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A NY. November 15, imi7.-1y OSO. Tv. HERRUVCi &. MIX. TIEAV.KIUI IN «A,GLASSAXDyUEE\SWARE, No. 7 Sonth Charles Street, BALTIMORE. Noveml.er 15, lum.—^im. MILTBV iiorsi:, A. B. MILLER, Proprietor, BAi/rnioßE. ■ i*! 7 ly f ortfeit, VIBOINLsV. When (iriticd, In nrts and nuns supreme, ftiwe sovereiKli O'er her duiKened Age, And lent Its old, Immortal theme To grateful History's liiiininn page; When words, like arrows winged with lire, Touched hoflrts that Kindled At tliettaoic And souk, re-eeholng to her lyre, Heiird tliefer voice of eouilug Fume; The" Krfeiloin kepi, v gnnrded mound. That fori ressed ro<!k where Athens sate, And wisdom's soul, divinely crowned, Its sheltering Oenlus. held Hie Htate. lleslAless Though! its vital Ileum, To bard and sage and hero gave ; Tlmt long has IU Time's upward stream, Ami shines eternal on the wave. This was her lxmat, and Is her pride, The old Republic's stem behest; That mind to unswerlng mind replied; And they who swayed her were her Hest. This wrote her story with the stars j She perished! Tlow, her annuls tell; ITntc, envy, meanness, all that inurs; And Folly ruled, as Greatness JVII. Then, force and Fraud's barbarian will iVoso o'er the nobler mind's decay, Arid sank, on tower and templed hill. The twilight aliudes that closed her day. This golden moral Eld unrolls, O proud Virginia! to thine eye«; Rids thee low most thy noblest souls For Freedom sinks, when honor dies. JOHN M. DANIEL'S LATCH-KEY. A Memoir of Hie lata Bdltor of the Hlchmend Examiner. Rome ilays ago, I loimil In an old drawer, tlvo lUTHi-koy, which the edi tor of the Richmond kxamhter gave me In 1863. It lilted the door of the house on Broad street, opposite tho African church—the house in which he died.— A bit oi brass, differing in nothing from others of its kind, this key, nevertheless, has its charm. It is thcoiily sohvenier I have of one! of the most remarkable men Virginia ever produced. Coining • upon it unexpectedly, after 1 had given it up as lost, the bare sight of it crowd ed my mind; in an instant, with pic tures of its former owner. I saw him in Washington, just after his return from Hurope, conversing with Seddon and "Garuett; in his own room over the Ex aminer orllce, as he sat, lord-like, in a high arm-chair, in August 1801, ques tioning me as to the battle of Mauas*as and exhibiting the Major's uniform, which.he intended to wear us Aide to Gen. Floyd; in the editorial rooms cut ting ar.d slashing leaders, which had been Written for him, or denouncing llercely the Administration ; at his din ner-table .pledging Wigfail and Hughes in a glass of old Maderia; in the lied, where lie lay wounded, after the duel with Elmore; and', last of all, I saw his marble fa v :e--ho,w changed!—as he lav in his metallic coffin, March the 31st, IBM. All these likenesses of this strange man came vividly before me as I looked :it the key of his door, and with them came a host of recollections, some of Which I am now about to set down.— Xot that I have anything to tell which others could not tell as well, or better than myself. For it must not be in ferred because he gave me the privilege of-entering his house at any hour of the day or Pight that pleased me, that I was the intimate personal friend of John M. Daniel. No; he took a short-lived fancy to me, and gave me his latch key; that is all. While the lancy lasted, 1 used the key hut seldom, and after it died out, not at all. Doubtless lie soon forgot that he had ever siren It to me. My aim is simply to put down in chron ological order, a number of incidents and sayings illustrative of tho character of one who, in some respects, resembled John Randolph, of Roanoke, and who, like Randolph, was of a nature so pecu liar that the most trivial reminiscences can hardly fail to prdve interesting to hundreds of thousands in the South, and to not a few In the Xorth. Sly acquaintance with him began in Washington', after his return from Turin, lie registered his name at Brown's Hotel in a small bund, simply as "Mr. Daniel, Liverpool." Although I had never seen a scrap of his writing, I knew the moment I saw t his name on the register, that the man for Whom so many were anxiously looking, had ar rived. The next evening I was intro duced to him. 1 had loiijr been curious to see "the gTegt editor/* and', trailing nivself of his animated conversation with other visitors, eyed him intently, seeking in the outward man some indi cation of the extraordinary being with in. Sly search was not ill vain. The poorest physiognomist could not have seen Daniel's face, even for a moment, without being attracted—l am tempted to say fascinated by it. True, weal wayr rind what we afc taught to expect in a face, and often discover wliat does not exist; but here was a countenance sing ularly marked—a dark, relineilt decided ly Jurixh face. The nose was not very large, and but slightly or. uiline; the month thin-lipped, wide, iinpleasitig, and overhung by a heavy black mous tache; the chin square, hut not promi nent! the Cheeks thin, and both checks and chin covered by a dense, coarse, jet black, closely-trimmed beard; eye brows Very thick and black, shading deep-set. rather small hazel eyes; head as small as Byron's or Brougham's, beautifully shaped, and surmounted by masses ol hair, which in youth, hung lung and lank and black to bis coat col lar: but, in later life, was worn close cut. Such was John M. Daniel as he sat bc -11 lore me in a room at Brown's Hotel in the memorable winter of 1801. .He was richly but plainly dressed.