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IXEW SERIES.] VOL. I. SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1840. N?47. ???otp??aaaawi ???n?mbcp?g?mi m mm i ? Mnga?MBa? ?uBMa -f.inrfr n i i?iw ih i wi ! iiiwmiwihm ??a? ???a ?? POETRY. tj rOR THE JOl'RXA!.. TIIE DAY OF JUDGMENT. A VIHIOX. Methought the day of Judgment came. The sun, As if its chariot wheols had broken down, Stood stili. And the quick pulse of nnturo throbbed In the wild phrensy of dismuy.T.The liand Of iron labor plied its busied toil. All frantic ploasurc did her incense burn To idols vain. Ambition bout the sails * Of Barks luinumbcred on*lifc'a_glassy wave. V7.U UIUU liiu imruy buip vfi unwipiov Aroused: And earth, as hour by hour, was fraught With sounds confused, tho hum of mon and things. But suddenly there seemed a stillness deep (You might liavo heard the rolling of the spheres In harmony of movement sweetly drawn) Followed by spasms of earth. Mcphitic clouds In darksome masses nee, as if, at last,' Old Aetna, or Stroinboli had their way, Throughout the hollowed globo in fury mined. And rolled tho muffled drum earth's last dead march!! Birds fell dead. By unheard storm the fig tree Shook; and all trees cast their fruit untimely. To man's foot crawled the gasping snake and died Tho timid hind, by shaft unseen transfixed,Hf Dropped at tho fann house door, whilst big tears I coarseti v. i ^ Ail own his silken veil of light, and death Sealed up the avenues of sense. O'er all things fell the pall of night in folds, Damp, sulpluirous,Jaiid vast.** And it wag..dark! . An awful pauso in human life, ensued: Man gazed on man; nrfd githorod from each scowl Sad contirmation of despair. Hut look! Kvrie Elccson! Mercy save! A light of glory flashing through the air, Around the form of heaven's Archangel floatp, Who in his puissant hand the trump of God Uplifted hears. One foot is on the sen: And one the oarth but lightly treads. Silence! Hie trumpet sounds; Men held their breath. Eac'i' nerve Of life quivered. Deep answered deep. And then Those word', those awful words:?O earth give car: Thy doom is fixed: I swear by Him who Is, And Was, and Shall be, Tiinc shall be no more! For'h.vith the sun became as blood, and from H s shining sphere to black oblivion lull. Arcturun, Orion and Pleiades With all their burning hosts likt drops- of hail, Before tin- siroc, passed. The boiling sea In vapor rose; and left, its caverns bare. The deep foundations of the hasting hills Were thrown on level with the verdant plain. Earth's pillows bowed. Pyramids and towns, High palaces, and every domicile Came down; and tho round world (lor so it socir.cdli Became ruin's wide spread fielU. Again Tltc Angel sounded; and those words of fo.ir In solemn accents came;?ye quick and dead To judgment rise; Eternity is now. And then the sea gave up her dead; and earth Its denizens reloascd: bones, nerves and all The parts divorce of man's anatomy, Started to life from coral rocks and beds Of matted roods, oceans charm 1 hnust; I And from the dust of ruin blown by tunc On ro.stlc.vS winds throughout the world. The dead In countloss throngs got up; and 60uls of quick Tolifo immortal wore transformed, and both, With cyo undimmcd, tho bar of heaven beheld In all tho terrors of the law arrayed. Around the throne thore broko a rain bow light An omcrald most liko. translucent with Sapphires and rubies and all precious sloncs Impavcd, whereon the sea of glory rolled Its waves of bliss fast by the sacred Book Sealed with the mandates of the Living Hod! Ma thought the Son of man aroso to look The sentence of his court; and then a strain Of music most seraphic, from the harps Of Cherubim, Salvation's Ilymns of praise From ransomed of the Lord echoed. But hark! Tho last trump! And earth's vital spark is quenched. The funeral pile is built, ruin's torch T.io mi-s onflimes; and all the world's on fire! B it O the shrieks of ruined souls arose Above the crackling flame and rolling smoke, Louder and louder still, in agony O* wo. O -acred God! what sights and sounds Are thoso for mortal sense to note, and live! TOR Tn E JOURNAL. ATX MANES DE MA MERE! Ellc n'c3t plus cetto more chcric, Qui tant dc fois me prossa sur son conur; Son souvenir sera pondant ma vie, t,n Bnirt dn doulctir. '""J"""' ?J Do scs beaux jcurs, !a parquo iinpitoyablc Vient dc tranclicr lo fil si prccicux, Pour srs vortus ccttc mere adorable, Ilabitc maiutonant les cicux. Rcgrcttcz la, vous quil'avoz con line, A sa mcmoiro accordez quclques plcurs; Si vous amicz ccllc que j'ai perdue, Sur son tombeau semcz des flours, Ellc n'est plus ct nioi jc vis encore, Loin dc mon perc ct do ina tendro sunir. Loin d'unanii que j'estime ct j'honorc, 11 u'csl plus pour inoi do bonhcur. Hcurcux espoir! sa gloirc est otcrnelle, Do ses bontcs gardons lc souvenir. i-uitcsinou I'iCll que JC yivc cuiiiiiii: i: if, Cominc cllc faitcs moi inourir. F. If. To Prevent Hots I.