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ffrit calm and free.
Oo—let the proud their gems behold,
And view their sparkling ray;
vase, or yellow gold,
uncomely must have been the majority of her
countrywomen may be judged from the sen
sation she made.
The Roman ladies were famed for their
stately carriage and somewhat large, though
noble features; and when to these charms
were added those of regularity and delicacy
Where sunny locks atm faces gleam
To cheer the poor man's lot.
What man is pour l Not he whose brow
Yiwetwith heaven’ ,
Wha breaths to God the heart foil vow,
Whose pledge is deep and true.
The morning calls his active feet,
■ijTa no enchanting dome;
Tfct evening ami the twilight sweet,
■ - Shall light his pathway home.
And there is music to bis ear,
In the glad voice of Ids child—
Ilia wife, with hurried step, draws near,
With spirit undefiled.
Then turn m>t from the humble heart,
Nor scum his humble tone;
For deeper feelings there may start,
Ilian the proud have ever known.
llw-h—hush I the year is dying—
Hark! through old forest dim—
The wailing winds are sigliing
The requiem over him—
In quiet, deep and holy
lie sinks to his repose;
And languidly and slowly
Ilis weary eyelids dose.
Now some with tearful sadness
The parting year review ;
While others hail with gladness,
The advent of the new.
In glad young heart* as swelling
and beautiful coloring, no doubt their simple
ana pea coquette style of dress was especially
becoming to them ; but without these latter
qualifications, how gaunt and coarse they
must have appeared.
What can be more lovely than the figure of!
Agrippina, bending that stately head above
the ashes of Germanicus!—the robe falls
long sweeping folds; the bare arm, naked
the shoulder, supports the urn; the hair braid-
lU I
charms, and to know there are few of the
terhood without some redeeming attraction,
than tu have been a very goddess of loveli
ness, and have felt that your own divinity was
created by the sacrifice of whole becta-
combs of less fortunate faces.
From the Philadelphia Enquirer.
Social ami Family Festivals.
THE AFFECTIONS.
“ There is in life no blessing like affection.
It soothes, it hallows, elevates, subdues.
And bringeth down to earth its native heave
Au anuonymous writer iu the columns of
a New York cotemporary, protests agai
holidays-—says that “ they do no good-and
...» ...I.., .uppor., ine urn j me na.r ura,u- mu ''‘ tW-thM" they excite .nthagUate
eJ back, .hows the perfect profile, ami pure j “J P«jSl>hlo cud. Ala.! fur the
oval check, the smooth brew, the magnificent jeiMmeM, acerbity and bitterness of poor
eve. in in. large and lofty chamber. I human ! Alas! for ll,e "tolerable
ribbon, not the gleaming of a jewel,
breaks the calm outline, or disturbs the se
re unity.
Agrippina could bear that style, Faustina
and Messalina were less and looked even
better. Perhaps among the circle of our ac
quaintance there are two or three women | , _ , .
who would appear to advantage so attired; | g reate . 8t 8 <KK }.. of *!l e . S r . eate , st nu ™ bcr ”—
spirit that is annoyed aud irritated
happiness of others, for the cuvioi
jealous mortal who whines, groans, and
grumbles through existence, and who is
er moody and discontented when the
shines and the world rolls on with a joj
bound! For ourselves, we advocate
of delight,
’ rolling
hi are bright;
la>w in the tranquil earth—
Strange—strange—what bitter blightir
What deeds to startle thought—
W«H war ■derful, exciting.
One short.sad year halit wrought!
Pretty Women.
BY A PRETTY WOMAN.
I have oflcn wondered why there
professed beauties now-a-days, while every
past ago can boast its Helens; one generation
may number many pretty faces, but it is the
only one among the thousands already count
ed that produces no beauties whoso names
shall descend iniperishably to the penetration
yet to come.
A friend of mino (a gentleman of course^
suggests that tho universal likeness of the la
dies of this age accounts for a falling ofT
other respects, but here wo differ; for, al
though it is a rare thing for a pretty waman
to be clever, or for a clever woman to be pret-
Jy. too much of such rare instances do occur
to allow any rule to be established containing
such a solution of the difficulty.
