The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-19

The WOMEN OF VIRGlNIA.-Over 100 of the wo-
men OF Gloucester county, Va, respond to a pub
lie paper from the women of Essex, and sign their
names to the call. Here is a specimen of their
passionate appeal:
We have watched with indignation and sorrow
the inert or cowardy, the sordid or careless action
| OF those to whom we have conided the destiny of
all we hold sacred and dear, and many times have
we peen tempted, like the heroic women CT old to
raise voice and hand to our country from deg
radiation and ruin. Is it not shame to country
when its women have to call on its men to act p
we fear, when they have sunk SO low, cur scorn
cannot move them.
| Where has fed the ancient chivaIrv of y;r;;
when they will see calmly passing from US the ro
ry OF calling ourselves, with noble pride "a Vir
Ginla woman, once highest patent of nobility p
Now we must hide our heads in shame before fboso
Puritan danes whose lords have been true m tbe
instincts of their fathers-to conquer the weak
and to take where they have the might. Have onr
rulers forgotten the time when Virginia gave laws
and law-giyers to the nation, that thew can nov
consent to sue for justice? Has not this ever hem
the forerunner OF ruin to kings and nations to be-
come suppliants where they should command p
Have they read history to so little avail? Do the
| headless bodies of Charles and Louis sneak M
! warning to them? Woe be to those wh6 vopId
dethrone our sovereign mother-our beloved Vir
| ginia. -
God be praised! there is rot a man amopp us
who is not ready to save Virginia with his IFS
| blood II need be-who will not, without a sigb
give all that he hath" to place the fallen crown
once more upon her head, knowing, as they all do.
mat VIE and mother, sister and daughter, will
give them God speed in this holy work They do
| not need that we should tell them how brave men
and free should act They have taught us what
the women who are loved by such men should be.
ana .neY feel mat we will not disgrace them. Nur-
| tured, as we have been in ease and luxury there
Is no tmid, shrinking, gentle woman amongst MS
VINO would not give the jewels from her peJson the
comforts from her home, the loved ones from her
/ n win hon
But If our voice can touch chord in hearts Iass
brave and leal, then in Gods name we raise II ard
call on our sisters throughout tho State to ronsa
them to their mission. Did not the Roman matron
stay the parrcidal hand of her son thouph he was
at the gates of the city? and even now at this last
hour, woman, in her divine right of mother can
call on those sons of Virginia that they slay her
not. There is not one amongst US who cannot, by
the blest power of love, influence some who haId
the destiny of our State. Use it in its f,Il foroa
on your knees, il needs be,-tell them we cannot
redeem our VOWS, to honor the bondsmen of snch
masters as they would give us-tell them no wo
man ever trusted a coward, or loved him who was
moved by sordii gain-te them this in earnest
ana they Will add reverence to the love which thew
now feel, and pride when they remember that thew
sprang from such mothers, whilst in the future
your 'chlloren VIII rise up and call YOU blessed"
AT SHAKspEAREs house at Standardization
remar kable changes have taken place. The birth
place has been finished as regards the plan of Mr.
Barry for the exterior works. The gardens are |
newly laid out The weIl-known bust has been |
taken down from its niche in the wall of Trinity
Church, scraped, painted red and black, and put |
back again. 1t is also rumored that real genuine
portrait of Shakespeare, taken from life and attri-
buted to Burbage, has been found at Stanford. A
correspondent of the Lor don Atkeneum relating
these facts, declares that the bust is spoiled by the
renovating process. The expression of the stone
is at the best little hard and rigid, though the
face had been modelled from a cast taken after
death; it is now bideous and idotic as any bust
can De made to look with that round mass of brain
a MODEST ANNoUNoEMENT.-The editor of the
AUBURN, N. Y, Advertiser takes the following deli
households - w." - o"'e " ni'
M county of Cayuga, according to the census,
nsu oo,'oS souls. We have received information
OF the most reliable nature, which authorizes us to
assure the census Marshal that he may make the
ward" ss''A1