Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-07-04


have one weakness more marked than
man, it is toward veneration. They
are born worshippers-makers OF sill
yer shrines in some divinity or other,
which of course they always think
fall straight down from heaven. Tho
first step toward their falling in love
with an ordinary mortal, is generally
to dress him out with manner Of real
or fancied superiority; and having
made him up, they worship him.
Now, a truly great man. man really
grand and noble in art and intellect,
has this advantage with women. that
he is an idol ready made to hand
and so that very pain.taking and in
genious sex have less labor in getting
him up, and can be ready TO worship
him on shorter notice. In particular
is this the case where sacred pro-
fession and n moral supremacy are
added to the intellectual. Just think
Of the career Of celebrated preachers
and divines in all ages.
Have they not stood like the i'm
age that ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, the
King set up" and all womankind
(coquettes and flirts not excepted)
been ready to fall down and wor-
ship even before the sound Of cor
net, flute, harp, sackbut, and so
forth, and so forth, and SO forth2 Is
not the faithful Paula, with her
beautiful face, PROSTATE in rcver-
ence before poor, old, lean, bag
gard, dying st. Jerome, in the
most splendid painting of the world,
an emblem and sign of wornan's
eternal power of selfsacri6ce to
what she deems noblest in man ?
Does not old Richard Baxter tell
us, with delightful single-bearted-
ness, how his wife fell in love with
him first, spite of his long pale
face and how she confessed, dear
soul, aftey mary years of married
life, that she had found him less
sour and bitter than she had ex-
pectcd ?. The fact is, women are
burdened with fealty, faith, rever-
ence, more than they know what
to do with they stand like hedge
of sweet peas throwing out flutter-
ing tendrils everywhere for some
thing high and strong to cline up
by, and when they find it, be it
ever so rough in the bark, they
catch upon it. And instances are
not wanting of those who have
turned away from the hattery of
admirers to PROSTATE themselves at
the feet of a genuine hero who never
would WOO them except by heroic
deeds and the rhetoric of a noble
life.-Thc Mn ster's Wooing.
AN ARTEsIAN WELL IN MATCH
Ez.-We are happy to learn that
some public spirited gentlemen iu
hatcher, who scorn the usual South
ern practice of making a great blus-
ter and doing nothing, have it 10 ser
ious contemplation to attempt the
boring of an Artesian We'll, which
shall, at least, penetrate as far down
as the strata which throws up the
Wildwood Springs in franklin county,
distant from Natchez only a little
more than twenty miles on an air
line. The water in this franklin
county natural Artesian fountain is
known to be as perfectly pure as the
thermal waters, OF the distilled water
Of the drug stores. The upward or
ascensive force of this spring through
its large but very winding and tortu-
Gus tunnel is such as to throw out
the body Of any one who plunges in
to it and if it were confined to a
straight pipe Of three or four inches
in diameter, it would doubtless spout
forty or Fifty feet above the surface Of
the earth.
We know that such glorious and
pure water undcrlies the strata in our
vicinity. Why then should not
Natchez bore down to it, and thus
obtain an illimitable supply of Gods
own pure element 1t would be
worth millions to fair Natchez to have
such an ever Lying fountain, ever
leaping up, in beautiful healthfulness
from the throbbing heart of the ma
ternal earthl-Conoordia Intelligenor.
ea- Miss Willing, of Philadelphia,
a niece of Mrs. Ridgway, according to
a late Paris letter, is soon to marry a
Hungarian Prince. man of enormous