, 1870-05-31

while IN Eorfo1l, met An old gentleman
residins n Westmorelnd County, who gave
me- aome intervetfng bits Of history concerning
tia family Of Robert E. Lee. These are use
fu1 to demonstrate what has been said o.
the renegade character OF e1-plantsrs
families here.
! Tho great Leo family was far more conse
| quentiA than the Washington family, AMI
| sprung from one Richard Lee, who settled OF
l tho Lower Potomac, with slaves. about 1910
! and whose greAt-g1andsons were HchArs
| Henry, Francis Lightfoot, and Arthur, al biz
| patriots in Office OF harness. "Light Horse
Harry Lee, father Of tho great rebel General
! was OF an obscure, collateral branch Of ths
| Lee family, and he had two crops OF children
having married twice. The first crop was
I headed by Henry Lee, and in the second cror
| came Robert E. Lee. The history Of the lat
| ter we all know; but few have ever heard oi
his half-brother, Henry. Henry Lee was I
fox-hunting gentleman, who Bedueed a young
lady OF Westmorelaud County. and then 70.
fused to marry her- He spent tho whole o1
his large property, and, when not fo1-hnnting
figured in small way in literature. At las
he was reduced so low that he petitionea for
foreign l1inistership, and wss nominated fol
II by Jackson: but his enemies followed hin
to Washington, exposed his peccadilloes; and
the Senate rejected him. He had already
gone abroad with his wife, fully expect.
ing 10 10 confirmed, and it is supposed thai
hc lived IN e1tromc penury and romorse il
Paris; Tor he never returned to tho United
states. This was planter Lee. The lady he
seduced wns also a famous 5o1 and raccoou
hunter, and she married afterward planter OF
means, vino was good type Of the more mod.
crn East ViEginian. This man, whom wo will
call Sparks, lived u dishonored social life on
account Of his wife, but he was able, with his
money, to get together any number Of carous-
ing men to dinner. Nearest his place, which
if mistake not, was the identical residence OF
one Of tho great Loes, stood one OF those old
Episcopal churches, built of imported bricks,
which had fallen somewhat into decay because
Of the lsziness OF their clergy and the loss OF
their glebe-lAnds. The man Sparks wanted
the bricks Of that church to build barn, and
he took advantage OF &e presence Of the
County Magistrate, tipsy with the rest, to pro-
pose that they Het the ancient house Of God
on fire. It vas hailed as a right good blasphe-
nous proposition, and ont they went with
| torches and Slaves to smoke the bats and owls
from their habitation.
'4My father WAS present" said my inform
! ant, ''When they put the fire to the fine old
/ structure, and have often heard him Bay that
| it was as calm weather when they fred it as If
| al tho wind waa lead. But as soon as the
flames jumped up through the oak rafters and
got into the thick cobwebs under the shingles,
there blew up breeze that took that fire and
| swept It across long lot, and in twinkling
the woods around the dwelling OF Sparks was
! ablnzc."
"Did it burn tho rascal's house up 2" said +,
e1citedly.
sNo! they got it ont before thst!~
"ob, pshaw! That didn't end Liza the
books I hare read about wicked men,"
EpyrAp11s AND THEIR MORAL
These and similar stories can ba told os avarv
parish in Virginia. and if thero il apv oeao,, l.,
them it is the terrible leaaor ~ ;dionaa. ~ =
~, 10 Of getting some other bo5v,a hsnJs ~ ~
,,,l n. d,do;1, - -. ~
w. w o"a 49, = ua..a an -
~ a''' anu eo'e'us . oieao "4tnous 'ne s"ea' VI
~ +, D'o". s,.a aa sosSn oei'ie
'ai lne piau1e17 !ust a1ter
1ne Ae'olu'ion "eie 'ne @ pfiuo; sqen
e.uuaSon1 -, " 'o-uaS are 'no t1u' NJ"
WILL II pe"ltn tne eenerauon OF 1spstuato1s VINO
are JOGGING the same curse to-day? How with
thelf cmlorenf Ihey are Keeping up pomp
anu le'sure by means as inaidious and not
more oeenca than was the slave labor Of the
das OF Tue great planters. How with tho pro-
'essionA Pohticlans, the acheming men, all
who are at work to circumsent the great PEN
a'ts OF our human nature? Work is the only
sure rue OF man and society, and thrift il the
only comfortable guide to leisure. Hoaven
he'p US al WHO know this 30 well and do not
Practice It!
Lanoin6 at Fortress Monroe, I ran up to
hampton and old Yorktown, and looked in .
naeancholv but other~ise listless way at the
sounding inscriptions on some old tombs.
mere vas ono which stood at Yorktown:
q 1s5s tnn1n eooca OF sns fa11sh, dyed octoh-
Within this tomb there doth Inferred l,a
~ ~ saIt snapG th nnt substance, true nobility;
Yst g1scet Win Writes moral and dvIne!
The II shnIsh ;Ias; from him dd good participate
H. s, ~. ...s ~ .1a": ~ o1uuu sGa'
.;,;a.. ."'s.s s' 4..o" tuuen u osAo aoo po-
aTh,s ,s...1 sta.a ~ .taupton .o"n:
Scholtnn. Eso Iieurcnat and
Of Virginia, III memory Of Peter HERMAN. Esn..
e ,D1 o. Sil rcteI neyman Of sumaettela 10
IONS ID vc lower district of lanes ixep ~ M 5i r
voluntarily on boart, re Kings ship Shorehan, In
affsr t.. IT wnd 1sested THIS coast
daunted courage, was killed VIII smsIl shot s W.
g day Of Aprll, 17oo. In the cnsaacment he stood
hcre 10 th upon !9s Sna5r and
The Governor Vas bound to be nernetuated
in the tombstone!
CRABS AT HAMPTON.
II sou want to be murdered outright, 90
from Fort Monroe up to Hampton Village,
two miles. and ask any young gentleman tie
question: