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all over the world. The large assembly was
then dismissed with the benediction pronouficed
by the Rev. John Chambers; the meeting, instead
of lasting an hour, having been prolonged to two
hours and a half.— Philadelphia Bulletin.
[For the Bonthern Field and Fireside.]
A NIGHT IN THE MOUNTAINS.
The mountains were 'round us, far Into the sky
Their mist-covered tops rose majestic and high;
And long on them lingered the glory of day,
That seemed still returning while passing away,
Though scarcely the moment it vanished we knew,
The moon rose so fair in the arching of blue.
The night-air in whispers came down o'er the hill.
And spoke to my heart that grew pensive and still,
And I thonght of the prophet who wearily trod
In the way that went up to the mountain of God,
And I knew through the night that a presence there
came
That came not to him, on the wings of the flame.
That night in the mountains! till life's sun shall set
Its varied emotions we may not forget;
Nor the fanciful shapes that the hill-tops assumed
By star-light und moon-light so dimly illumed,
Then vanished in gloom, as the swift-gliding car
Through the faintly-seen distance, had borne us afar.
Farewell to the mountains! the summer hath flown.
And o'er their cold summits the dead leaves are strewn,
And their rustle—what is it but Nature's deep sigh
For the beauty that fades and the life that must die?
And the sad winter rains are like tears on the sod,
For spirits departed, and gone up to God.
Eols.
— i■ i
OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.
Paris, Oct. 6, 1859.
Judge Mason, our minister, died at the Amer
ican legation at nine o’clock last Monday morn
ing (Oct. 3). He was taken at midnight, Sunday,
with a severe attack of apoplexy. Dr. Bigelow,
our excellent American physician, who carried
him so successfully through the dangers of his
first attack a few years ago, was immediately
called. But all human skill was vain ; and as
the Doctor told me, with much feeling in his voice,
—“ the good old man died without having spok
en or opened his eyes, from the moment of
the attack till he expired. He had been in re
markably good spirits on Sunday,” the Doctor
added. The body will be taken to America. It
was placed in the American Chapel yesterday,
where funeral services were performed by the
Rev. Messrs. Seely and Lawson. An aide-de
camp of the Emperor, and a body of troops of
the line, representatives from the other foreign
legations, and as large a number of Americans
as could find place in the Chapel, assisted in pay
ing the last honors. The sympathy with the
bereaved family of the deceased, is deep and
universal in our American Colony here, to which
feeling there is added, in the hearts of many, a
more intimate regret at his loss. The benevo
lence, the cheerful humor, the large hospitality
of Mr. Mason had made him many friends among
those who differed most widely from him in po
litical opinion.
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"We now call the Italian Question the Italian
Crisis. The change in name has the advantage of
variety, at least; it is withal apt enough.—
Question it still is, but daily growing more criti
cal; of a definite answer to which, there is daily
more pressing need. But, except in the purely
chronological sense, it is difficult, not to say
impossible, to see how the past week has brought
us a line nearer the answer. In a pleasant com
pany the other evening, where the Question was,
as usual, the topic of talk, a gentleman present,
whoso business it has been to study the facts of
current history, was asked to give his opinion on
the probable future solution. I was somewhat
impressed with the remarks he offered in reply.
He presented them in two chapters or parallel
series of facts and inferences, the first of which
led on to the national independence of Italy ;
he fancifully entitled it the ‘ Romance of the
Rose, or \ enice Preservedit was plausible and
encouraging to the last degree. The second part
of his talk he styled the ‘Betrayal, or Chaos
come again;’ it was equally plausible, and utterly
hopeless for Italy. He then admitted, speaking
on either side as an advocate, he might have
strained the argument a littlo on either side; the
facts on which it was based, he had stated as
fairly as his means of information permitted, and
they were so contradictory that he found him
self unable to form and rest in a strong opinion,
as to the immediate future of Italy, unless he
called on wish and hope as auxiliaries to judg
ment.
