Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, October 13, 1852, Image 1
* "~We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of ou l~~,~4if it must fall, we wvillPeihadsteRin.
W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor. EDGEFIELD, S O OCTOBER 13, 1852.
THE SPRING OF LIE IS PAST.
Tn spring time of life is post,
With its budding hope and fears,
And the Autumnn time is coming
With its weight of future years;
Our hears are diamed with care,
And Youth's free dreanis of gladness
- All perish darkly here,
For earth is filled with sadness.
Whi'e bliss was blooning near us,
in the heart's first%:ooin of Spring,
While many.hopes could cheer us,
Life seened a glorious thing;
Like a fvain upon the river,
.Whert the breeze gos rippling o'er,
These hpes have fled forever,
To cone ti us n-. more.
'Tis sad, yet sweet to listen
To the soft wind's gentie swell,
Anud think we heard the umsic
Our elitdhood loved so uell;
TIP gaze out on the evem,
A l the btundless fe!ds of air,
A nl we feel agaiin our bovish wish
To roram, like angce:s. there.
There are miany dreamtsof gladmess
. Tht eling arounl the pist,
And fromn that tnih of feeling
Old thoughts come thronging fast
The forins n e loved so dear:v,
hi the liapiy days nlow gone,
The be:uti.'ul and lovely,
to fair to look upon.
Th.,se bright and gentce niaidens,
- W ho seeimed so forined for bliss,
Tio goriois and too heavenly,
For such a world as this;
Whose soft. dark eyes sena swimning
in a sea of liquid light.
An.d whose lck-i of gIld were streatniian
O'er brows s, sunny brigit.
Wiose stniles were like die tsunsahine,
-. In the spring-timne of the year,
Like hie .hangeftul g!eans of April,
- They followed every tear;
They have passed, like hope, away,
All their loveliness has ile;
Oh ! many a heart is mourning
That ther are with the dead.
* thebrightest budls of Suuiner,"
have fallenf (Cuy.the steUi,
I .fade &rn ehi lik'e them:
- .And yet the thought' is Isaddeini
- To imuse on such as they,
.i.And feel that all the beautiful
Are paesting fast away
That the fair ones whnim we love,
Like the tendrils f a vine,
(row closely to each loving heart,
Then perish on its shrine.
And we can but thiak of th--se,
i the soft and gentle Sloring,
When the trees are wavinag ',r us.
And tiowers are blossoming!
For we kii.v the Wint-r's comiing,
With his col.1 and sturmiy sky,
Aiid the :lahrious beauty around us
Is huddiig but to die'
THE YANKEE AT A MODEN HOTEL
Somte weeks ago, a very long~, browtn,
Down Eauster, attired ini one of those ccos
tumies whieb atre nowhere to lie met ithl
except omi the stauge, -a tatll bll-erowned
enormous piewter buttons, a vest ams "yalr
as a bar berry bIoassom1, and a pair of cor
duroys whiose highest ambhitioni seemed to be
to maintain their asendency over a paiir of
einormnous cowhides tha~t hadl trodden many
a hundred miles of logging paith " might
.have beeni seen," jack-kniife and shingle in
hand, winding his way up Long Wharf, in
the realizamtiin of his life-loiig anticipations
of "seein'" Boston. At the corner of
M~erchants' Row, his pirogress was arrested
by the Itumtberinig transit of a two-story
house, on wiheels, th-awn by half a dozen
yolk of oxen, with the people inside piursuing
their usual avocations.
" What oun earth is this 'cre 1" he asked
of a bystander.
"Oh, nothing," replied the " towiney,"
"the folks are onily moving, that's all."
Whben we move downa here, we do itiaouse
and all."
"Jei.rusalemi! WVall, tha~t 'ere beats all
natmur. Well cap'n, what's that 'ere big stun
house over the left r"
"'That's the new Custom House. It's a
mighty bad location, but they are going to
mfove it next week."
"rhtunder and molasses ! It'll take all
the'oxen in creation to start her."
"Oh, they use elephants for such large
buildings."
"And how many elephants will it take"
" Upward of a hiundred."
The Yankee cut a deep gash ini his shin
gle and walked on.
Hie next inquired for the Adams' Iouse,
for he had " heard tell" of that, and was
dletermninedl to progress during juvenility,
aware of the impossibility of doing so at a
more advanced age.
" He soon found the " tavern" and the
"deacon," and ordered accomimodat ion,
liberally "darning the expense.'' Having
"'slicked up," a littde, he witnessed, with
some amazement, the operation of a servant
upon- the gong, simply remarking, that " ho
know'd'hat .sheet liteniing wias, but this
Wvas. the first time he'd ever beard of sheet
thunder." He followed the crowvd into the
dining hail, and was ushered to at seat, wihere
he esconsed himself, tucking his towel under
his chin with a sort of desperation, as if lie
was going to be shaved or scalped.