— He talked freely upon the topics then uppermost in every Southern mind, but there was a hesitation, or rather a trip ping amounting almost to a stammer in his speech—lhe result, probably, of his long residence abroad, and the constant use in conversation of French or Italian instead of the English language. This tripping had entirely disappeared when 1 met hi in a few mouths later in Rich mond. It was not an utt'eetatioii, as I had at first supposed. During a number of interviews which I had with liiin in Washington, lie was always courteous, good naturcd and talkative. His moroseuess, his bitter ness, of which I had heard so, milch, seemed to have been dissipated by trie genial climate ol Italy and file polite atmosphere of courts. One night, how e*er,Floyil s name being mentioned in connection with the aliair of tho Indian Trust Bonds, some luckless persbfl took it upon himself to •ay that in the public rtpinion the then Secretary, of. \Var was "no better thfCn a thiel'" rv.nicl llanicd instantly. He rose, from his chair with a white lace and with Hum bling lips, ami denounced the charge mriiiist Gov. Floyd asan accursed "ihn ■■■■MfllMl preprinted to his own use otic cent ul the public funds', he stated a fact, not to be mentioned here, which seemed to carry conviction to all who heard it. He wr". very much agitated; his passionate nature so overmastered him that he could not, although bo tried, resume bis calmness, and the party«soon dispersed from his room. I luring his stay In Washington, which lasted two or three weeks', 1 nle f . him but once after this exciting scene, lie was then in Mr. Seddou's room, con versing with that distinguished member ol the l'eace Congress, and with the Hon. M. R. U.Garuett. Late English publications, relating to Continental and British politics, were under discus sion, and Daniel showed himself per lectly familiar with every book or pam phlet which the otiier gentlemen had read. Little was said so long ;ls ! was present about Federal polities. It can not, however, be doubted that the Vir ginia editor was in the intimate coun sels of the leaders of the Southern movement, and that, while lie gave them the beuellt of his eminently clear and penetrating intellect, lie, in turn, was enabled by their information and epioi'ons to post himself thoroughly on ail thos*; poldts which were shortly to be brought before the public in "the columns of the improved and, for the first time, Daily K'saminrr. The potent influence of this paper from the moment that Daniel resumed the helm, was felt not only in Virginia, but throughout (he entire South. To this day, tne effect of a single article which appeared a few weeks after the Kriimin'i*- began to be issued daily, Is re membered »vy almost every man, woman and child ."1 Virginia. I allude, of course, to "The Parliament of Beasts," in which the Members of the Virginia Convention, then in session, were likened to dogs, cats, owls, opossums, and otber members of the animal king-' iliiiii. The likenesses were so happily and so trenchantly drawn that it was impossible to mistake them, and many hundreds, if not thousands, of copies of the issuecnnlninlugUie.article were sold in a few hours. Some offence was given, but so much humor and wit so genuine were mingled With the satire, that the Union men. who were most offended, were obliged to join in the laugh al thcii own caricatures, "Who Is the author?" was in evebody's mouth. This ques tion was never satisfactorily answered. The article appetlreii Hs a contribution, but in editorial type, ;liid the great ma jority of people suspected that Daniel liimselt was the ai'thor. This, however, was denied, and many conjectures were made as to the man, in or out of Virgi nia, who was capable of doing so clever a tiling. Two years Hi- more after its appearance, while sitting alone with Daniel, 1 asked him to tell me. in confi dence, who the real author was. He was pacing the floor of his sanctum, as was his wont. He stopped abruptly, put his hands in his pockets, turned his lace towards me and said, with the ut most gravity: "No one knows better than yourself who wrote that article." ~ "Nonsense," I replied; "1 really wdiit to know. Tell inc. I pledge you my word that I will never revealthe secret until you give me permission