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Ifec CoJiagc Tffgideo'* Song.
Twar in the spring-time of my life.
When hopes were bright and eares were few;
Pd wander from my "Cottage Home,"
To gatiier flowers bathed in dew.
One morning, wearied from my walk,
1 sat me down by the rlver-eide.
Upon a eeat formed by a rock?
To watch the ebbing, playful tide.
My flower* I made into a wreath,
t.Asd said tliis eve 1 will thee wear,
How sweet will look tl?ese wild-wood flowers?
Within my glossy raven hair.
Beware, mew are. the river sighed.
Hid in that garland lies a thorn ;
ihv brow tlioti must not place
Those flowers?they will sting when worn.
I laughed to snoax such idle talV,
My clinplet on my brow I placed ;
And on the river's brink I stood?
Itcfleetcd saw a haughty face.
Tin- evening came?toy flowers I wore.
And all adm'red my simple crown?
Yet still?for all?-where'er 1 turned,
I skkmbo to moet the river's frown.
Twos midnight when frofn off my brow,
I wearied flung my wreath aside?
But ah! too latk, the thorn held fast,
And saiJ?"thou heedeet not the tide."
Such, such is life 1 we do not take,
A friendly word, in kindness given;
And not until the thorn lias pierced?
In prayer we raise our eyes to Heaven.
JHtartlliwfaus Jirntoitg.
> jProfwor Fiogcl devotee two hundred and
Mventy page* to profoundly philosophical investigation
of the orgin, twe, and benefit of
laughter generally, and treats of its different
cause* and aspects under thirty-Wen distinct
heads. lie is able to inform us how to judge
a man's character and disposition by bearing i
him laugh. The melancholy mao'a laugh is
% poor hi, hi, hi 1?the choleric temperament
hows itself in, a he, he 1 the plegmalic in a
cheerful ha, ha. ha !?and a sanguine habit
U betrayed by tie own characteristic, ho, ho,
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Two hundred and seventy pages devoted
to laughter 1 But not too many. Aa a remedial
agent nothing equals it. Ooe hearty
* laugh orery day will care each and all who
ana sick, or any way ailing, of whatever complaint,
and keep those in health always well.
The laugh cure will even beat .the water cure,
potent as it is. And the two combined, if universally
applied,would soon close every apothecary
Chop, lav everv physician,, water cure
included, on the shelf, and banish every form
of disease from among thera. All its giggles
effectually stir up every visceral organ,
churn the stomach and bowels more effectually
than anything also can possibly do?
Hence the easy laughers are always fat?
Mw55fwe *?st?a !
with a real rush, hurst open closed pores,
end out out morbid matter most rapidly?
fqr bow soon does the hearty laughter indpw
free perspiation?set toe brain in motion
to manufacture emotions, thoughts, and
mentality, ae nothing can exoite it, aad uniTOksaUy
practised would be worth mors to
tba raeo, thsn if California dcpoejtes covered
the wboja earth 1 Only when fully tried,
can it bcduly appreciated. Laughter it life;
while sadnesa and long-faced sedoteness is
jtraedica! neighbor telle the following v?
While on a picnic excursion with n party
of you#* people, discajteingy erow'a nest
on ?4bcfc precipice, tb% girted in great
>'; glee to see who would reach it first. Their
baste being groat* than prudence, some lost
tbelr holds, audwtfce seen rolling andtumh*
ling down the bMI-siddlbonneta smashed,
clothes torn, postures rifflbloue, Ac* bnt no
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ed wtth each other, and in the wood** they 1
indulged to a perfect surfeit. They roared t
out with merry peal on peal of spontaneous
laughter; they expressed it by hooting and |
hallooing when ordinary laughter became in- '
sufficient to express the merriment they felt 1
at their own ridiculous situations and those
of their mates; and oner afterward the bare I
mention of the crow nest scene, occasioned
renewed and irrepressible laughter. i
Years after one of theii* number fell sick, ]
became so low that she could not speak, and <
was nbout breathing her last. i
Our informant called to see her, gave his i
name, and tried to make himself recognized, i
but failed till lie mentioned the crow's nest, 1
at which she recognized him, and began to
laugh, and continued every little while re I
newing ir ; from that time began to mend, t
recovered, and still Jives a memento of the
laugh cure.
The very best application of laughter is in
connection with intellect, as the best soulstirring
speech where some publio folly or .
wrong is held up to merited ridicule?the
location of inirtht'ulndSs at the side of causality
indicating their conjoint exercise.
But whether we laugh wisely or foolishly
at something or nothing; at ourselves or
others; let us ha-ha ! many times a day, and
laugh off many of those ills and petty an- ]
noranoM ni. nn.v nrw tnn ??? ???
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fret and cry.
Tlio hi, hi, hi ! he, he, ho ! ha, ha, ha ! ho, (
ho, ho ! mentioned in the above quotation ,
na signs of character, are all true, but cm- *
body only tl?o merest glimpse of thoc<o char- ,
act eristic* disclosed l?y different laugh*. <
Thus, continued laughter, continuity, and ap- |
plicatjbn ; while a short ha, ha ! of only two ,
ejectioh*, and the first the most forcible, sig- ,
r.ifies *good on the spirit," but without con- ,
secutivene**. What such can do with a |
rush, they will do tirst-ratc, yet will plod j
over nothing. Whole-souled, *|K>ntancous j
persons huijjh right out heartily and loudly, |
vrliilo secretive persons suppress their laugh- (
tor, and In pocritea change their counten- j
ance into an unmeaning leer. Warm feel- .
ing but reserved persons hold in for a while,
then burst into a broad hearty laugh. Such ,
will be cold and stoical on first acquaintance j
and towards uncongenial*, yet warm and j
devoted friends, when their affections, adhc- ,
wve or conjugal, are once enlisted. DLc:im- ,
mating persons laugh at sense, or only when j
something laughable is presented ; while the j
undiscerning laugh about, nstnuch at what j
is a little laughable, as at what is superlative- j
ly ridiculous. ,
Cast iron conservatives lau^li little, nnd j
then by rule; and proud aristocrats must
keep on a dignified, hard-faced look, while j
true republican familiars laugh freely. Vain
persona laugh much, at least with their faces,
and at what they h;tve said and done. For- j
ciblc persons laugh "good and strong," while a
tame ones laugh tamely. Some laugh mniu- j
ly with their faces, others with both face i
and bodv. The former is belter for health .
than nothing, yet a lb<?u??nd tiroes more ,
healthy is the latter. ,
The old fogy notion, tlint to Inugh out loud <
is decidedly vulgar, especially for a female, ,
is simply ridiculous. It is on a par with j
breathing, thinking, and every natural func- j
tion. True, there is a coarse, gross, sensual, ,
and an exceedingly vulgar laugh, jet ita vulgarity
conaista in the sensualism of tbo laugh- j
ter and its heartiness. ,
2M god Science.
The new French floating batteries are en- |
tirely built of iron, and covered with a shell
of the aame metal, under which the chimney
is lowered and concealed during action.?
Trials have been rood* against this shelt with
64-poundera, but they only produced a
slight dent, the projectiles themselves re- <
bounding far away. When sbut the batte- I
ries look like a tortoise?broader in front
than behind. The front battery is armed i
with thirty guns of the heaviest calibre.? i
The port holes are in their turn closed by
lids, that open of themselyes at the moment
tbe gun is fired, and then shut instantly. A
amen orifice in tlia lid enables the (runner to
take aim.
The depth to which volcanoes penetrate
has been approximately estimated, upon
good data, and found not to exceed seven or
eight miles; and whilst the empved rimiiefi
are derived solely from materials that do not
exceed 20 times that of water, it must follow
that forfar below the volcanic sources the density
of the compounds mast at least be ?d
limes that or water.
