Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, June 16, 1849, Image 4
POETIC V.
J'Vom the Tetnpcranct Banner.
BY Mil ft. R. II. RICH.
The (emptor calls'. yet leave me not, ob leave
mo not to-night,
Stay with me now, I would yo win, from that
dark tempter's might;
How ean ye turn from mo away, from her who
loves theo well,
To bask for hours with revelers, and quart" that
liquid full!
Heo on mv htiniincr " ''
- . _ ? -v O v"vv" 1,,VIV il 1V>CI*
ish flush to-night,
Oli husband, leavo mc not I pray! for dimly
grows my sight;
Far from my friends and homo I come, to this
the b( ranger's land,
Asunder burst each kindred tio, through life by
thee to htand.
Remember all thy former vows, and all I've
braved for thee?
Remember how to thee I've clung as ivy to the
tree;
But more than all, our little ones, oh hear their
feeble cries,
Sec how they stretch their tiny hands, and sec
their pleading eyes!
And then their very hearts Btand still, with
dread when thou art near,
To hear thy deep toned curses burst so full of
rage and fear,
Hear mo, if not for self for them, I pray thee
go not now.
Stay, stay to-night, on bended kneo most fervently
I l>ow!
Oh hunbnnd I hnvc Rtrug'lod long, with negligcnco
and want,
And meekly borne each angry word, each dark
and biting tnunt;
And through it all I've citing to thee, most fervently
and true.
And lov'd thee doatinglv, ae when thou didst
my young love woo.
My life was fragrant as the dew, upon the
wentod flower,
\(v lifn w.. : V " .? ..... .
...J ??ijUjuua HI 1111! UirilH UUH 111110(1 111 :
eastern bower?
My life was 6wect as fairy harps, touched bv j
the nooubeam'a ray?
Ah, yes; 'twas as a vase of blooms reared by i
woodland Tav.
And I did fly my princely home, and my reward
is what!
Look on our starving cliildrcn, look, and on this
wretched hut;
Sec on my youthful face is fitampt, (he signet
of decay.
Yourself and them you yet may save, then stay,
I pray thee stay!
One thing of perfect form and face, is nestling
by my Bide,
One image of thyself wnen first J$ras thy happy
bride;
Her eyes of deepest 'w itchery, hor checks so
full and fair,
7\ufi tuon tiic soft blov'tl ringlets of her bright i
and flowing hair.
This human love is hard to break, a chain of
wondrous strength,
And slowly we unbind the links, which break
their hold at length;
It is a sii I feed full well, to worship things of
earth,
And I have siiuicd in lovint* flwi <.f
my I. earth.
My heart id broken! I ciui bear no longer this
liercc strife,
For feebly ebbs my sluggish hloo<l with j?>y
nnd health once rife;
Look how the veins lie shrunk to-night upon
iny humid brow,
Then on my cheek heboid the uhades of death
are gathering now.
I feel that I am unking fast, take, take my
tuttrviivr . Will
Its cries of hunger wring my heart, niul imkc
my brain grow wild;
My famished breast yields not one drop, i*s
cravings to appease,
0 mercy, and this the end of all my promised
case t
The screaming blast goes Lurrying by, and
colder grown the night,
Wo bread for these our little ones, no fire our
hearth to light;
Tllfitl tllAO" (l>4(nvn/l ?""" T ~ ll?1 '1 1
>uviviVU I 1 UVg, UlilL CJild
my freezing form,
Take, take them all, to comfort them I'd bravo
tho bluckost storm.
* ? * * # * *
Enough, bo's gone! his coming stops I ne'er
shall hear again,
The darkest dregs of bitterness, aloiu I'm left
to dmiii,
Cling closer still my little ones, cling to thy
mother's breast, I
Brcod yot nwltile beneath her wing, my starving
children rest!
