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, VOLUME 2---N0.28. ABBEVILLE C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1854. -WHOLE NMBER # " ^
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% PWBTHT. ~
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* - My Neighbor's Home.
c"s.; ' My neighbor has n noble house
. . vOver the way,
' While mine is poor and meanly built
OfeticVs and clay;
His bouse has gardens rare and fine,
But mine has neither flower nor vine;
His house is built of marble white,'
Boheminn glass lets in the light,
-There's Persian carpet on its floors,
And silver knockers on ite doors,
< >'- And all its ware, so wondrous fair,
Of richest woods is quaint and rare ;
And many guests go in and sup
From gold and daintiest Sevres cup;
And mirth and music enter there,
Filling it a* with charmed air?
Such is my neighbor's noble house
Over the vmq',
Xiookinc oh mine but mcnnlv built
Of sticks and clay.
Yet, though I live across the way,
In a mean houso of sticks and clny,
And he is rich, and I out poor,
With but a latch-string to my door,
Why should I sorrow or repine,
Gazing upon his noble house
And gardens rare and fine!? .
They"cost me nothing?they cost him care.
And after all they're mine!
'They're mine, becnnseal borne, content,
~ I .drink from them sweet nourishment;
I sec them morning, noon and night.,
In every new nnd changing light,
, Beautiful ever, but more to me
Than to him who lives there merrily;
? Or seemingly eo, since he must pny
Dearly iu money, and care and pain,
For what 1 can see both night and daj-,
" - Free as the sunshine or-tlie rain-;
, Hia noble house and his gardens fine
Were made for me?aud to #ce, ore mine !
V* . 7 I hear his music and see hi* guests,
' He pay# the'piper, and seldom rt-ou
yfijgyj .From toil and care, in his marble honu*.
. '^Wljile I sleep sweetly and dreaming roain
v Over liis marble house so fair,
S6B38H*iSiM^ttud ,are? .
Plucking tlieir I ?3bH$x everywhere,
& Paying no tnx of nioneyTirctife;
.* X?~. Thus I ani richer hv .far than lie,
^ JJprbis house nnd gurdens uro mine, re:it free,
.Apd long as Vlive, if they lant, will be,
And itdbody'll curse their'rich owner in me.
*?||7 ; MISOELLAJTY.
* ; [fOB THE piD?PKNI>KNT.PRESS J
. v.|fp From Columbia.
' -"Messrs.-Editors: To your letter of a
recent date, inviting me to occasionally oc^
. nine a nlacc in tlie Press. I would rcftocct
w* f .'.V- . v.. .
' fcfy* reply, and say, that I feel myself flut-.
^^^ leired by your invitation* and will inostcheerfully
accept it; but that yourselves and your
l^?4?n>/|uay ^ apprized of the character of
' , my contribution?, and of the humble source
V vh^noe thoy emaruite,_a few words by way
/V4. of introduction may not be out. of place.
'ill - " J?kD^ fi.ret>your correspondent is of litiinble
origin, and one of'tlie Peoplb-?his
loves, his sympathies, yea. IiIk. very heart and
^SS^vioul. are with the people. Nor dm's this
^j^^^vfoeling' spring from Ills wtly jiFKociiitions, or
-Mho blind partiality of liia riper years. R?i.
bod, he thinks, sanction* it, find gratitude
approves it. Who are they who clear our
laqds, commit the precious seed to thd earth,
. and gather the goldel) harvest? Tj^o p<*o
pie. , Who are they who erect our buildings,
conduct our commerce.buildourships,V
-afld supply as With the comforts and i*0?ve-;
-pie&cea of life ? Thq people. Finally, who
xm they who protect our. coasts, fight our.
battles, and Overawe our e^eixiie?,;r The
gig- peaij^"<3od bless themthe people <io it all.