Yet, wo cannot open a page of any history
that docs not record tho fame of some beauty;
the Bible has its Rachel—so lovely that twen
ty years of service was deemed a light fee for
her affections; tho world was lost for Cleop
atra ; the beautiful mistress of the French
kings ruled that world through the hearts of
their imperial lovers; oven down to the days
of George tho Fourth there has always been
some lady whoso charms have been more
powerful than mouarchs and prime miuisters.
But I think the problem may be solved; it
is the difiereucc of dress—costume does it
all ; revive the robings of by gone ages, and
you will revive all the beauty and ugliness of
those days.—Forthere must have been a good
deal of ugliness, otherwise beauty would not
have been so forcibly appreciated ; had there
been more pretty girls in the days of Troy,
Helen would liavo had few suitors and Illiuin
might have been standing yet.
You must have been plain; so must Sappho
have been—Sappho of Divine heart! But
what are hearts compared to faces ?—what
man loves a genius for her genius t How
many love a foot for her face f
But what I mean to say i* this—in (hose
times people dressed so unbecomingly, that
8 perfect they
unless their features
literally nothing; all the minor graces which
set off a mediocre person now were totally
unavailable under that system of costume.
For instance, Helen must have worn a
loose robe, a broad girdle, bare arms, sandals
on her feet, and her hair back in those rich,
magnificent braids, termed to this day, “ Gre
cian Plaits."
But imagine for a moment all your acquain
tances droned in this way ! Would not the
majority bo frightly ! How few faces, how
low complexions would stand banding back of
thick hair! how few locks are thick enough
•o to band hack! how few forms would
•how well beneath tho simple robe, without
•taya or stiff petticoats! how few feet would
be endurable in sandals! how few arms
would bear tho noon-day auu and tho sharp
winds, which would soon reduce them to the
pattern and form of a washerwoman's!
Perhaps tho Jewish costume of Rebecca
and Rachel may have been a shade better;
. but here was the same exposure of neck and
—with the additional disadvantage of a
robe that showed a leg encased in hideous
boots and shoes, and that refused to sweep
wkh Grecian amplitude around the limbs of
the fair wearers.
Cleopatra—who is represented as both
dark and strong, could wear only the robes
of white or purple, the heavy diadem, the
•truigs of. pearls that were the allotted garb
°« Egyptian princes. How dark and now
but oh! how well for the dumpy and the
scraggy, “netrelroua sc" and the “ nez snub"
that they fall upon bettor days.
Still we hear of some so striking lovely as
be known to all the world by the fame of
their eyes alone; of these we may name
Edith of the Swanneck, so called from the
brilliant whiteness of a skin capable of resist
ing tho exposure to the sun and wind, which
tanned and freckled into frightfulness the
queens and lofty ladies of those rude days;
Rosamond the Fair—so fair that it was said
of her—‘ None liut a jealous and exasperated
woman could have harmed herBeatrice
Cenci, whose beauty makes one shudder, so
mysterious seems the light in those large, un
troubled eyes, soon about to close beneath
the pressure of so awful a fate; Lucretia
Borgia, an angel in face, a demon in heart;
Mary of Scotland, whom “ no man ever be
held without love,” and some few others, un
til we reach that famous trio recorded in the
letters of Horace Walpole, as the loveliest
women of their time, the three Misses Gun
ning.
One of these—the Dutchess of Hamilton
—was so renowned for her charms, that her
fame spread far and near, inasmuch that
when traveling once from the North to town,
the mob in tho places where she rested at
nights assembled round the hotels, nor would
they depart until she had appeared on the
balconies to display to them her world-famed
face.
And there is something strangely sad in
the account of the death of another of the
sisters—Lady Coventry—who perished of
consumption, while in the highest pride of
youth and beauty. She is recorded as pa
tiently awaiting the approach of death—her
looking-glass her constant companion—as
scarcely ever removing her eyes from tho re
flection of her own face, and as bewailing
ly the too early extinction of a beauty w
thy of immortality.
At the time in which these fair sisters lived,
the style of dress, although magnificent and
graceful, was eminently trying to plain peo
ple, and as eminently propitious to those fa
vored; hence the exceeding value of beauty
—lienee the extraordinary renown of those
ranking as beauties—hence the apparent
rityof that renown.
