The Columbian fountain., 1846-11-11
MORE OF MRS. MYERS.


contains so touching and so just, that we VIII
not detain our readers from a perusal OF them Dy
any remarks of our own. We are sure mat they
will meet with the response Of every man and wo-
man in the community who are governed by
sense Of proper responsibility.
To THE EpIToRs OF THE DAILY FOUNTAIN.
~ have read with feelings of deep commisera-
tion and sympathy the letter of Mrs. Myers, and
feel that no one Of my own sex can read the
lines penned by the stricken one without deep
conviction, that the writer, tho thoughtless and
imprudent in the extreme, was free even in thot
as well as person, of actual guilt Sincerity
breathes in every line, and the candid exposition
of her errors must carry confinement to every
unpreJudiced and right-minded female, that she
speaks the truth, the whole truth. 1t is too much
the habit of our sex to condemn with the most UNI
sparing acrimony the errors of female. Charity,
that heavenly virtue, seems to be erased from the
female heart in case like this, and the most Bit
ter epithets the most cruel and harsh language are
bestowed thus decorating the heart already
stricken with shame for its errors and crushing
the already bowed head to the very dust. Is this
Christian? Did our blessed Saviour, when the
poor degraded woman falls PROSTATE with shame
at his feet expecting to be condemned, did he be-
stow harsh words, unkind epithets' No-with
angel meekness he bid her rise and sin no more
During his ministry on earth he never ceased to
teach us charity, charity. Condemn not-judge
not-are words ever flowing from his blessed lips.
Mark the difference. The man---shame for my
sex say it!--who leaves his wife, tender, de-
voted woman, to spend his days and nights in wick
edness, wronging her affection, uufaithful to his
VOWS, bestowing his time and his attentions upon
another, forgetting the one wholeft her grlhood's
happy home for his love and the blissful prospect
of his society-mark, say, the dference-this
man is received in our houses, caressed and flat
tered by both mothers and daughters. His poor
wife, who sits at home waiting and watching to
hear his footsteps is perhaps spoken Of by these
persons as ungrateful, dissatisfied creature, be-
cause she cannot be happy with fine equipage,
fine furniture, &c., which he purchased in reality
to crafty his own vanity; as. if glare and glitter
could compensate for neglect and the crushed feel
ings of too devoted heart. Rather let condem-
nation fall upon the faithess man than upon such
poor stricken being, whose errors without guilt
are so candidly confessed.
Then rise, ye mothers and daughters of Rich
mond-seek the house of the heart-broken one,
charity over her errors, and bid her, as your Sa-
viour did, to go and sin no more"
Correspondence Of the Daily Fountain.
Alexandria Nov. 10th 1916.
A public meeting was held in the market square
yesterday afternoon at which all the resolutions of
former meeting authorizing the election of three
Commissioners to represent the county before the
Legislature, were rescinded and the Commissioners
were directed to hold an election for one only
Whether the mandates Of this last meeting will be
obeyed do not know. The election comes off to-
morrow.
A gentleman some days since mistaking the bank
&c, with which one of our docks was filled during
e ffeshet for land, (no dry land of course for of
the Potomac, and was with some difficulty rescued
by the bystanders.
The Mount Vernon Guards Capt Snyder paraded
yesterday afternoon and made fine show. They
were accompanied by Plants Independent Brass
Band, which performed with much credit
What about "that co,o' which came to see gen
tleman in this place. One Of the name mentioned
says he has never had such COW on visit to him.
aud requests to say to the advertiser that if he
is meant, he would be obliged to him not to insert
such stuff in future he not aware that he pos
sessed COW. The advertisement our friend takes
in high dudgeon and altogether Alexandra has had
some fun out Of the sfsir. L.
SsAss. The ST. I>oup papers Of the I'd instant
record the disasters OF steam boats on the Misss-
sippi from snags. Congress ought by special enact
ment, to devote millions If needs be to the clearing
out of this river and the Ohio.
! For the Smithsonian Institute. An exchange
paper advertises that it intends to send to the Smith
sonian Institute very shortly the following extraor-
dinary curiosities
Pennsylvania and New York exhibiting their DEM
ocractic majorities.
A piece of Mr.. Clay's last canvass for the Presi-
dency.
The only part of Grards villa very small relic
by the way-which has not been violated by the
Of ph;loJolnhia