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SELECT POETRY.
Northumberland, Feb. 17, 1851.
Dear 6'ir :
I eiiclnsu lo beautiful ni-Iections for Jnur
pnpor. They were givou me ly young Imly
of lino lasle, wild u view of their lepublicu
tion. Insurt tliem as soon hs you can, unit
oblige yours very tiulv,
D. T.
The following panoses are fioin n salirirttl
poem called ihu "Devils' I'logress," written
by a yonr.it Englishman in thu year 1829.
Tin: LOVl:it'S St IT.
The writer carrier In 'Salitnie Majesty"
through many aninjiu scenes ; anil ut lust
takes him to a wiinlo'.v ami permits hint lo
hear the follow ing between two lovers.
The Devil listened :
One summer eve, when the breeze was gone
And the iiiuhlinoale was unite:
Tin; nino.i was watching tin llio hill,
The stream uus Maid and the maples still,
To hear a. lover's suit,
That, half a vow, und half a prayer,
ipokd los of Impu than of despair,
And rose into the calm, soil air.
As sweet and low '
Ashe huil heard oh woe! oil woe!
And what do you imagine the lover said 1
Here it is
'By every hope tint earthward clinirs,
By faith that mounts on angel-wms,
Hy ilieums that make niidil's shadow bright.
And Iniilis th.it turn our day lo nilil;
Iiy ehildliuod's smile, and manhood's teai,
liy pleujure's day. and sonow's year,
Iiy all Ihu strains that fancy sings,
And pangs that time so surely brings,
For joy or grief, fur hope or leur,
For all hereafter, as for here,
In peace or strife, in storm or shine,
Jiy soul is wedded unto thine."
But, for tin! maiden's answer:
And fur its soil and solo reply,
A murmur and a sweet low sigh,
But not a spoken .void ;
And yet they made the waters start
Into his eyes who heaid,
For they told of a most loving heart,
In a voice like that of a bird ;
Ufa heutt that loved, though it loved in vain,
A grieving, and yet not a pain,
A love l hat took hii eaily rout,
And had an early doom,
Like trees that never urow to fruit,
And eaily shed their bloom;
M' vanished hopes, ami happy smiles,
All lost lorevermore,
Like ships that sailed for sunny i.-des,
But never rami! lo hhare;
A (lower, thai in ils wilheiing
I'reseiveil ils fri'irianee Julio,
A spirit that had lost its wing,
But sliil retained its sni i a,
A joy that eiinl I nut all be lost,
A comfort in despair :
And Ihn Devil lied, like a luted ghost
The snulls the purer air ;
For he fell how lovers' own sweet breath
Suirounds them like a spell;
Am) he knew that Love, "as strong as Death,"
Is l.-r too stionir lor Hell,
And from ihe country of its birth,
I'rins thuuLjhts, in sorrow or in mirth,
That sanctify the earth;
Like nnirels earthward tempest driven,
And wa il itiir to return to Heaven.
7 Select (talc.
Fr tin Sitl.Mn'ri Magazine.
THE EAITGEEOITS BEAUTIES.
ntu.M Tilt CEIIMAN OF K. fTOLI.C.
(CuitcliitUd.)
She grew positively uncivil. J was
filled w i;h resentment, and was about to
I answer tlie unfemiiiitie maiden somewhat
I tartly, when she made a suspicious inove
' meiit of Iter hand towards her live amulet,
j I swallowed my retort, and resolved upon
! retreat.
Suppose,' paid the Counsellor, as he
pushed hack his chair, suppose we should
j smoke a i iar !'
i The proposal was by no means disagree
able to me. A bunting cigar in my month,
might afford me some protection against
(he African reptile. I meant to smoke so
furiously, that Krneslitie and her amulet
might be sull'ocated together.
Hut vou know, dear father,' exclaimed
the maiden, 'liiln cannot bear tobacco
smoke ; can vou, IJibi ('
You are right, iny daughter,' replied the
Counsellor; ! forgot it;' and lurning to
me, lie added, 'Lvcuse me, nt v dear sir, but
the graceful little animal really cannot bear
tobacco smoke.'
