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MISCELLANY.
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More Uncomely Things.
Messrs. Editors: Your correspondent
"C. 13." has taken some thunder I might
haVo used in pointing out and exposing uncomely
things in church, and has done it so
well and forcibly that for me to attempt
greater force would only be weakening the
castigation so deservedly given the filthy
practice and practitioner. The only remark
I make is a hearty assent to the truth of all
your correspondent says about the filth}'
nrnft/if nliRwinir (nliiinpn in juiil \
* b ? -
adding a proposition that provision b<* made
in our churches for such as cannot and will
not quit the odious practice, viz: that
troughs be furnished a sufficient number of
pews for the tobacco squirtcrs, ami that
they be led up to the trough as they come
into church, and that these troughs be
placcd in every instance under the galleries,
that the devotional feelings and nerves of
those whose duties call them to sit above
may not he disturbed by seeing the productions
of the <[uid emptied into the troughs.
It is a very disgusting operation, and should
be performed as much in secret as the nature
of the case will permit. Young men,
and our young clergy, should be very cautious
where they spit in church. But to
proceed with our text, and to show from it
a few uncomely things. And
. 1st, Unc ot the most uncomely, ill-shapen
bipeds ever seen in our land is the talebearer.
"A person," ns Webster defines
the character, "who officiously tells tales ?
one who impertinently communicates intelligence
or anecdotes, and makes mischief
in society by his offioiousncss." Solomon
says: " Where there is no tale-bearer the
mm., ?_ i.
airtjc ccuoct/6. xiivy aiu iv;?iiiiii iu
society, and have not, as the Mastadon, hecome
extinct since the days of Solomon,
inasmuch as the strife lias not and does not
cease. This is at least prima facie evidence
to all of the existence of the talc-bcarcr.?
And they are awful jiests to our society, in- j
tfirrnnto.rs to our ncacc and eniovmt>:if..?
1 i
You hear the muttering of their thunder ff?>!
c* |
where you will, and their slimy footsteps:
are to be seen 'upon the side-walks of every j
village, and upon the highway of every)
neighborhood. Atone point you hear of;
the double-dealing of such and such mer-!
chants?the want of honesty in mechanics j
?the duplicity, extravagance, pride, and
want of purity of such and such ludics,
piarried and unmanned?such and such
ministers grind the face of the poor by
charging five or ten dollars for each funeral
they attend?such and such lawyers charge
double fees?and the poor doctohs and ed
itors aro nearly all extortioners. But when
you come to hear the truth in all these
eases, all is false, without the slightest
foundation to raise an ill report upon, and
they dare not face any of them. Such bipeds
live?no, they stay?in society deservedly
the scorn and the contempt of the vir
tuous, yet tolerated and even courted by
aristocratic sixpence-lovers. This is an uncomely
thing, and as filthy as tobacco chewing
in church, both detestable in church or
out of church, and alike should be forthwith-abandoned.
"When there is no talebearer
the strife ceaseth." Let clerical gentlemen
be on their guard in certain locations,
for it is no evidence because the sun ;
shines to-day that it will be fair on to-mor
ro?v. it mere was no countenance to laic-:
^ t 1
bearers and slnnderers, they would soon
dio out,'or cease to breathe, or somehow
oeaae to exist, - ,
.^d,. Another uncomely articlo is the slanderer?second,
yea, first cousin to the talebearer.
And if 1 should speak on this as
one has spoken, what wo say will be no less
true, and yet more to the points. Scandal is
one of those sins which seldom, by chance,
getaltf full desert of condemnation. . It is
usably, when mentioned at all, tacked on
to &%16tigf.Trat 6f other sins, and i3 lost in'the
nm uril 'flirt' wnrlrTs nnininn niita iter.
~r" r-~ --y
^0 spale of iniquity, .that the cdnacfeofceis
easily persuaded to- let it rest secure-from
the l;ish that wh'tpa offencearejnsnJed
moro flagrant- It is like a subtle
j^ipexV^in^'lvitK ita. jptfdtous j}$Wer evetj
part and portion of society. It is found
foand jn the/Chubby in thef yfc
!ager?n(Hnrtto farm house. Tie pajace
SQWtt, H:(?? ftnonjf^ .pastimes' of tbyatty
?the cottage hails;iitto'snpply the lack of
tisefal JpfjcA ot conversation ;<ip ?U 'lauds
and in all classes it is a favorite and common
vice/ Tt tt aa baneful as jtfls univer,
I
sal, and there is need that christians contemplate
its real character and bearings upoi
morals and religion, as it is equally injuri
ous to both, and discountenance it.
