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&y- Any person forwarding a ten dollar bill, (post
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SPRING FASHIONS.
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SUMMER HATS.
UTUIE subscriber respectfully informs his customers &
J- friends that he has now on hand, and in process
of manufacture, the finest assortment of Black and
White Summer Hats ever before offered in this city,
consisting in part of the following:
8 dozen super Drab Beaver Ilats, broad brims
10 do do do do do medium brims
10 do do do Beaver Naps, wide &. medium
20 do do White Russia Naps, do do
25 do do do plain Russia Hats, broad
25 do do do do do medium
25 do do do do do fashionable
20 do second quality plain White Hats, with wide
brims, warranted all fur, at three dollars
20 do fine Black Moleskin Silk liats, warranted
fur bodies, at less than Ne w York prices
With a large assortment of Gentlemens, Youths and
Childrens fine Leghorn, Manilla Sc Palm Leaf HATS.
Together with a fine assortment of Youths and in
fants Cloth and Velvet CAPS, of the latest styles, all
of which are offered on the very lowest terms for cash
or good pay customers. Purchasers are respectfully
invited to call and examine before purchasing.
GEORGE A. KIMBERLY,
Sign of the Big Hat, Mulberry street.
March 16 21
FOOD FOR TIIE MIND.
,4\ mi w jwo:k swoj&aj
rPHE subscriber would respectfully inform his friends
-1 and the community in general, that he has remov
ed from Milledgevd'e, and permanently located himself
in this place, two doors South of the Washington Hall,
on Mulberry-street, at the stand formerly occupied by
Win. 11. Burdsall, ann lately by A. MoArn, where he
intends carrying on the LOOK and FANCY BUSI
NESS on the mostrea salable term.- ; and he flatters
timseif, if the peopltiw 11 call and i amine his stock
that ts ty will be eonvnerd that lie can sell as low as
can lx, bought at any house this side of New York.,
Among Ins stock may he found a generalassortment
of Cos rr, Medit al, Miscellaneous and School BOOKS;
GLOBES, MAI’S and ('HARTS; Mathematical In
struments ; Record and itiauk Hooks of all kinds.
Paper, Ink, Quills, Inkstands; Printing, Visiting and
Playing Cards ; S eel Pens, Fine Cutlery, Silver Pen
ciK Purses, Pocket-books, Banker's Cases, Ladies’
Work-boxes; ladies’and gentlemen's Dressing Cases;
Dissected Maps, Spelling Puzzles, and a large assort
ment of TOYS for children ; Fancy and Drawing Pa
per, Bristol .Boards, Paints, Varnish, India Ink, Brush
es for Painting ; Gentlemen’s fine Hair, Shaving, Nail,
Tooth, Whisker and Clothes Brushes; Writing and
TmwlUng Desks ; Wilson’s Manifold Letter Writer,
with the art of despatching 1,2, 3or 4 letters with a sin
gle stroke of the pen—a very useful article for all busi
ness men.
Cologne, Florida, Lavender and Bay Wa’ers ; .Vilk
of Roses, Rouge ; Ladies’Curls, Head Ornaments, &c.
Violins, Accordians, Music Boxes ; the most celebrated
MUSIC for Pianos ; Card and Cigar Cases ; Tobacco
nnd Snull Boxes, vcc.
All Ne-,v Publications will be received as
soon as they are issued from the press.
The above goods have all been selected fresh in New
York this fall, ami are of the best binding and mater
ials. A liberal discount will he made to gentlemen
nnd teachers buying by the quantity, for their libraries
nnd schools. Bv a close application to business, nnd a
desire to ncomodate, I hope to merit a portion of the
patronage of this liberal community.
C. A. ELLS.
November 17 lyt
MORI? NEW GOODS.
J UST RECEIVED at the NEW SHOE & IIAT
STORE,
2 trunks uentlrmen's Boots, of superior quality
1 do tine Bootees,
1 do Shoes
6 cases mens and beys Light Boots
200 pair Dancing Bumps
200 do Walking Pumps
100 do Youths Pumps
200 do Ladies French Slips
100 do -Misses do do
100 do Walking Shoes
100 do Boots
200 do Childrens Morocco and Leather Bootees
Also, a large assortment of Mens and BoysCa
and Kip Brogans
10 cases Negro Shoes of good quality
4 do gentlemens tine Beaver Hats
4 do white Russia Hats
4 go youths Wlii'e Hats
4 do youths Black II its
8 do fine Moleskin Hats
30 do men and boys white &. black Woo! Ilats
All of which will be sold very low for cash, wholesale
or retail. lIEIDT, ALDRICH & CO.
