The Georgia mirror. (Florence, Ga.) 1838-1839, October 27, 1838, Image 2

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might never fade before the touch of decay, that \ no duck worm might prey on the bud of happiness which wa* nntolding its leaves in their smiling path. , But my eyes unconsciously sought Nina. She stood near the fair-bride, and I could not conceive that even in the flush of health she could have appeared more touchingly lovely, 'i he lustre ot her expressive eye was not anil as I looked on her I could not believe the shadow of the torn!) was then resting ou aught so beautiful. She met my gaze—she read my thoughts, and a bright sweet smile wreathed her lip momentarily ; it spoke of the hope of bliss beyond.the grave. In the evening, when I repaired to her apart ment, she boiethe traces of weeping, and as she extended her hand towards me, the large tears fell glittering on her sable dress. “You will not be surprised,” said she, “that the scene of happiness 1 have so recently beheld, has recalled to me my own blighted fortunes; and though I do not doubt the justice of that decree, which has thus darkened my horizon, I sometimes so far yielded to my infirmity as to wish it had been otherwise. Your unwearying kindness and affection, my dear , bearing so meekly my petulence and ill-lmniors, have endeared you to me beyond the power of words to express.” “Dear Nina,” interrupted I, pressing my lips to her pale, silken cheek, “who could accuse you of ill liuuion 1 One. so «eutie, so uncomplain ing-” She smiled gratefully, and continue ! “If the relation of those calamities which have thus depressed me, and thrown their shadows athwart rav path, will not tire you, you shall hear it; and when the star of prosperity shines glori ously on you, when the bright wing*of the world s favor are folded around you, remember the voice my history breathes. ‘Lean not on earth;’trust it not; be not lured by its fair, but false promises ; for its golden dreams must vanish, and what are the sensations of that bosom, when all it has loved, all it has rejoiced in. is melting in its grasp, and a hereafter is disclosed, shrouded in gloom, deep and impenetrable ?” As Nina concluded, the glow of enthusiasm bathed with its rich hues her pale cheek, —she looked not like the bride of death, —but it passed; for it was but the rush of thought which had stir red the waters of memory. A gorgeous sky, which Nina said was “not un like tb» purple heaven of her own Italy,” looked 'down upon us, and seemed to smile in mockery ot the ta,c ot gner to wmcti T r whose bitterness I had not dreamed. “My family name," said Nina, “is Genovesi, and my earliest recollections are blended with my mother —my beautiful mother! My father died while I vn yet a feeble, wailing infant, leav ing my mother the possessor of a princely estate. Surrounded by ail the blandishments ol wealth, youth ami beauty, it is not to be auppoced *ne was without many lovers, who though they might not have been indifferent to the first mentioned attrac tion, were nevertheless as likely to have been cap tivated by her sunny loveliness; tor I never re member to have looked on a lac* on which the eoul of beauty was more indelibly stamped. "I el she nobly rejected all these otters, and devoted herself to the care of me—her only child. She was a zealous Catholic, and in the tenets of our national faith f was bveJ. She piqued her self on the long line of almost noble ancestry which we could boast, and failed not to inspire me with that pride in which *he gloried. I was taught to believe myself all-powerful in the majesty ol my titled kindred, in the accumulated wealth which I was to inhert, and in numberless other advantages es which l was not slow to imagine myself possessed. Injwhort, lgrcw up a haughty, self willed, obstinate, overbearing child, and it my mother was aware of my faults, she wa* too blind ly devoted to me to correct them. I loved my mother with intensity, and l could not believe another than herself had ever been gifted with such superlative beauty. I used to stand for hours gazing on her portrait which hung in her dres sing-room, and which represented her hi the mid day blaze of her loveliness, ’till in the enthusiasm of my admiration, l would exclaim to myself, “Shall I ever be such a woman as my mother?” To hearmyself, therefore, often called strikingly like her, to bo said to resemble, her, as she was in her girlhood, was a fl ittering observation ; the pernicious effects of which were soon visible in the air of self-complacency and vanity, which assumed the place of that innocence and purity and fresh ness of feeling so inseparable from childhood. “At the age of ten years I had the inexpressi ble misfortune to lose my mother ; she was ill but for a short period ; and when l was taken to see her for the last time, I could not look towards her without trembling; for l had never beheld death before. She called me to her bedside, and with a sad smile, placed in iny hand a rich crucifix, saying to me— “ ‘Keep this, my child—remember your moth er—be faithful to your religion—that holy reli gion, in which l die—the blessed Catholic faith.’ “1 bowiri niv youthful head upon the jewelled gift as I responded to tny mother’s dyintr charge. I was then suffered to kiss her pale cheek, and while she laid her hand on my head and blessed me long and fervently, the first tears 1 ever re member to have shed stole from my eyes. “After this heavy bereavement, which I felt long and sensibly, I was sent to a convem for the completion of my education. 1 spent many years in the nursery of my faith, and as I hearkened t* the beautiful ritual, when it rose with rich melo dy, filling the fretted dome of the chapel where I was a regular attendant--as I viewed the gorgeous ceremonies which appeal so strongly to the «»n --sea—as the full clear voices of the sisters, swel ling so musically, and blending so exquisitely with the deep-rolling organ,floated majestically through the magnificent building—as the glowing hues of the noble paintings, which seemed almost endow ed with life, breath and being, met tny eye in ■whatever direction I turned—as the golden cen ser swung to and fro, emitted the rich and over powering fumes of incense, I buried iny face in iny bands, and in adoring humility, knelt rever ently to the spirit of that religion in which l had been reared, in which 1 then dwelt, and which I noon learned to love with a fanaticism of whose oxtent 1 was not then sensible. “I was the petted favorite of the whole sister hood—mv faults were overlooked—iny offences palliated—iny yirfues, and they were few enough, applauded and magnified—that greatest ornament of the Christian ca*racter, ‘a meek and quiet spirit,’ being scarcely assumed by me. “Tin# time was now approaching when T must exchange the manners Os the wayward and spoiled s’lild. for the bland and courteous address of the „oung -i Jy. I wanted but two years of seventeen.and tl (t'u the assigned for my leaving the con 'flnt an i goijjig to reside with my mother’s brother too I»»d been yppointod my guardian. ahJ wia os e home was in Venice. During this interval, 1 1 threw aside my childish ways, applied myself with intense vigor to my studies, devoted a portion ot mv time to the acquirement of accomplishments, and all this, with so much success, that when my uncle arrived to take me home with him, he ex pressed himself delighted with my attainments. “It was a sad morning to me when I bade fare well to the gloomy old convent, and prepared to accompany my uncle to a place of which nothing. Weeping, I tore mysell from crn * brac.es of the sisters who crowded praying the holy Virgin to emy un -1 threw niyseli in an agony of >e. ,r 9Desiue my uu cle, in the heavy lumbers coach, and as the dark mass of building * whose walls 1 tad spent so manv years, gre- gradually more and m m the distance, as 1 at H framed my eyes «. vain to catch a parting ° the venerate pile I leaned back * my-eat and yielded, un.estra.ned lv to mv stress. My uncle did not seem flat tered at .'hi* exhibition of feeling oa my part. as the emotions of youth are almost as soon AiUed as excited, 1 exerted my«elf, and no: unsafe C9*fully, to repress the grief which hac cpished for the tune my natural exuberance o “At the close of the third day 1 found myseli in the princelv palazzo of mv uncle, where a suite of apartments was appropriated ine, and where I found inyself encompassed with every gorgeous luxury which my inordinate love of pomp and display could desire. T needed no solicitation to plunge in the vortex of pleasure, and soon resigned myself delightedly to the brilliant and intoxica ting homage my station and attractions comman ded. With an exultant step and beaming brow, I might be seen in the halls of festal mirth, the gladsome laugh seeming to spring from a light heart, and wooing ‘joy’s echo’ from every bosom. Yet there were moments when 1 felt happiness dwelt not in the glittering throngs of the great, that the flowers scattered so richly o’er life’s high ways, refused to yield freshness, fragrance or beautv, when transplanted to the crowded walks of fashion. Still L sought this happiness in like scenes—still it eluded my grasp; hut the gem wealth anil power refused to yield, flashed upon me from anothersource. f clasped it w,th the ferven cy and enthusiasm of my temperament, believed it unfading, enshrined it-in the foldings of my heart, w here its lustre was not quenched till base perfidy stoic it thence, whispering, ‘how false is earth!’ “My uncle was childless, and after he was be „V 1... -.u. Ua oJa(il».l jaa hiq son a Jinnnj? nephew of hers, Antonio Banditti. This young man commonly resided with my uncle, but at the time of m v arrival at Venice it happened he was absent.' “After 1 had been many weeks established at my uncle's house, 1 casually heard Antonio’s return was expected the next day. That night, a rich, melting voice was waited through my window—a gondola paused in its watery path, and the dark, Italian eyes of a grateful kniphi errant were raised towards mv apartment. The serenader was Antonio Bandini! To be Continued. THE TURK AND THE ENGLISHMAN. A Mr. Urquart, who has travelled extensively and resided for many years in Eastern countries has lately published a book of adventures and ob servations. in which we find the subjoined curi ous antithetical portraiture of Turks and En glishmen. “Europeans commemorate the laying of the foundation stone. The Turks celebrate the cov ering in of the roof. Among the Turks a beard is a mark of indignity with us-of negligence. Sha ving the head is, with them, a custom ; with us, a punishment. Wo take oll'our gloves before our sovereign they cover their hands with their sleeves. Wc enteran apartment with our head uncovered; they enter an apartmcht with the feet uncovered. With them the men have their necks and their arms naked ; with us women have their arm* 1 ant 1 , necks naked. With us the women parade in gay colors, and tint men in sombre ; with them, in both cases, it is the reverse. With us the men o gle the women : in Turkey the women ogle the men. With us the lady looks shy and bashful; in Turkey it is the gentleman. In Europe ale ly cannot visit a gentloirtnn; in Turkey a gentleman cannot visit a lady ; in Europe he cam There the ladies always wear trowsers, and the gentle men sometimes wear petticoats. With us the red cap is the symbol of license; with them it is the hat- In our rooms the roof is white and the wall is colored ; with them the wall is white and the roof is colored. In Trukcy there are gradations of social rank without privileges; in England there are privileges without corresponding social dis tinction. With ns social forms and etequette supercede domestics ; with them the etiquette of relationship supersedes that of society. With us the schoolmaster appeals ‘o the authority of the parent: with them the parent lias to appeal to the superior authority and responsibility of the school master. With us a student is punished by being confined to chape’ ; with them a scholar is pun ished by beinghxcluded from the mosque. Their children Have the manners of men ; our men the manners of children. Among us masters require characters with their servants ; in Turkey ser vants inquire into the character ot masters. We consider dancing a polite recreation; they con sider it a disgraceful avocation. '•Tnrkey religion, restrains (he imposition of po litical taxes! in E upland the Government imposes taxes for religion. In England the religion of the state contributions from sectarians; iu Turkey the religion of the state protects tho prop erty of^sectarians against Government taxes. An Englishman will he astonished at what he calls the absence of public credit in Turkey ; the Turk will be amazed at our national debt. The first will despise the Turks for having no organization exchange ; the Turk will be astounded to perceive in England laws to impede the circulation of com merce. The Turk will wonder how Government can be carried on with divided opinions : the En glishman will not believe that withont opposition independence can exist. In Turkey commotion may exist without disaffection, iu England disaf fection exists without commotion. A European in Turkey, will considerthe administration ofjus tice defective; a Turk, in Europe will consider the principles of law unjust. The first would esteem property, iu Turkey, insecure against vi olence, the second would consider property in England insecure against law. The first would marvel how without lawyers law can be adminis tered ; the second would marvel how with lawyers justice can be obtained. The first would be star tled at the want of a check upon the central gov ernment ; the second would be amazed at the ab sence of control over the local administration. We cannot conceive immutability in the princi ples of the state compatible with well being ; they THE GEORGIA MIRROR. cannot couceive that what is good and just is capa ble of charge. “The Englishman will esteem the Turk un happy becausehe has no public amusements; the Turk will reckon tho man miserable who hicks a rausements at home. The Englishman will look ou the Turk as destitute of taste, because he ha* no pictures; the Turk will