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Hill be published entry SATURDAY Morning,
In the Txo-Story Wooden Building, at the
Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street,
IN TIIE CITV OF MACON, GA.
IIY WM. IS. HARRISON.
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jj’Salesof Land by Administrators, Executors
or Guardians, are required by Law, to be held on
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ternoon, at the Court House of the county in which
the Property is situate. Notice of these Sales must
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U’Salesof Negroes by Administators, Execu
tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction on,
he first Tuesday in the month, between the legal
hours of sale, before the Court House of the county
where the Letters Testamentary, or Administration
or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv
ing notice thereoffor sixty days, in one ofthe pub
li e gazettes of this State, and at the door of the
Coilrt House where such sales are to be held.
O’ Notice for the sale of Personal Property must
be given in like manner forty days previous to
the day of sale.
L/’Notice to the Debtors and Creditors olan Es
tate must be published for forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne
groes must be published in a public gazette in this
State for four months, before any order absolute
can be given by the Court.
jJ’Citations for Letters of Administration on
an Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must
be published thirty days —for Lcttersof Dismis
sion from the administration ofan Estate, monthly
for six months —for Dismission from Guardian
ship FORTY DAYS.
£j*Rules for the foreclosure of a Mortgage,!
must be published monthly for four months —
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three months —for compelltng Titlesfrom Ex
ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond
basbeen given by the deceased, the full space of
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** A LITTLE nOHE CjIKAPE.”
PTVIE undersigned, true to bis promise, again
I presents to the Public more data on which
they can safely base their calculations relative
to the respective merits of the depleting system
of the disciples of Esculapius, and of that invig
orating and phlogestic one of which he is proud
to be the advocate.
Leaving the stilts of egotism and shafts of rid
icule for the use of those who have nothing bet
ler to stand on, and no other weapons for attack
or defence, he selects his standing on truth, and
uses such support only as merit gives him ; and
for weapons, be chooses simply to assail the
ranks of the enemy occasionally with “a little
more grape,’’ in the form of facts,which are evi
dently the hardest kind of arguments since they
often administer to his quiet amusement by the
terrible destruction they cause among the stilts
and the ludicrous effect they produce in causing
certain individuals to laugh, as it is expressed in
homely phrase, “on t'other side the mouth.”
The Mexicans arc not the only people, these
days, whom vanity lias blinded to their own de
fects ; neither can they claim much superiority
in the way of fancied eminence and blustering
bravado over many that live a great deal nearer
home. A salutary lesson has latterly been giv
en the former by the Americans, and the latter
may ere long take “ another of the same ” a to
mode de Taylor.
After the following there will still ho “a few
mote left.”
Georgia, Jones County, 1848.
This certifies that for more than four or five
years my wife was afflicted with a disease pecu
liar to her sex, and notwithstanding all that we
could do, she still continued to get worse. The
Physicians in attendance had exhausted their
skill without rendering her any assistance till,
in 1844, when she was confined to her bed in a
very low condition, 1 got her iast attendant to go
with me to Macon and lay her case before Dr.
M. S. Thomson, who, without having seen her,
prescribed and sent her medicine that soon re
lieved her, and in the course of a short time re
stored her to permanent health She has now
been well about four years and rejoices in the
recovery of her long lost health
FRANCIS B. lIASCAL.
Macon. June 22d, 1848.
Dr. M. S. Thomson —Dear Sir :—Deeming it
a duty I owe to yourself as well as to the afflicted
generally, I have concluded to give you a short
statement of my case, which you are at liberty to
publish if you think that the best mode of thereby
subserving the interests of suffering humanity.
