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VOLUME G-XO. 24. ABBEVILLE C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1858. WHOLE NUMBER 281
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.-above rates. DAVIS ?t CKl'.WS,
J-'or llnunrr ;
LEE A W! I.SOX,
l'?r J'rtxtt. I
MISCEL'LA'N'Y.
i
The Brown Silk IDress.
' Why, Kliza ! what a strange choice for
si wedding ?lress! Your other dresses are i
' n very good style, atnl you have a plenty
of them. considering the changes in fashion
? hut a brown silk dress to he married in ! .
? what a fancy i:i a girl of eighteen
4Tis true, toy aunt, that my choice may
!<cein somewhat sombre, but you know very 1
well I am about to become the wife of ;i !
poo!- mechanic, who depends on his daily
labor for support. As the wife of such a ' ]
man, I miht necessarily limit mv expendi- 1
tures to my circumstances, ami have thought 1
it better to purchase something which would i
be useful for sometime to come, than to <
consult my appearance as a bride for one i
short evening?especially as I see no stran- '
gers.'
'There is something in that. There is >
my Maria's wadding dress. .She will never j 1
wear it again in the world. She had a ! '
:.i- - i? !
iiiiv .- .niii, ??ii.ii ji ure's over u. *711, 1
she diil look beautiful ! I do admire to see i
a handsome bride.' 1
'Yes, il is very well for those who can af j I
ford it. But it would be quito absurd for !
ine to purchase an expensive dress for one i
or cveu a few evenings when by the expen- j
diture of half the money. T can procure
that which will bu serviceable for years. But i
come, put on your bonnet and step over to .
our new house. It is all furnished, at least |
all that is finished. I valued it more high- j
ly than 1 should if it were not so near my j
mother's.'
'There, William has left this small parlor, j
this sitting room, and three chambers, to;
finish at his leisure, when he is out of em
pioyment. See How every tiling is arrang- !
ed?so handy for mv work.
'You don't say you are going to do your I
own work!'
'Certainly, I do ! There is but one ap- !
jprentice, and I should think it strange if I
could not do it with all ease.'
'My heart, what strange fancies you have !
To be 6ure, it is well enough if you can
bring your mind to it, but then folks do so !
?3iffereut now-a-days. There is my Maria; i
she has moved into an elegant house, all j
furnished ffom top to bottom. She keeps !
a great girl lo do the work, and a little one !
to wait and tend. Oh, things do go on so j
beautifully, I promise you.'
'tier husband is a young lawyer, is he
not ??is ho wealthy ?'
tAli Iia to noru ?11 r\fF ITn /1/^ae
HW IO TV! J If VII VMt UVCfl IIVV
much practice yet, but I dare say be will in
time. ^Ho lias a thousand dollars at interest
; besides, Maria would never have married
a mechanic?their hands gef so hard
and black, and their complexion, especially
if they are exposed, get so brown. I would
not wish to hurt your feelings, but I do
think that for pride's sake, for the sake of
the familyl^ou might have made a different
choice.'
Oh, aunt,?excuse my laughing?I have
yet to learn that a man's honest occupation,
whether it produces hard hands, whether it
gives the check a brown or pale huo, is any
disparagement to him. You must get acquainted
with William, and hear him converse.
You will not think of his hard hands,
! and liis animated, intclliiient countenance
I
' will drive liis bronzed skin quite out of your
i head. I5ut come, you don't say anything
\ about my furniture?and you must s>ee my
! nice closets.'
, your furniture is well enough. The
I less you have, the less you will have to take
care of, you know.'
'Yes, we could not cot much furniture.
I . ?
I insisted upon William taking the money
j which inv grandmother left me, to pay oft'
! a few hundred dollars which lie owed for
this place, in order to enable us to begin
even in the world. We have both such a
horror oTdeht, that we are determined never
to incur any if wo can help it. Hoc what a
nice j?rcss for bed clothes tiiis is ?'
"Why, what a quantity of bed and table
linen ! it is roallv nice, loo. You have
more than my Maria has, I declare.'
'Yes, I always want an abundance of
such tilings. This drawer is filled with j
towels?this is my ironing sheet and blan- j
kct, and this closet contains my tin and
wooden ware.'
'I declare, Eliza, you are a strange, '
thoughtful child. I must tell you one thing -t
about Maria that made us have a good |
hearty laugh. The Monday morning a ft cv
:dio was married, the girl came to a-k her
where the tubs were, and don't you think
the child had actually forgotten to buv a
* . *
tub, a clothes line, or pins ! She said it j
never popped into her head. lJut lal it
wasn't strange?she had never been used
to do anything of the kind.'
'I believe, aunt, I have shown vou all
. .
now. We will go if vou please. I hop.* i
you will not kt my brown dress, or Wil- j
liam's brown hands, frighten you away this
evening.' !
