Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1855 — Distinguished Women. [ARTICLE]

Distinguished Women.

Madame de Seveigne remains the single instance of a woman who is supreme in a class of literature which has engaged the ambition of men— Madame-Dacier still reigns the queen of blue stockings, though women have long studied Greek without shame; Madame de Stael’s name still rises first to the lips when asked to mention a woman of great intellectual power; Madame Roland is still the unrivalled type of the sagacious and sternly heroic, yet lovable woman; George Sand is still the unapproached artist who, to Jean Jacques’ eloquence and deep sense of externa) nature, unites the clear delineations of character and the tragic depth of passion. Those great names, which rnarks different epochs, soar like tall pines amidst a forest of; less conspicuous', but no less fascina-; ting, female writers; and beneath) titm"hgam are spread, likeet of hawthorns, eglantines, and hon-ey-suckles, the women who are known rather by what they stimulated.men to write than by what they wrote themselves—the women whose tact, wit and personal radiance crea- i ted the atmosphere of the salon where literature, philosophy and science, emancipated from the trammels of pedantry and technicality, entered on a brighter stage of existence.— Lady'S Newspaper. KZJudge Nbrrishas decided to admit James Irving, charged with being an accessory to the Poole murder, to bail, in the sum of SIO,OOO. The District Attorney insisted upon two day ,s notice being given of the names and residence of the parties presented for bail. The decision extends to other persons implicated in the murder. nCT’The news of the failures atSanFrancisco have no material effect on stocks and money markets. On the contrary, prices of pretty much all such descriptions of stock, have advanced one or two per cent. Merchants generally believe that the steamer will bring account of the resumption of San Francisco bankers. The outside tlockjubbprs, who operated early in the forenoon, under the belief that stocks would materially decline, lost soma $30,000. A full purse never