lam painfully forced to be much of this gen
tleman’s way of thinking ; but I concur in his
way of hoping as well; and though the facts that
have occurred or come to public light since I
listened to him, add to the old large stock of
complications, putting some new obstacles in
the road to any conceivable solution, yet I like
to see in the resultant of these contradictions a
tendency towards a partially favorable, tempora
ry settlement of the Italian Question. The
first in importance of these facts is, that the pro
visional governments of the three Duchies have
j ust taken several largo steps in the direction
from the theory 0 f annexation to the fact of an
nexation. The Sardinian arms are set up over
their public offices; Sardinian laws, and legal
forms in which the nam. 0 f yj c tor Emma -
nuel takes the place of the 010 lineal names, and
an extensive series of administrativ* reforms, as
similating them to Sardinia, are ’ un d
enforced. A few more such measures as tii»« e
—and only a few more are wanted to complete the
work —and a few more weeks of provisional
practice, and the annexation of the Duchies will
have become a fait accompli. A Congress, the
meeting of which is scarcely possible under any
circumstances before next month, may discuss
and modify, but would be very much embarrass
ed to nullify, the fixed fact. But if there is to
be a Congress, England must be represented
there ; and England has just declared, through
the mouth of Lord John Russell, in words that
have strengthened the hopes of all the friends
of Italy, that the condition of her presence in
such an assembly is its recognition of the right
of the Italians to govern themselves.
Os Louis Napoleon’3 thoughts and pur
poses, you know as much as your correspondent;
I imagine them, perhaps, somewhat differently,
and practically more favorable to Italian inde
pendence on Austria —not to be confounded witli
the liberty of the Italians, though it be their nec
essary transition to that good estate. And many
here think, or imagine, with your correspondent,
that while diplomatically he pel forms his part of
the Villa-franca contract, looking to the restora
tion of the Dukes, and so keeping up as far as may
be the friendship with Franz Joseph so cordial
ly manifested over the table where that contract
was signed, he has done nothing effectively to
prevent the theory of annexation from approach
ing so near a fait accompli.
But the knot of the difficulty for the French
Emperor is not for the momont in the Duchies,
but in that part of the Papal dominions known
as the Legations. The rights of the revolution
ists there, their exercise of them.nnd their prov
SOWWKEMt VXSXD JUBD 3XRSBXSS.
ocation, by domestic, oppression, and French
encouragement to their exercise of them, place
them in a like position with the rest of Central
Italy. The distinction is, that while the rest of
Central Italy has been badly governed by Dukes
were the vicegerents of Austria, the Legations
have been still worse governed by the vicege
rent of Christ. The clerical party declare there
fore, that their rebellion is a rebellion against
Heaven, is not merely an error but a sin, not
merely temporarily, condemnable but eternally
damnable, and aiders and abettors render them
selves liable to the same sulphurous and perpet
ual penalties as are so liberally awarded to the
principal offenders.
Some of your readers, habitually regarding
spiritual as well as political liberty as they do
fresh air, as a universal right, may consider Pa
pal bulls now-a-day as harmless as Irish ones
and as absurd and, accustomed to the tamed
service of Heaven’s own lightning, laugh at the
mimic thunders of the Church. Louis Napo
leon, autocrat of France, moderator of Europe,
has the disadvantage of your humblest subscri
ber in that regard, and knows to his sorrow
that such things are no joke. I think I wrote
last week, that the clerical, or, as they style
themselves, the Catholic party, raise the territo
rial, and other strictly temporal claims and pre
tentions of Papal government to a level with theo
logical dogma. Their influence, if not broad, is
deep; they are now literally stirring Heaven
and Earth, (to say nothing of the other place)
by Episcopal mandements, by sermons and
newspaper articles and conversation to bring
this influence to bear upon the Emperor and
through him down, crushingly down, upon the
rights of the Romagnols. For the exterior po
litical independence of the Romagnols then,
there is much less chance than for that of the
Tuscans and Modenese. A certain measure of
administrative reforms to be granted to them as
to all subjects of the Holy See, the Emperor,
through his minister at Rome, still persistently
urges. Such reform has been one of his favorite
ideas these ten years and more—but to his ten
years persistence, is opposed, stolidly as ever,
the secular vis inertia of the Papal policy,strength
ened now by the active force of this French cler
ical influence.
