New-York tribune., 1868-11-10

tbe intervention of currency. The exchanges per-
formed by such a currency in a day could not be
performed by the actual nse of gold
in year. And then the losses resulting from
miscountng the gold would probably exceed the
whole cost of paper currency. Mr.. Carey, in his
work on Wealth published in 1852. estimated the
whole cost inflicted on the country by failures OF
banks TO redeem their notes. between 1911 and lSSo'
at 500 000 or one-sevcnh of one per cent OF the cu
rency issued The economy of paper money MI
Potter states to be the interest on its amount OF say
seven per cent per annum, an admission WHICH, WIN
Mr. Careys estimate. makes the cost OF com culion'9
TO be 10 times that of paper currency MI io''oi
has exnended some labor on his book. we regret
that he did not expend enough TO either give
value or prevent him from publishing H.
.po,-r WOMAN LOVE. AND MARRIAGE. BY F.
SAUNDERS. 12mo. PIP. Sl9 G. W. carleton ~,
The apthor of this volume has brought the stores
of various reading, and the refinement OF q cui'i-
waited taste to the illustration OF theme which -
rarely treated without poetical extravaganza or
dainty sentmentality. In his excursions through the
wide fields of literature, he has laid his hand on
numerous incidents, anecdotes and personal sketch
es concerning the relations of the sexes, and collect
ed them in singularly miscellaneous, but highly at
tractive offering of fruits and flowers slender
thread of reflection and comment serves to connect
the most part the volume is less abundant in original
suggestions than in choice passages which have hit
the fancy of the compiler and for which he pleasant
ly bespeaks the sympathy of his readers.
Mr. Saunders is decided advocate of matrimony.
His faith in woman is strong enough 10 remove
mountains. He sets forth her example as full OF adj
mirable lessons to the coarser sex. Her heroic ana
gentle virtues described as fraught with persua-
sive admonitions to man. Yet he insists that mar
riage is not essential TO noble expression of her n-
ture. He has no words of rcproach or censurc even
| for old maids but takes the sister of Fielding to
task for affirming that old maids only mischlev-
ous like monkeys for want of employment" The
slanderous charges that they prone TO scandal,
tse-bearing. impertnent curiosity and carping i'll
will lat their hearts are devoted to cats and puppies
70 cockaoos aud canares and even to old china and
crockery, he traces TO eymnded persons, crusty old
bachelors, and the like whose werds are 10 DC taken
with many grains of salt But for certain kind OF
old bachelors he er.ertalns similar charity When
ra Anconnter confirmed bachelor, Of well-balanced
character. kindly in his sympahes and benevoience'
and divcsted of the narrow seshness which too often
cbaracterzes his order. we can hardly find 1t in our
heart to visit his criminal delinquency with great
severity"
With regard TO the pleasing malady of loye-siek-
|
| edifvng remarks His diagnosis of the attack en-
| titles him TO the diploma OF doctor
The concomltants Of the disease easily dscern'
Bile and may be described follows absence oi nina
scrupulous eXacness rs TO personal appearance
procyy for lunar observations sentimental caste OF
counenance loss Of appetite highly nervous eNe'Ap5
etc. AL the moral faculties ana ieeiihgs seem 70 su T % %
To the absorbing passion The case desperate us u "a!
appear however beyond the reach 0i cure the
poor sentimental sufferer finds relief IN the true se
cle-matrmony. That is the panacea or an ,he %
ule STA Il feNer,-teuds
plays such fantastic tricks with our poor human hature
He does not dispose of the metaphysics Of the ease
so easily Admitting that il If no less natural to fall
in love than TO breathe and that the custom IS not
likely to incur the fate of many of the e-honored
usages which the advanced minds OF our modern
civilization have demolished" lie processes himself
} unable to solve all its mysteries
Failing in love is a seriocome business for instance
student leaves college, covered with academic honors
and his affections excepting for his kth aud
kin; but fair maiden passes nun on hls way, huu
traighway lac loses his heart-the victim OF ganee
\ from sunny face learned metapy sician appateniy
lost to all external things by ms abstract studies Walk
out from his library and his eye Is suddenly arrested
along: and this grave embodiment OF learning
aSs so2 Of Masfu panoped for the S
and painting only for victorious the gay sa
nette Of sixteen summers VINO captures ms brave hear'
Who shall give mathematical demonstration of the
mystery Cupid is indeed casnist-
IL If nsFs rs ss.Sa .sa IL IL SfSP Sisli1oysS's
| HiDernan
suit for a beauty hen he told her he could get no
sleep o nights for dhraming Oy her.
Leaving the abstrusities Of the subject, he in
duges in the relating Of lively anecdotes, per-
haps not all Of the latest brand, which throw light
on the ceremony of courtshp. Here is one of a
nameless savant
0eolopist once travelling In a stage-coach In Eng
land happened sit opposite TO LADY glances were
EXCHANGED, and mutual admiration seemed 70 be the
result. Eye language soon exchanged FOR verbal
conversation after few inerehanges about fossils ana
petrifaetions they began 10 talk about hvlng subjects
plural to the first person singular said tue gentleman
'I am still unmarried :" quOth tho lady so am :;
SAID the former al have sometimes thought Of
pause ensued: Suppose" said the gentleman, we
Msfn 10 mari! vIc ano'"ot - 'a n o "a" "a ha, " T.,
two days they married. Few VIII admire huch
preeipitous cOurtship 1t s altogether too short
The history of Cobbetts conrtslip is well-known
from his naive autobiographical confessions, but 1t
loses nothing by repetition.
When he was sergeant-major In regiment OF foot,
be fell in love with the daughter OF sergeant OF aru
lery. then in the province OF NewBrunswicE. lie had
not passed more than hour In her company when,
noting her nodety her quietnde, and her sobrcy he
sad-T That is the grl for me- The next morning he
up early, and almost before was light passed the
sergeaDts house There she The snow, scrubbng
out % d ,he erc g Tor a ng
he nearly twenty From the day first spoke 10
her. he writes I had more thought OF her being the
wife OF another than had thought OF her becoming
chest OF drawers"
treated her with all confidence lie spoke 10 her as his
friend his second SELF But In six months the artillery
were ordered to leave for England and her father with
them Here was indeed blow Cobbett knew what
Woolwich was, and what temptation young and
Pretty ef took wCnd o her his whoo Fortune one
hundred and fifty guineasthe savings OF his pay and
overworkand wrote 10 tell her II she dd not nd her
place comfortable TO take lodgings and put herself to
school, and work too hard for hc would be home
Two year. It was not s vi lie .S oSd Sd his % e
girl servant OF ali work, d ye pounds year III the