Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1840-06-13

celebrated Aldobrandne collection at FIorenc
The increasing income from his museum
length enabled Mr. Peale, to procure an entil
skeleton OF the mammoth, at an expense
S5Uco. large quantity of the bones of a
individual of this species was discovered i
Ulster county, N Y ,ghich Mr. Peale purcha,
sed, together with the right OF digging for tn,
| remainder IN swampy mari pit, which was
obtained after very great exertions
Natural History as yet, formed no part of
the education of our youth, and Mr. Peale was
the first to prepare and deliver course of lec-
lures on this interesting and now popular sub
| ject, which he rendered attractive to respect
able class Of ladies and gentlemen by demon
strations with the real subjects taken out of the
museum. The museum has at length grown
to an extent which justifes comparison, with
the most celebrated establishments in Europe
He was formost in the early attempts to estab-
lish an Academy of the Fine Arts When the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was
founded, he zealously co-operated for many
years, and lived to contribute to seventeen an
nual exhibitions. After life Of extraordinary
exertion and temperance, he died in 1927, at
the age of &C.
LINDLEY MURRAY, author of the most useful
and popular Grammar of the English language
was born in the year l745, at Swatara, then
Lancaster county, of Quaker parents in the
middle station of life He received the rudi-
ments of his education at Philadelphia, in the
Academy of the Society of Friends In 1853,
his father removed with his family to New
York. were Lindley was placed at good school
At an early age he entered counting house,
being destined for1he mercantile profession,
but having been severely chartised for breach
of domestic discipline, he privately left his
fathers house, took up his abode, in Semina-
ry at Burlington, N. j., and there contracted
love of books and study. When brought back
after some time, he prevailed upon his fatherto
procure classical teacher for him, under whom
he applied himself, with diligence and success.
From the precepts and example of his parents
he imbibed lasting sentiments of morality and
religion. He now undertook the study Of the
law, in the office of an eminent cousellor, the
celebrated John Jay being his fellow student.
At the age Of %, he was called to the bar and
soon obtained practice. Within two years he
married lady, with whom he lived in the ten
derest union for more than half cetury. He
was very successful and sedulous in his busi-
ness as a lawyer, until the war broke out be-
tween Great Britain and the Colonies. About
that time, the decline of his health, induced him
to remove into the country about 40 miles from
New York. In this retreat he passed years;
and at the expiration of this time, he was driv-
en- backto the city (then in possession of the
British) by the necessity of procuring funds, for
the subsistence ef his family. The profession
Of the law being no more lucrative, he turned
merchant again. and accumulated property e.
nough to enable him to retire from business a.
bout the period Of the establishment of Ameri-
can Independence. He then purchased BEAU
tiful country seat, about miles from ~ Y;
but severe sickness subjected him to gener-
al debility of the muscles, for the cure of which
he was induced to go with his family to Eng
land. He intended to remain there only two
years; but the local attachments which he for
med, and his bodily infrmities, detained him
for the rest of his life. He bought very pleas
ant estate, about mile from the city of New
York. Here rendered sedentary by the weak
ness of his muscles, he gave himself chiefly to
reading and composition. His first book is en-
titled the "Power of Religion on the Mind"
and appeared in 1887. 1t was anonymous
gained much reputation, and has passed through
many editions. His Grammar was first issued
in 1895. ltwas greatly enlarged and improved
in successive editions, and has not yet been
surpassed or superseded. It's still altogether
the best extant in the English language. 1t
81 H. ;cb