Kind Provitli rtct, how wise thou art, in screoning
angels sight,
For could my mother now behold, her stricken
"I'would then uo longer bo to her n paradise of
aJovo,
She'd die amid thy golden realm*, ai diet* tlio
wounded dove
Oh, Thou who he&rest in benven <tur tho't*,"
proteet my children dear,
"Thou who dost mark the sparrow's full niul
dry'st the orphan's tear,"
Take them beneath thy sheltering wing, and
guide the in day by day,
And *>h avert from him 1 love, the drunkard's
doom, I pray!
ini-j ?? ^
jjiuuxiycvitie, CjO.
A FEARFUL DREAM THE LAST
SATURNALIA.
Some ninety years ago, there flourished
in glasgow n club of young men, which,
from extreme profligacy of its members,
and the licentiousness of their orgies, was
commonly called the Ilell Club. Besides
their niurhtlv or wofeklv mentinn-a Him
,j ? v,tx7 j
held one grand annual saturnalia, in which
each tried to excel the other in drunkenness
and blasphemy ; and on these occasions
there was no star amongst them
whose lurid light was more conspicuous
than that of young Mr. Archibald B.,
who, endowed with brilliant talents and a
handsome person, held out great promise
in his boyhood, and raised hopes which
had been completely frustra'.ed by his I
subsequent r? ckless dissipations.
One morning, after returning fro u this
annual leslival, Mr. Archibald I>. having
retired to bed, dreamed the following
dream:
lie fancied that he himself wasLmoutv
tcd on a favorite black horse limine el
ways rode, and that he was proceeding J
towards his own house?then a country i
seat embowered by trees, and situated
upon a bill, now entirely built over, and :
forming part of the city?when a stranger,
whom the darkness oi the night pre- i
vented his distinctly discerning, suddenly |
seized the horse's rein wvinn ? I
W.? ? <?- , x l/U
go with nic!"
"And who arc you?" exclaimed the ,
young man, with a volley of oaths, whilst |
ho struggled to free himself.
"That you will s^e bye and bye," returned
the other, in a tone that excited
unacountable terror in the youth, who,
plunging his spurs into his horse, attempted
to tly, but in vain. However fast, the
animal flew, the stranger, was still beside
him ; till at length, in his desperate efforts i
lo escape, the rider was thrown ; but instead
of being dashed to the earth, as he
expected, he found himself falling!?falling!?falling
still! as if sinking into the
bowels of the earth.
At length a period being put to this
mysterious dcscent, he found breath to
inquire of his companion, who was still
be-ide -him, whither they were going.
"Wlmrn rmi ' 9 i .1.:.
.. ..^.w ?%?!? ?. . i* uvii; uhj juu UlKIIlg
mo ?" ho exclaimed.
"To hell!" replied the stranger and
immediately interminable echoes repeated
the fearful sound, "To hell! to hell! to
hell!"
At length a light appeared which noon
increased to a blaze; but instead of the
cries, and groans, and lamenting, the terrified
traveller expected, nothing met his
ear but sounds of music, mirth and jollity;
and he found himself at Ihe entrances of
ii superb building fur exceeding any lie
had seen constructed by human hands.
Within, too, what a scene! No amusement,
employment, or pursuit of man on
earth, but was there being carried on with
a vehemence that excited his unutterable
amazement. There the panting horse
still bore liis brutal rider through the excitement
of the goaded race ! There over
the midnight bowl, the intcmiinate still
drawled out the wanton song or maudlin
uiaspnemy! Tlie gambler plied for bis I
endless game, and the slaves of Mammom
toiled through eternity their bitter tasks ;
whilst all the magnificence of earth paled
before that which now met his view.
lie soon perceived that he was among
all acquaintances whom he knew to he
dead, and each he observed, was pursuing
tho object, whatever it was, that had formerly
engrossed him ; when finding him- '
self relieved of the presence of his unwelcome
conductor, he ventured to nd-1
!_!_/ ' ?
mess 111s lormcr mend, Airs. IJ?, wliom
he saw sitting, as had been her wont on
earth, absorbed at loo, requesting her to
rest from the game, and introduce him to
the pleasures of the place, which appeared
to him to be very unlike what he had
expected, and indeed an extremely agreeable
one. But with what a cry of ngonv,
ciiMHbicu null/ Mignagwiis no rPSt 111
hell, that thoy must cvof toil on at those
very pleasures, ar.d innumerable voices
echoed through the. interminable vaults, |
"There is r?> -est in hell!" whilst throwing
open their vests, each disclosed in his
bonom an ever burning flame! These,
they said were the pleasures of hell; the
choice on earth was their inevitable doom!