to do so." He looked keenly at me, as if to ascer tain whether I could be trusted, and for a moment 1 felt sure that he was going to tell me; but, turni.ig suddenly on his heel, he began again to pace the iloor in silence. He relused to tell me even the author of the periphrasciu verse, which appeared some time after the original. I have scarcely a doubt but that he himself wrote the original in prose, and I think I can make a very good guess lis to the authorship of the poetic version. The hUfer I attribute to the same hand which penned "Fie! Memmiuger," and similar articles in rhyme, which were printed iv the Examiner during the years '04-05. * J In May, '01, I went to Manassas with the Ilrst battalion sent thither from Richmond. No sooner was I upon the ground tluwi I felt, as by prescience, rather than by any comprehension of strategic value of the position, that the place was to be the scene of a great battle, and shortly afterwards, with tiie aid of my friend Lieut. L .embodied my views and apprehensions in an arti cle of considerable length, which I sent to the Examiner—no order to the con trary having then been issued. Daniel thought it imprudent to publish the ar ticle, but was so pleased with it that he continued to send me, as long as I re mained at Manassas, live copies of his daily paper. He also ottered me my own price for any letters 1 might choose to write him. Kven had it beer, lawful, I could not have accepted his proposi tion, for the reason that the fatigues of incessant drilling left mc little inclina tion and les« ability to write even to my own father. But the prompt recognition of the little service I hud rendered him— a promptness which, as I afterwards dis covered) was characteristic of Daniel— and doubtless • good deal of gratilied vanity at the estimate lie bad placed on my contribution, impelled me to call on him as soon as I reached Richmond in August; after the great battle. lie was then living in two rooms, handsomely lilted up, it' the second »tory of the Examiner building. The front room he used as a bed chamber, the back room as a Sanctum and a ball of audience for his many visitors. In the latter were a number of easy chairs, and one in particular; which he pre ferred above all the rest; It was a sort of barber's chair, covered with horse hair, and elevated much more than or dinary chairs above the floor. From this Mat, as from a throne, he looked down upon and conversed with his vis itors; and to me, nt least, (I know not how it was with others,) his words de scended from their elevation with a certain' authority, as from a trno cathedra. The day was warm, and the editorial Pontiff was by no means in ids robes of office, lie wore neither coat nor .vest, oulc a pair ol white duck pantaloons. He looked spotlessly clean, cool and comfortable. His reception was kind, almost to coidiality. He talked freely .about the war, üboiit the Generals anil the pliTns of campaign, but was very guarded in his comments upon the ad ministration, which, up lo this time. In had heartily supported. Indeed, the Examiner was, Wr many mouths after the war began, regarded as tlicorganof the administration. Full of his ex pccled campaign with Floyd, he told me, with an air of satisfaction, how he intended to be eoiii'l'otlalile and to escape the the tilth and misery of camp life, lie was going en grand tume —with a chest stored with the good tilings of this life, a tent ol ids own fashioning, a complete cooking apparatus,' his own cook and his own valet, I asked'hi'li il he had no fear of being killed or wounded. He replied that I'.e did not think Pi 'would be killed, ami that the chances wi re .that he would not lie wounded, ••licit, naiu,"snid he; • 1 cannot hear it. and yr>' I should like to bcabjetoshiiu an honorable scar in this Virginia was nol ol lung duration. I am satisfied, from what he afterwards told mc that he joined Gen. Floyd, not lor a holiday, Inii with the purpose of winning military glory, lie was am bitious In everything he undertook,and oh more than one occasion he expressed to lue a great regret at having left the army. "By this time." (the winter of '04.)' said he, ''Imight have been a Brig adier —perhaps n SFaior General." "But," saidl, "as the editor of the Ex aminer, you are exerting an iuliuence far greater than any Brigadier—greater perhaps than any Major General." ••True, 'he answered; "but what good is Ihe Examiner, or any other paper,or all the papers ill tl|e Qcmfe&fapy com bined, doing? Besides',.l like to com mand men. I love power." After the interview in August, 18G1,1 saw very little of him for two years. 1 met liini occasionally on the street, but his manner was so repelling that 1 was deterred from gratifying the desire which I often felt, of going to see him. With his old habits had come back his old ways—he was as cold, self-contained and gloomy as he had beeii before lie woiit to Europe. Affairs were not going in the fashion that suited him.