Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-25

withdrawal from the firm.
Alexander Barring, the second son of Sir
Francis, had received portion of his educa-
ton in Hanau, had then completed it in Eng
land, and commenced his mercantile career in
the house of Messrs. Hope, where friendship
sprung up between him and Mr.. p. c. La
bouchere, which led to the latter's marriage,
at later period, with his sister, Maria Barring
When the Messrs. Hope retired to England
in consequence of the occupation of Holland
by the revolutionary French army, under
Pichegru. and after Alexander Barring had
left the House, he determined to visit the Unit,
ed States of North America. AT his depart
ure his father confined his advice to two espec-
ial recommendations. one of which was to pur-
chase no uncultivated land, and the other not
to marry a wife there: Because" said he,
uncultivated lands can be more readily
bought than sold again and wife is best
suited to the home in which she was raised,
and cannot be termed or trained a second
time,.' However, Alexander had not passed
one year in the United States before he forgot
both branches of his fathers advice
Not only did he purchase large tracts of land
in the western part of the state of Pennsylvan-
Ia, and lay out not inconsiderable capital
Goo, 900 at least) in the then district and now
state of Maine, and that, too, under the an
nexed condition of bringing number of set.
tiers thither within certain term of years, but
also, in 1898, when just a years OF age, he
married Anna, the eldest daughter of Mr..
William Bingham, in Philadelphia, who was
at that time considered the richest man in the
United States, and was then member of the
Senate. The inheritance he had to thank her
for, at the death of her father, amounted to
100000. She bore him nine children, Of
which seven are still living, the eldest oil these,
called William Bingham, after his grandfath-
er, is the present Lord Ashburton, and has
reached the age of fifty three. His wife is a
Lady Sandwich, and their marriage has re-
manned childless After his death, his title
along with the greater part of his fortune, will
pass to the second son, Francis, who is mar
ried to a daughter Of the Duke Bassapo, for
mer State Secretary of Napoleon. This gen.
tleman usually resides at Paris, and is the
eldest head of the London house. in the man
agement of whose business, however, he sell
dom takes any active part. lie has two sons.
The fsvorite, from the first of his father and
mother, both title and fortune will pass en-
tirely, according to their wishes into the hands
of him who, in their eyes, deserves the pre-
ference.
SIR FRANCIS BARING-ANEcDoTE.
Just at this very time, 1920, the present
head of the Earrings house, Mr.. Francis Bar
ing, second son of the deceased Lord Ash
vana and taken his quarters with me in nv
newly built residence We had nine large
vessels receiving cargo at that moment, and he
was evidently gratifed when he took his first
walk along the so-called Levee the quay
on the left bank of the Mississippi, in front of
the town, where vessels load and unload their
freight; ami saw it strewn, from the upper to
lower suburb, with cotton bales, on which were
stamped the marks of my firm. Nothing
could have given him better idea of our
activity. and he seemed to be pleased that he
could take back to Europe with him proof
of it, like this one from his own experience.
Since there can be but little that relates to
this establishment, which occupies and has
occupied SO lofty position that is devoid of
all interest to the mercantile reader, | NAV
venture to say few words concerning Mr.
Barring, who was quite young man when he
visited New Orleans. 1 do so with the greater
reason, that he yields proof the more of the
fact, how rarely the combination of qualities
belonging to distinguished father descends
to his sons. Bountiful nature had endowed
this man, destined at so early period of lie
to become the head and manager of the Lon.
dor house. with so lavish hand, that it might
almost be termed spendthrift profusion. in
summing up the list of capacities and talents
he possessed To his mental wealth belonged
most unusual intellectual superiority, rare
keenness of perception, and an almost instinc-
tive penetration of the opposite and diverse
characters with which he was brought in con-
tact; to these was added remarkable memo
~, which did not lose the minutest circum-
stance: an iron strength of will, whenever
he made up his mind to perform any act a
perseverance in carrying out his enter
prises, notwithstanding every obstacle =
and finally the facility Of expressing his
ideas and convictions in few words, and the
knack of conveying the whole force and point
of a close analysis, OF criticism, in a happily
selected phrase or two, which might be called
" hitting the nail on the head" This latter
talent, which j. by no means an indispensa-
bic one, in the list of perfectons desirable for
a man of talent, nevertheless has its value in
dialectic debates, particularly on the parlia-
mentary floor, where young Barring hoped to
stand before any great length of time. and in
all instances of common life where brief and
rapid explanations desirable. An exam
pie will suffice to illustrate this remark.
Young Barring was travelling through the
western part of Virginia, which was at that
time peopled by the toughest class of Ameri-
cans, and the vehicle which he used was a
very handsome and newly vanished travel
ling carriage. In accordance with the favor
lite custom of these wild fellows, who usually
carried penknife or a nail in their pockets,
one of the oilers, no stood and leaned about
the door OF the tavern where he had aliehted
for reireshment, amused himself by scratching,
with nail, all sorts of ridiculous figures on
the yarnish of the carriage DOORS Barring,
who came out of the inn and caught our friend
engaged in this agreeable and polite occupa-
ton, the instant he saw what was going on,
very sharply expressed his disapprobation.-
The loiterer responded, "Look here, sir, don't
be sauey; we make no ceremony 1'other
day we had Europeau4ellow here, like your
self, who was mighty saucy so | pulled out
my pistol and shot him dead, right on the
spot. There he lies - Barring reioined, in
the coolest manner imaginable, by asking,
"And did you scalp him, too? ;" The Ameri.
can was so struck with this, and felt this re-
proach upon his savage rudeness so keenly,
that, after gazing at Barring suddenly and
earnestly for momentin silence, he exclaim-
ed, "By God sir you must be a clever fell
low let's shake hands T. 1t would not have
been easy to give sharper lesson.
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