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MAYSVILLB, EY() THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1864.
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LINES.
BT ICRS. B0B1KSON.
". This nnfortnnsto and once very popular au
thoress, actress and poet, wrote some of the most
exquisite lines in tho Jinjrllsh lanenase. She
mmn hnwtver. the victim of ban calumny and
m.liirnitv. and suffered infinitely at the bands of
Gifford.and other British reviewers. Tho an
nexed lines are from her pen, and, as we are in
formed, were written while croieing the Straits
of Dover. Speaking of her efforts, and this par
ticular effusion, the editor of a Salom papsr. in
dulges in the following remarks:
"The following lines were written hy Mrs. Rob
inson, on crossing the channel from Dover to Ca
lais, on July 20th, 179. For pathos, harmony
and number, and unaffected sentiment, it has
not its superior In our language. Mrs. K. has
well beeu ca 1 led the modern Sa ppho . This song
has been eet tw music, in a variety of appropriate
airs. We present the whole as it appeared
originally."
Bounding billow, cease thy motion;
Bear me not so swiftly o'er,
Cease tby roaring, foaming ocean,
I will tempt tby rage no more.
Ah! within my bosom beating.
Varying pasiona wildly reign,
Lov with proud Jietenimertt meeting,
Throbs by turns of Jiy and Pain
Joy, that far from foes I wander,
Where their faults can reach no more!
Pain that woman's heart grows fonder,
When her dream of Wise is o'er.
Zov4 by fickle fancy banished,
Spurted by hope indignant flioe;
Yet, when love and hope aie vanished,
Keatless memory never dies.
Proud has been my fatal passion:
Proud my injured heart shall be;
While each thought and inclination,
SUUbball prove me worthy thee.
Jfot one sigh shall tell my story
Mot one tear my cheek shall stain!
Silent grief shall be my glory
Grief thai stoops not to compUln.
Let the bosom prone to ranging
Etill by ranging seek to cure;
Mine dieda;ns the thought of changing,
Proudly destined to endure.
Yet believe, no servile passion
Seeks to charm tby vagrant miod
Well 1 know thy inclination,
Wav'ring as the passiDg wind.
Far I go, where fate shall lead me:
Far across the troubled deep,
Where no stranger's ear shall beed me,
Where no eyo for me shall weep.
Yet, ere far from all I treasured,
ere I bid alien
Ere my days of pain a.e measured,
Take the song that's still thy due.
I have loved thee dearly loved thee,
Through an -age of worldly woe;
; How ungrateful 1 have proved thee,
Let my mournful exile show,
Tea leng years of anxious sorrow,
Hour by hour I conned o'er;
Looking forward till to-morrow,
Every day 1 loved tbee more.
Tower and splendor could not charm me:
I no joy in wealth could seel
Kor could threats or fears alarm me,
Save the tear of losing thee.
When the stormsof fortune pressed thee,
I have wept to see thee weep
When releuUesscares distressed thee,
1 ha ve lulled those cares to sleep.
When with thee, what ills conld harm me;
Thou couldst every pang assuage
J3nt when absent, nought could charm me,
Every moment seemed an age.
Fare tbee well, ungrateful rover
Welcome Gallia's hostile shore:
Mow the breezed waft me over:
Mow we part we meet no more!
Rsmemder that tbon keep holy the Sabre-.
v n s. . ufnelaaasn beautifully en
forced in 'the ensuing lines by Sir Matbew
Hale: ' ;
A Sabbath well spent
Brings a week of content, ,
And health for the toils of to-morrow;
But a Sabbath profaned,
Whatsoe'er may be gained,
Is a certain forerunner of sorrow."
(KTAt Alexandria, the personal property
of Gen. Lee, the rebel commander, is to be
eolcLpn the 19tb iDfltaDt, under condemn
aticVby tbe United States District Court.
It consists of bis household furniture, or
nament, paintings, engravings, books etc ,
including one large painting of Washing
ten. two painting of Washington's Gener
als oo battle field, four book-caaes and fan
cy glass cases. The most of these article
are of the moat elegant description some ol
them very rare and valuable. Washington
Union.
The Diseases and Infirmaties: Eiemp.
- -' ting from the Draft.
We reprint the following list of diseases
and infirmities exempting from the draft as
being of special interest at thia time: .