What is scandal ? To satisfy ourselves
on this point, we need only consider its con
stituent parts, and they are all uncomely
viz: acquaintance with the affairs of oui
neighbor^, (contrary to the injunction tc
mind our own business); a pleasure in hearing
tlieir sins, short-comings and foible?
commented on and discussed ; rash judg
ments passed upon imperfect knowledge ol
facts; and last, though far from least, tin
satisfaction ?>f having discovered that otli
iiiv, ii nut wuiw:, lit ieasi as i>a<i as our
solves. If such be the nature of tin; vice
what must the motives be which prompt k
ils indulgence ? What but "envy, hatced
and malice, and micharitablene^s" ? Or, i
it go not to this extent, it must be nseribci
to (lie coldest indifference for the feelingso
others, or the gross selfishness of gleaning
amusement from the contemplation of tin
sufferings or the degradation of our fellow
men.
Other vices stand alone in their deform
ity, and their unhappy victims are shut
out, as it were, from their fellows by a ban
^ uinMii uii; , uvit uiv n .ill'
dal nionwr is permitted to pass among tin
I?ost and purest, an<l to drop poison ami
death utircbuked, when and where lie will
?alas! too often a not unwelcome guest.
Scandal is a respectable sin ; in fact, it
often puts on the garb of the grave moral
censor, not unfrequently of the grieved and
wounded friend?under covcr, not openly,
1 ..A * ,1 . . 1_ t* _ M
imt urging on inc woik oi ruin wun a con
coaled dagger. Legitimate scandal is always
filled with regret; and the piquant
dish, for wlitoh one or a dozen reputations
havo been ruthlessly slain, is served up with
a salad of sighs and sanctimonious reluctance,
that would fain hide the secret triumph
that lurks beneath. Your true gossip
is never mistaken ; should any luckless
wight have the temerity to hint such ,1
tiling, the best authority is always at li.nml
to put him down. Xo lawyer's brief is
more carefully prepared than the gossip's
material for a case. There is this difference.
however: your gossip never appears for (In
defence, whatever the nature of the theme
in hand ; it is the dark, not the bright sido
of the shield it falls to its lot to behold.?
As the bee is said to possess the power ol
extracting honey from poisonous flowers, so
the slanderer may be said to have the faculty
of extracting poison from the fairest,
sweetest blossoms.
Society smarts under this evil as under a
. ii.? r?i i. i i
euuijJiuu laati , IIIU UJIUKUJ, ciiiu tsvwijr null'
est, good insin need to mourn over it in
dust and ashes. Of what a state of morals
is the prevalence of such a vice indicative!
Of a purity of garments and a washing of
hands, an inward ravening and cruelty;
a righteousness of having a name to live
while it is dead ; of a hypocrisy that for ;i
nretenr.e nuts on a lone f:u:e. The soul ol
k~ i . ------ o
genuine godliness, as found in the truth, i?
love?tender, forgiving, all-embracing lovo,
How opposed, in essence, to the spirit ol
censorious, backbiting, slanderous scandal!
IIow can the heart, that has dareJ to call
Jesus Loud, entertain for a moment, tlx
spirit, or encourage in others the practice ol
this shameless, degraded and degrading sin'
Alas! even in the christian's heart the ser
pent whispers still?"the ghost of evil will
uot down."
Yet for this, as all else of sin, there is ar
antidote. 'Tis love?-love divine. Let ev
cry lover of his species, and every lover o
God seek it?seek to have it in the heart
warm from the fountain-:?seek, all, strive U
pour it into that of thy neighbor, apd ii
this atinoRphero of heaven thou wilt learr
that charity which "hopetli all things, en
dureth all' things," and bo assimilated tc
Him who foigiveth iniquity,': transgressior
and sin, is long-Buffering and of tendei
j inercy.
