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j " LIBERTY AND MY NATIVE SOIL." j
VOLUME IV. r - -I NUMBEB 46.
ABBEVILLE C. H? S. C., JANUARY 11), 1848. !
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The Dying Volunteer.
BV G. W. PATTON, UNITED STATES ARMY.
" They said more died from sickness than from tho
6\vord."
Hero, comrades, rest me here !
Beside the grassy road ;
Let yon soft couch where Autumn sere
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j.Aiini uasi uei roues irorn year 10 year,
Reccive your weary load.
Leave me where breeses play
'Mid palm trees waving high,
And flowers exert such pleasing sway,
That death himself aside might stray,
Forgotten where I lie.
Council yon leaping stream
To strike its thunder strain,
And let awhile each billowy gleam
Invest my sight?that I may dream
The battle wakes again?
That blazing banners fly
Where steeds expectant stand,
And as I breathe my latest sigh,
Of dying,"as L hoped to die,
With the falchion in my hand.
For this I left my home,
J3ut the wild,wild,dream hath past;
Mo more upon my ear hath come
The war beat of the Catherine drum.
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Or the trumpet's rousing blast.
Tho sun hath set in night
Which once so fair did shine,
"Wresting forever from my sight,
Column deep acrried for tne fight,
" And square and wheeling line.
Upon the battle bed,
While rang the baitle cry,
Gazing upon the Eagle red,
Whose shadowy wings above ine spread,
It was my prayer to die.
Not thus unwept?alone,
Fainting to yield my breath,
Where the hot day-breeze hath a tone
While passing, like the fevei'd groan
Of melancholy death.
Yet not in vain shall flee
My life's fast melting ray?
Comrades,go tell them,who like me
Still pine to sail on Glory's sea,
How little wise are they.
fx.uu incuijun, us ye cyme
Along the wandering wave,
How on a spot without a name,
Farhidden fromthe searchof Fame,
Ye paus'd beside my grave.
f Funeeal Honors.?The Montgomery
journal of Tuesday says:
The Montgomery arrived here yesterday
bearing the remains of Col Butler, Lt. Col.
Dickenson and Lt. Moragne, of the gallant
Palmetto Regiment. As their arrival had
been anticipated by the city authorities, a
funeral salute of minute guns was fired. At
5 o'clock the Masonic Fraternity and order
of the Odd Fellows, accompanied by large
numbers of citizens on horseback and in
carriages, received the remains from the
boat, and escorted them to the Rail Road depot,
from whence they were forwarded on
by the cars this morning.
Oil the arrival of the nrocession at the de
pot, those attending were addressed most eloquently
by Judge Porter of Tuscaloosa, in
some impressive remarks appropriate to the
. occasion and in honor of the memory of the
. gallant dead., t
* Glory.?Millions of bushels of human
bones have been transported from the continent
to Hull for agricultural purposes.?
these, which *were collected on the plains
ef lj^ipsic, Austerlitz, and Waterloo, were
the bones of the bold, the brave and the chi
. valrous, who fell fighting their country's j
battles. With, them were mixed the bones
of the horses, and both were ground to dust,
conveyed to Yorksbirg, and sold for ma'
*4Aure<?Yorkshire Paper.
phy?i?ioti,^t a dinner, was'boasting
4**- -that he eurei;pyw hams, when one of
the guests .observed ''Doctor, I would soon?r
be your ham than your patient''
XFroni tlic Anderson Gazelle.
THE RAIL ROAD.
Mr Editor, The following facts
in reference to the cost of the Greenville and
Columbia Rail Road, and the ability of the
Company to construct it, are submitted for
the purpose of satisfying all concerned, ifit
be possible to do so, that the steam horse,
courcingover an Iron track at a rate annihilating
to time and space, will make his
entrance into the Village of Anderson, in
less time than 4 years from the 1st day of
January, A, D. 1848.
