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laturt NEW PUBLICATIONS. POEMS BY GRACE GREENWOOD: 12mo. pp. 100. [;,.-:? . Ticknor, Reed & Field*. This beautiful volume consists of selections from the poems which have been widely circula? ted in various periodicals, and which have estab? lished the rank of the author among the most richly gifted American poets. They are singu? larly free from the monotony which blights the highest efforts of many of our popular versthers, and breathe t;n intense, impassioned spirit, which stamps their claim to bei docts of an earnest and 1 itvand wild vigor of many of these poems are re? lieved and softened by frequent gushes ol tender pathos. With no affinities with the school ol milk and water sentimentalists, they abound in traits of delicate and noble sentiment. '1 he sympathies of the author are hopeful ami generous j she has not been petrilied by the touch of a false conser? vatism ; her song is in accordance with the spirit of tho age; she has faith in human dignity, in ?elf-sacrifice, in ideal truths; and under the glow? ing inspiration of this creed she pours outlier soul in sweet and fiery canticles, which have n virtuealtogether more sovereign than the sonorous ring of hollow words. Hya natural transition she facik ly passes into the region of the comic and humorous, but her attempts in this kind, though showing the healthiness of her genius, have not the brilliant polish essential to the charm of wit. Her versification, always spirited and vigorous, is not remarkable for smoothness, and sometimes becomes too harsh for a dainty car. In her pref? ace she asks the public to regard this volume more as a promise than a Performance, more as a pro? phecy than a fulfillment; and as a counterpart to this modest claim, we venture the opinion that the fruitage of her ripened genius will more than redeem the pledge of its rich blossoming. The proem to this collection is in a strain of noble as? piration. We extract n few stau/.as: Some lays there are seem only sent To add to passion's blandishment, Or wing the creeping hours Of souls to lifeless ease resigned, in dreamy languidness reclined On pleasure's couch of flowers. And some are like exotieH rare, Found blooming in the still, soft air Of pride and luxury only ; And some like priceless, burning gems, Set in imperial diadems, In very brightness lonely ; And some in stately sluggishness Forsaken barks, float rudderless Adown time's silent river; And some are meteors on high, One moment flashing o'er the sky, Then lost in night for ever I My lays, my lays,?would they might find An echo in my country's heart, Be in its liome-atl'ecUons shrined, Form of its cherished things a part: Be like wild flowers and common air, Blooming for all, breathed everywhere,? Or like the glad song of tho bird, Gushing for all, fell more than hi itn!.' Earnest, untiring, might they be Eike barks before a breeze at sea, Whose dashing prows point home,? Like good knights hound for Palestine. Like artists, warmed by lire divine, O'er icy Alp and Apennine, Holding their way to Home, Like arrows flashing through the fight, Like eagles on their sunward flight. ? Like to all things in which we see An errand and it destiny I And would to Heaven that Freedom's voice. Wild, bold, defying, strong, Might sometimes, like a martial strain, Peal through my fearless song! The soft-toned lay? of Bycophants May miue yet ring above, Clear as a clarion, and yet Their very soul ho Inn I O, not that Love who deems her sphere la not where falls the mortal tear. Not by the mortal's hearth, As ministering angel here, Far from her place of birth ; With earnest, heavenward gazing eye. Am) spread wing fluttering For the sky, All yearning to depart she seems, And scarce permits, in her high dreams. Her feet to touch the earth. Awny with such n love ' He mine A love more glorious, more divine. That howeth to tho Infinite, When his dimmed image meets the night, As't were all glory and all light! That loves tho wide world as ii lies, With broken soil and clouded skies, With changing sconos and varied lot<, And few (lowers springing in the spots Where angel feet have trod ! Let every theme with this be fraught, Let every lay. let every thought. Flash out this life of God. HP "American Education," by Edward d. Mansfield, is a systematic treatise on the subject, intended less to point out a course of studies, than to suggest principles. It aims to ex? cite attention to the true character of a Republi? can and Christian education in this country during the present period of rapid development. The work abounds in interesting statements, which are evidently the result of profound reflection, no less than of practical experience. A high stand ard of education is presented by the author, and his earnest appeals cannot be read without a fresh sense of the'diguity of the teacher's vocation, and a clearer view of the necessary conditions of suc? cess. A single paragraph from the commence? ment of tho work, evinces the good sense with which the details of the subject are considered. (12mo. pp. 330. A. S. Harnes A Co.) One who does not understand a thing cannot practice upon it. Now, up to the yoar 1828, and in a great measure up to the present