Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-07-27

lge- church, and met at the altar ladv o
laving come as quietly into another door, D
md then, after the marriage service, each
lave departed their separate way, with no a
observation, no speculation upon the en-. v
sagement, no congratulations before or v
after. Rogers, who seems resolved 10 9
win the crown Of celibiat martyrdom lis q
there crown for it7) pronounced mat.
rimony folly atl any period cflife, and
quoted a saying Of some wicked Bene. I
dict, that no matter whom you married, i
you would find aferward you had MARI.
ed another person. II
mo doubt; but, except with the ideali-
zing lover, ! believe the expectation is as
often surpassed as disappointed. There is
a generous opinion for a single woman of
your married fortunes!''
Joanna BGillie0t Home.-''I belieye,of
all my pleasures here, dear ]. will most
envy me that of seeing Joanna Baillie,and
Of seeing her repeatedly at her own home;
the best point ofview for all best women.
She lives on Hampstead Hid, few miles |
from town, in modest house, with Miss
Agnes Baillie, her only sister, a most |
kindly and agreeable person. Miss Bail
lie-I write this for j., for we women al
ways like 10 know how one another look |
and dress-Mlss Baltic has well-preser.
we'd appearance; her face has nothing of
the vexed or sorrowing expression that is
often so deeply stamped by long expert.
ence of life. 1t indicates strong mind,
great senSibiity, and the benevolence that,
| believe, always proceeds from it if the
mental constitution be sound one, as 1t
eniuently is in Miss Baille's case. She
has pleasing fgure-what we call lady
like-that is, delicate, erect, aud graceful;
not the large.boned, muscular frame OF
most English women. She wears her own
gray hair; general fashion, by-the.way,
here, which wish we elderly ladies' of
America may have the courage and the
taste to initiate; and she wears the pretti-
} est brown silk COWS and bonnets fitting
the beau ideal Of an old lady; an ideal she
I might inspire if it has no pre.existence.
. You would, of course, expect her to be, as
q she is, free from pedantry and all modes
, of affectation; but think you would be
$ surprised to find yourself forgetting, in
e domestic and conhding feeling, that yor
VI were talking with the woman whose name
e is best established among the female VIII
n tiers Of her country; in short, forgetting
n everything but that you were IN the socl
d ETY. ola most charming private gentlewo
et man. She might (would that all temal
m writer's couId!) take for her device
flower that closes itself against the moor
IN tide sun, and unfolds in the evening shac
e. dows. :,
Id ave launched with Miss Baillie. M
e. Tytler the historian and his sister we
II. present. Lord Woodhouselic, the Int
IS, mate frend of Scott. was them s6m S Rt5tit
in letters 10 her. to have been his favorI
h! friend; and the conversation among
a. MANY personally familiar with him nat
nv rally turned upon him, and many plea
ant anecdote was told, many thrlllil
the word quoted.
raj SIT was pleasant to hear these frien
of Of Scott and Mackenzie talk to them
the Familiarity as we speak Of W., b., and o
art, ar household friends. They all agre
late IN descr bling Mackenzie as iowa, nea
!, ] sort of person, without any IndlcaIlon
feet b:s manners and conversation OF the exc
lost .ite sentiment he infused into his wrltln
cen One of the party remembered his com
vim. home one day in great glee from co
tire, FIGHT, and his wife saying to hm' ).
r it Harry, Harry, you put all your ieeil
It IS on paper!
or 81 was glad to hear Miss Bailhe,
pic. : an intimate friend Of Lady Byron,sp
Pted other with tender reverence ana Oh
PIC; coniugal infelicity as not at ali the rt
ues,) If anV quality or deficiency on her
.lgin hut inevitable. Strange this IS not
, and ,,n;versal impression, after Byron's
here Jo.Israt;on to Moore that there never
rare better or even brighter, kinder
nina u, OTs smiable and agreeable being
lngs' Lady Byron c.,
kecu- CarzvIe, Hallau, and Sidney SnI =
iaken ~ NAV saw that we have scaled inc =
'rlous of evening entertainments here'golng
KS 10 civ o'clock family tea up. to a M
graph, 60 s,~ Concert at l. house; and
al II. -" :, his home-like hour was at Carr
lezzef He IS living in the suburbs OF LonoOn
- the Thames; my impression IS III
in all an humble way; but when your eye
iment' al with a grand and beautiful temps
trans A. ~, , take the dimensions OF surrou
Is tne objects; and if any man can % T =
in M dent Of them, you might expect =
h were he his head would throw p
Pope ioo;st into ecstacies. 1t looks In
anklin, &C.,. .sss1s ~ thought it is; and his eyes
Scott ~ nsss,ernaturaI brilliancy. lie rsu
Among .,,p &c, of what Lockhart SAID to me- sP
just be- o ,,I1 Size Of Webster's heau, u
nifty Of had brains enough to fill han
% come h ,.@s CARLYLE has as strong q
A cata. ..~s1. as MI. Combe. His man
1t g lam s s;nnIe natural, and kindly. Hls sS
e pleas Sa; has the picturesqueness q
3abbage s ,;ngs aud flows as naturally, ana
ng US as srS Germanism. as his own ~
lachlne. streams are fres from any lnlusl 81,
at looks s s,sn soil. He gave. US an mt
II any nc ,1.r Of his first acqualn1lasI:'
%. de E-n. He was living wltn ~
building most secluded part Of Scotland.
ian any had no neighbors, no commu na.Sa,-
xpresseo he world, excepting once . WEE :,
super ~ when he went some mlles !
ion thai of;ce ii the hope Of letter q - J,
trust r. intimation that the wOflo ~" ~ Z
ew years q One dav stranger came % >.
nerlca - young American71r,1an.u, s,o - Q
r. them an angel inoy sf6 rst