The sight of the covered dishes added to
his amazement. "Dod darn it !" he ex
clainied, "ecf I ever beard of cookin' on the
thble! but here they've grone and sot tiin
kitchens all over the lott. Whar's the fire
to cone from I'd kinder like to know ?"
He got along with his soup very well,
'nd was pausing for breath, before lie finish- ol
ed it, when a waiter snatched it away and bi
was running oif with it. s<
Hello, you, sir!" vociferated the Yan- mt
kee, "I see you. Fetch that 'ere back, g]
quicker'n lightiing, or you'll hev yer head 0
punched." tr
His plate was returned, and lie finished it!
his soup with dignity. After waiting a st
moment lie raised his voice again, and ci
sununoned the offiending waiter sternly. 1
Kalkerlate to starve me ?" w
"No, sir." hi
" Wall-why don' you fetch on some lo
fresh fodder, darn it ?"
"There's the carie, sir." hi
"VWhre's the Cart ? And what in the a
thunder an I to do with the cart when I s
hev got it? Look out, yer pisky sarpent, fr
oryer'!l kotch it." pI
1 The bill of fare." th
",I don't pay my bill till I've had my W
fodder." of
ie waiter hunibly explained his meaning. at
" What's all these crack jaw namies m
mean !Give tme soiething plain and of
hena. tv-biled corn beef-and itch it about T
the quickest, while I look over the paper, hr
and see what else I'll hev." (i
The meat was brought him. " Hold on!" in
was the next order. " What's this 'ere? -,
M-a-c-a-read it, won't you, sir!" is
" Maccaroni, sir." th
All'right, Canp'n. Hiurry it up.
The dieh was brought. te
Yer etard:1 cuss !" roared the down to
Easter, " ef I han't as great a mi-d to ker. CC
wholiop yer, and make an example of yer gl
on the spot. What do yer iean by run- ev
ning yer igs on me jist because I am a s$
stranger in these parts? Take away yer
biled pipe stems anid fetch us soiie cabliage. 4I
That's right. Ad now some vinegar" sh
" Vinegar's in the cator, sir," replied the Io
waiter, and nade good his retreat. so
" In the castor is it- hey *" soliloiquised th
the Yankee; and vihere in the thunder is the b.
castor?" jJt
The gentleman opposite pushed it to. Jc
ward him. ie looked at it, and taking up Wl
the castor by the bottom, turned it up1, but cc
all the cruets manifested a devire to iluns.
trate the law of gravity%', and leaped from itU
their locations, and tie Yankee was com. ne
pelled to set it down again. a
".-Je.rusalei!" lie exclaimed. "This co
'e*,is au is contrivapee pd rnonis- 19
take. Iw oi- ith an t' fO~et it that th
tarnal vinegar! liIl try it once more." ca
Again lie cantered the castor, but this In
time all the stopples tuimbled out. by
" Thunderation !" lie ro.ired, "here's a oi
pretty iiess. Darn it all, here I've got the
eastor oil iin my gravy, :ind the darned red ar
lead on i cabbage, and the yaller on my lif
tater. D:arn the thing, I say." on
"1y friend," said the gentlemen oppo. b
site, with a strong control over his risable t:0
munscles, it appears to me that if I were in th,
want of viniegar, I would take the viinegar by
einit out of the stand, and by that means of'
should avoid all troubnhle." ou
" Here the whiole company, waiters and a:;
all, burst iiito a convulsive fit of laughter. ro
The Yankee rose in a rage, upsettiig hi mll
chair, and glaring defiance oii his neighbor. rik
How ini the narme of all tarnal cnsses
in creation," lie yelled, "should I know
anything about the way the darned thing g
wvorked, when I never seed one on 'emi afore? or
You've' hatched this up agiii me-I know it. C'
Whai~r's the Landlord I Fetch your bill on i"i
-I'll gzet out of this. I hain't eat ten cents ai
worth, butt I'll p.Sy up like a book, and( cuss lih
and quit. Anid ii ever I set out to eat a di
mieail of vittles ini Boston town again ; ye
may~ take myv hide aind tatn it. D~arin your tl
castors ike aind you t)o, One and all !" or
Anid liingginig downi a dollar on the ta- 'V.
ble, he seized his whlite hell top from the si
hanids of a trembliing waiter and vamoused. ha
Downi Wasinmgton and state Streets lie to
streaked it like a comet, anid neverslaeked "r
his pace till he pulled Up) on board of the "I
Kenebeck.
