c , 41.---WHO- BY E. P. WALTON SON. MONTPELIEK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1850. VOL. XLIV, NO. LE NO. 2290.

iDatcljman & State journal. were not open half the year, and the school- Such diffidence to its own powers may be and other necessary expenses, by acting as milted to practice, in Suffolk Court of Com cease. He was of a manly and generous not among the least, their early acquisitions masters had no claim to their position but natural to genius, nervously fearful of being assistant to the Register of Deeds for the mon 1'leas. lhe custom then prevailed character, and of a deportment and manner in literature, the resources which it furnish- their incapacity for any thing else. Their unable to reach that ideal which it propos county, to whose chirography there was the for the patron to accompany his pupil into to gain him great consideration among all ed, the promptitude and facility which EVERT THURSDAY MORNING. it PUBLISHED qualification was the want of qualification. es as the only full accomplishment of its one objection of illegibility. The ache is Court, introduce him to the Judges, make that knew him. In civil and military life, communicated andthe wide field it opened, Reading and writing were all they profess- wishes. It is fortunate for the age, fortu- not yet out I hare beard Mr. Webster a brief speech in commendation of studi he obtained deserved distinction. Judge of for analogy and TERMS 61.50 rub in sdsance : S?.00 If payment ii not illustration; giving them tntda in adsaoee; Interest always charged from tbe eod of ed, and more than they were able to teach. nate for all ages, that Mr. Webster, by de- say which so much writing caused him. ous conduct and attainments, and then the Court of Common Pleas for twelve or tfausVa every subject, a larger view, and a we rear The school was migratory. When it termined will and frequent trial, overcame In September, 1802, he returned to Mr. move for his admission On Mr. Webster's fourteen years, he made good, by the integ- broader range, as well for discussion, as for was in the neighborhood of Webster's resi- this moral incapacity as his great proto Thompson's office, in which lie remained admission, one informs me that he recollects rity of his purpose, the clearness of his the governmeut of their own conduct." iHisccIlancoii0. dence, it was easy to attend ; but when it type the Grecian orator, subdued his physi till February, 1804. Mr. Thompson was a almost every word of Mr. Gore's speech, judgment and thestrength of his character, was removed into another part of the town cal defect. respectable man, and an excellent lawyer aud that it contained, among other things, the want of early education; and gained Prosperity of the or another town, as was often the case, it He remained at the Exeter Academy but but he did not understrnd how to make the 'a prediction of bis pupil's future profession- - for his opinions and decisions a confidence United States. EXTRACT FROM AN ARTICLE ON was somewhat difficult. While Mr. Web- a few months; accomplishing in those few study of law either agreeable or instructive. al distinction. In all probability the pre and concurrence not always accorded to The London Examiner, discoursing upon this Jbject has the following : ster was yet quite young, he was daily sent mouths, however, the work ofyears to some. He put his students to study after the old diction, as is generally the case, aided its persons professionally more learned. He DANIEL WEBSTER. " Tha prosperity is attractive, and it is the two or three miles to school, and in the In Feb., 1797, his fatfier placed him under fashion, that is, the hardest books first. own accomplishment. Certainly, the fav- was distinguished also in ms military career. BY CHARLES W. MARCH. boast. of so,neof the journals, that while tha midst of winter, on foot. For carriages or the tuition of Rev. Samuel Woods, in Bos-- Coke s Littleton was ths bonk in those days orable opinion of such a man as Mr. Gore entering the army a private, he retired a members of Congress are daily threatening a From the New York Courier hj vetch joornal it in tskeo carriage roads then, " were not ;" and with cawen of whom his pupil always speaks in upon which pupils were broken in which must have been an additional incentive to major; and won his commission by laithlul dfesoluti'in ot the Union, neighborinrr from tbe sheets of the unpublished work, now ia press. states and the exception of an occasional ride on terms of affection and respect. He boarded is like teaching arithmetic by beginning Mr. Webster's ambitious hopes and efforts. and gallant service, as well in the Revolu- countries are anxious to be admitted members of Canada, Daniel Webster was born on the 18th horseback, he walked daily to school and in his family ; and I have heard him say with differential calculus. "A boy of i!U, The clerk of the Court of Common Pleas tionary, as in the French and Indian wars. it. talks of annexation ; California is pressing for admission; Cuba is ready day of January, 1782, in the town of Salis- back. If the school moved yet farther oft, that Mr. Woods's whole charge for instruc- says Mr. vvebsler, " with no for the county of Hillsborough, New Hamp- He acted as majur under Stark at Benning- to join it, previous and is only withheld by the power ofSpain, bury, New Hampshire. His earliest ances- into-- a town not contiguous, his father board- tion, board, was but one shire, resigned his office in 1805. ton, and contributed no little to the fortu- and die, dollar per Knowledge on such subjects, cannot under January, the moJesty and integrity of tl