The entire cost of the Rail
Road from Columbia to Anderson
C. H. according to the estimates
made by the Engineers,
usinga bridge or T Rail weighing
71 tons to the mile, distance
128 miles i?, $1,294,000
If it is concluded to lay down a
light iron, such as is used upon
most of the Roads in the Southern
States, I am informed by one of
the Engineers, $3,000 per mile
may dc deducted trom tne estimates,
amounting lor 128 miles,
to 384.000
l
Which reduces the entire cost of
the Road to Anderson C. H. with
light iron to 910,000
The amount of stock now subscribed,
that will certainly be availabh1,
is about 650,000
Deduct trom this, the entire cost
ofgraduation and Bridging to Anderson
C. H. as, per estimates, the
whole of which may be put under
contract speedily as possible, the
sum of 390,000
And we have on hand,wish which
to lay down superstructure and
iron. 257,000
This sum, at tho average cost of 84,039
per mile, the amount according to the estimates,
using the bar iron, will construct ready
for the cars, upwards of 03 miles of the
Road to Anderson C. II.. which will at the
same average cost, anount to $202,535.
n it: i 1 * * i i- ii
vviin 1:1:2 auoiisoisai sum oe raiseu Dy private
subscriptions? I answer, yes! The
towns and districts interested stand pledged
to furnish their pari of it, and will do so.
But admitting they should fail us, having the
entire grading and bridging of the Road to
Anderson C. H. completed, G3 miles ready
for the cars, and the sum of ?550,000expended,
can we not borrow upon the faith ofit,
as the charter requires the Company to, do
if necessary, a sum sufficient to finish the
entire work? Does any one doubt it? If
we cannot trie Uompany must be an exceeding
poor one, and the enterprise most unnecessary
and useless; f< r in this way a
majority of the Rail Koads upon have been
built. The last 65 miles completed, the
sum of$200,000 is still required to equip it,
with Engines nnd Cars, build Depots, water
stations and workshops, and to coverall
incidental expenses; and this, L suppose,
there is no doubt may be borrowed quite
conveniently if nccessary on the faith of the
said 65 miles, last completed.
We will thus, have the Road from Columbiato
Anderson C. H. finished and in
perfect trim for business, even if we should
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fan iu uui'iiu unuuier uunar uy way 01 sudscription
from any quarter. But this? is not
the best wny to build Rail Roads. If constructed
on borrowed capital, the Receipts
must of course be set apart for a series of
years, for the payment ofthe debt, instead of
going into the pockets of the stockholders,
by way of dividends, and hence it becomes
the duly and interest of every friend to the
enierprise, to go to work in good earnest,
and raise at once, a fund amply sufficient to
cover the entire cost ol the road,
It may be said however, that the estimates
of the Engineers are too low. In answer
to this objection, I have to say, that
they are willing to back their judgement by
taking the entire work, at the prices fixed,
and therefore the Direction will l6t no contract
above the estimates. As to the time in
which the road may be constructed, J am
informed by one of the engineers in answer
to interrogatories?that the location may be
completed in six months?the grading, bridging,
&c. in twelve months, and the super,
structure and iron laid down in twelve
mnnl Vl a iyiapo mol/nm* I f
iiiuiiiiio ?aiuiv/j iiiuniiig uvu jcuis <?uu a iiu.li
from the time the company get properly at
work. If we should fail to obtain private
subscriptions,and be delayed twelve months
on account of having to make loans, we may
still see the Iron horse snorting through our
forests in less than 4 years; and if every
man will do his duty in good faith, nothing
is more certain. ri
January 7th, 1848. u?.;
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There is a lady in Russia 168 years of
age. She married her fifth hushand at the
age of 122? . '
From Chamber's Journal.
CURIOSITIES OF ARITHMETIC.
An eastern Prince was so much delighted
with the game of chess, which' had been
devised for his amusement, that he desired
the inventor to name his own reward.?
The philosopher, however, was too modest
to seize the opportunity of enriching himself,
he merely begged of his royal master a
grain of corn for each square on the chess
table, doubling the number in proceeding
from the first to the sixty-fourth square.
The King, honoring his moderation, made
no scruple of consenting to the demand,
b| | on his treasurer making the necessary
ci culations, he was somewhat surprised to
ii Jttialhe had engaged to give away the imp
^siblcquantily of87,070,5*25,540,092,850
c tains of corn, equal to the whole contained
in 10,384 towns, each having 1.024 grana
ries of 174'702 measures each consisting of
32,708 grains.
The story of the horse-shoe is of the same
kind, and like the above is usually met
with in books of scientific recreation.