period, educated Americans studied more of the Grecian Mythology, and far more of European wars, than they did of the structure and functions ol th ir own Government. Very recently most of the colleges have ventured to place beside Hebrew and Metaphysics, the study of the Constitution; aud it is hoped they will not be censured for so daring an undertaking .' The great body of high schools and academies, however, are still, in rela? tion to this subject, dumb. The people are, in? deed, obliged to know something of popular G 1 verument, for they are compelled to participate in the conflict of parties, and the discussions of the press; but what kind of knowledge is it ' One which is made up of inaccuracies and exaffgi titm. Thousands think that liberty consists in doing just tchat one pleases; and recent events would lead us to conclude that this was the pre? valent notion. A still larger portion think that it consists simpiv in the right of representation, no matter what the representative may do, or what may be his character for integrity and intelligence. But very few think that freedom is a creature of chocks and restraints, rather than of license and impulse. The American Government is composed wholly of the former, and is Strong just in propor? tion to its complication , for this very reason its study should be made ns general as possible iiniong the people. I3F*" History and Geography of the Mid due Ages," by George w. Greene, Part 1 History, is n compilation from a work of standard value in the French language, giving a connected view of the Revolutions of the Middle Ages, with a general exhibition of literature, society aud man? ners. The present volume is the first of a series, designed to promote n taste for historical studies in the colleges and schools of America. The ex perience and ability of Mr. Greene in this depart? ment of letters are a sufficient guarantee that the rk will possess no ordinary merit. (12mo. pp. >'"?. L>. Appleton <Jc Co.) ia. "The LISTENER," by Caroline Fry. A new edition of this popular religious work, with many important alterations and additions to make it more instructive and acceptable to tho Ameri? can reader, bus been issued by Uobert Carter & Brotheis. (2\o!s in one. I'-Jmo- PP 2$0,-269.) The BificmAPHr or Wordsworth.?It has long boon well known that the poet Wordsworth left directions for his memoirs to ho written by his nephew Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D. I). Canon of Westminister. Tins request is now being complied with and Dr. Warosworth has asked the assistance of Professor Henry Reed ot Br" "Christian Melodies," is new selection of Hymn3 and Tunes social and private worship in the and the Family, bv Gr.o. 15. Chee\ Sta> ner. i.Ms and Reformers," by Henry B. has been published by Baker & Scrib Magazines. I5P "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," (Dec.) commences a new volume with the intro? duction of several original features, which cannot fail to add to the unprecedented popularity which has already been acquired by this periodical in the brief space of six months. The publishers in? tend for the future to present selections from the choicest master-pieces of classical English litera tore, illustrated in the highest style of elegance and beauty which is admitted by the art of on" graving in this country. In the present number they have given Goldsmith's Deserted Village, which immortal poem will appeal to the human heart ns long as the exquisite utterance of domes' tic tenderness and the vivid description of rural nature shall lind admirers. The engravings illus? trative of this poem form a splendid gallery of pic? tures in themselves. They are executed with infinite spirit and truthfulness, the artist having faithfully reproduced the conceptions of Goldsmith in another form. The Monthly Record of Events is greatly enlarged, arranged in a lucid and sys? tematic order, and presenting a bird's-eye view of the leading facts in the history of the world, since the last issue. A copious summary ol the movements in letters, science and art, and of in? cidents relating to public men, furnishes several pages of Hgreeable gossip. With this admirable commencement of n new volume, we cannot doubt thnt it will attain a circulation of 100,000 copies before the close of the year,according to the cheer? ful intimation of the publishers in the Prospectus. td6r"''TiiE International Monthly Maga? zine" (Dec. Stringer & Townsond) is the best number of that well-conducted and popular mis. cellany w hich has as yet been issued. The selec? tions from foreign periodicals are made from a wide range of materials, and with excellent adap? tation to the general taste of readers. The de? partments entitled "Authors and Books," " The Fine ArtB," "Music and the Drama," and " Ho? fen t Deaths," are conducted with industry ami success, and are in all respects creditable lo tlie I ability and affluent resources of the experion.I editor. A great amount of information with re? gard to European literature and art is derived Irom sources not easily accessible, and presented in a very readable shape. The present number contains the commencement of the original histor? ical novel by G. P. It. James,.written expressly for this