— Grave doubts were beginning to arise in Ills mind. He still had hopes, and often high hopes, of the success of the cause, but the course of _ the administra tion ere.lted continually the bitterness of bis nature. Then, again, the whole weight of the Examiner, which he fre quently described to me as -amillstone about his neck," was upon him. Con vinced that his editorial lalmrs were well nigh useless. In so far as they In fluenced the conduct of the war, the finances, or anything else pertaining to the policy of Mr. Davis, it was but nat ural that his mental energies should Hag and his wonderful powers of com position should be abated. He was anxious to get an assistant, but could And no one to suit him. He had fallen put with one whose brilliant and hu morous pen had served him so well in former rears, Edward Pollard was in ill livaltlKiinilliiid started,or was about to start foe jSln'opcs and he had not yet succeeded 'u-obtatuiijglhe two or three writers, VVrlpse contribution!, a few months later; added so greatly to the value and the interest of the Examiner. It was at this time', In the. .summer of 1988. while on* a visit,, to the country, that I amused myself, one eVelitrigj by writing a satirical article on the then exciting subject ot the removal of the Quartermaster General. This I sent to Daniel. What was my surprise by re turn mail, to receive from R. F. V\ alt er, the manager ot the Examiner, a flat tering letter, telling me of Daniel's high appreciation of my article and his di-sif to secure my services as assistant editor. An engagement on another pa per prevented me from accepting the proffered situation ; moreover I knew well that Daniel was "a hard master." Nevertheless, I was anxious In see in prii'.t an article which bad received the approval ofiiictl a critic asVobi'. M. Daniel. I looked, each day, but never saw it! I own that I felt chagrined.— My only, conclusion was that Daniel,at a first leading, had overestimated the merits of the article, and that a subse qrent perusal, revealing faults which he bad not before detected, had deter mined him not to publish it. On my return to Richmond, I felt little desire to meet any of the Esamintr people ; blit, passing Walker one day on the street, he hailed me and told mc to come to the office"; he had some money for me. "Money for what?" I inquired. "For that article you sent down.— Dont you remember it?" U I remember it distinctly, but T also remember that yon never printed iti" Walker was posit Ire that toe article had been printed, ami I no less positive that it hurl not. Finally, he referred me to "Mr DrtnlcJ," ana to him, accor dingly, 1 Wctli li-- received me kind ly, contpUtui tltcd lny article extrava gantly, a- f thought; and asked me if walker had paid nic for it. 1 was a good deal nettled, supposing that he was making fun ol me. I told him, in reply, that Walker had offered to pay me 'much more than the article was worth, according to the established rates of the Examiner (which I knew) but that I had refused payment, on the ground that the article had never appeared.— His eye twinkled mischievously, as he said "You didn't s-'*e it, because you didn't read the Examiner. Ton ought to read the Examiner. The Examiner contains the best thoughts of the best minds in the Confederacy, expressed in the best manner—it is the organ of the thinking tjentlnnen of tile country. Yon ought by all means to read it. There is the lile ; look at the number for , and you will find your article." I looked.and, sure enough, there was an article, twice as lo.j'jr and twice as good as the one I harl"V*|ttcn—my own ideas, but so enveloped In Daniel's fine English and so ampTtflea that it was hard to recognise ihcni. I have purposely related this incident at sonic length, BePttirse It must rates 1 build's character and unfolds one ot the secrets of bis great success as an editor. He hogrudgediin labour in and improving an article which v.eased him. I remember his telling me that he had written a certain article <jyer four or five times. The original <l*aft was sent to him by a lady distinguisl ed for her attainments and performances in literature. It was a defence of his favorite General. He was gallant to a degree and the warmest of partisans ; and both hi« gallantry and ills friend ship being aroused, he exerted himself, to the inmost to make the, article, as printed, a telling one. If 1 am not mistaken, I have this identical artie'e now in my possession. It is headed Ohr! jinn Mrffo AhhOSgh [ would not accept the place Ot'assi lain I'ml could by no means have filled it to Ids satisfaction ifl had, 1 was glad cuotfgh, in .ojrdcr to eke out my narrow living, to infer into an engage ment In furnish him With two or three editor.