Western Reserve Chronicle, 1855-12-05

On Wednesday last, a neatly dressed, very prepossessing, an I prettily spoken womau. somewhere between sweet six sixteen - teen sixteen and twenty-five years of age, drove np to the door of the Insane Hospital, over which Dr. presides, and en enquired - quired enquired for that gentleman. She was ushered into the reception room, where she awaited the coming of the Doctor with an air of nonchalance which rather facinated the servant, who looked upon her with eyes of admiration and unfeign unfeigned - ed unfeigned pleasure. When left alone she amused herself a woman always will in grat gratifying - ifying gratifying her curiosity by inspecting the various articles in the loom critically and thoroughly. The Doctor being announ announced, - ced, announced, she received him with one of those bewildering smiles which some women know so well how to bestow, and whose influence no man of feeling can resist. The Doctor welcomed herwith more than his usual warmth, and soon learned the object of her visit. She had come, she said, with a glance full of melancholy, and a ton" of more than woman y lenderress, to asceitain of the Doctor, in person, whether she could secuie private quaiteis for her husband, who was subject to intense fits of aberration of mind, but whose conduct towards her, bitter and cruel as it was, could not alienate her love for him. which was tLe all pervaJiug passion of her seul. He had grown so violent of Lie, that she wished to have him secured from violence to himself as well as to hsr, (and here the charming creature wept for some moments.) and if she could make an arrangement' with the Doctor, she urged that il should be kept as private as his most secret tl oughts, and her husband beyond the scrutiny of visitors. And then she said her heart would break, she knew it would, and wept bitterly and long. The Doctor, as all who know his kind and tender heartedness, will readily im imagine, - agine, imagine, was not insensible to the touching recital of his visitor, and with that frank frankness - ness frankness which always characterizes him, he promised to comply with her wishes, to give her husband a private apartment and his special care ; and also to shield him from the gaze of curiosity seekers who run down public Inst lution;. The lady was not long in arranging terms ; she was not long in expressing her thanks, inte 'mingled with tears; she was Ijng in settling the details of her husband's confinement ; she as not lonjr, in shor, oftain.j her leave. And O 3 as she stepped info her carriage, aided by the kind h.nd of the doctor, she turned her beautiful face towards biin, and cast upon him a glance ihat was full of tenderness and solicitude, and in inspired - spired inspired him anew wi.h admiration and pity. The carriage drove away, the doctor's eyes following, amid the clouds of dust which followed in its wake, until it was entirely lost to view. Down to the bridge, along the crowdd thoroughfare, over the pebbled" way of Chestnut street, to a fashionable, if not the fashionable jewelry establishment of our city, ihe carriage passed, its sweet and solitary inmate glancing out and smiling within, and rowinr radiant with a thought that require another paragraph to learn. She alighted, and glided icto the ba bazaar - zaar bazaar of gold and silver and precious stones, with all the stateliness of a queen. One or two of the gentlemanly attend attendants - ants attendants ran to learn her wish. She wanted to select a set of silver ware, not too elaborate in design of workmanship, nor nor yet too plain, something neat, laste laste-ful - ful laste-ful and beautiful. The various pat patterns - terns patterns were shown, and a set valued at S5J0 was selected by the lady of the stately tread. She desired the articles put up, a bill made out, and she would settle it. Her wishes were complied with, and the lady took out ber elegant porte monnaie, but alas ! there were but about $40 ia it. She had picked up her wrong porte monnaie, she sai, wiih be bewitching - witching bewitching sweetness, and she was vexed" at her stupidity. She, however, could arrange iu She was the wife of Dr. , the principal phy-ician of the Insane Hospital, and she desired her attendant to accompany her to that place, when rhe would pay him at once. Who could resist such a request from a beautiful woman a request spoken as much with the eyes, as the voice ? Not the clerk, certainly. The two got into the carriage together, and br.ck it whirled to the Hospital. The lady jumped from the carriage, and was wannlv -'reeled by ihe doctor, who! . " I was at tr.e entrance. . " Doctor, this is my husband." said j sh. with an a r al once sweet and sor rowful. The poor attendant started. He was . . wv is .1 1 struct aghast, lie couu noi laitiom uer meaning. . -, . -