Messrs. Sham A Ames, of Baltimore, have
invented a revolving Mttery which thev can
fire eighty tim^ns mmuto. A larger battory,
carrying fow pound balls, tbey say can
be fired fifty times a minute without cessation.
Tbfeentire operation can be performsd
by One man, and so complete is Its arrangement
and construction that a premature
discharge is almost impossible.
The-Niagara railway suspension bridge?
that triumph of engineering?is now completed.
When first projected it wsa declared
by an authority than Robert Stephenson
flvbe impracticable; and even when
its consjflftciuiUgttasomewhat advanced he
jmva^ nkl^W8j>ion that though light caroWt
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break down beneath the weight of a railway
train. The most peculiar fact just now is
that the engineering world declare that, had
the name principle of construction been applied
a few years ago, the Britannia tubular
oridge of the Straits of Menai, in England,
by Stephenson, might hare been dispensed
with, and the end be accomplished at onethird
the cost.
l>r. Hays states that the chemical composition
of the iron recently found in Liberia is
pure iron, 98.40 ; quartz grains, magnetic
oxide iron crystals, nnd zeolite 1.00. This
statement is interesting, as it settles in the
affirmative, contrary to the opinion of many
if not most scientific men, the question as to
whether terrestrial native iron does exist.?
Ihe discovery of native malleable iron in Liberia
is also a fact of much interest, both to
the scientific and the philanthropic world.
"I be old dJDoh>qi> "
It was thus a few days since, we heard a
k'OUntr strinnlilirr of si*t?>^n llovirrnnlinr? ?1,A
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nolher who bore him. By coarso husbands
*'6 hnve heard wives called so occasionally,
.hough in the latter case the phrase is more
>ften used endearingly. At all times, as
sommonly spoken, it jars upon the ear and
?hocks the sense. An "old woman" should
l>oan object of reverence above and beyond
all phrases of humanity. Her very age
thould be her surest passport to courteous
sonsi deration. The aged mother of a' grown
jp family needs noother certificate of worth.
She is a monument of excellence, approved
*nd warranted. She has fought faithfully
Hhegood fight," and come off conqueror.
Upon her venerable faco she bears the marks
jf the conflict in all its furrowed lines. The
inost grievous ills of life have been hers ;
rials untold and unknown, save to .God and
nerself, she has borne incessantly, and now,
n her old age, her duty done, patiently awaiting
the appointed time, she stands more truy
beautiful than even in youth I more hoa
arable and deserving than ho who has slain
lis thousands or stood triumphant upon the
proudest field of victory.
Young man, speak kindly to your mother,
ind even courteously, tendierly to her. But
t little time and you shall see her no more
brcver. Her eye i? dim, her form is bent,
md her shadow falls grave ward. Other*
nay love when the has pawed away; kindlearted
sisters, perhaps, or she whom of all
he world you choose for a partner, she may
ove you warmly, passionately; children may
ove fondly, but never again while time is
our?, shall the love of woman be to you art
bat of your old, trembling mother has been.
In agony alio bore you! through pulling,
lelpless infancy, her throbbing breast was
rour safe protection and support; in wayward
and touchy boyhood, she bore palienty
with thoughtless rudeness and nursed you
wfely through a legion of ills and maladies.
Her hand it was that bathed yonr burning
>row or moistened the parched lip; her eye
hat lit up the darkness of wasting, nightly
rigils watching always in your fitihl sleep by
rour side, ns none but her could watch.
3h, speak not her name lightly, foryoucanlot
live so many years as would suffice to
hauk her fully. Through recklessness and
impatient youth, she is your counsellor and
?olace. Up to bright manhood she guides
your improvident stops, nor even there foriake?
or forgets. Speak gently then, and
reverently of your mother, and when yow
Loo should become old'it shall in the same
degree lighten the remorse whioh shall be
yours for sins, to know thnt never wantonly
have you outraged the respect due to the
'old woman."
influence of IJ^Iriqgc.
