The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-10-31

Boston, m New England, came from Boston,
in Old England and the town was named In
memory Of his native place.
baltimore takes its name from its founder,
George Culyert (Lord Baltimore.)
Tomb Of Kosciusko.-Mr. Stephens, in
giving an account of his visit to the Cathedral
Church at Cracow-" Allied in its history with
the most memorable annals Of Poland the
witness Of the ancient glory Of her kings and
their sepulchre. after describing the tombs of
Wialdslaus lie Bret, Kasmir the great and the
Sigismunds" says: On the lower floor of the
church, by the side Of Poniatowski, the Polish
Bayard, is the tomb Of one nobler in my eyes
than all the kings Of Poland or of the world.
II is Of red marble, ornamenied with the cap
and plume Of the peasant OF Cracow, and bear
ing the simple inscription IT. Kosciusko."
All over the Church read elaborate pane
gyrics upon the tenants of the royal sepulchres.
and was struck with this simple inscription
and remembered that the white marble column
reared amid the magnificent scenery Of the
Hudson, which had of gazed at from
steamboats, deck, and at whose base had
often stood, bore also in majestic simplicity
the name Of" Kosciusko." 1t was late in the
afternoon and the group of peasants, two Poles
from the interior, and a party of the citizens
of Cracow, among whom were several ladies',
joined me at the tomb. We could not speak
each others language; we were born and lived
thousands Of miles apart, and we were stran-
gers in our thoughts and feelings, in all our
hopes and prospects, but we had bond Of
sympathy at the grave Of Kosciusko. One of
the ladies spoke French, and told them that
in my far distant country, the name Of their
nations IDOL was hallowed; that schoolboys
had erected monument to his memory
They knew that he had fought by the side Of
Washington,but they knew not that,he recollec-
ton ofhis services was still so dearly cherish
ed in America; and we all agreed that il was
the proudest tribute that could be paid to his
memory to write merely his name on his mo-
nument. 1t meant that it was needless to add
an epitaph, for no man would ask who was
Kosciusko?
The Pirate and the Dore.-The following
interesting fact is related by Audubon, in his
Ornithological Biography. In speaking Of
the Zenada dove, he says: "A man who
was once pirate assured me that several
times, while at certain wells dug in the burn
ing, shelly sands Of well known key, which
choly cry Of the dove awoke in his breast feel
ings which had long slumbered melted his
heart to repentance, and caused him to linger
at the spot in state Of mind which he only
who compares the wretchedness of guilt with
in him with the happiness Of former innocence,
can truly feel. lie said he never left the place
without increased fears Of futurity, associated,
as he was, although believe by force, with
band Of the most desperate villains that ever
annoyed the navigation of the Florida coast.
So deeply moved was he by notes Of the bird,
and especially by them of dove, the only
soothing sounds he ever heard during his life
of horrors, that through these plantive notes
and them alone, he was induced to escape
from his vessel, abandon his turbulent COM
panions, and return to a family depIoring his
absence. After paying parting visit to those
wells, and listening once more to the cooings
of the canada dove, he poured out his soul
in supplication for mercy, and once more be-
came what one has said to be, "the noblest
work Of God, an honest man. His escape
was effected amidst difficulties and dangers,
but no danger seemed to him to be compare
BILE with the danger Of one living in the viola
ton Of human and divine laws, and now he
lives in peace in the midst of his friends"