Daily national Democrat., 1861-03-05


BYEoN's MARRIAcE-Miss Martineau con-
tributes to the latest Atlantic" an excellent
article on Lady Byron, proving that the lat
ter had more real heart than the poet of SEN
timent and passon-her husband. The fol-
lowing account of the marriage will interest
all readers
They were married on the second of Jan
uary. The wedding day was miserable
Byron awoke in one of his melancholy moods
and wandered alone in the grounds tillcalled
to be married His waYwarl mind was full
of all the associations that were least congo
nial with the day. His thoughts were full of
Mary Chaworth, and Of old scenes in his life
! which he fanced he loved because he was
now leaving them behind. He declared that
his poem of "Ihe Dream was a true picture
of his wedding morning; ard there are cir
cumstances, not told in lis Life" which
render this probable. After the ceremony
and breakfast, the young couple left Seaham
for Sir Ralphs scat at IInlnaby. Towards
dusk Of that winter day the carriage drove
up to the door, where the old butler stood
ready to receive his yong lady and her bride
groom. The moment the carriage door was
opened the bridegroom Jumped out and
walked away. When hie-bfde alighted, the
old servant was aghast She came up the
steps with the lislless gait Of despair Her
face and movements eXpresse such utter
horror and desolalion that the old butler
longed to offer his arm to the lonely young
creature as an assurance of sympathy and
protection Various stories got abroad as to
the cause Of this horror, one probably as
/ false as another; and, for his own part, Byron
met them by a false story of Miss Milbanke 5
/ lady 's-maid having been stuck in bodkinwise,
! between them. As Lady Byron certainly
soon got over the shock, the probability is
that she satisfied herself that he had been
suffering under one of the dark moods to
which he was subject both constitutionally
and as the poet Of moods.
BENJAMGN FRANKLIN was born January,
! l7th, 1906, and was the fifteeth of seventeen
children, all of whom, as he relates, lived to
be married; and he makes the remark that
he was the youngest son of the youngest son.
for five generations back. When very young
his father intended him for the church, which
plan was relinquish,d as being too expensive.
/ At ten years old, he was taken home to as
sist his father in the business of talow chan
! dler and eoapboiler Cutting wicks, filling
moulds, and going of errunds were, for two
! years, the chief emp,oyments for the future
! Mentor of America. AT twelve years of age,
he was apprentccd to his brother, printer,
who treated him with such harshness that, on
obtaining discharge, he left his service and
Travelled to Philadelphia, where he arrived
almost peJj,i(cSs, burtred with an independ-
ent perseverance, of spirit, and confidence
| in his own resources, that enabled him to
suHMoUNr every difficulty. Sauntering thro'
the streets, with his pockets stuffed with
shirts and stockings, and roll of bread un-
der each arm, he made. in the opinion of
Mrs. Read (his future wife), who was stand
ing at her fathers door as he passed, most
ludicrous figure. "Who would have dream
ed eXclaims Brissot de Warville, in his pan
| egA ric, "this miserable wanderer would be-
come one of the legislators of America, the
ornament of the new world, the pride of
modern philosophy, and an ambassador to the
richest, most powerful and enlightened ma
tions in the universe"