magazine. In the notice of "The History of Liberty," by Samuel Elliot, of Boston, the edi? tor quaintly expresses the hope, that as Mr. El? liot's "leisure is not likely to be seriously inter? rupted by public employments, he will proceed with as much rapidity as possible with his grand survey of tbe advance of liberty," evidently con? founding the author of "Roman Liberty," with the Boston statesman of the same name, who is just neiw chiefly conspicuous for his relation to American Slavery. Tnis is a quite venial error, but hardly to be expected from one who holds the authors of his eountrv in the hollow ol his hand. Censi Queens County.?Returns have been made for Xewtown and the following is an abstract: hashing, of which Subscriptions received to Weekly Tribune. ThOrsuav, Nov. 28. I Grand I tic, Yi.20iMexico NY New-Pliiladelpldu, Ohio... .:>|\Vi-;t t''iur!t,i''l N' ' Freeport, do.... BlClmmamFoiw-Cor FatOAY, Nov. 29. Cherry Valley, ID. s New-Haven, N. Y Washington, Conn.15 Smyrna, Mick,! Windham, Me. 81 Lata vet te. Indi.. ....1(1 iN Y U K.p.?! Sli Ar N< Tut i Penujylv New-for . Yl Till KM.A Washington, Tramm --.?r. At:;: :>. KUliklil. Painted l'o>;, Fort Plain, Tooawanda, L.i\v\ Ulo, Hemnstead. RichHo! Ctucai;,. Dully Tribune. : U uh, N. V i ISuiBeld, Ci 1 Hanover,! 2 New.B<l Seiul-Wei the Riot at Rhinebeck._In cc .rish riot* ofwbiah we geve an fore last, a party of Connaugl over two hundred came from the railroad north i this village yesterday afternoon, and made a de? scent upon the Pardowners employed on McWil. hams section, about two miles south of tlie SI ? Dock. Several shanties, among 'them tha onn owned by McWilliams were burned Tho assail' nuts were armed with guns and pistol, and suc? ceed in driving the b ardowners before them An armed posse under command of Deputy Sheriff Monfort was soon on the ground, and 'after a short engagement with the Irish, during which several of the latter were killed and wounded, succeeded in taking about sixty prisoners, nearly all of whom were armed. Robert T. Seymour, Esq. Coroner, went in the evening to bold a:i inquest on the bodies of the s'ain. We have not yet learned the verdict. The prisoners are undergoing an examination. P.S. But two men are known to be killed.? The Coroner's inquest was held this morning. j American Mechanic, Wednesday. . f?Sr The pewter-ware factory ofH. W trd <S tV.. "in WnOinpfi.rd. ('. m. u s linrnod on Friday PICTURES FROM SERVIA. Hark! Hors Those are dist I the silver clasped prayer-hook, and turning the : reading, for reading is not Wacziez's strongest j point. When he sits in the Council of State, ' with confident mien, and with blinking eye fum. i hies among the public documents, it often hap I pens that he holds a bit of manuscript crumpled up ; in his hand over which he murmurs ami shakes his head. Perhaps for this reason Waczicz tole? rates no contradiction; as once during a sessi in of the Council he was so enraged by some oppo? sition that he threw the papers that, lay upon the table all together upon the floor, sprang from his seat with flushing eyes and with a.bitter "jebcm" left the Hall. That is the genuine Servian people's man?a giant with the nature of a wild beast and a sly, sly devil. He is Servia's most popular hero, an invincible General, the man who overthrew the dynasty of ?breno\ic2, and on" of the most wily Diplomats of the South. Exhaustless vitality?the great instructress, experience, and long practice in the \ most difficult affairs supply to him the wan: of i all school education. The love with which the i people hang upon Waczicz is incredible. He ' goes always simply clad in the National Servian ? costume, but always armed with sword, knives ami pistols. He did so under Miio Obrenovicz, and now au-aio under Prince Alexander, who only ' too often finds himself compelled to yield to the sturdy dictator and founder of his throne, and en? dures the gray old wolf as he best can. "Why ? lo you always bear yourselfiike a shark;"once asked the Prince Milo?"why not dress like my other Ministers and Senators?'' "Highness' j was Wacziez's answer. " I am afraid, there? fore, f carry knives ami pistols." And thanks to this fear, however disagreeable to Milo Waczicz was, his myrmidons never dared to touch the armed giant. Wnezicx's neighbor is the Premier of Servia, the wise Minister, Abraham Petronicewicz?-for years and years the J'ilot of the tossed Servian ship of State. A Greek physiognomy, dark com? plexion, long drawn out nose, sparkling, express? ive eves, heavy black eyebrows, and a handsome, well 'trimmed beard. The dress is French, ex? cept a Sclavonic body-coat and forehead covering, the necessary Fez. He is the mm mover of Ser? vian politics?a man of much understanding and of skillful cunning?an enemy of nil kinds of use? less dramatic action, of whipping, Posto, shootings and beheadings?the old fox to the holy Waczicz; Next to him he is the darling of the people. Like a triumphal procession was their reception; when Waczicz and Petronicewicz, on the 38th August, 1843, against the wishes of the intervening Great Powers, returned to Belgrade from their banish? ment at Widdin, amid the pealing of bells, the thunder of cannon and the jubilee shouts of the excised people. Abraham's