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JHisttflpraM ifciofchig." I
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Xnluritum of Talent. fW 5
A eotenupormjry ?** ?bat greaf%en usually
inherit Their talents from the mother.
This is a populor belief, but not (he less errone
v The mistake has arisen from ?ttflwU
w*to those ease* in which the
mother hud a superior mind, to the neglect
of theequally numerous example* where
the father possessed remaikuble abilities.
Everybody quote* the fact that Nipoleon
derived his genius from his mother. Nol>ody
mentions that Burns owed his vast abilities to !
bis father. A traveler would commit a similar
bfurider a hp ..hould describe all Americans !
aalight-haired or say that every Philadelphian
was s Quaker.
the rule, for rule there is, lios deeper, i
o . e u _ I
\jrrcvit nuiiiu^f m n ww??, nunc ?ivui buwii n
fortunate nnion of I lie mental characteristic*
of the parents as render* the progeny a genius,
thongh neither father nor mother,
perhaps, were such. Tho catalogue of emi
ncnt men, if carefully made up and honestly
scratinised with a view to elucidating the
trntb, would establish this, we liavo no doubt,
beyond controversy. For it is already known
that the child takes its mental nature in
about equal portions from its parents, and
this fact at once leads to our conclusion, as
"well as explains why brilliant parents often
have dances among their offspring.
Let us illustrate this. A man has tho
purely intellectual characteristics in greU
force, but is wanting in will; he. is consequently
a dreamy philosopher, or a visionary
speculator, lie marries a woman, who,
with but ordinary intellect, has immense en
crgy. One child of this pair nitty coinbine
tlie weakness of both parents; and will
be -in that event an irreclaimable fool. But
another may inherit the mother's wil', with
the lather's intellect; and ibis child, unless
ruined by a bad education, is certain to bo
distinguished. Or take another example.
A woman of no remarkable abilities, but
with a fine moral nature, is married to n
mail w4lh out,principle, but .possessing shining
abilities. One chihl of this pair may
hnve the good qualities of both parents, and
grow up, unless carefully guarded, to boc
Mne a brilliant vidian. Or take a third
instance. One parent may have much imagination,
but little else, and the other nothing
rcmaikahio, hut great perceptive faculties.
The union of these two characteristics
in a child will produce a poet. Tho transmission
of either, to excess, unless balanced '
by stiong reasoning powers, may make only !
a human monkey or a romantic fool.
The law explains also why so few eminent '
men belong to ouc family. .They have raroly
been two distinguished poets, painters,
generals or even statesmen, who wore father 1
and son, or even brothers. The older and
younger-Pitt, though both prime ministers. 1
and both famous speakers,were strikingly dissimilar
in their mental constitutions, so that
this example, which scents at first lo oppose
our theory, in reality sustains it. In fact,
when wo consider that the mind has so many
ttnd so, dissimilar ingredients, ideality, casunlity,
benevolence, reverence,destruetiveness, ,
const ructivfiiess, and that theso are com bin*ed
in millions <>f ranches in as many million
persons, the wonder is not that two individuals,
even <>f the same family, resemble ,
each other so little, but that they resemble
each other so much. Given tho scoro and
odd of separate bumps into which phrenology
divides tho brain, and take the child of
any two persons whatever?arid who shall
'thousand possible ones, tlieso qualities ought
'to unite ?
There i* too ranch falsity taught for truth
on this and similar subjects, not only in
newspapers, but even in elaborate books.
The reason is that few persons soundly, or <
daro to deny preconceived or popular ideAS.
We would have every man, however, reflect
for himself. "Prove all things; hold fast
to. the good."?Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
Nature.
