Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-04-10
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.



works OF Daniel Webster.
We quote from the Boston Post the following
notice of the six beautiful volumes, edited by Hon.
Edward Everett, forthcoming from the press of
Messrs. Little, Brown & Co.:
"The reader will be greatly interested in the
touching dedications of each Of these volumes.
The first is dedicated to his neices, Mrs. Alice
Bridge Whipple and Mrs. Mary Ann Sanborn,
the daughters of Ezekiel Webster, the brother Of
Daniel-and this not only for the love Mr.. Web
ster bears for them, but for the desire, as he
presses it, that his brothers name might be as
ISOLATED with his own, so long anything writ
ten or spoken of him should be regarded or read
the second is dedicated to Isaac p Davis, esq,
as IAN affectionate and grateful acknowledgement
of warm private friendship the third to Caroline
lie Roy Webster, his wife, tribute of his af-
lection, and some acknowledgment OF her deep
interest in the productions they contain; the
fourth to Fletcher Webster, his son, his only
surviving child and the object of his affections
and hopes, the fifth to J. w, Page, esq, as
grateful token of long friendship. The last we
copy entire, to show the fecitous manner of these
dedication:
80 Dedication Of the si1h colun,e.--With the
warmest paternal affection, mingled with deeply
afflicted FEELINGS dedicate this the last volume
of my Works to the memory of my deceased
children, Julia Webster Appleton, beloved in all
the relations Of daughters wife, mother sister,
and friend and Major Edward Webster, who
died in Mexico, in the military service of the
United States, with unblenished honor and repu-
tation, and who entered the service solely from
desire to be useful to his country, and do honor
to the State in which he was born.
g Go, gentle Spirits to your destined rest
While /, reversed our Natures kindlicr doom,
Pour forth o Fathers sorrow on your tomb
DANIEL WEBSTER
ssThough this is, of course, by n warm perso-
nal and political friend, who sympathzes gene
rally in his political views, yet those who cannot
coincide in these views will still find the author
candid and moderate and always chaste and ele
giant. Thus, besides meeting here beautiful
memoir of the great orator, they will find it to be
valuable contribution to our political history
The early part of the life is delineated with much
effect. We could wish that every young
would read the account here presented of the boy
hood, youth, and laborious studies Of Daniel Web
ster, that, whatever might be his natural gifts
he might be encouraged by such example to pre-
pare himself for usefulness by long and severe
preparation.
SUFFERING IN LoNpoN.-Upon an average, one
person out of twenty of the inhabitants of this
luxurious metropolis is every day destitute of
food and employment, and every night without
place for shelter or repose. 1t is lamentable
fact, that in this very town Of London alone, the
centre and core of British civilization, 100, 600
persons are every day without food, save it be
the precarious produce Of u passing Job or a
crime. 1t is stated in the Register Generals
annual report for 1919, that nearly one human
being died weekly in this wealthy metropolis
from actual starvation. In the corresponding
report of 1851, we find that IS adults died from
starvation, and 252 infants from want of breast
milk or want of food. In the month of Decenl-
Der, 1851 five adults died from starvation and
20 infants from inanition.
London Tines March 23d
The NEGRO RAcE.-Bayard Taylor, writing
from Nubia, in Upper Egypt, says :. The only
negro features represented in Egyptian sculpture |
are those of slaves and captivcs taken in the
Ethiopian wars of the Pharaohs The temples
and pyramids throughout Nuba, as far as the
Dar-Fur and Abyssinia, all bear the heroglyphs
of these monarchs and there is no evidence in .
all the valley Of the Nile that the negro race
ever attained q higher degree of civilization than
is at present exhibited III Congo and Ashantee !
l mention this, not from any feeling hostile to
that race, but simply to controyert an opinion
very prevalent III some parts Of the United
States
A San Francisco correspondent states that or
ders had been received from the Treasury De /
partment, by Collector I. Butler King, to reduce
the pay Of all officers under his control and dis
miss the numerous supernumeraries who were
getting from SO to SO per day, and making their
living by other means at the same time. No dis
erection was given to the collector, and he was
distinctly told that explanations were desired
in reply, but to curta the expenses Of the office
in every way.
In Marylebone, London, on the 18th March,
woman died at the great age Of l0l years, from
''decay of nature" This old woman was forty
years keeper of an apple-stall in Maryebone
street-an occupation which exposed her to all
weathers, and which she quilted only ten months
ago; she lived for nearly the same period in a
mill in u