Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1837-02-09
MISCELLANY.

The following letter, which was read in
evidence in suit arising out of the late MIR.
Raadolph's various Wills, is going the rounds
oil the newspapers. That eccentric person
had such strange habits, and acted upon i'm
pulses 80 singular and unaccountahle, that he
forms most interesting philosophical study
We have always hoped tina, some diary or
series OF memoranda would be found among
his papers. which, together with his letters
and speeches, might be made the basis OF
biography. Such a book would make The
fortune Of The publishcr-Nat Gaz.
ROANOKE, Saturday, Dec. II, 1881, ,
Haii-past II.
Dear HI: On taking out my chart,
OF this morning, for the first time since got
home, from your house, to clean il and the
harness-Qor this dreadful spell OF weather
has frozen US all up until 10 day y the knife
was found in the bottom of The carriage.
where it must have dropped from shallow
waIstcoat pocket, as got in al your door, for
J missed The knife soon afterwards. When
got home, had the pockets of the carriage
searched, and every thing there taken out !;
and II was not until John had searched strict
every article therein, that became perfeCt-
ly convinced, of what was before fully per-
suadcd, that had left the knife IN my cham.
Der al your house on Tuesday, The 9Th: and
when heard il had not been seen, took il
Tor granted that your little yellow boy. hav-
ing found it," had, according to the negro
code OF morality, appropriated it TO himself
In this, II seems, l was mistaken, and ask
his pardon as The best amends can make
nun; and at the same time to relieve YOU and
Mrs. M. from the unpleasant feeling that
such suspicion would occasion, despatch
this note ny special messenger, although
have certain conveyance to morrow.
make no apology 10 yourself or airs. NJ.
LOT The frank expression OF my suspicion, be,
cause Truth is the goddess al whose shrine
worship, and no Huguenot in France, or
Morisco IN Spain, or Judaizing Christian in
Portugal, ever paid more dearly for his he
retical sch'sm, than ] have done in leaving
The established church Of EdIsehood and
G!1ndce. am well aware that ladies are
delicate as they are charming creatures, and
that IN cur intercourse with them we must
strain the truth as far as possible. Brought
up from HER earliest infancy TO disguise their
real sentiments, Qor woman would be a
monster who did not practise this disguise. J
" IS tbelr privilege 10 be insincere-aDd we
should dispIse them, and justly TOO, if they
bad that manly frankness aud unreserye
which constitutes the ornament of our char
acter as The very reverse does Of theirs. We
must therefore keep this in view in our in
'ercourse with them, and recolleci that as
our point OF honor is courage and frankness,
'he,rs 10 chastity and discrimination for, as /
sa'd before, woman who does no, dissem mile
her real feelings is a monster Of rmpudc6ce.
now, therefore, it does happen, (as Mr. Can,
ning would say y that truth is very offensive
70 The ears Of lady, when 10 those OF a gen
,leman Cher husband for instance) il would
be not at ell so.
10 H'usirste-Mrs. r. Of B., my broth.