T il - 1 . * ? - ~ "
in x,nc midst 01 the horror this scone in
spired, his conductor returned, and, at his
earnest- entreaty, restored him again to j
earth, but as he quitted him, lie said "lla- |
member!?in a year and a day wo meet I
nr/ain 1"
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At this crisis of his dream the sleeper
awoke, feverish, nnd ill; and whether
from the cffect of the dream or of his preceding
orgies, he was so unwell as to be
obliged to keep his bed for several days ;
during which period ho had time for ma- |
ny serious reflections, which terminated
in a resolution to abandon the club and i
his licentious companions altogether.
lie was no sooner well, however, than
> ?
inuy iioc.i ia around lum, bont on recov- |
oring so valuably ? member of their socio*
ty ; and, having wiung from him a confesi
Pioii of the causos of his defection, which,
as may be supposed, appeared to them
ridiculous, thov soon contrived to make
him ashamed of his good resolutions. He
| joined them again?resumed his former
I course of life, and wlion i !?? ? I
, ...V UUIIWU OiltUI" 1
nulia come round, lie found himself with j
his glass in hi* hand at the table ; when
i the President rising to make his aecitstonied
speech, began with saying, "Gcn|
tlcmen, this being leap year, it is a year
! and a day since oiu last anniversary." ?.Vc.
The words struck upon the young man's
ear liken knell; but, ashamed to expose
| bis weakness to the jeers of his compan- |
ions, he sat out the feast, plying himself i
I with wine even more liberally than usual,
in order to drown his intrusive thoughts?
till, in the rrloOni nf n ~
? m.iuvi o iiu>|||]||?r,
he mounted his horse to ride lionio. Some
hours afterwards the horso was found,
with his saddle and bridle on, quietly grazing
by the roadside, about halfway between
the city and Mr. li.'s house, while
a few yards oft'lay the corpse of his master.
I' Kow, as I have said, introducing this
' story, it is no fiction. The circumstances j
happened as here related. An account j
of it was published at the time, but tho
! conies worn 4l "
M ?J, l>> lliv HIIIII1V.
Two or three, however, were preserved,
anil the narrative has been re-printed.?
; Crow's .Xif/ht Side of Nature.
TIIB ROMANCE OF T1IE GOLD FEVER.
Tnc JS'i ic York Evening Post, among j
other touching incidents, relates the fol- j
lowing as having occurred on the departlure,
from thai city, of the Poytona for
California :?
As usual, a large erowd had gathered
on the pier, including several females, to
bid a last adieu to relatives, friends and
lovers. One i^iil who had probably seen j
seventeen summers,mrticularlv niirjipt.wi
our attention. She was u beautiful
blonde, clothed in a plain, though neat, I
dress?with remarkably rosy cheeks?a i
lip the bees might swoon on, and soft j
dark eyes, now a little dimmed by the !
gathering moisture of sadness. While
otheis were hurrying to and fro, she
stood on the edge of the pier, gazing
earnestly at the vessel, now loosing from
her moorings. Iler eyes were fixed on
a handsome young man leaning on the
taffrail, rigged out in Califomian dress,
who was not less intently watchinc the
?
girl lie was leaving.
Just as the vessel began to move in the
water, and recede from the wharf, the.
tears unbidden started from their repose,
tears in whose dumb grief there was a
powerful eloquence, filled her large melting
eves, and stretching out her hands to
him, in a most thrilling plaintive whisper, j
she said, "Charlev aint vou son-v ?>/>?? 3" '
The color flew from Charley's cheek, his j
pale lip quivered a moment, and then he i
turned, without speaking, to hide himself :
and his tears in the cabin, and we turned
awiy, thinking that the young man per- |
chance was leaving behind him in that
fond and loving heart a treasure of more
worth than all the wealth of California,
and thinking too, were we of these lines:
"When eyoa arc braining,
What never tongue may tell ?