e United tor, of whom the family have any certain week. Stafes ed him out in a neighboring family. He We pay much dearer now for much stand Coke. It is folly to set him upon Mr. Webster's father was one of the Judges nate result of that day. in refusing to accede to its wishes, and knowledge, was Webster. to grant Thomas He was better provided with opportunities for less. such an author. There are P'opositions in of this court ; and his colleagues, from re- In May, 1807, Mr. Webster was admitted tome assistance to accomplish them. Mexico was settled in Hampton as early as IG36. obtaining whatever of instruction these ; "It was on their way to the house of Mr. Coke so abstract, and dbUoCtionJ-e- nice, gard forjiim, tendered his sou the vacant as attorney aud counsellor of the Superior has laid aside, it is said, its hostile feelings, and its people The descent from him to Daniel Webster schools could impart' than hiselder brrthers, J Woods that his.,fjtlier first ,opened to him and doctrines embracing so many conditions clerkship. It was what Judge Webster had Court in. New Hampshire, and in Septem are looking earnestly and anxiously to au3'irre-pressilJ- e, incorporation. Central America can be found recorded in the Church and partly because he evinced early i his design of sending him to college apur-- and qualifications, that it requires an effort long desired. The office was worth $1,500 ber of, that year relinquished his office in is soIici!in a closer connexion, and hoping for town Records of Hampton, Kingston, thirst for study and information, pose" which seemed to him impossible to be not only ot a mature tritid, but ot a minu per annum, which was in those days, and Boscawen to his brother Ezekiel, who had the time to come when it shall form a Dart of tbo Rn- - (now East Kingston) und Salisbury. and partly because his father thought that fulfilled. It was much more extravagant both strong and mature, to understind him. in that neighborhood, a competency; or then obtained admission to the bar, and mo- - freat f public that is to stretch over the whole conti- - The family came originally from Scotland his constitution was and somewhat than his by.tcll-in- g rather absolute wealth. Mr. Webster him to Portsmouth, according to his original slender most extravagant hopes. It had Why disgust and discourage a boy yed J nent. Evenls are advancing rapidly, though the two centuries ago and more. It is probable ch so for any robust occupation. never entered his mind a moment. A colle him he must break into his profession self considered it a great prize, and was intention Congress may sland still. Society will not wait however, from certain circumstances, that But Joe, his elder half brother, and some- giate education iu those days was something through such a wall as this V eager to accept it. He weighed the ques- He married in June, 1S03, Grace Fletch lor its leave to live, and thrive, and grow, and they tarried in England awhile, before emi- what of a wag, used to say that " Dan was ;ol tar greater importance than in these, Mr. Webster soon laid aside Coke till "a tion in his mind. On the one side he saw er, the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Fletcher, will, in some way or other, settle the slavery question ; perhaps before Con grating to the new world. They did not sent to school in order that he might know when the ability to command it is so gener more convenient season," and, in the mean- immediate comforts; on the other, at the of Hopkinton, N. H. By her he had four jres3 his done talk- ing about it. In America it is seen bring over with them all the distinguish- as much as the other boys." al. It made a marked man of thousands. while, took up other more plain, and best, a doubtful struggle. By its acceptance children, Grace, Fletcher, Julia, and Ed more than eisy in Europe that society moves faster than legisla- ing characteristics of their countrymen; Mr. Webster had no sooner learned the fortunate he made sure of his own good condition, ward ; but one of whom, Hetcher, survives. to It gave graduate at once post iutellible authors. tion, and does not depend on that to regulate its the Scottish accent had become tra- and what was his Edward died with the army in AIcxico,1847, a mere read than he showed great eagerness for tion and innuence and it not genius, or While not engaged in the study of law, nearer to heart, that of future existence. Thus, while members of Con- dition at the time'of Mr. Webster's father's books. He devoured all he could lay hands eminent ability, supplied or concealed the he occupied himself with the Latin classics. his family. By its refusal, he condemned Major of the Massachusetts Regiment of gress are threatening dismemberment, there is father. upon. When he was unable to obtain new want thereof. The alumnus surveyed life He added greatly to what acquisitions be 'both himself and them to an uncertain, and Volunteers, lie was one of the most gen- - gathering round the States as a nucleus other The personal characteristics of the fami- ones, he read the old ones over and over from an eminence, and could aspire to its had made in the language .while in college, probably, harrassing future. Whatever as- tlemanly, amiable, and honorable young states ready to adhere to it and increase it on ev- tide. ly are strongly marked: light complexions, again, till he had committed most f their chicfiest honors by a kind of prescriptive reading Sallust, Cssar, and Horace. Some pirations he might have cherished of pro men of the age. ery It is swelling too, by immigration from every quarter, and exhibiting the extraordinary sandy hair in great profusion, bushy eve-bro- contents to memory. Books were then, as right. odes the which fessional distinction, he was willing cheer- Mr. Webster lived in Portsmouth nine of latter, he translated into spectacle of men of nearly evry lineage of tha and blender rather than broad frames, Dr. Johnson said " Most for fully to relinquish, to promote the immedi- years, one mouth. 