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VOL. 2. YOEKVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1856. USTO. 36. I
Select poetri).
BALLADS FOR THE YOUNG SOUTH.
BY JOSEPH BHKNNAN.
Men of the South I our foes arc up
In fierce and grim array :
Their sable banner laps the air?
An insult to the day !
The faints of Cromwell rise again
In sanctimonious hordes,
Hiding beneath the garb of peace
A million ruthless sword9.
From North, from East and West, they seek
The same disastrous goal,
With Christ upon the lying lip,
And Satan in the soul;
. Mocking, with ancient Shibboleth,
All wise and just restraints?
"To theSaints of Heaven was Empire given,
And we alone are Saints!"
Men of the South ! look up?behold
The deep and sullen gloom
Which darkens o'er your sunny land
With thunder in its'womb!
Are ye so blind ye cannot sec
The omens in the sky?
' Are ye so deaf ye cannot hear
The tramp of foemen nigh ?
- Are ye so dull ye will endure
The whips and scorns of men
v Who hide the heart of Titus Oates
Beneath the words of Penn?
Are you so base, that, foot to foot,
Ye will not gladly stand
For land and life, for child and wife,
With naked steel in hand?
Sons of the bravo! the time lias come
To bow the haughty crest,
Or stand alone, despite the threats,
Of North, or East, or West!
The hour has come for manly deeds,
And not for puling words?
The hour is passed for platform prate,
It is the time for swords!
And by the fame of John Calhoun,
To honest truth be true,
And by old Jackson's iron will,
Now do what ye can do!
By all ye love and all ye hope,
Be resolute and proud.
And make your flag a symbol high
Of triumph?or a shroud !
%\\ ^musing Jltorit.
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From the American Union.
CONVERTING A BLACKSMITH.
The scene is laid in the mountain regions
of Georgia. Mr. Forgeron, a blacksmith,
had a great antipathy against all Methodist
ministers in particular.
His shop was in a narrow mountain pass,
and he declared his determination to whip
every Methodist preacher that passed the
shop. < The Rev. "Dr. Stubbleworth, however,
readily consented to go there, and the
rollowing describes his ride through the
mountains:
Forgeron had heard of his new victim,
and rejoiced that his size and appearance furnished
a better subject for his vengeance
thau the attenuated frame of the late parson.
0, what a nice beating he would have ! He
had heard, too, that some ministers were |
rather spirited, and hoped that this one might '
be provoked to fight. Knowing that the !
clergyman must pass on Sunday, in the af- J
ternoon, he gave his striker a holiday, and
regaled himself on the beauties of Tom Paine, j
awaiting the approach of the preacher. It
was not over an hour before he heard the
words:
"O, how happy are they who the Savior ohey,
And have laid up their treasures above."
sung in a'full voice; and soon the vocalist,
turning the angle of the rock, rode up with
a continued smile on his face.
"IIow are you, old Slabsides ? Get off
your horse, and join me in my devotion,"
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ScllU I ilC MII1U1.
'I have miles to ride,' answered the preacher,
'and I havn't time, my friend ; I will call
when I return.'
'Your name is Stubbleworth, and you arc
the trifling hypocrite the Methodists have
sent here to preach, eh?'
'My name is Stubbleworth,' he meekly :
replied.
'Didn't you know my name was Ned For- j
geron, the blacksmith, that whips every i
Methodist preacher that comes along ?' was I
asked with an audacious look; 'and how |
dare you come here ?'
The preacher replied that he had heard |
of Forgeron's name, bat presumed that he
did not molest well behaved travellers.
'You presume so ! Yes, you are the most
presumptuous people, you Methodists, that
ever trod sole leather, anyhow. Well what'll
you do, you beef headed disciple you V
Mr. Stubbleworth readily professed his i
willingness to do anything reasonable to a- :
void such a penance.
'Well, there's three things you have to do, |
or I'll maul you into a jelly. The first is, |
you are to quit preaching; the second is you J
wear this last will and testament of Thomas !
Paine next to your heart, read it every day,
and believe every word you read ; and the
third is, that you arc to curse the Methodists j
in every crowd you get iuto.' And the j
blacksmith "shucked" himself, rolled up
his sleeves, aud took a quid of tobacco.
The preacher looked on during the novel
preparations without a line of his face moving,
and at the end he replied that the terms
were unreasonable, and he would not sub
mit to them.
'Well you've got a whaling to submit to; ;
then I'll tear you into doll rags, corner ways!
Get down, vou lone faced hypocrite.'
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The preacher remonstrated, and Forgeron ;
walking up to the horse, threatened to tear |
him off if he did not dismount; whereupon i
the worthy made a virtue of necessity aud
alighted.