\ Houses.?In the lull months I keep a greasy cloth in the stable; this is once a week rubbed over sueb pai ls of the horses as may have been attacked by the nit fly. reasc destroys (lie life of "the eggs and prevent hatching. I worship's attention to the important fact I that some other Dutchman had runaway - with his wife. s ,4I can't interfere in such a case as s thai," said his worship. " Ish, but dat ish nod the vorshd ov id, 1 vor de vorshd ov id ish, dat she is nod . stay avay," returned the Dutchman, " vec her vash gone, I vash so pleas,d as a leedle 1 dog mit dwo dails, an 1 vish all dc dime she vash den dousand miles away; but yen I ish come to my vork dish mornin, 1 nn vnn T vai'i enmn ha f'L' tit rip h!nr?n rnro MISCELLANEOUS. Carrying concealed Weapons.? When Caesar was advise:! by his friend to be more cautious of security of in person, and not to walk among the peo pie without arms or any one to defene him, he always replied to the admonitions "He that lives in fear of death every moment feels its tortures?I will die bill once." Why, brave men?citizens whose duty it is to cultivate the arts of peace, shoulc go habitually armed, making an arsena of their persons, lias always appeared i us an inscrutable mystery?we couit never divine it. Wc see but two horns t( the dilemma?such a man momentaril) afraid of his own life, and his mind i: therefore eternally on the rack, or, he bu pants for an opportunity to act the assas sin, and therefore little better than a fienc in human form, to be despised by the tru ly brave man and abhorred by the mai govcrncd by religious principles. It i: not characteristic of brave nations to car ry concealed weapons, nor is it, so far a: our observation has extended, indicative of brave men. Concealc/j weapons arc the insigr.a of a footpad, the burglar ant flip mnrppnnrv hrnv_r? and l?v ll?p tnmi mi. ccnscioiisaf wrong and fearless of dang -i ilicy never should be worn. The South is accounted chivalrous, truly chivalrous, and well has she earned thai prcud distinction, Ilcr sons never faul tercd in the charge, nor retreated before the enemy, but were always first to do battle for their rights?last to lay dowr their arms while these rights w.-r withheld from them. Now the question Southerns should ask themselves is, "Will tlk habit of incessantly carrying concealed weapons preserve to us that brave and chivalrous character which we havegaincc in many a well fought field.- or rather, is ii not calculated to sink us d own to the level of Spanish brigands or piratical as&as sins?" To this last interrogatory the breast of every American must beat a responsive yes. We do hope to see the time when every man who carries concealed weapons will be looked upon ir the degraded light of a loafer, or worse? we wish to see the potential voice of the public opinion frown the system down, foi "it is more honored in the breach than ii tluTOt)servenre*" nnd with f'rr>;nr be,lievc that "Tie who lives in fear of dcatl every moment feels its tortures." N. 0. Pic. Steam fire Engine.?The Gold Mc dal of the Mechanics' Institute, awarder by the Committee on Ails and Sciences was last week presented to Capt. J. Erics son, by the Vice President of the Associa tion, in presence of a very full meeting The medal was awarded in pursuance of; ' i i -?* /n resolution passcu uunng luu j>jc?uuju^ ^ incendiarism last winter, for the best plai of a steam fire engine. The number o plans originally submitted was live, on< of which was withdrawn by the inventor leaving four for competition. The sue cessful plan is that of an engine weighing less than 2 1-4 tons, that with the lowcs estimated speed has a power of 108 men and will throw 3000 lbs of water pei mi mite to a height of 105 feet, through a noz zle of 1 1-2 inches diameter. By increa sing the speed to the greatest limit easih and safely attainable, the quantity of wa tcr thrown may be much augmented. The Vice President, in the necessar; absence of the President of the Associa lion, read a very neat and well writtci address in tendering the medal. Cap! Ericsson replied in a short but pcrtincn acknowledgment, and then in accordant I with the wish of the meeting, proccedei j to explain the drawing and to answc ; such questions relative to it as were pro ? 1 t i.