In May 1841, after considerable exposure to
cold, I was attacked with Asthma, which pros
trated me very much, and notwithstanding all
that could be done to prevent it, it continued to
return about every two weeks till in IB4G, I ap
plied to you. Between these attacks I had a very
severe cough, which led some ol’tlie physicians
to whom I applied to believe that I had consump
tion. 1 applied to physicians of both the Min
eral and Botanic schools, of eminent general
qualifications, hut all to no benefit, for I contin
ued to get worse,so much so that I had reduced
from being a strong, fleshy man, down to a mere
skeleton and could hardly creep about.—When
I applied to you, 1 had but little faith in being
tured, though 1 had witnessed some wonderful
results following your treatment, especially the
cure of that crazy woman you bought of Aquil
•a Phelps, in Jasper, yet they gave me confi
dence and by persevering in the use of your
remedies, and as it were Imping against hope,
am much gratified in being able to announce
that I have got entirely well, for 1 have bad but
one light attack in twenty mouths, and that was
Cl gbt months ago. I have now regained about
nty former weight, and feel as strong ns almost
any man of fifty-one, which ismyage. Without
disparagement to the cliarncteroftlie othercures
*.'« have so frequently resulted from your prnc-
! c . e > I not think that any of them can beat
* us ' *" or confirmed Asthma combined with a
("isumptiee cough, especially where the flesh
as wasted, has long been classed among the itl
arcitbles. Most respectfully,yours,
11. LIGHTFOOT.
Un d' ! rsig n nd still continues to treat Cltro
tlie HfN a distance at his office,or either of
,i ( j hoarding houses, and at a distance
v 'ho mail or by private hand. Those
uV. ,r ". require personal attention, are treated
ii s , ‘ 'iinrs per month, those who do, at tile
"od, Tate rales. Those who are able to
l( „ niNt expoi-t to do so, without variation from
'ln r ' ns ’ unless a distinct bargain is made,
,' v ' l<> i,r e not, vill In- treated gratuitously.
" c " rs must be post-paid , and add eased
■ . M. 8. THOMSON, M. D
J ‘" ,J Macon, Ga.
THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM.
VOLUME I.
$ o r t r g.
Summer’s Farewell.
BY ELIZA COOK.
What sound is that? ’Tis Summer’s farewell
In the breath of the night wind sighing;
The chill breeze comes like a sorrowful dirge
That wails o’er the dead and the dying.
The sapless leaves are eddying round,
On the path which they lately shaded ;
The oak of the forest is losing its robe ;
The flowers have fallen and faded.
All that I fook on but saddens my heart,
To think that the lovely so soon should part.
Yet why should I sigh? Other Summers will
come,
Joys like the past one bringing ;
Again will the vine bear its blushing fruit ;
Again will the birds be singing ;
The forest will put forth its “honors” again ;
The rose be as sweet in its breathing ;
The woodbine will climb round the lattice
pane
As wild and rich in its wreathing.
The hi ves will have honey', the bees will hum,
Other flowers will spring, other summers will
come.
They will, they will ; hut, all! who can tell
AVhetlier I may live on till their coming ?
Tlii s spirit may sleep too soundly then
To wake with the warbling or humming.
This cheek, now pale, may be paler far,
When the summer sun next is glowing ;
The cherishing rays may gild with light
The grass on my grave turf growing ;
The earth may be glad, hut worms and gloom
May dwell with me in the silent tomb.
And few would weep, in the beautiful world,
For the fameless one who had left it;
Few would remember the form cut off,
And mourn the stroke that cleft it ;
Many might keep my name on their lip,
Pleased with that name degrading ;
My follies and sins alone would live,
A theme for their cold upbraiding.
Oh ! what a ciiange in my spirit’s dream
May there be ere the summer sun next shall
beam !
She .Harried Him.
Sometime in the month ofJunitary,lS4o
I was a passenger on board the Washing
ton, bound to New York : there were
others, and among them a lady named
A . She was an English woman, but
had married an American, a merchant of
New York. Though neither handsome
nor accomplished, she was yet a very
agreeable woman : she had good sense
and good feeling. Although there was
something of what the French call cm
pressement in her manners, it was untitic
tured with coarseness or forwardness.—
Her children accompanied her, two fine
healthy boys, whose gambols afforded
amusement to all on board.
Asa matter of course, travellers by sea
do everything in their power to abate the
irksomeness of their situation. Mighty
are their efforts to kill time : on all sides
and with all kinds of weapons they assail
him; but in vain. Time will not be killed
by them. Old though he be, he has the
strength of Hercules in his prime. When
they think they have him fast, and are
about to administer the coup de grace, he
escapes from their hands, and laughs them
to scorn.
On board the Washington, as on board
other vessels, the passengers talked a great
deal, and on a great many subjects. One
day, the conversation turning on medicine
and its practitioners, I asked Mrs. A
what she thought of those in New York.