" Cap'n," said lie to the commander,
"cast off your line just as quick as you're ot
a mind to-and ef you catch me wanting to te
see Boston agin, jist take me by the slack '
and throw me into that 'ere biler, hoots and '
all-by gravy." el
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SPIRITUAL KxowLEDGE~ IN ltou PLacIS. c li
-A short time ago, two of the most r'istin- se
guished millionaires, in a flourishing South- ar
era city, met in social chat, and discussed thi
their miutual mierits. In the course of the th
confab, the Judge hantered the Colonel, and
oll'ered to bet live dlollatrs that the latter could
not say the Lord's prayer. The Colonel jaf
acceptedl the bet, and putting himself in a i
social attitude, began to repeat, keepirg Ot
time by theo swatying of his body, and pro, nit
nouncing wiih emphatic force alterniate syl- of
lables, these lines: ni'
Now I lay ime down to s'ecp, E
I pray the Lord any soul t'o keep ; in
If I sho~uld die- th
"Stop, stop," cried thie Judge, interrupt- dt
ing him, " that w ill do. I give it up, here's h<
the V., but I didni't think you could say it."
A LEARtNED Irish judge, among other pe- mi
ctlarities, had a habit of begging pardon on
every occaision. Once his fav~orite expres- oi
sion was emiployed ini rather a singular man-ii
ner. At the close of the assizes, as lhe was c<
about to leave the bench, the officer of the
court remiinded him that he had inot passed ai
sentence of death on one of the crimitials, as I
lie had intended. " Dear me," said his lord, it
ship, " I beg his pardon-bring him in."
" FATTIER, is there plenty of game up in 'r
the sky 1" asked an inquisitiv'e child. in
" No. Why do you ask such a foolish ha
question I"r:
" Cause you said there wvas a plenty of at
shooting stars, the other night." in
i i a
Dow, Jr... somewlhere says that the rea- Ic
son why man was nmade after everything
else, was because if he had been created
first be would have annoyed the Almighty iw
with en.dless sugnnsiisa of imnrov'ementi th
From Scott's Weekly Paper-Philadelphia.
LIFE IS SHORT!
Our stav amid the beauties and attractions
earth vill be brief and transitory. Al
!st we can live to see but a few short
enes enacted in its busy theatre, before we
,e hurled impetuously into the grand and
oiny gnif of eternity. Onward! Onward.
N.wRD! is the march of time. Like the
rrent of a mighty river, it moves along in
i rapid course, sweeping al' impending ob.
scles, and cariying them away with in
eased, rather than diminished velocity.
he tomb!-with what hopelets emotions do
e contemplate its solemnity. How the
art throbs with unutterabledaespair, as we
ok in upon its dark and chilling recesses.
To some it is a desirable haven of rest,
it to vast numbers it is the gulf or terror
d dismay. They behold its silent tenant
>wly %% wting into dust, forever separated
11 home and friends; deprived of the
easures of the world, and severed from all
it earth holds d-ar. There are yet others
in become so intoxicated wilh the follies
life, so perfectly wrapt in its frivolities
dI excitements, that they never for a moo.
nit turn from their stupid trance, to think
future happiness or eternal danmnation.
icy continue on in the career which they
ve commenced, never thinking in which
ection the frail bark of pleasure is carry
; them. Ahi! could they but turn and
ze, for a moment, on the deep abyss which
yawning to receive them, quickly would
-y retrace their way fromn its fearful brink
'T'hough that is the journey over the wa.
-s of life, we are ofteui iscinated, and love
sport on its foaming billows. We be
me enamoured with its pleasant scenes and
3wing pictures, which surround us on
ery side, and lovo to tarry amid their rosy
'ectness, and revel in the luxury.
Among the pleasing ties of lif'e, there are
no more endearing than those of Friend
ip. Fiiendship is the communion of two
Ig united souls; whose hearts beat in uni
mt, and whose thoughts- are ever turned to
interest of each other. It is sanctioned
holy writ. We read that the " soul of
nathan clung unto the soul of David
nathan loved him as his own soul." But
tat renders it of more importance, is its
usecration by the lips of Jehovah himself.
I incline to tl . ^
true ennobli
cessary to m
sublime stre
nfidence in tI.-. .
sternt realfit
reful in the
my have been cast into irretrievnaute aumt,
placing their confidence in an unworthy
ject.
Thus, life is earnest, as its disappointments
real. But why let the murkey clond of
pass unperceived and unimproved over
r heads, without accomplishing something
eficial to mankind, or stamp some inpor
it feature on the wings of time. And
is, by perflormaig some important feat, or
displacing some impediment from the road
science Ind improvement, we may render
r nones important in the annals of time,
d not sufler them to go dowi to the nar
w cell, and slunber with the countless
nibers that have preceded them: inglo.
us and soon to be forgotten. D. [1. P.
