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DO THEY MISS ME AT H0ME1
Do they miss mo at home, do they miss tne?
Twould be ao assurance roost dear,
To know that this moment some loved one,
Were saying, I wish be wero hero,
To feel that the group at the fireside
Were thinking of me as I roam,
Oh, yof>, 'twould l>e joy beyond measure
To know that they miss'd me at home.
When twilight approaches, the soason
That ever is sacred to song,
Does seme one repeat my name over,
And nigh that I tarry so long 1
And is there a chord in the music
That's missed when my voice is away,
And a chord in each heart that awaketh
JKegret at my wearisome slay.
Do they act mc a chair near the table,
When evening'* home pleasure* arc nigh,
When the caudles are lit in the parlor,
And the star* in the calm azure sky !
And when the 'good nights' are repeated,
And all lay down to their sleep,
1*9 ttwry think of the absent, and waft lue
A whispered 'good sight' while they weep?
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they miss me at home, do they miss ine!
At onomtng, at noon, or at night i
And lingers one gloom-shade around them
That only my presence can light!
Are joys less invitingly welcome,
And pleasures less hale llinu before,
Because one is misa'd from the circle,
Because I am with them no more ?
From the Louisville Journal.
TBS, WE MISS THEE AT HOME.
Yea, we miss tbee at home; yes wo mis?
^ tbee;
The hours glide slowly away,
With fond dreams of thee as thou roam
est,
Aud weary regrets at thy stay,
The fireside circle is broken,
Home pleasures are mingled with paiu
A* over the past, we still linger,
Aud long for thy presence again.
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Yes, we uiias thee at home, and how lone
The evenings that once were so gay,
The music has lost half its gladness?
The melody gone from the gay,
Each heart still remembers the absent,
Is with thee, in joy and care,
In spirit vee wander to meet thee?
In spirit thy pilgrimage share.
Yes, we miss thee at home; yes, we mia
thee,
At morning, at noon, at night,
At morning we waft thee a blessing;
At eveniog a tender good-night,
And oh 1 in thy wanderings far distant
Though joyous where'er thou dost roam
Doth not memory recall scenos of pleat
we
And dreams of the loved ones at home
Ellin.
Fhmr lent or Scandal.?A Krencl
provincial paper contain* the following par
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"A trial took place at our Aaaiaea. Ii
* Womised .rich food for scandal. All the la
diet of the town bedecked themselves it
their smartest toilets, and crowded to tin
court house. On seeing this, the presiding
judge rose and said: 'Persons here aasein
4>led as spectators are not aware of the na
tare of the cause. I therefore invite all de
cent women to withdraw.' A pause took
place without a tingle female moving to re
. tire from her seat Seeing this, the judg<
again rose add said: 'Officers of the court
Uow that all the decent women have retired,
turn out the remainder* .T .
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Ibe io*f Found nnd fle*foted.
A 8KRTOH FROM LIFE.
'You liavo just returned, friend Manson,
have you not,' said Livingston, from your
Western journey !'
"Yes,' he replied 'I have, and there was a
circumstance attending it which will make
it the most memorable event in ray whole
life.'
^Indeed, what is that, ray friend !n
'Ah, it would take more time than either
you or I could now spare,' said Manson, 'for
no mi ruiitus hiki you 10 listen to me particulars
; but I will attempt a very brief sketch
of the substance :
When I went to school in Connecticut, I
had a very dear friend and schoolmate, named
John McL d. He was one of (ho
brightest and most beloved pupils in the
school. He grew up, and paid his addresses
to a beautiful and excellent young lady, a
member of the church. At length he was
married to his Mary ; and they prepared ira
mediately after thai event, in pursuance of a
previous plan, to emigrate to a Western
3tate. llie evening wuore the day we were
to separate, perhnjw forever, I had a tender
interview with my bosom friend and his lovely
wife ; it was deeply affecting to us all.
The next morning they departed, with the
affectionate farewells of many old friends and
neighbors in the town where they were born
ntiu reared, with a handsome provision made
by the parents of both, who were iu competent
circumstances. Ten years elapsed, during
which I was in the Methodist ministry
in distant places, as my lot happened to be
cast. Not a word concerning them reached
iny cars in all that lime. The course of duty
called mo to tho vicinity of the place
where my friend had settled and I resolved
to go out of my way considerably to give
John and Mary a call. Arriving at the
town, and inquiring for their residence, I was
told that they lived some distance from the
centre village. At length I found the place.
At the first glance my mind misgave me.
The sight of the miserable cabin made me
sick ; and after hitching my horse 1 scarcely
dared to eu'er. Knock I could not; there
was no door?nothing but a blanket stretched
across the pa.--s.ngc. Ib-moving this, alas !
what did I behold ! There was Mary sitting
on a siooi wiwi an imam. in ner inp, ana another
child in the corner on the ground ;
for the cahin had no floor.
Oh, night of woe ! IIow nltercd was the
lovely Mary T n !
Do you remember me, dear Mary ?' I
said,
*0, Mr. Manson, it is indeed you ! We
are ruined, John is lost, and I and the children
are starving here. We have not had a
morsel to eat since yesterday morning.'
fireat heavens!' said 1, 'and where is
^ John I'
'He is at the store; he has not been here
for several days.'
'I must see him,' I replied.
'Belter not, sir, he is a savage now, and
will ill-treat you.'
*1 mast and will see John' 1 replied, and
stalled immediately for the store, according
to her direction. There was no time to lose,
' for I was to be at the conference, whither 1
was bound, at a certain time appointed. 1
readily found the store and entered. The
first sight disclosed four men playing card*
at a table. The next glance discovered a
man stretched out alongside a whisky hogs
rienu. jne landlord ww sitting ny, out in
Htauily hopped up and ran behind the counter
to wait upon me, supposing I was a cus
tomer. Says I, *is John MoL d here.'
They alfl looked at me on hearing th(
question, as if I had been tho old one or n
Sheriff.
'What is that to you, he sullenly replied
'I want to see him,' I answered.
s While I was speaking, I took anothei
sweep of tho room with my eye, and saw
something like a roan asleep in the corner.
'Is that John," I asked.
'None of your business,' answered the suri
ly bar-keeper.
'If it is that unhappy man, you will find
( some of my business, I replied.- So I went
to him, recognized him, though in this
1 shocking, beastly plight and began to wake
him. This was no easy job, and while 1
? was about it, the rumsellor and his guests
remonstrated, telling me to go away, threat
ening chastisement and showing eiolence. I
i had in my hand a loaded whip, am not in.
ferior, you know, in point of wiry, muscular
power; and though a man of peace, I coo>
baa #li?t in itn laantv.uimin VAnra I llQVA
. been is ihe minis ry, 1 never wit so strong a
i dis position as At that m iment, to give four
i or five men a thrashing. They >ere intimr
idated, and I succeeded at length in getting
John upon his legs, and trotung him on
. homeward. My presence and the exercise
. sobered him, so that whon he reaobed his
: hovel he was ta his right mind.
1 forgot to mention that when I first went
i into tho house, the child upon the ground
, starting up affrighted, running to her moth,
er, crying, 'Is be going to carry us to jail,
mother, where father was!" And that poor
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mother sobbed upon my hafid, M if her heart
would break."? Well,"I conversed with theitt
an hour, talked of old times in Connecticut,
the old village, and school days. He was
softened ; his heart was touched. Then I
urged the pledge; his wife put in her pro
foundly earnest, almost frantic plea. She
felt this, indeed, to be the hour of destiny.
"Do you think I can keep it!' said, at
length, the miserable man, once ?o promising,
now so fallen. MIs it possible for rae to be
saved T
'It is,'said I with confidence and hope;
'you can keep it. I know, you can. In the
name of humanity and religion, try it dear
John, and Ood will help you." At last he
consented) We knelt down on the earth?
there was no chair, no table in the bouse?
I took out tbe pledge, which I always carry
in my pocket, placed it ou the stool where
Mary had been sitting, and banded him my
pencil. lie wrote his name, thank Ood I
Notwithstanding his condition, it was beautifully
written, as I afterwards observed, for
be was an excellent scholar. We did not
lise till I had relieved ray overburdened
heart in prayer, and I oraved with nil mv
truggling soul, nnd his despairing wife join*
ed ice in the solemn invocation, that the
Father of mercies would receive the returning
prodigal to his arms, and that he might
never go astray acain. It will now quite
time for me to go and resume my journey";
but I could not leave the town before I called
upon the class leader, left bim some money
for the family, and enjoined upon him to
look after them, and throw around John the
seed of all good influences, to prevent his suffering
a relapse. Whatever further charges
he should incur on their account. I pay as
soon as informed of them.
Another decade rolled by, during which
no tiding came to me at the East from this
interesting couple. At length I was called
agHin to visit those Western regions, and to
pass near the residence of this unfortunate
brother. On reaching the town, my disappointment
was extreme to learn that he bad
removed to a distant country. I anticipated
misfortune ; but as the nlaco designated
was not fur from iny intended route, I resolved
to go and see him. When I entered
the town of , where John was said to
live, I made enquiry for his dwelling, nnd
was told it was the second house on the left
hand side of the road. Being now so near,
I hastened onward eAgerly, and presently a
nice frame building painted white appeared.
I could not help putting up a prayer that
iny dear friend ini^ht be so happy as to oc
| cupy any nouse unit as respecttablc as tins.
Expectation now became painfully iutense.
What iu mercy was I sent to see t A scene
like that or worse, which ten years before
left stioh awful traces on the memory, never
to be obliterated ! I could not tell. At a
sudden turn in the road, I thought I discerned
another white house iu the distance
among the trees ; yea, it is so, with green
blinds ; and as I went nearer, gravelled walks
were seen, a handsome paling, and ornameni
tal trees and shrubbery. Surely there is
some mistake in the direction, this can't be
i John's home! yet it is the second on the
left.
Fastening my beast to a hook, I went to
I the door and knocked. A girl, just on the
verge of womanhood, oponod it.
I 'Does Mr. McL d live here !' I asked
; with trembling.
'lie does, sir f*
E 'Is he or his wife at home t'
[ 'Mother is within, but father is in the
t field. Please walk in, sir.'
i My eye glanced through the open parlor
i door. A fine carpet covered the floor. There
were handsome chairs and other furniuire;
but I saw no more, for Mrs. McL d by
this time was informed of a gentleman's ar
rivai and lost no time in making her appearance
'-Good God 1' was all I remember to
have heard from ber, as she rushed for ward
i on seeing me, and clasped ma by the neck.
She almost fainted and shed a flood of tears,
. and my own condition was not much more
composed. Recovering a littlo, the inform
nil ma thai, liar urna at linma
but out upon the farm. Too impatient to
wait, I buried away loaeeliim. lie root mo
an he wat coming home. Aa toon as he knew
who it was, he ran forward and grasped me
in his arum, saying as he strained me to his
1 bosom?
'Thank Ood ! thank God ! you are my
; savior under heaven. This is ail your work,'
i looking around. *0, 1 am rejoiced to see
that vou are here to see it,'
When we had returned to'lhe house, the
ten year's history of struggle, repentance and
reformation was recounted. Prosperity was
the consequence. The dwelling was his,
the farm and all. His wife was happy. The
beautifol young girl, almoet a young lady
how, was the dirty child that was crawling
on the ground on my first visit. There were
three more children now. And to crown
the whole, he said;
'After 1 bad persevered a year in abstinence
according to that blessed pledge, taken
on that awftil day, on the stool in die log
hut, which rises to me sometimes with spectral
horror?after keeping it sacredly a year,
I committed myself to the church of which
my wife, who has been an angel helping me,
waa a member. Prosperity attended my
worldly businem; bat this w? not a complete
satisfaction. I wanted to bo more;
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MORNING, APRIL 3,
and commenced study for tlio ministry. My
dear friend and brother, I am now a ministerofthe
everlasting gospel. How much, <
what an inexpressible debt do 1 owe to you 1'
We knelt down together oa the rich carC
instead of the cold earth, and prayed as
rently as 1 prayed before in tho log cabin;
but in what a different strain! Instead of
the almost despairing supplication, and en
treaty of forlorn hearts, crushed to the earth
with sorrow?thanksgiving, praises and
gratitude n?w rose spontaneously from our
tongues and hearts?-O, the heart of Ctesar
never swelled with such triumphant joy at
any of his conquests, as mine does for my
agency in the salvation of this one roan, and
the happiness of bis family.
rdqeqiion bs. DJopeJj.
