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FIOX A TRAVELLER IN El'ROrE.
Parris, Sept 1,1833.
THE FRENCH PRESS.
Before visiting France, and Paris especially,
I was quite unable to comprelicnd the actual
condition of tl»e French Press. Tlie very
frequent prosecutions instituted in bclialt of
the government against tl*c publishers of
newspapers here, led me to suppose, in com.
moil with Americans generally who have not
been here, that a censorship upon the press
exists here to an extent that is most arbitrary,
oppressive and unjust, and tnat, in truth, tlic
boasted liberty of tho press in France is whol
|y ideal, and in no wise a practical affair.—
But, in being berc, I understand the subject
very dilTercirfJy ; and l am fully persuaded
that in no part of the world is the public press
so chaste and elevated, as a general character
istic, as in France, ami in no part of the world
is it more free, or limited in tho rights and
privileges of a free press. In point ol man
ly, dignified and philosophical tone, the French
newspaper press is a model from which not
only England, but the United States, may
eopv to very great advantage. And besides
lliisj the French Government has instituted a
law on the sulked of newspaper slanders that
is far in advance of both the law nnd policy
of England and of the United States. For
instance, the proprietors of each journal or
newspaper here arc compelled by law to in
sert the reply of any individual whom-ty have
been named or attacked in tlieir journal, (from
the King dowu to the laborer,) under a penal,
ty of from fifty to five hundred francs, without
prejudice to any damages to which the article
muv have given rise. This reply must be in
sorted in the number of the day which follows
the receipt of it, and without charge, unless
the reply be more than double the length of
the original article or paragraph, in which case
it must he paid for as an advertisement.
How much the American press would be
improved if a similar summary and compulso
ry method of obtaining a correction of its sdan
ders existed there ?
It is not true, as has been too generally sup
posed, that the newspapers hero are restrained
by a censorship from publishing whatever the
proprietors of them may choose, either con
cerning public or private individuals —con-
corning Louis Pliillippe, the King, no less than
concerning any of his subjects—but they pub.
lish at the hazard and upon the responsibility
of prosecution, in case they are unable to
make out a good and satisfactory justification.
It is only precisely so that the press is situa
led in the United Stales. The difference in
the condition of the press here nnd there, lies
in this: the tempei of the people, public ofli
cers ns well as others, is not so stoical and in
different to newspaper calumnies here as in
the United States ; and, as a consequence, few
Lbels here escape prompt and merited prose
cution. Prompt prosecutions uiid the certain,
ty of punishment, discourage slander and vi
tuperation. But in the United Stales, where
few or no prosecutions of the kind occur,
the reverse is most lamentably true. And
there are probably more falsehoods, more
downright, illiberal calumnies, published every
year in the United States, concerning individ.
uals, with the sole view of degrading them in
public estimation, than there are of tiuths pub
lished by the same presses, respecting either
the same or all other individuals, with only ti e
honest view of having such individuals fairly
estimated by tire public. There the injured
party is too busy to endure, or recoils at, the
perplexity of prosecuting the slanderer ; and,
of consequence, nine hundred and ninety-nine
of such libellers in every thousand escape
with impunity, and become emboldened in their
vocation of defamation. It is in this way
that the American People have become fumi
li ar with one of the most icentious conditions
of tlte piy.se that exists in the world. Still,
swell licentiousness is no part of the freedom
of the press —it does not appertain to a free
press. Liberty, civil or political, does not
consist of any right or privilege to inflict
wrongs. On the contrary, if parties injured
so unnecessarily in the United States by the
press, would take upoa themselves the trouble
and expense of punishing this licentiousness
whenever manifested, the press in America
would be no less free, in every rightful sense
of that term, than it now is ; but it would be
•chaste, wary, and elevated in its character, .as
is tlie press here. It is by the system of
prompt and spirited punishment of libeds that
has prevailed, and still prevails here, as occa
sion requires, that, of all the licentiousness ex
isting in f'ranee, only the least degree attaches
to the public press.
