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I met a woman, who by the tender man hemeht cf my weaknesses, gradually corrected the most pernicious of them. She became pru dent from uffeciion ; unJ though of the most gen erous nature, she was taught Irtigality and econo my by her Jove fur me. JJu'iiig llifl most critical period in my life, she preserved order in n;j" af fairs, from the pare of which she relieved me. he gently reclaimed me from dissipation ; she prof pid my eak and irresolute nature ; she urg ed my indolence to all lbs exertions that have been useful and creditable to me ; and she was perpetually at ind 'o admonish my heedlessness or improvidence. To her 1 ou t uhulcvcr I am ; to her uhutevtr I shall be. In her solitude for my interest she never for a moment forg'.t my feelings or my character. Ii.ven in her occasional resent inerVt for which I bu' too often gave her cause, Would to G d I could recall those moments M she had no sullenness nor acrimony. Her feelings were warm and impetuous, but she was placable, Render, and constant. Suuh was she w hom I tost ; and 1 have lost her when her excellent natural sense was rapidly improving, after eight years strucsle and distress I, ad bound us fast together, and inoulued our tempers to each other ; when a knowledge of her worth-had refined my youthful love into friendship, and before age h -d deprived it of much of its original ardor. 1 lost her, alas ! the choice of my yotnh, the partner of my misfor tunes, at a moment when I had the prospect of her sharing my better days." Hume Journal. Xlenry t l.13 s Opiuiou of Emigration. "The hncst, patient and industrious Gurman readily unites with our people, establishes himself upon some of our fat lands, fijls capacious barns, apd enjoys in franquiljty, 'hsnhundant fruits which his dil gence gathers around him, always ready to -fly to the standard of his adopted couplry, or its jaws when called by the duty of patriotism. The gy the versitile, the philosopical Frenchman, ac comodating himself cheerfully toall the vicissitudes of life, inc trparat s himself without difficulty in our society. But of all foreigner, none amalga mate themselves so quickly with our people as the natives o " il.e Lin t r !J Jsle. In some of the yiions thut have passed through my imagination have supposed that Ireland was originully a ptrt and parcel ol this continent, and that by some ex lr "ordinary convulsion of nature, it was torn from America, and drilling across the ocean it was placed in the unfortunate vicinity (Great Britain. The same generous hopitulity, the same careless and unca'culntinj 'inailTerence about human life, characrerizes t he inhablta nts of boih countries. Kentucky has been sometimes called the Ireland of America. And I have no doubt that if the cur rent of emigration were reversed and sent from America upon the shores of Europe, msteud of being from Kurope to America, every American emigrant to Ireland would there Cud a hearty wil coma snti e happy home. The i ti rbjocrncy. A riiiladelphtan, in a novel entitled Out Iirst Families, ' draws the following picture of tjie aris tocracy of the North : If you were clle(j upon to make up a delega tion pi the talent, learning, genius, and virtue ol the country, you would no more dream of mak ing your selection from the sii-disant 'aristocra cy,' than you would think of choosing a represen tation of our materia greatness and wealth from among the men off gen ilia am intellectual or per sonal distinction, teyer were the two element i of material and moral superiority so widely separ ated as in this country. Our aristocracy, as a gi Ml at fact, hive not even good taste, good breed Ing or UoJ manners. They dreis badly, thy rat, drink and sleep badly. The women lor the most part, have coarse features, flat leet, and vul gar hands. They wear gaudy dresses; they talk h.uuly and P'gg'''. and affect fabe rr.odt'sty in pub lic ; they are fop a of slang, scandal, ani low lit erature; they aro rude and insolent to their ir.fe tors, ahd mean and oppressive to their domestics. They always take pains to assert themselves, which a truly hiyh bred person never dors, except by the unconscious sjsjjt't of hi dress, appearance, aguagi. and manner; nnd they exhaust their )iv- s and fortunes in ridiculous attempts to out o.i b, outbu'.'d, and outshine uie another. Jo a word, that wh eh passes itself oii" n ;he aristocra cy of this country would be di euvd only the snob Wry of another, tin to Washington in winter, tc -'"ji in summer, or fook in at nnv time at a fashiouahle hotel or an 'exclusive' party; see the aits, the prt:ir.sions, the grimaces ; listen lo the sot.j.TH nt conversation, and the tone of voice, I'm language. :,n:l k? manner in which ih-y are ir-ated 't criticise the dresses, the license of tnlk .... .ng the young men and w.nijer,, the loud laugh ing. ncuirming and perpetual g;i;gling ; study the manners and measure the persona accomplish in n's of the c mp my , and V"U would think that sh.twU, ."