consider Nature. Tly Turk will be horrified at prostitution aa<4 bastardy; the Englishman at polygamy. The first will be disgusted at our haughty treatmeutof our inferiors; the second will revolt at the pur chase of slaves. They will reciprocally call each other fanatic in religion—dissolute in morals— uncleanly in habits—unhappy in the development of their sympathies sod tastes—destitute severally of political freedom —each will consider the other unfit for good seciety. The European will term the Turk pompous lad sullen, the Turk will call the European flippant and vulgar. Tt muy. there fore be imagined how interesting, friendly and harmonious must be the intercourse between the two.” THE TREK OF DISSIPATION. THE sin of DRUNKENNESS expels reason, drowns memory, diminishes strength, distembers the body, defaces beauty, corrupts the blood, inflames the liver, weakens the brain, turns men into wriking hospitals, causes internal, externd, and incurable wounds, is a witebto the senses, a devil to the soul a thi'f to the pocket, the beggar’s /companion, a wife’s woe, and children’s sorrow— makes man become a beast and a self murderer, who drinks to oth ers good hea'th, <Y robs h i m O F HIS own H > C 5 P> • - K r » M c 5 ' , ►? t* o DRUNKENNESS A FORTUNATE MISTAKE. The accidental circumstances which frequently bring medical men into extensive practice, or that, notorietv which nwv lead to it, is truely curious. It is well known that a most eminent English prac ticinner owed all his success to his having been in a state of intoxication. Disappointed on his fiist arrival in London, he sought comfort in a neighboring tavern, whence the servant of his lod ging went to fetch him one evening, after a heavy potation, to see a certain Countess. The high sounding title of this unexpected patient tended not a little to increase his excitement. He fol lowed the liveried footman as well as he could, and was ushered in silence into a noble mansion, where her ladyship's woman waited to conduct him most ditfctlv to her inis-tress’ room; her ag itation mostprobably preventing her from perceiv ing the docivr’s state. He was led into a splendid bed chamber, arid went through the routine prac tice of pulse feeding, &c. and proceeded to the table to write r prescription, which in all proba bility would hive been mechanically correct; but here his power? failed him. In vain he strove to tracethe salutary characters, uafi! wearied in his attempt, lie threw down the pen, and exclaiming “Drunk byt’.—!”—rr.ade the best of his way ou of the house. Two days after he was not a little surprised by receiving a letter from the lady and, check for 100?., and the promise of her family and friends’ patronage, if he would observe the strict est secrecy es the state he found her in. The fact was, that the Countess had been indulging in brandy and laudanum, which her Abigal had procured for her, and was in the very condition which the doctor had so frankly applied to him self. SATURDAY - NIGHT. It is good when the week is ended, to look back upon its business and its toils, and mark where we have failed of our duties or come short of what we should have done. The close of the week to each one of us should be like the close of our lives. Every thing should be adjusted, with the world and with our God, as if we were about to leave the one and appear before the other. The week is indeed, one of the regular divisions of life, and when it closes it should not be without its moral. From the end of one week to the end of another, the mind can easily streatch onward, to the close of existence. It can sweep down the stream of time to the distant period when it will be entirely be yond human power to regulate human affairs. Saturday is the time for moral reflection. When for the mercies of the week we are thankful, and when our past months, and years come up in succession before us—we see the fvanity of our voutliful days, and vexations of manhood, nnd tremble atthe approaching winter of age. It is then we should withdraw from the business and cares of the world, and give a thought to our end, and what we are to be hereafter..— Bacon. A Df.au Kiss.