I:
. r"y
er, and that its possessors (together with the
old aristocracy of this State) are endowed
by the Creator with certain inalienable
rights; that ?mn>ngst these an- the appointments
(called hy courtesy elections) of Electors
of President and Vice President of tlie
United States, of Governor and Lieutenant
Governor of tlie StaTe, of Commissioners in
Equity, of all Magistrate*, and of all Commissioners
of Roads Bridges, and Ferried ;
that. to Kecnri* thesr> rirrlit '. tJu?
of South Carolina was instituted, deriving
its powers from aristocratic and moneyed
combinations, strengthened by years of submission
on the part of the people, <fec."?
And can I respect or esteem these men as
the friends of civil liberty ? Never ! never ! 1
never!!!
And yet we find the little two-penny politicians,
the office-seekers. and office-expectants
of the hour, not only adopt the opinions
of this haughty aristocracy, but absolutely
cringe before them, and fawn upon
tliem, in humble expectancy of the crumb*
that shall fall from their tables. While mv
heart is bowerl down bv a retrospective view
of the many who have forgotten theii duty
to the people, by denying to them their just
right", it is nevertheless cheered by behold
;ng uie noDic array 01 pure ana independent
patriots who, through evil a* woll as good
report, have stood forth, as a Moses and a
Joshua, before them. " Some have already
crossed the Jordan, and entered the blessed
land; while others remain this side of the
flood ^ and are even now leading their hosts
to conquests and to victory.
But I forget myself. [ believe I am talking
like an editor, instead of a scribbling
Correspondentlike n star-actor, instead of
a candle-snuffer. Let me write move in
character. - . r
Columbia has for many weeks past been
a city of refuge from the epidemics that prevailed
in Charleston, -Hamburg, Augusta,
and elsewh<?j?. She is jjow, however, receiving
the farewell mldresses of lier visitors.
who are returning home, Some.three hundred
passengers left here yesterday morning
for Charleston, and almost an equal
number this morning; indeed the Charleston
Railroad Coinpanj^had to borrow two
passenger cars from the Greenville, in addition
to their own, that they might accommodate
the returning multitude*, as well as
those going down on business.
Mr. Boyce, our Representative in Congress,
addressed the people here y<-sferday,
and gave general satisfaction. -YoiV rue aware
that Mr. B. was a Union man during
the secession mania. HeJsye.L ;i Union man*
and fears that the acquisition of Cuba, eifh
or by conquest or purrljjise. will jeopardize
our peace. Tf Culia should indeed diM-iigflfifo
hcrw-lf from' tlx* tj-ninmds of Spain,
nod be.?*otn?? n? independent St:?t<\ tlien, indeed,and
gi.lv then, should \vu reeeive l?cr
as a iri<''mn<if of.oty (^oifeilecary. I need
hardly tell viai that, like your own Brooks^
we all regard Mr. Boyce ha one of tficf)R?ng
fitatewik'ri, who i? -destined to>hud additional
lustre on ouf haritVanfl character. x. 1'
It joy. I mfojJtTVon llirtt
PiW. \V11,1.1 \ mi- hris itt u pjcwwl d??;rcH; rwnveivil
from th?< discfaf that u>
vacate tin i?imir in 'the South (.wolina Crflii'gi",
and tlmt ho j?"here now on a j
No man ever Idfc ..Columbiaground #lforo
tllB ftffi>ct5ons ofbfttll old finrt ?Alini? mAtn
firmly clang that Matt Wuojam^.. ;Tbo
whoie.tpwn vr?!cortiwl jiimi, by individually
calling '.upon liim, and the College;revived
the. latter .pkuaWjhe toiK-hodmany a hsjart,
BM^ttlly ' in the' following[J^Unmvr**
"t^ugh. hm useful dayfi'n??gf>t .^kw'beenpai^l
elsewhere, h? immifett ;**^<4pMhe
ofcj. eiV^pos VdUi: though' Gf Oygl^^ ,jj?
hoTOtt, UarolmtfiJmd her interests were ?ver
|[S
Nor should she stop hero ; she should exempt
from taxation the few gallant spirits
that yet remain. "What ! says one, exempt
the property of the Palmettos from t axation !
rw; you exempt from taxation the property
of several Societies and incorporate
bodies; you squander thousands to the four
winds of heaven, for which you cet no return
but laughter and ridicule. In view of these
facts, do you 'think it unreasonable to exempt
from taxation the property of your
poor, sinking, dying soldiers? Alas! many,
very many-of them have but little of
this world's goods either for exemption or
taxation. Their heritage is poverty, their
stock in trade ifc disease, and their home is
the grave. Nick Bottom.
