My sweet wife I find, indeed, a rich treasure.

Uniformly cheerful and most affectionate, she makes sunshine all the day.

God's gifts are worthy of the giver." It was in the early days of 1849 that a gift of another kind was received by him which could not fail to gratify him.

This was a decoration, the "Nichan Iftikar" or "Order of Glory," presented to him by the Sultan of Turkey, the first and only decoration which the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire had conferred upon a citizen of the United States.

It was a beautiful specimen of the jeweller's art, the monogram of the Sultan in gold, surrounded by 130 diamonds in a graceful design.