Was Department, - )
Pbovobt-Mabshal Gbns Oitice,
Washington, Nov. 9, 63 V
Circular "No. 100 Paragraph 85 of the
Regulations for the government of the Bu
reau of the Provost-Marshal-General of the
United States, it amended to read as fol
lows: 85. The following diseases and infirmi
ties are those which disqualify- for military
service, and for which only drafted men are
to be rejected as physically. or mentally un
fit for the service, via:
L Manifest imbeoility.
2. Insanity. This includes well estab
lished recent insanity with liabilky to a re
currence. 3. Epilepsy, For this disability the
statement of the drafted man is insufficient,
and fact must be established by the duly
attested affidavit of a physician in good
standing, who has attended him in the dis
ease within the aix months immediately
preceding Mb examination by the Board.
4. Paralysis, general or of one limb, or
chorea; their existence to be adequately de
termined. Decided atrophy of a limb.
5. Acute or organic diseases of tbe brain
or spinal cord; of the heart or luag; of the
liver or spleen; of tbe kidneys or bladder,
which have so seriously ian pared bis gener
al health as to leave no doubt of the man's
incapacity for military service.
6. Cot firmed consumption. Incipient
consumption doea not exempt.
7 Cancer; aneurism of the large arteries
8. Inveterate and extensive disease of
the skin, such as will necessarily impair his
efficiency ar a aoldier.
9. Decided feebleness of Constitution, or
deficient size of chest, sufficient in degree to
leave no doubt of the man's unfitness for
military service.
10. Scrofula, or constitutional syphilis,
which has so -seriously impaired general
health as tu leave no doubt of the man'a in
capacity for military service.
11. Habitual and confirmed intemperance,
or solitary vice, which has 83 materially en
feebled the constitution as to leave no doubt
of the man's incapacity for military service.
12. Chrouic rheumatism, unless mmifes
ted by positive change of structure, wasting
of tbe affected limb, or puffness or distortion
of the joints, does not exempt. Impaired
motion of j'.iuia, and contraction of the
lirubs alledged to arise from rheumatism,
and in which the nutrition of the limbs is
not manifestly impaired, are to be prDved
by examination while ia a state of anaesth
esia induced by ether only.
13. Pain, whether simulating headache,
neuralgia in any of its forma, rheumatism,
lumbago, or affections of the muscles, bones
or joints, is a symptom of disease so easily
pretended, that it is not to be admitted as a
cause for exemption unless accompanied with
manifested derangement of the general
health, wasting of a limb, or other positive
sigo of disqualifying local desease.
14. Great injuries or diseases of the skull,
occasioning impairment of the intellectual
faculties, epilepsy, or other manifest ner
vous or spasmodio symtoms.
15. Total loss of sight; total loss of sight
of right eye; cataract of right eye; loss of
crystalline lens of right eye.
16. Partial loss of sight of both eyes, vis
ion being so greatly impaired as to leave no
doubt of the man'a inabilitj to perform
military duty. Serious permanent diseases
of the eje or eyelids, so manifestly losing
the use of the eyes as to leave no doubt of
the man's incapacity for military duty.
Near aibtedness does not exempt; if found
on trial to be ao decided as to incapacitate
for field service, the man may be transferred
to the Invalid Corps.
17. Total loss of nose; deformity of nose
so great as seriously to obstruct respiration;
ozsna, dependent on caries in progress.
18. Decided deafness. This disability
must not be admitted on the mere slate
mentof the drafted man, but must be proved
by the existence of positive disease, or by
other satisfactory evidence; and it must be
so decided as to leave no doubt of the man's
unfitness for military service. Chronic
purulent otorrhea.
19. Incurable diseases or deformities of
either jaw, such as will necessarily greatly
impede mastication or speech. Ancbylosia
of tbe lower jaw; carita of tha bones of the
face, if in progress; cleft palate (bony); ex
tensive loss of substance of the cheeks, or
salivary fistula.
20. Dumbness; permanent loss of voice;
not to be admitted without clear and satis
factory proof.
21. Total loss of tongue; hypertrophy,
atrophy, mutilation or obstinate chronic ul
ceration of tbe tongue, if sufficient in degree
to interfere seriously with the use of the
organ. .- ' .
22. Stammering, if excessive and con
firmed; to be established by satisfactory evi
dence under oath. -
23. Losa of a sufficient number of teeth
to prevent mastication of food. This applies
to these only where the loas of teeth ia so
great that, if the man were restricted to solid
tod he would soon become incapacitated
tnr military service.
