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" " "" " ABBEVILLE C H., S ^ C., AUG 4, 1849. NUMBER Published every Saturday Morning by1 CHARLES H. ALLEN, EDITOR AND PHOPBIETOU. TERMS. ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS per annum, if paid in advance, or TWO DOLLARS if not paid within six mouths from tho timo of subscribing. ADVERTISEMENTS, inserted at 75 cts. per square of twelve liue? (or the firut insertion, and 37 1-2 cts. for cuch continuance. Those not having the deuirnd number of insertions marked upon them, will ho continued until ordered out and charged accordingly. BT Ktlr?v. TM1..I toonfW- t- 'J' -? ? .. - lu uo puin oy uio magistrate. O" For announcing a Candidate, $2.00, in advanco. O" The Postage must be paid upon all letters and communications to securo attention. (written for the arbeville banner.) "A FRIEND TO CAROLINIANS.?A KENTiTCKJAN.?COMMUNICANT. dr. trotter." ..... [Concluded.] Now, the partial history of the Doctor's performances heren bouts. The Doctor taught a class at Jefferson. (Georgia,\ Due West, and Greenwood! He presented himself at Jefferson, as familiar with Professor Caldwell, the scientific champion ofBrtisaism, Mesmerism, and phrenology. The Munchausen-like revelations of his exploits in expelling diseases, performing surgical feats and clairvoyant explorations, excited suspicion in the minds of his class. They wrote to Dr. Caldwell, in answer he stated that he had no recollection of the Doctor, but lully expressed his convictions upon the subjects, of Phrenology, Mesmerism and Somnambulism. The treaty stipulations between the Doctor and his Due West Class one, nu leacn no pajr-l-^The Doctor failed Co teach!?one of his disciples quizzed! pad he the Doctor in a pet scooted !! At Greenwood in preliminaries of what he could do, (in estimation of Class,) he wrought expectation big, and wonderment oveTwiielming; but alas for mortal man! Non omneS* omnia facere possunius! and Mr. Editor* if .you are an atneteur of swift and lofty (rotting say tn heating of said Class, Dr. Trotter 1 ?r. 1VT r a-*qw lor'practical illustration of electricity... In modern theory there is but one electricity, to reador this palpaple to the dutieit comprehension, suppose the Dr. meet*hisDue Weal Class, the positive state will burl the Doctor off at a tangent; then )ie.ih<eta hi* Woodville Clasy, the negative ptate will cause them to fly at a tangent in an opposite direction; then amalgamate the ICO cltMtei and wo hnm tlia "??" '? ~f . W tav gac:ai law U1 I the solar system reserved : viz: the Doctor, I thetun twirling about the Siamese amalSkm> his two Classes. Now clairvoyant, e Dr. in position 95 millions of miles from an id Class perched tij-on the pinacle of Mount Atlas; the Dae West Class lets on electricity; the Woodville abstracts, the Dr.. looses equilibrium. cant stand still, describing a curvilinear obit, dashes nolens yojens Headforemost through the core of the pun ; the sun a volume of electricity, by momentum of said Dr. is displaced, nnd the universe jumbled into a cocked hat, " oh, mores! oh tempora!! ! The grandest of the wonder exciting feats of the Doctor | occurred in Jjexington, Ga., in a lecture he corrected the false notion, that the electric fluid passes downward, to place this beyond e doubt (hear him) he peclaced the town with wires brought them to a pentral focus overhead?mounted a huge flass knob, jeated himself upon it, and so rilllagtiftP illumination was never seen? ib^ ^we stricken cilijtens fell upon their kl$e$j| in.pfaver-to avert iha cnnfl#or?iinn and pri^^oT.raauer. The Dr. got down, remold lb?krfi?feconducting cap, a ?park escaped, areport concussed the air, and a ball darted upwards which contrasted the ptanofgaaa oi Satan's fail (by Milton) into a n^ unpin pa Ue (nonentity. Mr. Editor did yiwi&eair the report, feel the coftcaasion, or esjp?ttyi?e the,*hoek I The Dr. in this Dwtrict ?ajf? be wired deafness with a few shockso0hegalvapic IpMery, tint he had got akeoj a. tboosaed for simitar cores (see CtiiimTilr? VHummfa* ? jjj ?"c 'u lu y?u' Are you your creditable joutpal has trampled the Dr's. hocus pocua without a ? C/nfc of"ihe two )MtyJIi.M^ip,DUnar I*, youjre; either thnt tfafSfljpgcwaeoto^of th? Df. would annior ei?e th^re was no e?dor?el^ti'for'ft^rtdit fit th* District, the ftpM,**** 49ffc century, I suppose that you Wftm. aod Mrticularltr do. mm ifcl Vlim cftfci? ferfa>OB ettnuhe w^l!^ Wtf ?r *rty *} *FT-'*+ ' '% '. *** *;> .: ? ''r v * ^ \<y. ,<*> :> otbor code, human or diabolical, you are imperiously required to shift upon your shoulders, lor editorial delinquency, any responsibility which this quazi biographical essay, may bring down upon tho writer. Not to flatter, the glorious fields of Buena Vista, Ccrro Gordo, and Churubnsco, were inundated with the patriotic blood oftalent i.i? Luiiuio nuii atiiiiiiiiimaiers. But never a one, either a Dancing master, ventriloquist, Chuck-o'luck Castor, or Animal Magnetizer! Their traces, it is trup, may be imprinted upon the gory fields of hard won battles; hut, in the main and peculiarly especial, on the sad days of anni-' versary celebration. Between ine and foe, 1 prefer a Cassius phiz, careworn Editor, or Pedagogue, to forty lallstaffBonapartte's, as the weapon of the latter would be sword, pistol and musket, whilst the former in adrtliir.., i.. <i-=? ? : i wi..wn >u nimc in a audit} jJlorUUU IU IUC ground with ninetpeorp, would dexterously wield, nails, fists and teeth, nnd should these not reach, instantly demolish his triumphing antagonist by tongue or pen. So me, a near relation uy marriage visited his relator by blood in the infant days ol the city of Hamburg, next morning, mercantile relation said lo John the Clerk: "John, have you sanded the Sugar?" " Yes!" Rocked the Coffee ?" " Yes!" t;Watered the Rum 1" "Yes!" -- \-/ome into prayer!" You see, Mr. Editor, that John innocently sanded the eyes of that prayer, stoned it into atoms and dissolved the rubbish into elfish immateriality. Dr. Trotter has done just so to something.?Q,uerc :?To' mesmerism 1 No! To himself? You must reply. P3"* The wordy dress. Before me in two sheets, I have the Dr's defence, dissected and a nice parcel of bits of flesh it is. It would be asking too much to beg a place for it in your paper. The Dr. makes D ? * * * * ' oucon a persecuted geologist! fadua a philosopher! Mr. Editor will you giVe to the public but five lines of the Dr's. defence per manuscript, verbatim leferaltm etpunduaiimt These five lines wafered upon the lentil-of each citizens door would excite and keep off nn uncontrolled risibility, which bs a disinfecting agent against cholera would trample Chloride of lime, cleanlioess, and moderate diet into the dust. The Dr. has taken the whole Slate of South Curolina in bis embrace 1 I as a sovereign voter, of ihe suvmci^n uismci 01 /\ooevine id aosenct; of the silting of the Legislature, order bis , excellency the Governor of said State to furnish said Patron with ample body guard lest that some Jonathan may cobblej up another mermaid and bag said Patron Maguctizer, with which menagerie, he will sweep the last picayune from tho coffers of celestial Jamaica, potent Mexico, and enlightened Ethiopia. South Carolina, in a I .utKnn n ft ?* r>A?- ( ?? !>? ' ' ? .?v.n 0>U|>U| Ijy IUC Ulltlll^OUl HUT and ruinous system of law, legislative and administrative, of politics theoretically sound but ridiculously carried out. of education, a practical blank, ol publick opinion vacilia* ting us n weathercock, South Carolina, impoverished by the systematic uclions of a niercilessCongressionul mobocracy,tannted, insulted and threatened with annihilation by constitutional violations and free-soilers, South Carolina and Southern Liberty, the liberty of that glorious Charter, the Aincri. con Constitution! Mocked by a Holmes, Stephens, and Benton; South Carolina 1 by these dispensations, broken in spirit, insen sioie to a name! receives the generous sympathies of Dr. Trotter. Lot South Carolina disengorge upon the North, her countless pe9ts of humbuggery, bend nature and talents to the work of purifying the State, strengthen and discipline her military arms. At the expiration of the present Presidential term, the whigs having had free access to Uncle Sam's purse, will prove so many toads loaded down with their own weight of buck-shot puseyitism AA.TIo.:^ *.1??:? ? s iuiH?i?ui| mvi iuuiibiii) AgianaiiiHiiii ro? restism, T^riffism, Biddleisra, Anti-Freemasonism, Caucussism, Anti-nativoism, Freesoilism ? Magnetism and Moagrelism, wilfhave done their woik. When a blade of grass whether, moral, religious, aVs will Belter at the South, the Aderts, {fts>iwa G^^gs' w^n tustictte as Arnold did of did in the Metropolises of absolute monarchies andthin\el Webster Wifl stride the Atlantic. Should in thp onward progress of human events, a necessity arise to accelerate the inevitable catastrophe, a well I appointed army of one hundred thousand chivalrous Southrons, dropped in Vhe heart of Africa will produce the completion of the 'TF^licerbly tender rny hesl.wiahes foj life, health, peace and fame, to Mid self appointed friend of the South Carolinians, A Kehtacklan, Communicant, Iff. Trotter'. In die no humbug Corner of Abb?vilfe Diitrict. (written fo/C tiik abbevillb banner.) ' CLASSICAL EDUCATION. I A. love for tuuiquity is innnte in man. As the aged mjvn loves to look back to the duysof infancf, and childhood, and recount tho scenes tlut transpired wh'-n he was young ; so do we delight to wander back, through tho dim vista of years?to the time when the'world who vnnHir ?..