Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-08

deatn VIII give 1t new strength.
When the hangman put the rope around his
neck, he was going to cut off the long beard of
the brave soldier.
''Respect my beard" said he to him, sit is
the only ornament of my person in which ever
lndulged."-Ilis last words were: "Adieu, my
Standardization, my poor wife,
q, The reason why General Wecsey had been re-
served to close this awful drama, is not known.
The Austrians considered Damianics much more
guilty than Wecsey because the former bad con-
tributed more to their defeats. 1t must be sup
posed that, i'll their opinion, all Hungary would
be struck with terror at the ignominous death of
so illustrious man. But whoever knows how
Hungarians cherish their historical glory, will
easily conceive that, far from attaining these
ends, it has created the highest degree of indigna-
ton and hatred in the minds Of all, even in those
who, until then, had been lukewarm for the cause
of liberty.
Wecsey died with forttude like all his COM
rades.
The execution commenced at o'clock, at 10a
it was finished.
Ertract from Horace Smiths "Gaieties and Gfa-
UttieS."
| do not merely admire women as the most
beautiful objects of creation, or love them as
the sole sources of happiness, but | reverence
them as the redeeming glories of humanity, the
sanctuaries of the virtues, the pledges and ante
heart, combined with attractive external charms,
which, by their union, almost exalt the human
into the angelic character Taxation, and luxury,
and struggles for existence, have made US such a
bold, selfish, Flooding nation, that we should be
base indeed, were it not for tie disinterestedness
and enthusiasm of our females, whose romance is
necessary to qualify the painful reality of our ex-
istence. And yet, from the first moment when 1
began TO reflect, | have always thanked God that
l was not born woman, deeming them the bes-
towers rather than enjoyers of happiness-the
fower-crowned victims offered up to the human
lords of the Creation.
Passing over the early period of her life, which,
however, is one of perpetual restraint and unva-
ried subsection to the most self-denying forms
and observances, we will suppose female to
have attained fitting age for that great and par
amount end of her being-marriage. Men have
thousand objects in life-the professions, glo-
ry, ambition, the arts, authorship, advancement,
and money-getting, in all their ramihcations,
each sufficient to absorb their minds and supply
substitutes in case of primary failure; but if
woman succeed not in the sole hope of her hazar-
dous career, she is utterly lost to all the purpos
es of exertion or happiness the past has been all
thrown away, and the future presents little but
cheerless desolation. Love is only luxury to
man, but it may be termed necessary to wo-
man, both by the constitution of society and the
DEGREES of nature, for she has endowed them
with superior susceptibility and OVERLOOKING af-
fections, which, if they be not provided with an
object, perpetually corrode and gnaw the heart.
And what are her feelings and chances in this fear
full lottery?-A constant sense of degradation, in
being compelled to make her whole life game,
a manouvre, a speculation; while she is haunted
with the fear of ultimate failure. And how alar-
mingly must the number of these involuntary
nuns increase with the yearly augmenting distress
of taxed, and luxurious, and expensive England,
where the moral restraint of Nautilus, while it
nhicts no privations upon the mar, condemns the
female to an utter blighting of the soul, aggrava
ted, perhaps, by dependency or want. Bis
tered be the tongue that can ridcule, and para
lyzed the hand that can libel those victims of an
artificial and unnatural system who have been
unfeelingly tainted as Old Maids! Well could I
excuse them, if, in the bitterness of sickened
hope and the deness of unjoyous solitude, they
were even prone to exercise yigilant censorship
over the peccadilloes of their more fortunate RI
walls; but repel the charge, and can safely affirm
that some of the most alniable kind hearted lib
eral women have ever known, were in this ca
Illuminated class.
One chance of ''sngle blessedness'' is still re-
served for these Celibates. Their affections, I'M
claimed upon earth, sometimes seek recipient
in the Skies responding to the manifestations of
divine love which they see on every side of them,
they draw down religious lightning direct from
Heaven, while men seek conductors, which only
guide it towards the earth. The devotion of the
former, as it is founded upon feeling, may be un-
nquiring and have tendency to enthusiasm, but
it will be cheerful and happy, because emanating
from the heart the latter approach this subject
with their heads-a process which not unfre-
quently makes them them sceptics, or bigots, or
hypocrites.
But let us suppose the happier case of young
woman, who, from her beauty or fortune, is sure
to receive offers-that is to say, who will attract
fools or sharpers, and be taken, as a necessary
appendage of her face her purse. Even
here, how little selection is allowed to her-she
may reject one, perhaps two; but it the third be
merely free from positive objections, prudence
urges his acceptance, relations second prudence,
and she marries man because he affords her no
good excuse for hating him. The Circassians
of Europe have little more choice than
their namesakes of Asia. 'The happy
pair" begin by committing agreat mistake-they
withdraw themselves from the world to spend
the honeymoon together: familiarity produces its
usual effects, they too much of one another at
first, and the results exhaustion and ennui.
She who marries an idler, who will hang upon her
society till she is wearied, and then seek recrea-
ton elsewhere, has not so many chances OF hap
pness as the woman whose husband is compelled
to tear himself from her company for his duties,
and gladly returns to it for his enjoyments.
A mans love generally diminishes after mar
riage, while a womans increases; both of which
results might have been anticipated; for that APP
petite, either of person or purse, which the
Bridegroom too often dignifes with the name of
love, disappears with enjoyment; while the
bride, whose affections were perhaps little
interested at first, finds them impercepti-
bly, kindled by a sense of duty, by the con-
seriousness of her dependence, and the qualification
and novelty which her total change of life invari-
ably presents at the outset. Awakening from this
trance. she has leisure to discover that she has
made over to her lord and master, and strictly
truly so designated not only all her present pos
sessions, but all her future expectations-all thai
cho h1rh or fol Che has