Habit and long life together are more necessary
to happiness, and even to love, than
is generally imagined. No one is happy
with the object ot his attachment, until lie
lias passed many days, and, above all, many
days of misfortune with her. The married
pair must know each other to the centre of
their souls?the mysterious veil which cov
ered the two spouses in the primitive church,
njust be raised in its inmost folds, how closely
soever it may be kept drawn to the rest
of the world. What I on account of a fit of
caprice, or burst of passion, am I to lie exposed
to the fear of losing my wife and my
children, nad to the hope of pass
ing my declining days with them t Let no
one imagine that fear will make mc become
a letter husband. No; we do not attaob
ourselves to a possession of which w?
are not aecure; we do not love property
which we are in danger of losing. The soul
of a man, m well as his body, ia incomplete
without hie wife; he has strength, she has
beauty; he combats the enemy and labors
in the field, but he understands nothing of
domestic life; his companion is wailing to
prepare his repast and swoetcn bis existence.
He has crosses, snd the partner of his life ia
there to soften them; his days may be sad
and troubled, but in tbe chaste arms of hia
wife lie finds oomfort and repose. Without
woman, man would be rude, solitary. Woman
spreads around him the flowers of existence,
as the creepers of the forests, which
decorate the trunks of sturdy oafm with thaii
perfumed garlands. Finally, the Christian
pair live and-die united; together they rem
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| the fruits of their union; lu the dust they lie
side by aide; and they are reunited beyond
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Doto 1?iicb Otoesf Xboti?
At tliis season, men ar j prej a ing to settle
their accounts for the year. They inquire
about the amount of their taxes and
of their debts to individuals. "Hour much
do I owe!" and "How much is due to me !"
are questions of absorbing interest. Is not
this, then, a titling time to extend the inquiry?to
ask our souls, in reference to God's
goodness and grace, "how much owest thou!''
We all owe much for sparing mercy?for
die protection of our homes and the supply
of our wants during tlio year. Many are
indebted to God for special prosperity in
business?for unusual health?for additions
to their objects of love?for new sources of
domestic joy. To multitude* this has been
a bountiful season. And what have we rendered
unto the Lord for all his benefits ?
Careless, worldlv-tninded reader, nntise
and ponder this question ? Think of God's
righteous claims upon you! JIow easily lie
might have out you off in your sins! how easily
he might have plunged you into poverty
and want! Is it nothing that he lias kept
you alive, and given you so much health and
success? As an honest man, you expect to
meet every honest claim. Hero is one of
llie most just, cfenr 'ftttd urgent. Von mayrepudiate
it, and yet walk erect among
your neighbors; but you aro dishonored and
disgraced in the sight of your own conscience.
Tn the sight of God, and of all holybeings
in his universe. And the longer you
neglect to meet this claim, the greater it
frowa. It accumulates more rapid than a
ebt at compound interest! O, begin, then,
at once to repay God, though it be but in
poor thanks and the offering of a worthless
heart, for his goodness and his mercy !
Christain, you profess to recognize the
claims of Goth Consider them now, as the
veor is drawing to a close ! What havuyou
rendered to him for all his truth and grace?
IIow have you repaid his constant care; his
patichce with your unbelief; bis gentleness
when you were wayward and perverse; his
seeking you when you wandered ; his rcstor- I
ing you when you errod , his aid in temptations
; his light amid darkness ; his strength
when you wero weak, and his grace in every
time of need? O, if God hud abandoned
you a year ago, how desolate and desperate
mirdil vonr rniwlitinn now V**' \'?f iff2<w1
had not been with you continually, how sadly
and hopelessly your soul might have
made shipwreck long ago!
Can formal thanks and heartless service
meet our obligations ! Will it be enough
to do as we havo done, and are doing I?
Nor do we not owe a fidelity and devotion
far beyond that of the present or the past!?
