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UBL'lT.\HY: HOBER'£ EDEN HANDY 2 •
I Newspaper clipping] [About January 7, 1839.I DIED, on the ,Hh ultimo, at Hichmoud, on the Brassos, (Texas} aged thirty _vear;;: < 'olo11el HOBERT EDEN HA}.TDY, only brother of 1'lr;:. Da\'id Paul l3rowll, of this city. I', ai:-<•s ol' the departed are so usual, and so general, as to make but little impression. The liYes of those, distinguishe,1 for their vir:- tuC's and their worth in the memory of survi\"Ors, furnish the best and mo;;:t appropriate epitaphs, and to thm:e who knew Col. Hal1(ly, no of her rou Id bl• nec·c;:r;ur,r. Sornethin~ however miw he allowed to the effusion of generous m,d grateful affection, which, if it he not required in ordPr to the just appreciation of the deceased, at least relieves the· heart from t.lw oppre:-:sion arising from the painful consciousness of a <leht or Ion! and gratitude undischarged. Our best impulses may, it ii; trm', sometimes lead us into excesses. hut the bosom would be cold, ehPPrlcss, an<l worthless without them. · Colonel Handy, who has thus hecu snatclJcd away in the morning of his life, was a man of the highest honor and the most chivalric <'ourage. He particularly distinguished himself during the late war- in Texas, and at the battle of San J aeinto served as .Aid-de-Camp of the Commander-in-Chief and greatly signalized himself in that san- guinar_y and decisiYe conflict. Rut it was chiefly in the exercise of the duties of n citi1.en, a friend, and a brother, that he laid claim to our admiration and regard. Selfishness formed no part of his character.. From his earliest life he de\"Oted himself to the happines., and gratifica-• tion of those arouml him, and seemed to derive blessings to HtMSEU' only,. from conferring blessings upon OTHERS. The life of such a man is a publie bPnefit, his death a public Joss. This c_onsolation however remains to his herea,·c<l relatives ancl friends. He died as he li,·ed, at pea<'e with himseli am! with the world, and in the happy assurance, through the atoning mercies of the Hctleemer, of a heavenly and an eternal reward.
No. 9!l3. WILLIS RUBEHTS TO L.tL\fAR
(ialYeston 8th .Jnn. 1s:rn
Your Excelleney DEM! Sm
I mm·h rcg:ret the necessity of informing you that our mutual friend" Dr. Kelton, I find upon trial, is not so competent as he .should be to take charge of the cashiers' desk, or indeed an_v other in t.he Custom. house. His great deficiency in penmanship & knowledge of nceounts & bookkeeping renders it very rlifficult & embarrassing for the book- keeper (}Ir. Thompson) so to digest his entries as to gi,·e a11,v thing like system to them. Dr. Kelton is a goorl young man, faithful & trustworthy, 110 doubt, & suffir:it>ntly intelligent 011 ordinary :mbjeds,. aud I am unhappily disappointed iu hi::: qualifiP1ttio11s for n d"rk. As a heaYy responsibility rests upon me it is all important that I shonl<l
";\Vith No. l 01 K: from II Philuclclµhill ncw:<pnp<'r.
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