THmE Two SExEs.-When a rakish youth
es astray, friends gather around him in
:ler to restore him to the path of virtue.
mtheness and kindness are lav'ished upon
ni to win him back again to innocence
d peace. No one wouldl suspect that hc
d ever sinined. But when a poor confi
ig girl is bet rayed she receives the brand
society. and is henceforth driven from
Sways5 of virtue. Thew betrayer is lion
ad, respectedl, but his ruinedl, heart-broken
timi knows there is no peace for her this
l of the grave. Society hacs no helping
nd for her, no snmile oif pleace, nto voice of
giveness. Tihere are earthly moralities
known ini heaven,. There is deep wrong
thenm, and fearful are the consequences.
A SrsTER's LoVE.-Oh! tell us not of
iers love, it canniot suppress that of a sis
's. What can be purer tihan her caresses,
at can be more heavenly than her smilei
e memory of a sister's kinmdness, and the
nsciousness of her afection, have been a
hum to our hearts in every ill. They have
eered uIs in sickness, and sorrow amid ab
ice; they have been to us beacotis of hope
d happiness. And will continue with us,
mk.God ! until wve shall have dotne with
a toils of life.
Socr. Kxsususs.-Ilow sweet are the
ectiuons of kindness. hlow plmny the in
ence of that regard which dwells around
r fire-sidle! Distrust and doubt darken
t theo purity oaf its brightness, the cravings
interest and jealousy amar not the harmo
of that scene. Paternal kindness and
ail affectiona blossom there in all the fresh.
ss of an eternal spring. It matters not if
e world is cold, if we can but turni to our
ar circle anid ask atnd receive all that our
art claims.
"Givc mue a chew of tobacco," said one
an to anothier.
SWill you have that which I just bought
that whih'h know to be good C"
" That which you knmow~ to bo good; of
unrse,"
The mani took the quaid from his mouth
d handed it to his frienid,saying: " There,
know that's good, fur I have been trying
for thme last half hour!"
A PUFF FOR GiAmx's MAGAZINE.-A
exas paper, in anniouncing the Whig nom
ation for Vice-President, says: " Mr. Gra
m is well known to the political and lite.
ry world, more especially to the literary,
having ror seome years back been engaged
publishing Graham's Magazine, wvhich a.
literary work, stands unequalled in Amer.
" I'LLr tamko your part," as the dog said
en lie robbed the cat of her portion of
e dinner.
sca1Grr1yAvE..
We haver previousintioned that com
plaints were current iiringland of the in
convenience- resultingi oen the want of
silver currency. Inquiies "were made at
the late meeting 'o (4proprietors of the
Bank of England-; afitoer - any measures
had been adopted-fon:re edying this scarci
ty. The Governor ;oftAhe Bank replied
that the hank had. urglgn the Government
the necessity of a-Jrg addition both of
silver coin and hal .sporeigns, and lie had
reason to know tha lldifficulty of the
nature complained offuld shortly disap
pear. The London,' Ties of September
l6th remarks: .
There was never. nog#n for many years
so great a scarcity of e. silver currency as
at present, in coof the very large
exportations of siver- t have recently
taken place to P illip, Melbourne,
Geclon"g, Sydney iii '%ther 'ports of our
Australian colonies -the convenience of
the adventurers at&th bid diggings. Not
a vessel leaves thiofi of London, Ply.
mouth. Bristol, Liveg Me., but takes out
a considerable amouiig both of gold and
silver specie, either . ~) peeildtors who are
proceding to the aibovo'io onies for the pur
pose of mnakin rge i rciases of gold
from the emigrants nO bruing at the dig.
gings, or consigned *rpitalists and bul
lion dealers to their- a its at Port Philip,
&c. for the same speciipurpose.
It is with much didfialty that the bank.
ers in the city and isat end can obtain
silver currency to anf'4aumount either at the
Bank of England. ogihe koyal. Mint to
accommodate their. ,corespondents in the
diflerent parts of the Aiited Kingdom with
silver coinage. At idningham, .Manches.
ter, Liverpool, and t1 large commercial
towns, the demand fit various banks for
silver is so great thi..they are unable to
supply parties with ro. than X100 to
X200, as not onlyd t.,,quantity being
shipped off to Austrak and India, but the
demands for silver.-bjipu, and specie for
ranie, Belgium,- H pd *Jamburg, and
the Continent, arecal ry etensive.
III consequence o immense call for
silver, it appears th autborities at the
Mint intend having nsiderable amount
I inimediatelv coined -ci, and likewise
gold currenicy of'. - n- -
'sioner to whom- was referred: the- Methodist
Episcopal Church case, for adjustment of
I accounts between the Church North and
South, by which it appeO4rs that the proper.
ty, previous to the divisidn of the institution
into two sections, was upwards of $562,
000. Tit profits froi.. that period, 1845,
to January, 1852, have been over $255,000
---varying annually from.: 8 17,000 to $us,.