And so for tiie sake of the graceful little
animal, I had to renounce my habit of
smoking after tea. Things were carried
pretty far.
Like her sisters, Ernestine still continued
to torment me. I was not fur a moment
free from the fear of the horrible Bibi.
If this naturalist,' thought I to mvself,
'would only be off and go to the d I with
her snake!' Iiut friend Oken had no idea
of going. I supposed she wished to com
pensate me for her long absence.
For two everlasting hour 1 had to sul-
fer; so long the soiree lasted I could not
take any pleasure in the beautiful ryes of
Lrnestine, lor my eyea were fastened on
the vuake; I was in constant dread, lest
liibi should slip off from the neck of his
mistress, and make me a visit. At all
events, the little eyes of the snake glittered
most suspiciously.
I shall never forget that evening. I
thanked my stars that the two other sisters
were not visible. 1 hus far I had only one
to deal with at a time. That was some
comfort. If they had concluded a triple
alliance, and all three operated upon me at
once, I should have been lost beyond re
demption. In every evil, there is a good
which neutralizes it in some degree.
I had suffered so much all day with
fright, loss of a tooth and of blood had come
upon me in such rapid succession, that my
energies were completely prostrated. Eve.
ry noise at the door made me start, for I
was iu continual fear that either Nimrod or
Dieflenbach, or both together, would come
in and begin to practice some new and un-
nrard ol mischief upon me. JNimrod would ;
have set about snuffing; the candles with i
pistol-balls, and Dieflenbach, as soon as she
remarked my feverish condition, would
have been for administering pills and blis
ters. From all these possibilities, however,
Heaven be praised ! 1 was saved. Neither
Louise nor Emilie made her appearance.
Ernestine at last retired. The old gen
tleman, as was his custom, instantly took
occasion to descant upon the merits of his
darling, as he called his youngest daughter.
One gels accustomed to her strange
taste in time,' said he; 'but I am not with
out hope she will forget all these things
when she is once married.'
I began to long for bedtime. The Coun
sellor perceived my weariness at last, and,
to my great joy, accompanied me to my
sleeping chamber.
'Now,' thought I, 'I shall have some rest
at last, after all the fears, and dangers, and
sufferings of the day.' We wished one an
ther a good night, and I found myself alone.
I was so tired that I instantly undressed,
extinguished the lights, and groped in the
darkness towards the bed. After some
fumbling, I fortunately reached my object,
drew down the coverlet, and was about to
make use of my couch, when I sprang back
with horror; I had touched some hard ob
ject that moved. If I was not deceived, it
was a tortoise. JNo power on earth could
have induced me to use the horrible bed.
While I was thinking- whether I should
cry murder, or let the matter rest, some
thing bit my great toe so furiously, that I
shrieked with pain. A huge crab hung on
my loot. I danced about so frantically,
that at last I shook oil' the monster and
hurled it against the wall. I fled to the
sofa. A harrowing thought seized me.
'What if they have fastened me up in Er
nestine's cabinet '.' The lea became every
moment more and more probable, for all
around there was a creeping, and a scratch
ing, and a rustling, that sounded more sus
piciously. Instantly something crawled
close to my ear. 1 clutched at it, and sei
zed with a shudder a great beetle. I hurl
ed it with fury away Irorn me, and heard
it crack against the wall. Scarcely was I
tree from the beetle, when something bit
the calf of my leg.
The idea that the new enemy might be
an earwig made im raving; lor no living
lliiti;' had I a greater aversion than for the
aforesaid earwig. I had heard dreadful
stories of this creature. I caught like one
possessed at inv calf, but I could not catch
the biter; the thing had certainly crept up
higher, for I certainly felt a twinge on my
thigh. 1 now sprung from the sofa, and
sought lor means to light a candle, but
nothing uf the kind was to be found. I
trod njKin some 1'rightful kind of reptile.