'I have one request to make, my friend
?that is, you won't beat me with this over- |
coat on ; it was a present from the ladies of,
my last circuit, and I do not wish to have i
it torn.'
<Off with it, and that suddenly, you basin- j
faced imp, you.'
The Methodist preacher slowly drew off j
his overcoat as the blacksmith continued his !
tirade of abuse of him and sect, and, throwing
the garment behind him, he dealt Mr.
Forgeron a tremendous blow between the
eyes, which laid that person on the ground,
with the testimony of Tom Paine beside
him.
Mr. Stubbleworth, with the taet of aconnoisseour
in such matters, did not wait for
his adversary to rise, but mounted him with
the quickness of a cat, and bestowed his
blows with a courteous hand on the stomach
and face of the blacksmith, continuing his
song where he had left off on his arrival?
"Tongue cannot express the sweet comfort," &c.,
until Forgeron, from having experienced
'first love,' or some other sensation equally
new to him, responded hastily:
'Enough 1 enough ! enough 1 take him off.'
Put, unfortunately, there was no one by
to perform that kind office, except the preacher's
old roan, and he munched a bunch of
grass and looked on as if his master was
happy at a campmeeting.
'Xow,' said Stubbleworth, 'there are three
things you must promise me, before I let
[ you up.'
'What are they V asked Forgeron, eagerly
The first is, that you will never molest a
ir.a.j.--! i >
.ueinouisc prcaciier agaiu.
Here Ned's pride rose, and he hesitated;
and the reverend gentleman, with his usual
benigu smile on his face, renewed his blows
and sung :
"I then rode on the sky, freely justified I.
And the moon it was under my feet."
This oriental language overcame the blacksmith.
Such bold figures, or something else,
caused him to sing out:
'Well, I'll do it, I'll do it!'
'You are getting on very well/ said Mr.
Stubbleworth. 'I think I can make a decent
man of you yet, aud perhaps a Chris- ;
tian."
Ned groaned.
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'The second thing I require of you is to j
go to Pumpkin Creek nieetiug-house, aud I'
hear me preach to-morrow.'
Ned attempted to stammer out some excuse,
when the divine resumed his devotion- 1
al hymn, and kept time with the music, striking
him over the face with the fleshy part 1
of his hand.
'I'll do my best," said he, in a very hum> !
ble voice. !
'Well, that's a man,' said Stubbleworth.
'Now get up and go down to the spring, and ^
wash your face, and tear up Tom Paine's <
testament, and turn your thoughts on high.' '
Ned rose, with feelings he never expe- 1
rienced before, and went to obev the lava to- ?
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ry injunctions of the preacher, when the
latter person mounted his horse, took Ned 1
by the hand, and said :
'Now keep your promise, and I'll keep c
rnm* nAimcnl f! AAfl nvAninrr Afr l^nvnrf*. ^
JV'Ul VVUUtJVli V"VVU V tv,uiii^j l'li> * v*^v
ron ; I'll look for you to-morrow.'
And off he rode with the same inipcrlu- 1
ruble countenance, singing so loud as to !'
scare the eagles in the overhanging rocks. !
'Well,' thought Ned, 'this is a nice busi-1
ncss. "What would people say if they knew !
Edward Forgeron was whipped before his
own door, and that-, too, by a Methodist
preacher.'
Hut his musings wore more in sorrow than
in anger. His disfigured countenance was i
of course the subject of numerous questions |
that night, among his friends, to which he i
replied with a stern look they well under-1
stood, and the vague remark that he had J
met with an accident.
Of course they never dreamed of the i
cause. Ned looked iu the glass and compared
his black eye, from the recent scuffle,
to the rainbow ship-wreck scene 'blending
every color into one.' Or perhaps he never
read the story, and muttered to himself,
'Ned Forgeron whipped by a Methodist
preacher!'
From that time his whole conduct manifested
a change of feeling. The gossips of
the neighborhood observed it, and whispered
that Ned was silent, and had gone to meeting
every Sunday since the accidcut.
They wondered greatly at his burning the
books he used to read so much. Strange !
stories were circulating as to the metamor- j
phosis of this jovial, dare devil, blacksmith j
into a gloomy and taciturn man; some supposed
very sagely, that a 'spirit' had cuticed !
him into the mouutains, and, after giving j
him a glimpse into the future, had misled |
him to a crag, where he had fallen and bruised
his face. j
Others gave the prince of darkness the j
credit uf the charge, but none suspected the a
Methodist preacher; and the latter having a
no vanity to gratify, the secret remained with
Ned. The gloomy state of miud contiuued v
until Forgcrou visited a campiueeting. lie v. s
Mr. Stubbleworth preached a sermon that a
seemed to enter his soul and relieve it of a e
burden; and the soug of? 1
"How happy are they who the Saviour obey." s
was only half through when he felt like a 1
new man. '
Forgeron was from that time a "shouting I
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Methodist." At a love feast, a short time ; J
subsequent, he gave in his experience, and s
revealed the mystery of his conviction and t v
conversion to his astonished neighbors. j v
The ttev. Mr. Stubbleworth, who had \ v
faithfully kept the secret uutil that time, j I
could not coutaiu himself any longer, but; c
gave vent to his feelings in convulsive peals ; ^
of laughter, as the burning tears of joy j
coursed their way down his cheeks. , v
'Yes, my brethren,' said he, 'it is a fact, j ^
I did maul the grace into his unbelieving 1
soul,* there is no doubt.' J r
The blacksmith of the mountain pass, *
himself became, soou after, a Methodist j1
preacher. ; t
A geutleiuan writing from .Parisstates ! 1
that M. Place, the French banker, who re-' c
cently failed for the immense amount of six- [
teen million francs, gave, on the evening be- e
fore the grand catastrophe, a splendid din- a
ner, to which were invited all the celebrities i
of a certain grade upon the Bourse,.together I r
with au equal number of ladies. The feast \
was of the most nrherclte kind?the cost J
probably beiug not less than twenty-five dol- c
lars a head?and the buoyant spirits of the i
liberal host were the theme of general ad- a
miration. When the enthusiasm was at its c
height, a magnificent desert was placed upon
the tabic, having in the centre a vase of silver
gilt, which M. Place ordered the waiter
to pass round to the ladies, as it contained a
few nuts for their especial cracking. Every
lady then plunged her hand within the vase,
and drew forth whatever chance bestowed in
the shape of some rare jewel, the cheapest
of which could not have been worth less than
sixty dollars, while some of them were of
great price. After this delightful ceremony
the generous host took his leave amid the
reiterated applause of his guests. The next
day his house was silent, and a defalcation
of sixteen millions was announced before
the tribunal of commerce.
'Miscellaneous.
PLOUGHING BY STEAM.
Although efforts were made in England
some years ago to introduce ploughing bysteam
power, the art is yet quite iu its infancy.
At the late agricultural exhibition
of the TCoyal Agricultural Society of England,
at Chelmsford, experiments were made
which commanded a good deal of attention
of three entirely different modes of accomplishing
the desirable object of applying to
the labours of tillage a power which does
not itself consume the products of agriculture.
These experiments are thus described
in the report of the exhibition given in the
London Times of July 10.
The first was by Mr. Boydell, by means of
an improvement on the steam plough, which
be exhibited last year. It is an engine worked
by two six and a half inch cylinders,
cvit-Vi n cnnnium f-itrlil.hnrsfl linilnr.
?.w. ? r- -- o
and a fly-wheel, mounted on four carriage
wheels. The wheels, aie fitted with the
"endless railway," enabling them to traverse
over any surface however rugged, to climb
acclivities, aud to drag behind them an immense
weight without losing their bite of
the ground. The engine usually works with
sixty pound pressure per square inch, and
nan be worked up to twelve-horse power.?
[ts weight, with water and every, requisite
for duty, is nine tons; but, nevertheless, it
nan ascend inclines back, turn in a small
trea, and is steered by a pole, chain, and
wheel like those of a steamboat, with the
greatest nicety. The inventor considers his
jngine sufficiently powerful to draw say te..
oloughs in light land, at six inches depth,
with a speed of two miles per hour. Tt has
1 ragged some implements of very heavy
Iraught during the trials, and was not una}le
to pull forward Coleman's ploughing
machine. Tn attempt with the dynametcr
Utached to lliddoll's cultivator, the instrument
broke at forty hundred weight, the
Iraught of the cultivator as used being much
greater still. Tn ploughing hill-sides, the
ingiue is intended to go uphill empty, and.
n work downwards, so as to perform very
deep work indeed. One of the principal
idvantages of this locomotive for culture is,
;hat no horses whatever arc needed to help
i, inasmuch as it travels of itself from place
:o place, taking coal and water, and costing
nothing beyond the wages of two men, in
iddition to those with the implements ; the
wear and tear and interest of first cost, about
50--.f1
Mr. Smith, of Woolston, Buckinghamshire,
works his implements by means of a
;ommon seven-horse portable engine and a
itationary windlass, fixed at one corner of a
ield. A couple three-quarter inch wire
opes arc led from the two drums on the
vindlass in opposite directions round four
inehored pulleys, and meet at the implement,
hus passing all rouud the field?two an:hors
being fixed and two shifted from time
o time along each headland as the ploughng
proceeds. The anchors are like large
bur-toothed rakes, and it requires a man at
iach end of the work to dig holes and shift
hem forward. Mr. Smith uses cultivators
)f a peculiar kind, taking about three feet
>rcadth at a time; and he has an ingenious
ind quick mode of turning them at the end
if the furrow. He is able to searcify or
>au!k-plough ou an average four acres per I
lay of twelve hours. The expenses, inclu-:
ling the labour of six men coal, fetching!
rater, wear and tear (30 cents per acre,) i
nd interest of capital, amount to *2 per
ere.