section, and they wished not to give it up. " Ah, gentlemen," said Tatnall, with a bland smil", after their offer had been made, " that price was not a fixed one ; that was only a sum named two days ago, for acceptance or rejection at that time. I gave no claim for refusal. I cannot sell for that now." " Are you in earnest ?" asked Mr. Farnsworth. " I am, most assuredly." ' Ai.d for what will you sell now?" "You may have the whole for twenty twenty-two - two twenty-two hundred dollars." " But, sir," uttered Bidgely, " this is monstrous. The mills may not return us a cent for years. Why, sir, for six yean;, at least, you will make more by the mills than we shall." " That is looking farther ahead than is needed," replied Tatnall; " the prop properly - erly properly is worth what I have asked." ' But jou will lake off something ?"' " No sir." " You will say two thousand ?" "Not acent less than twenty-two hun dred." Both the young men saw that Tatnall wt a trying to overreach them, but thej did not give, vent to their feelings, for they wanted the mill privilege much. They examined the natuie of the land uji and down the river, and thej found that for many miles il as a rich, deep intervale, and such works as they meant to put up would surely make a large vil age there in a few years. And the circumjacent upland was good, being beaa'iiully divided into undulating tracts, and bearing a heavy growth of sugar maple. But they were not pre prepared - pared prepared to pay a sum which they knew was forced upon them through necessity. Many a man would almost give them the mill privilege iu consideration of the benefit that would thereby accrue to the otLer property. The two young men pointed out to Mr. Tatn .11 all this ; they told hftn they weregoinj. to embark their little all in th i enierpri-e, nd that they should have nearly all their motley paid out if they gave him such a price for their property'. But he cared not for that. The result of the conference was, that the young men wanted a week to con sider the matt- r. " Very well," said Tatnall, " you can take as long as yoa like." " But you will not raise on your price again?" added Farnsworth. " Don't' know about that," was the response. " The otter 1 Lave made is only open for to day." The two partners conversed together in a whisper, and for a few minutes they had a mind to accept Tatnall's la t offer. They saw that they were completely in his power, and they had read enough of his character to be assured that he would rob them of every cent they ha ', if he could do so under cover of the law. But the mill privilege would be valuable to them very valuable and of this Farnswoith spoke I know it," returned Ridgely, "but rou must n member that it is our ener gy and perse erance that will make it valuable. Let us think of it awhile." So they w nt away, and left the matter for settlement in one week. Mr. Tat Tatnall - nall Tatnall rubbed bis hands when they were gone, for he felt sure that they wculd conic back and he had made up his mind that he would have just twenty-five hundred dollars for the lot he was to sell. On lite next day the two partners took a stioll down the river, and a distance of several miles from Tatnall's place, they came to a point wheie a sort of bayou, or inlet, made up into the chores. From curio.-ily they followed this up and found it to run in about twenty roils, and then turn and extend down some quarter of a a mile almost parallel with the river, and there it ended in a deep, wide ba basin - sin basin Opposite this point in the river, was a steep fall of w .ter, but no thoughts of building a mill there had been entertain entertained - ed entertained on account of the rocky,, rugged na nature - ture nature of the shor s ; but the inlet almost seeded cut by Providence for a mill. By expending one hundred dollars at the outlet, the bayou could be cut right on to the river striking the bank about fif fifteen - teen fifteen rods 1 elow the falls, and three mills could be built, and be not only free from freshets, but with enormous power. Ia fact the water power could be made ex extensive - tensive extensive as was necessary ; but then there were other advantages. In the first place the building spot was far superior to that of Tatnall's, and then it left a fple-ndiJ prowth of interval pine abov-,, which could be easily cut and run down. At soou as the young men had fully realized the sjlendid nature of the dis discovery - covery discovery they had made, they fairly danced for joy. They set off at once to find the the owner, and they found him to be Mr. SLraoa Winthorp, a poor, hou i a a of