All the tortures of the tiiquisition were
nothing to my situation. I could no more
sleep than on the edge of a precipice; my
excited imagination painted everything
still more frightfully. Suddenly I heard a
hissing. 'There's a snake,' thought I, 'I
shall certainly be ftutig.' 1 now began to
shout like a wounded Aiax. In the dark
ness I upset the table several boxes that
stood on it were thrown down and broken,
and 1 heard with increased agony how a
new biting world was let loose.
I raved like a possessed man ; it was all
one to me whether any one in the house
wished lo sleep or not. At last the Coun
sellor was awakened. He came with a
light in his dressing-gown to my chamber.
He saw at once the cause of my outcries,
and cried: 'The thoughtless girl, she will
turn the whole house into a cabinet of natu
ral curiosities!' I seemed to myself like
Adam on the sixth day of the creation,
where he is painted among the beasts.
Jungbauel transferred me to another cham
ber, which the naturalist had spared.
Here you have nothing to fear,' said my
host consolingly; 'yon will sleep all the
better for the disagreeable things you have
suffered.'
'Heaven grant it!' said I, gathering up
my clothes out of the murder-hole.
The Counsellor had spoken no untruth.
After I had crawled about on my hands
and feet, and flashed the light into all the
cornels of the chamber, I became pretty
well convinced that there were no natural
curiosities there, either living or dead ; and
so I went to bed once again, but none the
less resolved that this should be the last as
well as the first night that I spent in
W . I determined, all my host's soli
citations to the contrary, to be off at the
earliest possible hour, before the charming
but dangerous daughters of the Counsellor
should have lelt their beds. After these
wise resolves, I stretched myself out and
made myself comfortable, while the tor
toise in the bed originally intended for me
probably did the same.
I tie night passed quietly by ; a sound
sleep fell upon me, so that I bad no bad
dreams, as I had feared. Hardly had the
first light of morning looked into my win
dow, when I sprang freshly from my bed,
and set about to put my purposes into exe
cution, c resting myself with all despatch.
aly purpose was irrevocable. 1 was de
lighted at having awaked so early.
You will make great eyes, thought I,
'ye tormenting spirits, when you find the
bird has suddenly flown. Heaven keep
me from such a wile! Un, my Alinna,
when I think of your sweet simplicity,
what a dillerence! soon, Deloved girl,
shall I fold thee in my grins!
The cleverest thins,' thought I, 'would
CPrtainly be to adopt the French fashion,
without a word to any one. 1 loresee the
conflict I shall have with the Counsellor;
he will not listen to a departure so much
like a flight. I will write to him at the
end of the first day's journey, and represent
to him that with the best will in the world
I could not consent any longer to be the
,arget of his daughters' humors.' 1 waj re-
solved to write ua politely as possible, that
I might not wound his feelings. My uncle
also would De satisfied when he should learn
all I had auflercd from the sisterly trefoil.
Amidst these cogitations I came at last to
the end of my toilette, and was just on the
point of starting off, when I was stopped
by an unexpected obstacle.
While 1 was giveli up to the glad hope
that the Counsellor's daughters, like all
maidens loving sleep, were still deep in the
feathers, my door suddenly flew open, and
to my no small horror in came JNimrod with
two glittering pistols.
'Good heaven!" sighed' I to myself, my
torment is beginning anew; I must confess
the lovely trefoil begins its day's work be
times. Oh, if I only once had this cursed
place brhind my back !'
Wilhoutaiiy compliinentSjNimrod coolly
began :
'You have during the past night injured
I he property of my sister Ernestine in such
a way, you have shown lor several of Er
nestine's favorites such a contempt, as bor
ders upon insult, and demands atonement.
I have considered the affair; we will ex
change three shots.'
'You have lost your senses!' I exclaimed.