—-A curious trial was recently held at Middlesex Sessions, in England. Thom as Saverlaud, the prosecutor, stated, that on the day after Christinas he was in the tap room where the defendant, Caroline Fcwton, and her sister, who had come from Birmingham, wete present. Tho latter jokingly observed that she had promis ed her sweetheart that no man should kiss her while absent. It being holiday time, Saverlaud considered this a challenge, and caught hold of her and kissed her. The young woman took it as a joke, bather sister, the defendant, said she would like as little of that kind of fun as he pleased. Sn verland told lier, if she was angry, he would kiss her also ; he then tried to do it, and they fell to the ground'. On rising, the woman struck him; he again tried to kies her, mid in the scuffle she bit off his nose, which she spit out of her mouth. The action wns brought to recovery damages for the loss of the no*e. The defendant said he had no business to kiss her; if she wanted kissing she had a husband to kiss her, a better looking man than ever th r prosecutor was. The jury without hesitation acquitted her; and the chairman said, that if any man attempted to kiss a woman against her will, she had a right to bite off his nose if she had a fancy for so doing. We call the following from the pages of Mr. Suciß’s pamphlet on Duelling. “From the time at which Francis the I, of France, gave the lie to the Emperor Charles the V, aud offered toanaintain it by a duel, the prac tice with this high sanction spread alarmingly, especially among the nobles, and military men, when *i»her the lie or other approbious language was give* ; which barbarous fashion became the cause of many wounds and murders, and of much public and private mischief— so potent for evil , is thc'bad exmaple of men in high places. The prac tice obtained in England, also, to so great an ex-, tent, that in single reign of George the 111, it was estimated that there were three hundred ami forty four persons engaged in duels, sixty-nine of whom were killed and ninety six wounded. Ma ny of those combats took place from alight, aod of them from insufficient, reasons. And from a petition sent to the British Partiment by Mr. Jo seph Hamilton it appears, that such is the ten derness of the sensibilities of British gentlemen of honor, that Colonel Montgomery wa* shot ip a duel a bout a dog ; Capt. Ramsay in one about a servant;* Mr. Fetherston in one about a recruit ; and Stern’s father in one abou* it goose. Gen. Barry was cha'.enged by Capt. Smith for declin ing a glass of wine with him at dinner, in a steam boat, and another was compelled to fight about a pinch of snuff'-, a pretty fair specimen (by the way) of the qaitses which most commonly lead to duels ; among such, in all countries, a theatre, a horse race, a bet, a game of hazard, a lewd woman, or some other nuisance to society, is Commonly at the bottom of such affairs of honor.’ LONGEVITY OF OUR FOREFATHERS. No less than thirteen of our fifty-six singners of American Indeuendence have reached the age of eighty years and upwards, viz: Charles Carroll of Maryland, 93 William Ellery of Rhode Island, 93 John Adams of Massachusetts. 91 Samuel Adams, do 81 Robert Treat Paine, do 93 Benjamin Franklin, do 84 William Williams of Connecticut, 91 William Floyu of Long Islaud, 87 Thomas M’Kean ot' Pennsylvania, 83 Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, 83 George Wythe, do 89 Mathew Thornton, of Ireland, 89 Francis'Lewis of South Wales, 90 Being an average of 8G and 2 months each, and the aggregate excess of the “time honored thirteen” over four-score is just 80 years. No deliberate assembly of equal magnitude was ever more remarkable for the virtue, temperance, and fansevity of its members, than the one which de clared that the American colonies were free and independent,— Philadelphia Daily Advertiser. WHITE SLAVERY. What is there in Negro slavery, compared to the abject misery, wretchedness, and suffering depiced in the following article ? Children in, Factories. —ln a report of the de bates in the British House of Commons, upon the subject of the labor of children in factories, Lord Ashley stated it to be in proof, that up to the last return, which was it 1835, the number of per sons annually employed in the factories was 3G0,- 000; that in every 100 of these more than 55 were females; that within the last three years the total number any pr portion of females to males, had considerably increased, and that no fewpr than eighty different physicians ant! surgeons had de po cd to the unhealthiness agd destructiveness of j the system. The miseries inflicted might well be j estimated by the fact, that the distance traversed | by each of the children called piercers, in their dai- J ly movements within the mill, amounted to 20, 25 and in some factories 30 miles a day, “an everage of fatigue,” says Mr Gurthrie, the military sur geon, “which is not endured by a soldier in the presence of an enemy.” The mortality has bceu such as was to be expected from such a slate of things, that is to say, in the districts where this system prevails, as many deaths take place under twenty years of age, as in ordinary districts under forty. The noble lord concluded by moving— “that this house deeply regrets that the law affect ing the regulaiiou of the labor of children in fac tories, having