-!:- .ft week' —Ft? engagement which' fasted for Severn l mouth*. It was at this time that lie gave me Ids latch-key and 1 became somewhat inti mate with him.' 1 made many risits to him at. his house on Broad St; and had many talks with WW'on nil sorts,of sub jects' lie was not a seeri-ri\e man ;on the, contrary, he conversed with the ut most -freedom about, himself, his citrlj life, his residence abroad, his relations and friends, his political associates and opponents, indeed, almost everything. I mess he happened to be out of hu mour, (which was not often the case, at his private residence) ho loved to talk : and though a recluse, he was, delighted w illi the visits ofgentlmen, who came without solicitation on his part and who called in i iriendly and social way. He urged me i. \ i-it him at night, anil in order to tempt mo to repeat my vis its, would give.me, each time, what I then a great and cosily trent, si bollle ot English ale. This he repeated r ft.l ~„,■ play ches? and was a much better \Ui ' teucr than talker, In fact that I could , not talk we!l enough even t.o provoke ' him to talk, he soon became tired ofmy , visits—a fact of which he gave me con vincing proof by yawning in my face ! This houseon'Broad St. and his mode oflHlng, deserve notice. The house was ofbrick, three stories high, coramo dious and comfortable. It was one ota numlier of investments in real estate, which lie made during the war. Al though no human being but himself iu habitated this house—the servants being , restricted to the kitchen of four rooms , in the back yard—he lived, literally, all i over it. The front room on the first i floor, was His nartonr. In it, were two i large oil paintings, works of decided . merit, a mosiac chess table and a few i mahogony chairs. Sometimes he re- | ceived his visitors in the parlour, but , more often in the dining room adjoin- i ing, where he kept a table for writing . and liis iron safe. A handsome side- i board and a set of solid dining tables of j antique pattern graced this apartment, j He was fond of telling that these tables once belonged to "old Mcinniinger," and were bought when the worthy sec retary of tlie treasury broke up house- ] keeping on Church Hill. The front room in the second story was his chain- i her, and the passage-room adjoining, hit i dressing closet. A tall mirror, w Inch l reached from the floor almost to the ceiling, was fastened to the wall be- j Mveoiithotwo front windows. Hardby, . was a large ehetml glass, by means of , which he was enabled to see his whole figure, front and rear, from head to foot. , lie was not a fop, but he was fond of dress And bad an eye to appearance not , only in person but in print. He bad a j horror of all slovenliness. A carelessly , written editorial was his abomination, j He used to say that a man who goes in- , to firint ought to fcrtieinber that he is making bis appearance before the very \ best society, and that he owes it both to . himself and to that society not to appear \ ! u undress. When an acquaintance ot \ the writer of this article was married in , church, one February afternoon in 18(13, , John ii. Daniel was therein along-tail coat and white waist-coat, lie believ- ] ed in wbite waist-coats. He told his . manager, Walker, that he ought never j to go to a party without wearing a j white rest. . "But, Sir. Daniel," objected IFalkcr, , suppose a man hasn't got a white rest , and is too poor, these wartimes, to buy , one?" , "*©—li it? sit-let him stay at home.,' , Beside,* the mirror, the c/ieval glass , and a few chairs, there was no other . furniture in ln« chamber, except an old . fashioned high-post., bedstead, which, together with most o r Ids furniture, he , had bought at the sales it the effects of , refugees once wealthy. He believed in . blood, In families of ancient and honor- . able descent, in gentlemen, and prefer red the workmanship and antiquated style of tilings which had descended as i heir looms in the houses of gentlemen to the costliest and most tasteful pro ductions of modern cabinet makers.— There was no carpet on the lloor of his j chandler, and he slept without a lire.— In the morning, a fire was built in the room next to his chamber, and thci'e his breakfast was generally served between 11 and 12 O'clock.' He Seldom went to bed before 2 or 3 o clock In the morn- j ing. This back room in the second sto ry had a bed in it and was used as a . guest chamber, but 1 do not remember to have known or heard of but one oc- ' cupant—R. W. Hughes. He made Dan- ' id's house Ids home Whenever he cuine [ to town. Adjoining the dressing-room in the passage of the second floor, was the bat li room. Leaning against tlie door of this bath-room 1 used to see a bag of Java coffee, which made my mouth water ev ery time 1 looked at it. for coffee, in those dnys, was twenty or thirty dot- ! lars a pound. Tlie iVst room In the third story was used as a sort of lumber room. A bar rel or two of white ~sugar,*a*fow boxes of Manufactured tobacco, and some large empty boxes, which had contain ed nooks, were there, the last time 1 looked in. The little room cut oft"from the imssage. was the library. The num ber of books was not what one would haste expected. A complete set of Vol taire's works; the Dolphin edition of tlie classics, complete; Swift's Works, Clar- : endon's Rebellion and a"few. miscella- ' ueous books are all that I can now re call. Most if not all of Micse were old and rare, and strange to tell, ■ most of them were bought at [private ' sale or Jat auction during the war.