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Written for the AbbavllU Banner. REUOLLKCTION3 OF THJB HOM1J OK MY CHILDHOOD. I: \ X. r. How ?>ft na Fancy biJs nic roam, O'er lui|>py iw-oiim of by-gone Jiiyc, Sweet visions of my childhood'* liomo I?<* )*! Memory's chain ila briglitc?l ruys; Ami though removed from that loved home, lis sltuily jjrovr, iis irrussv knoll. Wher'cr l>y Kate ilrvrccd to roam Its image Uvea within my soul. The sjx't my infant feet first Irotl, When guided by a mother's hand? Where taught to lisp thu name of God, And sing of llis own Heavenly laud, To ine in far mure beautiful, More dear than all the earth beside; That s|H>t will Memory retain Whatever fortune may betide. Dear school-days too, with all their joy, Such sacred thoughts give oft a place; Where lYioiidship sweet, without alloy, (iavo beauty to each youthful face. These fond remembrances will last, When other pleasures all decay; Wher'er my lot in life is cast. Fund Memory will its tribute |>;iy. When morning dawns o'er land and sea, And every bird begins its lay, My wukinjr thoughts will turn to thee, And Memory's tribute ne'er delay. And when tho sun sinks in the west, When twilight's pa!l veils earth and bUv, 1 Ionic of my youth, the first and best, To thee fond Memory still will fly. Front (he JS~?tio?tt{ Police (/iizette. TILE FIFTH ACT OF THE GREAT BUBDELL DBAMA. It was <ptilo obvious to tho most careless observer that there were properly five actio the Ihudell drama. Four of them had already passed iu the murder, tlie inquest, tho trial of Mrs. Cunningham, and the .Surrogate's Court. The curtain then fell suddenly, (lie interest of the performance was abruptly suspended, and the community subsided to its ordinary pursuits and speculations. There was, however, evidently a j fifth act due, but it was generally doubted whether tho work could bo ever completed, at least in view of a mortal audience. The great explanatory <leaonctnent seemed iude finitely postponed to that mysterious future and other world, which holds within its bosom so many of the lost conclusions of this earthly planet. When, one day last week, the boll of the press sounded its notice, the curtain was again raised, and behold ! the climax and catastrophe fully disclosed.? Mrs. Cumiingrham is still the arch heroine, the ileus ex mucking, of the occasion, and presents herself in her full proportions with the long-looked-for child and heir of the scene, who had been wandering in the unknown spaces of conjecturo and entity, from the memorable 28th of October down * to the day and hour of final delivery to j the g.ize of certain detectives of the law.? . Never did real child, of mortal parentage, j base born or true-born, legitimate or illegitimate, stir such a coil, and set in use so many pens, so many presses, attorneys, physicians, and the whole crowd of speculators, talkers and writers, professional and non-professional. One of thoso cases had arisen in which every man takes some kind of interest, and in regard to which every man has some sort of an opinion.? Especially noticeable was the sudden increase of the legal and medical professions ?members of which, by their own elec tion, arid with self-confined diplomas, shot up and swarmed in every gathering, and figured in ihe columns of every journal, with a view to determine the proper law and medical practice applicable to this extraordinary case. i The facts arc disclosed in our local reports, to be found in the Police O'uzcltc, set forth at large. By this time they are known in their main outline to all our readers. They readily distribute themselves ! for consideration under three or four convenient heads. First, as to the importance of the discovery or exposure itself. Secondly, the right or wrong of Dr. Uhl's conduct in the part he has taken. Thirdly, the agency of the District Attorney in the matter ; and lastly, the effect of all these * antecedents upon the position of Mrs. Cunningham, and her involvement in a criminal and punishable offence. "We venture to say, without arrogating to ourselves an advantage our cotemporaries, and the multitude of private speculators wlio have crtgnged in ihe discussion of the matter, that Op no one of these points has the nail been struck directly, nor with such precision as to drive, it home where it belongs. In regard to the first, the public, witfc scarcely a dissenting voice, lias, it is true, by this new and recent light, convicted Mrs. Ciiuniqghuio of all that bad gone before.