No peiformer has so few appreciating
FpectaUr'.s as Nature. It is probably because
her em e; tain men ts aro so cheap. Stingy,
grasping and mean as men often are, they
still think nothing good unless it has a price
annexed. No man or woman would sleep
through a thunder shower if they were ob- j
liged to pay twenty-five cents for a scat to
witness it. They would willingly pay .for it, 4
and make a rush to get preferred seats. '
'They would carry opera glasses to peer at the I
lightning as it glanced across the sky. The |
dsnger of being bit, that now more or less ,
nftWt# us all, would depart if we had to pay
for being in the danger. A person is now
Mifer in his own house, even if the thunder I
wail and the lightning glare around it du- \
ring all the hours of.the day and night, than ,
lie is on the cars betweon Cliarlcstown and
A'oncon) in the serencst day. Yet heshud- '
ders at every bolt of tho lightning, but is 1
pei feet ly calm behind the slaughtering en- t
gine. We wish some philosopher would I |
show n.4 tlio reason or mi* distrust ana dis (
regard of Nature an<l her works. ? Bunker
jiui Aurora.
S.vd arkucnon.?4 yoiuig ladf, at present
a V>'->ptl in one of our liierary institution*,
lma received the distressing intelli- .
genee that among those who perished in [
the teriible calamity at Last Island were her 1
father, brother, uncle, nunt and two cousins. <
Having previously been deprived of her '
mother, by death, her lonely situation must <now
excite the deepest sympathy. Those
who experience the smallest afflictions can '
easily appreciate tho crushing weight of <
such a dispensation ; for there are few on this i
earth who have not been oveiwhelmed with g
grief at tlio loss of one dear friend. How .
much more lamentable is the condition of
onjr, ri-t in ji.er y.otdh, who has lost all a-i
ri.tuu) wbojn twined the heart's warmest nf*
fccl'.un 1 Where can she find a sympathis- .
ing bosom, in which to pour her grief, and ' .
who own laud up?n her brow a wreath that ( ,
yill endure nftliciion's heaviest shower ?
| Rich Whiff. "
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THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 18g?.
S3TREMOVAL.? The Enterprise Office
may be found near the Old CourtHouse,
tame Street at formerly.
The Storm.
k J 1 t__ !A . 3 il !
a iikayt ituhn in wiiiu nnu ram Ylllini mis
section on lost Saturday night, continuing nil
the day and night of Sunday. The crops hare
been greatly dnmnged in many portions of our
District. As far as we can learn the stornt was
a general one, and that the crops in the surrounding
Districts arc all more or loss injured. Jinny
of tho shade trees in our town wore torn up
by the wind.
The Rail Road.
Owixo to tho serious damage done to tho Itoad
l?y the lnte freshet, wc hnvo received no mails
irom Columbia since Saturday lost. Wo understand
that the greatest injury sustained by the
road is at Crim's Creek, the whole or nearly all
of the trestle work at that, place hoving boon
swept away. It will bo recollected thattbc July
freshet damaged the road very much at tho
above pluce. It is thought that tho trains will
run regularly again in a very fe\ydnys.
Rnrglarlcs.
The store* of several of our Merchants havo
been btoken into, within tho past few days, and
goods and money stolen. In one instance the
thieves have been detected, and found to l?c ue
groes. Should it prove that the other burgla- !
rice were committed by negroes, tho sooner nti [
example is made of one or more of them, tin- !
better it will bo. for others. Store keepers
should at all times, in going out, close their
doors Bccurcly.
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Out* Exclinngcs.
Tub Wavbrly Maoabikb:
Thero are but few Northern papers w.hioh we !
;an consistently recommend to our readers. The J
jrentcr portion of them are vile abolition sheets. I
In the above paper we have an honorable ex j
seption, and whilst it is unexceptionable as re-,
peels the South, so fur as we are enabled to judge,
it is unquestionably the best literary journal i
published anywhere at the North?in f.\ct worth '
h11 its ootemporarica in Boa ton. Edited by Mo
sra A. Dow, Boston, Mass., and furnished to sub
scribora nt $2 per nsnum in advance.
Tine Now CoiKicil.
A meeting was hold on Tuesday evening last, |
at Temperance 11 nil, comprising sovoral of the j
.Mechanics and laboring men of our town. A j
committee was appointed to nominate a suitable I
ticket for futendant ami four Wardens. The'
following gentlemen wero reported, and their i
nomination unanimously received. It- was or- :
dered that it ho published in the town papers: j
for intend \nt.