That you will soon discover,' she coolly
resumed, whether 1 am in my senses or
not. Consider the case. You have bro
ken the shell of'a sea-cra'), a very rare spe
cimen ; you have thrown a valuable beetle
against the wall with a violence that ruin
ed the poor creature ; you have further bro
ken certain valuable boxes containing in
sects; do you not admit these charges?'
'I wish the d I had the whole crew of
spiders and reptiles!' cried I in great ex
citement, upon finding myself called to ac
count for my doings.
You will please to follow me,' said
Louise; 'injuries of this sort can only be
cancelled with blood.'
'Quit these fooleries,' I replied ; 'I fight
not with ladies!'
'Fooleries!' asked Nimrod, stepping up
to me with raised pistol, while her eye
Cashed, 'Does your courage fail you V
For every contest there must be some
reasonable ground.'
You are quibbling, sir ; follow me !'
'Uut what if I declare Hint I will in no
case fight with you 1 I could not answer
it befoie God, were 1 to level a pistol at
you.'
You need not aim at me shoot into the
air; I am the injured parly let yourself
be shot ut !'
'Your obedient servant.'
'I ask for the last time, will you follow
me '!'
'In no case.'
'Well then, 1 will publish you for the
most pitiable coward the sun ever shone
upon.'
You will do as you please.'
'And I will put a mark upon you, which
you shall carry os long as you live, to re
mind you of your cowardice.'
A mark V I asked myself; 'what does
the horrible creature mean ? She seems to
me capable of anything.' I was exceed
ingly uncomfortable. Louise approached
me with her pistol cocked ; her look was
fearlully menacing. Horror seized me. 1
began to retreat. The perspiration burst
forth. The fury followed me step for step
with pistol presented. At last, excited to
the uttermost, I exclaimed in despair, 'Let
me alone, you hutelul creature ; J was just
on the point of leaving this inhospitable
house.'
'You are going to leava W ?' asked
Louise in a strangely joyful tone, und let
ting the pistol sink.
'I never would have come here but for
the urgent wish of my uncle.'
'L'tterno falsehood,' said LouNe, gravely.
"It was not your uncle's wish alone that
brought you here. You had other views.'
Indeed, I had not, lady.'
Did you not come, asked Louise, 'to
ntarry me, or one ol my sisters?'
'Good Heaven!' replied I; 'marry you!
What an ideal' It never entered my
head. I am already engaged.'
'What!' cried Louise with delight, throw
ing away the pistol, and almost falling on
my neck. 'You engaged! Why did you
not tell us so belore !'
1 knew not what to think as the charm
ing maiden embraced me so stormily, and
looked at me so joyfully with her beautiful
eyes.
'No one ever asked me about it, lady,' I
replied.
'And how many unpleasant things would
you, poor man, have spared yourself, said
Louise, much excited ; should not have
shot at you, Ernestine would not have wor
ried you with her snake, nor Emilie takeu
your b.ood, and pulled your tooth out
'It is much to be wished that the latter
had not happened,' I confessed
xou would have found us all very amia
ble children
'With all respect,' I replied, 'but, lady, I
do not exactly understand "
'1 will solve the riddle for vou,' said
Louise, every moment growing more and
more charming ; 'we too, have already dis
posed of our hearts.'
''All three !'
'All three! In spite of our unwomanly
passions, I confess it, iu matters of the heart,
we are still girls.'
'1 am delighted to hear it.'
'Delighted, are vout So are we, too,
But father, good and indulgent as he is, is
on the point of love, immovajfe.
How sol'
He thinks too much of what are called
good settlements. Unfortunately, our gen
tlemen are not exactly good, in the wordly
sense. One is a penniless lieutenant, an
other a poor candidate of theology, and the
third, a poor artist ! But all three are rich
in heart and intellect, and real Crtrsusei in
their love for us.
Aud which ol tnese three happy gentle
men,' 1 asked, with a smile, has secured
lha heart of tUe lovely Louise V
'The theologian.'
'The theologian !' 1 exclaimed with won
der. You consider me, then, as quite too wild
forthe pious man.'
