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Ah ! you may blush, Lady Anne, Cast your eyelids bashfully down ! Do you think it matters to me any more I Whether you smile or frown ? Knowing that whirh I know, Can you wonder if I doubt The inference to be drawn from a smile, That is nest of a kin to a pout ? s- Pshaw !Am I yet a boy, To be caught by a pretty face ? To see the "threads of gold" in a flaxen ouri, Take a "Missy" girl for a Grace? I am disenchanted now; Tou may drop the ma3k if you will: Or, stay—there arc other fools in the world To be caught, if you wear it still! Men were made for sport, Else what use to bo fair? 'Tis only flats who can fall in lore ; Take care, my lady, take care ! Your heart may be at home, When "the right man knocks at the gate ; You mav get paid back in your specious coin— 'Tis one of the tricks of Fate. That a girl who can "think it/un" With a score to play loose and fast Sets the net too often in sight of the bird, And gets trapped herself at last! n. rartTS os BOTH sines, You call mo "a hcarlless jilt "A pitiless, vain coquette !" But there is another and truer way Of looking at it yet! Say that I trifled a while! Do you, in your vain conceit, Think every girl who je-is with a man Is to throw herself at his feet ? Well we were both in fault— I, that I drew you on, For the foolish whim of an idle hour, To mock, and to sinile upon; You. that your folly mistook A "will-o"- the wisp" for a star ; See, if a woman but lifts her eyes. How vain ail these young luen are ! What! would you have tne say The little words "1 love V Would you have me utter a Yea for Nay, Then throw you off like a glove ? Better to break at once The chain that your folly male, Than to linger on, in sight of the sun — Then find yourself in the shade. Let us part with our foolish dream, Sinee we lovers cannot be; Go your way as a true man should, And never look bark on ine ! THE SMALL BECOMING GREAT, A traveler through a dusty road Strewed acorns on the lea, And one took root and sprouted up, And grew into a tree : Love sought its shades at evening time, To breathe its earlier vows, And age was pleased, ;n heats of noon, To bask oaueath its boughs ; The dootraouse loTod its dangling twigs, The birds sweet music bore ; It stood a glory in its place, A blessing evermore. A little spring had lost it 3 way Among the grata and fern A passing stranger scooped a well, Where weary men might turn. He walled it in, and hung with care A ladle nt the brink— He thought not of the deed he did, But judged that toil might drink. He passed again—and lo! the weil, By summers never dried, Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues, And saved a life beside ! A dreamer dropped a random thought; 'Twas old, and yet 'two* new— A simple fancy of the brain, But strong in being true. It shone upon a genial mind, And lo! its light became A lamp of life, a beacon ray, A monitory flame. The thought was small—its issues great. A watch-fire on the hill, It sheds its radiance lar adown, And cheers the valley still. A nameless man amid a crowd That thronged the daily mart, Let fall the word of hope and love, Unstudied from the heart. A whisper on the tumult thrown — A transitory breath— It raised a brother from the dust, It saved a sou! from death. 0 germ! 0 fount! 0 word of love! 0 thought at random cast! Y'e were but little at the first, But mighty at the lest! [/Vom the Xete York Independent, September L] A TALK WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN. BY REV. JOHN P. GULLIVER. At a time when thousand." of honest, earnest men are in painful doubt concerning the fiiness of our President to resume his office for a iother term, every incident which can throw light on his character lias a peculiar interest for the public.— It has beeu well said, that we never know a man throughly till we see him at his ease. Certain it is that there are moments when we seem able to see into a man and through him. I thought I once had such an opportunity with Mr. Linclon. It was just after his controversy with Douglass, and seme moths before the meeting of the Chica go Convention of 1860, that Mr. Lincoln came te Norwich to make a political speech. It was in substance the famous speech delivered in New York, commencing with the noble words, There is but one political question before the people oi this country, which is this, h slavery right, oris n wrong and ending with the yet nobler words, "'Gentlemen, it has been said of the world s histo ry, hitherto, that 'might makes right;' it is for ui and for our times to reverse the maxim, and u show that right makes might /" The next morning