The Zurich conference is said, with growing
likelihood of truth, to be near its breaking up,
or, as some one wittily imporved on the report,
its breaking down. For the report goes on to
say that the result of its work will appear in
nothing betffer than three mere shells of treaties,
confirming nothing but the cession of Lombar
dy, and peace among the three late belligerents
—i. e. settling nothing of the confusion m Ital
ian and European affairs.
The Emperor is still at Biarritz, whither and
whence is a great running of diplomats, kings,
and couriers. He will k be at Bourdeaux on the
11th of this month. The city gives him a ban
quet, say some, in which case all look for a man
ifesto of his policy in the shape of an after-dinner
speech, only a ball say other some, ip wh.ch case
we do not look for a manifesto, for at balls there
is no dinner; and no dinner, no speech, there
fore no manifesto.—l. E. D.
Lord Cowley, the British minister at Paris,
went to Biarritz a few days ago, to arrange Chi
nese and congressional matters it is thought.—
King Leopold, who went thereon some mission,
the secret of which has been very well kept from
the newspapers, strolled leisurely away through
southern France. When last seen his Belgian
majesty .was making his way through Switzer
land, in as many different directions as the news
papers choose.
Ido not intend to sneer upon newspapers—
abundant in error as >we are, our journalist
guild is as well informed apparently, as Euro
pean Cabinet Ministers—and among the benefits
they confer upon us may be reckoned, (to change
the subject) a stretching of the span of human
life. In our own country, when Congress is
not in session, and there comes a dearth of rail
road accidents, sporadic murders, they introduce
to the world some prodigiously old person, who,
beside that exemplary merit and the full preser
vation of all sorts of faculties, does on the strength
of such exhilarating notice, start as from a foun
tain of youth, and smartly “ runs the rounds of
the press,” down the seaboard from Maine to
Texas, across to California, up to Oregon, and
back byway of the Western States. Only you
will have observed, that whether he be a Bap
tist clergyman, (if so he preached the preceding
Sunday) or she be an old negro nurse, (if so, no
matter in what part of the country she resides,
she has a distinct recollection of General Wash
ington,) his or her local habitation, parish
or plantation almost invariably chances to
be a great way off from yours, distance
generally proportioned to the advanced stage of
his or her earthly existence, until to your sceptical
vision the long spun thread of their lives, almost
like the string of a longbow. But Lebpold, of
whom we were just speaking, is king of an au
thenticated, located Belgian 150 years old—of
a man who gets his half-pay as a retired captain,
as you may read in a recent number of the
official Belgian Moniteur, wherein, by royal de
cree, dated Sept. 15, of this current year, Cap
tain Viroux is put upon the retired list. He
was born at Chimay, Nov. 9, 1709, say twenty
four years before Oglethorpe had roofed in the
first log-cabin on Yamacraw Bluff, in the days
of our worshipful King George 11. Not the
least singular feature in the life of this centiquin
quagenarian (there is no shorter adjective to
classically qualify a hundred-and-fifty-year-old)
is that he first entered upon his military career,
when Belgium needed volunteers, in October,
1830, a “likely youth" of 120.
on the chapter of prodigies, let me in
stance awi ier from my newspaper reading which
shows, contra. 7 the vain imagining of us
Americans, that Eu. QDe ma y rival us in lusus
sociatis as well as in lusus At St. Peters
burg Italian Opera house, the «q ler day, M’lle
La Gura, appeared in Norma with ocli effect
that she was called out no less than 28 lUnes,
while the saltatory achievements of Madame
Rosati, at the same place a few nights aferwards,
were admiringly testified to by ten recalls. Can
the Boston Athenians (or Athenian Bostonians)
or the New York Firemen point, in the full re
cords of their enthusiasm for Ellsler or Jenny
Lind to a parallel of this enthusiasm. ?
