Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-01-15
CHARLOTTESVILLE VIRGINIA, FRIDAY. 1880


= have indeed, said she, my husband anticipate
my every wish, and would render me fully hap
G ny, but for singular request which he has made
= and which cannot understand the objec,
3. troubles me and have to refuse It, Ii must Ire
very serious said Edward. Oh no, it is very Sd
r ly, replied his sister--you would never imagiue
: what Only think Of request to blind myself
with linen bandages-n Il word to DO u living
copy of an Egyptian mummy.
So extraordinary caprice, surprised Edward
full as much as il had his sister.
Ills curiosity was too strongly excited 10 he
spent in imaginings, and he urged his sister to
yield, but with the condition that he should I'M
known TO the husband be stationed during the
operation in an adjoining room.
Thus placed, his sister Informed her husband
that she determined TO yield to his request
Wild with joy at this information, the husband
found not words to express his gratitude, yet
promptly commenced his operations Edward
listened attentvely. Profound silence reicned
for some minutes in the loom, his sister broke it
by saying III trembling tone, f" aId the arms
too" He involuntariv trcmbled as if they
were TO be the last word of his sister Yes my
dear replied the husband gaily, beg you-head
and feet only, free ust like Mummy you
know. All was again quet-the silence lasted
so long TO Brighten Edward, and he was upon
the point of entering the room, when his sister
commenced laughing most immodoratoly--he
felt assured and listened. Emily stopped, and
was again silent. Again she laughed, and more
mmodcrately than before, and again all was ST.
lent. The tomb-likc reposc, broken by loud and
umoderate laughter and succeeding the laugh
ter was alarmlng-hc knew not what to think of
it, and burst into the ROOM AT his appearance
Mr. de V. fed and Edward found his unfortunate
sister stretched on the floor, cold and inanimate
Her husband had bound her, that he might freely
tiCkle her feet. Another fit of laughing, and
Emily would have followed the two other wives
OF NJ dc va The best attendance has but re-
called her TO existence. perfect idiot. The
nervous system being entirely destroyed.
This adventure well known to all Paris for
some days, is too we'll known to be doubted
| We suppress the names, solely out of regard to
| 4 highly respected family.
FROM TUE LONDON MORNING CHRONICLE.
Our Contemporary (The Standard) in an ar
ticle on the subject of the Memoirs and Letters
! ON an advice given by that good Statesman -
" we would say that JAY, as described by MIR.
JEFFERSON, was the American prototype of
NEcKAR. LAFAYETTE, with his canine appe-
tile Tor popularity Will suggest at once prcde-
cessors and imitators without end, for there
have been fools and Revolution makers, and ever
vii! be, in all ages and in all countries A third,
but very different class, however, remains,
without whom indeed Revolutions might be
made, but made only TO pcrpctuate anarchy
the WAsHINGToNs and FKANKLINs in America,
who were never known TO speak more than ten
minutes ut a time the NAPoLEoNs and TALLEy-
RAHDs OF the French Revolution. Here it will
be said, the analogy ends; but the reason of the
separation is not overlooked by our author, who
perhaps, by the very advice which we are about
to quote, averte from his country the calamity
OF military despotism this is advice which we
we would wish to engrave deeply upon the heart
ofevery Englishman -
:" Cherish the spirit of our people, and keen
alive their attention do not be too severe upon
their errors, but reclaim by onghtcning them
1t once they become inatteDtive to the Public
Afrrs, you and |, and congress and Assemblies.
and Judges, and Governors, shall all become
wolves. IL seems to be the general law of our
nature
+" This is true-eternally and universally true
| 1t is the close attention of the people, and that
only, which can control the wofsh propensities
| of those who administer any form of Govern
ment-however free it may be in theory, makes
not the least difference on this point Mr. JEr-
FERsoSs authority Is the very highest he
the Minister ola Democracy, fairly in the road
to the office of Chief Magistrate, at which lie
afterwards arrived, acknowledges, as a general
law Of nature, the wolfish instinct of men in
power, whether as executive officers or lcoisIa
tors and prescrbes the sole preventative of it.
fatal ascendancy, a jealous attention TO their
affairs by the people.
How does this doctrine agree with the ad
vice of those who, even with the apparatus OF
close boroughs, civil list, standing army, gen
IdarmeIle, &c, already in the hands of Ministers
tell us that we are to dismiss public affairs from
our minds altogether, and rely implicitly upoi
the wisdom of Parliament and, we suppose
upon the honesty of the Minister who bav
ordered that Parliament to the right abou
face at their pleasure How does the doctrin
e of Mr. JEFFERSON agree with the practice of Il,
o Minister, who claims the confidence of the cour
s try at the very moment in which they use thei
r utmost efforts to stfc every organ by whic
public attention can be drawn fairly to the pub
d lie interests"
We will here lay before our readers tn
a whole of the passage from which our con
e Temporary has made the above short quo
o tatloO. 1t is remarkable proof of saga
l. city in JEFFERSON, that at time v hel
IT the English Newspapers were day ate
Is day filled with accounts Of the anarchy i
i. the United States. when the law Conld n,