Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-02-04

|be the occupation of his lifetime. After
wards, Burr assisted him to Europe, where
he spent five years in the study of painting,
and became an artist worthy of: the name. =
While Burr himself was wandering in
Europe, Vanderlyn was exhibiting pictures
in the Louvre, at Paris, and received from
Napoleon gold medal, besides compliments
and fluctuations from the Emperor's own
lips Vanderlyn did all he could for his
benefactor in Paris; but unhappily he had
the successful artists usual fortune-pover-
ty embittered by glory. He afterwards had
commissions from Congress, and painted
the we'll known Landing of Columbus" for
Ia panel in the rotunda Of the Capitol at
Washington He also painted the portraits
of Colonel Burr and Theodosia from which
the engravings were taken by which their
lineaments are now known to the public =
Vanderlyn died only five years.ago at Kings
ton, near the spot where he drew the char
coal sketch which decided his career.
sLANDER sLAYs MORE THAN THE SWORD.
One day in his Office, a gentleman talked
| in the usual half true manner of the evils of
war. Burr remarked,
ISLANDER has slain more than the sword. -
| To friend who censured him for allow
ing so many hundreds of paragraphs to cir
culate without contradiction, he replied that
he had formerly supposed that his character
was strong enough to bear such petty as
saults, and he had felt himself safe in treat
| ing them with contempt. 'But, he add
ed, II fear [ have committed great error !;
the men who knew their falsity are mostly
dead, and the generation who now read them
may take them for truths, being uncontra-
tdicted [ admit have committed capital
error, but it is too late to repair it"
COLD FRIDAYS ADVENTURE.
Returning one day, in about the seventh
| eth year of his age, from professional visit
| to Orange county, N. Y, he related, with
evident delight, an adventure which he had
during his absence. [ have the story from
the lady to whom he told it first.
It was one of the ''cold Faidays" Of ira
dition, when the incident occurred. So
cold was it that few living creatures could
long support life, exposed to the blast
The snow laH deep on the ground the roads
IWere imperfectly broken; the air was filed
win paificles of snow blown about by the
wind COL Burr had ride Of twenty miles
before him that day, to attend court which
met on the day following. He had COM
panion with him, his partner in the law, a
gentleman forty years his junior, who, after
trying in vain to persuade him not to at
tempt the journey, refused. point blank, to
accompany him.: Burr consulted his man,
and finding him willing to 60, ordered round
his sleigh, they set off at midday. AS
night drew on the roads became worse, and
the cold increased to such a degree that to
keep the blood in motion required laborious
exertion. AS the wind swept down from
the mountains even the horse shrunk from
facing it, and gave signs of yielding to the
cold. For himself Burr had no fears; no
weather could subdue him, but his driver
began to occasion him constant anxiety, as
| the drowsiness premonitory to the torpor
which precedes freezing was coming over
him. Finding that the drowsiness increas-
| ed, he resolved at last to stop at the next
house they came to-. They were now in a
thin1y settled country, which Burr had not
seen since revolutionary times, when he had
been much in the neighborhood with his
regiment. About nine o'clock the light of
a little cottage came in sight; to the door
of which Burr's summons brought an old
lady, who proved to be its only inhabitant.
s.Is there hospitality here?'' asked Burr;
eve are nearly dead with cold"
ssCome in,'' was the old lady's prompt re-
lply, '.you are welcome to the best [ have" "
In few minutes he had his half-frozen
servant by the side of a blazing fire, and
his horse in the stable. While they were
getting warm the hostess prepared supper
to which, in due time, they were invited
Restored then to the use of his faculties,
Burr looked about him and observed that,
though everything in the room was of an
unpretending and inexpensive character,
yet all was clean and nicely arranged. The
only ornamental object was plaster bust
standing upon little shelf. He had casu.
ally noticed this on entering the room, and
looking now to ascertain which Of the ma
tional favorites it was whom the old lady had
selected to adorn her abode, he was aston.
ished to discover that it was bust of him
self! Twenty years before this would have
been no,unusual circumstance; but rare In
deed was it then for him to be thus remind.
ed of his former condition. More to amuse
his servant than for any other reason, he
said, as the old lady was putting away he1
dishes
! '.What! have you got that vile traitor
here p s.t,-..
The woman paused in her work as he ut
tered these words. Her. manner changed
in moment, Putting down some plates
which she had in her hand she walked slow.
.lly UP to the fire where he was sitting, ano
standing before him, said with intense EN-
phasis: