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-.". . , . -, : . , ... "V.- - .- - -;.-- -v -' - - - S.. h -.X . . . r . - ,. -;.-' ' - . . .fc,- '.,-;. . " LIFE TSD3fl.Y"T0 BE VAtUEtr AS IT lSlJSEFULLYllMPLpT: .VOLUME L ASIIE YILLE, NORTII CAROLINA, WlUY MOMINO, VlPRIL 2, 1841. NUilBER 42, -. J). i.wmUX k h SOBESTS, EPITOKS. nixrm akp ftnuBHED'ltvtiiT rior, : UY M. II. CIIRISTV. .-- - - f i r r i ii . - ' '' ' Tciuis-The " Mmsekoeb" ii publinlied at Two Dolltm td fifty Cwite per annum, ia adrtncat r Ttimt Pollawat 4h end f tW jftr - " No subscription diacontinued, (except at Uie Op tion of the publisher) until all arrearofrc re paid. Advirtukminti will be inserted at One Dollar per quare for the first, and Twenty. Five Cents for ach lubsequcnt insertion. AU comrnunicationa muat poet paid. ' . MISCELtANiI Erom the American Quarterly Review. "T": Memorandam KF THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARA TI0N1)F1SDEPE2DECE, Chancellor Wythe of Vifgfrua; a law yet and judge of tlie purest morals a d idle and dissipated ticcnest Icarnincr. id e and dissipated unti thirtjrears -of age wlieo he lint applied J commonwealth ; governor died 83 liunsclf to the law: the preceptor of Jellcr- eon. Gcorgfj Rend, of Delaware ; on emi nent lawyer. His biography is ample, in teresting and authentic- " William Williams, of Connecticut ; ori,, finally a town clerk, but liberally cduca. ted ; then an upright benevolent merchdh'tj sacrificed a greater part of his gaini Jo tnc puttlu; services. " ,'' Sahiyei Huntington, of ConnecticutV mere plougjiroau until, his twenty-second years afterwards an eminent lawyer: pre iiident of congress; chief justice of his stato, and governor. .IlisbiogrnpiTj" highly curi ous. ,Js William Floyd, of KcVYork 5 af; a cencral ; enjoyed a large share honor's. ' George Walton, of Gcorgir .an apprentice to a carpenie acll educated to the law ; cu in battle : twice governor, otjuisoraa chief justice ; seriatdof tho United States. George Clymerv - of Pennsylvania ; a rncrchant, and Jbnd of literature; a terse, sententious writer, and efficient and honor, eblo patriot: His biography full and inter esling, Iriit diffuse: . - - -"Goodncu his dditrht. ridom his wealth, and glory hi reward." ficnjamm uusn, os a pnysicinn, an nu- tlior. mule e imuuuus, tna jiiost cole. brntud of the .Anicricaa. faculty ; distin guished for his poetical connexions and la- tjrs. . ' , .-, Matthew Tlornton,.of New-II impshirc; a successful practitioner, of medicine f ar- my gurgooN Iteforo lht revolution ; ar presi dent of tlie prviiiRwl eonve4Ulon.a judge of the supreme court, a manTof wit and -humor, cuntbiucdio practice phytic while 0 judge; wrote ' pjliticarssayn; for the newspn'ner ; und prepared A'instnnliysical work.for puWicUonv after ho was tlgh years of age ; died, in his euth year, Willium Whipple, of New. Hampshire: cr of tho Assembly; chiei justice,, 'then governor of lluode Island ; a man of su perior sense, and a good and successful writer ; a distinguished mathematician and natural philosopher, though his education was slight, andTOcihttha"AmertcaD Philosophical JSociety His signature of tne Declaration is tho only crooked and en fecbled one. u As it indicates," says his biographer, a very tremulous hand, in penect contrast with the v bold and promi ncnt writing of President'' Hancock, it may have engendered sunfiTse unfavourable to the determined spirit of Mr. Hopkins. V e therefore slate that for a number of years : L 1 I 1 1 ' -.t. prevjuu-i, no nuu ween piuicieu wiui a ner vous afluctionand when he wrote at all, which was seldom, he una compelled to guide his right hand with 4is left.