Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1851-12-11

view. VII Iue uay lOilOWlDS, the Heh
and the next, looked for my beautifu
flower girl, but saw her not in the streets
Gone day, week after my arrival i
Naples, rode out to enjoy the charming
views everywhere presenting themselve:
A few miles from the city, stopped t
look through the grounds attached to al
old and princely residence, the propert.
of decayed Italian nobleman. Ruiz
was upon every hand. The fine portic'
of elaborately wrought marble had suffer
ed much from time and violence. Statue
were overthrown and broken, fountains
choked up, and rank weeds were towering
over delicate garden flowers, half hiding
their beauty and destroying their perfume
While wandering amid those fading evi
dences of former wealth and grandeur,
suddenly perceived my beautiful flower
girl, sleeping on green bank. My foot
steps awakened her, and she started up
with look of fear. In moment she
recognised me, and recovered, in a mea.
sure, her sclf.possession. She was much
changed. Her face looked anxious, and
there was humidity about her eyes, as
if the tears were just ready to gush forth.
| spoke to her in her own language, and
the real kindness and sympathy | felt
were understood in an instant. soon
learned that she was nearly the last men,
Der of an old and noble family reduced
to poverty. In one of the apartments of
this ancient ruin, she was living with her
aged father; and she remained his sole
support and comforter. As flower girl,
she obtained the means of sustenance for
her parent. But he was now very i'll.
For three days and nights she had watch
ed over him, unwearicd in spirits, though
her body had suffered from fatigue. The
money had given her had enabled her to
remit her efforts to procure means of sus-
tenance for few days; but it was now
all gone, and while gathering flowers for
another visit to the city, she had reclined
upon the soft grass, and had there fallen
asleep.
" Affected by her story, so artlessly
told, | asked to see her father, and she
took me to the apartment where lay a
old man, but few PAGES from
the end of his journey. While | yet lin
away away, and passed to another and better
world.
"Thrown thus strangely and providen.
tally in the way of this innocent and
lovely girl, in far-off land, | could not
turn + from d her in her deep affliction. Oh,
no. that would have been less than human.
Ali in my power to do, to make less crush
ING the sorrow that was pressing upon
her heart, was done. Learning, after the
burial of her father, that she was the last
of her line, and that she stood frlendless
in the world, procured her temporary
home in highly respectable English
family to whom | had been introduced
Here saw her daily, and you will not be
surprised at the result. You have met
the Italian flower girl. She is my wife.
F1RMSEss.- a mind of your own,
il you would ever accomplish any thing.
Be not acted upon like weather-vane,
which changes with every breath of air.
When you are convinced you are right in
your conclusions and purposes, adhere to
them at all hazards, and do not be over
ruled by those whose interests are at
stake, whose judgments are deficient. =
What would the heroes, Napoleon, An
drew Jackson, and a host Of other illus.
trious men have done, had they listened
to and acted upon the advice of every one
who thought different from them! The
iron will and firmuess of General Andrew
Jackson is bright example for the world.
When he saw his country in danger from
the avarice of designing men, he had the
decision and firmness to array himself
against great mass of the people who
opposed him, and were ready at any mo-
ment to assassinate him; but he was un-
moved from his great purposes by fear or
threats, he was firm as rock OF adamant.
His gigantic mind was unawed by their
Liliputian wrath, and now that people
have become convinced that he was right,
and have seen from what an abyss ne
saved his country, they united in paying
tribute to the memory of the patriot who
quailcd not, though thousands were loud
in their maledictions against him.
CORRECT SrEAK1NG.-We advise all
young people to acquire in early life the
habit of using good language, both speak