Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-04-21
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DAILY EVENING STAk.
pa.ntifu1 Tribute to a Wife.

A Beautiful Tribute to Wife.
Sir James Macintosh, the historian was
married in early life, before he had attained
fortune or fame, to Miss Catherine Stuart,
a Young Scotch lady, distinguished more
for the excellence of her character than for
her personal charms. After eight years of
happy welded life, during which she be-
came the mother Of three children, she died.
A few days after her death, the bereaved
husband wrote to friend, depicting the
character Of his wife in the following terms:
81 was guided in my choice only by the
blind affection of youth. l found an intel
ligent companion and a tender friend, pru-
dent monitress, the most faithful of wives,
and as tender mother as children had
ever the misfortune to lose. met woman
who, by the tender management of my
weakness, gradually corrected the most
pernicious of them. She became prudent
from affection; and though of the most
generous nature, she was taught frugality
and economy by her love for me. During
the most critical period of my life she
preserved order in my affairs, from the
care of which she relieved me. She gently
reclaimed me from dissipation she urged
my Incidence to all the exertions that have
been useful and creditable to me and she
was perpetually at hand to admonish my
needless improvidence. To her owe what
r Il L. T
her solicitude for my interests, she never
for moment forgot my feelings or my
character. Even in her occasional resent
ment, for which too often gave her cause,
would to God could recall those moments!)
she had no sullenness or acrimony. Her
feelings were warm and impetuous, but she
was placable, tender and constant. Such
was she whom lost, and have lost her
when her excellent and natural sense was
rapidly improving, after eight years of
struggle and distress had bound us fast to-
gether, and moulded our tempers to each
other; when knowledge of her worth had
refined my youthful love into friendship,
and before age had deprived it of much of
its original ardor. I lost her, alas! the
choice of my youth, the partner of my mis-
fortunes, at moment when had the pros
pect of her sharing my better days"
A SINGULAR FAMILY.-In small village
IN the Bouches du Rhone, France, there is
family of three persons-husband, wife,
and daughter who have made solemn
VOW to preserve the most profound silence
A traveller who lately passed their dwelling
finding 1t necessary to make some inquiries
respecting his way, applied to these eccen-
trio people. Not receiving any answer to
his questions, he repeated them, when, to
his great establishment, they, in fit of ex-
ASPIRATION, siezed cudgel, tongs and
turnspit, and threatened him with summary
castigation. This extraordinary conduct is
explained by the fact that the parties had
become the dupes of clerical impostor,
who has taken advantage of their credulity
by holding out to them the acquisition of
great treasure, on condition of their main
tanning strict silence. They have formed
the resolution to keep such silence for the
space of nine years, only one half of which
time has yet expired. But so complete an
introduction of the use of the tongue could
not fail to become intolerable to the female
portion of the family, the impostor granted
them permission to indulge their natural
propensity anywhere beyond the limits of
their commune. In order to avail them
selves of this privilege, the two women re-
gularly repair every market day to the
little town of Belfort, where they enjoy the
conversation of their neighbors and mitigate
to some degree the privation which they
voluntarily endure.
CURIOUS CoNUNDRUM OR REBUs.-A wa
goner passing stsre, was asked what he
had in his wagon. He replied:
Three-fourths of a cross, and a circle complete