The hair was then worn completely lifted
off the face, leaving exposed every feature ;
unless those features were regular to perfec
tion, unless the complexion was smooth as
marble and pure as snow, who could look
well! And now very well those must have
looked who did possess such advantages
At a later time, when the names of some
favorite beauties are again recorded, the cos
tume, totally different, was so hideous, that
no one could wear it with impunity—hence
the high reputation for the beauty of Pauline
Bonaparte, and Madame Recamier. The
former is described as appearing at a party
given by her mighty brother, in a tunic of
white muslin, reaching a little below the
knee and commencing far below the shoul
ders, waist exceedingly short, and bound
with a narrow girdle; sandals clothed the
small feet while a mantle of leopard skin
hung loosely round the perfect form of Con-
nova’s fairest model.
And there are many who can yet remem
ber the appearance of Madame Recamier in
the parks of London, clad in a robe of as
scanty and as simple—her dark hair wreath
ed around her head and fastened with u bod
kin to the summit, and a scarlet mantle wrap
ped around her.
Now-a-days, the toilet of a lady is exactly
conducted upon the principle most becoming
to all; few figures look ill in the sweeping
robe and lengthened corsage—ample and
stately without stiffness; ankles, however,
thick, are concealed by the long dresses, now
tho mode. Features, however coarse, can
be softened and shaded into something like
symmetry, by the judicious arrangement of
locks permitted to be worn iu bands, or
braids, or ringlets, just as best suits tho face
they sorrow
And while no arbitrary fashion forces the
exposure of a frightful profile, a clumsy
a ponderous ankle, no rule exists to prevent
the reverse, to bring ont her own “ good
points" as sbe think best, and it is easy to
conceal her weak ones, without departing
from the fashions that prevail.
Under these circumstances, it must
tainly be a consolation to our fair friends to
feel, that although it is difficulty
>m the Savannah Morning News.
POSTSCRIPT.
GLORIOUS -
NEWS FROM BOSTON !
the “ largest liberty” iu the elevated sense;
the “ widest field for enjoyment”—“ tli
happiness of the million,” and as especially
conservitive, moral, social and delightful,
do we regard religious and family festivals—
seasons in which the mercenary nature of
man is forgotten—periods during which
Friendship and Affection rule and gladden
tho hour, and thrill the heart with feelings
that “ once experienced aud enjoyed are
never forgotten.”
It is, therefore, that we urge and advo
cate occasional meetings of relations aud
friends—gatherings around the social board
and the family fireside—re-unions of hus
bands and wives, sons and daughters, grand
parents and grand-children—all who are
united together by the fond ties of humani-
doctrine that the individual
who participates to the largest extent in the
enjoyment of the affections, who is esteem
ed, cherished and loved by tho many, and,
who, in return, regards with feelings of
friendship, affection and respect, all who
look up to him in such a kindly spirit, is
long the happiest of his race ! The often-
that the opportunities are afforded for
engthening these holy ties, and indulg
ing these pure and kindly feelings, the bet-
er for all parties—for tlioso immediately
:onccrned, and for society at large, by way
of example.
We can conceive of nothing more truly
delightful than the rc-uuion onco a year
ofteuer, at some Thanksgiving, Christinas,
or New Year's Festival, of all the
bers of a largo family—residents perhaps
of different villages, towns, cities or States,
separated by tho commercial and business
objects of the world, and yet eager to e
brace every fitting opportunity to unite ot
more, hand to hand and heart to heart,
the hall of the old family homestead, a
around the bent form and the white locks of
the patriarch of the circle! The feelings
E roduced on such an occasion cannot but
e pure and ennobling. The recollectious
that flow back, the associations that are call
ed into existence, the memories of plei
ant scenes and incidents in early life, the
kindly looks, the heart’s warm words, tho in
terchange of sentiments and of feelings ;—
who that has enjoyed, ever can forget tli
No! It is a cold and heartless policy that
would make a man a slave to averice, that
would confine him to perpetual toil, tli
would teach him that money, trade, power,
are the only objects worth living for, that
would rcstraiu his aflections, chill his sym
pathies, and deaden his heart.