* Th?y havo atepfyjd 4brough the Surrogate's Court with rapid stride, advanced into the Over dnd Terminer, reversed, the formal verdict, and nppoAriog at ^be inquest, have d^setihiugl d all it* meshes, discarded its hindrances, and stretched the finger of scorn straight * gainst the ol^ject which had before csoaj ed in tho cloud of witnesses and the crouud-focr which had ils protracted sessions. This the ger.eral sentiment has done, hut it has not suifi ciently fell that nil this it has been enabled to do by a disclosure which has been, on home hands, condemned as premature, unprofessional ly effected, or wrong in its inception nnd execution. Tho prey has been sttarod, and now we nre to consider whether it has boen honestly taken in a lawful toil; for tho second quta > " " s ttou is as to Dr. Ubl^vho undoubtedly, if N> ho did not e<H the gin, shewed Wli^rft tie ' *" V game was to bo found, nnd ?? what; place ? . * ? - ins irap \rri3 10 uo pianica. it it stroogly jillegcd tlfai Dr. UU1 had do righl,. tu a professional nufn, to go out of ^o ^tab^r with any tidipgs wliutever. . Tlwit was to liiin a Bealcd apartment, and be wtu by (lie ]!v poo ratio oath " by Apollo, l>y Escalap Ills," &?., dkc., tw elaborately ,,u<.U'.l by Vii* u rlous knowing journals to hold sacred over)' a disclosure made within iln wall*. These 1 conclusions tlio physician only to " keep in- a violate Ibo confidence11 nil uro founded in j1 | error, the old Creole onth rcquin s of the l sick?oi patiauta as patients, and not of! v criminals as criminal*. Did not Mrs. Can* [ uinghntn dearly step outsido of tlio palo of professional protection when sho desired t Dr. Uhl's assistance in palming upon llic f world and tlio Courts a false heir? Did ( she not by that act becomo a common i enemy whom it was bis duty br'iijj to pun- s ishiiiciil liv sin'li iifniwi' ~.J W..VI. IIIVillllil MO 1IVJ V/UUIU V employ ? But, wo aro told, tlio oatli! llio t oath !! s To all suoil cxclaiinanls, we may as well i answer at onco, that there is no such oath ] as that called the Ilypocratic known to i tlio medical profession anywhere in the I'liiled States. No such oath is subscribed > or taken b}' any medical man; nor is any < oath whatever tnkcii. The only obligation * to which ho binds himself is to be found in : t! e Code of Ethics adopted by the National ?. Medical Association, by resolution, and not i sworn to and signed, by that body and ac- < ce; ted and adopted, here, in like manner, t I y the Academy of Medicine. It is a (pies- i tion of discipline and docs not imply the t kepnilirr nf 1 q v> iivn ^ivivooiviiai UISCUII"^ f, nectod from ihc necessary management o$ ii case under treatment; mueli less of 1 purely super-induced fraud and deceptioiF,> i like that in the ease of Mrs. Cuuningham. > At tho samo time so tender and exacting i are the profession, as well as the public, of i the jealous custody of the confidence put i iu charge of the medical adviser, that we < venture to say, of a hundred members of .* the faculty to whom the issue might bo ' put, ninety would be glad to avoid the no- \ | cessity of seeming to violate or depart from \ it, even in appearance. On tlio other " hand, llic law docs not saiielion guilty con- <J faiences, and even makes it a penal offence c lo profler to another a participation in the r commission of a crime. v "Wo therefore come, in natural course, to si consider the third point in this cxtraordi- j nary matter; namolv, how far the agency of u District Attorney Hall is justifiable. Ho g also holds a professional position which dc- o mands of him specially the porsccution of '1 crimnal parties to conviction, their guilt be- It ing clearly in view. It must be borne in u mind, that Mr. Hall had, before these recent I disclosure, scomniitted himself fully to a belief in the guilt of the woman ; that lie s had . on strongly stated his belief, based it s m. j be supposed, on the facts within his 1 knowledge?although they did not come to t adequate proof 011 the trial?with such en- \ i orgy in his opening speech for the people, i ! as to lay himself open to pretty free com- i ( mcnt as bearing down with unjust severity 1 upon the prisoner at the bar?the uufortu- i nato woman whom he had classically and i wantonly compared with Mcssalina Lucre- ?. tia Borgia, and others of like infamous re- s nown. The public prosecutor, believing for r whatever reasons that Mrs. Cunningham i was guilty, lie might hold it to be his duty 'J to bring her to justice at whatever cost.? i All that had been done on his part, and 011 i the part of all others, up to the entrapment, had gone for nothing. The book of crime 1 was useless fragment, needing the last chap- a ter to make the preceding intelligible.? > There was the problem complete but for i the adding up. Who was to finish the c closing chapter?sum up the figures, com ( plete the history, solve the problem, and 2 furnish the anxious community the errand \ sum total ? It is asserted thai Mrs. Cun- I ninghain, however, advised and warned off { by Dr. Uhl, would have gono on and con- j summated the fraud in her own way, as its c completion was ncccssary to her plan, and r it was to her a climax as much needed for v her ends as it has now pioved on its disclo- t sure to be for the ends of public justice.? '| She would therefore, of necessity, as a fore- L gono conclusion, and by inevitable coinpul- t sion of her antecedents have finished the v thing herself, and so managed it with her c | own picked instruments and accomplices as f to have evaded detection again. t The District Attorney does not, therefore, c instigate nor encourage the crime; he mere- I ly takes out of the way such obstacles as t may impede its consummation, and ensure c not only a solution to a previous criminal y mystery, but bring the offender, guilty of all j I that bad gone before, (as lie believes,) to t j cbndign punishment. Mrs. Cunningham, ii of her own motion, has started from it high 1, pitch on the career of crime. Slie is rnllin<r .1 ?