni tof Ordinary of said comity lor leave
I the real estate of David Lynn.
I ~i DAVID LYNN, Adm’r
ft f,i\—Decatur County.
ft- fiist Monday in July next, I will apply
I . ..,mt of O.'dimvry of said county ft"'
■ . ; dismission from the administration on
■ ot William Simpson late of said county
■ this is therefore, to cite all and singular,
■ ;m d creditors to appear ami make ob
■•. v van or forever be estoped.
srs\\’ ANN SIML’dOM. Adm x
april 13-td
ft ;\ - pec atur County.
m i-t Monday in July next, I will apply
■ .~n t of Oidinary of said county for
iu the AdministvaHon on tlie estate
I • late r.f said county deceased; this
■ to cite all, the kindred and creditors
B 1 til“ their objections, it any they
be ostpoed.
A. B, BEECHER. Adm’r
april 13-td
—Pi catur County.
■ ■ ' ". has applied for exemption and setting
W ■ \*. l valuation of Homestead of
•ill pass upon the same on the - >th
H*-"-‘t mv office ut 10 o’clock-.
M" t.i JOEL JOHNSON, Ord’y.
ft '.U_TV, j tur County—On tne first Mon
s " ■M o next 1 will apply to the Court ot
''• '■ ceuntv for dismission fmm tti
' > u tin- .state of Joseph Glover, ue
[ : -‘kv tn i:. ih.t Cnmdiansliip of John G.
~ KaCHEAL a. glover.
Adm’r and Guar.
a PRnn awhtiam
'" Frs R - bullock,
Governor of said State,
, • '.'fticial information has been receiv-
M ' .inent that a murder was cotfcmiK
Cherokee on or about the 22d
3, upon the body of Noah Bell, ft
V one Johjc Putnam, as is alleged,
' L rNAM has tied from Justice :
' ’ P r °per, therefore, to issue this,
:i hereby offering a reward of ONE
- _ f'Oi.LARS for the apprehension and
*u '1 f’rrxAM to the sheriff of said
' -oe. in order that he may be brought
'-'ueuse with which he stands charg
. , btnd and the Great Seal of the
' M-itol, in the city of Atlanta, this
of *'pnl, in the year of our Lord
. V, l and Seventy-one. and of the
r e fbc l nited States of America the
'-. r RUCUS B. BULLOCK.
n ern or:
, 1L r '■ Cottiso, Secretary of State.
VOL. V.
V A Funeral Scene.
The solemn tolling of the bell summoned
us to the House of God, to attend the fu
neral of a young mttn, stricken down by
the hapd of violence. After the fatal stab
the Hfe-blood from his very
heart, he only survived a few moments ;
and was thus hurtied, unwarned and un
prepared into the presence of his Maker.
W hen the wiiter entered the sanctuary;
the venerable minister was just announc
ing his text. The coffin was resting on a
table in front of the pulpit. Near by sat
the relatives of the deceased—a brother,
two sisters and the widowed mother. No
mortal may attempt to describe their aps
pearance or their feelings, especially those
of the niolher! The venerable minister
proceeded to preach an appropriate and
powerful discourse. And as he made an
occasional allusion to the departed
and the maimer of his death, the
sympathies of the audience responded to
the groans and sobs of the relatives. To
wards the close of the discourse, the preach
er said in substance—“ Only the day be
foie he was killed, 1 was conversing with
him against these haunts (alluding to grog
shops) where be hiet his fate. He replied
he intended to alter his course.” While
he was uttering these words that heart
broken-mother rushed forward to the cof
fin, and as if it were her child, embraced
first the foot then the head, crying alt in
nately. “Oh Harvey ! Oh William ! (His
Christian name I learned was William llar
vey.”) “How can I give you up 1 Lost I
Lost 1 1 LOST 111’ Then fuming to the
crougrcgation and reaching out her hands
imploringly added ; “One of my children
is lost ! Will you not help me to pray for
those that are left 1 1 ° Tit's appeal was
answered with tears, and sobs, and gioans.
In conclusion, the man of God, cotmhcnc-
*
“Hark from Hid tombs a doleful sound,
when the excitement still was
proposed by a friend that special prayer
be offered for the relatives of the deceased
and for all others who might fell the need
of it. As the aged minister descended
from the desk and bowed with that sliick
ett family, strong men trembled, hard heart
ed men wept like children, and again sobs
and groans, which could not be restrained,
burst forth fioiu that sympathizing audi
ence.
Similar scenes were re-ensVcted at the
sepulchre, while that poorunfoitunate man
was being consigned to his untimely
grave !*
A Happy Home.
In a happy home there will be no fault
finding, no overbearing spirit—there will
be no peevishness, no f.etfolucss. Un
kindness will not dwell ia the heart, or be
on tho tongue. Oh, the tears, the sighs,
the wasting of life and health, and strength
and time—of all that is most to be desired
in a happy home, occasioned merely by un
kind words. Tho celebrated Mr. Wesley
remarked to this effect, namely, that fret
ting and scolding seemed like tearing the
flesh from the bones, and that we have no
more right to be guilty of this than wo
have tor curse, or swear, or steal. In a
perfectly happy home all selfishnessw.il
be removed. Even as “Christ pleased not
himself’ so the members of a happy home
home will not seek first to please thems
I L„( nlnaeo o«vh •
fiCl VCO, out to p ,v 1 n
Cheerfulness is another ingiei en
i>»rry
UfiSiMyßPHPnHlffess, contribute to render a
happy home. How attracting, how sooth
ing is that sweet cheerfulness that is Lo.«.e
on the coutitenaucs of » wife and mother.
How the parent and the child, the brother
and sister, the mistress and servant, dwell
with delight on those cheerful looks, those
confiding smiles that beam from the eye,
and hurst from the inmost sofil of those
who are near and dear.
How it hastens the- return of the father,
lightens the care of the mother, renders U
more easy for youth to resist temptation !
and, drawn by the cords of affection, how
it induces them to return to the parental
roof!
Oh, that parents would lay tins subject
j,*ct to heart, that by untiring efforts they
would so far render home happv, that their
children and domestics shall not seek for
happiness in forbidden paths !
A mother admonishing a son a lad of
seven years of age, told him that he should
never defer till to-morrow what he could
do to-day. The little urchin replied
•‘Thou, mother, let’s eat tin rest of the
plum pudding to-night, 4
BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1871.
A Beautiful Thought.
It was night. Jernsalem Blept as quietly
amid her hills as the child upon the breasli
of its mother The nois&l#ss sentinel stood!
like a statue at his post, and the philosov]
pher’s lamp burnt dimly in the recess
his chamber.
But a dark night was now abroad upon
the earth. A moral darkness involved the
nations in its benighted shadows. Reas
on shed a faint glimmering over the minds
ot men, like the cold inefficient shining of
a distant star. The immortality of man’s
spirtual nature was unknown, his relations
to Heaven undiscovered, and his future
destiny obscared in a cloud of mystery .
•It was at this period, two forms of ethe*
ral mould hovered over the land of God’s
people. They seemed like sister angels
sent to earth on some embassy of love. —
The one was of majestic stature, and in the
well-formed limbs, which her suowy drap
ery hardly concealed in her erect bearing
and steady eye, exhibited the highest de
gree of strength and confidence. Her right
arm was extended in an impressive gesture
upward, where night appeared to have
placed her darkest pavilion,* while on her
left reposed her delicate companion, in
form and countenance the contrast of the
other, for she was drooping like a flower
when moistened by refreshing dews, and
her bright but troubled eye scanned tlie air
with ardent but varying glances. Sudden
ly a light like the stiii flashed out from the
Heavens, and Faith and Hope hailed with
exulting songs the ascending Star of Beth*.
It he iff.
Years rolled away and a stranger was
seen in Jerusalem. He was a meek unas
suming man, whose happiness seemed to
consist in acts of benevolence to the hu
man race. There were deep traces of sor
row on his countenance, though no one
practice of every virtue, and was loved
by all the good and wise. By and by it
was rumored that the stranger worked mi
racles ; that the blind saw, the dumb
spake, aud the dead leaped to life, at his
touch 1 that when he commanded the ocean
moderated its chaffing tide, and the very
thunders articulated he is the Son of God.