Wonderful again, for it is said to be true,
though good enough not to be, is the following
story, now circulating here. To begin it at the
beginning, we must go back four or five years
to a trial, which made a sensation at the time in
the dress circles of Paris, to which the parties
belonged, when Madame de R. pressed and gain
ed a suit against her husband for a separation
du corps el des brens. The French civil law, in
accord with the law of the church, does not re
cognize complete divorce. The lady, who proved
gross ill treatment on the part of the gentle
man (?) retained the social position which her
youth, beauty and exemplary conduct entitled
her to, only disturbed by the vexations which
the malice of her unworthy worse half was, from
time to time, able to cause her. One day this
past summer, she learned that he lay dangerous
ly ill at Vichy, with no other than hired atten
dants about him. She immediately repaired to
that fashionable watering place for the singular
ly unfashionable purpose of doiig good. The
patient surprised at her appearanie, and misin
terpreting her motive, informed h<r with polite
irony that he never shouH be able to repay her
touching kindness, for he had invested all his
property in annuities. ‘I am aware of that,”
quietly replied the noble woman, vithout seem
ing to notice the ill-disguised insult And so she
remained by his bedsido, lavishag upon him
the nursing service that woman #ily can best
render to suffering. At the end if the sixth
week, when, thanks to tier care, he was past
all danger and in full convalesceree, she bade
him adieu. He now strove, sinarelv for the
moment at least, to retain her—hejiad fallen in
love again with his wife, in spihjof himself;
begged pardon, protested and pried for a fa
vorable response, but cou’d get to other than
this: “ No; it is not your wife yho has been
nursing you, but a sister ofeharityf’ And with
that Madame de R. packed up amjeft him.
Rather French, if you ch*ose, lat rather fine,
I think. lam not married.
[For the Bonthern Fiell a d Fireside.]
WOMAN HER TRUE DESTINY AND PROPER
TRAINING
What is the true destiny of Woman, is a ques
tion full of interest to eveiy 1 iver of his race.—
In what should her physical, nental, and moral
training consist, in order foi the best results to
follow in her subsequent hist ry ? We unhesi
tatingly assert, that we belie e the true destiny
of woman is to fulfil the fur tions of wife and
mother. All other considers ions are subsidiary
to these, and when she is et icated in reference
to other things, above and 1 yond these, she is
unsphered, becomes abnori »1 in her position,
and fails to fulfil the natu il functions of her
life, in the great plan of oui Creator. She first
commenced in the garden i Paradise, for her
creation was predicated of t B fact, that “it is
not good for man to live alotand when crea
ted, it was for the sole pi pose, according to
the Divine announcement, ‘ ;o be a lielp-meet
to man.” Has any thing ari en in her history,
to change or modify this org aal intention of the
Divine mind? Is she still li i being she was in
tended to be made for mai’i society, to relieve
his loneliness, to cheer his ipirits, and to be a
help in all the departments < f life, especially in
his home and family. Then, we are right in the
assumption, that wife and i other, is what wo
man should be educated for, atad what she should
live for. In the proper full! nent of these func
tions she is a true woman;: at of them, she is a
distortion, a failure—a monf rosity.
The anatomical structure of woman points
with unerring certainty to tilt Divine purpose in
her creation. The great predominance of the
emotional over the reflectiva in her mental con
stitution, proves as well he'jHevotion to her hus
band, as her dependence updn him. Her fragile
form and timid heart indicates the necessity of
having a protector, a stronger than she, to sus
tain her timid footsteps th ough life’s rugged
pathway. Every element osier being, her whole
history, her fall and curse h ve established, with
indubitable evidence, the f ct, that her sphere
in life is circumscribed to :ie homestead, and
her true destiny is to fulfil tpe functions of wife
and mother. And what niler ambition could
be presented to the mind of Voman, than to com
fort and cheer the being who is to her more
than all the world beside, and to rear the young
immortals bound to her by indissoluble ties, in
the way best calculated to insure them a suc
cessful voyage through lie, and a happy exit
therefrom. While the sphere of man is far more
extended than that of woman, his ambition lay
ing hold of the high stations of life, and spread
ing through the vast domains of society, hers
is nevertheless one of a purer and more disin
terested character. Her desire is to her hus
band, in the language of Scripture, her ambition
to please him and win his approbation. What
though contending hosts array themselves in
battle fields, for national honor, for national in
dependence, or even for liberty itself—what
though evils of great magnitude threaten to over
turn the basis of society ?—she feels only a wo
man’s interest in these exciting events, and is
only affected by them through sympathy for her
husband and children. Her empire is home,
and she feels far more thrilling interest in all
that transpires here, than in the greatest politi
cal events of the day, or the most astounding
foreign revolutions. An angry look or word
from her husband carries more pain to her heart
than the loss of fortune, of friends, or even the
favor of public opinion. Such is woman, find
her where you may, whether in the refinements
of Christian civilization, or the abject slavery of
barbarism.