> u i down its proclivity with unerring speed and r ceitainty, and catching at a bush by the v way to sarfrljeraelf, shall District Attorney i jllall al\pw her its shelter, or by cutting it v away, shall she bo compelled, by her own c impetus, to imperil her neck and com- L plcW her guilty career to i^s own proper, uatural and logical conclunon. Mr. Hall chose to cut the bush awfty ; and wo all sec, C and great numbers rejoice to see, Mra. Cun- C uingham lying broken and disabled tho y bottom. This briDjjfs us fairly toiije exact present ? position df the matter as regards Mrs. Cuni?inghaiftf?^ pq.?W??ble itjvolvoment in a oriinfn?U^n^?. -v Tbo pwHaction Of a falso chjjtfjoi ?cer- ^ tnin purposes, is a Stat? Prison <5ffence, witli c a ten years' penalty. There is no 4MK L that morally, and as to the intent of Uje t statute, Mrs. Cunningham has bgonglithpr- t. self under condemnation. We'age not B, willing to say tint she has committed-sych a an overt act, in regard to this child, wf^o r convict her undar this special clause. There ? ' is, however, another, jvhich makes the at- 8, tampt to commit certain ?ribes punishable p with half the term, or We- years. This p seems to poinfr more .clearly to-the cause now up, aud the facts being well prove*) it will reqfciflr no little professorial subtlety to ^ bring off the accuscd scot-free -of this slat- t< i J L Ic. \W I'liu!, ho\w\<r, thai Mill another ollon <f :t n:itun\ li< s ill buhlilf of 1 >r. I lil ? il being. :is w o have before hinted, ctimiiitil mill indictnblo ollcncu to np- ' roach anollior lo assist and partnipato ill lio pcrpetratioli of n crime. To this point 1 ro respectfully invito tho attention of the 1 irosecutiiig oflleer. Wo do not enlarge upon, nor do wo ntenipt to dccide upon tlio legal questions, 1 or wo are willing and desirous tliat Mis. Juniiingbum should liavo a fair trial, nud n nil tliat we have written wo liavo merely ought to hold up as a Drummond of extra>rdinary power, suddenly brought into use, ins new met ol llio hctitious birth?wlticli luemsto go uncontradicted?as throwing a lew light and a revealing, and explanatory ) wer, as of tlio mid day sun, back into the ecesses and darkness of the past. As we suggested, in opening these, our iews of the matter?it is the fifth act that 'Xplains all?that which was crooked is itraightcncd?what was dark made clear, md wo all rise from tlio contemplation of >110 of the strangest drammas over enacted 11 our city, in the belief that now we unlerstaud the whole plot, and with the hopo hat justice may now strike with such firmiess '' ..dagod clearness of vision h?c the cuilty will have no further chaucc >/escape. MISS SMITH, THE SCOTCH PRISONER. TIio liritish public and papers seem to igree in regarding the verdict of " not proSn," given by the Scottish jury in the caac >f the young woman charged with poisonug lnr lover, only as a legal necessity, leavng a moral conviction of her guilt. She joes forth to the world a ruined girl, niorillv, mentally, every way. The verdict of 1 not proven" is not known in this country ; et it should have a place, the Traveler veil says, for it fills a necessity between 'guilty" nnd "not guilty," the only verlict recognized by our courts. There are ften cases where juries here arc obliged to eturn " not guilty," when * not proven" rould he jnoro in accordance with tim f:iMs ml with their own feelings. The Scotch nrv consists of 15 persons ; and in the case if Miss Smith, two were for a verdict of ;uilty on each of the counts. The thirteen itiiers stood for the verdict as rendered.? 'here is a deep, telling moral in tho folawing account from a Liverpool Journal, if the manner in which Miss Smith had teen educated by her friends : " The eldest member of a family which he has driven from home and happiness, lie was nurtured amid all the refinements of il'e, like a house plant. Her father resolved hat she should bo kept apart from the VOlld as inilf.il ns linceil.ln vmiiK' x *wl J ' "o"' "S that a severe system of seclusion from ts evils would preserve his flower, Madeine, from contamination. She was pernittcd to know of evil only as it was spoken of in the catechism. While she was a ;irl, he thought ho could mould her into a potless being by denying hcrjeven so much icijuaintauee with the outside world as is evealed in the columns of a newspaper.? L'lie London Tones might be his daily nonitor, but Madeline was too delicate to naive acquaintance with its details of life.? L'hc result was even worse than mi^ht have jeen expected, from a system so false and ;o thoroughly opposed to the healthy de elopement of human it}', in a world where noral beauty is reached through a kisowl :ilge ol the bad that lias to bo resisted and ivercome. "When she came into society, Madeline Smith plunged headlong into a ortcx, of the existence of which sho lias icon previously unaware. The hothouse >lunt was not fitted for the rough atmos" >here of the world, and it perished. The latechism was exchanged for 'Lucrctia,' and lovels of that cbiss, which were devoured villi unwholesome avidity. The fast literaure of tho day took the place of tbof?e ijood' books which she had been set to read >y good old lJr. liuattie, the vcnerablo pasor of the United Presbyterian Church, of . vhich her parents were members. Sho be:aine faster in her pace, than those of hor emale acquaintances who bad been nccusomed to what Isaac Taylor's old lady friend :aljed 'a little wholesome neglect.' She bad icfore been so well taken care of that she io\v took no care of herself. And so it mine about, in the course of a few short roars, that sho met in the poor Jersey outh with her 'fate.' She led two lives; hia wjiq llio kviaiuib I1VI/UUIIJ' VI lue JJUllWUn nto which sho had been precipitated ; and ntcr iu the night in which site had been town to the minister's bouse, perhaps to cad to this venerable man, whose eyesight iras growing dim,she wonldtrtt down.t*' he construction of a letter to L'Angelier, at trhose contents the most utterly abandoned f your Whitechapel 'unfortunates' would >lush with shame." -? Worth Knowing.?One pound of greeniopperas, costing seven ecnts, dissolrftd in we quart of wnter. ix>?i^lv<Trt%vn n. ii^up ? r ?vt- r .jwy?. vill effectually concentrate ami destroy the oulest smells. For w?fer oloeete aboard lilfM and steamboats^ about hotels,. and >tlicr public places, ihere' ? nothing co lico to cleans places as simple^gv^CfP; >crss dissolved ; and for sick roorrs, it roey >e, placed under tliQ-feed in prtytttrng' ihattrill hold water, and thuf rer,d6r a ]io*pital, r otlicr piaceft for the #5i, free from un- ilea^ant smells. Fot bnttfrott' stflJU, fth j aarkets, ?laught?i Uouaefl,aHik?, and wfew* ver tlioie ace offewfce putrid ?aees, cm- * olve copperas arid sprinkle it aWjt,i *sd.-in \ few days the ftnjelj will piia at, or mouse dies''1 ends forlb aW offensi *&<?*?- SBnK8ilii?M?A:- ' ' ' i / Vnm Ihe \\'<t*hinrtiim I'hioh. K FEW WORDS ABOUT WALKER AND XAMBAI. Under llio nbovo caption, wo find bin Into number of llio Paulding (Mississippi) <| Clnrloti n timely and sensible article, which u is written in such a culm, candid and coil- '1 H'rvalivo spirit, that it cnuuot fait to rcinovo V much of llio prejudice niul orror which cx- u ists in mnny localities in tho South in ro- ii gnrd to what is termed tho Kansas policy u of Gov. Walker and tho national aUminis* t tration. Tho broad ground at first assumed n bv sovornl oxtrnmn iniinml- ??? ,1-~ v - ?? jvuimiiO) vmsui vua UlU | V. Clarion, " tlint llio submission of tho con- j 1 slitution to a voto of tlio peoplo for ratification should not be tolerated by the South, a lias, as we always thought it should be, I been abandoned, as uuter.ablo upon any i well-established principles of Democratic i reasoning." The Clarion then adds: "All t now appear willing to leave that for the j convention itself to determine. The only < subjcct which wo can see any propriety in s the South's being concerned about if5, that, I in submitting the constitution to such a i test, the right of suffrage shall be so guard- | ed as to insure a proper application of tho principles of popular sovereignty and of tho < organtic act of the Territory." < Tho convention which is to frame the I constitution will undoubtedly provide all < needful tests ; and here, we think, the mat- . tor should rest. Our limits will only per- \ mit as to make room for the conclusion of 1 the Clai ion's article, which is as follows : < " The mistake has been made of consid- |' cring the question whether Kansas was to j : be a slave or free Stale as still an open one, and of arguing upon it as though it was < Walker's course alone which was to decide ( it against the South. If this were true, no r> ? , condemnation of him, nor of the President j who retains him in oflicc, would he too st- ^ vere. But the fact is that this question \ was virtually settled long before "Walker ever saw Kansas, or Mr. Kuelianan was inaugurated President. No intelligent man who has visited the Territory since last fall lias failed to report that the free State setwere largely in the majority. When the Territory was lirst thrown open for settlement under the Kansas act, and the struggle for the ascendency commenced, both sections of the Union put forth their best efforts to send tho largest number of emigrants. In this contest the North, with its immense surplus population and its greater libeiality in raising money, triumphed, and sent three or four times as many settlers into tne Territory as the South. "This was cxpccted bv many of the most prominent Southern statesmen from n.?i ? L- _ 11 ? .1 uiu iiisl, who yieiuuu ineir assent to the l Kansas bi!!, not because it necessarily made Kansas a slave State, but because it established a great principle which sccurcd to the South its d:gnit\r and its constitutional rights. If, under the application of this principle, in itself just, and acknowledged 30 to be by the South herself, she has lost Kansas from her inability to cope with the North in peopling new Territories, that is her misfor! line, and one which she must bear with what equanimity she can command. It