'Oh, no! V.ut as 1 must lake the stage (
for Maria's, early in tlio morning, you must
allow me to retire early." ;
** *?: -7: % 1: * -1: *
'What, fellows these ^ ankees are for com- ;
bining elegance and usefulness,' said a
southern gentleman to himself as ho stood
on the piazza of the hotel in the town of
, 'Sir,' sai<! he, addressing himself to a
venerable looking man near him, Van v<>u
tell mo who resides in that elegant cottage,
where the grounds are laid out with so
much tase ?"
'Oh, that is Squire Kill Thorndike's. You
musl be a stranger in these paits in>t to
know that.'
'I am. sir ; and since he seems such a
prominent, member of society. I should be
liiippy to know something ol* his bi>t<>ry.1
'Oli, lliore is nothing rcimnkablu in it,
nothing at all. sir. His father was a man
?ftyreat learning, but he nearly run through
? fortune trying to live in style. IIo <lii ?l, .
uul left three boys. Their mother, who
went from this place, was a woman of
trong sense. Shu sold thu property, paid
>11' the debts, and had enough 1 ft to buy
bat little house to the left. Il has but two
rooms, and there is a garden attaehed to
it. Ilere she put her boys nut to trades, i
One to a mason, one to a wheellwright, ami
this Bill to a carpenter. Bill married the
widow Perry's daughter. She was a light
Lrood scholar and slie made an excellent
wife. They got along wonderfully. Everybody
wondered how it was. He did not '<
make better wages than other men. It
was no mystery to me, though,fori watch- j
t.(\ 111 o
|..tnj auurp.
'You never saw a great display of finery \
?Mich as laces, ami flounces, and finite- I
lows ; yon never saw him, Iteforc lie kept I
a lioise, riding much fur pleasure. No, i
they both pulled one way, and took their
pleasure in being sober, industrious and i
useful, and now they reap their reward in '
being universally respected. Now there
ain't a man that has so much money to lut ,
as Squire TliornJike, and he is never hard
and screwing about it as some are. lie I
isn't stingy either. lie has taken the two j
children of one Lawyer Willis to bring up, '
and he does as well by them as he does by j
his own. Lawyer Willis' wifo was n kind '
of cousin to Squire Thorndike's wife. Hie j
was a dashy, showy gal. You'd have tho't
tllft o.
...0..v-v .u.ivo uii t-iirui were married i
when tlicy liud tlie knot tied. Poor fellow, ;
he had a hard time, notwithstanding, to
support his wife in Btyle. lie took to drink
and died. I have heard say that she turned
up her nose at her cousin's match , but
she little thought her boys would ho glad
to go to that ?aine cousin for a home, whilo
che would be glad to take up with the little j
house that Squire Thorndike'a mother lived
in.
'Ah, sir,' continued the old man, 'this is a
changing world ; but, to my mind, if folks
would he more prudent and industrious,
nnd cive no hnnirfcrinr* oft*. *
a - r "ft ??; lUillgB Dfyonu
their means, there would be more real good
done in the word, and fewer changes.
Br.ron Humboldt says that he shall die
next year, and has desired the postponement
of the publication of ao edition of bis
works until after that time.
In London, a printer boy baa fallen heir
to some $8,000,000 by tbe deatlj of ao uncle
is Calcutta.
. .
Correspondenco of the Southern Guardian.
liosTosJ Sept. 11, 1S08.
! A/vssrs. Jul!tors :?So great lias been
the di-ciepancy in the assertions of Xoithern
and Southern politicians, in regard to
the initial, social a In. I |<?4ilH:al condition ot
; the /'nc hc tiroes of the Northern States,
! that 1 determined, when 1 left South l.'aro'
lina, thoroughly to investigate the subjeet
| in all it- phases.
j A Southerner passing through these
States, without any special object in view,
j wiil scarcely see aay difference between the
I free negroe-? ot' the sl.ivehohling States and
j those ol the lice States. 11 is object is
to see all the sights and cuiioiis thing*,
ami to visit all the places of special attrae;
tio? in and around the different eilie-.
Hence, his co'iisij will be through all tiie
fashionable avenues and streets, tlie l'ai!;-,
Commons and Cemeteries. Here they se?*
i liiiiliimr lmt ni'ii I. . u f.
