The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-07-21

| WIN sDt WOfu 'GOnuOD. c6DpOt p8SS over
| this circumstances III silence, out of gratitu1e for
sie many ! O SAINT thol ghts, toe alxi u pes,
Ga1 tender re.ue.pOr.nees IT excited ia as We
are toid visit which Johnson paid not long
be ore has d q h, wnicn gave him infnite deligh
| -.s was IL Inflow tree at clield. of which
he had ben very fond in his buyish days
Macauiey, III spelking OF local attachment
says rnat 1t Is generally found strongest in great
minds. He quotes from Lord Gives letters to
snow how, IN the scenes Of excitement and gran
deur, hIs heart yearned after home. ''lf should
be 50 lar blest, says he, to revisit again my
own country, but more especially Manchester
tue centre of all my wishes. all that could hope
for or desire would be presented before me in
one view. He tells as how powerfully Warren
Hastings was attached To the seat of his ances-
tors 1T DIylesford, IN Worcestershire the fam-
~ being unab e 10 keep il up had sold it to q
lerchant OF l. Inion. M.cauiey goes on 70 say !:
''Fhe daily seeing the lands winch his ancestors
b III once possessed, and which had passed into
the bands OF strangers filed his young brain
with Wild tancies AMI projects. One bright
summer day, the boy then just seven years old
lay Oh tue bank Of tue Iivu.et which 10 ws ihro'
the old domain OF his house To Join the Isis !;
there-at threscore and ten years later, be told
the tHle-rose on his mind the scheme which
through ali the turus OF his eventful career was
never aban loned; he would recover the estate
UIich had belonged 20 his father-he would be
hastings Of DayIeSford. When, under a trOpi-
ca sun ne rdlei 6ity millions of Asiatics his
! hopes, amidst all the cares of war. finance aud
gis atsVu, still pointed u DlyIesford; and when
h.S long Puonc life, 50 sIngu.ary ehequered with
goot and evil, with glory and Obloquy, had at
.eIEth closed for ever, il TO Dayt sford he
rea red u de IL Is, indeed, most affecting to
home which has been hallowed By atfec-
non, aud endesred by the earnest recullectious
pass into the hands VI strangers. Poor Cowper
IA his youth, had tdis 10 lament; il had never
o;eulrsd 10 bin tnat the siebe where his father
hsstt, Z,
was not hIs own property; the he fei;
wGeI ne found II wHs about to be Inhabited by
Hn thsr, 10 So affsctInely touched on by himself,
tI.,t IL snVuii o. gwen other words: There
was neither tree, nor gate, nor stile IN all that
cJaatry, 10 whicn 1 did not feel relation and
tEe house itself preferred To palace / was
ssat tor from L1udOn - attend III y father in his
last il,Drss aud he died just Before 1 arrived ;;
then, auI not tall then, felt for the first time,
tnat and my native place were disunlted for
ever. sighed Il long adieu to fields and woods
from 1hicn once thought should never be
parted, ans was at 10 time SO sensible of their
beauties, rs just wien | had left them all be-
hind Ine, 10 return no more"
The early haunt of imaginative persons nflu-
ence to great deg5ee their delightful reveries-
the soiitude III which fancy had full sway-the
woods. where the muses. first heard-the
streams from whose pure fountains inspiration
was Fat Iuis Ibed, are worth all the fame and
fr.une that i;tter years can CLEAN. 1t Las been
told, ana On good aLthorrt,, that when tue Mar
qu vi me.ltsiey old man, after he had
b ;eu governor ge ler4l Of india, and had filled
oi .he highest ministerial otfic ) in I'm gland,
be diy 10 tile New Forest. Sixty years
III e.apsei since he had been there last, Dut its
sienes were never 30 be forgotten TWAS there
na mel one whom he had passionatey low
ed, on. who had Iondly returned hi- affection,
and who had uied III tue brightness of her
youth. The iustre and activity. of u long life
" ere forgotten In tie dearer recolections asso-
ated wtth the scenes of these early loves; ev-
cry moraing he drove To the Immediate neigh
bJrno 81 abode where they had been do
,ne-.l:4te !, aud there alightIng from his
rage, he would wander through ali the paths
they used to tread, to feel too deeply that ambi-
tlo.I is a cure Tor love "
Ward te,is US, that the Hindoos are very
strongly attached To their h hjme5ie,lds Though
tie he al of the fan. oe employed in distant
part of the country, hIugh the hOnlestead5 be
III ruins, tAey ciing still to the family in
heriIance with a foudnesS bordering on super
stit,on. Tempted by the intense love of home
soiuierS and sailors nave often deserted, running
fearful risk of detection, which indeed they do
not often escape Criminals, their iongings
after home, have yenturcd from their places
concealment, and have thus fallen into tht
HANDS uf justice. Gov. Wall, after he had beer
indicted for murder, and apprehended, contri
we'd make his escape to the continent, wher
he had remained for many years Part OF til
time he spent at Naples where he receive
into tne,D society, aud treated with gren
kindness; q Mi ls TO visit home, however, Iii
due Il lin To ure-o the iIu aItages of securItA
and socIitI Intercourse, he returned at all fisk
Here he fingered under fictitious name, in ut
ter Sc la ,lon. At len 9Th wearied ith constan
restraint and loneliness, ana buoying himself u
W tn hopes ot acquItal, he gave himScIf up
lie was tried for murIer, found guilty, and cou
d. m ied--his last days were spent III "a dungeon
-lpd be died 10y the hands OF tue common exc
cu,.oner.
In the heart yearnings after home, the health
very often gives way, fatal symptoms come Oh.
an 4 death ensues. TINS melancholy disease
known as the mai du pays, has been SO common
among the Swiss anu the highland soldiers,
to favor the belief that its attacks were confined
To the natlves of mountainous districts; but il is
an ascertained fact, tnat the disease has occur
red among the conscripts III the French army,
whose homes had been IN towns. Mr.. Dunlop
mentions the case OF a London pickpocket who
was iaboring unaer 1t at the huiks ~Female
servants who had left their rustic homes ana
occupations to seek for service IN Paris have
been found in the hospitals of that city laboring
under the hal du Pays. Sailors during long
and unfortunate voyages, have suffered severely
from the complaint. When honeward bound
ut the very moment when their fondest hopes
appeared realized, when about to revisit home
and enjoy the desired meeting with frienuS-
they were again pressed into the service, ana
carried far from home and all they ioved-the
disease has often in such cases resulted IN cal
enture q kind OF mania, under which the INA
giuation pictures amidst the waves the green
fields uf ho1na the trees. tha well known paths