New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-31

suie1pE A MoRAL-we mentioned few days
ago that respectable young man. named John 8. Davis
had committed suicide at Camden, N j., on Saturday
night last by taking audanum aud that it reported
he had wife residing in Baltimore 1t appears he left
letter in his room assigning the following reasons for put
| ting end to his existence:
at will be charged upon by paragraph -mongers
that mental aberraton caused by pecuniary difficult
ties has led me to the act whose consequences now
visible Love domestic afction,' any but the true
will be assigned To refute all such charges and to
at for all specuations the subject write
these lines
II have passed my life in the search after happiness
Like other have tired and exhausted all the springs
of action ambition friendship, love, have all moved me
in their turn but yet they have not brought happiness
Mine has. indeed been battle of life And as
have kept my post upon its field have beheld all that
makes life happy pass for ever away Projects of fame
have failed friends have fallen from side the love of
my youth has turned to gall in my breast the wife Of my
bosom has deserted and denied me. wealth has slipped
from my grasp-al has proved but dreary blank. And
the end of the strife stand alone upon the plain
dead hopes strewn around in mockery and nothing in
| the future but despair aud death
"Why it has been thus with me why have never on
| joyed the happiness that other have reyeed in
around me, stop not now to inquire Suffice it that
have not. As many another many better. many wiser
brave the scornng finger of the world and endure the
gnawing OF his own bitter thoughts. so and from life
Of and trouble and more than my proud
| And what after? Eternity dark blank mysterious and
unfathomed eternity In single hour, shall have
solved its mystery.
II have worked out my destiny My first plunge into
calm bright lake Of existence @ has been succeeded by
after wave OF clrclng lie, eacn wilder anu more
distant from the than his fellow at last all
merged in the classy of undisturbed nonentty.
II could have wished to die upon the field with the
deck beneath my foot the smoke and flame of battle
around and victorys flag waving above my head-but
it is denied me. Here ends my career on earth:
TO my employer, who has been my rmest, best most
return heartfelt thanks for kindness
received wild, turbulent and passionate nature has
and if have not protted by the latter have certainly
felt truly proud and grateful for the former To those of
my business connections who have borne with the fraes
and lItf Tho rfnNt1or
mental culture. beg to tender my thanks and good
wishes TO those who will be wronged by my voluntary
endeavored to act honoraby and justly toward them all
to wrong man-o do unto others that which would
others do unto me- have set before me the words
of the poet:
Thou jewel. Reputation.
Let me secure thee, bright and spotess now,
And this weak. care-worn body's dissolution
VIII cheapy pay the purchase
II have labored for name white as mountain snow
dazzling speckles but the failure of the hopes had
built upon has upon too crushingly to be
yyed If could have lived. should have redeemed my
honor it stands pledged to them-as it is, they
only pity and " while Sd they v ss %
+ | a pang-my father lie knows me well enough to feel
that wegty must have determined me to commit
this perhaps too he surmse them Let this re-
Election console him for the loss of his only tits bet
ter to die thus than to live DEPENDANT shacked slave
to the caprces those who neither understand
for me- or live among those whose protestaons of
. gard are as hollow as their own minds.
MY father has been very dear to me-and although
the accidents of fortune have prevented my denionsrat
ing by act my affection have always reVered his mage
and cherished in my soul tie recollecons of boyhood
happier days when one stood between the son of his
love and me- But that is all past May he be Very
n happy .-
marks was evidently of education and intelligence
in the worldly acceptation Of the term but alas it
less evident that he lacked that kind of knowledge which
alone enables suffering humanity to tight and win tn
battle of le Had he been blessed with something
Christian ortitude, he could have sunk into tn
coward's grave-the grave of the suicide The air
Atheism ntdey pervades his letter from beginnin
to end and that spirit of despondency which it conjure
in of misfortune to irghten its victims int
eternity, is painfully prominent throughout Hope. pa
tience contentnent, resignation weapons only th
i. | Christian command in like seasons OF trial.
q ByRos's FIRST LovE.-She his life, the to
i1ucr of his thou shts-That Mary Chaworth returned II
II passion of her young tover have not doubt bu
like the Montagues and Capues the houses OF Chawort
and Byron feud Mary had not the strength an
s truth of Juliet and they parteda separation
piteous to her and more fatal to him. than deaf
l. amid the full summer brightness of happy love THIS
r. Shakspeares the true soul-trasedy Might she N
have taken the helm of his passion-tossed SPIRIT
49, guided it into deeper and camer waters Night she n
ID have redeemed his wayward and erring nature
the divinity pure love and steadfast faith But
" was not to be- Mary bestowed her hand upon man,
- whom little better be said than that he rank
among the most eminent sportsmen Of the ay'lv.
IT, it said weep wild tears the words which ha
as linked sorrow immortality with her Lover
IN and died in broken heartedness at Nashville he gro
reckless. restless and deant, the very of his he
to bitter ashes forgetting his God and dstrusti
despsng his brother swept his glorious shamef
sorrowfu mad and stormy career till the shadows DEF
H. ened and the long night closediu