is childish and absurd to vent her disappointment in railing at Walker, or the administration, for an event which they were in no manner instrumental in bringing about, and which they were utterly powerless to prevent. The only way in which Kansas can possibly be brought into the Union as a slave Stato, is by the Territorial convention which frames its Constitution withholding that instrument from a vole of the people ; and even those loudest in their condemnation of "Walker do not now insist that this should bo done. The cflects of such a course, if adopted in obedience to southern clamor, would I e evil, and evil only, to Kansas, to the Democratic party, to the causo of the South itself, and ultimately to the Union. " The charge that it jyas a mere device to cscapo a decision of the poiut by tho people could not be met; the Democratic party ,.t il. ~ \t..41 1 i 1 - in, mo iiurui wouiu uo swept irom tlio race of tlie earth, and an Abolitionist elected to the Presidency in 1800, when the South would Lave the choice of submitting' to his Administration or dissolving tlio Union.? Besides, the footing obtaiued for slavery against the will of the majority tvould be but temporary. Though the popular voice might be stifled* in the first instance, the State government would no sooner be or- | ganized and set into operation than it would makoilselfhea:d. The slavery clause would ( be stricken out of the Constitution, and the , trick by which slavery had been imposed , upon them oganfet their will would hare { the effect of seuding every northern settler , iuto the Black Republican ranks. rAe ( South would thus lo*e all practical adijAh wge from too movement, ana, invrtewiqg the Inmefttable results which followed, ) would s?$y4he consciousness^ that tboy 1 lifid beeon occasioned by ber own unwise ' flsjd fruitless attempt to fn^tgn ber institu- < tlojje upon a people who wore averse to> 1 thetn. . " "these are briefly our views upon the i ewential points of this unhappy controversy, t We forbear to eafowe ihern moreiully by ) citing at leij^tb the abundant facts 9%) at- < gumeats^wbfph, in dSrjuugm&*4, sustain them, while we feel and IxjJieve thaUthey \ mustprevttiIjjfilb the 'sober woend thought' l of. the Southern Democracy, we desinfe no jjj heated discussion wiUi those of ffretids who c hare com netted thoms^lvee to more extrouoe ? rs. Wtf most camef*? dttj? toss? party kOj?t together in sop^orl of the 9 * 1 11 Fruit i the Otii-r Jiin Hi A. FAULT FIMD1N0. Itow ready wo arc to Ibid fault! how nick to eetiMtre! How tlio least sluulow i caught nt, to build a suspicion upon !? 'lie lurn of :i head?ilia change of u couuonaiicu ; tlio moving of a linger, n smile, a od, a word, kindles llie lire of conjecture ii our imaginations, and sets that little but nighty me Idler, tlio tongue, running about 0 find foggots, and niako the slender flame 1 groat blaze, at which slander and scandal an spread their claw-like lingers and crone ong stories of evil. Wiy humanity is so <|iiiek to censuro and o slow to praise, it is dillicult to tell; wo ovo to bo well thought of, individually, ind a word of praise will send tlio heart.varm blood to our cheeks, and set the winlows of our eyes wide open with plcasuro. [v uireci compliment is nolottcu ill received, ;vcn whon we fuel lliatit was prompted b^ i selfish motive; why then, can we notfeel .lie same degree of pleasure, in ihitikiii<j ivell of others, that we do in having others .hink well of us 1 The reason undoubtedly is, that we art iducated to find fault; taught from oui cradles, to be suspicious. The grown mem bers of a family, where there are little cliil Jren, seidom use the caution that tliej mould in speaking of others. The fault: (and they may be real faults) of their neigh bors are discanted upon, their foibles dis seeled, and their eccentricities laughed at The eyes of the little folks, thus grow watch ful to notice every peculiarity, until insensi bly to themselves, and wholly uuthough uf by their parents, they become fault-lind ers in miniature, and llaw-finders in eveiy Miiusj. iL is a jmiauie atiu crying evil, Ilia Lliis turn is so early given to the youtlifu imagination, for it is so much more lovel) and g'nvs such delicate shades and louche to the character, to Ivok on everybody1 bright side. Every bush yields ripe an unripe fruit; the ripe we seek for and k the other alone, or perhaps biing it kind! forward to the sun. that its warm, direc rays may perfect it; so every charactc bears sweet and sour fruit, and strange t say, we search only for the sour, and lov 10 in a ue wry laces over it, and cry it dowi when we had better let it alone; then w should have nothing' to say about itThere is a song called, " Look always o the sunny sideif Litis were done nioi than it is, there would be fewer guilty coi sciences, and thousands of pillows robbe of their thorns; for after all, it is a niea and cowardly thing to go about findin something to scold at, something to preten to be very sorry for, when the fault is in neighbor. Suppose the thoughtless gi over the way does stand at the gate an chat with the gentleman who came lion from church, with her a moment or so !Why infer evil, and hint with mcanin words, so that a vituperous tongue may n slander living on the wings of the wind ?AVhat if your next door neighbor conn Lome Into at night! JIow do you lcno what detains him, and by what right il j'ou in fur wrong? Strango, that what seen a flaw, is suic to be blazoned abroad, whi! the thousand little channels made up < good deeds, llow on unnoticcd. We inn< nify little evils, while those in whom v sco them, may, in some way, be great* blessings to the world than we. The gi whose thoughtless tongue gives occasjon fc prim prudery's ho rifled animadversion, ma do a thousand good deeds in the sphere i which she lives, that may move angels t admiration; the man whose failings sho ?1.