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Vol. 3 Xo. Whole JVo, 144.
Tlie f llnwing Manns are from the pm of the
late WILLIAM PIATT. Printer. Like all his
production, they hrcathc the sentiments of a heart
lit up with the truct feelings of affectionate tender
ness. None will road hut to admire them : ,
I.yroming Gazette.
The Younff WMow.
Ye hid me mingle in the dance,
Ai.d smile among the young and gay
They aiy that gri.-f will dim my glance;
And turn my raven treses gray.
I care nt yet I sliive In bow,
In meeknefa to my lonely fate
I dry my tears i.ml smooth my brow,
The while my heart is desolate.
Whsn la-t I j-tined the festive throng,
I heard it seemed my brain to sear
A stranger breathe the very a ng
That first he warbled in m ear,
Tlie words ilw tune, but h ! that tone !
What living lip could imitati :
Mid laughing crowds I stood alone,
Unutterably desolate,
I miss him by the cvcnng nentlh
I miss him tt tbe silent meal
But keenest in ihe bower of mirth
AIyjiylef solitude I feci ;
lint la'e 1 saw a happy bid
Sniile fondly on her wedded male,
While I Oh"! would thatl hai tired,
With him who lift me desolate.
Ye spe.ik of ivcahh In mammon's mart,
Theie'a not single boon I crave ;
Gold cmnot heal ihe broken heart,
Nor bribe the unrelaining grave ;
It cannot fill the vacant slate,
Whpre once my honored husband sate :
Nor fill my heart's convulsive beat
Nor make my home less desolate
Alas ! ihe base on which we built
Hope's fairest fabric is but dirt
And laughs the heart when God has willed
To lay his cha-te-ib g fing. r there
A brighter happier dieam than mine,
Did never love and hope create :
I bowed before an Earthly shrine,
And Heaven has left me desolate.
And yet nut so: my s ul be calm
The hand that mit th will suMain ;
Thou hast a heljx r on whose arm
Tlie mourner never leaned in vain.
O ! may that arm the pilar im guide
By the straight path and naTiw way,
To where the loved in bliss abide.
And hear! no more are detolate.
From the AVir Orleans Tropic.
HIOaUAPIIY of momiok KDWAnns.
Monroe Edwards was born in Kentucky,
liis father removed to Texas several years prior
to the rewilutitiH which separated it from Alex
ico, ami died their previous to that event ho
was a very respectable mini, both by hi habits,
connexion? and associations. Monroe received
a plain education in his native state, and com
mcuced life in early manhood in Texas he
was not particularly employed prior to tho Re
volution, except nt one time as a clerk in the
counting house of Morgan & Reed, who did
business at Galveston Bay the reputation lie
Ii.'fl with his employers was by no means en
viable, and but little calculated to advance his
interest in a mercantile career in that country.
The grand drama nf his eventful life, coin
menced in the winter of '3.J "10 when nt
the c:ty of New Orleans, lie became acquaint
ed with Mr. C. Dart, formerly of Rodney, Miss.,
and having a firm in the city of New Orleans,
under the style ol Franklin & Dart, and C.
Dirt& Cm, of Natchez.
Dart had become embarrassed, and not hav
ing the means of paying his debts, after revolv
ing many means of extrication, heal last fell
upon theone of buying s'aves in the Havana,
where they were cheap in comparison with the
prices in the United States, and settling them
on a plantation in Texas, where the lands were
only one 20th of the price of fine cotton lands
in the south west, and where the climate had
been represented to him as peculiarly adapted
to the production of the cotton plant, in its
greatest perfection from which prrject he
honestly expected in a few years to realize
ample meais for the extinguishment of his
debts, and have besides more than a competen
cy for his wife and children. But there were
difficulties in the way he was neither practi
cally nor theoretically a p'auter nor had he
any turn for that sort, of business. In addition
to thi", if lie gave his personal attention to the
plantation, he would have to remove hi futility
there, deprive his children of the advantages
of education, and expose his wife, w ho w as an
amiable and accomplished woman, to all the
hardships and troubles incident and inseperable
from pioneer life; and in addition, if he assum
ed the control and management of the proper
ty in person, and had things in hia own name,
he might have been pursued by his creditor in
the United States, and broken up before he had
had time to realize the very means with which
he expected to pay them, and so defeat the
very object he had in view.
At this stage of hia meditations he met Mon
roe Edwards, who readily entered into his plana,
and promised an entire devotion to the success
of the enterprise. Edwards had no money, but
in lieu thereof ho was to furnish talents, vigor,
enterprise, &c, and to cover the property in his
own name. Part furnished nt the outset JJi'iO,
000 in gold and United States Bank hills, which
were equivalent at that time to specie, and they
left the city about the close of the year '35, for
the Havana, where Dart succeeded in negoti
ating from the house of Knight &. Co., a loan
of $35,000, thus swelling their cash capital to
$3,000. They bought and landed in Texas,
on the Brazos River, some time in February '30
about 220 extremely likely and valuable young
negroes, none being under 10 and very few
over 20 years of ago. While in the Havana
an incident occurred, which plainly indicated
what, in a suitable field of action, might be the
future career of Ed wards ; not satisfied with the
large gang of negroes which Air. Dart had
fit illy purchased for him, ho decoyed a likely
negroe boy onboard of the vessel, and there
conceited him with the view of kidnapping
him ; his owner discovered it and wax about
toapply to the authorities, w hen the thinjreame
to the knowledge of Air. Dart, who by great ex
ertion hushed the matter up, by paying the sum
of
Arrived in Tex is, Edwards pretended to
commence the business of planting bought an
indifferent tract of land for the section of coun
try in which he proposed to commence his la-
Ws, and nt a very high price on o credit he
knew nothing uf planting nor did he take the
requisite pains to inform himself nor did lie
seem disposed to give the least personal care or
attention to the matter, being seldom on the
plantation himself, and employing overseers not
for their fidelity and ability but for their chean-
ncss; butlliere was one thing he did under
stand, however, ond which he lost no time in
indulging in, and that was splurging he wore
the best clothes, rode the finest horses, ami
olten travelled with a servant ; his appearance
in the little villages in the country was sure to
produce n great sensation, from the superiority
oT Lis equipments over common travellers.
He spent a large portion of each year in the
United States, and at last for the purpose of n
muscmcnt, greater expansion of mind, and
more complete improvement in the grand art
of financiering, he resolved to cross the Atlan
tic and had the taste to select the occasion of
the crowning of Britain's youthful Queen.
Meantime Dart, who was living in the Uuited
States, principally at Rodney, .Mississippi, could
get no account of how things were going on
in Texas, and was in the deepest ignorance of
the condition of his partnership a Hairs in that
country. He knew but one thing with certain
ty, and that was that he had not received one
dollar of profit w hatever. Under these c i renin
rinnre?, Ed wards being not yet returned from
Europe, ho determined (18H1) to visit Texas,
and personally investigate the state of his busi
ness and property in that country. He did so,
and fiiund every thing in so deranged and em
barrassed a condition, that he employed a law
yer, and sequestered the whole property as a
Inst means of obtaining his share of the same,
and at the same time securing Knight Si Co.,
for whom he very honorably entered upon re
cord a confession of judgement for the 30,000,
w hich had been burrowed for the concern in the
Havana, Sinn afterwards Edwards returned,
and hearing upon bis arrival in the United
States ofDart's energetic proceedings in Texas,
not at all abashed, he in due time makes his
appearance in Texas, armed with two forged
deeds the one relating to the land and negroes,
and the other to the inferior transactions of the
partnership by which it appeared that Ed
wards' was the owner of everything. The for
geries had been made by taking two letters of
Dart's written to Edwards from Rodney, Mis
sissippi, and extracting every thing but Dart's
signature by means of some chemical agent,
and as in the process trie texture of the paper
had lieen destroyed, the deeds were written by
means of the principle of the manifold letter