Envy assailed him with the charge of sor
cery, and the voice of impious judges con
demned him to death. Slowly, and thickly
guarded he ascended the hill of Calvary.—
A heavy cross bent him to earth. Bat
Faith leaned upon his arm, and Hope dips
ping her pinions in his blood, mounted to
the skies. >
Do Good.— Thousands of men breathe,)
move and live—pass off the stage of life,
and a«-e hoard of no more. Why ? They
do not a particle of good in the world, and
none weVe blessed by them, none could
point to them as the instrument of redemp
tion , not a word they spoke- could be re
called, and they perished ; their light went
out in darkness, and they were not remem
bered more than the insect of yesterday.
Will you thus live and die 0 man im
mortal ? Live for something. Do good,
and leave behind you a monument of virtue
that the storm of time can never destroy.
Write your name in kindness, love and
mercy on the hearts of thousands who
come in contact with yon year by year ;
you will never be foi gotten. No, your
name, your deeds, will be as legible on
the hearts you leave behind, a* the stars
oo rt.e Wow bT the evening. Good leeds
will shine as the stars of heaven.
Under the head of‘Good Farming, the
Sandersville Georgian discourses as fol»
lnw» •
A farmer of this county informs us that
last year he ran eight ploughs, and besides
a good crop of ootton, made corn sufficient
to supply the farm, with the same number
of laborers, during two years, The bacon
crop was a little short, owing to the fact
ihat he had but recently given his atten
lion to hog raising. This year he has in
creased the number of ploughs to fourteen
with a very strong hoe force, making with
his own family, eighty souls upon the
place. He is preparing for a proportion
ate increase of grain, and expects to use
sufficient pork to feed all upon the premis
es. He used last year five tons of guano,
and this year will use four. Tet his crop
is thoroughly manured, by giving proper
attention to compost and other manures
access able to every farmer. He farms up
on the tenant system and plants as follows:
20 acres corn, 10 acres wheat, 5 acres oats
and 1 acre potatoes to 20 acres cotton. So
far as raising hogs is concerned, he finds
but little difficulty. Has had but one hog
stole in three years and then tnc thief was
a "d made to leave, lie contends
Pjjjjpfc it is a grand mistake to suppose there
*° money in farming The trouble is
[with the men and not with the business.
j| I|| The Unguarded Moment.
Tee my lips to-night have spoken
Words I said they coaid not speak ;
And I would I could recall hem—
Would I had not been so weak
Ofc! that one unguarded moment!
Where it mine to live again.
Mil the strength of its temptation
Would appeal to me in vi^p.
True, my lips have only uttered
What is ever in my heart,
I am happy when Reside him—
Wretched when we are apart ;
Though I listen to his praises
Always longer than I should,
Yet my heart can rover hear them
Half so often as it would,
And I would not, could not pam liim,
"Would not for the world offend ;
I would have him know I like him
Asa brother, as a friend ;
Hut thought that I must keep one secret
In my bosom always hid :
For I never meant to tell him
That I loved him—but I did.
’Tis All One to Me.
FROII THE GERMAN.
Oh, 5 tis all one to me, all one,
Whether I have money or whether iv’e none.
He who has money can buy him a wife,
And he who has none can be free for life.
He who has money can trade if he choose,
And he who has none has nothing to loose.
He who has money has cares not a few,
And he who has none can sleep the nigh through.
He who has money can squint at the fair,
And he wh» has none escape i from much care.
He who has money can go to the play,
And who has none at home he can stay.
He who has money can travel about,
And he has none can go without.
He who has money can be as coarse as he wilt
jlnd he who has none can be coarser still.
•
And he who has money can eat oyster meat.
And he who has none the shells may eat,
He who has money can drink foreign wine
And he who has none with the gout will not pine.
ge whQ has money the cash must pay,
e wno uai diui,ey.ae..M«i ”
And ae who tins mme »- —.«*»» *•
He who has money can die one day,
And he who has none must go the same w r ay.
Oh, ‘tis all one to me. all one,
"Whether I've money or whether I’ve none.
THE INFLUENCE OF MUSIC.
