Carolina Watchman

              and the present , • itjisi i v.',\l ixq-tbeb pf ""-*>>'• 30 rr.'*1 ' ,-;,,■,'.,//. lafayette $ mr bradford \ sketch in pari from memory walking lately down market street from n(_tern part of the city i looked a .,,!.!■ passing sixth street for lhe : residence of general washington ■ 1 had discovered it though great norphb_ed in a house some half . .,',. idol's below sixth street on lhe • , side which still retained a litile of ; fashion iu front with dentals pen . ut from the cornice ; but on inquiry i on that it was not the mansion of rt'ashington stood by itself it was a double house few if any its equal t in philadelphia the house buill ',-. bingham in third street near e street excepted though that is cut down from its original size and i s the brick of the house in h washington lived was even in his . dark with a_re : and two ancient fs turnished with large lamps sl nd in front on the pavement near - reet marked it in conjunction with jts whole external aspect as tin abode of nee and respecta_>i//ty before ho be its august tenant no market house ■ a stood in tlo street to the east a e wall mx or seven feet high rati well towards fifth street until it me oiher s the wall enclosed a garden which haded by lofty old trees and ran to whal is now minor street when tbles stood all is now gone not '■ is lefl of that once venerable ami palely residence for it had intrinsically amething of the latter characteristic by is detached situation and the space left round it for accommodation on all sides west no building adjoined if ihe sl house in that direction standing at i fair distance from it at the corner of - ith and market streets where lived ro i rl mo lis one of the great men of the hi colution and lhe well known friend of washington what hallowed recollec did not that neighborhood awaken ! he career ol washington his consum . wisdom his transcendant s trvice his rbed glory ins spotless matchless let no future plutarch said one biographers attempt a parallel let none among the dead or living appear in ue picture wiih him he stands in the annals of time it is recor • the simile glory of bepublican a a to have given to the world such imple of human perfection histo s consecrated it to ihe instruction of mankind ; and happy it republican aim - i iii cleave to the maxims which he ,| to her iu a paper pronounced . eminent english historian to be une b any composition of uninspired wisdom 1 hnee favored \ irginia to have i lhe earl life of such a man — to bavi rocked his cradle and to contain his in holland there is still to be seen the :_' small and shed-like as it is care ] pt in its originial state in winch llu meal of russia lived whilst ig m lhe naval dock yard at sar ig9 : but i could find no vestige philadelphia domicil of washing lati . i recent as was lhe day when resence sanctified it disap imosl saddened 1 next turned urn s th street to take a look at old congress hall at the corner i lha street hesnul street there it still was nsed s a court-house changed iu ird appearance and still more within o'tizing njhin it 1 recalled i scene never yer to be forgot ten it was i think n h94 or 97 thai as a boy 1 was among lhe spei lators congregated at thai corner and parts close by to witness a gnat pub c acle washington was to open of congress by going iti person as was his custom to deliver a speech to di ses assembled in the chamber ol ihelln , ol representatives tin crowd was immense it filled the whole area in u ki reet before the slate house ex i tended along the line of chesnul street e sixth street and spread north nnd . some distance along sixth street — \ wav kept open lor carriages in the mid dle of the si reet was the only space not closely packed with people 1 had a stand on the steps of one of the houses in ches nul street raising me above the mass of buman heads enabled me to see to ad tire after waiting long hours as it >\ to a boy's impatience the carriage ol the president at length slowly drove op drawn by four beautiful bay horses lt was white with medallion ornaments a the panels and the livery of the ser v,'tiits as well a 1 remember white ttirn 1 up wiih red : at anv rate a glowing • iv>ry tne entire display in equipages al era in our country generally and in philadelphia in particular while llie seat of government being more rich and va ried than now though fewer in number washington got out of his carriage and ly crossing the pavement ascended the steps of the edifice upon the upper platform of which he paused and turning •' ih round looked iti the direction of a ear - which had followed the lead of his own thus he stood lor a minute dis tinctly seen by every body he stood in ll his civic dignity and moral grandeur erect serene majestic his costume was a full suit of black velvet his hair in it v'll blanched by time powdered fo snow w,,.'i 1 s a dress sword at his side and it held in his hand thus he stood in silence : and whal moments those