been found imperfect and ineffective to the purpose for which it was passed, has been suffered to continue so long without any amend ment.” In an article on the importance of a proper disposition of the relative pronoun and the antece dent, the Albany Journal quotes the following sen tence from Morse's Geography, describing Albany 30 years ago: ‘•lt contains,” says the Doctor, “about 2000 hou ses and 2000 inhabitants, all standing with their gable end to the street 1 -!" This is about as good as SolomonGudv’s sign, in the play, Solomon, exercised the ancient and honorable profession of barber and rat catcher. On his sign (a vera large one) was inscribed— ’’Soloman Gundy catches and shaves, ratsand gentlemen.”— [Alexandria Gazette.. A peculiar state of mini.— A prisoner who had just received sentence for two years, before the Boston Muncipal Court, thus addressed the judge : ‘I think my sentence is peculiarly and unjustly severe, considering the comparative slight moral turpitude of niy offence. What have I done, more than to take fifteen dollars worth of another mans property, when I was in a peculiar state of mind 1 Ido not rise . however, to ask you to change my sentence, but only to express a hopfc that your official and mortal career may ter minate before my sentence expires; and when your career does terminate, I hope you will go where Judge Jeffrey went before you, and he did n’t go to’Heaven by a d—d sight.’ Bather Saury. —One of tho best jokes we have lately heard of, was recently playeq off upon gentleman of the bar in this city. A fellow arresa ted on the charge of counterfeiting, employed th gal gentleman as his counsel. The lawyer de-e tended his client with hia accustomed ability, and tried bis best to prove him an honest man, for which of course the client was exceedingly grateful, and being liberated on bail, paid his lawyer and depar ted tor New York. Next day’, the lawyer ascer-. tained that his honest client had paid him a ten dollar counterfeit note ? That is what we call “diamond cut diamond.”— Hart. Courier OFFICIAL. Mr. AxsoS .Tones whs this morning presented by the acting Secretary of State to the PrksideSt and delivered his letter accrediting him as Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Texas near the United States.— Globe Oct. 9. Front the XalionaC Portrait Gallery. Rim Elli V. IIAIME. Robert Y. Hxyne, the subject of this sketch, was born near Charleston, South Carolina, ou the 10th November, 1791. He was the thud son of a respectable planter, and is descended from a re volutionary family, the only male members of which, who were able to bein'arms in tire war of the involution, sacrificed themselves iu the cause of independence. The one lost his life in conse quence of confi'ueineut in a British prison ship, aud the other (the gallant <uut lamented martyr', llaac Hay ne,) perished on a scaffold, the vlctlnj of British perfidy and cruelty. The lather of the subject of this sketch ImJ teu children—but in consequence of the moderate extent of his for tune, bud of pecuniary embarrassments, resulting chiefly from liabilities incurred for others, he was unable to give his son the benefit of collegiate ed ucation. Robert, therefor©, Regan and finished his education at a common grammar school in the city of Charleston. He then, at the age es 17, commenced the study of the law, under the di rection of Laugdon Chsves, well known through out the uniou as an eliuhtcned jurist and distin guished statesman. At the conclusion-Tis the u aual period of study, during which he had appli ed himself with unretnitted assiduity and clilli geucc to the atiaimoeut of legal science, he was admitted to practice his profession. An incident may be here mentioned, which, as it is indicative of that zeal and ardor to which, perhaps, Mr. Hayne has been in a great measure indebted for his success iu life, may well deserve a place in this brief account of hi? career. Early iu 1812, when our second w ar with Great Britain was rapid ly approachiug. il requisition was made by the U. States for a corps of militia to defend the sea board. Mr. Hayue, though not then of age, and incapable, therefore, by the laws of South Caro lina, of practising as a lawyer, applied for and ob tained leave from tite judges to be examined ; and having obtained an order lor his admission to the bar, upon the condition that his certificate' should be withheld until he should atta in the age'of 91, he immediately volunteered his services to the IT. States, and took the field as a lieutenant in the third regiment of State troops, with which he re mained till after the expiration of their term of service. Whilst serving at Fort Moultrie, (under the command of Col. William Drayton, of the regular army,) he