est man, and the very one whom Mr. Tatnall had so imposed upon in the ox trade. Winthorp owned euough land on the river, and the circumjacent upland, for quite a township. It had been left him by an uncle, and he had moved on it, cleared a small farm and he had begun now to make a comfortable living by get getting - ting getting off timber, though he had not yet got off a thousandth part of it. The two partners found him at his house that very evening, and they com commenced - menced commenced by informing him of the trials they had with Mr. Tatnall. Winthorp smiled as they finished their account and for the amusement of thi- thing he related the story of his ox trade. The mi l-wrights were very soon assured thai they had an honorable man to deal with row, and they fiankly told him of the remarkable discovery they had made, and at the same time explained to him that the mill privilege upon his land was worth double that of Tatnall's. And they ask him how he would sell the wa wa-terpewer - terpewer wa-terpewer and a goodly piece of land. He fiist wi-hed to know all their plans, and they freely told him, for they knew that he was not the man to overreach them. They told him of the saw-mili, the grist raill, the clothing -mill, and that the should probably put up a ssore, if people t-nough moved in to support one "Now, how much money have you pot ? ' ask Winthorp, "ih.it is how much can you raise to put into the place ?" "Wc can raie just eight thousand dollars' Simon Winthorp got up and walked across the floor several limes, and be then came and set down arain. 'Gentlemen," said he, "if you will put up a good mill, and saw my lumber well, and at fair prices I will fieely give you the mill privilege, and for what land youtake, you shall pay me somewhere near what the lumber is worth on it. But I have another offer to make you : my old uncle was one of those who went into this land business a few years ago, ; and when he died he gave me all the lan I he owned here. It is very valua valuable - ble valuable land, though so far, I have ouly gained a bare livelihood on it. I have between two and three thousand acres, al' told my lot joi.iing Tatnall's above here, and running down lour miles be- i l .i i .. low. And what do you say to making ,i i . , a v ... ; me a third man in your party T lout0 may put your own energies, and knowl edge, and money, with my stout hands. We shall all share alike, whether in fields, mills or stores. What think you?" "We must think of thai," uttered both young men in a breath. "So do ; bul remember the mill priv privilege - ilege privilege is yours if you want it, and you may put up a mill on it without cost, provided my other offer does not suit!1''8 The two men went away about nine ' o'clock, but they felt sure they should take up with the last offer, though upon thing of such extent, they wanted time to reflect. . Eirly next morning. Mr. Tatnall was at Winthoip's door. He wanted to buy lot of intervale woodland which lay next to his own on the river. Bat Mr. Winthorp would listen to nothing of the kind. Mr. Tatnall hung ou, for he felt sure of the mills being built on his land, and he wanted all the neighboring lum lumber. - ber. lumber. - He swore at Winthorp for his "ob "obstinacy, - stinacy, "obstinacy, but the latter only laughed. That afternoon Messrs. Farnsworth & Ridgley, called upon Tatnall, and in in-leirmed - leirmed in-leirmed him that they had concluded not buy of him. "Very well, gentleman' coolly re returned - turned returned he, for he thought they were only trj ing to bring him down. So they both turned to leave, and as they bade him "good bye," Mr. Tatnall turned pale ; he began to think they were in earnest, "Stop, stop," he cried; "are you in earnest ? Aint you going to put up the mills ?" "Not here, sir." "But but don't be in a hurry. Perhaps we can come in, corat in. Let's talk the matter over." "There is no need," answered Farns Farnsworth - worth Farnsworth "we have made up our minds' "But perhaps I might take up with your offer of two thousand." "No sir." "But hold on a moment. I declare, rather than have the thing blow over now, I would come back to my old offer seventeen hundred dollars." "No sir, it's no use, for we do not want your land." "Bui the mill privilege." "Nor do we want that either." "But," cried Tatnall, in a frenzy of alarm "let the laud go ; and take the water privilege, and give me whattou like for it. ouly put up a good mill there, een if you you take it for for nothing !" "You are too late, sir," replied Farnv I j I

I could, sc that at the present time he owned not less than a thousand acres, j One diy in early spring, just as tlx- ice had broken up, a man called on Tat na!!. and wished to examine ihe mill privilege. His name was Lemuel h'arns worth, and he as a young man not more ban thirty years of age, full of en enterprise - terprise enterprise and integrity. Mr. Tatnall ac- j comnar.ied his visitor out to the river, and after examining the premises, tin tin-latter - latter tin-latter expressed himself very much pleased with them. "Oh!" exclaimed Tatnall. '-this is just about the finest mill privilege in t In In-State. - State. In-State. The water c iiinot fail, and you see there would be power enough to drive a dozen mills." "1 see," returned Farnsworth, but he did not express all he thought. H H-merely - merely H-merely acknowledged that the privilege was good. ""If I buy hee," he contin continued, - ued, continued, "I should want some forty or fifty acres of land to go with the water lot, for 1 shall want lumber enough to put up all my buildings, and some besides, of my own, to commence v.-ork on." "You can have all you want," was Tatnall's reply; and shortly afterwards they returned to the hcuse. " Now what is your price ?" asked Farnsworth, after he had declined to take a glass of rum which Tatnall had poured out for him. "Well," returned Tatnall, thought fully, " I Jiaven'l thought much of sel ling, for I have had some idea of putting up a mill theie myself." This was a falsehood, but Tatnall said such things as naturally as a child laughs when it is pleased. " But you will sell, I suppose ?" " O. yes." " Then what would be your price ?"' " iou mean for the mill privilege nnd the fifty acres of woodland ?" "Yes." " Well, the water lot is valuable, and e all know the land is excellent, and then the lumber ou it is of the first quality." I have seen all that, sir, now for the price." " Well, I hare thought if so.'iie one would put up a mill there, I would sell the privilege, with land enough foi a garden and necessary bui. dings, say about six acres, for a thousand dollars. And then if you want the fifty acres, I should say a out seven hundred dollars more." " But. my dear sir," muttert d Farns worth, in surprise, " do you consider how this mill will enhance the value of your property? We mean to put up not only a saw mill, butah'oagood grist mill and a carding mill, so that we can saw the lumber, grind the grain, card the wool, and dress all the cloth, for peo people - ple people who may c me and settle here." " Then you mean to do all this ?" said Tatnall, really surprised, but without showing it. "Yes." Now Tatnall knew that this would be a vas- benefit to him. The nearest mill was now six mihs off. and even that was a poor flimsy concern, built upon y. small brook that was dry nearly half the year. From this circumstance, peo people - ple people had not settled cn the rich lands by the river, and the huge trees jet stood upon the finest alluvial soil in that section of the couutry. Such an establishment, Mr. Ta'nall at once saw, would draw quite a village together in a few years, and thus his land would make him in dependency wealthy. But he believed he had the power iu his own hands, and now he meant to use it. . " I cannot take a c-nt less," he said, after a few moment's thought. "To be sure, the establishment you speak of will be a benefit to me, but that is no reason why I should sacrifice now. It wiil be a benefit to you for which you can well afford to pay. If you will take the liole for seventeen hundred dollais. yoa can have it." Mr. Farnsworth left, and when Tat nail found himelf alone, he began to meditate upon the plan he had entered upon. " If these two men have got their minds settled upon this mill," he said to himself, " they won t stop at trifles. Of eturse they have got money enough, or ! i tlil.tr H-. .11 1 I T. I I,.. inf.. ...... sttvh extensive them:? business. I'll feel of Mr. Tat nail said this with a sort of chuckle, and he clasped his hard fists together, j at t as though he had a help less man within his grasp. At the appointed lime, Mr. Farns worth returned, and with him earae his partner, a man about the same age as himself, named Iwdgely. I hey went out and looked the place all over, and at length they concluded they would pay the .seventeen hundred dollars. It was a heavy sum ; much more lhai the prop erty was worth ; but they had set their hearts upon building the mill in that

seven nines up me river, ana lie nau r grown poor in flesh almost to a skeleton. r own wilderness and then upon the orth, with a look and a tone of con con-tenpt. - tenpt. con-tenpt. Had you at first acted the part ot a man, you would not only have had a good round sum for your wafr privi privilege, - lege, privilege, and y ur land which we wanted, but all your other property would have been enhanced in value one hundred per ce-1. You thought we were in your power, and you would overreach us, but yea will find in the end, that this time, at leas', you have overreached your self." John Tatnal! shrank a.vay in the house, and he had a bitter pill to suck upon. Tli- two young men n turned to Si Simon - mon Simon Winthorp's houte. and informed him that they should accept the offer. So papers were at once made out. and "Me-srs. Farnsworth, llidgley & Win Win-horp," - horp," Win-horp," commenced in good earnest. The saw-mill was commenced upon im immediately, - mediately, immediately, and at the same time men were set al work cutting the canal. No less than eighty men were thus em employed, - ployed, employed, and the "store" was built at once. The. greater part ol those men took pay for their work in land, reserv reserving - ing reserving only enough timber on it for their own building purposes, and by the next summer those of them who had families moved in. The grist-mill was put up in due time, and by the second autumn, quite a vil village - lage village of snug warm huts had gone up. After this, the colony flourished and grew. Great numbers of hands were employed during the winter in felling iumber.and when it was sawed it cojld be rafted and run out to sea by the high liiles of ihe spring and fall ! Those who came to cut lumber, saw the nature of the soil when the snow was gone and they took up lots for farms. At the end of eight years, the wilder wilderness - ness wilderness was chan.ed into a vi'lage, and Messrs. Farnsworth, Ridgley fc Win Winthorp - thorp Winthorp weie wealthy and respected. A flourishing village had grown up about them their three mills were in opera opera-lion - lion opera-lion their store did a good business and their land was continually yielding them immense profits. A school house had been put up tor three years, and that fall saw the finishing touches put upon a handsome church. And where w is Joi n Tatnall all this while? He still lived up n his farm :v i. . - - l t . i... i His power of pinching his neighbor was gone, for no one was now ob iged to do business with him. He saw that village grown up, and he saw p or, honest Win Winthorp - thorp Winthorp becom wealthy and respected and he kneir that all this might have been apn his own land, if he had been an linnnsf honorable man. Hut it was too late now. He could only look upon stniling lands of Irs neighbors, and the canker ate into his soul, and made him miserable. In lime the settlement ex extended - tended extended up the river, and the stout trees of John Tatnall's land began to give place to houses, barns, and farms, bul he did not live to see it or profit by it. His chagrin and envy had killed him; and in the last hour the man who had all his I fe time, meJe it a rule to over overreach - reach overreach all whom he had dealings with, was himself overreached by that power, against which art of earth cannot pre prevail. - vail. prevail. I I I I

In one of the new towns of Ma'ne, some thiriy jean ago, lived a mnn named J aim Tatnall. He was a close close-fisted, - fisted, close-fisted, digging man, and never yciupled tt mxkc the best c-r.d of a bargain at all points within allowance of written law. He never be.-italed to mage capital of other people's necessit es, and any event that could pa a dollar into his till, was a'l r;''lit to h m. Once a neighbor lost a fine ox. ju;t at a time when be was in the midst of fulfilling a contract for cat ting auwn ana naming om mmoer. I be con rict was worth a thousand dollars, and he was to forfeit one-half of it if he did not have all the logs in the river be- lore ine snow meiiea in mesprinii. ice loss of his best ox would ruin him if he could not make his place good. He knew that Tatnnll had plenty of oxen ana ne weni 10 mm ana stated Jus case. Now Tatnall had a numbtr of odd oxen which he had bought to place in a drove, which he meant to drive to mat Let, so he could have sold one ox just as well as not. Lut l;e saw his neighbor's ne necessity, - cessity, necessity, and lie -meant to profit by it. He would not sell unless he sold a pair, and not then wi'.houi an enormous nrice. The poor lumberet begged and entreated, but it wa j of no avail. Tiiere was nji another ox to be bought fur miles and miles around, for Mr. Tatnall had bought them all up. The Neighbor could not allow his work to lie still, so he paid Tatnall full double what the oxen were worth and took them away. Then it r?as that he happened to think of bis odd ox. He knew 'twas by f ir better tl. an either of those he had bought of Tatnall, and he drove it over to tLe cat le dealer's to sell it, as he had no use for it. Tatna 1 offered him twenty dollars lor il jut one-fifth of what he he-had - had he-had obtained fo. the yoke he had sold. We will not lell all the conversation and bantering that followed, but suffice it 10 say tiiat Tatnall got the ox, and that in the end he made a profit of just seventy seventy-five - five seventy-five dollars out of his poor hard-working . neighbor. That was the chaiacler of the man, and all his neighbor knew it. Yet he was respected, for he had money, and many people depen fed ou him (or work, though their pittance for such work was beggarly in the extreme. Mr. Tatna I faiiu was situated upon quite a iarge river, and he owned to a grest extent on both 6idesofit. Wi en he bought tf-erc, he had svuie fnitil idea that at some fu future - ture future time 1 1 ere would be a mill put m there, and thus greatly enhance the value of Lis Jot, for there was quite a fall in the river where he owned, and a most excellent mill privilege was thu offered. Bui he never bui't a mill, for be had not the money to spare, nor had heihetnergy. About two jeais pre previous - vious previous to the opening of our story, some men had come to examine the fall of the river, and they talked cf buying and building ex:enive mill works. Tatnail knew that if such was done, the value of all the good laud about him woJd be advanced, and he bought up a'l 1 e