II. LEK Til HUSTON, I>q.
for wardens.
T. M. COX, Esq.
G. B. DYER. j)
ROBERT McKAV. V+Q. I
Da. Ik D. I.ONG. ,
For Town Conncll.
The following ticket has been handed in, sign
id by " Mant Voters."
for intend ant.
It LEE Til HUSTON, Esq.
tor warden's.
Dr. M. B. EARLE,
J. W. STOKES, Esq.*
D. HOKE Esq.
JORDAN P. POOL.
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Mr. Storks, requests na to state tlmt ho will
lot consent to be run.
The Rascal.
A celebrated humbug by (ho name of |
Perham. living in New York, has the impulence
to send us an advertisement of his
Grift Enterprise making near a column and a
half in our paper, with the modest request
Lhat it be inserted four times for ten dollars,
'to be paid in Gift Tickets at $1 each." We
would warn our readers of this man and of
Iris cheating schomos, and lest we may be
troubled with more of his circulars, we enclose
in the present issue of our paper the
r>no we have, and request him not to send
us Hny more. And whilst Porham has due
notice, we would also inform many others
like hiin in the Northern cities, who flood
rrr tabic with similar advcr.isemeuts, thai
we are neither u? be imposed upon or sutler
uur readers to be through our columns.
Southern Education.?Dixhop Polk, of
Louixiana, linn addressed n letter to tlio Edit?*r
of tlio Net* Orleans JJtlta, co\*ering ?
drculnr addressed by liim to tbe Dish opt of
I'ennessoe, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas,
fexae, Mississippi, Florida, and the Caroli
)a9, on tbe nocox&ity of organizing a system
>f Southern education, and building up
ionthern religious institutions, ns pnrt of n
general system ofdefence of which the South
a dail^r growing in more need,
A* Indian for Kim.mokic.?The At/e i*
ho title of a new penny paper just Mat ted
in New 1'oik. It advocates the election of
Mr. Fillmore. 0q?? of it9 editors i? Gooige
1'opwAT. j be celebrated Indinu i'hief.
Tht Ll???r TrtUle. ^
roir.jOw, *
Editor if Soutksrn Enterprise.:
Dear Sir?The following letter site oal
the miseries reeulting from retailing, in Mpcl
burning and eloquent language, that its pub
Mention may do good. 1 therefore bespeal
for it a place in yoor paper. ?
Your friend,
JOHN B. 0*NEALL.
PiCKKSbviLLK, S. C., July 30, 1850.
Honornl Sir :?Having seen your dige*
or Exposition of the License Law, I reques
of you the kindness to send mo a copy Of i
if you have any of thein left. 1 am in th
midst ofaset of lawless,depraved citizens, *vh
are every day violating, not only the law
of the iund, but the laws of aii Ahnight;
Power. We have here in this little placo i
soul destroying shop, where drinking, fight
ing, profanity, vulgarity, and gambling
* ?.? rt/1 /v?? ?1? A dninn /Inn nnll
<11 *3 Vltl I ICU V?ll I# will IIIV Ufinil v? U?J uim
the midnight hour. I have been constrain
ed to take iny children from school, the;
having to pass by this den of corruption
where bachnnalians are ever ready to roak
use of the most shocking onths and vilo epi
thcts of vulgarity to my children. I bar
dared to net the man?have sont to jail on
of the vile and lost creatures as n vagranl
and for threatening to enforce the laws c
my country. I have called down upon m
the wrath of tho-c wretched mon, and the;
have in the darkness of night, set fire to ;
dwelling I had on a small farm, and burn
cd it iuto ashes. They have sworn in thei
wrath they will take my life, and \voul<
make the attempt if they had the courng
(as well as nature) of the boasts of prey tha
roam through the deserts. The grog sho|
was started hero last winter under a pornii
from (he elck of (ho Hoard of Commission
ers of Roads and Bridges. In March tw<
men obtained license from the Board t
koep tavern, but kept their spirits in a she;
some thirty yard* distant from the taverr
In May those two men sold out to two olh
er?, they removed 4ho liquor into nnothe
building, and have l>een retailing by th<
drink and half pint ever since under th
tavern license granted to the other two.?