<t u_i.i J , ? nva 11UIU sweei ronvers,p. 113 it were, fuce to face, with the learned and great of antiquity. Thin this disposition is not only natural, but at the same time, commendnbl**, we take it, will not he denied. Taking this for grhnted wo conclude that it should be cultivated and strengthened. The mind experiences a kind of wild, chimerical pleusure, in penetrating beyond the gloomy vale that futurity le(s down bofore it, and there penciling out in brilliant colours, scenes of delight yet to be enjoyed ; but wcared with its endless flight' over the dark ocean of futurity, and'ftrf&flg nothing substantial oti which to rest, it is forced again to seek refuge in the slow sailing ark of tile present. Whilfi tl?f> rnntpmnl.it ir>n nf iVir? past,affords a substantia] pleasure, and a profitable exerciso to the mind. As thfc man'who has travelled extensively, return shome clothcd with an air of independanco, and self-importance calcjlated to draw forih the admiration of those whose perigrinntions have been loss extensive; 60 does the mind return from the contemplation of the past expanded. and elevated; and lays down at the feet of an admiring world its gleanings from the wrecks of Antiquity. There is a r.~i: r 1 ? iceiuig 01 pnue anu He:t-depenUence generated by a familiarity with ilie past, which of ilself is sufficient to justify all the labor, generully bestowed on this department of education. Bui how can this love for, and fumiliarity with the past be best instilled in to the mind ? It must be done by the study ofthe Classics. Shall these productions be studied in the language of the authors or iu that of a translation ? Shall wo loulc upon the original or.i? portrait ? Now so far us the labor is concerned the taslr. woulij evidently bo made liehter to remf'rSMiilk's finr ace tbunAntboa's. And perhapsSmnrt hns given a more corrcct, and more beautiful translat on oPHorace ibnn we could possibly, give but still we.believe that any student of rcspectablo capacities, with moderate eflbrt can glean as many ideas from an ode in Horace us can'be gathered from} a translation: from the fact that it is impossible in many cases to convey in our own language the exact meaning of a Latin sentence. But if thi! Classics are studied alone or even principally for the thought thoy contain we 1 .1 - * .iuuiu ouj uuiii me original ana nansiuuori in the same fine. This however we do not conceive to be the design. While it in altogether advisable that we preserve any thought w e may chance to meet, the great object to bo accomplished, is the mental exercise and training consequent on this kind of labour. But it may be said, throw away Greek, and Latin and, substitute in their place a a more extensive course of Mathematics. Now that the ninctio.al imnnrtnnm of n complete mathematical education if confined to a very small number eim-tw* be denied. So we see that the study of this branch is important to the great majority of students only so far as it serves to strengthen and discipline the mind. And with equal propriety with those who say it is better to wa n rl PaaaIa * ~ icuu a u|ju 3viiaii9iauuii ui lUO IIIIUU Ullin (U rack the bruin in translating for ourselves, we would say it is belter to solve the problems in Smyley'st Arithmetic, or Day's Algebra, with a key spread open before us. for both are labor saving systems. Now if the importance of each branch of stady depends od the exercise and training it affords the mind, which is better adapted to expand, and invigorate it? In the solution of a Mathematical problem the Judgementj and memorv are hrnuahl in in *>nrs?iaa nrhil* in demonstrations we beliefe in general the memory alone, is active. But in the translation pf a Greek or Latin sen^enoe the jndgement is exercised in the construction, the memory in applying the rules, and at the same time the tast* wgjreatly improved AMjujfCMpwi XJI iuo mpimc*. jptUH }a An acquaintance witk lh?: ^t?ekt?nd LaUn.i* not.onjy. important, but actually accessary to a- peitect knawladge oi (be English. We are so unforiunat*M 10 have no language of our own, and hence, it be comes necessary to know aometfuBg of the various ingrediapt*J,n order rightly to understand the eoiupBnd. A