( , It has often been said that in Hyperion are to be found the leading incidents of the author's life, that it will not be out of place if we insert here the general be belief - lief belief of his readers. There is something romantic in it. The Dublin University Magazine, in a review of Mr. Longfel Longfellow's - low's Longfellow's work s tys : "With Hyperion, the public have been for soma time familiar; but it is not generally known that in this exquisite little story are shadowed forth the lead leading - ing leading incidents of the poet's life, and that he himself is the hero of his own ro romance. - mance. romance. We shall give the facts as they have come to our knowledge, and wo are assured that they" will not fail to in interest - terest interest our readers: About the year 1837, Longfellow b b-ing - ing b-ing engaged in making the tour of Eu Europe, - rope, Europe, selected Heidelberg for a perma permanent - nent permanent winter resilience. There his wife was attacked with an illness which ul timately proved fatal. It so happened, however, that s.me time afterward, there came to the same romantic place, a y 'Ung lady of considerable personal attraction. The) poet's heart was touched he became attached to her, but the beauty of sixteen .did not sympathize with the poet of six and thirty,' and Longfellow returned to America, having lost his hoart as well as his wife. The young lady, also, an American, returned home shortly afterward. Their residen residences, - ces, residences, it turned out, were contiguous and the poet availed himself of the oj portu- I nity of proseruting his addresses, which he did for a considerable time, with no better success than ai first. Thus failed, he set himself down, and instead, like Petrarch, of laying seige to the heart of his mistiess through the medium of son sonnets, - nets, sonnets, he resolved to write a whole book a book which would achieve the double object of gaining her affect'ons, and establish his own fame. Hyperi n was the result. His laborsanJ his constancy was not thrown away they met their due reward. The lady gave him her hand as well as her heart ; and thef now reside together at Cambridge, in the same house which Washington made his head quarters when he was first appointed to the command of the American Armies. These inter interesting - esting interesting facts were communicated to us by a very intelligent American genileman whom we had the jleasuieof meetingin the same phice which was thesce-ceof the poet's early disappointment and sor sorrows. - rows. sorrows. The man who planted himself on his good intentions, haa not yet sprouted. As EoglUh paper thinks it is the first duty of letotallars to get the duty off from tea totally. " Jnt gCKS puts everything to use. Hu wfa ft baJ LeaJj an(, he 8raps iU rMur oQ Wht would tying a slow horse, to a nrtM.a.'i til4 TV IS A i-j iu..-.- 4- Because it would make hiia fast. j j j : i

Booth, and several friends had been invited to dine at an old gentleman' in Baltimore, of distinguished kindness, urbanity and piety. The host, though disapproving of theatres and theatre theatre-going, - going, theatre-going, had heard so much of Booth's re remarkable - markable remarkable powers, that his cariosity to see the man, had in this instance over come all his scruples and prejudices. After the entertainment was over, lamps lighted, and the company seated in the drawing-roum, some one requested Booth, as a particular favor, and one which all present would appreciate, to repeit the Lord's Prayer. Booth ex expressed - pressed expressed his willingness to afford them this gratification, and all eyes were turved expectant upon him. Booth ros slowly and reverently from his chair. It was wonderful to watch the play of emotions thatconvulsed bis countenance. He became deadly pale, and Lis eyes turned, trembling upwards, wet with, tears. As yet he had not spoken. The silence could be felt. It became abso absolutely - lutely absolutely painful, until the spell was bro broken - ken broken as if by an electric shock, as his rich-toned voice, from his, white lipe, syllabled forth, "Our Father, who art in Heaven," etc., with a pathos. and perfect solemnity that thrilled all hearts. He finished. The .silence continued. Not a voice was. heard nor a muscle moved in his wrapt audienceuntil from' s remote corner of the room, a subdued sob was heard, and the old gentlmaoy ( their host,) stepped forward : with streaming eyes and tottering' frame, tad seized Booth by the hand. :' .' "Sir," said he, ia broken, accents,' "you have afforded me a pleasure for which my whole future life . will feel grateful. I am an old man. and every, day. from my boyhood to the present time, I thought I had repeated the . Lord's Prayer, but I have never heard it before, never." " You are right," replied Booth,, to read that prayer as it thtndd be read has" cost me the severest study and labor for thirty years, and I am far from being yet satisfied with my rendering of that wonderful production. Hardly one per person - son person ia ten thousand comprehends how much beauty, tenderness and grandeur,' can be condensed in a space so small . and in words so simple. The prayer of itself sufficiently illustrates the troths of the Bible, and stamps upon it the seal of divinity.". . , , , So greit was the effect produced, (says our informant, who was present,) that conversation was sustained but a-, short time longer, in monosyllables, and almost entirely ceased ; and soon after, j at an early hour, the company broke np.; and retired to their several homes with . sad faces and full hearts. . .