writer, in which no fluid is employed. Dart
boldly proclaimed the forgery, hut as Edwards
had greatly the advantage of him in coolness
and dignity of manner, the general impression
was greatly in Edwards' favor, particularly as
Dart was thought to be a weak man in business
matters, and Edwards was known to be ex
tremely keen. In the meantime, Edwards had
the deeds recorded in the counties of Harris
and Drszoria, and proclaimed Dart as laboring
under a monomania upon the subject of his
Texas estates, and wondered why hia fi lends
did not take care of him, and offered to subscribe
liberally towards his support in some fit recepta
cle for lunatics. But the sagacity and persc
v era uce of Dart's lawyers at last established
the forgery, and Edwards lor the uttering in
Brazoria county was incarcerated to await his
trial at the regular term of the court, for the
crime of forgery, punishable by the laws of
Texas with death. He was taken from Ihe
jail in Brazoria by Habeas Corpus and removed
toTexana, where the question of bail was, by a
circuit judge of Texas, determined in hia favor
amount jit 10 000, Texas money. Immedi
ately after this, a new capias arrived to arrest
him for the same offence, to wit, uttering the
forged deeds, by recording, in the county of
Harris, but he narrowly escaped and reached
the United Slates, kidnapping as he left three
or four of his own negroes, w ho were under ju
dicial sequestration, whom he brought to the
United States and sold, with the exception of
one negro girl, the same whose namo fre
quently occurs in his trial in New York. His
subsequent history is well known, how he went
to England w ith forged letters of introduction
from Air. Webster to Iord Spencer borrowed
X2(K) of Lord S. and dined with "the gentry
and nobility of the country for Severn! mont hs,
and at Inst getting out of funds returned to the
United States in and committed the
great forgery for which he is now in the peni
tentiary of tlie State of New York.
The AVI fe of Lafayette.
The following is an extract of a letter writ
ten by tafayelte, in the year 130, after the
death of his wife, to AI. Ijitour AInubourg, trans
lated from one of the last volumes of the Ale
moirsof Iafayette, Intcly published in France :
"During thirty-four yenrs ofn union, in which
her tenderness, her goodness, her elevation, her
delicacy, the generosity of her soul, charmed,
embellished, did honor to my life. I was so ac
customed to nil that she was to me, that I did
not distinguish her from my own existence.
She was fourteen jears old, and I was sixteen
when her heart amalgamated itself with all
that could interest me. I thought I loved her,
that 1 could not do without her ; but it was on
ly when I lost her that I was able to discover
w hat remains to me for the close of a life which
had been so diversified, and for which never
theless there remains no longer either happi
ness or even content. Though she was attach
ed to mo I, may say, by the most passionate sen
timent, I never perceived in her the slightest
shade of authoritativeness (d'exigencc) of dis
content, never any undertaking. And if I go
back to the days of our youth, I find in her, traits
of an unexampled delicacy and generosity.
You saw her always associated, heart and soul.
in all my sentiments, my political wishes, enjoy
ing every thing which might confer honor on
me, still more as the would say what made mr
to be wholly known, and more than all, glore
fy ing in those occasions when she saw me st
crince glory to a sentiment ol gixidness. Her
aunt, Madame Tcssc, said to me yesterday, "I
never could have imagined that one could I
such a fanatic for your opinions, and yet so fret
frjm party spirit " Indeed, her attachment to
our doctrines never for a moment abated her in
diligence, her compassion her good will for cr
sons for another party. She never was soured
by the violent hatred of w hich I was the object;
th ill-treatment an.I injurious conduct towards
me, were regarded by her as follies indifferent
to her, from the point from which she looked at
them, and where tier good opinion chose to
place me. Hers was a most entire devotion.
