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SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1854.
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Kvannca.-Ac this omce, three experienced
Fr..Vr.&r.n Cosrrosrrons, to whom good wages an
constant employment will be given.
1? Urvmuz the “Notices to Correspondents,” on
page 188, will be found the announcement of all new
articles examined and accepted for publication.
137- Sunsonmnne should bear in mind that our
ruk is to have the paper stopped at the expiration of
each time for which it is paid in advance. As, ol
course, the books are not under editorial s ,, ' ’
none will imagine they have‘ special cause of com-
plaint. We say this that our numerous personal
lrlends may not labor under a false impression.
Female Poets,
WHEN Fanny Osgood, the most graceful
writer of verse America ever produced, was
complimented on being a Poeless, she re-
plied that she ‘scarcely was entitled to the
name, for, according to the best of her belief,
she had never written any she poetry.
A writer in a Southern paper seems to
differ with the charming Fanny. He charac-
terizes all that ever was written by women
nsmere trash. He says:
“ When female yellow birds learn to sing,
then, and not till then, will women become
Shnkspeares and Byrons. ‘‘ ‘
“ Women are not intended for poets, and
never become such. Very good vcrsiliers
The best reply to such L'ltlL'(llI'UlIS slulfas
we refer to, that can be given, is, to quote
the names of a. few of the women who have
worn the poetic garland. And whose heart
has not melted at that unequalled ballad,
“Auld Robin Gray,” by Lady Anne Bar-
nard ? And who wonders that Hazlitt and
Leigh Hunt should lavish their admiration
on the splendid productions of Anne Letitia.
Barbauld, and that Fox should delight to
note her choice poems by the hour ? And
how few names will live longer than Southey,
Kcrnble, Norton, Howitt, Cook, Browning,
Tigbc, Taylor, More, Landon and Humans,
in the old world; and Bradstreet, Davidson,
Gould, Sigourney, Osgood, Carey, Clarke,
Hale, Hall, Smith, VVelby, Sawyer, Larcom,
Mayo, and perhaps greatest of all in Ameri-
ca, Maria Brooks? When we consider the
education of woman, and the unfortunate
circumstances that have checked her growth
intellectually, the wonder is that she has
achieved anything in letters; and if we look
at the matter candidly, we must admit that
she has equalled man from Sappho down-
wards, her circumstances considered.
Leaving these considerations out of the
question, we should like to fight a duel with
the fellow who penned the above parayaph,
the weapons being poems, be using those
written by men, within a hundred miles of
his office, and ours those written by women,
within twenty-live miles of Boston. ‘V9
shouldbe armed with a. Paixhan gun to his
India cracker.
VVc will call his attention to a passage
from Mrs. Barhauld, which we know not
where to excel in the vast range of English
descriptive poetry. If he can produce any-
they may be; but the heights of Pope, of
Dryden, or Scott, or even of Southey, they
never attain. ‘ ‘ ‘ Sappho is the only
female name that has lived at all, and her
reputation is not attributable so much to her
poetry, of which few and doubtful fragments
are extant, as to her beautiful face, her ele-
gant manners and melancholy death. Mrs.
Hemnns had a poetical renown, much beyond
her merits, in uur estimation ,' still she enjoys
a renown more widely spread and desirable
than any other feminine who ever conjoined
the melody of ‘love and bliss’ with their
kindred ‘ dove and kiss.’ VVho else is there ?
We have read along time ago, of Mrs. Aph-
ra Behn, who wrote quite a commendable
poem, called ‘Psyche.’ Who knows of it
or its author now ‘P Who can repeat ten
lines of it now? Mrs. Southey. has penned
verses. Joanna Baillie, Mary Howitt, and
some others have done the same. They on-
ly strengthen our assertion that women are
not intended for Poets.”
The sentiment of the foregoing is so atro-
ciously false, that it seems almost useless to
pay any attention to it, and yet we cannot
well avoid saying a word or two. It is an
thing written by any author born in his own
State, better than this, let us have it:
A Summer Evening’ Meditation.
“ ‘Tie past! the sultry tyrunt of the South
Has spent his short-llvcd rage; more grateful hours
Move silent on ; the skies no more re
The dazzled sight, but with mild, maiden heams
Of tempered light, invite the cherlshed eye
To wander o‘er their sphere, where, hung aloft,
Di:n’s bright crescent, like ‘ a silver bow
New strung in Heaven,’ llfts high its beamy horns,
Impatient for the night, and seems to push
Her brother down the sky. Idtir Venus shines
Even in the eye of day: with sweetest beam
Propitlous shines, and Jluzlces u mmbltngjlanzl
Of softened radiance from her dzwy lurks.