Should we not gratefully and joyfully consecrate
every energy of our being to that service
of God ! All around us there is much to do?
the world is n wide, ripe npiritual harvest,
that is perishing for lack of reapers, if all
who have promised to labor in this harvest, j
and who have received their wages in advance,
and ten-fold more, were at work, how 1
changed the secno would be! The demand I
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than now, and it is time for each to consider
our personal obligations.?Herald.
fleigbbolrs'
Most people think there are cares enough
in the world, and yet many are very industrious
to increase them. One of tho readiest
ways of doing this is to quarrel with a neighbor.
A bad bargain may vox a man for a
week; and a bad debt tnny trouble him for a
month; but a quarrel with his neighbors
will keep him in hot water all the year
round.
Aaron Hands delights in fowls, and his
cocks and hens are always scratching uj> the
flowers of his neighbor, William Wilkes,
whose mischievous eat every now and then
runs oft* with a chicken. The consequence
is, that Wrilliat? Wilkes is one-half tho day
occupied in driving away the fowls, and
threatening 10 screw tneir long ugiy nccits
off; while Aaron Hand*, in hi* pcriodicaoutbienks,
invariably vows to skin his ncighl
bor'a cat, as sure as he can lay hold of hint.
Neighbors! neighbors! why can you not |
be at peace? Not all the fowls you oan I
rear, and the flowers you can grow, will
make amends for a life of anger, hatred, malice
or uncharitableneas. Come to tome
kind-hem ted understanding one with another,
and dwell in peace.
Upton, the refiner, has a smoky chimney,
that seta him and all the neighborhood by
the ears. The people around abuse him
without mercy, complaining that they are
foisoned, and declaring that they will indiot
im at the sessions. Upton fiercely sets
them at defiance, on the ground that his
chimney did not come to them, but tliey
came k> hie chimney.
Neighbors! neighbors! practice a little
more forbearance. Had half a dozen of you
waited on the refinor it. a kindly spirit, he
would, years ago, have so altered Ins chimney
that it would not have annoyed you.
Mrs. Thibet* is thoughtless; if it were not
aa she would never have had her large eorJit
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wnsh, wnfe having bar wet clothe* hung out |
to dry. Mr*. William* is hasty and passionate,
or she would never have taken it for!
grunted that the carpet was beaten on pur-1
pose to spite her and give her trouble. As
it i?, Mr*. Thibet* and Mis. Williams hate
one another with a perfect hatred.
Neighbor*! neighbor*! bear with one another.
We are none of us angels, and
should not, therefore expect those about us
to be free of fault*.
'Jh?-y who attempt to outwia-igle a quarrelsome
neighbor go tlie wrong way to work I
?a kind word, and still more a kind deed,'
will !>c more likel v tn Via ttnooocwfiil Tu*i?!
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children wanted to pass by a savage dog; the
one took a stick in Itis hnn I, and pointed it
at him; but this only made the enraged
creature moie fwiotts than beftwe. The other
child adopted a different plan; for, by
(jiving the dog a picce^nf bread and butler
16 was allowed to pass, the subdued animal
wagging his tail in quietude. If you happen
to have a quarrelsome neighbor, conquer
him by civility and kindness; try the bread
and butter system, and keep your stick out
of sight. This is an excellent Christian admonition,
"a soft word turnclh away wrath,
but grievous words stir up anger. Prov.
15; 1.
Neighbors ! neighbors! lireonlqve! and
then, while you make others happy, yon will
bo happier yourselves.
"That happy man is surely blessed,
Who of the worst things make the best ;
While he muat be of temper curst,
Who of the boat things make the worst," I
"Be ye of one mind,*1 says the apostle,:
"having compassion one for another, love as <
brethren, he pitiful, be courteous ; not ren-<
dcring evil for evil or railing for railing; but j
contu r. wise, blessing.?1 Peter 3 : 8, 9.? '
Ohl Humphrey.
