Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-01
The North AmcFican,.


sent quarter presents the following tabl,
of contents. abraham hincolu,"l 9Th,
Early Church and Slavery 'tThe Records
of Venetian Diplomacy" "Girsrd COlleg,
and its Founder,9 'The Foundation of tn,
Roman Empire" 1.-THE National Resour
ces, " "Pslfrey's History of New England, :
Natural Theology as Positive Science !
"Heraldry in New England" !" ''Aristocratic
opinionsiOf Democracy" gCritical Notes. =
This is the first appearaRse of the Nort1
American aince its ownership was trans.
ferred to Messrs. TicknofE Field, and
judging from thsnnumber before as, it will
suffer none from the change, but rather
enter upon a.wider field of usefulness and
prosperity, Certainly during the fifty
years of its existence, uuder the manage.
ment of the lamented Everett, Tudor and
other gifted minds, this sterling Review
has furnished no better number than that
for the present quarter.
To the general reader, perhaps the arti.
ole on Stephen Girard will be found of the
most interest. This paper is based upon
Henry w. Arey's and Stephen Simpsons
biographical sketch of him, and evidently
written by one who himself knew the man
and OWNED his inner life and thoughts.--
The article opens with sketch of the great
bankers childhood recollections, of which
wereall through his.eveniful career tttiuged
with bitterness.n Deprived ofthe sight of
one eye at the age Of eight years, a circum.
stance that exposed him to the taunts of
his companions; early subjected to the
domineering ways of p harsh stepmother,
and uncared for generally, the future found.
er of the wealthiest public Institution in
the New World, left home Sa willfnl, arbf
trary and irascible boy" After following
the sea for some time, he Settled 10 Phila
delphis, which was ''absolutely nothing to
him but a working place" where s'he rose
in the morning with bat a single object,
and that was to labor SO hard ali day as to
be able to sleep all night" The charac-
teristics developed by his early training
Or rather, lack of, training, manifested
themselves, and to all around him he be-
came q repulsive man, considered close
listed, overbearing, aud deficient of the
irst instincts ofgenerOsity OF humanity.
His temper was violent, his presence for
bidding, his usual manner ungracious, his
will inhexible, his heart untender, his i'm.
agination dead. He was odious to many
of his fellow citizens, who considered him
the hardest and meanest of men. He had
lived among them fol, half q century, bat
sbPalsaA 10 Inofes 9 ti1ad eIalN IN 1890
sl1sustu ~ o. laeF III epokSSlEf a H<9-olI
accents and 5accomp ahied his words with a
French shrug and French gesticulation.-
Surrounded with Christian churches which
he had helped to build, he remainedj a
sturdy unbelieVer, and possessed the COM
plete works of only one man, Voltaire. He
made it point of duty to labor on Sunday,
as good example to others. he made no
secret of the fact that he considered the
idleness of Sunday an injury to the people,
moral and economical. He would have
opened his bank on Sundays, ifany would
have come toit. For his part he required
no rest, and would have none. He never
Travelled. He never attended public assem-
blies or amusements. He had no affections
to gratifyi no friends to visit, no curiosity
to appease, no tastes to indulge He held
in utter Aversion and contempt the costly
aud burdensome ostenlationr of a great es.
tablishment, fine equipages, and a retinue
of ofservsnts; that he REDUCED himself to q
money making machine, run at the mini
mum of expense;-and we have an expla.
nation of his rapidly, acquired wealth. he
used 70, boasts after he was q millionaire,
of wearing the sane overcoat for fourtee n
winters; and one Of his clerks, who cav
him every day for twenty years, declares
that he, never emembered having seen him
wear new looking garment but once.