0
There is a strange, unaccountable, and
dreamlike beauty in music which can sub
due the proudest spirit, and gliding into
the bush of the heart, will nestle there,
stilling the most tremendous throbbing,
and filling it with the calm peaceable mem
cries of a far long ago. All tribes; in all
times, have owned the spell from tlie time
when Pan first taught that Thracian shep
herd to serve his love note in he invisi
ble air, and fill the summer night with the
softest and sweetest flute music down to
the present moment. It is the universal
language by all, and awakening u sti.inge
pulsation even in the most obdurate heart.
Most of as have experienced the luxury
of tears when listening to an old ballad.
Wj know an old man who, having led
the career of vice and crime, was at length
baiished from his country ; and who,
while Undergoing his period of bani-hment
arridst the wilds and jungles of a distant
laid, heard the summer eventide, a sw?et
voice singing in his own language fire
so»g that had lulled him to bis infant
slimber, when he knew crime by name and
knew it only to abhor.
It had been sung too, by fie cradle of an j
i|funt sister, a little one who had died
jfoung, and was now in heaven; the mother
tyo, was no more.
But the song —the-old man had not lost
its influence over him yet. Back came ti o««p
inghpon him the old memories which had
so Ung slumbered there in the uuconsum
ed dtpths of his heart ; half hidden by the
o'd jew trees where he had first h ,j atd th<
Bible read, all came back upon him as
fresh as if were but yesterday, and ovei
4,owrredby his feelings, he gave vent to
them iu a flood of tears. And then the old
man |rew calm and his latter days were
his best davs, and when the term of his
banishment had expired, he came back to
his father land, and there in that old village
graveyard, amid whose grassy* hillocks he
had first played and gamboled, and where
the mother and her little ones were sleepmg
he lay down his weary limbs and sank
peacefully away into a common grave.
Dr. Close. Dean of Carlisle, is anything but dis- j
posed to mourn in sackcloth .nd ashes over be
oval marriage taking place in Len . >
contrary, he is specially j -yful, and stated u much
at a meeting of loyal subjects in the ancient bolder
city recently. Lent, lie declared, was an ordi
nance of man; manaige was a ordinance of
God ; M one of the greatest blessings to man
kind, tbe performance of it coaid not be offen
sive to God. or to any sensible man. He looked
upon it “as a bright beam from heaven on a
dark spot.**
H(\\V MURAT DIED,
The sentence of the military commission
was read to him with due solemnity. He
listened to it as lie would hnve listened to
tlie cannon of another battle during his
military lire, without Ctnotiou or hjavudo.
He neither asked for pardon., for af*|iy ncr
appeal. He had advanced of Ms own ac-'
cord toward the door, as if to adfelerdte
the catastrophe; The door opetvsm* on a
narrow asplauade lying between the towers
of the castle and the out-walls. Twelve
soldiers with loaded muskets, awaited him
there. The narrow space did not permit
him to stand atsufficent distance to deprive
his death of a part of its horror. Mural,
in stepping over the threshold of the cham
ber, found himself face to face with them.
He refused to have his eyes bandaged, and
looking at the soldiers with a firm benevo
lent smile said ,* —“My friends do not make
me suffer by taking a bad aimi The nar
row space compels you almost to rest the
muzzles of your'muskets in my breast, do
not tremble, do not strike me in my face ;
aim at my heart here it is.’
As he spoke thus he placed his right
hand upon his coat to indicate the position
of his heart, fn his left hand he Held a
small medallion, which contained in one
focus of love the image of his wife and
four children, as if lie wished ur make them
witnesses of his laßtjQok*He fi£i and his eyes
on this portrait, and received ‘the death
blow in the contemplation of all lie loved on
earth—His body, pierced at so short u dis
tance with tV/rlve balls, fell, with his arms
open and his face towards the earth, as if
still embracing the kingdom he once pos
sessed, aird which he had come to recon
quer for his tomb.
They threw his cloak around Ira body,
which was buried in the Cathedral of Pizzi
Thus djedjhe chiva]» b oqs a fci^difct;,[>{t
net me ngtire among me cnain pIOHS Os tile
new Alexander.
