Virginia Free Press

A Yankee in France.—Mr. Willington,
editor of the Charleston Courier, in
South Carolina, is travelling in France
with his family.—A daughter of Mr. W.
has just been married in Paris to the son
of one of the Admirals of the British Navy.
This event we notice merely to
speak of the success of a Yankee boy
where intelligence is combined with industry
and energy of character. Mr.
Willington is a native of West Cambridge
near Boston. His parents are worthy and
respectable people, and if we mistake not,
his father is or was a farmer, and for a
long series of years has grown vegetables
for Boston market. A long while since,
with a dickey in his hat and a few pennies
in his pocket, young Willington
went South. After passing through various
gradations, from entire obscurity to
became distinguished as one of the most
able and dignified Editors in the Union.
Distinction and wealth followed, and now
he is travelling abroad with his family,
and his daughter has just been connected
by marriage with the son of a British
Admiral! The mutations of rank and
fortune in this country are curious sometimes
when diligently traced out.
Northampton Courier