successful organiza? tion of Servm nud his remarkable ability are well known beyond the Servian border. Few, however, may chance to know that he has used tin; sword as well as the pen. Already under Milo Obreno? vicz, an associate of the great Senate, he was one of the first discontented. He aroused, with Mi leta. the district of Jagodiha, and led, in 1835, a line bam! of rebels against the Konak of Miio. Next to Petroniewicz kneels, with bent head and lidded hands, piously praying, a silver-haired oh! man. The figure has something aristocratical? ly noble?invaluable to a German Painter?a singular blending of the spiritual and the worldly. That pale, mild lace is bordered close around the neck by the long silver hair combed back?and a long, waving, white beard. The dress is a yellow silken robe reaching almost to the ankle, girded with n red band, and over it a dark blue cape, edged with fur, open before, and with white sleeves. The head-covering and support of tlie aged man. a red little cap ami a silver-fernled crutch with gold tassels?lie against the desk of the worshipper. The old man is Prota llena dowicz, the priestly hero. In the War of Inde? pendence he threw away the mass robe and the cowl of the Priest and seized the sword; his name is famous and is celebrated in numberless heroic songs. His father Alexstel was stricken by the Turks', the dying man. so runs the story?had abjured his brother Jacob to revenge him. At his side fought Prota, ami he followed him into banishment. (Who followed whom?) Now, Henadowicz is Servian Slate*Councillor and the father-in-law of Prince Alexander Karageorge- | wicz is married to his daughter The fourth in the row is Ilia Garasanin the Minister of Worship?the youngest of all, distia tinguished by n severe Roman nose ami sharp ' eye: the month overshadowed by a heavy dark moustache. I nder the coatglitters, upon a red rib? bon, a brilliantly set order, the "Iphtihar." Ga? rasanin takes upon himself to procure for the Prin? cipality, teachers and w ell-educated officials, lie sends, at the expense of the State, youn? Servi- I ans to Vienna. Praeue, Berlin Paris and I ondo he has removed to "Belgrade the decling Lyccu Of Kracuievacz ami fullv reformed it ? Ii hear! n his cuty in tlie \\ period of the Pi bering Servian the unfortunate the country ami Garasanin rema be saw field am re turn big Turks upon his h( r.d ; and excited the year 1815, Luca renewed the ins rasanmwentat tbe head of the insurgents and com? pelled Milo, by holding a loaded pistol at his breast to choose between a bullet and the staff of a Field Marshal. Milo put a good face upon a bad matter and chose the staff?at least so snvs the storv_ although, according to history, the fact was a little different, but none the less poetical. The Servian rebellion grew. Milo was made Generalissimo, drove the 'l urks out of the lain!, and became Prince. Lucas Garasanin stood as a true com: sellor at his side, and had Milo listened to the old man, he would have been sitting to dav uoou the princeiy throne of Servia. Garasanin cluiisr long to M?Q. but. as his tyranny and faithlessness gradually raised a strong party against him, Lu? cas abandoned him too, and ranged himself upon tne side of the Prince Alexander Eaxageorgevicz. M.s example had great weight. Yet, before" Alex? ander was chosen Prince, Lucas Garannindied ?basely murdered by some Myrmidons of Obren ?y.'cz: *?? ,Icft two Sl)us behind him?the one Ilia, is. Minister; the other is a merchant. Both pass for extremely rich men. They own immense awarm with brist?ne droves?the happv swine of tbe wealthy Garasanins us. :ir Heavi and n lessly State fails into the hands of either one ot tho twain, it is all up with the power and dominion of these men. Their cne, therefore, is to supplv a balance on one sale for the preponderance on'the other. Russia is now so intensely friendly, so passionately enamored, that its tenderness begins to wear upon them a little, and the litest dates have reported the knitting of . loser bonds with Constantinople. In any case auch a tendency is not unpopular, but on account of the antecedents of the young State, it is somewhat dangerous to lind itself in a close and threatening dependence the inti lurk, can arouse an excitement :.. e which would destroy the Turkish mr rison inthe fortress and thereby ai! relat ions with the Porte; in which ease, again, only Russia could assist, or at least speak the decisive word. So, at any rate, the Ministers are good Russians, which, however, does not hinder their grateful reception cf friendly overtures from the qther side, which enable them, also, to intrigue against say against it than erman States, com WOMAN AND HER NEEDS..No.II. BY K. OAKES SMITH. In my former article I said the world needed the admixture ol Woman Thought in its affairs ; a deep, free Womansouled utterance?.