A few short years at beat, and the
flame of human existence burns feebly, still
more feebly, and expires. Age and de
crepitude steal upon us soon enough. And
when onc#^ consigned to the grave andvits
coldness, we are speedily forgotton. While
we live then, let us cultivate the affections.
Let us indulge the better, tho purer, the gen
tler, the finer qualities of our nature! Let
us endeavor to win the kindness and regard
of others, and to reciprocate in a truly gen
erous spirit! Happiness is oftener found
in the social walks of life than in any other.
She loves to build her altars, in the heart,
and have the affections minister at her tem
ples. She delights in the enjoyment of oth
ers, and this indeed, is her highest felicity.—
So it should be with mankind. We should
strive not only to enjoy pleasure, but to im
part it. We should take satisfaction in ad
ministering to the purer, the holier tastes of
our fellow creatures. The world is far more
readily governed by love than by fear—at
least the social world, and we should profit
by this truth. But if, in the spirit of the mi
santhrope, we go about complaining, eagerly
detecting the evil and overlooking the good,
prompt in discovering causes of sorrow, but
slow in ascertaining cases of joy, we shall
not only prove false to our mission and our
duty, but darken and embitter our own ca
reer, and canker the bliss and the prosperi
ty, of all who look up to, love, respect or
depend upon us. Cultivate the affections—
encourage pure tastes, social festivals and
family re-unions, and thus create exhaust
less sources of genuine pleasure, and not
only brighten and gladden the present, but
cheer aud illumine the future.
500 Abolitionists Hung (in effigy)—All the
Runaway Negroes taken alive and “ bag
ged," to be sent back to their masters free of
expense—Ably Folsom and Lloyd Garri
son put in the Stocks—A Special Minis
ter sent to England to recover Crafts and
his wife.
Boston, Nov. 25, 1850.
I hasten to inform you, through the agency
of a clairvoyant (one of the Rochester Knock
ers) of the wonderful re-action that has taken
place in public sentiment within the last
twenty-four hours, in our city.
Such a demonstration of genuine patriot
ism has not been known in these parts, since
the Battle of Buuker Hill. The President
has ordered 20,000 troops to this city, to en
force the Fugitive Slave Law. The city has
been placed under Martial Law, aud nearly
all tho Abolitionists HUNG in effigy.—
George Thompson has been hissed out of the
limits, by the women—Garrison and Abby
Folsom are now grinning at each other in the
stocks. Fred. Douglas has fled to Canada,
and the balance of the Fugitive Slaves have
all been captured, tied, and labelled, and are
to be delivered to claimants free of cost.—
Everything liko abolition agitation has been
made a criminal offence, by proclamation of
the Governor, and a special Minister has
been dispatched to England, to recover
Crafts and his wife, who will be sent to
n, Georgia, in a Government vessel.
After this I need hardly assure you that
Boston is sound on the Slavery question, and
people are for the Union and the
Rights of the South! I liasteu to give you
this gratifying intelligence, that you may
be able to silence the fire-eaters and dis-
unionists, who are endeavoring to persuade
the people of the South that wo are unwilling
bide by the late glorious Compromise
P. S.—We shall illuminato when we hear
the result of your election, which is awaited
with breathless anxiety.
Dramatic Chit-Chat.
Mr. Collins, the popular Irish comedian,
was at Buffalo at last date, playing his round
of characters; among which was Johu
Brougham’s new comedy, written expressly
for Collins. Julia Dean was playing at Cin
cinnati, and winning unbounded applause.—
A diamond bracelet worth $150 was present
ed to her a few nights since at her benfit in
Nashville Theatre. The little Batemans
have been delighting tbe people of Milwau-
kie by their surprising theatrical performanc-
Charlottc Cushman was still at the Wal-
-street, in Philadelphia. Miss Davenport
is performing at the Portland (Me.) Museum.
Mr. Graham and Anna Cruise, Mr. J. B. Booth,
and Mrs. Coleman Pope, are playing at the
National, Boston. Tho Nickersons and Jos.
Cowell, finish at the old Boston Theatre this
week. Dihdiu Pitt, the Thornes, and Blangy
are carrying on the war at the Howard Athe-
meum, Boston. The Wallacks are playing
this week, very successfully, at Lowell, Mass.