1 he counsel on some occasions, like grateful to his father the pros- English, were published. wanting earth being harmoniously absorbed by the great attest tbe Teutonic and common ate welfare those he held dear. most at the bar the county at origin of bread iu a besciged town; every man might pect held out through his self sacrificing de But books were not at this time of his of most eminent of Anglo-Saxo- family, nnd becoming one with, it. the race. Dr. Noah Webster the compil- get a mouthful, but none a full meal." votion. Air. iv ebster applied himscll to his life, as they nerer have been, Mr. Webster's But Mr. Gore peremptorily and vehe- that time were Jeremiah Mason, Edward The reverse of the phenomenon that occurred er of tbe Dictionary was, in personal ap What were obtained, were husbanded with studies with even increased ardor. All sole study. He then was fond, and has mently interposed his dissent. He urged St. Loe Livermore, Jeremiah Smith, Judge on the plains of Babel seems there in progress, pearance, the vera effgies of the whole f.nn- -. care. that Mr. Wood conld leach he learned. been through life, of the manly field sports, every argument against the purpose. He of the Superior Court and Governor of the and many, if not branches of all the various na- tions of united ily. Owing chiefly to the exertions of Mr. Among other books he read Virgil and Cic fishing, shooting and riding. exposed its absurdity and its consequences. State; William King Atkinson, Attorney the cartb, are to use one tongue These brought and live under one !aw." The uncles of Daniel Webster had the Thompson, (the lawyer of the place,) of the ero, both ol whom he laithlully studied, the him into near communion with Nature and He appealed to the ambition of his pupil : General of the Stale; George Sullivan.also same characteristics. They were fair hair- clergyman, and Mr. Webster's father, a very latter he warmly admired. Of tbe Latin' himself; supplied him with the material once a clerk, he said he would always be a Attorney General ; Samuel Dexter, aud ed and ofrather blender form. His father small circulating library was purchased. Classics, I presume there is not one so fa and opportuuity for thought; made him clerk there would be no step upwards. Joseph Story, of Massachusetts, all lawyers The Problem solved by the Bee3. however, was of a different physical organi- These institutions received an impetus miliarly known to iIr. Webster as Cicero. contemplative, logical and earnest. At a lie attacked him, too, on the side of his of much more than ordinary ability, and For advanced Scbolus ia Mathematics. look family affection ; telling him he would some of surpassing excellence. No bar at zation. No two persons could like about this time from the zeal and labors It may seem i. little strange, indeed, that subsequent period of his life, he found that that Bees secrete only a limited quantity of each be far more able to gratify his friends from that time, probably the country, present- wax, other less than Ezekiel Webster, the of Dr. Belknap, the celebrated hhtoriau of with all his early, eager, and constant study the solitary rides he was wont to indulge in in and it becomes requisite tint this should be em- father of Daniel, and either of his brothers. New Hampshire. of Rome's greatest orator, he should not afforded him many an edifying day. The his professional labors than iu the clerkship. ed such an array of various talents. Mr. ployed in the most economical manner Dos?ih!c They resembled their father, who had the Among the few books of the library, I have imitated unconsciously his manner of great argument iu the Dartmouth College " Go on," he said, " and finish your studies Webster s estimate of Judge atory and Mr. Bees, therefore," as one remarks, "have to Exe-ki- form solve this difficult problem : hereditary feature and form ; but el have heard Mr. Webster say, he found the expression or thought. He much more re case was principally arranged in a tour he you are poor enough ; but there are grea Mason, expressed in public, will not A quantity of wax being given, to form of similar Webster had the black hair and eyes, Spectator, and that he remembers turning sembles Demosthenes, in vigor and terseness made from Boston to Barnstable and back. ter evils than poverty ; live on no man's fa the least important nor least enduring mon it and equal cells of a determinate capacity, but of the largest size and complexion of his mother, whose mai- over the lea.es of Addison's criticism on of style, and in copious vehemence ; Philadel- vor ; what bread you eat, let it be the bread ument to their fame. It will outlast the whose Jolm Adams's speech before the in proportion to the quantity ot matter employed, den name was a de- for con- in of independence ; pursue your profession ; sculptured marble. For Mr. Mason, his liatcheldcr. She was Chevy Chase, the sake of reading works the meanwhile he never so com- phia Convention in '70, was composed by and disposed in such a manner as to occupy tlio make rival his friend al- pendent of the Iter. Stephen Batcheldcr. nectedly, the ballad, the verses of which pletely mastered. Mr. Webster, while taking a drive in a N. yourself useful to your friends, and a