not to expect satisfaction in this empty, fluctuating, and transitory state! How strongly urged to place our affections on things above, to secure an immediate interest in those sublime and durable pleasures which flow from the service and favor of God and the prospect of complete and endless felicity in His presence. Inscription on the monument in Archdale Churchyard, in Archdale Street, Charleston, S. C.:— SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ELIZA S. BOWNE Wife of Walter Bowne of New York, Daughter of Robert Southgate Esqr., of Scarborough, District of Maine, who departed this life on the 19th day of February, 1809, aged 25 years. ----- Footnote 1: Mrs. Rowson’s story is well known. She was an Englishwoman, Susanna Haswell, the daughter of an officer in the navy, and was brought to America by her father in 1767, when she was only five years old. Their ship was wrecked on Lovell’s Island, in Boston Harbor, and they lived at Nantasket for nearly ten years, when they went back to England. There she married William Rowson, a musician, and went upon the stage. In 1795–96 we find her acting in Baltimore and Boston. She published several comedies and a number of novels; one of these, “Charlotte Temple,” gained great popularity. She died at Boston in 1824. She taught school in several places—at Medford, at Newton, and at Boston, and was very successful. Footnote 2: Joseph Coffin Boyd, of Portland, Maine. Married Isabella, oldest daughter of Dr. Southgate. Footnote 3: Horatio Southgate, Dr. Southgate’s oldest son, followed the profession of the law in the town of Portland, Maine, and was for twenty-one years Register of Probate for Cumberland County, Maine. Mr. Southgate married three times. His first wife was a friend of his sisters and was Abigail McLellan, the daughter of Hugh McLellan, a well-known East Indian merchant. Mary Webster was Mr. Southgate’s second wife; she was the daughter of Noah Webster, whose name is well known in connection with the dictionary that he wrote. Mr. Southgate’s third wife was Eliza Neal of Portland. By his three wives Mr. Southgate had a large family of children, among them being the Rt. Rev’d Horatio Southgate and the Rev’d William Scott Southgate. Footnote 4: Isabella Southgate had married to Joseph Coffin Boyd. She was Dr. Southgate’s oldest child. Footnote 5: Mary Black, the second wife of Richard King, Mrs. Southgate’s stepmother. She had married Mr. King soon after the death of his first wife, who was her cousin, and had been a kind and devoted mother to his three children. Footnote 6: Octavia Southgate, Dr. Southgate’s third daughter. She married, in 1805, William Browne.