1 may say thut during thirty-lour years, I never
Buffeted for a moment the shadow of a restraint
that nil her habits were, without affectation
subordinate to my convenience, that I hud the
satisfaction to see my most sceptical friends us
constantly received, as well beloved, ns mucl
esteemed, and their virtues as completely ac
knowledged as if there had been no difference
of religious opinion, that she never expressed
any other sentiment than that of hope, that in
continuing to reflect, with the uprightness of
heart which she knew belonged to me, I should
finally be convinced. It was with this feeling
she left me her last regards, lagging run to
read, for the love of her, some bonks which I
shall certainly examine again, with new inter
est, and calling her religion, to make me love
it better, pertect freedom.
"She often expressed to me the thought that
she should go to Heaven, and dare I add that
this idea was not sufficient to reconcile her to
quitting me. She often said to mn, lite is short
full of trouble, may we meet again in God,
Alay we pass eternity together. She wishei
me, she wished us all, the peace of the Iird
Sometimes she was heard praying in her bed
One of her last nights there was something ce
lestial in the manner in which she recited
twice in succession, with a firm voice, a pas
sage of scripture applicable to her situation
the samo passage which she recited to lie
daughter on perceiving the spies of Olmiitz,
Shall I speak to you of the pleasure ever re
newed, which an entire confidence in her gave
me, which was never exacted, which was re
ceived at the end of three months as at the
first day, which was justified by a discretion,
prnofagainst all things, by an admirable under
standing of all my feelings, my wants and the
wishes of my heart. All this was mingled
with a sentiment so tender, and an opinion so
exalted, a worship, ifl darod so fo speak, 60
sweet and fluttering, more especially gratify
ing, as coming from the mot perfectly natural
and ipccre person who ever lived."
Drlrstiar.il, tlie fir nut -Turner.
Air. Willis, in a letter to the National Intel
ligencer, thus pleasantly describes the perfor
mances of the celebrated Herr Drlesbach and
his Beasts, now exhibiting in New York city ;
'1 have spent an afternoon, since I wrote to
you, m the '801111111 kingdom of Herr DrieH-
bach. Four elephants togelher were rather an
uncommon sight, to say nothing of the meln-
drama performed by the lion tamer. There
was another accidental feature of interest, too
the presence of one or two hundred deaf and
iimb, whose gestures nnd looks of astonishment
quite divided my curiosity with the show.
Spite of t'to repulsiveness of the thought, it
as impossible not to reflect how much of the
ifferenre between ns and some of the brute
nnitnals lies merely in the gift of speeh, nnd
how nearly some human being, by loosing this
ift, would he brought to their level. I was
struck with the predominating nrurriflMook in
the faces of the Imvs of the school, though there
were some of the female children with coun
tenances ofa very delicate and intellectual
cast
I was nn hour too early for the 'perform
ance,' and I climbed into the big saddle won by
Siam,' and made a leisurely study of the four
lephnntsand their keepers nnd visiters. I
lint not noticed before that the eyes of '.hese
huge animals were so small. Those of' Hanni
bal,' the nearest elephant to me, resembled the
eyes of Sir Walter Scott, and 1 thought, too,
that the forehead was not unlike Sir Walter's.
And, as if this was not 'resemblance enough,
there was a copious issue from a pump between
his forehead and his ear ! (What might we not
expect if elephants bad eat paper and drunk
ink !) The resemblance ceased with the legs,
it is but respectful for Sir W alter to say ; for
Hannibal is a dandy, and wears the fnshionable
gaiter trousers, w ith a difference the gaiter
fitted neatly to every toe! The warlike name
of this elephant should be given to Siam, for I
the latter is the great warrior of the party, and
in a fight of six hours" with 'Napoleon,' somu
three months. since, broke off both his tusks.
He looks like a most determined bruiser.
Virginius' (the showman told me) killed his
keeper, and made his escape into the marshes
of Carolina not long ago, and, after nn absence
of six weeks, was subdued and brought back by
a former keeper, of whose discipline be had
terrified recollection. There are certainly
different degrees of amiability in their counte
nances. I looked in vain for some of the wrin
kles of age in the one they said was much the
oldest ; unlike us, the.ir skins grow smoother
with time the enviable rascals ! I noticed,
by the way, that though the proboscis of each
of tte others was as smooth as dressed leather,
that of Siam resembling, in texture, a scrub
bing brush, or the third day ofa st iff" beard.