delivered an address on the 4tb July, 1812, to the officers and soldiers of that gar risom This was his first effort as an orator, but young as he Was, the patriotism of his seutimepts, the classical purity of liis style, and the decisive manifestations which he even then gave of the pos session of- oratorical powers of a very high order, brought him prominently forward to the public view. Mr. Ha; ue is now major-general of tin- South Carolina militia, to the improvement of which, in discipline and military science, he jias very essentially contributed by his zealous (bvo tion to his duties in every grade, from the lowgjt to the highest. He is universally acknowledged to be one of the most accomplished and populu officers that have ever exercised tho elevated con. mand which he now holds. On receiving an honorable discharge from the service of the United States, Mr. liuyno returned to Charleston, aud immediately eoinmei ced The practice of the law. Having no patrimonial es tate, he wa3, from the beginning, thrown upon his own resources. Failing* lic-ir, however, in some degree, to the practice of Mr. Cheves, who had accepted a seat in Congress, he was rapidly aiid eminently successful in his professional pur suits. and his practice continued regularly to in crease up to tiie period of his final retirement front the bar. Before he bad attained his twenty-second year, he found himself in possession of an income which authorized him to incur the expeuses of a family ; and from that time, it is believed, his pro fessional advancement and emoluments were not surpassed by those of any practitioner at the Charleston bar. Mr. Hstyne was first elected a member of the Legislature in October, 1814. This was the first general election which hid occurred since be had attained hi& majority. And, as a very decisive ev idence of tliejhigli stand which he even then oc cupied in public estimation, and of the abundant promise which he had even then given of future usefnlness and distinction, it deserves to be men tioned that he was elected at the head of a list of thirty-one candidates, (most of them men of the highest character and talents,) and that be receiv ed on that occasion, probably, i lie largest amount of votes ever given to am individual in a contested election in the city of Charleston. For this very flattering, and in one so young, extraordinary suc cess, Mr. Hay ne was, no doubt, uniehi indebted to the firm and decided stand which he had takpn in support of Mr. Madison’s administration and the war. Party spirit at that period, ran high. The city of Charleston was nearly equally divided in relation to the war, and upon ail the other great questions which were then so warmly contested bv the political parties of that day, Mr. Hayne, upon all public occasion, avowed his opinions boldly, and displayed unusual zeal and energy in support of the principles he had espoused, and of the na tional character and honor. On the 4th of July. 1814, particularly, he delivered the annual oration as the organ of the democratic party, and of this performance it is certainly but justice to remark, that as none of the kind have ever been better composed, or more forcibly delivered, so not one, perhaps, has ever been attended with more trium phant effect upon the feelings and understanding , of an audience, or upoH the political fortunes o'l Us author. It was towards the close of that sam f year in which that Oration was rle ivered, that Hi was elected, as above mentioned, to the ture of the State. F IMr. Ilayne was now In his proper element, a ,# liberative assembly. Upon taking his seat, hewas4< chosen chairman of the military committee, then the most important in the House—and having, at the same time received the appointment from the Governor of Quarter-Master General of the State, he acted a very conspicuous part, not only in pre paring and arranging the military defences of the State, but in all the most important business of leg islation, and especially in originating, advocating, or supporting all such measures as were best cal culated to strengthen the arm of the Federal Gov- > eminent in the honorable contest in which it was then engaged. After having served five years in the House oi Representatives, during which he had deservedly acquired the reputation of one of the principal debaters on the floor, Mr. Ilayne was unanimous ly chosen Speaker of that body, and presided otcr its deliberations during the session of 1818* stronger proof need be given than this, r fthe!iig u estimafionjto which he had risen at the early ag« of twenty-seven. The occupancy of that chair, at such an age, is a compliment which has bet! l awarded to him alone, nor Is it more thanconun» :l justice tt) say; that he proved bJQJself worthy«