were ! throughout the dense crowd profound s reigned not a word was heard a breath palpations took the place °' sounds it was a feeling infinitely be : that which vents itself in shouts — tvery heart was full in vain would any to_.eue have spoken all were at gaze 111 te unutterable admiration every eye was rivetted on that majestic form ue greatest purest most exalted of mor toe'caro bruner & james ) . ' _,_.. - n _ . _ " a check t7p0n all your jldilors y proprietors \ is safe ( new series ruiers n™arrt ) number 40 of volume ii salisbury n c friday march 13 18 ig t.'il.s it mi lit have seemed as if he stooc iu that position to gratify the assembler thousands with a t'uu view of the fat hei of their com try nol so he had pans ed for his secretary then i believe mr 1 landridge or colonel lear got ou of the other carriage — a chariol — decorated like his own his secretary ascending the steps handed him a paper — probablv a copy of the speech he was to deliver — when both entered the building then it was and not until fhen that the crowd sent up huzzas loud long earnest enthu siastic 1 return fo market street on the north side ofthe way nearly opposite to j ner i washington's residence lived william i bradford he was among the most gift led men pennsylvania has produced an i honor and ornamen to the state cut off iin the year jo at the early age of va iin the midst of public honors and usefu lness his memory is still fondly cherished iby those who had the good fortune to know ihim he wasaprofound lawyer more it ban this his mind by its enlargement was lable to rise to the vantage ground of ju risprudence and survey its broadest prin ciples as the noblest of human sciences practically applicable to mankind a imongst the testimonials of so expanded an understanding was bis treatise on capital punishments — a work written at the re intie.st of governor mifflin and intended llor ihe use ofthe legislature of.pennsyl iva nia in the nature of a report when lhal isuhjeet was firsi under consideralion in ilia body he had bel'ore t hat t i me been lattorney-general of pennsylvania to a ibilities of lhe first order as a lawyer he lidded lhe accomplishments of a scholar imd orator the zeal of a patriot and the virtues of a man and a gentleman a ga laxy of such excellence at his time of life llid not escape the notice of washington proverbially correct in his insight into the characters of men and accordingly on lhe advancement of mr edmond ii.tn llolph to lhe office of secretary of state lie called mr bradford to lhe post of at torney general of the united slates he ivas married to the daughter and only l-hild of ihe honorable elias boudinot it llistinguished cifizenof new jersey a pat liot ofthe devolution and one ofthe pre lidents of congress during he confedera tion this estimable pair won upon the isteem of lhe washington family and lhe official intercourse which mr brad lord necessarily bad with the president bvas follow nl by both of ihem becoming participants not merely ofthe dinner hos b':i;iiiii(,.s and drawing-room entertain incuts of their illustrious neighbors but lhe sharers of a social intimacy more en llearing as well as gratifying at that liicinorable epoch the french revolution i as raging its lir.st shocks seemed to be bmhinging lhe world its magnificent pro hnises and early deeds ol freedom the ro himntic and triumphant valor of millions lif i inn il frenchmen in that cause who flushed to batile tinder lhe inspiring cho husoi'tiie marseilles hymn wiih all the hiorrors that came afterwards were na hural and frequenl topics at the fireside lit washington ; and no single incident himong the astounding group of events h.\as ever called up with more intensity of hu'erest than the doom of lafayette then fli prisoner in the dominions of ihe king of li1 , fl one evening when mr bradford was hiln i e and no company none present but hi he family circle consisting of the gener hal and mrs washington his private sec hretary and young guslis who has since hso oli n delighted his countrymen with hineeilotes of washington and his accom hpli.-hetl sisters ami the conversation go iti on wiih the wonted dignity and ease ot hh.it illustrious circle lhe sufferings of la hfayette again became the theme wash hington as he dwelt upon them in contrast hwiih the former fortunes and splendid me it'll of fayette in our cause and recalling hscenes also that awoke anew the warmth hot his friendship for him became greatly hall'ictcd his manly countenance was hshaken his whole nature seemed melt h tl his eyes wen suffused mr brad hford s;iw it ; and what a spectacle to be hwilnessed bv a man whose own bosom hwas open to the heaving of patriotism hand every other generous impulse ! if the hgre.at conde al lhe representation of one hof corneille's tragedies shed tears at the apart where caesar is made to utter a fine hseutiment what was that in its power to hstir the soul though voltaire has so em hbla/.oned it to tears shed