Smyrna times., 1858-10-28
The Princeton Graveyard.

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Few visit Princeton without strolling down
WItherspoon street to lis precious graveyard.
You entGr very humble gate, and the first ob-
Jpct of note that meets your eye j. the tomb of
the devoted patriot, Richard Stockton, living
among the graves of his numerous Kindred
Next comes the long line OF time worn and pill
! grIm-ha cked lombs OF the Presidents Of the
| college aud Fathers Of the American Presby-
tcrian Church. The inscriptions are in the
stately Latin which Johnson thought the only
lit language for the inscriptions of The great
| Growing this liac Of square tonbs lies the
scholar Burr, Who presided when the College
was at Newark. Next to HIM comes his ia.
| mona talher-iu-law, the greatest metaphy yscan
| ot his age aud ut America, the famous Jonathan
Edwards. ~ his feet lies his ignoble grand
| soD, Aaron Burr, who, though endowed with
great mind aud atiabIe manners, was base
IibcrtIne. lis monument is slab OF pure mar
BILE, SAID TO have been erected at night by an
| unknown parsonage. Next to Edwards lies
The eloquent Davies, the most distinguished
preacher Of his day, and to whom Patrick uen-
ry owed much of his oratorlcal skill He
preached when on an errand 20 EngaEd, before
the King, who desired to hea< hun, aud when
being interrupted by his AIajeaty's applause,
Ca lmly rema rked "Wheu the lion rnars the
| speaks let the King be SILENT and lie was ST.
lent, and go pleased that he presented u dona-
tion to the College. Next to Davies tomb lies
the cenotaph of the gentle Finley. Next to
him comes the statesman aud divine, John
Witherspoon, one of the most distinguished men
in the Continental Congress and in the Revo-
luton.
Next to him lies his cOurlly son-in-law, STAN
| hope Smith. Next comes the austere Ashbel
Green, the first introducer of the study OF the
Bible in Colleges, who, after he resigned the
Presidency, was Char plain with Bishop White
10 Congress for seven years. Next comes the
aiiable Scolchman, Mclean, who introduced
The present system of chemistry into tins coun-
| Try, aud whose sou Is the present incumbent Of
| the Presidential Chair. In the same lot lie the
brilliant Albert bod, whom DIR. Hodge pro-
nounced to be the greatest man New Jersey
ever produced, and Walter Mnto, the success
tul defender of Lord Napier's claims to the in
ventlon of logarthms, aud the intimate friend
| of the Earl OF Buchan. Elsewhere in the yard
lie the remains of DR. Samuel Miller, the cham
pion of Presbyteransm, aud of DIR. Arch bald
Alexander, the good Presbyterian Father, and
first Professor of the Seminary. What blessed
memories have they left! We must not fail to
puuse before row of marble obelleks erected
by The devotion of classmates. Some OF them
memorize choice spirits. What sad warning
to the young and ambltous What fine cx-
enplars of youthful piety !-Newark Senti-
nell
OF We can carry nothing with us 10 the
other world, save the good we have done.
Gr A sermon 10 four words on the vanity Of
earthly possessions: " Shrouds have no pock-
cts"
OF Good order is bread--disorder, siarVa-
toni #.s
o. Old bachelors are wont to console their
loneliness by such groNIs at womankind as
Lazy # tall-cross- grained If small;
Ii handsome, van-shucking If plain.
OF He's armed without that's innocent
within.
or Pleasure is the greatest foe that happi-
| ness has.
| az Wealth makes a man proud when he has
little else 10 be proud about
Ge- He who can do all he wishes rarely does
shat he ought 10 do.
or When success makes man better than
be ss6 before, hs must be good man indeed
eT Tue great beauty Of q wife is, that if she
aboses y@G heEseli, she won't let any one else
abuse yoG.
| 0Y Simplicity of manner, as of dEess, is u
Charm that woman gennrally admiIes in
| ther more than IN herself
OF When great man stoops, or trips, the
small men around him suddenly become great.
| eF. .a -
! OF Poverty is crime that sticks TO man
through life. IL is brand which, IN the midst
of riches even, some one is sure to find Out aud
! repruach him with.