Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-09-07
The Height of lIonor.--Silas Wright.


The position of Mr. Wright is most re-
markabe one. He is a plain man, with nothing
Of the courtler about him, and nothing of the pc
cuar social attractiycn5ss which adorns Mr.
Clay, and which is so efficient in creating per
sona friendships and working ont political
strength. He has no children, and is in no way
the inheritor Of fame. He has never sought of.
iice, and we do not believe he has ever desired
it. At any rate, he has never been SO excited
Ibolt politics, in any way, as to Jose his TEN.
oer or resort to any one of those tricks so often
counted the essential machinery OF political
men. In the agitaiions OF debate he is always
calm and courteous, and never, in all his lie,
was guilty tor moment OF those personalities
which so often dlshonor public men, and the
Neople whom they represent. Calm, urbane
md dIgnfed he is always, however violent may
ne the storm. Mr.. Wright carries on an i'm.
nense correspondence with It's own hand, and
with such industry as never to allow the busi-
less ofune day TO lie over for the next. He
will not 90 to bed until the business of the day
natter is sure to get an immediate answer,
written in plain round hand, short, but con-
aiming all that there is to say.
1t is honorable to the American character
hat such man should rise high in public cs-
cem. We speak now, not of his political views,
,ut of the man. But the elevation to which he
ras risen is certainly remarkable. Within an
hundred days he has been rendered a seat on
he bench of the Supreme Court of the United
States, to which he would have been confirmed
~ the unanimous 70 ce of the Senate and of The
,onntry. He has been offered the nomination
ia great party to the first, and then to the sec
md place of executive office in the nation, and
low the same party tender him the chief ma
gistracy Of the Empire State. All these sta
IONS have been rendered to him aud urged upon
Iim with an unanmlty among his own party
rroken only by the fear of removing him from
lis present place as Scnator--and they have
Ill been declined, not by way OF inesse, but be-
,ause he is unwilling to fill positions so little
iuited to his taste. What other man in our
,ountry has had the opportunity of rejecting so
many honors !-.Journai Of Commerce.
MARRIAGE RATHER THAN LAVA certain
widow lady placed her child at muse in one of
he founding hospitals OF Germany, and, intend
ng to leave it there until it should be old G.
,ough to begin receiving an education, paid the
tIpend for four years. About the same time a
Gentleman placed his child in the same nsttu-
ION, and it was Unsigned to the same nurse.
The gentleman then made voyage to South
America, where he had some business Of im-
iortance that needed his attention. At the
nd of the four years the lady returned to take
way her child T; and by a somewhat singular
oinclGence, the gentleman arrived at the same
me, with the same object But in the interim
ne of the children had died and the nurse
ould not declare positively whether it was that
i the widow or the other. The widow claimed
he survivor as her own; the gentleman insist
ID as strongly that his was the living child
The dispute waXed warm, and a resort to the
egal tribunals was threatened on either side
Hhena worthy clergyman lnterposed, and with
mch effect that the disputants soon agreed tc
consolidate their claims to the surviving child
y marriage. So says French paper.