!,. ;w ptih.' and Measter Jeams had mar-balled forth he hosts of high life fjclow stairs "t a cr,nd hululay. This is unquetri .nably a eowet d lineatinr, of ih money-bag aristocracy, which ha ib'own into iliM shade that which is really the first clnss of Northern society first in rehuement, intelligence uud humanity. JollS Y. NCasow ojF yiRolxi a. Letter from the Hon. John Y. M n'ori, received in Washington City by ihe (asCEurbpean mail,- dein.onstfate a pp'd improvement iu his health in all' respects. CHARLOTTE: FRIDAY II0RKIKG, August 11, 1855. tCT W. S. LAWTON & CO., (South Atlantic vWharf.) are our julhorizd agents in Charleston. S. C, and are duly empowered to tak Advert Women's and Subsciiptiona at the rales requited by us, and gisnt receipts. FOR PRESIDENT, I3NT 1856 s HON. HENRY A. WISE. OF' VIRGINIA. Tiic ii suit lu Horiii Car-fnjs. Ii) the first District, R. T. Paine, know-no-h- ing, defeats Dr. ghay , Jem., by about 300 m j r- i In the second Ditric!, Thomas itifrn, dem., is I elected over Latham, K ifJ fr"11 t'ian 5. ,. . , ... wr -, '.'11 ! tr!jority. In the third District. Mr. insJow'3 njajorily over He id, K. N., is l.OGti. The fourth District jives Branch, dem., a major ity of 2,71. ' In the fiflh Pistricj, fi. G. ft-de know-nothing, is elected over John Kerr, ly 3,000 majority. In the sixth District, R. C. Puryear, K. N. whig, is elected over Scales, dem. I - ! In the seyentli District, Hon. B. Craige, dem.. in elected oyer Stowe, K. N. Craige ' majority i:; 2,G10. J In the tigJuh District, Mr. Clingmm is elected ' over Carmicbael, K. N., hy a majority of 1 195. I" " The end of Know-Nothingism. We htve now the full returns from our own i State, and enough frm Tennessee and Alabama 1 to npw that the secret order s worse beaten than tjio old Whig party ever was. Nobody who ; knows our people, tjieir bold independence of cha racier, and loye of freedom, will bo surprised ' at the result. Sarn, the "immoral," had to fighi for every inch of ground south of the Potomac, and wiih such heavy odd it is not to be wondered at that he fell vanquished before a host that was conscious of its strength and proud of its princi ples. Abolnioriiem, as we always belieyecf it would, has killed it. Northern fanaticism seized it as a hobby to ride upon aad rode it tq death. The Hisses and Wilsons of Massachusetts ; the Littlejohns and Stebbinses tf New York ; tho Campbells and Harrisons of Ohio; and i lie Ray ners of N. ,C, gave an ineradicable tint of dark ness to the organization, which could not be ipe j out. In the North Know Nothingism has become the handmeid of Seward nnd Van Buren fee soilism ; and in the Sou'h, despite all the efforts of the circuit riders, it has been repudiated. It is dead as a political element eyery where. Appeal ing to the passions and prejudices of the fanatic and the hope of reward in the trading politician, its rise was sudden and its progress rapid. It wept up like a rr.-teor and threw its baneful glare ! D over the political horizon for a season, and then suuk into the darkness r" from whenge it sprung, Unwept, unhonorcd, and unnuug." What becomes of the Democrats who have uni ted themselves to this organiza'ion, vainly hoping to sec in it a great, patriotic and nnseclional party, through which the Union might be preserved in its integrity, fanaticism quelled and agitation hushed Will they remain members of this wretched concern, now its olj.-c'.s and aims are known and its impotence for good demonstrated? Do they not see one County Council after another in the Middle and Eastern States, ignoring or re pudiating the only plank in the Philadelphia plat form which ever made it tolerable (o the Southern voter? Do they not see the Order prostituted to selfish and dangerous purposes? I).j thev not see lint it has no strength unless allied to Abolition ism and Maine Lawism ? And finally, have not Virginia, Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama fur nished proof that nothing can now be done for the salvation of iheJUnion and our common coun try, except through the great National Democratic party ? .We ';now not what feelings actuate other men, what resentments control, or what obligations bind them, but we ore very blind and ignorant in the field of politics if ihis be not the moment for every Democrat who has strayed to return to his party standard, and in the bosom of that party 1 renew the war against fraud, incapacity and per- ,P(l m ,"rr"'le l..o,I?h.-d Worn the best intor r , E ,'. " . , . ! mation n w at hai d it .s believed that not lefs than f.Jy, instead of hoping to do so in the shattered j filteen per,ons were kilfcd m . nd m4ny order and with the broken phalanx of Know No- ' perhaps fatally, wounded. thingism. I After ll; assault had b"en made, the Ameri- The National Democracy furnishes lfre only ' cnns- rnucn fxaperafed. set fire to a number of safe and true rally ing point for the friends of the I occupied bj their assailants, with a view it i L - - .o. . ol smoking them out. Union and the Constitution, rhen let us burv all . li.;ui 7i.J !L i., i . ' " I ynilst Hie melee was progressing one Irish-. animosities, and taking the Constitution as our ba- mnn was seen dressed in woman's clothes, repre. sis and the principles of Jefferson and the great j anting a nurse, having a small child in his aims, leaders of the Republican parly as our guide, nt 1 d, n ln e'ude suspicion apd finally took re- Ihe South at least, present a united front. That f"C.io giL , , . V ,. ' J . f ,1 I h-Old Brewery, located in the upper part of is the only hope we have nf staying tho tide of the citv, wa, fired and entirely droved. Many Abohtiumsm. thai is making ready tc engulph us. other r,uildings in this region were also burnt, and . . I quite a number thoroughly gutted. (XT We call attention to the advertisement of I . 