Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-03-31

TOR nearly ci5utccn uOuIus INC 0cEmhI
remained on the coast. 1t was a por
rarely visited, and the negroes would MOI
allow him to make any attempt to traye
to more frequented place. Thus hs
continued to make gunpowder for his bar.
bsrous friends, and to live, according tc
their notions, like prince for to dc
King Bocca-Bocca justice, when he learn
ed our friends value, he treated him like a
man and brother. What might have
been his fate, had he awaited in idle des-
pondency the arrival of vessel? AS il
was, the negroes crowded the beach, and
fred off rope ated salyos at his departure.
Doubtless his name will descend through
many dusky generation as the teacher OF
that art which they still practice, carrying
ON lucrative commerce in gunpowder
with the neighboring tribes. A small
square chest Of gold-dust, which the es-
capped victim of Jesuit fraud brought back
to Europe, was no Inappropriate proof of
the policy of doing something Sin the
meantime" while waiting, however anxi-
ously, to do something else.
We knew another case in point, also
connected with the late king of the French.
N. de c. was, on the downfall of that
monarch, in possession of 3 very hand
some pension for past services. The rev.
olution came, and his pension was sus-
pended. His wife was a woman of ener-
gy she saw that the pension might be
recovered by making proper representa-
tions in the right quarters but she also
saw that ruinous embarrassment and debt
might accrue in the interim. Her house
was handsomely furnished-she had been
brought up in the lap of wealth and luxu-
ry. She did not hesitate she turned her
house into q lodging house, sank the pride
of rank, attended to all the duties of such
a station, and-what was the result ?
When at the end of three years, NJ. de
c. recovered his pension, he owed
nobody a farthing, and the arrears sufi-
ced to dover one of his daughters about
to marry gentleman of large fortune,
who had become acquainted with her by
lodging in their house. Eme. de G-'s
fashionable friends thought her conduct
very shocking. But what might have be.
come of the family in the three years of
petitioning.
Again one of our most intimate ac-
quaintances was an English gentleman,
who, having left the army at the instance
of rich father-in-law, had the misfortune
to offend the irrassible old gentleman so
utterly, that the latter suddenly withdrew
his allowance of E1O0O per annum, and
left our friend to shift for himself, His
own means, never very great, were entire
ly exhausted. He knew too we'll the
impracticable temper of his fathcr-in-laW
to waste time in attempting to soften him
He also knew that by his wife's settle
ment he should be rich at the death of the
old man, who had already passed his Sc
ventieth year. II. could not borrow mo-
ney, for he had been severely wounded
in Syria, and the insurance Officers refu-
sed him; but he felt a spring of life and
youth within him that Knocked their cal
culations. He took things cheerfully,
and resolved to work for his living He
answered unnumbered advertisements,
and made incessant applications for all
sorts of situations. At length matters
came to crisis; time pressed his wife
and child must be supported. A seat
not in parliament, but on the box of an
omnibus was offered him. He accepted
it. The pay was equivalent to three gui-
meas a week. 1t was hard work, but he
stuck to it manfully. Not unfrequently
it was his lot to drive gentlemen who had
dined at his table and drunk his wine in
former days. He never blushed at their
recognition he thought working easier
than begging. For nearly ten years no
endured all the ups and downs of omnibus
life. At last the tough old father-in law,
who during the whole interval, had never
relented, died; and our hero came into
the possession of E15OO a year, which he
enjoys at the present moment. Suppose
he had borrowed and drawn bills instead
of working those ten years, as many have
done who had expectancios before them.
where would he have been on his exit
from the Queens Bench at the expiration
of the period In the hands of the Phi
listines, or of the Jews?
The misfortune of our next case was,
not that he abandoned the law, but that the
law abandoned him. He was a solicitor
in country town, where the people were
either so little inclined to litigation, or so
happy in not finding cause for it, that he
failed from sheer want of clients, and, as
natural consequence, betook himself to
the metropolis-that Mecca cum Medina
of all desperate pilgrims in search Of tic-
kle fortune. There his only available
friend WAS pastrycook in large way of
business. It so happened that the man
of tarts and jellies was precisely at that
epoch in want of = foreman and book
keeper. his last prime minister having
emigrated to America with view to a
more independent career. Our ex-lawyer,
feeling the consumption Of tarss TO be
more Immediately certain than the de-
mand for writs, proposed, to his friends
amazsment, for the vacant post and so
well did he fill it, that in a few years he