T met him at the railroad sta tion, where he was conversing with our mayor every- few minutes looking up the track, and in auiritn half impatiently and halt quizzically •• Where's that wagon of yours .' Why don t th< BEDFORD. Pa., FRIDAY, [SEPTEMBER 9, 1804. wagon come along?" On being introduced to j him, he fixed his eye upon me, and said "I hare J seen you before, sir?" "'I think not," I replied ; | "you must mistake me for some other person?' "No I don't; I saw you at the Town Hall, last evening." "Is it possible Mr. Lincoln, that you j could observe individuals so closely in such a crowd?" "Oh, yes!" he replied, laughing, "That is my way. I don't forget faces. Were you not there?" "I was sir, sir; and I was well paid for going," adding somewhat in the vein of pleasantry he had started "Iconsider itone of the most extraordinary speeches I ever heard. As we entered the cars, he beckoned me to take a seat with him, and said, in a most agreeably frank way. "Were you sincere in what you said about my speech' just now?" "I meant every i word of it. Mr. Lincoln. Why, an old dved-in j the-wool Democrat, who sat near me. applauded | you repeadedly ; and. when rallied upon his oou i verson to sound principles, answered. 'I don t hc- I lie ye a word he sftyS, but I can t help clapping ! him. h- is o pat.' That I call the triumph of j oratory. J 'Wlu-n you convince a ;uan against hi* will. Though ue is of the same opinion .still' Indeed, sir, I learned more or the art of pub : lie speaking last evening than I could from a j whole course ofieture> on Khetoric." j "Ah! that reminds m-. said he. "of a most I extraordinary circumstance which occurred in New ! Ilaven. the other day. Tin y told ne that the 1 professor of rhetoric in V ale College—a very learn jed man, isn't tie? —"Yes, sir, and a fine critic, i too." "Well, I suppose -o: he ought to heat j any rate —they t lid me that he came to hear me I and took nofies of my speech, and gave a lecture | on it to his class the next day; and, not satisfied with that, he followed me up to Merideu the next evening, and heard me again forthe same purpose. Now. if this is so, it is to my mind very extraor dinary. I have been sufficiently astonished at tnv success in the West. Lt has been most unexpect ed But I had no thought of any marked sue cess in the Bast, and least oi ad that I should draw out such commendations from literary and learned men. Now," he continued, "I should like very much to know what it was in my speech which you thought so remarkable, and what yon snp- I poee interested my friend, tie professor, so much, j "The clearness of the statements, Mr. Lincoln; i the unanswerable style of your reasoning, and : espc dally your illustrations, which were romance and pathos and fun and logic all welded together. That story about thd snakes, for example, which set the hands and feet of you Democratic hear ers in such vigorous motion, w at once queer and comical and tragic and i gumentative. It broke through all the barriers of a man's previ ous opinions and prejudices, at. a crash, and blew up the very citadel of his false theories, before ho could know what had hurt him. "Can you remeinber any other Illustrations." said he, "of this peculiarity of my style ?" I gave him others of the same sort, occupying some half hour in the critique, when be saifh "l am much obliged to you for this. I have been wishing for a long time to find some one who would make this analvsis for me. It throws light on a subject which has been dark to me. 1 can understand very readily, how such a power a< you have ascrib ed to uie will account for the effect which seems to be produced by my speeches. I hope you have not been too flattering in your estimate. Certain ly, I have had a wonderful success, for a man ot my limited education. "That suggests, Mr. Lincoln, an inquiry which lias several times been upon my Hps, during this | conversation. I want very much to know how I you got this unusual power ot 'putting things, i it must have been a matter of education. No man has it by nature alone. What has your education been?" "Well, as to education, the newspapers are eor rcefc—l never went to school more than six month-, in my life. But, as you say, this must be a pro | duct of culture in some form. I have been putting thc q -tion ron ask me, to layse!'", white you l.gyet • i talking. I can say this. shut. among my eariie-.-l recollections 1 remember how. when a ; mere child. I used to get incited wl.-n anybody talked to me in away I could n understand, i don't think I over cot angry at anything else in my lite. But that always disturbed my temper, . mid ha- ever since. I -m rem-mfier going to tnv little bedroom, at',' ' Heightens I talk of an evening wi h u ' • hor ad spending 110 small part of the night winking up aud down. I and trying to make out what was the exact mean : iag of sonic of their, to m,-. dark sayings. I could ! not sleep, though I often tried t . when . got on ' such a hunt after sui idea, until 1 had caught it, and when I thought 1 had got it. I was not satis ! fied until I had repeated it over and over, until 1 had put it in language plain enough, a> 1 thought, for any boy I knew to comprehend. This was a kind of passion with me. aud has stuck by me. fo; lam never easy now. when lain handling a though! till 1 have hounded it north and bounded it sntftl and hounded it east and bounded it west. Per haps that accounts for the characteristic you ob serve in my speeches, though I never put the tw, things together before. "Mr. Lincoln, I thank you for this. It is tte most splendid educational fact I ever happenec upon. This is genixi *, with all its impulsive, in spiring, dominating power over the mind of it possessor, developed by education into talent, witl its uniformity, its permanence, and its discipline* strenth, always ready, always available, never cap ricioue—the "highest possession of thf human in t tellect. But let me ask. did you not have a lav education ? How did you prepare for your pro tCS " Oh, yes! I 'read law,' as the phrase is; tha is, I became a lawyer's clerk in Springfield, an. copied tedious documents, and picked up what could of law iu the intervals of other work. Bu your question reminds me of a bit of education had. which I am bound in honesty to mention.- In the course of my law-reading 1 constantly cam upon the word demonstrate. I thought at first that T understood its meaning, but soon ten-am satisfied that L did not. I said to myself, Wha do I do when I demonstrate more than when I rta son or prose ? How does demonstration differ froi any other proof ? I consulted Webster's Diction arv. Th"* told of'certain proof,' 'proof te-yon •IJ'.. , ~-Mo,;•!>• of doubtbut f could form no ide „ a ; •: Oi proof that was. 1 though? a gres. uianv things were proved beyond a possibility t doubt- without teco eto any extraordinary prt cess of leaseling as I understood 'demonstration' ; to be. I consulted all the dictionaries and books of reference I <j)nld find, but with no better results, i You might ai well have defined blue to a blind man. At last i . 'Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if youdo not understand what demondrate means,' and I left my situation in Springfield, went home ti my father's house and staid there till I could gve any proposition in the six books of Euclid at ight. I then found out what 'dem onstrate' i i®ns. and went back to my law stud ies." ■ | I could 14 refrain from saying, in my admira tion at sue! 4 development of character and genius combined, ""Mr. Lincoln, your success is no longer a marvel, tis the legitimate result of adiquate causes. deserve it all, and a great deal more. If you will pf mit me, I would like to use this I fact publicly It will be most valuable in inciting our young alt to that patient classical and mathe matical euletc. which most minds absolutely re quire. Nq |at> can talk well unless he is able first j of all to defin to himself what he is talking about, j Euclid, we! tudicd, would free the world of half itsenhmitit; by banishing half the nonsense ' which now tfudes and curses it. I have often thought t'n Euclid would Ixs one of the best books to pat on t>. Catalogue of the Tract Society, if they eould njy get the people to read it. It j would be a leans of grace. " "I thins a." said he laughing: "I vote for Euclid. | Jut the a gentleman entered the car who was well knows is* very ardent friend of Douglas.— Being a lit \ curious to see how Mr. Lincoln would \ meet him. introduced him after this fashion : | "Mr. I.inc4. allow me to introduce Mr. L——. a very particir friend of your particular friend Mr. ! Douglas." He at once took his hand in a most, cordial matte'. saying. "I have no doubt you think you # right, sir." This hearty tribute to ! ! the honestyfa political opponent, with the man- | ner of doing. struck me as a be itiful exibition of a large-fitted charity, ofwbiih we see far too little in thwekiting. fermenting world. A- wo nog 1 the end of our journey, Mr. Lin coln tu ru' b me very pleasantly, and said. "I i want to that you for this conversation. 