by washington hover ihe real woes of lafayette ! wash hingion a nation's founder aud lafayette 1 1 i s heroic friend who had crossed an o heean to light the battles of liberty by his imih1 magnanimous tears they were in h for ne ul's of heroes to have shed virtu hik.s honorable sanclified ! going home iu the pensive tone of mind i wliieh a scene so moving at the fireside fl washington had created mr bradford m a down and wrote lhe following simple but touching little stanzas the off-ham from the heart of a man of sen h as beside lis cheerful tire midst his happy family sal a venerable sire feats were startling in his eye h selfish blessings were forgot vvhilst he thoughl on fayette's lot once so happy on our plains now in poverty and chains the lament oe washington 2 fayette cried he honored name ! dear to these far distant shores ; fayette by freedom's flame bled to make ibai freedom ours what alas for this remains w hat hut poverty and chains ! 3 soldiers in our fields of death was not fayette foremost there cold and shivering on the heath did you not his bounty share .' v hat reward for this remains v hat hut poverty and chains ? 4 hapless fayette ! midst thine error how my soul thy worth reveres ; son of freedom tyrant's terror hero of both hemispheres ! what reward for all remains what but poverty and chains ! 5 born to honors ease and wealth see him sacrifice them ail ; sacrificing also health at his country's glorious call w hat lor thee my friend remains what hut poverty and chains ! g thus with laurels on his brow belisarius begged for bread ; thus from carthage forced to go hannibal an exile fled ala fayelle at once sustains exile poverty and chains ! the distinguished inmate of the illus ions family circle yielding to the hush f his lei-lings had ventured so far to ex iress in his own form of metre the la nentation heard from the lips of wf^sh ngton warmed hy the theme and giv ng way to the hope ot lafayette's final iberation he closes with the following nvocation lo the suffering prisoner and wile in a strain hopeful and animating 7 courage child of washington ! though thy fan disastrous seems we have seen the setliito sun . rise aud hum with brighter beams thy country soon shall break thy chain and lake thee to her arms again thy country soon sliall break i liy chain and take thee to her arms again ! it must he home in mind that the fore going lines were not written for publicat ion or criticism the former however nay now well he excused as historically ringing to light from lhe sleep of half a entury t li < _ incident which ihey embody rom the domestic hours of washington r will not americans forever welcome villi increasing reverence and affection vhatever may be new to them in the life if the great founder of their empire 1 the ines were lhe impromptu oul pouring of l feeling mind impressed wiih lhe scene if moral beauty and deep pathos which ie had just witnessed as far as i know hey have never been in print before — vivnte copies passed from hand to hand it the time ihey were written and some , imes ihey were sung with lhe accompa niment ofthe piano or harp to the plain ive dirge composed on the occasion f the execution oi the queen of france urrent in philadelphia after that mel mcholy tragedy it is known that washington continued to the last to man lest a keen sensibility to lafayette's sit lat ion nor did he content himself with ittssive regrets our ministers at i.uro icati courts were instructed to avail them selves of every proper opportunity for ex dressing the interest whicli the president ook in his fate and to employ the most digible means in their power to obtain lis liberty or mitigate his hardships — when he was transferred to the dungeon in austria the autograph letter which he hinally wrote to the emperor of germany in procure his liberation though it failed h)f its purpose at the time will remain as hi model of dignity and high feeling pro hdaiming to crowned heads how harmoni hously friendship aud humanity can he hnade to blend with the duties of chief hrnagistraey when their just voice was ex hpiessed by a washington h this irregular sketch would be more imperfect than it is without a lew con hl-i titling words of one of the personages hbelonging to the grouping the widow hof mr bradford still lives in an ancient htinvn on the banks of the delaware a hbcautil'ul relict ot the days here recalled hlu r house the abode of hospitality as a hbiindant as it is cordial and elegant : and hfourscore years and more not having im hpaired the courtesy the grace the habit hutil suavity and kindness or even that dis hciphned carriage of the person all made hpart of her nature by her early intercourse hatul the school in which she was retired : li'nr if portia speaking of herself as cato's hdaui-hterand wile ol brutus could exclaim i think you 1 am no stronger than my sex hoeing so father a and so husbanded it hmav be permitted to us to say of this ven herable relict once