Why he should travel with a 'hair trunk' and
the others not, I could not get out of the show
man. The expense of training and importing
these animals is enormous, and they nre consi
dered worth a great ileal of money. The four
tcgether consume about! wo hundredweight
of hay and six bushels ofoats'r diem. For
tunttely they do their own land transport ition
and carry their own trunks.
"At four o'clock Siam knelt down, and four
or five men lifted his omnibus nt a saddle upon
his back. The band then struck up a march.
and he made the circuit of the immense tent ;
but the effect of an elephant in motion with on
ly his legs nnd trunk visible (his body quite co
vered with the trappings) was singularly dro'l.
It looked like an avenue tuking a walk prece
ded by a huge e itterpiller. I could not resist
laughing heartily. After one round Siam stop
ped nnd knelt again, to receive pnssengers,
The wooden steps were laid ngainst his eye
brow, and thence the children stepped to the top
of his head, tho' here and there a scrambler
shortened the step by putting his foot into the
ear of the p-itieut aohiul. The saddle was nt
last loaded w ith twelve girls, and wild this
'feerful responsibility' on his back the elephant
rose nnd made his rounds, kneeling nnd renew'
ing his load of 'innocence' at every circuit
"The lion-tamer presently appeared and as'
to'iislied the crowd rather more than the ele
phant. A pr-ilogue wns pronounced, setting
forth thut a slave was to be delivered up to tho
wild-beasts, Ac. A green cloth was spread be
fiire the cage in the apra tent, ('perilous work,"
I thought, among such tender meat as two hun
dred children,) and out sprung sudJenly a full
grown tiger, w ho seized the gentleman in flesh.
colored tights by the throat. A struggle ensu
es, in which they roll over and over on the
ground, and, finally, the victim gets the upper
hand and drags out his devourer by the nape of
his neck. I was inclined to think once or twice
that Ihe tiger was doing more than was set
down for him in the play, but as the Newfound
land dog of the establishment looked on very
quietly, 1 reserved my criticism.
"Tho llt rr next appeared in the long cape
with all his animals lions, tigers, leopards
Si.c. He pulled them about, put his hands in
their mouths, nnd took as many liberties with
his stock of peltry as if it was already made in
to mn IVjir ml tippets. They growled and show
ed their teeth, but came when they were cal
led, and did as they were bid, very much to my
astonishment. He made a bed ol them, among
other things putting the tiger across tho lion
for n pillow, stretching himself on the lion and
another tiger, nnd then pulling the leopard o-
ver his breast for a 'comforter' ! He then sat
down nnd played nursery. The tiger was as
much as he could lift, but he scaled him upright
on his knees, dandled nnd caressed him, and fi
nally rocked him a pp.irently asleep in his nrms!
He closed with nn imitation of Fanny Ellsler's
pirouette, with n tiger standing on his back.
I was very glad, for one, when I saw him go out
and shut the doer.
"A man theu brought out a young anaconda
nnd twisted him round his neck, (l devil of a
boa it looked,) and after enveloping himself
completely in other snakes, took them ofTagain
like cravats, and vanished. And so ended the
show. Herr Driesbach stood at the dixir to
bow ns out, and a fine, handsome, determined
looking fellow he is.
Matrimonial llornplpei
The following amusing sketch fiom a recent
ly published little Work, entitled "Georgia
Scenes," is well worth reading. The writer is
onn visit to Mr. Slang, whose wife is the mo
ther ofa child nliout eight months old. The
child in the adjoining room begins to cry in the
nurse's nrms. The nurse is a little "nigger,"
nliont fourteen years old.
'You Rose,' said .Mrs. Slang, 'quiet that child.'
Rose walked and sung to it, but it did not hush.
'You Rose, if you do not quiet that child I lay
I make you.'
'I is tried ma'am,' said Rose, 'an' he wouldn't
get hushed.' (Child cries louder.)
'Fetch him here to me, you good-for-nothing
hussy you. What's the matter with him ?
reaching out her arms to receive him.
'I dun know ma'am.'
Nhei uhum nho ma'am!' (Mocking
and grinning at Rose.)
As Rose delivered the child she gave visible
signs of dodging, just as the child left her arms,
and that she might not be disappointed, Mrs.
Slnng gave her a box, in which thore seemed
o be no anger mixed at all, and which Hose
received as a matter of course, without even
changing countenance under it
Da den!' said Airs. Slang, 'come clong e
muddy (mother.) Did nassy loeey (Hose)
pague muddy tweety chilluns !' (children) press
ing the child to her bosom, and rocking it back
ward and forward tenderly. 'Aluddins will
whippy ole nnssy Yosey. Ah ! you old uggy
Yosey." knocking at Rose playfully. 'Da den ;
muddy did whippy bad Yosey.' (Child con
tinues crying.)
Why, what upon earth ails the child ! Rose,
you've hurt this child some how or other !'
No ma'am, cla' 1 didn't I was jist sitt'n
down dar in the rock'n chair long sideo' Aliss
Nancy's bureau, an' wan't doin' nothin''tall
tohim.jis pin v in' wid him, and he jis begin to
cry herself, when nobody wan't doin' nothin' 't
nil to him, and nobody wa'nt in dar nurther sept
jis me and him I was'
'N'hu iihing nhing and I expect you hit
his head against the bureau.'
I;t muddy see where ole bad Yosey knocky
heady 'gin de bureaus. Muddy will see,' taking
off the child's cap, and finding nothing. (Child
crips on )
Aluddy's baby was hungry, Dat was whnt
ails muddy's darling, thsweety one's; Was
cho hongrey an' nobody would givy lity darling
any sing 't all for eaty !' (loosing her frock bo'
som.) .'o, nobody would giin tsliweety ones
nnv sings fo' eat 'tall.' (Offers the breast to
thu child, who rejects it, rolls over, kicks and
screams worse than ever.)
Hush ! you little brat ! I believe it's no
thing in the world but crossness. Hush ! (shak
ing it) hush ! I tell you.' (Child cries to the
ne plus ultra.)
'Why surely a pin must stick in the child
Yes, 'e bad pin did tieky chilluns. I.et muddy
seo where the uggy pm did ticky dpnr prettnus
creter (examining.) Why no, it isn't a pin.
Why, whnt can bo the matter with the child!
It must have tin chid it? surely. Rose, go hi ing
me tho paregoric off the mantle-piece. Yes,
muddy's baby's didhabe tolic. Dat is what
ails muddy's prrtttious darling baby.' (Cross
ing it to her bosom and rocking it) (Child
cries on.)
Rose brought the paregoric, handed it, dodg
ed and got her expectations realized as before.
'Now bring me the sugar, and some water."
Rose brought them, arid delivered both with
out the customary reward ; for at that instant,
the child being laid perfectly still on the lap,
hushed.
Tho paregoric was administered, and the
child received it with only a whimper now and
then. As soon as it received the medicine the
mother raised it up and it began to cry,
'Why, Lord help my soul ! what's the matter
with the child V (rising and walking toward
Rose.)
'Cla', missess, aint done nothin' 't all was
jis sittin' down da by Alias Nancy's bu '
'You lie, you slu'V (hitting her a passing;
slap,) 'I know you've hurt him. Hush, my ba
by,' (singing the Coquette,) 'don't you cry ;
your sweet heart will come by 'an' by ; da de
dum dum day, da dc dum diddle Jum dum day.'
(Child cries on.)
'Iird help my soul and body ! what can the)
matter be with my baby V (tears coming ino
her eyes.) 'Something's the matter with it;
I know it is,' (laying the child on her lap and
feeling its arms to see if it. flinched in any par
ticular part.) But the child cries less whilo
she was feeling it than before.
