The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-03-12
notion. Then again all was still

! emotion. Then again all was still.
! ! will pay you for this dress befor,
! hand, then; and as | want it done yer
e nice, will pay you dollar for nal
]. ing it. Can / have it day after t
! morrow.
Certainly, na'am, tomorrow ever
Ling if you want it.
The money was paid down, an
II the angel Of mercy departed. Nor
, than one heart was made glad tina
! morning.
JOHN NEAL-the author, the philan
thoplst and the poets lecturing in Ne1
York. upon various popular topics. H
creates great sensation and his lecture
are attended by the intellect and fashion
of the city. The New Yorker, whicl
some years ago, abused him pretty severe
because it did not know him, saws:
! Neal is not one of your dull plodders i,
whatever he undertakes; by 'sirresistibl,
force of universal" genius he seems t,
to jump at conclusions which strike yo,
like thunderbolt with their far reaching
truth and applicability. We doubt no
the greater portion of his hearers were
astonished at the intimate knowledge thai
he displayed in his astlecture of the secre
springs which move the human mind.
The history Of Neal, if written by such
pen as Johnson's, would be one of the
most remarkable in the world. The fol.
lowing slight sketch is from the New
/ World:
His parents were quakers. His first
step from school carried him into dry
goods store. AT seventeen, he turned
writing master, and this the New World
remarks is funny enough, as he writes the
most "damned, cramped penmanship''
that ever tortured compositer's brain.
He mex. taught drawing, and afterwards
became painter, and used to do up faces
at three dollars piece. He next en-
gagged himselfin a variety store in Boston,
and assisted in the sale of silk, molasses,
Goldfish, ladies' albums and SO forth.
He then went into wholesale business
with $40 capital, in partnership with
Mr. Pierpont, the present distinguished
temperance clergyman Of Boston, and
failed. Attwenty-three he took to litera-
ture, when he had not money enough to
take letter out ofthe post off &c; and since
then his course has been onward to his
present high station as one of the most
remarkable men of the age
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. A melancholy
illustration oftbe danger of the indis-
eliminate storage of drugs in house,
was recently given in the family OF
the Rev. Mr. Briggs, formerly a set
tied clergyman in Lexington, now
resident in Roxbury, Mass. Early in
last week a son OF Mr. B. aged about
Is, came home from Harvard college
unwell. The father, having been an
invalid, presumed that from the expe-
rience thus acquired, he could pre-
scribe for his son; and gave him on
going to bed, dose of pills, from a
box in the house. In the morning
the young man was found in his bed
insensible. A physician was imme-
diately sent for, but before his arrival
the patient was beyond the reach of
assistance. The pills upon examina-
ton We're found to be opium; and hav-
ing been brought from Lexington six
years before, among the trumpery
which accumulates in family, their
nature was forgotten, and they were
mistaken fora simple cathartic. The
distress of the family is inconceivable.
~. Z. Despatch.
Power OF TRurH. A Persian mo-
ther, in giving her son forty pieces of
money as his portion, made him swear
never to tell lie, and said to him,
eco my son and we shall not meet
again till the day of Judgment The
youth went away, and the party he
travelled with was assaulted by rob
bers. One fellow asked what he had
got, and he said, ssForty dinars are
seWed up in my garments" laughed
thinking he tested. Another asked
the same question, and got the same
answer. Atlast the chief called, and
asked him, and he said, 81 have told
two of your people already thatl have
forty dinars sewed up in my clothes"
He ordered the clothes to be ripped
open, and found the money. How
come you to tell this?' Because the
child replied, 4 would not be false to
my mother to whom promised new
er to tell a lie Child said the rob
Nber, sart thou so mindful of thy duty
ITO thy mother at thy years, and am
insensible, at my age, of the duty to
my God? Give me thy hand, that
may swear repentance on it. Tic
] did SO; his followers were all struck
with the scene. You have been ou'
leader III quilts they said to the chief
/ 'be the same in the path of virtue;' and
| they instantly vowed repentance on
/ the boys hand.
/ IMMENSELY OF CREATION. Some as
tronomers have computed that there