I;?k?? \Mtii their gold and silver li>ii, ir? Is 1 y '
; dieted children and liveried servants. Yon
i :t-k a 1'])iI.-tflol]<11i;iri where vhii shall diive
to see the city and tho object* of interest
around it, and lie tells you l.? drive through
(.. -hesnut, Walnut, Am'Ii and Uroadwav ,
>'reets t" 11?? fjrand College and Laurel
lliil Cemetery. You aie never told to go
through Shippeti street and the streets adja- j
Cent. \ on aiu to!d L'V the New \oikerto
diive through Filth Avenue, Broadway, 1
Battery and Creenwood Cemetery ; hut not '
one word said about the 1'ivo Points and
West Broadway. You are not told by the
Bostoiiiau to pass through some of the
streets on the south side ut the State
House, hut you must tako a ride through
O.titibiidge to see the house th.it Washing
ton made his headquarters, and to see the
f .. I.'...I. I I - l > '
.. mii.ui i?u sutjuii >uru i J ill M
a-stimed tin; command ( {' the American i
Army?to visit llarvord Col!"*!*';, Laurel
Hi.I Cemeterv, Charlestown, lJuuker ll'.il
Monument, iVc. Ati'l why is not l.'ic stranger
directed Id these places. It is because '
lio will there see the wretchedness of the
free negroes and poor whites, made nj? in
one common ma?> of misery, poverty and
vice. It i> in the**} localities yon see the
true c<>n<lition of the mass of free negroes, j
who have so many t(>trn of sympathy iavhhe<l
upon tliein in the Fermoiii and speeches
ot these hyooeiitical fiieiids of the African.
To show how widely they tlillcr among
themselves upon this ipiestioii, I a-ke.l
several intelligent gentlemen who knew
whete I was from, what was the social anii
moral condi'.:>? of the free negroes, .Mid
they invaiiahly told me, that they wile
iiaiaiv am! ili.ii '* vv..n ..
lion-. now and then. Then again 1 allied
other g-.-nllejiian who did i>?>t know where I
was tioin, and in nine cases out of tvii they
toM inu tlie .startling truth, li::it t!ie fieo
negroes of thu Not ill as a class, we in lazv,
"trifling vagabonds," s-teal every thing thev
couid I iv their Ii;iii<!< on, and theru was I>t t
very little hi/it) pa tit j shown l.y I lie whites
towards 111 111; tiiat there weie a Jew exceptions,
among then:, who had l-v industry
accumulated :i good property and iiad a 1
coiufoitah'u lu'ii-i*. Not intending to relv
upon the statements of cither party, I detei
mined to see ami hear for myself, and
with this view 1 changed mv clothes to
avoid hcing suspected, and hired a man to
pilot me through Shippeti street and its
environs in J'liiladelphiu. I could mi-ii
tell that I was appioae.hing tiii.s locality, l>y
the low dingy looking hotlscs, and ditty
streets. On reaching the street I ca-*t mv :
?*Vl!S till .'Kill ll.ivlll !l< I'll' nc I I I
j I * *7 * "" "'7 *" J,,A j ;
tlierc was nothing l*ut <>!< 1 n<*gto?.'s, tni<li 1 ! - 1
aged siikI chiidieii, lying on tlx; >ifps of'j
houses, ami on tin; pavements ha>kiug in
the noun-day sun. I then walked through
the .street, and gavo a personal '
of their houses, huts, shanties, sheds ami
delis under the ground, and of ail the sipialhil,
filthy and almost naked being-, lli'i.ke
I never saw in any Southern city or on any ;
plantation. Here I saw more human being-,
living in one small room, than I ever saw
clammed in one hou?e in the South, ami the ;
houses the tree negroes generally occupied
are most always the cellar, and the poor j
whites the upper portion oi' the building. j
In one room 10 l?v 20 feet, I saw living the ;
grand parents, children and grand chil.lren, i
numbeiing in all twenty-three souls ; the;
grandmother told me she had a hard time
of it, in trying to support her familv. Ib-r'
tons and daughters would help her but little |
in providing looi], tlicy would >| c-1? 1 m<j>l 1
all their money in nun ami tobacco, and
not su much sis bring lomc a little loaf ofi
bread at night, but in its place, a bottle of
rum which would put an end to the peace
of the family for the night.
I spent four In urs in this neighborhood
talking with the nog oes an 1 poor whiles,:
and from what 1 saw and heard from their
own lips, their condition in a moral and
social point of view is truly lamentable. 1 j
was told by an intelligent negro man, that j
more than twenty out of one hundred ne- j
; groes died in the winter of '60 and '67 from |
j cold and starvation, and he added that litI
tie notice was taken of the fact in the news [
! papers. I asked him, where were his friends ; I
1 those persons who were talking and preach- j
| ing so much about their freedom and hap- '
I piia'ss ! \N here were their alms houses and
I charitable associations? lie said it was all
i humbug about the rich man taking the free j
I negro by the hand and giving him aid and !
I assistance. All the assistance he got from J
' the white man, whs 25 or 50 cents per day
i?, l i i..i 1
, . .* ikmm ?>iau mill lOO, I lie lowest :
I and filthiest kind of work. All the good '
I places in and about a house, were filled by !
whito servants, and that there were such
enmity existing between tlio white servant
and lite black, that both could not stay in
the santo (atablishmt-Dt, and the poor negro
was almost invariably dismissed. The
white servants have almost driven out the
m-groes from all the Ilotels and families.
