Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-03

along the plain. Then the terrible contes,i
the sweep Of Dick Johnson's mounted rife
men in their hurricane charge again passes
before his eye, and the old Hero would
shout witt. Joy. but the death.rattle is in his
throat, and the death dew on his brow.
He is DYING For his death the bright
eyes Of women shall be dim with tears,
and aged men shall weep, and nation
will be sad and gloom and civil corrup-
ton and legaIized anarchy shall pass like
a pail of gloom over the land; and yet the
fiat has gone forth: God hath spoken it,
and the Hero dies, ere yet the rejoicipgs
Of the nation are lost to his ear.
And in that terrible moment. when his
hands were interlocked with the hands of
death--when his mind was armed to super
natural vigor. and the Past and Future,
mingled 10 his vision, then the thought Of
his country arose on his mind then thought
Of the trust placed in his hands by the
people burdened his soul, and with the last
struggle of life he imagined a man Of noble
heart and resolute soul standing before
him. he imagined a successor of mind and
intellect. and the words broke from his
lps-"I wish you to understand the true
principles of the Governmental ask you
TO carry them QUIT ask nothing more"
The following anecdote from Noah's
Weekly Messenger, beautifully illustrates
the principle of charity, and admonshes
US that it is often for our interests to feed
the hungry and cothe the naked
THE WoRLD.--Sir bring me a good,
plain dinner said a melancholy looking
| individual to q waiter at one Of our prin.
cipal hotels,
Yes, sir
The dinner was brought and devoured,
and the eater called the landlord aside, and
thus apdressed him
You are the landIordl'
Yes
You do a good business here! You
make--probably,--ten dollars day clearP
Yes
Then am safe. cannot pay for wha.
| have consumed; have been out Of en-
poyment seven months, but have been
engaged to 20 tomorrow; had been
without food four-and twenty hours when
! entered your place. Twill pay you in
week
I j cannot pay my bills with such promi-
ses, clustered the landlord, and | do not
keep a poor-housc. You should address
The proper authorities. Leave me some.
thing for security
i have nothing
i will take your coat
If 90 into the streets without that l
will get my death, such weather as i, is
I You should have thought Of that before
= you came here
You are ser;ous' Well, | soemnly
aver that one week from now | will pay
: yon.'
i will lake the coat
The coat was left, end week after.
wards redeemed.
Seven years after that wealthy man
entered the political arena and was pre-
senled at caucus an applicant for a
/ Congressional nomination. The principal
of tie caucus held his peace-he heard the
c name and the history of the applicant, who
was a member of church and one Of
5 the most respectable citizens. He was
, chairman. The vote was a tie and he
cast a negallve-thereby defeating the
e wealthy applicant, whom he met an hour
: afterwards, and to whom he said
: You don't remember mel
No
{ 4 once ate a dinner in your hotel, and
e although | told You | was furnishing and
!. pledged my word and honor 10 pay you
IN a week, You took my coat and saw me
t 90 out into the air, at tue risk of my life,
= without it,
, We'll, sir, what then
n Not much. You called yourself Chris.
a tan. Tonight you were a candidate for
d nomination, and but for me you would
d have been elected to Congress
e Three years after, the hotelkeeper be-
h came bankrupt and sought home in Bel
e evieu. The poor dnneress wretch tina,
It was, is now a high functionary at Albany
n We know him well. The ways of Provi-
l. dence are indeed wonderful, and the worlds
= mutations almost beyond conception OF
l. belief
: Here, Won bngtrotter.' said dandy Il