~ P I - * .1 uii lhu Minacu, iii.iv oc purer 111 neart, inn you who sit in judgment upon him. Thct is sadness enough in the world, heave knows, crime and pollution of every sluul but why smell of llie poppy, when theswe< rose bends its beautiful head by its side, a covered with dew, and rich with fragranc " IIow delightful to think, that thoug sin ar.d suffering abound, not a day pnssc in which some act of mercy, some deed c charity is not performed; tliat the poc man bestows liberally 011 Ihs poorer an Buffering brother; that not a sun rises ati sels but soino sacrifices aro made unknown perl?ifp3 to but One. How ninny a feebl woman is toiling uncomplainingly, thoug] with a bleeding hearf, to support those win nre dear to her; how many a rich niaidei gives of her affluonce, to soino one depen dent upon her. We do wrong when we censure indis criiniualely, for among both rich and pool there are feeling hearts. Nay, wo d< wrong? when wo censure at all. God ha: not delegated any such power to us, nm what he sanctions not, let "us not daro t< [lo. .. M. A. D. Jt i - The Great J&lmfmtor.?A Southern gentle nan, nt a tetel, perceiviftg tbji the dining room servant, a uegro^ witi bestowing his attentions efB&wbere, to hii >wn neglect, called up John, *nd nccoatec iip? in- tills ?ise:-r" Johi^, I tmve servants at homo, and ail vaitod on as i^gentierasn should be. JUm ieg|eeted here, aqd am tigpd of it. , Igiv< ;ou fair notios that I will wbip you Hke i tog unless 4pm behavo better." The consequence was tbflCtJobn becnra< -ery aUentJv# ttridg th'd few daya that the ;entlomai? renamed. On goiog away fohr. was called up aod presented with t lollar or two, ffbfcb' he Ifatie -aoltqowi rfged:? " Shank ^ Southernjf**Jem*r ilwnys so-?li?k u? iifexrWawto *e don': 1 V??? y aifyole wat? you in the oaletjfc Imraanitj,' or something like that, ut (toy ncbcr gib m a dolia* or two to iewaletts wid." $l)c 'SVbbcvnl c Banner, f Published Every Thursday Morning, by DAVis to onmws. f W. O. DAVIS ...."..rr..Editor. T. B. CJREWS Publisher. TERMS: ' { Two Doli.arh per annum, if paid in ndvnncu; Two l)ui.i.Ant< and Finy C'knth if not paid within fi six moiittiH, ami Titukk D?>i.i.u:h if not paid before the eml of tli<: year. All subscription* not ^ liinitcil at Iho time of subscribing, will l>o considered as indefinite, and will bo continueJ until u arrearages arc puid, or at the option of the Pro- ? prictors. Orders from ot her States must invuri <ihly be accompauicd with the C'uxh. (j RATES OF ADVERTISING. d i The Proprietors of tlio Abbeville fhtiiwr and Intlr/tviiJriit J'rrxs, have established the following rates of Advertising to bo charged in both papers: Kvery Advertisement inserted for a less time '! than three months, will bo charged by the inBcr- , i tion at Ono Dollar per Square (l| ineli?the , space of 1 .! solid lines or lens,) for the first iuxnr- ' lion, and Fifty Cents lor each subsequent in- 1 I sertion. " r VfT The Commissioner's, Sheriff's, Clerk's and ' Ordinary's Advertisements will be inserted in " > hotli papers, each charging half price. i SherilV's Levies, Ono Dollar each. Announcing a Candidate, Five Dollars. 5 Advertising an l'Istray, Two Dollars, to he ' r paid I?y the Magistrate. Advertisement!* inserted for three months, or louder, at the following rates: . 1 square ;? nionllis ? 5.00 1 square )1 months S.Oo ' 1 square mouths 10.0k s 1 square 12 mouths 12.00 r.,..<uc? .1 lll.HIIIIS N AM I * 2 squares r> months l-l.oO i . 2 squares 'J months 18.00 i 2 squares 1 '1 mouths 2o.')0 < :t Ki|ii:ircs U mouths 10.OU ] 3 squares t> months lii.Oo :{ squares y mouths 21.(lo 3 i?|iiura 12 mouths 25.00 t 4 squares 3 months 12.00'^ 4 squares ti montlis 20.00 4 squares* ".I mouths 2'i.Oo - 4 squares 12 mouths Sfl.Oo 5 squares months 15.tilt 5 squares G mouths 25.(10 ll 5 squares y months Hl.oO g squares 12 months 35.00 ? 0 squares 3 months 2o.dll s G squares ti month.'* "lO.on i (? squares '.I months " ' .OO s 0 squares 12 months Itl.oo il 7 squares :i months 25.un , 7 s^puuvs li mouths 35.0(1 7 squares '.I mouths '11.0(1 V 7 squares 12 months 45.00 8 squares 3 mouths JlO.Oii 8 squares (> months to.Oti !f K squares '.I months -Mi.OO Q 8 squares 12 months OH.OO l'Yuctions of Squares will be charged in proportion to the above rates. '' ?