1 dlffic,J,,i., 8nv whnf " ill y. be the result J l M.nk.. r- n ;n , i ' r ni lhl ,nos' ,srlr"cpf"1 "ffair. Order has been J. M. ftlatttietts, J-c., n to-days paner Jt is' .- .a 'im ,. ., . ,'.:. r"r; ,l partially restored. I he military are out and craom .in cf fiat quality is in the market, hopes ara entertained that peace may be preserv-1 Frovid nce is one nf the best neighborhoods iii 1 pd, though there are serious apprehensions for to this or any other county, and the lands arc re- "'g'1'- About as many Americans as foreigners matkable lor their fertility and nrodoeiivenMC i especially iu Cotton. - Wl:u tl;e ffafriots Have Said. Below we give the sayings of Patrick Henry, Clay, and Daniel Webster, upon ihe naturaliza tion of Fort igners and religious freedom: Patbick HilXry on FijipRATiox. Encourage the husbandmen, the mechanics, the merchants of the c!J world to corns and settle in this world of promise ; make it the house of die skilliul, the in dustrious, and the happy as well as the asylum of '.ho distressed ; fill up the measure of population as you can by the mentis which Heaven has placed n your power ; and I venture to prophecy there are those living who will see 'his favored land among the most powerful on earth. Yes, sir ! they will see her great in arts and arms, her gol den harvests riming over an immeasurable extent, her commerce penetrating the most distant sea?, and. her cannon silencing ihe vain boast of those who now appear to rule the wave. y , ---- - - Frank Admission from a Kstow -Nothing Organ. Prior 10 the late elect ions in Tennessee, Ken lucky and tiutfb .Carolina, the (Buffalo Jevv VorX Commercial, a leading know-rothing organ, madn the following frank admission, which was not only uttered in since i it y, but has the merit of being founded in tuih : ,if Gentry is defeated in Tennessee, and the democrat's achieve a decided success in North Car olina, the American party will no longer have an existence as a national organization. Even it they win n signal victory in Kentucky on Monday next, it wdl Hvail them nothing, coming upon an overihrow in the other States just named." The Albany Argus' of the 9th instant has the following seasonable comments on the above : " The Buffalo Commercial used the above lan- i gunge in an article concern. ng ih" elections in a . tarolina ano tetNHee, wnicn appearey j.ii io" paper on the 2d inst. The contingency suggested has occurred. Gentry is defeated ;n Tennes-e, and the J';u,ocral9 have achieved a decided suc cess in NoMh Carolina electing, j.n the latter State, five out of the eight members of Congress. Th Buffalo Commercial is a Know Nothing pa per, and of course looks with anxiety upon the result of the summer elections. It very frankly Mates the importance of the struggle in Tennessee and North Carolina, and does not over-estimate the influence of a result adverse to Know Not h isjgism. Following upon the heels of n defeat in Virginia, tht? repulse in the two former States pet tied the aaesion that (he order has no political strength in the S"ul". and wil no longer have an existence as a national organization.' The. Com mercial is right in its conclusion that success in Kentucky, which the Know Nothings have probjaj bly secured, 'will avail ih'-m nothing, coming up on an overthrow in the other Slates just named.' Know Nothingisjn now disappears froin the stage as a powerful political element, and the presideiu tial contest will be conducted uninfluenced, to any considerable extent, by this disturbing force, "It is to be presumed I hat candid and intelligent members of the order, after this distinct odmission by one of i's lending and its ablest organ, that it 'no longer has an existence as a national organi zation,' will prefer to abandon i s pnst pretensions in that respect, to regard the mission of the order as ended, and to attach themselves to such living political organizations as best accord with their sympathies. Democrats, it seems to us, will not d'em it wise to separate themselves longer from their political brethren, in the expectation that this secret order will have t he power to uccomplish anv result which they desire." The contingency suggested by the Buffalo Com mercial has not only occurred, but Alabama, too, has proclaimed in thunder tones to her sister States that Ktiow Nothingism cannot have an ex istence as a national organization. Fearful Riot la LoniM idle. Loi'i?yiLLjc, .Aug. p. The election in this State yesterday for governor, Representatives and mem bers of Congress