Mr. Fowler has contrived a different arangeuient.
A portable double-cylinder endue,
worked at high pressure, and driving
. capstan by a short endless chain is station- j
d half-walf down one side of the field.? |
Tom the two horizontal drums of the captan
two wire ropes are led diagonally across
he field direct to the two ends of the work,
hesc passing around a couple of anchored
lulloys and meeting at the implement.?
Tic anchorages deserve notice ; they consist j
imply of low trucks or small wagons laden j
rith earth and with short cutting discs for
rhcels, which cut down into the land, and, ;
rhile presenting great resistance to sideland !
iressurc in the direction of the ploughing, !
an be easily pulled forward along the head- (
ind when required.
For common ploughing an implement is
ised having eight ploughs fixed upon it ;
our iu work at once, and the others pointed
n an opposite direction for performing the
eturn trip. For trench ploughing, ten or
ourtcen inches deep, another implement is
ised, taking two furrows' widthand two deep,
icimr, in fact, a modification of Cotgrcave's '
I
ubsoil and trench plough for horse power, t
L'hc ploughing is one way work, but lands ;
ir stretches can be readily ploughed bysini- j
>ly turning the implement end for end for j
iaeh half-land, and by shifting the anchor-'
;gcs accordingly well done, and the trench-1
ng implement was drawu with great steadi- j
less iu ground through which ten horses I
rere required to pull it. The amount of;
doughing on land where three horses are
iommonly yoked in a plough capable of bcng
done by a ten-horse engine is about eight
icres per day of ten hours; and the expense
if working including four men and a boy,
fetching water and coal, shifting the engine
and tackle to the field, wear and tear, and
1 interest of first cost (wjiich is S2475, including
the engine,) is apparently not more than
81.25 to 81.CO per acre. Trenching costs
about double this sum. Should further experiments
and calculations prove this esti,
mate to br correct, there can no louger be a
doubt that "an economical substitute" has
at last been perfected for the long venerated
horse plough.
From the New York Day Book.
A CIVIL WAR?THE BEGINNING
OP THE END.
The abolitionists have at last accomplish>
ed their designs. They have brought about
a civil war in this country, and by the next
steamer across the Atlantic, can send word
to their allies and friends in England that
the loDg sought end is accomplished ! What
the old tories of Britain, by sword and bayonet,
could not do, their descendants and
tools in New England, by newspapers and
songs, have done, to wit:?divided this Union
! No one, looking back to the past
history of the abolition and Seward faction
of this country, can fail to see that their
whole aim has been, as Mr. Greeley once
expressed it, to rear and educate a generation
to "hate the South." In recording
the news of the battles in Kansas, the Tribune
calls one party the "northern" and
the other the "southern," and talks of "the
enemy," as if the southern people were citizens
of another country, and our natural
enemies.
War now actually exists in this county ;
the North is arrayed against the South, and
men are fighting, shooting and killing each
other in the territory of the United States,
with the same ferocity that characterised
Frank and Hun last year in the Crimea.?
rpi : j :
xiieiu 13 uy ueujiug una?nu pciuiJ^ uvur
it with the slur that it is only a "party" or
"strife"?it is actual war, and nothing else,
I aud a war that is growing more furious and
sanguinary every day. And now the question
arises, what is it for? "What is all this
strife and bloodshed about ? Why, simply
to keep our southern brethren out of the
common territories of this Union ! Sift the
whole question down to its real merits, brush
off all the dust aud garbage that have gathered
on it and free it from all the abolition
clap-trap and nonsense about "freedom and
Fremont," strip it of all the kites straws
and election nonsense, and wc find it a plain,
simple assumption of power and authority
| of the North to govern the South.
| The men and families of the South have 1
i gone into the Territory of Kansas with their 1
; property under no disguise, but simply to 1
I inhabit it as citizens and common owners of :
our common country. They have not sought (
In drive nor to keep any ouc out of the territory.
They have not passed any laws to 1
prevent any other citizens coming into and 1
living peaceably in it, and what have they '
i met. there ? How have their northern broth- 1
j em met them? Why, with fire and sword, :
j with cannon and ball, sent by churches aud '
i clergy from New England and New York. 1
I miJ '.i i?!_j u. 1
xiiu iiuuiieru seiners uavu ucnieu me rigiu
of southerners to coinc there, they have met '
together to pass laws against their coming, ^
and when all has failed to prevent them, '
they have called for men aud arms to come '
and help drive them out. To the eternal (
shame of the North be it said, they have 1
responded to this call, and from the purlieus 1
of their cities and the low dens of their vil- '
lages has gone forth an army of the lowest (
I vagabonds and hireling traitors that ever f
I infested any country. The Greeley and G id- !
j dings and Lccchcrs have joined hands with :
i debauchees like Lane and Cole, and sent 4
! fourth a band of plunderers to ravish the *
I fair plains of Kansas. There is no denying
j this, no getting over it.
The whole operation, the whole design is 1
j to drive the South out of Kansas. They do :
: not, they cannot pretend to say that the ^
I South tries or wants to drive them out, or 1
| that it asks anything but that its people shall c
be permitted to settle peaceably and quietly i *
in the territory tho same as the people of the r
North, but this the Bcccher, and Greeleys, ^
and Giddings declare they shall not do ? '
They are determined there shall be no South, *
but that the North shall be the government, r
and have all the territory and all that he- r
longs to the Union.
And now, since it has come to this?since j *
war against the Sou'h is openly declared by ; J
the formation of a '-northern party," and j *
has been actually commenced for the subjugation
of the South, let every citizen take 11
his stand and his position. For ourselves, !v
wc do not hesitate to enroli our names against! ?
the men and party that have declared this j ^
war, we do not hesitate to join the ranks of : *
those who arc fighting for their rights as j*
citizens of one common country; and if it. ^
becomes necessary, we will cheerfully give c
not only our money but our services in the ^
field to sustain them.
That there are thousands and tens of thou-! s
sands of others in this city who will do the , ^
same, wc have no doubt, and we trust that u
immediate measures will be taken by our
conservative and I'nion-loving citizens to
sustain, by common effort, those pioneers in 1
Kansas who arc fighting for their rights as j
citizens against the northern hordes who i '
have been sent there to drive them out.
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Surpri.sk Parties.?Of late a very novel p
and questionable sort of amusement has be- c
come fashionable. Several friends and ac- f
quaintanccs inform each other that they in-'s
tend to drop in and take tea with Mr. and n
Mrs. 13 . The family are surprised J
and astonished to find fifteen or twenty ?
friends and acquaintances in the house who o
have called to take tea. The tea chest is : c
just exhausted?noi a bit of cake in the t
pen try?not a loaf of bread in the grocery, : s
? J -i- u.i?
UI..U I10L eiJUUgH tup "iiu muttin uu-a ivi?- ?
spoons tn go round. What a peck of trouble j e
the poor woman is in. She'd give her wed- li
den gown if she had only known of their t
coming. There is a mighty deal of fun in s
those surprise parties, and a great deal of h
annoyance and hard feelings. The day before
yesterday a very unpleasant incident occurred
at one of these parties. A merchant
who has heretofore held a respectable position
in society was selected by some friends
to call on. It was a surprise party indeed to
all concerned. They found the husband insensible
from the effects of liquor, laying on
the hall stairs, and his wife with a bruised
face and a black eye, bathiog his temples
with ice water. How many such sceues occur
unknown to the world.
A Wavy Kn ickerbocker.
HISTORY OF FRICTION MATCHES.
I notice in Xo. 44, Vol. XI., Scientific
American, an article upon Friction Matches;
perhaps I may be able to give you a little
light upon the subject as to who was the
first American inventor aud manufacturer,
or at least tell you what I know to be a fact.
In the latter part of August, 1835, a
friend handed me two friction matches as a
curiosity, the like of which I never saw before.
They were tipped with red composition,
and were said to be imported ; he said
that he had purchased a whole box full of
them and snapped them nearly all off, "just
to see things." Being engaged at that time
in the manufacture of lucifer matches at
MechanicsviUe, N. Y., I received them as a
treasure. I immediately set my wits to work
to unravel the mysterious little sticks, or
rather the compound upon their ends. Not
being much of a chemist at that "time, I
found it "no go," for I did not like to try
! x_ ?xl_ 1- _ 11 __ 1
any experiments wun sucn a small ana precious
treasure. After trying all the chemical
heads and M. D.'s in the neigborhood, I
found them to be quite as much puzzled as
my own self.
I now took my Iwd matches to Albany a
distance of twenty miles ; my sole business
was to find a chemist that could analyze
them. I was referred to Prof. Beck, professor
of Chemistry iu the Female Academy.
The professor told me that the quantity was
so small that he did not like to undertake it,
but if I would bring him a larger quantity
he would analyze them for me; but this I
could not do, for there was nothing of the
kind in market. I carried my matches
home again, and examined them with care,
and made up my mind from the smoke and
light that they emitted in the dark, that they
contained the article of phosphorus. The
next morning T obtained a piece of phosphorus
from odc of our physicians, and a little
gum arabic, and went to experimenting,
trying to combine them in a clam shell, on
some hot coals. The first batch took fire
and burned up. Nothing daunted T gotanuther
piece (all lie had,) aud went to*work
x little more systematic, and succeeded well
an adding a little chlorate of potash.
My uext job was to furnish myself with
match sticks strong enough to bear rubbing
(for my lucifers were too thin to bear much
trictionj ana tins i am in tne toiiowing
manner: After sawing some pine blocks of
suitable length, I took a common case knife,
hammer and lap stone, and slabbed them
iff; after this I slit them up with my penknife
until I had on hand about 1,400 match
sticks; I then charged them with brimstone.
[ now procured a shallow square box, and
riled it with damp sand, and commenced
lipping my matchess one at a time, sticking
jacli match in the sand, charged end up,
intil dry. These 1,400 matches I sold to
me man for fourteen shillings. I then stared
for Troy in search of phosphorous; seardied
the city through, then went to Albany,
searched all the drugstores, and got but
ibout fmn' miners in .both places, and paid
it the rate of 8:2,400 per pound; and this, I
hink, was the first of Loco Foco Match Mating
in the United States.
I had manufactured matches of this kind
'or about fourteen months prior to the issung
of Mr. Phillips' patent (but used no
^luc or chalk.) You state that in June,
1837, John Hatfield obtained a patent for
lipping matches by planing thorn in a coni:al
tube. This is true, but the name ought
o have been Jehu, instead of John?the
nistake occurred at the Patent Office, T
vrote to the Commissioner who told me that
le would have it altered if 1 would send
lint three dollars. Put I thought it would
lot pay, from the fact that I had, in the
nenn time, invented a better plan, namely,
>y glueing one cud of the block before spiiting
it. I applied for a patent on this in
.80!), but unfortunately had let it run too
ong, and I was rejected on that ground.
1 find at the present day the sauie old
natch splitter, in all of the small shops,
fhich I first invented and used. But to i
;ivc you but a faint history of the "little !
dessiugs," would require more time and pa- J
icnec than I am able to bestow at present,
n all my experiments I was associated with I
dr. Joel Farnam, (now deceased,) of Me- h
hanicsville, and Martin Day, of West field, <
lass., who can attest to the above facts.
I would say that if any other man will |
tep forward and give better evidence of his I
cing the first American inventor and inanifacturcr,
then "I'll give up the skates."
JEHU HATFIELD. 1
Troy, X. Y., 185(3.
Disgraceful Affair.?The Selma Seninel
of the 10th says : A most disgraceful ' 1
flair occurred in our city on last Monday
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IIUIll) II1C 1 mi IUJV.J M?IU W?? v j
iain we foci called upon to notice, and to j i
ensure in the most emphatic terms. The 1
acts are as follows, as related to us by the ]
ufferer of this outrage himself. Some two I'
nonths ago, a man, who says his name is h
lohn Snulsberry, came to this city from j
iumtervillc S. and engaged to do work i
n the Marion Branch Road. While in the j I
ity on last Monday night, a young man by
he name of Perkins proposed that they i
hould go to Nance's Tank to bathe; while
t the tauk, some seven persons run up di3- i
;uised, gathered hold of Sanlsberry, carried
lim by force some three hundred yards up '
he river to an old shanty at a brick yard, 1
tripped him of his clothing, and most in- <
minanly whipped him with a cowhide and a i
paddle, and blacked his person. They then
carried him to a house of ill-fame, and with
licks upon his person, forced him to break
through a window into a house of a negro
woman, made hiin hug and kiss the negro
wench, and perform various other interesting
and amusing (to them) tricks.
He says they then took him to the Exchange
drinking house and forced liouor
n~ o 1
down hira, and finally carried him to the
porch of the City Hotel, where, after inflcting
quite a number of stripes with a cowhide
and paddle turned him loose perfectly naked,
and less all the money he had?$13.20.?
The man Saulsberry says the only reason
these persons give him for this barbarous
and unlawful outrage were, that he had failed
to pay his hotel bill of about 850, and that
he had been taking buggy rides with some
young ladies.
We know nothing about the previous history
of this man Saulsberry, and had Dever
seen him until he called at our office on
yesterday to exhibit to us the laceration of
his flesh made by these men. He seems to
be a respectable individual, and to our mind
it is one of the most heinous outrages that
has ever been perpetrated in this State, and
it is just one of those violations of the rights
of persons that should be made an example
of. We denounce in the roundest terms all
species of mob law. We have good laws,
and if there is a violation of these laws, we
have honest and upright men enough in this
city and county to have those laws enforced,
and therefore, there could have been no excuse
for this outrage in our city.
