sKETrH oFP. w. TOMPKINS.
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p. W. PonPKIss. the present whig can
drdase sor Congress. was born in the town OF
Lexinglon. KY, of parents of high stand.
ing il society aud in good circumstances.
His fther was merchant. Ills parents
lived in Lexington uatil he was about sev.
en- wears Of age. In the general derange-
ment which took place in the commercial
affairs of he country about this time, Mr..
rompkins' father was among the sufferers
Ga settling up his business. he found that
it would take aifthe property he owned 10
the world to discharge his indebtedness.
But being an honest men. he. Willingly
gave up all that he possessed, and paid his
debtsto the last mite He was thus. not
by his fault. but by the changes of fortune,
reduced to extreme poverty. He then re>
moved to the western border OF Kentucky,
then howling wilderness. P. W. Temp
kins, the present candidate for Congress
was now about eight years old. From
this lime until he was bout seventeen. ia
period of nine years. he never saw church
or school-house. such wilderness was
the country in which .heslived During
this period, besides assisting his father in
the cultivation OF little farm for the susti>
nance OF the f,mily. he stocked all The
ploughs and made all the shoes used by
them. and occasionally in bad weather,
when there was nothing else to do, his
mother would put him. in the loom TO
weave cloth for the clothing of the family.
IF he had any leisure time, he employed
it in reading. He studied the English
Grammer after be was 90 years of age.
His fathers circumstances being now some
cation, which he declined receiving at his
fathers hands, preferring to see his whole
means devoted to the comfort of his tami.
ly and to the education Of his younger chill.
dren. The son studied, law and obtained
license TO practice about the age Of "a or
%. A short time after he was licensed,
his eyes became so much affected from
hard study, that he was for three years
unable to read a page. In this condition
he came to Mississippi and settled himself,
emphatically 80 stranger in strange
land" HIS eyes continued so bad that he
was compelled to employ clerk to read to
him the statutes of the State But he con-
tended successfully against all there difficult
ties, and succeeded beyond his expectations


We deem 1t unnecessary to trace him fur
ther What follows of his histoy is identi
fed with that of the State Suffice it to say.
that after nobly bfeasting these waves of
adversely, the current OF his affaiIs has ia
Ken change, and he is now able to ride
trIumPhautly above them He is aow
made able. by his own exertions, to repS
der cheerful the declining years ola widow
ed mother, who, in the ordinary course Of
things. will soon be called hence. His life
is noble example for young men who
have to Struggle agaiRst the tide of fortune.
and affords one OF the finest illustrations of
that good old maxim. ..Persecsronfio ON.
MA riacit''