Wife and Mother 1 Around those names, what
blessed associations cluster! Who has not yield
ed to the charms of their influence ? Who has
not felt them to be a shield and protection from
calamities as well as the vices of life ? Why,
then, should woman aspire to sway senators
with her oratory—mingle in the busy world of
trade, or the strife and passion of the hustings ?
Why should she attempt to pluck the bright
gem of modesty from her own brow, and claim
an equal part with man in all his turbulent
strifes and worldly ambitions ? Why should
she aspire to lead in politics or in war, where
the stoutest hearts have quailed, and the most
stalwart forms have fallen to rise no more? A
bold, impetuous, immodest woman, who can
bear ? and yet the miserable pretenders after
woman’s rights would fain rob her of her bright
est jewel, and present her before the gaze of
man, bereft of every virtue that makes her dear
to his heart. No; let her be educated to adorn
the sphere in which she was intended to move,
to make a true woman—not a false one; and
then society will yield to the charm of her influ
ence, and submit to her gentle, virtuous sway.
Can there be a better proof of the truth of the
Divine record, concerning the fall of man and the
curse of woman, than the fact established by
the universal experience of all nations and kin
dreds of manlsind, that “ her desire is to her
husband,” as God announced to her when she
was driven from Eden. Her existence is wrap
ped up in his; his will—his happiness—his very
being is hers. Wherever you find a true wo
man, she answers to this Divine command, and
fulfils this Divine injunction. Wherever you find
an exception to this rule, you find a female that
has been unsexed and driven into shocking
masculinity by force of exceptional circumstances,
or by undue education of the intellectual, to the
detriment of the true emotional elements of wo
man's nature. Is it right then to attempt to
subvert this great law of nature, and forego the
Divine decree, by cultivating the masculine
capacities of woman, to the subversion of the
feminine in any particular? Is it proper to have
them delving in the abstruse speculations of
mathematics or metaphysics, so that the intel
lectual shall subdue the emotional—philosophy
overcome desire, and render them superior to
the enforcement of a law which abides upon
every true woman, and impels her to love,
espouse, and marry ? There are exceptions to
all general rules—there are true women who
have never married, but never was there one
who has not loved. It may be proper for a
Somerville, a Harriet Martineau, and a Hannah
Moore, to be produced once in an age, but such
intellectual specimens, too frequently presented,
might tend not a little to interfere with the true
destiuy of woman, as indicated by nature and
nature’s God.
Medical philosophers have long since taught
that matrimony is the true sphere of woman.—
That by it her health anl happiness is insured
and her life prolonged. It will not do to teach
our daughters, as some have proposed, not to
look to marriage as a state, and a blessed state,
designed for them by Heaven. It will not do
to encourage other pursuits and habits that may
conflict with or depreciate this Divine institution,
for by thus doing we are working against nature,
and performing an office that will assuredly pro
duce evil in the end. It is the duty of the pa
rent to guide this impetuous current of the young
heart—not impede or obstruct it. They should
be early impressed with the necessity and im
portance of this step, as eoneucive to their health
and happiness in life. They should learn the
fact that if they never marry, thoy may sigh out
their existence in secret painful longings after
an unrealized good with the secret painful con
sciousness of an unfulfilled mission, or turn
stoics and revalt against nature, embittering the
current of their own lives, and adding, it may
be, nay it must be, to the unhappiness of others.
This is no overdrtwn picture, while there are
honorable exceptions—they only prove that
some miDds have great capacity of endurance,
and exceptional powers which enable their pos
sessors to seem, and almost to be happy, despite
of shattered nerves, and disappointed hopes, and
a false unsphered position in society.
The tendency of the times is to place a false
estimate upon the character of woman, intellec
tually and socially considered. Already we fear
great damage has been done to society, by the
inculcation of false notions in this regard. Ef
forts have been made to stimulate her ambition
to cope with man in intellectual efforts. Costly
edifices have been erected, as so many temples to
do homage to the powers of her mind. The fields
of science in their beauty and their profundity,
have been laid open before her, and she has
been excited to stretch all her powers, after the
investigation of truth. Her notions of intellec
tuality have thus been elevated too often above
the vital force of her physical powers; and she
and her tutors forgetful, that a healthy physical
conformation has as much or more to do with
her happiness and usefulncss.in society abstruse
scientific knowledge; have, in too many instances
prostrated both health and intellect in the vain
pursuit of learning. What will all this avail, if
a four years immolation in college (just when
her life blood should run full and free, develop
ing muscle, nerves and bone, in the beauty and
symmetry of womanhood,) should make the
brain disproportionately large and active, at the
expense of other organs ? What will it avail
when the hour of trial shall come, with a train of
morbid sympathies pressing on her physical sys
tem and enervating the mind? The curse of
Eden is made more intolerable than was intend
ed, when the already weakened physical pow
ers suddenly fail in the trying emergencies of
woman’s existence, and life is the forfeit; or she
becomes a weak, delicate nervous, pitiable crea
ture, quite incapable of performing the duties of
her holy mission on earth, those of the wife and
mother.
The wise man long since announced the im
portant truth “ too much study is a weariness
to the flesh ?’ Many a poor college girl has felt
the force of it to her heart’s sorrow, not only
while engaged in the pursuit of knowledge, but
in after years, when a greater demand is made
upon her physical powers than she is able to
bear. But when we add to books too much con
finement from the genial light of heaven, and the
pure oxygen of the atmosphere.it becomes intol
erable. Yet, as if these inquisitorial implements
might not suffice to destroy health and life in
every instance, the tyranny of fashion is added
to finish what the others might have left of the
vigorous muscle and the flowing life blood. We
doubt not if the vital statistics of the female sex,
taken by classes, could be ascertained in this
country, a woful tale of mortality would be told
against the higher classes who, between study,
confinement and fashion, are immolated on the
altar of pride and ambition. ‘She died young,’ is
the sad lament made over many a lovely young
woman of the present day, who had just begun
to fulfil the functions of wife and mother.—
; When will we learn wisdom by the sad history
of the past ?
1 Let us imagine Ccelebs in search of a wife,
i Two young and beautiful creatures are before
f him. The one an impersonation of the intel
lectual model, fresh from College, prond of her
honors, showing in her bright eye and promi
nent forehead as much the effect of close intel
i lectual application, as she does the lack of iron
i and oxygen in her pale, wan cheek. The other
is a village lass, who has nothing but academic
honors of which to boast, and these have been
extended over a long space of time, interspersed
with vacations, whole terms of freedom from
books, and an introduction to the mysteries of
house-keeping, in all its varied departments.
Her mind has been free and untrameled. She
[ has rambled the woods, gamboled on the plain,
i and ‘ o’er the heath-girt hill.’ Feeling happy and
; unrestrained herself; she has naturally endeav
. ored to make all around her happy. The result
i has been the production of a model woman, in
■ physical conformation as well as intellectual and
■ moral force.
Which of these, think you, our Ccelebs would
select for a wife, and to become the mother of
his children ? Which has had best developed
in her training, the elements for the accomplish
ment of her true destiny ? The one has had,
perchance, a more thorough intellectual training,
but owing to physical disabilities and restraints,
lias not been able to appropriate as well as the
other the amount of instruction she has received.