"When tears are streaming
From their crystal well,
When hands are linkoil sir/>n*i ?1
And heart is mot by throbbing heart?
Oh! bitter, bitter is the 8innrt
Of them that bid farewoll."
A Mother's Tkt hp.?There is a sweetness
in ft mother's .'ears, when they fall
on the fare of j\ dying bnhe, which no
eye can behold with a heart untouched. 1
It is holv cronnd. n?nn
, n IIIVII 111V llllhallowed
foot of profanity dares not encroach.
Infidelity itself is silent, and forbears
her mocking, and here woman
shows not her weakness but her strength:
It is that strength of attachment, which
mnn nnvi>r rlifl ?"" -? r ' T'
..VI tjci cull IWCI. HIS,
perenninl, dependent on no climate, no 1
| changes, nor soil, but alike in storms as [
in sun-shine, it knows no shadow of t\?rn-1
1 in?. A father when ho !?:< I
-v- ..wo 111.7 isiimi
croinp down the dark valley, may weep
I when the shadow of death has fully
j come over him, and as the last departing
| knell falls on his ears may say "[ will go
! down to the grave to my son mourning," I
but ho turns awav in the hurry of busi-1
ness, the tear is wiped, and though
when he returns to his fire side the sportive
laugh comes up to his rememberance
the succeeding days blunts the poignancy
of grief, and it finds no permanent
| seat. Not so with her who l?n? Wn?
I and nourished the tender blossom. It
l lives in the heart where it wns first entwined
in the dreaming hours of night.
She sees its playful mirth, or hears its
plaintive cries; she "wilts it in the mom|
ingt" and "ohe goes to the grave to weep
there." Its little toys arc carefully laid j
aside as sacred mementoes, to keep con- \
tinunlly alive thai ihriiuiig anguish, which j
the dying struirclc. ana snd W?V
j duccd, and though grief, like a cankerworm,
may be gnawing at her vitals, yet
! she finds a luxury in her tears, a street*
! ness in her sorrow which none but a
; mother ever tasted.
I . ... CS n
* ?*?#/ 4j\/?/vviuiiir. Ar>t? Ol^AM I'KOIJOII.
?Wo saw yesterday the -oodel of a mucliinc
invented by Mr. Henry Cowing,
and styled't>y Jiim tlie Land Locomotive
and Steam Plough. If'he machine answers
the purpose for wV?uh it is intended,
it will almost entirely supplant the
use of animals for draught and ploughing
The ploughs attached to the machine are
intended specially tor the sugar plantations
of Louisiana; and Mr. Cowing proposes
passing through the different parishes
in order to explain his invention and
engage, if possible, the co-operation of
the planters in bringing the machine
into practical use. Mr Cowing has entered
n caveat, and expects soon to take
n patent for his invention.?New Orleans
Crescent.
Meteoric Iron in South Carolina.?The
last number of Silliman's Journal contains
nil nccniml nf lv>.i?-o 'if i
which has been discovered in South Carolina.
It was found several years since
by a laborer on the plantation of Mr. S.
M. McKeown, situated in Chesterfield
district. On being accidentally shown to
a blacksmith a few weeks ago he proved
it to be malleable, for out of it he made a
pair of hinges, a few nails, and a horse
shoe. The original weight of the mass is
said to have been thirty-six pounds. Its
original shape was oblong, with one side
anil end thicker and rounder than their
opposites, and its surface was much indented
and coated by rust.
On being analyzed this iron was found
fnronfnin ^ i-o^?
I..vnv.i, IKIVVO VI \;ill Wllllllllly CUhalt,
nnd nodular masses of magnetic pj'ritcs.
Its most remarkable peculiarity,
according to Professor Silliman, consists
in the appearance of its polished surface
when treated with dilute nitric acid,
which is then covered with a great variety
of beautiful figures. It is very dense,
and takes a brilliant polish ; but its etched
surface immediately distinguishes il
from even* other iron hitherto described.