Mobile Register.
PEN AND INK TRAITS.
Mrs. Mary J. Wiudle, in her "Pen and
Ink Sketches of Life at the White Sulphur,"
drawn in the Richmond Enquirer., gives,
among others, the following descriptions :
"We take up our pen delicately and reverently,
dear reader, and beg you to note
that modest, quiet looking individual with
glasses. His person is slender almost to
emaciation, looking as if he had not long to
live; and yet probably he will live to bury
nine-tenths of those who make this remark.
His face is inelegant, but keen and speaking
giving an idea of decision, promptness, and
great mental refinement, as well as individuality
of character. He strikes one at first
sight as a man of thoughtful and reflective
habits. Amid this clamorous, thronging,
undulating multitude, he seems perfectly
calm aod abstracted, and appears altogether
absorbed in his reflections.- But approach
and draw him out in conversation. Hear
him plunge with ready fluency into political
and administrative details, llis views are
original and striking, his style chaste, and
his entire conversation exhibits unquestionable
proofs of a polished and vigorous mind
of the highest order. Literature, history,
public economy, questions of national security
aod progress?on all these subjects he is
equally at homo. And yet his modesty prevents
this mental superiority from bciug disagreeably
felt by any one. This gentlemau
1.......... kU ? nnn.l... oo tU oo
i."5 AIJutiii unuuuuuui tuc tuuuiij ao mc au*
complished editor of De Bow's Ileview,
which bears his uauie. Mr. Vatteniare, the
distinguished French scholar, has said, that
as a statistical writer, Mr. De Bow has 110
superior in any country.
"The gentleman who bvs just entered bespattered
with soil, so that an agricultural
chemist would infer the rural produce of the
country from an observation of the state of
his boots, is the remarkable Texan Banger,
.Major McCulloch. This gentleman seems
quite unconscious that he is at all amusing,
and looks the picture of the profoundest
melancholy, while every one within hearing
are holding their sides. He has a dr?, solemn,
historical way of reproducing the preposterous
things he has heard or witnessed,
which is absolutely irresistible. lie embellishes
very little, but he brfngs out the ridiculous
points to admirati6n, and in the most
artless way in the world, more as if he was
talking to himself than trying to entertain
others. He seems to possess comic talent of
a high order. How many smiles this gentleman
has had wasted on him?enough to
stir the very stones to feeling?and yet he
contrives to dodge the whole artillery, and
pass on. Is his heart so flinty that the arvanru
*?
"The individual a* the window?pointing
to a clear rent in the clouds, through which
the sun has just issued?is Mr. Yenable, exmember
of Congress from North Carolina?
the warmest of friends, the most attractive
of companions. This gentleman exercises
iu his own State all the influence arising
from eminent ability and high integrity ?
While iu Congress he served the South best
by making Southern talents useful, and
Southern worth conspicuous in his own person.
In conversation he dashes out his
opinions like fire brands, little caring where
they alight. And yet this turbulent temperament
has no insensibility, for a kinder
heart never beat."
Excitement in Texas.?The San Antonio
Texan, of the 31st ult., gives a long
account of an excitement in that place, which
threatened to lead to riot and bloodshed, but
which had mostly subsided at that date. It
grew out of political asperities :
"Tim Dninnpmtie Conntv Convention of
Bexar split, and a part of the body, mostly
that of Mexican origin, withdrew and nominated
a separate ticket, and secured the support
of the Spanish paper, El Bejareno ?
The other part of the party started a paper i
in Spanish to neutralize the influence of El l
Bejareno, entitled the Rancliero. The two i
papers became very bitter, and finally an ar- j
ticloin the Ranchero, iu reply to one in the
ather paper, created great excitement. The (
article was translated and printed in the (
Herald, the American Organ. It intimated (
that the Mexicans would "throw dowu" the ]
Mexican (Catholic) Church, "proclaim, the j
victory with guns and clashing sabres," invade
the sanctity of that hearthstone," etc
2tc. The Mexican party called a meeting
ind called on the editor for the author of the
?
article, who owned it himself. While the
excitement continued to increase, threats
were made, and the Mayor, fearing violence,
called upon the citizens to enroll themselves
as a special police, and about 150 responded.
The threats were to the effect th&t the author
of the obnoxious article, if a foreigner,
should be driven out of the place, and if & native
lynched; but the energetic steps' ta
ken by the Mayor prevented either measure
from beipg carried into execution. The
matter, however, did not pass without blood
shed and the loss of life. A man by the
name of McDonald went to the drug store of
Mayor Devine where an altercation ensued, ... t
and in the melee the Mayor seized a pistol
and shot McDonald, who fell and expired a
short time afterwards. This, of course,
produced still greater excitement, and it was .
proposed to hang the Mayor at once. The
SlipriflF Vinwpcpr rmfc Viim in iail t/\ Won V?im
; v.. r ? j? ~ -vvr
from the mob, and, at last accounts -he was
guarded by a strong force of men from both
parties. It is but just to say that we make
up this account from the Texan, which is
strongly opposed to the Mexican party.