- -r Thomas M'Kean, of Pennsylvania ; a lawyer of creat abilities and ardent revo lutionary patriotism; chief justice of t! ars :,and old. His biography entirely autben: replete with instructive details. James Smith, of Pennsylvania; lawyer and surveyor, remarkable for facet iousncss and eccentricity, practiapd the law for up. wards or sixty years sflicda nongcnariD HTs artrclevcry pTeaiant. . Thomas NelsoHff of Virrrinia : educated 'a opulent planter; active nicer ; commander-in-chief of the ihtia, whom he bravely and ski ed at the siege of York-town governor of v irginia ; died in reduced cir- rmstances having made enormous necun - . j. : . . . iary sacriliccs to the revolutionary cause vv.iv ini f Vki. VI vi ill WUIUlllltA successful merchant ; bred a Quaker ; died when attending congress, in 1779. George Taylor, of Pennsylvania; on 0 rriving in America from Ireland, bound himsclt for a term of years as a common laborer , at the iron works at Durham on the Delaware, near Easton pwasvirmdo clerk of the works ; the proprietor dying, he spoused xhis widow; arid finally became himself owner of thewhole : amassed large fortune ; got" into the provincial as. sembly ; a memberof business. Nothing more is recollected otxhim m the vicinity of his'residencc, than that "Jic waa a fine man and a furious whig. . John Hart," of NewJersev ; a . farmer, sur-named "honest John:" had never held orisinally a cabin boy ajidlg3ildr-ii--caru.l patriot tain at the age of twenty-one ; lh-n a iner- thrpughout r . 1 1 I . . . . chant ; general, who fought with Gates, j a public office when he was chosen a dcla gate to congress ; bis , farm pillaged and destroyed by the Hessians ; his biography possesses a peculiar interest, as a very ed. fying illustration of the character and course of jan American 3'eoman. Lewis Morris, of New-York TTent'cman furmer nndlargcland proprietor; his whole domain laid waste and ruinediy .ihe enc my ; had three gallant sons in the field: the celebrated Gouvcrncur Morris his half brother. Win. KHery, of. Rhode-Island ; a well educated lawyer; anearly revolutionary cry uscfut tnember-of TOTrgrcss the war. "He . dtcn,1' says and rlsewhere ; arranged the cnpitulatiou of IJurg.jyno; a judge ,oi tne superior court. : As a sailor, says the biogra. phy, " he speedily attained the highest rank in his .nroiesaiorj i as a merchant, no was circumspect and indiwtrious, as a congress. man, he was firm andLlearli'ss ; as a legis lator, ho was honest and aiie ; u a coin. mandcr. lie was cool and courageous ; as , his biographer, ".spoke of the signing of the declaration 01 Independence, and ho spoke ofit as an event, which many regard ed with awe, perhaps with uncertainly, but nono with h-nr. lie Used to relate that ho (luced himself beside the secretary Charles 'Hi ompSon, and eyed each delegate ctosely as ho affixed his namo to tlie document, and saw dauntless resolution in every coun tenance. Ellery died, withoutr'painat a judge, ho was dignified and impartial ; j the ago of ninety-thrce, sitting upright in and as a member of many subordinate pub lic offices, he-was' alert and persevering. He wore all bis honors ,with modesty and propriety.- Di , John Witlicrspoon, of New JcrScy ; an eminent and profound divine ; president cf Nawau Hall College a political writer of force and talent; a statesman of great influence and energy, Hisuiography is ampfe-triMf instructive. -T. ", "5 Robert Morris, of Pennsylvania, a mcr- chant j tho unrivalled financierof the tcv olution ; tho pecuniary soul of the cause. His biography, like that of. others, needs compression, but is interesting and correct. Abraham Clark , of New-Jersey , a sur- veyor a lawyer, auu gave gruvuuuusvuuii Frahcisstof'New YorKVatmc, Al.K..a nt.lA C. r f K- rtvn1nt inn Trcry useful rebel. - His fin ustatc orr Long ismna aesirpyea try mo uniisu, uuu ma wife carried oT- prisoner ; she' died soon after, from the ill treatment which was ex perienced. He was mined by the part which he took onlhe American fiiderdicd in tho 00th year of bis age. - tl' II T. . t 1 . ' . J. jonn renn, 01 ixgriu uarouna; unedu cated in early fife ; became a lawyer, and - James Wilson, of Pennsy lvania r a law. yer of raije capacity, and of surpassing faculties as a speaker and writer, an effi ciont political essayest ; the. principal ad. vocate of the constitution, of 1797, in the t ennsylvoma convention; professor of taw; bed, and rt-udtug Tully 3 Offices in the La. in. - ' - : . f ... "Of no distemper, of no blast he died, ' But fell