What Thou I)oest no Quickly.?
Quick, young man! ilPt* is short. A great
work is before you, nnd you have no
lime to lose. If you would succccc! in
business, win your way to honor, and
save your soul, you must work quickly.
The sluggard dies. The wheels of time
roll over him while he sleeps. Aim
high, and work hard. Life is worth the
living, death is worth the dying, because
worth gaining.
Quick, ye. men of might in the road of
life! Your life is more than half gone
dreadv. You are going down the hill,
mid the shadows begin to fall around you.
If you have ought to do before you die,
do it quickly. The morning has Hod,
mid-day his passed, and the night comcth.
Quick, ye aged men, quick. Once
you thought three score years to be an
endless time, nnd that they could never
pass away. They have come, they have
gone?man, what have they left? The
days of pleasure have past, and the days
of darkness are here?have you left any
work undone? Have you come to infirmities
and trembling, and no preparation
for death? Ah. quick, ye aged father
and gray bearded sires. Already are
the messengers of death beginning to
render their services to bring you to the
sepulchres of their fathers. With the
feeble remnants of existence, struggle for
heaven. Work, pray, seek, while life
lasts, mercy waits, and God is gracious.
Kri.i: for wearing Rings.?For the
benefit of the "craft," as the bachelor's
say, we copy (hi; following rule for wearing
rings, for the special benefit of those
ladies who arc desirous of wringing into
the affections of young gallants:
When a lady is not engaged she wears
a ring on her first finger; if engaged, on
her second; if married, on her third; and
if she intends to rpmnin Iinmam!/") < '>?
vi lllllltl A IVU j OIIV
wears the ring on her fourth linger. This
is tl.c rule hud down in the latest work
upon female proprieties that we have
seen, and it. appears to. be generally recognised
among the sex as one that should
be scrupulously observed. There are
some young ladies, however, who appear
to take delight in wearing a ring both upon
the first and the second finger, thus
leaving the admiring spectator in some
perplexity how to classify then) Others
wear a ring upon each linger; and, again,
three or four little golden hoops, sparkling
with brilliants, may bo seen edging
each other On the second?emblematical,
probably, of the number of encrn^mf.niv.
or triumphs they have achieved during
the period of their blooming girlhood.
Intercourse of (he Sexes.?Ncnl n.sks the
question?"What makes those men who
associate habitually with women superior
to others. What makor. that woman who
is nccustomect and at. ease in tho society of
men superior to her sex in general ? Why
are the women of France so universally
admired und loved for their colloquial
powers? Solely because they are in tho
habit of frt:e, graceful, and continual conversation
with tho other box. Women in
this way lose their frivolity; their delicacies
and peculiarities unfold all their beau
nntl ^ ' ' 1
111 wju ppini oi inici*
lectual rivulry. And tho men loso their
pedantic, rude, declamatory, or aullen
manner. The coin of the understanding
and the heart is changed continually.
Their asperities are nibbed off, their better
materials polished nnd brightened,
and their richrtesp, liko fiifa gold, i*
wrought into finer workmanship by thd
fingers of woman, than it over could bo
by thoso of men. The iron nnd steel of
the character arc hidden, like tho harness
and armor of a giant, nnd studs in knots
iC * * *
oi goia and precious stones whon they
are not wanted in actual warfare."
Not much moan Ausuhd than some
ok the Temperance measures heriously
Proposed.?During the waggery session
in the House on Tuesday afternoon,
the following resolves were sent to ihc
chair, and, having been gravely road by
the clerk, were oitlered to bo printed.?