March 16 21
New Clothing Store.
K. W. MORRIS & CO
HAVING located themselves in the s'ore formerly
occupied by Wm. B. Johnson & Cos. (east side
Mulberry street,) are now opening an extensive assort
ment of
Ready-Made Clothing,
of the latest fashions, and of superior workmanship
which will be SOLD CHEAP FOR CASH. Their
stock consists in part of the following, viz :
Super blue Cloth Cloaks,
Goat's hair Camlet W rappers,
Brown and mixed Cloth Overcoats,
Invisible Green do.
Mob air and Beaver Cloth do.
Pilot Cloth do.
Blanket Hunting Coats,
Kentucky Jeans frock and Dress Coats
Beaver Cloth Frock do.
Pilot Cloth Hunting Coats,
Super blue Cloth Frock and Dress Coats,
Do. black do. do. do. do,
Do. invisible green and brown do.
350 Vests, comprising all styles and descriptions,
Victoria and Coronation Cassimere Pants,
Black and Blue Cassimere do.
Fancy Striped and Ribbed do.
Satinet and Kentucky Jeans do.
ALSO,
A general assortment of Stock", Collars, Susnenders,
Gloves, Ilotsery, Linen Shirts, Cotton do. with Linen
Bosoms,
A general assortment of Boots, Shoes and Pumps.
Super Silk and Cotton Umbrellas,
Leather Trunks and Carpet Bags,
Purchasers are invited to call and examine our stock.
October 27 3m 1
HOUSE, SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL
PAINTING, GILDING. &c.
THE subscriber, grateful for past favors in the above
line, begs leave most respectfully to return his
most sincere thanks to the citizens of Macon and Vinc
villc, and their vicinity, and takes this opportunity to
inform them and the public generally, 'lint he has as
sociated with him, in co-partnership, CHARLES L.
SMITH, (late of Wall street, New York, a gentleman,
and second to none in his line of Painting in the Uni
ted States,) for the purpose of conducting the Painting
business in all its various departments.
THOMAS B. CLARKE,
The business, in future, will he conducted under the
firm and style of CLARKE At SMITH, No. 1
Mulberry street, next dour hut one below William B.
Parker at Cos., and directly opposite the Centra! Hotel.
_l . b 2
UNITED STATES BANK NOTES, latge hills
for sale by J T ROWLAND
Also. CHECKS on NEW YORK.
March 1C Cltf
i!§ottf Ijmx §f
BY P. C. PENDLETON. x
VOL. 11.
ICE! ICE!!
RECEIVED and for sale a large supply of ICE,
w hich can lie had at any time from sun-rise til!
, nine at night, by applying at the store. A large Re
frigerator will be kept tilled in the store, and delivered
;in any quantities without a moments detention. Price
eight cents per pound.
HARVEY SHOTWELL, Druggist.
Opposite Central Hotel.
N. B.—When wanted to go in the country, it will be
put up in the most careful manner.
April 6 24
ICE!
HE subscriber would respectfully inform the puh
lie that he has just received a large supply of Ice,
and will be ready to deliver it on the Ist day of April
next. It can be had at all hours, by application at the
Central Hotel. Orders from the country carefully pack
ed. JOHN WILLIAMS.
March 30 23u
J. L. STEPHENS, SURGEON DENTIST,
fATE of Columbus, Georgia. Office at the Cen-
A tral Hotel, Macon, Georgia.
It I meet with encouragement in my prolcssion, I
shall expect to make Macon my permanent residence.
April 6 gin
DRESS MAKING AND MILLINERY.
RS. HANLEITER wishes to inform the Ladies
XV EL of Macon, and vicinity, that she has come to the
determination of pursuing the dress making business,
nnd flatters herself that, from a long experience, she w ill
give entire satisfaction to all who may think proper to
engage her services. She will endeavor to obtain
patterns of the latest Spring Fashions, and be bctiei
prepared to suit thoscLadies who may patronize hut.
DT’ller residence is on Third-street, in the house
formerly occupied by Mr. B. Trapp.
{Ur Mrs. SAGE will attend to the mit.ltnf.ry business,
at the same house; and will Bleach and Press Bonnets
at short notice.