Fifteen or twenty years ago, the negroes had
constant employment in JLlotels and private
families, which kept thein in a great measure
from contracting bad habits ; but the
great influx of Irish, Dutch and French, has
almost completely driven them out of the
i kitchen and park*. *
?- ? - - - - - ..... ?
| As fur the Alms llouws and Charitable
| Association?, tlicy \\ere nearly ali filled with
; tlx poor whites in the winter, ami there
w as little room left lor lh?! friendless neijro.
I was tolil l?v an intelligent member of one
ofthe-e association*, lli.t' during the winNr
of'5G tln-v had twenty applications for their
relief when there was 1<uL otiu dollar in the
trea-uiy; and morii than olio hu11 1 1 applicants
f<?r a place to sl<-< p in, when there :
was hilt one lied to give. 1 he old neijro
tohl me that the white man always had
some fiieiid w ho iiiterccd*<1 lor him, and the
negro wa-> sent away to lake care o! himself
as lie host could. Ileneo the mi-cry and
crime in thU beautiful city of the Kev fcjtoiie
State.
In New Yoik, after visiting :ill the fa^hiotiab!.:
places, seeing hi^h life in all its tinsel,
an ! gorgeous ilis|ilay, I 1 vt?-rin;in-. 1 to
see where tile five negro dwelt, and how he
hired with 1. i- brother, the white man, as he
is told I'v II. Ward lleceher, and 1 iicodore
l'.nk'-r. i t ill oniiw tffuux. 1 did not find I
him li\i ig in any ot the fashionable avenues |
m-si reels of (his mighty emporium of wealth.
I d-d not find the negro d Welling, except in
a very few iiiMan.-es, in the cross streets,
where even dwell the middle classes. ll 1
found him in any of these street", it was
either in the garret, or the kitchen as ineiii- 1
als oft he lowest grade. lie was never seen :
occupying iiiiv ofthese houses as tins owner;
hut I found him located and domiciled in
: n 1 anund the /"'ire One of the
greatest den* of vice and immortality, and
Miiks of pollution known in any city in the
I * nioti ! 11 has heen called 4the gate to hell.'
I had heard and read mi.eh about this piace,
and determined to see who lived there, ami
what their condition, and to my utter a-tonishincut
I found three fourths of the inhabitants
negroes, and the balance of the population
was made up of the oil-coinings or
creation. 'J'., stand on the />oi>tt and listen
for one hour, voti would imagine vonrseif
in /t'lhilciiiaiiiniii, and not in the. heart of a
citv piotW.-ii.g to follow the teachings of
Christianity, Here you see all the shades
and complexion of the human family?the
Chinese, Malay, Mongolian, European, and
conspicuous above all, the African and his
hybird-. Here are spoken all the different
tongues known n> the human family since ,
the destruction ot the lower of llahel.?
l ioin this //oiiit snrin"s all the notoiimis
' # i o y
ring leaders in crime ami vice, aii'l hero '
reigns poverty, misery an.l crime. Although ;
I v\a? I..K1 that tlu* place has been milch improved
within ilie last live years, compared
to what il was, vi.t from w!i:tt 1 saw a..d
heard of 11 to social and moral condition of
:t> inhabitants, it is a blot and stain upon the
phi'authropy of tlio people of New Yoik. ;
Mere II. \Vanl lli-.-clifji an ! Harriet Stovve,
am) tlicit* co adjutor.s, should be made to
live and labor a* mi-^ionarivs, the balance
of their lives, ia order to atone for the lies
ainl alou'U'rs they have tittered against the
slave and his master. From this place they
should be trying to run the poor live negro, 1
instead of trying to run the happy slaves
from his master. Here is the xjtot of all
others where these rose water philantiiro- ,
pists and Kansas shrii-kers, should spend
their money, instead of supporting emigrant
aid soc.ii-ties, and buying ritles for Kansas.
I remained in this region in a disguised
div-s, fur about six hour.*, convoking freely
with the negroes and the white people, and
in visiting their houses, holes and dens, and
flout what 1 sa?v and heard i xpie.-sed by
these people, their wretchedness, j?ov?-tty
and vice is beyond disci iptioli. The poor
tree in gro dread* the appioach ot winter as
you would a pe.-tilciiec; and fre<pietit!y to
dlow ii their misery through the long winter
nights, thi so misciable creatures resort to
tiie rum bottle and make themselves insensible
to hunger and c.o'd by the drugged all I
poisonous..tut)'. Llcreme crammed into one
i-mtuing Hum three to lour humli'cil human
be:ug>; and sunn-times lii'iy and sixty men,
women and children, negioL'.s ami whiles, !