“Very highly,” she replied. “Hut
amongst them is one of whom I think more
highly than of all the rest put together;
that is Dr. B , a native of Baltimore,
and the gentleman who attends my fami
ly.”
And then she commenced a panegyric
on Dr. B , which would have been
appropriate enough if bestowed on a Sy
denham, but on nobody else. Amused at
her warmth, I jokingly remarked,
“Doubtless, Mrs. A , were you to
become a widow, you would marry this
Dr. B , of whom you speak so highly]’
“I become a widow !” she exclaimed.—
What an idea ! Why my husbaud is on
ly thirty-five years of age, and a remarka
bly healthy man: he never had a day’s
illness in his life.”
“Possibly not,” I rejoined, “hut remark
ably healthy men are often cut off espe
daily in the United States, where the cli.
mate, being always in extremes, is unfa
vorable to heahh.”
With that the conversation ended !he
Washington was a clipper : in twenty-’. 'e
days after leaving the port of Liverpool
she entered that of New York. There
MACON, (GA.) SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1819.
the passengers separated : some went to
Canada, some to the Far West, others (and
J was one of them) to New Orleans.
I had been in that city some seven or
eight weeks, when one day, as I was
reading the New York Herald, in the cof
fee room of the Planter’s Hotel, the fol.
lowing announcement met my eye.
“Died yesterday, of inflammation of the
heart, Mr. Robert A , merchant, of
this city v He has left a widow and child
ren to deplore his loss.”
“What!” I said to myself, “can this bo
i the husband of Mrs. A , the lady I
knew on board the Washington ? Surely
not !”
Soon, however, I was compelled to
think differently, for I found, oil reading a
second time, the obituary in the Herald
that every particular therein was applica
ble to Mrs. A.’s husband. Uncertain, in
deed, is life ! True the saying, “In the
midst of life we are in death !”
Months passed on, and I was still living
in New Orleans, when an event caused
me to leave it sooner than I had intended ;
that event was my illness. In July, 184-,
the yellow fever, was prevalent in that
month, more so than usual, and also more
fatal. In former years, the proportion of
deaths to the recoveries, was as one is to
five, in tin’s, as one is to four. I was one
of those whom the disease attacked.—
Deeply it struck its fangs in me. For a
fortnight the poison rioted in my veins—
death seemed inevitable—yet I recovered.
How I By (as I verily believe) drinking
common salad oil! A bottle thereof lay
on a sideboard in my room ; delirious I
seized it, and drank off the contents !
From that moment the fever began to
abate! But although I had triumphed
over the enemy, 1 had suffered in the con
flict ; my hollow cheeks and attenuated
limbs testified to its severity. My doctor
said I was consumptive, and advised my
Immediate return to England. I acted
upon his advice.
Behold me once more in New York,
that great city—the Liverpool of the Uni
ted States—destined, ere long, to be its
London. The journey from New Orleans,
inland, is fatiguing, even to the strong—to
me, an invalid, it was killing. I felt so
ill, the day after my arrival, that I deci
ded on sending for a physician. Recol
lecting what Mrs. A had said in praise
of Dr. B , I sent for him. He came :
and 1 found him—if not the paragon Mis.
A had represented him—a physician
of more than ordinory abilities, and of ve
ry good manners withal. After prescri
bing for me, and receiving the customary
fee of two dollars, he was about to leave
the room, when a few words from me nail
ed him to the spot. They were these :
“Pray, doctor, is Mrs. A still in N
York ?”
He colored slightly—looked first at me,
then at his boots—at length said,
“She is, and in my house: we were
married a month ago.”
I was thunderstruck. “Many a true
word is spoken in jest!”
ICP “My wife has made my fortune,”
said a gentleman of great possessions, “by
her thrift, prudence and cheerfulness when
I was just beginning.”
“And mine has lost my fortune,” an
swered his companion bitterly, “by use.
less extravagance, and repining when I
was doing well.”
What a world does this open of the in
fluence which a wife possesses over the
future prosperity of her family. Let the
wife know her influence, and try to use it
wisely and well.