January Id 13e i
LAW NOTICE.
VS4IIE undersigned will hereafter practice Law- under
a the firm and style of McDONALD, POWERS
& FRANKLIN, and will regularly attend the Courts
heretofore attended by McDonald & Powers Office
over the Ocmulgce Bank.
c. j. McDonald,
A. P. POWERS,
Feb 2 15-ts L. FRANKLIN.
Auction and Commission Business.
731 HE undersigned has commenced a regular busi-
R ness in the above tins, and solicits the patronage
of the public. Refer to
Messrs. Rea Si Cotton, Macon.
“ Scott & Morrell, New York.
“ Win. Patterson &. Cos., Savannah.
Mr. Charles Hartridge, “
*• Robert Collins, Charleston.
Messrs. Farrar & Hayes, “
Mr. G. McLaughlin, Augusta.
a. r. McLaughlin.
N. B. Sales may be expected on WEDNESDAY
in each week, until further notice.
Feb 16 17rf
CASTINGS, HLACKSMITHING, &e.
VIA, kinds of CASTINGS, MILL INKS, GUD
GEONS, &.e , of Iron or Composition, cast to;
order, at short notice. Patterns will be furnished, if
necessary.
All kinds of MACHINERY made or repaired.
ST" The highest price will be given for Old Copper,
Brass, and Cast Iron.
A. D. Sc I. F. BROWN,
March 9 20tf . Near the Baptist Church.
PLANING MACHINE.
' E HIE Subscribers respectfully inform the public that
5 their PLANING MACHINE is now in full ope
ration, and that they are prepared to plane, tongue and ]
groove any thinkness, from \ to 2) inches, as well as |
weather-hoarding, and other plank, from 2 to 18 inch
es in width.
SASH, BLINDS, DOORS, &e. made to order, at
the shortest notice. A. D & I. F. BROWN,
March 9 20tf Near the Baptist Church.
ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE.
YTSTILL be sold on the first Tuesday in June next,
i • before the Court House door, in the City of Ma
con, the undivided half of City Lot No. 7, Square 63,
corner of Walnut and Spring streets, containing i acre,
belonging to the estate of Willis T. Sage, deceased;
and sold under an order of the Honorable the Inferior
Court of Bibb county, when setting for ordinary pur
poses. Terms on the dav.
MARY SAGE, Administratrix.
March 30 23n
VICTORIA PENS.
57 OR. Ladies, by Warren ; Gillott’s Victoria, for Gen
s' tlem n; India Rubber Spring Pens; Three Slit
Pens, anew and very superior article, and every other
kind of Pens manufactured. A large assortment of
Writing Paper, very cheap, for sale at the Book and
Music Store of C. A. ELLS, i
April 6 24
JUST RECEIVED,
V LARGE assortment of NEWMAN’S COLORS
in Cakes, Pencils, Drawing Paper, Fine Albums,
Porcelain Slates, Visiting Cards, Superior Penknives,
Portfolios, &c., for sale by C. A. ELLS.
April 6 24_
TO RENT.
jh-rv THREE Fire-proof STORES, fronting on 3 d
fills street; Three Fire-proof STORES, fronting
t * *" on Cherry-street.
They are large and commodious, and well calculated
for anv kind of business, and will be fitted up, as to
I shelving and counters, to suit tenants. Those fronting
on Third-street (directly opposite Messrs. Rea A Cot
j ion’s, and J Cowles, Esqr.’s ranges) are now ready for
occupancy, and possession immediately given. Those
on Cncrry-street will be ready bv the Ist of October
iiext. Rent will be reasonable, and commence from
Ist of October. Apply to
DAVID RALSTON.
j N. B. Several very airy ROOMS on the second floor
loi the above buildings, suitable for Lawyers Offices,
will also be rented. D. R.
j July 7 37i!
We are authorized to announce NA
THANIEL EELLS as Candida's for Clerk of the
Inferior Court, at the election in January next,
j April 13 25'e
BRIGADE ORDERS.
Head Quarters. Ist Btig. Bth Div. G. M. )
Macon, March 26, 1839. >
\N election is hereby ordered to he held at the sev
. eral election precincts within the limits of the Ist
Battalion of the 50th Regiment G. M. on the 20th day
of April next, for a Lieutenant Colonel to the said Bat
talion, vice John S. M. Baldwin, promoted.