Seqfi) of q HJisci-.
$50,000 Aching for Circulation.?The
well known miser, John Ilorrymnn, aciti/e i
of this place, died very suddenly on Friday
night of last week. The deceased was a
German, who, by some means, had amassed
a handsome fortune, which we have heard
variously estimated at from twenty-five to
filly thousand dollars, but unfortunately for
the public, as well as himself', he belonged
to tlie lowest grades of misers. In fact, the
most avaricious and loathsome character of
U1JU class ever painted by the master hand
of Dickens, to use a cant phrase, "was no
patching to him.n
Of his history, place of nativity, or friends,
nothing is known, and any allusion to these
matters, even by his most intimate friends,
always exasperated him.
lie leaves, so far as at present is known,
no one to inherit his estate, which will in all!
probability escheat to the State. No will
has yet been discovered, and it is not likely
he left any. The manner of life and parsi
inonious habits of the deceased, are almost
incredible.
For the last sixteen years be lias constantly
worn the same blue linscy wooWy wamus
and pantaloons, carefully run or darned all
over with strong thread, so as to prevent the
possibility of wearing out, exc*'pt on some
importaut occasions, such as land sales or
something of that nuturo, when they gave
way to a suit of black velvet that lie often
boasted had served liiin faithfully for foity
years, lie contracted the disease of which
he died by walking over the bad roads during
the most inclement weather of the season,
all the way to Putnam and Ilenrv
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wunvivc, iv mn ??II UIO IHIUl lie |
owned there, without suflicient clothing to
protect hiin from the cold. In fuel, ve are
informed thnt ho scarcely ever wo<e n shirt
or under garment, and that tho one lie had
on when he died had not been changed for
over three month.'.
It is related of him that, but a abort time
since, notwithstanding the pile of gold and
silver ho had hoarded awav, he actually carried
an old horse shoe he had picked up
some place, about the shops, and he succeeded
in selling it f ?r half a din^c.? Sandusky
(Ohio) Vindicator.
A German society in Albany?the Turn
Verien"?is composed almost entirely of
Smiths. Tho edi'yor of the Albany Express
gives a portion of tbe roll as follows:
BigSroii : Little Sniit Sinit; from be bill ;
Sont from do hoi lei: Smit mit do store:
Sinit do blacksmith shop: Sinit mit do lager
bier shop : Smit mi'-oni any "vrow Smit
vot wants a "vrow ; Smit mit ono leg; Smit
rait two l??r?S ; Smit -mil r>i.v? Rtnil mil
de pig head, Smit niit tie pig feet ; Smit
mit de brick rard ; Smit mit de junk shop
Smit mit de bolog aa*; Smit mit ono eye
Smit mit two eyes; ;?init niit de bone picker,
Smit mit twoMvrow ^Smit mit do ewili cart;
Smit mit desegar stumps; Smit mit peach
pits; Smit niit de whiskers; Sinit mit de
red Lair; Smit mif. no hair; SiniL
A horse deader who lately effected
a sale, waa offer d a bottle of porter to confess
the animal's' failings. The bottle was
drank, and then, he said the home l?ad but
two faults: W hen turned loose in the field
he was 'bad |jb catch, and he was of no 'us?
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The following has issue 1 froth the office |
of the United States attorney General r? 3
1. It bee Wen adjudged by a long aerljp 1
of decision of the Supreme Court that the
United Stat** never hold any municipal soy- X
0 ri^nty, jurisdiction or right ot'soil in tho 3
terntoiy of which any of the new States are
IVm mod except for temporary purpose^ naibcly
to execute the trust created by deeds i f '
c-seh n of Virginia, Massachusetts, Georgia
and other State* in the original common territory
of the Union or by treatise with
France, Spain, and the Mexican republic, in
the territories of Wuiisiana the Florida*,
New Mexico and California.