24. Tumors or wounds on tbe neck, im
peding respiration of deglutition; fitul of
larvnx or trachea; torticollis, if of long
standing and well marked.
25. Deformity of the chest. or ex'cessive
curvature of the spine, sufficient to prevent
the carrying of arms and military equip
ments; caries of the spine, ribs, or slernum.
25. Abdomen grossly protuberant; exces
sive obesity
27. Hernia. .
9fi. Artificial anus: stricture of the rec
tum; prolapsus and fistula in ano is not a
positive disqualification, but may be so, if
extensive of complicated wuh visceral dis
ease. 29. Old and ulcerated internal hemor
rhoids, if in degree sufficient to Impair the
man's efficacy. External hemorrhoids are
no cause for exemption.
30. Total loss or nearly total loss of pe
nis; epispadia or hypospadiaat the middle
or near the root of the penis.
31. Incurable permanent organic stricture
of the uretha, in which urine is passed drop
by drop, or which ia complicated by disease
of the bladder; urinary fistula. Recent or
spasmodic stricture of the nretha does not
exempt.
Incontinence of urine, being a disease fre
quently feigned, and of rare occurrence, is
not of ituelf a cause for exemption. Stone
in tbe bladder, ascsrtaiood by the iotroduo.
tion of the metallic catheter, is a positive
disqualification.
S3. Loss or complete atrophy of both
testicles from any cause; permanent reten
tion of one or both testicles within the iu
guioal caual; but voluntary retraciion does
not exempt.
Confirmed or malignant varicocele; hydro
cele if complicated with organic disease of
the testicle. Variocele is not of Jtself dis
qualifying. , .
35. Loss of an arm, forearm, hand, thigh,
leg. or foot.
. 36. Wounds, muscular or cutaneous coo
tractions from wounds or burns, or tumors,
which would prevent marching, or other
wise, manifestly incapacitate the man for
military service.
37. Fractures, irreducible dislocations
or anchylosis of tbe large joints, or chrouic
diseases of the joints or bones, that would
prevent marching, or otherwise unfit the
man for military aervica
33. Total loss of a thumb; total losa of
tbe iiidex Soger of the right band. Other
permanent defects or deformities on the
hands, so decided aa to leave no doubt of
the man's incapacity for military service.
39. Club feet; total loss of a great toe.
Other permanent defects or deformities of
tbe feet, such as will necessarily prevent
marching.
40. Various veins of inferior extremi
ties, if large and numerous, and accompanied
with chronic swellings or ulcerations.
41. Chronic ulcers; extensive, deep, and
adherent cicatrices of lower extremities.
Surgeon of Boards of E orollme nt, in re
porting tbe "statistics of the causes of ex
emption on accouut of physical disability,"
will hereafter, in addition to the alphabeti
cal list of disabilities required by Circular
No. 90 from this office, report the number
rejected under each paragraph of tbe above
list of disqualifying infirmities.
. James B. Far, Provost Marshal-General.
From the Ciucinnati Enquirer.
FROM WASHINGTON.
OCR LOSSES BEFORE PETERSBURG 11000.
Washington, August 2. "
The estimate of the number of killed,
wounded and missing, contained in my let
ter of yesterday, giving a brief statement of
Saturday's operation before Petersburg, was
much below the real extent of our losses.
It now appears, by information received
from persons who came bere to-day on the
boat from City Point, that the Federal los
ses in the attempt to carry the rebel inner
works, were probably greater than on tbe oc
casion of the great slaughter just six weeks
before, on the memorable Saturday, June
18th. The losses of tbe Federal forces last
Saturday, were eleven thousand.
The full extent of our disaster was tele
graphed from City Point to the President
on Saturday afternoon, and an interview
between Gen. Grant and Mr. Lincoln was
proposed, to take place at Fortress Monroe
at once, or as soon as the parties could get
there. At about 5 o'clock P. M. Mr. Lin
coln left hereupon a vessel, and on Sunday
morning met and held an interview with
Gen. Grant at Fortress Monroe. What was
the plan proposed for the future has not
transpired.
The wounded are coming into tbe hospi
tal at the rata of fifteen hundred per day,
and again we witness the scenes of distress
observable on the street, that we have twice
before witnessed since the 1st of May last,
viz: after tbe battles of the Wilderness and
Spottsylvaoia, and the June battle before
Petersburg. And each time with tbe same
aesult we are badly whipped and no- near
er in tbe accomplishment of Gen. Grant's
determination to plant the Federal flig up
on the Confederate capitol.