1 have enjoyed it rv nrach.'' I replied, referring to sonic st&iwe denunciation s he had just been ut tering of thleinoraliziiig influences of Washing- ' ton upon >sthern politicians in respect to the j slavery queen. "Mr. Lincoln may I say one thing to yon letii we separate? "Certainly, any thing >>n iwe."" "You have just spoken of the tendenejf political life in Washington to de base the nuil convictions of our representatives there by tMraixtare of considerations of mere political exjßoncy. You have become, by the • controvarsylh Mr. Douglas, one of our leaders in this grCalruggle with slavery, which is un- . douhtediy tltruggle of the nation and the age.- Whnt I wotlikc to say i> this, and I say it witti a full heart fir true to your /irmciples and we trill I* true 4>i, and God will he true to u*all\" His homely* lighted up instantly with a beam ing ex pre* and. taking my hand warmly in both of hiisßaid, "I say Amen to that —AMK.N to that!" ® There g #p excavation m the rock shown to vi.sitoif.Shng the White Mountains, into which out purest of the mountains streams pours as "The Pool." As you srand by it4e at an ordinary time, you look dow* ttpMniw a of. impenetrable green, lying! like'a rich etald in a setting of granite. uj>on i the bosom lie mountain. But. oceasinnlly the j noon-day k darts through it a vertical ray. | which j>ene|es to its very bottom, and shows j every configtion of the varied interior. I felt at that moid that a ray had darted down to the bottom Abraham Lincoln's heart, and that I eould seetkhole. It seemed to nie as beau tiful as that frald pool, and as pure. I have never forgot that glimpse. When that strange revocation r4of the most rational and reasnn.i proelamatitnfPreniont—"The slaves of rebels 1 shall be sot je" —I remembered that hearty "Amen." innfied my rising apprehensions. T reuienLe it in those dark days when Mc- Olellan. Nii-ifs. was fiddling on James river, and Pope rating routed before Washington, and the re pijiinc that a prominent cabinet minister hi I Ited that he had succeeded in pie venting th is lof the Emancipation Proclama tion. 1 sal. Abraham Lincoln will prove true j yet." An hkt, God bless him ! He has.—- Slow, if yu je, but true. Unimpassioned, if yon picas I tme. Jocose, trifling, if you please, bu tru\ Reluctant to part with unwor thy, officiaadfrs, but true himself-trw* ow steel! I could wil h|ess a man of facta, and more an man of id s. kould wi h him more stern and more vigo us.Every man has his faults. But still. I si An to Abraham Lincoln ! My countrym caf do bet: -r, an! all of us. than to ay An to triharn L>'/*cotn> til! the Lakes shall'echo to | Gulf, and the eastern to the western s- ? Nojtwij, Ci|,\ [From the JT. A"i", Ttietd'ty /lay. 3#.] jCLSiLAN NOMINATED. Akhoifthe Aemnnial of nomination has not yet been fiuujf'd, the proceedings at Chicago leave no fei fodoubt that George B. McClellan will to-d* forially presented to the people as the "Dotetic-candidate for President of the United ti—a the candidate of that "Democ racy" wHonJt* iu the denial of the funda mental plitiof of our fathers' immortal Dec laration (icpmdenee —of that "Democracy which milis ifiat the weak, ignorant and sim ple are, it tf their weakness, the rightful as well as i4prey of the cunning and the strong —of thathocracy" whereof Jefferson Davis has ever Ho been, and in principle still is, a chief apoilri whereof Bishop Hopkins fitly officiates illogical and moral expositor. In a siniect, this nomination is gratifying. Hostility ~>wVar tor the Union, as at once un warrantoUiLdlcss, is the cardinal impulse of a deeidudtiL of those who are expected to vote this jab Democratic ticket. That the Union hajrio "coerce a State, however much thj | may endeavor to coerce the Union, hi bjbe first article of their creed ev er since evident that such coercion of States mijit! the downfall of Human Sla very*. their chosen standard-bearer fully on runl volunteer agent in that coer cion whiei vlcnouncc as unconstitutional, and which to be condemned by those fa mous KcnlcH Virginia Resolves of 1798 j '9, whicßttot to hold in at least equal reverence \i{ Ten Commandments. And McClellan Mily been a volunteer agent of "Federal ecin he is distinctly ou record as recouiuiendiUal conscription in aid of its prosecution, fhaving ordered the arrest of the Marvlandjitu re to preclude their at tempting or rt t • take their Stat ft out of the Union. Arnest and honest believer in I "State Soverfl the support of McClellan for President j a bitter do>e, only to le • i swallowed umlrable compulsion. 