The following anecdote, from the People $
Organ refers undoubedtly to the Hon. Jacob
Collamor, now in the United States Senate
and formerly pout master General.
"1 remember," says the late Postmaster
General of the United States, "the first time
I visited Burlington, Vt., as Judge of the
Supreme Court. I had left it many years
before, a poor boy. At the time 1 left, "there
were two families of special note for theit
standing and wealth. KmcU of them had a
on oUui own ago. I was very poor,
and these boys were very wealthy1. During
the long years of hard toil through which I
passed before n y return, I had almost for
gotten them. They had Song ago forgetten
me.
Approaching tlio court for the first time,
in company with several gentlemen of the
bench and bar, I noticed in the court house
yard, a pile of old furniture about to be soid
at auction. The scenes of early boyhood
with which I surrounded made ine nek
whose it was. I was told it belonged to
Mr. J. *
-Mr. J. I remembered a family of that
name?very wealthy; there is a son, too;
can it be lie!"
t was told that it was even so. lie was
the son of one of the families already alluded
to. lie had inherited more than I had earned,
and spent it ail; and now his family was
reduced to real want, and his furniture was
to be that day sold for debt. I went into the
court house, sadly, yet almost glad that I
was born poor. I was soon nl*?nrl>ed in the
business before me. Oiis of the first easescalled
originated in,a low and drunken quarrel
between Mr. H. and Mr. A. Mr. 11.
thought 1, that is a familiar name. Can it
be ? In short, I found that this was the son
of the other wealthy man alluded to. I was
overwhelmed alike with astonishment and
thanksgiving?astonishment at the change
in our position, and thanksgiving that 1 was
not Itorn to inherit wealth without toil.
Those fathers provide best for their children
who leave them with the highest education,
the purest moras, and?the least money.
tee! 'ffir?t EffoH.8 lit Oniojj.
Soon after Peel was born, his father, the
first baronet, rising dnily in wealth and consequence,
and believing that money, in
those peculiar days could always cginm**^
n iilfffeaTounny up
Ifis son expressly for the House of Commons.
When that son was quite a child.
Sir Robert would frequently set hiin on the
table, and say, uNow, Robin, make n speech
and I will give you this cherry.n What few
words the little fellow produced were applause
stimulating exertion, produced such
effects, that before Robin was ten years old
he could address the company with some
degree of eloquence. As he grew up, his
father ronstautly took him every Sunday into
his private room, and made him repeat,
as well as he could, the sermon which had
been preached. Little progress in effecting
this was made, and little was expected at
first; but steady perseverance the habit of attention
grew powerful, and the sermon was
repeated almost verbatim. When at a very
distant day the Senator remembering accu
rately the speech of an opponent answered
Diit arguments in qtucK succession it was little
known that the power of so doing was
so originally acquired in Drayton Church.
Airidobmckt of a sermon which took up
an hour in delivering, from these words:?
Man is born to trouble."
My friends, the subject falls nata rally to
be divided in four heeds:
1. Man's entrance into the world.
2. liis progress through the world.
3. His exit from the world ; and
4. Practical icflections from what may be
said.
First then :
1. Man came into the world naked and
bare.
2. His progress through it is trouble and
care.
3. His exit from it none can t*ll where.
4. But if he does well here he'll be well
there.
Now, I can say no more, my brethren
dear.
Should 1 preach on this subject from this
time to next year. Amen.
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Tr anslatud from tho Courier des Ktat* L'nis.
Seqtl) JJDjjIrMnt of Christ. I
Chance lias just put into our hands the
most imposing and interesting judicial doc- j
ument to ell Christians, that has ever been , (
recorded in human annals ; that is, the iden- < ,
tical death warrant of our Lord Jesus Christ. ,
We transcribe the document as it has been |
handed to us : ,
Sentence rendered by Pontine Pilate, acting
Ooverner of lower Galilee, elating thatJe- \
mum of Nazareth shall suffer death on the
cross.
**ln the year Reventeen of the empire Tiberius
Cresar, and the 25th day of March, in
the city of Holy Jerusalem, Aunias. and Cai- j
aphas being priests sncrificators of the peo-,
pie of God, Pontius Pilate, Governor of
Lower Galilee, sitting on the presidential
chair of the Pnetory, condemns Jssus of'
Nazareth to dio on the cross between two
thieves?the great and notorious evidence
of the people saying?