Columbia, Nov. 9, 1854.
WRITTEN r?n THE INDEPENDENT PHE88.
Oglethorpe University.
Afessrs. Editors.:? If you will permit, me
to occupy a column in your paper, I will
endovor to cnll the attention of yotir ninny
readers to the merits and claims of this noble
Institution. I am constrained to do it,
not only because it is due to the Instiution
itni'lf. hut. hw-ansfl it in <ltn> fn all wlin liivn
and desire to promote tlie principles of n
sound and thorough -..-ducat ion.
Oglethorpe University is situated in Baldwin
County, Georgia, about two miles and
a half from Milledgeville, in a pleasant and
healthy location. It is under the patronage
of the Synods of Georgia, South j^arolina,
Alabama,- and Florida, and has long been
known as an Institution that would compare,~without
disparagement, with a maior
itv of the Colleges in any State, anO especially
at t.lie South. But there are few, who,
having neither visited in person, or taken
special pains to inform themselves concerning
it, are aware of the rapid improvement
it lias been making for the last four years in
the varioua facilities that give iuterest and
worth to a Colh'ge. It would be needless,
as well as tedious, to trace its .almost yearly
|. progress iq-?these facilities of usefulness, and
US consequent1: advancement m the confidence
of the. learned and the good, who are
acquainted with its merits. Iq this brief
sketch, I will only allude to itn many advantage*,
and speak of what it now in, and
what it promise^ to be. As to the situation
and building of Oglethorpe, in point of 6onvenience,
taste and elegance* it would be
difficult to speak in terms too extravagant;
aud 1 am confident, that, were 1 to attempt
a description of it, it would be pronounced
by ft very-one who ha# stood upon the spot
arid'gazed upon its indescribablebeaiity, to
be far short of the reality. I will only sav,
that the College building, including the.
beautiful and comfortable dormitoriesjou eir
| ther side, present an imposing right, of four
ii)A?ive columns which,.if viewed from a
distant eminence or ;mear prospect, rfan not
fail to excite the highest admiration in the
rhont' i'BSUiflidUS ljelu>lder.'*:Th?' course of
study in Uiis" College has ever' been equally
thorough with that of. any other College;
it is the mode wliich is adapted in the mosteminent
(3olle<res jri tli? fcnntlipm fttatoa
o- "
Themethod.of' exaininntion< for admisaion
into a-vlww, <?rn*portd* with the thorough
ootirne of iiiRtriuYiOn; xtnii 'instcajd of being
44 ftH lk too often the case," a Tiiere formality,
it i? welj calculated to tb$-proficiency
of (he student . In regard to the Profeas$r?.
bf C^l^oipe
needed to be said to thofte jvho know them ;
stod'lt cannot be that men t>f ?ticb'ae<juiaiIIAVIO
oMn tifAfl^nor/k . tiAf AvtenuHaltf VHAIIIHI
t^Jt is $?* 0mttthrir o>n retSripg
dispoeition, combi n eel with, the to^grpat
Apathy th^t prevails on
oioly 'nrtu^Wl^b hri&rx>f Wlent?^in<i
-.? i rirtWi<?rriw f? vi: :? / O , * ,-^'r-.*f
not, a majority of the students are at this
time members of the Church, and a large
portion of them are preparing for the Ministry.
It deserves to be mentioned also,
that there is in the neighborhood of the
college, a high school, now in a flourisliing
condition, under the charge of Mr.
Lafayette Cahrinoton, who is too well
known as an eminent teacher to need an encomium
from me. Suffice it to ray that he
has ever been exceedingly successful in preparing
young men for College.
From this brief sketch it must be seen
that Oglethorpe is rapidly progressing in all
those facilities requisite to afford to the youth
of our own and other States us thorough
an education as can reasonably be expected.
In pecuniary means, in convenienceof accommodation,
in classic beality of architecture,
in thorough instruction, in thp Professorships,
strict and efficient discipline, and in the confidence
of the public, it is' steadily and
rapidly advancing. It is true it has not had
quite as many students for the last year or
two a* some of our other Colleges; hut the
causes ore not to be found in any depreciation
in the Institution itself or diminution in tht<
uutubi-r of its friends. On the contrary it.s
excellence is yearly becoming greater and
the number of its decided friends constantly
increasing. Whatever the causes of its apparent
declension. niny be, tliey can not bind
tlie energies of so noble an^ Institution. It
cahnot lie that a people who huve any desire
for the preservation of tlieir-free institu
tlons, civil Hnd religions, any proper appreciation
of a practical education, can remain
indifferent to the claims of such an Institution
as Oglethorpe, or fail to' avail themselves
of theliigh privileges it offers. Oglethorpe
stands as high in the literary world
as any other institution, and rise it will?
rise it must. Its course, like the course of
h itfh, ia onward, and the name of Ogletliorpe
University will be known, and its influence
felt, when men shall have turned their swords
into plough-shares, and their spears into pru
iiing hooks. Would that I were ?-w eloquent
as vCebster, that I might make an
impression upon the heart of every citizen
in the State. I would appeal to him us he
loves the cause of truth and his own best interests,
as he loves the welfare of his sons to
awaken to a just sense of his responsibility
to the iriuch neglected Qfuse of education,
aud rally around the institution that bears
the name of Oglethorpe, S,
November 6, 1854.
nni nuniH DpOOCD Oil XIVUaDl!gg.
It seems to bo a most unfortunate circumstance
that I should be selected to speak on
humbugs; as looking on.the ladies, whose
profession it peculiarly is, I. find it hard to
express myself in their presence. Eyery
tinng is humbugs the whole State is humbug,
except our Agricultural Society?that
alone i* not.
Humbug is generally flefined-"deceit or
imposition." . 'A burglar who break? ' into
your botwe, a forger who cheats you of.your
property, or a ruac?l, is not a humbug ; a
tiiimkiiff 4j? an lmtvAainw Kn# *?i m** nottntnM
iiuiuyug to nu iui|iudiui f uviviii %uy v^vuivn
the truemeariingaf luiu)bug i? management
?tact?to take an old truth Mid 'put it in
ao attractive form.
ty Bat no hutnbog ife great without .truth at
the bottom'; The Woolly/horgs ^ras a reajir
ty. - He wps really born with a woolly coat.
Iboughtlum in Oi^ciuo^ti for $500 and
sent him - Ob to Cvi^ectiottt, bqt. for a long
time I doubted what I should do^with him,
aiid-feared that he w'ould die on my hands,
.Tuct at tlvu timn 1 filO . f!rJ - Fwrnmnt en/1
h? party wore reported to have been lost a:
mong the Rwky MounUiue; the * public
1*#*
,tbe..r"'j,,^v|' }* , "i.~*^Y?
It wafrdrtf announced three
^^cUas6,'upon the ^borders of^ho^River
necticut, he ^as put in a stable near Lovejoy's
Hotel. One of the boarders who came
to see him recognized him as Ian animal he
had seen at Bridgeport.
"Good heavens!" he cried, "I haveseeu
that animal before; it is really an extraordinary
humbug." He took up a friend from
the same hotel, and after he had seen the
auimnK let hTm into the secret, and in succession
thirty-seven persons were carried up,
?.l,~ ?1I *?1? i 1 :? 1 1?