The}' have every kind of vice'going on, ii
the heart of depravity to invent, card play
? . .1 t . ? .
nig, ngiuing, together wit it the most norm
oatli\ ever uttered. Thi* state of tiling?
must not continue. Arc rimy not violating
the law, every day ? D. os not civili^nlijn
morality, philanthropy, and Christianity eal
for a stop lo be put to it ? Will I bo 'sat
in enforcing the law against such violators
Will I not do my duty in doing so?
J ask you for advice, knowingyoiir ahilii
to give, and knowing your table efforts t
produce a change in !lie moral feelings c
air citizens and awaken iin.ni to the giea
necessity of putting a slop to the tie of i
trafio in that poj.oit which lias for age
been sweeping irvay millions of the htiinat
fnii'.'y - sending down to the drunkard**
grave and to eternal perdition the mosl
ighly gifted of our race, and bunging tx
poverty,shame, degradation and squalid mis
orv, thousands of poor unfortunate womet
and children.
Would that I had the mental ability o
such men a* yourself and Gen. Cary, hov
willingly would I devote the remainder o
my humble life in the noble cause that iiov
calls your entire attention. Would tliat w?
had tliousanda and tens of thousands sucl
men as Gen. Carey atul yourself now fight
itnr against our most dendlv enpinv If VI'I
Iih<I| I sliou! 1 hope to live to seo the whoh
length and breadlh of our country a perfec
garden of Lxlen?our citizens all conu-ntet
and happy christians, w hero we now huv<
demons in human shape; churches of Clirisl
wliere wc now have holes of infamy ; goot
schools in place of the still-houso (or wlia
my venjrablo and evcr-to-be-loved moihe
calls "the I>evil's Kitchen.") Whenever i
stop is put to the manufacturing and sale o
this poison, which blasts all the finer feeling
of the human heart, destroys man's constitu
tion, steals from him the talent God gav<
hiin, empties his purse, beggars his wife an(
children, and finally .sends his immortal soul
all scorched, scathed and blackened will
blood and crime, before his God, to be bj
him banished from his presence, and sen
down to eternal perdition. Then, and n6
ill iKcii, wo may e^pxot io ?co our wiioh
country prosperous and happy. GikI speet,
?i._. -i...: i.... i ?* ? ?? ?
uiih giwi lurm U.IJ , IB my muab HUIllUiU Jlfl'
devout prayer.
In conclusion, my much esteemed air
pardon this long and uninteresting (to you
letter, which I only intended, at first, as i
request for the license law, and pern-.it tin
to hope and pray that your useful life nmj
bo lengthened to tho long?st ?pnn?tha
Qod will blew, most signally. your noble ef
forts in the cause of phihiuth -opy mid chria
tianity, and that you may yot see the darl
cloud and storm of intemperance swept fnm
the face of the globe, and that peace, proa
periiy, chiistinnity, and happinets, tlmt tnus
and will follow.
I nrn moat humbly and respectfully,
K(fKi;8 W. FORCER.To
rio*. J. n. ff.Vc.uu ,
as
Il|i| II mmmmmrnmmmmmmmm
: ' The following is the substitute for Judge
13utier's bill ipaased by ike Senate :
I Mr. Hunter, from the committee on Fi}
nance, to which etas referred the bill to regulutothe
compensation of members of Cou-1
gross, reportej it back with ah amendment
t striking out all the enacting clause and substituting
a uew bill. A lanirtfitmirnfl
[This Amendment provides that the com
pensation of each member and delegate shall
be $'2,500, to commence from and after the
adjournment of the present session, and
monthly during the session until its close.