There is faint condemnation observable
In the tone of the administration press,
when referring to the behavior ot the negro
troops; it ia said the negroes behaved badly,
were panic stricken, etc. From the first
introduction of the colored troops into the
army of tbe Potomac, no other result was
expected by tbe experienced officers under
Gen Grant. It was believed tbe negroes
would run. that they would not stand fire.
and that in case they were reliad upon for
an emergency, disaster would be sure to fol
low. Such was the estimate expressed
very freely by leading officers, both before
the army crossed the Rapidan and after the
battle of tbe Wilderness, when it was ask
ed wby Burnside's negro troops were not
pushed to fight. I bis opinion was so noto
rious here that I made it the subject of a
paragraph, in telegrams sent to yon last
May, but tbe eensorsbipedirected by Mr.
Stanton would not permit snob, statements
to be made about the 'colled pusson's' sol
dierly qualities or rather, hialack of them.
Mew York is just now endeavoring to
extricate herself from an entanglement
that she had been led into by a decision
of the War Department, and it is doubtful
whether Gov. Seymour will let his 100
days militia leave tee state, and run into
the snare in which the militis from Ohio
was caught. '
HAMILTON.
The New Albany Ledger says that the
guerrilla Uaptain ivestersoo, executed aira
stuxah nn W.inAS(tv. hv order of court-
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martial, was shot by a squad of uegro sold
iers, three nana taxing enact one in toe
hrajist nna in the head, the other in the face
He fell backward into bis grave without a
groan. He was buried afterwards his re
mains being moved into the country for in-
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terment. ma wue ana catiureu wiuiauau
the execution.
- Wby is a bride groom worth more than a
bride? Because she is given away and he
is sold.
Mc&rone.
Before Petersburg, V , )
July 4, 1864.J
Mr Dear Leader: It seems, natural to
be back again to tbe front. There's no fun
like fighing,.arter ail.
'Mac, 'said Grant to me a bit ago, 4jou
have just come from -Ne w York.and you're
o fool; what do. the folks, up. that way
think about this camnaicn? .IlavrAn ihav
feel T.r.
They.. 8ayf General,' I respondedj 'that
you're doing pretty well.- If the Adminis
tration will let you alone, and you will only
stick to McClellan's original plan, as hereto
fore, yon are. bound to win'
'I bet you!' said he.
But,' I. continued, 'if Stanton gets a
finger in the pie, and old Welles stays aslsep
I'm afraid their confidence will hardly hold
out They're getting plaguey tired of seeing
indecisive and disastrous battles fought by
civilians hundreds of miles away from the
field." , ...
'So am I,' said Grant. .
The fact is my dear Leader, if simple
bard fighting, directed by good generalship
can end this rebellion, we have plenty of
those elements. But I am riot altogether
sure that this end is so universally desired
as the papers pretend.
If Grant takes Richmond in August, the
Chicago convention will nominate him in
September, and tbe nation will elect him in
Novembsr.
.And there be those who do not consider
that denouement so agreeable.
His other name is Old Abe Linoolu. You
have heard of him.
I don't meau to say that he willfully pro
longs this terrifio and fatal struggle, or post
pones a victory which-is already too costly.
But I do mean to say that I wish it were
neither in his power nor interests to do so.
The question here is, 'Who else!'
And I say, 'Anybody else!'
But now-a-days a fellow can trust no one
politioially speaking. Look at tbe record
of Lincoln, of Seward, of Butler.of Fremont
of all of them Those who were once
white are now black, and vice versa. You
can't tell unless you bet, and when you do
bet you surely lose.
Since tbe days of Washington our Pres
idents have been deteriorating pretty stead
ily. We have got down to Old Abe now, and
1 don't know how we oan get much further
unless we put George, etc. If ho made as
much of a muddle of his Administration as
he does of his law suits, he would ba a wor
thy successor to Abraham in tbe noble line
of decadence.
My boys down here are quite delighted
with the news of Chase's first sensible action.
Of course I mean his resignation. Having
got the finances of the country in abou t as
bad a pickle as is possible, and not seeing
his way out of tho scrape through any sort
of loophole, he quietly resigns, and leaves
his affairs to render somebody else idiotic.
But never mind. As my Orderly used to
say, 'No man can call me disroyal; I'm as
royal a man as any in the army.' And so
I don't meddle with politics. I never did.