'
The Mormons.?The Deseret News?the *
organ of Brigham Young and of the Mormon
Patriarchs?contains a long history.of
the experiences and tribulations of that sect
in the far off Territory, closing as follows i
We have successfully met the hostile red
men ; we have with like fortitude and sue- ^
cess, nearly passed through the scaroity
caused by the drought and devourer of the
past season, and severity of the winter? of
1855 aud '56 : we are now patiently laboring
upon scanty meals, to secure our crops
from the parching rays of the burning sun,
while the produce of many fields hasalready
furnished sustenance and vigor to our enemies,
the insects, and that of numerous other x .*
fields is entirely scorched up in spite of all
our efforts.
In view of these facts, aside from many
others of a kindred nature, and also of ?
commercial, political and constitutional character^
shall Utah's present appeal to Congress
be unheeded, or neglected ? She is -yasking
for admission to the Union, after the "
form of the most approved and customary
precedents; she is widely known to;eminently
possess the only two qualifications pre- ^
scribed by the constitution for new States, ^
viz: "A substantial civil community, apd as .
republican government;" she is. occupying ? .
a region which others would flee from j she *
is tamely submittingto the privation of many
equal rights, amid all other hardships; and
now when ashing, what is hers of right, the
privilege of extcuding the area of State
Government, civilization and toleration over
a region of wild mountains and desert plains, *
is it possible that in so enlightened an age
the first voice of objection will be raised a- - gainst
her request ? We shall hear. ^
Terrible Affair.?A correspondent of
the Petersburg Intelligencer says: "A most
shocking occurrence took place in Fincastle*"
a few uights since. A gentleman, with several
motherless children, arrived at thatplace
and in the course of the night the inmates
of the Hotel were aroused by terrific screams,
and on tracing up the sound, found - that'it
emanated from the room in which the gentlemen
and his children lodged. Breaking * .
the door open, the horrified spectators saw
iL.a. ! :ui?
Liiitu IJ c waa lauuuug uuuci a uuiuuiu uit^iUj
or night-mare, aud was in the act of pulling
out the tongue of his youngest child, whom
he had taken to sleep in the bed with.him.
He was immediately aroused to see the body
of his little child dreadfully bruisod and
lacerated, and told those who had awakened
him, that he had dreamed that some one
was murdering the child, and he was trying
to rescue it. His agony was said to be indescribable.
At the time the passengers
left Fincastle for this place, the poor child
was alive, but in an extremely perilous condition.
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Negro Stealing.?Some few days ago a
young man by the name of Buford who was
acting as clerk for Mr. Gamble of the Winnsb'oro
Hotel, disappeared, and at the same *
time also a negro boy. Suspicions were
aroused that there was some concert of action ? .
between them. Mr.. Gamble wrote immediately
to some of his friends in Greensboro. ?
N. C., requesting them to be on the look out.
A day or two ago he received a letter informing
him of the apprehension of.both
Buford and the negro at Greensboro. They
have both been brought back and lodged in
this jail, where Buford will await -trial tot
life.? Winnsboro' Register.
Who will Wheel the Apples ??It is
said that Maj. Poore's wager has been taken,
namely?that if Fillmore does not receive
more votes than Fremont in Massa
chusetts, he, Poore, will wheel a barrel of
apples on a wheelbarrow from Newburyport
to Boston, or, if Fillmore receives the most,
the taker of the bet shall convey the apples
in the same way from Boston to Newburybort.
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Iiion Priced Tobacco.?Mr. Charles
Henderick, of North Carolina, recently 'sold
to J. H. & S. Tyre, merchants in Lynchburg,
Va , between one and two hundred
nounds of tobacco, at the unheard of nrice
r / i
of ?250 per hundred pounds. It is described
as the finest specimen ever seen in the
Lynchburg or any other market. The color,
a bright golden hue, and the texture almost
as fine as silk. . ,/
Yellow Fever at Canton, Mm-?
The New Orleans Delta says : "
<?Dy a private despatch received in town
last night from Canton, Miss., we leam that
one death occurred there from yellow fever
on Friday, and one yesterday. The consequence
was a general stampede of the inhabitants,
all that could evacuate the premises
leaving at the shortest possible notice."
R&* Man naturally thinks proudly and
haughtily of himself, and thinks thus of nobody
else but himBelf.