There is another vety good requirement of
law here, relative to the newspaper and peri
odical press. Upon establishing a press of
this description, “ caution money" is required
,to be deposited. If it be a daily pres3, 100,
•GOO francs is the sum to be deposited ; and
60,000 francs if appearing more than once a
month. For provincial journals,the “ caution
money” is 23,000 francs, if published in towns
of which the population amounts to or ex
ceeds 50,000 souls. Upon these deposites a
regulated interest is allowed. Journals of an
exclusively scientific character are exempt
from this requirement. Moreover, no journal
car. be published until a declaration has been
made of the title, and the periods at which it
is to appear, of the names of the proprie'ors,
their address, and the share they hold in it,
with the name and address of the responsible
editor, of the printing-house at which it will lie
printed, and of some oilier formalities. All
this serves to render the pi ess responsible, and
to improve and elevate its condition and influ.
encc.
It may likewise lie remarked tint these pre
cautionary measures, and rigor of public opin.
ion, relative to tlte press here, do not, us some
might erroneously argue without exact knowl
edge of the facts, in any dog roe retard the
publication, or lessen tlm number of newspu
(>ers. News; »|>ers in France, in Paris espe
cially, are probably as numerous as in any
city of the world of like amount of pnpulu
lalion. 1 will recapitulate an authentic ex
hibit, which 1 have lately *oen, of tlte copies
of daily sheets which aome of tlte establish
ments litre circulate, viz. '1 he Vrcuc ctrcu.
tales daily, 9,7 OO copies ; llw Steel* 11.660 ;
•be Ikbult 9,106 ; the ('imaUtuUonnrl j
the Gillette 5,000; tire Courtier 5.000 ; tin:
2,479 : the Qwoliditnii* It,lt'd ; tlie
I National 3,333; the Journal General 1,450 ;
the Commerce 3,100.
The papers enumerated are but a portion of
the periodical publications in this city. But,
from the daily aggregate thus furnished, one
may judge how much of n reading public the
[French are, and how free the press here must
be, in fact, to be perpetuated upon a scale so
extensive. The expense of a daily paper
here to subscribers, scarcely equals that of a
corresponding publication in the United States.
The Presse, or the Siecle, for instance, cost
but 40 francs, or say $8 per annum.
DEAN SWIFT.
Swift’s misanthropy must have rendered him
gloomy and disappointed ; but there was ano
ther source; a worm was knawing at the bud
of his greatness —a secret sorrow penetrated
ihe core and blasted all his future peace. He
might have forgolton or forgiven the downfall
of his party, the exile of his new friends, and
even the loss of an English Bishoprick, had
not the names and destinies of Stella and
Vanessa been inseparably entwined wth his
being. These “ inborn stains” on his reputa
tation can never be washed away, and the
conscience of Dryden was at least free from
such a pollution. Human nature has, per
haps never before since presented the specta
cle of a man of such transcendant powers in
volved in such a pitiable labyrinth of the affec
tions. His pride or ambition led Swift to post
pone indefinitely his marriage with Stella, to
whom he was early attached, whom, he said,
“ he loved better than his life a thousand mil
lions of times,” yet he kept her hanging on in a
state of hope deferred, injurious alike to her
peace and reputation. Did he fear the scorn
and laughter of the world, if lie should marry
ihe obscure daughter of Sir William Temple’s
steward ? lie dared not afterwards, with
manly sincerity,declare his situation to Vancssa
when this second victim avowed her passion,
fie was flattered that a girl ofeighteen, ol'beau
ty nnd accomplishments, sighed for “ a gown
of forty-four,” and he did not stop to weigh the
consequence. Thus his first error led to one
still more fatal, and
“ Dire misfortune followed dose behind.”
The removal of Vanessato Ireland, as Stella
had gone befoA, to be near the presence of
Swift—her irreprochable passion, which no
coldness or neglect could extinguish—her life
of deep seclusion, only cheered by the occasion
al visits of Swift, each of which, with a pleas
ing and graceful fancy, she commemorated by
planting with her own hand a laurel in the
garden where they met—her agonizing re
monstrance when all her devotion and her
offerings had failed are touching beyond ex
pression.
j “ The reason I write to jou,” shesays, “is
| because I cannot tell it to you, should I see
;you. For when 1 begin to complain, the.i you
are angry ; and there is something in your
looks so awful, that it strikes me dumb, O !
that you may have but so much regard for me
left, that this complaint may touch your soul
{with pity! 1 say as little as ever I cun; did
I you but ki ow what I thought, I am sure, it
would move you to forgive me, and believe
I cannot help telling you all this and live.”