? III/ oil VWA bJJO IIUIUUU^IU^ IU gUUU JJU"
mor except the last man.
I have not vanity to Call myself a real
scientific humbug. I am only an humble
member of the,profession.
My ambition to be Prince of Humbugs
I will resign, but I hope the public will take
the will for the deed : 1 cfc? assure them that
if I had been able to give them all the humbugs
I have thought of, they would have
been amply satisfied.
Before I went to England with Tom
Thumb I had a skeleton prepared from various
bones. It was to have been made
eighteen feet high ; it was to have been bu;
riod a year or so iti Ohio, and then dug up
by accident, so thaf the public might learn
that ther?i wire giants of old. The price I
,1... i * ?
??no iv |w?y uiu |nar*uu hiio piU|JU9t*tl iu put
tin' sk*'i<'ti>n together was to have been ?225.
Jiut finding Tom Thumb more successful
than I thought, I sent word not to proceed
i with theckrleton. My manager, who never
thought as highly of the scheme as it deserved,
sold the skeleton for ?>50 or 875;
Seven years afterward I received from the
South an account of a gigantic-skeleton that
had been found. Accompanying it were the
certificates of scientific and medical men as
to the genuineness. The owner asked $20,000,
or $1,000 a month : I wrote to him if
lit* Kl'Allirlit if Alt T ul-n if if T
it as represented, or would pay his expenses
if not; I touud it was my own original humbug
conio back tome again of course I refused
it, nud never heard of it afterward.
Republics?Ancient and Modern.
It is idle to measure the United States
as a nation, or the Americans as a people,
by drawing parallels. The entire history
of" the world furnishes no parallel, either to
the republic or the people, so that all inferences
drawn, and prophecies made, on the
strength of what nations and races have
J A A " *11 * _ I
oonu 111 past wme, are a lost illustration applied
to us, Every nation has its peculiarities,
every age its phase, and every people
its distinct manifestations. The nation is an
image of the pf ople; the people are a reflex
of circumstance and condition ; and the age
is a cycle through which nation and people
pass. The attempt to justify or condemn,
by, contrasting moderns with ancients, generally
shows the imbecility of' searchers for
analogies. The only analogy that can be
drawn between nations or races, is, that the
one'were either kiugdoms, empires, hierarchies.
oligarchies*, or reuitblics. from their
form of government.; and the other either
savage, barbarous, civilized or enlightened.
There is just so much similarity, and no more,
tieythia was a kingdom, and so is England
?Greece toat a republic, and ao is the United
States; and there the parallel ends.
The old kingdoms and republics founded
their politics upon their peculiar positions,
accordiug to the character and circumstances
of their people, and the ne*rdo the same.
But how different may be thoee positions,
characters and circumstances I England is
not like Spain, yet both are kingdoins. Nor
ib our Amenw pf to-day, like the Kom<vof
two thousancf'yearaago, though both ropiibliett..
Tho"waruiuga and prophecies of those
who divine t1i$ future from the piist are, therefore,
mainly^mere'cant.It is bpfety powi1
ble to say mitt n is tfetotfe faall ages. < He
wouly so in certain sympathies and wants.
age? ?^di, of /condition*, rfc
. to breathft^WHi and drink fprtbeir
nourishment, ami certain protective raiment
j -l _ 1 k.\ ' *:. it. ii. - - -
nnu Huejujr^r?Huu uiosH} uoj. iu uie ?aiuue^?r?*
p<fftion,,btrt'a<wordiirg id cliiimlo and ocobjwtioD;
wliateyer. i'b higher tliun these in
quests. She held her empire together, not
by unity of language j not by cp/nmu(ty of \ jjjnS
interests and equality of^enjoytaebt among
her captive nations, nor^y a common gov ..^
eminent, but.by tro^&wQrd/and wben_ the
native hand that held the sword grew wpak,
the empire was broken -and BcAttei^. . She _v'; \had
no art but the tread of her l^onstSjnHH
p^mnnM nnd nnnihSTntn ^{WSibAo i iXJj
uing-winged wires threading the air fr6m octau
to ocean, making near neighbors of
men at the remotest distance.^ . Nay, scarce- u
iy u feature in common with us had she or *
her sister, Greece. They wore, in the aggregateof
respects, infinitely our, inferior;
and there are living legislating fools* :who -'4
strive to judge us by their standard, StufH r? -Q
It were as well to compare the flight of a . C:j?
buzzard through a London fog, with the '/! ?
majestic rise of an eagle through a transpa- ,Jy
rent atmosphere into tho &un's eye.
