The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1842-11-05

and four of the five were the most rascaly little
imps you ever saw. They would waste and
throw at each other bread and butter-kick and
bite the servants-scratch the furniture and paint
tear the paper off the wall, and leaves out of
books-ink the carpets-beat the dogs, and make
mouths at their weak-minded parents.
All the rebuke they received from their inbc-
Gle father and intolerably patient mother was,
10, Tommy, how can you be naughty,'-or,
! why, William, my darling, aint you ashamed to
be so rude:--or, 'Prissy, my love, Pa Tor ma,
as the case might be) will be offended with you
| if you behave s6'--or, Sammy, my pet, don't
cry su,-he'll make himself sick-hush, that's u
dear, and he shall have great big lump Of white
sugar. ~ won't hush none, if you don't give
ME L6S cake, and Il gun, and lick niger Ben
| for not letting me sail MY boat i'll the gutter
The baby, Anna, thank heaven, was too young
yet to develope the family precocity In the school
Of Satan.
Here it was, amid such ytung doliioniacdl in
carnations, that the youth Leslie took his start
upon the worlds wide ocean. Who can tell the
thousand little crosse and vexatlons, impostions
and hardships he had here to encounter and en-
dure! And is it any wonder that such exam
pies should generally sap the soundness of his
moral code! Bred in the country, away from
the haunts of vice, he was as unsopllsticated Il
boy as could be found.
One day in passing along the street he found
ten dollar note, which he showed tic family.
William, the eldest son, happening to be ut the
| store OF IL cousin of his father mentioned the
circumstance to the porter there. The latter,
Immediately, prompted by cupidty, advised Will
| liam to get sight of the note. again, and charge
his mind with the date, letter. number, and what
bank it was issued by, if possible, and tell him,
and he would 90 forward and claim it as his
and that when obtained, lie would divide it with
his accomplish. Meanwhile Leslie had written to
his father, asking his advice in reference to the
note His father replied thus
| My DEAR CHnD-"Yorr letter relative to the
bank note is before me. You say you have been
advised to advertise it, but that if the owner can
not afford to advertise, You can keep it, sc.
This, my dear, is not right. You have only
to ask yourself two questions. LIST. Is this my
property Answer-No. End. Then what is my
duty asa Christian in this case? Answer--En
deayor to find the owner and restore it.
But you say, ain large city like this, il is a
difficult task, and may be liable to imposition
from mPostors trying To guess the particulars and
obtain it iraudulontly: and therefore might [ not
as well keep it, You add If could find the
True owner, it would give me great pleasure to
return it, sc.
SIN answer TO all which, | say, advertise it by
all means; for it would be doubly hard on the
loser to have to part with an additional sum to
thc printer, and maybe never recover the NOTE
| and in order TO avoid imposition, or bcstowing
IL on wrong claimant, require from any one
applying, full description Ut the note, and pay
nlent Of the printer.
"Besides, my child, the correct issue of this
matter, SO far as YOU are concerned, NAV have
much more influence in establishing your future
commercial character and standing, than you
may at present be aware oi:-and on may have
the satisfaction OF restoring part of the scanty
means OF an aged widow, or of some poor person
who Is lily able to lose dollar. And this know
would he much more gratifying to you than tho
wrongful posse sson Of many such notcs-God
bless you. Adieu."
He Immediately proceeded as directed, and
wrote his father that he had tightly appreciated
ns sons views and feelings, and thanking him
| Tor his instructions, &c
! But no sooner'had the advertisement appeared
than that vlllalnous porter who had obtained
through his hopeful colleague, William HAY, the
necessary particulars, came forward and claimed
the note as his. His manner betray wing some con-
fusion and his statement some slight contradic-
ton, young Hay was induced to hesitate Where
upon the other whispered in his ear thls:-
Take care, my boy. I've first rate plan to
rum you it you don't give up the note mmedi-
| hnfC ohiY W 70 W your unClr anu say
you hlched it from his drawer, and there is per-
son ready to back ME or, need only claim it be-
fore him as mine, and he is prepared to affirm he
saw 1t i'll my possession the day it was lost"
Pale and agitated with fear of his adversary
and variety of tumutuous feelings, and not
| having his father or any friend at hand to uphold
INN IN the right, (or his uncle kept him at dis
tancc,) the boy reluctantly yielded the money
and there ended the matter But not without a
dcletcrious effect upon his moral bearing, from
which he never recovered His first honest i'm.
pulse was to defy this iniquitous monster, but ma
turalIy shrinking from 50 disagreeable Il contest
he wavercd, and then gave il up, fearing his in
noccnce might not be believed against odds, and
thus he and his dear parents might suffer.
| Tired OF his harrassng situation in his uncle's
family, he procured place as JUNIOR clerk of al
extensive mercantile house, trading under the
firm of "Storm, Avery s. Co."
Here he continued for some time III so exem.
plary manner to discharge his trusts, as gradu-
ally to rise both III the esteem of his associates
and the confidence of his wc,hy employers.
But the circumstance just related, together with
some other crosses he had endured, went to fas-
ten upon his moral views the germs of IL vitatng
philosophy that haunted him continually, and
from which he began to fancy it impossible to
| rid himself
While yet innocent and struggling to continue
IN his purity, at an early age deprived Of the inn
mediate vigllence, support and counsel of his pa
rents, one day he was sent to bank with large
sum to deposit. AS is often the case, there were
numerous persons at the bank counter, awaiting
their turns; and when Leslic's came, the teller
exPcrtly counted over the checks, drafts and
notes, laying aside apparently. two lives of GER
tain bank whose notes were not there receivable
on deposit. lie entered the depost, and hand