1. Jesus is a seducer.
2.. He is seditious.
3. He is an enemy of the law.
4. He calls himself falsely the Bon of God.
5. He calls himself falsely the King of
fsrael.
0. He entered into the temple, followed
by a multitude bearing palm branches in
their hands.
Order the fih?t centurion, Quillus Cornelius,
to lead liitn to the place of execution.
Forbid to any person whomsoever, either
poor or rich, to oppose the death of Je^us.
The witnesses who signed the condemnn
tion of Jesus are, viz:
1. Daniol Kobani, a Pharisee; 2. Joan-!
nns llorobable ; 3. Raphael Kobani; 4. Capet
a citizen.
Jesus shall go out of the city of Jerusalem
by the gato of Strucnus.
The above sentence is engraved in a cop
per plato; on one side are written these
words: "A similar plate is sent t> each tribe." I
It was found in an nnti<jue vane of white
marble, while excavating in the ancient ci-i
ty of Aquilla, in the kingdoms of Naples, i
in the year 1820, and was discovered br d?e 1
commissaries of Arts attached to the French
armies. At tho expedition of Naples, it was
I found enclosed in a box of ebony, in the am*-1
rimy of the Chartiem. The vase in chapel ;
of Caserla. Tho French translation was'
made by tho members of the Commission of |
Ar'?. Tho original is in the Hebrew language.
The Chartrem requested earnestly
that the plate should not be taken away
from them. The request was granted, us a
reward for the sacrifice they had made for
the army. M. l>enon, one of tho sevens,
caused a plate to he made of the same model,
on which he had engraved the above
sentence. At the sale of this collection of
antiquities. <kc., it was bought by Lord
Howard for 2,890 francs.
J foe fchticaP.
This word is often used, but there are
many who do not understand its import,?
The term refers to a collection of buildings
on one of tlie seven hills of Rome, which
covers a apace of 1200 feet in length and 100
feet in breadth. It is built on the spot once
occupied by the garden of cruel Nero. It owes
its origin to the bishop of Koine, who in the
early part of the sixth century erected a humble
residence on its site. About the year
1160, Popo Eugenius rebuilt it on a magnificent
scale. Innocent II., a few years afterwards,
gave it up as a lodging to Peter
II., King of Arragon. In 1003 Clement V.
at the instignation of the King of France,
removed the Papal See from liome to Avignon,
when the Vatican remained in a condition
of obscurity and neglect for more than
seventy years.
But soon after the return of the ponlificial
court to Rome, an event which had been so
earnestly prayed for by a poor Petrarch,
and which finally took place in 1370, the
Vatican was put into a state of repair, again
enlarged, and it was thenceforward consid
ered an the regular palace and residence of
the Popes, who, one after the other, added
fresh buildings to it, and gradually encircled
it with antiquities, statutes, pictures, and
books, until it became the richest depository
in the world.
The library of the Vatician was commenced
fourteen hundred years ago. It contains
40,000 manuscripts, among which are
some by Pliny, St. Thomas, St. Charles, Bororaeo,
and many Hebrew, Sy rian, Arabian
and Armenian Bibles.
The whole of the immense buildings composing
the Vatican are filled with statutes
found beneath the ruins of ancieat Rome,
with paintings by the masters, and with curious
medals and autiquities of almost every
description.
When it if known that there have been
exhumed more than seventy thousand stat- ,
uos from the rained temples and palaces of
Rome, the reader cau form souic idea of the
richness of the Vatican. It will ever be
held In veneration by the student, the artist, 1
and the scholar. Raffael and Michael An- 1
golo are enthroned there, and their throne
will be endurable as the love of beanty and
genius in the hcaitsof their worshipper*.
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A fair correspondent of the Homt Jourlal
has the. following sensible remarks on
he wholesome habit of wearing the beard,
vlnch has lately come into fashion :
"It is astonishing what change a few
rear* ha* wrought in regard to ahaving.?
Dnw, everybody shaved, but now, I much
nistHke, if every gentleman has not found to
have or not to shave, a Question suggested
t>y his morning toilet. Alas for the razorilrop
man I llis occupation is nearly gone.