man entirely ignorant of .the Greek and Lntio languages, wjgald be about as/jnnch edifiwtp/hia reaearcheaaa^A wefljigai or;la<?4)iKMui one us, wtaa ww by chance placed,vodav the droppings of a native born Ethiopian. And .4 * v M+S-' u here it may be said that there is no necessity or propriety in using these classical terms, or hard words, in either of the professions; but this does not change the case, for they are already in use, and we of the nineteenth ccntury would be late indeed to rise un in our wisdom nml sn? llimr orptn. perfluoug, and henceforth shall be used no more. It is true, there are some terms used both in modicine and law, the propriety of which is not very manifest to us, hot we suppose tlie design in moat cases is brevity, or to express in one or two hnrd words what would otherwise require a tiresome circumlocution. But we believe if they answered no other purpose but that of giving dignity to the profession, their use would be ju^tifinl>|p vv?,~ < -- !-- r ?j . i ???io iv uui iwi 11112 lurnuunuie array of big words, with which our lawyers and doctors fortify themselves?the very utterance of which stiikes terror into the heart of the inquisitive vulvar?these profewions would WconternptiWe in tho eyes of tho populace ; for familiarity in this, as well as in everything else, breeds contempt And as to theology, we suppose no one in his sober moments will deny that the divine should be a Greek scholar; for as he is the shepherd of souls, he should by all means know with what he feels his flm-lr I instead of excluding tho classics from our Colleges, ihey should bo more carefully studied. We are persunded that opposition to the classics originated more from the ! manner in which they are studied, than from any real objections tothemselves. The conclusion of the whole matter, therefore, is this: No man can merit tho appellation of learned, who is not a classical scholar. n. y. y. Addjtion-ai. Foreign Items.?From the tc-iegiiiphic despatch in the Baltimore Sun we glean tho following additional items of Foreign News: A correspondent writing from Paris snys, just 08 the Buurso was closing, it wa* stated positively, that the government had received Gen. Oudinot'e despatches, announcing the entry of the French army into Rome on the 2d, and that they were received with ac| damntions by the people. The divisions of Garibaldi have been conducted to Civita Vecchia, where they would lay down their arms. Two divisions of the army would be !od! irpfl nrwl mnintninorl Ktr l!w? Rnmnn D ? "J mcnf. According to the reports in the'diplomat* i ic circles of Paris, on Thursday, the General is to take the place of M. D'Harcourt, as Ambassador, nnd is also chargod with a mission to Marshal Radetsky, to negotiate all military matters respecting the occupation of Italy. xi appears certain mat Lien. i_.amorciere goes to St. Petersburg ns Ambassador, and that he is to protest against the Emperor taking any part whatever in the affairs of Italy. A note from the French Government has been sent to Prussia on the subject of Neufchatel. but it is not of an'unfriendly nature ; on tho contrary the relations with Prussia are on a very satisfactory footing. TI.? ...... .L ? a i i? i J:.I ahw unijy ui mo n.iug iiua ucdh uiauauded. ' F HUNGARY AND AUSTRIA. An official bulletin has been issued by the Austrian Government, pronouncing the compulsory retirement of the Hungarians from Ruab. They are said to have retired towards Acs previous to the capture of the city. Georgey by declining battle at Raab, and by continuing his retreat towards Gron, will itnposo upon the Austrian army the necessity of leaving some 20,000 men before Comoro ; nevertheless4 Georgy would never have abandoned Raab except with the intention of detaching a portion of his force against Paskewitch. A rumor prevailed in Paris and gained considerable currency in the Assembly, that the Hungarians had obtained an immense advantage over the Russians, who are said to have lost 10,000 men at Fiume. ?? vvuai/iiwj ugmuqk AUO??I? Uuu uccu discovered, and a desperate battle was fought on th$ 29th alt. between the Hungarians and insurgents in the neighborhood of Cal^^^^^Muglonucleinc^between Carleswvne HOridred. v/ho imaffincs Herself in a trance, and that the tfari prophecy and hold conversation with the Lord. She is constantly pretending to hold convention with the LordiiKLatin, She got religion some time-sin& at Mount Pleasant; she then Stated that ab( ut this time she would be ablo to prophesy. Bona of (he Bnsdrvjfa physicians went to see keif* and took down some of her Latin conversation. Crowds