To a being thus agitated and engrossed with
the strongest passion, bow poor, how cruel
must have seemed the return of" Swift l
j The tragedy continued to deepen ns it ap
iproached to the close. Eight years had
Vai.essa nursed in solitude the hopeless attach
| ment. At length she wrote to Stella to ascer
tain the nature of the connection betw'een her
and Swift; the latter obtained the fatal letter,
and rode instantly to Marley Abbey, the resi
dence of the unhappy Vanessa. “A3 he
entered the apartment,”to adopt the picturesque
language of Scott, in recording the scene, “ the
sterness of his countenance, which was pe
culiarly formed to express the st l onger pi ssions
struck the unfortunate Vanessa, with such
terror that she could scarce ask whether he
vvould not sit down. He answered by fling
ing a letter on the table, and instantly leaving
the house, mounted his lwr.se and returned to
Dublin. When Vanessa opened the packet,
she only found her own letter to Stella. It
was her death-warrant. She sank at once un
der the disappointment of the delayed, yet
[cherished hopes which hud so long sickened
her heart, and beneath the unrestrained wrath
of him for whose sake she hud indulged them.
How long she survived this latter interview is
uncertain, but the time does not seem to have
exceeded a few’ weeks.
Even Stella, though ultimately married to
j Swift, drop, ed into the grave without any pub
lie recognition of the tie; they were married
in secrecy in the garden of the deanery, when,
on her part, all but life had faded away. Why
do we recall these circumstances familiar to so
many readers/ Simply, we suppose, because
they are indelibly imprinted on the memory,
land rise in the mind whenever swift is re
membered. The fair sufferers were deeply
avenged. But let us adopt the only charitable
--perhaps the just inteipretation of Swift’s
conduct: the malady which at length over
j whelmed his reason might have been then
| lurking in his frame—the heart might have felt
its ravages before the intellect. A comparison
jof dates proves that it was some years before
Vanessa’s death that the scene occurred which
has been related by Dr. Young, the author of
the “ Night Thoughts.” Swift was walking
with some friends in the neighborhood of Dub
-lin. “Perceiving he did not follow us,” says
Young, “ I went buck, and found him fixed as
a statue, mid earnestly gazing up at a noble!
elm, which in its uppermost branches was
-much decayed. Pointing at it, he said, 4 1!
shall be like that tree • 1 shall die at tire top.’ ”
Truly and beautifully hath Scot said— 44 The
stage darked ere the curtain fell.” Swift’s
almost total silence during the last three years
of his life (for tlte last year he spoke not n j
word) appals and overawes the imagination.
TltE YOUNG IDEA.
Lord Uroughnm, in one of his works, de
livers it as Ins dcldiei ate opinion, tlrnt 4 we learn
more in the first six years of our life than af
terwards, though we may live to a hundred.’
A QUESTION.
What word is that n th * English language,
tire first two letters of which signify s man ;,
! tire three first a woman ; the four first a great
I n®n J and die whole a great woman? An- 1
steer, —Heroin*.
THE SOUTIIE II N POST.
SONG.
WRITTEN IMPROMPTU —BY PARR BENJAMIN.
How cold are they who say that Love
Must first be planted in the heart,
And cultured by the hand of Time,
To make its leaves and blossoms start!
No! 'tis a plant that springs at once
Up to its full and perfect form ;
Unlike the willow or the oak,
It bends not, breaks not in the storm.
How cold are they who say that Love
Must, like the diamond in the mine.
Be sought with cate and polished well
Ere we can see its beauties shine !
No! in the soul's blue Heaven it springs,
With beams that Age can never mar—
Complete, eternal, brilliant, pure,
As evening's first, rejoicing star!
SHE IS THINE.
She is thine—the word is spoken :
Hand to hand, and heart to heart,
Though all other ties are broken,
Time these bonds shall never part.
Thou hast taken her in gladness,
From the altar’s holy shrine;
Oh ! remember in her sadness,
She is thine, and only thine.