I hoj?e he will succeed in finding another,
fur the present generation will be a bearded
race.
"1 was quite interested lost winter in te&ding
a 'Malum! History of the Human Spe
cies,' by Lieutenant-Colonel |Charlcs Hamilton
Smith, in which he staler that a bearded
race are the conquering races. For this reason
the beardless races are averse to union
with them. This aversion he states to bo
the result of experience, proving the supcri
or activity of those who have sprung from
such races. Jcnghis, Timur and and Nadid
Shah, were directly, or in their ancestry, descended
froin Caucasian mothers, and hence
also, the jealous exclusion of the European
women from China. The progressive nations,
he tells Us, are a bearded and hairy
race. Sampson's strength lay in his hair.?
Hereft of that, his mighty power was gope.
The lion is the king of the forest, llow
much of his beauty be owes to his magnificent
mane. Shave him, aud he is king no
longer.
1 cannot iiungine why a beard is given to
man, unless it is to try bis patience, if ho is
to spend his time in daily cutting it, as it
daily asserts its right to a manifested existence.
The beard is an emblem of manly
power and dignity, and is certainly an element
of manly beauty. The Father of the
Faithful, and nil the old Patriarchs and
Prophets wore beards ; so did our Savior,
when bo dwelt us man among the hills of
Jtulea. So, too, moat of the venerable divines
who have tiansmitted to us their
schemes of theology. It is a modern innovation
to shave off the whole beard. It was
not common before the comme neeraen of
the last eentury. Moses forbade tth?
Jc?vs to mar the corners of their beard ; and
David, when bis Embassadors woro insulted
by Han inn's shaving off one-half of their
beards, permitted them to tarry at Jericho
till their heard* had no-own.
"While ihe beard, properly worn, is an
ornament, it i9 sometime* rendered hideous
by the manner in which it is trimmed. A
round mass of bristles on the chin is never
Oceoining, yet sometimes thin-cheeked, long
faced gentlemen elongate their countenances,
in this way ; often these tufts impart a low,
animal expression ; they never confer dignity
nor heauty. Some few are greatly improved
by full whiskers, others by a moustache.
Some look'best with the beard rather close.
It requires an artist's eye to decide on what
is most becoming. Nature leaves a varying
outline to the beard, which is more perfect
than any scmi-circle cut by the razor.
"Perhaps you may think I have wandered
from my proper sphero in writing about
beards. 1 bad no idea of doing so when I
commenced this letter; you must charge it
all to snow storms. I must leave the sub*
ject of ladies' dress for another day.
"Yours, ?kc.
"ANNA HOPE."
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I be JLfjdies of Cy 69.
i iie muies seiuom wear Donnels, caps, or
carry parasol*?they sometimes throw over
their faces a dark, rich veil.
It is not considered a 1 reach of etiquette
to stand for a moment and gazo in at the
window, if you sec a pretty face, and if you
lift your hat and say 'beautiful,' you will be
very likely rewarded by a sweet smile as you
pass on. Any attempt at what they would *
deem rudeness, however, would be infallibly
returned by a few inches of stilletto between
the ribs. To avoid gazing into a room or
into a beautiful lady's face, would be looked
on as a desire to inflict a slight. I must say
that a compliment of the kind I have mentioned
from an American is esteemed more
highly than from their own countrymen, as
they consider oil re to come from the heart,
while they know their own is mere empty
courtesy. So if you see a lady going from
church to her carnage, she is glad to have
you offer to assist her, even if you are a
stranger, and if she is a pretty girl, and you
tell her so after she gets in, she pleasantly
thanks you for your admiration, and both
oarties sanamtn i>le.i?ed with tlifl L-indnnaa
of compliments, even if llicy never meet
Again. It sti ikes our women as rather singular
at first. One lady from the Northern
States was utterly shocked ns she appeared,
in the streets for the first lime to see two
gentlemen lift their hats to her with the
compliment, 'You are fit for Heaven, lovely
and beautiful American.' Yet before she
had returned she had become so accustom
sd to compliments that she felt no astonishment
in being told by the waiter of a restaurant
that the beautiful lady's refreshidents
had been paid for by the gentleman, who
adii.i o I the glances of her bright eyes.
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