The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-07-13
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About ten yean ago William Culhbertson, of
Ayrshire, Scotlasd, was compelled by adyer.
suites in businesst 10 leave his native land. To
better his lot andie!rieve his fortune he came g.
America, and seuled near Dutch Hill, in ST.
Clair county, Illinois, where, by the mos, la
borious INDUSTRY he acquired competency, in
several valuable tracts of and-sufficient to
make hi'n indepndent, were it not for debts he
had LETT behind hin in Scotland. These amount
ed to between thee or four hundred pounds
over fifteen bundled d,lIars--on which his pro-
perty at home had paid dividend of one shil-
ling, and one penny in the pound This
amount OF debtswas due TO twenty-six per-
sons. The principal debt was that Of his land
lord, the Marquis Of Hastings, (Moina) who
PAID himseif IN tub BY 4 distress under a land.
lords warrant, and who, with true orthodox
and conservative seiiishness, did not allow one
penny TO Cuthbeitson, for valuable improve
ments which he had placed upon the land
Some OF the descendants OF the Norman con-
querors have lost none Of the rapacity of their
ancestors, though compelled to practice it on
SIN Her scale.
About one year ago, Cuthbertson died, leav-
ing several brothers and sisters his heirs. 1t
had been the desire Of his life 10 pay his credit,
urs and to die as his noble countryInan Robert
Burns died. owing no man anything This
was denied 10 hum but his dying request to his
relations was that every debt should be paid off
so Tar as his property would avail His brother
and administrator, Alexander, proceeded to as
certain the amount of the debts and TO cause
them to be sent ever in a properly authenticated
form tor allowances as against the estate. Most
OF them being open accounts were barred by
time. After paying off al the American debts
out OF the personal estate, the administrator
found small balance his hands. He then,
brought forward the debts sent to him from the
old country, had them allowed by the County
Court, and now gives notice iu this weeks ID
rocdfe OF an application for an order to sell the
land of his deceased brother, for the purpose of
carrying out his last wishes. One of the heirs
is IN Australia and his condition is unknown,
but all the others residing in this county are
poor, and yet have they all concurred most
cheefiuiiy IN The Course pursued by the admin
lstrator. Without his active agency these debts
would never nave crossed the ocean; and they
might have been generally defeated if they had
been resisted.
For the sake of principle, and under a high
sense ofmorai obligation, these sons and daugh-
tiers OF old Scotia relinquish their interest in
their brothers. estate and hand it over to his
creditors. They act as their relative did, upon
the manly principle of Burns,
''ls there for honest poverty,
Who hangs his head and a that
The coward slave ! we pass hiln by
And dare be poor for a that"
How many of our rich men, our s.substanti
| all men with "stakes" in the country, are cap
able of setting an equally wholesome example Of
moral rectltude and disnterested love of prin
ciple? 1t is not among the mere traders, spe
culators, and men in haste to be rich, that we
can seek tor the best specimens of human nat
ure- Beitegiie Ill., .4duocate