In so fair a temple, never
Aught of ill can hope to come ;
Good will strive, and striving ever,
Make so pure a shrine a home :
Each the other's love possessing,
Say what care should cloud that brow.
She will be to thee a blessing.
And a shield to her be thou.
ASSOCIATIONS.
There’s not a heart, however rude.
But hath some little flower
To brighten up its solitude
And scent the evening hour.
There’s not a heart, however cast
By grief and sorrow down.
But hath some memory of the past
To love and call its own.
LESSON TO NEWSPAPER BORROWERS.
[Time : Saturday morning,Bo’dk—Scene,
tlie breakfast table. A rap is heard at the
door, and the newspaper is for a few moments
opened before the fire.]
“Come John, it won’t do to dry it so long,
for 1 see neighbor Snooks is sending his son
after it.” Another rap at the door. “Fa
ther wants to know if you will just lend him
the paper five minutes, if you aint done with it j
he will send it right hack. He only wants to
see if the brig Star has been heard from what |
our Tom went in.” “ Tell your father the
brig is not reported.” Home he trips, and as
speedily returns : “ Mother wants to know who
was buried yesterday, can’t you lend it to her
just two minutes.” “ Tell your mother that i
all the deaths this week are Mr. , and a
child of Mr. .” In a few moments ano
; ther tap —“ Sister Susan wants to know if any
body’s married this wee k, and uncle Joe wants
to know if there is any auction to-day, and
father wants to know what the news is from
Virginia, and aunt Snooks wants to know if
there are any more pretty stories about that
Jarvis woman—if you can’t spare the paper,
why can’t you write down what there is—just
cause I don’t want to keep running back and
forward so”-—“ Here my lad, take this paper
|to your father —and round to all your uncles
i and aunts, and have it back, whatever is left of
I it, next Sunday morning at 8 o’clock, precise
ly, when you come to borrow the next.” Ten i
applications on Siuidav by borrowers, all sent
to tie ghbor Snooks, with a particular caution
to return it there when done with. Monday
morning, a tap at the door, and the boy with
the paper is ushered in : “ Mother says it is
too much plague to keep the paper all the
week, people keep coming arter it so.”
Portsmouth Journal.
ANECDOTE OF GENERAL EATON.
Gen. Eaton, soon after his arrival at Tunis
as American consul, received a visit from the
Spanish consul, attended by his confessor—
Padre Antonio. Consul Eaton welcomed him
by the apfellation of Sir, instead of the father
ly title he claimed. The confessor took fire
at this insult, and obstinately refused to repeat
his visit At length the French consul gave
a dinner for the purpose of having the Span
iard’s dignity healed. The consuls of all na
tions were present. Mons. Dubois broke the
business. Consul Eaton, I have observed with
some uneasiness that a coolness exists between
you and Padre Antonio. I have observed a
coolness, replied our consul, on ti e part of
father Antonio, but I am unconscious of hav-j
ing given him any cause of offence; 1 e may
perhaps have quarrelled with my faith ! No,
sir, replied the Catholic, when I was first in.
Itrodueed at your house, you received me with
the title of Sir: I claim the appellation of
Father, in virtue of my holy office. General
Eaton, piqued that the Spaniard should carry
his punctilio to such an unchristian extreme,
replied, Sir, I have too much regard for my
mother to call you father ; but as you seem
determined to claim a relationship, I have no
objection to calling you uncle This raised
the laugh against the Padre, and he very good
naturedly after this took the title of uncle.
There is a sweet and simple custom preva
lent in Iceland, which marks the habitual de
votion of its inhabitants. Whenever they
leave home, though for a short journey, they
uncover their heads, and for the space of five
minutes, silently implore the protection and
favor of tlie Almighty. Dr. Henderson, from
whom this fact is derived, and who observed
it in the lclandcrs who often attended him on
his excursions, also remarked it in the humblest!
fishermen when going forth to procure food
for their families. After having put out upon
the sea, they row the boat into quiet water
at a short distance from the shore, and bowing
tlrcir uncovered Ireads, solicit the blessing of
their Futher in Heaven. Even at passing a
stream, which in their country of precipices is
often an operation fiaught with danger, they
observe the same sacred custom. This of
, tiecting habit of devotion has been imputed to
the fact, that from their isolated situation, and
i modes of life, tire mollrer is almost the only
teacher, and Iter instructions seem to have be
come incorporated with every clement of
being.
An American sailor made his escape during
the war from the British prison-ship at Ber
muda, and traversed the ocean, alone, in an
o|ien sail-boat, to the Virginia shores, a dis
tance of over 200 leagues.
Thomas King, of Charleston, (S. C.) who
had been captuted in the U. S. brig Vixen, by
the Southampton frigate, was the hero of this
exploit. He engaged a fellow prisoner to ac
company him in the enterprize. A pocket
compass was procured—some provision wus
saved from their scanty allowance—and tlie
prison-ship sail-boat, which was to be used,
: iiad kegs of fresh water for ballast. The 4th
i of July, 1813, the enterprize was determined
on. When the evening arrived for putting
the plan into execution, the heart of King’s
, ooT/i vagnon de vo ace that was to be, failed
; him, he could not be induced to link his fate
with that of his more resolute comrade in the
' little boat. But King, unappalled, though thus
abandoned, determined to make the attempt
alone. He got out of a port-hole in the eve
ning of tlie 25th July, and swam to the boat,
which was towing astern, got into it, cut the
painter and drifted some distance, then made
sail for old Virginia, where he arrived the 3d
of August, landing on the beach, 10 miles to
the South of Cope Henry, having been nine
■ days at sea. He went over land to Norfolk,
where the boat was sold for his benefit. He
was soon after appointed Master’s Mate in the
Navy, as a reward for his daring conduct.
Richmond Compiler.
A real tragedy occurred a sow days ago at
the Theatre in Louisville, in the case of a per
former named Lowe, the particulars of which
are thus related:
On the evening in question lie represented a
principal character in the drama of “French
Spy.” During the first act lie was required
to discharge a pistol at another character, and
retreat in haste. The poor fellow fired his
pistol, and diew a bayonet at the moment he
commenced a retreat, looking back upon the
person upon whom lie fired. W ith his counte
nance turned to the rear, he ran against one of
the scenes, the bayonett was forced into his
body. He staggered from the stage and ex
pired within twenty minutes. The scene is
described as one of the most painful which
could possibly be witnessed. The unfortunate
man, with the dress, disguise and ludicrously
painted face of low comedy, in tlie agonies of
death, tlie frightful group gatliered around him
and the play still proceeding upon the stage,
formed one of the most singular spectacles
which pen ever attempted to describe.
From the N. O. Picayune.
NEW DEFINITIONS.
Pearl Diving. —Eating oysters in a cellar.
Thoughts on. Matrimony. —A man reflecting
on what a “ juddy” he made ofhimsilf by
marrying a “ vidder” with an apparent large
property, which was all in the hands of the
sheriff".
Recreation. —Loafers lying under the trees'
in the public square, when the sun is at its j
meridian.
Talent. —A capability for small talk.
Equality. —At the Arcade, where every
man who pays a bitt for a julep can have one.
D n Nonscnce. —Expecting to make a
fortune by printing a village paper.
Patriotism. —Petitioning for a place, and
making a noise at elections.
Sport. —Sitting all day on a log in tlie sun,
watching your fishing line, and not getting “a
bite” nfler all.
Amusing. —To hear a woman “jaw” her
“old man” who is as silent as a bronze statue
of Bonaparte, and soothingly addressing two
noisy, stubborn children whom she calls her
“dear pets.”
Smartness. —Giving impertinent replies to
questions politely pul.
Dangerous. —Not to draw your rnusquitto
bar closely at night.
A Vulgar Error. —For the editor of a paper
to get married so long as le has any trouble in
paying off his hands on Saturday night.
Political. —“l say you, Sam Jonsing, does
you know any ting about dis woman, Polly
Ticks, dat white folks talk so much about ?”
44 Well, I doesn’t. You is too hard for dis
child dis time.”
44 Wy, Sam, I tort you knowd every ting.”
“So I does. I knows Polly Jones, wat
sells coffee in de wegetable market, and I
knows Polly Tomson wat does gwoin out to
day’s work up in Canal street ; but when it
comes to Polly Ticks Fs bodered. Guess
you’d better ax white folks, Pete; dey ’pear to
know all about her.”