Scandal is tho breath, the pestilentia
breath, of the. bottomless pit, apd as it ii
breathed upon the. fairest fertile fieldp ren
dere them steKle and barren of all good.-bTJbere
is no character who deserves so muct
to be.sliut oDt from'all deo6tft, refine'd, nnc
O^riatian *ocWy, w)ieth^r appearing ip tH<
garb of tbo high^t, profession made 01
e$rth,or iu the .assumed jxa?v<aftd bailing
from th* dmn^lof tik*?#bo<barowrougb
for themselves a'-pgme that' lives. li'Sn
profanation oT an^fifcfyj tnd atid * bja<?en
ing of ibe ddmeMp
"''' I
lightened mind will mark such, and turn
i from them and turn away as from a leprous
Jew. Buadfokd.
[From the Newberry Mirror.]
5 Farmers?A Contrast.
Messrs. Editors: I knew a gentleman,
, a planter, whose history was substantially as
. follows:
lie commenced life with a competency,
had a good plantation, and good haiids to i
cultivate it. But he was not successful, !
5 was always behind, and seemed to enter in- !
. to the very heart of "hard times." As I j
p, lived near him I concluded to look after him j
j closely, and find out if possible what was
the matter. I soon got thesecivt, he plough- j
<i ins lauos oauiy, it was a mere scratching, j
- ami often waited for a rain to do even that.!
lie hauled no trash in tlio winter, and ofi
( course had but. little manure to put out., j
This small quantity he laid in his fields, and i
' exposed it to the hot suns of April, for he!
' w;is tieivr early?until about half the am- i
I monia was extracted, and the other halt!
(' burnt, his corn and cotton the first dry week j
f that followed. He. never had a good sea-j
' sr i. His lands did not suit him, and hisj
' negroes would nut work well, and the eli-,
male itself was wrong. He would fret, and j
often seemed hurt that hi-> neighbors had bet-j
. ter ?-i*<?|>- than he had.
lue i'ldli.ii I.?'.f I.I
. < vnwit i? ti.? itlld j
aixl when oli'ered in market a less I
1 price than that obtained by others?lie j
thought (he worM was against him.
> At la>t ho cotieluded to s<-ll oil'and buy ;
I lower down the river, a imu-.h better plant- j
i ation. The old worn down premises were I
bought by a young man who bv hard work'
in the two or three years'lie had been do-i
itig bu.-iness for himself, laid up some five!
I hundred dollars. He was to pay tor the .
place in three annual instalments, and must;
rai.>e the money by planting. Some laugh'
ed at him, others said he would come out,
tor there was come out in him, and lie set
tied the question by paying it^!! up in two'
years instead of three, lie soon bought a!
. '^/k woman, then a man to help him ; his j
crops were elegant, lie had the right kind of;
1 seasons, tho land seemed much better, at)
any rate produced better than it had done
under the old tenant. Hut the whole secret
was deep icintdr plowing, and mixing a good
. deal of compost from liis lot and stables.
lie continued to prosper, and in twenty!
| years from the purchase he had the reputa- j
tion ot being tlte best planter in tlie conn-1
i try, an'l was worth a good fortune. The!
i other planter found his ?ood plantation was ;
a cheat, had been exhausted just before he '
' got it, and lie still went on selling one or two
slaves every year to pay expenses?the
! prosperous planter generally hutt^lit them,
s Tins led me to enquire more than I had
. done, if tho difference was not more in the
? planters than the plantations ? And I became
convinced of its truth fully. Years
' of observation, and some experience have
only confirmed this conviction. A good
, crop is in tlie planter, more than in the soil.
Proper culture, industry, and economy will
make a living on almost any lands we have
in this country.
MatcriumsupKrubat opus ; such at least
! iu fliA /oiininn /\t* U
IU tiiv VJ'IUIVU VI i^U'lVI.MAl I K.
|Tho way to got on in the World.
A working man, some time ago, published
his own biography, one of the most interesting
little volumes that has appeared j
during the present century. It is as fol-1
lows:?"It may to some appear like vanity
in me to write what 1 now do, but I should
not give my life truly, if I omitted it. When
filling a cart with earth on the farm, I never
stopped work because my side of the cart
might be heaped up before the other side,
i at which was another workman. 1 pushed
' over what 1 had heaped up, to help him ;
so doubtless he did to me* when I was last j
5 and he first. When I have filled my col-!
F| unin or columns of n newspaper with rriatj
tor for which I was to be paid, I have never
stopped, if I thought the subject required ,
more explanation, because there was no con- j
trnct for more payment, or no possibility of
obtaining more. When I have lived in a
i bar rack-room, I have stopped my work, and
. taken a baby from a soldier's wife, when
. she had to work, and nursed it for her, or
gone for water for her, or cleaned another
' man's accoutrement*, though it was 110 part
> of my duty to do so. When I havo been
. n,i:>w...i ...wi 1
I in j/unntai niv;iaiiiiu <iuu binvcr j
, ling for a newspaper, I have gone mftny j
miles out of my road to ascertain a local
fact; or to pursue-'n subject to its minutest:
y details, if it appealed that the public were
i unacquainted with tho facta of the case;
r and this, when'I had the work, was itaost
pleasant and profitable. When I have wantI
ed' work, I iiave accepted it at any wages I
could get, at a plough, in farming, draining,
J stone quarrying, breaking stone, at wood
1 cutting,a saw pit; as a civilian; ;or a
. ^olditfr^ .'^a^wbri, I have cleaned otita
, alible aiafa' gi^Hied a cubhiati% Horse for si*.
Dertce.' ' jr'hiltfA friml litontfiTta. Anil
Jiave' done ris'inuch tfrifing for ten ?hii!ings
i ris I Bava i*f'A<lily obi ai ned?bo th sou'ghtfoV,
1 ^d^ffered-^teb- AtodJ if ;I ttfcfl
r not been <tftfttbjb to&gHro'thi begiboftg;
' and accepted ebi 1 lings', 1 should not have
Arisen t<* guineas, ' 1 have list, fiothing by
1 ^rkingj
A. ' ' ' - '*
W ? ? ! "*">?*
ways the attendant of sense; folly alone is
proud. A wise divine, when preaching to
the youths of his congregation, was wont
to say, "Beware of being golden apprentices,
silver journeymen, and copper masters."
The only cure for pride, is sense; and the
oath to oromotioil- is ?nnrli?9<?f?n?irui WKot
multitudes have been ruined in their prospeots
by the pride of their hearts. Away,
then, young man, and away forever, with
self foppery, and.empty pride, idle habits,
and expensive associates?"stop and confiner."
Sink in spirit and rise in opulence.
He faithful over a few things, and be made
ruler over many.?London Christian Penny
MoQ'jzinc.
Napoleon, aud the British Sailor.
Mtirty years ago, a British sailor was ta- j
ken prisoner at Boulogne by the French j
army. Ho was not, however, shut up be !
tween four walls, but lie was allowed his |
liberty ami permitted to roam about ou the i
shore as lie pleased. 1 suppose it was thought
that one man could not do any harm by j
himself.
Uut the young sailor longed sadly to get
back}again to his country. He used to sit
and envy the birds as he saw them winging
their llight to dear old England; he
wished ho could make his escape as^easily
as tltcy did !
One morning he observed an empty hogshead
come floating towards the shore. JIol
eagerly seized it, anil what do you think he
did w:lh it? Why he hid it in a cave, and
worked there very hard, days after days,
trying to make this old barrel into a boat!
And at length, alter some fashion, he succeeded.
lint such a boat was perhaps never
seen before. It was not fit to venture upon
a pond in, and to think of crossing the deep j
wide ocean in it! Why the idea wasenoligii ]
to make one shudder. And yet so anxious
was the sailor to reach his home, that lie
was actually going to put to sea in it!
The French guard caught him with it on
the beach, and they laughed at him, and
ridiculed him finely about his wretched
looking boat. The story of this young sailor's
attempted escape in this clumsy and
dangerous manner was so talked of, that
prwently it reached the ears of Napoleon.
Then Napoleon came and spoke to the
tailor. "Hash youth," lie said, "you must
have had. some strong motive to make you
dream of crossing the Channel in a thing'
formed of twigs and stales. What was it
fell me frankly."
Tlif> s?iilr?r muiv? ?? < ?#! T 7/ <
^ o,?w?. <*
louylny to see my mother ! It is many years
since we last met, and I wanted so much to
see Iter once more !''
"And so yon shall," answered Napoleon,
quickly, "?ueh a loving and brave son must
have had agood mother." Then giving the
sailor a piece of gold, lie commanded that
he should be put on board a vessel sailing
to old England, and carried back to his native
land.
So the dutiful and affectionate young
sailor was restored to his aged widowed mother.
They lived happily together, although
they were very poor; and the grateful sailor
never parted with the coin which Napoleon,
had given him.
Hoys! do you love and honor your mother?
m~~m
The Miller and his Ass.
A miller and his son were driving their
ass to a neighboring fair to sell him. They
had not gone far when they met with a
troop of rude girls returning from the town,
talking and laughing.
"Look there ! cried one of them, did you
ever see such fools, to bo trudging along
the road on foot, when they might be riding!"
The old man, liearing.this, quietly bade
his son get on the ass, and walked along
merrily by the side of him. Presently (hey
came up to ;t group of old men in earnest
debate.
"There! said one of tliein, it proves what
I was a-sayitig. What respect is shown to
old age in these days? Dq you see that
idle rogue riding, while his old father has
to walk i (Jet down, you scape grace ! and
let the old man rest his weary limbs."
Upon this the father made his son dismount,
and got up himself. In this manner
they bad not proceeded far when they met a
company of women and children. '
W W llfT ?A1> lu'?rf rt!/l fi?l 1/Aftl t n
? ?ij j j wu kuij viu ui ivu ocvtJJfll
tongues at once, how canyon ride upon the
beast, while that poor little fad can hardly
Keep pace by tho side of yon ? "
The good natured miller stood corrected,
and immediately took his boU up behind
him. They had now almost reached, tho
town. '?
"Pray, honest friends, said a townsman,
"is that ass your" owb ?" '
"Yes", says the old man. " v
"Oh!- one wonld not liavo thought fcd,*by
tho way:you load him. You tWo fellows
are better ablo to carry the pdor boast thai*
L> ..... ID -
uu yuu t . . ? .
"Any-ibing to please ycfa aaidtbe old
man ; We can- but try. So, alighting 1 w^tfehia
son, they tied the na's legs together, and
by the help of a bote endeavored tfbicarr^
him on th'eir BhotUderft over a Bridge that
ledto the' to*& . ThU *u? bo ^*ftoiftin?
a sight <hat-ihei{^k'?o^^slWWttl
latitat ifc tiH^ MtioSliki hg the u hoiae
|V 1 -v ,, - r
:
<d&Mtsfisfe1;. $? &>
Upon this, the old man, vexed and ashamed,
made the best of liis way homo again,
convinced that by endeavoring to please every
body, he had pleased nobody, and lost
his ass in the bargain.
Printers.
Printers, it is said, die at an early age.?
This is doubtless caused by the noxious effluvia
rising from the types, the want of exercise,
constant employment, utid the lute
i hours to which their worlc is prolonged.
There is no other class of human beings
whose privileges are so few, whose labor is
: so continuous, whose wages nre so inadequate,
as Printers. If a "typo" be a man
jot* family, he is debarred, the pi iviloge of en-1
joying their society at all times, because his j
hours of labor are almost endles?, and his
moments of leisure so few that they must
I be spent to recruit his exhausted energies,
j and prepare him for the renewal of his
toils. Poor follow ! he knows nothing of!
sociability, and is shut out from the world I
as a convict in a prison cell. Truly he is
in the world, yet knows not of it. Toil,
: toii, toil, by night and by day, is his fate,
i until premature.old age ends his existence.
For tJie advancement of science, morality
i and virtue, the cords of his heart are snnj
<iered one by one, and when his race is run,
; and time fohiin is no more, he goes down
I . . ' ? '
u> itio crave uncaml for and unknown,!
though his existence h:is hccn sacrificed lorj
I Ik* benefit of his race.
When we hear mechanics crying out against
oppression, and demanding certain I
hours for labor and for rest, we can but reflect
upon this situation of our own craft ;
how every moment of their lives is forced
into service to earn a bare subsistence, and
how uncomplaining the}' devote themselves
to the good of that same public, who wear
them as a loose garment, to be donned when
convenient, and dotted when no longer
needed.