was warmly contested. The majority lor the American licket in this city is about 1600. I legiet lu afld that terrible riots had occured in this city. Jn the first and eighth wards several persons have been killed and many wounded. Two blocks of buildings were fired and the most intense excitement prevailed. The Irih fired from their wjpdows upon the mob and kilhd three Americans, fti retaliation the Americans have filing one Irishman. Several ,nhers hi,ye also leen ki11 or captured Tl. l .1 . l i rn The mob moved, up towards the Times office but were stayed from further violence by speeches from Prentice and Puree)!, of ih" Journal. The returns thus far indicate the success of the Know Nothings throughout the Slate. It is conceded that C"X, Know Nothing, had been elected in the 9th Congressional District. Cincinnati. Aug. Q. The election in the Ken tucky towns opposite this city passed off quietly. The results as far as received favor the Auieripan licket. Louisville, Aug. 7. The mob dispersed last night alter setting fire to the office of the "Signs of the Times,' which paper made no issue thi-i morning. As far as can be ascertained there appears to have been about twenty persons killed and many wounded. Twelve buildings were burned before the flimes could be subdued. The first shot was fired by foreigners at some distance from the polls. The accounts from the scene of the riot are horrible. Parts of human bodies are to be seen charring in the smouldering ruins! A large crowd is now around the court house where the dead bodies are b' ing collected. Louisville. Aug. 7. The excitement here during ail of last night was intense. The whole city was in commotion and very few persons went to bed at all, apprehending most serious conse quences, from the best sources of information, it appears that the Irish those not acknowledged by the better class of adopted citizens most of them under the influence of liquor, were the ag grcssors, and commenced the affray bv perpefra ting outrages upon the Americans. The excite- ,ment ,ous begun, soon grew serious, and has en &Ye tnus ber0 k,IIed a,1(i wounded. Cloqucut and True, The London (England) Advertiser, speaking of the United States and Great Britain, iisej the' fol low ing language : "Contemplate England, groaning wMi taxation and Struggling in a sanguinary war; with her trade deranged, her populace discontented, her govern ment the corrupt machine of an oligarchy, hud her reyenues squandered for she knows not what; and contrast her wnh America the America that British cabinet ministers treat wiih so much indif. ference, whose statesmen are cultivationg the arts of peace, and whose commerce is gathering a gol den harvest to the nation. She it is that stands! boldly forward la her civil greatness ;she it is ihat presents presents a striking' contrast to the milita. j ry despot isma ol Europe ; she it is thai -with her ' thousand miles of unguarded coast: her unwalled crties, her meagre navy combines within her self the elements necessary to a grea't military .na tion. Leace reigns at her fireside: her throne is f ' - ' V- - v . I nor in-imfrf'g J"gors are- devising means- isy relieve an overflowing treasury, her trade is - vigorous, her people are increasing be yond comiwmon in wealtk.her government ts at least cheaD.and useful. Would that we could say the same-I J England spends her blood and treas ure in figh'irtg the battles of unthankful neighbors. America jfights only her ojro battles she fights them quick and well.-'-' Acceptance !' Slutnuou. Washington, Aig. 14. lix-Uov. fchannon nas accept, a ine iTove,,,... - shio of Kansas, and will nt once proceed to ms - - oust. Alabama Election. As far as heard from, there are 22 Democrats and 10 Know Nothing elected to ihe Senate, and 55 Democrats and 41 Know Nothings to the House four members to be heard from. The majority of .Winston vwi probable be 1 1,(M)0. From the New porker Staats Zeitung, Aug, 1. The tjleraians and tlic pi" era Id. The Neirs has undertaken the worthy task to exnlain'to "the Anglo American public a nejv piece or perfidy on the part cf the New 'ork Sw aid. The somewiiat peculiar position of the German Americans la this country obliges u$ to take notice of things which, under other ctrcum stances, we should pass by with indi.fleren.ee, nnd ward off the blow which the folly ol some inaivi- j ,erest tiir, jf every building was a pala.ee. duals amongst our countrymen suggests against j j p-p an hour in the rooms still remaining as the whole German American population. ' he lei't them and amongst the relics of Goethe, The f'latformof the Free Germans, which the miljer ,he gyjjnce Qf one of his friends and war Herald reveals now, is an exploded thing, which s,;pcrs . ,,r .tdmirers is too feeble a term for :;ici cannot oe nnaoown j iieiujet iu u o nor to the -.Louisville Journal. The perfidy ol this Inst paper is to try to' induce Anglo Americans- to betieve that those principles laid down jn that platform are those of ihe mass of ihe German population. We could as well try to n ike our countrymen believe, -w ith ns much and as little right that