Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-04-15

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reason have ever done more thar 5i.
duced those who listened TO PrenrEs /
to recur to mis- matchless excelleE ,e,
and assert ais unTivaled greatness.
PREM ss IN NEW ORLEANS. +
Prentiss went to New Orleans, and
in the arcade in that city, after a
week OF fearful debauchery, addressed |
5ast throng lie swoOncd at the
conclusion Of one OF the sublimess
passages thai ever fell from moral !
lips. RestOEativas were used, GId,
when he was still pale as death and
his eyes we're almost lusterless, and
his form upheld by friend, he said
in broken accents full of melody that
lie had swoC hed because overplg tered
by the spleldor of woman's harms,
end in sheer gratitude for wUman's
boundless applause.
MS ADMIRATION rOR CLAY,
His admiration for Henry Claws
character and intellect was bound'e5s.
II was the only superstitieus reverence
he ever INDUCED. He deemed fr. |
Clay more than mortal, and be It e-
fore The majesty Of his immortal worth
IS If the great Kentuckian were god.
The story is trite but illustrative, not
only of Prentiss' generous admiration
of true greatness, but 0f the marvellous
eadiness and aptnesR of his ilustra-
ions of a passion of the moment.
When Mr.. Clay was at the st. Charles,
anda mighty multitude were gathered
atout the massive hotel, all eager tOi
hear the voice and behold the majestic
forms of tbc sage ard statesman OF
Kentucky, Prentiss was seen leaning
against q column near which Mr..
Clay was expected to appear. Prem
! tiss was recognized and the multitude,
ever eager to listen TO his eloquen. ut
terauces, cried cut, "Prentiss,h Prem
Hss.n He came into the presence of
tn tumuItuOus assembly, and, lifting
hi hand, there was stiffness and pro-
found silence as when the sun rises
above the unruffled ocean after night
OF storm and tempest. Prentiss was
silent till every eye in that mighty
throng was fixed upon his own. Point
ing to the majestic form of Henry Clay,
who appeared at the moment, he sal !,
in tones of tremulous earnestness that
rang and echoed and resounded like a
trumpets clangor: "When the eagle
scars in the mid heavens, owls and
bats are seen no more" He disap-
peared, and Henry Clay filled the
place, and as no other American that
has lived, save Patrick Henry, could
have done-held an audience spell
bound when the echoes Of Prentiss
voice had died away in the distance.
a PAIR OF STRANGE BEDFELLoWs.
McNutt was wonderful man-Hea'
ven-endowed, like Prentiss, with
wonderf i intellect. McNutt-we give
impressions made in early boyhOOd-
wc.s almost another Webster. In ma
; tiee intellect he was surely BentOn's
peer. His body and brain were mas
| siye, and the machinery of his intellect
moved with terrible force and steadl'
ness and directness that swept every
thing save the lightning that flashed
from Prentiss' brain from the path In
which it moved. MeNutt, like Prem
tiss, was often intoxicated. In fact
McNutt, VINO stood as steady and mo.
tionluss rs a mountain, never moving
muscle when he addressed ne people
often staggered about dirty, druDk-
: EN- sot. 1t once happened hat Prem iss
and McNutt We're in the $ me village
and at the same tavern. t was he
only possible abiding-plac. for stra G.
ers, and mine host had only a single
apartment and a single Ded, and tEis
was already occupied by the drunken
giant, McNutt. Prentiss' personal and
partisan aversion to McNutt was well
known, and the tavern-keeper hesitat-
ed and stammered when he stated to
Prentiss that he could give him no
place unless he shared Mcnutt's bed.
Prentiss looked steadily at the tTemb-
ling boniface, and with the utmost ap-
parent earnestness said, that he was
twell pleased with the arrangement.
| have often been drunk, have taken
whisky by the pint and by the gallon,
| I have taken Il from tumble"s and
bottles and jugs, and have intr Dduced
it into my system by every possible
means, save by absorption, and to-
morrow morning, II am sober enough
after sleeping with McNutt, will tell
YOU how / like this mode Of imbiba-
tion.n He aud McNutt slept together
the great intellectual monster and
the facile, wiry, elegant gentleman of
iauItless and matchless genius.
PRENTIss AND FO0TE.
Another story, reclted in stage
coach by Judge Heydenfeldt, now of
California, when the writer Of this was
a Juvenile, produced lasting impress
sion, Henry s. FoOte was one q lhe
few men who dared to encounter Pren.
siss at the hustIngs. Mr.. Foote had
spant some time In Texas, and written
a book, two volumes, entitled Texas
and Texans" Prentiss, by WY of an-
swer to a hard story told by FoOte,
which we cannot reproduce, though
Heydenfeldt said 1t was inNnitab.e,
and as recited In the stage-coach, will
never be forgotten by the ten inside
passengers-Prentiss said, In reply TO
Eoote, that near his home there lived
an honest, piOus farmer, who had an
unruly son. The boy was mperviOug
to the rod, and mischlevous and un-
governable to the last degree. Weary
Of inflicting corporal punishment, tLe
old man told the boy one morning tina.
ifhe did not abandon his evil practices,
he would make him read every day
page aud half of Foote'S book. The
boy was naturally heightened, said
Prentiss, but soon lapsed into his evil
practices. The father was forced to ex-
ecnte | threat. "And assure you,
my felIow-citizens," said Prentiss,
''that tue spirit ofthat boy was broken,
He never was worth a-afterward.n
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