like autumn-fruit that nirllow'd long Ercn wondrrrd at because he fulls no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fouracore years : Vet fivslily ran he on twelve winters more ; Till, like a clock worn out with beating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. Lyman Hall , ofjGeorgia an emigrant from Connecticut :; & well trained physi. cian ; a useful member of Congress ; made great s0CificcsTgWeTrf Oiiver Wolcott, of Connecticut ; a grad uate of Yale College ; a captain inihe-ar- my before thoxcvolution?tudied medicine; a major ,Tenera! of militia , aided in -the cpnqunn; otlJurgoyno jugeTISnaTly governor of Connecticut. rd btockloh, ofXSew.Jersey : an died While attending Congress. hi 1778, a martyr to his public zeoL RiVger Shei'man of Connecticut; also one of the committee of five; apprentice to a shoemaker, and pursued thg.ousiness un ra after ho was twemy-two-years 01 nr travelled on foot, with hts tools, jraiw livelihood: nourished his mind by various readinir : kept a country store 1 turned sur vpvnr : nnnlicd himself to thftJnw, and ac- nuired practice and fame ; m was a mem ber of the Albany conveniion of 1754 5 judge of tho supcrioreourt of Connecticut twcnty.one years member 01 congress from tho opehingof the fr in 1774, down to the period ol his oeatn, in ua; 01 rrcat autliofity and uscfulncw ; a.,nember of the jeonvqnrion that framed the pres. ent constitution of tlie United states ; took nsidcrable and influential part in the do te: a senator in Congress : a shrewd 1 aqd ready writer, a logical debater ; HTnod- el of probity,, discretion, and steadfast ness ; as much revered as any patriot of the times. , A happy blunder. Tho following humorous story, in -which Mr. Bulkfey, the first Minister of tlie town or CoTChcstef7U0fiiK7 was conctrnedris from an ancient publication. Hd Conn. UisL Col. by Barber, p. 30o. V The Rev. Mr. Bulkley, of Colchester, Conn., was famous Whfs day as a casuist, and sage counsellor. A church in Ins neigh borhood had fallen into unhappy divisions and contentions, which they were unable to adjust among themselves. 1 hey deputed 0110 of their number to the .venerable Bulk- ley,x for his advice, with a request that he would send it to them in writing. The matters were taken into serious considera tion, and the advice with much deliberation committed to writing! It so happened, that Mr. Bulkley had a farm in an extreme part of the town, upon which he entrusted a tenant ; and to whom, he must have been about transmitting a letter at the same' time ; in superscribing the two letters, the one for the church was directed to the ten ant , and the one for the tenant to the church. Tlie church was convened to hear the advice, which was to settle all their dis putes. The Moderator read as follows: 1 ott will see to the repair of the fences. mat they be built high and strong, and you inmaa Ivrlnar. X The Mo wine sketch of Mr. Ewing is take'nroiiuWuttersonV'Gallery of Ameri cair Portitoits.The sketch iWas written in 838, when Mr. JSwinrrwas in the Senate of the United States;"7 It will servo 70 give the reader some idea ol the character and intellectual power of this gentleman, who has been appointed Secretary of theTrea. sury under General Harrison. " Mr. Ewing was born in Virginia, in 1789. His father was a revolutionary sol. dier, and soon after thtrbirth of young Ew. ing, removed to the State of Ohio. Mr. Ewing ii indebted for his elements of knowledge, to tho care and attention of his eldest sister, who taught him to read, and the only additional education be received till he was 83 years of agej was two quarters tui. lion, under two successive teacliers. But he had acquired a love of reading, and all 11s leisure hours wertTdevfited to it- His father ,. being in humble circumstances, youug Ewing' life was necessarily a labo rious one ; but obligrd ds ho was to toil daily, he nevertheless availed himself of ev. ery opportunity to improve Iris mind, and to bo what his highest ambition then led luni 0 become a scholur. - - - . will take special care of the old black bull. This