ofthe washington eir e!e aud being " father'd and husbanded fl we have also seen she could not be oth her than she is i sketch of thomas pa1xe h the second lecture was attended by horn ol the most intellectual audiences ev her assembled in this chapel the sub hject ol this illustration was a difficult one h the life writings and death of tho's paine ; and many persons expressed their fears that it might be mistaken for an ir religious lecture mr lippard however gave full decided and unmingled satis faction to his audience and this lecture eloquent from first to last was received with earuest attention and enthusiasm commencing with a beautiful picture of the life of our saviour mr lippard en chained the audience with his vivid por traiture of the gnat sympathies whicli divinity enshrined in human flesh held wiih suffering humanity lie boldly ar gued that the great object of our saviour's life was the redemption of the toiling millions of the human race whose dark lot it had been for four thousand years to toil that others might sleep — to coin their sweat and groans into gold i'or the oppressor's coffer into lordly robes for his form or crowns for his brow how was this object fulfilled after a lapse of near lboo years i an eloquent picture of the state of the world in " 1775 answered the query superstition and hypocrisy in lhe church tyrany on the throne ignorance and starvation in the cottage a world enslaved and trodden down for the benefit of the titled few — such was the state of the world in 1775 '• but lar over the waters the outcasts nf the old world — lhe men of plymouth rock the quaker of the delaware cath olic of st mary's — had built a home a nation a religion that home the re fuge of the oppressed of all the earth — hat nation a band of freemen — that re igion hope to toil hope to misery in its iur despair in its cell hope to man ! — and now to crush this home this nation his religion george the third,blasphem usly called defender of the faith had gathered his missionaries with bayo lets in their hands at this point of the lecture paine ap peared upon the scene tin struggles of he emigrant from tin british isle his lays of poverty and toil in philadelphia while writing his great book : common sense — the tremendous effect which that ivork had on the public mind preparing he way for lhe declaration of indepen lenco — all were depicted wiih intense lower then paine by the watch-fire writing iis crisis surrounded perhaps by lhe worses of lhe dead wiih the bloody foot irints in the snow till around him — paine he friend of washington and rush and franklin and jefferson — was ably de ineated this sublime spectacle of a nan of genius who might have been a eiiowned poet statesmnn or orator for saking all these hopi s in order to lollow he bloody foot-prints of a starving army ins no parallel in history '• the cannon of washington says an nemy of paine were not more formid tble to the british than the pen of tho's paine with our revolution the bright oints of pain's character ca,i then we lehold paine dissipated his mind broken y alchohol his intellect debased by a litiful and peurile skepticism then we ichold a man who in " common sense lad led a nation on to freedom endeav jring wiih his ribald " age of reason o darken our homes with that vilest of til superstitions the superstition of infi ll lity paine's life in paris the orgies of the french revolution the fall of robespier re were depicted with inimitable skill — here mr lippard introduced a beautiful defence of the bible — indeed one of the most beautiful pieces of quiet feeling and unpretending pathos ever delivered before a philadelphia audience the death-bed of paine where alone friendless wifeless utterly desolate the aged deist laid himself down to die with no mildly beetutiful faer of jesus to bend otn-r the bul and sat dr immortality in his closing eyes closed ihis beautiful illustra tion — led tuts by lippard a word to the wise bv john neal '• you may depend upon me happen what mav says the man you have been expostulating with "/ will never see a friend in distress and you go home strengthened and en couraged but ihe pinch comes you are in trouble bereaved sick or frightful ly poor considering your habits and your wants vour luxuries and your neces sities but your frie.nd never comes near vou and why .' did lie not tell you " i will never see a friend i distress a friend in need is a friend indeed that is when vou n*«"d but a blessing and a touch to set } u ii at full speed a long the highway of certain prosperity i'he friend vvhom-ih but breathe upon you just at the nick of tune aud fill your heart wiih new strength which costs him noth ing while to you it is t!m breath of life he is worth »■ thousand of such friends as you will be sure to lind after the sen is up anu your great work under way with a roar yea ten thousand oi those iriends who it you happen to fail as most men do many limes if they are ever to be good for