1000. The aggregate value of the lBook
Concern, at the commencement of this
year, was 8608,431, the increase since 1845
being about $46,000. It appears, also, that
the profits paid to the Northern beneficiaries, I
sincee the division of the Church, have beent
$113,000. The Southerners did not re
ceive any during that period, the Northern
ers contending that in consequence of their
voluntary secession, they.were not entitled
to participate in profits.
Tlhe Southerners have taken exceptions
to the report, and the matter is again before
the Cireuit Court, and will not be disposed
of for several days. Trhe Southerners con
tenld that they should receive their share in
monley, and that they are entitled to $70,
000 more than -is allowed them, while the
Northerners contend that the sum due the
Southiern church is $56;486.39, deducting
$10,184.10, interest, on' the value of the
three Southern newspapers-,.all the profits of
which the South have retained, leaving duo'
the South, for dividends and interest, to
October 1, 1852. 646,302.29. The num
ber of travellinig preachers- entitled to bone
fit from the fund is 3,303 belonging to the
church North, and 1,329 helonging to the
church South.
In relation to the payments to the widow
of Bishop Hedding, it is stated that the
Bishop bequeathed *10,000 to the book
concern, subject to ani annuity of $700 a
year to his widow, which has been paid, and
should be deducted from the share of pro.
fits due the South.
BADo LtucK Bv D~coREE.-" Well, Peter,
wvhazt news"
I" Nothing particular, massa, 'scept Bob's
"Bob lame! Whbat's-the matter with
Bob?
"lie hurt himself trying to stop do horses
massa."
I" Horses! what horses?"
" Old massa's horses run away wid de
carriage."
"What started them 1
" Cannon, massa."
" What was the firing for ?"
"'To alarma do folks, atnd make umn conme
to put do fire out."
" Fire ! What firet"
" Your big new house burnt dlown."
" My new house burnt down !"
"Yes, lie catch fire while we all gone to
(he fun'ral."'
" Funeral! Who's dead r"
"Your .fathier dead, massa, 'cause ho
heard do bad news."
" What bad news"
" Why, de Bank fail, massa, atid he loose
all do money."
" You rascal, wvhy'didn't you tell me this
bad newvs at one?"
"'Cause, mas,-I 'fr'aid it is too much
for you at once, so I tell .you little at a
time."
" Miss BROWn, I have been to learn how
to tell fortunes," said' a young fellow to a
brisk brunette.. "Just let me have your
hand, if you please."
" La! Mr. White, howv andden yoeu are!
Well egn anrd askr father."
NEW MEXICO-ITS SOCIAL CONDITION.
At the Baptist Missionary Convention re
cently held at Cleveland, a statement wa
made by Rev. Mr. Reed, who has been ii
New Mexico three years as a missionary
His account will be found interesting.
He left three years ago last April wit]
his wife, as a missionary to California
After meeting with the many h:irdships
trials, fatigues and sufferings, surmounting
the ten thousand obstacles which at thal
time obstructed his path, he reached SantU
Fe, New Mexico. Upon his arrival he wa,
visted by the chief men and women of tha
city, and was sent for by the Commandei
of the United States troops stationed there
to visit him, who held out all the inducementi
possible for him to remain there and labol
in that wide spread field. After taking
everything into consideration, and findin1
that the road there terminated, he coneludet
to remain, as it was totally impossible foi
hini to go on at that time.
He found there some 6,000 Mexican
who had never heard a gospel sermon
There were numbers of American trader
there, and a host of gamblers. The statt
of society was most deplorable and alarm
ing. It does not materially differ from th<
society of some on the other heathen terri.
tories. Ignorance, superstition and idol:a
try were prevalent in such a degree as I
never before heard of in any uncivilizet
country. There never had been a school.
house or institution of learning of any kind
fot the instruction of the youth, neither were
there any school books of any description
Ile remembered, while in Boston, ol
bearing a gentleman assert that there wa
not more than one of every three person.
in New Mexico that could read; but hi
could tell them, with equal truthfulness,
there was not one ont of three hundred thal
could read a single word, or tell their owi
age correctly. It was lamentable and de
plorable, but such was the fact.
The population of New Mexico is divided
into three classes. There are about 100,
000 Mexicans, 200,000 [Idians, and a few
Americans. The Indians were like othur
tribes, uncivilized and warlike. He had had
conversations with the chiefs of the tribes,
who expressed a willingness to be ruled by
their great father, the President.. He also
ments, thinkig they wasi is 0....ett inl ta
pilgrimage in the land beyond the skies.