mystical advice puzzled the church at nrst, but an interpreter among the more discerning ones was found, who said, Breth ren, this is the very advice we most need the direction to repair the fences is to ad morijsh us to take good heed to the admn sion una eovemment ot our members ; we must guard tho church by -our-Master aws, and keep our strange cattle from the fold. And wo must in a particular manner set a "watchfulgnard over" the Dev'd,, the old black bull, who has done us so much hurt of late. All perceived the wisdom and fitness "ofHIrr- Bulkley VnoVra-T-and resolved to be governed by 'it- The con senuenco was, all the animosities subsided and harmony was restored to the lonr a nictcd church. What tlw subicct jf the letter sent to the tenant, was, and what good clfoct it had onliimthe storyocsnutclL!- (KrTlic Hon. John Q. Adams, in his celebrated argument in the Supreme Court in behalf of the Africans of the Amistad took occasion to closo his remarks in tlie following eloquent and feeling manner, as reported by the correspondent of the "Jour nal of Commerce : 1 ' May it please your Honors On the 7th of Feb. 1G0'4. now more than 37 years tjo. mv namo was recorded on the rolUm this eourt, as one of its Attorneys and Coun, pel lors. rive years afterwards, I appear. ed belore this Court in on important cause ince that time, 1 have never appeared be fore this Court until tho present occasion. fid now I stand before this Court again. It is mis same uouri, uui not tnese accomplished lawyer and scholar, unrivall cdotthe bar of his state. After acquiring a competent fortune in his profession travell ed with much eclat in Great Britain ; one of the judges of the supreme rioUrt of New Jersey, embarked early and vehemently' in the revolution ; surprised and irapturcd by tho enemy ,"andxomrriuted to the common jail at w ew lors; congress 1 airecxea jren eral Washington to interfere in his behalf, and threaten retaliation ; his health impair ed ; his property devastated ; died prema. turely of complicated 0 mictions occasioned by his patriotism. ' Button Gwinnett,of Georgia; originally a merchant ; became a planter ; an enth,u. siastic rrlitii nreflident of the provincial one of the judges f the supreme court of counciI . knic in a duel wft1i -(kfr Mln- 1 the United States. His biography is replete th in 1777, at the ago of 45. . with, yaluable information and political an ccaotes. " , Carter Braxton,, of Virginia a planter, befflcmcrchant j lost all and died of a broken heart, J' : , John Morton, of Pennsylvania; a sur- Josiah Bartlctt, of New Hampshire 4 a successful practitioner of medicine ; a lead. ing whig in his province commanded a regiment ; the first who voted in Congress for tho declaration, and the second who ;A : . .i,:r .r m ii. ZfypL T ' Petn toFJ tho first republican governor of that of. Pennsylvania i; jorjga of tbe supreme gtate ' " " .. ; Philip Livingston, of New Yorkt one eourt of the commonwealth j gave tho easu irrgyoto of the Pennsylvania dekgation for the Declaration of Independence ; origin- a piougnooy. of the committee pf five appointed to pre pare' the declaration of independence ; a j . ' r v.i nu . . I ,.r ... . Stephen Hopkins, of .Rhode Island 11 L v j . : : : J r1' pn?c.-berbf tho provincial legislature; .akcr;1 same, court,,, out not tnese same udgcsJ At that time these Seats were fill. ed by honored nvn indeed, hut not h same. 1 hen there was chief J ustice Mar 1 shallt and Judges Gushing and Chase 'asiiiiifn.on nuu jouuson, anu Xjivmgston arid Wild. "TAVhere- are. they ? Where is that ablo-statesman and learned lawyer. who was my associate counsel in the cniifw, Kobcrt. Goodloe llarpej 7 Vhere isthe eloquent counsellor, so long the prido of Maryland and of the American Bar, who was the opposing counsel, Luther Martin ? Where is the excellent Clerk of thatday , whose name has been " inscribed on the shores pf. Africa , as a monument of his ab. horrenco of the African Slave Trade, Eli- as B. Caldwell 7 Where is the 'Marshal? here are the cners of the Court 1 Where is one of tins very Judges before whom I commenced my argument in tlie present cause? Gone gone; all gone. , Gone. from the services which, they rendered to their country, to appear before a tribunal where they roust answer for all the deeds done in the body- ; Fforn.