tlm principles til Garrison and Antoinet te firown TTre the expression of the opinions of the whole American people. The News points right eously out the small number of readers of those German papers which have made themselves the organs of those sectaries, and compares iheni with the large number of readers oj such papers as the Slants Zeifup" n,ld pifierg If. is a l..,ct tliffl the Stunts Zftuna alorua Une more readers than all those papers which belong fn I je o-c'.lh d radical party put together. It is to be remarked, as a proof of the sentiments of the German population that nearly all thope papers whjjh are not demo cratic can scarcely get a living, while ife; d- mo. cratic and conservative organs enjoy a large circle of readers. The most resolute and talented paper of the abolitionist school have generally Ihe h ast sucscribers. The Pioneer, for example, has but a few hundred pay ing subscribers, while the Ahem 'tilting, v iih much labor and great exertion to please its readers, has obtained but a tolerable nir culation in the German boarding hous1 -e. The mass of the German population belongs undoubt edly to the democratic party. Although some fraction of them hesitate sometimes in their opin ions, they soon come hack to this, their old fl g. liven those who are always on the stand when politics are quiet, listen, when the election time is at hand to those whose experience enables them to direct their countrymen. 1' is easy lor ihe German to understand the posi mn of things in the South and North, and lo see that abolition a n, n.'vtivism, and the mania of temperance pro ceed from the same source; they know that they have not to approach either Scylla, or Chariybde for fear ol being swallowed up by'thetrt, but that they have to fight the two infirmities of our epoch. The German loves liberty not only for himself but for others ; hut he is not venturous enough to risk the liberty which he 1ms acguired. at :' great Sacrifice, fur a doubtful lutur". In lacl what is 'he aim ol those individuals and papi rs l.oa lag everyday of their liberality? In their imitless endeavors there i nothing hut a deadened arrow against slavery, which cnnnol have anv ff ct. for slavery cannM be abolished, even though nil t'i Germans should -uct as a single mt.n against ii. Thev do not even know what might become of those they would make free instantaneously. All their doing are,, ru fact, merely high sounding words, which can, perhaps, seduce for a moment but cannot jnsure anything for the future. All these are but opportunities for the Loais- I ville Journal and the New York Herald to calum niate the Germans. These two papers both be long to ihe sr. called National Know Nothings. Now that the Germans have recngnr2"d ihe free soil Know Nothing, and that the Sojih, in gener al, is disposed to favor foreigners, it was the task of the above named papers to denounce the Ger mans as abolitionists to the South, and to indicate the danger which should result from allowing the. right of voting to the Germans. B it " hat is to be thought of a press which uses suph means to. at tain its ohj-ct. British Clemency. John Boll is ar,-nys sco) ding the rest of the wot Id, but that gentleman must certainly forget the old maxim w hich teaches that charity begins at home. The masses are kept in ignori.ee ; and the colonial subjects of that "mighty d pendency" are oftentimes trt ated with a uegree o: cruelty men is utterly incompatible ; .1 .. . r I i .... ... with its boasted freedom. An English traveller in India, in a letter to ihe London Times, Mies I that as he was going up ihe Uoogley river, he i ueciu Ciu.mS on river uanii arm on landing j homage lo the genius of Goethe. How n,anv of lound they proceeded from a poor victim under. : t,o small-frv of literature have approached the going tori une al the hands of the head of the po- ' au.hr of Vave,-ley ' hmsef witi leSs of rcy lice. He states that the torture is used all over ; erence J or fancied, in the abundance of iheir self. India for the alleged purpose ol bringing criminals j esteem than to have addressed any one as -veuer. injustice. He cites names and adduces facts, and ! nhle and much-respected sir' Would have been closes his communication as lollows : "I nm p,.r. ; lessening nf their own cons,ideration. The con fectly fiire of the truth of my statements, and en- j lents of the letter I cannot pretend to remember clo.