Southern telegraph., 1837-08-22
No. 2s.--VVhOIc No. 1874

10 cXpatrIated me. In linish.ng my letter le
IL me beg Of you this favor, TINT, il you find
# some parts incorrectly written, you will i'm
S pute that flult to the boy who writes for me /;
he is utterly ignorant of Latin, and am
!, obliged, wretchedly enough, to spell every
= word dictate.n
$ The miseres Of Milton were still mora
: aggravated by domestic griefs. He lost his
a first wife, Mary Powell. who died suddenly;
: as, also, after years mIrri ige, did his
second wifi, CAtheraino Woodcock, Of
Hackney. His third wife, Elizabeth Mine
+ he II, survived him, and had used him well.
+ lie appears not to have been loved, his
4 daughters that played such poctical parts in
his life deceived him, and secretly sold his
5 books. He complains OF this. Unfortun-
9 ately, hii Character seems To have had tho
} in1iXibiIify ofhis genius Johnson has said,
with precision and ruth, thai NJ lton beiev-
ed wom1n made only for Obedience, and
t man for rebellion.
f Milton, in his last days, was forced to sell
his library. He drew near his end. DR..
|, Whit, going to sec hin, found him confined
10 the first Il ,or ofhis snli hmlse, in a very
sm1lI room, to which the visitor ascenaei
by staircase, carpe,el, extempore, with
green baizc, to deaden the noise of footsteps,
and to procure silence for the mln who was
advancing towards everlasting silence
The author of "Plradse Lost" alfred in
a black doublet, reclncd in nm elb,w-chair.
Ills head was uncovered, his silver locks
fell on his shoulders, his blind but fine dark
eyes sparkled amidst the Paleness of his
counlcnance.
Oh the tenth Of November, 1874, That
Gld who had dscoursel with him by night
came TO fetch him; and reunited him in
Faith with the angels, amid whom he had
lived, aud whom he knew by their names,
their Offices, AMI their beauty.-Mton cx-
PRED so gently that no one perceived tho
moment when, al the aIc Of sx'y-six years
(within one monthly he rendered back 10 God
one of the highest spirits that over anm,t-
ell human clay. This temporal life, though
neither long nor short, served as a founda.
ton for life eternll. This great MN had
dragged on 4 sufficient number Of days on
earth to feel their WEAKNESS; but not suifi,
cent to exhaust his genius, which remained
entire, even to his latest breath.
Passage ofhc Red Sca.-The rout Of
The Israelios. and the Place where they
: crossed the Red Sen, are thus discussed in
he "lncidcn:s of Travel" by an Americans
"Late in the afternoon, we landed on tho
; opposite side, on the most sacrd spot con-
nected with the wonderirgs of the IsraeitesI
where they rose from the dry bed Of tho
SCI, and, at the command of Moses, the di.
\ vilel waters rushed together, oyorWhclns
ing Phlraoh and his ehlriots, and the whole
host OF Egypt. With the devotion of pious
pilgrim, picked up a she'll and put Il itto
nv pocket as memorial Of the place, and
then Patl and |, mourning the dromedaries
which nv guide Ind bro'i down to the shore
| in readiness, rode to a grove Of palm trees,
shading fountain Of bud water, called
Ayoun Moussa, or tie fonntain of Moses.
/ was riding celriessly along, looking bo.
| hind me toward the sea, and had almost
reached the grove of palm trees, when
| urge flock of crows few out, and my dromc4
diary, frightened with their sudden whzzing,
started back and threw me twenty feet over
his head, completely clear of his long neck,
and LEFT me sprawling in the sand. II was
mercy did not finish my wanderin5s whcrd
the children of Israel began theirs-but I
saved my head at the expense of my hands.
which sank in the loose soil up to tho wrist,
I and bore the marks for mlre than two
months afterwards. seated myself where |
fell; and, as the sun was dipping below the
horizon, told Paul to pitch the tent with tho
door toward the place of the miraculous
passage.
81 shall never forget that sunset scene,
and it is the list shall intlict up IN the rea-
der. was sitting on the sand on the very
spot where the CHOSEN people of God, after
walking over the dry bed of the sea, stop
ped to behold the dividing waters returning
to their place, and swallowing up the host
of the pursuars. The mountains on the 9th
er side looked dark and p,rtentous, az if
proud and cons ions witnesses Of the mighty
miracle; while the SIN descending slowly
behind them, long after it hal disappeared,
left reflected Brightness, which illmined
the dark surface Of the water with an almost
supernatural light
s.BIi to return to the fountain of Moses,
am aware that there is some dispute as to
the precise spot where Nj ,ses crossed; but,
having no time for sccpticiSm on such mat
tersI began by mixing uF my mind that this
was the place, and then looked around to
sec whether, according to the account Civ
en- in the Bible, the face Of the cnuitFy, and
the natural landmarks, did not slstain nv
opnion. remember loie1 up to the
head Of the gulf, where Sucz and Kolsun
now stand, and saw that, almost 10 the very
head Of the gulf, there was high range Of
mountains which it waild be necessary 10
cross--an undertaking which which would
be physically impossible for600,000peopis,
men, women and children, 70 accomplish,
with hostile army pursuing them. At
Snez, Moses could MT have heen hemmed
in as he was, he could 60 offinto the Syrian
desert, unless the SEA has greatly chang