Sol Smith has opened the St. Charles, N. O.,
for the season, with a good prospect ahead.
Mr.'T. S. Charles has opened the American,
(lately Place’s) with a good company, and
with fair chances, it is said, of success. Tom
Placide’s “ Varieties” had not been re-open
ed at last accounts, but would be, shortly.
The St. Louis and Louisville seasons have
closed. Johu Brougham’s “ Lyceum, 1
Broadway, is in rapid progress.
Republican Diplomacy.
Eliliu Burritt makes some sensible re
marks on the gim-crackery in which our Min
isters always rig themselves on every official
occasion. Why dont they imitate Dr. Frank
lin, and go in plainjRepublican custome ! So
thinks Elihu, as may be seen by the follow
ing extract from one of his late letters :
“ It does strike me as directly misrepre
senting the dignity and duty of the great
American Republic, when its representatives
at foreign courts put themselves into cocked
hats, and mongrel military coats, and “tights”
of bediddled plush, and hung with long awk
ward swords, which they would be ashamed
to wear at home, and take upon them other
airs and boyish gewgaws, in order to dauco
attendance on either royalty or aristocracy.—
I hope the people of the United States will
look to this matter and demand that those
whom they send abroad to represent their
nation’s dignity, shall comport themselves
consistently with their high vocation, and don
no livery before Kings or Queens, or the
minor potentates or principalities of Europe,
on any occasion. So strongly does the im
propriety of this deportment take hold of my
mind, that, if I wero President of tho United
States, I would send no minister to any for
eign court which should require him at any
time to appear in any other than that plain,
civilian dress which the Constitution and
customs of our country prescribe to him who
receives the nation’s guests at the White
House in Washington.
|^" An old man still lives in Sheffield who
remembers when the news of Buuker Hill
reached town, and tells the following story ;
•• The rumor of the glorious fight spread
like wild-fire among the scattered farm
houses. The men and boys, without a known
exception, met in the streets the same even
ing and erected a liberty pole. That very
night it was cut down. Suspicion fastened
upon one of the principal and proudest men
iu the town, who was known to hold Tory
sentiments. The indignant people re-assem
bled, erected a new pole, seized upon the
suspected man and made him confess his
treason and bis accomplice, anointed his fore
head with tar, and crowned him with feath
ers, and then having formed a double line,
compelled him to pass between the files and
ask in turn the pardon of every man and
boy in tho town. The humbler individual,
who had been hired to fell the liberty pole,
was then mounted bare-backed upon a raw-
boned horse, and so paraded through the vil
lage, stopping in front of every house to en
treat forgiveness for his share in the offence.”
The reciter of this, distinctly recollects
when the Tory asked his pardon, being then
a boy of nine years.
A World’s Fair Speculation.—Some
idea of the extent of the great London Fair
may be formed from the fact that the privi-
A Present for Jenny Lind.—The fire-
men of New York are preparing a present lege of printing the Catalogue has been pur-
for Jenny Lind, in return for her generous chased by the Messrs. Clowes, at a premium
donation to thti Fire Department. It is a! of$20,000, in addition to two pence for every
0 j copy of Audubon’s Birds of America, mag- copy sold, to be applied towards the expen
se reputation of pre-eminent beauty, it is! uificently bound in vellum, and ornamented {ses of the exhibition. But another will be
difficult to appear remarkably plain; and it with goldeu designs of tbe costliest cliarac- printed in several languages, and be sold at
is sorely better to possess only moderate ter. tea shillings per copy.
Large Damages for a Forcible Eject
ment from a Railway Car.—In tho case ol
Thomas Keyes vs. W. B. Lawton and others,
for assault and battery, tried before the Su
premo Court of Rhode Island, tho jury re-
turned a verdict for the plaiutiff for $10,000.
The Providence Journal says tliat the action
was brought for an assault committed upon
tho plaintiff while a passenger iu the Stomng-
tou cars by the defendauts, who were officers
in the cars, and for a forcible ejectment from
the cars. We understand that the assault for
which this suit was brought commenced by a
controversy between the plaintiff and brake-
man about tlie smoky condition of the cars,
and ended by tbe former being thrown from
the train and seriously injured.