IC?* The human heart is subject to
strange caprices ; it knows neither hatred
nor love in moderation ; and too often, if
we were carefully to examine the hidden
motives of both our hatred and our love,
we should find their source in either
wounded or gratified vanity.
Spider’s Web. —The body of every
spider contains four little masses pierced
with a multitude of imperceptible holes,
each hole permitting the passage of a sin
gle thread ; all the threads to the amount
of a thousand to each mass, join tohether
when they come out, and make the single
thread with which the spider spins its web;
so that what we call a spider’s thread con
sists of m re than four thousand united.
following line is fraught with
instruction, and includes the secret of final
success—be prudent, be patient and be
persevering.
The Erasivc-Soap Mail.
BY J. J. HOOPER.
The itinerant fellows who frequent our
villages, during the sessions of the Courts,
and on all other occasions of popular as
semblings— vending their small wares, ala
the Razor Strop matt—are sometimes ve
ry amusing. We noticed one of’em, last
week, crying his evasive soap to as simple
a crowd as we have observed in some time.
He was a sharp-eyed fellow, with a sanc
tified look, black whiskers, and a still
blacker and enormous straw hat.
“Gentlemen,” he said, or lather sang,
“gentlemen, I offer you a splendid article,
a superb article, an incomparable article—
magical, radical, tragical article.” [Here
lie displayed a cake of his soap.] “Magi
cal, radical, tragical, evasive soap ! Yes,
in its effects upon its inventor most tragi
cal ! Shall I tell you how ? It was in
vented by a celebrated French chemist,
after twenty years of toil, labor and priva
tion. In just fifteen minutes, two seconds
and a half after the discovery befell into
the arms of death, and his name became
immortal! You can draw your own con
clusions, gentlemen !
“ Magical, radical, tragical, e-ra-sive
soap! Dime a cake! Hand me the
money ! —served me right!—there’s the
soap ! Yes, there’s a man has got a cake
of the incomparable, inappreciable, infalli
ble, invaluable, magical, radical, tragical,
e-ra-sive soap!
“Gentlemen, you’d open your eyes, if I
were to tell you half the wonders perform
ed by this in-com-pa-ra ble article. It
cleans oil-spots, removes stains, hides dirt,
brightens good colors and obliterates ugly
ones ! —such is the virtue of the all-heal
ing, never-failing, spot-removing, beauty
restoring, health-giving, magical, radical,
tragical, e-ra-sive soap!” The vendor
wiped his brow, heaved a sigh, and re
commenced, standing at ease against a
piazza post.
“Why, gentlemen, when I first became
acquainted with this inextollable gift of
Divine Providence to erring man, I had
an obstruction of the vocal organs, an im
pediment. of speech, that bade fair to des
troy the hopes of the fond parents who in
tended me for the bar or the pulpit. 1
was tongue-tied —but I came across this
precious compound—swallowed just half
an ounce, and ever since, to the satisfac
tion of my parents, myself, and assembled
world, 1 have been volubly, rapidly, suc
cessfully, interminably, unintermittingly,
and most eloquently sounding the praises
of the incomparable, infallible, inimitable,
inappreciable, never-failing, all-healing,
spot-removing, beauty-restoring, magical,
radical, tragical, e-ra-sive soap !
“Ah, gentlemen, a world without it
would be nought! It takes the stains from
your breeches, the spots from your coats,
removes the dirt, restores the gloss, and
diffuses a general cheerfulness over the
character of the whole outer man ! True,
gentlemen, I’ve worn the fore-finger of
my right hand to the first joint, in illustra
ting the efficacy of this ineffable compound
—but I told you that the fore finger of one
man—yea, or the fore fingers of ten men—
are as notiiing, when compared with the
peace and welfare of society and the
world !”
“Oh, magical soap ! oh, radical soap !
oh, tragical soap ! What wonders thou
dost perform ! The frightened locomotive
leaves its track (as it were) on thy ap
proach ! The telegraphic wires tremble
and are dumb in thy presence !