A man selling a fine horse is to receive lor
it nothing more than the value of the twenty-fourth
nail of the animal's shoes, supposing
that the first nail is worth-a farthing
and soon, doubling each time. The bargain
is a tolerable good one, since the 24th
nail, at this rate, proves to be worth ? 17,000.
suppose that oi all Hie prodigious number
of eggs in a female herring, oniy 2,000
come to maturity, and that each of them in
its turn gives birth to the same number,
half males, and half females. In the second
year, we should have a family of 12,000,000,
in the third, of 2,000,000,000; and in the
eighth, the number would be expressed by
the figure 2 followed by 24 ciphers. This
numhci of herrings would not find room
even if the earth were turned into a globe
of water, as its whole volume would furnish
nnli' iiliiuil !? Qnnnvo in/.h f<ii- fid-.
J ?^ 1UI v.uv.11 IlOil.
A sum of money invested at five per cent,
compound interest, is doubled in fourteen
years and some months, quadrupled in less
than thirty years, octupled in less than fortyfive
years, and so on. From this it would
oppearthat if a centime had been placed
out at such interest, vro bono publico, in the
year 800, when Charlemagne was crowned
Emperor of the West, the 30,000,000
Frenchmen inhabiting the country at the
Revolution in 1830, would have enjoyed an
income of 100,000,000,000 francs. Such
arithmetically true, but economically impossible
results of old deposits, are made the
2 round work of some works nf firtinn Km
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writers of another class are obliged to attend
to the obvious fact, that in order to effect
such accumulation of capital, the business
of ihe bankers and the wealth of the
community would require to increase in the
same proportion. Money does not breed
spontaneously. The party to whom it is
entrusted must use his funds in such a way
as to enable him not only to pay the interest
butto derive a profit from the transaction.
A sprig of henbane sometimes produces
50,001) grains ; but if we take the average
at 10,000 the number of sprigs in the eighth
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^Viiviutivil t? v/um UO VyAj;i Vvoncu U y 1U 1-1"
pliers. At this rate it would take nearly
the entire surface of the globe to contain all
the henbane produced from a single plant
in four years.
A hundred pebbles were arranged in
line, six feet apart, with a basket six feet
ahead of the first pebble, in which a man,
for a wager, was to place the stones, one by
one, in as little time as his comrade would
take to walk from the Luxembourg to the
Chateau of Meuden and back again. The
distance between these twn nnini* i?a an snn
yards, or 60,600 going and returning; and
ibis is the exact distance the stone gatherer
wo* Id have to walk by making a separate
journey from the basket for each of his pebbles.
But the latter would not only have
to walk, but to stoop and rise again a hundred
times; and, in eflect, so great a hindrance
was this, that he had only deposited
nis eigniy nun stone Dy tne time tlie other
had completed his task.
The population of the globe is supposed
to be under a thousand millions, or according
to M. Hassel, 937,855,000. If, then,
says a French writer, all mankind were
collected in one place, every four individuals
occupying a square metre, the whole
might be contained in ' a field ten miles
square. Thus, generally speaking, the
population of a country might be packed,
without much squeezing, in its capital.
Rill' ihp mnm i f I nh tliia r?i o !?
?. ? IMW 1 ? ? III IV4V/U lino * V>0 lio UI lilts
number of the human race, is counterbalanced
by its capability of extention. The
new world is said to contain a productive
land 4,000,000 square miles of middling
quality, each capable of supporting two
hundred inhabitant?; and 6,000,000 of a
better quality, capable tif supporting 500
persons. According to this calculation, the
population of the new -world, as peace.and
civilization advances, may attain to the extent
of 4,000,000,000. If we suppose the
surface pf the old worlrl to bo double that of
America (and notwithstanding thecompa
w
rative poverty of the land, this calculation
may be accepted, if we say nothing of
Australia and the various archipelagoes,)
it would support 8.000,000,000; and thus
the aggregate population of the entire globe
might amount to 12,000,000,000, or twelve
times the present number.
How many curious speculations suggest
themselves here ! What space will it take
r. ?i . r ->
j iui inn iiuiituiiunis oi me eartn to increase
to twelve times their present number? Will
such increase "ver take placc? Supposing
the epoch approach when the table
is full," what will be the eonditiort of
the then races of mankind? In what way,
through what proximate causes, will the
number of births adjust themselves to the
number of deaths? Will war be once
more resuscitated from the ashes of ages?
lor war must have been dead, to admit of
the completion of the ranks of the species?