Tub Philosophy of Courting.—The long
nights are coming on, and the season of court
ship is arriving. As soon as the weather gets
so uncomfortably cold that tho girls are driven
in tho house, instead of enjoying eveniug
promenades in the street, lovers begin to
nestle round them, and sparking commences.
This accounts for there being so many more
marriages during the latter part of the year
than there are in the spring.
A Man of Iron.—There are few avoca
tions in life which require a man to be made
of tougher material to follow them success
fully, or which will make a man’s hair grow
grey so rapidly, as the editing of a daily
newspaper. To become a veteran
business, one must have a snake’s tenacity
of life, and a constitution of lignuravita;.-—
Old Ritchie, of the Washington Union, ap
pears to be a veteran of this sort. Duriug
the last session of Congress, he says that he
went to his pillow at three or four o’clock
for eleven successive nights, and rose at eight
the morning. And yet the “ old stage
orae seventy years of age, wo believe,
tho American Union prove as tough as Ritchie,
it will take u good many violcut storms to
start its timbers.—-Sac. Rep.
‘Hab you got the janders Pete?—De wlii
of your eyes am as yaller as safirum.’
‘Hush your mouf of dose insidious com
parisons, Sambo! I’sc got de Kallumforneo
gold fever; wen de crisis arribes in the del-
rium stage, den dis inderwidual also lebes
for de regum of perpetual gold. Dat is,
Sambo, perwided Congress does not prohibit
us to take our slaves and oddor real estate
‘Well, Pete, you is insame. A gemman
of your color to talk offoolishing after deae
visiumary white folks down Capo Horn. • I
shall detract my remarks on your appear
ance, and subsurtrout derefore dat all ob a
color, all ober alike, you is de darkest green
est nigger on Mount Joy—you is a disgrace
to tho whole colored sex!—you is green as a
^ ‘Epmty dis building ob your presence.
Sambo, or dis nigger is not 'sponsible for
your early disease.
Jenny Lind, without previous announcc-
meut, visited the New York Asylum for the
Blind, on Tuesday last, and after examining
the plan and arrangements of the Institution,
said it would afford her great gratification to
sing two or three songs for the entertainment
of the pupils. The pupils were immediate
ly assembled in the Chapel, and Miss Lind |
taking her seat*at the Piano, sang several of
her choicest melodies, among which was the
celebrated Bird Song. Her sightless hearers
were charmed, and gathered around her to
express their gratitude.—Phila. Gazette.
Execution Almost.—The Ashville News
gives the particulars of an affair that occurred
there on the last Friday of October. A mar
by the name of Cresman had been condemn
ed to be hung on that day. Every prepar
ation had been made for the execution; the
gallows had been erected, a large crowd had
assembled to witness it, and the Sheriff pro
ceeding to the jail, solemnly commanded the
prisoner to make ready, and after he had
done so, shedding tears all the time, and ask
ing if he was to be hung like a dog, brought
him out in the street. Excitement was at its
height, when the Sheriff pulled out of his
S ocket a paper, which proved to be a par-
on from the Executive of the Slate!—New-
lent (N. C.) Rep. llth. ult.
The Anatomy of Starvation.
