Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-02-21

We knew another case IN point, also con-
nccled with tho late king of the French
NJ. de G. - was, on the downfall Of that
monarch, in possession OF u very handsome
pension for past services. The revolution
caihe, nnd.his pension was suspended. His
wilc was woman Of energy; she saw TINT
the pension might he recovered by making
proper representations H. the right quarters I;
but she also saw that ruiIous embarrassment
and debt might accrue in the interim. Tier
house was handsomely iiIrnisIicd--shc had
tcen brought NJ IN the lap ol wealth aud
luxury. She lid not hesitate; she turned her
house into n lodging house. sank tic pride
frank, attended to all tie duties of such
station. nnd-wllat was the result? When,
at the end of three years. NJ. dc G. re-
covered his peusion, he owed nnbody fur
thing, aud tic arrears sufliced TO dover one
of his daughters about to marry gentleman
of large fortune, who had become acquainted
with her by lodging in their house. Nine.
dc G--'s fashionable friends thought her
coudurt very shocking. But whit might
have become of the ianily in three years Of
Of priiliuniug?
Again: one Of our most intimate ncqunnt.
anco was mn English gentleman, who, liav.
ing lcit The army NJ the instance Oi rich
fniherin.Hw, had the misfortune Subsequent |
~ to oiltnd The irnsciblc old gentleman 80
utterly, that the hitter suddenly Withdrew |
his allowance of Gl0O0 per unutm, aud lett |
Our friend 10 sbiit for himself Ills own
mems, never very great, were entirely cX. |
halsted. lie knew too well the inpraclica- |
bic temper of his ialheriu.aw to waste ,ime |
IN attempting to soIlcn him. lie also knew |
tlint 10y his wiic's settlement he should he |
rich at the death of the oil man, who had |
already pissed his seventeen year. lie |
could not borrow money, for he had been |
severely wounded in Syria, and the nsur-
nncc.oices refused him; but lic felt spring |
OF life aud youth within him that mocked |
their calculations. lie took things cheerful
~, and resolved to work l0r his living. lie
answered unurlnhcrcd advertisements. aud
made incrSsant applications for all sorts of
situations. Az length matters cumo to n
crisis; his money was nearly gone; time
pressed; his wife and cliild must he supper.
ted. A seat--not in parliament, but on the
box ol an omnibus was Offered him. lie nc
crpicd il. The pay was equivalent to three
ciinens week. IL was hard work, hut he
suck TO il ninnlully. Not uuirequeIIy it was {
his lot TO drive gentlemen who had tliueh az /
Iis table aud druHk his wine IN former dnVs \
lie never biscd nj their recognition he n
hOaght working easier than hrgging. For Il
lcarly ten years he endured all The uIis and I
Iowns Of omnibus life. Al last the tough II
ld iniher-in-lnw, who, during the whole in Il
rrvNI, bad never rcIerte,l, died; and our ii
zero came into the possession Of somo CISCO C
year, which hc enjoys at this present mo- ii
rcnt. Suppose lie had borrowed aud drawn s.
ills instead of working during those ten I,
ears, ms many have done who had cxpcctln- II
lies before them, where would he have hccn u
~ Ills exit from the Queens Bench Mt the 6
expiration of the period? In the hands of :
the Philisilnes, or of the Jcws' :
Our nrXt specimen is ihut of now stc-
ccSsiiil author, who, OWN. TO tho pccnlinriy
OF his style, fell, notwithstanding Il rather [
dashlng debut, into great difficulty and dis /
tress. His family withdrew all support, he !
cause he abandoned the more rcglar pros ,
poets of The legal profession for The more
ambitious but less certain career of itcrn.
lurc. He icit that lac had the stuff in him {
10 make n popular writer; but llc was also =
compelled To adult that popularity was not
Ia his ease ~ he the work of n day. Tho
res dngoSiG DOM grew closer aud closer; aud
though not oljeriing 10 dispense with the
necessity of dining, ho felt that
bread aud cheese, in tho literal ucccptaion /
Of the term, were really Indispensable to cX. |
lsGncc. Hence, one day, hc invested his I
solitary hali'crOwn IN the printing OF hum |
drcd cards, announcing TINT ~ the "casScHl S
nnd commercial day school Of Mr.. Sc. ,
young gentlemen were instructed in all the /
Sc, Tor the moderate sum of two J
-hiIings weekly" These cards he disirihul-
nd lly the agency of the nilkman in the sub
Urban aud somewhat poor nciglb0rhood, in
which he occupied couple of rooms at the
moderate rent of seven sillings weekly. 1t I
was not long before few pupils made, one I
ly one, their appearance at The wOuld-hc I
Iedagognc'S. As they were mostly the sons I
'i petty lradesmen round about, lie raised no =
'bIcclion TO taking out their schooling in \
ilhd, aud by this means earned at least u e
subsistence III more prosperous times nrri- Il
'cd, aud publishers discovered his latent 4
merits But for this device, he might not ,
have shared the fate of Chatter a
on and others, less unscrupulons us TO u re- !
source for the "lncanlime"-ihnt rock on I
Which so mnny an embryo genius founders I
The misfortune of our next case was, not {
Thai he abandoned the law, hut that the law d
abandoned him. lie was n solicitor in II /
country town, where the people were either /
SO llllle inclined 10 litigation, or so happy in {
not inding cause for il, that he ihied from
sheer want ofcllents, and, ns a natural cOns0-
1uencc, bcioOk himself to the metropolis /
HAT Mecca cum Medina of all desperate pill
yrims IN search OF tickle fortune. There his
Dnly available friend was pustrycook in n {
arge wny Of business. Ii So happened that :
lie iDan OF tarls and jelles was precisely nt
nt epoch in want OF foreman and book
keeper, his last primo minister having chi.
grated to America with a view 10 Il more in I
dependent career. Our ex.lawyer feeling |
he consumption of tarts TO be more imlna-
laIe'y certain than the demand for wrls,
proposed, To his friends amazement, for the
vacant post; and so well did he fill il, TINT in
few yenrs ho had saved enough of money
TO sinrt agnin in his old profession. The
pasirycook aud his friends became clients,
and he is NJ present thriving attorney in
Lncoln's Inn, none the worse lawyer for
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