Will hatred, want, misery, follow as usual
the footsteps of the destroyer, and the earth
swallow up the children which her uncalculating
intincts have produced?
Hut it. is folli/ tr? Mornlov nnrnnli-no ...itk
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inquiries upon the subjects which are obviously
beyond the grasp of the intellect.?
All we know with certainty is, that the human
world has gone on for at least four
thousand years' without attaining to more
than one-twelfth part of its possible extent. ,
Our knowledge is limited, and must always
be so. Not to talk of the interior of the ,
earth, which we can learn but litte about
from hammering upon its crust, we are
each individually ignorant even of our fel- ,
low being on the surface. One of us may
know something of plants, another some- <
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iitin^ or nisccis?uui tnc mina aoes not ex- "
isl wliicli is able to comprehend the organic
world in its en then ess. It is said that
there arc 100.000 species of vegetables, five '
or six times that number of insects, about
1,200 of quadrupeds, 6,800 of birds, and
1,500 of reptiles. The sea we knew almost
as little about as we do of the interior of
the earth?but as its bottom is at least double
the extent of the surface or our continent
and islands, we may roughly take the
number of its species, animal and vegetable,
as equal to that ofthe species which require '
atmospheric air. As for the microscopic
world, there we are entirely lost?but in all
nrrkKnliili'fv if ic? oe vioK * -?
vuiAuintj iii lO t*o 1 1^11 111 lift HIC
world that is cognizablc to our ordinary
senses. But if we take the entire number
of species of organised beings at only
2,000,000, what human intellect is capa- 1
ble of studying them to any purpose? If
man gave himself up to the task as the busi- 1
ness of his life, attending to the examination i
of each specie but one minute, and working
incessantly during ten hours in the day, he 1
would not accomplish the cursory, unreflecting
survey in less than twenty years 1
These consideration should at least teach
us humility, and for the rest we may safely '
trust in the Creator of these unspeakable 1
wonders, that His Almichtv Hand will sus- 1
lain the work which ifis omniscient wis- 1
dom conceived, and that the same power {
which originated the plan, will extend to its 1
consummation.
From the Richmond Whig.
CALIFORNIA?MEXICO.
The following extract of a letter from a <
gentleman who went to California with
Col. Stevenson's New York Regiment, is
copied from the Detroit Daily^ Advertiser : i
"I have been in California since April j
18, 1847 ; have seen but little of the coun- j
try myself, but have conversed much with ]
various persons, some of whom have visited <
every part of it, and can confidentially as- ]
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act i, uuu au ussen, irmi v^uiuornia, taken ai- ]
together, is a most miserable, God forsaken
country, the jumping oft' place, fit only for
Mormons, iYlillerites and monomaniacs. It
has been most flagrantly misrepresented?
most villanously belied. The climate, if
healthy, which is questionable, is excessively
disagreeable about here, on account of
the violent winds and fogs. The fog is often
so heavy that the water drips from the .
roots as it it had been raining, and when] 1
coming over the hill it looks more like a' *
snow-storm than any thing else. Over- j
coats and flannels are worn the year round; j
summer clothes aie useless. From sunrise I
to 10 A. M., is usually quite pleasant; then 1
comes the wind and the fog, either of which 1
is more disagreeable than any weather I
ever saw in the States. So much for what
country I have seen about San Francisco, <
the "American Itallv." as some foolish ?
people have called it.
The Bay of San Francisco, ns regards " 1
commercial purposes, merits all the most (
enthusiastic have said of it. It is probably
the finest bay in the world, and it alone ,
may save California from utter, condempa- j
tion. Other parts, of the country are more i
objectionable even than this; some for the c
total absence of moisturV, and allf of it gfen- c
erally for the want of tifHrble* land. -Oh, 4
how the emigrants who come here will be 1
disappointed 1 I wish they all knew what \
I know. It would savre many a onfrtwrrt {
much misery and suffering; the which will
surely follow any attempt to settle here for
agricultural purposes. Speaking of game
here, I have been out twice; the first time
1 shot a rattle snake of the most venomous
kind, and the last time I was chased home
by a oougar or puma, a species of tiger, a
leetle too thick for comfort about here.