7 4 he however ; for, though j j McClellan has not evinoid a consist ent and logical j adhesion to the Democratic dogma of "State j Rights," he has never faltered in his devotion to i the Slave Rower ; and that is the real touchstone j of Democratic orthodox:?. True, he volunteered for the War ; but he did so to save Slare/y from I the effects of its owu suicidal madness, not to pun- j ish it for its treason. True, he commanded for a j • time the Union Grand Army ; but no Rebel s'.we- j j holder ever justly complained that his chattel was invited by this General to exchange the service of I treason for that of his country ; and no outnum- i bered Rebel force ever justly complained that its ' retreat was hurried or seriously annoyed by McClel i lan or any one under his command. True, he made war on the Rebels ; but he made it so gently, I so considerately, so languidly, that they habitual ly praised his generalship while it lasted, and re gretted it when it was no more. There were thou sands of Rebels and Rebel sympathizers then among us, every one of whom was loud in his praises; and ninety-uiue hundredths of whom ; will vote —wherever they can vote at all—to make ; him President. He will get a good many votes in j this city and vicinity ; but most of them will be cast by men who chuckled over all his defeats, and ! would now much rather vote directly for Lee or even Jeff. Davis than for him. They wiii vote for McClellan. because that is the nearest practical ] approach to voting that the Rebellion is right and that the opposition to it ought to be put down ; | but they would much rather go straight to their mark. Ilypocracy, says the apothegm, is the homage that Vice pays to Virtue ; and the fact ! that the anti-War party is obliged to nominate | for President a candidate who has a War varnish 1 upon him, hoping thereby to catch a portion of ; the Soldiers' vote, is a forcible tribute to the loy | ahy and pattioric intuitions of the American Peo ple. He is not Union General enough to hurt him with the Rebels, who will help him ail they can in the canvass, even though it be necessary for that purpose to make a show of denouncing and decry | ing him ; but he is general enough to catch a num ber of votes from soldiers who served under hiiu i and liked his easy campaigning and courtier-like j ways, and who would abhor the idea of voting I for Vallandigham or Fernando Wood. The more I intense aDd more pronounced Copperheads can | fall back to him, while the rearguard'could not be j pricked on to the position of T. 11. Seymour or ! Alexander Long : so the nomination is, in the ob ! vious sense, a wise one, and will poll the fall party j vote. And it will, after a little private whisper ing and nodding, be not merely acquiesced in but i heartily approved, even by Valiandigham himself; ; for, the Slave Power has never had more docile tool. He was selected by it to lead one of the brigades of the army of iillibusters wherewith Gen. Quit man was on the point of invading Cuba expecting to revolutionize it in the interest 01 American Slavery, and he accepted the position He was the lirst of our Generals to issue a mani festo threatening to crush any insurrection o! slaves against their Rebel masters. The Rebel journals have charged, and we have seen no denial on his part, that he offered his sword to the Con federacy before he did to the Union. lie never even pretended to do anything against the Rebels after the President issued his premonitory Proc lamation of Freedom, though his army was twite as strong as theirs which confronted it and which had just been driven out of Maryland, and though he bad a shorter and easier road to thtir base than they had. We have heard that he claimed credit for this in a Grand Convention of one of tin Copperhead secret orders. In short, he is as de voted to the propping up and perpetuation of ihe tottering fabric of Human Bondage as Jeff. Davi himself. and a "Peace" Copperehead who affect; hesitation or coyness as to his support, ought forthwith to be kicked out of the party and order ed to stay out. Yet there is one aspect of his nomination which is saddening. Believe ihg that the Democratic party has a very considerable chance of success this fall, in case the Rebel friends shall have good luck henceforth to the election, we could wish that they had presented a strong, positive, original, capable man as their candidate for the highest po sition on this continent, if not on the globe. All reflecting rucn must realize that our high trusts, and especially this one, have not been so able fii ! led of late as they were in the early uays of the Republic. Washington—John Adams —Thorna- Jenerson —James Madison : compare these with Polk —Fillmore—Pierce Buchanan —the falling oil is deplorably manifest, though Mr. Buchanan is a politician of respectable, and Mr. Filmora one of more