Yes, dat was it ; wanted little arms yuhbed.
Mud will yub its little arms.' (Child begins
crying.)
'What on earth can mike my baby cry so V
raising and walking to the window. (Stops at
the window and the child hushes.)
'Yes dat was it did want to look out'e win
dy's ! See the petty chickens. O-o'O'b ; Ixik
nt the lieuty, rooster ! Yonder's old aunt Betty
pickin' up chips fo' bake bicky, (biscuit) for
good chilluns. flood nunt Betfv fo' make bicky
fo' sweet baby's supper.' (Child begins a
gain.) 'Hoo-o o See windy.' Knocking at the win
dow. CChild cries )
'You Rose, what have ynn done to this child!
You little hussy, if you don't tell me how you
hurt him, I'll whip you as long as I can find
yon.'
'Alissus, I 'cla' f never done nothin"t nil to
him. I was jist sittin down da by Aliss Nan
cy's bu ,'
'If you say Mist Suncy't bureau to me a
gnin, I'll stuff Miss Nancy's bureau down your
thront, you little lying slut I'm just as sure
you hurt him as if I'd seen you. How did you
hurl him !'
Here Rose was reduced to a no plus ; for
upon the peril of having a bureau stuffed down
her lliroal, she dared not repeat tho oft-told talc,
and she knew no other. She therefore stood
mute.
'Jnlia,' said Mr. Slang, 'bring the child trj
me, and let me see ifl can discover the cause
of his crying.'
Air. Slang took the child and commenced a
careful examination of it. He removed its cap,
nnd beginning at the crown of its head, he ex
tended the search jlowly snd cautiously down
ward, accompanying the eye with the touch of
the fingers. He had not proceeded fur in this
w ay, before he discovered in the right car of
the child a small feather, the cause, of course,
of all its wailing. The cnue removed, the
child soon changed its tears to smiles, greatly to
the delight of all, and to none more than Rse.
A Monster. Some time since we gave an
account of a man who had been confined in our
workhouse for nearly forty yenrs. He died a
6hort time since at the age of about seventy.
He was deaf, dumb and blind, nnd for more than
thirty-nine years bad been confined in the cells,
of the house, and during this length of time had
no communication with a single individual and
lived more like a beast than a human being.
He slept on nothing but bard boards, and wore
only a shirt and pantaloons. His food was dai
ly banded him, when he would rise, take it
and eat, and then return to his board, where ho
lay curled up till another meal was brought in.
His name was Alayo.
In this manner he lived, occupying but two
cells; unc in the cellar in winter, and another
in an out-houso in summer, for this long period.
Previously to his confinement in the poorhouse,
he'was for five years a tenant of the county jail.
It is said that he was bright ami active when a
child, but severe sickness destroyed his speech
and hearing. Possessing a violent temper, and
depraved withal, he committed various crimes,
which induced his friends to confine him. Ho
once set fire to his father's house. When ta
taken to jail bis anger was so intense, that he
tore out his o'ii eyes with his own hands, and
thus tW forty years was deaf, dumb and b iud.
Portland 'litiune.
How Emji.imi N wsi'ai'krs i HK.-O i.i
Journal, ot liberal pontics not ueciutu r. . -!
lulitv. savs that w ith the OACCpt'.or. tf'.ii- !:!.
of Kent, the late Duke of Suss, x . s ihe . i'.:y
honest man among the sons ot George the
Third ; that George the Fourth was a heart
less debauchee the Duke of York a systema
tic swindler and blackleg and that ot the two
survivors, the one is a villain and the other a
fool. Ar. 'mn.
Nothing is more easy, says Mr. Paulding,
than to grow rich. It is only to trust nobody ;
to belriend none ; to get everything, and save
all we get, to stint our lees and every body be
longing to us ; to bo the friend of no man, and
to have no man far your friend ; to heap inter
est upon interest, cent upon cent ; to be mean,
m s-rsble despised, lot some twenty or thirty
yeata, and riches will come as sure as disease
and dUappoiulment