Well! a preacher of peace, and a bold
huntress K'
Love equalizes everything,' said Louise,
with a winning frankness ; 'and do you
think I cannot be gentle ?'
What is impossible for you?'
O ! I can be as soil as a little lamb,' con
tinued the beauty, when it gives him plea
sure. IJut let me go on with my story.
Our father insists, by all the'saints, that he
will hear nothing of these tender relations.
H'e, all three sisters, pray to the dear God
fervently every day, that the temporal cir
cumstances of our lovers may be improved,
so that they may come forward and claim
our hands. For their sakes, we have driven
away many a wooer from W . When
any strange gentleman appears, we sisters
instantly form un alliance; and if one plot
does not succeed, we try a second and a
third. Confess yourself, would you, had
you been disengaged, would you have
taken one of us lor a wife, after we had
shown ourselves to you as we did yester
day ?'
The Devil's grandmother sooner,' I ex
claimed frankly ; one's life would at least
be saler with her.'
'Very miich obliged,' said Louise, with
a bow ; 'a proof of the success of our plans.'
1 had now to describe my lady-love to
my new friend, and how I stood in the
same plight with the daughters of the Coun
sellor, as my uncle had no suspicion of
my love for Wilhelmina.
While we were chatting thus confiden
tially, a blooming head was seen at the
door, which seemed lo be not a little sur
prised at our intimacy.
Come in, Emilie!' cried Louise, laugh
ing. 'Peace is concluded: our supposed
enemy is engaged ; we have nothing to
fear from him.'
Dieflenbach entered, and likewise mani
fested a gentleness of which I could not
have dreamed the barbarous dentist capa
ble And soon Oken made her appearance.
They expressed the greatest sorrow for the
tricks they had played me. They declar
ed, at the same time, that if they had not
discovered that I was' engaged, they had
made all their preparations to render
the day more intolerable than the preced
ing. I thanked Heaven I had got to be on
such good terms with them. We made a
league of friendship. 1 could not desire
more amiable friends. At the same time I
had to promise lo remain several days at
W .
To show myself worthy of their friend
ship, and in order to heap coals ol fire on
their heads, 1 undertook the otlice of inter
cessor with their father, and resolved not
to leave W until the Counsellor had
given his consent to the betrothal of his
three daughters to their respective lovers.
In this good work I eventually succeed
ed ; and within a fortnight alter 1 lelt
W , the three ladies were formally
affianced to the oljects of their choice. In
return for all this happiness, the Counsel
lor undertook to get mv uncle to consent
to my marriage with Wilhelmina, and was
successful.
I have seldom heard mv worthy uncle
laugh so heartily, as when I related my ad
ventures at W . To bring our story to
a close. Although I brought no bride from
W , and although I matried the poor
widow's daughter, my uncle, nevertheless,
took me into partnership.
As to the loss of my gnndrr, th gentle
men who were the happy husbands of the
three beauties, never failed to express their
sympathy for me; hut Dieflenbach, the op
erator, always insisted that I deserved to
lose a tooth, for appearing fo woo one of
the sisters when mv heart was no longer
my own, and mv good Wilhelmina al
ways agreed with her.
We have all been living now, for some
years, in the most friendly relations, and in
constant intercourse. The descendants ol
our four married couples amount now to
five little gentlemen, and seven young la
dies. Hence bloom new loves and new
romances. It is the way of the world.
A Parisian inventor thinks he has at
last discovered the long-sought desideratum,
a machine for setting type. He has been
at work upon it sor fifteen years, und hav
ing completed it, has entered it for exhibi
tion at Ihe World's t air. It comprises both
a distributor aud setting stick, is afforded at
a low price, and will set ten thousand ems
an hour. It is said nut to interfere with
the regular appointments of a printing ol
fice, aud requires no new characters.-
In tiii: IGth ciurTKR ol 2d Chronicles,
may he found the following severe allusion
to a professional failing, which, very incor
rectly, is supposed to have an existence at
the present time :
'Hi disease was exceedingly great, yet
in his disease he sought not the Lord, but
the pltijHtci'tns. And Asa slki-t with his
Fathf.us."