— Daniel was an omniverotis reader, but ' had a sovereign contempt for the so called "literature of Ihe. day." The first Napoleon, inhls car riage to tlie. theatre of war, "amused himself by dipping Into books just pub lished and pitching them one' after a notlier out of the window. This was much the way with John M. Daniel lie fore he went abroad, when, in bis ca pacity a$ editor of the Examiner,'all the new publications were sent to him. lie newer cared to keep' tbein, either gave or threw them away, and, if he ' bad occasion to make an extract from ' one of them, used his scissors reluOTSC 'y- The back room In the third story was a favorite one with him. Like all the other rooms, it was tastefully and cheer fully papered. It commanded a view of James river, the bills ot Henrico and lln- wide lowlands and woods of Ches tertield. Having a southern exposure, there w as always plenty ot light in the afternoon, and the room was easily ru&de warm and eumfortahle. Here he M ved tv sit in a leather-bottomed chair, willi a little table near him, reading Voltaire, the Latin poets, or contribu tions rind comihunioations to the Exam iner, lii.this room he kept his collec tion of medals and reals: a violin lay in its wooden ease on lie Boor, siringlcss and unused. A moody man, lie some times deserted this pleasant room and conlined himself for weeks to the rooms on the lower Hours. He lived well, lull not luxuriously.— He detested hotels and boarding houses. When lie lived in rooms over his office, lie had his meals sent lo him by Tom Gl'iflill, or Zetelle. After he went to ' housekeeping, his iiegru cook was his ; caterer. The day i dined at his house with Wigfall and Hughes, he had but Otic course, a single joint of meat, a ' few vegetables, no dessert, coffee and ' Wine—Madeira from Gov. Floyd's eel- ! lar, which .Hughes bad brought with liini. '"hat" eveiiingdio ydkial for-an- | other bottle,'" after ilu rest vi-n: satis •lied; but I never saw him ii'lo> icat"il. and on one occasion only under the in- ] tltiance ot wine even in a slight degree. Then bis eyes wcie ■ little glassy, his ' manner dogmatic, and lie rocked a lit- ' 'lea-be stood up in front of me ami laid down the law in regard lo things l». itlcal. Whiskey he lia'ted with hi.-, whole bearl. I have In ,v i him i ur and its effects most bitterly, and anee wrote, at his special request," an r.rtl beginning, '■Whiskey, not the Yank '• . I,r »!■ ' ■ <• ■ i-.,.>'-.■ ■ The feculences of ids digestion eocn- IH-lled him to he temperate both in eat ing and drinking.. 1 have heard him say I hat a single glass of whiskey and water taken at night by prescription of Ins physician, would give him Head ache the next day. Coffee was his 'favorite stimulant, but Ido not think he it to excess. Re v. AS so loud of it tlmt he would m) t rest until he bad taught his p«t terriers to drink it. Ihesc dogs--Frank" and "tunny were their names. 1 believe —he loved, but in his own fashion, lie delighted in teasing and worrying them ; would pinch and pull their ears until they yelped with pain, and was never more pleased than when he suc scedediu getting up a mild light be tween them. Tins was not easy to do, because "Fanny" was 'T-'ran* s moth er; and, when he was set upon her. went to work with rather a bad grace, while she bore his at ta<ks with exemplary pa tience. When Daniel got tired of jdav ing wall ids pets, who were devoted to him, he would drive them away, with Ins. horsewhip. Vet he never laid on with die full weight ol his bapd. lie was cruel to them, ill times, but never brutal. I asked him, one day, if bis solitary mode of life did not make him snllc'r irmn ciiiuii. "Yes," said In, wearily. but "lam used to it." "Hunt you find solitarr feeding hi jurimit to your health? I tried it'nii.-.' at college, and, within a week 1 was made positively sick by it," "You are right," he replied." It lit erally destroys the appetite. In Turin, I employed an Italian count as my rl,ei it, cui.sini: r He was really an artist in his profession and exerted all his powers to please me. He had carte blanch as to expeuse and sent me up every day. the most tempting dishes.— I could taste them—that was a!I. ! never enjoyeda meal ut home. Where as, when invited to dine in the count! v with a pleasant party ol ladies and geu tlemeu--would you believe it? 1 would sometimes be helped three times to meat." I nske.il him. then, as I had often done before, why he did not marry. lb- v . always pleased when the, eiibfert was broached, and lam sure ire must have had, llrst and last, ado/.eu conversations on this topic alone. After discussing ihe^iio.s-and cons-, he generally wound up by declaring that, if he ever married, it musl be with the explicit understan ding that bimsell and bis wife should occupy separate houses. To this end. be olten threatened to buy the house next , to his own and have a door cut in tlie \ partition wall, the key of which be , would keep in his own pocket. "The noise of children and the gabble of a [ woman with her lady friends, was some- I hing which he could not and would not stand." ■ • ! He was a warm admirer of the tenia li sex. Inn Ids opinion of them was not the most exalted. Social life on tlie continent did not tend to weaken .his natural prejudice against mankind,and probably lessened his esieem for tlie fairer pontes of humanity. Over tlie .mantle-shelf in his chamber, bung an ■i xqui etc niinatiire on ivory. The face I was beyond question, ihe most beauti- J [in I have ever seen and thejoxeeiilion Was. woil by of the .subject. This fur- ( tuf* was presented to Idtu by the lady who painted it, and it was her own j likeness. According to his account, , she was tilled, rich, marvellously ac- ( eoinplished in music, painting and poe try, eccentric, reckless, alike of herself , and of others. Her name he would , never tell inc. He confessed to other fancies while In Europe,but did not ac knowledge, and I believe, did net have, a serious affair during the whole seven ' years ol bis residence abroad. It it said ma! Ida heart was never touched but | once, ami then by a beautiful Virginian. Tni-was before be left America, lie , told me frequently, that it was impossi ble to.-him to love a girl who was not prett j. and yet lie would shudder at the thought of unit ing himself to "a pretty fool. ' It was to no purpose that I in sisted that true beauty was of the soul alone, lie hooted at this doctrine us "a stale lie." Beauty of face, he might. possibly dispense with, but beamy of form—beauty qf some sort—a graceful figure and high-bred manner were ab solutely essential. Happening, one , evening, to express in his hearing my regret that 1 was not acquainted with some young lady in Richmond, who played welFon the piano, he started al most as if I had stabbed him and gave vent loan cxelamitlon ot the most in tense disgust —as if the bare idea of a piano-playing young lady nauseated him. His theory about the manage ment of women w as simple and origin al. "There are," he would say, "but two ways to manage a woman—to club her or to freeze her." His mrna.ji in 'G3-4 consisted of three servants, all males—a eook.au ostler andavalel, who also acted as his din- , Ing room servant. Ilismuiiner towards \ the boy who waited in the house was ( rough even to harshness. He liked bis ostler, iiinl spoke kindly to him. when ever 1 happened to see them together. 1 do not wunder lhat bis house-servants ran away from him. He lost two with in as many years. One was caught, punished ami immediately sold- The other, for whom he offered a reward ol $2000. made good hi-: escape. After that be bought a very likely woman, nearly white, who remained with him until Ins death. i . Such was John SI Daniel at iiouie.— , What be was at bis office, I will now proceed to tell. While I was contribu ting to his paper,My habit was to hand my article lo the manager in the morn ing, and iit night I would go around to read the proof. Daniel himself always read the proofs, though not with as much pains as 1 liked, lie readied the ollice generally bet ween Hiand !• o'clock, and I was almost always there before 1 mi. In those days, garroters were a bundant, and the first thing he did. af ter entering the room, was to lay a Derringer pistol, which lie carried in i hi- hand ready for any emergency, on the large talile which sat In tlie mid- I die of the llnor. This dime, he would offer me a cigar—he could never be per- | suadi d t" smoke a pipe, and his cigars i wore of the weakest -ttnd then begin i the work of examing proofs. First, I the proi ''s of the news columns, then 1 of Legislative or Congressional pro- t ceeilings, next, the loealnews and last- < ly the editorial?. All of these, he ex- i ami lied with care, altering, erasing a- i bridging and adding as he thought fit. i 'Even tin- ndverjibcuients wcie submit- ..1 ted to him, and* I have known him to i become furious overall ailvertisontent I which he thought ought not to have I been admitted. i (TO BE lONTI.N'rKD.) IC7" Why are ladles'dresses nbou'. the waist, like a general meeting? -Be- ', cause tip-re is a gathering there. ■ . ICP" Radicals claim to go to the rooi 1 nf the matter. SoNloes a ho»» 1 I H h S A T I V E V IH i is n'iit.iMiicn wlekl- Br. «. W. Hafihj <fc A. S - <>:• TERMS Ol' SLJiSI'RUT. 4 One Copy 3 'months '• « " " 13 if Clubs of live, iihe \etir,....... Clubs ot I en, of ~ year.'....'.".""."' Clubs of twenty, one year,'.','.'