The shadows spread space, while meekcned Ere,
H21 duel: yet warm with blushes, slow retina
Thra’ the Iksperian golden: If the Win,
And shut: tlu gazes of day! ‘Tis now the hour
When Gmmnplatim from her sunless haunts,
The cool dump grotto, or the lovely depth
0! unpierced woods, where wrapt in solid shade,
She mused uwny the gaudy hours of noon,
And fed on thoughts unrlpened by the sun,
Moves forward: and with radiantjinger prim:
To you blue concave, swelled by bmuln ovum,
Where, one by one, the living eye of Heaven
Awake, quick kindling o’er the face of ether
One boundless blaze-ten thousand trembling tires,
And dancing lustres, where th‘ unsteady eye,
Beatles: and dazzled, wanders unconfined
0’er all this lield of glories-spacious held,
And worthy of the master-he whore luznd
With Iaieroglyphics older than the Nile
amazing fact that any man who had ever
read the literature of his country, and of the
English language, could pen a slander so
gross, and one whose refutation would in-
stantly start up in every intelligent mind.
It is true that there has been no female
sllhhpenre or Milton, but it is not true that
the heights of Southey and Scott were never
reached by Woman. It would be one of tho
Gillie“ illillgliu the world to quote passages
fmm lb” Pmductions of women far excelling
Southey’: 01' Scows rm poetry. And in
reference to the women mentioned by this
writer, they were far before most, of those of
the other sex, who were their comempo,-3,
Insaibed the mystic tablet, hung on high
To public gaze, and said, Adore, 0, man,
The tlnger of thy God! From what pm: well:
Of milky hglu, what snji, werjlmning um,
Are all these lamp: sojllul? these friendly lamps,
Forever streaming o'er the azure deep,
To point our path and light us to our home.
Hw no’! they slide along their lucid splints,
And silent Is the foot of Time hrltll
Their destined courses. Nature‘s self is hushed,
And, but a scattered lcsf which rustlee thro’
The thick-wove foliage, not a lound is heard
To break the midnight air, though tlu mind tat,
Inlnudy listening, drinks in every breath.
Ilow deep the silence, yet how loud the praise!
But are they sllcnt all? or is Mm not
A langrue in teary star that talk: with man,
And wooza him ta be wise 7-nor woocs in vain.
The dead of midnight is the Moon of thought,
Am! wiszlmn mounts lurr zenith with the stars. ”
rice, and it would be very hard to aqua; the
dramatic excellence of Joanna Baillie any-
where out of Shakspcarc.‘
[And how she strings the stars, like beads, on her
splendid tliought.]
"On Fancym wild and roving wing I sail
From the green borders of tho peopled earth.
And the pale moon, her dutoous. fziir ultcndnnt;
Flam salimry Mars ; from [he cast nrb
Of Jupiter, whose huge, gigantic bun.-
Dunnes in ether like the lightest leaf-
To the dim verge, the wburlu of the system,
wnm cltezrless Saturn, lmizlst his watery moons,
Girt with 1: lucid zone, in gloomy pomp
vi a
Sits like an Exiled mouruclr." ‘ ’l‘ ‘
HA COL'x1‘ln' girl, writing to her
friends, says of the polka, that thc dancing
does not amount to much, but the hugging
is heavenly.
% AN exchange says, the way to clean
kid gloves is to wash them or wipe them
with soap suds, but they mustn't be met.
Well, that’s good, but very much like the
man who told his son he might smoke if he
would abstain from smoking anything
wrmn.
323: Tm: author of the following conun-
drum now lies at the point of (loath, from
the elfcct of the great mental exertion.
Who pities him?
When does :1. young lady Wish to will
more than seven beam: at once? When
she tries tofascin-ate (fasten eight.)
%O:sr<:rnA LAKE SERENADE.--This
piece of music, on our last page, we see is
dedicated to “Mary.” If the happy girl is
half as lovely as the music, she’ll prove a.
prize to the winner. There is an easy
grace in the melodies by Mr. Clark, that
proves him to be something more than an
ordinary composer; he possesses the soul.
the spirit of music, and the uncommon gift
of imparting it to his compositions.
A
Increase of the Mormons.
THE “General Epistle of the Saints,
Young, Kimball, and Grant, Presidents of
the Latter Day Church, to the Saints on
Earth,” represents the growth of that strange
people as immense. They are erecting
fortifications against future attacks, and cul-
tivating large tracts of land, in Utah, andiat
the last conference sixty-live missionaries
were commissioned. In four years their
population has incrcascil from 4.900 ‘to
30,000, They have a perpetual emigration
fund of $34,000, out of which they pay the
expenses of emigrant converts. Clhcy will
have (50,000 inhabitants in five years, at their
present rate of increase. They have churches
in England, Scotland, VVales, Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, Iceland, France, Ger-
many, Italy, Switzerland, Malta, Gibraltar,
Hindostan, Australia and the Sandwich
Islands; and they have recently sent mis-
sionaries to Siam, Ceylon, China, the ‘Vest
Indies, Guinea and Chili. The Book of
Mormon has been published in French, Ger-
man, Italian, Danish, Polynesian, Welsh.