- i ' p0SC(l oy muiiiuuis iiiu (irawuig unui j is one of the most beautiful and finishci ; specimens of mechanical drawing we eve 'saw: and was of itself worth the mcda |The machine is the most simple in cor struct ion ever modeled. The absence c ai.y rotary motion relieves the nccssit of much of the apparatus pccular t steam engines. The motion of the wheel in going to a fire, communicates inotioi to bellows which give an artificial drafi so that in ten minutes from the time th torch is applied to the fuel, the steam i up, and the engine ready for work. W have not space for details; and can onl add that we did not know whether to hi most pleased with the engine, the gentle manly and accomplished inventor, 01 with the Institute whose liberality callei irvnt dip nlnn. It remains now with sonn Iof our Insurance Companies to order i j machine upon this plan. l\?:n the Brother Jonathan. WATCH RKTURNS. Ci r am) com:: again.?John Krunt? or Krutz.or something of 1 hat sort?a sol looking Dutchman, came into the office i a slote of trepidation, and requested hi * V I k I \J11 M. ? V/'yi IIV MUVIi ! / V4W k'iUUU ( UIVy 111 shloeps, dere, duudor and teeples, her >,.?!? back again as fashder den ever!" 11 -I \hit do any thing for you in that > ease either," observed the court. 7 " Den dat isli too bad endirely," resumed Mr. Krutz, " an I vish I vash mine vifc, and dat mine vife vash me, vor ven I vash run'd avay from her mit mineself, and nod mid anoder voman. Mine (i->i!d< y but sac in a blaee vor dree days and re", n.gh'.s, vero I got nodin to eai bin. a ieotle bit of pread an vater, an vere dere vashn't so much light dere ish in a ,rad hole." " O, I remember you now," observed the court, " you were in the habit of beating your wife in those days." " Na, ua, mynheer, dat vash nod it!? r '!;i a -i ii !" answered the Flailand 'Jr. " It ish my vifo as vash used to bead me, and dat ish do reason I run'd avay t ven dey but me in do blace init out no light." 51 "I remember to have committed you myself for beating her." 1 "O, ish now I tink, dat. vash von time ven she vash so drunk dat mine Got! I have to cany her on mine pack ali de vay ' from Washington market, down to Thom' as sdreet; and den 1 did nod beat her, ' but only struck her dree or four times mit ' noden but the bahn of my hand." [ "You must have treated your wife bad ly, or slic wouldn't have runaway from you," remarked h:s worship. 1 "Dat ish nod druej' retorted Krutz, "vor I dreatcd hcrso^obt as I vash able, ! an dish am now de durd time she have vent avay mit John Van Winkle." > "What. do you mean to say she has runaway from you three times." 1 "Ish mynheer! dree times! I would't r have said noding for von time, nor for 1 dwo times, but mjne Got! de durd time 1 man mit any feelings ov bride or courage about him." i "I should think it was" said the court. I "It vash indeed, your voship,"contin" ucd John Krutz, "but den ven I say to her 1 no voman dat ish goot vill leave her hus> band dree dimes and run avay mit anoder * man. Got tarn! she say to me, you fool * you, dat ish de fashion in dish coundry! * an I vil gome an go, gome and go, so of1 ten as I blcasc; for John Van Winkle ish f dwo times as goot a man as you, only he \ hashn't have so mootch money.'' i "I know of no law by which I can re} lievc you in this court," said the bench. ? "Den I vil give dem dwenty, dirty tol lars to have von law made," returned the J* ? rs rv-? nloinont 5 cuiil^lcuiiutll* I "Thatcan't be done" answered his wor> ship, "but if you will swear against Van - Winkle for intruding on your premises, I * can give you a warrant for him." "Yaw, mynheer!" exclaimed the Duchf man, with an evident feeling of strong emotion, "Vill you give me a varrant to I make John Van Winkle run avay mit f mine vife. Mine Got! if you do I vill - bay den dollars, for dat ish all I ask." II j "No," returned the magistrate, "I mean that I wiii give you a warrant to put him t in prison." 3 | "Jla! de tuvij," sighed Mr. Krutz, with a sudden cxtcntion of his nether jaw, r | "dat vould be vorsh den nodin, for den, ' mine Got! mine vrow voud'nt have 110body to run avay mit!" "Then I can do nothing to comfort you," f observed the magistrate. ' "Veil, veil, it ish ov no madder, no i- madder," added Mr. Krutz, "fur I car ?f, have a lectio more batience; but the next y time she runs avay mit John Van Winkle o j I'll run avay too, and go some varc, varc s j dare ishn'l no Jaw, and no brisons, to n [ make me subort her veil she comes back t; again." cj And having thus consoled himself by s. the anticipation of the speedy elopement ~i' 1.: . n/?i.c,tntit Ififtv; Imvp with lid* 1)C ^ I HI.