The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-09-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

but writes to lve its difficulties and perils are
fearfully increased. Few spectacles are more
affecting than that of such man, so gifted
and so fated, jostled and tossed to and fro in
the rude hustle of life, the buffetings of which
he is so little able to endure. Cherishing, it
may be, the loftiest thoughts, and clogged with
the meanests wants of pure and holy purpo-
ses, yet ever driven from the straight path by
the pressure of necessity, or the impulse of pas
sion f; lowering between the empyrean of his
fancy and the squalid desert of reality cramp-
ed and foiled in his most strenuous exertions !;
dissatisfied with his best performances, DISCUS
ted with bis fortune, this man of letters too
often spends his weary days in conflicts with
obscure misery harrassed, chagrined, debased,
or maddened; the victim at once of tragedy
and farce; the last forlorn outpost in
the war of mind against matter. Many are
the noble souls that have persisted bitterly,
with their tasks unfinished, under these cor
roding woes some in utter famine, like Otwav;
some in dark insanity like Cowper and Collins;
some like Chatterton, have sought out more
stern quietus, and turning their indignant steps
away from a world which refused them well
come, have taken refuge in that strong fortress
where povery and cold neglect and the thou
sand natural shock which flesh is heir to- could
not reach them any more.-CarlyLe.
WARLIKE PREPARATIoN.-ln New York,
cannon have been placed on the Fort at Gov
ernor's Island, and other Notifications of the
harbor have either been placed in a condition
of efficiency, or operations to that end arc in
progress. All this is well. Though we are
no believers in war or invasion, it is well
enough, if we have Notifications to keep them
armed at least, if not manned.
PRISONERS IN VAN DIEMAN's LAND.-The
Canadian Parliament has adopted resolution
authorizing petition to the Queen for the
pardon of all persons engaged in the recent
revolutionary attempts.
KENTUCKY ABoLIToN.-.The Louisville
Public Advertiser of the Sd inst, says: We
do believe that were convention now called
in kentucky, Clothed with plenary power to
remodel the Constitution, the free labor advo-
Gates would bear the sway, and that provision
would he made for the abolition of slavery.
VIRGINIA PoLITICIAN.-The following def
milton of Virginia politician is drawn to the
life. However provoking it may be to have
these Virginia 'abstractionists' desert us, as
they have, just in the important hour, we still
cannot get angry at them, no more than we
can at the clown for his buffoonry in the ring,
they are SO vastly amusing. But to the char
acter, which we copy from the Louisville Jour-
nal. "A friend of ours, writing us from Wash
ingten. describes the real Virginia politician TO
the life.
He has NOT, says our correspondent, the
slightest idea of any territorial extent of coun-
try beyond the limits of Virginia. He draws
his notions of commercial greatness from the
trade of oystermongers on the Paumunkey
his manufacturing views are borrowed from
the hoop-and-stave splitters in the pine woods
of Virginia slow down. and his agricultural
specuIations are compressed to such narrow
compass as is natural to man who has wit
messed upon his own farm, for the last thirty
wears, the tumblebugs in the burrows playing
disportive with the tassels of his corn
ANOTHER vICTIM.--We learn from the Wes-
chester Herald, that young man named
Charles Hobby, was last week found dead in
a field in Northcastle, near the residence of
his father, Enos Hobby. He had been at
work alone. When he left the house he took
with him three quarts Of rum in jug, and when
found by his brother he was quite dead, and
but half pint of liquor left Glen. Her.
We make the following extract from the
London correspondence of the Boston Post. -
1t is almost beyond belief, and yet the writer
saws it is too well authenticated to be disbe-
lieved.
"In many towns in England there are soci-
cites which pay certain sums to members for
the funeral expenses ola diseased child. One
of the rules of the Stockport Burial Society is,
that each member shall pay penny per week,
and at the end of seventeen weeks subScnp-
ton become full members. If a child after
that period die, the parents are entitled TO the
sum of three pounds and twelve shllllngs; and
deducting one shilling and sixPence for the
collectors fee, and two shillings for liquor, the
net sum of three pounds eight-and-slxPence
remains for funeral expenses OF the child. At
the Chester Assizes, two married couples,
whose average ages were only twenty SIX, were
indicted. Their names were Sdndys-and
one couple were charged with having admin
stered arsenic to their child by which they muir
dered it, and the others were charged with
being accessories to the crime before and af-
ter the fact. The deceased, with whose muir
der they were accused, was thus awfully kill
ed for the diabolical purpose of obtaining the
sum of three pounds eight and siapenee from the
Stockport Burial Society :"
From the Richmond (Va,) Compiler.
THE MISSION TO LONDON. National
Intelligencer has an article which takes the
right view Of the objection offered TO the ap-
pointment of Edward Everett, Minister to Lon.
don. We have nothing to say on other
grounds but from all we know of Mr. Everett's
opinions and feeling through his expressions