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is/woll,
tsb mauve
Her mighty setts the breetesh
And fast the leaves the tokening land,
And from the ihore the last iirewell
Is waved by many a snowjhand;
And weeping eyes are on thjmain,
Until its verge she wandos o'ort
3ut, from that hou of partpg pain,
Oh! she was never heard jt morel
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In her was many a mother'joy,
And love of many a vrocjng fair;
for her was waited, in itasigh,
The lonely heart's unceulng prayer;
And ohi the thousand hopf untold
Of ardent youth that voqel bore;
Say, woro they quonchcd |i oeean cold,
For she was never hcnrl of more?
hen on her wide and trakless path
Of desolation doomed U flee,
•■ay, sank she mid the blejling wrath
Of rackiug cloud and rdlng sen?
Or, whore the land but mpks the eye,
Went drifting on a fatd shore?
Vain guesses ull!—Her dftiny
Is dark!—she ne'er wilt heard of more.
The moon hath often digged tier form,
From glowing orb to rosoont wan;
Mid skies of calm, un< bcowI of storm,
Slneo from her port ttit ship hath gone
Hut oeean keeps Its seer« well,
And though wo knowtlmt all is o'er
So eye hath seen—no tngue can tell
Her fatoi—she ne'er jras heard of move!
Tlio cigar bill of an (Word student bus been
ki>"\Tn to run up to sevm hundred dollars a
y ciu. i
J.
A Fair Pile.—Tho eitiro amount of tho re-
eeiits of tbe Duke of Wellington for his servi-
ce.- *as nearly throe mllions of pounds ster-
lir :—($14,000,000.) '.'he emoluments of the
Duke's sons, nephows; stn-in-law and other rel-
atives, from tbe army, tie church and tho pen
sion list, are enormous.
< irrit Smith, tho notorous Abulitiohist, is alee
pit :o Congress from tho 92d District, New York.
''^^I^ontthe'jllusical World.
FANNY FEED'S COLUMN.
"Twelve o'olwcV nt dj bt. and all's well."
i'litac prophet!—Stillsnd statue-like, ill yon-
tier window, stands the wife. The clock has
told the small hours ; y;t her face is prest close-
ly against. tho window-pine, striving in vain,
with straining eye, to puree the darkness. She
sees nothing; she heart nothing—but tho bunt-
ing of her own heart. Now she takes her sent;
oner a small Bible, and seek* from it what
•t nl)*e nfayrV'Mc4cambligte t1ie pagei'.'
(he clasps her Kinds and her lips are treUi-
vith mute suppli'iition. llist!—there is an
dy step in the hill ; she knows it! Many
nd oft,it has trot on her very heartstrings. I
ides down gentty to meet the wanderer. I
©o.v
Is heavily uir iii«t her
pronoun""0 " name
her; and, in maudlin
lie had long since
REMABKS OF MB. CHOATE.ON THE
DEATH OF MR. WEBSTER.
We copy the following report of the remarks
of Mr. Choatb, delivered on Tuesday last, in
the United States Circuit Court, at Boston, on
presenting to the Court the resolutions of the
Members of the Suffolk Bar in relation to tho
death of Mr. Webster:
May it please yoUr itonors: I have been re-
quested by tho Members of the Bar of this Court
to add a. teW Words to the resolutions ju8t read,
in which they have embodied,as they were able,
their sorrow for tho death of their bolovcd and
illustrious member and country mint, Dakirl
Webster; their estimation of his character, life
and genius; their sense of tho boreuveiiwirp—to
the country as to his friehds—incapable of re-
pair; the pride; the fondness, the filial and patri-
otic pride aiid fondness; witli which they cherish
and would consign to history to cherish,the mem-
ory of a great and good man.
And yet I could earnestly have desired to be
excused from this duty, IIo must have known
Mr. Webster less; and loVed him less than ypur
Honors, or than I have known and loved Him,
who can quite yet—quite yet—before wo curt
comprehend that we have lost him forever; be-
fore tho first paletloss With which tho news of his
death ovorsproad oUr checks has passed away;
before wC haVti been down to lay him in tho Pil-
grim soil lie loved so well, till the heavens bo
no more—lid mltst, htiVe known and loved him
loss than wo hard ddtio, Wliocancomo here quite
yot to reconut tho series of his service; to dis-
play with psychological exactness the traits of
his nature and mind; to ponder and speculate on
the secrets, on the marvellous secrets,and source
of that vast power which we shall see no moro
in action, nor aught in any degree resembling it,
among men. Theso first moments should be
given to grief. It may employ,it may promote;
a calmer mood to construct a more elaborate and
less unworthy memorial.
For the purposes of this moment and pliiee,
indocd, no moro is needed. What is there for
this court or this bar to learn from mo, to learn
here and now of him? The year and the day
of his birth—that birth-place on the frontier yet
bleak and waste; lite well at which his childhood
drank—dug by that fiitlief tif. whom ho said
"that through the fire rind blood bf seven years
of revolutionary war ho shrank from no danger
no toil, no sacrifice, to servo his country, ond to
raise his children to a condition better than his
own;" the elm trco that father planted, fallen
now. as father and son 1ms fallen; that training
of the giant infancy on catechism and Bible and
Watt's version of the psalms, and the traditions
of Plymouth, and Fort William and Mary, and
the revolution and the age of Washington and
Franklin—on tho banks of the Merriiitut;l;,fiou •
ing sometimes in flood and n tiger, from 'tis se-
cret springs in tho crystal hills—the two district
sehool-mastorsj, CiUifc aiJu Tappan—the village
Library--—'tile dawning of the love and ambition
of letters—the few months at Exeter and lios-1
cawen, the life of college, I lie probationary sen-
son of school-teaching,the clerkship in the Frye-
burg registry of deeds; his admission to the bar
presided over by Judges like Smith, illustrutod
by practisors such as Mason, where by ih>' stu-
dies, in the contentions of nine years, lie laid th
courts of New Hampshire; and thus, at length,
by these studies, those labors, this contention,
ooutinued without repose, be catno, now many
years ago, to stand omnium auentu at the sum-
mit of the American bar.
It is common, and it is easy, in the case of
all in such position, to point out other lawyers,
hero and there, as possessing some special qual-
ification or attainment moro remarkably,perhaps
becauso more exclusively; to say of one that he
has moro cases in his recolloctiun, at any givon
moment; or that he wus earljgr grounded in equi-
ty, or has gathered more mack lottor or civil
i law, or knowledge of Spanish or of Western ti-
tles; and theso comparisons were sometimes made
with him. But whon you sought a couusel of
tho firstratb, for tho great cause, who would
most surely disccrn and most powerfully expouud
the exact law, required by the controversy, in
season for use—who could most skilfully encouu-
ter tho opposing law—under whoso powers of
analysis, persuasion, and display, the asserted
right would assume the most probable aspect bo-
fore the intelligence of tho Judge—who, if tho
inquiry bccamo blended with or resolved into
facts, could most completely devclopo and most
irresistibly expose them—one, "the law's whole
thunder born to wield"—when you sought such
a counsel, uud could have tho choice, 1 think tho
universal profession would have turned to him.
And this would bo so iu nearly every descrip-
tion of cause, in any department. Some ablo
men wiold civil inquiries with a peculiar ability,
soiuo criminal. How lucidly and how deeply
ho elucidated u question of property you all know.
But, then, with what address, fooling, pathos,
und prudence ho defended—with what dignity
nrtd crushing power, accmatoro spiritii,ho pros-
ecuted tho accused of crimo, few have seen, but
none who havo seen can ever forget it.
Koine scones there are, souio Alpine enincu-
ces rising above tho high tublo-land of such a
professional lite, to which, in the briefest tribute
wo should love to follow him. Wo recall that
day, for an illustration, when he first announced
with decisive display what manner of man he
was,to tho Supremo Court of the nation. It was
in 1818, und it was iu the argument of tho ease
of the Dartmouth College. William l'iukncy
wus recruitiiig his great faculties, and replenish-
ing that reservoir of professional and elegant ac-
quisition iu Europe. Samuel Dexter, "the hon-
orable man, und the counsellor, and the eloqueut
orator," was in his grave. The boundless old-
school learning of Luther Martin; tho silver
voice and infinite analytical ingenuity and re-
source of Jones; the fervid genius of Emuiett,
pouring itself along immense orei; tho ripe and
beautiful culture of Wirt und llopkinson; the
steel point uuseen, not unfolt, beneath tho foli-
iige—those and such us those were left of that
noble bur. That day Mr. Webster opi ned tho
eau.se of the Dartmouth College to a tribunal on- j
surpassed on earth in nil that gives illustration 1
to a bench of law, not one of whom any longer
survives. ;
C)no would love to linger on tho scene—when, j
after a masterly argument ol tho law, carrying , ten jn the lr.f'ory of public lif* such a thing has
as wo may now know, ctwietion to the general I been exemplified. 1!-oil what pervaded all
mind of the court, and vindicating and settling j these forms of display and every efTiirt, ii}every
for his lifetime his place in that forum, lie pau- i form. that union of nuked intellect in its jnrsest
sod to enter, with an altered foclling, tone, und j measure, which j tietrafos to (lie exact truth of
monitor, with these words on his peroration—"I | t|le Matter in hand by in tuition or bv inference,
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ding the abyss. His weighty language, his Ba- y before the Revolution^ every accao and ev-
gaeious warnings, his great maxim# of empire wy person in that groat tragic action) every
will bo raised to viow, and live to bo road.wWIi question which has auccosaively engaged our
the final eatastropho shall lift the granite foandk .polities aud every name which haa figured in
eatastropho shall lift the granite founifc .pontics aud every name which' haa figured
tion in fragments from its bed. tliom—tho whole atream of our time waa open,
In this conuexion,I cannot but remark to how "nd present over to his eye.