sh op in one mom. The Old Brewery was j
known to hold twelve huudied souls in one
Here is the only spot in all my
travels, including upper ami lower Canada, j
where I found the negio on a perfect level |
with the white man, but such a level! a ;
hundred degree?, in mor.il and social happiness,
below the slave of the South. J
have yet to 6ce the master who jwmid let
such immortality, vice and liltli csnst on his
plantation, as is to be found in and around
the five points of New Yo k. The fiec tiegioes
of Charleston and Columbia are gen- ;
tlcineu, it>^ comparison with these poor erea- |
tures. There the otic is respectful and ;
obedient to the white man, here they are j
insolent and impudent; being made so, by j
having such associates as Greeley, Reedier,j
Stowe, and the like. Here the mass of the !
whites are against the fiee negro. They j
have no sympathy for him, no warm at- j
in^llllivilu 5*|M I1UIII (111 UU.IUIIIU'I illAMJ
fountain. 1 can say with a clear conviction
that there is a deadly hatred existing between
the negro and white laborers of the North,
and precious little sympathy from the middle
and higher classes. They expend all their
sympathy and money in behalf of the con- !
tented slaves of the South, instead of giving j
their attention to suffering humanity at j
home.
It is true that there are individual cases ;
among the freo ncgniM nl the North, where
a man and his family, by being thrifty, j
have been able to buy a comfortable home ;
nnd live well. I saw some of these negroes, i
but they are few compared with the thous- i
ands that are steeped in poverty and crime.
These negro loving philanthropists will
point you to Fred. Douglas the orator, and
Morris the layvyer, as shining lights among
the negroes. True these are lights, but they
sfntwl nrnirUt tlirpn linnrlrcd I limisnnH I
negroes in almost utter dnrknesB, whilst
tboreia so much professed light around
them.
In Boston I have not found near so many
free negroes ((6 in Philadelphia and New
York ; but their condition is but little better
than in Philadelphia. Here I found
them soattered more through the streets
aud not congregating in oneslreetor neighborhood.
In the language of an intelligent
gentleman of this city who had traveled
j , i
much through the N< rtliern and Southern !
.Stated, the five w-groesof Boston, as a mass, i
arc the same thriftless and lazy beings that '
we liii? 1 in other States, ''all he cares for is for
to-day, and let to-morrow provide for itself,
lie is a negro ami von can't make nothing i
hat a negro out of him." Their social and i
moral coiuliti-ni is hail, and in many instances
as hail as they are in New Yoik. 1
find here the same antagonism existing ho 1
tween the white servants and the negroes, !
and to such a pitch have they carried their
enmity that I did not see a negro in a
hotel or lestaurant in the city, of any respectability.
1 am free to admit from wlmt T Ke-o-.t -
luit not from anything that 1 saw, that the
Bostoniaiis have shown more of tlwir sym- .
paihv lor the in th?-ir midst, than
ill - New York- r.-? ?ir l'hiia<l<;;>liiatis. What
they have done towaids alleviating their
watrs, lias done more good heestuso tii?*y
hive hut few compared with the other cit os.
Yet I heard that many die I last winter from ;
coid and starvation. As this is the hoi l-ed
of Abolitiutii.-m, 1 would respectfully surest
to the New Yorkers to ship some 20.000 of
her free negroes, to the negro loving people
of Massachusetts.
1 will in my next pursue the fugitive slave !
and fiee negro into Canada, and *ce what in ;
his condition there, also give the political i
status in both countries.
A C.MIOLINIAN. \
C'hoatk, Kvkuivit and cfsllixo. ? It ia
a happy thought that the anti slavery fanaticism
of the il.sv h;is not l./w.ti nt.ln .11..
; ? v - V"" |
to exclude from the popular forum stub
master minds as Choate, Everett, Cusliini; '
and their com fivers If t!i*j Sitllo men of j
the New England States have in a furor of ;
false fcxciteiii'.-iit been able to sway and i
ijuide t!ie popular prejudices to their own
material and political elevation, it is sati*- i
laetoiy to the man of national impulses to j
reflect that the passions and the mad follies
of the hour have not been sullieicnt to tempt j
otir most trilled ireniuses and noble men to
urjxi-t 'lie advantages and prosp -cts which
the L'tiion confers upon and promises to
the American people.