* needed" It is the disseverance of the sexes, the condemn? ing of the one to indoor thought only, to the deg? radation of indoor toil, far more limiting in its na? ture than that of the outdoor kind, beneath the invigorations of air and s;ky: the expanse of these working enlargement upon the mind ha.; done so much for the ot her sex : and in our own has de? veloped from the poor serving girl of the Inn of Domremy; inured to the toils of the stable, the chivalric and enthusiastic .loan ol Arc. It is tho making woman a creature of luxury?an object of sensuality?a vehicle for reproduction?or a thing of toil, each one, or all of these?that has caused half the miseries of the world. Site, as a soul, has never been recognised. As a human being to sin and to sutler she has had more than an aeknowl- ! edgement. As a human being to obey her God, t.. tl?r.k, t<. enjoy, men have been blind to her ut? most needs. She has been treated always as subservient; been exacted of her. She has had no voice inthe law ami yet has been subjected to the heaviest penalties of the law- She has been denied the ability to make or enforce public opinion, and yet has been outraged, abandoned, given over to deg? radation, misery, and the thousand ills worse than a thousand deaths by its terrible action. Even her affections, these arbitrary endowments im? parted by the Most iligh for her own safeguard, and lor the best being of society, have been warpod and crushed by the action of masculine thought upon their manifestations, till their una? dulterated play is well-nigh lost. Men have written for us, thought for us, legis? lated liir us ; and they have constructed from their own consciousness an effigy of a woman to which we are expected to conform. It is not a Woman that they see, God forbid that it should be: it is one of those monsters of neither sex, that some? times outrage the pangs of maternity, but which expire at the birth, whereas the distorted image to which men wish us to conform, lives to bewil? der, to mislead and be misled, and to cause dis? cord and belittleraent where the Creator designed the highest dignity, the most complete harmony. Men have said we should be tluiu and thus, and we have tried to be in accordance because we are told it is womanly. They have said we must think in a certain way: and we have tried so to think : they have said that under given circum? stances we must act niter a particular mode, and we have thus acted?ay ! even when the voice of God in our oh ii hearts has called out " where, art thou ?" and we have hid ourselves, not daring to ' reply, for with that cowardice which men tell us is feminine, we dared not face that public opinion which men have established ; dared not encounter that ridicule which men tirst start, and weak wo? men follow up?dare not fuce that isolation which great and t rue thought brings upon itself in the present pettiness and prejudice of the world. Till Woman learns to east out the "bond wo- I man," her and her offspring?send them forth into J the wilderness of thought, no angel can succor her. She must cast herself down amid the arid- | nes's of thought?hungry and thirsty for the truth?she may veil her eyes that she "see not j the death of the child," even the Ishmaels of er? ror, whence, shall be born a nation, armed | against its kind, even thehoariness of established | falsebood.lbr often will she find Truth revealed in a way she little supposed, and which she trembles to perceive : but let her not fear?let her trust to those intuitions, better than all the demonstrations of reason?let her think and feel, and see, and grasp with a courage which is of God, and all will be well, Let Woman learn to ts.ke a woman's view of things. Let her feel the need of a woman's thought. Let her search into her own needs say, ret what has the world hitherto thought in it trom tue nature ot tilings, uet ner not say, think, wise and good and trust worthy though thej be?but let her evolve her own thought, re? cognize her own needs, and judge ol her own acis by the best lights of her own mind. Let her feel and understand that there is a dif? ference in the soul as in the bodies of the sexes? a difference designed to produce the most beau? tiful harmony. Hut let her not, in admitting this, admit of inferiority. While the form of a Man is as it were more arbitrary, more of a fact in crea? tion, more distinct and uniform, a sort of com of a fixture, better adapted to tlie exacti? tudes of science, and those protracted labors standing, let her bear in mind that this fixedness, this patience of labor, this steadiness of the un demanding, are in conformity with his position al Lord of the material Unwerte to which God has appointed him, whereas she was an alter crea? tion, with somethingi.eaier allied to the heavenly. In her shape, there is a flexibility, a variety, more graceful, etherial and beautiful, appealing the soul of M ii al uiittinted and unadulterated, Jias in it more ot a>[ irafion, more of the subtle and intuitive char- j acler that links it"to spiritual; she is Impatient j of labor because her wings are nearly freed from the shell of the chrysalis and prompt to a better | element; she cares leas for tbe deductions of i reason because she has an element in herself | nearer to the truth than reason can ever reach, by 1 which she felt the approaches of the true and the beautiful, without the manly wrestlings all night j of the Patriarch to which, the other sex are sub? jected. She does not need the ladder of Bethel, tht step by step of the slow logician, because her feet are already upon the first rung ofthat mystic pasB-way ; this is why