The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-12-28

REVERSE OF FORTUNE. &C., Th6DubIin Evening
Iah furnishes some particulars of the history of
Mrs. Bel Martin, who recently died in New York
city, Immediately on her arrival in a sailing vessel
from Ireland Mrs Martin was the daughter and
heir OF Thomas Martin, NJ P, of Balllnahinch
Castle, in tie county of Galway. She was born 10
an Immense inheritance, exceeding in extent an en-
tire kingdom Of some of the German princes and
yielding yearly income, above all membranes
and expenses, of some f500O, or S25 900 Such
were her circumstances and prospects FIVE wears
ago. In TWO years time, the potato rOt famine
psstllenCe, the Claims of money-Iendsrs and The
agency of British laws, reduced this lady of for
tune and almost princely rank, to absolute penury
Her whole estate was brought into the Eucumbered
Estate Court and advertised for private sale. and
she her7eli comPe!ed 10 go forth as q wanderer
without home. The Mail says of this sad his
tory: Never w9s hard fate less deserved for her
uutIrIng and active benevOlence had been devotrd
from her childhood to the comfort and relief of
tho who suffered, and her powerful and original
niHu was necessarily employed IN devlsing means
ui moral and physical amelioratiOn in the COndi-
on oi the tenantry on her fathers estates She
gaye up her whole time to such pursuits avoiding
The hauuts of fashion and those amlsemenfs which
might be considered suitable to her age and place.
that she might perform the various duiiss of nbvs
can, sctOOlmstress, and agricultural instructor
Her almost daily habit to visit the poor and the
SICK IN the remote recesses of that wild region
sometimes on ioOt-more frequently in her little
boat, well provided with medicaments and food,
through the lakes which stretch along the foot of
the mountains. How grievOus it is to reflect that
she should so soon have been driven across the
ocean IN search of place to lay her head"
SIR EDWARD BULwER LYTToN's SEAT.-A cor
respondent Of the Lincolnshire Chronicle observes:
" Let the reader recall the most magnificent apart
ment he has ever ssen-translom the furniture into
tie richest specimens of the antique on which his
eyes have fingered, and then proceed in imagina.
lion through series of rooms, western drawing
roorn, with obbies, landings, boudoirs, and chests
and ceilings and gilt, the walls hidden with rich
"idtapetTy and paintings, the chimney. pieces elab
oTd'ey sCulplured, the windows filled with stained
glass; telling their separate heraldc or historical sto.
res ; and the furniture, partly homemade, by our
pdISIaklng ancestors, and partly brought from the
palace OF the Medici, at Florence, from Venice,
iSo'he' Naples, Germany, France, Spain and
GIIeeCo, ana he may form faint conception of
.II9 | gorgeous palace Of modern genius Even the
9Tu rooms are worth weeks study by an artist
al Milhl Is of the age ofone of the Henry's
IeAt we are brought into the real doTmitorv of
Queen Elizabeth; few minutes afterwards ,va
are introduced to the Accommodations of "a vaIier
III the tiilie Oh Charles l., and H.. and anon, we
reVel In the luxuriOus appendages of a Frsncb
'o''e'e'' III 'he memorable region of Louis XIV"
BEAUTY OF FIeURES.-I now tal,o ro,, MOI, IN
uahu 70 write 70 YOU to inform you that got here
as safe as thief in mill, two days aCter I left
you and all the rest ofmy friends. was crammaJ
INTO stage-wagon, where the passengers were as
tidck as crows IN a field, and the iouDcino of
the carriage made me as sick as death: vet am
now, by the blessings of heaven, entirely recov.
cred, and am as hearty as buck | have bouga.
me new suit Of clothes, which set rs slick Ms q
whistle, and as sure as gun ; il you shoult .aa
me you would grim like panther, The gentle.-4C