extraordinary uu extent had Mr. Webster, by his , ileyoud his profcsaiou of politioa, so to call
acts, words, thoughts, or the events of his life,as-'tt^ ,fn ® diligent ana choioo reader, aa
soeiated himself forever in the memory of all of j extraordinary style in part reveals, aud I
us with every historical incident, or at least with ;' the love of reading would havo goue with
every historical epoch; with every policy, with j. '.u .H er. ""d riper ago, if to such an age
every glory, with every great name and fundu- [ ,'1. , u, ot ^od to reserve him.—
mental institution aiufprmid or beautiful image I ■*}",. 110 pnfee or tnuo to appreciate this branch
which tiro peculiarly and properly American.—! 0 ctJIU,M 1110UtaJ therb is an intorcst inex
Look back to the planting of Plymouth and ! li'tBW,lWu ,n knowing who were any of tho choaen
Jamestown; to tho various seonos of colonial life j ,u ttmonS the great dead iu the library of
in peace and War; to tho opening, and march,aud j c?rroct ,ua> ^ut I
closc of tlio revolutionary drama; to tho ago of
the constitution; to Washington, and Franklin,
and Adalns, mid Jefferson; to tho whole train of
causes, from tlio reformation downwards, which
prepared us to bo republicanBjto that other train
of causes which led us to be uuiouistsiiook round
on field, workshop und deck, and hoar the music
of labor rewarded, fed, ami protected; look on
tho bright sisterhood of the States, each sing-
ing us u seraph in her motion, yet blending in a
common beam and swelling a common harmony,
and there is nothing which does not bring him
by souio tio to the memory of America.
Wo seom to seo his form und hear his deep
grave speech every where. By some felicity of
Uis personal life; by some wise, deep, or beauti-
ful word spoken or written; by some servico of
his own, or some commemoration of the servi-
ces of others.it has come to pass that "our gran-
ito hills, our inland seas and prairies, and fresh,
unbounded, magnificent wilderness;" our encir-
cling ocean; tho rock of the Pilgrims; our new
bom sister of tho Pacifiejourpopular assemblies;
our free schools; all our cherished doctrines of
education, and of the influence of religion, and
material policy and law, and tho constitution,
givo us back his name. What American land-
scape will you look on; what subject of Ameri-
can interest will you study; what source of hope
or of anxiety as an American will you acknowl-
edge, that it docs not recall him?
I shall not venture in this rapid und general
recollection of Mr. Webster, to attempt to anal-
yze thut intellectual power wliieh nil admit to
havo been so extraordinary, or to compare or
contrast it with the mental groitnoss of others,
in variety or degree, of the living or tho dead;
or even to attempt to appreciate exactly, and in
reference to canons of art, his single attribute
of eloquence. Consider, however, t he remark-
able phenomenon of excellence in three unkin-
dred, one might havo thought incompatible,
forms of public speech—that of the forum,with
its doublo audience of bench nu l jury, of tho
halls of legislation, and of tho most thronged
und tumult jus Assemblies of the people. Con-
sider furtlnr that this multiform eloquence, i
exactly as h 3 words fell, beanie at once so!
much access n to permanent literature, in the j
strictest sons?, solid, attractive, and ask how of-
should say of that iuterior aud narrower eirelo
woro Cicero, Virgil, Shakffheah<;(whom he knew
familiarly us the Constitution,) Baeou, Milton,
Burke, Johnson—to whom 1 hope it is not po-
duntic uor futieiful to say 1 often thought his uu
ijtHo sumeaiii
turo presented some rcsoinbluucc;the sumeabun
dance uf tho general propositions required for
explaining a difficulty aud refuting a sophism oo
piously uud promptly occurring to him—the
siiuo kindness of heart aud wealth of sensibili-
ty, under a manner of oourso moro courtooiis
and gracious, yot moro sovercigujthe same suffi-
cient, yot not predominant imagination, stoop-
ing over to truth, and giving affluenco, vivacity,
and attraction to a powerful, correct, and weigh-
ty stylo of prose.
L cannot leave his lifo and churactor without
selecting and dwelling a moment on ono or two
of his traits or virtues, or felicities a little lon-
ger. There is a collective impression made by
the whole of uu eminent person's lifo boyoud,aud
other than, uud apart from, that which the mere
general biographer would afford the moutls of ox
plaining. There is an influence of a groat man
derived from tilings iudoscribublo, almost, or iu
capable of enumeration, or singly insufficient to
uecouut for it; but through which his spirit tran
spires, and his individuality goes forth on tho
eotomporury generation. Aud thus, I should
say, ono grand tendoucy of his lifo aud charac-
ter wus to elevate the whole totio of tho public
mind. Ho did this, indeed, not merely by ex-
ample. He did it by dealing, us ho thought,
truly und in manly fashion with that public
mind. Ho evinced his love of the people not
so much by honeyed phrases as by good pouu-
scls and useful service—vera pro yrati*.
Ho showed how lie appreciated them by sub-
mitting sound argument to their understandings
and right motives to their free will. Ho came,
before them less with flattery than with instruc-
tion; less with u vocabulary larded with tho
words humanity aud philanthropy, and progress
and brotherhood, than with such a scheme of
politics, an oducationul, social, aud governmen-
ts system, which would havo tnado them prog-
perous, happy, und groat:
What the Ureek uiftto'Hufi said of PericlcH,we
all feel might bo said of him—"ho did not so
much follow hh lead the people, because he fra-
med not his words to please tlicui,like one who is
gaining power by unworthy means, but was able
and dared on the strength of his high character
even to bravo their anger by coiltradictiffu their
will."
forgo! 'fen "to honor," j Otiiuil enduring power of
woman'slove!—no reproach,no upbraiding—tho,
Jigln arm passed tround that reeling figure
(once ercct in "God'iowti image.") With ton-
dcr -\ords of entrcay, which ho is powerless
to resist, if he would, sho leads him in. It is
but a repetition of a thousand such viSils !
J t is the pcrformanii! of a vow, with a heroism
and putiont ondurnme too commori, and every-
day u be chronicled on earth ; too holy and
heavenly to pass utnoticed bj the "registering
anffcl . above I
"Ml,a well!"
Fit I Ms prophet!—in yonder luxurious room
sits one whoso curse it was, to bo fair as a drcain
of K Inn, Tims wat, when those clear eyes look-
ed iov iiigjy into a Mother's face—when a gray-
liaired father laid lis trembling liund, with a
blessing, on that lunny head—when brothers'
fitu! -isters' voices blended with her own, in
herut-music arourd the htippy hearth. Oh !
«■/><are theynovf Are there none to say to
the repenting Mngdulcn—"Neither do I con-
demn thee—go, and sin no more!" Must the
gilded fetter continue to bind tho soul that
loathes it, because man is less merciful than
G t!f
".Mi's well!"
F alf-e prophet!—Tlerc lies tho dead orphan.
Tn ull the length andbreadth of the green earth
there was found no sheltering nest where that
loin ly dove eould fold! its wings, whcn tho par-
ent birds lmd flown. The brooding wing was
gone, that covcred it from tho cold winds of
neglect and unkindncss. Lore was its life;
uud so—it drooped!
".Ill's well!"
Fait e prophet!—Sin walks the earth in pur-
ple slu'i fi ne linen ; Vonest poverty, with tear-bo
dowo i facc, hungers und shivers, and thirsts,
"wh''. the publican stands afar off!" Thewid-
oy | !eads in va;n to the orminod judge for
"jastieoj" and, unpunished of Ileaven, the hu-
lioui tiger crouclies in his lair, and springs up-
l)i helplesB prey
All's well!"
All yes', all is wcll-for He who "secth the
eud from the beginning" holds evenly the
Malt1 of justice. "Dives" shall vet beg of
LacriniA," Every human tear is counted.
Tin y ■ hall yot spnrklo us gems iu the crown of
the patient, and enduring disciple! When
the char, broad light of eternity shines upon
life's, i looked paths, we shall sec the snares and
pitfalls from which our hedge of thorns has
fouced us in ! and, in tlx? maturity of our full
grown faith, wo shall exultint/lt/ say—"Father!
not as 1will, but as Thou wilt 1"
Fanny Fern.
Fatal Casualty.—About half past 7 o'
clock a Monduy evening, us tho horso-car on
♦ lie t 'iirrollton lvailroad was proceeding on its
way t the city, a man was discovered by the
dmer, lying on tho truck about half way from
i urollton. On investigation the man was
fouuu to have had both his leas cut or smashed
off beluw tbe knees, by the wheels of the cars
having passed over them. The woundod man
was af once conveyed to tho city and sent to
the Onrity Hospital. Every thing was done
for hiin that skill and experience could suggest,
but the unfortunate mun yesterday expired from
bis ij tries.
Con ner Wilkinson yesterday held an inquest
on tb< body of tho deceased, when it appeared
ih*,t Ins name was Epbraim O. Beckett, aged
about ;hirty-frre years, a native of tho State of
Maine. Mr, Beckett waa formerly well known
as a in rchant in this city, but ho haa latterly
resided iir Jefferson, Cuss county, Texas, where
lie hit. left a family. A verdict was rendered
'ii ae fdunrce with the above facts.—AT. 0.
rirayufr, 21tA
1,should indicate it as another influence of hiij,
foundations of the professional mind; hi- irro- j have brought my alma mater to this presence,! decerns every thim; which makes it intelli- j 'l'l<
M-tible attraction J public life; the Nation on < hat if she must tall ,he may fall in her i'obes, J gible, probable. L\ credible to another,with an ! ^ Z
commerce, the lloekingham resolutions; his th'>t i and with dignity, and thou broke forth m that [ emotional and moral nature profound,passionate, j if (l,(r ,,r ,,,,1#,,,] '(JociM'nim.iit l
term of four yours' service in Congress,when by strain of sublime and pathetic eloquence ot which ; and ready to kiinlle.iiul with imngination enough j
-■ • • • v -* wo know not much iuore;tban - 1
ono bound ho spruilg to his placo by tlio side of
tho foremost of the rising American statesmen;
his removal to this State, and tlicn_ the double
and parallel current in which his life, studies,
thoughts, euros, have since flowed, bearing him
to the leadership of the bar by universal acclaim;
bowing liiin to the leadership of public life—
lust of thut surpassing triumvirate, shall we say
the greatest, most widely known and admired
of all—these things, to their minutest details,
are known ninl rehearsed familiarly. Happier
than tho younger Pliny, happier than Cicero,lie
has found his liistorian, unsolicited, in his lifo
time—and his countrymen have him all by
heart!
Thoro is, then, nothing to toll you; nothing to
bring to mind. And then, if I may borrow the
language of one of his historians and friends—
ono of those through whose beautiful pathos tho
common sorrow uttcrod itself yesterday in Fun-
euil Hall—"I dure not come here and dismiss
in a few summary paragraphs tho character of
one who bus filled such u space in the history,
who holds such a placo in tho heart of his coun-
try. It would bo a disrespectful familiarity of
a man of his lofty spirit, his great soul, his rich
endowments, his long and honorable lifo', to en-
deavor thus to weigh and estimate them"—a
half hour of words, a handful of earth, for fifty
years of great deeds on high places!