[iV. }T - Mirror. - > *
Taking of Sevastopol.?The intelli-^ > -a'1
geneo by the Arabia says the bombardment r.
of Sevastopol has commenced, and that it is
nxpecieu mat 11 wm lan in two or tnree (lays.
This is not so certain, as it will be re mem- >
bored that the Russian troops at Elau resist- Sjwjj
</d in open field for fourteen hours every attempt
of Napoleon, with the flower of his w
army, to break their ranks. Such men, behind
entreneFlinenta, are not Hkely to be ea- .
sily dislodged. But it may be'wefl'enough
to refer to history, to see how easily fortified
places are taken: " - ^
"Genoa, in 18Q0, sustained a blockade of * &
sixty and a Hiege of forty day*. Saragossa^
in 1808, sustained a ctoAe.stege of nearly A1
two mouths, and again in 1809 for two '
months. Verona, 1809,' sustained a siege
and blockade of seven months, four of them -j
being of open trench. Cuidad Rodrigo, in
1810, two months. Tortoiia, in the same
year, six months. Badajes, in 1811', sustained
a siege of morethau forty days, open I
trench. St. Sebastiau, 1818, sustained, a
siege and blockade of nearly three months, M
with over fifty days of open trenches. Pampaluna,
in 1813, four months. Moyon, in. jraj
1813?14,: also four mohths."-' ^
? .
Sions.?When you hear a man ostonta- * ^
tiously lamenting his u defective education,"
it's a sign he thinks himself A "deVit of ft fel- . ~1~...
1* C -til v'
iuw, luruu until* . " 7 ' ?
When you hear a woman caying,
pity Sally Brown is bo homely,".ita a ftjgftshe
thinks her own daughter is .oh theci>n- V4jl
trary quite the reverse." ' ? " ' \
When you bear a man oftencomplaining
that his newspaper' is "horribly stupid, and *~ti
not edited as it ought to be," it's a sign (teato
one) that ho is considerably in arrears op
tlie subscription. raaJSa
When you hear a woman inveighingpnb- '
lily against "the marriage state as it-is," .
it's a sign she never tried it?or if she has, married
a man whose wife^was probablyaa. ' r >
much in fnult as himself. \?
?' ?-jM
To thePoiSt.?The Woonsocket Patriot
has the following:-? . /'There
arc various kinds of meanness in " : j
the world, but there irnone inore contempt* J
ible 'ban receiving iWnew$ipape* for veara
and then sneakin? off? without, paying Jtor-1t
We'have liad some experience,of , the-kind. V- <
The Poetmastef will write-that Mr/ j^f$l
Sneak has left town, and that his pap^r is
not called Tor. 41 Wis always wnfe'such^a v
chap down as an unmitigated.scoundrel,'who
would steST "his1; grand-mothei'ft grave
clothes." '
?.?' - :_1 . -.I'v' iVtf-f '
A ^ _
DKATIIS IN NKWBStlRr/^Wa ldlTBfrfHI* ?
the Newberrian that E, Y.^McMorriea^^
citizens of that district^
that to*iHastweelri The former wm aeis^"
with apoplexy on Friday TiightSw^ w(^inw;
on Saturday morning. T)w latfer bad been ' - ,m
in fieeble health foi 8oto^y^ars,;but fcfr deati. "ji
was sodden and ?ne*pec|fld. t , ' , ;/
LAy of Sah til!?