-3?" Business (.'arils for the term of one year, ? will he chariretl ill Iirnnnrliim I" <l>" occupy, nt ()!? Dnlhtr per line spuco. n ^'2"/" Fur all n<lvert.i.scinciilK set in Jou/,lr col ^ mini, Fifty per Cent, extra will lie added lo tlio ii'.iovc rat<-?. >* DAVIS A- CREWS, ,,1 Fur Itniimr; li:e & wii-son, " J'or ll rpiiK 1'roprietitrs of the Aiibkvili-k Hannf.ii | m- ?<>um rcdpcciiuuy iiiiorm 1110 puijlic lliat. , thoy are prepared to execute all kinds of Job Work, willi neatness and dispatch. Having 1.1 incurred considerable expense for printing materia!.-1, tliev have 110 hesitancy in saying that they l<; are us well prepared, and ean do as neat work ? as any other establishment in the up-country of South Carolina. " They will also keep on hand a complete us_'t sort incut of TP.T .Aixri^g, of whieh we have now on hand the following s List, to whieh wo shall continue to add until v we got a complete assortment: Sum. J'ro; I-'i. Fa. on Sum. I'ro.; Ca. Sa. on 0 Sum. I'm.; Sub. 'Writs; Sub. Tickets in Law; Sub. Tickets iti K<|iiity ; Fi. I'a.; Cu. Sa ; Ca. Sn. in Cafe ; Cop y Writ in Case ; Deeds of Convcylo mice; Declaration on Note; Commission to Kx5j amine Witnesses; Judgment by Confession iu Ansiunpsit; Judg. on Writ of Enquiry, Damaged ; Assessed by Clerk?Debt or Assumpsit, Judg. , by Confession in Debt, on Single Hill; Judgment ou Writ of Enquiry, Damages Assessed by Jury ; 2r Judgment in Assumpsit at Issue, Plea Withr| drawn ; I osta? Judgment on Issue Tr ed. Verdict for l'laiiitilf; Mortgage for Personal Properly ; >r .Mortgage of Real Kslate; Magistrates'Summons; .. Do. Executions; Do. Recognizance ; Summons lo Defaulting Jurors. ti May US, 1S07 ? - - ? BOOTS AND SHOES! " J FOH. CASH. ? 1,01)0 PAIR MKX'S BEST KIP BROUANS. n 1,(iu0 |>:iir .Men's U<1 quality Brognns. pj l,0uU pair Men's ."M quality Urobilin. l,l)ii() pair Women's I'tjigcil liootces. 1,000 pair Women's Pegged (2d quality) liootces. II f>ol) pair Buy's best Kip ltrogans 500 pair Hoy's 2d quality Brogxus. L%* 500 pair Youth's Brognns, various qualities, ll 50o pair Ladies' Gaiters, from $1.25 to ?2.50. fiOO pair Ladies'Slippers and Ties, I'm 50c. to $1.50. !S L..:--vi 1.1.1 or. >f I<iO pair (louts' fine Calf Hoots. 100 pair Gents' fine Cloth Gaiters. 2u0 )>air Women's Goal liootces. d 2,00o jiuir Negro Drogans. i 1,0?0 House Servant's Shoes. Together with all other kinds of Shoes usually 11 to be t'ound in a Shoe Store. Call and see. a Just received and for sale l?y ' e \V. S. WOOD, ' il 185 Richardson Street, Columbia. ' 0 March 24, 1857. 48 ly ' 1 The State of South Carolina, ABBEVILLE DISTRICT. In the Common Picas. William Willsou, ) vs. > Foreign Attachment , ? Jas. A. Liddell. ) Thomson Sc Fuir, Attorneys. V > "I1THEREAS the Plaintiff did, on tho eleventh 9 YY day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty1 seven, file his deelarrttion against the Defendant, ' who, it is said, is absent from and without tho ) limits of tliis State, and lias neither wife iiov attorney known within the same, upon whom a copy of tlio said declaration might be served? " It is therefore ordered, that the said Dcfen dttut do appear and plead to the said declaration, t on or before the twelfth day of April, eighteen buiidro4.uiid fifty-eight, otherwise final and ab- < ' solute judgment will tiy!U be given aud awarded , nL'uinJl him. MATTHEW McDONALP, c.C.P. , -: 'Clork't OfScp, April 11,1857 5*~ly dissolution. ! > rpnB Virm of WIER A MILLER was this r' I X d?w.dinsolv?*d byjnutuai consent, the lim- , Station of the Partnership having expired. The k. * 'hame of tfee Fiipi will be used in the closing up * I of the business, by eith^r on^ of us. iJ All persons indebted M as By Note or Acooant* 4 will please come forward ana pay up as-flpoh as -j ? tolKsnlmil. mu i* i- J?;?V..1 ?t- ? tJ. , ? .? wvni ?u?i niit in* duh rj now hIiouIJ bo "closed jvb Arrim a? >ou.dt>Ie. ' ? > / . WIKR, (j. mcd. miller. . | I >- ^g?1 I86fl- 19 - ?rv j PEWRTN *TCOTHBAH, t Allaraeyi it Jaw m# SaHcU&s U Eqolly. i 1 ' 6QR*j -thc boe fyrnt^j "ifOmpiei < . I- BY fcftO'WAJf 4 CEREIN^V; fj UW RlftGH, *1/4 j a*. m/^fjiriw, j Aft 8*<0owkan. ' Jau-?>**** ,?- ffl * - tf 1 f ' WM. K BLAKE, >' ' Attorney . A tin SOLICITOR IN 2fQl?rf% >' : 8 1 Will practice in-tha Courta of Afcbeville, Lau- a c * / reus and Newberry. OFFICE AT HKWBERB.Y C. H. Ocl. 14, J 856. t'C } v ji YEW 1) ItUlr STOltE! AT GREENWOOD. 1111 K undersigned, Druggist and Apothecary, Iiuh juiil ri'celvwl u very complete stock of Druga and IVIedioinea, i-lrcled with tf 10 greateM care for this market. lis ntock consist* of every variety usually fouud it (!ily Apothecary Shop*. GxtrnctM of all the vegetable preparations ioni the bent (.'heinistH. prepared from the crude motein I, mid warranted to be of the strength laiu own in llic United States I'liarinacuopa.. Paloiit ITIodiriiiCN, direct from llie unmifuctoiy, as cheap as they liavo ever been old in this place. _ *' f A vory mipciior article of Bl*nil<ly, for 'irjichiat purpose* on It/. Fine Old l'orte, Maleira, mid Sherry Wines, Sclieidam Sehuupps, ic., Ac. lie will keep constantly a fino assortment of ^ Confectioneries, Tobacco and Segars. It would be iinnecessary to enumerate all the men-.