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fhr cs he could reach. winch reminded me ofj
one*.? having nearly spun out the List thleud of
tiieir existancc.
Lk»i it is needles for me to enter into a min
ute detail of all t lie alarming symptoms, which
he exhibi cd during taut day, and night. Suf
fice it to say. that he breathed his last the next
morning about 2 o’clock, after every effort hud
bean made to save him. As 1 stood and gaz
ed upon tne countenance of t ie dead man, 1
was forced to think within my. off, these are ]
thy victims, O, Intemperance. Such aie the
blighting curses t.iou brmgest upon my race,
O cruel spoiler,
“ C oild I but half thy curses tell,
Tne wise would wish thee safe at hell.”
Tiie necessary prejierations having been
made for me burial, and a minister procured,
a little band of fechug hearts foiioweJ him »o
the houseot silence; among w 10m Dr. C ,
JVIr. M , my fellow student G wno
had just returned from a visit to tuc country,
and my reif figured as chief mourners. His
cLseonaoiate widow and orphan child,* returned
to the c ’y a lew days after his demidfe; from
w om I received many thanks for t re last sad
offices I had paid to her departed husband. —
I nave since frequently visited the grave of this
victim of Intemperance over wnich the green
sward has grown, and the only mark by which
it is designated from those around it, is the
simple inscription G It upon the
head p’ece that was placed tnere by the hand
of one, wno yet retains for him the vestuge of
a lingering affection.
I TEDIOUS.
General Wasliinstfon.
The remains of tiiis illustrious man, the
Father and Saviour of his country, were re
cently placed in tie sarcophagus made by Mr.
Strutirers of tiiis city, from waom we leurn,
that wben tiie vault and coffin were opened,
“ vvnerc tuey jiad laid him.” t.ie sacred form of
Wis lington was discovered in a wonderful
st he of preservation. T.ie higii pale brow
wore a calm and serene expression ; and the
lips, pressed still toget her, had a grave and sol
emn smile, such as they doubtless wore when
t o First President gave up his blameless mor
tal life, for an immortal exhistence—
“ When his soft breath, wi*h pain.
Was yielded to the elements
Tic impressive aspect of tne great Departed,
overpowered the man wno jo lot it was to trans
fer the hallovve.l dust to its last, tenement, and
he was unable to conceal his emo rens. He
pi teed his nund upon tiie ample fore end, once
hig icst in tie ranks of battle, or throb.ng
wan the cares of an infant Empire; and he
la nented, we doubt not, that tne voice of fame,
could not provoke that silent clay to life again,
or j>o ir its to.ios of revival into the dull, cold
ear of Death. The late acts ot‘ patriotic sep
ul nre were thus consunmted; and the figure,
w licii we can scarcely dissociate from an apo
theosis, consigned to its low dim mansion, to
be reen no more until the mortal snail pi*f on
immortality, and the vesture of decay be chang
ed to the bright garments of endless incorrup.
tion.
Sir Walter Scott.
Scott’s father, it is stated, was a very ordi
nary mm. He thus speaks of his aged and
excel tent grand-mother.
“ Sne a id a mind peculiarly ’.veil stored with
much acquired inform itiou and natural talent;
a id as she w is very old. and had an excellent
memory, sic could draw without the least ex
aggeration or affectation, tfe postage. If 1
have been able to do any tai ;g in the way of
pamtuig tie past times, it is very much from
tne studies with which she presented me. Sue!
co erected a long period of time with the pres-1
ent generation ; for she remembered, and had,
Oi. ten spoken with, a person wno perfectly re-1
collected the battle of Du. ia ir and OI ver Crom
well’s subsequent entry into E luiburgh. Sie
preserved ner faculties to tne very day before
her fin il illness.”
T.ie following is a tribute by Sir W liter to
the social affectiOas, wiich no;.c felt and en
joyed more warmly than toe author of it.
“ There are many goo 1 things in life, what
ever satirists and ni santhrones may say to t le
contrary; but prob ably tie best of all next
to a conscience void of oiibnce (without
Which by tie by, t lev can hardly e.x'st,) are
tlie quiet exercise and enjoyment of t ie social
feelings, in which we are at o~ee happv our
selves, and the ca ise of happiness to thorn who
are dearest to us.”
Foreign Editors in China.—At Canton,
edhors are treated as wild beasts, and excluded
from ill moiety md p ibbc places. T lepcome
tSlll tiiem Faukuivcs or foreign devils. i
City of the Saltan.