professional sometimes, least possible space in the hive." This problem little formidable to a warm regard as well a man famous in his time in the county of! Addison quotes from time to time, as sub- At Boscawcn, Mr. Webster was fortunate England chaise. His favorite sport of an- your enemies, and you ways, he entertained is solved by bees in all its conditions. "The cy- - Itockiugham and the towns adjiccnt. jects of remark. "As Dr. Johnson said iu enough to find another circulating library, gling gave him many a favorable opportuni- have nothing to fear." as respect. Mr. Mason was of infinite ad lindric'al form would seem to be the best adapt- V ed to the ehipe There are many persons now alive m Kings- at.olher case, the poet was read and the the volumes of which he fully appreciated. ty for composition. The address for Bunk- Diverted from his design by arguments vantage to him, Mr. ebster has said, in of the insect; but had the cells been cylindrical, they would ton who will tell you, they have heard their critic neglected. I could not understand It was iu this library that he met for the first er Hill (fur instance) was all planned out like these, it still remained to Mr. Webster Portsmouth, not only by his unvarying not have applied to each oiher witho'ut leaving a vacant and super-fluii- fathers she 1 milarslt-pc- to acquaint his father with his determina- friendship, but by the many good lessons he say, was a woman of uncommon why it was necessary that the author of the time, Don Quixote, iu English. " began even to many of its best passages, e space between every aud satisfy him its taught him, and the good example he set three comnmous strength of character, and sterling sense. Spectator should take so great pains to to read it," (1 have heard him say,) " and Brook; the orator catching trout and tion, of propriety. He cells. Had the cells, on the other felt this would be him iu the commencement his career. hand.been Daniel, and his only brother of the whole prove that Chevy Chase was a good story." it is literally true that I never closed my elaborating sentences at the same time. no easy task, as bis father of square or triangular, they might have been con " in- blood, alone of the five sous of Ezekiel The simple, but sublime story of Chevy eyes until 1 had finished it; nor did I lay A like fondness for solitary rambles and had set bis heart so much upon the office; If there be in the country a stronger etructed uilhout unnecessary vacancies, But dotermiued " Webster, .had the Batchelder complexion ; Chase, would be no indifferent test for the it down any time for five minutes; so great sequestered spots, is said to have character but he to go home immediately, tellect," Mr. Webster once said, If there these forms would havo both required more ma- and native terial, and been very unsuitiblo the others ran off into the general charac- discovery ol how much or how little of the was the power ofthis extraordiuaiy book up- ised Canning and Burke; who found their give him, in full, the reasons of his be a mind of more resources, if there to the shape of the bees' body. The d form of cell teristics of the race. poetic faculty there might be in an individual. on my imagination." fancies brightened and their philosophy in- conduct. be a vision that sees quicker or sees deeper the is obviaics every objection ; and while it fulfills the Many persons in Kingston and Salisbury fer- In the summer this 17-9- 7 It was midwinter, and he looked round into whatever is intricate, or whatever None but those who had some poetic of year, Augnsl, vigorated by this With cundilioiia ot the problems, it is equally stage-coach- es adapted, a, for a country sleigh for profound, I must confess I have not kuown still live who reccollect Ebenezer Webster vor could appreciate or even understand it ; he entered Dartmouth College as a fresh- them, as with the Roman Lawgiver, Ege-ei- at with a cylinder, to the shape of the bee. were unknown in cen- well. They say his personal appearance while those who felt its pathos, its beauty man. avoiding crowds and bustling life, was that tune, things the it." l lie base ot each cell, instend of forming a New Mr. Webster's while he lived in usually-compose- was striking. He was tall and erect; six and grandeur most, must needs have the His college life, as can be easily conceiv- to be met with only in solitude, bo true is tre of Hampshire and finding one practice, plane, is of three meces like a feet in height ; of a stalwart form, broad deepest sensibilities. A distinguished lite- ed, was not an idle one. With such a de- it that the intellectual man is never less that had come down to market, he took pas- Portsmauth, was very much of circuit the diamunda on playing cards, and placed in suJi mauiier as to form hollow and full in the chest. His complexion was rary character has said that he would have sire for the acquisition of all kinds of knowl- alone than when alone ; that to him his sage therein, and iu two or three days he practice. He followed the superior Court a a Dvrainid This stiucmre, it may be observed, imparts swarthy, features large and prominent with been prouder to be its author than of all edge, the danger to be feared was, that mind a kingdom is, & his own thoughts his was set down at his father's door. (The in most of the counties of the state, and a same journey is now made in four hours by was retained in nearly all the important greater uegree oi sircpgui, anu still keeping the a Roman nose, and eyes of remarkable bril- the productions from which he derived his he would undertake too much rather than most agreeable and instructive