she is bid by the arrogance of apostolic injunction to veil her head in public, "because of the Angels." She is a step nearer them than her material lord and master. The Ai gels recognize her as of nearer affinity. Let it not be thought I say this lightly. Would that Women would receive it as a solemn truth? that they would, out of their own souls reject the hardness of materialism which the masculine mind engenders from its own elements, and re? ceive cordially and meekly the truth as it is wit? nessed in their own souls. It was this pure, ready recipiency, this " let it be to thy handmaid as seemeth to thee good," that distinguised the M.iid of Judah above all others of her sex, and the mystery of Troth was born of her, and new light through her came to the world. Had we spirits like hers, perpetual youth of sonl might be ours, and new and miraculous revelations of bet? ter thooght, and more bcanty of life redeem the world again and again. Would that Women would learn to recosmke tng their bodiesfor real or and that, too. while the world v the vices and cruelties of tl Women have done this I Ir i: lowed in their career?immui convents^outraging their hum denials, hypocritical pretenses, No, there is a directness, a utilitarianism in the affections and thougbtsof the Woman-mind, that ofitsell would never have thus misled her j there is a tangibility in her religious impulses that leads her at once to prayer?a reality in her affections that involves the best devotedness of human love, and a solidness in ber benevolence, inciting at once to good works. Sbe has a natural going out of herself, a readiness of sympathy that prompts to relieve; while a certain buoyancy of her physi. (|ue makes action more pleasurable to her than to the oilier sex. If she has lent herself to the evils that have outraged the world, it is because she lias he-en cast into the back ground by Men and then has followed him like a slave . if she has been his aid in the cruelties that have shamed the world, it is because she has closed her own eyes anil looked through his; if she has been his companion in luxuries and vices, at which the pure Woman blushes, it is because he has driven her to the resources of the weal; in the lower orders of crea? tion, ami she has become crafty that she might obtain power- longincr for companionship, she stepped from the rung" of the ladder where she stood in arcs! heavi n,and plunged into sensuality with him, the Lord of the material. then she, who had been his superior in the elements that most harmonize life ? looking up from her debasement to the face of her companion,begged lor tolerance where she before had a right to homage?pleaded her weakness as a motive for protection, because she had laid aside her own distinctive powers. Women must recognize their unlikeness, and then understanding ? hat needs grow out of this unlikeness, some great truth must be evolved.-? ! Now they busy themselves with methods of thought, springing, ii is true, from their own sense of something needed, bin suggested altogether j by the masculine intellect. Let us first shake j ourselves from this pupilage of mind by which our ! faculties arc dwarfed, and courageously judge for i ourselves. In doing this I see no need of Ama zonion strides or disfigurements, or stentorian j lungs. The more deeply ami earnestly n Woman feels the laws of her own existence, the more ! solemn, reverent and harmonious is her bearing, j She sees what nature designed in her creation, and her whole beingfalls gracefully into iis allot? ted sphere. If she is a simple, genial, household divinity, sin- will bind garlands around the altar of I the Penates, and w orship in content. If endowed j in a more enlarged manner, I see no reason why she should diminish her proportions to please an imbecile taste in society. I Bee no reason why she should not be received cordially into the school of Arts, or Science, or Politics, or Theology, in the same manner as the individual capacities of the other sex are recognized. They do not all square themselves to one standard, and why should wo ! \ They have a very large number engaged in sew- j ing, cooking, spinning, and writing very small articles for very small works, designed lor very ! small minds. The majority are very far from be ing Piatos, or Bayards, or Napoleons. Wie n so very large n portion of the other sex are engaged in what is regarded as unmanly, I see no reason j why those of ours who have a fancy to tinker a constitution, canvass a county, or preach the gos pel; should not be permitted to do so, provided they feel this to bo the best use of their faculties. I do not say this is the best thing tor them to do, 1 but 1 see no reason, if their best intelligence finds its best expression in that channel, why they I should not be indulged. Our right to individuality is what I would most l assert. Men seem resolved to have but one type in our sex. They recognize the right of the matter-of-fact Biddy to raise a great clamor,quite to the annoyance of a neighborhood, but where's the use of "the Nightingale' The laws of stub? born utilitarianism must govern us, while they may be as fantastic as they please. They tell mochabout a " Woman's sphere ''?can they de? fine this ' As the