Truth. —Tiuih is the foundation of vir
tue. An habitual regard for it is abso
lutely necessary, He who walks by the
light of'it has the advantage of the mid
day sun ; lie who would spurn it goes forth
amid clouds and datkness. There is no
way in which a man strengthens Lis own
judgment, and acquires respect in society
so surely as by a scrupulous regard to
truth. The course of such an individual is
right and straight on. lie is no change
ling, saying one thought to-day and another
to-morrow; Truth to him is like a moun
tain landmark to the pilot ; he fixes his
eyes upon a point that does not move, and
lie enters the harbor in safety. On the
contrary, one who despises truth and loves
falsehood, is a pilot who takes a bit of
driftwood for his landmark which changes
with every wave. On this he fixes his at
tention, and being insensibly led from his
course, strikes upon some hidden reef and
sinks to rise no more. Thus brings
success ; Falsehood results in ruin and con
tempt.
The Mother. —It has been truly said ,
the first being that rushes to the recoiled
of a sailor or soldier, iti his heart’s difficul
ty, is his mother. She clings to his mem
ory and affection, in the m’dst of all the
I forgetfulness and hardihood induced by
I roving life. The last message he leaves is
for her, his last whisper breathes her name.
The mother, as sin* instills the iessori of
piety and filial obligation i; tto the heart of
her infant sou, should always fell that her
labor is not in Vain. Slie may drop into
her grave—but she lias left behind her an
influence that will work for her. The bow.
is broken but the arrow is sped and will
do its office.
Men Wanted./— The great want of this age is
men - men who are not for sale ; men who are
honest from centre to circumference, true to the
heart’s core ; men who will condemn wrong in a j
friend or foe, in themselves as well as others ; :
men whose consciences are as steady needle
lo the pole ; men who would stand for the right if
the heaven sh'-uld totter and the earth reel ; men
who will tell the tiulh and l ok the world and the
devil right in the eye ; men who neither brag nor
run : men in whom the courage of everlasting life
runs still, deep, and strong ; men wh<> do not cry
n r cause their voices to be heard on the street,
but who will not fail nor be discouraged till judg
ment be set in the earth ; men who know their
message and tell it ; men who know their own
business ; men who know their places and fill
them ; men who will not lie ; men who are not too
lazy to wo.k nor too pseud to be poor ; men who
are willing to eat what they have earned and wear
what they have paid for These are the men who
move the world.
Mrs. Laura Fair, the San Francisco murderess ,
was »n the habit of firing pistols at her departing
lovers, as they went down stairs.
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DEVFNESS, Catarrh, Scrofula. —A lady who had
suffered fur yeaisfrom Paafuess, Catarrh, and
' Scrofula, was cured by asi Oje vt ™ **>'■ s
pathy and pratitude promf/vher to *eud thore
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ISoOtti’a IHohelicn,
The Crowning 'i'Ricnrli or tut Great Tragedian.
Booth’s Richelieu comes first upon the stage an
old u»an, and there is something so grandly pa
thetic iu that lofty solitary figure, that it lisds at
once upon our imagination and grows more nnd
ujoie us>n the heart. The Richelieu of Edwin
‘tiofi of gefittts, nil
oSwres are simple and grand, marred by nothing
small, meretricious or ‘‘stagery. ’’ The great
statesman’s last birthday Wag bis fifty-seventh,
and through all the movement of the'(htuna the
actor by solne subtle power of genius impresses us
with a conviction that it is not yfears, but tho
burdens of state, the wear and tear of the stern
fiery dominant sou), which has wasted the form
and chiselled the cold, palid beautiful feature* of
the great Minister of Louis the Xlllth, into the
likeness of death. For this fact must never bo
lost sight cf: the Richelieu of Edwin Booth is in
its broad outlines substantially the historic Riche
lieu.
