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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1842)
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The proprie or being more desirous of pub lishing the handsomest and best, than the cheap- I est work m the Union, while at the same time I iie is anxious to bring i! within the reach oi a.., \ oilers the following as the lowest possible terms at which lie can aiFord the work in its elegant i-tyie for 1942. Three Dollars per annum in advance lor a sin gle copy. Or, Two Copies yearly lor Five Dol , ..(variably in advance, go.-.-p.-.ui. J-f Editors who may copy n.s Prospectus eu t.re, and send a copy, marked with ink, address ed io the Saturday Evening Post, (which will save the publisher the postage on newspapers,) shall be promptly furnished with the Magazine for 1842. Address, post-paid, GEORGE R. GRAHAM, Southwest cornerot Chestnut and Third Streets, Philadelphia. The Subscriber^ H.vv iNG purchased the entire interest of . John G. Woods, in the late firm of UO ZART & WOODS, intends continuing busi ness at the same Store formerly occupied by said firm. He has a well-selected stock o GOODS on hand, which lie will soil on very reasonable terms. The Subscriber earnestly requests all those indebled to the late firm, either by Note or Ac count, to call and settle immediately. G. I>. COZART. January 13, 1842. 20 •Y<plice A LL persons indented o the late firm of Mc •*-*- Ml ELAN & VINCENT, are requested to make payment immediately to JOHN 11. DYSON. January fi, 1842 1!) -N /lice to Debtors and Creditor:-. .4 LL persons indebted to the Es me of Joseph Henderson, late oi Wilkes county, deceas e.i, are requested to make payment immediate ly, and those having demands will present tiie same m terms of law for payment, to FELIX G. HENDERSON, Miti ii-.i, MENDERS')'.’ v ,x - mtrv 13, ’Si . To Hire, IJ) i tiie Mouth or o: tire bn.. nee of the Year, 9 wo strong able-bodied NEGRO MEN— oth tolerable good Carpenters. Apply to WILLIAM A. QUIGLEY. February 3,1842. ! Tor M*re, \ good SEAAJS i iir.ftS and capable of any ■ £ *- light House-work, making Pastry, &c., by tiie month or year Apply to SAMUEL BARNETT. February 3,1842 2’ 23 T&r Male, ft LIKELV young Woman, a Seamstress and House-servant, about 18 years oi age, and her child 8 months old. Enquire ai this Of fice. February 3,1812. 3 NEW SHOES. rglO-WIT, the following : Ladies’Kid, Calf, JL and Prunelle Walking Shoes ; Women’s .-evv’d Kip Sitoelees ; Boys’ Call and Kip Sheet, sew’d and peg’d ; Coarse Brogans, making my assortment complete from the smallest size to ihe largest extra size, low for Cash. A. L. LEWIS. December 16, 1841. 16 EVERY VARIETY OF EXECUTED AT THIS 9 !F 7 3 (D'E a PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. . ■ t. From the London Literary Gazette. PETER BENSON, THE MISER. A TALK. “ Not all alike arc men condemn'd to groan,— Ti.e tender lor another’s pain, The unleelhg tor Ins own.”—Grey. Peter Beason was the son of a miser, who died in the possession of immense wealth, amassed by a life of toil and privation.— Mis son wat endowed by nature with great energies ant a firmness of purpose which shewed itseif whilst yet a child ; for he be came the terror of his playmates, and the tyrant of a! ; about him Uis education was neglected ; for his lath r would have shud dered to spend money on it. His example j point ed out to his son, that to get riches was j the sole aim of life; bis precept was, to] guard them at the risk of all but life ; and to habituate his heir early to follow his ex ample, he forced him to earn even the pit tance for his pocket-money. Peter was an apt scholar: at an early age he had aetu ally put his savings out to interest ; and his father was so delighted at this trait, that he doubled the amount to confirm him in the habit. That sam night the miser di ed ! Was it. this solitary instance of liber ali'.j’ that did violence to his nature, and destroyed him ? During a severe illness, some years be- ; fore, old Benson had been advised to make j Ins will; an l lie had even consented to sent! for a lawyer,who, having gone through the usual preamble, waited for the client’s instructions; but, after a long puns., ven tured to ask the sick man to whom he wish ed to bequi at h his property. The suil'erei started up wildly in his bed exclaiming: 4 Wish to bequeath ! I wish to bequeath my property? never, inan, never! What! give my life s blood, tnv soul’s recompense! *tld, added he (as ifstru k by tli” danger of having admitted to a stranger his [wsses sion of wealth,) —• what have 1, a hard working man, to bequeath ? And so he died without a will, and Peter Benson (ound himself heir; and, as lie thoux lit. without any one to interfere with his administration of this wealth. But lie was one morning surprised by the receipt ol a .letter from his mother, whom