1 The pay at each future Crongre*. shall com't
mence tlie 4th March of each year, whether
t, members be elected before or after that time,
e and they shall receive the pro rata Amount,
together with the nrileager, which mny be
0 due at the commencement of the session,
8 and the residue in monthly payments until
y the closo of the session. If a member die
n during the recess the said pro rata pay 'may
_ goto his heirs until the commencement of
p the next session, after which it may be paid
'' on proper requisition, and if during the ses
" sion, then the pay to cense on the day of the
i- choice of his suocessor, who shall receive his
y mileage and residue of pAy to which hie
predecessor would have been entitled. Each
member and delegate shall also be allowed
8 at each annual Bession of Congress eight
'* dollars for every twenty miles of the estie
mated distance by tho most usual route from
e his place of residence to the seat of governt
ment, at tho commencement and end- of
j. every such session, when the estimated distance
does not exceed 1,350 miles, and where
0 it exceeds that distance the allowance is six
y dollars for every twenty miles.
a Tho President of the Senate, when there
is no Vice President, or when the Vice
President shall receive tho offlco of thoPresr
ident of the United States, and the Sneaker
of the llouae of Representatives shall be enc
titled to receive such addition to the annual
t compensation and milongo allowed by tho
lirst section of this act as will in tho aggregate
equal the pay of the Vice President;
1 and in case of the temporary absence of the
* Vice President, tho President of tho Senate
o pro fan. shall be entitled to receivo ten dol0
lars per dieui in addition to the annual compensation.
If any books shall be hereafter distributed
to members of Congress, by resolution
' of either or both Houses of Congress, the
r price giveu for the snmo shall bo deducted
9 from the compensation herein provided by
law; provided that this shall not extend to
books ordered to be printed during the Congre.-s
for which said members shall have
1 been elected.]
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1 ' Speak[xo, says tlie Hartford Timet, of
;(tlic Republican paitv. Wend nil Phillip*,
r, say*: ?
* No man, Mr. Chairman, ha* n l ight to ho
* j-turpiised at tho present state of'thing*. It
I is just what tar have attempted to briny a
c 1 b ml. The forces at la-1 are ranyrd face to
i \faee. Our fii -nd* have not turned to the
: tuight side of tho matter to dny ; hut there
J it iwrit in the Republican party. It is this,
v ' It is the first teelional party ever organized
! in tlie country. It does not know its oxen
f \face, and it calls itself national but it is not
j national, it is srctional. It is the Xorth
II arrayed against the South. H'tiry u !'
11 * in said to ine: We must yet every Xorth
* cm State in order to elect Fremont. Even
i | in imagination ho did not count upon a
,i single Southern State. Ic was a distinct
t I iccogni'.ion of tho fact that tho Ib-publican
1 party is a party of the North plednm against
* i the South. Theodore Parker wanted to
- j know once where disunion would begin. I
i ' will tell him : just where tho party divides.
That is the. northern party against the southern.
I do not call it an anti-slavery party,
f it has not risen to thnt yet. It is a northv
?-rn partv against the southern. They made
f j the tirst little breach. The Jirst crack in
f the iceberg is visible; you will hear it go,
with a crack through the centre. Its lirsl
distinct lecognition was IVtnk's election.?
1 Ho was elected by northern incn, not n man
- irom I lie south voting for !: rm That in the
s value of that parly. I hail it <u a sign?
3 as a great sign. I did not hope to see it
for ten tears; it has come unexpectedly eur1
lv.
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9 Tkrkiui.k AmtR. A correspondent of
^ the l'etersburg I/Uelligrncer-n\% : "A most
. shocking occurrence t??ok place in Fincastle a
few nights since. A gentleman, with sove1
ral inortherlesMchildren, arrived at that plAce,
r and in the course of llio night the inmates
i of the Hotel woi c aroused by terrilHo sereins,
j- and on tracing up the sound, found that it
emanated from the room in which the gen
' tletnan and his children lodged. Breaking
* the d?>or open, the horrified spectators saw
9 that he was laboring under a horrible dream,
j or night-mare, and was in act of pulling out
the tongue of his youngest child, whom he
' had taken to sleep with hiin. He was iin1
mediately aroused to see the hotly of his litt
tie child dreadfully bruised ami lacerated,
t and told those who had wakend hi in, that
f he had dreamed that somo one was inurder8
Ing the child, and ho was tiyiiig io rescue it.