But, although tho tiino does not require any
thing elaborated and adequate—forbids it rather
—some broken sentences of veneration und love
may be indulged to the sorrow which oppresses
us.
Tliero presents itself, on the first, and to any
observation of Mr. Webster's life und character,
a two-fold cmincnce—eminence of the very high-
est rank in a two-fold field of intellectual public
display—tho profession of the luw, und the pro-
fession of statesmanship, of which it would not
be easy to recall any parallel in the biography
of illustrious men.
Without seeking for parallels, and without
asserting that they do not exist, consider that
he was by univcrsul designation tho lender of the
general American Bur; and that lie wus ulso,by
un cquully univcrsul designation, foremost of
her statesmen living at his death—inferior to
not ono who has lived nnd ucted since the open-
ing of his owu public life. Look ul these aspects
of his greatness separately, und from opposite
sides of the surpassing elevation. Consider that
his single eurecr ut the bar may seem to have
been enough to employ the largest faculties with-
out repose, for a lifetime; and that if then und
thus the "infinitus, forensivm rcrum labor"
should have conducted him to a mere profession-
al reward—a Bench of Chancery or Lnw, the
crown of the first of advocates—juriuprritorum
vloquciitissimus—to the pure anil mere fame of
a great magistrstc, that that would bo as much
as in allotted to the ablest in tho distribution of
fame. Even that half, if 1 may sav so, of his
illustrious reputation—how long the labor to
win it, how worthy of all that labor!
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With the commencement of his public life,or
with his later removal to this State, began the
second epoch of his professional training—con-
ducting him through the gradution of the na-
tional tribunals to the study and practice of tho
more flexible, elegant, and scientific jurispru-
dence of commerce' anil of chancery, and to the
grander and leaa fettered investigations of inter-
national, prise, and constitutional luw—und giv-
ing him to breathe-the air of a more famous fo-
rum; in a more public presence; with more vari-
ety of competition, although he never met abler
men, as I have heard him say,than some of those
who initiated him in the rugged discipline of the
to supply n hundredfold more of illiislra.1
aud aggrandizement than his tnsi i stiffen. I Inm
riods; raised on winged language, vivified, fused
and poured along in a tide of emotion fervid
and incapable to be withstood; recall tho form, |
tho eye, tho brow, the tone of
encoof the intellectual king o
thus, and in the language of Mr Justice^lory
commemorating Samuel ])oxt
inav
that iu its pro
gross; Marshall, the intellectual, the bell-con-
trolled, the unemotional, announced, visibly,tho
presence of the unaccustomed enchantment.
Aud now, if this transcendent professional
reputation wore ull of Mr. Webster, it might be
practicable, though not easy, to find its parallel
elsewhere, in our owu, or in Europeuu or classi-
cal biography.
But when you cousidcr that, side by side With
this, there wus growing up that other reputation
— that of the first American statesman—that for
thirty-three years, und those embracing his most
licrculcuu works at the bar, he wus engaged us
a member of either Houso, or in tho highest of
tho Executive Departments, iu tho conduct of
the largest national affairs, in tho treatment of
the largest national questions,iu debate with the
highest abilities of American public life; con-
ducing diplomatic iutcrcoursc in dclicutc rela-
tions with ull manner of foreign Powers; inves-
tigating whole classes of truths, totully unlike
the truths of tho luw, and resting on principles
totully distinct, unl thut here, too, ho was wise
safe, controlling, trusted, the foremost man—that
Europe hud come to sco iu his lifo a guaranty for
justice, for peuco, for tho best hopes of civiliza-
tion, and America to feel surer of her glory, her
safety, us his great arm enfolded her: you see
how rare, how solitary ulmost was the actual
greatness! Who,any whore has now,as he had,
the doublo fame, now tho doublo wreath of Mur-
ray and Chatham, of Dunning and Fox, of Ers-
kino and Pitt, of William Pinkney and Rufus
King, in oue blended and transcendent superior-
ity?
I cannot attempt to grasp and sum up the
aggregate and services of his public lifo at such
a moment us this; aud it is needless. That lifo
comprised a term of moro thau thirty-three years.
If produced a body of performance of which I
may say generally it was all which tho first abil-
ities of the country and time; employed with un-
exampled toil, stimulated by the noblest patri-
otism; in the highest pluccs of tho State, iu the
fear ofOod, intho presence of nations,could pos-
sibly compass.
He come into Congress after tho war of 1812
had begun, and though probably deeming it un-
necessary, uecording to the highest standards of
public necessity, in his private character,and ob-
jecting in his public character to sotno of the de-
tails of tho policy by which it wus prosecuted,
and standing by party ties in general opposition
to tho Administration, ho never breathed a sen-
timent calculated to depress tho tone of tho tmh-
lic mind; to aid or comfort tho enemy; to check
or chill tho stirrings of that new, passionute,un-
quenchable spirit of nationality, which then was
revealed, or kindled to burn till we go down to
tho tombs of States.