One of them was killed last week, which
measured from tip of nose to tip of tail.
They are found eleven feet long about here,
and are more ferocious than the erislv bear.
The natives call them lions."
Of that portion of Mexico bordering upon
the lower Rio Grande, the Indianapolis
Journal furnishes us the following information
:
"One of those politicians who, in 1844,
gave such glowing descriptions of the fertility
ofTexas,the great value of its products,
and the salubrity of its climate, has rencently
been in Texas, and upon his return to
this State, declared he would not live in it
for a county of land. Fifteen citizens of
?uiuu cuumum tun iiuus, aiuuu uii iicauuuu,
visited Texas with a view of removing
there, but all returned perfectly satisfied
with Indiana. One of the present Colonels
from Indiana, has often declared that he
would not give the life of such a man as
Henry Clay, jr., for all the country between
Saltillo and the Rio Grande. Yet it is
such a country that we seek to annex at the
cost of millions."
And the following bird's-eye view of the
whole country is copied from an article from
"the pen of an experienced officer," which
a short time since appeared in that orthodox
journal, the Washington Union :
"This country (says the officer who
ixffitoii frnm \T o to o not inn nf T n/liono
iVIlbVsO it Vllft 1IAUAIVU ^ U. IIUIIUII Ul JLIIUlUiltl*
Some foreigners and Spanish Indians, a
mixed racc, have the wealth and control;
but the groat mass of the people are Indians,
originally less warlike than those in our
country. Their spirits have been broken
and cowed by cruel and harsh treatment,
and they now labor, work and die for their
masters. There is no slavery that I have
seen equal to it. You can then form some
opinion how they can be approached and
treated.
The officer who furnishes {< a Plan for
the War," writes as follows:
"The Mexicans, including Indians of
the full blood, may, perhaps, number
7,000,000. Without regard to color, they
may be divided into three classes.
1. The army, the priesthood and the
millionaires, (chiefly land-holders;) theso
govern.
2. The middle class of shop keepers,
mechanics and small proprietors, and cultivators.
3. The lowest class?greater in number
t_j: n_.1:? i_i ? j nni
?unieuy inuiuus, ui ui iiiuiuu uiuuu. lueso
ire bondmen, ground to the dust, of worse
:ondition than negro slaves, excessively ignorant
and bigoted ; they are easily decievsd,
and have been led to believe our armies
composed of monsters of heresy cruelty and
oppression."
Now, we would, in all sincerity, inquire
whether this is a country or a people for
which we should protract a bloody and a costly
war ? Can their acquisition snd incorporation
intothe^Union be, in;any just sense
ofthe word, regarded as indemnity
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Short Patent Sermon.?Perhaps it
may not be amiss to remember the printer
in my discourse. He is in a very disagreeable
situation. He trusts every body?he
knows not whom; his money is scattered
everywhere, and hardly knows where to
look for it. His paper, his ink, hfsjype,
[lis journeyman's labor, his living, &c,
mnct hp nnnplnallir rviirl fnr Vnn lVTr ??
ind Mr. , and a hundred others tcould
name have taken his paper, and 5four children,
your neighbors, have betiiramused
ind informed, and I hope, improvedby it;
ifyou mies one paper,youthink vetjtnard
jf the printer ; you would rather go with>ut
your best meal than to bedeprivedpf
pour newspaper. Have youev^r complied
with the terms of your subabHpfcfon 1 '"Havo
pbn taken as much pains .< to furnish the
printer with his moooy aahe bastofurnish
r'ou with his paper? Have you paid him
"or his type, his press, his hand work, his
lead work ? If you "have not, go And pay
lim off. Jr.
u W-ife I wby in the name of^gpodnesi
lid you, not make the washerwoman- put
staroh in iny shirt collar?"
"Why, my dear, Ithbfcfght-teWuseless
;va$te of thb atticle; -fof I can get your
sholer up so easy without it,'' .
Drr, Johnson gives the1 BhlfcuwJph# ti
narriage in a few wordsA tn^rried
nan,** says He, s m?Hj. CAW^v%KJt"? tw.hfllrtr
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