The re’s cfiendi, or mmister for foreign af
fairs, had a grand-ghild, whore indisposition
caused lam tee most lively uneasiness; it was
in vain that iiis English Physician assured him
of the total absence of danger; his even
thought, li:s every anxiety, were with his dar
ling boy. In tiie midst of t. e most pressing
business, he would start up and hasten to the
chamber of tne little patient, to assure himself
that every tiling was goa.g ou favorably ; he
would ieuve ins friends, in an l our of relaxa
tion, to sit beside the sick bed of the child ;
a.ul at length, when a strict and rigid sv tern
of diet was prescribed*, w. iich was to be of a
fortmg.it’s duration, he actually submitted aim
self and compelled ail his establishment to sub
mit, to tiie monotonous and scanty fare, lest
tire boy snould accidentally see, or otherwise
become conscious of the presence of any more
enticing food, lor which lie might pure, and
ilius increase his malady.
It may be thought I have cited an extreme
instance, but such is, in reality, far from being
tue case; indeed, to such a pitch do tiie Os
munds carry tueu* love for children, that they
are constantly adopting tiio cos ot icrs, whom
they empnatically denominate “ children of the
son.” They generally take them into tiieir
families when mere infants; rear them with
tire most extreme cure and tenderness; and
finally portion them or. their marriage,as though
tne claim were a natural, ratirer tnan a gratu
itous one. Tue adopted child of Turky is not
like tue [trotege of Europe, the plaything of a
I saloon, and ultimately too often the victim of a
wuim: tne act of adoption is with the Turks
| a solemn obligation; and poverty and privation
would alike tail to weary them of well doing,
wneie their affections as weii as tiieir words
were pledged.
An equally beautiful feature in the charac
ter of tiie Turks, is their rcverance and re
spect for the author of their be ng. Tneir
wives advise and repremand unneeded—tiieir
words are o>k —not ling; but tie mother is
an oracle; s re is consulted, confided in,listened
to with respect and deference, no rood in her
latest hour, and remembered with affect,ren &
regret beyond the grave. “My w ves dre, and
I can replace them,” says the Osinanils, “ my
children perish, and others may be borne to
me—but w re saali restore to me the mother
ware has passed away, and wno is no more ?”
T ie re m e strong traits—beautiful develop
ments of human nature; and, if such be in
deed t ie social attributes of « barbarism,” then
may civilized Europe amid her pride of sci
ence and ner superiority of knowledge confess
tuat here n at least she is mated oy tire less
highly gifted Mussulmans.
Tire philosophy and kindly feelings of the
Turk is carrreu beyond the grave. He iooks
upon death calmly, and without repugnance
lie does not connect .t with ideas of gloom and
norror, as we are too prone to do in Europe;
he spreads his burial places in tire sunniest
-pot s —on the crests of tiie laughing hills, where
tuey are bathed in tiie lignt of the blue sky—
•reside the crowded thorough-fares of tire city
w lere the dead are, as it were, o ice mingle?.’
wita tue living-—in the green nooks that stretch
I own to the Bosphorus, wherein more selfish
spirits would have erected a ville, o- planted a
vineyard. He indentlfies himself with the
generation which aas passed aw v—he is rea
dy to yield his place to that which is to succeed
in’s own.
Printing*
Before the art of printing, books were of
incredible price. From tue six;u to the thir
teenth century, many bishops could not read,
& kings were scarcely able re s g , t heir names;
and lienee t;e use of seals and sealing. These
were the ages m wnich superstition, witchcraft,
and priestcraft, obtained so universal an as
cendaucy. From COO to 12 ft), alt learning
was in the hands ol Arabs, Saracens and Chi
nese.
Tie first printed books were trifling hymns
and psalters, with images of saints, and being
printed only on one side, the leaves were past
ed buck to back. One of the first was the
Bihlia P lupenum of 4t) leaves, which pasted
toget ier made 20. An entire Psalter was
printed in 1457 by Faust and Schoiffor; and
a bible, in 1673 leaves in movable types, was
printed at Mentz. between 145;) and 1455;
but t ie most important part of t ie invention
(that of movable types,) is uncertain, both as
‘o nme and flute. Tie first characters were
Gm he, and Roman types were first used in
14)7.
C ixton was the first English printer, and his
printing office was in tae chapter house of
Westminster Abbey. He learnt the art in
Gemrmv, and w ts 1 bernllv patronised in Eng-!
mnd, ino first booK printed by Caxton, was >
in 1471, and bore for its tide—• Wiilhni Cnx
ton’s Rccitlyel of tire 1 lystoyres of Troy, by
Ili oullc Fei.ro.” Vfhile tne Uiblomania pre
vailed, a copy vras knocked down bv auction
for illooo.
New Yorker.
P!arues of Popularity.
A popular man is a butt for the world to
shoot at. He is universally aplied to in all
manner of distresses, by those who do know
him, and by tho.-re who do not. There is not
a “ widow with seven small children,” a respec
table tradesman “overwhelmed by a concate
nation of untoward events,” a clergyman woe
“ expenses have exceeded his income,” or an
elderly maiden escaped in irei chemise from
“the late fire,” w o does not make him ac
quainted with their respective misfortunes, and
look to him for relief. Ti c Duke of Wel
lington, wc dare be sworn, has received more
letters from the widows, of the officers slain at
Waterloo, than ever fell in all his campaigns.—
There is not a successful actor on the stage
who could not furnish his quota of correspond
ence with seif-dubbed T .espiaiis, dated from
half the jails of England. But if your popu
larity be literary, there is positively no end of
this persecution. Every day brings its epic
or its drama, its novel in three volumes, or its
voyages in two, with a modest request to wade
through the ill written MS.—criticise, amend,
with i preface, and recommend to a publisher,
or to friends for subscription.
Novel Hat-trap.
Some few days since a large rat was observe J
make g a repast on some dead fish widen werq
lying on the beach at Falmouth, wnen its tail
was suddenly taken into custody by an oyster J
which held on so firmly, notwithstanding l id
furious attack made on it by tiie legitimate!
owner of tire tail, that finding resistance une-l
less, tiie rat made off with ail speed to a neigh-l
boring hole, pursued by a whole host of perJ
sons wno were attracted to tire scene of action.
Tiie hole, however being but just large enougn
to admit its body and not the tail, which wa J
still in the possession of the oyster, tire rei
was taken priso rer, and, of course, as soo.l
sent tiie way of all flesh. I
An Iran Horse. 1
A mechanic named David Ritter, of Nefl
H ven, has invented an iron noise that is prfl
peiled by springs by turning of a crank, whifl
tiie rider docs with the greatest ease; the hofl
is a sac simile ot' a live one, and will go at fl
rate of 20 miles an hour. lie thinks thfl
will be ire use for rail roads, as it will be m:H
e.reaper, as tire hor re will not cat one busacß
oats in fifty years, only a l.itle oiling tiirccH
four times a year. H
This beats •• wooden pumpkin seeds ”rH
“ horn gun flints” ail ire low! If some Yl
Lee would invent an iron man to ride this hoiH
another groat improvement would Ire effeciß
Business will shortly 1 e carried on without H
assistance of man or beast! fl
CAUTION TO SELF-LOVE. fl
Let us ask ourselves in tee closet, whethfl
after vve have humbled ourselves before Cfl
a our prayers, we never rise beyond the staifl
<rd in tiie pulpit; whether our zeal lor fl
truth be never over-heated by internal fifl
’css holy; whether we never grow stiffly fl
learniy pertinacious at the very time will
we Tvre reproving the obstinacy of others ; I
wietrrer vve have not frequently so acted asfl
we believed that opposition were to be relax*
and borne away by self-sufficiency and into*
ranee. Believe me, the wisest of us have o-B
catechism to learn ; and these are not the oil
ly questions contained in it. No ChristiJ
can iiatc; no Ciiristian can malign; nevel
tireless, do we not often both hate and maligl
those unhappy men who are insensible to Gobi
mercies? And 1 fear this unchristian spirl
dwells darkly, with all its venom, in the marbll
of our hearts, no* because our brother is insenl
sible of these merc : es, but because he is insenl
sible to our faculty of persuasion, turning 1
[deaf ear unto our claims upon bis obedience!
or a blind sleepy eye upon the fountains of light]
whereof we deem ourselves tiic sacred reserj
voirs.
ANECDOTE OF THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD. |
The poet and his father were out on a hill
one wintry day during a snow storm, looking
aider the safety of the sheep, when the old
man having inadvertently gone too near the
brow, the snow gave way and he was precipi
tated to the bottom. The shepherd alarmed
for the safety of his father, looked down the
side of the hill, and not only saw him stand
ing on his feet seemingly unhurt, but heardi
him crying out at tiie top of his voice “ Jrmic.
via' inun , ye u-erc aye fond of c slide a’ ye're
days, let me sec yc do that .”
The Southern Church.
Ti e Georgia Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, at a recent meeting in Ath
ens, passed resolutions declaring, that slavery
as it exists in the U. S. is not a moral evil,
and is a civil and domestic institution, with
which Christian ministers have nothin" to do
further than to meliorate the condition of tire
slave, by endeavoring to impart to him and his
master, the benign influence of the religion of
Christ, and aiding both on their way to Heaven.
The late Synod of the Presbyterian Church,
Augusta, passed resolutions, declaring that
slavery is a civil institution with which the Gen
eral Assembly has nothing to ando u that any of
the acts of the Assembley of the nature of
legislation on the subject of slavery, are with
out authority and void, and that in the present
circumstances of the Church and the country,
it is the duty of that body to give an open and
decided assent to the principal above assserted.
Charleston Courier.
Georgia Insurance and Trust Company.
CAPITAL ONE MILLION DOLLARS ALL PAID IN.
m HIS company continues to insure dwelling; housrs.
X stores merchandise, cotton in ware-houses, and
furniture, against loss by fire —and takes inland and ma
rine risks on terms as favorable as other responsible in
stitutions. Claims for losses are sea e 1 with promptness
and liberality. Apply t« C. DAY, Aoent.
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