Also ordered, that an election be held on the 27th of
April next, at the several election precincts within the
limits of the 2d Battalion of the 50th Regiment G. M.,
for a Major to stud Battalion, vice William Wadsworth,
resigned. Each election with the superintendence and
in the manner prescribed by law. Two Captains in
each Battalion shall give twenty days public notice of
the time and place of holding said election.
Col. John S. M Baldwin will select the Captains for
that duty, and will report the result of the election to
tiie Brigadier General Ist Brigade.
J. BENNETT,
Brig. Gen. Ist Ilrig. 8111 Div. G. M.
To Col. John S. M llnhtwin,
Commanding 50th Regiment G. M.
Col. Baldwin will also brevet two accomplished and
qualified citizens to command said Battalions during
the interim.
By order of J. BENNETT,
Dritf- Gen. let Brig. Bth Dtv. G. M.
March •> **t
DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT, COMMERCE. AGRICULTURE,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC NEWS, AMUSEMENT. «tc, &c.
TERMS I THREE DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE FOUR DOLLARS, AFTER THREE MONTHS.
MACON, (Ga.) SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1830.
GEORGIA COURT CALENDAR.
| Our Georgia Court Calendar, for 1839, is now ready
! for delivery. It contains the correct lime for holding
; the Superior and Inferior Courts in the different Coun
! ties of the State—the days of the month—and the Re-‘
turn Days for each Court.
| It will be found very useful to Attorneys, Corporate
! Institutions, Clerks, and others having much business
with any of our Courts.
The following is the opinion of several gentlemen
(members of the Bar) in this city, who have examined
the Calendar :
Macon, March 21, 1339.
1 To C. R. Hanletter :
We have examined your “Georgia Court Calendar,
| for the year 1339,'' nnd find it generally very correct,
and recommend it to the patronage of the Bar most
! particularly. It is the most complete reference sheet of
i the same character printed in the State, and we earnest
ly hope that your Calendar may be profitable to you in
j proportion to its very high merit as a Court Index.
McDonald, Powers & Franklin,
Poe & Nisbet,
• Tracy & Gresham,
James Smith,
John Lamar,
I. G. Seymour.
JCrSingle copies, sl—or ?3 per dozen. Orders from
a distance, enclosing the cash, and post paid, respect
fully solicited and promptly attended to.
MISCELLANY.
THE FIRST AND LAST BIRTH-D’AY.
[concluded.]
The letter which Charles carried with him
was directed to Nicholas Howard, Esq.,
Thames Street. Thither he proceeded -the
; moment hcarrived in London. Mr. Howard
' was at home. He read the letter, and there
was a smile upon his features, as if mentally
exclaiming, ‘another of my good sister’s bene
volent whims!’ Mr. Howard, however,though,
as Mrs. Saville had said, ‘an excellent man,’
was very much a man of the world. His re
ception of Charles, therefore, was marked by
a degree of caution which appeared cold and
repulsive. It was evident too, from the ques
tions he put, (and which Charles answered
frankly but haughtily, because they were tacit
impeachments of his veracity,) that he did not
quietlv believe the story ol himself as related
to Mrs. Savillo. At the close of the inter
view, he said he must enquire further of Mr. j
Cranfield, before he could promise to attend
to his sister’s request, offering him, meanwhile, I
some small pecuniary aid, if he stood in need
of it.
‘1 do no/sir,’ said Charles respectfully; ‘Mrs,
Saville has placed me beyond the reach of im
mediate difficulties ; but were it otherwise, I
could not consider myself worthy of your
bounty, till you thought me worthy of your
confidence.’
Mr. Howard smiled, as men in whom ex
perience has worn off the first fine edge of in
genuous feelings are apt to smile, when they
listen to sentiments which they rememher as
once tiieir own, and remember too, how, like
the perfume of a gathered flower, they are
hastening to decay in the beaten paths of life.
He named a day when Charles was to call
again, and they separated.
‘ What a difference between brother and
sister!‘ he exclaimed, as be left the house
ignorant that their hearts might be cast in the
the same mould, but that the brother knew the
world, and the sister did not. ‘Nothing will
come of this, 1 see,’ he added, ‘ for he has sus
picions of me, which I would rather sweep the
streets than condescend to remove’—and his
proud blood mantled into bis cheek.
Charles repeated his visit at the appointed
time, armed with premeditated dislike—almost
with an irratible spirit of predetermined offence.
