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"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* ?
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'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
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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
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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.
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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
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.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
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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
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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.
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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*;
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