The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-01-08
WHOLE No 597


gesa OGour Time.
u. W. HGlmes, the gentleman that
never darrS to write lis funny as he
! "an, Is forty-three. William Hewitt
: is ily.S"ven; he published verses at the
aye Of thirteen. Humboldt is eighty
threr. Leigh Hunt is s.xty-erght. rilz
hrr"n i1allcck is titlv-Seven. WASH
lhgton Irving, son Of an eminent New
York merchant, is sixty-nine Years of
= age, III his nineteenth year, he began to
contribute to his brothers paper, the
Morning Chronicle. Douglass Jerrold.
loity-seNen years of age, is the son of
The manager of the Sheerncss theatre;
the sea was his first love, and Tor short
time lie served DIS midshipman on board
OF 4 man.oi-War.
Il. ?. K. James is about fifty years
old; it was Washington Irving Who first
recommended him to a career Of author.
ship. Sheridan Knowles, sixtv.eight
wears old, is the son of famous Irish
schoolnaser, who was cousin TO Rich
ard Brnsley Sheridan. Mr.. know les
wrote his first play in his twen,v-hrlt
year; his plays are thirteen IN number;
l'e now enJoysa government pension of
TWO hundred pounds a year. Lamar
tine is }iNty-two; his father was i major
IN the French cavalry, undrr Louis XVI.
Abbott Lawrence is in his siNtlr,n year.
Henry ". Longtellow, lorty-.ive years
OF age, Is the son of Hon. Stephen Long
fellow. Portland, Me, is the BIRTH
place OF the poet; he was appointed
Professor of Cambridge in his twenty
eighth year.
Macaule,y, the son of wealthy Atri-
can merchant, is tltty-two years of age;
his essay on Milton was written in his
twenty-siNth year for the Edinburgh
Review. Macready is itty-nlne; his
father was Il theatrical manager. Her
man Melville is the son of an inlport-
Ing merchant oi luIs city; he IS twrn,.-
nine years OF ag"; his grandfather was
one OF the Boston tea party; he began
his waaderlngs in his eighteenth year,
as sailor before the mast; he is the au.
thor ct seven popular works. Alptter-
nich is scventy-nIne. liz. Marvel, thirty
Years OF age, is i native of Norwich,
Connecticut, a graduate of Yale, and
resident OF New York. }. X. PauIdinr,
whose collected works fill seventv-tiye
oiumeS. Is seventy-three wears old; he
Is native OF Duchess county, IN this
State.
Prentice is a Yankee, born at Preston.
Connecticut, iorty-eight Years old. He
has been editor Of the Louisville journal
since 1897. Prescott, tie historian, is
IN his tltty.sixth year. Powers. the
sculptor, is iiIty-scvcn; his parents "werc
plain country people, who cultivated a
small farm" in Vermont. Seward is
i!ty years old. Taitord, fifty seven.
Iennyson, son of clergyman, is forty
two. Ilcknor, SrNty-one. II. I. Tuck
erman, thirty-one. Victoria is thirty
three years OF age. "She has" saws
our author, IA large ndrapidly increas-
Ing family, which seems the distinguish.
ing mark Of the Hanoverian dynasty"
Home Journai.
FW/t5uSters or Fijusicrs are thus de.
tined IN recent article in the Missouri
Democrat, said to be from the pen of
Mr.. I. II. Benton:
about century ago, there was
class OF gentry rowing the seas, and help
ING themselves to what they wanted,
and were able to take from nations or
individuals, whom the English called
free6ooteEs, and the French called FL
'Hst'erS, and the Spaniards called Fiji
1u@cros, and which we the Amercans)
call Fly5asferS; and whose national and
whose international creed was comprl-
Sed IN the answer to two brief questions:
fif1. whether any man or nation has
anything we want ! and SecondIy, are
We able to take it ! and there two uues.
tons being atirmat!velv answered,
'Tohe ui'' was the word But as all
nations agreed to hang such gentry
wherever they could find them, the race
became extinct, and the name obsolete,
until modern operators in Cuban annex
alton and Cuban bonds, have revived
he name, and are getting it stuck upon
4 part OF the people OF the United States.
fIy5u&ter is now becoming political
designation in onr country, and Is notn-
ng but the frcciooter the old English,
lone into iTdMYieI by the French, into
'1'd7"cro by the Spanish, and done
back into English in the significant and
'indred appeliation Of FIy5@ster."