.'.'.'.'. «*-Voluntaryriyminunlcatloi i Interesting or Inipnlniit news, any quarter. *"»-ReJecfryl rfiiiimnn 1.-nllon undertake to return. a* Obituary notices ivxceoa i will be charged for at our regi i 1 lug rates. *S- All letters on business co >; theofflco, must be addressed ft -■ Virginian." Me Javm and •ffrultu IHIS PAMiKBJFEEDET!) A.I My lord rides through his *, . My lady sweeps along In sUi;<-, The sage thinks long on mi And the maiden luiisea on nui.' i Tlie sailor ploughs the fbatnl'.g The huntsman kills the good n ' And the soldier wars wlthoin mi. liut fall to each, wbttte'er The farmer he must feed litem Smith hftinmereth cherry r> Trleat preaclicth pure the Hi,:- V Dame Alice workefti brold'- | Clerk Hlchard tales of love rat. tell The tap-wife sells her foamliu, Dan Fisher flshoth In the iacrv And courtiers ruffle, strut an 1 si ! While pages li.'lng the tlasvi a wu-. Uut fall to each, whale'.-r 'lid. The faryier ho must feel Hi . ml Man builds his castle fair a Wlierever river rnnrteMi ly, Great cities rise In every lan ; Great churches show the tmlldei ■' nan i Great arc • """niments a. : ' wcrs, Fair pi laces uua'pteii lirg Kn . Great work Is done, bet li I • "■ '' And well .'. -elhe,.'. c— jlut work or rt*. >uato'« .i • - LABUE CttOfS OF m»*TVJW The Fall is the Reason t< • m. i 0r,,., the preparation of the Boil foi a crop of potaloes. In a clr i.lar •" - subject, A. W. Harrlson,"p" pi .-. Harrison's Goodrich Heed o■ i ■ says: It is desirable, no- 'only I j, best varieties roi "but ' h to pl.iur lean _and to r»Wi in- I op 'Phi lib . ...': I , ' • ' 'or belter, man a v g llj n.-actb 1. In the Fall plow gVI soil plow, iv all IS 10,20 i depth. i -2. In early spring, "whm . '■ i across the winter furrows, ii »\ ' roll. ■ 3. Mark out, iu'squarrs,. i- , > each way, opening the fun deep. 4. At the intersection i.i potato, tht largest you have in ! upon it a handful (about 4< itere) of a compost made c of wood-asiies, fouroflioii' li. dial. of lime, four ol'liii-grouiu' , w, of finely slaked.: lime, ami or, if preferred, 3 ounces ol fertilizer jier-hill. Tlieu eoVi and spreail UHII lbs. pen- . p artilieial feitilizer. 5. A- Soon as the young ■■'. run the cultivator cloae t" (.ml but not over them, in each li.' Afterwards, anil brforeUw on up, cultivate, both ways, niti !. horse hoe—so arranged , '" cut shallow as possible, audi p the face entirely fiat. Repeat t at - Intervals, three times. T three times, still keeping i < Allow no billing at any tin to grow. v t 0. As soon as the topsn.. in clear dry^weather wit', i;. tinted diggingfork; sprea I ■ er, to dry, and store In m i < dry, airy cellar, spresdli of freshly slaked lime, iv. , each bushel of potatoes. 7. (lather and compost for application next uutiin audj subsoil plow as bef year's crop. The following are the : this system of cultivation. 1. No§possiblo entire 1 crop. 2. No rot in healthy var 3. The largest yield Ihe oil ano rieties are ca|>able of. * 4. Tlie largest propovl. v i! • potatoes. 5. No degeneracy of >..ri. I. continued improvement. U. Nonnecessity for retailor ol the potato can be thus grown indefinitely on the saju i perhaps, at long interval - a clover to maintain the <n pi table fibre in the soil. JAEKEKb' ACCO' ,Xi | pVrom what we have len llinnaiituit-ii, Tdryrajth, we i-> farmers are, as a rule, c act enough in keeping tl i They should have their recks .- ■ as a mechanic or itoeeke - to eiiter their reoeiptsani "'every kind and the da' are made. The products of should lie known, whatc. i be occupied by it.andt'. so that a comparison ma; i , (he product of the same" l mi I other fields of equal extent, i i . ■ gel at the most profltal the farm for particular i rop every item should be ear filly , ss Well as an estimate nr t .. sible of everything, eoi family. Ky this means ascertain the true result- f operati'ipis— a circuinsii. sboiiiil ,-uppose every fa M especially desirous of which, we are sorry lon, | . of them are indifferent : -.-.. net know ledge of the y and the success which ut i ~ i a stimulating effect in ir . better where we have not do oudi. and to maintain tl well enough has been t m-. ",l. '- not so ? ———.♦,— KEEPING CABEMI- . Cabbages in the . c ;ni i scarcity, yet lUe-e *Is 1 they should not be us p in the Fall. Only a lit- , easary. Wo havegenoi -U- kopi fresh ami crisp through c V Intel the plan we have adopt l ~-, We dug a trench out ( lo i tliree reel deep, and bo> all with loose boards. In >\ cabbages, standing tin the roots downwards. 1 beads to touch.' The -vjiol . . covered with boards, pi enough together to Lei . v the earth was then heap forming of course R ruoi, feet in height. In the bage Kept all Winter l ■ ccdi-i" 'i ndltion. N> them and they were .•'pi ing as w hen lirst p - erkl. ton FarmtT. -IC7* A deacon who I grocery not a hundred statehouse in AHauiy how much he had done i -. . temperance, by mixinj . lon of pure water with liiiooi' lie sold,