-he , excellent characters, which tliey" sustained, so far as I have the means or knowing, I fondly hope that they, have gone to receive the rewards of eternal blessedncsa, ,vIn takiogasl sup; pose, my fina leave of this Bar and of this Honorable Court , I can only ejeculate a fervent petition- to-Heaven that every mem ber 0 It may go to lys final account with as little to answer for as these illustrious dead, and that you may every one receive the sentence " Well done, good and faith, ful servants, enter into the joy ofyourLord." -1. 1 i.ii . , M ' " Go tffpr,- the farmer nrid whra hetunn ed his own into p"tone. , . iJut povert' seemed to oppose an insu perable barrier to his career, and he was about yielding up in despondency, when a young roan, who had seen something of the world, and who was hired by his father as an assistant, roused him from his apathy, and prevailed upon him to accompany him to the Kanawha Salines, where he procured employment as a common laborer. After onnbsenccof three or four months, ho rci turned with, eighty dollars in his pocket which lie generously gave to his father, to save his land from being forfeited- In the following spring Mr. Ewing again returned to me luinawna ouiincs, wnerc nc laoorca assiduously till November, ani succeeded in realizing about four hundred dollars out of which, after paying a balance of sixty dollars, still due on his lathers property he was enabled to indulge his favoriteipro Density, by spending the wir .or at an acadc my at Athens, where he was encouraged to make additional efforts to prosecute, his studixss.and acquire '.ho power which know! edge bestows. "He returned brico more to hi.- .former labors, and continued at tliem for two years. These severe toils nflbcted his he'lthjt which, however, a short residence nt homo restored and ho again entered the academy which heliad left about two years before, and proceeded to labor mentally with the same ardor and intensity that he had labored corporeally.-- procre-n aid to have, been very rapid ; but being satisfied that his funds, which were daily diminishing, would be insufficient to ena. bio him to complete fas education, he open cd a school in Galliapolis which in the IIS is sagacious, argumentative and labori bus; often eloquent, but never oratorical I os ipolitician his principles are firm and unyielding, and never fluctuating between selC-aggraiKliaemcnt apd the interests of his cmintryiyerba!aneing between right and wrong ; mil always directing his etiorts to that whieh he coheeives will promote tho glory of ihe nation, and. tlie happiness of mankmqV- X ; From tlie Ladies Cooipanixi. Th WarlI'Mana Cmlu , la Georgia at. J North Carolina, there Is hardly a river, creek, or stream, that ha! not connected with it somctld Indian tra dition. The title of. tlie prese nt sketch is taken fmra one of thrse I believe One of til principal tributaVk of tlie Natahalcc nverrtn tiie clicroKce Nation, Worth Car. olina. ...Tlio story, as told by the few Indi ans remaining since the removal in the fall of 1838, runs thus: ' ' . Many years ago, in the first settlement of tlie country, a wandering party of their tribe attacked the house of a squatter some. where upon their borders, during -his ab sence and massacred all his children, arid eft his wife covered with the mangled bo- course of n quarter he threw up, not liking the.x'mploymcnt, and returned to his lorm cr occupation nt the salt works. xijo now hired a furnace; and by cxtrao ginaary labor he acquired ' a sum in the course tf a month , lo enable, him as he be licved, to complete his studies. He was right ; and in tho spring of 1815 ho rcceiv- ed the degree of A. B., and was the first to reed ve thflt:J5ca.dernic.a Ihoiiorini Ohio- He was now 20 years of ngc, and com menced the study of the law, in the of fico of Gen. Beecher, who, after he had finished his