-, jo / /ii/xi'-tti/m, lie pledges himself to ill their orders wiili us good Medicines as cun j e obtained elsewhere ; and to his friends, lie I ledges like satisfaction as to the Goods aud Jf i:riiw. ('all at the Store formerly occupied as B' lie l'ost GIKcc. J AS. II. ltlLKY. (iri'eiiwuoJ, S. C., Nov. 1, 18.ri0. i29-tf 1TTENTI0N, PLANTERS ^ Economy and Utility I \ I'M1K undernamed having purchased the Right I of Warliclt's PLOW, Patented April * . id, 1803, will sell 1'lantation Rights, per \ Mow $1.00 Hocks delivered at Greenwood Depot, or resilience <>f \Y. 1'. llill 4.50 With small Scooter 6.tH* With Turning Shovel, for from ?0.00 to C.5t> This l'low, from its simple structure, durability, lightness of draught, ease of management, Adaptation to the dittercnt Shares used in tlia _ iidtivation of the farm, and consequent cheapness, is commending itjelf to gcnernl use os n Superior 1'urntiinj Implement wherever tried. HILL & ANDREWS. Greenwood, S. C., Get. 0, 185G. 25-Iy We, the undersigned, having examined and ( tried the Warlick Plow, concur in the above cuiiiiiiciiuuiiotid. .) A M ICS GltGSW ELL, * \ JOHNSON SALE, It. M. WHITE, SAM'L MiCOWAN, I.AUK IN REYNOLDS, ROIl'T W. L1TES, A. \V ID EM AN. " (' k.ms : I liavo us< <1 I lie Plough yon sent mo ami inn iniieli pleased with it. I think it the best Plough I have ever used. It combines economy and utility in 11 high degree. It breaks up (lie soil well and lo a good depth, with one mulo. I am mi well pleased with it, that I wunt more ??r tliein. ****** *' Very respect fully yours, "THUS. C. PEIIRIN." LAND WARRANTS. An Unlimited Number Wanted. rpiIR undersigned is still in the market Tor JL Land Warrants. Prices, however, at present nre much <h-|ircMcd ; though he will pledgo himself to pay us much as can be ha<] for them in any market. Remittances inade at their high-' est market value, by Sight Drafts on New York or Charleston, for all Warrants soul to me by mail. A.l.lress W. C. DAVIS, Abbeville C. H., S. C. / "* Sept. ?,1S56. *20 tf I H. MILLS, 1 * IOWA, WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA 1 I,AM> office:, 1 AT DUBUQUE, IOWA. 1 YftAItTICl.'LAK attention nnulinll..!?'!" ? - ? | ?w viiw ivvainij^ | A of l.utid Warrants for persons South, on the finest selected Timber ami Prairie Land*. Warrants loaned to (settlers <111 ono year's time at HI per cent. Interest, charging ?1.2.1 per Acre for Warrant. Taxes paid, Collections made anil remitted for in Sight Kxehange. Money loaned at high rates of Interest. Investments made.? I."nourrent. money bought, tie. 11 j' Kclefs to \Ym. C. Davis, Esq., Abbeville C. II., s. c. Sept. 3, ltfoO. 20 tf Til IS STAT IS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Abbeville JJixtricl?In the Common 1'lras. Amos Clark, jr., j Attachment. > ?. [ McGowan & Perriiv James A. Liddell. ) PIIF's Att'ys. W1IEUKAS, flic Plaintiff*(lid, on the thirtyfirst day of October, 1850, file his declaration against the Defemlmit, who (us it is said) is absent from and without the limits of this State, aiul has neither wife nor attorney known within the same, upon whom a copy of the said declaration might be served. It is therefore oidered, that the said Defendant do appear and plead to tho said declaration, on or before the first day of November, which will be in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Seven, otherwise final and absolute Judgment will then be given and awarded against him. MATTHEW M. DOXALD, c. c. p. Clerk's Office, Oct. 30, 1850. ly The State of South Carolina. % Abbeville District.?In the Common Pita*. m James T. Buskin, ) Attachment. W vs. { Buskin, ITfTa Attorney. * M Junie.s A. Liddell. ) WHEREAS the rinintitT did, on the eighteen tli tiny of October, eighteen hundred aatl fifty-six, file bis declurut ion against the Def&nihint, who, (ii is said,) is absent from and ttitboot [ho limits of thin Slute. mid bus neither wife nor attorney known within the same, upon whom a \.? of the said declaration might be serre'd5. It is therefore ordered, that the eaid Defendant io appenr and plead to the said declaration, or? . ?r before the nineteenth day of Octolter eighteen itindred ami fifty-seven, otherwise final and abiolute judgment will then be given and awaked . igninst him. . - 4 MiTTni??r m.tiaw ? ?* iiiuiT C. C. P." Clerk's Oflicc, Oct 18, 1850 27 ly ^ S. McGOWAN, : ' attorney; at Xtaw1, Office in Law Range, y Next Door to Thomson dc Fa ABBEVILLE C. H V:-S- 3c. Jan. 8. 1857. 87 X . ' " ffifV' Just Heceived, -v" SIX DOZEN" HOOP All Sizes and all Prices- H , CHAMBERS ?L MARSHALLJv, . March 18, 1857. 47 , ? . Jt|:; f! A Tflr BttV-A w 'jumC4 car The friends of JOSEPII T, l pe#tFuUy announce Mm a Candidate for it the'ensuing ofecllori". ' ^ ^ J3T" The fnend#of RAffc t^spfectfully annaerioirlilin, ,ifcUwW*??Ze I9t Sheriff of A^tfviiteyPi?tf^%^ati?oj^t^fe_^<K \ [rcie'^*, far Tho friendajof O. *u liiu-da n (Jandidatq fgf CWei# bf yv;' he oti?ui?g olfaction. . "*' < ;7f>'r**. ? [TT Thft. frianTI? o?RiMitoP>!5K^Bp?^ V* pceifuUy KnOfM?pehto'in* ,' ir niyie enauigy-Eleeiioiu .?*+'_ r^~ yiie'mpnevpu* friewsUaa^jCdf^T. jjjMmRm-'*' ftr Sheriff atTwo ,ys?B^-^ffefc:_-:-: iterifr arthe clecrt<^^ w The friend* (>f'JA>jtfR yi. CObD 'ih?uueo litmus u CumJitHUc for &ieri(T at tfiC'Aiu, ujj clcctiuUi rw***