Printers are universally poor men, and
for two reasons. The first is?they rarely
receive a fair compensation for their service*.
Ami the second is?that inured to
continual suffering, privation, and toil, their
purse-strings are never united at the bidding
of charity, and the hard earned
'Mimes* are freely distributed for the relief
of their fellow men. Thus it is that they
live poor and die poor, and if a suitable reward
docs not await them after death, sad
indeed must be the beginning, the existence,
and the end of poor "tvpos."
Petersburg Express.
Characteristics of Great Men.
rn i ' . ?
i asso s conversation was ncitncr gay nor
brilliant.
Dante was cither taciturn or satirical.
Butler was sullen or .biting.
Gray seldom talked or smiled.
Hogarth and Swift were very absent-minded
in company.
Milton whs unsociable1 and even irritable
when pressed into conversation. , .
Mirvyin, though copious and eloquent in
public addresses, was meagre and dull in
discourse.
Virgil was heavy in.conversation.
La Fontaine appeared heavy, coarso and
stupid : lie could not speak and describe
what he hail just seen, but then he was the
model of poetry.
cilonon tvoa " mnvA nm-nftol-L
than nis conversation. .
Dryden's conversation was slow and dull,
his humor saturnine and reserved.
Do^corte was reserved in mixed company.
Corneiile, in conversation, w:is so insipid
that lie never failed in wehryitig; lie did'
not oven speak correctly that language of
which lie was such a master.
Ben. Johnson used tositsilpnt in company
.and suck his wine aiid their humors.
Southfty was stiff, and wrapped np in
asceticism.
Addison was good company with his
intimate friendty, hut in mixed company ho
preserved his dignity by a stiff .aud.reserved
silence. . V 7 V
?? 1
(i uuiun ??|io nu uiuuwt likil nutumu ounci;*
!y speak upon the- most common 6iibjcct
without a suffusionof blushes.
Fox, in conversation, never flagged; bis j
animation and "variety were inexhaustible.
Dr. Bently \>as lorjuacious.
Grotius was talkative.
Goldsmith wrote like nn angel, and talked
like a poor. poll. ,
Burke was eminently interesting; in con
vcnjmiou. . . f # . . r
Curran was a convivial doity; ho soared
into every region, and was at home ib fljfc (
Dr. Birch dreaded a'Yicn as lie did tor
podo; but lielconld ulajikerunding^trafor;
, Dr. JohnsQti wrote .-nionOtonousjg'jaijd;
ponderously^ hut, in conver^ti;m Jlis w,pi(Js '
\vere c1o$o and/, sinewy, and /pistol
mis&edfire, lio'Jcnock'ed down his Antagonist <
with th6 butted of II; 'r ? "***.? P 1
Gdleridgo in conversation tta? full of ecutor
ne?s and orgfinality. .. '
vUiglt $upt. ityu^b^n w# ^ro<$ th"e i1
philosopher of Hope, and Jinked to. atte'ns- <
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Khosref Pacha.
Turkey lias lost the strongest of her old
statesmen during the present month, Khosref
Pacha. He was 97 years old and has been
a prominent man in the councils of thft
Porte ever since the day6 of Catherine of
Russia. As he was the oldest bo he waa
the richest of the notables of Turkey. Hi#
history is as thoroughly Turkish as were his
honors and habilaments. When George
Washington* was surveying .lands on the
branches ot' the Ohio, and Seth Pomeroy
was boring out the spiked caunon on the
ions 01 j.ouisuurg, ivnosret was a lame and
deformed orphan in the mountains of the
Caucasus, obtaining a precarious existence by
little services among the cottagers. Before
the British red coats had marched back to
Boston from Lexington common to the tune
of Yankee Doodle, the humpbacked beggar
boy had stood as a slave in the Stamboul
slave mart, had been installed as a servant
in the place of Abdul ITan*d, and had found
his way to the favor of young Mahmoud,
the then heir to the throne. In a country
and a position where the passport to success
is a line figure and engaging manners, young
Khosref, destitute of both, possessed some
faculty of gaining aiid retaining good will
which enabled him to. conquer nature.