On the 5lh of .Inly, I808, the patriotism !
and intellect of Massachusetts was repre- j
-ented in a striking contrast with the littleness
and sectionalism which now rules the
old Bay State. In New York, the prof
>uii I scholar and universal statesman,
('d? b Cushinj*, appeared before the < >!d
Tammany Societv ; in Boston, Kufus Clio- i
a:>*, ui<- 11 :>i ivai.o 1 orator :n <1 i spired genus*,
<!e'ivi;r<:?! all oration, which, like all of
li s < il'or:s, was oii^iua', lenincd and una;IH-y.-icIi.iMo
; and in the same city, Kdward
llviicll, who pcilnp*, ab.?ve all living
A mmcaiis, earned the triple laureate of
orator, statesman and scholar, and adds to ;
these dm nohlc designation of llie national '
philanthropist, graced the two celebrations ;
with his presence, and uttered words of na- :
tional patriotism which must warm the !
heart of every true Ameii an citizen.
l\'etcark Journal, '
How 10 Takk Likk.?Take life like a;
man. Take it just as though it was?as it j
is?an earnest, vital, essential affair. Take !
it just as though you personally were born
to the task of performing a merry part in it
?as though the world had waited fur your
coming. Take it as though it was a grand
opportunity 10 ito ami to achieve; to carry i
forwanl gicnt an?l good schemes ; to help
am] cheer a Mdfeiing, weary, it may be,
heart-broken brothel'. The. Pact is, lily is i
undervalued by a uif.it majority of mankind.
It is not math: half as much of as j
should be the case. Where is the man or '
woman who accomplishes one tithe of what i
might be done ? Who ennuot look back ;
upon opportunities lo-t, plans unachieved, |
thoughts crushed, aspirations unfulfilled. ;
and all caused from the lack of the necessary
ami possible effort ! If we knew bet- }
tcr how to take and make the most of life, j
it would he far greater than it is. Now ,
and then a man stands aside from the. j
ciowd, labors earnestly, steadfastly, confi- j
dently, and straightway becomes famous for ,
wisdom, intellect, skdl, greatness of some j
sort. The world wonders, admires, nlolisef;
and yet it only illustrates what each man ,
may do if he takes hold of life with a pur- |
pose. If a man l>ut say he tvill, ami follow ;
it up, there is nothing in reason he may j
not expect to accomplish. There is no ma- |
gic, no miracle, no secret to him who is
brave in heart anil determined in spirit. j
Dbvotiox to Aht.?Mrs. Mathews, in :
her "Anecdotes .gf Actors," gives an nmus- j
ing instanco of this. In that scene in the :
play of the "Committee," where Obadiah i
has to swallow, with feigned reluctance, the j
contents of a black quart bottle administer- !
e l to him by Teague, Munden was observ- I
ed one night to throw an extra amount <f'
comicality hnd vigdjt into bis resistance, so
much so that Johnstone ("Irish Johnstone")
the Teagne of the occasion, fired with a
natural enthusiasm. him In drain
bottle to the last drop. The effect was tre- I
meudous. The audience absolutely scream- ;
ed with laughter, ar.d Obadiah vm born j
off half dead, and no wonder. The bottle, j
which should have contained sherrv and wa- |
ter, was by fomo tnistako half filled with j
the rankest lamp oil. We will let Mrs. '
Mathews tell the rest: r When the sufferer
had in some degree recovered from the nausea
the accident caused,Mr. Johnstone marvelled
why Mundcn should hnvo allowed 1
him, after his first taste, to pour the whole ;
of the disgusting liquid down his throat, "It i
would," Johnstone said, "have been ea*y to |
have rejected, or noosed a repetition of it,
by hinting the mistake to him." Mr. Munden'rt
reply?by gasps?was as follows ;
"My dear boy?I was about to do *o?but
wnt on?k ?
w ' ? ? auvu n glUI II/ICI lUifl Ilk mo III Ob |
face I made upon swallowing it, that I
hadn't the heart to ?poil ihe scene by interrupting
the effect, though I thought I should
die every time you poured the accursed
stuff down my throat.
* 11 & |
What is mora beautiful and poetical than
tb? child's idea of ico~" Water gono to '
sleep.". : !
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11 i mill i n [ ._ ii.i !_JA
AN A D D R E 8 3
1>L I.IVEUEL) IIY rt. M'QUIKNW, ,
TO Til 15 WASHINGTON TROOPERS,
At tho Grave of B. IVI. Lyon.
UjJictrs ami Soldiers:
rIho dulic^ resting
on you at this time am of the nio-t liutniliating
character, of the most profound
solemnity. Tlio objects that surround you,
if duly considered in connection with your
present attitude, arc not only sutlieient to
aflbct the mind, but nwukcii the sympathies
of the most unfeeling heart. Th?.' p??ition
which you at present occupy, lenders you ;
not only conspicuous to a good I v number
of your fel'.owmen, hut evidently id.u-i-s run
iii full view of the lliroii<rc<l ho-t that surround
the throne of G<?1. If you sutler
your eyes to trace the engraving e n those ;
marhle slabs near vou, each line will but
lie'p the other, till llie whole, like a polished
mirror, will retleet bark the features of
sumo esteemed fiietid, in all their pristine ;
lowliness, fully to the mind. Beneath vour
!
foot, is the du-it of your fellowmeu thai once
lived ano moved with all the vigor and
component parts, that renders you now a
living creatine. And for ought I know, the'
... it- i
spirits ot those entombed bodies around j
you. are permitted to hover near, and al- I
though invisible to u*, nevertheless form a i
portion of tho guests on the present oeea
sion. Tliough alive, indeed it niav be said
. j
of you, (hatyou stand amid the dead. Nor ;
is this solemn declaration unreasonable, '
when w<? fttiKiili-r ftmi ?1i!e Ij ' 1 ?