legal studies, from a liighopin. ion ot his powers, took Mm into partner, ship, and in his new and favorite profession lie rose rapidly to distinction. As a proof of his ardour and assiduity, ho practiced in eight different counties in the State in which' he lived. His filial affection was again manifested in the purchase of a fine tract of land in Indiana, with the proceeds of his profession, on which he placed his father and family. He had now acquired so dies of her butchered offspring, scalped ike them, and apparently doad. tone was not, however, wounded 80 bndly'as they tad supposed ; and no sooner did she hear the sound of their retreating footsteps than disengaging herself froin the jheup of slain, laggard j pale, and drenched With her own and the blood of her children, she peered steadily from tbe door, and finding hcr,en- emies no longer in sight, hastily extinguish ed the fire, which, before leaving! they had applied to her cabin; but which had, as yet,, made very little impression on the green Jogs of which it was colti posed. JWi. ping from her eyes the warm blood which was still reeking from her scalpless headj she directed her agonized gaze to the bleed ing and disfigured forms of thoso"who, scarce an hour before, had been playing at tho door, nnd gladdening her maternal heart with their merry laughter; and as the felt, in the full sense of desolation , the last ray of hope die within her bosom j there stole over her ghastly luce nn expression as savage as was ever worn by the ruthlcs3 slayers of her innocent babes. I ler eye gleamed with the wild fury jof the' tigress robbed of its young, as closing her cabin carefully behind her," with a countenance animated by some desperate purpose, she started'ofF in the same path by which the murderers had departed Heedless of her wound and wasting blood, and lost to oil sense o hunger and futigue in the ono. ab sorbing and fell purpose which actuated her, she paused not upon the trail of her foes until, nt night, she came up with them encamped at the- side of the creek) which is indebteu to her for its present name. . Emerging from the gloom of the sur rounding darkness, on her hands and knees, she crept noiselessly towards the firer the blaze of which, -as it flickered upwards, discovered to licr the prostrate forms of the Indians, five in nUmberi who, overcome by anrousiially fatiguing day's travel, were wrapped in deep sleep, with their only wenporasv their tomahawks! iu theicr belts Her' own stealthily advancing figure, ns the uncertain light of the burning pine fell tip. on it with more or less distinctness now exposing its lineaments clotted with blood, and distorted by an expression which her wrongs, and the sight of the desolators of her hearth-stone, exaggerated to a degree almost fiendish ; and now shading all; save wo spectral eyci was even more striking than the swarthy Juces which she glared up on. Assuring herself that they were fasf asleep, sho gently removed 'their toma. hawks,! and dropped all but one into the stream; w ith this remaining weapon io the bar, .that tho Legislature of Ohio clee! ed him to represent that State in the Sen- ui ui mic uiniuu oiuiua , uuu 111 mis uis- tinguished body he has continued ever since, witii an increase oi fame, and, an untinng application to the important duties of his statioortJiatxliasiycn hjmjV-dauaUohej gratitude 01 111s country. Rlf.Ewing:-Tsrtn-pcr3oni: athletic and high a reputation for ability and talent per hand, and ccol rfcsoTu by too great bent over tho nearest enemy,, and ing the instrument, to which her own lift and muscular broad .across the chest, vigor. ous, but not elegant in his proportions , or graceful in ins motions... lis.conntenance isexpressivb of good nature, nnd enliven ed by a frequent smilendthougji awk ward mtils apiiearancc, ins manners ;iiavc a natural ea e tlwuevcn an cany intercourse with rennrd and polished society could not have rendered more agreeable. Nature has bestowed upon him a mind oT great'pow crs, which have been cultivated to the-ex tent his- limitcd means and opportunities would afford.?