2. It has We i adjndged by die same series
; of decision that the provisions of the ordiqsnce
for the organization of the North west
' Territory were extinguished by the constitu;
1 tion, er if any of iheth retain continuing raj*-"
idity, it is only so far ns they may have authority
derived from some other source of the
1 compact of cession or art of Cbi*mmLoiw?Tr?r
1 the constitution.
3. This doctrine has been applied in lead'
ing cnsea to questions touching the property
I in public lands, the relation of roaster and
slave, religion, navigable waters, and the
eminent domain and may be taken aa the
established le^nl truth.
4. In obedience to-the same principle a ad
proceeding in the same line of adjudications,
jt roust have been held, if the question had
come up for judical determination that th?
provision of the act of Mareh 0, 1820, which
undertakes to determine in advanee a perpetual
rule of municipal law for all that portion
of province of Louisiana which lies
no'tli of the parallel of 30 deg. 30 min. north'
latitude, was null and void ab incrpto because
incompatible with the dtganic fact of
equality internal right in all respect between
the old and the new States.
D ftoble
Tiik yoting men of Connecticut, known as
? ' ' ** "
...v uu>vi -JVMI3 01 .unerica," wera in State
Convention for two days at Hartford, and
closed their session with a handsome supper,
eloquent speeches ?nd good toasts.
1st Americans shall rule America.
2d. The Union of these United States aa~
llicy are, one and inseparable.
3d. To silence the clamor of faction, and
to rebuke the bus)' intringues of selfish poll*
tioinns.
4th. To see our internal resources improved,
our labor rewarded, our genius fostered,
and our manufactures, agriculture, commeroe
and national dignity sustained by an intelligent
American statesmanship.
5th. To bo educated in American sentiment
and principle, and strengthened in our
work as our ancestors were in theirs, by the
inspiration of that Sacred Book.
6th. That the sutl'iages of the American
people for political ofiices should not be given
to any other than those born on our soil,
or reared under the influences of our institu*'
tions.
7th. That we will welcome to ouc shores
the victims of tryanny from foreign1 lands,
and offering them a place by our side, w*
grant them equul justice under the pfotee-'
lion 01 the Constitution.
I 8th. Opposition to foreign military organ-'
I izations.
Oih. The doctrines of the revered Washington,
Jefferson, Adams and the immortal
patriots of the Revolution, the last "Sons of
'70," who are fast fading from our view.
10th. The good of our Country, not partv,
the Riiccess of our principles, not men.
11th. A radical charge in our naturalization
laws.
12ih. To spread abroad, and to maintain'
against all accidents of lime or of defeat, the
waxing or the waning of parties,- thoso three
great charters of American' Liberty:* th*
Constitution of the U. Sn the D cfaratiom
of American Independence,and the Bible.
13th. Union above all "side issues," and
harmony in preference to all intrigues of private
politicians?eternal hostility to foreign
officials?and united protection to American
interests. ,
no* X. G. Footer.?Whatever may b?
thought proper of Horace Greely as a politician,
no one wii! do.tbi hi* nigh imeiivcUmi
attainments and his Ability as acritio. Writing
to bis paper from Washington, he takes
the following highly complimentary notice
of the "maiden effort" of the Hon; N. G.
Foster, from Georgia, in reply to the ftpotofretic
mippcIi of Mr ?
"The other debutant wan Mr. G. Footer
of Ga.. (a Baptist clergyman, I believe,) who
K roved hiin*?*!f just the strongest mart1 who
aa *p<>ken for the Southern Anedeawe yet*
unleaa Humphrey Marshall be excepted.?
Mr. Foster in a largo built, dark oompfoxjon*
ed, Webater-lookiug man, still hi the prim*
of life, with a go**! Ihcnlty of patting word*
very solidly "k leading idea was
, the" impolicy of making a measure instead of
a principle the basis of political concord ,e*j?ej
cially* a measure yuhjected lower many eonflu \
ting interpretation* as the I. Ff'a
' war about the bw?t flisl speech I ever heard."