arp there & cttrriagto and on foot to see her ??ani ?any appeared astonished at what they considered her true revelations ?WtfVtington, { Ffel ) Blue Hen't Chicken, July 6. Extraordinary Affair.?Under th*g caption the Dresden (Tenn.) Advertiser?a paper which we understand lo be of very re* spectable standing?has the following singular narrative; On Monday last, a lady about 40 years of age, presented herself to Dr. A. D. Cutler, of this place, for his advice and treatment' Her case is a sirange and perplexing one. Language could convey nothing like an adequate idea of the sufferings which she constantly endures. She is reduced to a more skeleton?is never still?looks worn and haggard, and says that she is only kept alive by the pain and torment which aha i.IIU 141 t'a. There 13 a living' reptile or something else of a similar character, in her stomach, and extending up into her throat, nearly to the roots of her tongue. Externally, its movements are seen perfectly plain, and by applying the hand to her throat or stomach, . one can feci it? motions distinctly,- on dean. not U9c pressure enough with the hand to slop Ihesn motions. When she does not eat at her regular litnes, its contortions are much worse, and almost past endurance. When she attempts to eat, she cannot use a knife and fork,she has to use her hands to cram the food into her throat, in order to satisfy its craving vo? raciiy?aner ner meais are over, sne is trou* bind less xvilh its wrilhings and contortions, | for a short time. She says that she is al> I waysstarving?seldom or neversleeps?she appears on the verge of the mania and lias convulsions at times The moreriients of this iking, she describes as worse thaa the culling of a knife. By pressing down the back part of Ker ton?iie so as lo open tho upper oart of hor throat, a portion of the head of Ibis thing has been distinctly seen resembling inap. pearance the head of an eel. Many ladies and gentlemen of undoubt. ed veracity all all testify to the truth ot th^le statements. ^ & This lady says that some years ago*in inking n drink of water one night, she felt some live thing slip 4PV7n her throat with. the water; that softer some timQ.had. elapsed. the'irradually grew worse and W0l$e up to this time: that she has not endjirQd so great an amount of sufferings only since last September. t , i - ^ ' Dr. Cutler does not pretend to.gifiB any explanation whatever of this singular case. The lady is under his medical treatment. The sequal of this case is promised ug for publication. - X A Drram Realized.?The following dream, foreshadowing the fate of the famous Major Andre, is of an old date, though but little known. The truth is vouched for by a wr?ter in Ainsworth's Magazine of ft i?r cent dato: , " Major Andre, the circumstance* of whose lamented death are too well known to make it nccessary (or me to detail thembBl^) was a friend of Miss Seward's, and, previously to embarking for America, he made a journey to Derbyshire to pay her a visit, and it was arranged that they should ridtfover to see the wonders of the Peak, and introduce Andre to Newton, her minstrdj as she called him, and to Mr. Cunningham the curate, who was also a poet. . " While those two gentlemen were awaitinrr (Kn arrival nf iYta nnnota r\C wKiSaa in "jj ?"V Ul ( I f u? W| IIIU vti "T MVMV ?U tontions they had been apprized, Mr. Cunningham mentioned to Newton that on the preceding night he had a very extraordinary dream, which ho could not get odt of bus hend. He had fancied himself in a fonHK^ the place was strange to him, and whilst looking about he perceived a horseman approaching him at great speed, who mil scarcely reached the spot where the dreamer stood, when three men ruihedoht of the i : i .u? u lUlkAUt auu OCIACU VUC UlJUIOt UUUIOU 9IIU W way after closely searching ius pdiaob. " The countenance of the stringer being very interesting, the sympathy felt by iho sleeper for his apparent misfortune awoka liira, but he presently fell asleep rfgfcip, And dreamptthat he was standing city, among thousands of he saw tne same person he bad seen Mind io Ibe wood brought oat tod auependfcdtotf a gallows. When Apdretfad^HaH'Mmh^ arrived, he wu horror-struck to yj^^^ -How to ExtAnom VnmtfttggL vast increase^ of food miy be obtala^B^ carrvrar niit far 4 lime the tmneiblaa^iit. crenw. Take, for J?? it in very rich ground ing year, and retain of ihreo 'argeat pods only, MW th* wiiowing Year, sou retain uw pwi, wi^u >efe?^?liwgert| tortiMi tow (ho hrgett ind, kti^^SSBL means you will got pea?, or of a bulk of tvhich we at pr?w)lt conception. ^ W*; 'v,i, .: v. yi