The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-09-05

mas been more general and more intense than
such casualties are apt to awaken in these
days OF headlong risks by sea and land. We
remember no disaster by which, with so few
DEATH so many hearts have been made sad.
Inc sadness In this case is aggravated By the
ieellhg that some careiessness on board, and
great ana cnlPable negligence on shore, have
! contributed to bring about O calamity which
might have been agerted, had the elements
been the only peril in the case. According to
one paper: "Our informant states that the
people in the vicinity often exclaimed in his
hearing that any such interest was taken in the
lady on board as has since been manifested, the
result would have been otherwise Merciful
Heaven! is 1t then necessary to know that q
person OF distinction is concerned, before men
will make the attempt to rescue ships com
! 3aGv in the horrors Of instant death when their
! keel dashes againsta rock, and "their hopes
bulge under them!" We venture to say that
the Elizabeth contained no one passenger or
mariner to whom life was not more dear than
it was to the person in question. 10 her 1--WE
speak from personal knowledgel 1t was dear
only for the sake Of those lives thai we're nwaly
! Plighted with her own.
But what shall we say of the wreckers VIII"
could see vessel so to pieces within aquarter
OF mile CT the shore, and never raise the
alarm; intent only on securing their own
plumber out Of the goods and unfortunate, which
the waves had tossed upon the strand! What
but that human nature sometimes turns up
hellish side which tempts us to question its d.
vine origin! We remember hearing at Nan
tucket, some years ago, that the store-house.
with TODD and clothing, which Christian piety
had provided for the sbipwrecked, who might
| founder on tAe eastern coast of that island had
been repeatedly robbed, and that this provision
would have to be abandoned.
Of the drnciple victim in this tragedy-the
Marchioness d Ossoli, better known as Sarah
| Margaret Fuer-we look for memoir from
some of her numerous friends, which shall do
justice to the woman and the writer. For our
own part we say, speaking from the recollec-
ton of long and intimate acquaintance, that
the writer was very small part Of the woman.
! We scarcely know in what estimation her
writings were held by the public at large.
But this we know, that however esteemed as
writer, her literary reputation constituted the
least part of her claim te love and honor.
To her friends, it alwys seemed that her
books and contributions to the journals were
inadequate opponents Of the mighty power
known to them as Margaret Fuller. These
might represent her opinions, but they did no
justice to her very remarkable gifts. Her
conversation was so much better than her books,
that no could be said to know her who had
not heard her talk, and that in her best days,
dozen or fifteen years ago, before sickness and
care and suffering had saped the vigor of
her mental life. We have heard some good
talk from persons of distinction of both sexes,
on both sides Of the water, but none which riv-
allied hers in melodious fuency and precision.
This faculty, like the rest of her intellectual
gifts, developed itself very early. At an age
when most girls are busy with their dolls or
romping with their mates, she astonished the
social circles in Cambridge with her precious
and marvellous rhetoric. With no personal
charms, she somehow constituted the chief at
traction of every circle in which she appeared.
The flippant of both sexes sneered at the
s'Bluestocking, who ''talked like book" and
knew more about French dramas and Italian
epcs, than she did about fashion and lace; but
the better part of every company listened in
amazement, and young men confessed charm
in her speech beyond the charm of beauty.
| Precociousness was not in her case, as it often
is, the pressage Of imbecility.
In 1895, her father who had previously re-
moved with his family from Cambridge to Grot.
on, Mass, died suddenly, leaving a wife and
seven children, Of whom Margaret, then about
twenty-five, was the oldest. The paternal es4
tate was found insufficient for the mainten-
az ce and education Of so large a family, and
Margaret, who bred in ease, ifnot in luxury,
mad never dreamed of necessity, now felt her
self called upon, not only to support herself but
to help to support and educate her sister by her
exertions. She met this call with heroic en-
ergy; she took the yoke upon herself, and be-.
came for many years the main stay of the fami-
ly But her health gave way inthe pressure of
toll and excitement, to which these efforts sub
iected her. A disease of the spine, of which
the foundation had been laid in childhood, de-
! veloped itself with alarming rapidity, and dur
ing the last ten years she has been a constant
sufferer, and confirmed invalid.
: Notwithstanding this draw back, she found
opportunity four years ago. to crafty her long
cherished wish of visiting Europe. She sailed
from New York in the summer of 1916, in the
company and care of Mr.. Spring and his family;
but Cid not return with them-prefering to
make the most of her opportunity before re-
d passing the ocean-barrier, which she could not
hope to cross the third time in her frail life.
Travelling in Scotland in the fall of that year,
: she lost her way in Ben Lomond, and spent a
night which had nearly proved fatal in wander
j ing over the mountain. In England; in Eu-
rope, in Paris, in Italy she made an impression
which was every way worthy of her honora-
= BILE alike to herself and her country. She form
ed connections and established epistolary cor
n respondence with some of the choicest spirits
: of the time, particularly among the liberals Of
these natiors.
D In the summer of 1847, she established her
: self in Rome, where she threw her whole SOM
: into the struggle of the revolutionary party,
having, in addition to her previous social and
moral bias-threugh her marriage with the
Marchese Angelo d'Ossoli, one ofthe liberals
! a personal stake in the conflict. During the
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renewing the friendship of former years. Ev'
cry Sunday evening, when health permitted
II her chambers were open to American residents
: and visitors who desired her acauaintance.