-e my name and address as a guaranty of my j but I recollect, that its effect, as that of the nosi good laitn. t n( j,js 0.,r wriline'S. was In m!ri. me ihinb kMo Takixo a Position.. Joe Dovetail had a wi'e, j a strong-minded wife. She looked upon Joe as a ! sort of necessary evil, treating him very much as ! the lajy did her husband on the North river steam- boat who ventured to object to some of her ar- rangements for travel, when she shut him up sud- j deniy by telling :im, in ihe hearing of a dozen i passengers; " j hy, what is i; to you 1 If I had known you were going to act so, i wouldn't have brought you j along. But J oe and rs. Dovetail never travel- ; led. They ere always at home, though Joe was rarely seen ihere or eisef eli 're She had lona ; trained h.m to the ha bf I of retiring under the bed when company called, and so familiar was he with : that retreat, ft was s question whether, in default of personal service a warning tq miht.a framing ; wou.u nooutmuntrssieiiuriuerineoeu-.; as being j rl U"r Pi-.e r Dur,"S ,he stay of Mrs. Dovetai; ? friends, he occasionally thrust out his head like a turtle, but one glance of me loving eye ot nis tpouse would sentj him unqer, with cold .shivers running up his back. One day as she was hob-nobbing over the fire with a friend and asocial gins, Joe-thrust out his figure head, and defied th ahakes and frowns (dJtis,Htfe till, growing vTHant and desperate, he sang out : My deijc, ydiVuiay shake your head just as you pleaBe,' but tell you, es long as I have got the spirit nf a man I will peep. romlhe New Monthly Magazine. A Visit lo ibe Home of Goetlie. . There is nothing prepossessing in the external appearance of ffie Athens' of Germany, W the new palace wa. erected, SaX Wem .r hjd scarcely had a-single handsome building, i he Ritter Strage, the largest street within the city, is iiule better lhan a lane ; and the street, whtch have been built in the neighborhood of the ceme tery, are only handsome as compared with the meanness which preceeded them. The theatre for the opening of which Schiller wrote his beau- 0 . . r. All i nl in tiiul orolonue to Wallenstein is peri. t 7 r - . :ll,p.;or was e- i ! it . n i n n M 1 1 j w iiiiii li i ii w i v - - . . formance the night I was at Saxe Weimar, and when I called at the theatre in the morning neither money nor entreaties could procure me a moment'? admission beyond the stage door. During the rehearsals it is strictlv prohibited ; and it was in this instance the more disappointing; as the piece they were reciting was the Wallensteirf? Mg.ert and on the spot where the author had himsell assisted at its first performance. To tread the same ground, and loojc upon the same objects, associates us more spiritually wi h hR recollections of an eminent man than the sight of relics deposited in glass cases, or chambers ihat have been deserted or changed. there .are numberless recollections j , aHXt. Weimar which makes us forget iis ar.chi- tectursl poverty. Ihe houses ol tteraer, .acnii- a 1 ' I ler, Wit land and Coethe, and inB associations cotinected with them, give its streets a higher in rhosil who have felt deeply the powers oi ins g.-n- ins, or the influence ol his personal acquaintance. There was nothing of splend r, nothing even of a SfJtolurs luxuries. The handsome copy of "Sar danapalus, Poscari. and Cain," presented by ,ord Byron, was carefully folded, as it had been by Goethe himself, in a silk j)o-Let handkerehiff, and placed with a few other volumes in a drawer a part ; but the generality of his b -oks had ihe plain air of actual service, and most of them had been the companions of his long life. They were ar rar." d on shelves of unpainted wood, in a small I o '. . . . , I ehambe. adioininir his stud v. which was itself as . nlninlv 111 rruished. A common lable. a deal writ- j ,..sk r shelves and one or two cabinet ul j lh simplest vvorkmanship, were all j Dotted. i Near his dgsk was hung a plaster medallion, en- circlet bv himsell with an inscription in inK tlt- cct. immenS'i sum, est ex namint fpuftam. i was a profile of Napoleon, which hyd fallen from I'm wall and been broken into fragments on the day of the bailie of L' ipsic, alm .t at ihe mom nt it was lost. The coincidence seems lo have made considerable impression u;-n the imagination nf Goethe, who was present when it fell, and by whom ihe fragments had been reunited and carefully nrese i ired. Ol" his .MSS, 1 was shown tho ongMal Cf ichi- ch'e Guty'iitttcns yqii Berlirkiiirn jVrilteii in the Germ-'U charaplpr, in llTj and lirotica lo mana," wrjtien jn the ' Italian hand," and d .ii d 177S. My companion told me ihat w' ile sitting with hin in 1 S 1 tj, the servai t having neglect d o supply them with wood, Goelhe had told him to f.-ed the stove wilh t lie manuscript " Kfoliea. ' He managi d, however, to cot.p al and prp-erve i, and evidently fell proud at having s.Vid a rt I p Irom the fl unes. In one jiart of the room were material for some of the experiments ctmnCv d w 1 1 f i his luirt&'ilebfe; and in ihe cover of a let er, tie r one nf his win. dews, were some (raiments ofcoJored ilk. h ch IT hid an tnteiesl of a (tdl'-rent description In n I h ai d for w hat purp .sc lhy had bet u emi 1 yed It appears ihat his grand, hild had '-een in the h-a . it of visiting him in his study. II- wis too kind in mi t-Li ... i. pt-tii ii-i . iiu niici. lie uiu uoi io 1 . . . i i , lo he iiiterrupU'd lie placed Ii- r by Ins side, and - i. . ... .. ...I .v.... i i i i... .i. i ... . ...;.!, often d some small new coi hs a rew ard lor un I I .- .... rav- Ming one of the silken slued, an occupation i inn generally Kepi n r quiet. i tnougm more ol Goethe after hearing ihis tiifling amcdote than after heating even his F.