Mr. Howard’s altered manner dissipated in a
moment the petulant humours of a week’s
nursing. He was a man of few words ; but
his few words, like his dealings, were direct,
and to a given purpose.
‘ Mr. Coventry,’ said he, when Charles had
taken a scat, ‘I can now give you my confi
dence. 1 have seen Mr. Cranfield ; I have
also, unexpectedly, had opportunities of making
other enquiries; and the best proof of their
result is, the offer 1 at once make of receiving
you into my employment.’ What followed
may be briefly described. The situation was
one of small emolument; but to Charles, (who
accepted it with silent contrition for his un
generous suspicions of Mr. Howard at their
first interview,) it was an estate, compared
with his earnings in the service of Cranfield.
Years rolled on, and each successive one
| Charles Cov tntry still found something to make
it brighter than that which went before. There
were no sudden bursts of prosperity; no
j charming windfalls, that 4 came pat’ like the
j catastrophe of the old comedy ; but there was
a sober, steady, progressive improvement,
which, by the time he was three-and-twenty,
trebled his original salary. Nor was this be
cause Mr. Howard was liberal. It was be
cause Charles was diligent, to render himself
worthy of advancement. Had he been without
j that stirring quality which will not let its |
| possessor keep the valley, while others treat! i
the heights, his merely faithful service would ,
have reaped the harvest which thinly strews;
the garners of negative virtue, while bolder,
j if not always better, husbandry, gathers in its j
| abounding crop. But he had in his composi-
I tion the first element, the fundamental basis of
j all prosperity in life, where prosperity waits
j upon desert—a fixed determination to be mns-
I ter of his situation whatever it might lie. Hail
1 he been only a shoe-black, he would infallioblv
1 have been tho best shoe-black of his time or
i place.
This impulse led hint to widen the range of
his studies, so as to embrace these comprehen
sive principles of commerce, which, in their
practical application, produce that combination
so rare in every country save England, the
merchant-statesman ; who make knowledge
the handmaid of enterprise ; and surveys with
a philosophic mind the rational and artificial
wants, the physical resources, the moral
characteristics, and the political institutions of
all nations, to render all tributary to the pros
perity of his own. Mr. Howard quickly dis
covered the expanding resources of Charles’s
mind, and insensibly began to treat him with
that deference, which intellectual superiority,
in whatever shape it manifests itself, enforces
alike from those who can, and those who can
not, estimate its precise value. Charles was
gradually admitted to his confidence, consulted
| upon specific undci takings, and referred to for
facts, connected with complicated questions of
foreign or domestic trade. In no one case
did Mr. Howard find this confidence misplaced
or the advice lie sought, or the information he
required, inapplicable to its purpose.
Thus fortified in his opinions of his eminent
qualities, and satisfied, from experience, that
his prudence, and his cautious habits, were in
no way injuriously affected by the impetuous
energy of his general character, he confided to
his management an affair of vital importance,
as connected with both the honor and stability
of the house. A voyage to India, however,
was necessary ; and thither Charles went
(then only in his fivc-and-twentieth year,) in
trusted with full power to act upon his sole re
sponsibility, in a matter of such vast magni
tude, that it might have added furrows to a
brow already wrinkled by a long life spent in
adjusting similar transactions. But I e ap
proached the question undismayed ; not from
any over-weaning reliance upon himself, but
because, having deliberately investigated it, he
believed he clearly saw where the justice of the
case lay, and in that (if he were right) he had
determined his strength should lie. He was
right; and he stood like a rock. One by one,
he obtained, from the adveise parties, the ad
mission which built up the defences of his ow n
position ; and when the whole was complete,
they had no alternative but to concede the issue,
or deny their previous acquiescence in all the
premises upon which it was legitimately estab
iislicd.
At the expiration of throe years, Charles re
turned to England. Mr. Howard received
him with warm congratulations, being already
apprised, by his letters, of the course and issue
ofthe negotiation. The sum which it involved
was little less than half a million sterling ; and
this had not merely been released, hut the
mode of its release had completely effaced
every mark of apparent dishonor which eager
enemies and cold friends had sought to fix
upon the business. The name of Howard
stood, if possible, higher than it had ever done;
and the owner of that name not only felt the
obligation, but it was his pride to acknowledge
it suitably. His first act, in a spirit of muni
ficent gratitude, was to transfer to the name
of Charles Cos-entry, in the books of the house,
one hundred thousand of the sum he had re
deemed ; his secontl, to notify oil Change, and
by all other usual means, that henceforth the
house itself would be the firm of Howard and
Coventry.