“Why, gentlemen, it clears the com
plexion of a nigger, and makes a curly
beaded man’s hair straight ! It removes
the stains from the breeches and the spots
from your coats —in like manner, it puri
fies the conscience and brightens the char
acter! If you’re a little dishonest or dirty,
try it! If your reputation or clothing is a
little smutted, I’ll warrant it! For ladies
whose slips—l mean those little, brown,
yellow, white, blue and many-colored slip
pers—have become soiled, it is the otdy
cure, panacea, medicamentum, vade-me
cum, in all globular creation. Then come
up, tumble up, run up, and jump up, like
Hung’ry patriots, and buy my incompara.
hie, infallible, ineffable, inappreciable,
coat-preserving, beauty-restoring, dirt-re
moving, speech-improving, character pol
ishing, viitue-imparting, all healing, never
failing, magical, radical, tragical, com
pound. E-RA-StVK SOAP !”
Here Hard-cheek’s oratory was inter
rupted by a shower of dimes from boys,
men and hobbledehoys, and the “show’
was considered “closed.”
NUMBER 46.
From the Industrial Agent.
Early Kialiits cf industry.
There is no truth more clearly confirm
ed by the universal experience of man,
than that habits, whatever they may be,
when once fixed, are very difficult to erad
icate, so difficult, indeed, that most per
sons are disposed to pronounce it practi
cally impossible. It is no matter whether
these habits are good or bad, or by what
means acquired, when once formed they
cling to character with a tenacity so vital,
that to extirpate them seems like disloca
ting the very elements of individual be
ing.
The time in which most of our habits
are established, is during the period of
extreme youth, while the nature is yield
ing, pliant, impressible, and susceptible of
being Ltoulded and directed by the slight
est effort. All will, therefore, concede
the necessity of watching with unremitting
vigilance, the developements of those ear
ly qualities and dispositions by which the
complexion and fortunes cf after life are
determined.
Habits of industry arc among the first
that should receive attention, as there are
few more all important than these. It is,
however, quite needless to dilate upon
their importance ; the only question being
as to the best method of inculcating them.
How can children he best taught the
practice and love of industry! Before
answering this question directly, we must j
be allowed to say, that children are natu
rally industrious by a law of their consti
tution. They are necessarily active;
when not asleep, they are always in mo
tion, putting forth exertion as if by in
stinct. We are not, then, to create the
material out of which these habits are to
be fabricated. We are not only re
quired not to repress a natural teuderi*
cy ; but, on the other hand, to encourage
and train its free and exuberant growth.—
But how is this to be done ? We answer
briefly, by placing before the child those
natural stimulants to action with which
the Creator’s works everywhere abound’
Curiosity and imitation are perhaps the
strongest tendencies of the young mind.
Curiosity inspires that unceasing flow of
questions which is so common a characte
ristic of infantine years, and the love of
imitation excites to continual action. Most
children, through the strength of this pro
pensity, acquire a language before they
are four years old, learn to pronounce
innumerable words and affix to them dis
tinctive ideas, simply by imitating others.
We think the plan adopted by that inde
fatigable friend of youth, Mr. J. Holbrook,
of this city, respecting the formation of
early habits of industry, to he unsurpass-1
cd in its experience, the correctness of its :
principles, and the success of its results,
lie has demonstrated in innumerable ca
ses, many of them so refractory as to re
sist all other modes of influence, that small
lads may be excited to voluntary and per
severing exertions by simply taking ad
vantage of their natural fondness for know
ledge.
Once arouse a desire of accomplishing
something noble, and the child will work
with a heroism which he will never sur
pass in after life. Children are untiring in
the pursuit of all those objects which in
terest them. The elements of natural
science, when properly unfolded, pro
duce this effect : they fix their attention,!
kindle enthusiasm, and it is now only ne
cessity to connect physical labor with the
acquisition of knowledge, and habits of
industry will be soon permanently estab
lished. When a boy or girl has some dar
ling purpose to gain, if order, close ob
servation, and industrious efforts are in
dispensible to the attainment of this pur
pose, they arc of course in the best con
dition to cultivate these fundamental attri
butes of character. Mr. Holbrook makes
it an essential feature of his system, to con
nect physical with mental labor, and to
render them attractive by giving play to
curiosity, and by adroitly converting to
his purpose those perennial springs of ac
tion which control the unfolding intellect.