phrase is used, I confess it has a most shallow and indefinite sense. The most I can gather from it is the consciousness of the speaker, which means something like the philoso? phy ofMr. Murdstone's firmness; it is a sphere by which every woman creature, of whatever age, appending to himself, shall circle very much with? in his own?see and hear through his senses, and believe according to his dogmas, with a sort of general proviso, that it need be for his growth, glorification, or well-being in any way, they will instantly and uncompromisingly become extinct. There is a Woman's sphere, harmonious, holy, soul-imparting; it has its grades, its iaws from the nature of things, and we must seek for it. The pursuits of Men vary with their capacities, are higher or lower according to age ; why should not those ofWomen ! The highest offices oflegis lation are filled by men of mature ?l-c, whose judg? ments are supposed to be consolidated by years Among the Mohawks, a woman who bad so trained a boy that he became elected to the office of Chief, for this honor was not hereditary, was received into the Councils of the Nation. The Spartan women emulated the men in the terse? ness of their language and the hardihood of their patriotism. Often and often do we see the attri? butes of the sexes reversed, the women becoming the protectors, and in tact the bond of the house, without a shadow of infringement upon the appro? priateness or beauty of their womanhood- It is late in the day to he thrown upon the defensive. I see no way in which harmony can result in the world without entire recognition of differences, for surely nothing is gained upon either side by antagonism merely. Women cannot be so very ridiculous and absurd in their honest, hearty truth searchings, tor we are the Mothers of the Republic, and he who casts-ccntt nipt upon them indorses his own shame. If the members of his own household are exempt from solemn truth-askings, he should beware how he exults over such evidence of common-place Hrooklvn, L. 1. Massachusetts Election. The Boston Advertiser of yesterday furnishes the following summary of the Massachusetts House of Representatives : Ccootie*. Wliie. Den. ? 3. Coafit'a Vsc. Suffolk. 45 1 ? 1 ? Essex. 14 6 1 17 9 Middlesex.24 IS 11 12 2 Worcester. ti 12 U3 8 3 Hainpden. <i 8 1 ? I Hampshire. 14 _ 2 4 4 Franklin.. 8 7 4 *2 Berkshire. 14 13 - 1 - Noi folk. Ii 5 4 3 2 Plymouth. 1 II 4 3 ? Bristol. 14 4 2 3 3 Bsrnslable. !' I - ? 2 Nantuckel. 2 ? ? 1 ? Duke. ? 2 - 1 ? Knie from Texa*. Fron Uta New-Orl.-ai:.* IVajun,., Not. jn ?y tho arrival yesterday ol the steamship Pal. rHes of^exM ' WC h"ve recelved ??r usual We find bot ?cw additional returns of the eiee lion on tm- boundary loh. Small majorities werQ the bill0 0 and ;- "grange counties for ti ; ? . . ? ? r>' ',Jri,1'ea recruits toe me em mtantry and 2d Drago '.a passed through An?in_week before last, under tho command of Major bibJey, on their way to the frontier posts. | The Galveston papers say that the imports into that port the present autumn are immense. Tha spit n< ... chips in the X w-York trade com 1 cram med; and the New-Orleans steamers piled with r.e l p.ton, and bore down pretty tie southern ultras, not even ttrnati, ot whom he is repr souted :,: " I *' Governor) had once u his 11. dges 11! assistance to emore fraught with danger anj c [?res ii '. and that they were not ow. G,'!!. Rusk described tha Co ess as a triumph to the Nortl em ultras, congratulated* spe. I ol getting rid of Santa Fe, wit -? colors on tho prosperous! hour young State has entered, also ma le -i speech at the same <' . nt speaks as follows Au. clear an,! gratifying explai ation of the action of tha lateCongress on the important questions before it, Lccut.i io repiy, ns tue n erat? says, in a somewhat f ??,. ;"f ,ta;I,\;n"01'-, H? ?pj'V - !' 111 nour, in opposu on io me .. i arce diu, and deuounc? e.l the '? bartering awa; the right of Texa i \nr\M, diction overSonta Fe.' He concluded amid titei applause of his friends, and by producing a good! deal of excitement in the crowd. Gen. Houstia was again called for, and arose to reply, amid a storm of appluse. He occupied another hour in his most happy ami effective vein?denounci d tha Disunionists; Abolitionists, Nuliiiiers a.,.! tiu Southern Convention alike, eulogised the consti? tution and the Union, and concluded with an ap? peal to the goe i sense and patriotism of the peo. pie, that went home 11 all hearts. There was nq further reply. The scene is represented as im? pressive to a rare decree. The old hero of San ,1a. cinto is reported to have lost none of his ancienlj vigor and power to sway the masses. The steamer Ogdeu was recently lost in thij Brazos river, in consequence of striking a snai;.?? She was ascending the river when the accident occurred, and was about fifteen miles from tins mouth. She filled soon after, and keeled over in eleven feet water, passengers and crew saved. The ( luden was partially il' not wholly insured. She had been repaired and fitted out at n heavy expense, and this was her first trip afterward. Captain McCulloch's company of Hangers ha* been must.