anything in this world before their •• mission is fulfilled aresure to wonder why lhe poor fellow never let them know what he needed so much and are half un-rv with themselves that it should never have entered their heads to ask if he had got the seed-corn to begin with when he took the new farm how sorry they are to be sure ! and what would they not have done for him had they only known his real situation — in fare it was too late a plague upon all such friendship i say who cares for a lift after he is able to run without help .' who thanks you for a dollar when the world goes well wuh him and dollars are as the grains of dust that people s°e when they lie half asleep i n a voluptuous otterman tryingto guess wbal thev are good for — as they iro streaming through theclosed window-shutter how worthless to them ! how priceless to him who sits cuddled up in the darkness of a prison house wondering if ever mortal man had half as much sunshine n he wanted and ready to tear his own eyes out for having so slighted or wasti d it when he was abroad in the open air and free and happy now look you sir — men are put here to love one another and to help one an other many are short-sighted and self ish of them you are to expect nothing — because you are in want but a much larger class are llu thonghtless equal selfish in their own way but withholding their help not from stinginess or distrust but simply because they never happened to think it possible that others — men they lind lived with and loved — should ever want such a pitiful penny worth as they llo to get their seed-corn with in season war planting " do you take my dear sir i — do you take .'" — morriss's national irile bargain tl > sacrifice the i tariff i the article in the washington union ■ on which we commented on friday foreshadowing lhe intended sacrifice by ■ he administration in washington of our llomestic industry to induce england to live us oregon is drawing out remarks in all sides the washington correspon dent of the courier and enquirer writes its follows bit fat ■ i the article in the union of last evening leaded a war for oregon preferred to a eduction of the tariff has attracted ve iy general attention it purports to be mn reply to an article in the baltimore pa knot but its perusal leaves tin irresistable impression on the mind that this govern inent have it in contemplation to sacrifice lhe protection of our industry and accom inodate our tariff to british interest fur tin liurpose of securing the whole of oregon hut this bargain has heen in contempla itiuii of this administration had been sus ipected from former articles in the union bind this suspicion is in the minds of many lerrilied by the article of last evening — ■ fit is true as intimated in the i'nion thai bmless wesacrifice the tariff we shall have in fight for ( iregon if england thus threat bus us it is palpable thatshe purposes to bairsue the same course towards us iu re lation to our tarilf thai she did towards lhe chinese as to opium — tiny refused to leceive the drug,and she flogged them in lo acquiesence the union intimates ihat great britain may pursue towards his the same course if we refuse to receive lier manufactures and that the < oregon l-ucstioil is to be the pretence this i do liot believe but regard if on the part of iho i'nion as a very bold trick where with it hopes to succeed on the one hand in its free trad schemes by which it hopes in concliate the south and on the other un its pretensions to in whole of oregon liy which the west is to 1 secured and hhe succession be thus made certain to mr i debate in the senate i the oregon debate advances in the hsenafe with a calm and measured pace ; ht is also conducted latterly at least m a hemper and with an evident study and hin attention on the part of th listening hmembers worthy of a high deliberative hbody and of the deep importance of the hnatter under discussion but what is ol hnore interest than all this to the country is the commendable spirit which has for b<nme days marked the debate leading hdemor-ralic members especially the three hast who hav spoken have by the tenor h'i their own speeches rebuked the in hti-mperate tone of some who preci ih'-iti and have avowed themselves the hrtnf agonists of l the whole or not hdocirine tin friends of amiciible m gotht htiou of fair compromise and of honoi able hpeaee mav such sentiments continue to hchnrncteri/.e ihe debate and finally lead ho the happy adjustment which ihese gen htlemrn so independently espouse — _\_.. lligt net h a new invention — mr george i hwi.itli of this ciiy says lhe w _' n dela lv;,;a journal i.i invented a new sti tarn en h_:n which may if il merit the high encom hi nis it receiv - fn in i.i friends come it hgl eial use ll gives hii|i vei v little room vve ! that om h"f these engines i dctilated f <; fori horse • n*n her can be placed i:i the area of tin this would certainly be a greal l»en lt-:,i to tlif-s wlio have little room to spare '.