- It. is analytic and logical, rather than brilliant and imaginative. Or- atory,,as an art, has not claimed much of his attention :'and though his arrangement is lucid, and his mind afflucnt'in tonics, and fertile in arguments, his speeches pos sess few of the embcllijihments of rhetoric, or 'the elegaftcies of art. He cannot blend the utile with the dulci. or amuse While he persuades. He always endeavors to edify, and but seldom attempts to please. Rca- soning is bis forte : in that he is conscious. of his power, and "will not trust himself to the efforts of fancy.- His diction is plain and unadorned 1 not Verbose or, pvolred, but clear and . suited .to. Reasoning, and is feeble or vigorous , according to the strentgh ?r wcoancHs 01 ins argumeuu v - - nir. Eiwing is 100 gooa naiurea 10 aeoi terrific and unerring blow buried it if. the temple of its owner. The savage movod-no more than partly to turn upon his side, "ajittJeyjiwyercd aminuterlilnrjBti ast)en , arid sunJback '"to his foririer posit Tori , ignite dead. Smiling ghastly in his rigid face, the desperate woman left him, and From Swift's celebrated Essay. Faults of Conversation. There are two faults in conversatiori which appear ery diflerent, yet arise from the same root, and are equally blamcablo j and the uneasiness of being interrupted ourselves. The two chief ends of conver. sation are to entertain and improve thoso we are among, orto reCeivo those benefits ourselves, which whoerer will consider cannot easily run into cither of tlieso errors; becaus when any man speakcth in compa ny t it is supposed that he ' docth it for his hearers sakerand not Kis own : so that mon discretion will teach us hoi to force theirattention if they are not willing to lend it 5 norNm the other side," to interrupt him who is in possession, -heoo use that is tho grossest manner to give tho preference to our own good se I here are some people whoso good man ners will not suffer thehvto interrupt you ; but j what is almost as bnd. will discover abundance of impatience, andbe upon tho watch until you have donej because they have stated something in their own thoughts which they long to-be dehverea of. time faeyjare so fat from .regarding j passes that their imaginations are wholly turned upon what they havo in reserve, for". fearit should slip out of. their memory and thus confine their invention, which mlcrht ntherwlsnraiifeovcralltindrcd thihffs full as good j and that might be muchtmbro naturally introduced, -.. j. ','- There is a sort ot rude familiarity, which some people by practisirig among their in. timates, have introduced into their general conversation, and would have it piss for in nocent freedom or humor, which is a da gerous experiment in out northern climate', where alitheJiltle-decorum and politeness we have are purely forced by art, and are so ready to lapse into barbarity. This, among the Romans,- was the - railcry of slaves, of which wo have so many instances in Plautus. Itseemeth to hajc been Well introduced among us by Cromwell who by , preferring the scum of the people, made it eourt enterlainmenti of which I have heard many particularsandconsideringall thibgs wereT turned upside down, H was rcasonablo and judicious ; although it was a piece' of policy found out to ridicule a point of lion or in the other extreme, when the srtiallest word misplaced among gentlemen ended Id a duel. - " ' . - .There arc some men excellent at telling a story , and provided witli plentiful stock of them, which, they can draw out upon" occasion itf alii companies; and, consider ing how long conversatkjfi runs now smop us, it is not altogether eontemptiUe tal ent. However, tt is subnet to two una void' Lablc defects ; frequent n-petitioo, aifl t-V( too soon exhausted sx. that whoever vsluntn this gift in himself, hafli need of jrod mem ory, and ought frequently to shift hia com pany , that he may not diacoTcrthc weaknc of tisuTidTfoTthofle endowed la ve 'ciJoiit . . any other revenue, but lire upon the maid stock. : " " ' :j" . Great speakers in- public are sctdont' agreeable in private