The following annecdote of Dr. Franklin
is not generally known. Being in England
in 1775, he was asked by a nobleman what
would satisfy the Americans? He answered
that it might be accomplished by a few re-asons
—thus :
' -call your forces,
-store Castle William,
-pair the damages done to Boston,
-peal your unconstitutional acts,
-nounce your pretensions to taxes,
Hg -fund the duties extorted after this,
*) -quire and
-ceive paym’tfor the destroyed tea.with
the voluntary grant of thecolonies.and
then
-joice in a happy
.-conciliation.
what’s in a name.
There is a firm in Boston which flourishes
under the nomenclature of Neal and Pray.
There is also one in Maidstone, (Eng.)
which hangs up a sign to inform the render of
tlie biblical fact that David Shot and Goliah
Fell.
An ancient philosopher says a beautiful wo.
man is a perpetual hymn to the Deity ! What
a sublime sentiment!
An Irishman being asked which was the
oldest, Ire or his brother, replied : 44 1 am tire
oldest, but if my brother lives three years, we
shsll both be of an sgc.”
From the Philadelphia Gazette.
POETIC GENIUS —ITS EFFECTS IN SCIENTIFC
AND SOLID OCCUPATIONS.
So far from poetic imagination being in any
sense a hindrance to the judgement, it is a
staunch supporter and aid. It is that which
gives to powerful minds the ready apprehen
sion ; the faculty of just, yet rapid analysis ;
the subtle insight into the springs of motive,
which leads so quickly to the door of truth ;
the calm, yet sudden views of facts; that e are
all characteristics of a truly poetic mind ; and
what is better for a Judge? Those who have
read the Novum Organum of Lord Bacon,
know that that profound judge of the human
intellect, classes the poetic faculty among the
first and highest of the mind, as being the di
vinest light, which can the quickest arm and
guide the understanding; and Seneca and
Cicero have both anxioms to a similar effect.
In truth, so far from being dissociated from the
business and bosoms of men in the mass, it is,
in some manifestation or other, their moving
and quickening spirit. It was imagination
which enabled Fulton to plough the wave with
his weltering wheels and resistless enginery ;
which gave anew to Franklin the ferule of
Prometheus, that caught the fire of heaven ;
that filled the first factories with the hum of
busy wheels, and cotton gins. It is in every
sense an active, emulous, and useful spirit.
There was never yet a successful merchant
without lu's share of it, in some shape or other.
Why does he send out his ventures, or make
his prospective moves in trade? Because the
inner eye looks beyond those outward ; assis s
the judgement in its conclusions, and prompts
the will to action. Never were there more
princely merchants than the De Medicis of
Florence—Cosmo, for instance, and Lorenzo,
“ the magnificent.” Yet there is poetry in its
most palpable shape connected with writings
that sanctify their name. It was the crowning
glory of that gneat English statesman, Canning,
thafhis poetic faculty, at first openly exercised
in bright and classic verse, at last stood him
good stead arm'd tlie weight of eminent office,
and deepest cares of state. In our owncoun
try, we never heard that it did not show merit
in a Daniel Webster, that he could write good
verses, and fling gushes of poetry into his Con
gressional "speeches, that thrilled the Ameri
can bosom, as by a single nerve, as well as ex
pound the Constitution in the Supreme Court
of the Union, or plead the cause of States up
on that sacred floor; nor have we deemed it
other than a bright spot in the careerof Nicho
las Biddle, when he exercised his mind in the
production of genuine poetry, or as editor of
a periodical, or writer of celebrated travels ;
the faculty through which he then shone, has
since appeared in equal though not superior
lustie. That Fitz-Grcene Halleck owns the
poetic faculty, has not done otherwise than aid
his well-balanced understanding in the man
agement as confidential partner and agent of
the vast business of John Jacob Astor; nor
does it appear that the concerns of the staunch
Globe Bunk, of Boston, are other than most
ably sustained in the official services of that
arch-poet, Charles Sprague ; nor that Edit ard
Everett makes a bad Governor of Massachu
setts, because he writes good poetry. We
might cite innumerable instances, but they are
needless to sustain a point which every impor
tant actor or event in commerce, in judicial
life, or in art or science, since the days of Lord
Bacon, has proved—namely, that his position
was a right one, and his dictum strictly true
TABLE-TALK OF COLERIDGE.