It was shortly after this event he saw Mrs.
Saviile, for the first time since that memorable
morning when, friendless, hungry, and destitute
he told his disastrous story to the churlish
blacksmith, and attracted, unknowingly, the
pitying notice of the fair Julia. lie ha I never
forgotten his kind benefactress; on the con
trary, it was his delight, at each fresh turn of
fort urn in his favor, to make her acquainted
with it; and she always received the intelli
gence with unabated interest in his welfare.
Sue had come to town for the benefit of met i
cal advice in that incurable disease old age,
(for all her complaints were but the falling to
pieces of an excellent constitution preparatory
to the closing scene,) and take up her abode
in Mr. Howard’s house, where Charles re
newed his personal acquaintance with her.
He was shocked to see the dilapidations time
had wrought in so short a period ; forgetting
that, between sixty-five and seventy-five, ten
years make sad havoc. Her stature, always
diminutive, had assumed the stoop of decerpi
tude ; her flaxen hair was a silver white ; her
delicately pale complexion had the wan hue
of sickness ; and her clear, musical voice had
lapsed into a cracked, tremulous tone. But
there was the same benignity of countenance;
and her carriage, though feeble, retained its
impress of courtesy and refinement.
M rs. Saville was accompanied by her niece,;
who, strange to say, was still Julia Montague,!
though now bidding adieu to six-and-twenty.
Julia, if not absolutely beautiful, was at least
something more than interesting in her appear
ance; and united to elegant manners, an
amiable disposition, and a richly cultivated 1
mind. Whether she could have married, but
would not; whether she would, but could not;
or lastly, whether neither was the case, hut
that she was single for the same reason that
she had auburn hair, are points which it were
utterly indispensable to discuss. It is enough
j that slto was single, and that the Stirling quali
ties of her character attracted the notice of
I Mr. Coventry in the frequent opportunities he
I now had of ob>crving her. He, too, was be
; vond that period of life when either the heart or
eye is alone consulted, provided there be a head
Ito lend its assistance. But Julia Montague
Imd attrnctinns for all three. The eye of a
husband might dwell with conscious pride upon
and her personal charms; his heart, with fond de.
C. It. IIANLEITER, PRINTER.
'volion, upon her gentle virtues; and his mind,
with calm admiration, upon the natural endow
ments and acquired treasures of hers. There
was food for passion, for love, for esteem.
When the first decayed, as decay it must,
though ‘to a radiant angel linked,’ endearing
love would fill the void, and sober reason, that
knows no change, shed its mild lustre to the
last.
After this preparation, the matter, may as
well be settled at once, for there can no longer
be any secret in the business. Every reader
has already anticipated the ine,vitab!c union
between Charles Coventry and Julia Montague.
It took place about six or seven months after
her arrival in London, and scarcely as many
weeks before the decease of Mrs. Saville, who
expired suddenly, while sitting at breakfast on
the very morning ofthe day she had fixed for
returning into the country, under the firm per
suasion of signal benefit derived from the skill
of her physician. It was a falling asleep, rath
er than that terrific struggle between soul and
body, when they are to separate. She leaned
back in her chair—the shadow of death pass
ed for a moment over hei countenance —there
was one long-drawn sigh—and all was over 1
Thus mild and peaceful was the departure of
Eugenia from a world through which she had
passed as mildly, as peacefully, —anti most
holily 1 Tears were shed for her, not such
ns fall upon the grave of all who leave behind
kindred or friends to mourn a common loss
with common grief; but such as hallow the
memory of the good; tears, whose source
was in the heart, and which dropped from eyes
where many a time and oft they had been
dried by the benign being they now bewailed.
Mr. Howard did not survive his sister more
I than two years; the exact number by which
he was her junior in age, so that their earthly
! pilgrimage was of the same duration, almost
to a day. Having no family, and all his re
lations being in opulent circumstances, he be
queathed the bulk of his immense property to
charitable institutions; and to kis partner,
Mr. Coventry, the valuable possession of the
business of the late firm. To his neice, Julia
j Coventry, he gave a legacy of five thousand
| pounds; ‘ being,’ as he expressed it in his will,
!‘the fifth part of the sum he hud intended to
leave her, had she not already succeeded to
two fortunes—the one that was her aunt’s,
his dear departed sister, Eugenia Saville; the
other, the far better fortune of a good bus
band.’