-) UJU Ci /ilOlUtit IMV.J 1V>V, .... J _ V culiarly convenient chcrc ami, Mr. John 3 Krutz made himself scarce. r A Goon Oxn.?From the Bucktail of ' Saturday wo clip the following capita! ^ touch of eloquence. Ilung were the heavens in black?tremendous peals of the thunder drum of the great, vault rent the air?lightning after lightifng'.s glare flitted across the sky ?the earth shook to its centre?when ft Gen. Harrison awoke up in the morning ii and asked his committee, "please to lei ;s me $tn> ou/V' POLICY OF THE BANKS. The public will see in the scrap taken from the Pendleton newspaper, the cause of the low prices, and the pressure every where. There is no doubt that the reduction of the circulating medium of the banks is one third in amount: their continued suspension to prevent the hoard" 1 specie from being brought to the relief of the country, and the suspension of trade, as far as possible, b v the banking interests, is all part of a settled system to control the Presidential election. The moment that is over, no matter how it goes, the( whole face of affairs will be changed. "Policy op the Bank Party.?The followiin? naraoranh from the Pendleton or o i Messenger, discloses the policy of the Bank party to operate on the'corning elections. This lias been, and is their game every where:" "4 We understand a lett2r has been received here, from an intelligent gentleman from ' ieorgia, (we believe he is a Harrison man,) which states, that the Georgia banks are now in a condition to resume specie payments, and that they will do so after the election. This is equivalent to a declaration, that although the passage of the Sub-Treasury bill has not, as was predicted, destroyed the banks, yet the banks have resolved to continue the pressure on the people, by refusing to fulfil their obligations, till after the elections, in order to keep up the cry of hard times, 11*1 1 * *1 41 * ' x wmcn mey cuarge to tne aoministration.' " Refinement.?One of the latest touches of the exquisite in literature we find in the last Boston Evening Gazette. Instead of saying "lie that dances should pay the tidier," that paper has it. "lie that dancea should compensate the violinist." The latest i:3, however, in the Boston Courier. "Tell Chapman to crow," is a saying which has been for some time past quite current in the political papers. But the language is now considered quite unpolished; therefore it is proposed that instead of using that coarse, dictatorial blunt expression, "tell Chapman to crow," we should say: indicate to Mr Chapman to officiate as cockerel." The last Shark Story.?As an offset to the Ship news wYgn Urteans1 ricayline tells tTie following story:; Once upon a time, when the packet l ship Coriolanus was returning from Liver-! pool to New York, t!ic carpenter, a very j worthy man, was taken sick, and after i brief illness expired on shipboard. lie; had an interesting son, who was his assis- j tant as ship carpenter, and the boy loved | his father with the most tender and filial affection. The poor youth's heart was! almost broken at the loss of his parent, and no persuasion couid induce him to leave the body. The usual preparations for a funeral at sea were made; the poor carpenter was sewed up in his winding sheet, and with him was put an old grindstone, hatchet and chisel, to carry him down to his long rest in the ocean. The poor boy grew frantic when his father was about to be committed to the waves; and was obliged to beheld off by the sailors. At length, just as the lata! lurch or the vessel was inking place, the boy, with the strength of a maniac, broke from the sailors and dashed himself upon the body at the very moment that it was sliding over the ship's side. It was too late to save him, and clinging wildly to the dead body of his father, the hapless boy was seen to make one swift plunge, and disappear forever down, down, into the cternai caverns of t the mighty ocean. , This was in lat. 97?long. 79, which was duly entered on the log-book. The Coriolanus arrived at New York, completed all the business preparatory for her next trip, and she sailed again for Liveri pool. i Take in a long breath reader, it's comt ing. , When in lat. 09?long. 48, an cnor: mous shark was caught, and when hauled i upon deck a most extraordinary noise ; seemed to proceed from the huge monster's stomach. The creature was opened, and there was the father, the son, the (rrindstone. the hatchet and the chisel. O- -V"T # O, ifit aint true, then never may another fish story be believed! The poor carpenter had not died, but was only in a trance when they buried him, and there ho was ' sharpening his hatchet, while the son was I turning the grindstone! they having resolved to cut their way out of' the shark's stomach! Col. Johnson vs. Tecumseh.?Co 1. Johnson, in a late speech gave some