-usf. ' A mere i hearties, man of talent must be little better than a i Mephistophiles. J Adjoining the study was the poet's h droom : a small narrow closet with a single window looking j into the garden ' much the same in ize and ap. pearance as I have seen occupied by a Franciscan friar in his convent. In a corner, ihe wall of j which was tap. stri'-d with a pi cy ol cvirnon ! black and.green carpetitig, stood his bed, small and ! uncurtained, ano by its side the chair in which he ; died. A clock that h .d marked the hours bo h ! ' his bo ih and death was placed in an ante-room, ; where were al-o his Collection of minerals and a few of hi hooks. Tht se wre the private apartm n's, the retire ments of the scholar and man ol genius ; hut the principal suite, of rooms had scarcely an interior interest. Here, deposited in gl z- d presses, vrere the objects which had gratifie d his taste or aw..k em d his recollections of the past, Antiquities and j medals, t ne skull ol Vandyke, bronz s, arms and all the anticaglie that a poet or painter loves to i possess. In one ol them was a It-iier addressed to him by Sir vVal'er Scott, with his usual beau y I of style and kindness of heart. Ls commence. merit aoue is a lesson lo ihe vanity of imperii ... i- r n.oe ,jial g ofu.n obtnid. s itsell upon lb- irivac of an eminent man. Jfe ntraUe and muck rrsprct j ed Sir, are the words with which Spoil his qoal ! jn talent and lame thinks it right to preface his of human nature. There was tt private letter in O . -. , '-' v I French, Irom the Duke of Wellington to ihe Duke dSaxe Weimar, introducing to him a son of Lord Mansfield ; and a whole portfolio of despatches (i-ddressed to Ureneral Kapp) by the most distjn- guisned ol JN apoleou officers. Then there was the volume whieh Goethe used fo call his Alburn' a collection of the portraits of his friends; and when I had looked over these otc hastily than I could have wished, I had still to see a treasury ot the rich offerings which, at various times, had been made to him by bis coun- try men and admirers. They were deposited, as from their value and interest thev deserved to 1. i an iron chest secured by many curiously con- i structed locks, and some of them were precious as works of art. There was a crown of laurel, the j leaves of gold, the berries of emerald, sent from p ranKiori m ioty or 180; and worthy, for it. aIone l? be Ploced amr,ng regalia of an Emperor. It war accompanied by a deia.ched leaf ol the same workmanship, with an intimation tnai as a year Had elapsed since the wreath was ordered, and as every year of his life added a fresh leaf to the laurels of Goethe, his admirers had felt that their offering would be incomplete without a type of tpe year that had passed. This was not the only present he had received from his native town ; there was also a silver drinkinc cun whirh hnd hftn son. L: . -.l . O , . --- . . wv... in.iiije . hock, and bore an inscription tn the effect that j "7. -v-".,tu!.,,"m wunsome choice K . . .1 m. !M..ti..-Ji.J I... would be nn fire without lual.' Mr. Coagb Wo'! be of a dinsrent opinion. "d A handsome seal of enarr.elb.d giddj the off. ing of fifteen of the great poet's firitith aoW (including Scott, Moore, Carlyle. tic.,) M fl graved with his motto Dime basl uxtr abe tfl which has more meaning aid one of my (jer friends) than ;lie mere words import; it JJ not exactly to 'the spur that the clear spirw raise To scorn delights, and live luhorh us doygj but to some inward impulse to 'conti iuerf, ,0i not headlong, progress ,-' or it might be rendere( by the Latin festina lentc. These are but arru part of the cosily gifts which I might notice, tre I writing a guide-book or a catalogue. I have neer appreciated the private life oft man of genius nnd it has not always been u( stranger without being ns much struck by discuycry of his habits of unwearied application the amount of this actual manual labor, as 1 had previously been by the splendor of his mlents Goethe's correspondence alone, deposited in one of the closets of the book-room, filled ttco hinubui and twenty-three M.S. volumes ; and, in the miJu of his multifarious labors, be kept a dairy, or Ta gcbach, that would itself form an rxietmive w0ik. The last of the yolumes wbtcb .conl'im it.com. mences January, wilh some observation! on Scott's Denjonplngy, and ends the )5 h Mar 182, itb a memorandum of hi physician IV fessor V'ogel's account ol a recent excursion to Jem w iih which Goethe express? himself well pleased. On the 22nd he died. The visit I have just attempted to describe Was hut the commencement of my literary pilgrimage through Weimar. Tlcre was sill lo be seen ij,e houses of SchiHer, of Wielatjd, and ol IJi-rder; anJ ihe places of their sepulture. To reach the lat nsnng place of Schill. f and of (j'oelJie, it was necessary lo lake a rather lop. walk to the Gottes ider, or cemetery ; an etuj). lisbment of modern date, where the arrangement f r the prevention nf pp mature inteirjient aresaaf to have heep th,e modi 1 for those adt;pti'd at tVrunk. Igrt. iff nr i centre rises a Doric chapel, surmounted hy a .en pi la, whi,ch form the maunleum of ij) sovereigns ol S;,?e W' imr, lh-;r coffined rematof ! oeing aepogii. W nrf vnyn. n w,,s jp re jtw ; I ' and liuke Url tfesired Hint I, lite bodies nf lu fiends, tin- pnefs whun he had loved a;d fimior. ed, should be placed beside his own ; but hi wJi. is have been neghcted or found iunmpalMbbt lltll eltftue'te, mf, thougn aCipitie lo liio 'ttl)!" i fhamher of the dead, the remain nf Goethe p, j of Schiller are placed in a corner ap.ai:, and. h ., very respectful distance froi those of grand d'.'k't ; sad duchesses. This to U the word M .