The Earth, with its sacred face, is the sym
bol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of fu
turity.
Silence does not always mark wisdom. 1
was at dinner, some time ago, in company
with a man, who listened to me, and said no
thing for a longtime ; but he nodded his head,
and I thought him intelligent. At length, to
wards the end of the dinner, some apple
dumplings were placed on the table ; and my
man had no sooner seen them than he burst
forth with—“ them’s the jockeys for me.” I
wish Spurzheim could have examined the fel
low’s head.
The man’s desire is for the woman, but the
woman’s desire is rarely other than for the de
sire of the man.
Some folks apply epithets as boys do in ma
king Latin verses. When I first looked upon
the Falls of the Clyde, I was unable to find a
word to express my feelings. At last a man,
a stranger to me, who arrived about the same
time, said—“ How majestic !” It was the
precise term, and I turned round, and was
saying— “ Thank you, sir! that is the exact
word for it,” —when he added, codcm jlatu —
Yes, how very pretty.'
It an inscription be put upon my tomb, it
may be that I was an enthusiastic lover of the
church ; and as enthusiastic a hater of those
who have betrayed it, be they who they may.
In my judgement, Bolingbroke’s style is not
in any respect equal to that of Cowley or
Dryden. Read Algernon Sidney; his style
reminds you as little of books as of black
guards. What a gentleman he was !
A woman’s head is usually over ears in her
heart. Man seems to have been designed for
the superior being of the two ; but as things
are, I think women are generally better crea
tures than men. They have, taken univer
sally, weaker appetites and weaker intellects,
but they have much stronger affections. A
man with a bad heart has been sometimes
saved by a strong head ; but a corrupt woman
is lost for ever.
, THE ARMY WORM IN IOWAY.
By tlie Burlington Gazette of the Ist inst.,
we perceive that the army worm has com.
menced its work of destruction in that neigh
borhood. In many instance, whole fields of
corn, oats, and wheat, are entirely lost. A
gentleman, living in the vicinity of Burlington,
states thut during one of the nights of last
week, nn attack was made upon a field of
oats belonging to him, and before morning a
denr passage was made through it, for the
width of six or eight feet, leaving scarcely a
sjreur standing. The gentleinnn also stutes,
that upon turning up a single spadeful of
earth, Ire counted ninety worms.
CONTEMPT FOR WOMEN.
The ladies of the Bay State should vote the
editor of the Boston Post a wreath of Ever
green, for the gallantry displayed in the article
m his paper, under the head of “ contempt for
women.” “Os all the nuisances,” S a\s he
“ that infest society, there is none so superla.’
lively unbearable to every person whose men."
tal equilibrium has not been entirely destroy'
ed, as that class of men who entertain or pro
fess to entertain, a contempt for women, and',
who let pass no opportunity to express’their
opinions, the very formation of which, should!
be to them a source of shame.” W e agree'
most decidedly in tlie estimate which the Post
puts upon the character of the snarler at the
“gentler portion of God’s creation.” How
I often do we see the insolent shrug of the
shoulders, or hear the damning inuendo pro
ceed from the lips of some snarler at female
purity, when the being created to “ give to
earth a solace here,” passes before him ; and
what man possessing the fir,t and holiest feel
ings which inspire almost veneration for the :
sex, does not feel a disposition to strike into'
nonenlitity, the leviler of her who has been
aptly called “the rainbow to the storms of
life.” We have seen such, and wu always
look upon them with a disgust bordering upon
loathing. They are not fitted to enjoy this
world’s pleasures and delights, and surely will
be out of place in the association of angels
hereafter, unless tliey should be fallen ones'!
SELECT SENTENCES OF BISHOP HALL.
He is a rare mao who is not w ise in his own
conceit, and that says not within himself, I
see more than my neighbors.
A ambitious man is the greatest enemy to
himself; he tormciAs himself with hopes, de.
sires and cares, which might be avoided, and
he would live quietly.
