The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1841-08-21
GERMAN AND GERMANS.
From Miss Sedgwick's new work.

cold and rcpclling. The politeness oil the
French is conventional. 1t seems in part
the result of their sense of personal grace,
and in part of selfish calculation of max
ing tie most Of what costs nothing; and
partly, no doubt, it is the spontaneous eff
feet OF vivacious nature. There is a
deep seated humanity in the courtesy of
the Germans. They always seem to be
feeling gentle pressure from the cord
that interlaces them with their species.-
They do not wait, as Schiller says, till
you freely invite to friendly stretch you
a hand, but the hand is instinctively
stretched out and the kind deed ready to
follow it. This suavity is not limited to
any rank or condition. 1t extends all the
way down from the prince to the poorest
peasant. Some of our party driving out
in a hackney coach yesterday, met some
German ladies IN a coach with four hor-
ses, Positions, footmen IN livery, and
other marks of rank and wealth. What
would Americans have done in similar
position? Probably looked away and
seemed unconscious. And English ladies
would have done the same, or as have
seen them in Hyde Park, have leaned
back in their carriages, and stared with an
air of Indifference and insolence, through
their eyeglasses, as if their interiors in
condition could bear to be stared at. The
German ladies bowed most courteousIy
to the humble strangers i'll the hackney
coach.
HE SUBORDINATE CLASSES IN GER
MANY.-The landlord often sits at the
table with his guests, and with his own
country people, converses on terms of
apparent equality. The same self-respect
blends with the civility of the shop-keep-
cr. He is very happy to serve and suit
you, but fine cannot, he is ready to direct
you elsewhere. Shopmen have repeated
~, unasked, sent person to guide us
through the intricate Continental streets
to another shop. The domestics are
prompt, faithful, and cheerful in their SER
vices. There is freedom, but no presump-
ton in their manners, and nothing of that
unhappy uncertainty as to their exact po-
sition, so uncomfortable in our people
In all these subordinate classes you see
nothing of the cringing servility that
marks them in England, and to which
they are exposed by their direct Deepen
dence on their employers.
FEMALE INDUSTRY.-Mrs. Oliver
Cox, of Henry County, Ga, recently, says
the Boston Post, made five beautiful silk
shawls, made OF doubled and twisted sew
ing silk, which, in texture, weight and CO.
Tor, will compare with any Indian shawls
of the same material-four of them were
yard square, and the other black, about
a yard and half square. Mrs. c. raised
the worms, reeled and twisted the silk,
and knotted the shawls.
-eCee
INDICTMENT OF JUSTICE WILEY.-It
is stated in the New York Express that
the Grand Jury of the city of New York
have found bill of indictment against
Justice Wiley for receiving the money
stolen from the Frederick County Bank,
and he was held to bail in the sum Of
S30,000-himself in $4,000, and two
securities in $4,000 each.
mcgee
A True SAvING.-Happy would it Of
ten be for us if real life-which certainly
passes away like tale that is told-did
permit, as in the telling of tale, to go
back IN point of time, and bring up all the
scattering incidents, in whatsoever man.
ner we like, to bear upon and to effect the
grand events of the whole. How many
an omission would then be remedied?
How many vain thought would be swept
away! How many deed-small in it.
self, carelessly done, but terrible in its
consequences-would be cancelled and
blotted out for ever! There is none, how
ever, but that great Being who writes with
the. pen of Fate the history of man, who
can efface one word, and his eternal JUS
tice requires that each forgiven offence
shall be 5lotted out, even by the hand of
Mercy, with the tears of Penitence and
the blood of Alonement.
--eee~-
An INTERESTING CoNFAB.-We once
saw country boy standing opposite his
fathers barn, very particularly engaged in
trying to insult the echo of his own voice,
as follows:
Boy. Halo, old snizer! what dye think
of the weather.
Echo. The weather.
Boy. Yes, the weather-is it going to
rain2
Echo. Going to rain.
Boy. thought so. How's your ma?
Echo. Your MAJ
Boy. No, not my ma, but your ma?
Echo. Your MAJ
Boy. l guess you're deaf: sha'n't
speak louder2
Echo. Speak louder.
Boy. Well, then: a hog is hog, and
so are you!
Echo. So are you!
Row Co an, I