The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-26
mrs. STOWE EXPECTED IN PAhIo'

We translate from the Courier ae' =,
.Unis the following extract from ie"e. ~ hs ,
ten by Eugene Guinot. We think IL ""'
source Of amusement to many OF o"' - i
the ladies especially. By the way soo ooG
,h.Ionaon Times proposes that the 'vV'VOo
females who have signed the S.aD' .;;. II.
address, contribute, EACH one o0.a' -, -
f,,a for the purchase OF slaves :,
I;hs,;s. The correspondence oil 'ne ave" -, VI
- ,h;,ls this proposition will fail. lhere
-, difference, he says, between suoscr'
- na,sr. and contributing money. We
Th;s Is what Guinot says of Mrs. Stoves
.n,;cipated arrival in Paris:
"rhe approaching visit of Mrs. Harriet
Reecber Stowe to Paris was announced yes
,erdsv, The famous American Blue Stocking
owes il TO herself to follow the course OF her
trans. Atlantic excursions, evidently undertaken
under the inspiration of very natural vanity,
which counsels her TO gather the flowers Of
Ter success in those countries wherein her
book has created the most profound sensation.
Paris is, beyond dispute, the city of Europe
which has responded most warmly TO that ul-
tra-marine success, saluting it with echos re-
peated by multitude of translations. After
SO much politsness, the authoress of Uncle
Tom ought not to be contented with sending
US her card, and cannot do less than make US
a visit in person. To cheat us of her presence
would be too black an imposture. Mistress
Beecher is incapable of such ingrattude, and
it would be, moreover, contrary to the interests
OF her legitimate literary pride. She will
come. Her advent will be one of the orna-
ments, one of the shows, one of the curiosities
of the fine season which is about to succeed to
this cloudy spring, and it is an article which
will certainly be noted by the provincials,
ever careful to find a reason for visiting Paris
on the arrival Of the first fine weather.
"The news of the intend visited created
quite an excitement among the Partisan wo-
men of letters. 1t appeared to them favora-
BILE occasion for a manifestation. Tley were
convoked, and assembled at the house of one
of Their number. who placed large apart
ment at their disposal. The session was
curiosity. First and foremost, they resolved
that the proceedings should be secret! Is not
that an admirable joke, delightful piece of
simplicity perpetrated at the very threshold
A secret kept by women by literary women!
by sixty odd literary women who all swear
by their pens, that they will keep it with he.
1oic frmness-wil say not word with regard
10 the debate or the measures adopted, that the
effect may be the more striking when their OBJ.
;ecr s,ssal have been divuIged at the appointed
time
>. is hardly worth while to reproduce the
stale jokes directed of old against female as.
semblies, in which, when an attempt is made
to organise, none will be President, because
the oldest member ought TO be President, and
all claim to be Secretaries, because the duties
of that office are discharged by the youngest
of the meeting. 1t may be we'll imagined that
the difficulty was reproduced in this instance.
With regard to the minutes of the session, it
would bepimpossible to give them accurately
and infinitely, not for want of Recommendation
in spite of the injunction, we have plenty of
ihem-but for want of room. 1t is impossible
for the Imagination to conceive what may be
said duiing a session of five mortal hours, in
an assembly of women (of letters,) who talk
without pausing minute, second even, who
harangue almost always several at time, and
often ell together. What showers of phrases,
what deluge of talk, what cannonaGe OF
epithets, what volley Of words by files and
platoons, what a fusillade of disjointed chat
from the whole line, setting common sense at
H. -,l,a e ]
bate! What burning Of powder! What a
waste of eloquence! But those ladies have q
plenty and to spare, and, therefore, need not
trouble themselves about the expense, whether
they speak or write.
''At the opening of this session, so well at
tended, those present expressed astonishmen
and chagrin at finding the meeting so thin; fol
it appeared that the list of ladies of the gull
was limit ed to sixty odd. The amateurs o.
literature belonging to that sex, will learn with
satisfaction that the above mentioned figure is
very far from comprising the strength of al
army whose ranks are continually multiplying
Paris is so rich in blue stockings that il ha:
no conception of its own wealth. La the real
- of women of acknowledged talent and o
known medocrities, who diffuse the produc
of their Inc xhaustible vein, come pell.mell, il
twilight or in darkness, multitude of discrett
ladies, who are not sorry to trust the problem
Of their existence 10 the ink bottle.
"Inasmuch a. many who had been summone,
TO the Congress failed to appear, the ladies
present avenged themselves by scourging tn
indifference of the absentees, in set phrases
and by decreeipg to themselves the felicitation
which their zeal supposed to merit. 'Wh,
need we trouble ourselves about the absent,
they magnanimousy Cried are not sce tn
flower of feminine beaur esprsts7 the honor
The glory, the cream of our sex?' So fa
as eulogy is concerned, it must be admitte
that nobody praises US so heartily as We prais
ourselves.
Upon the strength of these compliment
which found echos throughout the room, thes
ladies commenced their deliberations. Wei
they not sufficiently numerousl Sixty odd
An academy and haif7 1t was more tina
nnuh e.