Daily national Democrat., 1859-12-14
The Cape Girardeau (Mo) Democrat has

The Cape Girardeau (Mo) Democrat ha
the following account of an aged negress:
Recently, we have seen frequent instance
recorded, where human life extended consid
erably beyond the Scriptural boundary OF
no occasion, however, have we learned of
more extraordinary case of longevity than
one which yesterday came under oul
our own observation We were invited b,
an acquaintance, to accompany him arounc
to therooms OF an artist, where an old coorec
! lady-Old aunt Betsy-a family servant, wa.
having her picture taken, after having passed
! the respectable age of l22 years She had
not been around town for thirty years, and
had that morning requested our friend ia
take her in his buggy, that she might see all
the Improvements. She has complete posses
sion of her mental faculties, and her intelli-
gence is remarkable Extreme age had made
but little impression upon her physical pow
ers. With the slight aid of cane, she could
walk with considerable activity. She is a
little deaf, and requires specs to see distinct
lY; at least she used them while admring
her own likeness The old lady is remarka-
bly, cheerful and happy in her disposition
much disposed to talk of old times in Virgin
ny, and her conversation is lively and agree
! u u IClllDera-
ment which may easily defy ten or dozen
years yet. She says she has raised twenty
children of her own, and two generations Of
her young white massas and misses
THE "LUI" Wonks-REcEyr PARIsIAS LIT
ERATUnE-The Poris correspondent of the N.
Y. Times, says:
Within the year book has been publish
ell at Paris which has had a singular fortune
in the way of provoking other books. re
fer to the bizarre work entitled Fa,tnu by
NJ. Feydean-a work which it is to be pre-.
sumed will scarcely find man courageous
enough to become its English translator. This
work embraces but three characters. the hus.
band, the wife. and young man, the lover
of the wife The work professrs to be a stu
dy, and all the talent of its talented author
is spent in owing the eXactitude with which
a high born woman can separate love from
duty-giviug the first to her paramour and
the second to her husband. The lover is ter.
ribly Jealous of the husband, and prohibits
the wife from loving him. For this reason
the wife is obliged, in conversation with her
lover, never to mention her husbands name.
and therefore designates by the very imper-
sonal but significative iai (he, him.
This new nomenclature seems TO have sug.
gested to Madame George Sand a new subject
aud II new title for u book, and accordingly
the Parisans had scarcely ceased to read and
talk over NJ. Feydrau's book, when Madame
sands Ellie et La1 (Iler and llim) appeared.
This book made great sensation and being
little personal toward the late lamented
poet of the Academy. NJ Alfred de Musset, it
was Immediately responned to in another
book by NJ Paul de Musset, brother of the
deceased, entitled L.i ct E2ie TO this ook
Madame Send has just replied, in the last
number of Revue des Dtaux Mordes. by n
preface in which the eminent authoress per-
mits the public to see how far she has been
wounded 10y NJ. Paul dc Mussets book There
is every evidence that this violent polenic,
now advanced far beyond the limits ola lite
rary discussion, will not stop where 1t is.
And now, here comes third book euti-
tied Laj, this one from the pen Of Madame
Louise Colet, nee Revolt, sister Of Madame
Cousin, and poetess laureate of the Academy.
The book is full of curious revelations for
those who know how to look through its
lines.
The Bulletin says:
Some of these works have been published
in the "Feuilelon' of our local French pa.
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