-r i von Ilautper, on a different occasi-'it is fltiidivk u ,d tiipla mtudigra Wf"Pf flol,,! o tht dead iohI j living. It sterns like carrying the founalj'ie nl a court jnd tjie sojeitinitief of another wofd, We returned thiotigh the pith one nf lint most beautiful in (e man y, us it has always lie. a d scribed and passed near the small white put. lage (hat g'-nerally, lor six or i ight we knf m ihe t-umrher r fidenpe nf Goethe, and js m p'ipn ed by him 'ih pleasant rem"iu'rane. -s uihjjvr. s -s on the p.irthfinms HM l'nj. i ha B . Icnxioftf hut is precisely tho Hifmbls tlied, Where roses breatbinf, And woodbines wreathing Arouml the windows tlieir teudfila snread which Moore descriht s a the abode ol love The- den- Hook palls a dantveru anf) those 'in smoky cities pent' pau-c lo look al in thpr even i'ig walks, and envy. From litis 1 went with my companion to di Grand Ducal Library ap .il p joq of about oih hundred and thirty thotts m vdu4aeif, not. on tin occasion, ni s-e j s ltoks, bqi ji relics, lb-re, : - . .i .1 I again, w is loethe, in the but x pu'ed a yen be , . ., , , . .. . : ' 1 1 i r t ios flf'.'lllt 1 1 V 1 1 : i . I J T ; . I 'i ci it' IV 1 1 ri .1 n . i I " e - -1 - I t a lion from Schtller : a. id there iis a hu-l al Schiller, with a r. iot atjop Irom ( " ihe. There were aKo bts ol ll rder am of Wiel and ; n fnn portrait of Charles y. aa a nm f which Mr.fi W log should h i Ve had as ai) ihi-ira ion of his Clai it-i L''e; ) -ii engraved oip- ol C. inning ; .ii.l Well-p Milled, full-lpflglh, li'" the' G'-'od-D ike (Jol, whose cast of feature very rrt)cl r.. o I 1 s ihilnl ihe great po t w botn he was protjd call Iim fiieod. It Mould he ddlp ult to :iy h heftier lb name if the gr ind iluke or tfie ag'hor of J''iiii' the G.ov P- rz ' or the Qruv D ulner bad been ilie most fpqut'U'ly repeated to run during mjr I brief s ay i I S.ixw VVeim ir. j had sttfl to ee ! displayed iu the library (is Sir Walter Scotl al j A hboi-fopl) ihe dress he wore al coiir' ; a own- iuoii dark -green coat, lrimmd with gold laee, and ; preserved with as m ic!i veneration us it neigh j boring relic, ihe chorister's dress of Lu her; i kind ol coarse brown tunic, well worn, and ipnr j en'ly wi'hoot mttCh attention lo virtu--, h ell i ! still n-t vi ry strictly regarded by a nation who j only use baths inedicin illy. Wiih ih'-se our ri lenda finished, Hid a d-iveof I less than two. In urs brought us lo ihe heir,ln a hove J.-na the scene of ihe gn-al b.iMle o' t To an unprofessional eye, it seem, impossib. such s'et-p acclivities could be earried sgstt-; strong and well pi ic- d furee. My military (ill. fell nie dial it is not so d fli ulf as it apjear. .Much of ihe fire down uneven ground if iiolfec tive ; and, when it comes to the bayonet, victory does not greatly depend upon the locality. Tin', hovyovcr, his nothing to do with rn re collections of Goethe. T"ey are, I rente us, ( little amount and, gr. ttl as lie is, should -pejik ol hint ol Sh.akenre : but In.t would we not gjvt; for m-lico ur Shuk-p-are's hahiti hi hou,e, ever, such a thHN Ipch have cluac ed iu uolb.fi of Goethe. To You ilff .Ien. Some odd genius gives ihe flowing elegml advioe to vouttfi men wh-i '.deiien.1 nm f,,thtr" ! their stmnorl. and iak no ! wh.iever i: j business, but are regular drones in the hive, suV ! aislinc on that winch is earned he others Come, off with VOlir coal, clinrli lU tl plow handles, the ax, the pickax., the pid. ""V thing that will enable you lo stir your blood ! K;v j round and tear your jicket, rather than be ! passive recipient uf the old geti'l-min'. bouolv I Sooner than play the dandv at dad's expe- ! yourself out to some n .tun natch let yourfh ; slop hog holes, or wa'oh lh bars, and when y j think yourself entitled lo a resting spdl doit SS ; your own hook. Get up in the monMaf-x"" ' m-A itt li i'f f a irr. gentleman give him now then a lift iu busina learn how to take the lead, and not depend er on being led ; and you have no id- h discipline will benefit you. Do lM. a0d out word for it, you will seem to breetbe a new Sim phere, possess a new frame, tread a new ear wake to a new dest,ny-and you m .y then begin -sluiy to aspire to manhood. Take o:l then that ring from your lily finger, break your can. shave you' upper lip, wipe your nose, hold up yoar head, ana by all moans, never agon cat the bread uf Jh90 nor depend on father ! The Evening P )t contains a W"t from t'"" Kinny expedition. The Colonel and hi followerJ .. ii.. .u;UAi U., lua inh ibi'aP.'l wern cuoiuDiaoiivao ic.w - . of Grey town.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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