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About The Southern sun. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1869-1872 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1871)
THE SOUTHERN SUN. published Weekly by JOHN R HAYES. Proprietor. Terms ot Subscription. ons year, ..•••• •••• 1 rn ftlco;>y- six I ~py, three 1 * w Advertisements. ..... „ inerted at one dollar per square for ti e i T ertian. Liberal deductions wll he made on t« Obituaries and .marriages will bechnxgcd r:t a« other adverlisenicntg. professional cards. Cbas G. Campbell, ATTORNEY AT:* kj tfomtseUot »f (Office fn the Court IToure) I BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA. E P. SB&MIC IjITOENEY AT LAW BAINBRIDGE, GA. I- in Sharon House. Business entrusted to, 1., ;.r<>mptly attended to. BOWER & ROWER I AttovncpG at Ipair, BAINBRIDGE, GA. OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE. In : h 23. 1871. 44-ly n.W. DAVIS, lITOIJNEY AT LAW, BAINBRIDGE, GA. ■ over I’iitteison & McNair’s Store. I DR E. J. MORGAN, |j V. on South Broad, ovet J. W. Dennard’s 1/ Reridenee on West Street. , ■ Sirrh 30-ly BAINBRIDGE, GA. / 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. THE SOUTHERN SUN. Official Journal of Decatur Count y* Largest Town ami Couuty Circulation J. R. H A YES, Proprietor Wc will send a handsomer Prospectus of our New Illnstrted FkmUv. Bible containing over 200 fine Scripture Illustrations to any Book Ijea ot charge. Address, National RubhsMoK Cos., l lola dejpbia. Pa; Atlanta, Ga., or bt. Louis, Mo. 4w AGENTS 1 For fast selling popular sub- Maue and Female \ sfcripMon books. Extra In ducements to Agents. Information free Addled Am. Bpok Cos., 62 William street, New 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 l * . ,* ..charge to aS foun similarly amfcleu. 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 NO. 49 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. Subscribe for the bus, $2:50 per year in *<s» vance.