Linf.s taken from Ihe margin
book at Christ Church :
1 look iu vain bt dtra e coin, j
Dear, deur ! what .hall I do !
of a hymn
I caiuiot litleu as I ought,
I'ulu. a. lutein too
He might lava eoiut at wall at sot
What pbf uet these fellows are t
I'll bet h.'t' fast asleep at home,
r eutokiug cifar.
Thc farmers in the Miami Valley, Ohio
anticipate a total failure of the peaoh eiops,
P ick-pockets and beggar are about the
best practical phyiognomials.
AcpvaoN, It is stated, ba left an autobUv
graphy, which, will bo soon publish!,
will b an exceedingly wtetesting woik,
A FEAKFIL HISTORY.
The Now Orleans Delta states tlmt on ihe
26th, ult., the Vearanda bar-room in that city
was the sceno of a bloody and fatal encoun
ter It appears that there had been a previous
misuudertttamliurr between a young man by
the name of Evington und young Theodore
Byrd, a deputy constublo in Justice Winer's
court, and late an ollicer iu Colonel Wheulo's
reojnieni in ihe Cuba Expedition. The diili
culty is said lo hare been originated in an
alfair of dolioacy, involving the rcpulation of
a lady. They met on Sunday in the Yeran.
da, und it is generally admitted that Byid
struck Eviugton, when they clinched aud
scullled. Daring the scullle it was observed
that the blood was gushing from Byrd's side,
they were pulled upart, when Byrd fell and
died in a few minutes. Tbeui it was discov
ered that he had received two fatal stabs in
the side, or breast, with a medium sized
bowie knife. Evington surrendered himself
and conveyed him lo jail. The Delta gives
the followiug fearful history of the brothers
of Byrd .
The history of the young Byrds, the young,
est tf whom was killed on Sunday has been
marked by scenes of bloodshed, violence, und
fatal terminations, which are not exceeded
by the most sanguinary annuls of ihe South
aud West. The family, wo tmdeisland, is a
highly respectable one, in Augusta, Georgia,
where tlio father aud mother of llieso unfor
tunate young men still reside. Certainly we
do not des'uu lo add a single pang to their al
ready heavy allliclious, but there is in thu
history of their sous a mural, a lesson, which
is lo valuable to be lost. Mr. Orrau Byid,
who camo to this city some ten or twelve
years ago, was, we believe, the oldest of the
brolhers. Ho wus a young man of most
pleasing manners and address of feminine,
delicate aspect, and of elegance and refine,
menl of dress aud appearance. He would
be the last man in a thousand who would be
selected as a man of desperate resolve, and.
when moused, of most blood-thirsty charac.
ter. He had not been here long before he
gave proof of his qualities. A row occurred
ut the Lake, in which ho shot a man dead,
though it was penerully conceded that he
done it in self-defence. After this occurrence
ho left New Orleans, and was ubscent about
a year. Shortly after his return ho was in
volved in a duel with a well-known citizen,
who was regarded one of the best shots iu
the city. They went out, fired ut the word,
and both were struck, Byrd but slightly, his
antagonist dangerously. The femoral artery
of the latter was seveied, und it was only
by the greatest skill of our most eminent sur.
genu, that this gentleman was rescued from
death, though mutilated for lite. ihe same
gentleman had, a few youis before, been shot
iu the face, aud had bis carotid artery sever-
d, which also was tied up by the same dis
tinguished surgeon. 1 Iu afterwards killed
the man that thus wounded him. We next
ear of Mr. Byrd as engaged in a desperate
hand to hand light in the office of the United
Suites Commissaiy in this city, with a well-
known citizen, who bad previously killed
several men, and who was famed for bis
great prowess. The result was, that Byrd's
antagonist was terribly nut und mutilated, aud
for some time he was believed to be mortal
ly wounded. Byrd escaped without injury.