With tho peaco of 1815 his more chcrishcd
public labors began; und thenceforward has ho
devoted himself; tho nrdorof his civil youtli;thc
energies of his maturest manhood; the autum-
nal wisdom of the ripened your, to the offices of
legislation and diplomacy—of preserving the
peace, keeping tho honor,establishing the bouu- or European or universal bis'ory, or j
darics, nnd vindicating tlio neutral rights of his ography exemplified. 1 shall not soon forget
country; restoring n sound currency, timl laying | w}th what admiration ho spake, at un interview
its foundation sure and deep; in upholding pub-11„ which lie admitted me while in the Law
lie credit; in promoting foreign comqierco uud do
mestic industry; in developing our t
tcrial rcsourcc.i;giving the lake and
I iinintiined till a nationality
"" of due intensity add due eompi'i
eleed millennia'
I Iw generated
!ieii><ii'in,u glory
The Northmen's image of death ia finer than
that of other climaaj no skeleton, but % ifaratio
that envelopes men within tjjw ttaaata
foldi of its dark garment. Webster aawne.ao
enshrouded /ram ua, as the laat.of the mighty
three, themselves following mighty awifa
—tho greatest closing the prooesakm. —
Tho robe draws round him, nnd the en ia put."
Yet howaauoh thoro ia which that albmnple
fold shall not bide—tho recorded wisdom; the
great example; the assured jtiimo^tality.
Thejr apeak of monuments—
Nothing oau cover his high feme but Heaven,
No pyramid sets off his memories,
Bat the eternal substance of his greatness,'
To which I leave, hhn. ■
. . tif >
SPXBXT QT If 11 ITT.
It dwells among the mountains,
It lingers in the vale ,
'Tie Burgled from the fountains^
It speaks in every gale.
'Tis heard where
Qordashl
And where
The raging
All nature beai
And owns its
The Impress of
The voloe of
Tho oollogo of elouti
nssomblod iu this city]
instant, in pursuance f
woro prcsont except tlj
who did not attend.
was called"* td preside,
pearihg in his soat, tit
od nocording to luw i
uppoiittmcut of tKo I
city; Tellers wcro then'
votes twins oouutod, it i
l'ierfce, of New Hampshire, m
voted for President, uud Willi
AlubaiiJa, four votos for Vico
United States. The eollogo thou pr
choose n Messenger to bear tho vote to'
ington city, wheu oue of tho electors, thq Hon.'
L. 1). Evnns, was chosen, his being the only
name put in nomination for the office". Two co-
pies ot tho voting woro then sealed up, one of
which was deposited in tho Postoflico, and the
other given to tlio Messenger. , t,,
The friends of Mr. Bryan cxprcs* ftiWi re-
gret thut lie did not attend to tukc His spat in tho.
college of doctors; we presume ho hmj, reason^
latiofat'tory to hiufsolt' for declining to do so,and'
such, no doubt, us will bo satisfactory to his'
friends, wheu made known. Wo kuqw ho wqukl
not dollbohftely tnkfc Hiiv step tluit would forfeit
tlio high esteem in Which ho has ever been hold
by the democracy of Texas,
We lmvo heard some doubts expressed n% to
the propriety of Judge Evans, one of the cine'
tors, becoming a candidate for, or even acefejft-'
ing the office of Messenger to bear tlio vole to'
Washington. There were some four or five oth-
er gentlemen who ctuue to the city for tho pur-
pise of olliiriiig their services, but loarningthat
•fudge Evnns wovM tortuiitly .bi; ulceUid/lhey
did not present their mimes to the college. A-
inong them were three of our editorial brethren,-'
Messrs: Stuuft, Eviiiis of Han Augustine, and
Lancaster. The gentleman mmscti, however, iS'
-N* 'I
of Texas
u the 1st
e doctors,
Bryan,'
. Evans,
not
uiuuli of lllill
to accept; that union of greatness of s.ail with
depth of heart which made his speaking almost
moro ait exhibition of character than of more
genius; tlio style not merely pure, clear, Saxon,
•but so constructed, so numerous, us far us be-
comes prose, so forcible, so abounding in unla-
bored felicities; the words so choice,the epithets
so p'icttired, tho matter absolute truth, or the
most, cxaet and specious resemblance tho hu-
man wit can devise; the treatment of tho sub-
ject, if you have regard to tho kind of truth he
hftd to handle—political, ethical, legal—as
deep, as complete, us Paloy's, or Locke's, or
Butler's, or Alexander Hamilton's of their sub- 8Urablo good of a rational existence—tlio im-
jeets. yet that depth and that completeness of ,ll01.tul hopoM of UhriiltlaMity—tho light of over-
Hcnno rmulc transparent ns through crystal waters ; trulli."
till embodied in harmonious orwell-coinposedpe- j jt WM |J0 happy if the wisdom and temper of
..v ..... v.^.a ..iv a. a
I Ilea StCI*« j mm iivh iiiuii vif'nvu) imiflvllita ■ ■
eminently ijutililicd to discharge the d ft tit's 6 f
- ... . - i the mission in a manner highly ereilitdble to the
a piojiriMs wi tout end atn | am| wu presume his brother electors oon-
amf therefore he ,uldres.«d himself to"mainuTn ^
tluit united Governineut.
