South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-07-18


fell from the mouth of Mahommed Ali,
during one of the paroxysms of his Sc
rious and painful malady, which is co.
rious, as showing the designs which he
still nohrishes on Turkey, he exciaim.
ed 81 am convinced that nothing will
cure me but the air of Cons.antinople."
Turkish Letter.
SPAIN.
The journals contain painful in.elli-
gence from Spain. Whole districts Of
The South are depopulated by famine.
The northern provinces are the prey
Of civil war. The capital and the
country in general are involved in dis
cord.
Prospects of the Harvest an France.
The Memorial la Scrape, Douai
paper, states "that the oldest agricul.
turalists in that part Of the country are
Of the opinion that there never was a
finer prospect of good harvest than
this year, and that if no unforeseen e.
vent occurs, ii will exceed 10 abun.
dance that of 1885,"
EagysEsEzsssagl
WASHINGTON, July 9.
We have the mournful duty ofannoun-
cling that the venerable and venerated
CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES.
JOHN MARSHALL, is no more! He
expired q: his lodgings in Philadelphia
(whither he had gone few weeks before
for surgical ad) on Monday afternoon,
the 9Th inst, in the 80th year of his age.
In noticing the decease of this illustri-
Gus citizen, who has filled for more than
third of a century, with universal con-
fidence and admiration, the most dignifi-
ed and delicate, if not the most important,
trust that could have been contided to
him by his country, and who has lived
for more than halfa centary in the unva-
rying affections of his countrymen, the
language of eulogy from our pens would
be as vain as unnecessary. His long life
has been one uniform history Of public
service, and private virtue. And he has
now descended to the tomb crowned with
larger share of public esteem and pub
lie regret, than any citizen since the de-
parture of WASHINGTON, if indeed we
may except even the Father of his Coun.
try himself.
IL is not for us to attempt his charac-
ter or his history. This is a task for DIFF
ferent and ADLER hands, and it will in due
time. we doubt not, be performed in be-
fitting manner. In the meantime, for
the information of those who may not he
familiar with the incidents of the earlier
history of the lamented patriarch, we COS
Ply the following summary from Balti-
more contemporary, which we believe to
be substantially accurate:
John Marshall was born in Fauquier
County, Virginia. on the Gath of Septem-
Der, 1855, the eldest child of Col. Thorn.
as Marshall, planter of small fortune,
who had fifteen children. From his in
telligent father the future Chief Justice
ofthe United States received the first
rudiments Of education. By him he was
introduced into The study of history and
poetry. From his fathers tuition he
passed, between his fourteenth and eigh-
teenth years. SUCCESSFULLY through the
hands of several teachers, one of whom
carried him as far as Horace and Llvy, in
the Latin Classieks. Upon this founda-
ton he afterwards made himself good
Latin scholar.
In his eighteenth year. while studying
law, he engaged enthusiastically in the
growing controversy between Great Bril-
tain and her American Colonies, dsvoting
much time to military exercise in a vol
unteer corps, to training military COM
pany in the neighborhood, and to reading
the political essays of the day.
In the summer of IT'S, being in his
twentieth year, he was appointed first
lieutenant ola company of minute men
enrolled for actual service, and was soon
afterwards engaged with this company
in the battle of the Great Bridge, where
the British troops, under Lord Dunmore,
were repulsed with great gallantry. In
July, 1916, he was transferred as first lieu
tenant to the eleventh Virginia regiment
on the Continental establishment. The
following winter he marched to the North,
and in l777 was promoted to the rank of
captain. He was in the battles of Bran.
DIVINE, Germantown, and Monmouth.
In 1880 he returned home and resumed
the study of law. while waiting for orders
from the State Legislature. In the au-
tumn Of the same year he obtained Ii
cense to practice. and rejoined the army,
in which he continued TILL 1881, when,
there being redundancy of officers in.
the Virginia line, he resigned his commits
sion.
He was distinguished in service for
courage and activity. and such was the
estimation in which he was held by his
brother officers, that quarrels and points
OF difference among them were often sub.
mtled to his arbitration. Thus early