. - _ Luii iiit; uuuiiuary ;
line between Earth and llcaven, the gate
through wliicli we pass to outer Paradise. I
Then, soldier*, as your every action is closely !
observed hv votir fellow men, vpu as von are '
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under the scrutinizing eye of Heaven itself, :
Iocs it Hut well behoove you to bo guarded j
in your actions at this time, lest you excite I
the anger of a mighty God, and an Angel j
be soon speeding bis flight through the !
etherial region with the sword of destruction .
unsheathed, destined to cut off another j
branch of your body, and thus open afresh ,
the wound so lately received in your hearts; '
lor, verily, the hand ?.>f omnipotence has ,
rested heavily oti this company for the past
ten years. With these solemn truths b?.foie
your minds, iu connection with the fact that
you now encircle the grave of a departed
brother, is not only sufliuiont to cxoitu feelings
of tiic deepest humility within your
breasts, but is well calculated to (ill the cups
of your sorrows to tlio overflowing. For it
has often happened that nature under cir- !
cumstancc less affecting, has been forced to |
seek relief in a flood of tears, lest the cords j
of life might give way under the burden of j
her sorrows. Your assemblage nt this time ;
and place, is not to bo wondered at, when ;
we consider that men are social creatures, i
and that by frequent and early associations,
feelings of affection spring up in the breast, j
that death itself cannot sever. While your ;
dejected countenances show that all is not :
well with you, that you nurture heart felt |
sorrows, those prostrate swords show equal- ,
I v plain, that you aro entirely resigned to j
the power that has inflicted them, And if j
your actions at this time, does not belie the
luvmigs oi your Hearts, you show by them, !
that although death has entered your rank?,
and taken smother cf your devoted brothers,
yet your lovo lor liiin will only cease when
you are dead. I have now reached a point
I gladly would ever have evaded. Officers !
and soldiers, you have met to pay the last j
tribute of respect to a departed brother. Al- j
though it innj sound harsh in your ears, j
nevertheless it is .as true ns harsh, that all
earthly associations between you and I>. j
M. Lyon, arc at an end. Those ties that '
so closely united you in heart, are for ever
broken. A rcme^Wfraitrc of the past, \<tfth
a dcterininatioi!*to cherish his memory in
the future, is nil the consolation loft you. A 1
boily, that has often met you, yea, but a j
few short mouths since, met at your regular !
parade ground, to practice with y<*i rr\ili- j
tary discipline, with ijo|p? ns briglrt, a^<l j
expectations ns good for?long and useful 1
life as any now present, l!r!k moldering into
dust. *
A hand that you have often pressed with
all the warmth of a natural brother, lies* now
cold and inaetivo, across the peaceful breast
of him that rests beneath that mould. An
eye that seemed to pparkle with neiy lustre
at your npproach, has lost all its former bril
liancy, has shrunk back in its socket, and
sleeps the sleep of death. A voice too, that
has often greeted your ears with warm
solicitous inquiries for your wellfare, is
hushed, for over hushed, within the silent
AmKrui'A nf tliA lnmh T^noiU j:..! i 1
...w W...W. l)4U UlVIUt'U
the spoil between Earth and Heaven, giving
the body to the dust, and the eoul to
God. Then soldiers vain, vain indeed are
all your ceremonies at this time, unle<* you
are benefited, for all that you have, or may
yet do, will neither affect that body,
or restore it to your embrace. If tbe artillery
of earth was at ywtir command, and
though volley, after volley was discharged,
till the trees would give off their branches,
and ther rocks be tumbled from their resting
places on the hilt fides, ye*, tlrMigh
vou could r?nd the air* jiod e^ke the found .
-r../ <;
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utiofis of Earlli and Heaven, that body
would .?!i!! he unchanged, still bo dead.?
Century a! tec century may pass by, and generation
after feneration live and periali olf
tliis earth, the gentle zephyrs may oftetl
swell into the most violent tempests, sweeping
over the hills with their terrific sound.-,
yea, the wheels of time may roll on till the
veiy Earth itself, so to sp^ak, beeoma
hoary with age, y?.t all, all will be unobser
vc'd by him thai rests beneath that sod.?
lie sleeps a sleep 1'iotn which ho will only
awake to bihold the grandest exhibition
ever witnessed by eartli or heaven?time
swallowed up into etern'.t v. For uothrng
but the mighty trumps of C...1, which perchance
is often looked on with admiration
by saints and anvils on account of its magnitude,
with tho niighly blast of an angel,
can awake it from its present resting place*
And here, soldiers, I am forced to say that
one of your best members has been cnlled
from time to eternity. And while you stand
around his grave with hearts united, and feel
keenly the inestimable loss you have sustained,
T feel that I may with safety say. that you
sorrow not alone, for those who stand
around, fain would lighten your burdens by
sharing your sorrows. When 1 say that n
body now rests in that grave, \\lio9G actions
through life are well worthy of your imitation,
not only for your present happitless,
bat as it regards your future destinies, I
will not have said too much. Then let us
J1S fcltlilioi'C nn.l - ?- -* 1 /V
v-i111.Vim, n un a unuea enort,
attempt lit lea-t to lighter) the overwhelming
burden of sorrows, that find a home ifi
the breast of those tender parents; by show*
ing to them that we, as a community, feel
sensibly the loss wo have sustained ; for,
verily, (he Washington troops, have lost ono
i.f their most worthy member*, and this
community, one of its most noble young
men. Through lite, your departed fiiettd
posseted many of those, virtues, that are so
frequently found wanting in young men of
his age. IJ e lived an exemplary life, and
died a triumphant death. Then, soldiers,
may the last, the dying request of your depaited
brother, made not only to those who
were permitted to witness the last contest
beleewn life and death, but through them
extended it to you his absent fiiends, como
home with its full power, and impart to the
feeling of each of you at this Lime?may
the short sentence, "meet me in heaven," bo
nrpAlvc in -- ? 1 1 - *
..w ... ;vui Iit-m it ur Jib uranus OK
fire ill your heads, till you can fully comprehend
its merit, anil endorse it to its importance.
Yea, may 1 lie thought that 70U now
pay tribute to the body of one whoso soul
is in the full enjoyment of heaven, bo not
merely as a tendril encircling the tcrlderest
chords of your most innermost soul, wooing
you from Earth to Ileaven, but as n stfong
chord around yonr heart from vthicti you
will even be unable to extricate yourselves,
till you are fully prepared to enter that celesti.d
city, and with him that has gone before
you drink deep ofits founts of eternal
h appincss ; where the mind will live and
expand, and still expand, till ten thousand
times ton thousand worlds like this we
inhabit, with all its piesent apparent mysteries
and complications, can be fathomed at
.1 glance.
Now. rrr> from this, fllllv in
. r-? ? '?
cherish ihe memory and practice the Virtues
of your departed brother.
Maiisjiai. Nev's Death Scene.?The
vengeance of the Allied Powers demands
some victims; and the ititripid Ney, wbo
had well nigh put the crown again dn lion
a pa lie's head at Waterloo, was to be one
of them. Condemned to be shot, lie was
led to the Garden of ^ Luxemburg, on the
morning of the 7thf of December; and
placet] in froi.t of a fi'o of t-old iers, drawn ip
10 kill him. One of officers stepped uj>
to band: g i his eyes, Unit he stopped ihein1
saying, "Arc you ignorant that for twenty*
five years I have becik accustomed to faco
both ball and bullet?* He then lifted his
hat abt>ve his head, and with the same calm
voice fjiat had steadied his columos fo fre
qnentl* in the roar and tumult of battta)
said, "I declare before God and mnn, thft t
never betrayed my country ; may my death
riihilnr luinliif Vlon t? I'* " -
V....V. . .U. ' f'l } "V "I 1 imiwl lit)
then turned to the soldiers, and strikihg his
hand on his heart, gave order, "Soldiers-,
fiie !" A simultaneous discharge followed,
ancl the "bravest of the brave" sank to rise r.O
more. "He who had fought five hundred
battles for France, not one against her, Was
shot as traitor!" As I lobkfctl t>r*the*pot
where he fell, I could not but sigh over his
fate. True, lie broke his oath of nlleginftcti
?so did oiliQrs, carried away by their at-*
tachinent to Napoleon and the enthusiasm
that hailed his approach to I'ariB. Still-be
was 110 traitor.
Tiib English Language In VtnolKiA.??
Tiie Rev. VVm.S. Pluider, of 1'a., i fiittr
days since, delivered art address at the opening
of a Female Seminary in Wlit&elin^.
The following is nn extract:
Pronunciation, he saidi might W5 inellkl*
ed in a general remark about reading?But
it deserved especial mention. Virginia *?i
settled when Dr. Johnson gave usOrthoffb*
phv, and \Valker Orthography. Virginia
had abided hv those standard*, atul Ih bb
opinion sho had tione _well. It was wid,
that wer? a well eduoated Virginian to
apeatf in tie British Pa?-liamgm, after .he
got through, every membelr would da?m
that he whs from his particular district.
The Bngjish language is fonojjl io gimfoi
purity in Virginia than in a^^rv
continent, - , ' ' *
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