conversation! whether their faculty bo natural, or Seduired bf .rl -.f 'r. -.....:-i k2,. i.i. cution', " aitlibugh4t-tnay mxsm a paradoiTf usually springeth froni-a barrenness of In. ; ventioo and of words, by which men alio have only ome stock of notions upon every subject, and one set of phrases to express - them in, swim' upon supcrficcs, and offer themselves upon every occasion ; therefore ( men of much learning, and who know the compass of a pirignagc, are generally tlie -worst of talkers on a sudden, until much Practice bath inured and emboldened them , oecauso they are confounded with plenty of A, matter, raricty nt notions, and of words which jhyamKJt readily clwosje, but aro choice, which is no advantage in prlvfltd conversation ; whero on the Other side tlie her cTMTdren VblodU sW of other tlie most in InoiselesslvLas before despatched alLoflthe 1 sleepers, hut one, to that long rest from which only the last trumpt can awaken tliem.T' The last devotedjjclinv-howeverf was afousea To consciousness of his sittm tion by the death-struggles of his compan. ions. He sprang to his feetj and' felt for his weaponr-It was not there; and one. glance explaining every thing, ho evaded the-blowtiimcd at him by the bra e and re vengeful mother, seized from the fire a burning brand, and with it succeeded par. tiallyJLn warding off the furious attack which followed., In a little time they fell struggling together, the Indian desperately wounded, and the unfortunate Woman faint With loss "of blood and her extraordinary exertions. Uoth were too weak to harm each other now,' and tlie Wounded savage only ' availed himself of his remaining strength, to crawl away. In this piteous plight tlie poor woman, remained until near noon on the following day .when she was ac. cklentally tJiscovered by a straggling party of whites, u whom she told her story, and then dieL After burying her on Ue spot tbejunade some exertion ; to overtake the fugitive Indian, , but unsuccessfully. He succeeded In reaching his tribe, and from his tale the little sf ream, before mentioned, was ever 'afterwards known among the supportable. - ' Nothing has spoiled men more fo con versation tharf tlie character of being wits j to support which, they never fail of encourj. aging a numocr rof foflowrrs ana admircrs who lift themselves in their service, whcre. ,1 in tly find tlicir accounts on bh-sides, b V plcaaing"thelr mutuaranitrV ; This- lialli given the former such an air of superiority, . P j -- r-V.rjir--,M--1-",---.- -v-a and made attet- mucb in sarcasm, or to resort to bitterness of imrecttre t and rhtr jrerer clrctirines "his 1 Chrtnkecs , Ttnd also th pale faces pas-the e.lWar.WomanlCrecL', ' neitlierof them are- well t bewJuredWt say nothing here of tlie state of dispute and contradiction, telling of lies, or of thoso who are troubled with tho disease called tlie wandering of tlie thoughts, that are never present in wind, at ' what passcth in dis. course ; for whoever labors under .any of these possessions, isas unfit for conrcrsa tion as a madman in 1 Bedlam. nijitors by unexpected b'Jrsts of eloquence. ' " Wt , ADVEBTisiitri. Vrc copy tlie ffollowinjt ' sensible remarks upon this subject, frorri ad - exchange paper i .- t "- - - t ' Advertising is like a travelling sign, Nd " business man will hesitate to pay twenty dollars' for a jgo where W Would never think of pacing half the sum for advertHng. , The one is a sign" seen only by. those who r pass the store and can sei the goods that are for sale as well as jhe sign. The ad- t vcrtisemcnt is a comprelicnsive sign. that comes nnder the eye of hundreds who will never te4 the sign over tlie door j yet sOrrkJ" soft heads pretend, to argue, that becausn some men have done a good business with. ' out advertislBg, advertising Is onnecessary. Tbey might as wtfi arfcue, that becsuse - anmo mon kafp rtinf rrvmv mitlimi. Inna. tnr,ipdustrv is unneccsssry. V
Highland Messenger (Asheville, N.C.)
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April 2, 1841, edition 1
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