I've been too well brought up. .
My business is to fight, not to legislate
and which ever way the Presidential cat
may jump, I can only wield my trusty blade
in defense of the dear Old Flag and the
glorious Union for ever! ,
I'm pretty good and patriotic when I get
woke up.
My gallant command, the Fifty-eleventh
Bounty Jumpers, fellow3 who fight for
something tangible, agree with me to a man .
We don't much care how things go 30 that
we can whip the rebels, and confiscate a
small amount of real estate.
I am but a rude, bluff, honest soldier and
like Ben. Butler, know more about winning
odd pieces of property than about making
laws and law-givers.
It doesn't require much genius to be a
soldier. I could be a soldier with my eyes
shut and both hands tied. If it weren't for
the counfounded rebel army I would have
taken Richmond long ago.
But theD, there's a good deal in being
used to it. .
General Hunter is one of the same sort.
He made a splendid raid the other day. He
traveled a good many miles, found some
valuable things to keep, and retreated in
first-rate order, with no I033 except that of
trains, ammunition, and some men.
If he keeps on thus you may expect him
in New York, soon.
Meantime me and Grant expect to date
our letters from Richmond soou. We're
going to fight it out on this line if it takes
ell this smmer.
And we begin to think it will.
Oar appetite for fight is still good, howev-
er. vvareiare is use one 01 onerm s ainners
the more you eat the better you like it,
and when you once begin you can't let it
alone till yov've had your fill.
Yesterday I had great fun. Me and my
gallant Bounty Jumpers led an attack upon.
the enemy's right. 1 threw out skirmishes
in front until we found tbe rebels, who re
gardless of the rules of civilized warefare,
fired a volley of ball cartridges upon us.
This so incensed ane tbatl ordered my men
to charge away from "them. They were
mean enough to follow and a hand-to hand
fight ensued.
I performed prodigies of valor. All war
correspondents invariably do; sometimes
army officers do,
The fight went on till dinner time, and I.
who am proverbially cooi under fire, sat
down on the gory field to dine. Passing
through a garden, alittle before, I had pluck
ed some fine green peas. J ust as I began to
prepare them a battery o.f thirty-two pound
ers opened upon me with shell. Without
thinking of tbe danger, I put the peas iu a
pile, where the deadly storm came thickest,
aod while I lighted my fire the battery
shelled my peas.
This is considered one of tbe most thril
ling inoideots of the war. I thiok it would
make a good subject for a poem by Shep
herd Shepherd is a pretty good poet. He has
so much tallent that I heard- a young lady
say, the other day, that all his poems were
different. I agree, with her, but I thiok
some of them are more different than oth
ers. ' ' ,
Though we did not precisely take Peters
burg on this occasion, we got near enough
to see that the defenses of tbe place are very
weak, and the city only inhabited by a fire
company and a church choir.
The latter, too, is about to change its
bass. "
My loss was considerable; but I am al
most certain that we killed some on the
other sine. I therefore put down their loss
as twice ours. That is the way we warcor
respondenti always do. It looks so well. .
Notwithstanding the looks I must have
more men. I wish you'd set Supervisor
Blunt to work, recruiting. He's" willing
enough, but he must have money before he
can get men; and, mind you, I want men,
not conscripts' or. substi tutss, to conquer
Virginia.
Virginia 5s very hard to conquer.
At least, such is the opinion of Lincoln
such is the opinion of Grant; such is begin
ning to be the opinion of the country at
large, and such h as always been the opinion
of McArone.
Lightning Rods. Their Uses and
Their Defects. This great invention of
Drr Benjamin Franklin was not designed to
draw lightning from a great distance. Tbe
bolt when discharged takes its direction,
which is changed somewhat by conductors.
A house in its path is saved if it has . upon
it a good mf talic conductor of electricity,
because the fluid so called, takes the route
which will allow it to reach the earth in
the shortest possible time, and thus restore
the equilibrum. That portion of a roof
which is regarded as absolutely protected,
is a circle whose radius is equal to the height
to which the rod extends above the 'roof;
hence it is a common practice to have sev
eral terminations or branches of the main
rod projecting from tbe highest part of the
roof, and frem the corners of the building.