account of the battle of the Thames. In his i speech occurs the following passage: "Mv brother James, and a braver and ! better "man never lived, charged through the Ihifish. with one half of the batfa ' ton, while I with the other half, undert ook to rouse up the Indians in the swamp. They were not hard to rouse up; fur Tecuioseh, a man transccndantly superior to Proctor, in point of real braver}', as Hyperion fo a Satyr, had determined to make that his best and most conclusive battle ground. We met them and fought thcni: and, when they learned Procter's Br tLsh regulars had been demolished by my brother James, they began to retire. At this moment my body had been perforated by five bullets, and my horse could only be kept on his less by the greatest exertions of my bridle hand. In endeavoring to make him leap over a log in the swamp, he fell and died, with two more balls in his carcase than were in my own. A tail, good looking Indian approached me with his tomahawk ready for a throw. My horse lay in a position that did not permit me to be exactly dismounted. I pulled out a loaded pistol from my holsters, and shot him. They say it was Tecumseh. I care not, and I know not: I would have shot the best Indian that ever breathed under such circumstances, without inquiring his name, or asking the age of his children." The women of the Revolution.?The following is an extract from a letter written by a lady of high rank and accomplishments, Residing in Philadelphia, to a British officer living in Boston. It was sent to him soon after the battle of Bunker Ilill, and circulated at that trme throughout the colonics, in the Revolution? r_ 4Us. ixiy nuwspapurs, ii?jiu which uiu cauclci. is copied?Boston Morning Host. " I will tell you what I have done. My only brother 1 have sent to the camp, with my prayers and blessings; I hope he v/iii not disgrace me; 1 am confident he will behave with honor, and emulate the great examples he has before him. Had (twenty brothers and sons, they should go. I have retrenched every superfluous I e-.per.se in my table and family; tea, I have not drank since lr.t.t Christmas; nor bought a new cap or gown since your defeat at Lexingtan; and (what I never did before) I have learned to knit; with this new acquirement, I am now making stockings of American wool for my servants. In this way do I throw in mv mite for the public good. I know I^!ia!lTnclT^?Uin^ut X have the pleasure to these *<re the sentiments of all my sister Americans. They have sacrificed balls, assemblies parties of pleasure, tea drinking and finery, to the great cpirit of liberty that actuates all ranks and degrees of people throughout this extensive continent." ' * ** From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce. State of Alabama ?No member of the Union has fulfill* i her engagements with greater punctuality lha i the State of Alabama. The only debt she owes, is that invested in the capital slock of her I Banks. The first half million of her bonds became due in London the present year; and although the Style reserved its right to extend the period of their redemption, the whole sum due was anticipated and paid by the Dunks for which it was issued. The interest upon another portion of the debt, payment in New York and New Orleans in November and December, is already provided. A part of that Hue in T 1 ' 1 ?Ano fnr. lljOimon in junurry n?i, nan ?<' <? w. ward: and the ( reat Western carries with her to-day, remittances to cover the residue. Indeed all the payments of the State prior to April ""841, are thus anticipated. The Legislature of Alabama, at its last < session, passed an act recalling the whole of the Stale R n*'s i<-n. ! an ?till unsold. These have ult been accordingly returned and cancelled, thus leaving the State debt, 810.800.000. The Gov rnor also in his iu . :v< sage to the Legislature, recommended the establishment -if a sinking fund for the gradual exting * ' ?'f ihis debt, and this judicious im us.. < will in all probability be adopted the ensuing session. With an annual export of Cotton, worth at in present low price, twenty millions of dollars; with a very trifling amount of imports during the past and present year, and with a faithful and economical policy in the management of her finances, the State of Alabama ought to rank amongst the highest in credit, as she is in her resources. TV... Ar.itlnioo ri'iTii).n-m vin Is fho fol ? U J .HV/IIIUVV - ' 'V r . - lowing matin. *iira man is : v. pa* ; > newspaper, how many can lie afford to keep." A fish out of the net.?In Philadelphia a few days ago, a man named Trout -j; -?/l (Vntn li e U'ifp. hv nififla. was uivuiccu uvi? *? > ~j i mation.