companions. lution ot" the problem in steam.) It vas evening when he arrived. causes. It is a tact somewhat singular ol view gives the great- liancy. He had a military air and carriage fame. Sir Philip "Sydney said he never too little; that his reading would be too In July, 1804, Mr. Webster went to Bos- est capacity wnhtbe smallest expenditure of ma- I have heard him tell the story of the inter- his professional life, that with the exception the result, perhaps, of his services iu readit but his heart was stirred within him miscellaneous, and that he would acquire ton, and, after some unsuccessful applica terial. This hai indeed, actually been ascer- instances which he has been associa the army. He enlisted early in life as a as at i.he sound of a trumpet. therefrom, habits of mental carelcsness. tions elsewhere, obtained admission as a view. His father was sitting before the of in tained by mathematical measurement, and cal ted the Attorney General the United common soldier, in the Provincial troops, Mr. Webster was early fond of poetry. From the testimony of his intimates in the student iu the office of the Hon. Christo- fire, and received him with manifest joy. with of culation. Maraldi, the inventor of glass hives, States for the time being, he had hardly ap- delermined by minutely and during the war of '56, served under He was not satisfied with reading it merely, college, it is known that In; read constantly. pher Gore, who had then just returned from He looked feebler thau he had ever appeared, measuring these angles, times counsel. Once mat ine greaier were u aciaiin., and Gen. Amherst, on the Northwestern fron- but committed a great deal to memory. Besides a regular attention to the prescrib- England, and resumed the practice of law. but his countenance lighted up on seeing peared ten as junior lua tha smaller, 70 3 30min., and Reamer, being desir- accompanying commander iu the he could ed rules and studies his fortunate for Web- his clerk stand before him in good health or twice with Mr. Mason, once or twice tier; that The whole essay on man recite of class, he devoted It was a most event Mr. ous know why these particular se- and spirits. He lost no time iu alluding to with Mr. Prescolt, and with .Mr. Hopkiu- - tj angles are invasion of Canada. lie attracted the at- verbatim, before he was fourteen years. A himself to the acquisition of whatever was ster. Mr. Gore was no less distinguished lected, requested Al. Kcemg, a skillful mathema- the appointment said how spontane- son, are the only exceptions within recollec tention and secured the good will of his su- habit of attentive exclusive devotion to the useful in English history, or graceful and as a lawyer than as a statesinaa and public- great tician, (without informing him of his design, or it had perior officers, by his faithful and gallant subjec'l before him, aided by a wonderful becoming iu English literature. He super- ist, eminent iu each character, and was, ously been made how kindly the tion. telling him of Miraldi's researches,) to deter- with unanim- Mr. ia New Hamp conduct ; and before the close of the war, memory, fixed everything deep in his mind. intended the publication of a little weekly besides, one of the rare examples of the chief justice proposed it, what Webster's practice mine, by calculation, what ought to be the an- uew.-pape- ity all assented, iSoc. this shire was never lucrative. Clients then and gles of a six tided cell, with rose from the ranks to a captaincy. Peace It is this art, or talent, or genius, that works r, making selections for it from highest intellectual qualities united with &c. During a concave pyramid- speech, it can be well imagined how em- there were not rich, and fees, consequently, al base, formed of three similar and equal rhom- between England and France soon follow the miracles we read and behold. He had books and periodicals, and contributing oc- sound, practical, keeu common sense. He barrassed Mr. Webster felt, compelled, as were not large ; nor were persons so litigi boid plates, so that the least possible matter ing the capture of Quebec and conquest of a great taste, too, for devotional poetry : casionally au editorial of his own. These knew mankind no less than boiks ; and the 6hould enter into the he thought, from a conviction of duty to ous as in places less civilized, by intelli- construction. By employ- Canada, the provincial troops were disband- Watt's Psalms and Hymns he committed to were, perhaps, the first of his productions wisdom he derived from the study of both, ing what geometricans denominate the infinitesi- disappoint his father's sanguine expecta- gence. Though his time was exclusively ed, and returned to their homes. memory, not as a religious task, but as a ever published. I know not if they are to he could impart, in most impressive lan- mal calculus, he found that the angles should devoted to his profession, his never t9 Previous to the year 17C3, the settle- pleasure. Nor was he less acquainted, or be met with now. He delivered some ad- guage. With him Mr. Webster enjoyed tions. Nevertheless, he commanded his practice 100 2t min. for the greater, and 70 34 mm. and his voice, so as to in him more than a livelihood. ments iu New Hampshire had made little less fond of the sublime poetry of the Bible. dresses while in college, before literary so- the best opportunity thus far of his life for countenance reply gave for the lesser, or about one thirtieth of a degree or no progress toward the interior of the Evidence of this is seen everywhere in his cieties, which were also published. studying books, and men, and things; and