A defective lightning rod Is dangerous
because it draws toward the house a force
which it cannot conduct away from it. A
death ocoured on the 17th of last month at
Rensalaer, Ind., . by lightning, in a house
two and a half stories high, situated in a
grove of tall timber. The lightning rod
designed to protect the building was made
of two kinds of metal the first three upper
sections were of octagonal copper, the re
mainder was an iron rod.. Copper is much
better conductor of electricity .than iron.
The copper rod received . mora than the
iron rod could instantly carry away. The
consequence was that a portion, sought its
path to the ground through the house. A
human body was the bridge by which it
crossed a bed, ond a life was swept off in its
passage. Most of the accidents from light
ning, in cases of houses provided with rods,
are the result of imperfect insulation. The
rods are not properly fastened with non
conductors, and do not always enter the
ground far enough to reach the moisture.
Metalio roofs with gutters and leaders run
ning to the ground, Jwhen wet are perfect
coed uctors .
Hardware stores, although filled with
metal, are seldom, if ever, injured by light
ning. The current 'does not always descend
from the sky to the earth. The earth is
generally negative and the clouds positive;
but if the earth was positive and the clouds
negative, the direction of the electric force
would be reversed.
The Rip Van Winkles of our Race
One of tbe most succinct and compreher.
sive statements of the kind we have ever
seen, appears in a speech made by the Rev.
Samuel Coley, at a Weslean missionary an
niversary. It is a passage worth preserv
ing: "I suppose that no country has ever had
such a united intellectual development as
China. The Chinese is the largest, yet, be
yond its own realm, the least influential of
monarchies. From Cuius, no mission ev
er started, no conqueror ever marched.
Before all people in ruuimental invention,
they are behind all people in development.
They had both gold and silver coins before
thefirst Daric was minted, yet they traffic by
the scales to this day. They first had gun
powder, but have got little further with its
use than to blaze it away in crackers. They
were long beforehand with the maguet, but
no junk ever crossed the ocean except in
tow of a British ship. They have printed
from time immemoral, but their literature
awakes no progressive intellect. They have
made glass for two thousand years, and or
dinarily do not make it clear enough to see
through yet. Their astronomy is still as
trology, nor has their chemistry awoke from
dreams of alchemy. They have politeness
but its odd forms and slavery of etiquette
only make them more unsociable. They
have a wonderful language, but its elaborate
cleverness- is a curse and a fetter to their
minds, making it the labor of a life to read.
They are not without notions of dignity, but
the men find it in nails long enough for
claws; and the women in feet crush into the
shapelessness of hoofs. In the South Atlan
tic there is a sea the great Sargazo. All
tbe currents pass by.it. Dull, dead, heav
ing waves, just move the heaped up tangle
of wrecks, that rot in that stagnant me!an-
cboly ocean limbo. China ia the Sargazo
sea in the ocean of humanity.
What Abb Wb Coking To. A few days
ago, says tbe Jjouisviile journal one of tbe
most respectable ladies of Louisville, was
riding in her carriage In the out-skirts of
the city, driven by her servant. Suddenly
three negroes in uniform came up. stopped
tbe carriage, and said to the driver, 'What
are you driving that white trash for? We
have got aguu for you. Jump off and come
along.' Tne lady, much frightened, called
to her driver to let her out. 'Don't be afraid
Madam, said the bold fellow, 'I can-protect
you against the villaios.'instantly he swung
his whip most vigorously among them, and
starting his horses at full speed, be soon bad
his mistress out of tbe reach of the devils
with black faces and blue breeches.
Who does not see the whole tendency of
the policy that the Administration has inaugurated?
Men Who Talk Several Lataguagea
In Blackwood's Magazine we find the)
following readable extract:
There are two classes of people not a little
thought of and even caressed in society
and for whom I have ever felt a very hum-
b'.e estimate the men who play all man
ner of games and the men who speak sev
eral languages. I begin with the latter
and declare that after a somewhat varied
experience of life, I never met a linguist
that was above a third-rate man; and I go
further, and aver that I never chanced up
on a really able man who had the talent for
languages. I am well aware that It sounds
something little short of a hersesy to make
this declaration. It is enough to make the
blood of Civil Service Commissioners run
cold to hear it. It sound illiberal, and
worse, it seems illogical. ' Wby should any
intellectual development imply deficienoy?
Why should an acquirement argue a defect?