From this period, the career of Charles
Coventry was marked by unexampled pros,
perity. Wealth flowed in upon him through
a thousand channels, with all its concomitants,
'vast influence, the highest distinction that can
surround a commoner, and the ambition to be
come the founder of a family. Asa first step
towards effecting the last, he obtained a seat in
Parliament ; as a second, a prepondering
voice in the nomination to other seats; and as
a third, ho concentrated all the energies of his
mind and character to acquire public reputa
tion as an orator and politician. He had the
requisites for both; and his political princi
ples were upon record, in a work which had
excited an unusual degree of popular notice,
from its caustic analysis of Whig patriotism,
and its sarcastic delineatio is ofthe leading
Whig patriots, for the last half century.
He was soon satisfied he had not placed be
ifore his hopes a visionary prize. Scarcely
| had he taken his seat and certainly had not
j addressed the house more than three or four
times, when he was singled out for one of those
ferocious attacks by the Opposition, which
they never make except upon an imbecile
j Minister, or a formidable adversary, who is
jrising to his proper level. It embidied every
mode of parliamentary warfare, from polished
j sarcasm and eloquent invective, to deep
' mouthed reproof, and the light artillery of
ridicule. The Whig benches rang with accla
mations ; the Treasury ones were silent. To
! have echoed those acclamations, would have
: been to recognise, as a champion, one who was
on his trial to establish whether he had the
| mettle >n him which would proclaim him such,
ior only the ardour of a well-disposed, but
j feeble auxiliary. There was not a man m
The house who better understood the true na-
Jure of his position, or all that hung suspended
on the issue, than Mr, Coventry. Pride,
i ambition, glory, conscious strength, contempt
jof despicable motives, inflamed into resent
j ment at the anticipated possibility of their
I success, every feeling that could inspire an
I ardent, generous nature, concurred to animate
him. He rose. His exordium was placid,
easy, playful even ; but there was a collected
energy of purpose on his brow ; a kindling,
but smothered fire in his eye; and a dignified
repose of manner, which bespoke the secret
knowledge of a reserved strength for the de
cisive onset. It came.
There had been the stillness that forfeits the
, hurricane ; the rising gusts and furious eddies
! that are its immediate harbingers; and there
;was the hurricane itself! The devastation
was complete. Not a vestige remained of the
| mighty fabric which sarcasm and invective,
; reproof and ridicule, had raised to arrest its
I progress; and when he sat down, with the
emphatic declaration, ‘that as he hoped he
should never invite hostility by presumptuous
1 arrogance, so would he never bend to it, when
5 it wore, in his judgment, the livery of that most
; degenerate of our vices, or, if they liked it bet
! ter, meanest of our infirmaties,’ peals of tu
: multuous cheers bore testimony to the elo
! quence, manliness, and justice of his defence.
The Minister was loud in his encomiums, anil
j personally congratulated him upon the display
he had made; while the adherents of govern
mens, now that lie had shown he was a Lin to
aisert his own cause, came forward w.th op.
► piT.ssive alacrity to assert it for him. Walt
modest self-denial he belied the swelling exul
tation which throbbed in every puLeoflis
excited frame; but he who has fongut bard for
victory and gained it, with whatever we.-be
seeming diffidence he may teach Ins tongue to
disclaim the laurel, has that within, even at the
moment when he wraps the cloak of humility
in its thickest folds about him, which wiiiftpcr*
to his proud heart that he is a conqueror.
Charles Coventry had feverish and earns that
night. Titles, and ribbons, and glittering
stars, and bright honors, dazzled his sle- p ng
fancy ; and such a glass as Banquo i oid in his
hand, when the weird sisters ‘ g.ieved the heart*
of Maclieth, seemed to show him ‘ gold-hound
brows’ which he could ‘ smile upon, and point
at for his.’
At length he found himself with his foot
planted on the first step of 4 ambition’s ladder.'
