The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-12-06
He DAILY DISPATCH
Perseverance,.

perseverance,.
uot, Ior sne iepuIss, forseo the purpose
mai soo reserved 10 effect ct"-SHAKsPEARE.
A weak spirit will be crushed by the same
mistortunes which wou d rouae strong o.s
to e1ertlon. The same stor~ which G .e.
more hrmiy the giant oak, roots up ,hs tender
saplings.
Stroke after stroke fells that
"Unwedgeab.e and gnarled oak.n
effort after effort overcomes gnarled, ungra-
cious fortune.
Bonaparte once said: Il have no idea of a
merchants acquiring fortune as a general
wins baftte-at single blow"
This slap dash way of acquiring a fortune
| has been ruinous to very many young mer-
| chants. They covet Aladdin's lamp; with one
smart rub they would summon the genii, and
| obtain countless treasures.
Disappointed in their sanguine expectations,
and perhaps utterly ruined and bankrupt, in
stead OF beginning again in a moderate way,
| with experience for their guide, they have
either entirely forsaken mercantile affairs, or
struck another elbow" so violent that the re-
| bound has ushed them to the earth.
| 10 know how to wait is the great means Of
| success, says a modern French writer; to
know how TO persevere is the surest means of
success IN any undertaking, and this involves
patient waiting.
Perseverance is like taste for olives where
tittS diC uOi IL 40 BOt udIuFdt
| gift life genius. it is an requirement. True,
| some persons more easily continue steadtast
| in career than others; but after all, anybody
can persevere if they only 1eiU.
| When the boy takes his gun, and goes out
in the morning to shoot birds, he resolves not
| TO go home with his game bag empty. Miles
and "miieses," as Hood says, he uamps over
field aud ford, mud and mire, through the
| bushes, over hedges and stone walls, tearing
his trousers and his shins, bruising his hands
and blisterng his feet-and all for what pur-
pose? Success.
| "All things that are,
Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed"
sMeu prize the thing ungsind more than it is."
| All? but there are more dragons in the way
to mercantile success, and iercer ones, than
guarded The golden apples of the Hesperides.
Flight them, and tt ice, thy boldness is
| their panic;
Fear them, and thy treacherous. hath lenthe
| ranks legion
Stephen Girard, at the age of forty, COM
manded his own sloop, engaged in the coast-
| irg-trade between New York, Philadelphia
and New Orleans. He had taken many steps
| on the ladder of Fortune since he was cabin
| boy not worth a shiliDg-but think Of his per
| severance in mounting that ladder, step By
step, till he was worth seven or eight millions
of dollars.
| The following anecdote of an oriental SOW
ereisn is given by Malcolm, in his History OF
| Persia:
"There was no feature more remarkable -.
| the character Of Timour, than his extraordina-
ry perseverance. No difficulties ever led him
| to recede from what he had undertaken, and
| he often persisted in his efforts, aHder crcum.
| stances that led ell around him to despair
| He used, on such occasions to relate TO his
friends an anecdote of his early life.
81 once said he, was forced to take shell
| ter from my enemies IN ruined building,
where sat alone many hours. Desiring to
divert my mind from my h0peless condition,
| fixed my observation on an ant that was car
rying grain of corn larger than itself up q
high wall. numbered the efforts it made ,o
| accomplish this obje:t The grain fell sixty
nine times to the ground, but the insect per-
| severed, and the SEVENTEEN time it reached the
top of the wall. This sight gave me courage
at the moment, andi shall never forget the
| lesson it conveyed"
This reminds us of Bruce's spider, whose
efforts were nearly as numerous before the OBJ
ject was accomplished.
Ii is a common notion among young people,
that everything must be struck out at the heat;
| that this is the way genius works. Genius is
| suggestive, but common sense active.
"Alas!" said a poor widow, the mother of a
| brgh but reckless son, ''aias. he has rOt the
| gilt OF c0hEtBHdHce.
| This is all attribute of the best order of
| minds. Every schooI.hoy knows "Perseve-
raDtia yincit omnia' at least, he has fixed il in
deIiblv u, on the pages of his c0py-boOk-
DesDise nerseyerencei As well might one
desDise the act of breathing, because it has TO
| be repeated and continued avery monrent.-
| But this is an unconse ious act. True, and SO
mny perseyerauce become, when the habit OF
| accomplishing what is undertaken is once es
| tabIished. Perseverance is linked chain
which grapples TO the goal Of Success with
hooks OF steel.
| A HEaRrLEss AcT.-We have the particu-
lara of one of the most hearliess and unfeeling
| acts that we have heard of for long time
| Thev are as follows: gentleman recently
married. and who resides in AlexRndria, Va,
! got on board the steamer York State, at some
| oftbe ports below. When this side OF Cincin-
nati, his wife took sick, and fearful that she
had the cholera, the ladies in tho cabin advis-
| ed him to remove her from the boat at Mays
| Vile: bu, could find no one there willing to
| furnish accommodations. He started for this
| place, and during the passage his wife died.
| Tae boat reached here last night, and he cams
a.hsrs, by advice of many on board, to Obtain
| metallic coffin. He Ieturasd TO the wharf 10
| about 20 minutes, and found the corpse OF ms
| wife, together with his baggage, on the grade
| and the boat ust starting out. Our informant
| received the above particulars from persons
aca uaiaied with the circumstances:
! Portsmouth, (Oj Tribune.
TIE BRIDE OF NAPoLEos.-Ihe Baden
| eo.,espondent Of the Cologne Gazette, writes
from Carsrube on the lib ult: