The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-14

pleasure about his engagements with English
scientific men. IS q lacguey asks leave to go out.
Miss Martineau is able, by her experience in
Der American VISIT to consistently condemn
Father Mathew for his silence on the question OF
slavery when appealed to during his tour. When
be returned 10 Ireland he found his enterprise ut
tefly sunk. To work moral regeneration In our
day, we must give men what Father Mathew
dreaded as much Is whisky-knowlsdge and intel.
lectusl and moral freedom.
Lady Byron refused the first proposal made to
ner by the poet. Her father ought never TO have
permitted the marriage. " At the altar" writes
she did not know that she was Q sacrifice: but
before sunset Of that winter day she knew il. If q
Judgment may be formed from her face and atti-
tude OF despair when she Alighted from the car.
was not the traces of tears which won the sympa-
my OF the old butler who stood at the open door.
Inc bridegroom jumped out of the carriage and
walked away. The bride slighted and came up
tne steps alone, with countenance and frame
sgonized and listless with evident horror and de-
SPAR. The old servant longed to offer his arm TO
the young, lonely creature, as an assurance Of
sympathy and protection When she left her
husband, the case was submitted In an annony-
nous form TO DR.. darlington and Sir Samuel
honiiy, ana the unhestating decision of those two
great lawyers aud good men was that the wife
whoever she might be-must never see her has
band again. When they knew whose case 1t was,
they DID not swerve from their first Judgment, but
eSSioioo sHcs aAoy HOulu uovor htQ OF COuutouhuCo
Lady Byron's return to her husband. Since Lord
Byron's death, no one did more good In England
than that excellent lady. and che was mourned
from end to end Of the kingdom. She died In
1860.
or Mrs. Opie, Miss Mitfort, Charlotte Bronts,
Samuel Rogers, Mrs. Maroet, Mrs. Wordsworth,
De Quincy and LandoF IMiss Mar tinasu has much 70
tell that Is pleasantly new. She wss acquainted
with them all, and sketches them with q living
power. Amelia Opie. who, from . pet Of fash-
ionable society, became suddenly Q Quaker. and
took to gray silks and muslin Miss Milford, who.
when a child, won lottery ticket Of f2O, 900,
which all went, and many thousands after wards,
In the frivolous extravagapces OF her father;
Charlotte Bronte In her secnsion" 10 those dreary
wilds where she was not strong enough to roam
over the hills-in that retreat where her studious
father rarely broke silence, and there was no one
else to do it-in that forlorn house planted on the
clay Of the churchyard, where the graves of her
sisters were before her windows" Rogers's cele-
brsted literary breakfasts, his csusticity and his
benevolence Croker's mstignsncy Mrs. Words
worth sitting with her aged husband, spending the
long winter evenings In grief and tears their
dead children, or Wordsworth, 'in the middle Of q
hedge, cutting switches for half dozen children,
who were pulling at bis cloak or gathering about
his heels F" the fatal influence upon De Quincy's
moral nature Of his terrible habit; Macaulay's
want Of accuracy and of heart; and the strange
OF the paradoxical Landor-of
these my time and your columns forbid further
mention. The book IL sure to be reprinted In
America, and perhaps the publishers will allow
The suthoress to enjoy some of the fruits of her
sbors and genius.