When Mahinoud succeeded to the throne
the fortunes of the orphan boy rose, and
being shortly afterwards made secretary to
Capiulan Pacha, lie laid the foundation of
his enormous wealth, lie has outlived all
his friends and all his foes, but his prosperity
never left him. Like Tallyrand he has
been ready to acquiesce in every change,
and has generally succeeded in obtaining
something from every revolution. But he
was always a slave. -Frpm the servitude of
the imperial house there is no manumission.
Though he leaves nearly ?2,000,000 sterling
in money, every farthing of it goes to
the present Sultin.
Meohanics.
St. Paul was a mechanic?a maker of tents
from goat's hair; ami in the lecturer's opinion,
he was n model mechanic. He was
not only a thorough workman at his trade,
hut was" a scholar, a perfect master, not only;
of his native Hebrew, but of three foreigntongues,
a knowledge of- which he obtained?
by close ' application ' to study during his
leisure hours while serving his apprenticeship.
It was custom among the Jews to
learn tlieir sons some trade?a cusotm not
confined to the poor classes, but was' also
practiced by the wealthy; and it was a c'oramon
proverb among them,, that if a father
,i;,i ?ni i.:= .T 1?t?i -----
m.v. yb tvauii. &ii? cuii a luLXiittiJiuai uw:upalion,
lie taught him to steal. This custom
was a wise one; and if the fathers of the
present day would imitate their example,
their wrinkled, cheeks would :not so often
blush for the helplessness, .and not unfre-;
quently criminal conduct of their offspringEven
if a father intended his son for one of
the professions, it would be an -incalculable'
benefit to that son to .instruct;bim in somebranch
of meebaiiUm.' Jlis education would
not only be more complete and healthy,.T>ufc
he might at some future- time, 'in case of
failure in his'profession, find his trade very
convenient as a means of earning his bread';:
and ho must necesarily be more competent
in mechanical from his professional education.
- An educated mechanic was a models
mechanic working under the superintendence
of another man's brain. Lettherioh
and the proud no longer look upon mechanism
ns degrading to him yjho ..adopts a
branch of it 'as his calling. .It is a noblo
calling?as noble as the indolence and;inactivity
of xtealth is ignoble. "
Lectarq by Rev. Dr. Adarits* ?
, A Spe'bcii uy Gen. Bumcom.?The following
is ftn extract from a speech of Gen.
iMincom in lavoroi 04 w: . y r
Mr. Speaker?When I- open my eyes,
find look over tho. vast expanse of thiscoun- **
try?when I see. how the yeast of freedom .
lias caused it to rise in the scale of civilian
tion and expanded on every 'side?whenvI
see it growing, swelling, roaring likeaspring
freshet?Io&o.not resist the idea, sir, the day
will come when .this, great natioii^ lik$,
young, school boy, will burst its straps, and
become entirely too big for its bow. s
we want elbow room?the <*ontin?nt, tho: i
/vl.? AAn?!nM,? Villi A/tnfir
>Y IJUIO CUIAllIIUUI^ (Mm livuiiug WUH uw vufiwneut?-and
we will have.,/it, Then aball:
Uncle Sam, placing {lia bat updQ tne Caunda-s.
rest .liis rig|it afm oi) the Oregon aucf
California coast, Ins left cm the eastern seaboard,
and whittle away the British power,'
while r6po?ing:*hi* leg-like ? freenjan, upon,
Capp Upru^^i'V *th?f d?y. will?tie day.
must come. .
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A new Methodisffihtpcb, said to - be one
af.the best in^Cfilifbm la,'Vaa-'dedicated in 1
TahflHfy At-'GrittS VaH?ry.v ,6# t&eT<ftK?of
Fariualy, Calraey Presbyterian,Oh urch^:Hlfe.
Salt) Fjvnncisco, WAsdedicatedM .
whpfe jnuraber * disposed ^of tfmt eWrimj?
tfro^. .'i^toor -*rm
f6rv?1.^00tfack Th'? Revl Dn Sebtfc ?M?to '
ad >tba'dedic?fo%fcBrti>^ V
fert'tb' bet tt la^ nm<iaftli l4i*t4ti?^ toil "
coming iqmifter he will drive ffoft? tb?; fa~,
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