Up to twenty-one, I hold u father to have
power over his children as to mairinge, after
that age, authority and influence only. Show
me one couple unhappy merely on account of
their limited circumstances, and I will show you
ten who are wretched from other causes. *
Milton's Latin style is, I think, better and
easier than his English. His style in prose
is quite as characteristic of him as a philoso
phic republican, us Cowley’s is of him as a
first rate gentleman.
1 never had, and never could feel, any hor
ror at death, simply as death.
Good and bad men are each less than they
seem.
Hooker said, that by looking for that in the
Bible, which, is impossible that any book can
have, we loose tlie benefits which we might
reap fiom its being the best of all books.
From the New York Spirit of the Times.
RIFLE SHOOTING IN GEORGIA.
Some time since we mentioned a splendid
rifle made to order by Harrington of this city,
at a cost of SSOO, for Dr. David Shelton, of
Talbotton, Ga. Dr. S. was to shoot a heavy
match this spring, of which the particulars were
promised ; whether it lias already come off"or
not we are ignorant, but we have received a
letter signed by tw o gentlemen of Talbotton,
giving an account of two targets recently
made by Dr. S. which, if correct, (and we
have no reason to question their veracity,) will
deter us, at any rate, from shooting a match
with him for any thing over a basket of Heid
sick. Here is the report:
Talbotton, Talbot Cos. Ga. May 22, 1839.
Dear Sir: —We saw Mr. David Shelton,
»f this town, shoot at the distance of One
Hundred yards at rest, ten balls in succession,
which made but one hole, the puncture farth
est from the centre measuring three quarters
of an inch, nnd weight of barrel 251bs; six
feet twist and four feet long, with but five small
scores.
The same gentleman, at the distance of
One Hundred yards, with a rifle carrying 54
balls to the pound, six feet twist, four feet
long, and weighing twenty pounds, about five
balls in succession, the first driving the centre,
and the whole five making but one hole.
Yours Respectfully,
PHILO BROWNSON.
HENRY TAYLOR,
WANTED TO RENT,
A HOUSE of four or more rooms, with a Gar
den attached to the premises, in a central part
of the city. Apply at this office.
June 29 36
DR. RANDOLPH, of this City, and DR. W. C.
FULL WOOD, late of the Army, have connected
themselves in the practice of medicine, &c. and prof
fer their services to the citizens of Macon and vicinity.
June 29. 36p
INSURANCE.
MARINE, Fire and Life Risks taken by the un
dersigned, Agents of the Western Insurance &
Trust Company.
E. A. &. J. A. NISBET.
June 29 36e
CAUTION.
ALL persons indebted to the firm of CLARKE &
SMITH, are forbid settling any accounts of said
firm without my consent. E. E. BROWN is my au
thorized Agent during my absence from the city.
CHARLES L. SMITH.
June 22 35
DISSOLUTION.
rfIHE Copartnership heretofore existing under the
X firm ol CLARKE &. SMITH, is this day dissol
ved by mutual consent.
THOMAS B. CLARKE,
CHARLES L. SMITH.
June 22 35
Georgia Female College.
THE Examination of the Pupils of this Institution
will commence the 22d and close the 26th July
next. Parents, guaidians, and the friends of Femala
Education, are respectfully invited to attend.
June 15 34
W. COWLES,
HAS this day received a fnsh supply of FANCY -
GOODS, consistinc of Nett and Greriadem
| Shawls, Scarfs, and Handkerchiefs; Muslin and Lace
; Capes and Collars, Black and Lead Colored Grenadeni
I Silks, do. do. Lawns, Fmicy French Drillings,_a great
vnriely of Gloves and Hosiery, Gentlemen’s Summer
i Slocks, &,c.
June 29. 3*
Tin, Sheet-Iron and Copper-Ware
MANUFACTORY.
Ciii*ti*< IC. I'araoiiH,
(•Successor to Janu-s H. fluhop ij- Cos.)
riNAKES this method to inform the citizens of Me*
-1 con, and surrounding country, that he has
la bh died himself at ihe old stand, (occupied by his pre
decessors,) on the east side of Mulberry-street, l«*j
doors strove iln- Darien (lank, wliere he will furnish •“
kinds of TIN WARE, by wholesale or retail, •* mo
derate prices, and in every variety.
All orders promptly intended to. „
Macon, May ISth, 1*99 *>