than average abilities. Now we do not regard Mr. Lincoluas a great man; yet no candid observer who knows both will pretend that Geo. McClellan is his equal in ability, though Lincoln ha t scarcely any schooling in his youth, while Mc Clelian received a liberal education at the public expense. Timid, hesitating, negative, he is a plaything in the hands of some of the worst and most dangerous men in the Republic, who hope to achieve power through his assumed popularity with the ignorant and thoughtless and then to lav the country at the feet of Jeff. Davis, beggin, him to indicate the constitutional and other chan ges that will reconcile him to the task of govern ing the whole Union instead of a part of it, and thus to place the heel of Slave Power on the neck of prostrate Freedom and the inalienable Right - of Man. j They must be baffled and beaten, or the New ; World is surrendered to the odious spirit of Caste j —to the iron rule of those who believe hard hands ; a badge of servitude, and at once dread and deir. j the education of the Children of the Poor. Uu- I ionists of every State 1 we adjure you to shake oil your apathy and rally for the imperiled liberty and life of the Nation ! THE BEGINNING OP THE WAR. —To show how utterly false is the assertion that the Administra i tion is responsible for the war , we quote a brief ' extract from the "Southern History of the War," by Edward A. Pollard, one of the Editors of the j Richmond Examiner. Mr. Pollard sums up the doings of the confederates before the inaugura tion of Mr. Lincoln, as follows : "On the incoming of the administration of Abraham Lincoln, on the 4th of March, the rival Government of the South had perfected its organ ization ; the separation had been widened and envenomed by the ambidexterity and perfidy of President Buchanan. The Southern people, how ever, still ho{>ed for the peaceful accomplishment of their independence, and deplored war between the two sections, as a policy detrimental to the civilized world.' The revolution, in the mean time, had rapidly gathered strength, not only in moral power, but in the means of war and muni ments of defense. Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinckney had been captured by the South Caro i lina troops; Fort Pulaski, the defense of Savan j nan, had been taken; the arsenal at Mount Yer ; non. Alabama, with twenty thousand stand of ; arms, had been seized by the Alabama troops; i Fort Morgan, in Mobile Bay, had been taken ; i Fort Jackson, St. Philip, and Pike, near New Orleans had been captnred by the liOnisiana troops ; the Little Rock arsenal had been seized j by the Arkansas troops, though Arkansas had re- i i fused to secede ; and on the 16th February Gen. | Twiggs had transferred the public property iu | Texas to the State authoritie .' j Vol. 37: N0.37. ""■■■■"!!.! B!H-L..-11 1 H. . ML! 1 .!. JIL J BLACKWOOD FOR JULY. Blackvxxxl* Magazine for July presents the following table of contents ; Cornelius O'Dowd upon Men and Women, and other Things in Gfes eral—Part V. ; The Education and Training of Naval Officers ; Letters from t} r Principalities ; Tony Butler ; The Napoleonic Idea in Mexico; The London Art Season ; Padre Bandelli Proses to the Duke Ludovieo Sforsa about Leonardo da \ inci; Leonardo da Vinci Poetises to the Duke in his own Defence ; Chronicles of Carlingfbrd. The Perpetual Curate—Part XIIL LINQVISIfI THIRD RATK MSN. OORNEELCS O'DOWD, in his gossoping dis course upon men and women, tells us that: 1 never met a linguist that was above a third-rate man; and I go farther, and aver that I never chanced upon a really able man who had talent for languages. I am well aware that it sounds something little short of a heresy to make this declaration. It ia enough to make the blood of Civil Service Com missioners run iU>ld to hear it It sounds illiberal —and, worse, it seems illogical. Why should any intellectual development imply deficiency? Why should an aouirewent argue a defect ? I answer, I don't know—any nnvrc than I know why san guineous people are uot-teuipered, and leuco- • phlegmatic ones are more brooding in their wrath. If-—for I do not ask "to \to anything higher than empvrica!