Standing on the rock of Plymouth,ho bid dis-
taut generations hail, uud saw them rising; "de-
manding life—impatient from tho skies, from
what then wcro "fresh, unbounded, magnificent
wildernesses"—front the shore of tho great trim
quil sea, not yet become ours. But obscrvo to
what lie welcomes them, by what ho would bless
tliein. It is to "good Government." It is to
"treasures of science und delights of learning."
It is to the "sweets of domestic life—tho immna
this iiiliuinisratioit of our foreign affairs "shal 1
preside itf til# time which is ut hand. Sobered,
instructed by tlio examples and warnings of all
mo of voice, tho pros-1 the past, ho yet gathered from thu study and
{ingulf ^iioiy recall^hitii | comparison of all the eras thut there is n silent
.... ..f \r.. r......... progress of the race,without puuse, without liustc,
without return,to which tho eounsellings of his-
cod already. All that be lias left, or the larger
portion of all,* is the record of spoken words,—
His works, us already collected, extend to ma-
ny volumes—a library of reason and eloquence,
as Gibbon has said of Cicero's; but they are vol-
umes of speeches only, or mainly; and yet, who
docs not rank liitu nsa great Aniorieun author;
an nuthor as truly expounding, and as charac-
teristically exemplifying in a pure, genuine,and
harmonious English style, the ntiifd, thought,
point of view of objects,and essential nationali-
ty of his country us any other of our authors
professionally so denominated. Against the
maxim of Mr. Fox, his speeches read well, and
vet wore oood speeches—great speeches—in the , , - , , ■, , ,
delivery. For so grave were they, so thought- i 1,,H Iw,.it"sa.1 c/«ct! m">' reinenih^red
ful and true, so much the oloq.ie.H C of reas-fn at j be •ippreciulcd. It is one of the twofuuda
last, so strikingly always th-v contrived to link I ".ll l'n,,'l'l,u ' wl, 1.' ^ nH ^IHnmded by
the immediate tor,ie, with other and broader Itho Lit.,u ftl"1 rP!l"
j'ifiecs tn servo his parly, as Judgg E. has dejje,,
was entitled to tho honor of bearing the vote of
the State to Washington.—Stale Gatttiei
—«•*♦♦*-1. j i _ ,i
AVo ij<'cply rogrot to learn that a fire occuroc}
iu Wasliiifgtoti oil tho uight of the 24th Instant
by which the jfrlrttirtg oltte'e of the Texas Han-
ger, and all its contents, and ihe rosiderteftand!
saddler's shop of-Maj. II. It, Oartuicll, witt all*
their contents, were eoiisumcch v
[NtultsTftrrrtU.—
An 1 mi'obtant Sr,avk Cask Dkxisio.v,—^
The well-known i use of Oliver and others asuiftft
Dnniel Onnffmatin, Stephen Wheatlcy andPliiU
ip Urochtcl, charged with harboring and assis-
ting thirteen fugitive slaves to oscapo from their
owners in Maryland, was decided in tho U. 8.'
circuit court at Philadelphia, on the QOth tilt.,'
by the jury retidcritio a verdict for the plain-,
ti'ffs in the sum of >2800^^datfiliigo<()«gtiJiiWjCtt^n-
mun, nnd not guilty to tho oth'eiUwWbffeftilatyia.'
Tlio triul commenced on Ihe 10thof last tyiqpth/
aud the jury wore locked up from Tuesday morn-
ing until Saturday evening. The decision pot-
tles the fiiot that juries in the United States
courts iu Pennr '—'*"" "~A-
porsons who Ah
courts iu Pennsylvania will give verilipts against
hi th'6 escape of fugitive smV'cs'.'
grasped the capital ideif i/t tire Aniorieun position,
und deduced from it the whole fushion uud color
of its policyjwhich decerned that we are to piny
u high part in human affairs, but discerned ulso
what, part it is, peculiar, distaut, distinct and
grand, as our hemisphere; an iuHueuco, not a
contact—the stage—the drama—tho catastro-
phe, all but Ihe uudicucc, ull our own, uud if ev
cr lie felt himself ut a loss lie e insulted rever-
ently the genius of Wushiiigtou.
In bringingthesc memories to a conclusion,for j,j v Tr,1Vclsttt|, who broke jail in this
I omit many things because i dare Mot trust my lll(,n WB()k ,)cforo |HM,( ban boon arrested.and,
self o speak ot ttiem, 1 shall not bo misunder- , in t)l(, j!(i)( ttt Urenham, Washington
stood, or give oUciicc, if 1 hope that one other ,,nu;tv. ,(o ,,0|0 (i valuable poimy from flap!,'
trait in his public character, ono doctrine rather j Stepl/en Crosby of this eity, which he sold in
Mr. Webster's Congressional career omlirnoed
eight yc.rs in tho flouse of Repiosontatives
dud ubotf iVinetcerf in' thb Senate; in'all about
twenty-seven years.
Tho numtier of studouts in tho L'niveiyiily of
Oxford is 1,800; its rovonuo, about $800,000.'
iieniiwrccl mm eounty, and (lien stojo a, <nulq. from
T.? jHj1Ci"" Moses Evnns, alias "liia.WiW win (ft ,tlS.