-red into tbe ' nite.l States service,anil will be stationed in Refugio county. The Stale Gazette classifies the Texan paper* on the subject of tbe boundary bill, from which it appears that there are fourteen for and ten against that measure?two 8iv neutral and three whoso) opinions on the subject are unknown. The editor of the Victoria Advocate, writing; from Washington, says no money can be obtain e.l under the appropriation for pay'ng the Texan Rangers. The reasons are that "there is no lam under which the accounts i an be settled, neither does the law state to whom the money is to be) paid. In an affray in Gaiveston, a few days ago. ft Mr. George Beall was shot by Mr. \V. Lewis. The wound was not mortal. The Texas papers speak in encouraging terms] of the prospects of their State. One paper say? the population will this season be increased 25,00<l by immigration. It is expected that a large German emigration will enter this winter the counties lying west of the Guadalupe, principally Comal, Gillespie, Bex. ar and Medina. Liberty County has a population of 1,625 whites, 892 slaves, and 7 free persons of color. The Sugar Cane on Cancy and Peach Creek* has been slightly touched with frost, but not materially injured, so says the Matagorda Trih unc. The Nueces X alley has been almost inundate.! by heavy rains, which fell about the 7th inst.? The editor of the Valley says i " The water fell, as we have been informed by persons who meas? ured it, to the depth of 21 inches." The rains of Victoria and Bexar were also heavy, but not near, so heavy as at Corpus Christi. Col. Fulkerson, ai>? i J. 11 Lane, a gentleman of thiscity, were recently accidentally snot near La? vaca. Mr. Lane s wound, it is thought, is mortal. Col. Fulkerson was in no danger. The Corpus Chriiti iSuecet Valley thinks, from indications which hav e been observed, that a lartta party on the way to Brownsville was cut off ami destroyed by Indians. Abnut ten miles the other side of the Bobado* on the upper Matamoras' road, some 90 miles] from Corpus Christi, the fragment)) of a wagon were discovered near the rou.l, which had been partially destroyed by lire. There were three trunks and a tool-chest near the spot. One of the trunks was marked with the name of .lohn Horton. There were two mattresses, the cover? ing being removed, and remnants of female cloth? ing scattered about. FROM HAVANA. The tiiicrn'h Birth-Day?Departure of the Conde <le Alcoy?Public Peeling, dec, Mtitrs. Greeley ft Mc Et rath : The 19th wasgaladay.it being the "Saint day" of our good Queen Isabel, and it was celebrate.! with all the " besamanos" ceremonies. Salvo* from the fortifications and walls, serenades with? in tho court of the palace, and upon the public "plazas"?and private feasts and balls, tilled up the evening of the lestive day. It has been a -ratification to all good citizen* to witness the attention bestowed upon tha Conde Alcoy this morning, on his departure front the scene of his official duties, on board ol the Spanish steamer Caledonia. The Harbor wast covered with boats. Two steamers tilled with his late official associates and friends and bands of music, escorted him outside the Moro Castle, while the wails, wharves, roof tops and shipping were thronged witii saddened hearts at his loss, and gave " God bless him," with waving kerchief* and uncovered heads. w!-,ieh he returned with evidently gratified feelings, and his emotion* could not be staved by ail the pomp which gath? ered nearer to "his person. The demonstrations ol sympathy on this o'-oasion have been the result of Creole sentiment, and it was too powerful to be chilled by Catalan hatred. Last evening, Gen. Con'.ba ordered a baud to teranade Gen. Roucaii, and he has been the con? stant recipient ot the most unselfish testimonials, that he is beloved by the industrial mass ol thi* partof the Island. This great change has beer* wrought by the force ol character ot the man, dur? ing the recent trials to which he and his ^minis? tration were subjected--and, that he avoided thd counsel of those who were in favor of depletion and bleeding, on suspicion of Jever among foreign ert and Creoles, and ( hose mild measures, while he was prepared tor (fee-use, as a soldier, ol the irem entrusted to his care, may be chiefly attribu? ted the high position he has won lor hiniseU among all ( lasses. , , The Conde Alcoy has obtained a signal trtump * over prejudice and hatred, and goes hence With honor-tributes which have not been accorded to any other Captain General, save Taron, and to the lust there w as no mingling ot kindly ailect.oas < f the people- wherefore, in Creole memories, Ah oy will occupy the green place of preference It Is to be regretted teat the Conde Alcoy doe* not visit the United States, as it is not wiproca ble that he will be one of tbe mnifterud g"<tr' than* of tbe Crown. . . Our new Captain-General seems to be at a.i points a soldier, and ti e troops are kep^ COBr stant occupation, for improvement in ordinary drill, reviews, inspection-, and manen-rre*m Brand tactics; and the trumpet blast or beatoi the drum is constantly mingling with the nouy wheels Of traffic in our thoroughfares. Yet busi ? ifFs is doll, with nothing favorable outward intno Way of'freights; My reports will be brought up in my next b; the John Benson, to sail the 23d ;.,st. As ever yours, <t- ''? ()'