I answer, I don't know, any more than I
know-wby sanguineous people are hot-'
tempered and leuco-phlegmatic ones mors .
brooding in their wrath. If for I do not
ask to be anything higer than empirical if
I find that parsimonious people have gener
ally thin noses, and that the snub is associ
ated with the spendthrift, I never trouble
myself with the demonstration, but I hug
the fact and endeavor to apply it,
.In the same spirit, if I hear a man In sv
salon change from French to German, and
thence diverge into Italian and Spanish;
with possibly a brief excursion into some
thing Scandinavian, or Scalv at home in
each and all I would no more think of as
sociating him in my mind with anything
responsible in station or commanding re
sponsible in station or commanding in intel
lect than I should think of connecting thai
servant that announced me with the last
brilliant paper in the Quarterly. No man
with a strongly marked identify and no
able man ever existed without such can
subordinate that identity so far as as to put
on the foreigner; and without this he never
can attain that mastery of a foreign lan
guage that makes thevlinguist. To be able
to repeat conventionalities bringing them
in at the telling moment, adjusting phrases
to emergencies, as a joiner adapts the pieces
of .wood to his carpentry may be, and is, a
very neat and a very dexterous performance,
but it is scarcoly the exercise to which a
large capacity will address itself.
Imitation must be, in one sense or other",
the stronghold of tbe linguist imitation of
expression , of style, of accent, or cadence -of
tone. The linguist must not merely
master grammar, but he must manage gut
terals. The mimicry must go further; in
simulating expression it must affect the sen'
timent. You are not merely borrowing tha
clothes, but yon are pretending to put on
the feelings, tbe thoughts, the prejudices of
the wearer, Now, what man, with a' strong
nature, oan merge himself so entirely in his
fictitious being as not tOjbnrst the seams and
tear the lining of a garment that only im
pedes the free action of his respiration?
It is not merely by their greater adaptive
ness that women are better linguists than
men; it is by their more delicate organiza
tion, their more subdued identity, and their
less obstreperous temperaments, which are,
consequently, less redolent of the one in
dividual self. And what is it that makes
the men of mark or note, the cognate signs
of human algebra, but these same charaoter
istics; not always good, not always genial,
but always associated with something that
declares pre-eminence, and pronounces
their owner to be a representative man?'
When Lord Ward replied to Prince)
Schwartzenberg's flippant remark on the
bad French of English diplomatists by the
advantage of having our capital cities so
often occupied by trench troops as some of
our neighbors,' he uttered not merely a
smart epigram but great philosophical truth.
It was not alone that we bad not possessed
the opportunity to pick up an accent, but
that we had not subordinated our minds and
habits to French modes and ways of
thought, and that the tone and temper of
the French people bad not bean beaten in
to use by tbe roll of a French dram. Ons
may buy an accomplishment too dearly. Ib
is possible to pay too muon even tor a rar
islsn pronunciation. Not only have I nev
er found a linguist a man of eminenoe.but I
have never seen a linguist who talked well.
Fluent they are, of course. Like the
Stecknadel gun of the Prussians, they can
fire without cessation; but like the same
weapOHt they are comparatively aimless.
It is a feu roulant, with plenty of noise and -some
smoke, but very 'few casualties' an
nounced the success!
The greatest linguist of modern Europe,
Mezzofanti, was a most inferior man. Of
the countries whose dialect he spoke to per
feciion he knew nothing.- An old diction-
ary would have been to tbe full as com
panionable. I find it very bard not to be
personal just now, and give a list it would
be a long one of all the tiresome people t
know, who talk four, five, some of them six,
modern langnages perfectly. It Is only
with an effort I abstain from mentioning
the name of some well known men, who
are the charming people at Borne and Vi
enna every Winter, and each Summer are
the delight of Ems, of Berlin, aod of Ischl.
What tyrants tbe fellows are too, ever the
men who have not got their gift of tonguesf
Howjthey out-talk them and overbear them!
With what an insolent confidence they fall
back upon the pretty so period tp of their in
fluency, and lord it ever those who are im
measurably their masters I Just as Bloudia
might run along the rigging of a three
decker, and pretend that hia agility entitled
him to command a squadron.
A company of rebel cavalry made a dash
on tbe Sixth Illinois cava'rr videttes, near
Colliersville, Tenessee, on Thursday last.
A company of the Forty-sixth Iowa was
sent forward, who after a sharp shirmish,
drove back the enemy, who carried their
wounded with them, together with four
Iowans, severely woonded and several cap
tured cavalrymen Our loss, besides pris-
fnnr wonndad. The fahfll fottf
iwas ten wounded sod twotfeUladf
t