These Indians desire very much to hav
teachers of the Gospel come amung them,
and talk to them of the Great Spirit and o
their Heaven. The Indians are more indus
trious, and in soe instances inure intelli
gent than the Mexicans. Their code o
laws is of the simplest nature. If any in
jury has been done to any of their tribe, ann
a warrant is wanted, as they cannot read or
write, the complainant deputizes a sherill
on the spot, who takes a guld-headed cane,
and travels through the streets until l
meets the desperado, shakes it at him, when
lie immediately turns on his heel, and in
breathless silence follows the otlicer, and is
put into the hands of the complainant, and
dealt with as the tribe prescribes.
The Indians have a tradition, which has
been handed down from generation to gen
erat~on, that white men would come across
the big pinns and mountains, to teach themr
of the Great Spirit.
The Mexicans ure a depraved, lawless
set of dlesperadloes. Gambling is a tiniker
sal habit. I believe there is not a single
Mexican, man or woman, hoy or girl, o1
the age of eight years, hut knows how to
raumble. Mothers teach their children from
infancy the art of gambling. They ar
trained up in the school of dleception by
their parents until able to dleceive, cheat and
amble on their own hook. The most de
praved and wicked are the greatest to be
respected. Licentiousness in all its deplora
b)1e malignity-in the worst conceivable
forms-stalks abroad at mid day. Until
this vice is checked, little can be done for
the elevation of thre people, and unless mis.
sionaries are sent there to teach them, their
refortmation is hopeless. It is a lamentable
fact that since thre conquest by the Ameri
cans, their vices have increased. Thi
Americans have been instrumenttal in carry
ing among themi their cunning ; they havi
imported liquors into that country in ai
amount hardly crediible.
Their chrristenings, their wveddings ,ann
their funerals, are celebrated ini the maost
debasinig and humiliating debauchery.
CnRIOUS INCIDENT.-Somne few (lay
ago, we noticed the fact of a young ladj
risiding in this city being in a trance, sinci
tho previous Saturday. At first we wer<
inclined to treat the rumor a hoax, but w<
have 8ince made enquiries about thte cast
aid find it to be true in every particular
Tlhe young lady whose communication with
the world was thus cut off resides on Arthui
street, near Centre Avenue, and is abou
nineteen years of age. She became affect
ed on Saturday night, and from that tim<
till the Wednesday night, ensuing she ap
peared as if~ dead, except at intervals, whei
she wvould utter sonic incoherent senitences
11cr eyes were closed and her breathini
sarcely perceptible. During her raving:
she described where she had been ; said she
was in lleaven, arid sawv her iiother there
as wvell as in the lowver regions, wvhere shi
described a meeting that took place between
herself and some others of her relations
She also said that she would " come to" or
Wednesday night, at whbich time she awoke
as if she had been sleeping but an hour
This is the second attack of the same kin
which the young lady has had withini
short time.-Pittsburg Despatch, Sept. 13.
nR. CAREFUI, having been told iv li
physician that lie must take gentle exercise
relied, that ho hand for seime time back prac
t,.,.. ,.tt;ig his tno.nails twice a week.
DUIE OF WELLMGTON.
The foreign news which we publish thi
s morning contains the announcement of th
i death of Arthur Wellesly, Duke of Welling
ton, a man whose name is known perhapi
more extensively than that of any other o
modern tines, and whose eventful histor)
will fuinish to the biographer and historiar
a topic of the most extensive and varie
research, and of voluminous remark.
We find the following sketch of thi
veteran Genoral in the Baltimore Sun:
The Duke of Wellington was the fourti
son of the second- earl of Mornington, and
was born at Daungan Castle, in the county
of Meath, Ireland, May 1, 1769. He wa
therefore a few months over eighty.three
years of age at the time of his death. He
wap educated partly at Eaton, and subse.
quently in the military college o.f Angliers,
l France. InI his eighteenth year he entered
the British army as an ensign of the 73d
reginment. lie advanced with great rapidity
-and in five years was gazetted major ol
the 33d foot, without having seen active
service. Two years previously lie was re.
turned for the borough of Trim, county ol
Meath, under the patronage of the house ol
Mornington. Thus commenced his military
and civil career-the soldier and statesman
hand in hand, and thus lie passed through
his long and memorable career in the ser.
I vice of tie British crown-now the idol of
the British populace, anJ again loaded with
execrations and pelted with mud.
His exploits in India, the march to My.
sore, the storming of Seringapatam, and
thle inicidents of that cra, mark the com
mencement of his active military life. His
career iII Europe, full of the romance of
martial life, and blended with the most
remarkable events of the carrent century,
intimately associated with the latter action
and defeat of Napoleon, is familiar in the
outline to the whole civilized world, and
abounds with historic material. The fol
lowing faets respecting the rise and titular
dignity of the " Iron Duke" will be interest.
ing at this moment.