His agony was said to be indescribable. At
the time the passengers left Ffncastle fur
1 this place, the poor child was alive, but in
an extremely perilous condition.
*./n tiik i^oouoiiT.? i no papers or XMevv
) York city are exorcised concenung the inys
? teriou* disappearance of Stephen if. Hrnncli,
9 famous for hit persevering inquiries after
, Geo. VV. Mattxell. and other explorations.
As Mr. llmnch is quite a palhfin ;er in his
1 way, it is possible he is on a pilgi image in
* search of tho birth-place ami religious belief
* of John (J. Fremont. If bo, ho need not be
( expected soon.
1 Jknmnoh Estate.?An heir to the gient
* Jennings estate in England, has turned up
t in Fulton, New York, in order to mire
funds to prosecute tiro claim be has sohl
stock in it. One dollar in cash boys one
Urouaand in stnip. About #10,000 havo
been thus raised among the cities of Oswe*
go aud Follou.
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Ireland. The Li nterii-k Observer, refer: ing
to a statement of a correspondent say*:
lie was standing near the salmon wc:r, on
the platform before the mills ofCofbadly. a;
bout Imlf past len o'clock, when 1us inrctition
wan attracted by what appeared to la)
fire rising on the top of Keeper mountain, '
due Er.st of bis position* lie remarked tho
object to a gentleman with hitn, hut as the
8re rose and cleared tho top of tho moun
tain, his friend suggested that it must be a
lantern suspended to a kite. It bad the ap
i?t?jir:incn nf n irloh* of Are na larire as a (rood
r-* ?? < - ry -y w * ? n o
sized orange, with a broad tail of light [
extending about eighteen incite* from the'
body. The two gentlemen Watched it for
an hour, nod the watchman on the weir observed
it also. On Thursday night they
saw it again. It arose a few moments later,
presenting the same appearances, and was
high in ttie heavens at half past eleven o'clock,
when tbey went home. At thai
hour one of the gentlemen pointed it out to
his sister. Last night, from the sumo place,
the same person again saw it rise twenty
minutes before eleven o'clock, and then it occurred
to ono of them (our informant) tbat it
might be a comet. He ceased to WAtoh it about
midnight but as the watchman observed
it up to half past one o'clock this morning.
It did not seem so large, on the previous
nights, but still far exceeded the most
brilliant fotrn in which the plenet Jupiter
has ever been behold.
Tus Quizzing GtAsa.-The Rev. Mr. M.?
a Scotch minister of surae note, v?na one day
walking through the street* of Edinburg,
dressed in live rough country clothes, when a
young lady, the loader of the troup of fashionable
belies, surveyed him through her
quizzing glass rather more curiously than ho
thought consistent with female delicacy.?
Scenting suddenly to recognize her, walked
up to lier briskly, and seizing her by the
hand with the familiarity cf an old acquaintance,
accosted her with :
"My dear Marie, how do you do? liow
left you your worthy fartlior and venerable
mother, and when did you come to town ?
All this was expressed with the rapidity
and energy of an old and familiar friend,
nrt.l tttSlK rt?? ,-wf t' A I|||!a AAuA**'nnP
nuvi nuu ?n hi' v? n ii.?iv fin ?? .?.r
of superiority. Tlio astonished fair ono had
not time to withdraw her hand, and said
with some alarm :
"You are mistaken, sir I"
"What! 1" he replied, "is it possible, my
dear that you do not know me ?"
"Indeed, I do not sir."
"Neither do I," said the person. 'Good
morning tnadame." And making a ceremonious
bow, he walked away.
She was perfectly cured of quizzing strangers
in tiie streets.? Sn/rm Itv/ixter.
Rktirkmknt op Hon. Wm Airkn.?The
annexed notice appears in lite Charier ton
papers of yesterday:
To mv Constituents op the Second
CoNonKssioN ai. Distiiict op Sonrii C\nolina.?
I avail myself of this occasion to
lender you my grateful acknowledgments
I of the ninliipled evidences of confidence
with which have honored nte ; af.ti,
the same time, to inform you of my purpose
not to b? a candidate for re-election to !ho
next Congress of the United States.
