Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-07-23

grown stones have an dir of puritan sanc,itv
MY companion was one with whom wps too
familiar to strive to be agreeable and they who
cannot be eloquent W zen effort is Unnecessary
may forever despair the power Converse.
ton is always delightful when tho thoughts
spring spontaneously from the tongue, attended
with all the contagious exhilaration of wit and
talent; but II is even yet deli rhtful, when
catching i,s tone from surrounding objects il
flows gently on, deriving new charms from tho
scene around, aud new interest from the cir
cums'ances under which we enjoy it, Such a
conversation W as at this moment listening To
from my companion, and every instant with in
creating pleasure. twas suddenly interrupted
by tho appearance of one of The most friahtful
and loathsome looking object my eyes ever be.
held. The lofty and projecting forehead and
the bold rigid contour ofthe head all indicated
the possession of prodigious powers; and the
spark of hell burning in his eye, proved that
power had been exerted for the prince of dark
ness. He was clothed in the squalid and latter
ed drapery of exceeding poverty and deeply
had age craven upon his iron visage the lines of
guilt and passion. The painter and sculptor
could not have found more fitting personif-
cation of pestilence or crime
AT the sight of u.s. he darted into the woods
with that instructive aversion, which ever leads
the fallen spirit To shun purer nature NV
companion knew him well, and at my request,
repeated the terrible incidents of his life A.
nearly as can recoilect, they arc contained in
the following story.
Among the numerous families who worship
led the Lord in beauty Of Holiness, in l776 few
even in the days of primitive devotion, were
more blamees in life and conversation, than
those of Eliphalet Warner, and LOIS Leslie
Their dwellings, joined each other, and their
children had grown up together, healthy and
beautiful as the tim shrubbery around their
doors. frances, the only daughter oft the widow
Leslie, was the sweetest little wild flower that
ever breathed fragrance on this sinful world.
Seldom has nature blended in one counte-
nance, two such striking characteristics of love-
. illness. Mildness was the prevailing expression;
and it was not until we had looked again and
again, upon her large blue eye, that it re.
vealed its depth of meaning. Thought was
there not in the grandeur of beaming inspra-
ton, buttranquil as waveless lake, pure as the
happy dreams. There is nameles light in this
spiritual kind of beauty. Itcomes from the sun
ct a world brighter and heller than our own
The painter, the poet the SCULPTOR have never
embodied it and nature, with all her radiance.
her bloom and purity affords no metaphor The
mother, faded aud care-worn, was still such a
one as once seen could not be easily forgotten
Her face manly but not masculine, in its outline
and energetic in its expression, indicated the
possession of vehement feeling ; but its serious
and somewhat severe aspect, told that youthful
enthusiasm had been checked by many sorrows
and that the of affection, depressed on eve-
ry side, had worn a channel deep into the soul
An only son, the stay and staff ofher old age
recently returned from the American camp, ex.
hausted by long and painful illness, completed
the number of their affectIonate household
Mr.. Warner, a rigid but kind hearted old man
had long been deprived of the partner of his
youthful days 1t was strange for one appa.
rently so harsh in his nature, but though his
hand and his heart were ever open to his neigh.
bour, and though his eye lighted up with all a
father joy when Frances stood efore him in
her loveness, yet his thoughts were ever with
her who slep her last sleep; and the old man iiv.
| ed the bosom Of his family estraDged from all
save the widow and her charming daughter
| Two sons were all that remained to him, and
| they were most striking instance ofdissimilar.
| ity of character, produced by the same educa
ton, and ,he same habits of life. That intel
lect differs in native vgor in various indivi
duals, and is strong in any peculiar department
only from the accidental directed Of attention
has been abundantly proved but supposne
the mind thus bent by circumstances and stna
| ton, how hard IL is TO trace the hidden causes
which create in the same family such vaiiou.
notifications of moral purity and mental force.
Joseph and William Warner looked as unlike
each other, as they really were in pursuits anc
inclinations. Joseph was dark, lowering, anc
designing with eyes deeply set, and looking
out from beneath their shaggy brows, like the Fl
cry balls Of tiger hidden in the clefts of pre-
cipico. Williams complexion was likewise
dark,but his expression was noble and ingenious
to the last degree and his face had much o
fresh youthful beauty. Joseph was furious to
ry; William firm and decided wbig. Boil
were the declared lovers of their fair neighbour
| az" o"" "ao oeeh 'oIu ny ..eF Juoiclous WOtneF
10 wait for more peaceful times, and until matu
rer years should enable her to Judge discfetely
and to decide wisely In habits Of unrcsorvec
intimacy with both--treated as a cherished siste
by William, and the alternate object Of The mos
headstroDg love, and the most taunting Jealousy
\ of his fiery brother-it seemed for n long time
doubtful how the balance would turn
, know not why it is, but impctuosity, ardour
and loneliness Of manner,ar usually exceeding
| ly attractive to woman. II is, believe, simply
that worship Of power, which exists in every hu
man mind. The same principle that prostratc'
the soul before nature, in its wildness and males
ty, and before art in its magnificent dosolation