His commission of colonel was conferred
May 3, 1796: that of major-general, April
1, 1802; of lieutenant-general, April 25,
1808; of general in Spain and Portugal,
July 31,1811: of fi-i . 21,
-; I and
-.a - :nighit
com
itdier
gade,
:astle,
enaiil
woriu of the
Tower Hamlets, chancellor of the Universi.
ty of Oxiord, master of Tri:iy louse, vice
president of the Scottish tinava :md m .ilitary
academy, and govenor of king's coege.
England, says one, though pai ol:ue Im
great mnci, has never produced a genieral
capable of taking rank with the great names
of the continent, before which the insular
reputation of Marlborough and Wellington
sinks into the shado. It is probably on this
very account that England has lavished on
suh as she had all the honors and wealth
she could bestow; and in the case of Vel.
lington, every subsidized European sovereign
who furnished troops to oppose Napoleon,
threw in some title or order to the Duke as
a makeweight- to the bargain. Hence his
contiiental titles, which are, Prince of Wa.
terloo in the Netherlands, Duke of Ceudid
Rodrigo, and granidee of Spain, Duke of
Vittoria, Marquis of Torros Vedras, Count
of Vimiera in Portugal; Knight of the
Foreign Orders of the Gulph of Hanover,
St. Andrew of Russia, the Black Engle of
Prussia, thle Golden Fleece of Spain, the
Elephant of Denmark, St. Ferdinand oh
Merit, and St. .Januarius of the two Sicilies,
Ma:imilianm Joseph of Bavaria Theresa oh
Austria, tihe Sword of Sweden, of William
of the Netherlands, Field-Marshal in the
atrm ies of A ustria, Russia, Prussia, P'ortugalI
and the Netherlands, and Captain-General
of Spain. These titles, wvith sonme ships,
islands, and colonies plundered fronm her
allies, are all that England has to showv to
balance the increase to her national debt,
incurred in her absurd crusade against Na
poleon and the democratic principles of the
French revolution. Arid now, wvith the
Duke ail the titles dlisappear, many of them
having been dishonored by association with
subsequent events. Sic transit gloria mundi.
ANECDOTE OF DR. YoUNG.-As the Dr.
was one dauy walking in his gairden at Mel.
win, ini company with twvo ladies, onue of
whom he afterwards married, a servant
caime to tell him that a gentleman wished to
speak with him. " Tell him," said thle Dr.
" tht I am too happily employed to change
my situation." 'lThe ladies insisted that he
should go as his visitor was a man of rank,
his patron anld his friend. As persuasion,
however, had no effect one took him by the
right arm, the other by the left, and led hits
to the garden gate, when finding resistance
was vain, ho bowed, and laid his hand upon
his heart, and in that expressive mainer for
whiiczh he was so remarkable, spoke the fol.
Iowingt lines:
" Thus A dam looked whenci front the garden driven
A nd titus disputed orde~rd sent fro:n Heaven,
Like him, I go, but y.:t to go am' toth;
Like hinm I go; for aungels drove us both ;
Hatrd was his rate, but mine still mnore utnkind;
hlis Eve went witht himn, but mine stays behind."
I I
EXTRAORINARY, IF TrRUE.-According
to 80ome Italian journals, a newv organizec
being has been discovered in the interior of
Africa, wvhich seems to form an immediatr
linuk between vegetable anid animal life. Ti:
singular production of nature has the shapt
of a spotted serpent. It drags itself along
-otn the ground; instead of a head has
flower, shaped like a bell, wvhich contains I
viscous liquid. Flies and other insects, at
- rc b the smell of the juice, enter intt
tefoewhen they are caught by thi
Sadhesive matter. The flower then close
and remains shut until the prisoners ar
bruised and~ transformed into chyle. Th
s inietbe potin such as the head an'
,wings, are throwna out by aspiral openingt
-IThe vegetable Eerpent has a skin resemblin
I lea.es, .a whitea ndn soft fesh, ..nd inse.a c
a koney skeleton a cartilaginous frame,
filled with yellow marrow. The natives.
consider it a delicious rood.
About half past eight o'clock on Thurs.
day evening last, Mrs. Ephraim K. Giegg,
of Stockbridge, was shot at her residence, a
few miles east or Munnsville. She was stand
ing in her pantry, beside her sister-in.law, in,
front of the window through'which the shot
came, entering her body in the region of the
stomach. The murderer was so near the
window that the smoke of his gun discolored
the glass.
Her husband being absent at the village,
her sister-in-law ran a few rods to a neigh
bor, and gave the alarm, and in fifteen min
utes Dr. Treat, the Coroner, arrived and re
mained until her death, about 3 o'clock the.
following morning.
No search for the murderer was made that
night, but the next morning, it was learned'
that a dissipated young man of the towvn%
named Hadcock, was seen to leave Knox
ville, the scene of murder, with a gun, and'
pursuit being made, he 'was arrested in the'
woods that day with the gun still in his pos
session. He was conveyed to Morrisville,
jail, whence he was taken back on Monday
for examination.
His dislike of the deceased was no secret.
It arose in this wise. Sevroal months since,'
and before her marriage to Mr. Gregg, Had-'
cock and the deceased were at a social par-:
ty in the town, where, in a spirit of pleasan
try, it was proposed that they should be'
married for fun. The sham ceremony was,
performed, and Hadcock, either knave or,
fool, pretending to consider the ceremony.
legal, wished to assert his rights. The pro
eeding was treated as a joke, and the lady.
last Spring was really married to Mr. Gregg.'
Hadcock took advice as to the possibility of
compelling her to acknowledge him as her
legal husband, but the plea not succeeding,
he inquired her prosent residence, and about
a week ago was observed prowling about the'
house. The marriage joke has now been'
ended by the violent death of one of the
parlies, and the arrest of the other for her
murder.
Such is the account given us by the Coro
ner.-Cazenovia Whig, Sept 29.
DF.LEGATEs.-We understand that his
Excellency the Governor, having being re
quested by the "Southern Central Wrietul
tural Society of Georgia".to send dele
to a meeting to -be, .held' it - M
the a1nWu.thibition o "
the 19th to th'*2&'ofr
purpose of organizinig-A' th nc.
tural Congress," has, in conformity er.to
appointed the following gentlemen as dee
Igates:
For the State at Large.-Hon. - Robt.-W.
Barnwell, lion. Whitemarsh R. Seabrook.
For the 1st Congressional District
Robert J. Gage, Union.
2d.-James W. Harrison, Anderson.
3.-Wm. S. Lyles, Faireeld.
4th.-Thos. Smith, M. D., Darlington.
a5rth.-Drayton Nance, Newberry.
Oth.-Williamn DuBose, St. Stephens.
7th.-lon. Jas. H. Hammond, Barnwell.
'..E L.incEST M1MCIINT SHIP IN THIl
WonL..---.\m'. McKay of last Boston,is
now at work upon a clipper ship, which will
surpass in size and sharpness, every mer
chant ship now afloat or known to be-in
course of construction. She will be 300
feet long, have 50 feet breadth of beam 28
feet depth of hold, with three decks, and
will register over 3000 tons. She will be
diagonaly braced with iron, and built in
every particular equal ini strength to the
best of ocean steamers. Her model, in
point of' beauty, is the wonder and admira
tion of all who have seen it. She will have
'4 masts, with Forbes' rig. Mr. McKay
builds her on his own account, and wvill sail
her too, it' ho dloes not sell her.-Boston
Atlas.
A paragraph is going the rounds, of time
papers that a Southern slaveholder oflers to
emancipate his slaves, to the number of
sixty or seventy, on condition that the Mas
sachusetts Colonization Society will furnish
funds to transport them to Liberia. These
people could be sold for $30,000 or $40,..
000, and constitute the bulk of their mas
master's possessions, The Society have
pledged, or in the treasury, $1,200, and
appeal to the friends of thme colored man for
$900 in addition, for the above obiject..
TiH E Scott committee at Washington have
circulated at the North, under Congression
al franks, about a hundred thousand copies
of an article published in the ?ra, the abo
lition palper at Washington, to prove Gen.
Pierce a pro-slavery man. The same com
mittee have circulated at tho South as
many- copies of the New Boston speech,
and a document under the caption of' "Gen
eral Pierce and his abolition allies," to prove
him an abolitionist. Truman Smith, -of
Connecticut, is the master-workman in this
base business.
A Tixry WruNN.--The senior'edi
tor of the Amherst Cabinet, speaking of the
rigid scrutiny wvhich the characters of the
Presidential candidates are undergoing,
very dev'ontly exclaims :
"1How~ careful, then, we all ought to be
as to wvhat manner of persons we are, lest
we may some time or other become candi
dates for the Presidency, to which we are
all liable in this laud of liberty, obligation
and responsibility."
MONUMENT TO ENRNY CLAY.--AN ef
fort is about being made in Washington to
form an association having for its object then
erection of a National Monument in honor
of the late Henry Clay. The association
is to be composed of member's in evety.
section of the Union, and a number of'ment
bers of Congress have announced their
readiness to co-operate in the movemeot'at
the next session of Congress.
Powsnum JoaE.--A Western, editet~,
thinks lI iram Powers, the sculptor, isa
Sdler, because 'le Wiseled an