Woods "—decidedly tho wrong insn to steal a
- . , . . horse or anything else from, if tin escape in
soli, and morals, comprehends the duty of those jcnjrai,|e. M,wm thought " « how Im? mouglit,
who share in the conduct of the State—"that M w(,„o R„ |lf(or |,-m lml]n, nmj jn bringing
itics which engage the attention of hearers, yet ,'0,l.,l'rlw ",<!lr t:,,ro the whole hi sly of !t ho brought Travelstcd along,'toc.'pur
- . .. it... n.i.nliii.. imr inn. iiart uui desert anoth > l.i .Vi ... t l.1 ..
'iieralt/.n 1
principles, asccnding easily to widest g
tlons, so happy was the rceonciliution of the qitnl
itics which eiiitajfe the attention of hearers, vet : . « ,*. , . . , , . -
,i r , i . ii 'V i the rciitiblic, nor keep one part and desert aiioth
reward tho perusal ot students—so critically did ,, 1 1 .i
., , . ,. .. I- i-i , nr. lie gives tho reason, ono reason, of tho
they keep the right side ol ihe lino which parts ® ' '
eloquence from rhotorio
of the line which
an 1 s i far d i
u> tliev l,rm'l,t' " I'ho patriotism which embraces less
. - , . . ii . Ii'.. ii. I than tho whole induces sedition and discord,the
rise above tho pnnnury of mere debate, that the . , ,, . H „ '
general reason of the country has enshrined then, I 11()W founal j,0 1|(l)1 comprehended this
at once, and fWev^, wna | truth-w.th what pe«bttei.cy-with what pass-
I s a torn io ii i i,i . . _ 1 ' ' iou (rem tlio first hour ho bupunto a public man
a various roadm*: una I think it im trim even to . ... . <• .1 fT 4 . r , . a .
* A iwat:A«.Afi t„ to the last boat ot tlio great heart, lie cherished
; s- ,9**
worthy of attention had cscnned bin.; nothing | ot lbw .or
of the ancient or modern j'insprHdcnce;nothiiig
which Greek or ltoinnn or Knrop^nn speculation
in that walk had explored, or Greek or Hunan,
or European or universal bis'ory, or public hi
with the larger good anJ the general and thought
ful approval of Ins own uud our whole America,
she tins day fools and anuouncos. Whomsoev-
er a drop hi her blood flows iu the veins of man,
this trait is felt mid appreciated. The hurtter
beyond Superior—the lisbcriuan on the deck of
the uigli-uightfouudered skiff—the sailor on the
uttermost sea,will feel, as hu hears these tiding*,
u sleepless, all-embracing,
((i _ withdrawn from him for a space,
and vindicating uud interpreting the Constitution the great problems which fotm the discipline of i 1? '*! lKtti>w.y j>^^ rw"rd m ",,,ru w''"
and the law. On all these subjects—on all inca | „f m,eial man. Amerii nn history and American |^ - ... ^mon„
uphfilutng j uh-1 tn irhieli ho admitted mo wlule 111 the Lnw - .
mqiercu uud do ft(.|„K,l ut Cambridge, of the politics and ethics ^
• uncounted ma i „fAristotle, and oftbemighty mind which, as timuiio protection or
d river to trade; ^e Aitid, seemed to have tbo^ht through all j P-?£
snres practieariy in any degree affecting fhem
he has inscribed his opinions and left the *—
.n. ,... . ii 11 „ i ,i.„ i,.„„ Uut I cannot pursue these thoughts. ninw< or mo sor mi o«
Zl T,itiM ,a7:t-rJi'I h' 1iTui f i the eul0«Ut- "bo lutve ulUjrodtheeloqnent ,nd may be ragaHed aa
Sheriff Iiiis gone down to llrenham to convey
his jail-birl back to hia old quarters.
[iS/ote Gazette.
Wc havo roceived the flrat number of n new1
German paper publiahed at our neighboring
town of New Bmunfela; it is called tber"ATew
IJraunfelur jSietuntJ, titid Organ of tkt Oer~
man population of Westtrn Texas," and pub-
lished by Ferdinand Undheimcr. .-
[Sidle Oateln:
Important Suit Aftb Decision.—An impor-
tant case was trtdt a, f«w ,days sinco in the
Circuit Conrt of Shenandoah comrtv (Va.')
The Rockingham Register stetea that*) out a yew
since a gentleman, whilo going the Valley Inr
• Wage couch belong to Neaers. Farriah, tbe
HmU. His leg was dreadfully brefan, ,in'.
somnch that he is nrade a cripple' for lift.*
tie hrongbt rait againat the jury in the etae
rendered • verdict for tb« plaintiff, and aasesaed
tlyi dsnwgMt«atW,000.. wbie ie tbe f
of tho aort that baa ever been tried In
of his hand. Every where tbe philosophical I inlU.0 n„d free government; that other series of j j lhdTfer d.m.
and patient statesman and thinker will And that j influences which moulded ns into a united Gov- 1,.u^' ^iTfi?nd!JSl^ri„ir iltSL^^t^sieSL
he 1ms been before him. lighting the way, soun- l«JUmeut; the f'MonisI en th. nf r-m-nrrr whkl'1 ™',ure 10 ; i J««7 «•
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