Anexecutve ap, o ntment with a baronetcy,
were offered him in requital of his long, dis
interested, and valuable support of govern
ment. He accepted them. Then came ano
ther night of feverish dreams, as he laid his
head upon his pillow. Sir Charles Coventry, a
member of the admin stration. He was now
approaching his sis i< th year, and was the father
of a numero us femi!y, three of whom weie
sons. If, therefore, he had touched the boun.
dary of his hopes, he had the satisfaction of
knowing that with his wealth, he should trans
mit a title to his posterity. But the same pru
dence, talent, and unwearied ardour in the
pursuit of whatever he undertook, which had
conducted him thus far, opened the path to his
further advancement. He distinguished him
self greatly by the vigorous and efficient dis
charge of his official duties; and while he im
pressed liis colleagues and the country with a
high opinion of his fitness for more important
functions, he silenced the hostility of political
ad versaries, who when he accepted office,
were not slow, to fling upon him their tauntsy
as an adventurer for place without the requisite
qualifications. A few short years saw him
raised to the dignity of privy -councillor, and
graced with the ribbon of the order of the
Bath.
NO. 20-
Behold him now 1 The Right Honorable
| Sir Charles Coventry, K. 8., giving weight to
the measures of Government by his ndvice
j and supporting them afterwards by his elo.
quence in Parliament, where he wns no longer
j the candidate for distinction, but the possessor
jof it. He had wholly withdrawn himself from
mercantile affairs, partly because their ade
quate superintendnnee was incompatible with
the other demands upon his time ; but more
because they might stand in his way, if the
occasion presented itself, for grasping at the
great object of his ambition. He had realized
a princely fortune, which lie used with the
unaiistcntntious virtue of one who remembered
what was thirty five years before; for it was
just that period since his foilorn condition had
awakened the sympathy of M rs. Saville, whoso
memory was idolized in his recollection. He
never forgot that condition. The ‘ neat silken
purse,’ which contained the first tivontv guinea*
that had ever called him master, was religious.
!y preserved ; arid he would often fancifully
compare it to a little rivulet welling forth from
the side of some lofty mountain, which, aug
mented in its course by many tributary
streams, becomes at last a mighty river, pom
mg its ample waters in a majestic tide to the
green ocean.
One of those political emergencies, arising
[from the jealousies of rival statesmen, which
have frequently lifted into power men who had
been all their lives vainly striving to bring
about such a consummation of their hopes,
operated propitiously for Sir Charles Coventry.
It is true he had sown the seeds ; but it is no*
less true, that without such a concurrence of
circumstances, in all probability he would
have reaped the harvest. Matured, however,
as his experience now was, and unabated as
was that ardour of character which had dis
tinguished him from his cradle, a transcient
misgiving of himself crept over his mind when
the prize lay fairly within his reach, and he
was invited to stretch forth his hand. But
the misgiving was only transcient. A noble
enthusiasm succeeded; the mote certain to
conduct him prosperously through his trial,
because it had been ushered in by a wise
diffidence. He accepted the seals of office ;
took his seat at the council-table, as a Cabinet
Minister; and saw himself honored, in a pre
eminent degree, by the personal and constittw
tional confidence of his sovereign. As on the
other occasions of his life, he at once filled the.
space in which he moved. The energies of
his nature developed themselves, with increas.
ed amplitude ; the dimensions of his intellect
were enlarged to the full extent
sphere. This extraordinary quality,
existence could never have been known; but
by the means which actually disclosed it, (al
though its secret influence was the hidden
spring ol all his actions, as it ever must be of
1 till men who build themselves a name,! created
so much astonishment in one of his colleagues;
that he observed, 4 If Sir Charles Coventry
were to become King of England, every body
would say he was bom to wear a crown ; for
he always seems to have been intended by
nature for the precise station he occupies.’ A
profound mystery of the world was solved in
this half-jocular, half-petulant remark. It if*
those, and those only, 4 intended by nature for
the precise station they occupy,’ who rule the
world, from the Macedonian conqueror down
to the village oracle ; and many a heait, which
has the noble quality, lives and dies in igno
ranee of its presence, because occasion has not
called forth.
Sir Charles the high
function of a Cabinet Minister for eleven.
years ; and during the last three, that of Prime-
Minister. But he had now passed his grand
climateric ; and though free from any of the
more enfeebling symptoms of age, began to
feel a desire for repose. He had lived long
enough for others, and worldly objects. He
wished to find a quiet interval, this side the
lire vo, for the peaceful enjoyment of himself.
Such, however, is the fascination of power,
(next to life, the hardest thing, perhaps, to part
with voluntarily,) that the desire languished'
two years Itefbre he could resolve to intimate
it to his Royal Master. When he did, per
mission was granted, but with many flattering
expressions of regret, and the still more flatter
ing declaration of a wish that the memory of*
his eminent services should be perpetuated by