At last, however, fortune turned against
him. About two years uuo, an affrv occur-
red between him and a young lawyer ol this
cily, near Ihe comer of Camp ninl Common !
streets, in w hich Byrd pursued his anlftgouiat I
across l lie street, striking him with a cane,
until the latter succeeded in disengaging hi
pistol, aud shot Byrd three times befoie he
fell. He was mortally wounded, and died
almost immediately. We saw his corpse ly -
in uu otlice at ihe corner of Camp and
Common streets, about one hundred yards
from were his brother lay yesterday. His
delicate, handsome, feminino appeuruuee
seived lo udd lo the horror of the scene
Such was ihe history of Orrau Byrd. We
stale only facts, und we desire to be under-
stood as expressing no opinion upon the in
ference which may be drawn from him.
About one veur alter tlie ueaiu ol urran i
Byrd, hi broiher,' Dr. Byrd, then a resident
of Baton Rouge, was an actor in a tragedy of i
f,rf.,t i...ri and auonizina character. A
young man w ho was universally respected
and beloved, believing that Byrd had duhon.
ored his name and family in an ull.tir of the j
most delicate nature, attacked him in his of
fice, discharged a brace of pistols at him, and
nulling into un inner room was nut by Dr.
Byrd, w ho slabbed him fatally in several plu.
..... I : il. I : l
ces. J Ills occurrence uuiusuo universal sor
row through a whole community, and invol
ved a most interesting family in a grief Irom
which several members thereof found relief
only in the grave. Dr. Byrd left Baton Rouge
immediately alter this occurrence, aud ba
not been seen iu ibis Slate since.
The last of the brothers, u email, delicate,
youthful looking person was killed in Ihe Ve
randa on Sunday afternoon, the particulars or
which will be found under another head
Ween this young man's brother was killed,
he was greatly affected by Iho occurrence,
and we hoped lhat it would be a lesson lo
bim, which would forevei prevent his iudul
gence in practice, leading oi they iWt i.'uMi
do, in tki tity, lo tit snwi tragical result.
We state I beta fact because they embody
wholesome lesson to our young men, not a
few of whom aie becoming too prone to en
courage aflruya in publio resorts, the carrying
of dangerous weapons, and then too frequent
Use. We sympatbiM most sincerely with
he distressed family of theae, uiifoitaiinte
young men, and hope lhat a kind Frovidoace
rill tojtao to them lui dreadful 6 low.
RltllKST MAN IK VIRGINIA.
A correspondent of the Richmond Ennui
rer furnishes Ihe following .ccouut of thu
llicheat man in the old Dominion :
6nfemen.-l have thought for some time
I would write lo your papur something iu re'
lation to the riclust man in I'irginia, and th.
largest slave-holder in ihe Union, and, per
haps, in Ihe world, unless the serfs of Russia
be considered slaves ; and the wish in your
paper a few days ago, to know whom il was
so wealthy in Virginia, induces me to write
this now. Samuel Ilairslon of Pittsylvania, it
the gentleman. When I was iu his section
a year or two ago, he was Ihe owner ol be
tween sixteen and seventeen hundred slaves"
in his own right, having bu! a little while
before taken a census. He also has a pros
pective right lo about one thousand slaves
more, which are now owned by his mother-in-law,
Mis. Kuth Ilairston, he having mar
ried hor only child. He now has Ihe man
agement or them, which makes the number
of his slaves reach near rArre thousand. They
increase at the rate of near one thousand ev
eiy year, and he has to purchase a large pluu
la'.ion every year lo settle Idem on.
A large number of his plantations nie in
Henry und Patrick cotuilics, Virginia. He
has large estates iu Noilh Carolina. His lan
ded property in Stokes alone, is assessed at
six thousand dollars. His wealth is differ
ently estimated at from three to five millions
and I should think it was nearer the Jailer.