The one has been pent up in cloisters of learn
ing, educated for a school-mistress, it may be,
but has turned out a book-worm,a novel reader—
a blue stocking. She avows a sovereign contempt
for cookery and useful needle-work. In short,
she knows nothing but books, and that smatter
ingly, it is probable, because the irregularitie'
her health lias unfitted her, as they do* 008 *
women, for uninterrupted, protracted Rental
effort —while the other has been raor ®
in the school of nature, the physic- 4 developed
to the full perfection of nature's d-^g 11 ) the emo
tional predominating over the atellectual, and
the moral swaying both ip** s meek subservi
ence to the cause of relii* 011 aQ d humanity.
Human nature had bee* a chief element in her
mental culture. ManV nature, as a science, had
been taught her by * discerning father. She
had learned that U he a good wife requires an
' education not to >e found in college cloisters and
academic shaded; that to make a man happy, it
would not be necessary to feed him on poetry,
dulcet musiJ or learned disquisitions; that to
make him happy she must love him with a warm
heart, as woman only can love, cheer him in
hours despondency, and return smiles even
i for frowns. She must have a clean wardrobe,
well-prepared meals, and always in proper time,
well regulated servants, and almost above every
thing else, a cheerful, happy, obliging disposi
tion. These things can only be learned at home;
without them home is a desert, and life desola
tion—books a pest, wealth a curse, and society
a nuisance. So many have found it to their life
long sorrow, and thousands more are training
for the same sad destiny, fondly dreaming of con
nubial bliss in the golden future.
A charming English poetess has drawn the
picture of a young man breasting the tempta
tions and ills of life, begirt with the panoply of
his own virtue, sustaining himself and overrun
ning all the obstacles that surround him, by in
dustry, energy and perseverance; and speaks of
him as the beau ideal of all that is beautiful, ex
cellent and lovely in human nature. Th:s
might be expected of a true woman—a mother.
For ourselves, a more lovely and admirable pic
ture than even this, is the devoted wife minis
tering to a husband, who has fallen from the
height of other days, and is now down-trodden
in the vale of life, it may be by reason of his
own departure from the path pf rectitude, cling
ing to him with more devotion because he is for
saken by others—or a mother endeavoring to
bring back an erring son from the paths of
vice and crime. See her pale, wan countenance,
as he returns from the midnight revel; hear the
anxious prayer for his deliverance; see the bit
ter tears over his fallen prospects; hear her
gentle words of entreaty —not reproach. Through
every lane of life, through the deep scones of
crime and infamy she devotedly follows him, and
even at a felon's grave she is seen still by his
side, vainly striving to wipe away his reproach
by bearing it herself. This is our beau ideal of
all that is beautiful, lovely and excellent in
human nature. E. M. P.
[For the Southern Field and Fireside.]
ORIGINAL ENIGMA-NO. 3,
For the Little Folks at Home.
Mr. Editor: —Enclosed von will And an Enigma for
Tub Southern Field and Firesides
I am composed of surteen letters:
My 5, B,ll,l—is condensed smoke.
“2,4, 5, 6—is an interjection.
“ 18—is a consonant,
“ 9, T, B,ls—is lofty.
“ 12, 14,10 —is a metal.
My whole is one of our Lord's commandments.
China Grove, Ga. Laura.
Answer next week.
ty Answer to Enigma N 0.2: John Caldwell Calhoun.
Correct solutions have been received from J. W. R.,
Richmond Factory, Ga.; “ Anon,” Greensboro', Ga; E. C.
8., Charleston, 8. C.; J. A. 11. T., Macon, Ga; R. M. R.,
Vincvllle, Ga.; “FarrooC Charleston, S. C.; J. 11. R., Ir
winton, Ga; and, thanks for her kind suggestion,) from
Fanny, of Washington, Ga
The former correspondent will, upon re-investigation'
notice that the initials of “8” and “16” are the same; he
is correct as to ‘D.” E.