/ionton Statesman
"Jicsolves for the Purification of the
Commonwealth.?Resolved, That tho Governor
be. nnd he hereby is authorized, and
required to appoint thirty thousand c'llebodied
commissioners in t ho city of Boston,
and a proportioned number in every city
and town in the commonwealth, whose
dlltv it. sllrtll tn *1? '-'-1
^ ? - |/i\yor'iio I.IIC IUUU IIO"
stinenc? pledge, so called, with revcrcncc
he it spoken, to each and every other inhabitant
of the commonwealth, who shall
sign the same on presentation, on pain of
being forthwith expelled nnked from tho
vvuiiuv/1117 Villi; 11
Resolved, Tlint the Governor shall appoint
no person ns a commissioner, as
aforesaid, who shall not previously have
signed and sworn to the said revered instrument.
llcsolveil, That the estates of nil persons
refusing to sign the said instrument,
_V -11 * ~ ~
snaii, upon such refusal, be confiscated to
the use of the commonwcn th, and shall
thereaftcrwards he distribvtcd among
said commissioners in proportion to their
zeal in the execution the duty hereby
assigned to them.
Resolved, Thot the Constitution of the
United States, so far as the same applies
to this commonwealth, and the constitxition
of this commonwealth, are hereby
annulled, and that the said revered pledge
shall take their place in the hearts of the
people.
Resolved, That when the Governor
omul ue Bimsnca that the commonwealth
is effectually purged from nil the recusants
above referred to, he shall dcclare
that the millenium has arrivec.
Resolved, That when the millenium
shall have arrived, as aforesaid, the Governor
is to declare himself our supreme
law-giver and judge, and shall take the
name of Moses.
Resolved, That our sainted puritan fathers
now behold us with enormous satisfaction.
Resolved. That our coordinate but not
cooperating branch, is hereby extinguished.
Resolved, That if the clerk send these
rcsoives up lor concufrutfee, he slinll be
included among the recusants above-mentioned,
and that the resolve for' his pay,
is hereby repealed.
Redofvcd\ That we won't go home till
morning.
TlIKY Don't I.IKK THKIR FnKEDOM.?A
norrrn fnmiKr fi-Am f t ? ~A1
n- .j ?.vMii viiiciiumu, v/mo, says
victoria (Texas) Advocate of the 11th tilt,
passed up this morning in a small wagon,
on their way to the neighborhood of Scguin.
Wo learn that they had been freed
some time since by their mastor and have
been living at Cincinnati. But preferring
slavery to the miserable life of a free negro
at the North,they return to request
their old master to take them back again
and let them live with him. What a
commentary on abolitionism!
How to no it.?Punch says : Torcsus
citate a drowned Yankee, commence fiearohing
his -ockets. To resuscitate a
drowned L.iglishman, broil a beefsteak
under his nose. A Frenchman may dc
brought to life at any time by a skilful
imitation of a bullfrog In h?? en*. A
Spaniard, by applying garlic to his olfactories.
Letters
Remaining in the PostOHkft'flt Pick*1"' C.
H., Quarter ending Slst-Mm-h, 1841>, ^h.Ji ?f
not taken out within thre?h$iontb? will he rcui
to the I'oit-OlVicc Department o? dead lcttom.
T - A -- 1 * *
iwnu nnuerson, I Win, HAinUton,
Alston liezlay, lira. Mary C. Holland,
Mary Capcliart, llcnry JoJuw,
Ilichnrd Cottrcll, Daniel Moody,
Thomas Carder, Henry Morton,
Maxwell Chastain, ? Daniel McKinncy,
Richard Doduon, . Mrs. Ann Perry,'
Jacob Ellenburg, .Jabcl F. Parks,
John Onrret, jMra Mary Rogers,
Jesse Hunnicutf,. { Rial Bee.
P. ALEXANDER, P. M.
May 18, 1849. ?1 St.
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SOUTH CARORLINA.
IN THE C&MMOM PLEAS
PICKETS DISTRICT.
llcnry Whitmircf, ) Deo. in Attachment.
vs. \ E. M Keith
John Bishop. ) Pl'ffs Att y.
The Plaintiff having this day filed his
declaration in my oflico, and* the defendant
having neither wife nor attorney
known to be in thi* ?n?
???tvwv*i f
It ia ordered, that the defendant do appear,
nnd plead or demur to th? declaration,
within ft year and a day from
thin date, or Judgment will bftentered by
default. < - ^
W, L. KEITH, c. c.r.
Chirk'* Offico, Wl
I May 10# 1840. J I
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