The papers ray that a few porsons calling
themselves "Republicans," hold a meeting at
Wheeling, Vs., on Friday night. A large
number of persons attended through curiosity,
and much excitement prevailed. A man
named Smith made a speech. At its conclusion
he attempted to leave, and was followed
by a large crowd, when a general
skittnish ensued, during which two men
tisined Harding and Ward wore wounded.
| tho latter seriou-ly. This had the effect to
increase lite excitement, and to prevent the
, indignant" populace from lynching Smith on
: the spot, the Wheeling Argua says, ho had
to l?e conveyed to jail.
Nortiikkn Mktuodiht.?The first number
of tho "Northern Independent," the publication
of which originate* with the Methodist*
of Central New York, who wore offended
because Mr. Ihrniner was removed front
tho editorship of the Northorn Advocate by
the General Conference has been h*ued.
The new editor of the Advocate my* : "Thi?
now paper movemont is a revolutionary
movement. It is the clearest instance, of open,
well-defined resistance to law and order
that has ever arisen in Methodist Church
Ui-tlory. Its triumph is the downfall of
constitutional Methodism."
Amkricax Constitution.?That is a
beautiful figuro of Winthrop's in reference
to the Constitution, when lie says?"Like
one of those wondrous rooking stone* raised
hy the Druids, which tho finger of a ohild
might vibrate to its centre, yet the might of
an. array could not move fto.n St* place, our
Constitution is so nicely poised, that it seems
to sway with every breath of pri-wion, yet so
nrruly baft*! in the heart* and affection* of
i-lie people, that the wildcat storm* of treaaon
and fanaticism break over it in vain."
It i* advisable, however, not to M vibrato "
too mucli.
Hlmoks or Law.? Sterne insinuate* that
Attorney* are to lawyer* what apothecaries
are to physicians?only that they do not
dcnl in scruple'!
One day, at the table of the Into Dr. Pease,
(Dean of Ely,) just as the cloth was being
removed, the snhjeot of discourse happened
to ho that of an extraordinary mortality
among the lawyers. "W# have lost," raid a
gentleman, "not lose than si* eminent barristers
in a* mnnv months." The ffean, who
was nuite deaf, rose as his friend finished Iris
remark*, ami gar*the company gmce: uFov
this and evbry other nioroy, the land's name
he praised J* Tb^lfect w?a hwriMihfe. ^
1
in avfllnge, not ft; thousand ?$)? from
this city,'there llvfeg a qiifet, nnobtrubive
young'lawyer. A modest fellow is M.f
(mentis always inodest.) but he knows his
rights, "and knowing, dnres maintain them."
LfVw a great many others, he "ii "following
the practice," and anticipates "a glorious
time" when he overtakes it* While sifts*
having been retained in some small cases, |
ho made his appenranco before that anguet
dignitary,nn Alabama Justice of tho Peace*
"IJis Honor," evidently lost faith in M 1
at first tight ; for uno aflor another his cases
"collapsed" under the "stunning" charges
iinn emi uy mo tiOliri.
The law and the testimony' tverf alike
unavailing; M V cases sere bohnd to
go. At last human nature could bear no
more. Id rf?ing from hi* seat, delivered
himself in hi* umia! slow and measured
manner: 'The Court can fine hie fltfe dollars.*'
"For what, Mr. M?? f* said the
Justice, somewhat surprised. "For contempt
of Court," coolv rejoined M . "I am
not aware, Mr. M - said the Court, "of
your having been guilty of anything that
might bo considered cont empt. "1 know ?'
your Honor is not awaro of it," said M f
"but I entertain a secret contempt for tliia
Court."
Our exchanges give some further details
of the New York elopement case, of which
Major Kearney, who lost his right arm ic the
Mexican war, is the hero. He is a married
man, and the father of a large family, but is
separated from his wife. She lives in Washington.