a sufficiently assured manner. He spoke lie never held otlice, popular or other, in more or less than the actual angles made choice about the office ; his the government of New Hampshire. He of by tbe bees ! Statej foi more than half a century the fit- works: for there is scarcely a speech or Ezekiel Webster the sole brother of be made the best use of the opportunity. gaily expressed great Honors, occasionally took in political affairs, ful eruptions of the French from Canada, production of his that does int contain ideas Dmitl of the whole blood was destined by He attended the session of the Supreme obligation to their and his inten part and the constant if not more cruel assaults' or expressions, the types of which may be his father to carry on the farm. But he had Court which sat in August of this year, tion to write thm a most respectful letter ; and was then not unlelt in his action. Ills French Merino Sheep. Mr. A. L. Bingham, could have consented was always given, his voice aud pen of Cornwall, of their subsidized allies the Indians re- found iu that book. other aspirations, and so had his brother for constantly, and reported all its decisions. if he to record any vote Vermont, gives the weight of wool in unwashed, obtained the present season pressed any movement inward, into the When he attained his fourteenth year, him. Accordingly, when Daniel returned He also reported the decisions of the Cir- body's judgments, he should have been sometimes exercised, favor of the party from 83 Merino Sheep, of the " Taimor Stock," together country. To defend what they held, by a his father took an important and decisive home on a visit in his sophomore year in the cuit Court of the United States. He read proud to have recorded their Honors', &c. whose principles he espoused, liven in that &c. He proceeded in this strain, till his early period of his life, however, when per with the aggreegatc live weight of carcass of kind of cordon militairc of Lluck houses, step with him. On the 515th of May, 189G, spring of '99, he held serious consultations diligently and carefully the books, general- the same sheep obtained after they shorn. father exhibited of amazement, it hav- haps something could be pardoned to the were was all the frontier men hoped. Ebenzer Webstpr mounted a horse, put his with his brother Ezekiel, in relation to his ly, of the Common aud Municipal Law, signs Twenty-seve- n of these are stated to have his he used no acrimoni been The cession of Canada to England how- son on another, and proceeded with him to wishes. and the best authorities on the Law of Na- ing occurred to him, finally, that son vehemence of youth, only ten months old when shorn. The aggre- his nor eighty-thte- e lbsrae-m- ever, by the treaty of Paris, in 17C3, remov- Exeter. He there placed him in Philip's It was resolved between them, that Eze tions, some of them for the third time, might all the while be serious. " Do you ous language of political opponents, gate of sheep, was 10,457 g intend to decline this office 1" he said suggested or participated in any act indica an average of 12G lbs. ing the great obstacle to farther progress Academy, then under the care of Dr. Benji-mi- n kiel should go to College, and that Danie! these studies with l vast variety at each. Aggregate weight of wool obtained from eighty-thre- e into the interior, the royal Governor of Abbott, its well known and respected should be the organ of communication with miscellanous reading. His chief study, length. " Most certainly," replied his son; tive of personal animosity towards them. tbe of sheep, Was 1,494 lbs., or on an lbs. V I cannot think of doing otherwise. I mean At thirty years ol age, he had become average of 18 New Hampshire, Benning entworth, be- President. their father on the subject. He lost no however, was the Common Lav, aud more each tleece, and two and to use my tongue in courts, not my pen ; to well known and respected throughout the ounces gan to make grants of townships iu the cen- The change was very great for a boy, time in opening the negotiation, and expe- especially that part of it which relates to of ool for each pound of carcass. be an actor, not a of other men's State; so much eo, that he was elected a The growth tral part of the State. who had never been away from home before rienced no great difficulty in obtaining the the science of Special Pleading. This, register of the fleeces is stated to have been just ono Representative the State Congress, Col. Stevens, with some other persons and who now found himself among some consent of his father, who lived only for his one of the most ingenious and refined, and actions." of in year, with the exception of the lambs which after an animated in November, about Kingston, mostly retired soldiers, ob ninety other boys a stranger among stran- children, to their design. The result was at the same time instructive and useful For a moment Judge Webster seemed contest, were but ten months old. The ewes, it is stated, 1812, aud took his seat the produce " tained a grant of the town ot Salisbury, men gers, all of whom had seen more of the that in about ten days, Mr. Webster had branches of the law, he pursued with devo- angry. He rocked his chair slightly, a flash at extra session three crops of lambs in two years." iti May, 1813. Albany Cultivator. called, from the princip.il grantee, Steven's world, and assumed to know much more of gone back to college, having first seen his tion. Besides appropriating whatever he went over iiis eye, softened by age, but even town. This town is situated exactly at the it than himself. But he was not long in brother