Whatever stood in the great stateman’s path he
brushed it from his way; culm, ruthless, cruel ns
fate, no tears, no prayers, no human pity moved
that inveterate will. And this Is the Richelieu of
Edwin Booth! That superhuman energy, that
sovereign nature, that impcriul wilt, that remar*
I; able political forecaste, that magnificent courage
without which the great statesman could never
have acted his lofty role on the political stage, are
all brought living and vital before us, aud wc see
at a glance, as it were, and as we never could, trom
any study, however penetrating, of his character
and era, the hiijh qualities which raised tho young
churchman from obscurity and made him the rul
er of France the master of its monarch 1
-One who has ever sliun will nevei forget that
stately figure of the play moving with such impres
sive grace and dignity across the stage, the litnbS
stiff with pain, the gasping, rattling cough, tho
grey shadow creeping heavily upon the face, and
yet thegtern resolute dominant spirit shining with
such splendid lustre overall. The strong, haugh
ty , picturesque figure of Hie old man stands therai
like a military column ; In its supernatural power
and its unutterable loneliness,the friend the deliv
erer, the passionate lover of France. Envy and
malice, hatred and revenge, make the air thick
about him ; liijed assassins are in hisTiousehold
and among the soldiers of his body-guard; intri
ww!nJWi«vj•«»««* «w@» »■•<» «vvtrg»«>ui «/ *.nco
dicil turns against liiin ; yet bold, sovereign, uns
relenting in the midst of his enemies tho solitary
old man tracks the treason and lays bare the cou
spiracies and vindicates himself triumphantly, and
at last tho young monarch driven to bay, fright
ened with the proofs Os treason and indiscretion
shaking his throne, commits tho whole power of
the government into the hands of his Prime Min
ister, and when the curtain falls at last upon the
Richelieu of Edwin Booth it is the very Richelieu,
the absolute ruler of Fiance, who, with the pomp
of a sovereign, surrounded by guards, escorted by
an army, was carried home from tho scaffold of
Cinq Mars'to his royal palace to die.
Amusements in Atlanta.— The corresponded of
the Cincinnati Commercial says;
Roller skating rinks are becoming very popular
in the South. They have them now in all the
principal cities. Tho one here is the best in tho
South, and the skaters are the roost skillul and ac
complished. Roller skatiDg took here with afu
rore, and has not diminished an iota in popalarity
from the first. All ages and classes patronize the
rink, and sway their graceful forms to the tune of
quick music. Other places Os amusement lan
guish and pine away and peg out, but the roller
skating rink still holds the place by its fascinations
McKean Buchanan, the great something or oth
er, came here to fulfill a theatiical engagement,
but left before his time was up, as he said himself
he sunk fifty dollars a night every night that ho
performed. He figured ‘considerably on that basis,
and found that it would take him so long to get
rich in Atlanta, that he would not stay. Roller
skating was what did ft; it drew the people off td
the rink, 'i he prayer-meetings have suffered se
verely, but as thiy were never ffooiishing in At
lanta, the falling off is not so noticeable. The
people have got so accustomed to the. rolling,
swaying motions of the deli »te wheels on which
they spend roost of their finis, that when they
walk the same motion is observed, just as it was
in the care of Beu. Wade, when be landed from
the Tennessee. Roller skating has the same effect
on the human frame divine, as going to tea.
Pbeactixq.—Preaching is, in fact, an art, liks
painting or playing the violin, or acting upon the
stage; and it is only those who possess the neces
sary natural gifts, and who bare hettowel upon
these gifts a proper cultivation, who can be ex
pected to attain a mastery iu the art. 'Io make a
great p eacber, we want notouly thorough sincer
ity, and a fair literary and theological education y
we’want the special art of arranging ideas in fe
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matmer suitable for a public address, a skill in ad
apting the Metrical and practical troths to the pecu
liarities of an audinance, together with the physi
cal advantage* of voice, and a natural or acquired
skill in delivery. How rarely these qualifications
are to be found among Englishmen, may be learnt
by observing the ordinary quality of English pub
lic speaking on all kinds oT secular subjects. In
the House of Paliament, i» the courts of Law, in
public meetings, how many are bunglers, and how
lew the masters of the art of speaking! On tbe
stage, bow rare is the art of g->od delivery, eyen
when the matter spoken is preeminently 8-cip.e
to the purpose designed. People attack ‘k e ® rf
: nary preacher in tbe pu'pit; but e
listen to the ordinary serious or ting c ector
upon the stage- At this present time, it would be
literally to get together a company o*
actor- and actresses in all England who could act
o-e of Stakes pea re’s great tragedies without m
some parts grevionsly offending a cultivated taste.
—Contemporary Review.
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