New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-23
Thnclseray on Irishmen aud Forgiveness.

Chapter XXXVIIT of g The VirginiausT opens
with these paragraphs, characteristic Of Mr. William
Makepiece ThackeTay:
Ny happy chance in early life led me to become
intimats with respectable peison who was born in
a certain island, which is pronounced to be the first
gem Of the ocean by, no doubt, impartial judges OF
maritime jewelTy. The stories which that person i'm
parted to me regarding his relatives who inhabited
the gem above mentioned, were such as uscd to make
I my young blood Curde with horror to think there
shoaid be 80 much wickeduess in the world Every
crime which you think of, the entire Ten Com
mandments broken in general smash, such rogue
RES and Enaveres as story teller could invent
sach murders and robteTies ss ThuFtelI or Turpn
scarce ever perpetFated--#eTe By my informant
cutatey remembered, and freely related respecting
i his nearest kindred TO any one who chose to hear
4 him. IL was wonder how any Of the family still
lived ont Of the hulks. Ne brother Tim had brought
his tawthers gree hairs with sorrow to the grseye
brother Mick had robbed the parish church repay-
tedly me sisther Annamarofa had Tilted the CAPTAIN
and run off with the Ensign forged her grandmotber5
will, and stole the spoons which Larry, the knife
boy, was hanged foF. The family OF Atlens was as
nothing compared to the race Of 0'Whatdeyecallern
| from which my friend sprung but no power on earth
! would, of course, induce me TO name the country
| whence he came.
How great then used to be my naif astonishment
to find these murdeTers, rOgaes, parricides habtual
forgeFs Of bills Of exchange, and so forth every now
and then writing TO each other as Z" my dearest
brother, I" my dearest sister, and for many months
at a time living on the most amicabIe terms With
hands Teekiug with the blood of his murdered pa
rents, Tim would mix schreeching tnmber, aud
give Maria glass from it, With lips black with the
periuries be had sworn 10 Court respecting his grand
mothers distracted testament or the murder Of ais
poor brother Jhady's helpless orphans Mick would
kiss his sister Julias bonny cheek and they would
have Jolly night and cry as they talked about old
times, and the dear old Castle Wbatdyeealum where
they were born, and the fighting Onetyoneth being
quarered there, and the Major proposing for GyaT0-
lOne and the tomb of their scented mother (Wh0 had
chayted them out of the propertyl Heaven bless her
1 uoul They In and sn YlFpf at
meeting and parting that it was touching to behold
them. At the sight of their embraces one forgot
those painful little Stories and those repeated previ
Gus assurances that did they tell ALL they could hang
each other all round
What can there be finer than forgiveness? What
more rational than, after calling by every bad
name under the sun, to apologize, regret hasty ex
pTeSsOnS and so forth withdraw the decanter lsayl
which you have flung at yonr eneny's head, aud be
friends as before Some folks possess this admirable
this augtlike gift OF forgiveness, 1t was beautiful,
for instance, to see two ladies at Trunbridge
Wells Orgl7ln9 one another, smiling, joking, fond
ling almost, In spite Of the hard words of yesterday ;
yes, and forgetting bygones, though they could mt
help remembering them perfectly well. | wonder
can you and do much Let us strive, my friend,
to acquire this peaCeabe Christian spirit My belief
is that you may learn to forgive bad language en-
plOyed to you; but then you must have deal of
practice, and be accustomed to hear and use it, You
embrace after quarrel and mutual bad language.
Heaven bless us! Bad words are nothing when one
is accustomed to them, and scarce need rutfle the
temper on either side
So the aunt and niece played cards very amicably
together, and drank to each others health and each
took wngof the chicken, and pulled bone Of the
meuythOught, and lin ConyersatiOn) scratched their
neghbors', not each others, eyes out. Thus We
have read how the Peninsular warriors when the bu-
giles sang truce, fraternzed and exchanged tobacco
pouches and wine ready to seize their frelocks and
knock each others heads off when the truce was over
And thus old soldiers, skillful in war but know
# ing the charms of a quiet life, laid their weapons
I down for the nOnCe and hob and nobbed gaily toge
ther OF course, while drinking with Jack French
man yOH have yonr piece handy blow out his brains
if he makes hostile move: but meanwhile It's U0trt
sante, mon c0maradet Here's to you, Monsieur
2 and thing is as pleasant possible. Regarding
aunt Bernstein's theatened gout? The twinges had
f gone of Maria was so glad Marias flaming fits
She had no return of themi slight recurrence last
night. The Baroness was so sorry Her niece must
the best doctor fake everything to fortify her
continue to take the steel, after she left Inn
bridge How kind of aunt Bernstein to offer to send
some of the bottled waters after her Suppose
Madame Bernstein says in confidence to her own Wo
man. e" Painting fits pooh epilepsy inherited
from thathorrble scTotul0us German mother z What
means have we of knowing the private conversation
of the old lady and her attendant Suppose Lady
Maria orders Mrs Betty her ladyships maid to taste
every glass of medicinal water first, declaring thai
/ her aunt is capable Of poisoning her Very likely
, such conversations took place. These are but pre-
CnutOns-these are the tirel0cks which old sol
diers have at their sides loaded and cooked. but al
present lying quiet on the grass.