The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-06

DECLINE OF FEMALE CoNvERsAroH.-An English
writer delares the fact that the women of our dav
do not "converse"-and then attributes it to the
multiplicity OF studies and the evening confinement
to books and school companions. He SAYS
"lt should be as much matter of duty and of
conscience to insist on outdoor exercise and in
door social recreation as upon anv of the regular
exercises of the school-room. School studies
should be confined absolutely to school hours To
allow them to encrOach upon the later hours of the
day, and upon the graceful household duties, and
recreations, which either are, ought to be pro-
vided for every girl at home; in other words to
subordinate the home training to school training or
to intermt the former in favor of the latter, is
most palpable and ruinOus mistake. 1t is bad
even in intellectual point of view To say nothing
Of other disadvantages it deprives girls of the best
opportunities they can eyer have of learning
that most feminine, most beautiful, most useful of
all accomplishments-the noble art of conversation
For conversation is an art well as gift. 1t is
learned best by familiar intercourse between Young
and old in the leisure unreserve of the evening So
cial circle. But when young girls are banished
from this circle by the pressure of school tasks
talking only with their schoolmates till they come
out into society, and monopolized entirely by
young persons of their own age, they easily learn
to mistake chatter for conversation. and small
talk becomes for life their only medium of ex-
change Hence, with all the intellectual training
of the day, there never was greater dearh of in
tellectual conversation"
REFORM IN AUsrRIA.-In Austria DEGREES will
shortly be issued granting to the Jews additional
political and social privileges.
With the following concessions the Hungarians
would, perhaps, now be content, though such will
hardly be the case six months hence:
l. The intro ducton of representative system
2 The right to send delegates from the Diet to Vi
emma once year, in order to settle with the dele
gates OF the other provinces the sum to be paid bv
Hungary as her quota towards the budget g. Self
government in internal matters, and consequently
the right of raising the money for the payment OF
| the before mentioned quota in her own way A. A
| return to the former system of administration
| which well suited to the necessities and necu
liarities of the Hungarian nation, and cheap with
al. s. In case of war the delegates of the several
provinces to meet at Vienna in order to vote the
n ecessary supplies of men and money. G. The
establishment of an independent committee of con
! troll over the finances.
| GEN. SCorr AND HIS YALET.-The correspondent
! of the Alta California says that Gen. Scotts valet
| is no incOnsiderable parsonage, although he is q
foil to his master-one Is giant, the other a dwarf
| The latter hOvers around the General as a WASH
does around a Why great should thu:
secure such punv efforts know not, but our dwar
is a consequential parsonage. lie dresses the Gen.
eral; buzzes aronnd him with a whisp; dusts him
off; seizes his hat, and brushes up the Generals
| few remaining gray hairs; wipes the nap of the
hat, replaces the same, and the whole duty is con.
| Quoted in silence. These attentions are repeated
| three or four times a day, and the General take,
the same as matter of course. He never replie:
or thanks-itis is matter of course-and the little
tiger, with his gray military cap and garrote collar
struts around as important an individual as any
| one on board.
FIRE.-Wye Neck, on Thursday night, was agair
the scene of a destructive fire, by which Mr.. James
Brown lost his granary, courthouse, todder-houst
and large quantity of materials besides about, al
our informant states, six hundred bushels of wheat
portion of his corn and the whole of his winter:
provender. 1t is thought to be the work of an in
| cendiarv -GentreriUe Times