bid adieu to the farm, and place could of this part of tbe science from Viner, then black as jet, but it immediately disap- has been written thus far, relates Every head waters of the Merrimac river ; which reconciling himself to this new change, and himself in school under a teacher in latin. Bacon, and other books then in common peared, .and his pountenance regained its What man, no matter how lowly he may ap- usual serenity. Parental love and partiali- rather to the private life of Mr. Webster ; pear to himself, might still endeavor tn produca river is formed by the conflueuce-o- f the Pe- - to his new duties. Soon afterwards Ezekiel went to Mr. Woods study, he waded through Saunders's Re- his something for the benefit or use of society ; re- migiwasset and Wiunepiseogee. Under this He was immediately put to English and remained with him till he was fitted for portsthe old folio edition and abstracted ty could not after all but have been grati- what follows concerns mostly, public; fied with the son's devotion to an honorable as gathered from the records and contem membering that an insect furnishes by its labor grant, Ebenezer Webster obtained a lot grammar, writing and arithmetic. A class- college. and put into English, out of tbe Latin aud materials wherewith form and distinguished profession, and seeming poraneous testimony. to the regal robes of situated in tbe north partof the town. More mate of his informed me that he mastered In March, 1801, his father carried him Norman-Frenc- h, the pleadings in all the kings. than others the company the principles and first, both ex- confidence of success in it. " Well, my But the ingenuous youth of the country adventurous of philosophy of the to college, where be entered the freshman reports. This undertaking, as an - who obtained grants, he cut his way deeper between Alay and October of that year class. ercise of the mind, aud as an acquisition son," said Judge Webster finally, " your should understand, that Mr. Webster, great D'lSltesnng Accident. On Tuesday last, Mr. has become without Lewis into the wilderness, making the road he and that in the other studies he made re- He had not great quickness of apprehen- of useful learning, was a great advantage mother has always said that you would come as he is, not so, great Paine, of Brownington, went out from his house to his siw-mi- he com- to something or nothing, she was not sure study. Greatness has not been thrust upon early in the morning, could not find. spectable progress in the autumn sion nor vivacity of intellect, and was not, to him in his succeeding professional ca- und a few and lighted which. I think you are now about settling him. He has studied books, he has studied hours afterwards was discovered in In 17C4, he built a log cabin menced the study of the Latin Language therefore early estimated at his full value. reer. the road by down which that doubt for her." The Judge never af- mankind, he has studied himself, (which is a stepp bank, he was his fire. " The smoke of which," his sou his first exercises in which were recited to But he had a strung mind, and great pow- An anecdote I have heard Mr. Webster enjaed roiling logs to bis mill, dead. U terwards spoke his son on the subject. the very fountain of all true wisdom,) deep- It has since said, " ascended nearer the North Joseph Stevens Buckminster, who was act- ers of observation and memory. He ac tell in relation to his 'first interview with a to supposed from appearances about the road and Mr. having thus reconciled his ly9 and conscientiously, from bis earliest star than that of any of his majesty's New ing, (in some college vacation, I think,) as quired slowly but safely. Not fluent of gentlemen, then and afterwards distinguish- Webster upon lhe side of the hill, that in starting logs to- Boston. youth. There has been no England subjects." His nearest civilized assistant to Dr. Abbott. speech, he was always correct in language ed in the history of the country, it may not father to his views returned to In unappropriated wards the mill, ho was run over and crushed to : none death. He neighbor in the Nortb, was at Montreal, It may appear somewhat singular that the and thought. Few excelled him in clear- be to relate here. " I remember March, following, having been admitted to time with him trifled away. Eveu leives a family to mourn his loss. improper in hours relaxation, has thought Iraaburgh I'hig. hundreds of miles oft greatest orator of modern times should have ness and vigor of style, none in argumenta- one day," says Mr. Webster, " as I was the bar as before stated, he went to Amherst the of he and methodized gleanings His first wife dying soon after his settle- evinced in boyhood tbe greatest antipathy to tive ability. He wanted but opportuuity to alone in tbe office, a man came in and asked N. H. where his father's court was then in of, the of the he home with Past, or prepared results lor the Future. ment in Salisbury, Ebenezer Webster marr public declamation. This lact is establish- become a great man. for Mr. Gore. Mr. Gore- was out, and be session ; from Amherst went ...... vuj' lug bad laid early and solid the foundation veteran clitpf. w4t0vnMt. w nfiliik, ied Abigail Eastman, of Salisbury, a lady of ed by his own words, which have recently . He fell dead while arguing a case iu sat down.to wait for bun. He was dressed his father. His design been to settle lie of ..... u u mi, ..wjulltnnl 111 .i. 0n, unwil- his tame. While the mind was eager and ships, sailed from Boston in the Asia on Wed- - Welsh extraction. She was the mother of appeared in print. " 1 believe," says Mr. Concord, New