he had been led to suppose died during his infan cy, and of whom his father never made mention. Interest being the reigning pi-in oiple ot this youth’s heart, it was upon that lie I'eiilticted ere he allowed himself to griev. or rejoice at this unexpected news. His mother’s existence might be of incalculable value- to him ; for, as a minor, lie could not take out letters of administration, and he dreaded having a guardian appointed by the law. His mother being alive, he un derstood, might render such a step unneces sary.. But, then, it was said, she would have a right to a share in his property. Os this fact, he hoped to keep her ignorant; but a s tie could not deceive her as to the a mount of wealth, would she not expect to he indulged in an expenditure suitable to it ! And he groaned as he thought how ibis would diminish the profits of the concern. His fat her had vegetated (and even that sparingly ;) lie had ne.ver dared to live. Peter was puzzled how he should reply to liis mother’s letter without committing himself or his property. At length, he thought it would be best to go to her; if she came to town, he might he expected to fetch her—so the expense must he incurred ; and by getting it over at once, he would be able to judge better of her disposition and capa bilities to render her an eligible guardian, us far as the name went, of iiis interests during his minority—the real control of them hi- intended should remain in his own hands—and he felt the coach-fare almost an excusable expense, as he reflected on the advanl ages to which his journey might lead. His mother was a poor sickly-loolcing wo i man, whose spirit had been so crushed by | oppression and tyranny that she hardly dai I iii qx-ak ‘.oiler own child, ilis personal j resemblance to his lather made her trem ! hie ; and it was not long before she percei ved the resemblance was not merely per sonal. He uttered no grief for his lost, nor joy for his new-found, parent; money, gain, saving, were all he could talk upon; and when, on bidding her good night, he said— 7 o e r- 7 1 Mother, I shall never die happy unless I become twice as rich us tnv lather,’ she felt that the life of toil and mortification she i had endured with the father was about to recommence under the yoke of her off spring ; and for six years meekly bore with S all the privations her child’s parsimony | forced on her. During these years he had j never once off r. and his mother a pleasure, | an amusement, or a single comfort, that I could have drawn a guinea from his purse. | His main study! was on how lillfe could he I manage to kee a home for him , and when, j on attaining twenty-one, he took the concern | nominally (as i had all along been virlual j /y,) into his ow t hands, she hazarded a rc i quest to retire nto the country to end her | days in quiet, fee from the feverish excite ment of trade ; he remarked, ‘ As you pletse, mother, only that I can not allow as tiuch as my father did. I mean to increa ;e my business, and every farthing will b wanted ; besides, you had money by you when my father died, uud therefore must have been able to save out of the provisiorp he made.’ The poor mbt her submitted in’ silence; she had long kiown that policy and inter est had alone i ept her son on terms with ; her; and now her allowance curtailed to the very lowest pittance, he permitted Imr to depart ; arm from tha’ hour her quarter- ly payments were, for many years, the only ) evidence of her son’s existence, while lie! was straining every nerve to realise and a- | mass riches ; to spend them, to give them, to circulate them, would have been agony. He thought of marrying ; hut then his choice must he dictated by the same unva rying rule—his interest . A g< ntleman, j with whom lie had formed extensive rela tions, invited him to his country house. — He had one daughter, an only child ; and Peter Benson became enamoured with—not her beauty, nor her sweet and gentle man tiers —hut her expectations. He mad. pro posals to the father who could not but view with pleasure such a prospect lor his child. Peter Benson the young millionaire, the man whose word could mr.’m or mar thou sands, whose existence di p. tided on Ins nod for employment—lhis eollossus of wealth, a suitor to his child—it was a match very far beyond his hopes ; and the worthy mer chant’s sight became dazzled and blind and I to the real character of the man who sought ; his gentle Marian : and she, timid and sub i missive, yielded to her fath-r’s wishes, and gave her consult to wed Peter Benson. Every day after this engagement was formed, inflicted some new trial on the mi ser’s sole feeling. Marian had in the vil lage a school supported entirely at her ex pense. 1 What worthless expenditure !’ thought he; hut this will ceas< —in [.on don we shall have no village-schools to think of.’ As they walked through tin village, he listened with terror to the grate ful thanks of many of the poorer classes, for money and clothing, bestowed by the gentle being whose arm rested on his. Po vertv he knew was not confined to the coun try, and the continuance of sueli folly was i not to he thought of. Had lie spent Ins best years in incessant toil, in caseli s- di udge ry, to get riches to give them away l —the thought was horror ; and he actually look ed at this innocent girl as though she had already been drawing his treasure from its sacred hold. Lie had passed a restless night, half spent j in repenting of the bold measure which had j placed him in such a perilous position, | when on entering the breakfast room, he found Marian busily p i using a letter with j several enclosures. SI) looked up, and , smiling her welcome, said, ‘I have been j waiting for you, Mr. Benson, to assist my j ! judgement as to the best and most effective j manner of relieving a poor family, whose I distress is really heart rrnding. My fath. j rr’s and my own donation of ■£■”> > aeli may , I tie of monetary use; and,’ added she, “I have ventured to mark a similar sum a gainst your name ; hut this is not all— | • Not all ?’ gasped Peter. ‘No ;’ said she j (too engrossed by her own bencvolt nt thoughts to remark his manner;) ‘it is i Imt a small part, of what 1 should wish to do. We must find employment for the two boys, who are old enough to ex- ft them selves for the benefit of the others. Will you not undertake this part of the business Mr. Benson ! you must have many facili ties lor obtaining situations for the poor anil destitute?’ ‘None, l assure you, Marian: situations now-a days are worth what they i will fetch. No one gives them’ away— i that is, no one who is not a idol ora rogue | to himself; besides, l make it a rule never to pay attention to begging letters ; and i have at last (bund the value of my resolu j tiou not to open any ; tor now I am never pestered with them. Allow me to settle j this matter for you.’ Ho too!: the papers : from her, placed them in a blank cover, and on the bell being answered, desired | that that letter might be given to the person waiting.’ ‘ And now Marian,’said he, 1 permit me to request that on all future occasions you will meet such applications in a similar ; manner.’ Marian remained silent. She was too hurt and astonished to trust herself j to speak ; and fearing lie had offended her (the vision of h r .£50,000 s .. fore him) he ■ nd’ Vi li ! to in.• it some excuse, by saying all who listen. -I to such idle stories are sure to be ih ccived. ‘ For my part, I could not bear Ihe feeling of being made u dupt—as the vulgar cail it, being oui-vvfit ted.’ ■ But surely,’ interrupt, and Marian, • because there may be some impostures in the world, vve are not to set all down as I rogues ; and if you return every appeal made to your charity, without examining * into it, how often mav vou not have sent a vvuy some deserving object, who, bad you known the truth, you would have been de | lighted to befriend !’ * Delighted to be | friend ! Peter Benson delight in befriend- I ing the poor and needy ! Little did Mari an know the pang, the convulsive shiver, occasioned by the mere supposition of such | weakness. The arrival of visiters put an | end to the discussion ; but the thoughts of j both parties dwelt on this scene. She was j sorry her father had not been present; he, [ who never turned from the poor till he had I ascertained whether their poverty arose j front guilt or misfortune; lie who had taught her that it would be far more condu cive to her own peace of mind, to relieve two who might not he deserving, than to send one innocent victim away, perhaps to perish for want of that aid she could alibi’d to give. Her father had told her to search i out the truth as well as circumstances ! might permit, but never to suspect (without j examination,) guilt where virtue seined ; possible. Habitually she vvas charitable in mind and liberal in her bounty towards others ; and her father’s advice only made her a wiser dispenser of the gifts placed in her power.without checking the rich stream from whence they flowed. On Wvincr th* - * Ijrc-’akfa^ 4 ♦'*.• tho fbl* iW. .1. KAPPEL, Printer. lowing morning, Marian was desired by her father to come to lii.s study in hall an hour. There was nil unusual air of anxiety in his manner when he made this request ; and Marian feared it might he to make some artangenti nt respecting the time of her marriage, and consequent separation from him. Latterly she could not think ol the former event without dread ; and the alter native had become proportionality fearful to her imagination. When she entered the study, her father took her by the hand, and placing her on the sola by him. said. - My dear Marian, 1 have never found you wanting in candor ; tell ini’ inline word what caused you to send back the letter w, had been perusing togetli r wit In ut even a word of kifidnes lo the poor afflicted people we had (as 1 thought,) decided on relieving !’ Marian burst into tears, saying, ‘Oh, pa pa, do not look so sternly at me ; it was Mr. B*‘tisoti, who insisted on its being re turned ; indeed, it was he who directed and gave it hack.’ •Bless you, ntv child ! I thought it could never he your act. Your poor old father knew you better: and -so 1 told our amiable vuung curate, who came to me this morn ing quite broken hearted about it. Indeed 1 never saw any man more deeply pained than Mr. Villiers appeared to be at this oc currence.’ Marian's face was suffused with crimson jasslie inquired itow Mr. Villiers became acquainted with it. ‘He told me,’ replied her father, ‘that the poor widow (who, it appears, was liersell the hearer of the packet,) called on him; and on his proposing to give her a letter to me, she related the heartless rebull she had just met with.’ ‘Dear papa, do undeceive Mr. Y iiliers (and she blushed v t more deeply:) it would distress me that he should think it my act. ■lie does not, my child : In did you the justice io believe vou must have been dic tated to Ijv another : but it is of tins other vve must now speak. Deal with me frank ly, Marian ; after vvliat lias passed, what aivvonr feelings towards Mr Benson ? Thus called upon, Marian acknowledged that her acceptance of him had been in obe dience to what she supposed her father s positive w ish ; but that nothing in his char acter since their engagement had made any favorable impression on her ; she had ma ny times pivceived it to he selfish; and this last. act, with his reasoning upon it (which she now repeated.) appeared to stamp him as thoroughly heartless, that she could not I now think of their union but with horror ‘Nor shall you think of it longer ; this very day he shall receive his dismissal. — The man who could thus act. and thus ar gue, nev . r could deserve you ; and tender | ly embracing her the fond father continued, ■whoever will deserve you, Marian?’ In time to hear tlie close of this inquiry. Mr. Villiers entered the study; and had ; either father or daughter looked at him, j they would have seen one whose clearest j hopes had been fixed on being at some fu -1 turedav considered so, and whose altered looks and suppressed sighs shewed how ; those hopes had neen blighted by hearing of lier engagom: tit to another. Peter Benson’s rage at the receipt of ti letter, which plainly gave him to under stand his harshness of opinion and want of liberality had caused his affianced pride to reject him, vvas unbounded ; nor was his disappointment lessened by hearing, within a few weeks, that she had been unexpected ly lt'ft a legacy to a large amount, and had thus become one of the richest heiresses ol the day. He had hardly recovered from this shock, when news was brought him of a sever conflagration which had destroyed his extensive warehouses in London. No one doubted that a man ofhis caution would be amply insured ; they were not aware of the extent of his parsimony. Though Ire (jir ntly prompted to take this precaution he could not persuade himself to pay money for that which Ly possibility might never make him any return. Loss after loss closely followed on each other; and in every instance this hardheart ed, unsympathising man could trace their origin to some act of brutality, or some nig gardly conduct ofhis own. His health be came impaired ; and he vvas nearly driven mad by the clerks in the countinghousesen ding lor a doctor whom he refused to pay. 110 became unequal to the daily calls ot ; business : and having always been tire ac tive superintendent ol his own concerns, things became worse and worse ; all his underlings hated him, and were but too prompt to take adv antage of his imbecile j state. The nervous fear that he was rob ! bed,aggravated the disease under which he labored ; and he was hardly to be recog nized when he set out, for the second time in search of his mother. His appeal could not be rejected by that mother’s heart.— | His obdurate nature, bis uncharitable mind j were known to her ; but he vvas her son, | and she allowed him te share, the scanty i pittance he had, in tiie pride of wealth and power, almost grudged her. The village-doctor advised a warm cli mate ; ami by the sale of her furniture and other effects, his mother procured the means and accompanied him abroad. Everyday increased his fretful, discontented temper —every day, too, his bodily weakness aug mented ; and ere they had been a month at Nice, where suffering had obliged them to halt, it was evident his end was fast ap proaching ; and his mother became anxious that he should see some clergyman, who might even at that late hour, bring hi;; mind to reflect on those *'*v*h?: ? which ho- [VOLI MK \XYII.
