The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-11-15

The pretty village nf Irwell never look.
cd more green--lhe sun nrEer.lighled up
lie old rhureh. us one picturesque slTap.
Cling street. and is broad shallow mill
stream. maEe brightly-lhzh on the morn
ing when John and Marin Slanmone i.
sued from the Kings Arms Inn. and
mounted To the fnrni seats of the Eclipse
eaaeh. 10 proceed In the hrirk,and norlzf
wilderness Of I.nnd0n. Their fares. as
they sal. were famed by hrerzes lrdm the
hills which they had been srr1Siomsd Ia
rlimb lrnn Then cl,ildho,.d; piFal sounds.
familiar 10 them as far as Ju6emnry could
% back. rrarhed their ears; FAC, and
nrns. AMI voices known To them as long
fas The, had knowDfile itself. were gather
ell around As lhey Hhirled away from IT.
well. and sci V6I on their first great start
in the world. ~.u. ....
II is s/lremendons thing. this setting
out in he wnrid! Why il should be so
tremendous, and Why lad, on commerce
ing 10 lake part in the operations ol a
snciely calling ilsrlf Christian. should feel
very much as il he were about To enter
huge battlefield. il more Than can say.
Some day, let US hope. il will be differ
ent; meanwhile. there are numerals hea.
w volumes exlsni, full Of reasons why
we should 90 on lighting, and directing us
how 10 fghi.
John and Martin SIanmnre grew sad.
der and ssdder, as they recrded farther
and farther frum lrwell; and when they
arrived al The commencement Of the Me-
iropolis, and the enach rallied through
miles of suburb. which appeared a. IL they
stretched along days journey before
London itself rould be reached; when, at
last. the bewildering notes.-the endless
ihrong Of human beings and vehicles. mo-
wing in two rapid currents lhrnush all the
streets. and continually crossing each OH
er-lhe magni6cence, the squalidness, The
palpably selfish energy ofthe Great City,
came really upon them-they seemed as
If borne down by an avalanche. All was
incomprehensibIe and depressing. They
thought they could never again feel light
hearted. = ..... 49,.
On one Of them. however, this effect
was altogether temporary. John, after
the first sensatinn Of novelty had passed
away. derived vigor and enterprise from a
sight OF the mighty struggle of conflicting
interests around him. He burned 10 dis.
iinguish himself in the slrife-lo meet op-
position, and to overcome il. Marin was
differently Influenced. His FIRST instinct
of antipaihy was merely moderated by
custom. whilst an intense and deliberate
conviction Of the hollowness and inferior
nature Of the motives which produced the
active competition of everyday life, re-
placed all that was taken from the origl-
nal unressoning dislike. He found as lit
lie desire in his mind 10 josie others aside,
as 10 be josiled aside himself; and the
want of desire soon came to be taken, both
Il y Others and by himself, as a want of
capacity also. But in London, a poor
man who does not attemp, to snatch bread
from his fellows, will find that his fellows
will snatch bread from him. As years
went OH, Martin found that, poor as he
was, he was compelled TO struggle hard
10 avoid becoming poorer. John, mean
while, was growing rich.
These youths had left Irwell on the
death of their father, and had come 10
London on The recommendation Of an un-
Gle, who had succeeded in procuring pla-
CTS for them in the counting house Of a
merchant. John quilted his situation two
or three years afterwards, and entering
The service of another merchant, gradually
worked his way upwards. until he was
taken intn partnership. Martin remained
with his old master, al an advance OF thir-
ty pounds year on his first small salary.
The brothers, as their distinct destinies
developed themselves, saw less Of each
other: aud when they had arrived at the
point have just stated. they had become
utterly es.ranged, without any quarrel or
actual misunderstanding having occurred.
John Stanmore, the rich merchant, and
Marin S,anmore, the poor clerk, were TOO
widely separated in social position 10 be
familiar together; and as John now made
his wish pretty evident that all public in.
,ercourse between them should terminate,
the wounded pride of Martin combined
with the natural unoblrusiveness of his
character 10 meet such wish half way
The brothers, who had once been insep
arabic companions, ceased to visit, or even
to see each other. ...
Some'few years after their alienation
became thus perfect. Martin, wearied by
his constan, sense Of isolation. married ;
girl as poor as himself, but whose happy
sunny disposition proved, will venture
to say, as valuable an acquisition as if sh'
had brough, with her the usual insipidi,y
and so much money in the funds. Mar
lin thought so. a, all events aud ,hougl
his brother shook his head when he hear'
of il by chance, Martin himself--wh'
was certainly the person most compelen
10 in,lye - so far from regreliing the step