Major Kearney is a man of large
property, rated at from $800,000 to $400,000,
and on. account of his large means and
rank in tbo army continued to oe/eceivodin
the best society. Some three years ago he
met Miss Maxwell, then only sixtsen years
of age, a daughter of Hugh Maxwell, Colleotor
of lite port of New York, and known as
an eminent lawyer and ono of the most estcoined
citizens of Now York. He there
commenced his attentions, and after her return
to that city persisted in thorn, notwithstanding
his obligations ns a married man.
His great wealth allowed liim to be pertinacious,
and has finally so currupted this fsir
young girl?after three years of pursuit?
that a few days since they sailed for Europe,
She is about nineteen?very pretty, and sings
like a syren. He is forty-five, and is said to
be as "ugly as sin,"? Washington Star]
Land "VVaktiants.?The Innd warrant
m? ket continue* depressed and unsettled,
nnd prices have a downward tendency,
The demand for immediate location of
warrants being qulto limited, and there being
but little or no disposilon on The part of
dealers to invest their Ainds in the article
by way of speculation, we may safely conclude
that the prospect for an earlyfadvance
in prices are rather gloomy at present. The
following quotations are furnished ns by
William T. Smithson,banker and (ami warrant
dealer of this city : .
For 100> and 80's 01 cents per acre.
For 120's 80 ? ?
For 40'a 107 * "
[ Wank Qrynn,
^eto BdbeMi&eliKofe,
The Siftto of SontH CaroUn^
OR EKN VILLE I >I3TRICT.
%
IN 'HIE COURT OF ORDINARY.
William Tinkler, applicant, against James Ray,
Jacob ltsy, ttnney lUy, Joseph Iter, Si.rali
Jane Ray, Mary Tinsley, and William her husband,
Martha Land and Lewis her husband,
heirs of John Roy, deceased. Klixahcth Ann
Kelly, And John Iter husband. Defendants.-^
Petition for tale or dioioion of Real Rotate.
IT appearing to my satisfaction that Jaenb Rar,
one of the defe'ndonts, resides without Una
State. It is, therefore, ordered, that he d? ?tv.
twar aud object to th? division or sale of tfia
Ileal Estate of Jano Hay, on or before the ft rat
day of December next, or bis consent to the
sainc will be entered of Record.
KOBEKT McKAY, O. 0. I>.
Ordinary'* Oflico, )
September 1, 1856. J 17-3m
A REWARD.
ON the night of the 1st of September my
store was broken open, and among other
Utilise*. A PALMETTO MEDAL, presented by /
the State to Joux R IIoookx, was token. Thfa
modal has not been returned to no, but waa
thrown away by the person* who took It, for
fear of detection. A lllieral reward will bo
paid to the tinder by leaving it at my store.
L. CAKR, Aokxt, h
Septembers 17 tf
#
THE LADIES' WOUKINOSOCIETY, connected
with the Baptist congregation, propose holding
a FAIIl, at McBee's Hall, on Wednesday
evening, 10th September next.
Contributions for the occasion, either front
Town or Country, will be thankfully reoeived.
August 11 18 td.
Please Notice.
ALL TllftSONS having demands against tho
Town Council of OreeitTilU. are ran nested, to
hand them in on or before Saturday, 6th
teoiber. W. P. PRICE, Totm CUrk I
?.?.. ? | ,, 'iMfP wfi
A CARD.
I PERCEIVE a stricture upon my political
platform from the aeuior editor of the Pntrioi end
Mountanoer of thie date. I regret that gent1* I J
men of eirenineoribed eomprehenaion in reg*rd*pi
to the epirit nnd letter of the Federal Cooetitn*
tin!, should attempt e definition tf ray political
tenrta. For I hold that while the Union (tends n
tliat elavery iasafe. My. rota upon the reeoln- >
Uan in lite meeting shore mentioned, wee entirely
upon the modf of roeieUnee avowed by the ' *
eenior editor et the time.
/ *lae*t of my own 1 hen Barer fevered V
abolition, nor hare I arer r?cej?*d a single paper
from the Nortkon the aeb)oei I know nothing of *
their creed, new do I deeire to know.
J. POWRLttta*' <f
Omtjuille, Anjj ?i. 16 tf