A RELIC OF THE REVOLUTION-COL. TABLE
TON’S LETTER-TERMS OF CAPITULATION.
We have before us a letter, dated May 29th,
1780, in the hand-writing of Col. Tarleton of the
British Legion, an officer, at the mention of
whose name the whigs of Carolina trembled.
It was handed to us by Mr. Robert C. Forsyth,
of Columbus, a grand-son of Col. Meigs of the
Revolution, and a son of the late John Forsyth,
Secretary of State under General Jackson. It
contains the terms of capitulation offered by
Tarleton to Col. Buford, we presume, just before
the defeat of the latter near the Waxhaw settle
ments, in South Carolina. CoL Buford had been
sent with four hundred troops of the Continen
tal Army from Virginia, to assist the whigs in
their defence of Charleston. Reaching Camden,
he ascertained that Charleston had fallen, and
beat a retreat. Tarleton was dispatched by
Earl Cornwallis to meet Buford with seven hun
dred men. Coming up with him, CoL Tarleton
addressed CoL Buford the following letter,
which, not being responded to, the former gave
battle to the ‘latter, routing his whole force,
showing his men no quarters, cutting down the
American (lag with his (Tarleton’s) own sword,
and playing sad havoc with the American sol
diers. This letter is written on a piece of fools
cap twelve inches by eight, and in a long, bold
hand. It reads thus:
May 29th, 1780.
Sir:—Resistance being in vain, to prevent the
Effusion of Blood, I make offers which never
can be repeated.
You are uow encompassed by a Corps con
sisting of Artillery and Seven hundred Light
troops on horseback; half of which number are
Cavalry, and Earl Cornwallis is within a short
march with some Battalions of British.
I warn you of the Temerity of further inimi
cal proceedings, especially, when I hold out the
following conditions, which are nearly the same
adopted by Charles Town.
But if any Person of any Denomination at
tempts to leave your Army after thi* _ Flag is
waived, rest assured, that be the fugitives of
any Rank or Dignity, they shall experience hos
tile treatment - . '
Ist Art. All officers Prisoners of War,
but admitted to allowed to return to
their habitations ’tiU exchanged. .
2d Art. All Ofitinental Soldiers to go to
Lamprier's Poi*t or any neighboring Post and
Remain there Prisoners of War ’till exchanged
To be allowed Provisions as good as British
Soldiers. . „ , _
3d. All Militia Soldiers to be permitted to Re
turn to their Habitations upon Parole.
4th. All arms. Artillery, Ammunition, Stores,
Provisions, Waggons, Horses, Ac., to be faith
fully delivered.
sth. All Officers to be allowed their Private
Baggage and Horso, and to have their sid*-arms
Returned.
I expect an answer to these ivopositions in
half an hour; if they aro Excoe'‘ el b you wul or
der every Person under v rjr command to Pile
his Arms in one hour; <■* J ou *> no ‘
these Terms, the 810~ 1 Your head.
a have the Honor
to be
Sir, With Proper Respect,
Your obt Servt,
BAN. TARLETON,
L Col’l Comd’t Brit. Leg’n.
rnis remarkable document has never, per
japs, been published before.—[ Columbus Times.
A Retort Direct. —A clergyman from a
neighboring town and one of his elderly parish
ioners, were walking home from church one icy
day last winter, when the old gentleman slipped
and fell flat on his back. The minister, looking
at him a moment, and being assurred he was not
much hurt, said to him: “ Friend, sinners stand
on slippery places." The old gentleman looked
up, as if to assure himself of the fact, and said,
“ I see they do; but I can’t.”
mmm- -mm—
A Scotchman has trained a couple of mice to
turn a reel for twisting twine. The laborers run
about ten miles a day, and reel from one hun
dred to one hundred and twenty threads. A
halfpenny's worth of oatmeal lasts a mouse five
weeks ; the clear annual profit on each animal
is computed at six shillings.
A bronze statue of Handel, ten feet high has
just been erected in Halle, in Saxony, his native
city. "
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