Hampshire, in 1829. A in plain grey, clothes. I wen, on with my in the practice at Poitsmouth; but . Daniel and Ezekiel ; and, like tbe mother Webster, I made tolerable progress in ling to leave bis father, who bad become facile to receive earnest impressions, he 1113 one nunoreu ana. stxty-eigbt- h " handsome monument was erected to his book, till be asked me what. I was reading, voyage across the Atlantic of George Canning, was a woman of far attended while infirm, and bad no sons at home, be opened sought after everything in the way of learn Ocean within tba most branches which I to, memory iu Boscawen, where he was buried. and coming along up to the table, took the twelve years last past. Allowing the more than ordinary intellect. She was au office Boscawen, near his father's res- ing, that was elevated, and enno- distance in this school ; but there was one thing I Mr. Webster while in college, during the book and looked at it. ' Roccm,' said be, at sincere, to ne miles he has sailed within the period and commenced his bling, to fill and satisfy it. He pursued no tjw proud of, and ambitious of her sons; could not do. I could not make a declama- winter vacations, kept school, to pay the ' de navidus et nando.' Well, I read that idence, and the practice of named, over 500,000 miles, averaging- - one trip tbe both acquir- study he did not comprehend ; undertook distinction they afterwards tion. I could not speak before the school. collegiate expeuses of bis brother as well as book too when I was a boy ; and proceed- profession. each 25 days. re- task to which he did not devote his ed, may have been, in part, at least, tbe The kind & excellent Buckminister sought his own. Being graduated in August 1801, ed to talk not only about 'ships and freights,' Judge Webster lived but a year after bis no whole sult ; long mind. Whatever he strove after he acquir of her promptings. especially to persuade me to perform the be immediately entered Mr. Thompson's but insurance, prize, and other 'matters of son's commencement of practice rarlnrf .C.nn.J I r .L n:.. exercise1 however, hear bis. first argument ed, and whatever he acquired, he retained. of declamation, like other boys, office in Salisbury, as student of law, and maritime a manner to put me- - up to burg" papers of Tuesday, that all tho cotton fac- law, in was early seeking It was the great desire of Ebenezer Web- but I eould not do it. Many a piece I com- remained there till Jauuary following. The to all I knew,, and a good deal more. The in court, and to be gratified with confident It this, aud constant tories of Alleghany c.ty have been s opped, throw- ster to give his children an education. A mitted and rehearsed in predictions of his future success. Then, after knowledge, this desire unsatisfied with ing about 1100 hands employment. to memory, res axgusti domi seemed then to require grey-coat- turned out to be Mr. out of stranger acquisition x man of strong powers of mind and much my own room, over and over again ; yet that be should go somewhere" and do some- ttufus King." like Simeon of old, be gathered up bis gar- this nursuit.that u not tune that a suitably regulated tiriu practical experience himself, he still bad when, school was ments and died. determined his intellectual character, and should protect. the capital employed in manufac- when the day came, tbe thing to earn a little money. An applica- In March, 1805, Mr. Webster was ad-- industry of felt deeply and ofteu the want of early edu- declamations, when my He died in April, 1806. Exposure to prepared him tor any encounter with tures and keeo in emolovment the collected to bear tion was at this time made to him from the thecount'ry. cation, and wished to his Jilbork-l- tbe spare sons tbe name was called, and I saw all eye turned Fryeburg, Maine, to take the charge of a It is said I know eot ODM "what bU as tb. hardships of a frontier life, more severe world. What be has said of Adams and mortifications he experienced. The school- could myself from it. etaloc drew iu sea It 1 yrtirahrly larg, fct was fceaxd to than we can now any idea of, tbe Jeflerson, might be applied with equal to my seat, I not raise school there. He accepted tbe offer, mount- scums, veaeimM : com to entertain truth mar- mi jm e Frederic VII of Denmark, it seems, bos master was not then abroad, or at least had Sometimes smiled, sometimes a Tecmet HsTtn hasuibautesjwry HnksurtiMM fivations and labors-b- suBeredand under to himself. we could now ascertain the instructors ed bis horse, and 'commenced his labors on ftMfama. "If ried maker. Ho, has already hid two not visited Salisbury in bis travels: Small rear lises, ttat mvgmt men am Joyces) qmj." a all causes which gave a mantau - frowned. Mr. Buckingham always pressed reaching Fryeburg. His salary was 1350 LdeaUcsl BeoleacesyaSMarod aJUnraida ia lb Boji&ai-fcka- went in the Indian wars, and the war of tbe the them eminence wives, from of; whom baa been divorc- I eca net town schools is R.p.vnlnli'nn hmrl - . ..- -. there were, it true, and per- and intreated me most winoingly that I per annum, all of which he saved as he ACKVOOO, Is wMU Seels M H LASrO WSJ WM Blssuibilitr tor hrnlma in nnrui & ennsititn. and distinctian, in the midst of the great -- .i '.mi : i. : in tha alattf oi sons superintending them called teachers Ue story. At least. (Meuny vita tit ItsW-- Si m . would venture, but I never could command made besides a sufficient sum tc pay board im, iMM Irrcalf. tion naturally robast, and hastened his de- - men with whom they acted, we should find Dnmirlc." lucut a non lucendo. But tbese schools sufficient resolution."