A book of startling interest has recently
appeared in Loudon, from the pen of tho
Rev. S. G. Osborne, entitled “ Gleanings
from tho West of Ireland,” iu which occurs
the following terrible description of the phe
nomena of starvation:
“ From my own experience last year and
i the present occasion, I can vouch that
starvation in Ireland has its owu distinct
physical phenomena. In grown-up persons,
besides an amount of attenuation which seems
havo absorbed all appearance of flesh and
muscle, and to have left: tlie bones of the
frame barely covered with some covering,
which has but little semblance to anything
we should esteem to be flesh ; the skin of
all the limbs assumes a peculiar character;
rough to the touch, very dry, and did it
hang in places in loose folds, would be
more of the nature of parchment than any
thing else with which I can compare it.—
The eyes are much sunk into the head, and
have a peculiar dull painful look; the shoul
der bones are thrown up so high, that the
columu of the neck seems to have sunk, as it
the chest; the face and head,
from the wasting of the flesh, and the promi
nence of the bones, hare a skull like appear
ance ; the hair is very thin upon the head ;
there is over the countenance a sort of pallor,
quite distiuct from that which utter decline
of physical power generally gives in those
many diseases in which life still continues
after the almost entire consumption of the
muscular parts of the body. In the case of
the starved young—and wo saw many bun-
dreds—there are also two or three most
peculiar marks, which distinguish them from
the victims of other mortal ills. The hair
on a starved child’s head becomes very thin,
often leaves the head in patches; what there
is of it stands up from the head; over the
temples in almost all, a thick sort of downy
hair grows, sometimes so thickly as to be
quite palpable to the touch. The skiu over
the chest bones and upper part of tbe sto
mach is stretched so tight, that every angle
and curve of tho sternum and ribs stand out
in relief. . No words can describe the ap
pearance of the arms. From below the el
bow the two bones (the radius and the ulna)
seem to be stripped of every atom of flesh.—
If you take hold of the loose skin within the
elbow joint, and lift the arm by it, it comes
away in a large thin fold as though you had
lifted one side of a long narrow bag, in
which some loose bones had been placed; if
you place the forefingers of your hand under
the chin, in the angle of the jaw-bone, you
will find the whole base of the mouth, so to
speak, so thin, that you could easily con
ceive it possible, with a very slight pres
sure, thus to force the tonge into tho roof of
the mouth ; between the fingers there are
sores; very often there is an asarcous swell
ing of the ankles; in the majority of famine
cases there is either dysentery or chronic
diarrhcce.
There is one comfort to be found in these
sad cases—there does not appear to be pre
sent pain. I have now walked in tbe course
of my two tours, I should suppose, some
miles of infirmary wards in tbe union houses
in Ireland; wards often thickly crowded, al
most always sufficiently full. It has not been
my lot to hear one single child, suffering from
famine or dysentery, utter a moan of pain.
I havo seen many in the very act of death ;
still, not a tear, not a cry. I have scarcely
ever seen one endeavor to change his or her
position. I have never heard one ask for
food, for water, for any thing. Two, three,
or four in a lied, thero they lie and die; if
luffering, still ever silent, unmoved.”
Love is as natural to a woman as fra
grance is to a rose. You may lock a girl un
m a convent, you may confine her iu a cell,
you may cause her to change her religion,
r forswear her parents; these things are
ossible, bnt never hope to make the sex
jrget their heart worship or give up their
reverence for cassimeres, for such a hope will
prove as bootless as the Greek Slave and hoi-
i bamboo.
*° W * 1 .
Mr. Webster at Jenny Lind’s Concert.
—Mr. Webster attended tho concert last eve
ning at Tripler Hall, and applauded as ar
dently as any body else. He seemed to be
in raptures with the Nightingale, and kept
constantly looking at her through a glass.—
Between the first and secoud parts he was
recognized, aud a cheer was called for him,
when the most enthusiastic cheering followed
with waving of hats and handkerchifs, and
the audience all rose to their feet. Mr. Web
ster acknowledged tho compliment by rising
and also waving his handkerchief.—N. Y.
Day Book.
Aquatic Rencontre.—One day last week,
in the beautiful sheet of water of Hathcrton
Lake, Lichfield street, Walsall, a novel ren
contre was witnessed. A goose, while its
beak was under water was seized by a pike,
and a struggle for life ensued. The poor
goose was seen to go under water several
times and come back, only tbe body being
visible, its head not rising above the surface,
till at last it sunk altogether, a prey no doubt
to its ravenous assailant.—Staffordshire (Eng.)
Advertiser.
Distinguished Marriages.—On the 5th
inst. in Christ Church, St. Louis, by Rt. Rev.
Dr. Hawk8,Hon.Edward Carrington Cabell,
of Florida, to Anna Maria Wilcox, daugh
ter of Mrs. Gen. Ashley.
At Wilmington, North Carolina, on tli?
18th insL, by Rev. Dr. Drane, General Wad-
dy Thompson, late Minister Plenipotentiary
to Mexico, to Miss Cornelia A. Jones, daugh
ter of Col. John W. Jones, of tlie former
place.