Their doctrines and practices are Of the
compose of their own corruptness, they will,
ere long, be a source of trouble to our Gov-
ernment, They daily grow more formidable,
and must end in utter dissolution, or spread
morality and civilization.
inn should know that there is not one room
on it. The floor is made of brick, and laid
down generally in large Squares-
prcscnt editor it is sure to have it.
their vile influences to the 0VeX‘l1H"0W Of
(I474;
m=LAnrr:s who look to Paris for fash-
m one hundred in Paris that has a carpet
gr Tm-: Nulional Democrat is the title $75 twenty years ago.
of a new paper just started in New York, leaving Barbadoes, liaviug take“ 121000
edited by Julius hVar'rcn Lewis. The cdit.- victims.
or is of the “Monk Lewis” order, and cameastcamboat.
drives a strong and caustic pen. We wish is very low with the dropsy.
the paper the best of success, and with its 120 Jewish families in Boston.
Seconds Minuted.
’1'I1c Last Hour.
A father, mother, and two children, were
buried at oucc, Aug. .3, in Philadelphia.
There were four hearscs in the procession.
They died of cholera. A fire in St. Louis,
Aug. 7, destroyed property amounting to
$175,000.--llcnths by Cholera-'28 luna-
tics died on Blackwcll’s I land, within a few
days. 105 died on W'ard's Island-all crui-
grauts. In Montreal, 2-1 died on the -ith,
and 10 on the 5th inst. In the U. S. army
there are 1,303 dragoons, 2,985 artillery,
4,595 infantry, G4 non-commissioned stall’-
total 8,947. Hon. Edward Everett is re-
clectcd President of Harvard College.
$6,000-salary of the Mayor of Boston.---
Gerrit Smith took only 8690 from the ser-
geant-at-arms, out of the 5500 which was
his due for niilcage.--$24,725,581, in
gold, was shipped from San Francisco dur-
ing the first six months of the present year.
-:Rev. John Sawyer, of Garland, Me., is
99 years old-the oldest clergyman in the
U. S. He recently preached three times
one Sabbath. A little darkcy, at War-
rentown, Va., laid a. rail across the track,
“ to see the cars bounce!" He was whipped
for it.--Axornrm Nrxnrusxn BILL !--
Thc first white child born in Nebraska.
His name is Bill Nebraska Kinney.
Francis Hull, editor of the Commercial Ad-
vertiser, N. Y., has received the degree of
L.L. D.-elligh Constable Clapp, of Sher-
brooke, Can., made a descent on two nests
of countcrfcitcrs, on the night of Aug. 1st.,
situated live miles apart, and within forty
minutes, all of them, ten in number, were
chained hand and foot. Dr. ‘Vzishington,
a relative of the Father of his Country, died
in VVashington recently. The N. Y. Tn‘-
bunc says that business is duller in that city
than at anytime since 1837. Two great
fires have desolatcd parts of California with-
in :1. few weeks. Sacramento lost $400,000,
and San Fraricisco $280,000.--Tire great
bell in Vienna is suspended at a height of
200 feet, is 11 feet high, and 10 1-2 wide,
and weighs 35,400 pounds. It was cast in
1711, by Emperor Joseph, from 180 cannon
taken from the Turks. The clock is 520
feet high.--Caroline, widow of Robert
Southey, and daughter of Dr. Bowlcs, died
at Buckland, Eng., on the 20th ult.--Aug.
5, twenty large stores were burnt in New
Orleans. Loss $100,000.--Montgomery
and Elliot are to have bronze statues in
Liverpool, their native place.--Arbutlr
not, Butler, and Sidney Smith,are rcposing
in places unmarked by a stone. Kiss, the
sculptor, is producing a great work, repre-
senting the battle of Faith and Infidelity.
--A “’bus” horse in London, lives four
months. The asphyxiating balls, with
most Pull“ chamcleri and unless they do. which the allied fleet was going to poison
Russia, won’: explode! 1800 were thrown
into Odessa, and it was found that the chloro-
form had asphyxiatcd the percussion caps.
The authoross of the Lamplighter is at
Saratoga. 20,000 emigrants arrived in
New York during twelve days in August.
Cholera-58 deaths in Buffalo, week
ending Aug. 12. In New York 278; chol-
-era infnntum, 154; cholera. morbus, 31 ;
dysentery, 109. It has nearly disappeared
from Boston.:A lot of land was sold the
other day in Chicago for $51,800, that cost
The cholera is
The nir:-boat Ericsson has be-
Ex-Govcrnor Morton
There are
There is
a bible in Gottingen written on 4,476 palm