Southern Planter

TRIBUTE TO THE HEART.

The inhabitants of Bordentown were not informed of the intention of the count de Survilliers to go to Europe, until a day or two before his departure from town. As soon as it was known, there was a spontaneous movement of the people to make some manifestation to him of their affection and respect. They at once agreed to wait upon him, at his house, to express their sense of the loss they were about to suffer, and their ardent wishes for his prosperity and happiness,—This was done. It was a touching spectacle, and deeply affected him. He came a stranger among them; he had lived with them for sixteen years—every individual has found in him a benevolent friend, and the public a most useful benefactor. His public works will speak for him to posterity, for they are as enduring as they are generous, and the inhabitants of the borough will not cease to remember him as a kind and liberal friend. The forced, the selfish and the formal respect which is paid to greatness and power, has nothing in it like this voluntary offering to one who has no claim to it but from his urbanity and virtues. A more fervent and sincere "God bless you" never was uttered, than that which came from the heart and the lips of the rich and the poor of the village of Bordentown to the neighbor and friend on his departure from them.—Nat. Gaz.