One thing is clear : children will never
contract industrial habits so long as parents
and teachers are too indolent to deviate
from the beaten path of education now in
prevalent use. Flogging is still largely
recognised as the most potent stimulus
which can be brought to bear upon the
young mind ; and is so recognised, be
cause it is the easiest, most summary, least
troublesome, and most readily resorted to
in all contingencies, and as a consequence>
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING,
Will be executed in the most appvorcd style
and on the best terms, at the Office of the
scttthep.it mttsettm,
-BY—
WM. B. HARRISON.
the most congenial to laziness on the par
of the instructor.
The unnatural modes of study at pres
ent in use, owe their perpetuity simply to
the fact that they dispense with any great
amount of effort on the part of the teach
er. He has only to pass mechanically
through a prescribed routine of exercises.
The task of a teacher, if rightly executed,
is arduous and toilsome, and it can never
be expected that young pupils will form
industrious linbits with examples of indo
lence constantly before them, and no out
lay of effort to render the road to knowl
edge attractive and pleasing.
Reformation: ©fir Milam Wirt.
A TRUE INCIDENT IN IIIS HISTORY.
The distinguished William Wirt, with
in six or eight months after his first mar
riage, became addicted to intemperance,
the effect of which operated strongly oil
the mind and health of his wife, and in a
few months more she was numbered with
the dead. Her death led him to leave the
county where he resided, and he moved
to Richmond, where he soon rose to dis
tinction. But liis habits hung about him,
and occasionally he was found with jolly
and frolicsome spirits in bacchanalian rev
elry. His true friends expostulated with
him, to convince him of the injury he was
doing himself. But he still persisted.—
| Ilia practice began to fall oft’and many
looked on liim as on the sure road to ruin.
He was advised to get married, with a
view of correcting his habits. This he
consented to do if the tight person offered.
He accordingly paid his addresses to Miss
Gamble. After some months attention he
asked her hand in marriage ; she replied
“Mr. Wirt, I have been well aware of
your attentions for some time back, and
should have given you to understand that
your visits and attentions were not accept
able, had 1 not reciprocated the affection
which you evinced for me. But I cannot
yield my assent until you make me a pledge
never to taste, touch or handle any intoxi
cating drinks.” This reply to Wirt was
as unexpected as it was novel. His reply
was that he regarded the proposition as a
bar to all further consideration on the sub
ject, and he left her. Her course towards
him was the same as ever—his, resent
ment and neglect. In the course of a few
weeks he went again and solicited her
hand. But her reply was, her mind was
made up. He became indignant, and re
garded the terms she proposed as insult
ing to his honor; and vowed it should be
the last meeting they should ever have.—
He took to drinking worse and worse, and
seemed to run headlong to ruin. One day
while lying in the outskirts of the city,
near a little grocery, or grog-shop, dead
drunk, a young lady, whom it is not neces
sary to name, was passing that way to her
home, not far off, and beheld him with his
face upturned to the rays of the scorching
sun. She took her handkerchief, with her
own name marked upon it, and placed it
over his face. After he had remained in
that way some hours, he was awakened,
and his thirst being so great, he went into
the little grocery and grog-shop to get a
drink, when he discovered the handker
chief, at which he looked, and the name
was on it. After pausing a few minutes,
he exclaimed—“ Great God ! who left this
with me ? Who placed this on my face ?”
No one knew. He dropped the
exclaiming—“ Enough ! Enough !” He
retired instantly from the store, forgetting
his thirst,but not his debauch, the handker
chief, or the lady, vowing, if God gave him
strength, never to touch, taste, or handle
intoxicating drinks.
To meet Miss G. was the hardest effort
of bis life. If he met her in her carriage*
or on foot, he popped round the nearest
corner. She at last addressed him a note
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house, which he finally gathered courage
enough to accept. He told her if site still
bore affection for him, he would agree to
her own terms. Her reply was :
“My conditions are now what they ever
have been.”
“Then," said Wirt, "I accept them.”
They were soon married, and from that
day he kept his word, and his affairs bright
ened, while honors and glory gathered
thick upon his brow. His name has been
enrolled high in the temple of lame ; while
his deeds, his patriotism and renown live
after him with imperishable lustre. How
manyjtoble minds might the young ladies
save, if they would follow the example of
the heroine-hearted Miss G., the friend of
humanity, of her country, and the relation
of Lafayette.