You think he has a hard lot ; but I nssuie
you Mr. HdirAlon manages all his matters as
easy as most persons would an estate of $10,
000. He has overseers who ore complied to
give him a written statement of what is made
and spont on each plantation, and his negroes
are all clothed and fed from his own domes
tie manufacture and raising, leaving his To.
bacco crop, which is immensely largo, as so
much clear gain every year, besides his in
crease in negioes, which is a fortune of
itself.
And now for his residence. 1 have travel
led over fifteen Slates of this Union, and have
nuver seen any thing comparable to his yard
and garden, except some of them in the Mis
sissippi delta and none of them equal it.
Mis. Ilairston has been beautifying h f0r
years and a good old Minister, in preaching
near the place, and desctibing Paradise, sjid
"It was as beautiful as Mr. Ilairston', " or as
a friend who had visited Washington city for
the first time, remarked that "the publio
grounds were nearly as handsome as Samuel
Hairston's." Mr. Ilairston is a plain, unassu
ming gentleman, aud has never made any
noise in iho woild, though he coould vie with
thu Bruces, the McDono2hs and tho Astors .
and it is strange, that while their 'wealth is
co-extensivo with Ihe Union, ho is not known
100 miles from home. I believe he is now
ihe wealthiest man iu ihe Union, as IVm. U
Astor is only worth about $4,000,000, and
llio estates of city people are vastly overra
ted, while Mr. Ilairston can show the prop
erty that will bring tho cash ut any mo
ment. Mr. Ilairston was raised in few miles of
where he now lives in Henry county. He
has several brothers who are pretty well lo
do in the world. One of them, Marshall
Ilairston, of Henry, owns more lhaii seven
hundred negroes, llobeit Ilairston, wtio now
lives in Mississippi, near 1000 ; and Hardin
Hairstou, who has also moved to Mississi
IT1,
about 600 slaves. George Ilairston. of Henrv.
lias given most all of his propeity to his chil.
dren, reserving only ubuut 150 for his own
use.
j MiutH noTllsciilLn.
j The Paris correspondent of Courritr
I t-lat Lli" domains the loliowino anecdote of
"aron Uolhscluld.
"The splendid New Year's fetes which
were lo have been celebrated ut the Hotel
J Rothschild have been put aside on account of
j a family sorrow, a very young child, a ifrund-
j son of Barau Rothschild having recently died.
The Baron was so much affected by this af.
llicliou, that lor some time he gave up the
care of his affairs and neglected his vast eu-
tu, n, u-.
I " ,cw '"Kl me,m ca,ne lo 1I,?r
him his coudoleuce, the Baron recalled with
j a melancholy tenderness Ihe winning ways of
the poor little child. 'They brought him into
me every moriiiiiiug here, in my cabinet 'said
he' 1 think I see him now, upou my table
overturning all my papers."
At this period an agent from the Exchange
came in. It was ihe hour when he came to
take ihe ordeis of ihe piiuc-e of finance, und
render him an uccuuut of tho movements tit 1
j the funds, und Ihe aspect a Hairs on ihe Bouish.
bud tuken since the day before. Inleuupiedi
in the overflowings of his meiuuries and re
grets. M. de Rolhschild fill iutoa utekuivooly
reverie, while ihe agent launched, bravely inla
the subject of his habitual visit and. eonlinue.li
with the most minute detaij bi. expose of the-
state of financial nwtierj, about being dis"
concerted by lhe vilv of hi 9yd!or wbicli,
he attributed to. continued aud deep cakulue
tion. Aftil having fiih bis report ett ihe
state ot an Ihe sUx'k uegoiiated ou 'Chang,
the ei.t added-; A uew advance iu the
pub. m funds iaexgectedv do you believe in it,
M. doJUtaron t d RwbschilJ aroused frowj
hia lexerie, ruisett bis bead and replied YfcUh,
an aovent fa" f adiies and gravity. ':!$ sir,,
I beUive only iu God."
Ah Exchange uper say the girla in aomn.
pa;ts of this State aj so bard, up for husband,
lhAl they komeVmf lake up, wiih priuifci,
aud larycrs.
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