Litchfield enquirer., 1843-08-31
JOHN G. CALHOUN.

Boston Atlas.
JOHN G. CALHOUN.
The New York Morning Post, in BIZ
ographical sketch of Mr.. Calhoun, gives
some traits of the personal character of the
distinguished CaroliniaD. which we do not
recollect to have before seen noticed. 1t is
said that he has never visited the North,
since he was law student at Litchfield, in
Connecticut; nor has he ever been in the
West. From Washington, Immediately at
the close of every Congress- he hurries to
his home, under the mountains of South
Carolina, and there devotes himselfto his
farm and his flmily. His Limited fortune
is one of the reasons assigned for the seclu-
sion in which he lives.
In early life, his property lay in the mid
die and more fertile region of South Carroll
ma, were it was impossible for him to raise
his family, on account of its sickness and
the habits of the community rendered large
expenditures in living TO one of his personal
distinction, almost unavoidable. Intent on
managing his own affairs, and rearing his
children under his own eye in habits of fru-
gaIity and virtue, he sold his lands in Able
Vile District, and removed up to the healthy
farming lands of Peudleton. Here he built
his home; and if any one wishes to know,
the secret of his wonderful administration
in the War Department whilst Secretary OF
War, let him go with Mr.. Calhoun round
his farm. None however. but an Il e T ,s,
n. p. -, o,,t,le lAn--r- ForTItry3 coft &C, with
na !" u weE-frained legs under him. should
attempt tile enterprise. With his long stick
in hand. and strides as long, he moves a.
head, talking all the time, now on a beaut-
full theory of agriculture, then on practi-
cal result--dowH in the corn field--up on
cotton hill--rotiad the potatoe patch--thro'
the rye lot---lere is a bubbling spring.
there is a proapect-turn the bull into the
pasture, halo II the poultry-woman, see to
the gratis on he apple-trees, hive those
bees. If hapless neophyte in these agricul-
tural opcrationsIis left any sense, after five
or six hours ofhrd driving. he will decline
further courtesS and take the shortest cut
home Or inosat horses with him, he al
ways insists al taking the hardest going,
and seeing his marvellous endurance OF I
pummellipg, udef a hard jog-trot, without
apparently feeling its dislocations-whilstI
prying round ;M round, he gives directions,
hastens,opcratlM and scours over the whole
farm, talking AID acting as if he had never
thought Of, or paclised any thing else. but
the business ofN farmer. II has been by I
such aitenli& all Industry, that he has es-
tahlished the retuhtion Of being the most /
practical and successful farmer in the up |
per country, andat The same time has sup
ported we'll, ard kdusated his family-Like |
Pericles, he sevS increased nor diminished |
his fortune. Tb gsld mine of which so |
much has been sail in the papers, he /
became possesse{of Ay an act of parental |
Kindness. His 9n bought the lands, and |
despairing Of mFing them profitable, the |
faiher took them M his hands,
His style Of livIg is as plain as possible.
Although no aclic, he has not failed to
perceive that for lie most efficient working
and improvement of the mind, the body |
must be SUBJECTED; and the excessive Ia
diligence in the gssser appetites must soon
lead to decay, andot only repress the vir-
tues, but impede = highest growth of the
intellectual powell He is therefore habit
,ialiy water drintr Although no member
of a temperance stiety, and any thing, ap.
parently hut it'll rega rdful Of the quail
ity of his food, prndAg it Is wholesome
a traveller once vhed him at his farm for
few days.. Soontter his arrival, he was
invited in to dinnctyhich consisted of ba-
con and its iialjEompaniments of vege-
tables, white corn lad and beautiful but
ter. "You see,n observtd, "I am no
epicure indeed, Va barbarian. accor-
ding TO the theory lcivilizadon by some
Frenchsphilosophe9i that II consists IN what
we eat. But to.mdow for Your sake, we
will do better" Aprdinglyhe next day
broughta sumptuodeast. -:..e,
AwruL ACCIDENT ~ learn iAat alaborer
ON the SommervilleAiiiroad,u smed Stotts,
riding in one Of the IiF cars, was instantly
killed this morning. what is Known as a
snake. head, or the 1 iron bar turned up.
The Locomotive andkce cars hid passed
over the SPOT, when II Ioosened nil sprung
up, pierced the hlem of tho cnr.and
sJlterdtl.the ofnuntortunaf man be-
low the chin. trNnstid him. entirely, and
CAUSED instant deathIN. J Amofcaa. !,
=. ~ 5 - L.
osiaous. Hints ore nd and Il 10 throtn gu, Nv
,he calhoan osgans ashe th ,hd If Odd Van 81.
rsni,cs practice any fraud gcierfec loase goslsa
up, oFganxation ana ma Tamentt The party pa
tiensl sOasanlsnn. they wlhas ksbsn3 "a ~ fiee I,
isions Net snsalat = ~. \.
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