—if I find that parsimonious people have generally thin noses, ami that the snub i associated with the spendthrift', I never trouble myself with the demonstration", hut I hug the fact, and endeavor to apply it. In the same spirit, if I hear a irn in a saloon change from French to German, aird thence di verge into Italian and Spanish, with possibly a brief excursion into something Scandinavian, of •Skalv—at home in each and all—l wouhi no more think of associating him in my mind with any thing responsible iu station or commanding? ia in tellect. than I should think of connecting th* ser. vant that announced me with the last brilliant pa per in the "Quarterly." No man with a strongly-marked identity—aral no really able man ever existed without such—cau subordinate that identity so far as to put on the foreigner ; and without this he never can attain that mastery of a foreign language that makes the linguist. To be able to repeat conventionalities — bringing them in at the teliing moment, adjusting phrases to emergencies, as a joiner adapts the pieces of wood to his carpentry —may be, and is, a very neat aud a very dexterous performance, but it is scarcely the exercise to which a large capacity will address itself. Imitation must he, in one sense or other, the stronghold of the linguist imitation of expression, of style, of accent, of ca dence, of tone. The linguist must not merely master grammar, but he must manage gutturals. The mimicry must go farther ; in simulating ex pression it must affect the sentiment. You are not merely borrowing the clothes, but you are pre tending to put on thejeelings, the thoughts, the prejudices of the wearer. Sow what man with a strong nature can merge himself so entirely in his fictitious lteing as not to burst the seams and tear the lining of a garment that only impedes the free action of his limbs, and actually threatens the very extinction of his respiration ? WOMEN BETTER LING CIST THAN MEN. It is not merely by their greater adaptiveness that women are better linguists than men ; it is by their more delicate organization, their more sub dued identity, and their less obstreperous temper aments, which are consequently less egotistical, iess redolent of the one individual self. And what is it that makes the men of mark or note, the cognate signs of human algebra, but these same characteristics ; not always good, not always pleasant, not always genial, but always associated with something that declares pre-eminence, and pronounces their owner to be a '"representative man?" A MISTAKEN IDEA. It is a very common habit, particularly with newspaper writers, to ascribe skill in languages, and occasionally in games, to distinguished people. It was hut the other day we were told that Gari baldi spoke ten languages fluently. Now Garibal li is not really master of two. He speaks French tolerably ; and his native language is not Italian, but a patois-Genoese. Oavourwas called a lin guist with almost as little truth ; but people re peat the story, just as they repeat that Napoleon 1. was a great chess-player. If his statecraft and his strategy had lieen on a par with his chess, wo should never have heard of Tilsit, or Wagram. Lord C&stlebeagh, the Duke of Wellington and : leorge Canning, each of whom administered our .'treign policy with no email share of success, were not linguists ; and as to Charles Fox. he has ft a French sentence on record that will last even as long a his own are at name. Ido not want to decry the study of language ; 7. simply declare to affirm that linguists—and through all I have said I mean co'loqun] linguists—are for the most part poor creatures, not otherwise distinguished than by the gift of tongues ; and I want to protect against the undue pre-eminence accorded to the possessors of a small accomplishment, and the readiness with which the world, especially tho world of society, awards homage to an acquire ment in which a boarding-school miss can surpass Lord Brougham. I mean to say a word or two about those who have a skill in games ; but as they are of a higher order of intelligence, I'll wait till I have got ' 'fresh wind" ere I treat of them. WHY VALLANDIGHAM WAS NOT ARRESTED.— The Hon. Schuyler Colfax, late Speaker of the House of Representatives, made the following statement a few days ago, in a speech at Peru, Indiana: \. "When Mr. Vallandigham returned it was vory natural that the firsf place be went to should be a Democratic Convention; He thought Mr. Lin coln would arrest him. Mr. Lincoln knew the fact that at that time there Was a secrect organi zation in the Northwest, the details of which he may not have been familiar with; hut he knew the intention was to make Vallandigham's arrest a pretextfor lighting the torch of civil war all over tho Northwest. Anxious to preserve the peace ae your own homos, Mr. Lincoln passed oyer tho re turn of Vallandigham," ! W3uThe Grccnoaade Pilot aud Meroorsburg Journal, have both expired from tho same dis : ease that is now affecting all tho pajiers over tho high price of paper.
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