-■ i r machine n . h the orange im and other irees of the cit iron kind iu some parts of the island of cub hare perishing hv the ravages of a small insect — ■ ______ --_-_ excitement at harrisburg a ttempted bribery .'— on tuesday no little excitc 1 ment wus created at harrisburg pa in consequence of col poilef a member of ,' the legislators one of tbe committee to in vestigate the affairs of lehigh co bank rising in his place and staling tothe house that he had been twice called upon at hi.s room by a mr m.cook ( hio who repre sented that be was interested in the late of said bank and ihat he desired a favor able report lo be made iti respect to its condition c col l then listended as he says with a determination to expose the proposition and that was 8100 to be given then and 100 afterwards mr mccook then left a sealed package be hind bim on his second visit : and the mo ment he departed col p called up to his room mr bucbler his landlord before whom he counted out the money a res i lution was immediately adopted direct ing mccook to l>e attested which was done just as the cars were leaving the 8400 were directed to be placed in bank subject to the onler of ihe speaker ofthe house mr mccook will find this to be a bad piece of financiering — baltimore ( tij a nothing hardens the heart ,;'-:*> ;■:■-■;•■.'::•;." : and nothing dries up the affections m ire effec tually than the hoi pursuit of wealth the deeper a m in digs int.i the gold mine lhe less able ay less w illing is lie in bre sweel air of ujjpei earth oi to bask in lhe daylight of heaven downward downward still he casts lhe anchor of his grovelling affections and neither ran nor will have a heart for any thing hut i»oid — l'r i'l i r i ilh by lightning the mobile vdvertis r records an afflicting event in lhe death by lightning of al e \. c goodman an amia le young lady of eighteen years winch hap lened on lhe morning ufl ie 13 li instant the leci ised together with m;s sampson and her liil'l were in the same he i the lightning struck and passed down the chimney and oo niering lhe chamber where ihey weie sleep ing the fluid seems lo have branched •.:,.'. struck miss goodman in lhe lace causing instant leath and al ihe same lime s,.;t the bed ii lire mi s an i the child were badl shock i'd and lhe former considerably though it is !, ... ,! nol dangerously burned a gentleman sleeping in an adjoining room rusln d in in sea son tn rescue ihem from the flames othen e loo mighl have lieen numbered with the dead as lhe were so complete paralyzed aa lo he altogether lielpli ss snowing ii arms — the foi lowing state ment is contributed to the congregation al journal of concord x 11 by the rev i s davis brother of the late may r of boston it details a marvellous circum stance if indeed the whole matter be not a ca.se of optical delusion : ■• as 1 wa returning from piermont on monday the l>t of december i saw on the snow which had fallen during lhe nii what 1 supposed to be oats spread broad casl : bu nol seeing any track in ihe snow wc 1 was the first that travel led the road after snow fell my curiosity led me to descend from my carriage and examine when to my greal surprise 1 found lhal lhe objects 1 saw were living worms about an inch long lying on the toj of ihe snow bv hundreds and these were scattered along the road i travelled for a distance of not less lhan five miles i would say farther that there were no trees near irum wine the worms might have been shaken and if there bad been c the worms had been on them they would all have been frozen for it had been very cold and the ground was frozen hard be fore the snow fell the worms were alive for liny immediately coiled up when 1 look them in my hand they were of a brown color with aliout 12 or 10 legs i s uui wentworth jan 20 1846 expenses of war — the venerable al ien gallatin has added to his valuable letters to the national intelligencer on be oregon question an appendix in which lie enters at considerable length upon a aleul.i'i'in of the pr ibable annual expen ses of war with england and lhe resour ces for defraying them from the best lata which could i obtained he esti mates the whole annual expenses of such i waral 865.000,000 adding 812,000 100 for oiher expenses the whole cost of supporting the government would reach he enormous sum of 877.000.000 the avar would red ice the annual revenue liom the customs on half and the whole m-e venue from that and all other sources i , thinks would nol exceed 81 1.000.000 hriiis would have to he provided for by maxes and loans lhe sum of 803,000,000 minimally h look into the life and temper of christ his described and illustrated in the gospel hind search whether ou find anything like it in your own life have on anything hif his humility and benevo henei to men ' anything of his parity i 1 of th v nr i hi /■ a i t ■ n t bakei b i . i senator in 1 !. f mas h and for soin • r t the i mi h ! 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